holy bible authorized king james version textfile 890904
in the beginning god created the heaven and the earth
and the earth was without form and void and darkness was upon the face of the deep and the spirit of god moved upon the face of the waters
and god said let there be light and there was light
and god saw the light that it was good and god divided the light from the darkness
and god called the light day and the darkness he called night and the evening and the morning were the first day
and god said let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters and let it divide the waters from the waters
and god made the firmament and divided the waters which were under the firmament from the waters which were above the firmament and it was so
and god called the firmament heaven and the evening and the morning were the second day
and god said let the waters under the heaven be gathered together unto one place and let the dry land appear and it was so
and god called the dry land earth and the gathering together of the waters called he seas and god saw that it was good
and god said let the earth bring forth grass the herb yielding seed and the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind whose seed is in itself upon the earth and it was so
and the earth brought forth grass and herb yielding seed after his kind and the tree yielding fruit whose seed was in itself after his kind and god saw that it was good
and the evening and the morning were the third day
and god said let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night and let them be for signs and for seasons and for days and years
and let them be for lights in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth and it was so
and god made two great lights the greater light to rule the day and the lesser light to rule the night he made the stars also
and god set them in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth
and to rule over the day and over the night and to divide the light from the darkness and god saw that it was good
and the evening and the morning were the fourth day
and god said let the waters bring forth abundantly the moving creature that hath life and fowl that may fly above the earth in the open firmament of heaven
and god created great whales and every living creature that moveth which the waters brought forth abundantly after their kind and every winged fowl after his kind and god saw that it was good
and god blessed them saying be fruitful and multiply and fill the waters in the seas and let fowl multiply in the earth
and the evening and the morning were the fifth day
and god said let the earth bring forth the living creature after his kind cattle and creeping thing and beast of the earth after his kind and it was so
and god made the beast of the earth after his kind and cattle after their kind and every thing that creepeth upon the earth after his kind and god saw that it was good
and god said let us make man in our image after our likeness and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the fowl of the air and over the cattle and over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth
so god created man in his own image in the image of god created he him male and female created he them
and god blessed them and god said unto them be fruitful and multiply and replenish the earth and subdue it and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the fowl of the air and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth
and god said behold i have given you every herb bearing seed which is upon the face of all the earth and every tree in the which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed to you it shall be for meat
and to every beast of the earth and to every fowl of the air and to every thing that creepeth upon the earth wherein there is life i have given every green herb for meat and it was so
and god saw every thing that he had made and behold it was very good and the evening and the morning were the sixth day
thus the heavens and the earth were finished and all the host of them
and on the seventh day god ended his work which he had made and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made
and god blessed the seventh day and sanctified it because that in it he had rested from all his work which god created and made
these are the generations of the heavens and of the earth when they were created in the day that the lord god made the earth and the heavens
and every plant of the field before it was in the earth and every herb of the field before it grew for the lord god had not caused it to rain upon the earth and there was not a man to till the ground
but there went up a mist from the earth and watered the whole face of the ground
and the lord god formed man of the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life and man became a living soul
and the lord god planted a garden eastward in eden and there he put the man whom he had formed
and out of the ground made the lord god to grow every tree that is pleasant to the sight and good for food the tree of life also in the midst of the garden and the tree of knowledge of good and evil
and a river went out of eden to water the garden and from thence it was parted and became into four heads
the name of the first is pison that is it which compasseth the whole land of havilah where there is gold
and the gold of that land is good there is bdellium and the onyx stone
and the name of the second river is gihon the same is it that compasseth the whole land of ethiopia
and the name of the third river is hiddekel that is it which goeth toward the east of assyria and the fourth river is euphrates
and the lord god took the man and put him into the garden of eden to dress it and to keep it
and the lord god commanded the man saying of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat
but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil thou shalt not eat of it for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die
and the lord god said it is not good that the man should be alone i will make him an help meet for him
and out of the ground the lord god formed every beast of the field and every fowl of the air and brought them unto adam to see what he would call them and whatsoever adam called every living creature that was the name thereof
and adam gave names to all cattle and to the fowl of the air and to every beast of the field but for adam there was not found an help meet for him
and the lord god caused a deep sleep to fall upon adam and he slept and he took one of his ribs and closed up the flesh instead thereof
and the rib which the lord god had taken from man made he a woman and brought her unto the man
and adam said this is now bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh she shall be called woman because she was taken out of man
therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother and shall cleave unto his wife and they shall be one flesh
and they were both naked the man and his wife and were not ashamed
now the serpent was more subtil than any beast of the field which the lord god had made and he said unto the woman yea hath god said ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden
and the woman said unto the serpent we may eat of the fruit of the trees of the garden
but of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden god hath said ye shall not eat of it neither shall ye touch it lest ye die
and the serpent said unto the woman ye shall not surely die
for god doth know that in the day ye eat thereof then your eyes shall be opened and ye shall be as gods knowing good and evil
and when the woman saw that the tree was good for food and that it was pleasant to the eyes and a tree to be desired to make one wise she took of the fruit thereof and did eat and gave also unto her husband with her and he did eat
and the eyes of them both were opened and they knew that they were naked and they sewed fig leaves together and made themselves aprons
and they heard the voice of the lord god walking in the garden in the cool of the day and adam and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the lord god amongst the trees of the garden
and the lord god called unto adam and said unto him where art thou
and he said i heard thy voice in the garden and i was afraid because i was naked and i hid myself
and he said who told thee that thou wast naked hast thou eaten of the tree whereof i commanded thee that thou shouldest not eat
and the man said the woman whom thou gavest to be with me she gave me of the tree and i did eat
and the lord god said unto the woman what is this that thou hast done and the woman said the serpent beguiled me and i did eat
and the lord god said unto the serpent because thou hast done this thou art cursed above all cattle and above every beast of the field upon thy belly shalt thou go and dust shalt thou eat all the days of thy life
and i will put enmity between thee and the woman and between thy seed and her seed it shall bruise thy head and thou shalt bruise his heel
unto the woman he said i will greatly multiply thy sorrow and thy conception in sorrow thou shalt bring forth children and thy desire shall be to thy husband and he shall rule over thee
and unto adam he said because thou hast hearkened unto the voice of thy wife and hast eaten of the tree of which i commanded thee saying thou shalt not eat of it cursed is the ground for thy sake in sorrow shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life
thorns also and thistles shall it bring forth to thee and thou shalt eat the herb of the field
in the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread till thou return unto the ground for out of it wast thou taken for dust thou art and unto dust shalt thou return
and adam called his wife's name eve because she was the mother of all living
unto adam also and to his wife did the lord god make coats of skins and clothed them
and the lord god said behold the man is become as one of us to know good and evil and now lest he put forth his hand and take also of the tree of life and eat and live for ever
therefore the lord god sent him forth from the garden of eden to till the ground from whence he was taken
so he drove out the man and he placed at the east of the garden of eden cherubims and a flaming sword which turned every way to keep the way of the tree of life
and adam knew eve his wife and she conceived and bare cain and said i have gotten a man from the lord
and she again bare his brother abel and abel was a keeper of sheep but cain was a tiller of the ground
and in process of time it came to pass that cain brought of the fruit of the ground an offering unto the lord
and abel he also brought of the firstlings of his flock and of the fat thereof and the lord had respect unto abel and to his offering
but unto cain and to his offering he had not respect and cain was very wroth and his countenance fell
and the lord said unto cain why art thou wroth and why is thy countenance fallen
if thou doest well shalt thou not be accepted and if thou doest not well sin lieth at the door and unto thee shall be his desire and thou shalt rule over him
and cain talked with abel his brother and it came to pass when they were in the field that cain rose up against abel his brother and slew him
and the lord said unto cain where is abel thy brother and he said i know not am i my brother's keeper
and he said what hast thou done the voice of thy brother's blood crieth unto me from the ground
and now art thou cursed from the earth which hath opened her mouth to receive thy brother's blood from thy hand
when thou tillest the ground it shall not henceforth yield unto thee her strength a fugitive and a vagabond shalt thou be in the earth
and cain said unto the lord my punishment is greater than i can bear
behold thou hast driven me out this day from the face of the earth and from thy face shall i be hid and i shall be a fugitive and a vagabond in the earth and it shall come to pass that every one that findeth me shall slay me
and the lord said unto him therefore whosoever slayeth cain vengeance shall be taken on him sevenfold and the lord set a mark upon cain lest any finding him should kill him
and cain went out from the presence of the lord and dwelt in the land of nod on the east of eden
and cain knew his wife and she conceived and bare enoch and he builded a city and called the name of the city after the name of his son enoch
and unto enoch was born irad and irad begat mehujael and mehujael begat methusael and methusael begat lamech
and lamech took unto him two wives the name of the one was adah and the name of the other zillah
and adah bare jabal he was the father of such as dwell in tents and of such as have cattle
and his brother's name was jubal he was the father of all such as handle the harp and organ
and zillah she also bare tubalcain an instructer of every artificer in brass and iron and the sister of tubalcain was naamah
and lamech said unto his wives adah and zillah hear my voice ye wives of lamech hearken unto my speech for i have slain a man to my wounding and a young man to my hurt
if cain shall be avenged sevenfold truly lamech seventy and sevenfold
and adam knew his wife again and she bare a son and called his name seth for god said she hath appointed me another seed instead of abel whom cain slew
and to seth to him also there was born a son and he called his name enos then began men to call upon the name of the lord
this is the book of the generations of adam in the day that god created man in the likeness of god made he him
male and female created he them and blessed them and called their name adam in the day when they were created
and adam lived an hundred and thirty years and begat a son in his own likeness after his image and called his name seth
and the days of adam after he had begotten seth were eight hundred years and he begat sons and daughters
and all the days that adam lived were nine hundred and thirty years and he died
and seth lived an hundred and five years and begat enos
and seth lived after he begat enos eight hundred and seven years and begat sons and daughters
and all the days of seth were nine hundred and twelve years and he died
and enos lived ninety years and begat cainan
and enos lived after he begat cainan eight hundred and fifteen years and begat sons and daughters
and all the days of enos were nine hundred and five years and he died
and cainan lived seventy years and begat mahalaleel
and cainan lived after he begat mahalaleel eight hundred and forty years and begat sons and daughters
and all the days of cainan were nine hundred and ten years and he died
and mahalaleel lived sixty and five years and begat jared
and mahalaleel lived after he begat jared eight hundred and thirty years and begat sons and daughters
and all the days of mahalaleel were eight hundred ninety and five years and he died
and jared lived an hundred sixty and two years and he begat enoch
and jared lived after he begat enoch eight hundred years and begat sons and daughters
and all the days of jared were nine hundred sixty and two years and he died
and enoch lived sixty and five years and begat methuselah
and enoch walked with god after he begat methuselah three hundred years and begat sons and daughters
and all the days of enoch were three hundred sixty and five years
and enoch walked with god and he was not for god took him
and methuselah lived an hundred eighty and seven years and begat lamech
and methuselah lived after he begat lamech seven hundred eighty and two years and begat sons and daughters
and all the days of methuselah were nine hundred sixty and nine years and he died
and lamech lived an hundred eighty and two years and begat a son
and he called his name noah saying this same shall comfort us concerning our work and toil of our hands because of the ground which the lord hath cursed
and lamech lived after he begat noah five hundred ninety and five years and begat sons and daughters
and all the days of lamech were seven hundred seventy and seven years and he died
and noah was five hundred years old and noah begat shem ham and japheth
and it came to pass when men began to multiply on the face of the earth and daughters were born unto them
that the sons of god saw the daughters of men that they were fair and they took them wives of all which they chose
and the lord said my spirit shall not always strive with man for that he also is flesh yet his days shall be an hundred and twenty years
there were giants in the earth in those days and also after that when the sons of god came in unto the daughters of men and they bare children to them the same became mighty men which were of old men of renown
and god saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually
and it repented the lord that he had made man on the earth and it grieved him at his heart
and the lord said i will destroy man whom i have created from the face of the earth both man and beast and the creeping thing and the fowls of the air for it repenteth me that i have made them
but noah found grace in the eyes of the lord
these are the generations of noah noah was a just man and perfect in his generations and noah walked with god
and noah begat three sons shem ham and japheth
the earth also was corrupt before god and the earth was filled with violence
and god looked upon the earth and behold it was corrupt for all flesh had corrupted his way upon the earth
and god said unto noah the end of all flesh is come before me for the earth is filled with violence through them and behold i will destroy them with the earth
make thee an ark of gopher wood rooms shalt thou make in the ark and shalt pitch it within and without with pitch
and this is the fashion which thou shalt make it of the length of the ark shall be three hundred cubits the breadth of it fifty cubits and the height of it thirty cubits
a window shalt thou make to the ark and in a cubit shalt thou finish it above and the door of the ark shalt thou set in the side thereof with lower second and third stories shalt thou make it
and behold i even i do bring a flood of waters upon the earth to destroy all flesh wherein is the breath of life from under heaven and every thing that is in the earth shall die
but with thee will i establish my covenant and thou shalt come into the ark thou and thy sons and thy wife and thy sons wives with thee
and of every living thing of all flesh two of every sort shalt thou bring into the ark to keep them alive with thee they shall be male and female
of fowls after their kind and of cattle after their kind of every creeping thing of the earth after his kind two of every sort shall come unto thee to keep them alive
and take thou unto thee of all food that is eaten and thou shalt gather it to thee and it shall be for food for thee and for them
thus did noah according to all that god commanded him so did he
and the lord said unto noah come thou and all thy house into the ark for thee have i seen righteous before me in this generation
of every clean beast thou shalt take to thee by sevens the male and his female and of beasts that are not clean by two the male and his female
of fowls also of the air by sevens the male and the female to keep seed alive upon the face of all the earth
for yet seven days and i will cause it to rain upon the earth forty days and forty nights and every living substance that i have made will i destroy from off the face of the earth
and noah did according unto all that the lord commanded him
and noah was six hundred years old when the flood of waters was upon the earth
and noah went in and his sons and his wife and his sons wives with him into the ark because of the waters of the flood
of clean beasts and of beasts that are not clean and of fowls and of every thing that creepeth upon the earth
there went in two and two unto noah into the ark the male and the female as god had commanded noah
and it came to pass after seven days that the waters of the flood were upon the earth
in the six hundredth year of noah's life in the second month the seventeenth day of the month the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up and the windows of heaven were opened
and the rain was upon the earth forty days and forty nights
in the selfsame day entered noah and shem and ham and japheth the sons of noah and noah's wife and the three wives of his sons with them into the ark
they and every beast after his kind and all the cattle after their kind and every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth after his kind and every fowl after his kind every bird of every sort
and they went in unto noah into the ark two and two of all flesh wherein is the breath of life
and they that went in went in male and female of all flesh as god had commanded him and the lord shut him in
and the flood was forty days upon the earth and the waters increased and bare up the ark and it was lift up above the earth
and the waters prevailed and were increased greatly upon the earth and the ark went upon the face of the waters
and the waters prevailed exceedingly upon the earth and all the high hills that were under the whole heaven were covered
fifteen cubits upward did the waters prevail and the mountains were covered
and all flesh died that moved upon the earth both of fowl and of cattle and of beast and of every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth and every man
all in whose nostrils was the breath of life of all that was in the dry land died
and every living substance was destroyed which was upon the face of the ground both man and cattle and the creeping things and the fowl of the heaven and they were destroyed from the earth and noah only remained alive and they that were with him in the ark
and the waters prevailed upon the earth an hundred and fifty days
and god remembered noah and every living thing and all the cattle that was with him in the ark and god made a wind to pass over the earth and the waters asswaged
the fountains also of the deep and the windows of heaven were stopped and the rain from heaven was restrained
and the waters returned from off the earth continually and after the end of the hundred and fifty days the waters were abated
and the ark rested in the seventh month on the seventeenth day of the month upon the mountains of ararat
and the waters decreased continually until the tenth month in the tenth month on the first day of the month were the tops of the mountains seen
and it came to pass at the end of forty days that noah opened the window of the ark which he had made
and he sent forth a raven which went forth to and fro until the waters were dried up from off the earth
also he sent forth a dove from him to see if the waters were abated from off the face of the ground
but the dove found no rest for the sole of her foot and she returned unto him into the ark for the waters were on the face of the whole earth then he put forth his hand and took her and pulled her in unto him into the ark
and he stayed yet other seven days and again he sent forth the dove out of the ark
and the dove came in to him in the evening and lo in her mouth was an olive leaf pluckt off so noah knew that the waters were abated from off the earth
and he stayed yet other seven days and sent forth the dove which returned not again unto him any more
and it came to pass in the six hundredth and first year in the first month the first day of the month the waters were dried up from off the earth and noah removed the covering of the ark and looked and behold the face of the ground was dry
and in the second month on the seven and twentieth day of the month was the earth dried
and god spake unto noah saying
go forth of the ark thou and thy wife and thy sons and thy sons wives with thee
bring forth with thee every living thing that is with thee of all flesh both of fowl and of cattle and of every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth that they may breed abundantly in the earth and be fruitful and multiply upon the earth
and noah went forth and his sons and his wife and his sons wives with him
every beast every creeping thing and every fowl and whatsoever creepeth upon the earth after their kinds went forth out of the ark
and noah builded an altar unto the lord and took of every clean beast and of every clean fowl and offered burnt offerings on the altar
and the lord smelled a sweet savour and the lord said in his heart i will not again curse the ground any more for man's sake for the imagination of man's heart is evil from his youth neither will i again smite any more every thing living as i have done
while the earth remaineth seedtime and harvest and cold and heat and summer and winter and day and night shall not cease
and god blessed noah and his sons and said unto them be fruitful and multiply and replenish the earth
and the fear of you and the dread of you shall be upon every beast of the earth and upon every fowl of the air upon all that moveth upon the earth and upon all the fishes of the sea into your hand are they delivered
every moving thing that liveth shall be meat for you even as the green herb have i given you all things
but flesh with the life thereof which is the blood thereof shall ye not eat
and surely your blood of your lives will i require at the hand of every beast will i require it and at the hand of man at the hand of every man's brother will i require the life of man
whoso sheddeth man's blood by man shall his blood be shed for in the image of god made he man
and you be ye fruitful and multiply bring forth abundantly in the earth and multiply therein
and god spake unto noah and to his sons with him saying
and i behold i establish my covenant with you and with your seed after you
and with every living creature that is with you of the fowl of the cattle and of every beast of the earth with you from all that go out of the ark to every beast of the earth
and i will establish my covenant with you neither shall all flesh be cut off any more by the waters of a flood neither shall there any more be a flood to destroy the earth
and god said this is the token of the covenant which i make between me and you and every living creature that is with you for perpetual generations
i do set my bow in the cloud and it shall be for a token of a covenant between me and the earth
and it shall come to pass when i bring a cloud over the earth that the bow shall be seen in the cloud
and i will remember my covenant which is between me and you and every living creature of all flesh and the waters shall no more become a flood to destroy all flesh
and the bow shall be in the cloud and i will look upon it that i may remember the everlasting covenant between god and every living creature of all flesh that is upon the earth
and god said unto noah this is the token of the covenant which i have established between me and all flesh that is upon the earth
and the sons of noah that went forth of the ark were shem and ham and japheth and ham is the father of canaan
these are the three sons of noah and of them was the whole earth overspread
and noah began to be an husbandman and he planted a vineyard
and he drank of the wine and was drunken and he was uncovered within his tent
and ham the father of canaan saw the nakedness of his father and told his two brethren without
and shem and japheth took a garment and laid it upon both their shoulders and went backward and covered the nakedness of their father and their faces were backward and they saw not their father's nakedness
and noah awoke from his wine and knew what his younger son had done unto him
and he said cursed be canaan a servant of servants shall he be unto his brethren
and he said blessed be the lord god of shem and canaan shall be his servant
god shall enlarge japheth and he shall dwell in the tents of shem and canaan shall be his servant
and noah lived after the flood three hundred and fifty years
and all the days of noah were nine hundred and fifty years and he died
now these are the generations of the sons of noah shem ham and japheth and unto them were sons born after the flood
the sons of japheth gomer and magog and madai and javan and tubal and meshech and tiras
and the sons of gomer ashkenaz and riphath and togarmah
and the sons of javan elishah and tarshish kittim and dodanim
by these were the isles of the gentiles divided in their lands every one after his tongue after their families in their nations
and the sons of ham cush and mizraim and phut and canaan
and the sons of cush seba and havilah and sabtah and raamah and sabtechah and the sons of raamah sheba and dedan
and cush begat nimrod he began to be a mighty one in the earth
he was a mighty hunter before the lord wherefore it is said even as nimrod the mighty hunter before the lord
and the beginning of his kingdom was babel and erech and accad and calneh in the land of shinar
out of that land went forth asshur and builded nineveh and the city rehoboth and calah
and resen between nineveh and calah the same is a great city
and mizraim begat ludim and anamim and lehabim and naphtuhim
and pathrusim and casluhim out of whom came philistim and caphtorim
and canaan begat sidon his first born and heth
and the jebusite and the amorite and the girgasite
and the hivite and the arkite and the sinite
and the arvadite and the zemarite and the hamathite and afterward were the families of the canaanites spread abroad
and the border of the canaanites was from sidon as thou comest to gerar unto gaza as thou goest unto sodom and gomorrah and admah and zeboim even unto lasha
these are the sons of ham after their families after their tongues in their countries and in their nations
unto shem also the father of all the children of eber the brother of japheth the elder even to him were children born
the children of shem elam and asshur and arphaxad and lud and aram
and the children of aram uz and hul and gether and mash
and arphaxad begat salah and salah begat eber
and unto eber were born two sons the name of one was peleg for in his days was the earth divided and his brother's name was joktan
and joktan begat almodad and sheleph and hazarmaveth and jerah
and hadoram and uzal and diklah
and obal and abimael and sheba
and ophir and havilah and jobab all these were the sons of joktan
and their dwelling was from mesha as thou goest unto sephar a mount of the east
these are the sons of shem after their families after their tongues in their lands after their nations
these are the families of the sons of noah after their generations in their nations and by these were the nations divided in the earth after the flood
and the whole earth was of one language and of one speech
and it came to pass as they journeyed from the east that they found a plain in the land of shinar and they dwelt there
and they said one to another go to let us make brick and burn them thoroughly and they had brick for stone and slime had they for morter
and they said go to let us build us a city and a tower whose top may reach unto heaven and let us make us a name lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth
and the lord came down to see the city and the tower which the children of men builded
and the lord said behold the people is one and they have all one language and this they begin to do and now nothing will be restrained from them which they have imagined to do
go to let us go down and there confound their language that they may not understand one another's speech
so the lord scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of all the earth and they left off to build the city
therefore is the name of it called babel because the lord did there confound the language of all the earth and from thence did the lord scatter them abroad upon the face of all the earth
these are the generations of shem shem was an hundred years old and begat arphaxad two years after the flood
and shem lived after he begat arphaxad five hundred years and begat sons and daughters
and arphaxad lived five and thirty years and begat salah
and arphaxad lived after he begat salah four hundred and three years and begat sons and daughters
and salah lived thirty years and begat eber
and salah lived after he begat eber four hundred and three years and begat sons and daughters
and eber lived four and thirty years and begat peleg
and eber lived after he begat peleg four hundred and thirty years and begat sons and daughters
and peleg lived thirty years and begat reu
and peleg lived after he begat reu two hundred and nine years and begat sons and daughters
and reu lived two and thirty years and begat serug
and reu lived after he begat serug two hundred and seven years and begat sons and daughters
and serug lived thirty years and begat nahor
and serug lived after he begat nahor two hundred years and begat sons and daughters
and nahor lived nine and twenty years and begat terah
and nahor lived after he begat terah an hundred and nineteen years and begat sons and daughters
and terah lived seventy years and begat abram nahor and haran
now these are the generations of terah terah begat abram nahor and haran and haran begat lot
and haran died before his father terah in the land of his nativity in ur of the chaldees
and abram and nahor took them wives the name of abram's wife was sarai and the name of nahor's wife milcah the daughter of haran the father of milcah and the father of iscah
but sarai was barren she had no child
and terah took abram his son and lot the son of haran his son's son and sarai his daughter in law his son abram's wife and they went forth with them from ur of the chaldees to go into the land of canaan and they came unto haran and dwelt there
and the days of terah were two hundred and five years and terah died in haran
now the lord had said unto abram get thee out of thy country and from thy kindred and from thy father's house unto a land that i will shew thee
and i will make of thee a great nation and i will bless thee and make thy name great and thou shalt be a blessing
and i will bless them that bless thee and curse him that curseth thee and in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed
so abram departed as the lord had spoken unto him and lot went with him and abram was seventy and five years old when he departed out of haran
and abram took sarai his wife and lot his brother's son and all their substance that they had gathered and the souls that they had gotten in haran and they went forth to go into the land of canaan and into the land of canaan they came
and abram passed through the land unto the place of sichem unto the plain of moreh and the canaanite was then in the land
and the lord appeared unto abram and said unto thy seed will i give this land and there builded he an altar unto the lord who appeared unto him
and he removed from thence unto a mountain on the east of bethel and pitched his tent having bethel on the west and hai on the east and there he builded an altar unto the lord and called upon the name of the lord
and abram journeyed going on still toward the south
and there was a famine in the land and abram went down into egypt to sojourn there for the famine was grievous in the land
and it came to pass when he was come near to enter into egypt that he said unto sarai his wife behold now i know that thou art a fair woman to look upon
therefore it shall come to pass when the egyptians shall see thee that they shall say this is his wife and they will kill me but they will save thee alive
say i pray thee thou art my sister that it may be well with me for thy sake and my soul shall live because of thee
and it came to pass that when abram was come into egypt the egyptians beheld the woman that she was very fair
the princes also of pharaoh saw her and commended her before pharaoh and the woman was taken into pharaoh's house
and he entreated abram well for her sake and he had sheep and oxen and he asses and menservants and maidservants and she asses and camels
and the lord plagued pharaoh and his house with great plagues because of sarai abram's wife
and pharaoh called abram and said what is this that thou hast done unto me why didst thou not tell me that she was thy wife
why saidst thou she is my sister so i might have taken her to me to wife now therefore behold thy wife take her and go thy way
and pharaoh commanded his men concerning him and they sent him away and his wife and all that he had
and abram went up out of egypt he and his wife and all that he had and lot with him into the south
and abram was very rich in cattle in silver and in gold
and he went on his journeys from the south even to bethel unto the place where his tent had been at the beginning between bethel and hai
unto the place of the altar which he had made there at the first and there abram called on the name of the lord
and lot also which went with abram had flocks and herds and tents
and the land was not able to bear them that they might dwell together for their substance was great so that they could not dwell together
and there was a strife between the herdmen of abram's cattle and the herdmen of lot's cattle and the canaanite and the perizzite dwelled then in the land
and abram said unto lot let there be no strife i pray thee between me and thee and between my herdmen and thy herdmen for we be brethren
is not the whole land before thee separate thyself i pray thee from me if thou wilt take the left hand then i will go to the right or if thou depart to the right hand then i will go to the left
and lot lifted up his eyes and beheld all the plain of jordan that it was well watered every where before the lord destroyed sodom and gomorrah even as the garden of the lord like the land of egypt as thou comest unto zoar
then lot chose him all the plain of jordan and lot journeyed east and they separated themselves the one from the other
abram dwelled in the land of canaan and lot dwelled in the cities of the plain and pitched his tent toward sodom
but the men of sodom were wicked and sinners before the lord exceedingly
and the lord said unto abram after that lot was separated from him lift up now thine eyes and look from the place where thou art northward and southward and eastward and westward
for all the land which thou seest to thee will i give it and to thy seed for ever
and i will make thy seed as the dust of the earth so that if a man can number the dust of the earth then shall thy seed also be numbered
arise walk through the land in the length of it and in the breadth of it for i will give it unto thee
then abram removed his tent and came and dwelt in the plain of mamre which is in hebron and built there an altar unto the lord
and it came to pass in the days of amraphel king of shinar arioch king of ellasar chedorlaomer king of elam and tidal king of nations
that these made war with bera king of sodom and with birsha king of gomorrah shinab king of admah and shemeber king of zeboiim and the king of bela which is zoar
all these were joined together in the vale of siddim which is the salt sea
twelve years they served chedorlaomer and in the thirteenth year they rebelled
and in the fourteenth year came chedorlaomer and the kings that were with him and smote the rephaims in ashteroth karnaim and the zuzims in ham and the emims in shaveh kiriathaim
and the horites in their mount seir unto elparan which is by the wilderness
and they returned and came to enmishpat which is kadesh and smote all the country of the amalekites and also the amorites that dwelt in hazezontamar
and there went out the king of sodom and the king of gomorrah and the king of admah and the king of zeboiim and the king of bela the same is zoar and they joined battle with them in the vale of siddim
with chedorlaomer the king of elam and with tidal king of nations and amraphel king of shinar and arioch king of ellasar four kings with five
and the vale of siddim was full of slimepits and the kings of sodom and gomorrah fled and fell there and they that remained fled to the mountain
and they took all the goods of sodom and gomorrah and all their victuals and went their way
and they took lot abram's brother's son who dwelt in sodom and his goods and departed
and there came one that had escaped and told abram the hebrew for he dwelt in the plain of mamre the amorite brother of eshcol and brother of aner and these were confederate with abram
and when abram heard that his brother was taken captive he armed his trained servants born in his own house three hundred and eighteen and pursued them unto dan
and he divided himself against them he and his servants by night and smote them and pursued them unto hobah which is on the left hand of damascus
and he brought back all the goods and also brought again his brother lot and his goods and the women also and the people
and the king of sodom went out to meet him after his return from the slaughter of chedorlaomer and of the kings that were with him at the valley of shaveh which is the king's dale
and melchizedek king of salem brought forth bread and wine and he was the priest of the most high god
and he blessed him and said blessed be abram of the most high god possessor of heaven and earth
and blessed be the most high god which hath delivered thine enemies into thy hand and he gave him tithes of all
and the king of sodom said unto abram give me the persons and take the goods to thyself
and abram said to the king of sodom i have lift up mine hand unto the lord the most high god the possessor of heaven and earth
that i will not take from a thread even to a shoelatchet and that i will not take any thing that is thine lest thou shouldest say i have made abram rich
save only that which the young men have eaten and the portion of the men which went with me aner eshcol and mamre let them take their portion
after these things the word of the lord came unto abram in a vision saying fear not abram i am thy shield and thy exceeding great reward
and abram said lord god what wilt thou give me seeing i go childless and the steward of my house is this eliezer of damascus
and abram said behold to me thou hast given no seed and lo one born in my house is mine heir
and behold the word of the lord came unto him saying this shall not be thine heir but he that shall come forth out of thine own bowels shall be thine heir
and he brought him forth abroad and said look now toward heaven and tell the stars if thou be able to number them and he said unto him so shall thy seed be
and he believed in the lord and he counted it to him for righteousness
and he said unto him i am the lord that brought thee out of ur of the chaldees to give thee this land to inherit it
and he said lord god whereby shall i know that i shall inherit it
and he said unto him take me an heifer of three years old and a she goat of three years old and a ram of three years old and a turtledove and a young pigeon
and he took unto him all these and divided them in the midst and laid each piece one against another but the birds divided he not
and when the fowls came down upon the carcases abram drove them away
and when the sun was going down a deep sleep fell upon abram and lo an horror of great darkness fell upon him
and he said unto abram know of a surety that thy seed shall be a stranger in a land that is not theirs and shall serve them and they shall afflict them four hundred years
and also that nation whom they shall serve will i judge and afterward shall they come out with great substance
and thou shalt go to thy fathers in peace thou shalt be buried in a good old age
but in the fourth generation they shall come hither again for the iniquity of the amorites is not yet full
and it came to pass that when the sun went down and it was dark behold a smoking furnace and a burning lamp that passed between those pieces
in the same day the lord made a covenant with abram saying unto thy seed have i given this land from the river of egypt unto the great river the river euphrates
the kenites and the kenizzites and the kadmonites
and the hittites and the perizzites and the rephaims
and the amorites and the canaanites and the girgashites and the jebusites
now sarai abram's wife bare him no children and she had an handmaid an egyptian whose name was hagar
and sarai said unto abram behold now the lord hath restrained me from bearing i pray thee go in unto my maid it may be that i may obtain children by her and abram hearkened to the voice of sarai
and sarai abram's wife took hagar her maid the egyptian after abram had dwelt ten years in the land of canaan and gave her to her husband abram to be his wife
and he went in unto hagar and she conceived and when she saw that she had conceived her mistress was despised in her eyes
and sarai said unto abram my wrong be upon thee i have given my maid into thy bosom and when she saw that she had conceived i was despised in her eyes the lord judge between me and thee
but abram said unto sarai behold thy maid is in thy hand do to her as it pleaseth thee and when sarai dealt hardly with her she fled from her face
and the angel of the lord found her by a fountain of water in the wilderness by the fountain in the way to shur
and he said hagar sarai's maid whence camest thou and whither wilt thou go and she said i flee from the face of my mistress sarai
and the angel of the lord said unto her return to thy mistress and submit thyself under her hands
and the angel of the lord said unto her i will multiply thy seed exceedingly that it shall not be numbered for multitude
and the angel of the lord said unto her behold thou art with child and shalt bear a son and shalt call his name ishmael because the lord hath heard thy affliction
and he will be a wild man his hand will be against every man and every man's hand against him and he shall dwell in the presence of all his brethren
and she called the name of the lord that spake unto her thou god seest me for she said have i also here looked after him that seeth me
wherefore the well was called beerlahairoi behold it is between kadesh and bered
and hagar bare abram a son and abram called his son's name which hagar bare ishmael
and abram was fourscore and six years old when hagar bare ishmael to abram
and when abram was ninety years old and nine the lord appeared to abram and said unto him i am the almighty god walk before me and be thou perfect
and i will make my covenant between me and thee and will multiply thee exceedingly
and abram fell on his face and god talked with him saying
as for me behold my covenant is with thee and thou shalt be a father of many nations
neither shall thy name any more be called abram but thy name shall be abraham for a father of many nations have i made thee
and i will make thee exceeding fruitful and i will make nations of thee and kings shall come out of thee
and i will establish my covenant between me and thee and thy seed after thee in their generations for an everlasting covenant to be a god unto thee and to thy seed after thee
and i will give unto thee and to thy seed after thee the land wherein thou art a stranger all the land of canaan for an everlasting possession and i will be their god
and god said unto abraham thou shalt keep my covenant therefore thou and thy seed after thee in their generations
this is my covenant which ye shall keep between me and you and thy seed after thee every man child among you shall be circumcised
and ye shall circumcise the flesh of your foreskin and it shall be a token of the covenant betwixt me and you
and he that is eight days old shall be circumcised among you every man child in your generations he that is born in the house or bought with money of any stranger which is not of thy seed
he that is born in thy house and he that is bought with thy money must needs be circumcised and my covenant shall be in your flesh for an everlasting covenant
and the uncircumcised man child whose flesh of his foreskin is not circumcised that soul shall be cut off from his people he hath broken my covenant
and god said unto abraham as for sarai thy wife thou shalt not call her name sarai but sarah shall her name be
and i will bless her and give thee a son also of her yea i will bless her and she shall be a mother of nations kings of people shall be of her
then abraham fell upon his face and laughed and said in his heart shall a child be born unto him that is an hundred years old and shall sarah that is ninety years old bear
and abraham said unto god o that ishmael might live before thee
and god said sarah thy wife shall bear thee a son indeed and thou shalt call his name isaac and i will establish my covenant with him for an everlasting covenant and with his seed after him
and as for ishmael i have heard thee behold i have blessed him and will make him fruitful and will multiply him exceedingly twelve princes shall he beget and i will make him a great nation
but my covenant will i establish with isaac which sarah shall bear unto thee at this set time in the next year
and he left off talking with him and god went up from abraham
and abraham took ishmael his son and all that were born in his house and all that were bought with his money every male among the men of abraham's house and circumcised the flesh of their foreskin in the selfsame day as god had said unto him
and abraham was ninety years old and nine when he was circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin
and ishmael his son was thirteen years old when he was circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin
in the selfsame day was abraham circumcised and ishmael his son
and all the men of his house born in the house and bought with money of the stranger were circumcised with him
and the lord appeared unto him in the plains of mamre and he sat in the tent door in the heat of the day
and he lift up his eyes and looked and lo three men stood by him and when he saw them he ran to meet them from the tent door and bowed himself toward the ground
and said my lord if now i have found favour in thy sight pass not away i pray thee from thy servant
let a little water i pray you be fetched and wash your feet and rest yourselves under the tree
and i will fetch a morsel of bread and comfort ye your hearts after that ye shall pass on for therefore are ye come to your servant and they said so do as thou hast said
and abraham hastened into the tent unto sarah and said make ready quickly three measures of fine meal knead it and make cakes upon the hearth
and abraham ran unto the herd and fetcht a calf tender and good and gave it unto a young man and he hasted to dress it
and he took butter and milk and the calf which he had dressed and set it before them and he stood by them under the tree and they did eat
and they said unto him where is sarah thy wife and he said behold in the tent
and he said i will certainly return unto thee according to the time of life and lo sarah thy wife shall have a son and sarah heard it in the tent door which was behind him
now abraham and sarah were old and well stricken in age and it ceased to be with sarah after the manner of women
therefore sarah laughed within herself saying after i am waxed old shall i have pleasure my lord being old also
and the lord said unto abraham wherefore did sarah laugh saying shall i of a surety bear a child which am old
is any thing too hard for the lord at the time appointed i will return unto thee according to the time of life and sarah shall have a son
then sarah denied saying i laughed not for she was afraid and he said nay but thou didst laugh
and the men rose up from thence and looked toward sodom and abraham went with them to bring them on the way
and the lord said shall i hide from abraham that thing which i do
seeing that abraham shall surely become a great and mighty nation and all the nations of the earth shall be blessed in him
for i know him that he will command his children and his household after him and they shall keep the way of the lord to do justice and judgment that the lord may bring upon abraham that which he hath spoken of him
and the lord said because the cry of sodom and gomorrah is great and because their sin is very grievous
i will go down now and see whether they have done altogether according to the cry of it which is come unto me and if not i will know
and the men turned their faces from thence and went toward sodom but abraham stood yet before the lord
and abraham drew near and said wilt thou also destroy the righteous with the wicked
peradventure there be fifty righteous within the city wilt thou also destroy and not spare the place for the fifty righteous that are therein
that be far from thee to do after this manner to slay the righteous with the wicked and that the righteous should be as the wicked that be far from thee shall not the judge of all the earth do right
and the lord said if i find in sodom fifty righteous within the city then i will spare all the place for their sakes
and abraham answered and said behold now i have taken upon me to speak unto the lord which am but dust and ashes
peradventure there shall lack five of the fifty righteous wilt thou destroy all the city for lack of five and he said if i find there forty and five i will not destroy it
and he spake unto him yet again and said peradventure there shall be forty found there and he said i will not do it for forty's sake
and he said unto him oh let not the lord be angry and i will speak peradventure there shall thirty be found there and he said i will not do it if i find thirty there
and he said behold now i have taken upon me to speak unto the lord peradventure there shall be twenty found there and he said i will not destroy it for twenty's sake
and he said oh let not the lord be angry and i will speak yet but this once peradventure ten shall be found there and he said i will not destroy it for ten's sake
and the lord went his way as soon as he had left communing with abraham and abraham returned unto his place
and there came two angels to sodom at even and lot sat in the gate of sodom and lot seeing them rose up to meet them and he bowed himself with his face toward the ground
and he said behold now my lords turn in i pray you into your servant's house and tarry all night and wash your feet and ye shall rise up early and go on your ways and they said nay but we will abide in the street all night
and he pressed upon them greatly and they turned in unto him and entered into his house and he made them a feast and did bake unleavened bread and they did eat
but before they lay down the men of the city even the men of sodom compassed the house round both old and young all the people from every quarter
and they called unto lot and said unto him where are the men which came in to thee this night bring them out unto us that we may know them
and lot went out at the door unto them and shut the door after him
and said i pray you brethren do not so wickedly
behold now i have two daughters which have not known man let me i pray you bring them out unto you and do ye to them as is good in your eyes only unto these men do nothing for therefore came they under the shadow of my roof
and they said stand back and they said again this one fellow came in to sojourn and he will needs be a judge now will we deal worse with thee than with them and they pressed sore upon the man even lot and came near to break the door
but the men put forth their hand and pulled lot into the house to them and shut to the door
and they smote the men that were at the door of the house with blindness both small and great so that they wearied themselves to find the door
and the men said unto lot hast thou here any besides son in law and thy sons and thy daughters and whatsoever thou hast in the city bring them out of this place
for we will destroy this place because the cry of them is waxen great before the face of the lord and the lord hath sent us to destroy it
and lot went out and spake unto his sons in law which married his daughters and said up get you out of this place for the lord will destroy this city but he seemed as one that mocked unto his sons in law
and when the morning arose then the angels hastened lot saying arise take thy wife and thy two daughters which are here lest thou be consumed in the iniquity of the city
and while he lingered the men laid hold upon his hand and upon the hand of his wife and upon the hand of his two daughters the lord being merciful unto him and they brought him forth and set him without the city
and it came to pass when they had brought them forth abroad that he said escape for thy life look not behind thee neither stay thou in all the plain escape to the mountain lest thou be consumed
and lot said unto them oh not so my lord
behold now thy servant hath found grace in thy sight and thou hast magnified thy mercy which thou hast shewed unto me in saving my life and i cannot escape to the mountain lest some evil take me and i die
behold now this city is near to flee unto and it is a little one oh let me escape thither is it not a little one and my soul shall live
and he said unto him see i have accepted thee concerning this thing also that i will not overthrow this city for the which thou hast spoken
haste thee escape thither for i cannot do anything till thou be come thither therefore the name of the city was called zoar
the sun was risen upon the earth when lot entered into zoar
then the lord rained upon sodom and upon gomorrah brimstone and fire from the lord out of heaven
and he overthrew those cities and all the plain and all the inhabitants of the cities and that which grew upon the ground
but his wife looked back from behind him and she became a pillar of salt
and abraham gat up early in the morning to the place where he stood before the lord
and he looked toward sodom and gomorrah and toward all the land of the plain and beheld and lo the smoke of the country went up as the smoke of a furnace
and it came to pass when god destroyed the cities of the plain that god remembered abraham and sent lot out of the midst of the overthrow when he overthrew the cities in the which lot dwelt
and lot went up out of zoar and dwelt in the mountain and his two daughters with him for he feared to dwell in zoar and he dwelt in a cave he and his two daughters
and the firstborn said unto the younger our father is old and there is not a man in the earth to come in unto us after the manner of all the earth
come let us make our father drink wine and we will lie with him that we may preserve seed of our father
and they made their father drink wine that night and the firstborn went in and lay with her father and he perceived not when she lay down nor when she arose
and it came to pass on the morrow that the firstborn said unto the younger behold i lay yesternight with my father let us make him drink wine this night also and go thou in and lie with him that we may preserve seed of our father
and they made their father drink wine that night also and the younger arose and lay with him and he perceived not when she lay down nor when she arose
thus were both the daughters of lot with child by their father
and the first born bare a son and called his name moab the same is the father of the moabites unto this day
and the younger she also bare a son and called his name benammi the same is the father of the children of ammon unto this day
and abraham journeyed from thence toward the south country and dwelled between kadesh and shur and sojourned in gerar
and abraham said of sarah his wife she is my sister and abimelech king of gerar sent and took sarah
but god came to abimelech in a dream by night and said to him behold thou art but a dead man for the woman which thou hast taken for she is a man's wife
but abimelech had not come near her and he said lord wilt thou slay also a righteous nation
said he not unto me she is my sister and she even she herself said he is my brother in the integrity of my heart and innocency of my hands have i done this
and god said unto him in a dream yea i know that thou didst this in the integrity of thy heart for i also withheld thee from sinning against me therefore suffered i thee not to touch her
now therefore restore the man his wife for he is a prophet and he shall pray for thee and thou shalt live and if thou restore her not know thou that thou shalt surely die thou and all that are thine
therefore abimelech rose early in the morning and called all his servants and told all these things in their ears and the men were sore afraid
then abimelech called abraham and said unto him what hast thou done unto us and what have i offended thee that thou hast brought on me and on my kingdom a great sin thou hast done deeds unto me that ought not to be done
and abimelech said unto abraham what sawest thou that thou hast done this thing
and abraham said because i thought surely the fear of god is not in this place and they will slay me for my wife's sake
and yet indeed she is my sister she is the daughter of my father but not the daughter of my mother and she became my wife
and it came to pass when god caused me to wander from my father's house that i said unto her this is thy kindness which thou shalt shew unto me at every place whither we shall come say of me he is my brother
and abimelech took sheep and oxen and menservants and womenservants and gave them unto abraham and restored him sarah his wife
and abimelech said behold my land is before thee dwell where it pleaseth thee
and unto sarah he said behold i have given thy brother a thousand pieces of silver behold he is to thee a covering of the eyes unto all that are with thee and with all other thus she was reproved
so abraham prayed unto god and god healed abimelech and his wife and his maidservants and they bare children
for the lord had fast closed up all the wombs of the house of abimelech because of sarah abraham's wife
and the lord visited sarah as he had said and the lord did unto sarah as he had spoken
for sarah conceived and bare abraham a son in his old age at the set time of which god had spoken to him
and abraham called the name of his son that was born unto him whom sarah bare to him isaac
and abraham circumcised his son isaac being eight days old as god had commanded him
and abraham was an hundred years old when his son isaac was born unto him
and sarah said god hath made me to laugh so that all that hear will laugh with me
and she said who would have said unto abraham that sarah should have given children suck for i have born him a son in his old age
and the child grew and was weaned and abraham made a great feast the same day that isaac was weaned
and sarah saw the son of hagar the egyptian which she had born unto abraham mocking
wherefore she said unto abraham cast out this bondwoman and her son for the son of this bondwoman shall not be heir with my son even with isaac
and the thing was very grievous in abraham's sight because of his son
and god said unto abraham let it not be grievous in thy sight because of the lad and because of thy bondwoman in all that sarah hath said unto thee hearken unto her voice for in isaac shall thy seed be called
and also of the son of the bondwoman will i make a nation because he is thy seed
and abraham rose up early in the morning and took bread and a bottle of water and gave it unto hagar putting it on her shoulder and the child and sent her away and she departed and wandered in the wilderness of beersheba
and the water was spent in the bottle and she cast the child under one of the shrubs
and she went and sat her down over against him a good way off as it were a bow shot for she said let me not see the death of the child and she sat over against him and lift up her voice and wept
and god heard the voice of the lad and the angel of god called to hagar out of heaven and said unto her what aileth thee hagar fear not for god hath heard the voice of the lad where he is
arise lift up the lad and hold him in thine hand for i will make him a great nation
and god opened her eyes and she saw a well of water and she went and filled the bottle with water and gave the lad drink
and god was with the lad and he grew and dwelt in the wilderness and became an archer
and he dwelt in the wilderness of paran and his mother took him a wife out of the land of egypt
and it came to pass at that time that abimelech and phichol the chief captain of his host spake unto abraham saying god is with thee in all that thou doest
now therefore swear unto me here by god that thou wilt not deal falsely with me nor with my son nor with my son's son but according to the kindness that i have done unto thee thou shalt do unto me and to the land wherein thou hast sojourned
and abraham said i will swear
and abraham reproved abimelech because of a well of water which abimelech's servants had violently taken away
and abimelech said i wot not who hath done this thing neither didst thou tell me neither yet heard i of it but to day
and abraham took sheep and oxen and gave them unto abimelech and both of them made a covenant
and abraham set seven ewe lambs of the flock by themselves
and abimelech said unto abraham what mean these seven ewe lambs which thou hast set by themselves
and he said for these seven ewe lambs shalt thou take of my hand that they may be a witness unto me that i have digged this well
wherefore he called that place beersheba because there they sware both of them
thus they made a covenant at beersheba then abimelech rose up and phichol the chief captain of his host and they returned into the land of the philistines
and abraham planted a grove in beersheba and called there on the name of the lord the everlasting god
and abraham sojourned in the philistines land many days
and it came to pass after these things that god did tempt abraham and said unto him abraham and he said behold here i am
and he said take now thy son thine only son isaac whom thou lovest and get thee into the land of moriah and offer him there for a burnt offering upon one of the mountains which i will tell thee of
and abraham rose up early in the morning and saddled his ass and took two of his young men with him and isaac his son and clave the wood for the burnt offering and rose up and went unto the place of which god had told him
then on the third day abraham lifted up his eyes and saw the place afar off
and abraham said unto his young men abide ye here with the ass and i and the lad will go yonder and worship and come again to you
and abraham took the wood of the burnt offering and laid it upon isaac his son and he took the fire in his hand and a knife and they went both of them together
and isaac spake unto abraham his father and said my father and he said here am i my son and he said behold the fire and the wood but where is the lamb for a burnt offering
and abraham said my son god will provide himself a lamb for a burnt offering so they went both of them together
and they came to the place which god had told him of and abraham built an altar there and laid the wood in order and bound isaac his son and laid him on the altar upon the wood
and abraham stretched forth his hand and took the knife to slay his son
and the angel of the lord called unto him out of heaven and said abraham abraham and he said here am i
and he said lay not thine hand upon the lad neither do thou any thing unto him for now i know that thou fearest god seeing thou hast not withheld thy son thine only son from me
and abraham lifted up his eyes and looked and behold behind him a ram caught in a thicket by his horns and abraham went and took the ram and offered him up for a burnt offering in the stead of his son
and abraham called the name of that place jehovahjireh as it is said to this day in the mount of the lord it shall be seen
and the angel of the lord called unto abraham out of heaven the second time
and said by myself have i sworn saith the lord for because thou hast done this thing and hast not withheld thy son thine only son
that in blessing i will bless thee and in multiplying i will multiply thy seed as the stars of the heaven and as the sand which is upon the sea shore and thy seed shall possess the gate of his enemies
and in thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed because thou hast obeyed my voice
so abraham returned unto his young men and they rose up and went together to beersheba and abraham dwelt at beersheba
and it came to pass after these things that it was told abraham saying behold milcah she hath also born children unto thy brother nahor
huz his firstborn and buz his brother and kemuel the father of aram
and chesed and hazo and pildash and jidlaph and bethuel
and bethuel begat rebekah these eight milcah did bear to nahor abraham's brother
and his concubine whose name was reumah she bare also tebah and gaham and thahash and maachah
and sarah was an hundred and seven and twenty years old these were the years of the life of sarah
and sarah died in kirjatharba the same is hebron in the land of canaan and abraham came to mourn for sarah and to weep for her
and abraham stood up from before his dead and spake unto the sons of heth saying
i am a stranger and a sojourner with you give me a possession of a buryingplace with you that i may bury my dead out of my sight
and the children of heth answered abraham saying unto him
hear us my lord thou art a mighty prince among us in the choice of our sepulchres bury thy dead none of us shall withhold from thee his sepulchre but that thou mayest bury thy dead
and abraham stood up and bowed himself to the people of the land even to the children of heth
and he communed with them saying if it be your mind that i should bury my dead out of my sight hear me and intreat for me to ephron the son of zohar
that he may give me the cave of machpelah which he hath which is in the end of his field for as much money as it is worth he shall give it me for a possession of a buryingplace amongst you
and ephron dwelt among the children of heth and ephron the hittite answered abraham in the audience of the children of heth even of all that went in at the gate of his city saying
nay my lord hear me the field give i thee and the cave that is therein i give it thee in the presence of the sons of my people give i it thee bury thy dead
and abraham bowed down himself before the people of the land
and he spake unto ephron in the audience of the people of the land saying but if thou wilt give it i pray thee hear me i will give thee money for the field take it of me and i will bury my dead there
and ephron answered abraham saying unto him
my lord hearken unto me the land is worth four hundred shekels of silver what is that betwixt me and thee bury therefore thy dead
and abraham hearkened unto ephron and abraham weighed to ephron the silver which he had named in the audience of the sons of heth four hundred shekels of silver current money with the merchant
and the field of ephron which was in machpelah which was before mamre the field and the cave which was therein and all the trees that were in the field that were in all the borders round about were made sure
unto abraham for a possession in the presence of the children of heth before all that went in at the gate of his city
and after this abraham buried sarah his wife in the cave of the field of machpelah before mamre the same is hebron in the land of canaan
and the field and the cave that is therein were made sure unto abraham for a possession of a buryingplace by the sons of heth
and abraham was old and well stricken in age and the lord had blessed abraham in all things
and abraham said unto his eldest servant of his house that ruled over all that he had put i pray thee thy hand under my thigh
and i will make thee swear by the lord the god of heaven and the god of the earth that thou shalt not take a wife unto my son of the daughters of the canaanites among whom i dwell
but thou shalt go unto my country and to my kindred and take a wife unto my son isaac
and the servant said unto him peradventure the woman will not be willing to follow me unto this land must i needs bring thy son again unto the land from whence thou camest
and abraham said unto him beware thou that thou bring not my son thither again
the lord god of heaven which took me from my father's house and from the land of my kindred and which spake unto me and that sware unto me saying unto thy seed will i give this land he shall send his angel before thee and thou shalt take a wife unto my son from thence
and if the woman will not be willing to follow thee then thou shalt be clear from this my oath only bring not my son thither again
and the servant put his hand under the thigh of abraham his master and sware to him concerning that matter
and the servant took ten camels of the camels of his master and departed for all the goods of his master were in his hand and he arose and went to mesopotamia unto the city of nahor
and he made his camels to kneel down without the city by a well of water at the time of the evening even the time that women go out to draw water
and he said o lord god of my master abraham i pray thee send me good speed this day and shew kindness unto my master abraham
behold i stand here by the well of water and the daughters of the men of the city come out to draw water
and let it come to pass that the damsel to whom i shall say let down thy pitcher i pray thee that i may drink and she shall say drink and i will give thy camels drink also let the same be she that thou hast appointed for thy servant isaac and thereby shall i know that thou hast shewed kindness unto my master
and it came to pass before he had done speaking that behold rebekah came out who was born to bethuel son of milcah the wife of nahor abraham's brother with her pitcher upon her shoulder
and the damsel was very fair to look upon a virgin neither had any man known her and she went down to the well and filled her pitcher and came up
and the servant ran to meet her and said let me i pray thee drink a little water of thy pitcher
and she said drink my lord and she hasted and let down her pitcher upon her hand and gave him drink
and when she had done giving him drink she said i will draw water for thy camels also until they have done drinking
and she hasted and emptied her pitcher into the trough and ran again unto the well to draw water and drew for all his camels
and the man wondering at her held his peace to wit whether the lord had made his journey prosperous or not
and it came to pass as the camels had done drinking that the man took a golden earring of half a shekel weight and two bracelets for her hands of ten shekels weight of gold
and said whose daughter art thou tell me i pray thee is there room in thy father's house for us to lodge in
and she said unto him i am the daughter of bethuel the son of milcah which she bare unto nahor
she said moreover unto him we have both straw and provender enough and room to lodge in
and the man bowed down his head and worshipped the lord
and he said blessed be the lord god of my master abraham who hath not left destitute my master of his mercy and his truth i being in the way the lord led me to the house of my master's brethren
and the damsel ran and told them of her mother's house these things
and rebekah had a brother and his name was laban and laban ran out unto the man unto the well
and it came to pass when he saw the earring and bracelets upon his sister's hands and when he heard the words of rebekah his sister saying thus spake the man unto me that he came unto the man and behold he stood by the camels at the well
and he said come in thou blessed of the lord wherefore standest thou without for i have prepared the house and room for the camels
and the man came into the house and he ungirded his camels and gave straw and provender for the camels and water to wash his feet and the men's feet that were with him
and there was set meat before him to eat but he said i will not eat until i have told mine errand and he said speak on
and he said i am abraham's servant
and the lord hath blessed my master greatly and he is become great and he hath given him flocks and herds and silver and gold and menservants and maidservants and camels and asses
and sarah my master's wife bare a son to my master when she was old and unto him hath he given all that he hath
and my master made me swear saying thou shalt not take a wife to my son of the daughters of the canaanites in whose land i dwell
but thou shalt go unto my father's house and to my kindred and take a wife unto my son
and i said unto my master peradventure the woman will not follow me
and he said unto me the lord before whom i walk will send his angel with thee and prosper thy way and thou shalt take a wife for my son of my kindred and of my father's house
then shalt thou be clear from this my oath when thou comest to my kindred and if they give not thee one thou shalt be clear from my oath
and i came this day unto the well and said o lord god of my master abraham if now thou do prosper my way which i go
behold i stand by the well of water and it shall come to pass that when the virgin cometh forth to draw water and i say to her give me i pray thee a little water of thy pitcher to drink
and she say to me both drink thou and i will also draw for thy camels let the same be the woman whom the lord hath appointed out for my master's son
and before i had done speaking in mine heart behold rebekah came forth with her pitcher on her shoulder and she went down unto the well and drew water and i said unto her let me drink i pray thee
and she made haste and let down her pitcher from her shoulder and said drink and i will give thy camels drink also so i drank and she made the camels drink also
and i asked her and said whose daughter art thou and she said the daughter of bethuel nahor's son whom milcah bare unto him and i put the earring upon her face and the bracelets upon her hands
and i bowed down my head and worshipped the lord and blessed the lord god of my master abraham which had led me in the right way to take my master's brother's daughter unto his son
and now if ye will deal kindly and truly with my master tell me and if not tell me that i may turn to the right hand or to the left
then laban and bethuel answered and said the thing proceedeth from the lord we cannot speak unto thee bad or good
behold rebekah is before thee take her and go and let her be thy master's son's wife as the lord hath spoken
and it came to pass that when abraham's servant heard their words he worshipped the lord bowing himself to the earth
and the servant brought forth jewels of silver and jewels of gold and raiment and gave them to rebekah he gave also to her brother and to her mother precious things
and they did eat and drink he and the men that were with him and tarried all night and they rose up in the morning and he said send me away unto my master
and her brother and her mother said let the damsel abide with us a few days at the least ten after that she shall go
and he said unto them hinder me not seeing the lord hath prospered my way send me away that i may go to my master
and they said we will call the damsel and enquire at her mouth
and they called rebekah and said unto her wilt thou go with this man and she said i will go
and they sent away rebekah their sister and her nurse and abraham's servant and his men
and they blessed rebekah and said unto her thou art our sister be thou the mother of thousands of millions and let thy seed possess the gate of those which hate them
and rebekah arose and her damsels and they rode upon the camels and followed the man and the servant took rebekah and went his way
and isaac came from the way of the well lahairoi for he dwelt in the south country
and isaac went out to meditate in the field at the eventide and he lifted up his eyes and saw and behold the camels were coming
and rebekah lifted up her eyes and when she saw isaac she lighted off the camel
for she had said unto the servant what man is this that walketh in the field to meet us and the servant had said it is my master therefore she took a vail and covered herself
and the servant told isaac all things that he had done
and isaac brought her into his mother sarah's tent and took rebekah and she became his wife and he loved her and isaac was comforted after his mother's death
then again abraham took a wife and her name was keturah
and she bare him zimran and jokshan and medan and midian and ishbak and shuah
and jokshan begat sheba and dedan and the sons of dedan were asshurim and letushim and leummim
and the sons of midian ephah and epher and hanoch and abidah and eldaah all these were the children of keturah
and abraham gave all that he had unto isaac
but unto the sons of the concubines which abraham had abraham gave gifts and sent them away from isaac his son while he yet lived eastward unto the east country
and these are the days of the years of abraham's life which he lived an hundred threescore and fifteen years
then abraham gave up the ghost and died in a good old age an old man and full of years and was gathered to his people
and his sons isaac and ishmael buried him in the cave of machpelah in the field of ephron the son of zohar the hittite which is before mamre
the field which abraham purchased of the sons of heth there was abraham buried and sarah his wife
and it came to pass after the death of abraham that god blessed his son isaac and isaac dwelt by the well lahairoi
now these are the generations of ishmael abraham's son whom hagar the egyptian sarah's handmaid bare unto abraham
and these are the names of the sons of ishmael by their names according to their generations the firstborn of ishmael nebajoth and kedar and adbeel and mibsam
and mishma and dumah and massa
hadar and tema jetur naphish and kedemah
these are the sons of ishmael and these are their names by their towns and by their castles twelve princes according to their nations
and these are the years of the life of ishmael an hundred and thirty and seven years and he gave up the ghost and died and was gathered unto his people
and they dwelt from havilah unto shur that is before egypt as thou goest toward assyria and he died in the presence of all his brethren
and these are the generations of isaac abraham's son abraham begat isaac
and isaac was forty years old when he took rebekah to wife the daughter of bethuel the syrian of padanaram the sister to laban the syrian
and isaac intreated the lord for his wife because she was barren and the lord was intreated of him and rebekah his wife conceived
and the children struggled together within her and she said if it be so why am i thus and she went to enquire of the lord
and the lord said unto her two nations are in thy womb and two manner of people shall be separated from thy bowels and the one people shall be stronger than the other people and the elder shall serve the younger
and when her days to be delivered were fulfilled behold there were twins in her womb
and the first came out red all over like an hairy garment and they called his name esau
and after that came his brother out and his hand took hold on esau's heel and his name was called jacob and isaac was threescore years old when she bare them
and the boys grew and esau was a cunning hunter a man of the field and jacob was a plain man dwelling in tents
and isaac loved esau because he did eat of his venison but rebekah loved jacob
and jacob sod pottage and esau came from the field and he was faint
and esau said to jacob feed me i pray thee with that same red pottage for i am faint therefore was his name called edom
and jacob said sell me this day thy birthright
and esau said behold i am at the point to die and what profit shall this birthright do to me
and jacob said swear to me this day and he sware unto him and he sold his birthright unto jacob
then jacob gave esau bread and pottage of lentiles and he did eat and drink and rose up and went his way thus esau despised his birthright
and there was a famine in the land beside the first famine that was in the days of abraham and isaac went unto abimelech king of the philistines unto gerar
and the lord appeared unto him and said go not down into egypt dwell in the land which i shall tell thee of
sojourn in this land and i will be with thee and will bless thee for unto thee and unto thy seed i will give all these countries and i will perform the oath which i sware unto abraham thy father
and i will make thy seed to multiply as the stars of heaven and will give unto thy seed all these countries and in thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed
because that abraham obeyed my voice and kept my charge my commandments my statutes and my laws
and isaac dwelt in gerar
and the men of the place asked him of his wife and he said she is my sister for he feared to say she is my wife lest said he the men of the place should kill me for rebekah because she was fair to look upon
and it came to pass when he had been there a long time that abimelech king of the philistines looked out at a window and saw and behold isaac was sporting with rebekah his wife
and abimelech called isaac and said behold of a surety she is thy wife and how saidst thou she is my sister and isaac said unto him because i said lest i die for her
and abimelech said what is this thou hast done unto us one of the people might lightly have lien with thy wife and thou shouldest have brought guiltiness upon us
and abimelech charged all his people saying he that toucheth this man or his wife shall surely be put to death
then isaac sowed in that land and received in the same year an hundredfold and the lord blessed him
and the man waxed great and went forward and grew until he became very great
for he had possession of flocks and possession of herds and great store of servants and the philistines envied him
for all the wells which his father's servants had digged in the days of abraham his father the philistines had stopped them and filled them with earth
and abimelech said unto isaac go from us for thou art much mightier than we
and isaac departed thence and pitched his tent in the valley of gerar and dwelt there
and isaac digged again the wells of water which they had digged in the days of abraham his father for the philistines had stopped them after the death of abraham and he called their names after the names by which his father had called them
and isaac's servants digged in the valley and found there a well of springing water
and the herdmen of gerar did strive with isaac's herdmen saying the water is ours and he called the name of the well esek because they strove with him
and they digged another well and strove for that also and he called the name of it sitnah
and he removed from thence and digged another well and for that they strove not and he called the name of it rehoboth and he said for now the lord hath made room for us and we shall be fruitful in the land
and he went up from thence to beersheba
and the lord appeared unto him the same night and said i am the god of abraham thy father fear not for i am with thee and will bless thee and multiply thy seed for my servant abraham's sake
and he builded an altar there and called upon the name of the lord and pitched his tent there and there isaac's servants digged a well
then abimelech went to him from gerar and ahuzzath one of his friends and phichol the chief captain of his army
and isaac said unto them wherefore come ye to me seeing ye hate me and have sent me away from you
and they said we saw certainly that the lord was with thee and we said let there be now an oath betwixt us even betwixt us and thee and let us make a covenant with thee
that thou wilt do us no hurt as we have not touched thee and as we have done unto thee nothing but good and have sent thee away in peace thou art now the blessed of the lord
and he made them a feast and they did eat and drink
and they rose up betimes in the morning and sware one to another and isaac sent them away and they departed from him in peace
and it came to pass the same day that isaac's servants came and told him concerning the well which they had digged and said unto him we have found water
and he called it shebah therefore the name of the city is beersheba unto this day
and esau was forty years old when he took to wife judith the daughter of beeri the hittite and bashemath the daughter of elon the hittite
which were a grief of mind unto isaac and to rebekah
and it came to pass that when isaac was old and his eyes were dim so that he could not see he called esau his eldest son and said unto him my son and he said unto him behold here am i
and he said behold now i am old i know not the day of my death
now therefore take i pray thee thy weapons thy quiver and thy bow and go out to the field and take me some venison
and make me savoury meat such as i love and bring it to me that i may eat that my soul may bless thee before i die
and rebekah heard when isaac spake to esau his son and esau went to the field to hunt for venison and to bring it
and rebekah spake unto jacob her son saying behold i heard thy father speak unto esau thy brother saying
bring me venison and make me savoury meat that i may eat and bless thee before the lord before my death
now therefore my son obey my voice according to that which i command thee
go now to the flock and fetch me from thence two good kids of the goats and i will make them savoury meat for thy father such as he loveth
and thou shalt bring it to thy father that he may eat and that he may bless thee before his death
and jacob said to rebekah his mother behold esau my brother is a hairy man and i am a smooth man
my father peradventure will feel me and i shall seem to him as a deceiver and i shall bring a curse upon me and not a blessing
and his mother said unto him upon me be thy curse my son only obey my voice and go fetch me them
and he went and fetched and brought them to his mother and his mother made savoury meat such as his father loved
and rebekah took goodly raiment of her eldest son esau which were with her in the house and put them upon jacob her younger son
and she put the skins of the kids of the goats upon his hands and upon the smooth of his neck
and she gave the savoury meat and the bread which she had prepared into the hand of her son jacob
and he came unto his father and said my father and he said here am i who art thou my son
and jacob said unto his father i am esau thy first born i have done according as thou badest me arise i pray thee sit and eat of my venison that thy soul may bless me
and isaac said unto his son how is it that thou hast found it so quickly my son and he said because the lord thy god brought it to me
and isaac said unto jacob come near i pray thee that i may feel thee my son whether thou be my very son esau or not
and jacob went near unto isaac his father and he felt him and said the voice is jacob's voice but the hands are the hands of esau
and he discerned him not because his hands were hairy as his brother esau's hands so he blessed him
and he said art thou my very son esau and he said i am
and he said bring it near to me and i will eat of my son's venison that my soul may bless thee and he brought it near to him and he did eat and he brought him wine and he drank
and his father isaac said unto him come near now and kiss me my son
and he came near and kissed him and he smelled the smell of his raiment and blessed him and said see the smell of my son is as the smell of a field which the lord hath blessed
therefore god give thee of the dew of heaven and the fatness of the earth and plenty of corn and wine
let people serve thee and nations bow down to thee be lord over thy brethren and let thy mother's sons bow down to thee cursed be every one that curseth thee and blessed be he that blesseth thee
and it came to pass as soon as isaac had made an end of blessing jacob and jacob was yet scarce gone out from the presence of isaac his father that esau his brother came in from his hunting
and he also had made savoury meat and brought it unto his father and said unto his father let my father arise and eat of his son's venison that thy soul may bless me
and isaac his father said unto him who art thou and he said i am thy son thy firstborn esau
and isaac trembled very exceedingly and said who where is he that hath taken venison and brought it me and i have eaten of all before thou camest and have blessed him yea and he shall be blessed
and when esau heard the words of his father he cried with a great and exceeding bitter cry and said unto his father bless me even me also o my father
and he said thy brother came with subtilty and hath taken away thy blessing
and he said is not he rightly named jacob for he hath supplanted me these two times he took away my birthright and behold now he hath taken away my blessing and he said hast thou not reserved a blessing for me
and isaac answered and said unto esau behold i have made him thy lord and all his brethren have i given to him for servants and with corn and wine have i sustained him and what shall i do now unto thee my son
and esau said unto his father hast thou but one blessing my father bless me even me also o my father and esau lifted up his voice and wept
and isaac his father answered and said unto him behold thy dwelling shall be the fatness of the earth and of the dew of heaven from above
and by thy sword shalt thou live and shalt serve thy brother and it shall come to pass when thou shalt have the dominion that thou shalt break his yoke from off thy neck
and esau hated jacob because of the blessing wherewith his father blessed him and esau said in his heart the days of mourning for my father are at hand then will i slay my brother jacob
and these words of esau her elder son were told to rebekah and she sent and called jacob her younger son and said unto him behold thy brother esau as touching thee doth comfort himself purposing to kill thee
now therefore my son obey my voice and arise flee thou to laban my brother to haran
and tarry with him a few days until thy brother's fury turn away
until thy brother's anger turn away from thee and he forget that which thou hast done to him then i will send and fetch thee from thence why should i be deprived also of you both in one day
and rebekah said to isaac i am weary of my life because of the daughters of heth if jacob take a wife of the daughters of heth such as these which are of the daughters of the land what good shall my life do me
and isaac called jacob and blessed him and charged him and said unto him thou shalt not take a wife of the daughters of canaan
arise go to padanaram to the house of bethuel thy mother's father and take thee a wife from thence of the daughters of laban thy mother's brother
and god almighty bless thee and make thee fruitful and multiply thee that thou mayest be a multitude of people
and give thee the blessing of abraham to thee and to thy seed with thee that thou mayest inherit the land wherein thou art a stranger which god gave unto abraham
and isaac sent away jacob and he went to padanaram unto laban son of bethuel the syrian the brother of rebekah jacob's and esau's mother
when esau saw that isaac had blessed jacob and sent him away to padanaram to take him a wife from thence and that as he blessed him he gave him a charge saying thou shalt not take a wife of the daughters of canaan
and that jacob obeyed his father and his mother and was gone to padanaram
and esau seeing that the daughters of canaan pleased not isaac his father
then went esau unto ishmael and took unto the wives which he had mahalath the daughter of ishmael abraham's son the sister of nebajoth to be his wife
and jacob went out from beersheba and went toward haran
and he lighted upon a certain place and tarried there all night because the sun was set and he took of the stones of that place and put them for his pillows and lay down in that place to sleep
and he dreamed and behold a ladder set up on the earth and the top of it reached to heaven and behold the angels of god ascending and descending on it
and behold the lord stood above it and said i am the lord god of abraham thy father and the god of isaac the land whereon thou liest to thee will i give it and to thy seed
and thy seed shall be as the dust of the earth and thou shalt spread abroad to the west and to the east and to the north and to the south and in thee and in thy seed shall all the families of the earth be blessed
and behold i am with thee and will keep thee in all places whither thou goest and will bring thee again into this land for i will not leave thee until i have done that which i have spoken to thee of
and jacob awaked out of his sleep and he said surely the lord is in this place and i knew it not
and he was afraid and said how dreadful is this place this is none other but the house of god and this is the gate of heaven
and jacob rose up early in the morning and took the stone that he had put for his pillows and set it up for a pillar and poured oil upon the top of it
and he called the name of that place bethel but the name of that city was called luz at the first
and jacob vowed a vow saying if god will be with me and will keep me in this way that i go and will give me bread to eat and raiment to put on
so that i come again to my father's house in peace then shall the lord be my god
and this stone which i have set for a pillar shall be god's house and of all that thou shalt give me i will surely give the tenth unto thee
then jacob went on his journey and came into the land of the people of the east
and he looked and behold a well in the field and lo there were three flocks of sheep lying by it for out of that well they watered the flocks and a great stone was upon the well's mouth
and thither were all the flocks gathered and they rolled the stone from the well's mouth and watered the sheep and put the stone again upon the well's mouth in his place
and jacob said unto them my brethren whence be ye and they said of haran are we
and he said unto them know ye laban the son of nahor and they said we know him
and he said unto them is he well and they said he is well and behold rachel his daughter cometh with the sheep
and he said lo it is yet high day neither is it time that the cattle should be gathered together water ye the sheep and go and feed them
and they said we cannot until all the flocks be gathered together and till they roll the stone from the well's mouth then we water the sheep
and while he yet spake with them rachel came with her father's sheep for she kept them
and it came to pass when jacob saw rachel the daughter of laban his mother's brother and the sheep of laban his mother's brother that jacob went near and rolled the stone from the well's mouth and watered the flock of laban his mother's brother
and jacob kissed rachel and lifted up his voice and wept
and jacob told rachel that he was her father's brother and that he was rebekah's son and she ran and told her father
and it came to pass when laban heard the tidings of jacob his sister's son that he ran to meet him and embraced him and kissed him and brought him to his house and he told laban all these things
and laban said to him surely thou art my bone and my flesh and he abode with him the space of a month
and laban said unto jacob because thou art my brother shouldest thou therefore serve me for nought tell me what shall thy wages be
and laban had two daughters the name of the elder was leah and the name of the younger was rachel
leah was tender eyed but rachel was beautiful and well favoured
and jacob loved rachel and said i will serve thee seven years for rachel thy younger daughter
and laban said it is better that i give her to thee than that i should give her to another man abide with me
and jacob served seven years for rachel and they seemed unto him but a few days for the love he had to her
and jacob said unto laban give me my wife for my days are fulfilled that i may go in unto her
and laban gathered together all the men of the place and made a feast
and it came to pass in the evening that he took leah his daughter and brought her to him and he went in unto her
and laban gave unto his daughter leah zilpah his maid for an handmaid
and it came to pass that in the morning behold it was leah and he said to laban what is this thou hast done unto me did not i serve with thee for rachel wherefore then hast thou beguiled me
and laban said it must not be so done in our country to give the younger before the firstborn
fulfil her week and we will give thee this also for the service which thou shalt serve with me yet seven other years
and jacob did so and fulfilled her week and he gave him rachel his daughter to wife also
and laban gave to rachel his daughter bilhah his handmaid to be her maid
and he went in also unto rachel and he loved also rachel more than leah and served with him yet seven other years
and when the lord saw that leah was hated he opened her womb but rachel was barren
and leah conceived and bare a son and she called his name reuben for she said surely the lord hath looked upon my affliction now therefore my husband will love me
and she conceived again and bare a son and said because the lord hath heard that i was hated he hath therefore given me this son also and she called his name simeon
and she conceived again and bare a son and said now this time will my husband be joined unto me because i have born him three sons therefore was his name called levi
and she conceived again and bare a son and she said now will i praise the lord therefore she called his name judah and left bearing
and when rachel saw that she bare jacob no children rachel envied her sister and said unto jacob give me children or else i die
and jacob's anger was kindled against rachel and he said am i in god's stead who hath withheld from thee the fruit of the womb
and she said behold my maid bilhah go in unto her and she shall bear upon my knees that i may also have children by her
and she gave him bilhah her handmaid to wife and jacob went in unto her
and bilhah conceived and bare jacob a son
and rachel said god hath judged me and hath also heard my voice and hath given me a son therefore called she his name dan
and bilhah rachel's maid conceived again and bare jacob a second son
and rachel said with great wrestlings have i wrestled with my sister and i have prevailed and she called his name naphtali
when leah saw that she had left bearing she took zilpah her maid and gave her jacob to wife
and zilpah leah's maid bare jacob a son
and leah said a troop cometh and she called his name gad
and zilpah leah's maid bare jacob a second son
and leah said happy am i for the daughters will call me blessed and she called his name asher
and reuben went in the days of wheat harvest and found mandrakes in the field and brought them unto his mother leah then rachel said to leah give me i pray thee of thy son's mandrakes
and she said unto her is it a small matter that thou hast taken my husband and wouldest thou take away my son's mandrakes also and rachel said therefore he shall lie with thee to night for thy son's mandrakes
and jacob came out of the field in the evening and leah went out to meet him and said thou must come in unto me for surely i have hired thee with my son's mandrakes and he lay with her that night
and god hearkened unto leah and she conceived and bare jacob the fifth son
and leah said god hath given me my hire because i have given my maiden to my husband and she called his name issachar
and leah conceived again and bare jacob the sixth son
and leah said god hath endued me with a good dowry now will my husband dwell with me because i have born him six sons and she called his name zebulun
and afterwards she bare a daughter and called her name dinah
and god remembered rachel and god hearkened to her and opened her womb
and she conceived and bare a son and said god hath taken away my reproach
and she called his name joseph and said the lord shall add to me another son
and it came to pass when rachel had born joseph that jacob said unto laban send me away that i may go unto mine own place and to my country
give me my wives and my children for whom i have served thee and let me go for thou knowest my service which i have done thee
and laban said unto him i pray thee if i have found favour in thine eyes tarry for i have learned by experience that the lord hath blessed me for thy sake
and he said appoint me thy wages and i will give it
and he said unto him thou knowest how i have served thee and how thy cattle was with me
for it was little which thou hadst before i came and it is now increased unto a multitude and the lord hath blessed thee since my coming and now when shall i provide for mine own house also
and he said what shall i give thee and jacob said thou shalt not give me any thing if thou wilt do this thing for me i will again feed and keep thy flock
i will pass through all thy flock to day removing from thence all the speckled and spotted cattle and all the brown cattle among the sheep and the spotted and speckled among the goats and of such shall be my hire
so shall my righteousness answer for me in time to come when it shall come for my hire before thy face every one that is not speckled and spotted among the goats and brown among the sheep that shall be counted stolen with me
and laban said behold i would it might be according to thy word
and he removed that day the he goats that were ringstraked and spotted and all the she goats that were speckled and spotted and every one that had some white in it and all the brown among the sheep and gave them into the hand of his sons
and he set three days journey betwixt himself and jacob and jacob fed the rest of laban's flocks
and jacob took him rods of green poplar and of the hazel and chestnut tree and pilled white strakes in them and made the white appear which was in the rods
and he set the rods which he had pilled before the flocks in the gutters in the watering troughs when the flocks came to drink that they should conceive when they came to drink
and the flocks conceived before the rods and brought forth cattle ringstraked speckled and spotted
and jacob did separate the lambs and set the faces of the flocks toward the ringstraked and all the brown in the flock of laban and he put his own flocks by themselves and put them not unto laban's cattle
and it came to pass whensoever the stronger cattle did conceive that jacob laid the rods before the eyes of the cattle in the gutters that they might conceive among the rods
but when the cattle were feeble he put them not in so the feebler were laban's and the stronger jacob's
and the man increased exceedingly and had much cattle and maidservants and menservants and camels and asses
and he heard the words of laban's sons saying jacob hath taken away all that was our father's and of that which was our father's hath he gotten all this glory
and jacob beheld the countenance of laban and behold it was not toward him as before
and the lord said unto jacob return unto the land of thy fathers and to thy kindred and i will be with thee
and jacob sent and called rachel and leah to the field unto his flock
and said unto them i see your father's countenance that it is not toward me as before but the god of my father hath been with me
and ye know that with all my power i have served your father
and your father hath deceived me and changed my wages ten times but god suffered him not to hurt me
if he said thus the speckled shall be thy wages then all the cattle bare speckled and if he said thus the ringstraked shall be thy hire then bare all the cattle ringstraked
thus god hath taken away the cattle of your father and given them to me
and it came to pass at the time that the cattle conceived that i lifted up mine eyes and saw in a dream and behold the rams which leaped upon the cattle were ringstraked speckled and grisled
and the angel of god spake unto me in a dream saying jacob and i said here am i
and he said lift up now thine eyes and see all the rams which leap upon the cattle are ringstraked speckled and grisled for i have seen all that laban doeth unto thee
i am the god of bethel where thou anointedst the pillar and where thou vowedst a vow unto me now arise get thee out from this land and return unto the land of thy kindred
and rachel and leah answered and said unto him is there yet any portion or inheritance for us in our father's house
are we not counted of him strangers for he hath sold us and hath quite devoured also our money
for all the riches which god hath taken from our father that is ours and our children's now then whatsoever god hath said unto thee do
then jacob rose up and set his sons and his wives upon camels
and he carried away all his cattle and all his goods which he had gotten the cattle of his getting which he had gotten in padanaram for to go to isaac his father in the land of canaan
and laban went to shear his sheep and rachel had stolen the images that were her father's
and jacob stole away unawares to laban the syrian in that he told him not that he fled
so he fled with all that he had and he rose up and passed over the river and set his face toward the mount gilead
and it was told laban on the third day that jacob was fled
and he took his brethren with him and pursued after him seven days journey and they overtook him in the mount gilead
and god came to laban the syrian in a dream by night and said unto him take heed that thou speak not to jacob either good or bad
then laban overtook jacob now jacob had pitched his tent in the mount and laban with his brethren pitched in the mount of gilead
and laban said to jacob what hast thou done that thou hast stolen away unawares to me and carried away my daughters as captives taken with the sword
wherefore didst thou flee away secretly and steal away from me and didst not tell me that i might have sent thee away with mirth and with songs with tabret and with harp
and hast not suffered me to kiss my sons and my daughters thou hast now done foolishly in so doing
it is in the power of my hand to do you hurt but the god of your father spake unto me yesternight saying take thou heed that thou speak not to jacob either good or bad
and now though thou wouldest needs be gone because thou sore longedst after thy father's house yet wherefore hast thou stolen my gods
and jacob answered and said to laban because i was afraid for i said peradventure thou wouldest take by force thy daughters from me
with whomsoever thou findest thy gods let him not live before our brethren discern thou what is thine with me and take it to thee for jacob knew not that rachel had stolen them
and laban went into jacob's tent and into leah's tent and into the two maidservants tents but he found them not then went he out of leah's tent and entered into rachel's tent
now rachel had taken the images and put them in the camel's furniture and sat upon them and laban searched all the tent but found them not
and she said to her father let it not displease my lord that i cannot rise up before thee for the custom of women is upon me and he searched but found not the images
and jacob was wroth and chode with laban and jacob answered and said to laban what is my trespass what is my sin that thou hast so hotly pursued after me
whereas thou hast searched all my stuff what hast thou found of all thy household stuff set it here before my brethren and thy brethren that they may judge betwixt us both
this twenty years have i been with thee thy ewes and thy she goats have not cast their young and the rams of thy flock have i not eaten
that which was torn of beasts i brought not unto thee i bare the loss of it of my hand didst thou require it whether stolen by day or stolen by night
thus i was in the day the drought consumed me and the frost by night and my sleep departed from mine eyes
thus have i been twenty years in thy house i served thee fourteen years for thy two daughters and six years for thy cattle and thou hast changed my wages ten times
except the god of my father the god of abraham and the fear of isaac had been with me surely thou hadst sent me away now empty god hath seen mine affliction and the labour of my hands and rebuked thee yesternight
and laban answered and said unto jacob these daughters are my daughters and these children are my children and these cattle are my cattle and all that thou seest is mine and what can i do this day unto these my daughters or unto their children which they have born
now therefore come thou let us make a covenant i and thou and let it be for a witness between me and thee
and jacob took a stone and set it up for a pillar
and jacob said unto his brethren gather stones and they took stones and made an heap and they did eat there upon the heap
and laban called it jegarsahadutha but jacob called it galeed
and laban said this heap is a witness between me and thee this day therefore was the name of it called galeed
and mizpah for he said the lord watch between me and thee when we are absent one from another
if thou shalt afflict my daughters or if thou shalt take other wives beside my daughters no man is with us see god is witness betwixt me and thee
and laban said to jacob behold this heap and behold this pillar which i have cast betwixt me and thee
this heap be witness and this pillar be witness that i will not pass over this heap to thee and that thou shalt not pass over this heap and this pillar unto me for harm
the god of abraham and the god of nahor the god of their father judge betwixt us and jacob sware by the fear of his father isaac
then jacob offered sacrifice upon the mount and called his brethren to eat bread and they did eat bread and tarried all night in the mount
and early in the morning laban rose up and kissed his sons and his daughters and blessed them and laban departed and returned unto his place
and jacob went on his way and the angels of god met him
and when jacob saw them he said this is god's host and he called the name of that place mahanaim
and jacob sent messengers before him to esau his brother unto the land of seir the country of edom
and he commanded them saying thus shall ye speak unto my lord esau thy servant jacob saith thus i have sojourned with laban and stayed there until now
and i have oxen and asses flocks and menservants and womenservants and i have sent to tell my lord that i may find grace in thy sight
and the messengers returned to jacob saying we came to thy brother esau and also he cometh to meet thee and four hundred men with him
then jacob was greatly afraid and distressed and he divided the people that was with him and the flocks and herds and the camels into two bands
and said if esau come to the one company and smite it then the other company which is left shall escape
and jacob said o god of my father abraham and god of my father isaac the lord which saidst unto me return unto thy country and to thy kindred and i will deal well with thee
i am not worthy of the least of all the mercies and of all the truth which thou hast shewed unto thy servant for with my staff i passed over this jordan and now i am become two bands
deliver me i pray thee from the hand of my brother from the hand of esau for i fear him lest he will come and smite me and the mother with the children
and thou saidst i will surely do thee good and make thy seed as the sand of the sea which cannot be numbered for multitude
and he lodged there that same night and took of that which came to his hand a present for esau his brother
two hundred she goats and twenty he goats two hundred ewes and twenty rams
thirty milch camels with their colts forty kine and ten bulls twenty she asses and ten foals
and he delivered them into the hand of his servants every drove by themselves and said unto his servants pass over before me and put a space betwixt drove and drove
and he commanded the foremost saying when esau my brother meeteth thee and asketh thee saying whose art thou and whither goest thou and whose are these before thee
then thou shalt say they be thy servant jacob's it is a present sent unto my lord esau and behold also he is behind us
and so commanded he the second and the third and all that followed the droves saying on this manner shall ye speak unto esau when ye find him
and say ye moreover behold thy servant jacob is behind us for he said i will appease him with the present that goeth before me and afterward i will see his face peradventure he will accept of me
so went the present over before him and himself lodged that night in the company
and he rose up that night and took his two wives and his two womenservants and his eleven sons and passed over the ford jabbok
and he took them and sent them over the brook and sent over that he had
and jacob was left alone and there wrestled a man with him until the breaking of the day
and when he saw that he prevailed not against him he touched the hollow of his thigh and the hollow of jacob's thigh was out of joint as he wrestled with him
and he said let me go for the day breaketh and he said i will not let thee go except thou bless me
and he said unto him what is thy name and he said jacob
and he said thy name shall be called no more jacob but israel for as a prince hast thou power with god and with men and hast prevailed
and jacob asked him and said tell me i pray thee thy name and he said wherefore is it that thou dost ask after my name and he blessed him there
and jacob called the name of the place peniel for i have seen god face to face and my life is preserved
and as he passed over penuel the sun rose upon him and he halted upon his thigh
therefore the children of israel eat not of the sinew which shrank which is upon the hollow of the thigh unto this day because he touched the hollow of jacob's thigh in the sinew that shrank
and jacob lifted up his eyes and looked and behold esau came and with him four hundred men and he divided the children unto leah and unto rachel and unto the two handmaids
and he put the handmaids and their children foremost and leah and her children after and rachel and joseph hindermost
and he passed over before them and bowed himself to the ground seven times until he came near to his brother
and esau ran to meet him and embraced him and fell on his neck and kissed him and they wept
and he lifted up his eyes and saw the women and the children and said who are those with thee and he said the children which god hath graciously given thy servant
then the handmaidens came near they and their children and they bowed themselves
and leah also with her children came near and bowed themselves and after came joseph near and rachel and they bowed themselves
and he said what meanest thou by all this drove which i met and he said these are to find grace in the sight of my lord
and esau said i have enough my brother keep that thou hast unto thyself
and jacob said nay i pray thee if now i have found grace in thy sight then receive my present at my hand for therefore i have seen thy face as though i had seen the face of god and thou wast pleased with me
take i pray thee my blessing that is brought to thee because god hath dealt graciously with me and because i have enough and he urged him and he took it
and he said let us take our journey and let us go and i will go before thee
and he said unto him my lord knoweth that the children are tender and the flocks and herds with young are with me and if men should overdrive them one day all the flock will die
let my lord i pray thee pass over before his servant and i will lead on softly according as the cattle that goeth before me and the children be able to endure until i come unto my lord unto seir
and esau said let me now leave with thee some of the folk that are with me and he said what needeth it let me find grace in the sight of my lord
so esau returned that day on his way unto seir
and jacob journeyed to succoth and built him an house and made booths for his cattle therefore the name of the place is called succoth
and jacob came to shalem a city of shechem which is in the land of canaan when he came from padanaram and pitched his tent before the city
and he bought a parcel of a field where he had spread his tent at the hand of the children of hamor shechem's father for an hundred pieces of money
and he erected there an altar and called it eleloheisrael
and dinah the daughter of leah which she bare unto jacob went out to see the daughters of the land
and when shechem the son of hamor the hivite prince of the country saw her he took her and lay with her and defiled her
and his soul clave unto dinah the daughter of jacob and he loved the damsel and spake kindly unto the damsel
and shechem spake unto his father hamor saying get me this damsel to wife
and jacob heard that he had defiled dinah his daughter now his sons were with his cattle in the field and jacob held his peace until they were come
and hamor the father of shechem went out unto jacob to commune with him
and the sons of jacob came out of the field when they heard it and the men were grieved and they were very wroth because he had wrought folly in israel in lying with jacob's daughter which thing ought not to be done
and hamor communed with them saying the soul of my son shechem longeth for your daughter i pray you give her him to wife
and make ye marriages with us and give your daughters unto us and take our daughters unto you
and ye shall dwell with us and the land shall be before you dwell and trade ye therein and get you possessions therein
and shechem said unto her father and unto her brethren let me find grace in your eyes and what ye shall say unto me i will give
ask me never so much dowry and gift and i will give according as ye shall say unto me but give me the damsel to wife
and the sons of jacob answered shechem and hamor his father deceitfully and said because he had defiled dinah their sister
and they said unto them we cannot do this thing to give our sister to one that is uncircumcised for that were a reproach unto us
but in this will we consent unto you if ye will be as we be that every male of you be circumcised
then will we give our daughters unto you and we will take your daughters to us and we will dwell with you and we will become one people
but if ye will not hearken unto us to be circumcised then will we take our daughter and we will be gone
and their words pleased hamor and shechem hamor's son
and the young man deferred not to do the thing because he had delight in jacob's daughter and he was more honourable than all the house of his father
and hamor and shechem his son came unto the gate of their city and communed with the men of their city saying
these men are peaceable with us therefore let them dwell in the land and trade therein for the land behold it is large enough for them let us take their daughters to us for wives and let us give them our daughters
only herein will the men consent unto us for to dwell with us to be one people if every male among us be circumcised as they are circumcised
shall not their cattle and their substance and every beast of theirs be ours only let us consent unto them and they will dwell with us
and unto hamor and unto shechem his son hearkened all that went out of the gate of his city and every male was circumcised all that went out of the gate of his city
and it came to pass on the third day when they were sore that two of the sons of jacob simeon and levi dinah's brethren took each man his sword and came upon the city boldly and slew all the males
and they slew hamor and shechem his son with the edge of the sword and took dinah out of shechem's house and went out
the sons of jacob came upon the slain and spoiled the city because they had defiled their sister
they took their sheep and their oxen and their asses and that which was in the city and that which was in the field
and all their wealth and all their little ones and their wives took they captive and spoiled even all that was in the house
and jacob said to simeon and levi ye have troubled me to make me to stink among the inhabitants of the land among the canaanites and the perizzites and i being few in number they shall gather themselves together against me and slay me and i shall be destroyed i and my house
and they said should he deal with our sister as with an harlot
and god said unto jacob arise go up to bethel and dwell there and make there an altar unto god that appeared unto thee when thou fleddest from the face of esau thy brother
then jacob said unto his household and to all that were with him put away the strange gods that are among you and be clean and change your garments
and let us arise and go up to bethel and i will make there an altar unto god who answered me in the day of my distress and was with me in the way which i went
and they gave unto jacob all the strange gods which were in their hand and all their earrings which were in their ears and jacob hid them under the oak which was by shechem
and they journeyed and the terror of god was upon the cities that were round about them and they did not pursue after the sons of jacob
so jacob came to luz which is in the land of canaan that is bethel he and all the people that were with him
and he built there an altar and called the place elbethel because there god appeared unto him when he fled from the face of his brother
but deborah rebekah's nurse died and she was buried beneath bethel under an oak and the name of it was called allonbachuth
and god appeared unto jacob again when he came out of padanaram and blessed him
and god said unto him thy name is jacob thy name shall not be called any more jacob but israel shall be thy name and he called his name israel
and god said unto him i am god almighty be fruitful and multiply a nation and a company of nations shall be of thee and kings shall come out of thy loins
and the land which i gave abraham and isaac to thee i will give it and to thy seed after thee will i give the land
and god went up from him in the place where he talked with him
and jacob set up a pillar in the place where he talked with him even a pillar of stone and he poured a drink offering thereon and he poured oil thereon
and jacob called the name of the place where god spake with him bethel
and they journeyed from bethel and there was but a little way to come to ephrath and rachel travailed and she had hard labour
and it came to pass when she was in hard labour that the midwife said unto her fear not thou shalt have this son also
and it came to pass as her soul was in departing for she died that she called his name benoni but his father called him benjamin
and rachel died and was buried in the way to ephrath which is bethlehem
and jacob set a pillar upon her grave that is the pillar of rachel's grave unto this day
and israel journeyed and spread his tent beyond the tower of edar
and it came to pass when israel dwelt in that land that reuben went and lay with bilhah his father's concubine and israel heard it now the sons of jacob were twelve
the sons of leah reuben jacob's firstborn and simeon and levi and judah and issachar and zebulun
the sons of rachel joseph and benjamin
and the sons of bilhah rachel's handmaid dan and naphtali
and the sons of zilpah leah's handmaid gad and asher these are the sons of jacob which were born to him in padanaram
and jacob came unto isaac his father unto mamre unto the city of arbah which is hebron where abraham and isaac sojourned
and the days of isaac were an hundred and fourscore years
and isaac gave up the ghost and died and was gathered unto his people being old and full of days and his sons esau and jacob buried him
now these are the generations of esau who is edom
esau took his wives of the daughters of canaan adah the daughter of elon the hittite and aholibamah the daughter of anah the daughter of zibeon the hivite
and bashemath ishmael's daughter sister of nebajoth
and adah bare to esau eliphaz and bashemath bare reuel
and aholibamah bare jeush and jaalam and korah these are the sons of esau which were born unto him in the land of canaan
and esau took his wives and his sons and his daughters and all the persons of his house and his cattle and all his beasts and all his substance which he had got in the land of canaan and went into the country from the face of his brother jacob
for their riches were more than that they might dwell together and the land wherein they were strangers could not bear them because of their cattle
thus dwelt esau in mount seir esau is edom
and these are the generations of esau the father of the edomites in mount seir
these are the names of esau's sons eliphaz the son of adah the wife of esau reuel the son of bashemath the wife of esau
and the sons of eliphaz were teman omar zepho and gatam and kenaz
and timna was concubine to eliphaz esau's son and she bare to eliphaz amalek these were the sons of adah esau's wife
and these are the sons of reuel nahath and zerah shammah and mizzah these were the sons of bashemath esau's wife
and these were the sons of aholibamah the daughter of anah the daughter of zibeon esau's wife and she bare to esau jeush and jaalam and korah
these were dukes of the sons of esau the sons of eliphaz the firstborn son of esau duke teman duke omar duke zepho duke kenaz
duke korah duke gatam and duke amalek these are the dukes that came of eliphaz in the land of edom these were the sons of adah
and these are the sons of reuel esau's son duke nahath duke zerah duke shammah duke mizzah these are the dukes that came of reuel in the land of edom these are the sons of bashemath esau's wife
and these are the sons of aholibamah esau's wife duke jeush duke jaalam duke korah these were the dukes that came of aholibamah the daughter of anah esau's wife
these are the sons of esau who is edom and these are their dukes
these are the sons of seir the horite who inhabited the land lotan and shobal and zibeon and anah
and dishon and ezer and dishan these are the dukes of the horites the children of seir in the land of edom
and the children of lotan were hori and hemam and lotan's sister was timna
and the children of shobal were these alvan and manahath and ebal shepho and onam
and these are the children of zibeon both ajah and anah this was that anah that found the mules in the wilderness as he fed the asses of zibeon his father
and the children of anah were these dishon and aholibamah the daughter of anah
and these are the children of dishon hemdan and eshban and ithran and cheran
the children of ezer are these bilhan and zaavan and akan
the children of dishan are these uz and aran
these are the dukes that came of the horites duke lotan duke shobal duke zibeon duke anah
duke dishon duke ezer duke dishan these are the dukes that came of hori among their dukes in the land of seir
and these are the kings that reigned in the land of edom before there reigned any king over the children of israel
and bela the son of beor reigned in edom and the name of his city was dinhabah
and bela died and jobab the son of zerah of bozrah reigned in his stead
and jobab died and husham of the land of temani reigned in his stead
and husham died and hadad the son of bedad who smote midian in the field of moab reigned in his stead and the name of his city was avith
and hadad died and samlah of masrekah reigned in his stead
and samlah died and saul of rehoboth by the river reigned in his stead
and saul died and baalhanan the son of achbor reigned in his stead
and baalhanan the son of achbor died and hadar reigned in his stead and the name of his city was pau and his wife's name was mehetabel the daughter of matred the daughter of mezahab
and these are the names of the dukes that came of esau according to their families after their places by their names duke timnah duke alvah duke jetheth
duke aholibamah duke elah duke pinon
duke kenaz duke teman duke mibzar
duke magdiel duke iram these be the dukes of edom according to their habitations in the land of their possession he is esau the father of the edomites
and jacob dwelt in the land wherein his father was a stranger in the land of canaan
these are the generations of jacob joseph being seventeen years old was feeding the flock with his brethren and the lad was with the sons of bilhah and with the sons of zilpah his father's wives and joseph brought unto his father their evil report
now israel loved joseph more than all his children because he was the son of his old age and he made him a coat of many colours
and when his brethren saw that their father loved him more than all his brethren they hated him and could not speak peaceably unto him
and joseph dreamed a dream and he told it his brethren and they hated him yet the more
and he said unto them hear i pray you this dream which i have dreamed
for behold we were binding sheaves in the field and lo my sheaf arose and also stood upright and behold your sheaves stood round about and made obeisance to my sheaf
and his brethren said to him shalt thou indeed reign over us or shalt thou indeed have dominion over us and they hated him yet the more for his dreams and for his words
and he dreamed yet another dream and told it his brethren and said behold i have dreamed a dream more and behold the sun and the moon and the eleven stars made obeisance to me
and he told it to his father and to his brethren and his father rebuked him and said unto him what is this dream that thou hast dreamed shall i and thy mother and thy brethren indeed come to bow down ourselves to thee to the earth
and his brethren envied him but his father observed the saying
and his brethren went to feed their father's flock in shechem
and israel said unto joseph do not thy brethren feed the flock in shechem come and i will send thee unto them and he said to him here am i
and he said to him go i pray thee see whether it be well with thy brethren and well with the flocks and bring me word again so he sent him out of the vale of hebron and he came to shechem
and a certain man found him and behold he was wandering in the field and the man asked him saying what seekest thou
and he said i seek my brethren tell me i pray thee where they feed their flocks
and the man said they are departed hence for i heard them say let us go to dothan and joseph went after his brethren and found them in dothan
and when they saw him afar off even before he came near unto them they conspired against him to slay him
and they said one to another behold this dreamer cometh
come now therefore and let us slay him and cast him into some pit and we will say some evil beast hath devoured him and we shall see what will become of his dreams
and reuben heard it and he delivered him out of their hands and said let us not kill him
and reuben said unto them shed no blood but cast him into this pit that is in the wilderness and lay no hand upon him that he might rid him out of their hands to deliver him to his father again
and it came to pass when joseph was come unto his brethren that they stript joseph out of his coat his coat of many colours that was on him
and they took him and cast him into a pit and the pit was empty there was no water in it
and they sat down to eat bread and they lifted up their eyes and looked and behold a company of ishmeelites came from gilead with their camels bearing spicery and balm and myrrh going to carry it down to egypt
and judah said unto his brethren what profit is it if we slay our brother and conceal his blood
come and let us sell him to the ishmeelites and let not our hand be upon him for he is our brother and our flesh and his brethren were content
then there passed by midianites merchantmen and they drew and lifted up joseph out of the pit and sold joseph to the ishmeelites for twenty pieces of silver and they brought joseph into egypt
and reuben returned unto the pit and behold joseph was not in the pit and he rent his clothes
and he returned unto his brethren and said the child is not and i whither shall i go
and they took joseph's coat and killed a kid of the goats and dipped the coat in the blood
and they sent the coat of many colours and they brought it to their father and said this have we found know now whether it be thy son's coat or no
and he knew it and said it is my son's coat an evil beast hath devoured him joseph is without doubt rent in pieces
and jacob rent his clothes and put sackcloth upon his loins and mourned for his son many days
and all his sons and all his daughters rose up to comfort him but he refused to be comforted and he said for i will go down into the grave unto my son mourning thus his father wept for him
and the midianites sold him into egypt unto potiphar an officer of pharaoh's and captain of the guard
and it came to pass at that time that judah went down from his brethren and turned in to a certain adullamite whose name was hirah
and judah saw there a daughter of a certain canaanite whose name was shuah and he took her and went in unto her
and she conceived and bare a son and he called his name er
and she conceived again and bare a son and she called his name onan
and she yet again conceived and bare a son and called his name shelah and he was at chezib when she bare him
and judah took a wife for er his firstborn whose name was tamar
and er judah's firstborn was wicked in the sight of the lord and the lord slew him
and judah said unto onan go in unto thy brother's wife and marry her and raise up seed to thy brother
and onan knew that the seed should not be his and it came to pass when he went in unto his brother's wife that he spilled it on the ground lest that he should give seed to his brother
and the thing which he did displeased the lord wherefore he slew him also
then said judah to tamar his daughter in law remain a widow at thy father's house till shelah my son be grown for he said lest peradventure he die also as his brethren did and tamar went and dwelt in her father's house
and in process of time the daughter of shuah judah's wife died and judah was comforted and went up unto his sheepshearers to timnath he and his friend hirah the adullamite
and it was told tamar saying behold thy father in law goeth up to timnath to shear his sheep
and she put her widow's garments off from her and covered her with a vail and wrapped herself and sat in an open place which is by the way to timnath for she saw that shelah was grown and she was not given unto him to wife
when judah saw her he thought her to be an harlot because she had covered her face
and he turned unto her by the way and said go to i pray thee let me come in unto thee for he knew not that she was his daughter in law and she said what wilt thou give me that thou mayest come in unto me
and he said i will send thee a kid from the flock and she said wilt thou give me a pledge till thou send it
and he said what pledge shall i give thee and she said thy signet and thy bracelets and thy staff that is in thine hand and he gave it her and came in unto her and she conceived by him
and she arose and went away and laid by her vail from her and put on the garments of her widowhood
and judah sent the kid by the hand of his friend the adullamite to receive his pledge from the woman's hand but he found her not
then he asked the men of that place saying where is the harlot that was openly by the way side and they said there was no harlot in this place
and he returned to judah and said i cannot find her and also the men of the place said that there was no harlot in this place
and judah said let her take it to her lest we be shamed behold i sent this kid and thou hast not found her
and it came to pass about three months after that it was told judah saying tamar thy daughter in law hath played the harlot and also behold she is with child by whoredom and judah said bring her forth and let her be burnt
when she was brought forth she sent to her father in law saying by the man whose these are am i with child and she said discern i pray thee whose are these the signet and bracelets and staff
and judah acknowledged them and said she hath been more righteous than i because that i gave her not to shelah my son and he knew her again no more
and it came to pass in the time of her travail that behold twins were in her womb
and it came to pass when she travailed that the one put out his hand and the midwife took and bound upon his hand a scarlet thread saying this came out first
and it came to pass as he drew back his hand that behold his brother came out and she said how hast thou broken forth this breach be upon thee therefore his name was called pharez
and afterward came out his brother that had the scarlet thread upon his hand and his name was called zarah
and joseph was brought down to egypt and potiphar an officer of pharaoh captain of the guard an egyptian bought him of the hands of the ishmeelites which had brought him down thither
and the lord was with joseph and he was a prosperous man and he was in the house of his master the egyptian
and his master saw that the lord was with him and that the lord made all that he did to prosper in his hand
and joseph found grace in his sight and he served him and he made him overseer over his house and all that he had he put into his hand
and it came to pass from the time that he had made him overseer in his house and over all that he had that the lord blessed the egyptian's house for joseph's sake and the blessing of the lord was upon all that he had in the house and in the field
and he left all that he had in joseph's hand and he knew not ought he had save the bread which he did eat and joseph was a goodly person and well favoured
and it came to pass after these things that his master's wife cast her eyes upon joseph and she said lie with me
but he refused and said unto his master's wife behold my master wotteth not what is with me in the house and he hath committed all that he hath to my hand
there is none greater in this house than i neither hath he kept back any thing from me but thee because thou art his wife how then can i do this great wickedness and sin against god
and it came to pass as she spake to joseph day by day that he hearkened not unto her to lie by her or to be with her
and it came to pass about this time that joseph went into the house to do his business and there was none of the men of the house there within
and she caught him by his garment saying lie with me and he left his garment in her hand and fled and got him out
and it came to pass when she saw that he had left his garment in her hand and was fled forth
that she called unto the men of her house and spake unto them saying see he hath brought in an hebrew unto us to mock us he came in unto me to lie with me and i cried with a loud voice
and it came to pass when he heard that i lifted up my voice and cried that he left his garment with me and fled and got him out
and she laid up his garment by her until his lord came home
and she spake unto him according to these words saying the hebrew servant which thou hast brought unto us came in unto me to mock me
and it came to pass as i lifted up my voice and cried that he left his garment with me and fled out
and it came to pass when his master heard the words of his wife which she spake unto him saying after this manner did thy servant to me that his wrath was kindled
and joseph's master took him and put him into the prison a place where the king's prisoners were bound and he was there in the prison
but the lord was with joseph and shewed him mercy and gave him favour in the sight of the keeper of the prison
and the keeper of the prison committed to joseph's hand all the prisoners that were in the prison and whatsoever they did there he was the doer of it
the keeper of the prison looked not to any thing that was under his hand because the lord was with him and that which he did the lord made it to prosper
and it came to pass after these things that the butler of the king of egypt and his baker had offended their lord the king of egypt
and pharaoh was wroth against two of his officers against the chief of the butlers and against the chief of the bakers
and he put them in ward in the house of the captain of the guard into the prison the place where joseph was bound
and the captain of the guard charged joseph with them and he served them and they continued a season in ward
and they dreamed a dream both of them each man his dream in one night each man according to the interpretation of his dream the butler and the baker of the king of egypt which were bound in the prison
and joseph came in unto them in the morning and looked upon them and behold they were sad
and he asked pharaoh's officers that were with him in the ward of his lord's house saying wherefore look ye so sadly to day
and they said unto him we have dreamed a dream and there is no interpreter of it and joseph said unto them do not interpretations belong to god tell me them i pray you
and the chief butler told his dream to joseph and said to him in my dream behold a vine was before me
and in the vine were three branches and it was as though it budded and her blossoms shot forth and the clusters thereof brought forth ripe grapes
and pharaoh's cup was in my hand and i took the grapes and pressed them into pharaoh's cup and i gave the cup into pharaoh's hand
and joseph said unto him this is the interpretation of it the three branches are three days
yet within three days shall pharaoh lift up thine head and restore thee unto thy place and thou shalt deliver pharaoh's cup into his hand after the former manner when thou wast his butler
but think on me when it shall be well with thee and shew kindness i pray thee unto me and make mention of me unto pharaoh and bring me out of this house
for indeed i was stolen away out of the land of the hebrews and here also have i done nothing that they should put me into the dungeon
when the chief baker saw that the interpretation was good he said unto joseph i also was in my dream and behold i had three white baskets on my head
and in the uppermost basket there was of all manner of bakemeats for pharaoh and the birds did eat them out of the basket upon my head
and joseph answered and said this is the interpretation thereof the three baskets are three days
yet within three days shall pharaoh lift up thy head from off thee and shall hang thee on a tree and the birds shall eat thy flesh from off thee
and it came to pass the third day which was pharaoh's birthday that he made a feast unto all his servants and he lifted up the head of the chief butler and of the chief baker among his servants
and he restored the chief butler unto his butlership again and he gave the cup into pharaoh's hand
but he hanged the chief baker as joseph had interpreted to them
yet did not the chief butler remember joseph but forgat him
and it came to pass at the end of two full years that pharaoh dreamed and behold he stood by the river
and behold there came up out of the river seven well favoured kine and fatfleshed and they fed in a meadow
and behold seven other kine came up after them out of the river ill favoured and leanfleshed and stood by the other kine upon the brink of the river
and the ill favoured and leanfleshed kine did eat up the seven well favoured and fat kine so pharaoh awoke
and he slept and dreamed the second time and behold seven ears of corn came up upon one stalk rank and good
and behold seven thin ears and blasted with the east wind sprung up after them
and the seven thin ears devoured the seven rank and full ears and pharaoh awoke and behold it was a dream
and it came to pass in the morning that his spirit was troubled and he sent and called for all the magicians of egypt and all the wise men thereof and pharaoh told them his dream but there was none that could interpret them unto pharaoh
then spake the chief butler unto pharaoh saying i do remember my faults this day
pharaoh was wroth with his servants and put me in ward in the captain of the guard's house both me and the chief baker
and we dreamed a dream in one night i and he we dreamed each man according to the interpretation of his dream
and there was there with us a young man an hebrew servant to the captain of the guard and we told him and he interpreted to us our dreams to each man according to his dream he did interpret
and it came to pass as he interpreted to us so it was me he restored unto mine office and him he hanged
then pharaoh sent and called joseph and they brought him hastily out of the dungeon and he shaved himself and changed his raiment and came in unto pharaoh
and pharaoh said unto joseph i have dreamed a dream and there is none that can interpret it and i have heard say of thee that thou canst understand a dream to interpret it
and joseph answered pharaoh saying it is not in me god shall give pharaoh an answer of peace
and pharaoh said unto joseph in my dream behold i stood upon the bank of the river
and behold there came up out of the river seven kine fatfleshed and well favoured and they fed in a meadow
and behold seven other kine came up after them poor and very ill favoured and leanfleshed such as i never saw in all the land of egypt for badness
and the lean and the ill favoured kine did eat up the first seven fat kine
and when they had eaten them up it could not be known that they had eaten them but they were still ill favoured as at the beginning so i awoke
and i saw in my dream and behold seven ears came up in one stalk full and good
and behold seven ears withered thin and blasted with the east wind sprung up after them
and the thin ears devoured the seven good ears and i told this unto the magicians but there was none that could declare it to me
and joseph said unto pharaoh the dream of pharaoh is one god hath shewed pharaoh what he is about to do
the seven good kine are seven years and the seven good ears are seven years the dream is one
and the seven thin and ill favoured kine that came up after them are seven years and the seven empty ears blasted with the east wind shall be seven years of famine
this is the thing which i have spoken unto pharaoh what god is about to do he sheweth unto pharaoh
behold there come seven years of great plenty throughout all the land of egypt
and there shall arise after them seven years of famine and all the plenty shall be forgotten in the land of egypt and the famine shall consume the land
and the plenty shall not be known in the land by reason of that famine following for it shall be very grievous
and for that the dream was doubled unto pharaoh twice it is because the thing is established by god and god will shortly bring it to pass
now therefore let pharaoh look out a man discreet and wise and set him over the land of egypt
let pharaoh do this and let him appoint officers over the land and take up the fifth part of the land of egypt in the seven plenteous years
and let them gather all the food of those good years that come and lay up corn under the hand of pharaoh and let them keep food in the cities
and that food shall be for store to the land against the seven years of famine which shall be in the land of egypt that the land perish not through the famine
and the thing was good in the eyes of pharaoh and in the eyes of all his servants
and pharaoh said unto his servants can we find such a one as this is a man in whom the spirit of god is
and pharaoh said unto joseph forasmuch as god hath shewed thee all this there is none so discreet and wise as thou art
thou shalt be over my house and according unto thy word shall all my people be ruled only in the throne will i be greater than thou
and pharaoh said unto joseph see i have set thee over all the land of egypt
and pharaoh took off his ring from his hand and put it upon joseph's hand and arrayed him in vestures of fine linen and put a gold chain about his neck
and he made him to ride in the second chariot which he had and they cried before him bow the knee and he made him ruler over all the land of egypt
and pharaoh said unto joseph i am pharaoh and without thee shall no man lift up his hand or foot in all the land of egypt
and pharaoh called joseph's name zaphnathpaaneah and he gave him to wife asenath the daughter of potipherah priest of on and joseph went out over all the land of egypt
and joseph was thirty years old when he stood before pharaoh king of egypt and joseph went out from the presence of pharaoh and went throughout all the land of egypt
and in the seven plenteous years the earth brought forth by handfuls
and he gathered up all the food of the seven years which were in the land of egypt and laid up the food in the cities the food of the field which was round about every city laid he up in the same
and joseph gathered corn as the sand of the sea very much until he left numbering for it was without number
and unto joseph were born two sons before the years of famine came which asenath the daughter of potipherah priest of on bare unto him
and joseph called the name of the firstborn manasseh for god said he hath made me forget all my toil and all my father's house
and the name of the second called he ephraim for god hath caused me to be fruitful in the land of my affliction
and the seven years of plenteousness that was in the land of egypt were ended
and the seven years of dearth began to come according as joseph had said and the dearth was in all lands but in all the land of egypt there was bread
and when all the land of egypt was famished the people cried to pharaoh for bread and pharaoh said unto all the egyptians go unto joseph what he saith to you do
and the famine was over all the face of the earth and joseph opened all the storehouses and sold unto the egyptians and the famine waxed sore in the land of egypt
and all countries came into egypt to joseph for to buy corn because that the famine was so sore in all lands
now when jacob saw that there was corn in egypt jacob said unto his sons why do ye look one upon another
and he said behold i have heard that there is corn in egypt get you down thither and buy for us from thence that we may live and not die
and joseph's ten brethren went down to buy corn in egypt
but benjamin joseph's brother jacob sent not with his brethren for he said lest peradventure mischief befall him
and the sons of israel came to buy corn among those that came for the famine was in the land of canaan
and joseph was the governor over the land and he it was that sold to all the people of the land and joseph's brethren came and bowed down themselves before him with their faces to the earth
and joseph saw his brethren and he knew them but made himself strange unto them and spake roughly unto them and he said unto them whence come ye and they said from the land of canaan to buy food
and joseph knew his brethren but they knew not him
and joseph remembered the dreams which he dreamed of them and said unto them ye are spies to see the nakedness of the land ye are come
and they said unto him nay my lord but to buy food are thy servants come
we are all one man's sons we are true men thy servants are no spies
and he said unto them nay but to see the nakedness of the land ye are come
and they said thy servants are twelve brethren the sons of one man in the land of canaan and behold the youngest is this day with our father and one is not
and joseph said unto them that is it that i spake unto you saying ye are spies
hereby ye shall be proved by the life of pharaoh ye shall not go forth hence except your youngest brother come hither
send one of you and let him fetch your brother and ye shall be kept in prison that your words may be proved whether there be any truth in you or else by the life of pharaoh surely ye are spies
and he put them all together into ward three days
and joseph said unto them the third day this do and live for i fear god
if ye be true men let one of your brethren be bound in the house of your prison go ye carry corn for the famine of your houses
but bring your youngest brother unto me so shall your words be verified and ye shall not die and they did so
and they said one to another we are verily guilty concerning our brother in that we saw the anguish of his soul when he besought us and we would not hear therefore is this distress come upon us
and reuben answered them saying spake i not unto you saying do not sin against the child and ye would not hear therefore behold also his blood is required
and they knew not that joseph understood them for he spake unto them by an interpreter
and he turned himself about from them and wept and returned to them again and communed with them and took from them simeon and bound him before their eyes
then joseph commanded to fill their sacks with corn and to restore every man's money into his sack and to give them provision for the way and thus did he unto them
and they laded their asses with the corn and departed thence
and as one of them opened his sack to give his ass provender in the inn he espied his money for behold it was in his sack's mouth
and he said unto his brethren my money is restored and lo it is even in my sack and their heart failed them and they were afraid saying one to another what is this that god hath done unto us
and they came unto jacob their father unto the land of canaan and told him all that befell unto them saying
the man who is the lord of the land spake roughly to us and took us for spies of the country
and we said unto him we are true men we are no spies
we be twelve brethren sons of our father one is not and the youngest is this day with our father in the land of canaan
and the man the lord of the country said unto us hereby shall i know that ye are true men leave one of your brethren here with me and take food for the famine of your households and be gone
and bring your youngest brother unto me then shall i know that ye are no spies but that ye are true men so will i deliver you your brother and ye shall traffick in the land
and it came to pass as they emptied their sacks that behold every man's bundle of money was in his sack and when both they and their father saw the bundles of money they were afraid
and jacob their father said unto them me have ye bereaved of my children joseph is not and simeon is not and ye will take benjamin away all these things are against me
and reuben spake unto his father saying slay my two sons if i bring him not to thee deliver him into my hand and i will bring him to thee again
and he said my son shall not go down with you for his brother is dead and he is left alone if mischief befall him by the way in the which ye go then shall ye bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to the grave
and the famine was sore in the land
and it came to pass when they had eaten up the corn which they had brought out of egypt their father said unto them go again buy us a little food
and judah spake unto him saying the man did solemnly protest unto us saying ye shall not see my face except your brother be with you
if thou wilt send our brother with us we will go down and buy thee food
but if thou wilt not send him we will not go down for the man said unto us ye shall not see my face except your brother be with you
and israel said wherefore dealt ye so ill with me as to tell the man whether ye had yet a brother
and they said the man asked us straitly of our state and of our kindred saying is your father yet alive have ye another brother and we told him according to the tenor of these words could we certainly know that he would say bring your brother down
and judah said unto israel his father send the lad with me and we will arise and go that we may live and not die both we and thou and also our little ones
i will be surety for him of my hand shalt thou require him if i bring him not unto thee and set him before thee then let me bear the blame for ever
for except we had lingered surely now we had returned this second time
and their father israel said unto them if it must be so now do this take of the best fruits in the land in your vessels and carry down the man a present a little balm and a little honey spices and myrrh nuts and almonds
and take double money in your hand and the money that was brought again in the mouth of your sacks carry it again in your hand peradventure it was an oversight
take also your brother and arise go again unto the man
and god almighty give you mercy before the man that he may send away your other brother and benjamin if i be bereaved of my children i am bereaved
and the men took that present and they took double money in their hand and benjamin and rose up and went down to egypt and stood before joseph
and when joseph saw benjamin with them he said to the ruler of his house bring these men home and slay and make ready for these men shall dine with me at noon
and the man did as joseph bade and the man brought the men into joseph's house
and the men were afraid because they were brought into joseph's house and they said because of the money that was returned in our sacks at the first time are we brought in that he may seek occasion against us and fall upon us and take us for bondmen and our asses
and they came near to the steward of joseph's house and they communed with him at the door of the house
and said o sir we came indeed down at the first time to buy food
and it came to pass when we came to the inn that we opened our sacks and behold every man's money was in the mouth of his sack our money in full weight and we have brought it again in our hand
and other money have we brought down in our hands to buy food we cannot tell who put our money in our sacks
and he said peace be to you fear not your god and the god of your father hath given you treasure in your sacks i had your money and he brought simeon out unto them
and the man brought the men into joseph's house and gave them water and they washed their feet and he gave their asses provender
and they made ready the present against joseph came at noon for they heard that they should eat bread there
and when joseph came home they brought him the present which was in their hand into the house and bowed themselves to him to the earth
and he asked them of their welfare and said is your father well the old man of whom ye spake is he yet alive
and they answered thy servant our father is in good health he is yet alive and they bowed down their heads and made obeisance
and he lifted up his eyes and saw his brother benjamin his mother's son and said is this your younger brother of whom ye spake unto me and he said god be gracious unto thee my son
and joseph made haste for his bowels did yearn upon his brother and he sought where to weep and he entered into his chamber and wept there
and he washed his face and went out and refrained himself and said set on bread
and they set on for him by himself and for them by themselves and for the egyptians which did eat with him by themselves because the egyptians might not eat bread with the hebrews for that is an abomination unto the egyptians
and they sat before him the firstborn according to his birthright and the youngest according to his youth and the men marvelled one at another
and he took and sent messes unto them from before him but benjamin's mess was five times so much as any of theirs and they drank and were merry with him
and he commanded the steward of his house saying fill the men's sacks with food as much as they can carry and put every man's money in his sack's mouth
and put my cup the silver cup in the sack's mouth of the youngest and his corn money and he did according to the word that joseph had spoken
as soon as the morning was light the men were sent away they and their asses
and when they were gone out of the city and not yet far off joseph said unto his steward up follow after the men and when thou dost overtake them say unto them wherefore have ye rewarded evil for good
is not this it in which my lord drinketh and whereby indeed he divineth ye have done evil in so doing
and he overtook them and he spake unto them these same words
and they said unto him wherefore saith my lord these words god forbid that thy servants should do according to this thing
behold the money which we found in our sacks mouths we brought again unto thee out of the land of canaan how then should we steal out of thy lord's house silver or gold
with whomsoever of thy servants it be found both let him die and we also will be my lord's bondmen
and he said now also let it be according unto your words he with whom it is found shall be my servant and ye shall be blameless
then they speedily took down every man his sack to the ground and opened every man his sack
and he searched and began at the eldest and left at the youngest and the cup was found in benjamin's sack
then they rent their clothes and laded every man his ass and returned to the city
and judah and his brethren came to joseph's house for he was yet there and they fell before him on the ground
and joseph said unto them what deed is this that ye have done wot ye not that such a man as i can certainly divine
and judah said what shall we say unto my lord what shall we speak or how shall we clear ourselves god hath found out the iniquity of thy servants behold we are my lord's servants both we and he also with whom the cup is found
and he said god forbid that i should do so but the man in whose hand the cup is found he shall be my servant and as for you get you up in peace unto your father
then judah came near unto him and said oh my lord let thy servant i pray thee speak a word in my lord's ears and let not thine anger burn against thy servant for thou art even as pharaoh
my lord asked his servants saying have ye a father or a brother
and we said unto my lord we have a father an old man and a child of his old age a little one and his brother is dead and he alone is left of his mother and his father loveth him
and thou saidst unto thy servants bring him down unto me that i may set mine eyes upon him
and we said unto my lord the lad cannot leave his father for if he should leave his father his father would die
and thou saidst unto thy servants except your youngest brother come down with you ye shall see my face no more
and it came to pass when we came up unto thy servant my father we told him the words of my lord
and our father said go again and buy us a little food
and we said we cannot go down if our youngest brother be with us then will we go down for we may not see the man's face except our youngest brother be with us
and thy servant my father said unto us ye know that my wife bare me two sons
and the one went out from me and i said surely he is torn in pieces and i saw him not since
and if ye take this also from me and mischief befall him ye shall bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to the grave
now therefore when i come to thy servant my father and the lad be not with us seeing that his life is bound up in the lad's life
it shall come to pass when he seeth that the lad is not with us that he will die and thy servants shall bring down the gray hairs of thy servant our father with sorrow to the grave
for thy servant became surety for the lad unto my father saying if i bring him not unto thee then i shall bear the blame to my father for ever
now therefore i pray thee let thy servant abide instead of the lad a bondman to my lord and let the lad go up with his brethren
for how shall i go up to my father and the lad be not with me lest peradventure i see the evil that shall come on my father
then joseph could not refrain himself before all them that stood by him and he cried cause every man to go out from me and there stood no man with him while joseph made himself known unto his brethren
and he wept aloud and the egyptians and the house of pharaoh heard
and joseph said unto his brethren i am joseph doth my father yet live and his brethren could not answer him for they were troubled at his presence
and joseph said unto his brethren come near to me i pray you and they came near and he said i am joseph your brother whom ye sold into egypt
now therefore be not grieved nor angry with yourselves that ye sold me hither for god did send me before you to preserve life
for these two years hath the famine been in the land and yet there are five years in the which there shall neither be earing nor harvest
and god sent me before you to preserve you a posterity in the earth and to save your lives by a great deliverance
so now it was not you that sent me hither but god and he hath made me a father to pharaoh and lord of all his house and a ruler throughout all the land of egypt
haste ye and go up to my father and say unto him thus saith thy son joseph god hath made me lord of all egypt come down unto me tarry not
and thou shalt dwell in the land of goshen and thou shalt be near unto me thou and thy children and thy children's children and thy flocks and thy herds and all that thou hast
and there will i nourish thee for yet there are five years of famine lest thou and thy household and all that thou hast come to poverty
and behold your eyes see and the eyes of my brother benjamin that it is my mouth that speaketh unto you
and ye shall tell my father of all my glory in egypt and of all that ye have seen and ye shall haste and bring down my father hither
and he fell upon his brother benjamin's neck and wept and benjamin wept upon his neck
moreover he kissed all his brethren and wept upon them and after that his brethren talked with him
and the fame thereof was heard in pharaoh's house saying joseph's brethren are come and it pleased pharaoh well and his servants
and pharaoh said unto joseph say unto thy brethren this do ye lade your beasts and go get you unto the land of canaan
and take your father and your households and come unto me and i will give you the good of the land of egypt and ye shall eat the fat of the land
now thou art commanded this do ye take you wagons out of the land of egypt for your little ones and for your wives and bring your father and come
also regard not your stuff for the good of all the land of egypt is yours
and the children of israel did so and joseph gave them wagons according to the commandment of pharaoh and gave them provision for the way
to all of them he gave each man changes of raiment but to benjamin he gave three hundred pieces of silver and five changes of raiment
and to his father he sent after this manner ten asses laden with the good things of egypt and ten she asses laden with corn and bread and meat for his father by the way
so he sent his brethren away and they departed and he said unto them see that ye fall not out by the way
and they went up out of egypt and came into the land of canaan unto jacob their father
and told him saying joseph is yet alive and he is governor over all the land of egypt and jacob's heart fainted for he believed them not
and they told him all the words of joseph which he had said unto them and when he saw the wagons which joseph had sent to carry him the spirit of jacob their father revived
and israel said it is enough joseph my son is yet alive i will go and see him before i die
and israel took his journey with all that he had and came to beersheba and offered sacrifices unto the god of his father isaac
and god spake unto israel in the visions of the night and said jacob jacob and he said here am i
and he said i am god the god of thy father fear not to go down into egypt for i will there make of thee a great nation
i will go down with thee into egypt and i will also surely bring thee up again and joseph shall put his hand upon thine eyes
and jacob rose up from beersheba and the sons of israel carried jacob their father and their little ones and their wives in the wagons which pharaoh had sent to carry him
and they took their cattle and their goods which they had gotten in the land of canaan and came into egypt jacob and all his seed with him
his sons and his sons sons with him his daughters and his sons daughters and all his seed brought he with him into egypt
and these are the names of the children of israel which came into egypt jacob and his sons reuben jacob's firstborn
and the sons of reuben hanoch and phallu and hezron and carmi
and the sons of simeon jemuel and jamin and ohad and jachin and zohar and shaul the son of a canaanitish woman
and the sons of levi gershon kohath and merari
and the sons of judah er and onan and shelah and pharez and zarah but er and onan died in the land of canaan and the sons of pharez were hezron and hamul
and the sons of issachar tola and phuvah and job and shimron
and the sons of zebulun sered and elon and jahleel
these be the sons of leah which she bare unto jacob in padanaram with his daughter dinah all the souls of his sons and his daughters were thirty and three
and the sons of gad ziphion and haggi shuni and ezbon eri and arodi and areli
and the sons of asher jimnah and ishuah and isui and beriah and serah their sister and the sons of beriah heber and malchiel
these are the sons of zilpah whom laban gave to leah his daughter and these she bare unto jacob even sixteen souls
the sons of rachel jacob's wife joseph and benjamin
and unto joseph in the land of egypt were born manasseh and ephraim which asenath the daughter of potipherah priest of on bare unto him
and the sons of benjamin were belah and becher and ashbel gera and naaman ehi and rosh muppim and huppim and ard
these are the sons of rachel which were born to jacob all the souls were fourteen
and the sons of dan hushim
and the sons of naphtali jahzeel and guni and jezer and shillem
these are the sons of bilhah which laban gave unto rachel his daughter and she bare these unto jacob all the souls were seven
all the souls that came with jacob into egypt which came out of his loins besides jacob's sons wives all the souls were threescore and six
and the sons of joseph which were born him in egypt were two souls all the souls of the house of jacob which came into egypt were threescore and ten
and he sent judah before him unto joseph to direct his face unto goshen and they came into the land of goshen
and joseph made ready his chariot and went up to meet israel his father to goshen and presented himself unto him and he fell on his neck and wept on his neck a good while
and israel said unto joseph now let me die since i have seen thy face because thou art yet alive
and joseph said unto his brethren and unto his father's house i will go up and shew pharaoh and say unto him my brethren and my father's house which were in the land of canaan are come unto me
and the men are shepherds for their trade hath been to feed cattle and they have brought their flocks and their herds and all that they have
and it shall come to pass when pharaoh shall call you and shall say what is your occupation
that ye shall say thy servants trade hath been about cattle from our youth even until now both we and also our fathers that ye may dwell in the land of goshen for every shepherd is an abomination unto the egyptians
then joseph came and told pharaoh and said my father and my brethren and their flocks and their herds and all that they have are come out of the land of canaan and behold they are in the land of goshen
and he took some of his brethren even five men and presented them unto pharaoh
and pharaoh said unto his brethren what is your occupation and they said unto pharaoh thy servants are shepherds both we and also our fathers
they said moreover unto pharaoh for to sojourn in the land are we come for thy servants have no pasture for their flocks for the famine is sore in the land of canaan now therefore we pray thee let thy servants dwell in the land of goshen
and pharaoh spake unto joseph saying thy father and thy brethren are come unto thee
the land of egypt is before thee in the best of the land make thy father and brethren to dwell in the land of goshen let them dwell and if thou knowest any men of activity among them then make them rulers over my cattle
and joseph brought in jacob his father and set him before pharaoh and jacob blessed pharaoh
and pharaoh said unto jacob how old art thou
and jacob said unto pharaoh the days of the years of my pilgrimage are an hundred and thirty years few and evil have the days of the years of my life been and have not attained unto the days of the years of the life of my fathers in the days of their pilgrimage
and jacob blessed pharaoh and went out from before pharaoh
and joseph placed his father and his brethren and gave them a possession in the land of egypt in the best of the land in the land of rameses as pharaoh had commanded
and joseph nourished his father and his brethren and all his father's household with bread according to their families
and there was no bread in all the land for the famine was very sore so that the land of egypt and all the land of canaan fainted by reason of the famine
and joseph gathered up all the money that was found in the land of egypt and in the land of canaan for the corn which they bought and joseph brought the money into pharaoh's house
and when money failed in the land of egypt and in the land of canaan all the egyptians came unto joseph and said give us bread for why should we die in thy presence for the money faileth
and joseph said give your cattle and i will give you for your cattle if money fail
and they brought their cattle unto joseph and joseph gave them bread in exchange for horses and for the flocks and for the cattle of the herds and for the asses and he fed them with bread for all their cattle for that year
when that year was ended they came unto him the second year and said unto him we will not hide it from my lord how that our money is spent my lord also hath our herds of cattle there is not ought left in the sight of my lord but our bodies and our lands
wherefore shall we die before thine eyes both we and our land buy us and our land for bread and we and our land will be servants unto pharaoh and give us seed that we may live and not die that the land be not desolate
and joseph bought all the land of egypt for pharaoh for the egyptians sold every man his field because the famine prevailed over them so the land became pharaoh's
and as for the people he removed them to cities from one end of the borders of egypt even to the other end thereof
only the land of the priests bought he not for the priests had a portion assigned them of pharaoh and did eat their portion which pharaoh gave them wherefore they sold not their lands
then joseph said unto the people behold i have bought you this day and your land for pharaoh lo here is seed for you and ye shall sow the land
and it shall come to pass in the increase that ye shall give the fifth part unto pharaoh and four parts shall be your own for seed of the field and for your food and for them of your households and for food for your little ones
and they said thou hast saved our lives let us find grace in the sight of my lord and we will be pharaoh's servants
and joseph made it a law over the land of egypt unto this day that pharaoh should have the fifth part except the land of the priests only which became not pharaoh's
and israel dwelt in the land of egypt in the country of goshen and they had possessions therein and grew and multiplied exceedingly
and jacob lived in the land of egypt seventeen years so the whole age of jacob was an hundred forty and seven years
and the time drew nigh that israel must die and he called his son joseph and said unto him if now i have found grace in thy sight put i pray thee thy hand under my thigh and deal kindly and truly with me bury me not i pray thee in egypt
but i will lie with my fathers and thou shalt carry me out of egypt and bury me in their buryingplace and he said i will do as thou hast said
and he said swear unto me and he sware unto him and israel bowed himself upon the bed's head
and it came to pass after these things that one told joseph behold thy father is sick and he took with him his two sons manasseh and ephraim
and one told jacob and said behold thy son joseph cometh unto thee and israel strengthened himself and sat upon the bed
and jacob said unto joseph god almighty appeared unto me at luz in the land of canaan and blessed me
and said unto me behold i will make thee fruitful and multiply thee and i will make of thee a multitude of people and will give this land to thy seed after thee for an everlasting possession
and now thy two sons ephraim and manasseh which were born unto thee in the land of egypt before i came unto thee into egypt are mine as reuben and simeon they shall be mine
and thy issue which thou begettest after them shall be thine and shall be called after the name of their brethren in their inheritance
and as for me when i came from padan rachel died by me in the land of canaan in the way when yet there was but a little way to come unto ephrath and i buried her there in the way of ephrath the same is bethlehem
and israel beheld joseph's sons and said who are these
and joseph said unto his father they are my sons whom god hath given me in this place and he said bring them i pray thee unto me and i will bless them
now the eyes of israel were dim for age so that he could not see and he brought them near unto him and he kissed them and embraced them
and israel said unto joseph i had not thought to see thy face and lo god hath shewed me also thy seed
and joseph brought them out from between his knees and he bowed himself with his face to the earth
and joseph took them both ephraim in his right hand toward israel's left hand and manasseh in his left hand toward israel's right hand and brought them near unto him
and israel stretched out his right hand and laid it upon ephraim's head who was the younger and his left hand upon manasseh's head guiding his hands wittingly for manasseh was the firstborn
and he blessed joseph and said god before whom my fathers abraham and isaac did walk the god which fed me all my life long unto this day
the angel which redeemed me from all evil bless the lads and let my name be named on them and the name of my fathers abraham and isaac and let them grow into a multitude in the midst of the earth
and when joseph saw that his father laid his right hand upon the head of ephraim it displeased him and he held up his father's hand to remove it from ephraim's head unto manasseh's head
and joseph said unto his father not so my father for this is the firstborn put thy right hand upon his head
and his father refused and said i know it my son i know it he also shall become a people and he also shall be great but truly his younger brother shall be greater than he and his seed shall become a multitude of nations
and he blessed them that day saying in thee shall israel bless saying god make thee as ephraim and as manasseh and he set ephraim before manasseh
and israel said unto joseph behold i die but god shall be with you and bring you again unto the land of your fathers
moreover i have given to thee one portion above thy brethren which i took out of the hand of the amorite with my sword and with my bow
and jacob called unto his sons and said gather yourselves together that i may tell you that which shall befall you in the last days
gather yourselves together and hear ye sons of jacob and hearken unto israel your father
reuben thou art my firstborn my might and the beginning of my strength the excellency of dignity and the excellency of power
unstable as water thou shalt not excel because thou wentest up to thy father's bed then defiledst thou it he went up to my couch
simeon and levi are brethren instruments of cruelty are in their habitations
o my soul come not thou into their secret unto their assembly mine honour be not thou united for in their anger they slew a man and in their selfwill they digged down a wall
cursed be their anger for it was fierce and their wrath for it was cruel i will divide them in jacob and scatter them in israel
judah thou art he whom thy brethren shall praise thy hand shall be in the neck of thine enemies thy father's children shall bow down before thee
judah is a lion's whelp from the prey my son thou art gone up he stooped down he couched as a lion and as an old lion who shall rouse him up
the sceptre shall not depart from judah nor a lawgiver from between his feet until shiloh come and unto him shall the gathering of the people be
binding his foal unto the vine and his ass's colt unto the choice vine he washed his garments in wine and his clothes in the blood of grapes
his eyes shall be red with wine and his teeth white with milk
zebulun shall dwell at the haven of the sea and he shall be for an haven of ships and his border shall be unto zidon
issachar is a strong ass couching down between two burdens
and he saw that rest was good and the land that it was pleasant and bowed his shoulder to bear and became a servant unto tribute
dan shall judge his people as one of the tribes of israel
dan shall be a serpent by the way an adder in the path that biteth the horse heels so that his rider shall fall backward
i have waited for thy salvation o lord
gad a troop shall overcome him but he shall overcome at the last
out of asher his bread shall be fat and he shall yield royal dainties
naphtali is a hind let loose he giveth goodly words
joseph is a fruitful bough even a fruitful bough by a well whose branches run over the wall
the archers have sorely grieved him and shot at him and hated him
but his bow abode in strength and the arms of his hands were made strong by the hands of the mighty god of jacob from thence is the shepherd the stone of israel
even by the god of thy father who shall help thee and by the almighty who shall bless thee with blessings of heaven above blessings of the deep that lieth under blessings of the breasts and of the womb
the blessings of thy father have prevailed above the blessings of my progenitors unto the utmost bound of the everlasting hills they shall be on the head of joseph and on the crown of the head of him that was separate from his brethren
benjamin shall ravin as a wolf in the morning he shall devour the prey and at night he shall divide the spoil
all these are the twelve tribes of israel and this is it that their father spake unto them and blessed them every one according to his blessing he blessed them
and he charged them and said unto them i am to be gathered unto my people bury me with my fathers in the cave that is in the field of ephron the hittite
in the cave that is in the field of machpelah which is before mamre in the land of canaan which abraham bought with the field of ephron the hittite for a possession of a buryingplace
there they buried abraham and sarah his wife there they buried isaac and rebekah his wife and there i buried leah
the purchase of the field and of the cave that is therein was from the children of heth
and when jacob had made an end of commanding his sons he gathered up his feet into the bed and yielded up the ghost and was gathered unto his people
and joseph fell upon his father's face and wept upon him and kissed him
and joseph commanded his servants the physicians to embalm his father and the physicians embalmed israel
and forty days were fulfilled for him for so are fulfilled the days of those which are embalmed and the egyptians mourned for him threescore and ten days
and when the days of his mourning were past joseph spake unto the house of pharaoh saying if now i have found grace in your eyes speak i pray you in the ears of pharaoh saying
my father made me swear saying lo i die in my grave which i have digged for me in the land of canaan there shalt thou bury me now therefore let me go up i pray thee and bury my father and i will come again
and pharaoh said go up and bury thy father according as he made thee swear
and joseph went up to bury his father and with him went up all the servants of pharaoh the elders of his house and all the elders of the land of egypt
and all the house of joseph and his brethren and his father's house only their little ones and their flocks and their herds they left in the land of goshen
and there went up with him both chariots and horsemen and it was a very great company
and they came to the threshingfloor of atad which is beyond jordan and there they mourned with a great and very sore lamentation and he made a mourning for his father seven days
and when the inhabitants of the land the canaanites saw the mourning in the floor of atad they said this is a grievous mourning to the egyptians wherefore the name of it was called abelmizraim which is beyond jordan
and his sons did unto him according as he commanded them
for his sons carried him into the land of canaan and buried him in the cave of the field of machpelah which abraham bought with the field for a possession of a buryingplace of ephron the hittite before mamre
and joseph returned into egypt he and his brethren and all that went up with him to bury his father after he had buried his father
and when joseph's brethren saw that their father was dead they said joseph will peradventure hate us and will certainly requite us all the evil which we did unto him
and they sent a messenger unto joseph saying thy father did command before he died saying
so shall ye say unto joseph forgive i pray thee now the trespass of thy brethren and their sin for they did unto thee evil and now we pray thee forgive the trespass of the servants of the god of thy father and joseph wept when they spake unto him
and his brethren also went and fell down before his face and they said behold we be thy servants
and joseph said unto them fear not for am i in the place of god
but as for you ye thought evil against me but god meant it unto good to bring to pass as it is this day to save much people alive
now therefore fear ye not i will nourish you and your little ones and he comforted them and spake kindly unto them
and joseph dwelt in egypt he and his father's house and joseph lived an hundred and ten years
and joseph saw ephraim's children of the third generation the children also of machir the son of manasseh were brought up upon joseph's knees
and joseph said unto his brethren i die and god will surely visit you and bring you out of this land unto the land which he sware to abraham to isaac and to jacob
and joseph took an oath of the children of israel saying god will surely visit you and ye shall carry up my bones from hence
so joseph died being an hundred and ten years old and they embalmed him and he was put in a coffin in egypt
now these are the names of the children of israel which came into egypt every man and his household came with jacob
reuben simeon levi and judah
issachar zebulun and benjamin
dan and naphtali gad and asher
and all the souls that came out of the loins of jacob were seventy souls for joseph was in egypt already
and joseph died and all his brethren and all that generation
and the children of israel were fruitful and increased abundantly and multiplied and waxed exceeding mighty and the land was filled with them
now there arose up a new king over egypt which knew not joseph
and he said unto his people behold the people of the children of israel are more and mightier than we
come on let us deal wisely with them lest they multiply and it come to pass that when there falleth out any war they join also unto our enemies and fight against us and so get them up out of the land
therefore they did set over them taskmasters to afflict them with their burdens and they built for pharaoh treasure cities pithom and raamses
but the more they afflicted them the more they multiplied and grew and they were grieved because of the children of israel
and the egyptians made the children of israel to serve with rigour
and they made their lives bitter with hard bondage in morter and in brick and in all manner of service in the field all their service wherein they made them serve was with rigour
and the king of egypt spake to the hebrew midwives of which the name of the one was shiphrah and the name of the other puah
and he said when ye do the office of a midwife to the hebrew women and see them upon the stools if it be a son then ye shall kill him but if it be a daughter then she shall live
but the midwives feared god and did not as the king of egypt commanded them but saved the men children alive
and the king of egypt called for the midwives and said unto them why have ye done this thing and have saved the men children alive
and the midwives said unto pharaoh because the hebrew women are not as the egyptian women for they are lively and are delivered ere the midwives come in unto them
therefore god dealt well with the midwives and the people multiplied and waxed very mighty
and it came to pass because the midwives feared god that he made them houses
and pharaoh charged all his people saying every son that is born ye shall cast into the river and every daughter ye shall save alive
and there went a man of the house of levi and took to wife a daughter of levi
and the woman conceived and bare a son and when she saw him that he was a goodly child she hid him three months
and when she could not longer hide him she took for him an ark of bulrushes and daubed it with slime and with pitch and put the child therein and she laid it in the flags by the river's brink
and his sister stood afar off to wit what would be done to him
and the daughter of pharaoh came down to wash herself at the river and her maidens walked along by the river's side and when she saw the ark among the flags she sent her maid to fetch it
and when she had opened it she saw the child and behold the babe wept and she had compassion on him and said this is one of the hebrews children
then said his sister to pharaoh's daughter shall i go and call to thee a nurse of the hebrew women that she may nurse the child for thee
and pharaoh's daughter said to her go and the maid went and called the child's mother
and pharaoh's daughter said unto her take this child away and nurse it for me and i will give thee thy wages and the woman took the child and nursed it
and the child grew and she brought him unto pharaoh's daughter and he became her son and she called his name moses and she said because i drew him out of the water
and it came to pass in those days when moses was grown that he went out unto his brethren and looked on their burdens and he spied an egyptian smiting an hebrew one of his brethren
and he looked this way and that way and when he saw that there was no man he slew the egyptian and hid him in the sand
and when he went out the second day behold two men of the hebrews strove together and he said to him that did the wrong wherefore smitest thou thy fellow
and he said who made thee a prince and a judge over us intendest thou to kill me as thou killedst the egyptian and moses feared and said surely this thing is known
now when pharaoh heard this thing he sought to slay moses but moses fled from the face of pharaoh and dwelt in the land of midian and he sat down by a well
now the priest of midian had seven daughters and they came and drew water and filled the troughs to water their father's flock
and the shepherds came and drove them away but moses stood up and helped them and watered their flock
and when they came to reuel their father he said how is it that ye are come so soon to day
and they said an egyptian delivered us out of the hand of the shepherds and also drew water enough for us and watered the flock
and he said unto his daughters and where is he why is it that ye have left the man call him that he may eat bread
and moses was content to dwell with the man and he gave moses zipporah his daughter
and she bare him a son and he called his name gershom for he said i have been a stranger in a strange land
and it came to pass in process of time that the king of egypt died and the children of israel sighed by reason of the bondage and they cried and their cry came up unto god by reason of the bondage
and god heard their groaning and god remembered his covenant with abraham with isaac and with jacob
and god looked upon the children of israel and god had respect unto them
now moses kept the flock of jethro his father in law the priest of midian and he led the flock to the backside of the desert and came to the mountain of god even to horeb
and the angel of the lord appeared unto him in a flame of fire out of the midst of a bush and he looked and behold the bush burned with fire and the bush was not consumed
and moses said i will now turn aside and see this great sight why the bush is not burnt
and when the lord saw that he turned aside to see god called unto him out of the midst of the bush and said moses moses and he said here am i
and he said draw not nigh hither put off thy shoes from off thy feet for the place whereon thou standest is holy ground
moreover he said i am the god of thy father the god of abraham the god of isaac and the god of jacob and moses hid his face for he was afraid to look upon god
and the lord said i have surely seen the affliction of my people which are in egypt and have heard their cry by reason of their taskmasters for i know their sorrows
and i am come down to deliver them out of the hand of the egyptians and to bring them up out of that land unto a good land and a large unto a land flowing with milk and honey unto the place of the canaanites and the hittites and the amorites and the perizzites and the hivites and the jebusites
now therefore behold the cry of the children of israel is come unto me and i have also seen the oppression wherewith the egyptians oppress them
come now therefore and i will send thee unto pharaoh that thou mayest bring forth my people the children of israel out of egypt
and moses said unto god who am i that i should go unto pharaoh and that i should bring forth the children of israel out of egypt
and he said certainly i will be with thee and this shall be a token unto thee that i have sent thee when thou hast brought forth the people out of egypt ye shall serve god upon this mountain
and moses said unto god behold when i come unto the children of israel and shall say unto them the god of your fathers hath sent me unto you and they shall say to me what is his name what shall i say unto them
and god said unto moses i am that i am and he said thus shalt thou say unto the children of israel i am hath sent me unto you
and god said moreover unto moses thus shalt thou say unto the children of israel the lord god of your fathers the god of abraham the god of isaac and the god of jacob hath sent me unto you this is my name for ever and this is my memorial unto all generations
go and gather the elders of israel together and say unto them the lord god of your fathers the god of abraham of isaac and of jacob appeared unto me saying i have surely visited you and seen that which is done to you in egypt
and i have said i will bring you up out of the affliction of egypt unto the land of the canaanites and the hittites and the amorites and the perizzites and the hivites and the jebusites unto a land flowing with milk and honey
and they shall hearken to thy voice and thou shalt come thou and the elders of israel unto the king of egypt and ye shall say unto him the lord god of the hebrews hath met with us and now let us go we beseech thee three days journey into the wilderness that we may sacrifice to the lord our god
and i am sure that the king of egypt will not let you go no not by a mighty hand
and i will stretch out my hand and smite egypt with all my wonders which i will do in the midst thereof and after that he will let you go
and i will give this people favour in the sight of the egyptians and it shall come to pass that when ye go ye shall not go empty
but every woman shall borrow of her neighbour and of her that sojourneth in her house jewels of silver and jewels of gold and raiment and ye shall put them upon your sons and upon your daughters and ye shall spoil the egyptians
and moses answered and said but behold they will not believe me nor hearken unto my voice for they will say the lord hath not appeared unto thee
and the lord said unto him what is that in thine hand and he said a rod
and he said cast it on the ground and he cast it on the ground and it became a serpent and moses fled from before it
and the lord said unto moses put forth thine hand and take it by the tail and he put forth his hand and caught it and it became a rod in his hand
that they may believe that the lord god of their fathers the god of abraham the god of isaac and the god of jacob hath appeared unto thee
and the lord said furthermore unto him put now thine hand into thy bosom and he put his hand into his bosom and when he took it out behold his hand was leprous as snow
and he said put thine hand into thy bosom again and he put his hand into his bosom again and plucked it out of his bosom and behold it was turned again as his other flesh
and it shall come to pass if they will not believe thee neither hearken to the voice of the first sign that they will believe the voice of the latter sign
and it shall come to pass if they will not believe also these two signs neither hearken unto thy voice that thou shalt take of the water of the river and pour it upon the dry land and the water which thou takest out of the river shall become blood upon the dry land
and moses said unto the lord o my lord i am not eloquent neither heretofore nor since thou hast spoken unto thy servant but i am slow of speech and of a slow tongue
and the lord said unto him who hath made man's mouth or who maketh the dumb or deaf or the seeing or the blind have not i the lord
now therefore go and i will be with thy mouth and teach thee what thou shalt say
and he said o my lord send i pray thee by the hand of him whom thou wilt send
and the anger of the lord was kindled against moses and he said is not aaron the levite thy brother i know that he can speak well and also behold he cometh forth to meet thee and when he seeth thee he will be glad in his heart
and thou shalt speak unto him and put words in his mouth and i will be with thy mouth and with his mouth and will teach you what ye shall do
and he shall be thy spokesman unto the people and he shall be even he shall be to thee instead of a mouth and thou shalt be to him instead of god
and thou shalt take this rod in thine hand wherewith thou shalt do signs
and moses went and returned to jethro his father in law and said unto him let me go i pray thee and return unto my brethren which are in egypt and see whether they be yet alive and jethro said to moses go in peace
and the lord said unto moses in midian go return into egypt for all the men are dead which sought thy life
and moses took his wife and his sons and set them upon an ass and he returned to the land of egypt and moses took the rod of god in his hand
and the lord said unto moses when thou goest to return into egypt see that thou do all those wonders before pharaoh which i have put in thine hand but i will harden his heart that he shall not let the people go
and thou shalt say unto pharaoh thus saith the lord israel is my son even my firstborn
and i say unto thee let my son go that he may serve me and if thou refuse to let him go behold i will slay thy son even thy firstborn
and it came to pass by the way in the inn that the lord met him and sought to kill him
then zipporah took a sharp stone and cut off the foreskin of her son and cast it at his feet and said surely a bloody husband art thou to me
so he let him go then she said a bloody husband thou art because of the circumcision
and the lord said to aaron go into the wilderness to meet moses and he went and met him in the mount of god and kissed him
and moses told aaron all the words of the lord who had sent him and all the signs which he had commanded him
and moses and aaron went and gathered together all the elders of the children of israel
and aaron spake all the words which the lord had spoken unto moses and did the signs in the sight of the people
and the people believed and when they heard that the lord had visited the children of israel and that he had looked upon their affliction then they bowed their heads and worshipped
and afterward moses and aaron went in and told pharaoh thus saith the lord god of israel let my people go that they may hold a feast unto me in the wilderness
and pharaoh said who is the lord that i should obey his voice to let israel go i know not the lord neither will i let israel go
and they said the god of the hebrews hath met with us let us go we pray thee three days journey into the desert and sacrifice unto the lord our god lest he fall upon us with pestilence or with the sword
and the king of egypt said unto them wherefore do ye moses and aaron let the people from their works get you unto your burdens
and pharaoh said behold the people of the land now are many and ye make them rest from their burdens
and pharaoh commanded the same day the taskmasters of the people and their officers saying
ye shall no more give the people straw to make brick as heretofore let them go and gather straw for themselves
and the tale of the bricks which they did make heretofore ye shall lay upon them ye shall not diminish ought thereof for they be idle therefore they cry saying let us go and sacrifice to our god
let there more work be laid upon the men that they may labour therein and let them not regard vain words
and the taskmasters of the people went out and their officers and they spake to the people saying thus saith pharaoh i will not give you straw
go ye get you straw where ye can find it yet not ought of your work shall be diminished
so the people were scattered abroad throughout all the land of egypt to gather stubble instead of straw
and the taskmasters hasted them saying fulfil your works your daily tasks as when there was straw
and the officers of the children of israel which pharaoh's taskmasters had set over them were beaten and demanded wherefore have ye not fulfilled your task in making brick both yesterday and to day as heretofore
then the officers of the children of israel came and cried unto pharaoh saying wherefore dealest thou thus with thy servants
there is no straw given unto thy servants and they say to us make brick and behold thy servants are beaten but the fault is in thine own people
but he said ye are idle ye are idle therefore ye say let us go and do sacrifice to the lord
go therefore now and work for there shall no straw be given you yet shall ye deliver the tale of bricks
and the officers of the children of israel did see that they were in evil case after it was said ye shall not minish ought from your bricks of your daily task
and they met moses and aaron who stood in the way as they came forth from pharaoh
and they said unto them the lord look upon you and judge because ye have made our savour to be abhorred in the eyes of pharaoh and in the eyes of his servants to put a sword in their hand to slay us
and moses returned unto the lord and said lord wherefore hast thou so evil entreated this people why is it that thou hast sent me
for since i came to pharaoh to speak in thy name he hath done evil to this people neither hast thou delivered thy people at all
then the lord said unto moses now shalt thou see what i will do to pharaoh for with a strong hand shall he let them go and with a strong hand shall he drive them out of his land
and god spake unto moses and said unto him i am the lord
and i appeared unto abraham unto isaac and unto jacob by the name of god almighty but by my name jehovah was i not known to them
and i have also established my covenant with them to give them the land of canaan the land of their pilgrimage wherein they were strangers
and i have also heard the groaning of the children of israel whom the egyptians keep in bondage and i have remembered my covenant
wherefore say unto the children of israel i am the lord and i will bring you out from under the burdens of the egyptians and i will rid you out of their bondage and i will redeem you with a stretched out arm and with great judgments
and i will take you to me for a people and i will be to you a god and ye shall know that i am the lord your god which bringeth you out from under the burdens of the egyptians
and i will bring you in unto the land concerning the which i did swear to give it to abraham to isaac and to jacob and i will give it you for an heritage i am the lord
and moses spake so unto the children of israel but they hearkened not unto moses for anguish of spirit and for cruel bondage
and the lord spake unto moses saying
go in speak unto pharaoh king of egypt that he let the children of israel go out of his land
and moses spake before the lord saying behold the children of israel have not hearkened unto me how then shall pharaoh hear me who am of uncircumcised lips
and the lord spake unto moses and unto aaron and gave them a charge unto the children of israel and unto pharaoh king of egypt to bring the children of israel out of the land of egypt
these be the heads of their fathers houses the sons of reuben the firstborn of israel hanoch and pallu hezron and carmi these be the families of reuben
and the sons of simeon jemuel and jamin and ohad and jachin and zohar and shaul the son of a canaanitish woman these are the families of simeon
and these are the names of the sons of levi according to their generations gershon and kohath and merari and the years of the life of levi were an hundred thirty and seven years
the sons of gershon libni and shimi according to their families
and the sons of kohath amram and izhar and hebron and uzziel and the years of the life of kohath were an hundred thirty and three years
and the sons of merari mahali and mushi these are the families of levi according to their generations
and amram took him jochebed his father's sister to wife and she bare him aaron and moses and the years of the life of amram were an hundred and thirty and seven years
and the sons of izhar korah and nepheg and zichri
and the sons of uzziel mishael and elzaphan and zithri
and aaron took him elisheba daughter of amminadab sister of naashon to wife and she bare him nadab and abihu eleazar and ithamar
and the sons of korah assir and elkanah and abiasaph these are the families of the korhites
and eleazar aaron's son took him one of the daughters of putiel to wife and she bare him phinehas these are the heads of the fathers of the levites according to their families
these are that aaron and moses to whom the lord said bring out the children of israel from the land of egypt according to their armies
these are they which spake to pharaoh king of egypt to bring out the children of israel from egypt these are that moses and aaron
and it came to pass on the day when the lord spake unto moses in the land of egypt
that the lord spake unto moses saying i am the lord speak thou unto pharaoh king of egypt all that i say unto thee
and moses said before the lord behold i am of uncircumcised lips and how shall pharaoh hearken unto me
and the lord said unto moses see i have made thee a god to pharaoh and aaron thy brother shall be thy prophet
thou shalt speak all that i command thee and aaron thy brother shall speak unto pharaoh that he send the children of israel out of his land
and i will harden pharaoh's heart and multiply my signs and my wonders in the land of egypt
but pharaoh shall not hearken unto you that i may lay my hand upon egypt and bring forth mine armies and my people the children of israel out of the land of egypt by great judgments
and the egyptians shall know that i am the lord when i stretch forth mine hand upon egypt and bring out the children of israel from among them
and moses and aaron did as the lord commanded them so did they
and moses was fourscore years old and aaron fourscore and three years old when they spake unto pharaoh
and the lord spake unto moses and unto aaron saying
when pharaoh shall speak unto you saying shew a miracle for you then thou shalt say unto aaron take thy rod and cast it before pharaoh and it shall become a serpent
and moses and aaron went in unto pharaoh and they did so as the lord had commanded and aaron cast down his rod before pharaoh and before his servants and it became a serpent
then pharaoh also called the wise men and the sorcerers now the magicians of egypt they also did in like manner with their enchantments
for they cast down every man his rod and they became serpents but aaron's rod swallowed up their rods
and he hardened pharaoh's heart that he hearkened not unto them as the lord had said
and the lord said unto moses pharaoh's heart is hardened he refuseth to let the people go
get thee unto pharaoh in the morning lo he goeth out unto the water and thou shalt stand by the river's brink against he come and the rod which was turned to a serpent shalt thou take in thine hand
and thou shalt say unto him the lord god of the hebrews hath sent me unto thee saying let my people go that they may serve me in the wilderness and behold hitherto thou wouldest not hear
thus saith the lord in this thou shalt know that i am the lord behold i will smite with the rod that is in mine hand upon the waters which are in the river and they shall be turned to blood
and the fish that is in the river shall die and the river shall stink and the egyptians shall lothe to drink of the water of the river
and the lord spake unto moses say unto aaron take thy rod and stretch out thine hand upon the waters of egypt upon their streams upon their rivers and upon their ponds and upon all their pools of water that they may become blood and that there may be blood throughout all the land of egypt both in vessels of wood and in vessels of stone
and moses and aaron did so as the lord commanded and he lifted up the rod and smote the waters that were in the river in the sight of pharaoh and in the sight of his servants and all the waters that were in the river were turned to blood
and the fish that was in the river died and the river stank and the egyptians could not drink of the water of the river and there was blood throughout all the land of egypt
and the magicians of egypt did so with their enchantments and pharaoh's heart was hardened neither did he hearken unto them as the lord had said
and pharaoh turned and went into his house neither did he set his heart to this also
and all the egyptians digged round about the river for water to drink for they could not drink of the water of the river
and seven days were fulfilled after that the lord had smitten the river
and the lord spake unto moses go unto pharaoh and say unto him thus saith the lord let my people go that they may serve me
and if thou refuse to let them go behold i will smite all thy borders with frogs
and the river shall bring forth frogs abundantly which shall go up and come into thine house and into thy bedchamber and upon thy bed and into the house of thy servants and upon thy people and into thine ovens and into thy kneadingtroughs
and the frogs shall come up both on thee and upon thy people and upon all thy servants
and the lord spake unto moses say unto aaron stretch forth thine hand with thy rod over the streams over the rivers and over the ponds and cause frogs to come up upon the land of egypt
and aaron stretched out his hand over the waters of egypt and the frogs came up and covered the land of egypt
and the magicians did so with their enchantments and brought up frogs upon the land of egypt
then pharaoh called for moses and aaron and said intreat the lord that he may take away the frogs from me and from my people and i will let the people go that they may do sacrifice unto the lord
and moses said unto pharaoh glory over me when shall i intreat for thee and for thy servants and for thy people to destroy the frogs from thee and thy houses that they may remain in the river only
and he said to morrow and he said be it according to thy word that thou mayest know that there is none like unto the lord our god
and the frogs shall depart from thee and from thy houses and from thy servants and from thy people they shall remain in the river only
and moses and aaron went out from pharaoh and moses cried unto the lord because of the frogs which he had brought against pharaoh
and the lord did according to the word of moses and the frogs died out of the houses out of the villages and out of the fields
and they gathered them together upon heaps and the land stank
but when pharaoh saw that there was respite he hardened his heart and hearkened not unto them as the lord had said
and the lord said unto moses say unto aaron stretch out thy rod and smite the dust of the land that it may become lice throughout all the land of egypt
and they did so for aaron stretched out his hand with his rod and smote the dust of the earth and it became lice in man and in beast all the dust of the land became lice throughout all the land of egypt
and the magicians did so with their enchantments to bring forth lice but they could not so there were lice upon man and upon beast
then the magicians said unto pharaoh this is the finger of god and pharaoh's heart was hardened and he hearkened not unto them as the lord had said
and the lord said unto moses rise up early in the morning and stand before pharaoh lo he cometh forth to the water and say unto him thus saith the lord let my people go that they may serve me
else if thou wilt not let my people go behold i will send swarms of flies upon thee and upon thy servants and upon thy people and into thy houses and the houses of the egyptians shall be full of swarms of flies and also the ground whereon they are
and i will sever in that day the land of goshen in which my people dwell that no swarms of flies shall be there to the end thou mayest know that i am the lord in the midst of the earth
and i will put a division between my people and thy people to morrow shall this sign be
and the lord did so and there came a grievous swarm of flies into the house of pharaoh and into his servants houses and into all the land of egypt the land was corrupted by reason of the swarm of flies
and pharaoh called for moses and for aaron and said go ye sacrifice to your god in the land
and moses said it is not meet so to do for we shall sacrifice the abomination of the egyptians to the lord our god lo shall we sacrifice the abomination of the egyptians before their eyes and will they not stone us
we will go three days journey into the wilderness and sacrifice to the lord our god as he shall command us
and pharaoh said i will let you go that ye may sacrifice to the lord your god in the wilderness only ye shall not go very far away intreat for me
and moses said behold i go out from thee and i will intreat the lord that the swarms of flies may depart from pharaoh from his servants and from his people to morrow but let not pharaoh deal deceitfully any more in not letting the people go to sacrifice to the lord
and moses went out from pharaoh and intreated the lord
and the lord did according to the word of moses and he removed the swarms of flies from pharaoh from his servants and from his people there remained not one
and pharaoh hardened his heart at this time also neither would he let the people go
then the lord said unto moses go in unto pharaoh and tell him thus saith the lord god of the hebrews let my people go that they may serve me
for if thou refuse to let them go and wilt hold them still
behold the hand of the lord is upon thy cattle which is in the field upon the horses upon the asses upon the camels upon the oxen and upon the sheep there shall be a very grievous murrain
and the lord shall sever between the cattle of israel and the cattle of egypt and there shall nothing die of all that is the children's of israel
and the lord appointed a set time saying to morrow the lord shall do this thing in the land
and the lord did that thing on the morrow and all the cattle of egypt died but of the cattle of the children of israel died not one
and pharaoh sent and behold there was not one of the cattle of the israelites dead and the heart of pharaoh was hardened and he did not let the people go
and the lord said unto moses and unto aaron take to you handfuls of ashes of the furnace and let moses sprinkle it toward the heaven in the sight of pharaoh
and it shall become small dust in all the land of egypt and shall be a boil breaking forth with blains upon man and upon beast throughout all the land of egypt
and they took ashes of the furnace and stood before pharaoh and moses sprinkled it up toward heaven and it became a boil breaking forth with blains upon man and upon beast
and the magicians could not stand before moses because of the boils for the boil was upon the magicians and upon all the egyptians
and the lord hardened the heart of pharaoh and he hearkened not unto them as the lord had spoken unto moses
and the lord said unto moses rise up early in the morning and stand before pharaoh and say unto him thus saith the lord god of the hebrews let my people go that they may serve me
for i will at this time send all my plagues upon thine heart and upon thy servants and upon thy people that thou mayest know that there is none like me in all the earth
for now i will stretch out my hand that i may smite thee and thy people with pestilence and thou shalt be cut off from the earth
and in very deed for this cause have i raised thee up for to shew in thee my power and that my name may be declared throughout all the earth
as yet exaltest thou thyself against my people that thou wilt not let them go
behold to morrow about this time i will cause it to rain a very grievous hail such as hath not been in egypt since the foundation thereof even until now
send therefore now and gather thy cattle and all that thou hast in the field for upon every man and beast which shall be found in the field and shall not be brought home the hail shall come down upon them and they shall die
he that feared the word of the lord among the servants of pharaoh made his servants and his cattle flee into the houses
and he that regarded not the word of the lord left his servants and his cattle in the field
and the lord said unto moses stretch forth thine hand toward heaven that there may be hail in all the land of egypt upon man and upon beast and upon every herb of the field throughout the land of egypt
and moses stretched forth his rod toward heaven and the lord sent thunder and hail and the fire ran along upon the ground and the lord rained hail upon the land of egypt
so there was hail and fire mingled with the hail very grievous such as there was none like it in all the land of egypt since it became a nation
and the hail smote throughout all the land of egypt all that was in the field both man and beast and the hail smote every herb of the field and brake every tree of the field
only in the land of goshen where the children of israel were was there no hail
and pharaoh sent and called for moses and aaron and said unto them i have sinned this time the lord is righteous and i and my people are wicked
intreat the lord for it is enough that there be no more mighty thunderings and hail and i will let you go and ye shall stay no longer
and moses said unto him as soon as i am gone out of the city i will spread abroad my hands unto the lord and the thunder shall cease neither shall there be any more hail that thou mayest know how that the earth is the lord's
but as for thee and thy servants i know that ye will not yet fear the lord god
and the flax and the barley was smitten for the barley was in the ear and the flax was bolled
but the wheat and the rie were not smitten for they were not grown up
and moses went out of the city from pharaoh and spread abroad his hands unto the lord and the thunders and hail ceased and the rain was not poured upon the earth
and when pharaoh saw that the rain and the hail and the thunders were ceased he sinned yet more and hardened his heart he and his servants
and the heart of pharaoh was hardened neither would he let the children of israel go as the lord had spoken by moses
and the lord said unto moses go in unto pharaoh for i have hardened his heart and the heart of his servants that i might shew these my signs before him
and that thou mayest tell in the ears of thy son and of thy son's son what things i have wrought in egypt and my signs which i have done among them that ye may know how that i am the lord
and moses and aaron came in unto pharaoh and said unto him thus saith the lord god of the hebrews how long wilt thou refuse to humble thyself before me let my people go that they may serve me
else if thou refuse to let my people go behold to morrow will i bring the locusts into thy coast
and they shall cover the face of the earth that one cannot be able to see the earth and they shall eat the residue of that which is escaped which remaineth unto you from the hail and shall eat every tree which groweth for you out of the field
and they shall fill thy houses and the houses of all thy servants and the houses of all the egyptians which neither thy fathers nor thy fathers fathers have seen since the day that they were upon the earth unto this day and he turned himself and went out from pharaoh
and pharaoh's servants said unto him how long shall this man be a snare unto us let the men go that they may serve the lord their god knowest thou not yet that egypt is destroyed
and moses and aaron were brought again unto pharaoh and he said unto them go serve the lord your god but who are they that shall go
and moses said we will go with our young and with our old with our sons and with our daughters with our flocks and with our herds will we go for we must hold a feast unto the lord
and he said unto them let the lord be so with you as i will let you go and your little ones look to it for evil is before you
not so go now ye that are men and serve the lord for that ye did desire and they were driven out from pharaoh's presence
and the lord said unto moses stretch out thine hand over the land of egypt for the locusts that they may come up upon the land of egypt and eat every herb of the land even all that the hail hath left
and moses stretched forth his rod over the land of egypt and the lord brought an east wind upon the land all that day and all that night and when it was morning the east wind brought the locusts
and the locusts went up over all the land of egypt and rested in all the coasts of egypt very grievous were they before them there were no such locusts as they neither after them shall be such
for they covered the face of the whole earth so that the land was darkened and they did eat every herb of the land and all the fruit of the trees which the hail had left and there remained not any green thing in the trees or in the herbs of the field through all the land of egypt
then pharaoh called for moses and aaron in haste and he said i have sinned against the lord your god and against you
now therefore forgive i pray thee my sin only this once and intreat the lord your god that he may take away from me this death only
and he went out from pharaoh and intreated the lord
and the lord turned a mighty strong west wind which took away the locusts and cast them into the red sea there remained not one locust in all the coasts of egypt
but the lord hardened pharaoh's heart so that he would not let the children of israel go
and the lord said unto moses stretch out thine hand toward heaven that there may be darkness over the land of egypt even darkness which may be felt
and moses stretched forth his hand toward heaven and there was a thick darkness in all the land of egypt three days
they saw not one another neither rose any from his place for three days but all the children of israel had light in their dwellings
and pharaoh called unto moses and said go ye serve the lord only let your flocks and your herds be stayed let your little ones also go with you
and moses said thou must give us also sacrifices and burnt offerings that we may sacrifice unto the lord our god
our cattle also shall go with us there shall not an hoof be left behind for thereof must we take to serve the lord our god and we know not with what we must serve the lord until we come thither
but the lord hardened pharaoh's heart and he would not let them go
and pharaoh said unto him get thee from me take heed to thyself see my face no more for in that day thou seest my face thou shalt die
and moses said thou hast spoken well i will see thy face again no more
and the lord said unto moses yet will i bring one plague more upon pharaoh and upon egypt afterwards he will let you go hence when he shall let you go he shall surely thrust you out hence altogether
speak now in the ears of the people and let every man borrow of his neighbour and every woman of her neighbour jewels of silver and jewels of gold
and the lord gave the people favour in the sight of the egyptians moreover the man moses was very great in the land of egypt in the sight of pharaoh's servants and in the sight of the people
and moses said thus saith the lord about midnight will i go out into the midst of egypt
and all the firstborn in the land of egypt shall die from the first born of pharaoh that sitteth upon his throne even unto the firstborn of the maidservant that is behind the mill and all the firstborn of beasts
and there shall be a great cry throughout all the land of egypt such as there was none like it nor shall be like it any more
but against any of the children of israel shall not a dog move his tongue against man or beast that ye may know how that the lord doth put a difference between the egyptians and israel
and all these thy servants shall come down unto me and bow down themselves unto me saying get thee out and all the people that follow thee and after that i will go out and he went out from pharaoh in a great anger
and the lord said unto moses pharaoh shall not hearken unto you that my wonders may be multiplied in the land of egypt
and moses and aaron did all these wonders before pharaoh and the lord hardened pharaoh's heart so that he would not let the children of israel go out of his land
and the lord spake unto moses and aaron in the land of egypt saying
this month shall be unto you the beginning of months it shall be the first month of the year to you
speak ye unto all the congregation of israel saying in the tenth day of this month they shall take to them every man a lamb according to the house of their fathers a lamb for an house
and if the household be too little for the lamb let him and his neighbour next unto his house take it according to the number of the souls every man according to his eating shall make your count for the lamb
your lamb shall be without blemish a male of the first year ye shall take it out from the sheep or from the goats
and ye shall keep it up until the fourteenth day of the same month and the whole assembly of the congregation of israel shall kill it in the evening
and they shall take of the blood and strike it on the two side posts and on the upper door post of the houses wherein they shall eat it
and they shall eat the flesh in that night roast with fire and unleavened bread and with bitter herbs they shall eat it
eat not of it raw nor sodden at all with water but roast with fire his head with his legs and with the purtenance thereof
and ye shall let nothing of it remain until the morning and that which remaineth of it until the morning ye shall burn with fire
and thus shall ye eat it with your loins girded your shoes on your feet and your staff in your hand and ye shall eat it in haste it is the lord's passover
for i will pass through the land of egypt this night and will smite all the firstborn in the land of egypt both man and beast and against all the gods of egypt i will execute judgment i am the lord
and the blood shall be to you for a token upon the houses where ye are and when i see the blood i will pass over you and the plague shall not be upon you to destroy you when i smite the land of egypt
and this day shall be unto you for a memorial and ye shall keep it a feast to the lord throughout your generations ye shall keep it a feast by an ordinance for ever
seven days shall ye eat unleavened bread even the first day ye shall put away leaven out of your houses for whosoever eateth leavened bread from the first day until the seventh day that soul shall be cut off from israel
and in the first day there shall be an holy convocation and in the seventh day there shall be an holy convocation to you no manner of work shall be done in them save that which every man must eat that only may be done of you
and ye shall observe the feast of unleavened bread for in this selfsame day have i brought your armies out of the land of egypt therefore shall ye observe this day in your generations by an ordinance for ever
in the first month on the fourteenth day of the month at even ye shall eat unleavened bread until the one and twentieth day of the month at even
seven days shall there be no leaven found in your houses for whosoever eateth that which is leavened even that soul shall be cut off from the congregation of israel whether he be a stranger or born in the land
ye shall eat nothing leavened in all your habitations shall ye eat unleavened bread
then moses called for all the elders of israel and said unto them draw out and take you a lamb according to your families and kill the passover
and ye shall take a bunch of hyssop and dip it in the blood that is in the bason and strike the lintel and the two side posts with the blood that is in the bason and none of you shall go out at the door of his house until the morning
for the lord will pass through to smite the egyptians and when he seeth the blood upon the lintel and on the two side posts the lord will pass over the door and will not suffer the destroyer to come in unto your houses to smite you
and ye shall observe this thing for an ordinance to thee and to thy sons for ever
and it shall come to pass when ye be come to the land which the lord will give you according as he hath promised that ye shall keep this service
and it shall come to pass when your children shall say unto you what mean ye by this service
that ye shall say it is the sacrifice of the lord's passover who passed over the houses of the children of israel in egypt when he smote the egyptians and delivered our houses and the people bowed the head and worshipped
and the children of israel went away and did as the lord had commanded moses and aaron so did they
and it came to pass that at midnight the lord smote all the firstborn in the land of egypt from the firstborn of pharaoh that sat on his throne unto the firstborn of the captive that was in the dungeon and all the firstborn of cattle
and pharaoh rose up in the night he and all his servants and all the egyptians and there was a great cry in egypt for there was not a house where there was not one dead
and he called for moses and aaron by night and said rise up and get you forth from among my people both ye and the children of israel and go serve the lord as ye have said
also take your flocks and your herds as ye have said and be gone and bless me also
and the egyptians were urgent upon the people that they might send them out of the land in haste for they said we be all dead men
and the people took their dough before it was leavened their kneadingtroughs being bound up in their clothes upon their shoulders
and the children of israel did according to the word of moses and they borrowed of the egyptians jewels of silver and jewels of gold and raiment
and the lord gave the people favour in the sight of the egyptians so that they lent unto them such things as they required and they spoiled the egyptians
and the children of israel journeyed from rameses to succoth about six hundred thousand on foot that were men beside children
and a mixed multitude went up also with them and flocks and herds even very much cattle
and they baked unleavened cakes of the dough which they brought forth out of egypt for it was not leavened because they were thrust out of egypt and could not tarry neither had they prepared for themselves any victual
now the sojourning of the children of israel who dwelt in egypt was four hundred and thirty years
and it came to pass at the end of the four hundred and thirty years even the selfsame day it came to pass that all the hosts of the lord went out from the land of egypt
it is a night to be much observed unto the lord for bringing them out from the land of egypt this is that night of the lord to be observed of all the children of israel in their generations
and the lord said unto moses and aaron this is the ordinance of the passover there shall no stranger eat thereof
but every man's servant that is bought for money when thou hast circumcised him then shall he eat thereof
a foreigner and an hired servant shall not eat thereof
in one house shall it be eaten thou shalt not carry forth ought of the flesh abroad out of the house neither shall ye break a bone thereof
all the congregation of israel shall keep it
and when a stranger shall sojourn with thee and will keep the passover to the lord let all his males be circumcised and then let him come near and keep it and he shall be as one that is born in the land for no uncircumcised person shall eat thereof
one law shall be to him that is homeborn and unto the stranger that sojourneth among you
thus did all the children of israel as the lord commanded moses and aaron so did they
and it came to pass the selfsame day that the lord did bring the children of israel out of the land of egypt by their armies
and the lord spake unto moses saying
sanctify unto me all the firstborn whatsoever openeth the womb among the children of israel both of man and of beast it is mine
and moses said unto the people remember this day in which ye came out from egypt out of the house of bondage for by strength of hand the lord brought you out from this place there shall no leavened bread be eaten
this day came ye out in the month abib
and it shall be when the lord shall bring thee into the land of the canaanites and the hittites and the amorites and the hivites and the jebusites which he sware unto thy fathers to give thee a land flowing with milk and honey that thou shalt keep this service in this month
seven days thou shalt eat unleavened bread and in the seventh day shall be a feast to the lord
unleavened bread shall be eaten seven days and there shall no leavened bread be seen with thee neither shall there be leaven seen with thee in all thy quarters
and thou shalt shew thy son in that day saying this is done because of that which the lord did unto me when i came forth out of egypt
and it shall be for a sign unto thee upon thine hand and for a memorial between thine eyes that the lord's law may be in thy mouth for with a strong hand hath the lord brought thee out of egypt
thou shalt therefore keep this ordinance in his season from year to year
and it shall be when the lord shall bring thee into the land of the canaanites as he sware unto thee and to thy fathers and shall give it thee
that thou shalt set apart unto the lord all that openeth the matrix and every firstling that cometh of a beast which thou hast the males shall be the lord's
and every firstling of an ass thou shalt redeem with a lamb and if thou wilt not redeem it then thou shalt break his neck and all the firstborn of man among thy children shalt thou redeem
and it shall be when thy son asketh thee in time to come saying what is this that thou shalt say unto him by strength of hand the lord brought us out from egypt from the house of bondage
and it came to pass when pharaoh would hardly let us go that the lord slew all the firstborn in the land of egypt both the firstborn of man and the firstborn of beast therefore i sacrifice to the lord all that openeth the matrix being males but all the firstborn of my children i redeem
and it shall be for a token upon thine hand and for frontlets between thine eyes for by strength of hand the lord brought us forth out of egypt
and it came to pass when pharaoh had let the people go that god led them not through the way of the land of the philistines although that was near for god said lest peradventure the people repent when they see war and they return to egypt
but god led the people about through the way of the wilderness of the red sea and the children of israel went up harnessed out of the land of egypt
and moses took the bones of joseph with him for he had straitly sworn the children of israel saying god will surely visit you and ye shall carry up my bones away hence with you
and they took their journey from succoth and encamped in etham in the edge of the wilderness
and the lord went before them by day in a pillar of a cloud to lead them the way and by night in a pillar of fire to give them light to go by day and night
he took not away the pillar of the cloud by day nor the pillar of fire by night from before the people
and the lord spake unto moses saying
speak unto the children of israel that they turn and encamp before pihahiroth between migdol and the sea over against baalzephon before it shall ye encamp by the sea
for pharaoh will say of the children of israel they are entangled in the land the wilderness hath shut them in
and i will harden pharaoh's heart that he shall follow after them and i will be honoured upon pharaoh and upon all his host that the egyptians may know that i am the lord and they did so
and it was told the king of egypt that the people fled and the heart of pharaoh and of his servants was turned against the people and they said why have we done this that we have let israel go from serving us
and he made ready his chariot and took his people with him
and he took six hundred chosen chariots and all the chariots of egypt and captains over every one of them
and the lord hardened the heart of pharaoh king of egypt and he pursued after the children of israel and the children of israel went out with an high hand
but the egyptians pursued after them all the horses and chariots of pharaoh and his horsemen and his army and overtook them encamping by the sea beside pihahiroth before baalzephon
and when pharaoh drew nigh the children of israel lifted up their eyes and behold the egyptians marched after them and they were sore afraid and the children of israel cried out unto the lord
and they said unto moses because there were no graves in egypt hast thou taken us away to die in the wilderness wherefore hast thou dealt thus with us to carry us forth out of egypt
is not this the word that we did tell thee in egypt saying let us alone that we may serve the egyptians for it had been better for us to serve the egyptians than that we should die in the wilderness
and moses said unto the people fear ye not stand still and see the salvation of the lord which he will shew to you to day for the egyptians whom ye have seen to day ye shall see them again no more for ever
the lord shall fight for you and ye shall hold your peace
and the lord said unto moses wherefore criest thou unto me speak unto the children of israel that they go forward
but lift thou up thy rod and stretch out thine hand over the sea and divide it and the children of israel shall go on dry ground through the midst of the sea
and i behold i will harden the hearts of the egyptians and they shall follow them and i will get me honour upon pharaoh and upon all his host upon his chariots and upon his horsemen
and the egyptians shall know that i am the lord when i have gotten me honour upon pharaoh upon his chariots and upon his horsemen
and the angel of god which went before the camp of israel removed and went behind them and the pillar of the cloud went from before their face and stood behind them
and it came between the camp of the egyptians and the camp of israel and it was a cloud and darkness to them but it gave light by night to these so that the one came not near the other all the night
and moses stretched out his hand over the sea and the lord caused the sea to go back by a strong east wind all that night and made the sea dry land and the waters were divided
and the children of israel went into the midst of the sea upon the dry ground and the waters were a wall unto them on their right hand and on their left
and the egyptians pursued and went in after them to the midst of the sea even all pharaoh's horses his chariots and his horsemen
and it came to pass that in the morning watch the lord looked unto the host of the egyptians through the pillar of fire and of the cloud and troubled the host of the egyptians
and took off their chariot wheels that they drave them heavily so that the egyptians said let us flee from the face of israel for the lord fighteth for them against the egyptians
and the lord said unto moses stretch out thine hand over the sea that the waters may come again upon the egyptians upon their chariots and upon their horsemen
and moses stretched forth his hand over the sea and the sea returned to his strength when the morning appeared and the egyptians fled against it and the lord overthrew the egyptians in the midst of the sea
and the waters returned and covered the chariots and the horsemen and all the host of pharaoh that came into the sea after them there remained not so much as one of them
but the children of israel walked upon dry land in the midst of the sea and the waters were a wall unto them on their right hand and on their left
thus the lord saved israel that day out of the hand of the egyptians and israel saw the egyptians dead upon the sea shore
and israel saw that great work which the lord did upon the egyptians and the people feared the lord and believed the lord and his servant moses
then sang moses and the children of israel this song unto the lord and spake saying i will sing unto the lord for he hath triumphed gloriously the horse and his rider hath he thrown into the sea
the lord is my strength and song and he is become my salvation he is my god and i will prepare him an habitation my father's god and i will exalt him
the lord is a man of war the lord is his name
pharaoh's chariots and his host hath he cast into the sea his chosen captains also are drowned in the red sea
the depths have covered them they sank into the bottom as a stone
thy right hand o lord is become glorious in power thy right hand o lord hath dashed in pieces the enemy
and in the greatness of thine excellency thou hast overthrown them that rose up against thee thou sentest forth thy wrath which consumed them as stubble
and with the blast of thy nostrils the waters were gathered together the floods stood upright as an heap and the depths were congealed in the heart of the sea
the enemy said i will pursue i will overtake i will divide the spoil my lust shall be satisfied upon them i will draw my sword my hand shall destroy them
thou didst blow with thy wind the sea covered them they sank as lead in the mighty waters
who is like unto thee o lord among the gods who is like thee glorious in holiness fearful in praises doing wonders
thou stretchedst out thy right hand the earth swallowed them
thou in thy mercy hast led forth the people which thou hast redeemed thou hast guided them in thy strength unto thy holy habitation
the people shall hear and be afraid sorrow shall take hold on the inhabitants of palestina
then the dukes of edom shall be amazed the mighty men of moab trembling shall take hold upon them all the inhabitants of canaan shall melt away
fear and dread shall fall upon them by the greatness of thine arm they shall be as still as a stone till thy people pass over o lord till the people pass over which thou hast purchased
thou shalt bring them in and plant them in the mountain of thine inheritance in the place o lord which thou hast made for thee to dwell in in the sanctuary o lord which thy hands have established
the lord shall reign for ever and ever
for the horse of pharaoh went in with his chariots and with his horsemen into the sea and the lord brought again the waters of the sea upon them but the children of israel went on dry land in the midst of the sea
and miriam the prophetess the sister of aaron took a timbrel in her hand and all the women went out after her with timbrels and with dances
and miriam answered them sing ye to the lord for he hath triumphed gloriously the horse and his rider hath he thrown into the sea
so moses brought israel from the red sea and they went out into the wilderness of shur and they went three days in the wilderness and found no water
and when they came to marah they could not drink of the waters of marah for they were bitter therefore the name of it was called marah
and the people murmured against moses saying what shall we drink
and he cried unto the lord and the lord shewed him a tree which when he had cast into the waters the waters were made sweet there he made for them a statute and an ordinance and there he proved them
and said if thou wilt diligently hearken to the voice of the lord thy god and wilt do that which is right in his sight and wilt give ear to his commandments and keep all his statutes i will put none of these diseases upon thee which i have brought upon the egyptians for i am the lord that healeth thee
and they came to elim where were twelve wells of water and threescore and ten palm trees and they encamped there by the waters
and they took their journey from elim and all the congregation of the children of israel came unto the wilderness of sin which is between elim and sinai on the fifteenth day of the second month after their departing out of the land of egypt
and the whole congregation of the children of israel murmured against moses and aaron in the wilderness
and the children of israel said unto them would to god we had died by the hand of the lord in the land of egypt when we sat by the flesh pots and when we did eat bread to the full for ye have brought us forth into this wilderness to kill this whole assembly with hunger
then said the lord unto moses behold i will rain bread from heaven for you and the people shall go out and gather a certain rate every day that i may prove them whether they will walk in my law or no
and it shall come to pass that on the sixth day they shall prepare that which they bring in and it shall be twice as much as they gather daily
and moses and aaron said unto all the children of israel at even then ye shall know that the lord hath brought you out from the land of egypt
and in the morning then ye shall see the glory of the lord for that he heareth your murmurings against the lord and what are we that ye murmur against us
and moses said this shall be when the lord shall give you in the evening flesh to eat and in the morning bread to the full for that the lord heareth your murmurings which ye murmur against him and what are we your murmurings are not against us but against the lord
and moses spake unto aaron say unto all the congregation of the children of israel come near before the lord for he hath heard your murmurings
and it came to pass as aaron spake unto the whole congregation of the children of israel that they looked toward the wilderness and behold the glory of the lord appeared in the cloud
and the lord spake unto moses saying
i have heard the murmurings of the children of israel speak unto them saying at even ye shall eat flesh and in the morning ye shall be filled with bread and ye shall know that i am the lord your god
and it came to pass that at even the quails came up and covered the camp and in the morning the dew lay round about the host
and when the dew that lay was gone up behold upon the face of the wilderness there lay a small round thing as small as the hoar frost on the ground
and when the children of israel saw it they said one to another it is manna for they wist not what it was and moses said unto them this is the bread which the lord hath given you to eat
this is the thing which the lord hath commanded gather of it every man according to his eating an omer for every man according to the number of your persons take ye every man for them which are in his tents
and the children of israel did so and gathered some more some less
and when they did mete it with an omer he that gathered much had nothing over and he that gathered little had no lack they gathered every man according to his eating
and moses said let no man leave of it till the morning
notwithstanding they hearkened not unto moses but some of them left of it until the morning and it bred worms and stank and moses was wroth with them
and they gathered it every morning every man according to his eating and when the sun waxed hot it melted
and it came to pass that on the sixth day they gathered twice as much bread two omers for one man and all the rulers of the congregation came and told moses
and he said unto them this is that which the lord hath said to morrow is the rest of the holy sabbath unto the lord bake that which ye will bake to day and seethe that ye will seethe and that which remaineth over lay up for you to be kept until the morning
and they laid it up till the morning as moses bade and it did not stink neither was there any worm therein
and moses said eat that to day for to day is a sabbath unto the lord to day ye shall not find it in the field
six days ye shall gather it but on the seventh day which is the sabbath in it there shall be none
and it came to pass that there went out some of the people on the seventh day for to gather and they found none
and the lord said unto moses how long refuse ye to keep my commandments and my laws
see for that the lord hath given you the sabbath therefore he giveth you on the sixth day the bread of two days abide ye every man in his place let no man go out of his place on the seventh day
so the people rested on the seventh day
and the house of israel called the name thereof manna and it was like coriander seed white and the taste of it was like wafers made with honey
and moses said this is the thing which the lord commandeth fill an omer of it to be kept for your generations that they may see the bread wherewith i have fed you in the wilderness when i brought you forth from the land of egypt
and moses said unto aaron take a pot and put an omer full of manna therein and lay it up before the lord to be kept for your generations
as the lord commanded moses so aaron laid it up before the testimony to be kept
and the children of israel did eat manna forty years until they came to a land inhabited they did eat manna until they came unto the borders of the land of canaan
now an omer is the tenth part of an ephah
and all the congregation of the children of israel journeyed from the wilderness of sin after their journeys according to the commandment of the lord and pitched in rephidim and there was no water for the people to drink
wherefore the people did chide with moses and said give us water that we may drink and moses said unto them why chide ye with me wherefore do ye tempt the lord
and the people thirsted there for water and the people murmured against moses and said wherefore is this that thou hast brought us up out of egypt to kill us and our children and our cattle with thirst
and moses cried unto the lord saying what shall i do unto this people they be almost ready to stone me
and the lord said unto moses go on before the people and take with thee of the elders of israel and thy rod wherewith thou smotest the river take in thine hand and go
behold i will stand before thee there upon the rock in horeb and thou shalt smite the rock and there shall come water out of it that the people may drink and moses did so in the sight of the elders of israel
and he called the name of the place massah and meribah because of the chiding of the children of israel and because they tempted the lord saying is the lord among us or not
then came amalek and fought with israel in rephidim
and moses said unto joshua choose us out men and go out fight with amalek to morrow i will stand on the top of the hill with the rod of god in mine hand
so joshua did as moses had said to him and fought with amalek and moses aaron and hur went up to the top of the hill
and it came to pass when moses held up his hand that israel prevailed and when he let down his hand amalek prevailed
but moses hands were heavy and they took a stone and put it under him and he sat thereon and aaron and hur stayed up his hands the one on the one side and the other on the other side and his hands were steady until the going down of the sun
and joshua discomfited amalek and his people with the edge of the sword
and the lord said unto moses write this for a memorial in a book and rehearse it in the ears of joshua for i will utterly put out the remembrance of amalek from under heaven
and moses built an altar and called the name of it jehovahnissi
for he said because the lord hath sworn that the lord will have war with amalek from generation to generation
when jethro the priest of midian moses father in law heard of all that god had done for moses and for israel his people and that the lord had brought israel out of egypt
then jethro moses father in law took zipporah moses wife after he had sent her back
and her two sons of which the name of the one was gershom for he said i have been an alien in a strange land
and the name of the other was eliezer for the god of my father said he was mine help and delivered me from the sword of pharaoh
and jethro moses father in law came with his sons and his wife unto moses into the wilderness where he encamped at the mount of god
and he said unto moses i thy father in law jethro am come unto thee and thy wife and her two sons with her
and moses went out to meet his father in law and did obeisance and kissed him and they asked each other of their welfare and they came into the tent
and moses told his father in law all that the lord had done unto pharaoh and to the egyptians for israel's sake and all the travail that had come upon them by the way and how the lord delivered them
and jethro rejoiced for all the goodness which the lord had done to israel whom he had delivered out of the hand of the egyptians
and jethro said blessed be the lord who hath delivered you out of the hand of the egyptians and out of the hand of pharaoh who hath delivered the people from under the hand of the egyptians
now i know that the lord is greater than all gods for in the thing wherein they dealt proudly he was above them
and jethro moses father in law took a burnt offering and sacrifices for god and aaron came and all the elders of israel to eat bread with moses father in law before god
and it came to pass on the morrow that moses sat to judge the people and the people stood by moses from the morning unto the evening
and when moses father in law saw all that he did to the people he said what is this thing that thou doest to the people why sittest thou thyself alone and all the people stand by thee from morning unto even
and moses said unto his father in law because the people come unto me to enquire of god
when they have a matter they come unto me and i judge between one and another and i do make them know the statutes of god and his laws
and moses father in law said unto him the thing that thou doest is not good
thou wilt surely wear away both thou and this people that is with thee for this thing is too heavy for thee thou art not able to perform it thyself alone
hearken now unto my voice i will give thee counsel and god shall be with thee be thou for the people to godward that thou mayest bring the causes unto god
and thou shalt teach them ordinances and laws and shalt shew them the way wherein they must walk and the work that they must do
moreover thou shalt provide out of all the people able men such as fear god men of truth hating covetousness and place such over them to be rulers of thousands and rulers of hundreds rulers of fifties and rulers of tens
and let them judge the people at all seasons and it shall be that every great matter they shall bring unto thee but every small matter they shall judge so shall it be easier for thyself and they shall bear the burden with thee
if thou shalt do this thing and god command thee so then thou shalt be able to endure and all this people shall also go to their place in peace
so moses hearkened to the voice of his father in law and did all that he had said
and moses chose able men out of all israel and made them heads over the people rulers of thousands rulers of hundreds rulers of fifties and rulers of tens
and they judged the people at all seasons the hard causes they brought unto moses but every small matter they judged themselves
and moses let his father in law depart and he went his way into his own land
in the third month when the children of israel were gone forth out of the land of egypt the same day came they into the wilderness of sinai
for they were departed from rephidim and were come to the desert of sinai and had pitched in the wilderness and there israel camped before the mount
and moses went up unto god and the lord called unto him out of the mountain saying thus shalt thou say to the house of jacob and tell the children of israel
ye have seen what i did unto the egyptians and how i bare you on eagles wings and brought you unto myself
now therefore if ye will obey my voice indeed and keep my covenant then ye shall be a peculiar treasure unto me above all people for all the earth is mine
and ye shall be unto me a kingdom of priests and an holy nation these are the words which thou shalt speak unto the children of israel
and moses came and called for the elders of the people and laid before their faces all these words which the lord commanded him
and all the people answered together and said all that the lord hath spoken we will do and moses returned the words of the people unto the lord
and the lord said unto moses lo i come unto thee in a thick cloud that the people may hear when i speak with thee and believe thee for ever and moses told the words of the people unto the lord
and the lord said unto moses go unto the people and sanctify them to day and to morrow and let them wash their clothes
and be ready against the third day for the third day the lord will come down in the sight of all the people upon mount sinai
and thou shalt set bounds unto the people round about saying take heed to yourselves that ye go not up into the mount or touch the border of it whosoever toucheth the mount shall be surely put to death
there shall not an hand touch it but he shall surely be stoned or shot through whether it be beast or man it shall not live when the trumpet soundeth long they shall come up to the mount
and moses went down from the mount unto the people and sanctified the people and they washed their clothes
and he said unto the people be ready against the third day come not at your wives
and it came to pass on the third day in the morning that there were thunders and lightnings and a thick cloud upon the mount and the voice of the trumpet exceeding loud so that all the people that was in the camp trembled
and moses brought forth the people out of the camp to meet with god and they stood at the nether part of the mount
and mount sinai was altogether on a smoke because the lord descended upon it in fire and the smoke thereof ascended as the smoke of a furnace and the whole mount quaked greatly
and when the voice of the trumpet sounded long and waxed louder and louder moses spake and god answered him by a voice
and the lord came down upon mount sinai on the top of the mount and the lord called moses up to the top of the mount and moses went up
and the lord said unto moses go down charge the people lest they break through unto the lord to gaze and many of them perish
and let the priests also which come near to the lord sanctify themselves lest the lord break forth upon them
and moses said unto the lord the people cannot come up to mount sinai for thou chargedst us saying set bounds about the mount and sanctify it
and the lord said unto him away get thee down and thou shalt come up thou and aaron with thee but let not the priests and the people break through to come up unto the lord lest he break forth upon them
so moses went down unto the people and spake unto them
and god spake all these words saying
i am the lord thy god which have brought thee out of the land of egypt out of the house of bondage
thou shalt have no other gods before me
thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above or that is in the earth beneath or that is in the water under the earth
thou shalt not bow down thyself to them nor serve them for i the lord thy god am a jealous god visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me
and shewing mercy unto thousands of them that love me and keep my commandments
thou shalt not take the name of the lord thy god in vain for the lord will not hold him guiltless that taketh his name in vain
remember the sabbath day to keep it holy
six days shalt thou labour and do all thy work
but the seventh day is the sabbath of the lord thy god in it thou shalt not do any work thou nor thy son nor thy daughter thy manservant nor thy maidservant nor thy cattle nor thy stranger that is within thy gates
for in six days the lord made heaven and earth the sea and all that in them is and rested the seventh day wherefore the lord blessed the sabbath day and hallowed it
honour thy father and thy mother that thy days may be long upon the land which the lord thy god giveth thee
thou shalt not kill
thou shalt not commit adultery
thou shalt not steal
thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour
thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's house thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's wife nor his manservant nor his maidservant nor his ox nor his ass nor any thing that is thy neighbour's
and all the people saw the thunderings and the lightnings and the noise of the trumpet and the mountain smoking and when the people saw it they removed and stood afar off
and they said unto moses speak thou with us and we will hear but let not god speak with us lest we die
and moses said unto the people fear not for god is come to prove you and that his fear may be before your faces that ye sin not
and the people stood afar off and moses drew near unto the thick darkness where god was
and the lord said unto moses thus thou shalt say unto the children of israel ye have seen that i have talked with you from heaven
ye shall not make with me gods of silver neither shall ye make unto you gods of gold
an altar of earth thou shalt make unto me and shalt sacrifice thereon thy burnt offerings and thy peace offerings thy sheep and thine oxen in all places where i record my name i will come unto thee and i will bless thee
and if thou wilt make me an altar of stone thou shalt not build it of hewn stone for if thou lift up thy tool upon it thou hast polluted it
neither shalt thou go up by steps unto mine altar that thy nakedness be not discovered thereon
now these are the judgments which thou shalt set before them
if thou buy an hebrew servant six years he shall serve and in the seventh he shall go out free for nothing
if he came in by himself he shall go out by himself if he were married then his wife shall go out with him
if his master have given him a wife and she have born him sons or daughters the wife and her children shall be her master's and he shall go out by himself
and if the servant shall plainly say i love my master my wife and my children i will not go out free
then his master shall bring him unto the judges he shall also bring him to the door or unto the door post and his master shall bore his ear through with an aul and he shall serve him for ever
and if a man sell his daughter to be a maidservant she shall not go out as the menservants do
if she please not her master who hath betrothed her to himself then shall he let her be redeemed to sell her unto a strange nation he shall have no power seeing he hath dealt deceitfully with her
and if he have betrothed her unto his son he shall deal with her after the manner of daughters
if he take him another wife her food her raiment and her duty of marriage shall he not diminish
and if he do not these three unto her then shall she go out free without money
he that smiteth a man so that he die shall be surely put to death
and if a man lie not in wait but god deliver him into his hand then i will appoint thee a place whither he shall flee
but if a man come presumptuously upon his neighbour to slay him with guile thou shalt take him from mine altar that he may die
and he that smiteth his father or his mother shall be surely put to death
and he that stealeth a man and selleth him or if he be found in his hand he shall surely be put to death
and he that curseth his father or his mother shall surely be put to death
and if men strive together and one smite another with a stone or with his fist and he die not but keepeth his bed
if he rise again and walk abroad upon his staff then shall he that smote him be quit only he shall pay for the loss of his time and shall cause him to be thoroughly healed
and if a man smite his servant or his maid with a rod and he die under his hand he shall be surely punished
notwithstanding if he continue a day or two he shall not be punished for he is his money
if men strive and hurt a woman with child so that her fruit depart from her and yet no mischief follow he shall be surely punished according as the woman's husband will lay upon him and he shall pay as the judges determine
and if any mischief follow then thou shalt give life for life
eye for eye tooth for tooth hand for hand foot for foot
burning for burning wound for wound stripe for stripe
and if a man smite the eye of his servant or the eye of his maid that it perish he shall let him go free for his eye's sake
and if he smite out his manservant's tooth or his maidservant's tooth he shall let him go free for his tooth's sake
if an ox gore a man or a woman that they die then the ox shall be surely stoned and his flesh shall not be eaten but the owner of the ox shall be quit
but if the ox were wont to push with his horn in time past and it hath been testified to his owner and he hath not kept him in but that he hath killed a man or a woman the ox shall be stoned and his owner also shall be put to death
if there be laid on him a sum of money then he shall give for the ransom of his life whatsoever is laid upon him
whether he have gored a son or have gored a daughter according to this judgment shall it be done unto him
if the ox shall push a manservant or a maidservant he shall give unto their master thirty shekels of silver and the ox shall be stoned
and if a man shall open a pit or if a man shall dig a pit and not cover it and an ox or an ass fall therein
the owner of the pit shall make it good and give money unto the owner of them and the dead beast shall be his
and if one man's ox hurt another's that he die then they shall sell the live ox and divide the money of it and the dead ox also they shall divide
or if it be known that the ox hath used to push in time past and his owner hath not kept him in he shall surely pay ox for ox and the dead shall be his own
if a man shall steal an ox or a sheep and kill it or sell it he shall restore five oxen for an ox and four sheep for a sheep
if a thief be found breaking up and be smitten that he die there shall no blood be shed for him
if the sun be risen upon him there shall be blood shed for him for he should make full restitution if he have nothing then he shall be sold for his theft
if the theft be certainly found in his hand alive whether it be ox or ass or sheep he shall restore double
if a man shall cause a field or vineyard to be eaten and shall put in his beast and shall feed in another man's field of the best of his own field and of the best of his own vineyard shall he make restitution
if fire break out and catch in thorns so that the stacks of corn or the standing corn or the field be consumed therewith he that kindled the fire shall surely make restitution
if a man shall deliver unto his neighbour money or stuff to keep and it be stolen out of the man's house if the thief be found let him pay double
if the thief be not found then the master of the house shall be brought unto the judges to see whether he have put his hand unto his neighbour's goods
for all manner of trespass whether it be for ox for ass for sheep for raiment or for any manner of lost thing which another challengeth to be his the cause of both parties shall come before the judges and whom the judges shall condemn he shall pay double unto his neighbour
if a man deliver unto his neighbour an ass or an ox or a sheep or any beast to keep and it die or be hurt or driven away no man seeing it
then shall an oath of the lord be between them both that he hath not put his hand unto his neighbour's goods and the owner of it shall accept thereof and he shall not make it good
and if it be stolen from him he shall make restitution unto the owner thereof
if it be torn in pieces then let him bring it for witness and he shall not make good that which was torn
and if a man borrow ought of his neighbour and it be hurt or die the owner thereof being not with it he shall surely make it good
but if the owner thereof be with it he shall not make it good if it be an hired thing it came for his hire
and if a man entice a maid that is not betrothed and lie with her he shall surely endow her to be his wife
if her father utterly refuse to give her unto him he shall pay money according to the dowry of virgins
thou shalt not suffer a witch to live
whosoever lieth with a beast shall surely be put to death
he that sacrificeth unto any god save unto the lord only he shall be utterly destroyed
thou shalt neither vex a stranger nor oppress him for ye were strangers in the land of egypt
ye shall not afflict any widow or fatherless child
if thou afflict them in any wise and they cry at all unto me i will surely hear their cry
and my wrath shall wax hot and i will kill you with the sword and your wives shall be widows and your children fatherless
if thou lend money to any of my people that is poor by thee thou shalt not be to him as an usurer neither shalt thou lay upon him usury
if thou at all take thy neighbour's raiment to pledge thou shalt deliver it unto him by that the sun goeth down
for that is his covering only it is his raiment for his skin wherein shall he sleep and it shall come to pass when he crieth unto me that i will hear for i am gracious
thou shalt not revile the gods nor curse the ruler of thy people
thou shalt not delay to offer the first of thy ripe fruits and of thy liquors the firstborn of thy sons shalt thou give unto me
likewise shalt thou do with thine oxen and with thy sheep seven days it shall be with his dam on the eighth day thou shalt give it me
and ye shall be holy men unto me neither shall ye eat any flesh that is torn of beasts in the field ye shall cast it to the dogs
thou shalt not raise a false report put not thine hand with the wicked to be an unrighteous witness
thou shalt not follow a multitude to do evil neither shalt thou speak in a cause to decline after many to wrest judgment
neither shalt thou countenance a poor man in his cause
if thou meet thine enemy's ox or his ass going astray thou shalt surely bring it back to him again
if thou see the ass of him that hateth thee lying under his burden and wouldest forbear to help him thou shalt surely help with him
thou shalt not wrest the judgment of thy poor in his cause
keep thee far from a false matter and the innocent and righteous slay thou not for i will not justify the wicked
and thou shalt take no gift for the gift blindeth the wise and perverteth the words of the righteous
also thou shalt not oppress a stranger for ye know the heart of a stranger seeing ye were strangers in the land of egypt
and six years thou shalt sow thy land and shalt gather in the fruits thereof
but the seventh year thou shalt let it rest and lie still that the poor of thy people may eat and what they leave the beasts of the field shall eat in like manner thou shalt deal with thy vineyard and with thy oliveyard
six days thou shalt do thy work and on the seventh day thou shalt rest that thine ox and thine ass may rest and the son of thy handmaid and the stranger may be refreshed
and in all things that i have said unto you be circumspect and make no mention of the name of other gods neither let it be heard out of thy mouth
three times thou shalt keep a feast unto me in the year
thou shalt keep the feast of unleavened bread thou shalt eat unleavened bread seven days as i commanded thee in the time appointed of the month abib for in it thou camest out from egypt and none shall appear before me empty
and the feast of harvest the firstfruits of thy labours which thou hast sown in the field and the feast of ingathering which is in the end of the year when thou hast gathered in thy labours out of the field
three times in the year all thy males shall appear before the lord god
thou shalt not offer the blood of my sacrifice with leavened bread neither shall the fat of my sacrifice remain until the morning
the first of the firstfruits of thy land thou shalt bring into the house of the lord thy god thou shalt not seethe a kid in his mother's milk
behold i send an angel before thee to keep thee in the way and to bring thee into the place which i have prepared
beware of him and obey his voice provoke him not for he will not pardon your transgressions for my name is in him
but if thou shalt indeed obey his voice and do all that i speak then i will be an enemy unto thine enemies and an adversary unto thine adversaries
for mine angel shall go before thee and bring thee in unto the amorites and the hittites and the perizzites and the canaanites the hivites and the jebusites and i will cut them off
thou shalt not bow down to their gods nor serve them nor do after their works but thou shalt utterly overthrow them and quite break down their images
and ye shall serve the lord your god and he shall bless thy bread and thy water and i will take sickness away from the midst of thee
there shall nothing cast their young nor be barren in thy land the number of thy days i will fulfil
i will send my fear before thee and will destroy all the people to whom thou shalt come and i will make all thine enemies turn their backs unto thee
and i will send hornets before thee which shall drive out the hivite the canaanite and the hittite from before thee
i will not drive them out from before thee in one year lest the land become desolate and the beast of the field multiply against thee
by little and little i will drive them out from before thee until thou be increased and inherit the land
and i will set thy bounds from the red sea even unto the sea of the philistines and from the desert unto the river for i will deliver the inhabitants of the land into your hand and thou shalt drive them out before thee
thou shalt make no covenant with them nor with their gods
they shall not dwell in thy land lest they make thee sin against me for if thou serve their gods it will surely be a snare unto thee
and he said unto moses come up unto the lord thou and aaron nadab and abihu and seventy of the elders of israel and worship ye afar off
and moses alone shall come near the lord but they shall not come nigh neither shall the people go up with him
and moses came and told the people all the words of the lord and all the judgments and all the people answered with one voice and said all the words which the lord hath said will we do
and moses wrote all the words of the lord and rose up early in the morning and builded an altar under the hill and twelve pillars according to the twelve tribes of israel
and he sent young men of the children of israel which offered burnt offerings and sacrificed peace offerings of oxen unto the lord
and moses took half of the blood and put it in basons and half of the blood he sprinkled on the altar
and he took the book of the covenant and read in the audience of the people and they said all that the lord hath said will we do and be obedient
and moses took the blood and sprinkled it on the people and said behold the blood of the covenant which the lord hath made with you concerning all these words
then went up moses and aaron nadab and abihu and seventy of the elders of israel
and they saw the god of israel and there was under his feet as it were a paved work of a sapphire stone and as it were the body of heaven in his clearness
and upon the nobles of the children of israel he laid not his hand also they saw god and did eat and drink
and the lord said unto moses come up to me into the mount and be there and i will give thee tables of stone and a law and commandments which i have written that thou mayest teach them
and moses rose up and his minister joshua and moses went up into the mount of god
and he said unto the elders tarry ye here for us until we come again unto you and behold aaron and hur are with you if any man have any matters to do let him come unto them
and moses went up into the mount and a cloud covered the mount
and the glory of the lord abode upon mount sinai and the cloud covered it six days and the seventh day he called unto moses out of the midst of the cloud
and the sight of the glory of the lord was like devouring fire on the top of the mount in the eyes of the children of israel
and moses went into the midst of the cloud and gat him up into the mount and moses was in the mount forty days and forty nights
and the lord spake unto moses saying
speak unto the children of israel that they bring me an offering of every man that giveth it willingly with his heart ye shall take my offering
and this is the offering which ye shall take of them gold and silver and brass
and blue and purple and scarlet and fine linen and goats hair
and rams skins dyed red and badgers skins and shittim wood
oil for the light spices for anointing oil and for sweet incense
onyx stones and stones to be set in the ephod and in the breastplate
and let them make me a sanctuary that i may dwell among them
according to all that i shew thee after the pattern of the tabernacle and the pattern of all the instruments thereof even so shall ye make it
and they shall make an ark of shittim wood two cubits and a half shall be the length thereof and a cubit and a half the breadth thereof and a cubit and a half the height thereof
and thou shalt overlay it with pure gold within and without shalt thou overlay it and shalt make upon it a crown of gold round about
and thou shalt cast four rings of gold for it and put them in the four corners thereof and two rings shall be in the one side of it and two rings in the other side of it
and thou shalt make staves of shittim wood and overlay them with gold
and thou shalt put the staves into the rings by the sides of the ark that the ark may be borne with them
the staves shall be in the rings of the ark they shall not be taken from it
and thou shalt put into the ark the testimony which i shall give thee
and thou shalt make a mercy seat of pure gold two cubits and a half shall be the length thereof and a cubit and a half the breadth thereof
and thou shalt make two cherubims of gold of beaten work shalt thou make them in the two ends of the mercy seat
and make one cherub on the one end and the other cherub on the other end even of the mercy seat shall ye make the cherubims on the two ends thereof
and the cherubims shall stretch forth their wings on high covering the mercy seat with their wings and their faces shall look one to another toward the mercy seat shall the faces of the cherubims be
and thou shalt put the mercy seat above upon the ark and in the ark thou shalt put the testimony that i shall give thee
and there i will meet with thee and i will commune with thee from above the mercy seat from between the two cherubims which are upon the ark of the testimony of all things which i will give thee in commandment unto the children of israel
thou shalt also make a table of shittim wood two cubits shall be the length thereof and a cubit the breadth thereof and a cubit and a half the height thereof
and thou shalt overlay it with pure gold and make thereto a crown of gold round about
and thou shalt make unto it a border of an hand breadth round about and thou shalt make a golden crown to the border thereof round about
and thou shalt make for it four rings of gold and put the rings in the four corners that are on the four feet thereof
over against the border shall the rings be for places of the staves to bear the table
and thou shalt make the staves of shittim wood and overlay them with gold that the table may be borne with them
and thou shalt make the dishes thereof and spoons thereof and covers thereof and bowls thereof to cover withal of pure gold shalt thou make them
and thou shalt set upon the table shewbread before me alway
and thou shalt make a candlestick of pure gold of beaten work shall the candlestick be made his shaft and his branches his bowls his knops and his flowers shall be of the same
and six branches shall come out of the sides of it three branches of the candlestick out of the one side and three branches of the candlestick out of the other side
three bowls made like unto almonds with a knop and a flower in one branch and three bowls made like almonds in the other branch with a knop and a flower so in the six branches that come out of the candlestick
and in the candlestick shall be four bowls made like unto almonds with their knops and their flowers
and there shall be a knop under two branches of the same and a knop under two branches of the same and a knop under two branches of the same according to the six branches that proceed out of the candlestick
their knops and their branches shall be of the same all it shall be one beaten work of pure gold
and thou shalt make the seven lamps thereof and they shall light the lamps thereof that they may give light over against it
and the tongs thereof and the snuffdishes thereof shall be of pure gold
of a talent of pure gold shall he make it with all these vessels
and look that thou make them after their pattern which was shewed thee in the mount
moreover thou shalt make the tabernacle with ten curtains of fine twined linen and blue and purple and scarlet with cherubims of cunning work shalt thou make them
the length of one curtain shall be eight and twenty cubits and the breadth of one curtain four cubits and every one of the curtains shall have one measure
the five curtains shall be coupled together one to another and other five curtains shall be coupled one to another
and thou shalt make loops of blue upon the edge of the one curtain from the selvedge in the coupling and likewise shalt thou make in the uttermost edge of another curtain in the coupling of the second
fifty loops shalt thou make in the one curtain and fifty loops shalt thou make in the edge of the curtain that is in the coupling of the second that the loops may take hold one of another
and thou shalt make fifty taches of gold and couple the curtains together with the taches and it shall be one tabernacle
and thou shalt make curtains of goats hair to be a covering upon the tabernacle eleven curtains shalt thou make
the length of one curtain shall be thirty cubits and the breadth of one curtain four cubits and the eleven curtains shall be all of one measure
and thou shalt couple five curtains by themselves and six curtains by themselves and shalt double the sixth curtain in the forefront of the tabernacle
and thou shalt make fifty loops on the edge of the one curtain that is outmost in the coupling and fifty loops in the edge of the curtain which coupleth the second
and thou shalt make fifty taches of brass and put the taches into the loops and couple the tent together that it may be one
and the remnant that remaineth of the curtains of the tent the half curtain that remaineth shall hang over the backside of the tabernacle
and a cubit on the one side and a cubit on the other side of that which remaineth in the length of the curtains of the tent it shall hang over the sides of the tabernacle on this side and on that side to cover it
and thou shalt make a covering for the tent of rams skins dyed red and a covering above of badgers skins
and thou shalt make boards for the tabernacle of shittim wood standing up
ten cubits shall be the length of a board and a cubit and a half shall be the breadth of one board
two tenons shall there be in one board set in order one against another thus shalt thou make for all the boards of the tabernacle
and thou shalt make the boards for the tabernacle twenty boards on the south side southward
and thou shalt make forty sockets of silver under the twenty boards two sockets under one board for his two tenons and two sockets under another board for his two tenons
and for the second side of the tabernacle on the north side there shall be twenty boards
and their forty sockets of silver two sockets under one board and two sockets under another board
and for the sides of the tabernacle westward thou shalt make six boards
and two boards shalt thou make for the corners of the tabernacle in the two sides
and they shall be coupled together beneath and they shall be coupled together above the head of it unto one ring thus shall it be for them both they shall be for the two corners
and they shall be eight boards and their sockets of silver sixteen sockets two sockets under one board and two sockets under another board
and thou shalt make bars of shittim wood five for the boards of the one side of the tabernacle
and five bars for the boards of the other side of the tabernacle and five bars for the boards of the side of the tabernacle for the two sides westward
and the middle bar in the midst of the boards shall reach from end to end
and thou shalt overlay the boards with gold and make their rings of gold for places for the bars and thou shalt overlay the bars with gold
and thou shalt rear up the tabernacle according to the fashion thereof which was shewed thee in the mount
and thou shalt make a vail of blue and purple and scarlet and fine twined linen of cunning work with cherubims shall it be made
and thou shalt hang it upon four pillars of shittim wood overlaid with gold their hooks shall be of gold upon the four sockets of silver
and thou shalt hang up the vail under the taches that thou mayest bring in thither within the vail the ark of the testimony and the vail shall divide unto you between the holy place and the most holy
and thou shalt put the mercy seat upon the ark of the testimony in the most holy place
and thou shalt set the table without the vail and the candlestick over against the table on the side of the tabernacle toward the south and thou shalt put the table on the north side
and thou shalt make an hanging for the door of the tent of blue and purple and scarlet and fine twined linen wrought with needlework
and thou shalt make for the hanging five pillars of shittim wood and overlay them with gold and their hooks shall be of gold and thou shalt cast five sockets of brass for them
and thou shalt make an altar of shittim wood five cubits long and five cubits broad the altar shall be foursquare and the height thereof shall be three cubits
and thou shalt make the horns of it upon the four corners thereof his horns shall be of the same and thou shalt overlay it with brass
and thou shalt make his pans to receive his ashes and his shovels and his basons and his fleshhooks and his firepans all the vessels thereof thou shalt make of brass
and thou shalt make for it a grate of network of brass and upon the net shalt thou make four brasen rings in the four corners thereof
and thou shalt put it under the compass of the altar beneath that the net may be even to the midst of the altar
and thou shalt make staves for the altar staves of shittim wood and overlay them with brass
and the staves shall be put into the rings and the staves shall be upon the two sides of the altar to bear it
hollow with boards shalt thou make it as it was shewed thee in the mount so shall they make it
and thou shalt make the court of the tabernacle for the south side southward there shall be hangings for the court of fine twined linen of an hundred cubits long for one side
and the twenty pillars thereof and their twenty sockets shall be of brass the hooks of the pillars and their fillets shall be of silver
and likewise for the north side in length there shall be hangings of an hundred cubits long and his twenty pillars and their twenty sockets of brass the hooks of the pillars and their fillets of silver
and for the breadth of the court on the west side shall be hangings of fifty cubits their pillars ten and their sockets ten
and the breadth of the court on the east side eastward shall be fifty cubits
the hangings of one side of the gate shall be fifteen cubits their pillars three and their sockets three
and on the other side shall be hangings fifteen cubits their pillars three and their sockets three
and for the gate of the court shall be an hanging of twenty cubits of blue and purple and scarlet and fine twined linen wrought with needlework and their pillars shall be four and their sockets four
all the pillars round about the court shall be filleted with silver their hooks shall be of silver and their sockets of brass
the length of the court shall be an hundred cubits and the breadth fifty every where and the height five cubits of fine twined linen and their sockets of brass
all the vessels of the tabernacle in all the service thereof and all the pins thereof and all the pins of the court shall be of brass
and thou shalt command the children of israel that they bring thee pure oil olive beaten for the light to cause the lamp to burn always
in the tabernacle of the congregation without the vail which is before the testimony aaron and his sons shall order it from evening to morning before the lord it shall be a statute for ever unto their generations on the behalf of the children of israel
and take thou unto thee aaron thy brother and his sons with him from among the children of israel that he may minister unto me in the priest's office even aaron nadab and abihu eleazar and ithamar aaron's sons
and thou shalt make holy garments for aaron thy brother for glory and for beauty
and thou shalt speak unto all that are wise hearted whom i have filled with the spirit of wisdom that they may make aaron's garments to consecrate him that he may minister unto me in the priest's office
and these are the garments which they shall make a breastplate and an ephod and a robe and a broidered coat a mitre and a girdle and they shall make holy garments for aaron thy brother and his sons that he may minister unto me in the priest's office
and they shall take gold and blue and purple and scarlet and fine linen
and they shall make the ephod of gold of blue and of purple of scarlet and fine twined linen with cunning work
it shall have the two shoulderpieces thereof joined at the two edges thereof and so it shall be joined together
and the curious girdle of the ephod which is upon it shall be of the same according to the work thereof even of gold of blue and purple and scarlet and fine twined linen
and thou shalt take two onyx stones and grave on them the names of the children of israel
six of their names on one stone and the other six names of the rest on the other stone according to their birth
with the work of an engraver in stone like the engravings of a signet shalt thou engrave the two stones with the names of the children of israel thou shalt make them to be set in ouches of gold
and thou shalt put the two stones upon the shoulders of the ephod for stones of memorial unto the children of israel and aaron shall bear their names before the lord upon his two shoulders for a memorial
and thou shalt make ouches of gold
and two chains of pure gold at the ends of wreathen work shalt thou make them and fasten the wreathen chains to the ouches
and thou shalt make the breastplate of judgment with cunning work after the work of the ephod thou shalt make it of gold of blue and of purple and of scarlet and of fine twined linen shalt thou make it
foursquare it shall be being doubled a span shall be the length thereof and a span shall be the breadth thereof
and thou shalt set in it settings of stones even four rows of stones the first row shall be a sardius a topaz and a carbuncle this shall be the first row
and the second row shall be an emerald a sapphire and a diamond
and the third row a ligure an agate and an amethyst
and the fourth row a beryl and an onyx and a jasper they shall be set in gold in their inclosings
and the stones shall be with the names of the children of israel twelve according to their names like the engravings of a signet every one with his name shall they be according to the twelve tribes
and thou shalt make upon the breastplate chains at the ends of wreathen work of pure gold
and thou shalt make upon the breastplate two rings of gold and shalt put the two rings on the two ends of the breastplate
and thou shalt put the two wreathen chains of gold in the two rings which are on the ends of the breastplate
and the other two ends of the two wreathen chains thou shalt fasten in the two ouches and put them on the shoulderpieces of the ephod before it
and thou shalt make two rings of gold and thou shalt put them upon the two ends of the breastplate in the border thereof which is in the side of the ephod inward
and two other rings of gold thou shalt make and shalt put them on the two sides of the ephod underneath toward the forepart thereof over against the other coupling thereof above the curious girdle of the ephod
and they shall bind the breastplate by the rings thereof unto the rings of the ephod with a lace of blue that it may be above the curious girdle of the ephod and that the breastplate be not loosed from the ephod
and aaron shall bear the names of the children of israel in the breastplate of judgment upon his heart when he goeth in unto the holy place for a memorial before the lord continually
and thou shalt put in the breastplate of judgment the urim and the thummim and they shall be upon aaron's heart when he goeth in before the lord and aaron shall bear the judgment of the children of israel upon his heart before the lord continually
and thou shalt make the robe of the ephod all of blue
and there shall be an hole in the top of it in the midst thereof it shall have a binding of woven work round about the hole of it as it were the hole of an habergeon that it be not rent
and beneath upon the hem of it thou shalt make pomegranates of blue and of purple and of scarlet round about the hem thereof and bells of gold between them round about
a golden bell and a pomegranate a golden bell and a pomegranate upon the hem of the robe round about
and it shall be upon aaron to minister and his sound shall be heard when he goeth in unto the holy place before the lord and when he cometh out that he die not
and thou shalt make a plate of pure gold and grave upon it like the engravings of a signet holiness to the lord
and thou shalt put it on a blue lace that it may be upon the mitre upon the forefront of the mitre it shall be
and it shall be upon aaron's forehead that aaron may bear the iniquity of the holy things which the children of israel shall hallow in all their holy gifts and it shall be always upon his forehead that they may be accepted before the lord
and thou shalt embroider the coat of fine linen and thou shalt make the mitre of fine linen and thou shalt make the girdle of needlework
and for aaron's sons thou shalt make coats and thou shalt make for them girdles and bonnets shalt thou make for them for glory and for beauty
and thou shalt put them upon aaron thy brother and his sons with him and shalt anoint them and consecrate them and sanctify them that they may minister unto me in the priest's office
and thou shalt make them linen breeches to cover their nakedness from the loins even unto the thighs they shall reach
and they shall be upon aaron and upon his sons when they come in unto the tabernacle of the congregation or when they come near unto the altar to minister in the holy place that they bear not iniquity and die it shall be a statute for ever unto him and his seed after him
and this is the thing that thou shalt do unto them to hallow them to minister unto me in the priest's office take one young bullock and two rams without blemish
and unleavened bread and cakes unleavened tempered with oil and wafers unleavened anointed with oil of wheaten flour shalt thou make them
and thou shalt put them into one basket and bring them in the basket with the bullock and the two rams
and aaron and his sons thou shalt bring unto the door of the tabernacle of the congregation and shalt wash them with water
and thou shalt take the garments and put upon aaron the coat and the robe of the ephod and the ephod and the breastplate and gird him with the curious girdle of the ephod
and thou shalt put the mitre upon his head and put the holy crown upon the mitre
then shalt thou take the anointing oil and pour it upon his head and anoint him
and thou shalt bring his sons and put coats upon them
and thou shalt gird them with girdles aaron and his sons and put the bonnets on them and the priest's office shall be theirs for a perpetual statute and thou shalt consecrate aaron and his sons
and thou shalt cause a bullock to be brought before the tabernacle of the congregation and aaron and his sons shall put their hands upon the head of the bullock
and thou shalt kill the bullock before the lord by the door of the tabernacle of the congregation
and thou shalt take of the blood of the bullock and put it upon the horns of the altar with thy finger and pour all the blood beside the bottom of the altar
and thou shalt take all the fat that covereth the inwards and the caul that is above the liver and the two kidneys and the fat that is upon them and burn them upon the altar
but the flesh of the bullock and his skin and his dung shalt thou burn with fire without the camp it is a sin offering
thou shalt also take one ram and aaron and his sons shall put their hands upon the head of the ram
and thou shalt slay the ram and thou shalt take his blood and sprinkle it round about upon the altar
and thou shalt cut the ram in pieces and wash the inwards of him and his legs and put them unto his pieces and unto his head
and thou shalt burn the whole ram upon the altar it is a burnt offering unto the lord it is a sweet savour an offering made by fire unto the lord
and thou shalt take the other ram and aaron and his sons shall put their hands upon the head of the ram
then shalt thou kill the ram and take of his blood and put it upon the tip of the right ear of aaron and upon the tip of the right ear of his sons and upon the thumb of their right hand and upon the great toe of their right foot and sprinkle the blood upon the altar round about
and thou shalt take of the blood that is upon the altar and of the anointing oil and sprinkle it upon aaron and upon his garments and upon his sons and upon the garments of his sons with him and he shall be hallowed and his garments and his sons and his sons garments with him
also thou shalt take of the ram the fat and the rump and the fat that covereth the inwards and the caul above the liver and the two kidneys and the fat that is upon them and the right shoulder for it is a ram of consecration
and one loaf of bread and one cake of oiled bread and one wafer out of the basket of the unleavened bread that is before the lord
and thou shalt put all in the hands of aaron and in the hands of his sons and shalt wave them for a wave offering before the lord
and thou shalt receive them of their hands and burn them upon the altar for a burnt offering for a sweet savour before the lord it is an offering made by fire unto the lord
and thou shalt take the breast of the ram of aaron's consecration and wave it for a wave offering before the lord and it shall be thy part
and thou shalt sanctify the breast of the wave offering and the shoulder of the heave offering which is waved and which is heaved up of the ram of the consecration even of that which is for aaron and of that which is for his sons
and it shall be aaron's and his sons by a statute for ever from the children of israel for it is an heave offering and it shall be an heave offering from the children of israel of the sacrifice of their peace offerings even their heave offering unto the lord
and the holy garments of aaron shall be his sons after him to be anointed therein and to be consecrated in them
and that son that is priest in his stead shall put them on seven days when he cometh into the tabernacle of the congregation to minister in the holy place
and thou shalt take the ram of the consecration and seethe his flesh in the holy place
and aaron and his sons shall eat the flesh of the ram and the bread that is in the basket by the door of the tabernacle of the congregation
and they shall eat those things wherewith the atonement was made to consecrate and to sanctify them but a stranger shall not eat thereof because they are holy
and if ought of the flesh of the consecrations or of the bread remain unto the morning then thou shalt burn the remainder with fire it shall not be eaten because it is holy
and thus shalt thou do unto aaron and to his sons according to all things which i have commanded thee seven days shalt thou consecrate them
and thou shalt offer every day a bullock for a sin offering for atonement and thou shalt cleanse the altar when thou hast made an atonement for it and thou shalt anoint it to sanctify it
seven days thou shalt make an atonement for the altar and sanctify it and it shall be an altar most holy whatsoever toucheth the altar shall be holy
now this is that which thou shalt offer upon the altar two lambs of the first year day by day continually
the one lamb thou shalt offer in the morning and the other lamb thou shalt offer at even
and with the one lamb a tenth deal of flour mingled with the fourth part of an hin of beaten oil and the fourth part of an hin of wine for a drink offering
and the other lamb thou shalt offer at even and shalt do thereto according to the meat offering of the morning and according to the drink offering thereof for a sweet savour an offering made by fire unto the lord
this shall be a continual burnt offering throughout your generations at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation before the lord where i will meet you to speak there unto thee
and there i will meet with the children of israel and the tabernacle shall be sanctified by my glory
and i will sanctify the tabernacle of the congregation and the altar i will sanctify also both aaron and his sons to minister to me in the priest's office
and i will dwell among the children of israel and will be their god
and they shall know that i am the lord their god that brought them forth out of the land of egypt that i may dwell among them i am the lord their god
and thou shalt make an altar to burn incense upon of shittim wood shalt thou make it
a cubit shall be the length thereof and a cubit the breadth thereof foursquare shall it be and two cubits shall be the height thereof the horns thereof shall be of the same
and thou shalt overlay it with pure gold the top thereof and the sides thereof round about and the horns thereof and thou shalt make unto it a crown of gold round about
and two golden rings shalt thou make to it under the crown of it by the two corners thereof upon the two sides of it shalt thou make it and they shall be for places for the staves to bear it withal
and thou shalt make the staves of shittim wood and overlay them with gold
and thou shalt put it before the vail that is by the ark of the testimony before the mercy seat that is over the testimony where i will meet with thee
and aaron shall burn thereon sweet incense every morning when he dresseth the lamps he shall burn incense upon it
and when aaron lighteth the lamps at even he shall burn incense upon it a perpetual incense before the lord throughout your generations
ye shall offer no strange incense thereon nor burnt sacrifice nor meat offering neither shall ye pour drink offering thereon
and aaron shall make an atonement upon the horns of it once in a year with the blood of the sin offering of atonements once in the year shall he make atonement upon it throughout your generations it is most holy unto the lord
and the lord spake unto moses saying
when thou takest the sum of the children of israel after their number then shall they give every man a ransom for his soul unto the lord when thou numberest them that there be no plague among them when thou numberest them
this they shall give every one that passeth among them that are numbered half a shekel after the shekel of the sanctuary a shekel is twenty gerahs an half shekel shall be the offering of the lord
every one that passeth among them that are numbered from twenty years old and above shall give an offering unto the lord
the rich shall not give more and the poor shall not give less than half a shekel when they give an offering unto the lord to make an atonement for your souls
and thou shalt take the atonement money of the children of israel and shalt appoint it for the service of the tabernacle of the congregation that it may be a memorial unto the children of israel before the lord to make an atonement for your souls
and the lord spake unto moses saying
thou shalt also make a laver of brass and his foot also of brass to wash withal and thou shalt put it between the tabernacle of the congregation and the altar and thou shalt put water therein
for aaron and his sons shall wash their hands and their feet thereat
when they go into the tabernacle of the congregation they shall wash with water that they die not or when they come near to the altar to minister to burn offering made by fire unto the lord
so they shall wash their hands and their feet that they die not and it shall be a statute for ever to them even to him and to his seed throughout their generations
moreover the lord spake unto moses saying
take thou also unto thee principal spices of pure myrrh five hundred shekels and of sweet cinnamon half so much even two hundred and fifty shekels and of sweet calamus two hundred and fifty shekels
and of cassia five hundred shekels after the shekel of the sanctuary and of oil olive an hin
and thou shalt make it an oil of holy ointment an ointment compound after the art of the apothecary it shall be an holy anointing oil
and thou shalt anoint the tabernacle of the congregation therewith and the ark of the testimony
and the table and all his vessels and the candlestick and his vessels and the altar of incense
and the altar of burnt offering with all his vessels and the laver and his foot
and thou shalt sanctify them that they may be most holy whatsoever toucheth them shall be holy
and thou shalt anoint aaron and his sons and consecrate them that they may minister unto me in the priest's office
and thou shalt speak unto the children of israel saying this shall be an holy anointing oil unto me throughout your generations
upon man's flesh shall it not be poured neither shall ye make any other like it after the composition of it it is holy and it shall be holy unto you
whosoever compoundeth any like it or whosoever putteth any of it upon a stranger shall even be cut off from his people
and the lord said unto moses take unto thee sweet spices stacte and onycha and galbanum these sweet spices with pure frankincense of each shall there be a like weight
and thou shalt make it a perfume a confection after the art of the apothecary tempered together pure and holy
and thou shalt beat some of it very small and put of it before the testimony in the tabernacle of the congregation where i will meet with thee it shall be unto you most holy
and as for the perfume which thou shalt make ye shall not make to yourselves according to the composition thereof it shall be unto thee holy for the lord
whosoever shall make like unto that to smell thereto shall even be cut off from his people
and the lord spake unto moses saying
see i have called by name bezaleel the son of uri the son of hur of the tribe of judah
and i have filled him with the spirit of god in wisdom and in understanding and in knowledge and in all manner of workmanship
to devise cunning works to work in gold and in silver and in brass
and in cutting of stones to set them and in carving of timber to work in all manner of workmanship
and i behold i have given with him aholiab the son of ahisamach of the tribe of dan and in the hearts of all that are wise hearted i have put wisdom that they may make all that i have commanded thee
the tabernacle of the congregation and the ark of the testimony and the mercy seat that is thereupon and all the furniture of the tabernacle
and the table and his furniture and the pure candlestick with all his furniture and the altar of incense
and the altar of burnt offering with all his furniture and the laver and his foot
and the cloths of service and the holy garments for aaron the priest and the garments of his sons to minister in the priest's office
and the anointing oil and sweet incense for the holy place according to all that i have commanded thee shall they do
and the lord spake unto moses saying
speak thou also unto the children of israel saying verily my sabbaths ye shall keep for it is a sign between me and you throughout your generations that ye may know that i am the lord that doth sanctify you
ye shall keep the sabbath therefore for it is holy unto you every one that defileth it shall surely be put to death for whosoever doeth any work therein that soul shall be cut off from among his people
six days may work be done but in the seventh is the sabbath of rest holy to the lord whosoever doeth any work in the sabbath day he shall surely be put to death
wherefore the children of israel shall keep the sabbath to observe the sabbath throughout their generations for a perpetual covenant
it is a sign between me and the children of israel for ever for in six days the lord made heaven and earth and on the seventh day he rested and was refreshed
and he gave unto moses when he had made an end of communing with him upon mount sinai two tables of testimony tables of stone written with the finger of god
and when the people saw that moses delayed to come down out of the mount the people gathered themselves together unto aaron and said unto him up make us gods which shall go before us for as for this moses the man that brought us up out of the land of egypt we wot not what is become of him
and aaron said unto them break off the golden earrings which are in the ears of your wives of your sons and of your daughters and bring them unto me
and all the people brake off the golden earrings which were in their ears and brought them unto aaron
and he received them at their hand and fashioned it with a graving tool after he had made it a molten calf and they said these be thy gods o israel which brought thee up out of the land of egypt
and when aaron saw it he built an altar before it and aaron made proclamation and said to morrow is a feast to the lord
and they rose up early on the morrow and offered burnt offerings and brought peace offerings and the people sat down to eat and to drink and rose up to play
and the lord said unto moses go get thee down for thy people which thou broughtest out of the land of egypt have corrupted themselves
they have turned aside quickly out of the way which i commanded them they have made them a molten calf and have worshipped it and have sacrificed thereunto and said these be thy gods o israel which have brought thee up out of the land of egypt
and the lord said unto moses i have seen this people and behold it is a stiffnecked people
now therefore let me alone that my wrath may wax hot against them and that i may consume them and i will make of thee a great nation
and moses besought the lord his god and said lord why doth thy wrath wax hot against thy people which thou hast brought forth out of the land of egypt with great power and with a mighty hand
wherefore should the egyptians speak and say for mischief did he bring them out to slay them in the mountains and to consume them from the face of the earth turn from thy fierce wrath and repent of this evil against thy people
remember abraham isaac and israel thy servants to whom thou swarest by thine own self and saidst unto them i will multiply your seed as the stars of heaven and all this land that i have spoken of will i give unto your seed and they shall inherit it for ever
and the lord repented of the evil which he thought to do unto his people
and moses turned and went down from the mount and the two tables of the testimony were in his hand the tables were written on both their sides on the one side and on the other were they written
and the tables were the work of god and the writing was the writing of god graven upon the tables
and when joshua heard the noise of the people as they shouted he said unto moses there is a noise of war in the camp
and he said it is not the voice of them that shout for mastery neither is it the voice of them that cry for being overcome but the noise of them that sing do i hear
and it came to pass as soon as he came nigh unto the camp that he saw the calf and the dancing and moses anger waxed hot and he cast the tables out of his hands and brake them beneath the mount
and he took the calf which they had made and burnt it in the fire and ground it to powder and strawed it upon the water and made the children of israel drink of it
and moses said unto aaron what did this people unto thee that thou hast brought so great a sin upon them
and aaron said let not the anger of my lord wax hot thou knowest the people that they are set on mischief
for they said unto me make us gods which shall go before us for as for this moses the man that brought us up out of the land of egypt we wot not what is become of him
and i said unto them whosoever hath any gold let them break it off so they gave it me then i cast it into the fire and there came out this calf
and when moses saw that the people were naked for aaron had made them naked unto their shame among their enemies
then moses stood in the gate of the camp and said who is on the lord's side let him come unto me and all the sons of levi gathered themselves together unto him
and he said unto them thus saith the lord god of israel put every man his sword by his side and go in and out from gate to gate throughout the camp and slay every man his brother and every man his companion and every man his neighbour
and the children of levi did according to the word of moses and there fell of the people that day about three thousand men
for moses had said consecrate yourselves today to the lord even every man upon his son and upon his brother that he may bestow upon you a blessing this day
and it came to pass on the morrow that moses said unto the people ye have sinned a great sin and now i will go up unto the lord peradventure i shall make an atonement for your sin
and moses returned unto the lord and said oh this people have sinned a great sin and have made them gods of gold
yet now if thou wilt forgive their sin and if not blot me i pray thee out of thy book which thou hast written
and the lord said unto moses whosoever hath sinned against me him will i blot out of my book
therefore now go lead the people unto the place of which i have spoken unto thee behold mine angel shall go before thee nevertheless in the day when i visit i will visit their sin upon them
and the lord plagued the people because they made the calf which aaron made
and the lord said unto moses depart and go up hence thou and the people which thou hast brought up out of the land of egypt unto the land which i sware unto abraham to isaac and to jacob saying unto thy seed will i give it
and i will send an angel before thee and i will drive out the canaanite the amorite and the hittite and the perizzite the hivite and the jebusite
unto a land flowing with milk and honey for i will not go up in the midst of thee for thou art a stiffnecked people lest i consume thee in the way
and when the people heard these evil tidings they mourned and no man did put on him his ornaments
for the lord had said unto moses say unto the children of israel ye are a stiffnecked people i will come up into the midst of thee in a moment and consume thee therefore now put off thy ornaments from thee that i may know what to do unto thee
and the children of israel stripped themselves of their ornaments by the mount horeb
and moses took the tabernacle and pitched it without the camp afar off from the camp and called it the tabernacle of the congregation and it came to pass that every one which sought the lord went out unto the tabernacle of the congregation which was without the camp
and it came to pass when moses went out unto the tabernacle that all the people rose up and stood every man at his tent door and looked after moses until he was gone into the tabernacle
and it came to pass as moses entered into the tabernacle the cloudy pillar descended and stood at the door of the tabernacle and the lord talked with moses
and all the people saw the cloudy pillar stand at the tabernacle door and all the people rose up and worshipped every man in his tent door
and the lord spake unto moses face to face as a man speaketh unto his friend and he turned again into the camp but his servant joshua the son of nun a young man departed not out of the tabernacle
and moses said unto the lord see thou sayest unto me bring up this people and thou hast not let me know whom thou wilt send with me yet thou hast said i know thee by name and thou hast also found grace in my sight
now therefore i pray thee if i have found grace in thy sight shew me now thy way that i may know thee that i may find grace in thy sight and consider that this nation is thy people
and he said my presence shall go with thee and i will give thee rest
and he said unto him if thy presence go not with me carry us not up hence
for wherein shall it be known here that i and thy people have found grace in thy sight is it not in that thou goest with us so shall we be separated i and thy people from all the people that are upon the face of the earth
and the lord said unto moses i will do this thing also that thou hast spoken for thou hast found grace in my sight and i know thee by name
and he said i beseech thee shew me thy glory
and he said i will make all my goodness pass before thee and i will proclaim the name of the lord before thee and will be gracious to whom i will be gracious and will shew mercy on whom i will shew mercy
and he said thou canst not see my face for there shall no man see me and live
and the lord said behold there is a place by me and thou shalt stand upon a rock
and it shall come to pass while my glory passeth by that i will put thee in a clift of the rock and will cover thee with my hand while i pass by
and i will take away mine hand and thou shalt see my back parts but my face shall not be seen
and the lord said unto moses hew thee two tables of stone like unto the first and i will write upon these tables the words that were in the first tables which thou brakest
and be ready in the morning and come up in the morning unto mount sinai and present thyself there to me in the top of the mount
and no man shall come up with thee neither let any man be seen throughout all the mount neither let the flocks nor herds feed before that mount
and he hewed two tables of stone like unto the first and moses rose up early in the morning and went up unto mount sinai as the lord had commanded him and took in his hand the two tables of stone
and the lord descended in the cloud and stood with him there and proclaimed the name of the lord
and the lord passed by before him and proclaimed the lord the lord god merciful and gracious longsuffering and abundant in goodness and truth
keeping mercy for thousands forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin and that will by no means clear the guilty visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children and upon the children's children unto the third and to the fourth generation
and moses made haste and bowed his head toward the earth and worshipped
and he said if now i have found grace in thy sight o lord let my lord i pray thee go among us for it is a stiffnecked people and pardon our iniquity and our sin and take us for thine inheritance
and he said behold i make a covenant before all thy people i will do marvels such as have not been done in all the earth nor in any nation and all the people among which thou art shall see the work of the lord for it is a terrible thing that i will do with thee
observe thou that which i command thee this day behold i drive out before thee the amorite and the canaanite and the hittite and the perizzite and the hivite and the jebusite
take heed to thyself lest thou make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land whither thou goest lest it be for a snare in the midst of thee
but ye shall destroy their altars break their images and cut down their groves
for thou shalt worship no other god for the lord whose name is jealous is a jealous god
lest thou make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land and they go a whoring after their gods and do sacrifice unto their gods and one call thee and thou eat of his sacrifice
and thou take of their daughters unto thy sons and their daughters go a whoring after their gods and make thy sons go a whoring after their gods
thou shalt make thee no molten gods
the feast of unleavened bread shalt thou keep seven days thou shalt eat unleavened bread as i commanded thee in the time of the month abib for in the month abib thou camest out from egypt
all that openeth the matrix is mine and every firstling among thy cattle whether ox or sheep that is male
but the firstling of an ass thou shalt redeem with a lamb and if thou redeem him not then shalt thou break his neck all the firstborn of thy sons thou shalt redeem and none shall appear before me empty
six days thou shalt work but on the seventh day thou shalt rest in earing time and in harvest thou shalt rest
and thou shalt observe the feast of weeks of the firstfruits of wheat harvest and the feast of ingathering at the year's end
thrice in the year shall all your menchildren appear before the lord god the god of israel
for i will cast out the nations before thee and enlarge thy borders neither shall any man desire thy land when thou shalt go up to appear before the lord thy god thrice in the year
thou shalt not offer the blood of my sacrifice with leaven neither shall the sacrifice of the feast of the passover be left unto the morning
the first of the firstfruits of thy land thou shalt bring unto the house of the lord thy god thou shalt not seethe a kid in his mother's milk
and the lord said unto moses write thou these words for after the tenor of these words i have made a covenant with thee and with israel
and he was there with the lord forty days and forty nights he did neither eat bread nor drink water and he wrote upon the tables the words of the covenant the ten commandments
and it came to pass when moses came down from mount sinai with the two tables of testimony in moses hand when he came down from the mount that moses wist not that the skin of his face shone while he talked with him
and when aaron and all the children of israel saw moses behold the skin of his face shone and they were afraid to come nigh him
and moses called unto them and aaron and all the rulers of the congregation returned unto him and moses talked with them
and afterward all the children of israel came nigh and he gave them in commandment all that the lord had spoken with him in mount sinai
and till moses had done speaking with them he put a vail on his face
but when moses went in before the lord to speak with him he took the vail off until he came out and he came out and spake unto the children of israel that which he was commanded
and the children of israel saw the face of moses that the skin of moses face shone and moses put the vail upon his face again until he went in to speak with him
and moses gathered all the congregation of the children of israel together and said unto them these are the words which the lord hath commanded that ye should do them
six days shall work be done but on the seventh day there shall be to you an holy day a sabbath of rest to the lord whosoever doeth work therein shall be put to death
ye shall kindle no fire throughout your habitations upon the sabbath day
and moses spake unto all the congregation of the children of israel saying this is the thing which the lord commanded saying
take ye from among you an offering unto the lord whosoever is of a willing heart let him bring it an offering of the lord gold and silver and brass
and blue and purple and scarlet and fine linen and goats hair
and rams skins dyed red and badgers skins and shittim wood
and oil for the light and spices for anointing oil and for the sweet incense
and onyx stones and stones to be set for the ephod and for the breastplate
and every wise hearted among you shall come and make all that the lord hath commanded
the tabernacle his tent and his covering his taches and his boards his bars his pillars and his sockets
the ark and the staves thereof with the mercy seat and the vail of the covering
the table and his staves and all his vessels and the shewbread
the candlestick also for the light and his furniture and his lamps with the oil for the light
and the incense altar and his staves and the anointing oil and the sweet incense and the hanging for the door at the entering in of the tabernacle
the altar of burnt offering with his brasen grate his staves and all his vessels the laver and his foot
the hangings of the court his pillars and their sockets and the hanging for the door of the court
the pins of the tabernacle and the pins of the court and their cords
the cloths of service to do service in the holy place the holy garments for aaron the priest and the garments of his sons to minister in the priest's office
and all the congregation of the children of israel departed from the presence of moses
and they came every one whose heart stirred him up and every one whom his spirit made willing and they brought the lord's offering to the work of the tabernacle of the congregation and for all his service and for the holy garments
and they came both men and women as many as were willing hearted and brought bracelets and earrings and rings and tablets all jewels of gold and every man that offered offered an offering of gold unto the lord
and every man with whom was found blue and purple and scarlet and fine linen and goats hair and red skins of rams and badgers skins brought them
every one that did offer an offering of silver and brass brought the lord's offering and every man with whom was found shittim wood for any work of the service brought it
and all the women that were wise hearted did spin with their hands and brought that which they had spun both of blue and of purple and of scarlet and of fine linen
and all the women whose heart stirred them up in wisdom spun goats hair
and the rulers brought onyx stones and stones to be set for the ephod and for the breastplate
and spice and oil for the light and for the anointing oil and for the sweet incense
the children of israel brought a willing offering unto the lord every man and woman whose heart made them willing to bring for all manner of work which the lord had commanded to be made by the hand of moses
and moses said unto the children of israel see the lord hath called by name bezaleel the son of uri the son of hur of the tribe of judah
and he hath filled him with the spirit of god in wisdom in understanding and in knowledge and in all manner of workmanship
and to devise curious works to work in gold and in silver and in brass
and in the cutting of stones to set them and in carving of wood to make any manner of cunning work
and he hath put in his heart that he may teach both he and aholiab the son of ahisamach of the tribe of dan
them hath he filled with wisdom of heart to work all manner of work of the engraver and of the cunning workman and of the embroiderer in blue and in purple in scarlet and in fine linen and of the weaver even of them that do any work and of those that devise cunning work
then wrought bezaleel and aholiab and every wise hearted man in whom the lord put wisdom and understanding to know how to work all manner of work for the service of the sanctuary according to all that the lord had commanded
and moses called bezaleel and aholiab and every wise hearted man in whose heart the lord had put wisdom even every one whose heart stirred him up to come unto the work to do it
and they received of moses all the offering which the children of israel had brought for the work of the service of the sanctuary to make it withal and they brought yet unto him free offerings every morning
and all the wise men that wrought all the work of the sanctuary came every man from his work which they made
and they spake unto moses saying the people bring much more than enough for the service of the work which the lord commanded to make
and moses gave commandment and they caused it to be proclaimed throughout the camp saying let neither man nor woman make any more work for the offering of the sanctuary so the people were restrained from bringing
for the stuff they had was sufficient for all the work to make it and too much
and every wise hearted man among them that wrought the work of the tabernacle made ten curtains of fine twined linen and blue and purple and scarlet with cherubims of cunning work made he them
the length of one curtain was twenty and eight cubits and the breadth of one curtain four cubits the curtains were all of one size
and he coupled the five curtains one unto another and the other five curtains he coupled one unto another
and he made loops of blue on the edge of one curtain from the selvedge in the coupling likewise he made in the uttermost side of another curtain in the coupling of the second
fifty loops made he in one curtain and fifty loops made he in the edge of the curtain which was in the coupling of the second the loops held one curtain to another
and he made fifty taches of gold and coupled the curtains one unto another with the taches so it became one tabernacle
and he made curtains of goats hair for the tent over the tabernacle eleven curtains he made them
the length of one curtain was thirty cubits and four cubits was the breadth of one curtain the eleven curtains were of one size
and he coupled five curtains by themselves and six curtains by themselves
and he made fifty loops upon the uttermost edge of the curtain in the coupling and fifty loops made he upon the edge of the curtain which coupleth the second
and he made fifty taches of brass to couple the tent together that it might be one
and he made a covering for the tent of rams skins dyed red and a covering of badgers skins above that
and he made boards for the tabernacle of shittim wood standing up
the length of a board was ten cubits and the breadth of a board one cubit and a half
one board had two tenons equally distant one from another thus did he make for all the boards of the tabernacle
and he made boards for the tabernacle twenty boards for the south side southward
and forty sockets of silver he made under the twenty boards two sockets under one board for his two tenons and two sockets under another board for his two tenons
and for the other side of the tabernacle which is toward the north corner he made twenty boards
and their forty sockets of silver two sockets under one board and two sockets under another board
and for the sides of the tabernacle westward he made six boards
and two boards made he for the corners of the tabernacle in the two sides
and they were coupled beneath and coupled together at the head thereof to one ring thus he did to both of them in both the corners
and there were eight boards and their sockets were sixteen sockets of silver under every board two sockets
and he made bars of shittim wood five for the boards of the one side of the tabernacle
and five bars for the boards of the other side of the tabernacle and five bars for the boards of the tabernacle for the sides westward
and he made the middle bar to shoot through the boards from the one end to the other
and he overlaid the boards with gold and made their rings of gold to be places for the bars and overlaid the bars with gold
and he made a vail of blue and purple and scarlet and fine twined linen with cherubims made he it of cunning work
and he made thereunto four pillars of shittim wood and overlaid them with gold their hooks were of gold and he cast for them four sockets of silver
and he made an hanging for the tabernacle door of blue and purple and scarlet and fine twined linen of needlework
and the five pillars of it with their hooks and he overlaid their chapiters and their fillets with gold but their five sockets were of brass
and bezaleel made the ark of shittim wood two cubits and a half was the length of it and a cubit and a half the breadth of it and a cubit and a half the height of it
and he overlaid it with pure gold within and without and made a crown of gold to it round about
and he cast for it four rings of gold to be set by the four corners of it even two rings upon the one side of it and two rings upon the other side of it
and he made staves of shittim wood and overlaid them with gold
and he put the staves into the rings by the sides of the ark to bear the ark
and he made the mercy seat of pure gold two cubits and a half was the length thereof and one cubit and a half the breadth thereof
and he made two cherubims of gold beaten out of one piece made he them on the two ends of the mercy seat
one cherub on the end on this side and another cherub on the other end on that side out of the mercy seat made he the cherubims on the two ends thereof
and the cherubims spread out their wings on high and covered with their wings over the mercy seat with their faces one to another even to the mercy seatward were the faces of the cherubims
and he made the table of shittim wood two cubits was the length thereof and a cubit the breadth thereof and a cubit and a half the height thereof
and he overlaid it with pure gold and made thereunto a crown of gold round about
also he made thereunto a border of an handbreadth round about and made a crown of gold for the border thereof round about
and he cast for it four rings of gold and put the rings upon the four corners that were in the four feet thereof
over against the border were the rings the places for the staves to bear the table
and he made the staves of shittim wood and overlaid them with gold to bear the table
and he made the vessels which were upon the table his dishes and his spoons and his bowls and his covers to cover withal of pure gold
and he made the candlestick of pure gold of beaten work made he the candlestick his shaft and his branch his bowls his knops and his flowers were of the same
and six branches going out of the sides thereof three branches of the candlestick out of the one side thereof and three branches of the candlestick out of the other side thereof
three bowls made after the fashion of almonds in one branch a knop and a flower and three bowls made like almonds in another branch a knop and a flower so throughout the six branches going out of the candlestick
and in the candlestick were four bowls made like almonds his knops and his flowers
and a knop under two branches of the same and a knop under two branches of the same and a knop under two branches of the same according to the six branches going out of it
their knops and their branches were of the same all of it was one beaten work of pure gold
and he made his seven lamps and his snuffers and his snuffdishes of pure gold
of a talent of pure gold made he it and all the vessels thereof
and he made the incense altar of shittim wood the length of it was a cubit and the breadth of it a cubit it was foursquare and two cubits was the height of it the horns thereof were of the same
and he overlaid it with pure gold both the top of it and the sides thereof round about and the horns of it also he made unto it a crown of gold round about
and he made two rings of gold for it under the crown thereof by the two corners of it upon the two sides thereof to be places for the staves to bear it withal
and he made the staves of shittim wood and overlaid them with gold
and he made the holy anointing oil and the pure incense of sweet spices according to the work of the apothecary
and he made the altar of burnt offering of shittim wood five cubits was the length thereof and five cubits the breadth thereof it was foursquare and three cubits the height thereof
and he made the horns thereof on the four corners of it the horns thereof were of the same and he overlaid it with brass
and he made all the vessels of the altar the pots and the shovels and the basons and the fleshhooks and the firepans all the vessels thereof made he of brass
and he made for the altar a brasen grate of network under the compass thereof beneath unto the midst of it
and he cast four rings for the four ends of the grate of brass to be places for the staves
and he made the staves of shittim wood and overlaid them with brass
and he put the staves into the rings on the sides of the altar to bear it withal he made the altar hollow with boards
and he made the laver of brass and the foot of it of brass of the lookingglasses of the women assembling which assembled at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation
and he made the court on the south side southward the hangings of the court were of fine twined linen an hundred cubits
their pillars were twenty and their brasen sockets twenty the hooks of the pillars and their fillets were of silver
and for the north side the hangings were an hundred cubits their pillars were twenty and their sockets of brass twenty the hooks of the pillars and their fillets of silver
and for the west side were hangings of fifty cubits their pillars ten and their sockets ten the hooks of the pillars and their fillets of silver
and for the east side eastward fifty cubits
the hangings of the one side of the gate were fifteen cubits their pillars three and their sockets three
and for the other side of the court gate on this hand and that hand were hangings of fifteen cubits their pillars three and their sockets three
all the hangings of the court round about were of fine twined linen
and the sockets for the pillars were of brass the hooks of the pillars and their fillets of silver and the overlaying of their chapiters of silver and all the pillars of the court were filleted with silver
and the hanging for the gate of the court was needlework of blue and purple and scarlet and fine twined linen and twenty cubits was the length and the height in the breadth was five cubits answerable to the hangings of the court
and their pillars were four and their sockets of brass four their hooks of silver and the overlaying of their chapiters and their fillets of silver
and all the pins of the tabernacle and of the court round about were of brass
this is the sum of the tabernacle even of the tabernacle of testimony as it was counted according to the commandment of moses for the service of the levites by the hand of ithamar son to aaron the priest
and bezaleel the son of uri the son of hur of the tribe of judah made all that the lord commanded moses
and with him was aholiab son of ahisamach of the tribe of dan an engraver and a cunning workman and an embroiderer in blue and in purple and in scarlet and fine linen
all the gold that was occupied for the work in all the work of the holy place even the gold of the offering was twenty and nine talents and seven hundred and thirty shekels after the shekel of the sanctuary
and the silver of them that were numbered of the congregation was an hundred talents and a thousand seven hundred and threescore and fifteen shekels after the shekel of the sanctuary
a bekah for every man that is half a shekel after the shekel of the sanctuary for every one that went to be numbered from twenty years old and upward for six hundred thousand and three thousand and five hundred and fifty men
and of the hundred talents of silver were cast the sockets of the sanctuary and the sockets of the vail an hundred sockets of the hundred talents a talent for a socket
and of the thousand seven hundred seventy and five shekels he made hooks for the pillars and overlaid their chapiters and filleted them
and the brass of the offering was seventy talents and two thousand and four hundred shekels
and therewith he made the sockets to the door of the tabernacle of the congregation and the brasen altar and the brasen grate for it and all the vessels of the altar
and the sockets of the court round about and the sockets of the court gate and all the pins of the tabernacle and all the pins of the court round about
and of the blue and purple and scarlet they made cloths of service to do service in the holy place and made the holy garments for aaron as the lord commanded moses
and he made the ephod of gold blue and purple and scarlet and fine twined linen
and they did beat the gold into thin plates and cut it into wires to work it in the blue and in the purple and in the scarlet and in the fine linen with cunning work
they made shoulderpieces for it to couple it together by the two edges was it coupled together
and the curious girdle of his ephod that was upon it was of the same according to the work thereof of gold blue and purple and scarlet and fine twined linen as the lord commanded moses
and they wrought onyx stones inclosed in ouches of gold graven as signets are graven with the names of the children of israel
and he put them on the shoulders of the ephod that they should be stones for a memorial to the children of israel as the lord commanded moses
and he made the breastplate of cunning work like the work of the ephod of gold blue and purple and scarlet and fine twined linen
it was foursquare they made the breastplate double a span was the length thereof and a span the breadth thereof being doubled
and they set in it four rows of stones the first row was a sardius a topaz and a carbuncle this was the first row
and the second row an emerald a sapphire and a diamond
and the third row a ligure an agate and an amethyst
and the fourth row a beryl an onyx and a jasper they were inclosed in ouches of gold in their inclosings
and the stones were according to the names of the children of israel twelve according to their names like the engravings of a signet every one with his name according to the twelve tribes
and they made upon the breastplate chains at the ends of wreathen work of pure gold
and they made two ouches of gold and two gold rings and put the two rings in the two ends of the breastplate
and they put the two wreathen chains of gold in the two rings on the ends of the breastplate
and the two ends of the two wreathen chains they fastened in the two ouches and put them on the shoulderpieces of the ephod before it
and they made two rings of gold and put them on the two ends of the breastplate upon the border of it which was on the side of the ephod inward
and they made two other golden rings and put them on the two sides of the ephod underneath toward the forepart of it over against the other coupling thereof above the curious girdle of the ephod
and they did bind the breastplate by his rings unto the rings of the ephod with a lace of blue that it might be above the curious girdle of the ephod and that the breastplate might not be loosed from the ephod as the lord commanded moses
and he made the robe of the ephod of woven work all of blue
and there was an hole in the midst of the robe as the hole of an habergeon with a band round about the hole that it should not rend
and they made upon the hems of the robe pomegranates of blue and purple and scarlet and twined linen
and they made bells of pure gold and put the bells between the pomegranates upon the hem of the robe round about between the pomegranates
a bell and a pomegranate a bell and a pomegranate round about the hem of the robe to minister in as the lord commanded moses
and they made coats of fine linen of woven work for aaron and for his sons
and a mitre of fine linen and goodly bonnets of fine linen and linen breeches of fine twined linen
and a girdle of fine twined linen and blue and purple and scarlet of needlework as the lord commanded moses
and they made the plate of the holy crown of pure gold and wrote upon it a writing like to the engravings of a signet holiness to the lord
and they tied unto it a lace of blue to fasten it on high upon the mitre as the lord commanded moses
thus was all the work of the tabernacle of the tent of the congregation finished and the children of israel did according to all that the lord commanded moses so did they
and they brought the tabernacle unto moses the tent and all his furniture his taches his boards his bars and his pillars and his sockets
and the covering of rams skins dyed red and the covering of badgers skins and the vail of the covering
the ark of the testimony and the staves thereof and the mercy seat
the table and all the vessels thereof and the shewbread
the pure candlestick with the lamps thereof even with the lamps to be set in order and all the vessels thereof and the oil for light
and the golden altar and the anointing oil and the sweet incense and the hanging for the tabernacle door
the brasen altar and his grate of brass his staves and all his vessels the laver and his foot
the hangings of the court his pillars and his sockets and the hanging for the court gate his cords and his pins and all the vessels of the service of the tabernacle for the tent of the congregation
the cloths of service to do service in the holy place and the holy garments for aaron the priest and his sons garments to minister in the priest's office
according to all that the lord commanded moses so the children of israel made all the work
and moses did look upon all the work and behold they had done it as the lord had commanded even so had they done it and moses blessed them
and the lord spake unto moses saying
on the first day of the first month shalt thou set up the tabernacle of the tent of the congregation
and thou shalt put therein the ark of the testimony and cover the ark with the vail
and thou shalt bring in the table and set in order the things that are to be set in order upon it and thou shalt bring in the candlestick and light the lamps thereof
and thou shalt set the altar of gold for the incense before the ark of the testimony and put the hanging of the door to the tabernacle
and thou shalt set the altar of the burnt offering before the door of the tabernacle of the tent of the congregation
and thou shalt set the laver between the tent of the congregation and the altar and shalt put water therein
and thou shalt set up the court round about and hang up the hanging at the court gate
and thou shalt take the anointing oil and anoint the tabernacle and all that is therein and shalt hallow it and all the vessels thereof and it shall be holy
and thou shalt anoint the altar of the burnt offering and all his vessels and sanctify the altar and it shall be an altar most holy
and thou shalt anoint the laver and his foot and sanctify it
and thou shalt bring aaron and his sons unto the door of the tabernacle of the congregation and wash them with water
and thou shalt put upon aaron the holy garments and anoint him and sanctify him that he may minister unto me in the priest's office
and thou shalt bring his sons and clothe them with coats
and thou shalt anoint them as thou didst anoint their father that they may minister unto me in the priest's office for their anointing shall surely be an everlasting priesthood throughout their generations
thus did moses according to all that the lord commanded him so did he
and it came to pass in the first month in the second year on the first day of the month that the tabernacle was reared up
and moses reared up the tabernacle and fastened his sockets and set up the boards thereof and put in the bars thereof and reared up his pillars
and he spread abroad the tent over the tabernacle and put the covering of the tent above upon it as the lord commanded moses
and he took and put the testimony into the ark and set the staves on the ark and put the mercy seat above upon the ark
and he brought the ark into the tabernacle and set up the vail of the covering and covered the ark of the testimony as the lord commanded moses
and he put the table in the tent of the congregation upon the side of the tabernacle northward without the vail
and he set the bread in order upon it before the lord as the lord had commanded moses
and he put the candlestick in the tent of the congregation over against the table on the side of the tabernacle southward
and he lighted the lamps before the lord as the lord commanded moses
and he put the golden altar in the tent of the congregation before the vail
and he burnt sweet incense thereon as the lord commanded moses
and he set up the hanging at the door of the tabernacle
and he put the altar of burnt offering by the door of the tabernacle of the tent of the congregation and offered upon it the burnt offering and the meat offering as the lord commanded moses
and he set the laver between the tent of the congregation and the altar and put water there to wash withal
and moses and aaron and his sons washed their hands and their feet thereat
when they went into the tent of the congregation and when they came near unto the altar they washed as the lord commanded moses
and he reared up the court round about the tabernacle and the altar and set up the hanging of the court gate so moses finished the work
then a cloud covered the tent of the congregation and the glory of the lord filled the tabernacle
and moses was not able to enter into the tent of the congregation because the cloud abode thereon and the glory of the lord filled the tabernacle
and when the cloud was taken up from over the tabernacle the children of israel went onward in all their journeys
but if the cloud were not taken up then they journeyed not till the day that it was taken up
for the cloud of the lord was upon the tabernacle by day and fire was on it by night in the sight of all the house of israel throughout all their journeys
and the lord called unto moses and spake unto him out of the tabernacle of the congregation saying
speak unto the children of israel and say unto them if any man of you bring an offering unto the lord ye shall bring your offering of the cattle even of the herd and of the flock
if his offering be a burnt sacrifice of the herd let him offer a male without blemish he shall offer it of his own voluntary will at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation before the lord
and he shall put his hand upon the head of the burnt offering and it shall be accepted for him to make atonement for him
and he shall kill the bullock before the lord and the priests aaron's sons shall bring the blood and sprinkle the blood round about upon the altar that is by the door of the tabernacle of the congregation
and he shall flay the burnt offering and cut it into his pieces
and the sons of aaron the priest shall put fire upon the altar and lay the wood in order upon the fire
and the priests aaron's sons shall lay the parts the head and the fat in order upon the wood that is on the fire which is upon the altar
but his inwards and his legs shall he wash in water and the priest shall burn all on the altar to be a burnt sacrifice an offering made by fire of a sweet savour unto the lord
and if his offering be of the flocks namely of the sheep or of the goats for a burnt sacrifice he shall bring it a male without blemish
and he shall kill it on the side of the altar northward before the lord and the priests aaron's sons shall sprinkle his blood round about upon the altar
and he shall cut it into his pieces with his head and his fat and the priest shall lay them in order on the wood that is on the fire which is upon the altar
but he shall wash the inwards and the legs with water and the priest shall bring it all and burn it upon the altar it is a burnt sacrifice an offering made by fire of a sweet savour unto the lord
and if the burnt sacrifice for his offering to the lord be of fowls then he shall bring his offering of turtledoves or of young pigeons
and the priest shall bring it unto the altar and wring off his head and burn it on the altar and the blood thereof shall be wrung out at the side of the altar
and he shall pluck away his crop with his feathers and cast it beside the altar on the east part by the place of the ashes
and he shall cleave it with the wings thereof but shall not divide it asunder and the priest shall burn it upon the altar upon the wood that is upon the fire it is a burnt sacrifice an offering made by fire of a sweet savour unto the lord
and when any will offer a meat offering unto the lord his offering shall be of fine flour and he shall pour oil upon it and put frankincense thereon
and he shall bring it to aaron's sons the priests and he shall take thereout his handful of the flour thereof and of the oil thereof with all the frankincense thereof and the priest shall burn the memorial of it upon the altar to be an offering made by fire of a sweet savour unto the lord
and the remnant of the meat offering shall be aaron's and his sons it is a thing most holy of the offerings of the lord made by fire
and if thou bring an oblation of a meat offering baken in the oven it shall be unleavened cakes of fine flour mingled with oil or unleavened wafers anointed with oil
and if thy oblation be a meat offering baken in a pan it shall be of fine flour unleavened mingled with oil
thou shalt part it in pieces and pour oil thereon it is a meat offering
and if thy oblation be a meat offering baken in the fryingpan it shall be made of fine flour with oil
and thou shalt bring the meat offering that is made of these things unto the lord and when it is presented unto the priest he shall bring it unto the altar
and the priest shall take from the meat offering a memorial thereof and shall burn it upon the altar it is an offering made by fire of a sweet savour unto the lord
and that which is left of the meat offering shall be aaron's and his sons it is a thing most holy of the offerings of the lord made by fire
no meat offering which ye shall bring unto the lord shall be made with leaven for ye shall burn no leaven nor any honey in any offering of the lord made by fire
as for the oblation of the firstfruits ye shall offer them unto the lord but they shall not be burnt on the altar for a sweet savour
and every oblation of thy meat offering shalt thou season with salt neither shalt thou suffer the salt of the covenant of thy god to be lacking from thy meat offering with all thine offerings thou shalt offer salt
and if thou offer a meat offering of thy firstfruits unto the lord thou shalt offer for the meat offering of thy firstfruits green ears of corn dried by the fire even corn beaten out of full ears
and thou shalt put oil upon it and lay frankincense thereon it is a meat offering
and the priest shall burn the memorial of it part of the beaten corn thereof and part of the oil thereof with all the frankincense thereof it is an offering made by fire unto the lord
and if his oblation be a sacrifice of peace offering if he offer it of the herd whether it be a male or female he shall offer it without blemish before the lord
and he shall lay his hand upon the head of his offering and kill it at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation and aaron's sons the priests shall sprinkle the blood upon the altar round about
and he shall offer of the sacrifice of the peace offering an offering made by fire unto the lord the fat that covereth the inwards and all the fat that is upon the inwards
and the two kidneys and the fat that is on them which is by the flanks and the caul above the liver with the kidneys it shall he take away
and aaron's sons shall burn it on the altar upon the burnt sacrifice which is upon the wood that is on the fire it is an offering made by fire of a sweet savour unto the lord
and if his offering for a sacrifice of peace offering unto the lord be of the flock male or female he shall offer it without blemish
if he offer a lamb for his offering then shall he offer it before the lord
and he shall lay his hand upon the head of his offering and kill it before the tabernacle of the congregation and aaron's sons shall sprinkle the blood thereof round about upon the altar
and he shall offer of the sacrifice of the peace offering an offering made by fire unto the lord the fat thereof and the whole rump it shall he take off hard by the backbone and the fat that covereth the inwards and all the fat that is upon the inwards
and the two kidneys and the fat that is upon them which is by the flanks and the caul above the liver with the kidneys it shall he take away
and the priest shall burn it upon the altar it is the food of the offering made by fire unto the lord
and if his offering be a goat then he shall offer it before the lord
and he shall lay his hand upon the head of it and kill it before the tabernacle of the congregation and the sons of aaron shall sprinkle the blood thereof upon the altar round about
and he shall offer thereof his offering even an offering made by fire unto the lord the fat that covereth the inwards and all the fat that is upon the inwards
and the two kidneys and the fat that is upon them which is by the flanks and the caul above the liver with the kidneys it shall he take away
and the priest shall burn them upon the altar it is the food of the offering made by fire for a sweet savour all the fat is the lord's
it shall be a perpetual statute for your generations throughout all your dwellings that ye eat neither fat nor blood
and the lord spake unto moses saying
speak unto the children of israel saying if a soul shall sin through ignorance against any of the commandments of the lord concerning things which ought not to be done and shall do against any of them
if the priest that is anointed do sin according to the sin of the people then let him bring for his sin which he hath sinned a young bullock without blemish unto the lord for a sin offering
and he shall bring the bullock unto the door of the tabernacle of the congregation before the lord and shall lay his hand upon the bullock's head and kill the bullock before the lord
and the priest that is anointed shall take of the bullock's blood and bring it to the tabernacle of the congregation
and the priest shall dip his finger in the blood and sprinkle of the blood seven times before the lord before the vail of the sanctuary
and the priest shall put some of the blood upon the horns of the altar of sweet incense before the lord which is in the tabernacle of the congregation and shall pour all the blood of the bullock at the bottom of the altar of the burnt offering which is at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation
and he shall take off from it all the fat of the bullock for the sin offering the fat that covereth the inwards and all the fat that is upon the inwards
and the two kidneys and the fat that is upon them which is by the flanks and the caul above the liver with the kidneys it shall he take away
as it was taken off from the bullock of the sacrifice of peace offerings and the priest shall burn them upon the altar of the burnt offering
and the skin of the bullock and all his flesh with his head and with his legs and his inwards and his dung
even the whole bullock shall he carry forth without the camp unto a clean place where the ashes are poured out and burn him on the wood with fire where the ashes are poured out shall he be burnt
and if the whole congregation of israel sin through ignorance and the thing be hid from the eyes of the assembly and they have done somewhat against any of the commandments of the lord concerning things which should not be done and are guilty
when the sin which they have sinned against it is known then the congregation shall offer a young bullock for the sin and bring him before the tabernacle of the congregation
and the elders of the congregation shall lay their hands upon the head of the bullock before the lord and the bullock shall be killed before the lord
and the priest that is anointed shall bring of the bullock's blood to the tabernacle of the congregation
and the priest shall dip his finger in some of the blood and sprinkle it seven times before the lord even before the vail
and he shall put some of the blood upon the horns of the altar which is before the lord that is in the tabernacle of the congregation and shall pour out all the blood at the bottom of the altar of the burnt offering which is at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation
and he shall take all his fat from him and burn it upon the altar
and he shall do with the bullock as he did with the bullock for a sin offering so shall he do with this and the priest shall make an atonement for them and it shall be forgiven them
and he shall carry forth the bullock without the camp and burn him as he burned the first bullock it is a sin offering for the congregation
when a ruler hath sinned and done somewhat through ignorance against any of the commandments of the lord his god concerning things which should not be done and is guilty
or if his sin wherein he hath sinned come to his knowledge he shall bring his offering a kid of the goats a male without blemish
and he shall lay his hand upon the head of the goat and kill it in the place where they kill the burnt offering before the lord it is a sin offering
and the priest shall take of the blood of the sin offering with his finger and put it upon the horns of the altar of burnt offering and shall pour out his blood at the bottom of the altar of burnt offering
and he shall burn all his fat upon the altar as the fat of the sacrifice of peace offerings and the priest shall make an atonement for him as concerning his sin and it shall be forgiven him
and if any one of the common people sin through ignorance while he doeth somewhat against any of the commandments of the lord concerning things which ought not to be done and be guilty
or if his sin which he hath sinned come to his knowledge then he shall bring his offering a kid of the goats a female without blemish for his sin which he hath sinned
and he shall lay his hand upon the head of the sin offering and slay the sin offering in the place of the burnt offering
and the priest shall take of the blood thereof with his finger and put it upon the horns of the altar of burnt offering and shall pour out all the blood thereof at the bottom of the altar
and he shall take away all the fat thereof as the fat is taken away from off the sacrifice of peace offerings and the priest shall burn it upon the altar for a sweet savour unto the lord and the priest shall make an atonement for him and it shall be forgiven him
and if he bring a lamb for a sin offering he shall bring it a female without blemish
and he shall lay his hand upon the head of the sin offering and slay it for a sin offering in the place where they kill the burnt offering
and the priest shall take of the blood of the sin offering with his finger and put it upon the horns of the altar of burnt offering and shall pour out all the blood thereof at the bottom of the altar
and he shall take away all the fat thereof as the fat of the lamb is taken away from the sacrifice of the peace offerings and the priest shall burn them upon the altar according to the offerings made by fire unto the lord and the priest shall make an atonement for his sin that he hath committed and it shall be forgiven him
and if a soul sin and hear the voice of swearing and is a witness whether he hath seen or known of it if he do not utter it then he shall bear his iniquity
or if a soul touch any unclean thing whether it be a carcase of an unclean beast or a carcase of unclean cattle or the carcase of unclean creeping things and if it be hidden from him he also shall be unclean and guilty
or if he touch the uncleanness of man whatsoever uncleanness it be that a man shall be defiled withal and it be hid from him when he knoweth of it then he shall be guilty
or if a soul swear pronouncing with his lips to do evil or to do good whatsoever it be that a man shall pronounce with an oath and it be hid from him when he knoweth of it then he shall be guilty in one of these
and it shall be when he shall be guilty in one of these things that he shall confess that he hath sinned in that thing
and he shall bring his trespass offering unto the lord for his sin which he hath sinned a female from the flock a lamb or a kid of the goats for a sin offering and the priest shall make an atonement for him concerning his sin
and if he be not able to bring a lamb then he shall bring for his trespass which he hath committed two turtledoves or two young pigeons unto the lord one for a sin offering and the other for a burnt offering
and he shall bring them unto the priest who shall offer that which is for the sin offering first and wring off his head from his neck but shall not divide it asunder
and he shall sprinkle of the blood of the sin offering upon the side of the altar and the rest of the blood shall be wrung out at the bottom of the altar it is a sin offering
and he shall offer the second for a burnt offering according to the manner and the priest shall make an atonement for him for his sin which he hath sinned and it shall be forgiven him
but if he be not able to bring two turtledoves or two young pigeons then he that sinned shall bring for his offering the tenth part of an ephah of fine flour for a sin offering he shall put no oil upon it neither shall he put any frankincense thereon for it is a sin offering
then shall he bring it to the priest and the priest shall take his handful of it even a memorial thereof and burn it on the altar according to the offerings made by fire unto the lord it is a sin offering
and the priest shall make an atonement for him as touching his sin that he hath sinned in one of these and it shall be forgiven him and the remnant shall be the priest's as a meat offering
and the lord spake unto moses saying
if a soul commit a trespass and sin through ignorance in the holy things of the lord then he shall bring for his trespass unto the lord a ram without blemish out of the flocks with thy estimation by shekels of silver after the shekel of the sanctuary for a trespass offering
and he shall make amends for the harm that he hath done in the holy thing and shall add the fifth part thereto and give it unto the priest and the priest shall make an atonement for him with the ram of the trespass offering and it shall be forgiven him
and if a soul sin and commit any of these things which are forbidden to be done by the commandments of the lord though he wist it not yet is he guilty and shall bear his iniquity
and he shall bring a ram without blemish out of the flock with thy estimation for a trespass offering unto the priest and the priest shall make an atonement for him concerning his ignorance wherein he erred and wist it not and it shall be forgiven him
it is a trespass offering he hath certainly trespassed against the lord
and the lord spake unto moses saying
if a soul sin and commit a trespass against the lord and lie unto his neighbour in that which was delivered him to keep or in fellowship or in a thing taken away by violence or hath deceived his neighbour
or have found that which was lost and lieth concerning it and sweareth falsely in any of all these that a man doeth sinning therein
then it shall be because he hath sinned and is guilty that he shall restore that which he took violently away or the thing which he hath deceitfully gotten or that which was delivered him to keep or the lost thing which he found
or all that about which he hath sworn falsely he shall even restore it in the principal and shall add the fifth part more thereto and give it unto him to whom it appertaineth in the day of his trespass offering
and he shall bring his trespass offering unto the lord a ram without blemish out of the flock with thy estimation for a trespass offering unto the priest
and the priest shall make an atonement for him before the lord and it shall be forgiven him for any thing of all that he hath done in trespassing therein
and the lord spake unto moses saying
command aaron and his sons saying this is the law of the burnt offering it is the burnt offering because of the burning upon the altar all night unto the morning and the fire of the altar shall be burning in it
and the priest shall put on his linen garment and his linen breeches shall he put upon his flesh and take up the ashes which the fire hath consumed with the burnt offering on the altar and he shall put them beside the altar
and he shall put off his garments and put on other garments and carry forth the ashes without the camp unto a clean place
and the fire upon the altar shall be burning in it it shall not be put out and the priest shall burn wood on it every morning and lay the burnt offering in order upon it and he shall burn thereon the fat of the peace offerings
the fire shall ever be burning upon the altar it shall never go out
and this is the law of the meat offering the sons of aaron shall offer it before the lord before the altar
and he shall take of it his handful of the flour of the meat offering and of the oil thereof and all the frankincense which is upon the meat offering and shall burn it upon the altar for a sweet savour even the memorial of it unto the lord
and the remainder thereof shall aaron and his sons eat with unleavened bread shall it be eaten in the holy place in the court of the tabernacle of the congregation they shall eat it
it shall not be baken with leaven i have given it unto them for their portion of my offerings made by fire it is most holy as is the sin offering and as the trespass offering
all the males among the children of aaron shall eat of it it shall be a statute for ever in your generations concerning the offerings of the lord made by fire every one that toucheth them shall be holy
and the lord spake unto moses saying
this is the offering of aaron and of his sons which they shall offer unto the lord in the day when he is anointed the tenth part of an ephah of fine flour for a meat offering perpetual half of it in the morning and half thereof at night
in a pan it shall be made with oil and when it is baken thou shalt bring it in and the baken pieces of the meat offering shalt thou offer for a sweet savour unto the lord
and the priest of his sons that is anointed in his stead shall offer it it is a statute for ever unto the lord it shall be wholly burnt
for every meat offering for the priest shall be wholly burnt it shall not be eaten
and the lord spake unto moses saying
speak unto aaron and to his sons saying this is the law of the sin offering in the place where the burnt offering is killed shall the sin offering be killed before the lord it is most holy
the priest that offereth it for sin shall eat it in the holy place shall it be eaten in the court of the tabernacle of the congregation
whatsoever shall touch the flesh thereof shall be holy and when there is sprinkled of the blood thereof upon any garment thou shalt wash that whereon it was sprinkled in the holy place
but the earthen vessel wherein it is sodden shall be broken and if it be sodden in a brasen pot it shall be both scoured and rinsed in water
all the males among the priests shall eat thereof it is most holy
and no sin offering whereof any of the blood is brought into the tabernacle of the congregation to reconcile withal in the holy place shall be eaten it shall be burnt in the fire
likewise this is the law of the trespass offering it is most holy
in the place where they kill the burnt offering shall they kill the trespass offering and the blood thereof shall he sprinkle round about upon the altar
and he shall offer of it all the fat thereof the rump and the fat that covereth the inwards
and the two kidneys and the fat that is on them which is by the flanks and the caul that is above the liver with the kidneys it shall he take away
and the priest shall burn them upon the altar for an offering made by fire unto the lord it is a trespass offering
every male among the priests shall eat thereof it shall be eaten in the holy place it is most holy
as the sin offering is so is the trespass offering there is one law for them the priest that maketh atonement therewith shall have it
and the priest that offereth any man's burnt offering even the priest shall have to himself the skin of the burnt offering which he hath offered
and all the meat offering that is baken in the oven and all that is dressed in the fryingpan and in the pan shall be the priest's that offereth it
and every meat offering mingled with oil and dry shall all the sons of aaron have one as much as another
and this is the law of the sacrifice of peace offerings which he shall offer unto the lord
if he offer it for a thanksgiving then he shall offer with the sacrifice of thanksgiving unleavened cakes mingled with oil and unleavened wafers anointed with oil and cakes mingled with oil of fine flour fried
besides the cakes he shall offer for his offering leavened bread with the sacrifice of thanksgiving of his peace offerings
and of it he shall offer one out of the whole oblation for an heave offering unto the lord and it shall be the priest's that sprinkleth the blood of the peace offerings
and the flesh of the sacrifice of his peace offerings for thanksgiving shall be eaten the same day that it is offered he shall not leave any of it until the morning
but if the sacrifice of his offering be a vow or a voluntary offering it shall be eaten the same day that he offereth his sacrifice and on the morrow also the remainder of it shall be eaten
but the remainder of the flesh of the sacrifice on the third day shall be burnt with fire
and if any of the flesh of the sacrifice of his peace offerings be eaten at all on the third day it shall not be accepted neither shall it be imputed unto him that offereth it it shall be an abomination and the soul that eateth of it shall bear his iniquity
and the flesh that toucheth any unclean thing shall not be eaten it shall be burnt with fire and as for the flesh all that be clean shall eat thereof
but the soul that eateth of the flesh of the sacrifice of peace offerings that pertain unto the lord having his uncleanness upon him even that soul shall be cut off from his people
moreover the soul that shall touch any unclean thing as the uncleanness of man or any unclean beast or any abominable unclean thing and eat of the flesh of the sacrifice of peace offerings which pertain unto the lord even that soul shall be cut off from his people
and the lord spake unto moses saying
speak unto the children of israel saying ye shall eat no manner of fat of ox or of sheep or of goat
and the fat of the beast that dieth of itself and the fat of that which is torn with beasts may be used in any other use but ye shall in no wise eat of it
for whosoever eateth the fat of the beast of which men offer an offering made by fire unto the lord even the soul that eateth it shall be cut off from his people
moreover ye shall eat no manner of blood whether it be of fowl or of beast in any of your dwellings
whatsoever soul it be that eateth any manner of blood even that soul shall be cut off from his people
and the lord spake unto moses saying
speak unto the children of israel saying he that offereth the sacrifice of his peace offerings unto the lord shall bring his oblation unto the lord of the sacrifice of his peace offerings
his own hands shall bring the offerings of the lord made by fire the fat with the breast it shall he bring that the breast may be waved for a wave offering before the lord
and the priest shall burn the fat upon the altar but the breast shall be aaron's and his sons'
and the right shoulder shall ye give unto the priest for an heave offering of the sacrifices of your peace offerings
he among the sons of aaron that offereth the blood of the peace offerings and the fat shall have the right shoulder for his part
for the wave breast and the heave shoulder have i taken of the children of israel from off the sacrifices of their peace offerings and have given them unto aaron the priest and unto his sons by a statute for ever from among the children of israel
this is the portion of the anointing of aaron and of the anointing of his sons out of the offerings of the lord made by fire in the day when he presented them to minister unto the lord in the priest's office
which the lord commanded to be given them of the children of israel in the day that he anointed them by a statute for ever throughout their generations
this is the law of the burnt offering of the meat offering and of the sin offering and of the trespass offering and of the consecrations and of the sacrifice of the peace offerings
which the lord commanded moses in mount sinai in the day that he commanded the children of israel to offer their oblations unto the lord in the wilderness of sinai
and the lord spake unto moses saying
take aaron and his sons with him and the garments and the anointing oil and a bullock for the sin offering and two rams and a basket of unleavened bread
and gather thou all the congregation together unto the door of the tabernacle of the congregation
and moses did as the lord commanded him and the assembly was gathered together unto the door of the tabernacle of the congregation
and moses said unto the congregation this is the thing which the lord commanded to be done
and moses brought aaron and his sons and washed them with water
and he put upon him the coat and girded him with the girdle and clothed him with the robe and put the ephod upon him and he girded him with the curious girdle of the ephod and bound it unto him therewith
and he put the breastplate upon him also he put in the breastplate the urim and the thummim
and he put the mitre upon his head also upon the mitre even upon his forefront did he put the golden plate the holy crown as the lord commanded moses
and moses took the anointing oil and anointed the tabernacle and all that was therein and sanctified them
and he sprinkled thereof upon the altar seven times and anointed the altar and all his vessels both the laver and his foot to sanctify them
and he poured of the anointing oil upon aaron's head and anointed him to sanctify him
and moses brought aaron's sons and put coats upon them and girded them with girdles and put bonnets upon them as the lord commanded moses
and he brought the bullock for the sin offering and aaron and his sons laid their hands upon the head of the bullock for the sin offering
and he slew it and moses took the blood and put it upon the horns of the altar round about with his finger and purified the altar and poured the blood at the bottom of the altar and sanctified it to make reconciliation upon it
and he took all the fat that was upon the inwards and the caul above the liver and the two kidneys and their fat and moses burned it upon the altar
but the bullock and his hide his flesh and his dung he burnt with fire without the camp as the lord commanded moses
and he brought the ram for the burnt offering and aaron and his sons laid their hands upon the head of the ram
and he killed it and moses sprinkled the blood upon the altar round about
and he cut the ram into pieces and moses burnt the head and the pieces and the fat
and he washed the inwards and the legs in water and moses burnt the whole ram upon the altar it was a burnt sacrifice for a sweet savour and an offering made by fire unto the lord as the lord commanded moses
and he brought the other ram the ram of consecration and aaron and his sons laid their hands upon the head of the ram
and he slew it and moses took of the blood of it and put it upon the tip of aaron's right ear and upon the thumb of his right hand and upon the great toe of his right foot
and he brought aaron's sons and moses put of the blood upon the tip of their right ear and upon the thumbs of their right hands and upon the great toes of their right feet and moses sprinkled the blood upon the altar round about
and he took the fat and the rump and all the fat that was upon the inwards and the caul above the liver and the two kidneys and their fat and the right shoulder
and out of the basket of unleavened bread that was before the lord he took one unleavened cake and a cake of oiled bread and one wafer and put them on the fat and upon the right shoulder
and he put all upon aaron's hands and upon his sons hands and waved them for a wave offering before the lord
and moses took them from off their hands and burnt them on the altar upon the burnt offering they were consecrations for a sweet savour it is an offering made by fire unto the lord
and moses took the breast and waved it for a wave offering before the lord for of the ram of consecration it was moses part as the lord commanded moses
and moses took of the anointing oil and of the blood which was upon the altar and sprinkled it upon aaron and upon his garments and upon his sons and upon his sons garments with him and sanctified aaron and his garments and his sons and his sons garments with him
and moses said unto aaron and to his sons boil the flesh at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation and there eat it with the bread that is in the basket of consecrations as i commanded saying aaron and his sons shall eat it
and that which remaineth of the flesh and of the bread shall ye burn with fire
and ye shall not go out of the door of the tabernacle of the congregation in seven days until the days of your consecration be at an end for seven days shall he consecrate you
as he hath done this day so the lord hath commanded to do to make an atonement for you
therefore shall ye abide at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation day and night seven days and keep the charge of the lord that ye die not for so i am commanded
so aaron and his sons did all things which the lord commanded by the hand of moses
and it came to pass on the eighth day that moses called aaron and his sons and the elders of israel
and he said unto aaron take thee a young calf for a sin offering and a ram for a burnt offering without blemish and offer them before the lord
and unto the children of israel thou shalt speak saying take ye a kid of the goats for a sin offering and a calf and a lamb both of the first year without blemish for a burnt offering
also a bullock and a ram for peace offerings to sacrifice before the lord and a meat offering mingled with oil for to day the lord will appear unto you
and they brought that which moses commanded before the tabernacle of the congregation and all the congregation drew near and stood before the lord
and moses said this is the thing which the lord commanded that ye should do and the glory of the lord shall appear unto you
and moses said unto aaron go unto the altar and offer thy sin offering and thy burnt offering and make an atonement for thyself and for the people and offer the offering of the people and make an atonement for them as the lord commanded
aaron therefore went unto the altar and slew the calf of the sin offering which was for himself
and the sons of aaron brought the blood unto him and he dipped his finger in the blood and put it upon the horns of the altar and poured out the blood at the bottom of the altar
but the fat and the kidneys and the caul above the liver of the sin offering he burnt upon the altar as the lord commanded moses
and the flesh and the hide he burnt with fire without the camp
and he slew the burnt offering and aaron's sons presented unto him the blood which he sprinkled round about upon the altar
and they presented the burnt offering unto him with the pieces thereof and the head and he burnt them upon the altar
and he did wash the inwards and the legs and burnt them upon the burnt offering on the altar
and he brought the people's offering and took the goat which was the sin offering for the people and slew it and offered it for sin as the first
and he brought the burnt offering and offered it according to the manner
and he brought the meat offering and took an handful thereof and burnt it upon the altar beside the burnt sacrifice of the morning
he slew also the bullock and the ram for a sacrifice of peace offerings which was for the people and aaron's sons presented unto him the blood which he sprinkled upon the altar round about
and the fat of the bullock and of the ram the rump and that which covereth the inwards and the kidneys and the caul above the liver
and they put the fat upon the breasts and he burnt the fat upon the altar
and the breasts and the right shoulder aaron waved for a wave offering before the lord as moses commanded
and aaron lifted up his hand toward the people and blessed them and came down from offering of the sin offering and the burnt offering and peace offerings
and moses and aaron went into the tabernacle of the congregation and came out and blessed the people and the glory of the lord appeared unto all the people
and there came a fire out from before the lord and consumed upon the altar the burnt offering and the fat which when all the people saw they shouted and fell on their faces
and nadab and abihu the sons of aaron took either of them his censer and put fire therein and put incense thereon and offered strange fire before the lord which he commanded them not
and there went out fire from the lord and devoured them and they died before the lord
then moses said unto aaron this is it that the lord spake saying i will be sanctified in them that come nigh me and before all the people i will be glorified and aaron held his peace
and moses called mishael and elzaphan the sons of uzziel the uncle of aaron and said unto them come near carry your brethren from before the sanctuary out of the camp
so they went near and carried them in their coats out of the camp as moses had said
and moses said unto aaron and unto eleazar and unto ithamar his sons uncover not your heads neither rend your clothes lest ye die and lest wrath come upon all the people but let your brethren the whole house of israel bewail the burning which the lord hath kindled
and ye shall not go out from the door of the tabernacle of the congregation lest ye die for the anointing oil of the lord is upon you and they did according to the word of moses
and the lord spake unto aaron saying
do not drink wine nor strong drink thou nor thy sons with thee when ye go into the tabernacle of the congregation lest ye die it shall be a statute for ever throughout your generations
and that ye may put difference between holy and unholy and between unclean and clean
and that ye may teach the children of israel all the statutes which the lord hath spoken unto them by the hand of moses
and moses spake unto aaron and unto eleazar and unto ithamar his sons that were left take the meat offering that remaineth of the offerings of the lord made by fire and eat it without leaven beside the altar for it is most holy
and ye shall eat it in the holy place because it is thy due and thy sons due of the sacrifices of the lord made by fire for so i am commanded
and the wave breast and heave shoulder shall ye eat in a clean place thou and thy sons and thy daughters with thee for they be thy due and thy sons due which are given out of the sacrifices of peace offerings of the children of israel
the heave shoulder and the wave breast shall they bring with the offerings made by fire of the fat to wave it for a wave offering before the lord and it shall be thine and thy sons with thee by a statute for ever as the lord hath commanded
and moses diligently sought the goat of the sin offering and behold it was burnt and he was angry with eleazar and ithamar the sons of aaron which were left alive saying
wherefore have ye not eaten the sin offering in the holy place seeing it is most holy and god hath given it you to bear the iniquity of the congregation to make atonement for them before the lord
behold the blood of it was not brought in within the holy place ye should indeed have eaten it in the holy place as i commanded
and aaron said unto moses behold this day have they offered their sin offering and their burnt offering before the lord and such things have befallen me and if i had eaten the sin offering to day should it have been accepted in the sight of the lord
and when moses heard that he was content
and the lord spake unto moses and to aaron saying unto them
speak unto the children of israel saying these are the beasts which ye shall eat among all the beasts that are on the earth
whatsoever parteth the hoof and is clovenfooted and cheweth the cud among the beasts that shall ye eat
nevertheless these shall ye not eat of them that chew the cud or of them that divide the hoof as the camel because he cheweth the cud but divideth not the hoof he is unclean unto you
and the coney because he cheweth the cud but divideth not the hoof he is unclean unto you
and the hare because he cheweth the cud but divideth not the hoof he is unclean unto you
and the swine though he divide the hoof and be clovenfooted yet he cheweth not the cud he is unclean to you
of their flesh shall ye not eat and their carcase shall ye not touch they are unclean to you
these shall ye eat of all that are in the waters whatsoever hath fins and scales in the waters in the seas and in the rivers them shall ye eat
and all that have not fins and scales in the seas and in the rivers of all that move in the waters and of any living thing which is in the waters they shall be an abomination unto you
they shall be even an abomination unto you ye shall not eat of their flesh but ye shall have their carcases in abomination
whatsoever hath no fins nor scales in the waters that shall be an abomination unto you
and these are they which ye shall have in abomination among the fowls they shall not be eaten they are an abomination the eagle and the ossifrage and the ospray
and the vulture and the kite after his kind
every raven after his kind
and the owl and the night hawk and the cuckow and the hawk after his kind
and the little owl and the cormorant and the great owl
and the swan and the pelican and the gier eagle
and the stork the heron after her kind and the lapwing and the bat
all fowls that creep going upon all four shall be an abomination unto you
yet these may ye eat of every flying creeping thing that goeth upon all four which have legs above their feet to leap withal upon the earth
even these of them ye may eat the locust after his kind and the bald locust after his kind and the beetle after his kind and the grasshopper after his kind
but all other flying creeping things which have four feet shall be an abomination unto you
and for these ye shall be unclean whosoever toucheth the carcase of them shall be unclean until the even
and whosoever beareth ought of the carcase of them shall wash his clothes and be unclean until the even
the carcases of every beast which divideth the hoof and is not clovenfooted nor cheweth the cud are unclean unto you every one that toucheth them shall be unclean
and whatsoever goeth upon his paws among all manner of beasts that go on all four those are unclean unto you whoso toucheth their carcase shall be unclean until the even
and he that beareth the carcase of them shall wash his clothes and be unclean until the even they are unclean unto you
these also shall be unclean unto you among the creeping things that creep upon the earth the weasel and the mouse and the tortoise after his kind
and the ferret and the chameleon and the lizard and the snail and the mole
these are unclean to you among all that creep whosoever doth touch them when they be dead shall be unclean until the even
and upon whatsoever any of them when they are dead doth fall it shall be unclean whether it be any vessel of wood or raiment or skin or sack whatsoever vessel it be wherein any work is done it must be put into water and it shall be unclean until the even so it shall be cleansed
and every earthen vessel whereinto any of them falleth whatsoever is in it shall be unclean and ye shall break it
of all meat which may be eaten that on which such water cometh shall be unclean and all drink that may be drunk in every such vessel shall be unclean
and every thing whereupon any part of their carcase falleth shall be unclean whether it be oven or ranges for pots they shall be broken down for they are unclean and shall be unclean unto you
nevertheless a fountain or pit wherein there is plenty of water shall be clean but that which toucheth their carcase shall be unclean
and if any part of their carcase fall upon any sowing seed which is to be sown it shall be clean
but if any water be put upon the seed and any part of their carcase fall thereon it shall be unclean unto you
and if any beast of which ye may eat die he that toucheth the carcase thereof shall be unclean until the even
and he that eateth of the carcase of it shall wash his clothes and be unclean until the even he also that beareth the carcase of it shall wash his clothes and be unclean until the even
and every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth shall be an abomination it shall not be eaten
whatsoever goeth upon the belly and whatsoever goeth upon all four or whatsoever hath more feet among all creeping things that creep upon the earth them ye shall not eat for they are an abomination
ye shall not make yourselves abominable with any creeping thing that creepeth neither shall ye make yourselves unclean with them that ye should be defiled thereby
for i am the lord your god ye shall therefore sanctify yourselves and ye shall be holy for i am holy neither shall ye defile yourselves with any manner of creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth
for i am the lord that bringeth you up out of the land of egypt to be your god ye shall therefore be holy for i am holy
this is the law of the beasts and of the fowl and of every living creature that moveth in the waters and of every creature that creepeth upon the earth
to make a difference between the unclean and the clean and between the beast that may be eaten and the beast that may not be eaten
and the lord spake unto moses saying
speak unto the children of israel saying if a woman have conceived seed and born a man child then she shall be unclean seven days according to the days of the separation for her infirmity shall she be unclean
and in the eighth day the flesh of his foreskin shall be circumcised
and she shall then continue in the blood of her purifying three and thirty days she shall touch no hallowed thing nor come into the sanctuary until the days of her purifying be fulfilled
but if she bear a maid child then she shall be unclean two weeks as in her separation and she shall continue in the blood of her purifying threescore and six days
and when the days of her purifying are fulfilled for a son or for a daughter she shall bring a lamb of the first year for a burnt offering and a young pigeon or a turtledove for a sin offering unto the door of the tabernacle of the congregation unto the priest
who shall offer it before the lord and make an atonement for her and she shall be cleansed from the issue of her blood this is the law for her that hath born a male or a female
and if she be not able to bring a lamb then she shall bring two turtles or two young pigeons the one for the burnt offering and the other for a sin offering and the priest shall make an atonement for her and she shall be clean
and the lord spake unto moses and aaron saying
when a man shall have in the skin of his flesh a rising a scab or bright spot and it be in the skin of his flesh like the plague of leprosy then he shall be brought unto aaron the priest or unto one of his sons the priests
and the priest shall look on the plague in the skin of the flesh and when the hair in the plague is turned white and the plague in sight be deeper than the skin of his flesh it is a plague of leprosy and the priest shall look on him and pronounce him unclean
if the bright spot be white in the skin of his flesh and in sight be not deeper than the skin and the hair thereof be not turned white then the priest shall shut up him that hath the plague seven days
and the priest shall look on him the seventh day and behold if the plague in his sight be at a stay and the plague spread not in the skin then the priest shall shut him up seven days more
and the priest shall look on him again the seventh day and behold if the plague be somewhat dark and the plague spread not in the skin the priest shall pronounce him clean it is but a scab and he shall wash his clothes and be clean
but if the scab spread much abroad in the skin after that he hath been seen of the priest for his cleansing he shall be seen of the priest again
and if the priest see that behold the scab spreadeth in the skin then the priest shall pronounce him unclean it is a leprosy
when the plague of leprosy is in a man then he shall be brought unto the priest
and the priest shall see him and behold if the rising be white in the skin and it have turned the hair white and there be quick raw flesh in the rising
it is an old leprosy in the skin of his flesh and the priest shall pronounce him unclean and shall not shut him up for he is unclean
and if a leprosy break out abroad in the skin and the leprosy cover all the skin of him that hath the plague from his head even to his foot wheresoever the priest looketh
then the priest shall consider and behold if the leprosy have covered all his flesh he shall pronounce him clean that hath the plague it is all turned white he is clean
but when raw flesh appeareth in him he shall be unclean
and the priest shall see the raw flesh and pronounce him to be unclean for the raw flesh is unclean it is a leprosy
or if the raw flesh turn again and be changed unto white he shall come unto the priest
and the priest shall see him and behold if the plague be turned into white then the priest shall pronounce him clean that hath the plague he is clean
the flesh also in which even in the skin thereof was a boil and is healed
and in the place of the boil there be a white rising or a bright spot white and somewhat reddish and it be shewed to the priest
and if when the priest seeth it behold it be in sight lower than the skin and the hair thereof be turned white the priest shall pronounce him unclean it is a plague of leprosy broken out of the boil
but if the priest look on it and behold there be no white hairs therein and if it be not lower than the skin but be somewhat dark then the priest shall shut him up seven days
and if it spread much abroad in the skin then the priest shall pronounce him unclean it is a plague
but if the bright spot stay in his place and spread not it is a burning boil and the priest shall pronounce him clean
or if there be any flesh in the skin whereof there is a hot burning and the quick flesh that burneth have a white bright spot somewhat reddish or white
then the priest shall look upon it and behold if the hair in the bright spot be turned white and it be in sight deeper than the skin it is a leprosy broken out of the burning wherefore the priest shall pronounce him unclean it is the plague of leprosy
but if the priest look on it and behold there be no white hair in the bright spot and it be no lower than the other skin but be somewhat dark then the priest shall shut him up seven days
and the priest shall look upon him the seventh day and if it be spread much abroad in the skin then the priest shall pronounce him unclean it is the plague of leprosy
and if the bright spot stay in his place and spread not in the skin but it be somewhat dark it is a rising of the burning and the priest shall pronounce him clean for it is an inflammation of the burning
if a man or woman have a plague upon the head or the beard
then the priest shall see the plague and behold if it be in sight deeper than the skin and there be in it a yellow thin hair then the priest shall pronounce him unclean it is a dry scall even a leprosy upon the head or beard
and if the priest look on the plague of the scall and behold it be not in sight deeper than the skin and that there is no black hair in it then the priest shall shut up him that hath the plague of the scall seven days
and in the seventh day the priest shall look on the plague and behold if the scall spread not and there be in it no yellow hair and the scall be not in sight deeper than the skin
he shall be shaven but the scall shall he not shave and the priest shall shut up him that hath the scall seven days more
and in the seventh day the priest shall look on the scall and behold if the scall be not spread in the skin nor be in sight deeper than the skin then the priest shall pronounce him clean and he shall wash his clothes and be clean
but if the scall spread much in the skin after his cleansing
then the priest shall look on him and behold if the scall be spread in the skin the priest shall not seek for yellow hair he is unclean
but if the scall be in his sight at a stay and that there is black hair grown up therein the scall is healed he is clean and the priest shall pronounce him clean
if a man also or a woman have in the skin of their flesh bright spots even white bright spots
then the priest shall look and behold if the bright spots in the skin of their flesh be darkish white it is a freckled spot that groweth in the skin he is clean
and the man whose hair is fallen off his head he is bald yet is he clean
and he that hath his hair fallen off from the part of his head toward his face he is forehead bald yet is he clean
and if there be in the bald head or bald forehead a white reddish sore it is a leprosy sprung up in his bald head or his bald forehead
then the priest shall look upon it and behold if the rising of the sore be white reddish in his bald head or in his bald forehead as the leprosy appeareth in the skin of the flesh
he is a leprous man he is unclean the priest shall pronounce him utterly unclean his plague is in his head
and the leper in whom the plague is his clothes shall be rent and his head bare and he shall put a covering upon his upper lip and shall cry unclean unclean
all the days wherein the plague shall be in him he shall be defiled he is unclean he shall dwell alone without the camp shall his habitation be
the garment also that the plague of leprosy is in whether it be a woollen garment or a linen garment
whether it be in the warp or woof of linen or of woollen whether in a skin or in any thing made of skin
and if the plague be greenish or reddish in the garment or in the skin either in the warp or in the woof or in any thing of skin it is a plague of leprosy and shall be shewed unto the priest
and the priest shall look upon the plague and shut up it that hath the plague seven days
and he shall look on the plague on the seventh day if the plague be spread in the garment either in the warp or in the woof or in a skin or in any work that is made of skin the plague is a fretting leprosy it is unclean
he shall therefore burn that garment whether warp or woof in woollen or in linen or any thing of skin wherein the plague is for it is a fretting leprosy it shall be burnt in the fire
and if the priest shall look and behold the plague be not spread in the garment either in the warp or in the woof or in any thing of skin
then the priest shall command that they wash the thing wherein the plague is and he shall shut it up seven days more
and the priest shall look on the plague after that it is washed and behold if the plague have not changed his colour and the plague be not spread it is unclean thou shalt burn it in the fire it is fret inward whether it be bare within or without
and if the priest look and behold the plague be somewhat dark after the washing of it then he shall rend it out of the garment or out of the skin or out of the warp or out of the woof
and if it appear still in the garment either in the warp or in the woof or in any thing of skin it is a spreading plague thou shalt burn that wherein the plague is with fire
and the garment either warp or woof or whatsoever thing of skin it be which thou shalt wash if the plague be departed from them then it shall be washed the second time and shall be clean
this is the law of the plague of leprosy in a garment of woollen or linen either in the warp or woof or any thing of skins to pronounce it clean or to pronounce it unclean
and the lord spake unto moses saying
this shall be the law of the leper in the day of his cleansing he shall be brought unto the priest
and the priest shall go forth out of the camp and the priest shall look and behold if the plague of leprosy be healed in the leper
then shall the priest command to take for him that is to be cleansed two birds alive and clean and cedar wood and scarlet and hyssop
and the priest shall command that one of the birds be killed in an earthen vessel over running water
as for the living bird he shall take it and the cedar wood and the scarlet and the hyssop and shall dip them and the living bird in the blood of the bird that was killed over the running water
and he shall sprinkle upon him that is to be cleansed from the leprosy seven times and shall pronounce him clean and shall let the living bird loose into the open field
and he that is to be cleansed shall wash his clothes and shave off all his hair and wash himself in water that he may be clean and after that he shall come into the camp and shall tarry abroad out of his tent seven days
but it shall be on the seventh day that he shall shave all his hair off his head and his beard and his eyebrows even all his hair he shall shave off and he shall wash his clothes also he shall wash his flesh in water and he shall be clean
and on the eighth day he shall take two he lambs without blemish and one ewe lamb of the first year without blemish and three tenth deals of fine flour for a meat offering mingled with oil and one log of oil
and the priest that maketh him clean shall present the man that is to be made clean and those things before the lord at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation
and the priest shall take one he lamb and offer him for a trespass offering and the log of oil and wave them for a wave offering before the lord
and he shall slay the lamb in the place where he shall kill the sin offering and the burnt offering in the holy place for as the sin offering is the priest's so is the trespass offering it is most holy
and the priest shall take some of the blood of the trespass offering and the priest shall put it upon the tip of the right ear of him that is to be cleansed and upon the thumb of his right hand and upon the great toe of his right foot
and the priest shall take some of the log of oil and pour it into the palm of his own left hand
and the priest shall dip his right finger in the oil that is in his left hand and shall sprinkle of the oil with his finger seven times before the lord
and of the rest of the oil that is in his hand shall the priest put upon the tip of the right ear of him that is to be cleansed and upon the thumb of his right hand and upon the great toe of his right foot upon the blood of the trespass offering
and the remnant of the oil that is in the priest's hand he shall pour upon the head of him that is to be cleansed and the priest shall make an atonement for him before the lord
and the priest shall offer the sin offering and make an atonement for him that is to be cleansed from his uncleanness and afterward he shall kill the burnt offering
and the priest shall offer the burnt offering and the meat offering upon the altar and the priest shall make an atonement for him and he shall be clean
and if he be poor and cannot get so much then he shall take one lamb for a trespass offering to be waved to make an atonement for him and one tenth deal of fine flour mingled with oil for a meat offering and a log of oil
and two turtledoves or two young pigeons such as he is able to get and the one shall be a sin offering and the other a burnt offering
and he shall bring them on the eighth day for his cleansing unto the priest unto the door of the tabernacle of the congregation before the lord
and the priest shall take the lamb of the trespass offering and the log of oil and the priest shall wave them for a wave offering before the lord
and he shall kill the lamb of the trespass offering and the priest shall take some of the blood of the trespass offering and put it upon the tip of the right ear of him that is to be cleansed and upon the thumb of his right hand and upon the great toe of his right foot
and the priest shall pour of the oil into the palm of his own left hand
and the priest shall sprinkle with his right finger some of the oil that is in his left hand seven times before the lord
and the priest shall put of the oil that is in his hand upon the tip of the right ear of him that is to be cleansed and upon the thumb of his right hand and upon the great toe of his right foot upon the place of the blood of the trespass offering
and the rest of the oil that is in the priest's hand he shall put upon the head of him that is to be cleansed to make an atonement for him before the lord
and he shall offer the one of the turtledoves or of the young pigeons such as he can get
even such as he is able to get the one for a sin offering and the other for a burnt offering with the meat offering and the priest shall make an atonement for him that is to be cleansed before the lord
this is the law of him in whom is the plague of leprosy whose hand is not able to get that which pertaineth to his cleansing
and the lord spake unto moses and unto aaron saying
when ye be come into the land of canaan which i give to you for a possession and i put the plague of leprosy in a house of the land of your possession
and he that owneth the house shall come and tell the priest saying it seemeth to me there is as it were a plague in the house
then the priest shall command that they empty the house before the priest go into it to see the plague that all that is in the house be not made unclean and afterward the priest shall go in to see the house
and he shall look on the plague and behold if the plague be in the walls of the house with hollow strakes greenish or reddish which in sight are lower than the wall
then the priest shall go out of the house to the door of the house and shut up the house seven days
and the priest shall come again the seventh day and shall look and behold if the plague be spread in the walls of the house
then the priest shall command that they take away the stones in which the plague is and they shall cast them into an unclean place without the city
and he shall cause the house to be scraped within round about and they shall pour out the dust that they scrape off without the city into an unclean place
and they shall take other stones and put them in the place of those stones and he shall take other morter and shall plaister the house
and if the plague come again and break out in the house after that he hath taken away the stones and after he hath scraped the house and after it is plaistered
then the priest shall come and look and behold if the plague be spread in the house it is a fretting leprosy in the house it is unclean
and he shall break down the house the stones of it and the timber thereof and all the morter of the house and he shall carry them forth out of the city into an unclean place
moreover he that goeth into the house all the while that it is shut up shall be unclean until the even
and he that lieth in the house shall wash his clothes and he that eateth in the house shall wash his clothes
and if the priest shall come in and look upon it and behold the plague hath not spread in the house after the house was plaistered then the priest shall pronounce the house clean because the plague is healed
and he shall take to cleanse the house two birds and cedar wood and scarlet and hyssop
and he shall kill the one of the birds in an earthen vessel over running water
and he shall take the cedar wood and the hyssop and the scarlet and the living bird and dip them in the blood of the slain bird and in the running water and sprinkle the house seven times
and he shall cleanse the house with the blood of the bird and with the running water and with the living bird and with the cedar wood and with the hyssop and with the scarlet
but he shall let go the living bird out of the city into the open fields and make an atonement for the house and it shall be clean
this is the law for all manner of plague of leprosy and scall
and for the leprosy of a garment and of a house
and for a rising and for a scab and for a bright spot
to teach when it is unclean and when it is clean this is the law of leprosy
and the lord spake unto moses and to aaron saying
speak unto the children of israel and say unto them when any man hath a running issue out of his flesh because of his issue he is unclean
and this shall be his uncleanness in his issue whether his flesh run with his issue or his flesh be stopped from his issue it is his uncleanness
every bed whereon he lieth that hath the issue is unclean and every thing whereon he sitteth shall be unclean
and whosoever toucheth his bed shall wash his clothes and bathe himself in water and be unclean until the even
and he that sitteth on any thing whereon he sat that hath the issue shall wash his clothes and bathe himself in water and be unclean until the even
and he that toucheth the flesh of him that hath the issue shall wash his clothes and bathe himself in water and be unclean until the even
and if he that hath the issue spit upon him that is clean then he shall wash his clothes and bathe himself in water and be unclean until the even
and what saddle soever he rideth upon that hath the issue shall be unclean
and whosoever toucheth any thing that was under him shall be unclean until the even and he that beareth any of those things shall wash his clothes and bathe himself in water and be unclean until the even
and whomsoever he toucheth that hath the issue and hath not rinsed his hands in water he shall wash his clothes and bathe himself in water and be unclean until the even
and the vessel of earth that he toucheth which hath the issue shall be broken and every vessel of wood shall be rinsed in water
and when he that hath an issue is cleansed of his issue then he shall number to himself seven days for his cleansing and wash his clothes and bathe his flesh in running water and shall be clean
and on the eighth day he shall take to him two turtledoves or two young pigeons and come before the lord unto the door of the tabernacle of the congregation and give them unto the priest
and the priest shall offer them the one for a sin offering and the other for a burnt offering and the priest shall make an atonement for him before the lord for his issue
and if any man's seed of copulation go out from him then he shall wash all his flesh in water and be unclean until the even
and every garment and every skin whereon is the seed of copulation shall be washed with water and be unclean until the even
the woman also with whom man shall lie with seed of copulation they shall both bathe themselves in water and be unclean until the even
and if a woman have an issue and her issue in her flesh be blood she shall be put apart seven days and whosoever toucheth her shall be unclean until the even
and every thing that she lieth upon in her separation shall be unclean every thing also that she sitteth upon shall be unclean
and whosoever toucheth her bed shall wash his clothes and bathe himself in water and be unclean until the even
and whosoever toucheth any thing that she sat upon shall wash his clothes and bathe himself in water and be unclean until the even
and if it be on her bed or on any thing whereon she sitteth when he toucheth it he shall be unclean until the even
and if any man lie with her at all and her flowers be upon him he shall be unclean seven days and all the bed whereon he lieth shall be unclean
and if a woman have an issue of her blood many days out of the time of her separation or if it run beyond the time of her separation all the days of the issue of her uncleanness shall be as the days of her separation she shall be unclean
every bed whereon she lieth all the days of her issue shall be unto her as the bed of her separation and whatsoever she sitteth upon shall be unclean as the uncleanness of her separation
and whosoever toucheth those things shall be unclean and shall wash his clothes and bathe himself in water and be unclean until the even
but if she be cleansed of her issue then she shall number to herself seven days and after that she shall be clean
and on the eighth day she shall take unto her two turtles or two young pigeons and bring them unto the priest to the door of the tabernacle of the congregation
and the priest shall offer the one for a sin offering and the other for a burnt offering and the priest shall make an atonement for her before the lord for the issue of her uncleanness
thus shall ye separate the children of israel from their uncleanness that they die not in their uncleanness when they defile my tabernacle that is among them
this is the law of him that hath an issue and of him whose seed goeth from him and is defiled therewith
and of her that is sick of her flowers and of him that hath an issue of the man and of the woman and of him that lieth with her that is unclean
and the lord spake unto moses after the death of the two sons of aaron when they offered before the lord and died
and the lord said unto moses speak unto aaron thy brother that he come not at all times into the holy place within the vail before the mercy seat which is upon the ark that he die not for i will appear in the cloud upon the mercy seat
thus shall aaron come into the holy place with a young bullock for a sin offering and a ram for a burnt offering
he shall put on the holy linen coat and he shall have the linen breeches upon his flesh and shall be girded with a linen girdle and with the linen mitre shall he be attired these are holy garments therefore shall he wash his flesh in water and so put them on
and he shall take of the congregation of the children of israel two kids of the goats for a sin offering and one ram for a burnt offering
and aaron shall offer his bullock of the sin offering which is for himself and make an atonement for himself and for his house
and he shall take the two goats and present them before the lord at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation
and aaron shall cast lots upon the two goats one lot for the lord and the other lot for the scapegoat
and aaron shall bring the goat upon which the lord's lot fell and offer him for a sin offering
but the goat on which the lot fell to be the scapegoat shall be presented alive before the lord to make an atonement with him and to let him go for a scapegoat into the wilderness
and aaron shall bring the bullock of the sin offering which is for himself and shall make an atonement for himself and for his house and shall kill the bullock of the sin offering which is for himself
and he shall take a censer full of burning coals of fire from off the altar before the lord and his hands full of sweet incense beaten small and bring it within the vail
and he shall put the incense upon the fire before the lord that the cloud of the incense may cover the mercy seat that is upon the testimony that he die not
and he shall take of the blood of the bullock and sprinkle it with his finger upon the mercy seat eastward and before the mercy seat shall he sprinkle of the blood with his finger seven times
then shall he kill the goat of the sin offering that is for the people and bring his blood within the vail and do with that blood as he did with the blood of the bullock and sprinkle it upon the mercy seat and before the mercy seat
and he shall make an atonement for the holy place because of the uncleanness of the children of israel and because of their transgressions in all their sins and so shall he do for the tabernacle of the congregation that remaineth among them in the midst of their uncleanness
and there shall be no man in the tabernacle of the congregation when he goeth in to make an atonement in the holy place until he come out and have made an atonement for himself and for his household and for all the congregation of israel
and he shall go out unto the altar that is before the lord and make an atonement for it and shall take of the blood of the bullock and of the blood of the goat and put it upon the horns of the altar round about
and he shall sprinkle of the blood upon it with his finger seven times and cleanse it and hallow it from the uncleanness of the children of israel
and when he hath made an end of reconciling the holy place and the tabernacle of the congregation and the altar he shall bring the live goat
and aaron shall lay both his hands upon the head of the live goat and confess over him all the iniquities of the children of israel and all their transgressions in all their sins putting them upon the head of the goat and shall send him away by the hand of a fit man into the wilderness
and the goat shall bear upon him all their iniquities unto a land not inhabited and he shall let go the goat in the wilderness
and aaron shall come into the tabernacle of the congregation and shall put off the linen garments which he put on when he went into the holy place and shall leave them there
and he shall wash his flesh with water in the holy place and put on his garments and come forth and offer his burnt offering and the burnt offering of the people and make an atonement for himself and for the people
and the fat of the sin offering shall he burn upon the altar
and he that let go the goat for the scapegoat shall wash his clothes and bathe his flesh in water and afterward come into the camp
and the bullock for the sin offering and the goat for the sin offering whose blood was brought in to make atonement in the holy place shall one carry forth without the camp and they shall burn in the fire their skins and their flesh and their dung
and he that burneth them shall wash his clothes and bathe his flesh in water and afterward he shall come into the camp
and this shall be a statute for ever unto you that in the seventh month on the tenth day of the month ye shall afflict your souls and do no work at all whether it be one of your own country or a stranger that sojourneth among you
for on that day shall the priest make an atonement for you to cleanse you that ye may be clean from all your sins before the lord
it shall be a sabbath of rest unto you and ye shall afflict your souls by a statute for ever
and the priest whom he shall anoint and whom he shall consecrate to minister in the priest's office in his father's stead shall make the atonement and shall put on the linen clothes even the holy garments
and he shall make an atonement for the holy sanctuary and he shall make an atonement for the tabernacle of the congregation and for the altar and he shall make an atonement for the priests and for all the people of the congregation
and this shall be an everlasting statute unto you to make an atonement for the children of israel for all their sins once a year and he did as the lord commanded moses
and the lord spake unto moses saying
speak unto aaron and unto his sons and unto all the children of israel and say unto them this is the thing which the lord hath commanded saying
what man soever there be of the house of israel that killeth an ox or lamb or goat in the camp or that killeth it out of the camp
and bringeth it not unto the door of the tabernacle of the congregation to offer an offering unto the lord before the tabernacle of the lord blood shall be imputed unto that man he hath shed blood and that man shall be cut off from among his people
to the end that the children of israel may bring their sacrifices which they offer in the open field even that they may bring them unto the lord unto the door of the tabernacle of the congregation unto the priest and offer them for peace offerings unto the lord
and the priest shall sprinkle the blood upon the altar of the lord at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation and burn the fat for a sweet savour unto the lord
and they shall no more offer their sacrifices unto devils after whom they have gone a whoring this shall be a statute for ever unto them throughout their generations
and thou shalt say unto them whatsoever man there be of the house of israel or of the strangers which sojourn among you that offereth a burnt offering or sacrifice
and bringeth it not unto the door of the tabernacle of the congregation to offer it unto the lord even that man shall be cut off from among his people
and whatsoever man there be of the house of israel or of the strangers that sojourn among you that eateth any manner of blood i will even set my face against that soul that eateth blood and will cut him off from among his people
for the life of the flesh is in the blood and i have given it to you upon the altar to make an atonement for your souls for it is the blood that maketh an atonement for the soul
therefore i said unto the children of israel no soul of you shall eat blood neither shall any stranger that sojourneth among you eat blood
and whatsoever man there be of the children of israel or of the strangers that sojourn among you which hunteth and catcheth any beast or fowl that may be eaten he shall even pour out the blood thereof and cover it with dust
for it is the life of all flesh the blood of it is for the life thereof therefore i said unto the children of israel ye shall eat the blood of no manner of flesh for the life of all flesh is the blood thereof whosoever eateth it shall be cut off
and every soul that eateth that which died of itself or that which was torn with beasts whether it be one of your own country or a stranger he shall both wash his clothes and bathe himself in water and be unclean until the even then shall he be clean
but if he wash them not nor bathe his flesh then he shall bear his iniquity
and the lord spake unto moses saying
speak unto the children of israel and say unto them i am the lord your god
after the doings of the land of egypt wherein ye dwelt shall ye not do and after the doings of the land of canaan whither i bring you shall ye not do neither shall ye walk in their ordinances
ye shall do my judgments and keep mine ordinances to walk therein i am the lord your god
ye shall therefore keep my statutes and my judgments which if a man do he shall live in them i am the lord
none of you shall approach to any that is near of kin to him to uncover their nakedness i am the lord
the nakedness of thy father or the nakedness of thy mother shalt thou not uncover she is thy mother thou shalt not uncover her nakedness
the nakedness of thy father's wife shalt thou not uncover it is thy father's nakedness
the nakedness of thy sister the daughter of thy father or daughter of thy mother whether she be born at home or born abroad even their nakedness thou shalt not uncover
the nakedness of thy son's daughter or of thy daughter's daughter even their nakedness thou shalt not uncover for theirs is thine own nakedness
the nakedness of thy father's wife's daughter begotten of thy father she is thy sister thou shalt not uncover her nakedness
thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy father's sister she is thy father's near kinswoman
thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy mother's sister for she is thy mother's near kinswoman
thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy father's brother thou shalt not approach to his wife she is thine aunt
thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy daughter in law she is thy son's wife thou shalt not uncover her nakedness
thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy brother's wife it is thy brother's nakedness
thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of a woman and her daughter neither shalt thou take her son's daughter or her daughter's daughter to uncover her nakedness for they are her near kinswomen it is wickedness
neither shalt thou take a wife to her sister to vex her to uncover her nakedness beside the other in her life time
also thou shalt not approach unto a woman to uncover her nakedness as long as she is put apart for her uncleanness
moreover thou shalt not lie carnally with thy neighbour's wife to defile thyself with her
and thou shalt not let any of thy seed pass through the fire to molech neither shalt thou profane the name of thy god i am the lord
thou shalt not lie with mankind as with womankind it is abomination
neither shalt thou lie with any beast to defile thyself therewith neither shall any woman stand before a beast to lie down thereto it is confusion
defile not ye yourselves in any of these things for in all these the nations are defiled which i cast out before you
and the land is defiled therefore i do visit the iniquity thereof upon it and the land itself vomiteth out her inhabitants
ye shall therefore keep my statutes and my judgments and shall not commit any of these abominations neither any of your own nation nor any stranger that sojourneth among you
for all these abominations have the men of the land done which were before you and the land is defiled
that the land spue not you out also when ye defile it as it spued out the nations that were before you
for whosoever shall commit any of these abominations even the souls that commit them shall be cut off from among their people
therefore shall ye keep mine ordinance that ye commit not any one of these abominable customs which were committed before you and that ye defile not yourselves therein i am the lord your god
and the lord spake unto moses saying
speak unto all the congregation of the children of israel and say unto them ye shall be holy for i the lord your god am holy
ye shall fear every man his mother and his father and keep my sabbaths i am the lord your god
turn ye not unto idols nor make to yourselves molten gods i am the lord your god
and if ye offer a sacrifice of peace offerings unto the lord ye shall offer it at your own will
it shall be eaten the same day ye offer it and on the morrow and if ought remain until the third day it shall be burnt in the fire
and if it be eaten at all on the third day it is abominable it shall not be accepted
therefore every one that eateth it shall bear his iniquity because he hath profaned the hallowed thing of the lord and that soul shall be cut off from among his people
and when ye reap the harvest of your land thou shalt not wholly reap the corners of thy field neither shalt thou gather the gleanings of thy harvest
and thou shalt not glean thy vineyard neither shalt thou gather every grape of thy vineyard thou shalt leave them for the poor and stranger i am the lord your god
ye shall not steal neither deal falsely neither lie one to another
and ye shall not swear by my name falsely neither shalt thou profane the name of thy god i am the lord
thou shalt not defraud thy neighbour neither rob him the wages of him that is hired shall not abide with thee all night until the morning
thou shalt not curse the deaf nor put a stumblingblock before the blind but shalt fear thy god i am the lord
ye shall do no unrighteousness in judgment thou shalt not respect the person of the poor nor honor the person of the mighty but in righteousness shalt thou judge thy neighbour
thou shalt not go up and down as a talebearer among thy people neither shalt thou stand against the blood of thy neighbour i am the lord
thou shalt not hate thy brother in thine heart thou shalt in any wise rebuke thy neighbour and not suffer sin upon him
thou shalt not avenge nor bear any grudge against the children of thy people but thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself i am the lord
ye shall keep my statutes thou shalt not let thy cattle gender with a diverse kind thou shalt not sow thy field with mingled seed neither shall a garment mingled of linen and woollen come upon thee
and whosoever lieth carnally with a woman that is a bondmaid betrothed to an husband and not at all redeemed nor freedom given her she shall be scourged they shall not be put to death because she was not free
and he shall bring his trespass offering unto the lord unto the door of the tabernacle of the congregation even a ram for a trespass offering
and the priest shall make an atonement for him with the ram of the trespass offering before the lord for his sin which he hath done and the sin which he hath done shall be forgiven him
and when ye shall come into the land and shall have planted all manner of trees for food then ye shall count the fruit thereof as uncircumcised three years shall it be as uncircumcised unto you it shall not be eaten of
but in the fourth year all the fruit thereof shall be holy to praise the lord withal
and in the fifth year shall ye eat of the fruit thereof that it may yield unto you the increase thereof i am the lord your god
ye shall not eat any thing with the blood neither shall ye use enchantment nor observe times
ye shall not round the corners of your heads neither shalt thou mar the corners of thy beard
ye shall not make any cuttings in your flesh for the dead nor print any marks upon you i am the lord
do not prostitute thy daughter to cause her to be a whore lest the land fall to whoredom and the land become full of wickedness
ye shall keep my sabbaths and reverence my sanctuary i am the lord
regard not them that have familiar spirits neither seek after wizards to be defiled by them i am the lord your god
thou shalt rise up before the hoary head and honour the face of the old man and fear thy god i am the lord
and if a stranger sojourn with thee in your land ye shall not vex him
but the stranger that dwelleth with you shall be unto you as one born among you and thou shalt love him as thyself for ye were strangers in the land of egypt i am the lord your god
ye shall do no unrighteousness in judgment in meteyard in weight or in measure
just balances just weights a just ephah and a just hin shall ye have i am the lord your god which brought you out of the land of egypt
therefore shall ye observe all my statutes and all my judgments and do them i am the lord
and the lord spake unto moses saying
again thou shalt say to the children of israel whosoever he be of the children of israel or of the strangers that sojourn in israel that giveth any of his seed unto molech he shall surely be put to death the people of the land shall stone him with stones
and i will set my face against that man and will cut him off from among his people because he hath given of his seed unto molech to defile my sanctuary and to profane my holy name
and if the people of the land do any ways hide their eyes from the man when he giveth of his seed unto molech and kill him not
then i will set my face against that man and against his family and will cut him off and all that go a whoring after him to commit whoredom with molech from among their people
and the soul that turneth after such as have familiar spirits and after wizards to go a whoring after them i will even set my face against that soul and will cut him off from among his people
sanctify yourselves therefore and be ye holy for i am the lord your god
and ye shall keep my statutes and do them i am the lord which sanctify you
for every one that curseth his father or his mother shall be surely put to death he hath cursed his father or his mother his blood shall be upon him
and the man that committeth adultery with another man's wife even he that committeth adultery with his neighbour's wife the adulterer and the adulteress shall surely be put to death
and the man that lieth with his father's wife hath uncovered his father's nakedness both of them shall surely be put to death their blood shall be upon them
and if a man lie with his daughter in law both of them shall surely be put to death they have wrought confusion their blood shall be upon them
if a man also lie with mankind as he lieth with a woman both of them have committed an abomination they shall surely be put to death their blood shall be upon them
and if a man take a wife and her mother it is wickedness they shall be burnt with fire both he and they that there be no wickedness among you
and if a man lie with a beast he shall surely be put to death and ye shall slay the beast
and if a woman approach unto any beast and lie down thereto thou shalt kill the woman and the beast they shall surely be put to death their blood shall be upon them
and if a man shall take his sister his father's daughter or his mother's daughter and see her nakedness and she see his nakedness it is a wicked thing and they shall be cut off in the sight of their people he hath uncovered his sister's nakedness he shall bear his iniquity
and if a man shall lie with a woman having her sickness and shall uncover her nakedness he hath discovered her fountain and she hath uncovered the fountain of her blood and both of them shall be cut off from among their people
and thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy mother's sister nor of thy father's sister for he uncovereth his near kin they shall bear their iniquity
and if a man shall lie with his uncle's wife he hath uncovered his uncle's nakedness they shall bear their sin they shall die childless
and if a man shall take his brother's wife it is an unclean thing he hath uncovered his brother's nakedness they shall be childless
ye shall therefore keep all my statutes and all my judgments and do them that the land whither i bring you to dwell therein spue you not out
and ye shall not walk in the manners of the nation which i cast out before you for they committed all these things and therefore i abhorred them
but i have said unto you ye shall inherit their land and i will give it unto you to possess it a land that floweth with milk and honey i am the lord your god which have separated you from other people
ye shall therefore put difference between clean beasts and unclean and between unclean fowls and clean and ye shall not make your souls abominable by beast or by fowl or by any manner of living thing that creepeth on the ground which i have separated from you as unclean
and ye shall be holy unto me for i the lord am holy and have severed you from other people that ye should be mine
a man also or woman that hath a familiar spirit or that is a wizard shall surely be put to death they shall stone them with stones their blood shall be upon them
and the lord said unto moses speak unto the priests the sons of aaron and say unto them there shall none be defiled for the dead among his people
but for his kin that is near unto him that is for his mother and for his father and for his son and for his daughter and for his brother
and for his sister a virgin that is nigh unto him which hath had no husband for her may he be defiled
but he shall not defile himself being a chief man among his people to profane himself
they shall not make baldness upon their head neither shall they shave off the corner of their beard nor make any cuttings in their flesh
they shall be holy unto their god and not profane the name of their god for the offerings of the lord made by fire and the bread of their god they do offer therefore they shall be holy
they shall not take a wife that is a whore or profane neither shall they take a woman put away from her husband for he is holy unto his god
thou shalt sanctify him therefore for he offereth the bread of thy god he shall be holy unto thee for i the lord which sanctify you am holy
and the daughter of any priest if she profane herself by playing the whore she profaneth her father she shall be burnt with fire
and he that is the high priest among his brethren upon whose head the anointing oil was poured and that is consecrated to put on the garments shall not uncover his head nor rend his clothes
neither shall he go in to any dead body nor defile himself for his father or for his mother
neither shall he go out of the sanctuary nor profane the sanctuary of his god for the crown of the anointing oil of his god is upon him i am the lord
and he shall take a wife in her virginity
a widow or a divorced woman or profane or an harlot these shall he not take but he shall take a virgin of his own people to wife
neither shall he profane his seed among his people for i the lord do sanctify him
and the lord spake unto moses saying
speak unto aaron saying whosoever he be of thy seed in their generations that hath any blemish let him not approach to offer the bread of his god
for whatsoever man he be that hath a blemish he shall not approach a blind man or a lame or he that hath a flat nose or any thing superfluous
or a man that is brokenfooted or brokenhanded
or crookbackt or a dwarf or that hath a blemish in his eye or be scurvy or scabbed or hath his stones broken
no man that hath a blemish of the seed of aaron the priest shall come nigh to offer the offerings of the lord made by fire he hath a blemish he shall not come nigh to offer the bread of his god
he shall eat the bread of his god both of the most holy and of the holy
only he shall not go in unto the vail nor come nigh unto the altar because he hath a blemish that he profane not my sanctuaries for i the lord do sanctify them
and moses told it unto aaron and to his sons and unto all the children of israel
and the lord spake unto moses saying
speak unto aaron and to his sons that they separate themselves from the holy things of the children of israel and that they profane not my holy name in those things which they hallow unto me i am the lord
say unto them whosoever he be of all your seed among your generations that goeth unto the holy things which the children of israel hallow unto the lord having his uncleanness upon him that soul shall be cut off from my presence i am the lord
what man soever of the seed of aaron is a leper or hath a running issue he shall not eat of the holy things until he be clean and whoso toucheth any thing that is unclean by the dead or a man whose seed goeth from him
or whosoever toucheth any creeping thing whereby he may be made unclean or a man of whom he may take uncleanness whatsoever uncleanness he hath
the soul which hath touched any such shall be unclean until even and shall not eat of the holy things unless he wash his flesh with water
and when the sun is down he shall be clean and shall afterward eat of the holy things because it is his food
that which dieth of itself or is torn with beasts he shall not eat to defile himself therewith i am the lord
they shall therefore keep mine ordinance lest they bear sin for it and die therefore if they profane it i the lord do sanctify them
there shall no stranger eat of the holy thing a sojourner of the priest or an hired servant shall not eat of the holy thing
but if the priest buy any soul with his money he shall eat of it and he that is born in his house they shall eat of his meat
if the priest's daughter also be married unto a stranger she may not eat of an offering of the holy things
but if the priest's daughter be a widow or divorced and have no child and is returned unto her father's house as in her youth she shall eat of her father's meat but there shall no stranger eat thereof
and if a man eat of the holy thing unwittingly then he shall put the fifth part thereof unto it and shall give it unto the priest with the holy thing
and they shall not profane the holy things of the children of israel which they offer unto the lord
or suffer them to bear the iniquity of trespass when they eat their holy things for i the lord do sanctify them
and the lord spake unto moses saying
speak unto aaron and to his sons and unto all the children of israel and say unto them whatsoever he be of the house of israel or of the strangers in israel that will offer his oblation for all his vows and for all his freewill offerings which they will offer unto the lord for a burnt offering
ye shall offer at your own will a male without blemish of the beeves of the sheep or of the goats
but whatsoever hath a blemish that shall ye not offer for it shall not be acceptable for you
and whosoever offereth a sacrifice of peace offerings unto the lord to accomplish his vow or a freewill offering in beeves or sheep it shall be perfect to be accepted there shall be no blemish therein
blind or broken or maimed or having a wen or scurvy or scabbed ye shall not offer these unto the lord nor make an offering by fire of them upon the altar unto the lord
either a bullock or a lamb that hath any thing superfluous or lacking in his parts that mayest thou offer for a freewill offering but for a vow it shall not be accepted
ye shall not offer unto the lord that which is bruised or crushed or broken or cut neither shall ye make any offering thereof in your land
neither from a stranger's hand shall ye offer the bread of your god of any of these because their corruption is in them and blemishes be in them they shall not be accepted for you
and the lord spake unto moses saying
when a bullock or a sheep or a goat is brought forth then it shall be seven days under the dam and from the eighth day and thenceforth it shall be accepted for an offering made by fire unto the lord
and whether it be cow or ewe ye shall not kill it and her young both in one day
and when ye will offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving unto the lord offer it at your own will
on the same day it shall be eaten up ye shall leave none of it until the morrow i am the lord
therefore shall ye keep my commandments and do them i am the lord
neither shall ye profane my holy name but i will be hallowed among the children of israel i am the lord which hallow you
that brought you out of the land of egypt to be your god i am the lord
and the lord spake unto moses saying
speak unto the children of israel and say unto them concerning the feasts of the lord which ye shall proclaim to be holy convocations even these are my feasts
six days shall work be done but the seventh day is the sabbath of rest an holy convocation ye shall do no work therein it is the sabbath of the lord in all your dwellings
these are the feasts of the lord even holy convocations which ye shall proclaim in their seasons
in the fourteenth day of the first month at even is the lord's passover
and on the fifteenth day of the same month is the feast of unleavened bread unto the lord seven days ye must eat unleavened bread
in the first day ye shall have an holy convocation ye shall do no servile work therein
but ye shall offer an offering made by fire unto the lord seven days in the seventh day is an holy convocation ye shall do no servile work therein
and the lord spake unto moses saying
speak unto the children of israel and say unto them when ye be come into the land which i give unto you and shall reap the harvest thereof then ye shall bring a sheaf of the firstfruits of your harvest unto the priest
and he shall wave the sheaf before the lord to be accepted for you on the morrow after the sabbath the priest shall wave it
and ye shall offer that day when ye wave the sheaf an he lamb without blemish of the first year for a burnt offering unto the lord
and the meat offering thereof shall be two tenth deals of fine flour mingled with oil an offering made by fire unto the lord for a sweet savour and the drink offering thereof shall be of wine the fourth part of an hin
and ye shall eat neither bread nor parched corn nor green ears until the selfsame day that ye have brought an offering unto your god it shall be a statute for ever throughout your generations in all your dwellings
and ye shall count unto you from the morrow after the sabbath from the day that ye brought the sheaf of the wave offering seven sabbaths shall be complete
even unto the morrow after the seventh sabbath shall ye number fifty days and ye shall offer a new meat offering unto the lord
ye shall bring out of your habitations two wave loaves of two tenth deals they shall be of fine flour they shall be baken with leaven they are the firstfruits unto the lord
and ye shall offer with the bread seven lambs without blemish of the first year and one young bullock and two rams they shall be for a burnt offering unto the lord with their meat offering and their drink offerings even an offering made by fire of sweet savour unto the lord
then ye shall sacrifice one kid of the goats for a sin offering and two lambs of the first year for a sacrifice of peace offerings
and the priest shall wave them with the bread of the firstfruits for a wave offering before the lord with the two lambs they shall be holy to the lord for the priest
and ye shall proclaim on the selfsame day that it may be an holy convocation unto you ye shall do no servile work therein it shall be a statute for ever in all your dwellings throughout your generations
and when ye reap the harvest of your land thou shalt not make clean riddance of the corners of thy field when thou reapest neither shalt thou gather any gleaning of thy harvest thou shalt leave them unto the poor and to the stranger i am the lord your god
and the lord spake unto moses saying
speak unto the children of israel saying in the seventh month in the first day of the month shall ye have a sabbath a memorial of blowing of trumpets an holy convocation
ye shall do no servile work therein but ye shall offer an offering made by fire unto the lord
and the lord spake unto moses saying
also on the tenth day of this seventh month there shall be a day of atonement it shall be an holy convocation unto you and ye shall afflict your souls and offer an offering made by fire unto the lord
and ye shall do no work in that same day for it is a day of atonement to make an atonement for you before the lord your god
for whatsoever soul it be that shall not be afflicted in that same day he shall be cut off from among his people
and whatsoever soul it be that doeth any work in that same day the same soul will i destroy from among his people
ye shall do no manner of work it shall be a statute for ever throughout your generations in all your dwellings
it shall be unto you a sabbath of rest and ye shall afflict your souls in the ninth day of the month at even from even unto even shall ye celebrate your sabbath
and the lord spake unto moses saying
speak unto the children of israel saying the fifteenth day of this seventh month shall be the feast of tabernacles for seven days unto the lord
on the first day shall be an holy convocation ye shall do no servile work therein
seven days ye shall offer an offering made by fire unto the lord on the eighth day shall be an holy convocation unto you and ye shall offer an offering made by fire unto the lord it is a solemn assembly and ye shall do no servile work therein
these are the feasts of the lord which ye shall proclaim to be holy convocations to offer an offering made by fire unto the lord a burnt offering and a meat offering a sacrifice and drink offerings every thing upon his day
beside the sabbaths of the lord and beside your gifts and beside all your vows and beside all your freewill offerings which ye give unto the lord
also in the fifteenth day of the seventh month when ye have gathered in the fruit of the land ye shall keep a feast unto the lord seven days on the first day shall be a sabbath and on the eighth day shall be a sabbath
and ye shall take you on the first day the boughs of goodly trees branches of palm trees and the boughs of thick trees and willows of the brook and ye shall rejoice before the lord your god seven days
and ye shall keep it a feast unto the lord seven days in the year it shall be a statute for ever in your generations ye shall celebrate it in the seventh month
ye shall dwell in booths seven days all that are israelites born shall dwell in booths
that your generations may know that i made the children of israel to dwell in booths when i brought them out of the land of egypt i am the lord your god
and moses declared unto the children of israel the feasts of the lord
and the lord spake unto moses saying
command the children of israel that they bring unto thee pure oil olive beaten for the light to cause the lamps to burn continually
without the vail of the testimony in the tabernacle of the congregation shall aaron order it from the evening unto the morning before the lord continually it shall be a statute for ever in your generations
he shall order the lamps upon the pure candlestick before the lord continually
and thou shalt take fine flour and bake twelve cakes thereof two tenth deals shall be in one cake
and thou shalt set them in two rows six on a row upon the pure table before the lord
and thou shalt put pure frankincense upon each row that it may be on the bread for a memorial even an offering made by fire unto the lord
every sabbath he shall set it in order before the lord continually being taken from the children of israel by an everlasting covenant
and it shall be aaron's and his sons and they shall eat it in the holy place for it is most holy unto him of the offerings of the lord made by fire by a perpetual statute
and the son of an israelitish woman whose father was an egyptian went out among the children of israel and this son of the israelitish woman and a man of israel strove together in the camp
and the israelitish woman's son blasphemed the name of the lord and cursed and they brought him unto moses and his mother's name was shelomith the daughter of dibri of the tribe of dan
and they put him in ward that the mind of the lord might be shewed them
and the lord spake unto moses saying
bring forth him that hath cursed without the camp and let all that heard him lay their hands upon his head and let all the congregation stone him
and thou shalt speak unto the children of israel saying whosoever curseth his god shall bear his sin
and he that blasphemeth the name of the lord he shall surely be put to death and all the congregation shall certainly stone him as well the stranger as he that is born in the land when he blasphemeth the name of the lord shall be put to death
and he that killeth any man shall surely be put to death
and he that killeth a beast shall make it good beast for beast
and if a man cause a blemish in his neighbour as he hath done so shall it be done to him
breach for breach eye for eye tooth for tooth as he hath caused a blemish in a man so shall it be done to him again
and he that killeth a beast he shall restore it and he that killeth a man he shall be put to death
ye shall have one manner of law as well for the stranger as for one of your own country for i am the lord your god
and moses spake to the children of israel that they should bring forth him that had cursed out of the camp and stone him with stones and the children of israel did as the lord commanded moses
and the lord spake unto moses in mount sinai saying
speak unto the children of israel and say unto them when ye come into the land which i give you then shall the land keep a sabbath unto the lord
six years thou shalt sow thy field and six years thou shalt prune thy vineyard and gather in the fruit thereof
but in the seventh year shall be a sabbath of rest unto the land a sabbath for the lord thou shalt neither sow thy field nor prune thy vineyard
that which groweth of its own accord of thy harvest thou shalt not reap neither gather the grapes of thy vine undressed for it is a year of rest unto the land
and the sabbath of the land shall be meat for you for thee and for thy servant and for thy maid and for thy hired servant and for thy stranger that sojourneth with thee
and for thy cattle and for the beast that are in thy land shall all the increase thereof be meat
and thou shalt number seven sabbaths of years unto thee seven times seven years and the space of the seven sabbaths of years shall be unto thee forty and nine years
then shalt thou cause the trumpet of the jubile to sound on the tenth day of the seventh month in the day of atonement shall ye make the trumpet sound throughout all your land
and ye shall hallow the fiftieth year and proclaim liberty throughout all the land unto all the inhabitants thereof it shall be a jubile unto you and ye shall return every man unto his possession and ye shall return every man unto his family
a jubile shall that fiftieth year be unto you ye shall not sow neither reap that which groweth of itself in it nor gather the grapes in it of thy vine undressed
for it is the jubile it shall be holy unto you ye shall eat the increase thereof out of the field
in the year of this jubile ye shall return every man unto his possession
and if thou sell ought unto thy neighbour or buyest ought of thy neighbour's hand ye shall not oppress one another
according to the number of years after the jubile thou shalt buy of thy neighbour and according unto the number of years of the fruits he shall sell unto thee
according to the multitude of years thou shalt increase the price thereof and according to the fewness of years thou shalt diminish the price of it for according to the number of the years of the fruits doth he sell unto thee
ye shall not therefore oppress one another but thou shalt fear thy godfor i am the lord your god
wherefore ye shall do my statutes and keep my judgments and do them and ye shall dwell in the land in safety
and the land shall yield her fruit and ye shall eat your fill and dwell therein in safety
and if ye shall say what shall we eat the seventh year behold we shall not sow nor gather in our increase
then i will command my blessing upon you in the sixth year and it shall bring forth fruit for three years
and ye shall sow the eighth year and eat yet of old fruit until the ninth year until her fruits come in ye shall eat of the old store
the land shall not be sold for ever for the land is mine for ye are strangers and sojourners with me
and in all the land of your possession ye shall grant a redemption for the land
if thy brother be waxen poor and hath sold away some of his possession and if any of his kin come to redeem it then shall he redeem that which his brother sold
and if the man have none to redeem it and himself be able to redeem it
then let him count the years of the sale thereof and restore the overplus unto the man to whom he sold it that he may return unto his possession
but if he be not able to restore it to him then that which is sold shall remain in the hand of him that hath bought it until the year of jubile and in the jubile it shall go out and he shall return unto his possession
and if a man sell a dwelling house in a walled city then he may redeem it within a whole year after it is sold within a full year may he redeem it
and if it be not redeemed within the space of a full year then the house that is in the walled city shall be established for ever to him that bought it throughout his generations it shall not go out in the jubile
but the houses of the villages which have no wall round about them shall be counted as the fields of the country they may be redeemed and they shall go out in the jubile
notwithstanding the cities of the levites and the houses of the cities of their possession may the levites redeem at any time
and if a man purchase of the levites then the house that was sold and the city of his possession shall go out in the year of jubile for the houses of the cities of the levites are their possession among the children of israel
but the field of the suburbs of their cities may not be sold for it is their perpetual possession
and if thy brother be waxen poor and fallen in decay with thee then thou shalt relieve him yea though he be a stranger or a sojourner that he may live with thee
take thou no usury of him or increase but fear thy god that thy brother may live with thee
thou shalt not give him thy money upon usury nor lend him thy victuals for increase
i am the lord your god which brought you forth out of the land of egypt to give you the land of canaan and to be your god
and if thy brother that dwelleth by thee be waxen poor and be sold unto thee thou shalt not compel him to serve as a bondservant
but as an hired servant and as a sojourner he shall be with thee and shall serve thee unto the year of jubile
and then shall he depart from thee both he and his children with him and shall return unto his own family and unto the possession of his fathers shall he return
for they are my servants which i brought forth out of the land of egypt they shall not be sold as bondmen
thou shalt not rule over him with rigour but shalt fear thy god
both thy bondmen and thy bondmaids which thou shalt have shall be of the heathen that are round about you of them shall ye buy bondmen and bondmaids
moreover of the children of the strangers that do sojourn among you of them shall ye buy and of their families that are with you which they begat in your land and they shall be your possession
and ye shall take them as an inheritance for your children after you to inherit them for a possession they shall be your bondmen for ever but over your brethren the children of israel ye shall not rule one over another with rigour
and if a sojourner or stranger wax rich by thee and thy brother that dwelleth by him wax poor and sell himself unto the stranger or sojourner by thee or to the stock of the stranger's family
after that he is sold he may be redeemed again one of his brethren may redeem him
either his uncle or his uncle's son may redeem him or any that is nigh of kin unto him of his family may redeem him or if he be able he may redeem himself
and he shall reckon with him that bought him from the year that he was sold to him unto the year of jubile and the price of his sale shall be according unto the number of years according to the time of an hired servant shall it be with him
if there be yet many years behind according unto them he shall give again the price of his redemption out of the money that he was bought for
and if there remain but few years unto the year of jubile then he shall count with him and according unto his years shall he give him again the price of his redemption
and as a yearly hired servant shall he be with him and the other shall not rule with rigour over him in thy sight
and if he be not redeemed in these years then he shall go out in the year of jubile both he and his children with him
for unto me the children of israel are servants they are my servants whom i brought forth out of the land of egypt i am the lord your god
ye shall make you no idols nor graven image neither rear you up a standing image neither shall ye set up any image of stone in your land to bow down unto it for i am the lord your god
ye shall keep my sabbaths and reverence my sanctuary i am the lord
if ye walk in my statutes and keep my commandments and do them
then i will give you rain in due season and the land shall yield her increase and the trees of the field shall yield their fruit
and your threshing shall reach unto the vintage and the vintage shall reach unto the sowing time and ye shall eat your bread to the full and dwell in your land safely
and i will give peace in the land and ye shall lie down and none shall make you afraid and i will rid evil beasts out of the land neither shall the sword go through your land
and ye shall chase your enemies and they shall fall before you by the sword
and five of you shall chase an hundred and an hundred of you shall put ten thousand to flight and your enemies shall fall before you by the sword
for i will have respect unto you and make you fruitful and multiply you and establish my covenant with you
and ye shall eat old store and bring forth the old because of the new
and i will set my tabernacle among you and my soul shall not abhor you
and i will walk among you and will be your god and ye shall be my people
i am the lord your god which brought you forth out of the land of egypt that ye should not be their bondmen and i have broken the bands of your yoke and made you go upright
but if ye will not hearken unto me and will not do all these commandments
and if ye shall despise my statutes or if your soul abhor my judgments so that ye will not do all my commandments but that ye break my covenant
i also will do this unto you i will even appoint over you terror consumption and the burning ague that shall consume the eyes and cause sorrow of heart and ye shall sow your seed in vain for your enemies shall eat it
and i will set my face against you and ye shall be slain before your enemies they that hate you shall reign over you and ye shall flee when none pursueth you
and if ye will not yet for all this hearken unto me then i will punish you seven times more for your sins
and i will break the pride of your power and i will make your heaven as iron and your earth as brass
and your strength shall be spent in vain for your land shall not yield her increase neither shall the trees of the land yield their fruits
and if ye walk contrary unto me and will not hearken unto me i will bring seven times more plagues upon you according to your sins
i will also send wild beasts among you which shall rob you of your children and destroy your cattle and make you few in number and your high ways shall be desolate
and if ye will not be reformed by me by these things but will walk contrary unto me
then will i also walk contrary unto you and will punish you yet seven times for your sins
and i will bring a sword upon you that shall avenge the quarrel of my covenant and when ye are gathered together within your cities i will send the pestilence among you and ye shall be delivered into the hand of the enemy
and when i have broken the staff of your bread ten women shall bake your bread in one oven and they shall deliver you your bread again by weight and ye shall eat and not be satisfied
and if ye will not for all this hearken unto me but walk contrary unto me
then i will walk contrary unto you also in fury and i even i will chastise you seven times for your sins
and ye shall eat the flesh of your sons and the flesh of your daughters shall ye eat
and i will destroy your high places and cut down your images and cast your carcases upon the carcases of your idols and my soul shall abhor you
and i will make your cities waste and bring your sanctuaries unto desolation and i will not smell the savour of your sweet odours
and i will bring the land into desolation and your enemies which dwell therein shall be astonished at it
and i will scatter you among the heathen and will draw out a sword after you and your land shall be desolate and your cities waste
then shall the land enjoy her sabbaths as long as it lieth desolate and ye be in your enemies land even then shall the land rest and enjoy her sabbaths
as long as it lieth desolate it shall rest because it did not rest in your sabbaths when ye dwelt upon it
and upon them that are left alive of you i will send a faintness into their hearts in the lands of their enemies and the sound of a shaken leaf shall chase them and they shall flee as fleeing from a sword and they shall fall when none pursueth
and they shall fall one upon another as it were before a sword when none pursueth and ye shall have no power to stand before your enemies
and ye shall perish among the heathen and the land of your enemies shall eat you up
and they that are left of you shall pine away in their iniquity in your enemies lands and also in the iniquities of their fathers shall they pine away with them
if they shall confess their iniquity and the iniquity of their fathers with their trespass which they trespassed against me and that also they have walked contrary unto me
and that i also have walked contrary unto them and have brought them into the land of their enemies if then their uncircumcised hearts be humbled and they then accept of the punishment of their iniquity
then will i remember my covenant with jacob and also my covenant with isaac and also my covenant with abraham will i remember and i will remember the land
the land also shall be left of them and shall enjoy her sabbaths while she lieth desolate without them and they shall accept of the punishment of their iniquity because even because they despised my judgments and because their soul abhorred my statutes
and yet for all that when they be in the land of their enemies i will not cast them away neither will i abhor them to destroy them utterly and to break my covenant with them for i am the lord their god
but i will for their sakes remember the covenant of their ancestors whom i brought forth out of the land of egypt in the sight of the heathen that i might be their god i am the lord
these are the statutes and judgments and laws which the lord made between him and the children of israel in mount sinai by the hand of moses
and the lord spake unto moses saying
speak unto the children of israel and say unto them when a man shall make a singular vow the persons shall be for the lord by thy estimation
and thy estimation shall be of the male from twenty years old even unto sixty years old even thy estimation shall be fifty shekels of silver after the shekel of the sanctuary
and if it be a female then thy estimation shall be thirty shekels
and if it be from five years old even unto twenty years old then thy estimation shall be of the male twenty shekels and for the female ten shekels
and if it be from a month old even unto five years old then thy estimation shall be of the male five shekels of silver and for the female thy estimation shall be three shekels of silver
and if it be from sixty years old and above if it be a male then thy estimation shall be fifteen shekels and for the female ten shekels
but if he be poorer than thy estimation then he shall present himself before the priest and the priest shall value him according to his ability that vowed shall the priest value him
and if it be a beast whereof men bring an offering unto the lord all that any man giveth of such unto the lord shall be holy
he shall not alter it nor change it a good for a bad or a bad for a good and if he shall at all change beast for beast then it and the exchange thereof shall be holy
and if it be any unclean beast of which they do not offer a sacrifice unto the lord then he shall present the beast before the priest
and the priest shall value it whether it be good or bad as thou valuest it who art the priest so shall it be
but if he will at all redeem it then he shall add a fifth part thereof unto thy estimation
and when a man shall sanctify his house to be holy unto the lord then the priest shall estimate it whether it be good or bad as the priest shall estimate it so shall it stand
and if he that sanctified it will redeem his house then he shall add the fifth part of the money of thy estimation unto it and it shall be his
and if a man shall sanctify unto the lord some part of a field of his possession then thy estimation shall be according to the seed thereof an homer of barley seed shall be valued at fifty shekels of silver
if he sanctify his field from the year of jubile according to thy estimation it shall stand
but if he sanctify his field after the jubile then the priest shall reckon unto him the money according to the years that remain even unto the year of the jubile and it shall be abated from thy estimation
and if he that sanctified the field will in any wise redeem it then he shall add the fifth part of the money of thy estimation unto it and it shall be assured to him
and if he will not redeem the field or if he have sold the field to another man it shall not be redeemed any more
but the field when it goeth out in the jubile shall be holy unto the lord as a field devoted the possession thereof shall be the priest's
and if a man sanctify unto the lord a field which he hath bought which is not of the fields of his possession
then the priest shall reckon unto him the worth of thy estimation even unto the year of the jubile and he shall give thine estimation in that day as a holy thing unto the lord
in the year of the jubile the field shall return unto him of whom it was bought even to him to whom the possession of the land did belong
and all thy estimations shall be according to the shekel of the sanctuary twenty gerahs shall be the shekel
only the firstling of the beasts which should be the lord's firstling no man shall sanctify it whether it be ox or sheep it is the lord's
and if it be of an unclean beast then he shall redeem it according to thine estimation and shall add a fifth part of it thereto or if it be not redeemed then it shall be sold according to thy estimation
notwithstanding no devoted thing that a man shall devote unto the lord of all that he hath both of man and beast and of the field of his possession shall be sold or redeemed every devoted thing is most holy unto the lord
none devoted which shall be devoted of men shall be redeemed but shall surely be put to death
and all the tithe of the land whether of the seed of the land or of the fruit of the tree is the lord's it is holy unto the lord
and if a man will at all redeem ought of his tithes he shall add thereto the fifth part thereof
and concerning the tithe of the herd or of the flock even of whatsoever passeth under the rod the tenth shall be holy unto the lord
he shall not search whether it be good or bad neither shall he change it and if he change it at all then both it and the change thereof shall be holy it shall not be redeemed
these are the commandments which the lord commanded moses for the children of israel in mount sinai
and the lord spake unto moses in the wilderness of sinai in the tabernacle of the congregation on the first day of the second month in the second year after they were come out of the land of egypt saying
take ye the sum of all the congregation of the children of israel after their families by the house of their fathers with the number of their names every male by their polls
from twenty years old and upward all that are able to go forth to war in israel thou and aaron shall number them by their armies
and with you there shall be a man of every tribe every one head of the house of his fathers
and these are the names of the men that shall stand with you of the tribe of reuben elizur the son of shedeur
of simeon shelumiel the son of zurishaddai
of judah nahshon the son of amminadab
of issachar nethaneel the son of zuar
of zebulun eliab the son of helon
of the children of joseph of ephraim elishama the son of ammihud of manasseh gamaliel the son of pedahzur
of benjamin abidan the son of gideoni
of dan ahiezer the son of ammishaddai
of asher pagiel the son of ocran
of gad eliasaph the son of deuel
of naphtali ahira the son of enan
these were the renowned of the congregation princes of the tribes of their fathers heads of thousands in israel
and moses and aaron took these men which are expressed by their names
and they assembled all the congregation together on the first day of the second month and they declared their pedigrees after their families by the house of their fathers according to the number of the names from twenty years old and upward by their polls
as the lord commanded moses so he numbered them in the wilderness of sinai
and the children of reuben israel's eldest son by their generations after their families by the house of their fathers according to the number of the names by their polls every male from twenty years old and upward all that were able to go forth to war
those that were numbered of them even of the tribe of reuben were forty and six thousand and five hundred
of the children of simeon by their generations after their families by the house of their fathers those that were numbered of them according to the number of the names by their polls every male from twenty years old and upward all that were able to go forth to war
those that were numbered of them even of the tribe of simeon were fifty and nine thousand and three hundred
of the children of gad by their generations after their families by the house of their fathers according to the number of the names from twenty years old and upward all that were able to go forth to war
those that were numbered of them even of the tribe of gad were forty and five thousand six hundred and fifty
of the children of judah by their generations after their families by the house of their fathers according to the number of the names from twenty years old and upward all that were able to go forth to war
those that were numbered of them even of the tribe of judah were threescore and fourteen thousand and six hundred
of the children of issachar by their generations after their families by the house of their fathers according to the number of the names from twenty years old and upward all that were able to go forth to war
those that were numbered of them even of the tribe of issachar were fifty and four thousand and four hundred
of the children of zebulun by their generations after their families by the house of their fathers according to the number of the names from twenty years old and upward all that were able to go forth to war
those that were numbered of them even of the tribe of zebulun were fifty and seven thousand and four hundred
of the children of joseph namely of the children of ephraim by their generations after their families by the house of their fathers according to the number of the names from twenty years old and upward all that were able to go forth to war
those that were numbered of them even of the tribe of ephraim were forty thousand and five hundred
of the children of manasseh by their generations after their families by the house of their fathers according to the number of the names from twenty years old and upward all that were able to go forth to war
those that were numbered of them even of the tribe of manasseh were thirty and two thousand and two hundred
of the children of benjamin by their generations after their families by the house of their fathers according to the number of the names from twenty years old and upward all that were able to go forth to war
those that were numbered of them even of the tribe of benjamin were thirty and five thousand and four hundred
of the children of dan by their generations after their families by the house of their fathers according to the number of the names from twenty years old and upward all that were able to go forth to war
those that were numbered of them even of the tribe of dan were threescore and two thousand and seven hundred
of the children of asher by their generations after their families by the house of their fathers according to the number of the names from twenty years old and upward all that were able to go forth to war
those that were numbered of them even of the tribe of asher were forty and one thousand and five hundred
of the children of naphtali throughout their generations after their families by the house of their fathers according to the number of the names from twenty years old and upward all that were able to go forth to war
those that were numbered of them even of the tribe of naphtali were fifty and three thousand and four hundred
these are those that were numbered which moses and aaron numbered and the princes of israel being twelve men each one was for the house of his fathers
so were all those that were numbered of the children of israel by the house of their fathers from twenty years old and upward all that were able to go forth to war in israel
even all they that were numbered were six hundred thousand and three thousand and five hundred and fifty
but the levites after the tribe of their fathers were not numbered among them
for the lord had spoken unto moses saying
only thou shalt not number the tribe of levi neither take the sum of them among the children of israel
but thou shalt appoint the levites over the tabernacle of testimony and over all the vessels thereof and over all things that belong to it they shall bear the tabernacle and all the vessels thereof and they shall minister unto it and shall encamp round about the tabernacle
and when the tabernacle setteth forward the levites shall take it down and when the tabernacle is to be pitched the levites shall set it up and the stranger that cometh nigh shall be put to death
and the children of israel shall pitch their tents every man by his own camp and every man by his own standard throughout their hosts
but the levites shall pitch round about the tabernacle of testimony that there be no wrath upon the congregation of the children of israel and the levites shall keep the charge of the tabernacle of testimony
and the children of israel did according to all that the lord commanded moses so did they
and the lord spake unto moses and unto aaron saying
every man of the children of israel shall pitch by his own standard with the ensign of their father's house far off about the tabernacle of the congregation shall they pitch
and on the east side toward the rising of the sun shall they of the standard of the camp of judah pitch throughout their armies and nahshon the son of amminadab shall be captain of the children of judah
and his host and those that were numbered of them were threescore and fourteen thousand and six hundred
and those that do pitch next unto him shall be the tribe of issachar and nethaneel the son of zuar shall be captain of the children of issachar
and his host and those that were numbered thereof were fifty and four thousand and four hundred
then the tribe of zebulun and eliab the son of helon shall be captain of the children of zebulun
and his host and those that were numbered thereof were fifty and seven thousand and four hundred
all that were numbered in the camp of judah were an hundred thousand and fourscore thousand and six thousand and four hundred throughout their armies these shall first set forth
on the south side shall be the standard of the camp of reuben according to their armies and the captain of the children of reuben shall be elizur the son of shedeur
and his host and those that were numbered thereof were forty and six thousand and five hundred
and those which pitch by him shall be the tribe of simeon and the captain of the children of simeon shall be shelumiel the son of zurishaddai
and his host and those that were numbered of them were fifty and nine thousand and three hundred
then the tribe of gad and the captain of the sons of gad shall be eliasaph the son of reuel
and his host and those that were numbered of them were forty and five thousand and six hundred and fifty
all that were numbered in the camp of reuben were an hundred thousand and fifty and one thousand and four hundred and fifty throughout their armies and they shall set forth in the second rank
then the tabernacle of the congregation shall set forward with the camp of the levites in the midst of the camp as they encamp so shall they set forward every man in his place by their standards
on the west side shall be the standard of the camp of ephraim according to their armies and the captain of the sons of ephraim shall be elishama the son of ammihud
and his host and those that were numbered of them were forty thousand and five hundred
and by him shall be the tribe of manasseh and the captain of the children of manasseh shall be gamaliel the son of pedahzur
and his host and those that were numbered of them were thirty and two thousand and two hundred
then the tribe of benjamin and the captain of the sons of benjamin shall be abidan the son of gideoni
and his host and those that were numbered of them were thirty and five thousand and four hundred
all that were numbered of the camp of ephraim were an hundred thousand and eight thousand and an hundred throughout their armies and they shall go forward in the third rank
the standard of the camp of dan shall be on the north side by their armies and the captain of the children of dan shall be ahiezer the son of ammishaddai
and his host and those that were numbered of them were threescore and two thousand and seven hundred
and those that encamp by him shall be the tribe of asher and the captain of the children of asher shall be pagiel the son of ocran
and his host and those that were numbered of them were forty and one thousand and five hundred
then the tribe of naphtali and the captain of the children of naphtali shall be ahira the son of enan
and his host and those that were numbered of them were fifty and three thousand and four hundred
all they that were numbered in the camp of dan were an hundred thousand and fifty and seven thousand and six hundred they shall go hindmost with their standards
these are those which were numbered of the children of israel by the house of their fathers all those that were numbered of the camps throughout their hosts were six hundred thousand and three thousand and five hundred and fifty
but the levites were not numbered among the children of israel as the lord commanded moses
and the children of israel did according to all that the lord commanded moses so they pitched by their standards and so they set forward every one after their families according to the house of their fathers
these also are the generations of aaron and moses in the day that the lord spake with moses in mount sinai
and these are the names of the sons of aaron nadab the firstborn and abihu eleazar and ithamar
these are the names of the sons of aaron the priests which were anointed whom he consecrated to minister in the priest's office
and nadab and abihu died before the lord when they offered strange fire before the lord in the wilderness of sinai and they had no children and eleazar and ithamar ministered in the priest's office in the sight of aaron their father
and the lord spake unto moses saying
bring the tribe of levi near and present them before aaron the priest that they may minister unto him
and they shall keep his charge and the charge of the whole congregation before the tabernacle of the congregation to do the service of the tabernacle
and they shall keep all the instruments of the tabernacle of the congregation and the charge of the children of israel to do the service of the tabernacle
and thou shalt give the levites unto aaron and to his sons they are wholly given unto him out of the children of israel
and thou shalt appoint aaron and his sons and they shall wait on their priest's office and the stranger that cometh nigh shall be put to death
and the lord spake unto moses saying
and i behold i have taken the levites from among the children of israel instead of all the firstborn that openeth the matrix among the children of israel therefore the levites shall be mine
because all the firstborn are mine for on the day that i smote all the firstborn in the land of egypt i hallowed unto me all the firstborn in israel both man and beast mine shall they be i am the lord
and the lord spake unto moses in the wilderness of sinai saying
number the children of levi after the house of their fathers by their families every male from a month old and upward shalt thou number them
and moses numbered them according to the word of the lord as he was commanded
and these were the sons of levi by their names gershon and kohath and merari
and these are the names of the sons of gershon by their families libni and shimei
and the sons of kohath by their families amram and izehar hebron and uzziel
and the sons of merari by their families mahli and mushi these are the families of the levites according to the house of their fathers
of gershon was the family of the libnites and the family of the shimites these are the families of the gershonites
those that were numbered of them according to the number of all the males from a month old and upward even those that were numbered of them were seven thousand and five hundred
the families of the gershonites shall pitch behind the tabernacle westward
and the chief of the house of the father of the gershonites shall be eliasaph the son of lael
and the charge of the sons of gershon in the tabernacle of the congregation shall be the tabernacle and the tent the covering thereof and the hanging for the door of the tabernacle of the congregation
and the hangings of the court and the curtain for the door of the court which is by the tabernacle and by the altar round about and the cords of it for all the service thereof
and of kohath was the family of the amramites and the family of the izeharites and the family of the hebronites and the family of the uzzielites these are the families of the kohathites
in the number of all the males from a month old and upward were eight thousand and six hundred keeping the charge of the sanctuary
the families of the sons of kohath shall pitch on the side of the tabernacle southward
and the chief of the house of the father of the families of the kohathites shall be elizaphan the son of uzziel
and their charge shall be the ark and the table and the candlestick and the altars and the vessels of the sanctuary wherewith they minister and the hanging and all the service thereof
and eleazar the son of aaron the priest shall be chief over the chief of the levites and have the oversight of them that keep the charge of the sanctuary
of merari was the family of the mahlites and the family of the mushites these are the families of merari
and those that were numbered of them according to the number of all the males from a month old and upward were six thousand and two hundred
and the chief of the house of the father of the families of merari was zuriel the son of abihail these shall pitch on the side of the tabernacle northward
and under the custody and charge of the sons of merari shall be the boards of the tabernacle and the bars thereof and the pillars thereof and the sockets thereof and all the vessels thereof and all that serveth thereto
and the pillars of the court round about and their sockets and their pins and their cords
but those that encamp before the tabernacle toward the east even before the tabernacle of the congregation eastward shall be moses and aaron and his sons keeping the charge of the sanctuary for the charge of the children of israel and the stranger that cometh nigh shall be put to death
all that were numbered of the levites which moses and aaron numbered at the commandment of the lord throughout their families all the males from a month old and upward were twenty and two thousand
and the lord said unto moses number all the firstborn of the males of the children of israel from a month old and upward and take the number of their names
and thou shalt take the levites for me i am the lord instead of all the firstborn among the children of israel and the cattle of the levites instead of all the firstlings among the cattle of the children of israel
and moses numbered as the lord commanded him all the firstborn among the children of israel
and all the firstborn males by the number of names from a month old and upward of those that were numbered of them were twenty and two thousand two hundred and threescore and thirteen
and the lord spake unto moses saying
take the levites instead of all the firstborn among the children of israel and the cattle of the levites instead of their cattle and the levites shall be mine i am the lord
and for those that are to be redeemed of the two hundred and threescore and thirteen of the firstborn of the children of israel which are more than the levites
thou shalt even take five shekels apiece by the poll after the shekel of the sanctuary shalt thou take them the shekel is twenty gerahs
and thou shalt give the money wherewith the odd number of them is to be redeemed unto aaron and to his sons
and moses took the redemption money of them that were over and above them that were redeemed by the levites
of the firstborn of the children of israel took he the money a thousand three hundred and threescore and five shekels after the shekel of the sanctuary
and moses gave the money of them that were redeemed unto aaron and to his sons according to the word of the lord as the lord commanded moses
and the lord spake unto moses and unto aaron saying
take the sum of the sons of kohath from among the sons of levi after their families by the house of their fathers
from thirty years old and upward even until fifty years old all that enter into the host to do the work in the tabernacle of the congregation
this shall be the service of the sons of kohath in the tabernacle of the congregation about the most holy things
and when the camp setteth forward aaron shall come and his sons and they shall take down the covering vail and cover the ark of testimony with it
and shall put thereon the covering of badgers skins and shall spread over it a cloth wholly of blue and shall put in the staves thereof
and upon the table of shewbread they shall spread a cloth of blue and put thereon the dishes and the spoons and the bowls and covers to cover withal and the continual bread shall be thereon
and they shall spread upon them a cloth of scarlet and cover the same with a covering of badgers skins and shall put in the staves thereof
and they shall take a cloth of blue and cover the candlestick of the light and his lamps and his tongs and his snuffdishes and all the oil vessels thereof wherewith they minister unto it
and they shall put it and all the vessels thereof within a covering of badgers skins and shall put it upon a bar
and upon the golden altar they shall spread a cloth of blue and cover it with a covering of badgers skins and shall put to the staves thereof
and they shall take all the instruments of ministry wherewith they minister in the sanctuary and put them in a cloth of blue and cover them with a covering of badgers skins and shall put them on a bar
and they shall take away the ashes from the altar and spread a purple cloth thereon
and they shall put upon it all the vessels thereof wherewith they minister about it even the censers the fleshhooks and the shovels and the basons all the vessels of the altar and they shall spread upon it a covering of badgers skins and put to the staves of it
and when aaron and his sons have made an end of covering the sanctuary and all the vessels of the sanctuary as the camp is to set forward after that the sons of kohath shall come to bear it but they shall not touch any holy thing lest they die these things are the burden of the sons of kohath in the tabernacle of the congregation
and to the office of eleazar the son of aaron the priest pertaineth the oil for the light and the sweet incense and the daily meat offering and the anointing oil and the oversight of all the tabernacle and of all that therein is in the sanctuary and in the vessels thereof
and the lord spake unto moses and unto aaron saying
cut ye not off the tribe of the families of the kohathites from among the levites
but thus do unto them that they may live and not die when they approach unto the most holy things aaron and his sons shall go in and appoint them every one to his service and to his burden
but they shall not go in to see when the holy things are covered lest they die
and the lord spake unto moses saying
take also the sum of the sons of gershon throughout the houses of their fathers by their families
from thirty years old and upward until fifty years old shalt thou number them all that enter in to perform the service to do the work in the tabernacle of the congregation
this is the service of the families of the gershonites to serve and for burdens
and they shall bear the curtains of the tabernacle and the tabernacle of the congregation his covering and the covering of the badgers skins that is above upon it and the hanging for the door of the tabernacle of the congregation
and the hangings of the court and the hanging for the door of the gate of the court which is by the tabernacle and by the altar round about and their cords and all the instruments of their service and all that is made for them so shall they serve
at the appointment of aaron and his sons shall be all the service of the sons of the gershonites in all their burdens and in all their service and ye shall appoint unto them in charge all their burdens
this is the service of the families of the sons of gershon in the tabernacle of the congregation and their charge shall be under the hand of ithamar the son of aaron the priest
as for the sons of merari thou shalt number them after their families by the house of their fathers
from thirty years old and upward even unto fifty years old shalt thou number them every one that entereth into the service to do the work of the tabernacle of the congregation
and this is the charge of their burden according to all their service in the tabernacle of the congregation the boards of the tabernacle and the bars thereof and the pillars thereof and sockets thereof
and the pillars of the court round about and their sockets and their pins and their cords with all their instruments and with all their service and by name ye shall reckon the instruments of the charge of their burden
this is the service of the families of the sons of merari according to all their service in the tabernacle of the congregation under the hand of ithamar the son of aaron the priest
and moses and aaron and the chief of the congregation numbered the sons of the kohathites after their families and after the house of their fathers
from thirty years old and upward even unto fifty years old every one that entereth into the service for the work in the tabernacle of the congregation
and those that were numbered of them by their families were two thousand seven hundred and fifty
these were they that were numbered of the families of the kohathites all that might do service in the tabernacle of the congregation which moses and aaron did number according to the commandment of the lord by the hand of moses
and those that were numbered of the sons of gershon throughout their families and by the house of their fathers
from thirty years old and upward even unto fifty years old every one that entereth into the service for the work in the tabernacle of the congregation
even those that were numbered of them throughout their families by the house of their fathers were two thousand and six hundred and thirty
these are they that were numbered of the families of the sons of gershon of all that might do service in the tabernacle of the congregation whom moses and aaron did number according to the commandment of the lord
and those that were numbered of the families of the sons of merari throughout their families by the house of their fathers
from thirty years old and upward even unto fifty years old every one that entereth into the service for the work in the tabernacle of the congregation
even those that were numbered of them after their families were three thousand and two hundred
these be those that were numbered of the families of the sons of merari whom moses and aaron numbered according to the word of the lord by the hand of moses
all those that were numbered of the levites whom moses and aaron and the chief of israel numbered after their families and after the house of their fathers
from thirty years old and upward even unto fifty years old every one that came to do the service of the ministry and the service of the burden in the tabernacle of the congregation
even those that were numbered of them were eight thousand and five hundred and fourscore
according to the commandment of the lord they were numbered by the hand of moses every one according to his service and according to his burden thus were they numbered of him as the lord commanded moses
and the lord spake unto moses saying
command the children of israel that they put out of the camp every leper and every one that hath an issue and whosoever is defiled by the dead
both male and female shall ye put out without the camp shall ye put them that they defile not their camps in the midst whereof i dwell
and the children of israel did so and put them out without the camp as the lord spake unto moses so did the children of israel
and the lord spake unto moses saying
speak unto the children of israel when a man or woman shall commit any sin that men commit to do a trespass against the lord and that person be guilty
then they shall confess their sin which they have done and he shall recompense his trespass with the principal thereof and add unto it the fifth part thereof and give it unto him against whom he hath trespassed
but if the man have no kinsman to recompense the trespass unto let the trespass be recompensed unto the lord even to the priest beside the ram of the atonement whereby an atonement shall be made for him
and every offering of all the holy things of the children of israel which they bring unto the priest shall be his
and every man's hallowed things shall be his whatsoever any man giveth the priest it shall be his
and the lord spake unto moses saying
speak unto the children of israel and say unto them if any man's wife go aside and commit a trespass against him
and a man lie with her carnally and it be hid from the eyes of her husband and be kept close and she be defiled and there be no witness against her neither she be taken with the manner
and the spirit of jealousy come upon him and he be jealous of his wife and she be defiled or if the spirit of jealousy come upon him and he be jealous of his wife and she be not defiled
then shall the man bring his wife unto the priest and he shall bring her offering for her the tenth part of an ephah of barley meal he shall pour no oil upon it nor put frankincense thereon for it is an offering of jealousy an offering of memorial bringing iniquity to remembrance
and the priest shall bring her near and set her before the lord
and the priest shall take holy water in an earthen vessel and of the dust that is in the floor of the tabernacle the priest shall take and put it into the water
and the priest shall set the woman before the lord and uncover the woman's head and put the offering of memorial in her hands which is the jealousy offering and the priest shall have in his hand the bitter water that causeth the curse
and the priest shall charge her by an oath and say unto the woman if no man have lain with thee and if thou hast not gone aside to uncleanness with another instead of thy husband be thou free from this bitter water that causeth the curse
but if thou hast gone aside to another instead of thy husband and if thou be defiled and some man have lain with thee beside thine husband
then the priest shall charge the woman with an oath of cursing and the priest shall say unto the woman the lord make thee a curse and an oath among thy people when the lord doth make thy thigh to rot and thy belly to swell
and this water that causeth the curse shall go into thy bowels to make thy belly to swell and thy thigh to rot and the woman shall say amen amen
and the priest shall write these curses in a book and he shall blot them out with the bitter water
and he shall cause the woman to drink the bitter water that causeth the curse and the water that causeth the curse shall enter into her and become bitter
then the priest shall take the jealousy offering out of the woman's hand and shall wave the offering before the lord and offer it upon the altar
and the priest shall take an handful of the offering even the memorial thereof and burn it upon the altar and afterward shall cause the woman to drink the water
and when he hath made her to drink the water then it shall come to pass that if she be defiled and have done trespass against her husband that the water that causeth the curse shall enter into her and become bitter and her belly shall swell and her thigh shall rot and the woman shall be a curse among her people
and if the woman be not defiled but be clean then she shall be free and shall conceive seed
this is the law of jealousies when a wife goeth aside to another instead of her husband and is defiled
or when the spirit of jealousy cometh upon him and he be jealous over his wife and shall set the woman before the lord and the priest shall execute upon her all this law
then shall the man be guiltless from iniquity and this woman shall bear her iniquity
and the lord spake unto moses saying
speak unto the children of israel and say unto them when either man or woman shall separate themselves to vow a vow of a nazarite to separate themselves unto the lord
he shall separate himself from wine and strong drink and shall drink no vinegar of wine or vinegar of strong drink neither shall he drink any liquor of grapes nor eat moist grapes or dried
all the days of his separation shall he eat nothing that is made of the vine tree from the kernels even to the husk
all the days of the vow of his separation there shall no razor come upon his head until the days be fulfilled in the which he separateth himself unto the lord he shall be holy and shall let the locks of the hair of his head grow
all the days that he separateth himself unto the lord he shall come at no dead body
he shall not make himself unclean for his father or for his mother for his brother or for his sister when they die because the consecration of his god is upon his head
all the days of his separation he is holy unto the lord
and if any man die very suddenly by him and he hath defiled the head of his consecration then he shall shave his head in the day of his cleansing on the seventh day shall he shave it
and on the eighth day he shall bring two turtles or two young pigeons to the priest to the door of the tabernacle of the congregation
and the priest shall offer the one for a sin offering and the other for a burnt offering and make an atonement for him for that he sinned by the dead and shall hallow his head that same day
and he shall consecrate unto the lord the days of his separation and shall bring a lamb of the first year for a trespass offering but the days that were before shall be lost because his separation was defiled
and this is the law of the nazarite when the days of his separation are fulfilled he shall be brought unto the door of the tabernacle of the congregation
and he shall offer his offering unto the lord one he lamb of the first year without blemish for a burnt offering and one ewe lamb of the first year without blemish for a sin offering and one ram without blemish for peace offerings
and a basket of unleavened bread cakes of fine flour mingled with oil and wafers of unleavened bread anointed with oil and their meat offering and their drink offerings
and the priest shall bring them before the lord and shall offer his sin offering and his burnt offering
and he shall offer the ram for a sacrifice of peace offerings unto the lord with the basket of unleavened bread the priest shall offer also his meat offering and his drink offering
and the nazarite shall shave the head of his separation at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation and shall take the hair of the head of his separation and put it in the fire which is under the sacrifice of the peace offerings
and the priest shall take the sodden shoulder of the ram and one unleavened cake out of the basket and one unleavened wafer and shall put them upon the hands of the nazarite after the hair of his separation is shaven
and the priest shall wave them for a wave offering before the lord this is holy for the priest with the wave breast and heave shoulder and after that the nazarite may drink wine
this is the law of the nazarite who hath vowed and of his offering unto the lord for his separation beside that that his hand shall get according to the vow which he vowed so he must do after the law of his separation
and the lord spake unto moses saying
speak unto aaron and unto his sons saying on this wise ye shall bless the children of israel saying unto them
the lord bless thee and keep thee
the lord make his face shine upon thee and be gracious unto thee
the lord lift up his countenance upon thee and give thee peace
and they shall put my name upon the children of israel and i will bless them
and it came to pass on the day that moses had fully set up the tabernacle and had anointed it and sanctified it and all the instruments thereof both the altar and all the vessels thereof and had anointed them and sanctified them
that the princes of israel heads of the house of their fathers who were the princes of the tribes and were over them that were numbered offered
and they brought their offering before the lord six covered wagons and twelve oxen a wagon for two of the princes and for each one an ox and they brought them before the tabernacle
and the lord spake unto moses saying
take it of them that they may be to do the service of the tabernacle of the congregation and thou shalt give them unto the levites to every man according to his service
and moses took the wagons and the oxen and gave them unto the levites
two wagons and four oxen he gave unto the sons of gershon according to their service
and four wagons and eight oxen he gave unto the sons of merari according unto their service under the hand of ithamar the son of aaron the priest
but unto the sons of kohath he gave none because the service of the sanctuary belonging unto them was that they should bear upon their shoulders
and the princes offered for dedicating of the altar in the day that it was anointed even the princes offered their offering before the altar
and the lord said unto moses they shall offer their offering each prince on his day for the dedicating of the altar
and he that offered his offering the first day was nahshon the son of amminadab of the tribe of judah
and his offering was one silver charger the weight thereof was an hundred and thirty shekels one silver bowl of seventy shekels after the shekel of the sanctuary both of them were full of fine flour mingled with oil for a meat offering
one spoon of ten shekels of gold full of incense
one young bullock one ram one lamb of the first year for a burnt offering
one kid of the goats for a sin offering
and for a sacrifice of peace offerings two oxen five rams five he goats five lambs of the first year this was the offering of nahshon the son of amminadab
on the second day nethaneel the son of zuar prince of issachar did offer
he offered for his offering one silver charger the weight whereof was an hundred and thirty shekels one silver bowl of seventy shekels after the shekel of the sanctuary both of them full of fine flour mingled with oil for a meat offering
one spoon of gold of ten shekels full of incense
one young bullock one ram one lamb of the first year for a burnt offering
one kid of the goats for a sin offering
and for a sacrifice of peace offerings two oxen five rams five he goats five lambs of the first year this was the offering of nethaneel the son of zuar
on the third day eliab the son of helon prince of the children of zebulun did offer
his offering was one silver charger the weight whereof was an hundred and thirty shekels one silver bowl of seventy shekels after the shekel of the sanctuary both of them full of fine flour mingled with oil for a meat offering
one golden spoon of ten shekels full of incense
one young bullock one ram one lamb of the first year for a burnt offering
one kid of the goats for a sin offering
and for a sacrifice of peace offerings two oxen five rams five he goats five lambs of the first year this was the offering of eliab the son of helon
on the fourth day elizur the son of shedeur prince of the children of reuben did offer
his offering was one silver charger of the weight of an hundred and thirty shekels one silver bowl of seventy shekels after the shekel of the sanctuary both of them full of fine flour mingled with oil for a meat offering
one golden spoon of ten shekels full of incense
one young bullock one ram one lamb of the first year for a burnt offering
one kid of the goats for a sin offering
and for a sacrifice of peace offerings two oxen five rams five he goats five lambs of the first year this was the offering of elizur the son of shedeur
on the fifth day shelumiel the son of zurishaddai prince of the children of simeon did offer
his offering was one silver charger the weight whereof was an hundred and thirty shekels one silver bowl of seventy shekels after the shekel of the sanctuary both of them full of fine flour mingled with oil for a meat offering
one golden spoon of ten shekels full of incense
one young bullock one ram one lamb of the first year for a burnt offering
one kid of the goats for a sin offering
and for a sacrifice of peace offerings two oxen five rams five he goats five lambs of the first year this was the offering of shelumiel the son of zurishaddai
on the sixth day eliasaph the son of deuel prince of the children of gad offered
his offering was one silver charger of the weight of an hundred and thirty shekels a silver bowl of seventy shekels after the shekel of the sanctuary both of them full of fine flour mingled with oil for a meat offering
one golden spoon of ten shekels full of incense
one young bullock one ram one lamb of the first year for a burnt offering
one kid of the goats for a sin offering
and for a sacrifice of peace offerings two oxen five rams five he goats five lambs of the first year this was the offering of eliasaph the son of deuel
on the seventh day elishama the son of ammihud prince of the children of ephraim offered
his offering was one silver charger the weight whereof was an hundred and thirty shekels one silver bowl of seventy shekels after the shekel of the sanctuary both of them full of fine flour mingled with oil for a meat offering
one golden spoon of ten shekels full of incense
one young bullock one ram one lamb of the first year for a burnt offering
one kid of the goats for a sin offering
and for a sacrifice of peace offerings two oxen five rams five he goats five lambs of the first year this was the offering of elishama the son of ammihud
on the eighth day offered gamaliel the son of pedahzur prince of the children of manasseh
his offering was one silver charger of the weight of an hundred and thirty shekels one silver bowl of seventy shekels after the shekel of the sanctuary both of them full of fine flour mingled with oil for a meat offering
one golden spoon of ten shekels full of incense
one young bullock one ram one lamb of the first year for a burnt offering
one kid of the goats for a sin offering
and for a sacrifice of peace offerings two oxen five rams five he goats five lambs of the first year this was the offering of gamaliel the son of pedahzur
on the ninth day abidan the son of gideoni prince of the children of benjamin offered
his offering was one silver charger the weight whereof was an hundred and thirty shekels one silver bowl of seventy shekels after the shekel of the sanctuary both of them full of fine flour mingled with oil for a meat offering
one golden spoon of ten shekels full of incense
one young bullock one ram one lamb of the first year for a burnt offering
one kid of the goats for a sin offering
and for a sacrifice of peace offerings two oxen five rams five he goats five lambs of the first year this was the offering of abidan the son of gideoni
on the tenth day ahiezer the son of ammishaddai prince of the children of dan offered
his offering was one silver charger the weight whereof was an hundred and thirty shekels one silver bowl of seventy shekels after the shekel of the sanctuary both of them full of fine flour mingled with oil for a meat offering
one golden spoon of ten shekels full of incense
one young bullock one ram one lamb of the first year for a burnt offering
one kid of the goats for a sin offering
and for a sacrifice of peace offerings two oxen five rams five he goats five lambs of the first year this was the offering of ahiezer the son of ammishaddai
on the eleventh day pagiel the son of ocran prince of the children of asher offered
his offering was one silver charger the weight whereof was an hundred and thirty shekels one silver bowl of seventy shekels after the shekel of the sanctuary both of them full of fine flour mingled with oil for a meat offering
one golden spoon of ten shekels full of incense
one young bullock one ram one lamb of the first year for a burnt offering
one kid of the goats for a sin offering
and for a sacrifice of peace offerings two oxen five rams five he goats five lambs of the first year this was the offering of pagiel the son of ocran
on the twelfth day ahira the son of enan prince of the children of naphtali offered
his offering was one silver charger the weight whereof was an hundred and thirty shekels one silver bowl of seventy shekels after the shekel of the sanctuary both of them full of fine flour mingled with oil for a meat offering
one golden spoon of ten shekels full of incense
one young bullock one ram one lamb of the first year for a burnt offering
one kid of the goats for a sin offering
and for a sacrifice of peace offerings two oxen five rams five he goats five lambs of the first year this was the offering of ahira the son of enan
this was the dedication of the altar in the day when it was anointed by the princes of israel twelve chargers of silver twelve silver bowls twelve spoons of gold
each charger of silver weighing an hundred and thirty shekels each bowl seventy all the silver vessels weighed two thousand and four hundred shekels after the shekel of the sanctuary
the golden spoons were twelve full of incense weighing ten shekels apiece after the shekel of the sanctuary all the gold of the spoons was an hundred and twenty shekels
all the oxen for the burnt offering were twelve bullocks the rams twelve the lambs of the first year twelve with their meat offering and the kids of the goats for sin offering twelve
and all the oxen for the sacrifice of the peace offerings were twenty and four bullocks the rams sixty the he goats sixty the lambs of the first year sixty this was the dedication of the altar after that it was anointed
and when moses was gone into the tabernacle of the congregation to speak with him then he heard the voice of one speaking unto him from off the mercy seat that was upon the ark of testimony from between the two cherubims and he spake unto him
and the lord spake unto moses saying
speak unto aaron and say unto him when thou lightest the lamps the seven lamps shall give light over against the candlestick
and aaron did so he lighted the lamps thereof over against the candlestick as the lord commanded moses
and this work of the candlestick was of beaten gold unto the shaft thereof unto the flowers thereof was beaten work according unto the pattern which the lord had shewed moses so he made the candlestick
and the lord spake unto moses saying
take the levites from among the children of israel and cleanse them
and thus shalt thou do unto them to cleanse them sprinkle water of purifying upon them and let them shave all their flesh and let them wash their clothes and so make themselves clean
then let them take a young bullock with his meat offering even fine flour mingled with oil and another young bullock shalt thou take for a sin offering
and thou shalt bring the levites before the tabernacle of the congregation and thou shalt gather the whole assembly of the children of israel together
and thou shalt bring the levites before the lord and the children of israel shall put their hands upon the levites
and aaron shall offer the levites before the lord for an offering of the children of israel that they may execute the service of the lord
and the levites shall lay their hands upon the heads of the bullocks and thou shalt offer the one for a sin offering and the other for a burnt offering unto the lord to make an atonement for the levites
and thou shalt set the levites before aaron and before his sons and offer them for an offering unto the lord
thus shalt thou separate the levites from among the children of israel and the levites shall be mine
and after that shall the levites go in to do the service of the tabernacle of the congregation and thou shalt cleanse them and offer them for an offering
for they are wholly given unto me from among the children of israel instead of such as open every womb even instead of the firstborn of all the children of israel have i taken them unto me
for all the firstborn of the children of israel are mine both man and beast on the day that i smote every firstborn in the land of egypt i sanctified them for myself
and i have taken the levites for all the firstborn of the children of israel
and i have given the levites as a gift to aaron and to his sons from among the children of israel to do the service of the children of israel in the tabernacle of the congregation and to make an atonement for the children of israel that there be no plague among the children of israel when the children of israel come nigh unto the sanctuary
and moses and aaron and all the congregation of the children of israel did to the levites according unto all that the lord commanded moses concerning the levites so did the children of israel unto them
and the levites were purified and they washed their clothes and aaron offered them as an offering before the lord and aaron made an atonement for them to cleanse them
and after that went the levites in to do their service in the tabernacle of the congregation before aaron and before his sons as the lord had commanded moses concerning the levites so did they unto them
and the lord spake unto moses saying
this is it that belongeth unto the levites from twenty and five years old and upward they shall go in to wait upon the service of the tabernacle of the congregation
and from the age of fifty years they shall cease waiting upon the service thereof and shall serve no more
but shall minister with their brethren in the tabernacle of the congregation to keep the charge and shall do no service thus shalt thou do unto the levites touching their charge
and the lord spake unto moses in the wilderness of sinai in the first month of the second year after they were come out of the land of egypt saying
let the children of israel also keep the passover at his appointed season
in the fourteenth day of this month at even ye shall keep it in his appointed season according to all the rites of it and according to all the ceremonies thereof shall ye keep it
and moses spake unto the children of israel that they should keep the passover
and they kept the passover on the fourteenth day of the first month at even in the wilderness of sinai according to all that the lord commanded moses so did the children of israel
and there were certain men who were defiled by the dead body of a man that they could not keep the passover on that day and they came before moses and before aaron on that day
and those men said unto him we are defiled by the dead body of a man wherefore are we kept back that we may not offer an offering of the lord in his appointed season among the children of israel
and moses said unto them stand still and i will hear what the lord will command concerning you
and the lord spake unto moses saying
speak unto the children of israel saying if any man of you or of your posterity shall be unclean by reason of a dead body or be in a journey afar off yet he shall keep the passover unto the lord
the fourteenth day of the second month at even they shall keep it and eat it with unleavened bread and bitter herbs
they shall leave none of it unto the morning nor break any bone of it according to all the ordinances of the passover they shall keep it
but the man that is clean and is not in a journey and forbeareth to keep the passover even the same soul shall be cut off from among his people because he brought not the offering of the lord in his appointed season that man shall bear his sin
and if a stranger shall sojourn among you and will keep the passover unto the lord according to the ordinance of the passover and according to the manner thereof so shall he do ye shall have one ordinance both for the stranger and for him that was born in the land
and on the day that the tabernacle was reared up the cloud covered the tabernacle namely the tent of the testimony and at even there was upon the tabernacle as it were the appearance of fire until the morning
so it was alway the cloud covered it by day and the appearance of fire by night
and when the cloud was taken up from the tabernacle then after that the children of israel journeyed and in the place where the cloud abode there the children of israel pitched their tents
at the commandment of the lord the children of israel journeyed and at the commandment of the lord they pitched as long as the cloud abode upon the tabernacle they rested in their tents
and when the cloud tarried long upon the tabernacle many days then the children of israel kept the charge of the lord and journeyed not
and so it was when the cloud was a few days upon the tabernacle according to the commandment of the lord they abode in their tents and according to the commandment of the lord they journeyed
and so it was when the cloud abode from even unto the morning and that the cloud was taken up in the morning then they journeyed whether it was by day or by night that the cloud was taken up they journeyed
or whether it were two days or a month or a year that the cloud tarried upon the tabernacle remaining thereon the children of israel abode in their tents and journeyed not but when it was taken up they journeyed
at the commandment of the lord they rested in the tents and at the commandment of the lord they journeyed they kept the charge of the lord at the commandment of the lord by the hand of moses
and the lord spake unto moses saying
make thee two trumpets of silver of a whole piece shalt thou make them that thou mayest use them for the calling of the assembly and for the journeying of the camps
and when they shall blow with them all the assembly shall assemble themselves to thee at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation
and if they blow but with one trumpet then the princes which are heads of the thousands of israel shall gather themselves unto thee
when ye blow an alarm then the camps that lie on the east parts shall go forward
when ye blow an alarm the second time then the camps that lie on the south side shall take their journey they shall blow an alarm for their journeys
but when the congregation is to be gathered together ye shall blow but ye shall not sound an alarm
and the sons of aaron the priests shall blow with the trumpets and they shall be to you for an ordinance for ever throughout your generations
and if ye go to war in your land against the enemy that oppresseth you then ye shall blow an alarm with the trumpets and ye shall be remembered before the lord your god and ye shall be saved from your enemies
also in the day of your gladness and in your solemn days and in the beginnings of your months ye shall blow with the trumpets over your burnt offerings and over the sacrifices of your peace offerings that they may be to you for a memorial before your god i am the lord your god
and it came to pass on the twentieth day of the second month in the second year that the cloud was taken up from off the tabernacle of the testimony
and the children of israel took their journeys out of the wilderness of sinai and the cloud rested in the wilderness of paran
and they first took their journey according to the commandment of the lord by the hand of moses
in the first place went the standard of the camp of the children of judah according to their armies and over his host was nahshon the son of amminadab
and over the host of the tribe of the children of issachar was nethaneel the son of zuar
and over the host of the tribe of the children of zebulun was eliab the son of helon
and the tabernacle was taken down and the sons of gershon and the sons of merari set forward bearing the tabernacle
and the standard of the camp of reuben set forward according to their armies and over his host was elizur the son of shedeur
and over the host of the tribe of the children of simeon was shelumiel the son of zurishaddai
and over the host of the tribe of the children of gad was eliasaph the son of deuel
and the kohathites set forward bearing the sanctuary and the other did set up the tabernacle against they came
and the standard of the camp of the children of ephraim set forward according to their armies and over his host was elishama the son of ammihud
and over the host of the tribe of the children of manasseh was gamaliel the son of pedahzur
and over the host of the tribe of the children of benjamin was abidan the son of gideoni
and the standard of the camp of the children of dan set forward which was the rereward of all the camps throughout their hosts and over his host was ahiezer the son of ammishaddai
and over the host of the tribe of the children of asher was pagiel the son of ocran
and over the host of the tribe of the children of naphtali was ahira the son of enan
thus were the journeyings of the children of israel according to their armies when they set forward
and moses said unto hobab the son of raguel the midianite moses father in law we are journeying unto the place of which the lord said i will give it you come thou with us and we will do thee good for the lord hath spoken good concerning israel
and he said unto him i will not go but i will depart to mine own land and to my kindred
and he said leave us not i pray thee forasmuch as thou knowest how we are to encamp in the wilderness and thou mayest be to us instead of eyes
and it shall be if thou go with us yea it shall be that what goodness the lord shall do unto us the same will we do unto thee
and they departed from the mount of the lord three days journey and the ark of the covenant of the lord went before them in the three days journey to search out a resting place for them
and the cloud of the lord was upon them by day when they went out of the camp
and it came to pass when the ark set forward that moses said rise up lord and let thine enemies be scattered and let them that hate thee flee before thee
and when it rested he said return o lord unto the many thousands of israel
and when the people complained it displeased the lord and the lord heard it and his anger was kindled and the fire of the lord burnt among them and consumed them that were in the uttermost parts of the camp
and the people cried unto moses and when moses prayed unto the lord the fire was quenched
and he called the name of the place taberah because the fire of the lord burnt among them
and the mixt multitude that was among them fell a lusting and the children of israel also wept again and said who shall give us flesh to eat
we remember the fish which we did eat in egypt freely the cucumbers and the melons and the leeks and the onions and the garlick
but now our soul is dried away there is nothing at all beside this manna before our eyes
and the manna was as coriander seed and the colour thereof as the colour of bdellium
and the people went about and gathered it and ground it in mills or beat it in a mortar and baked it in pans and made cakes of it and the taste of it was as the taste of fresh oil
and when the dew fell upon the camp in the night the manna fell upon it
then moses heard the people weep throughout their families every man in the door of his tent and the anger of the lord was kindled greatly moses also was displeased
and moses said unto the lord wherefore hast thou afflicted thy servant and wherefore have i not found favour in thy sight that thou layest the burden of all this people upon me
have i conceived all this people have i begotten them that thou shouldest say unto me carry them in thy bosom as a nursing father beareth the sucking child unto the land which thou swarest unto their fathers
whence should i have flesh to give unto all this people for they weep unto me saying give us flesh that we may eat
i am not able to bear all this people alone because it is too heavy for me
and if thou deal thus with me kill me i pray thee out of hand if i have found favour in thy sight and let me not see my wretchedness
and the lord said unto moses gather unto me seventy men of the elders of israel whom thou knowest to be the elders of the people and officers over them and bring them unto the tabernacle of the congregation that they may stand there with thee
and i will come down and talk with thee there and i will take of the spirit which is upon thee and will put it upon them and they shall bear the burden of the people with thee that thou bear it not thyself alone
and say thou unto the people sanctify yourselves against to morrow and ye shall eat flesh for ye have wept in the ears of the lord saying who shall give us flesh to eat for it was well with us in egypt therefore the lord will give you flesh and ye shall eat
ye shall not eat one day nor two days nor five days neither ten days nor twenty days
but even a whole month until it come out at your nostrils and it be loathsome unto you because that ye have despised the lord which is among you and have wept before him saying why came we forth out of egypt
and moses said the people among whom i am are six hundred thousand footmen and thou hast said i will give them flesh that they may eat a whole month
shall the flocks and the herds be slain for them to suffice them or shall all the fish of the sea be gathered together for them to suffice them
and the lord said unto moses is the lord's hand waxed short thou shalt see now whether my word shall come to pass unto thee or not
and moses went out and told the people the words of the lord and gathered the seventy men of the elders of the people and set them round about the tabernacle
and the lord came down in a cloud and spake unto him and took of the spirit that was upon him and gave it unto the seventy elders and it came to pass that when the spirit rested upon them they prophesied and did not cease
but there remained two of the men in the camp the name of the one was eldad and the name of the other medad and the spirit rested upon them and they were of them that were written but went not out unto the tabernacle and they prophesied in the camp
and there ran a young man and told moses and said eldad and medad do prophesy in the camp
and joshua the son of nun the servant of moses one of his young men answered and said my lord moses forbid them
and moses said unto him enviest thou for my sake would god that all the lord's people were prophets and that the lord would put his spirit upon them
and moses gat him into the camp he and the elders of israel
and there went forth a wind from the lord and brought quails from the sea and let them fall by the camp as it were a day's journey on this side and as it were a day's journey on the other side round about the camp and as it were two cubits high upon the face of the earth
and the people stood up all that day and all that night and all the next day and they gathered the quails he that gathered least gathered ten homers and they spread them all abroad for themselves round about the camp
and while the flesh was yet between their teeth ere it was chewed the wrath of the lord was kindled against the people and the lord smote the people with a very great plague
and he called the name of that place kibrothhattaavah because there they buried the people that lusted
and the people journeyed from kibrothhattaavah unto hazeroth and abode at hazeroth
and miriam and aaron spake against moses because of the ethiopian woman whom he had married for he had married an ethiopian woman
and they said hath the lord indeed spoken only by moses hath he not spoken also by us and the lord heard it
now the man moses was very meek above all the men which were upon the face of the earth
and the lord spake suddenly unto moses and unto aaron and unto miriam come out ye three unto the tabernacle of the congregation and they three came out
and the lord came down in the pillar of the cloud and stood in the door of the tabernacle and called aaron and miriam and they both came forth
and he said hear now my words if there be a prophet among you i the lord will make myself known unto him in a vision and will speak unto him in a dream
my servant moses is not so who is faithful in all mine house
with him will i speak mouth to mouth even apparently and not in dark speeches and the similitude of the lord shall he behold wherefore then were ye not afraid to speak against my servant moses
and the anger of the lord was kindled against them and he departed
and the cloud departed from off the tabernacle and behold miriam became leprous white as snow and aaron looked upon miriam and behold she was leprous
and aaron said unto moses alas my lord i beseech thee lay not the sin upon us wherein we have done foolishly and wherein we have sinned
let her not be as one dead of whom the flesh is half consumed when he cometh out of his mother's womb
and moses cried unto the lord saying heal her now o god i beseech thee
and the lord said unto moses if her father had but spit in her face should she not be ashamed seven days let her be shut out from the camp seven days and after that let her be received in again
and miriam was shut out from the camp seven days and the people journeyed not till miriam was brought in again
and afterward the people removed from hazeroth and pitched in the wilderness of paran
and the lord spake unto moses saying
send thou men that they may search the land of canaan which i give unto the children of israel of every tribe of their fathers shall ye send a man every one a ruler among them
and moses by the commandment of the lord sent them from the wilderness of paran all those men were heads of the children of israel
and these were their names of the tribe of reuben shammua the son of zaccur
of the tribe of simeon shaphat the son of hori
of the tribe of judah caleb the son of jephunneh
of the tribe of issachar igal the son of joseph
of the tribe of ephraim oshea the son of nun
of the tribe of benjamin palti the son of raphu
of the tribe of zebulun gaddiel the son of sodi
of the tribe of joseph namely of the tribe of manasseh gaddi the son of susi
of the tribe of dan ammiel the son of gemalli
of the tribe of asher sethur the son of michael
of the tribe of naphtali nahbi the son of vophsi
of the tribe of gad geuel the son of machi
these are the names of the men which moses sent to spy out the land and moses called oshea the son of nun jehoshua
and moses sent them to spy out the land of canaan and said unto them get you up this way southward and go up into the mountain
and see the land what it is and the people that dwelleth therein whether they be strong or weak few or many
and what the land is that they dwell in whether it be good or bad and what cities they be that they dwell in whether in tents or in strong holds
and what the land is whether it be fat or lean whether there be wood therein or not and be ye of good courage and bring of the fruit of the land now the time was the time of the firstripe grapes
so they went up and searched the land from the wilderness of zin unto rehob as men come to hamath
and they ascended by the south and came unto hebron where ahiman sheshai and talmai the children of anak were now hebron was built seven years before zoan in egypt
and they came unto the brook of eshcol and cut down from thence a branch with one cluster of grapes and they bare it between two upon a staff and they brought of the pomegranates and of the figs
the place was called the brook eshcol because of the cluster of grapes which the children of israel cut down from thence
and they returned from searching of the land after forty days
and they went and came to moses and to aaron and to all the congregation of the children of israel unto the wilderness of paran to kadesh and brought back word unto them and unto all the congregation and shewed them the fruit of the land
and they told him and said we came unto the land whither thou sentest us and surely it floweth with milk and honey and this is the fruit of it
nevertheless the people be strong that dwell in the land and the cities are walled and very great and moreover we saw the children of anak there
the amalekites dwell in the land of the south and the hittites and the jebusites and the amorites dwell in the mountains and the canaanites dwell by the sea and by the coast of jordan
and caleb stilled the people before moses and said let us go up at once and possess it for we are well able to overcome it
but the men that went up with him said we be not able to go up against the people for they are stronger than we
and they brought up an evil report of the land which they had searched unto the children of israel saying the land through which we have gone to search it is a land that eateth up the inhabitants thereof and all the people that we saw in it are men of a great stature
and there we saw the giants the sons of anak which come of the giants and we were in our own sight as grasshoppers and so we were in their sight
and all the congregation lifted up their voice and cried and the people wept that night
and all the children of israel murmured against moses and against aaron and the whole congregation said unto them would god that we had died in the land of egypt or would god we had died in this wilderness
and wherefore hath the lord brought us unto this land to fall by the sword that our wives and our children should be a prey were it not better for us to return into egypt
and they said one to another let us make a captain and let us return into egypt
then moses and aaron fell on their faces before all the assembly of the congregation of the children of israel
and joshua the son of nun and caleb the son of jephunneh which were of them that searched the land rent their clothes
and they spake unto all the company of the children of israel saying the land which we passed through to search it is an exceeding good land
if the lord delight in us then he will bring us into this land and give it us a land which floweth with milk and honey
only rebel not ye against the lord neither fear ye the people of the land for they are bread for us their defence is departed from them and the lord is with us fear them not
but all the congregation bade stone them with stones and the glory of the lord appeared in the tabernacle of the congregation before all the children of israel
and the lord said unto moses how long will this people provoke me and how long will it be ere they believe me for all the signs which i have shewed among them
i will smite them with the pestilence and disinherit them and will make of thee a greater nation and mightier than they
and moses said unto the lord then the egyptians shall hear it for thou broughtest up this people in thy might from among them
and they will tell it to the inhabitants of this land for they have heard that thou lord art among this people that thou lord art seen face to face and that thy cloud standeth over them and that thou goest before them by day time in a pillar of a cloud and in a pillar of fire by night
now if thou shalt kill all this people as one man then the nations which have heard the fame of thee will speak saying
because the lord was not able to bring this people into the land which he sware unto them therefore he hath slain them in the wilderness
and now i beseech thee let the power of my lord be great according as thou hast spoken saying
the lord is longsuffering and of great mercy forgiving iniquity and transgression and by no means clearing the guilty visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation
pardon i beseech thee the iniquity of this people according unto the greatness of thy mercy and as thou hast forgiven this people from egypt even until now
and the lord said i have pardoned according to thy word
but as truly as i live all the earth shall be filled with the glory of the lord
because all those men which have seen my glory and my miracles which i did in egypt and in the wilderness and have tempted me now these ten times and have not hearkened to my voice
surely they shall not see the land which i sware unto their fathers neither shall any of them that provoked me see it
but my servant caleb because he had another spirit with him and hath followed me fully him will i bring into the land whereinto he went and his seed shall possess it
now the amalekites and the canaanites dwelt in the valley tomorrow turn you and get you into the wilderness by the way of the red sea
and the lord spake unto moses and unto aaron saying
how long shall i bear with this evil congregation which murmur against me i have heard the murmurings of the children of israel which they murmur against me
say unto them as truly as i live saith the lord as ye have spoken in mine ears so will i do to you
your carcases shall fall in this wilderness and all that were numbered of you according to your whole number from twenty years old and upward which have murmured against me
doubtless ye shall not come into the land concerning which i sware to make you dwell therein save caleb the son of jephunneh and joshua the son of nun
but your little ones which ye said should be a prey them will i bring in and they shall know the land which ye have despised
but as for you your carcases they shall fall in this wilderness
and your children shall wander in the wilderness forty years and bear your whoredoms until your carcases be wasted in the wilderness
after the number of the days in which ye searched the land even forty days each day for a year shall ye bear your iniquities even forty years and ye shall know my breach of promise
i the lord have said i will surely do it unto all this evil congregation that are gathered together against me in this wilderness they shall be consumed and there they shall die
and the men which moses sent to search the land who returned and made all the congregation to murmur against him by bringing up a slander upon the land
even those men that did bring up the evil report upon the land died by the plague before the lord
but joshua the son of nun and caleb the son of jephunneh which were of the men that went to search the land lived still
and moses told these sayings unto all the children of israel and the people mourned greatly
and they rose up early in the morning and gat them up into the top of the mountain saying lo we be here and will go up unto the place which the lord hath promised for we have sinned
and moses said wherefore now do ye transgress the commandment of the lord but it shall not prosper
go not up for the lord is not among you that ye be not smitten before your enemies
for the amalekites and the canaanites are there before you and ye shall fall by the sword because ye are turned away from the lord therefore the lord will not be with you
but they presumed to go up unto the hill top nevertheless the ark of the covenant of the lord and moses departed not out of the camp
then the amalekites came down and the canaanites which dwelt in that hill and smote them and discomfited them even unto hormah
and the lord spake unto moses saying
speak unto the children of israel and say unto them when ye be come into the land of your habitations which i give unto you
and will make an offering by fire unto the lord a burnt offering or a sacrifice in performing a vow or in a freewill offering or in your solemn feasts to make a sweet savour unto the lord of the herd or of the flock
then shall he that offereth his offering unto the lord bring a meat offering of a tenth deal of flour mingled with the fourth part of an hin of oil
and the fourth part of an hin of wine for a drink offering shalt thou prepare with the burnt offering or sacrifice for one lamb
or for a ram thou shalt prepare for a meat offering two tenth deals of flour mingled with the third part of an hin of oil
and for a drink offering thou shalt offer the third part of an hin of wine for a sweet savour unto the lord
and when thou preparest a bullock for a burnt offering or for a sacrifice in performing a vow or peace offerings unto the lord
then shall he bring with a bullock a meat offering of three tenth deals of flour mingled with half an hin of oil
and thou shalt bring for a drink offering half an hin of wine for an offering made by fire of a sweet savour unto the lord
thus shall it be done for one bullock or for one ram or for a lamb or a kid
according to the number that ye shall prepare so shall ye do to every one according to their number
all that are born of the country shall do these things after this manner in offering an offering made by fire of a sweet savour unto the lord
and if a stranger sojourn with you or whosoever be among you in your generations and will offer an offering made by fire of a sweet savour unto the lord as ye do so he shall do
one ordinance shall be both for you of the congregation and also for the stranger that sojourneth with you an ordinance for ever in your generations as ye are so shall the stranger be before the lord
one law and one manner shall be for you and for the stranger that sojourneth with you
and the lord spake unto moses saying
speak unto the children of israel and say unto them when ye come into the land whither i bring you
then it shall be that when ye eat of the bread of the land ye shall offer up an heave offering unto the lord
ye shall offer up a cake of the first of your dough for an heave offering as ye do the heave offering of the threshingfloor so shall ye heave it
of the first of your dough ye shall give unto the lord an heave offering in your generations
and if ye have erred and not observed all these commandments which the lord hath spoken unto moses
even all that the lord hath commanded you by the hand of moses from the day that the lord commanded moses and henceforward among your generations
then it shall be if ought be committed by ignorance without the knowledge of the congregation that all the congregation shall offer one young bullock for a burnt offering for a sweet savour unto the lord with his meat offering and his drink offering according to the manner and one kid of the goats for a sin offering
and the priest shall make an atonement for all the congregation of the children of israel and it shall be forgiven them for it is ignorance and they shall bring their offering a sacrifice made by fire unto the lord and their sin offering before the lord for their ignorance
and it shall be forgiven all the congregation of the children of israel and the stranger that sojourneth among them seeing all the people were in ignorance
and if any soul sin through ignorance then he shall bring a she goat of the first year for a sin offering
and the priest shall make an atonement for the soul that sinneth ignorantly when he sinneth by ignorance before the lord to make an atonement for him and it shall be forgiven him
ye shall have one law for him that sinneth through ignorance both for him that is born among the children of israel and for the stranger that sojourneth among them
but the soul that doeth ought presumptuously whether he be born in the land or a stranger the same reproacheth the lord and that soul shall be cut off from among his people
because he hath despised the word of the lord and hath broken his commandment that soul shall utterly be cut off his iniquity shall be upon him
and while the children of israel were in the wilderness they found a man that gathered sticks upon the sabbath day
and they that found him gathering sticks brought him unto moses and aaron and unto all the congregation
and they put him in ward because it was not declared what should be done to him
and the lord said unto moses the man shall be surely put to death all the congregation shall stone him with stones without the camp
and all the congregation brought him without the camp and stoned him with stones and he died as the lord commanded moses
and the lord spake unto moses saying
speak unto the children of israel and bid them that they make them fringes in the borders of their garments throughout their generations and that they put upon the fringe of the borders a ribband of blue
and it shall be unto you for a fringe that ye may look upon it and remember all the commandments of the lord and do them and that ye seek not after your own heart and your own eyes after which ye use to go a whoring
that ye may remember and do all my commandments and be holy unto your god
i am the lord your god which brought you out of the land of egypt to be your god i am the lord your god
now korah the son of izhar the son of kohath the son of levi and dathan and abiram the sons of eliab and on the son of peleth sons of reuben took men
and they rose up before moses with certain of the children of israel two hundred and fifty princes of the assembly famous in the congregation men of renown
and they gathered themselves together against moses and against aaron and said unto them ye take too much upon you seeing all the congregation are holy every one of them and the lord is among them wherefore then lift ye up yourselves above the congregation of the lord
and when moses heard it he fell upon his face
and he spake unto korah and unto all his company saying even to morrow the lord will shew who are his and who is holy and will cause him to come near unto him even him whom he hath chosen will he cause to come near unto him
this do take you censers korah and all his company
and put fire therein and put incense in them before the lord to morrow and it shall be that the man whom the lord doth choose he shall be holy ye take too much upon you ye sons of levi
and moses said unto korah hear i pray you ye sons of levi
seemeth it but a small thing unto you that the god of israel hath separated you from the congregation of israel to bring you near to himself to do the service of the tabernacle of the lord and to stand before the congregation to minister unto them
and he hath brought thee near to him and all thy brethren the sons of levi with thee and seek ye the priesthood also
for which cause both thou and all thy company are gathered together against the lord and what is aaron that ye murmur against him
and moses sent to call dathan and abiram the sons of eliab which said we will not come up
is it a small thing that thou hast brought us up out of a land that floweth with milk and honey to kill us in the wilderness except thou make thyself altogether a prince over us
moreover thou hast not brought us into a land that floweth with milk and honey or given us inheritance of fields and vineyards wilt thou put out the eyes of these men we will not come up
and moses was very wroth and said unto the lord respect not thou their offering i have not taken one ass from them neither have i hurt one of them
and moses said unto korah be thou and all thy company before the lord thou and they and aaron to morrow
and take every man his censer and put incense in them and bring ye before the lord every man his censer two hundred and fifty censers thou also and aaron each of you his censer
and they took every man his censer and put fire in them and laid incense thereon and stood in the door of the tabernacle of the congregation with moses and aaron
and korah gathered all the congregation against them unto the door of the tabernacle of the congregation and the glory of the lord appeared unto all the congregation
and the lord spake unto moses and unto aaron saying
separate yourselves from among this congregation that i may consume them in a moment
and they fell upon their faces and said o god the god of the spirits of all flesh shall one man sin and wilt thou be wroth with all the congregation
and the lord spake unto moses saying
speak unto the congregation saying get you up from about the tabernacle of korah dathan and abiram
and moses rose up and went unto dathan and abiram and the elders of israel followed him
and he spake unto the congregation saying depart i pray you from the tents of these wicked men and touch nothing of theirs lest ye be consumed in all their sins
so they gat up from the tabernacle of korah dathan and abiram on every side and dathan and abiram came out and stood in the door of their tents and their wives and their sons and their little children
and moses said hereby ye shall know that the lord hath sent me to do all these works for i have not done them of mine own mind
if these men die the common death of all men or if they be visited after the visitation of all men then the lord hath not sent me
but if the lord make a new thing and the earth open her mouth and swallow them up with all that appertain unto them and they go down quick into the pit then ye shall understand that these men have provoked the lord
and it came to pass as he had made an end of speaking all these words that the ground clave asunder that was under them
and the earth opened her mouth and swallowed them up and their houses and all the men that appertained unto korah and all their goods
they and all that appertained to them went down alive into the pit and the earth closed upon them and they perished from among the congregation
and all israel that were round about them fled at the cry of them for they said lest the earth swallow us up also
and there came out a fire from the lord and consumed the two hundred and fifty men that offered incense
and the lord spake unto moses saying
speak unto eleazar the son of aaron the priest that he take up the censers out of the burning and scatter thou the fire yonder for they are hallowed
the censers of these sinners against their own souls let them make them broad plates for a covering of the altar for they offered them before the lord therefore they are hallowed and they shall be a sign unto the children of israel
and eleazar the priest took the brasen censers wherewith they that were burnt had offered and they were made broad plates for a covering of the altar
to be a memorial unto the children of israel that no stranger which is not of the seed of aaron come near to offer incense before the lord that he be not as korah and as his company as the lord said to him by the hand of moses
but on the morrow all the congregation of the children of israel murmured against moses and against aaron saying ye have killed the people of the lord
and it came to pass when the congregation was gathered against moses and against aaron that they looked toward the tabernacle of the congregation and behold the cloud covered it and the glory of the lord appeared
and moses and aaron came before the tabernacle of the congregation
and the lord spake unto moses saying
get you up from among this congregation that i may consume them as in a moment and they fell upon their faces
and moses said unto aaron take a censer and put fire therein from off the altar and put on incense and go quickly unto the congregation and make an atonement for them for there is wrath gone out from the lord the plague is begun
and aaron took as moses commanded and ran into the midst of the congregation and behold the plague was begun among the people and he put on incense and made an atonement for the people
and he stood between the dead and the living and the plague was stayed
now they that died in the plague were fourteen thousand and seven hundred beside them that died about the matter of korah
and aaron returned unto moses unto the door of the tabernacle of the congregation and the plague was stayed
and the lord spake unto moses saying
speak unto the children of israel and take of every one of them a rod according to the house of their fathers of all their princes according to the house of their fathers twelve rods write thou every man's name upon his rod
and thou shalt write aaron's name upon the rod of levi for one rod shall be for the head of the house of their fathers
and thou shalt lay them up in the tabernacle of the congregation before the testimony where i will meet with you
and it shall come to pass that the man's rod whom i shall choose shall blossom and i will make to cease from me the murmurings of the children of israel whereby they murmur against you
and moses spake unto the children of israel and every one of their princes gave him a rod apiece for each prince one according to their fathers houses even twelve rods and the rod of aaron was among their rods
and moses laid up the rods before the lord in the tabernacle of witness
and it came to pass that on the morrow moses went into the tabernacle of witness and behold the rod of aaron for the house of levi was budded and brought forth buds and bloomed blossoms and yielded almonds
and moses brought out all the rods from before the lord unto all the children of israel and they looked and took every man his rod
and the lord said unto moses bring aaron's rod again before the testimony to be kept for a token against the rebels and thou shalt quite take away their murmurings from me that they die not
and moses did so as the lord commanded him so did he
and the children of israel spake unto moses saying behold we die we perish we all perish
whosoever cometh any thing near unto the tabernacle of the lord shall die shall we be consumed with dying
and the lord said unto aaron thou and thy sons and thy father's house with thee shall bear the iniquity of the sanctuary and thou and thy sons with thee shall bear the iniquity of your priesthood
and thy brethren also of the tribe of levi the tribe of thy father bring thou with thee that they may be joined unto thee and minister unto thee but thou and thy sons with thee shall minister before the tabernacle of witness
and they shall keep thy charge and the charge of all the tabernacle only they shall not come nigh the vessels of the sanctuary and the altar that neither they nor ye also die
and they shall be joined unto thee and keep the charge of the tabernacle of the congregation for all the service of the tabernacle and a stranger shall not come nigh unto you
and ye shall keep the charge of the sanctuary and the charge of the altar that there be no wrath any more upon the children of israel
and i behold i have taken your brethren the levites from among the children of israel to you they are given as a gift for the lord to do the service of the tabernacle of the congregation
therefore thou and thy sons with thee shall keep your priest's office for everything of the altar and within the vail and ye shall serve i have given your priest's office unto you as a service of gift and the stranger that cometh nigh shall be put to death
and the lord spake unto aaron behold i also have given thee the charge of mine heave offerings of all the hallowed things of the children of israel unto thee have i given them by reason of the anointing and to thy sons by an ordinance for ever
this shall be thine of the most holy things reserved from the fire every oblation of theirs every meat offering of theirs and every sin offering of theirs and every trespass offering of theirs which they shall render unto me shall be most holy for thee and for thy sons
in the most holy place shalt thou eat it every male shall eat it it shall be holy unto thee
and this is thine the heave offering of their gift with all the wave offerings of the children of israel i have given them unto thee and to thy sons and to thy daughters with thee by a statute for ever every one that is clean in thy house shall eat of it
all the best of the oil and all the best of the wine and of the wheat the firstfruits of them which they shall offer unto the lord them have i given thee
and whatsoever is first ripe in the land which they shall bring unto the lord shall be thine every one that is clean in thine house shall eat of it
every thing devoted in israel shall be thine
every thing that openeth the matrix in all flesh which they bring unto the lord whether it be of men or beasts shall be thine nevertheless the firstborn of man shalt thou surely redeem and the firstling of unclean beasts shalt thou redeem
and those that are to be redeemed from a month old shalt thou redeem according to thine estimation for the money of five shekels after the shekel of the sanctuary which is twenty gerahs
but the firstling of a cow or the firstling of a sheep or the firstling of a goat thou shalt not redeem they are holy thou shalt sprinkle their blood upon the altar and shalt burn their fat for an offering made by fire for a sweet savour unto the lord
and the flesh of them shall be thine as the wave breast and as the right shoulder are thine
all the heave offerings of the holy things which the children of israel offer unto the lord have i given thee and thy sons and thy daughters with thee by a statute for ever it is a covenant of salt for ever before the lord unto thee and to thy seed with thee
and the lord spake unto aaron thou shalt have no inheritance in their land neither shalt thou have any part among them i am thy part and thine inheritance among the children of israel
and behold i have given the children of levi all the tenth in israel for an inheritance for their service which they serve even the service of the tabernacle of the congregation
neither must the children of israel henceforth come nigh the tabernacle of the congregation lest they bear sin and die
but the levites shall do the service of the tabernacle of the congregation and they shall bear their iniquity it shall be a statute for ever throughout your generations that among the children of israel they have no inheritance
but the tithes of the children of israel which they offer as an heave offering unto the lord i have given to the levites to inherit therefore i have said unto them among the children of israel they shall have no inheritance
and the lord spake unto moses saying
thus speak unto the levites and say unto them when ye take of the children of israel the tithes which i have given you from them for your inheritance then ye shall offer up an heave offering of it for the lord even a tenth part of the tithe
and this your heave offering shall be reckoned unto you as though it were the corn of the threshingfloor and as the fulness of the winepress
thus ye also shall offer an heave offering unto the lord of all your tithes which ye receive of the children of israel and ye shall give thereof the lord's heave offering to aaron the priest
out of all your gifts ye shall offer every heave offering of the lord of all the best thereof even the hallowed part thereof out of it
therefore thou shalt say unto them when ye have heaved the best thereof from it then it shall be counted unto the levites as the increase of the threshingfloor and as the increase of the winepress
and ye shall eat it in every place ye and your households for it is your reward for your service in the tabernacle of the congregation
and ye shall bear no sin by reason of it when ye have heaved from it the best of it neither shall ye pollute the holy things of the children of israel lest ye die
and the lord spake unto moses and unto aaron saying
this is the ordinance of the law which the lord hath commanded saying speak unto the children of israel that they bring thee a red heifer without spot wherein is no blemish and upon which never came yoke
and ye shall give her unto eleazar the priest that he may bring her forth without the camp and one shall slay her before his face
and eleazar the priest shall take of her blood with his finger and sprinkle of her blood directly before the tabernacle of the congregation seven times
and one shall burn the heifer in his sight her skin and her flesh and her blood with her dung shall he burn
and the priest shall take cedar wood and hyssop and scarlet and cast it into the midst of the burning of the heifer
then the priest shall wash his clothes and he shall bathe his flesh in water and afterward he shall come into the camp and the priest shall be unclean until the even
and he that burneth her shall wash his clothes in water and bathe his flesh in water and shall be unclean until the even
and a man that is clean shall gather up the ashes of the heifer and lay them up without the camp in a clean place and it shall be kept for the congregation of the children of israel for a water of separation it is a purification for sin
and he that gathereth the ashes of the heifer shall wash his clothes and be unclean until the even and it shall be unto the children of israel and unto the stranger that sojourneth among them for a statute for ever
he that toucheth the dead body of any man shall be unclean seven days
he shall purify himself with it on the third day and on the seventh day he shall be clean but if he purify not himself the third day then the seventh day he shall not be clean
whosoever toucheth the dead body of any man that is dead and purifieth not himself defileth the tabernacle of the lord and that soul shall be cut off from israel because the water of separation was not sprinkled upon him he shall be unclean his uncleanness is yet upon him
this is the law when a man dieth in a tent all that come into the tent and all that is in the tent shall be unclean seven days
and every open vessel which hath no covering bound upon it is unclean
and whosoever toucheth one that is slain with a sword in the open fields or a dead body or a bone of a man or a grave shall be unclean seven days
and for an unclean person they shall take of the ashes of the burnt heifer of purification for sin and running water shall be put thereto in a vessel
and a clean person shall take hyssop and dip it in the water and sprinkle it upon the tent and upon all the vessels and upon the persons that were there and upon him that touched a bone or one slain or one dead or a grave
and the clean person shall sprinkle upon the unclean on the third day and on the seventh day and on the seventh day he shall purify himself and wash his clothes and bathe himself in water and shall be clean at even
but the man that shall be unclean and shall not purify himself that soul shall be cut off from among the congregation because he hath defiled the sanctuary of the lord the water of separation hath not been sprinkled upon him he is unclean
and it shall be a perpetual statute unto them that he that sprinkleth the water of separation shall wash his clothes and he that toucheth the water of separation shall be unclean until even
and whatsoever the unclean person toucheth shall be unclean and the soul that toucheth it shall be unclean until even
then came the children of israel even the whole congregation into the desert of zin in the first month and the people abode in kadesh and miriam died there and was buried there
and there was no water for the congregation and they gathered themselves together against moses and against aaron
and the people chode with moses and spake saying would god that we had died when our brethren died before the lord
and why have ye brought up the congregation of the lord into this wilderness that we and our cattle should die there
and wherefore have ye made us to come up out of egypt to bring us in unto this evil place it is no place of seed or of figs or of vines or of pomegranates neither is there any water to drink
and moses and aaron went from the presence of the assembly unto the door of the tabernacle of the congregation and they fell upon their faces and the glory of the lord appeared unto them
and the lord spake unto moses saying
take the rod and gather thou the assembly together thou and aaron thy brother and speak ye unto the rock before their eyes and it shall give forth his water and thou shalt bring forth to them water out of the rock so thou shalt give the congregation and their beasts drink
and moses took the rod from before the lord as he commanded him
and moses and aaron gathered the congregation together before the rock and he said unto them hear now ye rebels must we fetch you water out of this rock
and moses lifted up his hand and with his rod he smote the rock twice and the water came out abundantly and the congregation drank and their beasts also
and the lord spake unto moses and aaron because ye believed me not to sanctify me in the eyes of the children of israel therefore ye shall not bring this congregation into the land which i have given them
this is the water of meribah because the children of israel strove with the lord and he was sanctified in them
and moses sent messengers from kadesh unto the king of edom thus saith thy brother israel thou knowest all the travail that hath befallen us
how our fathers went down into egypt and we have dwelt in egypt a long time and the egyptians vexed us and our fathers
and when we cried unto the lord he heard our voice and sent an angel and hath brought us forth out of egypt and behold we are in kadesh a city in the uttermost of thy border
let us pass i pray thee through thy country we will not pass through the fields or through the vineyards neither will we drink of the water of the wells we will go by the king's high way we will not turn to the right hand nor to the left until we have passed thy borders
and edom said unto him thou shalt not pass by me lest i come out against thee with the sword
and the children of israel said unto him we will go by the high way and if i and my cattle drink of thy water then i will pay for it i will only without doing anything else go through on my feet
and he said thou shalt not go through and edom came out against him with much people and with a strong hand
thus edom refused to give israel passage through his border wherefore israel turned away from him
and the children of israel even the whole congregation journeyed from kadesh and came unto mount hor
and the lord spake unto moses and aaron in mount hor by the coast of the land of edom saying
aaron shall be gathered unto his people for he shall not enter into the land which i have given unto the children of israel because ye rebelled against my word at the water of meribah
take aaron and eleazar his son and bring them up unto mount hor
and strip aaron of his garments and put them upon eleazar his son and aaron shall be gathered unto his people and shall die there
and moses did as the lord commanded and they went up into mount hor in the sight of all the congregation
and moses stripped aaron of his garments and put them upon eleazar his son and aaron died there in the top of the mount and moses and eleazar came down from the mount
and when all the congregation saw that aaron was dead they mourned for aaron thirty days even all the house of israel
and when king arad the canaanite which dwelt in the south heard tell that israel came by the way of the spies then he fought against israel and took some of them prisoners
and israel vowed a vow unto the lord and said if thou wilt indeed deliver this people into my hand then i will utterly destroy their cities
and the lord hearkened to the voice of israel and delivered up the canaanites and they utterly destroyed them and their cities and he called the name of the place hormah
and they journeyed from mount hor by the way of the red sea to compass the land of edom and the soul of the people was much discouraged because of the way
and the people spake against god and against moses wherefore have ye brought us up out of egypt to die in the wilderness for there is no bread neither is there any water and our soul loatheth this light bread
and the lord sent fiery serpents among the people and they bit the people and much people of israel died
therefore the people came to moses and said we have sinned for we have spoken against the lord and against thee pray unto the lord that he take away the serpents from us and moses prayed for the people
and the lord said unto moses make thee a fiery serpent and set it upon a pole and it shall come to pass that every one that is bitten when he looketh upon it shall live
and moses made a serpent of brass and put it upon a pole and it came to pass that if a serpent had bitten any man when he beheld the serpent of brass he lived
and the children of israel set forward and pitched in oboth
and they journeyed from oboth and pitched at ijeabarim in the wilderness which is before moab toward the sunrising
from thence they removed and pitched in the valley of zared
from thence they removed and pitched on the other side of arnon which is in the wilderness that cometh out of the coasts of the amorites for arnon is the border of moab between moab and the amorites
wherefore it is said in the book of the wars of the lord what he did in the red sea and in the brooks of arnon
and at the stream of the brooks that goeth down to the dwelling of ar and lieth upon the border of moab
and from thence they went to beer that is the well whereof the lord spake unto moses gather the people together and i will give them water
then israel sang this song spring up o well sing ye unto it
the princes digged the well the nobles of the people digged it by the direction of the lawgiver with their staves and from the wilderness they went to mattanah
and from mattanah to nahaliel and from nahaliel to bamoth
and from bamoth in the valley that is in the country of moab to the top of pisgah which looketh toward jeshimon
and israel sent messengers unto sihon king of the amorites saying
let me pass through thy land we will not turn into the fields or into the vineyards we will not drink of the waters of the well but we will go along by the king's high way until we be past thy borders
and sihon would not suffer israel to pass through his border but sihon gathered all his people together and went out against israel into the wilderness and he came to jahaz and fought against israel
and israel smote him with the edge of the sword and possessed his land from arnon unto jabbok even unto the children of ammon for the border of the children of ammon was strong
and israel took all these cities and israel dwelt in all the cities of the amorites in heshbon and in all the villages thereof
for heshbon was the city of sihon the king of the amorites who had fought against the former king of moab and taken all his land out of his hand even unto arnon
wherefore they that speak in proverbs say come into heshbon let the city of sihon be built and prepared
for there is a fire gone out of heshbon a flame from the city of sihon it hath consumed ar of moab and the lords of the high places of arnon
woe to thee moab thou art undone o people of chemosh he hath given his sons that escaped and his daughters into captivity unto sihon king of the amorites
we have shot at them heshbon is perished even unto dibon and we have laid them waste even unto nophah which reacheth unto medeba
thus israel dwelt in the land of the amorites
and moses sent to spy out jaazer and they took the villages thereof and drove out the amorites that were there
and they turned and went up by the way of bashan and og the king of bashan went out against them he and all his people to the battle at edrei
and the lord said unto moses fear him not for i have delivered him into thy hand and all his people and his land and thou shalt do to him as thou didst unto sihon king of the amorites which dwelt at heshbon
so they smote him and his sons and all his people until there was none left him alive and they possessed his land
and the children of israel set forward and pitched in the plains of moab on this side jordan by jericho
and balak the son of zippor saw all that israel had done to the amorites
and moab was sore afraid of the people because they were many and moab was distressed because of the children of israel
and moab said unto the elders of midian now shall this company lick up all that are round about us as the ox licketh up the grass of the field and balak the son of zippor was king of the moabites at that time
he sent messengers therefore unto balaam the son of beor to pethor which is by the river of the land of the children of his people to call him saying behold there is a people come out from egypt behold they cover the face of the earth and they abide over against me
come now therefore i pray thee curse me this people for they are too mighty for me peradventure i shall prevail that we may smite them and that i may drive them out of the land for i wot that he whom thou blessest is blessed and he whom thou cursest is cursed
and the elders of moab and the elders of midian departed with the rewards of divination in their hand and they came unto balaam and spake unto him the words of balak
and he said unto them lodge here this night and i will bring you word again as the lord shall speak unto me and the princes of moab abode with balaam
and god came unto balaam and said what men are these with thee
and balaam said unto god balak the son of zippor king of moab hath sent unto me saying
behold there is a people come out of egypt which covereth the face of the earth come now curse me them peradventure i shall be able to overcome them and drive them out
and god said unto balaam thou shalt not go with them thou shalt not curse the people for they are blessed
and balaam rose up in the morning and said unto the princes of balak get you into your land for the lord refuseth to give me leave to go with you
and the princes of moab rose up and they went unto balak and said balaam refuseth to come with us
and balak sent yet again princes more and more honourable than they
and they came to balaam and said to him thus saith balak the son of zippor let nothing i pray thee hinder thee from coming unto me
for i will promote thee unto very great honour and i will do whatsoever thou sayest unto me come therefore i pray thee curse me this people
and balaam answered and said unto the servants of balak if balak would give me his house full of silver and gold i cannot go beyond the word of the lord my god to do less or more
now therefore i pray you tarry ye also here this night that i may know what the lord will say unto me more
and god came unto balaam at night and said unto him if the men come to call thee rise up and go with them but yet the word which i shall say unto thee that shalt thou do
and balaam rose up in the morning and saddled his ass and went with the princes of moab
and god's anger was kindled because he went and the angel of the lord stood in the way for an adversary against him now he was riding upon his ass and his two servants were with him
and the ass saw the angel of the lord standing in the way and his sword drawn in his hand and the ass turned aside out of the way and went into the field and balaam smote the ass to turn her into the way
but the angel of the lord stood in a path of the vineyards a wall being on this side and a wall on that side
and when the ass saw the angel of the lord she thrust herself unto the wall and crushed balaam's foot against the wall and he smote her again
and the angel of the lord went further and stood in a narrow place where was no way to turn either to the right hand or to the left
and when the ass saw the angel of the lord she fell down under balaam and balaam's anger was kindled and he smote the ass with a staff
and the lord opened the mouth of the ass and she said unto balaam what have i done unto thee that thou hast smitten me these three times
and balaam said unto the ass because thou hast mocked me i would there were a sword in mine hand for now would i kill thee
and the ass said unto balaam am not i thine ass upon which thou hast ridden ever since i was thine unto this day was i ever wont to do so unto thee and he said nay
then the lord opened the eyes of balaam and he saw the angel of the lord standing in the way and his sword drawn in his hand and he bowed down his head and fell flat on his face
and the angel of the lord said unto him wherefore hast thou smitten thine ass these three times behold i went out to withstand thee because thy way is perverse before me
and the ass saw me and turned from me these three times unless she had turned from me surely now also i had slain thee and saved her alive
and balaam said unto the angel of the lord i have sinned for i knew not that thou stoodest in the way against me now therefore if it displease thee i will get me back again
and the angel of the lord said unto balaam go with the men but only the word that i shall speak unto thee that thou shalt speak so balaam went with the princes of balak
and when balak heard that balaam was come he went out to meet him unto a city of moab which is in the border of arnon which is in the utmost coast
and balak said unto balaam did i not earnestly send unto thee to call thee wherefore camest thou not unto me am i not able indeed to promote thee to honour
and balaam said unto balak lo i am come unto thee have i now any power at all to say any thing the word that god putteth in my mouth that shall i speak
and balaam went with balak and they came unto kirjathhuzoth
and balak offered oxen and sheep and sent to balaam and to the princes that were with him
and it came to pass on the morrow that balak took balaam and brought him up into the high places of baal that thence he might see the utmost part of the people
and balaam said unto balak build me here seven altars and prepare me here seven oxen and seven rams
and balak did as balaam had spoken and balak and balaam offered on every altar a bullock and a ram
and balaam said unto balak stand by thy burnt offering and i will go peradventure the lord will come to meet me and whatsoever he sheweth me i will tell thee and he went to an high place
and god met balaam and he said unto him i have prepared seven altars and i have offered upon every altar a bullock and a ram
and the lord put a word in balaam's mouth and said return unto balak and thus thou shalt speak
and he returned unto him and lo he stood by his burnt sacrifice he and all the princes of moab
and he took up his parable and said balak the king of moab hath brought me from aram out of the mountains of the east saying come curse me jacob and come defy israel
how shall i curse whom god hath not cursed or how shall i defy whom the lord hath not defied
for from the top of the rocks i see him and from the hills i behold him lo the people shall dwell alone and shall not be reckoned among the nations
who can count the dust of jacob and the number of the fourth part of israel let me die the death of the righteous and let my last end be like his
and balak said unto balaam what hast thou done unto me i took thee to curse mine enemies and behold thou hast blessed them altogether
and he answered and said must i not take heed to speak that which the lord hath put in my mouth
and balak said unto him come i pray thee with me unto another place from whence thou mayest see them thou shalt see but the utmost part of them and shalt not see them all and curse me them from thence
and he brought him into the field of zophim to the top of pisgah and built seven altars and offered a bullock and a ram on every altar
and he said unto balak stand here by thy burnt offering while i meet the lord yonder
and the lord met balaam and put a word in his mouth and said go again unto balak and say thus
and when he came to him behold he stood by his burnt offering and the princes of moab with him and balak said unto him what hath the lord spoken
and he took up his parable and said rise up balak and hear hearken unto me thou son of zippor
god is not a man that he should lie neither the son of man that he should repent hath he said and shall he not do it or hath he spoken and shall he not make it good
behold i have received commandment to bless and he hath blessed and i cannot reverse it
he hath not beheld iniquity in jacob neither hath he seen perverseness in israel the lord his god is with him and the shout of a king is among them
god brought them out of egypt he hath as it were the strength of an unicorn
surely there is no enchantment against jacob neither is there any divination against israel according to this time it shall be said of jacob and of israel what hath god wrought
behold the people shall rise up as a great lion and lift up himself as a young lion he shall not lie down until he eat of the prey and drink the blood of the slain
and balak said unto balaam neither curse them at all nor bless them at all
but balaam answered and said unto balak told not i thee saying all that the lord speaketh that i must do
and balak said unto balaam come i pray thee i will bring thee unto another place peradventure it will please god that thou mayest curse me them from thence
and balak brought balaam unto the top of peor that looketh toward jeshimon
and balaam said unto balak build me here seven altars and prepare me here seven bullocks and seven rams
and balak did as balaam had said and offered a bullock and a ram on every altar
and when balaam saw that it pleased the lord to bless israel he went not as at other times to seek for enchantments but he set his face toward the wilderness
and balaam lifted up his eyes and he saw israel abiding in his tents according to their tribes and the spirit of god came upon him
and he took up his parable and said balaam the son of beor hath said and the man whose eyes are open hath said
he hath said which heard the words of god which saw the vision of the almighty falling into a trance but having his eyes open
how goodly are thy tents o jacob and thy tabernacles o israel
as the valleys are they spread forth as gardens by the river's side as the trees of lign aloes which the lord hath planted and as cedar trees beside the waters
he shall pour the water out of his buckets and his seed shall be in many waters and his king shall be higher than agag and his kingdom shall be exalted
god brought him forth out of egypt he hath as it were the strength of an unicorn he shall eat up the nations his enemies and shall break their bones and pierce them through with his arrows
he couched he lay down as a lion and as a great lion who shall stir him up blessed is he that blesseth thee and cursed is he that curseth thee
and balak's anger was kindled against balaam and he smote his hands together and balak said unto balaam i called thee to curse mine enemies and behold thou hast altogether blessed them these three times
therefore now flee thou to thy place i thought to promote thee unto great honour but lo the lord hath kept thee back from honour
and balaam said unto balak spake i not also to thy messengers which thou sentest unto me saying
if balak would give me his house full of silver and gold i cannot go beyond the commandment of the lord to do either good or bad of mine own mind but what the lord saith that will i speak
and now behold i go unto my people come therefore and i will advertise thee what this people shall do to thy people in the latter days
and he took up his parable and said balaam the son of beor hath said and the man whose eyes are open hath said
he hath said which heard the words of god and knew the knowledge of the most high which saw the vision of the almighty falling into a trance but having his eyes open
i shall see him but not now i shall behold him but not nigh there shall come a star out of jacob and a sceptre shall rise out of israel and shall smite the corners of moab and destroy all the children of sheth
and edom shall be a possession seir also shall be a possession for his enemies and israel shall do valiantly
out of jacob shall come he that shall have dominion and shall destroy him that remaineth of the city
and when he looked on amalek he took up his parable and said amalek was the first of the nations but his latter end shall be that he perish for ever
and he looked on the kenites and took up his parable and said strong is thy dwellingplace and thou puttest thy nest in a rock
nevertheless the kenite shall be wasted until asshur shall carry thee away captive
and he took up his parable and said alas who shall live when god doeth this
and ships shall come from the coast of chittim and shall afflict asshur and shall afflict eber and he also shall perish for ever
and balaam rose up and went and returned to his place and balak also went his way
and israel abode in shittim and the people began to commit whoredom with the daughters of moab
and they called the people unto the sacrifices of their gods and the people did eat and bowed down to their gods
and israel joined himself unto baalpeor and the anger of the lord was kindled against israel
and the lord said unto moses take all the heads of the people and hang them up before the lord against the sun that the fierce anger of the lord may be turned away from israel
and moses said unto the judges of israel slay ye every one his men that were joined unto baalpeor
and behold one of the children of israel came and brought unto his brethren a midianitish woman in the sight of moses and in the sight of all the congregation of the children of israel who were weeping before the door of the tabernacle of the congregation
and when phinehas the son of eleazar the son of aaron the priest saw it he rose up from among the congregation and took a javelin in his hand
and he went after the man of israel into the tent and thrust both of them through the man of israel and the woman through her belly so the plague was stayed from the children of israel
and those that died in the plague were twenty and four thousand
and the lord spake unto moses saying
phinehas the son of eleazar the son of aaron the priest hath turned my wrath away from the children of israel while he was zealous for my sake among them that i consumed not the children of israel in my jealousy
wherefore say behold i give unto him my covenant of peace
and he shall have it and his seed after him even the covenant of an everlasting priesthood because he was zealous for his god and made an atonement for the children of israel
now the name of the israelite that was slain even that was slain with the midianitish woman was zimri the son of salu a prince of a chief house among the simeonites
and the name of the midianitish woman that was slain was cozbi the daughter of zur he was head over a people and of a chief house in midian
and the lord spake unto moses saying
vex the midianites and smite them
for they vex you with their wiles wherewith they have beguiled you in the matter of peor and in the matter of cozbi the daughter of a prince of midian their sister which was slain in the day of the plague for peor's sake
and it came to pass after the plague that the lord spake unto moses and unto eleazar the son of aaron the priest saying
take the sum of all the congregation of the children of israel from twenty years old and upward throughout their fathers house all that are able to go to war in israel
and moses and eleazar the priest spake with them in the plains of moab by jordan near jericho saying
take the sum of the people from twenty years old and upward as the lord commanded moses and the children of israel which went forth out of the land of egypt
reuben the eldest son of israel the children of reuben hanoch of whom cometh the family of the hanochites of pallu the family of the palluites
of hezron the family of the hezronites of carmi the family of the carmites
these are the families of the reubenites and they that were numbered of them were forty and three thousand and seven hundred and thirty
and the sons of pallu eliab
and the sons of eliab nemuel and dathan and abiram this is that dathan and abiram which were famous in the congregation who strove against moses and against aaron in the company of korah when they strove against the lord
and the earth opened her mouth and swallowed them up together with korah when that company died what time the fire devoured two hundred and fifty men and they became a sign
notwithstanding the children of korah died not
the sons of simeon after their families of nemuel the family of the nemuelites of jamin the family of the jaminites of jachin the family of the jachinites
of zerah the family of the zarhites of shaul the family of the shaulites
these are the families of the simeonites twenty and two thousand and two hundred
the children of gad after their families of zephon the family of the zephonites of haggi the family of the haggites of shuni the family of the shunites
of ozni the family of the oznites of eri the family of the erites
of arod the family of the arodites of areli the family of the arelites
these are the families of the children of gad according to those that were numbered of them forty thousand and five hundred
the sons of judah were er and onan and er and onan died in the land of canaan
and the sons of judah after their families were of shelah the family of the shelanites of pharez the family of the pharzites of zerah the family of the zarhites
and the sons of pharez were of hezron the family of the hezronites of hamul the family of the hamulites
these are the families of judah according to those that were numbered of them threescore and sixteen thousand and five hundred
of the sons of issachar after their families of tola the family of the tolaites of pua the family of the punites
of jashub the family of the jashubites of shimron the family of the shimronites
these are the families of issachar according to those that were numbered of them threescore and four thousand and three hundred
of the sons of zebulun after their families of sered the family of the sardites of elon the family of the elonites of jahleel the family of the jahleelites
these are the families of the zebulunites according to those that were numbered of them threescore thousand and five hundred
the sons of joseph after their families were manasseh and ephraim
of the sons of manasseh of machir the family of the machirites and machir begat gilead of gilead come the family of the gileadites
these are the sons of gilead of jeezer the family of the jeezerites of helek the family of the helekites
and of asriel the family of the asrielites and of shechem the family of the shechemites
and of shemida the family of the shemidaites and of hepher the family of the hepherites
and zelophehad the son of hepher had no sons but daughters and the names of the daughters of zelophehad were mahlah and noah hoglah milcah and tirzah
these are the families of manasseh and those that were numbered of them fifty and two thousand and seven hundred
these are the sons of ephraim after their families of shuthelah the family of the shuthalhites of becher the family of the bachrites of tahan the family of the tahanites
and these are the sons of shuthelah of eran the family of the eranites
these are the families of the sons of ephraim according to those that were numbered of them thirty and two thousand and five hundred these are the sons of joseph after their families
the sons of benjamin after their families of bela the family of the belaites of ashbel the family of the ashbelites of ahiram the family of the ahiramites
of shupham the family of the shuphamites of hupham the family of the huphamites
and the sons of bela were ard and naaman of ard the family of the ardites and of naaman the family of the naamites
these are the sons of benjamin after their families and they that were numbered of them were forty and five thousand and six hundred
these are the sons of dan after their families of shuham the family of the shuhamites these are the families of dan after their families
all the families of the shuhamites according to those that were numbered of them were threescore and four thousand and four hundred
of the children of asher after their families of jimna the family of the jimnites of jesui the family of the jesuites of beriah the family of the beriites
of the sons of beriah of heber the family of the heberites of malchiel the family of the malchielites
and the name of the daughter of asher was sarah
these are the families of the sons of asher according to those that were numbered of them who were fifty and three thousand and four hundred
of the sons of naphtali after their families of jahzeel the family of the jahzeelites of guni the family of the gunites
of jezer the family of the jezerites of shillem the family of the shillemites
these are the families of naphtali according to their families and they that were numbered of them were forty and five thousand and four hundred
these were the numbered of the children of israel six hundred thousand and a thousand seven hundred and thirty
and the lord spake unto moses saying
unto these the land shall be divided for an inheritance according to the number of names
to many thou shalt give the more inheritance and to few thou shalt give the less inheritance to every one shall his inheritance be given according to those that were numbered of him
notwithstanding the land shall be divided by lot according to the names of the tribes of their fathers they shall inherit
according to the lot shall the possession thereof be divided between many and few
and these are they that were numbered of the levites after their families of gershon the family of the gershonites of kohath the family of the kohathites of merari the family of the merarites
these are the families of the levites the family of the libnites the family of the hebronites the family of the mahlites the family of the mushites the family of the korathites and kohath begat amram
and the name of amram's wife was jochebed the daughter of levi whom her mother bare to levi in egypt and she bare unto amram aaron and moses and miriam their sister
and unto aaron was born nadab and abihu eleazar and ithamar
and nadab and abihu died when they offered strange fire before the lord
and those that were numbered of them were twenty and three thousand all males from a month old and upward for they were not numbered among the children of israel because there was no inheritance given them among the children of israel
these are they that were numbered by moses and eleazar the priest who numbered the children of israel in the plains of moab by jordan near jericho
but among these there was not a man of them whom moses and aaron the priest numbered when they numbered the children of israel in the wilderness of sinai
for the lord had said of them they shall surely die in the wilderness and there was not left a man of them save caleb the son of jephunneh and joshua the son of nun
then came the daughters of zelophehad the son of hepher the son of gilead the son of machir the son of manasseh of the families of manasseh the son of joseph and these are the names of his daughters mahlah noah and hoglah and milcah and tirzah
and they stood before moses and before eleazar the priest and before the princes and all the congregation by the door of the tabernacle of the congregation saying
our father died in the wilderness and he was not in the company of them that gathered themselves together against the lord in the company of korah but died in his own sin and had no sons
why should the name of our father be done away from among his family because he hath no son give unto us therefore a possession among the brethren of our father
and moses brought their cause before the lord
and the lord spake unto moses saying
the daughters of zelophehad speak right thou shalt surely give them a possession of an inheritance among their father's brethren and thou shalt cause the inheritance of their father to pass unto them
and thou shalt speak unto the children of israel saying if a man die and have no son then ye shall cause his inheritance to pass unto his daughter
and if he have no daughter then ye shall give his inheritance unto his brethren
and if he have no brethren then ye shall give his inheritance unto his father's brethren
and if his father have no brethren then ye shall give his inheritance unto his kinsman that is next to him of his family and he shall possess it and it shall be unto the children of israel a statute of judgment as the lord commanded moses
and the lord said unto moses get thee up into this mount abarim and see the land which i have given unto the children of israel
and when thou hast seen it thou also shalt be gathered unto thy people as aaron thy brother was gathered
for ye rebelled against my commandment in the desert of zin in the strife of the congregation to sanctify me at the water before their eyes that is the water of meribah in kadesh in the wilderness of zin
and moses spake unto the lord saying
let the lord the god of the spirits of all flesh set a man over the congregation
which may go out before them and which may go in before them and which may lead them out and which may bring them in that the congregation of the lord be not as sheep which have no shepherd
and the lord said unto moses take thee joshua the son of nun a man in whom is the spirit and lay thine hand upon him
and set him before eleazar the priest and before all the congregation and give him a charge in their sight
and thou shalt put some of thine honour upon him that all the congregation of the children of israel may be obedient
and he shall stand before eleazar the priest who shall ask counsel for him after the judgment of urim before the lord at his word shall they go out and at his word they shall come in both he and all the children of israel with him even all the congregation
and moses did as the lord commanded him and he took joshua and set him before eleazar the priest and before all the congregation
and he laid his hands upon him and gave him a charge as the lord commanded by the hand of moses
and the lord spake unto moses saying
command the children of israel and say unto them my offering and my bread for my sacrifices made by fire for a sweet savour unto me shall ye observe to offer unto me in their due season
and thou shalt say unto them this is the offering made by fire which ye shall offer unto the lord two lambs of the first year without spot day by day for a continual burnt offering
the one lamb shalt thou offer in the morning and the other lamb shalt thou offer at even
and a tenth part of an ephah of flour for a meat offering mingled with the fourth part of an hin of beaten oil
it is a continual burnt offering which was ordained in mount sinai for a sweet savour a sacrifice made by fire unto the lord
and the drink offering thereof shall be the fourth part of an hin for the one lamb in the holy place shalt thou cause the strong wine to be poured unto the lord for a drink offering
and the other lamb shalt thou offer at even as the meat offering of the morning and as the drink offering thereof thou shalt offer it a sacrifice made by fire of a sweet savour unto the lord
and on the sabbath day two lambs of the first year without spot and two tenth deals of flour for a meat offering mingled with oil and the drink offering thereof
this is the burnt offering of every sabbath beside the continual burnt offering and his drink offering
and in the beginnings of your months ye shall offer a burnt offering unto the lord two young bullocks and one ram seven lambs of the first year without spot
and three tenth deals of flour for a meat offering mingled with oil for one bullock and two tenth deals of flour for a meat offering mingled with oil for one ram
and a several tenth deal of flour mingled with oil for a meat offering unto one lamb for a burnt offering of a sweet savour a sacrifice made by fire unto the lord
and their drink offerings shall be half an hin of wine unto a bullock and the third part of an hin unto a ram and a fourth part of an hin unto a lamb this is the burnt offering of every month throughout the months of the year
and one kid of the goats for a sin offering unto the lord shall be offered beside the continual burnt offering and his drink offering
and in the fourteenth day of the first month is the passover of the lord
and in the fifteenth day of this month is the feast seven days shall unleavened bread be eaten
in the first day shall be an holy convocation ye shall do no manner of servile work therein
but ye shall offer a sacrifice made by fire for a burnt offering unto the lord two young bullocks and one ram and seven lambs of the first year they shall be unto you without blemish
and their meat offering shall be of flour mingled with oil three tenth deals shall ye offer for a bullock and two tenth deals for a ram
a several tenth deal shalt thou offer for every lamb throughout the seven lambs
and one goat for a sin offering to make an atonement for you
ye shall offer these beside the burnt offering in the morning which is for a continual burnt offering
after this manner ye shall offer daily throughout the seven days the meat of the sacrifice made by fire of a sweet savour unto the lord it shall be offered beside the continual burnt offering and his drink offering
and on the seventh day ye shall have an holy convocation ye shall do no servile work
also in the day of the firstfruits when ye bring a new meat offering unto the lord after your weeks be out ye shall have an holy convocation ye shall do no servile work
but ye shall offer the burnt offering for a sweet savour unto the lord two young bullocks one ram seven lambs of the first year
and their meat offering of flour mingled with oil three tenth deals unto one bullock two tenth deals unto one ram
a several tenth deal unto one lamb throughout the seven lambs
and one kid of the goats to make an atonement for you
ye shall offer them beside the continual burnt offering and his meat offering they shall be unto you without blemish and their drink offerings
and in the seventh month on the first day of the month ye shall have an holy convocation ye shall do no servile work it is a day of blowing the trumpets unto you
and ye shall offer a burnt offering for a sweet savour unto the lord one young bullock one ram and seven lambs of the first year without blemish
and their meat offering shall be of flour mingled with oil three tenth deals for a bullock and two tenth deals for a ram
and one tenth deal for one lamb throughout the seven lambs
and one kid of the goats for a sin offering to make an atonement for you
beside the burnt offering of the month and his meat offering and the daily burnt offering and his meat offering and their drink offerings according unto their manner for a sweet savour a sacrifice made by fire unto the lord
and ye shall have on the tenth day of this seventh month an holy convocation and ye shall afflict your souls ye shall not do any work therein
but ye shall offer a burnt offering unto the lord for a sweet savour one young bullock one ram and seven lambs of the first year they shall be unto you without blemish
and their meat offering shall be of flour mingled with oil three tenth deals to a bullock and two tenth deals to one ram
a several tenth deal for one lamb throughout the seven lambs
one kid of the goats for a sin offering beside the sin offering of atonement and the continual burnt offering and the meat offering of it and their drink offerings
and on the fifteenth day of the seventh month ye shall have an holy convocation ye shall do no servile work and ye shall keep a feast unto the lord seven days
and ye shall offer a burnt offering a sacrifice made by fire of a sweet savour unto the lord thirteen young bullocks two rams and fourteen lambs of the first year they shall be without blemish
and their meat offering shall be of flour mingled with oil three tenth deals unto every bullock of the thirteen bullocks two tenth deals to each ram of the two rams
and a several tenth deal to each lamb of the fourteen lambs
and one kid of the goats for a sin offering beside the continual burnt offering his meat offering and his drink offering
and on the second day ye shall offer twelve young bullocks two rams fourteen lambs of the first year without spot
and their meat offering and their drink offerings for the bullocks for the rams and for the lambs shall be according to their number after the manner
and one kid of the goats for a sin offering beside the continual burnt offering and the meat offering thereof and their drink offerings
and on the third day eleven bullocks two rams fourteen lambs of the first year without blemish
and their meat offering and their drink offerings for the bullocks for the rams and for the lambs shall be according to their number after the manner
and one goat for a sin offering beside the continual burnt offering and his meat offering and his drink offering
and on the fourth day ten bullocks two rams and fourteen lambs of the first year without blemish
their meat offering and their drink offerings for the bullocks for the rams and for the lambs shall be according to their number after the manner
and one kid of the goats for a sin offering beside the continual burnt offering his meat offering and his drink offering
and on the fifth day nine bullocks two rams and fourteen lambs of the first year without spot
and their meat offering and their drink offerings for the bullocks for the rams and for the lambs shall be according to their number after the manner
and one goat for a sin offering beside the continual burnt offering and his meat offering and his drink offering
and on the sixth day eight bullocks two rams and fourteen lambs of the first year without blemish
and their meat offering and their drink offerings for the bullocks for the rams and for the lambs shall be according to their number after the manner
and one goat for a sin offering beside the continual burnt offering his meat offering and his drink offering
and on the seventh day seven bullocks two rams and fourteen lambs of the first year without blemish
and their meat offering and their drink offerings for the bullocks for the rams and for the lambs shall be according to their number after the manner
and one goat for a sin offering beside the continual burnt offering his meat offering and his drink offering
on the eighth day ye shall have a solemn assembly ye shall do no servile work therein
but ye shall offer a burnt offering a sacrifice made by fire of a sweet savour unto the lord one bullock one ram seven lambs of the first year without blemish
their meat offering and their drink offerings for the bullock for the ram and for the lambs shall be according to their number after the manner
and one goat for a sin offering beside the continual burnt offering and his meat offering and his drink offering
these things ye shall do unto the lord in your set feasts beside your vows and your freewill offerings for your burnt offerings and for your meat offerings and for your drink offerings and for your peace offerings
and moses told the children of israel according to all that the lord commanded moses
and moses spake unto the heads of the tribes concerning the children of israel saying this is the thing which the lord hath commanded
if a man vow a vow unto the lord or swear an oath to bind his soul with a bond he shall not break his word he shall do according to all that proceedeth out of his mouth
if a woman also vow a vow unto the lord and bind herself by a bond being in her father's house in her youth
and her father hear her vow and her bond wherewith she hath bound her soul and her father shall hold his peace at her then all her vows shall stand and every bond wherewith she hath bound her soul shall stand
but if her father disallow her in the day that he heareth not any of her vows or of her bonds wherewith she hath bound her soul shall stand and the lord shall forgive her because her father disallowed her
and if she had at all an husband when she vowed or uttered ought out of her lips wherewith she bound her soul
and her husband heard it and held his peace at her in the day that he heard it then her vows shall stand and her bonds wherewith she bound her soul shall stand
but if her husband disallowed her on the day that he heard it then he shall make her vow which she vowed and that which she uttered with her lips wherewith she bound her soul of none effect and the lord shall forgive her
but every vow of a widow and of her that is divorced wherewith they have bound their souls shall stand against her
and if she vowed in her husband's house or bound her soul by a bond with an oath
and her husband heard it and held his peace at her and disallowed her not then all her vows shall stand and every bond wherewith she bound her soul shall stand
but if her husband hath utterly made them void on the day he heard them then whatsoever proceeded out of her lips concerning her vows or concerning the bond of her soul shall not stand her husband hath made them void and the lord shall forgive her
every vow and every binding oath to afflict the soul her husband may establish it or her husband may make it void
but if her husband altogether hold his peace at her from day to day then he establisheth all her vows or all her bonds which are upon her he confirmeth them because he held his peace at her in the day that he heard them
but if he shall any ways make them void after that he hath heard them then he shall bear her iniquity
these are the statutes which the lord commanded moses between a man and his wife between the father and his daughter being yet in her youth in her father's house
and the lord spake unto moses saying
avenge the children of israel of the midianites afterward shalt thou be gathered unto thy people
and moses spake unto the people saying arm some of yourselves unto the war and let them go against the midianites and avenge the lord of midian
of every tribe a thousand throughout all the tribes of israel shall ye send to the war
so there were delivered out of the thousands of israel a thousand of every tribe twelve thousand armed for war
and moses sent them to the war a thousand of every tribe them and phinehas the son of eleazar the priest to the war with the holy instruments and the trumpets to blow in his hand
and they warred against the midianites as the lord commanded moses and they slew all the males
and they slew the kings of midian beside the rest of them that were slain namely evi and rekem and zur and hur and reba five kings of midian balaam also the son of beor they slew with the sword
and the children of israel took all the women of midian captives and their little ones and took the spoil of all their cattle and all their flocks and all their goods
and they burnt all their cities wherein they dwelt and all their goodly castles with fire
and they took all the spoil and all the prey both of men and of beasts
and they brought the captives and the prey and the spoil unto moses and eleazar the priest and unto the congregation of the children of israel unto the camp at the plains of moab which are by jordan near jericho
and moses and eleazar the priest and all the princes of the congregation went forth to meet them without the camp
and moses was wroth with the officers of the host with the captains over thousands and captains over hundreds which came from the battle
and moses said unto them have ye saved all the women alive
behold these caused the children of israel through the counsel of balaam to commit trespass against the lord in the matter of peor and there was a plague among the congregation of the lord
now therefore kill every male among the little ones and kill every woman that hath known man by lying with him
but all the women children that have not known a man by lying with him keep alive for yourselves
and do ye abide without the camp seven days whosoever hath killed any person and whosoever hath touched any slain purify both yourselves and your captives on the third day and on the seventh day
and purify all your raiment and all that is made of skins and all work of goats hair and all things made of wood
and eleazar the priest said unto the men of war which went to the battle this is the ordinance of the law which the lord commanded moses
only the gold and the silver the brass the iron the tin and the lead
every thing that may abide the fire ye shall make it go through the fire and it shall be clean nevertheless it shall be purified with the water of separation and all that abideth not the fire ye shall make go through the water
and ye shall wash your clothes on the seventh day and ye shall be clean and afterward ye shall come into the camp
and the lord spake unto moses saying
take the sum of the prey that was taken both of man and of beast thou and eleazar the priest and the chief fathers of the congregation
and divide the prey into two parts between them that took the war upon them who went out to battle and between all the congregation
and levy a tribute unto the lord of the men of war which went out to battle one soul of five hundred both of the persons and of the beeves and of the asses and of the sheep
take it of their half and give it unto eleazar the priest for an heave offering of the lord
and of the children of israel's half thou shalt take one portion of fifty of the persons of the beeves of the asses and of the flocks of all manner of beasts and give them unto the levites which keep the charge of the tabernacle of the lord
and moses and eleazar the priest did as the lord commanded moses
and the booty being the rest of the prey which the men of war had caught was six hundred thousand and seventy thousand and five thousand sheep
and threescore and twelve thousand beeves
and threescore and one thousand asses
and thirty and two thousand persons in all of women that had not known man by lying with him
and the half which was the portion of them that went out to war was in number three hundred thousand and seven and thirty thousand and five hundred sheep
and the lord's tribute of the sheep was six hundred and threescore and fifteen
and the beeves were thirty and six thousand of which the lord's tribute was threescore and twelve
and the asses were thirty thousand and five hundred of which the lord's tribute was threescore and one
and the persons were sixteen thousand of which the lord's tribute was thirty and two persons
and moses gave the tribute which was the lord's heave offering unto eleazar the priest as the lord commanded moses
and of the children of israel's half which moses divided from the men that warred
now the half that pertained unto the congregation was three hundred thousand and thirty thousand and seven thousand and five hundred sheep
and thirty and six thousand beeves
and thirty thousand asses and five hundred
and sixteen thousand persons
even of the children of israel's half moses took one portion of fifty both of man and of beast and gave them unto the levites which kept the charge of the tabernacle of the lord as the lord commanded moses
and the officers which were over thousands of the host the captains of thousands and captains of hundreds came near unto moses
and they said unto moses thy servants have taken the sum of the men of war which are under our charge and there lacketh not one man of us
we have therefore brought an oblation for the lord what every man hath gotten of jewels of gold chains and bracelets rings earrings and tablets to make an atonement for our souls before the lord
and moses and eleazar the priest took the gold of them even all wrought jewels
and all the gold of the offering that they offered up to the lord of the captains of thousands and of the captains of hundreds was sixteen thousand seven hundred and fifty shekels
for the men of war had taken spoil every man for himself
and moses and eleazar the priest took the gold of the captains of thousands and of hundreds and brought it into the tabernacle of the congregation for a memorial for the children of israel before the lord
now the children of reuben and the children of gad had a very great multitude of cattle and when they saw the land of jazer and the land of gilead that behold the place was a place for cattle
the children of gad and the children of reuben came and spake unto moses and to eleazar the priest and unto the princes of the congregation saying
ataroth and dibon and jazer and nimrah and heshbon and elealeh and shebam and nebo and beon
even the country which the lord smote before the congregation of israel is a land for cattle and thy servants have cattle
wherefore said they if we have found grace in thy sight let this land be given unto thy servants for a possession and bring us not over jordan
and moses said unto the children of gad and to the children of reuben shall your brethren go to war and shall ye sit here
and wherefore discourage ye the heart of the children of israel from going over into the land which the lord hath given them
thus did your fathers when i sent them from kadeshbarnea to see the land
for when they went up unto the valley of eshcol and saw the land they discouraged the heart of the children of israel that they should not go into the land which the lord had given them
and the lord's anger was kindled the same time and he sware saying
surely none of the men that came up out of egypt from twenty years old and upward shall see the land which i sware unto abraham unto isaac and unto jacob because they have not wholly followed me
save caleb the son of jephunneh the kenezite and joshua the son of nun for they have wholly followed the lord
and the lord's anger was kindled against israel and he made them wander in the wilderness forty years until all the generation that had done evil in the sight of the lord was consumed
and behold ye are risen up in your fathers stead an increase of sinful men to augment yet the fierce anger of the lord toward israel
for if ye turn away from after him he will yet again leave them in the wilderness and ye shall destroy all this people
and they came near unto him and said we will build sheepfolds here for our cattle and cities for our little ones
but we ourselves will go ready armed before the children of israel until we have brought them unto their place and our little ones shall dwell in the fenced cities because of the inhabitants of the land
we will not return unto our houses until the children of israel have inherited every man his inheritance
for we will not inherit with them on yonder side jordan or forward because our inheritance is fallen to us on this side jordan eastward
and moses said unto them if ye will do this thing if ye will go armed before the lord to war
and will go all of you armed over jordan before the lord until he hath driven out his enemies from before him
and the land be subdued before the lord then afterward ye shall return and be guiltless before the lord and before israel and this land shall be your possession before the lord
but if ye will not do so behold ye have sinned against the lord and be sure your sin will find you out
build you cities for your little ones and folds for your sheep and do that which hath proceeded out of your mouth
and the children of gad and the children of reuben spake unto moses saying thy servants will do as my lord commandeth
our little ones our wives our flocks and all our cattle shall be there in the cities of gilead
but thy servants will pass over every man armed for war before the lord to battle as my lord saith
so concerning them moses commanded eleazar the priest and joshua the son of nun and the chief fathers of the tribes of the children of israel
and moses said unto them if the children of gad and the children of reuben will pass with you over jordan every man armed to battle before the lord and the land shall be subdued before you then ye shall give them the land of gilead for a possession
but if they will not pass over with you armed they shall have possessions among you in the land of canaan
and the children of gad and the children of reuben answered saying as the lord hath said unto thy servants so will we do
we will pass over armed before the lord into the land of canaan that the possession of our inheritance on this side jordan may be ours
and moses gave unto them even to the children of gad and to the children of reuben and unto half the tribe of manasseh the son of joseph the kingdom of sihon king of the amorites and the kingdom of og king of bashan the land with the cities thereof in the coasts even the cities of the country round about
and the children of gad built dibon and ataroth and aroer
and atroth shophan and jaazer and jogbehah
and bethnimrah and bethharan fenced cities and folds for sheep
and the children of reuben built heshbon and elealeh and kirjathaim
and nebo and baalmeon their names being changed and shibmah and gave other names unto the cities which they builded
and the children of machir the son of manasseh went to gilead and took it and dispossessed the amorite which was in it
and moses gave gilead unto machir the son of manasseh and he dwelt therein
and jair the son of manasseh went and took the small towns thereof and called them havothjair
and nobah went and took kenath and the villages thereof and called it nobah after his own name
these are the journeys of the children of israel which went forth out of the land of egypt with their armies under the hand of moses and aaron
and moses wrote their goings out according to their journeys by the commandment of the lord and these are their journeys according to their goings out
and they departed from rameses in the first month on the fifteenth day of the first month on the morrow after the passover the children of israel went out with an high hand in the sight of all the egyptians
for the egyptians buried all their firstborn which the lord had smitten among them upon their gods also the lord executed judgments
and the children of israel removed from rameses and pitched in succoth
and they departed from succoth and pitched in etham which is in the edge of the wilderness
and they removed from etham and turned again unto pihahiroth which is before baalzephon and they pitched before migdol
and they departed from before pihahiroth and passed through the midst of the sea into the wilderness and went three days journey in the wilderness of etham and pitched in marah
and they removed from marah and came unto elim and in elim were twelve fountains of water and threescore and ten palm trees and they pitched there
and they removed from elim and encamped by the red sea
and they removed from the red sea and encamped in the wilderness of sin
and they took their journey out of the wilderness of sin and encamped in dophkah
and they departed from dophkah and encamped in alush
and they removed from alush and encamped at rephidim where was no water for the people to drink
and they departed from rephidim and pitched in the wilderness of sinai
and they removed from the desert of sinai and pitched at kibrothhattaavah
and they departed from kibrothhattaavah and encamped at hazeroth
and they departed from hazeroth and pitched in rithmah
and they departed from rithmah and pitched at rimmonparez
and they departed from rimmonparez and pitched in libnah
and they removed from libnah and pitched at rissah
and they journeyed from rissah and pitched in kehelathah
and they went from kehelathah and pitched in mount shapher
and they removed from mount shapher and encamped in haradah
and they removed from haradah and pitched in makheloth
and they removed from makheloth and encamped at tahath
and they departed from tahath and pitched at tarah
and they removed from tarah and pitched in mithcah
and they went from mithcah and pitched in hashmonah
and they departed from hashmonah and encamped at moseroth
and they departed from moseroth and pitched in benejaakan
and they removed from benejaakan and encamped at horhagidgad
and they went from horhagidgad and pitched in jotbathah
and they removed from jotbathah and encamped at ebronah
and they departed from ebronah and encamped at eziongaber
and they removed from eziongaber and pitched in the wilderness of zin which is kadesh
and they removed from kadesh and pitched in mount hor in the edge of the land of edom
and aaron the priest went up into mount hor at the commandment of the lord and died there in the fortieth year after the children of israel were come out of the land of egypt in the first day of the fifth month
and aaron was an hundred and twenty and three years old when he died in mount hor
and king arad the canaanite which dwelt in the south in the land of canaan heard of the coming of the children of israel
and they departed from mount hor and pitched in zalmonah
and they departed from zalmonah and pitched in punon
and they departed from punon and pitched in oboth
and they departed from oboth and pitched in ijeabarim in the border of moab
and they departed from iim and pitched in dibongad
and they removed from dibongad and encamped in almondiblathaim
and they removed from almondiblathaim and pitched in the mountains of abarim before nebo
and they departed from the mountains of abarim and pitched in the plains of moab by jordan near jericho
and they pitched by jordan from bethjesimoth even unto abelshittim in the plains of moab
and the lord spake unto moses in the plains of moab by jordan near jericho saying
speak unto the children of israel and say unto them when ye are passed over jordan into the land of canaan
then ye shall drive out all the inhabitants of the land from before you and destroy all their pictures and destroy all their molten images and quite pluck down all their high places
and ye shall dispossess the inhabitants of the land and dwell therein for i have given you the land to possess it
and ye shall divide the land by lot for an inheritance among your families and to the more ye shall give the more inheritance and to the fewer ye shall give the less inheritance every man's inheritance shall be in the place where his lot falleth according to the tribes of your fathers ye shall inherit
but if ye will not drive out the inhabitants of the land from before you then it shall come to pass that those which ye let remain of them shall be pricks in your eyes and thorns in your sides and shall vex you in the land wherein ye dwell
moreover it shall come to pass that i shall do unto you as i thought to do unto them
and the lord spake unto moses saying
command the children of israel and say unto them when ye come into the land of canaan this is the land that shall fall unto you for an inheritance even the land of canaan with the coasts thereof
then your south quarter shall be from the wilderness of zin along by the coast of edom and your south border shall be the outmost coast of the salt sea eastward
and your border shall turn from the south to the ascent of akrabbim and pass on to zin and the going forth thereof shall be from the south to kadeshbarnea and shall go on to hazaraddar and pass on to azmon
and the border shall fetch a compass from azmon unto the river of egypt and the goings out of it shall be at the sea
and as for the western border ye shall even have the great sea for a border this shall be your west border
and this shall be your north border from the great sea ye shall point out for you mount hor
from mount hor ye shall point out your border unto the entrance of hamath and the goings forth of the border shall be to zedad
and the border shall go on to ziphron and the goings out of it shall be at hazarenan this shall be your north border
and ye shall point out your east border from hazarenan to shepham
and the coast shall go down from shepham to riblah on the east side of ain and the border shall descend and shall reach unto the side of the sea of chinnereth eastward
and the border shall go down to jordan and the goings out of it shall be at the salt sea this shall be your land with the coasts thereof round about
and moses commanded the children of israel saying this is the land which ye shall inherit by lot which the lord commanded to give unto the nine tribes and to the half tribe
for the tribe of the children of reuben according to the house of their fathers and the tribe of the children of gad according to the house of their fathers have received their inheritance and half the tribe of manasseh have received their inheritance
the two tribes and the half tribe have received their inheritance on this side jordan near jericho eastward toward the sunrising
and the lord spake unto moses saying
these are the names of the men which shall divide the land unto you eleazar the priest and joshua the son of nun
and ye shall take one prince of every tribe to divide the land by inheritance
and the names of the men are these of the tribe of judah caleb the son of jephunneh
and of the tribe of the children of simeon shemuel the son of ammihud
of the tribe of benjamin elidad the son of chislon
and the prince of the tribe of the children of dan bukki the son of jogli
the prince of the children of joseph for the tribe of the children of manasseh hanniel the son of ephod
and the prince of the tribe of the children of ephraim kemuel the son of shiphtan
and the prince of the tribe of the children of zebulun elizaphan the son of parnach
and the prince of the tribe of the children of issachar paltiel the son of azzan
and the prince of the tribe of the children of asher ahihud the son of shelomi
and the prince of the tribe of the children of naphtali pedahel the son of ammihud
these are they whom the lord commanded to divide the inheritance unto the children of israel in the land of canaan
and the lord spake unto moses in the plains of moab by jordan near jericho saying
command the children of israel that they give unto the levites of the inheritance of their possession cities to dwell in and ye shall give also unto the levites suburbs for the cities round about them
and the cities shall they have to dwell in and the suburbs of them shall be for their cattle and for their goods and for all their beasts
and the suburbs of the cities which ye shall give unto the levites shall reach from the wall of the city and outward a thousand cubits round about
and ye shall measure from without the city on the east side two thousand cubits and on the south side two thousand cubits and on the west side two thousand cubits and on the north side two thousand cubits and the city shall be in the midst this shall be to them the suburbs of the cities
and among the cities which ye shall give unto the levites there shall be six cities for refuge which ye shall appoint for the manslayer that he may flee thither and to them ye shall add forty and two cities
so all the cities which ye shall give to the levites shall be forty and eight cities them shall ye give with their suburbs
and the cities which ye shall give shall be of the possession of the children of israel from them that have many ye shall give many but from them that have few ye shall give few every one shall give of his cities unto the levites according to his inheritance which he inheriteth
and the lord spake unto moses saying
speak unto the children of israel and say unto them when ye be come over jordan into the land of canaan
then ye shall appoint you cities to be cities of refuge for you that the slayer may flee thither which killeth any person at unawares
and they shall be unto you cities for refuge from the avenger that the manslayer die not until he stand before the congregation in judgment
and of these cities which ye shall give six cities shall ye have for refuge
ye shall give three cities on this side jordan and three cities shall ye give in the land of canaan which shall be cities of refuge
these six cities shall be a refuge both for the children of israel and for the stranger and for the sojourner among them that every one that killeth any person unawares may flee thither
and if he smite him with an instrument of iron so that he die he is a murderer the murderer shall surely be put to death
and if he smite him with throwing a stone wherewith he may die and he die he is a murderer the murderer shall surely be put to death
or if he smite him with an hand weapon of wood wherewith he may die and he die he is a murderer the murderer shall surely be put to death
the revenger of blood himself shall slay the murderer when he meeteth him he shall slay him
but if he thrust him of hatred or hurl at him by laying of wait that he die
or in enmity smite him with his hand that he die he that smote him shall surely be put to death for he is a murderer the revenger of blood shall slay the murderer when he meeteth him
but if he thrust him suddenly without enmity or have cast upon him any thing without laying of wait
or with any stone wherewith a man may die seeing him not and cast it upon him that he die and was not his enemy neither sought his harm
then the congregation shall judge between the slayer and the revenger of blood according to these judgments
and the congregation shall deliver the slayer out of the hand of the revenger of blood and the congregation shall restore him to the city of his refuge whither he was fled and he shall abide in it unto the death of the high priest which was anointed with the holy oil
but if the slayer shall at any time come without the border of the city of his refuge whither he was fled
and the revenger of blood find him without the borders of the city of his refuge and the revenger of blood kill the slayer he shall not be guilty of blood
because he should have remained in the city of his refuge until the death of the high priest but after the death of the high priest the slayer shall return into the land of his possession
so these things shall be for a statute of judgment unto you throughout your generations in all your dwellings
whoso killeth any person the murderer shall be put to death by the mouth of witnesses but one witness shall not testify against any person to cause him to die
moreover ye shall take no satisfaction for the life of a murderer which is guilty of death but he shall be surely put to death
and ye shall take no satisfaction for him that is fled to the city of his refuge that he should come again to dwell in the land until the death of the priest
so ye shall not pollute the land wherein ye are for blood it defileth the land and the land cannot be cleansed of the blood that is shed therein but by the blood of him that shed it
defile not therefore the land which ye shall inhabit wherein i dwell for i the lord dwell among the children of israel
and the chief fathers of the families of the children of gilead the son of machir the son of manasseh of the families of the sons of joseph came near and spake before moses and before the princes the chief fathers of the children of israel
and they said the lord commanded my lord to give the land for an inheritance by lot to the children of israel and my lord was commanded by the lord to give the inheritance of zelophehad our brother unto his daughters
and if they be married to any of the sons of the other tribes of the children of israel then shall their inheritance be taken from the inheritance of our fathers and shall be put to the inheritance of the tribe whereunto they are received so shall it be taken from the lot of our inheritance
and when the jubile of the children of israel shall be then shall their inheritance be put unto the inheritance of the tribe whereunto they are received so shall their inheritance be taken away from the inheritance of the tribe of our fathers
and moses commanded the children of israel according to the word of the lord saying the tribe of the sons of joseph hath said well
this is the thing which the lord doth command concerning the daughters of zelophehad saying let them marry to whom they think best only to the family of the tribe of their father shall they marry
so shall not the inheritance of the children of israel remove from tribe to tribe for every one of the children of israel shall keep himself to the inheritance of the tribe of his fathers
and every daughter that possesseth an inheritance in any tribe of the children of israel shall be wife unto one of the family of the tribe of her father that the children of israel may enjoy every man the inheritance of his fathers
neither shall the inheritance remove from one tribe to another tribe but every one of the tribes of the children of israel shall keep himself to his own inheritance
even as the lord commanded moses so did the daughters of zelophehad
for mahlah tirzah and hoglah and milcah and noah the daughters of zelophehad were married unto their father's brothers sons
and they were married into the families of the sons of manasseh the son of joseph and their inheritance remained in the tribe of the family of their father
these are the commandments and the judgments which the lord commanded by the hand of moses unto the children of israel in the plains of moab by jordan near jericho
these be the words which moses spake unto all israel on this side jordan in the wilderness in the plain over against the red sea between paran and tophel and laban and hazeroth and dizahab
there are eleven days journey from horeb by the way of mount seir unto kadeshbarnea
and it came to pass in the fortieth year in the eleventh month on the first day of the month that moses spake unto the children of israel according unto all that the lord had given him in commandment unto them
after he had slain sihon the king of the amorites which dwelt in heshbon and og the king of bashan which dwelt at astaroth in edrei
on this side jordan in the land of moab began moses to declare this law saying
the lord our god spake unto us in horeb saying ye have dwelt long enough in this mount
turn you and take your journey and go to the mount of the amorites and unto all the places nigh thereunto in the plain in the hills and in the vale and in the south and by the sea side to the land of the canaanites and unto lebanon unto the great river the river euphrates
behold i have set the land before you go in and possess the land which the lord sware unto your fathers abraham isaac and jacob to give unto them and to their seed after them
and i spake unto you at that time saying i am not able to bear you myself alone
the lord your god hath multiplied you and behold ye are this day as the stars of heaven for multitude
the lord god of your fathers make you a thousand times so many more as ye are and bless you as he hath promised you
how can i myself alone bear your cumbrance and your burden and your strife
take you wise men and understanding and known among your tribes and i will make them rulers over you
and ye answered me and said the thing which thou hast spoken is good for us to do
so i took the chief of your tribes wise men and known and made them heads over you captains over thousands and captains over hundreds and captains over fifties and captains over tens and officers among your tribes
and i charged your judges at that time saying hear the causes between your brethren and judge righteously between every man and his brother and the stranger that is with him
ye shall not respect persons in judgment but ye shall hear the small as well as the great ye shall not be afraid of the face of man for the judgment is god's and the cause that is too hard for you bring it unto me and i will hear it
and i commanded you at that time all the things which ye should do
and when we departed from horeb we went through all that great and terrible wilderness which ye saw by the way of the mountain of the amorites as the lord our god commanded us and we came to kadeshbarnea
and i said unto you ye are come unto the mountain of the amorites which the lord our god doth give unto us
behold the lord thy god hath set the land before thee go up and possess it as the lord god of thy fathers hath said unto thee fear not neither be discouraged
and ye came near unto me every one of you and said we will send men before us and they shall search us out the land and bring us word again by what way we must go up and into what cities we shall come
and the saying pleased me well and i took twelve men of you one of a tribe
and they turned and went up into the mountain and came unto the valley of eshcol and searched it out
and they took of the fruit of the land in their hands and brought it down unto us and brought us word again and said it is a good land which the lord our god doth give us
notwithstanding ye would not go up but rebelled against the commandment of the lord your god
and ye murmured in your tents and said because the lord hated us he hath brought us forth out of the land of egypt to deliver us into the hand of the amorites to destroy us
whither shall we go up our brethren have discouraged our heart saying the people is greater and taller than we the cities are great and walled up to heaven and moreover we have seen the sons of the anakims there
then i said unto you dread not neither be afraid of them
the lord your god which goeth before you he shall fight for you according to all that he did for you in egypt before your eyes
and in the wilderness where thou hast seen how that the lord thy god bare thee as a man doth bear his son in all the way that ye went until ye came into this place
yet in this thing ye did not believe the lord your god
who went in the way before you to search you out a place to pitch your tents in in fire by night to shew you by what way ye should go and in a cloud by day
and the lord heard the voice of your words and was wroth and sware saying
surely there shall not one of these men of this evil generation see that good land which i sware to give unto your fathers
save caleb the son of jephunneh he shall see it and to him will i give the land that he hath trodden upon and to his children because he hath wholly followed the lord
also the lord was angry with me for your sakes saying thou also shalt not go in thither
but joshua the son of nun which standeth before thee he shall go in thither encourage him for he shall cause israel to inherit it
moreover your little ones which ye said should be a prey and your children which in that day had no knowledge between good and evil they shall go in thither and unto them will i give it and they shall possess it
but as for you turn you and take your journey into the wilderness by the way of the red sea
then ye answered and said unto me we have sinned against the lord we will go up and fight according to all that the lord our god commanded us and when ye had girded on every man his weapons of war ye were ready to go up into the hill
and the lord said unto me say unto them go not up neither fight for i am not among you lest ye be smitten before your enemies
so i spake unto you and ye would not hear but rebelled against the commandment of the lord and went presumptuously up into the hill
and the amorites which dwelt in that mountain came out against you and chased you as bees do and destroyed you in seir even unto hormah
and ye returned and wept before the lord but the lord would not hearken to your voice nor give ear unto you
so ye abode in kadesh many days according unto the days that ye abode there
then we turned and took our journey into the wilderness by the way of the red sea as the lord spake unto me and we compassed mount seir many days
and the lord spake unto me saying
ye have compassed this mountain long enough turn you northward
and command thou the people saying ye are to pass through the coast of your brethren the children of esau which dwell in seir and they shall be afraid of you take ye good heed unto yourselves therefore
meddle not with them for i will not give you of their land no not so much as a foot breadth because i have given mount seir unto esau for a possession
ye shall buy meat of them for money that ye may eat and ye shall also buy water of them for money that ye may drink
for the lord thy god hath blessed thee in all the works of thy hand he knoweth thy walking through this great wilderness these forty years the lord thy god hath been with thee thou hast lacked nothing
and when we passed by from our brethren the children of esau which dwelt in seir through the way of the plain from elath and from eziongaber we turned and passed by the way of the wilderness of moab
and the lord said unto me distress not the moabites neither contend with them in battle for i will not give thee of their land for a possession because i have given ar unto the children of lot for a possession
the emims dwelt therein in times past a people great and many and tall as the anakims
which also were accounted giants as the anakims but the moabites call them emims
the horims also dwelt in seir beforetime but the children of esau succeeded them when they had destroyed them from before them and dwelt in their stead as israel did unto the land of his possession which the lord gave unto them
now rise up said i and get you over the brook zered and we went over the brook zered
and the space in which we came from kadeshbarnea until we were come over the brook zered was thirty and eight years until all the generation of the men of war were wasted out from among the host as the lord sware unto them
for indeed the hand of the lord was against them to destroy them from among the host until they were consumed
so it came to pass when all the men of war were consumed and dead from among the people
that the lord spake unto me saying
thou art to pass over through ar the coast of moab this day
and when thou comest nigh over against the children of ammon distress them not nor meddle with them for i will not give thee of the land of the children of ammon any possession because i have given it unto the children of lot for a possession
that also was accounted a land of giants giants dwelt therein in old time and the ammonites call them zamzummims
a people great and many and tall as the anakims but the lord destroyed them before them and they succeeded them and dwelt in their stead
as he did to the children of esau which dwelt in seir when he destroyed the horims from before them and they succeeded them and dwelt in their stead even unto this day
and the avims which dwelt in hazerim even unto azzah the caphtorims which came forth out of caphtor destroyed them and dwelt in their stead
rise ye up take your journey and pass over the river arnon behold i have given into thine hand sihon the amorite king of heshbon and his land begin to possess it and contend with him in battle
this day will i begin to put the dread of thee and the fear of thee upon the nations that are under the whole heaven who shall hear report of thee and shall tremble and be in anguish because of thee
and i sent messengers out of the wilderness of kedemoth unto sihon king of heshbon with words of peace saying
let me pass through thy land i will go along by the high way i will neither turn unto the right hand nor to the left
thou shalt sell me meat for money that i may eat and give me water for money that i may drink only i will pass through on my feet
as the children of esau which dwell in seir and the moabites which dwell in ar did unto me until i shall pass over jordan into the land which the lord our god giveth us
but sihon king of heshbon would not let us pass by him for the lord thy god hardened his spirit and made his heart obstinate that he might deliver him into thy hand as appeareth this day
and the lord said unto me behold i have begun to give sihon and his land before thee begin to possess that thou mayest inherit his land
then sihon came out against us he and all his people to fight at jahaz
and the lord our god delivered him before us and we smote him and his sons and all his people
and we took all his cities at that time and utterly destroyed the men and the women and the little ones of every city we left none to remain
only the cattle we took for a prey unto ourselves and the spoil of the cities which we took
from aroer which is by the brink of the river of arnon and from the city that is by the river even unto gilead there was not one city too strong for us the lord our god delivered all unto us
only unto the land of the children of ammon thou camest not nor unto any place of the river jabbok nor unto the cities in the mountains nor unto whatsoever the lord our god forbad us
then we turned and went up the way to bashan and og the king of bashan came out against us he and all his people to battle at edrei
and the lord said unto me fear him not for i will deliver him and all his people and his land into thy hand and thou shalt do unto him as thou didst unto sihon king of the amorites which dwelt at heshbon
so the lord our god delivered into our hands og also the king of bashan and all his people and we smote him until none was left to him remaining
and we took all his cities at that time there was not a city which we took not from them threescore cities all the region of argob the kingdom of og in bashan
all these cities were fenced with high walls gates and bars beside unwalled towns a great many
and we utterly destroyed them as we did unto sihon king of heshbon utterly destroying the men women and children of every city
but all the cattle and the spoil of the cities we took for a prey to ourselves
and we took at that time out of the hand of the two kings of the amorites the land that was on this side jordan from the river of arnon unto mount hermon
which hermon the sidonians call sirion and the amorites call it shenir
all the cities of the plain and all gilead and all bashan unto salchah and edrei cities of the kingdom of og in bashan
for only og king of bashan remained of the remnant of giants behold his bedstead was a bedstead of iron is it not in rabbath of the children of ammon nine cubits was the length thereof and four cubits the breadth of it after the cubit of a man
and this land which we possessed at that time from aroer which is by the river arnon and half mount gilead and the cities thereof gave i unto the reubenites and to the gadites
and the rest of gilead and all bashan being the kingdom of og gave i unto the half tribe of manasseh all the region of argob with all bashan which was called the land of giants
jair the son of manasseh took all the country of argob unto the coasts of geshuri and maachathi and called them after his own name bashanhavothjair unto this day
and i gave gilead unto machir
and unto the reubenites and unto the gadites i gave from gilead even unto the river arnon half the valley and the border even unto the river jabbok which is the border of the children of ammon
the plain also and jordan and the coast thereof from chinnereth even unto the sea of the plain even the salt sea under ashdothpisgah eastward
and i commanded you at that time saying the lord your god hath given you this land to possess it ye shall pass over armed before your brethren the children of israel all that are meet for the war
but your wives and your little ones and your cattle for i know that ye have much cattle shall abide in your cities which i have given you
until the lord have given rest unto your brethren as well as unto you and until they also possess the land which the lord your god hath given them beyond jordan and then shall ye return every man unto his possession which i have given you
and i commanded joshua at that time saying thine eyes have seen all that the lord your god hath done unto these two kings so shall the lord do unto all the kingdoms whither thou passest
ye shall not fear them for the lord your god he shall fight for you
and i besought the lord at that time saying
o lord god thou hast begun to shew thy servant thy greatness and thy mighty hand for what god is there in heaven or in earth that can do according to thy works and according to thy might
i pray thee let me go over and see the good land that is beyond jordan that goodly mountain and lebanon
but the lord was wroth with me for your sakes and would not hear me and the lord said unto me let it suffice thee speak no more unto me of this matter
get thee up into the top of pisgah and lift up thine eyes westward and northward and southward and eastward and behold it with thine eyes for thou shalt not go over this jordan
but charge joshua and encourage him and strengthen him for he shall go over before this people and he shall cause them to inherit the land which thou shalt see
so we abode in the valley over against bethpeor
now therefore hearken o israel unto the statutes and unto the judgments which i teach you for to do them that ye may live and go in and possess the land which the lord god of your fathers giveth you
ye shall not add unto the word which i command you neither shall ye diminish ought from it that ye may keep the commandments of the lord your god which i command you
your eyes have seen what the lord did because of baalpeor for all the men that followed baalpeor the lord thy god hath destroyed them from among you
but ye that did cleave unto the lord your god are alive every one of you this day
behold i have taught you statutes and judgments even as the lord my god commanded me that ye should do so in the land whither ye go to possess it
keep therefore and do them for this is your wisdom and your understanding in the sight of the nations which shall hear all these statutes and say surely this great nation is a wise and understanding people
for what nation is there so great who hath god so nigh unto them as the lord our god is in all things that we call upon him for
and what nation is there so great that hath statutes and judgments so righteous as all this law which i set before you this day
only take heed to thyself and keep thy soul diligently lest thou forget the things which thine eyes have seen and lest they depart from thy heart all the days of thy life but teach them thy sons and thy sons sons
specially the day that thou stoodest before the lord thy god in horeb when the lord said unto me gather me the people together and i will make them hear my words that they may learn to fear me all the days that they shall live upon the earth and that they may teach their children
and ye came near and stood under the mountain and the mountain burned with fire unto the midst of heaven with darkness clouds and thick darkness
and the lord spake unto you out of the midst of the fire ye heard the voice of the words but saw no similitude only ye heard a voice
and he declared unto you his covenant which he commanded you to perform even ten commandments and he wrote them upon two tables of stone
and the lord commanded me at that time to teach you statutes and judgments that ye might do them in the land whither ye go over to possess it
take ye therefore good heed unto yourselves for ye saw no manner of similitude on the day that the lord spake unto you in horeb out of the midst of the fire
lest ye corrupt yourselves and make you a graven image the similitude of any figure the likeness of male or female
the likeness of any beast that is on the earth the likeness of any winged fowl that flieth in the air
the likeness of any thing that creepeth on the ground the likeness of any fish that is in the waters beneath the earth
and lest thou lift up thine eyes unto heaven and when thou seest the sun and the moon and the stars even all the host of heaven shouldest be driven to worship them and serve them which the lord thy god hath divided unto all nations under the whole heaven
but the lord hath taken you and brought you forth out of the iron furnace even out of egypt to be unto him a people of inheritance as ye are this day
furthermore the lord was angry with me for your sakes and sware that i should not go over jordan and that i should not go in unto that good land which the lord thy god giveth thee for an inheritance
but i must die in this land i must not go over jordan but ye shall go over and possess that good land
take heed unto yourselves lest ye forget the covenant of the lord your god which he made with you and make you a graven image or the likeness of any thing which the lord thy god hath forbidden thee
for the lord thy god is a consuming fire even a jealous god
when thou shalt beget children and children's children and ye shall have remained long in the land and shall corrupt yourselves and make a graven image or the likeness of any thing and shall do evil in the sight of the lord thy god to provoke him to anger
i call heaven and earth to witness against you this day that ye shall soon utterly perish from off the land whereunto ye go over jordan to possess it ye shall not prolong your days upon it but shall utterly be destroyed
and the lord shall scatter you among the nations and ye shall be left few in number among the heathen whither the lord shall lead you
and there ye shall serve gods the work of men's hands wood and stone which neither see nor hear nor eat nor smell
but if from thence thou shalt seek the lord thy god thou shalt find him if thou seek him with all thy heart and with all thy soul
when thou art in tribulation and all these things are come upon thee even in the latter days if thou turn to the lord thy god and shalt be obedient unto his voice
for the lord thy god is a merciful god he will not forsake thee neither destroy thee nor forget the covenant of thy fathers which he sware unto them
for ask now of the days that are past which were before thee since the day that god created man upon the earth and ask from the one side of heaven unto the other whether there hath been any such thing as this great thing is or hath been heard like it
did ever people hear the voice of god speaking out of the midst of the fire as thou hast heard and live
or hath god assayed to go and take him a nation from the midst of another nation by temptations by signs and by wonders and by war and by a mighty hand and by a stretched out arm and by great terrors according to all that the lord your god did for you in egypt before your eyes
unto thee it was shewed that thou mightest know that the lord he is god there is none else beside him
out of heaven he made thee to hear his voice that he might instruct thee and upon earth he shewed thee his great fire and thou heardest his words out of the midst of the fire
and because he loved thy fathers therefore he chose their seed after them and brought thee out in his sight with his mighty power out of egypt
to drive out nations from before thee greater and mightier than thou art to bring thee in to give thee their land for an inheritance as it is this day
know therefore this day and consider it in thine heart that the lord he is god in heaven above and upon the earth beneath there is none else
thou shalt keep therefore his statutes and his commandments which i command thee this day that it may go well with thee and with thy children after thee and that thou mayest prolong thy days upon the earth which the lord thy god giveth thee for ever
then moses severed three cities on this side jordan toward the sunrising
that the slayer might flee thither which should kill his neighbour unawares and hated him not in times past and that fleeing unto one of these cities he might live
namely bezer in the wilderness in the plain country of the reubenites and ramoth in gilead of the gadites and golan in bashan of the manassites
and this is the law which moses set before the children of israel
these are the testimonies and the statutes and the judgments which moses spake unto the children of israel after they came forth out of egypt
on this side jordan in the valley over against bethpeor in the land of sihon king of the amorites who dwelt at heshbon whom moses and the children of israel smote after they were come forth out of egypt
and they possessed his land and the land of og king of bashan two kings of the amorites which were on this side jordan toward the sunrising
from aroer which is by the bank of the river arnon even unto mount sion which is hermon
and all the plain on this side jordan eastward even unto the sea of the plain under the springs of pisgah
and moses called all israel and said unto them hear o israel the statutes and judgments which i speak in your ears this day that ye may learn them and keep and do them
the lord our god made a covenant with us in horeb
the lord made not this covenant with our fathers but with us even us who are all of us here alive this day
the lord talked with you face to face in the mount out of the midst of the fire
i stood between the lord and you at that time to shew you the word of the lord for ye were afraid by reason of the fire and went not up into the mount saying
i am the lord thy god which brought thee out of the land of egypt from the house of bondage
thou shalt have none other gods before me
thou shalt not make thee any graven image or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above or that is in the earth beneath or that is in the waters beneath the earth
thou shalt not bow down thyself unto them nor serve them for i the lord thy god am a jealous god visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me
and shewing mercy unto thousands of them that love me and keep my commandments
thou shalt not take the name of the lord thy god in vain for the lord will not hold him guiltless that taketh his name in vain
keep the sabbath day to sanctify it as the lord thy god hath commanded thee
six days thou shalt labour and do all thy work
but the seventh day is the sabbath of the lord thy god in it thou shalt not do any work thou nor thy son nor thy daughter nor thy manservant nor thy maidservant nor thine ox nor thine ass nor any of thy cattle nor thy stranger that is within thy gates that thy manservant and thy maidservant may rest as well as thou
and remember that thou wast a servant in the land of egypt and that the lord thy god brought thee out thence through a mighty hand and by a stretched out arm therefore the lord thy god commanded thee to keep the sabbath day
honour thy father and thy mother as the lord thy god hath commanded thee that thy days may be prolonged and that it may go well with thee in the land which the lord thy god giveth thee
thou shalt not kill
neither shalt thou commit adultery
neither shalt thou steal
neither shalt thou bear false witness against thy neighbour
neither shalt thou desire thy neighbour's wife neither shalt thou covet thy neighbour's house his field or his manservant or his maidservant his ox or his ass or any thing that is thy neighbour's
these words the lord spake unto all your assembly in the mount out of the midst of the fire of the cloud and of the thick darkness with a great voice and he added no more and he wrote them in two tables of stone and delivered them unto me
and it came to pass when ye heard the voice out of the midst of the darkness for the mountain did burn with fire that ye came near unto me even all the heads of your tribes and your elders
and ye said behold the lord our god hath shewed us his glory and his greatness and we have heard his voice out of the midst of the fire we have seen this day that god doth talk with man and he liveth
now therefore why should we die for this great fire will consume us if we hear the voice of the lord our god any more then we shall die
for who is there of all flesh that hath heard the voice of the living god speaking out of the midst of the fire as we have and lived
go thou near and hear all that the lord our god shall say and speak thou unto us all that the lord our god shall speak unto thee and we will hear it and do it
and the lord heard the voice of your words when ye spake unto me and the lord said unto me i have heard the voice of the words of this people which they have spoken unto thee they have well said all that they have spoken
o that there were such an heart in them that they would fear me and keep all my commandments always that it might be well with them and with their children for ever
go say to them get you into your tents again
but as for thee stand thou here by me and i will speak unto thee all the commandments and the statutes and the judgments which thou shalt teach them that they may do them in the land which i give them to possess it
ye shall observe to do therefore as the lord your god hath commanded you ye shall not turn aside to the right hand or to the left
ye shall walk in all the ways which the lord your god hath commanded you that ye may live and that it may be well with you and that ye may prolong your days in the land which ye shall possess
now these are the commandments the statutes and the judgments which the lord your god commanded to teach you that ye might do them in the land whither ye go to possess it
that thou mightest fear the lord thy god to keep all his statutes and his commandments which i command thee thou and thy son and thy son's son all the days of thy life and that thy days may be prolonged
hear therefore o israel and observe to do it that it may be well with thee and that ye may increase mightily as the lord god of thy fathers hath promised thee in the land that floweth with milk and honey
hear o israel the lord our god is one lord
and thou shalt love the lord thy god with all thine heart and with all thy soul and with all thy might
and these words which i command thee this day shall be in thine heart
and thou shalt teach them diligently unto thy children and shalt talk of them when thou sittest in thine house and when thou walkest by the way and when thou liest down and when thou risest up
and thou shalt bind them for a sign upon thine hand and they shall be as frontlets between thine eyes
and thou shalt write them upon the posts of thy house and on thy gates
and it shall be when the lord thy god shall have brought thee into the land which he sware unto thy fathers to abraham to isaac and to jacob to give thee great and goodly cities which thou buildedst not
and houses full of all good things which thou filledst not and wells digged which thou diggedst not vineyards and olive trees which thou plantedst not when thou shalt have eaten and be full
then beware lest thou forget the lord which brought thee forth out of the land of egypt from the house of bondage
thou shalt fear the lord thy god and serve him and shalt swear by his name
ye shall not go after other gods of the gods of the people which are round about you
for the lord thy god is a jealous god among you lest the anger of the lord thy god be kindled against thee and destroy thee from off the face of the earth
ye shall not tempt the lord your god as ye tempted him in massah
ye shall diligently keep the commandments of the lord your god and his testimonies and his statutes which he hath commanded thee
and thou shalt do that which is right and good in the sight of the lord that it may be well with thee and that thou mayest go in and possess the good land which the lord sware unto thy fathers
to cast out all thine enemies from before thee as the lord hath spoken
and when thy son asketh thee in time to come saying what mean the testimonies and the statutes and the judgments which the lord our god hath commanded you
then thou shalt say unto thy son we were pharaoh's bondmen in egypt and the lord brought us out of egypt with a mighty hand
and the lord shewed signs and wonders great and sore upon egypt upon pharaoh and upon all his household before our eyes
and he brought us out from thence that he might bring us in to give us the land which he sware unto our fathers
and the lord commanded us to do all these statutes to fear the lord our god for our good always that he might preserve us alive as it is at this day
and it shall be our righteousness if we observe to do all these commandments before the lord our god as he hath commanded us
when the lord thy god shall bring thee into the land whither thou goest to possess it and hath cast out many nations before thee the hittites and the girgashites and the amorites and the canaanites and the perizzites and the hivites and the jebusites seven nations greater and mightier than thou
and when the lord thy god shall deliver them before thee thou shalt smite them and utterly destroy them thou shalt make no covenant with them nor shew mercy unto them
neither shalt thou make marriages with them thy daughter thou shalt not give unto his son nor his daughter shalt thou take unto thy son
for they will turn away thy son from following me that they may serve other gods so will the anger of the lord be kindled against you and destroy thee suddenly
but thus shall ye deal with them ye shall destroy their altars and break down their images and cut down their groves and burn their graven images with fire
for thou art an holy people unto the lord thy god the lord thy god hath chosen thee to be a special people unto himself above all people that are upon the face of the earth
the lord did not set his love upon you nor choose you because ye were more in number than any people for ye were the fewest of all people
but because the lord loved you and because he would keep the oath which he had sworn unto your fathers hath the lord brought you out with a mighty hand and redeemed you out of the house of bondmen from the hand of pharaoh king of egypt
know therefore that the lord thy god he is god the faithful god which keepeth covenant and mercy with them that love him and keep his commandments to a thousand generations
and repayeth them that hate him to their face to destroy them he will not be slack to him that hateth him he will repay him to his face
thou shalt therefore keep the commandments and the statutes and the judgments which i command thee this day to do them
wherefore it shall come to pass if ye hearken to these judgments and keep and do them that the lord thy god shall keep unto thee the covenant and the mercy which he sware unto thy fathers
and he will love thee and bless thee and multiply thee he will also bless the fruit of thy womb and the fruit of thy land thy corn and thy wine and thine oil the increase of thy kine and the flocks of thy sheep in the land which he sware unto thy fathers to give thee
thou shalt be blessed above all people there shall not be male or female barren among you or among your cattle
and the lord will take away from thee all sickness and will put none of the evil diseases of egypt which thou knowest upon thee but will lay them upon all them that hate thee
and thou shalt consume all the people which the lord thy god shall deliver thee thine eye shall have no pity upon them neither shalt thou serve their gods for that will be a snare unto thee
if thou shalt say in thine heart these nations are more than i how can i dispossess them
thou shalt not be afraid of them but shalt well remember what the lord thy god did unto pharaoh and unto all egypt
the great temptations which thine eyes saw and the signs and the wonders and the mighty hand and the stretched out arm whereby the lord thy god brought thee out so shall the lord thy god do unto all the people of whom thou art afraid
moreover the lord thy god will send the hornet among them until they that are left and hide themselves from thee be destroyed
thou shalt not be affrighted at them for the lord thy god is among you a mighty god and terrible
and the lord thy god will put out those nations before thee by little and little thou mayest not consume them at once lest the beasts of the field increase upon thee
but the lord thy god shall deliver them unto thee and shall destroy them with a mighty destruction until they be destroyed
and he shall deliver their kings into thine hand and thou shalt destroy their name from under heaven there shall no man be able to stand before thee until thou have destroyed them
the graven images of their gods shall ye burn with fire thou shalt not desire the silver or gold that is on them nor take it unto thee lest thou be snared therein for it is an abomination to the lord thy god
neither shalt thou bring an abomination into thine house lest thou be a cursed thing like it but thou shalt utterly detest it and thou shalt utterly abhor it for it is a cursed thing
all the commandments which i command thee this day shall ye observe to do that ye may live and multiply and go in and possess the land which the lord sware unto your fathers
and thou shalt remember all the way which the lord thy god led thee these forty years in the wilderness to humble thee and to prove thee to know what was in thine heart whether thou wouldest keep his commandments or no
and he humbled thee and suffered thee to hunger and fed thee with manna which thou knewest not neither did thy fathers know that he might make thee know that man doth not live by bread only but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of the lord doth man live
thy raiment waxed not old upon thee neither did thy foot swell these forty years
thou shalt also consider in thine heart that as a man chasteneth his son so the lord thy god chasteneth thee
therefore thou shalt keep the commandments of the lord thy god to walk in his ways and to fear him
for the lord thy god bringeth thee into a good land a land of brooks of water of fountains and depths that spring out of valleys and hills
a land of wheat and barley and vines and fig trees and pomegranates a land of oil olive and honey
a land wherein thou shalt eat bread without scarceness thou shalt not lack any thing in it a land whose stones are iron and out of whose hills thou mayest dig brass
when thou hast eaten and art full then thou shalt bless the lord thy god for the good land which he hath given thee
beware that thou forget not the lord thy god in not keeping his commandments and his judgments and his statutes which i command thee this day
lest when thou hast eaten and art full and hast built goodly houses and dwelt therein
and when thy herds and thy flocks multiply and thy silver and thy gold is multiplied and all that thou hast is multiplied
then thine heart be lifted up and thou forget the lord thy god which brought thee forth out of the land of egypt from the house of bondage
who led thee through that great and terrible wilderness wherein were fiery serpents and scorpions and drought where there was no water who brought thee forth water out of the rock of flint
who fed thee in the wilderness with manna which thy fathers knew not that he might humble thee and that he might prove thee to do thee good at thy latter end
and thou say in thine heart my power and the might of mine hand hath gotten me this wealth
but thou shalt remember the lord thy god for it is he that giveth thee power to get wealth that he may establish his covenant which he sware unto thy fathers as it is this day
and it shall be if thou do at all forget the lord thy god and walk after other gods and serve them and worship them i testify against you this day that ye shall surely perish
as the nations which the lord destroyeth before your face so shall ye perish because ye would not be obedient unto the voice of the lord your god
hear o israel thou art to pass over jordan this day to go in to possess nations greater and mightier than thyself cities great and fenced up to heaven
a people great and tall the children of the anakims whom thou knowest and of whom thou hast heard say who can stand before the children of anak
understand therefore this day that the lord thy god is he which goeth over before thee as a consuming fire he shall destroy them and he shall bring them down before thy face so shalt thou drive them out and destroy them quickly as the lord hath said unto thee
speak not thou in thine heart after that the lord thy god hath cast them out from before thee saying for my righteousness the lord hath brought me in to possess this land but for the wickedness of these nations the lord doth drive them out from before thee
not for thy righteousness or for the uprightness of thine heart dost thou go to possess their land but for the wickedness of these nations the lord thy god doth drive them out from before thee and that he may perform the word which the lord sware unto thy fathers abraham isaac and jacob
understand therefore that the lord thy god giveth thee not this good land to possess it for thy righteousness for thou art a stiffnecked people
remember and forget not how thou provokedst the lord thy god to wrath in the wilderness from the day that thou didst depart out of the land of egypt until ye came unto this place ye have been rebellious against the lord
also in horeb ye provoked the lord to wrath so that the lord was angry with you to have destroyed you
when i was gone up into the mount to receive the tables of stone even the tables of the covenant which the lord made with you then i abode in the mount forty days and forty nights i neither did eat bread nor drink water
and the lord delivered unto me two tables of stone written with the finger of god and on them was written according to all the words which the lord spake with you in the mount out of the midst of the fire in the day of the assembly
and it came to pass at the end of forty days and forty nights that the lord gave me the two tables of stone even the tables of the covenant
and the lord said unto me arise get thee down quickly from hence for thy people which thou hast brought forth out of egypt have corrupted themselves they are quickly turned aside out of the way which i commanded them they have made them a molten image
furthermore the lord spake unto me saying i have seen this people and behold it is a stiffnecked people
let me alone that i may destroy them and blot out their name from under heaven and i will make of thee a nation mightier and greater than they
so i turned and came down from the mount and the mount burned with fire and the two tables of the covenant were in my two hands
and i looked and behold ye had sinned against the lord your god and had made you a molten calf ye had turned aside quickly out of the way which the lord had commanded you
and i took the two tables and cast them out of my two hands and brake them before your eyes
and i fell down before the lord as at the first forty days and forty nights i did neither eat bread nor drink water because of all your sins which ye sinned in doing wickedly in the sight of the lord to provoke him to anger
for i was afraid of the anger and hot displeasure wherewith the lord was wroth against you to destroy you but the lord hearkened unto me at that time also
and the lord was very angry with aaron to have destroyed him and i prayed for aaron also the same time
and i took your sin the calf which ye had made and burnt it with fire and stamped it and ground it very small even until it was as small as dust and i cast the dust thereof into the brook that descended out of the mount
and at taberah and at massah and at kibrothhattaavah ye provoked the lord to wrath
likewise when the lord sent you from kadeshbarnea saying go up and possess the land which i have given you then ye rebelled against the commandment of the lord your god and ye believed him not nor hearkened to his voice
ye have been rebellious against the lord from the day that i knew you
thus i fell down before the lord forty days and forty nights as i fell down at the first because the lord had said he would destroy you
i prayed therefore unto the lord and said o lord god destroy not thy people and thine inheritance which thou hast redeemed through thy greatness which thou hast brought forth out of egypt with a mighty hand
remember thy servants abraham isaac and jacob look not unto the stubbornness of this people nor to their wickedness nor to their sin
lest the land whence thou broughtest us out say because the lord was not able to bring them into the land which he promised them and because he hated them he hath brought them out to slay them in the wilderness
yet they are thy people and thine inheritance which thou broughtest out by thy mighty power and by thy stretched out arm
at that time the lord said unto me hew thee two tables of stone like unto the first and come up unto me into the mount and make thee an ark of wood
and i will write on the tables the words that were in the first tables which thou brakest and thou shalt put them in the ark
and i made an ark of shittim wood and hewed two tables of stone like unto the first and went up into the mount having the two tables in mine hand
and he wrote on the tables according to the first writing the ten commandments which the lord spake unto you in the mount out of the midst of the fire in the day of the assembly and the lord gave them unto me
and i turned myself and came down from the mount and put the tables in the ark which i had made and there they be as the lord commanded me
and the children of israel took their journey from beeroth of the children of jaakan to mosera there aaron died and there he was buried and eleazar his son ministered in the priest's office in his stead
from thence they journeyed unto gudgodah and from gudgodah to jotbath a land of rivers of waters
at that time the lord separated the tribe of levi to bear the ark of the covenant of the lord to stand before the lord to minister unto him and to bless in his name unto this day
wherefore levi hath no part nor inheritance with his brethren the lord is his inheritance according as the lord thy god promised him
and i stayed in the mount according to the first time forty days and forty nights and the lord hearkened unto me at that time also and the lord would not destroy thee
and the lord said unto me arise take thy journey before the people that they may go in and possess the land which i sware unto their fathers to give unto them
and now israel what doth the lord thy god require of thee but to fear the lord thy god to walk in all his ways and to love him and to serve the lord thy god with all thy heart and with all thy soul
to keep the commandments of the lord and his statutes which i command thee this day for thy good
behold the heaven and the heaven of heavens is the lord's thy god the earth also with all that therein is
only the lord had a delight in thy fathers to love them and he chose their seed after them even you above all people as it is this day
circumcise therefore the foreskin of your heart and be no more stiffnecked
for the lord your god is god of gods and lord of lords a great god a mighty and a terrible which regardeth not persons nor taketh reward
he doth execute the judgment of the fatherless and widow and loveth the stranger in giving him food and raiment
love ye therefore the stranger for ye were strangers in the land of egypt
thou shalt fear the lord thy god him shalt thou serve and to him shalt thou cleave and swear by his name
he is thy praise and he is thy god that hath done for thee these great and terrible things which thine eyes have seen
thy fathers went down into egypt with threescore and ten persons and now the lord thy god hath made thee as the stars of heaven for multitude
therefore thou shalt love the lord thy god and keep his charge and his statutes and his judgments and his commandments alway
and know ye this day for i speak not with your children which have not known and which have not seen the chastisement of the lord your god his greatness his mighty hand and his stretched out arm
and his miracles and his acts which he did in the midst of egypt unto pharaoh the king of egypt and unto all his land
and what he did unto the army of egypt unto their horses and to their chariots how he made the water of the red sea to overflow them as they pursued after you and how the lord hath destroyed them unto this day
and what he did unto you in the wilderness until ye came into this place
and what he did unto dathan and abiram the sons of eliab the son of reuben how the earth opened her mouth and swallowed them up and their households and their tents and all the substance that was in their possession in the midst of all israel
but your eyes have seen all the great acts of the lord which he did
therefore shall ye keep all the commandments which i command you this day that ye may be strong and go in and possess the land whither ye go to possess it
and that ye may prolong your days in the land which the lord sware unto your fathers to give unto them and to their seed a land that floweth with milk and honey
for the land whither thou goest in to possess it is not as the land of egypt from whence ye came out where thou sowedst thy seed and wateredst it with thy foot as a garden of herbs
but the land whither ye go to possess it is a land of hills and valleys and drinketh water of the rain of heaven
a land which the lord thy god careth for the eyes of the lord thy god are always upon it from the beginning of the year even unto the end of the year
and it shall come to pass if ye shall hearken diligently unto my commandments which i command you this day to love the lord your god and to serve him with all your heart and with all your soul
that i will give you the rain of your land in his due season the first rain and the latter rain that thou mayest gather in thy corn and thy wine and thine oil
and i will send grass in thy fields for thy cattle that thou mayest eat and be full
take heed to yourselves that your heart be not deceived and ye turn aside and serve other gods and worship them
and then the lord's wrath be kindled against you and he shut up the heaven that there be no rain and that the land yield not her fruit and lest ye perish quickly from off the good land which the lord giveth you
therefore shall ye lay up these my words in your heart and in your soul and bind them for a sign upon your hand that they may be as frontlets between your eyes
and ye shall teach them your children speaking of them when thou sittest in thine house and when thou walkest by the way when thou liest down and when thou risest up
and thou shalt write them upon the door posts of thine house and upon thy gates
that your days may be multiplied and the days of your children in the land which the lord sware unto your fathers to give them as the days of heaven upon the earth
for if ye shall diligently keep all these commandments which i command you to do them to love the lord your god to walk in all his ways and to cleave unto him
then will the lord drive out all these nations from before you and ye shall possess greater nations and mightier than yourselves
every place whereon the soles of your feet shall tread shall be yours from the wilderness and lebanon from the river the river euphrates even unto the uttermost sea shall your coast be
there shall no man be able to stand before you for the lord your god shall lay the fear of you and the dread of you upon all the land that ye shall tread upon as he hath said unto you
behold i set before you this day a blessing and a curse
a blessing if ye obey the commandments of the lord your god which i command you this day
and a curse if ye will not obey the commandments of the lord your god but turn aside out of the way which i command you this day to go after other gods which ye have not known
and it shall come to pass when the lord thy god hath brought thee in unto the land whither thou goest to possess it that thou shalt put the blessing upon mount gerizim and the curse upon mount ebal
are they not on the other side jordan by the way where the sun goeth down in the land of the canaanites which dwell in the champaign over against gilgal beside the plains of moreh
for ye shall pass over jordan to go in to possess the land which the lord your god giveth you and ye shall possess it and dwell therein
and ye shall observe to do all the statutes and judgments which i set before you this day
these are the statutes and judgments which ye shall observe to do in the land which the lord god of thy fathers giveth thee to possess it all the days that ye live upon the earth
ye shall utterly destroy all the places wherein the nations which ye shall possess served their gods upon the high mountains and upon the hills and under every green tree
and ye shall overthrow their altars and break their pillars and burn their groves with fire and ye shall hew down the graven images of their gods and destroy the names of them out of that place
ye shall not do so unto the lord your god
but unto the place which the lord your god shall choose out of all your tribes to put his name there even unto his habitation shall ye seek and thither thou shalt come
and thither ye shall bring your burnt offerings and your sacrifices and your tithes and heave offerings of your hand and your vows and your freewill offerings and the firstlings of your herds and of your flocks
and there ye shall eat before the lord your god and ye shall rejoice in all that ye put your hand unto ye and your households wherein the lord thy god hath blessed thee
ye shall not do after all the things that we do here this day every man whatsoever is right in his own eyes
for ye are not as yet come to the rest and to the inheritance which the lord your god giveth you
but when ye go over jordan and dwell in the land which the lord your god giveth you to inherit and when he giveth you rest from all your enemies round about so that ye dwell in safety
then there shall be a place which the lord your god shall choose to cause his name to dwell there thither shall ye bring all that i command you your burnt offerings and your sacrifices your tithes and the heave offering of your hand and all your choice vows which ye vow unto the lord
and ye shall rejoice before the lord your god ye and your sons and your daughters and your menservants and your maidservants and the levite that is within your gates forasmuch as he hath no part nor inheritance with you
take heed to thyself that thou offer not thy burnt offerings in every place that thou seest
but in the place which the lord shall choose in one of thy tribes there thou shalt offer thy burnt offerings and there thou shalt do all that i command thee
notwithstanding thou mayest kill and eat flesh in all thy gates whatsoever thy soul lusteth after according to the blessing of the lord thy god which he hath given thee the unclean and the clean may eat thereof as of the roebuck and as of the hart
only ye shall not eat the blood ye shall pour it upon the earth as water
thou mayest not eat within thy gates the tithe of thy corn or of thy wine or of thy oil or the firstlings of thy herds or of thy flock nor any of thy vows which thou vowest nor thy freewill offerings or heave offering of thine hand
but thou must eat them before the lord thy god in the place which the lord thy god shall choose thou and thy son and thy daughter and thy manservant and thy maidservant and the levite that is within thy gates and thou shalt rejoice before the lord thy god in all that thou puttest thine hands unto
take heed to thyself that thou forsake not the levite as long as thou livest upon the earth
when the lord thy god shall enlarge thy border as he hath promised thee and thou shalt say i will eat flesh because thy soul longeth to eat flesh thou mayest eat flesh whatsoever thy soul lusteth after
if the place which the lord thy god hath chosen to put his name there be too far from thee then thou shalt kill of thy herd and of thy flock which the lord hath given thee as i have commanded thee and thou shalt eat in thy gates whatsoever thy soul lusteth after
even as the roebuck and the hart is eaten so thou shalt eat them the unclean and the clean shall eat of them alike
only be sure that thou eat not the blood for the blood is the life and thou mayest not eat the life with the flesh
thou shalt not eat it thou shalt pour it upon the earth as water
thou shalt not eat it that it may go well with thee and with thy children after thee when thou shalt do that which is right in the sight of the lord
only thy holy things which thou hast and thy vows thou shalt take and go unto the place which the lord shall choose
and thou shalt offer thy burnt offerings the flesh and the blood upon the altar of the lord thy god and the blood of thy sacrifices shall be poured out upon the altar of the lord thy god and thou shalt eat the flesh
observe and hear all these words which i command thee that it may go well with thee and with thy children after thee for ever when thou doest that which is good and right in the sight of the lord thy god
when the lord thy god shall cut off the nations from before thee whither thou goest to possess them and thou succeedest them and dwellest in their land
take heed to thyself that thou be not snared by following them after that they be destroyed from before thee and that thou enquire not after their gods saying how did these nations serve their gods even so will i do likewise
thou shalt not do so unto the lord thy god for every abomination to the lord which he hateth have they done unto their gods for even their sons and their daughters they have burnt in the fire to their gods
what thing soever i command you observe to do it thou shalt not add thereto nor diminish from it
if there arise among you a prophet or a dreamer of dreams and giveth thee a sign or a wonder
and the sign or the wonder come to pass whereof he spake unto thee saying let us go after other gods which thou hast not known and let us serve them
thou shalt not hearken unto the words of that prophet or that dreamer of dreams for the lord your god proveth you to know whether ye love the lord your god with all your heart and with all your soul
ye shall walk after the lord your god and fear him and keep his commandments and obey his voice and ye shall serve him and cleave unto him
and that prophet or that dreamer of dreams shall be put to death because he hath spoken to turn you away from the lord your god which brought you out of the land of egypt and redeemed you out of the house of bondage to thrust thee out of the way which the lord thy god commanded thee to walk in so shalt thou put the evil away from the midst of thee
if thy brother the son of thy mother or thy son or thy daughter or the wife of thy bosom or thy friend which is as thine own soul entice thee secretly saying let us go and serve other gods which thou hast not known thou nor thy fathers
namely of the gods of the people which are round about you nigh unto thee or far off from thee from the one end of the earth even unto the other end of the earth
thou shalt not consent unto him nor hearken unto him neither shall thine eye pity him neither shalt thou spare neither shalt thou conceal him
but thou shalt surely kill him thine hand shall be first upon him to put him to death and afterwards the hand of all the people
and thou shalt stone him with stones that he die because he hath sought to thrust thee away from the lord thy god which brought thee out of the land of egypt from the house of bondage
and all israel shall hear and fear and shall do no more any such wickedness as this is among you
if thou shalt hear say in one of thy cities which the lord thy god hath given thee to dwell there saying
certain men the children of belial are gone out from among you and have withdrawn the inhabitants of their city saying let us go and serve other gods which ye have not known
then shalt thou enquire and make search and ask diligently and behold if it be truth and the thing certain that such abomination is wrought among you
thou shalt surely smite the inhabitants of that city with the edge of the sword destroying it utterly and all that is therein and the cattle thereof with the edge of the sword
and thou shalt gather all the spoil of it into the midst of the street thereof and shalt burn with fire the city and all the spoil thereof every whit for the lord thy god and it shall be an heap for ever it shall not be built again
and there shall cleave nought of the cursed thing to thine hand that the lord may turn from the fierceness of his anger and shew thee mercy and have compassion upon thee and multiply thee as he hath sworn unto thy fathers
when thou shalt hearken to the voice of the lord thy god to keep all his commandments which i command thee this day to do that which is right in the eyes of the lord thy god
ye are the children of the lord your god ye shall not cut yourselves nor make any baldness between your eyes for the dead
for thou art an holy people unto the lord thy god and the lord hath chosen thee to be a peculiar people unto himself above all the nations that are upon the earth
thou shalt not eat any abominable thing
these are the beasts which ye shall eat the ox the sheep and the goat
the hart and the roebuck and the fallow deer and the wild goat and the pygarg and the wild ox and the chamois
and every beast that parteth the hoof and cleaveth the cleft into two claws and cheweth the cud among the beasts that ye shall eat
nevertheless these ye shall not eat of them that chew the cud or of them that divide the cloven hoof as the camel and the hare and the coney for they chew the cud but divide not the hoof therefore they are unclean unto you
and the swine because it divideth the hoof yet cheweth not the cud it is unclean unto you ye shall not eat of their flesh nor touch their dead carcase
these ye shall eat of all that are in the waters all that have fins and scales shall ye eat
and whatsoever hath not fins and scales ye may not eat it is unclean unto you
of all clean birds ye shall eat
but these are they of which ye shall not eat the eagle and the ossifrage and the ospray
and the glede and the kite and the vulture after his kind
and every raven after his kind
and the owl and the night hawk and the cuckow and the hawk after his kind
the little owl and the great owl and the swan
and the pelican and the gier eagle and the cormorant
and the stork and the heron after her kind and the lapwing and the bat
and every creeping thing that flieth is unclean unto you they shall not be eaten
but of all clean fowls ye may eat
ye shall not eat of anything that dieth of itself thou shalt give it unto the stranger that is in thy gates that he may eat it or thou mayest sell it unto an alien for thou art an holy people unto the lord thy god thou shalt not seethe a kid in his mother's milk
thou shalt truly tithe all the increase of thy seed that the field bringeth forth year by year
and thou shalt eat before the lord thy god in the place which he shall choose to place his name there the tithe of thy corn of thy wine and of thine oil and the firstlings of thy herds and of thy flocks that thou mayest learn to fear the lord thy god always
and if the way be too long for thee so that thou art not able to carry it or if the place be too far from thee which the lord thy god shall choose to set his name there when the lord thy god hath blessed thee
then shalt thou turn it into money and bind up the money in thine hand and shalt go unto the place which the lord thy god shall choose
and thou shalt bestow that money for whatsoever thy soul lusteth after for oxen or for sheep or for wine or for strong drink or for whatsoever thy soul desireth and thou shalt eat there before the lord thy god and thou shalt rejoice thou and thine household
and the levite that is within thy gates thou shalt not forsake him for he hath no part nor inheritance with thee
at the end of three years thou shalt bring forth all the tithe of thine increase the same year and shalt lay it up within thy gates
and the levite because he hath no part nor inheritance with thee and the stranger and the fatherless and the widow which are within thy gates shall come and shall eat and be satisfied that the lord thy god may bless thee in all the work of thine hand which thou doest
at the end of every seven years thou shalt make a release
and this is the manner of the release every creditor that lendeth ought unto his neighbour shall release it he shall not exact it of his neighbour or of his brother because it is called the lord's release
of a foreigner thou mayest exact it again but that which is thine with thy brother thine hand shall release
save when there shall be no poor among you for the lord shall greatly bless thee in the land which the lord thy god giveth thee for an inheritance to possess it
only if thou carefully hearken unto the voice of the lord thy god to observe to do all these commandments which i command thee this day
for the lord thy god blesseth thee as he promised thee and thou shalt lend unto many nations but thou shalt not borrow and thou shalt reign over many nations but they shall not reign over thee
if there be among you a poor man of one of thy brethren within any of thy gates in thy land which the lord thy god giveth thee thou shalt not harden thine heart nor shut thine hand from thy poor brother
but thou shalt open thine hand wide unto him and shalt surely lend him sufficient for his need in that which he wanteth
beware that there be not a thought in thy wicked heart saying the seventh year the year of release is at hand and thine eye be evil against thy poor brother and thou givest him nought and he cry unto the lord against thee and it be sin unto thee
thou shalt surely give him and thine heart shall not be grieved when thou givest unto him because that for this thing the lord thy god shall bless thee in all thy works and in all that thou puttest thine hand unto
for the poor shall never cease out of the land therefore i command thee saying thou shalt open thine hand wide unto thy brother to thy poor and to thy needy in thy land
and if thy brother an hebrew man or an hebrew woman be sold unto thee and serve thee six years then in the seventh year thou shalt let him go free from thee
and when thou sendest him out free from thee thou shalt not let him go away empty
thou shalt furnish him liberally out of thy flock and out of thy floor and out of thy winepress of that wherewith the lord thy god hath blessed thee thou shalt give unto him
and thou shalt remember that thou wast a bondman in the land of egypt and the lord thy god redeemed thee therefore i command thee this thing to day
and it shall be if he say unto thee i will not go away from thee because he loveth thee and thine house because he is well with thee
then thou shalt take an aul and thrust it through his ear unto the door and he shall be thy servant for ever and also unto thy maidservant thou shalt do likewise
it shall not seem hard unto thee when thou sendest him away free from thee for he hath been worth a double hired servant to thee in serving thee six years and the lord thy god shall bless thee in all that thou doest
all the firstling males that come of thy herd and of thy flock thou shalt sanctify unto the lord thy god thou shalt do no work with the firstling of thy bullock nor shear the firstling of thy sheep
thou shalt eat it before the lord thy god year by year in the place which the lord shall choose thou and thy household
and if there be any blemish therein as if it be lame or blind or have any ill blemish thou shalt not sacrifice it unto the lord thy god
thou shalt eat it within thy gates the unclean and the clean person shall eat it alike as the roebuck and as the hart
only thou shalt not eat the blood thereof thou shalt pour it upon the ground as water
observe the month of abib and keep the passover unto the lord thy god for in the month of abib the lord thy god brought thee forth out of egypt by night
thou shalt therefore sacrifice the passover unto the lord thy god of the flock and the herd in the place which the lord shall choose to place his name there
thou shalt eat no leavened bread with it seven days shalt thou eat unleavened bread therewith even the bread of affliction for thou camest forth out of the land of egypt in haste that thou mayest remember the day when thou camest forth out of the land of egypt all the days of thy life
and there shall be no leavened bread seen with thee in all thy coast seven days neither shall there any thing of the flesh which thou sacrificedst the first day at even remain all night until the morning
thou mayest not sacrifice the passover within any of thy gates which the lord thy god giveth thee
but at the place which the lord thy god shall choose to place his name in there thou shalt sacrifice the passover at even at the going down of the sun at the season that thou camest forth out of egypt
and thou shalt roast and eat it in the place which the lord thy god shall choose and thou shalt turn in the morning and go unto thy tents
six days thou shalt eat unleavened bread and on the seventh day shall be a solemn assembly to the lord thy god thou shalt do no work therein
seven weeks shalt thou number unto thee begin to number the seven weeks from such time as thou beginnest to put the sickle to the corn
and thou shalt keep the feast of weeks unto the lord thy god with a tribute of a freewill offering of thine hand which thou shalt give unto the lord thy god according as the lord thy god hath blessed thee
and thou shalt rejoice before the lord thy god thou and thy son and thy daughter and thy manservant and thy maidservant and the levite that is within thy gates and the stranger and the fatherless and the widow that are among you in the place which the lord thy god hath chosen to place his name there
and thou shalt remember that thou wast a bondman in egypt and thou shalt observe and do these statutes
thou shalt observe the feast of tabernacles seven days after that thou hast gathered in thy corn and thy wine
and thou shalt rejoice in thy feast thou and thy son and thy daughter and thy manservant and thy maidservant and the levite the stranger and the fatherless and the widow that are within thy gates
seven days shalt thou keep a solemn feast unto the lord thy god in the place which the lord shall choose because the lord thy god shall bless thee in all thine increase and in all the works of thine hands therefore thou shalt surely rejoice
three times in a year shall all thy males appear before the lord thy god in the place which he shall choose in the feast of unleavened bread and in the feast of weeks and in the feast of tabernacles and they shall not appear before the lord empty
every man shall give as he is able according to the blessing of the lord thy god which he hath given thee
judges and officers shalt thou make thee in all thy gates which the lord thy god giveth thee throughout thy tribes and they shall judge the people with just judgment
thou shalt not wrest judgment thou shalt not respect persons neither take a gift for a gift doth blind the eyes of the wise and pervert the words of the righteous
that which is altogether just shalt thou follow that thou mayest live and inherit the land which the lord thy god giveth thee
thou shalt not plant thee a grove of any trees near unto the altar of the lord thy god which thou shalt make thee
neither shalt thou set thee up any image which the lord thy god hateth
thou shalt not sacrifice unto the lord thy god any bullock or sheep wherein is blemish or any evilfavouredness for that is an abomination unto the lord thy god
if there be found among you within any of thy gates which the lord thy god giveth thee man or woman that hath wrought wickedness in the sight of the lord thy god in transgressing his covenant
and hath gone and served other gods and worshipped them either the sun or moon or any of the host of heaven which i have not commanded
and it be told thee and thou hast heard of it and enquired diligently and behold it be true and the thing certain that such abomination is wrought in israel
then shalt thou bring forth that man or that woman which have committed that wicked thing unto thy gates even that man or that woman and shalt stone them with stones till they die
at the mouth of two witnesses or three witnesses shall he that is worthy of death be put to death but at the mouth of one witness he shall not be put to death
the hands of the witnesses shall be first upon him to put him to death and afterward the hands of all the people so thou shalt put the evil away from among you
if there arise a matter too hard for thee in judgment between blood and blood between plea and plea and between stroke and stroke being matters of controversy within thy gates then shalt thou arise and get thee up into the place which the lord thy god shall choose
and thou shalt come unto the priests the levites and unto the judge that shall be in those days and enquire and they shall shew thee the sentence of judgment
and thou shalt do according to the sentence which they of that place which the lord shall choose shall shew thee and thou shalt observe to do according to all that they inform thee
according to the sentence of the law which they shall teach thee and according to the judgment which they shall tell thee thou shalt do thou shalt not decline from the sentence which they shall shew thee to the right hand nor to the left
and the man that will do presumptuously and will not hearken unto the priest that standeth to minister there before the lord thy god or unto the judge even that man shall die and thou shalt put away the evil from israel
and all the people shall hear and fear and do no more presumptuously
when thou art come unto the land which the lord thy god giveth thee and shalt possess it and shalt dwell therein and shalt say i will set a king over me like as all the nations that are about me
thou shalt in any wise set him king over thee whom the lord thy god shall choose one from among thy brethren shalt thou set king over thee thou mayest not set a stranger over thee which is not thy brother
but he shall not multiply horses to himself nor cause the people to return to egypt to the end that he should multiply horses forasmuch as the lord hath said unto you ye shall henceforth return no more that way
neither shall he multiply wives to himself that his heart turn not away neither shall he greatly multiply to himself silver and gold
and it shall be when he sitteth upon the throne of his kingdom that he shall write him a copy of this law in a book out of that which is before the priests the levites
and it shall be with him and he shall read therein all the days of his life that he may learn to fear the lord his god to keep all the words of this law and these statutes to do them
that his heart be not lifted up above his brethren and that he turn not aside from the commandment to the right hand or to the left to the end that he may prolong his days in his kingdom he and his children in the midst of israel
the priests the levites and all the tribe of levi shall have no part nor inheritance with israel they shall eat the offerings of the lord made by fire and his inheritance
therefore shall they have no inheritance among their brethren the lord is their inheritance as he hath said unto them
and this shall be the priest's due from the people from them that offer a sacrifice whether it be ox or sheep and they shall give unto the priest the shoulder and the two cheeks and the maw
the firstfruit also of thy corn of thy wine and of thine oil and the first of the fleece of thy sheep shalt thou give him
for the lord thy god hath chosen him out of all thy tribes to stand to minister in the name of the lord him and his sons for ever
and if a levite come from any of thy gates out of all israel where he sojourned and come with all the desire of his mind unto the place which the lord shall choose
then he shall minister in the name of the lord his god as all his brethren the levites do which stand there before the lord
they shall have like portions to eat beside that which cometh of the sale of his patrimony
when thou art come into the land which the lord thy god giveth thee thou shalt not learn to do after the abominations of those nations
there shall not be found among you any one that maketh his son or his daughter to pass through the fire or that useth divination or an observer of times or an enchanter or a witch
or a charmer or a consulter with familiar spirits or a wizard or a necromancer
for all that do these things are an abomination unto the lord and because of these abominations the lord thy god doth drive them out from before thee
thou shalt be perfect with the lord thy god
for these nations which thou shalt possess hearkened unto observers of times and unto diviners but as for thee the lord thy god hath not suffered thee so to do
the lord thy god will raise up unto thee a prophet from the midst of thee of thy brethren like unto me unto him ye shall hearken
according to all that thou desiredst of the lord thy god in horeb in the day of the assembly saying let me not hear again the voice of the lord my god neither let me see this great fire any more that i die not
and the lord said unto me they have well spoken that which they have spoken
i will raise them up a prophet from among their brethren like unto thee and will put my words in his mouth and he shall speak unto them all that i shall command him
and it shall come to pass that whosoever will not hearken unto my words which he shall speak in my name i will require it of him
but the prophet which shall presume to speak a word in my name which i have not commanded him to speak or that shall speak in the name of other gods even that prophet shall die
and if thou say in thine heart how shall we know the word which the lord hath not spoken
when a prophet speaketh in the name of the lord if the thing follow not nor come to pass that is the thing which the lord hath not spoken but the prophet hath spoken it presumptuously thou shalt not be afraid of him
when the lord thy god hath cut off the nations whose land the lord thy god giveth thee and thou succeedest them and dwellest in their cities and in their houses
thou shalt separate three cities for thee in the midst of thy land which the lord thy god giveth thee to possess it
thou shalt prepare thee a way and divide the coasts of thy land which the lord thy god giveth thee to inherit into three parts that every slayer may flee thither
and this is the case of the slayer which shall flee thither that he may live whoso killeth his neighbour ignorantly whom he hated not in time past
as when a man goeth into the wood with his neighbour to hew wood and his hand fetcheth a stroke with the axe to cut down the tree and the head slippeth from the helve and lighteth upon his neighbour that he die he shall flee unto one of those cities and live
lest the avenger of the blood pursue the slayer while his heart is hot and overtake him because the way is long and slay him whereas he was not worthy of death inasmuch as he hated him not in time past
wherefore i command thee saying thou shalt separate three cities for thee
and if the lord thy god enlarge thy coast as he hath sworn unto thy fathers and give thee all the land which he promised to give unto thy fathers
if thou shalt keep all these commandments to do them which i command thee this day to love the lord thy god and to walk ever in his ways then shalt thou add three cities more for thee beside these three
that innocent blood be not shed in thy land which the lord thy god giveth thee for an inheritance and so blood be upon thee
but if any man hate his neighbour and lie in wait for him and rise up against him and smite him mortally that he die and fleeth into one of these cities
then the elders of his city shall send and fetch him thence and deliver him into the hand of the avenger of blood that he may die
thine eye shall not pity him but thou shalt put away the guilt of innocent blood from israel that it may go well with thee
thou shalt not remove thy neighbour's landmark which they of old time have set in thine inheritance which thou shalt inherit in the land that the lord thy god giveth thee to possess it
one witness shall not rise up against a man for any iniquity or for any sin in any sin that he sinneth at the mouth of two witnesses or at the mouth of three witnesses shall the matter be established
if a false witness rise up against any man to testify against him that which is wrong
then both the men between whom the controversy is shall stand before the lord before the priests and the judges which shall be in those days
and the judges shall make diligent inquisition and behold if the witness be a false witness and hath testified falsely against his brother
then shall ye do unto him as he had thought to have done unto his brother so shalt thou put the evil away from among you
and those which remain shall hear and fear and shall henceforth commit no more any such evil among you
and thine eye shall not pity but life shall go for life eye for eye tooth for tooth hand for hand foot for foot
when thou goest out to battle against thine enemies and seest horses and chariots and a people more than thou be not afraid of them for the lord thy god is with thee which brought thee up out of the land of egypt
and it shall be when ye are come nigh unto the battle that the priest shall approach and speak unto the people
and shall say unto them hear o israel ye approach this day unto battle against your enemies let not your hearts faint fear not and do not tremble neither be ye terrified because of them
for the lord your god is he that goeth with you to fight for you against your enemies to save you
and the officers shall speak unto the people saying what man is there that hath built a new house and hath not dedicated it let him go and return to his house lest he die in the battle and another man dedicate it
and what man is he that hath planted a vineyard and hath not yet eaten of it let him also go and return unto his house lest he die in the battle and another man eat of it
and what man is there that hath betrothed a wife and hath not taken her let him go and return unto his house lest he die in the battle and another man take her
and the officers shall speak further unto the people and they shall say what man is there that is fearful and fainthearted let him go and return unto his house lest his brethren's heart faint as well as his heart
and it shall be when the officers have made an end of speaking unto the people that they shall make captains of the armies to lead the people
when thou comest nigh unto a city to fight against it then proclaim peace unto it
and it shall be if it make thee answer of peace and open unto thee then it shall be that all the people that is found therein shall be tributaries unto thee and they shall serve thee
and if it will make no peace with thee but will make war against thee then thou shalt besiege it
and when the lord thy god hath delivered it into thine hands thou shalt smite every male thereof with the edge of the sword
but the women and the little ones and the cattle and all that is in the city even all the spoil thereof shalt thou take unto thyself and thou shalt eat the spoil of thine enemies which the lord thy god hath given thee
thus shalt thou do unto all the cities which are very far off from thee which are not of the cities of these nations
but of the cities of these people which the lord thy god doth give thee for an inheritance thou shalt save alive nothing that breatheth
but thou shalt utterly destroy them namely the hittites and the amorites the canaanites and the perizzites the hivites and the jebusites as the lord thy god hath commanded thee
that they teach you not to do after all their abominations which they have done unto their gods so should ye sin against the lord your god
when thou shalt besiege a city a long time in making war against it to take it thou shalt not destroy the trees thereof by forcing an axe against them for thou mayest eat of them and thou shalt not cut them down for the tree of the field is man's life to employ them in the siege
only the trees which thou knowest that they be not trees for meat thou shalt destroy and cut them down and thou shalt build bulwarks against the city that maketh war with thee until it be subdued
if one be found slain in the land which the lord thy god giveth thee to possess it lying in the field and it be not known who hath slain him
then thy elders and thy judges shall come forth and they shall measure unto the cities which are round about him that is slain
and it shall be that the city which is next unto the slain man even the elders of that city shall take an heifer which hath not been wrought with and which hath not drawn in the yoke
and the elders of that city shall bring down the heifer unto a rough valley which is neither eared nor sown and shall strike off the heifer's neck there in the valley
and the priests the sons of levi shall come near for them the lord thy god hath chosen to minister unto him and to bless in the name of the lord and by their word shall every controversy and every stroke be tried
and all the elders of that city that are next unto the slain man shall wash their hands over the heifer that is beheaded in the valley
and they shall answer and say our hands have not shed this blood neither have our eyes seen it
be merciful o lord unto thy people israel whom thou hast redeemed and lay not innocent blood unto thy people of israel's charge and the blood shall be forgiven them
so shalt thou put away the guilt of innocent blood from among you when thou shalt do that which is right in the sight of the lord
when thou goest forth to war against thine enemies and the lord thy god hath delivered them into thine hands and thou hast taken them captive
and seest among the captives a beautiful woman and hast a desire unto her that thou wouldest have her to thy wife
then thou shalt bring her home to thine house and she shall shave her head and pare her nails
and she shall put the raiment of her captivity from off her and shall remain in thine house and bewail her father and her mother a full month and after that thou shalt go in unto her and be her husband and she shall be thy wife
and it shall be if thou have no delight in her then thou shalt let her go whither she will but thou shalt not sell her at all for money thou shalt not make merchandise of her because thou hast humbled her
if a man have two wives one beloved and another hated and they have born him children both the beloved and the hated and if the firstborn son be hers that was hated
then it shall be when he maketh his sons to inherit that which he hath that he may not make the son of the beloved firstborn before the son of the hated which is indeed the firstborn
but he shall acknowledge the son of the hated for the firstborn by giving him a double portion of all that he hath for he is the beginning of his strength the right of the firstborn is his
if a man have a stubborn and rebellious son which will not obey the voice of his father or the voice of his mother and that when they have chastened him will not hearken unto them
then shall his father and his mother lay hold on him and bring him out unto the elders of his city and unto the gate of his place
and they shall say unto the elders of his city this our son is stubborn and rebellious he will not obey our voice he is a glutton and a drunkard
and all the men of his city shall stone him with stones that he die so shalt thou put evil away from among you and all israel shall hear and fear
and if a man have committed a sin worthy of death and he be to be put to death and thou hang him on a tree
his body shall not remain all night upon the tree but thou shalt in any wise bury him that day for he that is hanged is accursed of god that thy land be not defiled which the lord thy god giveth thee for an inheritance
thou shalt not see thy brother's ox or his sheep go astray and hide thyself from them thou shalt in any case bring them again unto thy brother
and if thy brother be not nigh unto thee or if thou know him not then thou shalt bring it unto thine own house and it shall be with thee until thy brother seek after it and thou shalt restore it to him again
in like manner shalt thou do with his ass and so shalt thou do with his raiment and with all lost thing of thy brother's which he hath lost and thou hast found shalt thou do likewise thou mayest not hide thyself
thou shalt not see thy brother's ass or his ox fall down by the way and hide thyself from them thou shalt surely help him to lift them up again
the woman shall not wear that which pertaineth unto a man neither shall a man put on a woman's garment for all that do so are abomination unto the lord thy god
if a bird's nest chance to be before thee in the way in any tree or on the ground whether they be young ones or eggs and the dam sitting upon the young or upon the eggs thou shalt not take the dam with the young
but thou shalt in any wise let the dam go and take the young to thee that it may be well with thee and that thou mayest prolong thy days
when thou buildest a new house then thou shalt make a battlement for thy roof that thou bring not blood upon thine house if any man fall from thence
thou shalt not sow thy vineyard with divers seeds lest the fruit of thy seed which thou hast sown and the fruit of thy vineyard be defiled
thou shalt not plow with an ox and an ass together
thou shalt not wear a garment of divers sorts as of woollen and linen together
thou shalt make thee fringes upon the four quarters of thy vesture wherewith thou coverest thyself
if any man take a wife and go in unto her and hate her
and give occasions of speech against her and bring up an evil name upon her and say i took this woman and when i came to her i found her not a maid
then shall the father of the damsel and her mother take and bring forth the tokens of the damsel's virginity unto the elders of the city in the gate
and the damsel's father shall say unto the elders i gave my daughter unto this man to wife and he hateth her
and lo he hath given occasions of speech against her saying i found not thy daughter a maid and yet these are the tokens of my daughter's virginity and they shall spread the cloth before the elders of the city
and the elders of that city shall take that man and chastise him
and they shall amerce him in an hundred shekels of silver and give them unto the father of the damsel because he hath brought up an evil name upon a virgin of israel and she shall be his wife he may not put her away all his days
but if this thing be true and the tokens of virginity be not found for the damsel
then they shall bring out the damsel to the door of her father's house and the men of her city shall stone her with stones that she die because she hath wrought folly in israel to play the whore in her father's house so shalt thou put evil away from among you
if a man be found lying with a woman married to an husband then they shall both of them die both the man that lay with the woman and the woman so shalt thou put away evil from israel
if a damsel that is a virgin be betrothed unto an husband and a man find her in the city and lie with her
then ye shall bring them both out unto the gate of that city and ye shall stone them with stones that they die the damsel because she cried not being in the city and the man because he hath humbled his neighbour's wife so thou shalt put away evil from among you
but if a man find a betrothed damsel in the field and the man force her and lie with her then the man only that lay with her shall die
but unto the damsel thou shalt do nothing there is in the damsel no sin worthy of death for as when a man riseth against his neighbour and slayeth him even so is this matter
for he found her in the field and the betrothed damsel cried and there was none to save her
if a man find a damsel that is a virgin which is not betrothed and lay hold on her and lie with her and they be found
then the man that lay with her shall give unto the damsel's father fifty shekels of silver and she shall be his wife because he hath humbled her he may not put her away all his days
a man shall not take his father's wife nor discover his father's skirt
he that is wounded in the stones or hath his privy member cut off shall not enter into the congregation of the lord
a bastard shall not enter into the congregation of the lord even to his tenth generation shall he not enter into the congregation of the lord
an ammonite or moabite shall not enter into the congregation of the lord even to their tenth generation shall they not enter into the congregation of the lord for ever
because they met you not with bread and with water in the way when ye came forth out of egypt and because they hired against thee balaam the son of beor of pethor of mesopotamia to curse thee
nevertheless the lord thy god would not hearken unto balaam but the lord thy god turned the curse into a blessing unto thee because the lord thy god loved thee
thou shalt not seek their peace nor their prosperity all thy days for ever
thou shalt not abhor an edomite for he is thy brother thou shalt not abhor an egyptian because thou wast a stranger in his land
the children that are begotten of them shall enter into the congregation of the lord in their third generation
when the host goeth forth against thine enemies then keep thee from every wicked thing
if there be among you any man that is not clean by reason of uncleanness that chanceth him by night then shall he go abroad out of the camp he shall not come within the camp
but it shall be when evening cometh on he shall wash himself with water and when the sun is down he shall come into the camp again
thou shalt have a place also without the camp whither thou shalt go forth abroad
and thou shalt have a paddle upon thy weapon and it shall be when thou wilt ease thyself abroad thou shalt dig therewith and shalt turn back and cover that which cometh from thee
for the lord thy god walketh in the midst of thy camp to deliver thee and to give up thine enemies before thee therefore shall thy camp be holy that he see no unclean thing in thee and turn away from thee
thou shalt not deliver unto his master the servant which is escaped from his master unto thee
he shall dwell with thee even among you in that place which he shall choose in one of thy gates where it liketh him best thou shalt not oppress him
there shall be no whore of the daughters of israel nor a sodomite of the sons of israel
thou shalt not bring the hire of a whore or the price of a dog into the house of the lord thy god for any vow for even both these are abomination unto the lord thy god
thou shalt not lend upon usury to thy brother usury of money usury of victuals usury of any thing that is lent upon usury
unto a stranger thou mayest lend upon usury but unto thy brother thou shalt not lend upon usury that the lord thy god may bless thee in all that thou settest thine hand to in the land whither thou goest to possess it
when thou shalt vow a vow unto the lord thy god thou shalt not slack to pay it for the lord thy god will surely require it of thee and it would be sin in thee
but if thou shalt forbear to vow it shall be no sin in thee
that which is gone out of thy lips thou shalt keep and perform even a freewill offering according as thou hast vowed unto the lord thy god which thou hast promised with thy mouth
when thou comest into thy neighbour's vineyard then thou mayest eat grapes thy fill at thine own pleasure but thou shalt not put any in thy vessel
when thou comest into the standing corn of thy neighbour then thou mayest pluck the ears with thine hand but thou shalt not move a sickle unto thy neighbour's standing corn
when a man hath taken a wife and married her and it come to pass that she find no favour in his eyes because he hath found some uncleanness in her then let him write her a bill of divorcement and give it in her hand and send her out of his house
and when she is departed out of his house she may go and be another man's wife
and if the latter husband hate her and write her a bill of divorcement and giveth it in her hand and sendeth her out of his house or if the latter husband die which took her to be his wife
her former husband which sent her away may not take her again to be his wife after that she is defiled for that is abomination before the lord and thou shalt not cause the land to sin which the lord thy god giveth thee for an inheritance
when a man hath taken a new wife he shall not go out to war neither shall he be charged with any business but he shall be free at home one year and shall cheer up his wife which he hath taken
no man shall take the nether or the upper millstone to pledge for he taketh a man's life to pledge
if a man be found stealing any of his brethren of the children of israel and maketh merchandise of him or selleth him then that thief shall die and thou shalt put evil away from among you
take heed in the plague of leprosy that thou observe diligently and do according to all that the priests the levites shall teach you as i commanded them so ye shall observe to do
remember what the lord thy god did unto miriam by the way after that ye were come forth out of egypt
when thou dost lend thy brother any thing thou shalt not go into his house to fetch his pledge
thou shalt stand abroad and the man to whom thou dost lend shall bring out the pledge abroad unto thee
and if the man be poor thou shalt not sleep with his pledge
in any case thou shalt deliver him the pledge again when the sun goeth down that he may sleep in his own raiment and bless thee and it shall be righteousness unto thee before the lord thy god
thou shalt not oppress an hired servant that is poor and needy whether he be of thy brethren or of thy strangers that are in thy land within thy gates
at his day thou shalt give him his hire neither shall the sun go down upon it for he is poor and setteth his heart upon it lest he cry against thee unto the lord and it be sin unto thee
the fathers shall not be put to death for the children neither shall the children be put to death for the fathers every man shall be put to death for his own sin
thou shalt not pervert the judgment of the stranger nor of the fatherless nor take a widow's raiment to pledge
but thou shalt remember that thou wast a bondman in egypt and the lord thy god redeemed thee thence therefore i command thee to do this thing
when thou cuttest down thine harvest in thy field and hast forgot a sheaf in the field thou shalt not go again to fetch it it shall be for the stranger for the fatherless and for the widow that the lord thy god may bless thee in all the work of thine hands
when thou beatest thine olive tree thou shalt not go over the boughs again it shall be for the stranger for the fatherless and for the widow
when thou gatherest the grapes of thy vineyard thou shalt not glean it afterward it shall be for the stranger for the fatherless and for the widow
and thou shalt remember that thou wast a bondman in the land of egypt therefore i command thee to do this thing
if there be a controversy between men and they come unto judgment that the judges may judge them then they shall justify the righteous and condemn the wicked
and it shall be if the wicked man be worthy to be beaten that the judge shall cause him to lie down and to be beaten before his face according to his fault by a certain number
forty stripes he may give him and not exceed lest if he should exceed and beat him above these with many stripes then thy brother should seem vile unto thee
thou shalt not muzzle the ox when he treadeth out the corn
if brethren dwell together and one of them die and have no child the wife of the dead shall not marry without unto a stranger her husband's brother shall go in unto her and take her to him to wife and perform the duty of an husband's brother unto her
and it shall be that the firstborn which she beareth shall succeed in the name of his brother which is dead that his name be not put out of israel
and if the man like not to take his brother's wife then let his brother's wife go up to the gate unto the elders and say my husband's brother refuseth to raise up unto his brother a name in israel he will not perform the duty of my husband's brother
then the elders of his city shall call him and speak unto him and if he stand to it and say i like not to take her
then shall his brother's wife come unto him in the presence of the elders and loose his shoe from off his foot and spit in his face and shall answer and say so shall it be done unto that man that will not build up his brother's house
and his name shall be called in israel the house of him that hath his shoe loosed
when men strive together one with another and the wife of the one draweth near for to deliver her husband out of the hand of him that smiteth him and putteth forth her hand and taketh him by the secrets
then thou shalt cut off her hand thine eye shall not pity her
thou shalt not have in thy bag divers weights a great and a small
thou shalt not have in thine house divers measures a great and a small
but thou shalt have a perfect and just weight a perfect and just measure shalt thou have that thy days may be lengthened in the land which the lord thy god giveth thee
for all that do such things and all that do unrighteously are an abomination unto the lord thy god
remember what amalek did unto thee by the way when ye were come forth out of egypt
how he met thee by the way and smote the hindmost of thee even all that were feeble behind thee when thou wast faint and weary and he feared not god
therefore it shall be when the lord thy god hath given thee rest from all thine enemies round about in the land which the lord thy god giveth thee for an inheritance to possess it that thou shalt blot out the remembrance of amalek from under heaven thou shalt not forget it
and it shall be when thou art come in unto the land which the lord thy god giveth thee for an inheritance and possessest it and dwellest therein
that thou shalt take of the first of all the fruit of the earth which thou shalt bring of thy land that the lord thy god giveth thee and shalt put it in a basket and shalt go unto the place which the lord thy god shall choose to place his name there
and thou shalt go unto the priest that shall be in those days and say unto him i profess this day unto the lord thy god that i am come unto the country which the lord sware unto our fathers for to give us
and the priest shall take the basket out of thine hand and set it down before the altar of the lord thy god
and thou shalt speak and say before the lord thy god a syrian ready to perish was my father and he went down into egypt and sojourned there with a few and became there a nation great mighty and populous
and the egyptians evil entreated us and afflicted us and laid upon us hard bondage
and when we cried unto the lord god of our fathers the lord heard our voice and looked on our affliction and our labour and our oppression
and the lord brought us forth out of egypt with a mighty hand and with an outstretched arm and with great terribleness and with signs and with wonders
and he hath brought us into this place and hath given us this land even a land that floweth with milk and honey
and now behold i have brought the firstfruits of the land which thou o lord hast given me and thou shalt set it before the lord thy god and worship before the lord thy god
and thou shalt rejoice in every good thing which the lord thy god hath given unto thee and unto thine house thou and the levite and the stranger that is among you
when thou hast made an end of tithing all the tithes of thine increase the third year which is the year of tithing and hast given it unto the levite the stranger the fatherless and the widow that they may eat within thy gates and be filled
then thou shalt say before the lord thy god i have brought away the hallowed things out of mine house and also have given them unto the levite and unto the stranger to the fatherless and to the widow according to all thy commandments which thou hast commanded me i have not transgressed thy commandments neither have i forgotten them
i have not eaten thereof in my mourning neither have i taken away ought thereof for any unclean use nor given ought thereof for the dead but i have hearkened to the voice of the lord my god and have done according to all that thou hast commanded me
look down from thy holy habitation from heaven and bless thy people israel and the land which thou hast given us as thou swarest unto our fathers a land that floweth with milk and honey
this day the lord thy god hath commanded thee to do these statutes and judgments thou shalt therefore keep and do them with all thine heart and with all thy soul
thou hast avouched the lord this day to be thy god and to walk in his ways and to keep his statutes and his commandments and his judgments and to hearken unto his voice
and the lord hath avouched thee this day to be his peculiar people as he hath promised thee and that thou shouldest keep all his commandments
and to make thee high above all nations which he hath made in praise and in name and in honour and that thou mayest be an holy people unto the lord thy god as he hath spoken
and moses with the elders of israel commanded the people saying keep all the commandments which i command you this day
and it shall be on the day when ye shall pass over jordan unto the land which the lord thy god giveth thee that thou shalt set thee up great stones and plaister them with plaister
and thou shalt write upon them all the words of this law when thou art passed over that thou mayest go in unto the land which the lord thy god giveth thee a land that floweth with milk and honey as the lord god of thy fathers hath promised thee
therefore it shall be when ye be gone over jordan that ye shall set up these stones which i command you this day in mount ebal and thou shalt plaister them with plaister
and there shalt thou build an altar unto the lord thy god an altar of stones thou shalt not lift up any iron tool upon them
thou shalt build the altar of the lord thy god of whole stones and thou shalt offer burnt offerings thereon unto the lord thy god
and thou shalt offer peace offerings and shalt eat there and rejoice before the lord thy god
and thou shalt write upon the stones all the words of this law very plainly
and moses and the priests the levites spake unto all israel saying take heed and hearken o israel this day thou art become the people of the lord thy god
thou shalt therefore obey the voice of the lord thy god and do his commandments and his statutes which i command thee this day
and moses charged the people the same day saying
these shall stand upon mount gerizim to bless the people when ye are come over jordan simeon and levi and judah and issachar and joseph and benjamin
and these shall stand upon mount ebal to curse reuben gad and asher and zebulun dan and naphtali
and the levites shall speak and say unto all the men of israel with a loud voice
cursed be the man that maketh any graven or molten image an abomination unto the lord the work of the hands of the craftsman and putteth it in a secret place and all the people shall answer and say amen
cursed be he that setteth light by his father or his mother and all the people shall say amen
cursed be he that removeth his neighbour's landmark and all the people shall say amen
cursed be he that maketh the blind to wander out of the way and all the people shall say amen
cursed be he that perverteth the judgment of the stranger fatherless and widow and all the people shall say amen
cursed be he that lieth with his father's wife because he uncovereth his father's skirt and all the people shall say amen
cursed be he that lieth with any manner of beast and all the people shall say amen
cursed be he that lieth with his sister the daughter of his father or the daughter of his mother and all the people shall say amen
cursed be he that lieth with his mother in law and all the people shall say amen
cursed be he that smiteth his neighbour secretly and all the people shall say amen
cursed be he that taketh reward to slay an innocent person and all the people shall say amen
cursed be he that confirmeth not all the words of this law to do them and all the people shall say amen
and it shall come to pass if thou shalt hearken diligently unto the voice of the lord thy god to observe and to do all his commandments which i command thee this day that the lord thy god will set thee on high above all nations of the earth
and all these blessings shall come on thee and overtake thee if thou shalt hearken unto the voice of the lord thy god
blessed shalt thou be in the city and blessed shalt thou be in the field
blessed shall be the fruit of thy body and the fruit of thy ground and the fruit of thy cattle the increase of thy kine and the flocks of thy sheep
blessed shall be thy basket and thy store
blessed shalt thou be when thou comest in and blessed shalt thou be when thou goest out
the lord shall cause thine enemies that rise up against thee to be smitten before thy face they shall come out against thee one way and flee before thee seven ways
the lord shall command the blessing upon thee in thy storehouses and in all that thou settest thine hand unto and he shall bless thee in the land which the lord thy god giveth thee
the lord shall establish thee an holy people unto himself as he hath sworn unto thee if thou shalt keep the commandments of the lord thy god and walk in his ways
and all people of the earth shall see that thou art called by the name of the lord and they shall be afraid of thee
and the lord shall make thee plenteous in goods in the fruit of thy body and in the fruit of thy cattle and in the fruit of thy ground in the land which the lord sware unto thy fathers to give thee
the lord shall open unto thee his good treasure the heaven to give the rain unto thy land in his season and to bless all the work of thine hand and thou shalt lend unto many nations and thou shalt not borrow
and the lord shall make thee the head and not the tail and thou shalt be above only and thou shalt not be beneath if that thou hearken unto the commandments of the lord thy god which i command thee this day to observe and to do them
and thou shalt not go aside from any of the words which i command thee this day to the right hand or to the left to go after other gods to serve them
but it shall come to pass if thou wilt not hearken unto the voice of the lord thy god to observe to do all his commandments and his statutes which i command thee this day that all these curses shall come upon thee and overtake thee
cursed shalt thou be in the city and cursed shalt thou be in the field
cursed shall be thy basket and thy store
cursed shall be the fruit of thy body and the fruit of thy land the increase of thy kine and the flocks of thy sheep
cursed shalt thou be when thou comest in and cursed shalt thou be when thou goest out
the lord shall send upon thee cursing vexation and rebuke in all that thou settest thine hand unto for to do until thou be destroyed and until thou perish quickly because of the wickedness of thy doings whereby thou hast forsaken me
the lord shall make the pestilence cleave unto thee until he have consumed thee from off the land whither thou goest to possess it
the lord shall smite thee with a consumption and with a fever and with an inflammation and with an extreme burning and with the sword and with blasting and with mildew and they shall pursue thee until thou perish
and thy heaven that is over thy head shall be brass and the earth that is under thee shall be iron
the lord shall make the rain of thy land powder and dust from heaven shall it come down upon thee until thou be destroyed
the lord shall cause thee to be smitten before thine enemies thou shalt go out one way against them and flee seven ways before them and shalt be removed into all the kingdoms of the earth
and thy carcase shall be meat unto all fowls of the air and unto the beasts of the earth and no man shall fray them away
the lord will smite thee with the botch of egypt and with the emerods and with the scab and with the itch whereof thou canst not be healed
the lord shall smite thee with madness and blindness and astonishment of heart
and thou shalt grope at noonday as the blind gropeth in darkness and thou shalt not prosper in thy ways and thou shalt be only oppressed and spoiled evermore and no man shall save thee
thou shalt betroth a wife and another man shall lie with her thou shalt build an house and thou shalt not dwell therein thou shalt plant a vineyard and shalt not gather the grapes thereof
thine ox shall be slain before thine eyes and thou shalt not eat thereof thine ass shall be violently taken away from before thy face and shall not be restored to thee thy sheep shall be given unto thine enemies and thou shalt have none to rescue them
thy sons and thy daughters shall be given unto another people and thine eyes shall look and fail with longing for them all the day long and there shall be no might in thine hand
the fruit of thy land and all thy labours shall a nation which thou knowest not eat up and thou shalt be only oppressed and crushed alway
so that thou shalt be mad for the sight of thine eyes which thou shalt see
the lord shall smite thee in the knees and in the legs with a sore botch that cannot be healed from the sole of thy foot unto the top of thy head
the lord shall bring thee and thy king which thou shalt set over thee unto a nation which neither thou nor thy fathers have known and there shalt thou serve other gods wood and stone
and thou shalt become an astonishment a proverb and a byword among all nations whither the lord shall lead thee
thou shalt carry much seed out into the field and shalt gather but little in for the locust shall consume it
thou shalt plant vineyards and dress them but shalt neither drink of the wine nor gather the grapes for the worms shall eat them
thou shalt have olive trees throughout all thy coasts but thou shalt not anoint thyself with the oil for thine olive shall cast his fruit
thou shalt beget sons and daughters but thou shalt not enjoy them for they shall go into captivity
all thy trees and fruit of thy land shall the locust consume
the stranger that is within thee shall get up above thee very high and thou shalt come down very low
he shall lend to thee and thou shalt not lend to him he shall be the head and thou shalt be the tail
moreover all these curses shall come upon thee and shall pursue thee and overtake thee till thou be destroyed because thou hearkenedst not unto the voice of the lord thy god to keep his commandments and his statutes which he commanded thee
and they shall be upon thee for a sign and for a wonder and upon thy seed for ever
because thou servedst not the lord thy god with joyfulness and with gladness of heart for the abundance of all things
therefore shalt thou serve thine enemies which the lord shall send against thee in hunger and in thirst and in nakedness and in want of all things and he shall put a yoke of iron upon thy neck until he have destroyed thee
the lord shall bring a nation against thee from far from the end of the earth as swift as the eagle flieth a nation whose tongue thou shalt not understand
a nation of fierce countenance which shall not regard the person of the old nor shew favour to the young
and he shall eat the fruit of thy cattle and the fruit of thy land until thou be destroyed which also shall not leave thee either corn wine or oil or the increase of thy kine or flocks of thy sheep until he have destroyed thee
and he shall besiege thee in all thy gates until thy high and fenced walls come down wherein thou trustedst throughout all thy land and he shall besiege thee in all thy gates throughout all thy land which the lord thy god hath given thee
and thou shalt eat the fruit of thine own body the flesh of thy sons and of thy daughters which the lord thy god hath given thee in the siege and in the straitness wherewith thine enemies shall distress thee
so that the man that is tender among you and very delicate his eye shall be evil toward his brother and toward the wife of his bosom and toward the remnant of his children which he shall leave
so that he will not give to any of them of the flesh of his children whom he shall eat because he hath nothing left him in the siege and in the straitness wherewith thine enemies shall distress thee in all thy gates
the tender and delicate woman among you which would not adventure to set the sole of her foot upon the ground for delicateness and tenderness her eye shall be evil toward the husband of her bosom and toward her son and toward her daughter
and toward her young one that cometh out from between her feet and toward her children which she shall bear for she shall eat them for want of all things secretly in the siege and straitness wherewith thine enemy shall distress thee in thy gates
if thou wilt not observe to do all the words of this law that are written in this book that thou mayest fear this glorious and fearful name the lord thy god
then the lord will make thy plagues wonderful and the plagues of thy seed even great plagues and of long continuance and sore sicknesses and of long continuance
moreover he will bring upon thee all the diseases of egypt which thou wast afraid of and they shall cleave unto thee
also every sickness and every plague which is not written in the book of this law them will the lord bring upon thee until thou be destroyed
and ye shall be left few in number whereas ye were as the stars of heaven for multitude because thou wouldest not obey the voice of the lord thy god
and it shall come to pass that as the lord rejoiced over you to do you good and to multiply you so the lord will rejoice over you to destroy you and to bring you to nought and ye shall be plucked from off the land whither thou goest to possess it
and the lord shall scatter thee among all people from the one end of the earth even unto the other and there thou shalt serve other gods which neither thou nor thy fathers have known even wood and stone
and among these nations shalt thou find no ease neither shall the sole of thy foot have rest but the lord shall give thee there a trembling heart and failing of eyes and sorrow of mind
and thy life shall hang in doubt before thee and thou shalt fear day and night and shalt have none assurance of thy life
in the morning thou shalt say would god it were even and at even thou shalt say would god it were morning for the fear of thine heart wherewith thou shalt fear and for the sight of thine eyes which thou shalt see
and the lord shall bring thee into egypt again with ships by the way whereof i spake unto thee thou shalt see it no more again and there ye shall be sold unto your enemies for bondmen and bondwomen and no man shall buy you
these are the words of the covenant which the lord commanded moses to make with the children of israel in the land of moab beside the covenant which he made with them in horeb
and moses called unto all israel and said unto them ye have seen all that the lord did before your eyes in the land of egypt unto pharaoh and unto all his servants and unto all his land
the great temptations which thine eyes have seen the signs and those great miracles
yet the lord hath not given you an heart to perceive and eyes to see and ears to hear unto this day
and i have led you forty years in the wilderness your clothes are not waxen old upon you and thy shoe is not waxen old upon thy foot
ye have not eaten bread neither have ye drunk wine or strong drink that ye might know that i am the lord your god
and when ye came unto this place sihon the king of heshbon and og the king of bashan came out against us unto battle and we smote them
and we took their land and gave it for an inheritance unto the reubenites and to the gadites and to the half tribe of manasseh
keep therefore the words of this covenant and do them that ye may prosper in all that ye do
ye stand this day all of you before the lord your god your captains of your tribes your elders and your officers with all the men of israel
your little ones your wives and thy stranger that is in thy camp from the hewer of thy wood unto the drawer of thy water
that thou shouldest enter into covenant with the lord thy god and into his oath which the lord thy god maketh with thee this day
that he may establish thee to day for a people unto himself and that he may be unto thee a god as he hath said unto thee and as he hath sworn unto thy fathers to abraham to isaac and to jacob
neither with you only do i make this covenant and this oath
but with him that standeth here with us this day before the lord our god and also with him that is not here with us this day
for ye know how we have dwelt in the land of egypt and how we came through the nations which ye passed by
and ye have seen their abominations and their idols wood and stone silver and gold which were among them
lest there should be among you man or woman or family or tribe whose heart turneth away this day from the lord our god to go and serve the gods of these nations lest there should be among you a root that beareth gall and wormwood
and it come to pass when he heareth the words of this curse that he bless himself in his heart saying i shall have peace though i walk in the imagination of mine heart to add drunkenness to thirst
the lord will not spare him but then the anger of the lord and his jealousy shall smoke against that man and all the curses that are written in this book shall lie upon him and the lord shall blot out his name from under heaven
and the lord shall separate him unto evil out of all the tribes of israel according to all the curses of the covenant that are written in this book of the law
so that the generation to come of your children that shall rise up after you and the stranger that shall come from a far land shall say when they see the plagues of that land and the sicknesses which the lord hath laid upon it
and that the whole land thereof is brimstone and salt and burning that it is not sown nor beareth nor any grass groweth therein like the overthrow of sodom and gomorrah admah and zeboim which the lord overthrew in his anger and in his wrath
even all nations shall say wherefore hath the lord done thus unto this land what meaneth the heat of this great anger
then men shall say because they have forsaken the covenant of the lord god of their fathers which he made with them when he brought them forth out of the land of egypt
for they went and served other gods and worshipped them gods whom they knew not and whom he had not given unto them
and the anger of the lord was kindled against this land to bring upon it all the curses that are written in this book
and the lord rooted them out of their land in anger and in wrath and in great indignation and cast them into another land as it is this day
the secret things belong unto the lord our god but those things which are revealed belong unto us and to our children for ever that we may do all the words of this law
and it shall come to pass when all these things are come upon thee the blessing and the curse which i have set before thee and thou shalt call them to mind among all the nations whither the lord thy god hath driven thee
and shalt return unto the lord thy god and shalt obey his voice according to all that i command thee this day thou and thy children with all thine heart and with all thy soul
that then the lord thy god will turn thy captivity and have compassion upon thee and will return and gather thee from all the nations whither the lord thy god hath scattered thee
if any of thine be driven out unto the outmost parts of heaven from thence will the lord thy god gather thee and from thence will he fetch thee
and the lord thy god will bring thee into the land which thy fathers possessed and thou shalt possess it and he will do thee good and multiply thee above thy fathers
and the lord thy god will circumcise thine heart and the heart of thy seed to love the lord thy god with all thine heart and with all thy soul that thou mayest live
and the lord thy god will put all these curses upon thine enemies and on them that hate thee which persecuted thee
and thou shalt return and obey the voice of the lord and do all his commandments which i command thee this day
and the lord thy god will make thee plenteous in every work of thine hand in the fruit of thy body and in the fruit of thy cattle and in the fruit of thy land for good for the lord will again rejoice over thee for good as he rejoiced over thy fathers
if thou shalt hearken unto the voice of the lord thy god to keep his commandments and his statutes which are written in this book of the law and if thou turn unto the lord thy god with all thine heart and with all thy soul
for this commandment which i command thee this day it is not hidden from thee neither is it far off
it is not in heaven that thou shouldest say who shall go up for us to heaven and bring it unto us that we may hear it and do it
neither is it beyond the sea that thou shouldest say who shall go over the sea for us and bring it unto us that we may hear it and do it
but the word is very nigh unto thee in thy mouth and in thy heart that thou mayest do it
see i have set before thee this day life and good and death and evil
in that i command thee this day to love the lord thy god to walk in his ways and to keep his commandments and his statutes and his judgments that thou mayest live and multiply and the lord thy god shall bless thee in the land whither thou goest to possess it
but if thine heart turn away so that thou wilt not hear but shalt be drawn away and worship other gods and serve them
i denounce unto you this day that ye shall surely perish and that ye shall not prolong your days upon the land whither thou passest over jordan to go to possess it
i call heaven and earth to record this day against you that i have set before you life and death blessing and cursing therefore choose life that both thou and thy seed may live
that thou mayest love the lord thy god and that thou mayest obey his voice and that thou mayest cleave unto him for he is thy life and the length of thy days that thou mayest dwell in the land which the lord sware unto thy fathers to abraham to isaac and to jacob to give them
and moses went and spake these words unto all israel
and he said unto them i am an hundred and twenty years old this day i can no more go out and come in also the lord hath said unto me thou shalt not go over this jordan
the lord thy god he will go over before thee and he will destroy these nations from before thee and thou shalt possess them and joshua he shall go over before thee as the lord hath said
and the lord shall do unto them as he did to sihon and to og kings of the amorites and unto the land of them whom he destroyed
and the lord shall give them up before your face that ye may do unto them according unto all the commandments which i have commanded you
be strong and of a good courage fear not nor be afraid of them for the lord thy god he it is that doth go with thee he will not fail thee nor forsake thee
and moses called unto joshua and said unto him in the sight of all israel be strong and of a good courage for thou must go with this people unto the land which the lord hath sworn unto their fathers to give them and thou shalt cause them to inherit it
and the lord he it is that doth go before thee he will be with thee he will not fail thee neither forsake thee fear not neither be dismayed
and moses wrote this law and delivered it unto the priests the sons of levi which bare the ark of the covenant of the lord and unto all the elders of israel
and moses commanded them saying at the end of every seven years in the solemnity of the year of release in the feast of tabernacles
when all israel is come to appear before the lord thy god in the place which he shall choose thou shalt read this law before all israel in their hearing
gather the people together men and women and children and thy stranger that is within thy gates that they may hear and that they may learn and fear the lord your god and observe to do all the words of this law
and that their children which have not known any thing may hear and learn to fear the lord your god as long as ye live in the land whither ye go over jordan to possess it
and the lord said unto moses behold thy days approach that thou must die call joshua and present yourselves in the tabernacle of the congregation that i may give him a charge and moses and joshua went and presented themselves in the tabernacle of the congregation
and the lord appeared in the tabernacle in a pillar of a cloud and the pillar of the cloud stood over the door of the tabernacle
and the lord said unto moses behold thou shalt sleep with thy fathers and this people will rise up and go a whoring after the gods of the strangers of the land whither they go to be among them and will forsake me and break my covenant which i have made with them
then my anger shall be kindled against them in that day and i will forsake them and i will hide my face from them and they shall be devoured and many evils and troubles shall befall them so that they will say in that day are not these evils come upon us because our god is not among us
and i will surely hide my face in that day for all the evils which they shall have wrought in that they are turned unto other gods
now therefore write ye this song for you and teach it the children of israel put it in their mouths that this song may be a witness for me against the children of israel
for when i shall have brought them into the land which i sware unto their fathers that floweth with milk and honey and they shall have eaten and filled themselves and waxen fat then will they turn unto other gods and serve them and provoke me and break my covenant
and it shall come to pass when many evils and troubles are befallen them that this song shall testify against them as a witness for it shall not be forgotten out of the mouths of their seed for i know their imagination which they go about even now before i have brought them into the land which i sware
moses therefore wrote this song the same day and taught it the children of israel
and he gave joshua the son of nun a charge and said be strong and of a good courage for thou shalt bring the children of israel into the land which i sware unto them and i will be with thee
and it came to pass when moses had made an end of writing the words of this law in a book until they were finished
that moses commanded the levites which bare the ark of the covenant of the lord saying
take this book of the law and put it in the side of the ark of the covenant of the lord your god that it may be there for a witness against thee
for i know thy rebellion and thy stiff neck behold while i am yet alive with you this day ye have been rebellious against the lord and how much more after my death
gather unto me all the elders of your tribes and your officers that i may speak these words in their ears and call heaven and earth to record against them
for i know that after my death ye will utterly corrupt yourselves and turn aside from the way which i have commanded you and evil will befall you in the latter days because ye will do evil in the sight of the lord to provoke him to anger through the work of your hands
and moses spake in the ears of all the congregation of israel the words of this song until they were ended
give ear o ye heavens and i will speak and hear o earth the words of my mouth
my doctrine shall drop as the rain my speech shall distil as the dew as the small rain upon the tender herb and as the showers upon the grass
because i will publish the name of the lord ascribe ye greatness unto our god
he is the rock his work is perfect for all his ways are judgment a god of truth and without iniquity just and right is he
they have corrupted themselves their spot is not the spot of his children they are a perverse and crooked generation
do ye thus requite the lord o foolish people and unwise is not he thy father that hath bought thee hath he not made thee and established thee
remember the days of old consider the years of many generations ask thy father and he will shew thee thy elders and they will tell thee
when the most high divided to the nations their inheritance when he separated the sons of adam he set the bounds of the people according to the number of the children of israel
for the lord's portion is his people jacob is the lot of his inheritance
he found him in a desert land and in the waste howling wilderness he led him about he instructed him he kept him as the apple of his eye
as an eagle stirreth up her nest fluttereth over her young spreadeth abroad her wings taketh them beareth them on her wings
so the lord alone did lead him and there was no strange god with him
he made him ride on the high places of the earth that he might eat the increase of the fields and he made him to suck honey out of the rock and oil out of the flinty rock
butter of kine and milk of sheep with fat of lambs and rams of the breed of bashan and goats with the fat of kidneys of wheat and thou didst drink the pure blood of the grape
but jeshurun waxed fat and kicked thou art waxen fat thou art grown thick thou art covered with fatness then he forsook god which made him and lightly esteemed the rock of his salvation
they provoked him to jealousy with strange gods with abominations provoked they him to anger
they sacrificed unto devils not to god to gods whom they knew not to new gods that came newly up whom your fathers feared not
of the rock that begat thee thou art unmindful and hast forgotten god that formed thee
and when the lord saw it he abhorred them because of the provoking of his sons and of his daughters
and he said i will hide my face from them i will see what their end shall be for they are a very froward generation children in whom is no faith
they have moved me to jealousy with that which is not god they have provoked me to anger with their vanities and i will move them to jealousy with those which are not a people i will provoke them to anger with a foolish nation
for a fire is kindled in mine anger and shall burn unto the lowest hell and shall consume the earth with her increase and set on fire the foundations of the mountains
i will heap mischiefs upon them i will spend mine arrows upon them
they shall be burnt with hunger and devoured with burning heat and with bitter destruction i will also send the teeth of beasts upon them with the poison of serpents of the dust
the sword without and terror within shall destroy both the young man and the virgin the suckling also with the man of gray hairs
i said i would scatter them into corners i would make the remembrance of them to cease from among men
were it not that i feared the wrath of the enemy lest their adversaries should behave themselves strangely and lest they should say our hand is high and the lord hath not done all this
for they are a nation void of counsel neither is there any understanding in them
o that they were wise that they understood this that they would consider their latter end
how should one chase a thousand and two put ten thousand to flight except their rock had sold them and the lord had shut them up
for their rock is not as our rock even our enemies themselves being judges
for their vine is of the vine of sodom and of the fields of gomorrah their grapes are grapes of gall their clusters are bitter
their wine is the poison of dragons and the cruel venom of asps
is not this laid up in store with me and sealed up among my treasures
to me belongeth vengeance and recompence their foot shall slide in due time for the day of their calamity is at hand and the things that shall come upon them make haste
for the lord shall judge his people and repent himself for his servants when he seeth that their power is gone and there is none shut up or left
and he shall say where are their gods their rock in whom they trusted
which did eat the fat of their sacrifices and drank the wine of their drink offerings let them rise up and help you and be your protection
see now that i even i am he and there is no god with me i kill and i make alive i wound and i heal neither is there any that can deliver out of my hand
for i lift up my hand to heaven and say i live for ever
if i whet my glittering sword and mine hand take hold on judgment i will render vengeance to mine enemies and will reward them that hate me
i will make mine arrows drunk with blood and my sword shall devour flesh and that with the blood of the slain and of the captives from the beginning of revenges upon the enemy
rejoice o ye nations with his people for he will avenge the blood of his servants and will render vengeance to his adversaries and will be merciful unto his land and to his people
and moses came and spake all the words of this song in the ears of the people he and hoshea the son of nun
and moses made an end of speaking all these words to all israel
and he said unto them set your hearts unto all the words which i testify among you this day which ye shall command your children to observe to do all the words of this law
for it is not a vain thing for you because it is your life and through this thing ye shall prolong your days in the land whither ye go over jordan to possess it
and the lord spake unto moses that selfsame day saying
get thee up into this mountain abarim unto mount nebo which is in the land of moab that is over against jericho and behold the land of canaan which i give unto the children of israel for a possession
and die in the mount whither thou goest up and be gathered unto thy people as aaron thy brother died in mount hor and was gathered unto his people
because ye trespassed against me among the children of israel at the waters of meribahkadesh in the wilderness of zin because ye sanctified me not in the midst of the children of israel
yet thou shalt see the land before thee but thou shalt not go thither unto the land which i give the children of israel
and this is the blessing wherewith moses the man of god blessed the children of israel before his death
and he said the lord came from sinai and rose up from seir unto them he shined forth from mount paran and he came with ten thousands of saints from his right hand went a fiery law for them
yea he loved the people all his saints are in thy hand and they sat down at thy feet every one shall receive of thy words
moses commanded us a law even the inheritance of the congregation of jacob
and he was king in jeshurun when the heads of the people and the tribes of israel were gathered together
let reuben live and not die and let not his men be few
and this is the blessing of judah and he said hear lord the voice of judah and bring him unto his people let his hands be sufficient for him and be thou an help to him from his enemies
and of levi he said let thy thummim and thy urim be with thy holy one whom thou didst prove at massah and with whom thou didst strive at the waters of meribah
who said unto his father and to his mother i have not seen him neither did he acknowledge his brethren nor knew his own children for they have observed thy word and kept thy covenant
they shall teach jacob thy judgments and israel thy law they shall put incense before thee and whole burnt sacrifice upon thine altar
bless lord his substance and accept the work of his hands smite through the loins of them that rise against him and of them that hate him that they rise not again
and of benjamin he said the beloved of the lord shall dwell in safety by him and the lord shall cover him all the day long and he shall dwell between his shoulders
and of joseph he said blessed of the lord be his land for the precious things of heaven for the dew and for the deep that coucheth beneath
and for the precious fruits brought forth by the sun and for the precious things put forth by the moon
and for the chief things of the ancient mountains and for the precious things of the lasting hills
and for the precious things of the earth and fulness thereof and for the good will of him that dwelt in the bush let the blessing come upon the head of joseph and upon the top of the head of him that was separated from his brethren
his glory is like the firstling of his bullock and his horns are like the horns of unicorns with them he shall push the people together to the ends of the earth and they are the ten thousands of ephraim and they are the thousands of manasseh
and of zebulun he said rejoice zebulun in thy going out and issachar in thy tents
they shall call the people unto the mountain there they shall offer sacrifices of righteousness for they shall suck of the abundance of the seas and of treasures hid in the sand
and of gad he said blessed be he that enlargeth gad he dwelleth as a lion and teareth the arm with the crown of the head
and he provided the first part for himself because there in a portion of the lawgiver was he seated and he came with the heads of the people he executed the justice of the lord and his judgments with israel
and of dan he said dan is a lion's whelp he shall leap from bashan
and of naphtali he said o naphtali satisfied with favour and full with the blessing of the lord possess thou the west and the south
and of asher he said let asher be blessed with children let him be acceptable to his brethren and let him dip his foot in oil
thy shoes shall be iron and brass and as thy days so shall thy strength be
there is none like unto the god of jeshurun who rideth upon the heaven in thy help and in his excellency on the sky
the eternal god is thy refuge and underneath are the everlasting arms and he shall thrust out the enemy from before thee and shall say destroy them
israel then shall dwell in safety alone the fountain of jacob shall be upon a land of corn and wine also his heavens shall drop down dew
happy art thou o israel who is like unto thee o people saved by the lord the shield of thy help and who is the sword of thy excellency and thine enemies shall be found liars unto thee and thou shalt tread upon their high places
and moses went up from the plains of moab unto the mountain of nebo to the top of pisgah that is over against jericho and the lord shewed him all the land of gilead unto dan
and all naphtali and the land of ephraim and manasseh and all the land of judah unto the utmost sea
and the south and the plain of the valley of jericho the city of palm trees unto zoar
and the lord said unto him this is the land which i sware unto abraham unto isaac and unto jacob saying i will give it unto thy seed i have caused thee to see it with thine eyes but thou shalt not go over thither
so moses the servant of the lord died there in the land of moab according to the word of the lord
and he buried him in a valley in the land of moab over against bethpeor but no man knoweth of his sepulchre unto this day
and moses was an hundred and twenty years old when he died his eye was not dim nor his natural force abated
and the children of israel wept for moses in the plains of moab thirty days so the days of weeping and mourning for moses were ended
and joshua the son of nun was full of the spirit of wisdom for moses had laid his hands upon him and the children of israel hearkened unto him and did as the lord commanded moses
and there arose not a prophet since in israel like unto moses whom the lord knew face to face
in all the signs and the wonders which the lord sent him to do in the land of egypt to pharaoh and to all his servants and to all his land
and in all that mighty hand and in all the great terror which moses shewed in the sight of all israel
now after the death of moses the servant of the lord it came to pass that the lord spake unto joshua the son of nun moses minister saying
moses my servant is dead now therefore arise go over this jordan thou and all this people unto the land which i do give to them even to the children of israel
every place that the sole of your foot shall tread upon that have i given unto you as i said unto moses
from the wilderness and this lebanon even unto the great river the river euphrates all the land of the hittites and unto the great sea toward the going down of the sun shall be your coast
there shall not any man be able to stand before thee all the days of thy life as i was with moses so i will be with thee i will not fail thee nor forsake thee
be strong and of a good courage for unto this people shalt thou divide for an inheritance the land which i sware unto their fathers to give them
only be thou strong and very courageous that thou mayest observe to do according to all the law which moses my servant commanded thee turn not from it to the right hand or to the left that thou mayest prosper whithersoever thou goest
this book of the law shall not depart out of thy mouth but thou shalt meditate therein day and night that thou mayest observe to do according to all that is written therein for then thou shalt make thy way prosperous and then thou shalt have good success
have not i commanded thee be strong and of a good courage be not afraid neither be thou dismayed for the lord thy god is with thee whithersoever thou goest
then joshua commanded the officers of the people saying
pass through the host and command the people saying prepare you victuals for within three days ye shall pass over this jordan to go in to possess the land which the lord your god giveth you to possess it
and to the reubenites and to the gadites and to half the tribe of manasseh spake joshua saying
remember the word which moses the servant of the lord commanded you saying the lord your god hath given you rest and hath given you this land
your wives your little ones and your cattle shall remain in the land which moses gave you on this side jordan but ye shall pass before your brethren armed all the mighty men of valour and help them
until the lord have given your brethren rest as he hath given you and they also have possessed the land which the lord your god giveth them then ye shall return unto the land of your possession and enjoy it which moses the lord's servant gave you on this side jordan toward the sunrising
and they answered joshua saying all that thou commandest us we will do and whithersoever thou sendest us we will go
according as we hearkened unto moses in all things so will we hearken unto thee only the lord thy god be with thee as he was with moses
whosoever he be that doth rebel against thy commandment and will not hearken unto thy words in all that thou commandest him he shall be put to death only be strong and of a good courage
and joshua the son of nun sent out of shittim two men to spy secretly saying go view the land even jericho and they went and came into an harlot's house named rahab and lodged there
and it was told the king of jericho saying behold there came men in hither to night of the children of israel to search out the country
and the king of jericho sent unto rahab saying bring forth the men that are come to thee which are entered into thine house for they be come to search out all the country
and the woman took the two men and hid them and said thus there came men unto me but i wist not whence they were
and it came to pass about the time of shutting of the gate when it was dark that the men went out whither the men went i wot not pursue after them quickly for ye shall overtake them
but she had brought them up to the roof of the house and hid them with the stalks of flax which she had laid in order upon the roof
and the men pursued after them the way to jordan unto the fords and as soon as they which pursued after them were gone out they shut the gate
and before they were laid down she came up unto them upon the roof
and she said unto the men i know that the lord hath given you the land and that your terror is fallen upon us and that all the inhabitants of the land faint because of you
for we have heard how the lord dried up the water of the red sea for you when ye came out of egypt and what ye did unto the two kings of the amorites that were on the other side jordan sihon and og whom ye utterly destroyed
and as soon as we had heard these things our hearts did melt neither did there remain any more courage in any man because of you for the lord your god he is god in heaven above and in earth beneath
now therefore i pray you swear unto me by the lord since i have shewed you kindness that ye will also shew kindness unto my father's house and give me a true token
and that ye will save alive my father and my mother and my brethren and my sisters and all that they have and deliver our lives from death
and the men answered her our life for yours if ye utter not this our business and it shall be when the lord hath given us the land that we will deal kindly and truly with thee
then she let them down by a cord through the window for her house was upon the town wall and she dwelt upon the wall
and she said unto them get you to the mountain lest the pursuers meet you and hide yourselves there three days until the pursuers be returned and afterward may ye go your way
and the men said unto her we will be blameless of this thine oath which thou hast made us swear
behold when we come into the land thou shalt bind this line of scarlet thread in the window which thou didst let us down by and thou shalt bring thy father and thy mother and thy brethren and all thy father's household home unto thee
and it shall be that whosoever shall go out of the doors of thy house into the street his blood shall be upon his head and we will be guiltless and whosoever shall be with thee in the house his blood shall be on our head if any hand be upon him
and if thou utter this our business then we will be quit of thine oath which thou hast made us to swear
and she said according unto your words so be it and she sent them away and they departed and she bound the scarlet line in the window
and they went and came unto the mountain and abode there three days until the pursuers were returned and the pursuers sought them throughout all the way but found them not
so the two men returned and descended from the mountain and passed over and came to joshua the son of nun and told him all things that befell them
and they said unto joshua truly the lord hath delivered into our hands all the land for even all the inhabitants of the country do faint because of us
and joshua rose early in the morning and they removed from shittim and came to jordan he and all the children of israel and lodged there before they passed over
and it came to pass after three days that the officers went through the host
and they commanded the people saying when ye see the ark of the covenant of the lord your god and the priests the levites bearing it then ye shall remove from your place and go after it
yet there shall be a space between you and it about two thousand cubits by measure come not near unto it that ye may know the way by which ye must go for ye have not passed this way heretofore
and joshua said unto the people sanctify yourselves for to morrow the lord will do wonders among you
and joshua spake unto the priests saying take up the ark of the covenant and pass over before the people and they took up the ark of the covenant and went before the people
and the lord said unto joshua this day will i begin to magnify thee in the sight of all israel that they may know that as i was with moses so i will be with thee
and thou shalt command the priests that bear the ark of the covenant saying when ye are come to the brink of the water of jordan ye shall stand still in jordan
and joshua said unto the children of israel come hither and hear the words of the lord your god
and joshua said hereby ye shall know that the living god is among you and that he will without fail drive out from before you the canaanites and the hittites and the hivites and the perizzites and the girgashites and the amorites and the jebusites
behold the ark of the covenant of the lord of all the earth passeth over before you into jordan
now therefore take you twelve men out of the tribes of israel out of every tribe a man
and it shall come to pass as soon as the soles of the feet of the priests that bear the ark of the lord the lord of all the earth shall rest in the waters of jordan that the waters of jordan shall be cut off from the waters that come down from above and they shall stand upon an heap
and it came to pass when the people removed from their tents to pass over jordan and the priests bearing the ark of the covenant before the people
and as they that bare the ark were come unto jordan and the feet of the priests that bare the ark were dipped in the brim of the water for jordan overfloweth all his banks all the time of harvest
that the waters which came down from above stood and rose up upon an heap very far from the city adam that is beside zaretan and those that came down toward the sea of the plain even the salt sea failed and were cut off and the people passed over right against jericho
and the priests that bare the ark of the covenant of the lord stood firm on dry ground in the midst of jordan and all the israelites passed over on dry ground until all the people were passed clean over jordan
and it came to pass when all the people were clean passed over jordan that the lord spake unto joshua saying
take you twelve men out of the people out of every tribe a man
and command ye them saying take you hence out of the midst of jordan out of the place where the priests feet stood firm twelve stones and ye shall carry them over with you and leave them in the lodging place where ye shall lodge this night
then joshua called the twelve men whom he had prepared of the children of israel out of every tribe a man
and joshua said unto them pass over before the ark of the lord your god into the midst of jordan and take you up every man of you a stone upon his shoulder according unto the number of the tribes of the children of israel
that this may be a sign among you that when your children ask their fathers in time to come saying what mean ye by these stones
then ye shall answer them that the waters of jordan were cut off before the ark of the covenant of the lord when it passed over jordan the waters of jordan were cut off and these stones shall be for a memorial unto the children of israel for ever
and the children of israel did so as joshua commanded and took up twelve stones out of the midst of jordan as the lord spake unto joshua according to the number of the tribes of the children of israel and carried them over with them unto the place where they lodged and laid them down there
and joshua set up twelve stones in the midst of jordan in the place where the feet of the priests which bare the ark of the covenant stood and they are there unto this day
for the priests which bare the ark stood in the midst of jordan until everything was finished that the lord commanded joshua to speak unto the people according to all that moses commanded joshua and the people hasted and passed over
and it came to pass when all the people were clean passed over that the ark of the lord passed over and the priests in the presence of the people
and the children of reuben and the children of gad and half the tribe of manasseh passed over armed before the children of israel as moses spake unto them
about forty thousand prepared for war passed over before the lord unto battle to the plains of jericho
on that day the lord magnified joshua in the sight of all israel and they feared him as they feared moses all the days of his life
and the lord spake unto joshua saying
command the priests that bear the ark of the testimony that they come up out of jordan
joshua therefore commanded the priests saying come ye up out of jordan
and it came to pass when the priests that bare the ark of the covenant of the lord were come up out of the midst of jordan and the soles of the priests feet were lifted up unto the dry land that the waters of jordan returned unto their place and flowed over all his banks as they did before
and the people came up out of jordan on the tenth day of the first month and encamped in gilgal in the east border of jericho
and those twelve stones which they took out of jordan did joshua pitch in gilgal
and he spake unto the children of israel saying when your children shall ask their fathers in time to come saying what mean these stones
then ye shall let your children know saying israel came over this jordan on dry land
for the lord your god dried up the waters of jordan from before you until ye were passed over as the lord your god did to the red sea which he dried up from before us until we were gone over
that all the people of the earth might know the hand of the lord that it is mighty that ye might fear the lord your god for ever
and it came to pass when all the kings of the amorites which were on the side of jordan westward and all the kings of the canaanites which were by the sea heard that the lord had dried up the waters of jordan from before the children of israel until we were passed over that their heart melted neither was there spirit in them any more because of the children of israel
at that time the lord said unto joshua make thee sharp knives and circumcise again the children of israel the second time
and joshua made him sharp knives and circumcised the children of israel at the hill of the foreskins
and this is the cause why joshua did circumcise all the people that came out of egypt that were males even all the men of war died in the wilderness by the way after they came out of egypt
now all the people that came out were circumcised but all the people that were born in the wilderness by the way as they came forth out of egypt them they had not circumcised
for the children of israel walked forty years in the wilderness till all the people that were men of war which came out of egypt were consumed because they obeyed not the voice of the lord unto whom the lord sware that he would not shew them the land which the lord sware unto their fathers that he would give us a land that floweth with milk and honey
and their children whom he raised up in their stead them joshua circumcised for they were uncircumcised because they had not circumcised them by the way
and it came to pass when they had done circumcising all the people that they abode in their places in the camp till they were whole
and the lord said unto joshua this day have i rolled away the reproach of egypt from off you wherefore the name of the place is called gilgal unto this day
and the children of israel encamped in gilgal and kept the passover on the fourteenth day of the month at even in the plains of jericho
and they did eat of the old corn of the land on the morrow after the passover unleavened cakes and parched corn in the selfsame day
and the manna ceased on the morrow after they had eaten of the old corn of the land neither had the children of israel manna any more but they did eat of the fruit of the land of canaan that year
and it came to pass when joshua was by jericho that he lifted up his eyes and looked and behold there stood a man over against him with his sword drawn in his hand and joshua went unto him and said unto him art thou for us or for our adversaries
and he said nay but as captain of the host of the lord am i now come and joshua fell on his face to the earth and did worship and said unto him what saith my lord unto his servant
and the captain of the lord's host said unto joshua loose thy shoe from off thy foot for the place whereon thou standest is holy and joshua did so
now jericho was straitly shut up because of the children of israel none went out and none came in
and the lord said unto joshua see i have given into thine hand jericho and the king thereof and the mighty men of valour
and ye shall compass the city all ye men of war and go round about the city once thus shalt thou do six days
and seven priests shall bear before the ark seven trumpets of rams horns and the seventh day ye shall compass the city seven times and the priests shall blow with the trumpets
and it shall come to pass that when they make a long blast with the ram's horn and when ye hear the sound of the trumpet all the people shall shout with a great shout and the wall of the city shall fall down flat and the people shall ascend up every man straight before him
and joshua the son of nun called the priests and said unto them take up the ark of the covenant and let seven priests bear seven trumpets of rams horns before the ark of the lord
and he said unto the people pass on and compass the city and let him that is armed pass on before the ark of the lord
and it came to pass when joshua had spoken unto the people that the seven priests bearing the seven trumpets of rams horns passed on before the lord and blew with the trumpets and the ark of the covenant of the lord followed them
and the armed men went before the priests that blew with the trumpets and the rereward came after the ark the priests going on and blowing with the trumpets
and joshua had commanded the people saying ye shall not shout nor make any noise with your voice neither shall any word proceed out of your mouth until the day i bid you shout then shall ye shout
so the ark of the lord compassed the city going about it once and they came into the camp and lodged in the camp
and joshua rose early in the morning and the priests took up the ark of the lord
and seven priests bearing seven trumpets of rams horns before the ark of the lord went on continually and blew with the trumpets and the armed men went before them but the rereward came after the ark of the lord the priests going on and blowing with the trumpets
and the second day they compassed the city once and returned into the camp so they did six days
and it came to pass on the seventh day that they rose early about the dawning of the day and compassed the city after the same manner seven times only on that day they compassed the city seven times
and it came to pass at the seventh time when the priests blew with the trumpets joshua said unto the people shout for the lord hath given you the city
and the city shall be accursed even it and all that are therein to the lord only rahab the harlot shall live she and all that are with her in the house because she hid the messengers that we sent
and ye in any wise keep yourselves from the accursed thing lest ye make yourselves accursed when ye take of the accursed thing and make the camp of israel a curse and trouble it
but all the silver and gold and vessels of brass and iron are consecrated unto the lord they shall come into the treasury of the lord
so the people shouted when the priests blew with the trumpets and it came to pass when the people heard the sound of the trumpet and the people shouted with a great shout that the wall fell down flat so that the people went up into the city every man straight before him and they took the city
and they utterly destroyed all that was in the city both man and woman young and old and ox and sheep and ass with the edge of the sword
but joshua had said unto the two men that had spied out the country go into the harlot's house and bring out thence the woman and all that she hath as ye sware unto her
and the young men that were spies went in and brought out rahab and her father and her mother and her brethren and all that she had and they brought out all her kindred and left them without the camp of israel
and they burnt the city with fire and all that was therein only the silver and the gold and the vessels of brass and of iron they put into the treasury of the house of the lord
and joshua saved rahab the harlot alive and her father's household and all that she had and she dwelleth in israel even unto this day because she hid the messengers which joshua sent to spy out jericho
and joshua adjured them at that time saying cursed be the man before the lord that riseth up and buildeth this city jericho he shall lay the foundation thereof in his firstborn and in his youngest son shall he set up the gates of it
so the lord was with joshua and his fame was noised throughout all the country
but the children of israel committed a trespass in the accursed thing for achan the son of carmi the son of zabdi the son of zerah of the tribe of judah took of the accursed thing and the anger of the lord was kindled against the children of israel
and joshua sent men from jericho to ai which is beside bethaven on the east side of bethel and spake unto them saying go up and view the country and the men went up and viewed ai
and they returned to joshua and said unto him let not all the people go up but let about two or three thousand men go up and smite ai and make not all the people to labour thither for they are but few
so there went up thither of the people about three thousand men and they fled before the men of ai
and the men of ai smote of them about thirty and six men for they chased them from before the gate even unto shebarim and smote them in the going down wherefore the hearts of the people melted and became as water
and joshua rent his clothes and fell to the earth upon his face before the ark of the lord until the eventide he and the elders of israel and put dust upon their heads
and joshua said alas o lord god wherefore hast thou at all brought this people over jordan to deliver us into the hand of the amorites to destroy us would to god we had been content and dwelt on the other side jordan
o lord what shall i say when israel turneth their backs before their enemies
for the canaanites and all the inhabitants of the land shall hear of it and shall environ us round and cut off our name from the earth and what wilt thou do unto thy great name
and the lord said unto joshua get thee up wherefore liest thou thus upon thy face
israel hath sinned and they have also transgressed my covenant which i commanded them for they have even taken of the accursed thing and have also stolen and dissembled also and they have put it even among their own stuff
therefore the children of israel could not stand before their enemies but turned their backs before their enemies because they were accursed neither will i be with you any more except ye destroy the accursed from among you
up sanctify the people and say sanctify yourselves against to morrow for thus saith the lord god of israel there is an accursed thing in the midst of thee o israel thou canst not stand before thine enemies until ye take away the accursed thing from among you
in the morning therefore ye shall be brought according to your tribes and it shall be that the tribe which the lord taketh shall come according to the families thereof and the family which the lord shall take shall come by households and the household which the lord shall take shall come man by man
and it shall be that he that is taken with the accursed thing shall be burnt with fire he and all that he hath because he hath transgressed the covenant of the lord and because he hath wrought folly in israel
so joshua rose up early in the morning and brought israel by their tribes and the tribe of judah was taken
and he brought the family of judah and he took the family of the zarhites and he brought the family of the zarhites man by man and zabdi was taken
and he brought his household man by man and achan the son of carmi the son of zabdi the son of zerah of the tribe of judah was taken
and joshua said unto achan my son give i pray thee glory to the lord god of israel and make confession unto him and tell me now what thou hast done hide it not from me
and achan answered joshua and said indeed i have sinned against the lord god of israel and thus and thus have i done
when i saw among the spoils a goodly babylonish garment and two hundred shekels of silver and a wedge of gold of fifty shekels weight then i coveted them and took them and behold they are hid in the earth in the midst of my tent and the silver under it
so joshua sent messengers and they ran unto the tent and behold it was hid in his tent and the silver under it
and they took them out of the midst of the tent and brought them unto joshua and unto all the children of israel and laid them out before the lord
and joshua and all israel with him took achan the son of zerah and the silver and the garment and the wedge of gold and his sons and his daughters and his oxen and his asses and his sheep and his tent and all that he had and they brought them unto the valley of achor
and joshua said why hast thou troubled us the lord shall trouble thee this day and all israel stoned him with stones and burned them with fire after they had stoned them with stones
and they raised over him a great heap of stones unto this day so the lord turned from the fierceness of his anger wherefore the name of that place was called the valley of achor unto this day
and the lord said unto joshua fear not neither be thou dismayed take all the people of war with thee and arise go up to ai see i have given into thy hand the king of ai and his people and his city and his land
and thou shalt do to ai and her king as thou didst unto jericho and her king only the spoil thereof and the cattle thereof shall ye take for a prey unto yourselves lay thee an ambush for the city behind it
so joshua arose and all the people of war to go up against ai and joshua chose out thirty thousand mighty men of valour and sent them away by night
and he commanded them saying behold ye shall lie in wait against the city even behind the city go not very far from the city but be ye all ready
and i and all the people that are with me will approach unto the city and it shall come to pass when they come out against us as at the first that we will flee before them
for they will come out after us till we have drawn them from the city for they will say they flee before us as at the first therefore we will flee before them
then ye shall rise up from the ambush and seize upon the city for the lord your god will deliver it into your hand
and it shall be when ye have taken the city that ye shall set the city on fire according to the commandment of the lord shall ye do see i have commanded you
joshua therefore sent them forth and they went to lie in ambush and abode between bethel and ai on the west side of ai but joshua lodged that night among the people
and joshua rose up early in the morning and numbered the people and went up he and the elders of israel before the people to ai
and all the people even the people of war that were with him went up and drew nigh and came before the city and pitched on the north side of ai now there was a valley between them and ai
and he took about five thousand men and set them to lie in ambush between bethel and ai on the west side of the city
and when they had set the people even all the host that was on the north of the city and their liers in wait on the west of the city joshua went that night into the midst of the valley
and it came to pass when the king of ai saw it that they hasted and rose up early and the men of the city went out against israel to battle he and all his people at a time appointed before the plain but he wist not that there were liers in ambush against him behind the city
and joshua and all israel made as if they were beaten before them and fled by the way of the wilderness
and all the people that were in ai were called together to pursue after them and they pursued after joshua and were drawn away from the city
and there was not a man left in ai or bethel that went not out after israel and they left the city open and pursued after israel
and the lord said unto joshua stretch out the spear that is in thy hand toward ai for i will give it into thine hand and joshua stretched out the spear that he had in his hand toward the city
and the ambush arose quickly out of their place and they ran as soon as he had stretched out his hand and they entered into the city and took it and hasted and set the city on fire
and when the men of ai looked behind them they saw and behold the smoke of the city ascended up to heaven and they had no power to flee this way or that way and the people that fled to the wilderness turned back upon the pursuers
and when joshua and all israel saw that the ambush had taken the city and that the smoke of the city ascended then they turned again and slew the men of ai
and the other issued out of the city against them so they were in the midst of israel some on this side and some on that side and they smote them so that they let none of them remain or escape
and the king of ai they took alive and brought him to joshua
and it came to pass when israel had made an end of slaying all the inhabitants of ai in the field in the wilderness wherein they chased them and when they were all fallen on the edge of the sword until they were consumed that all the israelites returned unto ai and smote it with the edge of the sword
and so it was that all that fell that day both of men and women were twelve thousand even all the men of ai
for joshua drew not his hand back wherewith he stretched out the spear until he had utterly destroyed all the inhabitants of ai
only the cattle and the spoil of that city israel took for a prey unto themselves according unto the word of the lord which he commanded joshua
and joshua burnt ai and made it an heap for ever even a desolation unto this day
and the king of ai he hanged on a tree until eventide and as soon as the sun was down joshua commanded that they should take his carcase down from the tree and cast it at the entering of the gate of the city and raise thereon a great heap of stones that remaineth unto this day
then joshua built an altar unto the lord god of israel in mount ebal
as moses the servant of the lord commanded the children of israel as it is written in the book of the law of moses an altar of whole stones over which no man hath lift up any iron and they offered thereon burnt offerings unto the lord and sacrificed peace offerings
and he wrote there upon the stones a copy of the law of moses which he wrote in the presence of the children of israel
and all israel and their elders and officers and their judges stood on this side the ark and on that side before the priests the levites which bare the ark of the covenant of the lord as well the stranger as he that was born among them half of them over against mount gerizim and half of them over against mount ebal as moses the servant of the lord had commanded before that they should bless the people of israel
and afterward he read all the words of the law the blessings and cursings according to all that is written in the book of the law
there was not a word of all that moses commanded which joshua read not before all the congregation of israel with the women and the little ones and the strangers that were conversant among them
and it came to pass when all the kings which were on this side jordan in the hills and in the valleys and in all the coasts of the great sea over against lebanon the hittite and the amorite the canaanite the perizzite the hivite and the jebusite heard thereof
that they gathered themselves together to fight with joshua and with israel with one accord
and when the inhabitants of gibeon heard what joshua had done unto jericho and to ai
they did work wilily and went and made as if they had been ambassadors and took old sacks upon their asses and wine bottles old and rent and bound up
and old shoes and clouted upon their feet and old garments upon them and all the bread of their provision was dry and mouldy
and they went to joshua unto the camp at gilgal and said unto him and to the men of israel we be come from a far country now therefore make ye a league with us
and the men of israel said unto the hivites peradventure ye dwell among us and how shall we make a league with you
and they said unto joshua we are thy servants and joshua said unto them who are ye and from whence come ye
and they said unto him from a very far country thy servants are come because of the name of the lord thy god for we have heard the fame of him and all that he did in egypt
and all that he did to the two kings of the amorites that were beyond jordan to sihon king of heshbon and to og king of bashan which was at ashtaroth
wherefore our elders and all the inhabitants of our country spake to us saying take victuals with you for the journey and go to meet them and say unto them we are your servants therefore now make ye a league with us
this our bread we took hot for our provision out of our houses on the day we came forth to go unto you but now behold it is dry and it is mouldy
and these bottles of wine which we filled were new and behold they be rent and these our garments and our shoes are become old by reason of the very long journey
and the men took of their victuals and asked not counsel at the mouth of the lord
and joshua made peace with them and made a league with them to let them live and the princes of the congregation sware unto them
and it came to pass at the end of three days after they had made a league with them that they heard that they were their neighbours and that they dwelt among them
and the children of israel journeyed and came unto their cities on the third day now their cities were gibeon and chephirah and beeroth and kirjathjearim
and the children of israel smote them not because the princes of the congregation had sworn unto them by the lord god of israel and all the congregation murmured against the princes
but all the princes said unto all the congregation we have sworn unto them by the lord god of israel now therefore we may not touch them
this we will do to them we will even let them live lest wrath be upon us because of the oath which we sware unto them
and the princes said unto them let them live but let them be hewers of wood and drawers of water unto all the congregation as the princes had promised them
and joshua called for them and he spake unto them saying wherefore have ye beguiled us saying we are very far from you when ye dwell among us
now therefore ye are cursed and there shall none of you be freed from being bondmen and hewers of wood and drawers of water for the house of my god
and they answered joshua and said because it was certainly told thy servants how that the lord thy god commanded his servant moses to give you all the land and to destroy all the inhabitants of the land from before you therefore we were sore afraid of our lives because of you and have done this thing
and now behold we are in thine hand as it seemeth good and right unto thee to do unto us do
and so did he unto them and delivered them out of the hand of the children of israel that they slew them not
and joshua made them that day hewers of wood and drawers of water for the congregation and for the altar of the lord even unto this day in the place which he should choose
now it came to pass when adonizedec king of jerusalem had heard how joshua had taken ai and had utterly destroyed it as he had done to jericho and her king so he had done to ai and her king and how the inhabitants of gibeon had made peace with israel and were among them
that they feared greatly because gibeon was a great city as one of the royal cities and because it was greater than ai and all the men thereof were mighty
wherefore adonizedec king of jerusalem sent unto hoham king of hebron and unto piram king of jarmuth and unto japhia king of lachish and unto debir king of eglon saying
come up unto me and help me that we may smite gibeon for it hath made peace with joshua and with the children of israel
therefore the five kings of the amorites the king of jerusalem the king of hebron the king of jarmuth the king of lachish the king of eglon gathered themselves together and went up they and all their hosts and encamped before gibeon and made war against it
and the men of gibeon sent unto joshua to the camp to gilgal saying slack not thy hand from thy servants come up to us quickly and save us and help us for all the kings of the amorites that dwell in the mountains are gathered together against us
so joshua ascended from gilgal he and all the people of war with him and all the mighty men of valour
and the lord said unto joshua fear them not for i have delivered them into thine hand there shall not a man of them stand before thee
joshua therefore came unto them suddenly and went up from gilgal all night
and the lord discomfited them before israel and slew them with a great slaughter at gibeon and chased them along the way that goeth up to bethhoron and smote them to azekah and unto makkedah
and it came to pass as they fled from before israel and were in the going down to bethhoron that the lord cast down great stones from heaven upon them unto azekah and they died they were more which died with hailstones than they whom the children of israel slew with the sword
then spake joshua to the lord in the day when the lord delivered up the amorites before the children of israel and he said in the sight of israel sun stand thou still upon gibeon and thou moon in the valley of ajalon
and the sun stood still and the moon stayed until the people had avenged themselves upon their enemies is not this written in the book of jasher so the sun stood still in the midst of heaven and hasted not to go down about a whole day
and there was no day like that before it or after it that the lord hearkened unto the voice of a man for the lord fought for israel
and joshua returned and all israel with him unto the camp to gilgal
but these five kings fled and hid themselves in a cave at makkedah
and it was told joshua saying the five kings are found hid in a cave at makkedah
and joshua said roll great stones upon the mouth of the cave and set men by it for to keep them
and stay ye not but pursue after your enemies and smite the hindmost of them suffer them not to enter into their cities for the lord your god hath delivered them into your hand
and it came to pass when joshua and the children of israel had made an end of slaying them with a very great slaughter till they were consumed that the rest which remained of them entered into fenced cities
and all the people returned to the camp to joshua at makkedah in peace none moved his tongue against any of the children of israel
then said joshua open the mouth of the cave and bring out those five kings unto me out of the cave
and they did so and brought forth those five kings unto him out of the cave the king of jerusalem the king of hebron the king of jarmuth the king of lachish and the king of eglon
and it came to pass when they brought out those kings unto joshua that joshua called for all the men of israel and said unto the captains of the men of war which went with him come near put your feet upon the necks of these kings and they came near and put their feet upon the necks of them
and joshua said unto them fear not nor be dismayed be strong and of good courage for thus shall the lord do to all your enemies against whom ye fight
and afterward joshua smote them and slew them and hanged them on five trees and they were hanging upon the trees until the evening
and it came to pass at the time of the going down of the sun that joshua commanded and they took them down off the trees and cast them into the cave wherein they had been hid and laid great stones in the cave's mouth which remain until this very day
and that day joshua took makkedah and smote it with the edge of the sword and the king thereof he utterly destroyed them and all the souls that were therein he let none remain and he did to the king of makkedah as he did unto the king of jericho
then joshua passed from makkedah and all israel with him unto libnah and fought against libnah
and the lord delivered it also and the king thereof into the hand of israel and he smote it with the edge of the sword and all the souls that were therein he let none remain in it but did unto the king thereof as he did unto the king of jericho
and joshua passed from libnah and all israel with him unto lachish and encamped against it and fought against it
and the lord delivered lachish into the hand of israel which took it on the second day and smote it with the edge of the sword and all the souls that were therein according to all that he had done to libnah
then horam king of gezer came up to help lachish and joshua smote him and his people until he had left him none remaining
and from lachish joshua passed unto eglon and all israel with him and they encamped against it and fought against it
and they took it on that day and smote it with the edge of the sword and all the souls that were therein he utterly destroyed that day according to all that he had done to lachish
and joshua went up from eglon and all israel with him unto hebron and they fought against it
and they took it and smote it with the edge of the sword and the king thereof and all the cities thereof and all the souls that were therein he left none remaining according to all that he had done to eglon but destroyed it utterly and all the souls that were therein
and joshua returned and all israel with him to debir and fought against it
and he took it and the king thereof and all the cities thereof and they smote them with the edge of the sword and utterly destroyed all the souls that were therein he left none remaining as he had done to hebron so he did to debir and to the king thereof as he had done also to libnah and to her king
so joshua smote all the country of the hills and of the south and of the vale and of the springs and all their kings he left none remaining but utterly destroyed all that breathed as the lord god of israel commanded
and joshua smote them from kadeshbarnea even unto gaza and all the country of goshen even unto gibeon
and all these kings and their land did joshua take at one time because the lord god of israel fought for israel
and joshua returned and all israel with him unto the camp to gilgal
and it came to pass when jabin king of hazor had heard those things that he sent to jobab king of madon and to the king of shimron and to the king of achshaph
and to the kings that were on the north of the mountains and of the plains south of chinneroth and in the valley and in the borders of dor on the west
and to the canaanite on the east and on the west and to the amorite and the hittite and the perizzite and the jebusite in the mountains and to the hivite under hermon in the land of mizpeh
and they went out they and all their hosts with them much people even as the sand that is upon the sea shore in multitude with horses and chariots very many
and when all these kings were met together they came and pitched together at the waters of merom to fight against israel
and the lord said unto joshua be not afraid because of them for to morrow about this time will i deliver them up all slain before israel thou shalt hough their horses and burn their chariots with fire
so joshua came and all the people of war with him against them by the waters of merom suddenly and they fell upon them
and the lord delivered them into the hand of israel who smote them and chased them unto great zidon and unto misrephothmaim and unto the valley of mizpeh eastward and they smote them until they left them none remaining
and joshua did unto them as the lord bade him he houghed their horses and burnt their chariots with fire
and joshua at that time turned back and took hazor and smote the king thereof with the sword for hazor beforetime was the head of all those kingdoms
and they smote all the souls that were therein with the edge of the sword utterly destroying them there was not any left to breathe and he burnt hazor with fire
and all the cities of those kings and all the kings of them did joshua take and smote them with the edge of the sword and he utterly destroyed them as moses the servant of the lord commanded
but as for the cities that stood still in their strength israel burned none of them save hazor only that did joshua burn
and all the spoil of these cities and the cattle the children of israel took for a prey unto themselves but every man they smote with the edge of the sword until they had destroyed them neither left they any to breathe
as the lord commanded moses his servant so did moses command joshua and so did joshua he left nothing undone of all that the lord commanded moses
so joshua took all that land the hills and all the south country and all the land of goshen and the valley and the plain and the mountain of israel and the valley of the same
even from the mount halak that goeth up to seir even unto baalgad in the valley of lebanon under mount hermon and all their kings he took and smote them and slew them
joshua made war a long time with all those kings
there was not a city that made peace with the children of israel save the hivites the inhabitants of gibeon all other they took in battle
for it was of the lord to harden their hearts that they should come against israel in battle that he might destroy them utterly and that they might have no favour but that he might destroy them as the lord commanded moses
and at that time came joshua and cut off the anakims from the mountains from hebron from debir from anab and from all the mountains of judah and from all the mountains of israel joshua destroyed them utterly with their cities
there was none of the anakims left in the land of the children of israel only in gaza in gath and in ashdod there remained
so joshua took the whole land according to all that the lord said unto moses and joshua gave it for an inheritance unto israel according to their divisions by their tribes and the land rested from war
now these are the kings of the land which the children of israel smote and possessed their land on the other side jordan toward the rising of the sun from the river arnon unto mount hermon and all the plain on the east
sihon king of the amorites who dwelt in heshbon and ruled from aroer which is upon the bank of the river arnon and from the middle of the river and from half gilead even unto the river jabbok which is the border of the children of ammon
and from the plain to the sea of chinneroth on the east and unto the sea of the plain even the salt sea on the east the way to bethjeshimoth and from the south under ashdothpisgah
and the coast of og king of bashan which was of the remnant of the giants that dwelt at ashtaroth and at edrei
and reigned in mount hermon and in salcah and in all bashan unto the border of the geshurites and the maachathites and half gilead the border of sihon king of heshbon
them did moses the servant of the lord and the children of israel smite and moses the servant of the lord gave it for a possession unto the reubenites and the gadites and the half tribe of manasseh
and these are the kings of the country which joshua and the children of israel smote on this side jordan on the west from baalgad in the valley of lebanon even unto the mount halak that goeth up to seir which joshua gave unto the tribes of israel for a possession according to their divisions
in the mountains and in the valleys and in the plains and in the springs and in the wilderness and in the south country the hittites the amorites and the canaanites the perizzites the hivites and the jebusites
the king of jericho one the king of ai which is beside bethel one
the king of jerusalem one the king of hebron one
the king of jarmuth one the king of lachish one
the king of eglon one the king of gezer one
the king of debir one the king of geder one
the king of hormah one the king of arad one
the king of libnah one the king of adullam one
the king of makkedah one the king of bethel one
the king of tappuah one the king of hepher one
the king of aphek one the king of lasharon one
the king of madon one the king of hazor one
the king of shimronmeron one the king of achshaph one
the king of taanach one the king of megiddo one
the king of kedesh one the king of jokneam of carmel one
the king of dor in the coast of dor one the king of the nations of gilgal one
the king of tirzah one all the kings thirty and one
now joshua was old and stricken in years and the lord said unto him thou art old and stricken in years and there remaineth yet very much land to be possessed
this is the land that yet remaineth all the borders of the philistines and all geshuri
from sihor which is before egypt even unto the borders of ekron northward which is counted to the canaanite five lords of the philistines the gazathites and the ashdothites the eshkalonites the gittites and the ekronites also the avites
from the south all the land of the canaanites and mearah that is beside the sidonians unto aphek to the borders of the amorites
and the land of the giblites and all lebanon toward the sunrising from baalgad under mount hermon unto the entering into hamath
all the inhabitants of the hill country from lebanon unto misrephothmaim and all the sidonians them will i drive out from before the children of israel only divide thou it by lot unto the israelites for an inheritance as i have commanded thee
now therefore divide this land for an inheritance unto the nine tribes and the half tribe of manasseh
with whom the reubenites and the gadites have received their inheritance which moses gave them beyond jordan eastward even as moses the servant of the lord gave them
from aroer that is upon the bank of the river arnon and the city that is in the midst of the river and all the plain of medeba unto dibon
and all the cities of sihon king of the amorites which reigned in heshbon unto the border of the children of ammon
and gilead and the border of the geshurites and maachathites and all mount hermon and all bashan unto salcah
all the kingdom of og in bashan which reigned in ashtaroth and in edrei who remained of the remnant of the giants for these did moses smite and cast them out
nevertheless the children of israel expelled not the geshurites nor the maachathites but the geshurites and the maachathites dwell among the israelites until this day
only unto the tribe of levi he gave none inheritance the sacrifices of the lord god of israel made by fire are their inheritance as he said unto them
and moses gave unto the tribe of the children of reuben inheritance according to their families
and their coast was from aroer that is on the bank of the river arnon and the city that is in the midst of the river and all the plain by medeba
heshbon and all her cities that are in the plain dibon and bamothbaal and bethbaalmeon
and jahaza and kedemoth and mephaath
and kirjathaim and sibmah and zarethshahar in the mount of the valley
and bethpeor and ashdothpisgah and bethjeshimoth
and all the cities of the plain and all the kingdom of sihon king of the amorites which reigned in heshbon whom moses smote with the princes of midian evi and rekem and zur and hur and reba which were dukes of sihon dwelling in the country
balaam also the son of beor the soothsayer did the children of israel slay with the sword among them that were slain by them
and the border of the children of reuben was jordan and the border thereof this was the inheritance of the children of reuben after their families the cities and the villages thereof
and moses gave inheritance unto the tribe of gad even unto the children of gad according to their families
and their coast was jazer and all the cities of gilead and half the land of the children of ammon unto aroer that is before rabbah
and from heshbon unto ramathmizpeh and betonim and from mahanaim unto the border of debir
and in the valley betharam and bethnimrah and succoth and zaphon the rest of the kingdom of sihon king of heshbon jordan and his border even unto the edge of the sea of chinnereth on the other side jordan eastward
this is the inheritance of the children of gad after their families the cities and their villages
and moses gave inheritance unto the half tribe of manasseh and this was the possession of the half tribe of the children of manasseh by their families
and their coast was from mahanaim all bashan all the kingdom of og king of bashan and all the towns of jair which are in bashan threescore cities
and half gilead and ashtaroth and edrei cities of the kingdom of og in bashan were pertaining unto the children of machir the son of manasseh even to the one half of the children of machir by their families
these are the countries which moses did distribute for inheritance in the plains of moab on the other side jordan by jericho eastward
but unto the tribe of levi moses gave not any inheritance the lord god of israel was their inheritance as he said unto them
and these are the countries which the children of israel inherited in the land of canaan which eleazar the priest and joshua the son of nun and the heads of the fathers of the tribes of the children of israel distributed for inheritance to them
by lot was their inheritance as the lord commanded by the hand of moses for the nine tribes and for the half tribe
for moses had given the inheritance of two tribes and an half tribe on the other side jordan but unto the levites he gave none inheritance among them
for the children of joseph were two tribes manasseh and ephraim therefore they gave no part unto the levites in the land save cities to dwell in with their suburbs for their cattle and for their substance
as the lord commanded moses so the children of israel did and they divided the land
then the children of judah came unto joshua in gilgal and caleb the son of jephunneh the kenezite said unto him thou knowest the thing that the lord said unto moses the man of god concerning me and thee in kadeshbarnea
forty years old was i when moses the servant of the lord sent me from kadeshbarnea to espy out the land and i brought him word again as it was in mine heart
nevertheless my brethren that went up with me made the heart of the people melt but i wholly followed the lord my god
and moses sware on that day saying surely the land whereon thy feet have trodden shall be thine inheritance and thy children's for ever because thou hast wholly followed the lord my god
and now behold the lord hath kept me alive as he said these forty and five years even since the lord spake this word unto moses while the children of israel wandered in the wilderness and now lo i am this day fourscore and five years old
as yet i am as strong this day as i was in the day that moses sent me as my strength was then even so is my strength now for war both to go out and to come in
now therefore give me this mountain whereof the lord spake in that day for thou heardest in that day how the anakims were there and that the cities were great and fenced if so be the lord will be with me then i shall be able to drive them out as the lord said
and joshua blessed him and gave unto caleb the son of jephunneh hebron for an inheritance
hebron therefore became the inheritance of caleb the son of jephunneh the kenezite unto this day because that he wholly followed the lord god of israel
and the name of hebron before was kirjatharba which arba was a great man among the anakims and the land had rest from war
this then was the lot of the tribe of the children of judah by their families even to the border of edom the wilderness of zin southward was the uttermost part of the south coast
and their south border was from the shore of the salt sea from the bay that looketh southward
and it went out to the south side to maalehacrabbim and passed along to zin and ascended up on the south side unto kadeshbarnea and passed along to hezron and went up to adar and fetched a compass to karkaa
from thence it passed toward azmon and went out unto the river of egypt and the goings out of that coast were at the sea this shall be your south coast
and the east border was the salt sea even unto the end of jordan and their border in the north quarter was from the bay of the sea at the uttermost part of jordan
and the border went up to bethhogla and passed along by the north of betharabah and the border went up to the stone of bohan the son of reuben
and the border went up toward debir from the valley of achor and so northward looking toward gilgal that is before the going up to adummim which is on the south side of the river and the border passed toward the waters of enshemesh and the goings out thereof were at enrogel
and the border went up by the valley of the son of hinnom unto the south side of the jebusite the same is jerusalem and the border went up to the top of the mountain that lieth before the valley of hinnom westward which is at the end of the valley of the giants northward
and the border was drawn from the top of the hill unto the fountain of the water of nephtoah and went out to the cities of mount ephron and the border was drawn to baalah which is kirjathjearim
and the border compassed from baalah westward unto mount seir and passed along unto the side of mount jearim which is chesalon on the north side and went down to bethshemesh and passed on to timnah
and the border went out unto the side of ekron northward and the border was drawn to shicron and passed along to mount baalah and went out unto jabneel and the goings out of the border were at the sea
and the west border was to the great sea and the coast thereof this is the coast of the children of judah round about according to their families
and unto caleb the son of jephunneh he gave a part among the children of judah according to the commandment of the lord to joshua even the city of arba the father of anak which city is hebron
and caleb drove thence the three sons of anak sheshai and ahiman and talmai the children of anak
and he went up thence to the inhabitants of debir and the name of debir before was kirjathsepher
and caleb said he that smiteth kirjathsepher and taketh it to him will i give achsah my daughter to wife
and othniel the son of kenaz the brother of caleb took it and he gave him achsah his daughter to wife
and it came to pass as she came unto him that she moved him to ask of her father a field and she lighted off her ass and caleb said unto her what wouldest thou
who answered give me a blessing for thou hast given me a south land give me also springs of water and he gave her the upper springs and the nether springs
this is the inheritance of the tribe of the children of judah according to their families
and the uttermost cities of the tribe of the children of judah toward the coast of edom southward were kabzeel and eder and jagur
and kinah and dimonah and adadah
and kedesh and hazor and ithnan
ziph and telem and bealoth
and hazor hadattah and kerioth and hezron which is hazor
amam and shema and moladah
and hazargaddah and heshmon and bethpalet
and hazarshual and beersheba and bizjothjah
baalah and iim and azem
and eltolad and chesil and hormah
and ziklag and madmannah and sansannah
and lebaoth and shilhim and ain and rimmon all the cities are twenty and nine with their villages
and in the valley eshtaol and zoreah and ashnah
and zanoah and engannim tappuah and enam
jarmuth and adullam socoh and azekah
and sharaim and adithaim and gederah and gederothaim fourteen cities with their villages
zenan and hadashah and migdalgad
and dilean and mizpeh and joktheel
lachish and bozkath and eglon
and cabbon and lahmam and kithlish
and gederoth bethdagon and naamah and makkedah sixteen cities with their villages
libnah and ether and ashan
and jiphtah and ashnah and nezib
and keilah and achzib and mareshah nine cities with their villages
ekron with her towns and her villages
from ekron even unto the sea all that lay near ashdod with their villages
ashdod with her towns and her villages gaza with her towns and her villages unto the river of egypt and the great sea and the border thereof
and in the mountains shamir and jattir and socoh
and dannah and kirjathsannah which is debir
and anab and eshtemoh and anim
and goshen and holon and giloh eleven cities with their villages
arab and dumah and eshean
and janum and bethtappuah and aphekah
and humtah and kirjatharba which is hebron and zior nine cities with their villages
maon carmel and ziph and juttah
and jezreel and jokdeam and zanoah
cain gibeah and timnah ten cities with their villages
halhul bethzur and gedor
and maarath and bethanoth and eltekon six cities with their villages
kirjathbaal which is kirjathjearim and rabbah two cities with their villages
in the wilderness betharabah middin and secacah
and nibshan and the city of salt and engedi six cities with their villages
as for the jebusites the inhabitants of jerusalem the children of judah could not drive them out but the jebusites dwell with the children of judah at jerusalem unto this day
and the lot of the children of joseph fell from jordan by jericho unto the water of jericho on the east to the wilderness that goeth up from jericho throughout mount bethel
and goeth out from bethel to luz and passeth along unto the borders of archi to ataroth
and goeth down westward to the coast of japhleti unto the coast of bethhoron the nether and to gezer and the goings out thereof are at the sea
so the children of joseph manasseh and ephraim took their inheritance
and the border of the children of ephraim according to their families was thus even the border of their inheritance on the east side was atarothaddar unto bethhoron the upper
and the border went out toward the sea to michmethah on the north side and the border went about eastward unto taanathshiloh and passed by it on the east to janohah
and it went down from janohah to ataroth and to naarath and came to jericho and went out at jordan
the border went out from tappuah westward unto the river kanah and the goings out thereof were at the sea this is the inheritance of the tribe of the children of ephraim by their families
and the separate cities for the children of ephraim were among the inheritance of the children of manasseh all the cities with their villages
and they drave not out the canaanites that dwelt in gezer but the canaanites dwell among the ephraimites unto this day and serve under tribute
there was also a lot for the tribe of manasseh for he was the firstborn of joseph to wit for machir the firstborn of manasseh the father of gilead because he was a man of war therefore he had gilead and bashan
there was also a lot for the rest of the children of manasseh by their families for the children of abiezer and for the children of helek and for the children of asriel and for the children of shechem and for the children of hepher and for the children of shemida these were the male children of manasseh the son of joseph by their families
but zelophehad the son of hepher the son of gilead the son of machir the son of manasseh had no sons but daughters and these are the names of his daughters mahlah and noah hoglah milcah and tirzah
and they came near before eleazar the priest and before joshua the son of nun and before the princes saying the lord commanded moses to give us an inheritance among our brethren therefore according to the commandment of the lord he gave them an inheritance among the brethren of their father
and there fell ten portions to manasseh beside the land of gilead and bashan which were on the other side jordan
because the daughters of manasseh had an inheritance among his sons and the rest of manasseh's sons had the land of gilead
and the coast of manasseh was from asher to michmethah that lieth before shechem and the border went along on the right hand unto the inhabitants of entappuah
now manasseh had the land of tappuah but tappuah on the border of manasseh belonged to the children of ephraim
and the coast descended unto the river kanah southward of the river these cities of ephraim are among the cities of manasseh the coast of manasseh also was on the north side of the river and the outgoings of it were at the sea
southward it was ephraim's and northward it was manasseh's and the sea is his border and they met together in asher on the north and in issachar on the east
and manasseh had in issachar and in asher bethshean and her towns and ibleam and her towns and the inhabitants of dor and her towns and the inhabitants of endor and her towns and the inhabitants of taanach and her towns and the inhabitants of megiddo and her towns even three countries
yet the children of manasseh could not drive out the inhabitants of those cities but the canaanites would dwell in that land
yet it came to pass when the children of israel were waxen strong that they put the canaanites to tribute but did not utterly drive them out
and the children of joseph spake unto joshua saying why hast thou given me but one lot and one portion to inherit seeing i am a great people forasmuch as the lord hath blessed me hitherto
and joshua answered them if thou be a great people then get thee up to the wood country and cut down for thyself there in the land of the perizzites and of the giants if mount ephraim be too narrow for thee
and the children of joseph said the hill is not enough for us and all the canaanites that dwell in the land of the valley have chariots of iron both they who are of bethshean and her towns and they who are of the valley of jezreel
and joshua spake unto the house of joseph even to ephraim and to manasseh saying thou art a great people and hast great power thou shalt not have one lot only
but the mountain shall be thine for it is a wood and thou shalt cut it down and the outgoings of it shall be thine for thou shalt drive out the canaanites though they have iron chariots and though they be strong
and the whole congregation of the children of israel assembled together at shiloh and set up the tabernacle of the congregation there and the land was subdued before them
and there remained among the children of israel seven tribes which had not yet received their inheritance
and joshua said unto the children of israel how long are ye slack to go to possess the land which the lord god of your fathers hath given you
give out from among you three men for each tribe and i will send them and they shall rise and go through the land and describe it according to the inheritance of them and they shall come again to me
and they shall divide it into seven parts judah shall abide in their coast on the south and the house of joseph shall abide in their coasts on the north
ye shall therefore describe the land into seven parts and bring the description hither to me that i may cast lots for you here before the lord our god
but the levites have no part among you for the priesthood of the lord is their inheritance and gad and reuben and half the tribe of manasseh have received their inheritance beyond jordan on the east which moses the servant of the lord gave them
and the men arose and went away and joshua charged them that went to describe the land saying go and walk through the land and describe it and come again to me that i may here cast lots for you before the lord in shiloh
and the men went and passed through the land and described it by cities into seven parts in a book and came again to joshua to the host at shiloh
and joshua cast lots for them in shiloh before the lord and there joshua divided the land unto the children of israel according to their divisions
and the lot of the tribe of the children of benjamin came up according to their families and the coast of their lot came forth between the children of judah and the children of joseph
and their border on the north side was from jordan and the border went up to the side of jericho on the north side and went up through the mountains westward and the goings out thereof were at the wilderness of bethaven
and the border went over from thence toward luz to the side of luz which is bethel southward and the border descended to atarothadar near the hill that lieth on the south side of the nether bethhoron
and the border was drawn thence and compassed the corner of the sea southward from the hill that lieth before bethhoron southward and the goings out thereof were at kirjathbaal which is kirjathjearim a city of the children of judah this was the west quarter
and the south quarter was from the end of kirjathjearim and the border went out on the west and went out to the well of waters of nephtoah
and the border came down to the end of the mountain that lieth before the valley of the son of hinnom and which is in the valley of the giants on the north and descended to the valley of hinnom to the side of jebusi on the south and descended to enrogel
and was drawn from the north and went forth to enshemesh and went forth toward geliloth which is over against the going up of adummim and descended to the stone of bohan the son of reuben
and passed along toward the side over against arabah northward and went down unto arabah
and the border passed along to the side of bethhoglah northward and the outgoings of the border were at the north bay of the salt sea at the south end of jordan this was the south coast
and jordan was the border of it on the east side this was the inheritance of the children of benjamin by the coasts thereof round about according to their families
now the cities of the tribe of the children of benjamin according to their families were jericho and bethhoglah and the valley of keziz
and betharabah and zemaraim and bethel
and avim and parah and ophrah
and chepharhaammonai and ophni and gaba twelve cities with their villages
gibeon and ramah and beeroth
and mizpeh and chephirah and mozah
and rekem and irpeel and taralah
and zelah eleph and jebusi which is jerusalem gibeath and kirjath fourteen cities with their villages this is the inheritance of the children of benjamin according to their families
and the second lot came forth to simeon even for the tribe of the children of simeon according to their families and their inheritance was within the inheritance of the children of judah
and they had in their inheritance beersheba and sheba and moladah
and hazarshual and balah and azem
and eltolad and bethul and hormah
and ziklag and bethmarcaboth and hazarsusah
and bethlebaoth and sharuhen thirteen cities and their villages
ain remmon and ether and ashan four cities and their villages
and all the villages that were round about these cities to baalathbeer ramath of the south this is the inheritance of the tribe of the children of simeon according to their families
out of the portion of the children of judah was the inheritance of the children of simeon for the part of the children of judah was too much for them therefore the children of simeon had their inheritance within the inheritance of them
and the third lot came up for the children of zebulun according to their families and the border of their inheritance was unto sarid
and their border went up toward the sea and maralah and reached to dabbasheth and reached to the river that is before jokneam
and turned from sarid eastward toward the sunrising unto the border of chislothtabor and then goeth out to daberath and goeth up to japhia
and from thence passeth on along on the east to gittahhepher to ittahkazin and goeth out to remmonmethoar to neah
and the border compasseth it on the north side to hannathon and the outgoings thereof are in the valley of jiphthahel
and kattath and nahallal and shimron and idalah and bethlehem twelve cities with their villages
this is the inheritance of the children of zebulun according to their families these cities with their villages
and the fourth lot came out to issachar for the children of issachar according to their families
and their border was toward jezreel and chesulloth and shunem
and haphraim and shihon and anaharath
and rabbith and kishion and abez
and remeth and engannim and enhaddah and bethpazzez
and the coast reacheth to tabor and shahazimah and bethshemesh and the outgoings of their border were at jordan sixteen cities with their villages
this is the inheritance of the tribe of the children of issachar according to their families the cities and their villages
and the fifth lot came out for the tribe of the children of asher according to their families
and their border was helkath and hali and beten and achshaph
and alammelech and amad and misheal and reacheth to carmel westward and to shihorlibnath
and turneth toward the sunrising to bethdagon and reacheth to zebulun and to the valley of jiphthahel toward the north side of bethemek and neiel and goeth out to cabul on the left hand
and hebron and rehob and hammon and kanah even unto great zidon
and then the coast turneth to ramah and to the strong city tyre and the coast turneth to hosah and the outgoings thereof are at the sea from the coast to achzib
ummah also and aphek and rehob twenty and two cities with their villages
this is the inheritance of the tribe of the children of asher according to their families these cities with their villages
the sixth lot came out to the children of naphtali even for the children of naphtali according to their families
and their coast was from heleph from allon to zaanannim and adami nekeb and jabneel unto lakum and the outgoings thereof were at jordan
and then the coast turneth westward to aznothtabor and goeth out from thence to hukkok and reacheth to zebulun on the south side and reacheth to asher on the west side and to judah upon jordan toward the sunrising
and the fenced cities are ziddim zer and hammath rakkath and chinnereth
and adamah and ramah and hazor
and kedesh and edrei and enhazor
and iron and migdalel horem and bethanath and bethshemesh nineteen cities with their villages
this is the inheritance of the tribe of the children of naphtali according to their families the cities and their villages
and the seventh lot came out for the tribe of the children of dan according to their families
and the coast of their inheritance was zorah and eshtaol and irshemesh
and shaalabbin and ajalon and jethlah
and elon and thimnathah and ekron
and eltekeh and gibbethon and baalath
and jehud and beneberak and gathrimmon
and mejarkon and rakkon with the border before japho
and the coast of the children of dan went out too little for them therefore the children of dan went up to fight against leshem and took it and smote it with the edge of the sword and possessed it and dwelt therein and called leshem dan after the name of dan their father
this is the inheritance of the tribe of the children of dan according to their families these cities with their villages
when they had made an end of dividing the land for inheritance by their coasts the children of israel gave an inheritance to joshua the son of nun among them
according to the word of the lord they gave him the city which he asked even timnathserah in mount ephraim and he built the city and dwelt therein
these are the inheritances which eleazar the priest and joshua the son of nun and the heads of the fathers of the tribes of the children of israel divided for an inheritance by lot in shiloh before the lord at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation so they made an end of dividing the country
the lord also spake unto joshua saying
speak to the children of israel saying appoint out for you cities of refuge whereof i spake unto you by the hand of moses
that the slayer that killeth any person unawares and unwittingly may flee thither and they shall be your refuge from the avenger of blood
and when he that doth flee unto one of those cities shall stand at the entering of the gate of the city and shall declare his cause in the ears of the elders of that city they shall take him into the city unto them and give him a place that he may dwell among them
and if the avenger of blood pursue after him then they shall not deliver the slayer up into his hand because he smote his neighbour unwittingly and hated him not beforetime
and he shall dwell in that city until he stand before the congregation for judgment and until the death of the high priest that shall be in those days then shall the slayer return and come unto his own city and unto his own house unto the city from whence he fled
and they appointed kedesh in galilee in mount naphtali and shechem in mount ephraim and kirjatharba which is hebron in the mountain of judah
and on the other side jordan by jericho eastward they assigned bezer in the wilderness upon the plain out of the tribe of reuben and ramoth in gilead out of the tribe of gad and golan in bashan out of the tribe of manasseh
these were the cities appointed for all the children of israel and for the stranger that sojourneth among them that whosoever killeth any person at unawares might flee thither and not die by the hand of the avenger of blood until he stood before the congregation
then came near the heads of the fathers of the levites unto eleazar the priest and unto joshua the son of nun and unto the heads of the fathers of the tribes of the children of israel
and they spake unto them at shiloh in the land of canaan saying the lord commanded by the hand of moses to give us cities to dwell in with the suburbs thereof for our cattle
and the children of israel gave unto the levites out of their inheritance at the commandment of the lord these cities and their suburbs
and the lot came out for the families of the kohathites and the children of aaron the priest which were of the levites had by lot out of the tribe of judah and out of the tribe of simeon and out of the tribe of benjamin thirteen cities
and the rest of the children of kohath had by lot out of the families of the tribe of ephraim and out of the tribe of dan and out of the half tribe of manasseh ten cities
and the children of gershon had by lot out of the families of the tribe of issachar and out of the tribe of asher and out of the tribe of naphtali and out of the half tribe of manasseh in bashan thirteen cities
the children of merari by their families had out of the tribe of reuben and out of the tribe of gad and out of the tribe of zebulun twelve cities
and the children of israel gave by lot unto the levites these cities with their suburbs as the lord commanded by the hand of moses
and they gave out of the tribe of the children of judah and out of the tribe of the children of simeon these cities which are here mentioned by name
which the children of aaron being of the families of the kohathites who were of the children of levi had for theirs was the first lot
and they gave them the city of arba the father of anak which city is hebron in the hill country of judah with the suburbs thereof round about it
but the fields of the city and the villages thereof gave they to caleb the son of jephunneh for his possession
thus they gave to the children of aaron the priest hebron with her suburbs to be a city of refuge for the slayer and libnah with her suburbs
and jattir with her suburbs and eshtemoa with her suburbs
and holon with her suburbs and debir with her suburbs
and ain with her suburbs and juttah with her suburbs and bethshemesh with her suburbs nine cities out of those two tribes
and out of the tribe of benjamin gibeon with her suburbs geba with her suburbs
anathoth with her suburbs and almon with her suburbs four cities
all the cities of the children of aaron the priests were thirteen cities with their suburbs
and the families of the children of kohath the levites which remained of the children of kohath even they had the cities of their lot out of the tribe of ephraim
for they gave them shechem with her suburbs in mount ephraim to be a city of refuge for the slayer and gezer with her suburbs
and kibzaim with her suburbs and bethhoron with her suburbs four cities
and out of the tribe of dan eltekeh with her suburbs gibbethon with her suburbs
aijalon with her suburbs gathrimmon with her suburbs four cities
and out of the half tribe of manasseh tanach with her suburbs and gathrimmon with her suburbs two cities
all the cities were ten with their suburbs for the families of the children of kohath that remained
and unto the children of gershon of the families of the levites out of the other half tribe of manasseh they gave golan in bashan with her suburbs to be a city of refuge for the slayer and beeshterah with her suburbs two cities
and out of the tribe of issachar kishon with her suburbs dabareh with her suburbs
jarmuth with her suburbs engannim with her suburbs four cities
and out of the tribe of asher mishal with her suburbs abdon with her suburbs
helkath with her suburbs and rehob with her suburbs four cities
and out of the tribe of naphtali kedesh in galilee with her suburbs to be a city of refuge for the slayer and hammothdor with her suburbs and kartan with her suburbs three cities
all the cities of the gershonites according to their families were thirteen cities with their suburbs
and unto the families of the children of merari the rest of the levites out of the tribe of zebulun jokneam with her suburbs and kartah with her suburbs
dimnah with her suburbs nahalal with her suburbs four cities
and out of the tribe of reuben bezer with her suburbs and jahazah with her suburbs
kedemoth with her suburbs and mephaath with her suburbs four cities
and out of the tribe of gad ramoth in gilead with her suburbs to be a city of refuge for the slayer and mahanaim with her suburbs
heshbon with her suburbs jazer with her suburbs four cities in all
so all the cities for the children of merari by their families which were remaining of the families of the levites were by their lot twelve cities
all the cities of the levites within the possession of the children of israel were forty and eight cities with their suburbs
these cities were every one with their suburbs round about them thus were all these cities
and the lord gave unto israel all the land which he sware to give unto their fathers and they possessed it and dwelt therein
and the lord gave them rest round about according to all that he sware unto their fathers and there stood not a man of all their enemies before them the lord delivered all their enemies into their hand
there failed not ought of any good thing which the lord had spoken unto the house of israel all came to pass
then joshua called the reubenites and the gadites and the half tribe of manasseh
and said unto them ye have kept all that moses the servant of the lord commanded you and have obeyed my voice in all that i commanded you
ye have not left your brethren these many days unto this day but have kept the charge of the commandment of the lord your god
and now the lord your god hath given rest unto your brethren as he promised them therefore now return ye and get you unto your tents and unto the land of your possession which moses the servant of the lord gave you on the other side jordan
but take diligent heed to do the commandment and the law which moses the servant of the lord charged you to love the lord your god and to walk in all his ways and to keep his commandments and to cleave unto him and to serve him with all your heart and with all your soul
so joshua blessed them and sent them away and they went unto their tents
now to the one half of the tribe of manasseh moses had given possession in bashan but unto the other half thereof gave joshua among their brethren on this side jordan westward and when joshua sent them away also unto their tents then he blessed them
and he spake unto them saying return with much riches unto your tents and with very much cattle with silver and with gold and with brass and with iron and with very much raiment divide the spoil of your enemies with your brethren
and the children of reuben and the children of gad and the half tribe of manasseh returned and departed from the children of israel out of shiloh which is in the land of canaan to go unto the country of gilead to the land of their possession whereof they were possessed according to the word of the lord by the hand of moses
and when they came unto the borders of jordan that are in the land of canaan the children of reuben and the children of gad and the half tribe of manasseh built there an altar by jordan a great altar to see to
and the children of israel heard say behold the children of reuben and the children of gad and the half tribe of manasseh have built an altar over against the land of canaan in the borders of jordan at the passage of the children of israel
and when the children of israel heard of it the whole congregation of the children of israel gathered themselves together at shiloh to go up to war against them
and the children of israel sent unto the children of reuben and to the children of gad and to the half tribe of manasseh into the land of gilead phinehas the son of eleazar the priest
and with him ten princes of each chief house a prince throughout all the tribes of israel and each one was an head of the house of their fathers among the thousands of israel
and they came unto the children of reuben and to the children of gad and to the half tribe of manasseh unto the land of gilead and they spake with them saying
thus saith the whole congregation of the lord what trespass is this that ye have committed against the god of israel to turn away this day from following the lord in that ye have builded you an altar that ye might rebel this day against the lord
is the iniquity of peor too little for us from which we are not cleansed until this day although there was a plague in the congregation of the lord
but that ye must turn away this day from following the lord and it will be seeing ye rebel to day against the lord that to morrow he will be wroth with the whole congregation of israel
notwithstanding if the land of your possession be unclean then pass ye over unto the land of the possession of the lord wherein the lord's tabernacle dwelleth and take possession among us but rebel not against the lord nor rebel against us in building you an altar beside the altar of the lord our god
did not achan the son of zerah commit a trespass in the accursed thing and wrath fell on all the congregation of israel and that man perished not alone in his iniquity
then the children of reuben and the children of gad and the half tribe of manasseh answered and said unto the heads of the thousands of israel
the lord god of gods the lord god of gods he knoweth and israel he shall know if it be in rebellion or if in transgression against the lord save us not this day
that we have built us an altar to turn from following the lord or if to offer thereon burnt offering or meat offering or if to offer peace offerings thereon let the lord himself require it
and if we have not rather done it for fear of this thing saying in time to come your children might speak unto our children saying what have ye to do with the lord god of israel
for the lord hath made jordan a border between us and you ye children of reuben and children of gad ye have no part in the lord so shall your children make our children cease from fearing the lord
therefore we said let us now prepare to build us an altar not for burnt offering nor for sacrifice
but that it may be a witness between us and you and our generations after us that we might do the service of the lord before him with our burnt offerings and with our sacrifices and with our peace offerings that your children may not say to our children in time to come ye have no part in the lord
therefore said we that it shall be when they should so say to us or to our generations in time to come that we may say again behold the pattern of the altar of the lord which our fathers made not for burnt offerings nor for sacrifices but it is a witness between us and you
god forbid that we should rebel against the lord and turn this day from following the lord to build an altar for burnt offerings for meat offerings or for sacrifices beside the altar of the lord our god that is before his tabernacle
and when phinehas the priest and the princes of the congregation and heads of the thousands of israel which were with him heard the words that the children of reuben and the children of gad and the children of manasseh spake it pleased them
and phinehas the son of eleazar the priest said unto the children of reuben and to the children of gad and to the children of manasseh this day we perceive that the lord is among us because ye have not committed this trespass against the lord now ye have delivered the children of israel out of the hand of the lord
and phinehas the son of eleazar the priest and the princes returned from the children of reuben and from the children of gad out of the land of gilead unto the land of canaan to the children of israel and brought them word again
and the thing pleased the children of israel and the children of israel blessed god and did not intend to go up against them in battle to destroy the land wherein the children of reuben and gad dwelt
and the children of reuben and the children of gad called the altar ed for it shall be a witness between us that the lord is god
and it came to pass a long time after that the lord had given rest unto israel from all their enemies round about that joshua waxed old and stricken in age
and joshua called for all israel and for their elders and for their heads and for their judges and for their officers and said unto them i am old and stricken in age
and ye have seen all that the lord your god hath done unto all these nations because of you for the lord your god is he that hath fought for you
behold i have divided unto you by lot these nations that remain to be an inheritance for your tribes from jordan with all the nations that i have cut off even unto the great sea westward
and the lord your god he shall expel them from before you and drive them from out of your sight and ye shall possess their land as the lord your god hath promised unto you
be ye therefore very courageous to keep and to do all that is written in the book of the law of moses that ye turn not aside therefrom to the right hand or to the left
that ye come not among these nations these that remain among you neither make mention of the name of their gods nor cause to swear by them neither serve them nor bow yourselves unto them
but cleave unto the lord your god as ye have done unto this day
for the lord hath driven out from before you great nations and strong but as for you no man hath been able to stand before you unto this day
one man of you shall chase a thousand for the lord your god he it is that fighteth for you as he hath promised you
take good heed therefore unto yourselves that ye love the lord your god
else if ye do in any wise go back and cleave unto the remnant of these nations even these that remain among you and shall make marriages with them and go in unto them and they to you
know for a certainty that the lord your god will no more drive out any of these nations from before you but they shall be snares and traps unto you and scourges in your sides and thorns in your eyes until ye perish from off this good land which the lord your god hath given you
and behold this day i am going the way of all the earth and ye know in all your hearts and in all your souls that not one thing hath failed of all the good things which the lord your god spake concerning you all are come to pass unto you and not one thing hath failed thereof
therefore it shall come to pass that as all good things are come upon you which the lord your god promised you so shall the lord bring upon you all evil things until he have destroyed you from off this good land which the lord your god hath given you
when ye have transgressed the covenant of the lord your god which he commanded you and have gone and served other gods and bowed yourselves to them then shall the anger of the lord be kindled against you and ye shall perish quickly from off the good land which he hath given unto you
and joshua gathered all the tribes of israel to shechem and called for the elders of israel and for their heads and for their judges and for their officers and they presented themselves before god
and joshua said unto all the people thus saith the lord god of israel your fathers dwelt on the other side of the flood in old time even terah the father of abraham and the father of nachor and they served other gods
and i took your father abraham from the other side of the flood and led him throughout all the land of canaan and multiplied his seed and gave him isaac
and i gave unto isaac jacob and esau and i gave unto esau mount seir to possess it but jacob and his children went down into egypt
i sent moses also and aaron and i plagued egypt according to that which i did among them and afterward i brought you out
and i brought your fathers out of egypt and ye came unto the sea and the egyptians pursued after your fathers with chariots and horsemen unto the red sea
and when they cried unto the lord he put darkness between you and the egyptians and brought the sea upon them and covered them and your eyes have seen what i have done in egypt and ye dwelt in the wilderness a long season
and i brought you into the land of the amorites which dwelt on the other side jordan and they fought with you and i gave them into your hand that ye might possess their land and i destroyed them from before you
then balak the son of zippor king of moab arose and warred against israel and sent and called balaam the son of beor to curse you
but i would not hearken unto balaam therefore he blessed you still so i delivered you out of his hand
and ye went over jordan and came unto jericho and the men of jericho fought against you the amorites and the perizzites and the canaanites and the hittites and the girgashites the hivites and the jebusites and i delivered them into your hand
and i sent the hornet before you which drave them out from before you even the two kings of the amorites but not with thy sword nor with thy bow
and i have given you a land for which ye did not labour and cities which ye built not and ye dwell in them of the vineyards and oliveyards which ye planted not do ye eat
now therefore fear the lord and serve him in sincerity and in truth and put away the gods which your fathers served on the other side of the flood and in egypt and serve ye the lord
and if it seem evil unto you to serve the lord choose you this day whom ye will serve whether the gods which your fathers served that were on the other side of the flood or the gods of the amorites in whose land ye dwell but as for me and my house we will serve the lord
and the people answered and said god forbid that we should forsake the lord to serve other gods
for the lord our god he it is that brought us up and our fathers out of the land of egypt from the house of bondage and which did those great signs in our sight and preserved us in all the way wherein we went and among all the people through whom we passed
and the lord drave out from before us all the people even the amorites which dwelt in the land therefore will we also serve the lord for he is our god
and joshua said unto the people ye cannot serve the lord for he is an holy god he is a jealous god he will not forgive your transgressions nor your sins
if ye forsake the lord and serve strange gods then he will turn and do you hurt and consume you after that he hath done you good
and the people said unto joshua nay but we will serve the lord
and joshua said unto the people ye are witnesses against yourselves that ye have chosen you the lord to serve him and they said we are witnesses
now therefore put away said he the strange gods which are among you and incline your heart unto the lord god of israel
and the people said unto joshua the lord our god will we serve and his voice will we obey
so joshua made a covenant with the people that day and set them a statute and an ordinance in shechem
and joshua wrote these words in the book of the law of god and took a great stone and set it up there under an oak that was by the sanctuary of the lord
and joshua said unto all the people behold this stone shall be a witness unto us for it hath heard all the words of the lord which he spake unto us it shall be therefore a witness unto you lest ye deny your god
so joshua let the people depart every man unto his inheritance
and it came to pass after these things that joshua the son of nun the servant of the lord died being an hundred and ten years old
and they buried him in the border of his inheritance in timnathserah which is in mount ephraim on the north side of the hill of gaash
and israel served the lord all the days of joshua and all the days of the elders that overlived joshua and which had known all the works of the lord that he had done for israel
and the bones of joseph which the children of israel brought up out of egypt buried they in shechem in a parcel of ground which jacob bought of the sons of hamor the father of shechem for an hundred pieces of silver and it became the inheritance of the children of joseph
and eleazar the son of aaron died and they buried him in a hill that pertained to phinehas his son which was given him in mount ephraim
now after the death of joshua it came to pass that the children of israel asked the lord saying who shall go up for us against the canaanites first to fight against them
and the lord said judah shall go up behold i have delivered the land into his hand
and judah said unto simeon his brother come up with me into my lot that we may fight against the canaanites and i likewise will go with thee into thy lot so simeon went with him
and judah went up and the lord delivered the canaanites and the perizzites into their hand and they slew of them in bezek ten thousand men
and they found adonibezek in bezek and they fought against him and they slew the canaanites and the perizzites
but adonibezek fled and they pursued after him and caught him and cut off his thumbs and his great toes
and adonibezek said threescore and ten kings having their thumbs and their great toes cut off gathered their meat under my table as i have done so god hath requited me and they brought him to jerusalem and there he died
now the children of judah had fought against jerusalem and had taken it and smitten it with the edge of the sword and set the city on fire
and afterward the children of judah went down to fight against the canaanites that dwelt in the mountain and in the south and in the valley
and judah went against the canaanites that dwelt in hebron now the name of hebron before was kirjatharba and they slew sheshai and ahiman and talmai
and from thence he went against the inhabitants of debir and the name of debir before was kirjathsepher
and caleb said he that smiteth kirjathsepher and taketh it to him will i give achsah my daughter to wife
and othniel the son of kenaz caleb's younger brother took it and he gave him achsah his daughter to wife
and it came to pass when she came to him that she moved him to ask of her father a field and she lighted from off her ass and caleb said unto her what wilt thou
and she said unto him give me a blessing for thou hast given me a south land give me also springs of water and caleb gave her the upper springs and the nether springs
and the children of the kenite moses father in law went up out of the city of palm trees with the children of judah into the wilderness of judah which lieth in the south of arad and they went and dwelt among the people
and judah went with simeon his brother and they slew the canaanites that inhabited zephath and utterly destroyed it and the name of the city was called hormah
also judah took gaza with the coast thereof and askelon with the coast thereof and ekron with the coast thereof
and the lord was with judah and he drave out the inhabitants of the mountain but could not drive out the inhabitants of the valley because they had chariots of iron
and they gave hebron unto caleb as moses said and he expelled thence the three sons of anak
and the children of benjamin did not drive out the jebusites that inhabited jerusalem but the jebusites dwell with the children of benjamin in jerusalem unto this day
and the house of joseph they also went up against bethel and the lord was with them
and the house of joseph sent to descry bethel now the name of the city before was luz
and the spies saw a man come forth out of the city and they said unto him shew us we pray thee the entrance into the city and we will shew thee mercy
and when he shewed them the entrance into the city they smote the city with the edge of the sword but they let go the man and all his family
and the man went into the land of the hittites and built a city and called the name thereof luz which is the name thereof unto this day
neither did manasseh drive out the inhabitants of bethshean and her towns nor taanach and her towns nor the inhabitants of dor and her towns nor the inhabitants of ibleam and her towns nor the inhabitants of megiddo and her towns but the canaanites would dwell in that land
and it came to pass when israel was strong that they put the canaanites to tribute and did not utterly drive them out
neither did ephraim drive out the canaanites that dwelt in gezer but the canaanites dwelt in gezer among them
neither did zebulun drive out the inhabitants of kitron nor the inhabitants of nahalol but the canaanites dwelt among them and became tributaries
neither did asher drive out the inhabitants of accho nor the inhabitants of zidon nor of ahlab nor of achzib nor of helbah nor of aphik nor of rehob
but the asherites dwelt among the canaanites the inhabitants of the land for they did not drive them out
neither did naphtali drive out the inhabitants of bethshemesh nor the inhabitants of bethanath but he dwelt among the canaanites the inhabitants of the land nevertheless the inhabitants of bethshemesh and of bethanath became tributaries unto them
and the amorites forced the children of dan into the mountain for they would not suffer them to come down to the valley
but the amorites would dwell in mount heres in aijalon and in shaalbim yet the hand of the house of joseph prevailed so that they became tributaries
and the coast of the amorites was from the going up to akrabbim from the rock and upward
and an angel of the lord came up from gilgal to bochim and said i made you to go up out of egypt and have brought you unto the land which i sware unto your fathers and i said i will never break my covenant with you
and ye shall make no league with the inhabitants of this land ye shall throw down their altars but ye have not obeyed my voice why have ye done this
wherefore i also said i will not drive them out from before you but they shall be as thorns in your sides and their gods shall be a snare unto you
and it came to pass when the angel of the lord spake these words unto all the children of israel that the people lifted up their voice and wept
and they called the name of that place bochim and they sacrificed there unto the lord
and when joshua had let the people go the children of israel went every man unto his inheritance to possess the land
and the people served the lord all the days of joshua and all the days of the elders that outlived joshua who had seen all the great works of the lord that he did for israel
and joshua the son of nun the servant of the lord died being an hundred and ten years old
and they buried him in the border of his inheritance in timnathheres in the mount of ephraim on the north side of the hill gaash
and also all that generation were gathered unto their fathers and there arose another generation after them which knew not the lord nor yet the works which he had done for israel
and the children of israel did evil in the sight of the lord and served baalim
and they forsook the lord god of their fathers which brought them out of the land of egypt and followed other gods of the gods of the people that were round about them and bowed themselves unto them and provoked the lord to anger
and they forsook the lord and served baal and ashtaroth
and the anger of the lord was hot against israel and he delivered them into the hands of spoilers that spoiled them and he sold them into the hands of their enemies round about so that they could not any longer stand before their enemies
whithersoever they went out the hand of the lord was against them for evil as the lord had said and as the lord had sworn unto them and they were greatly distressed
nevertheless the lord raised up judges which delivered them out of the hand of those that spoiled them
and yet they would not hearken unto their judges but they went a whoring after other gods and bowed themselves unto them they turned quickly out of the way which their fathers walked in obeying the commandments of the lord but they did not so
and when the lord raised them up judges then the lord was with the judge and delivered them out of the hand of their enemies all the days of the judge for it repented the lord because of their groanings by reason of them that oppressed them and vexed them
and it came to pass when the judge was dead that they returned and corrupted themselves more than their fathers in following other gods to serve them and to bow down unto them they ceased not from their own doings nor from their stubborn way
and the anger of the lord was hot against israel and he said because that this people hath transgressed my covenant which i commanded their fathers and have not hearkened unto my voice
i also will not henceforth drive out any from before them of the nations which joshua left when he died
that through them i may prove israel whether they will keep the way of the lord to walk therein as their fathers did keep it or not
therefore the lord left those nations without driving them out hastily neither delivered he them into the hand of joshua
now these are the nations which the lord left to prove israel by them even as many of israel as had not known all the wars of canaan
only that the generations of the children of israel might know to teach them war at the least such as before knew nothing thereof
namely five lords of the philistines and all the canaanites and the sidonians and the hivites that dwelt in mount lebanon from mount baalhermon unto the entering in of hamath
and they were to prove israel by them to know whether they would hearken unto the commandments of the lord which he commanded their fathers by the hand of moses
and the children of israel dwelt among the canaanites hittites and amorites and perizzites and hivites and jebusites
and they took their daughters to be their wives and gave their daughters to their sons and served their gods
and the children of israel did evil in the sight of the lord and forgat the lord their god and served baalim and the groves
therefore the anger of the lord was hot against israel and he sold them into the hand of chushanrishathaim king of mesopotamia and the children of israel served chushanrishathaim eight years
and when the children of israel cried unto the lord the lord raised up a deliverer to the children of israel who delivered them even othniel the son of kenaz caleb's younger brother
and the spirit of the lord came upon him and he judged israel and went out to war and the lord delivered chushanrishathaim king of mesopotamia into his hand and his hand prevailed against chushanrishathaim
and the land had rest forty years and othniel the son of kenaz died
and the children of israel did evil again in the sight of the lord and the lord strengthened eglon the king of moab against israel because they had done evil in the sight of the lord
and he gathered unto him the children of ammon and amalek and went and smote israel and possessed the city of palm trees
so the children of israel served eglon the king of moab eighteen years
but when the children of israel cried unto the lord the lord raised them up a deliverer ehud the son of gera a benjamite a man lefthanded and by him the children of israel sent a present unto eglon the king of moab
but ehud made him a dagger which had two edges of a cubit length and he did gird it under his raiment upon his right thigh
and he brought the present unto eglon king of moab and eglon was a very fat man
and when he had made an end to offer the present he sent away the people that bare the present
but he himself turned again from the quarries that were by gilgal and said i have a secret errand unto thee o king who said keep silence and all that stood by him went out from him
and ehud came unto him and he was sitting in a summer parlour which he had for himself alone and ehud said i have a message from god unto thee and he arose out of his seat
and ehud put forth his left hand and took the dagger from his right thigh and thrust it into his belly
and the haft also went in after the blade and the fat closed upon the blade so that he could not draw the dagger out of his belly and the dirt came out
then ehud went forth through the porch and shut the doors of the parlour upon him and locked them
when he was gone out his servants came and when they saw that behold the doors of the parlour were locked they said surely he covereth his feet in his summer chamber
and they tarried till they were ashamed and behold he opened not the doors of the parlour therefore they took a key and opened them and behold their lord was fallen down dead on the earth
and ehud escaped while they tarried and passed beyond the quarries and escaped unto seirath
and it came to pass when he was come that he blew a trumpet in the mountain of ephraim and the children of israel went down with him from the mount and he before them
and he said unto them follow after me for the lord hath delivered your enemies the moabites into your hand and they went down after him and took the fords of jordan toward moab and suffered not a man to pass over
and they slew of moab at that time about ten thousand men all lusty and all men of valour and there escaped not a man
so moab was subdued that day under the hand of israel and the land had rest fourscore years
and after him was shamgar the son of anath which slew of the philistines six hundred men with an ox goad and he also delivered israel
and the children of israel again did evil in the sight of the lord when ehud was dead
and the lord sold them into the hand of jabin king of canaan that reigned in hazor the captain of whose host was sisera which dwelt in harosheth of the gentiles
and the children of israel cried unto the lord for he had nine hundred chariots of iron and twenty years he mightily oppressed the children of israel
and deborah a prophetess the wife of lapidoth she judged israel at that time
and she dwelt under the palm tree of deborah between ramah and bethel in mount ephraim and the children of israel came up to her for judgment
and she sent and called barak the son of abinoam out of kedeshnaphtali and said unto him hath not the lord god of israel commanded saying go and draw toward mount tabor and take with thee ten thousand men of the children of naphtali and of the children of zebulun
and i will draw unto thee to the river kishon sisera the captain of jabin's army with his chariots and his multitude and i will deliver him into thine hand
and barak said unto her if thou wilt go with me then i will go but if thou wilt not go with me then i will not go
and she said i will surely go with thee notwithstanding the journey that thou takest shall not be for thine honour for the lord shall sell sisera into the hand of a woman and deborah arose and went with barak to kedesh
and barak called zebulun and naphtali to kedesh and he went up with ten thousand men at his feet and deborah went up with him
now heber the kenite which was of the children of hobab the father in law of moses had severed himself from the kenites and pitched his tent unto the plain of zaanaim which is by kedesh
and they shewed sisera that barak the son of abinoam was gone up to mount tabor
and sisera gathered together all his chariots even nine hundred chariots of iron and all the people that were with him from harosheth of the gentiles unto the river of kishon
and deborah said unto barak up for this is the day in which the lord hath delivered sisera into thine hand is not the lord gone out before thee so barak went down from mount tabor and ten thousand men after him
and the lord discomfited sisera and all his chariots and all his host with the edge of the sword before barak so that sisera lighted down off his chariot and fled away on his feet
but barak pursued after the chariots and after the host unto harosheth of the gentiles and all the host of sisera fell upon the edge of the sword and there was not a man left
howbeit sisera fled away on his feet to the tent of jael the wife of heber the kenite for there was peace between jabin the king of hazor and the house of heber the kenite
and jael went out to meet sisera and said unto him turn in my lord turn in to me fear not and when he had turned in unto her into the tent she covered him with a mantle
and he said unto her give me i pray thee a little water to drink for i am thirsty and she opened a bottle of milk and gave him drink and covered him
again he said unto her stand in the door of the tent and it shall be when any man doth come and enquire of thee and say is there any man here that thou shalt say no
then jael heber's wife took a nail of the tent and took an hammer in her hand and went softly unto him and smote the nail into his temples and fastened it into the ground for he was fast asleep and weary so he died
and behold as barak pursued sisera jael came out to meet him and said unto him come and i will shew thee the man whom thou seekest and when he came into her tent behold sisera lay dead and the nail was in his temples
so god subdued on that day jabin the king of canaan before the children of israel
and the hand of the children of israel prospered and prevailed against jabin the king of canaan until they had destroyed jabin king of canaan
then sang deborah and barak the son of abinoam on that day saying
praise ye the lord for the avenging of israel when the people willingly offered themselves
hear o ye kings give ear o ye princes i even i will sing unto the lord i will sing praise to the lord god of israel
lord when thou wentest out of seir when thou marchedst out of the field of edom the earth trembled and the heavens dropped the clouds also dropped water
the mountains melted from before the lord even that sinai from before the lord god of israel
in the days of shamgar the son of anath in the days of jael the highways were unoccupied and the travellers walked through byways
the inhabitants of the villages ceased they ceased in israel until that i deborah arose that i arose a mother in israel
they chose new gods then was war in the gates was there a shield or spear seen among forty thousand in israel
my heart is toward the governors of israel that offered themselves willingly among the people bless ye the lord
speak ye that ride on white asses ye that sit in judgment and walk by the way
they that are delivered from the noise of archers in the places of drawing water there shall they rehearse the righteous acts of the lord even the righteous acts toward the inhabitants of his villages in israel then shall the people of the lord go down to the gates
awake awake deborah awake awake utter a song arise barak and lead thy captivity captive thou son of abinoam
then he made him that remaineth have dominion over the nobles among the people the lord made me have dominion over the mighty
out of ephraim was there a root of them against amalek after thee benjamin among thy people out of machir came down governors and out of zebulun they that handle the pen of the writer
and the princes of issachar were with deborah even issachar and also barak he was sent on foot into the valley for the divisions of reuben there were great thoughts of heart
why abodest thou among the sheepfolds to hear the bleatings of the flocks for the divisions of reuben there were great searchings of heart
gilead abode beyond jordan and why did dan remain in ships asher continued on the sea shore and abode in his breaches
zebulun and naphtali were a people that jeoparded their lives unto the death in the high places of the field
the kings came and fought then fought the kings of canaan in taanach by the waters of megiddo they took no gain of money
they fought from heaven the stars in their courses fought against sisera
the river of kishon swept them away that ancient river the river kishon o my soul thou hast trodden down strength
then were the horsehoofs broken by the means of the pransings the pransings of their mighty ones
curse ye meroz said the angel of the lord curse ye bitterly the inhabitants thereof because they came not to the help of the lord to the help of the lord against the mighty
blessed above women shall jael the wife of heber the kenite be blessed shall she be above women in the tent
he asked water and she gave him milk she brought forth butter in a lordly dish
she put her hand to the nail and her right hand to the workmen's hammer and with the hammer she smote sisera she smote off his head when she had pierced and stricken through his temples
at her feet he bowed he fell he lay down at her feet he bowed he fell where he bowed there he fell down dead
the mother of sisera looked out at a window and cried through the lattice why is his chariot so long in coming why tarry the wheels of his chariots
her wise ladies answered her yea she returned answer to herself
have they not sped have they not divided the prey to every man a damsel or two to sisera a prey of divers colours a prey of divers colours of needlework of divers colours of needlework on both sides meet for the necks of them that take the spoil
so let all thine enemies perish o lord but let them that love him be as the sun when he goeth forth in his might and the land had rest forty years
and the children of israel did evil in the sight of the lord and the lord delivered them into the hand of midian seven years
and the hand of midian prevailed against israel and because of the midianites the children of israel made them the dens which are in the mountains and caves and strong holds
and so it was when israel had sown that the midianites came up and the amalekites and the children of the east even they came up against them
and they encamped against them and destroyed the increase of the earth till thou come unto gaza and left no sustenance for israel neither sheep nor ox nor ass
for they came up with their cattle and their tents and they came as grasshoppers for multitude for both they and their camels were without number and they entered into the land to destroy it
and israel was greatly impoverished because of the midianites and the children of israel cried unto the lord
and it came to pass when the children of israel cried unto the lord because of the midianites
that the lord sent a prophet unto the children of israel which said unto them thus saith the lord god of israel i brought you up from egypt and brought you forth out of the house of bondage
and i delivered you out of the hand of the egyptians and out of the hand of all that oppressed you and drave them out from before you and gave you their land
and i said unto you i am the lord your god fear not the gods of the amorites in whose land ye dwell but ye have not obeyed my voice
and there came an angel of the lord and sat under an oak which was in ophrah that pertained unto joash the abiezrite and his son gideon threshed wheat by the winepress to hide it from the midianites
and the angel of the lord appeared unto him and said unto him the lord is with thee thou mighty man of valour
and gideon said unto him oh my lord if the lord be with us why then is all this befallen us and where be all his miracles which our fathers told us of saying did not the lord bring us up from egypt but now the lord hath forsaken us and delivered us into the hands of the midianites
and the lord looked upon him and said go in this thy might and thou shalt save israel from the hand of the midianites have not i sent thee
and he said unto him oh my lord wherewith shall i save israel behold my family is poor in manasseh and i am the least in my father's house
and the lord said unto him surely i will be with thee and thou shalt smite the midianites as one man
and he said unto him if now i have found grace in thy sight then shew me a sign that thou talkest with me
depart not hence i pray thee until i come unto thee and bring forth my present and set it before thee and he said i will tarry until thou come again
and gideon went in and made ready a kid and unleavened cakes of an ephah of flour the flesh he put in a basket and he put the broth in a pot and brought it out unto him under the oak and presented it
and the angel of god said unto him take the flesh and the unleavened cakes and lay them upon this rock and pour out the broth and he did so
then the angel of the lord put forth the end of the staff that was in his hand and touched the flesh and the unleavened cakes and there rose up fire out of the rock and consumed the flesh and the unleavened cakes then the angel of the lord departed out of his sight
and when gideon perceived that he was an angel of the lord gideon said alas o lord god for because i have seen an angel of the lord face to face
and the lord said unto him peace be unto thee fear not thou shalt not die
then gideon built an altar there unto the lord and called it jehovahshalom unto this day it is yet in ophrah of the abiezrites
and it came to pass the same night that the lord said unto him take thy father's young bullock even the second bullock of seven years old and throw down the altar of baal that thy father hath and cut down the grove that is by it
and build an altar unto the lord thy god upon the top of this rock in the ordered place and take the second bullock and offer a burnt sacrifice with the wood of the grove which thou shalt cut down
then gideon took ten men of his servants and did as the lord had said unto him and so it was because he feared his father's household and the men of the city that he could not do it by day that he did it by night
and when the men of the city arose early in the morning behold the altar of baal was cast down and the grove was cut down that was by it and the second bullock was offered upon the altar that was built
and they said one to another who hath done this thing and when they enquired and asked they said gideon the son of joash hath done this thing
then the men of the city said unto joash bring out thy son that he may die because he hath cast down the altar of baal and because he hath cut down the grove that was by it
and joash said unto all that stood against him will ye plead for baal will ye save him he that will plead for him let him be put to death whilst it is yet morning if he be a god let him plead for himself because one hath cast down his altar
therefore on that day he called him jerubbaal saying let baal plead against him because he hath thrown down his altar
then all the midianites and the amalekites and the children of the east were gathered together and went over and pitched in the valley of jezreel
but the spirit of the lord came upon gideon and he blew a trumpet and abiezer was gathered after him
and he sent messengers throughout all manasseh who also was gathered after him and he sent messengers unto asher and unto zebulun and unto naphtali and they came up to meet them
and gideon said unto god if thou wilt save israel by mine hand as thou hast said
behold i will put a fleece of wool in the floor and if the dew be on the fleece only and it be dry upon all the earth beside then shall i know that thou wilt save israel by mine hand as thou hast said
and it was so for he rose up early on the morrow and thrust the fleece together and wringed the dew out of the fleece a bowl full of water
and gideon said unto god let not thine anger be hot against me and i will speak but this once let me prove i pray thee but this once with the fleece let it now be dry only upon the fleece and upon all the ground let there be dew
and god did so that night for it was dry upon the fleece only and there was dew on all the ground
then jerubbaal who is gideon and all the people that were with him rose up early and pitched beside the well of harod so that the host of the midianites were on the north side of them by the hill of moreh in the valley
and the lord said unto gideon the people that are with thee are too many for me to give the midianites into their hands lest israel vaunt themselves against me saying mine own hand hath saved me
now therefore go to proclaim in the ears of the people saying whosoever is fearful and afraid let him return and depart early from mount gilead and there returned of the people twenty and two thousand and there remained ten thousand
and the lord said unto gideon the people are yet too many bring them down unto the water and i will try them for thee there and it shall be that of whom i say unto thee this shall go with thee the same shall go with thee and of whomsoever i say unto thee this shall not go with thee the same shall not go
so he brought down the people unto the water and the lord said unto gideon every one that lappeth of the water with his tongue as a dog lappeth him shalt thou set by himself likewise every one that boweth down upon his knees to drink
and the number of them that lapped putting their hand to their mouth were three hundred men but all the rest of the people bowed down upon their knees to drink water
and the lord said unto gideon by the three hundred men that lapped will i save you and deliver the midianites into thine hand and let all the other people go every man unto his place
so the people took victuals in their hand and their trumpets and he sent all the rest of israel every man unto his tent and retained those three hundred men and the host of midian was beneath him in the valley
and it came to pass the same night that the lord said unto him arise get thee down unto the host for i have delivered it into thine hand
but if thou fear to go down go thou with phurah thy servant down to the host
and thou shalt hear what they say and afterward shall thine hands be strengthened to go down unto the host then went he down with phurah his servant unto the outside of the armed men that were in the host
and the midianites and the amalekites and all the children of the east lay along in the valley like grasshoppers for multitude and their camels were without number as the sand by the sea side for multitude
and when gideon was come behold there was a man that told a dream unto his fellow and said behold i dreamed a dream and lo a cake of barley bread tumbled into the host of midian and came unto a tent and smote it that it fell and overturned it that the tent lay along
and his fellow answered and said this is nothing else save the sword of gideon the son of joash a man of israel for into his hand hath god delivered midian and all the host
and it was so when gideon heard the telling of the dream and the interpretation thereof that he worshipped and returned into the host of israel and said arise for the lord hath delivered into your hand the host of midian
and he divided the three hundred men into three companies and he put a trumpet in every man's hand with empty pitchers and lamps within the pitchers
and he said unto them look on me and do likewise and behold when i come to the outside of the camp it shall be that as i do so shall ye do
when i blow with a trumpet i and all that are with me then blow ye the trumpets also on every side of all the camp and say the sword of the lord and of gideon
so gideon and the hundred men that were with him came unto the outside of the camp in the beginning of the middle watch and they had but newly set the watch and they blew the trumpets and brake the pitchers that were in their hands
and the three companies blew the trumpets and brake the pitchers and held the lamps in their left hands and the trumpets in their right hands to blow withal and they cried the sword of the lord and of gideon
and they stood every man in his place round about the camp and all the host ran and cried and fled
and the three hundred blew the trumpets and the lord set every man's sword against his fellow even throughout all the host and the host fled to bethshittah in zererath and to the border of abelmeholah unto tabbath
and the men of israel gathered themselves together out of naphtali and out of asher and out of all manasseh and pursued after the midianites
and gideon sent messengers throughout all mount ephraim saying come down against the midianites and take before them the waters unto bethbarah and jordan then all the men of ephraim gathered themselves together and took the waters unto bethbarah and jordan
and they took two princes of the midianites oreb and zeeb and they slew oreb upon the rock oreb and zeeb they slew at the winepress of zeeb and pursued midian and brought the heads of oreb and zeeb to gideon on the other side jordan
and the men of ephraim said unto him why hast thou served us thus that thou calledst us not when thou wentest to fight with the midianites and they did chide with him sharply
and he said unto them what have i done now in comparison of you is not the gleaning of the grapes of ephraim better than the vintage of abiezer
god hath delivered into your hands the princes of midian oreb and zeeb and what was i able to do in comparison of you then their anger was abated toward him when he had said that
and gideon came to jordan and passed over he and the three hundred men that were with him faint yet pursuing them
and he said unto the men of succoth give i pray you loaves of bread unto the people that follow me for they be faint and i am pursuing after zebah and zalmunna kings of midian
and the princes of succoth said are the hands of zebah and zalmunna now in thine hand that we should give bread unto thine army
and gideon said therefore when the lord hath delivered zebah and zalmunna into mine hand then i will tear your flesh with the thorns of the wilderness and with briers
and he went up thence to penuel and spake unto them likewise and the men of penuel answered him as the men of succoth had answered him
and he spake also unto the men of penuel saying when i come again in peace i will break down this tower
now zebah and zalmunna were in karkor and their hosts with them about fifteen thousand men all that were left of all the hosts of the children of the east for there fell an hundred and twenty thousand men that drew sword
and gideon went up by the way of them that dwelt in tents on the east of nobah and jogbehah and smote the host for the host was secure
and when zebah and zalmunna fled he pursued after them and took the two kings of midian zebah and zalmunna and discomfited all the host
and gideon the son of joash returned from battle before the sun was up
and caught a young man of the men of succoth and enquired of him and he described unto him the princes of succoth and the elders thereof even threescore and seventeen men
and he came unto the men of succoth and said behold zebah and zalmunna with whom ye did upbraid me saying are the hands of zebah and zalmunna now in thine hand that we should give bread unto thy men that are weary
and he took the elders of the city and thorns of the wilderness and briers and with them he taught the men of succoth
and he beat down the tower of penuel and slew the men of the city
then said he unto zebah and zalmunna what manner of men were they whom ye slew at tabor and they answered as thou art so were they each one resembled the children of a king
and he said they were my brethren even the sons of my mother as the lord liveth if ye had saved them alive i would not slay you
and he said unto jether his firstborn up and slay them but the youth drew not his sword for he feared because he was yet a youth
then zebah and zalmunna said rise thou and fall upon us for as the man is so is his strength and gideon arose and slew zebah and zalmunna and took away the ornaments that were on their camels necks
then the men of israel said unto gideon rule thou over us both thou and thy son and thy son's son also for thou hast delivered us from the hand of midian
and gideon said unto them i will not rule over you neither shall my son rule over you the lord shall rule over you
and gideon said unto them i would desire a request of you that ye would give me every man the earrings of his prey for they had golden earrings because they were ishmaelites
and they answered we will willingly give them and they spread a garment and did cast therein every man the earrings of his prey
and the weight of the golden earrings that he requested was a thousand and seven hundred shekels of gold beside ornaments and collars and purple raiment that was on the kings of midian and beside the chains that were about their camels necks
and gideon made an ephod thereof and put it in his city even in ophrah and all israel went thither a whoring after it which thing became a snare unto gideon and to his house
thus was midian subdued before the children of israel so that they lifted up their heads no more and the country was in quietness forty years in the days of gideon
and jerubbaal the son of joash went and dwelt in his own house
and gideon had threescore and ten sons of his body begotten for he had many wives
and his concubine that was in shechem she also bare him a son whose name he called abimelech
and gideon the son of joash died in a good old age and was buried in the sepulchre of joash his father in ophrah of the abiezrites
and it came to pass as soon as gideon was dead that the children of israel turned again and went a whoring after baalim and made baalberith their god
and the children of israel remembered not the lord their god who had delivered them out of the hands of all their enemies on every side
neither shewed they kindness to the house of jerubbaal namely gideon according to all the goodness which he had shewed unto israel
and abimelech the son of jerubbaal went to shechem unto his mother's brethren and communed with them and with all the family of the house of his mother's father saying
speak i pray you in the ears of all the men of shechem whether is better for you either that all the sons of jerubbaal which are threescore and ten persons reign over you or that one reign over you remember also that i am your bone and your flesh
and his mother's brethren spake of him in the ears of all the men of shechem all these words and their hearts inclined to follow abimelech for they said he is our brother
and they gave him threescore and ten pieces of silver out of the house of baalberith wherewith abimelech hired vain and light persons which followed him
and he went unto his father's house at ophrah and slew his brethren the sons of jerubbaal being threescore and ten persons upon one stone notwithstanding yet jotham the youngest son of jerubbaal was left for he hid himself
and all the men of shechem gathered together and all the house of millo and went and made abimelech king by the plain of the pillar that was in shechem
and when they told it to jotham he went and stood in the top of mount gerizim and lifted up his voice and cried and said unto them hearken unto me ye men of shechem that god may hearken unto you
the trees went forth on a time to anoint a king over them and they said unto the olive tree reign thou over us
but the olive tree said unto them should i leave my fatness wherewith by me they honour god and man and go to be promoted over the trees
and the trees said to the fig tree come thou and reign over us
but the fig tree said unto them should i forsake my sweetness and my good fruit and go to be promoted over the trees
then said the trees unto the vine come thou and reign over us
and the vine said unto them should i leave my wine which cheereth god and man and go to be promoted over the trees
then said all the trees unto the bramble come thou and reign over us
and the bramble said unto the trees if in truth ye anoint me king over you then come and put your trust in my shadow and if not let fire come out of the bramble and devour the cedars of lebanon
now therefore if ye have done truly and sincerely in that ye have made abimelech king and if ye have dealt well with jerubbaal and his house and have done unto him according to the deserving of his hands
for my father fought for you and adventured his life far and delivered you out of the hand of midian
and ye are risen up against my father's house this day and have slain his sons threescore and ten persons upon one stone and have made abimelech the son of his maidservant king over the men of shechem because he is your brother
if ye then have dealt truly and sincerely with jerubbaal and with his house this day then rejoice ye in abimelech and let him also rejoice in you
but if not let fire come out from abimelech and devour the men of shechem and the house of millo and let fire come out from the men of shechem and from the house of millo and devour abimelech
and jotham ran away and fled and went to beer and dwelt there for fear of abimelech his brother
when abimelech had reigned three years over israel
then god sent an evil spirit between abimelech and the men of shechem and the men of shechem dealt treacherously with abimelech
that the cruelty done to the threescore and ten sons of jerubbaal might come and their blood be laid upon abimelech their brother which slew them and upon the men of shechem which aided him in the killing of his brethren
and the men of shechem set liers in wait for him in the top of the mountains and they robbed all that came along that way by them and it was told abimelech
and gaal the son of ebed came with his brethren and went over to shechem and the men of shechem put their confidence in him
and they went out into the fields and gathered their vineyards and trode the grapes and made merry and went into the house of their god and did eat and drink and cursed abimelech
and gaal the son of ebed said who is abimelech and who is shechem that we should serve him is not he the son of jerubbaal and zebul his officer serve the men of hamor the father of shechem for why should we serve him
and would to god this people were under my hand then would i remove abimelech and he said to abimelech increase thine army and come out
and when zebul the ruler of the city heard the words of gaal the son of ebed his anger was kindled
and he sent messengers unto abimelech privily saying behold gaal the son of ebed and his brethren be come to shechem and behold they fortify the city against thee
now therefore up by night thou and the people that is with thee and lie in wait in the field
and it shall be that in the morning as soon as the sun is up thou shalt rise early and set upon the city and behold when he and the people that is with him come out against thee then mayest thou do to them as thou shalt find occasion
and abimelech rose up and all the people that were with him by night and they laid wait against shechem in four companies
and gaal the son of ebed went out and stood in the entering of the gate of the city and abimelech rose up and the people that were with him from lying in wait
and when gaal saw the people he said to zebul behold there come people down from the top of the mountains and zebul said unto him thou seest the shadow of the mountains as if they were men
and gaal spake again and said see there come people down by the middle of the land and another company come along by the plain of meonenim
then said zebul unto him where is now thy mouth wherewith thou saidst who is abimelech that we should serve him is not this the people that thou hast despised go out i pray now and fight with them
and gaal went out before the men of shechem and fought with abimelech
and abimelech chased him and he fled before him and many were overthrown and wounded even unto the entering of the gate
and abimelech dwelt at arumah and zebul thrust out gaal and his brethren that they should not dwell in shechem
and it came to pass on the morrow that the people went out into the field and they told abimelech
and he took the people and divided them into three companies and laid wait in the field and looked and behold the people were come forth out of the city and he rose up against them and smote them
and abimelech and the company that was with him rushed forward and stood in the entering of the gate of the city and the two other companies ran upon all the people that were in the fields and slew them
and abimelech fought against the city all that day and he took the city and slew the people that was therein and beat down the city and sowed it with salt
and when all the men of the tower of shechem heard that they entered into an hold of the house of the god berith
and it was told abimelech that all the men of the tower of shechem were gathered together
and abimelech gat him up to mount zalmon he and all the people that were with him and abimelech took an axe in his hand and cut down a bough from the trees and took it and laid it on his shoulder and said unto the people that were with him what ye have seen me do make haste and do as i have done
and all the people likewise cut down every man his bough and followed abimelech and put them to the hold and set the hold on fire upon them so that all the men of the tower of shechem died also about a thousand men and women
then went abimelech to thebez and encamped against thebez and took it
but there was a strong tower within the city and thither fled all the men and women and all they of the city and shut it to them and gat them up to the top of the tower
and abimelech came unto the tower and fought against it and went hard unto the door of the tower to burn it with fire
and a certain woman cast a piece of a millstone upon abimelech's head and all to brake his skull
then he called hastily unto the young man his armourbearer and said unto him draw thy sword and slay me that men say not of me a woman slew him and his young man thrust him through and he died
and when the men of israel saw that abimelech was dead they departed every man unto his place
thus god rendered the wickedness of abimelech which he did unto his father in slaying his seventy brethren
and all the evil of the men of shechem did god render upon their heads and upon them came the curse of jotham the son of jerubbaal
and after abimelech there arose to defend israel tola the son of puah the son of dodo a man of issachar and he dwelt in shamir in mount ephraim
and he judged israel twenty and three years and died and was buried in shamir
and after him arose jair a gileadite and judged israel twenty and two years
and he had thirty sons that rode on thirty ass colts and they had thirty cities which are called havothjair unto this day which are in the land of gilead
and jair died and was buried in camon
and the children of israel did evil again in the sight of the lord and served baalim and ashtaroth and the gods of syria and the gods of zidon and the gods of moab and the gods of the children of ammon and the gods of the philistines and forsook the lord and served not him
and the anger of the lord was hot against israel and he sold them into the hands of the philistines and into the hands of the children of ammon
and that year they vexed and oppressed the children of israel eighteen years all the children of israel that were on the other side jordan in the land of the amorites which is in gilead
moreover the children of ammon passed over jordan to fight also against judah and against benjamin and against the house of ephraim so that israel was sore distressed
and the children of israel cried unto the lord saying we have sinned against thee both because we have forsaken our god and also served baalim
and the lord said unto the children of israel did not i deliver you from the egyptians and from the amorites from the children of ammon and from the philistines
the zidonians also and the amalekites and the maonites did oppress you and ye cried to me and i delivered you out of their hand
yet ye have forsaken me and served other gods wherefore i will deliver you no more
go and cry unto the gods which ye have chosen let them deliver you in the time of your tribulation
and the children of israel said unto the lord we have sinned do thou unto us whatsoever seemeth good unto thee deliver us only we pray thee this day
and they put away the strange gods from among them and served the lord and his soul was grieved for the misery of israel
then the children of ammon were gathered together and encamped in gilead and the children of israel assembled themselves together and encamped in mizpeh
and the people and princes of gilead said one to another what man is he that will begin to fight against the children of ammon he shall be head over all the inhabitants of gilead
now jephthah the gileadite was a mighty man of valour and he was the son of an harlot and gilead begat jephthah
and gilead's wife bare him sons and his wife's sons grew up and they thrust out jephthah and said unto him thou shalt not inherit in our father's house for thou art the son of a strange woman
then jephthah fled from his brethren and dwelt in the land of tob and there were gathered vain men to jephthah and went out with him
and it came to pass in process of time that the children of ammon made war against israel
and it was so that when the children of ammon made war against israel the elders of gilead went to fetch jephthah out of the land of tob
and they said unto jephthah come and be our captain that we may fight with the children of ammon
and jephthah said unto the elders of gilead did not ye hate me and expel me out of my father's house and why are ye come unto me now when ye are in distress
and the elders of gilead said unto jephthah therefore we turn again to thee now that thou mayest go with us and fight against the children of ammon and be our head over all the inhabitants of gilead
and jephthah said unto the elders of gilead if ye bring me home again to fight against the children of ammon and the lord deliver them before me shall i be your head
and the elders of gilead said unto jephthah the lord be witness between us if we do not so according to thy words
then jephthah went with the elders of gilead and the people made him head and captain over them and jephthah uttered all his words before the lord in mizpeh
and jephthah sent messengers unto the king of the children of ammon saying what hast thou to do with me that thou art come against me to fight in my land
and the king of the children of ammon answered unto the messengers of jephthah because israel took away my land when they came up out of egypt from arnon even unto jabbok and unto jordan now therefore restore those lands again peaceably
and jephthah sent messengers again unto the king of the children of ammon
and said unto him thus saith jephthah israel took not away the land of moab nor the land of the children of ammon
but when israel came up from egypt and walked through the wilderness unto the red sea and came to kadesh
then israel sent messengers unto the king of edom saying let me i pray thee pass through thy land but the king of edom would not hearken thereto and in like manner they sent unto the king of moab but he would not consent and israel abode in kadesh
then they went along through the wilderness and compassed the land of edom and the land of moab and came by the east side of the land of moab and pitched on the other side of arnon but came not within the border of moab for arnon was the border of moab
and israel sent messengers unto sihon king of the amorites the king of heshbon and israel said unto him let us pass we pray thee through thy land into my place
but sihon trusted not israel to pass through his coast but sihon gathered all his people together and pitched in jahaz and fought against israel
and the lord god of israel delivered sihon and all his people into the hand of israel and they smote them so israel possessed all the land of the amorites the inhabitants of that country
and they possessed all the coasts of the amorites from arnon even unto jabbok and from the wilderness even unto jordan
so now the lord god of israel hath dispossessed the amorites from before his people israel and shouldest thou possess it
wilt not thou possess that which chemosh thy god giveth thee to possess so whomsoever the lord our god shall drive out from before us them will we possess
and now art thou any thing better than balak the son of zippor king of moab did he ever strive against israel or did he ever fight against them
while israel dwelt in heshbon and her towns and in aroer and her towns and in all the cities that be along by the coasts of arnon three hundred years why therefore did ye not recover them within that time
wherefore i have not sinned against thee but thou doest me wrong to war against me the lord the judge be judge this day between the children of israel and the children of ammon
howbeit the king of the children of ammon hearkened not unto the words of jephthah which he sent him
then the spirit of the lord came upon jephthah and he passed over gilead and manasseh and passed over mizpeh of gilead and from mizpeh of gilead he passed over unto the children of ammon
and jephthah vowed a vow unto the lord and said if thou shalt without fail deliver the children of ammon into mine hands
then it shall be that whatsoever cometh forth of the doors of my house to meet me when i return in peace from the children of ammon shall surely be the lord's and i will offer it up for a burnt offering
so jephthah passed over unto the children of ammon to fight against them and the lord delivered them into his hands
and he smote them from aroer even till thou come to minnith even twenty cities and unto the plain of the vineyards with a very great slaughter thus the children of ammon were subdued before the children of israel
and jephthah came to mizpeh unto his house and behold his daughter came out to meet him with timbrels and with dances and she was his only child beside her he had neither son nor daughter
and it came to pass when he saw her that he rent his clothes and said alas my daughter thou hast brought me very low and thou art one of them that trouble me for i have opened my mouth unto the lord and i cannot go back
and she said unto him my father if thou hast opened thy mouth unto the lord do to me according to that which hath proceeded out of thy mouth forasmuch as the lord hath taken vengeance for thee of thine enemies even of the children of ammon
and she said unto her father let this thing be done for me let me alone two months that i may go up and down upon the mountains and bewail my virginity i and my fellows
and he said go and he sent her away for two months and she went with her companions and bewailed her virginity upon the mountains
and it came to pass at the end of two months that she returned unto her father who did with her according to his vow which he had vowed and she knew no man and it was a custom in israel
that the daughters of israel went yearly to lament the daughter of jephthah the gileadite four days in a year
and the men of ephraim gathered themselves together and went northward and said unto jephthah wherefore passedst thou over to fight against the children of ammon and didst not call us to go with thee we will burn thine house upon thee with fire
and jephthah said unto them i and my people were at great strife with the children of ammon and when i called you ye delivered me not out of their hands
and when i saw that ye delivered me not i put my life in my hands and passed over against the children of ammon and the lord delivered them into my hand wherefore then are ye come up unto me this day to fight against me
then jephthah gathered together all the men of gilead and fought with ephraim and the men of gilead smote ephraim because they said ye gileadites are fugitives of ephraim among the ephraimites and among the manassites
and the gileadites took the passages of jordan before the ephraimites and it was so that when those ephraimites which were escaped said let me go over that the men of gilead said unto him art thou an ephraimite if he said nay
then said they unto him say now shibboleth and he said sibboleth for he could not frame to pronounce it right then they took him and slew him at the passages of jordan and there fell at that time of the ephraimites forty and two thousand
and jephthah judged israel six years then died jephthah the gileadite and was buried in one of the cities of gilead
and after him ibzan of bethlehem judged israel
and he had thirty sons and thirty daughters whom he sent abroad and took in thirty daughters from abroad for his sons and he judged israel seven years
then died ibzan and was buried at bethlehem
and after him elon a zebulonite judged israel and he judged israel ten years
and elon the zebulonite died and was buried in aijalon in the country of zebulun
and after him abdon the son of hillel a pirathonite judged israel
and he had forty sons and thirty nephews that rode on threescore and ten ass colts and he judged israel eight years
and abdon the son of hillel the pirathonite died and was buried in pirathon in the land of ephraim in the mount of the amalekites
and the children of israel did evil again in the sight of the lord and the lord delivered them into the hand of the philistines forty years
and there was a certain man of zorah of the family of the danites whose name was manoah and his wife was barren and bare not
and the angel of the lord appeared unto the woman and said unto her behold now thou art barren and bearest not but thou shalt conceive and bear a son
now therefore beware i pray thee and drink not wine nor strong drink and eat not any unclean thing
for lo thou shalt conceive and bear a son and no razor shall come on his head for the child shall be a nazarite unto god from the womb and he shall begin to deliver israel out of the hand of the philistines
then the woman came and told her husband saying a man of god came unto me and his countenance was like the countenance of an angel of god very terrible but i asked him not whence he was neither told he me his name
but he said unto me behold thou shalt conceive and bear a son and now drink no wine nor strong drink neither eat any unclean thing for the child shall be a nazarite to god from the womb to the day of his death
then manoah intreated the lord and said o my lord let the man of god which thou didst send come again unto us and teach us what we shall do unto the child that shall be born
and god hearkened to the voice of manoah and the angel of god came again unto the woman as she sat in the field but manoah her husband was not with her
and the woman made haste and ran and shewed her husband and said unto him behold the man hath appeared unto me that came unto me the other day
and manoah arose and went after his wife and came to the man and said unto him art thou the man that spakest unto the woman and he said i am
and manoah said now let thy words come to pass how shall we order the child and how shall we do unto him
and the angel of the lord said unto manoah of all that i said unto the woman let her beware
she may not eat of any thing that cometh of the vine neither let her drink wine or strong drink nor eat any unclean thing all that i commanded her let her observe
and manoah said unto the angel of the lord i pray thee let us detain thee until we shall have made ready a kid for thee
and the angel of the lord said unto manoah though thou detain me i will not eat of thy bread and if thou wilt offer a burnt offering thou must offer it unto the lord for manoah knew not that he was an angel of the lord
and manoah said unto the angel of the lord what is thy name that when thy sayings come to pass we may do thee honour
and the angel of the lord said unto him why askest thou thus after my name seeing it is secret
so manoah took a kid with a meat offering and offered it upon a rock unto the lord and the angel did wonderously and manoah and his wife looked on
for it came to pass when the flame went up toward heaven from off the altar that the angel of the lord ascended in the flame of the altar and manoah and his wife looked on it and fell on their faces to the ground
but the angel of the lord did no more appear to manoah and to his wife then manoah knew that he was an angel of the lord
and manoah said unto his wife we shall surely die because we have seen god
but his wife said unto him if the lord were pleased to kill us he would not have received a burnt offering and a meat offering at our hands neither would he have shewed us all these things nor would as at this time have told us such things as these
and the woman bare a son and called his name samson and the child grew and the lord blessed him
and the spirit of the lord began to move him at times in the camp of dan between zorah and eshtaol
and samson went down to timnath and saw a woman in timnath of the daughters of the philistines
and he came up and told his father and his mother and said i have seen a woman in timnath of the daughters of the philistines now therefore get her for me to wife
then his father and his mother said unto him is there never a woman among the daughters of thy brethren or among all my people that thou goest to take a wife of the uncircumcised philistines and samson said unto his father get her for me for she pleaseth me well
but his father and his mother knew not that it was of the lord that he sought an occasion against the philistines for at that time the philistines had dominion over israel
then went samson down and his father and his mother to timnath and came to the vineyards of timnath and behold a young lion roared against him
and the spirit of the lord came mightily upon him and he rent him as he would have rent a kid and he had nothing in his hand but he told not his father or his mother what he had done
and he went down and talked with the woman and she pleased samson well
and after a time he returned to take her and he turned aside to see the carcase of the lion and behold there was a swarm of bees and honey in the carcase of the lion
and he took thereof in his hands and went on eating and came to his father and mother and he gave them and they did eat but he told not them that he had taken the honey out of the carcase of the lion
so his father went down unto the woman and samson made there a feast for so used the young men to do
and it came to pass when they saw him that they brought thirty companions to be with him
and samson said unto them i will now put forth a riddle unto you if ye can certainly declare it me within the seven days of the feast and find it out then i will give you thirty sheets and thirty change of garments
but if ye cannot declare it me then shall ye give me thirty sheets and thirty change of garments and they said unto him put forth thy riddle that we may hear it
and he said unto them out of the eater came forth meat and out of the strong came forth sweetness and they could not in three days expound the riddle
and it came to pass on the seventh day that they said unto samson's wife entice thy husband that he may declare unto us the riddle lest we burn thee and thy father's house with fire have ye called us to take that we have is it not so
and samson's wife wept before him and said thou dost but hate me and lovest me not thou hast put forth a riddle unto the children of my people and hast not told it me and he said unto her behold i have not told it my father nor my mother and shall i tell it thee
and she wept before him the seven days while their feast lasted and it came to pass on the seventh day that he told her because she lay sore upon him and she told the riddle to the children of her people
and the men of the city said unto him on the seventh day before the sun went down what is sweeter than honey and what is stronger than a lion and he said unto them if ye had not plowed with my heifer ye had not found out my riddle
and the spirit of the lord came upon him and he went down to ashkelon and slew thirty men of them and took their spoil and gave change of garments unto them which expounded the riddle and his anger was kindled and he went up to his father's house
but samson's wife was given to his companion whom he had used as his friend
but it came to pass within a while after in the time of wheat harvest that samson visited his wife with a kid and he said i will go in to my wife into the chamber but her father would not suffer him to go in
and her father said i verily thought that thou hadst utterly hated her therefore i gave her to thy companion is not her younger sister fairer than she take her i pray thee instead of her
and samson said concerning them now shall i be more blameless than the philistines though i do them a displeasure
and samson went and caught three hundred foxes and took firebrands and turned tail to tail and put a firebrand in the midst between two tails
and when he had set the brands on fire he let them go into the standing corn of the philistines and burnt up both the shocks and also the standing corn with the vineyards and olives
then the philistines said who hath done this and they answered samson the son in law of the timnite because he had taken his wife and given her to his companion and the philistines came up and burnt her and her father with fire
and samson said unto them though ye have done this yet will i be avenged of you and after that i will cease
and he smote them hip and thigh with a great slaughter and he went down and dwelt in the top of the rock etam
then the philistines went up and pitched in judah and spread themselves in lehi
and the men of judah said why are ye come up against us and they answered to bind samson are we come up to do to him as he hath done to us
then three thousand men of judah went to the top of the rock etam and said to samson knowest thou not that the philistines are rulers over us what is this that thou hast done unto us and he said unto them as they did unto me so have i done unto them
and they said unto him we are come down to bind thee that we may deliver thee into the hand of the philistines and samson said unto them swear unto me that ye will not fall upon me yourselves
and they spake unto him saying no but we will bind thee fast and deliver thee into their hand but surely we will not kill thee and they bound him with two new cords and brought him up from the rock
and when he came unto lehi the philistines shouted against him and the spirit of the lord came mightily upon him and the cords that were upon his arms became as flax that was burnt with fire and his bands loosed from off his hands
and he found a new jawbone of an ass and put forth his hand and took it and slew a thousand men therewith
and samson said with the jawbone of an ass heaps upon heaps with the jaw of an ass have i slain a thousand men
and it came to pass when he had made an end of speaking that he cast away the jawbone out of his hand and called that place ramathlehi
and he was sore athirst and called on the lord and said thou hast given this great deliverance into the hand of thy servant and now shall i die for thirst and fall into the hand of the uncircumcised
but god clave an hollow place that was in the jaw and there came water thereout and when he had drunk his spirit came again and he revived wherefore he called the name thereof enhakkore which is in lehi unto this day
and he judged israel in the days of the philistines twenty years
then went samson to gaza and saw there an harlot and went in unto her
and it was told the gazites saying samson is come hither and they compassed him in and laid wait for him all night in the gate of the city and were quiet all the night saying in the morning when it is day we shall kill him
and samson lay till midnight and arose at midnight and took the doors of the gate of the city and the two posts and went away with them bar and all and put them upon his shoulders and carried them up to the top of an hill that is before hebron
and it came to pass afterward that he loved a woman in the valley of sorek whose name was delilah
and the lords of the philistines came up unto her and said unto her entice him and see wherein his great strength lieth and by what means we may prevail against him that we may bind him to afflict him and we will give thee every one of us eleven hundred pieces of silver
and delilah said to samson tell me i pray thee wherein thy great strength lieth and wherewith thou mightest be bound to afflict thee
and samson said unto her if they bind me with seven green withs that were never dried then shall i be weak and be as another man
then the lords of the philistines brought up to her seven green withs which had not been dried and she bound him with them
now there were men lying in wait abiding with her in the chamber and she said unto him the philistines be upon thee samson and he brake the withs as a thread of tow is broken when it toucheth the fire so his strength was not known
and delilah said unto samson behold thou hast mocked me and told me lies now tell me i pray thee wherewith thou mightest be bound
and he said unto her if they bind me fast with new ropes that never were occupied then shall i be weak and be as another man
delilah therefore took new ropes and bound him therewith and said unto him the philistines be upon thee samson and there were liers in wait abiding in the chamber and he brake them from off his arms like a thread
and delilah said unto samson hitherto thou hast mocked me and told me lies tell me wherewith thou mightest be bound and he said unto her if thou weavest the seven locks of my head with the web
and she fastened it with the pin and said unto him the philistines be upon thee samson and he awaked out of his sleep and went away with the pin of the beam and with the web
and she said unto him how canst thou say i love thee when thine heart is not with me thou hast mocked me these three times and hast not told me wherein thy great strength lieth
and it came to pass when she pressed him daily with her words and urged him so that his soul was vexed unto death
that he told her all his heart and said unto her there hath not come a razor upon mine head for i have been a nazarite unto god from my mother's womb if i be shaven then my strength will go from me and i shall become weak and be like any other man
and when delilah saw that he had told her all his heart she sent and called for the lords of the philistines saying come up this once for he hath shewed me all his heart then the lords of the philistines came up unto her and brought money in their hand
and she made him sleep upon her knees and she called for a man and she caused him to shave off the seven locks of his head and she began to afflict him and his strength went from him
and she said the philistines be upon thee samson and he awoke out of his sleep and said i will go out as at other times before and shake myself and he wist not that the lord was departed from him
but the philistines took him and put out his eyes and brought him down to gaza and bound him with fetters of brass and he did grind in the prison house
howbeit the hair of his head began to grow again after he was shaven
then the lords of the philistines gathered them together for to offer a great sacrifice unto dagon their god and to rejoice for they said our god hath delivered samson our enemy into our hand
and when the people saw him they praised their god for they said our god hath delivered into our hands our enemy and the destroyer of our country which slew many of us
and it came to pass when their hearts were merry that they said call for samson that he may make us sport and they called for samson out of the prison house and he made them sport and they set him between the pillars
and samson said unto the lad that held him by the hand suffer me that i may feel the pillars whereupon the house standeth that i may lean upon them
now the house was full of men and women and all the lords of the philistines were there and there were upon the roof about three thousand men and women that beheld while samson made sport
and samson called unto the lord and said o lord god remember me i pray thee and strengthen me i pray thee only this once o god that i may be at once avenged of the philistines for my two eyes
and samson took hold of the two middle pillars upon which the house stood and on which it was borne up of the one with his right hand and of the other with his left
and samson said let me die with the philistines and he bowed himself with all his might and the house fell upon the lords and upon all the people that were therein so the dead which he slew at his death were more than they which he slew in his life
then his brethren and all the house of his father came down and took him and brought him up and buried him between zorah and eshtaol in the buryingplace of manoah his father and he judged israel twenty years
and there was a man of mount ephraim whose name was micah
and he said unto his mother the eleven hundred shekels of silver that were taken from thee about which thou cursedst and spakest of also in mine ears behold the silver is with me i took it and his mother said blessed be thou of the lord my son
and when he had restored the eleven hundred shekels of silver to his mother his mother said i had wholly dedicated the silver unto the lord from my hand for my son to make a graven image and a molten image now therefore i will restore it unto thee
yet he restored the money unto his mother and his mother took two hundred shekels of silver and gave them to the founder who made thereof a graven image and a molten image and they were in the house of micah
and the man micah had an house of gods and made an ephod and teraphim and consecrated one of his sons who became his priest
in those days there was no king in israel but every man did that which was right in his own eyes
and there was a young man out of bethlehemjudah of the family of judah who was a levite and he sojourned there
and the man departed out of the city from bethlehemjudah to sojourn where he could find a place and he came to mount ephraim to the house of micah as he journeyed
and micah said unto him whence comest thou and he said unto him i am a levite of bethlehemjudah and i go to sojourn where i may find a place
and micah said unto him dwell with me and be unto me a father and a priest and i will give thee ten shekels of silver by the year and a suit of apparel and thy victuals so the levite went in
and the levite was content to dwell with the man and the young man was unto him as one of his sons
and micah consecrated the levite and the young man became his priest and was in the house of micah
then said micah now know i that the lord will do me good seeing i have a levite to my priest
in those days there was no king in israel and in those days the tribe of the danites sought them an inheritance to dwell in for unto that day all their inheritance had not fallen unto them among the tribes of israel
and the children of dan sent of their family five men from their coasts men of valour from zorah and from eshtaol to spy out the land and to search it and they said unto them go search the land who when they came to mount ephraim to the house of micah they lodged there
when they were by the house of micah they knew the voice of the young man the levite and they turned in thither and said unto him who brought thee hither and what makest thou in this place and what hast thou here
and he said unto them thus and thus dealeth micah with me and hath hired me and i am his priest
and they said unto him ask counsel we pray thee of god that we may know whether our way which we go shall be prosperous
and the priest said unto them go in peace before the lord is your way wherein ye go
then the five men departed and came to laish and saw the people that were therein how they dwelt careless after the manner of the zidonians quiet and secure and there was no magistrate in the land that might put them to shame in any thing and they were far from the zidonians and had no business with any man
and they came unto their brethren to zorah and eshtaol and their brethren said unto them what say ye
and they said arise that we may go up against them for we have seen the land and behold it is very good and are ye still be not slothful to go and to enter to possess the land
when ye go ye shall come unto a people secure and to a large land for god hath given it into your hands a place where there is no want of any thing that is in the earth
and there went from thence of the family of the danites out of zorah and out of eshtaol six hundred men appointed with weapons of war
and they went up and pitched in kirjathjearim in judah wherefore they called that place mahanehdan unto this day behold it is behind kirjathjearim
and they passed thence unto mount ephraim and came unto the house of micah
then answered the five men that went to spy out the country of laish and said unto their brethren do ye know that there is in these houses an ephod and teraphim and a graven image and a molten image now therefore consider what ye have to do
and they turned thitherward and came to the house of the young man the levite even unto the house of micah and saluted him
and the six hundred men appointed with their weapons of war which were of the children of dan stood by the entering of the gate
and the five men that went to spy out the land went up and came in thither and took the graven image and the ephod and the teraphim and the molten image and the priest stood in the entering of the gate with the six hundred men that were appointed with weapons of war
and these went into micah's house and fetched the carved image the ephod and the teraphim and the molten image then said the priest unto them what do ye
and they said unto him hold thy peace lay thine hand upon thy mouth and go with us and be to us a father and a priest is it better for thee to be a priest unto the house of one man or that thou be a priest unto a tribe and a family in israel
and the priest's heart was glad and he took the ephod and the teraphim and the graven image and went in the midst of the people
so they turned and departed and put the little ones and the cattle and the carriage before them
and when they were a good way from the house of micah the men that were in the houses near to micah's house were gathered together and overtook the children of dan
and they cried unto the children of dan and they turned their faces and said unto micah what aileth thee that thou comest with such a company
and he said ye have taken away my gods which i made and the priest and ye are gone away and what have i more and what is this that ye say unto me what aileth thee
and the children of dan said unto him let not thy voice be heard among us lest angry fellows run upon thee and thou lose thy life with the lives of thy household
and the children of dan went their way and when micah saw that they were too strong for him he turned and went back unto his house
and they took the things which micah had made and the priest which he had and came unto laish unto a people that were at quiet and secure and they smote them with the edge of the sword and burnt the city with fire
and there was no deliverer because it was far from zidon and they had no business with any man and it was in the valley that lieth by bethrehob and they built a city and dwelt therein
and they called the name of the city dan after the name of dan their father who was born unto israel howbeit the name of the city was laish at the first
and the children of dan set up the graven image and jonathan the son of gershom the son of manasseh he and his sons were priests to the tribe of dan until the day of the captivity of the land
and they set them up micah's graven image which he made all the time that the house of god was in shiloh
and it came to pass in those days when there was no king in israel that there was a certain levite sojourning on the side of mount ephraim who took to him a concubine out of bethlehemjudah
and his concubine played the whore against him and went away from him unto her father's house to bethlehemjudah and was there four whole months
and her husband arose and went after her to speak friendly unto her and to bring her again having his servant with him and a couple of asses and she brought him into her father's house and when the father of the damsel saw him he rejoiced to meet him
and his father in law the damsel's father retained him and he abode with him three days so they did eat and drink and lodged there
and it came to pass on the fourth day when they arose early in the morning that he rose up to depart and the damsel's father said unto his son in law comfort thine heart with a morsel of bread and afterward go your way
and they sat down and did eat and drink both of them together for the damsel's father had said unto the man be content i pray thee and tarry all night and let thine heart be merry
and when the man rose up to depart his father in law urged him therefore he lodged there again
and he arose early in the morning on the fifth day to depart and the damsel's father said comfort thine heart i pray thee and they tarried until afternoon and they did eat both of them
and when the man rose up to depart he and his concubine and his servant his father in law the damsel's father said unto him behold now the day draweth toward evening i pray you tarry all night behold the day groweth to an end lodge here that thine heart may be merry and to morrow get you early on your way that thou mayest go home
but the man would not tarry that night but he rose up and departed and came over against jebus which is jerusalem and there were with him two asses saddled his concubine also was with him
and when they were by jebus the day was far spent and the servant said unto his master come i pray thee and let us turn in into this city of the jebusites and lodge in it
and his master said unto him we will not turn aside hither into the city of a stranger that is not of the children of israel we will pass over to gibeah
and he said unto his servant come and let us draw near to one of these places to lodge all night in gibeah or in ramah
and they passed on and went their way and the sun went down upon them when they were by gibeah which belongeth to benjamin
and they turned aside thither to go in and to lodge in gibeah and when he went in he sat him down in a street of the city for there was no man that took them into his house to lodging
and behold there came an old man from his work out of the field at even which was also of mount ephraim and he sojourned in gibeah but the men of the place were benjamites
and when he had lifted up his eyes he saw a wayfaring man in the street of the city and the old man said whither goest thou and whence comest thou
and he said unto him we are passing from bethlehemjudah toward the side of mount ephraim from thence am i and i went to bethlehemjudah but i am now going to the house of the lord and there is no man that receiveth me to house
yet there is both straw and provender for our asses and there is bread and wine also for me and for thy handmaid and for the young man which is with thy servants there is no want of any thing
and the old man said peace be with thee howsoever let all thy wants lie upon me only lodge not in the street
so he brought him into his house and gave provender unto the asses and they washed their feet and did eat and drink
now as they were making their hearts merry behold the men of the city certain sons of belial beset the house round about and beat at the door and spake to the master of the house the old man saying bring forth the man that came into thine house that we may know him
and the man the master of the house went out unto them and said unto them nay my brethren nay i pray you do not so wickedly seeing that this man is come into mine house do not this folly
behold here is my daughter a maiden and his concubine them i will bring out now and humble ye them and do with them what seemeth good unto you but unto this man do not so vile a thing
but the men would not hearken to him so the man took his concubine and brought her forth unto them and they knew her and abused her all the night until the morning and when the day began to spring they let her go
then came the woman in the dawning of the day and fell down at the door of the man's house where her lord was till it was light
and her lord rose up in the morning and opened the doors of the house and went out to go his way and behold the woman his concubine was fallen down at the door of the house and her hands were upon the threshold
and he said unto her up and let us be going but none answered then the man took her up upon an ass and the man rose up and gat him unto his place
and when he was come into his house he took a knife and laid hold on his concubine and divided her together with her bones into twelve pieces and sent her into all the coasts of israel
and it was so that all that saw it said there was no such deed done nor seen from the day that the children of israel came up out of the land of egypt unto this day consider of it take advice and speak your minds
then all the children of israel went out and the congregation was gathered together as one man from dan even to beersheba with the land of gilead unto the lord in mizpeh
and the chief of all the people even of all the tribes of israel presented themselves in the assembly of the people of god four hundred thousand footmen that drew sword
now the children of benjamin heard that the children of israel were gone up to mizpeh then said the children of israel tell us how was this wickedness
and the levite the husband of the woman that was slain answered and said i came into gibeah that belongeth to benjamin i and my concubine to lodge
and the men of gibeah rose against me and beset the house round about upon me by night and thought to have slain me and my concubine have they forced that she is dead
and i took my concubine and cut her in pieces and sent her throughout all the country of the inheritance of israel for they have committed lewdness and folly in israel
behold ye are all children of israel give here your advice and counsel
and all the people arose as one man saying we will not any of us go to his tent neither will we any of us turn into his house
but now this shall be the thing which we will do to gibeah we will go up by lot against it
and we will take ten men of an hundred throughout all the tribes of israel and an hundred of a thousand and a thousand out of ten thousand to fetch victual for the people that they may do when they come to gibeah of benjamin according to all the folly that they have wrought in israel
so all the men of israel were gathered against the city knit together as one man
and the tribes of israel sent men through all the tribe of benjamin saying what wickedness is this that is done among you
now therefore deliver us the men the children of belial which are in gibeah that we may put them to death and put away evil from israel but the children of benjamin would not hearken to the voice of their brethren the children of israel
but the children of benjamin gathered themselves together out of the cities unto gibeah to go out to battle against the children of israel
and the children of benjamin were numbered at that time out of the cities twenty and six thousand men that drew sword beside the inhabitants of gibeah which were numbered seven hundred chosen men
among all this people there were seven hundred chosen men lefthanded every one could sling stones at an hair breadth and not miss
and the men of israel beside benjamin were numbered four hundred thousand men that drew sword all these were men of war
and the children of israel arose and went up to the house of god and asked counsel of god and said which of us shall go up first to the battle against the children of benjamin and the lord said judah shall go up first
and the children of israel rose up in the morning and encamped against gibeah
and the men of israel went out to battle against benjamin and the men of israel put themselves in array to fight against them at gibeah
and the children of benjamin came forth out of gibeah and destroyed down to the ground of the israelites that day twenty and two thousand men
and the people the men of israel encouraged themselves and set their battle again in array in the place where they put themselves in array the first day
and the children of israel went up and wept before the lord until even and asked counsel of the lord saying shall i go up again to battle against the children of benjamin my brother and the lord said go up against him
and the children of israel came near against the children of benjamin the second day
and benjamin went forth against them out of gibeah the second day and destroyed down to the ground of the children of israel again eighteen thousand men all these drew the sword
then all the children of israel and all the people went up and came unto the house of god and wept and sat there before the lord and fasted that day until even and offered burnt offerings and peace offerings before the lord
and the children of israel enquired of the lord for the ark of the covenant of god was there in those days
and phinehas the son of eleazar the son of aaron stood before it in those days saying shall i yet again go out to battle against the children of benjamin my brother or shall i cease and the lord said go up for to morrow i will deliver them into thine hand
and israel set liers in wait round about gibeah
and the children of israel went up against the children of benjamin on the third day and put themselves in array against gibeah as at other times
and the children of benjamin went out against the people and were drawn away from the city and they began to smite of the people and kill as at other times in the highways of which one goeth up to the house of god and the other to gibeah in the field about thirty men of israel
and the children of benjamin said they are smitten down before us as at the first but the children of israel said let us flee and draw them from the city unto the highways
and all the men of israel rose up out of their place and put themselves in array at baaltamar and the liers in wait of israel came forth out of their places even out of the meadows of gibeah
and there came against gibeah ten thousand chosen men out of all israel and the battle was sore but they knew not that evil was near them
and the lord smote benjamin before israel and the children of israel destroyed of the benjamites that day twenty and five thousand and an hundred men all these drew the sword
so the children of benjamin saw that they were smitten for the men of israel gave place to the benjamites because they trusted unto the liers in wait which they had set beside gibeah
and the liers in wait hasted and rushed upon gibeah and the liers in wait drew themselves along and smote all the city with the edge of the sword
now there was an appointed sign between the men of israel and the liers in wait that they should make a great flame with smoke rise up out of the city
and when the men of israel retired in the battle benjamin began to smite and kill of the men of israel about thirty persons for they said surely they are smitten down before us as in the first battle
but when the flame began to arise up out of the city with a pillar of smoke the benjamites looked behind them and behold the flame of the city ascended up to heaven
and when the men of israel turned again the men of benjamin were amazed for they saw that evil was come upon them
therefore they turned their backs before the men of israel unto the way of the wilderness but the battle overtook them and them which came out of the cities they destroyed in the midst of them
thus they inclosed the benjamites round about and chased them and trode them down with ease over against gibeah toward the sunrising
and there fell of benjamin eighteen thousand men all these were men of valour
and they turned and fled toward the wilderness unto the rock of rimmon and they gleaned of them in the highways five thousand men and pursued hard after them unto gidom and slew two thousand men of them
so that all which fell that day of benjamin were twenty and five thousand men that drew the sword all these were men of valour
but six hundred men turned and fled to the wilderness unto the rock rimmon and abode in the rock rimmon four months
and the men of israel turned again upon the children of benjamin and smote them with the edge of the sword as well the men of every city as the beast and all that came to hand also they set on fire all the cities that they came to
now the men of israel had sworn in mizpeh saying there shall not any of us give his daughter unto benjamin to wife
and the people came to the house of god and abode there till even before god and lifted up their voices and wept sore
and said o lord god of israel why is this come to pass in israel that there should be to day one tribe lacking in israel
and it came to pass on the morrow that the people rose early and built there an altar and offered burnt offerings and peace offerings
and the children of israel said who is there among all the tribes of israel that came not up with the congregation unto the lord for they had made a great oath concerning him that came not up to the lord to mizpeh saying he shall surely be put to death
and the children of israel repented them for benjamin their brother and said there is one tribe cut off from israel this day
how shall we do for wives for them that remain seeing we have sworn by the lord that we will not give them of our daughters to wives
and they said what one is there of the tribes of israel that came not up to mizpeh to the lord and behold there came none to the camp from jabeshgilead to the assembly
for the people were numbered and behold there were none of the inhabitants of jabeshgilead there
and the congregation sent thither twelve thousand men of the valiantest and commanded them saying go and smite the inhabitants of jabeshgilead with the edge of the sword with the women and the children
and this is the thing that ye shall do ye shall utterly destroy every male and every woman that hath lain by man
and they found among the inhabitants of jabeshgilead four hundred young virgins that had known no man by lying with any male and they brought them unto the camp to shiloh which is in the land of canaan
and the whole congregation sent some to speak to the children of benjamin that were in the rock rimmon and to call peaceably unto them
and benjamin came again at that time and they gave them wives which they had saved alive of the women of jabeshgilead and yet so they sufficed them not
and the people repented them for benjamin because that the lord had made a breach in the tribes of israel
then the elders of the congregation said how shall we do for wives for them that remain seeing the women are destroyed out of benjamin
and they said there must be an inheritance for them that be escaped of benjamin that a tribe be not destroyed out of israel
howbeit we may not give them wives of our daughters for the children of israel have sworn saying cursed be he that giveth a wife to benjamin
then they said behold there is a feast of the lord in shiloh yearly in a place which is on the north side of bethel on the east side of the highway that goeth up from bethel to shechem and on the south of lebonah
therefore they commanded the children of benjamin saying go and lie in wait in the vineyards
and see and behold if the daughters of shiloh come out to dance in dances then come ye out of the vineyards and catch you every man his wife of the daughters of shiloh and go to the land of benjamin
and it shall be when their fathers or their brethren come unto us to complain that we will say unto them be favourable unto them for our sakes because we reserved not to each man his wife in the war for ye did not give unto them at this time that ye should be guilty
and the children of benjamin did so and took them wives according to their number of them that danced whom they caught and they went and returned unto their inheritance and repaired the cities and dwelt in them
and the children of israel departed thence at that time every man to his tribe and to his family and they went out from thence every man to his inheritance
in those days there was no king in israel every man did that which was right in his own eyes
now it came to pass in the days when the judges ruled that there was a famine in the land and a certain man of bethlehemjudah went to sojourn in the country of moab he and his wife and his two sons
and the name of the man was elimelech and the name of his wife naomi and the name of his two sons mahlon and chilion ephrathites of bethlehemjudah and they came into the country of moab and continued there
and elimelech naomi's husband died and she was left and her two sons
and they took them wives of the women of moab the name of the one was orpah and the name of the other ruth and they dwelled there about ten years
and mahlon and chilion died also both of them and the woman was left of her two sons and her husband
then she arose with her daughters in law that she might return from the country of moab for she had heard in the country of moab how that the lord had visited his people in giving them bread
wherefore she went forth out of the place where she was and her two daughters in law with her and they went on the way to return unto the land of judah
and naomi said unto her two daughters in law go return each to her mother's house the lord deal kindly with you as ye have dealt with the dead and with me
the lord grant you that ye may find rest each of you in the house of her husband then she kissed them and they lifted up their voice and wept
and they said unto her surely we will return with thee unto thy people
and naomi said turn again my daughters why will ye go with me are there yet any more sons in my womb that they may be your husbands
turn again my daughters go your way for i am too old to have an husband if i should say i have hope if i should have an husband also to night and should also bear sons
would ye tarry for them till they were grown would ye stay for them from having husbands nay my daughters for it grieveth me much for your sakes that the hand of the lord is gone out against me
and they lifted up their voice and wept again and orpah kissed her mother in law but ruth clave unto her
and she said behold thy sister in law is gone back unto her people and unto her gods return thou after thy sister in law
and ruth said intreat me not to leave thee or to return from following after thee for whither thou goest i will go and where thou lodgest i will lodge thy people shall be my people and thy god my god
where thou diest will i die and there will i be buried the lord do so to me and more also if ought but death part thee and me
when she saw that she was stedfastly minded to go with her then she left speaking unto her
so they two went until they came to bethlehem and it came to pass when they were come to bethlehem that all the city was moved about them and they said is this naomi
and she said unto them call me not naomi call me mara for the almighty hath dealt very bitterly with me
i went out full and the lord hath brought me home again empty why then call ye me naomi seeing the lord hath testified against me and the almighty hath afflicted me
so naomi returned and ruth the moabitess her daughter in law with her which returned out of the country of moab and they came to bethlehem in the beginning of barley harvest
and naomi had a kinsman of her husband's a mighty man of wealth of the family of elimelech and his name was boaz
and ruth the moabitess said unto naomi let me now go to the field and glean ears of corn after him in whose sight i shall find grace and she said unto her go my daughter
and she went and came and gleaned in the field after the reapers and her hap was to light on a part of the field belonging unto boaz who was of the kindred of elimelech
and behold boaz came from bethlehem and said unto the reapers the lord be with you and they answered him the lord bless thee
then said boaz unto his servant that was set over the reapers whose damsel is this
and the servant that was set over the reapers answered and said it is the moabitish damsel that came back with naomi out of the country of moab
and she said i pray you let me glean and gather after the reapers among the sheaves so she came and hath continued even from the morning until now that she tarried a little in the house
then said boaz unto ruth hearest thou not my daughter go not to glean in another field neither go from hence but abide here fast by my maidens
let thine eyes be on the field that they do reap and go thou after them have i not charged the young men that they shall not touch thee and when thou art athirst go unto the vessels and drink of that which the young men have drawn
then she fell on her face and bowed herself to the ground and said unto him why have i found grace in thine eyes that thou shouldest take knowledge of me seeing i am a stranger
and boaz answered and said unto her it hath fully been shewed me all that thou hast done unto thy mother in law since the death of thine husband and how thou hast left thy father and thy mother and the land of thy nativity and art come unto a people which thou knewest not heretofore
the lord recompense thy work and a full reward be given thee of the lord god of israel under whose wings thou art come to trust
then she said let me find favour in thy sight my lord for that thou hast comforted me and for that thou hast spoken friendly unto thine handmaid though i be not like unto one of thine handmaidens
and boaz said unto her at mealtime come thou hither and eat of the bread and dip thy morsel in the vinegar and she sat beside the reapers and he reached her parched corn and she did eat and was sufficed and left
and when she was risen up to glean boaz commanded his young men saying let her glean even among the sheaves and reproach her not
and let fall also some of the handfuls of purpose for her and leave them that she may glean them and rebuke her not
so she gleaned in the field until even and beat out that she had gleaned and it was about an ephah of barley
and she took it up and went into the city and her mother in law saw what she had gleaned and she brought forth and gave to her that she had reserved after she was sufficed
and her mother in law said unto her where hast thou gleaned to day and where wroughtest thou blessed be he that did take knowledge of thee and she shewed her mother in law with whom she had wrought and said the man's name with whom i wrought to day is boaz
and naomi said unto her daughter in law blessed be he of the lord who hath not left off his kindness to the living and to the dead and naomi said unto her the man is near of kin unto us one of our next kinsmen
and ruth the moabitess said he said unto me also thou shalt keep fast by my young men until they have ended all my harvest
and naomi said unto ruth her daughter in law it is good my daughter that thou go out with his maidens that they meet thee not in any other field
so she kept fast by the maidens of boaz to glean unto the end of barley harvest and of wheat harvest and dwelt with her mother in law
then naomi her mother in law said unto her my daughter shall i not seek rest for thee that it may be well with thee
and now is not boaz of our kindred with whose maidens thou wast behold he winnoweth barley to night in the threshingfloor
wash thyself therefore and anoint thee and put thy raiment upon thee and get thee down to the floor but make not thyself known unto the man until he shall have done eating and drinking
and it shall be when he lieth down that thou shalt mark the place where he shall lie and thou shalt go in and uncover his feet and lay thee down and he will tell thee what thou shalt do
and she said unto her all that thou sayest unto me i will do
and she went down unto the floor and did according to all that her mother in law bade her
and when boaz had eaten and drunk and his heart was merry he went to lie down at the end of the heap of corn and she came softly and uncovered his feet and laid her down
and it came to pass at midnight that the man was afraid and turned himself and behold a woman lay at his feet
and he said who art thou and she answered i am ruth thine handmaid spread therefore thy skirt over thine handmaid for thou art a near kinsman
and he said blessed be thou of the lord my daughter for thou hast shewed more kindness in the latter end than at the beginning inasmuch as thou followedst not young men whether poor or rich
and now my daughter fear not i will do to thee all that thou requirest for all the city of my people doth know that thou art a virtuous woman
and now it is true that i am thy near kinsman howbeit there is a kinsman nearer than i
tarry this night and it shall be in the morning that if he will perform unto thee the part of a kinsman well let him do the kinsman's part but if he will not do the part of a kinsman to thee then will i do the part of a kinsman to thee as the lord liveth lie down until the morning
and she lay at his feet until the morning and she rose up before one could know another and he said let it not be known that a woman came into the floor
also he said bring the vail that thou hast upon thee and hold it and when she held it he measured six measures of barley and laid it on her and she went into the city
and when she came to her mother in law she said who art thou my daughter and she told her all that the man had done to her
and she said these six measures of barley gave he me for he said to me go not empty unto thy mother in law
then said she sit still my daughter until thou know how the matter will fall for the man will not be in rest until he have finished the thing this day
then went boaz up to the gate and sat him down there and behold the kinsman of whom boaz spake came by unto whom he said ho such a one turn aside sit down here and he turned aside and sat down
and he took ten men of the elders of the city and said sit ye down here and they sat down
and he said unto the kinsman naomi that is come again out of the country of moab selleth a parcel of land which was our brother elimelech's
and i thought to advertise thee saying buy it before the inhabitants and before the elders of my people if thou wilt redeem it redeem it but if thou wilt not redeem it then tell me that i may know for there is none to redeem it beside thee and i am after thee and he said i will redeem it
then said boaz what day thou buyest the field of the hand of naomi thou must buy it also of ruth the moabitess the wife of the dead to raise up the name of the dead upon his inheritance
and the kinsman said i cannot redeem it for myself lest i mar mine own inheritance redeem thou my right to thyself for i cannot redeem it
now this was the manner in former time in israel concerning redeeming and concerning changing for to confirm all things a man plucked off his shoe and gave it to his neighbour and this was a testimony in israel
therefore the kinsman said unto boaz buy it for thee so he drew off his shoe
and boaz said unto the elders and unto all the people ye are witnesses this day that i have bought all that was elimelech's and all that was chilion's and mahlon's of the hand of naomi
moreover ruth the moabitess the wife of mahlon have i purchased to be my wife to raise up the name of the dead upon his inheritance that the name of the dead be not cut off from among his brethren and from the gate of his place ye are witnesses this day
and all the people that were in the gate and the elders said we are witnesses the lord make the woman that is come into thine house like rachel and like leah which two did build the house of israel and do thou worthily in ephratah and be famous in bethlehem
and let thy house be like the house of pharez whom tamar bare unto judah of the seed which the lord shall give thee of this young woman
so boaz took ruth and she was his wife and when he went in unto her the lord gave her conception and she bare a son
and the women said unto naomi blessed be the lord which hath not left thee this day without a kinsman that his name may be famous in israel
and he shall be unto thee a restorer of thy life and a nourisher of thine old age for thy daughter in law which loveth thee which is better to thee than seven sons hath born him
and naomi took the child and laid it in her bosom and became nurse unto it
and the women her neighbours gave it a name saying there is a son born to naomi and they called his name obed he is the father of jesse the father of david
now these are the generations of pharez pharez begat hezron
and hezron begat ram and ram begat amminadab
and amminadab begat nahshon and nahshon begat salmon
and salmon begat boaz and boaz begat obed
and obed begat jesse and jesse begat david
1sm11 now there was a certain man of ramathaimzophim of mount ephraim and his name was elkanah the son of jeroham the son of elihu the son of tohu the son of zuph an ephrathite
1sm12 and he had two wives the name of the one was hannah and the name of the other peninnah and peninnah had children but hannah had no children
1sm13 and this man went up out of his city yearly to worship and to sacrifice unto the lord of hosts in shiloh and the two sons of eli hophni and phinehas the priests of the lord were there
1sm14 and when the time was that elkanah offered he gave to peninnah his wife and to all her sons and her daughters portions
1sm15 but unto hannah he gave a worthy portion for he loved hannah but the lord had shut up her womb
1sm16 and her adversary also provoked her sore for to make her fret because the lord had shut up her womb
1sm17 and as he did so year by year when she went up to the house of the lord so she provoked her therefore she wept and did not eat
1sm18 then said elkanah her husband to her hannah why weepest thou and why eatest thou not and why is thy heart grieved am not i better to thee than ten sons
1sm19 so hannah rose up after they had eaten in shiloh and after they had drunk now eli the priest sat upon a seat by a post of the temple of the lord
1sm110 and she was in bitterness of soul and prayed unto the lord and wept sore
1sm111 and she vowed a vow and said o lord of hosts if thou wilt indeed look on the affliction of thine handmaid and remember me and not forget thine handmaid but wilt give unto thine handmaid a man child then i will give him unto the lord all the days of his life and there shall no razor come upon his head
1sm112 and it came to pass as she continued praying before the lord that eli marked her mouth
1sm113 now hannah she spake in her heart only her lips moved but her voice was not heard therefore eli thought she had been drunken
1sm114 and eli said unto her how long wilt thou be drunken put away thy wine from thee
1sm115 and hannah answered and said no my lord i am a woman of a sorrowful spirit i have drunk neither wine nor strong drink but have poured out my soul before the lord
1sm116 count not thine handmaid for a daughter of belial for out of the abundance of my complaint and grief have i spoken hitherto
1sm117 then eli answered and said go in peace and the god of israel grant thee thy petition that thou hast asked of him
1sm118 and she said let thine handmaid find grace in thy sight so the woman went her way and did eat and her countenance was no more sad
1sm119 and they rose up in the morning early and worshipped before the lord and returned and came to their house to ramah and elkanah knew hannah his wife and the lord remembered her
1sm120 wherefore it came to pass when the time was come about after hannah had conceived that she bare a son and called his name samuel saying because i have asked him of the lord
1sm121 and the man elkanah and all his house went up to offer unto the lord the yearly sacrifice and his vow
1sm122 but hannah went not up for she said unto her husband i will not go up until the child be weaned and then i will bring him that he may appear before the lord and there abide for ever
1sm123 and elkanah her husband said unto her do what seemeth thee good tarry until thou have weaned him only the lord establish his word so the woman abode and gave her son suck until she weaned him
1sm124 and when she had weaned him she took him up with her with three bullocks and one ephah of flour and a bottle of wine and brought him unto the house of the lord in shiloh and the child was young
1sm125 and they slew a bullock and brought the child to eli
1sm126 and she said oh my lord as thy soul liveth my lord i am the woman that stood by thee here praying unto the lord
1sm127 for this child i prayed and the lord hath given me my petition which i asked of him
1sm128 therefore also i have lent him to the lord as long as he liveth he shall be lent to the lord and he worshipped the lord there
1sm21 and hannah prayed and said my heart rejoiceth in the lord mine horn is exalted in the lord my mouth is enlarged over mine enemies because i rejoice in thy salvation
1sm22 there is none holy as the lord for there is none beside thee neither is there any rock like our god
1sm23 talk no more so exceeding proudly let not arrogancy come out of your mouth for the lord is a god of knowledge and by him actions are weighed
1sm24 the bows of the mighty men are broken and they that stumbled are girded with strength
1sm25 they that were full have hired out themselves for bread and they that were hungry ceased so that the barren hath born seven and she that hath many children is waxed feeble
1sm26 the lord killeth and maketh alive he bringeth down to the grave and bringeth up
1sm27 the lord maketh poor and maketh rich he bringeth low and lifteth up
1sm28 he raiseth up the poor out of the dust and lifteth up the beggar from the dunghill to set them among princes and to make them inherit the throne of glory for the pillars of the earth are the lord's and he hath set the world upon them
1sm29 he will keep the feet of his saints and the wicked shall be silent in darkness for by strength shall no man prevail
1sm210 the adversaries of the lord shall be broken to pieces out of heaven shall he thunder upon them the lord shall judge the ends of the earth and he shall give strength unto his king and exalt the horn of his anointed
1sm211 and elkanah went to ramah to his house and the child did minister unto the lord before eli the priest
1sm212 now the sons of eli were sons of belial they knew not the lord
1sm213 and the priests custom with the people was that when any man offered sacrifice the priest's servant came while the flesh was in seething with a fleshhook of three teeth in his hand
1sm214 and he struck it into the pan or kettle or caldron or pot all that the fleshhook brought up the priest took for himself so they did in shiloh unto all the israelites that came thither
1sm215 also before they burnt the fat the priest's servant came and said to the man that sacrificed give flesh to roast for the priest for he will not have sodden flesh of thee but raw
1sm216 and if any man said unto him let them not fail to burn the fat presently and then take as much as thy soul desireth then he would answer him nay but thou shalt give it me now and if not i will take it by force
1sm217 wherefore the sin of the young men was very great before the lord for men abhorred the offering of the lord
1sm218 but samuel ministered before the lord being a child girded with a linen ephod
1sm219 moreover his mother made him a little coat and brought it to him from year to year when she came up with her husband to offer the yearly sacrifice
1sm220 and eli blessed elkanah and his wife and said the lord give thee seed of this woman for the loan which is lent to the lord and they went unto their own home
1sm221 and the lord visited hannah so that she conceived and bare three sons and two daughters and the child samuel grew before the lord
1sm222 now eli was very old and heard all that his sons did unto all israel and how they lay with the women that assembled at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation
1sm223 and he said unto them why do ye such things for i hear of your evil dealings by all this people
1sm224 nay my sons for it is no good report that i hear ye make the lord's people to transgress
1sm225 if one man sin against another the judge shall judge him but if a man sin against the lord who shall intreat for him notwithstanding they hearkened not unto the voice of their father because the lord would slay them
1sm226 and the child samuel grew on and was in favour both with the lord and also with men
1sm227 and there came a man of god unto eli and said unto him thus saith the lord did i plainly appear unto the house of thy father when they were in egypt in pharaoh's house
1sm228 and did i choose him out of all the tribes of israel to be my priest to offer upon mine altar to burn incense to wear an ephod before me and did i give unto the house of thy father all the offerings made by fire of the children of israel
1sm229 wherefore kick ye at my sacrifice and at mine offering which i have commanded in my habitation and honourest thy sons above me to make yourselves fat with the chiefest of all the offerings of israel my people
1sm230 wherefore the lord god of israel saith i said indeed that thy house and the house of thy father should walk before me for ever but now the lord saith be it far from me for them that honour me i will honour and they that despise me shall be lightly esteemed
1sm231 behold the days come that i will cut off thine arm and the arm of thy father's house that there shall not be an old man in thine house
1sm232 and thou shalt see an enemy in my habitation in all the wealth which god shall give israel and there shall not be an old man in thine house for ever
1sm233 and the man of thine whom i shall not cut off from mine altar shall be to consume thine eyes and to grieve thine heart and all the increase of thine house shall die in the flower of their age
1sm234 and this shall be a sign unto thee that shall come upon thy two sons on hophni and phinehas in one day they shall die both of them
1sm235 and i will raise me up a faithful priest that shall do according to that which is in mine heart and in my mind and i will build him a sure house and he shall walk before mine anointed for ever
1sm236 and it shall come to pass that every one that is left in thine house shall come and crouch to him for a piece of silver and a morsel of bread and shall say put me i pray thee into one of the priests offices that i may eat a piece of bread
1sm31 and the child samuel ministered unto the lord before eli and the word of the lord was precious in those days there was no open vision
1sm32 and it came to pass at that time when eli was laid down in his place and his eyes began to wax dim that he could not see
1sm33 and ere the lamp of god went out in the temple of the lord where the ark of god was and samuel was laid down to sleep
1sm34 that the lord called samuel and he answered here am i
1sm35 and he ran unto eli and said here am i for thou calledst me and he said i called not lie down again and he went and lay down
1sm36 and the lord called yet again samuel and samuel arose and went to eli and said here am i for thou didst call me and he answered i called not my son lie down again
1sm37 now samuel did not yet know the lord neither was the word of the lord yet revealed unto him
1sm38 and the lord called samuel again the third time and he arose and went to eli and said here am i for thou didst call me and eli perceived that the lord had called the child
1sm39 therefore eli said unto samuel go lie down and it shall be if he call thee that thou shalt say speak lord for thy servant heareth so samuel went and lay down in his place
1sm310 and the lord came and stood and called as at other times samuel samuel then samuel answered speak for thy servant heareth
1sm311 and the lord said to samuel behold i will do a thing in israel at which both the ears of every one that heareth it shall tingle
1sm312 in that day i will perform against eli all things which i have spoken concerning his house when i begin i will also make an end
1sm313 for i have told him that i will judge his house for ever for the iniquity which he knoweth because his sons made themselves vile and he restrained them not
1sm314 and therefore i have sworn unto the house of eli that the iniquity of eli's house shall not be purged with sacrifice nor offering for ever
1sm315 and samuel lay until the morning and opened the doors of the house of the lord and samuel feared to shew eli the vision
1sm316 then eli called samuel and said samuel my son and he answered here am i
1sm317 and he said what is the thing that the lord hath said unto thee i pray thee hide it not from me god do so to thee and more also if thou hide any thing from me of all the things that he said unto thee
1sm318 and samuel told him every whit and hid nothing from him and he said it is the lord let him do what seemeth him good
1sm319 and samuel grew and the lord was with him and did let none of his words fall to the ground
1sm320 and all israel from dan even to beersheba knew that samuel was established to be a prophet of the lord
1sm321 and the lord appeared again in shiloh for the lord revealed himself to samuel in shiloh by the word of the lord
1sm41 and the word of samuel came to all israel now israel went out against the philistines to battle and pitched beside ebenezer and the philistines pitched in aphek
1sm42 and the philistines put themselves in array against israel and when they joined battle israel was smitten before the philistines and they slew of the army in the field about four thousand men
1sm43 and when the people were come into the camp the elders of israel said wherefore hath the lord smitten us to day before the philistines let us fetch the ark of the covenant of the lord out of shiloh unto us that when it cometh among us it may save us out of the hand of our enemies
1sm44 so the people sent to shiloh that they might bring from thence the ark of the covenant of the lord of hosts which dwelleth between the cherubims and the two sons of eli hophni and phinehas were there with the ark of the covenant of god
1sm45 and when the ark of the covenant of the lord came into the camp all israel shouted with a great shout so that the earth rang again
1sm46 and when the philistines heard the noise of the shout they said what meaneth the noise of this great shout in the camp of the hebrews and they understood that the ark of the lord was come into the camp
1sm47 and the philistines were afraid for they said god is come into the camp and they said woe unto us for there hath not been such a thing heretofore
1sm48 woe unto us who shall deliver us out of the hand of these mighty gods these are the gods that smote the egyptians with all the plagues in the wilderness
1sm49 be strong and quit yourselves like men o ye philistines that ye be not servants unto the hebrews as they have been to you quit yourselves like men and fight
1sm410 and the philistines fought and israel was smitten and they fled every man into his tent and there was a very great slaughter for there fell of israel thirty thousand footmen
1sm411 and the ark of god was taken and the two sons of eli hophni and phinehas were slain
1sm412 and there ran a man of benjamin out of the army and came to shiloh the same day with his clothes rent and with earth upon his head
1sm413 and when he came lo eli sat upon a seat by the wayside watching for his heart trembled for the ark of god and when the man came into the city and told it all the city cried out
1sm414 and when eli heard the noise of the crying he said what meaneth the noise of this tumult and the man came in hastily and told eli
1sm415 now eli was ninety and eight years old and his eyes were dim that he could not see
1sm416 and the man said unto eli i am he that came out of the army and i fled to day out of the army and he said what is there done my son
1sm417 and the messenger answered and said israel is fled before the philistines and there hath been also a great slaughter among the people and thy two sons also hophni and phinehas are dead and the ark of god is taken
1sm418 and it came to pass when he made mention of the ark of god that he fell from off the seat backward by the side of the gate and his neck brake and he died for he was an old man and heavy and he had judged israel forty years
1sm419 and his daughter in law phinehas wife was with child near to be delivered and when she heard the tidings that the ark of god was taken and that her father in law and her husband were dead she bowed herself and travailed for her pains came upon her
1sm420 and about the time of her death the women that stood by her said unto her fear not for thou hast born a son but she answered not neither did she regard it
1sm421 and she named the child ichabod saying the glory is departed from israel because the ark of god was taken and because of her father in law and her husband
1sm422 and she said the glory is departed from israel for the ark of god is taken
1sm51 and the philistines took the ark of god and brought it from ebenezer unto ashdod
1sm52 when the philistines took the ark of god they brought it into the house of dagon and set it by dagon
1sm53 and when they of ashdod arose early on the morrow behold dagon was fallen upon his face to the earth before the ark of the lord and they took dagon and set him in his place again
1sm54 and when they arose early on the morrow morning behold dagon was fallen upon his face to the ground before the ark of the lord and the head of dagon and both the palms of his hands were cut off upon the threshold only the stump of dagon was left to him
1sm55 therefore neither the priests of dagon nor any that come into dagon's house tread on the threshold of dagon in ashdod unto this day
1sm56 but the hand of the lord was heavy upon them of ashdod and he destroyed them and smote them with emerods even ashdod and the coasts thereof
1sm57 and when the men of ashdod saw that it was so they said the ark of the god of israel shall not abide with us for his hand is sore upon us and upon dagon our god
1sm58 they sent therefore and gathered all the lords of the philistines unto them and said what shall we do with the ark of the god of israel and they answered let the ark of the god of israel be carried about unto gath and they carried the ark of the god of israel about thither
1sm59 and it was so that after they had carried it about the hand of the lord was against the city with a very great destruction and he smote the men of the city both small and great and they had emerods in their secret parts
1sm510 therefore they sent the ark of god to ekron and it came to pass as the ark of god came to ekron that the ekronites cried out saying they have brought about the ark of the god of israel to us to slay us and our people
1sm511 so they sent and gathered together all the lords of the philistines and said send away the ark of the god of israel and let it go again to his own place that it slay us not and our people for there was a deadly destruction throughout all the city the hand of god was very heavy there
1sm512 and the men that died not were smitten with the emerods and the cry of the city went up to heaven
1sm61 and the ark of the lord was in the country of the philistines seven months
1sm62 and the philistines called for the priests and the diviners saying what shall we do to the ark of the lord tell us wherewith we shall send it to his place
1sm63 and they said if ye send away the ark of the god of israel send it not empty but in any wise return him a trespass offering then ye shall be healed and it shall be known to you why his hand is not removed from you
1sm64 then said they what shall be the trespass offering which we shall return to him they answered five golden emerods and five golden mice according to the number of the lords of the philistines for one plague was on you all and on your lords
1sm65 wherefore ye shall make images of your emerods and images of your mice that mar the land and ye shall give glory unto the god of israel peradventure he will lighten his hand from off you and from off your gods and from off your land
1sm66 wherefore then do ye harden your hearts as the egyptians and pharaoh hardened their hearts when he had wrought wonderfully among them did they not let the people go and they departed
1sm67 now therefore make a new cart and take two milch kine on which there hath come no yoke and tie the kine to the cart and bring their calves home from them
1sm68 and take the ark of the lord and lay it upon the cart and put the jewels of gold which ye return him for a trespass offering in a coffer by the side thereof and send it away that it may go
1sm69 and see if it goeth up by the way of his own coast to bethshemesh then he hath done us this great evil but if not then we shall know that it is not his hand that smote us it was a chance that happened to us
1sm610 and the men did so and took two milch kine and tied them to the cart and shut up their calves at home
1sm611 and they laid the ark of the lord upon the cart and the coffer with the mice of gold and the images of their emerods
1sm612 and the kine took the straight way to the way of bethshemesh and went along the highway lowing as they went and turned not aside to the right hand or to the left and the lords of the philistines went after them unto the border of bethshemesh
1sm613 and they of bethshemesh were reaping their wheat harvest in the valley and they lifted up their eyes and saw the ark and rejoiced to see it
1sm614 and the cart came into the field of joshua a bethshemite and stood there where there was a great stone and they clave the wood of the cart and offered the kine a burnt offering unto the lord
1sm615 and the levites took down the ark of the lord and the coffer that was with it wherein the jewels of gold were and put them on the great stone and the men of bethshemesh offered burnt offerings and sacrificed sacrifices the same day unto the lord
1sm616 and when the five lords of the philistines had seen it they returned to ekron the same day
1sm617 and these are the golden emerods which the philistines returned for a trespass offering unto the lord for ashdod one for gaza one for askelon one for gath one for ekron one
1sm618 and the golden mice according to the number of all the cities of the philistines belonging to the five lords both of fenced cities and of country villages even unto the great stone of abel whereon they set down the ark of the lord which stone remaineth unto this day in the field of joshua the bethshemite
1sm619 and he smote the men of bethshemesh because they had looked into the ark of the lord even he smote of the people fifty thousand and threescore and ten men and the people lamented because the lord had smitten many of the people with a great slaughter
1sm620 and the men of bethshemesh said who is able to stand before this holy lord god and to whom shall he go up from us
1sm621 and they sent messengers to the inhabitants of kirjathjearim saying the philistines have brought again the ark of the lord come ye down and fetch it up to you
1sm71 and the men of kirjathjearim came and fetched up the ark of the lord and brought it into the house of abinadab in the hill and sanctified eleazar his son to keep the ark of the lord
1sm72 and it came to pass while the ark abode in kirjathjearim that the time was long for it was twenty years and all the house of israel lamented after the lord
1sm73 and samuel spake unto all the house of israel saying if ye do return unto the lord with all your hearts then put away the strange gods and ashtaroth from among you and prepare your hearts unto the lord and serve him only and he will deliver you out of the hand of the philistines
1sm74 then the children of israel did put away baalim and ashtaroth and served the lord only
1sm75 and samuel said gather all israel to mizpeh and i will pray for you unto the lord
1sm76 and they gathered together to mizpeh and drew water and poured it out before the lord and fasted on that day and said there we have sinned against the lord and samuel judged the children of israel in mizpeh
1sm77 and when the philistines heard that the children of israel were gathered together to mizpeh the lords of the philistines went up against israel and when the children of israel heard it they were afraid of the philistines
1sm78 and the children of israel said to samuel cease not to cry unto the lord our god for us that he will save us out of the hand of the philistines
1sm79 and samuel took a sucking lamb and offered it for a burnt offering wholly unto the lord and samuel cried unto the lord for israel and the lord heard him
1sm710 and as samuel was offering up the burnt offering the philistines drew near to battle against israel but the lord thundered with a great thunder on that day upon the philistines and discomfited them and they were smitten before israel
1sm711 and the men of israel went out of mizpeh and pursued the philistines and smote them until they came under bethcar
1sm712 then samuel took a stone and set it between mizpeh and shen and called the name of it ebenezer saying hitherto hath the lord helped us
1sm713 so the philistines were subdued and they came no more into the coast of israel and the hand of the lord was against the philistines all the days of samuel
1sm714 and the cities which the philistines had taken from israel were restored to israel from ekron even unto gath and the coasts thereof did israel deliver out of the hands of the philistines and there was peace between israel and the amorites
1sm715 and samuel judged israel all the days of his life
1sm716 and he went from year to year in circuit to bethel and gilgal and mizpeh and judged israel in all those places
1sm717 and his return was to ramah for there was his house and there he judged israel and there he built an altar unto the lord
1sm81 and it came to pass when samuel was old that he made his sons judges over israel
1sm82 now the name of his firstborn was joel and the name of his second abiah they were judges in beersheba
1sm83 and his sons walked not in his ways but turned aside after lucre and took bribes and perverted judgment
1sm84 then all the elders of israel gathered themselves together and came to samuel unto ramah
1sm85 and said unto him behold thou art old and thy sons walk not in thy ways now make us a king to judge us like all the nations
1sm86 but the thing displeased samuel when they said give us a king to judge us and samuel prayed unto the lord
1sm87 and the lord said unto samuel hearken unto the voice of the people in all that they say unto thee for they have not rejected thee but they have rejected me that i should not reign over them
1sm88 according to all the works which they have done since the day that i brought them up out of egypt even unto this day wherewith they have forsaken me and served other gods so do they also unto thee
1sm89 now therefore hearken unto their voice howbeit yet protest solemnly unto them and shew them the manner of the king that shall reign over them
1sm810 and samuel told all the words of the lord unto the people that asked of him a king
1sm811 and he said this will be the manner of the king that shall reign over you he will take your sons and appoint them for himself for his chariots and to be his horsemen and some shall run before his chariots
1sm812 and he will appoint him captains over thousands and captains over fifties and will set them to ear his ground and to reap his harvest and to make his instruments of war and instruments of his chariots
1sm813 and he will take your daughters to be confectionaries and to be cooks and to be bakers
1sm814 and he will take your fields and your vineyards and your oliveyards even the best of them and give them to his servants
1sm815 and he will take the tenth of your seed and of your vineyards and give to his officers and to his servants
1sm816 and he will take your menservants and your maidservants and your goodliest young men and your asses and put them to his work
1sm817 he will take the tenth of your sheep and ye shall be his servants
1sm818 and ye shall cry out in that day because of your king which ye shall have chosen you and the lord will not hear you in that day
1sm819 nevertheless the people refused to obey the voice of samuel and they said nay but we will have a king over us
1sm820 that we also may be like all the nations and that our king may judge us and go out before us and fight our battles
1sm821 and samuel heard all the words of the people and he rehearsed them in the ears of the lord
1sm822 and the lord said to samuel hearken unto their voice and make them a king and samuel said unto the men of israel go ye every man unto his city
1sm91 now there was a man of benjamin whose name was kish the son of abiel the son of zeror the son of bechorath the son of aphiah a benjamite a mighty man of power
1sm92 and he had a son whose name was saul a choice young man and a goodly and there was not among the children of israel a goodlier person than he from his shoulders and upward he was higher than any of the people
1sm93 and the asses of kish saul's father were lost and kish said to saul his son take now one of the servants with thee and arise go seek the asses
1sm94 and he passed through mount ephraim and passed through the land of shalisha but they found them not then they passed through the land of shalim and there they were not and he passed through the land of the benjamites but they found them not
1sm95 and when they were come to the land of zuph saul said to his servant that was with him come and let us return lest my father leave caring for the asses and take thought for us
1sm96 and he said unto him behold now there is in this city a man of god and he is an honourable man all that he saith cometh surely to pass now let us go thither peradventure he can shew us our way that we should go
1sm97 then said saul to his servant but behold if we go what shall we bring the man for the bread is spent in our vessels and there is not a present to bring to the man of god what have we
1sm98 and the servant answered saul again and said behold i have here at hand the fourth part of a shekel of silver that will i give to the man of god to tell us our way
1sm99 beforetime in israel when a man went to enquire of god thus he spake come and let us go to the seer for he that is now called a prophet was beforetime called a seer
1sm910 then said saul to his servant well said come let us go so they went unto the city where the man of god was
1sm911 and as they went up the hill to the city they found young maidens going out to draw water and said unto them is the seer here
1sm912 and they answered them and said he is behold he is before you make haste now for he came to day to the city for there is a sacrifice of the people to day in the high place
1sm913 as soon as ye be come into the city ye shall straightway find him before he go up to the high place to eat for the people will not eat until he come because he doth bless the sacrifice and afterwards they eat that be bidden now therefore get you up for about this time ye shall find him
1sm914 and they went up into the city and when they were come into the city behold samuel came out against them for to go up to the high place
1sm915 now the lord had told samuel in his ear a day before saul came saying
1sm916 to morrow about this time i will send thee a man out of the land of benjamin and thou shalt anoint him to be captain over my people israel that he may save my people out of the hand of the philistines for i have looked upon my people because their cry is come unto me
1sm917 and when samuel saw saul the lord said unto him behold the man whom i spake to thee of this same shall reign over my people
1sm918 then saul drew near to samuel in the gate and said tell me i pray thee where the seer's house is
1sm919 and samuel answered saul and said i am the seer go up before me unto the high place for ye shall eat with me to day and to morrow i will let thee go and will tell thee all that is in thine heart
1sm920 and as for thine asses that were lost three days ago set not thy mind on them for they are found and on whom is all the desire of israel is it not on thee and on all thy father's house
1sm921 and saul answered and said am not i a benjamite of the smallest of the tribes of israel and my family the least of all the families of the tribe of benjamin wherefore then speakest thou so to me
1sm922 and samuel took saul and his servant and brought them into the parlour and made them sit in the chiefest place among them that were bidden which were about thirty persons
1sm923 and samuel said unto the cook bring the portion which i gave thee of which i said unto thee set it by thee
1sm924 and the cook took up the shoulder and that which was upon it and set it before saul and samuel said behold that which is left set it before thee and eat for unto this time hath it been kept for thee since i said i have invited the people so saul did eat with samuel that day
1sm925 and when they were come down from the high place into the city samuel communed with saul upon the top of the house
1sm926 and they arose early and it came to pass about the spring of the day that samuel called saul to the top of the house saying up that i may send thee away and saul arose and they went out both of them he and samuel abroad
1sm927 and as they were going down to the end of the city samuel said to saul bid the servant pass on before us and he passed on but stand thou still a while that i may shew thee the word of god
1sm101 then samuel took a vial of oil and poured it upon his head and kissed him and said is it not because the lord hath anointed thee to be captain over his inheritance
1sm102 when thou art departed from me to day then thou shalt find two men by rachel's sepulchre in the border of benjamin at zelzah and they will say unto thee the asses which thou wentest to seek are found and lo thy father hath left the care of the asses and sorroweth for you saying what shall i do for my son
1sm103 then shalt thou go on forward from thence and thou shalt come to the plain of tabor and there shall meet thee three men going up to god to bethel one carrying three kids and another carrying three loaves of bread and another carrying a bottle of wine
1sm104 and they will salute thee and give thee two loaves of bread which thou shalt receive of their hands
1sm105 after that thou shalt come to the hill of god where is the garrison of the philistines and it shall come to pass when thou art come thither to the city that thou shalt meet a company of prophets coming down from the high place with a psaltery and a tabret and a pipe and a harp before them and they shall prophesy
1sm106 and the spirit of the lord will come upon thee and thou shalt prophesy with them and shalt be turned into another man
1sm107 and let it be when these signs are come unto thee that thou do as occasion serve thee for god is with thee
1sm108 and thou shalt go down before me to gilgal and behold i will come down unto thee to offer burnt offerings and to sacrifice sacrifices of peace offerings seven days shalt thou tarry till i come to thee and shew thee what thou shalt do
1sm109 and it was so that when he had turned his back to go from samuel god gave him another heart and all those signs came to pass that day
1sm1010 and when they came thither to the hill behold a company of prophets met him and the spirit of god came upon him and he prophesied among them
1sm1011 and it came to pass when all that knew him beforetime saw that behold he prophesied among the prophets then the people said one to another what is this that is come unto the son of kish is saul also among the prophets
1sm1012 and one of the same place answered and said but who is their father therefore it became a proverb is saul also among the prophets
1sm1013 and when he had made an end of prophesying he came to the high place
1sm1014 and saul's uncle said unto him and to his servant whither went ye and he said to seek the asses and when we saw that they were no where we came to samuel
1sm1015 and saul's uncle said tell me i pray thee what samuel said unto you
1sm1016 and saul said unto his uncle he told us plainly that the asses were found but of the matter of the kingdom whereof samuel spake he told him not
1sm1017 and samuel called the people together unto the lord to mizpeh
1sm1018 and said unto the children of israel thus saith the lord god of israel i brought up israel out of egypt and delivered you out of the hand of the egyptians and out of the hand of all kingdoms and of them that oppressed you
1sm1019 and ye have this day rejected your god who himself saved you out of all your adversities and your tribulations and ye have said unto him nay but set a king over us now therefore present yourselves before the lord by your tribes and by your thousands
1sm1020 and when samuel had caused all the tribes of israel to come near the tribe of benjamin was taken
1sm1021 when he had caused the tribe of benjamin to come near by their families the family of matri was taken and saul the son of kish was taken and when they sought him he could not be found
1sm1022 therefore they enquired of the lord further if the man should yet come thither and the lord answered behold he hath hid himself among the stuff
1sm1023 and they ran and fetched him thence and when he stood among the people he was higher than any of the people from his shoulders and upward
1sm1024 and samuel said to all the people see ye him whom the lord hath chosen that there is none like him among all the people and all the people shouted and said god save the king
1sm1025 then samuel told the people the manner of the kingdom and wrote it in a book and laid it up before the lord and samuel sent all the people away every man to his house
1sm1026 and saul also went home to gibeah and there went with him a band of men whose hearts god had touched
1sm1027 but the children of belial said how shall this man save us and they despised him and brought him no presents but he held his peace
1sm111 then nahash the ammonite came up and encamped against jabeshgilead and all the men of jabesh said unto nahash make a covenant with us and we will serve thee
1sm112 and nahash the ammonite answered them on this condition will i make a covenant with you that i may thrust out all your right eyes and lay it for a reproach upon all israel
1sm113 and the elders of jabesh said unto him give us seven days respite that we may send messengers unto all the coasts of israel and then if there be no man to save us we will come out to thee
1sm114 then came the messengers to gibeah of saul and told the tidings in the ears of the people and all the people lifted up their voices and wept
1sm115 and behold saul came after the herd out of the field and saul said what aileth the people that they weep and they told him the tidings of the men of jabesh
1sm116 and the spirit of god came upon saul when he heard those tidings and his anger was kindled greatly
1sm117 and he took a yoke of oxen and hewed them in pieces and sent them throughout all the coasts of israel by the hands of messengers saying whosoever cometh not forth after saul and after samuel so shall it be done unto his oxen and the fear of the lord fell on the people and they came out with one consent
1sm118 and when he numbered them in bezek the children of israel were three hundred thousand and the men of judah thirty thousand
1sm119 and they said unto the messengers that came thus shall ye say unto the men of jabeshgilead to morrow by that time the sun be hot ye shall have help and the messengers came and shewed it to the men of jabesh and they were glad
1sm1110 therefore the men of jabesh said to morrow we will come out unto you and ye shall do with us all that seemeth good unto you
1sm1111 and it was so on the morrow that saul put the people in three companies and they came into the midst of the host in the morning watch and slew the ammonites until the heat of the day and it came to pass that they which remained were scattered so that two of them were not left together
1sm1112 and the people said unto samuel who is he that said shall saul reign over us bring the men that we may put them to death
1sm1113 and saul said there shall not a man be put to death this day for to day the lord hath wrought salvation in israel
1sm1114 then said samuel to the people come and let us go to gilgal and renew the kingdom there
1sm1115 and all the people went to gilgal and there they made saul king before the lord in gilgal and there they sacrificed sacrifices of peace offerings before the lord and there saul and all the men of israel rejoiced greatly
1sm121 and samuel said unto all israel behold i have hearkened unto your voice in all that ye said unto me and have made a king over you
1sm122 and now behold the king walketh before you and i am old and grayheaded and behold my sons are with you and i have walked before you from my childhood unto this day
1sm123 behold here i am witness against me before the lord and before his anointed whose ox have i taken or whose ass have i taken or whom have i defrauded whom have i oppressed or of whose hand have i received any bribe to blind mine eyes therewith and i will restore it you
1sm124 and they said thou hast not defrauded us nor oppressed us neither hast thou taken ought of any man's hand
1sm125 and he said unto them the lord is witness against you and his anointed is witness this day that ye have not found ought in my hand and they answered he is witness
1sm126 and samuel said unto the people it is the lord that advanced moses and aaron and that brought your fathers up out of the land of egypt
1sm127 now therefore stand still that i may reason with you before the lord of all the righteous acts of the lord which he did to you and to your fathers
1sm128 when jacob was come into egypt and your fathers cried unto the lord then the lord sent moses and aaron which brought forth your fathers out of egypt and made them dwell in this place
1sm129 and when they forgat the lord their god he sold them into the hand of sisera captain of the host of hazor and into the hand of the philistines and into the hand of the king of moab and they fought against them
1sm1210 and they cried unto the lord and said we have sinned because we have forsaken the lord and have served baalim and ashtaroth but now deliver us out of the hand of our enemies and we will serve thee
1sm1211 and the lord sent jerubbaal and bedan and jephthah and samuel and delivered you out of the hand of your enemies on every side and ye dwelled safe
1sm1212 and when ye saw that nahash the king of the children of ammon came against you ye said unto me nay but a king shall reign over us when the lord your god was your king
1sm1213 now therefore behold the king whom ye have chosen and whom ye have desired and behold the lord hath set a king over you
1sm1214 if ye will fear the lord and serve him and obey his voice and not rebel against the commandment of the lord then shall both ye and also the king that reigneth over you continue following the lord your god
1sm1215 but if ye will not obey the voice of the lord but rebel against the commandment of the lord then shall the hand of the lord be against you as it was against your fathers
1sm1216 now therefore stand and see this great thing which the lord will do before your eyes
1sm1217 is it not wheat harvest to day i will call unto the lord and he shall send thunder and rain that ye may perceive and see that your wickedness is great which ye have done in the sight of the lord in asking you a king
1sm1218 so samuel called unto the lord and the lord sent thunder and rain that day and all the people greatly feared the lord and samuel
1sm1219 and all the people said unto samuel pray for thy servants unto the lord thy god that we die not for we have added unto all our sins this evil to ask us a king
1sm1220 and samuel said unto the people fear not ye have done all this wickedness yet turn not aside from following the lord but serve the lord with all your heart
1sm1221 and turn ye not aside for then should ye go after vain things which cannot profit nor deliver for they are vain
1sm1222 for the lord will not forsake his people for his great name's sake because it hath pleased the lord to make you his people
1sm1223 moreover as for me god forbid that i should sin against the lord in ceasing to pray for you but i will teach you the good and the right way
1sm1224 only fear the lord and serve him in truth with all your heart for consider how great things he hath done for you
1sm1225 but if ye shall still do wickedly ye shall be consumed both ye and your king
1sm131 saul reigned one year and when he had reigned two years over israel
1sm132 saul chose him three thousand men of israel whereof two thousand were with saul in michmash and in mount bethel and a thousand were with jonathan in gibeah of benjamin and the rest of the people he sent every man to his tent
1sm133 and jonathan smote the garrison of the philistines that was in geba and the philistines heard of it and saul blew the trumpet throughout all the land saying let the hebrews hear
1sm134 and all israel heard say that saul had smitten a garrison of the philistines and that israel also was had in abomination with the philistines and the people were called together after saul to gilgal
1sm135 and the philistines gathered themselves together to fight with israel thirty thousand chariots and six thousand horsemen and people as the sand which is on the sea shore in multitude and they came up and pitched in michmash eastward from bethaven
1sm136 when the men of israel saw that they were in a strait for the people were distressed then the people did hide themselves in caves and in thickets and in rocks and in high places and in pits
1sm137 and some of the hebrews went over jordan to the land of gad and gilead as for saul he was yet in gilgal and all the people followed him trembling
1sm138 and he tarried seven days according to the set time that samuel had appointed but samuel came not to gilgal and the people were scattered from him
1sm139 and saul said bring hither a burnt offering to me and peace offerings and he offered the burnt offering
1sm1310 and it came to pass that as soon as he had made an end of offering the burnt offering behold samuel came and saul went out to meet him that he might salute him
1sm1311 and samuel said what hast thou done and saul said because i saw that the people were scattered from me and that thou camest not within the days appointed and that the philistines gathered themselves together at michmash
1sm1312 therefore said i the philistines will come down now upon me to gilgal and i have not made supplication unto the lord i forced myself therefore and offered a burnt offering
1sm1313 and samuel said to saul thou hast done foolishly thou hast not kept the commandment of the lord thy god which he commanded thee for now would the lord have established thy kingdom upon israel for ever
1sm1314 but now thy kingdom shall not continue the lord hath sought him a man after his own heart and the lord hath commanded him to be captain over his people because thou hast not kept that which the lord commanded thee
1sm1315 and samuel arose and gat him up from gilgal unto gibeah of benjamin and saul numbered the people that were present with him about six hundred men
1sm1316 and saul and jonathan his son and the people that were present with them abode in gibeah of benjamin but the philistines encamped in michmash
1sm1317 and the spoilers came out of the camp of the philistines in three companies one company turned unto the way that leadeth to ophrah unto the land of shual
1sm1318 and another company turned the way to bethhoron and another company turned to the way of the border that looketh to the valley of zeboim toward the wilderness
1sm1319 now there was no smith found throughout all the land of israel for the philistines said lest the hebrews make them swords or spears
1sm1320 but all the israelites went down to the philistines to sharpen every man his share and his coulter and his axe and his mattock
1sm1321 yet they had a file for the mattocks and for the coulters and for the forks and for the axes and to sharpen the goads
1sm1322 so it came to pass in the day of battle that there was neither sword nor spear found in the hand of any of the people that were with saul and jonathan but with saul and with jonathan his son was there found
1sm1323 and the garrison of the philistines went out to the passage of michmash
1sm141 now it came to pass upon a day that jonathan the son of saul said unto the young man that bare his armour come and let us go over to the philistines garrison that is on the other side but he told not his father
1sm142 and saul tarried in the uttermost part of gibeah under a pomegranate tree which is in migron and the people that were with him were about six hundred men
1sm143 and ahiah the son of ahitub ichabod's brother the son of phinehas the son of eli the lord's priest in shiloh wearing an ephod and the people knew not that jonathan was gone
1sm144 and between the passages by which jonathan sought to go over unto the philistines garrison there was a sharp rock on the one side and a sharp rock on the other side and the name of the one was bozez and the name of the other seneh
1sm145 the forefront of the one was situate northward over against michmash and the other southward over against gibeah
1sm146 and jonathan said to the young man that bare his armour come and let us go over unto the garrison of these uncircumcised it may be that the lord will work for us for there is no restraint to the lord to save by many or by few
1sm147 and his armourbearer said unto him do all that is in thine heart turn thee behold i am with thee according to thy heart
1sm148 then said jonathan behold we will pass over unto these men and we will discover ourselves unto them
1sm149 if they say thus unto us tarry until we come to you then we will stand still in our place and will not go up unto them
1sm1410 but if they say thus come up unto us then we will go up for the lord hath delivered them into our hand and this shall be a sign unto us
1sm1411 and both of them discovered themselves unto the garrison of the philistines and the philistines said behold the hebrews come forth out of the holes where they had hid themselves
1sm1412 and the men of the garrison answered jonathan and his armourbearer and said come up to us and we will shew you a thing and jonathan said unto his armourbearer come up after me for the lord hath delivered them into the hand of israel
1sm1413 and jonathan climbed up upon his hands and upon his feet and his armourbearer after him and they fell before jonathan and his armourbearer slew after him
1sm1414 and that first slaughter which jonathan and his armourbearer made was about twenty men within as it were an half acre of land which a yoke of oxen might plow
1sm1415 and there was trembling in the host in the field and among all the people the garrison and the spoilers they also trembled and the earth quaked so it was a very great trembling
1sm1416 and the watchmen of saul in gibeah of benjamin looked and behold the multitude melted away and they went on beating down one another
1sm1417 then said saul unto the people that were with him number now and see who is gone from us and when they had numbered behold jonathan and his armourbearer were not there
1sm1418 and saul said unto ahiah bring hither the ark of god for the ark of god was at that time with the children of israel
1sm1419 and it came to pass while saul talked unto the priest that the noise that was in the host of the philistines went on and increased and saul said unto the priest withdraw thine hand
1sm1420 and saul and all the people that were with him assembled themselves and they came to the battle and behold every man's sword was against his fellow and there was a very great discomfiture
1sm1421 moreover the hebrews that were with the philistines before that time which went up with them into the camp from the country round about even they also turned to be with the israelites that were with saul and jonathan
1sm1422 likewise all the men of israel which had hid themselves in mount ephraim when they heard that the philistines fled even they also followed hard after them in the battle
1sm1423 so the lord saved israel that day and the battle passed over unto bethaven
1sm1424 and the men of israel were distressed that day for saul had adjured the people saying cursed be the man that eateth any food until evening that i may be avenged on mine enemies so none of the people tasted any food
1sm1425 and all they of the land came to a wood and there was honey upon the ground
1sm1426 and when the people were come into the wood behold the honey dropped but no man put his hand to his mouth for the people feared the oath
1sm1427 but jonathan heard not when his father charged the people with the oath wherefore he put forth the end of the rod that was in his hand and dipped it in an honeycomb and put his hand to his mouth and his eyes were enlightened
1sm1428 then answered one of the people and said thy father straitly charged the people with an oath saying cursed be the man that eateth any food this day and the people were faint
1sm1429 then said jonathan my father hath troubled the land see i pray you how mine eyes have been enlightened because i tasted a little of this honey
1sm1430 how much more if haply the people had eaten freely to day of the spoil of their enemies which they found for had there not been now a much greater slaughter among the philistines
1sm1431 and they smote the philistines that day from michmash to aijalon and the people were very faint
1sm1432 and the people flew upon the spoil and took sheep and oxen and calves and slew them on the ground and the people did eat them with the blood
1sm1433 then they told saul saying behold the people sin against the lord in that they eat with the blood and he said ye have transgressed roll a great stone unto me this day
1sm1434 and saul said disperse yourselves among the people and say unto them bring me hither every man his ox and every man his sheep and slay them here and eat and sin not against the lord in eating with the blood and all the people brought every man his ox with him that night and slew them there
1sm1435 and saul built an altar unto the lord the same was the first altar that he built unto the lord
1sm1436 and saul said let us go down after the philistines by night and spoil them until the morning light and let us not leave a man of them and they said do whatsoever seemeth good unto thee then said the priest let us draw near hither unto god
1sm1437 and saul asked counsel of god shall i go down after the philistines wilt thou deliver them into the hand of israel but he answered him not that day
1sm1438 and saul said draw ye near hither all the chief of the people and know and see wherein this sin hath been this day
1sm1439 for as the lord liveth which saveth israel though it be in jonathan my son he shall surely die but there was not a man among all the people that answered him
1sm1440 then said he unto all israel be ye on one side and i and jonathan my son will be on the other side and the people said unto saul do what seemeth good unto thee
1sm1441 therefore saul said unto the lord god of israel give a perfect lot and saul and jonathan were taken but the people escaped
1sm1442 and saul said cast lots between me and jonathan my son and jonathan was taken
1sm1443 then saul said to jonathan tell me what thou hast done and jonathan told him and said i did but taste a little honey with the end of the rod that was in mine hand and lo i must die
1sm1444 and saul answered god do so and more also for thou shalt surely die jonathan
1sm1445 and the people said unto saul shall jonathan die who hath wrought this great salvation in israel god forbid as the lord liveth there shall not one hair of his head fall to the ground for he hath wrought with god this day so the people rescued jonathan that he died not
1sm1446 then saul went up from following the philistines and the philistines went to their own place
1sm1447 so saul took the kingdom over israel and fought against all his enemies on every side against moab and against the children of ammon and against edom and against the kings of zobah and against the philistines and whithersoever he turned himself he vexed them
1sm1448 and he gathered an host and smote the amalekites and delivered israel out of the hands of them that spoiled them
1sm1449 now the sons of saul were jonathan and ishui and melchishua and the names of his two daughters were these the name of the firstborn merab and the name of the younger michal
1sm1450 and the name of saul's wife was ahinoam the daughter of ahimaaz and the name of the captain of his host was abner the son of ner saul's uncle
1sm1451 and kish was the father of saul and ner the father of abner was the son of abiel
1sm1452 and there was sore war against the philistines all the days of saul and when saul saw any strong man or any valiant man he took him unto him
1sm151 samuel also said unto saul the lord sent me to anoint thee to be king over his people over israel now therefore hearken thou unto the voice of the words of the lord
1sm152 thus saith the lord of hosts i remember that which amalek did to israel how he laid wait for him in the way when he came up from egypt
1sm153 now go and smite amalek and utterly destroy all that they have and spare them not but slay both man and woman infant and suckling ox and sheep camel and ass
1sm154 and saul gathered the people together and numbered them in telaim two hundred thousand footmen and ten thousand men of judah
1sm155 and saul came to a city of amalek and laid wait in the valley
1sm156 and saul said unto the kenites go depart get you down from among the amalekites lest i destroy you with them for ye shewed kindness to all the children of israel when they came up out of egypt so the kenites departed from among the amalekites
1sm157 and saul smote the amalekites from havilah until thou comest to shur that is over against egypt
1sm158 and he took agag the king of the amalekites alive and utterly destroyed all the people with the edge of the sword
1sm159 but saul and the people spared agag and the best of the sheep and of the oxen and of the fatlings and the lambs and all that was good and would not utterly destroy them but every thing that was vile and refuse that they destroyed utterly
1sm1510 then came the word of the lord unto samuel saying
1sm1511 it repenteth me that i have set up saul to be king for he is turned back from following me and hath not performed my commandments and it grieved samuel and he cried unto the lord all night
1sm1512 and when samuel rose early to meet saul in the morning it was told samuel saying saul came to carmel and behold he set him up a place and is gone about and passed on and gone down to gilgal
1sm1513 and samuel came to saul and saul said unto him blessed be thou of the lord i have performed the commandment of the lord
1sm1514 and samuel said what meaneth then this bleating of the sheep in mine ears and the lowing of the oxen which i hear
1sm1515 and saul said they have brought them from the amalekites for the people spared the best of the sheep and of the oxen to sacrifice unto the lord thy god and the rest we have utterly destroyed
1sm1516 then samuel said unto saul stay and i will tell thee what the lord hath said to me this night and he said unto him say on
1sm1517 and samuel said when thou wast little in thine own sight wast thou not made the head of the tribes of israel and the lord anointed thee king over israel
1sm1518 and the lord sent thee on a journey and said go and utterly destroy the sinners the amalekites and fight against them until they be consumed
1sm1519 wherefore then didst thou not obey the voice of the lord but didst fly upon the spoil and didst evil in the sight of the lord
1sm1520 and saul said unto samuel yea i have obeyed the voice of the lord and have gone the way which the lord sent me and have brought agag the king of amalek and have utterly destroyed the amalekites
1sm1521 but the people took of the spoil sheep and oxen the chief of the things which should have been utterly destroyed to sacrifice unto the lord thy god in gilgal
1sm1522 and samuel said hath the lord as great delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices as in obeying the voice of the lord behold to obey is better than sacrifice and to hearken than the fat of rams
1sm1523 for rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft and stubbornness is as iniquity and idolatry because thou hast rejected the word of the lord he hath also rejected thee from being king
1sm1524 and saul said unto samuel i have sinned for i have transgressed the commandment of the lord and thy words because i feared the people and obeyed their voice
1sm1525 now therefore i pray thee pardon my sin and turn again with me that i may worship the lord
1sm1526 and samuel said unto saul i will not return with thee for thou hast rejected the word of the lord and the lord hath rejected thee from being king over israel
1sm1527 and as samuel turned about to go away he laid hold upon the skirt of his mantle and it rent
1sm1528 and samuel said unto him the lord hath rent the kingdom of israel from thee this day and hath given it to a neighbour of thine that is better than thou
1sm1529 and also the strength of israel will not lie nor repent for he is not a man that he should repent
1sm1530 then he said i have sinned yet honour me now i pray thee before the elders of my people and before israel and turn again with me that i may worship the lord thy god
1sm1531 so samuel turned again after saul and saul worshipped the lord
1sm1532 then said samuel bring ye hither to me agag the king of the amalekites and agag came unto him delicately and agag said surely the bitterness of death is past
1sm1533 and samuel said as thy sword hath made women childless so shall thy mother be childless among women and samuel hewed agag in pieces before the lord in gilgal
1sm1534 then samuel went to ramah and saul went up to his house to gibeah of saul
1sm1535 and samuel came no more to see saul until the day of his death nevertheless samuel mourned for saul and the lord repented that he had made saul king over israel
1sm161 and the lord said unto samuel how long wilt thou mourn for saul seeing i have rejected him from reigning over israel fill thine horn with oil and go i will send thee to jesse the bethlehemite for i have provided me a king among his sons
1sm162 and samuel said how can i go if saul hear it he will kill me and the lord said take an heifer with thee and say i am come to sacrifice to the lord
1sm163 and call jesse to the sacrifice and i will shew thee what thou shalt do and thou shalt anoint unto me him whom i name unto thee
1sm164 and samuel did that which the lord spake and came to bethlehem and the elders of the town trembled at his coming and said comest thou peaceably
1sm165 and he said peaceably i am come to sacrifice unto the lord sanctify yourselves and come with me to the sacrifice and he sanctified jesse and his sons and called them to the sacrifice
1sm166 and it came to pass when they were come that he looked on eliab and said surely the lord's anointed is before him
1sm167 but the lord said unto samuel look not on his countenance or on the height of his stature because i have refused him for the lord seeth not as man seeth for man looketh on the outward appearance but the lord looketh on the heart
1sm168 then jesse called abinadab and made him pass before samuel and he said neither hath the lord chosen this
1sm169 then jesse made shammah to pass by and he said neither hath the lord chosen this
1sm1610 again jesse made seven of his sons to pass before samuel and samuel said unto jesse the lord hath not chosen these
1sm1611 and samuel said unto jesse are here all thy children and he said there remaineth yet the youngest and behold he keepeth the sheep and samuel said unto jesse send and fetch him for we will not sit down till he come hither
1sm1612 and he sent and brought him in now he was ruddy and withal of a beautiful countenance and goodly to look to and the lord said arise anoint him for this is he
1sm1613 then samuel took the horn of oil and anointed him in the midst of his brethren and the spirit of the lord came upon david from that day forward so samuel rose up and went to ramah
1sm1614 but the spirit of the lord departed from saul and an evil spirit from the lord troubled him
1sm1615 and saul's servants said unto him behold now an evil spirit from god troubleth thee
1sm1616 let our lord now command thy servants which are before thee to seek out a man who is a cunning player on an harp and it shall come to pass when the evil spirit from god is upon thee that he shall play with his hand and thou shalt be well
1sm1617 and saul said unto his servants provide me now a man that can play well and bring him to me
1sm1618 then answered one of the servants and said behold i have seen a son of jesse the bethlehemite that is cunning in playing and a mighty valiant man and a man of war and prudent in matters and a comely person and the lord is with him
1sm1619 wherefore saul sent messengers unto jesse and said send me david thy son which is with the sheep
1sm1620 and jesse took an ass laden with bread and a bottle of wine and a kid and sent them by david his son unto saul
1sm1621 and david came to saul and stood before him and he loved him greatly and he became his armourbearer
1sm1622 and saul sent to jesse saying let david i pray thee stand before me for he hath found favour in my sight
1sm1623 and it came to pass when the evil spirit from god was upon saul that david took an harp and played with his hand so saul was refreshed and was well and the evil spirit departed from him
1sm171 now the philistines gathered together their armies to battle and were gathered together at shochoh which belongeth to judah and pitched between shochoh and azekah in ephesdammim
1sm172 and saul and the men of israel were gathered together and pitched by the valley of elah and set the battle in array against the philistines
1sm173 and the philistines stood on a mountain on the one side and israel stood on a mountain on the other side and there was a valley between them
1sm174 and there went out a champion out of the camp of the philistines named goliath of gath whose height was six cubits and a span
1sm175 and he had an helmet of brass upon his head and he was armed with a coat of mail and the weight of the coat was five thousand shekels of brass
1sm176 and he had greaves of brass upon his legs and a target of brass between his shoulders
1sm177 and the staff of his spear was like a weaver's beam and his spear's head weighed six hundred shekels of iron and one bearing a shield went before him
1sm178 and he stood and cried unto the armies of israel and said unto them why are ye come out to set your battle in array am not i a philistine and ye servants to saul choose you a man for you and let him come down to me
1sm179 if he be able to fight with me and to kill me then will we be your servants but if i prevail against him and kill him then shall ye be our servants and serve us
1sm1710 and the philistine said i defy the armies of israel this day give me a man that we may fight together
1sm1711 when saul and all israel heard those words of the philistine they were dismayed and greatly afraid
1sm1712 now david was the son of that ephrathite of bethlehemjudah whose name was jesse and he had eight sons and the man went among men for an old man in the days of saul
1sm1713 and the three eldest sons of jesse went and followed saul to the battle and the names of his three sons that went to the battle were eliab the firstborn and next unto him abinadab and the third shammah
1sm1714 and david was the youngest and the three eldest followed saul
1sm1715 but david went and returned from saul to feed his father's sheep at bethlehem
1sm1716 and the philistine drew near morning and evening and presented himself forty days
1sm1717 and jesse said unto david his son take now for thy brethren an ephah of this parched corn and these ten loaves and run to the camp to thy brethren
1sm1718 and carry these ten cheeses unto the captain of their thousand and look how thy brethren fare and take their pledge
1sm1719 now saul and they and all the men of israel were in the valley of elah fighting with the philistines
1sm1720 and david rose up early in the morning and left the sheep with a keeper and took and went as jesse had commanded him and he came to the trench as the host was going forth to the fight and shouted for the battle
1sm1721 for israel and the philistines had put the battle in array army against army
1sm1722 and david left his carriage in the hand of the keeper of the carriage and ran into the army and came and saluted his brethren
1sm1723 and as he talked with them behold there came up the champion the philistine of gath goliath by name out of the armies of the philistines and spake according to the same words and david heard them
1sm1724 and all the men of israel when they saw the man fled from him and were sore afraid
1sm1725 and the men of israel said have ye seen this man that is come up surely to defy israel is he come up and it shall be that the man who killeth him the king will enrich him with great riches and will give him his daughter and make his father's house free in israel
1sm1726 and david spake to the men that stood by him saying what shall be done to the man that killeth this philistine and taketh away the reproach from israel for who is this uncircumcised philistine that he should defy the armies of the living god
1sm1727 and the people answered him after this manner saying so shall it be done to the man that killeth him
1sm1728 and eliab his eldest brother heard when he spake unto the men and eliab's anger was kindled against david and he said why camest thou down hither and with whom hast thou left those few sheep in the wilderness i know thy pride and the naughtiness of thine heart for thou art come down that thou mightest see the battle
1sm1729 and david said what have i now done is there not a cause
1sm1730 and he turned from him toward another and spake after the same manner and the people answered him again after the former manner
1sm1731 and when the words were heard which david spake they rehearsed them before saul and he sent for him
1sm1732 and david said to saul let no man's heart fail because of him thy servant will go and fight with this philistine
1sm1733 and saul said to david thou art not able to go against this philistine to fight with him for thou art but a youth and he a man of war from his youth
1sm1734 and david said unto saul thy servant kept his father's sheep and there came a lion and a bear and took a lamb out of the flock
1sm1735 and i went out after him and smote him and delivered it out of his mouth and when he arose against me i caught him by his beard and smote him and slew him
1sm1736 thy servant slew both the lion and the bear and this uncircumcised philistine shall be as one of them seeing he hath defied the armies of the living god
1sm1737 david said moreover the lord that delivered me out of the paw of the lion and out of the paw of the bear he will deliver me out of the hand of this philistine and saul said unto david go and the lord be with thee
1sm1738 and saul armed david with his armour and he put an helmet of brass upon his head also he armed him with a coat of mail
1sm1739 and david girded his sword upon his armour and he assayed to go for he had not proved it and david said unto saul i cannot go with these for i have not proved them and david put them off him
1sm1740 and he took his staff in his hand and chose him five smooth stones out of the brook and put them in a shepherd's bag which he had even in a scrip and his sling was in his hand and he drew near to the philistine
1sm1741 and the philistine came on and drew near unto david and the man that bare the shield went before him
1sm1742 and when the philistine looked about and saw david he disdained him for he was but a youth and ruddy and of a fair countenance
1sm1743 and the philistine said unto david am i a dog that thou comest to me with staves and the philistine cursed david by his gods
1sm1744 and the philistine said to david come to me and i will give thy flesh unto the fowls of the air and to the beasts of the field
1sm1745 then said david to the philistine thou comest to me with a sword and with a spear and with a shield but i come to thee in the name of the lord of hosts the god of the armies of israel whom thou hast defied
1sm1746 this day will the lord deliver thee into mine hand and i will smite thee and take thine head from thee and i will give the carcases of the host of the philistines this day unto the fowls of the air and to the wild beasts of the earth that all the earth may know that there is a god in israel
1sm1747 and all this assembly shall know that the lord saveth not with sword and spear for the battle is the lord's and he will give you into our hands
1sm1748 and it came to pass when the philistine arose and came and drew nigh to meet david that david hastened and ran toward the army to meet the philistine
1sm1749 and david put his hand in his bag and took thence a stone and slang it and smote the philistine in his forehead that the stone sunk into his forehead and he fell upon his face to the earth
1sm1750 so david prevailed over the philistine with a sling and with a stone and smote the philistine and slew him but there was no sword in the hand of david
1sm1751 therefore david ran and stood upon the philistine and took his sword and drew it out of the sheath thereof and slew him and cut off his head therewith and when the philistines saw their champion was dead they fled
1sm1752 and the men of israel and of judah arose and shouted and pursued the philistines until thou come to the valley and to the gates of ekron and the wounded of the philistines fell down by the way to shaaraim even unto gath and unto ekron
1sm1753 and the children of israel returned from chasing after the philistines and they spoiled their tents
1sm1754 and david took the head of the philistine and brought it to jerusalem but he put his armour in his tent
1sm1755 and when saul saw david go forth against the philistine he said unto abner the captain of the host abner whose son is this youth and abner said as thy soul liveth o king i cannot tell
1sm1756 and the king said enquire thou whose son the stripling is
1sm1757 and as david returned from the slaughter of the philistine abner took him and brought him before saul with the head of the philistine in his hand
1sm1758 and saul said to him whose son art thou thou young man and david answered i am the son of thy servant jesse the bethlehemite
1sm181 and it came to pass when he had made an end of speaking unto saul that the soul of jonathan was knit with the soul of david and jonathan loved him as his own soul
1sm182 and saul took him that day and would let him go no more home to his father's house
1sm183 then jonathan and david made a covenant because he loved him as his own soul
1sm184 and jonathan stripped himself of the robe that was upon him and gave it to david and his garments even to his sword and to his bow and to his girdle
1sm185 and david went out whithersoever saul sent him and behaved himself wisely and saul set him over the men of war and he was accepted in the sight of all the people and also in the sight of saul's servants
1sm186 and it came to pass as they came when david was returned from the slaughter of the philistine that the women came out of all cities of israel singing and dancing to meet king saul with tabrets with joy and with instruments of musick
1sm187 and the women answered one another as they played and said saul hath slain his thousands and david his ten thousands
1sm188 and saul was very wroth and the saying displeased him and he said they have ascribed unto david ten thousands and to me they have ascribed but thousands and what can he have more but the kingdom
1sm189 and saul eyed david from that day and forward
1sm1810 and it came to pass on the morrow that the evil spirit from god came upon saul and he prophesied in the midst of the house and david played with his hand as at other times and there was a javelin in saul's hand
1sm1811 and saul cast the javelin for he said i will smite david even to the wall with it and david avoided out of his presence twice
1sm1812 and saul was afraid of david because the lord was with him and was departed from saul
1sm1813 therefore saul removed him from him and made him his captain over a thousand and he went out and came in before the people
1sm1814 and david behaved himself wisely in all his ways and the lord was with him
1sm1815 wherefore when saul saw that he behaved himself very wisely he was afraid of him
1sm1816 but all israel and judah loved david because he went out and came in before them
1sm1817 and saul said to david behold my elder daughter merab her will i give thee to wife only be thou valiant for me and fight the lord's battles for saul said let not mine hand be upon him but let the hand of the philistines be upon him
1sm1818 and david said unto saul who am i and what is my life or my father's family in israel that i should be son in law to the king
1sm1819 but it came to pass at the time when merab saul's daughter should have been given to david that she was given unto adriel the meholathite to wife
1sm1820 and michal saul's daughter loved david and they told saul and the thing pleased him
1sm1821 and saul said i will give him her that she may be a snare to him and that the hand of the philistines may be against him wherefore saul said to david thou shalt this day be my son in law in the one of the twain
1sm1822 and saul commanded his servants saying commune with david secretly and say behold the king hath delight in thee and all his servants love thee now therefore be the king's son in law
1sm1823 and saul's servants spake those words in the ears of david and david said seemeth it to you a light thing to be a king's son in law seeing that i am a poor man and lightly esteemed
1sm1824 and the servants of saul told him saying on this manner spake david
1sm1825 and saul said thus shall ye say to david the king desireth not any dowry but an hundred foreskins of the philistines to be avenged of the king's enemies but saul thought to make david fall by the hand of the philistines
1sm1826 and when his servants told david these words it pleased david well to be the king's son in law and the days were not expired
1sm1827 wherefore david arose and went he and his men and slew of the philistines two hundred men and david brought their foreskins and they gave them in full tale to the king that he might be the king's son in law and saul gave him michal his daughter to wife
1sm1828 and saul saw and knew that the lord was with david and that michal saul's daughter loved him
1sm1829 and saul was yet the more afraid of david and saul became david's enemy continually
1sm1830 then the princes of the philistines went forth and it came to pass after they went forth that david behaved himself more wisely than all the servants of saul so that his name was much set by
1sm191 and saul spake to jonathan his son and to all his servants that they should kill david
1sm192 but jonathan saul's son delighted much in david and jonathan told david saying saul my father seeketh to kill thee now therefore i pray thee take heed to thyself until the morning and abide in a secret place and hide thyself
1sm193 and i will go out and stand beside my father in the field where thou art and i will commune with my father of thee and what i see that i will tell thee
1sm194 and jonathan spake good of david unto saul his father and said unto him let not the king sin against his servant against david because he hath not sinned against thee and because his works have been to theeward very good
1sm195 for he did put his life in his hand and slew the philistine and the lord wrought a great salvation for all israel thou sawest it and didst rejoice wherefore then wilt thou sin against innocent blood to slay david without a cause
1sm196 and saul hearkened unto the voice of jonathan and saul sware as the lord liveth he shall not be slain
1sm197 and jonathan called david and jonathan shewed him all those things and jonathan brought david to saul and he was in his presence as in times past
1sm198 and there was war again and david went out and fought with the philistines and slew them with a great slaughter and they fled from him
1sm199 and the evil spirit from the lord was upon saul as he sat in his house with his javelin in his hand and david played with his hand
1sm1910 and saul sought to smite david even to the wall with the javelin but he slipped away out of saul's presence and he smote the javelin into the wall and david fled and escaped that night
1sm1911 saul also sent messengers unto david's house to watch him and to slay him in the morning and michal david's wife told him saying if thou save not thy life to night to morrow thou shalt be slain
1sm1912 so michal let david down through a window and he went and fled and escaped
1sm1913 and michal took an image and laid it in the bed and put a pillow of goats hair for his bolster and covered it with a cloth
1sm1914 and when saul sent messengers to take david she said he is sick
1sm1915 and saul sent the messengers again to see david saying bring him up to me in the bed that i may slay him
1sm1916 and when the messengers were come in behold there was an image in the bed with a pillow of goats hair for his bolster
1sm1917 and saul said unto michal why hast thou deceived me so and sent away mine enemy that he is escaped and michal answered saul he said unto me let me go why should i kill thee
1sm1918 so david fled and escaped and came to samuel to ramah and told him all that saul had done to him and he and samuel went and dwelt in naioth
1sm1919 and it was told saul saying behold david is at naioth in ramah
1sm1920 and saul sent messengers to take david and when they saw the company of the prophets prophesying and samuel standing as appointed over them the spirit of god was upon the messengers of saul and they also prophesied
1sm1921 and when it was told saul he sent other messengers and they prophesied likewise and saul sent messengers again the third time and they prophesied also
1sm1922 then went he also to ramah and came to a great well that is in sechu and he asked and said where are samuel and david and one said behold they be at naioth in ramah
1sm1923 and he went thither to naioth in ramah and the spirit of god was upon him also and he went on and prophesied until he came to naioth in ramah
1sm1924 and he stripped off his clothes also and prophesied before samuel in like manner and lay down naked all that day and all that night wherefore they say is saul also among the prophets
1sm201 and david fled from naioth in ramah and came and said before jonathan what have i done what is mine iniquity and what is my sin before thy father that he seeketh my life
1sm202 and he said unto him god forbid thou shalt not die behold my father will do nothing either great or small but that he will shew it me and why should my father hide this thing from me it is not so
1sm203 and david sware moreover and said thy father certainly knoweth that i have found grace in thine eyes and he saith let not jonathan know this lest he be grieved but truly as the lord liveth and as thy soul liveth there is but a step between me and death
1sm204 then said jonathan unto david whatsoever thy soul desireth i will even do it for thee
1sm205 and david said unto jonathan behold to morrow is the new moon and i should not fail to sit with the king at meat but let me go that i may hide myself in the field unto the third day at even
1sm206 if thy father at all miss me then say david earnestly asked leave of me that he might run to bethlehem his city for there is a yearly sacrifice there for all the family
1sm207 if he say thus it is well thy servant shall have peace but if he be very wroth then be sure that evil is determined by him
1sm208 therefore thou shalt deal kindly with thy servant for thou hast brought thy servant into a covenant of the lord with thee notwithstanding if there be in me iniquity slay me thyself for why shouldest thou bring me to thy father
1sm209 and jonathan said far be it from thee for if i knew certainly that evil were determined by my father to come upon thee then would not i tell it thee
1sm2010 then said david to jonathan who shall tell me or what if thy father answer thee roughly
1sm2011 and jonathan said unto david come and let us go out into the field and they went out both of them into the field
1sm2012 and jonathan said unto david o lord god of israel when i have sounded my father about to morrow any time or the third day and behold if there be good toward david and i then send not unto thee and shew it thee
1sm2013 the lord do so and much more to jonathan but if it please my father to do thee evil then i will shew it thee and send thee away that thou mayest go in peace and the lord be with thee as he hath been with my father
1sm2014 and thou shalt not only while yet i live shew me the kindness of the lord that i die not
1sm2015 but also thou shalt not cut off thy kindness from my house for ever no not when the lord hath cut off the enemies of david every one from the face of the earth
1sm2016 so jonathan made a covenant with the house of david saying let the lord even require it at the hand of david's enemies
1sm2017 and jonathan caused david to swear again because he loved him for he loved him as he loved his own soul
1sm2018 then jonathan said to david to morrow is the new moon and thou shalt be missed because thy seat will be empty
1sm2019 and when thou hast stayed three days then thou shalt go down quickly and come to the place where thou didst hide thyself when the business was in hand and shalt remain by the stone ezel
1sm2020 and i will shoot three arrows on the side thereof as though i shot at a mark
1sm2021 and behold i will send a lad saying go find out the arrows if i expressly say unto the lad behold the arrows are on this side of thee take them then come thou for there is peace to thee and no hurt as the lord liveth
1sm2022 but if i say thus unto the young man behold the arrows are beyond thee go thy way for the lord hath sent thee away
1sm2023 and as touching the matter which thou and i have spoken of behold the lord be between thee and me for ever
1sm2024 so david hid himself in the field and when the new moon was come the king sat him down to eat meat
1sm2025 and the king sat upon his seat as at other times even upon a seat by the wall and jonathan arose and abner sat by saul's side and david's place was empty
1sm2026 nevertheless saul spake not any thing that day for he thought something hath befallen him he is not clean surely he is not clean
1sm2027 and it came to pass on the morrow which was the second day of the month that david's place was empty and saul said unto jonathan his son wherefore cometh not the son of jesse to meat neither yesterday nor to day
1sm2028 and jonathan answered saul david earnestly asked leave of me to go to bethlehem
1sm2029 and he said let me go i pray thee for our family hath a sacrifice in the city and my brother he hath commanded me to be there and now if i have found favour in thine eyes let me get away i pray thee and see my brethren therefore he cometh not unto the king's table
1sm2030 then saul's anger was kindled against jonathan and he said unto him thou son of the perverse rebellious woman do not i know that thou hast chosen the son of jesse to thine own confusion and unto the confusion of thy mother's nakedness
1sm2031 for as long as the son of jesse liveth upon the ground thou shalt not be established nor thy kingdom wherefore now send and fetch him unto me for he shall surely die
1sm2032 and jonathan answered saul his father and said unto him wherefore shall he be slain what hath he done
1sm2033 and saul cast a javelin at him to smite him whereby jonathan knew that it was determined of his father to slay david
1sm2034 so jonathan arose from the table in fierce anger and did eat no meat the second day of the month for he was grieved for david because his father had done him shame
1sm2035 and it came to pass in the morning that jonathan went out into the field at the time appointed with david and a little lad with him
1sm2036 and he said unto his lad run find out now the arrows which i shoot and as the lad ran he shot an arrow beyond him
1sm2037 and when the lad was come to the place of the arrow which jonathan had shot jonathan cried after the lad and said is not the arrow beyond thee
1sm2038 and jonathan cried after the lad make speed haste stay not and jonathan's lad gathered up the arrows and came to his master
1sm2039 but the lad knew not any thing only jonathan and david knew the matter
1sm2040 and jonathan gave his artillery unto his lad and said unto him go carry them to the city
1sm2041 and as soon as the lad was gone david arose out of a place toward the south and fell on his face to the ground and bowed himself three times and they kissed one another and wept one with another until david exceeded
1sm2042 and jonathan said to david go in peace forasmuch as we have sworn both of us in the name of the lord saying the lord be between me and thee and between my seed and thy seed for ever and he arose and departed and jonathan went into the city
1sm211 then came david to nob to ahimelech the priest and ahimelech was afraid at the meeting of david and said unto him why art thou alone and no man with thee
1sm212 and david said unto ahimelech the priest the king hath commanded me a business and hath said unto me let no man know any thing of the business whereabout i send thee and what i have commanded thee and i have appointed my servants to such and such a place
1sm213 now therefore what is under thine hand give me five loaves of bread in mine hand or what there is present
1sm214 and the priest answered david and said there is no common bread under mine hand but there is hallowed bread if the young men have kept themselves at least from women
1sm215 and david answered the priest and said unto him of a truth women have been kept from us about these three days since i came out and the vessels of the young men are holy and the bread is in a manner common yea though it were sanctified this day in the vessel
1sm216 so the priest gave him hallowed bread for there was no bread there but the shewbread that was taken from before the lord to put hot bread in the day when it was taken away
1sm217 now a certain man of the servants of saul was there that day detained before the lord and his name was doeg an edomite the chiefest of the herdmen that belonged to saul
1sm218 and david said unto ahimelech and is there not here under thine hand spear or sword for i have neither brought my sword nor my weapons with me because the king's business required haste
1sm219 and the priest said the sword of goliath the philistine whom thou slewest in the valley of elah behold it is here wrapped in a cloth behind the ephod if thou wilt take that take it for there is no other save that here and david said there is none like that give it me
1sm2110 and david arose and fled that day for fear of saul and went to achish the king of gath
1sm2111 and the servants of achish said unto him is not this david the king of the land did they not sing one to another of him in dances saying saul hath slain his thousands and david his ten thousands
1sm2112 and david laid up these words in his heart and was sore afraid of achish the king of gath
1sm2113 and he changed his behaviour before them and feigned himself mad in their hands and scrabbled on the doors of the gate and let his spittle fall down upon his beard
1sm2114 then said achish unto his servants lo ye see the man is mad wherefore then have ye brought him to me
1sm2115 have i need of mad men that ye have brought this fellow to play the mad man in my presence shall this fellow come into my house
1sm221 david therefore departed thence and escaped to the cave adullam and when his brethren and all his father's house heard it they went down thither to him
1sm222 and every one that was in distress and every one that was in debt and every one that was discontented gathered themselves unto him and he became a captain over them and there were with him about four hundred men
1sm223 and david went thence to mizpeh of moab and he said unto the king of moab let my father and my mother i pray thee come forth and be with you till i know what god will do for me
1sm224 and he brought them before the king of moab and they dwelt with him all the while that david was in the hold
1sm225 and the prophet gad said unto david abide not in the hold depart and get thee into the land of judah then david departed and came into the forest of hareth
1sm226 when saul heard that david was discovered and the men that were with him now saul abode in gibeah under a tree in ramah having his spear in his hand and all his servants were standing about him
1sm227 then saul said unto his servants that stood about him hear now ye benjamites will the son of jesse give every one of you fields and vineyards and make you all captains of thousands and captains of hundreds
1sm228 that all of you have conspired against me and there is none that sheweth me that my son hath made a league with the son of jesse and there is none of you that is sorry for me or sheweth unto me that my son hath stirred up my servant against me to lie in wait as at this day
1sm229 then answered doeg the edomite which was set over the servants of saul and said i saw the son of jesse coming to nob to ahimelech the son of ahitub
1sm2210 and he enquired of the lord for him and gave him victuals and gave him the sword of goliath the philistine
1sm2211 then the king sent to call ahimelech the priest the son of ahitub and all his father's house the priests that were in nob and they came all of them to the king
1sm2212 and saul said hear now thou son of ahitub and he answered here i am my lord
1sm2213 and saul said unto him why have ye conspired against me thou and the son of jesse in that thou hast given him bread and a sword and hast enquired of god for him that he should rise against me to lie in wait as at this day
1sm2214 then ahimelech answered the king and said and who is so faithful among all thy servants as david which is the king's son in law and goeth at thy bidding and is honourable in thine house
1sm2215 did i then begin to enquire of god for him be it far from me let not the king impute any thing unto his servant nor to all the house of my father for thy servant knew nothing of all this less or more
1sm2216 and the king said thou shalt surely die ahimelech thou and all thy father's house
1sm2217 and the king said unto the footmen that stood about him turn and slay the priests of the lord because their hand also is with david and because they knew when he fled and did not shew it to me but the servants of the king would not put forth their hand to fall upon the priests of the lord
1sm2218 and the king said to doeg turn thou and fall upon the priests and doeg the edomite turned and he fell upon the priests and slew on that day fourscore and five persons that did wear a linen ephod
1sm2219 and nob the city of the priests smote he with the edge of the sword both men and women children and sucklings and oxen and asses and sheep with the edge of the sword
1sm2220 and one of the sons of ahimelech the son of ahitub named abiathar escaped and fled after david
1sm2221 and abiathar shewed david that saul had slain the lord's priests
1sm2222 and david said unto abiathar i knew it that day when doeg the edomite was there that he would surely tell saul i have occasioned the death of all the persons of thy father's house
1sm2223 abide thou with me fear not for he that seeketh my life seeketh thy life but with me thou shalt be in safeguard
1sm231 then they told david saying behold the philistines fight against keilah and they rob the threshingfloors
1sm232 therefore david enquired of the lord saying shall i go and smite these philistines and the lord said unto david go and smite the philistines and save keilah
1sm233 and david's men said unto him behold we be afraid here in judah how much more then if we come to keilah against the armies of the philistines
1sm234 then david enquired of the lord yet again and the lord answered him and said arise go down to keilah for i will deliver the philistines into thine hand
1sm235 so david and his men went to keilah and fought with the philistines and brought away their cattle and smote them with a great slaughter so david saved the inhabitants of keilah
1sm236 and it came to pass when abiathar the son of ahimelech fled to david to keilah that he came down with an ephod in his hand
1sm237 and it was told saul that david was come to keilah and saul said god hath delivered him into mine hand for he is shut in by entering into a town that hath gates and bars
1sm238 and saul called all the people together to war to go down to keilah to besiege david and his men
1sm239 and david knew that saul secretly practised mischief against him and he said to abiathar the priest bring hither the ephod
1sm2310 then said david o lord god of israel thy servant hath certainly heard that saul seeketh to come to keilah to destroy the city for my sake
1sm2311 will the men of keilah deliver me up into his hand will saul come down as thy servant hath heard o lord god of israel i beseech thee tell thy servant and the lord said he will come down
1sm2312 then said david will the men of keilah deliver me and my men into the hand of saul and the lord said they will deliver thee up
1sm2313 then david and his men which were about six hundred arose and departed out of keilah and went whithersoever they could go and it was told saul that david was escaped from keilah and he forbare to go forth
1sm2314 and david abode in the wilderness in strong holds and remained in a mountain in the wilderness of ziph and saul sought him every day but god delivered him not into his hand
1sm2315 and david saw that saul was come out to seek his life and david was in the wilderness of ziph in a wood
1sm2316 and jonathan saul's son arose and went to david into the wood and strengthened his hand in god
1sm2317 and he said unto him fear not for the hand of saul my father shall not find thee and thou shalt be king over israel and i shall be next unto thee and that also saul my father knoweth
1sm2318 and they two made a covenant before the lord and david abode in the wood and jonathan went to his house
1sm2319 then came up the ziphites to saul to gibeah saying doth not david hide himself with us in strong holds in the wood in the hill of hachilah which is on the south of jeshimon
1sm2320 now therefore o king come down according to all the desire of thy soul to come down and our part shall be to deliver him into the king's hand
1sm2321 and saul said blessed be ye of the lord for ye have compassion on me
1sm2322 go i pray you prepare yet and know and see his place where his haunt is and who hath seen him there for it is told me that he dealeth very subtilly
1sm2323 see therefore and take knowledge of all the lurking places where he hideth himself and come ye again to me with the certainty and i will go with you and it shall come to pass if he be in the land that i will search him out throughout all the thousands of judah
1sm2324 and they arose and went to ziph before saul but david and his men were in the wilderness of maon in the plain on the south of jeshimon
1sm2325 saul also and his men went to seek him and they told david wherefore he came down into a rock and abode in the wilderness of maon and when saul heard that he pursued after david in the wilderness of maon
1sm2326 and saul went on this side of the mountain and david and his men on that side of the mountain and david made haste to get away for fear of saul for saul and his men compassed david and his men round about to take them
1sm2327 but there came a messenger unto saul saying haste thee and come for the philistines have invaded the land
1sm2328 wherefore saul returned from pursuing after david and went against the philistines therefore they called that place selahammahlekoth
1sm2329 and david went up from thence and dwelt in strong holds at engedi
1sm241 and it came to pass when saul was returned from following the philistines that it was told him saying behold david is in the wilderness of engedi
1sm242 then saul took three thousand chosen men out of all israel and went to seek david and his men upon the rocks of the wild goats
1sm243 and he came to the sheepcotes by the way where was a cave and saul went in to cover his feet and david and his men remained in the sides of the cave
1sm244 and the men of david said unto him behold the day of which the lord said unto thee behold i will deliver thine enemy into thine hand that thou mayest do to him as it shall seem good unto thee then david arose and cut off the skirt of saul's robe privily
1sm245 and it came to pass afterward that david's heart smote him because he had cut off saul's skirt
1sm246 and he said unto his men the lord forbid that i should do this thing unto my master the lord's anointed to stretch forth mine hand against him seeing he is the anointed of the lord
1sm247 so david stayed his servants with these words and suffered them not to rise against saul but saul rose up out of the cave and went on his way
1sm248 david also arose afterward and went out of the cave and cried after saul saying my lord the king and when saul looked behind him david stooped with his face to the earth and bowed himself
1sm249 and david said to saul wherefore hearest thou men's words saying behold david seeketh thy hurt
1sm2410 behold this day thine eyes have seen how that the lord had delivered thee to day into mine hand in the cave and some bade me kill thee but mine eye spared thee and i said i will not put forth mine hand against my lord for he is the lord's anointed
1sm2411 moreover my father see yea see the skirt of thy robe in my hand for in that i cut off the skirt of thy robe and killed thee not know thou and see that there is neither evil nor transgression in mine hand and i have not sinned against thee yet thou huntest my soul to take it
1sm2412 the lord judge between me and thee and the lord avenge me of thee but mine hand shall not be upon thee
1sm2413 as saith the proverb of the ancients wickedness proceedeth from the wicked but mine hand shall not be upon thee
1sm2414 after whom is the king of israel come out after whom dost thou pursue after a dead dog after a flea
1sm2415 the lord therefore be judge and judge between me and thee and see and plead my cause and deliver me out of thine hand
1sm2416 and it came to pass when david had made an end of speaking these words unto saul that saul said is this thy voice my son david and saul lifted up his voice and wept
1sm2417 and he said to david thou art more righteous than i for thou hast rewarded me good whereas i have rewarded thee evil
1sm2418 and thou hast shewed this day how that thou hast dealt well with me forasmuch as when the lord had delivered me into thine hand thou killedst me not
1sm2419 for if a man find his enemy will he let him go well away wherefore the lord reward thee good for that thou hast done unto me this day
1sm2420 and now behold i know well that thou shalt surely be king and that the kingdom of israel shall be established in thine hand
1sm2421 swear now therefore unto me by the lord that thou wilt not cut off my seed after me and that thou wilt not destroy my name out of my father's house
1sm2422 and david sware unto saul and saul went home but david and his men gat them up unto the hold
1sm251 and samuel died and all the israelites were gathered together and lamented him and buried him in his house at ramah and david arose and went down to the wilderness of paran
1sm252 and there was a man in maon whose possessions were in carmel and the man was very great and he had three thousand sheep and a thousand goats and he was shearing his sheep in carmel
1sm253 now the name of the man was nabal and the name of his wife abigail and she was a woman of good understanding and of a beautiful countenance but the man was churlish and evil in his doings and he was of the house of caleb
1sm254 and david heard in the wilderness that nabal did shear his sheep
1sm255 and david sent out ten young men and david said unto the young men get you up to carmel and go to nabal and greet him in my name
1sm256 and thus shall ye say to him that liveth in prosperity peace be both to thee and peace be to thine house and peace be unto all that thou hast
1sm257 and now i have heard that thou hast shearers now thy shepherds which were with us we hurt them not neither was there ought missing unto them all the while they were in carmel
1sm258 ask thy young men and they will shew thee wherefore let the young men find favour in thine eyes for we come in a good day give i pray thee whatsoever cometh to thine hand unto thy servants and to thy son david
1sm259 and when david's young men came they spake to nabal according to all those words in the name of david and ceased
1sm2510 and nabal answered david's servants and said who is david and who is the son of jesse there be many servants now a days that break away every man from his master
1sm2511 shall i then take my bread and my water and my flesh that i have killed for my shearers and give it unto men whom i know not whence they be
1sm2512 so david's young men turned their way and went again and came and told him all those sayings
1sm2513 and david said unto his men gird ye on every man his sword and they girded on every man his sword and david also girded on his sword and there went up after david about four hundred men and two hundred abode by the stuff
1sm2514 but one of the young men told abigail nabal's wife saying behold david sent messengers out of the wilderness to salute our master and he railed on them
1sm2515 but the men were very good unto us and we were not hurt neither missed we any thing as long as we were conversant with them when we were in the fields
1sm2516 they were a wall unto us both by night and day all the while we were with them keeping the sheep
1sm2517 now therefore know and consider what thou wilt do for evil is determined against our master and against all his household for he is such a son of belial that a man cannot speak to him
1sm2518 then abigail made haste and took two hundred loaves and two bottles of wine and five sheep ready dressed and five measures of parched corn and an hundred clusters of raisins and two hundred cakes of figs and laid them on asses
1sm2519 and she said unto her servants go on before me behold i come after you but she told not her husband nabal
1sm2520 and it was so as she rode on the ass that she came down by the covert of the hill and behold david and his men came down against her and she met them
1sm2521 now david had said surely in vain have i kept all that this fellow hath in the wilderness so that nothing was missed of all that pertained unto him and he hath requited me evil for good
1sm2522 so and more also do god unto the enemies of david if i leave of all that pertain to him by the morning light any that pisseth against the wall
1sm2523 and when abigail saw david she hasted and lighted off the ass and fell before david on her face and bowed herself to the ground
1sm2524 and fell at his feet and said upon me my lord upon me let this iniquity be and let thine handmaid i pray thee speak in thine audience and hear the words of thine handmaid
1sm2525 let not my lord i pray thee regard this man of belial even nabal for as his name is so is he nabal is his name and folly is with him but i thine handmaid saw not the young men of my lord whom thou didst send
1sm2526 now therefore my lord as the lord liveth and as thy soul liveth seeing the lord hath withholden thee from coming to shed blood and from avenging thyself with thine own hand now let thine enemies and they that seek evil to my lord be as nabal
1sm2527 and now this blessing which thine handmaid hath brought unto my lord let it even be given unto the young men that follow my lord
1sm2528 i pray thee forgive the trespass of thine handmaid for the lord will certainly make my lord a sure house because my lord fighteth the battles of the lord and evil hath not been found in thee all thy days
1sm2529 yet a man is risen to pursue thee and to seek thy soul but the soul of my lord shall be bound in the bundle of life with the lord thy god and the souls of thine enemies them shall he sling out as out of the middle of a sling
1sm2530 and it shall come to pass when the lord shall have done to my lord according to all the good that he hath spoken concerning thee and shall have appointed thee ruler over israel
1sm2531 that this shall be no grief unto thee nor offence of heart unto my lord either that thou hast shed blood causeless or that my lord hath avenged himself but when the lord shall have dealt well with my lord then remember thine handmaid
1sm2532 and david said to abigail blessed be the lord god of israel which sent thee this day to meet me
1sm2533 and blessed be thy advice and blessed be thou which hast kept me this day from coming to shed blood and from avenging myself with mine own hand
1sm2534 for in very deed as the lord god of israel liveth which hath kept me back from hurting thee except thou hadst hasted and come to meet me surely there had not been left unto nabal by the morning light any that pisseth against the wall
1sm2535 so david received of her hand that which she had brought him and said unto her go up in peace to thine house see i have hearkened to thy voice and have accepted thy person
1sm2536 and abigail came to nabal and behold he held a feast in his house like the feast of a king and nabal's heart was merry within him for he was very drunken wherefore she told him nothing less or more until the morning light
1sm2537 but it came to pass in the morning when the wine was gone out of nabal and his wife had told him these things that his heart died within him and he became as a stone
1sm2538 and it came to pass about ten days after that the lord smote nabal that he died
1sm2539 and when david heard that nabal was dead he said blessed be the lord that hath pleaded the cause of my reproach from the hand of nabal and hath kept his servant from evil for the lord hath returned the wickedness of nabal upon his own head and david sent and communed with abigail to take her to him to wife
1sm2540 and when the servants of david were come to abigail to carmel they spake unto her saying david sent us unto thee to take thee to him to wife
1sm2541 and she arose and bowed herself on her face to the earth and said behold let thine handmaid be a servant to wash the feet of the servants of my lord
1sm2542 and abigail hasted and arose and rode upon an ass with five damsels of hers that went after her and she went after the messengers of david and became his wife
1sm2543 david also took ahinoam of jezreel and they were also both of them his wives
1sm2544 but saul had given michal his daughter david's wife to phalti the son of laish which was of gallim
1sm261 and the ziphites came unto saul to gibeah saying doth not david hide himself in the hill of hachilah which is before jeshimon
1sm262 then saul arose and went down to the wilderness of ziph having three thousand chosen men of israel with him to seek david in the wilderness of ziph
1sm263 and saul pitched in the hill of hachilah which is before jeshimon by the way but david abode in the wilderness and he saw that saul came after him into the wilderness
1sm264 david therefore sent out spies and understood that saul was come in very deed
1sm265 and david arose and came to the place where saul had pitched and david beheld the place where saul lay and abner the son of ner the captain of his host and saul lay in the trench and the people pitched round about him
1sm266 then answered david and said to ahimelech the hittite and to abishai the son of zeruiah brother to joab saying who will go down with me to saul to the camp and abishai said i will go down with thee
1sm267 so david and abishai came to the people by night and behold saul lay sleeping within the trench and his spear stuck in the ground at his bolster but abner and the people lay round about him
1sm268 then said abishai to david god hath delivered thine enemy into thine hand this day now therefore let me smite him i pray thee with the spear even to the earth at once and i will not smite him the second time
1sm269 and david said to abishai destroy him not for who can stretch forth his hand against the lord's anointed and be guiltless
1sm2610 david said furthermore as the lord liveth the lord shall smite him or his day shall come to die or he shall descend into battle and perish
1sm2611 the lord forbid that i should stretch forth mine hand against the lord's anointed but i pray thee take thou now the spear that is at his bolster and the cruse of water and let us go
1sm2612 so david took the spear and the cruse of water from saul's bolster and they gat them away and no man saw it nor knew it neither awaked for they were all asleep because a deep sleep from the lord was fallen upon them
1sm2613 then david went over to the other side and stood on the top of an hill afar off a great space being between them
1sm2614 and david cried to the people and to abner the son of ner saying answerest thou not abner then abner answered and said who art thou that criest to the king
1sm2615 and david said to abner art not thou a valiant man and who is like to thee in israel wherefore then hast thou not kept thy lord the king for there came one of the people in to destroy the king thy lord
1sm2616 this thing is not good that thou hast done as the lord liveth ye are worthy to die because ye have not kept your master the lord's anointed and now see where the king's spear is and the cruse of water that was at his bolster
1sm2617 and saul knew david's voice and said is this thy voice my son david and david said it is my voice my lord o king
1sm2618 and he said wherefore doth my lord thus pursue after his servant for what have i done or what evil is in mine hand
1sm2619 now therefore i pray thee let my lord the king hear the words of his servant if the lord have stirred thee up against me let him accept an offering but if they be the children of men cursed be they before the lord for they have driven me out this day from abiding in the inheritance of the lord saying go serve other gods
1sm2620 now therefore let not my blood fall to the earth before the face of the lord for the king of israel is come out to seek a flea as when one doth hunt a partridge in the mountains
1sm2621 then said saul i have sinned return my son david for i will no more do thee harm because my soul was precious in thine eyes this day behold i have played the fool and have erred exceedingly
1sm2622 and david answered and said behold the king's spear and let one of the young men come over and fetch it
1sm2623 the lord render to every man his righteousness and his faithfulness for the lord delivered thee into my hand to day but i would not stretch forth mine hand against the lord's anointed
1sm2624 and behold as thy life was much set by this day in mine eyes so let my life be much set by in the eyes of the lord and let him deliver me out of all tribulation
1sm2625 then saul said to david blessed be thou my son david thou shalt both do great things and also shalt still prevail so david went on his way and saul returned to his place
1sm271 and david said in his heart i shall now perish one day by the hand of saul there is nothing better for me than that i should speedily escape into the land of the philistines and saul shall despair of me to seek me any more in any coast of israel so shall i escape out of his hand
1sm272 and david arose and he passed over with the six hundred men that were with him unto achish the son of maoch king of gath
1sm273 and david dwelt with achish at gath he and his men every man with his household even david with his two wives ahinoam the jezreelitess and abigail the carmelitess nabal's wife
1sm274 and it was told saul that david was fled to gath and he sought no more again for him
1sm275 and david said unto achish if i have now found grace in thine eyes let them give me a place in some town in the country that i may dwell there for why should thy servant dwell in the royal city with thee
1sm276 then achish gave him ziklag that day wherefore ziklag pertaineth unto the kings of judah unto this day
1sm277 and the time that david dwelt in the country of the philistines was a full year and four months
1sm278 and david and his men went up and invaded the geshurites and the gezrites and the amalekites for those nations were of old the inhabitants of the land as thou goest to shur even unto the land of egypt
1sm279 and david smote the land and left neither man nor woman alive and took away the sheep and the oxen and the asses and the camels and the apparel and returned and came to achish
1sm2710 and achish said whither have ye made a road to day and david said against the south of judah and against the south of the jerahmeelites and against the south of the kenites
1sm2711 and david saved neither man nor woman alive to bring tidings to gath saying lest they should tell on us saying so did david and so will be his manner all the while he dwelleth in the country of the philistines
1sm2712 and achish believed david saying he hath made his people israel utterly to abhor him therefore he shall be my servant for ever
1sm281 and it came to pass in those days that the philistines gathered their armies together for warfare to fight with israel and achish said unto david know thou assuredly that thou shalt go out with me to battle thou and thy men
1sm282 and david said to achish surely thou shalt know what thy servant can do and achish said to david therefore will i make thee keeper of mine head for ever
1sm283 now samuel was dead and all israel had lamented him and buried him in ramah even in his own city and saul had put away those that had familiar spirits and the wizards out of the land
1sm284 and the philistines gathered themselves together and came and pitched in shunem and saul gathered all israel together and they pitched in gilboa
1sm285 and when saul saw the host of the philistines he was afraid and his heart greatly trembled
1sm286 and when saul enquired of the lord the lord answered him not neither by dreams nor by urim nor by prophets
1sm287 then said saul unto his servants seek me a woman that hath a familiar spirit that i may go to her and enquire of her and his servants said to him behold there is a woman that hath a familiar spirit at endor
1sm288 and saul disguised himself and put on other raiment and he went and two men with him and they came to the woman by night and he said i pray thee divine unto me by the familiar spirit and bring me him up whom i shall name unto thee
1sm289 and the woman said unto him behold thou knowest what saul hath done how he hath cut off those that have familiar spirits and the wizards out of the land wherefore then layest thou a snare for my life to cause me to die
1sm2810 and saul sware to her by the lord saying as the lord liveth there shall no punishment happen to thee for this thing
1sm2811 then said the woman whom shall i bring up unto thee and he said bring me up samuel
1sm2812 and when the woman saw samuel she cried with a loud voice and the woman spake to saul saying why hast thou deceived me for thou art saul
1sm2813 and the king said unto her be not afraid for what sawest thou and the woman said unto saul i saw gods ascending out of the earth
1sm2814 and he said unto her what form is he of and she said an old man cometh up and he is covered with a mantle and saul perceived that it was samuel and he stooped with his face to the ground and bowed himself
1sm2815 and samuel said to saul why hast thou disquieted me to bring me up and saul answered i am sore distressed for the philistines make war against me and god is departed from me and answereth me no more neither by prophets nor by dreams therefore i have called thee that thou mayest make known unto me what i shall do
1sm2816 then said samuel wherefore then dost thou ask of me seeing the lord is departed from thee and is become thine enemy
1sm2817 and the lord hath done to him as he spake by me for the lord hath rent the kingdom out of thine hand and given it to thy neighbour even to david
1sm2818 because thou obeyedst not the voice of the lord nor executedst his fierce wrath upon amalek therefore hath the lord done this thing unto thee this day
1sm2819 moreover the lord will also deliver israel with thee into the hand of the philistines and to morrow shalt thou and thy sons be with me the lord also shall deliver the host of israel into the hand of the philistines
1sm2820 then saul fell straightway all along on the earth and was sore afraid because of the words of samuel and there was no strength in him for he had eaten no bread all the day nor all the night
1sm2821 and the woman came unto saul and saw that he was sore troubled and said unto him behold thine handmaid hath obeyed thy voice and i have put my life in my hand and have hearkened unto thy words which thou spakest unto me
1sm2822 now therefore i pray thee hearken thou also unto the voice of thine handmaid and let me set a morsel of bread before thee and eat that thou mayest have strength when thou goest on thy way
1sm2823 but he refused and said i will not eat but his servants together with the woman compelled him and he hearkened unto their voice so he arose from the earth and sat upon the bed
1sm2824 and the woman had a fat calf in the house and she hasted and killed it and took flour and kneaded it and did bake unleavened bread thereof
1sm2825 and she brought it before saul and before his servants and they did eat then they rose up and went away that night
1sm291 now the philistines gathered together all their armies to aphek and the israelites pitched by a fountain which is in jezreel
1sm292 and the lords of the philistines passed on by hundreds and by thousands but david and his men passed on in the rereward with achish
1sm293 then said the princes of the philistines what do these hebrews here and achish said unto the princes of the philistines is not this david the servant of saul the king of israel which hath been with me these days or these years and i have found no fault in him since he fell unto me unto this day
1sm294 and the princes of the philistines were wroth with him and the princes of the philistines said unto him make this fellow return that he may go again to his place which thou hast appointed him and let him not go down with us to battle lest in the battle he be an adversary to us for wherewith should he reconcile himself unto his master should it not be with the heads of these men
1sm295 is not this david of whom they sang one to another in dances saying saul slew his thousands and david his ten thousands
1sm296 then achish called david and said unto him surely as the lord liveth thou hast been upright and thy going out and thy coming in with me in the host is good in my sight for i have not found evil in thee since the day of thy coming unto me unto this day nevertheless the lords favour thee not
1sm297 wherefore now return and go in peace that thou displease not the lords of the philistines
1sm298 and david said unto achish but what have i done and what hast thou found in thy servant so long as i have been with thee unto this day that i may not go fight against the enemies of my lord the king
1sm299 and achish answered and said to david i know that thou art good in my sight as an angel of god notwithstanding the princes of the philistines have said he shall not go up with us to the battle
1sm2910 wherefore now rise up early in the morning with thy master's servants that are come with thee and as soon as ye be up early in the morning and have light depart
1sm2911 so david and his men rose up early to depart in the morning to return into the land of the philistines and the philistines went up to jezreel
1sm301 and it came to pass when david and his men were come to ziklag on the third day that the amalekites had invaded the south and ziklag and smitten ziklag and burned it with fire
1sm302 and had taken the women captives that were therein they slew not any either great or small but carried them away and went on their way
1sm303 so david and his men came to the city and behold it was burned with fire and their wives and their sons and their daughters were taken captives
1sm304 then david and the people that were with him lifted up their voice and wept until they had no more power to weep
1sm305 and david's two wives were taken captives ahinoam the jezreelitess and abigail the wife of nabal the carmelite
1sm306 and david was greatly distressed for the people spake of stoning him because the soul of all the people was grieved every man for his sons and for his daughters but david encouraged himself in the lord his god
1sm307 and david said to abiathar the priest ahimelech's son i pray thee bring me hither the ephod and abiathar brought thither the ephod to david
1sm308 and david enquired at the lord saying shall i pursue after this troop shall i overtake them and he answered him pursue for thou shalt surely overtake them and without fail recover all
1sm309 so david went he and the six hundred men that were with him and came to the brook besor where those that were left behind stayed
1sm3010 but david pursued he and four hundred men for two hundred abode behind which were so faint that they could not go over the brook besor
1sm3011 and they found an egyptian in the field and brought him to david and gave him bread and he did eat and they made him drink water
1sm3012 and they gave him a piece of a cake of figs and two clusters of raisins and when he had eaten his spirit came again to him for he had eaten no bread nor drunk any water three days and three nights
1sm3013 and david said unto him to whom belongest thou and whence art thou and he said i am a young man of egypt servant to an amalekite and my master left me because three days agone i fell sick
1sm3014 we made an invasion upon the south of the cherethites and upon the coast which belongeth to judah and upon the south of caleb and we burned ziklag with fire
1sm3015 and david said to him canst thou bring me down to this company and he said swear unto me by god that thou wilt neither kill me nor deliver me into the hands of my master and i will bring thee down to this company
1sm3016 and when he had brought him down behold they were spread abroad upon all the earth eating and drinking and dancing because of all the great spoil that they had taken out of the land of the philistines and out of the land of judah
1sm3017 and david smote them from the twilight even unto the evening of the next day and there escaped not a man of them save four hundred young men which rode upon camels and fled
1sm3018 and david recovered all that the amalekites had carried away and david rescued his two wives
1sm3019 and there was nothing lacking to them neither small nor great neither sons nor daughters neither spoil nor any thing that they had taken to them david recovered all
1sm3020 and david took all the flocks and the herds which they drave before those other cattle and said this is david's spoil
1sm3021 and david came to the two hundred men which were so faint that they could not follow david whom they had made also to abide at the brook besor and they went forth to meet david and to meet the people that were with him and when david came near to the people he saluted them
1sm3022 then answered all the wicked men and men of belial of those that went with david and said because they went not with us we will not give them ought of the spoil that we have recovered save to every man his wife and his children that they may lead them away and depart
1sm3023 then said david ye shall not do so my brethren with that which the lord hath given us who hath preserved us and delivered the company that came against us into our hand
1sm3024 for who will hearken unto you in this matter but as his part is that goeth down to the battle so shall his part be that tarrieth by the stuff they shall part alike
1sm3025 and it was so from that day forward that he made it a statute and an ordinance for israel unto this day
1sm3026 and when david came to ziklag he sent of the spoil unto the elders of judah even to his friends saying behold a present for you of the spoil of the enemies of the lord
1sm3027 to them which were in bethel and to them which were in south ramoth and to them which were in jattir
1sm3028 and to them which were in aroer and to them which were in siphmoth and to them which were in eshtemoa
1sm3029 and to them which were in rachal and to them which were in the cities of the jerahmeelites and to them which were in the cities of the kenites
1sm3030 and to them which were in hormah and to them which were in chorashan and to them which were in athach
1sm3031 and to them which were in hebron and to all the places where david himself and his men were wont to haunt
1sm311 now the philistines fought against israel and the men of israel fled from before the philistines and fell down slain in mount gilboa
1sm312 and the philistines followed hard upon saul and upon his sons and the philistines slew jonathan and abinadab and melchishua saul's sons
1sm313 and the battle went sore against saul and the archers hit him and he was sore wounded of the archers
1sm314 then said saul unto his armourbearer draw thy sword and thrust me through therewith lest these uncircumcised come and thrust me through and abuse me but his armourbearer would not for he was sore afraid therefore saul took a sword and fell upon it
1sm315 and when his armourbearer saw that saul was dead he fell likewise upon his sword and died with him
1sm316 so saul died and his three sons and his armourbearer and all his men that same day together
1sm317 and when the men of israel that were on the other side of the valley and they that were on the other side jordan saw that the men of israel fled and that saul and his sons were dead they forsook the cities and fled and the philistines came and dwelt in them
1sm318 and it came to pass on the morrow when the philistines came to strip the slain that they found saul and his three sons fallen in mount gilboa
1sm319 and they cut off his head and stripped off his armour and sent into the land of the philistines round about to publish it in the house of their idols and among the people
1sm3110 and they put his armour in the house of ashtaroth and they fastened his body to the wall of bethshan
1sm3111 and when the inhabitants of jabeshgilead heard of that which the philistines had done to saul
1sm3112 all the valiant men arose and went all night and took the body of saul and the bodies of his sons from the wall of bethshan and came to jabesh and burnt them there
1sm3113 and they took their bones and buried them under a tree at jabesh and fasted seven days
2sm11 now it came to pass after the death of saul when david was returned from the slaughter of the amalekites and david had abode two days in ziklag
2sm12 it came even to pass on the third day that behold a man came out of the camp from saul with his clothes rent and earth upon his head and so it was when he came to david that he fell to the earth and did obeisance
2sm13 and david said unto him from whence comest thou and he said unto him out of the camp of israel am i escaped
2sm14 and david said unto him how went the matter i pray thee tell me and he answered that the people are fled from the battle and many of the people also are fallen and dead and saul and jonathan his son are dead also
2sm15 and david said unto the young man that told him how knowest thou that saul and jonathan his son be dead
2sm16 and the young man that told him said as i happened by chance upon mount gilboa behold saul leaned upon his spear and lo the chariots and horsemen followed hard after him
2sm17 and when he looked behind him he saw me and called unto me and i answered here am i
2sm18 and he said unto me who art thou and i answered him i am an amalekite
2sm19 he said unto me again stand i pray thee upon me and slay me for anguish is come upon me because my life is yet whole in me
2sm110 so i stood upon him and slew him because i was sure that he could not live after that he was fallen and i took the crown that was upon his head and the bracelet that was on his arm and have brought them hither unto my lord
2sm111 then david took hold on his clothes and rent them and likewise all the men that were with him
2sm112 and they mourned and wept and fasted until even for saul and for jonathan his son and for the people of the lord and for the house of israel because they were fallen by the sword
2sm113 and david said unto the young man that told him whence art thou and he answered i am the son of a stranger an amalekite
2sm114 and david said unto him how wast thou not afraid to stretch forth thine hand to destroy the lord's anointed
2sm115 and david called one of the young men and said go near and fall upon him and he smote him that he died
2sm116 and david said unto him thy blood be upon thy head for thy mouth hath testified against thee saying i have slain the lord's anointed
2sm117 and david lamented with this lamentation over saul and over jonathan his son
2sm118 also he bade them teach the children of judah the use of the bow behold it is written in the book of jasher
2sm119 the beauty of israel is slain upon thy high places how are the mighty fallen
2sm120 tell it not in gath publish it not in the streets of askelon lest the daughters of the philistines rejoice lest the daughters of the uncircumcised triumph
2sm121 ye mountains of gilboa let there be no dew neither let there be rain upon you nor fields of offerings for there the shield of the mighty is vilely cast away the shield of saul as though he had not been anointed with oil
2sm122 from the blood of the slain from the fat of the mighty the bow of jonathan turned not back and the sword of saul returned not empty
2sm123 saul and jonathan were lovely and pleasant in their lives and in their death they were not divided they were swifter than eagles they were stronger than lions
2sm124 ye daughters of israel weep over saul who clothed you in scarlet with other delights who put on ornaments of gold upon your apparel
2sm125 how are the mighty fallen in the midst of the battle o jonathan thou wast slain in thine high places
2sm126 i am distressed for thee my brother jonathan very pleasant hast thou been unto me thy love to me was wonderful passing the love of women
2sm127 how are the mighty fallen and the weapons of war perished
2sm21 and it came to pass after this that david enquired of the lord saying shall i go up into any of the cities of judah and the lord said unto him go up and david said whither shall i go up and he said unto hebron
2sm22 so david went up thither and his two wives also ahinoam the jezreelitess and abigail nabal's wife the carmelite
2sm23 and his men that were with him did david bring up every man with his household and they dwelt in the cities of hebron
2sm24 and the men of judah came and there they anointed david king over the house of judah and they told david saying that the men of jabeshgilead were they that buried saul
2sm25 and david sent messengers unto the men of jabeshgilead and said unto them blessed be ye of the lord that ye have shewed this kindness unto your lord even unto saul and have buried him
2sm26 and now the lord shew kindness and truth unto you and i also will requite you this kindness because ye have done this thing
2sm27 therefore now let your hands be strengthened and be ye valiant for your master saul is dead and also the house of judah have anointed me king over them
2sm28 but abner the son of ner captain of saul's host took ishbosheth the son of saul and brought him over to mahanaim
2sm29 and made him king over gilead and over the ashurites and over jezreel and over ephraim and over benjamin and over all israel
2sm210 ishbosheth saul's son was forty years old when he began to reign over israel and reigned two years but the house of judah followed david
2sm211 and the time that david was king in hebron over the house of judah was seven years and six months
2sm212 and abner the son of ner and the servants of ishbosheth the son of saul went out from mahanaim to gibeon
2sm213 and joab the son of zeruiah and the servants of david went out and met together by the pool of gibeon and they sat down the one on the one side of the pool and the other on the other side of the pool
2sm214 and abner said to joab let the young men now arise and play before us and joab said let them arise
2sm215 then there arose and went over by number twelve of benjamin which pertained to ishbosheth the son of saul and twelve of the servants of david
2sm216 and they caught every one his fellow by the head and thrust his sword in his fellow's side so they fell down together wherefore that place was called helkathhazzurim which is in gibeon
2sm217 and there was a very sore battle that day and abner was beaten and the men of israel before the servants of david
2sm218 and there were three sons of zeruiah there joab and abishai and asahel and asahel was as light of foot as a wild roe
2sm219 and asahel pursued after abner and in going he turned not to the right hand nor to the left from following abner
2sm220 then abner looked behind him and said art thou asahel and he answered i am
2sm221 and abner said to him turn thee aside to thy right hand or to thy left and lay thee hold on one of the young men and take thee his armour but asahel would not turn aside from following of him
2sm222 and abner said again to asahel turn thee aside from following me wherefore should i smite thee to the ground how then should i hold up my face to joab thy brother
2sm223 howbeit he refused to turn aside wherefore abner with the hinder end of the spear smote him under the fifth rib that the spear came out behind him and he fell down there and died in the same place and it came to pass that as many as came to the place where asahel fell down and died stood still
2sm224 joab also and abishai pursued after abner and the sun went down when they were come to the hill of ammah that lieth before giah by the way of the wilderness of gibeon
2sm225 and the children of benjamin gathered themselves together after abner and became one troop and stood on the top of an hill
2sm226 then abner called to joab and said shall the sword devour for ever knowest thou not that it will be bitterness in the latter end how long shall it be then ere thou bid the people return from following their brethren
2sm227 and joab said as god liveth unless thou hadst spoken surely then in the morning the people had gone up every one from following his brother
2sm228 so joab blew a trumpet and all the people stood still and pursued after israel no more neither fought they any more
2sm229 and abner and his men walked all that night through the plain and passed over jordan and went through all bithron and they came to mahanaim
2sm230 and joab returned from following abner and when he had gathered all the people together there lacked of david's servants nineteen men and asahel
2sm231 but the servants of david had smitten of benjamin and of abner's men so that three hundred and threescore men died
2sm232 and they took up asahel and buried him in the sepulchre of his father which was in bethlehem and joab and his men went all night and they came to hebron at break of day
2sm31 now there was long war between the house of saul and the house of david but david waxed stronger and stronger and the house of saul waxed weaker and weaker
2sm32 and unto david were sons born in hebron and his firstborn was amnon of ahinoam the jezreelitess
2sm33 and his second chileab of abigail the wife of nabal the carmelite and the third absalom the son of maacah the daughter of talmai king of geshur
2sm34 and the fourth adonijah the son of haggith and the fifth shephatiah the son of abital
2sm35 and the sixth ithream by eglah david's wife these were born to david in hebron
2sm36 and it came to pass while there was war between the house of saul and the house of david that abner made himself strong for the house of saul
2sm37 and saul had a concubine whose name was rizpah the daughter of aiah and ishbosheth said to abner wherefore hast thou gone in unto my father's concubine
2sm38 then was abner very wroth for the words of ishbosheth and said am i a dog's head which against judah do shew kindness this day unto the house of saul thy father to his brethren and to his friends and have not delivered thee into the hand of david that thou chargest me to day with a fault concerning this woman
2sm39 so do god to abner and more also except as the lord hath sworn to david even so i do to him
2sm310 to translate the kingdom from the house of saul and to set up the throne of david over israel and over judah from dan even to beersheba
2sm311 and he could not answer abner a word again because he feared him
2sm312 and abner sent messengers to david on his behalf saying whose is the land saying also make thy league with me and behold my hand shall be with thee to bring about all israel unto thee
2sm313 and he said well i will make a league with thee but one thing i require of thee that is thou shalt not see my face except thou first bring michal saul's daughter when thou comest to see my face
2sm314 and david sent messengers to ishbosheth saul's son saying deliver me my wife michal which i espoused to me for an hundred foreskins of the philistines
2sm315 and ishbosheth sent and took her from her husband even from phaltiel the son of laish
2sm316 and her husband went with her along weeping behind her to bahurim then said abner unto him go return and he returned
2sm317 and abner had communication with the elders of israel saying ye sought for david in times past to be king over you
2sm318 now then do it for the lord hath spoken of david saying by the hand of my servant david i will save my people israel out of the hand of the philistines and out of the hand of all their enemies
2sm319 and abner also spake in the ears of benjamin and abner went also to speak in the ears of david in hebron all that seemed good to israel and that seemed good to the whole house of benjamin
2sm320 so abner came to david to hebron and twenty men with him and david made abner and the men that were with him a feast
2sm321 and abner said unto david i will arise and go and will gather all israel unto my lord the king that they may make a league with thee and that thou mayest reign over all that thine heart desireth and david sent abner away and he went in peace
2sm322 and behold the servants of david and joab came from pursuing a troop and brought in a great spoil with them but abner was not with david in hebron for he had sent him away and he was gone in peace
2sm323 when joab and all the host that was with him were come they told joab saying abner the son of ner came to the king and he hath sent him away and he is gone in peace
2sm324 then joab came to the king and said what hast thou done behold abner came unto thee why is it that thou hast sent him away and he is quite gone
2sm325 thou knowest abner the son of ner that he came to deceive thee and to know thy going out and thy coming in and to know all that thou doest
2sm326 and when joab was come out from david he sent messengers after abner which brought him again from the well of sirah but david knew it not
2sm327 and when abner was returned to hebron joab took him aside in the gate to speak with him quietly and smote him there under the fifth rib that he died for the blood of asahel his brother
2sm328 and afterward when david heard it he said i and my kingdom are guiltless before the lord for ever from the blood of abner the son of ner
2sm329 let it rest on the head of joab and on all his father's house and let there not fail from the house of joab one that hath an issue or that is a leper or that leaneth on a staff or that falleth on the sword or that lacketh bread
2sm330 so joab and abishai his brother slew abner because he had slain their brother asahel at gibeon in the battle
2sm331 and david said to joab and to all the people that were with him rend your clothes and gird you with sackcloth and mourn before abner and king david himself followed the bier
2sm332 and they buried abner in hebron and the king lifted up his voice and wept at the grave of abner and all the people wept
2sm333 and the king lamented over abner and said died abner as a fool dieth
2sm334 thy hands were not bound nor thy feet put into fetters as a man falleth before wicked men so fellest thou and all the people wept again over him
2sm335 and when all the people came to cause david to eat meat while it was yet day david sware saying so do god to me and more also if i taste bread or ought else till the sun be down
2sm336 and all the people took notice of it and it pleased them as whatsoever the king did pleased all the people
2sm337 for all the people and all israel understood that day that it was not of the king to slay abner the son of ner
2sm338 and the king said unto his servants know ye not that there is a prince and a great man fallen this day in israel
2sm339 and i am this day weak though anointed king and these men the sons of zeruiah be too hard for me the lord shall reward the doer of evil according to his wickedness
2sm41 and when saul's son heard that abner was dead in hebron his hands were feeble and all the israelites were troubled
2sm42 and saul's son had two men that were captains of bands the name of the one was baanah and the name of the other rechab the sons of rimmon a beerothite of the children of benjamin for beeroth also was reckoned to benjamin
2sm43 and the beerothites fled to gittaim and were sojourners there until this day
2sm44 and jonathan saul's son had a son that was lame of his feet he was five years old when the tidings came of saul and jonathan out of jezreel and his nurse took him up and fled and it came to pass as she made haste to flee that he fell and became lame and his name was mephibosheth
2sm45 and the sons of rimmon the beerothite rechab and baanah went and came about the heat of the day to the house of ishbosheth who lay on a bed at noon
2sm46 and they came thither into the midst of the house as though they would have fetched wheat and they smote him under the fifth rib and rechab and baanah his brother escaped
2sm47 for when they came into the house he lay on his bed in his bedchamber and they smote him and slew him and beheaded him and took his head and gat them away through the plain all night
2sm48 and they brought the head of ishbosheth unto david to hebron and said to the king behold the head of ishbosheth the son of saul thine enemy which sought thy life and the lord hath avenged my lord the king this day of saul and of his seed
2sm49 and david answered rechab and baanah his brother the sons of rimmon the beerothite and said unto them as the lord liveth who hath redeemed my soul out of all adversity
2sm410 when one told me saying behold saul is dead thinking to have brought good tidings i took hold of him and slew him in ziklag who thought that i would have given him a reward for his tidings
2sm411 how much more when wicked men have slain a righteous person in his own house upon his bed shall i not therefore now require his blood of your hand and take you away from the earth
2sm412 and david commanded his young men and they slew them and cut off their hands and their feet and hanged them up over the pool in hebron but they took the head of ishbosheth and buried it in the sepulchre of abner in hebron
2sm51 then came all the tribes of israel to david unto hebron and spake saying behold we are thy bone and thy flesh
2sm52 also in time past when saul was king over us thou wast he that leddest out and broughtest in israel and the lord said to thee thou shalt feed my people israel and thou shalt be a captain over israel
2sm53 so all the elders of israel came to the king to hebron and king david made a league with them in hebron before the lord and they anointed david king over israel
2sm54 david was thirty years old when he began to reign and he reigned forty years
2sm55 in hebron he reigned over judah seven years and six months and in jerusalem he reigned thirty and three years over all israel and judah
2sm56 and the king and his men went to jerusalem unto the jebusites the inhabitants of the land which spake unto david saying except thou take away the blind and the lame thou shalt not come in hither thinking david cannot come in hither
2sm57 nevertheless david took the strong hold of zion the same is the city of david
2sm58 and david said on that day whosoever getteth up to the gutter and smiteth the jebusites and the lame and the blind that are hated of david's soul he shall be chief and captain wherefore they said the blind and the lame shall not come into the house
2sm59 so david dwelt in the fort and called it the city of david and david built round about from millo and inward
2sm510 and david went on and grew great and the lord god of hosts was with him
2sm511 and hiram king of tyre sent messengers to david and cedar trees and carpenters and masons and they built david an house
2sm512 and david perceived that the lord had established him king over israel and that he had exalted his kingdom for his people israel's sake
2sm513 and david took him more concubines and wives out of jerusalem after he was come from hebron and there were yet sons and daughters born to david
2sm514 and these be the names of those that were born unto him in jerusalem shammuah and shobab and nathan and solomon
2sm515 ibhar also and elishua and nepheg and japhia
2sm516 and elishama and eliada and eliphalet
2sm517 but when the philistines heard that they had anointed david king over israel all the philistines came up to seek david and david heard of it and went down to the hold
2sm518 the philistines also came and spread themselves in the valley of rephaim
2sm519 and david enquired of the lord saying shall i go up to the philistines wilt thou deliver them into mine hand and the lord said unto david go up for i will doubtless deliver the philistines into thine hand
2sm520 and david came to baalperazim and david smote them there and said the lord hath broken forth upon mine enemies before me as the breach of waters therefore he called the name of that place baalperazim
2sm521 and there they left their images and david and his men burned them
2sm522 and the philistines came up yet again and spread themselves in the valley of rephaim
2sm523 and when david enquired of the lord he said thou shalt not go up but fetch a compass behind them and come upon them over against the mulberry trees
2sm524 and let it be when thou hearest the sound of a going in the tops of the mulberry trees that then thou shalt bestir thyself for then shall the lord go out before thee to smite the host of the philistines
2sm525 and david did so as the lord had commanded him and smote the philistines from geba until thou come to gazer
2sm61 again david gathered together all the chosen men of israel thirty thousand
2sm62 and david arose and went with all the people that were with him from baale of judah to bring up from thence the ark of god whose name is called by the name of the lord of hosts that dwelleth between the cherubims
2sm63 and they set the ark of god upon a new cart and brought it out of the house of abinadab that was in gibeah and uzzah and ahio the sons of abinadab drave the new cart
2sm64 and they brought it out of the house of abinadab which was at gibeah accompanying the ark of god and ahio went before the ark
2sm65 and david and all the house of israel played before the lord on all manner of instruments made of fir wood even on harps and on psalteries and on timbrels and on cornets and on cymbals
2sm66 and when they came to nachon's threshingfloor uzzah put forth his hand to the ark of god and took hold of it for the oxen shook it
2sm67 and the anger of the lord was kindled against uzzah and god smote him there for his error and there he died by the ark of god
2sm68 and david was displeased because the lord had made a breach upon uzzah and he called the name of the place perezuzzah to this day
2sm69 and david was afraid of the lord that day and said how shall the ark of the lord come to me
2sm610 so david would not remove the ark of the lord unto him into the city of david but david carried it aside into the house of obededom the gittite
2sm611 and the ark of the lord continued in the house of obededom the gittite three months and the lord blessed obededom and all his household
2sm612 and it was told king david saying the lord hath blessed the house of obededom and all that pertaineth unto him because of the ark of god so david went and brought up the ark of god from the house of obededom into the city of david with gladness
2sm613 and it was so that when they that bare the ark of the lord had gone six paces he sacrificed oxen and fatlings
2sm614 and david danced before the lord with all his might and david was girded with a linen ephod
2sm615 so david and all the house of israel brought up the ark of the lord with shouting and with the sound of the trumpet
2sm616 and as the ark of the lord came into the city of david michal saul's daughter looked through a window and saw king david leaping and dancing before the lord and she despised him in her heart
2sm617 and they brought in the ark of the lord and set it in his place in the midst of the tabernacle that david had pitched for it and david offered burnt offerings and peace offerings before the lord
2sm618 and as soon as david had made an end of offering burnt offerings and peace offerings he blessed the people in the name of the lord of hosts
2sm619 and he dealt among all the people even among the whole multitude of israel as well to the women as men to every one a cake of bread and a good piece of flesh and a flagon of wine so all the people departed every one to his house
2sm620 then david returned to bless his household and michal the daughter of saul came out to meet david and said how glorious was the king of israel to day who uncovered himself to day in the eyes of the handmaids of his servants as one of the vain fellows shamelessly uncovereth himself
2sm621 and david said unto michal it was before the lord which chose me before thy father and before all his house to appoint me ruler over the people of the lord over israel therefore will i play before the lord
2sm622 and i will yet be more vile than thus and will be base in mine own sight and of the maidservants which thou hast spoken of of them shall i be had in honour
2sm623 therefore michal the daughter of saul had no child unto the day of her death
2sm71 and it came to pass when the king sat in his house and the lord had given him rest round about from all his enemies
2sm72 that the king said unto nathan the prophet see now i dwell in an house of cedar but the ark of god dwelleth within curtains
2sm73 and nathan said to the king go do all that is in thine heart for the lord is with thee
2sm74 and it came to pass that night that the word of the lord came unto nathan saying
2sm75 go and tell my servant david thus saith the lord shalt thou build me an house for me to dwell in
2sm76 whereas i have not dwelt in any house since the time that i brought up the children of israel out of egypt even to this day but have walked in a tent and in a tabernacle
2sm77 in all the places wherein i have walked with all the children of israel spake i a word with any of the tribes of israel whom i commanded to feed my people israel saying why build ye not me an house of cedar
2sm78 now therefore so shalt thou say unto my servant david thus saith the lord of hosts i took thee from the sheepcote from following the sheep to be ruler over my people over israel
2sm79 and i was with thee whithersoever thou wentest and have cut off all thine enemies out of thy sight and have made thee a great name like unto the name of the great men that are in the earth
2sm710 moreover i will appoint a place for my people israel and will plant them that they may dwell in a place of their own and move no more neither shall the children of wickedness afflict them any more as beforetime
2sm711 and as since the time that i commanded judges to be over my people israel and have caused thee to rest from all thine enemies also the lord telleth thee that he will make thee an house
2sm712 and when thy days be fulfilled and thou shalt sleep with thy fathers i will set up thy seed after thee which shall proceed out of thy bowels and i will establish his kingdom
2sm713 he shall build an house for my name and i will stablish the throne of his kingdom for ever
2sm714 i will be his father and he shall be my son if he commit iniquity i will chasten him with the rod of men and with the stripes of the children of men
2sm715 but my mercy shall not depart away from him as i took it from saul whom i put away before thee
2sm716 and thine house and thy kingdom shall be established for ever before thee thy throne shall be established for ever
2sm717 according to all these words and according to all this vision so did nathan speak unto david
2sm718 then went king david in and sat before the lord and he said who am i o lord god and what is my house that thou hast brought me hitherto
2sm719 and this was yet a small thing in thy sight o lord god but thou hast spoken also of thy servant's house for a great while to come and is this the manner of man o lord god
2sm720 and what can david say more unto thee for thou lord god knowest thy servant
2sm721 for thy word's sake and according to thine own heart hast thou done all these great things to make thy servant know them
2sm722 wherefore thou art great o lord god for there is none like thee neither is there any god beside thee according to all that we have heard with our ears
2sm723 and what one nation in the earth is like thy people even like israel whom god went to redeem for a people to himself and to make him a name and to do for you great things and terrible for thy land before thy people which thou redeemedst to thee from egypt from the nations and their gods
2sm724 for thou hast confirmed to thyself thy people israel to be a people unto thee for ever and thou lord art become their god
2sm725 and now o lord god the word that thou hast spoken concerning thy servant and concerning his house establish it for ever and do as thou hast said
2sm726 and let thy name be magnified for ever saying the lord of hosts is the god over israel and let the house of thy servant david be established before thee
2sm727 for thou o lord of hosts god of israel hast revealed to thy servant saying i will build thee an house therefore hath thy servant found in his heart to pray this prayer unto thee
2sm728 and now o lord god thou art that god and thy words be true and thou hast promised this goodness unto thy servant
2sm729 therefore now let it please thee to bless the house of thy servant that it may continue for ever before thee for thou o lord god hast spoken it and with thy blessing let the house of thy servant be blessed for ever
2sm81 and after this it came to pass that david smote the philistines and subdued them and david took methegammah out of the hand of the philistines
2sm82 and he smote moab and measured them with a line casting them down to the ground even with two lines measured he to put to death and with one full line to keep alive and so the moabites became david's servants and brought gifts
2sm83 david smote also hadadezer the son of rehob king of zobah as he went to recover his border at the river euphrates
2sm84 and david took from him a thousand chariots and seven hundred horsemen and twenty thousand footmen and david houghed all the chariot horses but reserved of them for an hundred chariots
2sm85 and when the syrians of damascus came to succour hadadezer king of zobah david slew of the syrians two and twenty thousand men
2sm86 then david put garrisons in syria of damascus and the syrians became servants to david and brought gifts and the lord preserved david whithersoever he went
2sm87 and david took the shields of gold that were on the servants of hadadezer and brought them to jerusalem
2sm88 and from betah and from berothai cities of hadadezer king david took exceeding much brass
2sm89 when toi king of hamath heard that david had smitten all the host of hadadezer
2sm810 then toi sent joram his son unto king david to salute him and to bless him because he had fought against hadadezer and smitten him for hadadezer had wars with toi and joram brought with him vessels of silver and vessels of gold and vessels of brass
2sm811 which also king david did dedicate unto the lord with the silver and gold that he had dedicated of all nations which he subdued
2sm812 of syria and of moab and of the children of ammon and of the philistines and of amalek and of the spoil of hadadezer son of rehob king of zobah
2sm813 and david gat him a name when he returned from smiting of the syrians in the valley of salt being eighteen thousand men
2sm814 and he put garrisons in edom throughout all edom put he garrisons and all they of edom became david's servants and the lord preserved david whithersoever he went
2sm815 and david reigned over all israel and david executed judgment and justice unto all his people
2sm816 and joab the son of zeruiah was over the host and jehoshaphat the son of ahilud was recorder
2sm817 and zadok the son of ahitub and ahimelech the son of abiathar were the priests and seraiah was the scribe
2sm818 and benaiah the son of jehoiada was over both the cherethites and the pelethites and david's sons were chief rulers
2sm91 and david said is there yet any that is left of the house of saul that i may shew him kindness for jonathan's sake
2sm92 and there was of the house of saul a servant whose name was ziba and when they had called him unto david the king said unto him art thou ziba and he said thy servant is he
2sm93 and the king said is there not yet any of the house of saul that i may shew the kindness of god unto him and ziba said unto the king jonathan hath yet a son which is lame on his feet
2sm94 and the king said unto him where is he and ziba said unto the king behold he is in the house of machir the son of ammiel in lodebar
2sm95 then king david sent and fetched him out of the house of machir the son of ammiel from lodebar
2sm96 now when mephibosheth the son of jonathan the son of saul was come unto david he fell on his face and did reverence and david said mephibosheth and he answered behold thy servant
2sm97 and david said unto him fear not for i will surely shew thee kindness for jonathan thy father's sake and will restore thee all the land of saul thy father and thou shalt eat bread at my table continually
2sm98 and he bowed himself and said what is thy servant that thou shouldest look upon such a dead dog as i am
2sm99 then the king called to ziba saul's servant and said unto him i have given unto thy master's son all that pertained to saul and to all his house
2sm910 thou therefore and thy sons and thy servants shall till the land for him and thou shalt bring in the fruits that thy master's son may have food to eat but mephibosheth thy master's son shall eat bread alway at my table now ziba had fifteen sons and twenty servants
2sm911 then said ziba unto the king according to all that my lord the king hath commanded his servant so shall thy servant do as for mephibosheth said the king he shall eat at my table as one of the king's sons
2sm912 and mephibosheth had a young son whose name was micha and all that dwelt in the house of ziba were servants unto mephibosheth
2sm913 so mephibosheth dwelt in jerusalem for he did eat continually at the king's table and was lame on both his feet
2sm101 and it came to pass after this that the king of the children of ammon died and hanun his son reigned in his stead
2sm102 then said david i will shew kindness unto hanun the son of nahash as his father shewed kindness unto me and david sent to comfort him by the hand of his servants for his father and david's servants came into the land of the children of ammon
2sm103 and the princes of the children of ammon said unto hanun their lord thinkest thou that david doth honour thy father that he hath sent comforters unto thee hath not david rather sent his servants unto thee to search the city and to spy it out and to overthrow it
2sm104 wherefore hanun took david's servants and shaved off the one half of their beards and cut off their garments in the middle even to their buttocks and sent them away
2sm105 when they told it unto david he sent to meet them because the men were greatly ashamed and the king said tarry at jericho until your beards be grown and then return
2sm106 and when the children of ammon saw that they stank before david the children of ammon sent and hired the syrians of bethrehob and the syrians of zoba twenty thousand footmen and of king maacah a thousand men and of ishtob twelve thousand men
2sm107 and when david heard of it he sent joab and all the host of the mighty men
2sm108 and the children of ammon came out and put the battle in array at the entering in of the gate and the syrians of zoba and of rehob and ishtob and maacah were by themselves in the field
2sm109 when joab saw that the front of the battle was against him before and behind he chose of all the choice men of israel and put them in array against the syrians
2sm1010 and the rest of the people he delivered into the hand of abishai his brother that he might put them in array against the children of ammon
2sm1011 and he said if the syrians be too strong for me then thou shalt help me but if the children of ammon be too strong for thee then i will come and help thee
2sm1012 be of good courage and let us play the men for our people and for the cities of our god and the lord do that which seemeth him good
2sm1013 and joab drew nigh and the people that were with him unto the battle against the syrians and they fled before him
2sm1014 and when the children of ammon saw that the syrians were fled then fled they also before abishai and entered into the city so joab returned from the children of ammon and came to jerusalem
2sm1015 and when the syrians saw that they were smitten before israel they gathered themselves together
2sm1016 and hadarezer sent and brought out the syrians that were beyond the river and they came to helam and shobach the captain of the host of hadarezer went before them
2sm1017 and when it was told david he gathered all israel together and passed over jordan and came to helam and the syrians set themselves in array against david and fought with him
2sm1018 and the syrians fled before israel and david slew the men of seven hundred chariots of the syrians and forty thousand horsemen and smote shobach the captain of their host who died there
2sm1019 and when all the kings that were servants to hadarezer saw that they were smitten before israel they made peace with israel and served them so the syrians feared to help the children of ammon any more
2sm111 and it came to pass after the year was expired at the time when kings go forth to battle that david sent joab and his servants with him and all israel and they destroyed the children of ammon and besieged rabbah but david tarried still at jerusalem
2sm112 and it came to pass in an eveningtide that david arose from off his bed and walked upon the roof of the king's house and from the roof he saw a woman washing herself and the woman was very beautiful to look upon
2sm113 and david sent and enquired after the woman and one said is not this bathsheba the daughter of eliam the wife of uriah the hittite
2sm114 and david sent messengers and took her and she came in unto him and he lay with her for she was purified from her uncleanness and she returned unto her house
2sm115 and the woman conceived and sent and told david and said i am with child
2sm116 and david sent to joab saying send me uriah the hittite and joab sent uriah to david
2sm117 and when uriah was come unto him david demanded of him how joab did and how the people did and how the war prospered
2sm118 and david said to uriah go down to thy house and wash thy feet and uriah departed out of the king's house and there followed him a mess of meat from the king
2sm119 but uriah slept at the door of the king's house with all the servants of his lord and went not down to his house
2sm1110 and when they had told david saying uriah went not down unto his house david said unto uriah camest thou not from thy journey why then didst thou not go down unto thine house
2sm1111 and uriah said unto david the ark and israel and judah abide in tents and my lord joab and the servants of my lord are encamped in the open fields shall i then go into mine house to eat and to drink and to lie with my wife as thou livest and as thy soul liveth i will not do this thing
2sm1112 and david said to uriah tarry here to day also and to morrow i will let thee depart so uriah abode in jerusalem that day and the morrow
2sm1113 and when david had called him he did eat and drink before him and he made him drunk and at even he went out to lie on his bed with the servants of his lord but went not down to his house
2sm1114 and it came to pass in the morning that david wrote a letter to joab and sent it by the hand of uriah
2sm1115 and he wrote in the letter saying set ye uriah in the forefront of the hottest battle and retire ye from him that he may be smitten and die
2sm1116 and it came to pass when joab observed the city that he assigned uriah unto a place where he knew that valiant men were
2sm1117 and the men of the city went out and fought with joab and there fell some of the people of the servants of david and uriah the hittite died also
2sm1118 then joab sent and told david all the things concerning the war
2sm1119 and charged the messenger saying when thou hast made an end of telling the matters of the war unto the king
2sm1120 and if so be that the king's wrath arise and he say unto thee wherefore approached ye so nigh unto the city when ye did fight knew ye not that they would shoot from the wall
2sm1121 who smote abimelech the son of jerubbesheth did not a woman cast a piece of a millstone upon him from the wall that he died in thebez why went ye nigh the wall then say thou thy servant uriah the hittite is dead also
2sm1122 so the messenger went and came and shewed david all that joab had sent him for
2sm1123 and the messenger said unto david surely the men prevailed against us and came out unto us into the field and we were upon them even unto the entering of the gate
2sm1124 and the shooters shot from off the wall upon thy servants and some of the king's servants be dead and thy servant uriah the hittite is dead also
2sm1125 then david said unto the messenger thus shalt thou say unto joab let not this thing displease thee for the sword devoureth one as well as another make thy battle more strong against the city and overthrow it and encourage thou him
2sm1126 and when the wife of uriah heard that uriah her husband was dead she mourned for her husband
2sm1127 and when the mourning was past david sent and fetched her to his house and she became his wife and bare him a son but the thing that david had done displeased the lord
2sm121 and the lord sent nathan unto david and he came unto him and said unto him there were two men in one city the one rich and the other poor
2sm122 the rich man had exceeding many flocks and herds
2sm123 but the poor man had nothing save one little ewe lamb which he had bought and nourished up and it grew up together with him and with his children it did eat of his own meat and drank of his own cup and lay in his bosom and was unto him as a daughter
2sm124 and there came a traveller unto the rich man and he spared to take of his own flock and of his own herd to dress for the wayfaring man that was come unto him but took the poor man's lamb and dressed it for the man that was come to him
2sm125 and david's anger was greatly kindled against the man and he said to nathan as the lord liveth the man that hath done this thing shall surely die
2sm126 and he shall restore the lamb fourfold because he did this thing and because he had no pity
2sm127 and nathan said to david thou art the man thus saith the lord god of israel i anointed thee king over israel and i delivered thee out of the hand of saul
2sm128 and i gave thee thy master's house and thy master's wives into thy bosom and gave thee the house of israel and of judah and if that had been too little i would moreover have given unto thee such and such things
2sm129 wherefore hast thou despised the commandment of the lord to do evil in his sight thou hast killed uriah the hittite with the sword and hast taken his wife to be thy wife and hast slain him with the sword of the children of ammon
2sm1210 now therefore the sword shall never depart from thine house because thou hast despised me and hast taken the wife of uriah the hittite to be thy wife
2sm1211 thus saith the lord behold i will raise up evil against thee out of thine own house and i will take thy wives before thine eyes and give them unto thy neighbour and he shall lie with thy wives in the sight of this sun
2sm1212 for thou didst it secretly but i will do this thing before all israel and before the sun
2sm1213 and david said unto nathan i have sinned against the lord and nathan said unto david the lord also hath put away thy sin thou shalt not die
2sm1214 howbeit because by this deed thou hast given great occasion to the enemies of the lord to blaspheme the child also that is born unto thee shall surely die
2sm1215 and nathan departed unto his house and the lord struck the child that uriah's wife bare unto david and it was very sick
2sm1216 david therefore besought god for the child and david fasted and went in and lay all night upon the earth
2sm1217 and the elders of his house arose and went to him to raise him up from the earth but he would not neither did he eat bread with them
2sm1218 and it came to pass on the seventh day that the child died and the servants of david feared to tell him that the child was dead for they said behold while the child was yet alive we spake unto him and he would not hearken unto our voice how will he then vex himself if we tell him that the child is dead
2sm1219 but when david saw that his servants whispered david perceived that the child was dead therefore david said unto his servants is the child dead and they said he is dead
2sm1220 then david arose from the earth and washed and anointed himself and changed his apparel and came into the house of the lord and worshipped then he came to his own house and when he required they set bread before him and he did eat
2sm1221 then said his servants unto him what thing is this that thou hast done thou didst fast and weep for the child while it was alive but when the child was dead thou didst rise and eat bread
2sm1222 and he said while the child was yet alive i fasted and wept for i said who can tell whether god will be gracious to me that the child may live
2sm1223 but now he is dead wherefore should i fast can i bring him back again i shall go to him but he shall not return to me
2sm1224 and david comforted bathsheba his wife and went in unto her and lay with her and she bare a son and he called his name solomon and the lord loved him
2sm1225 and he sent by the hand of nathan the prophet and he called his name jedidiah because of the lord
2sm1226 and joab fought against rabbah of the children of ammon and took the royal city
2sm1227 and joab sent messengers to david and said i have fought against rabbah and have taken the city of waters
2sm1228 now therefore gather the rest of the people together and encamp against the city and take it lest i take the city and it be called after my name
2sm1229 and david gathered all the people together and went to rabbah and fought against it and took it
2sm1230 and he took their king's crown from off his head the weight whereof was a talent of gold with the precious stones and it was set on david's head and he brought forth the spoil of the city in great abundance
2sm1231 and he brought forth the people that were therein and put them under saws and under harrows of iron and under axes of iron and made them pass through the brickkiln and thus did he unto all the cities of the children of ammon so david and all the people returned unto jerusalem
2sm131 and it came to pass after this that absalom the son of david had a fair sister whose name was tamar and amnon the son of david loved her
2sm132 and amnon was so vexed that he fell sick for his sister tamar for she was a virgin and amnon thought it hard for him to do anything to her
2sm133 but amnon had a friend whose name was jonadab the son of shimeah david's brother and jonadab was a very subtil man
2sm134 and he said unto him why art thou being the king's son lean from day to day wilt thou not tell me and amnon said unto him i love tamar my brother absalom's sister
2sm135 and jonadab said unto him lay thee down on thy bed and make thyself sick and when thy father cometh to see thee say unto him i pray thee let my sister tamar come and give me meat and dress the meat in my sight that i may see it and eat it at her hand
2sm136 so amnon lay down and made himself sick and when the king was come to see him amnon said unto the king i pray thee let tamar my sister come and make me a couple of cakes in my sight that i may eat at her hand
2sm137 then david sent home to tamar saying go now to thy brother amnon's house and dress him meat
2sm138 so tamar went to her brother amnon's house and he was laid down and she took flour and kneaded it and made cakes in his sight and did bake the cakes
2sm139 and she took a pan and poured them out before him but he refused to eat and amnon said have out all men from me and they went out every man from him
2sm1310 and amnon said unto tamar bring the meat into the chamber that i may eat of thine hand and tamar took the cakes which she had made and brought them into the chamber to amnon her brother
2sm1311 and when she had brought them unto him to eat he took hold of her and said unto her come lie with me my sister
2sm1312 and she answered him nay my brother do not force me for no such thing ought to be done in israel do not thou this folly
2sm1313 and i whither shall i cause my shame to go and as for thee thou shalt be as one of the fools in israel now therefore i pray thee speak unto the king for he will not withhold me from thee
2sm1314 howbeit he would not hearken unto her voice but being stronger than she forced her and lay with her
2sm1315 then amnon hated her exceedingly so that the hatred wherewith he hated her was greater than the love wherewith he had loved her and amnon said unto her arise be gone
2sm1316 and she said unto him there is no cause this evil in sending me away is greater than the other that thou didst unto me but he would not hearken unto her
2sm1317 then he called his servant that ministered unto him and said put now this woman out from me and bolt the door after her
2sm1318 and she had a garment of divers colours upon her for with such robes were the king's daughters that were virgins apparelled then his servant brought her out and bolted the door after her
2sm1319 and tamar put ashes on her head and rent her garment of divers colours that was on her and laid her hand on her head and went on crying
2sm1320 and absalom her brother said unto her hath amnon thy brother been with thee but hold now thy peace my sister he is thy brother regard not this thing so tamar remained desolate in her brother absalom's house
2sm1321 but when king david heard of all these things he was very wroth
2sm1322 and absalom spake unto his brother amnon neither good nor bad for absalom hated amnon because he had forced his sister tamar
2sm1323 and it came to pass after two full years that absalom had sheepshearers in baalhazor which is beside ephraim and absalom invited all the king's sons
2sm1324 and absalom came to the king and said behold now thy servant hath sheepshearers let the king i beseech thee and his servants go with thy servant
2sm1325 and the king said to absalom nay my son let us not all now go lest we be chargeable unto thee and he pressed him howbeit he would not go but blessed him
2sm1326 then said absalom if not i pray thee let my brother amnon go with us and the king said unto him why should he go with thee
2sm1327 but absalom pressed him that he let amnon and all the king's sons go with him
2sm1328 now absalom had commanded his servants saying mark ye now when amnon's heart is merry with wine and when i say unto you smite amnon then kill him fear not have not i commanded you be courageous and be valiant
2sm1329 and the servants of absalom did unto amnon as absalom had commanded then all the king's sons arose and every man gat him up upon his mule and fled
2sm1330 and it came to pass while they were in the way that tidings came to david saying absalom hath slain all the king's sons and there is not one of them left
2sm1331 then the king arose and tare his garments and lay on the earth and all his servants stood by with their clothes rent
2sm1332 and jonadab the son of shimeah david's brother answered and said let not my lord suppose that they have slain all the young men the king's sons for amnon only is dead for by the appointment of absalom this hath been determined from the day that he forced his sister tamar
2sm1333 now therefore let not my lord the king take the thing to his heart to think that all the king's sons are dead for amnon only is dead
2sm1334 but absalom fled and the young man that kept the watch lifted up his eyes and looked and behold there came much people by the way of the hill side behind him
2sm1335 and jonadab said unto the king behold the king's sons come as thy servant said so it is
2sm1336 and it came to pass as soon as he had made an end of speaking that behold the king's sons came and lifted up their voice and wept and the king also and all his servants wept very sore
2sm1337 but absalom fled and went to talmai the son of ammihud king of geshur and david mourned for his son every day
2sm1338 so absalom fled and went to geshur and was there three years
2sm1339 and the soul of king david longed to go forth unto absalom for he was comforted concerning amnon seeing he was dead
2sm141 now joab the son of zeruiah perceived that the king's heart was toward absalom
2sm142 and joab sent to tekoah and fetched thence a wise woman and said unto her i pray thee feign thyself to be a mourner and put on now mourning apparel and anoint not thyself with oil but be as a woman that had a long time mourned for the dead
2sm143 and come to the king and speak on this manner unto him so joab put the words in her mouth
2sm144 and when the woman of tekoah spake to the king she fell on her face to the ground and did obeisance and said help o king
2sm145 and the king said unto her what aileth thee and she answered i am indeed a widow woman and mine husband is dead
2sm146 and thy handmaid had two sons and they two strove together in the field and there was none to part them but the one smote the other and slew him
2sm147 and behold the whole family is risen against thine handmaid and they said deliver him that smote his brother that we may kill him for the life of his brother whom he slew and we will destroy the heir also and so they shall quench my coal which is left and shall not leave to my husband neither name nor remainder upon the earth
2sm148 and the king said unto the woman go to thine house and i will give charge concerning thee
2sm149 and the woman of tekoah said unto the king my lord o king the iniquity be on me and on my father's house and the king and his throne be guiltless
2sm1410 and the king said whosoever saith ought unto thee bring him to me and he shall not touch thee any more
2sm1411 then said she i pray thee let the king remember the lord thy god that thou wouldest not suffer the revengers of blood to destroy any more lest they destroy my son and he said as the lord liveth there shall not one hair of thy son fall to the earth
2sm1412 then the woman said let thine handmaid i pray thee speak one word unto my lord the king and he said say on
2sm1413 and the woman said wherefore then hast thou thought such a thing against the people of god for the king doth speak this thing as one which is faulty in that the king doth not fetch home again his banished
2sm1414 for we must needs die and are as water spilt on the ground which cannot be gathered up again neither doth god respect any person yet doth he devise means that his banished be not expelled from him
2sm1415 now therefore that i am come to speak of this thing unto my lord the king it is because the people have made me afraid and thy handmaid said i will now speak unto the king it may be that the king will perform the request of his handmaid
2sm1416 for the king will hear to deliver his handmaid out of the hand of the man that would destroy me and my son together out of the inheritance of god
2sm1417 then thine handmaid said the word of my lord the king shall now be comfortable for as an angel of god so is my lord the king to discern good and bad therefore the lord thy god will be with thee
2sm1418 then the king answered and said unto the woman hide not from me i pray thee the thing that i shall ask thee and the woman said let my lord the king now speak
2sm1419 and the king said is not the hand of joab with thee in all this and the woman answered and said as thy soul liveth my lord the king none can turn to the right hand or to the left from ought that my lord the king hath spoken for thy servant joab he bade me and he put all these words in the mouth of thine handmaid
2sm1420 to fetch about this form of speech hath thy servant joab done this thing and my lord is wise according to the wisdom of an angel of god to know all things that are in the earth
2sm1421 and the king said unto joab behold now i have done this thing go therefore bring the young man absalom again
2sm1422 and joab fell to the ground on his face and bowed himself and thanked the king and joab said to day thy servant knoweth that i have found grace in thy sight my lord o king in that the king hath fulfilled the request of his servant
2sm1423 so joab arose and went to geshur and brought absalom to jerusalem
2sm1424 and the king said let him turn to his own house and let him not see my face so absalom returned to his own house and saw not the king's face
2sm1425 but in all israel there was none to be so much praised as absalom for his beauty from the sole of his foot even to the crown of his head there was no blemish in him
2sm1426 and when he polled his head for it was at every year's end that he polled it because the hair was heavy on him therefore he polled it he weighed the hair of his head at two hundred shekels after the king's weight
2sm1427 and unto absalom there were born three sons and one daughter whose name was tamar she was a woman of a fair countenance
2sm1428 so absalom dwelt two full years in jerusalem and saw not the king's face
2sm1429 therefore absalom sent for joab to have sent him to the king but he would not come to him and when he sent again the second time he would not come
2sm1430 therefore he said unto his servants see joab's field is near mine and he hath barley there go and set it on fire and absalom's servants set the field on fire
2sm1431 then joab arose and came to absalom unto his house and said unto him wherefore have thy servants set my field on fire
2sm1432 and absalom answered joab behold i sent unto thee saying come hither that i may send thee to the king to say wherefore am i come from geshur it had been good for me to have been there still now therefore let me see the king's face and if there be any iniquity in me let him kill me
2sm1433 so joab came to the king and told him and when he had called for absalom he came to the king and bowed himself on his face to the ground before the king and the king kissed absalom
2sm151 and it came to pass after this that absalom prepared him chariots and horses and fifty men to run before him
2sm152 and absalom rose up early and stood beside the way of the gate and it was so that when any man that had a controversy came to the king for judgment then absalom called unto him and said of what city art thou and he said thy servant is of one of the tribes of israel
2sm153 and absalom said unto him see thy matters are good and right but there is no man deputed of the king to hear thee
2sm154 absalom said moreover oh that i were made judge in the land that every man which hath any suit or cause might come unto me and i would do him justice
2sm155 and it was so that when any man came nigh to him to do him obeisance he put forth his hand and took him and kissed him
2sm156 and on this manner did absalom to all israel that came to the king for judgment so absalom stole the hearts of the men of israel
2sm157 and it came to pass after forty years that absalom said unto the king i pray thee let me go and pay my vow which i have vowed unto the lord in hebron
2sm158 for thy servant vowed a vow while i abode at geshur in syria saying if the lord shall bring me again indeed to jerusalem then i will serve the lord
2sm159 and the king said unto him go in peace so he arose and went to hebron
2sm1510 but absalom sent spies throughout all the tribes of israel saying as soon as ye hear the sound of the trumpet then ye shall say absalom reigneth in hebron
2sm1511 and with absalom went two hundred men out of jerusalem that were called and they went in their simplicity and they knew not any thing
2sm1512 and absalom sent for ahithophel the gilonite david's counsellor from his city even from giloh while he offered sacrifices and the conspiracy was strong for the people increased continually with absalom
2sm1513 and there came a messenger to david saying the hearts of the men of israel are after absalom
2sm1514 and david said unto all his servants that were with him at jerusalem arise and let us flee for we shall not else escape from absalom make speed to depart lest he overtake us suddenly and bring evil upon us and smite the city with the edge of the sword
2sm1515 and the king's servants said unto the king behold thy servants are ready to do whatsoever my lord the king shall appoint
2sm1516 and the king went forth and all his household after him and the king left ten women which were concubines to keep the house
2sm1517 and the king went forth and all the people after him and tarried in a place that was far off
2sm1518 and all his servants passed on beside him and all the cherethites and all the pelethites and all the gittites six hundred men which came after him from gath passed on before the king
2sm1519 then said the king to ittai the gittite wherefore goest thou also with us return to thy place and abide with the king for thou art a stranger and also an exile
2sm1520 whereas thou camest but yesterday should i this day make thee go up and down with us seeing i go whither i may return thou and take back thy brethren mercy and truth be with thee
2sm1521 and ittai answered the king and said as the lord liveth and as my lord the king liveth surely in what place my lord the king shall be whether in death or life even there also will thy servant be
2sm1522 and david said to ittai go and pass over and ittai the gittite passed over and all his men and all the little ones that were with him
2sm1523 and all the country wept with a loud voice and all the people passed over the king also himself passed over the brook kidron and all the people passed over toward the way of the wilderness
2sm1524 and lo zadok also and all the levites were with him bearing the ark of the covenant of god and they set down the ark of god and abiathar went up until all the people had done passing out of the city
2sm1525 and the king said unto zadok carry back the ark of god into the city if i shall find favour in the eyes of the lord he will bring me again and shew me both it and his habitation
2sm1526 but if he thus say i have no delight in thee behold here am i let him do to me as seemeth good unto him
2sm1527 the king said also unto zadok the priest art not thou a seer return into the city in peace and your two sons with you ahimaaz thy son and jonathan the son of abiathar
2sm1528 see i will tarry in the plain of the wilderness until there come word from you to certify me
2sm1529 zadok therefore and abiathar carried the ark of god again to jerusalem and they tarried there
2sm1530 and david went up by the ascent of mount olivet and wept as he went up and had his head covered and he went barefoot and all the people that was with him covered every man his head and they went up weeping as they went up
2sm1531 and one told david saying ahithophel is among the conspirators with absalom and david said o lord i pray thee turn the counsel of ahithophel into foolishness
2sm1532 and it came to pass that when david was come to the top of the mount where he worshipped god behold hushai the archite came to meet him with his coat rent and earth upon his head
2sm1533 unto whom david said if thou passest on with me then thou shalt be a burden unto me
2sm1534 but if thou return to the city and say unto absalom i will be thy servant o king as i have been thy father's servant hitherto so will i now also be thy servant then mayest thou for me defeat the counsel of ahithophel
2sm1535 and hast thou not there with thee zadok and abiathar the priests therefore it shall be that what thing soever thou shalt hear out of the king's house thou shalt tell it to zadok and abiathar the priests
2sm1536 behold they have there with them their two sons ahimaaz zadok's son and jonathan abiathar's son and by them ye shall send unto me every thing that ye can hear
2sm1537 so hushai david's friend came into the city and absalom came into jerusalem
2sm161 and when david was a little past the top of the hill behold ziba the servant of mephibosheth met him with a couple of asses saddled and upon them two hundred loaves of bread and an hundred bunches of raisins and an hundred of summer fruits and a bottle of wine
2sm162 and the king said unto ziba what meanest thou by these and ziba said the asses be for the king's household to ride on and the bread and summer fruit for the young men to eat and the wine that such as be faint in the wilderness may drink
2sm163 and the king said and where is thy master's son and ziba said unto the king behold he abideth at jerusalem for he said to day shall the house of israel restore me the kingdom of my father
2sm164 then said the king to ziba behold thine are all that pertained unto mephibosheth and ziba said i humbly beseech thee that i may find grace in thy sight my lord o king
2sm165 and when king david came to bahurim behold thence came out a man of the family of the house of saul whose name was shimei the son of gera he came forth and cursed still as he came
2sm166 and he cast stones at david and at all the servants of king david and all the people and all the mighty men were on his right hand and on his left
2sm167 and thus said shimei when he cursed come out come out thou bloody man and thou man of belial
2sm168 the lord hath returned upon thee all the blood of the house of saul in whose stead thou hast reigned and the lord hath delivered the kingdom into the hand of absalom thy son and behold thou art taken in thy mischief because thou art a bloody man
2sm169 then said abishai the son of zeruiah unto the king why should this dead dog curse my lord the king let me go over i pray thee and take off his head
2sm1610 and the king said what have i to do with you ye sons of zeruiah so let him curse because the lord hath said unto him curse david who shall then say wherefore hast thou done so
2sm1611 and david said to abishai and to all his servants behold my son which came forth of my bowels seeketh my life how much more now may this benjamite do it let him alone and let him curse for the lord hath bidden him
2sm1612 it may be that the lord will look on mine affliction and that the lord will requite me good for his cursing this day
2sm1613 and as david and his men went by the way shimei went along on the hill's side over against him and cursed as he went and threw stones at him and cast dust
2sm1614 and the king and all the people that were with him came weary and refreshed themselves there
2sm1615 and absalom and all the people the men of israel came to jerusalem and ahithophel with him
2sm1616 and it came to pass when hushai the archite david's friend was come unto absalom that hushai said unto absalom god save the king god save the king
2sm1617 and absalom said to hushai is this thy kindness to thy friend why wentest thou not with thy friend
2sm1618 and hushai said unto absalom nay but whom the lord and this people and all the men of israel choose his will i be and with him will i abide
2sm1619 and again whom should i serve should i not serve in the presence of his son as i have served in thy father's presence so will i be in thy presence
2sm1620 then said absalom to ahithophel give counsel among you what we shall do
2sm1621 and ahithophel said unto absalom go in unto thy father's concubines which he hath left to keep the house and all israel shall hear that thou art abhorred of thy father then shall the hands of all that are with thee be strong
2sm1622 so they spread absalom a tent upon the top of the house and absalom went in unto his father's concubines in the sight of all israel
2sm1623 and the counsel of ahithophel which he counselled in those days was as if a man had enquired at the oracle of god so was all the counsel of ahithophel both with david and with absalom
2sm171 moreover ahithophel said unto absalom let me now choose out twelve thousand men and i will arise and pursue after david this night
2sm172 and i will come upon him while he is weary and weak handed and will make him afraid and all the people that are with him shall flee and i will smite the king only
2sm173 and i will bring back all the people unto thee the man whom thou seekest is as if all returned so all the people shall be in peace
2sm174 and the saying pleased absalom well and all the elders of israel
2sm175 then said absalom call now hushai the archite also and let us hear likewise what he saith
2sm176 and when hushai was come to absalom absalom spake unto him saying ahithophel hath spoken after this manner shall we do after his saying if not speak thou
2sm177 and hushai said unto absalom the counsel that ahithophel hath given is not good at this time
2sm178 for said hushai thou knowest thy father and his men that they be mighty men and they be chafed in their minds as a bear robbed of her whelps in the field and thy father is a man of war and will not lodge with the people
2sm179 behold he is hid now in some pit or in some other place and it will come to pass when some of them be overthrown at the first that whosoever heareth it will say there is a slaughter among the people that follow absalom
2sm1710 and he also that is valiant whose heart is as the heart of a lion shall utterly melt for all israel knoweth that thy father is a mighty man and they which be with him are valiant men
2sm1711 therefore i counsel that all israel be generally gathered unto thee from dan even to beersheba as the sand that is by the sea for multitude and that thou go to battle in thine own person
2sm1712 so shall we come upon him in some place where he shall be found and we will light upon him as the dew falleth on the ground and of him and of all the men that are with him there shall not be left so much as one
2sm1713 moreover if he be gotten into a city then shall all israel bring ropes to that city and we will draw it into the river until there be not one small stone found there
2sm1714 and absalom and all the men of israel said the counsel of hushai the archite is better than the counsel of ahithophel for the lord had appointed to defeat the good counsel of ahithophel to the intent that the lord might bring evil upon absalom
2sm1715 then said hushai unto zadok and to abiathar the priests thus and thus did ahithophel counsel absalom and the elders of israel and thus and thus have i counselled
2sm1716 now therefore send quickly and tell david saying lodge not this night in the plains of the wilderness but speedily pass over lest the king be swallowed up and all the people that are with him
2sm1717 now jonathan and ahimaaz stayed by enrogel for they might not be seen to come into the city and a wench went and told them and they went and told king david
2sm1718 nevertheless a lad saw them and told absalom but they went both of them away quickly and came to a man's house in bahurim which had a well in his court whither they went down
2sm1719 and the woman took and spread a covering over the well's mouth and spread ground corn thereon and the thing was not known
2sm1720 and when absalom's servants came to the woman to the house they said where is ahimaaz and jonathan and the woman said unto them they be gone over the brook of water and when they had sought and could not find them they returned to jerusalem
2sm1721 and it came to pass after they were departed that they came up out of the well and went and told king david and said unto david arise and pass quickly over the water for thus hath ahithophel counselled against you
2sm1722 then david arose and all the people that were with him and they passed over jordan by the morning light there lacked not one of them that was not gone over jordan
2sm1723 and when ahithophel saw that his counsel was not followed he saddled his ass and arose and gat him home to his house to his city and put his household in order and hanged himself and died and was buried in the sepulchre of his father
2sm1724 then david came to mahanaim and absalom passed over jordan he and all the men of israel with him
2sm1725 and absalom made amasa captain of the host instead of joab which amasa was a man's son whose name was ithra an israelite that went in to abigail the daughter of nahash sister to zeruiah joab's mother
2sm1726 so israel and absalom pitched in the land of gilead
2sm1727 and it came to pass when david was come to mahanaim that shobi the son of nahash of rabbah of the children of ammon and machir the son of ammiel of lodebar and barzillai the gileadite of rogelim
2sm1728 brought beds and basons and earthen vessels and wheat and barley and flour and parched corn and beans and lentiles and parched pulse
2sm1729 and honey and butter and sheep and cheese of kine for david and for the people that were with him to eat for they said the people is hungry and weary and thirsty in the wilderness
2sm181 and david numbered the people that were with him and set captains of thousands and captains of hundreds over them
2sm182 and david sent forth a third part of the people under the hand of joab and a third part under the hand of abishai the son of zeruiah joab's brother and a third part under the hand of ittai the gittite and the king said unto the people i will surely go forth with you myself also
2sm183 but the people answered thou shalt not go forth for if we flee away they will not care for us neither if half of us die will they care for us but now thou art worth ten thousand of us therefore now it is better that thou succour us out of the city
2sm184 and the king said unto them what seemeth you best i will do and the king stood by the gate side and all the people came out by hundreds and by thousands
2sm185 and the king commanded joab and abishai and ittai saying deal gently for my sake with the young man even with absalom and all the people heard when the king gave all the captains charge concerning absalom
2sm186 so the people went out into the field against israel and the battle was in the wood of ephraim
2sm187 where the people of israel were slain before the servants of david and there was there a great slaughter that day of twenty thousand men
2sm188 for the battle was there scattered over the face of all the country and the wood devoured more people that day than the sword devoured
2sm189 and absalom met the servants of david and absalom rode upon a mule and the mule went under the thick boughs of a great oak and his head caught hold of the oak and he was taken up between the heaven and the earth and the mule that was under him went away
2sm1810 and a certain man saw it and told joab and said behold i saw absalom hanged in an oak
2sm1811 and joab said unto the man that told him and behold thou sawest him and why didst thou not smite him there to the ground and i would have given thee ten shekels of silver and a girdle
2sm1812 and the man said unto joab though i should receive a thousand shekels of silver in mine hand yet would i not put forth mine hand against the king's son for in our hearing the king charged thee and abishai and ittai saying beware that none touch the young man absalom
2sm1813 otherwise i should have wrought falsehood against mine own life for there is no matter hid from the king and thou thyself wouldest have set thyself against me
2sm1814 then said joab i may not tarry thus with thee and he took three darts in his hand and thrust them through the heart of absalom while he was yet alive in the midst of the oak
2sm1815 and ten young men that bare joab's armour compassed about and smote absalom and slew him
2sm1816 and joab blew the trumpet and the people returned from pursuing after israel for joab held back the people
2sm1817 and they took absalom and cast him into a great pit in the wood and laid a very great heap of stones upon him and all israel fled every one to his tent
2sm1818 now absalom in his lifetime had taken and reared up for himself a pillar which is in the king's dale for he said i have no son to keep my name in remembrance and he called the pillar after his own name and it is called unto this day absalom's place
2sm1819 then said ahimaaz the son of zadok let me now run and bear the king tidings how that the lord hath avenged him of his enemies
2sm1820 and joab said unto him thou shalt not bear tidings this day but thou shalt bear tidings another day but this day thou shalt bear no tidings because the king's son is dead
2sm1821 then said joab to cushi go tell the king what thou hast seen and cushi bowed himself unto joab and ran
2sm1822 then said ahimaaz the son of zadok yet again to joab but howsoever let me i pray thee also run after cushi and joab said wherefore wilt thou run my son seeing that thou hast no tidings ready
2sm1823 but howsoever said he let me run and he said unto him run then ahimaaz ran by the way of the plain and overran cushi
2sm1824 and david sat between the two gates and the watchman went up to the roof over the gate unto the wall and lifted up his eyes and looked and behold a man running alone
2sm1825 and the watchman cried and told the king and the king said if he be alone there is tidings in his mouth and he came apace and drew near
2sm1826 and the watchman saw another man running and the watchman called unto the porter and said behold another man running alone and the king said he also bringeth tidings
2sm1827 and the watchman said me thinketh the running of the foremost is like the running of ahimaaz the son of zadok and the king said he is a good man and cometh with good tidings
2sm1828 and ahimaaz called and said unto the king all is well and he fell down to the earth upon his face before the king and said blessed be the lord thy god which hath delivered up the men that lifted up their hand against my lord the king
2sm1829 and the king said is the young man absalom safe and ahimaaz answered when joab sent the king's servant and me thy servant i saw a great tumult but i knew not what it was
2sm1830 and the king said unto him turn aside and stand here and he turned aside and stood still
2sm1831 and behold cushi came and cushi said tidings my lord the king for the lord hath avenged thee this day of all them that rose up against thee
2sm1832 and the king said unto cushi is the young man absalom safe and cushi answered the enemies of my lord the king and all that rise against thee to do thee hurt be as that young man is
2sm1833 and the king was much moved and went up to the chamber over the gate and wept and as he went thus he said o my son absalom my son my son absalom would god i had died for thee o absalom my son my son
2sm191 and it was told joab behold the king weepeth and mourneth for absalom
2sm192 and the victory that day was turned into mourning unto all the people for the people heard say that day how the king was grieved for his son
2sm193 and the people gat them by stealth that day into the city as people being ashamed steal away when they flee in battle
2sm194 but the king covered his face and the king cried with a loud voice o my son absalom o absalom my son my son
2sm195 and joab came into the house to the king and said thou hast shamed this day the faces of all thy servants which this day have saved thy life and the lives of thy sons and of thy daughters and the lives of thy wives and the lives of thy concubines
2sm196 in that thou lovest thine enemies and hatest thy friends for thou hast declared this day that thou regardest neither princes nor servants for this day i perceive that if absalom had lived and all we had died this day then it had pleased thee well
2sm197 now therefore arise go forth and speak comfortably unto thy servants for i swear by the lord if thou go not forth there will not tarry one with thee this night and that will be worse unto thee than all the evil that befell thee from thy youth until now
2sm198 then the king arose and sat in the gate and they told unto all the people saying behold the king doth sit in the gate and all the people came before the king for israel had fled every man to his tent
2sm199 and all the people were at strife throughout all the tribes of israel saying the king saved us out of the hand of our enemies and he delivered us out of the hand of the philistines and now he is fled out of the land for absalom
2sm1910 and absalom whom we anointed over us is dead in battle now therefore why speak ye not a word of bringing the king back
2sm1911 and king david sent to zadok and to abiathar the priests saying speak unto the elders of judah saying why are ye the last to bring the king back to his house seeing the speech of all israel is come to the king even to his house
2sm1912 ye are my brethren ye are my bones and my flesh wherefore then are ye the last to bring back the king
2sm1913 and say ye to amasa art thou not of my bone and of my flesh god do so to me and more also if thou be not captain of the host before me continually in the room of joab
2sm1914 and he bowed the heart of all the men of judah even as the heart of one man so that they sent this word unto the king return thou and all thy servants
2sm1915 so the king returned and came to jordan and judah came to gilgal to go to meet the king to conduct the king over jordan
2sm1916 and shimei the son of gera a benjamite which was of bahurim hasted and came down with the men of judah to meet king david
2sm1917 and there were a thousand men of benjamin with him and ziba the servant of the house of saul and his fifteen sons and his twenty servants with him and they went over jordan before the king
2sm1918 and there went over a ferry boat to carry over the king's household and to do what he thought good and shimei the son of gera fell down before the king as he was come over jordan
2sm1919 and said unto the king let not my lord impute iniquity unto me neither do thou remember that which thy servant did perversely the day that my lord the king went out of jerusalem that the king should take it to his heart
2sm1920 for thy servant doth know that i have sinned therefore behold i am come the first this day of all the house of joseph to go down to meet my lord the king
2sm1921 but abishai the son of zeruiah answered and said shall not shimei be put to death for this because he cursed the lord's anointed
2sm1922 and david said what have i to do with you ye sons of zeruiah that ye should this day be adversaries unto me shall there any man be put to death this day in israel for do not i know that i am this day king over israel
2sm1923 therefore the king said unto shimei thou shalt not die and the king sware unto him
2sm1924 and mephibosheth the son of saul came down to meet the king and had neither dressed his feet nor trimmed his beard nor washed his clothes from the day the king departed until the day he came again in peace
2sm1925 and it came to pass when he was come to jerusalem to meet the king that the king said unto him wherefore wentest not thou with me mephibosheth
2sm1926 and he answered my lord o king my servant deceived me for thy servant said i will saddle me an ass that i may ride thereon and go to the king because thy servant is lame
2sm1927 and he hath slandered thy servant unto my lord the king but my lord the king is as an angel of god do therefore what is good in thine eyes
2sm1928 for all of my father's house were but dead men before my lord the king yet didst thou set thy servant among them that did eat at thine own table what right therefore have i yet to cry any more unto the king
2sm1929 and the king said unto him why speakest thou any more of thy matters i have said thou and ziba divide the land
2sm1930 and mephibosheth said unto the king yea let him take all forasmuch as my lord the king is come again in peace unto his own house
2sm1931 and barzillai the gileadite came down from rogelim and went over jordan with the king to conduct him over jordan
2sm1932 now barzillai was a very aged man even fourscore years old and he had provided the king of sustenance while he lay at mahanaim for he was a very great man
2sm1933 and the king said unto barzillai come thou over with me and i will feed thee with me in jerusalem
2sm1934 and barzillai said unto the king how long have i to live that i should go up with the king unto jerusalem
2sm1935 i am this day fourscore years old and can i discern between good and evil can thy servant taste what i eat or what i drink can i hear any more the voice of singing men and singing women wherefore then should thy servant be yet a burden unto my lord the king
2sm1936 thy servant will go a little way over jordan with the king and why should the king recompense it me with such a reward
2sm1937 let thy servant i pray thee turn back again that i may die in mine own city and be buried by the grave of my father and of my mother but behold thy servant chimham let him go over with my lord the king and do to him what shall seem good unto thee
2sm1938 and the king answered chimham shall go over with me and i will do to him that which shall seem good unto thee and whatsoever thou shalt require of me that will i do for thee
2sm1939 and all the people went over jordan and when the king was come over the king kissed barzillai and blessed him and he returned unto his own place
2sm1940 then the king went on to gilgal and chimham went on with him and all the people of judah conducted the king and also half the people of israel
2sm1941 and behold all the men of israel came to the king and said unto the king why have our brethren the men of judah stolen thee away and have brought the king and his household and all david's men with him over jordan
2sm1942 and all the men of judah answered the men of israel because the king is near of kin to us wherefore then be ye angry for this matter have we eaten at all of the king's cost or hath he given us any gift
2sm1943 and the men of israel answered the men of judah and said we have ten parts in the king and we have also more right in david than ye why then did ye despise us that our advice should not be first had in bringing back our king and the words of the men of judah were fiercer than the words of the men of israel
2sm201 and there happened to be there a man of belial whose name was sheba the son of bichri a benjamite and he blew a trumpet and said we have no part in david neither have we inheritance in the son of jesse every man to his tents o israel
2sm202 so every man of israel went up from after david and followed sheba the son of bichri but the men of judah clave unto their king from jordan even to jerusalem
2sm203 and david came to his house at jerusalem and the king took the ten women his concubines whom he had left to keep the house and put them in ward and fed them but went not in unto them so they were shut up unto the day of their death living in widowhood
2sm204 then said the king to amasa assemble me the men of judah within three days and be thou here present
2sm205 so amasa went to assemble the men of judah but he tarried longer than the set time which he had appointed him
2sm206 and david said to abishai now shall sheba the son of bichri do us more harm than did absalom take thou thy lord's servants and pursue after him lest he get him fenced cities and escape us
2sm207 and there went out after him joab's men and the cherethites and the pelethites and all the mighty men and they went out of jerusalem to pursue after sheba the son of bichri
2sm208 when they were at the great stone which is in gibeon amasa went before them and joab's garment that he had put on was girded unto him and upon it a girdle with a sword fastened upon his loins in the sheath thereof and as he went forth it fell out
2sm209 and joab said to amasa art thou in health my brother and joab took amasa by the beard with the right hand to kiss him
2sm2010 but amasa took no heed to the sword that was in joab's hand so he smote him therewith in the fifth rib and shed out his bowels to the ground and struck him not again and he died so joab and abishai his brother pursued after sheba the son of bichri
2sm2011 and one of joab's men stood by him and said he that favoureth joab and he that is for david let him go after joab
2sm2012 and amasa wallowed in blood in the midst of the highway and when the man saw that all the people stood still he removed amasa out of the highway into the field and cast a cloth upon him when he saw that every one that came by him stood still
2sm2013 when he was removed out of the highway all the people went on after joab to pursue after sheba the son of bichri
2sm2014 and he went through all the tribes of israel unto abel and to bethmaachah and all the berites and they were gathered together and went also after him
2sm2015 and they came and besieged him in abel of bethmaachah and they cast up a bank against the city and it stood in the trench and all the people that were with joab battered the wall to throw it down
2sm2016 then cried a wise woman out of the city hear hear say i pray you unto joab come near hither that i may speak with thee
2sm2017 and when he was come near unto her the woman said art thou joab and he answered i am he then she said unto him hear the words of thine handmaid and he answered i do hear
2sm2018 then she spake saying they were wont to speak in old time saying they shall surely ask counsel at abel and so they ended the matter
2sm2019 i am one of them that are peaceable and faithful in israel thou seekest to destroy a city and a mother in israel why wilt thou swallow up the inheritance of the lord
2sm2020 and joab answered and said far be it far be it from me that i should swallow up or destroy
2sm2021 the matter is not so but a man of mount ephraim sheba the son of bichri by name hath lifted up his hand against the king even against david deliver him only and i will depart from the city and the woman said unto joab behold his head shall be thrown to thee over the wall
2sm2022 then the woman went unto all the people in her wisdom and they cut off the head of sheba the son of bichri and cast it out to joab and he blew a trumpet and they retired from the city every man to his tent and joab returned to jerusalem unto the king
2sm2023 now joab was over all the host of israel and benaiah the son of jehoiada was over the cherethites and over the pelethites
2sm2024 and adoram was over the tribute and jehoshaphat the son of ahilud was recorder
2sm2025 and sheva was scribe and zadok and abiathar were the priests
2sm2026 and ira also the jairite was a chief ruler about david
2sm211 then there was a famine in the days of david three years year after year and david enquired of the lord and the lord answered it is for saul and for his bloody house because he slew the gibeonites
2sm212 and the king called the gibeonites and said unto them now the gibeonites were not of the children of israel but of the remnant of the amorites and the children of israel had sworn unto them and saul sought to slay them in his zeal to the children of israel and judah
2sm213 wherefore david said unto the gibeonites what shall i do for you and wherewith shall i make the atonement that ye may bless the inheritance of the lord
2sm214 and the gibeonites said unto him we will have no silver nor gold of saul nor of his house neither for us shalt thou kill any man in israel and he said what ye shall say that will i do for you
2sm215 and they answered the king the man that consumed us and that devised against us that we should be destroyed from remaining in any of the coasts of israel
2sm216 let seven men of his sons be delivered unto us and we will hang them up unto the lord in gibeah of saul whom the lord did choose and the king said i will give them
2sm217 but the king spared mephibosheth the son of jonathan the son of saul because of the lord's oath that was between them between david and jonathan the son of saul
2sm218 but the king took the two sons of rizpah the daughter of aiah whom she bare unto saul armoni and mephibosheth and the five sons of michal the daughter of saul whom she brought up for adriel the son of barzillai the meholathite
2sm219 and he delivered them into the hands of the gibeonites and they hanged them in the hill before the lord and they fell all seven together and were put to death in the days of harvest in the first days in the beginning of barley harvest
2sm2110 and rizpah the daughter of aiah took sackcloth and spread it for her upon the rock from the beginning of harvest until water dropped upon them out of heaven and suffered neither the birds of the air to rest on them by day nor the beasts of the field by night
2sm2111 and it was told david what rizpah the daughter of aiah the concubine of saul had done
2sm2112 and david went and took the bones of saul and the bones of jonathan his son from the men of jabeshgilead which had stolen them from the street of bethshan where the philistines had hanged them when the philistines had slain saul in gilboa
2sm2113 and he brought up from thence the bones of saul and the bones of jonathan his son and they gathered the bones of them that were hanged
2sm2114 and the bones of saul and jonathan his son buried they in the country of benjamin in zelah in the sepulchre of kish his father and they performed all that the king commanded and after that god was intreated for the land
2sm2115 moreover the philistines had yet war again with israel and david went down and his servants with him and fought against the philistines and david waxed faint
2sm2116 and ishbibenob which was of the sons of the giant the weight of whose spear weighed three hundred shekels of brass in weight he being girded with a new sword thought to have slain david
2sm2117 but abishai the son of zeruiah succoured him and smote the philistine and killed him then the men of david sware unto him saying thou shalt go no more out with us to battle that thou quench not the light of israel
2sm2118 and it came to pass after this that there was again a battle with the philistines at gob then sibbechai the hushathite slew saph which was of the sons of the giant
2sm2119 and there was again a battle in gob with the philistines where elhanan the son of jaareoregim a bethlehemite slew the brother of goliath the gittite the staff of whose spear was like a weaver's beam
2sm2120 and there was yet a battle in gath where was a man of great stature that had on every hand six fingers and on every foot six toes four and twenty in number and he also was born to the giant
2sm2121 and when he defied israel jonathan the son of shimeah the brother of david slew him
2sm2122 these four were born to the giant in gath and fell by the hand of david and by the hand of his servants
2sm221 and david spake unto the lord the words of this song in the day that the lord had delivered him out of the hand of all his enemies and out of the hand of saul
2sm222 and he said the lord is my rock and my fortress and my deliverer
2sm223 the god of my rock in him will i trust he is my shield and the horn of my salvation my high tower and my refuge my saviour thou savest me from violence
2sm224 i will call on the lord who is worthy to be praised so shall i be saved from mine enemies
2sm225 when the waves of death compassed me the floods of ungodly men made me afraid
2sm226 the sorrows of hell compassed me about the snares of death prevented me
2sm227 in my distress i called upon the lord and cried to my god and he did hear my voice out of his temple and my cry did enter into his ears
2sm228 then the earth shook and trembled the foundations of heaven moved and shook because he was wroth
2sm229 there went up a smoke out of his nostrils and fire out of his mouth devoured coals were kindled by it
2sm2210 he bowed the heavens also and came down and darkness was under his feet
2sm2211 and he rode upon a cherub and did fly and he was seen upon the wings of the wind
2sm2212 and he made darkness pavilions round about him dark waters and thick clouds of the skies
2sm2213 through the brightness before him were coals of fire kindled
2sm2214 the lord thundered from heaven and the most high uttered his voice
2sm2215 and he sent out arrows and scattered them lightning and discomfited them
2sm2216 and the channels of the sea appeared the foundations of the world were discovered at the rebuking of the lord at the blast of the breath of his nostrils
2sm2217 he sent from above he took me he drew me out of many waters
2sm2218 he delivered me from my strong enemy and from them that hated me for they were too strong for me
2sm2219 they prevented me in the day of my calamity but the lord was my stay
2sm2220 he brought me forth also into a large place he delivered me because he delighted in me
2sm2221 the lord rewarded me according to my righteousness according to the cleanness of my hands hath he recompensed me
2sm2222 for i have kept the ways of the lord and have not wickedly departed from my god
2sm2223 for all his judgments were before me and as for his statutes i did not depart from them
2sm2224 i was also upright before him and have kept myself from mine iniquity
2sm2225 therefore the lord hath recompensed me according to my righteousness according to my cleanness in his eye sight
2sm2226 with the merciful thou wilt shew thyself merciful and with the upright man thou wilt shew thyself upright
2sm2227 with the pure thou wilt shew thyself pure and with the froward thou wilt shew thyself unsavoury
2sm2228 and the afflicted people thou wilt save but thine eyes are upon the haughty that thou mayest bring them down
2sm2229 for thou art my lamp o lord and the lord will lighten my darkness
2sm2230 for by thee i have run through a troop by my god have i leaped over a wall
2sm2231 as for god his way is perfect the word of the lord is tried he is a buckler to all them that trust in him
2sm2232 for who is god save the lord and who is a rock save our god
2sm2233 god is my strength and power and he maketh my way perfect
2sm2234 he maketh my feet like hinds feet and setteth me upon my high places
2sm2235 he teacheth my hands to war so that a bow of steel is broken by mine arms
2sm2236 thou hast also given me the shield of thy salvation and thy gentleness hath made me great
2sm2237 thou hast enlarged my steps under me so that my feet did not slip
2sm2238 i have pursued mine enemies and destroyed them and turned not again until i had consumed them
2sm2239 and i have consumed them and wounded them that they could not arise yea they are fallen under my feet
2sm2240 for thou hast girded me with strength to battle them that rose up against me hast thou subdued under me
2sm2241 thou hast also given me the necks of mine enemies that i might destroy them that hate me
2sm2242 they looked but there was none to save even unto the lord but he answered them not
2sm2243 then did i beat them as small as the dust of the earth i did stamp them as the mire of the street and did spread them abroad
2sm2244 thou also hast delivered me from the strivings of my people thou hast kept me to be head of the heathen a people which i knew not shall serve me
2sm2245 strangers shall submit themselves unto me as soon as they hear they shall be obedient unto me
2sm2246 strangers shall fade away and they shall be afraid out of their close places
2sm2247 the lord liveth and blessed be my rock and exalted be the god of the rock of my salvation
2sm2248 it is god that avengeth me and that bringeth down the people under me
2sm2249 and that bringeth me forth from mine enemies thou also hast lifted me up on high above them that rose up against me thou hast delivered me from the violent man
2sm2250 therefore i will give thanks unto thee o lord among the heathen and i will sing praises unto thy name
2sm2251 he is the tower of salvation for his king and sheweth mercy to his anointed unto david and to his seed for evermore
2sm231 now these be the last words of david david the son of jesse said and the man who was raised up on high the anointed of the god of jacob and the sweet psalmist of israel said
2sm232 the spirit of the lord spake by me and his word was in my tongue
2sm233 the god of israel said the rock of israel spake to me he that ruleth over men must be just ruling in the fear of god
2sm234 and he shall be as the light of the morning when the sun riseth even a morning without clouds as the tender grass springing out of the earth by clear shining after rain
2sm235 although my house be not so with god yet he hath made with me an everlasting covenant ordered in all things and sure for this is all my salvation and all my desire although he make it not to grow
2sm236 but the sons of belial shall be all of them as thorns thrust away because they cannot be taken with hands
2sm237 but the man that shall touch them must be fenced with iron and the staff of a spear and they shall be utterly burned with fire in the same place
2sm238 these be the names of the mighty men whom david had the tachmonite that sat in the seat chief among the captains the same was adino the eznite he lift up his spear against eight hundred whom he slew at one time
2sm239 and after him was eleazar the son of dodo the ahohite one of the three mighty men with david when they defied the philistines that were there gathered together to battle and the men of israel were gone away
2sm2310 he arose and smote the philistines until his hand was weary and his hand clave unto the sword and the lord wrought a great victory that day and the people returned after him only to spoil
2sm2311 and after him was shammah the son of agee the hararite and the philistines were gathered together into a troop where was a piece of ground full of lentiles and the people fled from the philistines
2sm2312 but he stood in the midst of the ground and defended it and slew the philistines and the lord wrought a great victory
2sm2313 and three of the thirty chief went down and came to david in the harvest time unto the cave of adullam and the troop of the philistines pitched in the valley of rephaim
2sm2314 and david was then in an hold and the garrison of the philistines was then in bethlehem
2sm2315 and david longed and said oh that one would give me drink of the water of the well of bethlehem which is by the gate
2sm2316 and the three mighty men brake through the host of the philistines and drew water out of the well of bethlehem that was by the gate and took it and brought it to david nevertheless he would not drink thereof but poured it out unto the lord
2sm2317 and he said be it far from me o lord that i should do this is not this the blood of the men that went in jeopardy of their lives therefore he would not drink it these things did these three mighty men
2sm2318 and abishai the brother of joab the son of zeruiah was chief among three and he lifted up his spear against three hundred and slew them and had the name among three
2sm2319 was he not most honourable of three therefore he was their captain howbeit he attained not unto the first three
2sm2320 and benaiah the son of jehoiada the son of a valiant man of kabzeel who had done many acts he slew two lionlike men of moab he went down also and slew a lion in the midst of a pit in time of snow
2sm2321 and he slew an egyptian a goodly man and the egyptian had a spear in his hand but he went down to him with a staff and plucked the spear out of the egyptian's hand and slew him with his own spear
2sm2322 these things did benaiah the son of jehoiada and had the name among three mighty men
2sm2323 he was more honourable than the thirty but he attained not to the first three and david set him over his guard
2sm2324 asahel the brother of joab was one of the thirty elhanan the son of dodo of bethlehem
2sm2325 shammah the harodite elika the harodite
2sm2326 helez the paltite ira the son of ikkesh the tekoite
2sm2327 abiezer the anethothite mebunnai the hushathite
2sm2328 zalmon the ahohite maharai the netophathite
2sm2329 heleb the son of baanah a netophathite ittai the son of ribai out of gibeah of the children of benjamin
2sm2330 benaiah the pirathonite hiddai of the brooks of gaash
2sm2331 abialbon the arbathite azmaveth the barhumite
2sm2332 eliahba the shaalbonite of the sons of jashen jonathan
2sm2333 shammah the hararite ahiam the son of sharar the hararite
2sm2334 eliphelet the son of ahasbai the son of the maachathite eliam the son of ahithophel the gilonite
2sm2335 hezrai the carmelite paarai the arbite
2sm2336 igal the son of nathan of zobah bani the gadite
2sm2337 zelek the ammonite nahari the beerothite armourbearer to joab the son of zeruiah
2sm2338 ira an ithrite gareb an ithrite
2sm2339 uriah the hittite thirty and seven in all
2sm241 and again the anger of the lord was kindled against israel and he moved david against them to say go number israel and judah
2sm242 for the king said to joab the captain of the host which was with him go now through all the tribes of israel from dan even to beersheba and number ye the people that i may know the number of the people
2sm243 and joab said unto the king now the lord thy god add unto the people how many soever they be an hundredfold and that the eyes of my lord the king may see it but why doth my lord the king delight in this thing
2sm244 notwithstanding the king's word prevailed against joab and against the captains of the host and joab and the captains of the host went out from the presence of the king to number the people of israel
2sm245 and they passed over jordan and pitched in aroer on the right side of the city that lieth in the midst of the river of gad and toward jazer
2sm246 then they came to gilead and to the land of tahtimhodshi and they came to danjaan and about to zidon
2sm247 and came to the strong hold of tyre and to all the cities of the hivites and of the canaanites and they went out to the south of judah even to beersheba
2sm248 so when they had gone through all the land they came to jerusalem at the end of nine months and twenty days
2sm249 and joab gave up the sum of the number of the people unto the king and there were in israel eight hundred thousand valiant men that drew the sword and the men of judah were five hundred thousand men
2sm2410 and david's heart smote him after that he had numbered the people and david said unto the lord i have sinned greatly in that i have done and now i beseech thee o lord take away the iniquity of thy servant for i have done very foolishly
2sm2411 for when david was up in the morning the word of the lord came unto the prophet gad david's seer saying
2sm2412 go and say unto david thus saith the lord i offer thee three things choose thee one of them that i may do it unto thee
2sm2413 so gad came to david and told him and said unto him shall seven years of famine come unto thee in thy land or wilt thou flee three months before thine enemies while they pursue thee or that there be three days pestilence in thy land now advise and see what answer i shall return to him that sent me
2sm2414 and david said unto gad i am in a great strait let us fall now into the hand of the lord for his mercies are great and let me not fall into the hand of man
2sm2415 so the lord sent a pestilence upon israel from the morning even to the time appointed and there died of the people from dan even to beersheba seventy thousand men
2sm2416 and when the angel stretched out his hand upon jerusalem to destroy it the lord repented him of the evil and said to the angel that destroyed the people it is enough stay now thine hand and the angel of the lord was by the threshingplace of araunah the jebusite
2sm2417 and david spake unto the lord when he saw the angel that smote the people and said lo i have sinned and i have done wickedly but these sheep what have they done let thine hand i pray thee be against me and against my father's house
2sm2418 and gad came that day to david and said unto him go up rear an altar unto the lord in the threshingfloor of araunah the jebusite
2sm2419 and david according to the saying of gad went up as the lord commanded
2sm2420 and araunah looked and saw the king and his servants coming on toward him and araunah went out and bowed himself before the king on his face upon the ground
2sm2421 and araunah said wherefore is my lord the king come to his servant and david said to buy the threshingfloor of thee to build an altar unto the lord that the plague may be stayed from the people
2sm2422 and araunah said unto david let my lord the king take and offer up what seemeth good unto him behold here be oxen for burnt sacrifice and threshing instruments and other instruments of the oxen for wood
2sm2423 all these things did araunah as a king give unto the king and araunah said unto the king the lord thy god accept thee
2sm2424 and the king said unto araunah nay but i will surely buy it of thee at a price neither will i offer burnt offerings unto the lord my god of that which doth cost me nothing so david bought the threshingfloor and the oxen for fifty shekels of silver
2sm2425 and david built there an altar unto the lord and offered burnt offerings and peace offerings so the lord was intreated for the land and the plague was stayed from israel
1ki11 now king david was old and stricken in years and they covered him with clothes but he gat no heat
1ki12 wherefore his servants said unto him let there be sought for my lord the king a young virgin and let her stand before the king and let her cherish him and let her lie in thy bosom that my lord the king may get heat
1ki13 so they sought for a fair damsel throughout all the coasts of israel and found abishag a shunammite and brought her to the king
1ki14 and the damsel was very fair and cherished the king and ministered to him but the king knew her not
1ki15 then adonijah the son of haggith exalted himself saying i will be king and he prepared him chariots and horsemen and fifty men to run before him
1ki16 and his father had not displeased him at any time in saying why hast thou done so and he also was a very goodly man and his mother bare him after absalom
1ki17 and he conferred with joab the son of zeruiah and with abiathar the priest and they following adonijah helped him
1ki18 but zadok the priest and benaiah the son of jehoiada and nathan the prophet and shimei and rei and the mighty men which belonged to david were not with adonijah
1ki19 and adonijah slew sheep and oxen and fat cattle by the stone of zoheleth which is by enrogel and called all his brethren the king's sons and all the men of judah the king's servants
1ki110 but nathan the prophet and benaiah and the mighty men and solomon his brother he called not
1ki111 wherefore nathan spake unto bathsheba the mother of solomon saying hast thou not heard that adonijah the son of haggith doth reign and david our lord knoweth it not
1ki112 now therefore come let me i pray thee give thee counsel that thou mayest save thine own life and the life of thy son solomon
1ki113 go and get thee in unto king david and say unto him didst not thou my lord o king swear unto thine handmaid saying assuredly solomon thy son shall reign after me and he shall sit upon my throne why then doth adonijah reign
1ki114 behold while thou yet talkest there with the king i also will come in after thee and confirm thy words
1ki115 and bathsheba went in unto the king into the chamber and the king was very old and abishag the shunammite ministered unto the king
1ki116 and bathsheba bowed and did obeisance unto the king and the king said what wouldest thou
1ki117 and she said unto him my lord thou swarest by the lord thy god unto thine handmaid saying assuredly solomon thy son shall reign after me and he shall sit upon my throne
1ki118 and now behold adonijah reigneth and now my lord the king thou knowest it not
1ki119 and he hath slain oxen and fat cattle and sheep in abundance and hath called all the sons of the king and abiathar the priest and joab the captain of the host but solomon thy servant hath he not called
1ki120 and thou my lord o king the eyes of all israel are upon thee that thou shouldest tell them who shall sit on the throne of my lord the king after him
1ki121 otherwise it shall come to pass when my lord the king shall sleep with his fathers that i and my son solomon shall be counted offenders
1ki122 and lo while she yet talked with the king nathan the prophet also came in
1ki123 and they told the king saying behold nathan the prophet and when he was come in before the king he bowed himself before the king with his face to the ground
1ki124 and nathan said my lord o king hast thou said adonijah shall reign after me and he shall sit upon my throne
1ki125 for he is gone down this day and hath slain oxen and fat cattle and sheep in abundance and hath called all the king's sons and the captains of the host and abiathar the priest and behold they eat and drink before him and say god save king adonijah
1ki126 but me even me thy servant and zadok the priest and benaiah the son of jehoiada and thy servant solomon hath he not called
1ki127 is this thing done by my lord the king and thou hast not shewed it unto thy servant who should sit on the throne of my lord the king after him
1ki128 then king david answered and said call me bathsheba and she came into the king's presence and stood before the king
1ki129 and the king sware and said as the lord liveth that hath redeemed my soul out of all distress
1ki130 even as i sware unto thee by the lord god of israel saying assuredly solomon thy son shall reign after me and he shall sit upon my throne in my stead even so will i certainly do this day
1ki131 then bathsheba bowed with her face to the earth and did reverence to the king and said let my lord king david live for ever
1ki132 and king david said call me zadok the priest and nathan the prophet and benaiah the son of jehoiada and they came before the king
1ki133 the king also said unto them take with you the servants of your lord and cause solomon my son to ride upon mine own mule and bring him down to gihon
1ki134 and let zadok the priest and nathan the prophet anoint him there king over israel and blow ye with the trumpet and say god save king solomon
1ki135 then ye shall come up after him that he may come and sit upon my throne for he shall be king in my stead and i have appointed him to be ruler over israel and over judah
1ki136 and benaiah the son of jehoiada answered the king and said amen the lord god of my lord the king say so too
1ki137 as the lord hath been with my lord the king even so be he with solomon and make his throne greater than the throne of my lord king david
1ki138 so zadok the priest and nathan the prophet and benaiah the son of jehoiada and the cherethites and the pelethites went down and caused solomon to ride upon king david's mule and brought him to gihon
1ki139 and zadok the priest took an horn of oil out of the tabernacle and anointed solomon and they blew the trumpet and all the people said god save king solomon
1ki140 and all the people came up after him and the people piped with pipes and rejoiced with great joy so that the earth rent with the sound of them
1ki141 and adonijah and all the guests that were with him heard it as they had made an end of eating and when joab heard the sound of the trumpet he said wherefore is this noise of the city being in an uproar
1ki142 and while he yet spake behold jonathan the son of abiathar the priest came and adonijah said unto him come in for thou art a valiant man and bringest good tidings
1ki143 and jonathan answered and said to adonijah verily our lord king david hath made solomon king
1ki144 and the king hath sent with him zadok the priest and nathan the prophet and benaiah the son of jehoiada and the cherethites and the pelethites and they have caused him to ride upon the king's mule
1ki145 and zadok the priest and nathan the prophet have anointed him king in gihon and they are come up from thence rejoicing so that the city rang again this is the noise that ye have heard
1ki146 and also solomon sitteth on the throne of the kingdom
1ki147 and moreover the king's servants came to bless our lord king david saying god make the name of solomon better than thy name and make his throne greater than thy throne and the king bowed himself upon the bed
1ki148 and also thus said the king blessed be the lord god of israel which hath given one to sit on my throne this day mine eyes even seeing it
1ki149 and all the guests that were with adonijah were afraid and rose up and went every man his way
1ki150 and adonijah feared because of solomon and arose and went and caught hold on the horns of the altar
1ki151 and it was told solomon saying behold adonijah feareth king solomon for lo he hath caught hold on the horns of the altar saying let king solomon swear unto me today that he will not slay his servant with the sword
1ki152 and solomon said if he will shew himself a worthy man there shall not an hair of him fall to the earth but if wickedness shall be found in him he shall die
1ki153 so king solomon sent and they brought him down from the altar and he came and bowed himself to king solomon and solomon said unto him go to thine house
1ki21 now the days of david drew nigh that he should die and he charged solomon his son saying
1ki22 i go the way of all the earth be thou strong therefore and shew thyself a man
1ki23 and keep the charge of the lord thy god to walk in his ways to keep his statutes and his commandments and his judgments and his testimonies as it is written in the law of moses that thou mayest prosper in all that thou doest and whithersoever thou turnest thyself
1ki24 that the lord may continue his word which he spake concerning me saying if thy children take heed to their way to walk before me in truth with all their heart and with all their soul there shall not fail thee said he a man on the throne of israel
1ki25 moreover thou knowest also what joab the son of zeruiah did to me and what he did to the two captains of the hosts of israel unto abner the son of ner and unto amasa the son of jether whom he slew and shed the blood of war in peace and put the blood of war upon his girdle that was about his loins and in his shoes that were on his feet
1ki26 do therefore according to thy wisdom and let not his hoar head go down to the grave in peace
1ki27 but shew kindness unto the sons of barzillai the gileadite and let them be of those that eat at thy table for so they came to me when i fled because of absalom thy brother
1ki28 and behold thou hast with thee shimei the son of gera a benjamite of bahurim which cursed me with a grievous curse in the day when i went to mahanaim but he came down to meet me at jordan and i sware to him by the lord saying i will not put thee to death with the sword
1ki29 now therefore hold him not guiltless for thou art a wise man and knowest what thou oughtest to do unto him but his hoar head bring thou down to the grave with blood
1ki210 so david slept with his fathers and was buried in the city of david
1ki211 and the days that david reigned over israel were forty years seven years reigned he in hebron and thirty and three years reigned he in jerusalem
1ki212 then sat solomon upon the throne of david his father and his kingdom was established greatly
1ki213 and adonijah the son of haggith came to bathsheba the mother of solomon and she said comest thou peaceably and he said peaceably
1ki214 he said moreover i have somewhat to say unto thee and she said say on
1ki215 and he said thou knowest that the kingdom was mine and that all israel set their faces on me that i should reign howbeit the kingdom is turned about and is become my brother's for it was his from the lord
1ki216 and now i ask one petition of thee deny me not and she said unto him say on
1ki217 and he said speak i pray thee unto solomon the king for he will not say thee nay that he give me abishag the shunammite to wife
1ki218 and bathsheba said well i will speak for thee unto the king
1ki219 bathsheba therefore went unto king solomon to speak unto him for adonijah and the king rose up to meet her and bowed himself unto her and sat down on his throne and caused a seat to be set for the king's mother and she sat on his right hand
1ki220 then she said i desire one small petition of thee i pray thee say me not nay and the king said unto her ask on my mother for i will not say thee nay
1ki221 and she said let abishag the shunammite be given to adonijah thy brother to wife
1ki222 and king solomon answered and said unto his mother and why dost thou ask abishag the shunammite for adonijah ask for him the kingdom also for he is mine elder brother even for him and for abiathar the priest and for joab the son of zeruiah
1ki223 then king solomon sware by the lord saying god do so to me and more also if adonijah have not spoken this word against his own life
1ki224 now therefore as the lord liveth which hath established me and set me on the throne of david my father and who hath made me an house as he promised adonijah shall be put to death this day
1ki225 and king solomon sent by the hand of benaiah the son of jehoiada and he fell upon him that he died
1ki226 and unto abiathar the priest said the king get thee to anathoth unto thine own fields for thou art worthy of death but i will not at this time put thee to death because thou barest the ark of the lord god before david my father and because thou hast been afflicted in all wherein my father was afflicted
1ki227 so solomon thrust out abiathar from being priest unto the lord that he might fulfil the word of the lord which he spake concerning the house of eli in shiloh
1ki228 then tidings came to joab for joab had turned after adonijah though he turned not after absalom and joab fled unto the tabernacle of the lord and caught hold on the horns of the altar
1ki229 and it was told king solomon that joab was fled unto the tabernacle of the lord and behold he is by the altar then solomon sent benaiah the son of jehoiada saying go fall upon him
1ki230 and benaiah came to the tabernacle of the lord and said unto him thus saith the king come forth and he said nay but i will die here and benaiah brought the king word again saying thus said joab and thus he answered me
1ki231 and the king said unto him do as he hath said and fall upon him and bury him that thou mayest take away the innocent blood which joab shed from me and from the house of my father
1ki232 and the lord shall return his blood upon his own head who fell upon two men more righteous and better than he and slew them with the sword my father david not knowing thereof to wit abner the son of ner captain of the host of israel and amasa the son of jether captain of the host of judah
1ki233 their blood shall therefore return upon the head of joab and upon the head of his seed for ever but upon david and upon his seed and upon his house and upon his throne shall there be peace for ever from the lord
1ki234 so benaiah the son of jehoiada went up and fell upon him and slew him and he was buried in his own house in the wilderness
1ki235 and the king put benaiah the son of jehoiada in his room over the host and zadok the priest did the king put in the room of abiathar
1ki236 and the king sent and called for shimei and said unto him build thee an house in jerusalem and dwell there and go not forth thence any whither
1ki237 for it shall be that on the day thou goest out and passest over the brook kidron thou shalt know for certain that thou shalt surely die thy blood shall be upon thine own head
1ki238 and shimei said unto the king the saying is good as my lord the king hath said so will thy servant do and shimei dwelt in jerusalem many days
1ki239 and it came to pass at the end of three years that two of the servants of shimei ran away unto achish son of maachah king of gath and they told shimei saying behold thy servants be in gath
1ki240 and shimei arose and saddled his ass and went to gath to achish to seek his servants and shimei went and brought his servants from gath
1ki241 and it was told solomon that shimei had gone from jerusalem to gath and was come again
1ki242 and the king sent and called for shimei and said unto him did i not make thee to swear by the lord and protested unto thee saying know for a certain on the day thou goest out and walkest abroad any whither that thou shalt surely die and thou saidst unto me the word that i have heard is good
1ki243 why then hast thou not kept the oath of the lord and the commandment that i have charged thee with
1ki244 the king said moreover to shimei thou knowest all the wickedness which thine heart is privy to that thou didst to david my father therefore the lord shall return thy wickedness upon thine own head
1ki245 and king solomon shall be blessed and the throne of david shall be established before the lord for ever
1ki246 so the king commanded benaiah the son of jehoiada which went out and fell upon him that he died and the kingdom was established in the hand of solomon
1ki31 and solomon made affinity with pharaoh king of egypt and took pharaoh's daughter and brought her into the city of david until he had made an end of building his own house and the house of the lord and the wall of jerusalem round about
1ki32 only the people sacrificed in high places because there was no house built unto the name of the lord until those days
1ki33 and solomon loved the lord walking in the statutes of david his father only he sacrificed and burnt incense in high places
1ki34 and the king went to gibeon to sacrifice there for that was the great high place a thousand burnt offerings did solomon offer upon that altar
1ki35 in gibeon the lord appeared to solomon in a dream by night and god said ask what i shall give thee
1ki36 and solomon said thou hast shewed unto thy servant david my father great mercy according as he walked before thee in truth and in righteousness and in uprightness of heart with thee and thou hast kept for him this great kindness that thou hast given him a son to sit on his throne as it is this day
1ki37 and now o lord my god thou hast made thy servant king instead of david my father and i am but a little child i know not how to go out or come in
1ki38 and thy servant is in the midst of thy people which thou hast chosen a great people that cannot be numbered nor counted for multitude
1ki39 give therefore thy servant an understanding heart to judge thy people that i may discern between good and bad for who is able to judge this thy so great a people
1ki310 and the speech pleased the lord that solomon had asked this thing
1ki311 and god said unto him because thou hast asked this thing and hast not asked for thyself long life neither hast asked riches for thyself nor hast asked the life of thine enemies but hast asked for thyself understanding to discern judgment
1ki312 behold i have done according to thy words lo i have given thee a wise and an understanding heart so that there was none like thee before thee neither after thee shall any arise like unto thee
1ki313 and i have also given thee that which thou hast not asked both riches and honour so that there shall not be any among the kings like unto thee all thy days
1ki314 and if thou wilt walk in my ways to keep my statutes and my commandments as thy father david did walk then i will lengthen thy days
1ki315 and solomon awoke and behold it was a dream and he came to jerusalem and stood before the ark of the covenant of the lord and offered up burnt offerings and offered peace offerings and made a feast to all his servants
1ki316 then came there two women that were harlots unto the king and stood before him
1ki317 and the one woman said o my lord i and this woman dwell in one house and i was delivered of a child with her in the house
1ki318 and it came to pass the third day after that i was delivered that this woman was delivered also and we were together there was no stranger with us in the house save we two in the house
1ki319 and this woman's child died in the night because she overlaid it
1ki320 and she arose at midnight and took my son from beside me while thine handmaid slept and laid it in her bosom and laid her dead child in my bosom
1ki321 and when i rose in the morning to give my child suck behold it was dead but when i had considered it in the morning behold it was not my son which i did bear
1ki322 and the other woman said nay but the living is my son and the dead is thy son and this said no but the dead is thy son and the living is my son thus they spake before the king
1ki323 then said the king the one saith this is my son that liveth and thy son is the dead and the other saith nay but thy son is the dead and my son is the living
1ki324 and the king said bring me a sword and they brought a sword before the king
1ki325 and the king said divide the living child in two and give half to the one and half to the other
1ki326 then spake the woman whose the living child was unto the king for her bowels yearned upon her son and she said o my lord give her the living child and in no wise slay it but the other said let it be neither mine nor thine but divide it
1ki327 then the king answered and said give her the living child and in no wise slay it she is the mother thereof
1ki328 and all israel heard of the judgment which the king had judged and they feared the king for they saw that the wisdom of god was in him to do judgment
1ki41 so king solomon was king over all israel
1ki42 and these were the princes which he had azariah the son of zadok the priest
1ki43 elihoreph and ahiah the sons of shisha scribes jehoshaphat the son of ahilud the recorder
1ki44 and benaiah the son of jehoiada was over the host and zadok and abiathar were the priests
1ki45 and azariah the son of nathan was over the officers and zabud the son of nathan was principal officer and the king's friend
1ki46 and ahishar was over the household and adoniram the son of abda was over the tribute
1ki47 and solomon had twelve officers over all israel which provided victuals for the king and his household each man his month in a year made provision
1ki48 and these are their names the son of hur in mount ephraim
1ki49 the son of dekar in makaz and in shaalbim and bethshemesh and elonbethhanan
1ki410 the son of hesed in aruboth to him pertained sochoh and all the land of hepher
1ki411 the son of abinadab in all the region of dor which had taphath the daughter of solomon to wife
1ki412 baana the son of ahilud to him pertained taanach and megiddo and all bethshean which is by zartanah beneath jezreel from bethshean to abelmeholah even unto the place that is beyond jokneam
1ki413 the son of geber in ramothgilead to him pertained the towns of jair the son of manasseh which are in gilead to him also pertained the region of argob which is in bashan threescore great cities with walls and brasen bars
1ki414 ahinadab the son of iddo had mahanaim
1ki415 ahimaaz was in naphtali he also took basmath the daughter of solomon to wife
1ki416 baanah the son of hushai was in asher and in aloth
1ki417 jehoshaphat the son of paruah in issachar
1ki418 shimei the son of elah in benjamin
1ki419 geber the son of uri was in the country of gilead in the country of sihon king of the amorites and of og king of bashan and he was the only officer which was in the land
1ki420 judah and israel were many as the sand which is by the sea in multitude eating and drinking and making merry
1ki421 and solomon reigned over all kingdoms from the river unto the land of the philistines and unto the border of egypt they brought presents and served solomon all the days of his life
1ki422 and solomon's provision for one day was thirty measures of fine flour and threescore measures of meal
1ki423 ten fat oxen and twenty oxen out of the pastures and an hundred sheep beside harts and roebucks and fallowdeer and fatted fowl
1ki424 for he had dominion over all the region on this side the river from tiphsah even to azzah over all the kings on this side the river and he had peace on all sides round about him
1ki425 and judah and israel dwelt safely every man under his vine and under his fig tree from dan even to beersheba all the days of solomon
1ki426 and solomon had forty thousand stalls of horses for his chariots and twelve thousand horsemen
1ki427 and those officers provided victual for king solomon and for all that came unto king solomon's table every man in his month they lacked nothing
1ki428 barley also and straw for the horses and dromedaries brought they unto the place where the officers were every man according to his charge
1ki429 and god gave solomon wisdom and understanding exceeding much and largeness of heart even as the sand that is on the sea shore
1ki430 and solomon's wisdom excelled the wisdom of all the children of the east country and all the wisdom of egypt
1ki431 for he was wiser than all men than ethan the ezrahite and heman and chalcol and darda the sons of mahol and his fame was in all nations round about
1ki432 and he spake three thousand proverbs and his songs were a thousand and five
1ki433 and he spake of trees from the cedar tree that is in lebanon even unto the hyssop that springeth out of the wall he spake also of beasts and of fowl and of creeping things and of fishes
1ki434 and there came of all people to hear the wisdom of solomon from all kings of the earth which had heard of his wisdom
1ki51 and hiram king of tyre sent his servants unto solomon for he had heard that they had anointed him king in the room of his father for hiram was ever a lover of david
1ki52 and solomon sent to hiram saying
1ki53 thou knowest how that david my father could not build an house unto the name of the lord his god for the wars which were about him on every side until the lord put them under the soles of his feet
1ki54 but now the lord my god hath given me rest on every side so that there is neither adversary nor evil occurrent
1ki55 and behold i purpose to build an house unto the name of the lord my god as the lord spake unto david my father saying thy son whom i will set upon thy throne in thy room he shall build an house unto my name
1ki56 now therefore command thou that they hew me cedar trees out of lebanon and my servants shall be with thy servants and unto thee will i give hire for thy servants according to all that thou shalt appoint for thou knowest that there is not among us any that can skill to hew timber like unto the sidonians
1ki57 and it came to pass when hiram heard the words of solomon that he rejoiced greatly and said blessed be the lord this day which hath given unto david a wise son over this great people
1ki58 and hiram sent to solomon saying i have considered the things which thou sentest to me for and i will do all thy desire concerning timber of cedar and concerning timber of fir
1ki59 my servants shall bring them down from lebanon unto the sea and i will convey them by sea in floats unto the place that thou shalt appoint me and will cause them to be discharged there and thou shalt receive them and thou shalt accomplish my desire in giving food for my household
1ki510 so hiram gave solomon cedar trees and fir trees according to all his desire
1ki511 and solomon gave hiram twenty thousand measures of wheat for food to his household and twenty measures of pure oil thus gave solomon to hiram year by year
1ki512 and the lord gave solomon wisdom as he promised him and there was peace between hiram and solomon and they two made a league together
1ki513 and king solomon raised a levy out of all israel and the levy was thirty thousand men
1ki514 and he sent them to lebanon ten thousand a month by courses a month they were in lebanon and two months at home and adoniram was over the levy
1ki515 and solomon had threescore and ten thousand that bare burdens and fourscore thousand hewers in the mountains
1ki516 beside the chief of solomon's officers which were over the work three thousand and three hundred which ruled over the people that wrought in the work
1ki517 and the king commanded and they brought great stones costly stones and hewed stones to lay the foundation of the house
1ki518 and solomon's builders and hiram's builders did hew them and the stonesquarers so they prepared timber and stones to build the house
1ki61 and it came to pass in the four hundred and eightieth year after the children of israel were come out of the land of egypt in the fourth year of solomon's reign over israel in the month zif which is the second month that he began to build the house of the lord
1ki62 and the house which king solomon built for the lord the length thereof was threescore cubits and the breadth thereof twenty cubits and the height thereof thirty cubits
1ki63 and the porch before the temple of the house twenty cubits was the length thereof according to the breadth of the house and ten cubits was the breadth thereof before the house
1ki64 and for the house he made windows of narrow lights
1ki65 and against the wall of the house he built chambers round about against the walls of the house round about both of the temple and of the oracle and he made chambers round about
1ki66 the nethermost chamber was five cubits broad and the middle was six cubits broad and the third was seven cubits broad for without in the wall of the house he made narrowed rests round about that the beams should not be fastened in the walls of the house
1ki67 and the house when it was in building was built of stone made ready before it was brought thither so that there was neither hammer nor axe nor any tool of iron heard in the house while it was in building
1ki68 the door for the middle chamber was in the right side of the house and they went up with winding stairs into the middle chamber and out of the middle into the third
1ki69 so he built the house and finished it and covered the house with beams and boards of cedar
1ki610 and then he built chambers against all the house five cubits high and they rested on the house with timber of cedar
1ki611 and the word of the lord came to solomon saying
1ki612 concerning this house which thou art in building if thou wilt walk in my statutes and execute my judgments and keep all my commandments to walk in them then will i perform my word with thee which i spake unto david thy father
1ki613 and i will dwell among the children of israel and will not forsake my people israel
1ki614 so solomon built the house and finished it
1ki615 and he built the walls of the house within with boards of cedar both the floor of the house and the walls of the ceiling and he covered them on the inside with wood and covered the floor of the house with planks of fir
1ki616 and he built twenty cubits on the sides of the house both the floor and the walls with boards of cedar he even built them for it within even for the oracle even for the most holy place
1ki617 and the house that is the temple before it was forty cubits long
1ki618 and the cedar of the house within was carved with knops and open flowers all was cedar there was no stone seen
1ki619 and the oracle he prepared in the house within to set there the ark of the covenant of the lord
1ki620 and the oracle in the forepart was twenty cubits in length and twenty cubits in breadth and twenty cubits in the height thereof and he overlaid it with pure gold and so covered the altar which was of cedar
1ki621 so solomon overlaid the house within with pure gold and he made a partition by the chains of gold before the oracle and he overlaid it with gold
1ki622 and the whole house he overlaid with gold until he had finished all the house also the whole altar that was by the oracle he overlaid with gold
1ki623 and within the oracle he made two cherubims of olive tree each ten cubits high
1ki624 and five cubits was the one wing of the cherub and five cubits the other wing of the cherub from the uttermost part of the one wing unto the uttermost part of the other were ten cubits
1ki625 and the other cherub was ten cubits both the cherubims were of one measure and one size
1ki626 the height of the one cherub was ten cubits and so was it of the other cherub
1ki627 and he set the cherubims within the inner house and they stretched forth the wings of the cherubims so that the wing of the one touched the one wall and the wing of the other cherub touched the other wall and their wings touched one another in the midst of the house
1ki628 and he overlaid the cherubims with gold
1ki629 and he carved all the walls of the house round about with carved figures of cherubims and palm trees and open flowers within and without
1ki630 and the floor of the house he overlaid with gold within and without
1ki631 and for the entering of the oracle he made doors of olive tree the lintel and side posts were a fifth part of the wall
1ki632 the two doors also were of olive tree and he carved upon them carvings of cherubims and palm trees and open flowers and overlaid them with gold and spread gold upon the cherubims and upon the palm trees
1ki633 so also made he for the door of the temple posts of olive tree a fourth part of the wall
1ki634 and the two doors were of fir tree the two leaves of the one door were folding and the two leaves of the other door were folding
1ki635 and he carved thereon cherubims and palm trees and open flowers and covered them with gold fitted upon the carved work
1ki636 and he built the inner court with three rows of hewed stone and a row of cedar beams
1ki637 in the fourth year was the foundation of the house of the lord laid in the month zif
1ki638 and in the eleventh year in the month bul which is the eighth month was the house finished throughout all the parts thereof and according to all the fashion of it so was he seven years in building it
1ki71 but solomon was building his own house thirteen years and he finished all his house
1ki72 he built also the house of the forest of lebanon the length thereof was an hundred cubits and the breadth thereof fifty cubits and the height thereof thirty cubits upon four rows of cedar pillars with cedar beams upon the pillars
1ki73 and it was covered with cedar above upon the beams that lay on forty five pillars fifteen in a row
1ki74 and there were windows in three rows and light was against light in three ranks
1ki75 and all the doors and posts were square with the windows and light was against light in three ranks
1ki76 and he made a porch of pillars the length thereof was fifty cubits and the breadth thereof thirty cubits and the porch was before them and the other pillars and the thick beam were before them
1ki77 then he made a porch for the throne where he might judge even the porch of judgment and it was covered with cedar from one side of the floor to the other
1ki78 and his house where he dwelt had another court within the porch which was of the like work solomon made also an house for pharaoh's daughter whom he had taken to wife like unto this porch
1ki79 all these were of costly stones according to the measures of hewed stones sawed with saws within and without even from the foundation unto the coping and so on the outside toward the great court
1ki710 and the foundation was of costly stones even great stones stones of ten cubits and stones of eight cubits
1ki711 and above were costly stones after the measures of hewed stones and cedars
1ki712 and the great court round about was with three rows of hewed stones and a row of cedar beams both for the inner court of the house of the lord and for the porch of the house
1ki713 and king solomon sent and fetched hiram out of tyre
1ki714 he was a widow's son of the tribe of naphtali and his father was a man of tyre a worker in brass and he was filled with wisdom and understanding and cunning to work all works in brass and he came to king solomon and wrought all his work
1ki715 for he cast two pillars of brass of eighteen cubits high apiece and a line of twelve cubits did compass either of them about
1ki716 and he made two chapiters of molten brass to set upon the tops of the pillars the height of the one chapiter was five cubits and the height of the other chapiter was five cubits
1ki717 and nets of checker work and wreaths of chain work for the chapiters which were upon the top of the pillars seven for the one chapiter and seven for the other chapiter
1ki718 and he made the pillars and two rows round about upon the one network to cover the chapiters that were upon the top with pomegranates and so did he for the other chapiter
1ki719 and the chapiters that were upon the top of the pillars were of lily work in the porch four cubits
1ki720 and the chapiters upon the two pillars had pomegranates also above over against the belly which was by the network and the pomegranates were two hundred in rows round about upon the other chapiter
1ki721 and he set up the pillars in the porch of the temple and he set up the right pillar and called the name thereof jachin and he set up the left pillar and called the name thereof boaz
1ki722 and upon the top of the pillars was lily work so was the work of the pillars finished
1ki723 and he made a molten sea ten cubits from the one brim to the other it was round all about and his height was five cubits and a line of thirty cubits did compass it round about
1ki724 and under the brim of it round about there were knops compassing it ten in a cubit compassing the sea round about the knops were cast in two rows when it was cast
1ki725 it stood upon twelve oxen three looking toward the north and three looking toward the west and three looking toward the south and three looking toward the east and the sea was set above upon them and all their hinder parts were inward
1ki726 and it was an hand breadth thick and the brim thereof was wrought like the brim of a cup with flowers of lilies it contained two thousand baths
1ki727 and he made ten bases of brass four cubits was the length of one base and four cubits the breadth thereof and three cubits the height of it
1ki728 and the work of the bases was on this manner they had borders and the borders were between the ledges
1ki729 and on the borders that were between the ledges were lions oxen and cherubims and upon the ledges there was a base above and beneath the lions and oxen were certain additions made of thin work
1ki730 and every base had four brasen wheels and plates of brass and the four corners thereof had undersetters under the laver were undersetters molten at the side of every addition
1ki731 and the mouth of it within the chapiter and above was a cubit but the mouth thereof was round after the work of the base a cubit and an half and also upon the mouth of it were gravings with their borders foursquare not round
1ki732 and under the borders were four wheels and the axletrees of the wheels were joined to the base and the height of a wheel was a cubit and half a cubit
1ki733 and the work of the wheels was like the work of a chariot wheel their axletrees and their naves and their felloes and their spokes were all molten
1ki734 and there were four undersetters to the four corners of one base and the undersetters were of the very base itself
1ki735 and in the top of the base was there a round compass of half a cubit high and on the top of the base the ledges thereof and the borders thereof were of the same
1ki736 for on the plates of the ledges thereof and on the borders thereof he graved cherubims lions and palm trees according to the proportion of every one and additions round about
1ki737 after this manner he made the ten bases all of them had one casting one measure and one size
1ki738 then made he ten lavers of brass one laver contained forty baths and every laver was four cubits and upon every one of the ten bases one laver
1ki739 and he put five bases on the right side of the house and five on the left side of the house and he set the sea on the right side of the house eastward over against the south
1ki740 and hiram made the lavers and the shovels and the basons so hiram made an end of doing all the work that he made king solomon for the house of the lord
1ki741 the two pillars and the two bowls of the chapiters that were on the top of the two pillars and the two networks to cover the two bowls of the chapiters which were upon the top of the pillars
1ki742 and four hundred pomegranates for the two networks even two rows of pomegranates for one network to cover the two bowls of the chapiters that were upon the pillars
1ki743 and the ten bases and ten lavers on the bases
1ki744 and one sea and twelve oxen under the sea
1ki745 and the pots and the shovels and the basons and all these vessels which hiram made to king solomon for the house of the lord were of bright brass
1ki746 in the plain of jordan did the king cast them in the clay ground between succoth and zarthan
1ki747 and solomon left all the vessels unweighed because they were exceeding many neither was the weight of the brass found out
1ki748 and solomon made all the vessels that pertained unto the house of the lord the altar of gold and the table of gold whereupon the shewbread was
1ki749 and the candlesticks of pure gold five on the right side and five on the left before the oracle with the flowers and the lamps and the tongs of gold
1ki750 and the bowls and the snuffers and the basons and the spoons and the censers of pure gold and the hinges of gold both for the doors of the inner house the most holy place and for the doors of the house to wit of the temple
1ki751 so was ended all the work that king solomon made for the house of the lord and solomon brought in the things which david his father had dedicated even the silver and the gold and the vessels did he put among the treasures of the house of the lord
1ki81 then solomon assembled the elders of israel and all the heads of the tribes the chief of the fathers of the children of israel unto king solomon in jerusalem that they might bring up the ark of the covenant of the lord out of the city of david which is zion
1ki82 and all the men of israel assembled themselves unto king solomon at the feast in the month ethanim which is the seventh month
1ki83 and all the elders of israel came and the priests took up the ark
1ki84 and they brought up the ark of the lord and the tabernacle of the congregation and all the holy vessels that were in the tabernacle even those did the priests and the levites bring up
1ki85 and king solomon and all the congregation of israel that were assembled unto him were with him before the ark sacrificing sheep and oxen that could not be told nor numbered for multitude
1ki86 and the priests brought in the ark of the covenant of the lord unto his place into the oracle of the house to the most holy place even under the wings of the cherubims
1ki87 for the cherubims spread forth their two wings over the place of the ark and the cherubims covered the ark and the staves thereof above
1ki88 and they drew out the staves that the ends of the staves were seen out in the holy place before the oracle and they were not seen without and there they are unto this day
1ki89 there was nothing in the ark save the two tables of stone which moses put there at horeb when the lord made a covenant with the children of israel when they came out of the land of egypt
1ki810 and it came to pass when the priests were come out of the holy place that the cloud filled the house of the lord
1ki811 so that the priests could not stand to minister because of the cloud for the glory of the lord had filled the house of the lord
1ki812 then spake solomon the lord said that he would dwell in the thick darkness
1ki813 i have surely built thee an house to dwell in a settled place for thee to abide in for ever
1ki814 and the king turned his face about and blessed all the congregation of israel and all the congregation of israel stood
1ki815 and he said blessed be the lord god of israel which spake with his mouth unto david my father and hath with his hand fulfilled it saying
1ki816 since the day that i brought forth my people israel out of egypt i chose no city out of all the tribes of israel to build an house that my name might be therein but i chose david to be over my people israel
1ki817 and it was in the heart of david my father to build an house for the name of the lord god of israel
1ki818 and the lord said unto david my father whereas it was in thine heart to build an house unto my name thou didst well that it was in thine heart
1ki819 nevertheless thou shalt not build the house but thy son that shall come forth out of thy loins he shall build the house unto my name
1ki820 and the lord hath performed his word that he spake and i am risen up in the room of david my father and sit on the throne of israel as the lord promised and have built an house for the name of the lord god of israel
1ki821 and i have set there a place for the ark wherein is the covenant of the lord which he made with our fathers when he brought them out of the land of egypt
1ki822 and solomon stood before the altar of the lord in the presence of all the congregation of israel and spread forth his hands toward heaven
1ki823 and he said lord god of israel there is no god like thee in heaven above or on earth beneath who keepest covenant and mercy with thy servants that walk before thee with all their heart
1ki824 who hast kept with thy servant david my father that thou promisedst him thou spakest also with thy mouth and hast fulfilled it with thine hand as it is this day
1ki825 therefore now lord god of israel keep with thy servant david my father that thou promisedst him saying there shall not fail thee a man in my sight to sit on the throne of israel so that thy children take heed to their way that they walk before me as thou hast walked before me
1ki826 and now o god of israel let thy word i pray thee be verified which thou spakest unto thy servant david my father
1ki827 but will god indeed dwell on the earth behold the heaven and heaven of heavens cannot contain thee how much less this house that i have builded
1ki828 yet have thou respect unto the prayer of thy servant and to his supplication o lord my god to hearken unto the cry and to the prayer which thy servant prayeth before thee to day
1ki829 that thine eyes may be open toward this house night and day even toward the place of which thou hast said my name shall be there that thou mayest hearken unto the prayer which thy servant shall make toward this place
1ki830 and hearken thou to the supplication of thy servant and of thy people israel when they shall pray toward this place and hear thou in heaven thy dwelling place and when thou hearest forgive
1ki831 if any man trespass against his neighbour and an oath be laid upon him to cause him to swear and the oath come before thine altar in this house
1ki832 then hear thou in heaven and do and judge thy servants condemning the wicked to bring his way upon his head and justifying the righteous to give him according to his righteousness
1ki833 when thy people israel be smitten down before the enemy because they have sinned against thee and shall turn again to thee and confess thy name and pray and make supplication unto thee in this house
1ki834 then hear thou in heaven and forgive the sin of thy people israel and bring them again unto the land which thou gavest unto their fathers
1ki835 when heaven is shut up and there is no rain because they have sinned against thee if they pray toward this place and confess thy name and turn from their sin when thou afflictest them
1ki836 then hear thou in heaven and forgive the sin of thy servants and of thy people israel that thou teach them the good way wherein they should walk and give rain upon thy land which thou hast given to thy people for an inheritance
1ki837 if there be in the land famine if there be pestilence blasting mildew locust or if there be caterpiller if their enemy besiege them in the land of their cities whatsoever plague whatsoever sickness there be
1ki838 what prayer and supplication soever be made by any man or by all thy people israel which shall know every man the plague of his own heart and spread forth his hands toward this house
1ki839 then hear thou in heaven thy dwelling place and forgive and do and give to every man according to his ways whose heart thou knowest for thou even thou only knowest the hearts of all the children of men
1ki840 that they may fear thee all the days that they live in the land which thou gavest unto our fathers
1ki841 moreover concerning a stranger that is not of thy people israel but cometh out of a far country for thy name's sake
1ki842 for they shall hear of thy great name and of thy strong hand and of thy stretched out arm when he shall come and pray toward this house
1ki843 hear thou in heaven thy dwelling place and do according to all that the stranger calleth to thee for that all people of the earth may know thy name to fear thee as do thy people israel and that they may know that this house which i have builded is called by thy name
1ki844 if thy people go out to battle against their enemy whithersoever thou shalt send them and shall pray unto the lord toward the city which thou hast chosen and toward the house that i have built for thy name
1ki845 then hear thou in heaven their prayer and their supplication and maintain their cause
1ki846 if they sin against thee for there is no man that sinneth not and thou be angry with them and deliver them to the enemy so that they carry them away captives unto the land of the enemy far or near
1ki847 yet if they shall bethink themselves in the land whither they were carried captives and repent and make supplication unto thee in the land of them that carried them captives saying we have sinned and have done perversely we have committed wickedness
1ki848 and so return unto thee with all their heart and with all their soul in the land of their enemies which led them away captive and pray unto thee toward their land which thou gavest unto their fathers the city which thou hast chosen and the house which i have built for thy name
1ki849 then hear thou their prayer and their supplication in heaven thy dwelling place and maintain their cause
1ki850 and forgive thy people that have sinned against thee and all their transgressions wherein they have transgressed against thee and give them compassion before them who carried them captive that they may have compassion on them
1ki851 for they be thy people and thine inheritance which thou broughtest forth out of egypt from the midst of the furnace of iron
1ki852 that thine eyes may be open unto the supplication of thy servant and unto the supplication of thy people israel to hearken unto them in all that they call for unto thee
1ki853 for thou didst separate them from among all the people of the earth to be thine inheritance as thou spakest by the hand of moses thy servant when thou broughtest our fathers out of egypt o lord god
1ki854 and it was so that when solomon had made an end of praying all this prayer and supplication unto the lord he arose from before the altar of the lord from kneeling on his knees with his hands spread up to heaven
1ki855 and he stood and blessed all the congregation of israel with a loud voice saying
1ki856 blessed be the lord that hath given rest unto his people israel according to all that he promised there hath not failed one word of all his good promise which he promised by the hand of moses his servant
1ki857 the lord our god be with us as he was with our fathers let him not leave us nor forsake us
1ki858 that he may incline our hearts unto him to walk in all his ways and to keep his commandments and his statutes and his judgments which he commanded our fathers
1ki859 and let these my words wherewith i have made supplication before the lord be nigh unto the lord our god day and night that he maintain the cause of his servant and the cause of his people israel at all times as the matter shall require
1ki860 that all the people of the earth may know that the lord is god and that there is none else
1ki861 let your heart therefore be perfect with the lord our god to walk in his statutes and to keep his commandments as at this day
1ki862 and the king and all israel with him offered sacrifice before the lord
1ki863 and solomon offered a sacrifice of peace offerings which he offered unto the lord two and twenty thousand oxen and an hundred and twenty thousand sheep so the king and all the children of israel dedicated the house of the lord
1ki864 the same day did the king hallow the middle of the court that was before the house of the lord for there he offered burnt offerings and meat offerings and the fat of the peace offerings because the brasen altar that was before the lord was too little to receive the burnt offerings and meat offerings and the fat of the peace offerings
1ki865 and at that time solomon held a feast and all israel with him a great congregation from the entering in of hamath unto the river of egypt before the lord our god seven days and seven days even fourteen days
1ki866 on the eighth day he sent the people away and they blessed the king and went unto their tents joyful and glad of heart for all the goodness that the lord had done for david his servant and for israel his people
1ki91 and it came to pass when solomon had finished the building of the house of the lord and the king's house and all solomon's desire which he was pleased to do
1ki92 that the lord appeared to solomon the second time as he had appeared unto him at gibeon
1ki93 and the lord said unto him i have heard thy prayer and thy supplication that thou hast made before me i have hallowed this house which thou hast built to put my name there for ever and mine eyes and mine heart shall be there perpetually
1ki94 and if thou wilt walk before me as david thy father walked in integrity of heart and in uprightness to do according to all that i have commanded thee and wilt keep my statutes and my judgments
1ki95 then i will establish the throne of thy kingdom upon israel for ever as i promised to david thy father saying there shall not fail thee a man upon the throne of israel
1ki96 but if ye shall at all turn from following me ye or your children and will not keep my commandments and my statutes which i have set before you but go and serve other gods and worship them
1ki97 then will i cut off israel out of the land which i have given them and this house which i have hallowed for my name will i cast out of my sight and israel shall be a proverb and a byword among all people
1ki98 and at this house which is high every one that passeth by it shall be astonished and shall hiss and they shall say why hath the lord done thus unto this land and to this house
1ki99 and they shall answer because they forsook the lord their god who brought forth their fathers out of the land of egypt and have taken hold upon other gods and have worshipped them and served them therefore hath the lord brought upon them all this evil
1ki910 and it came to pass at the end of twenty years when solomon had built the two houses the house of the lord and the king's house
1ki911 now hiram the king of tyre had furnished solomon with cedar trees and fir trees and with gold according to all his desire that then king solomon gave hiram twenty cities in the land of galilee
1ki912 and hiram came out from tyre to see the cities which solomon had given him and they pleased him not
1ki913 and he said what cities are these which thou hast given me my brother and he called them the land of cabul unto this day
1ki914 and hiram sent to the king sixscore talents of gold
1ki915 and this is the reason of the levy which king solomon raised for to build the house of the lord and his own house and millo and the wall of jerusalem and hazor and megiddo and gezer
1ki916 for pharaoh king of egypt had gone up and taken gezer and burnt it with fire and slain the canaanites that dwelt in the city and given it for a present unto his daughter solomon's wife
1ki917 and solomon built gezer and bethhoron the nether
1ki918 and baalath and tadmor in the wilderness in the land
1ki919 and all the cities of store that solomon had and cities for his chariots and cities for his horsemen and that which solomon desired to build in jerusalem and in lebanon and in all the land of his dominion
1ki920 and all the people that were left of the amorites hittites perizzites hivites and jebusites which were not of the children of israel
1ki921 their children that were left after them in the land whom the children of israel also were not able utterly to destroy upon those did solomon levy a tribute of bondservice unto this day
1ki922 but of the children of israel did solomon make no bondmen but they were men of war and his servants and his princes and his captains and rulers of his chariots and his horsemen
1ki923 these were the chief of the officers that were over solomon's work five hundred and fifty which bare rule over the people that wrought in the work
1ki924 but pharaoh's daughter came up out of the city of david unto her house which solomon had built for her then did he build millo
1ki925 and three times in a year did solomon offer burnt offerings and peace offerings upon the altar which he built unto the lord and he burnt incense upon the altar that was before the lord so he finished the house
1ki926 and king solomon made a navy of ships in eziongeber which is beside eloth on the shore of the red sea in the land of edom
1ki927 and hiram sent in the navy his servants shipmen that had knowledge of the sea with the servants of solomon
1ki928 and they came to ophir and fetched from thence gold four hundred and twenty talents and brought it to king solomon
1ki101 and when the queen of sheba heard of the fame of solomon concerning the name of the lord she came to prove him with hard questions
1ki102 and she came to jerusalem with a very great train with camels that bare spices and very much gold and precious stones and when she was come to solomon she communed with him of all that was in her heart
1ki103 and solomon told her all her questions there was not any thing hid from the king which he told her not
1ki104 and when the queen of sheba had seen all solomon's wisdom and the house that he had built
1ki105 and the meat of his table and the sitting of his servants and the attendance of his ministers and their apparel and his cupbearers and his ascent by which he went up unto the house of the lord there was no more spirit in her
1ki106 and she said to the king it was a true report that i heard in mine own land of thy acts and of thy wisdom
1ki107 howbeit i believed not the words until i came and mine eyes had seen it and behold the half was not told me thy wisdom and prosperity exceedeth the fame which i heard
1ki108 happy are thy men happy are these thy servants which stand continually before thee and that hear thy wisdom
1ki109 blessed be the lord thy god which delighted in thee to set thee on the throne of israel because the lord loved israel for ever therefore made he thee king to do judgment and justice
1ki1010 and she gave the king an hundred and twenty talents of gold and of spices very great store and precious stones there came no more such abundance of spices as these which the queen of sheba gave to king solomon
1ki1011 and the navy also of hiram that brought gold from ophir brought in from ophir great plenty of almug trees and precious stones
1ki1012 and the king made of the almug trees pillars for the house of the lord and for the king's house harps also and psalteries for singers there came no such almug trees nor were seen unto this day
1ki1013 and king solomon gave unto the queen of sheba all her desire whatsoever she asked beside that which solomon gave her of his royal bounty so she turned and went to her own country she and her servants
1ki1014 now the weight of gold that came to solomon in one year was six hundred threescore and six talents of gold
1ki1015 beside that he had of the merchantmen and of the traffick of the spice merchants and of all the kings of arabia and of the governors of the country
1ki1016 and king solomon made two hundred targets of beaten gold six hundred shekels of gold went to one target
1ki1017 and he made three hundred shields of beaten gold three pound of gold went to one shield and the king put them in the house of the forest of lebanon
1ki1018 moreover the king made a great throne of ivory and overlaid it with the best gold
1ki1019 the throne had six steps and the top of the throne was round behind and there were stays on either side on the place of the seat and two lions stood beside the stays
1ki1020 and twelve lions stood there on the one side and on the other upon the six steps there was not the like made in any kingdom
1ki1021 and all king solomon's drinking vessels were of gold and all the vessels of the house of the forest of lebanon were of pure gold none were of silver it was nothing accounted of in the days of solomon
1ki1022 for the king had at sea a navy of tharshish with the navy of hiram once in three years came the navy of tharshish bringing gold and silver ivory and apes and peacocks
1ki1023 so king solomon exceeded all the kings of the earth for riches and for wisdom
1ki1024 and all the earth sought to solomon to hear his wisdom which god had put in his heart
1ki1025 and they brought every man his present vessels of silver and vessels of gold and garments and armour and spices horses and mules a rate year by year
1ki1026 and solomon gathered together chariots and horsemen and he had a thousand and four hundred chariots and twelve thousand horsemen whom he bestowed in the cities for chariots and with the king at jerusalem
1ki1027 and the king made silver to be in jerusalem as stones and cedars made he to be as the sycomore trees that are in the vale for abundance
1ki1028 and solomon had horses brought out of egypt and linen yarn the king's merchants received the linen yarn at a price
1ki1029 and a chariot came up and went out of egypt for six hundred shekels of silver and an horse for an hundred and fifty and so for all the kings of the hittites and for the kings of syria did they bring them out by their means
1ki111 but king solomon loved many strange women together with the daughter of pharaoh women of the moabites ammonites edomites zidonians and hittites
1ki112 of the nations concerning which the lord said unto the children of israel ye shall not go in to them neither shall they come in unto you for surely they will turn away your heart after their gods solomon clave unto these in love
1ki113 and he had seven hundred wives princesses and three hundred concubines and his wives turned away his heart
1ki114 for it came to pass when solomon was old that his wives turned away his heart after other gods and his heart was not perfect with the lord his god as was the heart of david his father
1ki115 for solomon went after ashtoreth the goddess of the zidonians and after milcom the abomination of the ammonites
1ki116 and solomon did evil in the sight of the lord and went not fully after the lord as did david his father
1ki117 then did solomon build an high place for chemosh the abomination of moab in the hill that is before jerusalem and for molech the abomination of the children of ammon
1ki118 and likewise did he for all his strange wives which burnt incense and sacrificed unto their gods
1ki119 and the lord was angry with solomon because his heart was turned from the lord god of israel which had appeared unto him twice
1ki1110 and had commanded him concerning this thing that he should not go after other gods but he kept not that which the lord commanded
1ki1111 wherefore the lord said unto solomon forasmuch as this is done of thee and thou hast not kept my covenant and my statutes which i have commanded thee i will surely rend the kingdom from thee and will give it to thy servant
1ki1112 notwithstanding in thy days i will not do it for david thy father's sake but i will rend it out of the hand of thy son
1ki1113 howbeit i will not rend away all the kingdom but will give one tribe to thy son for david my servant's sake and for jerusalem's sake which i have chosen
1ki1114 and the lord stirred up an adversary unto solomon hadad the edomite he was of the king's seed in edom
1ki1115 for it came to pass when david was in edom and joab the captain of the host was gone up to bury the slain after he had smitten every male in edom
1ki1116 for six months did joab remain there with all israel until he had cut off every male in edom
1ki1117 that hadad fled he and certain edomites of his father's servants with him to go into egypt hadad being yet a little child
1ki1118 and they arose out of midian and came to paran and they took men with them out of paran and they came to egypt unto pharaoh king of egypt which gave him an house and appointed him victuals and gave him land
1ki1119 and hadad found great favour in the sight of pharaoh so that he gave him to wife the sister of his own wife the sister of tahpenes the queen
1ki1120 and the sister of tahpenes bare him genubath his son whom tahpenes weaned in pharaoh's house and genubath was in pharaoh's household among the sons of pharaoh
1ki1121 and when hadad heard in egypt that david slept with his fathers and that joab the captain of the host was dead hadad said to pharaoh let me depart that i may go to mine own country
1ki1122 then pharaoh said unto him but what hast thou lacked with me that behold thou seekest to go to thine own country and he answered nothing howbeit let me go in any wise
1ki1123 and god stirred him up another adversary rezon the son of eliadah which fled from his lord hadadezer king of zobah
1ki1124 and he gathered men unto him and became captain over a band when david slew them of zobah and they went to damascus and dwelt therein and reigned in damascus
1ki1125 and he was an adversary to israel all the days of solomon beside the mischief that hadad did and he abhorred israel and reigned over syria
1ki1126 and jeroboam the son of nebat an ephrathite of zereda solomon's servant whose mother's name was zeruah a widow woman even he lifted up his hand against the king
1ki1127 and this was the cause that he lifted up his hand against the king solomon built millo and repaired the breaches of the city of david his father
1ki1128 and the man jeroboam was a mighty man of valour and solomon seeing the young man that he was industrious he made him ruler over all the charge of the house of joseph
1ki1129 and it came to pass at that time when jeroboam went out of jerusalem that the prophet ahijah the shilonite found him in the way and he had clad himself with a new garment and they two were alone in the field
1ki1130 and ahijah caught the new garment that was on him and rent it in twelve pieces
1ki1131 and he said to jeroboam take thee ten pieces for thus saith the lord the god of israel behold i will rend the kingdom out of the hand of solomon and will give ten tribes to thee
1ki1132 but he shall have one tribe for my servant david's sake and for jerusalem's sake the city which i have chosen out of all the tribes of israel
1ki1133 because that they have forsaken me and have worshipped ashtoreth the goddess of the zidonians chemosh the god of the moabites and milcom the god of the children of ammon and have not walked in my ways to do that which is right in mine eyes and to keep my statutes and my judgments as did david his father
1ki1134 howbeit i will not take the whole kingdom out of his hand but i will make him prince all the days of his life for david my servant's sake whom i chose because he kept my commandments and my statutes
1ki1135 but i will take the kingdom out of his son's hand and will give it unto thee even ten tribes
1ki1136 and unto his son will i give one tribe that david my servant may have a light alway before me in jerusalem the city which i have chosen me to put my name there
1ki1137 and i will take thee and thou shalt reign according to all that thy soul desireth and shalt be king over israel
1ki1138 and it shall be if thou wilt hearken unto all that i command thee and wilt walk in my ways and do that is right in my sight to keep my statutes and my commandments as david my servant did that i will be with thee and build thee a sure house as i built for david and will give israel unto thee
1ki1139 and i will for this afflict the seed of david but not for ever
1ki1140 solomon sought therefore to kill jeroboam and jeroboam arose and fled into egypt unto shishak king of egypt and was in egypt until the death of solomon
1ki1141 and the rest of the acts of solomon and all that he did and his wisdom are they not written in the book of the acts of solomon
1ki1142 and the time that solomon reigned in jerusalem over all israel was forty years
1ki1143 and solomon slept with his fathers and was buried in the city of david his father and rehoboam his son reigned in his stead
1ki121 and rehoboam went to shechem for all israel were come to shechem to make him king
1ki122 and it came to pass when jeroboam the son of nebat who was yet in egypt heard of it for he was fled from the presence of king solomon and jeroboam dwelt in egypt
1ki123 that they sent and called him and jeroboam and all the congregation of israel came and spake unto rehoboam saying
1ki124 thy father made our yoke grievous now therefore make thou the grievous service of thy father and his heavy yoke which he put upon us lighter and we will serve thee
1ki125 and he said unto them depart yet for three days then come again to me and the people departed
1ki126 and king rehoboam consulted with the old men that stood before solomon his father while he yet lived and said how do ye advise that i may answer this people
1ki127 and they spake unto him saying if thou wilt be a servant unto this people this day and wilt serve them and answer them and speak good words to them then they will be thy servants for ever
1ki128 but he forsook the counsel of the old men which they had given him and consulted with the young men that were grown up with him and which stood before him
1ki129 and he said unto them what counsel give ye that we may answer this people who have spoken to me saying make the yoke which thy father did put upon us lighter
1ki1210 and the young men that were grown up with him spake unto him saying thus shalt thou speak unto this people that spake unto thee saying thy father made our yoke heavy but make thou it lighter unto us thus shalt thou say unto them my little finger shall be thicker than my father's loins
1ki1211 and now whereas my father did lade you with a heavy yoke i will add to your yoke my father hath chastised you with whips but i will chastise you with scorpions
1ki1212 so jeroboam and all the people came to rehoboam the third day as the king had appointed saying come to me again the third day
1ki1213 and the king answered the people roughly and forsook the old men's counsel that they gave him
1ki1214 and spake to them after the counsel of the young men saying my father made your yoke heavy and i will add to your yoke my father also chastised you with whips but i will chastise you with scorpions
1ki1215 wherefore the king hearkened not unto the people for the cause was from the lord that he might perform his saying which the lord spake by ahijah the shilonite unto jeroboam the son of nebat
1ki1216 so when all israel saw that the king hearkened not unto them the people answered the king saying what portion have we in david neither have we inheritance in the son of jesse to your tents o israel now see to thine own house david so israel departed unto their tents
1ki1217 but as for the children of israel which dwelt in the cities of judah rehoboam reigned over them
1ki1218 then king rehoboam sent adoram who was over the tribute and all israel stoned him with stones that he died therefore king rehoboam made speed to get him up to his chariot to flee to jerusalem
1ki1219 so israel rebelled against the house of david unto this day
1ki1220 and it came to pass when all israel heard that jeroboam was come again that they sent and called him unto the congregation and made him king over all israel there was none that followed the house of david but the tribe of judah only
1ki1221 and when rehoboam was come to jerusalem he assembled all the house of judah with the tribe of benjamin an hundred and fourscore thousand chosen men which were warriors to fight against the house of israel to bring the kingdom again to rehoboam the son of solomon
1ki1222 but the word of god came unto shemaiah the man of god saying
1ki1223 speak unto rehoboam the son of solomon king of judah and unto all the house of judah and benjamin and to the remnant of the people saying
1ki1224 thus saith the lord ye shall not go up nor fight against your brethren the children of israel return every man to his house for this thing is from me they hearkened therefore to the word of the lord and returned to depart according to the word of the lord
1ki1225 then jeroboam built shechem in mount ephraim and dwelt therein and went out from thence and built penuel
1ki1226 and jeroboam said in his heart now shall the kingdom return to the house of david
1ki1227 if this people go up to do sacrifice in the house of the lord at jerusalem then shall the heart of this people turn again unto their lord even unto rehoboam king of judah and they shall kill me and go again to rehoboam king of judah
1ki1228 whereupon the king took counsel and made two calves of gold and said unto them it is too much for you to go up to jerusalem behold thy gods o israel which brought thee up out of the land of egypt
1ki1229 and he set the one in bethel and the other put he in dan
1ki1230 and this thing became a sin for the people went to worship before the one even unto dan
1ki1231 and he made an house of high places and made priests of the lowest of the people which were not of the sons of levi
1ki1232 and jeroboam ordained a feast in the eighth month on the fifteenth day of the month like unto the feast that is in judah and he offered upon the altar so did he in bethel sacrificing unto the calves that he had made and he placed in bethel the priests of the high places which he had made
1ki1233 so he offered upon the altar which he had made in bethel the fifteenth day of the eighth month even in the month which he had devised of his own heart and ordained a feast unto the children of israel and he offered upon the altar and burnt incense
1ki131 and behold there came a man of god out of judah by the word of the lord unto bethel and jeroboam stood by the altar to burn incense
1ki132 and he cried against the altar in the word of the lord and said o altar altar thus saith the lord behold a child shall be born unto the house of david josiah by name and upon thee shall he offer the priests of the high places that burn incense upon thee and men's bones shall be burnt upon thee
1ki133 and he gave a sign the same day saying this is the sign which the lord hath spoken behold the altar shall be rent and the ashes that are upon it shall be poured out
1ki134 and it came to pass when king jeroboam heard the saying of the man of god which had cried against the altar in bethel that he put forth his hand from the altar saying lay hold on him and his hand which he put forth against him dried up so that he could not pull it in again to him
1ki135 the altar also was rent and the ashes poured out from the altar according to the sign which the man of god had given by the word of the lord
1ki136 and the king answered and said unto the man of god intreat now the face of the lord thy god and pray for me that my hand may be restored me again and the man of god besought the lord and the king's hand was restored him again and became as it was before
1ki137 and the king said unto the man of god come home with me and refresh thyself and i will give thee a reward
1ki138 and the man of god said unto the king if thou wilt give me half thine house i will not go in with thee neither will i eat bread nor drink water in this place
1ki139 for so was it charged me by the word of the lord saying eat no bread nor drink water nor turn again by the same way that thou camest
1ki1310 so he went another way and returned not by the way that he came to bethel
1ki1311 now there dwelt an old prophet in bethel and his sons came and told him all the works that the man of god had done that day in bethel the words which he had spoken unto the king them they told also to their father
1ki1312 and their father said unto them what way went he for his sons had seen what way the man of god went which came from judah
1ki1313 and he said unto his sons saddle me the ass so they saddled him the ass and he rode thereon
1ki1314 and went after the man of god and found him sitting under an oak and he said unto him art thou the man of god that camest from judah and he said i am
1ki1315 then he said unto him come home with me and eat bread
1ki1316 and he said i may not return with thee nor go in with thee neither will i eat bread nor drink water with thee in this place
1ki1317 for it was said to me by the word of the lord thou shalt eat no bread nor drink water there nor turn again to go by the way that thou camest
1ki1318 he said unto him i am a prophet also as thou art and an angel spake unto me by the word of the lord saying bring him back with thee into thine house that he may eat bread and drink water but he lied unto him
1ki1319 so he went back with him and did eat bread in his house and drank water
1ki1320 and it came to pass as they sat at the table that the word of the lord came unto the prophet that brought him back
1ki1321 and he cried unto the man of god that came from judah saying thus saith the lord forasmuch as thou hast disobeyed the mouth of the lord and hast not kept the commandment which the lord thy god commanded thee
1ki1322 but camest back and hast eaten bread and drunk water in the place of the which the lord did say to thee eat no bread and drink no water thy carcase shall not come unto the sepulchre of thy fathers
1ki1323 and it came to pass after he had eaten bread and after he had drunk that he saddled for him the ass to wit for the prophet whom he had brought back
1ki1324 and when he was gone a lion met him by the way and slew him and his carcase was cast in the way and the ass stood by it the lion also stood by the carcase
1ki1325 and behold men passed by and saw the carcase cast in the way and the lion standing by the carcase and they came and told it in the city where the old prophet dwelt
1ki1326 and when the prophet that brought him back from the way heard thereof he said it is the man of god who was disobedient unto the word of the lord therefore the lord hath delivered him unto the lion which hath torn him and slain him according to the word of the lord which he spake unto him
1ki1327 and he spake to his sons saying saddle me the ass and they saddled him
1ki1328 and he went and found his carcase cast in the way and the ass and the lion standing by the carcase the lion had not eaten the carcase nor torn the ass
1ki1329 and the prophet took up the carcase of the man of god and laid it upon the ass and brought it back and the old prophet came to the city to mourn and to bury him
1ki1330 and he laid his carcase in his own grave and they mourned over him saying alas my brother
1ki1331 and it came to pass after he had buried him that he spake to his sons saying when i am dead then bury me in the sepulchre wherein the man of god is buried lay my bones beside his bones
1ki1332 for the saying which he cried by the word of the lord against the altar in bethel and against all the houses of the high places which are in the cities of samaria shall surely come to pass
1ki1333 after this thing jeroboam returned not from his evil way but made again of the lowest of the people priests of the high places whosoever would he consecrated him and he became one of the priests of the high places
1ki1334 and this thing became sin unto the house of jeroboam even to cut it off and to destroy it from off the face of the earth
1ki141 at that time abijah the son of jeroboam fell sick
1ki142 and jeroboam said to his wife arise i pray thee and disguise thyself that thou be not known to be the wife of jeroboam and get thee to shiloh behold there is ahijah the prophet which told me that i should be king over this people
1ki143 and take with thee ten loaves and cracknels and a cruse of honey and go to him he shall tell thee what shall become of the child
1ki144 and jeroboam's wife did so and arose and went to shiloh and came to the house of ahijah but ahijah could not see for his eyes were set by reason of his age
1ki145 and the lord said unto ahijah behold the wife of jeroboam cometh to ask a thing of thee for her son for he is sick thus and thus shalt thou say unto her for it shall be when she cometh in that she shall feign herself to be another woman
1ki146 and it was so when ahijah heard the sound of her feet as she came in at the door that he said come in thou wife of jeroboam why feignest thou thyself to be another for i am sent to thee with heavy tidings
1ki147 go tell jeroboam thus saith the lord god of israel forasmuch as i exalted thee from among the people and made thee prince over my people israel
1ki148 and rent the kingdom away from the house of david and gave it thee and yet thou hast not been as my servant david who kept my commandments and who followed me with all his heart to do that only which was right in mine eyes
1ki149 but hast done evil above all that were before thee for thou hast gone and made thee other gods and molten images to provoke me to anger and hast cast me behind thy back
1ki1410 therefore behold i will bring evil upon the house of jeroboam and will cut off from jeroboam him that pisseth against the wall and him that is shut up and left in israel and will take away the remnant of the house of jeroboam as a man taketh away dung till it be all gone
1ki1411 him that dieth of jeroboam in the city shall the dogs eat and him that dieth in the field shall the fowls of the air eat for the lord hath spoken it
1ki1412 arise thou therefore get thee to thine own house and when thy feet enter into the city the child shall die
1ki1413 and all israel shall mourn for him and bury him for he only of jeroboam shall come to the grave because in him there is found some good thing toward the lord god of israel in the house of jeroboam
1ki1414 moreover the lord shall raise him up a king over israel who shall cut off the house of jeroboam that day but what even now
1ki1415 for the lord shall smite israel as a reed is shaken in the water and he shall root up israel out of this good land which he gave to their fathers and shall scatter them beyond the river because they have made their groves provoking the lord to anger
1ki1416 and he shall give israel up because of the sins of jeroboam who did sin and who made israel to sin
1ki1417 and jeroboam's wife arose and departed and came to tirzah and when she came to the threshold of the door the child died
1ki1418 and they buried him and all israel mourned for him according to the word of the lord which he spake by the hand of his servant ahijah the prophet
1ki1419 and the rest of the acts of jeroboam how he warred and how he reigned behold they are written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of israel
1ki1420 and the days which jeroboam reigned were two and twenty years and he slept with his fathers and nadab his son reigned in his stead
1ki1421 and rehoboam the son of solomon reigned in judah rehoboam was forty and one years old when he began to reign and he reigned seventeen years in jerusalem the city which the lord did choose out of all the tribes of israel to put his name there and his mother's name was naamah an ammonitess
1ki1422 and judah did evil in the sight of the lord and they provoked him to jealousy with their sins which they had committed above all that their fathers had done
1ki1423 for they also built them high places and images and groves on every high hill and under every green tree
1ki1424 and there were also sodomites in the land and they did according to all the abominations of the nations which the lord cast out before the children of israel
1ki1425 and it came to pass in the fifth year of king rehoboam that shishak king of egypt came up against jerusalem
1ki1426 and he took away the treasures of the house of the lord and the treasures of the king's house he even took away all and he took away all the shields of gold which solomon had made
1ki1427 and king rehoboam made in their stead brasen shields and committed them unto the hands of the chief of the guard which kept the door of the king's house
1ki1428 and it was so when the king went into the house of the lord that the guard bare them and brought them back into the guard chamber
1ki1429 now the rest of the acts of rehoboam and all that he did are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of judah
1ki1430 and there was war between rehoboam and jeroboam all their days
1ki1431 and rehoboam slept with his fathers and was buried with his fathers in the city of david and his mother's name was naamah an ammonitess and abijam his son reigned in his stead
1ki151 now in the eighteenth year of king jeroboam the son of nebat reigned abijam over judah
1ki152 three years reigned he in jerusalem and his mother's name was maachah the daughter of abishalom
1ki153 and he walked in all the sins of his father which he had done before him and his heart was not perfect with the lord his god as the heart of david his father
1ki154 nevertheless for david's sake did the lord his god give him a lamp in jerusalem to set up his son after him and to establish jerusalem
1ki155 because david did that which was right in the eyes of the lord and turned not aside from any thing that he commanded him all the days of his life save only in the matter of uriah the hittite
1ki156 and there was war between rehoboam and jeroboam all the days of his life
1ki157 now the rest of the acts of abijam and all that he did are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of judah and there was war between abijam and jeroboam
1ki158 and abijam slept with his fathers and they buried him in the city of david and asa his son reigned in his stead
1ki159 and in the twentieth year of jeroboam king of israel reigned asa over judah
1ki1510 and forty and one years reigned he in jerusalem and his mother's name was maachah the daughter of abishalom
1ki1511 and asa did that which was right in the eyes of the lord as did david his father
1ki1512 and he took away the sodomites out of the land and removed all the idols that his fathers had made
1ki1513 and also maachah his mother even her he removed from being queen because she had made an idol in a grove and asa destroyed her idol and burnt it by the brook kidron
1ki1514 but the high places were not removed nevertheless asa's heart was perfect with the lord all his days
1ki1515 and he brought in the things which his father had dedicated and the things which himself had dedicated into the house of the lord silver and gold and vessels
1ki1516 and there was war between asa and baasha king of israel all their days
1ki1517 and baasha king of israel went up against judah and built ramah that he might not suffer any to go out or come in to asa king of judah
1ki1518 then asa took all the silver and the gold that were left in the treasures of the house of the lord and the treasures of the king's house and delivered them into the hand of his servants and king asa sent them to benhadad the son of tabrimon the son of hezion king of syria that dwelt at damascus saying
1ki1519 there is a league between me and thee and between my father and thy father behold i have sent unto thee a present of silver and gold come and break thy league with baasha king of israel that he may depart from me
1ki1520 so benhadad hearkened unto king asa and sent the captains of the hosts which he had against the cities of israel and smote ijon and dan and abelbethmaachah and all cinneroth with all the land of naphtali
1ki1521 and it came to pass when baasha heard thereof that he left off building of ramah and dwelt in tirzah
1ki1522 then king asa made a proclamation throughout all judah none was exempted and they took away the stones of ramah and the timber thereof wherewith baasha had builded and king asa built with them geba of benjamin and mizpah
1ki1523 the rest of all the acts of asa and all his might and all that he did and the cities which he built are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of judah nevertheless in the time of his old age he was diseased in his feet
1ki1524 and asa slept with his fathers and was buried with his fathers in the city of david his father and jehoshaphat his son reigned in his stead
1ki1525 and nadab the son of jeroboam began to reign over israel in the second year of asa king of judah and reigned over israel two years
1ki1526 and he did evil in the sight of the lord and walked in the way of his father and in his sin wherewith he made israel to sin
1ki1527 and baasha the son of ahijah of the house of issachar conspired against him and baasha smote him at gibbethon which belonged to the philistines for nadab and all israel laid siege to gibbethon
1ki1528 even in the third year of asa king of judah did baasha slay him and reigned in his stead
1ki1529 and it came to pass when he reigned that he smote all the house of jeroboam he left not to jeroboam any that breathed until he had destroyed him according unto the saying of the lord which he spake by his servant ahijah the shilonite
1ki1530 because of the sins of jeroboam which he sinned and which he made israel sin by his provocation wherewith he provoked the lord god of israel to anger
1ki1531 now the rest of the acts of nadab and all that he did are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of israel
1ki1532 and there was war between asa and baasha king of israel all their days
1ki1533 in the third year of asa king of judah began baasha the son of ahijah to reign over all israel in tirzah twenty and four years
1ki1534 and he did evil in the sight of the lord and walked in the way of jeroboam and in his sin wherewith he made israel to sin
1ki161 then the word of the lord came to jehu the son of hanani against baasha saying
1ki162 forasmuch as i exalted thee out of the dust and made thee prince over my people israel and thou hast walked in the way of jeroboam and hast made my people israel to sin to provoke me to anger with their sins
1ki163 behold i will take away the posterity of baasha and the posterity of his house and will make thy house like the house of jeroboam the son of nebat
1ki164 him that dieth of baasha in the city shall the dogs eat and him that dieth of his in the fields shall the fowls of the air eat
1ki165 now the rest of the acts of baasha and what he did and his might are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of israel
1ki166 so baasha slept with his fathers and was buried in tirzah and elah his son reigned in his stead
1ki167 and also by the hand of the prophet jehu the son of hanani came the word of the lord against baasha and against his house even for all the evil that he did in the sight of the lord in provoking him to anger with the work of his hands in being like the house of jeroboam and because he killed him
1ki168 in the twenty and sixth year of asa king of judah began elah the son of baasha to reign over israel in tirzah two years
1ki169 and his servant zimri captain of half his chariots conspired against him as he was in tirzah drinking himself drunk in the house of arza steward of his house in tirzah
1ki1610 and zimri went in and smote him and killed him in the twenty and seventh year of asa king of judah and reigned in his stead
1ki1611 and it came to pass when he began to reign as soon as he sat on his throne that he slew all the house of baasha he left him not one that pisseth against a wall neither of his kinsfolks nor of his friends
1ki1612 thus did zimri destroy all the house of baasha according to the word of the lord which he spake against baasha by jehu the prophet
1ki1613 for all the sins of baasha and the sins of elah his son by which they sinned and by which they made israel to sin in provoking the lord god of israel to anger with their vanities
1ki1614 now the rest of the acts of elah and all that he did are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of israel
1ki1615 in the twenty and seventh year of asa king of judah did zimri reign seven days in tirzah and the people were encamped against gibbethon which belonged to the philistines
1ki1616 and the people that were encamped heard say zimri hath conspired and hath also slain the king wherefore all israel made omri the captain of the host king over israel that day in the camp
1ki1617 and omri went up from gibbethon and all israel with him and they besieged tirzah
1ki1618 and it came to pass when zimri saw that the city was taken that he went into the palace of the king's house and burnt the king's house over him with fire and died
1ki1619 for his sins which he sinned in doing evil in the sight of the lord in walking in the way of jeroboam and in his sin which he did to make israel to sin
1ki1620 now the rest of the acts of zimri and his treason that he wrought are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of israel
1ki1621 then were the people of israel divided into two parts half of the people followed tibni the son of ginath to make him king and half followed omri
1ki1622 but the people that followed omri prevailed against the people that followed tibni the son of ginath so tibni died and omri reigned
1ki1623 in the thirty and first year of asa king of judah began omri to reign over israel twelve years six years reigned he in tirzah
1ki1624 and he bought the hill samaria of shemer for two talents of silver and built on the hill and called the name of the city which he built after the name of shemer owner of the hill samaria
1ki1625 but omri wrought evil in the eyes of the lord and did worse than all that were before him
1ki1626 for he walked in all the way of jeroboam the son of nebat and in his sin wherewith he made israel to sin to provoke the lord god of israel to anger with their vanities
1ki1627 now the rest of the acts of omri which he did and his might that he shewed are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of israel
1ki1628 so omri slept with his fathers and was buried in samaria and ahab his son reigned in his stead
1ki1629 and in the thirty and eighth year of asa king of judah began ahab the son of omri to reign over israel and ahab the son of omri reigned over israel in samaria twenty and two years
1ki1630 and ahab the son of omri did evil in the sight of the lord above all that were before him
1ki1631 and it came to pass as if it had been a light thing for him to walk in the sins of jeroboam the son of nebat that he took to wife jezebel the daughter of ethbaal king of the zidonians and went and served baal and worshipped him
1ki1632 and he reared up an altar for baal in the house of baal which he had built in samaria
1ki1633 and ahab made a grove and ahab did more to provoke the lord god of israel to anger than all the kings of israel that were before him
1ki1634 in his days did hiel the bethelite build jericho he laid the foundation thereof in abiram his firstborn and set up the gates thereof in his youngest son segub according to the word of the lord which he spake by joshua the son of nun
1ki171 and elijah the tishbite who was of the inhabitants of gilead said unto ahab as the lord god of israel liveth before whom i stand there shall not be dew nor rain these years but according to my word
1ki172 and the word of the lord came unto him saying
1ki173 get thee hence and turn thee eastward and hide thyself by the brook cherith that is before jordan
1ki174 and it shall be that thou shalt drink of the brook and i have commanded the ravens to feed thee there
1ki175 so he went and did according unto the word of the lord for he went and dwelt by the brook cherith that is before jordan
1ki176 and the ravens brought him bread and flesh in the morning and bread and flesh in the evening and he drank of the brook
1ki177 and it came to pass after a while that the brook dried up because there had been no rain in the land
1ki178 and the word of the lord came unto him saying
1ki179 arise get thee to zarephath which belongeth to zidon and dwell there behold i have commanded a widow woman there to sustain thee
1ki1710 so he arose and went to zarephath and when he came to the gate of the city behold the widow woman was there gathering of sticks and he called to her and said fetch me i pray thee a little water in a vessel that i may drink
1ki1711 and as she was going to fetch it he called to her and said bring me i pray thee a morsel of bread in thine hand
1ki1712 and she said as the lord thy god liveth i have not a cake but an handful of meal in a barrel and a little oil in a cruse and behold i am gathering two sticks that i may go in and dress it for me and my son that we may eat it and die
1ki1713 and elijah said unto her fear not go and do as thou hast said but make me thereof a little cake first and bring it unto me and after make for thee and for thy son
1ki1714 for thus saith the lord god of israel the barrel of meal shall not waste neither shall the cruse of oil fail until the day that the lord sendeth rain upon the earth
1ki1715 and she went and did according to the saying of elijah and she and he and her house did eat many days
1ki1716 and the barrel of meal wasted not neither did the cruse of oil fail according to the word of the lord which he spake by elijah
1ki1717 and it came to pass after these things that the son of the woman the mistress of the house fell sick and his sickness was so sore that there was no breath left in him
1ki1718 and she said unto elijah what have i to do with thee o thou man of god art thou come unto me to call my sin to remembrance and to slay my son
1ki1719 and he said unto her give me thy son and he took him out of her bosom and carried him up into a loft where he abode and laid him upon his own bed
1ki1720 and he cried unto the lord and said o lord my god hast thou also brought evil upon the widow with whom i sojourn by slaying her son
1ki1721 and he stretched himself upon the child three times and cried unto the lord and said o lord my god i pray thee let this child's soul come into him again
1ki1722 and the lord heard the voice of elijah and the soul of the child came into him again and he revived
1ki1723 and elijah took the child and brought him down out of the chamber into the house and delivered him unto his mother and elijah said see thy son liveth
1ki1724 and the woman said to elijah now by this i know that thou art a man of god and that the word of the lord in thy mouth is truth
1ki181 and it came to pass after many days that the word of the lord came to elijah in the third year saying go shew thyself unto ahab and i will send rain upon the earth
1ki182 and elijah went to shew himself unto ahab and there was a sore famine in samaria
1ki183 and ahab called obadiah which was the governor of his house now obadiah feared the lord greatly
1ki184 for it was so when jezebel cut off the prophets of the lord that obadiah took an hundred prophets and hid them by fifty in a cave and fed them with bread and water
1ki185 and ahab said unto obadiah go into the land unto all fountains of water and unto all brooks peradventure we may find grass to save the horses and mules alive that we lose not all the beasts
1ki186 so they divided the land between them to pass throughout it ahab went one way by himself and obadiah went another way by himself
1ki187 and as obadiah was in the way behold elijah met him and he knew him and fell on his face and said art thou that my lord elijah
1ki188 and he answered him i am go tell thy lord behold elijah is here
1ki189 and he said what have i sinned that thou wouldest deliver thy servant into the hand of ahab to slay me
1ki1810 as the lord thy god liveth there is no nation or kingdom whither my lord hath not sent to seek thee and when they said he is not there he took an oath of the kingdom and nation that they found thee not
1ki1811 and now thou sayest go tell thy lord behold elijah is here
1ki1812 and it shall come to pass as soon as i am gone from thee that the spirit of the lord shall carry thee whither i know not and so when i come and tell ahab and he cannot find thee he shall slay me but i thy servant fear the lord from my youth
1ki1813 was it not told my lord what i did when jezebel slew the prophets of the lord how i hid an hundred men of the lord's prophets by fifty in a cave and fed them with bread and water
1ki1814 and now thou sayest go tell thy lord behold elijah is here and he shall slay me
1ki1815 and elijah said as the lord of hosts liveth before whom i stand i will surely shew myself unto him to day
1ki1816 so obadiah went to meet ahab and told him and ahab went to meet elijah
1ki1817 and it came to pass when ahab saw elijah that ahab said unto him art thou he that troubleth israel
1ki1818 and he answered i have not troubled israel but thou and thy father's house in that ye have forsaken the commandments of the lord and thou hast followed baalim
1ki1819 now therefore send and gather to me all israel unto mount carmel and the prophets of baal four hundred and fifty and the prophets of the groves four hundred which eat at jezebel's table
1ki1820 so ahab sent unto all the children of israel and gathered the prophets together unto mount carmel
1ki1821 and elijah came unto all the people and said how long halt ye between two opinions if the lord be god follow him but if baal then follow him and the people answered him not a word
1ki1822 then said elijah unto the people i even i only remain a prophet of the lord but baal's prophets are four hundred and fifty men
1ki1823 let them therefore give us two bullocks and let them choose one bullock for themselves and cut it in pieces and lay it on wood and put no fire under and i will dress the other bullock and lay it on wood and put no fire under
1ki1824 and call ye on the name of your gods and i will call on the name of the lord and the god that answereth by fire let him be god and all the people answered and said it is well spoken
1ki1825 and elijah said unto the prophets of baal choose you one bullock for yourselves and dress it first for ye are many and call on the name of your gods but put no fire under
1ki1826 and they took the bullock which was given them and they dressed it and called on the name of baal from morning even until noon saying o baal hear us but there was no voice nor any that answered and they leaped upon the altar which was made
1ki1827 and it came to pass at noon that elijah mocked them and said cry aloud for he is a god either he is talking or he is pursuing or he is in a journey or peradventure he sleepeth and must be awaked
1ki1828 and they cried aloud and cut themselves after their manner with knives and lancets till the blood gushed out upon them
1ki1829 and it came to pass when midday was past and they prophesied until the time of the offering of the evening sacrifice that there was neither voice nor any to answer nor any that regarded
1ki1830 and elijah said unto all the people come near unto me and all the people came near unto him and he repaired the altar of the lord that was broken down
1ki1831 and elijah took twelve stones according to the number of the tribes of the sons of jacob unto whom the word of the lord came saying israel shall be thy name
1ki1832 and with the stones he built an altar in the name of the lord and he made a trench about the altar as great as would contain two measures of seed
1ki1833 and he put the wood in order and cut the bullock in pieces and laid him on the wood and said fill four barrels with water and pour it on the burnt sacrifice and on the wood
1ki1834 and he said do it the second time and they did it the second time and he said do it the third time and they did it the third time
1ki1835 and the water ran round about the altar and he filled the trench also with water
1ki1836 and it came to pass at the time of the offering of the evening sacrifice that elijah the prophet came near and said lord god of abraham isaac and of israel let it be known this day that thou art god in israel and that i am thy servant and that i have done all these things at thy word
1ki1837 hear me o lord hear me that this people may know that thou art the lord god and that thou hast turned their heart back again
1ki1838 then the fire of the lord fell and consumed the burnt sacrifice and the wood and the stones and the dust and licked up the water that was in the trench
1ki1839 and when all the people saw it they fell on their faces and they said the lord he is the god the lord he is the god
1ki1840 and elijah said unto them take the prophets of baal let not one of them escape and they took them and elijah brought them down to the brook kishon and slew them there
1ki1841 and elijah said unto ahab get thee up eat and drink for there is a sound of abundance of rain
1ki1842 so ahab went up to eat and to drink and elijah went up to the top of carmel and he cast himself down upon the earth and put his face between his knees
1ki1843 and said to his servant go up now look toward the sea and he went up and looked and said there is nothing and he said go again seven times
1ki1844 and it came to pass at the seventh time that he said behold there ariseth a little cloud out of the sea like a man's hand and he said go up say unto ahab prepare thy chariot and get thee down that the rain stop thee not
1ki1845 and it came to pass in the mean while that the heaven was black with clouds and wind and there was a great rain and ahab rode and went to jezreel
1ki1846 and the hand of the lord was on elijah and he girded up his loins and ran before ahab to the entrance of jezreel
1ki191 and ahab told jezebel all that elijah had done and withal how he had slain all the prophets with the sword
1ki192 then jezebel sent a messenger unto elijah saying so let the gods do to me and more also if i make not thy life as the life of one of them by to morrow about this time
1ki193 and when he saw that he arose and went for his life and came to beersheba which belongeth to judah and left his servant there
1ki194 but he himself went a day's journey into the wilderness and came and sat down under a juniper tree and he requested for himself that he might die and said it is enough now o lord take away my life for i am not better than my fathers
1ki195 and as he lay and slept under a juniper tree behold then an angel touched him and said unto him arise and eat
1ki196 and he looked and behold there was a cake baken on the coals and a cruse of water at his head and he did eat and drink and laid him down again
1ki197 and the angel of the lord came again the second time and touched him and said arise and eat because the journey is too great for thee
1ki198 and he arose and did eat and drink and went in the strength of that meat forty days and forty nights unto horeb the mount of god
1ki199 and he came thither unto a cave and lodged there and behold the word of the lord came to him and he said unto him what doest thou here elijah
1ki1910 and he said i have been very jealous for the lord god of hosts for the children of israel have forsaken thy covenant thrown down thine altars and slain thy prophets with the sword and i even i only am left and they seek my life to take it away
1ki1911 and he said go forth and stand upon the mount before the lord and behold the lord passed by and a great and strong wind rent the mountains and brake in pieces the rocks before the lord but the lord was not in the wind and after the wind an earthquake but the lord was not in the earthquake
1ki1912 and after the earthquake a fire but the lord was not in the fire and after the fire a still small voice
1ki1913 and it was so when elijah heard it that he wrapped his face in his mantle and went out and stood in the entering in of the cave and behold there came a voice unto him and said what doest thou here elijah
1ki1914 and he said i have been very jealous for the lord god of hosts because the children of israel have forsaken thy covenant thrown down thine altars and slain thy prophets with the sword and i even i only am left and they seek my life to take it away
1ki1915 and the lord said unto him go return on thy way to the wilderness of damascus and when thou comest anoint hazael to be king over syria
1ki1916 and jehu the son of nimshi shalt thou anoint to be king over israel and elisha the son of shaphat of abelmeholah shalt thou anoint to be prophet in thy room
1ki1917 and it shall come to pass that him that escapeth the sword of hazael shall jehu slay and him that escapeth from the sword of jehu shall elisha slay
1ki1918 yet i have left me seven thousand in israel all the knees which have not bowed unto baal and every mouth which hath not kissed him
1ki1919 so he departed thence and found elisha the son of shaphat who was plowing with twelve yoke of oxen before him and he with the twelfth and elijah passed by him and cast his mantle upon him
1ki1920 and he left the oxen and ran after elijah and said let me i pray thee kiss my father and my mother and then i will follow thee and he said unto him go back again for what have i done to thee
1ki1921 and he returned back from him and took a yoke of oxen and slew them and boiled their flesh with the instruments of the oxen and gave unto the people and they did eat then he arose and went after elijah and ministered unto him
1ki201 and benhadad the king of syria gathered all his host together and there were thirty and two kings with him and horses and chariots and he went up and besieged samaria and warred against it
1ki202 and he sent messengers to ahab king of israel into the city and said unto him thus saith benhadad
1ki203 thy silver and thy gold is mine thy wives also and thy children even the goodliest are mine
1ki204 and the king of israel answered and said my lord o king according to thy saying i am thine and all that i have
1ki205 and the messengers came again and said thus speaketh benhadad saying although i have sent unto thee saying thou shalt deliver me thy silver and thy gold and thy wives and thy children
1ki206 yet i will send my servants unto thee to morrow about this time and they shall search thine house and the houses of thy servants and it shall be that whatsoever is pleasant in thine eyes they shall put it in their hand and take it away
1ki207 then the king of israel called all the elders of the land and said mark i pray you and see how this man seeketh mischief for he sent unto me for my wives and for my children and for my silver and for my gold and i denied him not
1ki208 and all the elders and all the people said unto him hearken not unto him nor consent
1ki209 wherefore he said unto the messengers of benhadad tell my lord the king all that thou didst send for to thy servant at the first i will do but this thing i may not do and the messengers departed and brought him word again
1ki2010 and benhadad sent unto him and said the gods do so unto me and more also if the dust of samaria shall suffice for handfuls for all the people that follow me
1ki2011 and the king of israel answered and said tell him let not him that girdeth on his harness boast himself as he that putteth it off
1ki2012 and it came to pass when benhadad heard this message as he was drinking he and the kings in the pavilions that he said unto his servants set yourselves in array and they set themselves in array against the city
1ki2013 and behold there came a prophet unto ahab king of israel saying thus saith the lord hast thou seen all this great multitude behold i will deliver it into thine hand this day and thou shalt know that i am the lord
1ki2014 and ahab said by whom and he said thus saith the lord even by the young men of the princes of the provinces then he said who shall order the battle and he answered thou
1ki2015 then he numbered the young men of the princes of the provinces and they were two hundred and thirty two and after them he numbered all the people even all the children of israel being seven thousand
1ki2016 and they went out at noon but benhadad was drinking himself drunk in the pavilions he and the kings the thirty and two kings that helped him
1ki2017 and the young men of the princes of the provinces went out first and benhadad sent out and they told him saying there are men come out of samaria
1ki2018 and he said whether they be come out for peace take them alive or whether they be come out for war take them alive
1ki2019 so these young men of the princes of the provinces came out of the city and the army which followed them
1ki2020 and they slew every one his man and the syrians fled and israel pursued them and benhadad the king of syria escaped on an horse with the horsemen
1ki2021 and the king of israel went out and smote the horses and chariots and slew the syrians with a great slaughter
1ki2022 and the prophet came to the king of israel and said unto him go strengthen thyself and mark and see what thou doest for at the return of the year the king of syria will come up against thee
1ki2023 and the servants of the king of syria said unto him their gods are gods of the hills therefore they were stronger than we but let us fight against them in the plain and surely we shall be stronger than they
1ki2024 and do this thing take the kings away every man out of his place and put captains in their rooms
1ki2025 and number thee an army like the army that thou hast lost horse for horse and chariot for chariot and we will fight against them in the plain and surely we shall be stronger than they and he hearkened unto their voice and did so
1ki2026 and it came to pass at the return of the year that benhadad numbered the syrians and went up to aphek to fight against israel
1ki2027 and the children of israel were numbered and were all present and went against them and the children of israel pitched before them like two little flocks of kids but the syrians filled the country
1ki2028 and there came a man of god and spake unto the king of israel and said thus saith the lord because the syrians have said the lord is god of the hills but he is not god of the valleys therefore will i deliver all this great multitude into thine hand and ye shall know that i am the lord
1ki2029 and they pitched one over against the other seven days and so it was that in the seventh day the battle was joined and the children of israel slew of the syrians an hundred thousand footmen in one day
1ki2030 but the rest fled to aphek into the city and there a wall fell upon twenty and seven thousand of the men that were left and benhadad fled and came into the city into an inner chamber
1ki2031 and his servants said unto him behold now we have heard that the kings of the house of israel are merciful kings let us i pray thee put sackcloth on our loins and ropes upon our heads and go out to the king of israel peradventure he will save thy life
1ki2032 so they girded sackcloth on their loins and put ropes on their heads and came to the king of israel and said thy servant benhadad saith i pray thee let me live and he said is he yet alive he is my brother
1ki2033 now the men did diligently observe whether any thing would come from him and did hastily catch it and they said thy brother benhadad then he said go ye bring him then benhadad came forth to him and he caused him to come up into the chariot
1ki2034 and benhadad said unto him the cities which my father took from thy father i will restore and thou shalt make streets for thee in damascus as my father made in samaria then said ahab i will send thee away with this covenant so he made a covenant with him and sent him away
1ki2035 and a certain man of the sons of the prophets said unto his neighbour in the word of the lord smite me i pray thee and the man refused to smite him
1ki2036 then said he unto him because thou hast not obeyed the voice of the lord behold as soon as thou art departed from me a lion shall slay thee and as soon as he was departed from him a lion found him and slew him
1ki2037 then he found another man and said smite me i pray thee and the man smote him so that in smiting he wounded him
1ki2038 so the prophet departed and waited for the king by the way and disguised himself with ashes upon his face
1ki2039 and as the king passed by he cried unto the king and he said thy servant went out into the midst of the battle and behold a man turned aside and brought a man unto me and said keep this man if by any means he be missing then shall thy life be for his life or else thou shalt pay a talent of silver
1ki2040 and as thy servant was busy here and there he was gone and the king of israel said unto him so shall thy judgment be thyself hast decided it
1ki2041 and he hasted and took the ashes away from his face and the king of israel discerned him that he was of the prophets
1ki2042 and he said unto him thus saith the lord because thou hast let go out of thy hand a man whom i appointed to utter destruction therefore thy life shall go for his life and thy people for his people
1ki2043 and the king of israel went to his house heavy and displeased and came to samaria
1ki211 and it came to pass after these things that naboth the jezreelite had a vineyard which was in jezreel hard by the palace of ahab king of samaria
1ki212 and ahab spake unto naboth saying give me thy vineyard that i may have it for a garden of herbs because it is near unto my house and i will give thee for it a better vineyard than it or if it seem good to thee i will give thee the worth of it in money
1ki213 and naboth said to ahab the lord forbid it me that i should give the inheritance of my fathers unto thee
1ki214 and ahab came into his house heavy and displeased because of the word which naboth the jezreelite had spoken to him for he had said i will not give thee the inheritance of my fathers and he laid him down upon his bed and turned away his face and would eat no bread
1ki215 but jezebel his wife came to him and said unto him why is thy spirit so sad that thou eatest no bread
1ki216 and he said unto her because i spake unto naboth the jezreelite and said unto him give me thy vineyard for money or else if it please thee i will give thee another vineyard for it and he answered i will not give thee my vineyard
1ki217 and jezebel his wife said unto him dost thou now govern the kingdom of israel arise and eat bread and let thine heart be merry i will give thee the vineyard of naboth the jezreelite
1ki218 so she wrote letters in ahab's name and sealed them with his seal and sent the letters unto the elders and to the nobles that were in his city dwelling with naboth
1ki219 and she wrote in the letters saying proclaim a fast and set naboth on high among the people
1ki2110 and set two men sons of belial before him to bear witness against him saying thou didst blaspheme god and the king and then carry him out and stone him that he may die
1ki2111 and the men of his city even the elders and the nobles who were the inhabitants in his city did as jezebel had sent unto them and as it was written in the letters which she had sent unto them
1ki2112 they proclaimed a fast and set naboth on high among the people
1ki2113 and there came in two men children of belial and sat before him and the men of belial witnessed against him even against naboth in the presence of the people saying naboth did blaspheme god and the king then they carried him forth out of the city and stoned him with stones that he died
1ki2114 then they sent to jezebel saying naboth is stoned and is dead
1ki2115 and it came to pass when jezebel heard that naboth was stoned and was dead that jezebel said to ahab arise take possession of the vineyard of naboth the jezreelite which he refused to give thee for money for naboth is not alive but dead
1ki2116 and it came to pass when ahab heard that naboth was dead that ahab rose up to go down to the vineyard of naboth the jezreelite to take possession of it
1ki2117 and the word of the lord came to elijah the tishbite saying
1ki2118 arise go down to meet ahab king of israel which is in samaria behold he is in the vineyard of naboth whither he is gone down to possess it
1ki2119 and thou shalt speak unto him saying thus saith the lord hast thou killed and also taken possession and thou shalt speak unto him saying thus saith the lord in the place where dogs licked the blood of naboth shall dogs lick thy blood even thine
1ki2120 and ahab said to elijah hast thou found me o mine enemy and he answered i have found thee because thou hast sold thyself to work evil in the sight of the lord
1ki2121 behold i will bring evil upon thee and will take away thy posterity and will cut off from ahab him that pisseth against the wall and him that is shut up and left in israel
1ki2122 and will make thine house like the house of jeroboam the son of nebat and like the house of baasha the son of ahijah for the provocation wherewith thou hast provoked me to anger and made israel to sin
1ki2123 and of jezebel also spake the lord saying the dogs shall eat jezebel by the wall of jezreel
1ki2124 him that dieth of ahab in the city the dogs shall eat and him that dieth in the field shall the fowls of the air eat
1ki2125 but there was none like unto ahab which did sell himself to work wickedness in the sight of the lord whom jezebel his wife stirred up
1ki2126 and he did very abominably in following idols according to all things as did the amorites whom the lord cast out before the children of israel
1ki2127 and it came to pass when ahab heard those words that he rent his clothes and put sackcloth upon his flesh and fasted and lay in sackcloth and went softly
1ki2128 and the word of the lord came to elijah the tishbite saying
1ki2129 seest thou how ahab humbleth himself before me because he humbleth himself before me i will not bring the evil in his days but in his son's days will i bring the evil upon his house
1ki221 and they continued three years without war between syria and israel
1ki222 and it came to pass in the third year that jehoshaphat the king of judah came down to the king of israel
1ki223 and the king of israel said unto his servants know ye that ramoth in gilead is ours and we be still and take it not out of the hand of the king of syria
1ki224 and he said unto jehoshaphat wilt thou go with me to battle to ramothgilead and jehoshaphat said to the king of israel i am as thou art my people as thy people my horses as thy horses
1ki225 and jehoshaphat said unto the king of israel enquire i pray thee at the word of the lord to day
1ki226 then the king of israel gathered the prophets together about four hundred men and said unto them shall i go against ramothgilead to battle or shall i forbear and they said go up for the lord shall deliver it into the hand of the king
1ki227 and jehoshaphat said is there not here a prophet of the lord besides that we might enquire of him
1ki228 and the king of israel said unto jehoshaphat there is yet one man micaiah the son of imlah by whom we may enquire of the lord but i hate him for he doth not prophesy good concerning me but evil and jehoshaphat said let not the king say so
1ki229 then the king of israel called an officer and said hasten hither micaiah the son of imlah
1ki2210 and the king of israel and jehoshaphat the king of judah sat each on his throne having put on their robes in a void place in the entrance of the gate of samaria and all the prophets prophesied before them
1ki2211 and zedekiah the son of chenaanah made him horns of iron and he said thus saith the lord with these shalt thou push the syrians until thou have consumed them
1ki2212 and all the prophets prophesied so saying go up to ramothgilead and prosper for the lord shall deliver it into the king's hand
1ki2213 and the messenger that was gone to call micaiah spake unto him saying behold now the words of the prophets declare good unto the king with one mouth let thy word i pray thee be like the word of one of them and speak that which is good
1ki2214 and micaiah said as the lord liveth what the lord saith unto me that will i speak
1ki2215 so he came to the king and the king said unto him micaiah shall we go against ramothgilead to battle or shall we forbear and he answered him go and prosper for the lord shall deliver it into the hand of the king
1ki2216 and the king said unto him how many times shall i adjure thee that thou tell me nothing but that which is true in the name of the lord
1ki2217 and he said i saw all israel scattered upon the hills as sheep that have not a shepherd and the lord said these have no master let them return every man to his house in peace
1ki2218 and the king of israel said unto jehoshaphat did i not tell thee that he would prophesy no good concerning me but evil
1ki2219 and he said hear thou therefore the word of the lord i saw the lord sitting on his throne and all the host of heaven standing by him on his right hand and on his left
1ki2220 and the lord said who shall persuade ahab that he may go up and fall at ramothgilead and one said on this manner and another said on that manner
1ki2221 and there came forth a spirit and stood before the lord and said i will persuade him
1ki2222 and the lord said unto him wherewith and he said i will go forth and i will be a lying spirit in the mouth of all his prophets and he said thou shalt persuade him and prevail also go forth and do so
1ki2223 now therefore behold the lord hath put a lying spirit in the mouth of all these thy prophets and the lord hath spoken evil concerning thee
1ki2224 but zedekiah the son of chenaanah went near and smote micaiah on the cheek and said which way went the spirit of the lord from me to speak unto thee
1ki2225 and micaiah said behold thou shalt see in that day when thou shalt go into an inner chamber to hide thyself
1ki2226 and the king of israel said take micaiah and carry him back unto amon the governor of the city and to joash the king's son
1ki2227 and say thus saith the king put this fellow in the prison and feed him with bread of affliction and with water of affliction until i come in peace
1ki2228 and micaiah said if thou return at all in peace the lord hath not spoken by me and he said hearken o people every one of you
1ki2229 so the king of israel and jehoshaphat the king of judah went up to ramothgilead
1ki2230 and the king of israel said unto jehoshaphat i will disguise myself and enter into the battle but put thou on thy robes and the king of israel disguised himself and went into the battle
1ki2231 but the king of syria commanded his thirty and two captains that had rule over his chariots saying fight neither with small nor great save only with the king of israel
1ki2232 and it came to pass when the captains of the chariots saw jehoshaphat that they said surely it is the king of israel and they turned aside to fight against him and jehoshaphat cried out
1ki2233 and it came to pass when the captains of the chariots perceived that it was not the king of israel that they turned back from pursuing him
1ki2234 and a certain man drew a bow at a venture and smote the king of israel between the joints of the harness wherefore he said unto the driver of his chariot turn thine hand and carry me out of the host for i am wounded
1ki2235 and the battle increased that day and the king was stayed up in his chariot against the syrians and died at even and the blood ran out of the wound into the midst of the chariot
1ki2236 and there went a proclamation throughout the host about the going down of the sun saying every man to his city and every man to his own country
1ki2237 so the king died and was brought to samaria and they buried the king in samaria
1ki2238 and one washed the chariot in the pool of samaria and the dogs licked up his blood and they washed his armour according unto the word of the lord which he spake
1ki2239 now the rest of the acts of ahab and all that he did and the ivory house which he made and all the cities that he built are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of israel
1ki2240 so ahab slept with his fathers and ahaziah his son reigned in his stead
1ki2241 and jehoshaphat the son of asa began to reign over judah in the fourth year of ahab king of israel
1ki2242 jehoshaphat was thirty and five years old when he began to reign and he reigned twenty and five years in jerusalem and his mother's name was azubah the daughter of shilhi
1ki2243 and he walked in all the ways of asa his father he turned not aside from it doing that which was right in the eyes of the lord nevertheless the high places were not taken away for the people offered and burnt incense yet in the high places
1ki2244 and jehoshaphat made peace with the king of israel
1ki2245 now the rest of the acts of jehoshaphat and his might that he shewed and how he warred are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of judah
1ki2246 and the remnant of the sodomites which remained in the days of his father asa he took out of the land
1ki2247 there was then no king in edom a deputy was king
1ki2248 jehoshaphat made ships of tharshish to go to ophir for gold but they went not for the ships were broken at eziongeber
1ki2249 then said ahaziah the son of ahab unto jehoshaphat let my servants go with thy servants in the ships but jehoshaphat would not
1ki2250 and jehoshaphat slept with his fathers and was buried with his fathers in the city of david his father and jehoram his son reigned in his stead
1ki2251 ahaziah the son of ahab began to reign over israel in samaria the seventeenth year of jehoshaphat king of judah and reigned two years over israel
1ki2252 and he did evil in the sight of the lord and walked in the way of his father and in the way of his mother and in the way of jeroboam the son of nebat who made israel to sin
1ki2253 for he served baal and worshipped him and provoked to anger the lord god of israel according to all that his father had done
2ki11 then moab rebelled against israel after the death of ahab
2ki12 and ahaziah fell down through a lattice in his upper chamber that was in samaria and was sick and he sent messengers and said unto them go enquire of baalzebub the god of ekron whether i shall recover of this disease
2ki13 but the angel of the lord said to elijah the tishbite arise go up to meet the messengers of the king of samaria and say unto them is it not because there is not a god in israel that ye go to enquire of baalzebub the god of ekron
2ki14 now therefore thus saith the lord thou shalt not come down from that bed on which thou art gone up but shalt surely die and elijah departed
2ki15 and when the messengers turned back unto him he said unto them why are ye now turned back
2ki16 and they said unto him there came a man up to meet us and said unto us go turn again unto the king that sent you and say unto him thus saith the lord is it not because there is not a god in israel that thou sendest to enquire of baalzebub the god of ekron therefore thou shalt not come down from that bed on which thou art gone up but shalt surely die
2ki17 and he said unto them what manner of man was he which came up to meet you and told you these words
2ki18 and they answered him he was an hairy man and girt with a girdle of leather about his loins and he said it is elijah the tishbite
2ki19 then the king sent unto him a captain of fifty with his fifty and he went up to him and behold he sat on the top of an hill and he spake unto him thou man of god the king hath said come down
2ki110 and elijah answered and said to the captain of fifty if i be a man of god then let fire come down from heaven and consume thee and thy fifty and there came down fire from heaven and consumed him and his fifty
2ki111 again also he sent unto him another captain of fifty with his fifty and he answered and said unto him o man of god thus hath the king said come down quickly
2ki112 and elijah answered and said unto them if i be a man of god let fire come down from heaven and consume thee and thy fifty and the fire of god came down from heaven and consumed him and his fifty
2ki113 and he sent again a captain of the third fifty with his fifty and the third captain of fifty went up and came and fell on his knees before elijah and besought him and said unto him o man of god i pray thee let my life and the life of these fifty thy servants be precious in thy sight
2ki114 behold there came fire down from heaven and burnt up the two captains of the former fifties with their fifties therefore let my life now be precious in thy sight
2ki115 and the angel of the lord said unto elijah go down with him be not afraid of him and he arose and went down with him unto the king
2ki116 and he said unto him thus saith the lord forasmuch as thou hast sent messengers to enquire of baalzebub the god of ekron is it not because there is no god in israel to enquire of his word therefore thou shalt not come down off that bed on which thou art gone up but shalt surely die
2ki117 so he died according to the word of the lord which elijah had spoken and jehoram reigned in his stead in the second year of jehoram the son of jehoshaphat king of judah because he had no son
2ki118 now the rest of the acts of ahaziah which he did are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of israel
2ki21 and it came to pass when the lord would take up elijah into heaven by a whirlwind that elijah went with elisha from gilgal
2ki22 and elijah said unto elisha tarry here i pray thee for the lord hath sent me to bethel and elisha said unto him as the lord liveth and as thy soul liveth i will not leave thee so they went down to bethel
2ki23 and the sons of the prophets that were at bethel came forth to elisha and said unto him knowest thou that the lord will take away thy master from thy head to day and he said yea i know it hold ye your peace
2ki24 and elijah said unto him elisha tarry here i pray thee for the lord hath sent me to jericho and he said as the lord liveth and as thy soul liveth i will not leave thee so they came to jericho
2ki25 and the sons of the prophets that were at jericho came to elisha and said unto him knowest thou that the lord will take away thy master from thy head to day and he answered yea i know it hold ye your peace
2ki26 and elijah said unto him tarry i pray thee here for the lord hath sent me to jordan and he said as the lord liveth and as thy soul liveth i will not leave thee and they two went on
2ki27 and fifty men of the sons of the prophets went and stood to view afar off and they two stood by jordan
2ki28 and elijah took his mantle and wrapped it together and smote the waters and they were divided hither and thither so that they two went over on dry ground
2ki29 and it came to pass when they were gone over that elijah said unto elisha ask what i shall do for thee before i be taken away from thee and elisha said i pray thee let a double portion of thy spirit be upon me
2ki210 and he said thou hast asked a hard thing nevertheless if thou see me when i am taken from thee it shall be so unto thee but if not it shall not be so
2ki211 and it came to pass as they still went on and talked that behold there appeared a chariot of fire and horses of fire and parted them both asunder and elijah went up by a whirlwind into heaven
2ki212 and elisha saw it and he cried my father my father the chariot of israel and the horsemen thereof and he saw him no more and he took hold of his own clothes and rent them in two pieces
2ki213 he took up also the mantle of elijah that fell from him and went back and stood by the bank of jordan
2ki214 and he took the mantle of elijah that fell from him and smote the waters and said where is the lord god of elijah and when he also had smitten the waters they parted hither and thither and elisha went over
2ki215 and when the sons of the prophets which were to view at jericho saw him they said the spirit of elijah doth rest on elisha and they came to meet him and bowed themselves to the ground before him
2ki216 and they said unto him behold now there be with thy servants fifty strong men let them go we pray thee and seek thy master lest peradventure the spirit of the lord hath taken him up and cast him upon some mountain or into some valley and he said ye shall not send
2ki217 and when they urged him till he was ashamed he said send they sent therefore fifty men and they sought three days but found him not
2ki218 and when they came again to him for he tarried at jericho he said unto them did i not say unto you go not
2ki219 and the men of the city said unto elisha behold i pray thee the situation of this city is pleasant as my lord seeth but the water is naught and the ground barren
2ki220 and he said bring me a new cruse and put salt therein and they brought it to him
2ki221 and he went forth unto the spring of the waters and cast the salt in there and said thus saith the lord i have healed these waters there shall not be from thence any more death or barren land
2ki222 so the waters were healed unto this day according to the saying of elisha which he spake
2ki223 and he went up from thence unto bethel and as he was going up by the way there came forth little children out of the city and mocked him and said unto him go up thou bald head go up thou bald head
2ki224 and he turned back and looked on them and cursed them in the name of the lord and there came forth two she bears out of the wood and tare forty and two children of them
2ki225 and he went from thence to mount carmel and from thence he returned to samaria
2ki31 now jehoram the son of ahab began to reign over israel in samaria the eighteenth year of jehoshaphat king of judah and reigned twelve years
2ki32 and he wrought evil in the sight of the lord but not like his father and like his mother for he put away the image of baal that his father had made
2ki33 nevertheless he cleaved unto the sins of jeroboam the son of nebat which made israel to sin he departed not therefrom
2ki34 and mesha king of moab was a sheepmaster and rendered unto the king of israel an hundred thousand lambs and an hundred thousand rams with the wool
2ki35 but it came to pass when ahab was dead that the king of moab rebelled against the king of israel
2ki36 and king jehoram went out of samaria the same time and numbered all israel
2ki37 and he went and sent to jehoshaphat the king of judah saying the king of moab hath rebelled against me wilt thou go with me against moab to battle and he said i will go up i am as thou art my people as thy people and my horses as thy horses
2ki38 and he said which way shall we go up and he answered the way through the wilderness of edom
2ki39 so the king of israel went and the king of judah and the king of edom and they fetched a compass of seven days journey and there was no water for the host and for the cattle that followed them
2ki310 and the king of israel said alas that the lord hath called these three kings together to deliver them into the hand of moab
2ki311 but jehoshaphat said is there not here a prophet of the lord that we may enquire of the lord by him and one of the king of israel's servants answered and said here is elisha the son of shaphat which poured water on the hands of elijah
2ki312 and jehoshaphat said the word of the lord is with him so the king of israel and jehoshaphat and the king of edom went down to him
2ki313 and elisha said unto the king of israel what have i to do with thee get thee to the prophets of thy father and to the prophets of thy mother and the king of israel said unto him nay for the lord hath called these three kings together to deliver them into the hand of moab
2ki314 and elisha said as the lord of hosts liveth before whom i stand surely were it not that i regard the presence of jehoshaphat the king of judah i would not look toward thee nor see thee
2ki315 but now bring me a minstrel and it came to pass when the minstrel played that the hand of the lord came upon him
2ki316 and he said thus saith the lord make this valley full of ditches
2ki317 for thus saith the lord ye shall not see wind neither shall ye see rain yet that valley shall be filled with water that ye may drink both ye and your cattle and your beasts
2ki318 and this is but a light thing in the sight of the lord he will deliver the moabites also into your hand
2ki319 and ye shall smite every fenced city and every choice city and shall fell every good tree and stop all wells of water and mar every good piece of land with stones
2ki320 and it came to pass in the morning when the meat offering was offered that behold there came water by the way of edom and the country was filled with water
2ki321 and when all the moabites heard that the kings were come up to fight against them they gathered all that were able to put on armour and upward and stood in the border
2ki322 and they rose up early in the morning and the sun shone upon the water and the moabites saw the water on the other side as red as blood
2ki323 and they said this is blood the kings are surely slain and they have smitten one another now therefore moab to the spoil
2ki324 and when they came to the camp of israel the israelites rose up and smote the moabites so that they fled before them but they went forward smiting the moabites even in their country
2ki325 and they beat down the cities and on every good piece of land cast every man his stone and filled it and they stopped all the wells of water and felled all the good trees only in kirharaseth left they the stones thereof howbeit the slingers went about it and smote it
2ki326 and when the king of moab saw that the battle was too sore for him he took with him seven hundred men that drew swords to break through even unto the king of edom but they could not
2ki327 then he took his eldest son that should have reigned in his stead and offered him for a burnt offering upon the wall and there was great indignation against israel and they departed from him and returned to their own land
2ki41 now there cried a certain woman of the wives of the sons of the prophets unto elisha saying thy servant my husband is dead and thou knowest that thy servant did fear the lord and the creditor is come to take unto him my two sons to be bondmen
2ki42 and elisha said unto her what shall i do for thee tell me what hast thou in the house and she said thine handmaid hath not any thing in the house save a pot of oil
2ki43 then he said go borrow thee vessels abroad of all thy neighbours even empty vessels borrow not a few
2ki44 and when thou art come in thou shalt shut the door upon thee and upon thy sons and shalt pour out into all those vessels and thou shalt set aside that which is full
2ki45 so she went from him and shut the door upon her and upon her sons who brought the vessels to her and she poured out
2ki46 and it came to pass when the vessels were full that she said unto her son bring me yet a vessel and he said unto her there is not a vessel more and the oil stayed
2ki47 then she came and told the man of god and he said go sell the oil and pay thy debt and live thou and thy children of the rest
2ki48 and it fell on a day that elisha passed to shunem where was a great woman and she constrained him to eat bread and so it was that as oft as he passed by he turned in thither to eat bread
2ki49 and she said unto her husband behold now i perceive that this is an holy man of god which passeth by us continually
2ki410 let us make a little chamber i pray thee on the wall and let us set for him there a bed and a table and a stool and a candlestick and it shall be when he cometh to us that he shall turn in thither
2ki411 and it fell on a day that he came thither and he turned into the chamber and lay there
2ki412 and he said to gehazi his servant call this shunammite and when he had called her she stood before him
2ki413 and he said unto him say now unto her behold thou hast been careful for us with all this care what is to be done for thee wouldest thou be spoken for to the king or to the captain of the host and she answered i dwell among mine own people
2ki414 and he said what then is to be done for her and gehazi answered verily she hath no child and her husband is old
2ki415 and he said call her and when he had called her she stood in the door
2ki416 and he said about this season according to the time of life thou shalt embrace a son and she said nay my lord thou man of god do not lie unto thine handmaid
2ki417 and the woman conceived and bare a son at that season that elisha had said unto her according to the time of life
2ki418 and when the child was grown it fell on a day that he went out to his father to the reapers
2ki419 and he said unto his father my head my head and he said to a lad carry him to his mother
2ki420 and when he had taken him and brought him to his mother he sat on her knees till noon and then died
2ki421 and she went up and laid him on the bed of the man of god and shut the door upon him and went out
2ki422 and she called unto her husband and said send me i pray thee one of the young men and one of the asses that i may run to the man of god and come again
2ki423 and he said wherefore wilt thou go to him to day it is neither new moon nor sabbath and she said it shall be well
2ki424 then she saddled an ass and said to her servant drive and go forward slack not thy riding for me except i bid thee
2ki425 so she went and came unto the man of god to mount carmel and it came to pass when the man of god saw her afar off that he said to gehazi his servant behold yonder is that shunammite
2ki426 run now i pray thee to meet her and say unto her is it well with thee is it well with thy husband is it well with the child and she answered it is well
2ki427 and when she came to the man of god to the hill she caught him by the feet but gehazi came near to thrust her away and the man of god said let her alone for her soul is vexed within her and the lord hath hid it from me and hath not told me
2ki428 then she said did i desire a son of my lord did i not say do not deceive me
2ki429 then he said to gehazi gird up thy loins and take my staff in thine hand and go thy way if thou meet any man salute him not and if any salute thee answer him not again and lay my staff upon the face of the child
2ki430 and the mother of the child said as the lord liveth and as thy soul liveth i will not leave thee and he arose and followed her
2ki431 and gehazi passed on before them and laid the staff upon the face of the child but there was neither voice nor hearing wherefore he went again to meet him and told him saying the child is not awaked
2ki432 and when elisha was come into the house behold the child was dead and laid upon his bed
2ki433 he went in therefore and shut the door upon them twain and prayed unto the lord
2ki434 and he went up and lay upon the child and put his mouth upon his mouth and his eyes upon his eyes and his hands upon his hands and he stretched himself upon the child and the flesh of the child waxed warm
2ki435 then he returned and walked in the house to and fro and went up and stretched himself upon him and the child sneezed seven times and the child opened his eyes
2ki436 and he called gehazi and said call this shunammite so he called her and when she was come in unto him he said take up thy son
2ki437 then she went in and fell at his feet and bowed herself to the ground and took up her son and went out
2ki438 and elisha came again to gilgal and there was a dearth in the land and the sons of the prophets were sitting before him and he said unto his servant set on the great pot and seethe pottage for the sons of the prophets
2ki439 and one went out into the field to gather herbs and found a wild vine and gathered thereof wild gourds his lap full and came and shred them into the pot of pottage for they knew them not
2ki440 so they poured out for the men to eat and it came to pass as they were eating of the pottage that they cried out and said o thou man of god there is death in the pot and they could not eat thereof
2ki441 but he said then bring meal and he cast it into the pot and he said pour out for the people that they may eat and there was no harm in the pot
2ki442 and there came a man from baalshalisha and brought the man of god bread of the firstfruits twenty loaves of barley and full ears of corn in the husk thereof and he said give unto the people that they may eat
2ki443 and his servitor said what should i set this before an hundred men he said again give the people that they may eat for thus saith the lord they shall eat and shall leave thereof
2ki444 so he set it before them and they did eat and left thereof according to the word of the lord
2ki51 now naaman captain of the host of the king of syria was a great man with his master and honourable because by him the lord had given deliverance unto syria he was also a mighty man in valour but he was a leper
2ki52 and the syrians had gone out by companies and had brought away captive out of the land of israel a little maid and she waited on naaman's wife
2ki53 and she said unto her mistress would god my lord were with the prophet that is in samaria for he would recover him of his leprosy
2ki54 and one went in and told his lord saying thus and thus said the maid that is of the land of israel
2ki55 and the king of syria said go to go and i will send a letter unto the king of israel and he departed and took with him ten talents of silver and six thousand pieces of gold and ten changes of raiment
2ki56 and he brought the letter to the king of israel saying now when this letter is come unto thee behold i have therewith sent naaman my servant to thee that thou mayest recover him of his leprosy
2ki57 and it came to pass when the king of israel had read the letter that he rent his clothes and said am i god to kill and to make alive that this man doth send unto me to recover a man of his leprosy wherefore consider i pray you and see how he seeketh a quarrel against me
2ki58 and it was so when elisha the man of god had heard that the king of israel had rent his clothes that he sent to the king saying wherefore hast thou rent thy clothes let him come now to me and he shall know that there is a prophet in israel
2ki59 so naaman came with his horses and with his chariot and stood at the door of the house of elisha
2ki510 and elisha sent a messenger unto him saying go and wash in jordan seven times and thy flesh shall come again to thee and thou shalt be clean
2ki511 but naaman was wroth and went away and said behold i thought he will surely come out to me and stand and call on the name of the lord his god and strike his hand over the place and recover the leper
2ki512 are not abana and pharpar rivers of damascus better than all the waters of israel may i not wash in them and be clean so he turned and went away in a rage
2ki513 and his servants came near and spake unto him and said my father if the prophet had bid thee do some great thing wouldest thou not have done it how much rather then when he saith to thee wash and be clean
2ki514 then went he down and dipped himself seven times in jordan according to the saying of the man of god and his flesh came again like unto the flesh of a little child and he was clean
2ki515 and he returned to the man of god he and all his company and came and stood before him and he said behold now i know that there is no god in all the earth but in israel now therefore i pray thee take a blessing of thy servant
2ki516 but he said as the lord liveth before whom i stand i will receive none and he urged him to take it but he refused
2ki517 and naaman said shall there not then i pray thee be given to thy servant two mules burden of earth for thy servant will henceforth offer neither burnt offering nor sacrifice unto other gods but unto the lord
2ki518 in this thing the lord pardon thy servant that when my master goeth into the house of rimmon to worship there and he leaneth on my hand and i bow myself in the house of rimmon when i bow down myself in the house of rimmon the lord pardon thy servant in this thing
2ki519 and he said unto him go in peace so he departed from him a little way
2ki520 but gehazi the servant of elisha the man of god said behold my master hath spared naaman this syrian in not receiving at his hands that which he brought but as the lord liveth i will run after him and take somewhat of him
2ki521 so gehazi followed after naaman and when naaman saw him running after him he lighted down from the chariot to meet him and said is all well
2ki522 and he said all is well my master hath sent me saying behold even now there be come to me from mount ephraim two young men of the sons of the prophets give them i pray thee a talent of silver and two changes of garments
2ki523 and naaman said be content take two talents and he urged him and bound two talents of silver in two bags with two changes of garments and laid them upon two of his servants and they bare them before him
2ki524 and when he came to the tower he took them from their hand and bestowed them in the house and he let the men go and they departed
2ki525 but he went in and stood before his master and elisha said unto him whence comest thou gehazi and he said thy servant went no whither
2ki526 and he said unto him went not mine heart with thee when the man turned again from his chariot to meet thee is it a time to receive money and to receive garments and oliveyards and vineyards and sheep and oxen and menservants and maidservants
2ki527 the leprosy therefore of naaman shall cleave unto thee and unto thy seed for ever and he went out from his presence a leper as white as snow
2ki61 and the sons of the prophets said unto elisha behold now the place where we dwell with thee is too strait for us
2ki62 let us go we pray thee unto jordan and take thence every man a beam and let us make us a place there where we may dwell and he answered go ye
2ki63 and one said be content i pray thee and go with thy servants and he answered i will go
2ki64 so he went with them and when they came to jordan they cut down wood
2ki65 but as one was felling a beam the axe head fell into the water and he cried and said alas master for it was borrowed
2ki66 and the man of god said where fell it and he shewed him the place and he cut down a stick and cast it in thither and the iron did swim
2ki67 therefore said he take it up to thee and he put out his hand and took it
2ki68 then the king of syria warred against israel and took counsel with his servants saying in such and such a place shall be my camp
2ki69 and the man of god sent unto the king of israel saying beware that thou pass not such a place for thither the syrians are come down
2ki610 and the king of israel sent to the place which the man of god told him and warned him of and saved himself there not once nor twice
2ki611 therefore the heart of the king of syria was sore troubled for this thing and he called his servants and said unto them will ye not shew me which of us is for the king of israel
2ki612 and one of his servants said none my lord o king but elisha the prophet that is in israel telleth the king of israel the words that thou speakest in thy bedchamber
2ki613 and he said go and spy where he is that i may send and fetch him and it was told him saying behold he is in dothan
2ki614 therefore sent he thither horses and chariots and a great host and they came by night and compassed the city about
2ki615 and when the servant of the man of god was risen early and gone forth behold an host compassed the city both with horses and chariots and his servant said unto him alas my master how shall we do
2ki616 and he answered fear not for they that be with us are more than they that be with them
2ki617 and elisha prayed and said lord i pray thee open his eyes that he may see and the lord opened the eyes of the young man and he saw and behold the mountain was full of horses and chariots of fire round about elisha
2ki618 and when they came down to him elisha prayed unto the lord and said smite this people i pray thee with blindness and he smote them with blindness according to the word of elisha
2ki619 and elisha said unto them this is not the way neither is this the city follow me and i will bring you to the man whom ye seek but he led them to samaria
2ki620 and it came to pass when they were come into samaria that elisha said lord open the eyes of these men that they may see and the lord opened their eyes and they saw and behold they were in the midst of samaria
2ki621 and the king of israel said unto elisha when he saw them my father shall i smite them shall i smite them
2ki622 and he answered thou shalt not smite them wouldest thou smite those whom thou hast taken captive with thy sword and with thy bow set bread and water before them that they may eat and drink and go to their master
2ki623 and he prepared great provision for them and when they had eaten and drunk he sent them away and they went to their master so the bands of syria came no more into the land of israel
2ki624 and it came to pass after this that benhadad king of syria gathered all his host and went up and besieged samaria
2ki625 and there was a great famine in samaria and behold they besieged it until an ass's head was sold for fourscore pieces of silver and the fourth part of a cab of dove's dung for five pieces of silver
2ki626 and as the king of israel was passing by upon the wall there cried a woman unto him saying help my lord o king
2ki627 and he said if the lord do not help thee whence shall i help thee out of the barnfloor or out of the winepress
2ki628 and the king said unto her what aileth thee and she answered this woman said unto me give thy son that we may eat him to day and we will eat my son to morrow
2ki629 so we boiled my son and did eat him and i said unto her on the next day give thy son that we may eat him and she hath hid her son
2ki630 and it came to pass when the king heard the words of the woman that he rent his clothes and he passed by upon the wall and the people looked and behold he had sackcloth within upon his flesh
2ki631 then he said god do so and more also to me if the head of elisha the son of shaphat shall stand on him this day
2ki632 but elisha sat in his house and the elders sat with him and the king sent a man from before him but ere the messenger came to him he said to the elders see ye how this son of a murderer hath sent to take away mine head look when the messenger cometh shut the door and hold him fast at the door is not the sound of his master's feet behind him
2ki633 and while he yet talked with them behold the messenger came down unto him and he said behold this evil is of the lord what should i wait for the lord any longer
2ki71 then elisha said hear ye the word of the lord thus saith the lord to morrow about this time shall a measure of fine flour be sold for a shekel and two measures of barley for a shekel in the gate of samaria
2ki72 then a lord on whose hand the king leaned answered the man of god and said behold if the lord would make windows in heaven might this thing be and he said behold thou shalt see it with thine eyes but shalt not eat thereof
2ki73 and there were four leprous men at the entering in of the gate and they said one to another why sit we here until we die
2ki74 if we say we will enter into the city then the famine is in the city and we shall die there and if we sit still here we die also now therefore come and let us fall unto the host of the syrians if they save us alive we shall live and if they kill us we shall but die
2ki75 and they rose up in the twilight to go unto the camp of the syrians and when they were come to the uttermost part of the camp of syria behold there was no man there
2ki76 for the lord had made the host of the syrians to hear a noise of chariots and a noise of horses even the noise of a great host and they said one to another lo the king of israel hath hired against us the kings of the hittites and the kings of the egyptians to come upon us
2ki77 wherefore they arose and fled in the twilight and left their tents and their horses and their asses even the camp as it was and fled for their life
2ki78 and when these lepers came to the uttermost part of the camp they went into one tent and did eat and drink and carried thence silver and gold and raiment and went and hid it and came again and entered into another tent and carried thence also and went and hid it
2ki79 then they said one to another we do not well this day is a day of good tidings and we hold our peace if we tarry till the morning light some mischief will come upon us now therefore come that we may go and tell the king's household
2ki710 so they came and called unto the porter of the city and they told them saying we came to the camp of the syrians and behold there was no man there neither voice of man but horses tied and asses tied and the tents as they were
2ki711 and he called the porters and they told it to the king's house within
2ki712 and the king arose in the night and said unto his servants i will now shew you what the syrians have done to us they know that we be hungry therefore are they gone out of the camp to hide themselves in the field saying when they come out of the city we shall catch them alive and get into the city
2ki713 and one of his servants answered and said let some take i pray thee five of the horses that remain which are left in the city behold they are as all the multitude of israel that are left in it behold i say they are even as all the multitude of the israelites that are consumed and let us send and see
2ki714 they took therefore two chariot horses and the king sent after the host of the syrians saying go and see
2ki715 and they went after them unto jordan and lo all the way was full of garments and vessels which the syrians had cast away in their haste and the messengers returned and told the king
2ki716 and the people went out and spoiled the tents of the syrians so a measure of fine flour was sold for a shekel and two measures of barley for a shekel according to the word of the lord
2ki717 and the king appointed the lord on whose hand he leaned to have the charge of the gate and the people trode upon him in the gate and he died as the man of god had said who spake when the king came down to him
2ki718 and it came to pass as the man of god had spoken to the king saying two measures of barley for a shekel and a measure of fine flour for a shekel shall be to morrow about this time in the gate of samaria
2ki719 and that lord answered the man of god and said now behold if the lord should make windows in heaven might such a thing be and he said behold thou shalt see it with thine eyes but shalt not eat thereof
2ki720 and so it fell out unto him for the people trode upon him in the gate and he died
2ki81 then spake elisha unto the woman whose son he had restored to life saying arise and go thou and thine household and sojourn wheresoever thou canst sojourn for the lord hath called for a famine and it shall also come upon the land seven years
2ki82 and the woman arose and did after the saying of the man of god and she went with her household and sojourned in the land of the philistines seven years
2ki83 and it came to pass at the seven years end that the woman returned out of the land of the philistines and she went forth to cry unto the king for her house and for her land
2ki84 and the king talked with gehazi the servant of the man of god saying tell me i pray thee all the great things that elisha hath done
2ki85 and it came to pass as he was telling the king how he had restored a dead body to life that behold the woman whose son he had restored to life cried to the king for her house and for her land and gehazi said my lord o king this is the woman and this is her son whom elisha restored to life
2ki86 and when the king asked the woman she told him so the king appointed unto her a certain officer saying restore all that was hers and all the fruits of the field since the day that she left the land even until now
2ki87 and elisha came to damascus and benhadad the king of syria was sick and it was told him saying the man of god is come hither
2ki88 and the king said unto hazael take a present in thine hand and go meet the man of god and enquire of the lord by him saying shall i recover of this disease
2ki89 so hazael went to meet him and took a present with him even of every good thing of damascus forty camels burden and came and stood before him and said thy son benhadad king of syria hath sent me to thee saying shall i recover of this disease
2ki810 and elisha said unto him go say unto him thou mayest certainly recover howbeit the lord hath shewed me that he shall surely die
2ki811 and he settled his countenance stedfastly until he was ashamed and the man of god wept
2ki812 and hazael said why weepeth my lord and he answered because i know the evil that thou wilt do unto the children of israel their strong holds wilt thou set on fire and their young men wilt thou slay with the sword and wilt dash their children and rip up their women with child
2ki813 and hazael said but what is thy servant a dog that he should do this great thing and elisha answered the lord hath shewed me that thou shalt be king over syria
2ki814 so he departed from elisha and came to his master who said to him what said elisha to thee and he answered he told me that thou shouldest surely recover
2ki815 and it came to pass on the morrow that he took a thick cloth and dipped it in water and spread it on his face so that he died and hazael reigned in his stead
2ki816 and in the fifth year of joram the son of ahab king of israel jehoshaphat being then king of judah jehoram the son of je hoshaphat king of judah began to reign
2ki817 thirty and two years old was he when he began to reign and he reigned eight years in jerusalem
2ki818 and he walked in the way of the kings of israel as did the house of ahab for the daughter of ahab was his wife and he did evil in the sight of the lord
2ki819 yet the lord would not destroy judah for david his servant's sake as he promised him to give him alway a light and to his children
2ki820 in his days edom revolted from under the hand of judah and made a king over themselves
2ki821 so joram went over to zair and all the chariots with him and he rose by night and smote the edomites which compassed him about and the captains of the chariots and the people fled into their tents
2ki822 yet edom revolted from under the hand of judah unto this day then libnah revolted at the same time
2ki823 and the rest of the acts of joram and all that he did are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of judah
2ki824 and joram slept with his fathers and was buried with his fathers in the city of david and ahaziah his son reigned in his stead
2ki825 in the twelfth year of joram the son of ahab king of israel did ahaziah the son of jehoram king of judah begin to reign
2ki826 two and twenty years old was ahaziah when he began to reign and he reigned one year in jerusalem and his mother's name was athaliah the daughter of omri king of israel
2ki827 and he walked in the way of the house of ahab and did evil in the sight of the lord as did the house of ahab for he was the son in law of the house of ahab
2ki828 and he went with joram the son of ahab to the war against hazael king of syria in ramothgilead and the syrians wounded joram
2ki829 and king joram went back to be healed in jezreel of the wounds which the syrians had given him at ramah when he fought against hazael king of syria and ahaziah the son of jehoram king of judah went down to see joram the son of ahab in jezreel because he was sick
2ki91 and elisha the prophet called one of the children of the prophets and said unto him gird up thy loins and take this box of oil in thine hand and go to ramothgilead
2ki92 and when thou comest thither look out there jehu the son of jehoshaphat the son of nimshi and go in and make him arise up from among his brethren and carry him to an inner chamber
2ki93 then take the box of oil and pour it on his head and say thus saith the lord i have anointed thee king over israel then open the door and flee and tarry not
2ki94 so the young man even the young man the prophet went to ramothgilead
2ki95 and when he came behold the captains of the host were sitting and he said i have an errand to thee o captain and jehu said unto which of all us and he said to thee o captain
2ki96 and he arose and went into the house and he poured the oil on his head and said unto him thus saith the lord god of israel i have anointed thee king over the people of the lord even over israel
2ki97 and thou shalt smite the house of ahab thy master that i may avenge the blood of my servants the prophets and the blood of all the servants of the lord at the hand of jezebel
2ki98 for the whole house of ahab shall perish and i will cut off from ahab him that pisseth against the wall and him that is shut up and left in israel
2ki99 and i will make the house of ahab like the house of jeroboam the son of nebat and like the house of baasha the son of ahijah
2ki910 and the dogs shall eat jezebel in the portion of jezreel and there shall be none to bury her and he opened the door and fled
2ki911 then jehu came forth to the servants of his lord and one said unto him is all well wherefore came this mad fellow to thee and he said unto them ye know the man and his communication
2ki912 and they said it is false tell us now and he said thus and thus spake he to me saying thus saith the lord i have anointed thee king over israel
2ki913 then they hasted and took every man his garment and put it under him on the top of the stairs and blew with trumpets saying jehu is king
2ki914 so jehu the son of jehoshaphat the son of nimshi conspired against joram now joram had kept ramothgilead he and all israel because of hazael king of syria
2ki915 but king joram was returned to be healed in jezreel of the wounds which the syrians had given him when he fought with hazael king of syria and jehu said if it be your minds then let none go forth nor escape out of the city to go to tell it in jezreel
2ki916 so jehu rode in a chariot and went to jezreel for joram lay there and ahaziah king of judah was come down to see joram
2ki917 and there stood a watchman on the tower in jezreel and he spied the company of jehu as he came and said i see a company and joram said take an horseman and send to meet them and let him say is it peace
2ki918 so there went one on horseback to meet him and said thus saith the king is it peace and jehu said what hast thou to do with peace turn thee behind me and the watchman told saying the messenger came to them but he cometh not again
2ki919 then he sent out a second on horseback which came to them and said thus saith the king is it peace and jehu answered what hast thou to do with peace turn thee behind me
2ki920 and the watchman told saying he came even unto them and cometh not again and the driving is like the driving of jehu the son of nimshi for he driveth furiously
2ki921 and joram said make ready and his chariot was made ready and joram king of israel and ahaziah king of judah went out each in his chariot and they went out against jehu and met him in the portion of naboth the jezreelite
2ki922 and it came to pass when joram saw jehu that he said is it peace jehu and he answered what peace so long as the whoredoms of thy mother jezebel and her witchcrafts are so many
2ki923 and joram turned his hands and fled and said to ahaziah there is treachery o ahaziah
2ki924 and jehu drew a bow with his full strength and smote jehoram between his arms and the arrow went out at his heart and he sunk down in his chariot
2ki925 then said jehu to bidkar his captain take up and cast him in the portion of the field of naboth the jezreelite for remember how that when i and thou rode together after ahab his father the lord laid this burden upon him
2ki926 surely i have seen yesterday the blood of naboth and the blood of his sons saith the lord and i will requite thee in this plat saith the lord now therefore take and cast him into the plat of ground according to the word of the lord
2ki927 but when ahaziah the king of judah saw this he fled by the way of the garden house and jehu followed after him and said smite him also in the chariot and they did so at the going up to gur which is by ibleam and he fled to megiddo and died there
2ki928 and his servants carried him in a chariot to jerusalem and buried him in his sepulchre with his fathers in the city of david
2ki929 and in the eleventh year of joram the son of ahab began ahaziah to reign over judah
2ki930 and when jehu was come to jezreel jezebel heard of it and she painted her face and tired her head and looked out at a window
2ki931 and as jehu entered in at the gate she said had zimri peace who slew his master
2ki932 and he lifted up his face to the window and said who is on my side who and there looked out to him two or three eunuchs
2ki933 and he said throw her down so they threw her down and some of her blood was sprinkled on the wall and on the horses and he trode her under foot
2ki934 and when he was come in he did eat and drink and said go see now this cursed woman and bury her for she is a king's daughter
2ki935 and they went to bury her but they found no more of her than the skull and the feet and the palms of her hands
2ki936 wherefore they came again and told him and he said this is the word of the lord which he spake by his servant elijah the tishbite saying in the portion of jezreel shall dogs eat the flesh of jezebel
2ki937 and the carcase of jezebel shall be as dung upon the face of the field in the portion of jezreel so that they shall not say this is jezebel
2ki101 and ahab had seventy sons in samaria and jehu wrote letters and sent to samaria unto the rulers of jezreel to the elders and to them that brought up ahab's children saying
2ki102 now as soon as this letter cometh to you seeing your master's sons are with you and there are with you chariots and horses a fenced city also and armour
2ki103 look even out the best and meetest of your master's sons and set him on his father's throne and fight for your master's house
2ki104 but they were exceedingly afraid and said behold two kings stood not before him how then shall we stand
2ki105 and he that was over the house and he that was over the city the elders also and the bringers up of the children sent to jehu saying we are thy servants and will do all that thou shalt bid us we will not make any king do thou that which is good in thine eyes
2ki106 then he wrote a letter the second time to them saying if ye be mine and if ye will hearken unto my voice take ye the heads of the men your master's sons and come to me to jezreel by to morrow this time now the king's sons being seventy persons were with the great men of the city which brought them up
2ki107 and it came to pass when the letter came to them that they took the king's sons and slew seventy persons and put their heads in baskets and sent him them to jezreel
2ki108 and there came a messenger and told him saying they have brought the heads of the king's sons and he said lay ye them in two heaps at the entering in of the gate until the morning
2ki109 and it came to pass in the morning that he went out and stood and said to all the people ye be righteous behold i conspired against my master and slew him but who slew all these
2ki1010 know now that there shall fall unto the earth nothing of the word of the lord which the lord spake concerning the house of ahab for the lord hath done that which he spake by his servant elijah
2ki1011 so jehu slew all that remained of the house of ahab in jezreel and all his great men and his kinsfolks and his priests until he left him none remaining
2ki1012 and he arose and departed and came to samaria and as he was at the shearing house in the way
2ki1013 jehu met with the brethren of ahaziah king of judah and said who are ye and they answered we are the brethren of ahaziah and we go down to salute the children of the king and the children of the queen
2ki1014 and he said take them alive and they took them alive and slew them at the pit of the shearing house even two and forty men neither left he any of them
2ki1015 and when he was departed thence he lighted on jehonadab the son of rechab coming to meet him and he saluted him and said to him is thine heart right as my heart is with thy heart and jehonadab answered it is if it be give me thine hand and he gave him his hand and he took him up to him into the chariot
2ki1016 and he said come with me and see my zeal for the lord so they made him ride in his chariot
2ki1017 and when he came to samaria he slew all that remained unto ahab in samaria till he had destroyed him according to the saying of the lord which he spake to elijah
2ki1018 and jehu gathered all the people together and said unto them ahab served baal a little but jehu shall serve him much
2ki1019 now therefore call unto me all the prophets of baal all his servants and all his priests let none be wanting for i have a great sacrifice to do to baal whosoever shall be wanting he shall not live but jehu did it in subtilty to the intent that he might destroy the worshippers of baal
2ki1020 and jehu said proclaim a solemn assembly for baal and they proclaimed it
2ki1021 and jehu sent through all israel and all the worshippers of baal came so that there was not a man left that came not and they came into the house of baal and the house of baal was full from one end to another
2ki1022 and he said unto him that was over the vestry bring forth vestments for all the worshippers of baal and he brought them forth vestments
2ki1023 and jehu went and jehonadab the son of rechab into the house of baal and said unto the worshippers of baal search and look that there be here with you none of the servants of the lord but the worshippers of baal only
2ki1024 and when they went in to offer sacrifices and burnt offerings jehu appointed fourscore men without and said if any of the men whom i have brought into your hands escape he that letteth him go his life shall be for the life of him
2ki1025 and it came to pass as soon as he had made an end of offering the burnt offering that jehu said to the guard and to the captains go in and slay them let none come forth and they smote them with the edge of the sword and the guard and the captains cast them out and went to the city of the house of baal
2ki1026 and they brought forth the images out of the house of baal and burned them
2ki1027 and they brake down the image of baal and brake down the house of baal and made it a draught house unto this day
2ki1028 thus jehu destroyed baal out of israel
2ki1029 howbeit from the sins of jeroboam the son of nebat who made israel to sin jehu departed not from after them to wit the golden calves that were in bethel and that were in dan
2ki1030 and the lord said unto jehu because thou hast done well in executing that which is right in mine eyes and hast done unto the house of ahab according to all that was in mine heart thy children of the fourth generation shall sit on the throne of israel
2ki1031 but jehu took no heed to walk in the law of the lord god of israel with all his heart for he departed not from the sins of jeroboam which made israel to sin
2ki1032 in those days the lord began to cut israel short and hazael smote them in all the coasts of israel
2ki1033 from jordan eastward all the land of gilead the gadites and the reubenites and the manassites from aroer which is by the river arnon even gilead and bashan
2ki1034 now the rest of the acts of jehu and all that he did and all his might are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of israel
2ki1035 and jehu slept with his fathers and they buried him in samaria and jehoahaz his son reigned in his stead
2ki1036 and the time that jehu reigned over israel in samaria was twenty and eight years
2ki111 and when athaliah the mother of ahaziah saw that her son was dead she arose and destroyed all the seed royal
2ki112 but jehosheba the daughter of king joram sister of ahaziah took joash the son of ahaziah and stole him from among the king's sons which were slain and they hid him even him and his nurse in the bedchamber from athaliah so that he was not slain
2ki113 and he was with her hid in the house of the lord six years and athaliah did reign over the land
2ki114 and the seventh year jehoiada sent and fetched the rulers over hundreds with the captains and the guard and brought them to him into the house of the lord and made a covenant with them and took an oath of them in the house of the lord and shewed them the king's son
2ki115 and he commanded them saying this is the thing that ye shall do a third part of you that enter in on the sabbath shall even be keepers of the watch of the king's house
2ki116 and a third part shall be at the gate of sur and a third part at the gate behind the guard so shall ye keep the watch of the house that it be not broken down
2ki117 and two parts of all you that go forth on the sabbath even they shall keep the watch of the house of the lord about the king
2ki118 and ye shall compass the king round about every man with his weapons in his hand and he that cometh within the ranges let him be slain and be ye with the king as he goeth out and as he cometh in
2ki119 and the captains over the hundreds did according to all things that jehoiada the priest commanded and they took every man his men that were to come in on the sabbath with them that should go out on the sabbath and came to jehoiada the priest
2ki1110 and to the captains over hundreds did the priest give king david's spears and shields that were in the temple of the lord
2ki1111 and the guard stood every man with his weapons in his hand round about the king from the right corner of the temple to the left corner of the temple along by the altar and the temple
2ki1112 and he brought forth the king's son and put the crown upon him and gave him the testimony and they made him king and anointed him and they clapped their hands and said god save the king
2ki1113 and when athaliah heard the noise of the guard and of the people she came to the people into the temple of the lord
2ki1114 and when she looked behold the king stood by a pillar as the manner was and the princes and the trumpeters by the king and all the people of the land rejoiced and blew with trumpets and athaliah rent her clothes and cried treason treason
2ki1115 but jehoiada the priest commanded the captains of the hundreds the officers of the host and said unto them have her forth without the ranges and him that followeth her kill with the sword for the priest had said let her not be slain in the house of the lord
2ki1116 and they laid hands on her and she went by the way by the which the horses came into the king's house and there was she slain
2ki1117 and jehoiada made a covenant between the lord and the king and the people that they should be the lord's people between the king also and the people
2ki1118 and all the people of the land went into the house of baal and brake it down his altars and his images brake they in pieces thoroughly and slew mattan the priest of baal before the altars and the priest appointed officers over the house of the lord
2ki1119 and he took the rulers over hundreds and the captains and the guard and all the people of the land and they brought down the king from the house of the lord and came by the way of the gate of the guard to the king's house and he sat on the throne of the kings
2ki1120 and all the people of the land rejoiced and the city was in quiet and they slew athaliah with the sword beside the king's house
2ki1121 seven years old was jehoash when he began to reign
2ki121 in the seventh year of jehu jehoash began to reign and forty years reigned he in jerusalem and his mother's name was zibiah of beersheba
2ki122 and jehoash did that which was right in the sight of the lord all his days wherein jehoiada the priest instructed him
2ki123 but the high places were not taken away the people still sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places
2ki124 and jehoash said to the priests all the money of the dedicated things that is brought into the house of the lord even the money of every one that passeth the account the money that every man is set at and all the money that cometh into any man's heart to bring into the house of the lord
2ki125 let the priests take it to them every man of his acquaintance and let them repair the breaches of the house wheresoever any breach shall be found
2ki126 but it was so that in the three and twentieth year of king jehoash the priests had not repaired the breaches of the house
2ki127 then king jehoash called for jehoiada the priest and the other priests and said unto them why repair ye not the breaches of the house now therefore receive no more money of your acquaintance but deliver it for the breaches of the house
2ki128 and the priests consented to receive no more money of the people neither to repair the breaches of the house
2ki129 but jehoiada the priest took a chest and bored a hole in the lid of it and set it beside the altar on the right side as one cometh into the house of the lord and the priests that kept the door put therein all the money that was brought into the house of the lord
2ki1210 and it was so when they saw that there was much money in the chest that the king's scribe and the high priest came up and they put up in bags and told the money that was found in the house of the lord
2ki1211 and they gave the money being told into the hands of them that did the work that had the oversight of the house of the lord and they laid it out to the carpenters and builders that wrought upon the house of the lord
2ki1212 and to masons and hewers of stone and to buy timber and hewed stone to repair the breaches of the house of the lord and for all that was laid out for the house to repair it
2ki1213 howbeit there were not made for the house of the lord bowls of silver snuffers basons trumpets any vessels of gold or vessels of silver of the money that was brought into the house of the lord
2ki1214 but they gave that to the workmen and repaired therewith the house of the lord
2ki1215 moreover they reckoned not with the men into whose hand they delivered the money to be bestowed on workmen for they dealt faithfully
2ki1216 the trespass money and sin money was not brought into the house of the lord it was the priests'
2ki1217 then hazael king of syria went up and fought against gath and took it and hazael set his face to go up to jerusalem
2ki1218 and jehoash king of judah took all the hallowed things that jehoshaphat and jehoram and ahaziah his fathers kings of judah had dedicated and his own hallowed things and all the gold that was found in the treasures of the house of the lord and in the king's house and sent it to hazael king of syria and he went away from jerusalem
2ki1219 and the rest of the acts of joash and all that he did are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of judah
2ki1220 and his servants arose and made a conspiracy and slew joash in the house of millo which goeth down to silla
2ki1221 for jozachar the son of shimeath and jehozabad the son of shomer his servants smote him and he died and they buried him with his fathers in the city of david and amaziah his son reigned in his stead
2ki131 in the three and twentieth year of joash the son of ahaziah king of judah jehoahaz the son of jehu began to reign over israel in samaria and reigned seventeen years
2ki132 and he did that which was evil in the sight of the lord and followed the sins of jeroboam the son of nebat which made israel to sin he departed not therefrom
2ki133 and the anger of the lord was kindled against israel and he delivered them into the hand of hazael king of syria and into the hand of benhadad the son of hazael all their days
2ki134 and jehoahaz besought the lord and the lord hearkened unto him for he saw the oppression of israel because the king of syria oppressed them
2ki135 and the lord gave israel a saviour so that they went out from under the hand of the syrians and the children of israel dwelt in their tents as beforetime
2ki136 nevertheless they departed not from the sins of the house of jeroboam who made israel sin but walked therein and there remained the grove also in samaria
2ki137 neither did he leave of the people to jehoahaz but fifty horsemen and ten chariots and ten thousand footmen for the king of syria had destroyed them and had made them like the dust by threshing
2ki138 now the rest of the acts of jehoahaz and all that he did and his might are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of israel
2ki139 and jehoahaz slept with his fathers and they buried him in samaria and joash his son reigned in his stead
2ki1310 in the thirty and seventh year of joash king of judah began jehoash the son of jehoahaz to reign over israel in samaria and reigned sixteen years
2ki1311 and he did that which was evil in the sight of the lord he departed not from all the sins of jeroboam the son of nebat who made israel sin but he walked therein
2ki1312 and the rest of the acts of joash and all that he did and his might wherewith he fought against amaziah king of judah are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of israel
2ki1313 and joash slept with his fathers and jeroboam sat upon his throne and joash was buried in samaria with the kings of israel
2ki1314 now elisha was fallen sick of his sickness whereof he died and joash the king of israel came down unto him and wept over his face and said o my father my father the chariot of israel and the horsemen thereof
2ki1315 and elisha said unto him take bow and arrows and he took unto him bow and arrows
2ki1316 and he said to the king of israel put thine hand upon the bow and he put his hand upon it and elisha put his hands upon the king's hands
2ki1317 and he said open the window eastward and he opened it then elisha said shoot and he shot and he said the arrow of the lord's deliverance and the arrow of deliverance from syria for thou shalt smite the syrians in aphek till thou have consumed them
2ki1318 and he said take the arrows and he took them and he said unto the king of israel smite upon the ground and he smote thrice and stayed
2ki1319 and the man of god was wroth with him and said thou shouldest have smitten five or six times then hadst thou smitten syria till thou hadst consumed it whereas now thou shalt smite syria but thrice
2ki1320 and elisha died and they buried him and the bands of the moabites invaded the land at the coming in of the year
2ki1321 and it came to pass as they were burying a man that behold they spied a band of men and they cast the man into the sepulchre of elisha and when the man was let down and touched the bones of elisha he revived and stood up on his feet
2ki1322 but hazael king of syria oppressed israel all the days of jehoahaz
2ki1323 and the lord was gracious unto them and had compassion on them and had respect unto them because of his covenant with abraham isaac and jacob and would not destroy them neither cast he them from his presence as yet
2ki1324 so hazael king of syria died and benhadad his son reigned in his stead
2ki1325 and jehoash the son of jehoahaz took again out of the hand of benhadad the son of hazael the cities which he had taken out of the hand of jehoahaz his father by war three times did joash beat him and recovered the cities of israel
2ki141 in the second year of joash son of jehoahaz king of israel reigned amaziah the son of joash king of judah
2ki142 he was twenty and five years old when he began to reign and reigned twenty and nine years in jerusalem and his mother's name was jehoaddan of jerusalem
2ki143 and he did that which was right in the sight of the lord yet not like david his father he did according to all things as joash his father did
2ki144 howbeit the high places were not taken away as yet the people did sacrifice and burnt incense on the high places
2ki145 and it came to pass as soon as the kingdom was confirmed in his hand that he slew his servants which had slain the king his father
2ki146 but the children of the murderers he slew not according unto that which is written in the book of the law of moses wherein the lord commanded saying the fathers shall not be put to death for the children nor the children be put to death for the fathers but every man shall be put to death for his own sin
2ki147 he slew of edom in the valley of salt ten thousand and took selah by war and called the name of it joktheel unto this day
2ki148 then amaziah sent messengers to jehoash the son of jehoahaz son of jehu king of israel saying come let us look one another in the face
2ki149 and jehoash the king of israel sent to amaziah king of judah saying the thistle that was in lebanon sent to the cedar that was in lebanon saying give thy daughter to my son to wife and there passed by a wild beast that was in lebanon and trode down the thistle
2ki1410 thou hast indeed smitten edom and thine heart hath lifted thee up glory of this and tarry at home for why shouldest thou meddle to thy hurt that thou shouldest fall even thou and judah with thee
2ki1411 but amaziah would not hear therefore jehoash king of israel went up and he and amaziah king of judah looked one another in the face at bethshemesh which belongeth to judah
2ki1412 and judah was put to the worse before israel and they fled every man to their tents
2ki1413 and jehoash king of israel took amaziah king of judah the son of jehoash the son of ahaziah at bethshemesh and came to jerusalem and brake down the wall of jerusalem from the gate of ephraim unto the corner gate four hundred cubits
2ki1414 and he took all the gold and silver and all the vessels that were found in the house of the lord and in the treasures of the king's house and hostages and returned to samaria
2ki1415 now the rest of the acts of jehoash which he did and his might and how he fought with amaziah king of judah are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of israel
2ki1416 and jehoash slept with his fathers and was buried in samaria with the kings of israel and jeroboam his son reigned in his stead
2ki1417 and amaziah the son of joash king of judah lived after the death of jehoash son of jehoahaz king of israel fifteen years
2ki1418 and the rest of the acts of amaziah are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of judah
2ki1419 now they made a conspiracy against him in jerusalem and he fled to lachish but they sent after him to lachish and slew him there
2ki1420 and they brought him on horses and he was buried at jerusalem with his fathers in the city of david
2ki1421 and all the people of judah took azariah which was sixteen years old and made him king instead of his father amaziah
2ki1422 he built elath and restored it to judah after that the king slept with his fathers
2ki1423 in the fifteenth year of amaziah the son of joash king of judah jeroboam the son of joash king of israel began to reign in samaria and reigned forty and one years
2ki1424 and he did that which was evil in the sight of the lord he departed not from all the sins of jeroboam the son of nebat who made israel to sin
2ki1425 he restored the coast of israel from the entering of hamath unto the sea of the plain according to the word of the lord god of israel which he spake by the hand of his servant jonah the son of amittai the prophet which was of gathhepher
2ki1426 for the lord saw the affliction of israel that it was very bitter for there was not any shut up nor any left nor any helper for israel
2ki1427 and the lord said not that he would blot out the name of israel from under heaven but he saved them by the hand of jeroboam the son of joash
2ki1428 now the rest of the acts of jeroboam and all that he did and his might how he warred and how he recovered damascus and hamath which belonged to judah for israel are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of israel
2ki1429 and jeroboam slept with his fathers even with the kings of israel and zachariah his son reigned in his stead
2ki151 in the twenty and seventh year of jeroboam king of israel began azariah son of amaziah king of judah to reign
2ki152 sixteen years old was he when he began to reign and he reigned two and fifty years in jerusalem and his mother's name was jecholiah of jerusalem
2ki153 and he did that which was right in the sight of the lord according to all that his father amaziah had done
2ki154 save that the high places were not removed the people sacrificed and burnt incense still on the high places
2ki155 and the lord smote the king so that he was a leper unto the day of his death and dwelt in a several house and jotham the king's son was over the house judging the people of the land
2ki156 and the rest of the acts of azariah and all that he did are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of judah
2ki157 so azariah slept with his fathers and they buried him with his fathers in the city of david and jotham his son reigned in his stead
2ki158 in the thirty and eighth year of azariah king of judah did zachariah the son of jeroboam reign over israel in samaria six months
2ki159 and he did that which was evil in the sight of the lord as his fathers had done he departed not from the sins of jeroboam the son of nebat who made israel to sin
2ki1510 and shallum the son of jabesh conspired against him and smote him before the people and slew him and reigned in his stead
2ki1511 and the rest of the acts of zachariah behold they are written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of israel
2ki1512 this was the word of the lord which he spake unto jehu saying thy sons shall sit on the throne of israel unto the fourth generation and so it came to pass
2ki1513 shallum the son of jabesh began to reign in the nine and thirtieth year of uzziah king of judah and he reigned a full month in samaria
2ki1514 for menahem the son of gadi went up from tirzah and came to samaria and smote shallum the son of jabesh in samaria and slew him and reigned in his stead
2ki1515 and the rest of the acts of shallum and his conspiracy which he made behold they are written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of israel
2ki1516 then menahem smote tiphsah and all that were therein and the coasts thereof from tirzah because they opened not to him therefore he smote it and all the women therein that were with child he ripped up
2ki1517 in the nine and thirtieth year of azariah king of judah began menahem the son of gadi to reign over israel and reigned ten years in samaria
2ki1518 and he did that which was evil in the sight of the lord he departed not all his days from the sins of jeroboam the son of nebat who made israel to sin
2ki1519 and pul the king of assyria came against the land and menahem gave pul a thousand talents of silver that his hand might be with him to confirm the kingdom in his hand
2ki1520 and menahem exacted the money of israel even of all the mighty men of wealth of each man fifty shekels of silver to give to the king of assyria so the king of assyria turned back and stayed not there in the land
2ki1521 and the rest of the acts of menahem and all that he did are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of israel
2ki1522 and menahem slept with his fathers and pekahiah his son reigned in his stead
2ki1523 in the fiftieth year of azariah king of judah pekahiah the son of menahem began to reign over israel in samaria and reigned two years
2ki1524 and he did that which was evil in the sight of the lord he departed not from the sins of jeroboam the son of nebat who made israel to sin
2ki1525 but pekah the son of remaliah a captain of his conspired against him and smote him in samaria in the palace of the king's house with argob and arieh and with him fifty men of the gileadites and he killed him and reigned in his room
2ki1526 and the rest of the acts of pekahiah and all that he did behold they are written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of israel
2ki1527 in the two and fiftieth year of azariah king of judah pekah the son of remaliah began to reign over israel in samaria and reigned twenty years
2ki1528 and he did that which was evil in the sight of the lord he departed not from the sins of jeroboam the son of nebat who made israel to sin
2ki1529 in the days of pekah king of israel came tiglathpileser king of assyria and took ijon and abelbethmaachah and janoah and kedesh and hazor and gilead and galilee all the land of naphtali and carried them captive to assyria
2ki1530 and hoshea the son of elah made a conspiracy against pekah the son of remaliah and smote him and slew him and reigned in his stead in the twentieth year of jotham the son of uzziah
2ki1531 and the rest of the acts of pekah and all that he did behold they are written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of israel
2ki1532 in the second year of pekah the son of remaliah king of israel began jotham the son of uzziah king of judah to reign
2ki1533 five and twenty years old was he when he began to reign and he reigned sixteen years in jerusalem and his mother's name was jerusha the daughter of zadok
2ki1534 and he did that which was right in the sight of the lord he did according to all that his father uzziah had done
2ki1535 howbeit the high places were not removed the people sacrificed and burned incense still in the high places he built the higher gate of the house of the lord
2ki1536 now the rest of the acts of jotham and all that he did are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of judah
2ki1537 in those days the lord began to send against judah rezin the king of syria and pekah the son of remaliah
2ki1538 and jotham slept with his fathers and was buried with his fathers in the city of david his father and ahaz his son reigned in his stead
2ki161 in the seventeenth year of pekah the son of remaliah ahaz the son of jotham king of judah began to reign
2ki162 twenty years old was ahaz when he began to reign and reigned sixteen years in jerusalem and did not that which was right in the sight of the lord his god like david his father
2ki163 but he walked in the way of the kings of israel yea and made his son to pass through the fire according to the abominations of the heathen whom the lord cast out from before the children of israel
2ki164 and he sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places and on the hills and under every green tree
2ki165 then rezin king of syria and pekah son of remaliah king of israel came up to jerusalem to war and they besieged ahaz but could not overcome him
2ki166 at that time rezin king of syria recovered elath to syria and drave the jews from elath and the syrians came to elath and dwelt there unto this day
2ki167 so ahaz sent messengers to tiglathpileser king of assyria saying i am thy servant and thy son come up and save me out of the hand of the king of syria and out of the hand of the king of israel which rise up against me
2ki168 and ahaz took the silver and gold that was found in the house of the lord and in the treasures of the king's house and sent it for a present to the king of assyria
2ki169 and the king of assyria hearkened unto him for the king of assyria went up against damascus and took it and carried the people of it captive to kir and slew rezin
2ki1610 and king ahaz went to damascus to meet tiglathpileser king of assyria and saw an altar that was at damascus and king ahaz sent to urijah the priest the fashion of the altar and the pattern of it according to all the workmanship thereof
2ki1611 and urijah the priest built an altar according to all that king ahaz had sent from damascus so urijah the priest made it against king ahaz came from damascus
2ki1612 and when the king was come from damascus the king saw the altar and the king approached to the altar and offered thereon
2ki1613 and he burnt his burnt offering and his meat offering and poured his drink offering and sprinkled the blood of his peace offerings upon the altar
2ki1614 and he brought also the brasen altar which was before the lord from the forefront of the house from between the altar and the house of the lord and put it on the north side of the altar
2ki1615 and king ahaz commanded urijah the priest saying upon the great altar burn the morning burnt offering and the evening meat offering and the king's burnt sacrifice and his meat offering with the burnt offering of all the people of the land and their meat offering and their drink offerings and sprinkle upon it all the blood of the burnt offering and all the blood of the sacrifice and the brasen altar shall be for me to enquire by
2ki1616 thus did urijah the priest according to all that king ahaz commanded
2ki1617 and king ahaz cut off the borders of the bases and removed the laver from off them and took down the sea from off the brasen oxen that were under it and put it upon a pavement of stones
2ki1618 and the covert for the sabbath that they had built in the house and the king's entry without turned he from the house of the lord for the king of assyria
2ki1619 now the rest of the acts of ahaz which he did are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of judah
2ki1620 and ahaz slept with his fathers and was buried with his fathers in the city of david and hezekiah his son reigned in his stead
2ki171 in the twelfth year of ahaz king of judah began hoshea the son of elah to reign in samaria over israel nine years
2ki172 and he did that which was evil in the sight of the lord but not as the kings of israel that were before him
2ki173 against him came up shalmaneser king of assyria and hoshea became his servant and gave him presents
2ki174 and the king of assyria found conspiracy in hoshea for he had sent messengers to so king of egypt and brought no present to the king of assyria as he had done year by year therefore the king of assyria shut him up and bound him in prison
2ki175 then the king of assyria came up throughout all the land and went up to samaria and besieged it three years
2ki176 in the ninth year of hoshea the king of assyria took samaria and carried israel away into assyria and placed them in halah and in habor by the river of gozan and in the cities of the medes
2ki177 for so it was that the children of israel had sinned against the lord their god which had brought them up out of the land of egypt from under the hand of pharaoh king of egypt and had feared other gods
2ki178 and walked in the statutes of the heathen whom the lord cast out from before the children of israel and of the kings of israel which they had made
2ki179 and the children of israel did secretly those things that were not right against the lord their god and they built them high places in all their cities from the tower of the watchmen to the fenced city
2ki1710 and they set them up images and groves in every high hill and under every green tree
2ki1711 and there they burnt incense in all the high places as did the heathen whom the lord carried away before them and wrought wicked things to provoke the lord to anger
2ki1712 for they served idols whereof the lord had said unto them ye shall not do this thing
2ki1713 yet the lord testified against israel and against judah by all the prophets and by all the seers saying turn ye from your evil ways and keep my commandments and my statutes according to all the law which i commanded your fathers and which i sent to you by my servants the prophets
2ki1714 notwithstanding they would not hear but hardened their necks like to the neck of their fathers that did not believe in the lord their god
2ki1715 and they rejected his statutes and his covenant that he made with their fathers and his testimonies which he testified against them and they followed vanity and became vain and went after the heathen that were round about them concerning whom the lord had charged them that they should not do like them
2ki1716 and they left all the commandments of the lord their god and made them molten images even two calves and made a grove and worshipped all the host of heaven and served baal
2ki1717 and they caused their sons and their daughters to pass through the fire and used divination and enchantments and sold themselves to do evil in the sight of the lord to provoke him to anger
2ki1718 therefore the lord was very angry with israel and removed them out of his sight there was none left but the tribe of judah only
2ki1719 also judah kept not the commandments of the lord their god but walked in the statutes of israel which they made
2ki1720 and the lord rejected all the seed of israel and afflicted them and delivered them into the hand of spoilers until he had cast them out of his sight
2ki1721 for he rent israel from the house of david and they made jeroboam the son of nebat king and jeroboam drave israel from following the lord and made them sin a great sin
2ki1722 for the children of israel walked in all the sins of jeroboam which he did they departed not from them
2ki1723 until the lord removed israel out of his sight as he had said by all his servants the prophets so was israel carried away out of their own land to assyria unto this day
2ki1724 and the king of assyria brought men from babylon and from cuthah and from ava and from hamath and from sepharvaim and placed them in the cities of samaria instead of the children of israel and they possessed samaria and dwelt in the cities thereof
2ki1725 and so it was at the beginning of their dwelling there that they feared not the lord therefore the lord sent lions among them which slew some of them
2ki1726 wherefore they spake to the king of assyria saying the nations which thou hast removed and placed in the cities of samaria know not the manner of the god of the land therefore he hath sent lions among them and behold they slay them because they know not the manner of the god of the land
2ki1727 then the king of assyria commanded saying carry thither one of the priests whom ye brought from thence and let them go and dwell there and let him teach them the manner of the god of the land
2ki1728 then one of the priests whom they had carried away from samaria came and dwelt in bethel and taught them how they should fear the lord
2ki1729 howbeit every nation made gods of their own and put them in the houses of the high places which the samaritans had made every nation in their cities wherein they dwelt
2ki1730 and the men of babylon made succothbenoth and the men of cuth made nergal and the men of hamath made ashima
2ki1731 and the avites made nibhaz and tartak and the sepharvites burnt their children in fire to adrammelech and anammelech the gods of sepharvaim
2ki1732 so they feared the lord and made unto themselves of the lowest of them priests of the high places which sacrificed for them in the houses of the high places
2ki1733 they feared the lord and served their own gods after the manner of the nations whom they carried away from thence
2ki1734 unto this day they do after the former manners they fear not the lord neither do they after their statutes or after their ordinances or after the law and commandment which the lord commanded the children of jacob whom he named israel
2ki1735 with whom the lord had made a covenant and charged them saying ye shall not fear other gods nor bow yourselves to them nor serve them nor sacrifice to them
2ki1736 but the lord who brought you up out of the land of egypt with great power and a stretched out arm him shall ye fear and him shall ye worship and to him shall ye do sacrifice
2ki1737 and the statutes and the ordinances and the law and the commandment which he wrote for you ye shall observe to do for evermore and ye shall not fear other gods
2ki1738 and the covenant that i have made with you ye shall not forget neither shall ye fear other gods
2ki1739 but the lord your god ye shall fear and he shall deliver you out of the hand of all your enemies
2ki1740 howbeit they did not hearken but they did after their former manner
2ki1741 so these nations feared the lord and served their graven images both their children and their children's children as did their fathers so do they unto this day
2ki181 now it came to pass in the third year of hoshea son of elah king of israel that hezekiah the son of ahaz king of judah began to reign
2ki182 twenty and five years old was he when he began to reign and he reigned twenty and nine years in jerusalem his mother's name also was abi the daughter of zachariah
2ki183 and he did that which was right in the sight of the lord according to all that david his father did
2ki184 he removed the high places and brake the images and cut down the groves and brake in pieces the brasen serpent that moses had made for unto those days the children of israel did burn incense to it and he called it nehushtan
2ki185 he trusted in the lord god of israel so that after him was none like him among all the kings of judah nor any that were before him
2ki186 for he clave to the lord and departed not from following him but kept his commandments which the lord commanded moses
2ki187 and the lord was with him and he prospered whithersoever he went forth and he rebelled against the king of assyria and served him not
2ki188 he smote the philistines even unto gaza and the borders thereof from the tower of the watchmen to the fenced city
2ki189 and it came to pass in the fourth year of king hezekiah which was the seventh year of hoshea son of elah king of israel that shalmaneser king of assyria came up against samaria and besieged it
2ki1810 and at the end of three years they took it even in the sixth year of hezekiah that is the ninth year of hoshea king of israel samaria was taken
2ki1811 and the king of assyria did carry away israel unto assyria and put them in halah and in habor by the river of gozan and in the cities of the medes
2ki1812 because they obeyed not the voice of the lord their god but transgressed his covenant and all that moses the servant of the lord commanded and would not hear them nor do them
2ki1813 now in the fourteenth year of king hezekiah did sennacherib king of assyria come up against all the fenced cities of judah and took them
2ki1814 and hezekiah king of judah sent to the king of assyria to lachish saying i have offended return from me that which thou puttest on me will i bear and the king of assyria appointed unto hezekiah king of judah three hundred talents of silver and thirty talents of gold
2ki1815 and hezekiah gave him all the silver that was found in the house of the lord and in the treasures of the king's house
2ki1816 at that time did hezekiah cut off the gold from the doors of the temple of the lord and from the pillars which hezekiah king of judah had overlaid and gave it to the king of assyria
2ki1817 and the king of assyria sent tartan and rabsaris and rabshakeh from lachish to king hezekiah with a great host against jerusalem and they went up and came to jerusalem and when they were come up they came and stood by the conduit of the upper pool which is in the highway of the fuller's field
2ki1818 and when they had called to the king there came out to them eliakim the son of hilkiah which was over the household and shebna the scribe and joah the son of asaph the recorder
2ki1819 and rabshakeh said unto them speak ye now to hezekiah thus saith the great king the king of assyria what confidence is this wherein thou trustest
2ki1820 thou sayest but they are but vain words i have counsel and strength for the war now on whom dost thou trust that thou rebellest against me
2ki1821 now behold thou trustest upon the staff of this bruised reed even upon egypt on which if a man lean it will go into his hand and pierce it so is pharaoh king of egypt unto all that trust on him
2ki1822 but if ye say unto me we trust in the lord our god is not that he whose high places and whose altars hezekiah hath taken away and hath said to judah and jerusalem ye shall worship before this altar in jerusalem
2ki1823 now therefore i pray thee give pledges to my lord the king of assyria and i will deliver thee two thousand horses if thou be able on thy part to set riders upon them
2ki1824 how then wilt thou turn away the face of one captain of the least of my master's servants and put thy trust on egypt for chariots and for horsemen
2ki1825 am i now come up without the lord against this place to destroy it the lord said to me go up against this land and destroy it
2ki1826 then said eliakim the son of hilkiah and shebna and joah unto rabshakeh speak i pray thee to thy servants in the syrian language for we understand it and talk not with us in the jews language in the ears of the people that are on the wall
2ki1827 but rabshakeh said unto them hath my master sent me to thy master and to thee to speak these words hath he not sent me to the men which sit on the wall that they may eat their own dung and drink their own piss with you
2ki1828 then rabshakeh stood and cried with a loud voice in the jews language and spake saying hear the word of the great king the king of assyria
2ki1829 thus saith the king let not hezekiah deceive you for he shall not be able to deliver you out of his hand
2ki1830 neither let hezekiah make you trust in the lord saying the lord will surely deliver us and this city shall not be delivered into the hand of the king of assyria
2ki1831 hearken not to hezekiah for thus saith the king of assyria make an agreement with me by a present and come out to me and then eat ye every man of his own vine and every one of his fig tree and drink ye every one the waters of his cistern
2ki1832 until i come and take you away to a land like your own land a land of corn and wine a land of bread and vineyards a land of oil olive and of honey that ye may live and not die and hearken not unto hezekiah when he persuadeth you saying the lord will deliver us
2ki1833 hath any of the gods of the nations delivered at all his land out of the hand of the king of assyria
2ki1834 where are the gods of hamath and of arpad where are the gods of sepharvaim hena and ivah have they delivered samaria out of mine hand
2ki1835 who are they among all the gods of the countries that have delivered their country out of mine hand that the lord should deliver jerusalem out of mine hand
2ki1836 but the people held their peace and answered him not a word for the king's commandment was saying answer him not
2ki1837 then came eliakim the son of hilkiah which was over the household and shebna the scribe and joah the son of asaph the recorder to hezekiah with their clothes rent and told him the words of rabshakeh
2ki191 and it came to pass when king hezekiah heard it that he rent his clothes and covered himself with sackcloth and went into the house of the lord
2ki192 and he sent eliakim which was over the household and shebna the scribe and the elders of the priests covered with sackcloth to isaiah the prophet the son of amoz
2ki193 and they said unto him thus saith hezekiah this day is a day of trouble and of rebuke and blasphemy for the children are come to the birth and there is not strength to bring forth
2ki194 it may be the lord thy god will hear all the words of rabshakeh whom the king of assyria his master hath sent to reproach the living god and will reprove the words which the lord thy god hath heard wherefore lift up thy prayer for the remnant that are left
2ki195 so the servants of king hezekiah came to isaiah
2ki196 and isaiah said unto them thus shall ye say to your master thus saith the lord be not afraid of the words which thou hast heard with which the servants of the king of assyria have blasphemed me
2ki197 behold i will send a blast upon him and he shall hear a rumour and shall return to his own land and i will cause him to fall by the sword in his own land
2ki198 so rabshakeh returned and found the king of assyria warring against libnah for he had heard that he was departed from lachish
2ki199 and when he heard say of tirhakah king of ethiopia behold he is come out to fight against thee he sent messengers again unto hezekiah saying
2ki1910 thus shall ye speak to hezekiah king of judah saying let not thy god in whom thou trustest deceive thee saying jerusalem shall not be delivered into the hand of the king of assyria
2ki1911 behold thou hast heard what the kings of assyria have done to all lands by destroying them utterly and shalt thou be delivered
2ki1912 have the gods of the nations delivered them which my fathers have destroyed as gozan and haran and rezeph and the children of eden which were in thelasar
2ki1913 where is the king of hamath and the king of arpad and the king of the city of sepharvaim of hena and ivah
2ki1914 and hezekiah received the letter of the hand of the messengers and read it and hezekiah went up into the house of the lord and spread it before the lord
2ki1915 and hezekiah prayed before the lord and said o lord god of israel which dwellest between the cherubims thou art the god even thou alone of all the kingdoms of the earth thou hast made heaven and earth
2ki1916 lord bow down thine ear and hear open lord thine eyes and see and hear the words of sennacherib which hath sent him to reproach the living god
2ki1917 of a truth lord the kings of assyria have destroyed the nations and their lands
2ki1918 and have cast their gods into the fire for they were no gods but the work of men's hands wood and stone therefore they have destroyed them
2ki1919 now therefore o lord our god i beseech thee save thou us out of his hand that all the kingdoms of the earth may know that thou art the lord god even thou only
2ki1920 then isaiah the son of amoz sent to hezekiah saying thus saith the lord god of israel that which thou hast prayed to me against sennacherib king of assyria i have heard
2ki1921 this is the word that the lord hath spoken concerning him the virgin the daughter of zion hath despised thee and laughed thee to scorn the daughter of jerusalem hath shaken her head at thee
2ki1922 whom hast thou reproached and blasphemed and against whom hast thou exalted thy voice and lifted up thine eyes on high even against the holy one of israel
2ki1923 by thy messengers thou hast reproached the lord and hast said with the multitude of my chariots i am come up to the height of the mountains to the sides of lebanon and will cut down the tall cedar trees thereof and the choice fir trees thereof and i will enter into the lodgings of his borders and into the forest of his carmel
2ki1924 i have digged and drunk strange waters and with the sole of my feet have i dried up all the rivers of besieged places
2ki1925 hast thou not heard long ago how i have done it and of ancient times that i have formed it now have i brought it to pass that thou shouldest be to lay waste fenced cities into ruinous heaps
2ki1926 therefore their inhabitants were of small power they were dismayed and confounded they were as the grass of the field and as the green herb as the grass on the house tops and as corn blasted before it be grown up
2ki1927 but i know thy abode and thy going out and thy coming in and thy rage against me
2ki1928 because thy rage against me and thy tumult is come up into mine ears therefore i will put my hook in thy nose and my bridle in thy lips and i will turn thee back by the way by which thou camest
2ki1929 and this shall be a sign unto thee ye shall eat this year such things as grow of themselves and in the second year that which springeth of the same and in the third year sow ye and reap and plant vineyards and eat the fruits thereof
2ki1930 and the remnant that is escaped of the house of judah shall yet again take root downward and bear fruit upward
2ki1931 for out of jerusalem shall go forth a remnant and they that escape out of mount zion the zeal of the lord of hosts shall do this
2ki1932 therefore thus saith the lord concerning the king of assyria he shall not come into this city nor shoot an arrow there nor come before it with shield nor cast a bank against it
2ki1933 by the way that he came by the same shall he return and shall not come into this city saith the lord
2ki1934 for i will defend this city to save it for mine own sake and for my servant david's sake
2ki1935 and it came to pass that night that the angel of the lord went out and smote in the camp of the assyrians an hundred fourscore and five thousand and when they arose early in the morning behold they were all dead corpses
2ki1936 so sennacherib king of assyria departed and went and returned and dwelt at nineveh
2ki1937 and it came to pass as he was worshipping in the house of nisroch his god that adrammelech and sharezer his sons smote him with the sword and they escaped into the land of armenia and esarhaddon his son reigned in his stead
2ki201 in those days was hezekiah sick unto death and the prophet isaiah the son of amoz came to him and said unto him thus saith the lord set thine house in order for thou shalt die and not live
2ki202 then he turned his face to the wall and prayed unto the lord saying
2ki203 i beseech thee o lord remember now how i have walked before thee in truth and with a perfect heart and have done that which is good in thy sight and hezekiah wept sore
2ki204 and it came to pass afore isaiah was gone out into the middle court that the word of the lord came to him saying
2ki205 turn again and tell hezekiah the captain of my people thus saith the lord the god of david thy father i have heard thy prayer i have seen thy tears behold i will heal thee on the third day thou shalt go up unto the house of the lord
2ki206 and i will add unto thy days fifteen years and i will deliver thee and this city out of the hand of the king of assyria and i will defend this city for mine own sake and for my servant david's sake
2ki207 and isaiah said take a lump of figs and they took and laid it on the boil and he recovered
2ki208 and hezekiah said unto isaiah what shall be the sign that the lord will heal me and that i shall go up into the house of the lord the third day
2ki209 and isaiah said this sign shalt thou have of the lord that the lord will do the thing that he hath spoken shall the shadow go forward ten degrees or go back ten degrees
2ki2010 and hezekiah answered it is a light thing for the shadow to go down ten degrees nay but let the shadow return backward ten degrees
2ki2011 and isaiah the prophet cried unto the lord and he brought the shadow ten degrees backward by which it had gone down in the dial of ahaz
2ki2012 at that time berodachbaladan the son of baladan king of babylon sent letters and a present unto hezekiah for he had heard that hezekiah had been sick
2ki2013 and hezekiah hearkened unto them and shewed them all the house of his precious things the silver and the gold and the spices and the precious ointment and all the house of his armour and all that was found in his treasures there was nothing in his house nor in all his dominion that hezekiah shewed them not
2ki2014 then came isaiah the prophet unto king hezekiah and said unto him what said these men and from whence came they unto thee and hezekiah said they are come from a far country even from babylon
2ki2015 and he said what have they seen in thine house and hezekiah answered all the things that are in mine house have they seen there is nothing among my treasures that i have not shewed them
2ki2016 and isaiah said unto hezekiah hear the word of the lord
2ki2017 behold the days come that all that is in thine house and that which thy fathers have laid up in store unto this day shall be carried into babylon nothing shall be left saith the lord
2ki2018 and of thy sons that shall issue from thee which thou shalt beget shall they take away and they shall be eunuchs in the palace of the king of babylon
2ki2019 then said hezekiah unto isaiah good is the word of the lord which thou hast spoken and he said is it not good if peace and truth be in my days
2ki2020 and the rest of the acts of hezekiah and all his might and how he made a pool and a conduit and brought water into the city are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of judah
2ki2021 and hezekiah slept with his fathers and manasseh his son reigned in his stead
2ki211 manasseh was twelve years old when he began to reign and reigned fifty and five years in jerusalem and his mother's name was hephzibah
2ki212 and he did that which was evil in the sight of the lord after the abominations of the heathen whom the lord cast out before the children of israel
2ki213 for he built up again the high places which hezekiah his father had destroyed and he reared up altars for baal and made a grove as did ahab king of israel and worshipped all the host of heaven and served them
2ki214 and he built altars in the house of the lord of which the lord said in jerusalem will i put my name
2ki215 and he built altars for all the host of heaven in the two courts of the house of the lord
2ki216 and he made his son pass through the fire and observed times and used enchantments and dealt with familiar spirits and wizards he wrought much wickedness in the sight of the lord to provoke him to anger
2ki217 and he set a graven image of the grove that he had made in the house of which the lord said to david and to solomon his son in this house and in jerusalem which i have chosen out of all tribes of israel will i put my name for ever
2ki218 neither will i make the feet of israel move any more out of the land which i gave their fathers only if they will observe to do according to all that i have commanded them and according to all the law that my servant moses commanded them
2ki219 but they hearkened not and manasseh seduced them to do more evil than did the nations whom the lord destroyed before the children of israel
2ki2110 and the lord spake by his servants the prophets saying
2ki2111 because manasseh king of judah hath done these abominations and hath done wickedly above all that the amorites did which were before him and hath made judah also to sin with his idols
2ki2112 therefore thus saith the lord god of israel behold i am bringing such evil upon jerusalem and judah that whosoever heareth of it both his ears shall tingle
2ki2113 and i will stretch over jerusalem the line of samaria and the plummet of the house of ahab and i will wipe jerusalem as a man wipeth a dish wiping it and turning it upside down
2ki2114 and i will forsake the remnant of mine inheritance and deliver them into the hand of their enemies and they shall become a prey and a spoil to all their enemies
2ki2115 because they have done that which was evil in my sight and have provoked me to anger since the day their fathers came forth out of egypt even unto this day
2ki2116 moreover manasseh shed innocent blood very much till he had filled jerusalem from one end to another beside his sin wherewith he made judah to sin in doing that which was evil in the sight of the lord
2ki2117 now the rest of the acts of manasseh and all that he did and his sin that he sinned are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of judah
2ki2118 and manasseh slept with his fathers and was buried in the garden of his own house in the garden of uzza and amon his son reigned in his stead
2ki2119 amon was twenty and two years old when he began to reign and he reigned two years in jerusalem and his mother's name was meshullemeth the daughter of haruz of jotbah
2ki2120 and he did that which was evil in the sight of the lord as his father manasseh did
2ki2121 and he walked in all the way that his father walked in and served the idols that his father served and worshipped them
2ki2122 and he forsook the lord god of his fathers and walked not in the way of the lord
2ki2123 and the servants of amon conspired against him and slew the king in his own house
2ki2124 and the people of the land slew all them that had conspired against king amon and the people of the land made josiah his son king in his stead
2ki2125 now the rest of the acts of amon which he did are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of judah
2ki2126 and he was buried in his sepulchre in the garden of uzza and josiah his son reigned in his stead
2ki221 josiah was eight years old when he began to reign and he reigned thirty and one years in jerusalem and his mother's name was jedidah the daughter of adaiah of boscath
2ki222 and he did that which was right in the sight of the lord and walked in all the way of david his father and turned not aside to the right hand or to the left
2ki223 and it came to pass in the eighteenth year of king josiah that the king sent shaphan the son of azaliah the son of meshullam the scribe to the house of the lord saying
2ki224 go up to hilkiah the high priest that he may sum the silver which is brought into the house of the lord which the keepers of the door have gathered of the people
2ki225 and let them deliver it into the hand of the doers of the work that have the oversight of the house of the lord and let them give it to the doers of the work which is in the house of the lord to repair the breaches of the house
2ki226 unto carpenters and builders and masons and to buy timber and hewn stone to repair the house
2ki227 howbeit there was no reckoning made with them of the money that was delivered into their hand because they dealt faithfully
2ki228 and hilkiah the high priest said unto shaphan the scribe i have found the book of the law in the house of the lord and hilkiah gave the book to shaphan and he read it
2ki229 and shaphan the scribe came to the king and brought the king word again and said thy servants have gathered the money that was found in the house and have delivered it into the hand of them that do the work that have the oversight of the house of the lord
2ki2210 and shaphan the scribe shewed the king saying hilkiah the priest hath delivered me a book and shaphan read it before the king
2ki2211 and it came to pass when the king had heard the words of the book of the law that he rent his clothes
2ki2212 and the king commanded hilkiah the priest and ahikam the son of shaphan and achbor the son of michaiah and shaphan the scribe and asahiah a servant of the king's saying
2ki2213 go ye enquire of the lord for me and for the people and for all judah concerning the words of this book that is found for great is the wrath of the lord that is kindled against us because our fathers have not hearkened unto the words of this book to do according unto all that which is written concerning us
2ki2214 so hilkiah the priest and ahikam and achbor and shaphan and asahiah went unto huldah the prophetess the wife of shallum the son of tikvah the son of harhas keeper of the wardrobe now she dwelt in jerusalem in the college and they communed with her
2ki2215 and she said unto them thus saith the lord god of israel tell the man that sent you to me
2ki2216 thus saith the lord behold i will bring evil upon this place and upon the inhabitants thereof even all the words of the book which the king of judah hath read
2ki2217 because they have forsaken me and have burned incense unto other gods that they might provoke me to anger with all the works of their hands therefore my wrath shall be kindled against this place and shall not be quenched
2ki2218 but to the king of judah which sent you to enquire of the lord thus shall ye say to him thus saith the lord god of israel as touching the words which thou hast heard
2ki2219 because thine heart was tender and thou hast humbled thyself before the lord when thou heardest what i spake against this place and against the inhabitants thereof that they should become a desolation and a curse and hast rent thy clothes and wept before me i also have heard thee saith the lord
2ki2220 behold therefore i will gather thee unto thy fathers and thou shalt be gathered into thy grave in peace and thine eyes shall not see all the evil which i will bring upon this place and they brought the king word again
2ki231 and the king sent and they gathered unto him all the elders of judah and of jerusalem
2ki232 and the king went up into the house of the lord and all the men of judah and all the inhabitants of jerusalem with him and the priests and the prophets and all the people both small and great and he read in their ears all the words of the book of the covenant which was found in the house of the lord
2ki233 and the king stood by a pillar and made a covenant before the lord to walk after the lord and to keep his commandments and his testimonies and his statutes with all their heart and all their soul to perform the words of this covenant that were written in this book and all the people stood to the covenant
2ki234 and the king commanded hilkiah the high priest and the priests of the second order and the keepers of the door to bring forth out of the temple of the lord all the vessels that were made for baal and for the grove and for all the host of heaven and he burned them without jerusalem in the fields of kidron and carried the ashes of them unto bethel
2ki235 and he put down the idolatrous priests whom the kings of judah had ordained to burn incense in the high places in the cities of judah and in the places round about jerusalem them also that burned incense unto baal to the sun and to the moon and to the planets and to all the host of heaven
2ki236 and he brought out the grove from the house of the lord without jerusalem unto the brook kidron and burned it at the brook kidron and stamped it small to powder and cast the powder thereof upon the graves of the children of the people
2ki237 and he brake down the houses of the sodomites that were by the house of the lord where the women wove hangings for the grove
2ki238 and he brought all the priests out of the cities of judah and defiled the high places where the priests had burned incense from geba to beersheba and brake down the high places of the gates that were in the entering in of the gate of joshua the governor of the city which were on a man's left hand at the gate of the city
2ki239 nevertheless the priests of the high places came not up to the altar of the lord in jerusalem but they did eat of the unleavened bread among their brethren
2ki2310 and he defiled topheth which is in the valley of the children of hinnom that no man might make his son or his daughter to pass through the fire to molech
2ki2311 and he took away the horses that the kings of judah had given to the sun at the entering in of the house of the lord by the chamber of nathanmelech the chamberlain which was in the suburbs and burned the chariots of the sun with fire
2ki2312 and the altars that were on the top of the upper chamber of ahaz which the kings of judah had made and the altars which manasseh had made in the two courts of the house of the lord did the king beat down and brake them down from thence and cast the dust of them into the brook kidron
2ki2313 and the high places that were before jerusalem which were on the right hand of the mount of corruption which solomon the king of israel had builded for ashtoreth the abomination of the zidonians and for chemosh the abomination of the moabites and for milcom the abomination of the children of ammon did the king defile
2ki2314 and he brake in pieces the images and cut down the groves and filled their places with the bones of men
2ki2315 moreover the altar that was at bethel and the high place which jeroboam the son of nebat who made israel to sin had made both that altar and the high place he brake down and burned the high place and stamped it small to powder and burned the grove
2ki2316 and as josiah turned himself he spied the sepulchres that were there in the mount and sent and took the bones out of the sepulchres and burned them upon the altar and polluted it according to the word of the lord which the man of god proclaimed who proclaimed these words
2ki2317 then he said what title is that that i see and the men of the city told him it is the sepulchre of the man of god which came from judah and proclaimed these things that thou hast done against the altar of bethel
2ki2318 and he said let him alone let no man move his bones so they let his bones alone with the bones of the prophet that came out of samaria
2ki2319 and all the houses also of the high places that were in the cities of samaria which the kings of israel had made to provoke the lord to anger josiah took away and did to them according to all the acts that he had done in bethel
2ki2320 and he slew all the priests of the high places that were there upon the altars and burned men's bones upon them and returned to jerusalem
2ki2321 and the king commanded all the people saying keep the passover unto the lord your god as it is written in the book of this covenant
2ki2322 surely there was not holden such a passover from the days of the judges that judged israel nor in all the days of the kings of israel nor of the kings of judah
2ki2323 but in the eighteenth year of king josiah wherein this passover was holden to the lord in jerusalem
2ki2324 moreover the workers with familiar spirits and the wizards and the images and the idols and all the abominations that were spied in the land of judah and in jerusalem did josiah put away that he might perform the words of the law which were written in the book that hilkiah the priest found in the house of the lord
2ki2325 and like unto him was there no king before him that turned to the lord with all his heart and with all his soul and with all his might according to all the law of moses neither after him arose there any like him
2ki2326 notwithstanding the lord turned not from the fierceness of his great wrath wherewith his anger was kindled against judah because of all the provocations that manasseh had provoked him withal
2ki2327 and the lord said i will remove judah also out of my sight as i have removed israel and will cast off this city jerusalem which i have chosen and the house of which i said my name shall be there
2ki2328 now the rest of the acts of josiah and all that he did are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of judah
2ki2329 in his days pharaohnechoh king of egypt went up against the king of assyria to the river euphrates and king josiah went against him and he slew him at megiddo when he had seen him
2ki2330 and his servants carried him in a chariot dead from megiddo and brought him to jerusalem and buried him in his own sepulchre and the people of the land took jehoahaz the son of josiah and anointed him and made him king in his father's stead
2ki2331 jehoahaz was twenty and three years old when he began to reign and he reigned three months in jerusalem and his mother's name was hamutal the daughter of jeremiah of libnah
2ki2332 and he did that which was evil in the sight of the lord according to all that his fathers had done
2ki2333 and pharaohnechoh put him in bands at riblah in the land of hamath that he might not reign in jerusalem and put the land to a tribute of an hundred talents of silver and a talent of gold
2ki2334 and pharaohnechoh made eliakim the son of josiah king in the room of josiah his father and turned his name to jehoiakim and took jehoahaz away and he came to egypt and died there
2ki2335 and jehoiakim gave the silver and the gold to pharaoh but he taxed the land to give the money according to the commandment of pharaoh he exacted the silver and the gold of the people of the land of every one according to his taxation to give it unto pharaohnechoh
2ki2336 jehoiakim was twenty and five years old when he began to reign and he reigned eleven years in jerusalem and his mother's name was zebudah the daughter of pedaiah of rumah
2ki2337 and he did that which was evil in the sight of the lord according to all that his fathers had done
2ki241 in his days nebuchadnezzar king of babylon came up and jehoiakim became his servant three years then he turned and rebelled against him
2ki242 and the lord sent against him bands of the chaldees and bands of the syrians and bands of the moabites and bands of the children of ammon and sent them against judah to destroy it according to the word of the lord which he spake by his servants the prophets
2ki243 surely at the commandment of the lord came this upon judah to remove them out of his sight for the sins of manasseh according to all that he did
2ki244 and also for the innocent blood that he shed for he filled jerusalem with innocent blood which the lord would not pardon
2ki245 now the rest of the acts of jehoiakim and all that he did are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of judah
2ki246 so jehoiakim slept with his fathers and jehoiachin his son reigned in his stead
2ki247 and the king of egypt came not again any more out of his land for the king of babylon had taken from the river of egypt unto the river euphrates all that pertained to the king of egypt
2ki248 jehoiachin was eighteen years old when he began to reign and he reigned in jerusalem three months and his mother's name was nehushta the daughter of elnathan of jerusalem
2ki249 and he did that which was evil in the sight of the lord according to all that his father had done
2ki2410 at that time the servants of nebuchadnezzar king of babylon came up against jerusalem and the city was besieged
2ki2411 and nebuchadnezzar king of babylon came against the city and his servants did besiege it
2ki2412 and jehoiachin the king of judah went out to the king of babylon he and his mother and his servants and his princes and his officers and the king of babylon took him in the eighth year of his reign
2ki2413 and he carried out thence all the treasures of the house of the lord and the treasures of the king's house and cut in pieces all the vessels of gold which solomon king of israel had made in the temple of the lord as the lord had said
2ki2414 and he carried away all jerusalem and all the princes and all the mighty men of valour even ten thousand captives and all the craftsmen and smiths none remained save the poorest sort of the people of the land
2ki2415 and he carried away jehoiachin to babylon and the king's mother and the king's wives and his officers and the mighty of the land those carried he into captivity from jerusalem to babylon
2ki2416 and all the men of might even seven thousand and craftsmen and smiths a thousand all that were strong and apt for war even them the king of babylon brought captive to babylon
2ki2417 and the king of babylon made mattaniah his father's brother king in his stead and changed his name to zedekiah
2ki2418 zedekiah was twenty and one years old when he began to reign and he reigned eleven years in jerusalem and his mother's name was hamutal the daughter of jeremiah of libnah
2ki2419 and he did that which was evil in the sight of the lord according to all that jehoiakim had done
2ki2420 for through the anger of the lord it came to pass in jerusalem and judah until he had cast them out from his presence that zedekiah rebelled against the king of babylon
2ki251 and it came to pass in the ninth year of his reign in the tenth month in the tenth day of the month that nebuchadnezzar king of babylon came he and all his host against jerusalem and pitched against it and they built forts against it round about
2ki252 and the city was besieged unto the eleventh year of king zedekiah
2ki253 and on the ninth day of the fourth month the famine prevailed in the city and there was no bread for the people of the land
2ki254 and the city was broken up and all the men of war fled by night by the way of the gate between two walls which is by the king's garden now the chaldees were against the city round about and the king went the way toward the plain
2ki255 and the army of the chaldees pursued after the king and overtook him in the plains of jericho and all his army were scattered from him
2ki256 so they took the king and brought him up to the king of babylon to riblah and they gave judgment upon him
2ki257 and they slew the sons of zedekiah before his eyes and put out the eyes of zedekiah and bound him with fetters of brass and carried him to babylon
2ki258 and in the fifth month on the seventh day of the month which is the nineteenth year of king nebuchadnezzar king of babylon came nebuzaradan captain of the guard a servant of the king of babylon unto jerusalem
2ki259 and he burnt the house of the lord and the king's house and all the houses of jerusalem and every great man's house burnt he with fire
2ki2510 and all the army of the chaldees that were with the captain of the guard brake down the walls of jerusalem round about
2ki2511 now the rest of the people that were left in the city and the fugitives that fell away to the king of babylon with the remnant of the multitude did nebuzaradan the captain of the guard carry away
2ki2512 but the captain of the guard left of the poor of the land to be vinedressers and husbandmen
2ki2513 and the pillars of brass that were in the house of the lord and the bases and the brasen sea that was in the house of the lord did the chaldees break in pieces and carried the brass of them to babylon
2ki2514 and the pots and the shovels and the snuffers and the spoons and all the vessels of brass wherewith they ministered took they away
2ki2515 and the firepans and the bowls and such things as were of gold in gold and of silver in silver the captain of the guard took away
2ki2516 the two pillars one sea and the bases which solomon had made for the house of the lord the brass of all these vessels was without weight
2ki2517 the height of the one pillar was eighteen cubits and the chapiter upon it was brass and the height of the chapiter three cubits and the wreathen work and pomegranates upon the chapiter round about all of brass and like unto these had the second pillar with wreathen work
2ki2518 and the captain of the guard took seraiah the chief priest and zephaniah the second priest and the three keepers of the door
2ki2519 and out of the city he took an officer that was set over the men of war and five men of them that were in the king's presence which were found in the city and the principal scribe of the host which mustered the people of the land and threescore men of the people of the land that were found in the city
2ki2520 and nebuzaradan captain of the guard took these and brought them to the king of babylon to riblah
2ki2521 and the king of babylon smote them and slew them at riblah in the land of hamath so judah was carried away out of their land
2ki2522 and as for the people that remained in the land of judah whom nebuchadnezzar king of babylon had left even over them he made gedaliah the son of ahikam the son of shaphan ruler
2ki2523 and when all the captains of the armies they and their men heard that the king of babylon had made gedaliah governor there came to gedaliah to mizpah even ishmael the son of nethaniah and johanan the son of careah and seraiah the son of tanhumeth the netophathite and jaazaniah the son of a maachathite they and their men
2ki2524 and gedaliah sware to them and to their men and said unto them fear not to be the servants of the chaldees dwell in the land and serve the king of babylon and it shall be well with you
2ki2525 but it came to pass in the seventh month that ishmael the son of nethaniah the son of elishama of the seed royal came and ten men with him and smote gedaliah that he died and the jews and the chaldees that were with him at mizpah
2ki2526 and all the people both small and great and the captains of the armies arose and came to egypt for they were afraid of the chaldees
2ki2527 and it came to pass in the seven and thirtieth year of the captivity of jehoiachin king of judah in the twelfth month on the seven and twentieth day of the month that evilmerodach king of babylon in the year that he began to reign did lift up the head of jehoiachin king of judah out of prison
2ki2528 and he spake kindly to him and set his throne above the throne of the kings that were with him in babylon
2ki2529 and changed his prison garments and he did eat bread continually before him all the days of his life
2ki2530 and his allowance was a continual allowance given him of the king a daily rate for every day all the days of his life
1chr11 adam sheth enosh
1chr12 kenan mahalaleel jered
1chr13 henoch methuselah lamech
1chr14 noah shem ham and japheth
1chr15 the sons of japheth gomer and magog and madai and javan and tubal and meshech and tiras
1chr16 and the sons of gomer ashchenaz and riphath and togarmah
1chr17 and the sons of javan elishah and tarshish kittim and dodanim
1chr18 the sons of ham cush and mizraim put and canaan
1chr19 and the sons of cush seba and havilah and sabta and raamah and sabtecha and the sons of raamah sheba and dedan
1chr110 and cush begat nimrod he began to be mighty upon the earth
1chr111 and mizraim begat ludim and anamim and lehabim and naphtuhim
1chr112 and pathrusim and casluhim of whom came the philistines and caphthorim
1chr113 and canaan begat zidon his firstborn and heth
1chr114 the jebusite also and the amorite and the girgashite
1chr115 and the hivite and the arkite and the sinite
1chr116 and the arvadite and the zemarite and the hamathite
1chr117 the sons of shem elam and asshur and arphaxad and lud and aram and uz and hul and gether and meshech
1chr118 and arphaxad begat shelah and shelah begat eber
1chr119 and unto eber were born two sons the name of the one was peleg because in his days the earth was divided and his brother's name was joktan
1chr120 and joktan begat almodad and sheleph and hazarmaveth and jerah
1chr121 hadoram also and uzal and diklah
1chr122 and ebal and abimael and sheba
1chr123 and ophir and havilah and jobab all these were the sons of joktan
1chr124 shem arphaxad shelah
1chr125 eber peleg reu
1chr126 serug nahor terah
1chr127 abram the same is abraham
1chr128 the sons of abraham isaac and ishmael
1chr129 these are their generations the firstborn of ishmael nebaioth then kedar and adbeel and mibsam
1chr130 mishma and dumah massa hadad and tema
1chr131 jetur naphish and kedemah these are the sons of ishmael
1chr132 now the sons of keturah abraham's concubine she bare zimran and jokshan and medan and midian and ishbak and shuah and the sons of jokshan sheba and dedan
1chr133 and the sons of midian ephah and epher and henoch and abida and eldaah all these are the sons of keturah
1chr134 and abraham begat isaac the sons of isaac esau and israel
1chr135 the sons of esau eliphaz reuel and jeush and jaalam and korah
1chr136 the sons of eliphaz teman and omar zephi and gatam kenaz and timna and amalek
1chr137 the sons of reuel nahath zerah shammah and mizzah
1chr138 and the sons of seir lotan and shobal and zibeon and anah and dishon and ezar and dishan
1chr139 and the sons of lotan hori and homam and timna was lotan's sister
1chr140 the sons of shobal alian and manahath and ebal shephi and onam and the sons of zibeon aiah and anah
1chr141 the sons of anah dishon and the sons of dishon amram and eshban and ithran and cheran
1chr142 the sons of ezer bilhan and zavan and jakan the sons of dishan uz and aran
1chr143 now these are the kings that reigned in the land of edom before any king reigned over the children of israel bela the son of beor and the name of his city was dinhabah
1chr144 and when bela was dead jobab the son of zerah of bozrah reigned in his stead
1chr145 and when jobab was dead husham of the land of the temanites reigned in his stead
1chr146 and when husham was dead hadad the son of bedad which smote midian in the field of moab reigned in his stead and the name of his city was avith
1chr147 and when hadad was dead samlah of masrekah reigned in his stead
1chr148 and when samlah was dead shaul of rehoboth by the river reigned in his stead
1chr149 and when shaul was dead baalhanan the son of achbor reigned in his stead
1chr150 and when baalhanan was dead hadad reigned in his stead and the name of his city was pai and his wife's name was mehetabel the daughter of matred the daughter of mezahab
1chr151 hadad died also and the dukes of edom were duke timnah duke aliah duke jetheth
1chr152 duke aholibamah duke elah duke pinon
1chr153 duke kenaz duke teman duke mibzar
1chr154 duke magdiel duke iram these are the dukes of edom
1chr21 these are the sons of israel reuben simeon levi and judah issachar and zebulun
1chr22 dan joseph and benjamin naphtali gad and asher
1chr23 the sons of judah er and onan and shelah which three were born unto him of the daughter of shua the canaanitess and er the firstborn of judah was evil in the sight of the lord and he slew him
1chr24 and tamar his daughter in law bore him pharez and zerah all the sons of judah were five
1chr25 the sons of pharez hezron and hamul
1chr26 and the sons of zerah zimri and ethan and heman and calcol and dara five of them in all
1chr27 and the sons of carmi achar the troubler of israel who transgressed in the thing accursed
1chr28 and the sons of ethan azariah
1chr29 the sons also of hezron that were born unto him jerahmeel and ram and chelubai
1chr210 and ram begat amminadab and amminadab begat nahshon prince of the children of judah
1chr211 and nahshon begat salma and salma begat boaz
1chr212 and boaz begat obed and obed begat jesse
1chr213 and jesse begat his firstborn eliab and abinadab the second and shimma the third
1chr214 nethaneel the fourth raddai the fifth
1chr215 ozem the sixth david the seventh
1chr216 whose sisters were zeruiah and abigail and the sons of zeruiah abishai and joab and asahel three
1chr217 and abigail bare amasa and the father of amasa was jether the ishmeelite
1chr218 and caleb the son of hezron begat children of azubah his wife and of jerioth her sons are these jesher and shobab and ardon
1chr219 and when azubah was dead caleb took unto him ephrath which bare him hur
1chr220 and hur begat uri and uri begat bezaleel
1chr221 and afterward hezron went in to the daughter of machir the father of gilead whom he married when he was threescore years old and she bare him segub
1chr222 and segub begat jair who had three and twenty cities in the land of gilead
1chr223 and he took geshur and aram with the towns of jair from them with kenath and the towns thereof even threescore cities all these belonged to the sons of machir the father of gilead
1chr224 and after that hezron was dead in calebephratah then abiah hezron's wife bare him ashur the father of tekoa
1chr225 and the sons of jerahmeel the firstborn of hezron were ram the firstborn and bunah and oren and ozem and ahijah
1chr226 jerahmeel had also another wife whose name was atarah she was the mother of onam
1chr227 and the sons of ram the firstborn of jerahmeel were maaz and jamin and eker
1chr228 and the sons of onam were shammai and jada and the sons of shammai nadab and abishur
1chr229 and the name of the wife of abishur was abihail and she bare him ahban and molid
1chr230 and the sons of nadab seled and appaim but seled died without children
1chr231 and the sons of appaim ishi and the sons of ishi sheshan and the children of sheshan ahlai
1chr232 and the sons of jada the brother of shammai jether and jonathan and jether died without children
1chr233 and the sons of jonathan peleth and zaza these were the sons of jerahmeel
1chr234 now sheshan had no sons but daughters and sheshan had a servant an egyptian whose name was jarha
1chr235 and sheshan gave his daughter to jarha his servant to wife and she bare him attai
1chr236 and attai begat nathan and nathan begat zabad
1chr237 and zabad begat ephlal and ephlal begat obed
1chr238 and obed begat jehu and jehu begat azariah
1chr239 and azariah begat helez and helez begat eleasah
1chr240 and eleasah begat sisamai and sisamai begat shallum
1chr241 and shallum begat jekamiah and jekamiah begat elishama
1chr242 now the sons of caleb the brother of jerahmeel were mesha his firstborn which was the father of ziph and the sons of mareshah the father of hebron
1chr243 and the sons of hebron korah and tappuah and rekem and shema
1chr244 and shema begat raham the father of jorkoam and rekem begat shammai
1chr245 and the son of shammai was maon and maon was the father of bethzur
1chr246 and ephah caleb's concubine bare haran and moza and gazez and haran begat gazez
1chr247 and the sons of jahdai regem and jotham and gesham and pelet and ephah and shaaph
1chr248 maachah caleb's concubine bare sheber and tirhanah
1chr249 she bare also shaaph the father of madmannah sheva the father of machbenah and the father of gibea and the daughter of caleb was achsa
1chr250 these were the sons of caleb the son of hur the firstborn of ephratah shobal the father of kirjathjearim
1chr251 salma the father of bethlehem hareph the father of bethgader
1chr252 and shobal the father of kirjathjearim had sons haroeh and half of the manahethites
1chr253 and the families of kirjathjearim the ithrites and the puhites and the shumathites and the mishraites of them came the zareathites and the eshtaulites
1chr254 the sons of salma bethlehem and the netophathites ataroth the house of joab and half of the manahethites the zorites
1chr255 and the families of the scribes which dwelt at jabez the tirathites the shimeathites and suchathites these are the kenites that came of hemath the father of the house of rechab
1chr31 now these were the sons of david which were born unto him in hebron the firstborn amnon of ahinoam the jezreelitess the second daniel of abigail the carmelitess
1chr32 the third absalom the son of maachah the daughter of talmai king of geshur the fourth adonijah the son of haggith
1chr33 the fifth shephatiah of abital the sixth ithream by eglah his wife
1chr34 these six were born unto him in hebron and there he reigned seven years and six months and in jerusalem he reigned thirty and three years
1chr35 and these were born unto him in jerusalem shimea and shobab and nathan and solomon four of bathshua the daughter of ammiel
1chr36 ibhar also and elishama and eliphelet
1chr37 and nogah and nepheg and japhia
1chr38 and elishama and eliada and eliphelet nine
1chr39 these were all the sons of david beside the sons of the concubines and tamar their sister
1chr310 and solomon's son was rehoboam abia his son asa his son jehoshaphat his son
1chr311 joram his son ahaziah his son joash his son
1chr312 amaziah his son azariah his son jotham his son
1chr313 ahaz his son hezekiah his son manasseh his son
1chr314 amon his son josiah his son
1chr315 and the sons of josiah were the firstborn johanan the second jehoiakim the third zedekiah the fourth shallum
1chr316 and the sons of jehoiakim jeconiah his son zedekiah his son
1chr317 and the sons of jeconiah assir salathiel his son
1chr318 malchiram also and pedaiah and shenazar jecamiah hoshama and nedabiah
1chr319 and the sons of pedaiah were zerubbabel and shimei and the sons of zerubbabel meshullam and hananiah and shelomith their sister
1chr320 and hashubah and ohel and berechiah and hasadiah jushabhesed five
1chr321 and the sons of hananiah pelatiah and jesaiah the sons of rephaiah the sons of arnan the sons of obadiah the sons of shechaniah
1chr322 and the sons of shechaniah shemaiah and the sons of shemaiah hattush and igeal and bariah and neariah and shaphat six
1chr323 and the sons of neariah elioenai and hezekiah and azrikam three
1chr324 and the sons of elioenai were hodaiah and eliashib and pelaiah and akkub and johanan and dalaiah and anani seven
1chr41 the sons of judah pharez hezron and carmi and hur and shobal
1chr42 and reaiah the son of shobal begat jahath and jahath begat ahumai and lahad these are the families of the zorathites
1chr43 and these were of the father of etam jezreel and ishma and idbash and the name of their sister was hazelelponi
1chr44 and penuel the father of gedor and ezer the father of hushah these are the sons of hur the firstborn of ephratah the father of bethlehem
1chr45 and ashur the father of tekoa had two wives helah and naarah
1chr46 and naarah bare him ahuzam and hepher and temeni and haahashtari these were the sons of naarah
1chr47 and the sons of helah were zereth and jezoar and ethnan
1chr48 and coz begat anub and zobebah and the families of aharhel the son of harum
1chr49 and jabez was more honourable than his brethren and his mother called his name jabez saying because i bare him with sorrow
1chr410 and jabez called on the god of israel saying oh that thou wouldest bless me indeed and enlarge my coast and that thine hand might be with me and that thou wouldest keep me from evil that it may not grieve me and god granted him that which he requested
1chr411 and chelub the brother of shuah begat mehir which was the father of eshton
1chr412 and eshton begat bethrapha and paseah and tehinnah the father of irnahash these are the men of rechah
1chr413 and the sons of kenaz othniel and seraiah and the sons of othniel hathath
1chr414 and meonothai begat ophrah and seraiah begat joab the father of the valley of charashim for they were craftsmen
1chr415 and the sons of caleb the son of jephunneh iru elah and naam and the sons of elah even kenaz
1chr416 and the sons of jehaleleel ziph and ziphah tiria and asareel
1chr417 and the sons of ezra were jether and mered and epher and jalon and she bare miriam and shammai and ishbah the father of eshtemoa
1chr418 and his wife jehudijah bare jered the father of gedor and heber the father of socho and jekuthiel the father of zanoah and these are the sons of bithiah the daughter of pharaoh which mered took
1chr419 and the sons of his wife hodiah the sister of naham the father of keilah the garmite and eshtemoa the maachathite
1chr420 and the sons of shimon were amnon and rinnah benhanan and tilon and the sons of ishi were zoheth and benzoheth
1chr421 the sons of shelah the son of judah were er the father of lecah and laadah the father of mareshah and the families of the house of them that wrought fine linen of the house of ashbea
1chr422 and jokim and the men of chozeba and joash and saraph who had the dominion in moab and jashubilehem and these are ancient things
1chr423 these were the potters and those that dwelt among plants and hedges there they dwelt with the king for his work
1chr424 the sons of simeon were nemuel and jamin jarib zerah and shaul
1chr425 shallum his son mibsam his son mishma his son
1chr426 and the sons of mishma hamuel his son zacchur his son shimei his son
1chr427 and shimei had sixteen sons and six daughters but his brethren had not many children neither did all their family multiply like to the children of judah
1chr428 and they dwelt at beersheba and moladah and hazarshual
1chr429 and at bilhah and at ezem and at tolad
1chr430 and at bethuel and at hormah and at ziklag
1chr431 and at bethmarcaboth and hazarsusim and at bethbirei and at shaaraim these were their cities unto the reign of david
1chr432 and their villages were etam and ain rimmon and tochen and ashan five cities
1chr433 and all their villages that were round about the same cities unto baal these were their habitations and their genealogy
1chr434 and meshobab and jamlech and joshah the son of amaziah
1chr435 and joel and jehu the son of josibiah the son of seraiah the son of asiel
1chr436 and elioenai and jaakobah and jeshohaiah and asaiah and adiel and jesimiel and benaiah
1chr437 and ziza the son of shiphi the son of allon the son of jedaiah the son of shimri the son of shemaiah
1chr438 these mentioned by their names were princes in their families and the house of their fathers increased greatly
1chr439 and they went to the entrance of gedor even unto the east side of the valley to seek pasture for their flocks
1chr440 and they found fat pasture and good and the land was wide and quiet and peaceable for they of ham had dwelt there of old
1chr441 and these written by name came in the days of hezekiah king of judah and smote their tents and the habitations that were found there and destroyed them utterly unto this day and dwelt in their rooms because there was pasture there for their flocks
1chr442 and some of them even of the sons of simeon five hundred men went to mount seir having for their captains pelatiah and neariah and rephaiah and uzziel the sons of ishi
1chr443 and they smote the rest of the amalekites that were escaped and dwelt there unto this day
1chr51 now the sons of reuben the firstborn of israel for he was the firstborn but forasmuch as he defiled his father's bed his birthright was given unto the sons of joseph the son of israel and the genealogy is not to be reckoned after the birthright
1chr52 for judah prevailed above his brethren and of him came the chief ruler but the birthright was joseph's
1chr53 the sons i say of reuben the firstborn of israel were hanoch and pallu hezron and carmi
1chr54 the sons of joel shemaiah his son gog his son shimei his son
1chr55 micah his son reaia his son baal his son
1chr56 beerah his son whom tilgathpilneser king of assyria carried away captive he was prince of the reubenites
1chr57 and his brethren by their families when the genealogy of their generations was reckoned were the chief jeiel and zechariah
1chr58 and bela the son of azaz the son of shema the son of joel who dwelt in aroer even unto nebo and baalmeon
1chr59 and eastward he inhabited unto the entering in of the wilderness from the river euphrates because their cattle were multiplied in the land of gilead
1chr510 and in the days of saul they made war with the hagarites who fell by their hand and they dwelt in their tents throughout all the east land of gilead
1chr511 and the children of gad dwelt over against them in the land of bashan unto salcah
1chr512 joel the chief and shapham the next and jaanai and shaphat in bashan
1chr513 and their brethren of the house of their fathers were michael and meshullam and sheba and jorai and jachan and zia and heber seven
1chr514 these are the children of abihail the son of huri the son of jaroah the son of gilead the son of michael the son of jeshishai the son of jahdo the son of buz
1chr515 ahi the son of abdiel the son of guni chief of the house of their fathers
1chr516 and they dwelt in gilead in bashan and in her towns and in all the suburbs of sharon upon their borders
1chr517 all these were reckoned by genealogies in the days of jotham king of judah and in the days of jeroboam king of israel
1chr518 the sons of reuben and the gadites and half the tribe of manasseh of valiant men men able to bear buckler and sword and to shoot with bow and skilful in war were four and forty thousand seven hundred and threescore that went out to the war
1chr519 and they made war with the hagarites with jetur and nephish and nodab
1chr520 and they were helped against them and the hagarites were delivered into their hand and all that were with them for they cried to god in the battle and he was intreated of them because they put their trust in him
1chr521 and they took away their cattle of their camels fifty thousand and of sheep two hundred and fifty thousand and of asses two thousand and of men an hundred thousand
1chr522 for there fell down many slain because the war was of god and they dwelt in their steads until the captivity
1chr523 and the children of the half tribe of manasseh dwelt in the land they increased from bashan unto baalhermon and senir and unto mount hermon
1chr524 and these were the heads of the house of their fathers even epher and ishi and eliel and azriel and jeremiah and hodaviah and jahdiel mighty men of valour famous men and heads of the house of their fathers
1chr525 and they transgressed against the god of their fathers and went a whoring after the gods of the people of the land whom god destroyed before them
1chr526 and the god of israel stirred up the spirit of pul king of assyria and the spirit of tilgathpilneser king of assyria and he carried them away even the reubenites and the gadites and the half tribe of manasseh and brought them unto halah and habor and hara and to the river gozan unto this day
1chr61 the sons of levi gershon kohath and merari
1chr62 and the sons of kohath amram izhar and hebron and uzziel
1chr63 and the children of amram aaron and moses and miriam the sons also of aaron nadab and abihu eleazar and ithamar
1chr64 eleazar begat phinehas phinehas begat abishua
1chr65 and abishua begat bukki and bukki begat uzzi
1chr66 and uzzi begat zerahiah and zerahiah begat meraioth
1chr67 meraioth begat amariah and amariah begat ahitub
1chr68 and ahitub begat zadok and zadok begat ahimaaz
1chr69 and ahimaaz begat azariah and azariah begat johanan
1chr610 and johanan begat azariah he it is that executed the priest's office in the temple that solomon built in jerusalem
1chr611 and azariah begat amariah and amariah begat ahitub
1chr612 and ahitub begat zadok and zadok begat shallum
1chr613 and shallum begat hilkiah and hilkiah begat azariah
1chr614 and azariah begat seraiah and seraiah begat jehozadak
1chr615 and jehozadak went into captivity when the lord carried away judah and jerusalem by the hand of nebuchadnezzar
1chr616 the sons of levi gershom kohath and merari
1chr617 and these be the names of the sons of gershom libni and shimei
1chr618 and the sons of kohath were amram and izhar and hebron and uzziel
1chr619 the sons of merari mahli and mushi and these are the families of the levites according to their fathers
1chr620 of gershom libni his son jahath his son zimmah his son
1chr621 joah his son iddo his son zerah his son jeaterai his son
1chr622 the sons of kohath amminadab his son korah his son assir his son
1chr623 elkanah his son and ebiasaph his son and assir his son
1chr624 tahath his son uriel his son uzziah his son and shaul his son
1chr625 and the sons of elkanah amasai and ahimoth
1chr626 as for elkanah the sons of elkanah zophai his son and nahath his son
1chr627 eliab his son jeroham his son elkanah his son
1chr628 and the sons of samuel the firstborn vashni and abiah
1chr629 the sons of merari mahli libni his son shimei his son uzza his son
1chr630 shimea his son haggiah his son asaiah his son
1chr631 and these are they whom david set over the service of song in the house of the lord after that the ark had rest
1chr632 and they ministered before the dwelling place of the tabernacle of the congregation with singing until solomon had built the house of the lord in jerusalem and then they waited on their office according to their order
1chr633 and these are they that waited with their children of the sons of the kohathites heman a singer the son of joel the son of shemuel
1chr634 the son of elkanah the son of jeroham the son of eliel the son of toah
1chr635 the son of zuph the son of elkanah the son of mahath the son of amasai
1chr636 the son of elkanah the son of joel the son of azariah the son of zephaniah
1chr637 the son of tahath the son of assir the son of ebiasaph the son of korah
1chr638 the son of izhar the son of kohath the son of levi the son of israel
1chr639 and his brother asaph who stood on his right hand even asaph the son of berachiah the son of shimea
1chr640 the son of michael the son of baaseiah the son of malchiah
1chr641 the son of ethni the son of zerah the son of adaiah
1chr642 the son of ethan the son of zimmah the son of shimei
1chr643 the son of jahath the son of gershom the son of levi
1chr644 and their brethren the sons of merari stood on the left hand ethan the son of kishi the son of abdi the son of malluch
1chr645 the son of hashabiah the son of amaziah the son of hilkiah
1chr646 the son of amzi the son of bani the son of shamer
1chr647 the son of mahli the son of mushi the son of merari the son of levi
1chr648 their brethren also the levites were appointed unto all manner of service of the tabernacle of the house of god
1chr649 but aaron and his sons offered upon the altar of the burnt offering and on the altar of incense and were appointed for all the work of the place most holy and to make an atonement for israel according to all that moses the servant of god had commanded
1chr650 and these are the sons of aaron eleazar his son phinehas his son abishua his son
1chr651 bukki his son uzzi his son zerahiah his son
1chr652 meraioth his son amariah his son ahitub his son
1chr653 zadok his son ahimaaz his son
1chr654 now these are their dwelling places throughout their castles in their coasts of the sons of aaron of the families of the kohathites for theirs was the lot
1chr655 and they gave them hebron in the land of judah and the suburbs thereof round about it
1chr656 but the fields of the city and the villages thereof they gave to caleb the son of jephunneh
1chr657 and to the sons of aaron they gave the cities of judah namely hebron the city of refuge and libnah with her suburbs and jattir and eshtemoa with their suburbs
1chr658 and hilen with her suburbs debir with her suburbs
1chr659 and ashan with her suburbs and bethshemesh with her suburbs
1chr660 and out of the tribe of benjamin geba with her suburbs and alemeth with her suburbs and anathoth with her suburbs all their cities throughout their families were thirteen cities
1chr661 and unto the sons of kohath which were left of the family of that tribe were cities given out of the half tribe namely out of the half tribe of manasseh by lot ten cities
1chr662 and to the sons of gershom throughout their families out of the tribe of issachar and out of the tribe of asher and out of the tribe of naphtali and out of the tribe of manasseh in bashan thirteen cities
1chr663 unto the sons of merari were given by lot throughout their families out of the tribe of reuben and out of the tribe of gad and out of the tribe of zebulun twelve cities
1chr664 and the children of israel gave to the levites these cities with their suburbs
1chr665 and they gave by lot out of the tribe of the children of judah and out of the tribe of the children of simeon and out of the tribe of the children of benjamin these cities which are called by their names
1chr666 and the residue of the families of the sons of kohath had cities of their coasts out of the tribe of ephraim
1chr667 and they gave unto them of the cities of refuge shechem in mount ephraim with her suburbs they gave also gezer with her suburbs
1chr668 and jokmeam with her suburbs and bethhoron with her suburbs
1chr669 and aijalon with her suburbs and gathrimmon with her suburbs
1chr670 and out of the half tribe of manasseh aner with her suburbs and bileam with her suburbs for the family of the remnant of the sons of kohath
1chr671 unto the sons of gershom were given out of the family of the half tribe of manasseh golan in bashan with her suburbs and ashtaroth with her suburbs
1chr672 and out of the tribe of issachar kedesh with her suburbs daberath with her suburbs
1chr673 and ramoth with her suburbs and anem with her suburbs
1chr674 and out of the tribe of asher mashal with her suburbs and abdon with her suburbs
1chr675 and hukok with her suburbs and rehob with her suburbs
1chr676 and out of the tribe of naphtali kedesh in galilee with her suburbs and hammon with her suburbs and kirjathaim with her suburbs
1chr677 unto the rest of the children of merari were given out of the tribe of zebulun rimmon with her suburbs tabor with her suburbs
1chr678 and on the other side jordan by jericho on the east side of jordan were given them out of the tribe of reuben bezer in the wilderness with her suburbs and jahzah with her suburbs
1chr679 kedemoth also with her suburbs and mephaath with her suburbs
1chr680 and out of the tribe of gad ramoth in gilead with her suburbs and mahanaim with her suburbs
1chr681 and heshbon with her suburbs and jazer with her suburbs
1chr71 now the sons of issachar were tola and puah jashub and shimrom four
1chr72 and the sons of tola uzzi and rephaiah and jeriel and jahmai and jibsam and shemuel heads of their father's house to wit of tola they were valiant men of might in their generations whose number was in the days of david two and twenty thousand and six hundred
1chr73 and the sons of uzzi izrahiah and the sons of izrahiah michael and obadiah and joel ishiah five all of them chief men
1chr74 and with them by their generations after the house of their fathers were bands of soldiers for war six and thirty thousand men for they had many wives and sons
1chr75 and their brethren among all the families of issachar were valiant men of might reckoned in all by their genealogies fourscore and seven thousand
1chr76 the sons of benjamin bela and becher and jediael three
1chr77 and the sons of bela ezbon and uzzi and uzziel and jerimoth and iri five heads of the house of their fathers mighty men of valour and were reckoned by their genealogies twenty and two thousand and thirty and four
1chr78 and the sons of becher zemira and joash and eliezer and elioenai and omri and jerimoth and abiah and anathoth and alameth all these are the sons of becher
1chr79 and the number of them after their genealogy by their generations heads of the house of their fathers mighty men of valour was twenty thousand and two hundred
1chr710 the sons also of jediael bilhan and the sons of bilhan jeush and benjamin and ehud and chenaanah and zethan and tharshish and ahishahar
1chr711 all these the sons of jediael by the heads of their fathers mighty men of valour were seventeen thousand and two hundred soldiers fit to go out for war and battle
1chr712 shuppim also and huppim the children of ir and hushim the sons of aher
1chr713 the sons of naphtali jahziel and guni and jezer and shallum the sons of bilhah
1chr714 the sons of manasseh ashriel whom she bare but his concubine the aramitess bare machir the father of gilead
1chr715 and machir took to wife the sister of huppim and shuppim whose sister's name was maachah and the name of the second was zelophehad and zelophehad had daughters
1chr716 and maachah the wife of machir bare a son and she called his name peresh and the name of his brother was sheresh and his sons were ulam and rakem
1chr717 and the sons of ulam bedan these were the sons of gilead the son of machir the son of manasseh
1chr718 and his sister hammoleketh bare ishod and abiezer and mahalah
1chr719 and the sons of shemidah were ahian and shechem and likhi and aniam
1chr720 and the sons of ephraim shuthelah and bered his son and tahath his son and eladah his son and tahath his son
1chr721 and zabad his son and shuthelah his son and ezer and elead whom the men of gath that were born in that land slew because they came down to take away their cattle
1chr722 and ephraim their father mourned many days and his brethren came to comfort him
1chr723 and when he went in to his wife she conceived and bare a son and he called his name beriah because it went evil with his house
1chr724 and his daughter was sherah who built bethhoron the nether and the upper and uzzensherah
1chr725 and rephah was his son also resheph and telah his son and tahan his son
1chr726 laadan his son ammihud his son elishama his son
1chr727 non his son jehoshuah his son
1chr728 and their possessions and habitations were bethel and the towns thereof and eastward naaran and westward gezer with the towns thereof shechem also and the towns thereof unto gaza and the towns thereof
1chr729 and by the borders of the children of manasseh bethshean and her towns taanach and her towns megiddo and her towns dor and her towns in these dwelt the children of joseph the son of israel
1chr730 the sons of asher imnah and isuah and ishuai and beriah and serah their sister
1chr731 and the sons of beriah heber and malchiel who is the father of birzavith
1chr732 and heber begat japhlet and shomer and hotham and shua their sister
1chr733 and the sons of japhlet pasach and bimhal and ashvath these are the children of japhlet
1chr734 and the sons of shamer ahi and rohgah jehubbah and aram
1chr735 and the sons of his brother helem zophah and imna and shelesh and amal
1chr736 the sons of zophah suah and harnepher and shual and beri and imrah
1chr737 bezer and hod and shamma and shilshah and ithran and beera
1chr738 and the sons of jether jephunneh and pispah and ara
1chr739 and the sons of ulla arah and haniel and rezia
1chr740 all these were the children of asher heads of their father's house choice and mighty men of valour chief of the princes and the number throughout the genealogy of them that were apt to the war and to battle was twenty and six thousand men
1chr81 now benjamin begat bela his firstborn ashbel the second and aharah the third
1chr82 nohah the fourth and rapha the fifth
1chr83 and the sons of bela were addar and gera and abihud
1chr84 and abishua and naaman and ahoah
1chr85 and gera and shephuphan and huram
1chr86 and these are the sons of ehud these are the heads of the fathers of the inhabitants of geba and they removed them to manahath
1chr87 and naaman and ahiah and gera he removed them and begat uzza and ahihud
1chr88 and shaharaim begat children in the country of moab after he had sent them away hushim and baara were his wives
1chr89 and he begat of hodesh his wife jobab and zibia and mesha and malcham
1chr810 and jeuz and shachia and mirma these were his sons heads of the fathers
1chr811 and of hushim he begat abitub and elpaal
1chr812 the sons of elpaal eber and misham and shamed who built ono and lod with the towns thereof
1chr813 beriah also and shema who were heads of the fathers of the inhabitants of aijalon who drove away the inhabitants of gath
1chr814 and ahio shashak and jeremoth
1chr815 and zebadiah and arad and ader
1chr816 and michael and ispah and joha the sons of beriah
1chr817 and zebadiah and meshullam and hezeki and heber
1chr818 ishmerai also and jezliah and jobab the sons of elpaal
1chr819 and jakim and zichri and zabdi
1chr820 and elienai and zilthai and eliel
1chr821 and adaiah and beraiah and shimrath the sons of shimhi
1chr822 and ishpan and heber and eliel
1chr823 and abdon and zichri and hanan
1chr824 and hananiah and elam and antothijah
1chr825 and iphedeiah and penuel the sons of shashak
1chr826 and shamsherai and shehariah and athaliah
1chr827 and jaresiah and eliah and zichri the sons of jeroham
1chr828 these were heads of the fathers by their generations chief men these dwelt in jerusalem
1chr829 and at gibeon dwelt the father of gibeon whose wife's name was maachah
1chr830 and his firstborn son abdon and zur and kish and baal and nadab
1chr831 and gedor and ahio and zacher
1chr832 and mikloth begat shimeah and these also dwelt with their brethren in jerusalem over against them
1chr833 and ner begat kish and kish begat saul and saul begat jonathan and malchishua and abinadab and eshbaal
1chr834 and the son of jonathan was meribbaal and meribbaal begat micah
1chr835 and the sons of micah were pithon and melech and tarea and ahaz
1chr836 and ahaz begat jehoadah and jehoadah begat alemeth and azmaveth and zimri and zimri begat moza
1chr837 and moza begat binea rapha was his son eleasah his son azel his son
1chr838 and azel had six sons whose names are these azrikam bocheru and ishmael and sheariah and obadiah and hanan all these were the sons of azel
1chr839 and the sons of eshek his brother were ulam his firstborn jehush the second and eliphelet the third
1chr840 and the sons of ulam were mighty men of valour archers and had many sons and sons sons an hundred and fifty all these are of the sons of benjamin
1chr91 so all israel were reckoned by genealogies and behold they were written in the book of the kings of israel and judah who were carried away to babylon for their transgression
1chr92 now the first inhabitants that dwelt in their possessions in their cities were the israelites the priests levites and the nethinims
1chr93 and in jerusalem dwelt of the children of judah and of the children of benjamin and of the children of ephraim and manasseh
1chr94 uthai the son of ammihud the son of omri the son of imri the son of bani of the children of pharez the son of judah
1chr95 and of the shilonites asaiah the firstborn and his sons
1chr96 and of the sons of zerah jeuel and their brethren six hundred and ninety
1chr97 and of the sons of benjamin sallu the son of meshullam the son of hodaviah the son of hasenuah
1chr98 and ibneiah the son of jeroham and elah the son of uzzi the son of michri and meshullam the son of shephathiah the son of reuel the son of ibnijah
1chr99 and their brethren according to their generations nine hundred and fifty and six all these men were chief of the fathers in the house of their fathers
1chr910 and of the priests jedaiah and jehoiarib and jachin
1chr911 and azariah the son of hilkiah the son of meshullam the son of zadok the son of meraioth the son of ahitub the ruler of the house of god
1chr912 and adaiah the son of jeroham the son of pashur the son of malchijah and maasiai the son of adiel the son of jahzerah the son of meshullam the son of meshillemith the son of immer
1chr913 and their brethren heads of the house of their fathers a thousand and seven hundred and threescore very able men for the work of the service of the house of god
1chr914 and of the levites shemaiah the son of hasshub the son of azrikam the son of hashabiah of the sons of merari
1chr915 and bakbakkar heresh and galal and mattaniah the son of micah the son of zichri the son of asaph
1chr916 and obadiah the son of shemaiah the son of galal the son of jeduthun and berechiah the son of asa the son of elkanah that dwelt in the villages of the netophathites
1chr917 and the porters were shallum and akkub and talmon and ahiman and their brethren shallum was the chief
1chr918 who hitherto waited in the king's gate eastward they were porters in the companies of the children of levi
1chr919 and shallum the son of kore the son of ebiasaph the son of korah and his brethren of the house of his father the korahites were over the work of the service keepers of the gates of the tabernacle and their fathers being over the host of the lord were keepers of the entry
1chr920 and phinehas the son of eleazar was the ruler over them in time past and the lord was with him
1chr921 and zechariah the son of meshelemiah was porter of the door of the tabernacle of the congregation
1chr922 all these which were chosen to be porters in the gates were two hundred and twelve these were reckoned by their genealogy in their villages whom david and samuel the seer did ordain in their set office
1chr923 so they and their children had the oversight of the gates of the house of the lord namely the house of the tabernacle by wards
1chr924 in four quarters were the porters toward the east west north and south
1chr925 and their brethren which were in their villages were to come after seven days from time to time with them
1chr926 for these levites the four chief porters were in their set office and were over the chambers and treasuries of the house of god
1chr927 and they lodged round about the house of god because the charge was upon them and the opening thereof every morning pertained to them
1chr928 and certain of them had the charge of the ministering vessels that they should bring them in and out by tale
1chr929 some of them also were appointed to oversee the vessels and all the instruments of the sanctuary and the fine flour and the wine and the oil and the frankincense and the spices
1chr930 and some of the sons of the priests made the ointment of the spices
1chr931 and mattithiah one of the levites who was the firstborn of shallum the korahite had the set office over the things that were made in the pans
1chr932 and other of their brethren of the sons of the kohathites were over the shewbread to prepare it every sabbath
1chr933 and these are the singers chief of the fathers of the levites who remaining in the chambers were free for they were employed in that work day and night
1chr934 these chief fathers of the levites were chief throughout their generations these dwelt at jerusalem
1chr935 and in gibeon dwelt the father of gibeon jehiel whose wife's name was maachah
1chr936 and his firstborn son abdon then zur and kish and baal and ner and nadab
1chr937 and gedor and ahio and zechariah and mikloth
1chr938 and mikloth begat shimeam and they also dwelt with their brethren at jerusalem over against their brethren
1chr939 and ner begat kish and kish begat saul and saul begat jonathan and malchishua and abinadab and eshbaal
1chr940 and the son of jonathan was meribbaal and meribbaal begat micah
1chr941 and the sons of micah were pithon and melech and tahrea and ahaz
1chr942 and ahaz begat jarah and jarah begat alemeth and azmaveth and zimri and zimri begat moza
1chr943 and moza begat binea and rephaiah his son eleasah his son azel his son
1chr944 and azel had six sons whose names are these azrikam bocheru and ishmael and sheariah and obadiah and hanan these were the sons of azel
1chr101 now the philistines fought against israel and the men of israel fled from before the philistines and fell down slain in mount gilboa
1chr102 and the philistines followed hard after saul and after his sons and the philistines slew jonathan and abinadab and malchishua the sons of saul
1chr103 and the battle went sore against saul and the archers hit him and he was wounded of the archers
1chr104 then said saul to his armourbearer draw thy sword and thrust me through therewith lest these uncircumcised come and abuse me but his armourbearer would not for he was sore afraid so saul took a sword and fell upon it
1chr105 and when his armourbearer saw that saul was dead he fell likewise on the sword and died
1chr106 so saul died and his three sons and all his house died together
1chr107 and when all the men of israel that were in the valley saw that they fled and that saul and his sons were dead then they forsook their cities and fled and the philistines came and dwelt in them
1chr108 and it came to pass on the morrow when the philistines came to strip the slain that they found saul and his sons fallen in mount gilboa
1chr109 and when they had stripped him they took his head and his armour and sent into the land of the philistines round about to carry tidings unto their idols and to the people
1chr1010 and they put his armour in the house of their gods and fastened his head in the temple of dagon
1chr1011 and when all jabeshgilead heard all that the philistines had done to saul
1chr1012 they arose all the valiant men and took away the body of saul and the bodies of his sons and brought them to jabesh and buried their bones under the oak in jabesh and fasted seven days
1chr1013 so saul died for his transgression which he committed against the lord even against the word of the lord which he kept not and also for asking counsel of one that had a familiar spirit to enquire of it
1chr1014 and enquired not of the lord therefore he slew him and turned the kingdom unto david the son of jesse
1chr111 then all israel gathered themselves to david unto hebron saying behold we are thy bone and thy flesh
1chr112 and moreover in time past even when saul was king thou wast he that leddest out and broughtest in israel and the lord thy god said unto thee thou shalt feed my people israel and thou shalt be ruler over my people israel
1chr113 therefore came all the elders of israel to the king to hebron and david made a covenant with them in hebron before the lord and they anointed david king over israel according to the word of the lord by samuel
1chr114 and david and all israel went to jerusalem which is jebus where the jebusites were the inhabitants of the land
1chr115 and the inhabitants of jebus said to david thou shalt not come hither nevertheless david took the castle of zion which is the city of david
1chr116 and david said whosoever smiteth the jebusites first shall be chief and captain so joab the son of zeruiah went first up and was chief
1chr117 and david dwelt in the castle therefore they called it the city of david
1chr118 and he built the city round about even from millo round about and joab repaired the rest of the city
1chr119 so david waxed greater and greater for the lord of hosts was with him
1chr1110 these also are the chief of the mighty men whom david had who strengthened themselves with him in his kingdom and with all israel to make him king according to the word of the lord concerning israel
1chr1111 and this is the number of the mighty men whom david had jashobeam an hachmonite the chief of the captains he lifted up his spear against three hundred slain by him at one time
1chr1112 and after him was eleazar the son of dodo the ahohite who was one of the three mighties
1chr1113 he was with david at pasdammim and there the philistines were gathered together to battle where was a parcel of ground full of barley and the people fled from before the philistines
1chr1114 and they set themselves in the midst of that parcel and delivered it and slew the philistines and the lord saved them by a great deliverance
1chr1115 now three of the thirty captains went down to the rock to david into the cave of adullam and the host of the philistines encamped in the valley of rephaim
1chr1116 and david was then in the hold and the philistines garrison was then at bethlehem
1chr1117 and david longed and said oh that one would give me drink of the water of the well of bethlehem that is at the gate
1chr1118 and the three brake through the host of the philistines and drew water out of the well of bethlehem that was by the gate and took it and brought it to david but david would not drink of it but poured it out to the lord
1chr1119 and said my god forbid it me that i should do this thing shall i drink the blood of these men that have put their lives in jeopardy for with the jeopardy of their lives they brought it therefore he would not drink it these things did these three mightiest
1chr1120 and abishai the brother of joab he was chief of the three for lifting up his spear against three hundred he slew them and had a name among the three
1chr1121 of the three he was more honourable than the two for he was their captain howbeit he attained not to the first three
1chr1122 benaiah the son of jehoiada the son of a valiant man of kabzeel who had done many acts he slew two lionlike men of moab also he went down and slew a lion in a pit in a snowy day
1chr1123 and he slew an egyptian a man of great stature five cubits high and in the egyptian's hand was a spear like a weaver's beam and he went down to him with a staff and plucked the spear out of the egyptian's hand and slew him with his own spear
1chr1124 these things did benaiah the son of jehoiada and had the name among the three mighties
1chr1125 behold he was honourable among the thirty but attained not to the first three and david set him over his guard
1chr1126 also the valiant men of the armies were asahel the brother of joab elhanan the son of dodo of bethlehem
1chr1127 shammoth the harorite helez the pelonite
1chr1128 ira the son of ikkesh the tekoite abiezer the antothite
1chr1129 sibbecai the hushathite ilai the ahohite
1chr1130 maharai the netophathite heled the son of baanah the netophathite
1chr1131 ithai the son of ribai of gibeah that pertained to the children of benjamin benaiah the pirathonite
1chr1132 hurai of the brooks of gaash abiel the arbathite
1chr1133 azmaveth the baharumite eliahba the shaalbonite
1chr1134 the sons of hashem the gizonite jonathan the son of shage the hararite
1chr1135 ahiam the son of sacar the hararite eliphal the son of ur
1chr1136 hepher the mecherathite ahijah the pelonite
1chr1137 hezro the carmelite naarai the son of ezbai
1chr1138 joel the brother of nathan mibhar the son of haggeri
1chr1139 zelek the ammonite naharai the berothite the armourbearer of joab the son of zeruiah
1chr1140 ira the ithrite gareb the ithrite
1chr1141 uriah the hittite zabad the son of ahlai
1chr1142 adina the son of shiza the reubenite a captain of the reubenites and thirty with him
1chr1143 hanan the son of maachah and joshaphat the mithnite
1chr1144 uzzia the ashterathite shama and jehiel the sons of hothan the aroerite
1chr1145 jediael the son of shimri and joha his brother the tizite
1chr1146 eliel the mahavite and jeribai and joshaviah the sons of elnaam and ithmah the moabite
1chr1147 eliel and obed and jasiel the mesobaite
1chr121 now these are they that came to david to ziklag while he yet kept himself close because of saul the son of kish and they were among the mighty men helpers of the war
1chr122 they were armed with bows and could use both the right hand and the left in hurling stones and shooting arrows out of a bow even of saul's brethren of benjamin
1chr123 the chief was ahiezer then joash the sons of shemaah the gibeathite and jeziel and pelet the sons of azmaveth and berachah and jehu the antothite
1chr124 and ismaiah the gibeonite a mighty man among the thirty and over the thirty and jeremiah and jahaziel and johanan and josabad the gederathite
1chr125 eluzai and jerimoth and bealiah and shemariah and shephatiah the haruphite
1chr126 elkanah and jesiah and azareel and joezer and jashobeam the korhites
1chr127 and joelah and zebadiah the sons of jeroham of gedor
1chr128 and of the gadites there separated themselves unto david into the hold to the wilderness men of might and men of war fit for the battle that could handle shield and buckler whose faces were like the faces of lions and were as swift as the roes upon the mountains
1chr129 ezer the first obadiah the second eliab the third
1chr1210 mishmannah the fourth jeremiah the fifth
1chr1211 attai the sixth eliel the seventh
1chr1212 johanan the eighth elzabad the ninth
1chr1213 jeremiah the tenth machbanai the eleventh
1chr1214 these were of the sons of gad captains of the host one of the least was over an hundred and the greatest over a thousand
1chr1215 these are they that went over jordan in the first month when it had overflown all his banks and they put to flight all them of the valleys both toward the east and toward the west
1chr1216 and there came of the children of benjamin and judah to the hold unto david
1chr1217 and david went out to meet them and answered and said unto them if ye be come peaceably unto me to help me mine heart shall be knit unto you but if ye be come to betray me to mine enemies seeing there is no wrong in mine hands the god of our fathers look thereon and rebuke it
1chr1218 then the spirit came upon amasai who was chief of the captains and he said thine are we david and on thy side thou son of jesse peace peace be unto thee and peace be to thine helpers for thy god helpeth thee then david received them and made them captains of the band
1chr1219 and there fell some of manasseh to david when he came with the philistines against saul to battle but they helped them not for the lords of the philistines upon advisement sent him away saying he will fall to his master saul to the jeopardy of our heads
1chr1220 as he went to ziklag there fell to him of manasseh adnah and jozabad and jediael and michael and jozabad and elihu and zilthai captains of the thousands that were of manasseh
1chr1221 and they helped david against the band of the rovers for they were all mighty men of valour and were captains in the host
1chr1222 for at that time day by day there came to david to help him until it was a great host like the host of god
1chr1223 and these are the numbers of the bands that were ready armed to the war and came to david to hebron to turn the kingdom of saul to him according to the word of the lord
1chr1224 the children of judah that bare shield and spear were six thousand and eight hundred ready armed to the war
1chr1225 of the children of simeon mighty men of valour for the war seven thousand and one hundred
1chr1226 of the children of levi four thousand and six hundred
1chr1227 and jehoiada was the leader of the aaronites and with him were three thousand and seven hundred
1chr1228 and zadok a young man mighty of valour and of his father's house twenty and two captains
1chr1229 and of the children of benjamin the kindred of saul three thousand for hitherto the greatest part of them had kept the ward of the house of saul
1chr1230 and of the children of ephraim twenty thousand and eight hundred mighty men of valour famous throughout the house of their fathers
1chr1231 and of the half tribe of manasseh eighteen thousand which were expressed by name to come and make david king
1chr1232 and of the children of issachar which were men that had understanding of the times to know what israel ought to do the heads of them were two hundred and all their brethren were at their commandment
1chr1233 of zebulun such as went forth to battle expert in war with all instruments of war fifty thousand which could keep rank they were not of double heart
1chr1234 and of naphtali a thousand captains and with them with shield and spear thirty and seven thousand
1chr1235 and of the danites expert in war twenty and eight thousand and six hundred
1chr1236 and of asher such as went forth to battle expert in war forty thousand
1chr1237 and on the other side of jordan of the reubenites and the gadites and of the half tribe of manasseh with all manner of instruments of war for the battle an hundred and twenty thousand
1chr1238 all these men of war that could keep rank came with a perfect heart to hebron to make david king over all israel and all the rest also of israel were of one heart to make david king
1chr1239 and there they were with david three days eating and drinking for their brethren had prepared for them
1chr1240 moreover they that were nigh them even unto issachar and zebulun and naphtali brought bread on asses and on camels and on mules and on oxen and meat meal cakes of figs and bunches of raisins and wine and oil and oxen and sheep abundantly for there was joy in israel
1chr131 and david consulted with the captains of thousands and hundreds and with every leader
1chr132 and david said unto all the congregation of israel if it seem good unto you and that it be of the lord our god let us send abroad unto our brethren every where that are left in all the land of israel and with them also to the priests and levites which are in their cities and suburbs that they may gather themselves unto us
1chr133 and let us bring again the ark of our god to us for we enquired not at it in the days of saul
1chr134 and all the congregation said that they would do so for the thing was right in the eyes of all the people
1chr135 so david gathered all israel together from shihor of egypt even unto the entering of hemath to bring the ark of god from kirjathjearim
1chr136 and david went up and all israel to baalah that is to kirjathjearim which belonged to judah to bring up thence the ark of god the lord that dwelleth between the cherubims whose name is called on it
1chr137 and they carried the ark of god in a new cart out of the house of abinadab and uzza and ahio drave the cart
1chr138 and david and all israel played before god with all their might and with singing and with harps and with psalteries and with timbrels and with cymbals and with trumpets
1chr139 and when they came unto the threshingfloor of chidon uzza put forth his hand to hold the ark for the oxen stumbled
1chr1310 and the anger of the lord was kindled against uzza and he smote him because he put his hand to the ark and there he died before god
1chr1311 and david was displeased because the lord had made a breach upon uzza wherefore that place is called perezuzza to this day
1chr1312 and david was afraid of god that day saying how shall i bring the ark of god home to me
1chr1313 so david brought not the ark home to himself to the city of david but carried it aside into the house of obededom the gittite
1chr1314 and the ark of god remained with the family of obededom in his house three months and the lord blessed the house of obededom and all that he had
1chr141 now hiram king of tyre sent messengers to david and timber of cedars with masons and carpenters to build him an house
1chr142 and david perceived that the lord had confirmed him king over israel for his kingdom was lifted up on high because of his people israel
1chr143 and david took more wives at jerusalem and david begat more sons and daughters
1chr144 now these are the names of his children which he had in jerusalem shammua and shobab nathan and solomon
1chr145 and ibhar and elishua and elpalet
1chr146 and nogah and nepheg and japhia
1chr147 and elishama and beeliada and eliphalet
1chr148 and when the philistines heard that david was anointed king over all israel all the philistines went up to seek david and david heard of it and went out against them
1chr149 and the philistines came and spread themselves in the valley of rephaim
1chr1410 and david enquired of god saying shall i go up against the philistines and wilt thou deliver them into mine hand and the lord said unto him go up for i will deliver them into thine hand
1chr1411 so they came up to baalperazim and david smote them there then david said god hath broken in upon mine enemies by mine hand like the breaking forth of waters therefore they called the name of that place baalperazim
1chr1412 and when they had left their gods there david gave a commandment and they were burned with fire
1chr1413 and the philistines yet again spread themselves abroad in the valley
1chr1414 therefore david enquired again of god and god said unto him go not up after them turn away from them and come upon them over against the mulberry trees
1chr1415 and it shall be when thou shalt hear a sound of going in the tops of the mulberry trees that then thou shalt go out to battle for god is gone forth before thee to smite the host of the philistines
1chr1416 david therefore did as god commanded him and they smote the host of the philistines from gibeon even to gazer
1chr1417 and the fame of david went out into all lands and the lord brought the fear of him upon all nations
1chr151 and david made him houses in the city of david and prepared a place for the ark of god and pitched for it a tent
1chr152 then david said none ought to carry the ark of god but the levites for them hath the lord chosen to carry the ark of god and to minister unto him for ever
1chr153 and david gathered all israel together to jerusalem to bring up the ark of the lord unto his place which he had prepared for it
1chr154 and david assembled the children of aaron and the levites
1chr155 of the sons of kohath uriel the chief and his brethren an hundred and twenty
1chr156 of the sons of merari asaiah the chief and his brethren two hundred and twenty
1chr157 of the sons of gershom joel the chief and his brethren an hundred and thirty
1chr158 of the sons of elizaphan shemaiah the chief and his brethren two hundred
1chr159 of the sons of hebron eliel the chief and his brethren fourscore
1chr1510 of the sons of uzziel amminadab the chief and his brethren an hundred and twelve
1chr1511 and david called for zadok and abiathar the priests and for the levites for uriel asaiah and joel shemaiah and eliel and amminadab
1chr1512 and said unto them ye are the chief of the fathers of the levites sanctify yourselves both ye and your brethren that ye may bring up the ark of the lord god of israel unto the place that i have prepared for it
1chr1513 for because ye did it not at the first the lord our god made a breach upon us for that we sought him not after the due order
1chr1514 so the priests and the levites sanctified themselves to bring up the ark of the lord god of israel
1chr1515 and the children of the levites bare the ark of god upon their shoulders with the staves thereon as moses commanded according to the word of the lord
1chr1516 and david spake to the chief of the levites to appoint their brethren to be the singers with instruments of musick psalteries and harps and cymbals sounding by lifting up the voice with joy
1chr1517 so the levites appointed heman the son of joel and of his brethren asaph the son of berechiah and of the sons of merari their brethren ethan the son of kushaiah
1chr1518 and with them their brethren of the second degree zechariah ben and jaaziel and shemiramoth and jehiel and unni eliab and benaiah and maaseiah and mattithiah and elipheleh and mikneiah and obededom and jeiel the porters
1chr1519 so the singers heman asaph and ethan were appointed to sound with cymbals of brass
1chr1520 and zechariah and aziel and shemiramoth and jehiel and unni and eliab and maaseiah and benaiah with psalteries on alamoth
1chr1521 and mattithiah and elipheleh and mikneiah and obededom and jeiel and azaziah with harps on the sheminith to excel
1chr1522 and chenaniah chief of the levites was for song he instructed about the song because he was skilful
1chr1523 and berechiah and elkanah were doorkeepers for the ark
1chr1524 and shebaniah and jehoshaphat and nethaneel and amasai and zechariah and benaiah and eliezer the priests did blow with the trumpets before the ark of god and obededom and jehiah were doorkeepers for the ark
1chr1525 so david and the elders of israel and the captains over thousands went to bring up the ark of the covenant of the lord out of the house of obededom with joy
1chr1526 and it came to pass when god helped the levites that bare the ark of the covenant of the lord that they offered seven bullocks and seven rams
1chr1527 and david was clothed with a robe of fine linen and all the levites that bare the ark and the singers and chenaniah the master of the song with the singers david also had upon him an ephod of linen
1chr1528 thus all israel brought up the ark of the covenant of the lord with shouting and with sound of the cornet and with trumpets and with cymbals making a noise with psalteries and harps
1chr1529 and it came to pass as the ark of the covenant of the lord came to the city of david that michal the daughter of saul looking out at a window saw king david dancing and playing and she despised him in her heart
1chr161 so they brought the ark of god and set it in the midst of the tent that david had pitched for it and they offered burnt sacrifices and peace offerings before god
1chr162 and when david had made an end of offering the burnt offerings and the peace offerings he blessed the people in the name of the lord
1chr163 and he dealt to every one of israel both man and woman to every one a loaf of bread and a good piece of flesh and a flagon of wine
1chr164 and he appointed certain of the levites to minister before the ark of the lord and to record and to thank and praise the lord god of israel
1chr165 asaph the chief and next to him zechariah jeiel and shemiramoth and jehiel and mattithiah and eliab and benaiah and obededom and jeiel with psalteries and with harps but asaph made a sound with cymbals
1chr166 benaiah also and jahaziel the priests with trumpets continually before the ark of the covenant of god
1chr167 then on that day david delivered first this psalm to thank the lord into the hand of asaph and his brethren
1chr168 give thanks unto the lord call upon his name make known his deeds among the people
1chr169 sing unto him sing psalms unto him talk ye of all his wondrous works
1chr1610 glory ye in his holy name let the heart of them rejoice that seek the lord
1chr1611 seek the lord and his strength seek his face continually
1chr1612 remember his marvellous works that he hath done his wonders and the judgments of his mouth
1chr1613 o ye seed of israel his servant ye children of jacob his chosen ones
1chr1614 he is the lord our god his judgments are in all the earth
1chr1615 be ye mindful always of his covenant the word which he commanded to a thousand generations
1chr1616 even of the covenant which he made with abraham and of his oath unto isaac
1chr1617 and hath confirmed the same to jacob for a law and to israel for an everlasting covenant
1chr1618 saying unto thee will i give the land of canaan the lot of your inheritance
1chr1619 when ye were but few even a few and strangers in it
1chr1620 and when they went from nation to nation and from one kingdom to another people
1chr1621 he suffered no man to do them wrong yea he reproved kings for their sakes
1chr1622 saying touch not mine anointed and do my prophets no harm
1chr1623 sing unto the lord all the earth shew forth from day to day his salvation
1chr1624 declare his glory among the heathen his marvellous works among all nations
1chr1625 for great is the lord and greatly to be praised he also is to be feared above all gods
1chr1626 for all the gods of the people are idols but the lord made the heavens
1chr1627 glory and honour are in his presence strength and gladness are in his place
1chr1628 give unto the lord ye kindreds of the people give unto the lord glory and strength
1chr1629 give unto the lord the glory due unto his name bring an offering and come before him worship the lord in the beauty of holiness
1chr1630 fear before him all the earth the world also shall be stable that it be not moved
1chr1631 let the heavens be glad and let the earth rejoice and let men say among the nations the lord reigneth
1chr1632 let the sea roar and the fulness thereof let the fields rejoice and all that is therein
1chr1633 then shall the trees of the wood sing out at the presence of the lord because he cometh to judge the earth
1chr1634 o give thanks unto the lord for he is good for his mercy endureth for ever
1chr1635 and say ye save us o god of our salvation and gather us together and deliver us from the heathen that we may give thanks to thy holy name and glory in thy praise
1chr1636 blessed be the lord god of israel for ever and ever and all the people said amen and praised the lord
1chr1637 so he left there before the ark of the covenant of the lord asaph and his brethren to minister before the ark continually as every day's work required
1chr1638 and obededom with their brethren threescore and eight obededom also the son of jeduthun and hosah to be porters
1chr1639 and zadok the priest and his brethren the priests before the tabernacle of the lord in the high place that was at gibeon
1chr1640 to offer burnt offerings unto the lord upon the altar of the burnt offering continually morning and evening and to do according to all that is written in the law of the lord which he commanded israel
1chr1641 and with them heman and jeduthun and the rest that were chosen who were expressed by name to give thanks to the lord because his mercy endureth for ever
1chr1642 and with them heman and jeduthun with trumpets and cymbals for those that should make a sound and with musical instruments of god and the sons of jeduthun were porters
1chr1643 and all the people departed every man to his house and david returned to bless his house
1chr171 now it came to pass as david sat in his house that david said to nathan the prophet lo i dwell in an house of cedars but the ark of the covenant of the lord remaineth under curtains
1chr172 then nathan said unto david do all that is in thine heart for god is with thee
1chr173 and it came to pass the same night that the word of god came to nathan saying
1chr174 go and tell david my servant thus saith the lord thou shalt not build me an house to dwell in
1chr175 for i have not dwelt in an house since the day that i brought up israel unto this day but have gone from tent to tent and from one tabernacle to another
1chr176 wheresoever i have walked with all israel spake i a word to any of the judges of israel whom i commanded to feed my people saying why have ye not built me an house of cedars
1chr177 now therefore thus shalt thou say unto my servant david thus saith the lord of hosts i took thee from the sheepcote even from following the sheep that thou shouldest be ruler over my people israel
1chr178 and i have been with thee whithersoever thou hast walked and have cut off all thine enemies from before thee and have made thee a name like the name of the great men that are in the earth
1chr179 also i will ordain a place for my people israel and will plant them and they shall dwell in their place and shall be moved no more neither shall the children of wickedness waste them any more as at the beginning
1chr1710 and since the time that i commanded judges to be over my people israel moreover i will subdue all thine enemies furthermore i tell thee that the lord will build thee an house
1chr1711 and it shall come to pass when thy days be expired that thou must go to be with thy fathers that i will raise up thy seed after thee which shall be of thy sons and i will establish his kingdom
1chr1712 he shall build me an house and i will stablish his throne for ever
1chr1713 i will be his father and he shall be my son and i will not take my mercy away from him as i took it from him that was before thee
1chr1714 but i will settle him in mine house and in my kingdom for ever and his throne shall be established for evermore
1chr1715 according to all these words and according to all this vision so did nathan speak unto david
1chr1716 and david the king came and sat before the lord and said who am i o lord god and what is mine house that thou hast brought me hitherto
1chr1717 and yet this was a small thing in thine eyes o god for thou hast also spoken of thy servant's house for a great while to come and hast regarded me according to the estate of a man of high degree o lord god
1chr1718 what can david speak more to thee for the honour of thy servant for thou knowest thy servant
1chr1719 o lord for thy servant's sake and according to thine own heart hast thou done all this greatness in making known all these great things
1chr1720 o lord there is none like thee neither is there any god beside thee according to all that we have heard with our ears
1chr1721 and what one nation in the earth is like thy people israel whom god went to redeem to be his own people to make thee a name of greatness and terribleness by driving out nations from before thy people whom thou hast redeemed out of egypt
1chr1722 for thy people israel didst thou make thine own people for ever and thou lord becamest their god
1chr1723 therefore now lord let the thing that thou hast spoken concerning thy servant and concerning his house be established for ever and do as thou hast said
1chr1724 let it even be established that thy name may be magnified for ever saying the lord of hosts is the god of israel even a god to israel and let the house of david thy servant be established before thee
1chr1725 for thou o my god hast told thy servant that thou wilt build him an house therefore thy servant hath found in his heart to pray before thee
1chr1726 and now lord thou art god and hast promised this goodness unto thy servant
1chr1727 now therefore let it please thee to bless the house of thy servant that it may be before thee for ever for thou blessest o lord and it shall be blessed for ever
1chr181 now after this it came to pass that david smote the philistines and subdued them and took gath and her towns out of the hand of the philistines
1chr182 and he smote moab and the moabites became david's servants and brought gifts
1chr183 and david smote hadarezer king of zobah unto hamath as he went to stablish his dominion by the river euphrates
1chr184 and david took from him a thousand chariots and seven thousand horsemen and twenty thousand footmen david also houghed all the chariot horses but reserved of them an hundred chariots
1chr185 and when the syrians of damascus came to help hadarezer king of zobah david slew of the syrians two and twenty thousand men
1chr186 then david put garrisons in syriadamascus and the syrians became david's servants and brought gifts thus the lord preserved david whithersoever he went
1chr187 and david took the shields of gold that were on the servants of hadarezer and brought them to jerusalem
1chr188 likewise from tibhath and from chun cities of hadarezer brought david very much brass wherewith solomon made the brasen sea and the pillars and the vessels of brass
1chr189 now when tou king of hamath heard how david had smitten all the host of hadarezer king of zobah
1chr1810 he sent hadoram his son to king david to enquire of his welfare and to congratulate him because he had fought against hadarezer and smitten him for hadarezer had war with tou and with him all manner of vessels of gold and silver and brass
1chr1811 them also king david dedicated unto the lord with the silver and the gold that he brought from all these nations from edom and from moab and from the children of ammon and from the philistines and from amalek
1chr1812 moreover abishai the son of zeruiah slew of the edomites in the valley of salt eighteen thousand
1chr1813 and he put garrisons in edom and all the edomites became david's servants thus the lord preserved david whithersoever he went
1chr1814 so david reigned over all israel and executed judgment and justice among all his people
1chr1815 and joab the son of zeruiah was over the host and jehoshaphat the son of ahilud recorder
1chr1816 and zadok the son of ahitub and abimelech the son of abiathar were the priests and shavsha was scribe
1chr1817 and benaiah the son of jehoiada was over the cherethites and the pelethites and the sons of david were chief about the king
1chr191 now it came to pass after this that nahash the king of the children of ammon died and his son reigned in his stead
1chr192 and david said i will shew kindness unto hanun the son of nahash because his father shewed kindness to me and david sent messengers to comfort him concerning his father so the servants of david came into the land of the children of ammon to hanun to comfort him
1chr193 but the princes of the children of ammon said to hanun thinkest thou that david doth honour thy father that he hath sent comforters unto thee are not his servants come unto thee for to search and to overthrow and to spy out the land
1chr194 wherefore hanun took david's servants and shaved them and cut off their garments in the midst hard by their buttocks and sent them away
1chr195 then there went certain and told david how the men were served and he sent to meet them for the men were greatly ashamed and the king said tarry at jericho until your beards be grown and then return
1chr196 and when the children of ammon saw that they had made themselves odious to david hanun and the children of ammon sent a thousand talents of silver to hire them chariots and horsemen out of mesopotamia and out of syriamaachah and out of zobah
1chr197 so they hired thirty and two thousand chariots and the king of maachah and his people who came and pitched before medeba and the children of ammon gathered themselves together from their cities and came to battle
1chr198 and when david heard of it he sent joab and all the host of the mighty men
1chr199 and the children of ammon came out and put the battle in array before the gate of the city and the kings that were come were by themselves in the field
1chr1910 now when joab saw that the battle was set against him before and behind he chose out of all the choice of israel and put them in array against the syrians
1chr1911 and the rest of the people he delivered unto the hand of abishai his brother and they set themselves in array against the children of ammon
1chr1912 and he said if the syrians be too strong for me then thou shalt help me but if the children of ammon be too strong for thee then i will help thee
1chr1913 be of good courage and let us behave ourselves valiantly for our people and for the cities of our god and let the lord do that which is good in his sight
1chr1914 so joab and the people that were with him drew nigh before the syrians unto the battle and they fled before him
1chr1915 and when the children of ammon saw that the syrians were fled they likewise fled before abishai his brother and entered into the city then joab came to jerusalem
1chr1916 and when the syrians saw that they were put to the worse before israel they sent messengers and drew forth the syrians that were beyond the river and shophach the captain of the host of hadarezer went before them
1chr1917 and it was told david and he gathered all israel and passed over jordan and came upon them and set the battle in array against them so when david had put the battle in array against the syrians they fought with him
1chr1918 but the syrians fled before israel and david slew of the syrians seven thousand men which fought in chariots and forty thousand footmen and killed shophach the captain of the host
1chr1919 and when the servants of hadarezer saw that they were put to the worse before israel they made peace with david and became his servants neither would the syrians help the children of ammon any more
1chr201 and it came to pass that after the year was expired at the time that kings go out to battle joab led forth the power of the army and wasted the country of the children of ammon and came and besieged rabbah but david tarried at jerusalem and joab smote rabbah and destroyed it
1chr202 and david took the crown of their king from off his head and found it to weigh a talent of gold and there were precious stones in it and it was set upon david's head and he brought also exceeding much spoil out of the city
1chr203 and he brought out the people that were in it and cut them with saws and with harrows of iron and with axes even so dealt david with all the cities of the children of ammon and david and all the people returned to jerusalem
1chr204 and it came to pass after this that there arose war at gezer with the philistines at which time sibbechai the hushathite slew sippai that was of the children of the giant and they were subdued
1chr205 and there was war again with the philistines and elhanan the son of jair slew lahmi the brother of goliath the gittite whose spear staff was like a weaver's beam
1chr206 and yet again there was war at gath where was a man of great stature whose fingers and toes were four and twenty six on each hand and six on each foot and he also was the son of the giant
1chr207 but when he defied israel jonathan the son of shimea david's brother slew him
1chr208 these were born unto the giant in gath and they fell by the hand of david and by the hand of his servants
1chr211 and satan stood up against israel and provoked david to number israel
1chr212 and david said to joab and to the rulers of the people go number israel from beersheba even to dan and bring the number of them to me that i may know it
1chr213 and joab answered the lord make his people an hundred times so many more as they be but my lord the king are they not all my lord's servants why then doth my lord require this thing why will he be a cause of trespass to israel
1chr214 nevertheless the king's word prevailed against joab wherefore joab departed and went throughout all israel and came to jerusalem
1chr215 and joab gave the sum of the number of the people unto david and all they of israel were a thousand thousand and an hundred thousand men that drew sword and judah was four hundred threescore and ten thousand men that drew sword
1chr216 but levi and benjamin counted he not among them for the king's word was abominable to joab
1chr217 and god was displeased with this thing therefore he smote israel
1chr218 and david said unto god i have sinned greatly because i have done this thing but now i beseech thee do away the iniquity of thy servant for i have done very foolishly
1chr219 and the lord spake unto gad david's seer saying
1chr2110 go and tell david saying thus saith the lord i offer thee three things choose thee one of them that i may do it unto thee
1chr2111 so gad came to david and said unto him thus saith the lord choose thee
1chr2112 either three years famine or three months to be destroyed before thy foes while that the sword of thine enemies overtaketh thee or else three days the sword of the lord even the pestilence in the land and the angel of the lord destroying throughout all the coasts of israel now therefore advise thyself what word i shall bring again to him that sent me
1chr2113 and david said unto gad i am in a great strait let me fall now into the hand of the lord for very great are his mercies but let me not fall into the hand of man
1chr2114 so the lord sent pestilence upon israel and there fell of israel seventy thousand men
1chr2115 and god sent an angel unto jerusalem to destroy it and as he was destroying the lord beheld and he repented him of the evil and said to the angel that destroyed it is enough stay now thine hand and the angel of the lord stood by the threshingfloor of ornan the jebusite
1chr2116 and david lifted up his eyes and saw the angel of the lord stand between the earth and the heaven having a drawn sword in his hand stretched out over jerusalem then david and the elders of israel who were clothed in sackcloth fell upon their faces
1chr2117 and david said unto god is it not i that commanded the people to be numbered even i it is that have sinned and done evil indeed but as for these sheep what have they done let thine hand i pray thee o lord my god be on me and on my father's house but not on thy people that they should be plagued
1chr2118 then the angel of the lord commanded gad to say to david that david should go up and set up an altar unto the lord in the threshingfloor of ornan the jebusite
1chr2119 and david went up at the saying of gad which he spake in the name of the lord
1chr2120 and ornan turned back and saw the angel and his four sons with him hid themselves now ornan was threshing wheat
1chr2121 and as david came to ornan ornan looked and saw david and went out of the threshingfloor and bowed himself to david with his face to the ground
1chr2122 then david said to ornan grant me the place of this threshingfloor that i may build an altar therein unto the lord thou shalt grant it me for the full price that the plague may be stayed from the people
1chr2123 and ornan said unto david take it to thee and let my lord the king do that which is good in his eyes lo i give thee the oxen also for burnt offerings and the threshing instruments for wood and the wheat for the meat offering i give it all
1chr2124 and king david said to ornan nay but i will verily buy it for the full price for i will not take that which is thine for the lord nor offer burnt offerings without cost
1chr2125 so david gave to ornan for the place six hundred shekels of gold by weight
1chr2126 and david built there an altar unto the lord and offered burnt offerings and peace offerings and called upon the lord and he answered him from heaven by fire upon the altar of burnt offering
1chr2127 and the lord commanded the angel and he put up his sword again into the sheath thereof
1chr2128 at that time when david saw that the lord had answered him in the threshingfloor of ornan the jebusite then he sacrificed there
1chr2129 for the tabernacle of the lord which moses made in the wilderness and the altar of the burnt offering were at that season in the high place at gibeon
1chr2130 but david could not go before it to enquire of god for he was afraid because of the sword of the angel of the lord
1chr221 then david said this is the house of the lord god and this is the altar of the burnt offering for israel
1chr222 and david commanded to gather together the strangers that were in the land of israel and he set masons to hew wrought stones to build the house of god
1chr223 and david prepared iron in abundance for the nails for the doors of the gates and for the joinings and brass in abundance without weight
1chr224 also cedar trees in abundance for the zidonians and they of tyre brought much cedar wood to david
1chr225 and david said solomon my son is young and tender and the house that is to be builded for the lord must be exceeding magnifical of fame and of glory throughout all countries i will therefore now make preparation for it so david prepared abundantly before his death
1chr226 then he called for solomon his son and charged him to build an house for the lord god of israel
1chr227 and david said to solomon my son as for me it was in my mind to build an house unto the name of the lord my god
1chr228 but the word of the lord came to me saying thou hast shed blood abundantly and hast made great wars thou shalt not build an house unto my name because thou hast shed much blood upon the earth in my sight
1chr229 behold a son shall be born to thee who shall be a man of rest and i will give him rest from all his enemies round about for his name shall be solomon and i will give peace and quietness unto israel in his days
1chr2210 he shall build an house for my name and he shall be my son and i will be his father and i will establish the throne of his kingdom over israel for ever
1chr2211 now my son the lord be with thee and prosper thou and build the house of the lord thy god as he hath said of thee
1chr2212 only the lord give thee wisdom and understanding and give thee charge concerning israel that thou mayest keep the law of the lord thy god
1chr2213 then shalt thou prosper if thou takest heed to fulfil the statutes and judgments which the lord charged moses with concerning israel be strong and of good courage dread not nor be dismayed
1chr2214 now behold in my trouble i have prepared for the house of the lord an hundred thousand talents of gold and a thousand thousand talents of silver and of brass and iron without weight for it is in abundance timber also and stone have i prepared and thou mayest add thereto
1chr2215 moreover there are workmen with thee in abundance hewers and workers of stone and timber and all manner of cunning men for every manner of work
1chr2216 of the gold the silver and the brass and the iron there is no number arise therefore and be doing and the lord be with thee
1chr2217 david also commanded all the princes of israel to help solomon his son saying
1chr2218 is not the lord your god with you and hath he not given you rest on every side for he hath given the inhabitants of the land into mine hand and the land is subdued before the lord and before his people
1chr2219 now set your heart and your soul to seek the lord your god arise therefore and build ye the sanctuary of the lord god to bring the ark of the covenant of the lord and the holy vessels of god into the house that is to be built to the name of the lord
1chr231 so when david was old and full of days he made solomon his son king over israel
1chr232 and he gathered together all the princes of israel with the priests and the levites
1chr233 now the levites were numbered from the age of thirty years and upward and their number by their polls man by man was thirty and eight thousand
1chr234 of which twenty and four thousand were to set forward the work of the house of the lord and six thousand were officers and judges
1chr235 moreover four thousand were porters and four thousand praised the lord with the instruments which i made said david to praise therewith
1chr236 and david divided them into courses among the sons of levi namely gershon kohath and merari
1chr237 of the gershonites were laadan and shimei
1chr238 the sons of laadan the chief was jehiel and zetham and joel three
1chr239 the sons of shimei shelomith and haziel and haran three these were the chief of the fathers of laadan
1chr2310 and the sons of shimei were jahath zina and jeush and beriah these four were the sons of shimei
1chr2311 and jahath was the chief and zizah the second but jeush and beriah had not many sons therefore they were in one reckoning according to their father's house
1chr2312 the sons of kohath amram izhar hebron and uzziel four
1chr2313 the sons of amram aaron and moses and aaron was separated that he should sanctify the most holy things he and his sons for ever to burn incense before the lord to minister unto him and to bless in his name for ever
1chr2314 now concerning moses the man of god his sons were named of the tribe of levi
1chr2315 the sons of moses were gershom and eliezer
1chr2316 of the sons of gershom shebuel was the chief
1chr2317 and the sons of eliezer were rehabiah the chief and eliezer had none other sons but the sons of rehabiah were very many
1chr2318 of the sons of izhar shelomith the chief
1chr2319 of the sons of hebron jeriah the first amariah the second jahaziel the third and jekameam the fourth
1chr2320 of the sons of uzziel micah the first and jesiah the second
1chr2321 the sons of merari mahli and mushi the sons of mahli eleazar and kish
1chr2322 and eleazar died and had no sons but daughters and their brethren the sons of kish took them
1chr2323 the sons of mushi mahli and eder and jeremoth three
1chr2324 these were the sons of levi after the house of their fathers even the chief of the fathers as they were counted by number of names by their polls that did the work for the service of the house of the lord from the age of twenty years and upward
1chr2325 for david said the lord god of israel hath given rest unto his people that they may dwell in jerusalem for ever
1chr2326 and also unto the levites they shall no more carry the tabernacle nor any vessels of it for the service thereof
1chr2327 for by the last words of david the levites were numbered from twenty years old and above
1chr2328 because their office was to wait on the sons of aaron for the service of the house of the lord in the courts and in the chambers and in the purifying of all holy things and the work of the service of the house of god
1chr2329 both for the shewbread and for the fine flour for meat offering and for the unleavened cakes and for that which is baked in the pan and for that which is fried and for all manner of measure and size
1chr2330 and to stand every morning to thank and praise the lord and likewise at even
1chr2331 and to offer all burnt sacrifices unto the lord in the sabbaths in the new moons and on the set feasts by number according to the order commanded unto them continually before the lord
1chr2332 and that they should keep the charge of the tabernacle of the congregation and the charge of the holy place and the charge of the sons of aaron their brethren in the service of the house of the lord
1chr241 now these are the divisions of the sons of aaron the sons of aaron nadab and abihu eleazar and ithamar
1chr242 but nadab and abihu died before their father and had no children therefore eleazar and ithamar executed the priest's office
1chr243 and david distributed them both zadok of the sons of eleazar and ahimelech of the sons of ithamar according to their offices in their service
1chr244 and there were more chief men found of the sons of eleazar than of the sons of ithamar and thus were they divided among the sons of eleazar there were sixteen chief men of the house of their fathers and eight among the sons of ithamar according to the house of their fathers
1chr245 thus were they divided by lot one sort with another for the governors of the sanctuary and governors of the house of god were of the sons of eleazar and of the sons of ithamar
1chr246 and shemaiah the son of nethaneel the scribe one of the levites wrote them before the king and the princes and zadok the priest and ahimelech the son of abiathar and before the chief of the fathers of the priests and levites one principal household being taken for eleazar and one taken for ithamar
1chr247 now the first lot came forth to jehoiarib the second to jedaiah
1chr248 the third to harim the fourth to seorim
1chr249 the fifth to malchijah the sixth to mijamin
1chr2410 the seventh to hakkoz the eighth to abijah
1chr2411 the ninth to jeshuah the tenth to shecaniah
1chr2412 the eleventh to eliashib the twelfth to jakim
1chr2413 the thirteenth to huppah the fourteenth to jeshebeab
1chr2414 the fifteenth to bilgah the sixteenth to immer
1chr2415 the seventeenth to hezir the eighteenth to aphses
1chr2416 the nineteenth to pethahiah the twentieth to jehezekel
1chr2417 the one and twentieth to jachin the two and twentieth to gamul
1chr2418 the three and twentieth to delaiah the four and twentieth to maaziah
1chr2419 these were the orderings of them in their service to come into the house of the lord according to their manner under aaron their father as the lord god of israel had commanded him
1chr2420 and the rest of the sons of levi were these of the sons of amram shubael of the sons of shubael jehdeiah
1chr2421 concerning rehabiah of the sons of rehabiah the first was isshiah
1chr2422 of the izharites shelomoth of the sons of shelomoth jahath
1chr2423 and the sons of hebron jeriah the first amariah the second jahaziel the third jekameam the fourth
1chr2424 of the sons of uzziel michah of the sons of michah shamir
1chr2425 the brother of michah was isshiah of the sons of isshiah zechariah
1chr2426 the sons of merari were mahli and mushi the sons of jaaziah beno
1chr2427 the sons of merari by jaaziah beno and shoham and zaccur and ibri
1chr2428 of mahli came eleazar who had no sons
1chr2429 concerning kish the son of kish was jerahmeel
1chr2430 the sons also of mushi mahli and eder and jerimoth these were the sons of the levites after the house of their fathers
1chr2431 these likewise cast lots over against their brethren the sons of aaron in the presence of david the king and zadok and ahimelech and the chief of the fathers of the priests and levites even the principal fathers over against their younger brethren
1chr251 moreover david and the captains of the host separated to the service of the sons of asaph and of heman and of jeduthun who should prophesy with harps with psalteries and with cymbals and the number of the workmen according to their service was
1chr252 of the sons of asaph zaccur and joseph and nethaniah and asarelah the sons of asaph under the hands of asaph which prophesied according to the order of the king
1chr253 of jeduthun the sons of jeduthun gedaliah and zeri and jeshaiah hashabiah and mattithiah six under the hands of their father jeduthun who prophesied with a harp to give thanks and to praise the lord
1chr254 of heman the sons of heman bukkiah mattaniah uzziel shebuel and jerimoth hananiah hanani eliathah giddalti and romamtiezer joshbekashah mallothi hothir and mahazioth
1chr255 all these were the sons of heman the king's seer in the words of god to lift up the horn and god gave to heman fourteen sons and three daughters
1chr256 all these were under the hands of their father for song in the house of the lord with cymbals psalteries and harps for the service of the house of god according to the king's order to asaph jeduthun and heman
1chr257 so the number of them with their brethren that were instructed in the songs of the lord even all that were cunning was two hundred fourscore and eight
1chr258 and they cast lots ward against ward as well the small as the great the teacher as the scholar
1chr259 now the first lot came forth for asaph to joseph the second to gedaliah who with his brethren and sons were twelve
1chr2510 the third to zaccur he his sons and his brethren were twelve
1chr2511 the fourth to izri he his sons and his brethren were twelve
1chr2512 the fifth to nethaniah he his sons and his brethren were twelve
1chr2513 the sixth to bukkiah he his sons and his brethren were twelve
1chr2514 the seventh to jesharelah he his sons and his brethren were twelve
1chr2515 the eighth to jeshaiah he his sons and his brethren were twelve
1chr2516 the ninth to mattaniah he his sons and his brethren were twelve
1chr2517 the tenth to shimei he his sons and his brethren were twelve
1chr2518 the eleventh to azareel he his sons and his brethren were twelve
1chr2519 the twelfth to hashabiah he his sons and his brethren were twelve
1chr2520 the thirteenth to shubael he his sons and his brethren were twelve
1chr2521 the fourteenth to mattithiah he his sons and his brethren were twelve
1chr2522 the fifteenth to jeremoth he his sons and his brethren were twelve
1chr2523 the sixteenth to hananiah he his sons and his brethren were twelve
1chr2524 the seventeenth to joshbekashah he his sons and his brethren were twelve
1chr2525 the eighteenth to hanani he his sons and his brethren were twelve
1chr2526 the nineteenth to mallothi he his sons and his brethren were twelve
1chr2527 the twentieth to eliathah he his sons and his brethren were twelve
1chr2528 the one and twentieth to hothir he his sons and his brethren were twelve
1chr2529 the two and twentieth to giddalti he his sons and his brethren were twelve
1chr2530 the three and twentieth to mahazioth he his sons and his brethren were twelve
1chr2531 the four and twentieth to romamtiezer he his sons and his brethren were twelve
1chr261 concerning the divisions of the porters of the korhites was meshelemiah the son of kore of the sons of asaph
1chr262 and the sons of meshelemiah were zechariah the firstborn jediael the second zebadiah the third jathniel the fourth
1chr263 elam the fifth jehohanan the sixth elioenai the seventh
1chr264 moreover the sons of obededom were shemaiah the firstborn jehozabad the second joah the third and sacar the fourth and nethaneel the fifth
1chr265 ammiel the sixth issachar the seventh peulthai the eighth for god blessed him
1chr266 also unto shemaiah his son were sons born that ruled throughout the house of their father for they were mighty men of valour
1chr267 the sons of shemaiah othni and rephael and obed elzabad whose brethren were strong men elihu and semachiah
1chr268 all these of the sons of obededom they and their sons and their brethren able men for strength for the service were threescore and two of obededom
1chr269 and meshelemiah had sons and brethren strong men eighteen
1chr2610 also hosah of the children of merari had sons simri the chief for though he was not the firstborn yet his father made him the chief
1chr2611 hilkiah the second tebaliah the third zechariah the fourth all the sons and brethren of hosah were thirteen
1chr2612 among these were the divisions of the porters even among the chief men having wards one against another to minister in the house of the lord
1chr2613 and they cast lots as well the small as the great according to the house of their fathers for every gate
1chr2614 and the lot eastward fell to shelemiah then for zechariah his son a wise counsellor they cast lots and his lot came out northward
1chr2615 to obededom southward and to his sons the house of asuppim
1chr2616 to shuppim and hosah the lot came forth westward with the gate shallecheth by the causeway of the going up ward against ward
1chr2617 eastward were six levites northward four a day southward four a day and toward asuppim two and two
1chr2618 at parbar westward four at the causeway and two at parbar
1chr2619 these are the divisions of the porters among the sons of kore and among the sons of merari
1chr2620 and of the levites ahijah was over the treasures of the house of god and over the treasures of the dedicated things
1chr2621 as concerning the sons of laadan the sons of the gershonite laadan chief fathers even of laadan the gershonite were jehieli
1chr2622 the sons of jehieli zetham and joel his brother which were over the treasures of the house of the lord
1chr2623 of the amramites and the izharites the hebronites and the uzzielites
1chr2624 and shebuel the son of gershom the son of moses was ruler of the treasures
1chr2625 and his brethren by eliezer rehabiah his son and jeshaiah his son and joram his son and zichri his son and shelomith his son
1chr2626 which shelomith and his brethren were over all the treasures of the dedicated things which david the king and the chief fathers the captains over thousands and hundreds and the captains of the host had dedicated
1chr2627 out of the spoils won in battles did they dedicate to maintain the house of the lord
1chr2628 and all that samuel the seer and saul the son of kish and abner the son of ner and joab the son of zeruiah had dedicated and whosoever had dedicated any thing it was under the hand of shelomith and of his brethren
1chr2629 of the izharites chenaniah and his sons were for the outward business over israel for officers and judges
1chr2630 and of the hebronites hashabiah and his brethren men of valour a thousand and seven hundred were officers among them of israel on this side jordan westward in all the business of the lord and in the service of the king
1chr2631 among the hebronites was jerijah the chief even among the hebronites according to the generations of his fathers in the fortieth year of the reign of david they were sought for and there were found among them mighty men of valour at jazer of gilead
1chr2632 and his brethren men of valour were two thousand and seven hundred chief fathers whom king david made rulers over the reubenites the gadites and the half tribe of manasseh for every matter pertaining to god and affairs of the king
1chr271 now the children of israel after their number to wit the chief fathers and captains of thousands and hundreds and their officers that served the king in any matter of the courses which came in and went out month by month throughout all the months of the year of every course were twenty and four thousand
1chr272 over the first course for the first month was jashobeam the son of zabdiel and in his course were twenty and four thousand
1chr273 of the children of perez was the chief of all the captains of the host for the first month
1chr274 and over the course of the second month was dodai an ahohite and of his course was mikloth also the ruler in his course likewise were twenty and four thousand
1chr275 the third captain of the host for the third month was benaiah the son of jehoiada a chief priest and in his course were twenty and four thousand
1chr276 this is that benaiah who was mighty among the thirty and above the thirty and in his course was ammizabad his son
1chr277 the fourth captain for the fourth month was asahel the brother of joab and zebadiah his son after him and in his course were twenty and four thousand
1chr278 the fifth captain for the fifth month was shamhuth the izrahite and in his course were twenty and four thousand
1chr279 the sixth captain for the sixth month was ira the son of ikkesh the tekoite and in his course were twenty and four thousand
1chr2710 the seventh captain for the seventh month was helez the pelonite of the children of ephraim and in his course were twenty and four thousand
1chr2711 the eighth captain for the eighth month was sibbecai the hushathite of the zarhites and in his course were twenty and four thousand
1chr2712 the ninth captain for the ninth month was abiezer the anetothite of the benjamites and in his course were twenty and four thousand
1chr2713 the tenth captain for the tenth month was maharai the netophathite of the zarhites and in his course were twenty and four thousand
1chr2714 the eleventh captain for the eleventh month was benaiah the pirathonite of the children of ephraim and in his course were twenty and four thousand
1chr2715 the twelfth captain for the twelfth month was heldai the netophathite of othniel and in his course were twenty and four thousand
1chr2716 furthermore over the tribes of israel the ruler of the reubenites was eliezer the son of zichri of the simeonites shephatiah the son of maachah
1chr2717 of the levites hashabiah the son of kemuel of the aaronites zadok
1chr2718 of judah elihu one of the brethren of david of issachar omri the son of michael
1chr2719 of zebulun ishmaiah the son of obadiah of naphtali jerimoth the son of azriel
1chr2720 of the children of ephraim hoshea the son of azaziah of the half tribe of manasseh joel the son of pedaiah
1chr2721 of the half tribe of manasseh in gilead iddo the son of zechariah of benjamin jaasiel the son of abner
1chr2722 of dan azareel the son of jeroham these were the princes of the tribes of israel
1chr2723 but david took not the number of them from twenty years old and under because the lord had said he would increase israel like to the stars of the heavens
1chr2724 joab the son of zeruiah began to number but he finished not because there fell wrath for it against israel neither was the number put in the account of the chronicles of king david
1chr2725 and over the king's treasures was azmaveth the son of adiel and over the storehouses in the fields in the cities and in the villages and in the castles was jehonathan the son of uzziah
1chr2726 and over them that did the work of the field for tillage of the ground was ezri the son of chelub
1chr2727 and over the vineyards was shimei the ramathite over the increase of the vineyards for the wine cellars was zabdi the shiphmite
1chr2728 and over the olive trees and the sycomore trees that were in the low plains was baalhanan the gederite and over the cellars of oil was joash
1chr2729 and over the herds that fed in sharon was shitrai the sharonite and over the herds that were in the valleys was shaphat the son of adlai
1chr2730 over the camels also was obil the ishmaelite and over the asses was jehdeiah the meronothite
1chr2731 and over the flocks was jaziz the hagerite all these were the rulers of the substance which was king david's
1chr2732 also jonathan david's uncle was a counsellor a wise man and a scribe and jehiel the son of hachmoni was with the king's sons
1chr2733 and ahithophel was the king's counsellor and hushai the archite was the king's companion
1chr2734 and after ahithophel was jehoiada the son of benaiah and abiathar and the general of the king's army was joab
1chr281 and david assembled all the princes of israel the princes of the tribes and the captains of the companies that ministered to the king by course and the captains over the thousands and captains over the hundreds and the stewards over all the substance and possession of the king and of his sons with the officers and with the mighty men and with all the valiant men unto jerusalem
1chr282 then david the king stood up upon his feet and said hear me my brethren and my people as for me i had in mine heart to build an house of rest for the ark of the covenant of the lord and for the footstool of our god and had made ready for the building
1chr283 but god said unto me thou shalt not build an house for my name because thou hast been a man of war and hast shed blood
1chr284 howbeit the lord god of israel chose me before all the house of my father to be king over israel for ever for he hath chosen judah to be the ruler and of the house of judah the house of my father and among the sons of my father he liked me to make me king over all israel
1chr285 and of all my sons for the lord hath given me many sons he hath chosen solomon my son to sit upon the throne of the kingdom of the lord over israel
1chr286 and he said unto me solomon thy son he shall build my house and my courts for i have chosen him to be my son and i will be his father
1chr287 moreover i will establish his kingdom for ever if he be constant to do my commandments and my judgments as at this day
1chr288 now therefore in the sight of all israel the congregation of the lord and in the audience of our god keep and seek for all the commandments of the lord your god that ye may possess this good land and leave it for an inheritance for your children after you for ever
1chr289 and thou solomon my son know thou the god of thy father and serve him with a perfect heart and with a willing mind for the lord searcheth all hearts and understandeth all the imaginations of the thoughts if thou seek him he will be found of thee but if thou forsake him he will cast thee off for ever
1chr2810 take heed now for the lord hath chosen thee to build an house for the sanctuary be strong and do it
1chr2811 then david gave to solomon his son the pattern of the porch and of the houses thereof and of the treasuries thereof and of the upper chambers thereof and of the inner parlours thereof and of the place of the mercy seat
1chr2812 and the pattern of all that he had by the spirit of the courts of the house of the lord and of all the chambers round about of the treasuries of the house of god and of the treasuries of the dedicated things
1chr2813 also for the courses of the priests and the levites and for all the work of the service of the house of the lord and for all the vessels of service in the house of the lord
1chr2814 he gave of gold by weight for things of gold for all instruments of all manner of service silver also for all instruments of silver by weight for all instruments of every kind of service
1chr2815 even the weight for the candlesticks of gold and for their lamps of gold by weight for every candlestick and for the lamps thereof and for the candlesticks of silver by weight both for the candlestick and also for the lamps thereof according to the use of every candlestick
1chr2816 and by weight he gave gold for the tables of shewbread for every table and likewise silver for the tables of silver
1chr2817 also pure gold for the fleshhooks and the bowls and the cups and for the golden basons he gave gold by weight for every bason and likewise silver by weight for every bason of silver
1chr2818 and for the altar of incense refined gold by weight and gold for the pattern of the chariot of the cherubims that spread out their wings and covered the ark of the covenant of the lord
1chr2819 all this said david the lord made me understand in writing by his hand upon me even all the works of this pattern
1chr2820 and david said to solomon his son be strong and of good courage and do it fear not nor be dismayed for the lord god even my god will be with thee he will not fail thee nor forsake thee until thou hast finished all the work for the service of the house of the lord
1chr2821 and behold the courses of the priests and the levites even they shall be with thee for all the service of the house of god and there shall be with thee for all manner of workmanship every willing skilful man for any manner of service also the princes and all the people will be wholly at thy commandment
1chr291 furthermore david the king said unto all the congregation solomon my son whom alone god hath chosen is yet young and tender and the work is great for the palace is not for man but for the lord god
1chr292 now i have prepared with all my might for the house of my god the gold for things to be made of gold and the silver for things of silver and the brass for things of brass the iron for things of iron and wood for things of wood onyx stones and stones to be set glistering stones and of divers colours and all manner of precious stones and marble stones in abundance
1chr293 moreover because i have set my affection to the house of my god i have of mine own proper good of gold and silver which i have given to the house of my god over and above all that i have prepared for the holy house
1chr294 even three thousand talents of gold of the gold of ophir and seven thousand talents of refined silver to overlay the walls of the houses withal
1chr295 the gold for things of gold and the silver for things of silver and for all manner of work to be made by the hands of artificers and who then is willing to consecrate his service this day unto the lord
1chr296 then the chief of the fathers and princes of the tribes of israel and the captains of thousands and of hundreds with the rulers of the king's work offered willingly
1chr297 and gave for the service of the house of god of gold five thousand talents and ten thousand drams and of silver ten thousand talents and of brass eighteen thousand talents and one hundred thousand talents of iron
1chr298 and they with whom precious stones were found gave them to the treasure of the house of the lord by the hand of jehiel the gershonite
1chr299 then the people rejoiced for that they offered willingly because with perfect heart they offered willingly to the lord and david the king also rejoiced with great joy
1chr2910 wherefore david blessed the lord before all the congregation and david said blessed be thou lord god of israel our father for ever and ever
1chr2911 thine o lord is the greatness and the power and the glory and the victory and the majesty for all that is in the heaven and in the earth is thine thine is the kingdom o lord and thou art exalted as head above all
1chr2912 both riches and honour come of thee and thou reignest over all and in thine hand is power and might and in thine hand it is to make great and to give strength unto all
1chr2913 now therefore our god we thank thee and praise thy glorious name
1chr2914 but who am i and what is my people that we should be able to offer so willingly after this sort for all things come of thee and of thine own have we given thee
1chr2915 for we are strangers before thee and sojourners as were all our fathers our days on the earth are as a shadow and there is none abiding
1chr2916 o lord our god all this store that we have prepared to build thee an house for thine holy name cometh of thine hand and is all thine own
1chr2917 i know also my god that thou triest the heart and hast pleasure in uprightness as for me in the uprightness of mine heart i have willingly offered all these things and now have i seen with joy thy people which are present here to offer willingly unto thee
1chr2918 o lord god of abraham isaac and of israel our fathers keep this for ever in the imagination of the thoughts of the heart of thy people and prepare their heart unto thee
1chr2919 and give unto solomon my son a perfect heart to keep thy commandments thy testimonies and thy statutes and to do all these things and to build the palace for the which i have made provision
1chr2920 and david said to all the congregation now bless the lord your god and all the congregation blessed the lord god of their fathers and bowed down their heads and worshipped the lord and the king
1chr2921 and they sacrificed sacrifices unto the lord and offered burnt offerings unto the lord on the morrow after that day even a thousand bullocks a thousand rams and a thousand lambs with their drink offerings and sacrifices in abundance for all israel
1chr2922 and did eat and drink before the lord on that day with great gladness and they made solomon the son of david king the second time and anointed him unto the lord to be the chief governor and zadok to be priest
1chr2923 then solomon sat on the throne of the lord as king instead of david his father and prospered and all israel obeyed him
1chr2924 and all the princes and the mighty men and all the sons likewise of king david submitted themselves unto solomon the king
1chr2925 and the lord magnified solomon exceedingly in the sight of all israel and bestowed upon him such royal majesty as had not been on any king before him in israel
1chr2926 thus david the son of jesse reigned over all israel
1chr2927 and the time that he reigned over israel was forty years seven years reigned he in hebron and thirty and three years reigned he in jerusalem
1chr2928 and he died in a good old age full of days riches and honour and solomon his son reigned in his stead
1chr2929 now the acts of david the king first and last behold they are written in the book of samuel the seer and in the book of nathan the prophet and in the book of gad the seer
1chr2930 with all his reign and his might and the times that went over him and over israel and over all the kingdoms of the countries
2chr11 and solomon the son of david was strengthened in his kingdom and the lord his god was with him and magnified him exceedingly
2chr12 then solomon spake unto all israel to the captains of thousands and of hundreds and to the judges and to every governor in all israel the chief of the fathers
2chr13 so solomon and all the congregation with him went to the high place that was at gibeon for there was the tabernacle of the congregation of god which moses the servant of the lord had made in the wilderness
2chr14 but the ark of god had david brought up from kirjathjearim to the place which david had prepared for it for he had pitched a tent for it at jerusalem
2chr15 moreover the brasen altar that bezaleel the son of uri the son of hur had made he put before the tabernacle of the lord and solomon and the congregation sought unto it
2chr16 and solomon went up thither to the brasen altar before the lord which was at the tabernacle of the congregation and offered a thousand burnt offerings upon it
2chr17 in that night did god appear unto solomon and said unto him ask what i shall give thee
2chr18 and solomon said unto god thou hast shewed great mercy unto david my father and hast made me to reign in his stead
2chr19 now o lord god let thy promise unto david my father be established for thou hast made me king over a people like the dust of the earth in multitude
2chr110 give me now wisdom and knowledge that i may go out and come in before this people for who can judge this thy people that is so great
2chr111 and god said to solomon because this was in thine heart and thou hast not asked riches wealth or honour nor the life of thine enemies neither yet hast asked long life but hast asked wisdom and knowledge for thyself that thou mayest judge my people over whom i have made thee king
2chr112 wisdom and knowledge is granted unto thee and i will give thee riches and wealth and honour such as none of the kings have had that have been before thee neither shall there any after thee have the like
2chr113 then solomon came from his journey to the high place that was at gibeon to jerusalem from before the tabernacle of the congregation and reigned over israel
2chr114 and solomon gathered chariots and horsemen and he had a thousand and four hundred chariots and twelve thousand horsemen which he placed in the chariot cities and with the king at jerusalem
2chr115 and the king made silver and gold at jerusalem as plenteous as stones and cedar trees made he as the sycomore trees that are in the vale for abundance
2chr116 and solomon had horses brought out of egypt and linen yarn the king's merchants received the linen yarn at a price
2chr117 and they fetched up and brought forth out of egypt a chariot for six hundred shekels of silver and an horse for an hundred and fifty and so brought they out horses for all the kings of the hittites and for the kings of syria by their means
2chr21 and solomon determined to build an house for the name of the lord and an house for his kingdom
2chr22 and solomon told out threescore and ten thousand men to bear burdens and fourscore thousand to hew in the mountain and three thousand and six hundred to oversee them
2chr23 and solomon sent to huram the king of tyre saying as thou didst deal with david my father and didst send him cedars to build him an house to dwell therein even so deal with me
2chr24 behold i build an house to the name of the lord my god to dedicate it to him and to burn before him sweet incense and for the continual shewbread and for the burnt offerings morning and evening on the sabbaths and on the new moons and on the solemn feasts of the lord our god this is an ordinance for ever to israel
2chr25 and the house which i build is great for great is our god above all gods
2chr26 but who is able to build him an house seeing the heaven and heaven of heavens cannot contain him who am i then that i should build him an house save only to burn sacrifice before him
2chr27 send me now therefore a man cunning to work in gold and in silver and in brass and in iron and in purple and crimson and blue and that can skill to grave with the cunning men that are with me in judah and in jerusalem whom david my father did provide
2chr28 send me also cedar trees fir trees and algum trees out of lebanon for i know that thy servants can skill to cut timber in lebanon and behold my servants shall be with thy servants
2chr29 even to prepare me timber in abundance for the house which i am about to build shall be wonderful great
2chr210 and behold i will give to thy servants the hewers that cut timber twenty thousand measures of beaten wheat and twenty thousand measures of barley and twenty thousand baths of wine and twenty thousand baths of oil
2chr211 then huram the king of tyre answered in writing which he sent to solomon because the lord hath loved his people he hath made thee king over them
2chr212 huram said moreover blessed be the lord god of israel that made heaven and earth who hath given to david the king a wise son endued with prudence and understanding that might build an house for the lord and an house for his kingdom
2chr213 and now i have sent a cunning man endued with understanding of huram my father's
2chr214 the son of a woman of the daughters of dan and his father was a man of tyre skilful to work in gold and in silver in brass in iron in stone and in timber in purple in blue and in fine linen and in crimson also to grave any manner of graving and to find out every device which shall be put to him with thy cunning men and with the cunning men of my lord david thy father
2chr215 now therefore the wheat and the barley the oil and the wine which my lord hath spoken of let him send unto his servants
2chr216 and we will cut wood out of lebanon as much as thou shalt need and we will bring it to thee in floats by sea to joppa and thou shalt carry it up to jerusalem
2chr217 and solomon numbered all the strangers that were in the land of israel after the numbering wherewith david his father had numbered them and they were found an hundred and fifty thousand and three thousand and six hundred
2chr218 and he set threescore and ten thousand of them to be bearers of burdens and fourscore thousand to be hewers in the mountain and three thousand and six hundred overseers to set the people a work
2chr31 then solomon began to build the house of the lord at jerusalem in mount moriah where the lord appeared unto david his father in the place that david had prepared in the threshingfloor of ornan the jebusite
2chr32 and he began to build in the second day of the second month in the fourth year of his reign
2chr33 now these are the things wherein solomon was instructed for the building of the house of god the length by cubits after the first measure was threescore cubits and the breadth twenty cubits
2chr34 and the porch that was in the front of the house the length of it was according to the breadth of the house twenty cubits and the height was an hundred and twenty and he overlaid it within with pure gold
2chr35 and the greater house he cieled with fir tree which he overlaid with fine gold and set thereon palm trees and chains
2chr36 and he garnished the house with precious stones for beauty and the gold was gold of parvaim
2chr37 he overlaid also the house the beams the posts and the walls thereof and the doors thereof with gold and graved cherubims on the walls
2chr38 and he made the most holy house the length whereof was according to the breadth of the house twenty cubits and the breadth thereof twenty cubits and he overlaid it with fine gold amounting to six hundred talents
2chr39 and the weight of the nails was fifty shekels of gold and he overlaid the upper chambers with gold
2chr310 and in the most holy house he made two cherubims of image work and overlaid them with gold
2chr311 and the wings of the cherubims were twenty cubits long one wing of the one cherub was five cubits reaching to the wall of the house and the other wing was likewise five cubits reaching to the wing of the other cherub
2chr312 and one wing of the other cherub was five cubits reaching to the wall of the house and the other wing was five cubits also joining to the wing of the other cherub
2chr313 the wings of these cherubims spread themselves forth twenty cubits and they stood on their feet and their faces were inward
2chr314 and he made the vail of blue and purple and crimson and fine linen and wrought cherubims thereon
2chr315 also he made before the house two pillars of thirty and five cubits high and the chapiter that was on the top of each of them was five cubits
2chr316 and he made chains as in the oracle and put them on the heads of the pillars and made an hundred pomegranates and put them on the chains
2chr317 and he reared up the pillars before the temple one on the right hand and the other on the left and called the name of that on the right hand jachin and the name of that on the left boaz
2chr41 moreover he made an altar of brass twenty cubits the length thereof and twenty cubits the breadth thereof and ten cubits the height thereof
2chr42 also he made a molten sea of ten cubits from brim to brim round in compass and five cubits the height thereof and a line of thirty cubits did compass it round about
2chr43 and under it was the similitude of oxen which did compass it round about ten in a cubit compassing the sea round about two rows of oxen were cast when it was cast
2chr44 it stood upon twelve oxen three looking toward the north and three looking toward the west and three looking toward the south and three looking toward the east and the sea was set above upon them and all their hinder parts were inward
2chr45 and the thickness of it was an handbreadth and the brim of it like the work of the brim of a cup with flowers of lilies and it received and held three thousand baths
2chr46 he made also ten lavers and put five on the right hand and five on the left to wash in them such things as they offered for the burnt offering they washed in them but the sea was for the priests to wash in
2chr47 and he made ten candlesticks of gold according to their form and set them in the temple five on the right hand and five on the left
2chr48 he made also ten tables and placed them in the temple five on the right side and five on the left and he made an hundred basons of gold
2chr49 furthermore he made the court of the priests and the great court and doors for the court and overlaid the doors of them with brass
2chr410 and he set the sea on the right side of the east end over against the south
2chr411 and huram made the pots and the shovels and the basons and huram finished the work that he was to make for king solomon for the house of god
2chr412 to wit the two pillars and the pommels and the chapiters which were on the top of the two pillars and the two wreaths to cover the two pommels of the chapiters which were on the top of the pillars
2chr413 and four hundred pomegranates on the two wreaths two rows of pomegranates on each wreath to cover the two pommels of the chapiters which were upon the pillars
2chr414 he made also bases and lavers made he upon the bases
2chr415 one sea and twelve oxen under it
2chr416 the pots also and the shovels and the fleshhooks and all their instruments did huram his father make to king solomon for the house of the lord of bright brass
2chr417 in the plain of jordan did the king cast them in the clay ground between succoth and zeredathah
2chr418 thus solomon made all these vessels in great abundance for the weight of the brass could not be found out
2chr419 and solomon made all the vessels that were for the house of god the golden altar also and the tables whereon the shewbread was set
2chr420 moreover the candlesticks with their lamps that they should burn after the manner before the oracle of pure gold
2chr421 and the flowers and the lamps and the tongs made he of gold and that perfect gold
2chr422 and the snuffers and the basons and the spoons and the censers of pure gold and the entry of the house the inner doors thereof for the most holy place and the doors of the house of the temple were of gold
2chr51 thus all the work that solomon made for the house of the lord was finished and solomon brought in all the things that david his father had dedicated and the silver and the gold and all the instruments put he among the treasures of the house of god
2chr52 then solomon assembled the elders of israel and all the heads of the tribes the chief of the fathers of the children of israel unto jerusalem to bring up the ark of the covenant of the lord out of the city of david which is zion
2chr53 wherefore all the men of israel assembled themselves unto the king in the feast which was in the seventh month
2chr54 and all the elders of israel came and the levites took up the ark
2chr55 and they brought up the ark and the tabernacle of the congregation and all the holy vessels that were in the tabernacle these did the priests and the levites bring up
2chr56 also king solomon and all the congregation of israel that were assembled unto him before the ark sacrificed sheep and oxen which could not be told nor numbered for multitude
2chr57 and the priests brought in the ark of the covenant of the lord unto his place to the oracle of the house into the most holy place even under the wings of the cherubims
2chr58 for the cherubims spread forth their wings over the place of the ark and the cherubims covered the ark and the staves thereof above
2chr59 and they drew out the staves of the ark that the ends of the staves were seen from the ark before the oracle but they were not seen without and there it is unto this day
2chr510 there was nothing in the ark save the two tables which moses put therein at horeb when the lord made a covenant with the children of israel when they came out of egypt
2chr511 and it came to pass when the priests were come out of the holy place for all the priests that were present were sanctified and did not then wait by course
2chr512 also the levites which were the singers all of them of asaph of heman of jeduthun with their sons and their brethren being arrayed in white linen having cymbals and psalteries and harps stood at the east end of the altar and with them an hundred and twenty priests sounding with trumpets
2chr513 it came even to pass as the trumpeters and singers were as one to make one sound to be heard in praising and thanking the lord and when they lifted up their voice with the trumpets and cymbals and instruments of musick and praised the lord saying for he is good for his mercy endureth for ever that then the house was filled with a cloud even the house of the lord
2chr514 so that the priests could not stand to minister by reason of the cloud for the glory of the lord had filled the house of god
2chr61 then said solomon the lord hath said that he would dwell in the thick darkness
2chr62 but i have built an house of habitation for thee and a place for thy dwelling for ever
2chr63 and the king turned his face and blessed the whole congregation of israel and all the congregation of israel stood
2chr64 and he said blessed be the lord god of israel who hath with his hands fulfilled that which he spake with his mouth to my father david saying
2chr65 since the day that i brought forth my people out of the land of egypt i chose no city among all the tribes of israel to build an house in that my name might be there neither chose i any man to be a ruler over my people israel
2chr66 but i have chosen jerusalem that my name might be there and have chosen david to be over my people israel
2chr67 now it was in the heart of david my father to build an house for the name of the lord god of israel
2chr68 but the lord said to david my father forasmuch as it was in thine heart to build an house for my name thou didst well in that it was in thine heart
2chr69 notwithstanding thou shalt not build the house but thy son which shall come forth out of thy loins he shall build the house for my name
2chr610 the lord therefore hath performed his word that he hath spoken for i am risen up in the room of david my father and am set on the throne of israel as the lord promised and have built the house for the name of the lord god of israel
2chr611 and in it have i put the ark wherein is the covenant of the lord that he made with the children of israel
2chr612 and he stood before the altar of the lord in the presence of all the congregation of israel and spread forth his hands
2chr613 for solomon had made a brasen scaffold of five cubits long and five cubits broad and three cubits high and had set it in the midst of the court and upon it he stood and kneeled down upon his knees before all the congregation of israel and spread forth his hands toward heaven
2chr614 and said o lord god of israel there is no god like thee in the heaven nor in the earth which keepest covenant and shewest mercy unto thy servants that walk before thee with all their hearts
2chr615 thou which hast kept with thy servant david my father that which thou hast promised him and spakest with thy mouth and hast fulfilled it with thine hand as it is this day
2chr616 now therefore o lord god of israel keep with thy servant david my father that which thou hast promised him saying there shall not fail thee a man in my sight to sit upon the throne of israel yet so that thy children take heed to their way to walk in my law as thou hast walked before me
2chr617 now then o lord god of israel let thy word be verified which thou hast spoken unto thy servant david
2chr618 but will god in very deed dwell with men on the earth behold heaven and the heaven of heavens cannot contain thee how much less this house which i have built
2chr619 have respect therefore to the prayer of thy servant and to his supplication o lord my god to hearken unto the cry and the prayer which thy servant prayeth before thee
2chr620 that thine eyes may be open upon this house day and night upon the place whereof thou hast said that thou wouldest put thy name there to hearken unto the prayer which thy servant prayeth toward this place
2chr621 hearken therefore unto the supplications of thy servant and of thy people israel which they shall make toward this place hear thou from thy dwelling place even from heaven and when thou hearest forgive
2chr622 if a man sin against his neighbour and an oath be laid upon him to make him swear and the oath come before thine altar in this house
2chr623 then hear thou from heaven and do and judge thy servants by requiting the wicked by recompensing his way upon his own head and by justifying the righteous by giving him according to his righteousness
2chr624 and if thy people israel be put to the worse before the enemy because they have sinned against thee and shall return and confess thy name and pray and make supplication before thee in this house
2chr625 then hear thou from the heavens and forgive the sin of thy people israel and bring them again unto the land which thou gavest to them and to their fathers
2chr626 when the heaven is shut up and there is no rain because they have sinned against thee yet if they pray toward this place and confess thy name and turn from their sin when thou dost afflict them
2chr627 then hear thou from heaven and forgive the sin of thy servants and of thy people israel when thou hast taught them the good way wherein they should walk and send rain upon thy land which thou hast given unto thy people for an inheritance
2chr628 if there be dearth in the land if there be pestilence if there be blasting or mildew locusts or caterpillers if their enemies besiege them in the cities of their land whatsoever sore or whatsoever sickness there be
2chr629 then what prayer or what supplication soever shall be made of any man or of all thy people israel when every one shall know his own sore and his own grief and shall spread forth his hands in this house
2chr630 then hear thou from heaven thy dwelling place and forgive and render unto every man according unto all his ways whose heart thou knowest for thou only knowest the hearts of the children of men
2chr631 that they may fear thee to walk in thy ways so long as they live in the land which thou gavest unto our fathers
2chr632 moreover concerning the stranger which is not of thy people israel but is come from a far country for thy great name's sake and thy mighty hand and thy stretched out arm if they come and pray in this house
2chr633 then hear thou from the heavens even from thy dwelling place and do according to all that the stranger calleth to thee for that all people of the earth may know thy name and fear thee as doth thy people israel and may know that this house which i have built is called by thy name
2chr634 if thy people go out to war against their enemies by the way that thou shalt send them and they pray unto thee toward this city which thou hast chosen and the house which i have built for thy name
2chr635 then hear thou from the heavens their prayer and their supplication and maintain their cause
2chr636 if they sin against thee for there is no man which sinneth not and thou be angry with them and deliver them over before their enemies and they carry them away captives unto a land far off or near
2chr637 yet if they bethink themselves in the land whither they are carried captive and turn and pray unto thee in the land of their captivity saying we have sinned we have done amiss and have dealt wickedly
2chr638 if they return to thee with all their heart and with all their soul in the land of their captivity whither they have carried them captives and pray toward their land which thou gavest unto their fathers and toward the city which thou hast chosen and toward the house which i have built for thy name
2chr639 then hear thou from the heavens even from thy dwelling place their prayer and their supplications and maintain their cause and forgive thy people which have sinned against thee
2chr640 now my god let i beseech thee thine eyes be open and let thine ears be attent unto the prayer that is made in this place
2chr641 now therefore arise o lord god into thy resting place thou and the ark of thy strength let thy priests o lord god be clothed with salvation and let thy saints rejoice in goodness
2chr642 o lord god turn not away the face of thine anointed remember the mercies of david thy servant
2chr71 now when solomon had made an end of praying the fire came down from heaven and consumed the burnt offering and the sacrifices and the glory of the lord filled the house
2chr72 and the priests could not enter into the house of the lord because the glory of the lord had filled the lord's house
2chr73 and when all the children of israel saw how the fire came down and the glory of the lord upon the house they bowed themselves with their faces to the ground upon the pavement and worshipped and praised the lord saying for he is good for his mercy endureth for ever
2chr74 then the king and all the people offered sacrifices before the lord
2chr75 and king solomon offered a sacrifice of twenty and two thousand oxen and an hundred and twenty thousand sheep so the king and all the people dedicated the house of god
2chr76 and the priests waited on their offices the levites also with instruments of musick of the lord which david the king had made to praise the lord because his mercy endureth for ever when david praised by their ministry and the priests sounded trumpets before them and all israel stood
2chr77 moreover solomon hallowed the middle of the court that was before the house of the lord for there he offered burnt offerings and the fat of the peace offerings because the brasen altar which solomon had made was not able to receive the burnt offerings and the meat offerings and the fat
2chr78 also at the same time solomon kept the feast seven days and all israel with him a very great congregation from the entering in of hamath unto the river of egypt
2chr79 and in the eighth day they made a solemn assembly for they kept the dedication of the altar seven days and the feast seven days
2chr710 and on the three and twentieth day of the seventh month he sent the people away into their tents glad and merry in heart for the goodness that the lord had shewed unto david and to solomon and to israel his people
2chr711 thus solomon finished the house of the lord and the king's house and all that came into solomon's heart to make in the house of the lord and in his own house he prosperously effected
2chr712 and the lord appeared to solomon by night and said unto him i have heard thy prayer and have chosen this place to myself for an house of sacrifice
2chr713 if i shut up heaven that there be no rain or if i command the locusts to devour the land or if i send pestilence among my people
2chr714 if my people which are called by my name shall humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways then will i hear from heaven and will forgive their sin and will heal their land
2chr715 now mine eyes shall be open and mine ears attent unto the prayer that is made in this place
2chr716 for now have i chosen and sanctified this house that my name may be there for ever and mine eyes and mine heart shall be there perpetually
2chr717 and as for thee if thou wilt walk before me as david thy father walked and do according to all that i have commanded thee and shalt observe my statutes and my judgments
2chr718 then will i stablish the throne of thy kingdom according as i have covenanted with david thy father saying there shall not fail thee a man to be ruler in israel
2chr719 but if ye turn away and forsake my statutes and my commandments which i have set before you and shall go and serve other gods and worship them
2chr720 then will i pluck them up by the roots out of my land which i have given them and this house which i have sanctified for my name will i cast out of my sight and will make it to be a proverb and a byword among all nations
2chr721 and this house which is high shall be an astonishment to every one that passeth by it so that he shall say why hath the lord done thus unto this land and unto this house
2chr722 and it shall be answered because they forsook the lord god of their fathers which brought them forth out of the land of egypt and laid hold on other gods and worshipped them and served them therefore hath he brought all this evil upon them
2chr81 and it came to pass at the end of twenty years wherein solomon had built the house of the lord and his own house
2chr82 that the cities which huram had restored to solomon solomon built them and caused the children of israel to dwell there
2chr83 and solomon went to hamathzobah and prevailed against it
2chr84 and he built tadmor in the wilderness and all the store cities which he built in hamath
2chr85 also he built bethhoron the upper and bethhoron the nether fenced cities with walls gates and bars
2chr86 and baalath and all the store cities that solomon had and all the chariot cities and the cities of the horsemen and all that solomon desired to build in jerusalem and in lebanon and throughout all the land of his dominion
2chr87 as for all the people that were left of the hittites and the amorites and the perizzites and the hivites and the jebusites which were not of israel
2chr88 but of their children who were left after them in the land whom the children of israel consumed not them did solomon make to pay tribute until this day
2chr89 but of the children of israel did solomon make no servants for his work but they were men of war and chief of his captains and captains of his chariots and horsemen
2chr810 and these were the chief of king solomon's officers even two hundred and fifty that bare rule over the people
2chr811 and solomon brought up the daughter of pharaoh out of the city of david unto the house that he had built for her for he said my wife shall not dwell in the house of david king of israel because the places are holy whereunto the ark of the lord hath come
2chr812 then solomon offered burnt offerings unto the lord on the altar of the lord which he had built before the porch
2chr813 even after a certain rate every day offering according to the commandment of moses on the sabbaths and on the new moons and on the solemn feasts three times in the year even in the feast of unleavened bread and in the feast of weeks and in the feast of tabernacles
2chr814 and he appointed according to the order of david his father the courses of the priests to their service and the levites to their charges to praise and minister before the priests as the duty of every day required the porters also by their courses at every gate for so had david the man of god commanded
2chr815 and they departed not from the commandment of the king unto the priests and levites concerning any matter or concerning the treasures
2chr816 now all the work of solomon was prepared unto the day of the foundation of the house of the lord and until it was finished so the house of the lord was perfected
2chr817 then went solomon to eziongeber and to eloth at the sea side in the land of edom
2chr818 and huram sent him by the hands of his servants ships and servants that had knowledge of the sea and they went with the servants of solomon to ophir and took thence four hundred and fifty talents of gold and brought them to king solomon
2chr91 and when the queen of sheba heard of the fame of solomon she came to prove solomon with hard questions at jerusalem with a very great company and camels that bare spices and gold in abundance and precious stones and when she was come to solomon she communed with him of all that was in her heart
2chr92 and solomon told her all her questions and there was nothing hid from solomon which he told her not
2chr93 and when the queen of sheba had seen the wisdom of solomon and the house that he had built
2chr94 and the meat of his table and the sitting of his servants and the attendance of his ministers and their apparel his cupbearers also and their apparel and his ascent by which he went up into the house of the lord there was no more spirit in her
2chr95 and she said to the king it was a true report which i heard in mine own land of thine acts and of thy wisdom
2chr96 howbeit i believed not their words until i came and mine eyes had seen it and behold the one half of the greatness of thy wisdom was not told me for thou exceedest the fame that i heard
2chr97 happy are thy men and happy are these thy servants which stand continually before thee and hear thy wisdom
2chr98 blessed be the lord thy god which delighted in thee to set thee on his throne to be king for the lord thy god because thy god loved israel to establish them for ever therefore made he thee king over them to do judgment and justice
2chr99 and she gave the king an hundred and twenty talents of gold and of spices great abundance and precious stones neither was there any such spice as the queen of sheba gave king solomon
2chr910 and the servants also of huram and the servants of solomon which brought gold from ophir brought algum trees and precious stones
2chr911 and the king made of the algum trees terraces to the house of the lord and to the king's palace and harps and psalteries for singers and there were none such seen before in the land of judah
2chr912 and king solomon gave to the queen of sheba all her desire whatsoever she asked beside that which she had brought unto the king so she turned and went away to her own land she and her servants
2chr913 now the weight of gold that came to solomon in one year was six hundred and threescore and six talents of gold
2chr914 beside that which chapmen and merchants brought and all the kings of arabia and governors of the country brought gold and silver to solomon
2chr915 and king solomon made two hundred targets of beaten gold six hundred shekels of beaten gold went to one target
2chr916 and three hundred shields made he of beaten gold three hundred shekels of gold went to one shield and the king put them in the house of the forest of lebanon
2chr917 moreover the king made a great throne of ivory and overlaid it with pure gold
2chr918 and there were six steps to the throne with a footstool of gold which were fastened to the throne and stays on each side of the sitting place and two lions standing by the stays
2chr919 and twelve lions stood there on the one side and on the other upon the six steps there was not the like made in any kingdom
2chr920 and all the drinking vessels of king solomon were of gold and all the vessels of the house of the forest of lebanon were of pure gold none were of silver it was not any thing accounted of in the days of solomon
2chr921 for the king's ships went to tarshish with the servants of huram every three years once came the ships of tarshish bringing gold and silver ivory and apes and peacocks
2chr922 and king solomon passed all the kings of the earth in riches and wisdom
2chr923 and all the kings of the earth sought the presence of solomon to hear his wisdom that god had put in his heart
2chr924 and they brought every man his present vessels of silver and vessels of gold and raiment harness and spices horses and mules a rate year by year
2chr925 and solomon had four thousand stalls for horses and chariots and twelve thousand horsemen whom he bestowed in the chariot cities and with the king at jerusalem
2chr926 and he reigned over all the kings from the river even unto the land of the philistines and to the border of egypt
2chr927 and the king made silver in jerusalem as stones and cedar trees made he as the sycomore trees that are in the low plains in abundance
2chr928 and they brought unto solomon horses out of egypt and out of all lands
2chr929 now the rest of the acts of solomon first and last are they not written in the book of nathan the prophet and in the prophecy of ahijah the shilonite and in the visions of iddo the seer against jeroboam the son of nebat
2chr930 and solomon reigned in jerusalem over all israel forty years
2chr931 and solomon slept with his fathers and he was buried in the city of david his father and rehoboam his son reigned in his stead
2chr101 and rehoboam went to shechem for to shechem were all israel come to make him king
2chr102 and it came to pass when jeroboam the son of nebat who was in egypt whither he had fled from the presence of solomon the king heard it that jeroboam returned out of egypt
2chr103 and they sent and called him so jeroboam and all israel came and spake to rehoboam saying
2chr104 thy father made our yoke grievous now therefore ease thou somewhat the grievous servitude of thy father and his heavy yoke that he put upon us and we will serve thee
2chr105 and he said unto them come again unto me after three days and the people departed
2chr106 and king rehoboam took counsel with the old men that had stood before solomon his father while he yet lived saying what counsel give ye me to return answer to this people
2chr107 and they spake unto him saying if thou be kind to this people and please them and speak good words to them they will be thy servants for ever
2chr108 but he forsook the counsel which the old men gave him and took counsel with the young men that were brought up with him that stood before him
2chr109 and he said unto them what advice give ye that we may return answer to this people which have spoken to me saying ease somewhat the yoke that thy father did put upon us
2chr1010 and the young men that were brought up with him spake unto him saying thus shalt thou answer the people that spake unto thee saying thy father made our yoke heavy but make thou it somewhat lighter for us thus shalt thou say unto them my little finger shall be thicker than my father's loins
2chr1011 for whereas my father put a heavy yoke upon you i will put more to your yoke my father chastised you with whips but i will chastise you with scorpions
2chr1012 so jeroboam and all the people came to rehoboam on the third day as the king bade saying come again to me on the third day
2chr1013 and the king answered them roughly and king rehoboam forsook the counsel of the old men
2chr1014 and answered them after the advice of the young men saying my father made your yoke heavy but i will add thereto my father chastised you with whips but i will chastise you with scorpions
2chr1015 so the king hearkened not unto the people for the cause was of god that the lord might perform his word which he spake by the hand of ahijah the shilonite to jeroboam the son of nebat
2chr1016 and when all israel saw that the king would not hearken unto them the people answered the king saying what portion have we in david and we have none inheritance in the son of jesse every man to your tents o israel and now david see to thine own house so all israel went to their tents
2chr1017 but as for the children of israel that dwelt in the cities of judah rehoboam reigned over them
2chr1018 then king rehoboam sent hadoram that was over the tribute and the children of israel stoned him with stones that he died but king rehoboam made speed to get him up to his chariot to flee to jerusalem
2chr1019 and israel rebelled against the house of david unto this day
2chr111 and when rehoboam was come to jerusalem he gathered of the house of judah and benjamin an hundred and fourscore thousand chosen men which were warriors to fight against israel that he might bring the kingdom again to rehoboam
2chr112 but the word of the lord came to shemaiah the man of god saying
2chr113 speak unto rehoboam the son of solomon king of judah and to all israel in judah and benjamin saying
2chr114 thus saith the lord ye shall not go up nor fight against your brethren return every man to his house for this thing is done of me and they obeyed the words of the lord and returned from going against jeroboam
2chr115 and rehoboam dwelt in jerusalem and built cities for defence in judah
2chr116 he built even bethlehem and etam and tekoa
2chr117 and bethzur and shoco and adullam
2chr118 and gath and mareshah and ziph
2chr119 and adoraim and lachish and azekah
2chr1110 and zorah and aijalon and hebron which are in judah and in benjamin fenced cities
2chr1111 and he fortified the strong holds and put captains in them and store of victual and of oil and wine
2chr1112 and in every several city he put shields and spears and made them exceeding strong having judah and benjamin on his side
2chr1113 and the priests and the levites that were in all israel resorted to him out of all their coasts
2chr1114 for the levites left their suburbs and their possession and came to judah and jerusalem for jeroboam and his sons had cast them off from executing the priest's office unto the lord
2chr1115 and he ordained him priests for the high places and for the devils and for the calves which he had made
2chr1116 and after them out of all the tribes of israel such as set their hearts to seek the lord god of israel came to jerusalem to sacrifice unto the lord god of their fathers
2chr1117 so they strengthened the kingdom of judah and made rehoboam the son of solomon strong three years for three years they walked in the way of david and solomon
2chr1118 and rehoboam took him mahalath the daughter of jerimoth the son of david to wife and abihail the daughter of eliab the son of jesse
2chr1119 which bare him children jeush and shamariah and zaham
2chr1120 and after her he took maachah the daughter of absalom which bare him abijah and attai and ziza and shelomith
2chr1121 and rehoboam loved maachah the daughter of absalom above all his wives and his concubines for he took eighteen wives and threescore concubines and begat twenty and eight sons and threescore daughters
2chr1122 and rehoboam made abijah the son of maachah the chief to be ruler among his brethren for he thought to make him king
2chr1123 and he dealt wisely and dispersed of all his children throughout all the countries of judah and benjamin unto every fenced city and he gave them victual in abundance and he desired many wives
2chr121 and it came to pass when rehoboam had established the kingdom and had strengthened himself he forsook the law of the lord and all israel with him
2chr122 and it came to pass that in the fifth year of king rehoboam shishak king of egypt came up against jerusalem because they had transgressed against the lord
2chr123 with twelve hundred chariots and threescore thousand horsemen and the people were without number that came with him out of egypt the lubims the sukkiims and the ethiopians
2chr124 and he took the fenced cities which pertained to judah and came to jerusalem
2chr125 then came shemaiah the prophet to rehoboam and to the princes of judah that were gathered together to jerusalem because of shishak and said unto them thus saith the lord ye have forsaken me and therefore have i also left you in the hand of shishak
2chr126 whereupon the princes of israel and the king humbled themselves and they said the lord is righteous
2chr127 and when the lord saw that they humbled themselves the word of the lord came to shemaiah saying they have humbled themselves therefore i will not destroy them but i will grant them some deliverance and my wrath shall not be poured out upon jerusalem by the hand of shishak
2chr128 nevertheless they shall be his servants that they may know my service and the service of the kingdoms of the countries
2chr129 so shishak king of egypt came up against jerusalem and took away the treasures of the house of the lord and the treasures of the king's house he took all he carried away also the shields of gold which solomon had made
2chr1210 instead of which king rehoboam made shields of brass and committed them to the hands of the chief of the guard that kept the entrance of the king's house
2chr1211 and when the king entered into the house of the lord the guard came and fetched them and brought them again into the guard chamber
2chr1212 and when he humbled himself the wrath of the lord turned from him that he would not destroy him altogether and also in judah things went well
2chr1213 so king rehoboam strengthened himself in jerusalem and reigned for rehoboam was one and forty years old when he began to reign and he reigned seventeen years in jerusalem the city which the lord had chosen out of all the tribes of israel to put his name there and his mother's name was naamah an ammonitess
2chr1214 and he did evil because he prepared not his heart to seek the lord
2chr1215 now the acts of rehoboam first and last are they not written in the book of shemaiah the prophet and of iddo the seer concerning genealogies and there were wars between rehoboam and jeroboam continually
2chr1216 and rehoboam slept with his fathers and was buried in the city of david and abijah his son reigned in his stead
2chr131 now in the eighteenth year of king jeroboam began abijah to reign over judah
2chr132 he reigned three years in jerusalem his mother's name also was michaiah the daughter of uriel of gibeah and there was war between abijah and jeroboam
2chr133 and abijah set the battle in array with an army of valiant men of war even four hundred thousand chosen men jeroboam also set the battle in array against him with eight hundred thousand chosen men being mighty men of valour
2chr134 and abijah stood up upon mount zemaraim which is in mount ephraim and said hear me thou jeroboam and all israel
2chr135 ought ye not to know that the lord god of israel gave the kingdom over israel to david for ever even to him and to his sons by a covenant of salt
2chr136 yet jeroboam the son of nebat the servant of solomon the son of david is risen up and hath rebelled against his lord
2chr137 and there are gathered unto him vain men the children of belial and have strengthened themselves against rehoboam the son of solomon when rehoboam was young and tenderhearted and could not withstand them
2chr138 and now ye think to withstand the kingdom of the lord in the hand of the sons of david and ye be a great multitude and there are with you golden calves which jeroboam made you for gods
2chr139 have ye not cast out the priests of the lord the sons of aaron and the levites and have made you priests after the manner of the nations of other lands so that whosoever cometh to consecrate himself with a young bullock and seven rams the same may be a priest of them that are no gods
2chr1310 but as for us the lord is our god and we have not forsaken him and the priests which minister unto the lord are the sons of aaron and the levites wait upon their business
2chr1311 and they burn unto the lord every morning and every evening burnt sacrifices and sweet incense the shewbread also set they in order upon the pure table and the candlestick of gold with the lamps thereof to burn every evening for we keep the charge of the lord our god but ye have forsaken him
2chr1312 and behold god himself is with us for our captain and his priests with sounding trumpets to cry alarm against you o children of israel fight ye not against the lord god of your fathers for ye shall not prosper
2chr1313 but jeroboam caused an ambushment to come about behind them so they were before judah and the ambushment was behind them
2chr1314 and when judah looked back behold the battle was before and behind and they cried unto the lord and the priests sounded with the trumpets
2chr1315 then the men of judah gave a shout and as the men of judah shouted it came to pass that god smote jeroboam and all israel before abijah and judah
2chr1316 and the children of israel fled before judah and god delivered them into their hand
2chr1317 and abijah and his people slew them with a great slaughter so there fell down slain of israel five hundred thousand chosen men
2chr1318 thus the children of israel were brought under at that time and the children of judah prevailed because they relied upon the lord god of their fathers
2chr1319 and abijah pursued after jeroboam and took cities from him bethel with the towns thereof and jeshanah with the towns thereof and ephrain with the towns thereof
2chr1320 neither did jeroboam recover strength again in the days of abijah and the lord struck him and he died
2chr1321 but abijah waxed mighty and married fourteen wives and begat twenty and two sons and sixteen daughters
2chr1322 and the rest of the acts of abijah and his ways and his sayings are written in the story of the prophet iddo
2chr141 so abijah slept with his fathers and they buried him in the city of david and asa his son reigned in his stead in his days the land was quiet ten years
2chr142 and asa did that which was good and right in the eyes of the lord his god
2chr143 for he took away the altars of the strange gods and the high places and brake down the images and cut down the groves
2chr144 and commanded judah to seek the lord god of their fathers and to do the law and the commandment
2chr145 also he took away out of all the cities of judah the high places and the images and the kingdom was quiet before him
2chr146 and he built fenced cities in judah for the land had rest and he had no war in those years because the lord had given him rest
2chr147 therefore he said unto judah let us build these cities and make about them walls and towers gates and bars while the land is yet before us because we have sought the lord our god we have sought him and he hath given us rest on every side so they built and prospered
2chr148 and asa had an army of men that bare targets and spears out of judah three hundred thousand and out of benjamin that bare shields and drew bows two hundred and fourscore thousand all these were mighty men of valour
2chr149 and there came out against them zerah the ethiopian with an host of a thousand thousand and three hundred chariots and came unto mareshah
2chr1410 then asa went out against him and they set the battle in array in the valley of zephathah at mareshah
2chr1411 and asa cried unto the lord his god and said lord it is nothing with thee to help whether with many or with them that have no power help us o lord our god for we rest on thee and in thy name we go against this multitude o lord thou art our god let not man prevail against thee
2chr1412 so the lord smote the ethiopians before asa and before judah and the ethiopians fled
2chr1413 and asa and the people that were with him pursued them unto gerar and the ethiopians were overthrown that they could not recover themselves for they were destroyed before the lord and before his host and they carried away very much spoil
2chr1414 and they smote all the cities round about gerar for the fear of the lord came upon them and they spoiled all the cities for there was exceeding much spoil in them
2chr1415 they smote also the tents of cattle and carried away sheep and camels in abundance and returned to jerusalem
2chr151 and the spirit of god came upon azariah the son of oded
2chr152 and he went out to meet asa and said unto him hear ye me asa and all judah and benjamin the lord is with you while ye be with him and if ye seek him he will be found of you but if ye forsake him he will forsake you
2chr153 now for a long season israel hath been without the true god and without a teaching priest and without law
2chr154 but when they in their trouble did turn unto the lord god of israel and sought him he was found of them
2chr155 and in those times there was no peace to him that went out nor to him that came in but great vexations were upon all the inhabitants of the countries
2chr156 and nation was destroyed of nation and city of city for god did vex them with all adversity
2chr157 be ye strong therefore and let not your hands be weak for your work shall be rewarded
2chr158 and when asa heard these words and the prophecy of oded the prophet he took courage and put away the abominable idols out of all the land of judah and benjamin and out of the cities which he had taken from mount ephraim and renewed the altar of the lord that was before the porch of the lord
2chr159 and he gathered all judah and benjamin and the strangers with them out of ephraim and manasseh and out of simeon for they fell to him out of israel in abundance when they saw that the lord his god was with him
2chr1510 so they gathered themselves together at jerusalem in the third month in the fifteenth year of the reign of asa
2chr1511 and they offered unto the lord the same time of the spoil which they had brought seven hundred oxen and seven thousand sheep
2chr1512 and they entered into a covenant to seek the lord god of their fathers with all their heart and with all their soul
2chr1513 that whosoever would not seek the lord god of israel should be put to death whether small or great whether man or woman
2chr1514 and they sware unto the lord with a loud voice and with shouting and with trumpets and with cornets
2chr1515 and all judah rejoiced at the oath for they had sworn with all their heart and sought him with their whole desire and he was found of them and the lord gave them rest round about
2chr1516 and also concerning maachah the mother of asa the king he removed her from being queen because she had made an idol in a grove and asa cut down her idol and stamped it and burnt it at the brook kidron
2chr1517 but the high places were not taken away out of israel nevertheless the heart of asa was perfect all his days
2chr1518 and he brought into the house of god the things that his father had dedicated and that he himself had dedicated silver and gold and vessels
2chr1519 and there was no more war unto the five and thirtieth year of the reign of asa
2chr161 in the six and thirtieth year of the reign of asa baasha king of israel came up against judah and built ramah to the intent that he might let none go out or come in to asa king of judah
2chr162 then asa brought out silver and gold out of the treasures of the house of the lord and of the king's house and sent to benhadad king of syria that dwelt at damascus saying
2chr163 there is a league between me and thee as there was between my father and thy father behold i have sent thee silver and gold go break thy league with baasha king of israel that he may depart from me
2chr164 and benhadad hearkened unto king asa and sent the captains of his armies against the cities of israel and they smote ijon and dan and abelmaim and all the store cities of naphtali
2chr165 and it came to pass when baasha heard it that he left off building of ramah and let his work cease
2chr166 then asa the king took all judah and they carried away the stones of ramah and the timber thereof wherewith baasha was building and he built therewith geba and mizpah
2chr167 and at that time hanani the seer came to asa king of judah and said unto him because thou hast relied on the king of syria and not relied on the lord thy god therefore is the host of the king of syria escaped out of thine hand
2chr168 were not the ethiopians and the lubims a huge host with very many chariots and horsemen yet because thou didst rely on the lord he delivered them into thine hand
2chr169 for the eyes of the lord run to and fro throughout the whole earth to shew himself strong in the behalf of them whose heart is perfect toward him herein thou hast done foolishly therefore from henceforth thou shalt have wars
2chr1610 then asa was wroth with the seer and put him in a prison house for he was in a rage with him because of this thing and asa oppressed some of the people the same time
2chr1611 and behold the acts of asa first and last lo they are written in the book of the kings of judah and israel
2chr1612 and asa in the thirty and ninth year of his reign was diseased in his feet until his disease was exceeding great yet in his disease he sought not to the lord but to the physicians
2chr1613 and asa slept with his fathers and died in the one and fortieth year of his reign
2chr1614 and they buried him in his own sepulchres which he had made for himself in the city of david and laid him in the bed which was filled with sweet odours and divers kinds of spices prepared by the apothecaries art and they made a very great burning for him
2chr171 and jehoshaphat his son reigned in his stead and strengthened himself against israel
2chr172 and he placed forces in all the fenced cities of judah and set garrisons in the land of judah and in the cities of ephraim which asa his father had taken
2chr173 and the lord was with jehoshaphat because he walked in the first ways of his father david and sought not unto baalim
2chr174 but sought to the lord god of his father and walked in his commandments and not after the doings of israel
2chr175 therefore the lord stablished the kingdom in his hand and all judah brought to jehoshaphat presents and he had riches and honour in abundance
2chr176 and his heart was lifted up in the ways of the lord moreover he took away the high places and groves out of judah
2chr177 also in the third year of his reign he sent to his princes even to benhail and to obadiah and to zechariah and to nethaneel and to michaiah to teach in the cities of judah
2chr178 and with them he sent levites even shemaiah and nethaniah and zebadiah and asahel and shemiramoth and jehonathan and adonijah and tobijah and tobadonijah levites and with them elishama and jehoram priests
2chr179 and they taught in judah and had the book of the law of the lord with them and went about throughout all the cities of judah and taught the people
2chr1710 and the fear of the lord fell upon all the kingdoms of the lands that were round about judah so that they made no war against jehoshaphat
2chr1711 also some of the philistines brought jehoshaphat presents and tribute silver and the arabians brought him flocks seven thousand and seven hundred rams and seven thousand and seven hundred he goats
2chr1712 and jehoshaphat waxed great exceedingly and he built in judah castles and cities of store
2chr1713 and he had much business in the cities of judah and the men of war mighty men of valour were in jerusalem
2chr1714 and these are the numbers of them according to the house of their fathers of judah the captains of thousands adnah the chief and with him mighty men of valour three hundred thousand
2chr1715 and next to him was jehohanan the captain and with him two hundred and fourscore thousand
2chr1716 and next him was amasiah the son of zichri who willingly offered himself unto the lord and with him two hundred thousand mighty men of valour
2chr1717 and of benjamin eliada a mighty man of valour and with him armed men with bow and shield two hundred thousand
2chr1718 and next him was jehozabad and with him an hundred and fourscore thousand ready prepared for the war
2chr1719 these waited on the king beside those whom the king put in the fenced cities throughout all judah
2chr181 now jehoshaphat had riches and honour in abundance and joined affinity with ahab
2chr182 and after certain years he went down to ahab to samaria and ahab killed sheep and oxen for him in abundance and for the people that he had with him and persuaded him to go up with him to ramothgilead
2chr183 and ahab king of israel said unto jehoshaphat king of judah wilt thou go with me to ramothgilead and he answered him i am as thou art and my people as thy people and we will be with thee in the war
2chr184 and jehoshaphat said unto the king of israel enquire i pray thee at the word of the lord to day
2chr185 therefore the king of israel gathered together of prophets four hundred men and said unto them shall we go to ramothgilead to battle or shall i forbear and they said go up for god will deliver it into the king's hand
2chr186 but jehoshaphat said is there not here a prophet of the lord besides that we might enquire of him
2chr187 and the king of israel said unto jehoshaphat there is yet one man by whom we may enquire of the lord but i hate him for he never prophesied good unto me but always evil the same is micaiah the son of imla and jehoshaphat said let not the king say so
2chr188 and the king of israel called for one of his officers and said fetch quickly micaiah the son of imla
2chr189 and the king of israel and jehoshaphat king of judah sat either of them on his throne clothed in their robes and they sat in a void place at the entering in of the gate of samaria and all the prophets prophesied before them
2chr1810 and zedekiah the son of chenaanah had made him horns of iron and said thus saith the lord with these thou shalt push syria until they be consumed
2chr1811 and all the prophets prophesied so saying go up to ramothgilead and prosper for the lord shall deliver it into the hand of the king
2chr1812 and the messenger that went to call micaiah spake to him saying behold the words of the prophets declare good to the king with one assent let thy word therefore i pray thee be like one of theirs and speak thou good
2chr1813 and micaiah said as the lord liveth even what my god saith that will i speak
2chr1814 and when he was come to the king the king said unto him micaiah shall we go to ramothgilead to battle or shall i forbear and he said go ye up and prosper and they shall be delivered into your hand
2chr1815 and the king said to him how many times shall i adjure thee that thou say nothing but the truth to me in the name of the lord
2chr1816 then he said i did see all israel scattered upon the mountains as sheep that have no shepherd and the lord said these have no master let them return therefore every man to his house in peace
2chr1817 and the king of israel said to jehoshaphat did i not tell thee that he would not prophesy good unto me but evil
2chr1818 again he said therefore hear the word of the lord i saw the lord sitting upon his throne and all the host of heaven standing on his right hand and on his left
2chr1819 and the lord said who shall entice ahab king of israel that he may go up and fall at ramothgilead and one spake saying after this manner and another saying after that manner
2chr1820 then there came out a spirit and stood before the lord and said i will entice him and the lord said unto him wherewith
2chr1821 and he said i will go out and be a lying spirit in the mouth of all his prophets and the lord said thou shalt entice him and thou shalt also prevail go out and do even so
2chr1822 now therefore behold the lord hath put a lying spirit in the mouth of these thy prophets and the lord hath spoken evil against thee
2chr1823 then zedekiah the son of chenaanah came near and smote micaiah upon the cheek and said which way went the spirit of the lord from me to speak unto thee
2chr1824 and micaiah said behold thou shalt see on that day when thou shalt go into an inner chamber to hide thyself
2chr1825 then the king of israel said take ye micaiah and carry him back to amon the governor of the city and to joash the king's son
2chr1826 and say thus saith the king put this fellow in the prison and feed him with bread of affliction and with water of affliction until i return in peace
2chr1827 and micaiah said if thou certainly return in peace then hath not the lord spoken by me and he said hearken all ye people
2chr1828 so the king of israel and jehoshaphat the king of judah went up to ramothgilead
2chr1829 and the king of israel said unto jehoshaphat i will disguise myself and will go to the battle but put thou on thy robes so the king of israel disguised himself and they went to the battle
2chr1830 now the king of syria had commanded the captains of the chariots that were with him saying fight ye not with small or great save only with the king of israel
2chr1831 and it came to pass when the captains of the chariots saw jehoshaphat that they said it is the king of israel therefore they compassed about him to fight but jehoshaphat cried out and the lord helped him and god moved them to depart from him
2chr1832 for it came to pass that when the captains of the chariots perceived that it was not the king of israel they turned back again from pursuing him
2chr1833 and a certain man drew a bow at a venture and smote the king of israel between the joints of the harness therefore he said to his chariot man turn thine hand that thou mayest carry me out of the host for i am wounded
2chr1834 and the battle increased that day howbeit the king of israel stayed himself up in his chariot against the syrians until the even and about the time of the sun going down he died
2chr191 and jehoshaphat the king of judah returned to his house in peace to jerusalem
2chr192 and jehu the son of hanani the seer went out to meet him and said to king jehoshaphat shouldest thou help the ungodly and love them that hate the lord therefore is wrath upon thee from before the lord
2chr193 nevertheless there are good things found in thee in that thou hast taken away the groves out of the land and hast prepared thine heart to seek god
2chr194 and jehoshaphat dwelt at jerusalem and he went out again through the people from beersheba to mount ephraim and brought them back unto the lord god of their fathers
2chr195 and he set judges in the land throughout all the fenced cities of judah city by city
2chr196 and said to the judges take heed what ye do for ye judge not for man but for the lord who is with you in the judgment
2chr197 wherefore now let the fear of the lord be upon you take heed and do it for there is no iniquity with the lord our god nor respect of persons nor taking of gifts
2chr198 moreover in jerusalem did jehoshaphat set of the levites and of the priests and of the chief of the fathers of israel for the judgment of the lord and for controversies when they returned to jerusalem
2chr199 and he charged them saying thus shall ye do in the fear of the lord faithfully and with a perfect heart
2chr1910 and what cause soever shall come to you of your brethren that dwell in their cities between blood and blood between law and commandment statutes and judgments ye shall even warn them that they trespass not against the lord and so wrath come upon you and upon your brethren this do and ye shall not trespass
2chr1911 and behold amariah the chief priest is over you in all matters of the lord and zebadiah the son of ishmael the ruler of the house of judah for all the king's matters also the levites shall be officers before you deal courageously and the lord shall be with the good
2chr201 it came to pass after this also that the children of moab and the children of ammon and with them other beside the ammonites came against jehoshaphat to battle
2chr202 then there came some that told jehoshaphat saying there cometh a great multitude against thee from beyond the sea on this side syria and behold they be in hazazontamar which is engedi
2chr203 and jehoshaphat feared and set himself to seek the lord and proclaimed a fast throughout all judah
2chr204 and judah gathered themselves together to ask help of the lord even out of all the cities of judah they came to seek the lord
2chr205 and jehoshaphat stood in the congregation of judah and jerusalem in the house of the lord before the new court
2chr206 and said o lord god of our fathers art not thou god in heaven and rulest not thou over all the kingdoms of the heathen and in thine hand is there not power and might so that none is able to withstand thee
2chr207 art not thou our god who didst drive out the inhabitants of this land before thy people israel and gavest it to the seed of abraham thy friend for ever
2chr208 and they dwelt therein and have built thee a sanctuary therein for thy name saying
2chr209 if when evil cometh upon us as the sword judgment or pestilence or famine we stand before this house and in thy presence for thy name is in this house and cry unto thee in our affliction then thou wilt hear and help
2chr2010 and now behold the children of ammon and moab and mount seir whom thou wouldest not let israel invade when they came out of the land of egypt but they turned from them and destroyed them not
2chr2011 behold i say how they reward us to come to cast us out of thy possession which thou hast given us to inherit
2chr2012 o our god wilt thou not judge them for we have no might against this great company that cometh against us neither know we what to do but our eyes are upon thee
2chr2013 and all judah stood before the lord with their little ones their wives and their children
2chr2014 then upon jahaziel the son of zechariah the son of benaiah the son of jeiel the son of mattaniah a levite of the sons of asaph came the spirit of the lord in the midst of the congregation
2chr2015 and he said hearken ye all judah and ye inhabitants of jerusalem and thou king jehoshaphat thus saith the lord unto you be not afraid nor dismayed by reason of this great multitude for the battle is not yours but god's
2chr2016 to morrow go ye down against them behold they come up by the cliff of ziz and ye shall find them at the end of the brook before the wilderness of jeruel
2chr2017 ye shall not need to fight in this battle set yourselves stand ye still and see the salvation of the lord with you o judah and jerusalem fear not nor be dismayed to morrow go out against them for the lord will be with you
2chr2018 and jehoshaphat bowed his head with his face to the ground and all judah and the inhabitants of jerusalem fell before the lord worshipping the lord
2chr2019 and the levites of the children of the kohathites and of the children of the korhites stood up to praise the lord god of israel with a loud voice on high
2chr2020 and they rose early in the morning and went forth into the wilderness of tekoa and as they went forth jehoshaphat stood and said hear me o judah and ye inhabitants of jerusalem believe in the lord your god so shall ye be established believe his prophets so shall ye prosper
2chr2021 and when he had consulted with the people he appointed singers unto the lord and that should praise the beauty of holiness as they went out before the army and to say praise the lord for his mercy endureth for ever
2chr2022 and when they began to sing and to praise the lord set ambushments against the children of ammon moab and mount seir which were come against judah and they were smitten
2chr2023 for the children of ammon and moab stood up against the inhabitants of mount seir utterly to slay and destroy them and when they had made an end of the inhabitants of seir every one helped to destroy another
2chr2024 and when judah came toward the watch tower in the wilderness they looked unto the multitude and behold they were dead bodies fallen to the earth and none escaped
2chr2025 and when jehoshaphat and his people came to take away the spoil of them they found among them in abundance both riches with the dead bodies and precious jewels which they stripped off for themselves more than they could carry away and they were three days in gathering of the spoil it was so much
2chr2026 and on the fourth day they assembled themselves in the valley of berachah for there they blessed the lord therefore the name of the same place was called the valley of berachah unto this day
2chr2027 then they returned every man of judah and jerusalem and jehoshaphat in the forefront of them to go again to jerusalem with joy for the lord had made them to rejoice over their enemies
2chr2028 and they came to jerusalem with psalteries and harps and trumpets unto the house of the lord
2chr2029 and the fear of god was on all the kingdoms of those countries when they had heard that the lord fought against the enemies of israel
2chr2030 so the realm of jehoshaphat was quiet for his god gave him rest round about
2chr2031 and jehoshaphat reigned over judah he was thirty and five years old when he began to reign and he reigned twenty and five years in jerusalem and his mother's name was azubah the daughter of shilhi
2chr2032 and he walked in the way of asa his father and departed not from it doing that which was right in the sight of the lord
2chr2033 howbeit the high places were not taken away for as yet the people had not prepared their hearts unto the god of their fathers
2chr2034 now the rest of the acts of jehoshaphat first and last behold they are written in the book of jehu the son of hanani who is mentioned in the book of the kings of israel
2chr2035 and after this did jehoshaphat king of judah join himself with ahaziah king of israel who did very wickedly
2chr2036 and he joined himself with him to make ships to go to tarshish and they made the ships in eziongaber
2chr2037 then eliezer the son of dodavah of mareshah prophesied against jehoshaphat saying because thou hast joined thyself with ahaziah the lord hath broken thy works and the ships were broken that they were not able to go to tarshish
2chr211 now jehoshaphat slept with his fathers and was buried with his fathers in the city of david and jehoram his son reigned in his stead
2chr212 and he had brethren the sons of jehoshaphat azariah and jehiel and zechariah and azariah and michael and shephatiah all these were the sons of jehoshaphat king of israel
2chr213 and their father gave them great gifts of silver and of gold and of precious things with fenced cities in judah but the kingdom gave he to jehoram because he was the firstborn
2chr214 now when jehoram was risen up to the kingdom of his father he strengthened himself and slew all his brethren with the sword and divers also of the princes of israel
2chr215 jehoram was thirty and two years old when he began to reign and he reigned eight years in jerusalem
2chr216 and he walked in the way of the kings of israel like as did the house of ahab for he had the daughter of ahab to wife and he wrought that which was evil in the eyes of the lord
2chr217 howbeit the lord would not destroy the house of david because of the covenant that he had made with david and as he promised to give a light to him and to his sons for ever
2chr218 in his days the edomites revolted from under the dominion of judah and made themselves a king
2chr219 then jehoram went forth with his princes and all his chariots with him and he rose up by night and smote the edomites which compassed him in and the captains of the chariots
2chr2110 so the edomites revolted from under the hand of judah unto this day the same time also did libnah revolt from under his hand because he had forsaken the lord god of his fathers
2chr2111 moreover he made high places in the mountains of judah and caused the inhabitants of jerusalem to commit fornication and compelled judah thereto
2chr2112 and there came a writing to him from elijah the prophet saying thus saith the lord god of david thy father because thou hast not walked in the ways of jehoshaphat thy father nor in the ways of asa king of judah
2chr2113 but hast walked in the way of the kings of israel and hast made judah and the inhabitants of jerusalem to go a whoring like to the whoredoms of the house of ahab and also hast slain thy brethren of thy father's house which were better than thyself
2chr2114 behold with a great plague will the lord smite thy people and thy children and thy wives and all thy goods
2chr2115 and thou shalt have great sickness by disease of thy bowels until thy bowels fall out by reason of the sickness day by day
2chr2116 moreover the lord stirred up against jehoram the spirit of the philistines and of the arabians that were near the ethiopians
2chr2117 and they came up into judah and brake into it and carried away all the substance that was found in the king's house and his sons also and his wives so that there was never a son left him save jehoahaz the youngest of his sons
2chr2118 and after all this the lord smote him in his bowels with an incurable disease
2chr2119 and it came to pass that in process of time after the end of two years his bowels fell out by reason of his sickness so he died of sore diseases and his people made no burning for him like the burning of his fathers
2chr2120 thirty and two years old was he when he began to reign and he reigned in jerusalem eight years and departed without being desired howbeit they buried him in the city of david but not in the sepulchres of the kings
2chr221 and the inhabitants of jerusalem made ahaziah his youngest son king in his stead for the band of men that came with the arabians to the camp had slain all the eldest so ahaziah the son of jehoram king of judah reigned
2chr222 forty and two years old was ahaziah when he began to reign and he reigned one year in jerusalem his mother's name also was athaliah the daughter of omri
2chr223 he also walked in the ways of the house of ahab for his mother was his counsellor to do wickedly
2chr224 wherefore he did evil in the sight of the lord like the house of ahab for they were his counsellors after the death of his father to his destruction
2chr225 he walked also after their counsel and went with jehoram the son of ahab king of israel to war against hazael king of syria at ramothgilead and the syrians smote joram
2chr226 and he returned to be healed in jezreel because of the wounds which were given him at ramah when he fought with hazael king of syria and azariah the son of jehoram king of judah went down to see jehoram the son of ahab at jezreel because he was sick
2chr227 and the destruction of ahaziah was of god by coming to joram for when he was come he went out with jehoram against jehu the son of nimshi whom the lord had anointed to cut off the house of ahab
2chr228 and it came to pass that when jehu was executing judgment upon the house of ahab and found the princes of judah and the sons of the brethren of ahaziah that ministered to ahaziah he slew them
2chr229 and he sought ahaziah and they caught him for he was hid in samaria and brought him to jehu and when they had slain him they buried him because said they he is the son of jehoshaphat who sought the lord with all his heart so the house of ahaziah had no power to keep still the kingdom
2chr2210 but when athaliah the mother of ahaziah saw that her son was dead she arose and destroyed all the seed royal of the house of judah
2chr2211 but jehoshabeath the daughter of the king took joash the son of ahaziah and stole him from among the king's sons that were slain and put him and his nurse in a bedchamber so jehoshabeath the daughter of king jehoram the wife of jehoiada the priest for she was the sister of ahaziah hid him from athaliah so that she slew him not
2chr2212 and he was with them hid in the house of god six years and athaliah reigned over the land
2chr231 and in the seventh year jehoiada strengthened himself and took the captains of hundreds azariah the son of jeroham and ishmael the son of jehohanan and azariah the son of obed and maaseiah the son of adaiah and elishaphat the son of zichri into covenant with him
2chr232 and they went about in judah and gathered the levites out of all the cities of judah and the chief of the fathers of israel and they came to jerusalem
2chr233 and all the congregation made a covenant with the king in the house of god and he said unto them behold the king's son shall reign as the lord hath said of the sons of david
2chr234 this is the thing that ye shall do a third part of you entering on the sabbath of the priests and of the levites shall be porters of the doors
2chr235 and a third part shall be at the king's house and a third part at the gate of the foundation and all the people shall be in the courts of the house of the lord
2chr236 but let none come into the house of the lord save the priests and they that minister of the levites they shall go in for they are holy but all the people shall keep the watch of the lord
2chr237 and the levites shall compass the king round about every man with his weapons in his hand and whosoever else cometh into the house he shall be put to death but be ye with the king when he cometh in and when he goeth out
2chr238 so the levites and all judah did according to all things that jehoiada the priest had commanded and took every man his men that were to come in on the sabbath with them that were to go out on the sabbath for jehoiada the priest dismissed not the courses
2chr239 moreover jehoiada the priest delivered to the captains of hundreds spears and bucklers and shields that had been king david's which were in the house of god
2chr2310 and he set all the people every man having his weapon in his hand from the right side of the temple to the left side of the temple along by the altar and the temple by the king round about
2chr2311 then they brought out the king's son and put upon him the crown and gave him the testimony and made him king and jehoiada and his sons anointed him and said god save the king
2chr2312 now when athaliah heard the noise of the people running and praising the king she came to the people into the house of the lord
2chr2313 and she looked and behold the king stood at his pillar at the entering in and the princes and the trumpets by the king and all the people of the land rejoiced and sounded with trumpets also the singers with instruments of musick and such as taught to sing praise then athaliah rent her clothes and said treason treason
2chr2314 then jehoiada the priest brought out the captains of hundreds that were set over the host and said unto them have her forth of the ranges and whoso followeth her let him be slain with the sword for the priest said slay her not in the house of the lord
2chr2315 so they laid hands on her and when she was come to the entering of the horse gate by the king's house they slew her there
2chr2316 and jehoiada made a covenant between him and between all the people and between the king that they should be the lord's people
2chr2317 then all the people went to the house of baal and brake it down and brake his altars and his images in pieces and slew mattan the priest of baal before the altars
2chr2318 also jehoiada appointed the offices of the house of the lord by the hand of the priests the levites whom david had distributed in the house of the lord to offer the burnt offerings of the lord as it is written in the law of moses with rejoicing and with singing as it was ordained by david
2chr2319 and he set the porters at the gates of the house of the lord that none which was unclean in any thing should enter in
2chr2320 and he took the captains of hundreds and the nobles and the governors of the people and all the people of the land and brought down the king from the house of the lord and they came through the high gate into the king's house and set the king upon the throne of the kingdom
2chr2321 and all the people of the land rejoiced and the city was quiet after that they had slain athaliah with the sword
2chr241 joash was seven years old when he began to reign and he reigned forty years in jerusalem his mother's name also was zibiah of beersheba
2chr242 and joash did that which was right in the sight of the lord all the days of jehoiada the priest
2chr243 and jehoiada took for him two wives and he begat sons and daughters
2chr244 and it came to pass after this that joash was minded to repair the house of the lord
2chr245 and he gathered together the priests and the levites and said to them go out unto the cities of judah and gather of all israel money to repair the house of your god from year to year and see that ye hasten the matter howbeit the levites hastened it not
2chr246 and the king called for jehoiada the chief and said unto him why hast thou not required of the levites to bring in out of judah and out of jerusalem the collection according to the commandment of moses the servant of the lord and of the congregation of israel for the tabernacle of witness
2chr247 for the sons of athaliah that wicked woman had broken up the house of god and also all the dedicated things of the house of the lord did they bestow upon baalim
2chr248 and at the king's commandment they made a chest and set it without at the gate of the house of the lord
2chr249 and they made a proclamation through judah and jerusalem to bring in to the lord the collection that moses the servant of god laid upon israel in the wilderness
2chr2410 and all the princes and all the people rejoiced and brought in and cast into the chest until they had made an end
2chr2411 now it came to pass that at what time the chest was brought unto the king's office by the hand of the levites and when they saw that there was much money the king's scribe and the high priest's officer came and emptied the chest and took it and carried it to his place again thus they did day by day and gathered money in abundance
2chr2412 and the king and jehoiada gave it to such as did the work of the service of the house of the lord and hired masons and carpenters to repair the house of the lord and also such as wrought iron and brass to mend the house of the lord
2chr2413 so the workmen wrought and the work was perfected by them and they set the house of god in his state and strengthened it
2chr2414 and when they had finished it they brought the rest of the money before the king and jehoiada whereof were made vessels for the house of the lord even vessels to minister and to offer withal and spoons and vessels of gold and silver and they offered burnt offerings in the house of the lord continually all the days of jehoiada
2chr2415 but jehoiada waxed old and was full of days when he died an hundred and thirty years old was he when he died
2chr2416 and they buried him in the city of david among the kings because he had done good in israel both toward god and toward his house
2chr2417 now after the death of jehoiada came the princes of judah and made obeisance to the king then the king hearkened unto them
2chr2418 and they left the house of the lord god of their fathers and served groves and idols and wrath came upon judah and jerusalem for this their trespass
2chr2419 yet he sent prophets to them to bring them again unto the lord and they testified against them but they would not give ear
2chr2420 and the spirit of god came upon zechariah the son of jehoiada the priest which stood above the people and said unto them thus saith god why transgress ye the commandments of the lord that ye cannot prosper because ye have forsaken the lord he hath also forsaken you
2chr2421 and they conspired against him and stoned him with stones at the commandment of the king in the court of the house of the lord
2chr2422 thus joash the king remembered not the kindness which jehoiada his father had done to him but slew his son and when he died he said the lord look upon it and require it
2chr2423 and it came to pass at the end of the year that the host of syria came up against him and they came to judah and jerusalem and destroyed all the princes of the people from among the people and sent all the spoil of them unto the king of damascus
2chr2424 for the army of the syrians came with a small company of men and the lord delivered a very great host into their hand because they had forsaken the lord god of their fathers so they executed judgment against joash
2chr2425 and when they were departed from him for they left him in great diseases his own servants conspired against him for the blood of the sons of jehoiada the priest and slew him on his bed and he died and they buried him in the city of david but they buried him not in the sepulchres of the kings
2chr2426 and these are they that conspired against him zabad the son of shimeath an ammonitess and jehozabad the son of shimrith a moabitess
2chr2427 now concerning his sons and the greatness of the burdens laid upon him and the repairing of the house of god behold they are written in the story of the book of the kings and amaziah his son reigned in his stead
2chr251 amaziah was twenty and five years old when he began to reign and he reigned twenty and nine years in jerusalem and his mother's name was jehoaddan of jerusalem
2chr252 and he did that which was right in the sight of the lord but not with a perfect heart
2chr253 now it came to pass when the kingdom was established to him that he slew his servants that had killed the king his father
2chr254 but he slew not their children but did as it is written in the law in the book of moses where the lord commanded saying the fathers shall not die for the children neither shall the children die for the fathers but every man shall die for his own sin
2chr255 moreover amaziah gathered judah together and made them captains over thousands and captains over hundreds according to the houses of their fathers throughout all judah and benjamin and he numbered them from twenty years old and above and found them three hundred thousand choice men able to go forth to war that could handle spear and shield
2chr256 he hired also an hundred thousand mighty men of valour out of israel for an hundred talents of silver
2chr257 but there came a man of god to him saying o king let not the army of israel go with thee for the lord is not with israel to wit with all the children of ephraim
2chr258 but if thou wilt go do it be strong for the battle god shall make thee fall before the enemy for god hath power to help and to cast down
2chr259 and amaziah said to the man of god but what shall we do for the hundred talents which i have given to the army of israel and the man of god answered the lord is able to give thee much more than this
2chr2510 then amaziah separated them to wit the army that was come to him out of ephraim to go home again wherefore their anger was greatly kindled against judah and they returned home in great anger
2chr2511 and amaziah strengthened himself and led forth his people and went to the valley of salt and smote of the children of seir ten thousand
2chr2512 and other ten thousand left alive did the children of judah carry away captive and brought them unto the top of the rock and cast them down from the top of the rock that they all were broken in pieces
2chr2513 but the soldiers of the army which amaziah sent back that they should not go with him to battle fell upon the cities of judah from samaria even unto bethhoron and smote three thousand of them and took much spoil
2chr2514 now it came to pass after that amaziah was come from the slaughter of the edomites that he brought the gods of the children of seir and set them up to be his gods and bowed down himself before them and burned incense unto them
2chr2515 wherefore the anger of the lord was kindled against amaziah and he sent unto him a prophet which said unto him why hast thou sought after the gods of the people which could not deliver their own people out of thine hand
2chr2516 and it came to pass as he talked with him that the king said unto him art thou made of the king's counsel forbear why shouldest thou be smitten then the prophet forbare and said i know that god hath determined to destroy thee because thou hast done this and hast not hearkened unto my counsel
2chr2517 then amaziah king of judah took advice and sent to joash the son of jehoahaz the son of jehu king of israel saying come let us see one another in the face
2chr2518 and joash king of israel sent to amaziah king of judah saying the thistle that was in lebanon sent to the cedar that was in lebanon saying give thy daughter to my son to wife and there passed by a wild beast that was in lebanon and trode down the thistle
2chr2519 thou sayest lo thou hast smitten the edomites and thine heart lifteth thee up to boast abide now at home why shouldest thou meddle to thine hurt that thou shouldest fall even thou and judah with thee
2chr2520 but amaziah would not hear for it came of god that he might deliver them into the hand of their enemies because they sought after the gods of edom
2chr2521 so joash the king of israel went up and they saw one another in the face both he and amaziah king of judah at bethshemesh which belongeth to judah
2chr2522 and judah was put to the worse before israel and they fled every man to his tent
2chr2523 and joash the king of israel took amaziah king of judah the son of joash the son of jehoahaz at bethshemesh and brought him to jerusalem and brake down the wall of jerusalem from the gate of ephraim to the corner gate four hundred cubits
2chr2524 and he took all the gold and the silver and all the vessels that were found in the house of god with obededom and the treasures of the king's house the hostages also and returned to samaria
2chr2525 and amaziah the son of joash king of judah lived after the death of joash son of jehoahaz king of israel fifteen years
2chr2526 now the rest of the acts of amaziah first and last behold are they not written in the book of the kings of judah and israel
2chr2527 now after the time that amaziah did turn away from following the lord they made a conspiracy against him in jerusalem and he fled to lachish but they sent to lachish after him and slew him there
2chr2528 and they brought him upon horses and buried him with his fathers in the city of judah
2chr261 then all the people of judah took uzziah who was sixteen years old and made him king in the room of his father amaziah
2chr262 he built eloth and restored it to judah after that the king slept with his fathers
2chr263 sixteen years old was uzziah when he began to reign and he reigned fifty and two years in jerusalem his mother's name also was jecoliah of jerusalem
2chr264 and he did that which was right in the sight of the lord according to all that his father amaziah did
2chr265 and he sought god in the days of zechariah who had understanding in the visions of god and as long as he sought the lord god made him to prosper
2chr266 and he went forth and warred against the philistines and brake down the wall of gath and the wall of jabneh and the wall of ashdod and built cities about ashdod and among the philistines
2chr267 and god helped him against the philistines and against the arabians that dwelt in gurbaal and the mehunims
2chr268 and the ammonites gave gifts to uzziah and his name spread abroad even to the entering in of egypt for he strengthened himself exceedingly
2chr269 moreover uzziah built towers in jerusalem at the corner gate and at the valley gate and at the turning of the wall and fortified them
2chr2610 also he built towers in the desert and digged many wells for he had much cattle both in the low country and in the plains husbandmen also and vine dressers in the mountains and in carmel for he loved husbandry
2chr2611 moreover uzziah had an host of fighting men that went out to war by bands according to the number of their account by the hand of jeiel the scribe and maaseiah the ruler under the hand of hananiah one of the king's captains
2chr2612 the whole number of the chief of the fathers of the mighty men of valour were two thousand and six hundred
2chr2613 and under their hand was an army three hundred thousand and seven thousand and five hundred that made war with mighty power to help the king against the enemy
2chr2614 and uzziah prepared for them throughout all the host shields and spears and helmets and habergeons and bows and slings to cast stones
2chr2615 and he made in jerusalem engines invented by cunning men to be on the towers and upon the bulwarks to shoot arrows and great stones withal and his name spread far abroad for he was marvellously helped till he was strong
2chr2616 but when he was strong his heart was lifted up to his destruction for he transgressed against the lord his god and went into the temple of the lord to burn incense upon the altar of incense
2chr2617 and azariah the priest went in after him and with him fourscore priests of the lord that were valiant men
2chr2618 and they withstood uzziah the king and said unto him it appertaineth not unto thee uzziah to burn incense unto the lord but to the priests the sons of aaron that are consecrated to burn incense go out of the sanctuary for thou hast trespassed neither shall it be for thine honour from the lord god
2chr2619 then uzziah was wroth and had a censer in his hand to burn incense and while he was wroth with the priests the leprosy even rose up in his forehead before the priests in the house of the lord from beside the incense altar
2chr2620 and azariah the chief priest and all the priests looked upon him and behold he was leprous in his forehead and they thrust him out from thence yea himself hasted also to go out because the lord had smitten him
2chr2621 and uzziah the king was a leper unto the day of his death and dwelt in a several house being a leper for he was cut off from the house of the lord and jotham his son was over the king's house judging the people of the land
2chr2622 now the rest of the acts of uzziah first and last did isaiah the prophet the son of amoz write
2chr2623 so uzziah slept with his fathers and they buried him with his fathers in the field of the burial which belonged to the kings for they said he is a leper and jotham his son reigned in his stead
2chr271 jotham was twenty and five years old when he began to reign and he reigned sixteen years in jerusalem his mother's name also was jerushah the daughter of zadok
2chr272 and he did that which was right in the sight of the lord according to all that his father uzziah did howbeit he entered not into the temple of the lord and the people did yet corruptly
2chr273 he built the high gate of the house of the lord and on the wall of ophel he built much
2chr274 moreover he built cities in the mountains of judah and in the forests he built castles and towers
2chr275 he fought also with the king of the ammonites and prevailed against them and the children of ammon gave him the same year an hundred talents of silver and ten thousand measures of wheat and ten thousand of barley so much did the children of ammon pay unto him both the second year and the third
2chr276 so jotham became mighty because he prepared his ways before the lord his god
2chr277 now the rest of the acts of jotham and all his wars and his ways lo they are written in the book of the kings of israel and judah
2chr278 he was five and twenty years old when he began to reign and reigned sixteen years in jerusalem
2chr279 and jotham slept with his fathers and they buried him in the city of david and ahaz his son reigned in his stead
2chr281 ahaz was twenty years old when he began to reign and he reigned sixteen years in jerusalem but he did not that which was right in the sight of the lord like david his father
2chr282 for he walked in the ways of the kings of israel and made also molten images for baalim
2chr283 moreover he burnt incense in the valley of the son of hinnom and burnt his children in the fire after the abominations of the heathen whom the lord had cast out before the children of israel
2chr284 he sacrificed also and burnt incense in the high places and on the hills and under every green tree
2chr285 wherefore the lord his god delivered him into the hand of the king of syria and they smote him and carried away a great multitude of them captives and brought them to damascus and he was also delivered into the hand of the king of israel who smote him with a great slaughter
2chr286 for pekah the son of remaliah slew in judah an hundred and twenty thousand in one day which were all valiant men because they had forsaken the lord god of their fathers
2chr287 and zichri a mighty man of ephraim slew maaseiah the king's son and azrikam the governor of the house and elkanah that was next to the king
2chr288 and the children of israel carried away captive of their brethren two hundred thousand women sons and daughters and took also away much spoil from them and brought the spoil to samaria
2chr289 but a prophet of the lord was there whose name was oded and he went out before the host that came to samaria and said unto them behold because the lord god of your fathers was wroth with judah he hath delivered them into your hand and ye have slain them in a rage that reacheth up unto heaven
2chr2810 and now ye purpose to keep under the children of judah and jerusalem for bondmen and bondwomen unto you but are there not with you even with you sins against the lord your god
2chr2811 now hear me therefore and deliver the captives again which ye have taken captive of your brethren for the fierce wrath of the lord is upon you
2chr2812 then certain of the heads of the children of ephraim azariah the son of johanan berechiah the son of meshillemoth and jehizkiah the son of shallum and amasa the son of hadlai stood up against them that came from the war
2chr2813 and said unto them ye shall not bring in the captives hither for whereas we have offended against the lord already ye intend to add more to our sins and to our trespass for our trespass is great and there is fierce wrath against israel
2chr2814 so the armed men left the captives and the spoil before the princes and all the congregation
2chr2815 and the men which were expressed by name rose up and took the captives and with the spoil clothed all that were naked among them and arrayed them and shod them and gave them to eat and to drink and anointed them and carried all the feeble of them upon asses and brought them to jericho the city of palm trees to their brethren then they returned to samaria
2chr2816 at that time did king ahaz send unto the kings of assyria to help him
2chr2817 for again the edomites had come and smitten judah and carried away captives
2chr2818 the philistines also had invaded the cities of the low country and of the south of judah and had taken bethshemesh and ajalon and gederoth and shocho with the villages thereof and timnah with the villages thereof gimzo also and the villages thereof and they dwelt there
2chr2819 for the lord brought judah low because of ahaz king of israel for he made judah naked and transgressed sore against the lord
2chr2820 and tilgathpilneser king of assyria came unto him and distressed him but strengthened him not
2chr2821 for ahaz took away a portion out of the house of the lord and out of the house of the king and of the princes and gave it unto the king of assyria but he helped him not
2chr2822 and in the time of his distress did he trespass yet more against the lord this is that king ahaz
2chr2823 for he sacrificed unto the gods of damascus which smote him and he said because the gods of the kings of syria help them therefore will i sacrifice to them that they may help me but they were the ruin of him and of all israel
2chr2824 and ahaz gathered together the vessels of the house of god and cut in pieces the vessels of the house of god and shut up the doors of the house of the lord and he made him altars in every corner of jerusalem
2chr2825 and in every several city of judah he made high places to burn incense unto other gods and provoked to anger the lord god of his fathers
2chr2826 now the rest of his acts and of all his ways first and last behold they are written in the book of the kings of judah and israel
2chr2827 and ahaz slept with his fathers and they buried him in the city even in jerusalem but they brought him not into the sepulchres of the kings of israel and hezekiah his son reigned in his stead
2chr291 hezekiah began to reign when he was five and twenty years old and he reigned nine and twenty years in jerusalem and his mother's name was abijah the daughter of zechariah
2chr292 and he did that which was right in the sight of the lord according to all that david his father had done
2chr293 he in the first year of his reign in the first month opened the doors of the house of the lord and repaired them
2chr294 and he brought in the priests and the levites and gathered them together into the east street
2chr295 and said unto them hear me ye levites sanctify now yourselves and sanctify the house of the lord god of your fathers and carry forth the filthiness out of the holy place
2chr296 for our fathers have trespassed and done that which was evil in the eyes of the lord our god and have forsaken him and have turned away their faces from the habitation of the lord and turned their backs
2chr297 also they have shut up the doors of the porch and put out the lamps and have not burned incense nor offered burnt offerings in the holy place unto the god of israel
2chr298 wherefore the wrath of the lord was upon judah and jerusalem and he hath delivered them to trouble to astonishment and to hissing as ye see with your eyes
2chr299 for lo our fathers have fallen by the sword and our sons and our daughters and our wives are in captivity for this
2chr2910 now it is in mine heart to make a covenant with the lord god of israel that his fierce wrath may turn away from us
2chr2911 my sons be not now negligent for the lord hath chosen you to stand before him to serve him and that ye should minister unto him and burn incense
2chr2912 then the levites arose mahath the son of amasai and joel the son of azariah of the sons of the kohathites and of the sons of merari kish the son of abdi and azariah the son of jehalelel and of the gershonites joah the son of zimmah and eden the son of joah
2chr2913 and of the sons of elizaphan shimri and jeiel and of the sons of asaph zechariah and mattaniah
2chr2914 and of the sons of heman jehiel and shimei and of the sons of jeduthun shemaiah and uzziel
2chr2915 and they gathered their brethren and sanctified themselves and came according to the commandment of the king by the words of the lord to cleanse the house of the lord
2chr2916 and the priests went into the inner part of the house of the lord to cleanse it and brought out all the uncleanness that they found in the temple of the lord into the court of the house of the lord and the levites took it to carry it out abroad into the brook kidron
2chr2917 now they began on the first day of the first month to sanctify and on the eighth day of the month came they to the porch of the lord so they sanctified the house of the lord in eight days and in the sixteenth day of the first month they made an end
2chr2918 then they went in to hezekiah the king and said we have cleansed all the house of the lord and the altar of burnt offering with all the vessels thereof and the shewbread table with all the vessels thereof
2chr2919 moreover all the vessels which king ahaz in his reign did cast away in his transgression have we prepared and sanctified and behold they are before the altar of the lord
2chr2920 then hezekiah the king rose early and gathered the rulers of the city and went up to the house of the lord
2chr2921 and they brought seven bullocks and seven rams and seven lambs and seven he goats for a sin offering for the kingdom and for the sanctuary and for judah and he commanded the priests the sons of aaron to offer them on the altar of the lord
2chr2922 so they killed the bullocks and the priests received the blood and sprinkled it on the altar likewise when they had killed the rams they sprinkled the blood upon the altar they killed also the lambs and they sprinkled the blood upon the altar
2chr2923 and they brought forth the he goats for the sin offering before the king and the congregation and they laid their hands upon them
2chr2924 and the priests killed them and they made reconciliation with their blood upon the altar to make an atonement for all israel for the king commanded that the burnt offering and the sin offering should be made for all israel
2chr2925 and he set the levites in the house of the lord with cymbals with psalteries and with harps according to the commandment of david and of gad the king's seer and nathan the prophet for so was the commandment of the lord by his prophets
2chr2926 and the levites stood with the instruments of david and the priests with the trumpets
2chr2927 and hezekiah commanded to offer the burnt offering upon the altar and when the burnt offering began the song of the lord began also with the trumpets and with the instruments ordained by david king of israel
2chr2928 and all the congregation worshipped and the singers sang and the trumpeters sounded and all this continued until the burnt offering was finished
2chr2929 and when they had made an end of offering the king and all that were present with him bowed themselves and worshipped
2chr2930 moreover hezekiah the king and the princes commanded the levites to sing praise unto the lord with the words of david and of asaph the seer and they sang praises with gladness and they bowed their heads and worshipped
2chr2931 then hezekiah answered and said now ye have consecrated yourselves unto the lord come near and bring sacrifices and thank offerings into the house of the lord and the congregation brought in sacrifices and thank offerings and as many as were of a free heart burnt offerings
2chr2932 and the number of the burnt offerings which the congregation brought was threescore and ten bullocks an hundred rams and two hundred lambs all these were for a burnt offering to the lord
2chr2933 and the consecrated things were six hundred oxen and three thousand sheep
2chr2934 but the priests were too few so that they could not flay all the burnt offerings wherefore their brethren the levites did help them till the work was ended and until the other priests had sanctified themselves for the levites were more upright in heart to sanctify themselves than the priests
2chr2935 and also the burnt offerings were in abundance with the fat of the peace offerings and the drink offerings for every burnt offering so the service of the house of the lord was set in order
2chr2936 and hezekiah rejoiced and all the people that god had prepared the people for the thing was done suddenly
2chr301 and hezekiah sent to all israel and judah and wrote letters also to ephraim and manasseh that they should come to the house of the lord at jerusalem to keep the passover unto the lord god of israel
2chr302 for the king had taken counsel and his princes and all the congregation in jerusalem to keep the passover in the second month
2chr303 for they could not keep it at that time because the priests had not sanctified themselves sufficiently neither had the people gathered themselves together to jerusalem
2chr304 and the thing pleased the king and all the congregation
2chr305 so they established a decree to make proclamation throughout all israel from beersheba even to dan that they should come to keep the passover unto the lord god of israel at jerusalem for they had not done it of a long time in such sort as it was written
2chr306 so the posts went with the letters from the king and his princes throughout all israel and judah and according to the commandment of the king saying ye children of israel turn again unto the lord god of abraham isaac and israel and he will return to the remnant of you that are escaped out of the hand of the kings of assyria
2chr307 and be not ye like your fathers and like your brethren which trespassed against the lord god of their fathers who therefore gave them up to desolation as ye see
2chr308 now be ye not stiffnecked as your fathers were but yield yourselves unto the lord and enter into his sanctuary which he hath sanctified for ever and serve the lord your god that the fierceness of his wrath may turn away from you
2chr309 for if ye turn again unto the lord your brethren and your children shall find compassion before them that lead them captive so that they shall come again into this land for the lord your god is gracious and merciful and will not turn away his face from you if ye return unto him
2chr3010 so the posts passed from city to city through the country of ephraim and manasseh even unto zebulun but they laughed them to scorn and mocked them
2chr3011 nevertheless divers of asher and manasseh and of zebulun humbled themselves and came to jerusalem
2chr3012 also in judah the hand of god was to give them one heart to do the commandment of the king and of the princes by the word of the lord
2chr3013 and there assembled at jerusalem much people to keep the feast of unleavened bread in the second month a very great congregation
2chr3014 and they arose and took away the altars that were in jerusalem and all the altars for incense took they away and cast them into the brook kidron
2chr3015 then they killed the passover on the fourteenth day of the second month and the priests and the levites were ashamed and sanctified themselves and brought in the burnt offerings into the house of the lord
2chr3016 and they stood in their place after their manner according to the law of moses the man of god the priests sprinkled the blood which they received of the hand of the levites
2chr3017 for there were many in the congregation that were not sanctified therefore the levites had the charge of the killing of the passovers for every one that was not clean to sanctify them unto the lord
2chr3018 for a multitude of the people even many of ephraim and manasseh issachar and zebulun had not cleansed themselves yet did they eat the passover otherwise than it was written but hezekiah prayed for them saying the good lord pardon every one
2chr3019 that prepareth his heart to seek god the lord god of his fathers though he be not cleansed according to the purification of the sanctuary
2chr3020 and the lord hearkened to hezekiah and healed the people
2chr3021 and the children of israel that were present at jerusalem kept the feast of unleavened bread seven days with great gladness and the levites and the priests praised the lord day by day singing with loud instruments unto the lord
2chr3022 and hezekiah spake comfortably unto all the levites that taught the good knowledge of the lord and they did eat throughout the feast seven days offering peace offerings and making confession to the lord god of their fathers
2chr3023 and the whole assembly took counsel to keep other seven days and they kept other seven days with gladness
2chr3024 for hezekiah king of judah did give to the congregation a thousand bullocks and seven thousand sheep and the princes gave to the congregation a thousand bullocks and ten thousand sheep and a great number of priests sanctified themselves
2chr3025 and all the congregation of judah with the priests and the levites and all the congregation that came out of israel and the strangers that came out of the land of israel and that dwelt in judah rejoiced
2chr3026 so there was great joy in jerusalem for since the time of solomon the son of david king of israel there was not the like in jerusalem
2chr3027 then the priests the levites arose and blessed the people and their voice was heard and their prayer came up to his holy dwelling place even unto heaven
2chr311 now when all this was finished all israel that were present went out to the cities of judah and brake the images in pieces and cut down the groves and threw down the high places and the altars out of all judah and benjamin in ephraim also and manasseh until they had utterly destroyed them all then all the children of israel returned every man to his possession into their own cities
2chr312 and hezekiah appointed the courses of the priests and the levites after their courses every man according to his service the priests and levites for burnt offerings and for peace offerings to minister and to give thanks and to praise in the gates of the tents of the lord
2chr313 he appointed also the king's portion of his substance for the burnt offerings to wit for the morning and evening burnt offerings and the burnt offerings for the sabbaths and for the new moons and for the set feasts as it is written in the law of the lord
2chr314 moreover he commanded the people that dwelt in jerusalem to give the portion of the priests and the levites that they might be encouraged in the law of the lord
2chr315 and as soon as the commandment came abroad the children of israel brought in abundance the firstfruits of corn wine and oil and honey and of all the increase of the field and the tithe of all things brought they in abundantly
2chr316 and concerning the children of israel and judah that dwelt in the cities of judah they also brought in the tithe of oxen and sheep and the tithe of holy things which were consecrated unto the lord their god and laid them by heaps
2chr317 in the third month they began to lay the foundation of the heaps and finished them in the seventh month
2chr318 and when hezekiah and the princes came and saw the heaps they blessed the lord and his people israel
2chr319 then hezekiah questioned with the priests and the levites concerning the heaps
2chr3110 and azariah the chief priest of the house of zadok answered him and said since the people began to bring the offerings into the house of the lord we have had enough to eat and have left plenty for the lord hath blessed his people and that which is left is this great store
2chr3111 then hezekiah commanded to prepare chambers in the house of the lord and they prepared them
2chr3112 and brought in the offerings and the tithes and the dedicated things faithfully over which cononiah the levite was ruler and shimei his brother was the next
2chr3113 and jehiel and azaziah and nahath and asahel and jerimoth and jozabad and eliel and ismachiah and mahath and benaiah were overseers under the hand of cononiah and shimei his brother at the commandment of hezekiah the king and azariah the ruler of the house of god
2chr3114 and kore the son of imnah the levite the porter toward the east was over the freewill offerings of god to distribute the oblations of the lord and the most holy things
2chr3115 and next him were eden and miniamin and jeshua and shemaiah amariah and shecaniah in the cities of the priests in their set office to give to their brethren by courses as well to the great as to the small
2chr3116 beside their genealogy of males from three years old and upward even unto every one that entereth into the house of the lord his daily portion for their service in their charges according to their courses
2chr3117 both to the genealogy of the priests by the house of their fathers and the levites from twenty years old and upward in their charges by their courses
2chr3118 and to the genealogy of all their little ones their wives and their sons and their daughters through all the congregation for in their set office they sanctified themselves in holiness
2chr3119 also of the sons of aaron the priests which were in the fields of the suburbs of their cities in every several city the men that were expressed by name to give portions to all the males among the priests and to all that were reckoned by genealogies among the levites
2chr3120 and thus did hezekiah throughout all judah and wrought that which was good and right and truth before the lord his god
2chr3121 and in every work that he began in the service of the house of god and in the law and in the commandments to seek his god he did it with all his heart and prospered
2chr321 after these things and the establishment thereof sennacherib king of assyria came and entered into judah and encamped against the fenced cities and thought to win them for himself
2chr322 and when hezekiah saw that sennacherib was come and that he was purposed to fight against jerusalem
2chr323 he took counsel with his princes and his mighty men to stop the waters of the fountains which were without the city and they did help him
2chr324 so there was gathered much people together who stopped all the fountains and the brook that ran through the midst of the land saying why should the kings of assyria come and find much water
2chr325 also he strengthened himself and built up all the wall that was broken and raised it up to the towers and another wall without and repaired millo in the city of david and made darts and shields in abundance
2chr326 and he set captains of war over the people and gathered them together to him in the street of the gate of the city and spake comfortably to them saying
2chr327 be strong and courageous be not afraid nor dismayed for the king of assyria nor for all the multitude that is with him for there be more with us than with him
2chr328 with him is an arm of flesh but with us is the lord our god to help us and to fight our battles and the people rested themselves upon the words of hezekiah king of judah
2chr329 after this did sennacherib king of assyria send his servants to jerusalem but he himself laid siege against lachish and all his power with him unto hezekiah king of judah and unto all judah that were at jerusalem saying
2chr3210 thus saith sennacherib king of assyria whereon do ye trust that ye abide in the siege in jerusalem
2chr3211 doth not hezekiah persuade you to give over yourselves to die by famine and by thirst saying the lord our god shall deliver us out of the hand of the king of assyria
2chr3212 hath not the same hezekiah taken away his high places and his altars and commanded judah and jerusalem saying ye shall worship before one altar and burn incense upon it
2chr3213 know ye not what i and my fathers have done unto all the people of other lands were the gods of the nations of those lands any ways able to deliver their lands out of mine hand
2chr3214 who was there among all the gods of those nations that my fathers utterly destroyed that could deliver his people out of mine hand that your god should be able to deliver you out of mine hand
2chr3215 now therefore let not hezekiah deceive you nor persuade you on this manner neither yet believe him for no god of any nation or kingdom was able to deliver his people out of mine hand and out of the hand of my fathers how much less shall your god deliver you out of mine hand
2chr3216 and his servants spake yet more against the lord god and against his servant hezekiah
2chr3217 he wrote also letters to rail on the lord god of israel and to speak against him saying as the gods of the nations of other lands have not delivered their people out of mine hand so shall not the god of hezekiah deliver his people out of mine hand
2chr3218 then they cried with a loud voice in the jews speech unto the people of jerusalem that were on the wall to affright them and to trouble them that they might take the city
2chr3219 and they spake against the god of jerusalem as against the gods of the people of the earth which were the work of the hands of man
2chr3220 and for this cause hezekiah the king and the prophet isaiah the son of amoz prayed and cried to heaven
2chr3221 and the lord sent an angel which cut off all the mighty men of valour and the leaders and captains in the camp of the king of assyria so he returned with shame of face to his own land and when he was come into the house of his god they that came forth of his own bowels slew him there with the sword
2chr3222 thus the lord saved hezekiah and the inhabitants of jerusalem from the hand of sennacherib the king of assyria and from the hand of all other and guided them on every side
2chr3223 and many brought gifts unto the lord to jerusalem and presents to hezekiah king of judah so that he was magnified in the sight of all nations from thenceforth
2chr3224 in those days hezekiah was sick to the death and prayed unto the lord and he spake unto him and he gave him a sign
2chr3225 but hezekiah rendered not again according to the benefit done unto him for his heart was lifted up therefore there was wrath upon him and upon judah and jerusalem
2chr3226 notwithstanding hezekiah humbled himself for the pride of his heart both he and the inhabitants of jerusalem so that the wrath of the lord came not upon them in the days of hezekiah
2chr3227 and hezekiah had exceeding much riches and honour and he made himself treasuries for silver and for gold and for precious stones and for spices and for shields and for all manner of pleasant jewels
2chr3228 storehouses also for the increase of corn and wine and oil and stalls for all manner of beasts and cotes for flocks
2chr3229 moreover he provided him cities and possessions of flocks and herds in abundance for god had given him substance very much
2chr3230 this same hezekiah also stopped the upper watercourse of gihon and brought it straight down to the west side of the city of david and hezekiah prospered in all his works
2chr3231 howbeit in the business of the ambassadors of the princes of babylon who sent unto him to enquire of the wonder that was done in the land god left him to try him that he might know all that was in his heart
2chr3232 now the rest of the acts of hezekiah and his goodness behold they are written in the vision of isaiah the prophet the son of amoz and in the book of the kings of judah and israel
2chr3233 and hezekiah slept with his fathers and they buried him in the chiefest of the sepulchres of the sons of david and all judah and the inhabitants of jerusalem did him honour at his death and manasseh his son reigned in his stead
2chr331 manasseh was twelve years old when he began to reign and he reigned fifty and five years in jerusalem
2chr332 but did that which was evil in the sight of the lord like unto the abominations of the heathen whom the lord had cast out before the children of israel
2chr333 for he built again the high places which hezekiah his father had broken down and he reared up altars for baalim and made groves and worshipped all the host of heaven and served them
2chr334 also he built altars in the house of the lord whereof the lord had said in jerusalem shall my name be for ever
2chr335 and he built altars for all the host of heaven in the two courts of the house of the lord
2chr336 and he caused his children to pass through the fire in the valley of the son of hinnom also he observed times and used enchantments and used witchcraft and dealt with a familiar spirit and with wizards he wrought much evil in the sight of the lord to provoke him to anger
2chr337 and he set a carved image the idol which he had made in the house of god of which god had said to david and to solomon his son in this house and in jerusalem which i have chosen before all the tribes of israel will i put my name for ever
2chr338 neither will i any more remove the foot of israel from out of the land which i have appointed for your fathers so that they will take heed to do all that i have commanded them according to the whole law and the statutes and the ordinances by the hand of moses
2chr339 so manasseh made judah and the inhabitants of jerusalem to err and to do worse than the heathen whom the lord had destroyed before the children of israel
2chr3310 and the lord spake to manasseh and to his people but they would not hearken
2chr3311 wherefore the lord brought upon them the captains of the host of the king of assyria which took manasseh among the thorns and bound him with fetters and carried him to babylon
2chr3312 and when he was in affliction he besought the lord his god and humbled himself greatly before the god of his fathers
2chr3313 and prayed unto him and he was intreated of him and heard his supplication and brought him again to jerusalem into his kingdom then manasseh knew that the lord he was god
2chr3314 now after this he built a wall without the city of david on the west side of gihon in the valley even to the entering in at the fish gate and compassed about ophel and raised it up a very great height and put captains of war in all the fenced cities of judah
2chr3315 and he took away the strange gods and the idol out of the house of the lord and all the altars that he had built in the mount of the house of the lord and in jerusalem and cast them out of the city
2chr3316 and he repaired the altar of the lord and sacrificed thereon peace offerings and thank offerings and commanded judah to serve the lord god of israel
2chr3317 nevertheless the people did sacrifice still in the high places yet unto the lord their god only
2chr3318 now the rest of the acts of manasseh and his prayer unto his god and the words of the seers that spake to him in the name of the lord god of israel behold they are written in the book of the kings of israel
2chr3319 his prayer also and how god was intreated of him and all his sins and his trespass and the places wherein he built high places and set up groves and graven images before he was humbled behold they are written among the sayings of the seers
2chr3320 so manasseh slept with his fathers and they buried him in his own house and amon his son reigned in his stead
2chr3321 amon was two and twenty years old when he began to reign and reigned two years in jerusalem
2chr3322 but he did that which was evil in the sight of the lord as did manasseh his father for amon sacrificed unto all the carved images which manasseh his father had made and served them
2chr3323 and humbled not himself before the lord as manasseh his father had humbled himself but amon trespassed more and more
2chr3324 and his servants conspired against him and slew him in his own house
2chr3325 but the people of the land slew all them that had conspired against king amon and the people of the land made josiah his son king in his stead
2chr341 josiah was eight years old when he began to reign and he reigned in jerusalem one and thirty years
2chr342 and he did that which was right in the sight of the lord and walked in the ways of david his father and declined neither to the right hand nor to the left
2chr343 for in the eighth year of his reign while he was yet young he began to seek after the god of david his father and in the twelfth year he began to purge judah and jerusalem from the high places and the groves and the carved images and the molten images
2chr344 and they brake down the altars of baalim in his presence and the images that were on high above them he cut down and the groves and the carved images and the molten images he brake in pieces and made dust of them and strowed it upon the graves of them that had sacrificed unto them
2chr345 and he burnt the bones of the priests upon their altars and cleansed judah and jerusalem
2chr346 and so did he in the cities of manasseh and ephraim and simeon even unto naphtali with their mattocks round about
2chr347 and when he had broken down the altars and the groves and had beaten the graven images into powder and cut down all the idols throughout all the land of israel he returned to jerusalem
2chr348 now in the eighteenth year of his reign when he had purged the land and the house he sent shaphan the son of azaliah and maaseiah the governor of the city and joah the son of joahaz the recorder to repair the house of the lord his god
2chr349 and when they came to hilkiah the high priest they delivered the money that was brought into the house of god which the levites that kept the doors had gathered of the hand of manasseh and ephraim and of all the remnant of israel and of all judah and benjamin and they returned to jerusalem
2chr3410 and they put it in the hand of the workmen that had the oversight of the house of the lord and they gave it to the workmen that wrought in the house of the lord to repair and amend the house
2chr3411 even to the artificers and builders gave they it to buy hewn stone and timber for couplings and to floor the houses which the kings of judah had destroyed
2chr3412 and the men did the work faithfully and the overseers of them were jahath and obadiah the levites of the sons of merari and zechariah and meshullam of the sons of the kohathites to set it forward and other of the levites all that could skill of instruments of musick
2chr3413 also they were over the bearers of burdens and were overseers of all that wrought the work in any manner of service and of the levites there were scribes and officers and porters
2chr3414 and when they brought out the money that was brought into the house of the lord hilkiah the priest found a book of the law of the lord given by moses
2chr3415 and hilkiah answered and said to shaphan the scribe i have found the book of the law in the house of the lord and hilkiah delivered the book to shaphan
2chr3416 and shaphan carried the book to the king and brought the king word back again saying all that was committed to thy servants they do it
2chr3417 and they have gathered together the money that was found in the house of the lord and have delivered it into the hand of the overseers and to the hand of the workmen
2chr3418 then shaphan the scribe told the king saying hilkiah the priest hath given me a book and shaphan read it before the king
2chr3419 and it came to pass when the king had heard the words of the law that he rent his clothes
2chr3420 and the king commanded hilkiah and ahikam the son of shaphan and abdon the son of micah and shaphan the scribe and asaiah a servant of the king's saying
2chr3421 go enquire of the lord for me and for them that are left in israel and in judah concerning the words of the book that is found for great is the wrath of the lord that is poured out upon us because our fathers have not kept the word of the lord to do after all that is written in this book
2chr3422 and hilkiah and they that the king had appointed went to huldah the prophetess the wife of shallum the son of tikvath the son of hasrah keeper of the wardrobe now she dwelt in jerusalem in the college and they spake to her to that effect
2chr3423 and she answered them thus saith the lord god of israel tell ye the man that sent you to me
2chr3424 thus saith the lord behold i will bring evil upon this place and upon the inhabitants thereof even all the curses that are written in the book which they have read before the king of judah
2chr3425 because they have forsaken me and have burned incense unto other gods that they might provoke me to anger with all the works of their hands therefore my wrath shall be poured out upon this place and shall not be quenched
2chr3426 and as for the king of judah who sent you to enquire of the lord so shall ye say unto him thus saith the lord god of israel concerning the words which thou hast heard
2chr3427 because thine heart was tender and thou didst humble thyself before god when thou heardest his words against this place and against the inhabitants thereof and humbledst thyself before me and didst rend thy clothes and weep before me i have even heard thee also saith the lord
2chr3428 behold i will gather thee to thy fathers and thou shalt be gathered to thy grave in peace neither shall thine eyes see all the evil that i will bring upon this place and upon the inhabitants of the same so they brought the king word again
2chr3429 then the king sent and gathered together all the elders of judah and jerusalem
2chr3430 and the king went up into the house of the lord and all the men of judah and the inhabitants of jerusalem and the priests and the levites and all the people great and small and he read in their ears all the words of the book of the covenant that was found in the house of the lord
2chr3431 and the king stood in his place and made a covenant before the lord to walk after the lord and to keep his commandments and his testimonies and his statutes with all his heart and with all his soul to perform the words of the covenant which are written in this book
2chr3432 and he caused all that were present in jerusalem and benjamin to stand to it and the inhabitants of jerusalem did according to the covenant of god the god of their fathers
2chr3433 and josiah took away all the abominations out of all the countries that pertained to the children of israel and made all that were present in israel to serve even to serve the lord their god and all his days they departed not from following the lord the god of their fathers
2chr351 moreover josiah kept a passover unto the lord in jerusalem and they killed the passover on the fourteenth day of the first month
2chr352 and he set the priests in their charges and encouraged them to the service of the house of the lord
2chr353 and said unto the levites that taught all israel which were holy unto the lord put the holy ark in the house which solomon the son of david king of israel did build it shall not be a burden upon your shoulders serve now the lord your god and his people israel
2chr354 and prepare yourselves by the houses of your fathers after your courses according to the writing of david king of israel and according to the writing of solomon his son
2chr355 and stand in the holy place according to the divisions of the families of the fathers of your brethren the people and after the division of the families of the levites
2chr356 so kill the passover and sanctify yourselves and prepare your brethren that they may do according to the word of the lord by the hand of moses
2chr357 and josiah gave to the people of the flock lambs and kids all for the passover offerings for all that were present to the number of thirty thousand and three thousand bullocks these were of the king's substance
2chr358 and his princes gave willingly unto the people to the priests and to the levites hilkiah and zechariah and jehiel rulers of the house of god gave unto the priests for the passover offerings two thousand and six hundred small cattle and three hundred oxen
2chr359 conaniah also and shemaiah and nethaneel his brethren and hashabiah and jeiel and jozabad chief of the levites gave unto the levites for passover offerings five thousand small cattle and five hundred oxen
2chr3510 so the service was prepared and the priests stood in their place and the levites in their courses according to the king's commandment
2chr3511 and they killed the passover and the priests sprinkled the blood from their hands and the levites flayed them
2chr3512 and they removed the burnt offerings that they might give according to the divisions of the families of the people to offer unto the lord as it is written in the book of moses and so did they with the oxen
2chr3513 and they roasted the passover with fire according to the ordinance but the other holy offerings sod they in pots and in caldrons and in pans and divided them speedily among all the people
2chr3514 and afterward they made ready for themselves and for the priests because the priests the sons of aaron were busied in offering of burnt offerings and the fat until night therefore the levites prepared for themselves and for the priests the sons of aaron
2chr3515 and the singers the sons of asaph were in their place according to the commandment of david and asaph and heman and jeduthun the king's seer and the porters waited at every gate they might not depart from their service for their brethren the levites prepared for them
2chr3516 so all the service of the lord was prepared the same day to keep the passover and to offer burnt offerings upon the altar of the lord according to the commandment of king josiah
2chr3517 and the children of israel that were present kept the passover at that time and the feast of unleavened bread seven days
2chr3518 and there was no passover like to that kept in israel from the days of samuel the prophet neither did all the kings of israel keep such a passover as josiah kept and the priests and the levites and all judah and israel that were present and the inhabitants of jerusalem
2chr3519 in the eighteenth year of the reign of josiah was this passover kept
2chr3520 after all this when josiah had prepared the temple necho king of egypt came up to fight against charchemish by euphrates and josiah went out against him
2chr3521 but he sent ambassadors to him saying what have i to do with thee thou king of judah i come not against thee this day but against the house wherewith i have war for god commanded me to make haste forbear thee from meddling with god who is with me that he destroy thee not
2chr3522 nevertheless josiah would not turn his face from him but disguised himself that he might fight with him and hearkened not unto the words of necho from the mouth of god and came to fight in the valley of megiddo
2chr3523 and the archers shot at king josiah and the king said to his servants have me away for i am sore wounded
2chr3524 his servants therefore took him out of that chariot and put him in the second chariot that he had and they brought him to jerusalem and he died and was buried in one of the sepulchres of his fathers and all judah and jerusalem mourned for josiah
2chr3525 and jeremiah lamented for josiah and all the singing men and the singing women spake of josiah in their lamentations to this day and made them an ordinance in israel and behold they are written in the lamentations
2chr3526 now the rest of the acts of josiah and his goodness according to that which was written in the law of the lord
2chr3527 and his deeds first and last behold they are written in the book of the kings of israel and judah
2chr361 then the people of the land took jehoahaz the son of josiah and made him king in his father's stead in jerusalem
2chr362 jehoahaz was twenty and three years old when he began to reign and he reigned three months in jerusalem
2chr363 and the king of egypt put him down at jerusalem and condemned the land in an hundred talents of silver and a talent of gold
2chr364 and the king of egypt made eliakim his brother king over judah and jerusalem and turned his name to jehoiakim and necho took jehoahaz his brother and carried him to egypt
2chr365 jehoiakim was twenty and five years old when he began to reign and he reigned eleven years in jerusalem and he did that which was evil in the sight of the lord his god
2chr366 against him came up nebuchadnezzar king of babylon and bound him in fetters to carry him to babylon
2chr367 nebuchadnezzar also carried of the vessels of the house of the lord to babylon and put them in his temple at babylon
2chr368 now the rest of the acts of jehoiakim and his abominations which he did and that which was found in him behold they are written in the book of the kings of israel and judah and jehoiachin his son reigned in his stead
2chr369 jehoiachin was eight years old when he began to reign and he reigned three months and ten days in jerusalem and he did that which was evil in the sight of the lord
2chr3610 and when the year was expired king nebuchadnezzar sent and brought him to babylon with the goodly vessels of the house of the lord and made zedekiah his brother king over judah and jerusalem
2chr3611 zedekiah was one and twenty years old when he began to reign and reigned eleven years in jerusalem
2chr3612 and he did that which was evil in the sight of the lord his god and humbled not himself before jeremiah the prophet speaking from the mouth of the lord
2chr3613 and he also rebelled against king nebuchadnezzar who had made him swear by god but he stiffened his neck and hardened his heart from turning unto the lord god of israel
2chr3614 moreover all the chief of the priests and the people transgressed very much after all the abominations of the heathen and polluted the house of the lord which he had hallowed in jerusalem
2chr3615 and the lord god of their fathers sent to them by his messengers rising up betimes and sending because he had compassion on his people and on his dwelling place
2chr3616 but they mocked the messengers of god and despised his words and misused his prophets until the wrath of the lord arose against his people till there was no remedy
2chr3617 therefore he brought upon them the king of the chaldees who slew their young men with the sword in the house of their sanctuary and had no compassion upon young man or maiden old man or him that stooped for age he gave them all into his hand
2chr3618 and all the vessels of the house of god great and small and the treasures of the house of the lord and the treasures of the king and of his princes all these he brought to babylon
2chr3619 and they burnt the house of god and brake down the wall of jerusalem and burnt all the palaces thereof with fire and destroyed all the goodly vessels thereof
2chr3620 and them that had escaped from the sword carried he away to babylon where they were servants to him and his sons until the reign of the kingdom of persia
2chr3621 to fulfil the word of the lord by the mouth of jeremiah until the land had enjoyed her sabbaths for as long as she lay desolate she kept sabbath to fulfil threescore and ten years
2chr3622 now in the first year of cyrus king of persia that the word of the lord spoken by the mouth of jeremiah might be accomplished the lord stirred up the spirit of cyrus king of persia that he made a proclamation throughout all his kingdom and put it also in writing saying
2chr3623 thus saith cyrus king of persia all the kingdoms of the earth hath the lord god of heaven given me and he hath charged me to build him an house in jerusalem which is in judah who is there among you of all his people the lord his god be with him and let him go up
now in the first year of cyrus king of persia that the word of the lord by the mouth of jeremiah might be fulfilled the lord stirred up the spirit of cyrus king of persia that he made a proclamation throughout all his kingdom and put it also in writing saying
thus saith cyrus king of persia the lord god of heaven hath given me all the kingdoms of the earth and he hath charged me to build him an house at jerusalem which is in judah
who is there among you of all his people his god be with him and let him go up to jerusalem which is in judah and build the house of the lord god of israel he is the god which is in jerusalem
and whosoever remaineth in any place where he sojourneth let the men of his place help him with silver and with gold and with goods and with beasts beside the freewill offering for the house of god that is in jerusalem
then rose up the chief of the fathers of judah and benjamin and the priests and the levites with all them whose spirit god had raised to go up to build the house of the lord which is in jerusalem
and all they that were about them strengthened their hands with vessels of silver with gold with goods and with beasts and with precious things beside all that was willingly offered
also cyrus the king brought forth the vessels of the house of the lord which nebuchadnezzar had brought forth out of jerusalem and had put them in the house of his gods
even those did cyrus king of persia bring forth by the hand of mithredath the treasurer and numbered them unto sheshbazzar the prince of judah
and this is the number of them thirty chargers of gold a thousand chargers of silver nine and twenty knives
thirty basons of gold silver basons of a second sort four hundred and ten and other vessels a thousand
all the vessels of gold and of silver were five thousand and four hundred all these did sheshbazzar bring up with them of the captivity that were brought up from babylon unto jerusalem
now these are the children of the province that went up out of the captivity of those which had been carried away whom nebuchadnezzar the king of babylon had carried away unto babylon and came again unto jerusalem and judah every one unto his city
which came with zerubbabel jeshua nehemiah seraiah reelaiah mordecai bilshan mizpar bigvai rehum baanah the number of the men of the people of israel
the children of parosh two thousand an hundred seventy and two
the children of shephatiah three hundred seventy and two
the children of arah seven hundred seventy and five
the children of pahathmoab of the children of jeshua and joab two thousand eight hundred and twelve
the children of elam a thousand two hundred fifty and four
the children of zattu nine hundred forty and five
the children of zaccai seven hundred and threescore
the children of bani six hundred forty and two
the children of bebai six hundred twenty and three
the children of azgad a thousand two hundred twenty and two
the children of adonikam six hundred sixty and six
the children of bigvai two thousand fifty and six
the children of adin four hundred fifty and four
the children of ater of hezekiah ninety and eight
the children of bezai three hundred twenty and three
the children of jorah an hundred and twelve
the children of hashum two hundred twenty and three
the children of gibbar ninety and five
the children of bethlehem an hundred twenty and three
the men of netophah fifty and six
the men of anathoth an hundred twenty and eight
the children of azmaveth forty and two
the children of kirjatharim chephirah and beeroth seven hundred and forty and three
the children of ramah and gaba six hundred twenty and one
the men of michmas an hundred twenty and two
the men of bethel and ai two hundred twenty and three
the children of nebo fifty and two
the children of magbish an hundred fifty and six
the children of the other elam a thousand two hundred fifty and four
the children of harim three hundred and twenty
the children of lod hadid and ono seven hundred twenty and five
the children of jericho three hundred forty and five
the children of senaah three thousand and six hundred and thirty
the priests the children of jedaiah of the house of jeshua nine hundred seventy and three
the children of immer a thousand fifty and two
the children of pashur a thousand two hundred forty and seven
the children of harim a thousand and seventeen
the levites the children of jeshua and kadmiel of the children of hodaviah seventy and four
the singers the children of asaph an hundred twenty and eight
the children of the porters the children of shallum the children of ater the children of talmon the children of akkub the children of hatita the children of shobai in all an hundred thirty and nine
the nethinims the children of ziha the children of hasupha the children of tabbaoth
the children of keros the children of siaha the children of padon
the children of lebanah the children of hagabah the children of akkub
the children of hagab the children of shalmai the children of hanan
the children of giddel the children of gahar the children of reaiah
the children of rezin the children of nekoda the children of gazzam
the children of uzza the children of paseah the children of besai
the children of asnah the children of mehunim the children of nephusim
the children of bakbuk the children of hakupha the children of harhur
the children of bazluth the children of mehida the children of harsha
the children of barkos the children of sisera the children of thamah
the children of neziah the children of hatipha
the children of solomon's servants the children of sotai the children of sophereth the children of peruda
the children of jaalah the children of darkon the children of giddel
the children of shephatiah the children of hattil the children of pochereth of zebaim the children of ami
all the nethinims and the children of solomon's servants were three hundred ninety and two
and these were they which went up from telmelah telharsa cherub addan and immer but they could not shew their father's house and their seed whether they were of israel
the children of delaiah the children of tobiah the children of nekoda six hundred fifty and two
and of the children of the priests the children of habaiah the children of koz the children of barzillai which took a wife of the daughters of barzillai the gileadite and was called after their name
these sought their register among those that were reckoned by genealogy but they were not found therefore were they as polluted put from the priesthood
and the tirshatha said unto them that they should not eat of the most holy things till there stood up a priest with urim and with thummim
the whole congregation together was forty and two thousand three hundred and threescore
beside their servants and their maids of whom there were seven thousand three hundred thirty and seven and there were among them two hundred singing men and singing women
their horses were seven hundred thirty and six their mules two hundred forty and five
their camels four hundred thirty and five their asses six thousand seven hundred and twenty
and some of the chief of the fathers when they came to the house of the lord which is at jerusalem offered freely for the house of god to set it up in his place
they gave after their ability unto the treasure of the work threescore and one thousand drams of gold and five thousand pound of silver and one hundred priests garments
so the priests and the levites and some of the people and the singers and the porters and the nethinims dwelt in their cities and all israel in their cities
and when the seventh month was come and the children of israel were in the cities the people gathered themselves together as one man to jerusalem
then stood up jeshua the son of jozadak and his brethren the priests and zerubbabel the son of shealtiel and his brethren and builded the altar of the god of israel to offer burnt offerings thereon as it is written in the law of moses the man of god
and they set the altar upon his bases for fear was upon them because of the people of those countries and they offered burnt offerings thereon unto the lord even burnt offerings morning and evening
they kept also the feast of tabernacles as it is written and offered the daily burnt offerings by number according to the custom as the duty of every day required
and afterward offered the continual burnt offering both of the new moons and of all the set feasts of the lord that were consecrated and of every one that willingly offered a freewill offering unto the lord
from the first day of the seventh month began they to offer burnt offerings unto the lord but the foundation of the temple of the lord was not yet laid
they gave money also unto the masons and to the carpenters and meat and drink and oil unto them of zidon and to them of tyre to bring cedar trees from lebanon to the sea of joppa according to the grant that they had of cyrus king of persia
now in the second year of their coming unto the house of god at jerusalem in the second month began zerubbabel the son of shealtiel and jeshua the son of jozadak and the remnant of their brethren the priests and the levites and all they that were come out of the captivity unto jerusalem and appointed the levites from twenty years old and upward to set forward the work of the house of the lord
then stood jeshua with his sons and his brethren kadmiel and his sons the sons of judah together to set forward the workmen in the house of god the sons of henadad with their sons and their brethren the levites
and when the builders laid the foundation of the temple of the lord they set the priests in their apparel with trumpets and the levites the sons of asaph with cymbals to praise the lord after the ordinance of david king of israel
and they sang together by course in praising and giving thanks unto the lord because he is good for his mercy endureth for ever toward israel and all the people shouted with a great shout when they praised the lord because the foundation of the house of the lord was laid
but many of the priests and levites and chief of the fathers who were ancient men that had seen the first house when the foundation of this house was laid before their eyes wept with a loud voice and many shouted aloud for joy
so that the people could not discern the noise of the shout of joy from the noise of the weeping of the people for the people shouted with a loud shout and the noise was heard afar off
now when the adversaries of judah and benjamin heard that the children of the captivity builded the temple unto the lord god of israel
then they came to zerubbabel and to the chief of the fathers and said unto them let us build with you for we seek your god as ye do and we do sacrifice unto him since the days of esarhaddon king of assur which brought us up hither
but zerubbabel and jeshua and the rest of the chief of the fathers of israel said unto them ye have nothing to do with us to build an house unto our god but we ourselves together will build unto the lord god of israel as king cyrus the king of persia hath commanded us
then the people of the land weakened the hands of the people of judah and troubled them in building
and hired counsellors against them to frustrate their purpose all the days of cyrus king of persia even until the reign of darius king of persia
and in the reign of ahasuerus in the beginning of his reign wrote they unto him an accusation against the inhabitants of judah and jerusalem
and in the days of artaxerxes wrote bishlam mithredath tabeel and the rest of their companions unto artaxerxes king of persia and the writing of the letter was written in the syrian tongue and interpreted in the syrian tongue
rehum the chancellor and shimshai the scribe wrote a letter against jerusalem to artaxerxes the king in this sort
then wrote rehum the chancellor and shimshai the scribe and the rest of their companions the dinaites the apharsathchites the tarpelites the apharsites the archevites the babylonians the susanchites the dehavites and the elamites
and the rest of the nations whom the great and noble asnapper brought over and set in the cities of samaria and the rest that are on this side the river and at such a time
this is the copy of the letter that they sent unto him even unto artaxerxes the king thy servants the men on this side the river and at such a time
be it known unto the king that the jews which came up from thee to us are come unto jerusalem building the rebellious and the bad city and have set up the walls thereof and joined the foundations
be it known now unto the king that if this city be builded and the walls set up again then will they not pay toll tribute and custom and so thou shalt endamage the revenue of the kings
now because we have maintenance from the king's palace and it was not meet for us to see the king's dishonour therefore have we sent and certified the king
that search may be made in the book of the records of thy fathers so shalt thou find in the book of the records and know that this city is a rebellious city and hurtful unto kings and provinces and that they have moved sedition within the same of old time for which cause was this city destroyed
we certify the king that if this city be builded again and the walls thereof set up by this means thou shalt have no portion on this side the river
then sent the king an answer unto rehum the chancellor and to shimshai the scribe and to the rest of their companions that dwell in samaria and unto the rest beyond the river peace and at such a time
the letter which ye sent unto us hath been plainly read before me
and i commanded and search hath been made and it is found that this city of old time hath made insurrection against kings and that rebellion and sedition have been made therein
there have been mighty kings also over jerusalem which have ruled over all countries beyond the river and toll tribute and custom was paid unto them
give ye now commandment to cause these men to cease and that this city be not builded until another commandment shall be given from me
take heed now that ye fail not to do this why should damage grow to the hurt of the kings
now when the copy of king artaxerxes letter was read before rehum and shimshai the scribe and their companions they went up in haste to jerusalem unto the jews and made them to cease by force and power
then ceased the work of the house of god which is at jerusalem so it ceased unto the second year of the reign of darius king of persia
then the prophets haggai the prophet and zechariah the son of iddo prophesied unto the jews that were in judah and jerusalem in the name of the god of israel even unto them
then rose up zerubbabel the son of shealtiel and jeshua the son of jozadak and began to build the house of god which is at jerusalem and with them were the prophets of god helping them
at the same time came to them tatnai governor on this side the river and shetharboznai and their companions and said thus unto them who hath commanded you to build this house and to make up this wall
then said we unto them after this manner what are the names of the men that make this building
but the eye of their god was upon the elders of the jews that they could not cause them to cease till the matter came to darius and then they returned answer by letter concerning this matter
the copy of the letter that tatnai governor on this side the river and shetharboznai and his companions the apharsachites which were on this side the river sent unto darius the king
they sent a letter unto him wherein was written thus unto darius the king all peace
be it known unto the king that we went into the province of judea to the house of the great god which is builded with great stones and timber is laid in the walls and this work goeth fast on and prospereth in their hands
then asked we those elders and said unto them thus who commanded you to build this house and to make up these walls
we asked their names also to certify thee that we might write the names of the men that were the chief of them
and thus they returned us answer saying we are the servants of the god of heaven and earth and build the house that was builded these many years ago which a great king of israel builded and set up
but after that our fathers had provoked the god of heaven unto wrath he gave them into the hand of nebuchadnezzar the king of babylon the chaldean who destroyed this house and carried the people away into babylon
but in the first year of cyrus the king of babylon the same king cyrus made a decree to build this house of god
and the vessels also of gold and silver of the house of god which nebuchadnezzar took out of the temple that was in jerusalem and brought them into the temple of babylon those did cyrus the king take out of the temple of babylon and they were delivered unto one whose name was sheshbazzar whom he had made governor
and said unto him take these vessels go carry them into the temple that is in jerusalem and let the house of god be builded in his place
then came the same sheshbazzar and laid the foundation of the house of god which is in jerusalem and since that time even until now hath it been in building and yet it is not finished
now therefore if it seem good to the king let there be search made in the king's treasure house which is there at babylon whether it be so that a decree was made of cyrus the king to build this house of god at jerusalem and let the king send his pleasure to us concerning this matter
then darius the king made a decree and search was made in the house of the rolls where the treasures were laid up in babylon
and there was found at achmetha in the palace that is in the province of the medes a roll and therein was a record thus written
in the first year of cyrus the king the same cyrus the king made a decree concerning the house of god at jerusalem let the house be builded the place where they offered sacrifices and let the foundations thereof be strongly laid the height thereof threescore cubits and the breadth thereof threescore cubits
with three rows of great stones and a row of new timber and let the expenses be given out of the king's house
and also let the golden and silver vessels of the house of god which nebuchadnezzar took forth out of the temple which is at jerusalem and brought unto babylon be restored and brought again unto the temple which is at jerusalem every one to his place and place them in the house of god
now therefore tatnai governor beyond the river shetharboznai and your companions the apharsachites which are beyond the river be ye far from thence
let the work of this house of god alone let the governor of the jews and the elders of the jews build this house of god in his place
moreover i make a decree what ye shall do to the elders of these jews for the building of this house of god that of the king's goods even of the tribute beyond the river forthwith expenses be given unto these men that they be not hindered
and that which they have need of both young bullocks and rams and lambs for the burnt offerings of the god of heaven wheat salt wine and oil according to the appointment of the priests which are at jerusalem let it be given them day by day without fail
that they may offer sacrifices of sweet savours unto the god of heaven and pray for the life of the king and of his sons
also i have made a decree that whosoever shall alter this word let timber be pulled down from his house and being set up let him be hanged thereon and let his house be made a dunghill for this
and the god that hath caused his name to dwell there destroy all kings and people that shall put to their hand to alter and to destroy this house of god which is at jerusalem i darius have made a decree let it be done with speed
then tatnai governor on this side the river shetharboznai and their companions according to that which darius the king had sent so they did speedily
and the elders of the jews builded and they prospered through the prophesying of haggai the prophet and zechariah the son of iddo and they builded and finished it according to the commandment of the god of israel and according to the commandment of cyrus and darius and artaxerxes king of persia
and this house was finished on the third day of the month adar which was in the sixth year of the reign of darius the king
and the children of israel the priests and the levites and the rest of the children of the captivity kept the dedication of this house of god with joy
and offered at the dedication of this house of god an hundred bullocks two hundred rams four hundred lambs and for a sin offering for all israel twelve he goats according to the number of the tribes of israel
and they set the priests in their divisions and the levites in their courses for the service of god which is at jerusalem as it is written in the book of moses
and the children of the captivity kept the passover upon the fourteenth day of the first month
for the priests and the levites were purified together all of them were pure and killed the passover for all the children of the captivity and for their brethren the priests and for themselves
and the children of israel which were come again out of captivity and all such as had separated themselves unto them from the filthiness of the heathen of the land to seek the lord god of israel did eat
and kept the feast of unleavened bread seven days with joy for the lord had made them joyful and turned the heart of the king of assyria unto them to strengthen their hands in the work of the house of god the god of israel
now after these things in the reign of artaxerxes king of persia ezra the son of seraiah the son of azariah the son of hilkiah
the son of shallum the son of zadok the son of ahitub
the son of amariah the son of azariah the son of meraioth
the son of zerahiah the son of uzzi the son of bukki
the son of abishua the son of phinehas the son of eleazar the son of aaron the chief priest
this ezra went up from babylon and he was a ready scribe in the law of moses which the lord god of israel had given and the king granted him all his request according to the hand of the lord his god upon him
and there went up some of the children of israel and of the priests and the levites and the singers and the porters and the nethinims unto jerusalem in the seventh year of artaxerxes the king
and he came to jerusalem in the fifth month which was in the seventh year of the king
for upon the first day of the first month began he to go up from babylon and on the first day of the fifth month came he to jerusalem according to the good hand of his god upon him
for ezra had prepared his heart to seek the law of the lord and to do it and to teach in israel statutes and judgments
now this is the copy of the letter that the king artaxerxes gave unto ezra the priest the scribe even a scribe of the words of the commandments of the lord and of his statutes to israel
artaxerxes king of kings unto ezra the priest a scribe of the law of the god of heaven perfect peace and at such a time
i make a decree that all they of the people of israel and of his priests and levites in my realm which are minded of their own freewill to go up to jerusalem go with thee
forasmuch as thou art sent of the king and of his seven counsellors to enquire concerning judah and jerusalem according to the law of thy god which is in thine hand
and to carry the silver and gold which the king and his counsellors have freely offered unto the god of israel whose habitation is in jerusalem
and all the silver and gold that thou canst find in all the province of babylon with the freewill offering of the people and of the priests offering willingly for the house of their god which is in jerusalem
that thou mayest buy speedily with this money bullocks rams lambs with their meat offerings and their drink offerings and offer them upon the altar of the house of your god which is in jerusalem
and whatsoever shall seem good to thee and to thy brethren to do with the rest of the silver and the gold that do after the will of your god
the vessels also that are given thee for the service of the house of thy god those deliver thou before the god of jerusalem
and whatsoever more shall be needful for the house of thy god which thou shalt have occasion to bestow bestow it out of the king's treasure house
and i even i artaxerxes the king do make a decree to all the treasurers which are beyond the river that whatsoever ezra the priest the scribe of the law of the god of heaven shall require of you it be done speedily
unto an hundred talents of silver and to an hundred measures of wheat and to an hundred baths of wine and to an hundred baths of oil and salt without prescribing how much
whatsoever is commanded by the god of heaven let it be diligently done for the house of the god of heaven for why should there be wrath against the realm of the king and his sons
also we certify you that touching any of the priests and levites singers porters nethinims or ministers of this house of god it shall not be lawful to impose toll tribute or custom upon them
and thou ezra after the wisdom of thy god that is in thine hand set magistrates and judges which may judge all the people that are beyond the river all such as know the laws of thy god and teach ye them that know them not
and whosoever will not do the law of thy god and the law of the king let judgment be executed speedily upon him whether it be unto death or to banishment or to confiscation of goods or to imprisonment
blessed be the lord god of our fathers which hath put such a thing as this in the king's heart to beautify the house of the lord which is in jerusalem
and hath extended mercy unto me before the king and his counsellors and before all the king's mighty princes and i was strengthened as the hand of the lord my god was upon me and i gathered together out of israel chief men to go up with me
these are now the chief of their fathers and this is the genealogy of them that went up with me from babylon in the reign of artaxerxes the king
of the sons of phinehas gershom of the sons of ithamar daniel of the sons of david hattush
of the sons of shechaniah of the sons of pharosh zechariah and with him were reckoned by genealogy of the males an hundred and fifty
of the sons of pahathmoab elihoenai the son of zerahiah and with him two hundred males
of the sons of shechaniah the son of jahaziel and with him three hundred males
of the sons also of adin ebed the son of jonathan and with him fifty males
and of the sons of elam jeshaiah the son of athaliah and with him seventy males
and of the sons of shephatiah zebadiah the son of michael and with him fourscore males
of the sons of joab obadiah the son of jehiel and with him two hundred and eighteen males
and of the sons of shelomith the son of josiphiah and with him an hundred and threescore males
and of the sons of bebai zechariah the son of bebai and with him twenty and eight males
and of the sons of azgad johanan the son of hakkatan and with him an hundred and ten males
and of the last sons of adonikam whose names are these eliphelet jeiel and shemaiah and with them threescore males
of the sons also of bigvai uthai and zabbud and with them seventy males
and i gathered them together to the river that runneth to ahava and there abode we in tents three days and i viewed the people and the priests and found there none of the sons of levi
then sent i for eliezer for ariel for shemaiah and for elnathan and for jarib and for elnathan and for nathan and for zechariah and for meshullam chief men also for joiarib and for elnathan men of understanding
and i sent them with commandment unto iddo the chief at the place casiphia and i told them what they should say unto iddo and to his brethren the nethinims at the place casiphia that they should bring unto us ministers for the house of our god
and by the good hand of our god upon us they brought us a man of understanding of the sons of mahli the son of levi the son of israel and sherebiah with his sons and his brethren eighteen
and hashabiah and with him jeshaiah of the sons of merari his brethren and their sons twenty
also of the nethinims whom david and the princes had appointed for the service of the levites two hundred and twenty nethinims all of them were expressed by name
then i proclaimed a fast there at the river of ahava that we might afflict ourselves before our god to seek of him a right way for us and for our little ones and for all our substance
for i was ashamed to require of the king a band of soldiers and horsemen to help us against the enemy in the way because we had spoken unto the king saying the hand of our god is upon all them for good that seek him but his power and his wrath is against all them that forsake him
so we fasted and besought our god for this and he was intreated of us
then i separated twelve of the chief of the priests sherebiah hashabiah and ten of their brethren with them
and weighed unto them the silver and the gold and the vessels even the offering of the house of our god which the king and his counsellors and his lords and all israel there present had offered
i even weighed unto their hand six hundred and fifty talents of silver and silver vessels an hundred talents and of gold an hundred talents
also twenty basons of gold of a thousand drams and two vessels of fine copper precious as gold
and i said unto them ye are holy unto the lord the vessels are holy also and the silver and the gold are a freewill offering unto the lord god of your fathers
watch ye and keep them until ye weigh them before the chief of the priests and the levites and chief of the fathers of israel at jerusalem in the chambers of the house of the lord
so took the priests and the levites the weight of the silver and the gold and the vessels to bring them to jerusalem unto the house of our god
then we departed from the river of ahava on the twelfth day of the first month to go unto jerusalem and the hand of our god was upon us and he delivered us from the hand of the enemy and of such as lay in wait by the way
and we came to jerusalem and abode there three days
now on the fourth day was the silver and the gold and the vessels weighed in the house of our god by the hand of meremoth the son of uriah the priest and with him was eleazar the son of phinehas and with them was jozabad the son of jeshua and noadiah the son of binnui levites
by number and by weight of every one and all the weight was written at that time
also the children of those that had been carried away which were come out of the captivity offered burnt offerings unto the god of israel twelve bullocks for all israel ninety and six rams seventy and seven lambs twelve he goats for a sin offering all this was a burnt offering unto the lord
and they delivered the king's commissions unto the king's lieutenants and to the governors on this side the river and they furthered the people and the house of god
now when these things were done the princes came to me saying the people of israel and the priests and the levites have not separated themselves from the people of the lands doing according to their abominations even of the canaanites the hittites the perizzites the jebusites the ammonites the moabites the egyptians and the amorites
for they have taken of their daughters for themselves and for their sons so that the holy seed have mingled themselves with the people of those lands yea the hand of the princes and rulers hath been chief in this trespass
and when i heard this thing i rent my garment and my mantle and plucked off the hair of my head and of my beard and sat down astonied
then were assembled unto me every one that trembled at the words of the god of israel because of the transgression of those that had been carried away and i sat astonied until the evening sacrifice
and at the evening sacrifice i arose up from my heaviness and having rent my garment and my mantle i fell upon my knees and spread out my hands unto the lord my god
and said o my god i am ashamed and blush to lift up my face to thee my god for our iniquities are increased over our head and our trespass is grown up unto the heavens
since the days of our fathers have we been in a great trespass unto this day and for our iniquities have we our kings and our priests been delivered into the hand of the kings of the lands to the sword to captivity and to a spoil and to confusion of face as it is this day
and now for a little space grace hath been shewed from the lord our god to leave us a remnant to escape and to give us a nail in his holy place that our god may lighten our eyes and give us a little reviving in our bondage
for we were bondmen yet our god hath not forsaken us in our bondage but hath extended mercy unto us in the sight of the kings of persia to give us a reviving to set up the house of our god and to repair the desolations thereof and to give us a wall in judah and in jerusalem
and now o our god what shall we say after this for we have forsaken thy commandments
which thou hast commanded by thy servants the prophets saying the land unto which ye go to possess it is an unclean land with the filthiness of the people of the lands with their abominations which have filled it from one end to another with their uncleanness
now therefore give not your daughters unto their sons neither take their daughters unto your sons nor seek their peace or their wealth for ever that ye may be strong and eat the good of the land and leave it for an inheritance to your children for ever
and after all that is come upon us for our evil deeds and for our great trespass seeing that thou our god hast punished us less than our iniquities deserve and hast given us such deliverance as this
should we again break thy commandments and join in affinity with the people of these abominations wouldest not thou be angry with us till thou hadst consumed us so that there should be no remnant nor escaping
o lord god of israel thou art righteous for we remain yet escaped as it is this day behold we are before thee in our trespasses for we cannot stand before thee because of this
now when ezra had prayed and when he had confessed weeping and casting himself down before the house of god there assembled unto him out of israel a very great congregation of men and women and children for the people wept very sore
and shechaniah the son of jehiel one of the sons of elam answered and said unto ezra we have trespassed against our god and have taken strange wives of the people of the land yet now there is hope in israel concerning this thing
now therefore let us make a covenant with our god to put away all the wives and such as are born of them according to the counsel of my lord and of those that tremble at the commandment of our god and let it be done according to the law
arise for this matter belongeth unto thee we also will be with thee be of good courage and do it
then arose ezra and made the chief priests the levites and all israel to swear that they should do according to this word and they sware
then ezra rose up from before the house of god and went into the chamber of johanan the son of eliashib and when he came thither he did eat no bread nor drink water for he mourned because of the transgression of them that had been carried away
and they made proclamation throughout judah and jerusalem unto all the children of the captivity that they should gather themselves together unto jerusalem
and that whosoever would not come within three days according to the counsel of the princes and the elders all his substance should be forfeited and himself separated from the congregation of those that had been carried away
then all the men of judah and benjamin gathered themselves together unto jerusalem within three days it was the ninth month on the twentieth day of the month and all the people sat in the street of the house of god trembling because of this matter and for the great rain
and ezra the priest stood up and said unto them ye have transgressed and have taken strange wives to increase the trespass of israel
now therefore make confession unto the lord god of your fathers and do his pleasure and separate yourselves from the people of the land and from the strange wives
then all the congregation answered and said with a loud voice as thou hast said so must we do
but the people are many and it is a time of much rain and we are not able to stand without neither is this a work of one day or two for we are many that have transgressed in this thing
let now our rulers of all the congregation stand and let all them which have taken strange wives in our cities come at appointed times and with them the elders of every city and the judges thereof until the fierce wrath of our god for this matter be turned from us
only jonathan the son of asahel and jahaziah the son of tikvah were employed about this matter and meshullam and shabbethai the levite helped them
and the children of the captivity did so and ezra the priest with certain chief of the fathers after the house of their fathers and all of them by their names were separated and sat down in the first day of the tenth month to examine the matter
and they made an end with all the men that had taken strange wives by the first day of the first month
and among the sons of the priests there were found that had taken strange wives namely of the sons of jeshua the son of jozadak and his brethren maaseiah and eliezer and jarib and gedaliah
and they gave their hands that they would put away their wives and being guilty they offered a ram of the flock for their trespass
and of the sons of immer hanani and zebadiah
and of the sons of harim maaseiah and elijah and shemaiah and jehiel and uzziah
and of the sons of pashur elioenai maaseiah ishmael nethaneel jozabad and elasah
also of the levites jozabad and shimei and kelaiah the same is kelita pethahiah judah and eliezer
of the singers also eliashib and of the porters shallum and telem and uri
moreover of israel of the sons of parosh ramiah and jeziah and malchiah and miamin and eleazar and malchijah and benaiah
and of the sons of elam mattaniah zechariah and jehiel and abdi and jeremoth and eliah
and of the sons of zattu elioenai eliashib mattaniah and jeremoth and zabad and aziza
of the sons also of bebai jehohanan hananiah zabbai and athlai
and of the sons of bani meshullam malluch and adaiah jashub and sheal and ramoth
and of the sons of pahathmoab adna and chelal benaiah maaseiah mattaniah bezaleel and binnui and manasseh
and of the sons of harim eliezer ishijah malchiah shemaiah shimeon
benjamin malluch and shemariah
of the sons of hashum mattenai mattathah zabad eliphelet jeremai manasseh and shimei
of the sons of bani maadai amram and uel
benaiah bedeiah chelluh
vaniah meremoth eliashib
mattaniah mattenai and jaasau
and bani and binnui shimei
and shelemiah and nathan and adaiah
machnadebai shashai sharai
azareel and shelemiah shemariah
shallum amariah and joseph
of the sons of nebo jeiel mattithiah zabad zebina jadau and joel benaiah
all these had taken strange wives and some of them had wives by whom they had children
the words of nehemiah the son of hachaliah and it came to pass in the month chisleu in the twentieth year as i was in shushan the palace
that hanani one of my brethren came he and certain men of judah and i asked them concerning the jews that had escaped which were left of the captivity and concerning jerusalem
and they said unto me the remnant that are left of the captivity there in the province are in great affliction and reproach the wall of jerusalem also is broken down and the gates thereof are burned with fire
and it came to pass when i heard these words that i sat down and wept and mourned certain days and fasted and prayed before the god of heaven
and said i beseech thee o lord god of heaven the great and terrible god that keepeth covenant and mercy for them that love him and observe his commandments
let thine ear now be attentive and thine eyes open that thou mayest hear the prayer of thy servant which i pray before thee now day and night for the children of israel thy servants and confess the sins of the children of israel which we have sinned against thee both i and my father's house have sinned
we have dealt very corruptly against thee and have not kept the commandments nor the statutes nor the judgments which thou commandedst thy servant moses
remember i beseech thee the word that thou commandedst thy servant moses saying if ye transgress i will scatter you abroad among the nations
but if ye turn unto me and keep my commandments and do them though there were of you cast out unto the uttermost part of the heaven yet will i gather them from thence and will bring them unto the place that i have chosen to set my name there
now these are thy servants and thy people whom thou hast redeemed by thy great power and by thy strong hand
o lord i beseech thee let now thine ear be attentive to the prayer of thy servant and to the prayer of thy servants who desire to fear thy name and prosper i pray thee thy servant this day and grant him mercy in the sight of this man for i was the king's cupbearer
and it came to pass in the month nisan in the twentieth year of artaxerxes the king that wine was before him and i took up the wine and gave it unto the king now i had not been beforetime sad in his presence
wherefore the king said unto me why is thy countenance sad seeing thou art not sick this is nothing else but sorrow of heart then i was very sore afraid
and said unto the king let the king live for ever why should not my countenance be sad when the city the place of my fathers sepulchres lieth waste and the gates thereof are consumed with fire
then the king said unto me for what dost thou make request so i prayed to the god of heaven
and i said unto the king if it please the king and if thy servant have found favour in thy sight that thou wouldest send me unto judah unto the city of my fathers sepulchres that i may build it
and the king said unto me the queen also sitting by him for how long shall thy journey be and when wilt thou return so it pleased the king to send me and i set him a time
moreover i said unto the king if it please the king let letters be given me to the governors beyond the river that they may convey me over till i come into judah
and a letter unto asaph the keeper of the king's forest that he may give me timber to make beams for the gates of the palace which appertained to the house and for the wall of the city and for the house that i shall enter into and the king granted me according to the good hand of my god upon me
then i came to the governors beyond the river and gave them the king's letters now the king had sent captains of the army and horsemen with me
when sanballat the horonite and tobiah the servant the ammonite heard of it it grieved them exceedingly that there was come a man to seek the welfare of the children of israel
so i came to jerusalem and was there three days
and i arose in the night i and some few men with me neither told i any man what my god had put in my heart to do at jerusalem neither was there any beast with me save the beast that i rode upon
and i went out by night by the gate of the valley even before the dragon well and to the dung port and viewed the walls of jerusalem which were broken down and the gates thereof were consumed with fire
then i went on to the gate of the fountain and to the king's pool but there was no place for the beast that was under me to pass
then went i up in the night by the brook and viewed the wall and turned back and entered by the gate of the valley and so returned
and the rulers knew not whither i went or what i did neither had i as yet told it to the jews nor to the priests nor to the nobles nor to the rulers nor to the rest that did the work
then said i unto them ye see the distress that we are in how jerusalem lieth waste and the gates thereof are burned with fire come and let us build up the wall of jerusalem that we be no more a reproach
then i told them of the hand of my god which was good upon me as also the king's words that he had spoken unto me and they said let us rise up and build so they strengthened their hands for this good work
but when sanballat the horonite and tobiah the servant the ammonite and geshem the arabian heard it they laughed us to scorn and despised us and said what is this thing that ye do will ye rebel against the king
then answered i them and said unto them the god of heaven he will prosper us therefore we his servants will arise and build but ye have no portion nor right nor memorial in jerusalem
then eliashib the high priest rose up with his brethren the priests and they builded the sheep gate they sanctified it and set up the doors of it even unto the tower of meah they sanctified it unto the tower of hananeel
and next unto him builded the men of jericho and next to them builded zaccur the son of imri
but the fish gate did the sons of hassenaah build who also laid the beams thereof and set up the doors thereof the locks thereof and the bars thereof
and next unto them repaired meremoth the son of urijah the son of koz and next unto them repaired meshullam the son of berechiah the son of meshezabeel and next unto them repaired zadok the son of baana
and next unto them the tekoites repaired but their nobles put not their necks to the work of their lord
moreover the old gate repaired jehoiada the son of paseah and meshullam the son of besodeiah they laid the beams thereof and set up the doors thereof and the locks thereof and the bars thereof
and next unto them repaired melatiah the gibeonite and jadon the meronothite the men of gibeon and of mizpah unto the throne of the governor on this side the river
next unto him repaired uzziel the son of harhaiah of the goldsmiths next unto him also repaired hananiah the son of one of the apothecaries and they fortified jerusalem unto the broad wall
and next unto them repaired rephaiah the son of hur the ruler of the half part of jerusalem
and next unto them repaired jedaiah the son of harumaph even over against his house and next unto him repaired hattush the son of hashabniah
malchijah the son of harim and hashub the son of pahathmoab repaired the other piece and the tower of the furnaces
and next unto him repaired shallum the son of halohesh the ruler of the half part of jerusalem he and his daughters
the valley gate repaired hanun and the inhabitants of zanoah they built it and set up the doors thereof the locks thereof and the bars thereof and a thousand cubits on the wall unto the dung gate
but the dung gate repaired malchiah the son of rechab the ruler of part of bethhaccerem he built it and set up the doors thereof the locks thereof and the bars thereof
but the gate of the fountain repaired shallun the son of colhozeh the ruler of part of mizpah he built it and covered it and set up the doors thereof the locks thereof and the bars thereof and the wall of the pool of siloah by the king's garden and unto the stairs that go down from the city of david
after him repaired nehemiah the son of azbuk the ruler of the half part of bethzur unto the place over against the sepulchres of david and to the pool that was made and unto the house of the mighty
after him repaired the levites rehum the son of bani next unto him repaired hashabiah the ruler of the half part of keilah in his part
after him repaired their brethren bavai the son of henadad the ruler of the half part of keilah
and next to him repaired ezer the son of jeshua the ruler of mizpah another piece over against the going up to the armoury at the turning of the wall
after him baruch the son of zabbai earnestly repaired the other piece from the turning of the wall unto the door of the house of eliashib the high priest
after him repaired meremoth the son of urijah the son of koz another piece from the door of the house of eliashib even to the end of the house of eliashib
and after him repaired the priests the men of the plain
after him repaired benjamin and hashub over against their house after him repaired azariah the son of maaseiah the son of ananiah by his house
after him repaired binnui the son of henadad another piece from the house of azariah unto the turning of the wall even unto the corner
palal the son of uzai over against the turning of the wall and the tower which lieth out from the king's high house that was by the court of the prison after him pedaiah the son of parosh
moreover the nethinims dwelt in ophel unto the place over against the water gate toward the east and the tower that lieth out
after them the tekoites repaired another piece over against the great tower that lieth out even unto the wall of ophel
from above the horse gate repaired the priests every one over against his house
after them repaired zadok the son of immer over against his house after him repaired also shemaiah the son of shechaniah the keeper of the east gate
after him repaired hananiah the son of shelemiah and hanun the sixth son of zalaph another piece after him repaired meshullam the son of berechiah over against his chamber
after him repaired malchiah the goldsmith's son unto the place of the nethinims and of the merchants over against the gate miphkad and to the going up of the corner
and between the going up of the corner unto the sheep gate repaired the goldsmiths and the merchants
but it came to pass that when sanballat heard that we builded the wall he was wroth and took great indignation and mocked the jews
and he spake before his brethren and the army of samaria and said what do these feeble jews will they fortify themselves will they sacrifice will they make an end in a day will they revive the stones out of the heaps of the rubbish which are burned
now tobiah the ammonite was by him and he said even that which they build if a fox go up he shall even break down their stone wall
hear o our god for we are despised and turn their reproach upon their own head and give them for a prey in the land of captivity
and cover not their iniquity and let not their sin be blotted out from before thee for they have provoked thee to anger before the builders
so built we the wall and all the wall was joined together unto the half thereof for the people had a mind to work
but it came to pass that when sanballat and tobiah and the arabians and the ammonites and the ashdodites heard that the walls of jerusalem were made up and that the breaches began to be stopped then they were very wroth
and conspired all of them together to come and to fight against jerusalem and to hinder it
nevertheless we made our prayer unto our god and set a watch against them day and night because of them
and judah said the strength of the bearers of burdens is decayed and there is much rubbish so that we are not able to build the wall
and our adversaries said they shall not know neither see till we come in the midst among them and slay them and cause the work to cease
and it came to pass that when the jews which dwelt by them came they said unto us ten times from all places whence ye shall return unto us they will be upon you
therefore set i in the lower places behind the wall and on the higher places i even set the people after their families with their swords their spears and their bows
and i looked and rose up and said unto the nobles and to the rulers and to the rest of the people be not ye afraid of them remember the lord which is great and terrible and fight for your brethren your sons and your daughters your wives and your houses
and it came to pass when our enemies heard that it was known unto us and god had brought their counsel to nought that we returned all of us to the wall every one unto his work
and it came to pass from that time forth that the half of my servants wrought in the work and the other half of them held both the spears the shields and the bows and the habergeons and the rulers were behind all the house of judah
they which builded on the wall and they that bare burdens with those that laded every one with one of his hands wrought in the work and with the other hand held a weapon
for the builders every one had his sword girded by his side and so builded and he that sounded the trumpet was by me
and i said unto the nobles and to the rulers and to the rest of the people the work is great and large and we are separated upon the wall one far from another
in what place therefore ye hear the sound of the trumpet resort ye thither unto us our god shall fight for us
so we laboured in the work and half of them held the spears from the rising of the morning till the stars appeared
likewise at the same time said i unto the people let every one with his servant lodge within jerusalem that in the night they may be a guard to us and labour on the day
so neither i nor my brethren nor my servants nor the men of the guard which followed me none of us put off our clothes saving that every one put them off for washing
and there was a great cry of the people and of their wives against their brethren the jews
for there were that said we our sons and our daughters are many therefore we take up corn for them that we may eat and live
some also there were that said we have mortgaged our lands vineyards and houses that we might buy corn because of the dearth
there were also that said we have borrowed money for the king's tribute and that upon our lands and vineyards
yet now our flesh is as the flesh of our brethren our children as their children and lo we bring into bondage our sons and our daughters to be servants and some of our daughters are brought unto bondage already neither is it in our power to redeem them for other men have our lands and vineyards
and i was very angry when i heard their cry and these words
then i consulted with myself and i rebuked the nobles and the rulers and said unto them ye exact usury every one of his brother and i set a great assembly against them
and i said unto them we after our ability have redeemed our brethren the jews which were sold unto the heathen and will ye even sell your brethren or shall they be sold unto us then held they their peace and found nothing to answer
also i said it is not good that ye do ought ye not to walk in the fear of our god because of the reproach of the heathen our enemies
i likewise and my brethren and my servants might exact of them money and corn i pray you let us leave off this usury
restore i pray you to them even this day their lands their vineyards their oliveyards and their houses also the hundredth part of the money and of the corn the wine and the oil that ye exact of them
then said they we will restore them and will require nothing of them so will we do as thou sayest then i called the priests and took an oath of them that they should do according to this promise
also i shook my lap and said so god shake out every man from his house and from his labour that performeth not this promise even thus be he shaken out and emptied and all the congregation said amen and praised the lord and the people did according to this promise
moreover from the time that i was appointed to be their governor in the land of judah from the twentieth year even unto the two and thirtieth year of artaxerxes the king that is twelve years i and my brethren have not eaten the bread of the governor
but the former governors that had been before me were chargeable unto the people and had taken of them bread and wine beside forty shekels of silver yea even their servants bare rule over the people but so did not i because of the fear of god
yea also i continued in the work of this wall neither bought we any land and all my servants were gathered thither unto the work
moreover there were at my table an hundred and fifty of the jews and rulers beside those that came unto us from among the heathen that are about us
now that which was prepared for me daily was one ox and six choice sheep also fowls were prepared for me and once in ten days store of all sorts of wine yet for all this required not i the bread of the governor because the bondage was heavy upon this people
think upon me my god for good according to all that i have done for this people
now it came to pass when sanballat and tobiah and geshem the arabian and the rest of our enemies heard that i had builded the wall and that there was no breach left therein though at that time i had not set up the doors upon the gates
that sanballat and geshem sent unto me saying come let us meet together in some one of the villages in the plain of ono but they thought to do me mischief
and i sent messengers unto them saying i am doing a great work so that i cannot come down why should the work cease whilst i leave it and come down to you
yet they sent unto me four times after this sort and i answered them after the same manner
then sent sanballat his servant unto me in like manner the fifth time with an open letter in his hand
wherein was written it is reported among the heathen and gashmu saith it that thou and the jews think to rebel for which cause thou buildest the wall that thou mayest be their king according to these words
and thou hast also appointed prophets to preach of thee at jerusalem saying there is a king in judah and now shall it be reported to the king according to these words come now therefore and let us take counsel together
then i sent unto him saying there are no such things done as thou sayest but thou feignest them out of thine own heart
for they all made us afraid saying their hands shall be weakened from the work that it be not done now therefore o god strengthen my hands
afterward i came unto the house of shemaiah the son of delaiah the son of mehetabeel who was shut up and he said let us meet together in the house of god within the temple and let us shut the doors of the temple for they will come to slay thee yea in the night will they come to slay thee
and i said should such a man as i flee and who is there that being as i am would go into the temple to save his life i will not go in
and lo i perceived that god had not sent him but that he pronounced this prophecy against me for tobiah and sanballat had hired him
therefore was he hired that i should be afraid and do so and sin and that they might have matter for an evil report that they might reproach me
my god think thou upon tobiah and sanballat according to these their works and on the prophetess noadiah and the rest of the prophets that would have put me in fear
so the wall was finished in the twenty and fifth day of the month elul in fifty and two days
and it came to pass that when all our enemies heard thereof and all the heathen that were about us saw these things they were much cast down in their own eyes for they perceived that this work was wrought of our god
moreover in those days the nobles of judah sent many letters unto tobiah and the letters of tobiah came unto them
for there were many in judah sworn unto him because he was the son in law of shechaniah the son of arah and his son johanan had taken the daughter of meshullam the son of berechiah
also they reported his good deeds before me and uttered my words to him and tobiah sent letters to put me in fear
now it came to pass when the wall was built and i had set up the doors and the porters and the singers and the levites were appointed
that i gave my brother hanani and hananiah the ruler of the palace charge over jerusalem for he was a faithful man and feared god above many
and i said unto them let not the gates of jerusalem be opened until the sun be hot and while they stand by let them shut the doors and bar them and appoint watches of the inhabitants of jerusalem every one in his watch and every one to be over against his house
now the city was large and great but the people were few therein and the houses were not builded
and my god put into mine heart to gather together the nobles and the rulers and the people that they might be reckoned by genealogy and i found a register of the genealogy of them which came up at the first and found written therein
these are the children of the province that went up out of the captivity of those that had been carried away whom nebuchadnezzar the king of babylon had carried away and came again to jerusalem and to judah every one unto his city
who came with zerubbabel jeshua nehemiah azariah raamiah nahamani mordecai bilshan mispereth bigvai nehum baanah the number i say of the men of the people of israel was this
the children of parosh two thousand an hundred seventy and two
the children of shephatiah three hundred seventy and two
the children of arah six hundred fifty and two
the children of pahathmoab of the children of jeshua and joab two thousand and eight hundred and eighteen
the children of elam a thousand two hundred fifty and four
the children of zattu eight hundred forty and five
the children of zaccai seven hundred and threescore
the children of binnui six hundred forty and eight
the children of bebai six hundred twenty and eight
the children of azgad two thousand three hundred twenty and two
the children of adonikam six hundred threescore and seven
the children of bigvai two thousand threescore and seven
the children of adin six hundred fifty and five
the children of ater of hezekiah ninety and eight
the children of hashum three hundred twenty and eight
the children of bezai three hundred twenty and four
the children of hariph an hundred and twelve
the children of gibeon ninety and five
the men of bethlehem and netophah an hundred fourscore and eight
the men of anathoth an hundred twenty and eight
the men of bethazmaveth forty and two
the men of kirjathjearim chephirah and beeroth seven hundred forty and three
the men of ramah and gaba six hundred twenty and one
the men of michmas an hundred and twenty and two
the men of bethel and ai an hundred twenty and three
the men of the other nebo fifty and two
the children of the other elam a thousand two hundred fifty and four
the children of harim three hundred and twenty
the children of jericho three hundred forty and five
the children of lod hadid and ono seven hundred twenty and one
the children of senaah three thousand nine hundred and thirty
the priests the children of jedaiah of the house of jeshua nine hundred seventy and three
the children of immer a thousand fifty and two
the children of pashur a thousand two hundred forty and seven
the children of harim a thousand and seventeen
the levites the children of jeshua of kadmiel and of the children of hodevah seventy and four
the singers the children of asaph an hundred forty and eight
the porters the children of shallum the children of ater the children of talmon the children of akkub the children of hatita the children of shobai an hundred thirty and eight
the nethinims the children of ziha the children of hashupha the children of tabbaoth
the children of keros the children of sia the children of padon
the children of lebana the children of hagaba the children of shalmai
the children of hanan the children of giddel the children of gahar
the children of reaiah the children of rezin the children of nekoda
the children of gazzam the children of uzza the children of phaseah
the children of besai the children of meunim the children of nephishesim
the children of bakbuk the children of hakupha the children of harhur
the children of bazlith the children of mehida the children of harsha
the children of barkos the children of sisera the children of tamah
the children of neziah the children of hatipha
the children of solomon's servants the children of sotai the children of sophereth the children of perida
the children of jaala the children of darkon the children of giddel
the children of shephatiah the children of hattil the children of pochereth of zebaim the children of amon
all the nethinims and the children of solomon's servants were three hundred ninety and two
and these were they which went up also from telmelah telharesha cherub addon and immer but they could not shew their father's house nor their seed whether they were of israel
the children of delaiah the children of tobiah the children of nekoda six hundred forty and two
and of the priests the children of habaiah the children of koz the children of barzillai which took one of the daughters of barzillai the gileadite to wife and was called after their name
these sought their register among those that were reckoned by genealogy but it was not found therefore were they as polluted put from the priesthood
and the tirshatha said unto them that they should not eat of the most holy things till there stood up a priest with urim and thummim
the whole congregation together was forty and two thousand three hundred and threescore
beside their manservants and their maidservants of whom there were seven thousand three hundred thirty and seven and they had two hundred forty and five singing men and singing women
their horses seven hundred thirty and six their mules two hundred forty and five
their camels four hundred thirty and five six thousand seven hundred and twenty asses
and some of the chief of the fathers gave unto the work the tirshatha gave to the treasure a thousand drams of gold fifty basons five hundred and thirty priests garments
and some of the chief of the fathers gave to the treasure of the work twenty thousand drams of gold and two thousand and two hundred pound of silver
and that which the rest of the people gave was twenty thousand drams of gold and two thousand pound of silver and threescore and seven priests garments
so the priests and the levites and the porters and the singers and some of the people and the nethinims and all israel dwelt in their cities and when the seventh month came the children of israel were in their cities
and all the people gathered themselves together as one man into the street that was before the water gate and they spake unto ezra the scribe to bring the book of the law of moses which the lord had commanded to israel
and ezra the priest brought the law before the congregation both of men and women and all that could hear with understanding upon the first day of the seventh month
and he read therein before the street that was before the water gate from the morning until midday before the men and the women and those that could understand and the ears of all the people were attentive unto the book of the law
and ezra the scribe stood upon a pulpit of wood which they had made for the purpose and beside him stood mattithiah and shema and anaiah and urijah and hilkiah and maaseiah on his right hand and on his left hand pedaiah and mishael and malchiah and hashum and hashbadana zechariah and meshullam
and ezra opened the book in the sight of all the people for he was above all the people and when he opened it all the people stood up
and ezra blessed the lord the great god and all the people answered amen amen with lifting up their hands and they bowed their heads and worshipped the lord with their faces to the ground
also jeshua and bani and sherebiah jamin akkub shabbethai hodijah maaseiah kelita azariah jozabad hanan pelaiah and the levites caused the people to understand the law and the people stood in their place
so they read in the book in the law of god distinctly and gave the sense and caused them to understand the reading
and nehemiah which is the tirshatha and ezra the priest the scribe and the levites that taught the people said unto all the people this day is holy unto the lord your god mourn not nor weep for all the people wept when they heard the words of the law
then he said unto them go your way eat the fat and drink the sweet and send portions unto them for whom nothing is prepared for this day is holy unto our lord neither be ye sorry for the joy of the lord is your strength
so the levites stilled all the people saying hold your peace for the day is holy neither be ye grieved
and all the people went their way to eat and to drink and to send portions and to make great mirth because they had understood the words that were declared unto them
and on the second day were gathered together the chief of the fathers of all the people the priests and the levites unto ezra the scribe even to understand the words of the law
and they found written in the law which the lord had commanded by moses that the children of israel should dwell in booths in the feast of the seventh month
and that they should publish and proclaim in all their cities and in jerusalem saying go forth unto the mount and fetch olive branches and pine branches and myrtle branches and palm branches and branches of thick trees to make booths as it is written
so the people went forth and brought them and made themselves booths every one upon the roof of his house and in their courts and in the courts of the house of god and in the street of the water gate and in the street of the gate of ephraim
and all the congregation of them that were come again out of the captivity made booths and sat under the booths for since the days of jeshua the son of nun unto that day had not the children of israel done so and there was very great gladness
also day by day from the first day unto the last day he read in the book of the law of god and they kept the feast seven days and on the eighth day was a solemn assembly according unto the manner
now in the twenty and fourth day of this month the children of israel were assembled with fasting and with sackclothes and earth upon them
and the seed of israel separated themselves from all strangers and stood and confessed their sins and the iniquities of their fathers
and they stood up in their place and read in the book of the law of the lord their god one fourth part of the day and another fourth part they confessed and worshipped the lord their god
then stood up upon the stairs of the levites jeshua and bani kadmiel shebaniah bunni sherebiah bani and chenani and cried with a loud voice unto the lord their god
then the levites jeshua and kadmiel bani hashabniah sherebiah hodijah shebaniah and pethahiah said stand up and bless the lord your god for ever and ever and blessed be thy glorious name which is exalted above all blessing and praise
thou even thou art lord alone thou hast made heaven the heaven of heavens with all their host the earth and all things that are therein the seas and all that is therein and thou preservest them all and the host of heaven worshippeth thee
thou art the lord the god who didst choose abram and broughtest him forth out of ur of the chaldees and gavest him the name of abraham
and foundest his heart faithful before thee and madest a covenant with him to give the land of the canaanites the hittites the amorites and the perizzites and the jebusites and the girgashites to give it i say to his seed and hast performed thy words for thou art righteous
and didst see the affliction of our fathers in egypt and heardest their cry by the red sea
and shewedst signs and wonders upon pharaoh and on all his servants and on all the people of his land for thou knewest that they dealt proudly against them so didst thou get thee a name as it is this day
and thou didst divide the sea before them so that they went through the midst of the sea on the dry land and their persecutors thou threwest into the deeps as a stone into the mighty waters
moreover thou leddest them in the day by a cloudy pillar and in the night by a pillar of fire to give them light in the way wherein they should go
thou camest down also upon mount sinai and spakest with them from heaven and gavest them right judgments and true laws good statutes and commandments
and madest known unto them thy holy sabbath and commandedst them precepts statutes and laws by the hand of moses thy servant
and gavest them bread from heaven for their hunger and broughtest forth water for them out of the rock for their thirst and promisedst them that they should go in to possess the land which thou hadst sworn to give them
but they and our fathers dealt proudly and hardened their necks and hearkened not to thy commandments
and refused to obey neither were mindful of thy wonders that thou didst among them but hardened their necks and in their rebellion appointed a captain to return to their bondage but thou art a god ready to pardon gracious and merciful slow to anger and of great kindness and forsookest them not
yea when they had made them a molten calf and said this is thy god that brought thee up out of egypt and had wrought great provocations
yet thou in thy manifold mercies forsookest them not in the wilderness the pillar of the cloud departed not from them by day to lead them in the way neither the pillar of fire by night to shew them light and the way wherein they should go
thou gavest also thy good spirit to instruct them and withheldest not thy manna from their mouth and gavest them water for their thirst
yea forty years didst thou sustain them in the wilderness so that they lacked nothing their clothes waxed not old and their feet swelled not
moreover thou gavest them kingdoms and nations and didst divide them into corners so they possessed the land of sihon and the land of the king of heshbon and the land of og king of bashan
their children also multipliedst thou as the stars of heaven and broughtest them into the land concerning which thou hadst promised to their fathers that they should go in to possess it
so the children went in and possessed the land and thou subduedst before them the inhabitants of the land the canaanites and gavest them into their hands with their kings and the people of the land that they might do with them as they would
and they took strong cities and a fat land and possessed houses full of all goods wells digged vineyards and oliveyards and fruit trees in abundance so they did eat and were filled and became fat and delighted themselves in thy great goodness
nevertheless they were disobedient and rebelled against thee and cast thy law behind their backs and slew thy prophets which testified against them to turn them to thee and they wrought great provocations
therefore thou deliveredst them into the hand of their enemies who vexed them and in the time of their trouble when they cried unto thee thou heardest them from heaven and according to thy manifold mercies thou gavest them saviours who saved them out of the hand of their enemies
but after they had rest they did evil again before thee therefore leftest thou them in the hand of their enemies so that they had the dominion over them yet when they returned and cried unto thee thou heardest them from heaven and many times didst thou deliver them according to thy mercies
and testifiedst against them that thou mightest bring them again unto thy law yet they dealt proudly and hearkened not unto thy commandments but sinned against thy judgments which if a man do he shall live in them and withdrew the shoulder and hardened their neck and would not hear
yet many years didst thou forbear them and testifiedst against them by thy spirit in thy prophets yet would they not give ear therefore gavest thou them into the hand of the people of the lands
nevertheless for thy great mercies sake thou didst not utterly consume them nor forsake them for thou art a gracious and merciful god
now therefore our god the great the mighty and the terrible god who keepest covenant and mercy let not all the trouble seem little before thee that hath come upon us on our kings on our princes and on our priests and on our prophets and on our fathers and on all thy people since the time of the kings of assyria unto this day
howbeit thou art just in all that is brought upon us for thou hast done right but we have done wickedly
neither have our kings our princes our priests nor our fathers kept thy law nor hearkened unto thy commandments and thy testimonies wherewith thou didst testify against them
for they have not served thee in their kingdom and in thy great goodness that thou gavest them and in the large and fat land which thou gavest before them neither turned they from their wicked works
behold we are servants this day and for the land that thou gavest unto our fathers to eat the fruit thereof and the good thereof behold we are servants in it
and it yieldeth much increase unto the kings whom thou hast set over us because of our sins also they have dominion over our bodies and over our cattle at their pleasure and we are in great distress
and because of all this we make a sure covenant and write it and our princes levites and priests seal unto it
now those that sealed were nehemiah the tirshatha the son of hachaliah and zidkijah
seraiah azariah jeremiah
pashur amariah malchijah
hattush shebaniah malluch
harim meremoth obadiah
daniel ginnethon baruch
meshullam abijah mijamin
maaziah bilgai shemaiah these were the priests
and the levites both jeshua the son of azaniah binnui of the sons of henadad kadmiel
and their brethren shebaniah hodijah kelita pelaiah hanan
micha rehob hashabiah
zaccur sherebiah shebaniah
hodijah bani beninu
the chief of the people parosh pahathmoab elam zatthu bani
bunni azgad bebai
adonijah bigvai adin
ater hizkijah azzur
hodijah hashum bezai
hariph anathoth nebai
magpiash meshullam hezir
meshezabeel zadok jaddua
pelatiah hanan anaiah
hoshea hananiah hashub
hallohesh pileha shobek
rehum hashabnah maaseiah
and ahijah hanan anan
malluch harim baanah
and the rest of the people the priests the levites the porters the singers the nethinims and all they that had separated themselves from the people of the lands unto the law of god their wives their sons and their daughters every one having knowledge and having understanding
they clave to their brethren their nobles and entered into a curse and into an oath to walk in god's law which was given by moses the servant of god and to observe and do all the commandments of the lord our lord and his judgments and his statutes
and that we would not give our daughters unto the people of the land nor take their daughters for our sons
and if the people of the land bring ware or any victuals on the sabbath day to sell that we would not buy it of them on the sabbath or on the holy day and that we would leave the seventh year and the exaction of every debt
also we made ordinances for us to charge ourselves yearly with the third part of a shekel for the service of the house of our god
for the shewbread and for the continual meat offering and for the continual burnt offering of the sabbaths of the new moons for the set feasts and for the holy things and for the sin offerings to make an atonement for israel and for all the work of the house of our god
and we cast the lots among the priests the levites and the people for the wood offering to bring it into the house of our god after the houses of our fathers at times appointed year by year to burn upon the altar of the lord our god as it is written in the law
and to bring the firstfruits of our ground and the firstfruits of all fruit of all trees year by year unto the house of the lord
also the firstborn of our sons and of our cattle as it is written in the law and the firstlings of our herds and of our flocks to bring to the house of our god unto the priests that minister in the house of our god
and that we should bring the firstfruits of our dough and our offerings and the fruit of all manner of trees of wine and of oil unto the priests to the chambers of the house of our god and the tithes of our ground unto the levites that the same levites might have the tithes in all the cities of our tillage
and the priest the son of aaron shall be with the levites when the levites take tithes and the levites shall bring up the tithe of the tithes unto the house of our god to the chambers into the treasure house
for the children of israel and the children of levi shall bring the offering of the corn of the new wine and the oil unto the chambers where are the vessels of the sanctuary and the priests that minister and the porters and the singers and we will not forsake the house of our god
and the rulers of the people dwelt at jerusalem the rest of the people also cast lots to bring one of ten to dwell in jerusalem the holy city and nine parts to dwell in other cities
and the people blessed all the men that willingly offered themselves to dwell at jerusalem
now these are the chief of the province that dwelt in jerusalem but in the cities of judah dwelt every one in his possession in their cities to wit israel the priests and the levites and the nethinims and the children of solomon's servants
and at jerusalem dwelt certain of the children of judah and of the children of benjamin of the children of judah athaiah the son of uzziah the son of zechariah the son of amariah the son of shephatiah the son of mahalaleel of the children of perez
and maaseiah the son of baruch the son of colhozeh the son of hazaiah the son of adaiah the son of joiarib the son of zechariah the son of shiloni
all the sons of perez that dwelt at jerusalem were four hundred threescore and eight valiant men
and these are the sons of benjamin sallu the son of meshullam the son of joed the son of pedaiah the son of kolaiah the son of maaseiah the son of ithiel the son of jesaiah
and after him gabbai sallai nine hundred twenty and eight
and joel the son of zichri was their overseer and judah the son of senuah was second over the city
of the priests jedaiah the son of joiarib jachin
seraiah the son of hilkiah the son of meshullam the son of zadok the son of meraioth the son of ahitub was the ruler of the house of god
and their brethren that did the work of the house were eight hundred twenty and two and adaiah the son of jeroham the son of pelaliah the son of amzi the son of zechariah the son of pashur the son of malchiah
and his brethren chief of the fathers two hundred forty and two and amashai the son of azareel the son of ahasai the son of meshillemoth the son of immer
and their brethren mighty men of valour an hundred twenty and eight and their overseer was zabdiel the son of one of the great men
also of the levites shemaiah the son of hashub the son of azrikam the son of hashabiah the son of bunni
and shabbethai and jozabad of the chief of the levites had the oversight of the outward business of the house of god
and mattaniah the son of micha the son of zabdi the son of asaph was the principal to begin the thanksgiving in prayer and bakbukiah the second among his brethren and abda the son of shammua the son of galal the son of jeduthun
all the levites in the holy city were two hundred fourscore and four
moreover the porters akkub talmon and their brethren that kept the gates were an hundred seventy and two
and the residue of israel of the priests and the levites were in all the cities of judah every one in his inheritance
but the nethinims dwelt in ophel and ziha and gispa were over the nethinims
the overseer also of the levites at jerusalem was uzzi the son of bani the son of hashabiah the son of mattaniah the son of micha of the sons of asaph the singers were over the business of the house of god
for it was the king's commandment concerning them that a certain portion should be for the singers due for every day
and pethahiah the son of meshezabeel of the children of zerah the son of judah was at the king's hand in all matters concerning the people
and for the villages with their fields some of the children of judah dwelt at kirjatharba and in the villages thereof and at dibon and in the villages thereof and at jekabzeel and in the villages thereof
and at jeshua and at moladah and at bethphelet
and at hazarshual and at beersheba and in the villages thereof
and at ziklag and at mekonah and in the villages thereof
and at enrimmon and at zareah and at jarmuth
zanoah adullam and in their villages at lachish and the fields thereof at azekah and in the villages thereof and they dwelt from beersheba unto the valley of hinnom
the children also of benjamin from geba dwelt at michmash and aija and bethel and in their villages
and at anathoth nob ananiah
hazor ramah gittaim
hadid zeboim neballat
lod and ono the valley of craftsmen
and of the levites were divisions in judah and in benjamin
now these are the priests and the levites that went up with zerubbabel the son of shealtiel and jeshua seraiah jeremiah ezra
amariah malluch hattush
shechaniah rehum meremoth
iddo ginnetho abijah
miamin maadiah bilgah
shemaiah and joiarib jedaiah
sallu amok hilkiah jedaiah these were the chief of the priests and of their brethren in the days of jeshua
moreover the levites jeshua binnui kadmiel sherebiah judah and mattaniah which was over the thanksgiving he and his brethren
also bakbukiah and unni their brethren were over against them in the watches
and jeshua begat joiakim joiakim also begat eliashib and eliashib begat joiada
and joiada begat jonathan and jonathan begat jaddua
and in the days of joiakim were priests the chief of the fathers of seraiah meraiah of jeremiah hananiah
of ezra meshullam of amariah jehohanan
of melicu jonathan of shebaniah joseph
of harim adna of meraioth helkai
of iddo zechariah of ginnethon meshullam
of abijah zichri of miniamin of moadiah piltai
of bilgah shammua of shemaiah jehonathan
and of joiarib mattenai of jedaiah uzzi
of sallai kallai of amok eber
of hilkiah hashabiah of jedaiah nethaneel
the levites in the days of eliashib joiada and johanan and jaddua were recorded chief of the fathers also the priests to the reign of darius the persian
the sons of levi the chief of the fathers were written in the book of the chronicles even until the days of johanan the son of eliashib
and the chief of the levites hashabiah sherebiah and jeshua the son of kadmiel with their brethren over against them to praise and to give thanks according to the commandment of david the man of god ward over against ward
mattaniah and bakbukiah obadiah meshullam talmon akkub were porters keeping the ward at the thresholds of the gates
these were in the days of joiakim the son of jeshua the son of jozadak and in the days of nehemiah the governor and of ezra the priest the scribe
and at the dedication of the wall of jerusalem they sought the levites out of all their places to bring them to jerusalem to keep the dedication with gladness both with thanksgivings and with singing with cymbals psalteries and with harps
and the sons of the singers gathered themselves together both out of the plain country round about jerusalem and from the villages of netophathi
also from the house of gilgal and out of the fields of geba and azmaveth for the singers had builded them villages round about jerusalem
and the priests and the levites purified themselves and purified the people and the gates and the wall
then i brought up the princes of judah upon the wall and appointed two great companies of them that gave thanks whereof one went on the right hand upon the wall toward the dung gate
and after them went hoshaiah and half of the princes of judah
and azariah ezra and meshullam
judah and benjamin and shemaiah and jeremiah
and certain of the priests sons with trumpets namely zechariah the son of jonathan the son of shemaiah the son of mattaniah the son of michaiah the son of zaccur the son of asaph
and his brethren shemaiah and azarael milalai gilalai maai nethaneel and judah hanani with the musical instruments of david the man of god and ezra the scribe before them
and at the fountain gate which was over against them they went up by the stairs of the city of david at the going up of the wall above the house of david even unto the water gate eastward
and the other company of them that gave thanks went over against them and i after them and the half of the people upon the wall from beyond the tower of the furnaces even unto the broad wall
and from above the gate of ephraim and above the old gate and above the fish gate and the tower of hananeel and the tower of meah even unto the sheep gate and they stood still in the prison gate
so stood the two companies of them that gave thanks in the house of god and i and the half of the rulers with me
and the priests eliakim maaseiah miniamin michaiah elioenai zechariah and hananiah with trumpets
and maaseiah and shemaiah and eleazar and uzzi and jehohanan and malchijah and elam and ezer and the singers sang loud with jezrahiah their overseer
also that day they offered great sacrifices and rejoiced for god had made them rejoice with great joy the wives also and the children rejoiced so that the joy of jerusalem was heard even afar off
and at that time were some appointed over the chambers for the treasures for the offerings for the firstfruits and for the tithes to gather into them out of the fields of the cities the portions of the law for the priests and levites for judah rejoiced for the priests and for the levites that waited
and both the singers and the porters kept the ward of their god and the ward of the purification according to the commandment of david and of solomon his son
for in the days of david and asaph of old there were chief of the singers and songs of praise and thanksgiving unto god
and all israel in the days of zerubbabel and in the days of nehemiah gave the portions of the singers and the porters every day his portion and they sanctified holy things unto the levites and the levites sanctified them unto the children of aaron
on that day they read in the book of moses in the audience of the people and therein was found written that the ammonite and the moabite should not come into the congregation of god for ever
because they met not the children of israel with bread and with water but hired balaam against them that he should curse them howbeit our god turned the curse into a blessing
now it came to pass when they had heard the law that they separated from israel all the mixed multitude
and before this eliashib the priest having the oversight of the chamber of the house of our god was allied unto tobiah
and he had prepared for him a great chamber where aforetime they laid the meat offerings the frankincense and the vessels and the tithes of the corn the new wine and the oil which was commanded to be given to the levites and the singers and the porters and the offerings of the priests
but in all this time was not i at jerusalem for in the two and thirtieth year of artaxerxes king of babylon came i unto the king and after certain days obtained i leave of the king
and i came to jerusalem and understood of the evil that eliashib did for tobiah in preparing him a chamber in the courts of the house of god
and it grieved me sore therefore i cast forth all the household stuff of tobiah out of the chamber
then i commanded and they cleansed the chambers and thither brought i again the vessels of the house of god with the meat offering and the frankincense
and i perceived that the portions of the levites had not been given them for the levites and the singers that did the work were fled every one to his field
then contended i with the rulers and said why is the house of god forsaken and i gathered them together and set them in their place
then brought all judah the tithe of the corn and the new wine and the oil unto the treasuries
and i made treasurers over the treasuries shelemiah the priest and zadok the scribe and of the levites pedaiah and next to them was hanan the son of zaccur the son of mattaniah for they were counted faithful and their office was to distribute unto their brethren
remember me o my god concerning this and wipe not out my good deeds that i have done for the house of my god and for the offices thereof
in those days saw i in judah some treading wine presses on the sabbath and bringing in sheaves and lading asses as also wine grapes and figs and all manner of burdens which they brought into jerusalem on the sabbath day and i testified against them in the day wherein they sold victuals
there dwelt men of tyre also therein which brought fish and all manner of ware and sold on the sabbath unto the children of judah and in jerusalem
then i contended with the nobles of judah and said unto them what evil thing is this that ye do and profane the sabbath day
did not your fathers thus and did not our god bring all this evil upon us and upon this city yet ye bring more wrath upon israel by profaning the sabbath
and it came to pass that when the gates of jerusalem began to be dark before the sabbath i commanded that the gates should be shut and charged that they should not be opened till after the sabbath and some of my servants set i at the gates that there should no burden be brought in on the sabbath day
so the merchants and sellers of all kind of ware lodged without jerusalem once or twice
then i testified against them and said unto them why lodge ye about the wall if ye do so again i will lay hands on you from that time forth came they no more on the sabbath
and i commanded the levites that they should cleanse themselves and that they should come and keep the gates to sanctify the sabbath day remember me o my god concerning this also and spare me according to the greatness of thy mercy
in those days also saw i jews that had married wives of ashdod of ammon and of moab
and their children spake half in the speech of ashdod and could not speak in the jews language but according to the language of each people
and i contended with them and cursed them and smote certain of them and plucked off their hair and made them swear by god saying ye shall not give your daughters unto their sons nor take their daughters unto your sons or for yourselves
did not solomon king of israel sin by these things yet among many nations was there no king like him who was beloved of his god and god made him king over all israel nevertheless even him did outlandish women cause to sin
shall we then hearken unto you to do all this great evil to transgress against our god in marrying strange wives
and one of the sons of joiada the son of eliashib the high priest was son in law to sanballat the horonite therefore i chased him from me
remember them o my god because they have defiled the priesthood and the covenant of the priesthood and of the levites
thus cleansed i them from all strangers and appointed the wards of the priests and the levites every one in his business
and for the wood offering at times appointed and for the firstfruits remember me o my god for good
now it came to pass in the days of ahasuerus this is ahasuerus which reigned from india even unto ethiopia over an hundred and seven and twenty provinces
that in those days when the king ahasuerus sat on the throne of his kingdom which was in shushan the palace
in the third year of his reign he made a feast unto all his princes and his servants the power of persia and media the nobles and princes of the provinces being before him
when he shewed the riches of his glorious kingdom and the honour of his excellent majesty many days even an hundred and fourscore days
and when these days were expired the king made a feast unto all the people that were present in shushan the palace both unto great and small seven days in the court of the garden of the king's palace
where were white green and blue hangings fastened with cords of fine linen and purple to silver rings and pillars of marble the beds were of gold and silver upon a pavement of red and blue and white and black marble
and they gave them drink in vessels of gold the vessels being diverse one from another and royal wine in abundance according to the state of the king
and the drinking was according to the law none did compel for so the king had appointed to all the officers of his house that they should do according to every man's pleasure
also vashti the queen made a feast for the women in the royal house which belonged to king ahasuerus
on the seventh day when the heart of the king was merry with wine he commanded mehuman biztha harbona bigtha and abagtha zethar and carcas the seven chamberlains that served in the presence of ahasuerus the king
to bring vashti the queen before the king with the crown royal to shew the people and the princes her beauty for she was fair to look on
but the queen vashti refused to come at the king's commandment by his chamberlains therefore was the king very wroth and his anger burned in him
then the king said to the wise men which knew the times for so was the king's manner toward all that knew law and judgment
and the next unto him was carshena shethar admatha tarshish meres marsena and memucan the seven princes of persia and media which saw the king's face and which sat the first in the kingdom
what shall we do unto the queen vashti according to law because she hath not performed the commandment of the king ahasuerus by the chamberlains
and memucan answered before the king and the princes vashti the queen hath not done wrong to the king only but also to all the princes and to all the people that are in all the provinces of the king ahasuerus
for this deed of the queen shall come abroad unto all women so that they shall despise their husbands in their eyes when it shall be reported the king ahasuerus commanded vashti the queen to be brought in before him but she came not
likewise shall the ladies of persia and media say this day unto all the king's princes which have heard of the deed of the queen thus shall there arise too much contempt and wrath
if it please the king let there go a royal commandment from him and let it be written among the laws of the persians and the medes that it be not altered that vashti come no more before king ahasuerus and let the king give her royal estate unto another that is better than she
and when the king's decree which he shall make shall be published throughout all his empire for it is great all the wives shall give to their husbands honour both to great and small
and the saying pleased the king and the princes and the king did according to the word of memucan
for he sent letters into all the king's provinces into every province according to the writing thereof and to every people after their language that every man should bear rule in his own house and that it should be published according to the language of every people
after these things when the wrath of king ahasuerus was appeased he remembered vashti and what she had done and what was decreed against her
then said the king's servants that ministered unto him let there be fair young virgins sought for the king
and let the king appoint officers in all the provinces of his kingdom that they may gather together all the fair young virgins unto shushan the palace to the house of the women unto the custody of hege the king's chamberlain keeper of the women and let their things for purification be given them
and let the maiden which pleaseth the king be queen instead of vashti and the thing pleased the king and he did so
now in shushan the palace there was a certain jew whose name was mordecai the son of jair the son of shimei the son of kish a benjamite
who had been carried away from jerusalem with the captivity which had been carried away with jeconiah king of judah whom nebuchadnezzar the king of babylon had carried away
and he brought up hadassah that is esther his uncle's daughter for she had neither father nor mother and the maid was fair and beautiful whom mordecai when her father and mother were dead took for his own daughter
so it came to pass when the king's commandment and his decree was heard and when many maidens were gathered together unto shushan the palace to the custody of hegai that esther was brought also unto the king's house to the custody of hegai keeper of the women
and the maiden pleased him and she obtained kindness of him and he speedily gave her her things for purification with such things as belonged to her and seven maidens which were meet to be given her out of the king's house and he preferred her and her maids unto the best place of the house of the women
esther had not shewed her people nor her kindred for mordecai had charged her that she should not shew it
and mordecai walked every day before the court of the women's house to know how esther did and what should become of her
now when every maid's turn was come to go in to king ahasuerus after that she had been twelve months according to the manner of the women for so were the days of their purifications accomplished to wit six months with oil of myrrh and six months with sweet odours and with other things for the purifying of the women
then thus came every maiden unto the king whatsoever she desired was given her to go with her out of the house of the women unto the king's house
in the evening she went and on the morrow she returned into the second house of the women to the custody of shaashgaz the king's chamberlain which kept the concubines she came in unto the king no more except the king delighted in her and that she were called by name
now when the turn of esther the daughter of abihail the uncle of mordecai who had taken her for his daughter was come to go in unto the king she required nothing but what hegai the king's chamberlain the keeper of the women appointed and esther obtained favour in the sight of all them that looked upon her
so esther was taken unto king ahasuerus into his house royal in the tenth month which is the month tebeth in the seventh year of his reign
and the king loved esther above all the women and she obtained grace and favour in his sight more than all the virgins so that he set the royal crown upon her head and made her queen instead of vashti
then the king made a great feast unto all his princes and his servants even esther's feast and he made a release to the provinces and gave gifts according to the state of the king
and when the virgins were gathered together the second time then mordecai sat in the king's gate
esther had not yet shewed her kindred nor her people as mordecai had charged her for esther did the commandment of mordecai like as when she was brought up with him
in those days while mordecai sat in the king's gate two of the king's chamberlains bigthan and teresh of those which kept the door were wroth and sought to lay hand on the king ahasuerus
and the thing was known to mordecai who told it unto esther the queen and esther certified the king thereof in mordecai's name
and when inquisition was made of the matter it was found out therefore they were both hanged on a tree and it was written in the book of the chronicles before the king
after these things did king ahasuerus promote haman the son of hammedatha the agagite and advanced him and set his seat above all the princes that were with him
and all the king's servants that were in the king's gate bowed and reverenced haman for the king had so commanded concerning him but mordecai bowed not nor did him reverence
then the king's servants which were in the king's gate said unto mordecai why transgressest thou the king's commandment
now it came to pass when they spake daily unto him and he hearkened not unto them that they told haman to see whether mordecai's matters would stand for he had told them that he was a jew
and when haman saw that mordecai bowed not nor did him reverence then was haman full of wrath
and he thought scorn to lay hands on mordecai alone for they had shewed him the people of mordecai wherefore haman sought to destroy all the jews that were throughout the whole kingdom of ahasuerus even the people of mordecai
in the first month that is the month nisan in the twelfth year of king ahasuerus they cast pur that is the lot before haman from day to day and from month to month to the twelfth month that is the month adar
and haman said unto king ahasuerus there is a certain people scattered abroad and dispersed among the people in all the provinces of thy kingdom and their laws are diverse from all people neither keep they the king's laws therefore it is not for the king's profit to suffer them
if it please the king let it be written that they may be destroyed and i will pay ten thousand talents of silver to the hands of those that have the charge of the business to bring it into the king's treasuries
and the king took his ring from his hand and gave it unto haman the son of hammedatha the agagite the jews enemy
and the king said unto haman the silver is given to thee the people also to do with them as it seemeth good to thee
then were the king's scribes called on the thirteenth day of the first month and there was written according to all that haman had commanded unto the king's lieutenants and to the governors that were over every province and to the rulers of every people of every province according to the writing thereof and to every people after their language in the name of king ahasuerus was it written and sealed with the king's ring
and the letters were sent by posts into all the king's provinces to destroy to kill and to cause to perish all jews both young and old little children and women in one day even upon the thirteenth day of the twelfth month which is the month adar and to take the spoil of them for a prey
the copy of the writing for a commandment to be given in every province was published unto all people that they should be ready against that day
the posts went out being hastened by the king's commandment and the decree was given in shushan the palace and the king and haman sat down to drink but the city shushan was perplexed
when mordecai perceived all that was done mordecai rent his clothes and put on sackcloth with ashes and went out into the midst of the city and cried with a loud and a bitter cry
and came even before the king's gate for none might enter into the king's gate clothed with sackcloth
and in every province whithersoever the king's commandment and his decree came there was great mourning among the jews and fasting and weeping and wailing and many lay in sackcloth and ashes
so esther's maids and her chamberlains came and told it her then was the queen exceedingly grieved and she sent raiment to clothe mordecai and to take away his sackcloth from him but he received it not
then called esther for hatach one of the king's chamberlains whom he had appointed to attend upon her and gave him a commandment to mordecai to know what it was and why it was
so hatach went forth to mordecai unto the street of the city which was before the king's gate
and mordecai told him of all that had happened unto him and of the sum of the money that haman had promised to pay to the king's treasuries for the jews to destroy them
also he gave him the copy of the writing of the decree that was given at shushan to destroy them to shew it unto esther and to declare it unto her and to charge her that she should go in unto the king to make supplication unto him and to make request before him for her people
and hatach came and told esther the words of mordecai
again esther spake unto hatach and gave him commandment unto mordecai
all the king's servants and the people of the king's provinces do know that whosoever whether man or woman shall come unto the king into the inner court who is not called there is one law of his to put him to death except such to whom the king shall hold out the golden sceptre that he may live but i have not been called to come in unto the king these thirty days
and they told to mordecai esther's words
then mordecai commanded to answer esther think not with thyself that thou shalt escape in the king's house more than all the jews
for if thou altogether holdest thy peace at this time then shall there enlargement and deliverance arise to the jews from another place but thou and thy father's house shall be destroyed and who knoweth whether thou art come to the kingdom for such a time as this
then esther bade them return mordecai this answer
go gather together all the jews that are present in shushan and fast ye for me and neither eat nor drink three days night or day i also and my maidens will fast likewise and so will i go in unto the king which is not according to the law and if i perish i perish
so mordecai went his way and did according to all that esther had commanded him
now it came to pass on the third day that esther put on her royal apparel and stood in the inner court of the king's house over against the king's house and the king sat upon his royal throne in the royal house over against the gate of the house
and it was so when the king saw esther the queen standing in the court that she obtained favour in his sight and the king held out to esther the golden sceptre that was in his hand so esther drew near and touched the top of the sceptre
then said the king unto her what wilt thou queen esther and what is thy request it shall be even given thee to the half of the kingdom
and esther answered if it seem good unto the king let the king and haman come this day unto the banquet that i have prepared for him
then the king said cause haman to make haste that he may do as esther hath said so the king and haman came to the banquet that esther had prepared
and the king said unto esther at the banquet of wine what is thy petition and it shall be granted thee and what is thy request even to the half of the kingdom it shall be performed
then answered esther and said my petition and my request is
if i have found favour in the sight of the king and if it please the king to grant my petition and to perform my request let the king and haman come to the banquet that i shall prepare for them and i will do to morrow as the king hath said
then went haman forth that day joyful and with a glad heart but when haman saw mordecai in the king's gate that he stood not up nor moved for him he was full of indignation against mordecai
nevertheless haman refrained himself and when he came home he sent and called for his friends and zeresh his wife
and haman told them of the glory of his riches and the multitude of his children and all the things wherein the king had promoted him and how he had advanced him above the princes and servants of the king
haman said moreover yea esther the queen did let no man come in with the king unto the banquet that she had prepared but myself and to morrow am i invited unto her also with the king
yet all this availeth me nothing so long as i see mordecai the jew sitting at the king's gate
then said zeresh his wife and all his friends unto him let a gallows be made of fifty cubits high and to morrow speak thou unto the king that mordecai may be hanged thereon then go thou in merrily with the king unto the banquet and the thing pleased haman and he caused the gallows to be made
on that night could not the king sleep and he commanded to bring the book of records of the chronicles and they were read before the king
and it was found written that mordecai had told of bigthana and teresh two of the king's chamberlains the keepers of the door who sought to lay hand on the king ahasuerus
and the king said what honour and dignity hath been done to mordecai for this then said the king's servants that ministered unto him there is nothing done for him
and the king said who is in the court now haman was come into the outward court of the king's house to speak unto the king to hang mordecai on the gallows that he had prepared for him
and the king's servants said unto him behold haman standeth in the court and the king said let him come in
so haman came in and the king said unto him what shall be done unto the man whom the king delighteth to honour now haman thought in his heart to whom would the king delight to do honour more than to myself
and haman answered the king for the man whom the king delighteth to honour
let the royal apparel be brought which the king useth to wear and the horse that the king rideth upon and the crown royal which is set upon his head
and let this apparel and horse be delivered to the hand of one of the king's most noble princes that they may array the man withal whom the king delighteth to honour and bring him on horseback through the street of the city and proclaim before him thus shall it be done to the man whom the king delighteth to honour
then the king said to haman make haste and take the apparel and the horse as thou hast said and do even so to mordecai the jew that sitteth at the king's gate let nothing fail of all that thou hast spoken
then took haman the apparel and the horse and arrayed mordecai and brought him on horseback through the street of the city and proclaimed before him thus shall it be done unto the man whom the king delighteth to honour
and mordecai came again to the king's gate but haman hasted to his house mourning and having his head covered
and haman told zeresh his wife and all his friends every thing that had befallen him then said his wise men and zeresh his wife unto him if mordecai be of the seed of the jews before whom thou hast begun to fall thou shalt not prevail against him but shalt surely fall before him
and while they were yet talking with him came the king's chamberlains and hasted to bring haman unto the banquet that esther had prepared
so the king and haman came to banquet with esther the queen
and the king said again unto esther on the second day at the banquet of wine what is thy petition queen esther and it shall be granted thee and what is thy request and it shall be performed even to the half of the kingdom
then esther the queen answered and said if i have found favour in thy sight o king and if it please the king let my life be given me at my petition and my people at my request
for we are sold i and my people to be destroyed to be slain and to perish but if we had been sold for bondmen and bondwomen i had held my tongue although the enemy could not countervail the king's damage
then the king ahasuerus answered and said unto esther the queen who is he and where is he that durst presume in his heart to do so
and esther said the adversary and enemy is this wicked haman then haman was afraid before the king and the queen
and the king arising from the banquet of wine in his wrath went into the palace garden and haman stood up to make request for his life to esther the queen for he saw that there was evil determined against him by the king
then the king returned out of the palace garden into the place of the banquet of wine and haman was fallen upon the bed whereon esther was then said the king will he force the queen also before me in the house as the word went out of the king's mouth they covered haman's face
and harbonah one of the chamberlains said before the king behold also the gallows fifty cubits high which haman had made for mordecai who had spoken good for the king standeth in the house of haman then the king said hang him thereon
so they hanged haman on the gallows that he had prepared for mordecai then was the king's wrath pacified
on that day did the king ahasuerus give the house of haman the jews enemy unto esther the queen and mordecai came before the king for esther had told what he was unto her
and the king took off his ring which he had taken from haman and gave it unto mordecai and esther set mordecai over the house of haman
and esther spake yet again before the king and fell down at his feet and besought him with tears to put away the mischief of haman the agagite and his device that he had devised against the jews
then the king held out the golden sceptre toward esther so esther arose and stood before the king
and said if it please the king and if i have found favour in his sight and the thing seem right before the king and i be pleasing in his eyes let it be written to reverse the letters devised by haman the son of hammedatha the agagite which he wrote to destroy the jews which are in all the king's provinces
for how can i endure to see the evil that shall come unto my people or how can i endure to see the destruction of my kindred
then the king ahasuerus said unto esther the queen and to mordecai the jew behold i have given esther the house of haman and him they have hanged upon the gallows because he laid his hand upon the jews
write ye also for the jews as it liketh you in the king's name and seal it with the king's ring for the writing which is written in the king's name and sealed with the king's ring may no man reverse
then were the king's scribes called at that time in the third month that is the month sivan on the three and twentieth day thereof and it was written according to all that mordecai commanded unto the jews and to the lieutenants and the deputies and rulers of the provinces which are from india unto ethiopia an hundred twenty and seven provinces unto every province according to the writing thereof and unto every people after their language and to the jews according to their writing and according to their language
and he wrote in the king ahasuerus name and sealed it with the king's ring and sent letters by posts on horseback and riders on mules camels and young dromedaries
wherein the king granted the jews which were in every city to gather themselves together and to stand for their life to destroy to slay and to cause to perish all the power of the people and province that would assault them both little ones and women and to take the spoil of them for a prey
upon one day in all the provinces of king ahasuerus namely upon the thirteenth day of the twelfth month which is the month adar
the copy of the writing for a commandment to be given in every province was published unto all people and that the jews should be ready against that day to avenge themselves on their enemies
so the posts that rode upon mules and camels went out being hastened and pressed on by the king's commandment and the decree was given at shushan the palace
and mordecai went out from the presence of the king in royal apparel of blue and white and with a great crown of gold and with a garment of fine linen and purple and the city of shushan rejoiced and was glad
the jews had light and gladness and joy and honour
and in every province and in every city whithersoever the king's commandment and his decree came the jews had joy and gladness a feast and a good day and many of the people of the land became jews for the fear of the jews fell upon them
now in the twelfth month that is the month adar on the thirteenth day of the same when the king's commandment and his decree drew near to be put in execution in the day that the enemies of the jews hoped to have power over them though it was turned to the contrary that the jews had rule over them that hated them
the jews gathered themselves together in their cities throughout all the provinces of the king ahasuerus to lay hand on such as sought their hurt and no man could withstand them for the fear of them fell upon all people
and all the rulers of the provinces and the lieutenants and the deputies and officers of the king helped the jews because the fear of mordecai fell upon them
for mordecai was great in the king's house and his fame went out throughout all the provinces for this man mordecai waxed greater and greater
thus the jews smote all their enemies with the stroke of the sword and slaughter and destruction and did what they would unto those that hated them
and in shushan the palace the jews slew and destroyed five hundred men
and parshandatha and dalphon and aspatha
and poratha and adalia and aridatha
and parmashta and arisai and aridai and vajezatha
the ten sons of haman the son of hammedatha the enemy of the jews slew they but on the spoil laid they not their hand
on that day the number of those that were slain in shushan the palace was brought before the king
and the king said unto esther the queen the jews have slain and destroyed five hundred men in shushan the palace and the ten sons of haman what have they done in the rest of the king's provinces now what is thy petition and it shall be granted thee or what is thy request further and it shall be done
then said esther if it please the king let it be granted to the jews which are in shushan to do to morrow also according unto this day's decree and let haman's ten sons be hanged upon the gallows
and the king commanded it so to be done and the decree was given at shushan and they hanged haman's ten sons
for the jews that were in shushan gathered themselves together on the fourteenth day also of the month adar and slew three hundred men at shushan but on the prey they laid not their hand
but the other jews that were in the king's provinces gathered themselves together and stood for their lives and had rest from their enemies and slew of their foes seventy and five thousand but they laid not their hands on the prey
on the thirteenth day of the month adar and on the fourteenth day of the same rested they and made it a day of feasting and gladness
but the jews that were at shushan assembled together on the thirteenth day thereof and on the fourteenth thereof and on the fifteenth day of the same they rested and made it a day of feasting and gladness
therefore the jews of the villages that dwelt in the unwalled towns made the fourteenth day of the month adar a day of gladness and feasting and a good day and of sending portions one to another
and mordecai wrote these things and sent letters unto all the jews that were in all the provinces of the king ahasuerus both nigh and far
to stablish this among them that they should keep the fourteenth day of the month adar and the fifteenth day of the same yearly
as the days wherein the jews rested from their enemies and the month which was turned unto them from sorrow to joy and from mourning into a good day that they should make them days of feasting and joy and of sending portions one to another and gifts to the poor
and the jews undertook to do as they had begun and as mordecai had written unto them
because haman the son of hammedatha the agagite the enemy of all the jews had devised against the jews to destroy them and had cast pur that is the lot to consume them and to destroy them
but when esther came before the king he commanded by letters that his wicked device which he devised against the jews should return upon his own head and that he and his sons should be hanged on the gallows
wherefore they called these days purim after the name of pur therefore for all the words of this letter and of that which they had seen concerning this matter and which had come unto them
the jews ordained and took upon them and upon their seed and upon all such as joined themselves unto them so as it should not fail that they would keep these two days according to their writing and according to their appointed time every year
and that these days should be remembered and kept throughout every generation every family every province and every city and that these days of purim should not fail from among the jews nor the memorial of them perish from their seed
then esther the queen the daughter of abihail and mordecai the jew wrote with all authority to confirm this second letter of purim
and he sent the letters unto all the jews to the hundred twenty and seven provinces of the kingdom of ahasuerus with words of peace and truth
to confirm these days of purim in their times appointed according as mordecai the jew and esther the queen had enjoined them and as they had decreed for themselves and for their seed the matters of the fastings and their cry
and the decree of esther confirmed these matters of purim and it was written in the book
and the king ahasuerus laid a tribute upon the land and upon the isles of the sea
and all the acts of his power and of his might and the declaration of the greatness of mordecai whereunto the king advanced him are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of media and persia
for mordecai the jew was next unto king ahasuerus and great among the jews and accepted of the multitude of his brethren seeking the wealth of his people and speaking peace to all his seed
there was a man in the land of uz whose name was job and that man was perfect and upright and one that feared god and eschewed evil
and there were born unto him seven sons and three daughters
his substance also was seven thousand sheep and three thousand camels and five hundred yoke of oxen and five hundred she asses and a very great household so that this man was the greatest of all the men of the east
and his sons went and feasted in their houses every one his day and sent and called for their three sisters to eat and to drink with them
and it was so when the days of their feasting were gone about that job sent and sanctified them and rose up early in the morning and offered burnt offerings according to the number of them all for job said it may be that my sons have sinned and cursed god in their hearts thus did job continually
now there was a day when the sons of god came to present themselves before the lord and satan came also among them
and the lord said unto satan whence comest thou then satan answered the lord and said from going to and fro in the earth and from walking up and down in it
and the lord said unto satan hast thou considered my servant job that there is none like him in the earth a perfect and an upright man one that feareth god and escheweth evil
then satan answered the lord and said doth job fear god for nought
hast not thou made an hedge about him and about his house and about all that he hath on every side thou hast blessed the work of his hands and his substance is increased in the land
but put forth thine hand now and touch all that he hath and he will curse thee to thy face
and the lord said unto satan behold all that he hath is in thy power only upon himself put not forth thine hand so satan went forth from the presence of the lord
and there was a day when his sons and his daughters were eating and drinking wine in their eldest brother's house
and there came a messenger unto job and said the oxen were plowing and the asses feeding beside them
and the sabeans fell upon them and took them away yea they have slain the servants with the edge of the sword and i only am escaped alone to tell thee
while he was yet speaking there came also another and said the fire of god is fallen from heaven and hath burned up the sheep and the servants and consumed them and i only am escaped alone to tell thee
while he was yet speaking there came also another and said the chaldeans made out three bands and fell upon the camels and have carried them away yea and slain the servants with the edge of the sword and i only am escaped alone to tell thee
while he was yet speaking there came also another and said thy sons and thy daughters were eating and drinking wine in their eldest brother's house
and behold there came a great wind from the wilderness and smote the four corners of the house and it fell upon the young men and they are dead and i only am escaped alone to tell thee
then job arose and rent his mantle and shaved his head and fell down upon the ground and worshipped
and said naked came i out of my mother's womb and naked shall i return thither the lord gave and the lord hath taken away blessed be the name of the lord
in all this job sinned not nor charged god foolishly
again there was a day when the sons of god came to present themselves before the lord and satan came also among them to present himself before the lord
and the lord said unto satan from whence comest thou and satan answered the lord and said from going to and fro in the earth and from walking up and down in it
and the lord said unto satan hast thou considered my servant job that there is none like him in the earth a perfect and an upright man one that feareth god and escheweth evil and still he holdeth fast his integrity although thou movedst me against him to destroy him without cause
and satan answered the lord and said skin for skin yea all that a man hath will he give for his life
but put forth thine hand now and touch his bone and his flesh and he will curse thee to thy face
and the lord said unto satan behold he is in thine hand but save his life
so went satan forth from the presence of the lord and smote job with sore boils from the sole of his foot unto his crown
and he took him a potsherd to scrape himself withal and he sat down among the ashes
then said his wife unto him dost thou still retain thine integrity curse god and die
but he said unto her thou speakest as one of the foolish women speaketh what shall we receive good at the hand of god and shall we not receive evil in all this did not job sin with his lips
now when job's three friends heard of all this evil that was come upon him they came every one from his own place eliphaz the temanite and bildad the shuhite and zophar the naamathite for they had made an appointment together to come to mourn with him and to comfort him
and when they lifted up their eyes afar off and knew him not they lifted up their voice and wept and they rent every one his mantle and sprinkled dust upon their heads toward heaven
so they sat down with him upon the ground seven days and seven nights and none spake a word unto him for they saw that his grief was very great
after this opened job his mouth and cursed his day
and job spake and said
let the day perish wherein i was born and the night in which it was said there is a man child conceived
let that day be darkness let not god regard it from above neither let the light shine upon it
let darkness and the shadow of death stain it let a cloud dwell upon it let the blackness of the day terrify it
as for that night let darkness seize upon it let it not be joined unto the days of the year let it not come into the number of the months
lo let that night be solitary let no joyful voice come therein
let them curse it that curse the day who are ready to raise up their mourning
let the stars of the twilight thereof be dark let it look for light but have none neither let it see the dawning of the day
because it shut not up the doors of my mother's womb nor hid sorrow from mine eyes
why died i not from the womb why did i not give up the ghost when i came out of the belly
why did the knees prevent me or why the breasts that i should suck
for now should i have lain still and been quiet i should have slept then had i been at rest
with kings and counsellors of the earth which built desolate places for themselves
or with princes that had gold who filled their houses with silver
or as an hidden untimely birth i had not been as infants which never saw light
there the wicked cease from troubling and there the weary be at rest
there the prisoners rest together they hear not the voice of the oppressor
the small and great are there and the servant is free from his master
wherefore is light given to him that is in misery and life unto the bitter in soul
which long for death but it cometh not and dig for it more than for hid treasures
which rejoice exceedingly and are glad when they can find the grave
why is light given to a man whose way is hid and whom god hath hedged in
for my sighing cometh before i eat and my roarings are poured out like the waters
for the thing which i greatly feared is come upon me and that which i was afraid of is come unto me
i was not in safety neither had i rest neither was i quiet yet trouble came
then eliphaz the temanite answered and said
if we assay to commune with thee wilt thou be grieved but who can withhold himself from speaking
behold thou hast instructed many and thou hast strengthened the weak hands
thy words have upholden him that was falling and thou hast strengthened the feeble knees
but now it is come upon thee and thou faintest it toucheth thee and thou art troubled
is not this thy fear thy confidence thy hope and the uprightness of thy ways
remember i pray thee who ever perished being innocent or where were the righteous cut off
even as i have seen they that plow iniquity and sow wickedness reap the same
by the blast of god they perish and by the breath of his nostrils are they consumed
the roaring of the lion and the voice of the fierce lion and the teeth of the young lions are broken
the old lion perisheth for lack of prey and the stout lion's whelps are scattered abroad
now a thing was secretly brought to me and mine ear received a little thereof
in thoughts from the visions of the night when deep sleep falleth on men
fear came upon me and trembling which made all my bones to shake
then a spirit passed before my face the hair of my flesh stood up
it stood still but i could not discern the form thereof an image was before mine eyes there was silence and i heard a voice saying
shall mortal man be more just than god shall a man be more pure than his maker
behold he put no trust in his servants and his angels he charged with folly
how much less in them that dwell in houses of clay whose foundation is in the dust which are crushed before the moth
they are destroyed from morning to evening they perish for ever without any regarding it
doth not their excellency which is in them go away they die even without wisdom
call now if there be any that will answer thee and to which of the saints wilt thou turn
for wrath killeth the foolish man and envy slayeth the silly one
i have seen the foolish taking root but suddenly i cursed his habitation
his children are far from safety and they are crushed in the gate neither is there any to deliver them
whose harvest the hungry eateth up and taketh it even out of the thorns and the robber swalloweth up their substance
although affliction cometh not forth of the dust neither doth trouble spring out of the ground
yet man is born unto trouble as the sparks fly upward
i would seek unto god and unto god would i commit my cause
which doeth great things and unsearchable marvellous things without number
who giveth rain upon the earth and sendeth waters upon the fields
to set up on high those that be low that those which mourn may be exalted to safety
he disappointeth the devices of the crafty so that their hands cannot perform their enterprise
he taketh the wise in their own craftiness and the counsel of the froward is carried headlong
they meet with darkness in the day time and grope in the noonday as in the night
but he saveth the poor from the sword from their mouth and from the hand of the mighty
so the poor hath hope and iniquity stoppeth her mouth
behold happy is the man whom god correcteth therefore despise not thou the chastening of the almighty
for he maketh sore and bindeth up he woundeth and his hands make whole
he shall deliver thee in six troubles yea in seven there shall no evil touch thee
in famine he shall redeem thee from death and in war from the power of the sword
thou shalt be hid from the scourge of the tongue neither shalt thou be afraid of destruction when it cometh
at destruction and famine thou shalt laugh neither shalt thou be afraid of the beasts of the earth
for thou shalt be in league with the stones of the field and the beasts of the field shall be at peace with thee
and thou shalt know that thy tabernacle shall be in peace and thou shalt visit thy habitation and shalt not sin
thou shalt know also that thy seed shall be great and thine offspring as the grass of the earth
thou shalt come to thy grave in a full age like as a shock of corn cometh in in his season
lo this we have searched it so it is hear it and know thou it for thy good
but job answered and said
oh that my grief were throughly weighed and my calamity laid in the balances together
for now it would be heavier than the sand of the sea therefore my words are swallowed up
for the arrows of the almighty are within me the poison whereof drinketh up my spirit the terrors of god do set themselves in array against me
doth the wild ass bray when he hath grass or loweth the ox over his fodder
can that which is unsavoury be eaten without salt or is there any taste in the white of an egg
the things that my soul refused to touch are as my sorrowful meat
oh that i might have my request and that god would grant me the thing that i long for
even that it would please god to destroy me that he would let loose his hand and cut me off
then should i yet have comfort yea i would harden myself in sorrow let him not spare for i have not concealed the words of the holy one
what is my strength that i should hope and what is mine end that i should prolong my life
is my strength the strength of stones or is my flesh of brass
is not my help in me and is wisdom driven quite from me
to him that is afflicted pity should be shewed from his friend but he forsaketh the fear of the almighty
my brethren have dealt deceitfully as a brook and as the stream of brooks they pass away
which are blackish by reason of the ice and wherein the snow is hid
what time they wax warm they vanish when it is hot they are consumed out of their place
the paths of their way are turned aside they go to nothing and perish
the troops of tema looked the companies of sheba waited for them
they were confounded because they had hoped they came thither and were ashamed
for now ye are nothing ye see my casting down and are afraid
did i say bring unto me or give a reward for me of your substance
or deliver me from the enemy's hand or redeem me from the hand of the mighty
teach me and i will hold my tongue and cause me to understand wherein i have erred
how forcible are right words but what doth your arguing reprove
do ye imagine to reprove words and the speeches of one that is desperate which are as wind
yea ye overwhelm the fatherless and ye dig a pit for your friend
now therefore be content look upon me for it is evident unto you if i lie
return i pray you let it not be iniquity yea return again my righteousness is in it
is there iniquity in my tongue cannot my taste discern perverse things
is there not an appointed time to man upon earth are not his days also like the days of an hireling
as a servant earnestly desireth the shadow and as an hireling looketh for the reward of his work
so am i made to possess months of vanity and wearisome nights are appointed to me
when i lie down i say when shall i arise and the night be gone and i am full of tossings to and fro unto the dawning of the day
my flesh is clothed with worms and clods of dust my skin is broken and become loathsome
my days are swifter than a weaver's shuttle and are spent without hope
o remember that my life is wind mine eye shall no more see good
the eye of him that hath seen me shall see me no more thine eyes are upon me and i am not
as the cloud is consumed and vanisheth away so he that goeth down to the grave shall come up no more
he shall return no more to his house neither shall his place know him any more
therefore i will not refrain my mouth i will speak in the anguish of my spirit i will complain in the bitterness of my soul
am i a sea or a whale that thou settest a watch over me
when i say my bed shall comfort me my couch shall ease my complaint
then thou scarest me with dreams and terrifiest me through visions
so that my soul chooseth strangling and death rather than my life
i loathe it i would not live alway let me alone for my days are vanity
what is man that thou shouldest magnify him and that thou shouldest set thine heart upon him
and that thou shouldest visit him every morning and try him every moment
how long wilt thou not depart from me nor let me alone till i swallow down my spittle
i have sinned what shall i do unto thee o thou preserver of men why hast thou set me as a mark against thee so that i am a burden to myself
and why dost thou not pardon my transgression and take away mine iniquity for now shall i sleep in the dust and thou shalt seek me in the morning but i shall not be
then answered bildad the shuhite and said
how long wilt thou speak these things and how long shall the words of thy mouth be like a strong wind
doth god pervert judgment or doth the almighty pervert justice
if thy children have sinned against him and he have cast them away for their transgression
if thou wouldest seek unto god betimes and make thy supplication to the almighty
if thou wert pure and upright surely now he would awake for thee and make the habitation of thy righteousness prosperous
though thy beginning was small yet thy latter end should greatly increase
for enquire i pray thee of the former age and prepare thyself to the search of their fathers
for we are but of yesterday and know nothing because our days upon earth are a shadow
shall not they teach thee and tell thee and utter words out of their heart
can the rush grow up without mire can the flag grow without water
whilst it is yet in his greenness and not cut down it withereth before any other herb
so are the paths of all that forget god and the hypocrite's hope shall perish
whose hope shall be cut off and whose trust shall be a spider's web
he shall lean upon his house but it shall not stand he shall hold it fast but it shall not endure
he is green before the sun and his branch shooteth forth in his garden
his roots are wrapped about the heap and seeth the place of stones
if he destroy him from his place then it shall deny him saying i have not seen thee
behold this is the joy of his way and out of the earth shall others grow
behold god will not cast away a perfect man neither will he help the evil doers
till he fill thy mouth with laughing and thy lips with rejoicing
they that hate thee shall be clothed with shame and the dwelling place of the wicked shall come to nought
then job answered and said
i know it is so of a truth but how should man be just with god
if he will contend with him he cannot answer him one of a thousand
he is wise in heart and mighty in strength who hath hardened himself against him and hath prospered
which removeth the mountains and they know not which overturneth them in his anger
which shaketh the earth out of her place and the pillars thereof tremble
which commandeth the sun and it riseth not and sealeth up the stars
which alone spreadeth out the heavens and treadeth upon the waves of the sea
which maketh arcturus orion and pleiades and the chambers of the south
which doeth great things past finding out yea and wonders without number
lo he goeth by me and i see him not he passeth on also but i perceive him not
behold he taketh away who can hinder him who will say unto him what doest thou
if god will not withdraw his anger the proud helpers do stoop under him
how much less shall i answer him and choose out my words to reason with him
whom though i were righteous yet would i not answer but i would make supplication to my judge
if i had called and he had answered me yet would i not believe that he had hearkened unto my voice
for he breaketh me with a tempest and multiplieth my wounds without cause
he will not suffer me to take my breath but filleth me with bitterness
if i speak of strength lo he is strong and if of judgment who shall set me a time to plead
if i justify myself mine own mouth shall condemn me if i say i am perfect it shall also prove me perverse
though i were perfect yet would i not know my soul i would despise my life
this is one thing therefore i said it he destroyeth the perfect and the wicked
if the scourge slay suddenly he will laugh at the trial of the innocent
the earth is given into the hand of the wicked he covereth the faces of the judges thereof if not where and who is he
now my days are swifter than a post they flee away they see no good
they are passed away as the swift ships as the eagle that hasteth to the prey
if i say i will forget my complaint i will leave off my heaviness and comfort myself
i am afraid of all my sorrows i know that thou wilt not hold me innocent
if i be wicked why then labour i in vain
if i wash myself with snow water and make my hands never so clean
yet shalt thou plunge me in the ditch and mine own clothes shall abhor me
for he is not a man as i am that i should answer him and we should come together in judgment
neither is there any daysman betwixt us that might lay his hand upon us both
let him take his rod away from me and let not his fear terrify me
then would i speak and not fear him but it is not so with me
my soul is weary of my life i will leave my complaint upon myself i will speak in the bitterness of my soul
i will say unto god do not condemn me shew me wherefore thou contendest with me
is it good unto thee that thou shouldest oppress that thou shouldest despise the work of thine hands and shine upon the counsel of the wicked
hast thou eyes of flesh or seest thou as man seeth
are thy days as the days of man are thy years as man's days
that thou enquirest after mine iniquity and searchest after my sin
thou knowest that i am not wicked and there is none that can deliver out of thine hand
thine hands have made me and fashioned me together round about yet thou dost destroy me
remember i beseech thee that thou hast made me as the clay and wilt thou bring me into dust again
hast thou not poured me out as milk and curdled me like cheese
thou hast clothed me with skin and flesh and hast fenced me with bones and sinews
thou hast granted me life and favour and thy visitation hath preserved my spirit
and these things hast thou hid in thine heart i know that this is with thee
if i sin then thou markest me and thou wilt not acquit me from mine iniquity
if i be wicked woe unto me and if i be righteous yet will i not lift up my head i am full of confusion therefore see thou mine affliction
for it increaseth thou huntest me as a fierce lion and again thou shewest thyself marvellous upon me
thou renewest thy witnesses against me and increasest thine indignation upon me changes and war are against me
wherefore then hast thou brought me forth out of the womb oh that i had given up the ghost and no eye had seen me
i should have been as though i had not been i should have been carried from the womb to the grave
are not my days few cease then and let me alone that i may take comfort a little
before i go whence i shall not return even to the land of darkness and the shadow of death
a land of darkness as darkness itself and of the shadow of death without any order and where the light is as darkness
then answered zophar the naamathite and said
should not the multitude of words be answered and should a man full of talk be justified
should thy lies make men hold their peace and when thou mockest shall no man make thee ashamed
for thou hast said my doctrine is pure and i am clean in thine eyes
but oh that god would speak and open his lips against thee
and that he would shew thee the secrets of wisdom that they are double to that which is know therefore that god exacteth of thee less than thine iniquity deserveth
canst thou by searching find out god canst thou find out the almighty unto perfection
it is as high as heaven what canst thou do deeper than hell what canst thou know
the measure thereof is longer than the earth and broader than the sea
if he cut off and shut up or gather together then who can hinder him
for he knoweth vain men he seeth wickedness also will he not then consider it
for vain man would be wise though man be born like a wild ass's colt
if thou prepare thine heart and stretch out thine hands toward him
if iniquity be in thine hand put it far away and let not wickedness dwell in thy tabernacles
for then shalt thou lift up thy face without spot yea thou shalt be stedfast and shalt not fear
because thou shalt forget thy misery and remember it as waters that pass away
and thine age shall be clearer than the noonday thou shalt shine forth thou shalt be as the morning
and thou shalt be secure because there is hope yea thou shalt dig about thee and thou shalt take thy rest in safety
also thou shalt lie down and none shall make thee afraid yea many shall make suit unto thee
but the eyes of the wicked shall fail and they shall not escape and their hope shall be as the giving up of the ghost
and job answered and said
no doubt but ye are the people and wisdom shall die with you
but i have understanding as well as you i am not inferior to you yea who knoweth not such things as these
i am as one mocked of his neighbour who calleth upon god and he answereth him the just upright man is laughed to scorn
he that is ready to slip with his feet is as a lamp despised in the thought of him that is at ease
the tabernacles of robbers prosper and they that provoke god are secure into whose hand god bringeth abundantly
but ask now the beasts and they shall teach thee and the fowls of the air and they shall tell thee
or speak to the earth and it shall teach thee and the fishes of the sea shall declare unto thee
who knoweth not in all these that the hand of the lord hath wrought this
in whose hand is the soul of every living thing and the breath of all mankind
doth not the ear try words and the mouth taste his meat
with the ancient is wisdom and in length of days understanding
with him is wisdom and strength he hath counsel and understanding
behold he breaketh down and it cannot be built again he shutteth up a man and there can be no opening
behold he withholdeth the waters and they dry up also he sendeth them out and they overturn the earth
with him is strength and wisdom the deceived and the deceiver are his
he leadeth counsellors away spoiled and maketh the judges fools
he looseth the bond of kings and girdeth their loins with a girdle
he leadeth princes away spoiled and overthroweth the mighty
he removeth away the speech of the trusty and taketh away the understanding of the aged
he poureth contempt upon princes and weakeneth the strength of the mighty
he discovereth deep things out of darkness and bringeth out to light the shadow of death
he increaseth the nations and destroyeth them he enlargeth the nations and straiteneth them again
he taketh away the heart of the chief of the people of the earth and causeth them to wander in a wilderness where there is no way
they grope in the dark without light and he maketh them to stagger like a drunken man
lo mine eye hath seen all this mine ear hath heard and understood it
what ye know the same do i know also i am not inferior unto you
surely i would speak to the almighty and i desire to reason with god
but ye are forgers of lies ye are all physicians of no value
o that ye would altogether hold your peace and it should be your wisdom
hear now my reasoning and hearken to the pleadings of my lips
will ye speak wickedly for god and talk deceitfully for him
will ye accept his person will ye contend for god
is it good that he should search you out or as one man mocketh another do ye so mock him
he will surely reprove you if ye do secretly accept persons
shall not his excellency make you afraid and his dread fall upon you
your remembrances are like unto ashes your bodies to bodies of clay
hold your peace let me alone that i may speak and let come on me what will
wherefore do i take my flesh in my teeth and put my life in mine hand
though he slay me yet will i trust in him but i will maintain mine own ways before him
he also shall be my salvation for an hypocrite shall not come before him
hear diligently my speech and my declaration with your ears
behold now i have ordered my cause i know that i shall be justified
who is he that will plead with me for now if i hold my tongue i shall give up the ghost
only do not two things unto me then will i not hide myself from thee
withdraw thine hand far from me and let not thy dread make me afraid
then call thou and i will answer or let me speak and answer thou me
how many are mine iniquities and sins make me to know my transgression and my sin
wherefore hidest thou thy face and holdest me for thine enemy
wilt thou break a leaf driven to and fro and wilt thou pursue the dry stubble
for thou writest bitter things against me and makest me to possess the iniquities of my youth
thou puttest my feet also in the stocks and lookest narrowly unto all my paths thou settest a print upon the heels of my feet
and he as a rotten thing consumeth as a garment that is moth eaten
man that is born of a woman is of few days and full of trouble
he cometh forth like a flower and is cut down he fleeth also as a shadow and continueth not
and dost thou open thine eyes upon such an one and bringest me into judgment with thee
who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean not one
seeing his days are determined the number of his months are with thee thou hast appointed his bounds that he cannot pass
turn from him that he may rest till he shall accomplish as an hireling his day
for there is hope of a tree if it be cut down that it will sprout again and that the tender branch thereof will not cease
though the root thereof wax old in the earth and the stock thereof die in the ground
yet through the scent of water it will bud and bring forth boughs like a plant
but man dieth and wasteth away yea man giveth up the ghost and where is he
as the waters fail from the sea and the flood decayeth and drieth up
so man lieth down and riseth not till the heavens be no more they shall not awake nor be raised out of their sleep
o that thou wouldest hide me in the grave that thou wouldest keep me secret until thy wrath be past that thou wouldest appoint me a set time and remember me
if a man die shall he live again all the days of my appointed time will i wait till my change come
thou shalt call and i will answer thee thou wilt have a desire to the work of thine hands
for now thou numberest my steps dost thou not watch over my sin
my transgression is sealed up in a bag and thou sewest up mine iniquity
and surely the mountain falling cometh to nought and the rock is removed out of his place
the waters wear the stones thou washest away the things which grow out of the dust of the earth and thou destroyest the hope of man
thou prevailest for ever against him and he passeth thou changest his countenance and sendest him away
his sons come to honour and he knoweth it not and they are brought low but he perceiveth it not of them
but his flesh upon him shall have pain and his soul within him shall mourn
then answered eliphaz the temanite and said
should a wise man utter vain knowledge and fill his belly with the east wind
should he reason with unprofitable talk or with speeches wherewith he can do no good
yea thou castest off fear and restrainest prayer before god
for thy mouth uttereth thine iniquity and thou choosest the tongue of the crafty
thine own mouth condemneth thee and not i yea thine own lips testify against thee
art thou the first man that was born or wast thou made before the hills
hast thou heard the secret of god and dost thou restrain wisdom to thyself
what knowest thou that we know not what understandest thou which is not in us
with us are both the grayheaded and very aged men much elder than thy father
are the consolations of god small with thee is there any secret thing with thee
why doth thine heart carry thee away and what do thy eyes wink at
that thou turnest thy spirit against god and lettest such words go out of thy mouth
what is man that he should be clean and he which is born of a woman that he should be righteous
behold he putteth no trust in his saints yea the heavens are not clean in his sight
how much more abominable and filthy is man which drinketh iniquity like water
i will shew thee hear me and that which i have seen i will declare
which wise men have told from their fathers and have not hid it
unto whom alone the earth was given and no stranger passed among them
the wicked man travaileth with pain all his days and the number of years is hidden to the oppressor
a dreadful sound is in his ears in prosperity the destroyer shall come upon him
he believeth not that he shall return out of darkness and he is waited for of the sword
he wandereth abroad for bread saying where is it he knoweth that the day of darkness is ready at his hand
trouble and anguish shall make him afraid they shall prevail against him as a king ready to the battle
for he stretcheth out his hand against god and strengtheneth himself against the almighty
he runneth upon him even on his neck upon the thick bosses of his bucklers
because he covereth his face with his fatness and maketh collops of fat on his flanks
and he dwelleth in desolate cities and in houses which no man inhabiteth which are ready to become heaps
he shall not be rich neither shall his substance continue neither shall he prolong the perfection thereof upon the earth
he shall not depart out of darkness the flame shall dry up his branches and by the breath of his mouth shall he go away
let not him that is deceived trust in vanity for vanity shall be his recompence
it shall be accomplished before his time and his branch shall not be green
he shall shake off his unripe grape as the vine and shall cast off his flower as the olive
for the congregation of hypocrites shall be desolate and fire shall consume the tabernacles of bribery
they conceive mischief and bring forth vanity and their belly prepareth deceit
then job answered and said
i have heard many such things miserable comforters are ye all
shall vain words have an end or what emboldeneth thee that thou answerest
i also could speak as ye do if your soul were in my soul's stead i could heap up words against you and shake mine head at you
but i would strengthen you with my mouth and the moving of my lips should asswage your grief
though i speak my grief is not asswaged and though i forbear what am i eased
but now he hath made me weary thou hast made desolate all my company
and thou hast filled me with wrinkles which is a witness against me and my leanness rising up in me beareth witness to my face
he teareth me in his wrath who hateth me he gnasheth upon me with his teeth mine enemy sharpeneth his eyes upon me
they have gaped upon me with their mouth they have smitten me upon the cheek reproachfully they have gathered themselves together against me
god hath delivered me to the ungodly and turned me over into the hands of the wicked
i was at ease but he hath broken me asunder he hath also taken me by my neck and shaken me to pieces and set me up for his mark
his archers compass me round about he cleaveth my reins asunder and doth not spare he poureth out my gall upon the ground
he breaketh me with breach upon breach he runneth upon me like a giant
i have sewed sackcloth upon my skin and defiled my horn in the dust
my face is foul with weeping and on my eyelids is the shadow of death
not for any injustice in mine hands also my prayer is pure
o earth cover not thou my blood and let my cry have no place
also now behold my witness is in heaven and my record is on high
my friends scorn me but mine eye poureth out tears unto god
o that one might plead for a man with god as a man pleadeth for his neighbour
when a few years are come then i shall go the way whence i shall not return
my breath is corrupt my days are extinct the graves are ready for me
are there not mockers with me and doth not mine eye continue in their provocation
lay down now put me in a surety with thee who is he that will strike hands with me
for thou hast hid their heart from understanding therefore shalt thou not exalt them
he that speaketh flattery to his friends even the eyes of his children shall fail
he hath made me also a byword of the people and aforetime i was as a tabret
mine eye also is dim by reason of sorrow and all my members are as a shadow
upright men shall be astonied at this and the innocent shall stir up himself against the hypocrite
the righteous also shall hold on his way and he that hath clean hands shall be stronger and stronger
but as for you all do ye return and come now for i cannot find one wise man among you
my days are past my purposes are broken off even the thoughts of my heart
they change the night into day the light is short because of darkness
if i wait the grave is mine house i have made my bed in the darkness
i have said to corruption thou art my father to the worm thou art my mother and my sister
and where is now my hope as for my hope who shall see it
they shall go down to the bars of the pit when our rest together is in the dust
then answered bildad the shuhite and said
how long will it be ere ye make an end of words mark and afterwards we will speak
wherefore are we counted as beasts and reputed vile in your sight
he teareth himself in his anger shall the earth be forsaken for thee and shall the rock be removed out of his place
yea the light of the wicked shall be put out and the spark of his fire shall not shine
the light shall be dark in his tabernacle and his candle shall be put out with him
the steps of his strength shall be straitened and his own counsel shall cast him down
for he is cast into a net by his own feet and he walketh upon a snare
the gin shall take him by the heel and the robber shall prevail against him
the snare is laid for him in the ground and a trap for him in the way
terrors shall make him afraid on every side and shall drive him to his feet
his strength shall be hungerbitten and destruction shall be ready at his side
it shall devour the strength of his skin even the firstborn of death shall devour his strength
his confidence shall be rooted out of his tabernacle and it shall bring him to the king of terrors
it shall dwell in his tabernacle because it is none of his brimstone shall be scattered upon his habitation
his roots shall be dried up beneath and above shall his branch be cut off
his remembrance shall perish from the earth and he shall have no name in the street
he shall be driven from light into darkness and chased out of the world
he shall neither have son nor nephew among his people nor any remaining in his dwellings
they that come after him shall be astonied at his day as they that went before were affrighted
surely such are the dwellings of the wicked and this is the place of him that knoweth not god
then job answered and said
how long will ye vex my soul and break me in pieces with words
these ten times have ye reproached me ye are not ashamed that ye make yourselves strange to me
and be it indeed that i have erred mine error remaineth with myself
if indeed ye will magnify yourselves against me and plead against me my reproach
know now that god hath overthrown me and hath compassed me with his net
behold i cry out of wrong but i am not heard i cry aloud but there is no judgment
he hath fenced up my way that i cannot pass and he hath set darkness in my paths
he hath stripped me of my glory and taken the crown from my head
he hath destroyed me on every side and i am gone and mine hope hath he removed like a tree
he hath also kindled his wrath against me and he counteth me unto him as one of his enemies
his troops come together and raise up their way against me and encamp round about my tabernacle
he hath put my brethren far from me and mine acquaintance are verily estranged from me
my kinsfolk have failed and my familiar friends have forgotten me
they that dwell in mine house and my maids count me for a stranger i am an alien in their sight
i called my servant and he gave me no answer i intreated him with my mouth
my breath is strange to my wife though i intreated for the children's sake of mine own body
yea young children despised me i arose and they spake against me
all my inward friends abhorred me and they whom i loved are turned against me
my bone cleaveth to my skin and to my flesh and i am escaped with the skin of my teeth
have pity upon me have pity upon me o ye my friends for the hand of god hath touched me
why do ye persecute me as god and are not satisfied with my flesh
oh that my words were now written oh that they were printed in a book
that they were graven with an iron pen and lead in the rock for ever
for i know that my redeemer liveth and that he shall stand at the latter day upon the earth
and though after my skin worms destroy this body yet in my flesh shall i see god
whom i shall see for myself and mine eyes shall behold and not another though my reins be consumed within me
but ye should say why persecute we him seeing the root of the matter is found in me
be ye afraid of the sword for wrath bringeth the punishments of the sword that ye may know there is a judgment
then answered zophar the naamathite and said
therefore do my thoughts cause me to answer and for this i make haste
i have heard the check of my reproach and the spirit of my understanding causeth me to answer
knowest thou not this of old since man was placed upon earth
that the triumphing of the wicked is short and the joy of the hypocrite but for a moment
though his excellency mount up to the heavens and his head reach unto the clouds
yet he shall perish for ever like his own dung they which have seen him shall say where is he
he shall fly away as a dream and shall not be found yea he shall be chased away as a vision of the night
the eye also which saw him shall see him no more neither shall his place any more behold him
his children shall seek to please the poor and his hands shall restore their goods
his bones are full of the sin of his youth which shall lie down with him in the dust
though wickedness be sweet in his mouth though he hide it under his tongue
though he spare it and forsake it not but keep it still within his mouth
yet his meat in his bowels is turned it is the gall of asps within him
he hath swallowed down riches and he shall vomit them up again god shall cast them out of his belly
he shall suck the poison of asps the viper's tongue shall slay him
he shall not see the rivers the floods the brooks of honey and butter
that which he laboured for shall he restore and shall not swallow it down according to his substance shall the restitution be and he shall not rejoice therein
because he hath oppressed and hath forsaken the poor because he hath violently taken away an house which he builded not
surely he shall not feel quietness in his belly he shall not save of that which he desired
there shall none of his meat be left therefore shall no man look for his goods
in the fulness of his sufficiency he shall be in straits every hand of the wicked shall come upon him
when he is about to fill his belly god shall cast the fury of his wrath upon him and shall rain it upon him while he is eating
he shall flee from the iron weapon and the bow of steel shall strike him through
it is drawn and cometh out of the body yea the glittering sword cometh out of his gall terrors are upon him
all darkness shall be hid in his secret places a fire not blown shall consume him it shall go ill with him that is left in his tabernacle
the heaven shall reveal his iniquity and the earth shall rise up against him
the increase of his house shall depart and his goods shall flow away in the day of his wrath
this is the portion of a wicked man from god and the heritage appointed unto him by god
but job answered and said
hear diligently my speech and let this be your consolations
suffer me that i may speak and after that i have spoken mock on
as for me is my complaint to man and if it were so why should not my spirit be troubled
mark me and be astonished and lay your hand upon your mouth
even when i remember i am afraid and trembling taketh hold on my flesh
wherefore do the wicked live become old yea are mighty in power
their seed is established in their sight with them and their offspring before their eyes
their houses are safe from fear neither is the rod of god upon them
their bull gendereth and faileth not their cow calveth and casteth not her calf
they send forth their little ones like a flock and their children dance
they take the timbrel and harp and rejoice at the sound of the organ
they spend their days in wealth and in a moment go down to the grave
therefore they say unto god depart from us for we desire not the knowledge of thy ways
what is the almighty that we should serve him and what profit should we have if we pray unto him
lo their good is not in their hand the counsel of the wicked is far from me
how oft is the candle of the wicked put out and how oft cometh their destruction upon them god distributeth sorrows in his anger
they are as stubble before the wind and as chaff that the storm carrieth away
god layeth up his iniquity for his children he rewardeth him and he shall know it
his eyes shall see his destruction and he shall drink of the wrath of the almighty
for what pleasure hath he in his house after him when the number of his months is cut off in the midst
shall any teach god knowledge seeing he judgeth those that are high
one dieth in his full strength being wholly at ease and quiet
his breasts are full of milk and his bones are moistened with marrow
and another dieth in the bitterness of his soul and never eateth with pleasure
they shall lie down alike in the dust and the worms shall cover them
behold i know your thoughts and the devices which ye wrongfully imagine against me
for ye say where is the house of the prince and where are the dwelling places of the wicked
have ye not asked them that go by the way and do ye not know their tokens
that the wicked is reserved to the day of destruction they shall be brought forth to the day of wrath
who shall declare his way to his face and who shall repay him what he hath done
yet shall he be brought to the grave and shall remain in the tomb
the clods of the valley shall be sweet unto him and every man shall draw after him as there are innumerable before him
how then comfort ye me in vain seeing in your answers there remaineth falsehood
then eliphaz the temanite answered and said
can a man be profitable unto god as he that is wise may be profitable unto himself
is it any pleasure to the almighty that thou art righteous or is it gain to him that thou makest thy ways perfect
will he reprove thee for fear of thee will he enter with thee into judgment
is not thy wickedness great and thine iniquities infinite
for thou hast taken a pledge from thy brother for nought and stripped the naked of their clothing
thou hast not given water to the weary to drink and thou hast withholden bread from the hungry
but as for the mighty man he had the earth and the honourable man dwelt in it
thou hast sent widows away empty and the arms of the fatherless have been broken
therefore snares are round about thee and sudden fear troubleth thee
or darkness that thou canst not see and abundance of waters cover thee
is not god in the height of heaven and behold the height of the stars how high they are
and thou sayest how doth god know can he judge through the dark cloud
thick clouds are a covering to him that he seeth not and he walketh in the circuit of heaven
hast thou marked the old way which wicked men have trodden
which were cut down out of time whose foundation was overflown with a flood
which said unto god depart from us and what can the almighty do for them
yet he filled their houses with good things but the counsel of the wicked is far from me
the righteous see it and are glad and the innocent laugh them to scorn
whereas our substance is not cut down but the remnant of them the fire consumeth
acquaint now thyself with him and be at peace thereby good shall come unto thee
receive i pray thee the law from his mouth and lay up his words in thine heart
if thou return to the almighty thou shalt be built up thou shalt put away iniquity far from thy tabernacles
then shalt thou lay up gold as dust and the gold of ophir as the stones of the brooks
yea the almighty shall be thy defence and thou shalt have plenty of silver
for then shalt thou have thy delight in the almighty and shalt lift up thy face unto god
thou shalt make thy prayer unto him and he shall hear thee and thou shalt pay thy vows
thou shalt also decree a thing and it shall be established unto thee and the light shall shine upon thy ways
when men are cast down then thou shalt say there is lifting up and he shall save the humble person
he shall deliver the island of the innocent and it is delivered by the pureness of thine hands
then job answered and said
even to day is my complaint bitter my stroke is heavier than my groaning
oh that i knew where i might find him that i might come even to his seat
i would order my cause before him and fill my mouth with arguments
i would know the words which he would answer me and understand what he would say unto me
will he plead against me with his great power no but he would put strength in me
there the righteous might dispute with him so should i be delivered for ever from my judge
behold i go forward but he is not there and backward but i cannot perceive him
on the left hand where he doth work but i cannot behold him he hideth himself on the right hand that i cannot see him
but he knoweth the way that i take when he hath tried me i shall come forth as gold
my foot hath held his steps his way have i kept and not declined
neither have i gone back from the commandment of his lips i have esteemed the words of his mouth more than my necessary food
but he is in one mind and who can turn him and what his soul desireth even that he doeth
for he performeth the thing that is appointed for me and many such things are with him
therefore am i troubled at his presence when i consider i am afraid of him
for god maketh my heart soft and the almighty troubleth me
because i was not cut off before the darkness neither hath he covered the darkness from my face
why seeing times are not hidden from the almighty do they that know him not see his days
some remove the landmarks they violently take away flocks and feed thereof
they drive away the ass of the fatherless they take the widow's ox for a pledge
they turn the needy out of the way the poor of the earth hide themselves together
behold as wild asses in the desert go they forth to their work rising betimes for a prey the wilderness yieldeth food for them and for their children
they reap every one his corn in the field and they gather the vintage of the wicked
they cause the naked to lodge without clothing that they have no covering in the cold
they are wet with the showers of the mountains and embrace the rock for want of a shelter
they pluck the fatherless from the breast and take a pledge of the poor
they cause him to go naked without clothing and they take away the sheaf from the hungry
which make oil within their walls and tread their winepresses and suffer thirst
men groan from out of the city and the soul of the wounded crieth out yet god layeth not folly to them
they are of those that rebel against the light they know not the ways thereof nor abide in the paths thereof
the murderer rising with the light killeth the poor and needy and in the night is as a thief
the eye also of the adulterer waiteth for the twilight saying no eye shall see me and disguiseth his face
in the dark they dig through houses which they had marked for themselves in the daytime they know not the light
for the morning is to them even as the shadow of death if one know them they are in the terrors of the shadow of death
he is swift as the waters their portion is cursed in the earth he beholdeth not the way of the vineyards
drought and heat consume the snow waters so doth the grave those which have sinned
the womb shall forget him the worm shall feed sweetly on him he shall be no more remembered and wickedness shall be broken as a tree
he evil entreateth the barren that beareth not and doeth not good to the widow
he draweth also the mighty with his power he riseth up and no man is sure of life
though it be given him to be in safety whereon he resteth yet his eyes are upon their ways
they are exalted for a little while but are gone and brought low they are taken out of the way as all other and cut off as the tops of the ears of corn
and if it be not so now who will make me a liar and make my speech nothing worth
then answered bildad the shuhite and said
dominion and fear are with him he maketh peace in his high places
is there any number of his armies and upon whom doth not his light arise
how then can man be justified with god or how can he be clean that is born of a woman
behold even to the moon and it shineth not yea the stars are not pure in his sight
how much less man that is a worm and the son of man which is a worm
but job answered and said
how hast thou helped him that is without power how savest thou the arm that hath no strength
how hast thou counselled him that hath no wisdom and how hast thou plentifully declared the thing as it is
to whom hast thou uttered words and whose spirit came from thee
dead things are formed from under the waters and the inhabitants thereof
hell is naked before him and destruction hath no covering
he stretcheth out the north over the empty place and hangeth the earth upon nothing
he bindeth up the waters in his thick clouds and the cloud is not rent under them
he holdeth back the face of his throne and spreadeth his cloud upon it
he hath compassed the waters with bounds until the day and night come to an end
the pillars of heaven tremble and are astonished at his reproof
he divideth the sea with his power and by his understanding he smiteth through the proud
by his spirit he hath garnished the heavens his hand hath formed the crooked serpent
lo these are parts of his ways but how little a portion is heard of him but the thunder of his power who can understand
moreover job continued his parable and said
as god liveth who hath taken away my judgment and the almighty who hath vexed my soul
all the while my breath is in me and the spirit of god is in my nostrils
my lips shall not speak wickedness nor my tongue utter deceit
god forbid that i should justify you till i die i will not remove mine integrity from me
my righteousness i hold fast and will not let it go my heart shall not reproach me so long as i live
let mine enemy be as the wicked and he that riseth up against me as the unrighteous
for what is the hope of the hypocrite though he hath gained when god taketh away his soul
will god hear his cry when trouble cometh upon him
will he delight himself in the almighty will he always call upon god
i will teach you by the hand of god that which is with the almighty will i not conceal
behold all ye yourselves have seen it why then are ye thus altogether vain
this is the portion of a wicked man with god and the heritage of oppressors which they shall receive of the almighty
if his children be multiplied it is for the sword and his offspring shall not be satisfied with bread
those that remain of him shall be buried in death and his widows shall not weep
though he heap up silver as the dust and prepare raiment as the clay
he may prepare it but the just shall put it on and the innocent shall divide the silver
he buildeth his house as a moth and as a booth that the keeper maketh
the rich man shall lie down but he shall not be gathered he openeth his eyes and he is not
terrors take hold on him as waters a tempest stealeth him away in the night
the east wind carrieth him away and he departeth and as a storm hurleth him out of his place
for god shall cast upon him and not spare he would fain flee out of his hand
men shall clap their hands at him and shall hiss him out of his place
surely there is a vein for the silver and a place for gold where they fine it
iron is taken out of the earth and brass is molten out of the stone
he setteth an end to darkness and searcheth out all perfection the stones of darkness and the shadow of death
the flood breaketh out from the inhabitant even the waters forgotten of the foot they are dried up they are gone away from men
as for the earth out of it cometh bread and under it is turned up as it were fire
the stones of it are the place of sapphires and it hath dust of gold
there is a path which no fowl knoweth and which the vulture's eye hath not seen
the lion's whelps have not trodden it nor the fierce lion passed by it
he putteth forth his hand upon the rock he overturneth the mountains by the roots
he cutteth out rivers among the rocks and his eye seeth every precious thing
he bindeth the floods from overflowing and the thing that is hid bringeth he forth to light
but where shall wisdom be found and where is the place of understanding
man knoweth not the price thereof neither is it found in the land of the living
the depth saith it is not in me and the sea saith it is not with me
it cannot be gotten for gold neither shall silver be weighed for the price thereof
it cannot be valued with the gold of ophir with the precious onyx or the sapphire
the gold and the crystal cannot equal it and the exchange of it shall not be for jewels of fine gold
no mention shall be made of coral or of pearls for the price of wisdom is above rubies
the topaz of ethiopia shall not equal it neither shall it be valued with pure gold
whence then cometh wisdom and where is the place of understanding
seeing it is hid from the eyes of all living and kept close from the fowls of the air
destruction and death say we have heard the fame thereof with our ears
god understandeth the way thereof and he knoweth the place thereof
for he looketh to the ends of the earth and seeth under the whole heaven
to make the weight for the winds and he weigheth the waters by measure
when he made a decree for the rain and a way for the lightning of the thunder
then did he see it and declare it he prepared it yea and searched it out
and unto man he said behold the fear of the lord that is wisdom and to depart from evil is understanding
moreover job continued his parable and said
oh that i were as in months past as in the days when god preserved me
when his candle shined upon my head and when by his light i walked through darkness
as i was in the days of my youth when the secret of god was upon my tabernacle
when the almighty was yet with me when my children were about me
when i washed my steps with butter and the rock poured me out rivers of oil
when i went out to the gate through the city when i prepared my seat in the street
the young men saw me and hid themselves and the aged arose and stood up
the princes refrained talking and laid their hand on their mouth
the nobles held their peace and their tongue cleaved to the roof of their mouth
when the ear heard me then it blessed me and when the eye saw me it gave witness to me
because i delivered the poor that cried and the fatherless and him that had none to help him
the blessing of him that was ready to perish came upon me and i caused the widow's heart to sing for joy
i put on righteousness and it clothed me my judgment was as a robe and a diadem
i was eyes to the blind and feet was i to the lame
i was a father to the poor and the cause which i knew not i searched out
and i brake the jaws of the wicked and plucked the spoil out of his teeth
then i said i shall die in my nest and i shall multiply my days as the sand
my root was spread out by the waters and the dew lay all night upon my branch
my glory was fresh in me and my bow was renewed in my hand
unto me men gave ear and waited and kept silence at my counsel
after my words they spake not again and my speech dropped upon them
and they waited for me as for the rain and they opened their mouth wide as for the latter rain
if i laughed on them they believed it not and the light of my countenance they cast not down
i chose out their way and sat chief and dwelt as a king in the army as one that comforteth the mourners
but now they that are younger than i have me in derision whose fathers i would have disdained to have set with the dogs of my flock
yea whereto might the strength of their hands profit me in whom old age was perished
for want and famine they were solitary fleeing into the wilderness in former time desolate and waste
who cut up mallows by the bushes and juniper roots for their meat
they were driven forth from among men they cried after them as after a thief
to dwell in the cliffs of the valleys in caves of the earth and in the rocks
among the bushes they brayed under the nettles they were gathered together
they were children of fools yea children of base men they were viler than the earth
and now am i their song yea i am their byword
they abhor me they flee far from me and spare not to spit in my face
because he hath loosed my cord and afflicted me they have also let loose the bridle before me
upon my right hand rise the youth they push away my feet and they raise up against me the ways of their destruction
they mar my path they set forward my calamity they have no helper
they came upon me as a wide breaking in of waters in the desolation they rolled themselves upon me
terrors are turned upon me they pursue my soul as the wind and my welfare passeth away as a cloud
and now my soul is poured out upon me the days of affliction have taken hold upon me
my bones are pierced in me in the night season and my sinews take no rest
by the great force of my disease is my garment changed it bindeth me about as the collar of my coat
he hath cast me into the mire and i am become like dust and ashes
i cry unto thee and thou dost not hear me i stand up and thou regardest me not
thou art become cruel to me with thy strong hand thou opposest thyself against me
thou liftest me up to the wind thou causest me to ride upon it and dissolvest my substance
for i know that thou wilt bring me to death and to the house appointed for all living
howbeit he will not stretch out his hand to the grave though they cry in his destruction
did not i weep for him that was in trouble was not my soul grieved for the poor
when i looked for good then evil came unto me and when i waited for light there came darkness
my bowels boiled and rested not the days of affliction prevented me
i went mourning without the sun i stood up and i cried in the congregation
i am a brother to dragons and a companion to owls
my skin is black upon me and my bones are burned with heat
my harp also is turned to mourning and my organ into the voice of them that weep
i made a covenant with mine eyes why then should i think upon a maid
for what portion of god is there from above and what inheritance of the almighty from on high
is not destruction to the wicked and a strange punishment to the workers of iniquity
doth not he see my ways and count all my steps
if i have walked with vanity or if my foot hath hasted to deceit
let me be weighed in an even balance that god may know mine integrity
if my step hath turned out of the way and mine heart walked after mine eyes and if any blot hath cleaved to mine hands
then let me sow and let another eat yea let my offspring be rooted out
if mine heart have been deceived by a woman or if i have laid wait at my neighbour's door
then let my wife grind unto another and let others bow down upon her
for this is an heinous crime yea it is an iniquity to be punished by the judges
for it is a fire that consumeth to destruction and would root out all mine increase
if i did despise the cause of my manservant or of my maidservant when they contended with me
what then shall i do when god riseth up and when he visiteth what shall i answer him
did not he that made me in the womb make him and did not one fashion us in the womb
if i have withheld the poor from their desire or have caused the eyes of the widow to fail
or have eaten my morsel myself alone and the fatherless hath not eaten thereof
for from my youth he was brought up with me as with a father and i have guided her from my mother's womb
if i have seen any perish for want of clothing or any poor without covering
if his loins have not blessed me and if he were not warmed with the fleece of my sheep
if i have lifted up my hand against the fatherless when i saw my help in the gate
then let mine arm fall from my shoulder blade and mine arm be broken from the bone
for destruction from god was a terror to me and by reason of his highness i could not endure
if i have made gold my hope or have said to the fine gold thou art my confidence
if i rejoiced because my wealth was great and because mine hand had gotten much
if i beheld the sun when it shined or the moon walking in brightness
and my heart hath been secretly enticed or my mouth hath kissed my hand
this also were an iniquity to be punished by the judge for i should have denied the god that is above
if i rejoiced at the destruction of him that hated me or lifted up myself when evil found him
neither have i suffered my mouth to sin by wishing a curse to his soul
if the men of my tabernacle said not oh that we had of his flesh we cannot be satisfied
the stranger did not lodge in the street but i opened my doors to the traveller
if i covered my transgressions as adam by hiding mine iniquity in my bosom
did i fear a great multitude or did the contempt of families terrify me that i kept silence and went not out of the door
oh that one would hear me behold my desire is that the almighty would answer me and that mine adversary had written a book
surely i would take it upon my shoulder and bind it as a crown to me
i would declare unto him the number of my steps as a prince would i go near unto him
if my land cry against me or that the furrows likewise thereof complain
if i have eaten the fruits thereof without money or have caused the owners thereof to lose their life
let thistles grow instead of wheat and cockle instead of barley the words of job are ended
so these three men ceased to answer job because he was righteous in his own eyes
then was kindled the wrath of elihu the son of barachel the buzite of the kindred of ram against job was his wrath kindled because he justified himself rather than god
also against his three friends was his wrath kindled because they had found no answer and yet had condemned job
now elihu had waited till job had spoken because they were elder than he
when elihu saw that there was no answer in the mouth of these three men then his wrath was kindled
and elihu the son of barachel the buzite answered and said i am young and ye are very old wherefore i was afraid and durst not shew you mine opinion
i said days should speak and multitude of years should teach wisdom
but there is a spirit in man and the inspiration of the almighty giveth them understanding
great men are not always wise neither do the aged understand judgment
therefore i said hearken to me i also will shew mine opinion
behold i waited for your words i gave ear to your reasons whilst ye searched out what to say
yea i attended unto you and behold there was none of you that convinced job or that answered his words
lest ye should say we have found out wisdom god thrusteth him down not man
now he hath not directed his words against me neither will i answer him with your speeches
they were amazed they answered no more they left off speaking
when i had waited for they spake not but stood still and answered no more
i said i will answer also my part i also will shew mine opinion
for i am full of matter the spirit within me constraineth me
behold my belly is as wine which hath no vent it is ready to burst like new bottles
i will speak that i may be refreshed i will open my lips and answer
let me not i pray you accept any man's person neither let me give flattering titles unto man
for i know not to give flattering titles in so doing my maker would soon take me away
wherefore job i pray thee hear my speeches and hearken to all my words
behold now i have opened my mouth my tongue hath spoken in my mouth
my words shall be of the uprightness of my heart and my lips shall utter knowledge clearly
the spirit of god hath made me and the breath of the almighty hath given me life
if thou canst answer me set thy words in order before me stand up
behold i am according to thy wish in god's stead i also am formed out of the clay
behold my terror shall not make thee afraid neither shall my hand be heavy upon thee
surely thou hast spoken in mine hearing and i have heard the voice of thy words saying
i am clean without transgression i am innocent neither is there iniquity in me
behold he findeth occasions against me he counteth me for his enemy
he putteth my feet in the stocks he marketh all my paths
behold in this thou art not just i will answer thee that god is greater than man
why dost thou strive against him for he giveth not account of any of his matters
for god speaketh once yea twice yet man perceiveth it not
in a dream in a vision of the night when deep sleep falleth upon men in slumberings upon the bed
then he openeth the ears of men and sealeth their instruction
that he may withdraw man from his purpose and hide pride from man
he keepeth back his soul from the pit and his life from perishing by the sword
he is chastened also with pain upon his bed and the multitude of his bones with strong pain
so that his life abhorreth bread and his soul dainty meat
his flesh is consumed away that it cannot be seen and his bones that were not seen stick out
yea his soul draweth near unto the grave and his life to the destroyers
if there be a messenger with him an interpreter one among a thousand to shew unto man his uprightness
then he is gracious unto him and saith deliver him from going down to the pit i have found a ransom
his flesh shall be fresher than a child's he shall return to the days of his youth
he shall pray unto god and he will be favourable unto him and he shall see his face with joy for he will render unto man his righteousness
he looketh upon men and if any say i have sinned and perverted that which was right and it profited me not
he will deliver his soul from going into the pit and his life shall see the light
lo all these things worketh god oftentimes with man
to bring back his soul from the pit to be enlightened with the light of the living
mark well o job hearken unto me hold thy peace and i will speak
if thou hast anything to say answer me speak for i desire to justify thee
if not hearken unto me hold thy peace and i shall teach thee wisdom
furthermore elihu answered and said
hear my words o ye wise men and give ear unto me ye that have knowledge
for the ear trieth words as the mouth tasteth meat
let us choose to us judgment let us know among ourselves what is good
for job hath said i am righteous and god hath taken away my judgment
should i lie against my right my wound is incurable without transgression
what man is like job who drinketh up scorning like water
which goeth in company with the workers of iniquity and walketh with wicked men
for he hath said it profiteth a man nothing that he should delight himself with god
therefore hearken unto me ye men of understanding far be it from god that he should do wickedness and from the almighty that he should commit iniquity
for the work of a man shall he render unto him and cause every man to find according to his ways
yea surely god will not do wickedly neither will the almighty pervert judgment
who hath given him a charge over the earth or who hath disposed the whole world
if he set his heart upon man if he gather unto himself his spirit and his breath
all flesh shall perish together and man shall turn again unto dust
if now thou hast understanding hear this hearken to the voice of my words
shall even he that hateth right govern and wilt thou condemn him that is most just
is it fit to say to a king thou art wicked and to princes ye are ungodly
how much less to him that accepteth not the persons of princes nor regardeth the rich more than the poor for they all are the work of his hands
in a moment shall they die and the people shall be troubled at midnight and pass away and the mighty shall be taken away without hand
for his eyes are upon the ways of man and he seeth all his goings
there is no darkness nor shadow of death where the workers of iniquity may hide themselves
for he will not lay upon man more than right that he should enter into judgment with god
he shall break in pieces mighty men without number and set others in their stead
therefore he knoweth their works and he overturneth them in the night so that they are destroyed
he striketh them as wicked men in the open sight of others
because they turned back from him and would not consider any of his ways
so that they cause the cry of the poor to come unto him and he heareth the cry of the afflicted
when he giveth quietness who then can make trouble and when he hideth his face who then can behold him whether it be done against a nation or against a man only
that the hypocrite reign not lest the people be ensnared
surely it is meet to be said unto god i have borne chastisement i will not offend any more
that which i see not teach thou me if i have done iniquity i will do no more
should it be according to thy mind he will recompense it whether thou refuse or whether thou choose and not i therefore speak what thou knowest
let men of understanding tell me and let a wise man hearken unto me
job hath spoken without knowledge and his words were without wisdom
my desire is that job may be tried unto the end because of his answers for wicked men
for he addeth rebellion unto his sin he clappeth his hands among us and multiplieth his words against god
elihu spake moreover and said
thinkest thou this to be right that thou saidst my righteousness is more than god's
for thou saidst what advantage will it be unto thee and what profit shall i have if i be cleansed from my sin
i will answer thee and thy companions with thee
look unto the heavens and see and behold the clouds which are higher than thou
if thou sinnest what doest thou against him or if thy transgressions be multiplied what doest thou unto him
if thou be righteous what givest thou him or what receiveth he of thine hand
thy wickedness may hurt a man as thou art and thy righteousness may profit the son of man
by reason of the multitude of oppressions they make the oppressed to cry they cry out by reason of the arm of the mighty
but none saith where is god my maker who giveth songs in the night
who teacheth us more than the beasts of the earth and maketh us wiser than the fowls of heaven
there they cry but none giveth answer because of the pride of evil men
surely god will not hear vanity neither will the almighty regard it
although thou sayest thou shalt not see him yet judgment is before him therefore trust thou in him
but now because it is not so he hath visited in his anger yet he knoweth it not in great extremity
therefore doth job open his mouth in vain he multiplieth words without knowledge
elihu also proceeded and said
suffer me a little and i will shew thee that i have yet to speak on god's behalf
i will fetch my knowledge from afar and will ascribe righteousness to my maker
for truly my words shall not be false he that is perfect in knowledge is with thee
behold god is mighty and despiseth not any he is mighty in strength and wisdom
he preserveth not the life of the wicked but giveth right to the poor
he withdraweth not his eyes from the righteous but with kings are they on the throne yea he doth establish them for ever and they are exalted
and if they be bound in fetters and be holden in cords of affliction
then he sheweth them their work and their transgressions that they have exceeded
he openeth also their ear to discipline and commandeth that they return from iniquity
if they obey and serve him they shall spend their days in prosperity and their years in pleasures
but if they obey not they shall perish by the sword and they shall die without knowledge
but the hypocrites in heart heap up wrath they cry not when he bindeth them
they die in youth and their life is among the unclean
he delivereth the poor in his affliction and openeth their ears in oppression
even so would he have removed thee out of the strait into a broad place where there is no straitness and that which should be set on thy table should be full of fatness
but thou hast fulfilled the judgment of the wicked judgment and justice take hold on thee
because there is wrath beware lest he take thee away with his stroke then a great ransom cannot deliver thee
will he esteem thy riches no not gold nor all the forces of strength
desire not the night when people are cut off in their place
take heed regard not iniquity for this hast thou chosen rather than affliction
behold god exalteth by his power who teacheth like him
who hath enjoined him his way or who can say thou hast wrought iniquity
remember that thou magnify his work which men behold
every man may see it man may behold it afar off
behold god is great and we know him not neither can the number of his years be searched out
for he maketh small the drops of water they pour down rain according to the vapour thereof
which the clouds do drop and distil upon man abundantly
also can any understand the spreadings of the clouds or the noise of his tabernacle
behold he spreadeth his light upon it and covereth the bottom of the sea
for by them judgeth he the people he giveth meat in abundance
with clouds he covereth the light and commandeth it not to shine by the cloud that cometh betwixt
the noise thereof sheweth concerning it the cattle also concerning the vapour
at this also my heart trembleth and is moved out of his place
hear attentively the noise of his voice and the sound that goeth out of his mouth
he directeth it under the whole heaven and his lightning unto the ends of the earth
after it a voice roareth he thundereth with the voice of his excellency and he will not stay them when his voice is heard
god thundereth marvellously with his voice great things doeth he which we cannot comprehend
for he saith to the snow be thou on the earth likewise to the small rain and to the great rain of his strength
he sealeth up the hand of every man that all men may know his work
then the beasts go into dens and remain in their places
out of the south cometh the whirlwind and cold out of the north
by the breath of god frost is given and the breadth of the waters is straitened
also by watering he wearieth the thick cloud he scattereth his bright cloud
and it is turned round about by his counsels that they may do whatsoever he commandeth them upon the face of the world in the earth
he causeth it to come whether for correction or for his land or for mercy
hearken unto this o job stand still and consider the wondrous works of god
dost thou know when god disposed them and caused the light of his cloud to shine
dost thou know the balancings of the clouds the wondrous works of him which is perfect in knowledge
how thy garments are warm when he quieteth the earth by the south wind
hast thou with him spread out the sky which is strong and as a molten looking glass
teach us what we shall say unto him for we cannot order our speech by reason of darkness
shall it be told him that i speak if a man speak surely he shall be swallowed up
and now men see not the bright light which is in the clouds but the wind passeth and cleanseth them
fair weather cometh out of the north with god is terrible majesty
touching the almighty we cannot find him out he is excellent in power and in judgment and in plenty of justice he will not afflict
men do therefore fear him he respecteth not any that are wise of heart
then the lord answered job out of the whirlwind and said
who is this that darkeneth counsel by words without knowledge
gird up now thy loins like a man for i will demand of thee and answer thou me
where wast thou when i laid the foundations of the earth declare if thou hast understanding
who hath laid the measures thereof if thou knowest or who hath stretched the line upon it
whereupon are the foundations thereof fastened or who laid the corner stone thereof
when the morning stars sang together and all the sons of god shouted for joy
or who shut up the sea with doors when it brake forth as if it had issued out of the womb
when i made the cloud the garment thereof and thick darkness a swaddlingband for it
and brake up for it my decreed place and set bars and doors
and said hitherto shalt thou come but no further and here shall thy proud waves be stayed
hast thou commanded the morning since thy days and caused the dayspring to know his place
that it might take hold of the ends of the earth that the wicked might be shaken out of it
it is turned as clay to the seal and they stand as a garment
and from the wicked their light is withholden and the high arm shall be broken
hast thou entered into the springs of the sea or hast thou walked in the search of the depth
have the gates of death been opened unto thee or hast thou seen the doors of the shadow of death
hast thou perceived the breadth of the earth declare if thou knowest it all
where is the way where light dwelleth and as for darkness where is the place thereof
that thou shouldest take it to the bound thereof and that thou shouldest know the paths to the house thereof
knowest thou it because thou wast then born or because the number of thy days is great
hast thou entered into the treasures of the snow or hast thou seen the treasures of the hail
which i have reserved against the time of trouble against the day of battle and war
by what way is the light parted which scattereth the east wind upon the earth
who hath divided a watercourse for the overflowing of waters or a way for the lightning of thunder
to cause it to rain on the earth where no man is on the wilderness wherein there is no man
to satisfy the desolate and waste ground and to cause the bud of the tender herb to spring forth
hath the rain a father or who hath begotten the drops of dew
out of whose womb came the ice and the hoary frost of heaven who hath gendered it
the waters are hid as with a stone and the face of the deep is frozen
canst thou bind the sweet influences of pleiades or loose the bands of orion
canst thou bring forth mazzaroth in his season or canst thou guide arcturus with his sons
knowest thou the ordinances of heaven canst thou set the dominion thereof in the earth
canst thou lift up thy voice to the clouds that abundance of waters may cover thee
canst thou send lightnings that they may go and say unto thee here we are
who hath put wisdom in the inward parts or who hath given understanding to the heart
who can number the clouds in wisdom or who can stay the bottles of heaven
when the dust groweth into hardness and the clods cleave fast together
wilt thou hunt the prey for the lion or fill the appetite of the young lions
when they couch in their dens and abide in the covert to lie in wait
who provideth for the raven his food when his young ones cry unto god they wander for lack of meat
knowest thou the time when the wild goats of the rock bring forth or canst thou mark when the hinds do calve
canst thou number the months that they fulfil or knowest thou the time when they bring forth
they bow themselves they bring forth their young ones they cast out their sorrows
their young ones are in good liking they grow up with corn they go forth and return not unto them
who hath sent out the wild ass free or who hath loosed the bands of the wild ass
whose house i have made the wilderness and the barren land his dwellings
he scorneth the multitude of the city neither regardeth he the crying of the driver
the range of the mountains is his pasture and he searcheth after every green thing
will the unicorn be willing to serve thee or abide by thy crib
canst thou bind the unicorn with his band in the furrow or will he harrow the valleys after thee
wilt thou trust him because his strength is great or wilt thou leave thy labour to him
wilt thou believe him that he will bring home thy seed and gather it into thy barn
gavest thou the goodly wings unto the peacocks or wings and feathers unto the ostrich
which leaveth her eggs in the earth and warmeth them in dust
and forgetteth that the foot may crush them or that the wild beast may break them
she is hardened against her young ones as though they were not hers her labour is in vain without fear
because god hath deprived her of wisdom neither hath he imparted to her understanding
what time she lifteth up herself on high she scorneth the horse and his rider
hast thou given the horse strength hast thou clothed his neck with thunder
canst thou make him afraid as a grasshopper the glory of his nostrils is terrible
he paweth in the valley and rejoiceth in his strength he goeth on to meet the armed men
he mocketh at fear and is not affrighted neither turneth he back from the sword
the quiver rattleth against him the glittering spear and the shield
he swalloweth the ground with fierceness and rage neither believeth he that it is the sound of the trumpet
he saith among the trumpets ha ha and he smelleth the battle afar off the thunder of the captains and the shouting
doth the hawk fly by thy wisdom and stretch her wings toward the south
doth the eagle mount up at thy command and make her nest on high
she dwelleth and abideth on the rock upon the crag of the rock and the strong place
from thence she seeketh the prey and her eyes behold afar off
her young ones also suck up blood and where the slain are there is she
moreover the lord answered job and said
shall he that contendeth with the almighty instruct him he that reproveth god let him answer it
then job answered the lord and said
behold i am vile what shall i answer thee i will lay mine hand upon my mouth
once have i spoken but i will not answer yea twice but i will proceed no further
then answered the lord unto job out of the whirlwind and said
gird up thy loins now like a man i will demand of thee and declare thou unto me
wilt thou also disannul my judgment wilt thou condemn me that thou mayest be righteous
hast thou an arm like god or canst thou thunder with a voice like him
deck thyself now with majesty and excellency and array thyself with glory and beauty
cast abroad the rage of thy wrath and behold every one that is proud and abase him
look on every one that is proud and bring him low and tread down the wicked in their place
hide them in the dust together and bind their faces in secret
then will i also confess unto thee that thine own right hand can save thee
behold now behemoth which i made with thee he eateth grass as an ox
lo now his strength is in his loins and his force is in the navel of his belly
he moveth his tail like a cedar the sinews of his stones are wrapped together
his bones are as strong pieces of brass his bones are like bars of iron
he is the chief of the ways of god he that made him can make his sword to approach unto him
surely the mountains bring him forth food where all the beasts of the field play
he lieth under the shady trees in the covert of the reed and fens
the shady trees cover him with their shadow the willows of the brook compass him about
behold he drinketh up a river and hasteth not he trusteth that he can draw up jordan into his mouth
he taketh it with his eyes his nose pierceth through snares
canst thou draw out leviathan with an hook or his tongue with a cord which thou lettest down
canst thou put an hook into his nose or bore his jaw through with a thorn
will he make many supplications unto thee will he speak soft words unto thee
will he make a covenant with thee wilt thou take him for a servant for ever
wilt thou play with him as with a bird or wilt thou bind him for thy maidens
shall the companions make a banquet of him shall they part him among the merchants
canst thou fill his skin with barbed irons or his head with fish spears
lay thine hand upon him remember the battle do no more
behold the hope of him is in vain shall not one be cast down even at the sight of him
none is so fierce that dare stir him up who then is able to stand before me
who hath prevented me that i should repay him whatsoever is under the whole heaven is mine
i will not conceal his parts nor his power nor his comely proportion
who can discover the face of his garment or who can come to him with his double bridle
who can open the doors of his face his teeth are terrible round about
his scales are his pride shut up together as with a close seal
one is so near to another that no air can come between them
they are joined one to another they stick together that they cannot be sundered
by his neesings a light doth shine and his eyes are like the eyelids of the morning
out of his mouth go burning lamps and sparks of fire leap out
out of his nostrils goeth smoke as out of a seething pot or caldron
his breath kindleth coals and a flame goeth out of his mouth
in his neck remaineth strength and sorrow is turned into joy before him
the flakes of his flesh are joined together they are firm in themselves they cannot be moved
his heart is as firm as a stone yea as hard as a piece of the nether millstone
when he raiseth up himself the mighty are afraid by reason of breakings they purify themselves
the sword of him that layeth at him cannot hold the spear the dart nor the habergeon
he esteemeth iron as straw and brass as rotten wood
the arrow cannot make him flee slingstones are turned with him into stubble
darts are counted as stubble he laugheth at the shaking of a spear
sharp stones are under him he spreadeth sharp pointed things upon the mire
he maketh the deep to boil like a pot he maketh the sea like a pot of ointment
he maketh a path to shine after him one would think the deep to be hoary
upon earth there is not his like who is made without fear
he beholdeth all high things he is a king over all the children of pride
then job answered the lord and said
i know that thou canst do every thing and that no thought can be withholden from thee
who is he that hideth counsel without knowledge therefore have i uttered that i understood not things too wonderful for me which i knew not
hear i beseech thee and i will speak i will demand of thee and declare thou unto me
i have heard of thee by the hearing of the ear but now mine eye seeth thee
wherefore i abhor myself and repent in dust and ashes
and it was so that after the lord had spoken these words unto job the lord said to eliphaz the temanite my wrath is kindled against thee and against thy two friends for ye have not spoken of me the thing that is right as my servant job hath
therefore take unto you now seven bullocks and seven rams and go to my servant job and offer up for yourselves a burnt offering and my servant job shall pray for you for him will i accept lest i deal with you after your folly in that ye have not spoken of me the thing which is right like my servant job
so eliphaz the temanite and bildad the shuhite and zophar the naamathite went and did according as the lord commanded them the lord also accepted job
and the lord turned the captivity of job when he prayed for his friends also the lord gave job twice as much as he had before
then came there unto him all his brethren and all his sisters and all they that had been of his acquaintance before and did eat bread with him in his house and they bemoaned him and comforted him over all the evil that the lord had brought upon him every man also gave him a piece of money and every one an earring of gold
so the lord blessed the latter end of job more than his beginning for he had fourteen thousand sheep and six thousand camels and a thousand yoke of oxen and a thousand she asses
he had also seven sons and three daughters
and he called the name of the first jemima and the name of the second kezia and the name of the third kerenhappuch
and in all the land were no women found so fair as the daughters of job and their father gave them inheritance among their brethren
after this lived job an hundred and forty years and saw his sons and his sons sons even four generations
so job died being old and full of days
blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly nor standeth in the way of sinners nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful
but his delight is in the law of the lord and in his law doth he meditate day and night
and he shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water that bringeth forth his fruit in his season his leaf also shall not wither and whatsoever he doeth shall prosper
the ungodly are not so but are like the chaff which the wind driveth away
therefore the ungodly shall not stand in the judgment nor sinners in the congregation of the righteous
for the lord knoweth the way of the righteous but the way of the ungodly shall perish
why do the heathen rage and the people imagine a vain thing
the kings of the earth set themselves and the rulers take counsel together against the lord and against his anointed saying
let us break their bands asunder and cast away their cords from us
he that sitteth in the heavens shall laugh the lord shall have them in derision
then shall he speak unto them in his wrath and vex them in his sore displeasure
yet have i set my king upon my holy hill of zion
i will declare the decree the lord hath said unto me thou art my son this day have i begotten thee
ask of me and i shall give thee the heathen for thine inheritance and the uttermost parts of the earth for thy possession
thou shalt break them with a rod of iron thou shalt dash them in pieces like a potter's vessel
be wise now therefore o ye kings be instructed ye judges of the earth
serve the lord with fear and rejoice with trembling
kiss the son lest he be angry and ye perish from the way when his wrath is kindled but a little blessed are all they that put their trust in him
lord how are they increased that trouble me many are they that rise up against me
many there be which say of my soul there is no help for him in god selah
but thou o lord art a shield for me my glory and the lifter up of mine head
i cried unto the lord with my voice and he heard me out of his holy hill selah
i laid me down and slept i awaked for the lord sustained me
i will not be afraid of ten thousands of people that have set themselves against me round about
arise o lord save me o my god for thou hast smitten all mine enemies upon the cheek bone thou hast broken the teeth of the ungodly
salvation belongeth unto the lord thy blessing is upon thy people selah
hear me when i call o god of my righteousness thou hast enlarged me when i was in distress have mercy upon me and hear my prayer
o ye sons of men how long will ye turn my glory into shame how long will ye love vanity and seek after leasing selah
but know that the lord hath set apart him that is godly for himself the lord will hear when i call unto him
stand in awe and sin not commune with your own heart upon your bed and be still selah
offer the sacrifices of righteousness and put your trust in the lord
there be many that say who will shew us any good lord lift thou up the light of thy countenance upon us
thou hast put gladness in my heart more than in the time that their corn and their wine increased
i will both lay me down in peace and sleep for thou lord only makest me dwell in safety
give ear to my words o lord consider my meditation
hearken unto the voice of my cry my king and my god for unto thee will i pray
my voice shalt thou hear in the morning o lord in the morning will i direct my prayer unto thee and will look up
for thou art not a god that hath pleasure in wickedness neither shall evil dwell with thee
the foolish shall not stand in thy sight thou hatest all workers of iniquity
thou shalt destroy them that speak leasing the lord will abhor the bloody and deceitful man
but as for me i will come into thy house in the multitude of thy mercy and in thy fear will i worship toward thy holy temple
lead me o lord in thy righteousness because of mine enemies make thy way straight before my face
for there is no faithfulness in their mouth their inward part is very wickedness their throat is an open sepulchre they flatter with their tongue
destroy thou them o god let them fall by their own counsels cast them out in the multitude of their transgressions for they have rebelled against thee
but let all those that put their trust in thee rejoice let them ever shout for joy because thou defendest them let them also that love thy name be joyful in thee
for thou lord wilt bless the righteous with favour wilt thou compass him as with a shield
o lord rebuke me not in thine anger neither chasten me in thy hot displeasure
have mercy upon me o lord for i am weak o lord heal me for my bones are vexed
my soul is also sore vexed but thou o lord how long
return o lord deliver my soul oh save me for thy mercies sake
for in death there is no remembrance of thee in the grave who shall give thee thanks
i am weary with my groaning all the night make i my bed to swim i water my couch with my tears
mine eye is consumed because of grief it waxeth old because of all mine enemies
depart from me all ye workers of iniquity for the lord hath heard the voice of my weeping
the lord hath heard my supplication the lord will receive my prayer
let all mine enemies be ashamed and sore vexed let them return and be ashamed suddenly
o lord my god in thee do i put my trust save me from all them that persecute me and deliver me
lest he tear my soul like a lion rending it in pieces while there is none to deliver
o lord my god if i have done this if there be iniquity in my hands
if i have rewarded evil unto him that was at peace with me yea i have delivered him that without cause is mine enemy
let the enemy persecute my soul and take it yea let him tread down my life upon the earth and lay mine honour in the dust selah
arise o lord in thine anger lift up thyself because of the rage of mine enemies and awake for me to the judgment that thou hast commanded
so shall the congregation of the people compass thee about for their sakes therefore return thou on high
the lord shall judge the people judge me o lord according to my righteousness and according to mine integrity that is in me
oh let the wickedness of the wicked come to an end but establish the just for the righteous god trieth the hearts and reins
my defence is of god which saveth the upright in heart
god judgeth the righteous and god is angry with the wicked every day
if he turn not he will whet his sword he hath bent his bow and made it ready
he hath also prepared for him the instruments of death he ordaineth his arrows against the persecutors
behold he travaileth with iniquity and hath conceived mischief and brought forth falsehood
he made a pit and digged it and is fallen into the ditch which he made
his mischief shall return upon his own head and his violent dealing shall come down upon his own pate
i will praise the lord according to his righteousness and will sing praise to the name of the lord most high
o lord our lord how excellent is thy name in all the earth who hast set thy glory above the heavens
out of the mouth of babes and sucklings hast thou ordained strength because of thine enemies that thou mightest still the enemy and the avenger
when i consider thy heavens the work of thy fingers the moon and the stars which thou hast ordained
what is man that thou art mindful of him and the son of man that thou visitest him
for thou hast made him a little lower than the angels and hast crowned him with glory and honour
thou madest him to have dominion over the works of thy hands thou hast put all things under his feet
all sheep and oxen yea and the beasts of the field
the fowl of the air and the fish of the sea and whatsoever passeth through the paths of the seas
o lord our lord how excellent is thy name in all the earth
i will praise thee o lord with my whole heart i will shew forth all thy marvellous works
i will be glad and rejoice in thee i will sing praise to thy name o thou most high
when mine enemies are turned back they shall fall and perish at thy presence
for thou hast maintained my right and my cause thou satest in the throne judging right
thou hast rebuked the heathen thou hast destroyed the wicked thou hast put out their name for ever and ever
o thou enemy destructions are come to a perpetual end and thou hast destroyed cities their memorial is perished with them
but the lord shall endure for ever he hath prepared his throne for judgment
and he shall judge the world in righteousness he shall minister judgment to the people in uprightness
the lord also will be a refuge for the oppressed a refuge in times of trouble
and they that know thy name will put their trust in thee for thou lord hast not forsaken them that seek thee
sing praises to the lord which dwelleth in zion declare among the people his doings
when he maketh inquisition for blood he remembereth them he forgetteth not the cry of the humble
have mercy upon me o lord consider my trouble which i suffer of them that hate me thou that liftest me up from the gates of death
that i may shew forth all thy praise in the gates of the daughter of zion i will rejoice in thy salvation
the heathen are sunk down in the pit that they made in the net which they hid is their own foot taken
the lord is known by the judgment which he executeth the wicked is snared in the work of his own hands higgaion selah
the wicked shall be turned into hell and all the nations that forget god
for the needy shall not alway be forgotten the expectation of the poor shall not perish for ever
arise o lord let not man prevail let the heathen be judged in thy sight
put them in fear o lord that the nations may know themselves to be but men selah
why standest thou afar off o lord why hidest thou thyself in times of trouble
the wicked in his pride doth persecute the poor let them be taken in the devices that they have imagined
for the wicked boasteth of his heart's desire and blesseth the covetous whom the lord abhorreth
the wicked through the pride of his countenance will not seek after god god is not in all his thoughts
his ways are always grievous thy judgments are far above out of his sight as for all his enemies he puffeth at them
he hath said in his heart i shall not be moved for i shall never be in adversity
his mouth is full of cursing and deceit and fraud under his tongue is mischief and vanity
he sitteth in the lurking places of the villages in the secret places doth he murder the innocent his eyes are privily set against the poor
he lieth in wait secretly as a lion in his den he lieth in wait to catch the poor he doth catch the poor when he draweth him into his net
he croucheth and humbleth himself that the poor may fall by his strong ones
he hath said in his heart god hath forgotten he hideth his face he will never see it
arise o lord o god lift up thine hand forget not the humble
wherefore doth the wicked contemn god he hath said in his heart thou wilt not require it
thou hast seen it for thou beholdest mischief and spite to requite it with thy hand the poor committeth himself unto thee thou art the helper of the fatherless
break thou the arm of the wicked and the evil man seek out his wickedness till thou find none
the lord is king for ever and ever the heathen are perished out of his land
lord thou hast heard the desire of the humble thou wilt prepare their heart thou wilt cause thine ear to hear
to judge the fatherless and the oppressed that the man of the earth may no more oppress
in the lord put i my trust how say ye to my soul flee as a bird to your mountain
for lo the wicked bend their bow they make ready their arrow upon the string that they may privily shoot at the upright in heart
if the foundations be destroyed what can the righteous do
the lord is in his holy temple the lord's throne is in heaven his eyes behold his eyelids try the children of men
the lord trieth the righteous but the wicked and him that loveth violence his soul hateth
upon the wicked he shall rain snares fire and brimstone and an horrible tempest this shall be the portion of their cup
for the righteous lord loveth righteousness his countenance doth behold the upright
help lord for the godly man ceaseth for the faithful fail from among the children of men
they speak vanity every one with his neighbour with flattering lips and with a double heart do they speak
the lord shall cut off all flattering lips and the tongue that speaketh proud things
who have said with our tongue will we prevail our lips are our own who is lord over us
for the oppression of the poor for the sighing of the needy now will i arise saith the lord i will set him in safety from him that puffeth at him
the words of the lord are pure words as silver tried in a furnace of earth purified seven times
thou shalt keep them o lord thou shalt preserve them from this generation for ever
the wicked walk on every side when the vilest men are exalted
how long wilt thou forget me o lord for ever how long wilt thou hide thy face from me
how long shall i take counsel in my soul having sorrow in my heart daily how long shall mine enemy be exalted over me
consider and hear me o lord my god lighten mine eyes lest i sleep the sleep of death
lest mine enemy say i have prevailed against him and those that trouble me rejoice when i am moved
but i have trusted in thy mercy my heart shall rejoice in thy salvation
i will sing unto the lord because he hath dealt bountifully with me
the fool hath said in his heart there is no god they are corrupt they have done abominable works there is none that doeth good
the lord looked down from heaven upon the children of men to see if there were any that did understand and seek god
they are all gone aside they are all together become filthy there is none that doeth good no not one
have all the workers of iniquity no knowledge who eat up my people as they eat bread and call not upon the lord
there were they in great fear for god is in the generation of the righteous
ye have shamed the counsel of the poor because the lord is his refuge
oh that the salvation of israel were come out of zion when the lord bringeth back the captivity of his people jacob shall rejoice and israel shall be glad
lord who shall abide in thy tabernacle who shall dwell in thy holy hill
he that walketh uprightly and worketh righteousness and speaketh the truth in his heart
he that backbiteth not with his tongue nor doeth evil to his neighbour nor taketh up a reproach against his neighbour
in whose eyes a vile person is contemned but he honoureth them that fear the lord he that sweareth to his own hurt and changeth not
he that putteth not out his money to usury nor taketh reward against the innocent he that doeth these things shall never be moved
preserve me o god for in thee do i put my trust
o my soul thou hast said unto the lord thou art my lord my goodness extendeth not to thee
but to the saints that are in the earth and to the excellent in whom is all my delight
their sorrows shall be multiplied that hasten after another god their drink offerings of blood will i not offer nor take up their names into my lips
the lord is the portion of mine inheritance and of my cup thou maintainest my lot
the lines are fallen unto me in pleasant places yea i have a goodly heritage
i will bless the lord who hath given me counsel my reins also instruct me in the night seasons
i have set the lord always before me because he is at my right hand i shall not be moved
therefore my heart is glad and my glory rejoiceth my flesh also shall rest in hope
for thou wilt not leave my soul in hell neither wilt thou suffer thine holy one to see corruption
thou wilt shew me the path of life in thy presence is fulness of joy at thy right hand there are pleasures for evermore
hear the right o lord attend unto my cry give ear unto my prayer that goeth not out of feigned lips
let my sentence come forth from thy presence let thine eyes behold the things that are equal
thou hast proved mine heart thou hast visited me in the night thou hast tried me and shalt find nothing i am purposed that my mouth shall not transgress
concerning the works of men by the word of thy lips i have kept me from the paths of the destroyer
hold up my goings in thy paths that my footsteps slip not
i have called upon thee for thou wilt hear me o god incline thine ear unto me and hear my speech
shew thy marvellous lovingkindness o thou that savest by thy right hand them which put their trust in thee from those that rise up against them
keep me as the apple of the eye hide me under the shadow of thy wings
from the wicked that oppress me from my deadly enemies who compass me about
they are inclosed in their own fat with their mouth they speak proudly
they have now compassed us in our steps they have set their eyes bowing down to the earth
like as a lion that is greedy of his prey and as it were a young lion lurking in secret places
arise o lord disappoint him cast him down deliver my soul from the wicked which is thy sword
from men which are thy hand o lord from men of the world which have their portion in this life and whose belly thou fillest with thy hid treasure they are full of children and leave the rest of their substance to their babes
as for me i will behold thy face in righteousness i shall be satisfied when i awake with thy likeness
i will love thee o lord my strength
the lord is my rock and my fortress and my deliverer my god my strength in whom i will trust my buckler and the horn of my salvation and my high tower
i will call upon the lord who is worthy to be praised so shall i be saved from mine enemies
the sorrows of death compassed me and the floods of ungodly men made me afraid
the sorrows of hell compassed me about the snares of death prevented me
in my distress i called upon the lord and cried unto my god he heard my voice out of his temple and my cry came before him even into his ears
then the earth shook and trembled the foundations also of the hills moved and were shaken because he was wroth
there went up a smoke out of his nostrils and fire out of his mouth devoured coals were kindled by it
he bowed the heavens also and came down and darkness was under his feet
and he rode upon a cherub and did fly yea he did fly upon the wings of the wind
he made darkness his secret place his pavilion round about him were dark waters and thick clouds of the skies
at the brightness that was before him his thick clouds passed hail stones and coals of fire
the lord also thundered in the heavens and the highest gave his voice hail stones and coals of fire
yea he sent out his arrows and scattered them and he shot out lightnings and discomfited them
then the channels of waters were seen and the foundations of the world were discovered at thy rebuke o lord at the blast of the breath of thy nostrils
he sent from above he took me he drew me out of many waters
he delivered me from my strong enemy and from them which hated me for they were too strong for me
they prevented me in the day of my calamity but the lord was my stay
he brought me forth also into a large place he delivered me because he delighted in me
the lord rewarded me according to my righteousness according to the cleanness of my hands hath he recompensed me
for i have kept the ways of the lord and have not wickedly departed from my god
for all his judgments were before me and i did not put away his statutes from me
i was also upright before him and i kept myself from mine iniquity
therefore hath the lord recompensed me according to my righteousness according to the cleanness of my hands in his eyesight
with the merciful thou wilt shew thyself merciful with an upright man thou wilt shew thyself upright
with the pure thou wilt shew thyself pure and with the froward thou wilt shew thyself froward
for thou wilt save the afflicted people but wilt bring down high looks
for thou wilt light my candle the lord my god will enlighten my darkness
for by thee i have run through a troop and by my god have i leaped over a wall
as for god his way is perfect the word of the lord is tried he is a buckler to all those that trust in him
for who is god save the lord or who is a rock save our god
it is god that girdeth me with strength and maketh my way perfect
he maketh my feet like hinds feet and setteth me upon my high places
he teacheth my hands to war so that a bow of steel is broken by mine arms
thou hast also given me the shield of thy salvation and thy right hand hath holden me up and thy gentleness hath made me great
thou hast enlarged my steps under me that my feet did not slip
i have pursued mine enemies and overtaken them neither did i turn again till they were consumed
i have wounded them that they were not able to rise they are fallen under my feet
for thou hast girded me with strength unto the battle thou hast subdued under me those that rose up against me
thou hast also given me the necks of mine enemies that i might destroy them that hate me
they cried but there was none to save them even unto the lord but he answered them not
then did i beat them small as the dust before the wind i did cast them out as the dirt in the streets
thou hast delivered me from the strivings of the people and thou hast made me the head of the heathen a people whom i have not known shall serve me
as soon as they hear of me they shall obey me the strangers shall submit themselves unto me
the strangers shall fade away and be afraid out of their close places
the lord liveth and blessed be my rock and let the god of my salvation be exalted
it is god that avengeth me and subdueth the people under me
he delivereth me from mine enemies yea thou liftest me up above those that rise up against me thou hast delivered me from the violent man
therefore will i give thanks unto thee o lord among the heathen and sing praises unto thy name
great deliverance giveth he to his king and sheweth mercy to his anointed to david and to his seed for evermore
the heavens declare the glory of god and the firmament sheweth his handywork
day unto day uttereth speech and night unto night sheweth knowledge
there is no speech nor language where their voice is not heard
their line is gone out through all the earth and their words to the end of the world in them hath he set a tabernacle for the sun
which is as a bridegroom coming out of his chamber and rejoiceth as a strong man to run a race
his going forth is from the end of the heaven and his circuit unto the ends of it and there is nothing hid from the heat thereof
the law of the lord is perfect converting the soul the testimony of the lord is sure making wise the simple
the statutes of the lord are right rejoicing the heart the commandment of the lord is pure enlightening the eyes
the fear of the lord is clean enduring for ever the judgments of the lord are true and righteous altogether
more to be desired are they than gold yea than much fine gold sweeter also than honey and the honeycomb
moreover by them is thy servant warned and in keeping of them there is great reward
who can understand his errors cleanse thou me from secret faults
keep back thy servant also from presumptuous sins let them not have dominion over me then shall i be upright and i shall be innocent from the great transgression
let the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be acceptable in thy sight o lord my strength and my redeemer
the lord hear thee in the day of trouble the name of the god of jacob defend thee
send thee help from the sanctuary and strengthen thee out of zion
remember all thy offerings and accept thy burnt sacrifice selah
grant thee according to thine own heart and fulfil all thy counsel
we will rejoice in thy salvation and in the name of our god we will set up our banners the lord fulfil all thy petitions
now know i that the lord saveth his anointed he will hear him from his holy heaven with the saving strength of his right hand
some trust in chariots and some in horses but we will remember the name of the lord our god
they are brought down and fallen but we are risen and stand upright
save lord let the king hear us when we call
the king shall joy in thy strength o lord and in thy salvation how greatly shall he rejoice
thou hast given him his heart's desire and hast not withholden the request of his lips selah
for thou preventest him with the blessings of goodness thou settest a crown of pure gold on his head
he asked life of thee and thou gavest it him even length of days for ever and ever
his glory is great in thy salvation honour and majesty hast thou laid upon him
for thou hast made him most blessed for ever thou hast made him exceeding glad with thy countenance
for the king trusteth in the lord and through the mercy of the most high he shall not be moved
thine hand shall find out all thine enemies thy right hand shall find out those that hate thee
thou shalt make them as a fiery oven in the time of thine anger the lord shall swallow them up in his wrath and the fire shall devour them
their fruit shalt thou destroy from the earth and their seed from among the children of men
for they intended evil against thee they imagined a mischievous device which they are not able to perform
therefore shalt thou make them turn their back when thou shalt make ready thine arrows upon thy strings against the face of them
be thou exalted lord in thine own strength so will we sing and praise thy power
my god my god why hast thou forsaken me why art thou so far from helping me and from the words of my roaring
o my god i cry in the day time but thou hearest not and in the night season and am not silent
but thou art holy o thou that inhabitest the praises of israel
our fathers trusted in thee they trusted and thou didst deliver them
they cried unto thee and were delivered they trusted in thee and were not confounded
but i am a worm and no man a reproach of men and despised of the people
all they that see me laugh me to scorn they shoot out the lip they shake the head saying
he trusted on the lord that he would deliver him let him deliver him seeing he delighted in him
but thou art he that took me out of the womb thou didst make me hope when i was upon my mother's breasts
i was cast upon thee from the womb thou art my god from my mother's belly
be not far from me for trouble is near for there is none to help
many bulls have compassed me strong bulls of bashan have beset me round
they gaped upon me with their mouths as a ravening and a roaring lion
i am poured out like water and all my bones are out of joint my heart is like wax it is melted in the midst of my bowels
my strength is dried up like a potsherd and my tongue cleaveth to my jaws and thou hast brought me into the dust of death
for dogs have compassed me the assembly of the wicked have inclosed me they pierced my hands and my feet
i may tell all my bones they look and stare upon me
they part my garments among them and cast lots upon my vesture
but be not thou far from me o lord o my strength haste thee to help me
deliver my soul from the sword my darling from the power of the dog
save me from the lion's mouth for thou hast heard me from the horns of the unicorns
i will declare thy name unto my brethren in the midst of the congregation will i praise thee
ye that fear the lord praise him all ye the seed of jacob glorify him and fear him all ye the seed of israel
for he hath not despised nor abhorred the affliction of the afflicted neither hath he hid his face from him but when he cried unto him he heard
my praise shall be of thee in the great congregation i will pay my vows before them that fear him
the meek shall eat and be satisfied they shall praise the lord that seek him your heart shall live for ever
all the ends of the world shall remember and turn unto the lord and all the kindreds of the nations shall worship before thee
for the kingdom is the lord's and he is the governor among the nations
all they that be fat upon earth shall eat and worship all they that go down to the dust shall bow before him and none can keep alive his own soul
a seed shall serve him it shall be accounted to the lord for a generation
they shall come and shall declare his righteousness unto a people that shall be born that he hath done this
the lord is my shepherd i shall not want
he maketh me to lie down in green pastures he leadeth me beside the still waters
he restoreth my soul he leadeth me in the paths of righteousness for his name's sake
yea though i walk through the valley of the shadow of death i will fear no evil for thou art with me thy rod and thy staff they comfort me
thou preparest a table before me in the presence of mine enemies thou anointest my head with oil my cup runneth over
surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life and i will dwell in the house of the lord for ever
the earth is the lord's and the fulness thereof the world and they that dwell therein
for he hath founded it upon the seas and established it upon the floods
who shall ascend into the hill of the lord or who shall stand in his holy place
he that hath clean hands and a pure heart who hath not lifted up his soul unto vanity nor sworn deceitfully
he shall receive the blessing from the lord and righteousness from the god of his salvation
this is the generation of them that seek him that seek thy face o jacob selah
lift up your heads o ye gates and be ye lift up ye everlasting doors and the king of glory shall come in
who is this king of glory the lord strong and mighty the lord mighty in battle
lift up your heads o ye gates even lift them up ye everlasting doors and the king of glory shall come in
who is this king of glory the lord of hosts he is the king of glory selah
unto thee o lord do i lift up my soul
o my god i trust in thee let me not be ashamed let not mine enemies triumph over me
yea let none that wait on thee be ashamed let them be ashamed which transgress without cause
shew me thy ways o lord teach me thy paths
lead me in thy truth and teach me for thou art the god of my salvation on thee do i wait all the day
remember o lord thy tender mercies and thy lovingkindnesses for they have been ever of old
remember not the sins of my youth nor my transgressions according to thy mercy remember thou me for thy goodness sake o lord
good and upright is the lord therefore will he teach sinners in the way
the meek will he guide in judgment and the meek will he teach his way
all the paths of the lord are mercy and truth unto such as keep his covenant and his testimonies
for thy name's sake o lord pardon mine iniquity for it is great
what man is he that feareth the lord him shall he teach in the way that he shall choose
his soul shall dwell at ease and his seed shall inherit the earth
the secret of the lord is with them that fear him and he will shew them his covenant
mine eyes are ever toward the lord for he shall pluck my feet out of the net
turn thee unto me and have mercy upon me for i am desolate and afflicted
the troubles of my heart are enlarged o bring thou me out of my distresses
look upon mine affliction and my pain and forgive all my sins
consider mine enemies for they are many and they hate me with cruel hatred
o keep my soul and deliver me let me not be ashamed for i put my trust in thee
let integrity and uprightness preserve me for i wait on thee
redeem israel o god out of all his troubles
judge me o lord for i have walked in mine integrity i have trusted also in the lord therefore i shall not slide
examine me o lord and prove me try my reins and my heart
for thy lovingkindness is before mine eyes and i have walked in thy truth
i have not sat with vain persons neither will i go in with dissemblers
i have hated the congregation of evil doers and will not sit with the wicked
i will wash mine hands in innocency so will i compass thine altar o lord
that i may publish with the voice of thanksgiving and tell of all thy wondrous works
lord i have loved the habitation of thy house and the place where thine honour dwelleth
gather not my soul with sinners nor my life with bloody men
in whose hands is mischief and their right hand is full of bribes
but as for me i will walk in mine integrity redeem me and be merciful unto me
my foot standeth in an even place in the congregations will i bless the lord
the lord is my light and my salvation whom shall i fear the lord is the strength of my life of whom shall i be afraid
when the wicked even mine enemies and my foes came upon me to eat up my flesh they stumbled and fell
though an host should encamp against me my heart shall not fear though war should rise against me in this will i be confident
one thing have i desired of the lord that will i seek after that i may dwell in the house of the lord all the days of my life to behold the beauty of the lord and to enquire in his temple
for in the time of trouble he shall hide me in his pavilion in the secret of his tabernacle shall he hide me he shall set me up upon a rock
and now shall mine head be lifted up above mine enemies round about me therefore will i offer in his tabernacle sacrifices of joy i will sing yea i will sing praises unto the lord
hear o lord when i cry with my voice have mercy also upon me and answer me
when thou saidst seek ye my face my heart said unto thee thy face lord will i seek
hide not thy face far from me put not thy servant away in anger thou hast been my help leave me not neither forsake me o god of my salvation
when my father and my mother forsake me then the lord will take me up
teach me thy way o lord and lead me in a plain path because of mine enemies
deliver me not over unto the will of mine enemies for false witnesses are risen up against me and such as breathe out cruelty
i had fainted unless i had believed to see the goodness of the lord in the land of the living
wait on the lord be of good courage and he shall strengthen thine heart wait i say on the lord
unto thee will i cry o lord my rock be not silent to me lest if thou be silent to me i become like them that go down into the pit
hear the voice of my supplications when i cry unto thee when i lift up my hands toward thy holy oracle
draw me not away with the wicked and with the workers of iniquity which speak peace to their neighbours but mischief is in their hearts
give them according to their deeds and according to the wickedness of their endeavours give them after the work of their hands render to them their desert
because they regard not the works of the lord nor the operation of his hands he shall destroy them and not build them up
blessed be the lord because he hath heard the voice of my supplications
the lord is my strength and my shield my heart trusted in him and i am helped therefore my heart greatly rejoiceth and with my song will i praise him
the lord is their strength and he is the saving strength of his anointed
save thy people and bless thine inheritance feed them also and lift them up for ever
give unto the lord o ye mighty give unto the lord glory and strength
give unto the lord the glory due unto his name worship the lord in the beauty of holiness
the voice of the lord is upon the waters the god of glory thundereth the lord is upon many waters
the voice of the lord is powerful the voice of the lord is full of majesty
the voice of the lord breaketh the cedars yea the lord breaketh the cedars of lebanon
he maketh them also to skip like a calf lebanon and sirion like a young unicorn
the voice of the lord divideth the flames of fire
the voice of the lord shaketh the wilderness the lord shaketh the wilderness of kadesh
the voice of the lord maketh the hinds to calve and discovereth the forests and in his temple doth every one speak of his glory
the lord sitteth upon the flood yea the lord sitteth king for ever
the lord will give strength unto his people the lord will bless his people with peace
i will extol thee o lord for thou hast lifted me up and hast not made my foes to rejoice over me
o lord my god i cried unto thee and thou hast healed me
o lord thou hast brought up my soul from the grave thou hast kept me alive that i should not go down to the pit
sing unto the lord o ye saints of his and give thanks at the remembrance of his holiness
for his anger endureth but a moment in his favour is life weeping may endure for a night but joy cometh in the morning
and in my prosperity i said i shall never be moved
lord by thy favour thou hast made my mountain to stand strong thou didst hide thy face and i was troubled
i cried to thee o lord and unto the lord i made supplication
what profit is there in my blood when i go down to the pit shall the dust praise thee shall it declare thy truth
hear o lord and have mercy upon me lord be thou my helper
thou hast turned for me my mourning into dancing thou hast put off my sackcloth and girded me with gladness
to the end that my glory may sing praise to thee and not be silent o lord my god i will give thanks unto thee for ever
in thee o lord do i put my trust let me never be ashamed deliver me in thy righteousness
bow down thine ear to me deliver me speedily be thou my strong rock for an house of defence to save me
for thou art my rock and my fortress therefore for thy name's sake lead me and guide me
pull me out of the net that they have laid privily for me for thou art my strength
into thine hand i commit my spirit thou hast redeemed me o lord god of truth
i have hated them that regard lying vanities but i trust in the lord
i will be glad and rejoice in thy mercy for thou hast considered my trouble thou hast known my soul in adversities
and hast not shut me up into the hand of the enemy thou hast set my feet in a large room
have mercy upon me o lord for i am in trouble mine eye is consumed with grief yea my soul and my belly
for my life is spent with grief and my years with sighing my strength faileth because of mine iniquity and my bones are consumed
i was a reproach among all mine enemies but especially among my neighbours and a fear to mine acquaintance they that did see me without fled from me
i am forgotten as a dead man out of mind i am like a broken vessel
for i have heard the slander of many fear was on every side while they took counsel together against me they devised to take away my life
but i trusted in thee o lord i said thou art my god
my times are in thy hand deliver me from the hand of mine enemies and from them that persecute me
make thy face to shine upon thy servant save me for thy mercies sake
let me not be ashamed o lord for i have called upon thee let the wicked be ashamed and let them be silent in the grave
let the lying lips be put to silence which speak grievous things proudly and contemptuously against the righteous
oh how great is thy goodness which thou hast laid up for them that fear thee which thou hast wrought for them that trust in thee before the sons of men
thou shalt hide them in the secret of thy presence from the pride of man thou shalt keep them secretly in a pavilion from the strife of tongues
blessed be the lord for he hath shewed me his marvellous kindness in a strong city
for i said in my haste i am cut off from before thine eyes nevertheless thou heardest the voice of my supplications when i cried unto thee
o love the lord all ye his saints for the lord preserveth the faithful and plentifully rewardeth the proud doer
be of good courage and he shall strengthen your heart all ye that hope in the lord
blessed is he whose transgression is forgiven whose sin is covered
blessed is the man unto whom the lord imputeth not iniquity and in whose spirit there is no guile
when i kept silence my bones waxed old through my roaring all the day long
for day and night thy hand was heavy upon me my moisture is turned into the drought of summer selah
i acknowledged my sin unto thee and mine iniquity have i not hid i said i will confess my transgressions unto the lord and thou forgavest the iniquity of my sin selah
for this shall every one that is godly pray unto thee in a time when thou mayest be found surely in the floods of great waters they shall not come nigh unto him
thou art my hiding place thou shalt preserve me from trouble thou shalt compass me about with songs of deliverance selah
i will instruct thee and teach thee in the way which thou shalt go i will guide thee with mine eye
be ye not as the horse or as the mule which have no understanding whose mouth must be held in with bit and bridle lest they come near unto thee
many sorrows shall be to the wicked but he that trusteth in the lord mercy shall compass him about
be glad in the lord and rejoice ye righteous and shout for joy all ye that are upright in heart
rejoice in the lord o ye righteous for praise is comely for the upright
praise the lord with harp sing unto him with the psaltery and an instrument of ten strings
sing unto him a new song play skilfully with a loud noise
for the word of the lord is right and all his works are done in truth
he loveth righteousness and judgment the earth is full of the goodness of the lord
by the word of the lord were the heavens made and all the host of them by the breath of his mouth
he gathereth the waters of the sea together as an heap he layeth up the depth in storehouses
let all the earth fear the lord let all the inhabitants of the world stand in awe of him
for he spake and it was done he commanded and it stood fast
the lord bringeth the counsel of the heathen to nought he maketh the devices of the people of none effect
the counsel of the lord standeth for ever the thoughts of his heart to all generations
blessed is the nation whose god is the lord and the people whom he hath chosen for his own inheritance
the lord looketh from heaven he beholdeth all the sons of men
from the place of his habitation he looketh upon all the inhabitants of the earth
he fashioneth their hearts alike he considereth all their works
there is no king saved by the multitude of an host a mighty man is not delivered by much strength
an horse is a vain thing for safety neither shall he deliver any by his great strength
behold the eye of the lord is upon them that fear him upon them that hope in his mercy
to deliver their soul from death and to keep them alive in famine
our soul waiteth for the lord he is our help and our shield
for our heart shall rejoice in him because we have trusted in his holy name
let thy mercy o lord be upon us according as we hope in thee
i will bless the lord at all times his praise shall continually be in my mouth
my soul shall make her boast in the lord the humble shall hear thereof and be glad
o magnify the lord with me and let us exalt his name together
i sought the lord and he heard me and delivered me from all my fears
they looked unto him and were lightened and their faces were not ashamed
this poor man cried and the lord heard him and saved him out of all his troubles
the angel of the lord encampeth round about them that fear him and delivereth them
o taste and see that the lord is good blessed is the man that trusteth in him
o fear the lord ye his saints for there is no want to them that fear him
the young lions do lack and suffer hunger but they that seek the lord shall not want any good thing
come ye children hearken unto me i will teach you the fear of the lord
what man is he that desireth life and loveth many days that he may see good
keep thy tongue from evil and thy lips from speaking guile
depart from evil and do good seek peace and pursue it
the eyes of the lord are upon the righteous and his ears are open unto their cry
the face of the lord is against them that do evil to cut off the remembrance of them from the earth
the righteous cry and the lord heareth and delivereth them out of all their troubles
the lord is nigh unto them that are of a broken heart and saveth such as be of a contrite spirit
many are the afflictions of the righteous but the lord delivereth him out of them all
he keepeth all his bones not one of them is broken
evil shall slay the wicked and they that hate the righteous shall be desolate
the lord redeemeth the soul of his servants and none of them that trust in him shall be desolate
plead my cause o lord with them that strive with me fight against them that fight against me
take hold of shield and buckler and stand up for mine help
draw out also the spear and stop the way against them that persecute me say unto my soul i am thy salvation
let them be confounded and put to shame that seek after my soul let them be turned back and brought to confusion that devise my hurt
let them be as chaff before the wind and let the angel of the lord chase them
let their way be dark and slippery and let the angel of the lord persecute them
for without cause have they hid for me their net in a pit which without cause they have digged for my soul
let destruction come upon him at unawares and let his net that he hath hid catch himself into that very destruction let him fall
and my soul shall be joyful in the lord it shall rejoice in his salvation
all my bones shall say lord who is like unto thee which deliverest the poor from him that is too strong for him yea the poor and the needy from him that spoileth him
false witnesses did rise up they laid to my charge things that i knew not
they rewarded me evil for good to the spoiling of my soul
but as for me when they were sick my clothing was sackcloth i humbled my soul with fasting and my prayer returned into mine own bosom
i behaved myself as though he had been my friend or brother i bowed down heavily as one that mourneth for his mother
but in mine adversity they rejoiced and gathered themselves together yea the abjects gathered themselves together against me and i knew it not they did tear me and ceased not
with hypocritical mockers in feasts they gnashed upon me with their teeth
lord how long wilt thou look on rescue my soul from their destructions my darling from the lions
i will give thee thanks in the great congregation i will praise thee among much people
let not them that are mine enemies wrongfully rejoice over me neither let them wink with the eye that hate me without a cause
for they speak not peace but they devise deceitful matters against them that are quiet in the land
yea they opened their mouth wide against me and said aha aha our eye hath seen it
this thou hast seen o lord keep not silence o lord be not far from me
stir up thyself and awake to my judgment even unto my cause my god and my lord
judge me o lord my god according to thy righteousness and let them not rejoice over me
let them not say in their hearts ah so would we have it let them not say we have swallowed him up
let them be ashamed and brought to confusion together that rejoice at mine hurt let them be clothed with shame and dishonour that magnify themselves against me
let them shout for joy and be glad that favour my righteous cause yea let them say continually let the lord be magnified which hath pleasure in the prosperity of his servant
and my tongue shall speak of thy righteousness and of thy praise all the day long
the transgression of the wicked saith within my heart that there is no fear of god before his eyes
for he flattereth himself in his own eyes until his iniquity be found to be hateful
the words of his mouth are iniquity and deceit he hath left off to be wise and to do good
he deviseth mischief upon his bed he setteth himself in a way that is not good he abhorreth not evil
thy mercy o lord is in the heavens and thy faithfulness reacheth unto the clouds
thy righteousness is like the great mountains thy judgments are a great deep o lord thou preservest man and beast
how excellent is thy lovingkindness o god therefore the children of men put their trust under the shadow of thy wings
they shall be abundantly satisfied with the fatness of thy house and thou shalt make them drink of the river of thy pleasures
for with thee is the fountain of life in thy light shall we see light
o continue thy lovingkindness unto them that know thee and thy righteousness to the upright in heart
let not the foot of pride come against me and let not the hand of the wicked remove me
there are the workers of iniquity fallen they are cast down and shall not be able to rise
fret not thyself because of evildoers neither be thou envious against the workers of iniquity
for they shall soon be cut down like the grass and wither as the green herb
trust in the lord and do good so shalt thou dwell in the land and verily thou shalt be fed
delight thyself also in the lord and he shall give thee the desires of thine heart
commit thy way unto the lord trust also in him and he shall bring it to pass
and he shall bring forth thy righteousness as the light and thy judgment as the noonday
rest in the lord and wait patiently for him fret not thyself because of him who prospereth in his way because of the man who bringeth wicked devices to pass
cease from anger and forsake wrath fret not thyself in any wise to do evil
for evildoers shall be cut off but those that wait upon the lord they shall inherit the earth
for yet a little while and the wicked shall not be yea thou shalt diligently consider his place and it shall not be
but the meek shall inherit the earth and shall delight themselves in the abundance of peace
the wicked plotteth against the just and gnasheth upon him with his teeth
the lord shall laugh at him for he seeth that his day is coming
the wicked have drawn out the sword and have bent their bow to cast down the poor and needy and to slay such as be of upright conversation
their sword shall enter into their own heart and their bows shall be broken
a little that a righteous man hath is better than the riches of many wicked
for the arms of the wicked shall be broken but the lord upholdeth the righteous
the lord knoweth the days of the upright and their inheritance shall be for ever
they shall not be ashamed in the evil time and in the days of famine they shall be satisfied
but the wicked shall perish and the enemies of the lord shall be as the fat of lambs they shall consume into smoke shall they consume away
the wicked borroweth and payeth not again but the righteous sheweth mercy and giveth
for such as be blessed of him shall inherit the earth and they that be cursed of him shall be cut off
the steps of a good man are ordered by the lord and he delighteth in his way
though he fall he shall not be utterly cast down for the lord upholdeth him with his hand
i have been young and now am old yet have i not seen the righteous forsaken nor his seed begging bread
he is ever merciful and lendeth and his seed is blessed
depart from evil and do good and dwell for evermore
for the lord loveth judgment and forsaketh not his saints they are preserved for ever but the seed of the wicked shall be cut off
the righteous shall inherit the land and dwell therein for ever
the mouth of the righteous speaketh wisdom and his tongue talketh of judgment
the law of his god is in his heart none of his steps shall slide
the wicked watcheth the righteous and seeketh to slay him
the lord will not leave him in his hand nor condemn him when he is judged
wait on the lord and keep his way and he shall exalt thee to inherit the land when the wicked are cut off thou shalt see it
i have seen the wicked in great power and spreading himself like a green bay tree
yet he passed away and lo he was not yea i sought him but he could not be found
mark the perfect man and behold the upright for the end of that man is peace
but the transgressors shall be destroyed together the end of the wicked shall be cut off
but the salvation of the righteous is of the lord he is their strength in the time of trouble
and the lord shall help them and deliver them he shall deliver them from the wicked and save them because they trust in him
o lord rebuke me not in thy wrath neither chasten me in thy hot displeasure
for thine arrows stick fast in me and thy hand presseth me sore
there is no soundness in my flesh because of thine anger neither is there any rest in my bones because of my sin
for mine iniquities are gone over mine head as an heavy burden they are too heavy for me
my wounds stink and are corrupt because of my foolishness
i am troubled i am bowed down greatly i go mourning all the day long
for my loins are filled with a loathsome disease and there is no soundness in my flesh
i am feeble and sore broken i have roared by reason of the disquietness of my heart
lord all my desire is before thee and my groaning is not hid from thee
my heart panteth my strength faileth me as for the light of mine eyes it also is gone from me
my lovers and my friends stand aloof from my sore and my kinsmen stand afar off
they also that seek after my life lay snares for me and they that seek my hurt speak mischievous things and imagine deceits all the day long
but i as a deaf man heard not and i was as a dumb man that openeth not his mouth
thus i was as a man that heareth not and in whose mouth are no reproofs
for in thee o lord do i hope thou wilt hear o lord my god
for i said hear me lest otherwise they should rejoice over me when my foot slippeth they magnify themselves against me
for i am ready to halt and my sorrow is continually before me
for i will declare mine iniquity i will be sorry for my sin
but mine enemies are lively and they are strong and they that hate me wrongfully are multiplied
they also that render evil for good are mine adversaries because i follow the thing that good is
forsake me not o lord o my god be not far from me
make haste to help me o lord my salvation
i said i will take heed to my ways that i sin not with my tongue i will keep my mouth with a bridle while the wicked is before me
i was dumb with silence i held my peace even from good and my sorrow was stirred
my heart was hot within me while i was musing the fire burned then spake i with my tongue
lord make me to know mine end and the measure of my days what it is that i may know how frail i am
behold thou hast made my days as an handbreadth and mine age is as nothing before thee verily every man at his best state is altogether vanity selah
surely every man walketh in a vain shew surely they are disquieted in vain he heapeth up riches and knoweth not who shall gather them
and now lord what wait i for my hope is in thee
deliver me from all my transgressions make me not the reproach of the foolish
i was dumb i opened not my mouth because thou didst it
remove thy stroke away from me i am consumed by the blow of thine hand
when thou with rebukes dost correct man for iniquity thou makest his beauty to consume away like a moth surely every man is vanity selah
hear my prayer o lord and give ear unto my cry hold not thy peace at my tears for i am a stranger with thee and a sojourner as all my fathers were
o spare me that i may recover strength before i go hence and be no more
i waited patiently for the lord and he inclined unto me and heard my cry
he brought me up also out of an horrible pit out of the miry clay and set my feet upon a rock and established my goings
and he hath put a new song in my mouth even praise unto our god many shall see it and fear and shall trust in the lord
blessed is that man that maketh the lord his trust and respecteth not the proud nor such as turn aside to lies
many o lord my god are thy wonderful works which thou hast done and thy thoughts which are to usward they cannot be reckoned up in order unto thee if i would declare and speak of them they are more than can be numbered
sacrifice and offering thou didst not desire mine ears hast thou opened burnt offering and sin offering hast thou not required
then said i lo i come in the volume of the book it is written of me
i delight to do thy will o my god yea thy law is within my heart
i have preached righteousness in the great congregation lo i have not refrained my lips o lord thou knowest
i have not hid thy righteousness within my heart i have declared thy faithfulness and thy salvation i have not concealed thy lovingkindness and thy truth from the great congregation
withhold not thou thy tender mercies from me o lord let thy lovingkindness and thy truth continually preserve me
for innumerable evils have compassed me about mine iniquities have taken hold upon me so that i am not able to look up they are more than the hairs of mine head therefore my heart faileth me
be pleased o lord to deliver me o lord make haste to help me
let them be ashamed and confounded together that seek after my soul to destroy it let them be driven backward and put to shame that wish me evil
let them be desolate for a reward of their shame that say unto me aha aha
let all those that seek thee rejoice and be glad in thee let such as love thy salvation say continually the lord be magnified
but i am poor and needy yet the lord thinketh upon me thou art my help and my deliverer make no tarrying o my god
blessed is he that considereth the poor the lord will deliver him in time of trouble
the lord will preserve him and keep him alive and he shall be blessed upon the earth and thou wilt not deliver him unto the will of his enemies
the lord will strengthen him upon the bed of languishing thou wilt make all his bed in his sickness
i said lord be merciful unto me heal my soul for i have sinned against thee
mine enemies speak evil of me when shall he die and his name perish
and if he come to see me he speaketh vanity his heart gathereth iniquity to itself when he goeth abroad he telleth it
all that hate me whisper together against me against me do they devise my hurt
an evil disease say they cleaveth fast unto him and now that he lieth he shall rise up no more
yea mine own familiar friend in whom i trusted which did eat of my bread hath lifted up his heel against me
but thou o lord be merciful unto me and raise me up that i may requite them
by this i know that thou favourest me because mine enemy doth not triumph over me
and as for me thou upholdest me in mine integrity and settest me before thy face for ever
blessed be the lord god of israel from everlasting and to everlasting amen and amen
as the hart panteth after the water brooks so panteth my soul after thee o god
my soul thirsteth for god for the living god when shall i come and appear before god
my tears have been my meat day and night while they continually say unto me where is thy god
when i remember these things i pour out my soul in me for i had gone with the multitude i went with them to the house of god with the voice of joy and praise with a multitude that kept holyday
why art thou cast down o my soul and why art thou disquieted in me hope thou in god for i shall yet praise him for the help of his countenance
o my god my soul is cast down within me therefore will i remember thee from the land of jordan and of the hermonites from the hill mizar
deep calleth unto deep at the noise of thy waterspouts all thy waves and thy billows are gone over me
yet the lord will command his lovingkindness in the day time and in the night his song shall be with me and my prayer unto the god of my life
i will say unto god my rock why hast thou forgotten me why go i mourning because of the oppression of the enemy
as with a sword in my bones mine enemies reproach me while they say daily unto me where is thy god
why art thou cast down o my soul and why art thou disquieted within me hope thou in god for i shall yet praise him who is the health of my countenance and my god
judge me o god and plead my cause against an ungodly nation o deliver me from the deceitful and unjust man
for thou art the god of my strength why dost thou cast me off why go i mourning because of the oppression of the enemy
o send out thy light and thy truth let them lead me let them bring me unto thy holy hill and to thy tabernacles
then will i go unto the altar of god unto god my exceeding joy yea upon the harp will i praise thee o god my god
why art thou cast down o my soul and why art thou disquieted within me hope in god for i shall yet praise him who is the health of my countenance and my god
we have heard with our ears o god our fathers have told us what work thou didst in their days in the times of old
how thou didst drive out the heathen with thy hand and plantedst them how thou didst afflict the people and cast them out
for they got not the land in possession by their own sword neither did their own arm save them but thy right hand and thine arm and the light of thy countenance because thou hadst a favour unto them
thou art my king o god command deliverances for jacob
through thee will we push down our enemies through thy name will we tread them under that rise up against us
for i will not trust in my bow neither shall my sword save me
but thou hast saved us from our enemies and hast put them to shame that hated us
in god we boast all the day long and praise thy name for ever selah
but thou hast cast off and put us to shame and goest not forth with our armies
thou makest us to turn back from the enemy and they which hate us spoil for themselves
thou hast given us like sheep appointed for meat and hast scattered us among the heathen
thou sellest thy people for nought and dost not increase thy wealth by their price
thou makest us a reproach to our neighbours a scorn and a derision to them that are round about us
thou makest us a byword among the heathen a shaking of the head among the people
my confusion is continually before me and the shame of my face hath covered me
for the voice of him that reproacheth and blasphemeth by reason of the enemy and avenger
all this is come upon us yet have we not forgotten thee neither have we dealt falsely in thy covenant
our heart is not turned back neither have our steps declined from thy way
though thou hast sore broken us in the place of dragons and covered us with the shadow of death
if we have forgotten the name of our god or stretched out our hands to a strange god
shall not god search this out for he knoweth the secrets of the heart
yea for thy sake are we killed all the day long we are counted as sheep for the slaughter
awake why sleepest thou o lord arise cast us not off for ever
wherefore hidest thou thy face and forgettest our affliction and our oppression
for our soul is bowed down to the dust our belly cleaveth unto the earth
arise for our help and redeem us for thy mercies sake
my heart is inditing a good matter i speak of the things which i have made touching the king my tongue is the pen of a ready writer
thou art fairer than the children of men grace is poured into thy lips therefore god hath blessed thee for ever
gird thy sword upon thy thigh o most mighty with thy glory and thy majesty
and in thy majesty ride prosperously because of truth and meekness and righteousness and thy right hand shall teach thee terrible things
thine arrows are sharp in the heart of the king's enemies whereby the people fall under thee
thy throne o god is for ever and ever the sceptre of thy kingdom is a right sceptre
thou lovest righteousness and hatest wickedness therefore god thy god hath anointed thee with the oil of gladness above thy fellows
all thy garments smell of myrrh and aloes and cassia out of the ivory palaces whereby they have made thee glad
kings daughters were among thy honourable women upon thy right hand did stand the queen in gold of ophir
hearken o daughter and consider and incline thine ear forget also thine own people and thy father's house
so shall the king greatly desire thy beauty for he is thy lord and worship thou him
and the daughter of tyre shall be there with a gift even the rich among the people shall intreat thy favour
the king's daughter is all glorious within her clothing is of wrought gold
she shall be brought unto the king in raiment of needlework the virgins her companions that follow her shall be brought unto thee
with gladness and rejoicing shall they be brought they shall enter into the king's palace
instead of thy fathers shall be thy children whom thou mayest make princes in all the earth
i will make thy name to be remembered in all generations therefore shall the people praise thee for ever and ever
god is our refuge and strength a very present help in trouble
therefore will not we fear though the earth be removed and though the mountains be carried into the midst of the sea
though the waters thereof roar and be troubled though the mountains shake with the swelling thereof selah
there is a river the streams whereof shall make glad the city of god the holy place of the tabernacles of the most high
god is in the midst of her she shall not be moved god shall help her and that right early
the heathen raged the kingdoms were moved he uttered his voice the earth melted
the lord of hosts is with us the god of jacob is our refuge selah
come behold the works of the lord what desolations he hath made in the earth
he maketh wars to cease unto the end of the earth he breaketh the bow and cutteth the spear in sunder he burneth the chariot in the fire
be still and know that i am god i will be exalted among the heathen i will be exalted in the earth
the lord of hosts is with us the god of jacob is our refuge selah
o clap your hands all ye people shout unto god with the voice of triumph
for the lord most high is terrible he is a great king over all the earth
he shall subdue the people under us and the nations under our feet
he shall choose our inheritance for us the excellency of jacob whom he loved selah
god is gone up with a shout the lord with the sound of a trumpet
sing praises to god sing praises sing praises unto our king sing praises
for god is the king of all the earth sing ye praises with understanding
god reigneth over the heathen god sitteth upon the throne of his holiness
the princes of the people are gathered together even the people of the god of abraham for the shields of the earth belong unto god he is greatly exalted
great is the lord and greatly to be praised in the city of our god in the mountain of his holiness
beautiful for situation the joy of the whole earth is mount zion on the sides of the north the city of the great king
god is known in her palaces for a refuge
for lo the kings were assembled they passed by together
they saw it and so they marvelled they were troubled and hasted away
fear took hold upon them there and pain as of a woman in travail
thou breakest the ships of tarshish with an east wind
as we have heard so have we seen in the city of the lord of hosts in the city of our god god will establish it for ever selah
we have thought of thy lovingkindness o god in the midst of thy temple
according to thy name o god so is thy praise unto the ends of the earth thy right hand is full of righteousness
let mount zion rejoice let the daughters of judah be glad because of thy judgments
walk about zion and go round about her tell the towers thereof
mark ye well her bulwarks consider her palaces that ye may tell it to the generation following
for this god is our god for ever and ever he will be our guide even unto death
hear this all ye people give ear all ye inhabitants of the world
both low and high rich and poor together
my mouth shall speak of wisdom and the meditation of my heart shall be of understanding
i will incline mine ear to a parable i will open my dark saying upon the harp
wherefore should i fear in the days of evil when the iniquity of my heels shall compass me about
they that trust in their wealth and boast themselves in the multitude of their riches
none of them can by any means redeem his brother nor give to god a ransom for him
for the redemption of their soul is precious and it ceaseth for ever
that he should still live for ever and not see corruption
for he seeth that wise men die likewise the fool and the brutish person perish and leave their wealth to others
their inward thought is that their houses shall continue for ever and their dwelling places to all generations they call their lands after their own names
nevertheless man being in honour abideth not he is like the beasts that perish
this their way is their folly yet their posterity approve their sayings selah
like sheep they are laid in the grave death shall feed on them and the upright shall have dominion over them in the morning and their beauty shall consume in the grave from their dwelling
but god will redeem my soul from the power of the grave for he shall receive me selah
be not thou afraid when one is made rich when the glory of his house is increased
for when he dieth he shall carry nothing away his glory shall not descend after him
though while he lived he blessed his soul and men will praise thee when thou doest well to thyself
he shall go to the generation of his fathers they shall never see light
man that is in honour and understandeth not is like the beasts that perish
the mighty god even the lord hath spoken and called the earth from the rising of the sun unto the going down thereof
out of zion the perfection of beauty god hath shined
our god shall come and shall not keep silence a fire shall devour before him and it shall be very tempestuous round about him
he shall call to the heavens from above and to the earth that he may judge his people
gather my saints together unto me those that have made a covenant with me by sacrifice
and the heavens shall declare his righteousness for god is judge himself selah
hear o my people and i will speak o israel and i will testify against thee i am god even thy god
i will not reprove thee for thy sacrifices or thy burnt offerings to have been continually before me
i will take no bullock out of thy house nor he goats out of thy folds
for every beast of the forest is mine and the cattle upon a thousand hills
i know all the fowls of the mountains and the wild beasts of the field are mine
if i were hungry i would not tell thee for the world is mine and the fulness thereof
will i eat the flesh of bulls or drink the blood of goats
offer unto god thanksgiving and pay thy vows unto the most high
and call upon me in the day of trouble i will deliver thee and thou shalt glorify me
but unto the wicked god saith what hast thou to do to declare my statutes or that thou shouldest take my covenant in thy mouth
seeing thou hatest instruction and casteth my words behind thee
when thou sawest a thief then thou consentedst with him and hast been partaker with adulterers
thou givest thy mouth to evil and thy tongue frameth deceit
thou sittest and speakest against thy brother thou slanderest thine own mother's son
these things hast thou done and i kept silence thou thoughtest that i was altogether such an one as thyself but i will reprove thee and set them in order before thine eyes
now consider this ye that forget god lest i tear you in pieces and there be none to deliver
whoso offereth praise glorifieth me and to him that ordereth his conversation aright will i shew the salvation of god
have mercy upon me o god according to thy lovingkindness according unto the multitude of thy tender mercies blot out my transgressions
wash me throughly from mine iniquity and cleanse me from my sin
for i acknowledge my transgressions and my sin is ever before me
against thee thee only have i sinned and done this evil in thy sight that thou mightest be justified when thou speakest and be clear when thou judgest
behold i was shapen in iniquity and in sin did my mother conceive me
behold thou desirest truth in the inward parts and in the hidden part thou shalt make me to know wisdom
purge me with hyssop and i shall be clean wash me and i shall be whiter than snow
make me to hear joy and gladness that the bones which thou hast broken may rejoice
hide thy face from my sins and blot out all mine iniquities
create in me a clean heart o god and renew a right spirit within me
cast me not away from thy presence and take not thy holy spirit from me
restore unto me the joy of thy salvation and uphold me with thy free spirit
then will i teach transgressors thy ways and sinners shall be converted unto thee
deliver me from bloodguiltiness o god thou god of my salvation and my tongue shall sing aloud of thy righteousness
o lord open thou my lips and my mouth shall shew forth thy praise
for thou desirest not sacrifice else would i give it thou delightest not in burnt offering
the sacrifices of god are a broken spirit a broken and a contrite heart o god thou wilt not despise
do good in thy good pleasure unto zion build thou the walls of jerusalem
then shalt thou be pleased with the sacrifices of righteousness with burnt offering and whole burnt offering then shall they offer bullocks upon thine altar
why boastest thou thyself in mischief o mighty man the goodness of god endureth continually
thy tongue deviseth mischiefs like a sharp razor working deceitfully
thou lovest evil more than good and lying rather than to speak righteousness selah
thou lovest all devouring words o thou deceitful tongue
god shall likewise destroy thee for ever he shall take thee away and pluck thee out of thy dwelling place and root thee out of the land of the living selah
the righteous also shall see and fear and shall laugh at him
lo this is the man that made not god his strength but trusted in the abundance of his riches and strengthened himself in his wickedness
but i am like a green olive tree in the house of god i trust in the mercy of god for ever and ever
i will praise thee for ever because thou hast done it and i will wait on thy name for it is good before thy saints
the fool hath said in his heart there is no god corrupt are they and have done abominable iniquity there is none that doeth good
god looked down from heaven upon the children of men to see if there were any that did understand that did seek god
every one of them is gone back they are altogether become filthy there is none that doeth good no not one
have the workers of iniquity no knowledge who eat up my people as they eat bread they have not called upon god
there were they in great fear where no fear was for god hath scattered the bones of him that encampeth against thee thou hast put them to shame because god hath despised them
oh that the salvation of israel were come out of zion when god bringeth back the captivity of his people jacob shall rejoice and israel shall be glad
save me o god by thy name and judge me by thy strength
hear my prayer o god give ear to the words of my mouth
for strangers are risen up against me and oppressors seek after my soul they have not set god before them selah
behold god is mine helper the lord is with them that uphold my soul
he shall reward evil unto mine enemies cut them off in thy truth
i will freely sacrifice unto thee i will praise thy name o lord for it is good
for he hath delivered me out of all trouble and mine eye hath seen his desire upon mine enemies
give ear to my prayer o god and hide not thyself from my supplication
attend unto me and hear me i mourn in my complaint and make a noise
because of the voice of the enemy because of the oppression of the wicked for they cast iniquity upon me and in wrath they hate me
my heart is sore pained within me and the terrors of death are fallen upon me
fearfulness and trembling are come upon me and horror hath overwhelmed me
and i said oh that i had wings like a dove for then would i fly away and be at rest
lo then would i wander far off and remain in the wilderness selah
i would hasten my escape from the windy storm and tempest
destroy o lord and divide their tongues for i have seen violence and strife in the city
day and night they go about it upon the walls thereof mischief also and sorrow are in the midst of it
wickedness is in the midst thereof deceit and guile depart not from her streets
for it was not an enemy that reproached me then i could have borne it neither was it he that hated me that did magnify himself against me then i would have hid myself from him
but it was thou a man mine equal my guide and mine acquaintance
we took sweet counsel together and walked unto the house of god in company
let death seize upon them and let them go down quick into hell for wickedness is in their dwellings and among them
as for me i will call upon god and the lord shall save me
evening and morning and at noon will i pray and cry aloud and he shall hear my voice
he hath delivered my soul in peace from the battle that was against me for there were many with me
god shall hear and afflict them even he that abideth of old selah because they have no changes therefore they fear not god
he hath put forth his hands against such as be at peace with him he hath broken his covenant
the words of his mouth were smoother than butter but war was in his heart his words were softer than oil yet were they drawn swords
cast thy burden upon the lord and he shall sustain thee he shall never suffer the righteous to be moved
but thou o god shalt bring them down into the pit of destruction bloody and deceitful men shall not live out half their days but i will trust in thee
be merciful unto me o god for man would swallow me up he fighting daily oppresseth me
mine enemies would daily swallow me up for they be many that fight against me o thou most high
what time i am afraid i will trust in thee
in god i will praise his word in god i have put my trust i will not fear what flesh can do unto me
every day they wrest my words all their thoughts are against me for evil
they gather themselves together they hide themselves they mark my steps when they wait for my soul
shall they escape by iniquity in thine anger cast down the people o god
thou tellest my wanderings put thou my tears into thy bottle are they not in thy book
when i cry unto thee then shall mine enemies turn back this i know for god is for me
in god will i praise his word in the lord will i praise his word
in god have i put my trust i will not be afraid what man can do unto me
thy vows are upon me o god i will render praises unto thee
for thou hast delivered my soul from death wilt not thou deliver my feet from falling that i may walk before god in the light of the living
be merciful unto me o god be merciful unto me for my soul trusteth in thee yea in the shadow of thy wings will i make my refuge until these calamities be overpast
i will cry unto god most high unto god that performeth all things for me
he shall send from heaven and save me from the reproach of him that would swallow me up selah god shall send forth his mercy and his truth
my soul is among lions and i lie even among them that are set on fire even the sons of men whose teeth are spears and arrows and their tongue a sharp sword
be thou exalted o god above the heavens let thy glory be above all the earth
they have prepared a net for my steps my soul is bowed down they have digged a pit before me into the midst whereof they are fallen themselves selah
my heart is fixed o god my heart is fixed i will sing and give praise
awake up my glory awake psaltery and harp i myself will awake early
i will praise thee o lord among the people i will sing unto thee among the nations
for thy mercy is great unto the heavens and thy truth unto the clouds
be thou exalted o god above the heavens let thy glory be above all the earth
do ye indeed speak righteousness o congregation do ye judge uprightly o ye sons of men
yea in heart ye work wickedness ye weigh the violence of your hands in the earth
the wicked are estranged from the womb they go astray as soon as they be born speaking lies
their poison is like the poison of a serpent they are like the deaf adder that stoppeth her ear
which will not hearken to the voice of charmers charming never so wisely
break their teeth o god in their mouth break out the great teeth of the young lions o lord
let them melt away as waters which run continually when he bendeth his bow to shoot his arrows let them be as cut in pieces
as a snail which melteth let every one of them pass away like the untimely birth of a woman that they may not see the sun
before your pots can feel the thorns he shall take them away as with a whirlwind both living and in his wrath
the righteous shall rejoice when he seeth the vengeance he shall wash his feet in the blood of the wicked
so that a man shall say verily there is a reward for the righteous verily he is a god that judgeth in the earth
deliver me from mine enemies o my god defend me from them that rise up against me
deliver me from the workers of iniquity and save me from bloody men
for lo they lie in wait for my soul the mighty are gathered against me not for my transgression nor for my sin o lord
they run and prepare themselves without my fault awake to help me and behold
thou therefore o lord god of hosts the god of israel awake to visit all the heathen be not merciful to any wicked transgressors selah
they return at evening they make a noise like a dog and go round about the city
behold they belch out with their mouth swords are in their lips for who say they doth hear
but thou o lord shalt laugh at them thou shalt have all the heathen in derision
because of his strength will i wait upon thee for god is my defence
the god of my mercy shall prevent me god shall let me see my desire upon mine enemies
slay them not lest my people forget scatter them by thy power and bring them down o lord our shield
for the sin of their mouth and the words of their lips let them even be taken in their pride and for cursing and lying which they speak
consume them in wrath consume them that they may not be and let them know that god ruleth in jacob unto the ends of the earth selah
and at evening let them return and let them make a noise like a dog and go round about the city
let them wander up and down for meat and grudge if they be not satisfied
but i will sing of thy power yea i will sing aloud of thy mercy in the morning for thou hast been my defence and refuge in the day of my trouble
unto thee o my strength will i sing for god is my defence and the god of my mercy
o god thou hast cast us off thou hast scattered us thou hast been displeased o turn thyself to us again
thou hast made the earth to tremble thou hast broken it heal the breaches thereof for it shaketh
thou hast shewed thy people hard things thou hast made us to drink the wine of astonishment
thou hast given a banner to them that fear thee that it may be displayed because of the truth selah
that thy beloved may be delivered save with thy right hand and hear me
god hath spoken in his holiness i will rejoice i will divide shechem and mete out the valley of succoth
gilead is mine and manasseh is mine ephraim also is the strength of mine head judah is my lawgiver
moab is my washpot over edom will i cast out my shoe philistia triumph thou because of me
who will bring me into the strong city who will lead me into edom
wilt not thou o god which hadst cast us off and thou o god which didst not go out with our armies
give us help from trouble for vain is the help of man
through god we shall do valiantly for he it is that shall tread down our enemies
hear my cry o god attend unto my prayer
from the end of the earth will i cry unto thee when my heart is overwhelmed lead me to the rock that is higher than i
for thou hast been a shelter for me and a strong tower from the enemy
i will abide in thy tabernacle for ever i will trust in the covert of thy wings selah
for thou o god hast heard my vows thou hast given me the heritage of those that fear thy name
thou wilt prolong the king's life and his years as many generations
he shall abide before god for ever o prepare mercy and truth which may preserve him
so will i sing praise unto thy name for ever that i may daily perform my vows
truly my soul waiteth upon god from him cometh my salvation
he only is my rock and my salvation he is my defence i shall not be greatly moved
how long will ye imagine mischief against a man ye shall be slain all of you as a bowing wall shall ye be and as a tottering fence
they only consult to cast him down from his excellency they delight in lies they bless with their mouth but they curse inwardly selah
my soul wait thou only upon god for my expectation is from him
he only is my rock and my salvation he is my defence i shall not be moved
in god is my salvation and my glory the rock of my strength and my refuge is in god
trust in him at all times ye people pour out your heart before him god is a refuge for us selah
surely men of low degree are vanity and men of high degree are a lie to be laid in the balance they are altogether lighter than vanity
trust not in oppression and become not vain in robbery if riches increase set not your heart upon them
god hath spoken once twice have i heard this that power belongeth unto god
also unto thee o lord belongeth mercy for thou renderest to every man according to his work
o god thou art my god early will i seek thee my soul thirsteth for thee my flesh longeth for thee in a dry and thirsty land where no water is
to see thy power and thy glory so as i have seen thee in the sanctuary
because thy lovingkindness is better than life my lips shall praise thee
thus will i bless thee while i live i will lift up my hands in thy name
my soul shall be satisfied as with marrow and fatness and my mouth shall praise thee with joyful lips
when i remember thee upon my bed and meditate on thee in the night watches
because thou hast been my help therefore in the shadow of thy wings will i rejoice
my soul followeth hard after thee thy right hand upholdeth me
but those that seek my soul to destroy it shall go into the lower parts of the earth
they shall fall by the sword they shall be a portion for foxes
but the king shall rejoice in god every one that sweareth by him shall glory but the mouth of them that speak lies shall be stopped
hear my voice o god in my prayer preserve my life from fear of the enemy
hide me from the secret counsel of the wicked from the insurrection of the workers of iniquity
who whet their tongue like a sword and bend their bows to shoot their arrows even bitter words
that they may shoot in secret at the perfect suddenly do they shoot at him and fear not
they encourage themselves in an evil matter they commune of laying snares privily they say who shall see them
they search out iniquities they accomplish a diligent search both the inward thought of every one of them and the heart is deep
but god shall shoot at them with an arrow suddenly shall they be wounded
so they shall make their own tongue to fall upon themselves all that see them shall flee away
and all men shall fear and shall declare the work of god for they shall wisely consider of his doing
the righteous shall be glad in the lord and shall trust in him and all the upright in heart shall glory
praise waiteth for thee o god in sion and unto thee shall the vow be performed
o thou that hearest prayer unto thee shall all flesh come
iniquities prevail against me as for our transgressions thou shalt purge them away
blessed is the man whom thou choosest and causest to approach unto thee that he may dwell in thy courts we shall be satisfied with the goodness of thy house even of thy holy temple
by terrible things in righteousness wilt thou answer us o god of our salvation who art the confidence of all the ends of the earth and of them that are afar off upon the sea
which by his strength setteth fast the mountains being girded with power
which stilleth the noise of the seas the noise of their waves and the tumult of the people
they also that dwell in the uttermost parts are afraid at thy tokens thou makest the outgoings of the morning and evening to rejoice
thou visitest the earth and waterest it thou greatly enrichest it with the river of god which is full of water thou preparest them corn when thou hast so provided for it
thou waterest the ridges thereof abundantly thou settlest the furrows thereof thou makest it soft with showers thou blessest the springing thereof
thou crownest the year with thy goodness and thy paths drop fatness
they drop upon the pastures of the wilderness and the little hills rejoice on every side
the pastures are clothed with flocks the valleys also are covered over with corn they shout for joy they also sing
make a joyful noise unto god all ye lands
sing forth the honour of his name make his praise glorious
say unto god how terrible art thou in thy works through the greatness of thy power shall thine enemies submit themselves unto thee
all the earth shall worship thee and shall sing unto thee they shall sing to thy name selah
come and see the works of god he is terrible in his doing toward the children of men
he turned the sea into dry land they went through the flood on foot there did we rejoice in him
he ruleth by his power for ever his eyes behold the nations let not the rebellious exalt themselves selah
o bless our god ye people and make the voice of his praise to be heard
which holdeth our soul in life and suffereth not our feet to be moved
for thou o god hast proved us thou hast tried us as silver is tried
thou broughtest us into the net thou laidst affliction upon our loins
thou hast caused men to ride over our heads we went through fire and through water but thou broughtest us out into a wealthy place
i will go into thy house with burnt offerings i will pay thee my vows
which my lips have uttered and my mouth hath spoken when i was in trouble
i will offer unto thee burnt sacrifices of fatlings with the incense of rams i will offer bullocks with goats selah
come and hear all ye that fear god and i will declare what he hath done for my soul
i cried unto him with my mouth and he was extolled with my tongue
if i regard iniquity in my heart the lord will not hear me
but verily god hath heard me he hath attended to the voice of my prayer
blessed be god which hath not turned away my prayer nor his mercy from me
god be merciful unto us and bless us and cause his face to shine upon us selah
that thy way may be known upon earth thy saving health among all nations
let the people praise thee o god let all the people praise thee
o let the nations be glad and sing for joy for thou shalt judge the people righteously and govern the nations upon earth selah
let the people praise thee o god let all the people praise thee
then shall the earth yield her increase and god even our own god shall bless us
god shall bless us and all the ends of the earth shall fear him
let god arise let his enemies be scattered let them also that hate him flee before him
as smoke is driven away so drive them away as wax melteth before the fire so let the wicked perish at the presence of god
but let the righteous be glad let them rejoice before god yea let them exceedingly rejoice
sing unto god sing praises to his name extol him that rideth upon the heavens by his name jah and rejoice before him
a father of the fatherless and a judge of the widows is god in his holy habitation
god setteth the solitary in families he bringeth out those which are bound with chains but the rebellious dwell in a dry land
o god when thou wentest forth before thy people when thou didst march through the wilderness selah
the earth shook the heavens also dropped at the presence of god even sinai itself was moved at the presence of god the god of israel
thou o god didst send a plentiful rain whereby thou didst confirm thine inheritance when it was weary
thy congregation hath dwelt therein thou o god hast prepared of thy goodness for the poor
the lord gave the word great was the company of those that published it
kings of armies did flee apace and she that tarried at home divided the spoil
though ye have lien among the pots yet shall ye be as the wings of a dove covered with silver and her feathers with yellow gold
when the almighty scattered kings in it it was white as snow in salmon
the hill of god is as the hill of bashan an high hill as the hill of bashan
why leap ye ye high hills this is the hill which god desireth to dwell in yea the lord will dwell in it for ever
the chariots of god are twenty thousand even thousands of angels the lord is among them as in sinai in the holy place
thou hast ascended on high thou hast led captivity captive thou hast received gifts for men yea for the rebellious also that the lord god might dwell among them
blessed be the lord who daily loadeth us with benefits even the god of our salvation selah
he that is our god is the god of salvation and unto god the lord belong the issues from death
but god shall wound the head of his enemies and the hairy scalp of such an one as goeth on still in his trespasses
the lord said i will bring again from bashan i will bring my people again from the depths of the sea
that thy foot may be dipped in the blood of thine enemies and the tongue of thy dogs in the same
they have seen thy goings o god even the goings of my god my king in the sanctuary
the singers went before the players on instruments followed after among them were the damsels playing with timbrels
bless ye god in the congregations even the lord from the fountain of israel
there is little benjamin with their ruler the princes of judah and their council the princes of zebulun and the princes of naphtali
thy god hath commanded thy strength strengthen o god that which thou hast wrought for us
because of thy temple at jerusalem shall kings bring presents unto thee
rebuke the company of spearmen the multitude of the bulls with the calves of the people till every one submit himself with pieces of silver scatter thou the people that delight in war
princes shall come out of egypt ethiopia shall soon stretch out her hands unto god
sing unto god ye kingdoms of the earth o sing praises unto the lord selah
to him that rideth upon the heavens of heavens which were of old lo he doth send out his voice and that a mighty voice
ascribe ye strength unto god his excellency is over israel and his strength is in the clouds
o god thou art terrible out of thy holy places the god of israel is he that giveth strength and power unto his people blessed be god
save me o god for the waters are come in unto my soul
i sink in deep mire where there is no standing i am come into deep waters where the floods overflow me
i am weary of my crying my throat is dried mine eyes fail while i wait for my god
they that hate me without a cause are more than the hairs of mine head they that would destroy me being mine enemies wrongfully are mighty then i restored that which i took not away
o god thou knowest my foolishness and my sins are not hid from thee
let not them that wait on thee o lord god of hosts be ashamed for my sake let not those that seek thee be confounded for my sake o god of israel
because for thy sake i have borne reproach shame hath covered my face
i am become a stranger unto my brethren and an alien unto my mother's children
for the zeal of thine house hath eaten me up and the reproaches of them that reproached thee are fallen upon me
when i wept and chastened my soul with fasting that was to my reproach
i made sackcloth also my garment and i became a proverb to them
they that sit in the gate speak against me and i was the song of the drunkards
but as for me my prayer is unto thee o lord in an acceptable time o god in the multitude of thy mercy hear me in the truth of thy salvation
deliver me out of the mire and let me not sink let me be delivered from them that hate me and out of the deep waters
let not the waterflood overflow me neither let the deep swallow me up and let not the pit shut her mouth upon me
hear me o lord for thy lovingkindness is good turn unto me according to the multitude of thy tender mercies
and hide not thy face from thy servant for i am in trouble hear me speedily
draw nigh unto my soul and redeem it deliver me because of mine enemies
thou hast known my reproach and my shame and my dishonour mine adversaries are all before thee
reproach hath broken my heart and i am full of heaviness and i looked for some to take pity but there was none and for comforters but i found none
they gave me also gall for my meat and in my thirst they gave me vinegar to drink
let their table become a snare before them and that which should have been for their welfare let it become a trap
let their eyes be darkened that they see not and make their loins continually to shake
pour out thine indignation upon them and let thy wrathful anger take hold of them
let their habitation be desolate and let none dwell in their tents
for they persecute him whom thou hast smitten and they talk to the grief of those whom thou hast wounded
add iniquity unto their iniquity and let them not come into thy righteousness
let them be blotted out of the book of the living and not be written with the righteous
but i am poor and sorrowful let thy salvation o god set me up on high
i will praise the name of god with a song and will magnify him with thanksgiving
this also shall please the lord better than an ox or bullock that hath horns and hoofs
the humble shall see this and be glad and your heart shall live that seek god
for the lord heareth the poor and despiseth not his prisoners
let the heaven and earth praise him the seas and every thing that moveth therein
for god will save zion and will build the cities of judah that they may dwell there and have it in possession
the seed also of his servants shall inherit it and they that love his name shall dwell therein
make haste o god to deliver me make haste to help me o lord
let them be ashamed and confounded that seek after my soul let them be turned backward and put to confusion that desire my hurt
let them be turned back for a reward of their shame that say aha aha
let all those that seek thee rejoice and be glad in thee and let such as love thy salvation say continually let god be magnified
but i am poor and needy make haste unto me o god thou art my help and my deliverer o lord make no tarrying
in thee o lord do i put my trust let me never be put to confusion
deliver me in thy righteousness and cause me to escape incline thine ear unto me and save me
be thou my strong habitation whereunto i may continually resort thou hast given commandment to save me for thou art my rock and my fortress
deliver me o my god out of the hand of the wicked out of the hand of the unrighteous and cruel man
for thou art my hope o lord god thou art my trust from my youth
by thee have i been holden up from the womb thou art he that took me out of my mother's bowels my praise shall be continually of thee
i am as a wonder unto many but thou art my strong refuge
let my mouth be filled with thy praise and with thy honour all the day
cast me not off in the time of old age forsake me not when my strength faileth
for mine enemies speak against me and they that lay wait for my soul take counsel together
saying god hath forsaken him persecute and take him for there is none to deliver him
o god be not far from me o my god make haste for my help
let them be confounded and consumed that are adversaries to my soul let them be covered with reproach and dishonour that seek my hurt
but i will hope continually and will yet praise thee more and more
my mouth shall shew forth thy righteousness and thy salvation all the day for i know not the numbers thereof
i will go in the strength of the lord god i will make mention of thy righteousness even of thine only
o god thou hast taught me from my youth and hitherto have i declared thy wondrous works
now also when i am old and greyheaded o god forsake me not until i have shewed thy strength unto this generation and thy power to every one that is to come
thy righteousness also o god is very high who hast done great things o god who is like unto thee
thou which hast shewed me great and sore troubles shalt quicken me again and shalt bring me up again from the depths of the earth
thou shalt increase my greatness and comfort me on every side
i will also praise thee with the psaltery even thy truth o my god unto thee will i sing with the harp o thou holy one of israel
my lips shall greatly rejoice when i sing unto thee and my soul which thou hast redeemed
my tongue also shall talk of thy righteousness all the day long for they are confounded for they are brought unto shame that seek my hurt
give the king thy judgments o god and thy righteousness unto the king's son
he shall judge thy people with righteousness and thy poor with judgment
the mountains shall bring peace to the people and the little hills by righteousness
he shall judge the poor of the people he shall save the children of the needy and shall break in pieces the oppressor
they shall fear thee as long as the sun and moon endure throughout all generations
he shall come down like rain upon the mown grass as showers that water the earth
in his days shall the righteous flourish and abundance of peace so long as the moon endureth
he shall have dominion also from sea to sea and from the river unto the ends of the earth
they that dwell in the wilderness shall bow before him and his enemies shall lick the dust
the kings of tarshish and of the isles shall bring presents the kings of sheba and seba shall offer gifts
yea all kings shall fall down before him all nations shall serve him
for he shall deliver the needy when he crieth the poor also and him that hath no helper
he shall spare the poor and needy and shall save the souls of the needy
he shall redeem their soul from deceit and violence and precious shall their blood be in his sight
and he shall live and to him shall be given of the gold of sheba prayer also shall be made for him continually and daily shall he be praised
there shall be an handful of corn in the earth upon the top of the mountains the fruit thereof shall shake like lebanon and they of the city shall flourish like grass of the earth
his name shall endure for ever his name shall be continued as long as the sun and men shall be blessed in him all nations shall call him blessed
blessed be the lord god the god of israel who only doeth wondrous things
and blessed be his glorious name for ever and let the whole earth be filled with his glory amen and amen
the prayers of david the son of jesse are ended
truly god is good to israel even to such as are of a clean heart
but as for me my feet were almost gone my steps had well nigh slipped
for i was envious at the foolish when i saw the prosperity of the wicked
for there are no bands in their death but their strength is firm
they are not in trouble as other men neither are they plagued like other men
therefore pride compasseth them about as a chain violence covereth them as a garment
their eyes stand out with fatness they have more than heart could wish
they are corrupt and speak wickedly concerning oppression they speak loftily
they set their mouth against the heavens and their tongue walketh through the earth
therefore his people return hither and waters of a full cup are wrung out to them
and they say how doth god know and is there knowledge in the most high
behold these are the ungodly who prosper in the world they increase in riches
verily i have cleansed my heart in vain and washed my hands in innocency
for all the day long have i been plagued and chastened every morning
if i say i will speak thus behold i should offend against the generation of thy children
when i thought to know this it was too painful for me
until i went into the sanctuary of god then understood i their end
surely thou didst set them in slippery places thou castedst them down into destruction
how are they brought into desolation as in a moment they are utterly consumed with terrors
as a dream when one awaketh so o lord when thou awakest thou shalt despise their image
thus my heart was grieved and i was pricked in my reins
so foolish was i and ignorant i was as a beast before thee
nevertheless i am continually with thee thou hast holden me by my right hand
thou shalt guide me with thy counsel and afterward receive me to glory
whom have i in heaven but thee and there is none upon earth that i desire beside thee
my flesh and my heart faileth but god is the strength of my heart and my portion for ever
for lo they that are far from thee shall perish thou hast destroyed all them that go a whoring from thee
but it is good for me to draw near to god i have put my trust in the lord god that i may declare all thy works
o god why hast thou cast us off for ever why doth thine anger smoke against the sheep of thy pasture
remember thy congregation which thou hast purchased of old the rod of thine inheritance which thou hast redeemed this mount zion wherein thou hast dwelt
lift up thy feet unto the perpetual desolations even all that the enemy hath done wickedly in the sanctuary
thine enemies roar in the midst of thy congregations they set up their ensigns for signs
a man was famous according as he had lifted up axes upon the thick trees
but now they break down the carved work thereof at once with axes and hammers
they have cast fire into thy sanctuary they have defiled by casting down the dwelling place of thy name to the ground
they said in their hearts let us destroy them together they have burned up all the synagogues of god in the land
we see not our signs there is no more any prophet neither is there among us any that knoweth how long
o god how long shall the adversary reproach shall the enemy blaspheme thy name for ever
why withdrawest thou thy hand even thy right hand pluck it out of thy bosom
for god is my king of old working salvation in the midst of the earth
thou didst divide the sea by thy strength thou brakest the heads of the dragons in the waters
thou brakest the heads of leviathan in pieces and gavest him to be meat to the people inhabiting the wilderness
thou didst cleave the fountain and the flood thou driedst up mighty rivers
the day is thine the night also is thine thou hast prepared the light and the sun
thou hast set all the borders of the earth thou hast made summer and winter
remember this that the enemy hath reproached o lord and that the foolish people have blasphemed thy name
o deliver not the soul of thy turtledove unto the multitude of the wicked forget not the congregation of thy poor for ever
have respect unto the covenant for the dark places of the earth are full of the habitations of cruelty
o let not the oppressed return ashamed let the poor and needy praise thy name
arise o god plead thine own cause remember how the foolish man reproacheth thee daily
forget not the voice of thine enemies the tumult of those that rise up against thee increaseth continually
unto thee o god do we give thanks unto thee do we give thanks for that thy name is near thy wondrous works declare
when i shall receive the congregation i will judge uprightly
the earth and all the inhabitants thereof are dissolved i bear up the pillars of it selah
i said unto the fools deal not foolishly and to the wicked lift not up the horn
lift not up your horn on high speak not with a stiff neck
for promotion cometh neither from the east nor from the west nor from the south
but god is the judge he putteth down one and setteth up another
for in the hand of the lord there is a cup and the wine is red it is full of mixture and he poureth out of the same but the dregs thereof all the wicked of the earth shall wring them out and drink them
but i will declare for ever i will sing praises to the god of jacob
all the horns of the wicked also will i cut off but the horns of the righteous shall be exalted
in judah is god known his name is great in israel
in salem also is his tabernacle and his dwelling place in zion
there brake he the arrows of the bow the shield and the sword and the battle selah
thou art more glorious and excellent than the mountains of prey
the stouthearted are spoiled they have slept their sleep and none of the men of might have found their hands
at thy rebuke o god of jacob both the chariot and horse are cast into a dead sleep
thou even thou art to be feared and who may stand in thy sight when once thou art angry
thou didst cause judgment to be heard from heaven the earth feared and was still
when god arose to judgment to save all the meek of the earth selah
surely the wrath of man shall praise thee the remainder of wrath shalt thou restrain
vow and pay unto the lord your god let all that be round about him bring presents unto him that ought to be feared
he shall cut off the spirit of princes he is terrible to the kings of the earth
i cried unto god with my voice even unto god with my voice and he gave ear unto me
in the day of my trouble i sought the lord my sore ran in the night and ceased not my soul refused to be comforted
i remembered god and was troubled i complained and my spirit was overwhelmed selah
thou holdest mine eyes waking i am so troubled that i cannot speak
i have considered the days of old the years of ancient times
i call to remembrance my song in the night i commune with mine own heart and my spirit made diligent search
will the lord cast off for ever and will he be favourable no more
is his mercy clean gone for ever doth his promise fail for evermore
hath god forgotten to be gracious hath he in anger shut up his tender mercies selah
and i said this is my infirmity but i will remember the years of the right hand of the most high
i will remember the works of the lord surely i will remember thy wonders of old
i will meditate also of all thy work and talk of thy doings
thy way o god is in the sanctuary who is so great a god as our god
thou art the god that doest wonders thou hast declared thy strength among the people
thou hast with thine arm redeemed thy people the sons of jacob and joseph selah
the waters saw thee o god the waters saw thee they were afraid the depths also were troubled
the clouds poured out water the skies sent out a sound thine arrows also went abroad
the voice of thy thunder was in the heaven the lightnings lightened the world the earth trembled and shook
thy way is in the sea and thy path in the great waters and thy footsteps are not known
thou leddest thy people like a flock by the hand of moses and aaron
give ear o my people to my law incline your ears to the words of my mouth
i will open my mouth in a parable i will utter dark sayings of old
which we have heard and known and our fathers have told us
we will not hide them from their children shewing to the generation to come the praises of the lord and his strength and his wonderful works that he hath done
for he established a testimony in jacob and appointed a law in israel which he commanded our fathers that they should make them known to their children
that the generation to come might know them even the children which should be born who should arise and declare them to their children
that they might set their hope in god and not forget the works of god but keep his commandments
and might not be as their fathers a stubborn and rebellious generation a generation that set not their heart aright and whose spirit was not stedfast with god
the children of ephraim being armed and carrying bows turned back in the day of battle
they kept not the covenant of god and refused to walk in his law
and forgat his works and his wonders that he had shewed them
marvellous things did he in the sight of their fathers in the land of egypt in the field of zoan
he divided the sea and caused them to pass through and he made the waters to stand as an heap
in the daytime also he led them with a cloud and all the night with a light of fire
he clave the rocks in the wilderness and gave them drink as out of the great depths
he brought streams also out of the rock and caused waters to run down like rivers
and they sinned yet more against him by provoking the most high in the wilderness
and they tempted god in their heart by asking meat for their lust
yea they spake against god they said can god furnish a table in the wilderness
behold he smote the rock that the waters gushed out and the streams overflowed can he give bread also can he provide flesh for his people
therefore the lord heard this and was wroth so a fire was kindled against jacob and anger also came up against israel
because they believed not in god and trusted not in his salvation
though he had commanded the clouds from above and opened the doors of heaven
and had rained down manna upon them to eat and had given them of the corn of heaven
man did eat angels food he sent them meat to the full
he caused an east wind to blow in the heaven and by his power he brought in the south wind
he rained flesh also upon them as dust and feathered fowls like as the sand of the sea
and he let it fall in the midst of their camp round about their habitations
so they did eat and were well filled for he gave them their own desire
they were not estranged from their lust but while their meat was yet in their mouths
the wrath of god came upon them and slew the fattest of them and smote down the chosen men of israel
for all this they sinned still and believed not for his wondrous works
therefore their days did he consume in vanity and their years in trouble
when he slew them then they sought him and they returned and enquired early after god
and they remembered that god was their rock and the high god their redeemer
nevertheless they did flatter him with their mouth and they lied unto him with their tongues
for their heart was not right with him neither were they stedfast in his covenant
but he being full of compassion forgave their iniquity and destroyed them not yea many a time turned he his anger away and did not stir up all his wrath
for he remembered that they were but flesh a wind that passeth away and cometh not again
how oft did they provoke him in the wilderness and grieve him in the desert
yea they turned back and tempted god and limited the holy one of israel
they remembered not his hand nor the day when he delivered them from the enemy
how he had wrought his signs in egypt and his wonders in the field of zoan
and had turned their rivers into blood and their floods that they could not drink
he sent divers sorts of flies among them which devoured them and frogs which destroyed them
he gave also their increase unto the caterpiller and their labour unto the locust
he destroyed their vines with hail and their sycomore trees with frost
he gave up their cattle also to the hail and their flocks to hot thunderbolts
he cast upon them the fierceness of his anger wrath and indignation and trouble by sending evil angels among them
he made a way to his anger he spared not their soul from death but gave their life over to the pestilence
and smote all the firstborn in egypt the chief of their strength in the tabernacles of ham
but made his own people to go forth like sheep and guided them in the wilderness like a flock
and he led them on safely so that they feared not but the sea overwhelmed their enemies
and he brought them to the border of his sanctuary even to this mountain which his right hand had purchased
he cast out the heathen also before them and divided them an inheritance by line and made the tribes of israel to dwell in their tents
yet they tempted and provoked the most high god and kept not his testimonies
but turned back and dealt unfaithfully like their fathers they were turned aside like a deceitful bow
for they provoked him to anger with their high places and moved him to jealousy with their graven images
when god heard this he was wroth and greatly abhorred israel
so that he forsook the tabernacle of shiloh the tent which he placed among men
and delivered his strength into captivity and his glory into the enemy's hand
he gave his people over also unto the sword and was wroth with his inheritance
the fire consumed their young men and their maidens were not given to marriage
their priests fell by the sword and their widows made no lamentation
then the lord awaked as one out of sleep and like a mighty man that shouteth by reason of wine
and he smote his enemies in the hinder parts he put them to a perpetual reproach
moreover he refused the tabernacle of joseph and chose not the tribe of ephraim
but chose the tribe of judah the mount zion which he loved
and he built his sanctuary like high palaces like the earth which he hath established for ever
he chose david also his servant and took him from the sheepfolds
from following the ewes great with young he brought him to feed jacob his people and israel his inheritance
so he fed them according to the integrity of his heart and guided them by the skilfulness of his hands
o god the heathen are come into thine inheritance thy holy temple have they defiled they have laid jerusalem on heaps
the dead bodies of thy servants have they given to be meat unto the fowls of the heaven the flesh of thy saints unto the beasts of the earth
their blood have they shed like water round about jerusalem and there was none to bury them
we are become a reproach to our neighbours a scorn and derision to them that are round about us
how long lord wilt thou be angry for ever shall thy jealousy burn like fire
pour out thy wrath upon the heathen that have not known thee and upon the kingdoms that have not called upon thy name
for they have devoured jacob and laid waste his dwelling place
o remember not against us former iniquities let thy tender mercies speedily prevent us for we are brought very low
help us o god of our salvation for the glory of thy name and deliver us and purge away our sins for thy name's sake
wherefore should the heathen say where is their god let him be known among the heathen in our sight by the revenging of the blood of thy servants which is shed
let the sighing of the prisoner come before thee according to the greatness of thy power preserve thou those that are appointed to die
and render unto our neighbours sevenfold into their bosom their reproach wherewith they have reproached thee o lord
so we thy people and sheep of thy pasture will give thee thanks for ever we will shew forth thy praise to all generations
give ear o shepherd of israel thou that leadest joseph like a flock thou that dwellest between the cherubims shine forth
before ephraim and benjamin and manasseh stir up thy strength and come and save us
turn us again o god and cause thy face to shine and we shall be saved
o lord god of hosts how long wilt thou be angry against the prayer of thy people
thou feedest them with the bread of tears and givest them tears to drink in great measure
thou makest us a strife unto our neighbours and our enemies laugh among themselves
turn us again o god of hosts and cause thy face to shine and we shall be saved
thou hast brought a vine out of egypt thou hast cast out the heathen and planted it
thou preparedst room before it and didst cause it to take deep root and it filled the land
the hills were covered with the shadow of it and the boughs thereof were like the goodly cedars
she sent out her boughs unto the sea and her branches unto the river
why hast thou then broken down her hedges so that all they which pass by the way do pluck her
the boar out of the wood doth waste it and the wild beast of the field doth devour it
return we beseech thee o god of hosts look down from heaven and behold and visit this vine
and the vineyard which thy right hand hath planted and the branch that thou madest strong for thyself
it is burned with fire it is cut down they perish at the rebuke of thy countenance
let thy hand be upon the man of thy right hand upon the son of man whom thou madest strong for thyself
so will not we go back from thee quicken us and we will call upon thy name
turn us again o lord god of hosts cause thy face to shine and we shall be saved
sing aloud unto god our strength make a joyful noise unto the god of jacob
take a psalm and bring hither the timbrel the pleasant harp with the psaltery
blow up the trumpet in the new moon in the time appointed on our solemn feast day
for this was a statute for israel and a law of the god of jacob
this he ordained in joseph for a testimony when he went out through the land of egypt where i heard a language that i understood not
i removed his shoulder from the burden his hands were delivered from the pots
thou calledst in trouble and i delivered thee i answered thee in the secret place of thunder i proved thee at the waters of meribah selah
hear o my people and i will testify unto thee o israel if thou wilt hearken unto me
there shall no strange god be in thee neither shalt thou worship any strange god
i am the lord thy god which brought thee out of the land of egypt open thy mouth wide and i will fill it
but my people would not hearken to my voice and israel would none of me
so i gave them up unto their own hearts lust and they walked in their own counsels
oh that my people had hearkened unto me and israel had walked in my ways
i should soon have subdued their enemies and turned my hand against their adversaries
the haters of the lord should have submitted themselves unto him but their time should have endured for ever
he should have fed them also with the finest of the wheat and with honey out of the rock should i have satisfied thee
god standeth in the congregation of the mighty he judgeth among the gods
how long will ye judge unjustly and accept the persons of the wicked selah
defend the poor and fatherless do justice to the afflicted and needy
deliver the poor and needy rid them out of the hand of the wicked
they know not neither will they understand they walk on in darkness all the foundations of the earth are out of course
i have said ye are gods and all of you are children of the most high
but ye shall die like men and fall like one of the princes
arise o god judge the earth for thou shalt inherit all nations
keep not thou silence o god hold not thy peace and be not still o god
for lo thine enemies make a tumult and they that hate thee have lifted up the head
they have taken crafty counsel against thy people and consulted against thy hidden ones
they have said come and let us cut them off from being a nation that the name of israel may be no more in remembrance
for they have consulted together with one consent they are confederate against thee
the tabernacles of edom and the ishmaelites of moab and the hagarenes
gebal and ammon and amalek the philistines with the inhabitants of tyre
assur also is joined with them they have holpen the children of lot selah
do unto them as unto the midianites as to sisera as to jabin at the brook of kison
which perished at endor they became as dung for the earth
make their nobles like oreb and like zeeb yea all their princes as zebah and as zalmunna
who said let us take to ourselves the houses of god in possession
o my god make them like a wheel as the stubble before the wind
as the fire burneth a wood and as the flame setteth the mountains on fire
so persecute them with thy tempest and make them afraid with thy storm
fill their faces with shame that they may seek thy name o lord
let them be confounded and troubled for ever yea let them be put to shame and perish
that men may know that thou whose name alone is jehovah art the most high over all the earth
how amiable are thy tabernacles o lord of hosts
my soul longeth yea even fainteth for the courts of the lord my heart and my flesh crieth out for the living god
yea the sparrow hath found an house and the swallow a nest for herself where she may lay her young even thine altars o lord of hosts my king and my god
blessed are they that dwell in thy house they will be still praising thee selah
blessed is the man whose strength is in thee in whose heart are the ways of them
who passing through the valley of baca make it a well the rain also filleth the pools
they go from strength to strength every one of them in zion appeareth before god
o lord god of hosts hear my prayer give ear o god of jacob selah
behold o god our shield and look upon the face of thine anointed
for a day in thy courts is better than a thousand i had rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my god than to dwell in the tents of wickedness
for the lord god is a sun and shield the lord will give grace and glory no good thing will he withhold from them that walk uprightly
o lord of hosts blessed is the man that trusteth in thee
lord thou hast been favourable unto thy land thou hast brought back the captivity of jacob
thou hast forgiven the iniquity of thy people thou hast covered all their sin selah
thou hast taken away all thy wrath thou hast turned thyself from the fierceness of thine anger
turn us o god of our salvation and cause thine anger toward us to cease
wilt thou be angry with us for ever wilt thou draw out thine anger to all generations
wilt thou not revive us again that thy people may rejoice in thee
shew us thy mercy o lord and grant us thy salvation
i will hear what god the lord will speak for he will speak peace unto his people and to his saints but let them not turn again to folly
surely his salvation is nigh them that fear him that glory may dwell in our land
mercy and truth are met together righteousness and peace have kissed each other
truth shall spring out of the earth and righteousness shall look down from heaven
yea the lord shall give that which is good and our land shall yield her increase
righteousness shall go before him and shall set us in the way of his steps
bow down thine ear o lord hear me for i am poor and needy
preserve my soul for i am holy o thou my god save thy servant that trusteth in thee
be merciful unto me o lord for i cry unto thee daily
rejoice the soul of thy servant for unto thee o lord do i lift up my soul
for thou lord art good and ready to forgive and plenteous in mercy unto all them that call upon thee
give ear o lord unto my prayer and attend to the voice of my supplications
in the day of my trouble i will call upon thee for thou wilt answer me
among the gods there is none like unto thee o lord neither are there any works like unto thy works
all nations whom thou hast made shall come and worship before thee o lord and shall glorify thy name
for thou art great and doest wondrous things thou art god alone
teach me thy way o lord i will walk in thy truth unite my heart to fear thy name
i will praise thee o lord my god with all my heart and i will glorify thy name for evermore
for great is thy mercy toward me and thou hast delivered my soul from the lowest hell
o god the proud are risen against me and the assemblies of violent men have sought after my soul and have not set thee before them
but thou o lord art a god full of compassion and gracious long suffering and plenteous in mercy and truth
o turn unto me and have mercy upon me give thy strength unto thy servant and save the son of thine handmaid
shew me a token for good that they which hate me may see it and be ashamed because thou lord hast holpen me and comforted me
his foundation is in the holy mountains
the lord loveth the gates of zion more than all the dwellings of jacob
glorious things are spoken of thee o city of god selah
i will make mention of rahab and babylon to them that know me behold philistia and tyre with ethiopia this man was born there
and of zion it shall be said this and that man was born in her and the highest himself shall establish her
the lord shall count when he writeth up the people that this man was born there selah
as well the singers as the players on instruments shall be there all my springs are in thee
o lord god of my salvation i have cried day and night before thee
let my prayer come before thee incline thine ear unto my cry
for my soul is full of troubles and my life draweth nigh unto the grave
i am counted with them that go down into the pit i am as a man that hath no strength
free among the dead like the slain that lie in the grave whom thou rememberest no more and they are cut off from thy hand
thou hast laid me in the lowest pit in darkness in the deeps
thy wrath lieth hard upon me and thou hast afflicted me with all thy waves selah
thou hast put away mine acquaintance far from me thou hast made me an abomination unto them i am shut up and i cannot come forth
mine eye mourneth by reason of affliction lord i have called daily upon thee i have stretched out my hands unto thee
wilt thou shew wonders to the dead shall the dead arise and praise thee selah
shall thy lovingkindness be declared in the grave or thy faithfulness in destruction
shall thy wonders be known in the dark and thy righteousness in the land of forgetfulness
but unto thee have i cried o lord and in the morning shall my prayer prevent thee
lord why castest thou off my soul why hidest thou thy face from me
i am afflicted and ready to die from my youth up while i suffer thy terrors i am distracted
thy fierce wrath goeth over me thy terrors have cut me off
they came round about me daily like water they compassed me about together
lover and friend hast thou put far from me and mine acquaintance into darkness
i will sing of the mercies of the lord for ever with my mouth will i make known thy faithfulness to all generations
for i have said mercy shall be built up for ever thy faithfulness shalt thou establish in the very heavens
i have made a covenant with my chosen i have sworn unto david my servant
thy seed will i establish for ever and build up thy throne to all generations selah
and the heavens shall praise thy wonders o lord thy faithfulness also in the congregation of the saints
for who in the heaven can be compared unto the lord who among the sons of the mighty can be likened unto the lord
god is greatly to be feared in the assembly of the saints and to be had in reverence of all them that are about him
o lord god of hosts who is a strong lord like unto thee or to thy faithfulness round about thee
thou rulest the raging of the sea when the waves thereof arise thou stillest them
thou hast broken rahab in pieces as one that is slain thou hast scattered thine enemies with thy strong arm
the heavens are thine the earth also is thine as for the world and the fulness thereof thou hast founded them
the north and the south thou hast created them tabor and hermon shall rejoice in thy name
thou hast a mighty arm strong is thy hand and high is thy right hand
justice and judgment are the habitation of thy throne mercy and truth shall go before thy face
blessed is the people that know the joyful sound they shall walk o lord in the light of thy countenance
in thy name shall they rejoice all the day and in thy righteousness shall they be exalted
for thou art the glory of their strength and in thy favour our horn shall be exalted
for the lord is our defence and the holy one of israel is our king
then thou spakest in vision to thy holy one and saidst i have laid help upon one that is mighty i have exalted one chosen out of the people
i have found david my servant with my holy oil have i anointed him
with whom my hand shall be established mine arm also shall strengthen him
the enemy shall not exact upon him nor the son of wickedness afflict him
and i will beat down his foes before his face and plague them that hate him
but my faithfulness and my mercy shall be with him and in my name shall his horn be exalted
i will set his hand also in the sea and his right hand in the rivers
he shall cry unto me thou art my father my god and the rock of my salvation
also i will make him my firstborn higher than the kings of the earth
my mercy will i keep for him for evermore and my covenant shall stand fast with him
his seed also will i make to endure for ever and his throne as the days of heaven
if his children forsake my law and walk not in my judgments
if they break my statutes and keep not my commandments
then will i visit their transgression with the rod and their iniquity with stripes
nevertheless my lovingkindness will i not utterly take from him nor suffer my faithfulness to fail
my covenant will i not break nor alter the thing that is gone out of my lips
once have i sworn by my holiness that i will not lie unto david
his seed shall endure for ever and his throne as the sun before me
it shall be established for ever as the moon and as a faithful witness in heaven selah
but thou hast cast off and abhorred thou hast been wroth with thine anointed
thou hast made void the covenant of thy servant thou hast profaned his crown by casting it to the ground
thou hast broken down all his hedges thou hast brought his strong holds to ruin
all that pass by the way spoil him he is a reproach to his neighbours
thou hast set up the right hand of his adversaries thou hast made all his enemies to rejoice
thou hast also turned the edge of his sword and hast not made him to stand in the battle
thou hast made his glory to cease and cast his throne down to the ground
the days of his youth hast thou shortened thou hast covered him with shame selah
how long lord wilt thou hide thyself for ever shall thy wrath burn like fire
remember how short my time is wherefore hast thou made all men in vain
what man is he that liveth and shall not see death shall he deliver his soul from the hand of the grave selah
lord where are thy former lovingkindnesses which thou swarest unto david in thy truth
remember lord the reproach of thy servants how i do bear in my bosom the reproach of all the mighty people
wherewith thine enemies have reproached o lord wherewith they have reproached the footsteps of thine anointed
blessed be the lord for evermore amen and amen
lord thou hast been our dwelling place in all generations
before the mountains were brought forth or ever thou hadst formed the earth and the world even from everlasting to everlasting thou art god
thou turnest man to destruction and sayest return ye children of men
for a thousand years in thy sight are but as yesterday when it is past and as a watch in the night
thou carriest them away as with a flood they are as a sleep in the morning they are like grass which groweth up
in the morning it flourisheth and groweth up in the evening it is cut down and withereth
for we are consumed by thine anger and by thy wrath are we troubled
thou hast set our iniquities before thee our secret sins in the light of thy countenance
for all our days are passed away in thy wrath we spend our years as a tale that is told
the days of our years are threescore years and ten and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years yet is their strength labour and sorrow for it is soon cut off and we fly away
who knoweth the power of thine anger even according to thy fear so is thy wrath
so teach us to number our days that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom
return o lord how long and let it repent thee concerning thy servants
o satisfy us early with thy mercy that we may rejoice and be glad all our days
make us glad according to the days wherein thou hast afflicted us and the years wherein we have seen evil
let thy work appear unto thy servants and thy glory unto their children
and let the beauty of the lord our god be upon us and establish thou the work of our hands upon us yea the work of our hands establish thou it
he that dwelleth in the secret place of the most high shall abide under the shadow of the almighty
i will say of the lord he is my refuge and my fortress my god in him will i trust
surely he shall deliver thee from the snare of the fowler and from the noisome pestilence
he shall cover thee with his feathers and under his wings shalt thou trust his truth shall be thy shield and buckler
thou shalt not be afraid for the terror by night nor for the arrow that flieth by day
nor for the pestilence that walketh in darkness nor for the destruction that wasteth at noonday
a thousand shall fall at thy side and ten thousand at thy right hand but it shall not come nigh thee
only with thine eyes shalt thou behold and see the reward of the wicked
because thou hast made the lord which is my refuge even the most high thy habitation
there shall no evil befall thee neither shall any plague come nigh thy dwelling
for he shall give his angels charge over thee to keep thee in all thy ways
they shall bear thee up in their hands lest thou dash thy foot against a stone
thou shalt tread upon the lion and adder the young lion and the dragon shalt thou trample under feet
because he hath set his love upon me therefore will i deliver him i will set him on high because he hath known my name
he shall call upon me and i will answer him i will be with him in trouble i will deliver him and honour him
with long life will i satisfy him and shew him my salvation
it is a good thing to give thanks unto the lord and to sing praises unto thy name o most high
to shew forth thy lovingkindness in the morning and thy faithfulness every night
upon an instrument of ten strings and upon the psaltery upon the harp with a solemn sound
for thou lord hast made me glad through thy work i will triumph in the works of thy hands
o lord how great are thy works and thy thoughts are very deep
a brutish man knoweth not neither doth a fool understand this
when the wicked spring as the grass and when all the workers of iniquity do flourish it is that they shall be destroyed for ever
but thou lord art most high for evermore
for lo thine enemies o lord for lo thine enemies shall perish all the workers of iniquity shall be scattered
but my horn shalt thou exalt like the horn of an unicorn i shall be anointed with fresh oil
mine eye also shall see my desire on mine enemies and mine ears shall hear my desire of the wicked that rise up against me
the righteous shall flourish like the palm tree he shall grow like a cedar in lebanon
those that be planted in the house of the lord shall flourish in the courts of our god
they shall still bring forth fruit in old age they shall be fat and flourishing
to shew that the lord is upright he is my rock and there is no unrighteousness in him
the lord reigneth he is clothed with majesty the lord is clothed with strength wherewith he hath girded himself the world also is stablished that it cannot be moved
thy throne is established of old thou art from everlasting
the floods have lifted up o lord the floods have lifted up their voice the floods lift up their waves
the lord on high is mightier than the noise of many waters yea than the mighty waves of the sea
thy testimonies are very sure holiness becometh thine house o lord for ever
o lord god to whom vengeance belongeth o god to whom vengeance belongeth shew thyself
lift up thyself thou judge of the earth render a reward to the proud
lord how long shall the wicked how long shall the wicked triumph
how long shall they utter and speak hard things and all the workers of iniquity boast themselves
they break in pieces thy people o lord and afflict thine heritage
they slay the widow and the stranger and murder the fatherless
yet they say the lord shall not see neither shall the god of jacob regard it
understand ye brutish among the people and ye fools when will ye be wise
he that planted the ear shall he not hear he that formed the eye shall he not see
he that chastiseth the heathen shall not he correct he that teacheth man knowledge shall not he know
the lord knoweth the thoughts of man that they are vanity
blessed is the man whom thou chastenest o lord and teachest him out of thy law
that thou mayest give him rest from the days of adversity until the pit be digged for the wicked
for the lord will not cast off his people neither will he forsake his inheritance
but judgment shall return unto righteousness and all the upright in heart shall follow it
who will rise up for me against the evildoers or who will stand up for me against the workers of iniquity
unless the lord had been my help my soul had almost dwelt in silence
when i said my foot slippeth thy mercy o lord held me up
in the multitude of my thoughts within me thy comforts delight my soul
shall the throne of iniquity have fellowship with thee which frameth mischief by a law
they gather themselves together against the soul of the righteous and condemn the innocent blood
but the lord is my defence and my god is the rock of my refuge
and he shall bring upon them their own iniquity and shall cut them off in their own wickedness yea the lord our god shall cut them off
o come let us sing unto the lord let us make a joyful noise to the rock of our salvation
let us come before his presence with thanksgiving and make a joyful noise unto him with psalms
for the lord is a great god and a great king above all gods
in his hand are the deep places of the earth the strength of the hills is his also
the sea is his and he made it and his hands formed the dry land
o come let us worship and bow down let us kneel before the lord our maker
for he is our god and we are the people of his pasture and the sheep of his hand to day if ye will hear his voice
harden not your heart as in the provocation and as in the day of temptation in the wilderness
when your fathers tempted me proved me and saw my work
forty years long was i grieved with this generation and said it is a people that do err in their heart and they have not known my ways
unto whom i sware in my wrath that they should not enter into my rest
o sing unto the lord a new song sing unto the lord all the earth
sing unto the lord bless his name shew forth his salvation from day to day
declare his glory among the heathen his wonders among all people
for the lord is great and greatly to be praised he is to be feared above all gods
for all the gods of the nations are idols but the lord made the heavens
honour and majesty are before him strength and beauty are in his sanctuary
give unto the lord o ye kindreds of the people give unto the lord glory and strength
give unto the lord the glory due unto his name bring an offering and come into his courts
o worship the lord in the beauty of holiness fear before him all the earth
say among the heathen that the lord reigneth the world also shall be established that it shall not be moved he shall judge the people righteously
let the heavens rejoice and let the earth be glad let the sea roar and the fulness thereof
let the field be joyful and all that is therein then shall all the trees of the wood rejoice
before the lord for he cometh for he cometh to judge the earth he shall judge the world with righteousness and the people with his truth
the lord reigneth let the earth rejoice let the multitude of isles be glad thereof
clouds and darkness are round about him righteousness and judgment are the habitation of his throne
a fire goeth before him and burneth up his enemies round about
his lightnings enlightened the world the earth saw and trembled
the hills melted like wax at the presence of the lord at the presence of the lord of the whole earth
the heavens declare his righteousness and all the people see his glory
confounded be all they that serve graven images that boast themselves of idols worship him all ye gods
zion heard and was glad and the daughters of judah rejoiced because of thy judgments o lord
for thou lord art high above all the earth thou art exalted far above all gods
ye that love the lord hate evil he preserveth the souls of his saints he delivereth them out of the hand of the wicked
light is sown for the righteous and gladness for the upright in heart
rejoice in the lord ye righteous and give thanks at the remembrance of his holiness
o sing unto the lord a new song for he hath done marvellous things his right hand and his holy arm hath gotten him the victory
the lord hath made known his salvation his righteousness hath he openly shewed in the sight of the heathen
he hath remembered his mercy and his truth toward the house of israel all the ends of the earth have seen the salvation of our god
make a joyful noise unto the lord all the earth make a loud noise and rejoice and sing praise
sing unto the lord with the harp with the harp and the voice of a psalm
with trumpets and sound of cornet make a joyful noise before the lord the king
let the sea roar and the fulness thereof the world and they that dwell therein
let the floods clap their hands let the hills be joyful together
before the lord for he cometh to judge the earth with righteousness shall he judge the world and the people with equity
the lord reigneth let the people tremble he sitteth between the cherubims let the earth be moved
the lord is great in zion and he is high above all the people
let them praise thy great and terrible name for it is holy
the king's strength also loveth judgment thou dost establish equity thou executest judgment and righteousness in jacob
exalt ye the lord our god and worship at his footstool for he is holy
moses and aaron among his priests and samuel among them that call upon his name they called upon the lord and he answered them
he spake unto them in the cloudy pillar they kept his testimonies and the ordinance that he gave them
thou answeredst them o lord our god thou wast a god that forgavest them though thou tookest vengeance of their inventions
exalt the lord our god and worship at his holy hill for the lord our god is holy
make a joyful noise unto the lord all ye lands
serve the lord with gladness come before his presence with singing
know ye that the lord he is god it is he that hath made us and not we ourselves we are his people and the sheep of his pasture
enter into his gates with thanksgiving and into his courts with praise be thankful unto him and bless his name
for the lord is good his mercy is everlasting and his truth endureth to all generations
i will sing of mercy and judgment unto thee o lord will i sing
i will behave myself wisely in a perfect way o when wilt thou come unto me i will walk within my house with a perfect heart
i will set no wicked thing before mine eyes i hate the work of them that turn aside it shall not cleave to me
a froward heart shall depart from me i will not know a wicked person
whoso privily slandereth his neighbour him will i cut off him that hath an high look and a proud heart will not i suffer
mine eyes shall be upon the faithful of the land that they may dwell with me he that walketh in a perfect way he shall serve me
he that worketh deceit shall not dwell within my house he that telleth lies shall not tarry in my sight
i will early destroy all the wicked of the land that i may cut off all wicked doers from the city of the lord
hear my prayer o lord and let my cry come unto thee
hide not thy face from me in the day when i am in trouble incline thine ear unto me in the day when i call answer me speedily
for my days are consumed like smoke and my bones are burned as an hearth
my heart is smitten and withered like grass so that i forget to eat my bread
by reason of the voice of my groaning my bones cleave to my skin
i am like a pelican of the wilderness i am like an owl of the desert
i watch and am as a sparrow alone upon the house top
mine enemies reproach me all the day and they that are mad against me are sworn against me
for i have eaten ashes like bread and mingled my drink with weeping
because of thine indignation and thy wrath for thou hast lifted me up and cast me down
my days are like a shadow that declineth and i am withered like grass
but thou o lord shalt endure for ever and thy remembrance unto all generations
thou shalt arise and have mercy upon zion for the time to favour her yea the set time is come
for thy servants take pleasure in her stones and favour the dust thereof
so the heathen shall fear the name of the lord and all the kings of the earth thy glory
when the lord shall build up zion he shall appear in his glory
he will regard the prayer of the destitute and not despise their prayer
this shall be written for the generation to come and the people which shall be created shall praise the lord
for he hath looked down from the height of his sanctuary from heaven did the lord behold the earth
to hear the groaning of the prisoner to loose those that are appointed to death
to declare the name of the lord in zion and his praise in jerusalem
when the people are gathered together and the kingdoms to serve the lord
he weakened my strength in the way he shortened my days
i said o my god take me not away in the midst of my days thy years are throughout all generations
of old hast thou laid the foundation of the earth and the heavens are the work of thy hands
they shall perish but thou shalt endure yea all of them shall wax old like a garment as a vesture shalt thou change them and they shall be changed
but thou art the same and thy years shall have no end
the children of thy servants shall continue and their seed shall be established before thee
bless the lord o my soul and all that is within me bless his holy name
bless the lord o my soul and forget not all his benefits
who forgiveth all thine iniquities who healeth all thy diseases
who redeemeth thy life from destruction who crowneth thee with lovingkindness and tender mercies
who satisfieth thy mouth with good things so that thy youth is renewed like the eagle's
the lord executeth righteousness and judgment for all that are oppressed
he made known his ways unto moses his acts unto the children of israel
the lord is merciful and gracious slow to anger and plenteous in mercy
he will not always chide neither will he keep his anger for ever
he hath not dealt with us after our sins nor rewarded us according to our iniquities
for as the heaven is high above the earth so great is his mercy toward them that fear him
as far as the east is from the west so far hath he removed our transgressions from us
like as a father pitieth his children so the lord pitieth them that fear him
for he knoweth our frame he remembereth that we are dust
as for man his days are as grass as a flower of the field so he flourisheth
for the wind passeth over it and it is gone and the place thereof shall know it no more
but the mercy of the lord is from everlasting to everlasting upon them that fear him and his righteousness unto children's children
to such as keep his covenant and to those that remember his commandments to do them
the lord hath prepared his throne in the heavens and his kingdom ruleth over all
bless the lord ye his angels that excel in strength that do his commandments hearkening unto the voice of his word
bless ye the lord all ye his hosts ye ministers of his that do his pleasure
bless the lord all his works in all places of his dominion bless the lord o my soul
bless the lord o my soul o lord my god thou art very great thou art clothed with honour and majesty
who coverest thyself with light as with a garment who stretchest out the heavens like a curtain
who layeth the beams of his chambers in the waters who maketh the clouds his chariot who walketh upon the wings of the wind
who maketh his angels spirits his ministers a flaming fire
who laid the foundations of the earth that it should not be removed for ever
thou coveredst it with the deep as with a garment the waters stood above the mountains
at thy rebuke they fled at the voice of thy thunder they hasted away
they go up by the mountains they go down by the valleys unto the place which thou hast founded for them
thou hast set a bound that they may not pass over that they turn not again to cover the earth
he sendeth the springs into the valleys which run among the hills
they give drink to every beast of the field the wild asses quench their thirst
by them shall the fowls of the heaven have their habitation which sing among the branches
he watereth the hills from his chambers the earth is satisfied with the fruit of thy works
he causeth the grass to grow for the cattle and herb for the service of man that he may bring forth food out of the earth
and wine that maketh glad the heart of man and oil to make his face to shine and bread which strengtheneth man's heart
the trees of the lord are full of sap the cedars of lebanon which he hath planted
where the birds make their nests as for the stork the fir trees are her house
the high hills are a refuge for the wild goats and the rocks for the conies
he appointed the moon for seasons the sun knoweth his going down
thou makest darkness and it is night wherein all the beasts of the forest do creep forth
the young lions roar after their prey and seek their meat from god
the sun ariseth they gather themselves together and lay them down in their dens
man goeth forth unto his work and to his labour until the evening
o lord how manifold are thy works in wisdom hast thou made them all the earth is full of thy riches
so is this great and wide sea wherein are things creeping innumerable both small and great beasts
there go the ships there is that leviathan whom thou hast made to play therein
these wait all upon thee that thou mayest give them their meat in due season
that thou givest them they gather thou openest thine hand they are filled with good
thou hidest thy face they are troubled thou takest away their breath they die and return to their dust
thou sendest forth thy spirit they are created and thou renewest the face of the earth
the glory of the lord shall endure for ever the lord shall rejoice in his works
he looketh on the earth and it trembleth he toucheth the hills and they smoke
i will sing unto the lord as long as i live i will sing praise to my god while i have my being
my meditation of him shall be sweet i will be glad in the lord
let the sinners be consumed out of the earth and let the wicked be no more bless thou the lord o my soul praise ye the lord
o give thanks unto the lord call upon his name make known his deeds among the people
sing unto him sing psalms unto him talk ye of all his wondrous works
glory ye in his holy name let the heart of them rejoice that seek the lord
seek the lord and his strength seek his face evermore
remember his marvellous works that he hath done his wonders and the judgments of his mouth
o ye seed of abraham his servant ye children of jacob his chosen
he is the lord our god his judgments are in all the earth
he hath remembered his covenant for ever the word which he commanded to a thousand generations
which covenant he made with abraham and his oath unto isaac
and confirmed the same unto jacob for a law and to israel for an everlasting covenant
saying unto thee will i give the land of canaan the lot of your inheritance
when they were but a few men in number yea very few and strangers in it
when they went from one nation to another from one kingdom to another people
he suffered no man to do them wrong yea he reproved kings for their sakes
saying touch not mine anointed and do my prophets no harm
moreover he called for a famine upon the land he brake the whole staff of bread
he sent a man before them even joseph who was sold for a servant
whose feet they hurt with fetters he was laid in iron
until the time that his word came the word of the lord tried him
the king sent and loosed him even the ruler of the people and let him go free
he made him lord of his house and ruler of all his substance
to bind his princes at his pleasure and teach his senators wisdom
israel also came into egypt and jacob sojourned in the land of ham
and he increased his people greatly and made them stronger than their enemies
he turned their heart to hate his people to deal subtilly with his servants
he sent moses his servant and aaron whom he had chosen
they shewed his signs among them and wonders in the land of ham
he sent darkness and made it dark and they rebelled not against his word
he turned their waters into blood and slew their fish
their land brought forth frogs in abundance in the chambers of their kings
he spake and there came divers sorts of flies and lice in all their coasts
he gave them hail for rain and flaming fire in their land
he smote their vines also and their fig trees and brake the trees of their coasts
he spake and the locusts came and caterpillers and that without number
and did eat up all the herbs in their land and devoured the fruit of their ground
he smote also all the firstborn in their land the chief of all their strength
he brought them forth also with silver and gold and there was not one feeble person among their tribes
egypt was glad when they departed for the fear of them fell upon them
he spread a cloud for a covering and fire to give light in the night
the people asked and he brought quails and satisfied them with the bread of heaven
he opened the rock and the waters gushed out they ran in the dry places like a river
for he remembered his holy promise and abraham his servant
and he brought forth his people with joy and his chosen with gladness
and gave them the lands of the heathen and they inherited the labour of the people
that they might observe his statutes and keep his laws praise ye the lord
praise ye the lord o give thanks unto the lord for he is good for his mercy endureth for ever
who can utter the mighty acts of the lord who can shew forth all his praise
blessed are they that keep judgment and he that doeth righteousness at all times
remember me o lord with the favour that thou bearest unto thy people o visit me with thy salvation
that i may see the good of thy chosen that i may rejoice in the gladness of thy nation that i may glory with thine inheritance
we have sinned with our fathers we have committed iniquity we have done wickedly
our fathers understood not thy wonders in egypt they remembered not the multitude of thy mercies but provoked him at the sea even at the red sea
nevertheless he saved them for his name's sake that he might make his mighty power to be known
he rebuked the red sea also and it was dried up so he led them through the depths as through the wilderness
and he saved them from the hand of him that hated them and redeemed them from the hand of the enemy
and the waters covered their enemies there was not one of them left
then believed they his words they sang his praise
they soon forgat his works they waited not for his counsel
but lusted exceedingly in the wilderness and tempted god in the desert
and he gave them their request but sent leanness into their soul
they envied moses also in the camp and aaron the saint of the lord
the earth opened and swallowed up dathan and covered the company of abiram
and a fire was kindled in their company the flame burned up the wicked
they made a calf in horeb and worshipped the molten image
thus they changed their glory into the similitude of an ox that eateth grass
they forgat god their saviour which had done great things in egypt
wondrous works in the land of ham and terrible things by the red sea
therefore he said that he would destroy them had not moses his chosen stood before him in the breach to turn away his wrath lest he should destroy them
yea they despised the pleasant land they believed not his word
but murmured in their tents and hearkened not unto the voice of the lord
therefore he lifted up his hand against them to overthrow them in the wilderness
to overthrow their seed also among the nations and to scatter them in the lands
they joined themselves also unto baalpeor and ate the sacrifices of the dead
thus they provoked him to anger with their inventions and the plague brake in upon them
then stood up phinehas and executed judgment and so the plague was stayed
and that was counted unto him for righteousness unto all generations for evermore
they angered him also at the waters of strife so that it went ill with moses for their sakes
because they provoked his spirit so that he spake unadvisedly with his lips
they did not destroy the nations concerning whom the lord commanded them
but were mingled among the heathen and learned their works
and they served their idols which were a snare unto them
yea they sacrificed their sons and their daughters unto devils
and shed innocent blood even the blood of their sons and of their daughters whom they sacrificed unto the idols of canaan and the land was polluted with blood
thus were they defiled with their own works and went a whoring with their own inventions
therefore was the wrath of the lord kindled against his people insomuch that he abhorred his own inheritance
and he gave them into the hand of the heathen and they that hated them ruled over them
their enemies also oppressed them and they were brought into subjection under their hand
many times did he deliver them but they provoked him with their counsel and were brought low for their iniquity
nevertheless he regarded their affliction when he heard their cry
and he remembered for them his covenant and repented according to the multitude of his mercies
he made them also to be pitied of all those that carried them captives
save us o lord our god and gather us from among the heathen to give thanks unto thy holy name and to triumph in thy praise
blessed be the lord god of israel from everlasting to everlasting and let all the people say amen praise ye the lord
o give thanks unto the lord for he is good for his mercy endureth for ever
let the redeemed of the lord say so whom he hath redeemed from the hand of the enemy
and gathered them out of the lands from the east and from the west from the north and from the south
they wandered in the wilderness in a solitary way they found no city to dwell in
hungry and thirsty their soul fainted in them
then they cried unto the lord in their trouble and he delivered them out of their distresses
and he led them forth by the right way that they might go to a city of habitation
oh that men would praise the lord for his goodness and for his wonderful works to the children of men
for he satisfieth the longing soul and filleth the hungry soul with goodness
such as sit in darkness and in the shadow of death being bound in affliction and iron
because they rebelled against the words of god and contemned the counsel of the most high
therefore he brought down their heart with labour they fell down and there was none to help
then they cried unto the lord in their trouble and he saved them out of their distresses
he brought them out of darkness and the shadow of death and brake their bands in sunder
oh that men would praise the lord for his goodness and for his wonderful works to the children of men
for he hath broken the gates of brass and cut the bars of iron in sunder
fools because of their transgression and because of their iniquities are afflicted
their soul abhorreth all manner of meat and they draw near unto the gates of death
then they cry unto the lord in their trouble and he saveth them out of their distresses
he sent his word and healed them and delivered them from their destructions
oh that men would praise the lord for his goodness and for his wonderful works to the children of men
and let them sacrifice the sacrifices of thanksgiving and declare his works with rejoicing
they that go down to the sea in ships that do business in great waters
these see the works of the lord and his wonders in the deep
for he commandeth and raiseth the stormy wind which lifteth up the waves thereof
they mount up to the heaven they go down again to the depths their soul is melted because of trouble
they reel to and fro and stagger like a drunken man and are at their wit's end
then they cry unto the lord in their trouble and he bringeth them out of their distresses
he maketh the storm a calm so that the waves thereof are still
then are they glad because they be quiet so he bringeth them unto their desired haven
oh that men would praise the lord for his goodness and for his wonderful works to the children of men
let them exalt him also in the congregation of the people and praise him in the assembly of the elders
he turneth rivers into a wilderness and the watersprings into dry ground
a fruitful land into barrenness for the wickedness of them that dwell therein
he turneth the wilderness into a standing water and dry ground into watersprings
and there he maketh the hungry to dwell that they may prepare a city for habitation
and sow the fields and plant vineyards which may yield fruits of increase
he blesseth them also so that they are multiplied greatly and suffereth not their cattle to decrease
again they are minished and brought low through oppression affliction and sorrow
he poureth contempt upon princes and causeth them to wander in the wilderness where there is no way
yet setteth he the poor on high from affliction and maketh him families like a flock
the righteous shall see it and rejoice and all iniquity shall stop her mouth
whoso is wise and will observe these things even they shall understand the lovingkindness of the lord
o god my heart is fixed i will sing and give praise even with my glory
awake psaltery and harp i myself will awake early
i will praise thee o lord among the people and i will sing praises unto thee among the nations
for thy mercy is great above the heavens and thy truth reacheth unto the clouds
be thou exalted o god above the heavens and thy glory above all the earth
that thy beloved may be delivered save with thy right hand and answer me
god hath spoken in his holiness i will rejoice i will divide shechem and mete out the valley of succoth
gilead is mine manasseh is mine ephraim also is the strength of mine head judah is my lawgiver
moab is my washpot over edom will i cast out my shoe over philistia will i triumph
who will bring me into the strong city who will lead me into edom
wilt not thou o god who hast cast us off and wilt not thou o god go forth with our hosts
give us help from trouble for vain is the help of man
through god we shall do valiantly for he it is that shall tread down our enemies
hold not thy peace o god of my praise
for the mouth of the wicked and the mouth of the deceitful are opened against me they have spoken against me with a lying tongue
they compassed me about also with words of hatred and fought against me without a cause
for my love they are my adversaries but i give myself unto prayer
and they have rewarded me evil for good and hatred for my love
set thou a wicked man over him and let satan stand at his right hand
when he shall be judged let him be condemned and let his prayer become sin
let his days be few and let another take his office
let his children be fatherless and his wife a widow
let his children be continually vagabonds and beg let them seek their bread also out of their desolate places
let the extortioner catch all that he hath and let the strangers spoil his labour
let there be none to extend mercy unto him neither let there be any to favour his fatherless children
let his posterity be cut off and in the generation following let their name be blotted out
let the iniquity of his fathers be remembered with the lord and let not the sin of his mother be blotted out
let them be before the lord continually that he may cut off the memory of them from the earth
because that he remembered not to shew mercy but persecuted the poor and needy man that he might even slay the broken in heart
as he loved cursing so let it come unto him as he delighted not in blessing so let it be far from him
as he clothed himself with cursing like as with his garment so let it come into his bowels like water and like oil into his bones
let it be unto him as the garment which covereth him and for a girdle wherewith he is girded continually
let this be the reward of mine adversaries from the lord and of them that speak evil against my soul
but do thou for me o god the lord for thy name's sake because thy mercy is good deliver thou me
for i am poor and needy and my heart is wounded within me
i am gone like the shadow when it declineth i am tossed up and down as the locust
my knees are weak through fasting and my flesh faileth of fatness
i became also a reproach unto them when they looked upon me they shaked their heads
help me o lord my god o save me according to thy mercy
that they may know that this is thy hand that thou lord hast done it
let them curse but bless thou when they arise let them be ashamed but let thy servant rejoice
let mine adversaries be clothed with shame and let them cover themselves with their own confusion as with a mantle
i will greatly praise the lord with my mouth yea i will praise him among the multitude
for he shall stand at the right hand of the poor to save him from those that condemn his soul
the lord said unto my lord sit thou at my right hand until i make thine enemies thy footstool
the lord shall send the rod of thy strength out of zion rule thou in the midst of thine enemies
thy people shall be willing in the day of thy power in the beauties of holiness from the womb of the morning thou hast the dew of thy youth
the lord hath sworn and will not repent thou art a priest for ever after the order of melchizedek
the lord at thy right hand shall strike through kings in the day of his wrath
he shall judge among the heathen he shall fill the places with the dead bodies he shall wound the heads over many countries
he shall drink of the brook in the way therefore shall he lift up the head
praise ye the lord i will praise the lord with my whole heart in the assembly of the upright and in the congregation
the works of the lord are great sought out of all them that have pleasure therein
his work is honourable and glorious and his righteousness endureth for ever
he hath made his wonderful works to be remembered the lord is gracious and full of compassion
he hath given meat unto them that fear him he will ever be mindful of his covenant
he hath shewed his people the power of his works that he may give them the heritage of the heathen
the works of his hands are verity and judgment all his commandments are sure
they stand fast for ever and ever and are done in truth and uprightness
he sent redemption unto his people he hath commanded his covenant for ever holy and reverend is his name
the fear of the lord is the beginning of wisdom a good understanding have all they that do his commandments his praise endureth for ever
praise ye the lord blessed is the man that feareth the lord that delighteth greatly in his commandments
his seed shall be mighty upon earth the generation of the upright shall be blessed
wealth and riches shall be in his house and his righteousness endureth for ever
unto the upright there ariseth light in the darkness he is gracious and full of compassion and righteous
a good man sheweth favour and lendeth he will guide his affairs with discretion
surely he shall not be moved for ever the righteous shall be in everlasting remembrance
he shall not be afraid of evil tidings his heart is fixed trusting in the lord
his heart is established he shall not be afraid until he see his desire upon his enemies
he hath dispersed he hath given to the poor his righteousness endureth for ever his horn shall be exalted with honour
the wicked shall see it and be grieved he shall gnash with his teeth and melt away the desire of the wicked shall perish
praise ye the lord praise o ye servants of the lord praise the name of the lord
blessed be the name of the lord from this time forth and for evermore
from the rising of the sun unto the going down of the same the lord's name is to be praised
the lord is high above all nations and his glory above the heavens
who is like unto the lord our god who dwelleth on high
who humbleth himself to behold the things that are in heaven and in the earth
he raiseth up the poor out of the dust and lifteth the needy out of the dunghill
that he may set him with princes even with the princes of his people
he maketh the barren woman to keep house and to be a joyful mother of children praise ye the lord
when israel went out of egypt the house of jacob from a people of strange language
judah was his sanctuary and israel his dominion
the sea saw it and fled jordan was driven back
the mountains skipped like rams and the little hills like lambs
what ailed thee o thou sea that thou fleddest thou jordan that thou wast driven back
ye mountains that ye skipped like rams and ye little hills like lambs
tremble thou earth at the presence of the lord at the presence of the god of jacob
which turned the rock into a standing water the flint into a fountain of waters
not unto us o lord not unto us but unto thy name give glory for thy mercy and for thy truth's sake
wherefore should the heathen say where is now their god
but our god is in the heavens he hath done whatsoever he hath pleased
their idols are silver and gold the work of men's hands
they have mouths but they speak not eyes have they but they see not
they have ears but they hear not noses have they but they smell not
they have hands but they handle not feet have they but they walk not neither speak they through their throat
they that make them are like unto them so is every one that trusteth in them
o israel trust thou in the lord he is their help and their shield
o house of aaron trust in the lord he is their help and their shield
ye that fear the lord trust in the lord he is their help and their shield
the lord hath been mindful of us he will bless us he will bless the house of israel he will bless the house of aaron
he will bless them that fear the lord both small and great
the lord shall increase you more and more you and your children
ye are blessed of the lord which made heaven and earth
the heaven even the heavens are the lord's but the earth hath he given to the children of men
the dead praise not the lord neither any that go down into silence
but we will bless the lord from this time forth and for evermore praise the lord
i love the lord because he hath heard my voice and my supplications
because he hath inclined his ear unto me therefore will i call upon him as long as i live
the sorrows of death compassed me and the pains of hell gat hold upon me i found trouble and sorrow
then called i upon the name of the lord o lord i beseech thee deliver my soul
gracious is the lord and righteous yea our god is merciful
the lord preserveth the simple i was brought low and he helped me
return unto thy rest o my soul for the lord hath dealt bountifully with thee
for thou hast delivered my soul from death mine eyes from tears and my feet from falling
i will walk before the lord in the land of the living
i believed therefore have i spoken i was greatly afflicted
i said in my haste all men are liars
what shall i render unto the lord for all his benefits toward me
i will take the cup of salvation and call upon the name of the lord
i will pay my vows unto the lord now in the presence of all his people
precious in the sight of the lord is the death of his saints
o lord truly i am thy servant i am thy servant and the son of thine handmaid thou hast loosed my bonds
i will offer to thee the sacrifice of thanksgiving and will call upon the name of the lord
i will pay my vows unto the lord now in the presence of all his people
in the courts of the lord's house in the midst of thee o jerusalem praise ye the lord
o praise the lord all ye nations praise him all ye people
for his merciful kindness is great toward us and the truth of the lord endureth for ever praise ye the lord
o give thanks unto the lord for he is good because his mercy endureth for ever
let israel now say that his mercy endureth for ever
let the house of aaron now say that his mercy endureth for ever
let them now that fear the lord say that his mercy endureth for ever
i called upon the lord in distress the lord answered me and set me in a large place
the lord is on my side i will not fear what can man do unto me
the lord taketh my part with them that help me therefore shall i see my desire upon them that hate me
it is better to trust in the lord than to put confidence in man
it is better to trust in the lord than to put confidence in princes
all nations compassed me about but in the name of the lord will i destroy them
they compassed me about yea they compassed me about but in the name of the lord i will destroy them
they compassed me about like bees they are quenched as the fire of thorns for in the name of the lord i will destroy them
thou hast thrust sore at me that i might fall but the lord helped me
the lord is my strength and song and is become my salvation
the voice of rejoicing and salvation is in the tabernacles of the righteous the right hand of the lord doeth valiantly
the right hand of the lord is exalted the right hand of the lord doeth valiantly
i shall not die but live and declare the works of the lord
the lord hath chastened me sore but he hath not given me over unto death
open to me the gates of righteousness i will go into them and i will praise the lord
this gate of the lord into which the righteous shall enter
i will praise thee for thou hast heard me and art become my salvation
the stone which the builders refused is become the head stone of the corner
this is the lord's doing it is marvellous in our eyes
this is the day which the lord hath made we will rejoice and be glad in it
save now i beseech thee o lord o lord i beseech thee send now prosperity
blessed be he that cometh in the name of the lord we have blessed you out of the house of the lord
god is the lord which hath shewed us light bind the sacrifice with cords even unto the horns of the altar
thou art my god and i will praise thee thou art my god i will exalt thee
o give thanks unto the lord for he is good for his mercy endureth for ever
blessed are the undefiled in the way who walk in the law of the lord
blessed are they that keep his testimonies and that seek him with the whole heart
they also do no iniquity they walk in his ways
thou hast commanded us to keep thy precepts diligently
o that my ways were directed to keep thy statutes
then shall i not be ashamed when i have respect unto all thy commandments
i will praise thee with uprightness of heart when i shall have learned thy righteous judgments
i will keep thy statutes o forsake me not utterly
wherewithal shall a young man cleanse his way by taking heed thereto according to thy word
with my whole heart have i sought thee o let me not wander from thy commandments
thy word have i hid in mine heart that i might not sin against thee
blessed art thou o lord teach me thy statutes
with my lips have i declared all the judgments of thy mouth
i have rejoiced in the way of thy testimonies as much as in all riches
i will meditate in thy precepts and have respect unto thy ways
i will delight myself in thy statutes i will not forget thy word
deal bountifully with thy servant that i may live and keep thy word
open thou mine eyes that i may behold wondrous things out of thy law
i am a stranger in the earth hide not thy commandments from me
my soul breaketh for the longing that it hath unto thy judgments at all times
thou hast rebuked the proud that are cursed which do err from thy commandments
remove from me reproach and contempt for i have kept thy testimonies
princes also did sit and speak against me but thy servant did meditate in thy statutes
thy testimonies also are my delight and my counsellors
my soul cleaveth unto the dust quicken thou me according to thy word
i have declared my ways and thou heardest me teach me thy statutes
make me to understand the way of thy precepts so shall i talk of thy wondrous works
my soul melteth for heaviness strengthen thou me according unto thy word
remove from me the way of lying and grant me thy law graciously
i have chosen the way of truth thy judgments have i laid before me
i have stuck unto thy testimonies o lord put me not to shame
i will run the way of thy commandments when thou shalt enlarge my heart
teach me o lord the way of thy statutes and i shall keep it unto the end
give me understanding and i shall keep thy law yea i shall observe it with my whole heart
make me to go in the path of thy commandments for therein do i delight
incline my heart unto thy testimonies and not to covetousness
turn away mine eyes from beholding vanity and quicken thou me in thy way
stablish thy word unto thy servant who is devoted to thy fear
turn away my reproach which i fear for thy judgments are good
behold i have longed after thy precepts quicken me in thy righteousness
let thy mercies come also unto me o lord even thy salvation according to thy word
so shall i have wherewith to answer him that reproacheth me for i trust in thy word
and take not the word of truth utterly out of my mouth for i have hoped in thy judgments
so shall i keep thy law continually for ever and ever
and i will walk at liberty for i seek thy precepts
i will speak of thy testimonies also before kings and will not be ashamed
and i will delight myself in thy commandments which i have loved
my hands also will i lift up unto thy commandments which i have loved and i will meditate in thy statutes
remember the word unto thy servant upon which thou hast caused me to hope
this is my comfort in my affliction for thy word hath quickened me
the proud have had me greatly in derision yet have i not declined from thy law
i remembered thy judgments of old o lord and have comforted myself
horror hath taken hold upon me because of the wicked that forsake thy law
thy statutes have been my songs in the house of my pilgrimage
i have remembered thy name o lord in the night and have kept thy law
this i had because i kept thy precepts
thou art my portion o lord i have said that i would keep thy words
i intreated thy favour with my whole heart be merciful unto me according to thy word
i thought on my ways and turned my feet unto thy testimonies
i made haste and delayed not to keep thy commandments
the bands of the wicked have robbed me but i have not forgotten thy law
at midnight i will rise to give thanks unto thee because of thy righteous judgments
i am a companion of all them that fear thee and of them that keep thy precepts
the earth o lord is full of thy mercy teach me thy statutes
thou hast dealt well with thy servant o lord according unto thy word
teach me good judgment and knowledge for i have believed thy commandments
before i was afflicted i went astray but now have i kept thy word
thou art good and doest good teach me thy statutes
the proud have forged a lie against me but i will keep thy precepts with my whole heart
their heart is as fat as grease but i delight in thy law
it is good for me that i have been afflicted that i might learn thy statutes
the law of thy mouth is better unto me than thousands of gold and silver
thy hands have made me and fashioned me give me understanding that i may learn thy commandments
they that fear thee will be glad when they see me because i have hoped in thy word
i know o lord that thy judgments are right and that thou in faithfulness hast afflicted me
let i pray thee thy merciful kindness be for my comfort according to thy word unto thy servant
let thy tender mercies come unto me that i may live for thy law is my delight
let the proud be ashamed for they dealt perversely with me without a cause but i will meditate in thy precepts
let those that fear thee turn unto me and those that have known thy testimonies
let my heart be sound in thy statutes that i be not ashamed
my soul fainteth for thy salvation but i hope in thy word
mine eyes fail for thy word saying when wilt thou comfort me
for i am become like a bottle in the smoke yet do i not forget thy statutes
how many are the days of thy servant when wilt thou execute judgment on them that persecute me
the proud have digged pits for me which are not after thy law
all thy commandments are faithful they persecute me wrongfully help thou me
they had almost consumed me upon earth but i forsook not thy precepts
quicken me after thy lovingkindness so shall i keep the testimony of thy mouth
for ever o lord thy word is settled in heaven
thy faithfulness is unto all generations thou hast established the earth and it abideth
they continue this day according to thine ordinances for all are thy servants
unless thy law had been my delights i should then have perished in mine affliction
i will never forget thy precepts for with them thou hast quickened me
i am thine save me for i have sought thy precepts
the wicked have waited for me to destroy me but i will consider thy testimonies
i have seen an end of all perfection but thy commandment is exceeding broad
o how love i thy law it is my meditation all the day
thou through thy commandments hast made me wiser than mine enemies for they are ever with me
i have more understanding than all my teachers for thy testimonies are my meditation
i understand more than the ancients because i keep thy precepts
i have refrained my feet from every evil way that i might keep thy word
i have not departed from thy judgments for thou hast taught me
how sweet are thy words unto my taste yea sweeter than honey to my mouth
through thy precepts i get understanding therefore i hate every false way
thy word is a lamp unto my feet and a light unto my path
i have sworn and i will perform it that i will keep thy righteous judgments
i am afflicted very much quicken me o lord according unto thy word
accept i beseech thee the freewill offerings of my mouth o lord and teach me thy judgments
my soul is continually in my hand yet do i not forget thy law
the wicked have laid a snare for me yet i erred not from thy precepts
thy testimonies have i taken as an heritage for ever for they are the rejoicing of my heart
i have inclined mine heart to perform thy statutes alway even unto the end
i hate vain thoughts but thy law do i love
thou art my hiding place and my shield i hope in thy word
depart from me ye evildoers for i will keep the commandments of my god
uphold me according unto thy word that i may live and let me not be ashamed of my hope
hold thou me up and i shall be safe and i will have respect unto thy statutes continually
thou hast trodden down all them that err from thy statutes for their deceit is falsehood
thou puttest away all the wicked of the earth like dross therefore i love thy testimonies
my flesh trembleth for fear of thee and i am afraid of thy judgments
i have done judgment and justice leave me not to mine oppressors
be surety for thy servant for good let not the proud oppress me
mine eyes fail for thy salvation and for the word of thy righteousness
deal with thy servant according unto thy mercy and teach me thy statutes
i am thy servant give me understanding that i may know thy testimonies
it is time for thee lord to work for they have made void thy law
therefore i love thy commandments above gold yea above fine gold
therefore i esteem all thy precepts concerning all things to be right and i hate every false way
thy testimonies are wonderful therefore doth my soul keep them
the entrance of thy words giveth light it giveth understanding unto the simple
i opened my mouth and panted for i longed for thy commandments
look thou upon me and be merciful unto me as thou usest to do unto those that love thy name
order my steps in thy word and let not any iniquity have dominion over me
deliver me from the oppression of man so will i keep thy precepts
make thy face to shine upon thy servant and teach me thy statutes
rivers of waters run down mine eyes because they keep not thy law
righteous art thou o lord and upright are thy judgments
thy testimonies that thou hast commanded are righteous and very faithful
my zeal hath consumed me because mine enemies have forgotten thy words
thy word is very pure therefore thy servant loveth it
i am small and despised yet do not i forget thy precepts
thy righteousness is an everlasting righteousness and thy law is the truth
trouble and anguish have taken hold on me yet thy commandments are my delights
the righteousness of thy testimonies is everlasting give me understanding and i shall live
i cried with my whole heart hear me o lord i will keep thy statutes
i cried unto thee save me and i shall keep thy testimonies
i prevented the dawning of the morning and cried i hoped in thy word
mine eyes prevent the night watches that i might meditate in thy word
hear my voice according unto thy lovingkindness o lord quicken me according to thy judgment
they draw nigh that follow after mischief they are far from thy law
thou art near o lord and all thy commandments are truth
concerning thy testimonies i have known of old that thou hast founded them for ever
consider mine affliction and deliver me for i do not forget thy law
plead my cause and deliver me quicken me according to thy word
salvation is far from the wicked for they seek not thy statutes
great are thy tender mercies o lord quicken me according to thy judgments
many are my persecutors and mine enemies yet do i not decline from thy testimonies
i beheld the transgressors and was grieved because they kept not thy word
consider how i love thy precepts quicken me o lord according to thy lovingkindness
thy word is true from the beginning and every one of thy righteous judgments endureth for ever
princes have persecuted me without a cause but my heart standeth in awe of thy word
i rejoice at thy word as one that findeth great spoil
i hate and abhor lying but thy law do i love
seven times a day do i praise thee because of thy righteous judgments
great peace have they which love thy law and nothing shall offend them
lord i have hoped for thy salvation and done thy commandments
my soul hath kept thy testimonies and i love them exceedingly
i have kept thy precepts and thy testimonies for all my ways are before thee
let my cry come near before thee o lord give me understanding according to thy word
let my supplication come before thee deliver me according to thy word
my lips shall utter praise when thou hast taught me thy statutes
my tongue shall speak of thy word for all thy commandments are righteousness
let thine hand help me for i have chosen thy precepts
i have longed for thy salvation o lord and thy law is my delight
let my soul live and it shall praise thee and let thy judgments help me
i have gone astray like a lost sheep seek thy servant for i do not forget thy commandments
in my distress i cried unto the lord and he heard me
deliver my soul o lord from lying lips and from a deceitful tongue
what shall be given unto thee or what shall be done unto thee thou false tongue
sharp arrows of the mighty with coals of juniper
woe is me that i sojourn in mesech that i dwell in the tents of kedar
my soul hath long dwelt with him that hateth peace
i am for peace but when i speak they are for war
i will lift up mine eyes unto the hills from whence cometh my help
my help cometh from the lord which made heaven and earth
he will not suffer thy foot to be moved he that keepeth thee will not slumber
behold he that keepeth israel shall neither slumber nor sleep
the lord is thy keeper the lord is thy shade upon thy right hand
the sun shall not smite thee by day nor the moon by night
the lord shall preserve thee from all evil he shall preserve thy soul
the lord shall preserve thy going out and thy coming in from this time forth and even for evermore
i was glad when they said unto me let us go into the house of the lord
our feet shall stand within thy gates o jerusalem
jerusalem is builded as a city that is compact together
whither the tribes go up the tribes of the lord unto the testimony of israel to give thanks unto the name of the lord
for there are set thrones of judgment the thrones of the house of david
pray for the peace of jerusalem they shall prosper that love thee
peace be within thy walls and prosperity within thy palaces
for my brethren and companions sakes i will now say peace be within thee
because of the house of the lord our god i will seek thy good
unto thee lift i up mine eyes o thou that dwellest in the heavens
behold as the eyes of servants look unto the hand of their masters and as the eyes of a maiden unto the hand of her mistress so our eyes wait upon the lord our god until that he have mercy upon us
have mercy upon us o lord have mercy upon us for we are exceedingly filled with contempt
our soul is exceedingly filled with the scorning of those that are at ease and with the contempt of the proud
if it had not been the lord who was on our side now may israel say
if it had not been the lord who was on our side when men rose up against us
then they had swallowed us up quick when their wrath was kindled against us
then the waters had overwhelmed us the stream had gone over our soul
then the proud waters had gone over our soul
blessed be the lord who hath not given us as a prey to their teeth
our soul is escaped as a bird out of the snare of the fowlers the snare is broken and we are escaped
our help is in the name of the lord who made heaven and earth
they that trust in the lord shall be as mount zion which cannot be removed but abideth for ever
as the mountains are round about jerusalem so the lord is round about his people from henceforth even for ever
for the rod of the wicked shall not rest upon the lot of the righteous lest the righteous put forth their hands unto iniquity
do good o lord unto those that be good and to them that are upright in their hearts
as for such as turn aside unto their crooked ways the lord shall lead them forth with the workers of iniquity but peace shall be upon israel
when the lord turned again the captivity of zion we were like them that dream
then was our mouth filled with laughter and our tongue with singing then said they among the heathen the lord hath done great things for them
the lord hath done great things for us whereof we are glad
turn again our captivity o lord as the streams in the south
they that sow in tears shall reap in joy
he that goeth forth and weepeth bearing precious seed shall doubtless come again with rejoicing bringing his sheaves with him
except the lord build the house they labour in vain that build it except the lord keep the city the watchman waketh but in vain
it is vain for you to rise up early to sit up late to eat the bread of sorrows for so he giveth his beloved sleep
lo children are an heritage of the lord and the fruit of the womb is his reward
as arrows are in the hand of a mighty man so are children of the youth
happy is the man that hath his quiver full of them they shall not be ashamed but they shall speak with the enemies in the gate
blessed is every one that feareth the lord that walketh in his ways
for thou shalt eat the labour of thine hands happy shalt thou be and it shall be well with thee
thy wife shall be as a fruitful vine by the sides of thine house thy children like olive plants round about thy table
behold that thus shall the man be blessed that feareth the lord
the lord shall bless thee out of zion and thou shalt see the good of jerusalem all the days of thy life
yea thou shalt see thy children's children and peace upon israel
many a time have they afflicted me from my youth may israel now say
many a time have they afflicted me from my youth yet they have not prevailed against me
the plowers plowed upon my back they made long their furrows
the lord is righteous he hath cut asunder the cords of the wicked
let them all be confounded and turned back that hate zion
let them be as the grass upon the housetops which withereth afore it groweth up
wherewith the mower filleth not his hand nor he that bindeth sheaves his bosom
neither do they which go by say the blessing of the lord be upon you we bless you in the name of the lord
out of the depths have i cried unto thee o lord
lord hear my voice let thine ears be attentive to the voice of my supplications
if thou lord shouldest mark iniquities o lord who shall stand
but there is forgiveness with thee that thou mayest be feared
i wait for the lord my soul doth wait and in his word do i hope
my soul waiteth for the lord more than they that watch for the morning i say more than they that watch for the morning
let israel hope in the lord for with the lord there is mercy and with him is plenteous redemption
and he shall redeem israel from all his iniquities
lord my heart is not haughty nor mine eyes lofty neither do i exercise myself in great matters or in things too high for me
surely i have behaved and quieted myself as a child that is weaned of his mother my soul is even as a weaned child
let israel hope in the lord from henceforth and for ever
lord remember david and all his afflictions
how he sware unto the lord and vowed unto the mighty god of jacob
surely i will not come into the tabernacle of my house nor go up into my bed
i will not give sleep to mine eyes or slumber to mine eyelids
until i find out a place for the lord an habitation for the mighty god of jacob
lo we heard of it at ephratah we found it in the fields of the wood
we will go into his tabernacles we will worship at his footstool
arise o lord into thy rest thou and the ark of thy strength
let thy priests be clothed with righteousness and let thy saints shout for joy
for thy servant david's sake turn not away the face of thine anointed
the lord hath sworn in truth unto david he will not turn from it of the fruit of thy body will i set upon thy throne
if thy children will keep my covenant and my testimony that i shall teach them their children shall also sit upon thy throne for evermore
for the lord hath chosen zion he hath desired it for his habitation
this is my rest for ever here will i dwell for i have desired it
i will abundantly bless her provision i will satisfy her poor with bread
i will also clothe her priests with salvation and her saints shall shout aloud for joy
there will i make the horn of david to bud i have ordained a lamp for mine anointed
his enemies will i clothe with shame but upon himself shall his crown flourish
behold how good and how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity
it is like the precious ointment upon the head that ran down upon the beard even aaron's beard that went down to the skirts of his garments
as the dew of hermon and as the dew that descended upon the mountains of zion for there the lord commanded the blessing even life for evermore
behold bless ye the lord all ye servants of the lord which by night stand in the house of the lord
lift up your hands in the sanctuary and bless the lord
the lord that made heaven and earth bless thee out of zion
praise ye the lord praise ye the name of the lord praise him o ye servants of the lord
ye that stand in the house of the lord in the courts of the house of our god
praise the lord for the lord is good sing praises unto his name for it is pleasant
for the lord hath chosen jacob unto himself and israel for his peculiar treasure
for i know that the lord is great and that our lord is above all gods
whatsoever the lord pleased that did he in heaven and in earth in the seas and all deep places
he causeth the vapours to ascend from the ends of the earth he maketh lightnings for the rain he bringeth the wind out of his treasuries
who smote the firstborn of egypt both of man and beast
who sent tokens and wonders into the midst of thee o egypt upon pharaoh and upon all his servants
who smote great nations and slew mighty kings
sihon king of the amorites and og king of bashan and all the kingdoms of canaan
and gave their land for an heritage an heritage unto israel his people
thy name o lord endureth for ever and thy memorial o lord throughout all generations
for the lord will judge his people and he will repent himself concerning his servants
the idols of the heathen are silver and gold the work of men's hands
they have mouths but they speak not eyes have they but they see not
they have ears but they hear not neither is there any breath in their mouths
they that make them are like unto them so is every one that trusteth in them
bless the lord o house of israel bless the lord o house of aaron
bless the lord o house of levi ye that fear the lord bless the lord
blessed be the lord out of zion which dwelleth at jerusalem praise ye the lord
o give thanks unto the lord for he is good for his mercy endureth for ever
o give thanks unto the god of gods for his mercy endureth for ever
o give thanks to the lord of lords for his mercy endureth for ever
to him who alone doeth great wonders for his mercy endureth for ever
to him that by wisdom made the heavens for his mercy endureth for ever
to him that stretched out the earth above the waters for his mercy endureth for ever
to him that made great lights for his mercy endureth for ever
the sun to rule by day for his mercy endureth for ever
the moon and stars to rule by night for his mercy endureth for ever
to him that smote egypt in their firstborn for his mercy endureth for ever
and brought out israel from among them for his mercy endureth for ever
with a strong hand and with a stretched out arm for his mercy endureth for ever
to him which divided the red sea into parts for his mercy endureth for ever
and made israel to pass through the midst of it for his mercy endureth for ever
but overthrew pharaoh and his host in the red sea for his mercy endureth for ever
to him which led his people through the wilderness for his mercy endureth for ever
to him which smote great kings for his mercy endureth for ever
and slew famous kings for his mercy endureth for ever
sihon king of the amorites for his mercy endureth for ever
and og the king of bashan for his mercy endureth for ever
and gave their land for an heritage for his mercy endureth for ever
even an heritage unto israel his servant for his mercy endureth for ever
who remembered us in our low estate for his mercy endureth for ever
and hath redeemed us from our enemies for his mercy endureth for ever
who giveth food to all flesh for his mercy endureth for ever
o give thanks unto the god of heaven for his mercy endureth for ever
by the rivers of babylon there we sat down yea we wept when we remembered zion
we hanged our harps upon the willows in the midst thereof
for there they that carried us away captive required of us a song and they that wasted us required of us mirth saying sing us one of the songs of zion
how shall we sing the lord's song in a strange land
if i forget thee o jerusalem let my right hand forget her cunning
if i do not remember thee let my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth if i prefer not jerusalem above my chief joy
remember o lord the children of edom in the day of jerusalem who said rase it rase it even to the foundation thereof
o daughter of babylon who art to be destroyed happy shall he be that rewardeth thee as thou hast served us
happy shall he be that taketh and dasheth thy little ones against the stones
i will praise thee with my whole heart before the gods will i sing praise unto thee
i will worship toward thy holy temple and praise thy name for thy lovingkindness and for thy truth for thou hast magnified thy word above all thy name
in the day when i cried thou answeredst me and strengthenedst me with strength in my soul
all the kings of the earth shall praise thee o lord when they hear the words of thy mouth
yea they shall sing in the ways of the lord for great is the glory of the lord
though the lord be high yet hath he respect unto the lowly but the proud he knoweth afar off
though i walk in the midst of trouble thou wilt revive me thou shalt stretch forth thine hand against the wrath of mine enemies and thy right hand shall save me
the lord will perfect that which concerneth me thy mercy o lord endureth for ever forsake not the works of thine own hands
o lord thou hast searched me and known me
thou knowest my downsitting and mine uprising thou understandest my thought afar off
thou compassest my path and my lying down and art acquainted with all my ways
for there is not a word in my tongue but lo o lord thou knowest it altogether
thou hast beset me behind and before and laid thine hand upon me
such knowledge is too wonderful for me it is high i cannot attain unto it
whither shall i go from thy spirit or whither shall i flee from thy presence
if i ascend up into heaven thou art there if i make my bed in hell behold thou art there
if i take the wings of the morning and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea
even there shall thy hand lead me and thy right hand shall hold me
if i say surely the darkness shall cover me even the night shall be light about me
yea the darkness hideth not from thee but the night shineth as the day the darkness and the light are both alike to thee
for thou hast possessed my reins thou hast covered me in my mother's womb
i will praise thee for i am fearfully and wonderfully made marvellous are thy works and that my soul knoweth right well
my substance was not hid from thee when i was made in secret and curiously wrought in the lowest parts of the earth
thine eyes did see my substance yet being unperfect and in thy book all my members were written which in continuance were fashioned when as yet there was none of them
how precious also are thy thoughts unto me o god how great is the sum of them
if i should count them they are more in number than the sand when i awake i am still with thee
surely thou wilt slay the wicked o god depart from me therefore ye bloody men
for they speak against thee wickedly and thine enemies take thy name in vain
do not i hate them o lord that hate thee and am not i grieved with those that rise up against thee
i hate them with perfect hatred i count them mine enemies
search me o god and know my heart try me and know my thoughts
and see if there be any wicked way in me and lead me in the way everlasting
deliver me o lord from the evil man preserve me from the violent man
which imagine mischiefs in their heart continually are they gathered together for war
they have sharpened their tongues like a serpent adders poison is under their lips selah
keep me o lord from the hands of the wicked preserve me from the violent man who have purposed to overthrow my goings
the proud have hid a snare for me and cords they have spread a net by the wayside they have set gins for me selah
i said unto the lord thou art my god hear the voice of my supplications o lord
o god the lord the strength of my salvation thou hast covered my head in the day of battle
grant not o lord the desires of the wicked further not his wicked device lest they exalt themselves selah
as for the head of those that compass me about let the mischief of their own lips cover them
let burning coals fall upon them let them be cast into the fire into deep pits that they rise not up again
let not an evil speaker be established in the earth evil shall hunt the violent man to overthrow him
i know that the lord will maintain the cause of the afflicted and the right of the poor
surely the righteous shall give thanks unto thy name the upright shall dwell in thy presence
lord i cry unto thee make haste unto me give ear unto my voice when i cry unto thee
let my prayer be set forth before thee as incense and the lifting up of my hands as the evening sacrifice
set a watch o lord before my mouth keep the door of my lips
incline not my heart to any evil thing to practise wicked works with men that work iniquity and let me not eat of their dainties
let the righteous smite me it shall be a kindness and let him reprove me it shall be an excellent oil which shall not break my head for yet my prayer also shall be in their calamities
when their judges are overthrown in stony places they shall hear my words for they are sweet
our bones are scattered at the grave's mouth as when one cutteth and cleaveth wood upon the earth
but mine eyes are unto thee o god the lord in thee is my trust leave not my soul destitute
keep me from the snares which they have laid for me and the gins of the workers of iniquity
let the wicked fall into their own nets whilst that i withal escape
i cried unto the lord with my voice with my voice unto the lord did i make my supplication
i poured out my complaint before him i shewed before him my trouble
when my spirit was overwhelmed within me then thou knewest my path in the way wherein i walked have they privily laid a snare for me
i looked on my right hand and beheld but there was no man that would know me refuge failed me no man cared for my soul
i cried unto thee o lord i said thou art my refuge and my portion in the land of the living
attend unto my cry for i am brought very low deliver me from my persecutors for they are stronger than i
bring my soul out of prison that i may praise thy name the righteous shall compass me about for thou shalt deal bountifully with me
hear my prayer o lord give ear to my supplications in thy faithfulness answer me and in thy righteousness
and enter not into judgment with thy servant for in thy sight shall no man living be justified
for the enemy hath persecuted my soul he hath smitten my life down to the ground he hath made me to dwell in darkness as those that have been long dead
therefore is my spirit overwhelmed within me my heart within me is desolate
i remember the days of old i meditate on all thy works i muse on the work of thy hands
i stretch forth my hands unto thee my soul thirsteth after thee as a thirsty land selah
hear me speedily o lord my spirit faileth hide not thy face from me lest i be like unto them that go down into the pit
cause me to hear thy lovingkindness in the morning for in thee do i trust cause me to know the way wherein i should walk for i lift up my soul unto thee
deliver me o lord from mine enemies i flee unto thee to hide me
teach me to do thy will for thou art my god thy spirit is good lead me into the land of uprightness
quicken me o lord for thy name's sake for thy righteousness sake bring my soul out of trouble
and of thy mercy cut off mine enemies and destroy all them that afflict my soul for i am thy servant
blessed be the lord my strength which teacheth my hands to war and my fingers to fight
my goodness and my fortress my high tower and my deliverer my shield and he in whom i trust who subdueth my people under me
lord what is man that thou takest knowledge of him or the son of man that thou makest account of him
man is like to vanity his days are as a shadow that passeth away
bow thy heavens o lord and come down touch the mountains and they shall smoke
cast forth lightning and scatter them shoot out thine arrows and destroy them
send thine hand from above rid me and deliver me out of great waters from the hand of strange children
whose mouth speaketh vanity and their right hand is a right hand of falsehood
i will sing a new song unto thee o god upon a psaltery and an instrument of ten strings will i sing praises unto thee
it is he that giveth salvation unto kings who delivereth david his servant from the hurtful sword
rid me and deliver me from the hand of strange children whose mouth speaketh vanity and their right hand is a right hand of falsehood
that our sons may be as plants grown up in their youth that our daughters may be as corner stones polished after the similitude of a palace
that our garners may be full affording all manner of store that our sheep may bring forth thousands and ten thousands in our streets
that our oxen may be strong to labour that there be no breaking in nor going out that there be no complaining in our streets
happy is that people that is in such a case yea happy is that people whose god is the lord
i will extol thee my god o king and i will bless thy name for ever and ever
every day will i bless thee and i will praise thy name for ever and ever
great is the lord and greatly to be praised and his greatness is unsearchable
one generation shall praise thy works to another and shall declare thy mighty acts
i will speak of the glorious honour of thy majesty and of thy wondrous works
and men shall speak of the might of thy terrible acts and i will declare thy greatness
they shall abundantly utter the memory of thy great goodness and shall sing of thy righteousness
the lord is gracious and full of compassion slow to anger and of great mercy
the lord is good to all and his tender mercies are over all his works
all thy works shall praise thee o lord and thy saints shall bless thee
they shall speak of the glory of thy kingdom and talk of thy power
to make known to the sons of men his mighty acts and the glorious majesty of his kingdom
thy kingdom is an everlasting kingdom and thy dominion endureth throughout all generations
the lord upholdeth all that fall and raiseth up all those that be bowed down
the eyes of all wait upon thee and thou givest them their meat in due season
thou openest thine hand and satisfiest the desire of every living thing
the lord is righteous in all his ways and holy in all his works
the lord is nigh unto all them that call upon him to all that call upon him in truth
he will fulfil the desire of them that fear him he also will hear their cry and will save them
the lord preserveth all them that love him but all the wicked will he destroy
my mouth shall speak the praise of the lord and let all flesh bless his holy name for ever and ever
praise ye the lord praise the lord o my soul
while i live will i praise the lord i will sing praises unto my god while i have any being
put not your trust in princes nor in the son of man in whom there is no help
his breath goeth forth he returneth to his earth in that very day his thoughts perish
happy is he that hath the god of jacob for his help whose hope is in the lord his god
which made heaven and earth the sea and all that therein is which keepeth truth for ever
which executeth judgment for the oppressed which giveth food to the hungry the lord looseth the prisoners
the lord openeth the eyes of the blind the lord raiseth them that are bowed down the lord loveth the righteous
the lord preserveth the strangers he relieveth the fatherless and widow but the way of the wicked he turneth upside down
the lord shall reign for ever even thy god o zion unto all generations praise ye the lord
praise ye the lord for it is good to sing praises unto our god for it is pleasant and praise is comely
the lord doth build up jerusalem he gathereth together the outcasts of israel
he healeth the broken in heart and bindeth up their wounds
he telleth the number of the stars he calleth them all by their names
great is our lord and of great power his understanding is infinite
the lord lifteth up the meek he casteth the wicked down to the ground
sing unto the lord with thanksgiving sing praise upon the harp unto our god
who covereth the heaven with clouds who prepareth rain for the earth who maketh grass to grow upon the mountains
he giveth to the beast his food and to the young ravens which cry
he delighteth not in the strength of the horse he taketh not pleasure in the legs of a man
the lord taketh pleasure in them that fear him in those that hope in his mercy
praise the lord o jerusalem praise thy god o zion
for he hath strengthened the bars of thy gates he hath blessed thy children within thee
he maketh peace in thy borders and filleth thee with the finest of the wheat
he sendeth forth his commandment upon earth his word runneth very swiftly
he giveth snow like wool he scattereth the hoarfrost like ashes
he casteth forth his ice like morsels who can stand before his cold
he sendeth out his word and melteth them he causeth his wind to blow and the waters flow
he sheweth his word unto jacob his statutes and his judgments unto israel
he hath not dealt so with any nation and as for his judgments they have not known them praise ye the lord
praise ye the lord praise ye the lord from the heavens praise him in the heights
praise ye him all his angels praise ye him all his hosts
praise ye him sun and moon praise him all ye stars of light
praise him ye heavens of heavens and ye waters that be above the heavens
let them praise the name of the lord for he commanded and they were created
he hath also stablished them for ever and ever he hath made a decree which shall not pass
praise the lord from the earth ye dragons and all deeps
fire and hail snow and vapours stormy wind fulfilling his word
mountains and all hills fruitful trees and all cedars
beasts and all cattle creeping things and flying fowl
kings of the earth and all people princes and all judges of the earth
both young men and maidens old men and children
let them praise the name of the lord for his name alone is excellent his glory is above the earth and heaven
he also exalteth the horn of his people the praise of all his saints even of the children of israel a people near unto him praise ye the lord
praise ye the lord sing unto the lord a new song and his praise in the congregation of saints
let israel rejoice in him that made him let the children of zion be joyful in their king
let them praise his name in the dance let them sing praises unto him with the timbrel and harp
for the lord taketh pleasure in his people he will beautify the meek with salvation
let the saints be joyful in glory let them sing aloud upon their beds
let the high praises of god be in their mouth and a twoedged sword in their hand
to execute vengeance upon the heathen and punishments upon the people
to bind their kings with chains and their nobles with fetters of iron
to execute upon them the judgment written this honour have all his saints praise ye the lord
praise ye the lord praise god in his sanctuary praise him in the firmament of his power
praise him for his mighty acts praise him according to his excellent greatness
praise him with the sound of the trumpet praise him with the psaltery and harp
praise him with the timbrel and dance praise him with stringed instruments and organs
praise him upon the loud cymbals praise him upon the high sounding cymbals
let every thing that hath breath praise the lord praise ye the lord
the proverbs of solomon the son of david king of israel
to know wisdom and instruction to perceive the words of understanding
to receive the instruction of wisdom justice and judgment and equity
to give subtilty to the simple to the young man knowledge and discretion
a wise man will hear and will increase learning and a man of understanding shall attain unto wise counsels
to understand a proverb and the interpretation the words of the wise and their dark sayings
the fear of the lord is the beginning of knowledge but fools despise wisdom and instruction
my son hear the instruction of thy father and forsake not the law of thy mother
for they shall be an ornament of grace unto thy head and chains about thy neck
my son if sinners entice thee consent thou not
if they say come with us let us lay wait for blood let us lurk privily for the innocent without cause
let us swallow them up alive as the grave and whole as those that go down into the pit
we shall find all precious substance we shall fill our houses with spoil
cast in thy lot among us let us all have one purse
my son walk not thou in the way with them refrain thy foot from their path
for their feet run to evil and make haste to shed blood
surely in vain the net is spread in the sight of any bird
and they lay wait for their own blood they lurk privily for their own lives
so are the ways of every one that is greedy of gain which taketh away the life of the owners thereof
wisdom crieth without she uttereth her voice in the streets
she crieth in the chief place of concourse in the openings of the gates in the city she uttereth her words saying
how long ye simple ones will ye love simplicity and the scorners delight in their scorning and fools hate knowledge
turn you at my reproof behold i will pour out my spirit unto you i will make known my words unto you
because i have called and ye refused i have stretched out my hand and no man regarded
but ye have set at nought all my counsel and would none of my reproof
i also will laugh at your calamity i will mock when your fear cometh
when your fear cometh as desolation and your destruction cometh as a whirlwind when distress and anguish cometh upon you
then shall they call upon me but i will not answer they shall seek me early but they shall not find me
for that they hated knowledge and did not choose the fear of the lord
they would none of my counsel they despised all my reproof
therefore shall they eat of the fruit of their own way and be filled with their own devices
for the turning away of the simple shall slay them and the prosperity of fools shall destroy them
but whoso hearkeneth unto me shall dwell safely and shall be quiet from fear of evil
my son if thou wilt receive my words and hide my commandments with thee
so that thou incline thine ear unto wisdom and apply thine heart to understanding
yea if thou criest after knowledge and liftest up thy voice for understanding
if thou seekest her as silver and searchest for her as for hid treasures
then shalt thou understand the fear of the lord and find the knowledge of god
for the lord giveth wisdom out of his mouth cometh knowledge and understanding
he layeth up sound wisdom for the righteous he is a buckler to them that walk uprightly
he keepeth the paths of judgment and preserveth the way of his saints
then shalt thou understand righteousness and judgment and equity yea every good path
when wisdom entereth into thine heart and knowledge is pleasant unto thy soul
discretion shall preserve thee understanding shall keep thee
to deliver thee from the way of the evil man from the man that speaketh froward things
who leave the paths of uprightness to walk in the ways of darkness
who rejoice to do evil and delight in the frowardness of the wicked
whose ways are crooked and they froward in their paths
to deliver thee from the strange woman even from the stranger which flattereth with her words
which forsaketh the guide of her youth and forgetteth the covenant of her god
for her house inclineth unto death and her paths unto the dead
none that go unto her return again neither take they hold of the paths of life
that thou mayest walk in the way of good men and keep the paths of the righteous
for the upright shall dwell in the land and the perfect shall remain in it
but the wicked shall be cut off from the earth and the transgressors shall be rooted out of it
my son forget not my law but let thine heart keep my commandments
for length of days and long life and peace shall they add to thee
let not mercy and truth forsake thee bind them about thy neck write them upon the table of thine heart
so shalt thou find favour and good understanding in the sight of god and man
trust in the lord with all thine heart and lean not unto thine own understanding
in all thy ways acknowledge him and he shall direct thy paths
be not wise in thine own eyes fear the lord and depart from evil
it shall be health to thy navel and marrow to thy bones
honour the lord with thy substance and with the firstfruits of all thine increase
so shall thy barns be filled with plenty and thy presses shall burst out with new wine
my son despise not the chastening of the lord neither be weary of his correction
for whom the lord loveth he correcteth even as a father the son in whom he delighteth
happy is the man that findeth wisdom and the man that getteth understanding
for the merchandise of it is better than the merchandise of silver and the gain thereof than fine gold
she is more precious than rubies and all the things thou canst desire are not to be compared unto her
length of days is in her right hand and in her left hand riches and honour
her ways are ways of pleasantness and all her paths are peace
she is a tree of life to them that lay hold upon her and happy is every one that retaineth her
the lord by wisdom hath founded the earth by understanding hath he established the heavens
by his knowledge the depths are broken up and the clouds drop down the dew
my son let not them depart from thine eyes keep sound wisdom and discretion
so shall they be life unto thy soul and grace to thy neck
then shalt thou walk in thy way safely and thy foot shall not stumble
when thou liest down thou shalt not be afraid yea thou shalt lie down and thy sleep shall be sweet
be not afraid of sudden fear neither of the desolation of the wicked when it cometh
for the lord shall be thy confidence and shall keep thy foot from being taken
withhold not good from them to whom it is due when it is in the power of thine hand to do it
say not unto thy neighbour go and come again and to morrow i will give when thou hast it by thee
devise not evil against thy neighbour seeing he dwelleth securely by thee
strive not with a man without cause if he have done thee no harm
envy thou not the oppressor and choose none of his ways
for the froward is abomination to the lord but his secret is with the righteous
the curse of the lord is in the house of the wicked but he blesseth the habitation of the just
surely he scorneth the scorners but he giveth grace unto the lowly
the wise shall inherit glory but shame shall be the promotion of fools
hear ye children the instruction of a father and attend to know understanding
for i give you good doctrine forsake ye not my law
for i was my father's son tender and only beloved in the sight of my mother
he taught me also and said unto me let thine heart retain my words keep my commandments and live
get wisdom get understanding forget it not neither decline from the words of my mouth
forsake her not and she shall preserve thee love her and she shall keep thee
wisdom is the principal thing therefore get wisdom and with all thy getting get understanding
exalt her and she shall promote thee she shall bring thee to honour when thou dost embrace her
she shall give to thine head an ornament of grace a crown of glory shall she deliver to thee
hear o my son and receive my sayings and the years of thy life shall be many
i have taught thee in the way of wisdom i have led thee in right paths
when thou goest thy steps shall not be straitened and when thou runnest thou shalt not stumble
take fast hold of instruction let her not go keep her for she is thy life
enter not into the path of the wicked and go not in the way of evil men
avoid it pass not by it turn from it and pass away
for they sleep not except they have done mischief and their sleep is taken away unless they cause some to fall
for they eat the bread of wickedness and drink the wine of violence
but the path of the just is as the shining light that shineth more and more unto the perfect day
the way of the wicked is as darkness they know not at what they stumble
my son attend to my words incline thine ear unto my sayings
let them not depart from thine eyes keep them in the midst of thine heart
for they are life unto those that find them and health to all their flesh
keep thy heart with all diligence for out of it are the issues of life
put away from thee a froward mouth and perverse lips put far from thee
let thine eyes look right on and let thine eyelids look straight before thee
ponder the path of thy feet and let all thy ways be established
turn not to the right hand nor to the left remove thy foot from evil
my son attend unto my wisdom and bow thine ear to my understanding
that thou mayest regard discretion and that thy lips may keep knowledge
for the lips of a strange woman drop as an honeycomb and her mouth is smoother than oil
but her end is bitter as wormwood sharp as a twoedged sword
her feet go down to death her steps take hold on hell
lest thou shouldest ponder the path of life her ways are moveable that thou canst not know them
hear me now therefore o ye children and depart not from the words of my mouth
remove thy way far from her and come not nigh the door of her house
lest thou give thine honour unto others and thy years unto the cruel
lest strangers be filled with thy wealth and thy labours be in the house of a stranger
and thou mourn at the last when thy flesh and thy body are consumed
and say how have i hated instruction and my heart despised reproof
and have not obeyed the voice of my teachers nor inclined mine ear to them that instructed me
i was almost in all evil in the midst of the congregation and assembly
drink waters out of thine own cistern and running waters out of thine own well
let thy fountains be dispersed abroad and rivers of waters in the streets
let them be only thine own and not strangers with thee
let thy fountain be blessed and rejoice with the wife of thy youth
let her be as the loving hind and pleasant roe let her breasts satisfy thee at all times and be thou ravished always with her love
and why wilt thou my son be ravished with a strange woman and embrace the bosom of a stranger
for the ways of man are before the eyes of the lord and he pondereth all his goings
his own iniquities shall take the wicked himself and he shall be holden with the cords of his sins
he shall die without instruction and in the greatness of his folly he shall go astray
my son if thou be surety for thy friend if thou hast stricken thy hand with a stranger
thou art snared with the words of thy mouth thou art taken with the words of thy mouth
do this now my son and deliver thyself when thou art come into the hand of thy friend go humble thyself and make sure thy friend
give not sleep to thine eyes nor slumber to thine eyelids
deliver thyself as a roe from the hand of the hunter and as a bird from the hand of the fowler
go to the ant thou sluggard consider her ways and be wise
which having no guide overseer or ruler
provideth her meat in the summer and gathereth her food in the harvest
how long wilt thou sleep o sluggard when wilt thou arise out of thy sleep
yet a little sleep a little slumber a little folding of the hands to sleep
so shall thy poverty come as one that travelleth and thy want as an armed man
a naughty person a wicked man walketh with a froward mouth
he winketh with his eyes he speaketh with his feet he teacheth with his fingers
frowardness is in his heart he deviseth mischief continually he soweth discord
therefore shall his calamity come suddenly suddenly shall he be broken without remedy
these six things doth the lord hate yea seven are an abomination unto him
a proud look a lying tongue and hands that shed innocent blood
an heart that deviseth wicked imaginations feet that be swift in running to mischief
a false witness that speaketh lies and he that soweth discord among brethren
my son keep thy father's commandment and forsake not the law of thy mother
bind them continually upon thine heart and tie them about thy neck
when thou goest it shall lead thee when thou sleepest it shall keep thee and when thou awakest it shall talk with thee
for the commandment is a lamp and the law is light and reproofs of instruction are the way of life
to keep thee from the evil woman from the flattery of the tongue of a strange woman
lust not after her beauty in thine heart neither let her take thee with her eyelids
for by means of a whorish woman a man is brought to a piece of bread and the adulteress will hunt for the precious life
can a man take fire in his bosom and his clothes not be burned
can one go upon hot coals and his feet not be burned
so he that goeth in to his neighbour's wife whosoever toucheth her shall not be innocent
men do not despise a thief if he steal to satisfy his soul when he is hungry
but if he be found he shall restore sevenfold he shall give all the substance of his house
but whoso committeth adultery with a woman lacketh understanding he that doeth it destroyeth his own soul
a wound and dishonour shall he get and his reproach shall not be wiped away
for jealousy is the rage of a man therefore he will not spare in the day of vengeance
he will not regard any ransom neither will he rest content though thou givest many gifts
my son keep my words and lay up my commandments with thee
keep my commandments and live and my law as the apple of thine eye
bind them upon thy fingers write them upon the table of thine heart
say unto wisdom thou art my sister and call understanding thy kinswoman
that they may keep thee from the strange woman from the stranger which flattereth with her words
for at the window of my house i looked through my casement
and beheld among the simple ones i discerned among the youths a young man void of understanding
passing through the street near her corner and he went the way to her house
in the twilight in the evening in the black and dark night
and behold there met him a woman with the attire of an harlot and subtil of heart
she is loud and stubborn her feet abide not in her house
now is she without now in the streets and lieth in wait at every corner
so she caught him and kissed him and with an impudent face said unto him
i have peace offerings with me this day have i payed my vows
therefore came i forth to meet thee diligently to seek thy face and i have found thee
i have decked my bed with coverings of tapestry with carved works with fine linen of egypt
i have perfumed my bed with myrrh aloes and cinnamon
come let us take our fill of love until the morning let us solace ourselves with loves
for the goodman is not at home he is gone a long journey
he hath taken a bag of money with him and will come home at the day appointed
with her much fair speech she caused him to yield with the flattering of her lips she forced him
he goeth after her straightway as an ox goeth to the slaughter or as a fool to the correction of the stocks
till a dart strike through his liver as a bird hasteth to the snare and knoweth not that it is for his life
hearken unto me now therefore o ye children and attend to the words of my mouth
let not thine heart decline to her ways go not astray in her paths
for she hath cast down many wounded yea many strong men have been slain by her
her house is the way to hell going down to the chambers of death
doth not wisdom cry and understanding put forth her voice
she standeth in the top of high places by the way in the places of the paths
she crieth at the gates at the entry of the city at the coming in at the doors
unto you o men i call and my voice is to the sons of man
o ye simple understand wisdom and ye fools be ye of an understanding heart
hear for i will speak of excellent things and the opening of my lips shall be right things
for my mouth shall speak truth and wickedness is an abomination to my lips
all the words of my mouth are in righteousness there is nothing froward or perverse in them
they are all plain to him that understandeth and right to them that find knowledge
receive my instruction and not silver and knowledge rather than choice gold
for wisdom is better than rubies and all the things that may be desired are not to be compared to it
i wisdom dwell with prudence and find out knowledge of witty inventions
the fear of the lord is to hate evil pride and arrogancy and the evil way and the froward mouth do i hate
counsel is mine and sound wisdom i am understanding i have strength
by me kings reign and princes decree justice
by me princes rule and nobles even all the judges of the earth
i love them that love me and those that seek me early shall find me
riches and honour are with me yea durable riches and righteousness
my fruit is better than gold yea than fine gold and my revenue than choice silver
i lead in the way of righteousness in the midst of the paths of judgment
that i may cause those that love me to inherit substance and i will fill their treasures
the lord possessed me in the beginning of his way before his works of old
i was set up from everlasting from the beginning or ever the earth was
when there were no depths i was brought forth when there were no fountains abounding with water
before the mountains were settled before the hills was i brought forth
while as yet he had not made the earth nor the fields nor the highest part of the dust of the world
when he prepared the heavens i was there when he set a compass upon the face of the depth
when he established the clouds above when he strengthened the fountains of the deep
when he gave to the sea his decree that the waters should not pass his commandment when he appointed the foundations of the earth
then i was by him as one brought up with him and i was daily his delight rejoicing always before him
rejoicing in the habitable part of his earth and my delights were with the sons of men
now therefore hearken unto me o ye children for blessed are they that keep my ways
hear instruction and be wise and refuse it not
blessed is the man that heareth me watching daily at my gates waiting at the posts of my doors
for whoso findeth me findeth life and shall obtain favour of the lord
but he that sinneth against me wrongeth his own soul all they that hate me love death
wisdom hath builded her house she hath hewn out her seven pillars
she hath killed her beasts she hath mingled her wine she hath also furnished her table
she hath sent forth her maidens she crieth upon the highest places of the city
whoso is simple let him turn in hither as for him that wanteth understanding she saith to him
come eat of my bread and drink of the wine which i have mingled
forsake the foolish and live and go in the way of understanding
he that reproveth a scorner getteth to himself shame and he that rebuketh a wicked man getteth himself a blot
reprove not a scorner lest he hate thee rebuke a wise man and he will love thee
give instruction to a wise man and he will be yet wiser teach a just man and he will increase in learning
the fear of the lord is the beginning of wisdom and the knowledge of the holy is understanding
for by me thy days shall be multiplied and the years of thy life shall be increased
if thou be wise thou shalt be wise for thyself but if thou scornest thou alone shalt bear it
a foolish woman is clamorous she is simple and knoweth nothing
for she sitteth at the door of her house on a seat in the high places of the city
to call passengers who go right on their ways
whoso is simple let him turn in hither and as for him that wanteth understanding she saith to him
stolen waters are sweet and bread eaten in secret is pleasant
but he knoweth not that the dead are there and that her guests are in the depths of hell
the proverbs of solomon a wise son maketh a glad father but a foolish son is the heaviness of his mother
treasures of wickedness profit nothing but righteousness delivereth from death
the lord will not suffer the soul of the righteous to famish but he casteth away the substance of the wicked
he becometh poor that dealeth with a slack hand but the hand of the diligent maketh rich
he that gathereth in summer is a wise son but he that sleepeth in harvest is a son that causeth shame
blessings are upon the head of the just but violence covereth the mouth of the wicked
the memory of the just is blessed but the name of the wicked shall rot
the wise in heart will receive commandments but a prating fool shall fall
he that walketh uprightly walketh surely but he that perverteth his ways shall be known
he that winketh with the eye causeth sorrow but a prating fool shall fall
the mouth of a righteous man is a well of life but violence covereth the mouth of the wicked
hatred stirreth up strifes but love covereth all sins
in the lips of him that hath understanding wisdom is found but a rod is for the back of him that is void of understanding
wise men lay up knowledge but the mouth of the foolish is near destruction
the rich man's wealth is his strong city the destruction of the poor is their poverty
the labour of the righteous tendeth to life the fruit of the wicked to sin
he is in the way of life that keepeth instruction but he that refuseth reproof erreth
he that hideth hatred with lying lips and he that uttereth a slander is a fool
in the multitude of words there wanteth not sin but he that refraineth his lips is wise
the tongue of the just is as choice silver the heart of the wicked is little worth
the lips of the righteous feed many but fools die for want of wisdom
the blessing of the lord it maketh rich and he addeth no sorrow with it
it is as sport to a fool to do mischief but a man of understanding hath wisdom
the fear of the wicked it shall come upon him but the desire of the righteous shall be granted
as the whirlwind passeth so is the wicked no more but the righteous is an everlasting foundation
as vinegar to the teeth and as smoke to the eyes so is the sluggard to them that send him
the fear of the lord prolongeth days but the years of the wicked shall be shortened
the hope of the righteous shall be gladness but the expectation of the wicked shall perish
the way of the lord is strength to the upright but destruction shall be to the workers of iniquity
the righteous shall never be removed but the wicked shall not inhabit the earth
the mouth of the just bringeth forth wisdom but the froward tongue shall be cut out
the lips of the righteous know what is acceptable but the mouth of the wicked speaketh frowardness
a false balance is abomination to the lord but a just weight is his delight
when pride cometh then cometh shame but with the lowly is wisdom
the integrity of the upright shall guide them but the perverseness of transgressors shall destroy them
riches profit not in the day of wrath but righteousness delivereth from death
the righteousness of the perfect shall direct his way but the wicked shall fall by his own wickedness
the righteousness of the upright shall deliver them but transgressors shall be taken in their own naughtiness
when a wicked man dieth his expectation shall perish and the hope of unjust men perisheth
the righteous is delivered out of trouble and the wicked cometh in his stead
an hypocrite with his mouth destroyeth his neighbour but through knowledge shall the just be delivered
when it goeth well with the righteous the city rejoiceth and when the wicked perish there is shouting
by the blessing of the upright the city is exalted but it is overthrown by the mouth of the wicked
he that is void of wisdom despiseth his neighbour but a man of understanding holdeth his peace
a talebearer revealeth secrets but he that is of a faithful spirit concealeth the matter
where no counsel is the people fall but in the multitude of counsellors there is safety
he that is surety for a stranger shall smart for it and he that hateth suretiship is sure
a gracious woman retaineth honour and strong men retain riches
the merciful man doeth good to his own soul but he that is cruel troubleth his own flesh
the wicked worketh a deceitful work but to him that soweth righteousness shall be a sure reward
as righteousness tendeth to life so he that pursueth evil pursueth it to his own death
they that are of a froward heart are abomination to the lord but such as are upright in their way are his delight
though hand join in hand the wicked shall not be unpunished but the seed of the righteous shall be delivered
as a jewel of gold in a swine's snout so is a fair woman which is without discretion
the desire of the righteous is only good but the expectation of the wicked is wrath
there is that scattereth and yet increaseth and there is that withholdeth more than is meet but it tendeth to poverty
the liberal soul shall be made fat and he that watereth shall be watered also himself
he that withholdeth corn the people shall curse him but blessing shall be upon the head of him that selleth it
he that diligently seeketh good procureth favour but he that seeketh mischief it shall come unto him
he that trusteth in his riches shall fall but the righteous shall flourish as a branch
he that troubleth his own house shall inherit the wind and the fool shall be servant to the wise of heart
the fruit of the righteous is a tree of life and he that winneth souls is wise
behold the righteous shall be recompensed in the earth much more the wicked and the sinner
whoso loveth instruction loveth knowledge but he that hateth reproof is brutish
a good man obtaineth favour of the lord but a man of wicked devices will he condemn
a man shall not be established by wickedness but the root of the righteous shall not be moved
a virtuous woman is a crown to her husband but she that maketh ashamed is as rottenness in his bones
the thoughts of the righteous are right but the counsels of the wicked are deceit
the words of the wicked are to lie in wait for blood but the mouth of the upright shall deliver them
the wicked are overthrown and are not but the house of the righteous shall stand
a man shall be commended according to his wisdom but he that is of a perverse heart shall be despised
he that is despised and hath a servant is better than he that honoureth himself and lacketh bread
a righteous man regardeth the life of his beast but the tender mercies of the wicked are cruel
he that tilleth his land shall be satisfied with bread but he that followeth vain persons is void of understanding
the wicked desireth the net of evil men but the root of the righteous yieldeth fruit
the wicked is snared by the transgression of his lips but the just shall come out of trouble
a man shall be satisfied with good by the fruit of his mouth and the recompence of a man's hands shall be rendered unto him
the way of a fool is right in his own eyes but he that hearkeneth unto counsel is wise
a fool's wrath is presently known but a prudent man covereth shame
he that speaketh truth sheweth forth righteousness but a false witness deceit
there is that speaketh like the piercings of a sword but the tongue of the wise is health
the lip of truth shall be established for ever but a lying tongue is but for a moment
deceit is in the heart of them that imagine evil but to the counsellors of peace is joy
there shall no evil happen to the just but the wicked shall be filled with mischief
lying lips are abomination to the lord but they that deal truly are his delight
a prudent man concealeth knowledge but the heart of fools proclaimeth foolishness
the hand of the diligent shall bear rule but the slothful shall be under tribute
heaviness in the heart of man maketh it stoop but a good word maketh it glad
the righteous is more excellent than his neighbour but the way of the wicked seduceth them
the slothful man roasteth not that which he took in hunting but the substance of a diligent man is precious
in the way of righteousness is life and in the pathway thereof there is no death
a wise son heareth his father's instruction but a scorner heareth not rebuke
a man shall eat good by the fruit of his mouth but the soul of the transgressors shall eat violence
he that keepeth his mouth keepeth his life but he that openeth wide his lips shall have destruction
the soul of the sluggard desireth and hath nothing but the soul of the diligent shall be made fat
a righteous man hateth lying but a wicked man is loathsome and cometh to shame
righteousness keepeth him that is upright in the way but wickedness overthroweth the sinner
there is that maketh himself rich yet hath nothing there is that maketh himself poor yet hath great riches
the ransom of a man's life are his riches but the poor heareth not rebuke
the light of the righteous rejoiceth but the lamp of the wicked shall be put out
only by pride cometh contention but with the well advised is wisdom
wealth gotten by vanity shall be diminished but he that gathereth by labour shall increase
hope deferred maketh the heart sick but when the desire cometh it is a tree of life
whoso despiseth the word shall be destroyed but he that feareth the commandment shall be rewarded
the law of the wise is a fountain of life to depart from the snares of death
good understanding giveth favour but the way of transgressors is hard
every prudent man dealeth with knowledge but a fool layeth open his folly
a wicked messenger falleth into mischief but a faithful ambassador is health
poverty and shame shall be to him that refuseth instruction but he that regardeth reproof shall be honoured
the desire accomplished is sweet to the soul but it is abomination to fools to depart from evil
he that walketh with wise men shall be wise but a companion of fools shall be destroyed
evil pursueth sinners but to the righteous good shall be repayed
a good man leaveth an inheritance to his children's children and the wealth of the sinner is laid up for the just
much food is in the tillage of the poor but there is that is destroyed for want of judgment
he that spareth his rod hateth his son but he that loveth him chasteneth him betimes
the righteous eateth to the satisfying of his soul but the belly of the wicked shall want
every wise woman buildeth her house but the foolish plucketh it down with her hands
he that walketh in his uprightness feareth the lord but he that is perverse in his ways despiseth him
in the mouth of the foolish is a rod of pride but the lips of the wise shall preserve them
where no oxen are the crib is clean but much increase is by the strength of the ox
a faithful witness will not lie but a false witness will utter lies
a scorner seeketh wisdom and findeth it not but knowledge is easy unto him that understandeth
go from the presence of a foolish man when thou perceivest not in him the lips of knowledge
the wisdom of the prudent is to understand his way but the folly of fools is deceit
fools make a mock at sin but among the righteous there is favour
the heart knoweth his own bitterness and a stranger doth not intermeddle with his joy
the house of the wicked shall be overthrown but the tabernacle of the upright shall flourish
there is a way which seemeth right unto a man but the end thereof are the ways of death
even in laughter the heart is sorrowful and the end of that mirth is heaviness
the backslider in heart shall be filled with his own ways and a good man shall be satisfied from himself
the simple believeth every word but the prudent man looketh well to his going
a wise man feareth and departeth from evil but the fool rageth and is confident
he that is soon angry dealeth foolishly and a man of wicked devices is hated
the simple inherit folly but the prudent are crowned with knowledge
the evil bow before the good and the wicked at the gates of the righteous
the poor is hated even of his own neighbour but the rich hath many friends
he that despiseth his neighbour sinneth but he that hath mercy on the poor happy is he
do they not err that devise evil but mercy and truth shall be to them that devise good
in all labour there is profit but the talk of the lips tendeth only to penury
the crown of the wise is their riches but the foolishness of fools is folly
a true witness delivereth souls but a deceitful witness speaketh lies
in the fear of the lord is strong confidence and his children shall have a place of refuge
the fear of the lord is a fountain of life to depart from the snares of death
in the multitude of people is the king's honour but in the want of people is the destruction of the prince
he that is slow to wrath is of great understanding but he that is hasty of spirit exalteth folly
a sound heart is the life of the flesh but envy the rottenness of the bones
he that oppresseth the poor reproacheth his maker but he that honoureth him hath mercy on the poor
the wicked is driven away in his wickedness but the righteous hath hope in his death
wisdom resteth in the heart of him that hath understanding but that which is in the midst of fools is made known
righteousness exalteth a nation but sin is a reproach to any people
the king's favour is toward a wise servant but his wrath is against him that causeth shame
a soft answer turneth away wrath but grievous words stir up anger
the tongue of the wise useth knowledge aright but the mouth of fools poureth out foolishness
the eyes of the lord are in every place beholding the evil and the good
a wholesome tongue is a tree of life but perverseness therein is a breach in the spirit
a fool despiseth his father's instruction but he that regardeth reproof is prudent
in the house of the righteous is much treasure but in the revenues of the wicked is trouble
the lips of the wise disperse knowledge but the heart of the foolish doeth not so
the sacrifice of the wicked is an abomination to the lord but the prayer of the upright is his delight
the way of the wicked is an abomination unto the lord but he loveth him that followeth after righteousness
correction is grievous unto him that forsaketh the way and he that hateth reproof shall die
hell and destruction are before the lord how much more then the hearts of the children of men
a scorner loveth not one that reproveth him neither will he go unto the wise
a merry heart maketh a cheerful countenance but by sorrow of the heart the spirit is broken
the heart of him that hath understanding seeketh knowledge but the mouth of fools feedeth on foolishness
all the days of the afflicted are evil but he that is of a merry heart hath a continual feast
better is little with the fear of the lord than great treasure and trouble therewith
better is a dinner of herbs where love is than a stalled ox and hatred therewith
a wrathful man stirreth up strife but he that is slow to anger appeaseth strife
the way of the slothful man is as an hedge of thorns but the way of the righteous is made plain
a wise son maketh a glad father but a foolish man despiseth his mother
folly is joy to him that is destitute of wisdom but a man of understanding walketh uprightly
without counsel purposes are disappointed but in the multitude of counsellors they are established
a man hath joy by the answer of his mouth and a word spoken in due season how good is it
the way of life is above to the wise that he may depart from hell beneath
the lord will destroy the house of the proud but he will establish the border of the widow
the thoughts of the wicked are an abomination to the lord but the words of the pure are pleasant words
he that is greedy of gain troubleth his own house but he that hateth gifts shall live
the heart of the righteous studieth to answer but the mouth of the wicked poureth out evil things
the lord is far from the wicked but he heareth the prayer of the righteous
the light of the eyes rejoiceth the heart and a good report maketh the bones fat
the ear that heareth the reproof of life abideth among the wise
he that refuseth instruction despiseth his own soul but he that heareth reproof getteth understanding
the fear of the lord is the instruction of wisdom and before honour is humility
the preparations of the heart in man and the answer of the tongue is from the lord
all the ways of a man are clean in his own eyes but the lord weigheth the spirits
commit thy works unto the lord and thy thoughts shall be established
the lord hath made all things for himself yea even the wicked for the day of evil
every one that is proud in heart is an abomination to the lord though hand join in hand he shall not be unpunished
by mercy and truth iniquity is purged and by the fear of the lord men depart from evil
when a man's ways please the lord he maketh even his enemies to be at peace with him
better is a little with righteousness than great revenues without right
a man's heart deviseth his way but the lord directeth his steps
a divine sentence is in the lips of the king his mouth transgresseth not in judgment
a just weight and balance are the lord's all the weights of the bag are his work
it is an abomination to kings to commit wickedness for the throne is established by righteousness
righteous lips are the delight of kings and they love him that speaketh right
the wrath of a king is as messengers of death but a wise man will pacify it
in the light of the king's countenance is life and his favour is as a cloud of the latter rain
how much better is it to get wisdom than gold and to get understanding rather to be chosen than silver
the highway of the upright is to depart from evil he that keepeth his way preserveth his soul
pride goeth before destruction and an haughty spirit before a fall
better it is to be of an humble spirit with the lowly than to divide the spoil with the proud
he that handleth a matter wisely shall find good and whoso trusteth in the lord happy is he
the wise in heart shall be called prudent and the sweetness of the lips increaseth learning
understanding is a wellspring of life unto him that hath it but the instruction of fools is folly
the heart of the wise teacheth his mouth and addeth learning to his lips
pleasant words are as an honeycomb sweet to the soul and health to the bones
there is a way that seemeth right unto a man but the end thereof are the ways of death
he that laboureth laboureth for himself for his mouth craveth it of him
an ungodly man diggeth up evil and in his lips there is as a burning fire
a froward man soweth strife and a whisperer separateth chief friends
a violent man enticeth his neighbour and leadeth him into the way that is not good
he shutteth his eyes to devise froward things moving his lips he bringeth evil to pass
the hoary head is a crown of glory if it be found in the way of righteousness
he that is slow to anger is better than the mighty and he that ruleth his spirit than he that taketh a city
the lot is cast into the lap but the whole disposing thereof is of the lord
better is a dry morsel and quietness therewith than an house full of sacrifices with strife
a wise servant shall have rule over a son that causeth shame and shall have part of the inheritance among the brethren
the fining pot is for silver and the furnace for gold but the lord trieth the hearts
a wicked doer giveth heed to false lips and a liar giveth ear to a naughty tongue
whoso mocketh the poor reproacheth his maker and he that is glad at calamities shall not be unpunished
children's children are the crown of old men and the glory of children are their fathers
excellent speech becometh not a fool much less do lying lips a prince
a gift is as a precious stone in the eyes of him that hath it whithersoever it turneth it prospereth
he that covereth a transgression seeketh love but he that repeateth a matter separateth very friends
a reproof entereth more into a wise man than an hundred stripes into a fool
an evil man seeketh only rebellion therefore a cruel messenger shall be sent against him
let a bear robbed of her whelps meet a man rather than a fool in his folly
whoso rewardeth evil for good evil shall not depart from his house
the beginning of strife is as when one letteth out water therefore leave off contention before it be meddled with
he that justifieth the wicked and he that condemneth the just even they both are abomination to the lord
wherefore is there a price in the hand of a fool to get wisdom seeing he hath no heart to it
a friend loveth at all times and a brother is born for adversity
a man void of understanding striketh hands and becometh surety in the presence of his friend
he loveth transgression that loveth strife and he that exalteth his gate seeketh destruction
he that hath a froward heart findeth no good and he that hath a perverse tongue falleth into mischief
he that begetteth a fool doeth it to his sorrow and the father of a fool hath no joy
a merry heart doeth good like a medicine but a broken spirit drieth the bones
a wicked man taketh a gift out of the bosom to pervert the ways of judgment
wisdom is before him that hath understanding but the eyes of a fool are in the ends of the earth
a foolish son is a grief to his father and bitterness to her that bare him
also to punish the just is not good nor to strike princes for equity
he that hath knowledge spareth his words and a man of understanding is of an excellent spirit
even a fool when he holdeth his peace is counted wise and he that shutteth his lips is esteemed a man of understanding
through desire a man having separated himself seeketh and intermeddleth with all wisdom
a fool hath no delight in understanding but that his heart may discover itself
when the wicked cometh then cometh also contempt and with ignominy reproach
the words of a man's mouth are as deep waters and the wellspring of wisdom as a flowing brook
it is not good to accept the person of the wicked to overthrow the righteous in judgment
a fool's lips enter into contention and his mouth calleth for strokes
a fool's mouth is his destruction and his lips are the snare of his soul
the words of a talebearer are as wounds and they go down into the innermost parts of the belly
he also that is slothful in his work is brother to him that is a great waster
the name of the lord is a strong tower the righteous runneth into it and is safe
the rich man's wealth is his strong city and as an high wall in his own conceit
before destruction the heart of man is haughty and before honour is humility
he that answereth a matter before he heareth it it is folly and shame unto him
the spirit of a man will sustain his infirmity but a wounded spirit who can bear
the heart of the prudent getteth knowledge and the ear of the wise seeketh knowledge
a man's gift maketh room for him and bringeth him before great men
he that is first in his own cause seemeth just but his neighbour cometh and searcheth him
the lot causeth contentions to cease and parteth between the mighty
a brother offended is harder to be won than a strong city and their contentions are like the bars of a castle
a man's belly shall be satisfied with the fruit of his mouth and with the increase of his lips shall he be filled
death and life are in the power of the tongue and they that love it shall eat the fruit thereof
whoso findeth a wife findeth a good thing and obtaineth favour of the lord
the poor useth intreaties but the rich answereth roughly
a man that hath friends must shew himself friendly and there is a friend that sticketh closer than a brother
better is the poor that walketh in his integrity than he that is perverse in his lips and is a fool
also that the soul be without knowledge it is not good and he that hasteth with his feet sinneth
the foolishness of man perverteth his way and his heart fretteth against the lord
wealth maketh many friends but the poor is separated from his neighbour
a false witness shall not be unpunished and he that speaketh lies shall not escape
many will intreat the favour of the prince and every man is a friend to him that giveth gifts
all the brethren of the poor do hate him how much more do his friends go far from him he pursueth them with words yet they are wanting to him
he that getteth wisdom loveth his own soul he that keepeth understanding shall find good
a false witness shall not be unpunished and he that speaketh lies shall perish
delight is not seemly for a fool much less for a servant to have rule over princes
the discretion of a man deferreth his anger and it is his glory to pass over a transgression
the king's wrath is as the roaring of a lion but his favour is as dew upon the grass
a foolish son is the calamity of his father and the contentions of a wife are a continual dropping
house and riches are the inheritance of fathers and a prudent wife is from the lord
slothfulness casteth into a deep sleep and an idle soul shall suffer hunger
he that keepeth the commandment keepeth his own soul but he that despiseth his ways shall die
he that hath pity upon the poor lendeth unto the lord and that which he hath given will he pay him again
chasten thy son while there is hope and let not thy soul spare for his crying
a man of great wrath shall suffer punishment for if thou deliver him yet thou must do it again
hear counsel and receive instruction that thou mayest be wise in thy latter end
there are many devices in a man's heart nevertheless the counsel of the lord that shall stand
the desire of a man is his kindness and a poor man is better than a liar
the fear of the lord tendeth to life and he that hath it shall abide satisfied he shall not be visited with evil
a slothful man hideth his hand in his bosom and will not so much as bring it to his mouth again
smite a scorner and the simple will beware and reprove one that hath understanding and he will understand knowledge
he that wasteth his father and chaseth away his mother is a son that causeth shame and bringeth reproach
cease my son to hear the instruction that causeth to err from the words of knowledge
an ungodly witness scorneth judgment and the mouth of the wicked devoureth iniquity
judgments are prepared for scorners and stripes for the back of fools
wine is a mocker strong drink is raging and whosoever is deceived thereby is not wise
the fear of a king is as the roaring of a lion whoso provoketh him to anger sinneth against his own soul
it is an honour for a man to cease from strife but every fool will be meddling
the sluggard will not plow by reason of the cold therefore shall he beg in harvest and have nothing
counsel in the heart of man is like deep water but a man of understanding will draw it out
most men will proclaim every one his own goodness but a faithful man who can find
the just man walketh in his integrity his children are blessed after him
a king that sitteth in the throne of judgment scattereth away all evil with his eyes
who can say i have made my heart clean i am pure from my sin
divers weights and divers measures both of them are alike abomination to the lord
even a child is known by his doings whether his work be pure and whether it be right
the hearing ear and the seeing eye the lord hath made even both of them
love not sleep lest thou come to poverty open thine eyes and thou shalt be satisfied with bread
it is naught it is naught saith the buyer but when he is gone his way then he boasteth
there is gold and a multitude of rubies but the lips of knowledge are a precious jewel
take his garment that is surety for a stranger and take a pledge of him for a strange woman
bread of deceit is sweet to a man but afterwards his mouth shall be filled with gravel
every purpose is established by counsel and with good advice make war
he that goeth about as a talebearer revealeth secrets therefore meddle not with him that flattereth with his lips
whoso curseth his father or his mother his lamp shall be put out in obscure darkness
an inheritance may be gotten hastily at the beginning but the end thereof shall not be blessed
say not thou i will recompense evil but wait on the lord and he shall save thee
divers weights are an abomination unto the lord and a false balance is not good
man's goings are of the lord how can a man then understand his own way
it is a snare to the man who devoureth that which is holy and after vows to make enquiry
a wise king scattereth the wicked and bringeth the wheel over them
the spirit of man is the candle of the lord searching all the inward parts of the belly
mercy and truth preserve the king and his throne is upholden by mercy
the glory of young men is their strength and the beauty of old men is the grey head
the blueness of a wound cleanseth away evil so do stripes the inward parts of the belly
the king's heart is in the hand of the lord as the rivers of water he turneth it whithersoever he will
every way of a man is right in his own eyes but the lord pondereth the hearts
to do justice and judgment is more acceptable to the lord than sacrifice
an high look and a proud heart and the plowing of the wicked is sin
the thoughts of the diligent tend only to plenteousness but of every one that is hasty only to want
the getting of treasures by a lying tongue is a vanity tossed to and fro of them that seek death
the robbery of the wicked shall destroy them because they refuse to do judgment
the way of man is froward and strange but as for the pure his work is right
it is better to dwell in a corner of the housetop than with a brawling woman in a wide house
the soul of the wicked desireth evil his neighbour findeth no favour in his eyes
when the scorner is punished the simple is made wise and when the wise is instructed he receiveth knowledge
the righteous man wisely considereth the house of the wicked but god overthroweth the wicked for their wickedness
whoso stoppeth his ears at the cry of the poor he also shall cry himself but shall not be heard
a gift in secret pacifieth anger and a reward in the bosom strong wrath
it is joy to the just to do judgment but destruction shall be to the workers of iniquity
the man that wandereth out of the way of understanding shall remain in the congregation of the dead
he that loveth pleasure shall be a poor man he that loveth wine and oil shall not be rich
the wicked shall be a ransom for the righteous and the transgressor for the upright
it is better to dwell in the wilderness than with a contentious and an angry woman
there is treasure to be desired and oil in the dwelling of the wise but a foolish man spendeth it up
he that followeth after righteousness and mercy findeth life righteousness and honour
a wise man scaleth the city of the mighty and casteth down the strength of the confidence thereof
whoso keepeth his mouth and his tongue keepeth his soul from troubles
proud and haughty scorner is his name who dealeth in proud wrath
the desire of the slothful killeth him for his hands refuse to labour
he coveteth greedily all the day long but the righteous giveth and spareth not
the sacrifice of the wicked is abomination how much more when he bringeth it with a wicked mind
a false witness shall perish but the man that heareth speaketh constantly
a wicked man hardeneth his face but as for the upright he directeth his way
there is no wisdom nor understanding nor counsel against the lord
the horse is prepared against the day of battle but safety is of the lord
a good name is rather to be chosen than great riches and loving favour rather than silver and gold
the rich and poor meet together the lord is the maker of them all
a prudent man foreseeth the evil and hideth himself but the simple pass on and are punished
by humility and the fear of the lord are riches and honour and life
thorns and snares are in the way of the froward he that doth keep his soul shall be far from them
train up a child in the way he should go and when he is old he will not depart from it
the rich ruleth over the poor and the borrower is servant to the lender
he that soweth iniquity shall reap vanity and the rod of his anger shall fail
he that hath a bountiful eye shall be blessed for he giveth of his bread to the poor
cast out the scorner and contention shall go out yea strife and reproach shall cease
he that loveth pureness of heart for the grace of his lips the king shall be his friend
the eyes of the lord preserve knowledge and he overthroweth the words of the transgressor
the slothful man saith there is a lion without i shall be slain in the streets
the mouth of strange women is a deep pit he that is abhorred of the lord shall fall therein
foolishness is bound in the heart of a child but the rod of correction shall drive it far from him
he that oppresseth the poor to increase his riches and he that giveth to the rich shall surely come to want
bow down thine ear and hear the words of the wise and apply thine heart unto my knowledge
for it is a pleasant thing if thou keep them within thee they shall withal be fitted in thy lips
that thy trust may be in the lord i have made known to thee this day even to thee
have not i written to thee excellent things in counsels and knowledge
that i might make thee know the certainty of the words of truth that thou mightest answer the words of truth to them that send unto thee
rob not the poor because he is poor neither oppress the afflicted in the gate
for the lord will plead their cause and spoil the soul of those that spoiled them
make no friendship with an angry man and with a furious man thou shalt not go
lest thou learn his ways and get a snare to thy soul
be not thou one of them that strike hands or of them that are sureties for debts
if thou hast nothing to pay why should he take away thy bed from under thee
remove not the ancient landmark which thy fathers have set
seest thou a man diligent in his business he shall stand before kings he shall not stand before mean men
when thou sittest to eat with a ruler consider diligently what is before thee
and put a knife to thy throat if thou be a man given to appetite
be not desirous of his dainties for they are deceitful meat
labour not to be rich cease from thine own wisdom
wilt thou set thine eyes upon that which is not for riches certainly make themselves wings they fly away as an eagle toward heaven
eat thou not the bread of him that hath an evil eye neither desire thou his dainty meats
for as he thinketh in his heart so is he eat and drink saith he to thee but his heart is not with thee
the morsel which thou hast eaten shalt thou vomit up and lose thy sweet words
speak not in the ears of a fool for he will despise the wisdom of thy words
remove not the old landmark and enter not into the fields of the fatherless
for their redeemer is mighty he shall plead their cause with thee
apply thine heart unto instruction and thine ears to the words of knowledge
withhold not correction from the child for if thou beatest him with the rod he shall not die
thou shalt beat him with the rod and shalt deliver his soul from hell
my son if thine heart be wise my heart shall rejoice even mine
yea my reins shall rejoice when thy lips speak right things
let not thine heart envy sinners but be thou in the fear of the lord all the day long
for surely there is an end and thine expectation shall not be cut off
hear thou my son and be wise and guide thine heart in the way
be not among winebibbers among riotous eaters of flesh
for the drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty and drowsiness shall clothe a man with rags
hearken unto thy father that begat thee and despise not thy mother when she is old
buy the truth and sell it not also wisdom and instruction and understanding
the father of the righteous shall greatly rejoice and he that begetteth a wise child shall have joy of him
thy father and thy mother shall be glad and she that bare thee shall rejoice
my son give me thine heart and let thine eyes observe my ways
for a whore is a deep ditch and a strange woman is a narrow pit
she also lieth in wait as for a prey and increaseth the transgressors among men
who hath woe who hath sorrow who hath contentions who hath babbling who hath wounds without cause who hath redness of eyes
they that tarry long at the wine they that go to seek mixed wine
look not thou upon the wine when it is red when it giveth his colour in the cup when it moveth itself aright
at the last it biteth like a serpent and stingeth like an adder
thine eyes shall behold strange women and thine heart shall utter perverse things
yea thou shalt be as he that lieth down in the midst of the sea or as he that lieth upon the top of a mast
they have stricken me shalt thou say and i was not sick they have beaten me and i felt it not when shall i awake i will seek it yet again
be not thou envious against evil men neither desire to be with them
for their heart studieth destruction and their lips talk of mischief
through wisdom is an house builded and by understanding it is established
and by knowledge shall the chambers be filled with all precious and pleasant riches
a wise man is strong yea a man of knowledge increaseth strength
for by wise counsel thou shalt make thy war and in multitude of counsellors there is safety
wisdom is too high for a fool he openeth not his mouth in the gate
he that deviseth to do evil shall be called a mischievous person
the thought of foolishness is sin and the scorner is an abomination to men
if thou faint in the day of adversity thy strength is small
if thou forbear to deliver them that are drawn unto death and those that are ready to be slain
if thou sayest behold we knew it not doth not he that pondereth the heart consider it and he that keepeth thy soul doth not he know it and shall not he render to every man according to his works
my son eat thou honey because it is good and the honeycomb which is sweet to thy taste
so shall the knowledge of wisdom be unto thy soul when thou hast found it then there shall be a reward and thy expectation shall not be cut off
lay not wait o wicked man against the dwelling of the righteous spoil not his resting place
for a just man falleth seven times and riseth up again but the wicked shall fall into mischief
rejoice not when thine enemy falleth and let not thine heart be glad when he stumbleth
lest the lord see it and it displease him and he turn away his wrath from him
fret not thyself because of evil men neither be thou envious at the wicked
for there shall be no reward to the evil man the candle of the wicked shall be put out
my son fear thou the lord and the king and meddle not with them that are given to change
for their calamity shall rise suddenly and who knoweth the ruin of them both
these things also belong to the wise it is not good to have respect of persons in judgment
he that saith unto the wicked thou art righteous him shall the people curse nations shall abhor him
but to them that rebuke him shall be delight and a good blessing shall come upon them
every man shall kiss his lips that giveth a right answer
prepare thy work without and make it fit for thyself in the field and afterwards build thine house
be not a witness against thy neighbour without cause and deceive not with thy lips
say not i will do so to him as he hath done to me i will render to the man according to his work
i went by the field of the slothful and by the vineyard of the man void of understanding
and lo it was all grown over with thorns and nettles had covered the face thereof and the stone wall thereof was broken down
then i saw and considered it well i looked upon it and received instruction
yet a little sleep a little slumber a little folding of the hands to sleep
so shall thy poverty come as one that travelleth and thy want as an armed man
these are also proverbs of solomon which the men of hezekiah king of judah copied out
it is the glory of god to conceal a thing but the honour of kings is to search out a matter
the heaven for height and the earth for depth and the heart of kings is unsearchable
take away the dross from the silver and there shall come forth a vessel for the finer
take away the wicked from before the king and his throne shall be established in righteousness
put not forth thyself in the presence of the king and stand not in the place of great men
for better it is that it be said unto thee come up hither than that thou shouldest be put lower in the presence of the prince whom thine eyes have seen
go not forth hastily to strive lest thou know not what to do in the end thereof when thy neighbour hath put thee to shame
debate thy cause with thy neighbour himself and discover not a secret to another
lest he that heareth it put thee to shame and thine infamy turn not away
a word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in pictures of silver
as an earring of gold and an ornament of fine gold so is a wise reprover upon an obedient ear
as the cold of snow in the time of harvest so is a faithful messenger to them that send him for he refresheth the soul of his masters
whoso boasteth himself of a false gift is like clouds and wind without rain
by long forbearing is a prince persuaded and a soft tongue breaketh the bone
hast thou found honey eat so much as is sufficient for thee lest thou be filled therewith and vomit it
withdraw thy foot from thy neighbour's house lest he be weary of thee and so hate thee
a man that beareth false witness against his neighbour is a maul and a sword and a sharp arrow
confidence in an unfaithful man in time of trouble is like a broken tooth and a foot out of joint
as he that taketh away a garment in cold weather and as vinegar upon nitre so is he that singeth songs to an heavy heart
if thine enemy be hungry give him bread to eat and if he be thirsty give him water to drink
for thou shalt heap coals of fire upon his head and the lord shall reward thee
the north wind driveth away rain so doth an angry countenance a backbiting tongue
it is better to dwell in the corner of the housetop than with a brawling woman and in a wide house
as cold waters to a thirsty soul so is good news from a far country
a righteous man falling down before the wicked is as a troubled fountain and a corrupt spring
it is not good to eat much honey so for men to search their own glory is not glory
he that hath no rule over his own spirit is like a city that is broken down and without walls
as snow in summer and as rain in harvest so honour is not seemly for a fool
as the bird by wandering as the swallow by flying so the curse causeless shall not come
a whip for the horse a bridle for the ass and a rod for the fool's back
answer not a fool according to his folly lest thou also be like unto him
answer a fool according to his folly lest he be wise in his own conceit
he that sendeth a message by the hand of a fool cutteth off the feet and drinketh damage
the legs of the lame are not equal so is a parable in the mouth of fools
as he that bindeth a stone in a sling so is he that giveth honour to a fool
as a thorn goeth up into the hand of a drunkard so is a parable in the mouth of fools
the great god that formed all things both rewardeth the fool and rewardeth transgressors
as a dog returneth to his vomit so a fool returneth to his folly
seest thou a man wise in his own conceit there is more hope of a fool than of him
the slothful man saith there is a lion in the way a lion is in the streets
as the door turneth upon his hinges so doth the slothful upon his bed
the slothful hideth his hand in his bosom it grieveth him to bring it again to his mouth
the sluggard is wiser in his own conceit than seven men that can render a reason
he that passeth by and meddleth with strife belonging not to him is like one that taketh a dog by the ears
as a mad man who casteth firebrands arrows and death
so is the man that deceiveth his neighbour and saith am not i in sport
where no wood is there the fire goeth out so where there is no talebearer the strife ceaseth
as coals are to burning coals and wood to fire so is a contentious man to kindle strife
the words of a talebearer are as wounds and they go down into the innermost parts of the belly
burning lips and a wicked heart are like a potsherd covered with silver dross
he that hateth dissembleth with his lips and layeth up deceit within him
when he speaketh fair believe him not for there are seven abominations in his heart
whose hatred is covered by deceit his wickedness shall be shewed before the whole congregation
whoso diggeth a pit shall fall therein and he that rolleth a stone it will return upon him
a lying tongue hateth those that are afflicted by it and a flattering mouth worketh ruin
boast not thyself of to morrow for thou knowest not what a day may bring forth
let another man praise thee and not thine own mouth a stranger and not thine own lips
a stone is heavy and the sand weighty but a fool's wrath is heavier than them both
wrath is cruel and anger is outrageous but who is able to stand before envy
open rebuke is better than secret love
faithful are the wounds of a friend but the kisses of an enemy are deceitful
the full soul loatheth an honeycomb but to the hungry soul every bitter thing is sweet
as a bird that wandereth from her nest so is a man that wandereth from his place
ointment and perfume rejoice the heart so doth the sweetness of a man's friend by hearty counsel
thine own friend and thy father's friend forsake not neither go into thy brother's house in the day of thy calamity for better is a neighbour that is near than a brother far off
my son be wise and make my heart glad that i may answer him that reproacheth me
a prudent man foreseeth the evil and hideth himself but the simple pass on and are punished
take his garment that is surety for a stranger and take a pledge of him for a strange woman
he that blesseth his friend with a loud voice rising early in the morning it shall be counted a curse to him
a continual dropping in a very rainy day and a contentious woman are alike
whosoever hideth her hideth the wind and the ointment of his right hand which bewrayeth itself
iron sharpeneth iron so a man sharpeneth the countenance of his friend
whoso keepeth the fig tree shall eat the fruit thereof so he that waiteth on his master shall be honoured
as in water face answereth to face so the heart of man to man
hell and destruction are never full so the eyes of man are never satisfied
as the fining pot for silver and the furnace for gold so is a man to his praise
though thou shouldest bray a fool in a mortar among wheat with a pestle yet will not his foolishness depart from him
be thou diligent to know the state of thy flocks and look well to thy herds
for riches are not for ever and doth the crown endure to every generation
the hay appeareth and the tender grass sheweth itself and herbs of the mountains are gathered
the lambs are for thy clothing and the goats are the price of the field
and thou shalt have goats milk enough for thy food for the food of thy household and for the maintenance for thy maidens
the wicked flee when no man pursueth but the righteous are bold as a lion
for the transgression of a land many are the princes thereof but by a man of understanding and knowledge the state thereof shall be prolonged
a poor man that oppresseth the poor is like a sweeping rain which leaveth no food
they that forsake the law praise the wicked but such as keep the law contend with them
evil men understand not judgment but they that seek the lord understand all things
better is the poor that walketh in his uprightness than he that is perverse in his ways though he be rich
whoso keepeth the law is a wise son but he that is a companion of riotous men shameth his father
he that by usury and unjust gain increaseth his substance he shall gather it for him that will pity the poor
he that turneth away his ear from hearing the law even his prayer shall be abomination
whoso causeth the righteous to go astray in an evil way he shall fall himself into his own pit but the upright shall have good things in possession
the rich man is wise in his own conceit but the poor that hath understanding searcheth him out
when righteous men do rejoice there is great glory but when the wicked rise a man is hidden
he that covereth his sins shall not prosper but whoso confesseth and forsaketh them shall have mercy
happy is the man that feareth alway but he that hardeneth his heart shall fall into mischief
as a roaring lion and a ranging bear so is a wicked ruler over the poor people
the prince that wanteth understanding is also a great oppressor but he that hateth covetousness shall prolong his days
a man that doeth violence to the blood of any person shall flee to the pit let no man stay him
whoso walketh uprightly shall be saved but he that is perverse in his ways shall fall at once
he that tilleth his land shall have plenty of bread but he that followeth after vain persons shall have poverty enough
a faithful man shall abound with blessings but he that maketh haste to be rich shall not be innocent
to have respect of persons is not good for for a piece of bread that man will transgress
he that hasteth to be rich hath an evil eye and considereth not that poverty shall come upon him
he that rebuketh a man afterwards shall find more favour than he that flattereth with the tongue
whoso robbeth his father or his mother and saith it is no transgression the same is the companion of a destroyer
he that is of a proud heart stirreth up strife but he that putteth his trust in the lord shall be made fat
he that trusteth in his own heart is a fool but whoso walketh wisely he shall be delivered
he that giveth unto the poor shall not lack but he that hideth his eyes shall have many a curse
when the wicked rise men hide themselves but when they perish the righteous increase
he that being often reproved hardeneth his neck shall suddenly be destroyed and that without remedy
when the righteous are in authority the people rejoice but when the wicked beareth rule the people mourn
whoso loveth wisdom rejoiceth his father but he that keepeth company with harlots spendeth his substance
the king by judgment establisheth the land but he that receiveth gifts overthroweth it
a man that flattereth his neighbour spreadeth a net for his feet
in the transgression of an evil man there is a snare but the righteous doth sing and rejoice
the righteous considereth the cause of the poor but the wicked regardeth not to know it
scornful men bring a city into a snare but wise men turn away wrath
if a wise man contendeth with a foolish man whether he rage or laugh there is no rest
the bloodthirsty hate the upright but the just seek his soul
a fool uttereth all his mind but a wise man keepeth it in till afterwards
if a ruler hearken to lies all his servants are wicked
the poor and the deceitful man meet together the lord lighteneth both their eyes
the king that faithfully judgeth the poor his throne shall be established for ever
the rod and reproof give wisdom but a child left to himself bringeth his mother to shame
when the wicked are multiplied transgression increaseth but the righteous shall see their fall
correct thy son and he shall give thee rest yea he shall give delight unto thy soul
where there is no vision the people perish but he that keepeth the law happy is he
a servant will not be corrected by words for though he understand he will not answer
seest thou a man that is hasty in his words there is more hope of a fool than of him
he that delicately bringeth up his servant from a child shall have him become his son at the length
an angry man stirreth up strife and a furious man aboundeth in transgression
a man's pride shall bring him low but honour shall uphold the humble in spirit
whoso is partner with a thief hateth his own soul he heareth cursing and bewrayeth it not
the fear of man bringeth a snare but whoso putteth his trust in the lord shall be safe
many seek the ruler's favour but every man's judgment cometh from the lord
an unjust man is an abomination to the just and he that is upright in the way is abomination to the wicked
the words of agur the son of jakeh even the prophecy the man spake unto ithiel even unto ithiel and ucal
surely i am more brutish than any man and have not the understanding of a man
i neither learned wisdom nor have the knowledge of the holy
who hath ascended up into heaven or descended who hath gathered the wind in his fists who hath bound the waters in a garment who hath established all the ends of the earth what is his name and what is his son's name if thou canst tell
every word of god is pure he is a shield unto them that put their trust in him
add thou not unto his words lest he reprove thee and thou be found a liar
two things have i required of thee deny me them not before i die
remove far from me vanity and lies give me neither poverty nor riches feed me with food convenient for me
lest i be full and deny thee and say who is the lord or lest i be poor and steal and take the name of my god in vain
accuse not a servant unto his master lest he curse thee and thou be found guilty
there is a generation that curseth their father and doth not bless their mother
there is a generation that are pure in their own eyes and yet is not washed from their filthiness
there is a generation o how lofty are their eyes and their eyelids are lifted up
there is a generation whose teeth are as swords and their jaw teeth as knives to devour the poor from off the earth and the needy from among men
the horseleach hath two daughters crying give give there are three things that are never satisfied yea four things say not it is enough
the grave and the barren womb the earth that is not filled with water and the fire that saith not it is enough
the eye that mocketh at his father and despiseth to obey his mother the ravens of the valley shall pick it out and the young eagles shall eat it
there be three things which are too wonderful for me yea four which i know not
the way of an eagle in the air the way of a serpent upon a rock the way of a ship in the midst of the sea and the way of a man with a maid
such is the way of an adulterous woman she eateth and wipeth her mouth and saith i have done no wickedness
for three things the earth is disquieted and for four which it cannot bear
for a servant when he reigneth and a fool when he is filled with meat
for an odious woman when she is married and an handmaid that is heir to her mistress
there be four things which are little upon the earth but they are exceeding wise
the ants are a people not strong yet they prepare their meat in the summer
the conies are but a feeble folk yet make they their houses in the rocks
the locusts have no king yet go they forth all of them by bands
the spider taketh hold with her hands and is in kings palaces
there be three things which go well yea four are comely in going
a lion which is strongest among beasts and turneth not away for any
a greyhound an he goat also and a king against whom there is no rising up
if thou hast done foolishly in lifting up thyself or if thou hast thought evil lay thine hand upon thy mouth
surely the churning of milk bringeth forth butter and the wringing of the nose bringeth forth blood so the forcing of wrath bringeth forth strife
the words of king lemuel the prophecy that his mother taught him
what my son and what the son of my womb and what the son of my vows
give not thy strength unto women nor thy ways to that which destroyeth kings
it is not for kings o lemuel it is not for kings to drink wine nor for princes strong drink
lest they drink and forget the law and pervert the judgment of any of the afflicted
give strong drink unto him that is ready to perish and wine unto those that be of heavy hearts
let him drink and forget his poverty and remember his misery no more
open thy mouth for the dumb in the cause of all such as are appointed to destruction
open thy mouth judge righteously and plead the cause of the poor and needy
who can find a virtuous woman for her price is far above rubies
the heart of her husband doth safely trust in her so that he shall have no need of spoil
she will do him good and not evil all the days of her life
she seeketh wool and flax and worketh willingly with her hands
she is like the merchants ships she bringeth her food from afar
she riseth also while it is yet night and giveth meat to her household and a portion to her maidens
she considereth a field and buyeth it with the fruit of her hands she planteth a vineyard
she girdeth her loins with strength and strengtheneth her arms
she perceiveth that her merchandise is good her candle goeth not out by night
she layeth her hands to the spindle and her hands hold the distaff
she stretcheth out her hand to the poor yea she reacheth forth her hands to the needy
she is not afraid of the snow for her household for all her household are clothed with scarlet
she maketh herself coverings of tapestry her clothing is silk and purple
her husband is known in the gates when he sitteth among the elders of the land
she maketh fine linen and selleth it and delivereth girdles unto the merchant
strength and honour are her clothing and she shall rejoice in time to come
she openeth her mouth with wisdom and in her tongue is the law of kindness
she looketh well to the ways of her household and eateth not the bread of idleness
her children arise up and call her blessed her husband also and he praiseth her
many daughters have done virtuously but thou excellest them all
favour is deceitful and beauty is vain but a woman that feareth the lord she shall be praised
give her of the fruit of her hands and let her own works praise her in the gates
the words of the preacher the son of david king in jerusalem
vanity of vanities saith the preacher vanity of vanities all is vanity
what profit hath a man of all his labour which he taketh under the sun
one generation passeth away and another generation cometh but the earth abideth for ever
the sun also ariseth and the sun goeth down and hasteth to his place where he arose
the wind goeth toward the south and turneth about unto the north it whirleth about continually and the wind returneth again according to his circuits
all the rivers run into the sea yet the sea is not full unto the place from whence the rivers come thither they return again
all things are full of labour man cannot utter it the eye is not satisfied with seeing nor the ear filled with hearing
the thing that hath been it is that which shall be and that which is done is that which shall be done and there is no new thing under the sun
is there any thing whereof it may be said see this is new it hath been already of old time which was before us
there is no remembrance of former things neither shall there be any remembrance of things that are to come with those that shall come after
i the preacher was king over israel in jerusalem
and i gave my heart to seek and search out by wisdom concerning all things that are done under heaven this sore travail hath god given to the sons of man to be exercised therewith
i have seen all the works that are done under the sun and behold all is vanity and vexation of spirit
that which is crooked cannot be made straight and that which is wanting cannot be numbered
i communed with mine own heart saying lo i am come to great estate and have gotten more wisdom than all they that have been before me in jerusalem yea my heart had great experience of wisdom and knowledge
and i gave my heart to know wisdom and to know madness and folly i perceived that this also is vexation of spirit
for in much wisdom is much grief and he that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow
i said in mine heart go to now i will prove thee with mirth therefore enjoy pleasure and behold this also is vanity
i said of laughter it is mad and of mirth what doeth it
i sought in mine heart to give myself unto wine yet acquainting mine heart with wisdom and to lay hold on folly till i might see what was that good for the sons of men which they should do under the heaven all the days of their life
i made me great works i builded me houses i planted me vineyards
i made me gardens and orchards and i planted trees in them of all kind of fruits
i made me pools of water to water therewith the wood that bringeth forth trees
i got me servants and maidens and had servants born in my house also i had great possessions of great and small cattle above all that were in jerusalem before me
i gathered me also silver and gold and the peculiar treasure of kings and of the provinces i gat me men singers and women singers and the delights of the sons of men as musical instruments and that of all sorts
so i was great and increased more than all that were before me in jerusalem also my wisdom remained with me
and whatsoever mine eyes desired i kept not from them i withheld not my heart from any joy for my heart rejoiced in all my labour and this was my portion of all my labour
then i looked on all the works that my hands had wrought and on the labour that i had laboured to do and behold all was vanity and vexation of spirit and there was no profit under the sun
and i turned myself to behold wisdom and madness and folly for what can the man do that cometh after the king even that which hath been already done
then i saw that wisdom excelleth folly as far as light excelleth darkness
the wise man's eyes are in his head but the fool walketh in darkness and i myself perceived also that one event happeneth to them all
then said i in my heart as it happeneth to the fool so it happeneth even to me and why was i then more wise then i said in my heart that this also is vanity
for there is no remembrance of the wise more than of the fool for ever seeing that which now is in the days to come shall all be forgotten and how dieth the wise man as the fool
therefore i hated life because the work that is wrought under the sun is grievous unto me for all is vanity and vexation of spirit
yea i hated all my labour which i had taken under the sun because i should leave it unto the man that shall be after me
and who knoweth whether he shall be a wise man or a fool yet shall he have rule over all my labour wherein i have laboured and wherein i have shewed myself wise under the sun this is also vanity
therefore i went about to cause my heart to despair of all the labour which i took under the sun
for there is a man whose labour is in wisdom and in knowledge and in equity yet to a man that hath not laboured therein shall he leave it for his portion this also is vanity and a great evil
for what hath man of all his labour and of the vexation of his heart wherein he hath laboured under the sun
for all his days are sorrows and his travail grief yea his heart taketh not rest in the night this is also vanity
there is nothing better for a man than that he should eat and drink and that he should make his soul enjoy good in his labour this also i saw that it was from the hand of god
for who can eat or who else can hasten hereunto more than i
for god giveth to a man that is good in his sight wisdom and knowledge and joy but to the sinner he giveth travail to gather and to heap up that he may give to him that is good before god this also is vanity and vexation of spirit
to every thing there is a season and a time to every purpose under the heaven
a time to be born and a time to die a time to plant and a time to pluck up that which is planted
a time to kill and a time to heal a time to break down and a time to build up
a time to weep and a time to laugh a time to mourn and a time to dance
a time to cast away stones and a time to gather stones together a time to embrace and a time to refrain from embracing
a time to get and a time to lose a time to keep and a time to cast away
a time to rend and a time to sew a time to keep silence and a time to speak
a time to love and a time to hate a time of war and a time of peace
what profit hath he that worketh in that wherein he laboureth
i have seen the travail which god hath given to the sons of men to be exercised in it
he hath made every thing beautiful in his time also he hath set the world in their heart so that no man can find out the work that god maketh from the beginning to the end
i know that there is no good in them but for a man to rejoice and to do good in his life
and also that every man should eat and drink and enjoy the good of all his labour it is the gift of god
i know that whatsoever god doeth it shall be for ever nothing can be put to it nor any thing taken from it and god doeth it that men should fear before him
that which hath been is now and that which is to be hath already been and god requireth that which is past
and moreover i saw under the sun the place of judgment that wickedness was there and the place of righteousness that iniquity was there
i said in mine heart god shall judge the righteous and the wicked for there is a time there for every purpose and for every work
i said in mine heart concerning the estate of the sons of men that god might manifest them and that they might see that they themselves are beasts
for that which befalleth the sons of men befalleth beasts even one thing befalleth them as the one dieth so dieth the other yea they have all one breath so that a man hath no preeminence above a beast for all is vanity
all go unto one place all are of the dust and all turn to dust again
who knoweth the spirit of man that goeth upward and the spirit of the beast that goeth downward to the earth
wherefore i perceive that there is nothing better than that a man should rejoice in his own works for that is his portion for who shall bring him to see what shall be after him
so i returned and considered all the oppressions that are done under the sun and behold the tears of such as were oppressed and they had no comforter and on the side of their oppressors there was power but they had no comforter
wherefore i praised the dead which are already dead more than the living which are yet alive
yea better is he than both they which hath not yet been who hath not seen the evil work that is done under the sun
again i considered all travail and every right work that for this a man is envied of his neighbour this is also vanity and vexation of spirit
the fool foldeth his hands together and eateth his own flesh
better is an handful with quietness than both the hands full with travail and vexation of spirit
then i returned and i saw vanity under the sun
there is one alone and there is not a second yea he hath neither child nor brother yet is there no end of all his labour neither is his eye satisfied with riches neither saith he for whom do i labour and bereave my soul of good this is also vanity yea it is a sore travail
two are better than one because they have a good reward for their labour
for if they fall the one will lift up his fellow but woe to him that is alone when he falleth for he hath not another to help him up
again if two lie together then they have heat but how can one be warm alone
and if one prevail against him two shall withstand him and a threefold cord is not quickly broken
better is a poor and a wise child than an old and foolish king who will no more be admonished
for out of prison he cometh to reign whereas also he that is born in his kingdom becometh poor
i considered all the living which walk under the sun with the second child that shall stand up in his stead
there is no end of all the people even of all that have been before them they also that come after shall not rejoice in him surely this also is vanity and vexation of spirit
keep thy foot when thou goest to the house of god and be more ready to hear than to give the sacrifice of fools for they consider not that they do evil
be not rash with thy mouth and let not thine heart be hasty to utter any thing before god for god is in heaven and thou upon earth therefore let thy words be few
for a dream cometh through the multitude of business and a fool's voice is known by multitude of words
when thou vowest a vow unto god defer not to pay it for he hath no pleasure in fools pay that which thou hast vowed
better is it that thou shouldest not vow than that thou shouldest vow and not pay
suffer not thy mouth to cause thy flesh to sin neither say thou before the angel that it was an error wherefore should god be angry at thy voice and destroy the work of thine hands
for in the multitude of dreams and many words there are also divers vanities but fear thou god
if thou seest the oppression of the poor and violent perverting of judgment and justice in a province marvel not at the matter for he that is higher than the highest regardeth and there be higher than they
moreover the profit of the earth is for all the king himself is served by the field
he that loveth silver shall not be satisfied with silver nor he that loveth abundance with increase this is also vanity
when goods increase they are increased that eat them and what good is there to the owners thereof saving the beholding of them with their eyes
the sleep of a labouring man is sweet whether he eat little or much but the abundance of the rich will not suffer him to sleep
there is a sore evil which i have seen under the sun namely riches kept for the owners thereof to their hurt
but those riches perish by evil travail and he begetteth a son and there is nothing in his hand
as he came forth of his mother's womb naked shall he return to go as he came and shall take nothing of his labour which he may carry away in his hand
and this also is a sore evil that in all points as he came so shall he go and what profit hath he that hath laboured for the wind
all his days also he eateth in darkness and he hath much sorrow and wrath with his sickness
behold that which i have seen it is good and comely for one to eat and to drink and to enjoy the good of all his labour that he taketh under the sun all the days of his life which god giveth him for it is his portion
every man also to whom god hath given riches and wealth and hath given him power to eat thereof and to take his portion and to rejoice in his labour this is the gift of god
for he shall not much remember the days of his life because god answereth him in the joy of his heart
there is an evil which i have seen under the sun and it is common among men
a man to whom god hath given riches wealth and honour so that he wanteth nothing for his soul of all that he desireth yet god giveth him not power to eat thereof but a stranger eateth it this is vanity and it is an evil disease
if a man beget an hundred children and live many years so that the days of his years be many and his soul be not filled with good and also that he have no burial i say that an untimely birth is better than he
for he cometh in with vanity and departeth in darkness and his name shall be covered with darkness
moreover he hath not seen the sun nor known any thing this hath more rest than the other
yea though he live a thousand years twice told yet hath he seen no good do not all go to one place
all the labour of man is for his mouth and yet the appetite is not filled
for what hath the wise more than the fool what hath the poor that knoweth to walk before the living
better is the sight of the eyes than the wandering of the desire this is also vanity and vexation of spirit
that which hath been is named already and it is known that it is man neither may he contend with him that is mightier than he
seeing there be many things that increase vanity what is man the better
for who knoweth what is good for man in this life all the days of his vain life which he spendeth as a shadow for who can tell a man what shall be after him under the sun
a good name is better than precious ointment and the day of death than the day of one's birth
it is better to go to the house of mourning than to go to the house of feasting for that is the end of all men and the living will lay it to his heart
sorrow is better than laughter for by the sadness of the countenance the heart is made better
the heart of the wise is in the house of mourning but the heart of fools is in the house of mirth
it is better to hear the rebuke of the wise than for a man to hear the song of fools
for as the crackling of thorns under a pot so is the laughter of the fool this also is vanity
surely oppression maketh a wise man mad and a gift destroyeth the heart
better is the end of a thing than the beginning thereof and the patient in spirit is better than the proud in spirit
be not hasty in thy spirit to be angry for anger resteth in the bosom of fools
say not thou what is the cause that the former days were better than these for thou dost not enquire wisely concerning this
wisdom is good with an inheritance and by it there is profit to them that see the sun
for wisdom is a defence and money is a defence but the excellency of knowledge is that wisdom giveth life to them that have it
consider the work of god for who can make that straight which he hath made crooked
in the day of prosperity be joyful but in the day of adversity consider god also hath set the one over against the other to the end that man should find nothing after him
all things have i seen in the days of my vanity there is a just man that perisheth in his righteousness and there is a wicked man that prolongeth his life in his wickedness
be not righteous over much neither make thyself over wise why shouldest thou destroy thyself 
be not over much wicked neither be thou foolish why shouldest thou die before thy time
it is good that thou shouldest take hold of this yea also from this withdraw not thine hand for he that feareth god shall come forth of them all
wisdom strengtheneth the wise more than ten mighty men which are in the city
for there is not a just man upon earth that doeth good and sinneth not
also take no heed unto all words that are spoken lest thou hear thy servant curse thee
for oftentimes also thine own heart knoweth that thou thyself likewise hast cursed others
all this have i proved by wisdom i said i will be wise but it was far from me
that which is far off and exceeding deep who can find it out
i applied mine heart to know and to search and to seek out wisdom and the reason of things and to know the wickedness of folly even of foolishness and madness
and i find more bitter than death the woman whose heart is snares and nets and her hands as bands whoso pleaseth god shall escape from her but the sinner shall be taken by her
behold this have i found saith the preacher counting one by one to find out the account
which yet my soul seeketh but i find not one man among a thousand have i found but a woman among all those have i not found
lo this only have i found that god hath made man upright but they have sought out many inventions
who is as the wise man and who knoweth the interpretation of a thing a man's wisdom maketh his face to shine and the boldness of his face shall be changed
i counsel thee to keep the king's commandment and that in regard of the oath of god
be not hasty to go out of his sight stand not in an evil thing for he doeth whatsoever pleaseth him
where the word of a king is there is power and who may say unto him what doest thou
whoso keepeth the commandment shall feel no evil thing and a wise man's heart discerneth both time and judgment
because to every purpose there is time and judgment therefore the misery of man is great upon him
for he knoweth not that which shall be for who can tell him when it shall be
there is no man that hath power over the spirit to retain the spirit neither hath he power in the day of death and there is no discharge in that war neither shall wickedness deliver those that are given to it
all this have i seen and applied my heart unto every work that is done under the sun there is a time wherein one man ruleth over another to his own hurt
and so i saw the wicked buried who had come and gone from the place of the holy and they were forgotten in the city where they had so done this is also vanity
because sentence against an evil work is not executed speedily therefore the heart of the sons of men is fully set in them to do evil
though a sinner do evil an hundred times and his days be prolonged yet surely i know that it shall be well with them that fear god which fear before him
but it shall not be well with the wicked neither shall he prolong his days which are as a shadow because he feareth not before god
there is a vanity which is done upon the earth that there be just men unto whom it happeneth according to the work of the wicked again there be wicked men to whom it happeneth according to the work of the righteous i said that this also is vanity
then i commended mirth because a man hath no better thing under the sun than to eat and to drink and to be merry for that shall abide with him of his labour the days of his life which god giveth him under the sun
when i applied mine heart to know wisdom and to see the business that is done upon the earth for also there is that neither day nor night seeth sleep with his eyes
then i beheld all the work of god that a man cannot find out the work that is done under the sun because though a man labour to seek it out yet he shall not find it yea farther though a wise man think to know it yet shall he not be able to find it
for all this i considered in my heart even to declare all this that the righteous and the wise and their works are in the hand of god no man knoweth either love or hatred by all that is before them
all things come alike to all there is one event to the righteous and to the wicked to the good and to the clean and to the unclean to him that sacrificeth and to him that sacrificeth not as is the good so is the sinner and he that sweareth as he that feareth an oath
this is an evil among all things that are done under the sun that there is one event unto all yea also the heart of the sons of men is full of evil and madness is in their heart while they live and after that they go to the dead
for to him that is joined to all the living there is hope for a living dog is better than a dead lion
for the living know that they shall die but the dead know not any thing neither have they any more a reward for the memory of them is forgotten
also their love and their hatred and their envy is now perished neither have they any more a portion for ever in any thing that is done under the sun
go thy way eat thy bread with joy and drink thy wine with a merry heart for god now accepteth thy works
let thy garments be always white and let thy head lack no ointment
live joyfully with the wife whom thou lovest all the days of the life of thy vanity which he hath given thee under the sun all the days of thy vanity for that is thy portion in this life and in thy labour which thou takest under the sun
whatsoever thy hand findeth to do do it with thy might for there is no work nor device nor knowledge nor wisdom in the grave whither thou goest
i returned and saw under the sun that the race is not to the swift nor the battle to the strong neither yet bread to the wise nor yet riches to men of understanding nor yet favour to men of skill but time and chance happeneth to them all
for man also knoweth not his time as the fishes that are taken in an evil net and as the birds that are caught in the snare so are the sons of men snared in an evil time when it falleth suddenly upon them
this wisdom have i seen also under the sun and it seemed great unto me
there was a little city and few men within it and there came a great king against it and besieged it and built great bulwarks against it
now there was found in it a poor wise man and he by his wisdom delivered the city yet no man remembered that same poor man
then said i wisdom is better than strength nevertheless the poor man's wisdom is despised and his words are not heard
the words of wise men are heard in quiet more than the cry of him that ruleth among fools
wisdom is better than weapons of war but one sinner destroyeth much good
dead flies cause the ointment of the apothecary to send forth a stinking savour so doth a little folly him that is in reputation for wisdom and honour
a wise man's heart is at his right hand but a fool's heart at his left
yea also when he that is a fool walketh by the way his wisdom faileth him and he saith to every one that he is a fool
if the spirit of the ruler rise up against thee leave not thy place for yielding pacifieth great offences
there is an evil which i have seen under the sun as an error which proceedeth from the ruler
folly is set in great dignity and the rich sit in low place
i have seen servants upon horses and princes walking as servants upon the earth
he that diggeth a pit shall fall into it and whoso breaketh an hedge a serpent shall bite him
whoso removeth stones shall be hurt therewith and he that cleaveth wood shall be endangered thereby
if the iron be blunt and he do not whet the edge then must he put to more strength but wisdom is profitable to direct
surely the serpent will bite without enchantment and a babbler is no better
the words of a wise man's mouth are gracious but the lips of a fool will swallow up himself
the beginning of the words of his mouth is foolishness and the end of his talk is mischievous madness
a fool also is full of words a man cannot tell what shall be and what shall be after him who can tell him
the labour of the foolish wearieth every one of them because he knoweth not how to go to the city
woe to thee o land when thy king is a child and thy princes eat in the morning
blessed art thou o land when thy king is the son of nobles and thy princes eat in due season for strength and not for drunkenness
by much slothfulness the building decayeth and through idleness of the hands the house droppeth through
a feast is made for laughter and wine maketh merry but money answereth all things
curse not the king no not in thy thought and curse not the rich in thy bedchamber for a bird of the air shall carry the voice and that which hath wings shall tell the matter
cast thy bread upon the waters for thou shalt find it after many days
give a portion to seven and also to eight for thou knowest not what evil shall be upon the earth
if the clouds be full of rain they empty themselves upon the earth and if the tree fall toward the south or toward the north in the place where the tree falleth there it shall be
he that observeth the wind shall not sow and he that regardeth the clouds shall not reap
as thou knowest not what is the way of the spirit nor how the bones do grow in the womb of her that is with child even so thou knowest not the works of god who maketh all
in the morning sow thy seed and in the evening withhold not thine hand for thou knowest not whether shall prosper either this or that or whether they both shall be alike good
truly the light is sweet and a pleasant thing it is for the eyes to behold the sun
but if a man live many years and rejoice in them all yet let him remember the days of darkness for they shall be many all that cometh is vanity
rejoice o young man in thy youth and let thy heart cheer thee in the days of thy youth and walk in the ways of thine heart and in the sight of thine eyes but know thou that for all these things god will bring thee into judgment
therefore remove sorrow from thy heart and put away evil from thy flesh for childhood and youth are vanity
remember now thy creator in the days of thy youth while the evil days come not nor the years draw nigh when thou shalt say i have no pleasure in them
while the sun or the light or the moon or the stars be not darkened nor the clouds return after the rain
in the day when the keepers of the house shall tremble and the strong men shall bow themselves and the grinders cease because they are few and those that look out of the windows be darkened
and the doors shall be shut in the streets when the sound of the grinding is low and he shall rise up at the voice of the bird and all the daughters of musick shall be brought low
also when they shall be afraid of that which is high and fears shall be in the way and the almond tree shall flourish and the grasshopper shall be a burden and desire shall fail because man goeth to his long home and the mourners go about the streets
or ever the silver cord be loosed or the golden bowl be broken or the pitcher be broken at the fountain or the wheel broken at the cistern
then shall the dust return to the earth as it was and the spirit shall return unto god who gave it
vanity of vanities saith the preacher all is vanity
and moreover because the preacher was wise he still taught the people knowledge yea he gave good heed and sought out and set in order many proverbs
the preacher sought to find out acceptable words and that which was written was upright even words of truth
the words of the wise are as goads and as nails fastened by the masters of assemblies which are given from one shepherd
and further by these my son be admonished of making many books there is no end and much study is a weariness of the flesh
let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter fear god and keep his commandments for this is the whole duty of man
for god shall bring every work into judgment with every secret thing whether it be good or whether it be evil
the song of songs which is solomon's
let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth for thy love is better than wine
because of the savour of thy good ointments thy name is as ointment poured forth therefore do the virgins love thee
draw me we will run after thee the king hath brought me into his chambers we will be glad and rejoice in thee we will remember thy love more than wine the upright love thee
i am black but comely o ye daughters of jerusalem as the tents of kedar as the curtains of solomon
look not upon me because i am black because the sun hath looked upon me my mother's children were angry with me they made me the keeper of the vineyards but mine own vineyard have i not kept
tell me o thou whom my soul loveth where thou feedest where thou makest thy flock to rest at noon for why should i be as one that turneth aside by the flocks of thy companions
if thou know not o thou fairest among women go thy way forth by the footsteps of the flock and feed thy kids beside the shepherds tents
i have compared thee o my love to a company of horses in pharaoh's chariots
thy cheeks are comely with rows of jewels thy neck with chains of gold
we will make thee borders of gold with studs of silver
while the king sitteth at his table my spikenard sendeth forth the smell thereof
a bundle of myrrh is my wellbeloved unto me he shall lie all night betwixt my breasts
my beloved is unto me as a cluster of camphire in the vineyards of engedi
behold thou art fair my love behold thou art fair thou hast doves eyes
behold thou art fair my beloved yea pleasant also our bed is green
the beams of our house are cedar and our rafters of fir
i am the rose of sharon and the lily of the valleys
as the lily among thorns so is my love among the daughters
as the apple tree among the trees of the wood so is my beloved among the sons i sat down under his shadow with great delight and his fruit was sweet to my taste
he brought me to the banqueting house and his banner over me was love
stay me with flagons comfort me with apples for i am sick of love
his left hand is under my head and his right hand doth embrace me
i charge you o ye daughters of jerusalem by the roes and by the hinds of the field that ye stir not up nor awake my love till he please
the voice of my beloved behold he cometh leaping upon the mountains skipping upon the hills
my beloved is like a roe or a young hart behold he standeth behind our wall he looketh forth at the windows shewing himself through the lattice
my beloved spake and said unto me rise up my love my fair one and come away
for lo the winter is past the rain is over and gone
the flowers appear on the earth the time of the singing of birds is come and the voice of the turtle is heard in our land
the fig tree putteth forth her green figs and the vines with the tender grape give a good smell arise my love my fair one and come away
o my dove that art in the clefts of the rock in the secret places of the stairs let me see thy countenance let me hear thy voice for sweet is thy voice and thy countenance is comely
take us the foxes the little foxes that spoil the vines for our vines have tender grapes
my beloved is mine and i am his he feedeth among the lilies
until the day break and the shadows flee away turn my beloved and be thou like a roe or a young hart upon the mountains of bether
by night on my bed i sought him whom my soul loveth i sought him but i found him not
i will rise now and go about the city in the streets and in the broad ways i will seek him whom my soul loveth i sought him but i found him not
the watchmen that go about the city found me to whom i said saw ye him whom my soul loveth
it was but a little that i passed from them but i found him whom my soul loveth i held him and would not let him go until i had brought him into my mother's house and into the chamber of her that conceived me
i charge you o ye daughters of jerusalem by the roes and by the hinds of the field that ye stir not up nor awake my love till he please
who is this that cometh out of the wilderness like pillars of smoke perfumed with myrrh and frankincense with all powders of the merchant
behold his bed which is solomon's threescore valiant men are about it of the valiant of israel
they all hold swords being expert in war every man hath his sword upon his thigh because of fear in the night
king solomon made himself a chariot of the wood of lebanon
he made the pillars thereof of silver the bottom thereof of gold the covering of it of purple the midst thereof being paved with love for the daughters of jerusalem
go forth o ye daughters of zion and behold king solomon with the crown wherewith his mother crowned him in the day of his espousals and in the day of the gladness of his heart
behold thou art fair my love behold thou art fair thou hast doves eyes within thy locks thy hair is as a flock of goats that appear from mount gilead
thy teeth are like a flock of sheep that are even shorn which came up from the washing whereof every one bear twins and none is barren among them
thy lips are like a thread of scarlet and thy speech is comely thy temples are like a piece of a pomegranate within thy locks
thy neck is like the tower of david builded for an armoury whereon there hang a thousand bucklers all shields of mighty men
thy two breasts are like two young roes that are twins which feed among the lilies
until the day break and the shadows flee away i will get me to the mountain of myrrh and to the hill of frankincense
thou art all fair my love there is no spot in thee
come with me from lebanon my spouse with me from lebanon look from the top of amana from the top of shenir and hermon from the lions dens from the mountains of the leopards
thou hast ravished my heart my sister my spouse thou hast ravished my heart with one of thine eyes with one chain of thy neck
how fair is thy love my sister my spouse how much better is thy love than wine and the smell of thine ointments than all spices
thy lips o my spouse drop as the honeycomb honey and milk are under thy tongue and the smell of thy garments is like the smell of lebanon
a garden inclosed is my sister my spouse a spring shut up a fountain sealed
thy plants are an orchard of pomegranates with pleasant fruits camphire with spikenard
spikenard and saffron calamus and cinnamon with all trees of frankincense myrrh and aloes with all the chief spices
a fountain of gardens a well of living waters and streams from lebanon
awake o north wind and come thou south blow upon my garden that the spices thereof may flow out let my beloved come into his garden and eat his pleasant fruits
i am come into my garden my sister my spouse i have gathered my myrrh with my spice i have eaten my honeycomb with my honey i have drunk my wine with my milk eat o friends drink yea drink abundantly o beloved
i sleep but my heart waketh it is the voice of my beloved that knocketh saying open to me my sister my love my dove my undefiled for my head is filled with dew and my locks with the drops of the night
i have put off my coat how shall i put it on i have washed my feet how shall i defile them
my beloved put in his hand by the hole of the door and my bowels were moved for him
i rose up to open to my beloved and my hands dropped with myrrh and my fingers with sweet smelling myrrh upon the handles of the lock
i opened to my beloved but my beloved had withdrawn himself and was gone my soul failed when he spake i sought him but i could not find him i called him but he gave me no answer
the watchmen that went about the city found me they smote me they wounded me the keepers of the walls took away my veil from me
i charge you o daughters of jerusalem if ye find my beloved that ye tell him that i am sick of love
what is thy beloved more than another beloved o thou fairest among women what is thy beloved more than another beloved that thou dost so charge us
my beloved is white and ruddy the chiefest among ten thousand
his head is as the most fine gold his locks are bushy and black as a raven
his eyes are as the eyes of doves by the rivers of waters washed with milk and fitly set
his cheeks are as a bed of spices as sweet flowers his lips like lilies dropping sweet smelling myrrh
his hands are as gold rings set with the beryl his belly is as bright ivory overlaid with sapphires
his legs are as pillars of marble set upon sockets of fine gold his countenance is as lebanon excellent as the cedars
his mouth is most sweet yea he is altogether lovely this is my beloved and this is my friend o daughters of jerusalem
whither is thy beloved gone o thou fairest among women whither is thy beloved turned aside that we may seek him with thee
my beloved is gone down into his garden to the beds of spices to feed in the gardens and to gather lilies
i am my beloved's and my beloved is mine he feedeth among the lilies
thou art beautiful o my love as tirzah comely as jerusalem terrible as an army with banners
turn away thine eyes from me for they have overcome me thy hair is as a flock of goats that appear from gilead
thy teeth are as a flock of sheep which go up from the washing whereof every one beareth twins and there is not one barren among them
as a piece of a pomegranate are thy temples within thy locks
there are threescore queens and fourscore concubines and virgins without number
my dove my undefiled is but one she is the only one of her mother she is the choice one of her that bare her the daughters saw her and blessed her yea the queens and the concubines and they praised her
who is she that looketh forth as the morning fair as the moon clear as the sun and terrible as an army with banners
i went down into the garden of nuts to see the fruits of the valley and to see whether the vine flourished and the pomegranates budded
or ever i was aware my soul made me like the chariots of amminadib
return return o shulamite return return that we may look upon thee what will ye see in the shulamite as it were the company of two armies
how beautiful are thy feet with shoes o prince's daughter the joints of thy thighs are like jewels the work of the hands of a cunning workman
thy navel is like a round goblet which wanteth not liquor thy belly is like an heap of wheat set about with lilies
thy two breasts are like two young roes that are twins
thy neck is as a tower of ivory thine eyes like the fishpools in heshbon by the gate of bathrabbim thy nose is as the tower of lebanon which looketh toward damascus
thine head upon thee is like carmel and the hair of thine head like purple the king is held in the galleries
how fair and how pleasant art thou o love for delights
this thy stature is like to a palm tree and thy breasts to clusters of grapes
i said i will go up to the palm tree i will take hold of the boughs thereof now also thy breasts shall be as clusters of the vine and the smell of thy nose like apples
and the roof of thy mouth like the best wine for my beloved that goeth down sweetly causing the lips of those that are asleep to speak
i am my beloved's and his desire is toward me
come my beloved let us go forth into the field let us lodge in the villages
let us get up early to the vineyards let us see if the vine flourish whether the tender grape appear and the pomegranates bud forth there will i give thee my loves
the mandrakes give a smell and at our gates are all manner of pleasant fruits new and old which i have laid up for thee o my beloved
o that thou wert as my brother that sucked the breasts of my mother when i should find thee without i would kiss thee yea i should not be despised
i would lead thee and bring thee into my mother's house who would instruct me i would cause thee to drink of spiced wine of the juice of my pomegranate
his left hand should be under my head and his right hand should embrace me
i charge you o daughters of jerusalem that ye stir not up nor awake my love until he please
who is this that cometh up from the wilderness leaning upon her beloved i raised thee up under the apple tree there thy mother brought thee forth there she brought thee forth that bare thee
set me as a seal upon thine heart as a seal upon thine arm for love is strong as death jealousy is cruel as the grave the coals thereof are coals of fire which hath a most vehement flame
many waters cannot quench love neither can the floods drown it if a man would give all the substance of his house for love it would utterly be contemned
we have a little sister and she hath no breasts what shall we do for our sister in the day when she shall be spoken for
if she be a wall we will build upon her a palace of silver and if she be a door we will inclose her with boards of cedar
i am a wall and my breasts like towers then was i in his eyes as one that found favour
solomon had a vineyard at baalhamon he let out the vineyard unto keepers every one for the fruit thereof was to bring a thousand pieces of silver
my vineyard which is mine is before me thou o solomon must have a thousand and those that keep the fruit thereof two hundred
thou that dwellest in the gardens the companions hearken to thy voice cause me to hear it
make haste my beloved and be thou like to a roe or to a young hart upon the mountains of spices
the vision of isaiah the son of amoz which he saw concerning judah and jerusalem in the days of uzziah jotham ahaz and hezekiah kings of judah
hear o heavens and give ear o earth for the lord hath spoken i have nourished and brought up children and they have rebelled against me
the ox knoweth his owner and the ass his master's crib but israel doth not know my people doth not consider
ah sinful nation a people laden with iniquity a seed of evildoers children that are corrupters they have forsaken the lord they have provoked the holy one of israel unto anger they are gone away backward
why should ye be stricken any more ye will revolt more and more the whole head is sick and the whole heart faint
from the sole of the foot even unto the head there is no soundness in it but wounds and bruises and putrifying sores they have not been closed neither bound up neither mollified with ointment
your country is desolate your cities are burned with fire your land strangers devour it in your presence and it is desolate as overthrown by strangers
and the daughter of zion is left as a cottage in a vineyard as a lodge in a garden of cucumbers as a besieged city
except the lord of hosts had left unto us a very small remnant we should have been as sodom and we should have been like unto gomorrah
hear the word of the lord ye rulers of sodom give ear unto the law of our god ye people of gomorrah
to what purpose is the multitude of your sacrifices unto me saith the lord i am full of the burnt offerings of rams and the fat of fed beasts and i delight not in the blood of bullocks or of lambs or of he goats
when ye come to appear before me who hath required this at your hand to tread my courts
bring no more vain oblations incense is an abomination unto me the new moons and sabbaths the calling of assemblies i cannot away with it is iniquity even the solemn meeting
your new moons and your appointed feasts my soul hateth they are a trouble unto me i am weary to bear them
and when ye spread forth your hands i will hide mine eyes from you yea when ye make many prayers i will not hear your hands are full of blood
wash you make you clean put away the evil of your doings from before mine eyes cease to do evil
learn to do well seek judgment relieve the oppressed judge the fatherless plead for the widow
come now and let us reason together saith the lord though your sins be as scarlet they shall be as white as snow though they be red like crimson they shall be as wool
if ye be willing and obedient ye shall eat the good of the land
but if ye refuse and rebel ye shall be devoured with the sword for the mouth of the lord hath spoken it
how is the faithful city become an harlot it was full of judgment righteousness lodged in it but now murderers
thy silver is become dross thy wine mixed with water
thy princes are rebellious and companions of thieves every one loveth gifts and followeth after rewards they judge not the fatherless neither doth the cause of the widow come unto them
therefore saith the lord the lord of hosts the mighty one of israel ah i will ease me of mine adversaries and avenge me of mine enemies
and i will turn my hand upon thee and purely purge away thy dross and take away all thy tin
and i will restore thy judges as at the first and thy counsellors as at the beginning afterward thou shalt be called the city of righteousness the faithful city
zion shall be redeemed with judgment and her converts with righteousness
and the destruction of the transgressors and of the sinners shall be together and they that forsake the lord shall be consumed
for they shall be ashamed of the oaks which ye have desired and ye shall be confounded for the gardens that ye have chosen
for ye shall be as an oak whose leaf fadeth and as a garden that hath no water
and the strong shall be as tow and the maker of it as a spark and they shall both burn together and none shall quench them
the word that isaiah the son of amoz saw concerning judah and jerusalem
and it shall come to pass in the last days that the mountain of the lord's house shall be established in the top of the mountains and shall be exalted above the hills and all nations shall flow unto it
and many people shall go and say come ye and let us go up to the mountain of the lord to the house of the god of jacob and he will teach us of his ways and we will walk in his paths for out of zion shall go forth the law and the word of the lord from jerusalem
and he shall judge among the nations and shall rebuke many people and they shall beat their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruninghooks nation shall not lift up sword against nation neither shall they learn war any more
o house of jacob come ye and let us walk in the light of the lord
therefore thou hast forsaken thy people the house of jacob because they be replenished from the east and are soothsayers like the philistines and they please themselves in the children of strangers
their land also is full of silver and gold neither is there any end of their treasures their land is also full of horses neither is there any end of their chariots
their land also is full of idols they worship the work of their own hands that which their own fingers have made
and the mean man boweth down and the great man humbleth himself therefore forgive them not
enter into the rock and hide thee in the dust for fear of the lord and for the glory of his majesty
the lofty looks of man shall be humbled and the haughtiness of men shall be bowed down and the lord alone shall be exalted in that day
for the day of the lord of hosts shall be upon every one that is proud and lofty and upon every one that is lifted up and he shall be brought low
and upon all the cedars of lebanon that are high and lifted up and upon all the oaks of bashan
and upon all the high mountains and upon all the hills that are lifted up
and upon every high tower and upon every fenced wall
and upon all the ships of tarshish and upon all pleasant pictures
and the loftiness of man shall be bowed down and the haughtiness of men shall be made low and the lord alone shall be exalted in that day
and the idols he shall utterly abolish
and they shall go into the holes of the rocks and into the caves of the earth for fear of the lord and for the glory of his majesty when he ariseth to shake terribly the earth
in that day a man shall cast his idols of silver and his idols of gold which they made each one for himself to worship to the moles and to the bats
to go into the clefts of the rocks and into the tops of the ragged rocks for fear of the lord and for the glory of his majesty when he ariseth to shake terribly the earth
cease ye from man whose breath is in his nostrils for wherein is he to be accounted of 
for behold the lord the lord of hosts doth take away from jerusalem and from judah the stay and the staff the whole stay of bread and the whole stay of water
the mighty man and the man of war the judge and the prophet and the prudent and the ancient
the captain of fifty and the honourable man and the counsellor and the cunning artificer and the eloquent orator
and i will give children to be their princes and babes shall rule over them
and the people shall be oppressed every one by another and every one by his neighbour the child shall behave himself proudly against the ancient and the base against the honourable
when a man shall take hold of his brother of the house of his father saying thou hast clothing be thou our ruler and let this ruin be under thy hand
in that day shall he swear saying i will not be an healer for in my house is neither bread nor clothing make me not a ruler of the people
for jerusalem is ruined and judah is fallen because their tongue and their doings are against the lord to provoke the eyes of his glory
the shew of their countenance doth witness against them and they declare their sin as sodom they hide it not woe unto their soul for they have rewarded evil unto themselves
say ye to the righteous that it shall be well with him for they shall eat the fruit of their doings
woe unto the wicked it shall be ill with him for the reward of his hands shall be given him
as for my people children are their oppressors and women rule over them o my people they which lead thee cause thee to err and destroy the way of thy paths
the lord standeth up to plead and standeth to judge the people
the lord will enter into judgment with the ancients of his people and the princes thereof for ye have eaten up the vineyard the spoil of the poor is in your houses
what mean ye that ye beat my people to pieces and grind the faces of the poor saith the lord god of hosts
moreover the lord saith because the daughters of zion are haughty and walk with stretched forth necks and wanton eyes walking and mincing as they go and making a tinkling with their feet
therefore the lord will smite with a scab the crown of the head of the daughters of zion and the lord will discover their secret parts
in that day the lord will take away the bravery of their tinkling ornaments about their feet and their cauls and their round tires like the moon
the chains and the bracelets and the mufflers
the bonnets and the ornaments of the legs and the headbands and the tablets and the earrings
the rings and nose jewels
the changeable suits of apparel and the mantles and the wimples and the crisping pins
the glasses and the fine linen and the hoods and the vails
and it shall come to pass that instead of sweet smell there shall be stink and instead of a girdle a rent and instead of well set hair baldness and instead of a stomacher a girding of sackcloth and burning instead of beauty
thy men shall fall by the sword and thy mighty in the war
and her gates shall lament and mourn and she being desolate shall sit upon the ground
and in that day seven women shall take hold of one man saying we will eat our own bread and wear our own apparel only let us be called by thy name to take away our reproach
in that day shall the branch of the lord be beautiful and glorious and the fruit of the earth shall be excellent and comely for them that are escaped of israel
and it shall come to pass that he that is left in zion and he that remaineth in jerusalem shall be called holy even every one that is written among the living in jerusalem
when the lord shall have washed away the filth of the daughters of zion and shall have purged the blood of jerusalem from the midst thereof by the spirit of judgment and by the spirit of burning
and the lord will create upon every dwelling place of mount zion and upon her assemblies a cloud and smoke by day and the shining of a flaming fire by night for upon all the glory shall be a defence
and there shall be a tabernacle for a shadow in the day time from the heat and for a place of refuge and for a covert from storm and from rain
now will i sing to my wellbeloved a song of my beloved touching his vineyard my wellbeloved hath a vineyard in a very fruitful hill
and he fenced it and gathered out the stones thereof and planted it with the choicest vine and built a tower in the midst of it and also made a winepress therein and he looked that it should bring forth grapes and it brought forth wild grapes
and now o inhabitants of jerusalem and men of judah judge i pray you betwixt me and my vineyard
what could have been done more to my vineyard that i have not done in it wherefore when i looked that it should bring forth grapes brought it forth wild grapes
and now go to i will tell you what i will do to my vineyard i will take away the hedge thereof and it shall be eaten up and break down the wall thereof and it shall be trodden down
and i will lay it waste it shall not be pruned nor digged but there shall come up briers and thorns i will also command the clouds that they rain no rain upon it
for the vineyard of the lord of hosts is the house of israel and the men of judah his pleasant plant and he looked for judgment but behold oppression for righteousness but behold a cry
woe unto them that join house to house that lay field to field till there be no place that they may be placed alone in the midst of the earth
in mine ears said the lord of hosts of a truth many houses shall be desolate even great and fair without inhabitant
yea ten acres of vineyard shall yield one bath and the seed of an homer shall yield an ephah
woe unto them that rise up early in the morning that they may follow strong drink that continue until night till wine inflame them
and the harp and the viol the tabret and pipe and wine are in their feasts but they regard not the work of the lord neither consider the operation of his hands
therefore my people are gone into captivity because they have no knowledge and their honourable men are famished and their multitude dried up with thirst
therefore hell hath enlarged herself and opened her mouth without measure and their glory and their multitude and their pomp and he that rejoiceth shall descend into it
and the mean man shall be brought down and the mighty man shall be humbled and the eyes of the lofty shall be humbled
but the lord of hosts shall be exalted in judgment and god that is holy shall be sanctified in righteousness
then shall the lambs feed after their manner and the waste places of the fat ones shall strangers eat
woe unto them that draw iniquity with cords of vanity and sin as it were with a cart rope
that say let him make speed and hasten his work that we may see it and let the counsel of the holy one of israel draw nigh and come that we may know it
woe unto them that call evil good and good evil that put darkness for light and light for darkness that put bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter
woe unto them that are wise in their own eyes and prudent in their own sight
woe unto them that are mighty to drink wine and men of strength to mingle strong drink
which justify the wicked for reward and take away the righteousness of the righteous from him
therefore as the fire devoureth the stubble and the flame consumeth the chaff so their root shall be as rottenness and their blossom shall go up as dust because they have cast away the law of the lord of hosts and despised the word of the holy one of israel
therefore is the anger of the lord kindled against his people and he hath stretched forth his hand against them and hath smitten them and the hills did tremble and their carcases were torn in the midst of the streets for all this his anger is not turned away but his hand is stretched out still
and he will lift up an ensign to the nations from far and will hiss unto them from the end of the earth and behold they shall come with speed swiftly
none shall be weary nor stumble among them none shall slumber nor sleep neither shall the girdle of their loins be loosed nor the latchet of their shoes be broken
whose arrows are sharp and all their bows bent their horses hoofs shall be counted like flint and their wheels like a whirlwind
their roaring shall be like a lion they shall roar like young lions yea they shall roar and lay hold of the prey and shall carry it away safe and none shall deliver it
and in that day they shall roar against them like the roaring of the sea and if one look unto the land behold darkness and sorrow and the light is darkened in the heavens thereof
in the year that king uzziah died i saw also the lord sitting upon a throne high and lifted up and his train filled the temple
above it stood the seraphims each one had six wings with twain he covered his face and with twain he covered his feet and with twain he did fly
and one cried unto another and said holy holy holy is the lord of hosts the whole earth is full of his glory
and the posts of the door moved at the voice of him that cried and the house was filled with smoke
then said i woe is me for i am undone because i am a man of unclean lips and i dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips for mine eyes have seen the king the lord of hosts
then flew one of the seraphims unto me having a live coal in his hand which he had taken with the tongs from off the altar
and he laid it upon my mouth and said lo this hath touched thy lips and thine iniquity is taken away and thy sin purged
also i heard the voice of the lord saying whom shall i send and who will go for us then said i here am i send me
and he said go and tell this people hear ye indeed but understand not and see ye indeed but perceive not
make the heart of this people fat and make their ears heavy and shut their eyes lest they see with their eyes and hear with their ears and understand with their heart and convert and be healed
then said i lord how long and he answered until the cities be wasted without inhabitant and the houses without man and the land be utterly desolate
and the lord have removed men far away and there be a great forsaking in the midst of the land
but yet in it shall be a tenth and it shall return and shall be eaten as a teil tree and as an oak whose substance is in them when they cast their leaves so the holy seed shall be the substance thereof
and it came to pass in the days of ahaz the son of jotham the son of uzziah king of judah that rezin the king of syria and pekah the son of remaliah king of israel went up toward jerusalem to war against it but could not prevail against it
and it was told the house of david saying syria is confederate with ephraim and his heart was moved and the heart of his people as the trees of the wood are moved with the wind
then said the lord unto isaiah go forth now to meet ahaz thou and shearjashub thy son at the end of the conduit of the upper pool in the highway of the fuller's field
and say unto him take heed and be quiet fear not neither be fainthearted for the two tails of these smoking firebrands for the fierce anger of rezin with syria and of the son of remaliah
because syria ephraim and the son of remaliah have taken evil counsel against thee saying
let us go up against judah and vex it and let us make a breach therein for us and set a king in the midst of it even the son of tabeal
thus saith the lord god it shall not stand neither shall it come to pass
for the head of syria is damascus and the head of damascus is rezin and within threescore and five years shall ephraim be broken that it be not a people
and the head of ephraim is samaria and the head of samaria is remaliah's son if ye will not believe surely ye shall not be established
moreover the lord spake again unto ahaz saying
ask thee a sign of the lord thy god ask it either in the depth or in the height above
but ahaz said i will not ask neither will i tempt the lord
and he said hear ye now o house of david is it a small thing for you to weary men but will ye weary my god also
therefore the lord himself shall give you a sign behold a virgin shall conceive and bear a son and shall call his name immanuel
butter and honey shall he eat that he may know to refuse the evil and choose the good
for before the child shall know to refuse the evil and choose the good the land that thou abhorrest shall be forsaken of both her kings
the lord shall bring upon thee and upon thy people and upon thy father's house days that have not come from the day that ephraim departed from judah even the king of assyria
and it shall come to pass in that day that the lord shall hiss for the fly that is in the uttermost part of the rivers of egypt and for the bee that is in the land of assyria
and they shall come and shall rest all of them in the desolate valleys and in the holes of the rocks and upon all thorns and upon all bushes
in the same day shall the lord shave with a razor that is hired namely by them beyond the river by the king of assyria the head and the hair of the feet and it shall also consume the beard
and it shall come to pass in that day that a man shall nourish a young cow and two sheep
and it shall come to pass for the abundance of milk that they shall give he shall eat butter for butter and honey shall every one eat that is left in the land
and it shall come to pass in that day that every place shall be where there were a thousand vines at a thousand silverlings it shall even be for briers and thorns
with arrows and with bows shall men come thither because all the land shall become briers and thorns
and on all hills that shall be digged with the mattock there shall not come thither the fear of briers and thorns but it shall be for the sending forth of oxen and for the treading of lesser cattle
moreover the lord said unto me take thee a great roll and write in it with a man's pen concerning mahershalalhashbaz
and i took unto me faithful witnesses to record uriah the priest and zechariah the son of jeberechiah
and i went unto the prophetess and she conceived and bare a son then said the lord to me call his name mahershalalhashbaz
for before the child shall have knowledge to cry my father and my mother the riches of damascus and the spoil of samaria shall be taken away before the king of assyria
the lord spake also unto me again saying
forasmuch as this people refuseth the waters of shiloah that go softly and rejoice in rezin and remaliah's son
now therefore behold the lord bringeth up upon them the waters of the river strong and many even the king of assyria and all his glory and he shall come up over all his channels and go over all his banks
and he shall pass through judah he shall overflow and go over he shall reach even to the neck and the stretching out of his wings shall fill the breadth of thy land o immanuel
associate yourselves o ye people and ye shall be broken in pieces and give ear all ye of far countries gird yourselves and ye shall be broken in pieces gird yourselves and ye shall be broken in pieces
take counsel together and it shall come to nought speak the word and it shall not stand for god is with us
for the lord spake thus to me with a strong hand and instructed me that i should not walk in the way of this people saying
say ye not a confederacy to all them to whom this people shall say a confederacy neither fear ye their fear nor be afraid
sanctify the lord of hosts himself and let him be your fear and let him be your dread
and he shall be for a sanctuary but for a stone of stumbling and for a rock of offence to both the houses of israel for a gin and for a snare to the inhabitants of jerusalem
and many among them shall stumble and fall and be broken and be snared and be taken
bind up the testimony seal the law among my disciples
and i will wait upon the lord that hideth his face from the house of jacob and i will look for him
behold i and the children whom the lord hath given me are for signs and for wonders in israel from the lord of hosts which dwelleth in mount zion
and when they shall say unto you seek unto them that have familiar spirits and unto wizards that peep and that mutter should not a people seek unto their god for the living to the dead
to the law and to the testimony if they speak not according to this word it is because there is no light in them
and they shall pass through it hardly bestead and hungry and it shall come to pass that when they shall be hungry they shall fret themselves and curse their king and their god and look upward
and they shall look unto the earth and behold trouble and darkness dimness of anguish and they shall be driven to darkness
nevertheless the dimness shall not be such as was in her vexation when at the first he lightly afflicted the land of zebulun and the land of naphtali and afterward did more grievously afflict her by the way of the sea beyond jordan in galilee of the nations
the people that walked in darkness have seen a great light they that dwell in the land of the shadow of death upon them hath the light shined
thou hast multiplied the nation and not increased the joy they joy before thee according to the joy in harvest and as men rejoice when they divide the spoil
for thou hast broken the yoke of his burden and the staff of his shoulder the rod of his oppressor as in the day of midian
for every battle of the warrior is with confused noise and garments rolled in blood but this shall be with burning and fuel of fire
for unto us a child is born unto us a son is given and the government shall be upon his shoulder and his name shall be called wonderful counsellor the mighty god the everlasting father the prince of peace
of the increase of his government and peace there shall be no end upon the throne of david and upon his kingdom to order it and to establish it with judgment and with justice from henceforth even for ever the zeal of the lord of hosts will perform this
the lord sent a word into jacob and it hath lighted upon israel
and all the people shall know even ephraim and the inhabitant of samaria that say in the pride and stoutness of heart
the bricks are fallen down but we will build with hewn stones the sycomores are cut down but we will change them into cedars
therefore the lord shall set up the adversaries of rezin against him and join his enemies together
the syrians before and the philistines behind and they shall devour israel with open mouth for all this his anger is not turned away but his hand is stretched out still
for the people turneth not unto him that smiteth them neither do they seek the lord of hosts
therefore the lord will cut off from israel head and tail branch and rush in one day
the ancient and honourable he is the head and the prophet that teacheth lies he is the tail
for the leaders of this people cause them to err and they that are led of them are destroyed
therefore the lord shall have no joy in their young men neither shall have mercy on their fatherless and widows for every one is an hypocrite and an evildoer and every mouth speaketh folly for all this his anger is not turned away but his hand is stretched out still
for wickedness burneth as the fire it shall devour the briers and thorns and shall kindle in the thickets of the forest and they shall mount up like the lifting up of smoke
through the wrath of the lord of hosts is the land darkened and the people shall be as the fuel of the fire no man shall spare his brother
and he shall snatch on the right hand and be hungry and he shall eat on the left hand and they shall not be satisfied they shall eat every man the flesh of his own arm
manasseh ephraim and ephraim manasseh and they together shall be against judah for all this his anger is not turned away but his hand is stretched out still
woe unto them that decree unrighteous decrees and that write grievousness which they have prescribed
to turn aside the needy from judgment and to take away the right from the poor of my people that widows may be their prey and that they may rob the fatherless
and what will ye do in the day of visitation and in the desolation which shall come from far to whom will ye flee for help and where will ye leave your glory
without me they shall bow down under the prisoners and they shall fall under the slain for all this his anger is not turned away but his hand is stretched out still
o assyrian the rod of mine anger and the staff in their hand is mine indignation
i will send him against an hypocritical nation and against the people of my wrath will i give him a charge to take the spoil and to take the prey and to tread them down like the mire of the streets
howbeit he meaneth not so neither doth his heart think so but it is in his heart to destroy and cut off nations not a few
for he saith are not my princes altogether kings
is not calno as carchemish is not hamath as arpad is not samaria as damascus
as my hand hath found the kingdoms of the idols and whose graven images did excel them of jerusalem and of samaria
shall i not as i have done unto samaria and her idols so do to jerusalem and her idols
wherefore it shall come to pass that when the lord hath performed his whole work upon mount zion and on jerusalem i will punish the fruit of the stout heart of the king of assyria and the glory of his high looks
for he saith by the strength of my hand i have done it and by my wisdom for i am prudent and i have removed the bounds of the people and have robbed their treasures and i have put down the inhabitants like a valiant man
and my hand hath found as a nest the riches of the people and as one gathereth eggs that are left have i gathered all the earth and there was none that moved the wing or opened the mouth or peeped
shall the axe boast itself against him that heweth therewith or shall the saw magnify itself against him that shaketh it as if the rod should shake itself against them that lift it up or as if the staff should lift up itself as if it were no wood
therefore shall the lord the lord of hosts send among his fat ones leanness and under his glory he shall kindle a burning like the burning of a fire
and the light of israel shall be for a fire and his holy one for a flame and it shall burn and devour his thorns and his briers in one day
and shall consume the glory of his forest and of his fruitful field both soul and body and they shall be as when a standardbearer fainteth
and the rest of the trees of his forest shall be few that a child may write them
and it shall come to pass in that day that the remnant of israel and such as are escaped of the house of jacob shall no more again stay upon him that smote them but shall stay upon the lord the holy one of israel in truth
the remnant shall return even the remnant of jacob unto the mighty god
for though thy people israel be as the sand of the sea yet a remnant of them shall return the consumption decreed shall overflow with righteousness
for the lord god of hosts shall make a consumption even determined in the midst of all the land
therefore thus saith the lord god of hosts o my people that dwellest in zion be not afraid of the assyrian he shall smite thee with a rod and shall lift up his staff against thee after the manner of egypt
for yet a very little while and the indignation shall cease and mine anger in their destruction
and the lord of hosts shall stir up a scourge for him according to the slaughter of midian at the rock of oreb and as his rod was upon the sea so shall he lift it up after the manner of egypt
and it shall come to pass in that day that his burden shall be taken away from off thy shoulder and his yoke from off thy neck and the yoke shall be destroyed because of the anointing
he is come to aiath he is passed to migron at michmash he hath laid up his carriages
they are gone over the passage they have taken up their lodging at geba ramah is afraid gibeah of saul is fled
lift up thy voice o daughter of gallim cause it to be heard unto laish o poor anathoth
madmenah is removed the inhabitants of gebim gather themselves to flee
as yet shall he remain at nob that day he shall shake his hand against the mount of the daughter of zion the hill of jerusalem
behold the lord the lord of hosts shall lop the bough with terror and the high ones of stature shall be hewn down and the haughty shall be humbled
and he shall cut down the thickets of the forest with iron and lebanon shall fall by a mighty one
and there shall come forth a rod out of the stem of jesse and a branch shall grow out of his roots
and the spirit of the lord shall rest upon him the spirit of wisdom and understanding the spirit of counsel and might the spirit of knowledge and of the fear of the lord
and shall make him of quick understanding in the fear of the lord and he shall not judge after the sight of his eyes neither reprove after the hearing of his ears
but with righteousness shall he judge the poor and reprove with equity for the meek of the earth and he shall smite the earth with the rod of his mouth and with the breath of his lips shall he slay the wicked
and righteousness shall be the girdle of his loins and faithfulness the girdle of his reins
the wolf also shall dwell with the lamb and the leopard shall lie down with the kid and the calf and the young lion and the fatling together and a little child shall lead them
and the cow and the bear shall feed their young ones shall lie down together and the lion shall eat straw like the ox
and the sucking child shall play on the hole of the asp and the weaned child shall put his hand on the cockatrice den
they shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain for the earth shall be full of the knowledge of the lord as the waters cover the sea
and in that day there shall be a root of jesse which shall stand for an ensign of the people to it shall the gentiles seek and his rest shall be glorious
and it shall come to pass in that day that the lord shall set his hand again the second time to recover the remnant of his people which shall be left from assyria and from egypt and from pathros and from cush and from elam and from shinar and from hamath and from the islands of the sea
and he shall set up an ensign for the nations and shall assemble the outcasts of israel and gather together the dispersed of judah from the four corners of the earth
the envy also of ephraim shall depart and the adversaries of judah shall be cut off ephraim shall not envy judah and judah shall not vex ephraim
but they shall fly upon the shoulders of the philistines toward the west they shall spoil them of the east together they shall lay their hand upon edom and moab and the children of ammon shall obey them
and the lord shall utterly destroy the tongue of the egyptian sea and with his mighty wind shall he shake his hand over the river and shall smite it in the seven streams and make men go over dryshod
and there shall be an highway for the remnant of his people which shall be left from assyria like as it was to israel in the day that he came up out of the land of egypt
and in that day thou shalt say o lord i will praise thee though thou wast angry with me thine anger is turned away and thou comfortedst me
behold god is my salvation i will trust and not be afraid for the lord jehovah is my strength and my song he also is become my salvation
therefore with joy shall ye draw water out of the wells of salvation
and in that day shall ye say praise the lord call upon his name declare his doings among the people make mention that his name is exalted
sing unto the lord for he hath done excellent things this is known in all the earth
cry out and shout thou inhabitant of zion for great is the holy one of israel in the midst of thee
the burden of babylon which isaiah the son of amoz did see
lift ye up a banner upon the high mountain exalt the voice unto them shake the hand that they may go into the gates of the nobles
i have commanded my sanctified ones i have also called my mighty ones for mine anger even them that rejoice in my highness
the noise of a multitude in the mountains like as of a great people a tumultuous noise of the kingdoms of nations gathered together the lord of hosts mustereth the host of the battle
they come from a far country from the end of heaven even the lord and the weapons of his indignation to destroy the whole land
howl ye for the day of the lord is at hand it shall come as a destruction from the almighty
therefore shall all hands be faint and every man's heart shall melt
and they shall be afraid pangs and sorrows shall take hold of them they shall be in pain as a woman that travaileth they shall be amazed one at another their faces shall be as flames
behold the day of the lord cometh cruel both with wrath and fierce anger to lay the land desolate and he shall destroy the sinners thereof out of it
for the stars of heaven and the constellations thereof shall not give their light the sun shall be darkened in his going forth and the moon shall not cause her light to shine
and i will punish the world for their evil and the wicked for their iniquity and i will cause the arrogancy of the proud to cease and will lay low the haughtiness of the terrible
i will make a man more precious than fine gold even a man than the golden wedge of ophir
therefore i will shake the heavens and the earth shall remove out of her place in the wrath of the lord of hosts and in the day of his fierce anger
and it shall be as the chased roe and as a sheep that no man taketh up they shall every man turn to his own people and flee every one into his own land
every one that is found shall be thrust through and every one that is joined unto them shall fall by the sword
their children also shall be dashed to pieces before their eyes their houses shall be spoiled and their wives ravished
behold i will stir up the medes against them which shall not regard silver and as for gold they shall not delight in it
their bows also shall dash the young men to pieces and they shall have no pity on the fruit of the womb their eye shall not spare children
and babylon the glory of kingdoms the beauty of the chaldees excellency shall be as when god overthrew sodom and gomorrah
it shall never be inhabited neither shall it be dwelt in from generation to generation neither shall the arabian pitch tent there neither shall the shepherds make their fold there
but wild beasts of the desert shall lie there and their houses shall be full of doleful creatures and owls shall dwell there and satyrs shall dance there
and the wild beasts of the islands shall cry in their desolate houses and dragons in their pleasant palaces and her time is near to come and her days shall not be prolonged
for the lord will have mercy on jacob and will yet choose israel and set them in their own land and the strangers shall be joined with them and they shall cleave to the house of jacob
and the people shall take them and bring them to their place and the house of israel shall possess them in the land of the lord for servants and handmaids and they shall take them captives whose captives they were and they shall rule over their oppressors
and it shall come to pass in the day that the lord shall give thee rest from thy sorrow and from thy fear and from the hard bondage wherein thou wast made to serve
that thou shalt take up this proverb against the king of babylon and say how hath the oppressor ceased the golden city ceased
the lord hath broken the staff of the wicked and the sceptre of the rulers
he who smote the people in wrath with a continual stroke he that ruled the nations in anger is persecuted and none hindereth
the whole earth is at rest and is quiet they break forth into singing
yea the fir trees rejoice at thee and the cedars of lebanon saying since thou art laid down no feller is come up against us
hell from beneath is moved for thee to meet thee at thy coming it stirreth up the dead for thee even all the chief ones of the earth it hath raised up from their thrones all the kings of the nations
all they shall speak and say unto thee art thou also become weak as we art thou become like unto us
thy pomp is brought down to the grave and the noise of thy viols the worm is spread under thee and the worms cover thee
how art thou fallen from heaven o lucifer son of the morning how art thou cut down to the ground which didst weaken the nations
for thou hast said in thine heart i will ascend into heaven i will exalt my throne above the stars of god i will sit also upon the mount of the congregation in the sides of the north
i will ascend above the heights of the clouds i will be like the most high
yet thou shalt be brought down to hell to the sides of the pit
they that see thee shall narrowly look upon thee and consider thee saying is this the man that made the earth to tremble that did shake kingdoms
that made the world as a wilderness and destroyed the cities thereof that opened not the house of his prisoners
all the kings of the nations even all of them lie in glory every one in his own house
but thou art cast out of thy grave like an abominable branch and as the raiment of those that are slain thrust through with a sword that go down to the stones of the pit as a carcase trodden under feet
thou shalt not be joined with them in burial because thou hast destroyed thy land and slain thy people the seed of evildoers shall never be renowned
prepare slaughter for his children for the iniquity of their fathers that they do not rise nor possess the land nor fill the face of the world with cities
for i will rise up against them saith the lord of hosts and cut off from babylon the name and remnant and son and nephew saith the lord
i will also make it a possession for the bittern and pools of water and i will sweep it with the besom of destruction saith the lord of hosts
the lord of hosts hath sworn saying surely as i have thought so shall it come to pass and as i have purposed so shall it stand
that i will break the assyrian in my land and upon my mountains tread him under foot then shall his yoke depart from off them and his burden depart from off their shoulders
this is the purpose that is purposed upon the whole earth and this is the hand that is stretched out upon all the nations
for the lord of hosts hath purposed and who shall disannul it and his hand is stretched out and who shall turn it back
in the year that king ahaz died was this burden
rejoice not thou whole palestina because the rod of him that smote thee is broken for out of the serpent's root shall come forth a cockatrice and his fruit shall be a fiery flying serpent
and the firstborn of the poor shall feed and the needy shall lie down in safety and i will kill thy root with famine and he shall slay thy remnant
howl o gate cry o city thou whole palestina art dissolved for there shall come from the north a smoke and none shall be alone in his appointed times
what shall one then answer the messengers of the nation that the lord hath founded zion and the poor of his people shall trust in it
the burden of moab because in the night ar of moab is laid waste and brought to silence because in the night kir of moab is laid waste and brought to silence
he is gone up to bajith and to dibon the high places to weep moab shall howl over nebo and over medeba on all their heads shall be baldness and every beard cut off
in their streets they shall gird themselves with sackcloth on the tops of their houses and in their streets every one shall howl weeping abundantly
and heshbon shall cry and elealeh their voice shall be heard even unto jahaz therefore the armed soldiers of moab shall cry out his life shall be grievous unto him
my heart shall cry out for moab his fugitives shall flee unto zoar an heifer of three years old for by the mounting up of luhith with weeping shall they go it up for in the way of horonaim they shall raise up a cry of destruction
for the waters of nimrim shall be desolate for the hay is withered away the grass faileth there is no green thing
therefore the abundance they have gotten and that which they have laid up shall they carry away to the brook of the willows
for the cry is gone round about the borders of moab the howling thereof unto eglaim and the howling thereof unto beerelim
for the waters of dimon shall be full of blood for i will bring more upon dimon lions upon him that escapeth of moab and upon the remnant of the land
send ye the lamb to the ruler of the land from sela to the wilderness unto the mount of the daughter of zion
for it shall be that as a wandering bird cast out of the nest so the daughters of moab shall be at the fords of arnon
take counsel execute judgment make thy shadow as the night in the midst of the noonday hide the outcasts bewray not him that wandereth
let mine outcasts dwell with thee moab be thou a covert to them from the face of the spoiler for the extortioner is at an end the spoiler ceaseth the oppressors are consumed out of the land
and in mercy shall the throne be established and he shall sit upon it in truth in the tabernacle of david judging and seeking judgment and hasting righteousness
we have heard of the pride of moab he is very proud even of his haughtiness and his pride and his wrath but his lies shall not be so
therefore shall moab howl for moab every one shall howl for the foundations of kirhareseth shall ye mourn surely they are stricken
for the fields of heshbon languish and the vine of sibmah the lords of the heathen have broken down the principal plants thereof they are come even unto jazer they wandered through the wilderness her branches are stretched out they are gone over the sea
therefore i will bewail with the weeping of jazer the vine of sibmah i will water thee with my tears o heshbon and elealeh for the shouting for thy summer fruits and for thy harvest is fallen
and gladness is taken away and joy out of the plentiful field and in the vineyards there shall be no singing neither shall there be shouting the treaders shall tread out no wine in their presses i have made their vintage shouting to cease
wherefore my bowels shall sound like an harp for moab and mine inward parts for kirharesh
and it shall come to pass when it is seen that moab is weary on the high place that he shall come to his sanctuary to pray but he shall not prevail
this is the word that the lord hath spoken concerning moab since that time
but now the lord hath spoken saying within three years as the years of an hireling and the glory of moab shall be contemned with all that great multitude and the remnant shall be very small and feeble
the burden of damascus behold damascus is taken away from being a city and it shall be a ruinous heap
the cities of aroer are forsaken they shall be for flocks which shall lie down and none shall make them afraid
the fortress also shall cease from ephraim and the kingdom from damascus and the remnant of syria they shall be as the glory of the children of israel saith the lord of hosts
and in that day it shall come to pass that the glory of jacob shall be made thin and the fatness of his flesh shall wax lean
and it shall be as when the harvestman gathereth the corn and reapeth the ears with his arm and it shall be as he that gathereth ears in the valley of rephaim
yet gleaning grapes shall be left in it as the shaking of an olive tree two or three berries in the top of the uppermost bough four or five in the outmost fruitful branches thereof saith the lord god of israel
at that day shall a man look to his maker and his eyes shall have respect to the holy one of israel
and he shall not look to the altars the work of his hands neither shall respect that which his fingers have made either the groves or the images
in that day shall his strong cities be as a forsaken bough and an uppermost branch which they left because of the children of israel and there shall be desolation
because thou hast forgotten the god of thy salvation and hast not been mindful of the rock of thy strength therefore shalt thou plant pleasant plants and shalt set it with strange slips
in the day shalt thou make thy plant to grow and in the morning shalt thou make thy seed to flourish but the harvest shall be a heap in the day of grief and of desperate sorrow
woe to the multitude of many people which make a noise like the noise of the seas and to the rushing of nations that make a rushing like the rushing of mighty waters
the nations shall rush like the rushing of many waters but god shall rebuke them and they shall flee far off and shall be chased as the chaff of the mountains before the wind and like a rolling thing before the whirlwind
and behold at eveningtide trouble and before the morning he is not this is the portion of them that spoil us and the lot of them that rob us
woe to the land shadowing with wings which is beyond the rivers of ethiopia
that sendeth ambassadors by the sea even in vessels of bulrushes upon the waters saying go ye swift messengers to a nation scattered and peeled to a people terrible from their beginning hitherto a nation meted out and trodden down whose land the rivers have spoiled
all ye inhabitants of the world and dwellers on the earth see ye when he lifteth up an ensign on the mountains and when he bloweth a trumpet hear ye
for so the lord said unto me i will take my rest and i will consider in my dwelling place like a clear heat upon herbs and like a cloud of dew in the heat of harvest
for afore the harvest when the bud is perfect and the sour grape is ripening in the flower he shall both cut off the sprigs with pruning hooks and take away and cut down the branches
they shall be left together unto the fowls of the mountains and to the beasts of the earth and the fowls shall summer upon them and all the beasts of the earth shall winter upon them
in that time shall the present be brought unto the lord of hosts of a people scattered and peeled and from a people terrible from their beginning hitherto a nation meted out and trodden under foot whose land the rivers have spoiled to the place of the name of the lord of hosts the mount zion
the burden of egypt behold the lord rideth upon a swift cloud and shall come into egypt and the idols of egypt shall be moved at his presence and the heart of egypt shall melt in the midst of it
and i will set the egyptians against the egyptians and they shall fight every one against his brother and every one against his neighbour city against city and kingdom against kingdom
and the spirit of egypt shall fail in the midst thereof and i will destroy the counsel thereof and they shall seek to the idols and to the charmers and to them that have familiar spirits and to the wizards
and the egyptians will i give over into the hand of a cruel lord and a fierce king shall rule over them saith the lord the lord of hosts
and the waters shall fail from the sea and the river shall be wasted and dried up
and they shall turn the rivers far away and the brooks of defence shall be emptied and dried up the reeds and flags shall wither
the paper reeds by the brooks by the mouth of the brooks and every thing sown by the brooks shall wither be driven away and be no more
the fishers also shall mourn and all they that cast angle into the brooks shall lament and they that spread nets upon the waters shall languish
moreover they that work in fine flax and they that weave networks shall be confounded
and they shall be broken in the purposes thereof all that make sluices and ponds for fish
surely the princes of zoan are fools the counsel of the wise counsellors of pharaoh is become brutish how say ye unto pharaoh i am the son of the wise the son of ancient kings
where are they where are thy wise men and let them tell thee now and let them know what the lord of hosts hath purposed upon egypt
the princes of zoan are become fools the princes of noph are deceived they have also seduced egypt even they that are the stay of the tribes thereof
the lord hath mingled a perverse spirit in the midst thereof and they have caused egypt to err in every work thereof as a drunken man staggereth in his vomit
neither shall there be any work for egypt which the head or tail branch or rush may do
in that day shall egypt be like unto women and it shall be afraid and fear because of the shaking of the hand of the lord of hosts which he shaketh over it
and the land of judah shall be a terror unto egypt every one that maketh mention thereof shall be afraid in himself because of the counsel of the lord of hosts which he hath determined against it
in that day shall five cities in the land of egypt speak the language of canaan and swear to the lord of hosts one shall be called the city of destruction
in that day shall there be an altar to the lord in the midst of the land of egypt and a pillar at the border thereof to the lord
and it shall be for a sign and for a witness unto the lord of hosts in the land of egypt for they shall cry unto the lord because of the oppressors and he shall send them a saviour and a great one and he shall deliver them
and the lord shall be known to egypt and the egyptians shall know the lord in that day and shall do sacrifice and oblation yea they shall vow a vow unto the lord and perform it
and the lord shall smite egypt he shall smite and heal it and they shall return even to the lord and he shall be intreated of them and shall heal them
in that day shall there be a highway out of egypt to assyria and the assyrian shall come into egypt and the egyptian into assyria and the egyptians shall serve with the assyrians
in that day shall israel be the third with egypt and with assyria even a blessing in the midst of the land
whom the lord of hosts shall bless saying blessed be egypt my people and assyria the work of my hands and israel mine inheritance
in the year that tartan came unto ashdod when sargon the king of assyria sent him and fought against ashdod and took it
at the same time spake the lord by isaiah the son of amoz saying go and loose the sackcloth from off thy loins and put off thy shoe from thy foot and he did so walking naked and barefoot
and the lord said like as my servant isaiah hath walked naked and barefoot three years for a sign and wonder upon egypt and upon ethiopia
so shall the king of assyria lead away the egyptians prisoners and the ethiopians captives young and old naked and barefoot even with their buttocks uncovered to the shame of egypt
and they shall be afraid and ashamed of ethiopia their expectation and of egypt their glory
and the inhabitant of this isle shall say in that day behold such is our expectation whither we flee for help to be delivered from the king of assyria and how shall we escape
the burden of the desert of the sea as whirlwinds in the south pass through so it cometh from the desert from a terrible land
a grievous vision is declared unto me the treacherous dealer dealeth treacherously and the spoiler spoileth go up o elam besiege o media all the sighing thereof have i made to cease
therefore are my loins filled with pain pangs have taken hold upon me as the pangs of a woman that travaileth i was bowed down at the hearing of it i was dismayed at the seeing of it
my heart panted fearfulness affrighted me the night of my pleasure hath he turned into fear unto me
prepare the table watch in the watchtower eat drink arise ye princes and anoint the shield
for thus hath the lord said unto me go set a watchman let him declare what he seeth
and he saw a chariot with a couple of horsemen a chariot of asses and a chariot of camels and he hearkened diligently with much heed
and he cried a lion my lord i stand continually upon the watchtower in the daytime and i am set in my ward whole nights
and behold here cometh a chariot of men with a couple of horsemen and he answered and said babylon is fallen is fallen and all the graven images of her gods he hath broken unto the ground
o my threshing and the corn of my floor that which i have heard of the lord of hosts the god of israel have i declared unto you
the burden of dumah he calleth to me out of seir watchman what of the night watchman what of the night
the watchman said the morning cometh and also the night if ye will enquire enquire ye return come
the burden upon arabia in the forest in arabia shall ye lodge o ye travelling companies of dedanim
the inhabitants of the land of tema brought water to him that was thirsty they prevented with their bread him that fled
for they fled from the swords from the drawn sword and from the bent bow and from the grievousness of war
for thus hath the lord said unto me within a year according to the years of an hireling and all the glory of kedar shall fail
and the residue of the number of archers the mighty men of the children of kedar shall be diminished for the lord god of israel hath spoken it
the burden of the valley of vision what aileth thee now that thou art wholly gone up to the housetops
thou that art full of stirs a tumultuous city a joyous city thy slain men are not slain with the sword nor dead in battle
all thy rulers are fled together they are bound by the archers all that are found in thee are bound together which have fled from far
therefore said i look away from me i will weep bitterly labour not to comfort me because of the spoiling of the daughter of my people
for it is a day of trouble and of treading down and of perplexity by the lord god of hosts in the valley of vision breaking down the walls and of crying to the mountains
and elam bare the quiver with chariots of men and horsemen and kir uncovered the shield
and it shall come to pass that thy choicest valleys shall be full of chariots and the horsemen shall set themselves in array at the gate
and he discovered the covering of judah and thou didst look in that day to the armour of the house of the forest
ye have seen also the breaches of the city of david that they are many and ye gathered together the waters of the lower pool
and ye have numbered the houses of jerusalem and the houses have ye broken down to fortify the wall
ye made also a ditch between the two walls for the water of the old pool but ye have not looked unto the maker thereof neither had respect unto him that fashioned it long ago
and in that day did the lord god of hosts call to weeping and to mourning and to baldness and to girding with sackcloth
and behold joy and gladness slaying oxen and killing sheep eating flesh and drinking wine let us eat and drink for to morrow we shall die
and it was revealed in mine ears by the lord of hosts surely this iniquity shall not be purged from you till ye die saith the lord god of hosts
thus saith the lord god of hosts go get thee unto this treasurer even unto shebna which is over the house and say
what hast thou here and whom hast thou here that thou hast hewed thee out a sepulchre here as he that heweth him out a sepulchre on high and that graveth an habitation for himself in a rock
behold the lord will carry thee away with a mighty captivity and will surely cover thee
he will surely violently turn and toss thee like a ball into a large country there shalt thou die and there the chariots of thy glory shall be the shame of thy lord's house
and i will drive thee from thy station and from thy state shall he pull thee down
and it shall come to pass in that day that i will call my servant eliakim the son of hilkiah
and i will clothe him with thy robe and strengthen him with thy girdle and i will commit thy government into his hand and he shall be a father to the inhabitants of jerusalem and to the house of judah
and the key of the house of david will i lay upon his shoulder so he shall open and none shall shut and he shall shut and none shall open
and i will fasten him as a nail in a sure place and he shall be for a glorious throne to his father's house
and they shall hang upon him all the glory of his father's house the offspring and the issue all vessels of small quantity from the vessels of cups even to all the vessels of flagons
in that day saith the lord of hosts shall the nail that is fastened in the sure place be removed and be cut down and fall and the burden that was upon it shall be cut off for the lord hath spoken it
the burden of tyre howl ye ships of tarshish for it is laid waste so that there is no house no entering in from the land of chittim it is revealed to them
be still ye inhabitants of the isle thou whom the merchants of zidon that pass over the sea have replenished
and by great waters the seed of sihor the harvest of the river is her revenue and she is a mart of nations
be thou ashamed o zidon for the sea hath spoken even the strength of the sea saying i travail not nor bring forth children neither do i nourish up young men nor bring up virgins
as at the report concerning egypt so shall they be sorely pained at the report of tyre
pass ye over to tarshish howl ye inhabitants of the isle
is this your joyous city whose antiquity is of ancient days her own feet shall carry her afar off to sojourn
who hath taken this counsel against tyre the crowning city whose merchants are princes whose traffickers are the honourable of the earth
the lord of hosts hath purposed it to stain the pride of all glory and to bring into contempt all the honourable of the earth
pass through thy land as a river o daughter of tarshish there is no more strength
he stretched out his hand over the sea he shook the kingdoms the lord hath given a commandment against the merchant city to destroy the strong holds thereof
and he said thou shalt no more rejoice o thou oppressed virgin daughter of zidon arise pass over to chittim there also shalt thou have no rest
behold the land of the chaldeans this people was not till the assyrian founded it for them that dwell in the wilderness they set up the towers thereof they raised up the palaces thereof and he brought it to ruin
howl ye ships of tarshish for your strength is laid waste
and it shall come to pass in that day that tyre shall be forgotten seventy years according to the days of one king after the end of seventy years shall tyre sing as an harlot
take an harp go about the city thou harlot that hast been forgotten make sweet melody sing many songs that thou mayest be remembered
and it shall come to pass after the end of seventy years that the lord will visit tyre and she shall turn to her hire and shall commit fornication with all the kingdoms of the world upon the face of the earth
and her merchandise and her hire shall be holiness to the lord it shall not be treasured nor laid up for her merchandise shall be for them that dwell before the lord to eat sufficiently and for durable clothing
behold the lord maketh the earth empty and maketh it waste and turneth it upside down and scattereth abroad the inhabitants thereof
and it shall be as with the people so with the priest as with the servant so with his master as with the maid so with her mistress as with the buyer so with the seller as with the lender so with the borrower as with the taker of usury so with the giver of usury to him
the land shall be utterly emptied and utterly spoiled for the lord hath spoken this word
the earth mourneth and fadeth away the world languisheth and fadeth away the haughty people of the earth do languish
the earth also is defiled under the inhabitants thereof because they have transgressed the laws changed the ordinance broken the everlasting covenant
therefore hath the curse devoured the earth and they that dwell therein are desolate therefore the inhabitants of the earth are burned and few men left
the new wine mourneth the vine languisheth all the merryhearted do sigh
the mirth of tabrets ceaseth the noise of them that rejoice endeth the joy of the harp ceaseth
they shall not drink wine with a song strong drink shall be bitter to them that drink it
the city of confusion is broken down every house is shut up that no man may come in
there is a crying for wine in the streets all joy is darkened the mirth of the land is gone
in the city is left desolation and the gate is smitten with destruction
when thus it shall be in the midst of the land among the people there shall be as the shaking of an olive tree and as the gleaning grapes when the vintage is done
they shall lift up their voice they shall sing for the majesty of the lord they shall cry aloud from the sea
wherefore glorify ye the lord in the fires even the name of the lord god of israel in the isles of the sea
from the uttermost part of the earth have we heard songs even glory to the righteous but i said my leanness my leanness woe unto me the treacherous dealers have dealt treacherously yea the treacherous dealers have dealt very treacherously
fear and the pit and the snare are upon thee o inhabitant of the earth
and it shall come to pass that he who fleeth from the noise of the fear shall fall into the pit and he that cometh up out of the midst of the pit shall be taken in the snare for the windows from on high are open and the foundations of the earth do shake
the earth is utterly broken down the earth is clean dissolved the earth is moved exceedingly
the earth shall reel to and fro like a drunkard and shall be removed like a cottage and the transgression thereof shall be heavy upon it and it shall fall and not rise again
and it shall come to pass in that day that the lord shall punish the host of the high ones that are on high and the kings of the earth upon the earth
and they shall be gathered together as prisoners are gathered in the pit and shall be shut up in the prison and after many days shall they be visited
then the moon shall be confounded and the sun ashamed when the lord of hosts shall reign in mount zion and in jerusalem and before his ancients gloriously
o lord thou art my god i will exalt thee i will praise thy name for thou hast done wonderful things thy counsels of old are faithfulness and truth
for thou hast made of a city an heap of a defenced city a ruin a palace of strangers to be no city it shall never be built
therefore shall the strong people glorify thee the city of the terrible nations shall fear thee
for thou hast been a strength to the poor a strength to the needy in his distress a refuge from the storm a shadow from the heat when the blast of the terrible ones is as a storm against the wall
thou shalt bring down the noise of strangers as the heat in a dry place even the heat with the shadow of a cloud the branch of the terrible ones shall be brought low
and in this mountain shall the lord of hosts make unto all people a feast of fat things a feast of wines on the lees of fat things full of marrow of wines on the lees well refined
and he will destroy in this mountain the face of the covering cast over all people and the vail that is spread over all nations
he will swallow up death in victory and the lord god will wipe away tears from off all faces and the rebuke of his people shall he take away from off all the earth for the lord hath spoken it
and it shall be said in that day lo this is our god we have waited for him and he will save us this is the lord we have waited for him we will be glad and rejoice in his salvation
for in this mountain shall the hand of the lord rest and moab shall be trodden down under him even as straw is trodden down for the dunghill
and he shall spread forth his hands in the midst of them as he that swimmeth spreadeth forth his hands to swim and he shall bring down their pride together with the spoils of their hands
and the fortress of the high fort of thy walls shall he bring down lay low and bring to the ground even to the dust
in that day shall this song be sung in the land of judah we have a strong city salvation will god appoint for walls and bulwarks
open ye the gates that the righteous nation which keepeth the truth may enter in
thou wilt keep him in perfect peace whose mind is stayed on thee because he trusteth in thee
trust ye in the lord for ever for in the lord jehovah is everlasting strength
for he bringeth down them that dwell on high the lofty city he layeth it low he layeth it low even to the ground he bringeth it even to the dust
the foot shall tread it down even the feet of the poor and the steps of the needy
the way of the just is uprightness thou most upright dost weigh the path of the just
yea in the way of thy judgments o lord have we waited for thee the desire of our soul is to thy name and to the remembrance of thee
with my soul have i desired thee in the night yea with my spirit within me will i seek thee early for when thy judgments are in the earth the inhabitants of the world will learn righteousness
let favour be shewed to the wicked yet will he not learn righteousness in the land of uprightness will he deal unjustly and will not behold the majesty of the lord
lord when thy hand is lifted up they will not see but they shall see and be ashamed for their envy at the people yea the fire of thine enemies shall devour them
lord thou wilt ordain peace for us for thou also hast wrought all our works in us
o lord our god other lords beside thee have had dominion over us but by thee only will we make mention of thy name
they are dead they shall not live they are deceased they shall not rise therefore hast thou visited and destroyed them and made all their memory to perish
thou hast increased the nation o lord thou hast increased the nation thou art glorified thou hadst removed it far unto all the ends of the earth
lord in trouble have they visited thee they poured out a prayer when thy chastening was upon them
like as a woman with child that draweth near the time of her delivery is in pain and crieth out in her pangs so have we been in thy sight o lord
we have been with child we have been in pain we have as it were brought forth wind we have not wrought any deliverance in the earth neither have the inhabitants of the world fallen
thy dead men shall live together with my dead body shall they arise awake and sing ye that dwell in dust for thy dew is as the dew of herbs and the earth shall cast out the dead
come my people enter thou into thy chambers and shut thy doors about thee hide thyself as it were for a little moment until the indignation be overpast
for behold the lord cometh out of his place to punish the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity the earth also shall disclose her blood and shall no more cover her slain
in that day the lord with his sore and great and strong sword shall punish leviathan the piercing serpent even leviathan that crooked serpent and he shall slay the dragon that is in the sea
in that day sing ye unto her a vineyard of red wine
i the lord do keep it i will water it every moment lest any hurt it i will keep it night and day
fury is not in me who would set the briers and thorns against me in battle i would go through them i would burn them together
or let him take hold of my strength that he may make peace with me and he shall make peace with me
he shall cause them that come of jacob to take root israel shall blossom and bud and fill the face of the world with fruit
hath he smitten him as he smote those that smote him or is he slain according to the slaughter of them that are slain by him
in measure when it shooteth forth thou wilt debate with it he stayeth his rough wind in the day of the east wind
by this therefore shall the iniquity of jacob be purged and this is all the fruit to take away his sin when he maketh all the stones of the altar as chalkstones that are beaten in sunder the groves and images shall not stand up
yet the defenced city shall be desolate and the habitation forsaken and left like a wilderness there shall the calf feed and there shall he lie down and consume the branches thereof
when the boughs thereof are withered they shall be broken off the women come and set them on fire for it is a people of no understanding therefore he that made them will not have mercy on them and he that formed them will shew them no favour
and it shall come to pass in that day that the lord shall beat off from the channel of the river unto the stream of egypt and ye shall be gathered one by one o ye children of israel
and it shall come to pass in that day that the great trumpet shall be blown and they shall come which were ready to perish in the land of assyria and the outcasts in the land of egypt and shall worship the lord in the holy mount at jerusalem
woe to the crown of pride to the drunkards of ephraim whose glorious beauty is a fading flower which are on the head of the fat valleys of them that are overcome with wine
behold the lord hath a mighty and strong one which as a tempest of hail and a destroying storm as a flood of mighty waters overflowing shall cast down to the earth with the hand
the crown of pride the drunkards of ephraim shall be trodden under feet
and the glorious beauty which is on the head of the fat valley shall be a fading flower and as the hasty fruit before the summer which when he that looketh upon it seeth while it is yet in his hand he eateth it up
in that day shall the lord of hosts be for a crown of glory and for a diadem of beauty unto the residue of his people
and for a spirit of judgment to him that sitteth in judgment and for strength to them that turn the battle to the gate
but they also have erred through wine and through strong drink are out of the way the priest and the prophet have erred through strong drink they are swallowed up of wine they are out of the way through strong drink they err in vision they stumble in judgment
for all tables are full of vomit and filthiness so that there is no place clean
whom shall he teach knowledge and whom shall he make to understand doctrine them that are weaned from the milk and drawn from the breasts
for precept must be upon precept precept upon precept line upon line line upon line here a little and there a little
for with stammering lips and another tongue will he speak to this people
to whom he said this is the rest wherewith ye may cause the weary to rest and this is the refreshing yet they would not hear
but the word of the lord was unto them precept upon precept precept upon precept line upon line line upon line here a little and there a little that they might go and fall backward and be broken and snared and taken
wherefore hear the word of the lord ye scornful men that rule this people which is in jerusalem
because ye have said we have made a covenant with death and with hell are we at agreement when the overflowing scourge shall pass through it shall not come unto us for we have made lies our refuge and under falsehood have we hid ourselves
therefore thus saith the lord god behold i lay in zion for a foundation a stone a tried stone a precious corner stone a sure foundation he that believeth shall not make haste
judgment also will i lay to the line and righteousness to the plummet and the hail shall sweep away the refuge of lies and the waters shall overflow the hiding place
and your covenant with death shall be disannulled and your agreement with hell shall not stand when the overflowing scourge shall pass through then ye shall be trodden down by it
from the time that it goeth forth it shall take you for morning by morning shall it pass over by day and by night and it shall be a vexation only to understand the report
for the bed is shorter than that a man can stretch himself on it and the covering narrower than that he can wrap himself in it
for the lord shall rise up as in mount perazim he shall be wroth as in the valley of gibeon that he may do his work his strange work and bring to pass his act his strange act
now therefore be ye not mockers lest your bands be made strong for i have heard from the lord god of hosts a consumption even determined upon the whole earth
give ye ear and hear my voice hearken and hear my speech
doth the plowman plow all day to sow doth he open and break the clods of his ground
when he hath made plain the face thereof doth he not cast abroad the fitches and scatter the cummin and cast in the principal wheat and the appointed barley and the rie in their place
for his god doth instruct him to discretion and doth teach him
for the fitches are not threshed with a threshing instrument neither is a cart wheel turned about upon the cummin but the fitches are beaten out with a staff and the cummin with a rod
bread corn is bruised because he will not ever be threshing it nor break it with the wheel of his cart nor bruise it with his horsemen
this also cometh forth from the lord of hosts which is wonderful in counsel and excellent in working
woe to ariel to ariel the city where david dwelt add ye year to year let them kill sacrifices
yet i will distress ariel and there shall be heaviness and sorrow and it shall be unto me as ariel
and i will camp against thee round about and will lay siege against thee with a mount and i will raise forts against thee
and thou shalt be brought down and shalt speak out of the ground and thy speech shall be low out of the dust and thy voice shall be as of one that hath a familiar spirit out of the ground and thy speech shall whisper out of the dust
moreover the multitude of thy strangers shall be like small dust and the multitude of the terrible ones shall be as chaff that passeth away yea it shall be at an instant suddenly
thou shalt be visited of the lord of hosts with thunder and with earthquake and great noise with storm and tempest and the flame of devouring fire
and the multitude of all the nations that fight against ariel even all that fight against her and her munition and that distress her shall be as a dream of a night vision
it shall even be as when an hungry man dreameth and behold he eateth but he awaketh and his soul is empty or as when a thirsty man dreameth and behold he drinketh but he awaketh and behold he is faint and his soul hath appetite so shall the multitude of all the nations be that fight against mount zion
stay yourselves and wonder cry ye out and cry they are drunken but not with wine they stagger but not with strong drink
for the lord hath poured out upon you the spirit of deep sleep and hath closed your eyes the prophets and your rulers the seers hath he covered
and the vision of all is become unto you as the words of a book that is sealed which men deliver to one that is learned saying read this i pray thee and he saith i cannot for it is sealed
and the book is delivered to him that is not learned saying read this i pray thee and he saith i am not learned
wherefore the lord said forasmuch as this people draw near me with their mouth and with their lips do honour me but have removed their heart far from me and their fear toward me is taught by the precept of men
therefore behold i will proceed to do a marvellous work among this people even a marvellous work and a wonder for the wisdom of their wise men shall perish and the understanding of their prudent men shall be hid
woe unto them that seek deep to hide their counsel from the lord and their works are in the dark and they say who seeth us and who knoweth us
surely your turning of things upside down shall be esteemed as the potter's clay for shall the work say of him that made it he made me not or shall the thing framed say of him that framed it he had no understanding
is it not yet a very little while and lebanon shall be turned into a fruitful field and the fruitful field shall be esteemed as a forest
and in that day shall the deaf hear the words of the book and the eyes of the blind shall see out of obscurity and out of darkness
the meek also shall increase their joy in the lord and the poor among men shall rejoice in the holy one of israel
for the terrible one is brought to nought and the scorner is consumed and all that watch for iniquity are cut off
that make a man an offender for a word and lay a snare for him that reproveth in the gate and turn aside the just for a thing of nought
therefore thus saith the lord who redeemed abraham concerning the house of jacob jacob shall not now be ashamed neither shall his face now wax pale
but when he seeth his children the work of mine hands in the midst of him they shall sanctify my name and sanctify the holy one of jacob and shall fear the god of israel
they also that erred in spirit shall come to understanding and they that murmured shall learn doctrine
woe to the rebellious children saith the lord that take counsel but not of me and that cover with a covering but not of my spirit that they may add sin to sin
that walk to go down into egypt and have not asked at my mouth to strengthen themselves in the strength of pharaoh and to trust in the shadow of egypt
therefore shall the strength of pharaoh be your shame and the trust in the shadow of egypt your confusion
for his princes were at zoan and his ambassadors came to hanes
they were all ashamed of a people that could not profit them nor be an help nor profit but a shame and also a reproach
the burden of the beasts of the south into the land of trouble and anguish from whence come the young and old lion the viper and fiery flying serpent they will carry their riches upon the shoulders of young asses and their treasures upon the bunches of camels to a people that shall not profit them
for the egyptians shall help in vain and to no purpose therefore have i cried concerning this their strength is to sit still
now go write it before them in a table and note it in a book that it may be for the time to come for ever and ever
that this is a rebellious people lying children children that will not hear the law of the lord
which say to the seers see not and to the prophets prophesy not unto us right things speak unto us smooth things prophesy deceits
get you out of the way turn aside out of the path cause the holy one of israel to cease from before us
wherefore thus saith the holy one of israel because ye despise this word and trust in oppression and perverseness and stay thereon
therefore this iniquity shall be to you as a breach ready to fall swelling out in a high wall whose breaking cometh suddenly at an instant
and he shall break it as the breaking of the potters vessel that is broken in pieces he shall not spare so that there shall not be found in the bursting of it a sherd to take fire from the hearth or to take water withal out of the pit
for thus saith the lord god the holy one of israel in returning and rest shall ye be saved in quietness and in confidence shall be your strength and ye would not
but ye said no for we will flee upon horses therefore shall ye flee and we will ride upon the swift therefore shall they that pursue you be swift
one thousand shall flee at the rebuke of one at the rebuke of five shall ye flee till ye be left as a beacon upon the top of a mountain and as an ensign on an hill
and therefore will the lord wait that he may be gracious unto you and therefore will he be exalted that he may have mercy upon you for the lord is a god of judgment blessed are all they that wait for him
for the people shall dwell in zion at jerusalem thou shalt weep no more he will be very gracious unto thee at the voice of thy cry when he shall hear it he will answer thee
and though the lord give you the bread of adversity and the water of affliction yet shall not thy teachers be removed into a corner any more but thine eyes shall see thy teachers
and thine ears shall hear a word behind thee saying this is the way walk ye in it when ye turn to the right hand and when ye turn to the left
ye shall defile also the covering of thy graven images of silver and the ornament of thy molten images of gold thou shalt cast them away as a menstruous cloth thou shalt say unto it get thee hence
then shall he give the rain of thy seed that thou shalt sow the ground withal and bread of the increase of the earth and it shall be fat and plenteous in that day shall thy cattle feed in large pastures
the oxen likewise and the young asses that ear the ground shall eat clean provender which hath been winnowed with the shovel and with the fan
and there shall be upon every high mountain and upon every high hill rivers and streams of waters in the day of the great slaughter when the towers fall
moreover the light of the moon shall be as the light of the sun and the light of the sun shall be sevenfold as the light of seven days in the day that the lord bindeth up the breach of his people and healeth the stroke of their wound
behold the name of the lord cometh from far burning with his anger and the burden thereof is heavy his lips are full of indignation and his tongue as a devouring fire
and his breath as an overflowing stream shall reach to the midst of the neck to sift the nations with the sieve of vanity and there shall be a bridle in the jaws of the people causing them to err
ye shall have a song as in the night when a holy solemnity is kept and gladness of heart as when one goeth with a pipe to come into the mountain of the lord to the mighty one of israel
and the lord shall cause his glorious voice to be heard and shall shew the lighting down of his arm with the indignation of his anger and with the flame of a devouring fire with scattering and tempest and hailstones
for through the voice of the lord shall the assyrian be beaten down which smote with a rod
and in every place where the grounded staff shall pass which the lord shall lay upon him it shall be with tabrets and harps and in battles of shaking will he fight with it
for tophet is ordained of old yea for the king it is prepared he hath made it deep and large the pile thereof is fire and much wood the breath of the lord like a stream of brimstone doth kindle it
woe to them that go down to egypt for help and stay on horses and trust in chariots because they are many and in horsemen because they are very strong but they look not unto the holy one of israel neither seek the lord
yet he also is wise and will bring evil and will not call back his words but will arise against the house of the evildoers and against the help of them that work iniquity
now the egyptians are men and not god and their horses flesh and not spirit when the lord shall stretch out his hand both he that helpeth shall fall and he that is holpen shall fall down and they all shall fail together
for thus hath the lord spoken unto me like as the lion and the young lion roaring on his prey when a multitude of shepherds is called forth against him he will not be afraid of their voice nor abase himself for the noise of them so shall the lord of hosts come down to fight for mount zion and for the hill thereof
as birds flying so will the lord of hosts defend jerusalem defending also he will deliver it and passing over he will preserve it
turn ye unto him from whom the children of israel have deeply revolted
for in that day every man shall cast away his idols of silver and his idols of gold which your own hands have made unto you for a sin
then shall the assyrian fall with the sword not of a mighty man and the sword not of a mean man shall devour him but he shall flee from the sword and his young men shall be discomfited
and he shall pass over to his strong hold for fear and his princes shall be afraid of the ensign saith the lord whose fire is in zion and his furnace in jerusalem
behold a king shall reign in righteousness and princes shall rule in judgment
and a man shall be as an hiding place from the wind and a covert from the tempest as rivers of water in a dry place as the shadow of a great rock in a weary land
and the eyes of them that see shall not be dim and the ears of them that hear shall hearken
the heart also of the rash shall understand knowledge and the tongue of the stammerers shall be ready to speak plainly
the vile person shall be no more called liberal nor the churl said to be bountiful
for the vile person will speak villany and his heart will work iniquity to practise hypocrisy and to utter error against the lord to make empty the soul of the hungry and he will cause the drink of the thirsty to fail
the instruments also of the churl are evil he deviseth wicked devices to destroy the poor with lying words even when the needy speaketh right
but the liberal deviseth liberal things and by liberal things shall he stand
rise up ye women that are at ease hear my voice ye careless daughters give ear unto my speech
many days and years shall ye be troubled ye careless women for the vintage shall fail the gathering shall not come
tremble ye women that are at ease be troubled ye careless ones strip you and make you bare and gird sackcloth upon your loins
they shall lament for the teats for the pleasant fields for the fruitful vine
upon the land of my people shall come up thorns and briers yea upon all the houses of joy in the joyous city
because the palaces shall be forsaken the multitude of the city shall be left the forts and towers shall be for dens for ever a joy of wild asses a pasture of flocks
until the spirit be poured upon us from on high and the wilderness be a fruitful field and the fruitful field be counted for a forest
then judgment shall dwell in the wilderness and righteousness remain in the fruitful field
and the work of righteousness shall be peace and the effect of righteousness quietness and assurance for ever
and my people shall dwell in a peaceable habitation and in sure dwellings and in quiet resting places
when it shall hail coming down on the forest and the city shall be low in a low place
blessed are ye that sow beside all waters that send forth thither the feet of the ox and the ass
woe to thee that spoilest and thou wast not spoiled and dealest treacherously and they dealt not treacherously with thee when thou shalt cease to spoil thou shalt be spoiled and when thou shalt make an end to deal treacherously they shall deal treacherously with thee
o lord be gracious unto us we have waited for thee be thou their arm every morning our salvation also in the time of trouble
at the noise of the tumult the people fled at the lifting up of thyself the nations were scattered
and your spoil shall be gathered like the gathering of the caterpiller as the running to and fro of locusts shall he run upon them
the lord is exalted for he dwelleth on high he hath filled zion with judgment and righteousness
and wisdom and knowledge shall be the stability of thy times and strength of salvation the fear of the lord is his treasure
behold their valiant ones shall cry without the ambassadors of peace shall weep bitterly
the highways lie waste the wayfaring man ceaseth he hath broken the covenant he hath despised the cities he regardeth no man
the earth mourneth and languisheth lebanon is ashamed and hewn down sharon is like a wilderness and bashan and carmel shake off their fruits
now will i rise saith the lord now will i be exalted now will i lift up myself
ye shall conceive chaff ye shall bring forth stubble your breath as fire shall devour you
and the people shall be as the burnings of lime as thorns cut up shall they be burned in the fire
hear ye that are far off what i have done and ye that are near acknowledge my might
the sinners in zion are afraid fearfulness hath surprised the hypocrites who among us shall dwell with the devouring fire who among us shall dwell with everlasting burnings
he that walketh righteously and speaketh uprightly he that despiseth the gain of oppressions that shaketh his hands from holding of bribes that stoppeth his ears from hearing of blood and shutteth his eyes from seeing evil
he shall dwell on high his place of defence shall be the munitions of rocks bread shall be given him his waters shall be sure
thine eyes shall see the king in his beauty they shall behold the land that is very far off
thine heart shall meditate terror where is the scribe where is the receiver where is he that counted the towers
thou shalt not see a fierce people a people of a deeper speech than thou canst perceive of a stammering tongue that thou canst not understand
look upon zion the city of our solemnities thine eyes shall see jerusalem a quiet habitation a tabernacle that shall not be taken down not one of the stakes thereof shall ever be removed neither shall any of the cords thereof be broken
but there the glorious lord will be unto us a place of broad rivers and streams wherein shall go no galley with oars neither shall gallant ship pass thereby
for the lord is our judge the lord is our lawgiver the lord is our king he will save us
thy tacklings are loosed they could not well strengthen their mast they could not spread the sail then is the prey of a great spoil divided the lame take the prey
and the inhabitant shall not say i am sick the people that dwell therein shall be forgiven their iniquity
come near ye nations to hear and hearken ye people let the earth hear and all that is therein the world and all things that come forth of it
for the indignation of the lord is upon all nations and his fury upon all their armies he hath utterly destroyed them he hath delivered them to the slaughter
their slain also shall be cast out and their stink shall come up out of their carcases and the mountains shall be melted with their blood
and all the host of heaven shall be dissolved and the heavens shall be rolled together as a scroll and all their host shall fall down as the leaf falleth off from the vine and as a falling fig from the fig tree
for my sword shall be bathed in heaven behold it shall come down upon idumea and upon the people of my curse to judgment
the sword of the lord is filled with blood it is made fat with fatness and with the blood of lambs and goats with the fat of the kidneys of rams for the lord hath a sacrifice in bozrah and a great slaughter in the land of idumea
and the unicorns shall come down with them and the bullocks with the bulls and their land shall be soaked with blood and their dust made fat with fatness
for it is the day of the lord's vengeance and the year of recompences for the controversy of zion
and the streams thereof shall be turned into pitch and the dust thereof into brimstone and the land thereof shall become burning pitch
it shall not be quenched night nor day the smoke thereof shall go up for ever from generation to generation it shall lie waste none shall pass through it for ever and ever
but the cormorant and the bittern shall possess it the owl also and the raven shall dwell in it and he shall stretch out upon it the line of confusion and the stones of emptiness
they shall call the nobles thereof to the kingdom but none shall be there and all her princes shall be nothing
and thorns shall come up in her palaces nettles and brambles in the fortresses thereof and it shall be an habitation of dragons and a court for owls
the wild beasts of the desert shall also meet with the wild beasts of the island and the satyr shall cry to his fellow the screech owl also shall rest there and find for herself a place of rest
there shall the great owl make her nest and lay and hatch and gather under her shadow there shall the vultures also be gathered every one with her mate
seek ye out of the book of the lord and read no one of these shall fail none shall want her mate for my mouth it hath commanded and his spirit it hath gathered them
and he hath cast the lot for them and his hand hath divided it unto them by line they shall possess it for ever from generation to generation shall they dwell therein
the wilderness and the solitary place shall be glad for them and the desert shall rejoice and blossom as the rose
it shall blossom abundantly and rejoice even with joy and singing the glory of lebanon shall be given unto it the excellency of carmel and sharon they shall see the glory of the lord and the excellency of our god
strengthen ye the weak hands and confirm the feeble knees
say to them that are of a fearful heart be strong fear not behold your god will come with vengeance even god with a recompence he will come and save you
then the eyes of the blind shall be opened and the ears of the deaf shall be unstopped
then shall the lame man leap as an hart and the tongue of the dumb sing for in the wilderness shall waters break out and streams in the desert
and the parched ground shall become a pool and the thirsty land springs of water in the habitation of dragons where each lay shall be grass with reeds and rushes
and an highway shall be there and a way and it shall be called the way of holiness the unclean shall not pass over it but it shall be for those the wayfaring men though fools shall not err therein
no lion shall be there nor any ravenous beast shall go up thereon it shall not be found there but the redeemed shall walk there
and the ransomed of the lord shall return and come to zion with songs and everlasting joy upon their heads they shall obtain joy and gladness and sorrow and sighing shall flee away
now it came to pass in the fourteenth year of king hezekiah that sennacherib king of assyria came up against all the defenced cities of judah and took them
and the king of assyria sent rabshakeh from lachish to jerusalem unto king hezekiah with a great army and he stood by the conduit of the upper pool in the highway of the fuller's field
then came forth unto him eliakim hilkiah's son which was over the house and shebna the scribe and joah asaph's son the recorder
and rabshakeh said unto them say ye now to hezekiah thus saith the great king the king of assyria what confidence is this wherein thou trustest
i say sayest thou but they are but vain words i have counsel and strength for war now on whom dost thou trust that thou rebellest against me
lo thou trustest in the staff of this broken reed on egypt whereon if a man lean it will go into his hand and pierce it so is pharaoh king of egypt to all that trust in him
but if thou say to me we trust in the lord our god is it not he whose high places and whose altars hezekiah hath taken away and said to judah and to jerusalem ye shall worship before this altar
now therefore give pledges i pray thee to my master the king of assyria and i will give thee two thousand horses if thou be able on thy part to set riders upon them
how then wilt thou turn away the face of one captain of the least of my master's servants and put thy trust on egypt for chariots and for horsemen
and am i now come up without the lord against this land to destroy it the lord said unto me go up against this land and destroy it
then said eliakim and shebna and joah unto rabshakeh speak i pray thee unto thy servants in the syrian language for we understand it and speak not to us in the jews language in the ears of the people that are on the wall
but rabshakeh said hath my master sent me to thy master and to thee to speak these words hath he not sent me to the men that sit upon the wall that they may eat their own dung and drink their own piss with you
then rabshakeh stood and cried with a loud voice in the jews language and said hear ye the words of the great king the king of assyria
thus saith the king let not hezekiah deceive you for he shall not be able to deliver you
neither let hezekiah make you trust in the lord saying the lord will surely deliver us this city shall not be delivered into the hand of the king of assyria
hearken not to hezekiah for thus saith the king of assyria make an agreement with me by a present and come out to me and eat ye every one of his vine and every one of his fig tree and drink ye every one the waters of his own cistern
until i come and take you away to a land like your own land a land of corn and wine a land of bread and vineyards
beware lest hezekiah persuade you saying the lord will deliver us hath any of the gods of the nations delivered his land out of the hand of the king of assyria
where are the gods of hamath and arphad where are the gods of sepharvaim and have they delivered samaria out of my hand
who are they among all the gods of these lands that have delivered their land out of my hand that the lord should deliver jerusalem out of my hand
but they held their peace and answered him not a word for the king's commandment was saying answer him not
then came eliakim the son of hilkiah that was over the household and shebna the scribe and joah the son of asaph the recorder to hezekiah with their clothes rent and told him the words of rabshakeh
and it came to pass when king hezekiah heard it that he rent his clothes and covered himself with sackcloth and went into the house of the lord
and he sent eliakim who was over the household and shebna the scribe and the elders of the priests covered with sackcloth unto isaiah the prophet the son of amoz
and they said unto him thus saith hezekiah this day is a day of trouble and of rebuke and of blasphemy for the children are come to the birth and there is not strength to bring forth
it may be the lord thy god will hear the words of rabshakeh whom the king of assyria his master hath sent to reproach the living god and will reprove the words which the lord thy god hath heard wherefore lift up thy prayer for the remnant that is left
so the servants of king hezekiah came to isaiah
and isaiah said unto them thus shall ye say unto your master thus saith the lord be not afraid of the words that thou hast heard wherewith the servants of the king of assyria have blasphemed me
behold i will send a blast upon him and he shall hear a rumour and return to his own land and i will cause him to fall by the sword in his own land
so rabshakeh returned and found the king of assyria warring against libnah for he had heard that he was departed from lachish
and he heard say concerning tirhakah king of ethiopia he is come forth to make war with thee and when he heard it he sent messengers to hezekiah saying
thus shall ye speak to hezekiah king of judah saying let not thy god in whom thou trustest deceive thee saying jerusalem shall not be given into the hand of the king of assyria
behold thou hast heard what the kings of assyria have done to all lands by destroying them utterly and shalt thou be delivered
have the gods of the nations delivered them which my fathers have destroyed as gozan and haran and rezeph and the children of eden which were in telassar
where is the king of hamath and the king of arphad and the king of the city of sepharvaim hena and ivah
and hezekiah received the letter from the hand of the messengers and read it and hezekiah went up unto the house of the lord and spread it before the lord
and hezekiah prayed unto the lord saying
o lord of hosts god of israel that dwellest between the cherubims thou art the god even thou alone of all the kingdoms of the earth thou hast made heaven and earth
incline thine ear o lord and hear open thine eyes o lord and see and hear all the words of sennacherib which hath sent to reproach the living god
of a truth lord the kings of assyria have laid waste all the nations and their countries
and have cast their gods into the fire for they were no gods but the work of men's hands wood and stone therefore they have destroyed them
now therefore o lord our god save us from his hand that all the kingdoms of the earth may know that thou art the lord even thou only
then isaiah the son of amoz sent unto hezekiah saying thus saith the lord god of israel whereas thou hast prayed to me against sennacherib king of assyria
this is the word which the lord hath spoken concerning him the virgin the daughter of zion hath despised thee and laughed thee to scorn the daughter of jerusalem hath shaken her head at thee
whom hast thou reproached and blasphemed and against whom hast thou exalted thy voice and lifted up thine eyes on high even against the holy one of israel
by thy servants hast thou reproached the lord and hast said by the multitude of my chariots am i come up to the height of the mountains to the sides of lebanon and i will cut down the tall cedars thereof and the choice fir trees thereof and i will enter into the height of his border and the forest of his carmel
i have digged and drunk water and with the sole of my feet have i dried up all the rivers of the besieged places
hast thou not heard long ago how i have done it and of ancient times that i have formed it now have i brought it to pass that thou shouldest be to lay waste defenced cities into ruinous heaps
therefore their inhabitants were of small power they were dismayed and confounded they were as the grass of the field and as the green herb as the grass on the housetops and as corn blasted before it be grown up
but i know thy abode and thy going out and thy coming in and thy rage against me
because thy rage against me and thy tumult is come up into mine ears therefore will i put my hook in thy nose and my bridle in thy lips and i will turn thee back by the way by which thou camest
and this shall be a sign unto thee ye shall eat this year such as groweth of itself and the second year that which springeth of the same and in the third year sow ye and reap and plant vineyards and eat the fruit thereof
and the remnant that is escaped of the house of judah shall again take root downward and bear fruit upward
for out of jerusalem shall go forth a remnant and they that escape out of mount zion the zeal of the lord of hosts shall do this
therefore thus saith the lord concerning the king of assyria he shall not come into this city nor shoot an arrow there nor come before it with shields nor cast a bank against it
by the way that he came by the same shall he return and shall not come into this city saith the lord
for i will defend this city to save it for mine own sake and for my servant david's sake
then the angel of the lord went forth and smote in the camp of the assyrians a hundred and fourscore and five thousand and when they arose early in the morning behold they were all dead corpses
so sennacherib king of assyria departed and went and returned and dwelt at nineveh
and it came to pass as he was worshipping in the house of nisroch his god that adrammelech and sharezer his sons smote him with the sword and they escaped into the land of armenia and esarhaddon his son reigned in his stead
in those days was hezekiah sick unto death and isaiah the prophet the son of amoz came unto him and said unto him thus saith the lord set thine house in order for thou shalt die and not live
then hezekiah turned his face toward the wall and prayed unto the lord
and said remember now o lord i beseech thee how i have walked before thee in truth and with a perfect heart and have done that which is good in thy sight and hezekiah wept sore
then came the word of the lord to isaiah saying
go and say to hezekiah thus saith the lord the god of david thy father i have heard thy prayer i have seen thy tears behold i will add unto thy days fifteen years
and i will deliver thee and this city out of the hand of the king of assyria and i will defend this city
and this shall be a sign unto thee from the lord that the lord will do this thing that he hath spoken
behold i will bring again the shadow of the degrees which is gone down in the sun dial of ahaz ten degrees backward so the sun returned ten degrees by which degrees it was gone down
the writing of hezekiah king of judah when he had been sick and was recovered of his sickness
i said in the cutting off of my days i shall go to the gates of the grave i am deprived of the residue of my years
i said i shall not see the lord even the lord in the land of the living i shall behold man no more with the inhabitants of the world
mine age is departed and is removed from me as a shepherd's tent i have cut off like a weaver my life he will cut me off with pining sickness from day even to night wilt thou make an end of me
i reckoned till morning that as a lion so will he break all my bones from day even to night wilt thou make an end of me
like a crane or a swallow so did i chatter i did mourn as a dove mine eyes fail with looking upward o lord i am oppressed undertake for me
what shall i say he hath both spoken unto me and himself hath done it i shall go softly all my years in the bitterness of my soul
o lord by these things men live and in all these things is the life of my spirit so wilt thou recover me and make me to live
behold for peace i had great bitterness but thou hast in love to my soul delivered it from the pit of corruption for thou hast cast all my sins behind thy back
for the grave cannot praise thee death can not celebrate thee they that go down into the pit cannot hope for thy truth
the living the living he shall praise thee as i do this day the father to the children shall make known thy truth
the lord was ready to save me therefore we will sing my songs to the stringed instruments all the days of our life in the house of the lord
for isaiah had said let them take a lump of figs and lay it for a plaister upon the boil and he shall recover
hezekiah also had said what is the sign that i shall go up to the house of the lord
at that time merodachbaladan the son of baladan king of babylon sent letters and a present to hezekiah for he had heard that he had been sick and was recovered
and hezekiah was glad of them and shewed them the house of his precious things the silver and the gold and the spices and the precious ointment and all the house of his armour and all that was found in his treasures there was nothing in his house nor in all his dominion that hezekiah shewed them not
then came isaiah the prophet unto king hezekiah and said unto him what said these men and from whence came they unto thee and hezekiah said they are come from a far country unto me even from babylon
then said he what have they seen in thine house and hezekiah answered all that is in mine house have they seen there is nothing among my treasures that i have not shewed them
then said isaiah to hezekiah hear the word of the lord of hosts
behold the days come that all that is in thine house and that which thy fathers have laid up in store until this day shall be carried to babylon nothing shall be left saith the lord
and of thy sons that shall issue from thee which thou shalt beget shall they take away and they shall be eunuchs in the palace of the king of babylon
then said hezekiah to isaiah good is the word of the lord which thou hast spoken he said moreover for there shall be peace and truth in my days
comfort ye comfort ye my people saith your god
speak ye comfortably to jerusalem and cry unto her that her warfare is accomplished that her iniquity is pardoned for she hath received of the lord's hand double for all her sins
the voice of him that crieth in the wilderness prepare ye the way of the lord make straight in the desert a highway for our god
every valley shall be exalted and every mountain and hill shall be made low and the crooked shall be made straight and the rough places plain
and the glory of the lord shall be revealed and all flesh shall see it together for the mouth of the lord hath spoken it
the voice said cry and he said what shall i cry all flesh is grass and all the goodliness thereof is as the flower of the field
the grass withereth the flower fadeth because the spirit of the lord bloweth upon it surely the people is grass
the grass withereth the flower fadeth but the word of our god shall stand for ever
o zion that bringest good tidings get thee up into the high mountain o jerusalem that bringest good tidings lift up thy voice with strength lift it up be not afraid say unto the cities of judah behold your god
behold the lord god will come with strong hand and his arm shall rule for him behold his reward is with him and his work before him
he shall feed his flock like a shepherd he shall gather the lambs with his arm and carry them in his bosom and shall gently lead those that are with young
who hath measured the waters in the hollow of his hand and meted out heaven with the span and comprehended the dust of the earth in a measure and weighed the mountains in scales and the hills in a balance
who hath directed the spirit of the lord or being his counsellor hath taught him
with whom took he counsel and who instructed him and taught him in the path of judgment and taught him knowledge and shewed to him the way of understanding
behold the nations are as a drop of a bucket and are counted as the small dust of the balance behold he taketh up the isles as a very little thing
and lebanon is not sufficient to burn nor the beasts thereof sufficient for a burnt offering
all nations before him are as nothing and they are counted to him less than nothing and vanity
to whom then will ye liken god or what likeness will ye compare unto him
the workman melteth a graven image and the goldsmith spreadeth it over with gold and casteth silver chains
he that is so impoverished that he hath no oblation chooseth a tree that will not rot he seeketh unto him a cunning workman to prepare a graven image that shall not be moved
have ye not known have ye not heard hath it not been told you from the beginning have ye not understood from the foundations of the earth
it is he that sitteth upon the circle of the earth and the inhabitants thereof are as grasshoppers that stretcheth out the heavens as a curtain and spreadeth them out as a tent to dwell in
that bringeth the princes to nothing he maketh the judges of the earth as vanity
yea they shall not be planted yea they shall not be sown yea their stock shall not take root in the earth and he shall also blow upon them and they shall wither and the whirlwind shall take them away as stubble
to whom then will ye liken me or shall i be equal saith the holy one
lift up your eyes on high and behold who hath created these things that bringeth out their host by number he calleth them all by names by the greatness of his might for that he is strong in power not one faileth
why sayest thou o jacob and speakest o israel my way is hid from the lord and my judgment is passed over from my god
hast thou not known hast thou not heard that the everlasting god the lord the creator of the ends of the earth fainteth not neither is weary there is no searching of his understanding
he giveth power to the faint and to them that have no might he increaseth strength
even the youths shall faint and be weary and the young men shall utterly fall
but they that wait upon the lord shall renew their strength they shall mount up with wings as eagles they shall run and not be weary and they shall walk and not faint
keep silence before me o islands and let the people renew their strength let them come near then let them speak let us come near together to judgment
who raised up the righteous man from the east called him to his foot gave the nations before him and made him rule over kings he gave them as the dust to his sword and as driven stubble to his bow
he pursued them and passed safely even by the way that he had not gone with his feet
who hath wrought and done it calling the generations from the beginning i the lord the first and with the last i am he
the isles saw it and feared the ends of the earth were afraid drew near and came
they helped every one his neighbour and every one said to his brother be of good courage
so the carpenter encouraged the goldsmith and he that smootheth with the hammer him that smote the anvil saying it is ready for the sodering and he fastened it with nails that it should not be moved
but thou israel art my servant jacob whom i have chosen the seed of abraham my friend
thou whom i have taken from the ends of the earth and called thee from the chief men thereof and said unto thee thou art my servant i have chosen thee and not cast thee away
fear thou not for i am with thee be not dismayed for i am thy god i will strengthen thee yea i will help thee yea i will uphold thee with the right hand of my righteousness
behold all they that were incensed against thee shall be ashamed and confounded they shall be as nothing and they that strive with thee shall perish
thou shalt seek them and shalt not find them even them that contended with thee they that war against thee shall be as nothing and as a thing of nought
for i the lord thy god will hold thy right hand saying unto thee fear not i will help thee
fear not thou worm jacob and ye men of israel i will help thee saith the lord and thy redeemer the holy one of israel
behold i will make thee a new sharp threshing instrument having teeth thou shalt thresh the mountains and beat them small and shalt make the hills as chaff
thou shalt fan them and the wind shall carry them away and the whirlwind shall scatter them and thou shalt rejoice in the lord and shalt glory in the holy one of israel
when the poor and needy seek water and there is none and their tongue faileth for thirst i the lord will hear them i the god of israel will not forsake them
i will open rivers in high places and fountains in the midst of the valleys i will make the wilderness a pool of water and the dry land springs of water
i will plant in the wilderness the cedar the shittah tree and the myrtle and the oil tree i will set in the desert the fir tree and the pine and the box tree together
that they may see and know and consider and understand together that the hand of the lord hath done this and the holy one of israel hath created it
produce your cause saith the lord bring forth your strong reasons saith the king of jacob
let them bring them forth and shew us what shall happen let them shew the former things what they be that we may consider them and know the latter end of them or declare us things for to come
shew the things that are to come hereafter that we may know that ye are gods yea do good or do evil that we may be dismayed and behold it together
behold ye are of nothing and your work of nought an abomination is he that chooseth you
i have raised up one from the north and he shall come from the rising of the sun shall he call upon my name and he shall come upon princes as upon morter and as the potter treadeth clay
who hath declared from the beginning that we may know and beforetime that we may say he is righteous yea there is none that sheweth yea there is none that declareth yea there is none that heareth your words
the first shall say to zion behold behold them and i will give to jerusalem one that bringeth good tidings
for i beheld and there was no man even among them and there was no counsellor that when i asked of them could answer a word
behold they are all vanity their works are nothing their molten images are wind and confusion
behold my servant whom i uphold mine elect in whom my soul delighteth i have put my spirit upon him he shall bring forth judgment to the gentiles
he shall not cry nor lift up nor cause his voice to be heard in the street
a bruised reed shall he not break and the smoking flax shall he not quench he shall bring forth judgment unto truth
he shall not fail nor be discouraged till he have set judgment in the earth and the isles shall wait for his law
thus saith god the lord he that created the heavens and stretched them out he that spread forth the earth and that which cometh out of it he that giveth breath unto the people upon it and spirit to them that walk therein
i the lord have called thee in righteousness and will hold thine hand and will keep thee and give thee for a covenant of the people for a light of the gentiles
to open the blind eyes to bring out the prisoners from the prison and them that sit in darkness out of the prison house
i am the lord that is my name and my glory will i not give to another neither my praise to graven images
behold the former things are come to pass and new things do i declare before they spring forth i tell you of them
sing unto the lord a new song and his praise from the end of the earth ye that go down to the sea and all that is therein the isles and the inhabitants thereof
let the wilderness and the cities thereof lift up their voice the villages that kedar doth inhabit let the inhabitants of the rock sing let them shout from the top of the mountains
let them give glory unto the lord and declare his praise in the islands
the lord shall go forth as a mighty man he shall stir up jealousy like a man of war he shall cry yea roar he shall prevail against his enemies
i have long time holden my peace i have been still and refrained myself now will i cry like a travailing woman i will destroy and devour at once
i will make waste mountains and hills and dry up all their herbs and i will make the rivers islands and i will dry up the pools
and i will bring the blind by a way that they knew not i will lead them in paths that they have not known i will make darkness light before them and crooked things straight these things will i do unto them and not forsake them
they shall be turned back they shall be greatly ashamed that trust in graven images that say to the molten images ye are our gods
hear ye deaf and look ye blind that ye may see
who is blind but my servant or deaf as my messenger that i sent who is blind as he that is perfect and blind as the lord's servant
seeing many things but thou observest not opening the ears but he heareth not
the lord is well pleased for his righteousness sake he will magnify the law and make it honourable
but this is a people robbed and spoiled they are all of them snared in holes and they are hid in prison houses they are for a prey and none delivereth for a spoil and none saith restore
who among you will give ear to this who will hearken and hear for the time to come
who gave jacob for a spoil and israel to the robbers did not the lord he against whom we have sinned for they would not walk in his ways neither were they obedient unto his law
therefore he hath poured upon him the fury of his anger and the strength of battle and it hath set him on fire round about yet he knew not and it burned him yet he laid it not to heart
but now thus saith the lord that created thee o jacob and he that formed thee o israel fear not for i have redeemed thee i have called thee by thy name thou art mine
when thou passest through the waters i will be with thee and through the rivers they shall not overflow thee when thou walkest through the fire thou shalt not be burned neither shall the flame kindle upon thee
for i am the lord thy god the holy one of israel thy saviour i gave egypt for thy ransom ethiopia and seba for thee
since thou wast precious in my sight thou hast been honourable and i have loved thee therefore will i give men for thee and people for thy life
fear not for i am with thee i will bring thy seed from the east and gather thee from the west
i will say to the north give up and to the south keep not back bring my sons from far and my daughters from the ends of the earth
even every one that is called by my name for i have created him for my glory i have formed him yea i have made him
bring forth the blind people that have eyes and the deaf that have ears
let all the nations be gathered together and let the people be assembled who among them can declare this and shew us former things let them bring forth their witnesses that they may be justified or let them hear and say it is truth
ye are my witnesses saith the lord and my servant whom i have chosen that ye may know and believe me and understand that i am he before me there was no god formed neither shall there be after me
i even i am the lord and beside me there is no saviour
i have declared and have saved and i have shewed when there was no strange god among you therefore ye are my witnesses saith the lord that i am god
yea before the day was i am he and there is none that can deliver out of my hand i will work and who shall let it
thus saith the lord your redeemer the holy one of israel for your sake i have sent to babylon and have brought down all their nobles and the chaldeans whose cry is in the ships
i am the lord your holy one the creator of israel your king
thus saith the lord which maketh a way in the sea and a path in the mighty waters
which bringeth forth the chariot and horse the army and the power they shall lie down together they shall not rise they are extinct they are quenched as tow
remember ye not the former things neither consider the things of old
behold i will do a new thing now it shall spring forth shall ye not know it i will even make a way in the wilderness and rivers in the desert
the beast of the field shall honour me the dragons and the owls because i give waters in the wilderness and rivers in the desert to give drink to my people my chosen
this people have i formed for myself they shall shew forth my praise
but thou hast not called upon me o jacob but thou hast been weary of me o israel
thou hast not brought me the small cattle of thy burnt offerings neither hast thou honoured me with thy sacrifices i have not caused thee to serve with an offering nor wearied thee with incense
thou hast bought me no sweet cane with money neither hast thou filled me with the fat of thy sacrifices but thou hast made me to serve with thy sins thou hast wearied me with thine iniquities
i even i am he that blotteth out thy transgressions for mine own sake and will not remember thy sins
put me in remembrance let us plead together declare thou that thou mayest be justified
thy first father hath sinned and thy teachers have transgressed against me
therefore i have profaned the princes of the sanctuary and have given jacob to the curse and israel to reproaches
yet now hear o jacob my servant and israel whom i have chosen
thus saith the lord that made thee and formed thee from the womb which will help thee fear not o jacob my servant and thou jesurun whom i have chosen
for i will pour water upon him that is thirsty and floods upon the dry ground i will pour my spirit upon thy seed and my blessing upon thine offspring
and they shall spring up as among the grass as willows by the water courses
one shall say i am the lord's and another shall call himself by the name of jacob and another shall subscribe with his hand unto the lord and surname himself by the name of israel
thus saith the lord the king of israel and his redeemer the lord of hosts i am the first and i am the last and beside me there is no god
and who as i shall call and shall declare it and set it in order for me since i appointed the ancient people and the things that are coming and shall come let them shew unto them
fear ye not neither be afraid have not i told thee from that time and have declared it ye are even my witnesses is there a god beside me yea there is no god i know not any
they that make a graven image are all of them vanity and their delectable things shall not profit and they are their own witnesses they see not nor know that they may be ashamed
who hath formed a god or molten a graven image that is profitable for nothing
behold all his fellows shall be ashamed and the workmen they are of men let them all be gathered together let them stand up yet they shall fear and they shall be ashamed together
the smith with the tongs both worketh in the coals and fashioneth it with hammers and worketh it with the strength of his arms yea he is hungry and his strength faileth he drinketh no water and is faint
the carpenter stretcheth out his rule he marketh it out with a line he fitteth it with planes and he marketh it out with the compass and maketh it after the figure of a man according to the beauty of a man that it may remain in the house
he heweth him down cedars and taketh the cypress and the oak which he strengtheneth for himself among the trees of the forest he planteth an ash and the rain doth nourish it
then shall it be for a man to burn for he will take thereof and warm himself yea he kindleth it and baketh bread yea he maketh a god and worshippeth it he maketh it a graven image and falleth down thereto
he burneth part thereof in the fire with part thereof he eateth flesh he roasteth roast and is satisfied yea he warmeth himself and saith aha i am warm i have seen the fire
and the residue thereof he maketh a god even his graven image he falleth down unto it and worshippeth it and prayeth unto it and saith deliver me for thou art my god
they have not known nor understood for he hath shut their eyes that they cannot see and their hearts that they cannot understand
and none considereth in his heart neither is there knowledge nor understanding to say i have burned part of it in the fire yea also i have baked bread upon the coals thereof i have roasted flesh and eaten it and shall i make the residue thereof an abomination shall i fall down to the stock of a tree
he feedeth on ashes a deceived heart hath turned him aside that he cannot deliver his soul nor say is there not a lie in my right hand
remember these o jacob and israel for thou art my servant i have formed thee thou art my servant o israel thou shalt not be forgotten of me
i have blotted out as a thick cloud thy transgressions and as a cloud thy sins return unto me for i have redeemed thee
sing o ye heavens for the lord hath done it shout ye lower parts of the earth break forth into singing ye mountains o forest and every tree therein for the lord hath redeemed jacob and glorified himself in israel
thus saith the lord thy redeemer and he that formed thee from the womb i am the lord that maketh all things that stretcheth forth the heavens alone that spreadeth abroad the earth by myself
that frustrateth the tokens of the liars and maketh diviners mad that turneth wise men backward and maketh their knowledge foolish
that confirmeth the word of his servant and performeth the counsel of his messengers that saith to jerusalem thou shalt be inhabited and to the cities of judah ye shall be built and i will raise up the decayed places thereof
that saith to the deep be dry and i will dry up thy rivers
that saith of cyrus he is my shepherd and shall perform all my pleasure even saying to jerusalem thou shalt be built and to the temple thy foundation shall be laid
thus saith the lord to his anointed to cyrus whose right hand i have holden to subdue nations before him and i will loose the loins of kings to open before him the two leaved gates and the gates shall not be shut
i will go before thee and make the crooked places straight i will break in pieces the gates of brass and cut in sunder the bars of iron
and i will give thee the treasures of darkness and hidden riches of secret places that thou mayest know that i the lord which call thee by thy name am the god of israel
for jacob my servant's sake and israel mine elect i have even called thee by thy name i have surnamed thee though thou hast not known me
i am the lord and there is none else there is no god beside me i girded thee though thou hast not known me
that they may know from the rising of the sun and from the west that there is none beside me i am the lord and there is none else
i form the light and create darkness i make peace and create evil i the lord do all these things
drop down ye heavens from above and let the skies pour down righteousness let the earth open and let them bring forth salvation and let righteousness spring up together i the lord have created it
woe unto him that striveth with his maker let the potsherd strive with the potsherds of the earth shall the clay say to him that fashioneth it what makest thou or thy work he hath no hands
woe unto him that saith unto his father what begettest thou or to the woman what hast thou brought forth
thus saith the lord the holy one of israel and his maker ask me of things to come concerning my sons and concerning the work of my hands command ye me
i have made the earth and created man upon it i even my hands have stretched out the heavens and all their host have i commanded
i have raised him up in righteousness and i will direct all his ways he shall build my city and he shall let go my captives not for price nor reward saith the lord of hosts
thus saith the lord the labour of egypt and merchandise of ethiopia and of the sabeans men of stature shall come over unto thee and they shall be thine they shall come after thee in chains they shall come over and they shall fall down unto thee they shall make supplication unto thee saying surely god is in thee and there is none else there is no god
verily thou art a god that hidest thyself o god of israel the saviour
they shall be ashamed and also confounded all of them they shall go to confusion together that are makers of idols
but israel shall be saved in the lord with an everlasting salvation ye shall not be ashamed nor confounded world without end
for thus saith the lord that created the heavens god himself that formed the earth and made it he hath established it he created it not in vain he formed it to be inhabited i am the lord and there is none else
i have not spoken in secret in a dark place of the earth i said not unto the seed of jacob seek ye me in vain i the lord speak righteousness i declare things that are right
assemble yourselves and come draw near together ye that are escaped of the nations they have no knowledge that set up the wood of their graven image and pray unto a god that cannot save
tell ye and bring them near yea let them take counsel together who hath declared this from ancient time who hath told it from that time have not i the lord and there is no god else beside me a just god and a saviour there is none beside me
look unto me and be ye saved all the ends of the earth for i am god and there is none else
i have sworn by myself the word is gone out of my mouth in righteousness and shall not return that unto me every knee shall bow every tongue shall swear
surely shall one say in the lord have i righteousness and strength even to him shall men come and all that are incensed against him shall be ashamed
in the lord shall all the seed of israel be justified and shall glory
bel boweth down nebo stoopeth their idols were upon the beasts and upon the cattle your carriages were heavy loaden they are a burden to the weary beast
they stoop they bow down together they could not deliver the burden but themselves are gone into captivity
hearken unto me o house of jacob and all the remnant of the house of israel which are borne by me from the belly which are carried from the womb
and even to your old age i am he and even to hoar hairs will i carry you i have made and i will bear even i will carry and will deliver you
to whom will ye liken me and make me equal and compare me that we may be like
they lavish gold out of the bag and weigh silver in the balance and hire a goldsmith and he maketh it a god they fall down yea they worship
they bear him upon the shoulder they carry him and set him in his place and he standeth from his place shall he not remove yea one shall cry unto him yet can he not answer nor save him out of his trouble
remember this and shew yourselves men bring it again to mind o ye transgressors
remember the former things of old for i am god and there is none else i am god and there is none like me
declaring the end from the beginning and from ancient times the things that are not yet done saying my counsel shall stand and i will do all my pleasure
calling a ravenous bird from the east the man that executeth my counsel from a far country yea i have spoken it i will also bring it to pass i have purposed it i will also do it
hearken unto me ye stouthearted that are far from righteousness
i bring near my righteousness it shall not be far off and my salvation shall not tarry and i will place salvation in zion for israel my glory
come down and sit in the dust o virgin daughter of babylon sit on the ground there is no throne o daughter of the chaldeans for thou shalt no more be called tender and delicate
take the millstones and grind meal uncover thy locks make bare the leg uncover the thigh pass over the rivers
thy nakedness shall be uncovered yea thy shame shall be seen i will take vengeance and i will not meet thee as a man
as for our redeemer the lord of hosts is his name the holy one of israel
sit thou silent and get thee into darkness o daughter of the chaldeans for thou shalt no more be called the lady of kingdoms
i was wroth with my people i have polluted mine inheritance and given them into thine hand thou didst shew them no mercy upon the ancient hast thou very heavily laid thy yoke
and thou saidst i shall be a lady for ever so that thou didst not lay these things to thy heart neither didst remember the latter end of it
therefore hear now this thou that art given to pleasures that dwellest carelessly that sayest in thine heart i am and none else beside me i shall not sit as a widow neither shall i know the loss of children
but these two things shall come to thee in a moment in one day the loss of children and widowhood they shall come upon thee in their perfection for the multitude of thy sorceries and for the great abundance of thine enchantments
for thou hast trusted in thy wickedness thou hast said none seeth me thy wisdom and thy knowledge it hath perverted thee and thou hast said in thine heart i am and none else beside me
therefore shall evil come upon thee thou shalt not know from whence it riseth and mischief shall fall upon thee thou shalt not be able to put it off and desolation shall come upon thee suddenly which thou shalt not know
stand now with thine enchantments and with the multitude of thy sorceries wherein thou hast laboured from thy youth if so be thou shalt be able to profit if so be thou mayest prevail
thou art wearied in the multitude of thy counsels let now the astrologers the stargazers the monthly prognosticators stand up and save thee from these things that shall come upon thee
behold they shall be as stubble the fire shall burn them they shall not deliver themselves from the power of the flame there shall not be a coal to warm at nor fire to sit before it
thus shall they be unto thee with whom thou hast laboured even thy merchants from thy youth they shall wander every one to his quarter none shall save thee
hear ye this o house of jacob which are called by the name of israel and are come forth out of the waters of judah which swear by the name of the lord and make mention of the god of israel but not in truth nor in righteousness
for they call themselves of the holy city and stay themselves upon the god of israel the lord of hosts is his name
i have declared the former things from the beginning and they went forth out of my mouth and i shewed them i did them suddenly and they came to pass
because i knew that thou art obstinate and thy neck is an iron sinew and thy brow brass
i have even from the beginning declared it to thee before it came to pass i shewed it thee lest thou shouldest say mine idol hath done them and my graven image and my molten image hath commanded them
thou hast heard see all this and will not ye declare it i have shewed thee new things from this time even hidden things and thou didst not know them
they are created now and not from the beginning even before the day when thou heardest them not lest thou shouldest say behold i knew them
yea thou heardest not yea thou knewest not yea from that time that thine ear was not opened for i knew that thou wouldest deal very treacherously and wast called a transgressor from the womb
for my name's sake will i defer mine anger and for my praise will i refrain for thee that i cut thee not off
behold i have refined thee but not with silver i have chosen thee in the furnace of affliction
for mine own sake even for mine own sake will i do it for how should my name be polluted and i will not give my glory unto another
hearken unto me o jacob and israel my called i am he i am the first i also am the last
mine hand also hath laid the foundation of the earth and my right hand hath spanned the heavens when i call unto them they stand up together
all ye assemble yourselves and hear which among them hath declared these things the lord hath loved him he will do his pleasure on babylon and his arm shall be on the chaldeans
i even i have spoken yea i have called him i have brought him and he shall make his way prosperous
come ye near unto me hear ye this i have not spoken in secret from the beginning from the time that it was there am i and now the lord god and his spirit hath sent me
thus saith the lord thy redeemer the holy one of israel i am the lord thy god which teacheth thee to profit which leadeth thee by the way that thou shouldest go
o that thou hadst hearkened to my commandments then had thy peace been as a river and thy righteousness as the waves of the sea
thy seed also had been as the sand and the offspring of thy bowels like the gravel thereof his name should not have been cut off nor destroyed from before me
go ye forth of babylon flee ye from the chaldeans with a voice of singing declare ye tell this utter it even to the end of the earth say ye the lord hath redeemed his servant jacob
and they thirsted not when he led them through the deserts he caused the waters to flow out of the rock for them he clave the rock also and the waters gushed out
there is no peace saith the lord unto the wicked
listen o isles unto me and hearken ye people from far the lord hath called me from the womb from the bowels of my mother hath he made mention of my name
and he hath made my mouth like a sharp sword in the shadow of his hand hath he hid me and made me a polished shaft in his quiver hath he hid me
and said unto me thou art my servant o israel in whom i will be glorified
then i said i have laboured in vain i have spent my strength for nought and in vain yet surely my judgment is with the lord and my work with my god
and now saith the lord that formed me from the womb to be his servant to bring jacob again to him though israel be not gathered yet shall i be glorious in the eyes of the lord and my god shall be my strength
and he said it is a light thing that thou shouldest be my servant to raise up the tribes of jacob and to restore the preserved of israel i will also give thee for a light to the gentiles that thou mayest be my salvation unto the end of the earth
thus saith the lord the redeemer of israel and his holy one to him whom man despiseth to him whom the nation abhorreth to a servant of rulers kings shall see and arise princes also shall worship because of the lord that is faithful and the holy one of israel and he shall choose thee
thus saith the lord in an acceptable time have i heard thee and in a day of salvation have i helped thee and i will preserve thee and give thee for a covenant of the people to establish the earth to cause to inherit the desolate heritages
that thou mayest say to the prisoners go forth to them that are in darkness shew yourselves they shall feed in the ways and their pastures shall be in all high places
they shall not hunger nor thirst neither shall the heat nor sun smite them for he that hath mercy on them shall lead them even by the springs of water shall he guide them
and i will make all my mountains a way and my highways shall be exalted
behold these shall come from far and lo these from the north and from the west and these from the land of sinim
sing o heavens and be joyful o earth and break forth into singing o mountains for the lord hath comforted his people and will have mercy upon his afflicted
but zion said the lord hath forsaken me and my lord hath forgotten me
can a woman forget her sucking child that she should not have compassion on the son of her womb yea they may forget yet will i not forget thee
behold i have graven thee upon the palms of my hands thy walls are continually before me
thy children shall make haste thy destroyers and they that made thee waste shall go forth of thee
lift up thine eyes round about and behold all these gather themselves together and come to thee as i live saith the lord thou shalt surely clothe thee with them all as with an ornament and bind them on thee as a bride doeth
for thy waste and thy desolate places and the land of thy destruction shall even now be too narrow by reason of the inhabitants and they that swallowed thee up shall be far away
the children which thou shalt have after thou hast lost the other shall say again in thine ears the place is too strait for me give place to me that i may dwell
then shalt thou say in thine heart who hath begotten me these seeing i have lost my children and am desolate a captive and removing to and fro and who hath brought up these behold i was left alone these where had they been
thus saith the lord god behold i will lift up mine hand to the gentiles and set up my standard to the people and they shall bring thy sons in their arms and thy daughters shall be carried upon their shoulders
and kings shall be thy nursing fathers and their queens thy nursing mothers they shall bow down to thee with their face toward the earth and lick up the dust of thy feet and thou shalt know that i am the lord for they shall not be ashamed that wait for me
shall the prey be taken from the mighty or the lawful captive delivered
but thus saith the lord even the captives of the mighty shall be taken away and the prey of the terrible shall be delivered for i will contend with him that contendeth with thee and i will save thy children
and i will feed them that oppress thee with their own flesh and they shall be drunken with their own blood as with sweet wine and all flesh shall know that i the lord am thy saviour and thy redeemer the mighty one of jacob
thus saith the lord where is the bill of your mother's divorcement whom i have put away or which of my creditors is it to whom i have sold you behold for your iniquities have ye sold yourselves and for your transgressions is your mother put away
wherefore when i came was there no man when i called was there none to answer is my hand shortened at all that it cannot redeem or have i no power to deliver behold at my rebuke i dry up the sea i make the rivers a wilderness their fish stinketh because there is no water and dieth for thirst
i clothe the heavens with blackness and i make sackcloth their covering
the lord god hath given me the tongue of the learned that i should know how to speak a word in season to him that is weary he wakeneth morning by morning he wakeneth mine ear to hear as the learned
the lord god hath opened mine ear and i was not rebellious neither turned away back
i gave my back to the smiters and my cheeks to them that plucked off the hair i hid not my face from shame and spitting
for the lord god will help me therefore shall i not be confounded therefore have i set my face like a flint and i know that i shall not be ashamed
he is near that justifieth me who will contend with me let us stand together who is mine adversary let him come near to me
behold the lord god will help me who is he that shall condemn me lo they all shall wax old as a garment the moth shall eat them up
who is among you that feareth the lord that obeyeth the voice of his servant that walketh in darkness and hath no light let him trust in the name of the lord and stay upon his god
behold all ye that kindle a fire that compass yourselves about with sparks walk in the light of your fire and in the sparks that ye have kindled this shall ye have of mine hand ye shall lie down in sorrow
hearken to me ye that follow after righteousness ye that seek the lord look unto the rock whence ye are hewn and to the hole of the pit whence ye are digged
look unto abraham your father and unto sarah that bare you for i called him alone and blessed him and increased him
for the lord shall comfort zion he will comfort all her waste places and he will make her wilderness like eden and her desert like the garden of the lord joy and gladness shall be found therein thanksgiving and the voice of melody
hearken unto me my people and give ear unto me o my nation for a law shall proceed from me and i will make my judgment to rest for a light of the people
my righteousness is near my salvation is gone forth and mine arms shall judge the people the isles shall wait upon me and on mine arm shall they trust
lift up your eyes to the heavens and look upon the earth beneath for the heavens shall vanish away like smoke and the earth shall wax old like a garment and they that dwell therein shall die in like manner but my salvation shall be for ever and my righteousness shall not be abolished
hearken unto me ye that know righteousness the people in whose heart is my law fear ye not the reproach of men neither be ye afraid of their revilings
for the moth shall eat them up like a garment and the worm shall eat them like wool but my righteousness shall be for ever and my salvation from generation to generation
awake awake put on strength o arm of the lord awake as in the ancient days in the generations of old art thou not it that hath cut rahab and wounded the dragon
art thou not it which hath dried the sea the waters of the great deep that hath made the depths of the sea a way for the ransomed to pass over
therefore the redeemed of the lord shall return and come with singing unto zion and everlasting joy shall be upon their head they shall obtain gladness and joy and sorrow and mourning shall flee away
i even i am he that comforteth you who art thou that thou shouldest be afraid of a man that shall die and of the son of man which shall be made as grass
and forgettest the lord thy maker that hath stretched forth the heavens and laid the foundations of the earth and hast feared continually every day because of the fury of the oppressor as if he were ready to destroy and where is the fury of the oppressor
the captive exile hasteneth that he may be loosed and that he should not die in the pit nor that his bread should fail
but i am the lord thy god that divided the sea whose waves roared the lord of hosts is his name
and i have put my words in thy mouth and i have covered thee in the shadow of mine hand that i may plant the heavens and lay the foundations of the earth and say unto zion thou art my people
awake awake stand up o jerusalem which hast drunk at the hand of the lord the cup of his fury thou hast drunken the dregs of the cup of trembling and wrung them out
there is none to guide her among all the sons whom she hath brought forth neither is there any that taketh her by the hand of all the sons that she hath brought up
these two things are come unto thee who shall be sorry for thee desolation and destruction and the famine and the sword by whom shall i comfort thee
thy sons have fainted they lie at the head of all the streets as a wild bull in a net they are full of the fury of the lord the rebuke of thy god
therefore hear now this thou afflicted and drunken but not with wine
thus saith thy lord the lord and thy god that pleadeth the cause of his people behold i have taken out of thine hand the cup of trembling even the dregs of the cup of my fury thou shalt no more drink it again
but i will put it into the hand of them that afflict thee which have said to thy soul bow down that we may go over and thou hast laid thy body as the ground and as the street to them that went over
awake awake put on thy strength o zion put on thy beautiful garments o jerusalem the holy city for henceforth there shall no more come into thee the uncircumcised and the unclean
shake thyself from the dust arise and sit down o jerusalem loose thyself from the bands of thy neck o captive daughter of zion
for thus saith the lord ye have sold yourselves for nought and ye shall be redeemed without money
for thus saith the lord god my people went down aforetime into egypt to sojourn there and the assyrian oppressed them without cause
now therefore what have i here saith the lord that my people is taken away for nought they that rule over them make them to howl saith the lord and my name continually every day is blasphemed
therefore my people shall know my name therefore they shall know in that day that i am he that doth speak behold it is i
how beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of him that bringeth good tidings that publisheth peace that bringeth good tidings of good that publisheth salvation that saith unto zion thy god reigneth
thy watchmen shall lift up the voice with the voice together shall they sing for they shall see eye to eye when the lord shall bring again zion
break forth into joy sing together ye waste places of jerusalem for the lord hath comforted his people he hath redeemed jerusalem
the lord hath made bare his holy arm in the eyes of all the nations and all the ends of the earth shall see the salvation of our god
depart ye depart ye go ye out from thence touch no unclean thing go ye out of the midst of her be ye clean that bear the vessels of the lord
for ye shall not go out with haste nor go by flight for the lord will go before you and the god of israel will be your rereward
behold my servant shall deal prudently he shall be exalted and extolled and be very high
as many were astonied at thee his visage was so marred more than any man and his form more than the sons of men
so shall he sprinkle many nations the kings shall shut their mouths at him for that which had not been told them shall they see and that which they had not heard shall they consider
who hath believed our report and to whom is the arm of the lord revealed
for he shall grow up before him as a tender plant and as a root out of a dry ground he hath no form nor comeliness and when we shall see him there is no beauty that we should desire him
he is despised and rejected of men a man of sorrows and acquainted with grief and we hid as it were our faces from him he was despised and we esteemed him not
surely he hath borne our griefs and carried our sorrows yet we did esteem him stricken smitten of god and afflicted
but he was wounded for our transgressions he was bruised for our iniquities the chastisement of our peace was upon him and with his stripes we are healed
all we like sheep have gone astray we have turned every one to his own way and the lord hath laid on him the iniquity of us all
he was oppressed and he was afflicted yet he opened not his mouth he is brought as a lamb to the slaughter and as a sheep before her shearers is dumb so he openeth not his mouth
he was taken from prison and from judgment and who shall declare his generation for he was cut off out of the land of the living for the transgression of my people was he stricken
and he made his grave with the wicked and with the rich in his death because he had done no violence neither was any deceit in his mouth
yet it pleased the lord to bruise him he hath put him to grief when thou shalt make his soul an offering for sin he shall see his seed he shall prolong his days and the pleasure of the lord shall prosper in his hand
he shall see of the travail of his soul and shall be satisfied by his knowledge shall my righteous servant justify many for he shall bear their iniquities
therefore will i divide him a portion with the great and he shall divide the spoil with the strong because he hath poured out his soul unto death and he was numbered with the transgressors and he bare the sin of many and made intercession for the transgressors
sing o barren thou that didst not bear break forth into singing and cry aloud thou that didst not travail with child for more are the children of the desolate than the children of the married wife saith the lord
enlarge the place of thy tent and let them stretch forth the curtains of thine habitations spare not lengthen thy cords and strengthen thy stakes
for thou shalt break forth on the right hand and on the left and thy seed shall inherit the gentiles and make the desolate cities to be inhabited
fear not for thou shalt not be ashamed neither be thou confounded for thou shalt not be put to shame for thou shalt forget the shame of thy youth and shalt not remember the reproach of thy widowhood any more
for thy maker is thine husband the lord of hosts is his name and thy redeemer the holy one of israel the god of the whole earth shall he be called
for the lord hath called thee as a woman forsaken and grieved in spirit and a wife of youth when thou wast refused saith thy god
for a small moment have i forsaken thee but with great mercies will i gather thee
in a little wrath i hid my face from thee for a moment but with everlasting kindness will i have mercy on thee saith the lord thy redeemer
for this is as the waters of noah unto me for as i have sworn that the waters of noah should no more go over the earth so have i sworn that i would not be wroth with thee nor rebuke thee
for the mountains shall depart and the hills be removed but my kindness shall not depart from thee neither shall the covenant of my peace be removed saith the lord that hath mercy on thee
o thou afflicted tossed with tempest and not comforted behold i will lay thy stones with fair colours and lay thy foundations with sapphires
and i will make thy windows of agates and thy gates of carbuncles and all thy borders of pleasant stones
and all thy children shall be taught of the lord and great shall be the peace of thy children
in righteousness shalt thou be established thou shalt be far from oppression for thou shalt not fear and from terror for it shall not come near thee
behold they shall surely gather together but not by me whosoever shall gather together against thee shall fall for thy sake
behold i have created the smith that bloweth the coals in the fire and that bringeth forth an instrument for his work and i have created the waster to destroy
no weapon that is formed against thee shall prosper and every tongue that shall rise against thee in judgment thou shalt condemn this is the heritage of the servants of the lord and their righteousness is of me saith the lord
ho every one that thirsteth come ye to the waters and he that hath no money come ye buy and eat yea come buy wine and milk without money and without price
wherefore do ye spend money for that which is not bread and your labour for that which satisfieth not hearken diligently unto me and eat ye that which is good and let your soul delight itself in fatness
incline your ear and come unto me hear and your soul shall live and i will make an everlasting covenant with you even the sure mercies of david
behold i have given him for a witness to the people a leader and commander to the people
behold thou shalt call a nation that thou knowest not and nations that knew not thee shall run unto thee because of the lord thy god and for the holy one of israel for he hath glorified thee
seek ye the lord while he may be found call ye upon him while he is near
let the wicked forsake his way and the unrighteous man his thoughts and let him return unto the lord and he will have mercy upon him and to our god for he will abundantly pardon
for my thoughts are not your thoughts neither are your ways my ways saith the lord
for as the heavens are higher than the earth so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts
for as the rain cometh down and the snow from heaven and returneth not thither but watereth the earth and maketh it bring forth and bud that it may give seed to the sower and bread to the eater
so shall my word be that goeth forth out of my mouth it shall not return unto me void but it shall accomplish that which i please and it shall prosper in the thing whereto i sent it
for ye shall go out with joy and be led forth with peace the mountains and the hills shall break forth before you into singing and all the trees of the field shall clap their hands
instead of the thorn shall come up the fir tree and instead of the brier shall come up the myrtle tree and it shall be to the lord for a name for an everlasting sign that shall not be cut off
thus saith the lord keep ye judgment and do justice for my salvation is near to come and my righteousness to be revealed
blessed is the man that doeth this and the son of man that layeth hold on it that keepeth the sabbath from polluting it and keepeth his hand from doing any evil
neither let the son of the stranger that hath joined himself to the lord speak saying the lord hath utterly separated me from his people neither let the eunuch say behold i am a dry tree
for thus saith the lord unto the eunuchs that keep my sabbaths and choose the things that please me and take hold of my covenant
even unto them will i give in mine house and within my walls a place and a name better than of sons and of daughters i will give them an everlasting name that shall not be cut off
also the sons of the stranger that join themselves to the lord to serve him and to love the name of the lord to be his servants every one that keepeth the sabbath from polluting it and taketh hold of my covenant
even them will i bring to my holy mountain and make them joyful in my house of prayer their burnt offerings and their sacrifices shall be accepted upon mine altar for mine house shall be called an house of prayer for all people
the lord god which gathereth the outcasts of israel saith yet will i gather others to him beside those that are gathered unto him
all ye beasts of the field come to devour yea all ye beasts in the forest
his watchmen are blind they are all ignorant they are all dumb dogs they cannot bark sleeping lying down loving to slumber
yea they are greedy dogs which can never have enough and they are shepherds that cannot understand they all look to their own way every one for his gain from his quarter
come ye say they i will fetch wine and we will fill ourselves with strong drink and to morrow shall be as this day and much more abundant
the righteous perisheth and no man layeth it to heart and merciful men are taken away none considering that the righteous is taken away from the evil to come
he shall enter into peace they shall rest in their beds each one walking in his uprightness
but draw near hither ye sons of the sorceress the seed of the adulterer and the whore
against whom do ye sport yourselves against whom make ye a wide mouth and draw out the tongue are ye not children of transgression a seed of falsehood
enflaming yourselves with idols under every green tree slaying the children in the valleys under the clifts of the rocks
among the smooth stones of the stream is thy portion they they are thy lot even to them hast thou poured a drink offering thou hast offered a meat offering should i receive comfort in these
upon a lofty and high mountain hast thou set thy bed even thither wentest thou up to offer sacrifice
behind the doors also and the posts hast thou set up thy remembrance for thou hast discovered thyself to another than me and art gone up thou hast enlarged thy bed and made thee a covenant with them thou lovedst their bed where thou sawest it
and thou wentest to the king with ointment and didst increase thy perfumes and didst send thy messengers far off and didst debase thyself even unto hell
thou art wearied in the greatness of thy way yet saidst thou not there is no hope thou hast found the life of thine hand therefore thou wast not grieved
and of whom hast thou been afraid or feared that thou hast lied and hast not remembered me nor laid it to thy heart have not i held my peace even of old and thou fearest me not
i will declare thy righteousness and thy works for they shall not profit thee
when thou criest let thy companies deliver thee but the wind shall carry them all away vanity shall take them but he that putteth his trust in me shall possess the land and shall inherit my holy mountain
and shall say cast ye up cast ye up prepare the way take up the stumblingblock out of the way of my people
for thus saith the high and lofty one that inhabiteth eternity whose name is holy i dwell in the high and holy place with him also that is of a contrite and humble spirit to revive the spirit of the humble and to revive the heart of the contrite ones
for i will not contend for ever neither will i be always wroth for the spirit should fail before me and the souls which i have made
for the iniquity of his covetousness was i wroth and smote him i hid me and was wroth and he went on frowardly in the way of his heart
i have seen his ways and will heal him i will lead him also and restore comforts unto him and to his mourners
i create the fruit of the lips peace peace to him that is far off and to him that is near saith the lord and i will heal him
but the wicked are like the troubled sea when it cannot rest whose waters cast up mire and dirt
there is no peace saith my god to the wicked
cry aloud spare not lift up thy voice like a trumpet and shew my people their transgression and the house of jacob their sins
yet they seek me daily and delight to know my ways as a nation that did righteousness and forsook not the ordinance of their god they ask of me the ordinances of justice they take delight in approaching to god
wherefore have we fasted say they and thou seest not wherefore have we afflicted our soul and thou takest no knowledge behold in the day of your fast ye find pleasure and exact all your labours
behold ye fast for strife and debate and to smite with the fist of wickedness ye shall not fast as ye do this day to make your voice to be heard on high
is it such a fast that i have chosen a day for a man to afflict his soul is it to bow down his head as a bulrush and to spread sackcloth and ashes under him wilt thou call this a fast and an acceptable day to the lord
is not this the fast that i have chosen to loose the bands of wickedness to undo the heavy burdens and to let the oppressed go free and that ye break every yoke
is it not to deal thy bread to the hungry and that thou bring the poor that are cast out to thy house when thou seest the naked that thou cover him and that thou hide not thyself from thine own flesh
then shall thy light break forth as the morning and thine health shall spring forth speedily and thy righteousness shall go before thee the glory of the lord shall be thy rereward
then shalt thou call and the lord shall answer thou shalt cry and he shall say here i am if thou take away from the midst of thee the yoke the putting forth of the finger and speaking vanity
and if thou draw out thy soul to the hungry and satisfy the afflicted soul then shall thy light rise in obscurity and thy darkness be as the noon day
and the lord shall guide thee continually and satisfy thy soul in drought and make fat thy bones and thou shalt be like a watered garden and like a spring of water whose waters fail not
and they that shall be of thee shall build the old waste places thou shalt raise up the foundations of many generations and thou shalt be called the repairer of the breach the restorer of paths to dwell in
if thou turn away thy foot from the sabbath from doing thy pleasure on my holy day and call the sabbath a delight the holy of the lord honourable and shalt honour him not doing thine own ways nor finding thine own pleasure nor speaking thine own words
then shalt thou delight thyself in the lord and i will cause thee to ride upon the high places of the earth and feed thee with the heritage of jacob thy father for the mouth of the lord hath spoken it
behold the lord's hand is not shortened that it cannot save neither his ear heavy that it cannot hear
but your iniquities have separated between you and your god and your sins have hid his face from you that he will not hear
for your hands are defiled with blood and your fingers with iniquity your lips have spoken lies your tongue hath muttered perverseness
none calleth for justice nor any pleadeth for truth they trust in vanity and speak lies they conceive mischief and bring forth iniquity
they hatch cockatrice eggs and weave the spider's web he that eateth of their eggs dieth and that which is crushed breaketh out into a viper
their webs shall not become garments neither shall they cover themselves with their works their works are works of iniquity and the act of violence is in their hands
their feet run to evil and they make haste to shed innocent blood their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity wasting and destruction are in their paths
the way of peace they know not and there is no judgment in their goings they have made them crooked paths whosoever goeth therein shall not know peace
therefore is judgment far from us neither doth justice overtake us we wait for light but behold obscurity for brightness but we walk in darkness
we grope for the wall like the blind and we grope as if we had no eyes we stumble at noon day as in the night we are in desolate places as dead men
we roar all like bears and mourn sore like doves we look for judgment but there is none for salvation but it is far off from us
for our transgressions are multiplied before thee and our sins testify against us for our transgressions are with us and as for our iniquities we know them
in transgressing and lying against the lord and departing away from our god speaking oppression and revolt conceiving and uttering from the heart words of falsehood
and judgment is turned away backward and justice standeth afar off for truth is fallen in the street and equity cannot enter
yea truth faileth and he that departeth from evil maketh himself a prey and the lord saw it and it displeased him that there was no judgment
and he saw that there was no man and wondered that there was no intercessor therefore his arm brought salvation unto him and his righteousness it sustained him
for he put on righteousness as a breastplate and an helmet of salvation upon his head and he put on the garments of vengeance for clothing and was clad with zeal as a cloak
according to their deeds accordingly he will repay fury to his adversaries recompence to his enemies to the islands he will repay recompence
so shall they fear the name of the lord from the west and his glory from the rising of the sun when the enemy shall come in like a flood the spirit of the lord shall lift up a standard against him
and the redeemer shall come to zion and unto them that turn from transgression in jacob saith the lord
as for me this is my covenant with them saith the lord my spirit that is upon thee and my words which i have put in thy mouth shall not depart out of thy mouth nor out of the mouth of thy seed nor out of the mouth of thy seed's seed saith the lord from henceforth and for ever
arise shine for thy light is come and the glory of the lord is risen upon thee
for behold the darkness shall cover the earth and gross darkness the people but the lord shall arise upon thee and his glory shall be seen upon thee
and the gentiles shall come to thy light and kings to the brightness of thy rising
lift up thine eyes round about and see all they gather themselves together they come to thee thy sons shall come from far and thy daughters shall be nursed at thy side
then thou shalt see and flow together and thine heart shall fear and be enlarged because the abundance of the sea shall be converted unto thee the forces of the gentiles shall come unto thee
the multitude of camels shall cover thee the dromedaries of midian and ephah all they from sheba shall come they shall bring gold and incense and they shall shew forth the praises of the lord
all the flocks of kedar shall be gathered together unto thee the rams of nebaioth shall minister unto thee they shall come up with acceptance on mine altar and i will glorify the house of my glory
who are these that fly as a cloud and as the doves to their windows
surely the isles shall wait for me and the ships of tarshish first to bring thy sons from far their silver and their gold with them unto the name of the lord thy god and to the holy one of israel because he hath glorified thee
and the sons of strangers shall build up thy walls and their kings shall minister unto thee for in my wrath i smote thee but in my favour have i had mercy on thee
therefore thy gates shall be open continually they shall not be shut day nor night that men may bring unto thee the forces of the gentiles and that their kings may be brought
for the nation and kingdom that will not serve thee shall perish yea those nations shall be utterly wasted
the glory of lebanon shall come unto thee the fir tree the pine tree and the box together to beautify the place of my sanctuary and i will make the place of my feet glorious
the sons also of them that afflicted thee shall come bending unto thee and all they that despised thee shall bow themselves down at the soles of thy feet and they shall call thee the city of the lord the zion of the holy one of israel
whereas thou hast been forsaken and hated so that no man went through thee i will make thee an eternal excellency a joy of many generations
thou shalt also suck the milk of the gentiles and shalt suck the breast of kings and thou shalt know that i the lord am thy saviour and thy redeemer the mighty one of jacob
for brass i will bring gold and for iron i will bring silver and for wood brass and for stones iron i will also make thy officers peace and thine exactors righteousness
violence shall no more be heard in thy land wasting nor destruction within thy borders but thou shalt call thy walls salvation and thy gates praise
the sun shall be no more thy light by day neither for brightness shall the moon give light unto thee but the lord shall be unto thee an everlasting light and thy god thy glory
thy sun shall no more go down neither shall thy moon withdraw itself for the lord shall be thine everlasting light and the days of thy mourning shall be ended
thy people also shall be all righteous they shall inherit the land for ever the branch of my planting the work of my hands that i may be glorified
a little one shall become a thousand and a small one a strong nation i the lord will hasten it in his time
the spirit of the lord god is upon me because the lord hath anointed me to preach good tidings unto the meek he hath sent me to bind up the brokenhearted to proclaim liberty to the captives and the opening of the prison to them that are bound
to proclaim the acceptable year of the lord and the day of vengeance of our god to comfort all that mourn
to appoint unto them that mourn in zion to give unto them beauty for ashes the oil of joy for mourning the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness that they might be called trees of righteousness the planting of the lord that he might be glorified
and they shall build the old wastes they shall raise up the former desolations and they shall repair the waste cities the desolations of many generations
and strangers shall stand and feed your flocks and the sons of the alien shall be your plowmen and your vinedressers
but ye shall be named the priests of the lord men shall call you the ministers of our god ye shall eat the riches of the gentiles and in their glory shall ye boast yourselves
for your shame ye shall have double and for confusion they shall rejoice in their portion therefore in their land they shall possess the double everlasting joy shall be unto them
for i the lord love judgment i hate robbery for burnt offering and i will direct their work in truth and i will make an everlasting covenant with them
and their seed shall be known among the gentiles and their offspring among the people all that see them shall acknowledge them that they are the seed which the lord hath blessed
i will greatly rejoice in the lord my soul shall be joyful in my god for he hath clothed me with the garments of salvation he hath covered me with the robe of righteousness as a bridegroom decketh himself with ornaments and as a bride adorneth herself with her jewels
for as the earth bringeth forth her bud and as the garden causeth the things that are sown in it to spring forth so the lord god will cause righteousness and praise to spring forth before all the nations
for zion's sake will i not hold my peace and for jerusalem's sake i will not rest until the righteousness thereof go forth as brightness and the salvation thereof as a lamp that burneth
and the gentiles shall see thy righteousness and all kings thy glory and thou shalt be called by a new name which the mouth of the lord shall name
thou shalt also be a crown of glory in the hand of the lord and a royal diadem in the hand of thy god
thou shalt no more be termed forsaken neither shall thy land any more be termed desolate but thou shalt be called hephzibah and thy land beulah for the lord delighteth in thee and thy land shall be married
for as a young man marrieth a virgin so shall thy sons marry thee and as the bridegroom rejoiceth over the bride so shall thy god rejoice over thee
i have set watchmen upon thy walls o jerusalem which shall never hold their peace day nor night ye that make mention of the lord keep not silence
and give him no rest till he establish and till he make jerusalem a praise in the earth
the lord hath sworn by his right hand and by the arm of his strength surely i will no more give thy corn to be meat for thine enemies and the sons of the stranger shall not drink thy wine for the which thou hast laboured
but they that have gathered it shall eat it and praise the lord and they that have brought it together shall drink it in the courts of my holiness
go through go through the gates prepare ye the way of the people cast up cast up the highway gather out the stones lift up a standard for the people
behold the lord hath proclaimed unto the end of the world say ye to the daughter of zion behold thy salvation cometh behold his reward is with him and his work before him
and they shall call them the holy people the redeemed of the lord and thou shalt be called sought out a city not forsaken
who is this that cometh from edom with dyed garments from bozrah this that is glorious in his apparel travelling in the greatness of his strength i that speak in righteousness mighty to save
wherefore art thou red in thine apparel and thy garments like him that treadeth in the winefat
i have trodden the winepress alone and of the people there was none with me for i will tread them in mine anger and trample them in my fury and their blood shall be sprinkled upon my garments and i will stain all my raiment
for the day of vengeance is in mine heart and the year of my redeemed is come
and i looked and there was none to help and i wondered that there was none to uphold therefore mine own arm brought salvation unto me and my fury it upheld me
and i will tread down the people in mine anger and make them drunk in my fury and i will bring down their strength to the earth
i will mention the lovingkindnesses of the lord and the praises of the lord according to all that the lord hath bestowed on us and the great goodness toward the house of israel which he hath bestowed on them according to his mercies and according to the multitude of his lovingkindnesses
for he said surely they are my people children that will not lie so he was their saviour
in all their affliction he was afflicted and the angel of his presence saved them in his love and in his pity he redeemed them and he bare them and carried them all the days of old
but they rebelled and vexed his holy spirit therefore he was turned to be their enemy and he fought against them
then he remembered the days of old moses and his people saying where is he that brought them up out of the sea with the shepherd of his flock where is he that put his holy spirit within him
that led them by the right hand of moses with his glorious arm dividing the water before them to make himself an everlasting name
that led them through the deep as an horse in the wilderness that they should not stumble
as a beast goeth down into the valley the spirit of the lord caused him to rest so didst thou lead thy people to make thyself a glorious name
look down from heaven and behold from the habitation of thy holiness and of thy glory where is thy zeal and thy strength the sounding of thy bowels and of thy mercies toward me are they restrained
doubtless thou art our father though abraham be ignorant of us and israel acknowledge us not thou o lord art our father our redeemer thy name is from everlasting
o lord why hast thou made us to err from thy ways and hardened our heart from thy fear return for thy servants sake the tribes of thine inheritance
the people of thy holiness have possessed it but a little while our adversaries have trodden down thy sanctuary
we are thine thou never barest rule over them they were not called by thy name
oh that thou wouldest rend the heavens that thou wouldest come down that the mountains might flow down at thy presence
as when the melting fire burneth the fire causeth the waters to boil to make thy name known to thine adversaries that the nations may tremble at thy presence
when thou didst terrible things which we looked not for thou camest down the mountains flowed down at thy presence
for since the beginning of the world men have not heard nor perceived by the ear neither hath the eye seen o god beside thee what he hath prepared for him that waiteth for him
thou meetest him that rejoiceth and worketh righteousness those that remember thee in thy ways behold thou art wroth for we have sinned in those is continuance and we shall be saved
but we are all as an unclean thing and all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags and we all do fade as a leaf and our iniquities like the wind have taken us away
and there is none that calleth upon thy name that stirreth up himself to take hold of thee for thou hast hid thy face from us and hast consumed us because of our iniquities
but now o lord thou art our father we are the clay and thou our potter and we all are the work of thy hand
be not wroth very sore o lord neither remember iniquity for ever behold see we beseech thee we are all thy people
thy holy cities are a wilderness zion is a wilderness jerusalem a desolation
our holy and our beautiful house where our fathers praised thee is burned up with fire and all our pleasant things are laid waste
wilt thou refrain thyself for these things o lord wilt thou hold thy peace and afflict us very sore
i am sought of them that asked not for me i am found of them that sought me not i said behold me behold me unto a nation that was not called by my name
i have spread out my hands all the day unto a rebellious people which walketh in a way that was not good after their own thoughts
a people that provoketh me to anger continually to my face that sacrificeth in gardens and burneth incense upon altars of brick
which remain among the graves and lodge in the monuments which eat swine's flesh and broth of abominable things is in their vessels
which say stand by thyself come not near to me for i am holier than thou these are a smoke in my nose a fire that burneth all the day
behold it is written before me i will not keep silence but will recompense even recompense into their bosom
your iniquities and the iniquities of your fathers together saith the lord which have burned incense upon the mountains and blasphemed me upon the hills therefore will i measure their former work into their bosom
thus saith the lord as the new wine is found in the cluster and one saith destroy it not for a blessing is in it so will i do for my servants sakes that i may not destroy them all
and i will bring forth a seed out of jacob and out of judah an inheritor of my mountains and mine elect shall inherit it and my servants shall dwell there
and sharon shall be a fold of flocks and the valley of achor a place for the herds to lie down in for my people that have sought me
but ye are they that forsake the lord that forget my holy mountain that prepare a table for that troop and that furnish the drink offering unto that number
therefore will i number you to the sword and ye shall all bow down to the slaughter because when i called ye did not answer when i spake ye did not hear but did evil before mine eyes and did choose that wherein i delighted not
therefore thus saith the lord god behold my servants shall eat but ye shall be hungry behold my servants shall drink but ye shall be thirsty behold my servants shall rejoice but ye shall be ashamed
behold my servants shall sing for joy of heart but ye shall cry for sorrow of heart and shall howl for vexation of spirit
and ye shall leave your name for a curse unto my chosen for the lord god shall slay thee and call his servants by another name
that he who blesseth himself in the earth shall bless himself in the god of truth and he that sweareth in the earth shall swear by the god of truth because the former troubles are forgotten and because they are hid from mine eyes
for behold i create new heavens and a new earth and the former shall not be remembered nor come into mind
but be ye glad and rejoice for ever in that which i create for behold i create jerusalem a rejoicing and her people a joy
and i will rejoice in jerusalem and joy in my people and the voice of weeping shall be no more heard in her nor the voice of crying
there shall be no more thence an infant of days nor an old man that hath not filled his days for the child shall die an hundred years old but the sinner being an hundred years old shall be accursed
and they shall build houses and inhabit them and they shall plant vineyards and eat the fruit of them
they shall not build and another inhabit they shall not plant and another eat for as the days of a tree are the days of my people and mine elect shall long enjoy the work of their hands
they shall not labour in vain nor bring forth for trouble for they are the seed of the blessed of the lord and their offspring with them
and it shall come to pass that before they call i will answer and while they are yet speaking i will hear
the wolf and the lamb shall feed together and the lion shall eat straw like the bullock and dust shall be the serpent's meat they shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain saith the lord
thus saith the lord the heaven is my throne and the earth is my footstool where is the house that ye build unto me and where is the place of my rest
for all those things hath mine hand made and all those things have been saith the lord but to this man will i look even to him that is poor and of a contrite spirit and trembleth at my word
he that killeth an ox is as if he slew a man he that sacrificeth a lamb as if he cut off a dog's neck he that offereth an oblation as if he offered swine's blood he that burneth incense as if he blessed an idol yea they have chosen their own ways and their soul delighteth in their abominations
i also will choose their delusions and will bring their fears upon them because when i called none did answer when i spake they did not hear but they did evil before mine eyes and chose that in which i delighted not
hear the word of the lord ye that tremble at his word your brethren that hated you that cast you out for my name's sake said let the lord be glorified but he shall appear to your joy and they shall be ashamed
a voice of noise from the city a voice from the temple a voice of the lord that rendereth recompence to his enemies
before she travailed she brought forth before her pain came she was delivered of a man child
who hath heard such a thing who hath seen such things shall the earth be made to bring forth in one day or shall a nation be born at once for as soon as zion travailed she brought forth her children
shall i bring to the birth and not cause to bring forth saith the lord shall i cause to bring forth and shut the womb saith thy god
rejoice ye with jerusalem and be glad with her all ye that love her rejoice for joy with her all ye that mourn for her
that ye may suck and be satisfied with the breasts of her consolations that ye may milk out and be delighted with the abundance of her glory
for thus saith the lord behold i will extend peace to her like a river and the glory of the gentiles like a flowing stream then shall ye suck ye shall be borne upon her sides and be dandled upon her knees
as one whom his mother comforteth so will i comfort you and ye shall be comforted in jerusalem
and when ye see this your heart shall rejoice and your bones shall flourish like an herb and the hand of the lord shall be known toward his servants and his indignation toward his enemies
for behold the lord will come with fire and with his chariots like a whirlwind to render his anger with fury and his rebuke with flames of fire
for by fire and by his sword will the lord plead with all flesh and the slain of the lord shall be many
they that sanctify themselves and purify themselves in the gardens behind one tree in the midst eating swine's flesh and the abomination and the mouse shall be consumed together saith the lord
for i know their works and their thoughts it shall come that i will gather all nations and tongues and they shall come and see my glory
and i will set a sign among them and i will send those that escape of them unto the nations to tarshish pul and lud that draw the bow to tubal and javan to the isles afar off that have not heard my fame neither have seen my glory and they shall declare my glory among the gentiles
and they shall bring all your brethren for an offering unto the lord out of all nations upon horses and in chariots and in litters and upon mules and upon swift beasts to my holy mountain jerusalem saith the lord as the children of israel bring an offering in a clean vessel into the house of the lord
and i will also take of them for priests and for levites saith the lord
for as the new heavens and the new earth which i will make shall remain before me saith the lord so shall your seed and your name remain
and it shall come to pass that from one new moon to another and from one sabbath to another shall all flesh come to worship before me saith the lord
and they shall go forth and look upon the carcases of the men that have transgressed against me for their worm shall not die neither shall their fire be quenched and they shall be an abhorring unto all flesh
the words of jeremiah the son of hilkiah of the priests that were in anathoth in the land of benjamin
to whom the word of the lord came in the days of josiah the son of amon king of judah in the thirteenth year of his reign
it came also in the days of jehoiakim the son of josiah king of judah unto the end of the eleventh year of zedekiah the son of josiah king of judah unto the carrying away of jerusalem captive in the fifth month
then the word of the lord came unto me saying
before i formed thee in the belly i knew thee and before thou camest forth out of the womb i sanctified thee and i ordained thee a prophet unto the nations
then said i ah lord god behold i cannot speak for i am a child
but the lord said unto me say not i am a child for thou shalt go to all that i shall send thee and whatsoever i command thee thou shalt speak
be not afraid of their faces for i am with thee to deliver thee saith the lord
then the lord put forth his hand and touched my mouth and the lord said unto me behold i have put my words in thy mouth
see i have this day set thee over the nations and over the kingdoms to root out and to pull down and to destroy and to throw down to build and to plant
moreover the word of the lord came unto me saying jeremiah what seest thou and i said i see a rod of an almond tree
then said the lord unto me thou hast well seen for i will hasten my word to perform it
and the word of the lord came unto me the second time saying what seest thou and i said i see a seething pot and the face thereof is toward the north
then the lord said unto me out of the north an evil shall break forth upon all the inhabitants of the land
for lo i will call all the families of the kingdoms of the north saith the lord and they shall come and they shall set every one his throne at the entering of the gates of jerusalem and against all the walls thereof round about and against all the cities of judah
and i will utter my judgments against them touching all their wickedness who have forsaken me and have burned incense unto other gods and worshipped the works of their own hands
thou therefore gird up thy loins and arise and speak unto them all that i command thee be not dismayed at their faces lest i confound thee before them
for behold i have made thee this day a defenced city and an iron pillar and brasen walls against the whole land against the kings of judah against the princes thereof against the priests thereof and against the people of the land
and they shall fight against thee but they shall not prevail against thee for i am with thee saith the lord to deliver thee
moreover the word of the lord came to me saying
go and cry in the ears of jerusalem saying thus saith the lord i remember thee the kindness of thy youth the love of thine espousals when thou wentest after me in the wilderness in a land that was not sown
israel was holiness unto the lord and the firstfruits of his increase all that devour him shall offend evil shall come upon them saith the lord
hear ye the word of the lord o house of jacob and all the families of the house of israel
thus saith the lord what iniquity have your fathers found in me that they are gone far from me and have walked after vanity and are become vain
neither said they where is the lord that brought us up out of the land of egypt that led us through the wilderness through a land of deserts and of pits through a land of drought and of the shadow of death through a land that no man passed through and where no man dwelt
and i brought you into a plentiful country to eat the fruit thereof and the goodness thereof but when ye entered ye defiled my land and made mine heritage an abomination
the priests said not where is the lord and they that handle the law knew me not the pastors also transgressed against me and the prophets prophesied by baal and walked after things that do not profit
wherefore i will yet plead with you saith the lord and with your children's children will i plead
for pass over the isles of chittim and see and send unto kedar and consider diligently and see if there be such a thing
hath a nation changed their gods which are yet no gods but my people have changed their glory for that which doth not profit
be astonished o ye heavens at this and be horribly afraid be ye very desolate saith the lord
for my people have committed two evils they have forsaken me the fountain of living waters and hewed them out cisterns broken cisterns that can hold no water
is israel a servant is he a homeborn slave why is he spoiled
the young lions roared upon him and yelled and they made his land waste his cities are burned without inhabitant
also the children of noph and tahapanes have broken the crown of thy head
hast thou not procured this unto thyself in that thou hast forsaken the lord thy god when he led thee by the way
and now what hast thou to do in the way of egypt to drink the waters of sihor or what hast thou to do in the way of assyria to drink the waters of the river
thine own wickedness shall correct thee and thy backslidings shall reprove thee know therefore and see that it is an evil thing and bitter that thou hast forsaken the lord thy god and that my fear is not in thee saith the lord god of hosts
for of old time i have broken thy yoke and burst thy bands and thou saidst i will not transgress when upon every high hill and under every green tree thou wanderest playing the harlot
yet i had planted thee a noble vine wholly a right seed how then art thou turned into the degenerate plant of a strange vine unto me
for though thou wash thee with nitre and take thee much soap yet thine iniquity is marked before me saith the lord god
how canst thou say i am not polluted i have not gone after baalim see thy way in the valley know what thou hast done thou art a swift dromedary traversing her ways
a wild ass used to the wilderness that snuffeth up the wind at her pleasure in her occasion who can turn her away all they that seek her will not weary themselves in her month they shall find her
withhold thy foot from being unshod and thy throat from thirst but thou saidst there is no hope no for i have loved strangers and after them will i go
as the thief is ashamed when he is found so is the house of israel ashamed they their kings their princes and their priests and their prophets
saying to a stock thou art my father and to a stone thou hast brought me forth for they have turned their back unto me and not their face but in the time of their trouble they will say arise and save us
but where are thy gods that thou hast made thee let them arise if they can save thee in the time of thy trouble for according to the number of thy cities are thy gods o judah
wherefore will ye plead with me ye all have transgressed against me saith the lord
in vain have i smitten your children they received no correction your own sword hath devoured your prophets like a destroying lion
o generation see ye the word of the lord have i been a wilderness unto israel a land of darkness wherefore say my people we are lords we will come no more unto thee
can a maid forget her ornaments or a bride her attire yet my people have forgotten me days without number
why trimmest thou thy way to seek love therefore hast thou also taught the wicked ones thy ways
also in thy skirts is found the blood of the souls of the poor innocents i have not found it by secret search but upon all these
yet thou sayest because i am innocent surely his anger shall turn from me behold i will plead with thee because thou sayest i have not sinned
why gaddest thou about so much to change thy way thou also shalt be ashamed of egypt as thou wast ashamed of assyria
yea thou shalt go forth from him and thine hands upon thine head for the lord hath rejected thy confidences and thou shalt not prosper in them
they say if a man put away his wife and she go from him and become another man's shall he return unto her again shall not that land be greatly polluted but thou hast played the harlot with many lovers yet return again to me saith the lord
lift up thine eyes unto the high places and see where thou hast not been lien with in the ways hast thou sat for them as the arabian in the wilderness and thou hast polluted the land with thy whoredoms and with thy wickedness
therefore the showers have been withholden and there hath been no latter rain and thou hadst a whore's forehead thou refusedst to be ashamed
wilt thou not from this time cry unto me my father thou art the guide of my youth
will he reserve his anger for ever will he keep it to the end behold thou hast spoken and done evil things as thou couldest
the lord said also unto me in the days of josiah the king hast thou seen that which backsliding israel hath done she is gone up upon every high mountain and under every green tree and there hath played the harlot
and i said after she had done all these things turn thou unto me but she returned not and her treacherous sister judah saw it
and i saw when for all the causes whereby backsliding israel committed adultery i had put her away and given her a bill of divorce yet her treacherous sister judah feared not but went and played the harlot also
and it came to pass through the lightness of her whoredom that she defiled the land and committed adultery with stones and with stocks
and yet for all this her treacherous sister judah hath not turned unto me with her whole heart but feignedly saith the lord
and the lord said unto me the backsliding israel hath justified herself more than treacherous judah
go and proclaim these words toward the north and say return thou backsliding israel saith the lord and i will not cause mine anger to fall upon you for i am merciful saith the lord and i will not keep anger for ever
only acknowledge thine iniquity that thou hast transgressed against the lord thy god and hast scattered thy ways to the strangers under every green tree and ye have not obeyed my voice saith the lord
turn o backsliding children saith the lord for i am married unto you and i will take you one of a city and two of a family and i will bring you to zion
and i will give you pastors according to mine heart which shall feed you with knowledge and understanding
and it shall come to pass when ye be multiplied and increased in the land in those days saith the lord they shall say no more the ark of the covenant of the lord neither shall it come to mind neither shall they remember it neither shall they visit it neither shall that be done any more
at that time they shall call jerusalem the throne of the lord and all the nations shall be gathered unto it to the name of the lord to jerusalem neither shall they walk any more after the imagination of their evil heart
in those days the house of judah shall walk with the house of israel and they shall come together out of the land of the north to the land that i have given for an inheritance unto your fathers
but i said how shall i put thee among the children and give thee a pleasant land a goodly heritage of the hosts of nations and i said thou shalt call me my father and shalt not turn away from me
surely as a wife treacherously departeth from her husband so have ye dealt treacherously with me o house of israel saith the lord
a voice was heard upon the high places weeping and supplications of the children of israel for they have perverted their way and they have forgotten the lord their god
return ye backsliding children and i will heal your backslidings behold we come unto thee for thou art the lord our god
truly in vain is salvation hoped for from the hills and from the multitude of mountains truly in the lord our god is the salvation of israel
for shame hath devoured the labour of our fathers from our youth their flocks and their herds their sons and their daughters
we lie down in our shame and our confusion covereth us for we have sinned against the lord our god we and our fathers from our youth even unto this day and have not obeyed the voice of the lord our god
if thou wilt return o israel saith the lord return unto me and if thou wilt put away thine abominations out of my sight then shalt thou not remove
and thou shalt swear the lord liveth in truth in judgment and in righteousness and the nations shall bless themselves in him and in him shall they glory
for thus saith the lord to the men of judah and jerusalem break up your fallow ground and sow not among thorns
circumcise yourselves to the lord and take away the foreskins of your heart ye men of judah and inhabitants of jerusalem lest my fury come forth like fire and burn that none can quench it because of the evil of your doings
declare ye in judah and publish in jerusalem and say blow ye the trumpet in the land cry gather together and say assemble yourselves and let us go into the defenced cities
set up the standard toward zion retire stay not for i will bring evil from the north and a great destruction
the lion is come up from his thicket and the destroyer of the gentiles is on his way he is gone forth from his place to make thy land desolate and thy cities shall be laid waste without an inhabitant
for this gird you with sackcloth lament and howl for the fierce anger of the lord is not turned back from us
and it shall come to pass at that day saith the lord that the heart of the king shall perish and the heart of the princes and the priests shall be astonished and the prophets shall wonder
then said i ah lord god surely thou hast greatly deceived this people and jerusalem saying ye shall have peace whereas the sword reacheth unto the soul
at that time shall it be said to this people and to jerusalem a dry wind of the high places in the wilderness toward the daughter of my people not to fan nor to cleanse
even a full wind from those places shall come unto me now also will i give sentence against them
behold he shall come up as clouds and his chariots shall be as a whirlwind his horses are swifter than eagles woe unto us for we are spoiled
o jerusalem wash thine heart from wickedness that thou mayest be saved how long shall thy vain thoughts lodge within thee
for a voice declareth from dan and publisheth affliction from mount ephraim
make ye mention to the nations behold publish against jerusalem that watchers come from a far country and give out their voice against the cities of judah
as keepers of a field are they against her round about because she hath been rebellious against me saith the lord
thy way and thy doings have procured these things unto thee this is thy wickedness because it is bitter because it reacheth unto thine heart
my bowels my bowels i am pained at my very heart my heart maketh a noise in me i cannot hold my peace because thou hast heard o my soul the sound of the trumpet the alarm of war
destruction upon destruction is cried for the whole land is spoiled suddenly are my tents spoiled and my curtains in a moment
how long shall i see the standard and hear the sound of the trumpet
for my people is foolish they have not known me they are sottish children and they have none understanding they are wise to do evil but to do good they have no knowledge
i beheld the earth and lo it was without form and void and the heavens and they had no light
i beheld the mountains and lo they trembled and all the hills moved lightly
i beheld and lo there was no man and all the birds of the heavens were fled
i beheld and lo the fruitful place was a wilderness and all the cities thereof were broken down at the presence of the lord and by his fierce anger
for thus hath the lord said the whole land shall be desolate yet will i not make a full end
for this shall the earth mourn and the heavens above be black because i have spoken it i have purposed it and will not repent neither will i turn back from it
the whole city shall flee for the noise of the horsemen and bowmen they shall go into thickets and climb up upon the rocks every city shall be forsaken and not a man dwell therein
and when thou art spoiled what wilt thou do though thou clothest thyself with crimson though thou deckest thee with ornaments of gold though thou rentest thy face with painting in vain shalt thou make thyself fair thy lovers will despise thee they will seek thy life
for i have heard a voice as of a woman in travail and the anguish as of her that bringeth forth her first child the voice of the daughter of zion that bewaileth herself that spreadeth her hands saying woe is me now for my soul is wearied because of murderers
run ye to and fro through the streets of jerusalem and see now and know and seek in the broad places thereof if ye can find a man if there be any that executeth judgment that seeketh the truth and i will pardon it
and though they say the lord liveth surely they swear falsely
o lord are not thine eyes upon the truth thou hast stricken them but they have not grieved thou hast consumed them but they have refused to receive correction they have made their faces harder than a rock they have refused to return
therefore i said surely these are poor they are foolish for they know not the way of the lord nor the judgment of their god
i will get me unto the great men and will speak unto them for they have known the way of the lord and the judgment of their god but these have altogether broken the yoke and burst the bonds
wherefore a lion out of the forest shall slay them and a wolf of the evenings shall spoil them a leopard shall watch over their cities every one that goeth out thence shall be torn in pieces because their transgressions are many and their backslidings are increased
how shall i pardon thee for this thy children have forsaken me and sworn by them that are no gods when i had fed them to the full they then committed adultery and assembled themselves by troops in the harlots houses
they were as fed horses in the morning every one neighed after his neighbour's wife
shall i not visit for these things saith the lord and shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this
go ye up upon her walls and destroy but make not a full end take away her battlements for they are not the lord's
for the house of israel and the house of judah have dealt very treacherously against me saith the lord
they have belied the lord and said it is not he neither shall evil come upon us neither shall we see sword nor famine
and the prophets shall become wind and the word is not in them thus shall it be done unto them
wherefore thus saith the lord god of hosts because ye speak this word behold i will make my words in thy mouth fire and this people wood and it shall devour them
lo i will bring a nation upon you from far o house of israel saith the lord it is a mighty nation it is an ancient nation a nation whose language thou knowest not neither understandest what they say
their quiver is as an open sepulchre they are all mighty men
and they shall eat up thine harvest and thy bread which thy sons and thy daughters should eat they shall eat up thy flocks and thine herds they shall eat up thy vines and thy fig trees they shall impoverish thy fenced cities wherein thou trustedst with the sword
nevertheless in those days saith the lord i will not make a full end with you
and it shall come to pass when ye shall say wherefore doeth the lord our god all these things unto us then shalt thou answer them like as ye have forsaken me and served strange gods in your land so shall ye serve strangers in a land that is not yours
declare this in the house of jacob and publish it in judah saying
hear now this o foolish people and without understanding which have eyes and see not which have ears and hear not
fear ye not me saith the lord will ye not tremble at my presence which have placed the sand for the bound of the sea by a perpetual decree that it cannot pass it and though the waves thereof toss themselves yet can they not prevail though they roar yet can they not pass over it
but this people hath a revolting and a rebellious heart they are revolted and gone
neither say they in their heart let us now fear the lord our god that giveth rain both the former and the latter in his season he reserveth unto us the appointed weeks of the harvest
your iniquities have turned away these things and your sins have withholden good things from you
for among my people are found wicked men they lay wait as he that setteth snares they set a trap they catch men
as a cage is full of birds so are their houses full of deceit therefore they are become great and waxen rich
they are waxen fat they shine yea they overpass the deeds of the wicked they judge not the cause the cause of the fatherless yet they prosper and the right of the needy do they not judge
shall i not visit for these things saith the lord shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this
a wonderful and horrible thing is committed in the land
the prophets prophesy falsely and the priests bear rule by their means and my people love to have it so and what will ye do in the end thereof
o ye children of benjamin gather yourselves to flee out of the midst of jerusalem and blow the trumpet in tekoa and set up a sign of fire in bethhaccerem for evil appeareth out of the north and great destruction
i have likened the daughter of zion to a comely and delicate woman
the shepherds with their flocks shall come unto her they shall pitch their tents against her round about they shall feed every one in his place
prepare ye war against her arise and let us go up at noon woe unto us for the day goeth away for the shadows of the evening are stretched out
arise and let us go by night and let us destroy her palaces
for thus hath the lord of hosts said hew ye down trees and cast a mount against jerusalem this is the city to be visited she is wholly oppression in the midst of her
as a fountain casteth out her waters so she casteth out her wickedness violence and spoil is heard in her before me continually is grief and wounds
be thou instructed o jerusalem lest my soul depart from thee lest i make thee desolate a land not inhabited
thus saith the lord of hosts they shall throughly glean the remnant of israel as a vine turn back thine hand as a grapegatherer into the baskets
to whom shall i speak and give warning that they may hear behold their ear is uncircumcised and they cannot hearken behold the word of the lord is unto them a reproach they have no delight in it
therefore i am full of the fury of the lord i am weary with holding in i will pour it out upon the children abroad and upon the assembly of young men together for even the husband with the wife shall be taken the aged with him that is full of days
and their houses shall be turned unto others with their fields and wives together for i will stretch out my hand upon the inhabitants of the land saith the lord
for from the least of them even unto the greatest of them every one is given to covetousness and from the prophet even unto the priest every one dealeth falsely
they have healed also the hurt of the daughter of my people slightly saying peace peace when there is no peace
were they ashamed when they had committed abomination nay they were not at all ashamed neither could they blush therefore they shall fall among them that fall at the time that i visit them they shall be cast down saith the lord
thus saith the lord stand ye in the ways and see and ask for the old paths where is the good way and walk therein and ye shall find rest for your souls but they said we will not walk therein
also i set watchmen over you saying hearken to the sound of the trumpet but they said we will not hearken
therefore hear ye nations and know o congregation what is among them
hear o earth behold i will bring evil upon this people even the fruit of their thoughts because they have not hearkened unto my words nor to my law but rejected it
to what purpose cometh there to me incense from sheba and the sweet cane from a far country your burnt offerings are not acceptable nor your sacrifices sweet unto me
therefore thus saith the lord behold i will lay stumblingblocks before this people and the fathers and the sons together shall fall upon them the neighbour and his friend shall perish
thus saith the lord behold a people cometh from the north country and a great nation shall be raised from the sides of the earth
they shall lay hold on bow and spear they are cruel and have no mercy their voice roareth like the sea and they ride upon horses set in array as men for war against thee o daughter of zion
we have heard the fame thereof our hands wax feeble anguish hath taken hold of us and pain as of a woman in travail
go not forth into the field nor walk by the way for the sword of the enemy and fear is on every side
o daughter of my people gird thee with sackcloth and wallow thyself in ashes make thee mourning as for an only son most bitter lamentation for the spoiler shall suddenly come upon us
i have set thee for a tower and a fortress among my people that thou mayest know and try their way
they are all grievous revolters walking with slanders they are brass and iron they are all corrupters
the bellows are burned the lead is consumed of the fire the founder melteth in vain for the wicked are not plucked away
reprobate silver shall men call them because the lord hath rejected them
the word that came to jeremiah from the lord saying
stand in the gate of the lord's house and proclaim there this word and say hear the word of the lord all ye of judah that enter in at these gates to worship the lord
thus saith the lord of hosts the god of israel amend your ways and your doings and i will cause you to dwell in this place
trust ye not in lying words saying the temple of the lord the temple of the lord the temple of the lord are these
for if ye throughly amend your ways and your doings if ye throughly execute judgment between a man and his neighbour
if ye oppress not the stranger the fatherless and the widow and shed not innocent blood in this place neither walk after other gods to your hurt
then will i cause you to dwell in this place in the land that i gave to your fathers for ever and ever
behold ye trust in lying words that cannot profit
will ye steal murder and commit adultery and swear falsely and burn incense unto baal and walk after other gods whom ye know not
and come and stand before me in this house which is called by my name and say we are delivered to do all these abominations
is this house which is called by my name become a den of robbers in your eyes behold even i have seen it saith the lord
but go ye now unto my place which was in shiloh where i set my name at the first and see what i did to it for the wickedness of my people israel
and now because ye have done all these works saith the lord and i spake unto you rising up early and speaking but ye heard not and i called you but ye answered not
therefore will i do unto this house which is called by my name wherein ye trust and unto the place which i gave to you and to your fathers as i have done to shiloh
and i will cast you out of my sight as i have cast out all your brethren even the whole seed of ephraim
therefore pray not thou for this people neither lift up cry nor prayer for them neither make intercession to me for i will not hear thee
seest thou not what they do in the cities of judah and in the streets of jerusalem
the children gather wood and the fathers kindle the fire and the women knead their dough to make cakes to the queen of heaven and to pour out drink offerings unto other gods that they may provoke me to anger
do they provoke me to anger saith the lord do they not provoke themselves to the confusion of their own faces
therefore thus saith the lord god behold mine anger and my fury shall be poured out upon this place upon man and upon beast and upon the trees of the field and upon the fruit of the ground and it shall burn and shall not be quenched
thus saith the lord of hosts the god of israel put your burnt offerings unto your sacrifices and eat flesh
for i spake not unto your fathers nor commanded them in the day that i brought them out of the land of egypt concerning burnt offerings or sacrifices
but this thing commanded i them saying obey my voice and i will be your god and ye shall be my people and walk ye in all the ways that i have commanded you that it may be well unto you
but they hearkened not nor inclined their ear but walked in the counsels and in the imagination of their evil heart and went backward and not forward
since the day that your fathers came forth out of the land of egypt unto this day i have even sent unto you all my servants the prophets daily rising up early and sending them
yet they hearkened not unto me nor inclined their ear but hardened their neck they did worse than their fathers
therefore thou shalt speak all these words unto them but they will not hearken to thee thou shalt also call unto them but they will not answer thee
but thou shalt say unto them this is a nation that obeyeth not the voice of the lord their god nor receiveth correction truth is perished and is cut off from their mouth
cut off thine hair o jerusalem and cast it away and take up a lamentation on high places for the lord hath rejected and forsaken the generation of his wrath
for the children of judah have done evil in my sight saith the lord they have set their abominations in the house which is called by my name to pollute it
and they have built the high places of tophet which is in the valley of the son of hinnom to burn their sons and their daughters in the fire which i commanded them not neither came it into my heart
therefore behold the days come saith the lord that it shall no more be called tophet nor the valley of the son of hinnom but the valley of slaughter for they shall bury in tophet till there be no place
and the carcases of this people shall be meat for the fowls of the heaven and for the beasts of the earth and none shall fray them away
then will i cause to cease from the cities of judah and from the streets of jerusalem the voice of mirth and the voice of gladness the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride for the land shall be desolate
at that time saith the lord they shall bring out the bones of the kings of judah and the bones of his princes and the bones of the priests and the bones of the prophets and the bones of the inhabitants of jerusalem out of their graves
and they shall spread them before the sun and the moon and all the host of heaven whom they have loved and whom they have served and after whom they have walked and whom they have sought and whom they have worshipped they shall not be gathered nor be buried they shall be for dung upon the face of the earth
and death shall be chosen rather than life by all the residue of them that remain of this evil family which remain in all the places whither i have driven them saith the lord of hosts
moreover thou shalt say unto them thus saith the lord shall they fall and not arise shall he turn away and not return
why then is this people of jerusalem slidden back by a perpetual backsliding they hold fast deceit they refuse to return
i hearkened and heard but they spake not aright no man repented him of his wickedness saying what have i done every one turned to his course as the horse rusheth into the battle
yea the stork in the heaven knoweth her appointed times and the turtle and the crane and the swallow observe the time of their coming but my people know not the judgment of the lord
how do ye say we are wise and the law of the lord is with us lo certainly in vain made he it the pen of the scribes is in vain
the wise men are ashamed they are dismayed and taken lo they have rejected the word of the lord and what wisdom is in them
therefore will i give their wives unto others and their fields to them that shall inherit them for every one from the least even unto the greatest is given to covetousness from the prophet even unto the priest every one dealeth falsely
for they have healed the hurt of the daughter of my people slightly saying peace peace when there is no peace
were they ashamed when they had committed abomination nay they were not at all ashamed neither could they blush therefore shall they fall among them that fall in the time of their visitation they shall be cast down saith the lord
i will surely consume them saith the lord there shall be no grapes on the vine nor figs on the fig tree and the leaf shall fade and the things that i have given them shall pass away from them
why do we sit still assemble yourselves and let us enter into the defenced cities and let us be silent there for the lord our god hath put us to silence and given us water of gall to drink because we have sinned against the lord
we looked for peace but no good came and for a time of health and behold trouble
the snorting of his horses was heard from dan the whole land trembled at the sound of the neighing of his strong ones for they are come and have devoured the land and all that is in it the city and those that dwell therein
for behold i will send serpents cockatrices among you which will not be charmed and they shall bite you saith the lord
when i would comfort myself against sorrow my heart is faint in me
behold the voice of the cry of the daughter of my people because of them that dwell in a far country is not the lord in zion is not her king in her why have they provoked me to anger with their graven images and with strange vanities
the harvest is past the summer is ended and we are not saved
for the hurt of the daughter of my people am i hurt i am black astonishment hath taken hold on me
is there no balm in gilead is there no physician there why then is not the health of the daughter of my people recovered
oh that my head were waters and mine eyes a fountain of tears that i might weep day and night for the slain of the daughter of my people
oh that i had in the wilderness a lodging place of wayfaring men that i might leave my people and go from them for they be all adulterers an assembly of treacherous men
and they bend their tongues like their bow for lies but they are not valiant for the truth upon the earth for they proceed from evil to evil and they know not me saith the lord
take ye heed every one of his neighbour and trust ye not in any brother for every brother will utterly supplant and every neighbour will walk with slanders
and they will deceive every one his neighbour and will not speak the truth they have taught their tongue to speak lies and weary themselves to commit iniquity
thine habitation is in the midst of deceit through deceit they refuse to know me saith the lord
therefore thus saith the lord of hosts behold i will melt them and try them for how shall i do for the daughter of my people
their tongue is as an arrow shot out it speaketh deceit one speaketh peaceably to his neighbour with his mouth but in heart he layeth his wait
shall i not visit them for these things saith the lord shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this
for the mountains will i take up a weeping and wailing and for the habitations of the wilderness a lamentation because they are burned up so that none can pass through them neither can men hear the voice of the cattle both the fowl of the heavens and the beast are fled they are gone
and i will make jerusalem heaps and a den of dragons and i will make the cities of judah desolate without an inhabitant
who is the wise man that may understand this and who is he to whom the mouth of the lord hath spoken that he may declare it for what the land perisheth and is burned up like a wilderness that none passeth through
and the lord saith because they have forsaken my law which i set before them and have not obeyed my voice neither walked therein
but have walked after the imagination of their own heart and after baalim which their fathers taught them
therefore thus saith the lord of hosts the god of israel behold i will feed them even this people with wormwood and give them water of gall to drink
i will scatter them also among the heathen whom neither they nor their fathers have known and i will send a sword after them till i have consumed them
thus saith the lord of hosts consider ye and call for the mourning women that they may come and send for cunning women that they may come
and let them make haste and take up a wailing for us that our eyes may run down with tears and our eyelids gush out with waters
for a voice of wailing is heard out of zion how are we spoiled we are greatly confounded because we have forsaken the land because our dwellings have cast us out
yet hear the word of the lord o ye women and let your ear receive the word of his mouth and teach your daughters wailing and every one her neighbour lamentation
for death is come up into our windows and is entered into our palaces to cut off the children from without and the young men from the streets
speak thus saith the lord even the carcases of men shall fall as dung upon the open field and as the handful after the harvestman and none shall gather them
thus saith the lord let not the wise man glory in his wisdom neither let the mighty man glory in his might let not the rich man glory in his riches
but let him that glorieth glory in this that he understandeth and knoweth me that i am the lord which exercise lovingkindness judgment and righteousness in the earth for in these things i delight saith the lord
behold the days come saith the lord that i will punish all them which are circumcised with the uncircumcised
egypt and judah and edom and the children of ammon and moab and all that are in the utmost corners that dwell in the wilderness for all these nations are uncircumcised and all the house of israel are uncircumcised in the heart
hear ye the word which the lord speaketh unto you o house of israel
thus saith the lord learn not the way of the heathen and be not dismayed at the signs of heaven for the heathen are dismayed at them
for the customs of the people are vain for one cutteth a tree out of the forest the work of the hands of the workman with the axe
they deck it with silver and with gold they fasten it with nails and with hammers that it move not
they are upright as the palm tree but speak not they must needs be borne because they cannot go be not afraid of them for they cannot do evil neither also is it in them to do good
forasmuch as there is none like unto thee o lord thou art great and thy name is great in might
who would not fear thee o king of nations for to thee doth it appertain forasmuch as among all the wise men of the nations and in all their kingdoms there is none like unto thee
but they are altogether brutish and foolish the stock is a doctrine of vanities
silver spread into plates is brought from tarshish and gold from uphaz the work of the workman and of the hands of the founder blue and purple is their clothing they are all the work of cunning men
but the lord is the true god he is the living god and an everlasting king at his wrath the earth shall tremble and the nations shall not be able to abide his indignation
thus shall ye say unto them the gods that have not made the heavens and the earth even they shall perish from the earth and from under these heavens
he hath made the earth by his power he hath established the world by his wisdom and hath stretched out the heavens by his discretion
when he uttereth his voice there is a multitude of waters in the heavens and he causeth the vapours to ascend from the ends of the earth he maketh lightnings with rain and bringeth forth the wind out of his treasures
every man is brutish in his knowledge every founder is confounded by the graven image for his molten image is falsehood and there is no breath in them
they are vanity and the work of errors in the time of their visitation they shall perish
the portion of jacob is not like them for he is the former of all things and israel is the rod of his inheritance the lord of hosts is his name
gather up thy wares out of the land o inhabitant of the fortress
for thus saith the lord behold i will sling out the inhabitants of the land at this once and will distress them that they may find it so
woe is me for my hurt my wound is grievous but i said truly this is a grief and i must bear it
my tabernacle is spoiled and all my cords are broken my children are gone forth of me and they are not there is none to stretch forth my tent any more and to set up my curtains
for the pastors are become brutish and have not sought the lord therefore they shall not prosper and all their flocks shall be scattered
behold the noise of the bruit is come and a great commotion out of the north country to make the cities of judah desolate and a den of dragons
o lord i know that the way of man is not in himself it is not in man that walketh to direct his steps
o lord correct me but with judgment not in thine anger lest thou bring me to nothing
pour out thy fury upon the heathen that know thee not and upon the families that call not on thy name for they have eaten up jacob and devoured him and consumed him and have made his habitation desolate
the word that came to jeremiah from the lord saying
hear ye the words of this covenant and speak unto the men of judah and to the inhabitants of jerusalem
and say thou unto them thus saith the lord god of israel cursed be the man that obeyeth not the words of this covenant
which i commanded your fathers in the day that i brought them forth out of the land of egypt from the iron furnace saying obey my voice and do them according to all which i command you so shall ye be my people and i will be your god
that i may perform the oath which i have sworn unto your fathers to give them a land flowing with milk and honey as it is this day then answered i and said so be it o lord
then the lord said unto me proclaim all these words in the cities of judah and in the streets of jerusalem saying hear ye the words of this covenant and do them
for i earnestly protested unto your fathers in the day that i brought them up out of the land of egypt even unto this day rising early and protesting saying obey my voice
yet they obeyed not nor inclined their ear but walked every one in the imagination of their evil heart therefore i will bring upon them all the words of this covenant which i commanded them to do but they did them not
and the lord said unto me a conspiracy is found among the men of judah and among the inhabitants of jerusalem
they are turned back to the iniquities of their forefathers which refused to hear my words and they went after other gods to serve them the house of israel and the house of judah have broken my covenant which i made with their fathers
therefore thus saith the lord behold i will bring evil upon them which they shall not be able to escape and though they shall cry unto me i will not hearken unto them
then shall the cities of judah and inhabitants of jerusalem go and cry unto the gods unto whom they offer incense but they shall not save them at all in the time of their trouble
for according to the number of thy cities were thy gods o judah and according to the number of the streets of jerusalem have ye set up altars to that shameful thing even altars to burn incense unto baal
therefore pray not thou for this people neither lift up a cry or prayer for them for i will not hear them in the time that they cry unto me for their trouble
what hath my beloved to do in mine house seeing she hath wrought lewdness with many and the holy flesh is passed from thee when thou doest evil then thou rejoicest
the lord called thy name a green olive tree fair and of goodly fruit with the noise of a great tumult he hath kindled fire upon it and the branches of it are broken
for the lord of hosts that planted thee hath pronounced evil against thee for the evil of the house of israel and of the house of judah which they have done against themselves to provoke me to anger in offering incense unto baal
and the lord hath given me knowledge of it and i know it then thou shewedst me their doings
but i was like a lamb or an ox that is brought to the slaughter and i knew not that they had devised devices against me saying let us destroy the tree with the fruit thereof and let us cut him off from the land of the living that his name may be no more remembered
but o lord of hosts that judgest righteously that triest the reins and the heart let me see thy vengeance on them for unto thee have i revealed my cause
therefore thus saith the lord of the men of anathoth that seek thy life saying prophesy not in the name of the lord that thou die not by our hand
therefore thus saith the lord of hosts behold i will punish them the young men shall die by the sword their sons and their daughters shall die by famine
and there shall be no remnant of them for i will bring evil upon the men of anathoth even the year of their visitation
righteous art thou o lord when i plead with thee yet let me talk with thee of thy judgments wherefore doth the way of the wicked prosper wherefore are all they happy that deal very treacherously
thou hast planted them yea they have taken root they grow yea they bring forth fruit thou art near in their mouth and far from their reins
but thou o lord knowest me thou hast seen me and tried mine heart toward thee pull them out like sheep for the slaughter and prepare them for the day of slaughter
how long shall the land mourn and the herbs of every field wither for the wickedness of them that dwell therein the beasts are consumed and the birds because they said he shall not see our last end
if thou hast run with the footmen and they have wearied thee then how canst thou contend with horses and if in the land of peace wherein thou trustedst they wearied thee then how wilt thou do in the swelling of jordan
for even thy brethren and the house of thy father even they have dealt treacherously with thee yea they have called a multitude after thee believe them not though they speak fair words unto thee
i have forsaken mine house i have left mine heritage i have given the dearly beloved of my soul into the hand of her enemies
mine heritage is unto me as a lion in the forest it crieth out against me therefore have i hated it
mine heritage is unto me as a speckled bird the birds round about are against her come ye assemble all the beasts of the field come to devour
many pastors have destroyed my vineyard they have trodden my portion under foot they have made my pleasant portion a desolate wilderness
they have made it desolate and being desolate it mourneth unto me the whole land is made desolate because no man layeth it to heart
the spoilers are come upon all high places through the wilderness for the sword of the lord shall devour from the one end of the land even to the other end of the land no flesh shall have peace
they have sown wheat but shall reap thorns they have put themselves to pain but shall not profit and they shall be ashamed of your revenues because of the fierce anger of the lord
thus saith the lord against all mine evil neighbours that touch the inheritance which i have caused my people israel to inherit behold i will pluck them out of their land and pluck out the house of judah from among them
and it shall come to pass after that i have plucked them out i will return and have compassion on them and will bring them again every man to his heritage and every man to his land
and it shall come to pass if they will diligently learn the ways of my people to swear by my name the lord liveth as they taught my people to swear by baal then shall they be built in the midst of my people
but if they will not obey i will utterly pluck up and destroy that nation saith the lord
thus saith the lord unto me go and get thee a linen girdle and put it upon thy loins and put it not in water
so i got a girdle according to the word of the lord and put it on my loins
and the word of the lord came unto me the second time saying
take the girdle that thou hast got which is upon thy loins and arise go to euphrates and hide it there in a hole of the rock
so i went and hid it by euphrates as the lord commanded me
and it came to pass after many days that the lord said unto me arise go to euphrates and take the girdle from thence which i commanded thee to hide there
then i went to euphrates and digged and took the girdle from the place where i had hid it and behold the girdle was marred it was profitable for nothing
then the word of the lord came unto me saying
thus saith the lord after this manner will i mar the pride of judah and the great pride of jerusalem
this evil people which refuse to hear my words which walk in the imagination of their heart and walk after other gods to serve them and to worship them shall even be as this girdle which is good for nothing
for as the girdle cleaveth to the loins of a man so have i caused to cleave unto me the whole house of israel and the whole house of judah saith the lord that they might be unto me for a people and for a name and for a praise and for a glory but they would not hear
therefore thou shalt speak unto them this word thus saith the lord god of israel every bottle shall be filled with wine and they shall say unto thee do we not certainly know that every bottle shall be filled with wine
then shalt thou say unto them thus saith the lord behold i will fill all the inhabitants of this land even the kings that sit upon david's throne and the priests and the prophets and all the inhabitants of jerusalem with drunkenness
and i will dash them one against another even the fathers and the sons together saith the lord i will not pity nor spare nor have mercy but destroy them
hear ye and give ear be not proud for the lord hath spoken
give glory to the lord your god before he cause darkness and before your feet stumble upon the dark mountains and while ye look for light he turn it into the shadow of death and make it gross darkness
but if ye will not hear it my soul shall weep in secret places for your pride and mine eye shall weep sore and run down with tears because the lord's flock is carried away captive
say unto the king and to the queen humble yourselves sit down for your principalities shall come down even the crown of your glory
the cities of the south shall be shut up and none shall open them judah shall be carried away captive all of it it shall be wholly carried away captive
lift up your eyes and behold them that come from the north where is the flock that was given thee thy beautiful flock
what wilt thou say when he shall punish thee for thou hast taught them to be captains and as chief over thee shall not sorrows take thee as a woman in travail
and if thou say in thine heart wherefore come these things upon me for the greatness of thine iniquity are thy skirts discovered and thy heels made bare
can the ethiopian change his skin or the leopard his spots then may ye also do good that are accustomed to do evil
therefore will i scatter them as the stubble that passeth away by the wind of the wilderness
this is thy lot the portion of thy measures from me saith the lord because thou hast forgotten me and trusted in falsehood
therefore will i discover thy skirts upon thy face that thy shame may appear
i have seen thine adulteries and thy neighings the lewdness of thy whoredom and thine abominations on the hills in the fields woe unto thee o jerusalem wilt thou not be made clean when shall it once be
the word of the lord that came to jeremiah concerning the dearth
judah mourneth and the gates thereof languish they are black unto the ground and the cry of jerusalem is gone up
and their nobles have sent their little ones to the waters they came to the pits and found no water they returned with their vessels empty they were ashamed and confounded and covered their heads
because the ground is chapt for there was no rain in the earth the plowmen were ashamed they covered their heads
yea the hind also calved in the field and forsook it because there was no grass
and the wild asses did stand in the high places they snuffed up the wind like dragons their eyes did fail because there was no grass
o lord though our iniquities testify against us do thou it for thy name's sake for our backslidings are many we have sinned against thee
o the hope of israel the saviour thereof in time of trouble why shouldest thou be as a stranger in the land and as a wayfaring man that turneth aside to tarry for a night
why shouldest thou be as a man astonied as a mighty man that cannot save yet thou o lord art in the midst of us and we are called by thy name leave us not
thus saith the lord unto this people thus have they loved to wander they have not refrained their feet therefore the lord doth not accept them he will now remember their iniquity and visit their sins
then said the lord unto me pray not for this people for their good
when they fast i will not hear their cry and when they offer burnt offering and an oblation i will not accept them but i will consume them by the sword and by the famine and by the pestilence
then said i ah lord god behold the prophets say unto them ye shall not see the sword neither shall ye have famine but i will give you assured peace in this place
then the lord said unto me the prophets prophesy lies in my name i sent them not neither have i commanded them neither spake unto them they prophesy unto you a false vision and divination and a thing of nought and the deceit of their heart
therefore thus saith the lord concerning the prophets that prophesy in my name and i sent them not yet they say sword and famine shall not be in this land by sword and famine shall those prophets be consumed
and the people to whom they prophesy shall be cast out in the streets of jerusalem because of the famine and the sword and they shall have none to bury them them their wives nor their sons nor their daughters for i will pour their wickedness upon them
therefore thou shalt say this word unto them let mine eyes run down with tears night and day and let them not cease for the virgin daughter of my people is broken with a great breach with a very grievous blow
if i go forth into the field then behold the slain with the sword and if i enter into the city then behold them that are sick with famine yea both the prophet and the priest go about into a land that they know not
hast thou utterly rejected judah hath thy soul lothed zion why hast thou smitten us and there is no healing for us we looked for peace and there is no good and for the time of healing and behold trouble
we acknowledge o lord our wickedness and the iniquity of our fathers for we have sinned against thee
do not abhor us for thy name's sake do not disgrace the throne of thy glory remember break not thy covenant with us
are there any among the vanities of the gentiles that can cause rain or can the heavens give showers art not thou he o lord our god therefore we will wait upon thee for thou hast made all these things
then said the lord unto me though moses and samuel stood before me yet my mind could not be toward this people cast them out of my sight and let them go forth
and it shall come to pass if they say unto thee whither shall we go forth then thou shalt tell them thus saith the lord such as are for death to death and such as are for the sword to the sword and such as are for the famine to the famine and such as are for the captivity to the captivity
and i will appoint over them four kinds saith the lord the sword to slay and the dogs to tear and the fowls of the heaven and the beasts of the earth to devour and destroy
and i will cause them to be removed into all kingdoms of the earth because of manasseh the son of hezekiah king of judah for that which he did in jerusalem
for who shall have pity upon thee o jerusalem or who shall bemoan thee or who shall go aside to ask how thou doest
thou hast forsaken me saith the lord thou art gone backward therefore will i stretch out my hand against thee and destroy thee i am weary with repenting
and i will fan them with a fan in the gates of the land i will bereave them of children i will destroy my people since they return not from their ways
their widows are increased to me above the sand of the seas i have brought upon them against the mother of the young men a spoiler at noonday i have caused him to fall upon it suddenly and terrors upon the city
she that hath borne seven languisheth she hath given up the ghost her sun is gone down while it was yet day she hath been ashamed and confounded and the residue of them will i deliver to the sword before their enemies saith the lord
woe is me my mother that thou hast borne me a man of strife and a man of contention to the whole earth i have neither lent on usury nor men have lent to me on usury yet every one of them doth curse me
the lord said verily it shall be well with thy remnant verily i will cause the enemy to entreat thee well in the time of evil and in the time of affliction
shall iron break the northern iron and the steel
thy substance and thy treasures will i give to the spoil without price and that for all thy sins even in all thy borders
and i will make thee to pass with thine enemies into a land which thou knowest not for a fire is kindled in mine anger which shall burn upon you
o lord thou knowest remember me and visit me and revenge me of my persecutors take me not away in thy longsuffering know that for thy sake i have suffered rebuke
thy words were found and i did eat them and thy word was unto me the joy and rejoicing of mine heart for i am called by thy name o lord god of hosts
i sat not in the assembly of the mockers nor rejoiced i sat alone because of thy hand for thou hast filled me with indignation
why is my pain perpetual and my wound incurable which refuseth to be healed wilt thou be altogether unto me as a liar and as waters that fail
therefore thus saith the lord if thou return then will i bring thee again and thou shalt stand before me and if thou take forth the precious from the vile thou shalt be as my mouth let them return unto thee but return not thou unto them
and i will make thee unto this people a fenced brasen wall and they shall fight against thee but they shall not prevail against thee for i am with thee to save thee and to deliver thee saith the lord
and i will deliver thee out of the hand of the wicked and i will redeem thee out of the hand of the terrible
the word of the lord came also unto me saying
thou shalt not take thee a wife neither shalt thou have sons or daughters in this place
for thus saith the lord concerning the sons and concerning the daughters that are born in this place and concerning their mothers that bare them and concerning their fathers that begat them in this land
they shall die of grievous deaths they shall not be lamented neither shall they be buried but they shall be as dung upon the face of the earth and they shall be consumed by the sword and by famine and their carcases shall be meat for the fowls of heaven and for the beasts of the earth
for thus saith the lord enter not into the house of mourning neither go to lament nor bemoan them for i have taken away my peace from this people saith the lord even lovingkindness and mercies
both the great and the small shall die in this land they shall not be buried neither shall men lament for them nor cut themselves nor make themselves bald for them
neither shall men tear themselves for them in mourning to comfort them for the dead neither shall men give them the cup of consolation to drink for their father or for their mother
thou shalt not also go into the house of feasting to sit with them to eat and to drink
for thus saith the lord of hosts the god of israel behold i will cause to cease out of this place in your eyes and in your days the voice of mirth and the voice of gladness the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride
and it shall come to pass when thou shalt shew this people all these words and they shall say unto thee wherefore hath the lord pronounced all this great evil against us or what is our iniquity or what is our sin that we have committed against the lord our god
then shalt thou say unto them because your fathers have forsaken me saith the lord and have walked after other gods and have served them and have worshipped them and have forsaken me and have not kept my law
and ye have done worse than your fathers for behold ye walk every one after the imagination of his evil heart that they may not hearken unto me
therefore will i cast you out of this land into a land that ye know not neither ye nor your fathers and there shall ye serve other gods day and night where i will not shew you favour
therefore behold the days come saith the lord that it shall no more be said the lord liveth that brought up the children of israel out of the land of egypt
but the lord liveth that brought up the children of israel from the land of the north and from all the lands whither he had driven them and i will bring them again into their land that i gave unto their fathers
behold i will send for many fishers saith the lord and they shall fish them and after will i send for many hunters and they shall hunt them from every mountain and from every hill and out of the holes of the rocks
for mine eyes are upon all their ways they are not hid from my face neither is their iniquity hid from mine eyes
and first i will recompense their iniquity and their sin double because they have defiled my land they have filled mine inheritance with the carcases of their detestable and abominable things
o lord my strength and my fortress and my refuge in the day of affliction the gentiles shall come unto thee from the ends of the earth and shall say surely our fathers have inherited lies vanity and things wherein there is no profit
shall a man make gods unto himself and they are no gods
therefore behold i will this once cause them to know i will cause them to know mine hand and my might and they shall know that my name is the lord
the sin of judah is written with a pen of iron and with the point of a diamond it is graven upon the table of their heart and upon the horns of your altars
whilst their children remember their altars and their groves by the green trees upon the high hills
o my mountain in the field i will give thy substance and all thy treasures to the spoil and thy high places for sin throughout all thy borders
and thou even thyself shalt discontinue from thine heritage that i gave thee and i will cause thee to serve thine enemies in the land which thou knowest not for ye have kindled a fire in mine anger which shall burn for ever
thus saith the lord cursed be the man that trusteth in man and maketh flesh his arm and whose heart departeth from the lord
for he shall be like the heath in the desert and shall not see when good cometh but shall inhabit the parched places in the wilderness in a salt land and not inhabited
blessed is the man that trusteth in the lord and whose hope the lord is
for he shall be as a tree planted by the waters and that spreadeth out her roots by the river and shall not see when heat cometh but her leaf shall be green and shall not be careful in the year of drought neither shall cease from yielding fruit
the heart is deceitful above all things and desperately wicked who can know it
i the lord search the heart i try the reins even to give every man according to his ways and according to the fruit of his doings
as the partridge sitteth on eggs and hatcheth them not so he that getteth riches and not by right shall leave them in the midst of his days and at his end shall be a fool
a glorious high throne from the beginning is the place of our sanctuary
o lord the hope of israel all that forsake thee shall be ashamed and they that depart from me shall be written in the earth because they have forsaken the lord the fountain of living waters
heal me o lord and i shall be healed save me and i shall be saved for thou art my praise
behold they say unto me where is the word of the lord let it come now
as for me i have not hastened from being a pastor to follow thee neither have i desired the woeful day thou knowest that which came out of my lips was right before thee
be not a terror unto me thou art my hope in the day of evil
let them be confounded that persecute me but let not me be confounded let them be dismayed but let not me be dismayed bring upon them the day of evil and destroy them with double destruction
thus said the lord unto me go and stand in the gate of the children of the people whereby the kings of judah come in and by the which they go out and in all the gates of jerusalem
and say unto them hear ye the word of the lord ye kings of judah and all judah and all the inhabitants of jerusalem that enter in by these gates
thus saith the lord take heed to yourselves and bear no burden on the sabbath day nor bring it in by the gates of jerusalem
neither carry forth a burden out of your houses on the sabbath day neither do ye any work but hallow ye the sabbath day as i commanded your fathers
but they obeyed not neither inclined their ear but made their neck stiff that they might not hear nor receive instruction
and it shall come to pass if ye diligently hearken unto me saith the lord to bring in no burden through the gates of this city on the sabbath day but hallow the sabbath day to do no work therein
then shall there enter into the gates of this city kings and princes sitting upon the throne of david riding in chariots and on horses they and their princes the men of judah and the inhabitants of jerusalem and this city shall remain for ever
and they shall come from the cities of judah and from the places about jerusalem and from the land of benjamin and from the plain and from the mountains and from the south bringing burnt offerings and sacrifices and meat offerings and incense and bringing sacrifices of praise unto the house of the lord
but if ye will not hearken unto me to hallow the sabbath day and not to bear a burden even entering in at the gates of jerusalem on the sabbath day then will i kindle a fire in the gates thereof and it shall devour the palaces of jerusalem and it shall not be quenched
the word which came to jeremiah from the lord saying
arise and go down to the potter's house and there i will cause thee to hear my words
then i went down to the potter's house and behold he wrought a work on the wheels
and the vessel that he made of clay was marred in the hand of the potter so he made it again another vessel as seemed good to the potter to make it
then the word of the lord came to me saying
o house of israel cannot i do with you as this potter saith the lord behold as the clay is in the potter's hand so are ye in mine hand o house of israel
at what instant i shall speak concerning a nation and concerning a kingdom to pluck up and to pull down and to destroy it
if that nation against whom i have pronounced turn from their evil i will repent of the evil that i thought to do unto them
and at what instant i shall speak concerning a nation and concerning a kingdom to build and to plant it
if it do evil in my sight that it obey not my voice then i will repent of the good wherewith i said i would benefit them
now therefore go to speak to the men of judah and to the inhabitants of jerusalem saying thus saith the lord behold i frame evil against you and devise a device against you return ye now every one from his evil way and make your ways and your doings good
and they said there is no hope but we will walk after our own devices and we will every one do the imagination of his evil heart
therefore thus saith the lord ask ye now among the heathen who hath heard such things the virgin of israel hath done a very horrible thing
will a man leave the snow of lebanon which cometh from the rock of the field or shall the cold flowing waters that come from another place be forsaken
because my people hath forgotten me they have burned incense to vanity and they have caused them to stumble in their ways from the ancient paths to walk in paths in a way not cast up
to make their land desolate and a perpetual hissing every one that passeth thereby shall be astonished and wag his head
i will scatter them as with an east wind before the enemy i will shew them the back and not the face in the day of their calamity
then said they come and let us devise devices against jeremiah for the law shall not perish from the priest nor counsel from the wise nor the word from the prophet come and let us smite him with the tongue and let us not give heed to any of his words
give heed to me o lord and hearken to the voice of them that contend with me
shall evil be recompensed for good for they have digged a pit for my soul remember that i stood before thee to speak good for them and to turn away thy wrath from them
therefore deliver up their children to the famine and pour out their blood by the force of the sword and let their wives be bereaved of their children and be widows and let their men be put to death let their young men be slain by the sword in battle
let a cry be heard from their houses when thou shalt bring a troop suddenly upon them for they have digged a pit to take me and hid snares for my feet
yet lord thou knowest all their counsel against me to slay me forgive not their iniquity neither blot out their sin from thy sight but let them be overthrown before thee deal thus with them in the time of thine anger
thus saith the lord go and get a potter's earthen bottle and take of the ancients of the people and of the ancients of the priests
and go forth unto the valley of the son of hinnom which is by the entry of the east gate and proclaim there the words that i shall tell thee
and say hear ye the word of the lord o kings of judah and inhabitants of jerusalem thus saith the lord of hosts the god of israel behold i will bring evil upon this place the which whosoever heareth his ears shall tingle
because they have forsaken me and have estranged this place and have burned incense in it unto other gods whom neither they nor their fathers have known nor the kings of judah and have filled this place with the blood of innocents
they have built also the high places of baal to burn their sons with fire for burnt offerings unto baal which i commanded not nor spake it neither came it into my mind
therefore behold the days come saith the lord that this place shall no more be called tophet nor the valley of the son of hinnom but the valley of slaughter
and i will make void the counsel of judah and jerusalem in this place and i will cause them to fall by the sword before their enemies and by the hands of them that seek their lives and their carcases will i give to be meat for the fowls of the heaven and for the beasts of the earth
and i will make this city desolate and an hissing every one that passeth thereby shall be astonished and hiss because of all the plagues thereof
and i will cause them to eat the flesh of their sons and the flesh of their daughters and they shall eat every one the flesh of his friend in the siege and straitness wherewith their enemies and they that seek their lives shall straiten them
then shalt thou break the bottle in the sight of the men that go with thee
and shalt say unto them thus saith the lord of hosts even so will i break this people and this city as one breaketh a potter's vessel that cannot be made whole again and they shall bury them in tophet till there be no place to bury
thus will i do unto this place saith the lord and to the inhabitants thereof and even make this city as tophet
and the houses of jerusalem and the houses of the kings of judah shall be defiled as the place of tophet because of all the houses upon whose roofs they have burned incense unto all the host of heaven and have poured out drink offerings unto other gods
then came jeremiah from tophet whither the lord had sent him to prophesy and he stood in the court of the lord's house and said to all the people
thus saith the lord of hosts the god of israel behold i will bring upon this city and upon all her towns all the evil that i have pronounced against it because they have hardened their necks that they might not hear my words
now pashur the son of immer the priest who was also chief governor in the house of the lord heard that jeremiah prophesied these things
then pashur smote jeremiah the prophet and put him in the stocks that were in the high gate of benjamin which was by the house of the lord
and it came to pass on the morrow that pashur brought forth jeremiah out of the stocks then said jeremiah unto him the lord hath not called thy name pashur but magormissabib
for thus saith the lord behold i will make thee a terror to thyself and to all thy friends and they shall fall by the sword of their enemies and thine eyes shall behold it and i will give all judah into the hand of the king of babylon and he shall carry them captive into babylon and shall slay them with the sword
moreover i will deliver all the strength of this city and all the labours thereof and all the precious things thereof and all the treasures of the kings of judah will i give into the hand of their enemies which shall spoil them and take them and carry them to babylon
and thou pashur and all that dwell in thine house shall go into captivity and thou shalt come to babylon and there thou shalt die and shalt be buried there thou and all thy friends to whom thou hast prophesied lies
o lord thou hast deceived me and i was deceived thou art stronger than i and hast prevailed i am in derision daily every one mocketh me
for since i spake i cried out i cried violence and spoil because the word of the lord was made a reproach unto me and a derision daily
then i said i will not make mention of him nor speak any more in his name but his word was in mine heart as a burning fire shut up in my bones and i was weary with forbearing and i could not stay
for i heard the defaming of many fear on every side report say they and we will report it all my familiars watched for my halting saying peradventure he will be enticed and we shall prevail against him and we shall take our revenge on him
but the lord is with me as a mighty terrible one therefore my persecutors shall stumble and they shall not prevail they shall be greatly ashamed for they shall not prosper their everlasting confusion shall never be forgotten
but o lord of hosts that triest the righteous and seest the reins and the heart let me see thy vengeance on them for unto thee have i opened my cause
sing unto the lord praise ye the lord for he hath delivered the soul of the poor from the hand of evildoers
cursed be the day wherein i was born let not the day wherein my mother bare me be blessed
cursed be the man who brought tidings to my father saying a man child is born unto thee making him very glad
and let that man be as the cities which the lord overthrew and repented not and let him hear the cry in the morning and the shouting at noontide
because he slew me not from the womb or that my mother might have been my grave and her womb to be always great with me
wherefore came i forth out of the womb to see labour and sorrow that my days should be consumed with shame
the word which came unto jeremiah from the lord when king zedekiah sent unto him pashur the son of melchiah and zephaniah the son of maaseiah the priest saying
enquire i pray thee of the lord for us for nebuchadrezzar king of babylon maketh war against us if so be that the lord will deal with us according to all his wondrous works that he may go up from us
then said jeremiah unto them thus shall ye say to zedekiah
thus saith the lord god of israel behold i will turn back the weapons of war that are in your hands wherewith ye fight against the king of babylon and against the chaldeans which besiege you without the walls and i will assemble them into the midst of this city
and i myself will fight against you with an outstretched hand and with a strong arm even in anger and in fury and in great wrath
and i will smite the inhabitants of this city both man and beast they shall die of a great pestilence
and afterward saith the lord i will deliver zedekiah king of judah and his servants and the people and such as are left in this city from the pestilence from the sword and from the famine into the hand of nebuchadrezzar king of babylon and into the hand of their enemies and into the hand of those that seek their life and he shall smite them with the edge of the sword he shall not spare them neither have pity nor have mercy
and unto this people thou shalt say thus saith the lord behold i set before you the way of life and the way of death
he that abideth in this city shall die by the sword and by the famine and by the pestilence but he that goeth out and falleth to the chaldeans that besiege you he shall live and his life shall be unto him for a prey
for i have set my face against this city for evil and not for good saith the lord it shall be given into the hand of the king of babylon and he shall burn it with fire
and touching the house of the king of judah say hear ye the word of the lord
o house of david thus saith the lord execute judgment in the morning and deliver him that is spoiled out of the hand of the oppressor lest my fury go out like fire and burn that none can quench it because of the evil of your doings
behold i am against thee o inhabitant of the valley and rock of the plain saith the lord which say who shall come down against us or who shall enter into our habitations
but i will punish you according to the fruit of your doings saith the lord and i will kindle a fire in the forest thereof and it shall devour all things round about it
thus saith the lord go down to the house of the king of judah and speak there this word
and say hear the word of the lord o king of judah that sittest upon the throne of david thou and thy servants and thy people that enter in by these gates
thus saith the lord execute ye judgment and righteousness and deliver the spoiled out of the hand of the oppressor and do no wrong do no violence to the stranger the fatherless nor the widow neither shed innocent blood in this place
for if ye do this thing indeed then shall there enter in by the gates of this house kings sitting upon the throne of david riding in chariots and on horses he and his servants and his people
but if ye will not hear these words i swear by myself saith the lord that this house shall become a desolation
for thus saith the lord unto the king's house of judah thou art gilead unto me and the head of lebanon yet surely i will make thee a wilderness and cities which are not inhabited
and i will prepare destroyers against thee every one with his weapons and they shall cut down thy choice cedars and cast them into the fire
and many nations shall pass by this city and they shall say every man to his neighbour wherefore hath the lord done thus unto this great city
then they shall answer because they have forsaken the covenant of the lord their god and worshipped other gods and served them
weep ye not for the dead neither bemoan him but weep sore for him that goeth away for he shall return no more nor see his native country
for thus saith the lord touching shallum the son of josiah king of judah which reigned instead of josiah his father which went forth out of this place he shall not return thither any more
but he shall die in the place whither they have led him captive and shall see this land no more
woe unto him that buildeth his house by unrighteousness and his chambers by wrong that useth his neighbour's service without wages and giveth him not for his work
that saith i will build me a wide house and large chambers and cutteth him out windows and it is cieled with cedar and painted with vermilion
shalt thou reign because thou closest thyself in cedar did not thy father eat and drink and do judgment and justice and then it was well with him
he judged the cause of the poor and needy then it was well with him was not this to know me saith the lord
but thine eyes and thine heart are not but for thy covetousness and for to shed innocent blood and for oppression and for violence to do it
therefore thus saith the lord concerning jehoiakim the son of josiah king of judah they shall not lament for him saying ah my brother or ah sister they shall not lament for him saying ah lord or ah his glory
he shall be buried with the burial of an ass drawn and cast forth beyond the gates of jerusalem
go up to lebanon and cry and lift up thy voice in bashan and cry from the passages for all thy lovers are destroyed
i spake unto thee in thy prosperity but thou saidst i will not hear this hath been thy manner from thy youth that thou obeyedst not my voice
the wind shall eat up all thy pastors and thy lovers shall go into captivity surely then shalt thou be ashamed and confounded for all thy wickedness
o inhabitant of lebanon that makest thy nest in the cedars how gracious shalt thou be when pangs come upon thee the pain as of a woman in travail
as i live saith the lord though coniah the son of jehoiakim king of judah were the signet upon my right hand yet would i pluck thee thence
and i will give thee into the hand of them that seek thy life and into the hand of them whose face thou fearest even into the hand of nebuchadrezzar king of babylon and into the hand of the chaldeans
and i will cast thee out and thy mother that bare thee into another country where ye were not born and there shall ye die
but to the land whereunto they desire to return thither shall they not return
is this man coniah a despised broken idol is he a vessel wherein is no pleasure wherefore are they cast out he and his seed and are cast into a land which they know not
o earth earth earth hear the word of the lord
thus saith the lord write ye this man childless a man that shall not prosper in his days for no man of his seed shall prosper sitting upon the throne of david and ruling any more in judah
woe be unto the pastors that destroy and scatter the sheep of my pasture saith the lord
therefore thus saith the lord god of israel against the pastors that feed my people ye have scattered my flock and driven them away and have not visited them behold i will visit upon you the evil of your doings saith the lord
and i will gather the remnant of my flock out of all countries whither i have driven them and will bring them again to their folds and they shall be fruitful and increase
and i will set up shepherds over them which shall feed them and they shall fear no more nor be dismayed neither shall they be lacking saith the lord
behold the days come saith the lord that i will raise unto david a righteous branch and a king shall reign and prosper and shall execute judgment and justice in the earth
in his days judah shall be saved and israel shall dwell safely and this is his name whereby he shall be called the lord our righteousness
therefore behold the days come saith the lord that they shall no more say the lord liveth which brought up the children of israel out of the land of egypt
but the lord liveth which brought up and which led the seed of the house of israel out of the north country and from all countries whither i had driven them and they shall dwell in their own land
mine heart within me is broken because of the prophets all my bones shake i am like a drunken man and like a man whom wine hath overcome because of the lord and because of the words of his holiness
for the land is full of adulterers for because of swearing the land mourneth the pleasant places of the wilderness are dried up and their course is evil and their force is not right
for both prophet and priest are profane yea in my house have i found their wickedness saith the lord
wherefore their way shall be unto them as slippery ways in the darkness they shall be driven on and fall therein for i will bring evil upon them even the year of their visitation saith the lord
and i have seen folly in the prophets of samaria they prophesied in baal and caused my people israel to err
i have seen also in the prophets of jerusalem an horrible thing they commit adultery and walk in lies they strengthen also the hands of evildoers that none doth return from his wickedness they are all of them unto me as sodom and the inhabitants thereof as gomorrah
therefore thus saith the lord of hosts concerning the prophets behold i will feed them with wormwood and make them drink the water of gall for from the prophets of jerusalem is profaneness gone forth into all the land
thus saith the lord of hosts hearken not unto the words of the prophets that prophesy unto you they make you vain they speak a vision of their own heart and not out of the mouth of the lord
they say still unto them that despise me the lord hath said ye shall have peace and they say unto every one that walketh after the imagination of his own heart no evil shall come upon you
for who hath stood in the counsel of the lord and hath perceived and heard his word who hath marked his word and heard it
behold a whirlwind of the lord is gone forth in fury even a grievous whirlwind it shall fall grievously upon the head of the wicked
the anger of the lord shall not return until he have executed and till he have performed the thoughts of his heart in the latter days ye shall consider it perfectly
i have not sent these prophets yet they ran i have not spoken to them yet they prophesied
but if they had stood in my counsel and had caused my people to hear my words then they should have turned them from their evil way and from the evil of their doings
am i a god at hand saith the lord and not a god afar off
can any hide himself in secret places that i shall not see him saith the lord do not i fill heaven and earth saith the lord
i have heard what the prophets said that prophesy lies in my name saying i have dreamed i have dreamed
how long shall this be in the heart of the prophets that prophesy lies yea they are prophets of the deceit of their own heart
which think to cause my people to forget my name by their dreams which they tell every man to his neighbour as their fathers have forgotten my name for baal
the prophet that hath a dream let him tell a dream and he that hath my word let him speak my word faithfully what is the chaff to the wheat saith the lord
is not my word like as a fire saith the lord and like a hammer that breaketh the rock in pieces
therefore behold i am against the prophets saith the lord that steal my words every one from his neighbour
behold i am against the prophets saith the lord that use their tongues and say he saith
behold i am against them that prophesy false dreams saith the lord and do tell them and cause my people to err by their lies and by their lightness yet i sent them not nor commanded them therefore they shall not profit this people at all saith the lord
and when this people or the prophet or a priest shall ask thee saying what is the burden of the lord thou shalt then say unto them what burden i will even forsake you saith the lord
and as for the prophet and the priest and the people that shall say the burden of the lord i will even punish that man and his house
thus shall ye say every one to his neighbour and every one to his brother what hath the lord answered and what hath the lord spoken
and the burden of the lord shall ye mention no more for every man's word shall be his burden for ye have perverted the words of the living god of the lord of hosts our god
thus shalt thou say to the prophet what hath the lord answered thee and what hath the lord spoken
but since ye say the burden of the lord therefore thus saith the lord because ye say this word the burden of the lord and i have sent unto you saying ye shall not say the burden of the lord
therefore behold i even i will utterly forget you and i will forsake you and the city that i gave you and your fathers and cast you out of my presence
and i will bring an everlasting reproach upon you and a perpetual shame which shall not be forgotten
the lord shewed me and behold two baskets of figs were set before the temple of the lord after that nebuchadrezzar king of babylon had carried away captive jeconiah the son of jehoiakim king of judah and the princes of judah with the carpenters and smiths from jerusalem and had brought them to babylon
one basket had very good figs even like the figs that are first ripe and the other basket had very naughty figs which could not be eaten they were so bad
then said the lord unto me what seest thou jeremiah and i said figs the good figs very good and the evil very evil that cannot be eaten they are so evil
again the word of the lord came unto me saying
thus saith the lord the god of israel like these good figs so will i acknowledge them that are carried away captive of judah whom i have sent out of this place into the land of the chaldeans for their good
for i will set mine eyes upon them for good and i will bring them again to this land and i will build them and not pull them down and i will plant them and not pluck them up
and i will give them an heart to know me that i am the lord and they shall be my people and i will be their god for they shall return unto me with their whole heart
and as the evil figs which cannot be eaten they are so evil surely thus saith the lord so will i give zedekiah the king of judah and his princes and the residue of jerusalem that remain in this land and them that dwell in the land of egypt
and i will deliver them to be removed into all the kingdoms of the earth for their hurt to be a reproach and a proverb a taunt and a curse in all places whither i shall drive them
and i will send the sword the famine and the pestilence among them till they be consumed from off the land that i gave unto them and to their fathers
the word that came to jeremiah concerning all the people of judah in the fourth year of jehoiakim the son of josiah king of judah that was the first year of nebuchadrezzar king of babylon
the which jeremiah the prophet spake unto all the people of judah and to all the inhabitants of jerusalem saying
from the thirteenth year of josiah the son of amon king of judah even unto this day that is the three and twentieth year the word of the lord hath come unto me and i have spoken unto you rising early and speaking but ye have not hearkened
and the lord hath sent unto you all his servants the prophets rising early and sending them but ye have not hearkened nor inclined your ear to hear
they said turn ye again now every one from his evil way and from the evil of your doings and dwell in the land that the lord hath given unto you and to your fathers for ever and ever
and go not after other gods to serve them and to worship them and provoke me not to anger with the works of your hands and i will do you no hurt
yet ye have not hearkened unto me saith the lord that ye might provoke me to anger with the works of your hands to your own hurt
therefore thus saith the lord of hosts because ye have not heard my words
behold i will send and take all the families of the north saith the lord and nebuchadrezzar the king of babylon my servant and will bring them against this land and against the inhabitants thereof and against all these nations round about and will utterly destroy them and make them an astonishment and an hissing and perpetual desolations
moreover i will take from them the voice of mirth and the voice of gladness the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride the sound of the millstones and the light of the candle
and this whole land shall be a desolation and an astonishment and these nations shall serve the king of babylon seventy years
and it shall come to pass when seventy years are accomplished that i will punish the king of babylon and that nation saith the lord for their iniquity and the land of the chaldeans and will make it perpetual desolations
and i will bring upon that land all my words which i have pronounced against it even all that is written in this book which jeremiah hath prophesied against all the nations
for many nations and great kings shall serve themselves of them also and i will recompense them according to their deeds and according to the works of their own hands
for thus saith the lord god of israel unto me take the wine cup of this fury at my hand and cause all the nations to whom i send thee to drink it
and they shall drink and be moved and be mad because of the sword that i will send among them
then took i the cup at the lord's hand and made all the nations to drink unto whom the lord had sent me
to wit jerusalem and the cities of judah and the kings thereof and the princes thereof to make them a desolation an astonishment an hissing and a curse as it is this day
pharaoh king of egypt and his servants and his princes and all his people
and all the mingled people and all the kings of the land of uz and all the kings of the land of the philistines and ashkelon and azzah and ekron and the remnant of ashdod
edom and moab and the children of ammon
and all the kings of tyrus and all the kings of zidon and the kings of the isles which are beyond the sea
dedan and tema and buz and all that are in the utmost corners
and all the kings of arabia and all the kings of the mingled people that dwell in the desert
and all the kings of zimri and all the kings of elam and all the kings of the medes
and all the kings of the north far and near one with another and all the kingdoms of the world which are upon the face of the earth and the king of sheshach shall drink after them
therefore thou shalt say unto them thus saith the lord of hosts the god of israel drink ye and be drunken and spue and fall and rise no more because of the sword which i will send among you
and it shall be if they refuse to take the cup at thine hand to drink then shalt thou say unto them thus saith the lord of hosts ye shall certainly drink
for lo i begin to bring evil on the city which is called by my name and should ye be utterly unpunished ye shall not be unpunished for i will call for a sword upon all the inhabitants of the earth saith the lord of hosts
therefore prophesy thou against them all these words and say unto them the lord shall roar from on high and utter his voice from his holy habitation he shall mightily roar upon his habitation he shall give a shout as they that tread the grapes against all the inhabitants of the earth
a noise shall come even to the ends of the earth for the lord hath a controversy with the nations he will plead with all flesh he will give them that are wicked to the sword saith the lord
thus saith the lord of hosts behold evil shall go forth from nation to nation and a great whirlwind shall be raised up from the coasts of the earth
and the slain of the lord shall be at that day from one end of the earth even unto the other end of the earth they shall not be lamented neither gathered nor buried they shall be dung upon the ground
howl ye shepherds and cry and wallow yourselves in the ashes ye principal of the flock for the days of your slaughter and of your dispersions are accomplished and ye shall fall like a pleasant vessel
and the shepherds shall have no way to flee nor the principal of the flock to escape
a voice of the cry of the shepherds and an howling of the principal of the flock shall be heard for the lord hath spoiled their pasture
and the peaceable habitations are cut down because of the fierce anger of the lord
he hath forsaken his covert as the lion for their land is desolate because of the fierceness of the oppressor and because of his fierce anger
in the beginning of the reign of jehoiakim the son of josiah king of judah came this word from the lord saying
thus saith the lord stand in the court of the lord's house and speak unto all the cities of judah which come to worship in the lord's house all the words that i command thee to speak unto them diminish not a word
if so be they will hearken and turn every man from his evil way that i may repent me of the evil which i purpose to do unto them because of the evil of their doings
and thou shalt say unto them thus saith the lord if ye will not hearken to me to walk in my law which i have set before you
to hearken to the words of my servants the prophets whom i sent unto you both rising up early and sending them but ye have not hearkened
then will i make this house like shiloh and will make this city a curse to all the nations of the earth
so the priests and the prophets and all the people heard jeremiah speaking these words in the house of the lord
now it came to pass when jeremiah had made an end of speaking all that the lord had commanded him to speak unto all the people that the priests and the prophets and all the people took him saying thou shalt surely die
why hast thou prophesied in the name of the lord saying this house shall be like shiloh and this city shall be desolate without an inhabitant and all the people were gathered against jeremiah in the house of the lord
when the princes of judah heard these things then they came up from the king's house unto the house of the lord and sat down in the entry of the new gate of the lord's house
then spake the priests and the prophets unto the princes and to all the people saying this man is worthy to die for he hath prophesied against this city as ye have heard with your ears
then spake jeremiah unto all the princes and to all the people saying the lord sent me to prophesy against this house and against this city all the words that ye have heard
therefore now amend your ways and your doings and obey the voice of the lord your god and the lord will repent him of the evil that he hath pronounced against you
as for me behold i am in your hand do with me as seemeth good and meet unto you
but know ye for certain that if ye put me to death ye shall surely bring innocent blood upon yourselves and upon this city and upon the inhabitants thereof for of a truth the lord hath sent me unto you to speak all these words in your ears
then said the princes and all the people unto the priests and to the prophets this man is not worthy to die for he hath spoken to us in the name of the lord our god
then rose up certain of the elders of the land and spake to all the assembly of the people saying
micah the morasthite prophesied in the days of hezekiah king of judah and spake to all the people of judah saying thus saith the lord of hosts zion shall be plowed like a field and jerusalem shall become heaps and the mountain of the house as the high places of a forest
did hezekiah king of judah and all judah put him at all to death did he not fear the lord and besought the lord and the lord repented him of the evil which he had pronounced against them thus might we procure great evil against our souls
and there was also a man that prophesied in the name of the lord urijah the son of shemaiah of kirjathjearim who prophesied against this city and against this land according to all the words of jeremiah
and when jehoiakim the king with all his mighty men and all the princes heard his words the king sought to put him to death but when urijah heard it he was afraid and fled and went into egypt
and jehoiakim the king sent men into egypt namely elnathan the son of achbor and certain men with him into egypt
and they fetched forth urijah out of egypt and brought him unto jehoiakim the king who slew him with the sword and cast his dead body into the graves of the common people
nevertheless the hand of ahikam the son of shaphan was with jeremiah that they should not give him into the hand of the people to put him to death
in the beginning of the reign of jehoiakim the son of josiah king of judah came this word unto jeremiah from the lord saying
thus saith the lord to me make thee bonds and yokes and put them upon thy neck
and send them to the king of edom and to the king of moab and to the king of the ammonites and to the king of tyrus and to the king of zidon by the hand of the messengers which come to jerusalem unto zedekiah king of judah
and command them to say unto their masters thus saith the lord of hosts the god of israel thus shall ye say unto your masters
i have made the earth the man and the beast that are upon the ground by my great power and by my outstretched arm and have given it unto whom it seemed meet unto me
and now have i given all these lands into the hand of nebuchadnezzar the king of babylon my servant and the beasts of the field have i given him also to serve him
and all nations shall serve him and his son and his son's son until the very time of his land come and then many nations and great kings shall serve themselves of him
and it shall come to pass that the nation and kingdom which will not serve the same nebuchadnezzar the king of babylon and that will not put their neck under the yoke of the king of babylon that nation will i punish saith the lord with the sword and with the famine and with the pestilence until i have consumed them by his hand
therefore hearken not ye to your prophets nor to your diviners nor to your dreamers nor to your enchanters nor to your sorcerers which speak unto you saying ye shall not serve the king of babylon
for they prophesy a lie unto you to remove you far from your land and that i should drive you out and ye should perish
but the nations that bring their neck under the yoke of the king of babylon and serve him those will i let remain still in their own land saith the lord and they shall till it and dwell therein
i spake also to zedekiah king of judah according to all these words saying bring your necks under the yoke of the king of babylon and serve him and his people and live
why will ye die thou and thy people by the sword by the famine and by the pestilence as the lord hath spoken against the nation that will not serve the king of babylon
therefore hearken not unto the words of the prophets that speak unto you saying ye shall not serve the king of babylon for they prophesy a lie unto you
for i have not sent them saith the lord yet they prophesy a lie in my name that i might drive you out and that ye might perish ye and the prophets that prophesy unto you
also i spake to the priests and to all this people saying thus saith the lord hearken not to the words of your prophets that prophesy unto you saying behold the vessels of the lord's house shall now shortly be brought again from babylon for they prophesy a lie unto you
hearken not unto them serve the king of babylon and live wherefore should this city be laid waste
but if they be prophets and if the word of the lord be with them let them now make intercession to the lord of hosts that the vessels which are left in the house of the lord and in the house of the king of judah and at jerusalem go not to babylon
for thus saith the lord of hosts concerning the pillars and concerning the sea and concerning the bases and concerning the residue of the vessels that remain in this city
which nebuchadnezzar king of babylon took not when he carried away captive jeconiah the son of jehoiakim king of judah from jerusalem to babylon and all the nobles of judah and jerusalem
yea thus saith the lord of hosts the god of israel concerning the vessels that remain in the house of the lord and in the house of the king of judah and of jerusalem
they shall be carried to babylon and there shall they be until the day that i visit them saith the lord then will i bring them up and restore them to this place
and it came to pass the same year in the beginning of the reign of zedekiah king of judah in the fourth year and in the fifth month that hananiah the son of azur the prophet which was of gibeon spake unto me in the house of the lord in the presence of the priests and of all the people saying
thus speaketh the lord of hosts the god of israel saying i have broken the yoke of the king of babylon
within two full years will i bring again into this place all the vessels of the lord's house that nebuchadnezzar king of babylon took away from this place and carried them to babylon
and i will bring again to this place jeconiah the son of jehoiakim king of judah with all the captives of judah that went into babylon saith the lord for i will break the yoke of the king of babylon
then the prophet jeremiah said unto the prophet hananiah in the presence of the priests and in the presence of all the people that stood in the house of the lord
even the prophet jeremiah said amen the lord do so the lord perform thy words which thou hast prophesied to bring again the vessels of the lord's house and all that is carried away captive from babylon into this place
nevertheless hear thou now this word that i speak in thine ears and in the ears of all the people
the prophets that have been before me and before thee of old prophesied both against many countries and against great kingdoms of war and of evil and of pestilence
the prophet which prophesieth of peace when the word of the prophet shall come to pass then shall the prophet be known that the lord hath truly sent him
then hananiah the prophet took the yoke from off the prophet jeremiah's neck and brake it
and hananiah spake in the presence of all the people saying thus saith the lord even so will i break the yoke of nebuchadnezzar king of babylon from the neck of all nations within the space of two full years and the prophet jeremiah went his way
then the word of the lord came unto jeremiah the prophet after that hananiah the prophet had broken the yoke from off the neck of the prophet jeremiah saying
go and tell hananiah saying thus saith the lord thou hast broken the yokes of wood but thou shalt make for them yokes of iron
for thus saith the lord of hosts the god of israel i have put a yoke of iron upon the neck of all these nations that they may serve nebuchadnezzar king of babylon and they shall serve him and i have given him the beasts of the field also
then said the prophet jeremiah unto hananiah the prophet hear now hananiah the lord hath not sent thee but thou makest this people to trust in a lie
therefore thus saith the lord behold i will cast thee from off the face of the earth this year thou shalt die because thou hast taught rebellion against the lord
so hananiah the prophet died the same year in the seventh month
now these are the words of the letter that jeremiah the prophet sent from jerusalem unto the residue of the elders which were carried away captives and to the priests and to the prophets and to all the people whom nebuchadnezzar had carried away captive from jerusalem to babylon
after that jeconiah the king and the queen and the eunuchs the princes of judah and jerusalem and the carpenters and the smiths were departed from jerusalem
by the hand of elasah the son of shaphan and gemariah the son of hilkiah whom zedekiah king of judah sent unto babylon to nebuchadnezzar king of babylon saying
thus saith the lord of hosts the god of israel unto all that are carried away captives whom i have caused to be carried away from jerusalem unto babylon
build ye houses and dwell in them and plant gardens and eat the fruit of them
take ye wives and beget sons and daughters and take wives for your sons and give your daughters to husbands that they may bear sons and daughters that ye may be increased there and not diminished
and seek the peace of the city whither i have caused you to be carried away captives and pray unto the lord for it for in the peace thereof shall ye have peace
for thus saith the lord of hosts the god of israel let not your prophets and your diviners that be in the midst of you deceive you neither hearken to your dreams which ye cause to be dreamed
for they prophesy falsely unto you in my name i have not sent them saith the lord
for thus saith the lord that after seventy years be accomplished at babylon i will visit you and perform my good word toward you in causing you to return to this place
for i know the thoughts that i think toward you saith the lord thoughts of peace and not of evil to give you an expected end
then shall ye call upon me and ye shall go and pray unto me and i will hearken unto you
and ye shall seek me and find me when ye shall search for me with all your heart
and i will be found of you saith the lord and i will turn away your captivity and i will gather you from all the nations and from all the places whither i have driven you saith the lord and i will bring you again into the place whence i caused you to be carried away captive
because ye have said the lord hath raised us up prophets in babylon
know that thus saith the lord of the king that sitteth upon the throne of david and of all the people that dwelleth in this city and of your brethren that are not gone forth with you into captivity
thus saith the lord of hosts behold i will send upon them the sword the famine and the pestilence and will make them like vile figs that cannot be eaten they are so evil
and i will persecute them with the sword with the famine and with the pestilence and will deliver them to be removed to all the kingdoms of the earth to be a curse and an astonishment and an hissing and a reproach among all the nations whither i have driven them
because they have not hearkened to my words saith the lord which i sent unto them by my servants the prophets rising up early and sending them but ye would not hear saith the lord
hear ye therefore the word of the lord all ye of the captivity whom i have sent from jerusalem to babylon
thus saith the lord of hosts the god of israel of ahab the son of kolaiah and of zedekiah the son of maaseiah which prophesy a lie unto you in my name behold i will deliver them into the hand of nebuchadrezzar king of babylon and he shall slay them before your eyes
and of them shall be taken up a curse by all the captivity of judah which are in babylon saying the lord make thee like zedekiah and like ahab whom the king of babylon roasted in the fire
because they have committed villany in israel and have committed adultery with their neighbours wives and have spoken lying words in my name which i have not commanded them even i know and am a witness saith the lord
thus shalt thou also speak to shemaiah the nehelamite saying
thus speaketh the lord of hosts the god of israel saying because thou hast sent letters in thy name unto all the people that are at jerusalem and to zephaniah the son of maaseiah the priest and to all the priests saying
the lord hath made thee priest in the stead of jehoiada the priest that ye should be officers in the house of the lord for every man that is mad and maketh himself a prophet that thou shouldest put him in prison and in the stocks
now therefore why hast thou not reproved jeremiah of anathoth which maketh himself a prophet to you
for therefore he sent unto us in babylon saying this captivity is long build ye houses and dwell in them and plant gardens and eat the fruit of them
and zephaniah the priest read this letter in the ears of jeremiah the prophet
then came the word of the lord unto jeremiah saying
send to all them of the captivity saying thus saith the lord concerning shemaiah the nehelamite because that shemaiah hath prophesied unto you and i sent him not and he caused you to trust in a lie
therefore thus saith the lord behold i will punish shemaiah the nehelamite and his seed he shall not have a man to dwell among this people neither shall he behold the good that i will do for my people saith the lord because he hath taught rebellion against the lord
the word that came to jeremiah from the lord saying
thus speaketh the lord god of israel saying write thee all the words that i have spoken unto thee in a book
for lo the days come saith the lord that i will bring again the captivity of my people israel and judah saith the lord and i will cause them to return to the land that i gave to their fathers and they shall possess it
and these are the words that the lord spake concerning israel and concerning judah
for thus saith the lord we have heard a voice of trembling of fear and not of peace
ask ye now and see whether a man doth travail with child wherefore do i see every man with his hands on his loins as a woman in travail and all faces are turned into paleness
alas for that day is great so that none is like it it is even the time of jacob's trouble but he shall be saved out of it
for it shall come to pass in that day saith the lord of hosts that i will break his yoke from off thy neck and will burst thy bonds and strangers shall no more serve themselves of him
but they shall serve the lord their god and david their king whom i will raise up unto them
therefore fear thou not o my servant jacob saith the lord neither be dismayed o israel for lo i will save thee from afar and thy seed from the land of their captivity and jacob shall return and shall be in rest and be quiet and none shall make him afraid
for i am with thee saith the lord to save thee though i make a full end of all nations whither i have scattered thee yet will i not make a full end of thee but i will correct thee in measure and will not leave thee altogether unpunished
for thus saith the lord thy bruise is incurable and thy wound is grievous
there is none to plead thy cause that thou mayest be bound up thou hast no healing medicines
all thy lovers have forgotten thee they seek thee not for i have wounded thee with the wound of an enemy with the chastisement of a cruel one for the multitude of thine iniquity because thy sins were increased
why criest thou for thine affliction thy sorrow is incurable for the multitude of thine iniquity because thy sins were increased i have done these things unto thee
therefore all they that devour thee shall be devoured and all thine adversaries every one of them shall go into captivity and they that spoil thee shall be a spoil and all that prey upon thee will i give for a prey
for i will restore health unto thee and i will heal thee of thy wounds saith the lord because they called thee an outcast saying this is zion whom no man seeketh after
thus saith the lord behold i will bring again the captivity of jacob's tents and have mercy on his dwellingplaces and the city shall be builded upon her own heap and the palace shall remain after the manner thereof
and out of them shall proceed thanksgiving and the voice of them that make merry and i will multiply them and they shall not be few i will also glorify them and they shall not be small
their children also shall be as aforetime and their congregation shall be established before me and i will punish all that oppress them
and their nobles shall be of themselves and their governor shall proceed from the midst of them and i will cause him to draw near and he shall approach unto me for who is this that engaged his heart to approach unto me saith the lord
and ye shall be my people and i will be your god
behold the whirlwind of the lord goeth forth with fury a continuing whirlwind it shall fall with pain upon the head of the wicked
the fierce anger of the lord shall not return until he have done it and until he have performed the intents of his heart in the latter days ye shall consider it
at the same time saith the lord will i be the god of all the families of israel and they shall be my people
thus saith the lord the people which were left of the sword found grace in the wilderness even israel when i went to cause him to rest
the lord hath appeared of old unto me saying yea i have loved thee with an everlasting love therefore with lovingkindness have i drawn thee
again i will build thee and thou shalt be built o virgin of israel thou shalt again be adorned with thy tabrets and shalt go forth in the dances of them that make merry
thou shalt yet plant vines upon the mountains of samaria the planters shall plant and shall eat them as common things
for there shall be a day that the watchmen upon the mount ephraim shall cry arise ye and let us go up to zion unto the lord our god
for thus saith the lord sing with gladness for jacob and shout among the chief of the nations publish ye praise ye and say o lord save thy people the remnant of israel
behold i will bring them from the north country and gather them from the coasts of the earth and with them the blind and the lame the woman with child and her that travaileth with child together a great company shall return thither
they shall come with weeping and with supplications will i lead them i will cause them to walk by the rivers of waters in a straight way wherein they shall not stumble for i am a father to israel and ephraim is my firstborn
hear the word of the lord o ye nations and declare it in the isles afar off and say he that scattered israel will gather him and keep him as a shepherd doth his flock
for the lord hath redeemed jacob and ransomed him from the hand of him that was stronger than he
therefore they shall come and sing in the height of zion and shall flow together to the goodness of the lord for wheat and for wine and for oil and for the young of the flock and of the herd and their soul shall be as a watered garden and they shall not sorrow any more at all
then shall the virgin rejoice in the dance both young men and old together for i will turn their mourning into joy and will comfort them and make them rejoice from their sorrow
and i will satiate the soul of the priests with fatness and my people shall be satisfied with my goodness saith the lord
thus saith the lord a voice was heard in ramah lamentation and bitter weeping rahel weeping for her children refused to be comforted for her children because they were not
thus saith the lord refrain thy voice from weeping and thine eyes from tears for thy work shall be rewarded saith the lord and they shall come again from the land of the enemy
and there is hope in thine end saith the lord that thy children shall come again to their own border
i have surely heard ephraim bemoaning himself thus thou hast chastised me and i was chastised as a bullock unaccustomed to the yoke turn thou me and i shall be turned for thou art the lord my god
surely after that i was turned i repented and after that i was instructed i smote upon my thigh i was ashamed yea even confounded because i did bear the reproach of my youth
is ephraim my dear son is he a pleasant child for since i spake against him i do earnestly remember him still therefore my bowels are troubled for him i will surely have mercy upon him saith the lord
set thee up waymarks make thee high heaps set thine heart toward the highway even the way which thou wentest turn again o virgin of israel turn again to these thy cities
how long wilt thou go about o thou backsliding daughter for the lord hath created a new thing in the earth a woman shall compass a man
thus saith the lord of hosts the god of israel as yet they shall use this speech in the land of judah and in the cities thereof when i shall bring again their captivity the lord bless thee o habitation of justice and mountain of holiness
and there shall dwell in judah itself and in all the cities thereof together husbandmen and they that go forth with flocks
for i have satiated the weary soul and i have replenished every sorrowful soul
upon this i awaked and beheld and my sleep was sweet unto me
behold the days come saith the lord that i will sow the house of israel and the house of judah with the seed of man and with the seed of beast
and it shall come to pass that like as i have watched over them to pluck up and to break down and to throw down and to destroy and to afflict so will i watch over them to build and to plant saith the lord
in those days they shall say no more the fathers have eaten a sour grape and the children's teeth are set on edge
but every one shall die for his own iniquity every man that eateth the sour grape his teeth shall be set on edge
behold the days come saith the lord that i will make a new covenant with the house of israel and with the house of judah
not according to the covenant that i made with their fathers in the day that i took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of egypt which my covenant they brake although i was an husband unto them saith the lord
but this shall be the covenant that i will make with the house of israel after those days saith the lord i will put my law in their inward parts and write it in their hearts and will be their god and they shall be my people
and they shall teach no more every man his neighbour and every man his brother saying know the lord for they shall all know me from the least of them unto the greatest of them saith the lord for i will forgive their iniquity and i will remember their sin no more
thus saith the lord which giveth the sun for a light by day and the ordinances of the moon and of the stars for a light by night which divideth the sea when the waves thereof roar the lord of hosts is his name
if those ordinances depart from before me saith the lord then the seed of israel also shall cease from being a nation before me for ever
thus saith the lord if heaven above can be measured and the foundations of the earth searched out beneath i will also cast off all the seed of israel for all that they have done saith the lord
behold the days come saith the lord that the city shall be built to the lord from the tower of hananeel unto the gate of the corner
and the measuring line shall yet go forth over against it upon the hill gareb and shall compass about to goath
and the whole valley of the dead bodies and of the ashes and all the fields unto the brook of kidron unto the corner of the horse gate toward the east shall be holy unto the lord it shall not be plucked up nor thrown down any more for ever
the word that came to jeremiah from the lord in the tenth year of zedekiah king of judah which was the eighteenth year of nebuchadrezzar
for then the king of babylon's army besieged jerusalem and jeremiah the prophet was shut up in the court of the prison which was in the king of judah's house
for zedekiah king of judah had shut him up saying wherefore dost thou prophesy and say thus saith the lord behold i will give this city into the hand of the king of babylon and he shall take it
and zedekiah king of judah shall not escape out of the hand of the chaldeans but shall surely be delivered into the hand of the king of babylon and shall speak with him mouth to mouth and his eyes shall behold his eyes
and he shall lead zedekiah to babylon and there shall he be until i visit him saith the lord though ye fight with the chaldeans ye shall not prosper
and jeremiah said the word of the lord came unto me saying
behold hanameel the son of shallum thine uncle shall come unto thee saying buy thee my field that is in anathoth for the right of redemption is thine to buy it
so hanameel mine uncle's son came to me in the court of the prison according to the word of the lord and said unto me buy my field i pray thee that is in anathoth which is in the country of benjamin for the right of inheritance is thine and the redemption is thine buy it for thyself then i knew that this was the word of the lord
and i bought the field of hanameel my uncle's son that was in anathoth and weighed him the money even seventeen shekels of silver
and i subscribed the evidence and sealed it and took witnesses and weighed him the money in the balances
so i took the evidence of the purchase both that which was sealed according to the law and custom and that which was open
and i gave the evidence of the purchase unto baruch the son of neriah the son of maaseiah in the sight of hanameel mine uncle's son and in the presence of the witnesses that subscribed the book of the purchase before all the jews that sat in the court of the prison
and i charged baruch before them saying
thus saith the lord of hosts the god of israel take these evidences this evidence of the purchase both which is sealed and this evidence which is open and put them in an earthen vessel that they may continue many days
for thus saith the lord of hosts the god of israel houses and fields and vineyards shall be possessed again in this land
now when i had delivered the evidence of the purchase unto baruch the son of neriah i prayed unto the lord saying
ah lord god behold thou hast made the heaven and the earth by thy great power and stretched out arm and there is nothing too hard for thee
thou shewest lovingkindness unto thousands and recompensest the iniquity of the fathers into the bosom of their children after them the great the mighty god the lord of hosts is his name
great in counsel and mighty in work for thine eyes are open upon all the ways of the sons of men to give every one according to his ways and according to the fruit of his doings
which hast set signs and wonders in the land of egypt even unto this day and in israel and among other men and hast made thee a name as at this day
and hast brought forth thy people israel out of the land of egypt with signs and with wonders and with a strong hand and with a stretched out arm and with great terror
and hast given them this land which thou didst swear to their fathers to give them a land flowing with milk and honey
and they came in and possessed it but they obeyed not thy voice neither walked in thy law they have done nothing of all that thou commandedst them to do therefore thou hast caused all this evil to come upon them
behold the mounts they are come unto the city to take it and the city is given into the hand of the chaldeans that fight against it because of the sword and of the famine and of the pestilence and what thou hast spoken is come to pass and behold thou seest it
and thou hast said unto me o lord god buy thee the field for money and take witnesses for the city is given into the hand of the chaldeans
then came the word of the lord unto jeremiah saying
behold i am the lord the god of all flesh is there any thing too hard for me
therefore thus saith the lord behold i will give this city into the hand of the chaldeans and into the hand of nebuchadrezzar king of babylon and he shall take it
and the chaldeans that fight against this city shall come and set fire on this city and burn it with the houses upon whose roofs they have offered incense unto baal and poured out drink offerings unto other gods to provoke me to anger
for the children of israel and the children of judah have only done evil before me from their youth for the children of israel have only provoked me to anger with the work of their hands saith the lord
for this city hath been to me as a provocation of mine anger and of my fury from the day that they built it even unto this day that i should remove it from before my face
because of all the evil of the children of israel and of the children of judah which they have done to provoke me to anger they their kings their princes their priests and their prophets and the men of judah and the inhabitants of jerusalem
and they have turned unto me the back and not the face though i taught them rising up early and teaching them yet they have not hearkened to receive instruction
but they set their abominations in the house which is called by my name to defile it
and they built the high places of baal which are in the valley of the son of hinnom to cause their sons and their daughters to pass through the fire unto molech which i commanded them not neither came it into my mind that they should do this abomination to cause judah to sin
and now therefore thus saith the lord the god of israel concerning this city whereof ye say it shall be delivered into the hand of the king of babylon by the sword and by the famine and by the pestilence
behold i will gather them out of all countries whither i have driven them in mine anger and in my fury and in great wrath and i will bring them again unto this place and i will cause them to dwell safely
and they shall be my people and i will be their god
and i will give them one heart and one way that they may fear me for ever for the good of them and of their children after them
and i will make an everlasting covenant with them that i will not turn away from them to do them good but i will put my fear in their hearts that they shall not depart from me
yea i will rejoice over them to do them good and i will plant them in this land assuredly with my whole heart and with my whole soul
for thus saith the lord like as i have brought all this great evil upon this people so will i bring upon them all the good that i have promised them
and fields shall be bought in this land whereof ye say it is desolate without man or beast it is given into the hand of the chaldeans
men shall buy fields for money and subscribe evidences and seal them and take witnesses in the land of benjamin and in the places about jerusalem and in the cities of judah and in the cities of the mountains and in the cities of the valley and in the cities of the south for i will cause their captivity to return saith the lord
moreover the word of the lord came unto jeremiah the second time while he was yet shut up in the court of the prison saying
thus saith the lord the maker thereof the lord that formed it to establish it the lord is his name
call unto me and i will answer thee and shew thee great and mighty things which thou knowest not
for thus saith the lord the god of israel concerning the houses of this city and concerning the houses of the kings of judah which are thrown down by the mounts and by the sword
they come to fight with the chaldeans but it is to fill them with the dead bodies of men whom i have slain in mine anger and in my fury and for all whose wickedness i have hid my face from this city
behold i will bring it health and cure and i will cure them and will reveal unto them the abundance of peace and truth
and i will cause the captivity of judah and the captivity of israel to return and will build them as at the first
and i will cleanse them from all their iniquity whereby they have sinned against me and i will pardon all their iniquities whereby they have sinned and whereby they have transgressed against me
and it shall be to me a name of joy a praise and an honour before all the nations of the earth which shall hear all the good that i do unto them and they shall fear and tremble for all the goodness and for all the prosperity that i procure unto it
thus saith the lord again there shall be heard in this place which ye say shall be desolate without man and without beast even in the cities of judah and in the streets of jerusalem that are desolate without man and without inhabitant and without beast
the voice of joy and the voice of gladness the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride the voice of them that shall say praise the lord of hosts for the lord is good for his mercy endureth for ever and of them that shall bring the sacrifice of praise into the house of the lord for i will cause to return the captivity of the land as at the first saith the lord
thus saith the lord of hosts again in this place which is desolate without man and without beast and in all the cities thereof shall be an habitation of shepherds causing their flocks to lie down
in the cities of the mountains in the cities of the vale and in the cities of the south and in the land of benjamin and in the places about jerusalem and in the cities of judah shall the flocks pass again under the hands of him that telleth them saith the lord
behold the days come saith the lord that i will perform that good thing which i have promised unto the house of israel and to the house of judah
in those days and at that time will i cause the branch of righteousness to grow up unto david and he shall execute judgment and righteousness in the land
in those days shall judah be saved and jerusalem shall dwell safely and this is the name wherewith she shall be called the lord our righteousness
for thus saith the lord david shall never want a man to sit upon the throne of the house of israel
neither shall the priests the levites want a man before me to offer burnt offerings and to kindle meat offerings and to do sacrifice continually
and the word of the lord came unto jeremiah saying
thus saith the lord if ye can break my covenant of the day and my covenant of the night and that there should not be day and night in their season
then may also my covenant be broken with david my servant that he should not have a son to reign upon his throne and with the levites the priests my ministers
as the host of heaven cannot be numbered neither the sand of the sea measured so will i multiply the seed of david my servant and the levites that minister unto me
moreover the word of the lord came to jeremiah saying
considerest thou not what this people have spoken saying the two families which the lord hath chosen he hath even cast them off thus they have despised my people that they should be no more a nation before them
thus saith the lord if my covenant be not with day and night and if i have not appointed the ordinances of heaven and earth
then will i cast away the seed of jacob and david my servant so that i will not take any of his seed to be rulers over the seed of abraham isaac and jacob for i will cause their captivity to return and have mercy on them
the word which came unto jeremiah from the lord when nebuchadnezzar king of babylon and all his army and all the kingdoms of the earth of his dominion and all the people fought against jerusalem and against all the cities thereof saying
thus saith the lord the god of israel go and speak to zedekiah king of judah and tell him thus saith the lord behold i will give this city into the hand of the king of babylon and he shall burn it with fire
and thou shalt not escape out of his hand but shalt surely be taken and delivered into his hand and thine eyes shall behold the eyes of the king of babylon and he shall speak with thee mouth to mouth and thou shalt go to babylon
yet hear the word of the lord o zedekiah king of judah thus saith the lord of thee thou shalt not die by the sword
but thou shalt die in peace and with the burnings of thy fathers the former kings which were before thee so shall they burn odours for thee and they will lament thee saying ah lord for i have pronounced the word saith the lord
then jeremiah the prophet spake all these words unto zedekiah king of judah in jerusalem
when the king of babylon's army fought against jerusalem and against all the cities of judah that were left against lachish and against azekah for these defenced cities remained of the cities of judah
this is the word that came unto jeremiah from the lord after that the king zedekiah had made a covenant with all the people which were at jerusalem to proclaim liberty unto them
that every man should let his manservant and every man his maidservant being an hebrew or an hebrewess go free that none should serve himself of them to wit of a jew his brother
now when all the princes and all the people which had entered into the covenant heard that every one should let his manservant and every one his maidservant go free that none should serve themselves of them any more then they obeyed and let them go
but afterward they turned and caused the servants and the handmaids whom they had let go free to return and brought them into subjection for servants and for handmaids
therefore the word of the lord came to jeremiah from the lord saying
thus saith the lord the god of israel i made a covenant with your fathers in the day that i brought them forth out of the land of egypt out of the house of bondmen saying
at the end of seven years let ye go every man his brother an hebrew which hath been sold unto thee and when he hath served thee six years thou shalt let him go free from thee but your fathers hearkened not unto me neither inclined their ear
and ye were now turned and had done right in my sight in proclaiming liberty every man to his neighbour and ye had made a covenant before me in the house which is called by my name
but ye turned and polluted my name and caused every man his servant and every man his handmaid whom he had set at liberty at their pleasure to return and brought them into subjection to be unto you for servants and for handmaids
therefore thus saith the lord ye have not hearkened unto me in proclaiming liberty every one to his brother and every man to his neighbour behold i proclaim a liberty for you saith the lord to the sword to the pestilence and to the famine and i will make you to be removed into all the kingdoms of the earth
and i will give the men that have transgressed my covenant which have not performed the words of the covenant which they had made before me when they cut the calf in twain and passed between the parts thereof
the princes of judah and the princes of jerusalem the eunuchs and the priests and all the people of the land which passed between the parts of the calf
i will even give them into the hand of their enemies and into the hand of them that seek their life and their dead bodies shall be for meat unto the fowls of the heaven and to the beasts of the earth
and zedekiah king of judah and his princes will i give into the hand of their enemies and into the hand of them that seek their life and into the hand of the king of babylon's army which are gone up from you
behold i will command saith the lord and cause them to return to this city and they shall fight against it and take it and burn it with fire and i will make the cities of judah a desolation without an inhabitant
the word which came unto jeremiah from the lord in the days of jehoiakim the son of josiah king of judah saying
go unto the house of the rechabites and speak unto them and bring them into the house of the lord into one of the chambers and give them wine to drink
then i took jaazaniah the son of jeremiah the son of habaziniah and his brethren and all his sons and the whole house of the rechabites
and i brought them into the house of the lord into the chamber of the sons of hanan the son of igdaliah a man of god which was by the chamber of the princes which was above the chamber of maaseiah the son of shallum the keeper of the door
and i set before the sons of the house of the rechabites pots full of wine and cups and i said unto them drink ye wine
but they said we will drink no wine for jonadab the son of rechab our father commanded us saying ye shall drink no wine neither ye nor your sons for ever
neither shall ye build house nor sow seed nor plant vineyard nor have any but all your days ye shall dwell in tents that ye may live many days in the land where ye be strangers
thus have we obeyed the voice of jonadab the son of rechab our father in all that he hath charged us to drink no wine all our days we our wives our sons nor our daughters
nor to build houses for us to dwell in neither have we vineyard nor field nor seed
but we have dwelt in tents and have obeyed and done according to all that jonadab our father commanded us
but it came to pass when nebuchadrezzar king of babylon came up into the land that we said come and let us go to jerusalem for fear of the army of the chaldeans and for fear of the army of the syrians so we dwell at jerusalem
then came the word of the lord unto jeremiah saying
thus saith the lord of hosts the god of israel go and tell the men of judah and the inhabitants of jerusalem will ye not receive instruction to hearken to my words saith the lord
the words of jonadab the son of rechab that he commanded his sons not to drink wine are performed for unto this day they drink none but obey their father's commandment notwithstanding i have spoken unto you rising early and speaking but ye hearkened not unto me
i have sent also unto you all my servants the prophets rising up early and sending them saying return ye now every man from his evil way and amend your doings and go not after other gods to serve them and ye shall dwell in the land which i have given to you and to your fathers but ye have not inclined your ear nor hearkened unto me
because the sons of jonadab the son of rechab have performed the commandment of their father which he commanded them but this people hath not hearkened unto me
therefore thus saith the lord god of hosts the god of israel behold i will bring upon judah and upon all the inhabitants of jerusalem all the evil that i have pronounced against them because i have spoken unto them but they have not heard and i have called unto them but they have not answered
and jeremiah said unto the house of the rechabites thus saith the lord of hosts the god of israel because ye have obeyed the commandment of jonadab your father and kept all his precepts and done according unto all that he hath commanded you
therefore thus saith the lord of hosts the god of israel jonadab the son of rechab shall not want a man to stand before me for ever
and it came to pass in the fourth year of jehoiakim the son of josiah king of judah that this word came unto jeremiah from the lord saying
take thee a roll of a book and write therein all the words that i have spoken unto thee against israel and against judah and against all the nations from the day i spake unto thee from the days of josiah even unto this day
it may be that the house of judah will hear all the evil which i purpose to do unto them that they may return every man from his evil way that i may forgive their iniquity and their sin
then jeremiah called baruch the son of neriah and baruch wrote from the mouth of jeremiah all the words of the lord which he had spoken unto him upon a roll of a book
and jeremiah commanded baruch saying i am shut up i cannot go into the house of the lord
therefore go thou and read in the roll which thou hast written from my mouth the words of the lord in the ears of the people in the lord's house upon the fasting day and also thou shalt read them in the ears of all judah that come out of their cities
it may be they will present their supplication before the lord and will return every one from his evil way for great is the anger and the fury that the lord hath pronounced against this people
and baruch the son of neriah did according to all that jeremiah the prophet commanded him reading in the book the words of the lord in the lord's house
and it came to pass in the fifth year of jehoiakim the son of josiah king of judah in the ninth month that they proclaimed a fast before the lord to all the people in jerusalem and to all the people that came from the cities of judah unto jerusalem
then read baruch in the book the words of jeremiah in the house of the lord in the chamber of gemariah the son of shaphan the scribe in the higher court at the entry of the new gate of the lord's house in the ears of all the people
when michaiah the son of gemariah the son of shaphan had heard out of the book all the words of the lord
then he went down into the king's house into the scribe's chamber and lo all the princes sat there even elishama the scribe and delaiah the son of shemaiah and elnathan the son of achbor and gemariah the son of shaphan and zedekiah the son of hananiah and all the princes
then michaiah declared unto them all the words that he had heard when baruch read the book in the ears of the people
therefore all the princes sent jehudi the son of nethaniah the son of shelemiah the son of cushi unto baruch saying take in thine hand the roll wherein thou hast read in the ears of the people and come so baruch the son of neriah took the roll in his hand and came unto them
and they said unto him sit down now and read it in our ears so baruch read it in their ears
now it came to pass when they had heard all the words they were afraid both one and other and said unto baruch we will surely tell the king of all these words
and they asked baruch saying tell us now how didst thou write all these words at his mouth
then baruch answered them he pronounced all these words unto me with his mouth and i wrote them with ink in the book
then said the princes unto baruch go hide thee thou and jeremiah and let no man know where ye be
and they went in to the king into the court but they laid up the roll in the chamber of elishama the scribe and told all the words in the ears of the king
so the king sent jehudi to fetch the roll and he took it out of elishama the scribe's chamber and jehudi read it in the ears of the king and in the ears of all the princes which stood beside the king
now the king sat in the winterhouse in the ninth month and there was a fire on the hearth burning before him
and it came to pass that when jehudi had read three or four leaves he cut it with the penknife and cast it into the fire that was on the hearth until all the roll was consumed in the fire that was on the hearth
yet they were not afraid nor rent their garments neither the king nor any of his servants that heard all these words
nevertheless elnathan and delaiah and gemariah had made intercession to the king that he would not burn the roll but he would not hear them
but the king commanded jerahmeel the son of hammelech and seraiah the son of azriel and shelemiah the son of abdeel to take baruch the scribe and jeremiah the prophet but the lord hid them
then the word of the lord came to jeremiah after that the king had burned the roll and the words which baruch wrote at the mouth of jeremiah saying
take thee again another roll and write in it all the former words that were in the first roll which jehoiakim the king of judah hath burned
and thou shalt say to jehoiakim king of judah thus saith the lord thou hast burned this roll saying why hast thou written therein saying the king of babylon shall certainly come and destroy this land and shall cause to cease from thence man and beast
therefore thus saith the lord of jehoiakim king of judah he shall have none to sit upon the throne of david and his dead body shall be cast out in the day to the heat and in the night to the frost
and i will punish him and his seed and his servants for their iniquity and i will bring upon them and upon the inhabitants of jerusalem and upon the men of judah all the evil that i have pronounced against them but they hearkened not
then took jeremiah another roll and gave it to baruch the scribe the son of neriah who wrote therein from the mouth of jeremiah all the words of the book which jehoiakim king of judah had burned in the fire and there were added besides unto them many like words
and king zedekiah the son of josiah reigned instead of coniah the son of jehoiakim whom nebuchadrezzar king of babylon made king in the land of judah
but neither he nor his servants nor the people of the land did hearken unto the words of the lord which he spake by the prophet jeremiah
and zedekiah the king sent jehucal the son of shelemiah and zephaniah the son of maaseiah the priest to the prophet jeremiah saying pray now unto the lord our god for us
now jeremiah came in and went out among the people for they had not put him into prison
then pharaoh's army was come forth out of egypt and when the chaldeans that besieged jerusalem heard tidings of them they departed from jerusalem
then came the word of the lord unto the prophet jeremiah saying
thus saith the lord the god of israel thus shall ye say to the king of judah that sent you unto me to enquire of me behold pharaoh's army which is come forth to help you shall return to egypt into their own land
and the chaldeans shall come again and fight against this city and take it and burn it with fire
thus saith the lord deceive not yourselves saying the chaldeans shall surely depart from us for they shall not depart
for though ye had smitten the whole army of the chaldeans that fight against you and there remained but wounded men among them yet should they rise up every man in his tent and burn this city with fire
and it came to pass that when the army of the chaldeans was broken up from jerusalem for fear of pharaoh's army
then jeremiah went forth out of jerusalem to go into the land of benjamin to separate himself thence in the midst of the people
and when he was in the gate of benjamin a captain of the ward was there whose name was irijah the son of shelemiah the son of hananiah and he took jeremiah the prophet saying thou fallest away to the chaldeans
then said jeremiah it is false i fall not away to the chaldeans but he hearkened not to him so irijah took jeremiah and brought him to the princes
wherefore the princes were wroth with jeremiah and smote him and put him in prison in the house of jonathan the scribe for they had made that the prison
when jeremiah was entered into the dungeon and into the cabins and jeremiah had remained there many days
then zedekiah the king sent and took him out and the king asked him secretly in his house and said is there any word from the lord and jeremiah said there is for said he thou shalt be delivered into the hand of the king of babylon
moreover jeremiah said unto king zedekiah what have i offended against thee or against thy servants or against this people that ye have put me in prison
where are now your prophets which prophesied unto you saying the king of babylon shall not come against you nor against this land
therefore hear now i pray thee o my lord the king let my supplication i pray thee be accepted before thee that thou cause me not to return to the house of jonathan the scribe lest i die there
then zedekiah the king commanded that they should commit jeremiah into the court of the prison and that they should give him daily a piece of bread out of the bakers street until all the bread in the city were spent thus jeremiah remained in the court of the prison
then shephatiah the son of mattan and gedaliah the son of pashur and jucal the son of shelemiah and pashur the son of malchiah heard the words that jeremiah had spoken unto all the people saying
thus saith the lord he that remaineth in this city shall die by the sword by the famine and by the pestilence but he that goeth forth to the chaldeans shall live for he shall have his life for a prey and shall live
thus saith the lord this city shall surely be given into the hand of the king of babylon's army which shall take it
therefore the princes said unto the king we beseech thee let this man be put to death for thus he weakeneth the hands of the men of war that remain in this city and the hands of all the people in speaking such words unto them for this man seeketh not the welfare of this people but the hurt
then zedekiah the king said behold he is in your hand for the king is not he that can do any thing against you
then took they jeremiah and cast him into the dungeon of malchiah the son of hammelech that was in the court of the prison and they let down jeremiah with cords and in the dungeon there was no water but mire so jeremiah sunk in the mire
now when ebedmelech the ethiopian one of the eunuchs which was in the king's house heard that they had put jeremiah in the dungeon the king then sitting in the gate of benjamin
ebedmelech went forth out of the king's house and spake to the king saying
my lord the king these men have done evil in all that they have done to jeremiah the prophet whom they have cast into the dungeon and he is like to die for hunger in the place where he is for there is no more bread in the city
then the king commanded ebedmelech the ethiopian saying take from hence thirty men with thee and take up jeremiah the prophet out of the dungeon before he die
so ebedmelech took the men with him and went into the house of the king under the treasury and took thence old cast clouts and old rotten rags and let them down by cords into the dungeon to jeremiah
and ebedmelech the ethiopian said unto jeremiah put now these old cast clouts and rotten rags under thine armholes under the cords and jeremiah did so
so they drew up jeremiah with cords and took him up out of the dungeon and jeremiah remained in the court of the prison
then zedekiah the king sent and took jeremiah the prophet unto him into the third entry that is in the house of the lord and the king said unto jeremiah i will ask thee a thing hide nothing from me
then jeremiah said unto zedekiah if i declare it unto thee wilt thou not surely put me to death and if i give thee counsel wilt thou not hearken unto me
so zedekiah the king sware secretly unto jeremiah saying as the lord liveth that made us this soul i will not put thee to death neither will i give thee into the hand of these men that seek thy life
then said jeremiah unto zedekiah thus saith the lord the god of hosts the god of israel if thou wilt assuredly go forth unto the king of babylon's princes then thy soul shall live and this city shall not be burned with fire and thou shalt live and thine house
but if thou wilt not go forth to the king of babylon's princes then shall this city be given into the hand of the chaldeans and they shall burn it with fire and thou shalt not escape out of their hand
and zedekiah the king said unto jeremiah i am afraid of the jews that are fallen to the chaldeans lest they deliver me into their hand and they mock me
but jeremiah said they shall not deliver thee obey i beseech thee the voice of the lord which i speak unto thee so it shall be well unto thee and thy soul shall live
but if thou refuse to go forth this is the word that the lord hath shewed me
and behold all the women that are left in the king of judah's house shall be brought forth to the king of babylon's princes and those women shall say thy friends have set thee on and have prevailed against thee thy feet are sunk in the mire and they are turned away back
so they shall bring out all thy wives and thy children to the chaldeans and thou shalt not escape out of their hand but shalt be taken by the hand of the king of babylon and thou shalt cause this city to be burned with fire
then said zedekiah unto jeremiah let no man know of these words and thou shalt not die
but if the princes hear that i have talked with thee and they come unto thee and say unto thee declare unto us now what thou hast said unto the king hide it not from us and we will not put thee to death also what the king said unto thee
then thou shalt say unto them i presented my supplication before the king that he would not cause me to return to jonathan's house to die there
then came all the princes unto jeremiah and asked him and he told them according to all these words that the king had commanded so they left off speaking with him for the matter was not perceived
so jeremiah abode in the court of the prison until the day that jerusalem was taken and he was there when jerusalem was taken
in the ninth year of zedekiah king of judah in the tenth month came nebuchadrezzar king of babylon and all his army against jerusalem and they besieged it
and in the eleventh year of zedekiah in the fourth month the ninth day of the month the city was broken up
and all the princes of the king of babylon came in and sat in the middle gate even nergalsharezer samgarnebo sarsechim rabsaris nergalsharezer rabmag with all the residue of the princes of the king of babylon
and it came to pass that when zedekiah the king of judah saw them and all the men of war then they fled and went forth out of the city by night by the way of the king's garden by the gate betwixt the two walls and he went out the way of the plain
but the chaldeans army pursued after them and overtook zedekiah in the plains of jericho and when they had taken him they brought him up to nebuchadnezzar king of babylon to riblah in the land of hamath where he gave judgment upon him
then the king of babylon slew the sons of zedekiah in riblah before his eyes also the king of babylon slew all the nobles of judah
moreover he put out zedekiah's eyes and bound him with chains to carry him to babylon
and the chaldeans burned the king's house and the houses of the people with fire and brake down the walls of jerusalem
then nebuzaradan the captain of the guard carried away captive into babylon the remnant of the people that remained in the city and those that fell away that fell to him with the rest of the people that remained
but nebuzaradan the captain of the guard left of the poor of the people which had nothing in the land of judah and gave them vineyards and fields at the same time
now nebuchadrezzar king of babylon gave charge concerning jeremiah to nebuzaradan the captain of the guard saying
take him and look well to him and do him no harm but do unto him even as he shall say unto thee
so nebuzaradan the captain of the guard sent and nebushasban rabsaris and nergalsharezer rabmag and all the king of babylon's princes
even they sent and took jeremiah out of the court of the prison and committed him unto gedaliah the son of ahikam the son of shaphan that he should carry him home so he dwelt among the people
now the word of the lord came unto jeremiah while he was shut up in the court of the prison saying
go and speak to ebedmelech the ethiopian saying thus saith the lord of hosts the god of israel behold i will bring my words upon this city for evil and not for good and they shall be accomplished in that day before thee
but i will deliver thee in that day saith the lord and thou shalt not be given into the hand of the men of whom thou art afraid
for i will surely deliver thee and thou shalt not fall by the sword but thy life shall be for a prey unto thee because thou hast put thy trust in me saith the lord
the word that came to jeremiah from the lord after that nebuzaradan the captain of the guard had let him go from ramah when he had taken him being bound in chains among all that were carried away captive of jerusalem and judah which were carried away captive unto babylon
and the captain of the guard took jeremiah and said unto him the lord thy god hath pronounced this evil upon this place
now the lord hath brought it and done according as he hath said because ye have sinned against the lord and have not obeyed his voice therefore this thing is come upon you
and now behold i loose thee this day from the chains which were upon thine hand if it seem good unto thee to come with me into babylon come and i will look well unto thee but if it seem ill unto thee to come with me into babylon forbear behold all the land is before thee whither it seemeth good and convenient for thee to go thither go
now while he was not yet gone back he said go back also to gedaliah the son of ahikam the son of shaphan whom the king of babylon hath made governor over the cities of judah and dwell with him among the people or go wheresoever it seemeth convenient unto thee to go so the captain of the guard gave him victuals and a reward and let him go
then went jeremiah unto gedaliah the son of ahikam to mizpah and dwelt with him among the people that were left in the land
now when all the captains of the forces which were in the fields even they and their men heard that the king of babylon had made gedaliah the son of ahikam governor in the land and had committed unto him men and women and children and of the poor of the land of them that were not carried away captive to babylon
then they came to gedaliah to mizpah even ishmael the son of nethaniah and johanan and jonathan the sons of kareah and seraiah the son of tanhumeth and the sons of ephai the netophathite and jezaniah the son of a maachathite they and their men
and gedaliah the son of ahikam the son of shaphan sware unto them and to their men saying fear not to serve the chaldeans dwell in the land and serve the king of babylon and it shall be well with you
as for me behold i will dwell at mizpah to serve the chaldeans which will come unto us but ye gather ye wine and summer fruits and oil and put them in your vessels and dwell in your cities that ye have taken
likewise when all the jews that were in moab and among the ammonites and in edom and that were in all the countries heard that the king of babylon had left a remnant of judah and that he had set over them gedaliah the son of ahikam the son of shaphan
even all the jews returned out of all places whither they were driven and came to the land of judah to gedaliah unto mizpah and gathered wine and summer fruits very much
moreover johanan the son of kareah and all the captains of the forces that were in the fields came to gedaliah to mizpah
and said unto him dost thou certainly know that baalis the king of the ammonites hath sent ishmael the son of nethaniah to slay thee but gedaliah the son of ahikam believed them not
then johanan the son of kareah spake to gedaliah in mizpah secretly saying let me go i pray thee and i will slay ishmael the son of nethaniah and no man shall know it wherefore should he slay thee that all the jews which are gathered unto thee should be scattered and the remnant in judah perish
but gedaliah the son of ahikam said unto johanan the son of kareah thou shalt not do this thing for thou speakest falsely of ishmael
now it came to pass in the seventh month that ishmael the son of nethaniah the son of elishama of the seed royal and the princes of the king even ten men with him came unto gedaliah the son of ahikam to mizpah and there they did eat bread together in mizpah
then arose ishmael the son of nethaniah and the ten men that were with him and smote gedaliah the son of ahikam the son of shaphan with the sword and slew him whom the king of babylon had made governor over the land
ishmael also slew all the jews that were with him even with gedaliah at mizpah and the chaldeans that were found there and the men of war
and it came to pass the second day after he had slain gedaliah and no man knew it
that there came certain from shechem from shiloh and from samaria even fourscore men having their beards shaven and their clothes rent and having cut themselves with offerings and incense in their hand to bring them to the house of the lord
and ishmael the son of nethaniah went forth from mizpah to meet them weeping all along as he went and it came to pass as he met them he said unto them come to gedaliah the son of ahikam
and it was so when they came into the midst of the city that ishmael the son of nethaniah slew them and cast them into the midst of the pit he and the men that were with him
but ten men were found among them that said unto ishmael slay us not for we have treasures in the field of wheat and of barley and of oil and of honey so he forbare and slew them not among their brethren
now the pit wherein ishmael had cast all the dead bodies of the men whom he had slain because of gedaliah was it which asa the king had made for fear of baasha king of israel and ishmael the son of nethaniah filled it with them that were slain
then ishmael carried away captive all the residue of the people that were in mizpah even the king's daughters and all the people that remained in mizpah whom nebuzaradan the captain of the guard had committed to gedaliah the son of ahikam and ishmael the son of nethaniah carried them away captive and departed to go over to the ammonites
but when johanan the son of kareah and all the captains of the forces that were with him heard of all the evil that ishmael the son of nethaniah had done
then they took all the men and went to fight with ishmael the son of nethaniah and found him by the great waters that are in gibeon
now it came to pass that when all the people which were with ishmael saw johanan the son of kareah and all the captains of the forces that were with him then they were glad
so all the people that ishmael had carried away captive from mizpah cast about and returned and went unto johanan the son of kareah
but ishmael the son of nethaniah escaped from johanan with eight men and went to the ammonites
then took johanan the son of kareah and all the captains of the forces that were with him all the remnant of the people whom he had recovered from ishmael the son of nethaniah from mizpah after that he had slain gedaliah the son of ahikam even mighty men of war and the women and the children and the eunuchs whom he had brought again from gibeon
and they departed and dwelt in the habitation of chimham which is by bethlehem to go to enter into egypt
because of the chaldeans for they were afraid of them because ishmael the son of nethaniah had slain gedaliah the son of ahikam whom the king of babylon made governor in the land
then all the captains of the forces and johanan the son of kareah and jezaniah the son of hoshaiah and all the people from the least even unto the greatest came near
and said unto jeremiah the prophet let we beseech thee our supplication be accepted before thee and pray for us unto the lord thy god even for all this remnant for we are left but a few of many as thine eyes do behold us
that the lord thy god may shew us the way wherein we may walk and the thing that we may do
then jeremiah the prophet said unto them i have heard you behold i will pray unto the lord your god according to your words and it shall come to pass that whatsoever thing the lord shall answer you i will declare it unto you i will keep nothing back from you
then they said to jeremiah the lord be a true and faithful witness between us if we do not even according to all things for the which the lord thy god shall send thee to us
whether it be good or whether it be evil we will obey the voice of the lord our god to whom we send thee that it may be well with us when we obey the voice of the lord our god
and it came to pass after ten days that the word of the lord came unto jeremiah
then called he johanan the son of kareah and all the captains of the forces which were with him and all the people from the least even to the greatest
and said unto them thus saith the lord the god of israel unto whom ye sent me to present your supplication before him
if ye will still abide in this land then will i build you and not pull you down and i will plant you and not pluck you up for i repent me of the evil that i have done unto you
be not afraid of the king of babylon of whom ye are afraid be not afraid of him saith the lord for i am with you to save you and to deliver you from his hand
and i will shew mercies unto you that he may have mercy upon you and cause you to return to your own land
but if ye say we will not dwell in this land neither obey the voice of the lord your god
saying no but we will go into the land of egypt where we shall see no war nor hear the sound of the trumpet nor have hunger of bread and there will we dwell
and now therefore hear the word of the lord ye remnant of judah thus saith the lord of hosts the god of israel if ye wholly set your faces to enter into egypt and go to sojourn there
then it shall come to pass that the sword which ye feared shall overtake you there in the land of egypt and the famine whereof ye were afraid shall follow close after you there in egypt and there ye shall die
so shall it be with all the men that set their faces to go into egypt to sojourn there they shall die by the sword by the famine and by the pestilence and none of them shall remain or escape from the evil that i will bring upon them
for thus saith the lord of hosts the god of israel as mine anger and my fury hath been poured forth upon the inhabitants of jerusalem so shall my fury be poured forth upon you when ye shall enter into egypt and ye shall be an execration and an astonishment and a curse and a reproach and ye shall see this place no more
the lord hath said concerning you o ye remnant of judah go ye not into egypt know certainly that i have admonished you this day
for ye dissembled in your hearts when ye sent me unto the lord your god saying pray for us unto the lord our god and according unto all that the lord our god shall say so declare unto us and we will do it
and now i have this day declared it to you but ye have not obeyed the voice of the lord your god nor any thing for the which he hath sent me unto you
now therefore know certainly that ye shall die by the sword by the famine and by the pestilence in the place whither ye desire to go and to sojourn
and it came to pass that when jeremiah had made an end of speaking unto all the people all the words of the lord their god for which the lord their god had sent him to them even all these words
then spake azariah the son of hoshaiah and johanan the son of kareah and all the proud men saying unto jeremiah thou speakest falsely the lord our god hath not sent thee to say go not into egypt to sojourn there
but baruch the son of neriah setteth thee on against us for to deliver us into the hand of the chaldeans that they might put us to death and carry us away captives into babylon
so johanan the son of kareah and all the captains of the forces and all the people obeyed not the voice of the lord to dwell in the land of judah
but johanan the son of kareah and all the captains of the forces took all the remnant of judah that were returned from all nations whither they had been driven to dwell in the land of judah
even men and women and children and the king's daughters and every person that nebuzaradan the captain of the guard had left with gedaliah the son of ahikam the son of shaphan and jeremiah the prophet and baruch the son of neriah
so they came into the land of egypt for they obeyed not the voice of the lord thus came they even to tahpanhes
then came the word of the lord unto jeremiah in tahpanhes saying
take great stones in thine hand and hide them in the clay in the brickkiln which is at the entry of pharaoh's house in tahpanhes in the sight of the men of judah
and say unto them thus saith the lord of hosts the god of israel behold i will send and take nebuchadrezzar the king of babylon my servant and will set his throne upon these stones that i have hid and he shall spread his royal pavilion over them
and when he cometh he shall smite the land of egypt and deliver such as are for death to death and such as are for captivity to captivity and such as are for the sword to the sword
and i will kindle a fire in the houses of the gods of egypt and he shall burn them and carry them away captives and he shall array himself with the land of egypt as a shepherd putteth on his garment and he shall go forth from thence in peace
he shall break also the images of bethshemesh that is in the land of egypt and the houses of the gods of the egyptians shall he burn with fire
the word that came to jeremiah concerning all the jews which dwell in the land of egypt which dwell at migdol and at tahpanhes and at noph and in the country of pathros saying
thus saith the lord of hosts the god of israel ye have seen all the evil that i have brought upon jerusalem and upon all the cities of judah and behold this day they are a desolation and no man dwelleth therein
because of their wickedness which they have committed to provoke me to anger in that they went to burn incense and to serve other gods whom they knew not neither they ye nor your fathers
howbeit i sent unto you all my servants the prophets rising early and sending them saying oh do not this abominable thing that i hate
but they hearkened not nor inclined their ear to turn from their wickedness to burn no incense unto other gods
wherefore my fury and mine anger was poured forth and was kindled in the cities of judah and in the streets of jerusalem and they are wasted and desolate as at this day
therefore now thus saith the lord the god of hosts the god of israel wherefore commit ye this great evil against your souls to cut off from you man and woman child and suckling out of judah to leave you none to remain
in that ye provoke me unto wrath with the works of your hands burning incense unto other gods in the land of egypt whither ye be gone to dwell that ye might cut yourselves off and that ye might be a curse and a reproach among all the nations of the earth
have ye forgotten the wickedness of your fathers and the wickedness of the kings of judah and the wickedness of their wives and your own wickedness and the wickedness of your wives which they have committed in the land of judah and in the streets of jerusalem
they are not humbled even unto this day neither have they feared nor walked in my law nor in my statutes that i set before you and before your fathers
therefore thus saith the lord of hosts the god of israel behold i will set my face against you for evil and to cut off all judah
and i will take the remnant of judah that have set their faces to go into the land of egypt to sojourn there and they shall all be consumed and fall in the land of egypt they shall even be consumed by the sword and by the famine they shall die from the least even unto the greatest by the sword and by the famine and they shall be an execration and an astonishment and a curse and a reproach
for i will punish them that dwell in the land of egypt as i have punished jerusalem by the sword by the famine and by the pestilence
so that none of the remnant of judah which are gone into the land of egypt to sojourn there shall escape or remain that they should return into the land of judah to the which they have a desire to return to dwell there for none shall return but such as shall escape
then all the men which knew that their wives had burned incense unto other gods and all the women that stood by a great multitude even all the people that dwelt in the land of egypt in pathros answered jeremiah saying
as for the word that thou hast spoken unto us in the name of the lord we will not hearken unto thee
but we will certainly do whatsoever thing goeth forth out of our own mouth to burn incense unto the queen of heaven and to pour out drink offerings unto her as we have done we and our fathers our kings and our princes in the cities of judah and in the streets of jerusalem for then had we plenty of victuals and were well and saw no evil
but since we left off to burn incense to the queen of heaven and to pour out drink offerings unto her we have wanted all things and have been consumed by the sword and by the famine
and when we burned incense to the queen of heaven and poured out drink offerings unto her did we make her cakes to worship her and pour out drink offerings unto her without our men
then jeremiah said unto all the people to the men and to the women and to all the people which had given him that answer saying
the incense that ye burned in the cities of judah and in the streets of jerusalem ye and your fathers your kings and your princes and the people of the land did not the lord remember them and came it not into his mind
so that the lord could no longer bear because of the evil of your doings and because of the abominations which ye have committed therefore is your land a desolation and an astonishment and a curse without an inhabitant as at this day
because ye have burned incense and because ye have sinned against the lord and have not obeyed the voice of the lord nor walked in his law nor in his statutes nor in his testimonies therefore this evil is happened unto you as at this day
moreover jeremiah said unto all the people and to all the women hear the word of the lord all judah that are in the land of egypt
thus saith the lord of hosts the god of israel saying ye and your wives have both spoken with your mouths and fulfilled with your hand saying we will surely perform our vows that we have vowed to burn incense to the queen of heaven and to pour out drink offerings unto her ye will surely accomplish your vows and surely perform your vows
therefore hear ye the word of the lord all judah that dwell in the land of egypt behold i have sworn by my great name saith the lord that my name shall no more be named in the mouth of any man of judah in all the land of egypt saying the lord god liveth
behold i will watch over them for evil and not for good and all the men of judah that are in the land of egypt shall be consumed by the sword and by the famine until there be an end of them
yet a small number that escape the sword shall return out of the land of egypt into the land of judah and all the remnant of judah that are gone into the land of egypt to sojourn there shall know whose words shall stand mine or theirs
and this shall be a sign unto you saith the lord that i will punish you in this place that ye may know that my words shall surely stand against you for evil
thus saith the lord behold i will give pharaohhophra king of egypt into the hand of his enemies and into the hand of them that seek his life as i gave zedekiah king of judah into the hand of nebuchadrezzar king of babylon his enemy and that sought his life
the word that jeremiah the prophet spake unto baruch the son of neriah when he had written these words in a book at the mouth of jeremiah in the fourth year of jehoiakim the son of josiah king of judah saying
thus saith the lord the god of israel unto thee o baruch
thou didst say woe is me now for the lord hath added grief to my sorrow i fainted in my sighing and i find no rest
thus shalt thou say unto him the lord saith thus behold that which i have built will i break down and that which i have planted i will pluck up even this whole land
and seekest thou great things for thyself seek them not for behold i will bring evil upon all flesh saith the lord but thy life will i give unto thee for a prey in all places whither thou goest
the word of the lord which came to jeremiah the prophet against the gentiles
against egypt against the army of pharaohnecho king of egypt which was by the river euphrates in carchemish which nebuchadrezzar king of babylon smote in the fourth year of jehoiakim the son of josiah king of judah
order ye the buckler and shield and draw near to battle
harness the horses and get up ye horsemen and stand forth with your helmets furbish the spears and put on the brigandines
wherefore have i seen them dismayed and turned away back and their mighty ones are beaten down and are fled apace and look not back for fear was round about saith the lord
let not the swift flee away nor the mighty man escape they shall stumble and fall toward the north by the river euphrates
who is this that cometh up as a flood whose waters are moved as the rivers
egypt riseth up like a flood and his waters are moved like the rivers and he saith i will go up and will cover the earth i will destroy the city and the inhabitants thereof
come up ye horses and rage ye chariots and let the mighty men come forth the ethiopians and the libyans that handle the shield and the lydians that handle and bend the bow
for this is the day of the lord god of hosts a day of vengeance that he may avenge him of his adversaries and the sword shall devour and it shall be satiate and made drunk with their blood for the lord god of hosts hath a sacrifice in the north country by the river euphrates
go up into gilead and take balm o virgin the daughter of egypt in vain shalt thou use many medicines for thou shalt not be cured
the nations have heard of thy shame and thy cry hath filled the land for the mighty man hath stumbled against the mighty and they are fallen both together
the word that the lord spake to jeremiah the prophet how nebuchadrezzar king of babylon should come and smite the land of egypt
declare ye in egypt and publish in migdol and publish in noph and in tahpanhes say ye stand fast and prepare thee for the sword shall devour round about thee
why are thy valiant men swept away they stood not because the lord did drive them
he made many to fall yea one fell upon another and they said arise and let us go again to our own people and to the land of our nativity from the oppressing sword
they did cry there pharaoh king of egypt is but a noise he hath passed the time appointed
as i live saith the king whose name is the lord of hosts surely as tabor is among the mountains and as carmel by the sea so shall he come
o thou daughter dwelling in egypt furnish thyself to go into captivity for noph shall be waste and desolate without an inhabitant
egypt is like a very fair heifer but destruction cometh it cometh out of the north
also her hired men are in the midst of her like fatted bullocks for they also are turned back and are fled away together they did not stand because the day of their calamity was come upon them and the time of their visitation
the voice thereof shall go like a serpent for they shall march with an army and come against her with axes as hewers of wood
they shall cut down her forest saith the lord though it cannot be searched because they are more than the grasshoppers and are innumerable
the daughter of egypt shall be confounded she shall be delivered into the hand of the people of the north
the lord of hosts the god of israel saith behold i will punish the multitude of no and pharaoh and egypt with their gods and their kings even pharaoh and all them that trust in him
and i will deliver them into the hand of those that seek their lives and into the hand of nebuchadrezzar king of babylon and into the hand of his servants and afterward it shall be inhabited as in the days of old saith the lord
but fear not thou o my servant jacob and be not dismayed o israel for behold i will save thee from afar off and thy seed from the land of their captivity and jacob shall return and be in rest and at ease and none shall make him afraid
fear thou not o jacob my servant saith the lord for i am with thee for i will make a full end of all the nations whither i have driven thee but i will not make a full end of thee but correct thee in measure yet will i not leave thee wholly unpunished
the word of the lord that came to jeremiah the prophet against the philistines before that pharaoh smote gaza
thus saith the lord behold waters rise up out of the north and shall be an overflowing flood and shall overflow the land and all that is therein the city and them that dwell therein then the men shall cry and all the inhabitants of the land shall howl
at the noise of the stamping of the hoofs of his strong horses at the rushing of his chariots and at the rumbling of his wheels the fathers shall not look back to their children for feebleness of hands
because of the day that cometh to spoil all the philistines and to cut off from tyrus and zidon every helper that remaineth for the lord will spoil the philistines the remnant of the country of caphtor
baldness is come upon gaza ashkelon is cut off with the remnant of their valley how long wilt thou cut thyself
o thou sword of the lord how long will it be ere thou be quiet put up thyself into thy scabbard rest and be still
how can it be quiet seeing the lord hath given it a charge against ashkelon and against the sea shore there hath he appointed it
against moab thus saith the lord of hosts the god of israel woe unto nebo for it is spoiled kiriathaim is confounded and taken misgab is confounded and dismayed
there shall be no more praise of moab in heshbon they have devised evil against it come and let us cut it off from being a nation also thou shalt be cut down o madmen the sword shall pursue thee
a voice of crying shall be from horonaim spoiling and great destruction
moab is destroyed her little ones have caused a cry to be heard
for in the going up of luhith continual weeping shall go up for in the going down of horonaim the enemies have heard a cry of destruction
flee save your lives and be like the heath in the wilderness
for because thou hast trusted in thy works and in thy treasures thou shalt also be taken and chemosh shall go forth into captivity with his priests and his princes together
and the spoiler shall come upon every city and no city shall escape the valley also shall perish and the plain shall be destroyed as the lord hath spoken
give wings unto moab that it may flee and get away for the cities thereof shall be desolate without any to dwell therein
cursed be he that doeth the work of the lord deceitfully and cursed be he that keepeth back his sword from blood
moab hath been at ease from his youth and he hath settled on his lees and hath not been emptied from vessel to vessel neither hath he gone into captivity therefore his taste remained in him and his scent is not changed
therefore behold the days come saith the lord that i will send unto him wanderers that shall cause him to wander and shall empty his vessels and break their bottles
and moab shall be ashamed of chemosh as the house of israel was ashamed of bethel their confidence
how say ye we are mighty and strong men for the war
moab is spoiled and gone up out of her cities and his chosen young men are gone down to the slaughter saith the king whose name is the lord of hosts
the calamity of moab is near to come and his affliction hasteth fast
all ye that are about him bemoan him and all ye that know his name say how is the strong staff broken and the beautiful rod
thou daughter that dost inhabit dibon come down from thy glory and sit in thirst for the spoiler of moab shall come upon thee and he shall destroy thy strong holds
o inhabitant of aroer stand by the way and espy ask him that fleeth and her that escapeth and say what is done
moab is confounded for it is broken down howl and cry tell ye it in arnon that moab is spoiled
and judgment is come upon the plain country upon holon and upon jahazah and upon mephaath
and upon dibon and upon nebo and upon bethdiblathaim
and upon kiriathaim and upon bethgamul and upon bethmeon
and upon kerioth and upon bozrah and upon all the cities of the land of moab far or near
the horn of moab is cut off and his arm is broken saith the lord
make ye him drunken for he magnified himself against the lord moab also shall wallow in his vomit and he also shall be in derision
for was not israel a derision unto thee was he found among thieves for since thou spakest of him thou skippedst for joy
o ye that dwell in moab leave the cities and dwell in the rock and be like the dove that maketh her nest in the sides of the hole's mouth
we have heard the pride of moab he is exceeding proud his loftiness and his arrogancy and his pride and the haughtiness of his heart
i know his wrath saith the lord but it shall not be so his lies shall not so effect it
therefore will i howl for moab and i will cry out for all moab mine heart shall mourn for the men of kirheres
o vine of sibmah i will weep for thee with the weeping of jazer thy plants are gone over the sea they reach even to the sea of jazer the spoiler is fallen upon thy summer fruits and upon thy vintage
and joy and gladness is taken from the plentiful field and from the land of moab and i have caused wine to fail from the winepresses none shall tread with shouting their shouting shall be no shouting
from the cry of heshbon even unto elealeh and even unto jahaz have they uttered their voice from zoar even unto horonaim as an heifer of three years old for the waters also of nimrim shall be desolate
moreover i will cause to cease in moab saith the lord him that offereth in the high places and him that burneth incense to his gods
therefore mine heart shall sound for moab like pipes and mine heart shall sound like pipes for the men of kirheres because the riches that he hath gotten are perished
for every head shall be bald and every beard clipped upon all the hands shall be cuttings and upon the loins sackcloth
there shall be lamentation generally upon all the housetops of moab and in the streets thereof for i have broken moab like a vessel wherein is no pleasure saith the lord
they shall howl saying how is it broken down how hath moab turned the back with shame so shall moab be a derision and a dismaying to all them about him
for thus saith the lord behold he shall fly as an eagle and shall spread his wings over moab
kerioth is taken and the strong holds are surprised and the mighty men's hearts in moab at that day shall be as the heart of a woman in her pangs
and moab shall be destroyed from being a people because he hath magnified himself against the lord
fear and the pit and the snare shall be upon thee o inhabitant of moab saith the lord
he that fleeth from the fear shall fall into the pit and he that getteth up out of the pit shall be taken in the snare for i will bring upon it even upon moab the year of their visitation saith the lord
they that fled stood under the shadow of heshbon because of the force but a fire shall come forth out of heshbon and a flame from the midst of sihon and shall devour the corner of moab and the crown of the head of the tumultuous ones
woe be unto thee o moab the people of chemosh perisheth for thy sons are taken captives and thy daughters captives
yet will i bring again the captivity of moab in the latter days saith the lord thus far is the judgment of moab
concerning the ammonites thus saith the lord hath israel no sons hath he no heir why then doth their king inherit gad and his people dwell in his cities
therefore behold the days come saith the lord that i will cause an alarm of war to be heard in rabbah of the ammonites and it shall be a desolate heap and her daughters shall be burned with fire then shall israel be heir unto them that were his heirs saith the lord
howl o heshbon for ai is spoiled cry ye daughters of rabbah gird you with sackcloth lament and run to and fro by the hedges for their king shall go into captivity and his priests and his princes together
wherefore gloriest thou in the valleys thy flowing valley o backsliding daughter that trusted in her treasures saying who shall come unto me
behold i will bring a fear upon thee saith the lord god of hosts from all those that be about thee and ye shall be driven out every man right forth and none shall gather up him that wandereth
and afterward i will bring again the captivity of the children of ammon saith the lord
concerning edom thus saith the lord of hosts is wisdom no more in teman is counsel perished from the prudent is their wisdom vanished
flee ye turn back dwell deep o inhabitants of dedan for i will bring the calamity of esau upon him the time that i will visit him
if grapegatherers come to thee would they not leave some gleaning grapes if thieves by night they will destroy till they have enough
but i have made esau bare i have uncovered his secret places and he shall not be able to hide himself his seed is spoiled and his brethren and his neighbours and he is not
leave thy fatherless children i will preserve them alive and let thy widows trust in me
for thus saith the lord behold they whose judgment was not to drink of the cup have assuredly drunken and art thou he that shall altogether go unpunished thou shalt not go unpunished but thou shalt surely drink of it
for i have sworn by myself saith the lord that bozrah shall become a desolation a reproach a waste and a curse and all the cities thereof shall be perpetual wastes
i have heard a rumour from the lord and an ambassador is sent unto the heathen saying gather ye together and come against her and rise up to the battle
for lo i will make thee small among the heathen and despised among men
thy terribleness hath deceived thee and the pride of thine heart o thou that dwellest in the clefts of the rock that holdest the height of the hill though thou shouldest make thy nest as high as the eagle i will bring thee down from thence saith the lord
also edom shall be a desolation every one that goeth by it shall be astonished and shall hiss at all the plagues thereof
as in the overthrow of sodom and gomorrah and the neighbour cities thereof saith the lord no man shall abide there neither shall a son of man dwell in it
behold he shall come up like a lion from the swelling of jordan against the habitation of the strong but i will suddenly make him run away from her and who is a chosen man that i may appoint over her for who is like me and who will appoint me the time and who is that shepherd that will stand before me
therefore hear the counsel of the lord that he hath taken against edom and his purposes that he hath purposed against the inhabitants of teman surely the least of the flock shall draw them out surely he shall make their habitations desolate with them
the earth is moved at the noise of their fall at the cry the noise thereof was heard in the red sea
behold he shall come up and fly as the eagle and spread his wings over bozrah and at that day shall the heart of the mighty men of edom be as the heart of a woman in her pangs
concerning damascus hamath is confounded and arpad for they have heard evil tidings they are fainthearted there is sorrow on the sea it cannot be quiet
damascus is waxed feeble and turneth herself to flee and fear hath seized on her anguish and sorrows have taken her as a woman in travail
how is the city of praise not left the city of my joy
therefore her young men shall fall in her streets and all the men of war shall be cut off in that day saith the lord of hosts
and i will kindle a fire in the wall of damascus and it shall consume the palaces of benhadad
concerning kedar and concerning the kingdoms of hazor which nebuchadrezzar king of babylon shall smite thus saith the lord arise ye go up to kedar and spoil the men of the east
their tents and their flocks shall they take away they shall take to themselves their curtains and all their vessels and their camels and they shall cry unto them fear is on every side
flee get you far off dwell deep o ye inhabitants of hazor saith the lord for nebuchadrezzar king of babylon hath taken counsel against you and hath conceived a purpose against you
arise get you up unto the wealthy nation that dwelleth without care saith the lord which have neither gates nor bars which dwell alone
and their camels shall be a booty and the multitude of their cattle a spoil and i will scatter into all winds them that are in the utmost corners and i will bring their calamity from all sides thereof saith the lord
and hazor shall be a dwelling for dragons and a desolation for ever there shall no man abide there nor any son of man dwell in it
the word of the lord that came to jeremiah the prophet against elam in the beginning of the reign of zedekiah king of judah saying
thus saith the lord of hosts behold i will break the bow of elam the chief of their might
and upon elam will i bring the four winds from the four quarters of heaven and will scatter them toward all those winds and there shall be no nation whither the outcasts of elam shall not come
for i will cause elam to be dismayed before their enemies and before them that seek their life and i will bring evil upon them even my fierce anger saith the lord and i will send the sword after them till i have consumed them
and i will set my throne in elam and will destroy from thence the king and the princes saith the lord
but it shall come to pass in the latter days that i will bring again the captivity of elam saith the lord
the word that the lord spake against babylon and against the land of the chaldeans by jeremiah the prophet
declare ye among the nations and publish and set up a standard publish and conceal not say babylon is taken bel is confounded merodach is broken in pieces her idols are confounded her images are broken in pieces
for out of the north there cometh up a nation against her which shall make her land desolate and none shall dwell therein they shall remove they shall depart both man and beast
in those days and in that time saith the lord the children of israel shall come they and the children of judah together going and weeping they shall go and seek the lord their god
they shall ask the way to zion with their faces thitherward saying come and let us join ourselves to the lord in a perpetual covenant that shall not be forgotten
my people hath been lost sheep their shepherds have caused them to go astray they have turned them away on the mountains they have gone from mountain to hill they have forgotten their restingplace
all that found them have devoured them and their adversaries said we offend not because they have sinned against the lord the habitation of justice even the lord the hope of their fathers
remove out of the midst of babylon and go forth out of the land of the chaldeans and be as the he goats before the flocks
for lo i will raise and cause to come up against babylon an assembly of great nations from the north country and they shall set themselves in array against her from thence she shall be taken their arrows shall be as of a mighty expert man none shall return in vain
and chaldea shall be a spoil all that spoil her shall be satisfied saith the lord
because ye were glad because ye rejoiced o ye destroyers of mine heritage because ye are grown fat as the heifer at grass and bellow as bulls
your mother shall be sore confounded she that bare you shall be ashamed behold the hindermost of the nations shall be a wilderness a dry land and a desert
because of the wrath of the lord it shall not be inhabited but it shall be wholly desolate every one that goeth by babylon shall be astonished and hiss at all her plagues
put yourselves in array against babylon round about all ye that bend the bow shoot at her spare no arrows for she hath sinned against the lord
shout against her round about she hath given her hand her foundations are fallen her walls are thrown down for it is the vengeance of the lord take vengeance upon her as she hath done do unto her
cut off the sower from babylon and him that handleth the sickle in the time of harvest for fear of the oppressing sword they shall turn every one to his people and they shall flee every one to his own land
israel is a scattered sheep the lions have driven him away first the king of assyria hath devoured him and last this nebuchadrezzar king of babylon hath broken his bones
therefore thus saith the lord of hosts the god of israel behold i will punish the king of babylon and his land as i have punished the king of assyria
and i will bring israel again to his habitation and he shall feed on carmel and bashan and his soul shall be satisfied upon mount ephraim and gilead
in those days and in that time saith the lord the iniquity of israel shall be sought for and there shall be none and the sins of judah and they shall not be found for i will pardon them whom i reserve
go up against the land of merathaim even against it and against the inhabitants of pekod waste and utterly destroy after them saith the lord and do according to all that i have commanded thee
a sound of battle is in the land and of great destruction
how is the hammer of the whole earth cut asunder and broken how is babylon become a desolation among the nations
i have laid a snare for thee and thou art also taken o babylon and thou wast not aware thou art found and also caught because thou hast striven against the lord
the lord hath opened his armoury and hath brought forth the weapons of his indignation for this is the work of the lord god of hosts in the land of the chaldeans
come against her from the utmost border open her storehouses cast her up as heaps and destroy her utterly let nothing of her be left
slay all her bullocks let them go down to the slaughter woe unto them for their day is come the time of their visitation
the voice of them that flee and escape out of the land of babylon to declare in zion the vengeance of the lord our god the vengeance of his temple
call together the archers against babylon all ye that bend the bow camp against it round about let none thereof escape recompense her according to her work according to all that she hath done do unto her for she hath been proud against the lord against the holy one of israel
therefore shall her young men fall in the streets and all her men of war shall be cut off in that day saith the lord
behold i am against thee o thou most proud saith the lord god of hosts for thy day is come the time that i will visit thee
and the most proud shall stumble and fall and none shall raise him up and i will kindle a fire in his cities and it shall devour all round about him
thus saith the lord of hosts the children of israel and the children of judah were oppressed together and all that took them captives held them fast they refused to let them go
their redeemer is strong the lord of hosts is his name he shall throughly plead their cause that he may give rest to the land and disquiet the inhabitants of babylon
a sword is upon the chaldeans saith the lord and upon the inhabitants of babylon and upon her princes and upon her wise men
a sword is upon the liars and they shall dote a sword is upon her mighty men and they shall be dismayed
a sword is upon their horses and upon their chariots and upon all the mingled people that are in the midst of her and they shall become as women a sword is upon her treasures and they shall be robbed
a drought is upon her waters and they shall be dried up for it is the land of graven images and they are mad upon their idols
therefore the wild beasts of the desert with the wild beasts of the islands shall dwell there and the owls shall dwell therein and it shall be no more inhabited for ever neither shall it be dwelt in from generation to generation
as god overthrew sodom and gomorrah and the neighbour cities thereof saith the lord so shall no man abide there neither shall any son of man dwell therein
behold a people shall come from the north and a great nation and many kings shall be raised up from the coasts of the earth
they shall hold the bow and the lance they are cruel and will not shew mercy their voice shall roar like the sea and they shall ride upon horses every one put in array like a man to the battle against thee o daughter of babylon
the king of babylon hath heard the report of them and his hands waxed feeble anguish took hold of him and pangs as of a woman in travail
behold he shall come up like a lion from the swelling of jordan unto the habitation of the strong but i will make them suddenly run away from her and who is a chosen man that i may appoint over her for who is like me and who will appoint me the time and who is that shepherd that will stand before me
therefore hear ye the counsel of the lord that he hath taken against babylon and his purposes that he hath purposed against the land of the chaldeans surely the least of the flock shall draw them out surely he shall make their habitation desolate with them
at the noise of the taking of babylon the earth is moved and the cry is heard among the nations
thus saith the lord behold i will raise up against babylon and against them that dwell in the midst of them that rise up against me a destroying wind
and will send unto babylon fanners that shall fan her and shall empty her land for in the day of trouble they shall be against her round about
against him that bendeth let the archer bend his bow and against him that lifteth himself up in his brigandine and spare ye not her young men destroy ye utterly all her host
thus the slain shall fall in the land of the chaldeans and they that are thrust through in her streets
for israel hath not been forsaken nor judah of his god of the lord of hosts though their land was filled with sin against the holy one of israel
flee out of the midst of babylon and deliver every man his soul be not cut off in her iniquity for this is the time of the lord's vengeance he will render unto her a recompence
babylon hath been a golden cup in the lord's hand that made all the earth drunken the nations have drunken of her wine therefore the nations are mad
babylon is suddenly fallen and destroyed howl for her take balm for her pain if so be she may be healed
we would have healed babylon but she is not healed forsake her and let us go every one into his own country for her judgment reacheth unto heaven and is lifted up even to the skies
the lord hath brought forth our righteousness come and let us declare in zion the work of the lord our god
make bright the arrows gather the shields the lord hath raised up the spirit of the kings of the medes for his device is against babylon to destroy it because it is the vengeance of the lord the vengeance of his temple
set up the standard upon the walls of babylon make the watch strong set up the watchmen prepare the ambushes for the lord hath both devised and done that which he spake against the inhabitants of babylon
o thou that dwellest upon many waters abundant in treasures thine end is come and the measure of thy covetousness
the lord of hosts hath sworn by himself saying surely i will fill thee with men as with caterpillers and they shall lift up a shout against thee
he hath made the earth by his power he hath established the world by his wisdom and hath stretched out the heaven by his understanding
when he uttereth his voice there is a multitude of waters in the heavens and he causeth the vapours to ascend from the ends of the earth he maketh lightnings with rain and bringeth forth the wind out of his treasures
every man is brutish by his knowledge every founder is confounded by the graven image for his molten image is falsehood and there is no breath in them
they are vanity the work of errors in the time of their visitation they shall perish
the portion of jacob is not like them for he is the former of all things and israel is the rod of his inheritance the lord of hosts is his name
thou art my battle axe and weapons of war for with thee will i break in pieces the nations and with thee will i destroy kingdoms
and with thee will i break in pieces the horse and his rider and with thee will i break in pieces the chariot and his rider
with thee also will i break in pieces man and woman and with thee will i break in pieces old and young and with thee will i break in pieces the young man and the maid
i will also break in pieces with thee the shepherd and his flock and with thee will i break in pieces the husbandman and his yoke of oxen and with thee will i break in pieces captains and rulers
and i will render unto babylon and to all the inhabitants of chaldea all their evil that they have done in zion in your sight saith the lord
behold i am against thee o destroying mountain saith the lord which destroyest all the earth and i will stretch out mine hand upon thee and roll thee down from the rocks and will make thee a burnt mountain
and they shall not take of thee a stone for a corner nor a stone for foundations but thou shalt be desolate for ever saith the lord
set ye up a standard in the land blow the trumpet among the nations prepare the nations against her call together against her the kingdoms of ararat minni and ashchenaz appoint a captain against her cause the horses to come up as the rough caterpillers
prepare against her the nations with the kings of the medes the captains thereof and all the rulers thereof and all the land of his dominion
and the land shall tremble and sorrow for every purpose of the lord shall be performed against babylon to make the land of babylon a desolation without an inhabitant
the mighty men of babylon have forborn to fight they have remained in their holds their might hath failed they became as women they have burned her dwellingplaces her bars are broken
one post shall run to meet another and one messenger to meet another to shew the king of babylon that his city is taken at one end
and that the passages are stopped and the reeds they have burned with fire and the men of war are affrighted
for thus saith the lord of hosts the god of israel the daughter of babylon is like a threshingfloor it is time to thresh her yet a little while and the time of her harvest shall come
nebuchadrezzar the king of babylon hath devoured me he hath crushed me he hath made me an empty vessel he hath swallowed me up like a dragon he hath filled his belly with my delicates he hath cast me out
the violence done to me and to my flesh be upon babylon shall the inhabitant of zion say and my blood upon the inhabitants of chaldea shall jerusalem say
therefore thus saith the lord behold i will plead thy cause and take vengeance for thee and i will dry up her sea and make her springs dry
and babylon shall become heaps a dwellingplace for dragons an astonishment and an hissing without an inhabitant
they shall roar together like lions they shall yell as lions whelps
in their heat i will make their feasts and i will make them drunken that they may rejoice and sleep a perpetual sleep and not wake saith the lord
i will bring them down like lambs to the slaughter like rams with he goats
how is sheshach taken and how is the praise of the whole earth surprised how is babylon become an astonishment among the nations
the sea is come up upon babylon she is covered with the multitude of the waves thereof
her cities are a desolation a dry land and a wilderness a land wherein no man dwelleth neither doth any son of man pass thereby
and i will punish bel in babylon and i will bring forth out of his mouth that which he hath swallowed up and the nations shall not flow together any more unto him yea the wall of babylon shall fall
my people go ye out of the midst of her and deliver ye every man his soul from the fierce anger of the lord
and lest your heart faint and ye fear for the rumour that shall be heard in the land a rumour shall both come one year and after that in another year shall come a rumour and violence in the land ruler against ruler
therefore behold the days come that i will do judgment upon the graven images of babylon and her whole land shall be confounded and all her slain shall fall in the midst of her
then the heaven and the earth and all that is therein shall sing for babylon for the spoilers shall come unto her from the north saith the lord
as babylon hath caused the slain of israel to fall so at babylon shall fall the slain of all the earth
ye that have escaped the sword go away stand not still remember the lord afar off and let jerusalem come into your mind
we are confounded because we have heard reproach shame hath covered our faces for strangers are come into the sanctuaries of the lord's house
wherefore behold the days come saith the lord that i will do judgment upon her graven images and through all her land the wounded shall groan
though babylon should mount up to heaven and though she should fortify the height of her strength yet from me shall spoilers come unto her saith the lord
a sound of a cry cometh from babylon and great destruction from the land of the chaldeans
because the lord hath spoiled babylon and destroyed out of her the great voice when her waves do roar like great waters a noise of their voice is uttered
because the spoiler is come upon her even upon babylon and her mighty men are taken every one of their bows is broken for the lord god of recompences shall surely requite
and i will make drunk her princes and her wise men her captains and her rulers and her mighty men and they shall sleep a perpetual sleep and not wake saith the king whose name is the lord of hosts
thus saith the lord of hosts the broad walls of babylon shall be utterly broken and her high gates shall be burned with fire and the people shall labour in vain and the folk in the fire and they shall be weary
the word which jeremiah the prophet commanded seraiah the son of neriah the son of maaseiah when he went with zedekiah the king of judah into babylon in the fourth year of his reign and this seraiah was a quiet prince
so jeremiah wrote in a book all the evil that should come upon babylon even all these words that are written against babylon
and jeremiah said to seraiah when thou comest to babylon and shalt see and shalt read all these words
then shalt thou say o lord thou hast spoken against this place to cut it off that none shall remain in it neither man nor beast but that it shall be desolate for ever
and it shall be when thou hast made an end of reading this book that thou shalt bind a stone to it and cast it into the midst of euphrates
and thou shalt say thus shall babylon sink and shall not rise from the evil that i will bring upon her and they shall be weary thus far are the words of jeremiah
zedekiah was one and twenty years old when he began to reign and he reigned eleven years in jerusalem and his mother's name was hamutal the daughter of jeremiah of libnah
and he did that which was evil in the eyes of the lord according to all that jehoiakim had done
for through the anger of the lord it came to pass in jerusalem and judah till he had cast them out from his presence that zedekiah rebelled against the king of babylon
and it came to pass in the ninth year of his reign in the tenth month in the tenth day of the month that nebuchadrezzar king of babylon came he and all his army against jerusalem and pitched against it and built forts against it round about
so the city was besieged unto the eleventh year of king zedekiah
and in the fourth month in the ninth day of the month the famine was sore in the city so that there was no bread for the people of the land
then the city was broken up and all the men of war fled and went forth out of the city by night by the way of the gate between the two walls which was by the king's garden now the chaldeans were by the city round about and they went by the way of the plain
but the army of the chaldeans pursued after the king and overtook zedekiah in the plains of jericho and all his army was scattered from him
then they took the king and carried him up unto the king of babylon to riblah in the land of hamath where he gave judgment upon him
and the king of babylon slew the sons of zedekiah before his eyes he slew also all the princes of judah in riblah
then he put out the eyes of zedekiah and the king of babylon bound him in chains and carried him to babylon and put him in prison till the day of his death
now in the fifth month in the tenth day of the month which was the nineteenth year of nebuchadrezzar king of babylon came nebuzaradan captain of the guard which served the king of babylon into jerusalem
and burned the house of the lord and the king's house and all the houses of jerusalem and all the houses of the great men burned he with fire
and all the army of the chaldeans that were with the captain of the guard brake down all the walls of jerusalem round about
then nebuzaradan the captain of the guard carried away captive certain of the poor of the people and the residue of the people that remained in the city and those that fell away that fell to the king of babylon and the rest of the multitude
but nebuzaradan the captain of the guard left certain of the poor of the land for vinedressers and for husbandmen
also the pillars of brass that were in the house of the lord and the bases and the brasen sea that was in the house of the lord the chaldeans brake and carried all the brass of them to babylon
the caldrons also and the shovels and the snuffers and the bowls and the spoons and all the vessels of brass wherewith they ministered took they away
and the basons and the firepans and the bowls and the caldrons and the candlesticks and the spoons and the cups that which was of gold in gold and that which was of silver in silver took the captain of the guard away
the two pillars one sea and twelve brasen bulls that were under the bases which king solomon had made in the house of the lord the brass of all these vessels was without weight
and concerning the pillars the height of one pillar was eighteen cubits and a fillet of twelve cubits did compass it and the thickness thereof was four fingers it was hollow
and a chapiter of brass was upon it and the height of one chapiter was five cubits with network and pomegranates upon the chapiters round about all of brass the second pillar also and the pomegranates were like unto these
and there were ninety and six pomegranates on a side and all the pomegranates upon the network were an hundred round about
and the captain of the guard took seraiah the chief priest and zephaniah the second priest and the three keepers of the door
he took also out of the city an eunuch which had the charge of the men of war and seven men of them that were near the king's person which were found in the city and the principal scribe of the host who mustered the people of the land and threescore men of the people of the land that were found in the midst of the city
so nebuzaradan the captain of the guard took them and brought them to the king of babylon to riblah
and the king of babylon smote them and put them to death in riblah in the land of hamath thus judah was carried away captive out of his own land
this is the people whom nebuchadrezzar carried away captive in the seventh year three thousand jews and three and twenty
in the eighteenth year of nebuchadrezzar he carried away captive from jerusalem eight hundred thirty and two persons
in the three and twentieth year of nebuchadrezzar nebuzaradan the captain of the guard carried away captive of the jews seven hundred forty and five persons all the persons were four thousand and six hundred
and it came to pass in the seven and thirtieth year of the captivity of jehoiachin king of judah in the twelfth month in the five and twentieth day of the month that evilmerodach king of babylon in the first year of his reign lifted up the head of jehoiachin king of judah and brought him forth out of prison
and spake kindly unto him and set his throne above the throne of the kings that were with him in babylon
and changed his prison garments and he did continually eat bread before him all the days of his life
and for his diet there was a continual diet given him of the king of babylon every day a portion until the day of his death all the days of his life
how doth the city sit solitary that was full of people how is she become as a widow she that was great among the nations and princess among the provinces how is she become tributary
she weepeth sore in the night and her tears are on her cheeks among all her lovers she hath none to comfort her all her friends have dealt treacherously with her they are become her enemies
judah is gone into captivity because of affliction and because of great servitude she dwelleth among the heathen she findeth no rest all her persecutors overtook her between the straits
the ways of zion do mourn because none come to the solemn feasts all her gates are desolate her priests sigh her virgins are afflicted and she is in bitterness
her adversaries are the chief her enemies prosper for the lord hath afflicted her for the multitude of her transgressions her children are gone into captivity before the enemy
and from the daughter of zion all her beauty is departed her princes are become like harts that find no pasture and they are gone without strength before the pursuer
jerusalem remembered in the days of her affliction and of her miseries all her pleasant things that she had in the days of old when her people fell into the hand of the enemy and none did help her the adversaries saw her and did mock at her sabbaths
jerusalem hath grievously sinned therefore she is removed all that honoured her despise her because they have seen her nakedness yea she sigheth and turneth backward
her filthiness is in her skirts she remembereth not her last end therefore she came down wonderfully she had no comforter o lord behold my affliction for the enemy hath magnified himself
the adversary hath spread out his hand upon all her pleasant things for she hath seen that the heathen entered into her sanctuary whom thou didst command that they should not enter into thy congregation
all her people sigh they seek bread they have given their pleasant things for meat to relieve the soul see o lord and consider for i am become vile
is it nothing to you all ye that pass by behold and see if there be any sorrow like unto my sorrow which is done unto me wherewith the lord hath afflicted me in the day of his fierce anger
from above hath he sent fire into my bones and it prevaileth against them he hath spread a net for my feet he hath turned me back he hath made me desolate and faint all the day
the yoke of my transgressions is bound by his hand they are wreathed and come up upon my neck he hath made my strength to fall the lord hath delivered me into their hands from whom i am not able to rise up
the lord hath trodden under foot all my mighty men in the midst of me he hath called an assembly against me to crush my young men the lord hath trodden the virgin the daughter of judah as in a winepress
for these things i weep mine eye mine eye runneth down with water because the comforter that should relieve my soul is far from me my children are desolate because the enemy prevailed
zion spreadeth forth her hands and there is none to comfort her the lord hath commanded concerning jacob that his adversaries should be round about him jerusalem is as a menstruous woman among them
the lord is righteous for i have rebelled against his commandment hear i pray you all people and behold my sorrow my virgins and my young men are gone into captivity
i called for my lovers but they deceived me my priests and mine elders gave up the ghost in the city while they sought their meat to relieve their souls
behold o lord for i am in distress my bowels are troubled mine heart is turned within me for i have grievously rebelled abroad the sword bereaveth at home there is as death
they have heard that i sigh there is none to comfort me all mine enemies have heard of my trouble they are glad that thou hast done it thou wilt bring the day that thou hast called and they shall be like unto me
let all their wickedness come before thee and do unto them as thou hast done unto me for all my transgressions for my sighs are many and my heart is faint
how hath the lord covered the daughter of zion with a cloud in his anger and cast down from heaven unto the earth the beauty of israel and remembered not his footstool in the day of his anger
the lord hath swallowed up all the habitations of jacob and hath not pitied he hath thrown down in his wrath the strong holds of the daughter of judah he hath brought them down to the ground he hath polluted the kingdom and the princes thereof
he hath cut off in his fierce anger all the horn of israel he hath drawn back his right hand from before the enemy and he burned against jacob like a flaming fire which devoureth round about
he hath bent his bow like an enemy he stood with his right hand as an adversary and slew all that were pleasant to the eye in the tabernacle of the daughter of zion he poured out his fury like fire
the lord was as an enemy he hath swallowed up israel he hath swallowed up all her palaces he hath destroyed his strong holds and hath increased in the daughter of judah mourning and lamentation
and he hath violently taken away his tabernacle as if it were of a garden he hath destroyed his places of the assembly the lord hath caused the solemn feasts and sabbaths to be forgotten in zion and hath despised in the indignation of his anger the king and the priest
the lord hath cast off his altar he hath abhorred his sanctuary he hath given up into the hand of the enemy the walls of her palaces they have made a noise in the house of the lord as in the day of a solemn feast
the lord hath purposed to destroy the wall of the daughter of zion he hath stretched out a line he hath not withdrawn his hand from destroying therefore he made the rampart and the wall to lament they languished together
her gates are sunk into the ground he hath destroyed and broken her bars her king and her princes are among the gentiles the law is no more her prophets also find no vision from the lord
the elders of the daughter of zion sit upon the ground and keep silence they have cast up dust upon their heads they have girded themselves with sackcloth the virgins of jerusalem hang down their heads to the ground
mine eyes do fail with tears my bowels are troubled my liver is poured upon the earth for the destruction of the daughter of my people because the children and the sucklings swoon in the streets of the city
they say to their mothers where is corn and wine when they swooned as the wounded in the streets of the city when their soul was poured out into their mothers bosom
what thing shall i take to witness for thee what thing shall i liken to thee o daughter of jerusalem what shall i equal to thee that i may comfort thee o virgin daughter of zion for thy breach is great like the sea who can heal thee
thy prophets have seen vain and foolish things for thee and they have not discovered thine iniquity to turn away thy captivity but have seen for thee false burdens and causes of banishment
all that pass by clap their hands at thee they hiss and wag their head at the daughter of jerusalem saying is this the city that men call the perfection of beauty the joy of the whole earth
all thine enemies have opened their mouth against thee they hiss and gnash the teeth they say we have swallowed her up certainly this is the day that we looked for we have found we have seen it
the lord hath done that which he had devised he hath fulfilled his word that he had commanded in the days of old he hath thrown down and hath not pitied and he hath caused thine enemy to rejoice over thee he hath set up the horn of thine adversaries
their heart cried unto the lord o wall of the daughter of zion let tears run down like a river day and night give thyself no rest let not the apple of thine eye cease
arise cry out in the night in the beginning of the watches pour out thine heart like water before the face of the lord lift up thy hands toward him for the life of thy young children that faint for hunger in the top of every street
behold o lord and consider to whom thou hast done this shall the women eat their fruit and children of a span long shall the priest and the prophet be slain in the sanctuary of the lord
the young and the old lie on the ground in the streets my virgins and my young men are fallen by the sword thou hast slain them in the day of thine anger thou hast killed and not pitied
thou hast called as in a solemn day my terrors round about so that in the day of the lord's anger none escaped nor remained those that i have swaddled and brought up hath mine enemy consumed
i am the man that hath seen affliction by the rod of his wrath
he hath led me and brought me into darkness but not into light
surely against me is he turned he turneth his hand against me all the day
my flesh and my skin hath he made old he hath broken my bones
he hath builded against me and compassed me with gall and travail
he hath set me in dark places as they that be dead of old
he hath hedged me about that i cannot get out he hath made my chain heavy
also when i cry and shout he shutteth out my prayer
he hath inclosed my ways with hewn stone he hath made my paths crooked
he was unto me as a bear lying in wait and as a lion in secret places
he hath turned aside my ways and pulled me in pieces he hath made me desolate
he hath bent his bow and set me as a mark for the arrow
he hath caused the arrows of his quiver to enter into my reins
i was a derision to all my people and their song all the day
he hath filled me with bitterness he hath made me drunken with wormwood
he hath also broken my teeth with gravel stones he hath covered me with ashes
and thou hast removed my soul far off from peace i forgat prosperity
and i said my strength and my hope is perished from the lord
remembering mine affliction and my misery the wormwood and the gall
my soul hath them still in remembrance and is humbled in me
this i recall to my mind therefore have i hope
it is of the lord's mercies that we are not consumed because his compassions fail not
they are new every morning great is thy faithfulness
the lord is my portion saith my soul therefore will i hope in him
the lord is good unto them that wait for him to the soul that seeketh him
it is good that a man should both hope and quietly wait for the salvation of the lord
it is good for a man that he bear the yoke in his youth
he sitteth alone and keepeth silence because he hath borne it upon him
he putteth his mouth in the dust if so be there may be hope
he giveth his cheek to him that smiteth him he is filled full with reproach
for the lord will not cast off for ever
but though he cause grief yet will he have compassion according to the multitude of his mercies
for he doth not afflict willingly nor grieve the children of men
to crush under his feet all the prisoners of the earth
to turn aside the right of a man before the face of the most high
to subvert a man in his cause the lord approveth not
who is he that saith and it cometh to pass when the lord commandeth it not
out of the mouth of the most high proceedeth not evil and good
wherefore doth a living man complain a man for the punishment of his sins
let us search and try our ways and turn again to the lord
let us lift up our heart with our hands unto god in the heavens
we have transgressed and have rebelled thou hast not pardoned
thou hast covered with anger and persecuted us thou hast slain thou hast not pitied
thou hast covered thyself with a cloud that our prayer should not pass through
thou hast made us as the offscouring and refuse in the midst of the people
all our enemies have opened their mouths against us
fear and a snare is come upon us desolation and destruction
mine eye runneth down with rivers of water for the destruction of the daughter of my people
mine eye trickleth down and ceaseth not without any intermission
till the lord look down and behold from heaven
mine eye affecteth mine heart because of all the daughters of my city
mine enemies chased me sore like a bird without cause
they have cut off my life in the dungeon and cast a stone upon me
waters flowed over mine head then i said i am cut off
i called upon thy name o lord out of the low dungeon
thou hast heard my voice hide not thine ear at my breathing at my cry
thou drewest near in the day that i called upon thee thou saidst fear not
o lord thou hast pleaded the causes of my soul thou hast redeemed my life
o lord thou hast seen my wrong judge thou my cause
thou hast seen all their vengeance and all their imaginations against me
thou hast heard their reproach o lord and all their imaginations against me
the lips of those that rose up against me and their device against me all the day
behold their sitting down and their rising up i am their musick
render unto them a recompence o lord according to the work of their hands
give them sorrow of heart thy curse unto them
persecute and destroy them in anger from under the heavens of the lord
how is the gold become dim how is the most fine gold changed the stones of the sanctuary are poured out in the top of every street
the precious sons of zion comparable to fine gold how are they esteemed as earthen pitchers the work of the hands of the potter
even the sea monsters draw out the breast they give suck to their young ones the daughter of my people is become cruel like the ostriches in the wilderness
the tongue of the sucking child cleaveth to the roof of his mouth for thirst the young children ask bread and no man breaketh it unto them
they that did feed delicately are desolate in the streets they that were brought up in scarlet embrace dunghills
for the punishment of the iniquity of the daughter of my people is greater than the punishment of the sin of sodom that was overthrown as in a moment and no hands stayed on her
her nazarites were purer than snow they were whiter than milk they were more ruddy in body than rubies their polishing was of sapphire
their visage is blacker than a coal they are not known in the streets their skin cleaveth to their bones it is withered it is become like a stick
they that be slain with the sword are better than they that be slain with hunger for these pine away stricken through for want of the fruits of the field
the hands of the pitiful women have sodden their own children they were their meat in the destruction of the daughter of my people
the lord hath accomplished his fury he hath poured out his fierce anger and hath kindled a fire in zion and it hath devoured the foundations thereof
the kings of the earth and all the inhabitants of the world would not have believed that the adversary and the enemy should have entered into the gates of jerusalem
for the sins of her prophets and the iniquities of her priests that have shed the blood of the just in the midst of her
they have wandered as blind men in the streets they have polluted themselves with blood so that men could not touch their garments
they cried unto them depart ye it is unclean depart depart touch not when they fled away and wandered they said among the heathen they shall no more sojourn there
the anger of the lord hath divided them he will no more regard them they respected not the persons of the priests they favoured not the elders
as for us our eyes as yet failed for our vain help in our watching we have watched for a nation that could not save us
they hunt our steps that we cannot go in our streets our end is near our days are fulfilled for our end is come
our persecutors are swifter than the eagles of the heaven they pursued us upon the mountains they laid wait for us in the wilderness
the breath of our nostrils the anointed of the lord was taken in their pits of whom we said under his shadow we shall live among the heathen
rejoice and be glad o daughter of edom that dwellest in the land of uz the cup also shall pass through unto thee thou shalt be drunken and shalt make thyself naked
the punishment of thine iniquity is accomplished o daughter of zion he will no more carry thee away into captivity he will visit thine iniquity o daughter of edom he will discover thy sins
remember o lord what is come upon us consider and behold our reproach
our inheritance is turned to strangers our houses to aliens
we are orphans and fatherless our mothers are as widows
we have drunken our water for money our wood is sold unto us
our necks are under persecution we labour and have no rest
we have given the hand to the egyptians and to the assyrians to be satisfied with bread
our fathers have sinned and are not and we have borne their iniquities
servants have ruled over us there is none that doth deliver us out of their hand
we gat our bread with the peril of our lives because of the sword of the wilderness
our skin was black like an oven because of the terrible famine
they ravished the women in zion and the maids in the cities of judah
princes are hanged up by their hand the faces of elders were not honoured
they took the young men to grind and the children fell under the wood
the elders have ceased from the gate the young men from their musick
the joy of our heart is ceased our dance is turned into mourning
the crown is fallen from our head woe unto us that we have sinned
for this our heart is faint for these things our eyes are dim
because of the mountain of zion which is desolate the foxes walk upon it
thou o lord remainest for ever thy throne from generation to generation
wherefore dost thou forget us for ever and forsake us so long time
turn thou us unto thee o lord and we shall be turned renew our days as of old
but thou hast utterly rejected us thou art very wroth against us
now it came to pass in the thirtieth year in the fourth month in the fifth day of the month as i was among the captives by the river of chebar that the heavens were opened and i saw visions of god
in the fifth day of the month which was the fifth year of king jehoiachin's captivity
the word of the lord came expressly unto ezekiel the priest the son of buzi in the land of the chaldeans by the river chebar and the hand of the lord was there upon him
and i looked and behold a whirlwind came out of the north a great cloud and a fire infolding itself and a brightness was about it and out of the midst thereof as the colour of amber out of the midst of the fire
also out of the midst thereof came the likeness of four living creatures and this was their appearance they had the likeness of a man
and every one had four faces and every one had four wings
and their feet were straight feet and the sole of their feet was like the sole of a calf's foot and they sparkled like the colour of burnished brass
and they had the hands of a man under their wings on their four sides and they four had their faces and their wings
their wings were joined one to another they turned not when they went they went every one straight forward
as for the likeness of their faces they four had the face of a man and the face of a lion on the right side and they four had the face of an ox on the left side they four also had the face of an eagle
thus were their faces and their wings were stretched upward two wings of every one were joined one to another and two covered their bodies
and they went every one straight forward whither the spirit was to go they went and they turned not when they went
as for the likeness of the living creatures their appearance was like burning coals of fire and like the appearance of lamps it went up and down among the living creatures and the fire was bright and out of the fire went forth lightning
and the living creatures ran and returned as the appearance of a flash of lightning
now as i beheld the living creatures behold one wheel upon the earth by the living creatures with his four faces
the appearance of the wheels and their work was like unto the colour of a beryl and they four had one likeness and their appearance and their work was as it were a wheel in the middle of a wheel
when they went they went upon their four sides and they turned not when they went
as for their rings they were so high that they were dreadful and their rings were full of eyes round about them four
and when the living creatures went the wheels went by them and when the living creatures were lifted up from the earth the wheels were lifted up
whithersoever the spirit was to go they went thither was their spirit to go and the wheels were lifted up over against them for the spirit of the living creature was in the wheels
when those went these went and when those stood these stood and when those were lifted up from the earth the wheels were lifted up over against them for the spirit of the living creature was in the wheels
and the likeness of the firmament upon the heads of the living creature was as the colour of the terrible crystal stretched forth over their heads above
and under the firmament were their wings straight the one toward the other every one had two which covered on this side and every one had two which covered on that side their bodies
and when they went i heard the noise of their wings like the noise of great waters as the voice of the almighty the voice of speech as the noise of an host when they stood they let down their wings
and there was a voice from the firmament that was over their heads when they stood and had let down their wings
and above the firmament that was over their heads was the likeness of a throne as the appearance of a sapphire stone and upon the likeness of the throne was the likeness as the appearance of a man above upon it
and i saw as the colour of amber as the appearance of fire round about within it from the appearance of his loins even upward and from the appearance of his loins even downward i saw as it were the appearance of fire and it had brightness round about
as the appearance of the bow that is in the cloud in the day of rain so was the appearance of the brightness round about this was the appearance of the likeness of the glory of the lord and when i saw it i fell upon my face and i heard a voice of one that spake
and he said unto me son of man stand upon thy feet and i will speak unto thee
and the spirit entered into me when he spake unto me and set me upon my feet that i heard him that spake unto me
and he said unto me son of man i send thee to the children of israel to a rebellious nation that hath rebelled against me they and their fathers have transgressed against me even unto this very day
for they are impudent children and stiffhearted i do send thee unto them and thou shalt say unto them thus saith the lord god
and they whether they will hear or whether they will forbear for they are a rebellious house yet shall know that there hath been a prophet among them
and thou son of man be not afraid of them neither be afraid of their words though briers and thorns be with thee and thou dost dwell among scorpions be not afraid of their words nor be dismayed at their looks though they be a rebellious house
and thou shalt speak my words unto them whether they will hear or whether they will forbear for they are most rebellious
but thou son of man hear what i say unto thee be not thou rebellious like that rebellious house open thy mouth and eat that i give thee
and when i looked behold an hand was sent unto me and lo a roll of a book was therein
and he spread it before me and it was written within and without and there was written therein lamentations and mourning and woe
moreover he said unto me son of man eat that thou findest eat this roll and go speak unto the house of israel
so i opened my mouth and he caused me to eat that roll
and he said unto me son of man cause thy belly to eat and fill thy bowels with this roll that i give thee then did i eat it and it was in my mouth as honey for sweetness
and he said unto me son of man go get thee unto the house of israel and speak with my words unto them
for thou art not sent to a people of a strange speech and of an hard language but to the house of israel
not to many people of a strange speech and of an hard language whose words thou canst not understand surely had i sent thee to them they would have hearkened unto thee
but the house of israel will not hearken unto thee for they will not hearken unto me for all the house of israel are impudent and hardhearted
behold i have made thy face strong against their faces and thy forehead strong against their foreheads
as an adamant harder than flint have i made thy forehead fear them not neither be dismayed at their looks though they be a rebellious house
moreover he said unto me son of man all my words that i shall speak unto thee receive in thine heart and hear with thine ears
and go get thee to them of the captivity unto the children of thy people and speak unto them and tell them thus saith the lord god whether they will hear or whether they will forbear
then the spirit took me up and i heard behind me a voice of a great rushing saying blessed be the glory of the lord from his place
i heard also the noise of the wings of the living creatures that touched one another and the noise of the wheels over against them and a noise of a great rushing
so the spirit lifted me up and took me away and i went in bitterness in the heat of my spirit but the hand of the lord was strong upon me
then i came to them of the captivity at telabib that dwelt by the river of chebar and i sat where they sat and remained there astonished among them seven days
and it came to pass at the end of seven days that the word of the lord came unto me saying
son of man i have made thee a watchman unto the house of israel therefore hear the word at my mouth and give them warning from me
when i say unto the wicked thou shalt surely die and thou givest him not warning nor speakest to warn the wicked from his wicked way to save his life the same wicked man shall die in his iniquity but his blood will i require at thine hand
yet if thou warn the wicked and he turn not from his wickedness nor from his wicked way he shall die in his iniquity but thou hast delivered thy soul
again when a righteous man doth turn from his righteousness and commit iniquity and i lay a stumblingblock before him he shall die because thou hast not given him warning he shall die in his sin and his righteousness which he hath done shall not be remembered but his blood will i require at thine hand
nevertheless if thou warn the righteous man that the righteous sin not and he doth not sin he shall surely live because he is warned also thou hast delivered thy soul
and the hand of the lord was there upon me and he said unto me arise go forth into the plain and i will there talk with thee
then i arose and went forth into the plain and behold the glory of the lord stood there as the glory which i saw by the river of chebar and i fell on my face
then the spirit entered into me and set me upon my feet and spake with me and said unto me go shut thyself within thine house
but thou o son of man behold they shall put bands upon thee and shall bind thee with them and thou shalt not go out among them
and i will make thy tongue cleave to the roof of thy mouth that thou shalt be dumb and shalt not be to them a reprover for they are a rebellious house
but when i speak with thee i will open thy mouth and thou shalt say unto them thus saith the lord god he that heareth let him hear and he that forbeareth let him forbear for they are a rebellious house
thou also son of man take thee a tile and lay it before thee and pourtray upon it the city even jerusalem
and lay siege against it and build a fort against it and cast a mount against it set the camp also against it and set battering rams against it round about
moreover take thou unto thee an iron pan and set it for a wall of iron between thee and the city and set thy face against it and it shall be besieged and thou shalt lay siege against it this shall be a sign to the house of israel
lie thou also upon thy left side and lay the iniquity of the house of israel upon it according to the number of the days that thou shalt lie upon it thou shalt bear their iniquity
for i have laid upon thee the years of their iniquity according to the number of the days three hundred and ninety days so shalt thou bear the iniquity of the house of israel
and when thou hast accomplished them lie again on thy right side and thou shalt bear the iniquity of the house of judah forty days i have appointed thee each day for a year
therefore thou shalt set thy face toward the siege of jerusalem and thine arm shall be uncovered and thou shalt prophesy against it
and behold i will lay bands upon thee and thou shalt not turn thee from one side to another till thou hast ended the days of thy siege
take thou also unto thee wheat and barley and beans and lentiles and millet and fitches and put them in one vessel and make thee bread thereof according to the number of the days that thou shalt lie upon thy side three hundred and ninety days shalt thou eat thereof
and thy meat which thou shalt eat shall be by weight twenty shekels a day from time to time shalt thou eat it
thou shalt drink also water by measure the sixth part of an hin from time to time shalt thou drink
and thou shalt eat it as barley cakes and thou shalt bake it with dung that cometh out of man in their sight
and the lord said even thus shall the children of israel eat their defiled bread among the gentiles whither i will drive them
then said i ah lord god behold my soul hath not been polluted for from my youth up even till now have i not eaten of that which dieth of itself or is torn in pieces neither came there abominable flesh into my mouth
then he said unto me lo i have given thee cow's dung for man's dung and thou shalt prepare thy bread therewith
moreover he said unto me son of man behold i will break the staff of bread in jerusalem and they shall eat bread by weight and with care and they shall drink water by measure and with astonishment
that they may want bread and water and be astonied one with another and consume away for their iniquity
and thou son of man take thee a sharp knife take thee a barber's razor and cause it to pass upon thine head and upon thy beard then take thee balances to weigh and divide the hair
thou shalt burn with fire a third part in the midst of the city when the days of the siege are fulfilled and thou shalt take a third part and smite about it with a knife and a third part thou shalt scatter in the wind and i will draw out a sword after them
thou shalt also take thereof a few in number and bind them in thy skirts
then take of them again and cast them into the midst of the fire and burn them in the fire for thereof shall a fire come forth into all the house of israel
thus saith the lord god this is jerusalem i have set it in the midst of the nations and countries that are round about her
and she hath changed my judgments into wickedness more than the nations and my statutes more than the countries that are round about her for they have refused my judgments and my statutes they have not walked in them
therefore thus saith the lord god because ye multiplied more than the nations that are round about you and have not walked in my statutes neither have kept my judgments neither have done according to the judgments of the nations that are round about you
therefore thus saith the lord god behold i even i am against thee and will execute judgments in the midst of thee in the sight of the nations
and i will do in thee that which i have not done and whereunto i will not do any more the like because of all thine abominations
therefore the fathers shall eat the sons in the midst of thee and the sons shall eat their fathers and i will execute judgments in thee and the whole remnant of thee will i scatter into all the winds
wherefore as i live saith the lord god surely because thou hast defiled my sanctuary with all thy detestable things and with all thine abominations therefore will i also diminish thee neither shall mine eye spare neither will i have any pity
a third part of thee shall die with the pestilence and with famine shall they be consumed in the midst of thee and a third part shall fall by the sword round about thee and i will scatter a third part into all the winds and i will draw out a sword after them
thus shall mine anger be accomplished and i will cause my fury to rest upon them and i will be comforted and they shall know that i the lord have spoken it in my zeal when i have accomplished my fury in them
moreover i will make thee waste and a reproach among the nations that are round about thee in the sight of all that pass by
so it shall be a reproach and a taunt an instruction and an astonishment unto the nations that are round about thee when i shall execute judgments in thee in anger and in fury and in furious rebukes i the lord have spoken it
when i shall send upon them the evil arrows of famine which shall be for their destruction and which i will send to destroy you and i will increase the famine upon you and will break your staff of bread
so will i send upon you famine and evil beasts and they shall bereave thee and pestilence and blood shall pass through thee and i will bring the sword upon thee i the lord have spoken it
and the word of the lord came unto me saying
son of man set thy face toward the mountains of israel and prophesy against them
and say ye mountains of israel hear the word of the lord god thus saith the lord god to the mountains and to the hills to the rivers and to the valleys behold i even i will bring a sword upon you and i will destroy your high places
and your altars shall be desolate and your images shall be broken and i will cast down your slain men before your idols
and i will lay the dead carcases of the children of israel before their idols and i will scatter your bones round about your altars
in all your dwellingplaces the cities shall be laid waste and the high places shall be desolate that your altars may be laid waste and made desolate and your idols may be broken and cease and your images may be cut down and your works may be abolished
and the slain shall fall in the midst of you and ye shall know that i am the lord
yet will i leave a remnant that ye may have some that shall escape the sword among the nations when ye shall be scattered through the countries
and they that escape of you shall remember me among the nations whither they shall be carried captives because i am broken with their whorish heart which hath departed from me and with their eyes which go a whoring after their idols and they shall lothe themselves for the evils which they have committed in all their abominations
and they shall know that i am the lord and that i have not said in vain that i would do this evil unto them
thus saith the lord god smite with thine hand and stamp with thy foot and say alas for all the evil abominations of the house of israel for they shall fall by the sword by the famine and by the pestilence
he that is far off shall die of the pestilence and he that is near shall fall by the sword and he that remaineth and is besieged shall die by the famine thus will i accomplish my fury upon them
then shall ye know that i am the lord when their slain men shall be among their idols round about their altars upon every high hill in all the tops of the mountains and under every green tree and under every thick oak the place where they did offer sweet savour to all their idols
so will i stretch out my hand upon them and make the land desolate yea more desolate than the wilderness toward diblath in all their habitations and they shall know that i am the lord
moreover the word of the lord came unto me saying
also thou son of man thus saith the lord god unto the land of israel an end the end is come upon the four corners of the land
now is the end come upon thee and i will send mine anger upon thee and will judge thee according to thy ways and will recompense upon thee all thine abominations
and mine eye shall not spare thee neither will i have pity but i will recompense thy ways upon thee and thine abominations shall be in the midst of thee and ye shall know that i am the lord
thus saith the lord god an evil an only evil behold is come
an end is come the end is come it watcheth for thee behold it is come
the morning is come unto thee o thou that dwellest in the land the time is come the day of trouble is near and not the sounding again of the mountains
now will i shortly pour out my fury upon thee and accomplish mine anger upon thee and i will judge thee according to thy ways and will recompense thee for all thine abominations
and mine eye shall not spare neither will i have pity i will recompense thee according to thy ways and thine abominations that are in the midst of thee and ye shall know that i am the lord that smiteth
behold the day behold it is come the morning is gone forth the rod hath blossomed pride hath budded
violence is risen up into a rod of wickedness none of them shall remain nor of their multitude nor of any of theirs neither shall there be wailing for them
the time is come the day draweth near let not the buyer rejoice nor the seller mourn for wrath is upon all the multitude thereof
for the seller shall not return to that which is sold although they were yet alive for the vision is touching the whole multitude thereof which shall not return neither shall any strengthen himself in the iniquity of his life
they have blown the trumpet even to make all ready but none goeth to the battle for my wrath is upon all the multitude thereof
the sword is without and the pestilence and the famine within he that is in the field shall die with the sword and he that is in the city famine and pestilence shall devour him
but they that escape of them shall escape and shall be on the mountains like doves of the valleys all of them mourning every one for his iniquity
all hands shall be feeble and all knees shall be weak as water
they shall also gird themselves with sackcloth and horror shall cover them and shame shall be upon all faces and baldness upon all their heads
they shall cast their silver in the streets and their gold shall be removed their silver and their gold shall not be able to deliver them in the day of the wrath of the lord they shall not satisfy their souls neither fill their bowels because it is the stumblingblock of their iniquity
as for the beauty of his ornament he set it in majesty but they made the images of their abominations and of their detestable things therein therefore have i set it far from them
and i will give it into the hands of the strangers for a prey and to the wicked of the earth for a spoil and they shall pollute it
my face will i turn also from them and they shall pollute my secret place for the robbers shall enter into it and defile it
make a chain for the land is full of bloody crimes and the city is full of violence
wherefore i will bring the worst of the heathen and they shall possess their houses i will also make the pomp of the strong to cease and their holy places shall be defiled
destruction cometh and they shall seek peace and there shall be none
mischief shall come upon mischief and rumour shall be upon rumour then shall they seek a vision of the prophet but the law shall perish from the priest and counsel from the ancients
the king shall mourn and the prince shall be clothed with desolation and the hands of the people of the land shall be troubled i will do unto them after their way and according to their deserts will i judge them and they shall know that i am the lord
and it came to pass in the sixth year in the sixth month in the fifth day of the month as i sat in mine house and the elders of judah sat before me that the hand of the lord god fell there upon me
then i beheld and lo a likeness as the appearance of fire from the appearance of his loins even downward fire and from his loins even upward as the appearance of brightness as the colour of amber
and he put forth the form of an hand and took me by a lock of mine head and the spirit lifted me up between the earth and the heaven and brought me in the visions of god to jerusalem to the door of the inner gate that looketh toward the north where was the seat of the image of jealousy which provoketh to jealousy
and behold the glory of the god of israel was there according to the vision that i saw in the plain
then said he unto me son of man lift up thine eyes now the way toward the north so i lifted up mine eyes the way toward the north and behold northward at the gate of the altar this image of jealousy in the entry
he said furthermore unto me son of man seest thou what they do even the great abominations that the house of israel committeth here that i should go far off from my sanctuary but turn thee yet again and thou shalt see greater abominations
and he brought me to the door of the court and when i looked behold a hole in the wall
then said he unto me son of man dig now in the wall and when i had digged in the wall behold a door
and he said unto me go in and behold the wicked abominations that they do here
so i went in and saw and behold every form of creeping things and abominable beasts and all the idols of the house of israel pourtrayed upon the wall round about
and there stood before them seventy men of the ancients of the house of israel and in the midst of them stood jaazaniah the son of shaphan with every man his censer in his hand and a thick cloud of incense went up
then said he unto me son of man hast thou seen what the ancients of the house of israel do in the dark every man in the chambers of his imagery for they say the lord seeth us not the lord hath forsaken the earth
he said also unto me turn thee yet again and thou shalt see greater abominations that they do
then he brought me to the door of the gate of the lord's house which was toward the north and behold there sat women weeping for tammuz
then said he unto me hast thou seen this o son of man turn thee yet again and thou shalt see greater abominations than these
and he brought me into the inner court of the lord's house and behold at the door of the temple of the lord between the porch and the altar were about five and twenty men with their backs toward the temple of the lord and their faces toward the east and they worshipped the sun toward the east
then he said unto me hast thou seen this o son of man is it a light thing to the house of judah that they commit the abominations which they commit here for they have filled the land with violence and have returned to provoke me to anger and lo they put the branch to their nose
therefore will i also deal in fury mine eye shall not spare neither will i have pity and though they cry in mine ears with a loud voice yet will i not hear them
he cried also in mine ears with a loud voice saying cause them that have charge over the city to draw near even every man with his destroying weapon in his hand
and behold six men came from the way of the higher gate which lieth toward the north and every man a slaughter weapon in his hand and one man among them was clothed with linen with a writer's inkhorn by his side and they went in and stood beside the brasen altar
and the glory of the god of israel was gone up from the cherub whereupon he was to the threshold of the house and he called to the man clothed with linen which had the writer's inkhorn by his side
and the lord said unto him go through the midst of the city through the midst of jerusalem and set a mark upon the foreheads of the men that sigh and that cry for all the abominations that be done in the midst thereof
and to the others he said in mine hearing go ye after him through the city and smite let not your eye spare neither have ye pity
slay utterly old and young both maids and little children and women but come not near any man upon whom is the mark and begin at my sanctuary then they began at the ancient men which were before the house
and he said unto them defile the house and fill the courts with the slain go ye forth and they went forth and slew in the city
and it came to pass while they were slaying them and i was left that i fell upon my face and cried and said ah lord god wilt thou destroy all the residue of israel in thy pouring out of thy fury upon jerusalem
then said he unto me the iniquity of the house of israel and judah is exceeding great and the land is full of blood and the city full of perverseness for they say the lord hath forsaken the earth and the lord seeth not
and as for me also mine eye shall not spare neither will i have pity but i will recompense their way upon their head
and behold the man clothed with linen which had the inkhorn by his side reported the matter saying i have done as thou hast commanded me
then i looked and behold in the firmament that was above the head of the cherubims there appeared over them as it were a sapphire stone as the appearance of the likeness of a throne
and he spake unto the man clothed with linen and said go in between the wheels even under the cherub and fill thine hand with coals of fire from between the cherubims and scatter them over the city and he went in in my sight
now the cherubims stood on the right side of the house when the man went in and the cloud filled the inner court
then the glory of the lord went up from the cherub and stood over the threshold of the house and the house was filled with the cloud and the court was full of the brightness of the lord's glory
and the sound of the cherubims wings was heard even to the outer court as the voice of the almighty god when he speaketh
and it came to pass that when he had commanded the man clothed with linen saying take fire from between the wheels from between the cherubims then he went in and stood beside the wheels
and one cherub stretched forth his hand from between the cherubims unto the fire that was between the cherubims and took thereof and put it into the hands of him that was clothed with linen who took it and went out
and there appeared in the cherubims the form of a man's hand under their wings
and when i looked behold the four wheels by the cherubims one wheel by one cherub and another wheel by another cherub and the appearance of the wheels was as the colour of a beryl stone
and as for their appearances they four had one likeness as if a wheel had been in the midst of a wheel
when they went they went upon their four sides they turned not as they went but to the place whither the head looked they followed it they turned not as they went
and their whole body and their backs and their hands and their wings and the wheels were full of eyes round about even the wheels that they four had
as for the wheels it was cried unto them in my hearing o wheel
and every one had four faces the first face was the face of a cherub and the second face was the face of a man and the third the face of a lion and the fourth the face of an eagle
and the cherubims were lifted up this is the living creature that i saw by the river of chebar
and when the cherubims went the wheels went by them and when the cherubims lifted up their wings to mount up from the earth the same wheels also turned not from beside them
when they stood these stood and when they were lifted up these lifted up themselves also for the spirit of the living creature was in them
then the glory of the lord departed from off the threshold of the house and stood over the cherubims
and the cherubims lifted up their wings and mounted up from the earth in my sight when they went out the wheels also were beside them and every one stood at the door of the east gate of the lord's house and the glory of the god of israel was over them above
this is the living creature that i saw under the god of israel by the river of chebar and i knew that they were the cherubims
every one had four faces apiece and every one four wings and the likeness of the hands of a man was under their wings
and the likeness of their faces was the same faces which i saw by the river of chebar their appearances and themselves they went every one straight forward
moreover the spirit lifted me up and brought me unto the east gate of the lord's house which looketh eastward and behold at the door of the gate five and twenty men among whom i saw jaazaniah the son of azur and pelatiah the son of benaiah princes of the people
then said he unto me son of man these are the men that devise mischief and give wicked counsel in this city
which say it is not near let us build houses this city is the caldron and we be the flesh
therefore prophesy against them prophesy o son of man
and the spirit of the lord fell upon me and said unto me speak thus saith the lord thus have ye said o house of israel for i know the things that come into your mind every one of them
ye have multiplied your slain in this city and ye have filled the streets thereof with the slain
therefore thus saith the lord god your slain whom ye have laid in the midst of it they are the flesh and this city is the caldron but i will bring you forth out of the midst of it
ye have feared the sword and i will bring a sword upon you saith the lord god
and i will bring you out of the midst thereof and deliver you into the hands of strangers and will execute judgments among you
ye shall fall by the sword i will judge you in the border of israel and ye shall know that i am the lord
this city shall not be your caldron neither shall ye be the flesh in the midst thereof but i will judge you in the border of israel
and ye shall know that i am the lord for ye have not walked in my statutes neither executed my judgments but have done after the manners of the heathen that are round about you
and it came to pass when i prophesied that pelatiah the son of benaiah died then fell i down upon my face and cried with a loud voice and said ah lord god wilt thou make a full end of the remnant of israel
again the word of the lord came unto me saying
son of man thy brethren even thy brethren the men of thy kindred and all the house of israel wholly are they unto whom the inhabitants of jerusalem have said get you far from the lord unto us is this land given in possession
therefore say thus saith the lord god although i have cast them far off among the heathen and although i have scattered them among the countries yet will i be to them as a little sanctuary in the countries where they shall come
therefore say thus saith the lord god i will even gather you from the people and assemble you out of the countries where ye have been scattered and i will give you the land of israel
and they shall come thither and they shall take away all the detestable things thereof and all the abominations thereof from thence
and i will give them one heart and i will put a new spirit within you and i will take the stony heart out of their flesh and will give them an heart of flesh
that they may walk in my statutes and keep mine ordinances and do them and they shall be my people and i will be their god
but as for them whose heart walketh after the heart of their detestable things and their abominations i will recompense their way upon their own heads saith the lord god
then did the cherubims lift up their wings and the wheels beside them and the glory of the god of israel was over them above
and the glory of the lord went up from the midst of the city and stood upon the mountain which is on the east side of the city
afterwards the spirit took me up and brought me in a vision by the spirit of god into chaldea to them of the captivity so the vision that i had seen went up from me
then i spake unto them of the captivity all the things that the lord had shewed me
the word of the lord also came unto me saying
son of man thou dwellest in the midst of a rebellious house which have eyes to see and see not they have ears to hear and hear not for they are a rebellious house
therefore thou son of man prepare thee stuff for removing and remove by day in their sight and thou shalt remove from thy place to another place in their sight it may be they will consider though they be a rebellious house
then shalt thou bring forth thy stuff by day in their sight as stuff for removing and thou shalt go forth at even in their sight as they that go forth into captivity
dig thou through the wall in their sight and carry out thereby
in their sight shalt thou bear it upon thy shoulders and carry it forth in the twilight thou shalt cover thy face that thou see not the ground for i have set thee for a sign unto the house of israel
and i did so as i was commanded i brought forth my stuff by day as stuff for captivity and in the even i digged through the wall with mine hand i brought it forth in the twilight and i bare it upon my shoulder in their sight
and in the morning came the word of the lord unto me saying
son of man hath not the house of israel the rebellious house said unto thee what doest thou
say thou unto them thus saith the lord god this burden concerneth the prince in jerusalem and all the house of israel that are among them
say i am your sign like as i have done so shall it be done unto them they shall remove and go into captivity
and the prince that is among them shall bear upon his shoulder in the twilight and shall go forth they shall dig through the wall to carry out thereby he shall cover his face that he see not the ground with his eyes
my net also will i spread upon him and he shall be taken in my snare and i will bring him to babylon to the land of the chaldeans yet shall he not see it though he shall die there
and i will scatter toward every wind all that are about him to help him and all his bands and i will draw out the sword after them
and they shall know that i am the lord when i shall scatter them among the nations and disperse them in the countries
but i will leave a few men of them from the sword from the famine and from the pestilence that they may declare all their abominations among the heathen whither they come and they shall know that i am the lord
moreover the word of the lord came to me saying
son of man eat thy bread with quaking and drink thy water with trembling and with carefulness
and say unto the people of the land thus saith the lord god of the inhabitants of jerusalem and of the land of israel they shall eat their bread with carefulness and drink their water with astonishment that her land may be desolate from all that is therein because of the violence of all them that dwell therein
and the cities that are inhabited shall be laid waste and the land shall be desolate and ye shall know that i am the lord
and the word of the lord came unto me saying
son of man what is that proverb that ye have in the land of israel saying the days are prolonged and every vision faileth
tell them therefore thus saith the lord god i will make this proverb to cease and they shall no more use it as a proverb in israel but say unto them the days are at hand and the effect of every vision
for there shall be no more any vain vision nor flattering divination within the house of israel
for i am the lord i will speak and the word that i shall speak shall come to pass it shall be no more prolonged for in your days o rebellious house will i say the word and will perform it saith the lord god
again the word of the lord came to me saying
son of man behold they of the house of israel say the vision that he seeth is for many days to come and he prophesieth of the times that are far off
therefore say unto them thus saith the lord god there shall none of my words be prolonged any more but the word which i have spoken shall be done saith the lord god
and the word of the lord came unto me saying
son of man prophesy against the prophets of israel that prophesy and say thou unto them that prophesy out of their own hearts hear ye the word of the lord
thus saith the lord god woe unto the foolish prophets that follow their own spirit and have seen nothing
o israel thy prophets are like the foxes in the deserts
ye have not gone up into the gaps neither made up the hedge for the house of israel to stand in the battle in the day of the lord
they have seen vanity and lying divination saying the lord saith and the lord hath not sent them and they have made others to hope that they would confirm the word
have ye not seen a vain vision and have ye not spoken a lying divination whereas ye say the lord saith it albeit i have not spoken
therefore thus saith the lord god because ye have spoken vanity and seen lies therefore behold i am against you saith the lord god
and mine hand shall be upon the prophets that see vanity and that divine lies they shall not be in the assembly of my people neither shall they be written in the writing of the house of israel neither shall they enter into the land of israel and ye shall know that i am the lord god
because even because they have seduced my people saying peace and there was no peace and one built up a wall and lo others daubed it with untempered morter
say unto them which daub it with untempered morter that it shall fall there shall be an overflowing shower and ye o great hailstones shall fall and a stormy wind shall rend it
lo when the wall is fallen shall it not be said unto you where is the daubing wherewith ye have daubed it
therefore thus saith the lord god i will even rend it with a stormy wind in my fury and there shall be an overflowing shower in mine anger and great hailstones in my fury to consume it
so will i break down the wall that ye have daubed with untempered morter and bring it down to the ground so that the foundation thereof shall be discovered and it shall fall and ye shall be consumed in the midst thereof and ye shall know that i am the lord
thus will i accomplish my wrath upon the wall and upon them that have daubed it with untempered morter and will say unto you the wall is no more neither they that daubed it
to wit the prophets of israel which prophesy concerning jerusalem and which see visions of peace for her and there is no peace saith the lord god
likewise thou son of man set thy face against the daughters of thy people which prophesy out of their own heart and prophesy thou against them
and say thus saith the lord god woe to the women that sew pillows to all armholes and make kerchiefs upon the head of every stature to hunt souls will ye hunt the souls of my people and will ye save the souls alive that come unto you
and will ye pollute me among my people for handfuls of barley and for pieces of bread to slay the souls that should not die and to save the souls alive that should not live by your lying to my people that hear your lies
wherefore thus saith the lord god behold i am against your pillows wherewith ye there hunt the souls to make them fly and i will tear them from your arms and will let the souls go even the souls that ye hunt to make them fly
your kerchiefs also will i tear and deliver my people out of your hand and they shall be no more in your hand to be hunted and ye shall know that i am the lord
because with lies ye have made the heart of the righteous sad whom i have not made sad and strengthened the hands of the wicked that he should not return from his wicked way by promising him life
therefore ye shall see no more vanity nor divine divinations for i will deliver my people out of your hand and ye shall know that i am the lord
then came certain of the elders of israel unto me and sat before me
and the word of the lord came unto me saying
son of man these men have set up their idols in their heart and put the stumblingblock of their iniquity before their face should i be enquired of at all by them
therefore speak unto them and say unto them thus saith the lord god every man of the house of israel that setteth up his idols in his heart and putteth the stumblingblock of his iniquity before his face and cometh to the prophet i the lord will answer him that cometh according to the multitude of his idols
that i may take the house of israel in their own heart because they are all estranged from me through their idols
therefore say unto the house of israel thus saith the lord god repent and turn yourselves from your idols and turn away your faces from all your abominations
for every one of the house of israel or of the stranger that sojourneth in israel which separateth himself from me and setteth up his idols in his heart and putteth the stumblingblock of his iniquity before his face and cometh to a prophet to enquire of him concerning me i the lord will answer him by myself
and i will set my face against that man and will make him a sign and a proverb and i will cut him off from the midst of my people and ye shall know that i am the lord
and if the prophet be deceived when he hath spoken a thing i the lord have deceived that prophet and i will stretch out my hand upon him and will destroy him from the midst of my people israel
and they shall bear the punishment of their iniquity the punishment of the prophet shall be even as the punishment of him that seeketh unto him
that the house of israel may go no more astray from me neither be polluted any more with all their transgressions but that they may be my people and i may be their god saith the lord god
the word of the lord came again to me saying
son of man when the land sinneth against me by trespassing grievously then will i stretch out mine hand upon it and will break the staff of the bread thereof and will send famine upon it and will cut off man and beast from it
though these three men noah daniel and job were in it they should deliver but their own souls by their righteousness saith the lord god
if i cause noisome beasts to pass through the land and they spoil it so that it be desolate that no man may pass through because of the beasts
though these three men were in it as i live saith the lord god they shall deliver neither sons nor daughters they only shall be delivered but the land shall be desolate
or if i bring a sword upon that land and say sword go through the land so that i cut off man and beast from it
though these three men were in it as i live saith the lord god they shall deliver neither sons nor daughters but they only shall be delivered themselves
or if i send a pestilence into that land and pour out my fury upon it in blood to cut off from it man and beast
though noah daniel and job were in it as i live saith the lord god they shall deliver neither son nor daughter they shall but deliver their own souls by their righteousness
for thus saith the lord god how much more when i send my four sore judgments upon jerusalem the sword and the famine and the noisome beast and the pestilence to cut off from it man and beast
yet behold therein shall be left a remnant that shall be brought forth both sons and daughters behold they shall come forth unto you and ye shall see their way and their doings and ye shall be comforted concerning the evil that i have brought upon jerusalem even concerning all that i have brought upon it
and they shall comfort you when ye see their ways and their doings and ye shall know that i have not done without cause all that i have done in it saith the lord god
and the word of the lord came unto me saying
son of man what is the vine tree more than any tree or than a branch which is among the trees of the forest
shall wood be taken thereof to do any work or will men take a pin of it to hang any vessel thereon
behold it is cast into the fire for fuel the fire devoureth both the ends of it and the midst of it is burned is it meet for any work
behold when it was whole it was meet for no work how much less shall it be meet yet for any work when the fire hath devoured it and it is burned
therefore thus saith the lord god as the vine tree among the trees of the forest which i have given to the fire for fuel so will i give the inhabitants of jerusalem
and i will set my face against them they shall go out from one fire and another fire shall devour them and ye shall know that i am the lord when i set my face against them
and i will make the land desolate because they have committed a trespass saith the lord god
again the word of the lord came unto me saying
son of man cause jerusalem to know her abominations
and say thus saith the lord god unto jerusalem thy birth and thy nativity is of the land of canaan thy father was an amorite and thy mother an hittite
and as for thy nativity in the day thou wast born thy navel was not cut neither wast thou washed in water to supple thee thou wast not salted at all nor swaddled at all
none eye pitied thee to do any of these unto thee to have compassion upon thee but thou wast cast out in the open field to the lothing of thy person in the day that thou wast born
and when i passed by thee and saw thee polluted in thine own blood i said unto thee when thou wast in thy blood live yea i said unto thee when thou wast in thy blood live
i have caused thee to multiply as the bud of the field and thou hast increased and waxen great and thou art come to excellent ornaments thy breasts are fashioned and thine hair is grown whereas thou wast naked and bare
now when i passed by thee and looked upon thee behold thy time was the time of love and i spread my skirt over thee and covered thy nakedness yea i sware unto thee and entered into a covenant with thee saith the lord god and thou becamest mine
then washed i thee with water yea i throughly washed away thy blood from thee and i anointed thee with oil
i clothed thee also with broidered work and shod thee with badgers skin and i girded thee about with fine linen and i covered thee with silk
i decked thee also with ornaments and i put bracelets upon thy hands and a chain on thy neck
and i put a jewel on thy forehead and earrings in thine ears and a beautiful crown upon thine head
thus wast thou decked with gold and silver and thy raiment was of fine linen and silk and broidered work thou didst eat fine flour and honey and oil and thou wast exceeding beautiful and thou didst prosper into a kingdom
and thy renown went forth among the heathen for thy beauty for it was perfect through my comeliness which i had put upon thee saith the lord god
but thou didst trust in thine own beauty and playedst the harlot because of thy renown and pouredst out thy fornications on every one that passed by his it was
and of thy garments thou didst take and deckedst thy high places with divers colours and playedst the harlot thereupon the like things shall not come neither shall it be so
thou hast also taken thy fair jewels of my gold and of my silver which i had given thee and madest to thyself images of men and didst commit whoredom with them
and tookest thy broidered garments and coveredst them and thou hast set mine oil and mine incense before them
my meat also which i gave thee fine flour and oil and honey wherewith i fed thee thou hast even set it before them for a sweet savour and thus it was saith the lord god
moreover thou hast taken thy sons and thy daughters whom thou hast borne unto me and these hast thou sacrificed unto them to be devoured is this of thy whoredoms a small matter
that thou hast slain my children and delivered them to cause them to pass through the fire for them
and in all thine abominations and thy whoredoms thou hast not remembered the days of thy youth when thou wast naked and bare and wast polluted in thy blood
and it came to pass after all thy wickedness woe woe unto thee saith the lord god
that thou hast also built unto thee an eminent place and hast made thee an high place in every street
thou hast built thy high place at every head of the way and hast made thy beauty to be abhorred and hast opened thy feet to every one that passed by and multiplied thy whoredoms
thou hast also committed fornication with the egyptians thy neighbours great of flesh and hast increased thy whoredoms to provoke me to anger
behold therefore i have stretched out my hand over thee and have diminished thine ordinary food and delivered thee unto the will of them that hate thee the daughters of the philistines which are ashamed of thy lewd way
thou hast played the whore also with the assyrians because thou wast unsatiable yea thou hast played the harlot with them and yet couldest not be satisfied
thou hast moreover multiplied thy fornication in the land of canaan unto chaldea and yet thou wast not satisfied herewith
how weak is thine heart saith the lord god seeing thou doest all these things the work of an imperious whorish woman
in that thou buildest thine eminent place in the head of every way and makest thine high place in every street and hast not been as an harlot in that thou scornest hire
but as a wife that committeth adultery which taketh strangers instead of her husband
they give gifts to all whores but thou givest thy gifts to all thy lovers and hirest them that they may come unto thee on every side for thy whoredom
and the contrary is in thee from other women in thy whoredoms whereas none followeth thee to commit whoredoms and in that thou givest a reward and no reward is given unto thee therefore thou art contrary
wherefore o harlot hear the word of the lord
thus saith the lord god because thy filthiness was poured out and thy nakedness discovered through thy whoredoms with thy lovers and with all the idols of thy abominations and by the blood of thy children which thou didst give unto them
behold therefore i will gather all thy lovers with whom thou hast taken pleasure and all them that thou hast loved with all them that thou hast hated i will even gather them round about against thee and will discover thy nakedness unto them that they may see all thy nakedness
and i will judge thee as women that break wedlock and shed blood are judged and i will give thee blood in fury and jealousy
and i will also give thee into their hand and they shall throw down thine eminent place and shall break down thy high places they shall strip thee also of thy clothes and shall take thy fair jewels and leave thee naked and bare
they shall also bring up a company against thee and they shall stone thee with stones and thrust thee through with their swords
and they shall burn thine houses with fire and execute judgments upon thee in the sight of many women and i will cause thee to cease from playing the harlot and thou also shalt give no hire any more
so will i make my fury toward thee to rest and my jealousy shall depart from thee and i will be quiet and will be no more angry
because thou hast not remembered the days of thy youth but hast fretted me in all these things behold therefore i also will recompense thy way upon thine head saith the lord god and thou shalt not commit this lewdness above all thine abominations
behold every one that useth proverbs shall use this proverb against thee saying as is the mother so is her daughter
thou art thy mother's daughter that lotheth her husband and her children and thou art the sister of thy sisters which lothed their husbands and their children your mother was an hittite and your father an amorite
and thine elder sister is samaria she and her daughters that dwell at thy left hand and thy younger sister that dwelleth at thy right hand is sodom and her daughters
yet hast thou not walked after their ways nor done after their abominations but as if that were a very little thing thou wast corrupted more than they in all thy ways
as i live saith the lord god sodom thy sister hath not done she nor her daughters as thou hast done thou and thy daughters
behold this was the iniquity of thy sister sodom pride fulness of bread and abundance of idleness was in her and in her daughters neither did she strengthen the hand of the poor and needy
and they were haughty and committed abomination before me therefore i took them away as i saw good
neither hath samaria committed half of thy sins but thou hast multiplied thine abominations more than they and hast justified thy sisters in all thine abominations which thou hast done
thou also which hast judged thy sisters bear thine own shame for thy sins that thou hast committed more abominable than they they are more righteous than thou yea be thou confounded also and bear thy shame in that thou hast justified thy sisters
when i shall bring again their captivity the captivity of sodom and her daughters and the captivity of samaria and her daughters then will i bring again the captivity of thy captives in the midst of them
that thou mayest bear thine own shame and mayest be confounded in all that thou hast done in that thou art a comfort unto them
when thy sisters sodom and her daughters shall return to their former estate and samaria and her daughters shall return to their former estate then thou and thy daughters shall return to your former estate
for thy sister sodom was not mentioned by thy mouth in the day of thy pride
before thy wickedness was discovered as at the time of thy reproach of the daughters of syria and all that are round about her the daughters of the philistines which despise thee round about
thou hast borne thy lewdness and thine abominations saith the lord
for thus saith the lord god i will even deal with thee as thou hast done which hast despised the oath in breaking the covenant
nevertheless i will remember my covenant with thee in the days of thy youth and i will establish unto thee an everlasting covenant
then thou shalt remember thy ways and be ashamed when thou shalt receive thy sisters thine elder and thy younger and i will give them unto thee for daughters but not by thy covenant
and i will establish my covenant with thee and thou shalt know that i am the lord
that thou mayest remember and be confounded and never open thy mouth any more because of thy shame when i am pacified toward thee for all that thou hast done saith the lord god
and the word of the lord came unto me saying
son of man put forth a riddle and speak a parable unto the house of israel
and say thus saith the lord god a great eagle with great wings longwinged full of feathers which had divers colours came unto lebanon and took the highest branch of the cedar
he cropped off the top of his young twigs and carried it into a land of traffick he set it in a city of merchants
he took also of the seed of the land and planted it in a fruitful field he placed it by great waters and set it as a willow tree
and it grew and became a spreading vine of low stature whose branches turned toward him and the roots thereof were under him so it became a vine and brought forth branches and shot forth sprigs
there was also another great eagle with great wings and many feathers and behold this vine did bend her roots toward him and shot forth her branches toward him that he might water it by the furrows of her plantation
it was planted in a good soil by great waters that it might bring forth branches and that it might bear fruit that it might be a goodly vine
say thou thus saith the lord god shall it prosper shall he not pull up the roots thereof and cut off the fruit thereof that it wither it shall wither in all the leaves of her spring even without great power or many people to pluck it up by the roots thereof
yea behold being planted shall it prosper shall it not utterly wither when the east wind toucheth it it shall wither in the furrows where it grew
moreover the word of the lord came unto me saying
say now to the rebellious house know ye not what these things mean tell them behold the king of babylon is come to jerusalem and hath taken the king thereof and the princes thereof and led them with him to babylon
and hath taken of the king's seed and made a covenant with him and hath taken an oath of him he hath also taken the mighty of the land
that the kingdom might be base that it might not lift itself up but that by keeping of his covenant it might stand
but he rebelled against him in sending his ambassadors into egypt that they might give him horses and much people shall he prosper shall he escape that doeth such things or shall he break the covenant and be delivered
as i live saith the lord god surely in the place where the king dwelleth that made him king whose oath he despised and whose covenant he brake even with him in the midst of babylon he shall die
neither shall pharaoh with his mighty army and great company make for him in the war by casting up mounts and building forts to cut off many persons
seeing he despised the oath by breaking the covenant when lo he had given his hand and hath done all these things he shall not escape
therefore thus saith the lord god as i live surely mine oath that he hath despised and my covenant that he hath broken even it will i recompense upon his own head
and i will spread my net upon him and he shall be taken in my snare and i will bring him to babylon and will plead with him there for his trespass that he hath trespassed against me
and all his fugitives with all his bands shall fall by the sword and they that remain shall be scattered toward all winds and ye shall know that i the lord have spoken it
thus saith the lord god i will also take of the highest branch of the high cedar and will set it i will crop off from the top of his young twigs a tender one and will plant it upon an high mountain and eminent
in the mountain of the height of israel will i plant it and it shall bring forth boughs and bear fruit and be a goodly cedar and under it shall dwell all fowl of every wing in the shadow of the branches thereof shall they dwell
and all the trees of the field shall know that i the lord have brought down the high tree have exalted the low tree have dried up the green tree and have made the dry tree to flourish i the lord have spoken and have done it
the word of the lord came unto me again saying
what mean ye that ye use this proverb concerning the land of israel saying the fathers have eaten sour grapes and the children's teeth are set on edge
as i live saith the lord god ye shall not have occasion any more to use this proverb in israel
behold all souls are mine as the soul of the father so also the soul of the son is mine the soul that sinneth it shall die
but if a man be just and do that which is lawful and right
and hath not eaten upon the mountains neither hath lifted up his eyes to the idols of the house of israel neither hath defiled his neighbour's wife neither hath come near to a menstruous woman
and hath not oppressed any but hath restored to the debtor his pledge hath spoiled none by violence hath given his bread to the hungry and hath covered the naked with a garment
he that hath not given forth upon usury neither hath taken any increase that hath withdrawn his hand from iniquity hath executed true judgment between man and man
hath walked in my statutes and hath kept my judgments to deal truly he is just he shall surely live saith the lord god
if he beget a son that is a robber a shedder of blood and that doeth the like to any one of these things
and that doeth not any of those duties but even hath eaten upon the mountains and defiled his neighbour's wife
hath oppressed the poor and needy hath spoiled by violence hath not restored the pledge and hath lifted up his eyes to the idols hath committed abomination
hath given forth upon usury and hath taken increase shall he then live he shall not live he hath done all these abominations he shall surely die his blood shall be upon him
now lo if he beget a son that seeth all his father's sins which he hath done and considereth and doeth not such like
that hath not eaten upon the mountains neither hath lifted up his eyes to the idols of the house of israel hath not defiled his neighbour's wife
neither hath oppressed any hath not withholden the pledge neither hath spoiled by violence but hath given his bread to the hungry and hath covered the naked with a garment
that hath taken off his hand from the poor that hath not received usury nor increase hath executed my judgments hath walked in my statutes he shall not die for the iniquity of his father he shall surely live
as for his father because he cruelly oppressed spoiled his brother by violence and did that which is not good among his people lo even he shall die in his iniquity
yet say ye why doth not the son bear the iniquity of the father when the son hath done that which is lawful and right and hath kept all my statutes and hath done them he shall surely live
the soul that sinneth it shall die the son shall not bear the iniquity of the father neither shall the father bear the iniquity of the son the righteousness of the righteous shall be upon him and the wickedness of the wicked shall be upon him
but if the wicked will turn from all his sins that he hath committed and keep all my statutes and do that which is lawful and right he shall surely live he shall not die
all his transgressions that he hath committed they shall not be mentioned unto him in his righteousness that he hath done he shall live
have i any pleasure at all that the wicked should die saith the lord god and not that he should return from his ways and live
but when the righteous turneth away from his righteousness and committeth iniquity and doeth according to all the abominations that the wicked man doeth shall he live all his righteousness that he hath done shall not be mentioned in his trespass that he hath trespassed and in his sin that he hath sinned in them shall he die
yet ye say the way of the lord is not equal hear now o house of israel is not my way equal are not your ways unequal
when a righteous man turneth away from his righteousness and committeth iniquity and dieth in them for his iniquity that he hath done shall he die
again when the wicked man turneth away from his wickedness that he hath committed and doeth that which is lawful and right he shall save his soul alive
because he considereth and turneth away from all his transgressions that he hath committed he shall surely live he shall not die
yet saith the house of israel the way of the lord is not equal o house of israel are not my ways equal are not your ways unequal
therefore i will judge you o house of israel every one according to his ways saith the lord god repent and turn yourselves from all your transgressions so iniquity shall not be your ruin
cast away from you all your transgressions whereby ye have transgressed and make you a new heart and a new spirit for why will ye die o house of israel
for i have no pleasure in the death of him that dieth saith the lord god wherefore turn yourselves and live ye
moreover take thou up a lamentation for the princes of israel
and say what is thy mother a lioness she lay down among lions she nourished her whelps among young lions
and she brought up one of her whelps it became a young lion and it learned to catch the prey it devoured men
the nations also heard of him he was taken in their pit and they brought him with chains unto the land of egypt
now when she saw that she had waited and her hope was lost then she took another of her whelps and made him a young lion
and he went up and down among the lions he became a young lion and learned to catch the prey and devoured men
and he knew their desolate palaces and he laid waste their cities and the land was desolate and the fulness thereof by the noise of his roaring
then the nations set against him on every side from the provinces and spread their net over him he was taken in their pit
and they put him in ward in chains and brought him to the king of babylon they brought him into holds that his voice should no more be heard upon the mountains of israel
thy mother is like a vine in thy blood planted by the waters she was fruitful and full of branches by reason of many waters
and she had strong rods for the sceptres of them that bare rule and her stature was exalted among the thick branches and she appeared in her height with the multitude of her branches
but she was plucked up in fury she was cast down to the ground and the east wind dried up her fruit her strong rods were broken and withered the fire consumed them
and now she is planted in the wilderness in a dry and thirsty ground
and fire is gone out of a rod of her branches which hath devoured her fruit so that she hath no strong rod to be a sceptre to rule this is a lamentation and shall be for a lamentation
and it came to pass in the seventh year in the fifth month the tenth day of the month that certain of the elders of israel came to enquire of the lord and sat before me
then came the word of the lord unto me saying
son of man speak unto the elders of israel and say unto them thus saith the lord god are ye come to enquire of me as i live saith the lord god i will not be enquired of by you
wilt thou judge them son of man wilt thou judge them cause them to know the abominations of their fathers
and say unto them thus saith the lord god in the day when i chose israel and lifted up mine hand unto the seed of the house of jacob and made myself known unto them in the land of egypt when i lifted up mine hand unto them saying i am the lord your god
in the day that i lifted up mine hand unto them to bring them forth of the land of egypt into a land that i had espied for them flowing with milk and honey which is the glory of all lands
then said i unto them cast ye away every man the abominations of his eyes and defile not yourselves with the idols of egypt i am the lord your god
but they rebelled against me and would not hearken unto me they did not every man cast away the abominations of their eyes neither did they forsake the idols of egypt then i said i will pour out my fury upon them to accomplish my anger against them in the midst of the land of egypt
but i wrought for my name's sake that it should not be polluted before the heathen among whom they were in whose sight i made myself known unto them in bringing them forth out of the land of egypt
wherefore i caused them to go forth out of the land of egypt and brought them into the wilderness
and i gave them my statutes and shewed them my judgments which if a man do he shall even live in them
moreover also i gave them my sabbaths to be a sign between me and them that they might know that i am the lord that sanctify them
but the house of israel rebelled against me in the wilderness they walked not in my statutes and they despised my judgments which if a man do he shall even live in them and my sabbaths they greatly polluted then i said i would pour out my fury upon them in the wilderness to consume them
but i wrought for my name's sake that it should not be polluted before the heathen in whose sight i brought them out
yet also i lifted up my hand unto them in the wilderness that i would not bring them into the land which i had given them flowing with milk and honey which is the glory of all lands
because they despised my judgments and walked not in my statutes but polluted my sabbaths for their heart went after their idols
nevertheless mine eye spared them from destroying them neither did i make an end of them in the wilderness
but i said unto their children in the wilderness walk ye not in the statutes of your fathers neither observe their judgments nor defile yourselves with their idols
i am the lord your god walk in my statutes and keep my judgments and do them
and hallow my sabbaths and they shall be a sign between me and you that ye may know that i am the lord your god
notwithstanding the children rebelled against me they walked not in my statutes neither kept my judgments to do them which if a man do he shall even live in them they polluted my sabbaths then i said i would pour out my fury upon them to accomplish my anger against them in the wilderness
nevertheless i withdrew mine hand and wrought for my name's sake that it should not be polluted in the sight of the heathen in whose sight i brought them forth
i lifted up mine hand unto them also in the wilderness that i would scatter them among the heathen and disperse them through the countries
because they had not executed my judgments but had despised my statutes and had polluted my sabbaths and their eyes were after their fathers idols
wherefore i gave them also statutes that were not good and judgments whereby they should not live
and i polluted them in their own gifts in that they caused to pass through the fire all that openeth the womb that i might make them desolate to the end that they might know that i am the lord
therefore son of man speak unto the house of israel and say unto them thus saith the lord god yet in this your fathers have blasphemed me in that they have committed a trespass against me
for when i had brought them into the land for the which i lifted up mine hand to give it to them then they saw every high hill and all the thick trees and they offered there their sacrifices and there they presented the provocation of their offering there also they made their sweet savour and poured out there their drink offerings
then i said unto them what is the high place whereunto ye go and the name thereof is called bamah unto this day
wherefore say unto the house of israel thus saith the lord god are ye polluted after the manner of your fathers and commit ye whoredom after their abominations
for when ye offer your gifts when ye make your sons to pass through the fire ye pollute yourselves with all your idols even unto this day and shall i be enquired of by you o house of israel as i live saith the lord god i will not be enquired of by you
and that which cometh into your mind shall not be at all that ye say we will be as the heathen as the families of the countries to serve wood and stone
as i live saith the lord god surely with a mighty hand and with a stretched out arm and with fury poured out will i rule over you
and i will bring you out from the people and will gather you out of the countries wherein ye are scattered with a mighty hand and with a stretched out arm and with fury poured out
and i will bring you into the wilderness of the people and there will i plead with you face to face
like as i pleaded with your fathers in the wilderness of the land of egypt so will i plead with you saith the lord god
and i will cause you to pass under the rod and i will bring you into the bond of the covenant
and i will purge out from among you the rebels and them that transgress against me i will bring them forth out of the country where they sojourn and they shall not enter into the land of israel and ye shall know that i am the lord
as for you o house of israel thus saith the lord god go ye serve ye every one his idols and hereafter also if ye will not hearken unto me but pollute ye my holy name no more with your gifts and with your idols
for in mine holy mountain in the mountain of the height of israel saith the lord god there shall all the house of israel all of them in the land serve me there will i accept them and there will i require your offerings and the firstfruits of your oblations with all your holy things
i will accept you with your sweet savour when i bring you out from the people and gather you out of the countries wherein ye have been scattered and i will be sanctified in you before the heathen
and ye shall know that i am the lord when i shall bring you into the land of israel into the country for the which i lifted up mine hand to give it to your fathers
and there shall ye remember your ways and all your doings wherein ye have been defiled and ye shall lothe yourselves in your own sight for all your evils that ye have committed
and ye shall know that i am the lord when i have wrought with you for my name's sake not according to your wicked ways nor according to your corrupt doings o ye house of israel saith the lord god
moreover the word of the lord came unto me saying
son of man set thy face toward the south and drop thy word toward the south and prophesy against the forest of the south field
and say to the forest of the south hear the word of the lord thus saith the lord god behold i will kindle a fire in thee and it shall devour every green tree in thee and every dry tree the flaming flame shall not be quenched and all faces from the south to the north shall be burned therein
and all flesh shall see that i the lord have kindled it it shall not be quenched
then said i ah lord god they say of me doth he not speak parables
and the word of the lord came unto me saying
son of man set thy face toward jerusalem and drop thy word toward the holy places and prophesy against the land of israel
and say to the land of israel thus saith the lord behold i am against thee and will draw forth my sword out of his sheath and will cut off from thee the righteous and the wicked
seeing then that i will cut off from thee the righteous and the wicked therefore shall my sword go forth out of his sheath against all flesh from the south to the north
that all flesh may know that i the lord have drawn forth my sword out of his sheath it shall not return any more
sigh therefore thou son of man with the breaking of thy loins and with bitterness sigh before their eyes
and it shall be when they say unto thee wherefore sighest thou that thou shalt answer for the tidings because it cometh and every heart shall melt and all hands shall be feeble and every spirit shall faint and all knees shall be weak as water behold it cometh and shall be brought to pass saith the lord god
again the word of the lord came unto me saying
son of man prophesy and say thus saith the lord say a sword a sword is sharpened and also furbished
it is sharpened to make a sore slaughter it is furbished that it may glitter should we then make mirth it contemneth the rod of my son as every tree
and he hath given it to be furbished that it may be handled this sword is sharpened and it is furbished to give it into the hand of the slayer
cry and howl son of man for it shall be upon my people it shall be upon all the princes of israel terrors by reason of the sword shall be upon my people smite therefore upon thy thigh
because it is a trial and what if the sword contemn even the rod it shall be no more saith the lord god
thou therefore son of man prophesy and smite thine hands together and let the sword be doubled the third time the sword of the slain it is the sword of the great men that are slain which entereth into their privy chambers
i have set the point of the sword against all their gates that their heart may faint and their ruins be multiplied ah it is made bright it is wrapped up for the slaughter
go thee one way or other either on the right hand or on the left whithersoever thy face is set
i will also smite mine hands together and i will cause my fury to rest i the lord have said it
the word of the lord came unto me again saying
also thou son of man appoint thee two ways that the sword of the king of babylon may come both twain shall come forth out of one land and choose thou a place choose it at the head of the way to the city
appoint a way that the sword may come to rabbath of the ammonites and to judah in jerusalem the defenced
for the king of babylon stood at the parting of the way at the head of the two ways to use divination he made his arrows bright he consulted with images he looked in the liver
at his right hand was the divination for jerusalem to appoint captains to open the mouth in the slaughter to lift up the voice with shouting to appoint battering rams against the gates to cast a mount and to build a fort
and it shall be unto them as a false divination in their sight to them that have sworn oaths but he will call to remembrance the iniquity that they may be taken
therefore thus saith the lord god because ye have made your iniquity to be remembered in that your transgressions are discovered so that in all your doings your sins do appear because i say that ye are come to remembrance ye shall be taken with the hand
and thou profane wicked prince of israel whose day is come when iniquity shall have an end
thus saith the lord god remove the diadem and take off the crown this shall not be the same exalt him that is low and abase him that is high
i will overturn overturn overturn it and it shall be no more until he come whose right it is and i will give it him
and thou son of man prophesy and say thus saith the lord god concerning the ammonites and concerning their reproach even say thou the sword the sword is drawn for the slaughter it is furbished to consume because of the glittering
whiles they see vanity unto thee whiles they divine a lie unto thee to bring thee upon the necks of them that are slain of the wicked whose day is come when their iniquity shall have an end
shall i cause it to return into his sheath i will judge thee in the place where thou wast created in the land of thy nativity
and i will pour out mine indignation upon thee i will blow against thee in the fire of my wrath and deliver thee into the hand of brutish men and skilful to destroy
thou shalt be for fuel to the fire thy blood shall be in the midst of the land thou shalt be no more remembered for i the lord have spoken it
moreover the word of the lord came unto me saying
now thou son of man wilt thou judge wilt thou judge the bloody city yea thou shalt shew her all her abominations
then say thou thus saith the lord god the city sheddeth blood in the midst of it that her time may come and maketh idols against herself to defile herself
thou art become guilty in thy blood that thou hast shed and hast defiled thyself in thine idols which thou hast made and thou hast caused thy days to draw near and art come even unto thy years therefore have i made thee a reproach unto the heathen and a mocking to all countries
those that be near and those that be far from thee shall mock thee which art infamous and much vexed
behold the princes of israel every one were in thee to their power to shed blood
in thee have they set light by father and mother in the midst of thee have they dealt by oppression with the stranger in thee have they vexed the fatherless and the widow
thou hast despised mine holy things and hast profaned my sabbaths
in thee are men that carry tales to shed blood and in thee they eat upon the mountains in the midst of thee they commit lewdness
in thee have they discovered their fathers nakedness in thee have they humbled her that was set apart for pollution
and one hath committed abomination with his neighbour's wife and another hath lewdly defiled his daughter in law and another in thee hath humbled his sister his father's daughter
in thee have they taken gifts to shed blood thou hast taken usury and increase and thou hast greedily gained of thy neighbours by extortion and hast forgotten me saith the lord god
behold therefore i have smitten mine hand at thy dishonest gain which thou hast made and at thy blood which hath been in the midst of thee
can thine heart endure or can thine hands be strong in the days that i shall deal with thee i the lord have spoken it and will do it
and i will scatter thee among the heathen and disperse thee in the countries and will consume thy filthiness out of thee
and thou shalt take thine inheritance in thyself in the sight of the heathen and thou shalt know that i am the lord
and the word of the lord came unto me saying
son of man the house of israel is to me become dross all they are brass and tin and iron and lead in the midst of the furnace they are even the dross of silver
therefore thus saith the lord god because ye are all become dross behold therefore i will gather you into the midst of jerusalem
as they gather silver and brass and iron and lead and tin into the midst of the furnace to blow the fire upon it to melt it so will i gather you in mine anger and in my fury and i will leave you there and melt you
yea i will gather you and blow upon you in the fire of my wrath and ye shall be melted in the midst thereof
as silver is melted in the midst of the furnace so shall ye be melted in the midst thereof and ye shall know that i the lord have poured out my fury upon you
and the word of the lord came unto me saying
son of man say unto her thou art the land that is not cleansed nor rained upon in the day of indignation
there is a conspiracy of her prophets in the midst thereof like a roaring lion ravening the prey they have devoured souls they have taken the treasure and precious things they have made her many widows in the midst thereof
her priests have violated my law and have profaned mine holy things they have put no difference between the holy and profane neither have they shewed difference between the unclean and the clean and have hid their eyes from my sabbaths and i am profaned among them
her princes in the midst thereof are like wolves ravening the prey to shed blood and to destroy souls to get dishonest gain
and her prophets have daubed them with untempered morter seeing vanity and divining lies unto them saying thus saith the lord god when the lord hath not spoken
the people of the land have used oppression and exercised robbery and have vexed the poor and needy yea they have oppressed the stranger wrongfully
and i sought for a man among them that should make up the hedge and stand in the gap before me for the land that i should not destroy it but i found none
therefore have i poured out mine indignation upon them i have consumed them with the fire of my wrath their own way have i recompensed upon their heads saith the lord god
the word of the lord came again unto me saying
son of man there were two women the daughters of one mother
and they committed whoredoms in egypt they committed whoredoms in their youth there were their breasts pressed and there they bruised the teats of their virginity
and the names of them were aholah the elder and aholibah her sister and they were mine and they bare sons and daughters thus were their names samaria is aholah and jerusalem aholibah
and aholah played the harlot when she was mine and she doted on her lovers on the assyrians her neighbours
which were clothed with blue captains and rulers all of them desirable young men horsemen riding upon horses
thus she committed her whoredoms with them with all them that were the chosen men of assyria and with all on whom she doted with all their idols she defiled herself
neither left she her whoredoms brought from egypt for in her youth they lay with her and they bruised the breasts of her virginity and poured their whoredom upon her
wherefore i have delivered her into the hand of her lovers into the hand of the assyrians upon whom she doted
these discovered her nakedness they took her sons and her daughters and slew her with the sword and she became famous among women for they had executed judgment upon her
and when her sister aholibah saw this she was more corrupt in her inordinate love than she and in her whoredoms more than her sister in her whoredoms
she doted upon the assyrians her neighbours captains and rulers clothed most gorgeously horsemen riding upon horses all of them desirable young men
then i saw that she was defiled that they took both one way
and that she increased her whoredoms for when she saw men pourtrayed upon the wall the images of the chaldeans pourtrayed with vermilion
girded with girdles upon their loins exceeding in dyed attire upon their heads all of them princes to look to after the manner of the babylonians of chaldea the land of their nativity
and as soon as she saw them with her eyes she doted upon them and sent messengers unto them into chaldea
and the babylonians came to her into the bed of love and they defiled her with their whoredom and she was polluted with them and her mind was alienated from them
so she discovered her whoredoms and discovered her nakedness then my mind was alienated from her like as my mind was alienated from her sister
yet she multiplied her whoredoms in calling to remembrance the days of her youth wherein she had played the harlot in the land of egypt
for she doted upon their paramours whose flesh is as the flesh of asses and whose issue is like the issue of horses
thus thou calledst to remembrance the lewdness of thy youth in bruising thy teats by the egyptians for the paps of thy youth
therefore o aholibah thus saith the lord god behold i will raise up thy lovers against thee from whom thy mind is alienated and i will bring them against thee on every side
the babylonians and all the chaldeans pekod and shoa and koa and all the assyrians with them all of them desirable young men captains and rulers great lords and renowned all of them riding upon horses
and they shall come against thee with chariots wagons and wheels and with an assembly of people which shall set against thee buckler and shield and helmet round about and i will set judgment before them and they shall judge thee according to their judgments
and i will set my jealousy against thee and they shall deal furiously with thee they shall take away thy nose and thine ears and thy remnant shall fall by the sword they shall take thy sons and thy daughters and thy residue shall be devoured by the fire
they shall also strip thee out of thy clothes and take away thy fair jewels
thus will i make thy lewdness to cease from thee and thy whoredom brought from the land of egypt so that thou shalt not lift up thine eyes unto them nor remember egypt any more
for thus saith the lord god behold i will deliver thee into the hand of them whom thou hatest into the hand of them from whom thy mind is alienated
and they shall deal with thee hatefully and shall take away all thy labour and shall leave thee naked and bare and the nakedness of thy whoredoms shall be discovered both thy lewdness and thy whoredoms
i will do these things unto thee because thou hast gone a whoring after the heathen and because thou art polluted with their idols
thou hast walked in the way of thy sister therefore will i give her cup into thine hand
thus saith the lord god thou shalt drink of thy sister's cup deep and large thou shalt be laughed to scorn and had in derision it containeth much
thou shalt be filled with drunkenness and sorrow with the cup of astonishment and desolation with the cup of thy sister samaria
thou shalt even drink it and suck it out and thou shalt break the sherds thereof and pluck off thine own breasts for i have spoken it saith the lord god
therefore thus saith the lord god because thou hast forgotten me and cast me behind thy back therefore bear thou also thy lewdness and thy whoredoms
the lord said moreover unto me son of man wilt thou judge aholah and aholibah yea declare unto them their abominations
that they have committed adultery and blood is in their hands and with their idols have they committed adultery and have also caused their sons whom they bare unto me to pass for them through the fire to devour them
moreover this they have done unto me they have defiled my sanctuary in the same day and have profaned my sabbaths
for when they had slain their children to their idols then they came the same day into my sanctuary to profane it and lo thus have they done in the midst of mine house
and furthermore that ye have sent for men to come from far unto whom a messenger was sent and lo they came for whom thou didst wash thyself paintedst thy eyes and deckedst thyself with ornaments
and satest upon a stately bed and a table prepared before it whereupon thou hast set mine incense and mine oil
and a voice of a multitude being at ease was with her and with the men of the common sort were brought sabeans from the wilderness which put bracelets upon their hands and beautiful crowns upon their heads
then said i unto her that was old in adulteries will they now commit whoredoms with her and she with them
yet they went in unto her as they go in unto a woman that playeth the harlot so went they in unto aholah and unto aholibah the lewd women
and the righteous men they shall judge them after the manner of adulteresses and after the manner of women that shed blood because they are adulteresses and blood is in their hands
for thus saith the lord god i will bring up a company upon them and will give them to be removed and spoiled
and the company shall stone them with stones and dispatch them with their swords they shall slay their sons and their daughters and burn up their houses with fire
thus will i cause lewdness to cease out of the land that all women may be taught not to do after your lewdness
and they shall recompense your lewdness upon you and ye shall bear the sins of your idols and ye shall know that i am the lord god
again in the ninth year in the tenth month in the tenth day of the month the word of the lord came unto me saying
son of man write thee the name of the day even of this same day the king of babylon set himself against jerusalem this same day
and utter a parable unto the rebellious house and say unto them thus saith the lord god set on a pot set it on and also pour water into it
gather the pieces thereof into it even every good piece the thigh and the shoulder fill it with the choice bones
take the choice of the flock and burn also the bones under it and make it boil well and let them seethe the bones of it therein
wherefore thus saith the lord god woe to the bloody city to the pot whose scum is therein and whose scum is not gone out of it bring it out piece by piece let no lot fall upon it
for her blood is in the midst of her she set it upon the top of a rock she poured it not upon the ground to cover it with dust
that it might cause fury to come up to take vengeance i have set her blood upon the top of a rock that it should not be covered
therefore thus saith the lord god woe to the bloody city i will even make the pile for fire great
heap on wood kindle the fire consume the flesh and spice it well and let the bones be burned
then set it empty upon the coals thereof that the brass of it may be hot and may burn and that the filthiness of it may be molten in it that the scum of it may be consumed
she hath wearied herself with lies and her great scum went not forth out of her her scum shall be in the fire
in thy filthiness is lewdness because i have purged thee and thou wast not purged thou shalt not be purged from thy filthiness any more till i have caused my fury to rest upon thee
i the lord have spoken it it shall come to pass and i will do it i will not go back neither will i spare neither will i repent according to thy ways and according to thy doings shall they judge thee saith the lord god
also the word of the lord came unto me saying
son of man behold i take away from thee the desire of thine eyes with a stroke yet neither shalt thou mourn nor weep neither shall thy tears run down
forbear to cry make no mourning for the dead bind the tire of thine head upon thee and put on thy shoes upon thy feet and cover not thy lips and eat not the bread of men
so i spake unto the people in the morning and at even my wife died and i did in the morning as i was commanded
and the people said unto me wilt thou not tell us what these things are to us that thou doest so
then i answered them the word of the lord came unto me saying
speak unto the house of israel thus saith the lord god behold i will profane my sanctuary the excellency of your strength the desire of your eyes and that which your soul pitieth and your sons and your daughters whom ye have left shall fall by the sword
and ye shall do as i have done ye shall not cover your lips nor eat the bread of men
and your tires shall be upon your heads and your shoes upon your feet ye shall not mourn nor weep but ye shall pine away for your iniquities and mourn one toward another
thus ezekiel is unto you a sign according to all that he hath done shall ye do and when this cometh ye shall know that i am the lord god
also thou son of man shall it not be in the day when i take from them their strength the joy of their glory the desire of their eyes and that whereupon they set their minds their sons and their daughters
that he that escapeth in that day shall come unto thee to cause thee to hear it with thine ears
in that day shall thy mouth be opened to him which is escaped and thou shalt speak and be no more dumb and thou shalt be a sign unto them and they shall know that i am the lord
the word of the lord came again unto me saying
son of man set thy face against the ammonites and prophesy against them
and say unto the ammonites hear the word of the lord god thus saith the lord god because thou saidst aha against my sanctuary when it was profaned and against the land of israel when it was desolate and against the house of judah when they went into captivity
behold therefore i will deliver thee to the men of the east for a possession and they shall set their palaces in thee and make their dwellings in thee they shall eat thy fruit and they shall drink thy milk
and i will make rabbah a stable for camels and the ammonites a couching place for flocks and ye shall know that i am the lord
for thus saith the lord god because thou hast clapped thine hands and stamped with the feet and rejoiced in heart with all thy despite against the land of israel
behold therefore i will stretch out mine hand upon thee and will deliver thee for a spoil to the heathen and i will cut thee off from the people and i will cause thee to perish out of the countries i will destroy thee and thou shalt know that i am the lord
thus saith the lord god because that moab and seir do say behold the house of judah is like unto all the heathen
therefore behold i will open the side of moab from the cities from his cities which are on his frontiers the glory of the country bethjeshimoth baalmeon and kiriathaim
unto the men of the east with the ammonites and will give them in possession that the ammonites may not be remembered among the nations
and i will execute judgments upon moab and they shall know that i am the lord
thus saith the lord god because that edom hath dealt against the house of judah by taking vengeance and hath greatly offended and revenged himself upon them
therefore thus saith the lord god i will also stretch out mine hand upon edom and will cut off man and beast from it and i will make it desolate from teman and they of dedan shall fall by the sword
and i will lay my vengeance upon edom by the hand of my people israel and they shall do in edom according to mine anger and according to my fury and they shall know my vengeance saith the lord god
thus saith the lord god because the philistines have dealt by revenge and have taken vengeance with a despiteful heart to destroy it for the old hatred
therefore thus saith the lord god behold i will stretch out mine hand upon the philistines and i will cut off the cherethims and destroy the remnant of the sea coast
and i will execute great vengeance upon them with furious rebukes and they shall know that i am the lord when i shall lay my vengeance upon them
and it came to pass in the eleventh year in the first day of the month that the word of the lord came unto me saying
son of man because that tyrus hath said against jerusalem aha she is broken that was the gates of the people she is turned unto me i shall be replenished now she is laid waste
therefore thus saith the lord god behold i am against thee o tyrus and will cause many nations to come up against thee as the sea causeth his waves to come up
and they shall destroy the walls of tyrus and break down her towers i will also scrape her dust from her and make her like the top of a rock
it shall be a place for the spreading of nets in the midst of the sea for i have spoken it saith the lord god and it shall become a spoil to the nations
and her daughters which are in the field shall be slain by the sword and they shall know that i am the lord
for thus saith the lord god behold i will bring upon tyrus nebuchadrezzar king of babylon a king of kings from the north with horses and with chariots and with horsemen and companies and much people
he shall slay with the sword thy daughters in the field and he shall make a fort against thee and cast a mount against thee and lift up the buckler against thee
and he shall set engines of war against thy walls and with his axes he shall break down thy towers
by reason of the abundance of his horses their dust shall cover thee thy walls shall shake at the noise of the horsemen and of the wheels and of the chariots when he shall enter into thy gates as men enter into a city wherein is made a breach
with the hoofs of his horses shall he tread down all thy streets he shall slay thy people by the sword and thy strong garrisons shall go down to the ground
and they shall make a spoil of thy riches and make a prey of thy merchandise and they shall break down thy walls and destroy thy pleasant houses and they shall lay thy stones and thy timber and thy dust in the midst of the water
and i will cause the noise of thy songs to cease and the sound of thy harps shall be no more heard
and i will make thee like the top of a rock thou shalt be a place to spread nets upon thou shalt be built no more for i the lord have spoken it saith the lord god
thus saith the lord god to tyrus shall not the isles shake at the sound of thy fall when the wounded cry when the slaughter is made in the midst of thee
then all the princes of the sea shall come down from their thrones and lay away their robes and put off their broidered garments they shall clothe themselves with trembling they shall sit upon the ground and shall tremble at every moment and be astonished at thee
and they shall take up a lamentation for thee and say to thee how art thou destroyed that wast inhabited of seafaring men the renowned city which wast strong in the sea she and her inhabitants which cause their terror to be on all that haunt it
now shall the isles tremble in the day of thy fall yea the isles that are in the sea shall be troubled at thy departure
for thus saith the lord god when i shall make thee a desolate city like the cities that are not inhabited when i shall bring up the deep upon thee and great waters shall cover thee
when i shall bring thee down with them that descend into the pit with the people of old time and shall set thee in the low parts of the earth in places desolate of old with them that go down to the pit that thou be not inhabited and i shall set glory in the land of the living
i will make thee a terror and thou shalt be no more though thou be sought for yet shalt thou never be found again saith the lord god
the word of the lord came again unto me saying
now thou son of man take up a lamentation for tyrus
and say unto tyrus o thou that art situate at the entry of the sea which art a merchant of the people for many isles thus saith the lord god o tyrus thou hast said i am of perfect beauty
thy borders are in the midst of the seas thy builders have perfected thy beauty
they have made all thy ship boards of fir trees of senir they have taken cedars from lebanon to make masts for thee
of the oaks of bashan have they made thine oars the company of the ashurites have made thy benches of ivory brought out of the isles of chittim
fine linen with broidered work from egypt was that which thou spreadest forth to be thy sail blue and purple from the isles of elishah was that which covered thee
the inhabitants of zidon and arvad were thy mariners thy wise men o tyrus that were in thee were thy pilots
the ancients of gebal and the wise men thereof were in thee thy calkers all the ships of the sea with their mariners were in thee to occupy thy merchandise
they of persia and of lud and of phut were in thine army thy men of war they hanged the shield and helmet in thee they set forth thy comeliness
the men of arvad with thine army were upon thy walls round about and the gammadims were in thy towers they hanged their shields upon thy walls round about they have made thy beauty perfect
tarshish was thy merchant by reason of the multitude of all kind of riches with silver iron tin and lead they traded in thy fairs
javan tubal and meshech they were thy merchants they traded the persons of men and vessels of brass in thy market
they of the house of togarmah traded in thy fairs with horses and horsemen and mules
the men of dedan were thy merchants many isles were the merchandise of thine hand they brought thee for a present horns of ivory and ebony
syria was thy merchant by reason of the multitude of the wares of thy making they occupied in thy fairs with emeralds purple and broidered work and fine linen and coral and agate
judah and the land of israel they were thy merchants they traded in thy market wheat of minnith and pannag and honey and oil and balm
damascus was thy merchant in the multitude of the wares of thy making for the multitude of all riches in the wine of helbon and white wool
dan also and javan going to and fro occupied in thy fairs bright iron cassia and calamus were in thy market
dedan was thy merchant in precious clothes for chariots
arabia and all the princes of kedar they occupied with thee in lambs and rams and goats in these were they thy merchants
the merchants of sheba and raamah they were thy merchants they occupied in thy fairs with chief of all spices and with all precious stones and gold
haran and canneh and eden the merchants of sheba asshur and chilmad were thy merchants
these were thy merchants in all sorts of things in blue clothes and broidered work and in chests of rich apparel bound with cords and made of cedar among thy merchandise
the ships of tarshish did sing of thee in thy market and thou wast replenished and made very glorious in the midst of the seas
thy rowers have brought thee into great waters the east wind hath broken thee in the midst of the seas
thy riches and thy fairs thy merchandise thy mariners and thy pilots thy calkers and the occupiers of thy merchandise and all thy men of war that are in thee and in all thy company which is in the midst of thee shall fall into the midst of the seas in the day of thy ruin
the suburbs shall shake at the sound of the cry of thy pilots
and all that handle the oar the mariners and all the pilots of the sea shall come down from their ships they shall stand upon the land
and shall cause their voice to be heard against thee and shall cry bitterly and shall cast up dust upon their heads they shall wallow themselves in the ashes
and they shall make themselves utterly bald for thee and gird them with sackcloth and they shall weep for thee with bitterness of heart and bitter wailing
and in their wailing they shall take up a lamentation for thee and lament over thee saying what city is like tyrus like the destroyed in the midst of the sea
when thy wares went forth out of the seas thou filledst many people thou didst enrich the kings of the earth with the multitude of thy riches and of thy merchandise
in the time when thou shalt be broken by the seas in the depths of the waters thy merchandise and all thy company in the midst of thee shall fall
all the inhabitants of the isles shall be astonished at thee and their kings shall be sore afraid they shall be troubled in their countenance
the merchants among the people shall hiss at thee thou shalt be a terror and never shalt be any more
the word of the lord came again unto me saying
son of man say unto the prince of tyrus thus saith the lord god because thine heart is lifted up and thou hast said i am a god i sit in the seat of god in the midst of the seas yet thou art a man and not god though thou set thine heart as the heart of god
behold thou art wiser than daniel there is no secret that they can hide from thee
with thy wisdom and with thine understanding thou hast gotten thee riches and hast gotten gold and silver into thy treasures
by thy great wisdom and by thy traffick hast thou increased thy riches and thine heart is lifted up because of thy riches
therefore thus saith the lord god because thou hast set thine heart as the heart of god
behold therefore i will bring strangers upon thee the terrible of the nations and they shall draw their swords against the beauty of thy wisdom and they shall defile thy brightness
they shall bring thee down to the pit and thou shalt die the deaths of them that are slain in the midst of the seas
wilt thou yet say before him that slayeth thee i am god but thou shalt be a man and no god in the hand of him that slayeth thee
thou shalt die the deaths of the uncircumcised by the hand of strangers for i have spoken it saith the lord god
moreover the word of the lord came unto me saying
son of man take up a lamentation upon the king of tyrus and say unto him thus saith the lord god thou sealest up the sum full of wisdom and perfect in beauty
thou hast been in eden the garden of god every precious stone was thy covering the sardius topaz and the diamond the beryl the onyx and the jasper the sapphire the emerald and the carbuncle and gold the workmanship of thy tabrets and of thy pipes was prepared in thee in the day that thou wast created
thou art the anointed cherub that covereth and i have set thee so thou wast upon the holy mountain of god thou hast walked up and down in the midst of the stones of fire
thou wast perfect in thy ways from the day that thou wast created till iniquity was found in thee
by the multitude of thy merchandise they have filled the midst of thee with violence and thou hast sinned therefore i will cast thee as profane out of the mountain of god and i will destroy thee o covering cherub from the midst of the stones of fire
thine heart was lifted up because of thy beauty thou hast corrupted thy wisdom by reason of thy brightness i will cast thee to the ground i will lay thee before kings that they may behold thee
thou hast defiled thy sanctuaries by the multitude of thine iniquities by the iniquity of thy traffick therefore will i bring forth a fire from the midst of thee it shall devour thee and i will bring thee to ashes upon the earth in the sight of all them that behold thee
all they that know thee among the people shall be astonished at thee thou shalt be a terror and never shalt thou be any more
again the word of the lord came unto me saying
son of man set thy face against zidon and prophesy against it
and say thus saith the lord god behold i am against thee o zidon and i will be glorified in the midst of thee and they shall know that i am the lord when i shall have executed judgments in her and shall be sanctified in her
for i will send into her pestilence and blood into her streets and the wounded shall be judged in the midst of her by the sword upon her on every side and they shall know that i am the lord
and there shall be no more a pricking brier unto the house of israel nor any grieving thorn of all that are round about them that despised them and they shall know that i am the lord god
thus saith the lord god when i shall have gathered the house of israel from the people among whom they are scattered and shall be sanctified in them in the sight of the heathen then shall they dwell in their land that i have given to my servant jacob
and they shall dwell safely therein and shall build houses and plant vineyards yea they shall dwell with confidence when i have executed judgments upon all those that despise them round about them and they shall know that i am the lord their god
in the tenth year in the tenth month in the twelfth day of the month the word of the lord came unto me saying
son of man set thy face against pharaoh king of egypt and prophesy against him and against all egypt
speak and say thus saith the lord god behold i am against thee pharaoh king of egypt the great dragon that lieth in the midst of his rivers which hath said my river is mine own and i have made it for myself
but i will put hooks in thy jaws and i will cause the fish of thy rivers to stick unto thy scales and i will bring thee up out of the midst of thy rivers and all the fish of thy rivers shall stick unto thy scales
and i will leave thee thrown into the wilderness thee and all the fish of thy rivers thou shalt fall upon the open fields thou shalt not be brought together nor gathered i have given thee for meat to the beasts of the field and to the fowls of the heaven
and all the inhabitants of egypt shall know that i am the lord because they have been a staff of reed to the house of israel
when they took hold of thee by thy hand thou didst break and rend all their shoulder and when they leaned upon thee thou brakest and madest all their loins to be at a stand
therefore thus saith the lord god behold i will bring a sword upon thee and cut off man and beast out of thee
and the land of egypt shall be desolate and waste and they shall know that i am the lord because he hath said the river is mine and i have made it
behold therefore i am against thee and against thy rivers and i will make the land of egypt utterly waste and desolate from the tower of syene even unto the border of ethiopia
no foot of man shall pass through it nor foot of beast shall pass through it neither shall it be inhabited forty years
and i will make the land of egypt desolate in the midst of the countries that are desolate and her cities among the cities that are laid waste shall be desolate forty years and i will scatter the egyptians among the nations and will disperse them through the countries
yet thus saith the lord god at the end of forty years will i gather the egyptians from the people whither they were scattered
and i will bring again the captivity of egypt and will cause them to return into the land of pathros into the land of their habitation and they shall be there a base kingdom
it shall be the basest of the kingdoms neither shall it exalt itself any more above the nations for i will diminish them that they shall no more rule over the nations
and it shall be no more the confidence of the house of israel which bringeth their iniquity to remembrance when they shall look after them but they shall know that i am the lord god
and it came to pass in the seven and twentieth year in the first month in the first day of the month the word of the lord came unto me saying
son of man nebuchadrezzar king of babylon caused his army to serve a great service against tyrus every head was made bald and every shoulder was peeled yet had he no wages nor his army for tyrus for the service that he had served against it
therefore thus saith the lord god behold i will give the land of egypt unto nebuchadrezzar king of babylon and he shall take her multitude and take her spoil and take her prey and it shall be the wages for his army
i have given him the land of egypt for his labour wherewith he served against it because they wrought for me saith the lord god
in that day will i cause the horn of the house of israel to bud forth and i will give thee the opening of the mouth in the midst of them and they shall know that i am the lord
the word of the lord came again unto me saying
son of man prophesy and say thus saith the lord god howl ye woe worth the day
for the day is near even the day of the lord is near a cloudy day it shall be the time of the heathen
and the sword shall come upon egypt and great pain shall be in ethiopia when the slain shall fall in egypt and they shall take away her multitude and her foundations shall be broken down
ethiopia and libya and lydia and all the mingled people and chub and the men of the land that is in league shall fall with them by the sword
thus saith the lord they also that uphold egypt shall fall and the pride of her power shall come down from the tower of syene shall they fall in it by the sword saith the lord god
and they shall be desolate in the midst of the countries that are desolate and her cities shall be in the midst of the cities that are wasted
and they shall know that i am the lord when i have set a fire in egypt and when all her helpers shall be destroyed
in that day shall messengers go forth from me in ships to make the careless ethiopians afraid and great pain shall come upon them as in the day of egypt for lo it cometh
thus saith the lord god i will also make the multitude of egypt to cease by the hand of nebuchadrezzar king of babylon
he and his people with him the terrible of the nations shall be brought to destroy the land and they shall draw their swords against egypt and fill the land with the slain
and i will make the rivers dry and sell the land into the hand of the wicked and i will make the land waste and all that is therein by the hand of strangers i the lord have spoken it
thus saith the lord god i will also destroy the idols and i will cause their images to cease out of noph and there shall be no more a prince of the land of egypt and i will put a fear in the land of egypt
and i will make pathros desolate and will set fire in zoan and will execute judgments in no
and i will pour my fury upon sin the strength of egypt and i will cut off the multitude of no
and i will set fire in egypt sin shall have great pain and no shall be rent asunder and noph shall have distresses daily
the young men of aven and of pibeseth shall fall by the sword and these cities shall go into captivity
at tehaphnehes also the day shall be darkened when i shall break there the yokes of egypt and the pomp of her strength shall cease in her as for her a cloud shall cover her and her daughters shall go into captivity
thus will i execute judgments in egypt and they shall know that i am the lord
and it came to pass in the eleventh year in the first month in the seventh day of the month that the word of the lord came unto me saying
son of man i have broken the arm of pharaoh king of egypt and lo it shall not be bound up to be healed to put a roller to bind it to make it strong to hold the sword
therefore thus saith the lord god behold i am against pharaoh king of egypt and will break his arms the strong and that which was broken and i will cause the sword to fall out of his hand
and i will scatter the egyptians among the nations and will disperse them through the countries
and i will strengthen the arms of the king of babylon and put my sword in his hand but i will break pharaoh's arms and he shall groan before him with the groanings of a deadly wounded man
but i will strengthen the arms of the king of babylon and the arms of pharaoh shall fall down and they shall know that i am the lord when i shall put my sword into the hand of the king of babylon and he shall stretch it out upon the land of egypt
and i will scatter the egyptians among the nations and disperse them among the countries and they shall know that i am the lord
and it came to pass in the eleventh year in the third month in the first day of the month that the word of the lord came unto me saying
son of man speak unto pharaoh king of egypt and to his multitude whom art thou like in thy greatness
behold the assyrian was a cedar in lebanon with fair branches and with a shadowing shroud and of an high stature and his top was among the thick boughs
the waters made him great the deep set him up on high with her rivers running round about his plants and sent out her little rivers unto all the trees of the field
therefore his height was exalted above all the trees of the field and his boughs were multiplied and his branches became long because of the multitude of waters when he shot forth
all the fowls of heaven made their nests in his boughs and under his branches did all the beasts of the field bring forth their young and under his shadow dwelt all great nations
thus was he fair in his greatness in the length of his branches for his root was by great waters
the cedars in the garden of god could not hide him the fir trees were not like his boughs and the chestnut trees were not like his branches nor any tree in the garden of god was like unto him in his beauty
i have made him fair by the multitude of his branches so that all the trees of eden that were in the garden of god envied him
therefore thus saith the lord god because thou hast lifted up thyself in height and he hath shot up his top among the thick boughs and his heart is lifted up in his height
i have therefore delivered him into the hand of the mighty one of the heathen he shall surely deal with him i have driven him out for his wickedness
and strangers the terrible of the nations have cut him off and have left him upon the mountains and in all the valleys his branches are fallen and his boughs are broken by all the rivers of the land and all the people of the earth are gone down from his shadow and have left him
upon his ruin shall all the fowls of the heaven remain and all the beasts of the field shall be upon his branches
to the end that none of all the trees by the waters exalt themselves for their height neither shoot up their top among the thick boughs neither their trees stand up in their height all that drink water for they are all delivered unto death to the nether parts of the earth in the midst of the children of men with them that go down to the pit
thus saith the lord god in the day when he went down to the grave i caused a mourning i covered the deep for him and i restrained the floods thereof and the great waters were stayed and i caused lebanon to mourn for him and all the trees of the field fainted for him
i made the nations to shake at the sound of his fall when i cast him down to hell with them that descend into the pit and all the trees of eden the choice and best of lebanon all that drink water shall be comforted in the nether parts of the earth
they also went down into hell with him unto them that be slain with the sword and they that were his arm that dwelt under his shadow in the midst of the heathen
to whom art thou thus like in glory and in greatness among the trees of eden yet shalt thou be brought down with the trees of eden unto the nether parts of the earth thou shalt lie in the midst of the uncircumcised with them that be slain by the sword this is pharaoh and all his multitude saith the lord god
and it came to pass in the twelfth year in the twelfth month in the first day of the month that the word of the lord came unto me saying
son of man take up a lamentation for pharaoh king of egypt and say unto him thou art like a young lion of the nations and thou art as a whale in the seas and thou camest forth with thy rivers and troubledst the waters with thy feet and fouledst their rivers
thus saith the lord god i will therefore spread out my net over thee with a company of many people and they shall bring thee up in my net
then will i leave thee upon the land i will cast thee forth upon the open field and will cause all the fowls of the heaven to remain upon thee and i will fill the beasts of the whole earth with thee
and i will lay thy flesh upon the mountains and fill the valleys with thy height
i will also water with thy blood the land wherein thou swimmest even to the mountains and the rivers shall be full of thee
and when i shall put thee out i will cover the heaven and make the stars thereof dark i will cover the sun with a cloud and the moon shall not give her light
all the bright lights of heaven will i make dark over thee and set darkness upon thy land saith the lord god
i will also vex the hearts of many people when i shall bring thy destruction among the nations into the countries which thou hast not known
yea i will make many people amazed at thee and their kings shall be horribly afraid for thee when i shall brandish my sword before them and they shall tremble at every moment every man for his own life in the day of thy fall
for thus saith the lord god the sword of the king of babylon shall come upon thee
by the swords of the mighty will i cause thy multitude to fall the terrible of the nations all of them and they shall spoil the pomp of egypt and all the multitude thereof shall be destroyed
i will destroy also all the beasts thereof from beside the great waters neither shall the foot of man trouble them any more nor the hoofs of beasts trouble them
then will i make their waters deep and cause their rivers to run like oil saith the lord god
when i shall make the land of egypt desolate and the country shall be destitute of that whereof it was full when i shall smite all them that dwell therein then shall they know that i am the lord
this is the lamentation wherewith they shall lament her the daughters of the nations shall lament her they shall lament for her even for egypt and for all her multitude saith the lord god
it came to pass also in the twelfth year in the fifteenth day of the month that the word of the lord came unto me saying
son of man wail for the multitude of egypt and cast them down even her and the daughters of the famous nations unto the nether parts of the earth with them that go down into the pit
whom dost thou pass in beauty go down and be thou laid with the uncircumcised
they shall fall in the midst of them that are slain by the sword she is delivered to the sword draw her and all her multitudes
the strong among the mighty shall speak to him out of the midst of hell with them that help him they are gone down they lie uncircumcised slain by the sword
asshur is there and all her company his graves are about him all of them slain fallen by the sword
whose graves are set in the sides of the pit and her company is round about her grave all of them slain fallen by the sword which caused terror in the land of the living
there is elam and all her multitude round about her grave all of them slain fallen by the sword which are gone down uncircumcised into the nether parts of the earth which caused their terror in the land of the living yet have they borne their shame with them that go down to the pit
they have set her a bed in the midst of the slain with all her multitude her graves are round about him all of them uncircumcised slain by the sword though their terror was caused in the land of the living yet have they borne their shame with them that go down to the pit he is put in the midst of them that be slain
there is meshech tubal and all her multitude her graves are round about him all of them uncircumcised slain by the sword though they caused their terror in the land of the living
and they shall not lie with the mighty that are fallen of the uncircumcised which are gone down to hell with their weapons of war and they have laid their swords under their heads but their iniquities shall be upon their bones though they were the terror of the mighty in the land of the living
yea thou shalt be broken in the midst of the uncircumcised and shalt lie with them that are slain with the sword
there is edom her kings and all her princes which with their might are laid by them that were slain by the sword they shall lie with the uncircumcised and with them that go down to the pit
there be the princes of the north all of them and all the zidonians which are gone down with the slain with their terror they are ashamed of their might and they lie uncircumcised with them that be slain by the sword and bear their shame with them that go down to the pit
pharaoh shall see them and shall be comforted over all his multitude even pharaoh and all his army slain by the sword saith the lord god
for i have caused my terror in the land of the living and he shall be laid in the midst of the uncircumcised with them that are slain with the sword even pharaoh and all his multitude saith the lord god
again the word of the lord came unto me saying
son of man speak to the children of thy people and say unto them when i bring the sword upon a land if the people of the land take a man of their coasts and set him for their watchman
if when he seeth the sword come upon the land he blow the trumpet and warn the people
then whosoever heareth the sound of the trumpet and taketh not warning if the sword come and take him away his blood shall be upon his own head
he heard the sound of the trumpet and took not warning his blood shall be upon him but he that taketh warning shall deliver his soul
but if the watchman see the sword come and blow not the trumpet and the people be not warned if the sword come and take any person from among them he is taken away in his iniquity but his blood will i require at the watchman's hand
so thou o son of man i have set thee a watchman unto the house of israel therefore thou shalt hear the word at my mouth and warn them from me
when i say unto the wicked o wicked man thou shalt surely die if thou dost not speak to warn the wicked from his way that wicked man shall die in his iniquity but his blood will i require at thine hand
nevertheless if thou warn the wicked of his way to turn from it if he do not turn from his way he shall die in his iniquity but thou hast delivered thy soul
therefore o thou son of man speak unto the house of israel thus ye speak saying if our transgressions and our sins be upon us and we pine away in them how should we then live
say unto them as i live saith the lord god i have no pleasure in the death of the wicked but that the wicked turn from his way and live turn ye turn ye from your evil ways for why will ye die o house of israel
therefore thou son of man say unto the children of thy people the righteousness of the righteous shall not deliver him in the day of his transgression as for the wickedness of the wicked he shall not fall thereby in the day that he turneth from his wickedness neither shall the righteous be able to live for his righteousness in the day that he sinneth
when i shall say to the righteous that he shall surely live if he trust to his own righteousness and commit iniquity all his righteousnesses shall not be remembered but for his iniquity that he hath committed he shall die for it
again when i say unto the wicked thou shalt surely die if he turn from his sin and do that which is lawful and right
if the wicked restore the pledge give again that he had robbed walk in the statutes of life without committing iniquity he shall surely live he shall not die
none of his sins that he hath committed shall be mentioned unto him he hath done that which is lawful and right he shall surely live
yet the children of thy people say the way of the lord is not equal but as for them their way is not equal
when the righteous turneth from his righteousness and committeth iniquity he shall even die thereby
but if the wicked turn from his wickedness and do that which is lawful and right he shall live thereby
yet ye say the way of the lord is not equal o ye house of israel i will judge you every one after his ways
and it came to pass in the twelfth year of our captivity in the tenth month in the fifth day of the month that one that had escaped out of jerusalem came unto me saying the city is smitten
now the hand of the lord was upon me in the evening afore he that was escaped came and had opened my mouth until he came to me in the morning and my mouth was opened and i was no more dumb
then the word of the lord came unto me saying
son of man they that inhabit those wastes of the land of israel speak saying abraham was one and he inherited the land but we are many the land is given us for inheritance
wherefore say unto them thus saith the lord god ye eat with the blood and lift up your eyes toward your idols and shed blood and shall ye possess the land
ye stand upon your sword ye work abomination and ye defile every one his neighbour's wife and shall ye possess the land
say thou thus unto them thus saith the lord god as i live surely they that are in the wastes shall fall by the sword and him that is in the open field will i give to the beasts to be devoured and they that be in the forts and in the caves shall die of the pestilence
for i will lay the land most desolate and the pomp of her strength shall cease and the mountains of israel shall be desolate that none shall pass through
then shall they know that i am the lord when i have laid the land most desolate because of all their abominations which they have committed
also thou son of man the children of thy people still are talking against thee by the walls and in the doors of the houses and speak one to another every one to his brother saying come i pray you and hear what is the word that cometh forth from the lord
and they come unto thee as the people cometh and they sit before thee as my people and they hear thy words but they will not do them for with their mouth they shew much love but their heart goeth after their covetousness
and lo thou art unto them as a very lovely song of one that hath a pleasant voice and can play well on an instrument for they hear thy words but they do them not
and when this cometh to pass lo it will come then shall they know that a prophet hath been among them
and the word of the lord came unto me saying
son of man prophesy against the shepherds of israel prophesy and say unto them thus saith the lord god unto the shepherds woe be to the shepherds of israel that do feed themselves should not the shepherds feed the flocks
ye eat the fat and ye clothe you with the wool ye kill them that are fed but ye feed not the flock
the diseased have ye not strengthened neither have ye healed that which was sick neither have ye bound up that which was broken neither have ye brought again that which was driven away neither have ye sought that which was lost but with force and with cruelty have ye ruled them
and they were scattered because there is no shepherd and they became meat to all the beasts of the field when they were scattered
my sheep wandered through all the mountains and upon every high hill yea my flock was scattered upon all the face of the earth and none did search or seek after them
therefore ye shepherds hear the word of the lord
as i live saith the lord god surely because my flock became a prey and my flock became meat to every beast of the field because there was no shepherd neither did my shepherds search for my flock but the shepherds fed themselves and fed not my flock
therefore o ye shepherds hear the word of the lord
thus saith the lord god behold i am against the shepherds and i will require my flock at their hand and cause them to cease from feeding the flock neither shall the shepherds feed themselves any more for i will deliver my flock from their mouth that they may not be meat for them
for thus saith the lord god behold i even i will both search my sheep and seek them out
as a shepherd seeketh out his flock in the day that he is among his sheep that are scattered so will i seek out my sheep and will deliver them out of all places where they have been scattered in the cloudy and dark day
and i will bring them out from the people and gather them from the countries and will bring them to their own land and feed them upon the mountains of israel by the rivers and in all the inhabited places of the country
i will feed them in a good pasture and upon the high mountains of israel shall their fold be there shall they lie in a good fold and in a fat pasture shall they feed upon the mountains of israel
i will feed my flock and i will cause them to lie down saith the lord god
i will seek that which was lost and bring again that which was driven away and will bind up that which was broken and will strengthen that which was sick but i will destroy the fat and the strong i will feed them with judgment
and as for you o my flock thus saith the lord god behold i judge between cattle and cattle between the rams and the he goats
seemeth it a small thing unto you to have eaten up the good pasture but ye must tread down with your feet the residue of your pastures and to have drunk of the deep waters but ye must foul the residue with your feet
and as for my flock they eat that which ye have trodden with your feet and they drink that which ye have fouled with your feet
therefore thus saith the lord god unto them behold i even i will judge between the fat cattle and between the lean cattle
because ye have thrust with side and with shoulder and pushed all the diseased with your horns till ye have scattered them abroad
therefore will i save my flock and they shall no more be a prey and i will judge between cattle and cattle
and i will set up one shepherd over them and he shall feed them even my servant david he shall feed them and he shall be their shepherd
and i the lord will be their god and my servant david a prince among them i the lord have spoken it
and i will make with them a covenant of peace and will cause the evil beasts to cease out of the land and they shall dwell safely in the wilderness and sleep in the woods
and i will make them and the places round about my hill a blessing and i will cause the shower to come down in his season there shall be showers of blessing
and the tree of the field shall yield her fruit and the earth shall yield her increase and they shall be safe in their land and shall know that i am the lord when i have broken the bands of their yoke and delivered them out of the hand of those that served themselves of them
and they shall no more be a prey to the heathen neither shall the beast of the land devour them but they shall dwell safely and none shall make them afraid
and i will raise up for them a plant of renown and they shall be no more consumed with hunger in the land neither bear the shame of the heathen any more
thus shall they know that i the lord their god am with them and that they even the house of israel are my people saith the lord god
and ye my flock the flock of my pasture are men and i am your god saith the lord god
moreover the word of the lord came unto me saying
son of man set thy face against mount seir and prophesy against it
and say unto it thus saith the lord god behold o mount seir i am against thee and i will stretch out mine hand against thee and i will make thee most desolate
i will lay thy cities waste and thou shalt be desolate and thou shalt know that i am the lord
because thou hast had a perpetual hatred and hast shed the blood of the children of israel by the force of the sword in the time of their calamity in the time that their iniquity had an end
therefore as i live saith the lord god i will prepare thee unto blood and blood shall pursue thee sith thou hast not hated blood even blood shall pursue thee
thus will i make mount seir most desolate and cut off from it him that passeth out and him that returneth
and i will fill his mountains with his slain men in thy hills and in thy valleys and in all thy rivers shall they fall that are slain with the sword
i will make thee perpetual desolations and thy cities shall not return and ye shall know that i am the lord
because thou hast said these two nations and these two countries shall be mine and we will possess it whereas the lord was there
therefore as i live saith the lord god i will even do according to thine anger and according to thine envy which thou hast used out of thy hatred against them and i will make myself known among them when i have judged thee
and thou shalt know that i am the lord and that i have heard all thy blasphemies which thou hast spoken against the mountains of israel saying they are laid desolate they are given us to consume
thus with your mouth ye have boasted against me and have multiplied your words against me i have heard them
thus saith the lord god when the whole earth rejoiceth i will make thee desolate
as thou didst rejoice at the inheritance of the house of israel because it was desolate so will i do unto thee thou shalt be desolate o mount seir and all idumea even all of it and they shall know that i am the lord
also thou son of man prophesy unto the mountains of israel and say ye mountains of israel hear the word of the lord
thus saith the lord god because the enemy hath said against you aha even the ancient high places are ours in possession
therefore prophesy and say thus saith the lord god because they have made you desolate and swallowed you up on every side that ye might be a possession unto the residue of the heathen and ye are taken up in the lips of talkers and are an infamy of the people
therefore ye mountains of israel hear the word of the lord god thus saith the lord god to the mountains and to the hills to the rivers and to the valleys to the desolate wastes and to the cities that are forsaken which became a prey and derision to the residue of the heathen that are round about
therefore thus saith the lord god surely in the fire of my jealousy have i spoken against the residue of the heathen and against all idumea which have appointed my land into their possession with the joy of all their heart with despiteful minds to cast it out for a prey
prophesy therefore concerning the land of israel and say unto the mountains and to the hills to the rivers and to the valleys thus saith the lord god behold i have spoken in my jealousy and in my fury because ye have borne the shame of the heathen
therefore thus saith the lord god i have lifted up mine hand surely the heathen that are about you they shall bear their shame
but ye o mountains of israel ye shall shoot forth your branches and yield your fruit to my people of israel for they are at hand to come
for behold i am for you and i will turn unto you and ye shall be tilled and sown
and i will multiply men upon you all the house of israel even all of it and the cities shall be inhabited and the wastes shall be builded
and i will multiply upon you man and beast and they shall increase and bring fruit and i will settle you after your old estates and will do better unto you than at your beginnings and ye shall know that i am the lord
yea i will cause men to walk upon you even my people israel and they shall possess thee and thou shalt be their inheritance and thou shalt no more henceforth bereave them of men
thus saith the lord god because they say unto you thou land devourest up men and hast bereaved thy nations
therefore thou shalt devour men no more neither bereave thy nations any more saith the lord god
neither will i cause men to hear in thee the shame of the heathen any more neither shalt thou bear the reproach of the people any more neither shalt thou cause thy nations to fall any more saith the lord god
moreover the word of the lord came unto me saying
son of man when the house of israel dwelt in their own land they defiled it by their own way and by their doings their way was before me as the uncleanness of a removed woman
wherefore i poured my fury upon them for the blood that they had shed upon the land and for their idols wherewith they had polluted it
and i scattered them among the heathen and they were dispersed through the countries according to their way and according to their doings i judged them
and when they entered unto the heathen whither they went they profaned my holy name when they said to them these are the people of the lord and are gone forth out of his land
but i had pity for mine holy name which the house of israel had profaned among the heathen whither they went
therefore say unto the house of israel thus saith the lord god i do not this for your sakes o house of israel but for mine holy name's sake which ye have profaned among the heathen whither ye went
and i will sanctify my great name which was profaned among the heathen which ye have profaned in the midst of them and the heathen shall know that i am the lord saith the lord god when i shall be sanctified in you before their eyes
for i will take you from among the heathen and gather you out of all countries and will bring you into your own land
then will i sprinkle clean water upon you and ye shall be clean from all your filthiness and from all your idols will i cleanse you
a new heart also will i give you and a new spirit will i put within you and i will take away the stony heart out of your flesh and i will give you an heart of flesh
and i will put my spirit within you and cause you to walk in my statutes and ye shall keep my judgments and do them
and ye shall dwell in the land that i gave to your fathers and ye shall be my people and i will be your god
i will also save you from all your uncleannesses and i will call for the corn and will increase it and lay no famine upon you
and i will multiply the fruit of the tree and the increase of the field that ye shall receive no more reproach of famine among the heathen
then shall ye remember your own evil ways and your doings that were not good and shall lothe yourselves in your own sight for your iniquities and for your abominations
not for your sakes do i this saith the lord god be it known unto you be ashamed and confounded for your own ways o house of israel
thus saith the lord god in the day that i shall have cleansed you from all your iniquities i will also cause you to dwell in the cities and the wastes shall be builded
and the desolate land shall be tilled whereas it lay desolate in the sight of all that passed by
and they shall say this land that was desolate is become like the garden of eden and the waste and desolate and ruined cities are become fenced and are inhabited
then the heathen that are left round about you shall know that i the lord build the ruined places and plant that that was desolate i the lord have spoken it and i will do it
thus saith the lord god i will yet for this be enquired of by the house of israel to do it for them i will increase them with men like a flock
as the holy flock as the flock of jerusalem in her solemn feasts so shall the waste cities be filled with flocks of men and they shall know that i am the lord
the hand of the lord was upon me and carried me out in the spirit of the lord and set me down in the midst of the valley which was full of bones
and caused me to pass by them round about and behold there were very many in the open valley and lo they were very dry
and he said unto me son of man can these bones live and i answered o lord god thou knowest
again he said unto me prophesy upon these bones and say unto them o ye dry bones hear the word of the lord
thus saith the lord god unto these bones behold i will cause breath to enter into you and ye shall live
and i will lay sinews upon you and will bring up flesh upon you and cover you with skin and put breath in you and ye shall live and ye shall know that i am the lord
so i prophesied as i was commanded and as i prophesied there was a noise and behold a shaking and the bones came together bone to his bone
and when i beheld lo the sinews and the flesh came up upon them and the skin covered them above but there was no breath in them
then said he unto me prophesy unto the wind prophesy son of man and say to the wind thus saith the lord god come from the four winds o breath and breathe upon these slain that they may live
so i prophesied as he commanded me and the breath came into them and they lived and stood up upon their feet an exceeding great army
then he said unto me son of man these bones are the whole house of israel behold they say our bones are dried and our hope is lost we are cut off for our parts
therefore prophesy and say unto them thus saith the lord god behold o my people i will open your graves and cause you to come up out of your graves and bring you into the land of israel
and ye shall know that i am the lord when i have opened your graves o my people and brought you up out of your graves
and shall put my spirit in you and ye shall live and i shall place you in your own land then shall ye know that i the lord have spoken it and performed it saith the lord
the word of the lord came again unto me saying
moreover thou son of man take thee one stick and write upon it for judah and for the children of israel his companions then take another stick and write upon it for joseph the stick of ephraim and for all the house of israel his companions
and join them one to another into one stick and they shall become one in thine hand
and when the children of thy people shall speak unto thee saying wilt thou not shew us what thou meanest by these
say unto them thus saith the lord god behold i will take the stick of joseph which is in the hand of ephraim and the tribes of israel his fellows and will put them with him even with the stick of judah and make them one stick and they shall be one in mine hand
and the sticks whereon thou writest shall be in thine hand before their eyes
and say unto them thus saith the lord god behold i will take the children of israel from among the heathen whither they be gone and will gather them on every side and bring them into their own land
and i will make them one nation in the land upon the mountains of israel and one king shall be king to them all and they shall be no more two nations neither shall they be divided into two kingdoms any more at all
neither shall they defile themselves any more with their idols nor with their detestable things nor with any of their transgressions but i will save them out of all their dwellingplaces wherein they have sinned and will cleanse them so shall they be my people and i will be their god
and david my servant shall be king over them and they all shall have one shepherd they shall also walk in my judgments and observe my statutes and do them
and they shall dwell in the land that i have given unto jacob my servant wherein your fathers have dwelt and they shall dwell therein even they and their children and their children's children for ever and my servant david shall be their prince for ever
moreover i will make a covenant of peace with them it shall be an everlasting covenant with them and i will place them and multiply them and will set my sanctuary in the midst of them for evermore
my tabernacle also shall be with them yea i will be their god and they shall be my people
and the heathen shall know that i the lord do sanctify israel when my sanctuary shall be in the midst of them for evermore
and the word of the lord came unto me saying
son of man set thy face against gog the land of magog the chief prince of meshech and tubal and prophesy against him
and say thus saith the lord god behold i am against thee o gog the chief prince of meshech and tubal
and i will turn thee back and put hooks into thy jaws and i will bring thee forth and all thine army horses and horsemen all of them clothed with all sorts of armour even a great company with bucklers and shields all of them handling swords
persia ethiopia and libya with them all of them with shield and helmet
gomer and all his bands the house of togarmah of the north quarters and all his bands and many people with thee
be thou prepared and prepare for thyself thou and all thy company that are assembled unto thee and be thou a guard unto them
after many days thou shalt be visited in the latter years thou shalt come into the land that is brought back from the sword and is gathered out of many people against the mountains of israel which have been always waste but it is brought forth out of the nations and they shall dwell safely all of them
thou shalt ascend and come like a storm thou shalt be like a cloud to cover the land thou and all thy bands and many people with thee
thus saith the lord god it shall also come to pass that at the same time shall things come into thy mind and thou shalt think an evil thought
and thou shalt say i will go up to the land of unwalled villages i will go to them that are at rest that dwell safely all of them dwelling without walls and having neither bars nor gates
to take a spoil and to take a prey to turn thine hand upon the desolate places that are now inhabited and upon the people that are gathered out of the nations which have gotten cattle and goods that dwell in the midst of the land
sheba and dedan and the merchants of tarshish with all the young lions thereof shall say unto thee art thou come to take a spoil hast thou gathered thy company to take a prey to carry away silver and gold to take away cattle and goods to take a great spoil
therefore son of man prophesy and say unto gog thus saith the lord god in that day when my people of israel dwelleth safely shalt thou not know it
and thou shalt come from thy place out of the north parts thou and many people with thee all of them riding upon horses a great company and a mighty army
and thou shalt come up against my people of israel as a cloud to cover the land it shall be in the latter days and i will bring thee against my land that the heathen may know me when i shall be sanctified in thee o gog before their eyes
thus saith the lord god art thou he of whom i have spoken in old time by my servants the prophets of israel which prophesied in those days many years that i would bring thee against them
and it shall come to pass at the same time when gog shall come against the land of israel saith the lord god that my fury shall come up in my face
for in my jealousy and in the fire of my wrath have i spoken surely in that day there shall be a great shaking in the land of israel
so that the fishes of the sea and the fowls of the heaven and the beasts of the field and all creeping things that creep upon the earth and all the men that are upon the face of the earth shall shake at my presence and the mountains shall be thrown down and the steep places shall fall and every wall shall fall to the ground
and i will call for a sword against him throughout all my mountains saith the lord god every man's sword shall be against his brother
and i will plead against him with pestilence and with blood and i will rain upon him and upon his bands and upon the many people that are with him an overflowing rain and great hailstones fire and brimstone
thus will i magnify myself and sanctify myself and i will be known in the eyes of many nations and they shall know that i am the lord
therefore thou son of man prophesy against gog and say thus saith the lord god behold i am against thee o gog the chief prince of meshech and tubal
and i will turn thee back and leave but the sixth part of thee and will cause thee to come up from the north parts and will bring thee upon the mountains of israel
and i will smite thy bow out of thy left hand and will cause thine arrows to fall out of thy right hand
thou shalt fall upon the mountains of israel thou and all thy bands and the people that is with thee i will give thee unto the ravenous birds of every sort and to the beasts of the field to be devoured
thou shalt fall upon the open field for i have spoken it saith the lord god
and i will send a fire on magog and among them that dwell carelessly in the isles and they shall know that i am the lord
so will i make my holy name known in the midst of my people israel and i will not let them pollute my holy name any more and the heathen shall know that i am the lord the holy one in israel
behold it is come and it is done saith the lord god this is the day whereof i have spoken
and they that dwell in the cities of israel shall go forth and shall set on fire and burn the weapons both the shields and the bucklers the bows and the arrows and the handstaves and the spears and they shall burn them with fire seven years
so that they shall take no wood out of the field neither cut down any out of the forests for they shall burn the weapons with fire and they shall spoil those that spoiled them and rob those that robbed them saith the lord god
and it shall come to pass in that day that i will give unto gog a place there of graves in israel the valley of the passengers on the east of the sea and it shall stop the noses of the passengers and there shall they bury gog and all his multitude and they shall call it the valley of hamongog
and seven months shall the house of israel be burying of them that they may cleanse the land
yea all the people of the land shall bury them and it shall be to them a renown the day that i shall be glorified saith the lord god
and they shall sever out men of continual employment passing through the land to bury with the passengers those that remain upon the face of the earth to cleanse it after the end of seven months shall they search
and the passengers that pass through the land when any seeth a man's bone then shall he set up a sign by it till the buriers have buried it in the valley of hamongog
and also the name of the city shall be hamonah thus shall they cleanse the land
and thou son of man thus saith the lord god speak unto every feathered fowl and to every beast of the field assemble yourselves and come gather yourselves on every side to my sacrifice that i do sacrifice for you even a great sacrifice upon the mountains of israel that ye may eat flesh and drink blood
ye shall eat the flesh of the mighty and drink the blood of the princes of the earth of rams of lambs and of goats of bullocks all of them fatlings of bashan
and ye shall eat fat till ye be full and drink blood till ye be drunken of my sacrifice which i have sacrificed for you
thus ye shall be filled at my table with horses and chariots with mighty men and with all men of war saith the lord god
and i will set my glory among the heathen and all the heathen shall see my judgment that i have executed and my hand that i have laid upon them
so the house of israel shall know that i am the lord their god from that day and forward
and the heathen shall know that the house of israel went into captivity for their iniquity because they trespassed against me therefore hid i my face from them and gave them into the hand of their enemies so fell they all by the sword
according to their uncleanness and according to their transgressions have i done unto them and hid my face from them
therefore thus saith the lord god now will i bring again the captivity of jacob and have mercy upon the whole house of israel and will be jealous for my holy name
after that they have borne their shame and all their trespasses whereby they have trespassed against me when they dwelt safely in their land and none made them afraid
when i have brought them again from the people and gathered them out of their enemies lands and am sanctified in them in the sight of many nations
then shall they know that i am the lord their god which caused them to be led into captivity among the heathen but i have gathered them unto their own land and have left none of them any more there
neither will i hide my face any more from them for i have poured out my spirit upon the house of israel saith the lord god
in the five and twentieth year of our captivity in the beginning of the year in the tenth day of the month in the fourteenth year after that the city was smitten in the selfsame day the hand of the lord was upon me and brought me thither
in the visions of god brought he me into the land of israel and set me upon a very high mountain by which was as the frame of a city on the south
and he brought me thither and behold there was a man whose appearance was like the appearance of brass with a line of flax in his hand and a measuring reed and he stood in the gate
and the man said unto me son of man behold with thine eyes and hear with thine ears and set thine heart upon all that i shall shew thee for to the intent that i might shew them unto thee art thou brought hither declare all that thou seest to the house of israel
and behold a wall on the outside of the house round about and in the man's hand a measuring reed of six cubits long by the cubit and an hand breadth so he measured the breadth of the building one reed and the height one reed
then came he unto the gate which looketh toward the east and went up the stairs thereof and measured the threshold of the gate which was one reed broad and the other threshold of the gate which was one reed broad
and every little chamber was one reed long and one reed broad and between the little chambers were five cubits and the threshold of the gate by the porch of the gate within was one reed
he measured also the porch of the gate within one reed
then measured he the porch of the gate eight cubits and the posts thereof two cubits and the porch of the gate was inward
and the little chambers of the gate eastward were three on this side and three on that side they three were of one measure and the posts had one measure on this side and on that side
and he measured the breadth of the entry of the gate ten cubits and the length of the gate thirteen cubits
the space also before the little chambers was one cubit on this side and the space was one cubit on that side and the little chambers were six cubits on this side and six cubits on that side
he measured then the gate from the roof of one little chamber to the roof of another the breadth was five and twenty cubits door against door
he made also posts of threescore cubits even unto the post of the court round about the gate
and from the face of the gate of the entrance unto the face of the porch of the inner gate were fifty cubits
and there were narrow windows to the little chambers and to their posts within the gate round about and likewise to the arches and windows were round about inward and upon each post were palm trees
then brought he me into the outward court and lo there were chambers and a pavement made for the court round about thirty chambers were upon the pavement
and the pavement by the side of the gates over against the length of the gates was the lower pavement
then he measured the breadth from the forefront of the lower gate unto the forefront of the inner court without an hundred cubits eastward and northward
and the gate of the outward court that looked toward the north he measured the length thereof and the breadth thereof
and the little chambers thereof were three on this side and three on that side and the posts thereof and the arches thereof were after the measure of the first gate the length thereof was fifty cubits and the breadth five and twenty cubits
and their windows and their arches and their palm trees were after the measure of the gate that looketh toward the east and they went up unto it by seven steps and the arches thereof were before them
and the gate of the inner court was over against the gate toward the north and toward the east and he measured from gate to gate an hundred cubits
after that he brought me toward the south and behold a gate toward the south and he measured the posts thereof and the arches thereof according to these measures
and there were windows in it and in the arches thereof round about like those windows the length was fifty cubits and the breadth five and twenty cubits
and there were seven steps to go up to it and the arches thereof were before them and it had palm trees one on this side and another on that side upon the posts thereof
and there was a gate in the inner court toward the south and he measured from gate to gate toward the south an hundred cubits
and he brought me to the inner court by the south gate and he measured the south gate according to these measures
and the little chambers thereof and the posts thereof and the arches thereof according to these measures and there were windows in it and in the arches thereof round about it was fifty cubits long and five and twenty cubits broad
and the arches round about were five and twenty cubits long and five cubits broad
and the arches thereof were toward the utter court and palm trees were upon the posts thereof and the going up to it had eight steps
and he brought me into the inner court toward the east and he measured the gate according to these measures
and the little chambers thereof and the posts thereof and the arches thereof were according to these measures and there were windows therein and in the arches thereof round about it was fifty cubits long and five and twenty cubits broad
and the arches thereof were toward the outward court and palm trees were upon the posts thereof on this side and on that side and the going up to it had eight steps
and he brought me to the north gate and measured it according to these measures
the little chambers thereof the posts thereof and the arches thereof and the windows to it round about the length was fifty cubits and the breadth five and twenty cubits
and the posts thereof were toward the utter court and palm trees were upon the posts thereof on this side and on that side and the going up to it had eight steps
and the chambers and the entries thereof were by the posts of the gates where they washed the burnt offering
and in the porch of the gate were two tables on this side and two tables on that side to slay thereon the burnt offering and the sin offering and the trespass offering
and at the side without as one goeth up to the entry of the north gate were two tables and on the other side which was at the porch of the gate were two tables
four tables were on this side and four tables on that side by the side of the gate eight tables whereupon they slew their sacrifices
and the four tables were of hewn stone for the burnt offering of a cubit and an half long and a cubit and an half broad and one cubit high whereupon also they laid the instruments wherewith they slew the burnt offering and the sacrifice
and within were hooks an hand broad fastened round about and upon the tables was the flesh of the offering
and without the inner gate were the chambers of the singers in the inner court which was at the side of the north gate and their prospect was toward the south one at the side of the east gate having the prospect toward the north
and he said unto me this chamber whose prospect is toward the south is for the priests the keepers of the charge of the house
and the chamber whose prospect is toward the north is for the priests the keepers of the charge of the altar these are the sons of zadok among the sons of levi which come near to the lord to minister unto him
so he measured the court an hundred cubits long and an hundred cubits broad foursquare and the altar that was before the house
and he brought me to the porch of the house and measured each post of the porch five cubits on this side and five cubits on that side and the breadth of the gate was three cubits on this side and three cubits on that side
the length of the porch was twenty cubits and the breadth eleven cubits and he brought me by the steps whereby they went up to it and there were pillars by the posts one on this side and another on that side
afterward he brought me to the temple and measured the posts six cubits broad on the one side and six cubits broad on the other side which was the breadth of the tabernacle
and the breadth of the door was ten cubits and the sides of the door were five cubits on the one side and five cubits on the other side and he measured the length thereof forty cubits and the breadth twenty cubits
then went he inward and measured the post of the door two cubits and the door six cubits and the breadth of the door seven cubits
so he measured the length thereof twenty cubits and the breadth twenty cubits before the temple and he said unto me this is the most holy place
after he measured the wall of the house six cubits and the breadth of every side chamber four cubits round about the house on every side
and the side chambers were three one over another and thirty in order and they entered into the wall which was of the house for the side chambers round about that they might have hold but they had not hold in the wall of the house
and there was an enlarging and a winding about still upward to the side chambers for the winding about of the house went still upward round about the house therefore the breadth of the house was still upward and so increased from the lowest chamber to the highest by the midst
i saw also the height of the house round about the foundations of the side chambers were a full reed of six great cubits
the thickness of the wall which was for the side chamber without was five cubits and that which was left was the place of the side chambers that were within
and between the chambers was the wideness of twenty cubits round about the house on every side
and the doors of the side chambers were toward the place that was left one door toward the north and another door toward the south and the breadth of the place that was left was five cubits round about
now the building that was before the separate place at the end toward the west was seventy cubits broad and the wall of the building was five cubits thick round about and the length thereof ninety cubits
so he measured the house an hundred cubits long and the separate place and the building with the walls thereof an hundred cubits long
also the breadth of the face of the house and of the separate place toward the east an hundred cubits
and he measured the length of the building over against the separate place which was behind it and the galleries thereof on the one side and on the other side an hundred cubits with the inner temple and the porches of the court
the door posts and the narrow windows and the galleries round about on their three stories over against the door cieled with wood round about and from the ground up to the windows and the windows were covered
to that above the door even unto the inner house and without and by all the wall round about within and without by measure
and it was made with cherubims and palm trees so that a palm tree was between a cherub and a cherub and every cherub had two faces
so that the face of a man was toward the palm tree on the one side and the face of a young lion toward the palm tree on the other side it was made through all the house round about
from the ground unto above the door were cherubims and palm trees made and on the wall of the temple
the posts of the temple were squared and the face of the sanctuary the appearance of the one as the appearance of the other
the altar of wood was three cubits high and the length thereof two cubits and the corners thereof and the length thereof and the walls thereof were of wood and he said unto me this is the table that is before the lord
and the temple and the sanctuary had two doors
and the doors had two leaves apiece two turning leaves two leaves for the one door and two leaves for the other door
and there were made on them on the doors of the temple cherubims and palm trees like as were made upon the walls and there were thick planks upon the face of the porch without
and there were narrow windows and palm trees on the one side and on the other side on the sides of the porch and upon the side chambers of the house and thick planks
then he brought me forth into the utter court the way toward the north and he brought me into the chamber that was over against the separate place and which was before the building toward the north
before the length of an hundred cubits was the north door and the breadth was fifty cubits
over against the twenty cubits which were for the inner court and over against the pavement which was for the utter court was gallery against gallery in three stories
and before the chambers was a walk of ten cubits breadth inward a way of one cubit and their doors toward the north
now the upper chambers were shorter for the galleries were higher than these than the lower and than the middlemost of the building
for they were in three stories but had not pillars as the pillars of the courts therefore the building was straitened more than the lowest and the middlemost from the ground
and the wall that was without over against the chambers toward the utter court on the forepart of the chambers the length thereof was fifty cubits
for the length of the chambers that were in the utter court was fifty cubits and lo before the temple were an hundred cubits
and from under these chambers was the entry on the east side as one goeth into them from the utter court
the chambers were in the thickness of the wall of the court toward the east over against the separate place and over against the building
and the way before them was like the appearance of the chambers which were toward the north as long as they and as broad as they and all their goings out were both according to their fashions and according to their doors
and according to the doors of the chambers that were toward the south was a door in the head of the way even the way directly before the wall toward the east as one entereth into them
then said he unto me the north chambers and the south chambers which are before the separate place they be holy chambers where the priests that approach unto the lord shall eat the most holy things there shall they lay the most holy things and the meat offering and the sin offering and the trespass offering for the place is holy
when the priests enter therein then shall they not go out of the holy place into the utter court but there they shall lay their garments wherein they minister for they are holy and shall put on other garments and shall approach to those things which are for the people
now when he had made an end of measuring the inner house he brought me forth toward the gate whose prospect is toward the east and measured it round about
he measured the east side with the measuring reed five hundred reeds with the measuring reed round about
he measured the north side five hundred reeds with the measuring reed round about
he measured the south side five hundred reeds with the measuring reed
he turned about to the west side and measured five hundred reeds with the measuring reed
he measured it by the four sides it had a wall round about five hundred reeds long and five hundred broad to make a separation between the sanctuary and the profane place
afterward he brought me to the gate even the gate that looketh toward the east
and behold the glory of the god of israel came from the way of the east and his voice was like a noise of many waters and the earth shined with his glory
and it was according to the appearance of the vision which i saw even according to the vision that i saw when i came to destroy the city and the visions were like the vision that i saw by the river chebar and i fell upon my face
and the glory of the lord came into the house by the way of the gate whose prospect is toward the east
so the spirit took me up and brought me into the inner court and behold the glory of the lord filled the house
and i heard him speaking unto me out of the house and the man stood by me
and he said unto me son of man the place of my throne and the place of the soles of my feet where i will dwell in the midst of the children of israel for ever and my holy name shall the house of israel no more defile neither they nor their kings by their whoredom nor by the carcases of their kings in their high places
in their setting of their threshold by my thresholds and their post by my posts and the wall between me and them they have even defiled my holy name by their abominations that they have committed wherefore i have consumed them in mine anger
now let them put away their whoredom and the carcases of their kings far from me and i will dwell in the midst of them for ever
thou son of man shew the house to the house of israel that they may be ashamed of their iniquities and let them measure the pattern
and if they be ashamed of all that they have done shew them the form of the house and the fashion thereof and the goings out thereof and the comings in thereof and all the forms thereof and all the ordinances thereof and all the forms thereof and all the laws thereof and write it in their sight that they may keep the whole form thereof and all the ordinances thereof and do them
this is the law of the house upon the top of the mountain the whole limit thereof round about shall be most holy behold this is the law of the house
and these are the measures of the altar after the cubits the cubit is a cubit and an hand breadth even the bottom shall be a cubit and the breadth a cubit and the border thereof by the edge thereof round about shall be a span and this shall be the higher place of the altar
and from the bottom upon the ground even to the lower settle shall be two cubits and the breadth one cubit and from the lesser settle even to the greater settle shall be four cubits and the breadth one cubit
so the altar shall be four cubits and from the altar and upward shall be four horns
and the altar shall be twelve cubits long twelve broad square in the four squares thereof
and the settle shall be fourteen cubits long and fourteen broad in the four squares thereof and the border about it shall be half a cubit and the bottom thereof shall be a cubit about and his stairs shall look toward the east
and he said unto me son of man thus saith the lord god these are the ordinances of the altar in the day when they shall make it to offer burnt offerings thereon and to sprinkle blood thereon
and thou shalt give to the priests the levites that be of the seed of zadok which approach unto me to minister unto me saith the lord god a young bullock for a sin offering
and thou shalt take of the blood thereof and put it on the four horns of it and on the four corners of the settle and upon the border round about thus shalt thou cleanse and purge it
thou shalt take the bullock also of the sin offering and he shall burn it in the appointed place of the house without the sanctuary
and on the second day thou shalt offer a kid of the goats without blemish for a sin offering and they shall cleanse the altar as they did cleanse it with the bullock
when thou hast made an end of cleansing it thou shalt offer a young bullock without blemish and a ram out of the flock without blemish
and thou shalt offer them before the lord and the priests shall cast salt upon them and they shall offer them up for a burnt offering unto the lord
seven days shalt thou prepare every day a goat for a sin offering they shall also prepare a young bullock and a ram out of the flock without blemish
seven days shall they purge the altar and purify it and they shall consecrate themselves
and when these days are expired it shall be that upon the eighth day and so forward the priests shall make your burnt offerings upon the altar and your peace offerings and i will accept you saith the lord god
then he brought me back the way of the gate of the outward sanctuary which looketh toward the east and it was shut
then said the lord unto me this gate shall be shut it shall not be opened and no man shall enter in by it because the lord the god of israel hath entered in by it therefore it shall be shut
it is for the prince the prince he shall sit in it to eat bread before the lord he shall enter by the way of the porch of that gate and shall go out by the way of the same
then brought he me the way of the north gate before the house and i looked and behold the glory of the lord filled the house of the lord and i fell upon my face
and the lord said unto me son of man mark well and behold with thine eyes and hear with thine ears all that i say unto thee concerning all the ordinances of the house of the lord and all the laws thereof and mark well the entering in of the house with every going forth of the sanctuary
and thou shalt say to the rebellious even to the house of israel thus saith the lord god o ye house of israel let it suffice you of all your abominations
in that ye have brought into my sanctuary strangers uncircumcised in heart and uncircumcised in flesh to be in my sanctuary to pollute it even my house when ye offer my bread the fat and the blood and they have broken my covenant because of all your abominations
and ye have not kept the charge of mine holy things but ye have set keepers of my charge in my sanctuary for yourselves
thus saith the lord god no stranger uncircumcised in heart nor uncircumcised in flesh shall enter into my sanctuary of any stranger that is among the children of israel
and the levites that are gone away far from me when israel went astray which went astray away from me after their idols they shall even bear their iniquity
yet they shall be ministers in my sanctuary having charge at the gates of the house and ministering to the house they shall slay the burnt offering and the sacrifice for the people and they shall stand before them to minister unto them
because they ministered unto them before their idols and caused the house of israel to fall into iniquity therefore have i lifted up mine hand against them saith the lord god and they shall bear their iniquity
and they shall not come near unto me to do the office of a priest unto me nor to come near to any of my holy things in the most holy place but they shall bear their shame and their abominations which they have committed
but i will make them keepers of the charge of the house for all the service thereof and for all that shall be done therein
but the priests the levites the sons of zadok that kept the charge of my sanctuary when the children of israel went astray from me they shall come near to me to minister unto me and they shall stand before me to offer unto me the fat and the blood saith the lord god
they shall enter into my sanctuary and they shall come near to my table to minister unto me and they shall keep my charge
and it shall come to pass that when they enter in at the gates of the inner court they shall be clothed with linen garments and no wool shall come upon them whiles they minister in the gates of the inner court and within
they shall have linen bonnets upon their heads and shall have linen breeches upon their loins they shall not gird themselves with any thing that causeth sweat
and when they go forth into the utter court even into the utter court to the people they shall put off their garments wherein they ministered and lay them in the holy chambers and they shall put on other garments and they shall not sanctify the people with their garments
neither shall they shave their heads nor suffer their locks to grow long they shall only poll their heads
neither shall any priest drink wine when they enter into the inner court
neither shall they take for their wives a widow nor her that is put away but they shall take maidens of the seed of the house of israel or a widow that had a priest before
and they shall teach my people the difference between the holy and profane and cause them to discern between the unclean and the clean
and in controversy they shall stand in judgment and they shall judge it according to my judgments and they shall keep my laws and my statutes in all mine assemblies and they shall hallow my sabbaths
and they shall come at no dead person to defile themselves but for father or for mother or for son or for daughter for brother or for sister that hath had no husband they may defile themselves
and after he is cleansed they shall reckon unto him seven days
and in the day that he goeth into the sanctuary unto the inner court to minister in the sanctuary he shall offer his sin offering saith the lord god
and it shall be unto them for an inheritance i am their inheritance and ye shall give them no possession in israel i am their possession
they shall eat the meat offering and the sin offering and the trespass offering and every dedicated thing in israel shall be theirs
and the first of all the firstfruits of all things and every oblation of all of every sort of your oblations shall be the priest's ye shall also give unto the priest the first of your dough that he may cause the blessing to rest in thine house
the priests shall not eat of any thing that is dead of itself or torn whether it be fowl or beast
moreover when ye shall divide by lot the land for inheritance ye shall offer an oblation unto the lord an holy portion of the land the length shall be the length of five and twenty thousand reeds and the breadth shall be ten thousand this shall be holy in all the borders thereof round about
of this there shall be for the sanctuary five hundred in length with five hundred in breadth square round about and fifty cubits round about for the suburbs thereof
and of this measure shalt thou measure the length of five and twenty thousand and the breadth of ten thousand and in it shall be the sanctuary and the most holy place
the holy portion of the land shall be for the priests the ministers of the sanctuary which shall come near to minister unto the lord and it shall be a place for their houses and an holy place for the sanctuary
and the five and twenty thousand of length and the ten thousand of breadth shall also the levites the ministers of the house have for themselves for a possession for twenty chambers
and ye shall appoint the possession of the city five thousand broad and five and twenty thousand long over against the oblation of the holy portion it shall be for the whole house of israel
and a portion shall be for the prince on the one side and on the other side of the oblation of the holy portion and of the possession of the city before the oblation of the holy portion and before the possession of the city from the west side westward and from the east side eastward and the length shall be over against one of the portions from the west border unto the east border
in the land shall be his possession in israel and my princes shall no more oppress my people and the rest of the land shall they give to the house of israel according to their tribes
thus saith the lord god let it suffice you o princes of israel remove violence and spoil and execute judgment and justice take away your exactions from my people saith the lord god
ye shall have just balances and a just ephah and a just bath
the ephah and the bath shall be of one measure that the bath may contain the tenth part of an homer and the ephah the tenth part of an homer the measure thereof shall be after the homer
and the shekel shall be twenty gerahs twenty shekels five and twenty shekels fifteen shekels shall be your maneh
this is the oblation that ye shall offer the sixth part of an ephah of an homer of wheat and ye shall give the sixth part of an ephah of an homer of barley
concerning the ordinance of oil the bath of oil ye shall offer the tenth part of a bath out of the cor which is an homer of ten baths for ten baths are an homer
and one lamb out of the flock out of two hundred out of the fat pastures of israel for a meat offering and for a burnt offering and for peace offerings to make reconciliation for them saith the lord god
all the people of the land shall give this oblation for the prince in israel
and it shall be the prince's part to give burnt offerings and meat offerings and drink offerings in the feasts and in the new moons and in the sabbaths in all solemnities of the house of israel he shall prepare the sin offering and the meat offering and the burnt offering and the peace offerings to make reconciliation for the house of israel
thus saith the lord god in the first month in the first day of the month thou shalt take a young bullock without blemish and cleanse the sanctuary
and the priest shall take of the blood of the sin offering and put it upon the posts of the house and upon the four corners of the settle of the altar and upon the posts of the gate of the inner court
and so thou shalt do the seventh day of the month for every one that erreth and for him that is simple so shall ye reconcile the house
in the first month in the fourteenth day of the month ye shall have the passover a feast of seven days unleavened bread shall be eaten
and upon that day shall the prince prepare for himself and for all the people of the land a bullock for a sin offering
and seven days of the feast he shall prepare a burnt offering to the lord seven bullocks and seven rams without blemish daily the seven days and a kid of the goats daily for a sin offering
and he shall prepare a meat offering of an ephah for a bullock and an ephah for a ram and an hin of oil for an ephah
in the seventh month in the fifteenth day of the month shall he do the like in the feast of the seven days according to the sin offering according to the burnt offering and according to the meat offering and according to the oil
thus saith the lord god the gate of the inner court that looketh toward the east shall be shut the six working days but on the sabbath it shall be opened and in the day of the new moon it shall be opened
and the prince shall enter by the way of the porch of that gate without and shall stand by the post of the gate and the priests shall prepare his burnt offering and his peace offerings and he shall worship at the threshold of the gate then he shall go forth but the gate shall not be shut until the evening
likewise the people of the land shall worship at the door of this gate before the lord in the sabbaths and in the new moons
and the burnt offering that the prince shall offer unto the lord in the sabbath day shall be six lambs without blemish and a ram without blemish
and the meat offering shall be an ephah for a ram and the meat offering for the lambs as he shall be able to give and an hin of oil to an ephah
and in the day of the new moon it shall be a young bullock without blemish and six lambs and a ram they shall be without blemish
and he shall prepare a meat offering an ephah for a bullock and an ephah for a ram and for the lambs according as his hand shall attain unto and an hin of oil to an ephah
and when the prince shall enter he shall go in by the way of the porch of that gate and he shall go forth by the way thereof
but when the people of the land shall come before the lord in the solemn feasts he that entereth in by the way of the north gate to worship shall go out by the way of the south gate and he that entereth by the way of the south gate shall go forth by the way of the north gate he shall not return by the way of the gate whereby he came in but shall go forth over against it
and the prince in the midst of them when they go in shall go in and when they go forth shall go forth
and in the feasts and in the solemnities the meat offering shall be an ephah to a bullock and an ephah to a ram and to the lambs as he is able to give and an hin of oil to an ephah
now when the prince shall prepare a voluntary burnt offering or peace offerings voluntarily unto the lord one shall then open him the gate that looketh toward the east and he shall prepare his burnt offering and his peace offerings as he did on the sabbath day then he shall go forth and after his going forth one shall shut the gate
thou shalt daily prepare a burnt offering unto the lord of a lamb of the first year without blemish thou shalt prepare it every morning
and thou shalt prepare a meat offering for it every morning the sixth part of an ephah and the third part of an hin of oil to temper with the fine flour a meat offering continually by a perpetual ordinance unto the lord
thus shall they prepare the lamb and the meat offering and the oil every morning for a continual burnt offering
thus saith the lord god if the prince give a gift unto any of his sons the inheritance thereof shall be his sons it shall be their possession by inheritance
but if he give a gift of his inheritance to one of his servants then it shall be his to the year of liberty after it shall return to the prince but his inheritance shall be his sons for them
moreover the prince shall not take of the people's inheritance by oppression to thrust them out of their possession but he shall give his sons inheritance out of his own possession that my people be not scattered every man from his possession
after he brought me through the entry which was at the side of the gate into the holy chambers of the priests which looked toward the north and behold there was a place on the two sides westward
then said he unto me this is the place where the priests shall boil the trespass offering and the sin offering where they shall bake the meat offering that they bear them not out into the utter court to sanctify the people
then he brought me forth into the utter court and caused me to pass by the four corners of the court and behold in every corner of the court there was a court
in the four corners of the court there were courts joined of forty cubits long and thirty broad these four corners were of one measure
and there was a row of building round about in them round about them four and it was made with boiling places under the rows round about
then said he unto me these are the places of them that boil where the ministers of the house shall boil the sacrifice of the people
afterward he brought me again unto the door of the house and behold waters issued out from under the threshold of the house eastward for the forefront of the house stood toward the east and the waters came down from under from the right side of the house at the south side of the altar
then brought he me out of the way of the gate northward and led me about the way without unto the utter gate by the way that looketh eastward and behold there ran out waters on the right side
and when the man that had the line in his hand went forth eastward he measured a thousand cubits and he brought me through the waters the waters were to the ankles
again he measured a thousand and brought me through the waters the waters were to the knees again he measured a thousand and brought me through the waters were to the loins
afterward he measured a thousand and it was a river that i could not pass over for the waters were risen waters to swim in a river that could not be passed over
and he said unto me son of man hast thou seen this then he brought me and caused me to return to the brink of the river
now when i had returned behold at the bank of the river were very many trees on the one side and on the other
then said he unto me these waters issue out toward the east country and go down into the desert and go into the sea which being brought forth into the sea the waters shall be healed
and it shall come to pass that every thing that liveth which moveth whithersoever the rivers shall come shall live and there shall be a very great multitude of fish because these waters shall come thither for they shall be healed and every thing shall live whither the river cometh
and it shall come to pass that the fishers shall stand upon it from engedi even unto eneglaim they shall be a place to spread forth nets their fish shall be according to their kinds as the fish of the great sea exceeding many
but the miry places thereof and the marishes thereof shall not be healed they shall be given to salt
and by the river upon the bank thereof on this side and on that side shall grow all trees for meat whose leaf shall not fade neither shall the fruit thereof be consumed it shall bring forth new fruit according to his months because their waters they issued out of the sanctuary and the fruit thereof shall be for meat and the leaf thereof for medicine
thus saith the lord god this shall be the border whereby ye shall inherit the land according to the twelve tribes of israel joseph shall have two portions
and ye shall inherit it one as well as another concerning the which i lifted up mine hand to give it unto your fathers and this land shall fall unto you for inheritance
and this shall be the border of the land toward the north side from the great sea the way of hethlon as men go to zedad
hamath berothah sibraim which is between the border of damascus and the border of hamath hazarhatticon which is by the coast of hauran
and the border from the sea shall be hazarenan the border of damascus and the north northward and the border of hamath and this is the north side
and the east side ye shall measure from hauran and from damascus and from gilead and from the land of israel by jordan from the border unto the east sea and this is the east side
and the south side southward from tamar even to the waters of strife in kadesh the river to the great sea and this is the south side southward
the west side also shall be the great sea from the border till a man come over against hamath this is the west side
so shall ye divide this land unto you according to the tribes of israel
and it shall come to pass that ye shall divide it by lot for an inheritance unto you and to the strangers that sojourn among you which shall beget children among you and they shall be unto you as born in the country among the children of israel they shall have inheritance with you among the tribes of israel
and it shall come to pass that in what tribe the stranger sojourneth there shall ye give him his inheritance saith the lord god
now these are the names of the tribes from the north end to the coast of the way of hethlon as one goeth to hamath hazarenan the border of damascus northward to the coast of hamath for these are his sides east and west a portion for dan
and by the border of dan from the east side unto the west side a portion for asher
and by the border of asher from the east side even unto the west side a portion for naphtali
and by the border of naphtali from the east side unto the west side a portion for manasseh
and by the border of manasseh from the east side unto the west side a portion for ephraim
and by the border of ephraim from the east side even unto the west side a portion for reuben
and by the border of reuben from the east side unto the west side a portion for judah
and by the border of judah from the east side unto the west side shall be the offering which ye shall offer of five and twenty thousand reeds in breadth and in length as one of the other parts from the east side unto the west side and the sanctuary shall be in the midst of it
the oblation that ye shall offer unto the lord shall be of five and twenty thousand in length and of ten thousand in breadth
and for them even for the priests shall be this holy oblation toward the north five and twenty thousand in length and toward the west ten thousand in breadth and toward the east ten thousand in breadth and toward the south five and twenty thousand in length and the sanctuary of the lord shall be in the midst thereof
it shall be for the priests that are sanctified of the sons of zadok which have kept my charge which went not astray when the children of israel went astray as the levites went astray
and this oblation of the land that is offered shall be unto them a thing most holy by the border of the levites
and over against the border of the priests the levites shall have five and twenty thousand in length and ten thousand in breadth all the length shall be five and twenty thousand and the breadth ten thousand
and they shall not sell of it neither exchange nor alienate the firstfruits of the land for it is holy unto the lord
and the five thousand that are left in the breadth over against the five and twenty thousand shall be a profane place for the city for dwelling and for suburbs and the city shall be in the midst thereof
and these shall be the measures thereof the north side four thousand and five hundred and the south side four thousand and five hundred and on the east side four thousand and five hundred and the west side four thousand and five hundred
and the suburbs of the city shall be toward the north two hundred and fifty and toward the south two hundred and fifty and toward the east two hundred and fifty and toward the west two hundred and fifty
and the residue in length over against the oblation of the holy portion shall be ten thousand eastward and ten thousand westward and it shall be over against the oblation of the holy portion and the increase thereof shall be for food unto them that serve the city
and they that serve the city shall serve it out of all the tribes of israel
all the oblation shall be five and twenty thousand by five and twenty thousand ye shall offer the holy oblation foursquare with the possession of the city
and the residue shall be for the prince on the one side and on the other of the holy oblation and of the possession of the city over against the five and twenty thousand of the oblation toward the east border and westward over against the five and twenty thousand toward the west border over against the portions for the prince and it shall be the holy oblation and the sanctuary of the house shall be in the midst thereof
moreover from the possession of the levites and from the possession of the city being in the midst of that which is the prince's between the border of judah and the border of benjamin shall be for the prince
as for the rest of the tribes from the east side unto the west side benjamin shall have a portion
and by the border of benjamin from the east side unto the west side simeon shall have a portion
and by the border of simeon from the east side unto the west side issachar a portion
and by the border of issachar from the east side unto the west side zebulun a portion
and by the border of zebulun from the east side unto the west side gad a portion
and by the border of gad at the south side southward the border shall be even from tamar unto the waters of strife in kadesh and to the river toward the great sea
this is the land which ye shall divide by lot unto the tribes of israel for inheritance and these are their portions saith the lord god
and these are the goings out of the city on the north side four thousand and five hundred measures
and the gates of the city shall be after the names of the tribes of israel three gates northward one gate of reuben one gate of judah one gate of levi
and at the east side four thousand and five hundred and three gates and one gate of joseph one gate of benjamin one gate of dan
and at the south side four thousand and five hundred measures and three gates one gate of simeon one gate of issachar one gate of zebulun
at the west side four thousand and five hundred with their three gates one gate of gad one gate of asher one gate of naphtali
it was round about eighteen thousand measures and the name of the city from that day shall be the lord is there
in the third year of the reign of jehoiakim king of judah came nebuchadnezzar king of babylon unto jerusalem and besieged it
and the lord gave jehoiakim king of judah into his hand with part of the vessels of the house of god which he carried into the land of shinar to the house of his god and he brought the vessels into the treasure house of his god
and the king spake unto ashpenaz the master of his eunuchs that he should bring certain of the children of israel and of the king's seed and of the princes
children in whom was no blemish but well favoured and skilful in all wisdom and cunning in knowledge and understanding science and such as had ability in them to stand in the king's palace and whom they might teach the learning and the tongue of the chaldeans
and the king appointed them a daily provision of the king's meat and of the wine which he drank so nourishing them three years that at the end thereof they might stand before the king
now among these were of the children of judah daniel hananiah mishael and azariah
unto whom the prince of the eunuchs gave names for he gave unto daniel the name of belteshazzar and to hananiah of shadrach and to mishael of meshach and to azariah of abednego
but daniel purposed in his heart that he would not defile himself with the portion of the king's meat nor with the wine which he drank therefore he requested of the prince of the eunuchs that he might not defile himself
now god had brought daniel into favour and tender love with the prince of the eunuchs
and the prince of the eunuchs said unto daniel i fear my lord the king who hath appointed your meat and your drink for why should he see your faces worse liking than the children which are of your sort then shall ye make me endanger my head to the king
then said daniel to melzar whom the prince of the eunuchs had set over daniel hananiah mishael and azariah
prove thy servants i beseech thee ten days and let them give us pulse to eat and water to drink
then let our countenances be looked upon before thee and the countenance of the children that eat of the portion of the king's meat and as thou seest deal with thy servants
so he consented to them in this matter and proved them ten days
and at the end of ten days their countenances appeared fairer and fatter in flesh than all the children which did eat the portion of the king's meat
thus melzar took away the portion of their meat and the wine that they should drink and gave them pulse
as for these four children god gave them knowledge and skill in all learning and wisdom and daniel had understanding in all visions and dreams
now at the end of the days that the king had said he should bring them in then the prince of the eunuchs brought them in before nebuchadnezzar
and the king communed with them and among them all was found none like daniel hananiah mishael and azariah therefore stood they before the king
and in all matters of wisdom and understanding that the king enquired of them he found them ten times better than all the magicians and astrologers that were in all his realm
and daniel continued even unto the first year of king cyrus
and in the second year of the reign of nebuchadnezzar nebuchadnezzar dreamed dreams wherewith his spirit was troubled and his sleep brake from him
then the king commanded to call the magicians and the astrologers and the sorcerers and the chaldeans for to shew the king his dreams so they came and stood before the king
and the king said unto them i have dreamed a dream and my spirit was troubled to know the dream
then spake the chaldeans to the king in syriack o king live for ever tell thy servants the dream and we will shew the interpretation
the king answered and said to the chaldeans the thing is gone from me if ye will not make known unto me the dream with the interpretation thereof ye shall be cut in pieces and your houses shall be made a dunghill
but if ye shew the dream and the interpretation thereof ye shall receive of me gifts and rewards and great honour therefore shew me the dream and the interpretation thereof
they answered again and said let the king tell his servants the dream and we will shew the interpretation of it
the king answered and said i know of certainty that ye would gain the time because ye see the thing is gone from me
but if ye will not make known unto me the dream there is but one decree for you for ye have prepared lying and corrupt words to speak before me till the time be changed therefore tell me the dream and i shall know that ye can shew me the interpretation thereof
the chaldeans answered before the king and said there is not a man upon the earth that can shew the king's matter therefore there is no king lord nor ruler that asked such things at any magician or astrologer or chaldean
and it is a rare thing that the king requireth and there is none other that can shew it before the king except the gods whose dwelling is not with flesh
for this cause the king was angry and very furious and commanded to destroy all the wise men of babylon
and the decree went forth that the wise men should be slain and they sought daniel and his fellows to be slain
then daniel answered with counsel and wisdom to arioch the captain of the king's guard which was gone forth to slay the wise men of babylon
he answered and said to arioch the king's captain why is the decree so hasty from the king then arioch made the thing known to daniel
then daniel went in and desired of the king that he would give him time and that he would shew the king the interpretation
then daniel went to his house and made the thing known to hananiah mishael and azariah his companions
that they would desire mercies of the god of heaven concerning this secret that daniel and his fellows should not perish with the rest of the wise men of babylon
then was the secret revealed unto daniel in a night vision then daniel blessed the god of heaven
daniel answered and said blessed be the name of god for ever and ever for wisdom and might are his
and he changeth the times and the seasons he removeth kings and setteth up kings he giveth wisdom unto the wise and knowledge to them that know understanding
he revealeth the deep and secret things he knoweth what is in the darkness and the light dwelleth with him
i thank thee and praise thee o thou god of my fathers who hast given me wisdom and might and hast made known unto me now what we desired of thee for thou hast now made known unto us the king's matter
therefore daniel went in unto arioch whom the king had ordained to destroy the wise men of babylon he went and said thus unto him destroy not the wise men of babylon bring me in before the king and i will shew unto the king the interpretation
then arioch brought in daniel before the king in haste and said thus unto him i have found a man of the captives of judah that will make known unto the king the interpretation
the king answered and said to daniel whose name was belteshazzar art thou able to make known unto me the dream which i have seen and the interpretation thereof
daniel answered in the presence of the king and said the secret which the king hath demanded cannot the wise men the astrologers the magicians the soothsayers shew unto the king
but there is a god in heaven that revealeth secrets and maketh known to the king nebuchadnezzar what shall be in the latter days thy dream and the visions of thy head upon thy bed are these
as for thee o king thy thoughts came into thy mind upon thy bed what should come to pass hereafter and he that revealeth secrets maketh known to thee what shall come to pass
but as for me this secret is not revealed to me for any wisdom that i have more than any living but for their sakes that shall make known the interpretation to the king and that thou mightest know the thoughts of thy heart
thou o king sawest and behold a great image this great image whose brightness was excellent stood before thee and the form thereof was terrible
this image's head was of fine gold his breast and his arms of silver his belly and his thighs of brass
his legs of iron his feet part of iron and part of clay
thou sawest till that a stone was cut out without hands which smote the image upon his feet that were of iron and clay and brake them to pieces
then was the iron the clay the brass the silver and the gold broken to pieces together and became like the chaff of the summer threshingfloors and the wind carried them away that no place was found for them and the stone that smote the image became a great mountain and filled the whole earth
this is the dream and we will tell the interpretation thereof before the king
thou o king art a king of kings for the god of heaven hath given thee a kingdom power and strength and glory
and wheresoever the children of men dwell the beasts of the field and the fowls of the heaven hath he given into thine hand and hath made thee ruler over them all thou art this head of gold
and after thee shall arise another kingdom inferior to thee and another third kingdom of brass which shall bear rule over all the earth
and the fourth kingdom shall be strong as iron forasmuch as iron breaketh in pieces and subdueth all things and as iron that breaketh all these shall it break in pieces and bruise
and whereas thou sawest the feet and toes part of potters clay and part of iron the kingdom shall be divided but there shall be in it of the strength of the iron forasmuch as thou sawest the iron mixed with miry clay
and as the toes of the feet were part of iron and part of clay so the kingdom shall be partly strong and partly broken
and whereas thou sawest iron mixed with miry clay they shall mingle themselves with the seed of men but they shall not cleave one to another even as iron is not mixed with clay
and in the days of these kings shall the god of heaven set up a kingdom which shall never be destroyed and the kingdom shall not be left to other people but it shall break in pieces and consume all these kingdoms and it shall stand for ever
forasmuch as thou sawest that the stone was cut out of the mountain without hands and that it brake in pieces the iron the brass the clay the silver and the gold the great god hath made known to the king what shall come to pass hereafter and the dream is certain and the interpretation thereof sure
then the king nebuchadnezzar fell upon his face and worshipped daniel and commanded that they should offer an oblation and sweet odours unto him
the king answered unto daniel and said of a truth it is that your god is a god of gods and a lord of kings and a revealer of secrets seeing thou couldest reveal this secret
then the king made daniel a great man and gave him many great gifts and made him ruler over the whole province of babylon and chief of the governors over all the wise men of babylon
then daniel requested of the king and he set shadrach meshach and abednego over the affairs of the province of babylon but daniel sat in the gate of the king
nebuchadnezzar the king made an image of gold whose height was threescore cubits and the breadth thereof six cubits he set it up in the plain of dura in the province of babylon
then nebuchadnezzar the king sent to gather together the princes the governors and the captains the judges the treasurers the counsellors the sheriffs and all the rulers of the provinces to come to the dedication of the image which nebuchadnezzar the king had set up
then the princes the governors and captains the judges the treasurers the counsellors the sheriffs and all the rulers of the provinces were gathered together unto the dedication of the image that nebuchadnezzar the king had set up and they stood before the image that nebuchadnezzar had set up
then an herald cried aloud to you it is commanded o people nations and languages
that at what time ye hear the sound of the cornet flute harp sackbut psaltery dulcimer and all kinds of musick ye fall down and worship the golden image that nebuchadnezzar the king hath set up
and whoso falleth not down and worshippeth shall the same hour be cast into the midst of a burning fiery furnace
therefore at that time when all the people heard the sound of the cornet flute harp sackbut psaltery and all kinds of musick all the people the nations and the languages fell down and worshipped the golden image that nebuchadnezzar the king had set up
wherefore at that time certain chaldeans came near and accused the jews
they spake and said to the king nebuchadnezzar o king live for ever
thou o king hast made a decree that every man that shall hear the sound of the cornet flute harp sackbut psaltery and dulcimer and all kinds of musick shall fall down and worship the golden image
and whoso falleth not down and worshippeth that he should be cast into the midst of a burning fiery furnace
there are certain jews whom thou hast set over the affairs of the province of babylon shadrach meshach and abednego these men o king have not regarded thee they serve not thy gods nor worship the golden image which thou hast set up
then nebuchadnezzar in his rage and fury commanded to bring shadrach meshach and abednego then they brought these men before the king
nebuchadnezzar spake and said unto them is it true o shadrach meshach and abednego do not ye serve my gods nor worship the golden image which i have set up
now if ye be ready that at what time ye hear the sound of the cornet flute harp sackbut psaltery and dulcimer and all kinds of musick ye fall down and worship the image which i have made well but if ye worship not ye shall be cast the same hour into the midst of a burning fiery furnace and who is that god that shall deliver you out of my hands
shadrach meshach and abednego answered and said to the king o nebuchadnezzar we are not careful to answer thee in this matter
if it be so our god whom we serve is able to deliver us from the burning fiery furnace and he will deliver us out of thine hand o king
but if not be it known unto thee o king that we will not serve thy gods nor worship the golden image which thou hast set up
then was nebuchadnezzar full of fury and the form of his visage was changed against shadrach meshach and abednego therefore he spake and commanded that they should heat the furnace one seven times more than it was wont to be heated
and he commanded the most mighty men that were in his army to bind shadrach meshach and abednego and to cast them into the burning fiery furnace
then these men were bound in their coats their hosen and their hats and their other garments and were cast into the midst of the burning fiery furnace
therefore because the king's commandment was urgent and the furnace exceeding hot the flame of the fire slew those men that took up shadrach meshach and abednego
and these three men shadrach meshach and abednego fell down bound into the midst of the burning fiery furnace
then nebuchadnezzar the king was astonied and rose up in haste and spake and said unto his counsellors did not we cast three men bound into the midst of the fire they answered and said unto the king true o king
he answered and said lo i see four men loose walking in the midst of the fire and they have no hurt and the form of the fourth is like the son of god
then nebuchadnezzar came near to the mouth of the burning fiery furnace and spake and said shadrach meshach and abednego ye servants of the most high god come forth and come hither then shadrach meshach and abednego came forth of the midst of the fire
and the princes governors and captains and the king's counsellors being gathered together saw these men upon whose bodies the fire had no power nor was an hair of their head singed neither were their coats changed nor the smell of fire had passed on them
then nebuchadnezzar spake and said blessed be the god of shadrach meshach and abednego who hath sent his angel and delivered his servants that trusted in him and have changed the king's word and yielded their bodies that they might not serve nor worship any god except their own god
therefore i make a decree that every people nation and language which speak any thing amiss against the god of shadrach meshach and abednego shall be cut in pieces and their houses shall be made a dunghill because there is no other god that can deliver after this sort
then the king promoted shadrach meshach and abednego in the province of babylon
nebuchadnezzar the king unto all people nations and languages that dwell in all the earth peace be multiplied unto you
i thought it good to shew the signs and wonders that the high god hath wrought toward me
how great are his signs and how mighty are his wonders his kingdom is an everlasting kingdom and his dominion is from generation to generation
i nebuchadnezzar was at rest in mine house and flourishing in my palace
i saw a dream which made me afraid and the thoughts upon my bed and the visions of my head troubled me
therefore made i a decree to bring in all the wise men of babylon before me that they might make known unto me the interpretation of the dream
then came in the magicians the astrologers the chaldeans and the soothsayers and i told the dream before them but they did not make known unto me the interpretation thereof
but at the last daniel came in before me whose name was belteshazzar according to the name of my god and in whom is the spirit of the holy gods and before him i told the dream saying
o belteshazzar master of the magicians because i know that the spirit of the holy gods is in thee and no secret troubleth thee tell me the visions of my dream that i have seen and the interpretation thereof
thus were the visions of mine head in my bed i saw and behold a tree in the midst of the earth and the height thereof was great
the tree grew and was strong and the height thereof reached unto heaven and the sight thereof to the end of all the earth
the leaves thereof were fair and the fruit thereof much and in it was meat for all the beasts of the field had shadow under it and the fowls of the heaven dwelt in the boughs thereof and all flesh was fed of it
i saw in the visions of my head upon my bed and behold a watcher and an holy one came down from heaven
he cried aloud and said thus hew down the tree and cut off his branches shake off his leaves and scatter his fruit let the beasts get away from under it and the fowls from his branches
nevertheless leave the stump of his roots in the earth even with a band of iron and brass in the tender grass of the field and let it be wet with the dew of heaven and let his portion be with the beasts in the grass of the earth
let his heart be changed from man's and let a beast's heart be given unto him and let seven times pass over him
this matter is by the decree of the watchers and the demand by the word of the holy ones to the intent that the living may know that the most high ruleth in the kingdom of men and giveth it to whomsoever he will and setteth up over it the basest of men
this dream i king nebuchadnezzar have seen now thou o belteshazzar declare the interpretation thereof forasmuch as all the wise men of my kingdom are not able to make known unto me the interpretation but thou art able for the spirit of the holy gods is in thee
then daniel whose name was belteshazzar was astonied for one hour and his thoughts troubled him the king spake and said belteshazzar let not the dream or the interpretation thereof trouble thee belteshazzar answered and said my lord the dream be to them that hate thee and the interpretation thereof to thine enemies
the tree that thou sawest which grew and was strong whose height reached unto the heaven and the sight thereof to all the earth
whose leaves were fair and the fruit thereof much and in it was meat for all under which the beasts of the field dwelt and upon whose branches the fowls of the heaven had their habitation
it is thou o king that art grown and become strong for thy greatness is grown and reacheth unto heaven and thy dominion to the end of the earth
and whereas the king saw a watcher and an holy one coming down from heaven and saying hew the tree down and destroy it yet leave the stump of the roots thereof in the earth even with a band of iron and brass in the tender grass of the field and let it be wet with the dew of heaven and let his portion be with the beasts of the field till seven times pass over him
this is the interpretation o king and this is the decree of the most high which is come upon my lord the king
that they shall drive thee from men and thy dwelling shall be with the beasts of the field and they shall make thee to eat grass as oxen and they shall wet thee with the dew of heaven and seven times shall pass over thee till thou know that the most high ruleth in the kingdom of men and giveth it to whomsoever he will
and whereas they commanded to leave the stump of the tree roots thy kingdom shall be sure unto thee after that thou shalt have known that the heavens do rule
wherefore o king let my counsel be acceptable unto thee and break off thy sins by righteousness and thine iniquities by shewing mercy to the poor if it may be a lengthening of thy tranquillity
all this came upon the king nebuchadnezzar
at the end of twelve months he walked in the palace of the kingdom of babylon
the king spake and said is not this great babylon that i have built for the house of the kingdom by the might of my power and for the honour of my majesty
while the word was in the king's mouth there fell a voice from heaven saying o king nebuchadnezzar to thee it is spoken the kingdom is departed from thee
and they shall drive thee from men and thy dwelling shall be with the beasts of the field they shall make thee to eat grass as oxen and seven times shall pass over thee until thou know that the most high ruleth in the kingdom of men and giveth it to whomsoever he will
the same hour was the thing fulfilled upon nebuchadnezzar and he was driven from men and did eat grass as oxen and his body was wet with the dew of heaven till his hairs were grown like eagles feathers and his nails like birds claws
and at the end of the days i nebuchadnezzar lifted up mine eyes unto heaven and mine understanding returned unto me and i blessed the most high and i praised and honoured him that liveth for ever whose dominion is an everlasting dominion and his kingdom is from generation to generation
and all the inhabitants of the earth are reputed as nothing and he doeth according to his will in the army of heaven and among the inhabitants of the earth and none can stay his hand or say unto him what doest thou
at the same time my reason returned unto me and for the glory of my kingdom mine honour and brightness returned unto me and my counsellors and my lords sought unto me and i was established in my kingdom and excellent majesty was added unto me
now i nebuchadnezzar praise and extol and honour the king of heaven all whose works are truth and his ways judgment and those that walk in pride he is able to abase
belshazzar the king made a great feast to a thousand of his lords and drank wine before the thousand
belshazzar whiles he tasted the wine commanded to bring the golden and silver vessels which his father nebuchadnezzar had taken out of the temple which was in jerusalem that the king and his princes his wives and his concubines might drink therein
then they brought the golden vessels that were taken out of the temple of the house of god which was at jerusalem and the king and his princes his wives and his concubines drank in them
they drank wine and praised the gods of gold and of silver of brass of iron of wood and of stone
in the same hour came forth fingers of a man's hand and wrote over against the candlestick upon the plaister of the wall of the king's palace and the king saw the part of the hand that wrote
then the king's countenance was changed and his thoughts troubled him so that the joints of his loins were loosed and his knees smote one against another
the king cried aloud to bring in the astrologers the chaldeans and the soothsayers and the king spake and said to the wise men of babylon whosoever shall read this writing and shew me the interpretation thereof shall be clothed with scarlet and have a chain of gold about his neck and shall be the third ruler in the kingdom
then came in all the king's wise men but they could not read the writing nor make known to the king the interpretation thereof
then was king belshazzar greatly troubled and his countenance was changed in him and his lords were astonied
now the queen by reason of the words of the king and his lords came into the banquet house and the queen spake and said o king live for ever let not thy thoughts trouble thee nor let thy countenance be changed
there is a man in thy kingdom in whom is the spirit of the holy gods and in the days of thy father light and understanding and wisdom like the wisdom of the gods was found in him whom the king nebuchadnezzar thy father the king i say thy father made master of the magicians astrologers chaldeans and soothsayers
forasmuch as an excellent spirit and knowledge and understanding interpreting of dreams and shewing of hard sentences and dissolving of doubts were found in the same daniel whom the king named belteshazzar now let daniel be called and he will shew the interpretation
then was daniel brought in before the king and the king spake and said unto daniel art thou that daniel which art of the children of the captivity of judah whom the king my father brought out of jewry
i have even heard of thee that the spirit of the gods is in thee and that light and understanding and excellent wisdom is found in thee
and now the wise men the astrologers have been brought in before me that they should read this writing and make known unto me the interpretation thereof but they could not shew the interpretation of the thing
and i have heard of thee that thou canst make interpretations and dissolve doubts now if thou canst read the writing and make known to me the interpretation thereof thou shalt be clothed with scarlet and have a chain of gold about thy neck and shalt be the third ruler in the kingdom
then daniel answered and said before the king let thy gifts be to thyself and give thy rewards to another yet i will read the writing unto the king and make known to him the interpretation
o thou king the most high god gave nebuchadnezzar thy father a kingdom and majesty and glory and honour
and for the majesty that he gave him all people nations and languages trembled and feared before him whom he would he slew and whom he would he kept alive and whom he would he set up and whom he would he put down
but when his heart was lifted up and his mind hardened in pride he was deposed from his kingly throne and they took his glory from him
and he was driven from the sons of men and his heart was made like the beasts and his dwelling was with the wild asses they fed him with grass like oxen and his body was wet with the dew of heaven till he knew that the most high god ruled in the kingdom of men and that he appointeth over it whomsoever he will
and thou his son o belshazzar hast not humbled thine heart though thou knewest all this
but hast lifted up thyself against the lord of heaven and they have brought the vessels of his house before thee and thou and thy lords thy wives and thy concubines have drunk wine in them and thou hast praised the gods of silver and gold of brass iron wood and stone which see not nor hear nor know and the god in whose hand thy breath is and whose are all thy ways hast thou not glorified
then was the part of the hand sent from him and this writing was written
and this is the writing that was written mene mene tekel upharsin
this is the interpretation of the thing mene god hath numbered thy kingdom and finished it
tekel thou art weighed in the balances and art found wanting
peres thy kingdom is divided and given to the medes and persians
then commanded belshazzar and they clothed daniel with scarlet and put a chain of gold about his neck and made a proclamation concerning him that he should be the third ruler in the kingdom
in that night was belshazzar the king of the chaldeans slain
and darius the median took the kingdom being about threescore and two years old
it pleased darius to set over the kingdom an hundred and twenty princes which should be over the whole kingdom
and over these three presidents of whom daniel was first that the princes might give accounts unto them and the king should have no damage
then this daniel was preferred above the presidents and princes because an excellent spirit was in him and the king thought to set him over the whole realm
then the presidents and princes sought to find occasion against daniel concerning the kingdom but they could find none occasion nor fault forasmuch as he was faithful neither was there any error or fault found in him
then said these men we shall not find any occasion against this daniel except we find it against him concerning the law of his god
then these presidents and princes assembled together to the king and said thus unto him king darius live for ever
all the presidents of the kingdom the governors and the princes the counsellors and the captains have consulted together to establish a royal statute and to make a firm decree that whosoever shall ask a petition of any god or man for thirty days save of thee o king he shall be cast into the den of lions
now o king establish the decree and sign the writing that it be not changed according to the law of the medes and persians which altereth not
wherefore king darius signed the writing and the decree
now when daniel knew that the writing was signed he went into his house and his windows being open in his chamber toward jerusalem he kneeled upon his knees three times a day and prayed and gave thanks before his god as he did aforetime
then these men assembled and found daniel praying and making supplication before his god
then they came near and spake before the king concerning the king's decree hast thou not signed a decree that every man that shall ask a petition of any god or man within thirty days save of thee o king shall be cast into the den of lions the king answered and said the thing is true according to the law of the medes and persians which altereth not
then answered they and said before the king that daniel which is of the children of the captivity of judah regardeth not thee o king nor the decree that thou hast signed but maketh his petition three times a day
then the king when he heard these words was sore displeased with himself and set his heart on daniel to deliver him and he laboured till the going down of the sun to deliver him
then these men assembled unto the king and said unto the king know o king that the law of the medes and persians is that no decree nor statute which the king establisheth may be changed
then the king commanded and they brought daniel and cast him into the den of lions now the king spake and said unto daniel thy god whom thou servest continually he will deliver thee
and a stone was brought and laid upon the mouth of the den and the king sealed it with his own signet and with the signet of his lords that the purpose might not be changed concerning daniel
then the king went to his palace and passed the night fasting neither were instruments of musick brought before him and his sleep went from him
then the king arose very early in the morning and went in haste unto the den of lions
and when he came to the den he cried with a lamentable voice unto daniel and the king spake and said to daniel o daniel servant of the living god is thy god whom thou servest continually able to deliver thee from the lions
then said daniel unto the king o king live for ever
my god hath sent his angel and hath shut the lions mouths that they have not hurt me forasmuch as before him innocency was found in me and also before thee o king have i done no hurt
then was the king exceeding glad for him and commanded that they should take daniel up out of the den so daniel was taken up out of the den and no manner of hurt was found upon him because he believed in his god
and the king commanded and they brought those men which had accused daniel and they cast them into the den of lions them their children and their wives and the lions had the mastery of them and brake all their bones in pieces or ever they came at the bottom of the den
then king darius wrote unto all people nations and languages that dwell in all the earth peace be multiplied unto you
i make a decree that in every dominion of my kingdom men tremble and fear before the god of daniel for he is the living god and stedfast for ever and his kingdom that which shall not be destroyed and his dominion shall be even unto the end
he delivereth and rescueth and he worketh signs and wonders in heaven and in earth who hath delivered daniel from the power of the lions
so this daniel prospered in the reign of darius and in the reign of cyrus the persian
in the first year of belshazzar king of babylon daniel had a dream and visions of his head upon his bed then he wrote the dream and told the sum of the matters
daniel spake and said i saw in my vision by night and behold the four winds of the heaven strove upon the great sea
and four great beasts came up from the sea diverse one from another
the first was like a lion and had eagle's wings i beheld till the wings thereof were plucked and it was lifted up from the earth and made stand upon the feet as a man and a man's heart was given to it
and behold another beast a second like to a bear and it raised up itself on one side and it had three ribs in the mouth of it between the teeth of it and they said thus unto it arise devour much flesh
after this i beheld and lo another like a leopard which had upon the back of it four wings of a fowl the beast had also four heads and dominion was given to it
after this i saw in the night visions and behold a fourth beast dreadful and terrible and strong exceedingly and it had great iron teeth it devoured and brake in pieces and stamped the residue with the feet of it and it was diverse from all the beasts that were before it and it had ten horns
i considered the horns and behold there came up among them another little horn before whom there were three of the first horns plucked up by the roots and behold in this horn were eyes like the eyes of man and a mouth speaking great things
i beheld till the thrones were cast down and the ancient of days did sit whose garment was white as snow and the hair of his head like the pure wool his throne was like the fiery flame and his wheels as burning fire
a fiery stream issued and came forth from before him thousand thousands ministered unto him and ten thousand times ten thousand stood before him the judgment was set and the books were opened
i beheld then because of the voice of the great words which the horn spake i beheld even till the beast was slain and his body destroyed and given to the burning flame
as concerning the rest of the beasts they had their dominion taken away yet their lives were prolonged for a season and time
i saw in the night visions and behold one like the son of man came with the clouds of heaven and came to the ancient of days and they brought him near before him
and there was given him dominion and glory and a kingdom that all people nations and languages should serve him his dominion is an everlasting dominion which shall not pass away and his kingdom that which shall not be destroyed
i daniel was grieved in my spirit in the midst of my body and the visions of my head troubled me
i came near unto one of them that stood by and asked him the truth of all this so he told me and made me know the interpretation of the things
these great beasts which are four are four kings which shall arise out of the earth
but the saints of the most high shall take the kingdom and possess the kingdom for ever even for ever and ever
then i would know the truth of the fourth beast which was diverse from all the others exceeding dreadful whose teeth were of iron and his nails of brass which devoured brake in pieces and stamped the residue with his feet
and of the ten horns that were in his head and of the other which came up and before whom three fell even of that horn that had eyes and a mouth that spake very great things whose look was more stout than his fellows
i beheld and the same horn made war with the saints and prevailed against them
until the ancient of days came and judgment was given to the saints of the most high and the time came that the saints possessed the kingdom
thus he said the fourth beast shall be the fourth kingdom upon earth which shall be diverse from all kingdoms and shall devour the whole earth and shall tread it down and break it in pieces
and the ten horns out of this kingdom are ten kings that shall arise and another shall rise after them and he shall be diverse from the first and he shall subdue three kings
and he shall speak great words against the most high and shall wear out the saints of the most high and think to change times and laws and they shall be given into his hand until a time and times and the dividing of time
but the judgment shall sit and they shall take away his dominion to consume and to destroy it unto the end
and the kingdom and dominion and the greatness of the kingdom under the whole heaven shall be given to the people of the saints of the most high whose kingdom is an everlasting kingdom and all dominions shall serve and obey him
hitherto is the end of the matter as for me daniel my cogitations much troubled me and my countenance changed in me but i kept the matter in my heart
in the third year of the reign of king belshazzar a vision appeared unto me even unto me daniel after that which appeared unto me at the first
and i saw in a vision and it came to pass when i saw that i was at shushan in the palace which is in the province of elam and i saw in a vision and i was by the river of ulai
then i lifted up mine eyes and saw and behold there stood before the river a ram which had two horns and the two horns were high but one was higher than the other and the higher came up last
i saw the ram pushing westward and northward and southward so that no beasts might stand before him neither was there any that could deliver out of his hand but he did according to his will and became great
and as i was considering behold an he goat came from the west on the face of the whole earth and touched not the ground and the goat had a notable horn between his eyes
and he came to the ram that had two horns which i had seen standing before the river and ran unto him in the fury of his power
and i saw him come close unto the ram and he was moved with choler against him and smote the ram and brake his two horns and there was no power in the ram to stand before him but he cast him down to the ground and stamped upon him and there was none that could deliver the ram out of his hand
therefore the he goat waxed very great and when he was strong the great horn was broken and for it came up four notable ones toward the four winds of heaven
and out of one of them came forth a little horn which waxed exceeding great toward the south and toward the east and toward the pleasant land
and it waxed great even to the host of heaven and it cast down some of the host and of the stars to the ground and stamped upon them
yea he magnified himself even to the prince of the host and by him the daily sacrifice was taken away and the place of his sanctuary was cast down
and an host was given him against the daily sacrifice by reason of transgression and it cast down the truth to the ground and it practised and prospered
then i heard one saint speaking and another saint said unto that certain saint which spake how long shall be the vision concerning the daily sacrifice and the transgression of desolation to give both the sanctuary and the host to be trodden under foot
and he said unto me unto two thousand and three hundred days then shall the sanctuary be cleansed
and it came to pass when i even i daniel had seen the vision and sought for the meaning then behold there stood before me as the appearance of a man
and i heard a man's voice between the banks of ulai which called and said gabriel make this man to understand the vision
so he came near where i stood and when he came i was afraid and fell upon my face but he said unto me understand o son of man for at the time of the end shall be the vision
now as he was speaking with me i was in a deep sleep on my face toward the ground but he touched me and set me upright
and he said behold i will make thee know what shall be in the last end of the indignation for at the time appointed the end shall be
the ram which thou sawest having two horns are the kings of media and persia
and the rough goat is the king of grecia and the great horn that is between his eyes is the first king
now that being broken whereas four stood up for it four kingdoms shall stand up out of the nation but not in his power
and in the latter time of their kingdom when the transgressors are come to the full a king of fierce countenance and understanding dark sentences shall stand up
and his power shall be mighty but not by his own power and he shall destroy wonderfully and shall prosper and practise and shall destroy the mighty and the holy people
and through his policy also he shall cause craft to prosper in his hand and he shall magnify himself in his heart and by peace shall destroy many he shall also stand up against the prince of princes but he shall be broken without hand
and the vision of the evening and the morning which was told is true wherefore shut thou up the vision for it shall be for many days
and i daniel fainted and was sick certain days afterward i rose up and did the king's business and i was astonished at the vision but none understood it
in the first year of darius the son of ahasuerus of the seed of the medes which was made king over the realm of the chaldeans
in the first year of his reign i daniel understood by books the number of the years whereof the word of the lord came to jeremiah the prophet that he would accomplish seventy years in the desolations of jerusalem
and i set my face unto the lord god to seek by prayer and supplications with fasting and sackcloth and ashes
and i prayed unto the lord my god and made my confession and said o lord the great and dreadful god keeping the covenant and mercy to them that love him and to them that keep his commandments
we have sinned and have committed iniquity and have done wickedly and have rebelled even by departing from thy precepts and from thy judgments
neither have we hearkened unto thy servants the prophets which spake in thy name to our kings our princes and our fathers and to all the people of the land
o lord righteousness belongeth unto thee but unto us confusion of faces as at this day to the men of judah and to the inhabitants of jerusalem and unto all israel that are near and that are far off through all the countries whither thou hast driven them because of their trespass that they have trespassed against thee
o lord to us belongeth confusion of face to our kings to our princes and to our fathers because we have sinned against thee
to the lord our god belong mercies and forgivenesses though we have rebelled against him
neither have we obeyed the voice of the lord our god to walk in his laws which he set before us by his servants the prophets
yea all israel have transgressed thy law even by departing that they might not obey thy voice therefore the curse is poured upon us and the oath that is written in the law of moses the servant of god because we have sinned against him
and he hath confirmed his words which he spake against us and against our judges that judged us by bringing upon us a great evil for under the whole heaven hath not been done as hath been done upon jerusalem
as it is written in the law of moses all this evil is come upon us yet made we not our prayer before the lord our god that we might turn from our iniquities and understand thy truth
therefore hath the lord watched upon the evil and brought it upon us for the lord our god is righteous in all his works which he doeth for we obeyed not his voice
and now o lord our god that hast brought thy people forth out of the land of egypt with a mighty hand and hast gotten thee renown as at this day we have sinned we have done wickedly
o lord according to all thy righteousness i beseech thee let thine anger and thy fury be turned away from thy city jerusalem thy holy mountain because for our sins and for the iniquities of our fathers jerusalem and thy people are become a reproach to all that are about us
now therefore o our god hear the prayer of thy servant and his supplications and cause thy face to shine upon thy sanctuary that is desolate for the lord's sake
o my god incline thine ear and hear open thine eyes and behold our desolations and the city which is called by thy name for we do not present our supplications before thee for our righteousnesses but for thy great mercies
o lord hear o lord forgive o lord hearken and do defer not for thine own sake o my god for thy city and thy people are called by thy name
and whiles i was speaking and praying and confessing my sin and the sin of my people israel and presenting my supplication before the lord my god for the holy mountain of my god
yea whiles i was speaking in prayer even the man gabriel whom i had seen in the vision at the beginning being caused to fly swiftly touched me about the time of the evening oblation
and he informed me and talked with me and said o daniel i am now come forth to give thee skill and understanding
at the beginning of thy supplications the commandment came forth and i am come to shew thee for thou art greatly beloved therefore understand the matter and consider the vision
seventy weeks are determined upon thy people and upon thy holy city to finish the transgression and to make an end of sins and to make reconciliation for iniquity and to bring in everlasting righteousness and to seal up the vision and prophecy and to anoint the most holy
know therefore and understand that from the going forth of the commandment to restore and to build jerusalem unto the messiah the prince shall be seven weeks and threescore and two weeks the street shall be built again and the wall even in troublous times
and after threescore and two weeks shall messiah be cut off but not for himself and the people of the prince that shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary and the end thereof shall be with a flood and unto the end of the war desolations are determined
and he shall confirm the covenant with many for one week and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease and for the overspreading of abominations he shall make it desolate even until the consummation and that determined shall be poured upon the desolate
in the third year of cyrus king of persia a thing was revealed unto daniel whose name was called belteshazzar and the thing was true but the time appointed was long and he understood the thing and had understanding of the vision
in those days i daniel was mourning three full weeks
i ate no pleasant bread neither came flesh nor wine in my mouth neither did i anoint myself at all till three whole weeks were fulfilled
and in the four and twentieth day of the first month as i was by the side of the great river which is hiddekel
then i lifted up mine eyes and looked and behold a certain man clothed in linen whose loins were girded with fine gold of uphaz
his body also was like the beryl and his face as the appearance of lightning and his eyes as lamps of fire and his arms and his feet like in colour to polished brass and the voice of his words like the voice of a multitude
and i daniel alone saw the vision for the men that were with me saw not the vision but a great quaking fell upon them so that they fled to hide themselves
therefore i was left alone and saw this great vision and there remained no strength in me for my comeliness was turned in me into corruption and i retained no strength
yet heard i the voice of his words and when i heard the voice of his words then was i in a deep sleep on my face and my face toward the ground
and behold an hand touched me which set me upon my knees and upon the palms of my hands
and he said unto me o daniel a man greatly beloved understand the words that i speak unto thee and stand upright for unto thee am i now sent and when he had spoken this word unto me i stood trembling
then said he unto me fear not daniel for from the first day that thou didst set thine heart to understand and to chasten thyself before thy god thy words were heard and i am come for thy words
but the prince of the kingdom of persia withstood me one and twenty days but lo michael one of the chief princes came to help me and i remained there with the kings of persia
now i am come to make thee understand what shall befall thy people in the latter days for yet the vision is for many days
and when he had spoken such words unto me i set my face toward the ground and i became dumb
and behold one like the similitude of the sons of men touched my lips then i opened my mouth and spake and said unto him that stood before me o my lord by the vision my sorrows are turned upon me and i have retained no strength
for how can the servant of this my lord talk with this my lord for as for me straightway there remained no strength in me neither is there breath left in me
then there came again and touched me one like the appearance of a man and he strengthened me
and said o man greatly beloved fear not peace be unto thee be strong yea be strong and when he had spoken unto me i was strengthened and said let my lord speak for thou hast strengthened me
then said he knowest thou wherefore i come unto thee and now will i return to fight with the prince of persia and when i am gone forth lo the prince of grecia shall come
but i will shew thee that which is noted in the scripture of truth and there is none that holdeth with me in these things but michael your prince
also i in the first year of darius the mede even i stood to confirm and to strengthen him
and now will i shew thee the truth behold there shall stand up yet three kings in persia and the fourth shall be far richer than they all and by his strength through his riches he shall stir up all against the realm of grecia
and a mighty king shall stand up that shall rule with great dominion and do according to his will
and when he shall stand up his kingdom shall be broken and shall be divided toward the four winds of heaven and not to his posterity nor according to his dominion which he ruled for his kingdom shall be plucked up even for others beside those
and the king of the south shall be strong and one of his princes and he shall be strong above him and have dominion his dominion shall be a great dominion
and in the end of years they shall join themselves together for the king's daughter of the south shall come to the king of the north to make an agreement but she shall not retain the power of the arm neither shall he stand nor his arm but she shall be given up and they that brought her and he that begat her and he that strengthened her in these times
but out of a branch of her roots shall one stand up in his estate which shall come with an army and shall enter into the fortress of the king of the north and shall deal against them and shall prevail
and shall also carry captives into egypt their gods with their princes and with their precious vessels of silver and of gold and he shall continue more years than the king of the north
so the king of the south shall come into his kingdom and shall return into his own land
but his sons shall be stirred up and shall assemble a multitude of great forces and one shall certainly come and overflow and pass through then shall he return and be stirred up even to his fortress
and the king of the south shall be moved with choler and shall come forth and fight with him even with the king of the north and he shall set forth a great multitude but the multitude shall be given into his hand
and when he hath taken away the multitude his heart shall be lifted up and he shall cast down many ten thousands but he shall not be strengthened by it
for the king of the north shall return and shall set forth a multitude greater than the former and shall certainly come after certain years with a great army and with much riches
and in those times there shall many stand up against the king of the south also the robbers of thy people shall exalt themselves to establish the vision but they shall fall
so the king of the north shall come and cast up a mount and take the most fenced cities and the arms of the south shall not withstand neither his chosen people neither shall there be any strength to withstand
but he that cometh against him shall do according to his own will and none shall stand before him and he shall stand in the glorious land which by his hand shall be consumed
he shall also set his face to enter with the strength of his whole kingdom and upright ones with him thus shall he do and he shall give him the daughter of women corrupting her but she shall not stand on his side neither be for him
after this shall he turn his face unto the isles and shall take many but a prince for his own behalf shall cause the reproach offered by him to cease without his own reproach he shall cause it to turn upon him
then he shall turn his face toward the fort of his own land but he shall stumble and fall and not be found
then shall stand up in his estate a raiser of taxes in the glory of the kingdom but within few days he shall be destroyed neither in anger nor in battle
and in his estate shall stand up a vile person to whom they shall not give the honour of the kingdom but he shall come in peaceably and obtain the kingdom by flatteries
and with the arms of a flood shall they be overflown from before him and shall be broken yea also the prince of the covenant
and after the league made with him he shall work deceitfully for he shall come up and shall become strong with a small people
he shall enter peaceably even upon the fattest places of the province and he shall do that which his fathers have not done nor his fathers fathers he shall scatter among them the prey and spoil and riches yea and he shall forecast his devices against the strong holds even for a time
and he shall stir up his power and his courage against the king of the south with a great army and the king of the south shall be stirred up to battle with a very great and mighty army but he shall not stand for they shall forecast devices against him
yea they that feed of the portion of his meat shall destroy him and his army shall overflow and many shall fall down slain
and both these kings hearts shall be to do mischief and they shall speak lies at one table but it shall not prosper for yet the end shall be at the time appointed
then shall he return into his land with great riches and his heart shall be against the holy covenant and he shall do exploits and return to his own land
at the time appointed he shall return and come toward the south but it shall not be as the former or as the latter
for the ships of chittim shall come against him therefore he shall be grieved and return and have indignation against the holy covenant so shall he do he shall even return and have intelligence with them that forsake the holy covenant
and arms shall stand on his part and they shall pollute the sanctuary of strength and shall take away the daily sacrifice and they shall place the abomination that maketh desolate
and such as do wickedly against the covenant shall he corrupt by flatteries but the people that do know their god shall be strong and do exploits
and they that understand among the people shall instruct many yet they shall fall by the sword and by flame by captivity and by spoil many days
now when they shall fall they shall be holpen with a little help but many shall cleave to them with flatteries
and some of them of understanding shall fall to try them and to purge and to make them white even to the time of the end because it is yet for a time appointed
and the king shall do according to his will and he shall exalt himself and magnify himself above every god and shall speak marvellous things against the god of gods and shall prosper till the indignation be accomplished for that that is determined shall be done
neither shall he regard the god of his fathers nor the desire of women nor regard any god for he shall magnify himself above all
but in his estate shall he honour the god of forces and a god whom his fathers knew not shall he honour with gold and silver and with precious stones and pleasant things
thus shall he do in the most strong holds with a strange god whom he shall acknowledge and increase with glory and he shall cause them to rule over many and shall divide the land for gain
and at the time of the end shall the king of the south push at him and the king of the north shall come against him like a whirlwind with chariots and with horsemen and with many ships and he shall enter into the countries and shall overflow and pass over
he shall enter also into the glorious land and many countries shall be overthrown but these shall escape out of his hand even edom and moab and the chief of the children of ammon
he shall stretch forth his hand also upon the countries and the land of egypt shall not escape
but he shall have power over the treasures of gold and of silver and over all the precious things of egypt and the libyans and the ethiopians shall be at his steps
but tidings out of the east and out of the north shall trouble him therefore he shall go forth with great fury to destroy and utterly to make away many
and he shall plant the tabernacles of his palace between the seas in the glorious holy mountain yet he shall come to his end and none shall help him
and at that time shall michael stand up the great prince which standeth for the children of thy people and there shall be a time of trouble such as never was since there was a nation even to that same time and at that time thy people shall be delivered every one that shall be found written in the book
and many of them that sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake some to everlasting life and some to shame and everlasting contempt
and they that be wise shall shine as the brightness of the firmament and they that turn many to righteousness as the stars for ever and ever
but thou o daniel shut up the words and seal the book even to the time of the end many shall run to and fro and knowledge shall be increased
then i daniel looked and behold there stood other two the one on this side of the bank of the river and the other on that side of the bank of the river
and one said to the man clothed in linen which was upon the waters of the river how long shall it be to the end of these wonders
and i heard the man clothed in linen which was upon the waters of the river when he held up his right hand and his left hand unto heaven and sware by him that liveth for ever that it shall be for a time times and an half and when he shall have accomplished to scatter the power of the holy people all these things shall be finished
and i heard but i understood not then said i o my lord what shall be the end of these things
and he said go thy way daniel for the words are closed up and sealed till the time of the end
many shall be purified and made white and tried but the wicked shall do wickedly and none of the wicked shall understand but the wise shall understand
and from the time that the daily sacrifice shall be taken away and the abomination that maketh desolate set up there shall be a thousand two hundred and ninety days
blessed is he that waiteth and cometh to the thousand three hundred and five and thirty days
but go thou thy way till the end be for thou shalt rest and stand in thy lot at the end of the days
the word of the lord that came unto hosea the son of beeri in the days of uzziah jotham ahaz and hezekiah kings of judah and in the days of jeroboam the son of joash king of israel
the beginning of the word of the lord by hosea and the lord said to hosea go take unto thee a wife of whoredoms and children of whoredoms for the land hath committed great whoredom departing from the lord
so he went and took gomer the daughter of diblaim which conceived and bare him a son
and the lord said unto him call his name jezreel for yet a little while and i will avenge the blood of jezreel upon the house of jehu and will cause to cease the kingdom of the house of israel
and it shall come to pass at that day that i will break the bow of israel in the valley of jezreel
and she conceived again and bare a daughter and god said unto him call her name loruhamah for i will no more have mercy upon the house of israel but i will utterly take them away
but i will have mercy upon the house of judah and will save them by the lord their god and will not save them by bow nor by sword nor by battle by horses nor by horsemen
now when she had weaned loruhamah she conceived and bare a son
then said god call his name loammi for ye are not my people and i will not be your god
yet the number of the children of israel shall be as the sand of the sea which cannot be measured nor numbered and it shall come to pass that in the place where it was said unto them ye are not my people there it shall be said unto them ye are the sons of the living god
then shall the children of judah and the children of israel be gathered together and appoint themselves one head and they shall come up out of the land for great shall be the day of jezreel
say ye unto your brethren ammi and to your sisters ruhamah
plead with your mother plead for she is not my wife neither am i her husband let her therefore put away her whoredoms out of her sight and her adulteries from between her breasts
lest i strip her naked and set her as in the day that she was born and make her as a wilderness and set her like a dry land and slay her with thirst
and i will not have mercy upon her children for they be the children of whoredoms
for their mother hath played the harlot she that conceived them hath done shamefully for she said i will go after my lovers that give me my bread and my water my wool and my flax mine oil and my drink
therefore behold i will hedge up thy way with thorns and make a wall that she shall not find her paths
and she shall follow after her lovers but she shall not overtake them and she shall seek them but shall not find them then shall she say i will go and return to my first husband for then was it better with me than now
for she did not know that i gave her corn and wine and oil and multiplied her silver and gold which they prepared for baal
therefore will i return and take away my corn in the time thereof and my wine in the season thereof and will recover my wool and my flax given to cover her nakedness
and now will i discover her lewdness in the sight of her lovers and none shall deliver her out of mine hand
i will also cause all her mirth to cease her feast days her new moons and her sabbaths and all her solemn feasts
and i will destroy her vines and her fig trees whereof she hath said these are my rewards that my lovers have given me and i will make them a forest and the beasts of the field shall eat them
and i will visit upon her the days of baalim wherein she burned incense to them and she decked herself with her earrings and her jewels and she went after her lovers and forgat me saith the lord
therefore behold i will allure her and bring her into the wilderness and speak comfortably unto her
and i will give her her vineyards from thence and the valley of achor for a door of hope and she shall sing there as in the days of her youth and as in the day when she came up out of the land of egypt
and it shall be at that day saith the lord that thou shalt call me ishi and shalt call me no more baali
for i will take away the names of baalim out of her mouth and they shall no more be remembered by their name
and in that day will i make a covenant for them with the beasts of the field and with the fowls of heaven and with the creeping things of the ground and i will break the bow and the sword and the battle out of the earth and will make them to lie down safely
and i will betroth thee unto me for ever yea i will betroth thee unto me in righteousness and in judgment and in lovingkindness and in mercies
i will even betroth thee unto me in faithfulness and thou shalt know the lord
and it shall come to pass in that day i will hear saith the lord i will hear the heavens and they shall hear the earth
and the earth shall hear the corn and the wine and the oil and they shall hear jezreel
and i will sow her unto me in the earth and i will have mercy upon her that had not obtained mercy and i will say to them which were not my people thou art my people and they shall say thou art my god
then said the lord unto me go yet love a woman beloved of her friend yet an adulteress according to the love of the lord toward the children of israel who look to other gods and love flagons of wine
so i bought her to me for fifteen pieces of silver and for an homer of barley and an half homer of barley
and i said unto her thou shalt abide for me many days thou shalt not play the harlot and thou shalt not be for another man so will i also be for thee
for the children of israel shall abide many days without a king and without a prince and without a sacrifice and without an image and without an ephod and without teraphim
afterward shall the children of israel return and seek the lord their god and david their king and shall fear the lord and his goodness in the latter days
hear the word of the lord ye children of israel for the lord hath a controversy with the inhabitants of the land because there is no truth nor mercy nor knowledge of god in the land
by swearing and lying and killing and stealing and committing adultery they break out and blood toucheth blood
therefore shall the land mourn and every one that dwelleth therein shall languish with the beasts of the field and with the fowls of heaven yea the fishes of the sea also shall be taken away
yet let no man strive nor reprove another for thy people are as they that strive with the priest
therefore shalt thou fall in the day and the prophet also shall fall with thee in the night and i will destroy thy mother
my people are destroyed for lack of knowledge because thou hast rejected knowledge i will also reject thee that thou shalt be no priest to me seeing thou hast forgotten the law of thy god i will also forget thy children
as they were increased so they sinned against me therefore will i change their glory into shame
they eat up the sin of my people and they set their heart on their iniquity
and there shall be like people like priest and i will punish them for their ways and reward them their doings
for they shall eat and not have enough they shall commit whoredom and shall not increase because they have left off to take heed to the lord
whoredom and wine and new wine take away the heart
my people ask counsel at their stocks and their staff declareth unto them for the spirit of whoredoms hath caused them to err and they have gone a whoring from under their god
they sacrifice upon the tops of the mountains and burn incense upon the hills under oaks and poplars and elms because the shadow thereof is good therefore your daughters shall commit whoredom and your spouses shall commit adultery
i will not punish your daughters when they commit whoredom nor your spouses when they commit adultery for themselves are separated with whores and they sacrifice with harlots therefore the people that doth not understand shall fall
though thou israel play the harlot yet let not judah offend and come not ye unto gilgal neither go ye up to bethaven nor swear the lord liveth
for israel slideth back as a backsliding heifer now the lord will feed them as a lamb in a large place
ephraim is joined to idols let him alone
their drink is sour they have committed whoredom continually her rulers with shame do love give ye
the wind hath bound her up in her wings and they shall be ashamed because of their sacrifices
hear ye this o priests and hearken ye house of israel and give ye ear o house of the king for judgment is toward you because ye have been a snare on mizpah and a net spread upon tabor
and the revolters are profound to make slaughter though i have been a rebuker of them all
i know ephraim and israel is not hid from me for now o ephraim thou committest whoredom and israel is defiled
they will not frame their doings to turn unto their god for the spirit of whoredoms is in the midst of them and they have not known the lord
and the pride of israel doth testify to his face therefore shall israel and ephraim fall in their iniquity judah also shall fall with them
they shall go with their flocks and with their herds to seek the lord but they shall not find him he hath withdrawn himself from them
they have dealt treacherously against the lord for they have begotten strange children now shall a month devour them with their portions
blow ye the cornet in gibeah and the trumpet in ramah cry aloud at bethaven after thee o benjamin
ephraim shall be desolate in the day of rebuke among the tribes of israel have i made known that which shall surely be
the princes of judah were like them that remove the bound therefore i will pour out my wrath upon them like water
ephraim is oppressed and broken in judgment because he willingly walked after the commandment
therefore will i be unto ephraim as a moth and to the house of judah as rottenness
when ephraim saw his sickness and judah saw his wound then went ephraim to the assyrian and sent to king jareb yet could he not heal you nor cure you of your wound
for i will be unto ephraim as a lion and as a young lion to the house of judah i even i will tear and go away i will take away and none shall rescue him
i will go and return to my place till they acknowledge their offence and seek my face in their affliction they will seek me early
come and let us return unto the lord for he hath torn and he will heal us he hath smitten and he will bind us up
after two days will he revive us in the third day he will raise us up and we shall live in his sight
then shall we know if we follow on to know the lord his going forth is prepared as the morning and he shall come unto us as the rain as the latter and former rain unto the earth
o ephraim what shall i do unto thee o judah what shall i do unto thee for your goodness is as a morning cloud and as the early dew it goeth away
therefore have i hewed them by the prophets i have slain them by the words of my mouth and thy judgments are as the light that goeth forth
for i desired mercy and not sacrifice and the knowledge of god more than burnt offerings
but they like men have transgressed the covenant there have they dealt treacherously against me
gilead is a city of them that work iniquity and is polluted with blood
and as troops of robbers wait for a man so the company of priests murder in the way by consent for they commit lewdness
i have seen an horrible thing in the house of israel there is the whoredom of ephraim israel is defiled
also o judah he hath set an harvest for thee when i returned the captivity of my people
when i would have healed israel then the iniquity of ephraim was discovered and the wickedness of samaria for they commit falsehood and the thief cometh in and the troop of robbers spoileth without
and they consider not in their hearts that i remember all their wickedness now their own doings have beset them about they are before my face
they make the king glad with their wickedness and the princes with their lies
they are all adulterers as an oven heated by the baker who ceaseth from raising after he hath kneaded the dough until it be leavened
in the day of our king the princes have made him sick with bottles of wine he stretched out his hand with scorners
for they have made ready their heart like an oven whiles they lie in wait their baker sleepeth all the night in the morning it burneth as a flaming fire
they are all hot as an oven and have devoured their judges all their kings are fallen there is none among them that calleth unto me
ephraim he hath mixed himself among the people ephraim is a cake not turned
strangers have devoured his strength and he knoweth it not yea gray hairs are here and there upon him yet he knoweth not
and the pride of israel testifieth to his face and they do not return to the lord their god nor seek him for all this
ephraim also is like a silly dove without heart they call to egypt they go to assyria
when they shall go i will spread my net upon them i will bring them down as the fowls of the heaven i will chastise them as their congregation hath heard
woe unto them for they have fled from me destruction unto them because they have transgressed against me though i have redeemed them yet they have spoken lies against me
and they have not cried unto me with their heart when they howled upon their beds they assemble themselves for corn and wine and they rebel against me
though i have bound and strengthened their arms yet do they imagine mischief against me
they return but not to the most high they are like a deceitful bow their princes shall fall by the sword for the rage of their tongue this shall be their derision in the land of egypt
set the trumpet to thy mouth he shall come as an eagle against the house of the lord because they have transgressed my covenant and trespassed against my law
israel shall cry unto me my god we know thee
israel hath cast off the thing that is good the enemy shall pursue him
they have set up kings but not by me they have made princes and i knew it not of their silver and their gold have they made them idols that they may be cut off
thy calf o samaria hath cast thee off mine anger is kindled against them how long will it be ere they attain to innocency
for from israel was it also the workman made it therefore it is not god but the calf of samaria shall be broken in pieces
for they have sown the wind and they shall reap the whirlwind it hath no stalk the bud shall yield no meal if so be it yield the strangers shall swallow it up
israel is swallowed up now shall they be among the gentiles as a vessel wherein is no pleasure
for they are gone up to assyria a wild ass alone by himself ephraim hath hired lovers
yea though they have hired among the nations now will i gather them and they shall sorrow a little for the burden of the king of princes
because ephraim hath made many altars to sin altars shall be unto him to sin
i have written to him the great things of my law but they were counted as a strange thing
they sacrifice flesh for the sacrifices of mine offerings and eat it but the lord accepteth them not now will he remember their iniquity and visit their sins they shall return to egypt
for israel hath forgotten his maker and buildeth temples and judah hath multiplied fenced cities but i will send a fire upon his cities and it shall devour the palaces thereof
rejoice not o israel for joy as other people for thou hast gone a whoring from thy god thou hast loved a reward upon every cornfloor
the floor and the winepress shall not feed them and the new wine shall fail in her
they shall not dwell in the lord's land but ephraim shall return to egypt and they shall eat unclean things in assyria
they shall not offer wine offerings to the lord neither shall they be pleasing unto him their sacrifices shall be unto them as the bread of mourners all that eat thereof shall be polluted for their bread for their soul shall not come into the house of the lord
what will ye do in the solemn day and in the day of the feast of the lord
for lo they are gone because of destruction egypt shall gather them up memphis shall bury them the pleasant places for their silver nettles shall possess them thorns shall be in their tabernacles
the days of visitation are come the days of recompence are come israel shall know it the prophet is a fool the spiritual man is mad for the multitude of thine iniquity and the great hatred
the watchman of ephraim was with my god but the prophet is a snare of a fowler in all his ways and hatred in the house of his god
they have deeply corrupted themselves as in the days of gibeah therefore he will remember their iniquity he will visit their sins
i found israel like grapes in the wilderness i saw your fathers as the firstripe in the fig tree at her first time but they went to baalpeor and separated themselves unto that shame and their abominations were according as they loved
as for ephraim their glory shall fly away like a bird from the birth and from the womb and from the conception
though they bring up their children yet will i bereave them that there shall not be a man left yea woe also to them when i depart from them
ephraim as i saw tyrus is planted in a pleasant place but ephraim shall bring forth his children to the murderer
give them o lord what wilt thou give give them a miscarrying womb and dry breasts
all their wickedness is in gilgal for there i hated them for the wickedness of their doings i will drive them out of mine house i will love them no more all their princes are revolters
ephraim is smitten their root is dried up they shall bear no fruit yea though they bring forth yet will i slay even the beloved fruit of their womb
my god will cast them away because they did not hearken unto him and they shall be wanderers among the nations
israel is an empty vine he bringeth forth fruit unto himself according to the multitude of his fruit he hath increased the altars according to the goodness of his land they have made goodly images
their heart is divided now shall they be found faulty he shall break down their altars he shall spoil their images
for now they shall say we have no king because we feared not the lord what then should a king do to us
they have spoken words swearing falsely in making a covenant thus judgment springeth up as hemlock in the furrows of the field
the inhabitants of samaria shall fear because of the calves of bethaven for the people thereof shall mourn over it and the priests thereof that rejoiced on it for the glory thereof because it is departed from it
it shall be also carried unto assyria for a present to king jareb ephraim shall receive shame and israel shall be ashamed of his own counsel
as for samaria her king is cut off as the foam upon the water
the high places also of aven the sin of israel shall be destroyed the thorn and the thistle shall come up on their altars and they shall say to the mountains cover us and to the hills fall on us
o israel thou hast sinned from the days of gibeah there they stood the battle in gibeah against the children of iniquity did not overtake them
it is in my desire that i should chastise them and the people shall be gathered against them when they shall bind themselves in their two furrows
and ephraim is as an heifer that is taught and loveth to tread out the corn but i passed over upon her fair neck i will make ephraim to ride judah shall plow and jacob shall break his clods
sow to yourselves in righteousness reap in mercy break up your fallow ground for it is time to seek the lord till he come and rain righteousness upon you
ye have plowed wickedness ye have reaped iniquity ye have eaten the fruit of lies because thou didst trust in thy way in the multitude of thy mighty men
therefore shall a tumult arise among thy people and all thy fortresses shall be spoiled as shalman spoiled betharbel in the day of battle the mother was dashed in pieces upon her children
so shall bethel do unto you because of your great wickedness in a morning shall the king of israel utterly be cut off
when israel was a child then i loved him and called my son out of egypt
as they called them so they went from them they sacrificed unto baalim and burned incense to graven images
i taught ephraim also to go taking them by their arms but they knew not that i healed them
i drew them with cords of a man with bands of love and i was to them as they that take off the yoke on their jaws and i laid meat unto them
he shall not return into the land of egypt but the assyrian shall be his king because they refused to return
and the sword shall abide on his cities and shall consume his branches and devour them because of their own counsels
and my people are bent to backsliding from me though they called them to the most high none at all would exalt him
how shall i give thee up ephraim how shall i deliver thee israel how shall i make thee as admah how shall i set thee as zeboim mine heart is turned within me my repentings are kindled together
i will not execute the fierceness of mine anger i will not return to destroy ephraim for i am god and not man the holy one in the midst of thee and i will not enter into the city
they shall walk after the lord he shall roar like a lion when he shall roar then the children shall tremble from the west
they shall tremble as a bird out of egypt and as a dove out of the land of assyria and i will place them in their houses saith the lord
ephraim compasseth me about with lies and the house of israel with deceit but judah yet ruleth with god and is faithful with the saints
ephraim feedeth on wind and followeth after the east wind he daily increaseth lies and desolation and they do make a covenant with the assyrians and oil is carried into egypt
the lord hath also a controversy with judah and will punish jacob according to his ways according to his doings will he recompense him
he took his brother by the heel in the womb and by his strength he had power with god
yea he had power over the angel and prevailed he wept and made supplication unto him he found him in bethel and there he spake with us
even the lord god of hosts the lord is his memorial
therefore turn thou to thy god keep mercy and judgment and wait on thy god continually
he is a merchant the balances of deceit are in his hand he loveth to oppress
and ephraim said yet i am become rich i have found me out substance in all my labours they shall find none iniquity in me that were sin
and i that am the lord thy god from the land of egypt will yet make thee to dwell in tabernacles as in the days of the solemn feast
i have also spoken by the prophets and i have multiplied visions and used similitudes by the ministry of the prophets
is there iniquity in gilead surely they are vanity they sacrifice bullocks in gilgal yea their altars are as heaps in the furrows of the fields
and jacob fled into the country of syria and israel served for a wife and for a wife he kept sheep
and by a prophet the lord brought israel out of egypt and by a prophet was he preserved
ephraim provoked him to anger most bitterly therefore shall he leave his blood upon him and his reproach shall his lord return unto him
when ephraim spake trembling he exalted himself in israel but when he offended in baal he died
and now they sin more and more and have made them molten images of their silver and idols according to their own understanding all of it the work of the craftsmen they say of them let the men that sacrifice kiss the calves
therefore they shall be as the morning cloud and as the early dew that passeth away as the chaff that is driven with the whirlwind out of the floor and as the smoke out of the chimney
yet i am the lord thy god from the land of egypt and thou shalt know no god but me for there is no saviour beside me
i did know thee in the wilderness in the land of great drought
according to their pasture so were they filled they were filled and their heart was exalted therefore have they forgotten me
therefore i will be unto them as a lion as a leopard by the way will i observe them
i will meet them as a bear that is bereaved of her whelps and will rend the caul of their heart and there will i devour them like a lion the wild beast shall tear them
o israel thou hast destroyed thyself but in me is thine help
i will be thy king where is any other that may save thee in all thy cities and thy judges of whom thou saidst give me a king and princes
i gave thee a king in mine anger and took him away in my wrath
the iniquity of ephraim is bound up his sin is hid
the sorrows of a travailing woman shall come upon him he is an unwise son for he should not stay long in the place of the breaking forth of children
i will ransom them from the power of the grave i will redeem them from death o death i will be thy plagues o grave i will be thy destruction repentance shall be hid from mine eyes
though he be fruitful among his brethren an east wind shall come the wind of the lord shall come up from the wilderness and his spring shall become dry and his fountain shall be dried up he shall spoil the treasure of all pleasant vessels
samaria shall become desolate for she hath rebelled against her god they shall fall by the sword their infants shall be dashed in pieces and their women with child shall be ripped up
o israel return unto the lord thy god for thou hast fallen by thine iniquity
take with you words and turn to the lord say unto him take away all iniquity and receive us graciously so will we render the calves of our lips
asshur shall not save us we will not ride upon horses neither will we say any more to the work of our hands ye are our gods for in thee the fatherless findeth mercy
i will heal their backsliding i will love them freely for mine anger is turned away from him
i will be as the dew unto israel he shall grow as the lily and cast forth his roots as lebanon
his branches shall spread and his beauty shall be as the olive tree and his smell as lebanon
they that dwell under his shadow shall return they shall revive as the corn and grow as the vine the scent thereof shall be as the wine of lebanon
ephraim shall say what have i to do any more with idols i have heard him and observed him i am like a green fir tree from me is thy fruit found
who is wise and he shall understand these things prudent and he shall know them for the ways of the lord are right and the just shall walk in them but the transgressors shall fall therein
the word of the lord that came to joel the son of pethuel
hear this ye old men and give ear all ye inhabitants of the land hath this been in your days or even in the days of your fathers
tell ye your children of it and let your children tell their children and their children another generation
that which the palmerworm hath left hath the locust eaten and that which the locust hath left hath the cankerworm eaten and that which the cankerworm hath left hath the caterpiller eaten
awake ye drunkards and weep and howl all ye drinkers of wine because of the new wine for it is cut off from your mouth
for a nation is come up upon my land strong and without number whose teeth are the teeth of a lion and he hath the cheek teeth of a great lion
he hath laid my vine waste and barked my fig tree he hath made it clean bare and cast it away the branches thereof are made white
lament like a virgin girded with sackcloth for the husband of her youth
the meat offering and the drink offering is cut off from the house of the lord the priests the lord's ministers mourn
the field is wasted the land mourneth for the corn is wasted the new wine is dried up the oil languisheth
be ye ashamed o ye husbandmen howl o ye vinedressers for the wheat and for the barley because the harvest of the field is perished
the vine is dried up and the fig tree languisheth the pomegranate tree the palm tree also and the apple tree even all the trees of the field are withered because joy is withered away from the sons of men
gird yourselves and lament ye priests howl ye ministers of the altar come lie all night in sackcloth ye ministers of my god for the meat offering and the drink offering is withholden from the house of your god
sanctify ye a fast call a solemn assembly gather the elders and all the inhabitants of the land into the house of the lord your god and cry unto the lord
alas for the day for the day of the lord is at hand and as a destruction from the almighty shall it come
is not the meat cut off before our eyes yea joy and gladness from the house of our god
the seed is rotten under their clods the garners are laid desolate the barns are broken down for the corn is withered
how do the beasts groan the herds of cattle are perplexed because they have no pasture yea the flocks of sheep are made desolate
o lord to thee will i cry for the fire hath devoured the pastures of the wilderness and the flame hath burned all the trees of the field
the beasts of the field cry also unto thee for the rivers of waters are dried up and the fire hath devoured the pastures of the wilderness
blow ye the trumpet in zion and sound an alarm in my holy mountain let all the inhabitants of the land tremble for the day of the lord cometh for it is nigh at hand
a day of darkness and of gloominess a day of clouds and of thick darkness as the morning spread upon the mountains a great people and a strong there hath not been ever the like neither shall be any more after it even to the years of many generations
a fire devoureth before them and behind them a flame burneth the land is as the garden of eden before them and behind them a desolate wilderness yea and nothing shall escape them
the appearance of them is as the appearance of horses and as horsemen so shall they run
like the noise of chariots on the tops of mountains shall they leap like the noise of a flame of fire that devoureth the stubble as a strong people set in battle array
before their face the people shall be much pained all faces shall gather blackness
they shall run like mighty men they shall climb the wall like men of war and they shall march every one on his ways and they shall not break their ranks
neither shall one thrust another they shall walk every one in his path and when they fall upon the sword they shall not be wounded
they shall run to and fro in the city they shall run upon the wall they shall climb up upon the houses they shall enter in at the windows like a thief
the earth shall quake before them the heavens shall tremble the sun and the moon shall be dark and the stars shall withdraw their shining
and the lord shall utter his voice before his army for his camp is very great for he is strong that executeth his word for the day of the lord is great and very terrible and who can abide it
therefore also now saith the lord turn ye even to me with all your heart and with fasting and with weeping and with mourning
and rend your heart and not your garments and turn unto the lord your god for he is gracious and merciful slow to anger and of great kindness and repenteth him of the evil
who knoweth if he will return and repent and leave a blessing behind him even a meat offering and a drink offering unto the lord your god
blow the trumpet in zion sanctify a fast call a solemn assembly
gather the people sanctify the congregation assemble the elders gather the children and those that suck the breasts let the bridegroom go forth of his chamber and the bride out of her closet
let the priests the ministers of the lord weep between the porch and the altar and let them say spare thy people o lord and give not thine heritage to reproach that the heathen should rule over them wherefore should they say among the people where is their god
then will the lord be jealous for his land and pity his people
yea the lord will answer and say unto his people behold i will send you corn and wine and oil and ye shall be satisfied therewith and i will no more make you a reproach among the heathen
but i will remove far off from you the northern army and will drive him into a land barren and desolate with his face toward the east sea and his hinder part toward the utmost sea and his stink shall come up and his ill savour shall come up because he hath done great things
fear not o land be glad and rejoice for the lord will do great things
be not afraid ye beasts of the field for the pastures of the wilderness do spring for the tree beareth her fruit the fig tree and the vine do yield their strength
be glad then ye children of zion and rejoice in the lord your god for he hath given you the former rain moderately and he will cause to come down for you the rain the former rain and the latter rain in the first month
and the floors shall be full of wheat and the vats shall overflow with wine and oil
and i will restore to you the years that the locust hath eaten the cankerworm and the caterpiller and the palmerworm my great army which i sent among you
and ye shall eat in plenty and be satisfied and praise the name of the lord your god that hath dealt wondrously with you and my people shall never be ashamed
and ye shall know that i am in the midst of israel and that i am the lord your god and none else and my people shall never be ashamed
and it shall come to pass afterward that i will pour out my spirit upon all flesh and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy your old men shall dream dreams your young men shall see visions
and also upon the servants and upon the handmaids in those days will i pour out my spirit
and i will shew wonders in the heavens and in the earth blood and fire and pillars of smoke
the sun shall be turned into darkness and the moon into blood before the great and the terrible day of the lord come
and it shall come to pass that whosoever shall call on the name of the lord shall be delivered for in mount zion and in jerusalem shall be deliverance as the lord hath said and in the remnant whom the lord shall call
for behold in those days and in that time when i shall bring again the captivity of judah and jerusalem
i will also gather all nations and will bring them down into the valley of jehoshaphat and will plead with them there for my people and for my heritage israel whom they have scattered among the nations and parted my land
and they have cast lots for my people and have given a boy for an harlot and sold a girl for wine that they might drink
yea and what have ye to do with me o tyre and zidon and all the coasts of palestine will ye render me a recompence and if ye recompense me swiftly and speedily will i return your recompence upon your own head
because ye have taken my silver and my gold and have carried into your temples my goodly pleasant things
the children also of judah and the children of jerusalem have ye sold unto the grecians that ye might remove them far from their border
behold i will raise them out of the place whither ye have sold them and will return your recompence upon your own head
and i will sell your sons and your daughters into the hand of the children of judah and they shall sell them to the sabeans to a people far off for the lord hath spoken it
proclaim ye this among the gentiles prepare war wake up the mighty men let all the men of war draw near let them come up
beat your plowshares into swords and your pruninghooks into spears let the weak say i am strong
assemble yourselves and come all ye heathen and gather yourselves together round about thither cause thy mighty ones to come down o lord
let the heathen be wakened and come up to the valley of jehoshaphat for there will i sit to judge all the heathen round about
put ye in the sickle for the harvest is ripe come get you down for the press is full the fats overflow for their wickedness is great
multitudes multitudes in the valley of decision for the day of the lord is near in the valley of decision
the sun and the moon shall be darkened and the stars shall withdraw their shining
the lord also shall roar out of zion and utter his voice from jerusalem and the heavens and the earth shall shake but the lord will be the hope of his people and the strength of the children of israel
so shall ye know that i am the lord your god dwelling in zion my holy mountain then shall jerusalem be holy and there shall no strangers pass through her any more
and it shall come to pass in that day that the mountains shall drop down new wine and the hills shall flow with milk and all the rivers of judah shall flow with waters and a fountain shall come forth of the house of the lord and shall water the valley of shittim
egypt shall be a desolation and edom shall be a desolate wilderness for the violence against the children of judah because they have shed innocent blood in their land
but judah shall dwell for ever and jerusalem from generation to generation
for i will cleanse their blood that i have not cleansed for the lord dwelleth in zion
the words of amos who was among the herdmen of tekoa which he saw concerning israel in the days of uzziah king of judah and in the days of jeroboam the son of joash king of israel two years before the earthquake
and he said the lord will roar from zion and utter his voice from jerusalem and the habitations of the shepherds shall mourn and the top of carmel shall wither
thus saith the lord for three transgressions of damascus and for four i will not turn away the punishment thereof because they have threshed gilead with threshing instruments of iron
but i will send a fire into the house of hazael which shall devour the palaces of benhadad
i will break also the bar of damascus and cut off the inhabitant from the plain of aven and him that holdeth the sceptre from the house of eden and the people of syria shall go into captivity unto kir saith the lord
thus saith the lord for three transgressions of gaza and for four i will not turn away the punishment thereof because they carried away captive the whole captivity to deliver them up to edom
but i will send a fire on the wall of gaza which shall devour the palaces thereof
and i will cut off the inhabitant from ashdod and him that holdeth the sceptre from ashkelon and i will turn mine hand against ekron and the remnant of the philistines shall perish saith the lord god
thus saith the lord for three transgressions of tyrus and for four i will not turn away the punishment thereof because they delivered up the whole captivity to edom and remembered not the brotherly covenant
but i will send a fire on the wall of tyrus which shall devour the palaces thereof
thus saith the lord for three transgressions of edom and for four i will not turn away the punishment thereof because he did pursue his brother with the sword and did cast off all pity and his anger did tear perpetually and he kept his wrath for ever
but i will send a fire upon teman which shall devour the palaces of bozrah
thus saith the lord for three transgressions of the children of ammon and for four i will not turn away the punishment thereof because they have ripped up the women with child of gilead that they might enlarge their border
but i will kindle a fire in the wall of rabbah and it shall devour the palaces thereof with shouting in the day of battle with a tempest in the day of the whirlwind
and their king shall go into captivity he and his princes together saith the lord
thus saith the lord for three transgressions of moab and for four i will not turn away the punishment thereof because he burned the bones of the king of edom into lime
but i will send a fire upon moab and it shall devour the palaces of kirioth and moab shall die with tumult with shouting and with the sound of the trumpet
and i will cut off the judge from the midst thereof and will slay all the princes thereof with him saith the lord
thus saith the lord for three transgressions of judah and for four i will not turn away the punishment thereof because they have despised the law of the lord and have not kept his commandments and their lies caused them to err after the which their fathers have walked
but i will send a fire upon judah and it shall devour the palaces of jerusalem
thus saith the lord for three transgressions of israel and for four i will not turn away the punishment thereof because they sold the righteous for silver and the poor for a pair of shoes
that pant after the dust of the earth on the head of the poor and turn aside the way of the meek and a man and his father will go in unto the same maid to profane my holy name
and they lay themselves down upon clothes laid to pledge by every altar and they drink the wine of the condemned in the house of their god
yet destroyed i the amorite before them whose height was like the height of the cedars and he was strong as the oaks yet i destroyed his fruit from above and his roots from beneath
also i brought you up from the land of egypt and led you forty years through the wilderness to possess the land of the amorite
and i raised up of your sons for prophets and of your young men for nazarites is it not even thus o ye children of israel saith the lord
but ye gave the nazarites wine to drink and commanded the prophets saying prophesy not
behold i am pressed under you as a cart is pressed that is full of sheaves
therefore the flight shall perish from the swift and the strong shall not strengthen his force neither shall the mighty deliver himself
neither shall he stand that handleth the bow and he that is swift of foot shall not deliver himself neither shall he that rideth the horse deliver himself
and he that is courageous among the mighty shall flee away naked in that day saith the lord
hear this word that the lord hath spoken against you o children of israel against the whole family which i brought up from the land of egypt saying
you only have i known of all the families of the earth therefore i will punish you for all your iniquities
can two walk together except they be agreed
will a lion roar in the forest when he hath no prey will a young lion cry out of his den if he have taken nothing
can a bird fall in a snare upon the earth where no gin is for him shall one take up a snare from the earth and have taken nothing at all
shall a trumpet be blown in the city and the people not be afraid shall there be evil in a city and the lord hath not done it
surely the lord god will do nothing but he revealeth his secret unto his servants the prophets
the lion hath roared who will not fear the lord god hath spoken who can but prophesy
publish in the palaces at ashdod and in the palaces in the land of egypt and say assemble yourselves upon the mountains of samaria and behold the great tumults in the midst thereof and the oppressed in the midst thereof
for they know not to do right saith the lord who store up violence and robbery in their palaces
therefore thus saith the lord god an adversary there shall be even round about the land and he shall bring down thy strength from thee and thy palaces shall be spoiled
thus saith the lord as the shepherd taketh out of the mouth of the lion two legs or a piece of an ear so shall the children of israel be taken out that dwell in samaria in the corner of a bed and in damascus in a couch
hear ye and testify in the house of jacob saith the lord god the god of hosts
that in the day that i shall visit the transgressions of israel upon him i will also visit the altars of bethel and the horns of the altar shall be cut off and fall to the ground
and i will smite the winter house with the summer house and the houses of ivory shall perish and the great houses shall have an end saith the lord
hear this word ye kine of bashan that are in the mountain of samaria which oppress the poor which crush the needy which say to their masters bring and let us drink
the lord god hath sworn by his holiness that lo the days shall come upon you that he will take you away with hooks and your posterity with fishhooks
and ye shall go out at the breaches every cow at that which is before her and ye shall cast them into the palace saith the lord
come to bethel and transgress at gilgal multiply transgression and bring your sacrifices every morning and your tithes after three years
and offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving with leaven and proclaim and publish the free offerings for this liketh you o ye children of israel saith the lord god
and i also have given you cleanness of teeth in all your cities and want of bread in all your places yet have ye not returned unto me saith the lord
and also i have withholden the rain from you when there were yet three months to the harvest and i caused it to rain upon one city and caused it not to rain upon another city one piece was rained upon and the piece whereupon it rained not withered
so two or three cities wandered unto one city to drink water but they were not satisfied yet have ye not returned unto me saith the lord
i have smitten you with blasting and mildew when your gardens and your vineyards and your fig trees and your olive trees increased the palmerworm devoured them yet have ye not returned unto me saith the lord
i have sent among you the pestilence after the manner of egypt your young men have i slain with the sword and have taken away your horses and i have made the stink of your camps to come up unto your nostrils yet have ye not returned unto me saith the lord
i have overthrown some of you as god overthrew sodom and gomorrah and ye were as a firebrand plucked out of the burning yet have ye not returned unto me saith the lord
therefore thus will i do unto thee o israel and because i will do this unto thee prepare to meet thy god o israel
for lo he that formeth the mountains and createth the wind and declareth unto man what is his thought that maketh the morning darkness and treadeth upon the high places of the earth the lord the god of hosts is his name
hear ye this word which i take up against you even a lamentation o house of israel
the virgin of israel is fallen she shall no more rise she is forsaken upon her land there is none to raise her up
for thus saith the lord god the city that went out by a thousand shall leave an hundred and that which went forth by an hundred shall leave ten to the house of israel
for thus saith the lord unto the house of israel seek ye me and ye shall live
but seek not bethel nor enter into gilgal and pass not to beersheba for gilgal shall surely go into captivity and bethel shall come to nought
seek the lord and ye shall live lest he break out like fire in the house of joseph and devour it and there be none to quench it in bethel
ye who turn judgment to wormwood and leave off righteousness in the earth
seek him that maketh the seven stars and orion and turneth the shadow of death into the morning and maketh the day dark with night that calleth for the waters of the sea and poureth them out upon the face of the earth the lord is his name
that strengtheneth the spoiled against the strong so that the spoiled shall come against the fortress
they hate him that rebuketh in the gate and they abhor him that speaketh uprightly
forasmuch therefore as your treading is upon the poor and ye take from him burdens of wheat ye have built houses of hewn stone but ye shall not dwell in them ye have planted pleasant vineyards but ye shall not drink wine of them
for i know your manifold transgressions and your mighty sins they afflict the just they take a bribe and they turn aside the poor in the gate from their right
therefore the prudent shall keep silence in that time for it is an evil time
seek good and not evil that ye may live and so the lord the god of hosts shall be with you as ye have spoken
hate the evil and love the good and establish judgment in the gate it may be that the lord god of hosts will be gracious unto the remnant of joseph
therefore the lord the god of hosts the lord saith thus wailing shall be in all streets and they shall say in all the highways alas alas and they shall call the husbandman to mourning and such as are skilful of lamentation to wailing
and in all vineyards shall be wailing for i will pass through thee saith the lord
woe unto you that desire the day of the lord to what end is it for you the day of the lord is darkness and not light
as if a man did flee from a lion and a bear met him or went into the house and leaned his hand on the wall and a serpent bit him
shall not the day of the lord be darkness and not light even very dark and no brightness in it
i hate i despise your feast days and i will not smell in your solemn assemblies
though ye offer me burnt offerings and your meat offerings i will not accept them neither will i regard the peace offerings of your fat beasts
take thou away from me the noise of thy songs for i will not hear the melody of thy viols
but let judgment run down as waters and righteousness as a mighty stream
have ye offered unto me sacrifices and offerings in the wilderness forty years o house of israel
but ye have borne the tabernacle of your moloch and chiun your images the star of your god which ye made to yourselves
therefore will i cause you to go into captivity beyond damascus saith the lord whose name is the god of hosts
woe to them that are at ease in zion and trust in the mountain of samaria which are named chief of the nations to whom the house of israel came
pass ye unto calneh and see and from thence go ye to hamath the great then go down to gath of the philistines be they better than these kingdoms or their border greater than your border
ye that put far away the evil day and cause the seat of violence to come near
that lie upon beds of ivory and stretch themselves upon their couches and eat the lambs out of the flock and the calves out of the midst of the stall
that chant to the sound of the viol and invent to themselves instruments of musick like david
that drink wine in bowls and anoint themselves with the chief ointments but they are not grieved for the affliction of joseph
therefore now shall they go captive with the first that go captive and the banquet of them that stretched themselves shall be removed
the lord god hath sworn by himself saith the lord the god of hosts i abhor the excellency of jacob and hate his palaces therefore will i deliver up the city with all that is therein
and it shall come to pass if there remain ten men in one house that they shall die
and a man's uncle shall take him up and he that burneth him to bring out the bones out of the house and shall say unto him that is by the sides of the house is there yet any with thee and he shall say no then shall he say hold thy tongue for we may not make mention of the name of the lord
for behold the lord commandeth and he will smite the great house with breaches and the little house with clefts
shall horses run upon the rock will one plow there with oxen for ye have turned judgment into gall and the fruit of righteousness into hemlock
ye which rejoice in a thing of nought which say have we not taken to us horns by our own strength
but behold i will raise up against you a nation o house of israel saith the lord the god of hosts and they shall afflict you from the entering in of hemath unto the river of the wilderness
thus hath the lord god shewed unto me and behold he formed grasshoppers in the beginning of the shooting up of the latter growth and lo it was the latter growth after the king's mowings
and it came to pass that when they had made an end of eating the grass of the land then i said o lord god forgive i beseech thee by whom shall jacob arise for he is small
the lord repented for this it shall not be saith the lord
thus hath the lord god shewed unto me and behold the lord god called to contend by fire and it devoured the great deep and did eat up a part
then said i o lord god cease i beseech thee by whom shall jacob arise for he is small
the lord repented for this this also shall not be saith the lord god
thus he shewed me and behold the lord stood upon a wall made by a plumbline with a plumbline in his hand
and the lord said unto me amos what seest thou and i said a plumbline then said the lord behold i will set a plumbline in the midst of my people israel i will not again pass by them any more
and the high places of isaac shall be desolate and the sanctuaries of israel shall be laid waste and i will rise against the house of jeroboam with the sword
then amaziah the priest of bethel sent to jeroboam king of israel saying amos hath conspired against thee in the midst of the house of israel the land is not able to bear all his words
for thus amos saith jeroboam shall die by the sword and israel shall surely be led away captive out of their own land
also amaziah said unto amos o thou seer go flee thee away into the land of judah and there eat bread and prophesy there
but prophesy not again any more at bethel for it is the king's chapel and it is the king's court
then answered amos and said to amaziah i was no prophet neither was i a prophet's son but i was an herdman and a gatherer of sycomore fruit
and the lord took me as i followed the flock and the lord said unto me go prophesy unto my people israel
now therefore hear thou the word of the lord thou sayest prophesy not against israel and drop not thy word against the house of isaac
therefore thus saith the lord thy wife shall be an harlot in the city and thy sons and thy daughters shall fall by the sword and thy land shall be divided by line and thou shalt die in a polluted land and israel shall surely go into captivity forth of his land
thus hath the lord god shewed unto me and behold a basket of summer fruit
and he said amos what seest thou and i said a basket of summer fruit then said the lord unto me the end is come upon my people of israel i will not again pass by them any more
and the songs of the temple shall be howlings in that day saith the lord god there shall be many dead bodies in every place they shall cast them forth with silence
hear this o ye that swallow up the needy even to make the poor of the land to fail
saying when will the new moon be gone that we may sell corn and the sabbath that we may set forth wheat making the ephah small and the shekel great and falsifying the balances by deceit
that we may buy the poor for silver and the needy for a pair of shoes yea and sell the refuse of the wheat
the lord hath sworn by the excellency of jacob surely i will never forget any of their works
shall not the land tremble for this and every one mourn that dwelleth therein and it shall rise up wholly as a flood and it shall be cast out and drowned as by the flood of egypt
and it shall come to pass in that day saith the lord god that i will cause the sun to go down at noon and i will darken the earth in the clear day
and i will turn your feasts into mourning and all your songs into lamentation and i will bring up sackcloth upon all loins and baldness upon every head and i will make it as the mourning of an only son and the end thereof as a bitter day
behold the days come saith the lord god that i will send a famine in the land not a famine of bread nor a thirst for water but of hearing the words of the lord
and they shall wander from sea to sea and from the north even to the east they shall run to and fro to seek the word of the lord and shall not find it
in that day shall the fair virgins and young men faint for thirst
they that swear by the sin of samaria and say thy god o dan liveth and the manner of beersheba liveth even they shall fall and never rise up again
i saw the lord standing upon the altar and he said smite the lintel of the door that the posts may shake and cut them in the head all of them and i will slay the last of them with the sword he that fleeth of them shall not flee away and he that escapeth of them shall not be delivered
though they dig into hell thence shall mine hand take them though they climb up to heaven thence will i bring them down
and though they hide themselves in the top of carmel i will search and take them out thence and though they be hid from my sight in the bottom of the sea thence will i command the serpent and he shall bite them
and though they go into captivity before their enemies thence will i command the sword and it shall slay them and i will set mine eyes upon them for evil and not for good
and the lord god of hosts is he that toucheth the land and it shall melt and all that dwell therein shall mourn and it shall rise up wholly like a flood and shall be drowned as by the flood of egypt
it is he that buildeth his stories in the heaven and hath founded his troop in the earth he that calleth for the waters of the sea and poureth them out upon the face of the earth the lord is his name
are ye not as children of the ethiopians unto me o children of israel saith the lord have not i brought up israel out of the land of egypt and the philistines from caphtor and the syrians from kir
behold the eyes of the lord god are upon the sinful kingdom and i will destroy it from off the face of the earth saving that i will not utterly destroy the house of jacob saith the lord
for lo i will command and i will sift the house of israel among all nations like as corn is sifted in a sieve yet shall not the least grain fall upon the earth
all the sinners of my people shall die by the sword which say the evil shall not overtake nor prevent us
in that day will i raise up the tabernacle of david that is fallen and close up the breaches thereof and i will raise up his ruins and i will build it as in the days of old
that they may possess the remnant of edom and of all the heathen which are called by my name saith the lord that doeth this
behold the days come saith the lord that the plowman shall overtake the reaper and the treader of grapes him that soweth seed and the mountains shall drop sweet wine and all the hills shall melt
and i will bring again the captivity of my people of israel and they shall build the waste cities and inhabit them and they shall plant vineyards and drink the wine thereof they shall also make gardens and eat the fruit of them
and i will plant them upon their land and they shall no more be pulled up out of their land which i have given them saith the lord thy god
the vision of obadiah thus saith the lord god concerning edom we have heard a rumour from the lord and an ambassador is sent among the heathen arise ye and let us rise up against her in battle
behold i have made thee small among the heathen thou art greatly despised
the pride of thine heart hath deceived thee thou that dwellest in the clefts of the rock whose habitation is high that saith in his heart who shall bring me down to the ground
though thou exalt thyself as the eagle and though thou set thy nest among the stars thence will i bring thee down saith the lord
if thieves came to thee if robbers by night how art thou cut off would they not have stolen till they had enough if the grapegatherers came to thee would they not leave some grapes
how are the things of esau searched out how are his hidden things sought up
all the men of thy confederacy have brought thee even to the border the men that were at peace with thee have deceived thee and prevailed against thee they that eat thy bread have laid a wound under thee there is none understanding in him
shall i not in that day saith the lord even destroy the wise men out of edom and understanding out of the mount of esau
and thy mighty men o teman shall be dismayed to the end that every one of the mount of esau may be cut off by slaughter
for thy violence against thy brother jacob shame shall cover thee and thou shalt be cut off for ever
in the day that thou stoodest on the other side in the day that the strangers carried away captive his forces and foreigners entered into his gates and cast lots upon jerusalem even thou wast as one of them
but thou shouldest not have looked on the day of thy brother in the day that he became a stranger neither shouldest thou have rejoiced over the children of judah in the day of their destruction neither shouldest thou have spoken proudly in the day of distress
thou shouldest not have entered into the gate of my people in the day of their calamity yea thou shouldest not have looked on their affliction in the day of their calamity nor have laid hands on their substance in the day of their calamity
neither shouldest thou have stood in the crossway to cut off those of his that did escape neither shouldest thou have delivered up those of his that did remain in the day of distress
for the day of the lord is near upon all the heathen as thou hast done it shall be done unto thee thy reward shall return upon thine own head
for as ye have drunk upon my holy mountain so shall all the heathen drink continually yea they shall drink and they shall swallow down and they shall be as though they had not been
but upon mount zion shall be deliverance and there shall be holiness and the house of jacob shall possess their possessions
and the house of jacob shall be a fire and the house of joseph a flame and the house of esau for stubble and they shall kindle in them and devour them and there shall not be any remaining of the house of esau for the lord hath spoken it
and they of the south shall possess the mount of esau and they of the plain the philistines and they shall possess the fields of ephraim and the fields of samaria and benjamin shall possess gilead
and the captivity of this host of the children of israel shall possess that of the canaanites even unto zarephath and the captivity of jerusalem which is in sepharad shall possess the cities of the south
and saviours shall come up on mount zion to judge the mount of esau and the kingdom shall be the lord's
now the word of the lord came unto jonah the son of amittai saying
arise go to nineveh that great city and cry against it for their wickedness is come up before me
but jonah rose up to flee unto tarshish from the presence of the lord and went down to joppa and he found a ship going to tarshish so he paid the fare thereof and went down into it to go with them unto tarshish from the presence of the lord
but the lord sent out a great wind into the sea and there was a mighty tempest in the sea so that the ship was like to be broken
then the mariners were afraid and cried every man unto his god and cast forth the wares that were in the ship into the sea to lighten it of them but jonah was gone down into the sides of the ship and he lay and was fast asleep
so the shipmaster came to him and said unto him what meanest thou o sleeper arise call upon thy god if so be that god will think upon us that we perish not
and they said every one to his fellow come and let us cast lots that we may know for whose cause this evil is upon us so they cast lots and the lot fell upon jonah
then said they unto him tell us we pray thee for whose cause this evil is upon us what is thine occupation and whence comest thou what is thy country and of what people art thou
and he said unto them i am an hebrew and i fear the lord the god of heaven which hath made the sea and the dry land
then were the men exceedingly afraid and said unto him why hast thou done this for the men knew that he fled from the presence of the lord because he had told them
then said they unto him what shall we do unto thee that the sea may be calm unto us for the sea wrought and was tempestuous
and he said unto them take me up and cast me forth into the sea so shall the sea be calm unto you for i know that for my sake this great tempest is upon you
nevertheless the men rowed hard to bring it to the land but they could not for the sea wrought and was tempestuous against them
wherefore they cried unto the lord and said we beseech thee o lord we beseech thee let us not perish for this man's life and lay not upon us innocent blood for thou o lord hast done as it pleased thee
so they took up jonah and cast him forth into the sea and the sea ceased from her raging
then the men feared the lord exceedingly and offered a sacrifice unto the lord and made vows
now the lord had prepared a great fish to swallow up jonah and jonah was in the belly of the fish three days and three nights
then jonah prayed unto the lord his god out of the fish's belly
and said i cried by reason of mine affliction unto the lord and he heard me out of the belly of hell cried i and thou heardest my voice
for thou hadst cast me into the deep in the midst of the seas and the floods compassed me about all thy billows and thy waves passed over me
then i said i am cast out of thy sight yet i will look again toward thy holy temple
the waters compassed me about even to the soul the depth closed me round about the weeds were wrapped about my head
i went down to the bottoms of the mountains the earth with her bars was about me for ever yet hast thou brought up my life from corruption o lord my god
when my soul fainted within me i remembered the lord and my prayer came in unto thee into thine holy temple
they that observe lying vanities forsake their own mercy
but i will sacrifice unto thee with the voice of thanksgiving i will pay that that i have vowed salvation is of the lord
and the lord spake unto the fish and it vomited out jonah upon the dry land
and the word of the lord came unto jonah the second time saying
arise go unto nineveh that great city and preach unto it the preaching that i bid thee
so jonah arose and went unto nineveh according to the word of the lord now nineveh was an exceeding great city of three days journey
and jonah began to enter into the city a day's journey and he cried and said yet forty days and nineveh shall be overthrown
so the people of nineveh believed god and proclaimed a fast and put on sackcloth from the greatest of them even to the least of them
for word came unto the king of nineveh and he arose from his throne and he laid his robe from him and covered him with sackcloth and sat in ashes
and he caused it to be proclaimed and published through nineveh by the decree of the king and his nobles saying let neither man nor beast herd nor flock taste any thing let them not feed nor drink water
but let man and beast be covered with sackcloth and cry mightily unto god yea let them turn every one from his evil way and from the violence that is in their hands
who can tell if god will turn and repent and turn away from his fierce anger that we perish not
and god saw their works that they turned from their evil way and god repented of the evil that he had said that he would do unto them and he did it not
but it displeased jonah exceedingly and he was very angry
and he prayed unto the lord and said i pray thee o lord was not this my saying when i was yet in my country therefore i fled before unto tarshish for i knew that thou art a gracious god and merciful slow to anger and of great kindness and repentest thee of the evil
therefore now o lord take i beseech thee my life from me for it is better for me to die than to live
then said the lord doest thou well to be angry
so jonah went out of the city and sat on the east side of the city and there made him a booth and sat under it in the shadow till he might see what would become of the city
and the lord god prepared a gourd and made it to come up over jonah that it might be a shadow over his head to deliver him from his grief so jonah was exceeding glad of the gourd
but god prepared a worm when the morning rose the next day and it smote the gourd that it withered
and it came to pass when the sun did arise that god prepared a vehement east wind and the sun beat upon the head of jonah that he fainted and wished in himself to die and said it is better for me to die than to live
and god said to jonah doest thou well to be angry for the gourd and he said i do well to be angry even unto death
then said the lord thou hast had pity on the gourd for the which thou hast not laboured neither madest it grow which came up in a night and perished in a night
and should not i spare nineveh that great city wherein are more than sixscore thousand persons that cannot discern between their right hand and their left hand and also much cattle
the word of the lord that came to micah the morasthite in the days of jotham ahaz and hezekiah kings of judah which he saw concerning samaria and jerusalem
hear all ye people hearken o earth and all that therein is and let the lord god be witness against you the lord from his holy temple
for behold the lord cometh forth out of his place and will come down and tread upon the high places of the earth
and the mountains shall be molten under him and the valleys shall be cleft as wax before the fire and as the waters that are poured down a steep place
for the transgression of jacob is all this and for the sins of the house of israel what is the transgression of jacob is it not samaria and what are the high places of judah are they not jerusalem
therefore i will make samaria as an heap of the field and as plantings of a vineyard and i will pour down the stones thereof into the valley and i will discover the foundations thereof
and all the graven images thereof shall be beaten to pieces and all the hires thereof shall be burned with the fire and all the idols thereof will i lay desolate for she gathered it of the hire of an harlot and they shall return to the hire of an harlot
therefore i will wail and howl i will go stripped and naked i will make a wailing like the dragons and mourning as the owls
for her wound is incurable for it is come unto judah he is come unto the gate of my people even to jerusalem
declare ye it not at gath weep ye not at all in the house of aphrah roll thyself in the dust
pass ye away thou inhabitant of saphir having thy shame naked the inhabitant of zaanan came not forth in the mourning of bethezel he shall receive of you his standing
for the inhabitant of maroth waited carefully for good but evil came down from the lord unto the gate of jerusalem
o thou inhabitant of lachish bind the chariot to the swift beast she is the beginning of the sin to the daughter of zion for the transgressions of israel were found in thee
therefore shalt thou give presents to moreshethgath the houses of achzib shall be a lie to the kings of israel
yet will i bring an heir unto thee o inhabitant of mareshah he shall come unto adullam the glory of israel
make thee bald and poll thee for thy delicate children enlarge thy baldness as the eagle for they are gone into captivity from thee
woe to them that devise iniquity and work evil upon their beds when the morning is light they practise it because it is in the power of their hand
and they covet fields and take them by violence and houses and take them away so they oppress a man and his house even a man and his heritage
therefore thus saith the lord behold against this family do i devise an evil from which ye shall not remove your necks neither shall ye go haughtily for this time is evil
in that day shall one take up a parable against you and lament with a doleful lamentation and say we be utterly spoiled he hath changed the portion of my people how hath he removed it from me turning away he hath divided our fields
therefore thou shalt have none that shall cast a cord by lot in the congregation of the lord
prophesy ye not say they to them that prophesy they shall not prophesy to them that they shall not take shame
o thou that art named the house of jacob is the spirit of the lord straitened are these his doings do not my words do good to him that walketh uprightly
even of late my people is risen up as an enemy ye pull off the robe with the garment from them that pass by securely as men averse from war
the women of my people have ye cast out from their pleasant houses from their children have ye taken away my glory for ever
arise ye and depart for this is not your rest because it is polluted it shall destroy you even with a sore destruction
if a man walking in the spirit and falsehood do lie saying i will prophesy unto thee of wine and of strong drink he shall even be the prophet of this people
i will surely assemble o jacob all of thee i will surely gather the remnant of israel i will put them together as the sheep of bozrah as the flock in the midst of their fold they shall make great noise by reason of the multitude of men
the breaker is come up before them they have broken up and have passed through the gate and are gone out by it and their king shall pass before them and the lord on the head of them
and i said hear i pray you o heads of jacob and ye princes of the house of israel is it not for you to know judgment
who hate the good and love the evil who pluck off their skin from off them and their flesh from off their bones
who also eat the flesh of my people and flay their skin from off them and they break their bones and chop them in pieces as for the pot and as flesh within the caldron
then shall they cry unto the lord but he will not hear them he will even hide his face from them at that time as they have behaved themselves ill in their doings
thus saith the lord concerning the prophets that make my people err that bite with their teeth and cry peace and he that putteth not into their mouths they even prepare war against him
therefore night shall be unto you that ye shall not have a vision and it shall be dark unto you that ye shall not divine and the sun shall go down over the prophets and the day shall be dark over them
then shall the seers be ashamed and the diviners confounded yea they shall all cover their lips for there is no answer of god
but truly i am full of power by the spirit of the lord and of judgment and of might to declare unto jacob his transgression and to israel his sin
hear this i pray you ye heads of the house of jacob and princes of the house of israel that abhor judgment and pervert all equity
they build up zion with blood and jerusalem with iniquity
the heads thereof judge for reward and the priests thereof teach for hire and the prophets thereof divine for money yet will they lean upon the lord and say is not the lord among us none evil can come upon us
therefore shall zion for your sake be plowed as a field and jerusalem shall become heaps and the mountain of the house as the high places of the forest
but in the last days it shall come to pass that the mountain of the house of the lord shall be established in the top of the mountains and it shall be exalted above the hills and people shall flow unto it
and many nations shall come and say come and let us go up to the mountain of the lord and to the house of the god of jacob and he will teach us of his ways and we will walk in his paths for the law shall go forth of zion and the word of the lord from jerusalem
and he shall judge among many people and rebuke strong nations afar off and they shall beat their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruninghooks nation shall not lift up a sword against nation neither shall they learn war any more
but they shall sit every man under his vine and under his fig tree and none shall make them afraid for the mouth of the lord of hosts hath spoken it
for all people will walk every one in the name of his god and we will walk in the name of the lord our god for ever and ever
in that day saith the lord will i assemble her that halteth and i will gather her that is driven out and her that i have afflicted
and i will make her that halted a remnant and her that was cast far off a strong nation and the lord shall reign over them in mount zion from henceforth even for ever
and thou o tower of the flock the strong hold of the daughter of zion unto thee shall it come even the first dominion the kingdom shall come to the daughter of jerusalem
now why dost thou cry out aloud is there no king in thee is thy counsellor perished for pangs have taken thee as a woman in travail
be in pain and labour to bring forth o daughter of zion like a woman in travail for now shalt thou go forth out of the city and thou shalt dwell in the field and thou shalt go even to babylon there shalt thou be delivered there the lord shall redeem thee from the hand of thine enemies
now also many nations are gathered against thee that say let her be defiled and let our eye look upon zion
but they know not the thoughts of the lord neither understand they his counsel for he shall gather them as the sheaves into the floor
arise and thresh o daughter of zion for i will make thine horn iron and i will make thy hoofs brass and thou shalt beat in pieces many people and i will consecrate their gain unto the lord and their substance unto the lord of the whole earth
now gather thyself in troops o daughter of troops he hath laid siege against us they shall smite the judge of israel with a rod upon the cheek
but thou bethlehem ephratah though thou be little among the thousands of judah yet out of thee shall he come forth unto me that is to be ruler in israel whose goings forth have been from of old from everlasting
therefore will he give them up until the time that she which travaileth hath brought forth then the remnant of his brethren shall return unto the children of israel
and he shall stand and feed in the strength of the lord in the majesty of the name of the lord his god and they shall abide for now shall he be great unto the ends of the earth
and this man shall be the peace when the assyrian shall come into our land and when he shall tread in our palaces then shall we raise against him seven shepherds and eight principal men
and they shall waste the land of assyria with the sword and the land of nimrod in the entrances thereof thus shall he deliver us from the assyrian when he cometh into our land and when he treadeth within our borders
and the remnant of jacob shall be in the midst of many people as a dew from the lord as the showers upon the grass that tarrieth not for man nor waiteth for the sons of men
and the remnant of jacob shall be among the gentiles in the midst of many people as a lion among the beasts of the forest as a young lion among the flocks of sheep who if he go through both treadeth down and teareth in pieces and none can deliver
thine hand shall be lifted up upon thine adversaries and all thine enemies shall be cut off
and it shall come to pass in that day saith the lord that i will cut off thy horses out of the midst of thee and i will destroy thy chariots
and i will cut off the cities of thy land and throw down all thy strong holds
and i will cut off witchcrafts out of thine hand and thou shalt have no more soothsayers
thy graven images also will i cut off and thy standing images out of the midst of thee and thou shalt no more worship the work of thine hands
and i will pluck up thy groves out of the midst of thee so will i destroy thy cities
and i will execute vengeance in anger and fury upon the heathen such as they have not heard
hear ye now what the lord saith arise contend thou before the mountains and let the hills hear thy voice
hear ye o mountains the lord's controversy and ye strong foundations of the earth for the lord hath a controversy with his people and he will plead with israel
o my people what have i done unto thee and wherein have i wearied thee testify against me
for i brought thee up out of the land of egypt and redeemed thee out of the house of servants and i sent before thee moses aaron and miriam
o my people remember now what balak king of moab consulted and what balaam the son of beor answered him from shittim unto gilgal that ye may know the righteousness of the lord
wherewith shall i come before the lord and bow myself before the high god shall i come before him with burnt offerings with calves of a year old
will the lord be pleased with thousands of rams or with ten thousands of rivers of oil shall i give my firstborn for my transgression the fruit of my body for the sin of my soul
he hath shewed thee o man what is good and what doth the lord require of thee but to do justly and to love mercy and to walk humbly with thy god
the lord's voice crieth unto the city and the man of wisdom shall see thy name hear ye the rod and who hath appointed it
are there yet the treasures of wickedness in the house of the wicked and the scant measure that is abominable
shall i count them pure with the wicked balances and with the bag of deceitful weights
for the rich men thereof are full of violence and the inhabitants thereof have spoken lies and their tongue is deceitful in their mouth
therefore also will i make thee sick in smiting thee in making thee desolate because of thy sins
thou shalt eat but not be satisfied and thy casting down shall be in the midst of thee and thou shalt take hold but shalt not deliver and that which thou deliverest will i give up to the sword
thou shalt sow but thou shalt not reap thou shalt tread the olives but thou shalt not anoint thee with oil and sweet wine but shalt not drink wine
for the statutes of omri are kept and all the works of the house of ahab and ye walk in their counsels that i should make thee a desolation and the inhabitants thereof an hissing therefore ye shall bear the reproach of my people
woe is me for i am as when they have gathered the summer fruits as the grapegleanings of the vintage there is no cluster to eat my soul desired the firstripe fruit
the good man is perished out of the earth and there is none upright among men they all lie in wait for blood they hunt every man his brother with a net
that they may do evil with both hands earnestly the prince asketh and the judge asketh for a reward and the great man he uttereth his mischievous desire so they wrap it up
the best of them is as a brier the most upright is sharper than a thorn hedge the day of thy watchmen and thy visitation cometh now shall be their perplexity
trust ye not in a friend put ye not confidence in a guide keep the doors of thy mouth from her that lieth in thy bosom
for the son dishonoureth the father the daughter riseth up against her mother the daughter in law against her mother in law a man's enemies are the men of his own house
therefore i will look unto the lord i will wait for the god of my salvation my god will hear me
rejoice not against me o mine enemy when i fall i shall arise when i sit in darkness the lord shall be a light unto me
i will bear the indignation of the lord because i have sinned against him until he plead my cause and execute judgment for me he will bring me forth to the light and i shall behold his righteousness
then she that is mine enemy shall see it and shame shall cover her which said unto me where is the lord thy god mine eyes shall behold her now shall she be trodden down as the mire of the streets
in the day that thy walls are to be built in that day shall the decree be far removed
in that day also he shall come even to thee from assyria and from the fortified cities and from the fortress even to the river and from sea to sea and from mountain to mountain
notwithstanding the land shall be desolate because of them that dwell therein for the fruit of their doings
feed thy people with thy rod the flock of thine heritage which dwell solitarily in the wood in the midst of carmel let them feed in bashan and gilead as in the days of old
according to the days of thy coming out of the land of egypt will i shew unto him marvellous things
the nations shall see and be confounded at all their might they shall lay their hand upon their mouth their ears shall be deaf
they shall lick the dust like a serpent they shall move out of their holes like worms of the earth they shall be afraid of the lord our god and shall fear because of thee
who is a god like unto thee that pardoneth iniquity and passeth by the transgression of the remnant of his heritage he retaineth not his anger for ever because he delighteth in mercy
he will turn again he will have compassion upon us he will subdue our iniquities and thou wilt cast all their sins into the depths of the sea
thou wilt perform the truth to jacob and the mercy to abraham which thou hast sworn unto our fathers from the days of old
the burden of nineveh the book of the vision of nahum the elkoshite
god is jealous and the lord revengeth the lord revengeth and is furious the lord will take vengeance on his adversaries and he reserveth wrath for his enemies
the lord is slow to anger and great in power and will not at all acquit the wicked the lord hath his way in the whirlwind and in the storm and the clouds are the dust of his feet
he rebuketh the sea and maketh it dry and drieth up all the rivers bashan languisheth and carmel and the flower of lebanon languisheth
the mountains quake at him and the hills melt and the earth is burned at his presence yea the world and all that dwell therein
who can stand before his indignation and who can abide in the fierceness of his anger his fury is poured out like fire and the rocks are thrown down by him
the lord is good a strong hold in the day of trouble and he knoweth them that trust in him
but with an overrunning flood he will make an utter end of the place thereof and darkness shall pursue his enemies
what do ye imagine against the lord he will make an utter end affliction shall not rise up the second time
for while they be folden together as thorns and while they are drunken as drunkards they shall be devoured as stubble fully dry
there is one come out of thee that imagineth evil against the lord a wicked counsellor
thus saith the lord though they be quiet and likewise many yet thus shall they be cut down when he shall pass through though i have afflicted thee i will afflict thee no more
for now will i break his yoke from off thee and will burst thy bonds in sunder
and the lord hath given a commandment concerning thee that no more of thy name be sown out of the house of thy gods will i cut off the graven image and the molten image i will make thy grave for thou art vile
behold upon the mountains the feet of him that bringeth good tidings that publisheth peace o judah keep thy solemn feasts perform thy vows for the wicked shall no more pass through thee he is utterly cut off
he that dasheth in pieces is come up before thy face keep the munition watch the way make thy loins strong fortify thy power mightily
for the lord hath turned away the excellency of jacob as the excellency of israel for the emptiers have emptied them out and marred their vine branches
the shield of his mighty men is made red the valiant men are in scarlet the chariots shall be with flaming torches in the day of his preparation and the fir trees shall be terribly shaken
the chariots shall rage in the streets they shall justle one against another in the broad ways they shall seem like torches they shall run like the lightnings
he shall recount his worthies they shall stumble in their walk they shall make haste to the wall thereof and the defence shall be prepared
the gates of the rivers shall be opened and the palace shall be dissolved
and huzzab shall be led away captive she shall be brought up and her maids shall lead her as with the voice of doves tabering upon their breasts
but nineveh is of old like a pool of water yet they shall flee away stand stand shall they cry but none shall look back
take ye the spoil of silver take the spoil of gold for there is none end of the store and glory out of all the pleasant furniture
she is empty and void and waste and the heart melteth and the knees smite together and much pain is in all loins and the faces of them all gather blackness
where is the dwelling of the lions and the feedingplace of the young lions where the lion even the old lion walked and the lion's whelp and none made them afraid
the lion did tear in pieces enough for his whelps and strangled for his lionesses and filled his holes with prey and his dens with ravin
behold i am against thee saith the lord of hosts and i will burn her chariots in the smoke and the sword shall devour thy young lions and i will cut off thy prey from the earth and the voice of thy messengers shall no more be heard
woe to the bloody city it is all full of lies and robbery the prey departeth not
the noise of a whip and the noise of the rattling of the wheels and of the pransing horses and of the jumping chariots
the horseman lifteth up both the bright sword and the glittering spear and there is a multitude of slain and a great number of carcases and there is none end of their corpses they stumble upon their corpses
because of the multitude of the whoredoms of the wellfavoured harlot the mistress of witchcrafts that selleth nations through her whoredoms and families through her witchcrafts
behold i am against thee saith the lord of hosts and i will discover thy skirts upon thy face and i will shew the nations thy nakedness and the kingdoms thy shame
and i will cast abominable filth upon thee and make thee vile and will set thee as a gazingstock
and it shall come to pass that all they that look upon thee shall flee from thee and say nineveh is laid waste who will bemoan her whence shall i seek comforters for thee
art thou better than populous no that was situate among the rivers that had the waters round about it whose rampart was the sea and her wall was from the sea
ethiopia and egypt were her strength and it was infinite put and lubim were thy helpers
yet was she carried away she went into captivity her young children also were dashed in pieces at the top of all the streets and they cast lots for her honourable men and all her great men were bound in chains
thou also shalt be drunken thou shalt be hid thou also shalt seek strength because of the enemy
all thy strong holds shall be like fig trees with the firstripe figs if they be shaken they shall even fall into the mouth of the eater
behold thy people in the midst of thee are women the gates of thy land shall be set wide open unto thine enemies the fire shall devour thy bars
draw thee waters for the siege fortify thy strong holds go into clay and tread the morter make strong the brickkiln
there shall the fire devour thee the sword shall cut thee off it shall eat thee up like the cankerworm make thyself many as the cankerworm make thyself many as the locusts
thou hast multiplied thy merchants above the stars of heaven the cankerworm spoileth and fleeth away
thy crowned are as the locusts and thy captains as the great grasshoppers which camp in the hedges in the cold day but when the sun ariseth they flee away and their place is not known where they are
thy shepherds slumber o king of assyria thy nobles shall dwell in the dust thy people is scattered upon the mountains and no man gathereth them
there is no healing of thy bruise thy wound is grievous all that hear the bruit of thee shall clap the hands over thee for upon whom hath not thy wickedness passed continually
the burden which habakkuk the prophet did see
o lord how long shall i cry and thou wilt not hear even cry out unto thee of violence and thou wilt not save
why dost thou shew me iniquity and cause me to behold grievance for spoiling and violence are before me and there are that raise up strife and contention
therefore the law is slacked and judgment doth never go forth for the wicked doth compass about the righteous therefore wrong judgment proceedeth
behold ye among the heathen and regard and wonder marvellously for i will work a work in your days which ye will not believe though it be told you
for lo i raise up the chaldeans that bitter and hasty nation which shall march through the breadth of the land to possess the dwellingplaces that are not theirs
they are terrible and dreadful their judgment and their dignity shall proceed of themselves
their horses also are swifter than the leopards and are more fierce than the evening wolves and their horsemen shall spread themselves and their horsemen shall come from far they shall fly as the eagle that hasteth to eat
they shall come all for violence their faces shall sup up as the east wind and they shall gather the captivity as the sand
and they shall scoff at the kings and the princes shall be a scorn unto them they shall deride every strong hold for they shall heap dust and take it
then shall his mind change and he shall pass over and offend imputing this his power unto his god
art thou not from everlasting o lord my god mine holy one we shall not die o lord thou hast ordained them for judgment and o mighty god thou hast established them for correction
thou art of purer eyes than to behold evil and canst not look on iniquity wherefore lookest thou upon them that deal treacherously and holdest thy tongue when the wicked devoureth the man that is more righteous than he
and makest men as the fishes of the sea as the creeping things that have no ruler over them
they take up all of them with the angle they catch them in their net and gather them in their drag therefore they rejoice and are glad
therefore they sacrifice unto their net and burn incense unto their drag because by them their portion is fat and their meat plenteous
shall they therefore empty their net and not spare continually to slay the nations
i will stand upon my watch and set me upon the tower and will watch to see what he will say unto me and what i shall answer when i am reproved
and the lord answered me and said write the vision and make it plain upon tables that he may run that readeth it
for the vision is yet for an appointed time but at the end it shall speak and not lie though it tarry wait for it because it will surely come it will not tarry
behold his soul which is lifted up is not upright in him but the just shall live by his faith
yea also because he transgresseth by wine he is a proud man neither keepeth at home who enlargeth his desire as hell and is as death and cannot be satisfied but gathereth unto him all nations and heapeth unto him all people
shall not all these take up a parable against him and a taunting proverb against him and say woe to him that increaseth that which is not his how long and to him that ladeth himself with thick clay
shall they not rise up suddenly that shall bite thee and awake that shall vex thee and thou shalt be for booties unto them
because thou hast spoiled many nations all the remnant of the people shall spoil thee because of men's blood and for the violence of the land of the city and of all that dwell therein
woe to him that coveteth an evil covetousness to his house that he may set his nest on high that he may be delivered from the power of evil
thou hast consulted shame to thy house by cutting off many people and hast sinned against thy soul
for the stone shall cry out of the wall and the beam out of the timber shall answer it
woe to him that buildeth a town with blood and stablisheth a city by iniquity
behold is it not of the lord of hosts that the people shall labour in the very fire and the people shall weary themselves for very vanity
for the earth shall be filled with the knowledge of the glory of the lord as the waters cover the sea
woe unto him that giveth his neighbour drink that puttest thy bottle to him and makest him drunken also that thou mayest look on their nakedness
thou art filled with shame for glory drink thou also and let thy foreskin be uncovered the cup of the lord's right hand shall be turned unto thee and shameful spewing shall be on thy glory
for the violence of lebanon shall cover thee and the spoil of beasts which made them afraid because of men's blood and for the violence of the land of the city and of all that dwell therein
what profiteth the graven image that the maker thereof hath graven it the molten image and a teacher of lies that the maker of his work trusteth therein to make dumb idols
woe unto him that saith to the wood awake to the dumb stone arise it shall teach behold it is laid over with gold and silver and there is no breath at all in the midst of it
but the lord is in his holy temple let all the earth keep silence before him
a prayer of habakkuk the prophet upon shigionoth
o lord i have heard thy speech and was afraid o lord revive thy work in the midst of the years in the midst of the years make known in wrath remember mercy
god came from teman and the holy one from mount paran selah his glory covered the heavens and the earth was full of his praise
and his brightness was as the light he had horns coming out of his hand and there was the hiding of his power
before him went the pestilence and burning coals went forth at his feet
he stood and measured the earth he beheld and drove asunder the nations and the everlasting mountains were scattered the perpetual hills did bow his ways are everlasting
i saw the tents of cushan in affliction and the curtains of the land of midian did tremble
was the lord displeased against the rivers was thine anger against the rivers was thy wrath against the sea that thou didst ride upon thine horses and thy chariots of salvation
thy bow was made quite naked according to the oaths of the tribes even thy word selah thou didst cleave the earth with rivers
the mountains saw thee and they trembled the overflowing of the water passed by the deep uttered his voice and lifted up his hands on high
the sun and moon stood still in their habitation at the light of thine arrows they went and at the shining of thy glittering spear
thou didst march through the land in indignation thou didst thresh the heathen in anger
thou wentest forth for the salvation of thy people even for salvation with thine anointed thou woundedst the head out of the house of the wicked by discovering the foundation unto the neck selah
thou didst strike through with his staves the head of his villages they came out as a whirlwind to scatter me their rejoicing was as to devour the poor secretly
thou didst walk through the sea with thine horses through the heap of great waters
when i heard my belly trembled my lips quivered at the voice rottenness entered into my bones and i trembled in myself that i might rest in the day of trouble when he cometh up unto the people he will invade them with his troops
although the fig tree shall not blossom neither shall fruit be in the vines the labour of the olive shall fail and the fields shall yield no meat the flock shall be cut off from the fold and there shall be no herd in the stalls
yet i will rejoice in the lord i will joy in the god of my salvation
the lord god is my strength and he will make my feet like hinds feet and he will make me to walk upon mine high places to the chief singer on my stringed instruments
the word of the lord which came unto zephaniah the son of cushi the son of gedaliah the son of amariah the son of hizkiah in the days of josiah the son of amon king of judah
i will utterly consume all things from off the land saith the lord
i will consume man and beast i will consume the fowls of the heaven and the fishes of the sea and the stumbling blocks with the wicked and i will cut off man from off the land saith the lord
i will also stretch out mine hand upon judah and upon all the inhabitants of jerusalem and i will cut off the remnant of baal from this place and the name of the chemarims with the priests
and them that worship the host of heaven upon the housetops and them that worship and that swear by the lord and that swear by malcham
and them that are turned back from the lord and those that have not sought the lord nor enquired for him
hold thy peace at the presence of the lord god for the day of the lord is at hand for the lord hath prepared a sacrifice he hath bid his guests
and it shall come to pass in the day of the lord's sacrifice that i will punish the princes and the king's children and all such as are clothed with strange apparel
in the same day also will i punish all those that leap on the threshold which fill their masters houses with violence and deceit
and it shall come to pass in that day saith the lord that there shall be the noise of a cry from the fish gate and an howling from the second and a great crashing from the hills
howl ye inhabitants of maktesh for all the merchant people are cut down all they that bear silver are cut off
and it shall come to pass at that time that i will search jerusalem with candles and punish the men that are settled on their lees that say in their heart the lord will not do good neither will he do evil
therefore their goods shall become a booty and their houses a desolation they shall also build houses but not inhabit them and they shall plant vineyards but not drink the wine thereof
the great day of the lord is near it is near and hasteth greatly even the voice of the day of the lord the mighty man shall cry there bitterly
that day is a day of wrath a day of trouble and distress a day of wasteness and desolation a day of darkness and gloominess a day of clouds and thick darkness
a day of the trumpet and alarm against the fenced cities and against the high towers
and i will bring distress upon men that they shall walk like blind men because they have sinned against the lord and their blood shall be poured out as dust and their flesh as the dung
neither their silver nor their gold shall be able to deliver them in the day of the lord's wrath but the whole land shall be devoured by the fire of his jealousy for he shall make even a speedy riddance of all them that dwell in the land
gather yourselves together yea gather together o nation not desired
before the decree bring forth before the day pass as the chaff before the fierce anger of the lord come upon you before the day of the lord's anger come upon you
seek ye the lord all ye meek of the earth which have wrought his judgment seek righteousness seek meekness it may be ye shall be hid in the day of the lord's anger
for gaza shall be forsaken and ashkelon a desolation they shall drive out ashdod at the noon day and ekron shall be rooted up
woe unto the inhabitants of the sea coast the nation of the cherethites the word of the lord is against you o canaan the land of the philistines i will even destroy thee that there shall be no inhabitant
and the sea coast shall be dwellings and cottages for shepherds and folds for flocks
and the coast shall be for the remnant of the house of judah they shall feed thereupon in the houses of ashkelon shall they lie down in the evening for the lord their god shall visit them and turn away their captivity
i have heard the reproach of moab and the revilings of the children of ammon whereby they have reproached my people and magnified themselves against their border
therefore as i live saith the lord of hosts the god of israel surely moab shall be as sodom and the children of ammon as gomorrah even the breeding of nettles and saltpits and a perpetual desolation the residue of my people shall spoil them and the remnant of my people shall possess them
this shall they have for their pride because they have reproached and magnified themselves against the people of the lord of hosts
the lord will be terrible unto them for he will famish all the gods of the earth and men shall worship him every one from his place even all the isles of the heathen
ye ethiopians also ye shall be slain by my sword
and he will stretch out his hand against the north and destroy assyria and will make nineveh a desolation and dry like a wilderness
and flocks shall lie down in the midst of her all the beasts of the nations both the cormorant and the bittern shall lodge in the upper lintels of it their voice shall sing in the windows desolation shall be in the thresholds for he shall uncover the cedar work
this is the rejoicing city that dwelt carelessly that said in her heart i am and there is none beside me how is she become a desolation a place for beasts to lie down in every one that passeth by her shall hiss and wag his hand
woe to her that is filthy and polluted to the oppressing city
she obeyed not the voice she received not correction she trusted not in the lord she drew not near to her god
her princes within her are roaring lions her judges are evening wolves they gnaw not the bones till the morrow
her prophets are light and treacherous persons her priests have polluted the sanctuary they have done violence to the law
the just lord is in the midst thereof he will not do iniquity every morning doth he bring his judgment to light he faileth not but the unjust knoweth no shame
i have cut off the nations their towers are desolate i made their streets waste that none passeth by their cities are destroyed so that there is no man that there is none inhabitant
i said surely thou wilt fear me thou wilt receive instruction so their dwelling should not be cut off howsoever i punished them but they rose early and corrupted all their doings
therefore wait ye upon me saith the lord until the day that i rise up to the prey for my determination is to gather the nations that i may assemble the kingdoms to pour upon them mine indignation even all my fierce anger for all the earth shall be devoured with the fire of my jealousy
for then will i turn to the people a pure language that they may all call upon the name of the lord to serve him with one consent
from beyond the rivers of ethiopia my suppliants even the daughter of my dispersed shall bring mine offering
in that day shalt thou not be ashamed for all thy doings wherein thou hast transgressed against me for then i will take away out of the midst of thee them that rejoice in thy pride and thou shalt no more be haughty because of my holy mountain
i will also leave in the midst of thee an afflicted and poor people and they shall trust in the name of the lord
the remnant of israel shall not do iniquity nor speak lies neither shall a deceitful tongue be found in their mouth for they shall feed and lie down and none shall make them afraid
sing o daughter of zion shout o israel be glad and rejoice with all the heart o daughter of jerusalem
the lord hath taken away thy judgments he hath cast out thine enemy the king of israel even the lord is in the midst of thee thou shalt not see evil any more
in that day it shall be said to jerusalem fear thou not and to zion let not thine hands be slack
the lord thy god in the midst of thee is mighty he will save he will rejoice over thee with joy he will rest in his love he will joy over thee with singing
i will gather them that are sorrowful for the solemn assembly who are of thee to whom the reproach of it was a burden
behold at that time i will undo all that afflict thee and i will save her that halteth and gather her that was driven out and i will get them praise and fame in every land where they have been put to shame
at that time will i bring you again even in the time that i gather you for i will make you a name and a praise among all people of the earth when i turn back your captivity before your eyes saith the lord
in the second year of darius the king in the sixth month in the first day of the month came the word of the lord by haggai the prophet unto zerubbabel the son of shealtiel governor of judah and to joshua the son of josedech the high priest saying
thus speaketh the lord of hosts saying this people say the time is not come the time that the lord's house should be built
then came the word of the lord by haggai the prophet saying
is it time for you o ye to dwell in your cieled houses and this house lie waste
now therefore thus saith the lord of hosts consider your ways
ye have sown much and bring in little ye eat but ye have not enough ye drink but ye are not filled with drink ye clothe you but there is none warm and he that earneth wages earneth wages to put it into a bag with holes
thus saith the lord of hosts consider your ways
go up to the mountain and bring wood and build the house and i will take pleasure in it and i will be glorified saith the lord
ye looked for much and lo it came to little and when ye brought it home i did blow upon it why saith the lord of hosts because of mine house that is waste and ye run every man unto his own house
therefore the heaven over you is stayed from dew and the earth is stayed from her fruit
and i called for a drought upon the land and upon the mountains and upon the corn and upon the new wine and upon the oil and upon that which the ground bringeth forth and upon men and upon cattle and upon all the labour of the hands
then zerubbabel the son of shealtiel and joshua the son of josedech the high priest with all the remnant of the people obeyed the voice of the lord their god and the words of haggai the prophet as the lord their god had sent him and the people did fear before the lord
then spake haggai the lord's messenger in the lord's message unto the people saying i am with you saith the lord
and the lord stirred up the spirit of zerubbabel the son of shealtiel governor of judah and the spirit of joshua the son of josedech the high priest and the spirit of all the remnant of the people and they came and did work in the house of the lord of hosts their god
in the four and twentieth day of the sixth month in the second year of darius the king
in the seventh month in the one and twentieth day of the month came the word of the lord by the prophet haggai saying
speak now to zerubbabel the son of shealtiel governor of judah and to joshua the son of josedech the high priest and to the residue of the people saying
who is left among you that saw this house in her first glory and how do ye see it now is it not in your eyes in comparison of it as nothing
yet now be strong o zerubbabel saith the lord and be strong o joshua son of josedech the high priest and be strong all ye people of the land saith the lord and work for i am with you saith the lord of hosts
according to the word that i covenanted with you when ye came out of egypt so my spirit remaineth among you fear ye not
for thus saith the lord of hosts yet once it is a little while and i will shake the heavens and the earth and the sea and the dry land
and i will shake all nations and the desire of all nations shall come and i will fill this house with glory saith the lord of hosts
the silver is mine and the gold is mine saith the lord of hosts
the glory of this latter house shall be greater than of the former saith the lord of hosts and in this place will i give peace saith the lord of hosts
in the four and twentieth day of the ninth month in the second year of darius came the word of the lord by haggai the prophet saying
thus saith the lord of hosts ask now the priests concerning the law saying
if one bear holy flesh in the skirt of his garment and with his skirt do touch bread or pottage or wine or oil or any meat shall it be holy and the priests answered and said no
then said haggai if one that is unclean by a dead body touch any of these shall it be unclean and the priests answered and said it shall be unclean
then answered haggai and said so is this people and so is this nation before me saith the lord and so is every work of their hands and that which they offer there is unclean
and now i pray you consider from this day and upward from before a stone was laid upon a stone in the temple of the lord
since those days were when one came to an heap of twenty measures there were but ten when one came to the pressfat for to draw out fifty vessels out of the press there were but twenty
i smote you with blasting and with mildew and with hail in all the labours of your hands yet ye turned not to me saith the lord
consider now from this day and upward from the four and twentieth day of the ninth month even from the day that the foundation of the lord's temple was laid consider it
is the seed yet in the barn yea as yet the vine and the fig tree and the pomegranate and the olive tree hath not brought forth from this day will i bless you
and again the word of the lord came unto haggai in the four and twentieth day of the month saying
speak to zerubbabel governor of judah saying i will shake the heavens and the earth
and i will overthrow the throne of kingdoms and i will destroy the strength of the kingdoms of the heathen and i will overthrow the chariots and those that ride in them and the horses and their riders shall come down every one by the sword of his brother
in that day saith the lord of hosts will i take thee o zerubbabel my servant the son of shealtiel saith the lord and will make thee as a signet for i have chosen thee saith the lord of hosts
in the eighth month in the second year of darius came the word of the lord unto zechariah the son of berechiah the son of iddo the prophet saying
the lord hath been sore displeased with your fathers
therefore say thou unto them thus saith the lord of hosts turn ye unto me saith the lord of hosts and i will turn unto you saith the lord of hosts
be ye not as your fathers unto whom the former prophets have cried saying thus saith the lord of hosts turn ye now from your evil ways and from your evil doings but they did not hear nor hearken unto me saith the lord
your fathers where are they and the prophets do they live for ever
but my words and my statutes which i commanded my servants the prophets did they not take hold of your fathers and they returned and said like as the lord of hosts thought to do unto us according to our ways and according to our doings so hath he dealt with us
upon the four and twentieth day of the eleventh month which is the month sebat in the second year of darius came the word of the lord unto zechariah the son of berechiah the son of iddo the prophet saying
i saw by night and behold a man riding upon a red horse and he stood among the myrtle trees that were in the bottom and behind him were there red horses speckled and white
then said i o my lord what are these and the angel that talked with me said unto me i will shew thee what these be
and the man that stood among the myrtle trees answered and said these are they whom the lord hath sent to walk to and fro through the earth
and they answered the angel of the lord that stood among the myrtle trees and said we have walked to and fro through the earth and behold all the earth sitteth still and is at rest
then the angel of the lord answered and said o lord of hosts how long wilt thou not have mercy on jerusalem and on the cities of judah against which thou hast had indignation these threescore and ten years
and the lord answered the angel that talked with me with good words and comfortable words
so the angel that communed with me said unto me cry thou saying thus saith the lord of hosts i am jealous for jerusalem and for zion with a great jealousy
and i am very sore displeased with the heathen that are at ease for i was but a little displeased and they helped forward the affliction
therefore thus saith the lord i am returned to jerusalem with mercies my house shall be built in it saith the lord of hosts and a line shall be stretched forth upon jerusalem
cry yet saying thus saith the lord of hosts my cities through prosperity shall yet be spread abroad and the lord shall yet comfort zion and shall yet choose jerusalem
then lifted i up mine eyes and saw and behold four horns
and i said unto the angel that talked with me what be these and he answered me these are the horns which have scattered judah israel and jerusalem
and the lord shewed me four carpenters
then said i what come these to do and he spake saying these are the horns which have scattered judah so that no man did lift up his head but these are come to fray them to cast out the horns of the gentiles which lifted up their horn over the land of judah to scatter it
i lifted up mine eyes again and looked and behold a man with a measuring line in his hand
then said i whither goest thou and he said unto me to measure jerusalem to see what is the breadth thereof and what is the length thereof
and behold the angel that talked with me went forth and another angel went out to meet him
and said unto him run speak to this young man saying jerusalem shall be inhabited as towns without walls for the multitude of men and cattle therein
for i saith the lord will be unto her a wall of fire round about and will be the glory in the midst of her
ho ho come forth and flee from the land of the north saith the lord for i have spread you abroad as the four winds of the heaven saith the lord
deliver thyself o zion that dwellest with the daughter of babylon
for thus saith the lord of hosts after the glory hath he sent me unto the nations which spoiled you for he that toucheth you toucheth the apple of his eye
for behold i will shake mine hand upon them and they shall be a spoil to their servants and ye shall know that the lord of hosts hath sent me
sing and rejoice o daughter of zion for lo i come and i will dwell in the midst of thee saith the lord
and many nations shall be joined to the lord in that day and shall be my people and i will dwell in the midst of thee and thou shalt know that the lord of hosts hath sent me unto thee
and the lord shall inherit judah his portion in the holy land and shall choose jerusalem again
be silent o all flesh before the lord for he is raised up out of his holy habitation
and he shewed me joshua the high priest standing before the angel of the lord and satan standing at his right hand to resist him
and the lord said unto satan the lord rebuke thee o satan even the lord that hath chosen jerusalem rebuke thee is not this a brand plucked out of the fire
now joshua was clothed with filthy garments and stood before the angel
and he answered and spake unto those that stood before him saying take away the filthy garments from him and unto him he said behold i have caused thine iniquity to pass from thee and i will clothe thee with change of raiment
and i said let them set a fair mitre upon his head so they set a fair mitre upon his head and clothed him with garments and the angel of the lord stood by
and the angel of the lord protested unto joshua saying
thus saith the lord of hosts if thou wilt walk in my ways and if thou wilt keep my charge then thou shalt also judge my house and shalt also keep my courts and i will give thee places to walk among these that stand by
hear now o joshua the high priest thou and thy fellows that sit before thee for they are men wondered at for behold i will bring forth my servant the branch
for behold the stone that i have laid before joshua upon one stone shall be seven eyes behold i will engrave the graving thereof saith the lord of hosts and i will remove the iniquity of that land in one day
in that day saith the lord of hosts shall ye call every man his neighbour under the vine and under the fig tree
and the angel that talked with me came again and waked me as a man that is wakened out of his sleep
and said unto me what seest thou and i said i have looked and behold a candlestick all of gold with a bowl upon the top of it and his seven lamps thereon and seven pipes to the seven lamps which are upon the top thereof
and two olive trees by it one upon the right side of the bowl and the other upon the left side thereof
so i answered and spake to the angel that talked with me saying what are these my lord
then the angel that talked with me answered and said unto me knowest thou not what these be and i said no my lord
then he answered and spake unto me saying this is the word of the lord unto zerubbabel saying not by might nor by power but by my spirit saith the lord of hosts
who art thou o great mountain before zerubbabel thou shalt become a plain and he shall bring forth the headstone thereof with shoutings crying grace grace unto it
moreover the word of the lord came unto me saying
the hands of zerubbabel have laid the foundation of this house his hands shall also finish it and thou shalt know that the lord of hosts hath sent me unto you
for who hath despised the day of small things for they shall rejoice and shall see the plummet in the hand of zerubbabel with those seven they are the eyes of the lord which run to and fro through the whole earth
then answered i and said unto him what are these two olive trees upon the right side of the candlestick and upon the left side thereof
and i answered again and said unto him what be these two olive branches which through the two golden pipes empty the golden oil out of themselves
and he answered me and said knowest thou not what these be and i said no my lord
then said he these are the two anointed ones that stand by the lord of the whole earth
then i turned and lifted up mine eyes and looked and behold a flying roll
and he said unto me what seest thou and i answered i see a flying roll the length thereof is twenty cubits and the breadth thereof ten cubits
then said he unto me this is the curse that goeth forth over the face of the whole earth for every one that stealeth shall be cut off as on this side according to it and every one that sweareth shall be cut off as on that side according to it
i will bring it forth saith the lord of hosts and it shall enter into the house of the thief and into the house of him that sweareth falsely by my name and it shall remain in the midst of his house and shall consume it with the timber thereof and the stones thereof
then the angel that talked with me went forth and said unto me lift up now thine eyes and see what is this that goeth forth
and i said what is it and he said this is an ephah that goeth forth he said moreover this is their resemblance through all the earth
and behold there was lifted up a talent of lead and this is a woman that sitteth in the midst of the ephah
and he said this is wickedness and he cast it into the midst of the ephah and he cast the weight of lead upon the mouth thereof
then lifted i up mine eyes and looked and behold there came out two women and the wind was in their wings for they had wings like the wings of a stork and they lifted up the ephah between the earth and the heaven
then said i to the angel that talked with me whither do these bear the ephah
and he said unto me to build it an house in the land of shinar and it shall be established and set there upon her own base
and i turned and lifted up mine eyes and looked and behold there came four chariots out from between two mountains and the mountains were mountains of brass
in the first chariot were red horses and in the second chariot black horses
and in the third chariot white horses and in the fourth chariot grisled and bay horses
then i answered and said unto the angel that talked with me what are these my lord
and the angel answered and said unto me these are the four spirits of the heavens which go forth from standing before the lord of all the earth
the black horses which are therein go forth into the north country and the white go forth after them and the grisled go forth toward the south country
and the bay went forth and sought to go that they might walk to and fro through the earth and he said get you hence walk to and fro through the earth so they walked to and fro through the earth
then cried he upon me and spake unto me saying behold these that go toward the north country have quieted my spirit in the north country
and the word of the lord came unto me saying
take of them of the captivity even of heldai of tobijah and of jedaiah which are come from babylon and come thou the same day and go into the house of josiah the son of zephaniah
then take silver and gold and make crowns and set them upon the head of joshua the son of josedech the high priest
and speak unto him saying thus speaketh the lord of hosts saying behold the man whose name is the branch and he shall grow up out of his place and he shall build the temple of the lord
even he shall build the temple of the lord and he shall bear the glory and shall sit and rule upon his throne and he shall be a priest upon his throne and the counsel of peace shall be between them both
and the crowns shall be to helem and to tobijah and to jedaiah and to hen the son of zephaniah for a memorial in the temple of the lord
and they that are far off shall come and build in the temple of the lord and ye shall know that the lord of hosts hath sent me unto you and this shall come to pass if ye will diligently obey the voice of the lord your god
and it came to pass in the fourth year of king darius that the word of the lord came unto zechariah in the fourth day of the ninth month even in chisleu
when they had sent unto the house of god sherezer and regemmelech and their men to pray before the lord
and to speak unto the priests which were in the house of the lord of hosts and to the prophets saying should i weep in the fifth month separating myself as i have done these so many years
then came the word of the lord of hosts unto me saying
speak unto all the people of the land and to the priests saying when ye fasted and mourned in the fifth and seventh month even those seventy years did ye at all fast unto me even to me
and when ye did eat and when ye did drink did not ye eat for yourselves and drink for yourselves
should ye not hear the words which the lord hath cried by the former prophets when jerusalem was inhabited and in prosperity and the cities thereof round about her when men inhabited the south and the plain
and the word of the lord came unto zechariah saying
thus speaketh the lord of hosts saying execute true judgment and shew mercy and compassions every man to his brother
and oppress not the widow nor the fatherless the stranger nor the poor and let none of you imagine evil against his brother in your heart
but they refused to hearken and pulled away the shoulder and stopped their ears that they should not hear
yea they made their hearts as an adamant stone lest they should hear the law and the words which the lord of hosts hath sent in his spirit by the former prophets therefore came a great wrath from the lord of hosts
therefore it is come to pass that as he cried and they would not hear so they cried and i would not hear saith the lord of hosts
but i scattered them with a whirlwind among all the nations whom they knew not thus the land was desolate after them that no man passed through nor returned for they laid the pleasant land desolate
again the word of the lord of hosts came to me saying
thus saith the lord of hosts i was jealous for zion with great jealousy and i was jealous for her with great fury
thus saith the lord i am returned unto zion and will dwell in the midst of jerusalem and jerusalem shall be called a city of truth and the mountain of the lord of hosts the holy mountain
thus saith the lord of hosts there shall yet old men and old women dwell in the streets of jerusalem and every man with his staff in his hand for very age
and the streets of the city shall be full of boys and girls playing in the streets thereof
thus saith the lord of hosts if it be marvellous in the eyes of the remnant of this people in these days should it also be marvellous in mine eyes saith the lord of hosts
thus saith the lord of hosts behold i will save my people from the east country and from the west country
and i will bring them and they shall dwell in the midst of jerusalem and they shall be my people and i will be their god in truth and in righteousness
thus saith the lord of hosts let your hands be strong ye that hear in these days these words by the mouth of the prophets which were in the day that the foundation of the house of the lord of hosts was laid that the temple might be built
for before these days there was no hire for man nor any hire for beast neither was there any peace to him that went out or came in because of the affliction for i set all men every one against his neighbour
but now i will not be unto the residue of this people as in the former days saith the lord of hosts
for the seed shall be prosperous the vine shall give her fruit and the ground shall give her increase and the heavens shall give their dew and i will cause the remnant of this people to possess all these things
and it shall come to pass that as ye were a curse among the heathen o house of judah and house of israel so will i save you and ye shall be a blessing fear not but let your hands be strong
for thus saith the lord of hosts as i thought to punish you when your fathers provoked me to wrath saith the lord of hosts and i repented not
so again have i thought in these days to do well unto jerusalem and to the house of judah fear ye not
these are the things that ye shall do speak ye every man the truth to his neighbour execute the judgment of truth and peace in your gates
and let none of you imagine evil in your hearts against his neighbour and love no false oath for all these are things that i hate saith the lord
and the word of the lord of hosts came unto me saying
thus saith the lord of hosts the fast of the fourth month and the fast of the fifth and the fast of the seventh and the fast of the tenth shall be to the house of judah joy and gladness and cheerful feasts therefore love the truth and peace
thus saith the lord of hosts it shall yet come to pass that there shall come people and the inhabitants of many cities
and the inhabitants of one city shall go to another saying let us go speedily to pray before the lord and to seek the lord of hosts i will go also
yea many people and strong nations shall come to seek the lord of hosts in jerusalem and to pray before the lord
thus saith the lord of hosts in those days it shall come to pass that ten men shall take hold out of all languages of the nations even shall take hold of the skirt of him that is a jew saying we will go with you for we have heard that god is with you
the burden of the word of the lord in the land of hadrach and damascus shall be the rest thereof when the eyes of man as of all the tribes of israel shall be toward the lord
and hamath also shall border thereby tyrus and zidon though it be very wise
and tyrus did build herself a strong hold and heaped up silver as the dust and fine gold as the mire of the streets
behold the lord will cast her out and he will smite her power in the sea and she shall be devoured with fire
ashkelon shall see it and fear gaza also shall see it and be very sorrowful and ekron for her expectation shall be ashamed and the king shall perish from gaza and ashkelon shall not be inhabited
and a bastard shall dwell in ashdod and i will cut off the pride of the philistines
and i will take away his blood out of his mouth and his abominations from between his teeth but he that remaineth even he shall be for our god and he shall be as a governor in judah and ekron as a jebusite
and i will encamp about mine house because of the army because of him that passeth by and because of him that returneth and no oppressor shall pass through them any more for now have i seen with mine eyes
rejoice greatly o daughter of zion shout o daughter of jerusalem behold thy king cometh unto thee he is just and having salvation lowly and riding upon an ass and upon a colt the foal of an ass
and i will cut off the chariot from ephraim and the horse from jerusalem and the battle bow shall be cut off and he shall speak peace unto the heathen and his dominion shall be from sea even to sea and from the river even to the ends of the earth
as for thee also by the blood of thy covenant i have sent forth thy prisoners out of the pit wherein is no water
turn you to the strong hold ye prisoners of hope even to day do i declare that i will render double unto thee
when i have bent judah for me filled the bow with ephraim and raised up thy sons o zion against thy sons o greece and made thee as the sword of a mighty man
and the lord shall be seen over them and his arrow shall go forth as the lightning and the lord god shall blow the trumpet and shall go with whirlwinds of the south
the lord of hosts shall defend them and they shall devour and subdue with sling stones and they shall drink and make a noise as through wine and they shall be filled like bowls and as the corners of the altar
and the lord their god shall save them in that day as the flock of his people for they shall be as the stones of a crown lifted up as an ensign upon his land
for how great is his goodness and how great is his beauty corn shall make the young men cheerful and new wine the maids
ask ye of the lord rain in the time of the latter rain so the lord shall make bright clouds and give them showers of rain to every one grass in the field
for the idols have spoken vanity and the diviners have seen a lie and have told false dreams they comfort in vain therefore they went their way as a flock they were troubled because there was no shepherd
mine anger was kindled against the shepherds and i punished the goats for the lord of hosts hath visited his flock the house of judah and hath made them as his goodly horse in the battle
out of him came forth the corner out of him the nail out of him the battle bow out of him every oppressor together
and they shall be as mighty men which tread down their enemies in the mire of the streets in the battle and they shall fight because the lord is with them and the riders on horses shall be confounded
and i will strengthen the house of judah and i will save the house of joseph and i will bring them again to place them for i have mercy upon them and they shall be as though i had not cast them off for i am the lord their god and will hear them
and they of ephraim shall be like a mighty man and their heart shall rejoice as through wine yea their children shall see it and be glad their heart shall rejoice in the lord
i will hiss for them and gather them for i have redeemed them and they shall increase as they have increased
and i will sow them among the people and they shall remember me in far countries and they shall live with their children and turn again
i will bring them again also out of the land of egypt and gather them out of assyria and i will bring them into the land of gilead and lebanon and place shall not be found for them
and he shall pass through the sea with affliction and shall smite the waves in the sea and all the deeps of the river shall dry up and the pride of assyria shall be brought down and the sceptre of egypt shall depart away
and i will strengthen them in the lord and they shall walk up and down in his name saith the lord
open thy doors o lebanon that the fire may devour thy cedars
howl fir tree for the cedar is fallen because the mighty are spoiled howl o ye oaks of bashan for the forest of the vintage is come down
there is a voice of the howling of the shepherds for their glory is spoiled a voice of the roaring of young lions for the pride of jordan is spoiled
thus saith the lord my god feed the flock of the slaughter
whose possessors slay them and hold themselves not guilty and they that sell them say blessed be the lord for i am rich and their own shepherds pity them not
for i will no more pity the inhabitants of the land saith the lord but lo i will deliver the men every one into his neighbour's hand and into the hand of his king and they shall smite the land and out of their hand i will not deliver them
and i will feed the flock of slaughter even you o poor of the flock and i took unto me two staves the one i called beauty and the other i called bands and i fed the flock
three shepherds also i cut off in one month and my soul lothed them and their soul also abhorred me
then said i i will not feed you that that dieth let it die and that that is to be cut off let it be cut off and let the rest eat every one the flesh of another
and i took my staff even beauty and cut it asunder that i might break my covenant which i had made with all the people
and it was broken in that day and so the poor of the flock that waited upon me knew that it was the word of the lord
and i said unto them if ye think good give me my price and if not forbear so they weighed for my price thirty pieces of silver
and the lord said unto me cast it unto the potter a goodly price that i was prised at of them and i took the thirty pieces of silver and cast them to the potter in the house of the lord
then i cut asunder mine other staff even bands that i might break the brotherhood between judah and israel
and the lord said unto me take unto thee yet the instruments of a foolish shepherd
for lo i will raise up a shepherd in the land which shall not visit those that be cut off neither shall seek the young one nor heal that that is broken nor feed that that standeth still but he shall eat the flesh of the fat and tear their claws in pieces
woe to the idol shepherd that leaveth the flock the sword shall be upon his arm and upon his right eye his arm shall be clean dried up and his right eye shall be utterly darkened
the burden of the word of the lord for israel saith the lord which stretcheth forth the heavens and layeth the foundation of the earth and formeth the spirit of man within him
behold i will make jerusalem a cup of trembling unto all the people round about when they shall be in the siege both against judah and against jerusalem
and in that day will i make jerusalem a burdensome stone for all people all that burden themselves with it shall be cut in pieces though all the people of the earth be gathered together against it
in that day saith the lord i will smite every horse with astonishment and his rider with madness and i will open mine eyes upon the house of judah and will smite every horse of the people with blindness
and the governors of judah shall say in their heart the inhabitants of jerusalem shall be my strength in the lord of hosts their god
in that day will i make the governors of judah like an hearth of fire among the wood and like a torch of fire in a sheaf and they shall devour all the people round about on the right hand and on the left and jerusalem shall be inhabited again in her own place even in jerusalem
the lord also shall save the tents of judah first that the glory of the house of david and the glory of the inhabitants of jerusalem do not magnify themselves against judah
in that day shall the lord defend the inhabitants of jerusalem and he that is feeble among them at that day shall be as david and the house of david shall be as god as the angel of the lord before them
and it shall come to pass in that day that i will seek to destroy all the nations that come against jerusalem
and i will pour upon the house of david and upon the inhabitants of jerusalem the spirit of grace and of supplications and they shall look upon me whom they have pierced and they shall mourn for him as one mourneth for his only son and shall be in bitterness for him as one that is in bitterness for his firstborn
in that day shall there be a great mourning in jerusalem as the mourning of hadadrimmon in the valley of megiddon
and the land shall mourn every family apart the family of the house of david apart and their wives apart the family of the house of nathan apart and their wives apart
the family of the house of levi apart and their wives apart the family of shimei apart and their wives apart
all the families that remain every family apart and their wives apart
in that day there shall be a fountain opened to the house of david and to the inhabitants of jerusalem for sin and for uncleanness
and it shall come to pass in that day saith the lord of hosts that i will cut off the names of the idols out of the land and they shall no more be remembered and also i will cause the prophets and the unclean spirit to pass out of the land
and it shall come to pass that when any shall yet prophesy then his father and his mother that begat him shall say unto him thou shalt not live for thou speakest lies in the name of the lord and his father and his mother that begat him shall thrust him through when he prophesieth
and it shall come to pass in that day that the prophets shall be ashamed every one of his vision when he hath prophesied neither shall they wear a rough garment to deceive
but he shall say i am no prophet i am an husbandman for man taught me to keep cattle from my youth
and one shall say unto him what are these wounds in thine hands then he shall answer those with which i was wounded in the house of my friends
awake o sword against my shepherd and against the man that is my fellow saith the lord of hosts smite the shepherd and the sheep shall be scattered and i will turn mine hand upon the little ones
and it shall come to pass that in all the land saith the lord two parts therein shall be cut off and die but the third shall be left therein
and i will bring the third part through the fire and will refine them as silver is refined and will try them as gold is tried they shall call on my name and i will hear them i will say it is my people and they shall say the lord is my god
behold the day of the lord cometh and thy spoil shall be divided in the midst of thee
for i will gather all nations against jerusalem to battle and the city shall be taken and the houses rifled and the women ravished and half of the city shall go forth into captivity and the residue of the people shall not be cut off from the city
then shall the lord go forth and fight against those nations as when he fought in the day of battle
and his feet shall stand in that day upon the mount of olives which is before jerusalem on the east and the mount of olives shall cleave in the midst thereof toward the east and toward the west and there shall be a very great valley and half of the mountain shall remove toward the north and half of it toward the south
and ye shall flee to the valley of the mountains for the valley of the mountains shall reach unto azal yea ye shall flee like as ye fled from before the earthquake in the days of uzziah king of judah and the lord my god shall come and all the saints with thee
and it shall come to pass in that day that the light shall not be clear nor dark
but it shall be one day which shall be known to the lord not day nor night but it shall come to pass that at evening time it shall be light
and it shall be in that day that living waters shall go out from jerusalem half of them toward the former sea and half of them toward the hinder sea in summer and in winter shall it be
and the lord shall be king over all the earth in that day shall there be one lord and his name one
all the land shall be turned as a plain from geba to rimmon south of jerusalem and it shall be lifted up and inhabited in her place from benjamin's gate unto the place of the first gate unto the corner gate and from the tower of hananeel unto the king's winepresses
and men shall dwell in it and there shall be no more utter destruction but jerusalem shall be safely inhabited
and this shall be the plague wherewith the lord will smite all the people that have fought against jerusalem their flesh shall consume away while they stand upon their feet and their eyes shall consume away in their holes and their tongue shall consume away in their mouth
and it shall come to pass in that day that a great tumult from the lord shall be among them and they shall lay hold every one on the hand of his neighbour and his hand shall rise up against the hand of his neighbour
and judah also shall fight at jerusalem and the wealth of all the heathen round about shall be gathered together gold and silver and apparel in great abundance
and so shall be the plague of the horse of the mule of the camel and of the ass and of all the beasts that shall be in these tents as this plague
and it shall come to pass that every one that is left of all the nations which came against jerusalem shall even go up from year to year to worship the king the lord of hosts and to keep the feast of tabernacles
and it shall be that whoso will not come up of all the families of the earth unto jerusalem to worship the king the lord of hosts even upon them shall be no rain
and if the family of egypt go not up and come not that have no rain there shall be the plague wherewith the lord will smite the heathen that come not up to keep the feast of tabernacles
this shall be the punishment of egypt and the punishment of all nations that come not up to keep the feast of tabernacles
in that day shall there be upon the bells of the horses holiness unto the lord and the pots in the lord's house shall be like the bowls before the altar
yea every pot in jerusalem and in judah shall be holiness unto the lord of hosts and all they that sacrifice shall come and take of them and seethe therein and in that day there shall be no more the canaanite in the house of the lord of hosts
the burden of the word of the lord to israel by malachi
i have loved you saith the lord yet ye say wherein hast thou loved us was not esau jacob's brother saith the lord yet i loved jacob
and i hated esau and laid his mountains and his heritage waste for the dragons of the wilderness
whereas edom saith we are impoverished but we will return and build the desolate places thus saith the lord of hosts they shall build but i will throw down and they shall call them the border of wickedness and the people against whom the lord hath indignation for ever
and your eyes shall see and ye shall say the lord will be magnified from the border of israel
a son honoureth his father and a servant his master if then i be a father where is mine honour and if i be a master where is my fear saith the lord of hosts unto you o priests that despise my name and ye say wherein have we despised thy name
ye offer polluted bread upon mine altar and ye say wherein have we polluted thee in that ye say the table of the lord is contemptible
and if ye offer the blind for sacrifice is it not evil and if ye offer the lame and sick is it not evil offer it now unto thy governor will he be pleased with thee or accept thy person saith the lord of hosts
and now i pray you beseech god that he will be gracious unto us this hath been by your means will he regard your persons saith the lord of hosts
who is there even among you that would shut the doors for nought neither do ye kindle fire on mine altar for nought i have no pleasure in you saith the lord of hosts neither will i accept an offering at your hand
for from the rising of the sun even unto the going down of the same my name shall be great among the gentiles and in every place incense shall be offered unto my name and a pure offering for my name shall be great among the heathen saith the lord of hosts
but ye have profaned it in that ye say the table of the lord is polluted and the fruit thereof even his meat is contemptible
ye said also behold what a weariness is it and ye have snuffed at it saith the lord of hosts and ye brought that which was torn and the lame and the sick thus ye brought an offering should i accept this of your hand saith the lord
but cursed be the deceiver which hath in his flock a male and voweth and sacrificeth unto the lord a corrupt thing for i am a great king saith the lord of hosts and my name is dreadful among the heathen
and now o ye priests this commandment is for you
if ye will not hear and if ye will not lay it to heart to give glory unto my name saith the lord of hosts i will even send a curse upon you and i will curse your blessings yea i have cursed them already because ye do not lay it to heart
behold i will corrupt your seed and spread dung upon your faces even the dung of your solemn feasts and one shall take you away with it
and ye shall know that i have sent this commandment unto you that my covenant might be with levi saith the lord of hosts
my covenant was with him of life and peace and i gave them to him for the fear wherewith he feared me and was afraid before my name
the law of truth was in his mouth and iniquity was not found in his lips he walked with me in peace and equity and did turn many away from iniquity
for the priest's lips should keep knowledge and they should seek the law at his mouth for he is the messenger of the lord of hosts
but ye are departed out of the way ye have caused many to stumble at the law ye have corrupted the covenant of levi saith the lord of hosts
therefore have i also made you contemptible and base before all the people according as ye have not kept my ways but have been partial in the law
have we not all one father hath not one god created us why do we deal treacherously every man against his brother by profaning the covenant of our fathers
judah hath dealt treacherously and an abomination is committed in israel and in jerusalem for judah hath profaned the holiness of the lord which he loved and hath married the daughter of a strange god
the lord will cut off the man that doeth this the master and the scholar out of the tabernacles of jacob and him that offereth an offering unto the lord of hosts
and this have ye done again covering the altar of the lord with tears with weeping and with crying out insomuch that he regardeth not the offering any more or receiveth it with good will at your hand
yet ye say wherefore because the lord hath been witness between thee and the wife of thy youth against whom thou hast dealt treacherously yet is she thy companion and the wife of thy covenant
and did not he make one yet had he the residue of the spirit and wherefore one that he might seek a godly seed therefore take heed to your spirit and let none deal treacherously against the wife of his youth
for the lord the god of israel saith that he hateth putting away for one covereth violence with his garment saith the lord of hosts therefore take heed to your spirit that ye deal not treacherously
ye have wearied the lord with your words yet ye say wherein have we wearied him when ye say every one that doeth evil is good in the sight of the lord and he delighteth in them or where is the god of judgment
behold i will send my messenger and he shall prepare the way before me and the lord whom ye seek shall suddenly come to his temple even the messenger of the covenant whom ye delight in behold he shall come saith the lord of hosts
but who may abide the day of his coming and who shall stand when he appeareth for he is like a refiner's fire and like fullers soap
and he shall sit as a refiner and purifier of silver and he shall purify the sons of levi and purge them as gold and silver that they may offer unto the lord an offering in righteousness
then shall the offering of judah and jerusalem be pleasant unto the lord as in the days of old and as in former years
and i will come near to you to judgment and i will be a swift witness against the sorcerers and against the adulterers and against false swearers and against those that oppress the hireling in his wages the widow and the fatherless and that turn aside the stranger from his right and fear not me saith the lord of hosts
for i am the lord i change not therefore ye sons of jacob are not consumed
even from the days of your fathers ye are gone away from mine ordinances and have not kept them return unto me and i will return unto you saith the lord of hosts but ye said wherein shall we return
will a man rob god yet ye have robbed me but ye say wherein have we robbed thee in tithes and offerings
ye are cursed with a curse for ye have robbed me even this whole nation
bring ye all the tithes into the storehouse that there may be meat in mine house and prove me now herewith saith the lord of hosts if i will not open you the windows of heaven and pour you out a blessing that there shall not be room enough to receive it
and i will rebuke the devourer for your sakes and he shall not destroy the fruits of your ground neither shall your vine cast her fruit before the time in the field saith the lord of hosts
and all nations shall call you blessed for ye shall be a delightsome land saith the lord of hosts
your words have been stout against me saith the lord yet ye say what have we spoken so much against thee
ye have said it is vain to serve god and what profit is it that we have kept his ordinance and that we have walked mournfully before the lord of hosts
and now we call the proud happy yea they that work wickedness are set up yea they that tempt god are even delivered
then they that feared the lord spake often one to another and the lord hearkened and heard it and a book of remembrance was written before him for them that feared the lord and that thought upon his name
and they shall be mine saith the lord of hosts in that day when i make up my jewels and i will spare them as a man spareth his own son that serveth him
then shall ye return and discern between the righteous and the wicked between him that serveth god and him that serveth him not
for behold the day cometh that shall burn as an oven and all the proud yea and all that do wickedly shall be stubble and the day that cometh shall burn them up saith the lord of hosts that it shall leave them neither root nor branch
but unto you that fear my name shall the sun of righteousness arise with healing in his wings and ye shall go forth and grow up as calves of the stall
and ye shall tread down the wicked for they shall be ashes under the soles of your feet in the day that i shall do this saith the lord of hosts
remember ye the law of moses my servant which i commanded unto him in horeb for all israel with the statutes and judgments
behold i will send you elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the lord
and he shall turn the heart of the fathers to the children and the heart of the children to their fathers lest i come and smite the earth with a curse
the book of the generation of jesus christ the son of david the son of abraham
abraham begat isaac and isaac begat jacob and jacob begat judas and his brethren
and judas begat phares and zara of thamar and phares begat esrom and esrom begat aram
and aram begat aminadab and aminadab begat naasson and naasson begat salmon
and salmon begat booz of rachab and booz begat obed of ruth and obed begat jesse
and jesse begat david the king and david the king begat solomon of her that had been the wife of urias
and solomon begat roboam and roboam begat abia and abia begat asa
and asa begat josaphat and josaphat begat joram and joram begat ozias
and ozias begat joatham and joatham begat achaz and achaz begat ezekias
and ezekias begat manasses and manasses begat amon and amon begat josias
and josias begat jechonias and his brethren about the time they were carried away to babylon
and after they were brought to babylon jechonias begat salathiel and salathiel begat zorobabel
and zorobabel begat abiud and abiud begat eliakim and eliakim begat azor
and azor begat sadoc and sadoc begat achim and achim begat eliud
and eliud begat eleazar and eleazar begat matthan and matthan begat jacob
and jacob begat joseph the husband of mary of whom was born jesus who is called christ
so all the generations from abraham to david are fourteen generations and from david until the carrying away into babylon are fourteen generations and from the carrying away into babylon unto christ are fourteen generations
now the birth of jesus christ was on this wise when as his mother mary was espoused to joseph before they came together she was found with child of the holy ghost
then joseph her husband being a just man and not willing to make her a publick example was minded to put her away privily
but while he thought on these things behold the angel of the lord appeared unto him in a dream saying joseph thou son of david fear not to take unto thee mary thy wife for that which is conceived in her is of the holy ghost
and she shall bring forth a son and thou shalt call his name jesus for he shall save his people from their sins
now all this was done that it might be fulfilled which was spoken of the lord by the prophet saying
behold a virgin shall be with child and shall bring forth a son and they shall call his name emmanuel which being interpreted is god with us
then joseph being raised from sleep did as the angel of the lord had bidden him and took unto him his wife
and knew her not till she had brought forth her firstborn son and he called his name jesus
now when jesus was born in bethlehem of judaea in the days of herod the king behold there came wise men from the east to jerusalem
saying where is he that is born king of the jews for we have seen his star in the east and are come to worship him
when herod the king had heard these things he was troubled and all jerusalem with him
and when he had gathered all the chief priests and scribes of the people together he demanded of them where christ should be born
and they said unto him in bethlehem of judaea for thus it is written by the prophet
and thou bethlehem in the land of juda art not the least among the princes of juda for out of thee shall come a governor that shall rule my people israel
then herod when he had privily called the wise men enquired of them diligently what time the star appeared
and he sent them to bethlehem and said go and search diligently for the young child and when ye have found him bring me word again that i may come and worship him also
when they had heard the king they departed and lo the star which they saw in the east went before them till it came and stood over where the young child was
when they saw the star they rejoiced with exceeding great joy
and when they were come into the house they saw the young child with mary his mother and fell down and worshipped him and when they had opened their treasures they presented unto him gifts gold and frankincense and myrrh
and being warned of god in a dream that they should not return to herod they departed into their own country another way
and when they were departed behold the angel of the lord appeareth to joseph in a dream saying arise and take the young child and his mother and flee into egypt and be thou there until i bring thee word for herod will seek the young child to destroy him
when he arose he took the young child and his mother by night and departed into egypt
and was there until the death of herod that it might be fulfilled which was spoken of the lord by the prophet saying out of egypt have i called my son
then herod when he saw that he was mocked of the wise men was exceeding wroth and sent forth and slew all the children that were in bethlehem and in all the coasts thereof from two years old and under according to the time which he had diligently enquired of the wise men
then was fulfilled that which was spoken by jeremy the prophet saying
in rama was there a voice heard lamentation and weeping and great mourning rachel weeping for her children and would not be comforted because they are not
but when herod was dead behold an angel of the lord appeareth in a dream to joseph in egypt
saying arise and take the young child and his mother and go into the land of israel for they are dead which sought the young child's life
and he arose and took the young child and his mother and came into the land of israel
but when he heard that archelaus did reign in judaea in the room of his father herod he was afraid to go thither notwithstanding being warned of god in a dream he turned aside into the parts of galilee
and he came and dwelt in a city called nazareth that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the prophets he shall be called a nazarene
in those days came john the baptist preaching in the wilderness of judaea
and saying repent ye for the kingdom of heaven is at hand
for this is he that was spoken of by the prophet esaias saying the voice of one crying in the wilderness prepare ye the way of the lord make his paths straight
and the same john had his raiment of camel's hair and a leathern girdle about his loins and his meat was locusts and wild honey
then went out to him jerusalem and all judaea and all the region round about jordan
and were baptized of him in jordan confessing their sins
but when he saw many of the pharisees and sadducees come to his baptism he said unto them o generation of vipers who hath warned you to flee from the wrath to come
bring forth therefore fruits meet for repentance
and think not to say within yourselves we have abraham to our father for i say unto you that god is able of these stones to raise up children unto abraham
and now also the axe is laid unto the root of the trees therefore every tree which bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down and cast into the fire
i indeed baptize you with water unto repentance but he that cometh after me is mightier than i whose shoes i am not worthy to bear he shall baptize you with the holy ghost and with fire
whose fan is in his hand and he will throughly purge his floor and gather his wheat into the garner but he will burn up the chaff with unquenchable fire
then cometh jesus from galilee to jordan unto john to be baptized of him
but john forbad him saying i have need to be baptized of thee and comest thou to me
and jesus answering said unto him suffer it to be so now for thus it becometh us to fulfil all righteousness then he suffered him
and jesus when he was baptized went up straightway out of the water and lo the heavens were opened unto him and he saw the spirit of god descending like a dove and lighting upon him
and lo a voice from heaven saying this is my beloved son in whom i am well pleased
then was jesus led up of the spirit into the wilderness to be tempted of the devil
and when he had fasted forty days and forty nights he was afterward an hungred
and when the tempter came to him he said if thou be the son of god command that these stones be made bread
but he answered and said it is written man shall not live by bread alone but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of god
then the devil taketh him up into the holy city and setteth him on a pinnacle of the temple
and saith unto him if thou be the son of god cast thyself down for it is written he shall give his angels charge concerning thee and in their hands they shall bear thee up lest at any time thou dash thy foot against a stone
jesus said unto him it is written again thou shalt not tempt the lord thy god
again the devil taketh him up into an exceeding high mountain and sheweth him all the kingdoms of the world and the glory of them
and saith unto him all these things will i give thee if thou wilt fall down and worship me
then saith jesus unto him get thee hence satan for it is written thou shalt worship the lord thy god and him only shalt thou serve
then the devil leaveth him and behold angels came and ministered unto him
now when jesus had heard that john was cast into prison he departed into galilee
and leaving nazareth he came and dwelt in capernaum which is upon the sea coast in the borders of zabulon and nephthalim
that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by esaias the prophet saying
the land of zabulon and the land of nephthalim by the way of the sea beyond jordan galilee of the gentiles
the people which sat in darkness saw great light and to them which sat in the region and shadow of death light is sprung up
from that time jesus began to preach and to say repent for the kingdom of heaven is at hand
and jesus walking by the sea of galilee saw two brethren simon called peter and andrew his brother casting a net into the sea for they were fishers
and he saith unto them follow me and i will make you fishers of men
and they straightway left their nets and followed him
and going on from thence he saw other two brethren james the son of zebedee and john his brother in a ship with zebedee their father mending their nets and he called them
and they immediately left the ship and their father and followed him
and jesus went about all galilee teaching in their synagogues and preaching the gospel of the kingdom and healing all manner of sickness and all manner of disease among the people
and his fame went throughout all syria and they brought unto him all sick people that were taken with divers diseases and torments and those which were possessed with devils and those which were lunatick and those that had the palsy and he healed them
and there followed him great multitudes of people from galilee and from decapolis and from jerusalem and from judaea and from beyond jordan
and seeing the multitudes he went up into a mountain and when he was set his disciples came unto him
and he opened his mouth and taught them saying
blessed are the poor in spirit for theirs is the kingdom of heaven
blessed are they that mourn for they shall be comforted
blessed are the meek for they shall inherit the earth
blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness for they shall be filled
blessed are the merciful for they shall obtain mercy
blessed are the pure in heart for they shall see god
blessed are the peacemakers for they shall be called the children of god
blessed are they which are persecuted for righteousness sake for theirs is the kingdom of heaven
blessed are ye when men shall revile you and persecute you and shall say all manner of evil against you falsely for my sake
rejoice and be exceeding glad for great is your reward in heaven for so persecuted they the prophets which were before you
ye are the salt of the earth but if the salt have lost his savour wherewith shall it be salted it is thenceforth good for nothing but to be cast out and to be trodden under foot of men
ye are the light of the world a city that is set on an hill cannot be hid
neither do men light a candle and put it under a bushel but on a candlestick and it giveth light unto all that are in the house
let your light so shine before men that they may see your good works and glorify your father which is in heaven
think not that i am come to destroy the law or the prophets i am not come to destroy but to fulfil
for verily i say unto you till heaven and earth pass one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law till all be fulfilled
whosoever therefore shall break one of these least commandments and shall teach men so he shall be called the least in the kingdom of heaven but whosoever shall do and teach them the same shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven
for i say unto you that except your righteousness shall exceed the righteousness of the scribes and pharisees ye shall in no case enter into the kingdom of heaven
ye have heard that it was said by them of old time thou shalt not kill and whosoever shall kill shall be in danger of the judgment
but i say unto you that whosoever is angry with his brother without a cause shall be in danger of the judgment and whosoever shall say to his brother raca shall be in danger of the council but whosoever shall say thou fool shall be in danger of hell fire
therefore if thou bring thy gift to the altar and there rememberest that thy brother hath ought against thee
leave there thy gift before the altar and go thy way first be reconciled to thy brother and then come and offer thy gift
agree with thine adversary quickly whiles thou art in the way with him lest at any time the adversary deliver thee to the judge and the judge deliver thee to the officer and thou be cast into prison
verily i say unto thee thou shalt by no means come out thence till thou hast paid the uttermost farthing
ye have heard that it was said by them of old time thou shalt not commit adultery
but i say unto you that whosoever looketh on a woman to lust after her hath committed adultery with her already in his heart
and if thy right eye offend thee pluck it out and cast it from thee for it is profitable for thee that one of thy members should perish and not that thy whole body should be cast into hell
and if thy right hand offend thee cut it off and cast it from thee for it is profitable for thee that one of thy members should perish and not that thy whole body should be cast into hell
it hath been said whosoever shall put away his wife let him give her a writing of divorcement
but i say unto you that whosoever shall put away his wife saving for the cause of fornication causeth her to commit adultery and whosoever shall marry her that is divorced committeth adultery
again ye have heard that it hath been said by them of old time thou shalt not forswear thyself but shalt perform unto the lord thine oaths
but i say unto you swear not at all neither by heaven for it is god's throne
nor by the earth for it is his footstool neither by jerusalem for it is the city of the great king
neither shalt thou swear by thy head because thou canst not make one hair white or black
but let your communication be yea yea nay nay for whatsoever is more than these cometh of evil
ye have heard that it hath been said an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth
but i say unto you that ye resist not evil but whosoever shall smite thee on thy right cheek turn to him the other also
and if any man will sue thee at the law and take away thy coat let him have thy cloak also
and whosoever shall compel thee to go a mile go with him twain
give to him that asketh thee and from him that would borrow of thee turn not thou away
ye have heard that it hath been said thou shalt love thy neighbour and hate thine enemy
but i say unto you love your enemies bless them that curse you do good to them that hate you and pray for them which despitefully use you and persecute you
that ye may be the children of your father which is in heaven for he maketh his sun to rise on the evil and on the good and sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust
for if ye love them which love you what reward have ye do not even the publicans the same
and if ye salute your brethren only what do ye more than others do not even the publicans so
be ye therefore perfect even as your father which is in heaven is perfect
take heed that ye do not your alms before men to be seen of them otherwise ye have no reward of your father which is in heaven
therefore when thou doest thine alms do not sound a trumpet before thee as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets that they may have glory of men verily i say unto you they have their reward
but when thou doest alms let not thy left hand know what thy right hand doeth
that thine alms may be in secret and thy father which seeth in secret himself shall reward thee openly
and when thou prayest thou shalt not be as the hypocrites are for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and in the corners of the streets that they may be seen of men verily i say unto you they have their reward
but thou when thou prayest enter into thy closet and when thou hast shut thy door pray to thy father which is in secret and thy father which seeth in secret shall reward thee openly
but when ye pray use not vain repetitions as the heathen do for they think that they shall be heard for their much speaking
be not ye therefore like unto them for your father knoweth what things ye have need of before ye ask him
after this manner therefore pray ye our father which art in heaven hallowed be thy name
thy kingdom come thy will be done in earth as it is in heaven
give us this day our daily bread
and forgive us our debts as we forgive our debtors
and lead us not into temptation but deliver us from evil for thine is the kingdom and the power and the glory for ever amen
for if ye forgive men their trespasses your heavenly father will also forgive you
but if ye forgive not men their trespasses neither will your father forgive your trespasses
moreover when ye fast be not as the hypocrites of a sad countenance for they disfigure their faces that they may appear unto men to fast verily i say unto you they have their reward
but thou when thou fastest anoint thine head and wash thy face
that thou appear not unto men to fast but unto thy father which is in secret and thy father which seeth in secret shall reward thee openly
lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth where moth and rust doth corrupt and where thieves break through and steal
but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven where neither moth nor rust doth corrupt and where thieves do not break through nor steal
for where your treasure is there will your heart be also
the light of the body is the eye if therefore thine eye be single thy whole body shall be full of light
but if thine eye be evil thy whole body shall be full of darkness if therefore the light that is in thee be darkness how great is that darkness
no man can serve two masters for either he will hate the one and love the other or else he will hold to the one and despise the other ye cannot serve god and mammon
therefore i say unto you take no thought for your life what ye shall eat or what ye shall drink nor yet for your body what ye shall put on is not the life more than meat and the body than raiment
behold the fowls of the air for they sow not neither do they reap nor gather into barns yet your heavenly father feedeth them are ye not much better than they
which of you by taking thought can add one cubit unto his stature
and why take ye thought for raiment consider the lilies of the field how they grow they toil not neither do they spin
and yet i say unto you that even solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these
wherefore if god so clothe the grass of the field which to day is and to morrow is cast into the oven shall he not much more clothe you o ye of little faith
therefore take no thought saying what shall we eat or what shall we drink or wherewithal shall we be clothed
for after all these things do the gentiles seek for your heavenly father knoweth that ye have need of all these things
but seek ye first the kingdom of god and his righteousness and all these things shall be added unto you
take therefore no thought for the morrow for the morrow shall take thought for the things of itself sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof
judge not that ye be not judged
for with what judgment ye judge ye shall be judged and with what measure ye mete it shall be measured to you again
and why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother's eye but considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye
or how wilt thou say to thy brother let me pull out the mote out of thine eye and behold a beam is in thine own eye
thou hypocrite first cast out the beam out of thine own eye and then shalt thou see clearly to cast out the mote out of thy brother's eye
give not that which is holy unto the dogs neither cast ye your pearls before swine lest they trample them under their feet and turn again and rend you
ask and it shall be given you seek and ye shall find knock and it shall be opened unto you
for every one that asketh receiveth and he that seeketh findeth and to him that knocketh it shall be opened
or what man is there of you whom if his son ask bread will he give him a stone
or if he ask a fish will he give him a serpent
if ye then being evil know how to give good gifts unto your children how much more shall your father which is in heaven give good things to them that ask him
therefore all things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you do ye even so to them for this is the law and the prophets
enter ye in at the strait gate for wide is the gate and broad is the way that leadeth to destruction and many there be which go in thereat
because strait is the gate and narrow is the way which leadeth unto life and few there be that find it
beware of false prophets which come to you in sheep's clothing but inwardly they are ravening wolves
ye shall know them by their fruits do men gather grapes of thorns or figs of thistles
even so every good tree bringeth forth good fruit but a corrupt tree bringeth forth evil fruit
a good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit neither can a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit
every tree that bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down and cast into the fire
wherefore by their fruits ye shall know them
not every one that saith unto me lord lord shall enter into the kingdom of heaven but he that doeth the will of my father which is in heaven
many will say to me in that day lord lord have we not prophesied in thy name and in thy name have cast out devils and in thy name done many wonderful works
and then will i profess unto them i never knew you depart from me ye that work iniquity
therefore whosoever heareth these sayings of mine and doeth them i will liken him unto a wise man which built his house upon a rock
and the rain descended and the floods came and the winds blew and beat upon that house and it fell not for it was founded upon a rock
and every one that heareth these sayings of mine and doeth them not shall be likened unto a foolish man which built his house upon the sand
and the rain descended and the floods came and the winds blew and beat upon that house and it fell and great was the fall of it
and it came to pass when jesus had ended these sayings the people were astonished at his doctrine
for he taught them as one having authority and not as the scribes
when he was come down from the mountain great multitudes followed him
and behold there came a leper and worshipped him saying lord if thou wilt thou canst make me clean
and jesus put forth his hand and touched him saying i will be thou clean and immediately his leprosy was cleansed
and jesus saith unto him see thou tell no man but go thy way shew thyself to the priest and offer the gift that moses commanded for a testimony unto them
and when jesus was entered into capernaum there came unto him a centurion beseeching him
and saying lord my servant lieth at home sick of the palsy grievously tormented
and jesus saith unto him i will come and heal him
the centurion answered and said lord i am not worthy that thou shouldest come under my roof but speak the word only and my servant shall be healed
for i am a man under authority having soldiers under me and i say to this man go and he goeth and to another come and he cometh and to my servant do this and he doeth it
when jesus heard it he marvelled and said to them that followed verily i say unto you i have not found so great faith no not in israel
and i say unto you that many shall come from the east and west and shall sit down with abraham and isaac and jacob in the kingdom of heaven
but the children of the kingdom shall be cast out into outer darkness there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth
and jesus said unto the centurion go thy way and as thou hast believed so be it done unto thee and his servant was healed in the selfsame hour
and when jesus was come into peter's house he saw his wife's mother laid and sick of a fever
and he touched her hand and the fever left her and she arose and ministered unto them
when the even was come they brought unto him many that were possessed with devils and he cast out the spirits with his word and healed all that were sick
that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by esaias the prophet saying himself took our infirmities and bare our sicknesses
now when jesus saw great multitudes about him he gave commandment to depart unto the other side
and a certain scribe came and said unto him master i will follow thee whithersoever thou goest
and jesus saith unto him the foxes have holes and the birds of the air have nests but the son of man hath not where to lay his head
and another of his disciples said unto him lord suffer me first to go and bury my father
but jesus said unto him follow me and let the dead bury their dead
and when he was entered into a ship his disciples followed him
and behold there arose a great tempest in the sea insomuch that the ship was covered with the waves but he was asleep
and his disciples came to him and awoke him saying lord save us we perish
and he saith unto them why are ye fearful o ye of little faith then he arose and rebuked the winds and the sea and there was a great calm
but the men marvelled saying what manner of man is this that even the winds and the sea obey him
and when he was come to the other side into the country of the gergesenes there met him two possessed with devils coming out of the tombs exceeding fierce so that no man might pass by that way
and behold they cried out saying what have we to do with thee jesus thou son of god art thou come hither to torment us before the time
and there was a good way off from them an herd of many swine feeding
so the devils besought him saying if thou cast us out suffer us to go away into the herd of swine
and he said unto them go and when they were come out they went into the herd of swine and behold the whole herd of swine ran violently down a steep place into the sea and perished in the waters
and they that kept them fled and went their ways into the city and told every thing and what was befallen to the possessed of the devils
and behold the whole city came out to meet jesus and when they saw him they besought him that he would depart out of their coasts
and he entered into a ship and passed over and came into his own city
and behold they brought to him a man sick of the palsy lying on a bed and jesus seeing their faith said unto the sick of the palsy son be of good cheer thy sins be forgiven thee
and behold certain of the scribes said within themselves this man blasphemeth
and jesus knowing their thoughts said wherefore think ye evil in your hearts
for whether is easier to say thy sins be forgiven thee or to say arise and walk
but that ye may know that the son of man hath power on earth to forgive sins then saith he to the sick of the palsy arise take up thy bed and go unto thine house
and he arose and departed to his house
but when the multitudes saw it they marvelled and glorified god which had given such power unto men
and as jesus passed forth from thence he saw a man named matthew sitting at the receipt of custom and he saith unto him follow me and he arose and followed him
and it came to pass as jesus sat at meat in the house behold many publicans and sinners came and sat down with him and his disciples
and when the pharisees saw it they said unto his disciples why eateth your master with publicans and sinners
but when jesus heard that he said unto them they that be whole need not a physician but they that are sick
but go ye and learn what that meaneth i will have mercy and not sacrifice for i am not come to call the righteous but sinners to repentance
then came to him the disciples of john saying why do we and the pharisees fast oft but thy disciples fast not
and jesus said unto them can the children of the bridechamber mourn as long as the bridegroom is with them but the days will come when the bridegroom shall be taken from them and then shall they fast
no man putteth a piece of new cloth unto an old garment for that which is put in to fill it up taketh from the garment and the rent is made worse
neither do men put new wine into old bottles else the bottles break and the wine runneth out and the bottles perish but they put new wine into new bottles and both are preserved
while he spake these things unto them behold there came a certain ruler and worshipped him saying my daughter is even now dead but come and lay thy hand upon her and she shall live
and jesus arose and followed him and so did his disciples
and behold a woman which was diseased with an issue of blood twelve years came behind him and touched the hem of his garment
for she said within herself if i may but touch his garment i shall be whole
but jesus turned him about and when he saw her he said daughter be of good comfort thy faith hath made thee whole and the woman was made whole from that hour
and when jesus came into the ruler's house and saw the minstrels and the people making a noise
he said unto them give place for the maid is not dead but sleepeth and they laughed him to scorn
but when the people were put forth he went in and took her by the hand and the maid arose
and the fame hereof went abroad into all that land
and when jesus departed thence two blind men followed him crying and saying thou son of david have mercy on us
and when he was come into the house the blind men came to him and jesus saith unto them believe ye that i am able to do this they said unto him yea lord
then touched he their eyes saying according to your faith be it unto you
and their eyes were opened and jesus straitly charged them saying see that no man know it
but they when they were departed spread abroad his fame in all that country
as they went out behold they brought to him a dumb man possessed with a devil
and when the devil was cast out the dumb spake and the multitudes marvelled saying it was never so seen in israel
but the pharisees said he casteth out devils through the prince of the devils
and jesus went about all the cities and villages teaching in their synagogues and preaching the gospel of the kingdom and healing every sickness and every disease among the people
but when he saw the multitudes he was moved with compassion on them because they fainted and were scattered abroad as sheep having no shepherd
then saith he unto his disciples the harvest truly is plenteous but the labourers are few
pray ye therefore the lord of the harvest that he will send forth labourers into his harvest
and when he had called unto him his twelve disciples he gave them power against unclean spirits to cast them out and to heal all manner of sickness and all manner of disease
now the names of the twelve apostles are these the first simon who is called peter and andrew his brother james the son of zebedee and john his brother
philip and bartholomew thomas and matthew the publican james the son of alphaeus and lebbaeus whose surname was thaddaeus
simon the canaanite and judas iscariot who also betrayed him
these twelve jesus sent forth and commanded them saying go not into the way of the gentiles and into any city of the samaritans enter ye not
but go rather to the lost sheep of the house of israel
and as ye go preach saying the kingdom of heaven is at hand
heal the sick cleanse the lepers raise the dead cast out devils freely ye have received freely give
provide neither gold nor silver nor brass in your purses
nor scrip for your journey neither two coats neither shoes nor yet staves for the workman is worthy of his meat
and into whatsoever city or town ye shall enter enquire who in it is worthy and there abide till ye go thence
and when ye come into an house salute it
and if the house be worthy let your peace come upon it but if it be not worthy let your peace return to you
and whosoever shall not receive you nor hear your words when ye depart out of that house or city shake off the dust of your feet
verily i say unto you it shall be more tolerable for the land of sodom and gomorrha in the day of judgment than for that city
behold i send you forth as sheep in the midst of wolves be ye therefore wise as serpents and harmless as doves
but beware of men for they will deliver you up to the councils and they will scourge you in their synagogues
and ye shall be brought before governors and kings for my sake for a testimony against them and the gentiles
but when they deliver you up take no thought how or what ye shall speak for it shall be given you in that same hour what ye shall speak
for it is not ye that speak but the spirit of your father which speaketh in you
and the brother shall deliver up the brother to death and the father the child and the children shall rise up against their parents and cause them to be put to death
and ye shall be hated of all men for my name's sake but he that endureth to the end shall be saved
but when they persecute you in this city flee ye into another for verily i say unto you ye shall not have gone over the cities of israel till the son of man be come
the disciple is not above his master nor the servant above his lord
it is enough for the disciple that he be as his master and the servant as his lord if they have called the master of the house beelzebub how much more shall they call them of his household
fear them not therefore for there is nothing covered that shall not be revealed and hid that shall not be known
what i tell you in darkness that speak ye in light and what ye hear in the ear that preach ye upon the housetops
and fear not them which kill the body but are not able to kill the soul but rather fear him which is able to destroy both soul and body in hell
are not two sparrows sold for a farthing and one of them shall not fall on the ground without your father
but the very hairs of your head are all numbered
fear ye not therefore ye are of more value than many sparrows
whosoever therefore shall confess me before men him will i confess also before my father which is in heaven
but whosoever shall deny me before men him will i also deny before my father which is in heaven
think not that i am come to send peace on earth i came not to send peace but a sword
for i am come to set a man at variance against his father and the daughter against her mother and the daughter in law against her mother in law
and a man's foes shall be they of his own household
he that loveth father or mother more than me is not worthy of me and he that loveth son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me
and he that taketh not his cross and followeth after me is not worthy of me
he that findeth his life shall lose it and he that loseth his life for my sake shall find it
he that receiveth you receiveth me and he that receiveth me receiveth him that sent me
he that receiveth a prophet in the name of a prophet shall receive a prophet's reward and he that receiveth a righteous man in the name of a righteous man shall receive a righteous man's reward
and whosoever shall give to drink unto one of these little ones a cup of cold water only in the name of a disciple verily i say unto you he shall in no wise lose his reward
and it came to pass when jesus had made an end of commanding his twelve disciples he departed thence to teach and to preach in their cities
now when john had heard in the prison the works of christ he sent two of his disciples
and said unto him art thou he that should come or do we look for another
jesus answered and said unto them go and shew john again those things which ye do hear and see
the blind receive their sight and the lame walk the lepers are cleansed and the deaf hear the dead are raised up and the poor have the gospel preached to them
and blessed is he whosoever shall not be offended in me
and as they departed jesus began to say unto the multitudes concerning john what went ye out into the wilderness to see a reed shaken with the wind
but what went ye out for to see a man clothed in soft raiment behold they that wear soft clothing are in kings houses
but what went ye out for to see a prophet yea i say unto you and more than a prophet
for this is he of whom it is written behold i send my messenger before thy face which shall prepare thy way before thee
verily i say unto you among them that are born of women there hath not risen a greater than john the baptist notwithstanding he that is least in the kingdom of heaven is greater than he
and from the days of john the baptist until now the kingdom of heaven suffereth violence and the violent take it by force
for all the prophets and the law prophesied until john
and if ye will receive it this is elias which was for to come
he that hath ears to hear let him hear
but whereunto shall i liken this generation it is like unto children sitting in the markets and calling unto their fellows
and saying we have piped unto you and ye have not danced we have mourned unto you and ye have not lamented
for john came neither eating nor drinking and they say he hath a devil
the son of man came eating and drinking and they say behold a man gluttonous and a winebibber a friend of publicans and sinners but wisdom is justified of her children
then began he to upbraid the cities wherein most of his mighty works were done because they repented not
woe unto thee chorazin woe unto thee bethsaida for if the mighty works which were done in you had been done in tyre and sidon they would have repented long ago in sackcloth and ashes
but i say unto you it shall be more tolerable for tyre and sidon at the day of judgment than for you
and thou capernaum which art exalted unto heaven shalt be brought down to hell for if the mighty works which have been done in thee had been done in sodom it would have remained until this day
but i say unto you that it shall be more tolerable for the land of sodom in the day of judgment than for thee
at that time jesus answered and said i thank thee o father lord of heaven and earth because thou hast hid these things from the wise and prudent and hast revealed them unto babes
even so father for so it seemed good in thy sight
all things are delivered unto me of my father and no man knoweth the son but the father neither knoweth any man the father save the son and he to whomsoever the son will reveal him
come unto me all ye that labour and are heavy laden and i will give you rest
take my yoke upon you and learn of me for i am meek and lowly in heart and ye shall find rest unto your souls
for my yoke is easy and my burden is light
at that time jesus went on the sabbath day through the corn and his disciples were an hungred and began to pluck the ears of corn and to eat
but when the pharisees saw it they said unto him behold thy disciples do that which is not lawful to do upon the sabbath day
but he said unto them have ye not read what david did when he was an hungred and they that were with him
how he entered into the house of god and did eat the shewbread which was not lawful for him to eat neither for them which were with him but only for the priests
or have ye not read in the law how that on the sabbath days the priests in the temple profane the sabbath and are blameless
but i say unto you that in this place is one greater than the temple
but if ye had known what this meaneth i will have mercy and not sacrifice ye would not have condemned the guiltless
for the son of man is lord even of the sabbath day
and when he was departed thence he went into their synagogue
and behold there was a man which had his hand withered and they asked him saying is it lawful to heal on the sabbath days that they might accuse him
and he said unto them what man shall there be among you that shall have one sheep and if it fall into a pit on the sabbath day will he not lay hold on it and lift it out
how much then is a man better than a sheep wherefore it is lawful to do well on the sabbath days
then saith he to the man stretch forth thine hand and he stretched it forth and it was restored whole like as the other
then the pharisees went out and held a council against him how they might destroy him
but when jesus knew it he withdrew himself from thence and great multitudes followed him and he healed them all
and charged them that they should not make him known
that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by esaias the prophet saying
behold my servant whom i have chosen my beloved in whom my soul is well pleased i will put my spirit upon him and he shall shew judgment to the gentiles
he shall not strive nor cry neither shall any man hear his voice in the streets
a bruised reed shall he not break and smoking flax shall he not quench till he send forth judgment unto victory
and in his name shall the gentiles trust
then was brought unto him one possessed with a devil blind and dumb and he healed him insomuch that the blind and dumb both spake and saw
and all the people were amazed and said is not this the son of david
but when the pharisees heard it they said this fellow doth not cast out devils but by beelzebub the prince of the devils
and jesus knew their thoughts and said unto them every kingdom divided against itself is brought to desolation and every city or house divided against itself shall not stand
and if satan cast out satan he is divided against himself how shall then his kingdom stand
and if i by beelzebub cast out devils by whom do your children cast them out therefore they shall be your judges
but if i cast out devils by the spirit of god then the kingdom of god is come unto you
or else how can one enter into a strong man's house and spoil his goods except he first bind the strong man and then he will spoil his house
he that is not with me is against me and he that gathereth not with me scattereth abroad
wherefore i say unto you all manner of sin and blasphemy shall be forgiven unto men but the blasphemy against the holy ghost shall not be forgiven unto men
and whosoever speaketh a word against the son of man it shall be forgiven him but whosoever speaketh against the holy ghost it shall not be forgiven him neither in this world neither in the world to come
either make the tree good and his fruit good or else make the tree corrupt and his fruit corrupt for the tree is known by his fruit
o generation of vipers how can ye being evil speak good things for out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh
a good man out of the good treasure of the heart bringeth forth good things and an evil man out of the evil treasure bringeth forth evil things
but i say unto you that every idle word that men shall speak they shall give account thereof in the day of judgment
for by thy words thou shalt be justified and by thy words thou shalt be condemned
then certain of the scribes and of the pharisees answered saying master we would see a sign from thee
but he answered and said unto them an evil and adulterous generation seeketh after a sign and there shall no sign be given to it but the sign of the prophet jonas
for as jonas was three days and three nights in the whale's belly so shall the son of man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth
the men of nineveh shall rise in judgment with this generation and shall condemn it because they repented at the preaching of jonas and behold a greater than jonas is here
the queen of the south shall rise up in the judgment with this generation and shall condemn it for she came from the uttermost parts of the earth to hear the wisdom of solomon and behold a greater than solomon is here
when the unclean spirit is gone out of a man he walketh through dry places seeking rest and findeth none
then he saith i will return into my house from whence i came out and when he is come he findeth it empty swept and garnished
then goeth he and taketh with himself seven other spirits more wicked than himself and they enter in and dwell there and the last state of that man is worse than the first even so shall it be also unto this wicked generation
while he yet talked to the people behold his mother and his brethren stood without desiring to speak with him
then one said unto him behold thy mother and thy brethren stand without desiring to speak with thee
but he answered and said unto him that told him who is my mother and who are my brethren
and he stretched forth his hand toward his disciples and said behold my mother and my brethren
for whosoever shall do the will of my father which is in heaven the same is my brother and sister and mother
the same day went jesus out of the house and sat by the sea side
and great multitudes were gathered together unto him so that he went into a ship and sat and the whole multitude stood on the shore
and he spake many things unto them in parables saying behold a sower went forth to sow
and when he sowed some seeds fell by the way side and the fowls came and devoured them up
some fell upon stony places where they had not much earth and forthwith they sprung up because they had no deepness of earth
and when the sun was up they were scorched and because they had no root they withered away
and some fell among thorns and the thorns sprung up and choked them
but other fell into good ground and brought forth fruit some an hundredfold some sixtyfold some thirtyfold
who hath ears to hear let him hear
and the disciples came and said unto him why speakest thou unto them in parables
he answered and said unto them because it is given unto you to know the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven but to them it is not given
for whosoever hath to him shall be given and he shall have more abundance but whosoever hath not from him shall be taken away even that he hath
therefore speak i to them in parables because they seeing see not and hearing they hear not neither do they understand
and in them is fulfilled the prophecy of esaias which saith by hearing ye shall hear and shall not understand and seeing ye shall see and shall not perceive
for this people's heart is waxed gross and their ears are dull of hearing and their eyes they have closed lest at any time they should see with their eyes and hear with their ears and should understand with their heart and should be converted and i should heal them
but blessed are your eyes for they see and your ears for they hear
for verily i say unto you that many prophets and righteous men have desired to see those things which ye see and have not seen them and to hear those things which ye hear and have not heard them
hear ye therefore the parable of the sower
when any one heareth the word of the kingdom and understandeth it not then cometh the wicked one and catcheth away that which was sown in his heart this is he which received seed by the way side
but he that received the seed into stony places the same is he that heareth the word and anon with joy receiveth it
yet hath he not root in himself but dureth for a while for when tribulation or persecution ariseth because of the word by and by he is offended
he also that received seed among the thorns is he that heareth the word and the care of this world and the deceitfulness of riches choke the word and he becometh unfruitful
but he that received seed into the good ground is he that heareth the word and understandeth it which also beareth fruit and bringeth forth some an hundredfold some sixty some thirty
another parable put he forth unto them saying the kingdom of heaven is likened unto a man which sowed good seed in his field
but while men slept his enemy came and sowed tares among the wheat and went his way
but when the blade was sprung up and brought forth fruit then appeared the tares also
so the servants of the householder came and said unto him sir didst not thou sow good seed in thy field from whence then hath it tares
he said unto them an enemy hath done this the servants said unto him wilt thou then that we go and gather them up
but he said nay lest while ye gather up the tares ye root up also the wheat with them
let both grow together until the harvest and in the time of harvest i will say to the reapers gather ye together first the tares and bind them in bundles to burn them but gather the wheat into my barn
another parable put he forth unto them saying the kingdom of heaven is like to a grain of mustard seed which a man took and sowed in his field
which indeed is the least of all seeds but when it is grown it is the greatest among herbs and becometh a tree so that the birds of the air come and lodge in the branches thereof
another parable spake he unto them the kingdom of heaven is like unto leaven which a woman took and hid in three measures of meal till the whole was leavened
all these things spake jesus unto the multitude in parables and without a parable spake he not unto them
that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the prophet saying i will open my mouth in parables i will utter things which have been kept secret from the foundation of the world
then jesus sent the multitude away and went into the house and his disciples came unto him saying declare unto us the parable of the tares of the field
he answered and said unto them he that soweth the good seed is the son of man
the field is the world the good seed are the children of the kingdom but the tares are the children of the wicked one
the enemy that sowed them is the devil the harvest is the end of the world and the reapers are the angels
as therefore the tares are gathered and burned in the fire so shall it be in the end of this world
the son of man shall send forth his angels and they shall gather out of his kingdom all things that offend and them which do iniquity
and shall cast them into a furnace of fire there shall be wailing and gnashing of teeth
then shall the righteous shine forth as the sun in the kingdom of their father who hath ears to hear let him hear
again the kingdom of heaven is like unto treasure hid in a field the which when a man hath found he hideth and for joy thereof goeth and selleth all that he hath and buyeth that field
again the kingdom of heaven is like unto a merchant man seeking goodly pearls
who when he had found one pearl of great price went and sold all that he had and bought it
again the kingdom of heaven is like unto a net that was cast into the sea and gathered of every kind
which when it was full they drew to shore and sat down and gathered the good into vessels but cast the bad away
so shall it be at the end of the world the angels shall come forth and sever the wicked from among the just
and shall cast them into the furnace of fire there shall be wailing and gnashing of teeth
jesus saith unto them have ye understood all these things they say unto him yea lord
then said he unto them therefore every scribe which is instructed unto the kingdom of heaven is like unto a man that is an householder which bringeth forth out of his treasure things new and old
and it came to pass that when jesus had finished these parables he departed thence
and when he was come into his own country he taught them in their synagogue insomuch that they were astonished and said whence hath this man this wisdom and these mighty works
is not this the carpenter's son is not his mother called mary and his brethren james and joses and simon and judas
and his sisters are they not all with us whence then hath this man all these things
and they were offended in him but jesus said unto them a prophet is not without honour save in his own country and in his own house
and he did not many mighty works there because of their unbelief
at that time herod the tetrarch heard of the fame of jesus
and said unto his servants this is john the baptist he is risen from the dead and therefore mighty works do shew forth themselves in him
for herod had laid hold on john and bound him and put him in prison for herodias sake his brother philip's wife
for john said unto him it is not lawful for thee to have her
and when he would have put him to death he feared the multitude because they counted him as a prophet
but when herod's birthday was kept the daughter of herodias danced before them and pleased herod
whereupon he promised with an oath to give her whatsoever she would ask
and she being before instructed of her mother said give me here john baptist's head in a charger
and the king was sorry nevertheless for the oath's sake and them which sat with him at meat he commanded it to be given her
and he sent and beheaded john in the prison
and his head was brought in a charger and given to the damsel and she brought it to her mother
and his disciples came and took up the body and buried it and went and told jesus
when jesus heard of it he departed thence by ship into a desert place apart and when the people had heard thereof they followed him on foot out of the cities
and jesus went forth and saw a great multitude and was moved with compassion toward them and he healed their sick
and when it was evening his disciples came to him saying this is a desert place and the time is now past send the multitude away that they may go into the villages and buy themselves victuals
but jesus said unto them they need not depart give ye them to eat
and they say unto him we have here but five loaves and two fishes
he said bring them hither to me
and he commanded the multitude to sit down on the grass and took the five loaves and the two fishes and looking up to heaven he blessed and brake and gave the loaves to his disciples and the disciples to the multitude
and they did all eat and were filled and they took up of the fragments that remained twelve baskets full
and they that had eaten were about five thousand men beside women and children
and straightway jesus constrained his disciples to get into a ship and to go before him unto the other side while he sent the multitudes away
and when he had sent the multitudes away he went up into a mountain apart to pray and when the evening was come he was there alone
but the ship was now in the midst of the sea tossed with waves for the wind was contrary
and in the fourth watch of the night jesus went unto them walking on the sea
and when the disciples saw him walking on the sea they were troubled saying it is a spirit and they cried out for fear
but straightway jesus spake unto them saying be of good cheer it is i be not afraid
and peter answered him and said lord if it be thou bid me come unto thee on the water
and he said come and when peter was come down out of the ship he walked on the water to go to jesus
but when he saw the wind boisterous he was afraid and beginning to sink he cried saying lord save me
and immediately jesus stretched forth his hand and caught him and said unto him o thou of little faith wherefore didst thou doubt
and when they were come into the ship the wind ceased
then they that were in the ship came and worshipped him saying of a truth thou art the son of god
and when they were gone over they came into the land of gennesaret
and when the men of that place had knowledge of him they sent out into all that country round about and brought unto him all that were diseased
and besought him that they might only touch the hem of his garment and as many as touched were made perfectly whole
then came to jesus scribes and pharisees which were of jerusalem saying
why do thy disciples transgress the tradition of the elders for they wash not their hands when they eat bread
but he answered and said unto them why do ye also transgress the commandment of god by your tradition
for god commanded saying honour thy father and mother and he that curseth father or mother let him die the death
but ye say whosoever shall say to his father or his mother it is a gift by whatsoever thou mightest be profited by me
and honour not his father or his mother he shall be free thus have ye made the commandment of god of none effect by your tradition
ye hypocrites well did esaias prophesy of you saying
this people draweth nigh unto me with their mouth and honoureth me with their lips but their heart is far from me
but in vain they do worship me teaching for doctrines the commandments of men
and he called the multitude and said unto them hear and understand
not that which goeth into the mouth defileth a man but that which cometh out of the mouth this defileth a man
then came his disciples and said unto him knowest thou that the pharisees were offended after they heard this saying
but he answered and said every plant which my heavenly father hath not planted shall be rooted up
let them alone they be blind leaders of the blind and if the blind lead the blind both shall fall into the ditch
then answered peter and said unto him declare unto us this parable
and jesus said are ye also yet without understanding
do not ye yet understand that whatsoever entereth in at the mouth goeth into the belly and is cast out into the draught
but those things which proceed out of the mouth come forth from the heart and they defile the man
for out of the heart proceed evil thoughts murders adulteries fornications thefts false witness blasphemies
these are the things which defile a man but to eat with unwashen hands defileth not a man
then jesus went thence and departed into the coasts of tyre and sidon
and behold a woman of canaan came out of the same coasts and cried unto him saying have mercy on me o lord thou son of david my daughter is grievously vexed with a devil
but he answered her not a word and his disciples came and besought him saying send her away for she crieth after us
but he answered and said i am not sent but unto the lost sheep of the house of israel
then came she and worshipped him saying lord help me
but he answered and said it is not meet to take the children's bread and to cast it to dogs
and she said truth lord yet the dogs eat of the crumbs which fall from their masters table
then jesus answered and said unto her o woman great is thy faith be it unto thee even as thou wilt and her daughter was made whole from that very hour
and jesus departed from thence and came nigh unto the sea of galilee and went up into a mountain and sat down there
and great multitudes came unto him having with them those that were lame blind dumb maimed and many others and cast them down at jesus feet and he healed them
insomuch that the multitude wondered when they saw the dumb to speak the maimed to be whole the lame to walk and the blind to see and they glorified the god of israel
then jesus called his disciples unto him and said i have compassion on the multitude because they continue with me now three days and have nothing to eat and i will not send them away fasting lest they faint in the way
and his disciples say unto him whence should we have so much bread in the wilderness as to fill so great a multitude
and jesus saith unto them how many loaves have ye and they said seven and a few little fishes
and he commanded the multitude to sit down on the ground
and he took the seven loaves and the fishes and gave thanks and brake them and gave to his disciples and the disciples to the multitude
and they did all eat and were filled and they took up of the broken meat that was left seven baskets full
and they that did eat were four thousand men beside women and children
and he sent away the multitude and took ship and came into the coasts of magdala
the pharisees also with the sadducees came and tempting desired him that he would shew them a sign from heaven
he answered and said unto them when it is evening ye say it will be fair weather for the sky is red
and in the morning it will be foul weather to day for the sky is red and lowring o ye hypocrites ye can discern the face of the sky but can ye not discern the signs of the times
a wicked and adulterous generation seeketh after a sign and there shall no sign be given unto it but the sign of the prophet jonas and he left them and departed
and when his disciples were come to the other side they had forgotten to take bread
then jesus said unto them take heed and beware of the leaven of the pharisees and of the sadducees
and they reasoned among themselves saying it is because we have taken no bread
which when jesus perceived he said unto them o ye of little faith why reason ye among yourselves because ye have brought no bread
do ye not yet understand neither remember the five loaves of the five thousand and how many baskets ye took up
neither the seven loaves of the four thousand and how many baskets ye took up
how is it that ye do not understand that i spake it not to you concerning bread that ye should beware of the leaven of the pharisees and of the sadducees
then understood they how that he bade them not beware of the leaven of bread but of the doctrine of the pharisees and of the sadducees
when jesus came into the coasts of caesarea philippi he asked his disciples saying whom do men say that i the son of man am
and they said some say that thou art john the baptist some elias and others jeremias or one of the prophets
he saith unto them but whom say ye that i am
and simon peter answered and said thou art the christ the son of the living god
and jesus answered and said unto him blessed art thou simon barjona for flesh and blood hath not revealed it unto thee but my father which is in heaven
and i say also unto thee that thou art peter and upon this rock i will build my church and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it
and i will give unto thee the keys of the kingdom of heaven and whatsoever thou shalt bind on earth shall be bound in heaven and whatsoever thou shalt loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven
then charged he his disciples that they should tell no man that he was jesus the christ
from that time forth began jesus to shew unto his disciples how that he must go unto jerusalem and suffer many things of the elders and chief priests and scribes and be killed and be raised again the third day
then peter took him and began to rebuke him saying be it far from thee lord this shall not be unto thee
but he turned and said unto peter get thee behind me satan thou art an offence unto me for thou savourest not the things that be of god but those that be of men
then said jesus unto his disciples if any man will come after me let him deny himself and take up his cross and follow me
for whosoever will save his life shall lose it and whosoever will lose his life for my sake shall find it
for what is a man profited if he shall gain the whole world and lose his own soul or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul
for the son of man shall come in the glory of his father with his angels and then he shall reward every man according to his works
verily i say unto you there be some standing here which shall not taste of death till they see the son of man coming in his kingdom
and after six days jesus taketh peter james and john his brother and bringeth them up into an high mountain apart
and was transfigured before them and his face did shine as the sun and his raiment was white as the light
and behold there appeared unto them moses and elias talking with him
then answered peter and said unto jesus lord it is good for us to be here if thou wilt let us make here three tabernacles one for thee and one for moses and one for elias
while he yet spake behold a bright cloud overshadowed them and behold a voice out of the cloud which said this is my beloved son in whom i am well pleased hear ye him
and when the disciples heard it they fell on their face and were sore afraid
and jesus came and touched them and said arise and be not afraid
and when they had lifted up their eyes they saw no man save jesus only
and as they came down from the mountain jesus charged them saying tell the vision to no man until the son of man be risen again from the dead
and his disciples asked him saying why then say the scribes that elias must first come
and jesus answered and said unto them elias truly shall first come and restore all things
but i say unto you that elias is come already and they knew him not but have done unto him whatsoever they listed likewise shall also the son of man suffer of them
then the disciples understood that he spake unto them of john the baptist
and when they were come to the multitude there came to him a certain man kneeling down to him and saying
lord have mercy on my son for he is lunatick and sore vexed for ofttimes he falleth into the fire and oft into the water
and i brought him to thy disciples and they could not cure him
then jesus answered and said o faithless and perverse generation how long shall i be with you how long shall i suffer you bring him hither to me
and jesus rebuked the devil and he departed out of him and the child was cured from that very hour
then came the disciples to jesus apart and said why could not we cast him out
and jesus said unto them because of your unbelief for verily i say unto you if ye have faith as a grain of mustard seed ye shall say unto this mountain remove hence to yonder place and it shall remove and nothing shall be impossible unto you
howbeit this kind goeth not out but by prayer and fasting
and while they abode in galilee jesus said unto them the son of man shall be betrayed into the hands of men
and they shall kill him and the third day he shall be raised again and they were exceeding sorry
and when they were come to capernaum they that received tribute money came to peter and said doth not your master pay tribute
he saith yes and when he was come into the house jesus prevented him saying what thinkest thou simon of whom do the kings of the earth take custom or tribute of their own children or of strangers
peter saith unto him of strangers jesus saith unto him then are the children free
notwithstanding lest we should offend them go thou to the sea and cast an hook and take up the fish that first cometh up and when thou hast opened his mouth thou shalt find a piece of money that take and give unto them for me and thee
at the same time came the disciples unto jesus saying who is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven
and jesus called a little child unto him and set him in the midst of them
and said verily i say unto you except ye be converted and become as little children ye shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven
whosoever therefore shall humble himself as this little child the same is greatest in the kingdom of heaven
and whoso shall receive one such little child in my name receiveth me
but whoso shall offend one of these little ones which believe in me it were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck and that he were drowned in the depth of the sea
woe unto the world because of offences for it must needs be that offences come but woe to that man by whom the offence cometh
wherefore if thy hand or thy foot offend thee cut them off and cast them from thee it is better for thee to enter into life halt or maimed rather than having two hands or two feet to be cast into everlasting fire
and if thine eye offend thee pluck it out and cast it from thee it is better for thee to enter into life with one eye rather than having two eyes to be cast into hell fire
take heed that ye despise not one of these little ones for i say unto you that in heaven their angels do always behold the face of my father which is in heaven
for the son of man is come to save that which was lost
how think ye if a man have an hundred sheep and one of them be gone astray doth he not leave the ninety and nine and goeth into the mountains and seeketh that which is gone astray
and if so be that he find it verily i say unto you he rejoiceth more of that sheep than of the ninety and nine which went not astray
even so it is not the will of your father which is in heaven that one of these little ones should perish
moreover if thy brother shall trespass against thee go and tell him his fault between thee and him alone if he shall hear thee thou hast gained thy brother
but if he will not hear thee then take with thee one or two more that in the mouth of two or three witnesses every word may be established
and if he shall neglect to hear them tell it unto the church but if he neglect to hear the church let him be unto thee as an heathen man and a publican
verily i say unto you whatsoever ye shall bind on earth shall be bound in heaven and whatsoever ye shall loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven
again i say unto you that if two of you shall agree on earth as touching any thing that they shall ask it shall be done for them of my father which is in heaven
for where two or three are gathered together in my name there am i in the midst of them
then came peter to him and said lord how oft shall my brother sin against me and i forgive him till seven times
jesus saith unto him i say not unto thee until seven times but until seventy times seven
therefore is the kingdom of heaven likened unto a certain king which would take account of his servants
and when he had begun to reckon one was brought unto him which owed him ten thousand talents
but forasmuch as he had not to pay his lord commanded him to be sold and his wife and children and all that he had and payment to be made
the servant therefore fell down and worshipped him saying lord have patience with me and i will pay thee all
then the lord of that servant was moved with compassion and loosed him and forgave him the debt
but the same servant went out and found one of his fellowservants which owed him an hundred pence and he laid hands on him and took him by the throat saying pay me that thou owest
and his fellowservant fell down at his feet and besought him saying have patience with me and i will pay thee all
and he would not but went and cast him into prison till he should pay the debt
so when his fellowservants saw what was done they were very sorry and came and told unto their lord all that was done
then his lord after that he had called him said unto him o thou wicked servant i forgave thee all that debt because thou desiredst me
shouldest not thou also have had compassion on thy fellowservant even as i had pity on thee
and his lord was wroth and delivered him to the tormentors till he should pay all that was due unto him
so likewise shall my heavenly father do also unto you if ye from your hearts forgive not every one his brother their trespasses
and it came to pass that when jesus had finished these sayings he departed from galilee and came into the coasts of judaea beyond jordan
and great multitudes followed him and he healed them there
the pharisees also came unto him tempting him and saying unto him is it lawful for a man to put away his wife for every cause
and he answered and said unto them have ye not read that he which made them at the beginning made them male and female
and said for this cause shall a man leave father and mother and shall cleave to his wife and they twain shall be one flesh
wherefore they are no more twain but one flesh what therefore god hath joined together let not man put asunder
they say unto him why did moses then command to give a writing of divorcement and to put her away
he saith unto them moses because of the hardness of your hearts suffered you to put away your wives but from the beginning it was not so
and i say unto you whosoever shall put away his wife except it be for fornication and shall marry another committeth adultery and whoso marrieth her which is put away doth commit adultery
his disciples say unto him if the case of the man be so with his wife it is not good to marry
but he said unto them all men cannot receive this saying save they to whom it is given
for there are some eunuchs which were so born from their mother's womb and there are some eunuchs which were made eunuchs of men and there be eunuchs which have made themselves eunuchs for the kingdom of heaven's sake he that is able to receive it let him receive it
then were there brought unto him little children that he should put his hands on them and pray and the disciples rebuked them
but jesus said suffer little children and forbid them not to come unto me for of such is the kingdom of heaven
and he laid his hands on them and departed thence
and behold one came and said unto him good master what good thing shall i do that i may have eternal life
and he said unto him why callest thou me good there is none good but one that is god but if thou wilt enter into life keep the commandments
he saith unto him which jesus said thou shalt do no murder thou shalt not commit adultery thou shalt not steal thou shalt not bear false witness
honour thy father and thy mother and thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself
the young man saith unto him all these things have i kept from my youth up what lack i yet
jesus said unto him if thou wilt be perfect go and sell that thou hast and give to the poor and thou shalt have treasure in heaven and come and follow me
but when the young man heard that saying he went away sorrowful for he had great possessions
then said jesus unto his disciples verily i say unto you that a rich man shall hardly enter into the kingdom of heaven
and again i say unto you it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of god
when his disciples heard it they were exceedingly amazed saying who then can be saved
but jesus beheld them and said unto them with men this is impossible but with god all things are possible
then answered peter and said unto him behold we have forsaken all and followed thee what shall we have therefore
and jesus said unto them verily i say unto you that ye which have followed me in the regeneration when the son of man shall sit in the throne of his glory ye also shall sit upon twelve thrones judging the twelve tribes of israel
and every one that hath forsaken houses or brethren or sisters or father or mother or wife or children or lands for my name's sake shall receive an hundredfold and shall inherit everlasting life
but many that are first shall be last and the last shall be first
for the kingdom of heaven is like unto a man that is an householder which went out early in the morning to hire labourers into his vineyard
and when he had agreed with the labourers for a penny a day he sent them into his vineyard
and he went out about the third hour and saw others standing idle in the marketplace
and said unto them go ye also into the vineyard and whatsoever is right i will give you and they went their way
again he went out about the sixth and ninth hour and did likewise
and about the eleventh hour he went out and found others standing idle and saith unto them why stand ye here all the day idle
they say unto him because no man hath hired us he saith unto them go ye also into the vineyard and whatsoever is right that shall ye receive
so when even was come the lord of the vineyard saith unto his steward call the labourers and give them their hire beginning from the last unto the first
and when they came that were hired about the eleventh hour they received every man a penny
but when the first came they supposed that they should have received more and they likewise received every man a penny
and when they had received it they murmured against the goodman of the house
saying these last have wrought but one hour and thou hast made them equal unto us which have borne the burden and heat of the day
but he answered one of them and said friend i do thee no wrong didst not thou agree with me for a penny
take that thine is and go thy way i will give unto this last even as unto thee
is it not lawful for me to do what i will with mine own is thine eye evil because i am good
so the last shall be first and the first last for many be called but few chosen
and jesus going up to jerusalem took the twelve disciples apart in the way and said unto them
behold we go up to jerusalem and the son of man shall be betrayed unto the chief priests and unto the scribes and they shall condemn him to death
and shall deliver him to the gentiles to mock and to scourge and to crucify him and the third day he shall rise again
then came to him the mother of zebedee's children with her sons worshipping him and desiring a certain thing of him
and he said unto her what wilt thou she saith unto him grant that these my two sons may sit the one on thy right hand and the other on the left in thy kingdom
but jesus answered and said ye know not what ye ask are ye able to drink of the cup that i shall drink of and to be baptized with the baptism that i am baptized with they say unto him we are able
and he saith unto them ye shall drink indeed of my cup and be baptized with the baptism that i am baptized with but to sit on my right hand and on my left is not mine to give but it shall be given to them for whom it is prepared of my father
and when the ten heard it they were moved with indignation against the two brethren
but jesus called them unto him and said ye know that the princes of the gentiles exercise dominion over them and they that are great exercise authority upon them
but it shall not be so among you but whosoever will be great among you let him be your minister
and whosoever will be chief among you let him be your servant
even as the son of man came not to be ministered unto but to minister and to give his life a ransom for many
and as they departed from jericho a great multitude followed him
and behold two blind men sitting by the way side when they heard that jesus passed by cried out saying have mercy on us o lord thou son of david
and the multitude rebuked them because they should hold their peace but they cried the more saying have mercy on us o lord thou son of david
and jesus stood still and called them and said what will ye that i shall do unto you
they say unto him lord that our eyes may be opened
so jesus had compassion on them and touched their eyes and immediately their eyes received sight and they followed him
and when they drew nigh unto jerusalem and were come to bethphage unto the mount of olives then sent jesus two disciples
saying unto them go into the village over against you and straightway ye shall find an ass tied and a colt with her loose them and bring them unto me
and if any man say ought unto you ye shall say the lord hath need of them and straightway he will send them
all this was done that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the prophet saying
tell ye the daughter of sion behold thy king cometh unto thee meek and sitting upon an ass and a colt the foal of an ass
and the disciples went and did as jesus commanded them
and brought the ass and the colt and put on them their clothes and they set him thereon
and a very great multitude spread their garments in the way others cut down branches from the trees and strawed them in the way
and the multitudes that went before and that followed cried saying hosanna to the son of david blessed is he that cometh in the name of the lord hosanna in the highest
and when he was come into jerusalem all the city was moved saying who is this
and the multitude said this is jesus the prophet of nazareth of galilee
and jesus went into the temple of god and cast out all them that sold and bought in the temple and overthrew the tables of the moneychangers and the seats of them that sold doves
and said unto them it is written my house shall be called the house of prayer but ye have made it a den of thieves
and the blind and the lame came to him in the temple and he healed them
and when the chief priests and scribes saw the wonderful things that he did and the children crying in the temple and saying hosanna to the son of david they were sore displeased
and said unto him hearest thou what these say and jesus saith unto them yea have ye never read out of the mouth of babes and sucklings thou hast perfected praise
and he left them and went out of the city into bethany and he lodged there
now in the morning as he returned into the city he hungered
and when he saw a fig tree in the way he came to it and found nothing thereon but leaves only and said unto it let no fruit grow on thee henceforward for ever and presently the fig tree withered away
and when the disciples saw it they marvelled saying how soon is the fig tree withered away
jesus answered and said unto them verily i say unto you if ye have faith and doubt not ye shall not only do this which is done to the fig tree but also if ye shall say unto this mountain be thou removed and be thou cast into the sea it shall be done
and all things whatsoever ye shall ask in prayer believing ye shall receive
and when he was come into the temple the chief priests and the elders of the people came unto him as he was teaching and said by what authority doest thou these things and who gave thee this authority
and jesus answered and said unto them i also will ask you one thing which if ye tell me i in like wise will tell you by what authority i do these things
the baptism of john whence was it from heaven or of men and they reasoned with themselves saying if we shall say from heaven he will say unto us why did ye not then believe him
but if we shall say of men we fear the people for all hold john as a prophet
and they answered jesus and said we cannot tell and he said unto them neither tell i you by what authority i do these things
but what think ye a certain man had two sons and he came to the first and said son go work to day in my vineyard
he answered and said i will not but afterward he repented and went
and he came to the second and said likewise and he answered and said i go sir and went not
whether of them twain did the will of his father they say unto him the first jesus saith unto them verily i say unto you that the publicans and the harlots go into the kingdom of god before you
for john came unto you in the way of righteousness and ye believed him not but the publicans and the harlots believed him and ye when ye had seen it repented not afterward that ye might believe him
hear another parable there was a certain householder which planted a vineyard and hedged it round about and digged a winepress in it and built a tower and let it out to husbandmen and went into a far country
and when the time of the fruit drew near he sent his servants to the husbandmen that they might receive the fruits of it
and the husbandmen took his servants and beat one and killed another and stoned another
again he sent other servants more than the first and they did unto them likewise
but last of all he sent unto them his son saying they will reverence my son
but when the husbandmen saw the son they said among themselves this is the heir come let us kill him and let us seize on his inheritance
and they caught him and cast him out of the vineyard and slew him
when the lord therefore of the vineyard cometh what will he do unto those husbandmen
they say unto him he will miserably destroy those wicked men and will let out his vineyard unto other husbandmen which shall render him the fruits in their seasons
jesus saith unto them did ye never read in the scriptures the stone which the builders rejected the same is become the head of the corner this is the lord's doing and it is marvellous in our eyes
therefore say i unto you the kingdom of god shall be taken from you and given to a nation bringing forth the fruits thereof
and whosoever shall fall on this stone shall be broken but on whomsoever it shall fall it will grind him to powder
and when the chief priests and pharisees had heard his parables they perceived that he spake of them
but when they sought to lay hands on him they feared the multitude because they took him for a prophet
and jesus answered and spake unto them again by parables and said
the kingdom of heaven is like unto a certain king which made a marriage for his son
and sent forth his servants to call them that were bidden to the wedding and they would not come
again he sent forth other servants saying tell them which are bidden behold i have prepared my dinner my oxen and my fatlings are killed and all things are ready come unto the marriage
but they made light of it and went their ways one to his farm another to his merchandise
and the remnant took his servants and entreated them spitefully and slew them
but when the king heard thereof he was wroth and he sent forth his armies and destroyed those murderers and burned up their city
then saith he to his servants the wedding is ready but they which were bidden were not worthy
go ye therefore into the highways and as many as ye shall find bid to the marriage
so those servants went out into the highways and gathered together all as many as they found both bad and good and the wedding was furnished with guests
and when the king came in to see the guests he saw there a man which had not on a wedding garment
and he saith unto him friend how camest thou in hither not having a wedding garment and he was speechless
then said the king to the servants bind him hand and foot and take him away and cast him into outer darkness there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth
for many are called but few are chosen
then went the pharisees and took counsel how they might entangle him in his talk
and they sent out unto him their disciples with the herodians saying master we know that thou art true and teachest the way of god in truth neither carest thou for any man for thou regardest not the person of men
tell us therefore what thinkest thou is it lawful to give tribute unto caesar or not
but jesus perceived their wickedness and said why tempt ye me ye hypocrites
shew me the tribute money and they brought unto him a penny
and he saith unto them whose is this image and superscription
they say unto him caesar's then saith he unto them render therefore unto caesar the things which are caesar's and unto god the things that are god's
when they had heard these words they marvelled and left him and went their way
the same day came to him the sadducees which say that there is no resurrection and asked him
saying master moses said if a man die having no children his brother shall marry his wife and raise up seed unto his brother
now there were with us seven brethren and the first when he had married a wife deceased and having no issue left his wife unto his brother
likewise the second also and the third unto the seventh
and last of all the woman died also
therefore in the resurrection whose wife shall she be of the seven for they all had her
jesus answered and said unto them ye do err not knowing the scriptures nor the power of god
for in the resurrection they neither marry nor are given in marriage but are as the angels of god in heaven
but as touching the resurrection of the dead have ye not read that which was spoken unto you by god saying
i am the god of abraham and the god of isaac and the god of jacob god is not the god of the dead but of the living
and when the multitude heard this they were astonished at his doctrine
but when the pharisees had heard that he had put the sadducees to silence they were gathered together
then one of them which was a lawyer asked him a question tempting him and saying
master which is the great commandment in the law
jesus said unto him thou shalt love the lord thy god with all thy heart and with all thy soul and with all thy mind
this is the first and great commandment
and the second is like unto it thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself
on these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets
while the pharisees were gathered together jesus asked them
saying what think ye of christ whose son is he they say unto him the son of david
he saith unto them how then doth david in spirit call him lord saying
the lord said unto my lord sit thou on my right hand till i make thine enemies thy footstool
if david then call him lord how is he his son
and no man was able to answer him a word neither durst any man from that day forth ask him any more questions
then spake jesus to the multitude and to his disciples
saying the scribes and the pharisees sit in moses seat
all therefore whatsoever they bid you observe that observe and do but do not ye after their works for they say and do not
for they bind heavy burdens and grievous to be borne and lay them on men's shoulders but they themselves will not move them with one of their fingers
but all their works they do for to be seen of men they make broad their phylacteries and enlarge the borders of their garments
and love the uppermost rooms at feasts and the chief seats in the synagogues
and greetings in the markets and to be called of men rabbi rabbi
but be not ye called rabbi for one is your master even christ and all ye are brethren
and call no man your father upon the earth for one is your father which is in heaven
neither be ye called masters for one is your master even christ
but he that is greatest among you shall be your servant
and whosoever shall exalt himself shall be abased and he that shall humble himself shall be exalted
but woe unto you scribes and pharisees hypocrites for ye shut up the kingdom of heaven against men for ye neither go in yourselves neither suffer ye them that are entering to go in
woe unto you scribes and pharisees hypocrites for ye devour widows houses and for a pretence make long prayer therefore ye shall receive the greater damnation
woe unto you scribes and pharisees hypocrites for ye compass sea and land to make one proselyte and when he is made ye make him twofold more the child of hell than yourselves
woe unto you ye blind guides which say whosoever shall swear by the temple it is nothing but whosoever shall swear by the gold of the temple he is a debtor
ye fools and blind for whether is greater the gold or the temple that sanctifieth the gold
and whosoever shall swear by the altar it is nothing but whosoever sweareth by the gift that is upon it he is guilty
ye fools and blind for whether is greater the gift or the altar that sanctifieth the gift
whoso therefore shall swear by the altar sweareth by it and by all things thereon
and whoso shall swear by the temple sweareth by it and by him that dwelleth therein
and he that shall swear by heaven sweareth by the throne of god and by him that sitteth thereon
woe unto you scribes and pharisees hypocrites for ye pay tithe of mint and anise and cummin and have omitted the weightier matters of the law judgment mercy and faith these ought ye to have done and not to leave the other undone
ye blind guides which strain at a gnat and swallow a camel
woe unto you scribes and pharisees hypocrites for ye make clean the outside of the cup and of the platter but within they are full of extortion and excess
thou blind pharisee cleanse first that which is within the cup and platter that the outside of them may be clean also
woe unto you scribes and pharisees hypocrites for ye are like unto whited sepulchres which indeed appear beautiful outward but are within full of dead men's bones and of all uncleanness
even so ye also outwardly appear righteous unto men but within ye are full of hypocrisy and iniquity
woe unto you scribes and pharisees hypocrites because ye build the tombs of the prophets and garnish the sepulchres of the righteous
and say if we had been in the days of our fathers we would not have been partakers with them in the blood of the prophets
wherefore ye be witnesses unto yourselves that ye are the children of them which killed the prophets
fill ye up then the measure of your fathers
ye serpents ye generation of vipers how can ye escape the damnation of hell
wherefore behold i send unto you prophets and wise men and scribes and some of them ye shall kill and crucify and some of them shall ye scourge in your synagogues and persecute them from city to city
that upon you may come all the righteous blood shed upon the earth from the blood of righteous abel unto the blood of zacharias son of barachias whom ye slew between the temple and the altar
verily i say unto you all these things shall come upon this generation
o jerusalem jerusalem thou that killest the prophets and stonest them which are sent unto thee how often would i have gathered thy children together even as a hen gathereth her chickens under her wings and ye would not
behold your house is left unto you desolate
for i say unto you ye shall not see me henceforth till ye shall say blessed is he that cometh in the name of the lord
and jesus went out and departed from the temple and his disciples came to him for to shew him the buildings of the temple
and jesus said unto them see ye not all these things verily i say unto you there shall not be left here one stone upon another that shall not be thrown down
and as he sat upon the mount of olives the disciples came unto him privately saying tell us when shall these things be and what shall be the sign of thy coming and of the end of the world
and jesus answered and said unto them take heed that no man deceive you
for many shall come in my name saying i am christ and shall deceive many
and ye shall hear of wars and rumours of wars see that ye be not troubled for all these things must come to pass but the end is not yet
for nation shall rise against nation and kingdom against kingdom and there shall be famines and pestilences and earthquakes in divers places
all these are the beginning of sorrows
then shall they deliver you up to be afflicted and shall kill you and ye shall be hated of all nations for my name's sake
and then shall many be offended and shall betray one another and shall hate one another
and many false prophets shall rise and shall deceive many
and because iniquity shall abound the love of many shall wax cold
but he that shall endure unto the end the same shall be saved
and this gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in all the world for a witness unto all nations and then shall the end come
when ye therefore shall see the abomination of desolation spoken of by daniel the prophet stand in the holy place whoso readeth let him understand
then let them which be in judaea flee into the mountains
let him which is on the housetop not come down to take any thing out of his house
neither let him which is in the field return back to take his clothes
and woe unto them that are with child and to them that give suck in those days
but pray ye that your flight be not in the winter neither on the sabbath day
for then shall be great tribulation such as was not since the beginning of the world to this time no nor ever shall be
and except those days should be shortened there should no flesh be saved but for the elect's sake those days shall be shortened
then if any man shall say unto you lo here is christ or there believe it not
for there shall arise false christs and false prophets and shall shew great signs and wonders insomuch that if it were possible they shall deceive the very elect
behold i have told you before
wherefore if they shall say unto you behold he is in the desert go not forth behold he is in the secret chambers believe it not
for as the lightning cometh out of the east and shineth even unto the west so shall also the coming of the son of man be
for wheresoever the carcase is there will the eagles be gathered together
immediately after the tribulation of those days shall the sun be darkened and the moon shall not give her light and the stars shall fall from heaven and the powers of the heavens shall be shaken
and then shall appear the sign of the son of man in heaven and then shall all the tribes of the earth mourn and they shall see the son of man coming in the clouds of heaven with power and great glory
and he shall send his angels with a great sound of a trumpet and they shall gather together his elect from the four winds from one end of heaven to the other
now learn a parable of the fig tree when his branch is yet tender and putteth forth leaves ye know that summer is nigh
so likewise ye when ye shall see all these things know that it is near even at the doors
verily i say unto you this generation shall not pass till all these things be fulfilled
heaven and earth shall pass away but my words shall not pass away
but of that day and hour knoweth no man no not the angels of heaven but my father only
but as the days of noe were so shall also the coming of the son of man be
for as in the days that were before the flood they were eating and drinking marrying and giving in marriage until the day that noe entered into the ark
and knew not until the flood came and took them all away so shall also the coming of the son of man be
then shall two be in the field the one shall be taken and the other left
two women shall be grinding at the mill the one shall be taken and the other left
watch therefore for ye know not what hour your lord doth come
but know this that if the goodman of the house had known in what watch the thief would come he would have watched and would not have suffered his house to be broken up
therefore be ye also ready for in such an hour as ye think not the son of man cometh
who then is a faithful and wise servant whom his lord hath made ruler over his household to give them meat in due season
blessed is that servant whom his lord when he cometh shall find so doing
verily i say unto you that he shall make him ruler over all his goods
but and if that evil servant shall say in his heart my lord delayeth his coming
and shall begin to smite his fellowservants and to eat and drink with the drunken
the lord of that servant shall come in a day when he looketh not for him and in an hour that he is not aware of
and shall cut him asunder and appoint him his portion with the hypocrites there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth
then shall the kingdom of heaven be likened unto ten virgins which took their lamps and went forth to meet the bridegroom
and five of them were wise and five were foolish
they that were foolish took their lamps and took no oil with them
but the wise took oil in their vessels with their lamps
while the bridegroom tarried they all slumbered and slept
and at midnight there was a cry made behold the bridegroom cometh go ye out to meet him
then all those virgins arose and trimmed their lamps
and the foolish said unto the wise give us of your oil for our lamps are gone out
but the wise answered saying not so lest there be not enough for us and you but go ye rather to them that sell and buy for yourselves
and while they went to buy the bridegroom came and they that were ready went in with him to the marriage and the door was shut
afterward came also the other virgins saying lord lord open to us
but he answered and said verily i say unto you i know you not
watch therefore for ye know neither the day nor the hour wherein the son of man cometh
for the kingdom of heaven is as a man travelling into a far country who called his own servants and delivered unto them his goods
and unto one he gave five talents to another two and to another one to every man according to his several ability and straightway took his journey
then he that had received the five talents went and traded with the same and made them other five talents
and likewise he that had received two he also gained other two
but he that had received one went and digged in the earth and hid his lord's money
after a long time the lord of those servants cometh and reckoneth with them
and so he that had received five talents came and brought other five talents saying lord thou deliveredst unto me five talents behold i have gained beside them five talents more
his lord said unto him well done thou good and faithful servant thou hast been faithful over a few things i will make thee ruler over many things enter thou into the joy of thy lord
he also that had received two talents came and said lord thou deliveredst unto me two talents behold i have gained two other talents beside them
his lord said unto him well done good and faithful servant thou hast been faithful over a few things i will make thee ruler over many things enter thou into the joy of thy lord
then he which had received the one talent came and said lord i knew thee that thou art an hard man reaping where thou hast not sown and gathering where thou hast not strawed
and i was afraid and went and hid thy talent in the earth lo there thou hast that is thine
his lord answered and said unto him thou wicked and slothful servant thou knewest that i reap where i sowed not and gather where i have not strawed
thou oughtest therefore to have put my money to the exchangers and then at my coming i should have received mine own with usury
take therefore the talent from him and give it unto him which hath ten talents
for unto every one that hath shall be given and he shall have abundance but from him that hath not shall be taken away even that which he hath
and cast ye the unprofitable servant into outer darkness there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth
when the son of man shall come in his glory and all the holy angels with him then shall he sit upon the throne of his glory
and before him shall be gathered all nations and he shall separate them one from another as a shepherd divideth his sheep from the goats
and he shall set the sheep on his right hand but the goats on the left
then shall the king say unto them on his right hand come ye blessed of my father inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world
for i was an hungred and ye gave me meat i was thirsty and ye gave me drink i was a stranger and ye took me in
naked and ye clothed me i was sick and ye visited me i was in prison and ye came unto me
then shall the righteous answer him saying lord when saw we thee an hungred and fed thee or thirsty and gave thee drink
when saw we thee a stranger and took thee in or naked and clothed thee
or when saw we thee sick or in prison and came unto thee
and the king shall answer and say unto them verily i say unto you inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren ye have done it unto me
then shall he say also unto them on the left hand depart from me ye cursed into everlasting fire prepared for the devil and his angels
for i was an hungred and ye gave me no meat i was thirsty and ye gave me no drink
i was a stranger and ye took me not in naked and ye clothed me not sick and in prison and ye visited me not
then shall they also answer him saying lord when saw we thee an hungred or athirst or a stranger or naked or sick or in prison and did not minister unto thee
then shall he answer them saying verily i say unto you inasmuch as ye did it not to one of the least of these ye did it not to me
and these shall go away into everlasting punishment but the righteous into life eternal
and it came to pass when jesus had finished all these sayings he said unto his disciples
ye know that after two days is the feast of the passover and the son of man is betrayed to be crucified
then assembled together the chief priests and the scribes and the elders of the people unto the palace of the high priest who was called caiaphas
and consulted that they might take jesus by subtilty and kill him
but they said not on the feast day lest there be an uproar among the people
now when jesus was in bethany in the house of simon the leper
there came unto him a woman having an alabaster box of very precious ointment and poured it on his head as he sat at meat
but when his disciples saw it they had indignation saying to what purpose is this waste
for this ointment might have been sold for much and given to the poor
when jesus understood it he said unto them why trouble ye the woman for she hath wrought a good work upon me
for ye have the poor always with you but me ye have not always
for in that she hath poured this ointment on my body she did it for my burial
verily i say unto you wheresoever this gospel shall be preached in the whole world there shall also this that this woman hath done be told for a memorial of her
then one of the twelve called judas iscariot went unto the chief priests
and said unto them what will ye give me and i will deliver him unto you and they covenanted with him for thirty pieces of silver
and from that time he sought opportunity to betray him
now the first day of the feast of unleavened bread the disciples came to jesus saying unto him where wilt thou that we prepare for thee to eat the passover
and he said go into the city to such a man and say unto him the master saith my time is at hand i will keep the passover at thy house with my disciples
and the disciples did as jesus had appointed them and they made ready the passover
now when the even was come he sat down with the twelve
and as they did eat he said verily i say unto you that one of you shall betray me
and they were exceeding sorrowful and began every one of them to say unto him lord is it i
and he answered and said he that dippeth his hand with me in the dish the same shall betray me
the son of man goeth as it is written of him but woe unto that man by whom the son of man is betrayed it had been good for that man if he had not been born
then judas which betrayed him answered and said master is it i he said unto him thou hast said
and as they were eating jesus took bread and blessed it and brake it and gave it to the disciples and said take eat this is my body
and he took the cup and gave thanks and gave it to them saying drink ye all of it
for this is my blood of the new testament which is shed for many for the remission of sins
but i say unto you i will not drink henceforth of this fruit of the vine until that day when i drink it new with you in my father's kingdom
and when they had sung an hymn they went out into the mount of olives
then saith jesus unto them all ye shall be offended because of me this night for it is written i will smite the shepherd and the sheep of the flock shall be scattered abroad
but after i am risen again i will go before you into galilee
peter answered and said unto him though all men shall be offended because of thee yet will i never be offended
jesus said unto him verily i say unto thee that this night before the cock crow thou shalt deny me thrice
peter said unto him though i should die with thee yet will i not deny thee likewise also said all the disciples
then cometh jesus with them unto a place called gethsemane and saith unto the disciples sit ye here while i go and pray yonder
and he took with him peter and the two sons of zebedee and began to be sorrowful and very heavy
then saith he unto them my soul is exceeding sorrowful even unto death tarry ye here and watch with me
and he went a little farther and fell on his face and prayed saying o my father if it be possible let this cup pass from me nevertheless not as i will but as thou wilt
and he cometh unto the disciples and findeth them asleep and saith unto peter what could ye not watch with me one hour
watch and pray that ye enter not into temptation the spirit indeed is willing but the flesh is weak
he went away again the second time and prayed saying o my father if this cup may not pass away from me except i drink it thy will be done
and he came and found them asleep again for their eyes were heavy
and he left them and went away again and prayed the third time saying the same words
then cometh he to his disciples and saith unto them sleep on now and take your rest behold the hour is at hand and the son of man is betrayed into the hands of sinners
rise let us be going behold he is at hand that doth betray me
and while he yet spake lo judas one of the twelve came and with him a great multitude with swords and staves from the chief priests and elders of the people
now he that betrayed him gave them a sign saying whomsoever i shall kiss that same is he hold him fast
and forthwith he came to jesus and said hail master and kissed him
and jesus said unto him friend wherefore art thou come then came they and laid hands on jesus and took him
and behold one of them which were with jesus stretched out his hand and drew his sword and struck a servant of the high priest's and smote off his ear
then said jesus unto him put up again thy sword into his place for all they that take the sword shall perish with the sword
thinkest thou that i cannot now pray to my father and he shall presently give me more than twelve legions of angels
but how then shall the scriptures be fulfilled that thus it must be
in that same hour said jesus to the multitudes are ye come out as against a thief with swords and staves for to take me i sat daily with you teaching in the temple and ye laid no hold on me
but all this was done that the scriptures of the prophets might be fulfilled then all the disciples forsook him and fled
and they that had laid hold on jesus led him away to caiaphas the high priest where the scribes and the elders were assembled
but peter followed him afar off unto the high priest's palace and went in and sat with the servants to see the end
now the chief priests and elders and all the council sought false witness against jesus to put him to death
but found none yea though many false witnesses came yet found they none at the last came two false witnesses
and said this fellow said i am able to destroy the temple of god and to build it in three days
and the high priest arose and said unto him answerest thou nothing what is it which these witness against thee
but jesus held his peace and the high priest answered and said unto him i adjure thee by the living god that thou tell us whether thou be the christ the son of god
jesus saith unto him thou hast said nevertheless i say unto you hereafter shall ye see the son of man sitting on the right hand of power and coming in the clouds of heaven
then the high priest rent his clothes saying he hath spoken blasphemy what further need have we of witnesses behold now ye have heard his blasphemy
what think ye they answered and said he is guilty of death
then did they spit in his face and buffeted him and others smote him with the palms of their hands
saying prophesy unto us thou christ who is he that smote thee
now peter sat without in the palace and a damsel came unto him saying thou also wast with jesus of galilee
but he denied before them all saying i know not what thou sayest
and when he was gone out into the porch another maid saw him and said unto them that were there this fellow was also with jesus of nazareth
and again he denied with an oath i do not know the man
and after a while came unto him they that stood by and said to peter surely thou also art one of them for thy speech bewrayeth thee
then began he to curse and to swear saying i know not the man and immediately the cock crew
and peter remembered the word of jesus which said unto him before the cock crow thou shalt deny me thrice and he went out and wept bitterly
when the morning was come all the chief priests and elders of the people took counsel against jesus to put him to death
and when they had bound him they led him away and delivered him to pontius pilate the governor
then judas which had betrayed him when he saw that he was condemned repented himself and brought again the thirty pieces of silver to the chief priests and elders
saying i have sinned in that i have betrayed the innocent blood and they said what is that to us see thou to that
and he cast down the pieces of silver in the temple and departed and went and hanged himself
and the chief priests took the silver pieces and said it is not lawful for to put them into the treasury because it is the price of blood
and they took counsel and bought with them the potter's field to bury strangers in
wherefore that field was called the field of blood unto this day
then was fulfilled that which was spoken by jeremy the prophet saying and they took the thirty pieces of silver the price of him that was valued whom they of the children of israel did value
and gave them for the potter's field as the lord appointed me
and jesus stood before the governor and the governor asked him saying art thou the king of the jews and jesus said unto him thou sayest
and when he was accused of the chief priests and elders he answered nothing
then said pilate unto him hearest thou not how many things they witness against thee
and he answered him to never a word insomuch that the governor marvelled greatly
now at that feast the governor was wont to release unto the people a prisoner whom they would
and they had then a notable prisoner called barabbas
therefore when they were gathered together pilate said unto them whom will ye that i release unto you barabbas or jesus which is called christ
for he knew that for envy they had delivered him
when he was set down on the judgment seat his wife sent unto him saying have thou nothing to do with that just man for i have suffered many things this day in a dream because of him
but the chief priests and elders persuaded the multitude that they should ask barabbas and destroy jesus
the governor answered and said unto them whether of the twain will ye that i release unto you they said barabbas
pilate saith unto them what shall i do then with jesus which is called christ they all say unto him let him be crucified
and the governor said why what evil hath he done but they cried out the more saying let him be crucified
when pilate saw that he could prevail nothing but that rather a tumult was made he took water and washed his hands before the multitude saying i am innocent of the blood of this just person see ye to it
then answered all the people and said his blood be on us and on our children
then released he barabbas unto them and when he had scourged jesus he delivered him to be crucified
then the soldiers of the governor took jesus into the common hall and gathered unto him the whole band of soldiers
and they stripped him and put on him a scarlet robe
and when they had platted a crown of thorns they put it upon his head and a reed in his right hand and they bowed the knee before him and mocked him saying hail king of the jews
and they spit upon him and took the reed and smote him on the head
and after that they had mocked him they took the robe off from him and put his own raiment on him and led him away to crucify him
and as they came out they found a man of cyrene simon by name him they compelled to bear his cross
and when they were come unto a place called golgotha that is to say a place of a skull
they gave him vinegar to drink mingled with gall and when he had tasted thereof he would not drink
and they crucified him and parted his garments casting lots that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the prophet they parted my garments among them and upon my vesture did they cast lots
and sitting down they watched him there
and set up over his head his accusation written this is jesus the king of the jews
then were there two thieves crucified with him one on the right hand and another on the left
and they that passed by reviled him wagging their heads
and saying thou that destroyest the temple and buildest it in three days save thyself if thou be the son of god come down from the cross
likewise also the chief priests mocking him with the scribes and elders said
he saved others himself he cannot save if he be the king of israel let him now come down from the cross and we will believe him
he trusted in god let him deliver him now if he will have him for he said i am the son of god
the thieves also which were crucified with him cast the same in his teeth
now from the sixth hour there was darkness over all the land unto the ninth hour
and about the ninth hour jesus cried with a loud voice saying eli eli lama sabachthani that is to say my god my god why hast thou forsaken me
some of them that stood there when they heard that said this man calleth for elias
and straightway one of them ran and took a spunge and filled it with vinegar and put it on a reed and gave him to drink
the rest said let be let us see whether elias will come to save him
jesus when he had cried again with a loud voice yielded up the ghost
and behold the veil of the temple was rent in twain from the top to the bottom and the earth did quake and the rocks rent
and the graves were opened and many bodies of the saints which slept arose
and came out of the graves after his resurrection and went into the holy city and appeared unto many
now when the centurion and they that were with him watching jesus saw the earthquake and those things that were done they feared greatly saying truly this was the son of god
and many women were there beholding afar off which followed jesus from galilee ministering unto him
among which was mary magdalene and mary the mother of james and joses and the mother of zebedee's children
when the even was come there came a rich man of arimathaea named joseph who also himself was jesus disciple
he went to pilate and begged the body of jesus then pilate commanded the body to be delivered
and when joseph had taken the body he wrapped it in a clean linen cloth
and laid it in his own new tomb which he had hewn out in the rock and he rolled a great stone to the door of the sepulchre and departed
and there was mary magdalene and the other mary sitting over against the sepulchre
now the next day that followed the day of the preparation the chief priests and pharisees came together unto pilate
saying sir we remember that that deceiver said while he was yet alive after three days i will rise again
command therefore that the sepulchre be made sure until the third day lest his disciples come by night and steal him away and say unto the people he is risen from the dead so the last error shall be worse than the first
pilate said unto them ye have a watch go your way make it as sure as ye can
so they went and made the sepulchre sure sealing the stone and setting a watch
in the end of the sabbath as it began to dawn toward the first day of the week came mary magdalene and the other mary to see the sepulchre
and behold there was a great earthquake for the angel of the lord descended from heaven and came and rolled back the stone from the door and sat upon it
his countenance was like lightning and his raiment white as snow
and for fear of him the keepers did shake and became as dead men
and the angel answered and said unto the women fear not ye for i know that ye seek jesus which was crucified
he is not here for he is risen as he said come see the place where the lord lay
and go quickly and tell his disciples that he is risen from the dead and behold he goeth before you into galilee there shall ye see him lo i have told you
and they departed quickly from the sepulchre with fear and great joy and did run to bring his disciples word
and as they went to tell his disciples behold jesus met them saying all hail and they came and held him by the feet and worshipped him
then said jesus unto them be not afraid go tell my brethren that they go into galilee and there shall they see me
now when they were going behold some of the watch came into the city and shewed unto the chief priests all the things that were done
and when they were assembled with the elders and had taken counsel they gave large money unto the soldiers
saying say ye his disciples came by night and stole him away while we slept
and if this come to the governor's ears we will persuade him and secure you
so they took the money and did as they were taught and this saying is commonly reported among the jews until this day
then the eleven disciples went away into galilee into a mountain where jesus had appointed them
and when they saw him they worshipped him but some doubted
and jesus came and spake unto them saying all power is given unto me in heaven and in earth
go ye therefore and teach all nations baptizing them in the name of the father and of the son and of the holy ghost
teaching them to observe all things whatsoever i have commanded you and lo i am with you alway even unto the end of the world amen
the beginning of the gospel of jesus christ the son of god
as it is written in the prophets behold i send my messenger before thy face which shall prepare thy way before thee
the voice of one crying in the wilderness prepare ye the way of the lord make his paths straight
john did baptize in the wilderness and preach the baptism of repentance for the remission of sins
and there went out unto him all the land of judaea and they of jerusalem and were all baptized of him in the river of jordan confessing their sins
and john was clothed with camel's hair and with a girdle of a skin about his loins and he did eat locusts and wild honey
and preached saying there cometh one mightier than i after me the latchet of whose shoes i am not worthy to stoop down and unloose
i indeed have baptized you with water but he shall baptize you with the holy ghost
and it came to pass in those days that jesus came from nazareth of galilee and was baptized of john in jordan
and straightway coming up out of the water he saw the heavens opened and the spirit like a dove descending upon him
and there came a voice from heaven saying thou art my beloved son in whom i am well pleased
and immediately the spirit driveth him into the wilderness
and he was there in the wilderness forty days tempted of satan and was with the wild beasts and the angels ministered unto him
now after that john was put in prison jesus came into galilee preaching the gospel of the kingdom of god
and saying the time is fulfilled and the kingdom of god is at hand repent ye and believe the gospel
now as he walked by the sea of galilee he saw simon and andrew his brother casting a net into the sea for they were fishers
and jesus said unto them come ye after me and i will make you to become fishers of men
and straightway they forsook their nets and followed him
and when he had gone a little farther thence he saw james the son of zebedee and john his brother who also were in the ship mending their nets
and straightway he called them and they left their father zebedee in the ship with the hired servants and went after him
and they went into capernaum and straightway on the sabbath day he entered into the synagogue and taught
and they were astonished at his doctrine for he taught them as one that had authority and not as the scribes
and there was in their synagogue a man with an unclean spirit and he cried out
saying let us alone what have we to do with thee thou jesus of nazareth art thou come to destroy us i know thee who thou art the holy one of god
and jesus rebuked him saying hold thy peace and come out of him
and when the unclean spirit had torn him and cried with a loud voice he came out of him
and they were all amazed insomuch that they questioned among themselves saying what thing is this what new doctrine is this for with authority commandeth he even the unclean spirits and they do obey him
and immediately his fame spread abroad throughout all the region round about galilee
and forthwith when they were come out of the synagogue they entered into the house of simon and andrew with james and john
but simon's wife's mother lay sick of a fever and anon they tell him of her
and he came and took her by the hand and lifted her up and immediately the fever left her and she ministered unto them
and at even when the sun did set they brought unto him all that were diseased and them that were possessed with devils
and all the city was gathered together at the door
and he healed many that were sick of divers diseases and cast out many devils and suffered not the devils to speak because they knew him
and in the morning rising up a great while before day he went out and departed into a solitary place and there prayed
and simon and they that were with him followed after him
and when they had found him they said unto him all men seek for thee
and he said unto them let us go into the next towns that i may preach there also for therefore came i forth
and he preached in their synagogues throughout all galilee and cast out devils
and there came a leper to him beseeching him and kneeling down to him and saying unto him if thou wilt thou canst make me clean
and jesus moved with compassion put forth his hand and touched him and saith unto him i will be thou clean
and as soon as he had spoken immediately the leprosy departed from him and he was cleansed
and he straitly charged him and forthwith sent him away
and saith unto him see thou say nothing to any man but go thy way shew thyself to the priest and offer for thy cleansing those things which moses commanded for a testimony unto them
but he went out and began to publish it much and to blaze abroad the matter insomuch that jesus could no more openly enter into the city but was without in desert places and they came to him from every quarter
and again he entered into capernaum after some days and it was noised that he was in the house
and straightway many were gathered together insomuch that there was no room to receive them no not so much as about the door and he preached the word unto them
and they come unto him bringing one sick of the palsy which was borne of four
and when they could not come nigh unto him for the press they uncovered the roof where he was and when they had broken it up they let down the bed wherein the sick of the palsy lay
when jesus saw their faith he said unto the sick of the palsy son thy sins be forgiven thee
but there were certain of the scribes sitting there and reasoning in their hearts
why doth this man thus speak blasphemies who can forgive sins but god only
and immediately when jesus perceived in his spirit that they so reasoned within themselves he said unto them why reason ye these things in your hearts
whether is it easier to say to the sick of the palsy thy sins be forgiven thee or to say arise and take up thy bed and walk
but that ye may know that the son of man hath power on earth to forgive sins he saith to the sick of the palsy
i say unto thee arise and take up thy bed and go thy way into thine house
and immediately he arose took up the bed and went forth before them all insomuch that they were all amazed and glorified god saying we never saw it on this fashion
and he went forth again by the sea side and all the multitude resorted unto him and he taught them
and as he passed by he saw levi the son of alphaeus sitting at the receipt of custom and said unto him follow me and he arose and followed him
and it came to pass that as jesus sat at meat in his house many publicans and sinners sat also together with jesus and his disciples for there were many and they followed him
and when the scribes and pharisees saw him eat with publicans and sinners they said unto his disciples how is it that he eateth and drinketh with publicans and sinners
when jesus heard it he saith unto them they that are whole have no need of the physician but they that are sick i came not to call the righteous but sinners to repentance
and the disciples of john and of the pharisees used to fast and they come and say unto him why do the disciples of john and of the pharisees fast but thy disciples fast not
and jesus said unto them can the children of the bridechamber fast while the bridegroom is with them as long as they have the bridegroom with them they cannot fast
but the days will come when the bridegroom shall be taken away from them and then shall they fast in those days
no man also seweth a piece of new cloth on an old garment else the new piece that filled it up taketh away from the old and the rent is made worse
and no man putteth new wine into old bottles else the new wine doth burst the bottles and the wine is spilled and the bottles will be marred but new wine must be put into new bottles
and it came to pass that he went through the corn fields on the sabbath day and his disciples began as they went to pluck the ears of corn
and the pharisees said unto him behold why do they on the sabbath day that which is not lawful
and he said unto them have ye never read what david did when he had need and was an hungred he and they that were with him
how he went into the house of god in the days of abiathar the high priest and did eat the shewbread which is not lawful to eat but for the priests and gave also to them which were with him
and he said unto them the sabbath was made for man and not man for the sabbath
therefore the son of man is lord also of the sabbath
and he entered again into the synagogue and there was a man there which had a withered hand
and they watched him whether he would heal him on the sabbath day that they might accuse him
and he saith unto the man which had the withered hand stand forth
and he saith unto them is it lawful to do good on the sabbath days or to do evil to save life or to kill but they held their peace
and when he had looked round about on them with anger being grieved for the hardness of their hearts he saith unto the man stretch forth thine hand and he stretched it out and his hand was restored whole as the other
and the pharisees went forth and straightway took counsel with the herodians against him how they might destroy him
but jesus withdrew himself with his disciples to the sea and a great multitude from galilee followed him and from judaea
and from jerusalem and from idumaea and from beyond jordan and they about tyre and sidon a great multitude when they had heard what great things he did came unto him
and he spake to his disciples that a small ship should wait on him because of the multitude lest they should throng him
for he had healed many insomuch that they pressed upon him for to touch him as many as had plagues
and unclean spirits when they saw him fell down before him and cried saying thou art the son of god
and he straitly charged them that they should not make him known
and he goeth up into a mountain and calleth unto him whom he would and they came unto him
and he ordained twelve that they should be with him and that he might send them forth to preach
and to have power to heal sicknesses and to cast out devils
and simon he surnamed peter
and james the son of zebedee and john the brother of james and he surnamed them boanerges which is the sons of thunder
and andrew and philip and bartholomew and matthew and thomas and james the son of alphaeus and thaddaeus and simon the canaanite
and judas iscariot which also betrayed him and they went into an house
and the multitude cometh together again so that they could not so much as eat bread
and when his friends heard of it they went out to lay hold on him for they said he is beside himself
and the scribes which came down from jerusalem said he hath beelzebub and by the prince of the devils casteth he out devils
and he called them unto him and said unto them in parables how can satan cast out satan
and if a kingdom be divided against itself that kingdom cannot stand
and if a house be divided against itself that house cannot stand
and if satan rise up against himself and be divided he cannot stand but hath an end
no man can enter into a strong man's house and spoil his goods except he will first bind the strong man and then he will spoil his house
verily i say unto you all sins shall be forgiven unto the sons of men and blasphemies wherewith soever they shall blaspheme
but he that shall blaspheme against the holy ghost hath never forgiveness but is in danger of eternal damnation
because they said he hath an unclean spirit
there came then his brethren and his mother and standing without sent unto him calling him
and the multitude sat about him and they said unto him behold thy mother and thy brethren without seek for thee
and he answered them saying who is my mother or my brethren
and he looked round about on them which sat about him and said behold my mother and my brethren
for whosoever shall do the will of god the same is my brother and my sister and mother
and he began again to teach by the sea side and there was gathered unto him a great multitude so that he entered into a ship and sat in the sea and the whole multitude was by the sea on the land
and he taught them many things by parables and said unto them in his doctrine
hearken behold there went out a sower to sow
and it came to pass as he sowed some fell by the way side and the fowls of the air came and devoured it up
and some fell on stony ground where it had not much earth and immediately it sprang up because it had no depth of earth
but when the sun was up it was scorched and because it had no root it withered away
and some fell among thorns and the thorns grew up and choked it and it yielded no fruit
and other fell on good ground and did yield fruit that sprang up and increased and brought forth some thirty and some sixty and some an hundred
and he said unto them he that hath ears to hear let him hear
and when he was alone they that were about him with the twelve asked of him the parable
and he said unto them unto you it is given to know the mystery of the kingdom of god but unto them that are without all these things are done in parables
that seeing they may see and not perceive and hearing they may hear and not understand lest at any time they should be converted and their sins should be forgiven them
and he said unto them know ye not this parable and how then will ye know all parables
the sower soweth the word
and these are they by the way side where the word is sown but when they have heard satan cometh immediately and taketh away the word that was sown in their hearts
and these are they likewise which are sown on stony ground who when they have heard the word immediately receive it with gladness
and have no root in themselves and so endure but for a time afterward when affliction or persecution ariseth for the word's sake immediately they are offended
and these are they which are sown among thorns such as hear the word
and the cares of this world and the deceitfulness of riches and the lusts of other things entering in choke the word and it becometh unfruitful
and these are they which are sown on good ground such as hear the word and receive it and bring forth fruit some thirtyfold some sixty and some an hundred
and he said unto them is a candle brought to be put under a bushel or under a bed and not to be set on a candlestick
for there is nothing hid which shall not be manifested neither was any thing kept secret but that it should come abroad
if any man have ears to hear let him hear
and he said unto them take heed what ye hear with what measure ye mete it shall be measured to you and unto you that hear shall more be given
for he that hath to him shall be given and he that hath not from him shall be taken even that which he hath
and he said so is the kingdom of god as if a man should cast seed into the ground
and should sleep and rise night and day and the seed should spring and grow up he knoweth not how
for the earth bringeth forth fruit of herself first the blade then the ear after that the full corn in the ear
but when the fruit is brought forth immediately he putteth in the sickle because the harvest is come
and he said whereunto shall we liken the kingdom of god or with what comparison shall we compare it
it is like a grain of mustard seed which when it is sown in the earth is less than all the seeds that be in the earth
but when it is sown it groweth up and becometh greater than all herbs and shooteth out great branches so that the fowls of the air may lodge under the shadow of it
and with many such parables spake he the word unto them as they were able to hear it
but without a parable spake he not unto them and when they were alone he expounded all things to his disciples
and the same day when the even was come he saith unto them let us pass over unto the other side
and when they had sent away the multitude they took him even as he was in the ship and there were also with him other little ships
and there arose a great storm of wind and the waves beat into the ship so that it was now full
and he was in the hinder part of the ship asleep on a pillow and they awake him and say unto him master carest thou not that we perish
and he arose and rebuked the wind and said unto the sea peace be still and the wind ceased and there was a great calm
and he said unto them why are ye so fearful how is it that ye have no faith
and they feared exceedingly and said one to another what manner of man is this that even the wind and the sea obey him
and they came over unto the other side of the sea into the country of the gadarenes
and when he was come out of the ship immediately there met him out of the tombs a man with an unclean spirit
who had his dwelling among the tombs and no man could bind him no not with chains
because that he had been often bound with fetters and chains and the chains had been plucked asunder by him and the fetters broken in pieces neither could any man tame him
and always night and day he was in the mountains and in the tombs crying and cutting himself with stones
but when he saw jesus afar off he ran and worshipped him
and cried with a loud voice and said what have i to do with thee jesus thou son of the most high god i adjure thee by god that thou torment me not
for he said unto him come out of the man thou unclean spirit
and he asked him what is thy name and he answered saying my name is legion for we are many
and he besought him much that he would not send them away out of the country
now there was there nigh unto the mountains a great herd of swine feeding
and all the devils besought him saying send us into the swine that we may enter into them
and forthwith jesus gave them leave and the unclean spirits went out and entered into the swine and the herd ran violently down a steep place into the sea they were about two thousand and were choked in the sea
and they that fed the swine fled and told it in the city and in the country and they went out to see what it was that was done
and they come to jesus and see him that was possessed with the devil and had the legion sitting and clothed and in his right mind and they were afraid
and they that saw it told them how it befell to him that was possessed with the devil and also concerning the swine
and they began to pray him to depart out of their coasts
and when he was come into the ship he that had been possessed with the devil prayed him that he might be with him
howbeit jesus suffered him not but saith unto him go home to thy friends and tell them how great things the lord hath done for thee and hath had compassion on thee
and he departed and began to publish in decapolis how great things jesus had done for him and all men did marvel
and when jesus was passed over again by ship unto the other side much people gathered unto him and he was nigh unto the sea
and behold there cometh one of the rulers of the synagogue jairus by name and when he saw him he fell at his feet
and besought him greatly saying my little daughter lieth at the point of death i pray thee come and lay thy hands on her that she may be healed and she shall live
and jesus went with him and much people followed him and thronged him
and a certain woman which had an issue of blood twelve years
and had suffered many things of many physicians and had spent all that she had and was nothing bettered but rather grew worse
when she had heard of jesus came in the press behind and touched his garment
for she said if i may touch but his clothes i shall be whole
and straightway the fountain of her blood was dried up and she felt in her body that she was healed of that plague
and jesus immediately knowing in himself that virtue had gone out of him turned him about in the press and said who touched my clothes
and his disciples said unto him thou seest the multitude thronging thee and sayest thou who touched me
and he looked round about to see her that had done this thing
but the woman fearing and trembling knowing what was done in her came and fell down before him and told him all the truth
and he said unto her daughter thy faith hath made thee whole go in peace and be whole of thy plague
while he yet spake there came from the ruler of the synagogue's house certain which said thy daughter is dead why troublest thou the master any further
as soon as jesus heard the word that was spoken he saith unto the ruler of the synagogue be not afraid only believe
and he suffered no man to follow him save peter and james and john the brother of james
and he cometh to the house of the ruler of the synagogue and seeth the tumult and them that wept and wailed greatly
and when he was come in he saith unto them why make ye this ado and weep the damsel is not dead but sleepeth
and they laughed him to scorn but when he had put them all out he taketh the father and the mother of the damsel and them that were with him and entereth in where the damsel was lying
and he took the damsel by the hand and said unto her talitha cumi which is being interpreted damsel i say unto thee arise
and straightway the damsel arose and walked for she was of the age of twelve years and they were astonished with a great astonishment
and he charged them straitly that no man should know it and commanded that something should be given her to eat
and he went out from thence and came into his own country and his disciples follow him
and when the sabbath day was come he began to teach in the synagogue and many hearing him were astonished saying from whence hath this man these things and what wisdom is this which is given unto him that even such mighty works are wrought by his hands
is not this the carpenter the son of mary the brother of james and joses and of juda and simon and are not his sisters here with us and they were offended at him
but jesus said unto them a prophet is not without honour but in his own country and among his own kin and in his own house
and he could there do no mighty work save that he laid his hands upon a few sick folk and healed them
and he marvelled because of their unbelief and he went round about the villages teaching
and he called unto him the twelve and began to send them forth by two and two and gave them power over unclean spirits
and commanded them that they should take nothing for their journey save a staff only no scrip no bread no money in their purse
but be shod with sandals and not put on two coats
and he said unto them in what place soever ye enter into an house there abide till ye depart from that place
and whosoever shall not receive you nor hear you when ye depart thence shake off the dust under your feet for a testimony against them verily i say unto you it shall be more tolerable for sodom and gomorrha in the day of judgment than for that city
and they went out and preached that men should repent
and they cast out many devils and anointed with oil many that were sick and healed them
and king herod heard of him for his name was spread abroad and he said that john the baptist was risen from the dead and therefore mighty works do shew forth themselves in him
others said that it is elias and others said that it is a prophet or as one of the prophets
but when herod heard thereof he said it is john whom i beheaded he is risen from the dead
for herod himself had sent forth and laid hold upon john and bound him in prison for herodias sake his brother philip's wife for he had married her
for john had said unto herod it is not lawful for thee to have thy brother's wife
therefore herodias had a quarrel against him and would have killed him but she could not
for herod feared john knowing that he was a just man and an holy and observed him and when he heard him he did many things and heard him gladly
and when a convenient day was come that herod on his birthday made a supper to his lords high captains and chief estates of galilee
and when the daughter of the said herodias came in and danced and pleased herod and them that sat with him the king said unto the damsel ask of me whatsoever thou wilt and i will give it thee
and he sware unto her whatsoever thou shalt ask of me i will give it thee unto the half of my kingdom
and she went forth and said unto her mother what shall i ask and she said the head of john the baptist
and she came in straightway with haste unto the king and asked saying i will that thou give me by and by in a charger the head of john the baptist
and the king was exceeding sorry yet for his oath's sake and for their sakes which sat with him he would not reject her
and immediately the king sent an executioner and commanded his head to be brought and he went and beheaded him in the prison
and brought his head in a charger and gave it to the damsel and the damsel gave it to her mother
and when his disciples heard of it they came and took up his corpse and laid it in a tomb
and the apostles gathered themselves together unto jesus and told him all things both what they had done and what they had taught
and he said unto them come ye yourselves apart into a desert place and rest a while for there were many coming and going and they had no leisure so much as to eat
and they departed into a desert place by ship privately
and the people saw them departing and many knew him and ran afoot thither out of all cities and outwent them and came together unto him
and jesus when he came out saw much people and was moved with compassion toward them because they were as sheep not having a shepherd and he began to teach them many things
and when the day was now far spent his disciples came unto him and said this is a desert place and now the time is far passed
send them away that they may go into the country round about and into the villages and buy themselves bread for they have nothing to eat
he answered and said unto them give ye them to eat and they say unto him shall we go and buy two hundred pennyworth of bread and give them to eat
he saith unto them how many loaves have ye go and see and when they knew they say five and two fishes
and he commanded them to make all sit down by companies upon the green grass
and they sat down in ranks by hundreds and by fifties
and when he had taken the five loaves and the two fishes he looked up to heaven and blessed and brake the loaves and gave them to his disciples to set before them and the two fishes divided he among them all
and they did all eat and were filled
and they took up twelve baskets full of the fragments and of the fishes
and they that did eat of the loaves were about five thousand men
and straightway he constrained his disciples to get into the ship and to go to the other side before unto bethsaida while he sent away the people
and when he had sent them away he departed into a mountain to pray
and when even was come the ship was in the midst of the sea and he alone on the land
and he saw them toiling in rowing for the wind was contrary unto them and about the fourth watch of the night he cometh unto them walking upon the sea and would have passed by them
but when they saw him walking upon the sea they supposed it had been a spirit and cried out
for they all saw him and were troubled and immediately he talked with them and saith unto them be of good cheer it is i be not afraid
and he went up unto them into the ship and the wind ceased and they were sore amazed in themselves beyond measure and wondered
for they considered not the miracle of the loaves for their heart was hardened
and when they had passed over they came into the land of gennesaret and drew to the shore
and when they were come out of the ship straightway they knew him
and ran through that whole region round about and began to carry about in beds those that were sick where they heard he was
and whithersoever he entered into villages or cities or country they laid the sick in the streets and besought him that they might touch if it were but the border of his garment and as many as touched him were made whole
then came together unto him the pharisees and certain of the scribes which came from jerusalem
and when they saw some of his disciples eat bread with defiled that is to say with unwashen hands they found fault
for the pharisees and all the jews except they wash their hands oft eat not holding the tradition of the elders
and when they come from the market except they wash they eat not and many other things there be which they have received to hold as the washing of cups and pots brasen vessels and of tables
then the pharisees and scribes asked him why walk not thy disciples according to the tradition of the elders but eat bread with unwashen hands
he answered and said unto them well hath esaias prophesied of you hypocrites as it is written this people honoureth me with their lips but their heart is far from me
howbeit in vain do they worship me teaching for doctrines the commandments of men
for laying aside the commandment of god ye hold the tradition of men as the washing of pots and cups and many other such like things ye do
and he said unto them full well ye reject the commandment of god that ye may keep your own tradition
for moses said honour thy father and thy mother and whoso curseth father or mother let him die the death
but ye say if a man shall say to his father or mother it is corban that is to say a gift by whatsoever thou mightest be profited by me he shall be free
and ye suffer him no more to do ought for his father or his mother
making the word of god of none effect through your tradition which ye have delivered and many such like things do ye
and when he had called all the people unto him he said unto them hearken unto me every one of you and understand
there is nothing from without a man that entering into him can defile him but the things which come out of him those are they that defile the man
if any man have ears to hear let him hear
and when he was entered into the house from the people his disciples asked him concerning the parable
and he saith unto them are ye so without understanding also do ye not perceive that whatsoever thing from without entereth into the man it cannot defile him
because it entereth not into his heart but into the belly and goeth out into the draught purging all meats
and he said that which cometh out of the man that defileth the man
for from within out of the heart of men proceed evil thoughts adulteries fornications murders
thefts covetousness wickedness deceit lasciviousness an evil eye blasphemy pride foolishness
all these evil things come from within and defile the man
and from thence he arose and went into the borders of tyre and sidon and entered into an house and would have no man know it but he could not be hid
for a certain woman whose young daughter had an unclean spirit heard of him and came and fell at his feet
the woman was a greek a syrophenician by nation and she besought him that he would cast forth the devil out of her daughter
but jesus said unto her let the children first be filled for it is not meet to take the children's bread and to cast it unto the dogs
and she answered and said unto him yes lord yet the dogs under the table eat of the children's crumbs
and he said unto her for this saying go thy way the devil is gone out of thy daughter
and when she was come to her house she found the devil gone out and her daughter laid upon the bed
and again departing from the coasts of tyre and sidon he came unto the sea of galilee through the midst of the coasts of decapolis
and they bring unto him one that was deaf and had an impediment in his speech and they beseech him to put his hand upon him
and he took him aside from the multitude and put his fingers into his ears and he spit and touched his tongue
and looking up to heaven he sighed and saith unto him ephphatha that is be opened
and straightway his ears were opened and the string of his tongue was loosed and he spake plain
and he charged them that they should tell no man but the more he charged them so much the more a great deal they published it
and were beyond measure astonished saying he hath done all things well he maketh both the deaf to hear and the dumb to speak
in those days the multitude being very great and having nothing to eat jesus called his disciples unto him and saith unto them
i have compassion on the multitude because they have now been with me three days and have nothing to eat
and if i send them away fasting to their own houses they will faint by the way for divers of them came from far
and his disciples answered him from whence can a man satisfy these men with bread here in the wilderness
and he asked them how many loaves have ye and they said seven
and he commanded the people to sit down on the ground and he took the seven loaves and gave thanks and brake and gave to his disciples to set before them and they did set them before the people
and they had a few small fishes and he blessed and commanded to set them also before them
so they did eat and were filled and they took up of the broken meat that was left seven baskets
and they that had eaten were about four thousand and he sent them away
and straightway he entered into a ship with his disciples and came into the parts of dalmanutha
and the pharisees came forth and began to question with him seeking of him a sign from heaven tempting him
and he sighed deeply in his spirit and saith why doth this generation seek after a sign verily i say unto you there shall no sign be given unto this generation
and he left them and entering into the ship again departed to the other side
now the disciples had forgotten to take bread neither had they in the ship with them more than one loaf
and he charged them saying take heed beware of the leaven of the pharisees and of the leaven of herod
and they reasoned among themselves saying it is because we have no bread
and when jesus knew it he saith unto them why reason ye because ye have no bread perceive ye not yet neither understand have ye your heart yet hardened
having eyes see ye not and having ears hear ye not and do ye not remember
when i brake the five loaves among five thousand how many baskets full of fragments took ye up they say unto him twelve
and when the seven among four thousand how many baskets full of fragments took ye up and they said seven
and he said unto them how is it that ye do not understand
and he cometh to bethsaida and they bring a blind man unto him and besought him to touch him
and he took the blind man by the hand and led him out of the town and when he had spit on his eyes and put his hands upon him he asked him if he saw ought
and he looked up and said i see men as trees walking
after that he put his hands again upon his eyes and made him look up and he was restored and saw every man clearly
and he sent him away to his house saying neither go into the town nor tell it to any in the town
and jesus went out and his disciples into the towns of caesarea philippi and by the way he asked his disciples saying unto them whom do men say that i am
and they answered john the baptist but some say elias and others one of the prophets
and he saith unto them but whom say ye that i am and peter answereth and saith unto him thou art the christ
and he charged them that they should tell no man of him
and he began to teach them that the son of man must suffer many things and be rejected of the elders and of the chief priests and scribes and be killed and after three days rise again
and he spake that saying openly and peter took him and began to rebuke him
but when he had turned about and looked on his disciples he rebuked peter saying get thee behind me satan for thou savourest not the things that be of god but the things that be of men
and when he had called the people unto him with his disciples also he said unto them whosoever will come after me let him deny himself and take up his cross and follow me
for whosoever will save his life shall lose it but whosoever shall lose his life for my sake and the gospel's the same shall save it
for what shall it profit a man if he shall gain the whole world and lose his own soul
or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul
whosoever therefore shall be ashamed of me and of my words in this adulterous and sinful generation of him also shall the son of man be ashamed when he cometh in the glory of his father with the holy angels
and he said unto them verily i say unto you that there be some of them that stand here which shall not taste of death till they have seen the kingdom of god come with power
and after six days jesus taketh with him peter and james and john and leadeth them up into an high mountain apart by themselves and he was transfigured before them
and his raiment became shining exceeding white as snow so as no fuller on earth can white them
and there appeared unto them elias with moses and they were talking with jesus
and peter answered and said to jesus master it is good for us to be here and let us make three tabernacles one for thee and one for moses and one for elias
for he wist not what to say for they were sore afraid
and there was a cloud that overshadowed them and a voice came out of the cloud saying this is my beloved son hear him
and suddenly when they had looked round about they saw no man any more save jesus only with themselves
and as they came down from the mountain he charged them that they should tell no man what things they had seen till the son of man were risen from the dead
and they kept that saying with themselves questioning one with another what the rising from the dead should mean
and they asked him saying why say the scribes that elias must first come
and he answered and told them elias verily cometh first and restoreth all things and how it is written of the son of man that he must suffer many things and be set at nought
but i say unto you that elias is indeed come and they have done unto him whatsoever they listed as it is written of him
and when he came to his disciples he saw a great multitude about them and the scribes questioning with them
and straightway all the people when they beheld him were greatly amazed and running to him saluted him
and he asked the scribes what question ye with them
and one of the multitude answered and said master i have brought unto thee my son which hath a dumb spirit
and wheresoever he taketh him he teareth him and he foameth and gnasheth with his teeth and pineth away and i spake to thy disciples that they should cast him out and they could not
he answereth him and saith o faithless generation how long shall i be with you how long shall i suffer you bring him unto me
and they brought him unto him and when he saw him straightway the spirit tare him and he fell on the ground and wallowed foaming
and he asked his father how long is it ago since this came unto him and he said of a child
and ofttimes it hath cast him into the fire and into the waters to destroy him but if thou canst do any thing have compassion on us and help us
jesus said unto him if thou canst believe all things are possible to him that believeth
and straightway the father of the child cried out and said with tears lord i believe help thou mine unbelief
when jesus saw that the people came running together he rebuked the foul spirit saying unto him thou dumb and deaf spirit i charge thee come out of him and enter no more into him
and the spirit cried and rent him sore and came out of him and he was as one dead insomuch that many said he is dead
but jesus took him by the hand and lifted him up and he arose
and when he was come into the house his disciples asked him privately why could not we cast him out
and he said unto them this kind can come forth by nothing but by prayer and fasting
and they departed thence and passed through galilee and he would not that any man should know it
for he taught his disciples and said unto them the son of man is delivered into the hands of men and they shall kill him and after that he is killed he shall rise the third day
but they understood not that saying and were afraid to ask him
and he came to capernaum and being in the house he asked them what was it that ye disputed among yourselves by the way
but they held their peace for by the way they had disputed among themselves who should be the greatest
and he sat down and called the twelve and saith unto them if any man desire to be first the same shall be last of all and servant of all
and he took a child and set him in the midst of them and when he had taken him in his arms he said unto them
whosoever shall receive one of such children in my name receiveth me and whosoever shall receive me receiveth not me but him that sent me
and john answered him saying master we saw one casting out devils in thy name and he followeth not us and we forbad him because he followeth not us
but jesus said forbid him not for there is no man which shall do a miracle in my name that can lightly speak evil of me
for he that is not against us is on our part
for whosoever shall give you a cup of water to drink in my name because ye belong to christ verily i say unto you he shall not lose his reward
and whosoever shall offend one of these little ones that believe in me it is better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck and he were cast into the sea
and if thy hand offend thee cut it off it is better for thee to enter into life maimed than having two hands to go into hell into the fire that never shall be quenched
where their worm dieth not and the fire is not quenched
and if thy foot offend thee cut it off it is better for thee to enter halt into life than having two feet to be cast into hell into the fire that never shall be quenched
where their worm dieth not and the fire is not quenched
and if thine eye offend thee pluck it out it is better for thee to enter into the kingdom of god with one eye than having two eyes to be cast into hell fire
where their worm dieth not and the fire is not quenched
for every one shall be salted with fire and every sacrifice shall be salted with salt
salt is good but if the salt have lost his saltness wherewith will ye season it have salt in yourselves and have peace one with another
and he arose from thence and cometh into the coasts of judaea by the farther side of jordan and the people resort unto him again and as he was wont he taught them again
and the pharisees came to him and asked him is it lawful for a man to put away his wife tempting him
and he answered and said unto them what did moses command you
and they said moses suffered to write a bill of divorcement and to put her away
and jesus answered and said unto them for the hardness of your heart he wrote you this precept
but from the beginning of the creation god made them male and female
for this cause shall a man leave his father and mother and cleave to his wife
and they twain shall be one flesh so then they are no more twain but one flesh
what therefore god hath joined together let not man put asunder
and in the house his disciples asked him again of the same matter
and he saith unto them whosoever shall put away his wife and marry another committeth adultery against her
and if a woman shall put away her husband and be married to another she committeth adultery
and they brought young children to him that he should touch them and his disciples rebuked those that brought them
but when jesus saw it he was much displeased and said unto them suffer the little children to come unto me and forbid them not for of such is the kingdom of god
verily i say unto you whosoever shall not receive the kingdom of god as a little child he shall not enter therein
and he took them up in his arms put his hands upon them and blessed them
and when he was gone forth into the way there came one running and kneeled to him and asked him good master what shall i do that i may inherit eternal life
and jesus said unto him why callest thou me good there is none good but one that is god
thou knowest the commandments do not commit adultery do not kill do not steal do not bear false witness defraud not honour thy father and mother 
and he answered and said unto him master all these have i observed from my youth
then jesus beholding him loved him and said unto him one thing thou lackest go thy way sell whatsoever thou hast and give to the poor and thou shalt have treasure in heaven and come take up the cross and follow me
and he was sad at that saying and went away grieved for he had great possessions
and jesus looked round about and saith unto his disciples how hardly shall they that have riches enter into the kingdom of god
and the disciples were astonished at his words but jesus answereth again and saith unto them children how hard is it for them that trust in riches to enter into the kingdom of god
it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of god
and they were astonished out of measure saying among themselves who then can be saved
and jesus looking upon them saith with men it is impossible but not with god for with god all things are possible
then peter began to say unto him lo we have left all and have followed thee
and jesus answered and said verily i say unto you there is no man that hath left house or brethren or sisters or father or mother or wife or children or lands for my sake and the gospel's
but he shall receive an hundredfold now in this time houses and brethren and sisters and mothers and children and lands with persecutions and in the world to come eternal life
but many that are first shall be last and the last first
and they were in the way going up to jerusalem and jesus went before them and they were amazed and as they followed they were afraid and he took again the twelve and began to tell them what things should happen unto him
saying behold we go up to jerusalem and the son of man shall be delivered unto the chief priests and unto the scribes and they shall condemn him to death and shall deliver him to the gentiles
and they shall mock him and shall scourge him and shall spit upon him and shall kill him and the third day he shall rise again
and james and john the sons of zebedee come unto him saying master we would that thou shouldest do for us whatsoever we shall desire
and he said unto them what would ye that i should do for you
they said unto him grant unto us that we may sit one on thy right hand and the other on thy left hand in thy glory
but jesus said unto them ye know not what ye ask can ye drink of the cup that i drink of and be baptized with the baptism that i am baptized with
and they said unto him we can and jesus said unto them ye shall indeed drink of the cup that i drink of and with the baptism that i am baptized withal shall ye be baptized
but to sit on my right hand and on my left hand is not mine to give but it shall be given to them for whom it is prepared
and when the ten heard it they began to be much displeased with james and john
but jesus called them to him and saith unto them ye know that they which are accounted to rule over the gentiles exercise lordship over them and their great ones exercise authority upon them
but so shall it not be among you but whosoever will be great among you shall be your minister
and whosoever of you will be the chiefest shall be servant of all
for even the son of man came not to be ministered unto but to minister and to give his life a ransom for many
and they came to jericho and as he went out of jericho with his disciples and a great number of people blind bartimaeus the son of timaeus sat by the highway side begging
and when he heard that it was jesus of nazareth he began to cry out and say jesus thou son of david have mercy on me
and many charged him that he should hold his peace but he cried the more a great deal thou son of david have mercy on me
and jesus stood still and commanded him to be called and they call the blind man saying unto him be of good comfort rise he calleth thee
and he casting away his garment rose and came to jesus
and jesus answered and said unto him what wilt thou that i should do unto thee the blind man said unto him lord that i might receive my sight
and jesus said unto him go thy way thy faith hath made thee whole and immediately he received his sight and followed jesus in the way
and when they came nigh to jerusalem unto bethphage and bethany at the mount of olives he sendeth forth two of his disciples
and saith unto them go your way into the village over against you and as soon as ye be entered into it ye shall find a colt tied whereon never man sat loose him and bring him
and if any man say unto you why do ye this say ye that the lord hath need of him and straightway he will send him hither
and they went their way and found the colt tied by the door without in a place where two ways met and they loose him
and certain of them that stood there said unto them what do ye loosing the colt
and they said unto them even as jesus had commanded and they let them go
and they brought the colt to jesus and cast their garments on him and he sat upon him
and many spread their garments in the way and others cut down branches off the trees and strawed them in the way
and they that went before and they that followed cried saying hosanna blessed is he that cometh in the name of the lord
blessed be the kingdom of our father david that cometh in the name of the lord hosanna in the highest
and jesus entered into jerusalem and into the temple and when he had looked round about upon all things and now the eventide was come he went out unto bethany with the twelve
and on the morrow when they were come from bethany he was hungry
and seeing a fig tree afar off having leaves he came if haply he might find any thing thereon and when he came to it he found nothing but leaves for the time of figs was not yet
and jesus answered and said unto it no man eat fruit of thee hereafter for ever and his disciples heard it
and they come to jerusalem and jesus went into the temple and began to cast out them that sold and bought in the temple and overthrew the tables of the moneychangers and the seats of them that sold doves
and would not suffer that any man should carry any vessel through the temple
and he taught saying unto them is it not written my house shall be called of all nations the house of prayer but ye have made it a den of thieves
and the scribes and chief priests heard it and sought how they might destroy him for they feared him because all the people was astonished at his doctrine
and when even was come he went out of the city
and in the morning as they passed by they saw the fig tree dried up from the roots
and peter calling to remembrance saith unto him master behold the fig tree which thou cursedst is withered away
and jesus answering saith unto them have faith in god
for verily i say unto you that whosoever shall say unto this mountain be thou removed and be thou cast into the sea and shall not doubt in his heart but shall believe that those things which he saith shall come to pass he shall have whatsoever he saith
therefore i say unto you what things soever ye desire when ye pray believe that ye receive them and ye shall have them
and when ye stand praying forgive if ye have ought against any that your father also which is in heaven may forgive you your trespasses
but if ye do not forgive neither will your father which is in heaven forgive your trespasses
and they come again to jerusalem and as he was walking in the temple there come to him the chief priests and the scribes and the elders
and say unto him by what authority doest thou these things and who gave thee this authority to do these things
and jesus answered and said unto them i will also ask of you one question and answer me and i will tell you by what authority i do these things
the baptism of john was it from heaven or of men answer me
and they reasoned with themselves saying if we shall say from heaven he will say why then did ye not believe him
but if we shall say of men they feared the people for all men counted john that he was a prophet indeed
and they answered and said unto jesus we cannot tell and jesus answering saith unto them neither do i tell you by what authority i do these things
and he began to speak unto them by parables a certain man planted a vineyard and set an hedge about it and digged a place for the winefat and built a tower and let it out to husbandmen and went into a far country
and at the season he sent to the husbandmen a servant that he might receive from the husbandmen of the fruit of the vineyard
and they caught him and beat him and sent him away empty
and again he sent unto them another servant and at him they cast stones and wounded him in the head and sent him away shamefully handled
and again he sent another and him they killed and many others beating some and killing some
having yet therefore one son his wellbeloved he sent him also last unto them saying they will reverence my son
but those husbandmen said among themselves this is the heir come let us kill him and the inheritance shall be our's
and they took him and killed him and cast him out of the vineyard
what shall therefore the lord of the vineyard do he will come and destroy the husbandmen and will give the vineyard unto others
and have ye not read this scripture the stone which the builders rejected is become the head of the corner
this was the lord's doing and it is marvellous in our eyes
and they sought to lay hold on him but feared the people for they knew that he had spoken the parable against them and they left him and went their way
and they send unto him certain of the pharisees and of the herodians to catch him in his words
and when they were come they say unto him master we know that thou art true and carest for no man for thou regardest not the person of men but teachest the way of god in truth is it lawful to give tribute to caesar or not
shall we give or shall we not give but he knowing their hypocrisy said unto them why tempt ye me bring me a penny that i may see it
and they brought it and he saith unto them whose is this image and superscription and they said unto him caesar's
and jesus answering said unto them render to caesar the things that are caesar's and to god the things that are god's and they marvelled at him
then come unto him the sadducees which say there is no resurrection and they asked him saying
master moses wrote unto us if a man's brother die and leave his wife behind him and leave no children that his brother should take his wife and raise up seed unto his brother
now there were seven brethren and the first took a wife and dying left no seed
and the second took her and died neither left he any seed and the third likewise
and the seven had her and left no seed last of all the woman died also
in the resurrection therefore when they shall rise whose wife shall she be of them for the seven had her to wife
and jesus answering said unto them do ye not therefore err because ye know not the scriptures neither the power of god
for when they shall rise from the dead they neither marry nor are given in marriage but are as the angels which are in heaven
and as touching the dead that they rise have ye not read in the book of moses how in the bush god spake unto him saying i am the god of abraham and the god of isaac and the god of jacob
he is not the god of the dead but the god of the living ye therefore do greatly err
and one of the scribes came and having heard them reasoning together and perceiving that he had answered them well asked him which is the first commandment of all
and jesus answered him the first of all the commandments is hear o israel the lord our god is one lord
and thou shalt love the lord thy god with all thy heart and with all thy soul and with all thy mind and with all thy strength this is the first commandment
and the second is like namely this thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself there is none other commandment greater than these
and the scribe said unto him well master thou hast said the truth for there is one god and there is none other but he
and to love him with all the heart and with all the understanding and with all the soul and with all the strength and to love his neighbour as himself is more than all whole burnt offerings and sacrifices
and when jesus saw that he answered discreetly he said unto him thou art not far from the kingdom of god and no man after that durst ask him any question
and jesus answered and said while he taught in the temple how say the scribes that christ is the son of david
for david himself said by the holy ghost the lord said to my lord sit thou on my right hand till i make thine enemies thy footstool
david therefore himself calleth him lord and whence is he then his son and the common people heard him gladly
and he said unto them in his doctrine beware of the scribes which love to go in long clothing and love salutations in the marketplaces
and the chief seats in the synagogues and the uppermost rooms at feasts
which devour widows houses and for a pretence make long prayers these shall receive greater damnation
and jesus sat over against the treasury and beheld how the people cast money into the treasury and many that were rich cast in much
and there came a certain poor widow and she threw in two mites which make a farthing
and he called unto him his disciples and saith unto them verily i say unto you that this poor widow hath cast more in than all they which have cast into the treasury
for all they did cast in of their abundance but she of her want did cast in all that she had even all her living
and as he went out of the temple one of his disciples saith unto him master see what manner of stones and what buildings are here
and jesus answering said unto him seest thou these great buildings there shall not be left one stone upon another that shall not be thrown down
and as he sat upon the mount of olives over against the temple peter and james and john and andrew asked him privately
tell us when shall these things be and what shall be the sign when all these things shall be fulfilled
and jesus answering them began to say take heed lest any man deceive you
for many shall come in my name saying i am christ and shall deceive many
and when ye shall hear of wars and rumours of wars be ye not troubled for such things must needs be but the end shall not be yet
for nation shall rise against nation and kingdom against kingdom and there shall be earthquakes in divers places and there shall be famines and troubles these are the beginnings of sorrows
but take heed to yourselves for they shall deliver you up to councils and in the synagogues ye shall be beaten and ye shall be brought before rulers and kings for my sake for a testimony against them
and the gospel must first be published among all nations
but when they shall lead you and deliver you up take no thought beforehand what ye shall speak neither do ye premeditate but whatsoever shall be given you in that hour that speak ye for it is not ye that speak but the holy ghost
now the brother shall betray the brother to death and the father the son and children shall rise up against their parents and shall cause them to be put to death
and ye shall be hated of all men for my name's sake but he that shall endure unto the end the same shall be saved
but when ye shall see the abomination of desolation spoken of by daniel the prophet standing where it ought not let him that readeth understand then let them that be in judaea flee to the mountains
and let him that is on the housetop not go down into the house neither enter therein to take any thing out of his house
and let him that is in the field not turn back again for to take up his garment
but woe to them that are with child and to them that give suck in those days
and pray ye that your flight be not in the winter
for in those days shall be affliction such as was not from the beginning of the creation which god created unto this time neither shall be
and except that the lord had shortened those days no flesh should be saved but for the elect's sake whom he hath chosen he hath shortened the days
and then if any man shall say to you lo here is christ or lo he is there believe him not
for false christs and false prophets shall rise and shall shew signs and wonders to seduce if it were possible even the elect
but take ye heed behold i have foretold you all things
but in those days after that tribulation the sun shall be darkened and the moon shall not give her light
and the stars of heaven shall fall and the powers that are in heaven shall be shaken
and then shall they see the son of man coming in the clouds with great power and glory
and then shall he send his angels and shall gather together his elect from the four winds from the uttermost part of the earth to the uttermost part of heaven
now learn a parable of the fig tree when her branch is yet tender and putteth forth leaves ye know that summer is near
so ye in like manner when ye shall see these things come to pass know that it is nigh even at the doors
verily i say unto you that this generation shall not pass till all these things be done
heaven and earth shall pass away but my words shall not pass away
but of that day and that hour knoweth no man no not the angels which are in heaven neither the son but the father
take ye heed watch and pray for ye know not when the time is
for the son of man is as a man taking a far journey who left his house and gave authority to his servants and to every man his work and commanded the porter to watch
watch ye therefore for ye know not when the master of the house cometh at even or at midnight or at the cockcrowing or in the morning
lest coming suddenly he find you sleeping
and what i say unto you i say unto all watch
after two days was the feast of the passover and of unleavened bread and the chief priests and the scribes sought how they might take him by craft and put him to death
but they said not on the feast day lest there be an uproar of the people
and being in bethany in the house of simon the leper as he sat at meat there came a woman having an alabaster box of ointment of spikenard very precious and she brake the box and poured it on his head
and there were some that had indignation within themselves and said why was this waste of the ointment made
for it might have been sold for more than three hundred pence and have been given to the poor and they murmured against her
and jesus said let her alone why trouble ye her she hath wrought a good work on me
for ye have the poor with you always and whensoever ye will ye may do them good but me ye have not always
she hath done what she could she is come aforehand to anoint my body to the burying
verily i say unto you wheresoever this gospel shall be preached throughout the whole world this also that she hath done shall be spoken of for a memorial of her
and judas iscariot one of the twelve went unto the chief priests to betray him unto them
and when they heard it they were glad and promised to give him money and he sought how he might conveniently betray him
and the first day of unleavened bread when they killed the passover his disciples said unto him where wilt thou that we go and prepare that thou mayest eat the passover
and he sendeth forth two of his disciples and saith unto them go ye into the city and there shall meet you a man bearing a pitcher of water follow him
and wheresoever he shall go in say ye to the goodman of the house the master saith where is the guestchamber where i shall eat the passover with my disciples
and he will shew you a large upper room furnished and prepared there make ready for us
and his disciples went forth and came into the city and found as he had said unto them and they made ready the passover
and in the evening he cometh with the twelve
and as they sat and did eat jesus said verily i say unto you one of you which eateth with me shall betray me
and they began to be sorrowful and to say unto him one by one is it i and another said is it i
and he answered and said unto them it is one of the twelve that dippeth with me in the dish
the son of man indeed goeth as it is written of him but woe to that man by whom the son of man is betrayed good were it for that man if he had never been born
and as they did eat jesus took bread and blessed and brake it and gave to them and said take eat this is my body
and he took the cup and when he had given thanks he gave it to them and they all drank of it
and he said unto them this is my blood of the new testament which is shed for many
verily i say unto you i will drink no more of the fruit of the vine until that day that i drink it new in the kingdom of god
and when they had sung an hymn they went out into the mount of olives
and jesus saith unto them all ye shall be offended because of me this night for it is written i will smite the shepherd and the sheep shall be scattered
but after that i am risen i will go before you into galilee
but peter said unto him although all shall be offended yet will not i
and jesus saith unto him verily i say unto thee that this day even in this night before the cock crow twice thou shalt deny me thrice
but he spake the more vehemently if i should die with thee i will not deny thee in any wise likewise also said they all
and they came to a place which was named gethsemane and he saith to his disciples sit ye here while i shall pray
and he taketh with him peter and james and john and began to be sore amazed and to be very heavy
and saith unto them my soul is exceeding sorrowful unto death tarry ye here and watch
and he went forward a little and fell on the ground and prayed that if it were possible the hour might pass from him
and he said abba father all things are possible unto thee take away this cup from me nevertheless not what i will but what thou wilt
and he cometh and findeth them sleeping and saith unto peter simon sleepest thou couldest not thou watch one hour
watch ye and pray lest ye enter into temptation the spirit truly is ready but the flesh is weak
and again he went away and prayed and spake the same words
and when he returned he found them asleep again for their eyes were heavy neither wist they what to answer him
and he cometh the third time and saith unto them sleep on now and take your rest it is enough the hour is come behold the son of man is betrayed into the hands of sinners
rise up let us go lo he that betrayeth me is at hand
and immediately while he yet spake cometh judas one of the twelve and with him a great multitude with swords and staves from the chief priests and the scribes and the elders
and he that betrayed him had given them a token saying whomsoever i shall kiss that same is he take him and lead him away safely
and as soon as he was come he goeth straightway to him and saith master master and kissed him
and they laid their hands on him and took him
and one of them that stood by drew a sword and smote a servant of the high priest and cut off his ear
and jesus answered and said unto them are ye come out as against a thief with swords and with staves to take me
i was daily with you in the temple teaching and ye took me not but the scriptures must be fulfilled
and they all forsook him and fled
and there followed him a certain young man having a linen cloth cast about his naked body and the young men laid hold on him
and he left the linen cloth and fled from them naked
and they led jesus away to the high priest and with him were assembled all the chief priests and the elders and the scribes
and peter followed him afar off even into the palace of the high priest and he sat with the servants and warmed himself at the fire
and the chief priests and all the council sought for witness against jesus to put him to death and found none
for many bare false witness against him but their witness agreed not together
and there arose certain and bare false witness against him saying
we heard him say i will destroy this temple that is made with hands and within three days i will build another made without hands
but neither so did their witness agree together
and the high priest stood up in the midst and asked jesus saying answerest thou nothing what is it which these witness against thee
but he held his peace and answered nothing again the high priest asked him and said unto him art thou the christ the son of the blessed
and jesus said i am and ye shall see the son of man sitting on the right hand of power and coming in the clouds of heaven
then the high priest rent his clothes and saith what need we any further witnesses
ye have heard the blasphemy what think ye and they all condemned him to be guilty of death
and some began to spit on him and to cover his face and to buffet him and to say unto him prophesy and the servants did strike him with the palms of their hands
and as peter was beneath in the palace there cometh one of the maids of the high priest
and when she saw peter warming himself she looked upon him and said and thou also wast with jesus of nazareth
but he denied saying i know not neither understand i what thou sayest and he went out into the porch and the cock crew
and a maid saw him again and began to say to them that stood by this is one of them
and he denied it again and a little after they that stood by said again to peter surely thou art one of them for thou art a galilaean and thy speech agreeth thereto
but he began to curse and to swear saying i know not this man of whom ye speak
and the second time the cock crew and peter called to mind the word that jesus said unto him before the cock crow twice thou shalt deny me thrice and when he thought thereon he wept
and straightway in the morning the chief priests held a consultation with the elders and scribes and the whole council and bound jesus and carried him away and delivered him to pilate
and pilate asked him art thou the king of the jews and he answering said unto him thou sayest it
and the chief priests accused him of many things but he answered nothing
and pilate asked him again saying answerest thou nothing behold how many things they witness against thee
but jesus yet answered nothing so that pilate marvelled
now at that feast he released unto them one prisoner whomsoever they desired
and there was one named barabbas which lay bound with them that had made insurrection with him who had committed murder in the insurrection
and the multitude crying aloud began to desire him to do as he had ever done unto them
but pilate answered them saying will ye that i release unto you the king of the jews
for he knew that the chief priests had delivered him for envy
but the chief priests moved the people that he should rather release barabbas unto them
and pilate answered and said again unto them what will ye then that i shall do unto him whom ye call the king of the jews
and they cried out again crucify him
then pilate said unto them why what evil hath he done and they cried out the more exceedingly crucify him
and so pilate willing to content the people released barabbas unto them and delivered jesus when he had scourged him to be crucified
and the soldiers led him away into the hall called praetorium and they call together the whole band
and they clothed him with purple and platted a crown of thorns and put it about his head
and began to salute him hail king of the jews
and they smote him on the head with a reed and did spit upon him and bowing their knees worshipped him
and when they had mocked him they took off the purple from him and put his own clothes on him and led him out to crucify him
and they compel one simon a cyrenian who passed by coming out of the country the father of alexander and rufus to bear his cross
and they bring him unto the place golgotha which is being interpreted the place of a skull
and they gave him to drink wine mingled with myrrh but he received it not
and when they had crucified him they parted his garments casting lots upon them what every man should take
and it was the third hour and they crucified him
and the superscription of his accusation was written over the king of the jews
and with him they crucify two thieves the one on his right hand and the other on his left
and the scripture was fulfilled which saith and he was numbered with the transgressors
and they that passed by railed on him wagging their heads and saying ah thou that destroyest the temple and buildest it in three days
save thyself and come down from the cross
likewise also the chief priests mocking said among themselves with the scribes he saved others himself he cannot save
let christ the king of israel descend now from the cross that we may see and believe and they that were crucified with him reviled him
and when the sixth hour was come there was darkness over the whole land until the ninth hour
and at the ninth hour jesus cried with a loud voice saying eloi eloi lama sabachthani which is being interpreted my god my god why hast thou forsaken me
and some of them that stood by when they heard it said behold he calleth elias
and one ran and filled a spunge full of vinegar and put it on a reed and gave him to drink saying let alone let us see whether elias will come to take him down
and jesus cried with a loud voice and gave up the ghost
and the veil of the temple was rent in twain from the top to the bottom
and when the centurion which stood over against him saw that he so cried out and gave up the ghost he said truly this man was the son of god
there were also women looking on afar off among whom was mary magdalene and mary the mother of james the less and of joses and salome
who also when he was in galilee followed him and ministered unto him and many other women which came up with him unto jerusalem
and now when the even was come because it was the preparation that is the day before the sabbath
joseph of arimathaea an honourable counsellor which also waited for the kingdom of god came and went in boldly unto pilate and craved the body of jesus
and pilate marvelled if he were already dead and calling unto him the centurion he asked him whether he had been any while dead
and when he knew it of the centurion he gave the body to joseph
and he bought fine linen and took him down and wrapped him in the linen and laid him in a sepulchre which was hewn out of a rock and rolled a stone unto the door of the sepulchre
and mary magdalene and mary the mother of joses beheld where he was laid
and when the sabbath was past mary magdalene and mary the mother of james and salome had bought sweet spices that they might come and anoint him
and very early in the morning the first day of the week they came unto the sepulchre at the rising of the sun
and they said among themselves who shall roll us away the stone from the door of the sepulchre
and when they looked they saw that the stone was rolled away for it was very great
and entering into the sepulchre they saw a young man sitting on the right side clothed in a long white garment and they were affrighted
and he saith unto them be not affrighted ye seek jesus of nazareth which was crucified he is risen he is not here behold the place where they laid him
but go your way tell his disciples and peter that he goeth before you into galilee there shall ye see him as he said unto you
and they went out quickly and fled from the sepulchre for they trembled and were amazed neither said they any thing to any man for they were afraid
now when jesus was risen early the first day of the week he appeared first to mary magdalene out of whom he had cast seven devils
and she went and told them that had been with him as they mourned and wept
and they when they had heard that he was alive and had been seen of her believed not
after that he appeared in another form unto two of them as they walked and went into the country
and they went and told it unto the residue neither believed they them
afterward he appeared unto the eleven as they sat at meat and upbraided them with their unbelief and hardness of heart because they believed not them which had seen him after he was risen
and he said unto them go ye into all the world and preach the gospel to every creature
he that believeth and is baptized shall be saved but he that believeth not shall be damned
and these signs shall follow them that believe in my name shall they cast out devils they shall speak with new tongues
they shall take up serpents and if they drink any deadly thing it shall not hurt them they shall lay hands on the sick and they shall recover
so then after the lord had spoken unto them he was received up into heaven and sat on the right hand of god
and they went forth and preached every where the lord working with them and confirming the word with signs following amen
forasmuch as many have taken in hand to set forth in order a declaration of those things which are most surely believed among us
even as they delivered them unto us which from the beginning were eyewitnesses and ministers of the word
it seemed good to me also having had perfect understanding of all things from the very first to write unto thee in order most excellent theophilus
that thou mightest know the certainty of those things wherein thou hast been instructed
there was in the days of herod the king of judaea a certain priest named zacharias of the course of abia and his wife was of the daughters of aaron and her name was elisabeth
and they were both righteous before god walking in all the commandments and ordinances of the lord blameless
and they had no child because that elisabeth was barren and they both were now well stricken in years
and it came to pass that while he executed the priest's office before god in the order of his course
according to the custom of the priest's office his lot was to burn incense when he went into the temple of the lord
and the whole multitude of the people were praying without at the time of incense
and there appeared unto him an angel of the lord standing on the right side of the altar of incense
and when zacharias saw him he was troubled and fear fell upon him
but the angel said unto him fear not zacharias for thy prayer is heard and thy wife elisabeth shall bear thee a son and thou shalt call his name john
and thou shalt have joy and gladness and many shall rejoice at his birth
for he shall be great in the sight of the lord and shall drink neither wine nor strong drink and he shall be filled with the holy ghost even from his mother's womb
and many of the children of israel shall he turn to the lord their god
and he shall go before him in the spirit and power of elias to turn the hearts of the fathers to the children and the disobedient to the wisdom of the just to make ready a people prepared for the lord
and zacharias said unto the angel whereby shall i know this for i am an old man and my wife well stricken in years
and the angel answering said unto him i am gabriel that stand in the presence of god and am sent to speak unto thee and to shew thee these glad tidings
and behold thou shalt be dumb and not able to speak until the day that these things shall be performed because thou believest not my words which shall be fulfilled in their season
and the people waited for zacharias and marvelled that he tarried so long in the temple
and when he came out he could not speak unto them and they perceived that he had seen a vision in the temple for he beckoned unto them and remained speechless
and it came to pass that as soon as the days of his ministration were accomplished he departed to his own house
and after those days his wife elisabeth conceived and hid herself five months saying
thus hath the lord dealt with me in the days wherein he looked on me to take away my reproach among men
and in the sixth month the angel gabriel was sent from god unto a city of galilee named nazareth
to a virgin espoused to a man whose name was joseph of the house of david and the virgin's name was mary
and the angel came in unto her and said hail thou that art highly favoured the lord is with thee blessed art thou among women
and when she saw him she was troubled at his saying and cast in her mind what manner of salutation this should be
and the angel said unto her fear not mary for thou hast found favour with god
and behold thou shalt conceive in thy womb and bring forth a son and shalt call his name jesus
he shall be great and shall be called the son of the highest and the lord god shall give unto him the throne of his father david
and he shall reign over the house of jacob for ever and of his kingdom there shall be no end
then said mary unto the angel how shall this be seeing i know not a man
and the angel answered and said unto her the holy ghost shall come upon thee and the power of the highest shall overshadow thee therefore also that holy thing which shall be born of thee shall be called the son of god
and behold thy cousin elisabeth she hath also conceived a son in her old age and this is the sixth month with her who was called barren
for with god nothing shall be impossible
and mary said behold the handmaid of the lord be it unto me according to thy word and the angel departed from her
and mary arose in those days and went into the hill country with haste into a city of juda
and entered into the house of zacharias and saluted elisabeth
and it came to pass that when elisabeth heard the salutation of mary the babe leaped in her womb and elisabeth was filled with the holy ghost
and she spake out with a loud voice and said blessed art thou among women and blessed is the fruit of thy womb
and whence is this to me that the mother of my lord should come to me
for lo as soon as the voice of thy salutation sounded in mine ears the babe leaped in my womb for joy
and blessed is she that believed for there shall be a performance of those things which were told her from the lord
and mary said my soul doth magnify the lord
and my spirit hath rejoiced in god my saviour
for he hath regarded the low estate of his handmaiden for behold from henceforth all generations shall call me blessed
for he that is mighty hath done to me great things and holy is his name
and his mercy is on them that fear him from generation to generation
he hath shewed strength with his arm he hath scattered the proud in the imagination of their hearts
he hath put down the mighty from their seats and exalted them of low degree
he hath filled the hungry with good things and the rich he hath sent empty away
he hath holpen his servant israel in remembrance of his mercy
as he spake to our fathers to abraham and to his seed for ever
and mary abode with her about three months and returned to her own house
now elisabeth's full time came that she should be delivered and she brought forth a son
and her neighbours and her cousins heard how the lord had shewed great mercy upon her and they rejoiced with her
and it came to pass that on the eighth day they came to circumcise the child and they called him zacharias after the name of his father
and his mother answered and said not so but he shall be called john
and they said unto her there is none of thy kindred that is called by this name
and they made signs to his father how he would have him called
and he asked for a writing table and wrote saying his name is john and they marvelled all
and his mouth was opened immediately and his tongue loosed and he spake and praised god
and fear came on all that dwelt round about them and all these sayings were noised abroad throughout all the hill country of judaea
and all they that heard them laid them up in their hearts saying what manner of child shall this be and the hand of the lord was with him
and his father zacharias was filled with the holy ghost and prophesied saying
blessed be the lord god of israel for he hath visited and redeemed his people
and hath raised up an horn of salvation for us in the house of his servant david
as he spake by the mouth of his holy prophets which have been since the world began
that we should be saved from our enemies and from the hand of all that hate us
to perform the mercy promised to our fathers and to remember his holy covenant
the oath which he sware to our father abraham
that he would grant unto us that we being delivered out of the hand of our enemies might serve him without fear
in holiness and righteousness before him all the days of our life
and thou child shalt be called the prophet of the highest for thou shalt go before the face of the lord to prepare his ways
to give knowledge of salvation unto his people by the remission of their sins
through the tender mercy of our god whereby the dayspring from on high hath visited us
to give light to them that sit in darkness and in the shadow of death to guide our feet into the way of peace
and the child grew and waxed strong in spirit and was in the deserts till the day of his shewing unto israel
and it came to pass in those days that there went out a decree from caesar augustus that all the world should be taxed
and this taxing was first made when cyrenius was governor of syria
and all went to be taxed every one into his own city
and joseph also went up from galilee out of the city of nazareth into judaea unto the city of david which is called bethlehem because he was of the house and lineage of david
to be taxed with mary his espoused wife being great with child
and so it was that while they were there the days were accomplished that she should be delivered
and she brought forth her firstborn son and wrapped him in swaddling clothes and laid him in a manger because there was no room for them in the inn
and there were in the same country shepherds abiding in the field keeping watch over their flock by night
and lo the angel of the lord came upon them and the glory of the lord shone round about them and they were sore afraid
and the angel said unto them fear not for behold i bring you good tidings of great joy which shall be to all people
for unto you is born this day in the city of david a saviour which is christ the lord
and this shall be a sign unto you ye shall find the babe wrapped in swaddling clothes lying in a manger
and suddenly there was with the angel a multitude of the heavenly host praising god and saying
glory to god in the highest and on earth peace good will toward men
and it came to pass as the angels were gone away from them into heaven the shepherds said one to another let us now go even unto bethlehem and see this thing which is come to pass which the lord hath made known unto us
and they came with haste and found mary and joseph and the babe lying in a manger
and when they had seen it they made known abroad the saying which was told them concerning this child
and all they that heard it wondered at those things which were told them by the shepherds
but mary kept all these things and pondered them in her heart
and the shepherds returned glorifying and praising god for all the things that they had heard and seen as it was told unto them
and when eight days were accomplished for the circumcising of the child his name was called jesus which was so named of the angel before he was conceived in the womb
and when the days of her purification according to the law of moses were accomplished they brought him to jerusalem to present him to the lord
as it is written in the law of the lord every male that openeth the womb shall be called holy to the lord
and to offer a sacrifice according to that which is said in the law of the lord a pair of turtledoves or two young pigeons
and behold there was a man in jerusalem whose name was simeon and the same man was just and devout waiting for the consolation of israel and the holy ghost was upon him
and it was revealed unto him by the holy ghost that he should not see death before he had seen the lord's christ
and he came by the spirit into the temple and when the parents brought in the child jesus to do for him after the custom of the law
then took he him up in his arms and blessed god and said
lord now lettest thou thy servant depart in peace according to thy word
for mine eyes have seen thy salvation
which thou hast prepared before the face of all people
a light to lighten the gentiles and the glory of thy people israel
and joseph and his mother marvelled at those things which were spoken of him
and simeon blessed them and said unto mary his mother behold this child is set for the fall and rising again of many in israel and for a sign which shall be spoken against
yea a sword shall pierce through thy own soul also that the thoughts of many hearts may be revealed
and there was one anna a prophetess the daughter of phanuel of the tribe of aser she was of a great age and had lived with an husband seven years from her virginity
and she was a widow of about fourscore and four years which departed not from the temple but served god with fastings and prayers night and day
and she coming in that instant gave thanks likewise unto the lord and spake of him to all them that looked for redemption in jerusalem
and when they had performed all things according to the law of the lord they returned into galilee to their own city nazareth
and the child grew and waxed strong in spirit filled with wisdom and the grace of god was upon him
now his parents went to jerusalem every year at the feast of the passover
and when he was twelve years old they went up to jerusalem after the custom of the feast
and when they had fulfilled the days as they returned the child jesus tarried behind in jerusalem and joseph and his mother knew not of it
but they supposing him to have been in the company went a day's journey and they sought him among their kinsfolk and acquaintance
and when they found him not they turned back again to jerusalem seeking him
and it came to pass that after three days they found him in the temple sitting in the midst of the doctors both hearing them and asking them questions
and all that heard him were astonished at his understanding and answers
and when they saw him they were amazed and his mother said unto him son why hast thou thus dealt with us behold thy father and i have sought thee sorrowing
and he said unto them how is it that ye sought me wist ye not that i must be about my father's business
and they understood not the saying which he spake unto them
and he went down with them and came to nazareth and was subject unto them but his mother kept all these sayings in her heart
and jesus increased in wisdom and stature and in favour with god and man
now in the fifteenth year of the reign of tiberius caesar pontius pilate being governor of judaea and herod being tetrarch of galilee and his brother philip tetrarch of ituraea and of the region of trachonitis and lysanias the tetrarch of abilene
annas and caiaphas being the high priests the word of god came unto john the son of zacharias in the wilderness
and he came into all the country about jordan preaching the baptism of repentance for the remission of sins
as it is written in the book of the words of esaias the prophet saying the voice of one crying in the wilderness prepare ye the way of the lord make his paths straight
every valley shall be filled and every mountain and hill shall be brought low and the crooked shall be made straight and the rough ways shall be made smooth
and all flesh shall see the salvation of god
then said he to the multitude that came forth to be baptized of him o generation of vipers who hath warned you to flee from the wrath to come
bring forth therefore fruits worthy of repentance and begin not to say within yourselves we have abraham to our father for i say unto you that god is able of these stones to raise up children unto abraham
and now also the axe is laid unto the root of the trees every tree therefore which bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down and cast into the fire
and the people asked him saying what shall we do then
he answereth and saith unto them he that hath two coats let him impart to him that hath none and he that hath meat let him do likewise
then came also publicans to be baptized and said unto him master what shall we do
and he said unto them exact no more than that which is appointed you
and the soldiers likewise demanded of him saying and what shall we do and he said unto them do violence to no man neither accuse any falsely and be content with your wages
and as the people were in expectation and all men mused in their hearts of john whether he were the christ or not
john answered saying unto them all i indeed baptize you with water but one mightier than i cometh the latchet of whose shoes i am not worthy to unloose he shall baptize you with the holy ghost and with fire
whose fan is in his hand and he will throughly purge his floor and will gather the wheat into his garner but the chaff he will burn with fire unquenchable
and many other things in his exhortation preached he unto the people
but herod the tetrarch being reproved by him for herodias his brother philip's wife and for all the evils which herod had done
added yet this above all that he shut up john in prison
now when all the people were baptized it came to pass that jesus also being baptized and praying the heaven was opened
and the holy ghost descended in a bodily shape like a dove upon him and a voice came from heaven which said thou art my beloved son in thee i am well pleased
and jesus himself began to be about thirty years of age being as was supposed the son of joseph which was the son of heli
which was the son of matthat which was the son of levi which was the son of melchi which was the son of janna which was the son of joseph
which was the son of mattathias which was the son of amos which was the son of naum which was the son of esli which was the son of nagge
which was the son of maath which was the son of mattathias which was the son of semei which was the son of joseph which was the son of juda
which was the son of joanna which was the son of rhesa which was the son of zorobabel which was the son of salathiel which was the son of neri
which was the son of melchi which was the son of addi which was the son of cosam which was the son of elmodam which was the son of er
which was the son of jose which was the son of eliezer which was the son of jorim which was the son of matthat which was the son of levi
which was the son of simeon which was the son of juda which was the son of joseph which was the son of jonan which was the son of eliakim
which was the son of melea which was the son of menan which was the son of mattatha which was the son of nathan which was the son of david
which was the son of jesse which was the son of obed which was the son of booz which was the son of salmon which was the son of naasson
which was the son of aminadab which was the son of aram which was the son of esrom which was the son of phares which was the son of juda
which was the son of jacob which was the son of isaac which was the son of abraham which was the son of thara which was the son of nachor
which was the son of saruch which was the son of ragau which was the son of phalec which was the son of heber which was the son of sala
which was the son of cainan which was the son of arphaxad which was the son of sem which was the son of noe which was the son of lamech
which was the son of mathusala which was the son of enoch which was the son of jared which was the son of maleleel which was the son of cainan
which was the son of enos which was the son of seth which was the son of adam which was the son of god
and jesus being full of the holy ghost returned from jordan and was led by the spirit into the wilderness
being forty days tempted of the devil and in those days he did eat nothing and when they were ended he afterward hungered
and the devil said unto him if thou be the son of god command this stone that it be made bread
and jesus answered him saying it is written that man shall not live by bread alone but by every word of god
and the devil taking him up into an high mountain shewed unto him all the kingdoms of the world in a moment of time
and the devil said unto him all this power will i give thee and the glory of them for that is delivered unto me and to whomsoever i will i give it
if thou therefore wilt worship me all shall be thine
and jesus answered and said unto him get thee behind me satan for it is written thou shalt worship the lord thy god and him only shalt thou serve
and he brought him to jerusalem and set him on a pinnacle of the temple and said unto him if thou be the son of god cast thyself down from hence
for it is written he shall give his angels charge over thee to keep thee
and in their hands they shall bear thee up lest at any time thou dash thy foot against a stone
and jesus answering said unto him it is said thou shalt not tempt the lord thy god
and when the devil had ended all the temptation he departed from him for a season
and jesus returned in the power of the spirit into galilee and there went out a fame of him through all the region round about
and he taught in their synagogues being glorified of all
and he came to nazareth where he had been brought up and as his custom was he went into the synagogue on the sabbath day and stood up for to read
and there was delivered unto him the book of the prophet esaias and when he had opened the book he found the place where it was written
the spirit of the lord is upon me because he hath anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor he hath sent me to heal the brokenhearted to preach deliverance to the captives and recovering of sight to the blind to set at liberty them that are bruised
to preach the acceptable year of the lord
and he closed the book and he gave it again to the minister and sat down and the eyes of all them that were in the synagogue were fastened on him
and he began to say unto them this day is this scripture fulfilled in your ears
and all bare him witness and wondered at the gracious words which proceeded out of his mouth and they said is not this joseph's son
and he said unto them ye will surely say unto me this proverb physician heal thyself whatsoever we have heard done in capernaum do also here in thy country
and he said verily i say unto you no prophet is accepted in his own country
but i tell you of a truth many widows were in israel in the days of elias when the heaven was shut up three years and six months when great famine was throughout all the land
but unto none of them was elias sent save unto sarepta a city of sidon unto a woman that was a widow
and many lepers were in israel in the time of eliseus the prophet and none of them was cleansed saving naaman the syrian
and all they in the synagogue when they heard these things were filled with wrath
and rose up and thrust him out of the city and led him unto the brow of the hill whereon their city was built that they might cast him down headlong
but he passing through the midst of them went his way
and came down to capernaum a city of galilee and taught them on the sabbath days
and they were astonished at his doctrine for his word was with power
and in the synagogue there was a man which had a spirit of an unclean devil and cried out with a loud voice
saying let us alone what have we to do with thee thou jesus of nazareth art thou come to destroy us i know thee who thou art the holy one of god
and jesus rebuked him saying hold thy peace and come out of him and when the devil had thrown him in the midst he came out of him and hurt him not
and they were all amazed and spake among themselves saying what a word is this for with authority and power he commandeth the unclean spirits and they come out
and the fame of him went out into every place of the country round about
and he arose out of the synagogue and entered into simon's house and simon's wife's mother was taken with a great fever and they besought him for her
and he stood over her and rebuked the fever and it left her and immediately she arose and ministered unto them
now when the sun was setting all they that had any sick with divers diseases brought them unto him and he laid his hands on every one of them and healed them
and devils also came out of many crying out and saying thou art christ the son of god and he rebuking them suffered them not to speak for they knew that he was christ
and when it was day he departed and went into a desert place and the people sought him and came unto him and stayed him that he should not depart from them
and he said unto them i must preach the kingdom of god to other cities also for therefore am i sent
and he preached in the synagogues of galilee
and it came to pass that as the people pressed upon him to hear the word of god he stood by the lake of gennesaret
and saw two ships standing by the lake but the fishermen were gone out of them and were washing their nets
and he entered into one of the ships which was simon's and prayed him that he would thrust out a little from the land and he sat down and taught the people out of the ship
now when he had left speaking he said unto simon launch out into the deep and let down your nets for a draught
and simon answering said unto him master we have toiled all the night and have taken nothing nevertheless at thy word i will let down the net
and when they had this done they inclosed a great multitude of fishes and their net brake
and they beckoned unto their partners which were in the other ship that they should come and help them and they came and filled both the ships so that they began to sink
when simon peter saw it he fell down at jesus knees saying depart from me for i am a sinful man o lord
for he was astonished and all that were with him at the draught of the fishes which they had taken
and so was also james and john the sons of zebedee which were partners with simon and jesus said unto simon fear not from henceforth thou shalt catch men
and when they had brought their ships to land they forsook all and followed him
and it came to pass when he was in a certain city behold a man full of leprosy who seeing jesus fell on his face and besought him saying lord if thou wilt thou canst make me clean
and he put forth his hand and touched him saying i will be thou clean and immediately the leprosy departed from him
and he charged him to tell no man but go and shew thyself to the priest and offer for thy cleansing according as moses commanded for a testimony unto them
but so much the more went there a fame abroad of him and great multitudes came together to hear and to be healed by him of their infirmities
and he withdrew himself into the wilderness and prayed
and it came to pass on a certain day as he was teaching that there were pharisees and doctors of the law sitting by which were come out of every town of galilee and judaea and jerusalem and the power of the lord was present to heal them
and behold men brought in a bed a man which was taken with a palsy and they sought means to bring him in and to lay him before him
and when they could not find by what way they might bring him in because of the multitude they went upon the housetop and let him down through the tiling with his couch into the midst before jesus
and when he saw their faith he said unto him man thy sins are forgiven thee
and the scribes and the pharisees began to reason saying who is this which speaketh blasphemies who can forgive sins but god alone
but when jesus perceived their thoughts he answering said unto them what reason ye in your hearts
whether is easier to say thy sins be forgiven thee or to say rise up and walk
but that ye may know that the son of man hath power upon earth to forgive sins he said unto the sick of the palsy i say unto thee arise and take up thy couch and go into thine house
and immediately he rose up before them and took up that whereon he lay and departed to his own house glorifying god
and they were all amazed and they glorified god and were filled with fear saying we have seen strange things to day
and after these things he went forth and saw a publican named levi sitting at the receipt of custom and he said unto him follow me
and he left all rose up and followed him
and levi made him a great feast in his own house and there was a great company of publicans and of others that sat down with them
but their scribes and pharisees murmured against his disciples saying why do ye eat and drink with publicans and sinners
and jesus answering said unto them they that are whole need not a physician but they that are sick
i came not to call the righteous but sinners to repentance
and they said unto him why do the disciples of john fast often and make prayers and likewise the disciples of the pharisees but thine eat and drink
and he said unto them can ye make the children of the bridechamber fast while the bridegroom is with them
but the days will come when the bridegroom shall be taken away from them and then shall they fast in those days
and he spake also a parable unto them no man putteth a piece of a new garment upon an old if otherwise then both the new maketh a rent and the piece that was taken out of the new agreeth not with the old
and no man putteth new wine into old bottles else the new wine will burst the bottles and be spilled and the bottles shall perish
but new wine must be put into new bottles and both are preserved
no man also having drunk old wine straightway desireth new for he saith the old is better
and it came to pass on the second sabbath after the first that he went through the corn fields and his disciples plucked the ears of corn and did eat rubbing them in their hands
and certain of the pharisees said unto them why do ye that which is not lawful to do on the sabbath days
and jesus answering them said have ye not read so much as this what david did when himself was an hungred and they which were with him
how he went into the house of god and did take and eat the shewbread and gave also to them that were with him which it is not lawful to eat but for the priests alone
and he said unto them that the son of man is lord also of the sabbath
and it came to pass also on another sabbath that he entered into the synagogue and taught and there was a man whose right hand was withered
and the scribes and pharisees watched him whether he would heal on the sabbath day that they might find an accusation against him
but he knew their thoughts and said to the man which had the withered hand rise up and stand forth in the midst and he arose and stood forth
then said jesus unto them i will ask you one thing is it lawful on the sabbath days to do good or to do evil to save life or to destroy it
and looking round about upon them all he said unto the man stretch forth thy hand and he did so and his hand was restored whole as the other
and they were filled with madness and communed one with another what they might do to jesus
and it came to pass in those days that he went out into a mountain to pray and continued all night in prayer to god
and when it was day he called unto him his disciples and of them he chose twelve whom also he named apostles
simon whom he also named peter and andrew his brother james and john philip and bartholomew
matthew and thomas james the son of alphaeus and simon called zelotes
and judas the brother of james and judas iscariot which also was the traitor
and he came down with them and stood in the plain and the company of his disciples and a great multitude of people out of all judaea and jerusalem and from the sea coast of tyre and sidon which came to hear him and to be healed of their diseases
and they that were vexed with unclean spirits and they were healed
and the whole multitude sought to touch him for there went virtue out of him and healed them all
and he lifted up his eyes on his disciples and said blessed be ye poor for yours is the kingdom of god
blessed are ye that hunger now for ye shall be filled blessed are ye that weep now for ye shall laugh
blessed are ye when men shall hate you and when they shall separate you from their company and shall reproach you and cast out your name as evil for the son of man's sake
rejoice ye in that day and leap for joy for behold your reward is great in heaven for in the like manner did their fathers unto the prophets
but woe unto you that are rich for ye have received your consolation
woe unto you that are full for ye shall hunger woe unto you that laugh now for ye shall mourn and weep
woe unto you when all men shall speak well of you for so did their fathers to the false prophets
but i say unto you which hear love your enemies do good to them which hate you
bless them that curse you and pray for them which despitefully use you
and unto him that smiteth thee on the one cheek offer also the other and him that taketh away thy cloak forbid not to take thy coat also
give to every man that asketh of thee and of him that taketh away thy goods ask them not again
and as ye would that men should do to you do ye also to them likewise
for if ye love them which love you what thank have ye for sinners also love those that love them
and if ye do good to them which do good to you what thank have ye for sinners also do even the same
and if ye lend to them of whom ye hope to receive what thank have ye for sinners also lend to sinners to receive as much again
but love ye your enemies and do good and lend hoping for nothing again and your reward shall be great and ye shall be the children of the highest for he is kind unto the unthankful and to the evil
be ye therefore merciful as your father also is merciful
judge not and ye shall not be judged condemn not and ye shall not be condemned forgive and ye shall be forgiven
give and it shall be given unto you good measure pressed down and shaken together and running over shall men give into your bosom for with the same measure that ye mete withal it shall be measured to you again
and he spake a parable unto them can the blind lead the blind shall they not both fall into the ditch
the disciple is not above his master but every one that is perfect shall be as his master
and why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother's eye but perceivest not the beam that is in thine own eye
either how canst thou say to thy brother brother let me pull out the mote that is in thine eye when thou thyself beholdest not the beam that is in thine own eye thou hypocrite cast out first the beam out of thine own eye and then shalt thou see clearly to pull out the mote that is in thy brother's eye
for a good tree bringeth not forth corrupt fruit neither doth a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit
for every tree is known by his own fruit for of thorns men do not gather figs nor of a bramble bush gather they grapes
a good man out of the good treasure of his heart bringeth forth that which is good and an evil man out of the evil treasure of his heart bringeth forth that which is evil for of the abundance of the heart his mouth speaketh
and why call ye me lord lord and do not the things which i say
whosoever cometh to me and heareth my sayings and doeth them i will shew you to whom he is like
he is like a man which built an house and digged deep and laid the foundation on a rock and when the flood arose the stream beat vehemently upon that house and could not shake it for it was founded upon a rock
but he that heareth and doeth not is like a man that without a foundation built an house upon the earth against which the stream did beat vehemently and immediately it fell and the ruin of that house was great
now when he had ended all his sayings in the audience of the people he entered into capernaum
and a certain centurion's servant who was dear unto him was sick and ready to die
and when he heard of jesus he sent unto him the elders of the jews beseeching him that he would come and heal his servant
and when they came to jesus they besought him instantly saying that he was worthy for whom he should do this
for he loveth our nation and he hath built us a synagogue
then jesus went with them and when he was now not far from the house the centurion sent friends to him saying unto him lord trouble not thyself for i am not worthy that thou shouldest enter under my roof
wherefore neither thought i myself worthy to come unto thee but say in a word and my servant shall be healed
for i also am a man set under authority having under me soldiers and i say unto one go and he goeth and to another come and he cometh and to my servant do this and he doeth it
when jesus heard these things he marvelled at him and turned him about and said unto the people that followed him i say unto you i have not found so great faith no not in israel
and they that were sent returning to the house found the servant whole that had been sick
and it came to pass the day after that he went into a city called nain and many of his disciples went with him and much people
now when he came nigh to the gate of the city behold there was a dead man carried out the only son of his mother and she was a widow and much people of the city was with her
and when the lord saw her he had compassion on her and said unto her weep not
and he came and touched the bier and they that bare him stood still and he said young man i say unto thee arise
and he that was dead sat up and began to speak and he delivered him to his mother
and there came a fear on all and they glorified god saying that a great prophet is risen up among us and that god hath visited his people
and this rumour of him went forth throughout all judaea and throughout all the region round about
and the disciples of john shewed him of all these things
and john calling unto him two of his disciples sent them to jesus saying art thou he that should come or look we for another
when the men were come unto him they said john baptist hath sent us unto thee saying art thou he that should come or look we for another
and in that same hour he cured many of their infirmities and plagues and of evil spirits and unto many that were blind he gave sight
then jesus answering said unto them go your way and tell john what things ye have seen and heard how that the blind see the lame walk the lepers are cleansed the deaf hear the dead are raised to the poor the gospel is preached
and blessed is he whosoever shall not be offended in me
and when the messengers of john were departed he began to speak unto the people concerning john what went ye out into the wilderness for to see a reed shaken with the wind
but what went ye out for to see a man clothed in soft raiment behold they which are gorgeously apparelled and live delicately are in kings courts
but what went ye out for to see a prophet yea i say unto you and much more than a prophet
this is he of whom it is written behold i send my messenger before thy face which shall prepare thy way before thee
for i say unto you among those that are born of women there is not a greater prophet than john the baptist but he that is least in the kingdom of god is greater than he
and all the people that heard him and the publicans justified god being baptized with the baptism of john
but the pharisees and lawyers rejected the counsel of god against themselves being not baptized of him
and the lord said whereunto then shall i liken the men of this generation and to what are they like
they are like unto children sitting in the marketplace and calling one to another and saying we have piped unto you and ye have not danced we have mourned to you and ye have not wept
for john the baptist came neither eating bread nor drinking wine and ye say he hath a devil
the son of man is come eating and drinking and ye say behold a gluttonous man and a winebibber a friend of publicans and sinners
but wisdom is justified of all her children
and one of the pharisees desired him that he would eat with him and he went into the pharisee's house and sat down to meat
and behold a woman in the city which was a sinner when she knew that jesus sat at meat in the pharisee's house brought an alabaster box of ointment
and stood at his feet behind him weeping and began to wash his feet with tears and did wipe them with the hairs of her head and kissed his feet and anointed them with the ointment
now when the pharisee which had bidden him saw it he spake within himself saying this man if he were a prophet would have known who and what manner of woman this is that toucheth him for she is a sinner
and jesus answering said unto him simon i have somewhat to say unto thee and he saith master say on
there was a certain creditor which had two debtors the one owed five hundred pence and the other fifty
and when they had nothing to pay he frankly forgave them both tell me therefore which of them will love him most
simon answered and said i suppose that he to whom he forgave most and he said unto him thou hast rightly judged
and he turned to the woman and said unto simon seest thou this woman i entered into thine house thou gavest me no water for my feet but she hath washed my feet with tears and wiped them with the hairs of her head
thou gavest me no kiss but this woman since the time i came in hath not ceased to kiss my feet
my head with oil thou didst not anoint but this woman hath anointed my feet with ointment
wherefore i say unto thee her sins which are many are forgiven for she loved much but to whom little is forgiven the same loveth little
and he said unto her thy sins are forgiven
and they that sat at meat with him began to say within themselves who is this that forgiveth sins also
and he said to the woman thy faith hath saved thee go in peace
and it came to pass afterward that he went throughout every city and village preaching and shewing the glad tidings of the kingdom of god and the twelve were with him
and certain women which had been healed of evil spirits and infirmities mary called magdalene out of whom went seven devils
and joanna the wife of chuza herod's steward and susanna and many others which ministered unto him of their substance
and when much people were gathered together and were come to him out of every city he spake by a parable
a sower went out to sow his seed and as he sowed some fell by the way side and it was trodden down and the fowls of the air devoured it
and some fell upon a rock and as soon as it was sprung up it withered away because it lacked moisture
and some fell among thorns and the thorns sprang up with it and choked it
and other fell on good ground and sprang up and bare fruit an hundredfold and when he had said these things he cried he that hath ears to hear let him hear
and his disciples asked him saying what might this parable be
and he said unto you it is given to know the mysteries of the kingdom of god but to others in parables that seeing they might not see and hearing they might not understand
now the parable is this the seed is the word of god
those by the way side are they that hear then cometh the devil and taketh away the word out of their hearts lest they should believe and be saved
they on the rock are they which when they hear receive the word with joy and these have no root which for a while believe and in time of temptation fall away
and that which fell among thorns are they which when they have heard go forth and are choked with cares and riches and pleasures of this life and bring no fruit to perfection
but that on the good ground are they which in an honest and good heart having heard the word keep it and bring forth fruit with patience
no man when he hath lighted a candle covereth it with a vessel or putteth it under a bed but setteth it on a candlestick that they which enter in may see the light
for nothing is secret that shall not be made manifest neither any thing hid that shall not be known and come abroad
take heed therefore how ye hear for whosoever hath to him shall be given and whosoever hath not from him shall be taken even that which he seemeth to have
then came to him his mother and his brethren and could not come at him for the press
and it was told him by certain which said thy mother and thy brethren stand without desiring to see thee
and he answered and said unto them my mother and my brethren are these which hear the word of god and do it
now it came to pass on a certain day that he went into a ship with his disciples and he said unto them let us go over unto the other side of the lake and they launched forth
but as they sailed he fell asleep and there came down a storm of wind on the lake and they were filled with water and were in jeopardy
and they came to him and awoke him saying master master we perish then he arose and rebuked the wind and the raging of the water and they ceased and there was a calm
and he said unto them where is your faith and they being afraid wondered saying one to another what manner of man is this for he commandeth even the winds and water and they obey him
and they arrived at the country of the gadarenes which is over against galilee
and when he went forth to land there met him out of the city a certain man which had devils long time and ware no clothes neither abode in any house but in the tombs
when he saw jesus he cried out and fell down before him and with a loud voice said what have i to do with thee jesus thou son of god most high i beseech thee torment me not
for he had commanded the unclean spirit to come out of the man for oftentimes it had caught him and he was kept bound with chains and in fetters and he brake the bands and was driven of the devil into the wilderness
and jesus asked him saying what is thy name and he said legion because many devils were entered into him
and they besought him that he would not command them to go out into the deep
and there was there an herd of many swine feeding on the mountain and they besought him that he would suffer them to enter into them and he suffered them
then went the devils out of the man and entered into the swine and the herd ran violently down a steep place into the lake and were choked
when they that fed them saw what was done they fled and went and told it in the city and in the country
then they went out to see what was done and came to jesus and found the man out of whom the devils were departed sitting at the feet of jesus clothed and in his right mind and they were afraid
they also which saw it told them by what means he that was possessed of the devils was healed
then the whole multitude of the country of the gadarenes round about besought him to depart from them for they were taken with great fear and he went up into the ship and returned back again
now the man out of whom the devils were departed besought him that he might be with him but jesus sent him away saying
return to thine own house and shew how great things god hath done unto thee and he went his way and published throughout the whole city how great things jesus had done unto him
and it came to pass that when jesus was returned the people gladly received him for they were all waiting for him
and behold there came a man named jairus and he was a ruler of the synagogue and he fell down at jesus feet and besought him that he would come into his house
for he had one only daughter about twelve years of age and she lay a dying but as he went the people thronged him
and a woman having an issue of blood twelve years which had spent all her living upon physicians neither could be healed of any
came behind him and touched the border of his garment and immediately her issue of blood stanched
and jesus said who touched me when all denied peter and they that were with him said master the multitude throng thee and press thee and sayest thou who touched me
and jesus said somebody hath touched me for i perceive that virtue is gone out of me
and when the woman saw that she was not hid she came trembling and falling down before him she declared unto him before all the people for what cause she had touched him and how she was healed immediately
and he said unto her daughter be of good comfort thy faith hath made thee whole go in peace
while he yet spake there cometh one from the ruler of the synagogue's house saying to him thy daughter is dead trouble not the master
but when jesus heard it he answered him saying fear not believe only and she shall be made whole
and when he came into the house he suffered no man to go in save peter and james and john and the father and the mother of the maiden
and all wept and bewailed her but he said weep not she is not dead but sleepeth
and they laughed him to scorn knowing that she was dead
and he put them all out and took her by the hand and called saying maid arise
and her spirit came again and she arose straightway and he commanded to give her meat
and her parents were astonished but he charged them that they should tell no man what was done
then he called his twelve disciples together and gave them power and authority over all devils and to cure diseases
and he sent them to preach the kingdom of god and to heal the sick
and he said unto them take nothing for your journey neither staves nor scrip neither bread neither money neither have two coats apiece
and whatsoever house ye enter into there abide and thence depart
and whosoever will not receive you when ye go out of that city shake off the very dust from your feet for a testimony against them
and they departed and went through the towns preaching the gospel and healing every where
now herod the tetrarch heard of all that was done by him and he was perplexed because that it was said of some that john was risen from the dead
and of some that elias had appeared and of others that one of the old prophets was risen again
and herod said john have i beheaded but who is this of whom i hear such things and he desired to see him
and the apostles when they were returned told him all that they had done and he took them and went aside privately into a desert place belonging to the city called bethsaida
and the people when they knew it followed him and he received them and spake unto them of the kingdom of god and healed them that had need of healing
and when the day began to wear away then came the twelve and said unto him send the multitude away that they may go into the towns and country round about and lodge and get victuals for we are here in a desert place
but he said unto them give ye them to eat and they said we have no more but five loaves and two fishes except we should go and buy meat for all this people
for they were about five thousand men and he said to his disciples make them sit down by fifties in a company
and they did so and made them all sit down
then he took the five loaves and the two fishes and looking up to heaven he blessed them and brake and gave to the disciples to set before the multitude
and they did eat and were all filled and there was taken up of fragments that remained to them twelve baskets
and it came to pass as he was alone praying his disciples were with him and he asked them saying whom say the people that i am
they answering said john the baptist but some say elias and others say that one of the old prophets is risen again
he said unto them but whom say ye that i am peter answering said the christ of god
and he straitly charged them and commanded them to tell no man that thing
saying the son of man must suffer many things and be rejected of the elders and chief priests and scribes and be slain and be raised the third day
and he said to them all if any man will come after me let him deny himself and take up his cross daily and follow me
for whosoever will save his life shall lose it but whosoever will lose his life for my sake the same shall save it
for what is a man advantaged if he gain the whole world and lose himself or be cast away
for whosoever shall be ashamed of me and of my words of him shall the son of man be ashamed when he shall come in his own glory and in his father's and of the holy angels
but i tell you of a truth there be some standing here which shall not taste of death till they see the kingdom of god
and it came to pass about an eight days after these sayings he took peter and john and james and went up into a mountain to pray
and as he prayed the fashion of his countenance was altered and his raiment was white and glistering
and behold there talked with him two men which were moses and elias
who appeared in glory and spake of his decease which he should accomplish at jerusalem
but peter and they that were with him were heavy with sleep and when they were awake they saw his glory and the two men that stood with him
and it came to pass as they departed from him peter said unto jesus master it is good for us to be here and let us make three tabernacles one for thee and one for moses and one for elias not knowing what he said
while he thus spake there came a cloud and overshadowed them and they feared as they entered into the cloud
and there came a voice out of the cloud saying this is my beloved son hear him
and when the voice was past jesus was found alone and they kept it close and told no man in those days any of those things which they had seen
and it came to pass that on the next day when they were come down from the hill much people met him
and behold a man of the company cried out saying master i beseech thee look upon my son for he is mine only child
and lo a spirit taketh him and he suddenly crieth out and it teareth him that he foameth again and bruising him hardly departeth from him
and i besought thy disciples to cast him out and they could not
and jesus answering said o faithless and perverse generation how long shall i be with you and suffer you bring thy son hither
and as he was yet a coming the devil threw him down and tare him and jesus rebuked the unclean spirit and healed the child and delivered him again to his father
and they were all amazed at the mighty power of god but while they wondered every one at all things which jesus did he said unto his disciples
let these sayings sink down into your ears for the son of man shall be delivered into the hands of men
but they understood not this saying and it was hid from them that they perceived it not and they feared to ask him of that saying
then there arose a reasoning among them which of them should be greatest
and jesus perceiving the thought of their heart took a child and set him by him
and said unto them whosoever shall receive this child in my name receiveth me and whosoever shall receive me receiveth him that sent me for he that is least among you all the same shall be great
and john answered and said master we saw one casting out devils in thy name and we forbad him because he followeth not with us
and jesus said unto him forbid him not for he that is not against us is for us
and it came to pass when the time was come that he should be received up he stedfastly set his face to go to jerusalem
and sent messengers before his face and they went and entered into a village of the samaritans to make ready for him
and they did not receive him because his face was as though he would go to jerusalem
and when his disciples james and john saw this they said lord wilt thou that we command fire to come down from heaven and consume them even as elias did
but he turned and rebuked them and said ye know not what manner of spirit ye are of
for the son of man is not come to destroy men's lives but to save them and they went to another village
and it came to pass that as they went in the way a certain man said unto him lord i will follow thee whithersoever thou goest
and jesus said unto him foxes have holes and birds of the air have nests but the son of man hath not where to lay his head
and he said unto another follow me but he said lord suffer me first to go and bury my father
jesus said unto him let the dead bury their dead but go thou and preach the kingdom of god
and another also said lord i will follow thee but let me first go bid them farewell which are at home at my house
and jesus said unto him no man having put his hand to the plough and looking back is fit for the kingdom of god
after these things the lord appointed other seventy also and sent them two and two before his face into every city and place whither he himself would come
therefore said he unto them the harvest truly is great but the labourers are few pray ye therefore the lord of the harvest that he would send forth labourers into his harvest
go your ways behold i send you forth as lambs among wolves
carry neither purse nor scrip nor shoes and salute no man by the way
and into whatsoever house ye enter first say peace be to this house
and if the son of peace be there your peace shall rest upon it if not it shall turn to you again
and in the same house remain eating and drinking such things as they give for the labourer is worthy of his hire go not from house to house
and into whatsoever city ye enter and they receive you eat such things as are set before you
and heal the sick that are therein and say unto them the kingdom of god is come nigh unto you
but into whatsoever city ye enter and they receive you not go your ways out into the streets of the same and say
even the very dust of your city which cleaveth on us we do wipe off against you notwithstanding be ye sure of this that the kingdom of god is come nigh unto you
but i say unto you that it shall be more tolerable in that day for sodom than for that city
woe unto thee chorazin woe unto thee bethsaida for if the mighty works had been done in tyre and sidon which have been done in you they had a great while ago repented sitting in sackcloth and ashes
but it shall be more tolerable for tyre and sidon at the judgment than for you
and thou capernaum which art exalted to heaven shalt be thrust down to hell
he that heareth you heareth me and he that despiseth you despiseth me and he that despiseth me despiseth him that sent me
and the seventy returned again with joy saying lord even the devils are subject unto us through thy name
and he said unto them i beheld satan as lightning fall from heaven
behold i give unto you power to tread on serpents and scorpions and over all the power of the enemy and nothing shall by any means hurt you
notwithstanding in this rejoice not that the spirits are subject unto you but rather rejoice because your names are written in heaven
in that hour jesus rejoiced in spirit and said i thank thee o father lord of heaven and earth that thou hast hid these things from the wise and prudent and hast revealed them unto babes even so father for so it seemed good in thy sight
all things are delivered to me of my father and no man knoweth who the son is but the father and who the father is but the son and he to whom the son will reveal him
and he turned him unto his disciples and said privately blessed are the eyes which see the things that ye see
for i tell you that many prophets and kings have desired to see those things which ye see and have not seen them and to hear those things which ye hear and have not heard them
and behold a certain lawyer stood up and tempted him saying master what shall i do to inherit eternal life
he said unto him what is written in the law how readest thou
and he answering said thou shalt love the lord thy god with all thy heart and with all thy soul and with all thy strength and with all thy mind and thy neighbour as thyself
and he said unto him thou hast answered right this do and thou shalt live
but he willing to justify himself said unto jesus and who is my neighbour
and jesus answering said a certain man went down from jerusalem to jericho and fell among thieves which stripped him of his raiment and wounded him and departed leaving him half dead
and by chance there came down a certain priest that way and when he saw him he passed by on the other side
and likewise a levite when he was at the place came and looked on him and passed by on the other side
but a certain samaritan as he journeyed came where he was and when he saw him he had compassion on him
and went to him and bound up his wounds pouring in oil and wine and set him on his own beast and brought him to an inn and took care of him
and on the morrow when he departed he took out two pence and gave them to the host and said unto him take care of him and whatsoever thou spendest more when i come again i will repay thee
which now of these three thinkest thou was neighbour unto him that fell among the thieves
and he said he that shewed mercy on him then said jesus unto him go and do thou likewise
now it came to pass as they went that he entered into a certain village and a certain woman named martha received him into her house
and she had a sister called mary which also sat at jesus feet and heard his word
but martha was cumbered about much serving and came to him and said lord dost thou not care that my sister hath left me to serve alone bid her therefore that she help me
and jesus answered and said unto her martha martha thou art careful and troubled about many things
but one thing is needful and mary hath chosen that good part which shall not be taken away from her
and it came to pass that as he was praying in a certain place when he ceased one of his disciples said unto him lord teach us to pray as john also taught his disciples
and he said unto them when ye pray say our father which art in heaven hallowed be thy name thy kingdom come thy will be done as in heaven so in earth
give us day by day our daily bread
and forgive us our sins for we also forgive every one that is indebted to us and lead us not into temptation but deliver us from evil
and he said unto them which of you shall have a friend and shall go unto him at midnight and say unto him friend lend me three loaves
for a friend of mine in his journey is come to me and i have nothing to set before him
and he from within shall answer and say trouble me not the door is now shut and my children are with me in bed i cannot rise and give thee
i say unto you though he will not rise and give him because he is his friend yet because of his importunity he will rise and give him as many as he needeth
and i say unto you ask and it shall be given you seek and ye shall find knock and it shall be opened unto you
for every one that asketh receiveth and he that seeketh findeth and to him that knocketh it shall be opened
if a son shall ask bread of any of you that is a father will he give him a stone or if he ask a fish will he for a fish give him a serpent
or if he shall ask an egg will he offer him a scorpion
if ye then being evil know how to give good gifts unto your children how much more shall your heavenly father give the holy spirit to them that ask him
and he was casting out a devil and it was dumb and it came to pass when the devil was gone out the dumb spake and the people wondered
but some of them said he casteth out devils through beelzebub the chief of the devils
and others tempting him sought of him a sign from heaven
but he knowing their thoughts said unto them every kingdom divided against itself is brought to desolation and a house divided against a house falleth
if satan also be divided against himself how shall his kingdom stand because ye say that i cast out devils through beelzebub
and if i by beelzebub cast out devils by whom do your sons cast them out therefore shall they be your judges
but if i with the finger of god cast out devils no doubt the kingdom of god is come upon you
when a strong man armed keepeth his palace his goods are in peace
but when a stronger than he shall come upon him and overcome him he taketh from him all his armour wherein he trusted and divideth his spoils
he that is not with me is against me and he that gathereth not with me scattereth
when the unclean spirit is gone out of a man he walketh through dry places seeking rest and finding none he saith i will return unto my house whence i came out
and when he cometh he findeth it swept and garnished
then goeth he and taketh to him seven other spirits more wicked than himself and they enter in and dwell there and the last state of that man is worse than the first
and it came to pass as he spake these things a certain woman of the company lifted up her voice and said unto him blessed is the womb that bare thee and the paps which thou hast sucked
but he said yea rather blessed are they that hear the word of god and keep it
and when the people were gathered thick together he began to say this is an evil generation they seek a sign and there shall no sign be given it but the sign of jonas the prophet
for as jonas was a sign unto the ninevites so shall also the son of man be to this generation
the queen of the south shall rise up in the judgment with the men of this generation and condemn them for she came from the utmost parts of the earth to hear the wisdom of solomon and behold a greater than solomon is here
the men of nineve shall rise up in the judgment with this generation and shall condemn it for they repented at the preaching of jonas and behold a greater than jonas is here
no man when he hath lighted a candle putteth it in a secret place neither under a bushel but on a candlestick that they which come in may see the light
the light of the body is the eye therefore when thine eye is single thy whole body also is full of light but when thine eye is evil thy body also is full of darkness
take heed therefore that the light which is in thee be not darkness
if thy whole body therefore be full of light having no part dark the whole shall be full of light as when the bright shining of a candle doth give thee light
and as he spake a certain pharisee besought him to dine with him and he went in and sat down to meat
and when the pharisee saw it he marvelled that he had not first washed before dinner
and the lord said unto him now do ye pharisees make clean the outside of the cup and the platter but your inward part is full of ravening and wickedness
ye fools did not he that made that which is without make that which is within also
but rather give alms of such things as ye have and behold all things are clean unto you
but woe unto you pharisees for ye tithe mint and rue and all manner of herbs and pass over judgment and the love of god these ought ye to have done and not to leave the other undone
woe unto you pharisees for ye love the uppermost seats in the synagogues and greetings in the markets
woe unto you scribes and pharisees hypocrites for ye are as graves which appear not and the men that walk over them are not aware of them
then answered one of the lawyers and said unto him master thus saying thou reproachest us also
and he said woe unto you also ye lawyers for ye lade men with burdens grievous to be borne and ye yourselves touch not the burdens with one of your fingers
woe unto you for ye build the sepulchres of the prophets and your fathers killed them
truly ye bear witness that ye allow the deeds of your fathers for they indeed killed them and ye build their sepulchres
therefore also said the wisdom of god i will send them prophets and apostles and some of them they shall slay and persecute
that the blood of all the prophets which was shed from the foundation of the world may be required of this generation
from the blood of abel unto the blood of zacharias which perished between the altar and the temple verily i say unto you it shall be required of this generation
woe unto you lawyers for ye have taken away the key of knowledge ye entered not in yourselves and them that were entering in ye hindered
and as he said these things unto them the scribes and the pharisees began to urge him vehemently and to provoke him to speak of many things
laying wait for him and seeking to catch something out of his mouth that they might accuse him
in the mean time when there were gathered together an innumerable multitude of people insomuch that they trode one upon another he began to say unto his disciples first of all beware ye of the leaven of the pharisees which is hypocrisy
for there is nothing covered that shall not be revealed neither hid that shall not be known
therefore whatsoever ye have spoken in darkness shall be heard in the light and that which ye have spoken in the ear in closets shall be proclaimed upon the housetops
and i say unto you my friends be not afraid of them that kill the body and after that have no more that they can do
but i will forewarn you whom ye shall fear fear him which after he hath killed hath power to cast into hell yea i say unto you fear him
are not five sparrows sold for two farthings and not one of them is forgotten before god
but even the very hairs of your head are all numbered fear not therefore ye are of more value than many sparrows
also i say unto you whosoever shall confess me before men him shall the son of man also confess before the angels of god
but he that denieth me before men shall be denied before the angels of god
and whosoever shall speak a word against the son of man it shall be forgiven him but unto him that blasphemeth against the holy ghost it shall not be forgiven
and when they bring you unto the synagogues and unto magistrates and powers take ye no thought how or what thing ye shall answer or what ye shall say
for the holy ghost shall teach you in the same hour what ye ought to say
and one of the company said unto him master speak to my brother that he divide the inheritance with me
and he said unto him man who made me a judge or a divider over you
and he said unto them take heed and beware of covetousness for a man's life consisteth not in the abundance of the things which he possesseth
and he spake a parable unto them saying the ground of a certain rich man brought forth plentifully
and he thought within himself saying what shall i do because i have no room where to bestow my fruits
and he said this will i do i will pull down my barns and build greater and there will i bestow all my fruits and my goods
and i will say to my soul soul thou hast much goods laid up for many years take thine ease eat drink and be merry
but god said unto him thou fool this night thy soul shall be required of thee then whose shall those things be which thou hast provided
so is he that layeth up treasure for himself and is not rich toward god
and he said unto his disciples therefore i say unto you take no thought for your life what ye shall eat neither for the body what ye shall put on
the life is more than meat and the body is more than raiment
consider the ravens for they neither sow nor reap which neither have storehouse nor barn and god feedeth them how much more are ye better than the fowls
and which of you with taking thought can add to his stature one cubit
if ye then be not able to do that thing which is least why take ye thought for the rest
consider the lilies how they grow they toil not they spin not and yet i say unto you that solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these
if then god so clothe the grass which is to day in the field and to morrow is cast into the oven how much more will he clothe you o ye of little faith
and seek not ye what ye shall eat or what ye shall drink neither be ye of doubtful mind
for all these things do the nations of the world seek after and your father knoweth that ye have need of these things
but rather seek ye the kingdom of god and all these things shall be added unto you
fear not little flock for it is your father's good pleasure to give you the kingdom
sell that ye have and give alms provide yourselves bags which wax not old a treasure in the heavens that faileth not where no thief approacheth neither moth corrupteth
for where your treasure is there will your heart be also
let your loins be girded about and your lights burning
and ye yourselves like unto men that wait for their lord when he will return from the wedding that when he cometh and knocketh they may open unto him immediately
blessed are those servants whom the lord when he cometh shall find watching verily i say unto you that he shall gird himself and make them to sit down to meat and will come forth and serve them
and if he shall come in the second watch or come in the third watch and find them so blessed are those servants
and this know that if the goodman of the house had known what hour the thief would come he would have watched and not have suffered his house to be broken through
be ye therefore ready also for the son of man cometh at an hour when ye think not
then peter said unto him lord speakest thou this parable unto us or even to all
and the lord said who then is that faithful and wise steward whom his lord shall make ruler over his household to give them their portion of meat in due season
blessed is that servant whom his lord when he cometh shall find so doing
of a truth i say unto you that he will make him ruler over all that he hath
but and if that servant say in his heart my lord delayeth his coming and shall begin to beat the menservants and maidens and to eat and drink and to be drunken
the lord of that servant will come in a day when he looketh not for him and at an hour when he is not aware and will cut him in sunder and will appoint him his portion with the unbelievers
and that servant which knew his lord's will and prepared not himself neither did according to his will shall be beaten with many stripes
but he that knew not and did commit things worthy of stripes shall be beaten with few stripes for unto whomsoever much is given of him shall be much required and to whom men have committed much of him they will ask the more
i am come to send fire on the earth and what will i if it be already kindled
but i have a baptism to be baptized with and how am i straitened till it be accomplished
suppose ye that i am come to give peace on earth i tell you nay but rather division
for from henceforth there shall be five in one house divided three against two and two against three
the father shall be divided against the son and the son against the father the mother against the daughter and the daughter against the mother the mother in law against her daughter in law and the daughter in law against her mother in law
and he said also to the people when ye see a cloud rise out of the west straightway ye say there cometh a shower and so it is
and when ye see the south wind blow ye say there will be heat and it cometh to pass
ye hypocrites ye can discern the face of the sky and of the earth but how is it that ye do not discern this time
yea and why even of yourselves judge ye not what is right
when thou goest with thine adversary to the magistrate as thou art in the way give diligence that thou mayest be delivered from him lest he hale thee to the judge and the judge deliver thee to the officer and the officer cast thee into prison
i tell thee thou shalt not depart thence till thou hast paid the very last mite
there were present at that season some that told him of the galilaeans whose blood pilate had mingled with their sacrifices
and jesus answering said unto them suppose ye that these galilaeans were sinners above all the galilaeans because they suffered such things
i tell you nay but except ye repent ye shall all likewise perish
or those eighteen upon whom the tower in siloam fell and slew them think ye that they were sinners above all men that dwelt in jerusalem
i tell you nay but except ye repent ye shall all likewise perish
he spake also this parable a certain man had a fig tree planted in his vineyard and he came and sought fruit thereon and found none
then said he unto the dresser of his vineyard behold these three years i come seeking fruit on this fig tree and find none cut it down why cumbereth it the ground
and he answering said unto him lord let it alone this year also till i shall dig about it and dung it
and if it bear fruit well and if not then after that thou shalt cut it down
and he was teaching in one of the synagogues on the sabbath
and behold there was a woman which had a spirit of infirmity eighteen years and was bowed together and could in no wise lift up herself
and when jesus saw her he called her to him and said unto her woman thou art loosed from thine infirmity
and he laid his hands on her and immediately she was made straight and glorified god
and the ruler of the synagogue answered with indignation because that jesus had healed on the sabbath day and said unto the people there are six days in which men ought to work in them therefore come and be healed and not on the sabbath day
the lord then answered him and said thou hypocrite doth not each one of you on the sabbath loose his ox or his ass from the stall and lead him away to watering
and ought not this woman being a daughter of abraham whom satan hath bound lo these eighteen years be loosed from this bond on the sabbath day
and when he had said these things all his adversaries were ashamed and all the people rejoiced for all the glorious things that were done by him
then said he unto what is the kingdom of god like and whereunto shall i resemble it
it is like a grain of mustard seed which a man took and cast into his garden and it grew and waxed a great tree and the fowls of the air lodged in the branches of it
and again he said whereunto shall i liken the kingdom of god
it is like leaven which a woman took and hid in three measures of meal till the whole was leavened
and he went through the cities and villages teaching and journeying toward jerusalem
then said one unto him lord are there few that be saved and he said unto them
strive to enter in at the strait gate for many i say unto you will seek to enter in and shall not be able
when once the master of the house is risen up and hath shut to the door and ye begin to stand without and to knock at the door saying lord lord open unto us and he shall answer and say unto you i know you not whence ye are
then shall ye begin to say we have eaten and drunk in thy presence and thou hast taught in our streets
but he shall say i tell you i know you not whence ye are depart from me all ye workers of iniquity
there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth when ye shall see abraham and isaac and jacob and all the prophets in the kingdom of god and you yourselves thrust out
and they shall come from the east and from the west and from the north and from the south and shall sit down in the kingdom of god
and behold there are last which shall be first and there are first which shall be last
the same day there came certain of the pharisees saying unto him get thee out and depart hence for herod will kill thee
and he said unto them go ye and tell that fox behold i cast out devils and i do cures to day and to morrow and the third day i shall be perfected
nevertheless i must walk to day and to morrow and the day following for it cannot be that a prophet perish out of jerusalem
o jerusalem jerusalem which killest the prophets and stonest them that are sent unto thee how often would i have gathered thy children together as a hen doth gather her brood under her wings and ye would not
behold your house is left unto you desolate and verily i say unto you ye shall not see me until the time come when ye shall say blessed is he that cometh in the name of the lord
and it came to pass as he went into the house of one of the chief pharisees to eat bread on the sabbath day that they watched him
and behold there was a certain man before him which had the dropsy
and jesus answering spake unto the lawyers and pharisees saying is it lawful to heal on the sabbath day
and they held their peace and he took him and healed him and let him go
and answered them saying which of you shall have an ass or an ox fallen into a pit and will not straightway pull him out on the sabbath day
and they could not answer him again to these things
and he put forth a parable to those which were bidden when he marked how they chose out the chief rooms saying unto them
when thou art bidden of any man to a wedding sit not down in the highest room lest a more honourable man than thou be bidden of him
and he that bade thee and him come and say to thee give this man place and thou begin with shame to take the lowest room
but when thou art bidden go and sit down in the lowest room that when he that bade thee cometh he may say unto thee friend go up higher then shalt thou have worship in the presence of them that sit at meat with thee
for whosoever exalteth himself shall be abased and he that humbleth himself shall be exalted
then said he also to him that bade him when thou makest a dinner or a supper call not thy friends nor thy brethren neither thy kinsmen nor thy rich neighbours lest they also bid thee again and a recompence be made thee
but when thou makest a feast call the poor the maimed the lame the blind
and thou shalt be blessed for they cannot recompense thee for thou shalt be recompensed at the resurrection of the just
and when one of them that sat at meat with him heard these things he said unto him blessed is he that shall eat bread in the kingdom of god
then said he unto him a certain man made a great supper and bade many
and sent his servant at supper time to say to them that were bidden come for all things are now ready
and they all with one consent began to make excuse the first said unto him i have bought a piece of ground and i must needs go and see it i pray thee have me excused
and another said i have bought five yoke of oxen and i go to prove them i pray thee have me excused
and another said i have married a wife and therefore i cannot come
so that servant came and shewed his lord these things then the master of the house being angry said to his servant go out quickly into the streets and lanes of the city and bring in hither the poor and the maimed and the halt and the blind
and the servant said lord it is done as thou hast commanded and yet there is room
and the lord said unto the servant go out into the highways and hedges and compel them to come in that my house may be filled
for i say unto you that none of those men which were bidden shall taste of my supper
and there went great multitudes with him and he turned and said unto them
if any man come to me and hate not his father and mother and wife and children and brethren and sisters yea and his own life also he cannot be my disciple
and whosoever doth not bear his cross and come after me cannot be my disciple
for which of you intending to build a tower sitteth not down first and counteth the cost whether he have sufficient to finish it
lest haply after he hath laid the foundation and is not able to finish it all that behold it begin to mock him
saying this man began to build and was not able to finish
or what king going to make war against another king sitteth not down first and consulteth whether he be able with ten thousand to meet him that cometh against him with twenty thousand
or else while the other is yet a great way off he sendeth an ambassage and desireth conditions of peace
so likewise whosoever he be of you that forsaketh not all that he hath he cannot be my disciple
salt is good but if the salt have lost his savour wherewith shall it be seasoned
it is neither fit for the land nor yet for the dunghill but men cast it out he that hath ears to hear let him hear
then drew near unto him all the publicans and sinners for to hear him
and the pharisees and scribes murmured saying this man receiveth sinners and eateth with them
and he spake this parable unto them saying
what man of you having an hundred sheep if he lose one of them doth not leave the ninety and nine in the wilderness and go after that which is lost until he find it
and when he hath found it he layeth it on his shoulders rejoicing
and when he cometh home he calleth together his friends and neighbours saying unto them rejoice with me for i have found my sheep which was lost
i say unto you that likewise joy shall be in heaven over one sinner that repenteth more than over ninety and nine just persons which need no repentance
either what woman having ten pieces of silver if she lose one piece doth not light a candle and sweep the house and seek diligently till she find it
and when she hath found it she calleth her friends and her neighbours together saying rejoice with me for i have found the piece which i had lost
likewise i say unto you there is joy in the presence of the angels of god over one sinner that repenteth
and he said a certain man had two sons
and the younger of them said to his father father give me the portion of goods that falleth to me and he divided unto them his living
and not many days after the younger son gathered all together and took his journey into a far country and there wasted his substance with riotous living
and when he had spent all there arose a mighty famine in that land and he began to be in want
and he went and joined himself to a citizen of that country and he sent him into his fields to feed swine
and he would fain have filled his belly with the husks that the swine did eat and no man gave unto him
and when he came to himself he said how many hired servants of my father's have bread enough and to spare and i perish with hunger
i will arise and go to my father and will say unto him father i have sinned against heaven and before thee
and am no more worthy to be called thy son make me as one of thy hired servants
and he arose and came to his father but when he was yet a great way off his father saw him and had compassion and ran and fell on his neck and kissed him
and the son said unto him father i have sinned against heaven and in thy sight and am no more worthy to be called thy son
but the father said to his servants bring forth the best robe and put it on him and put a ring on his hand and shoes on his feet
and bring hither the fatted calf and kill it and let us eat and be merry
for this my son was dead and is alive again he was lost and is found and they began to be merry
now his elder son was in the field and as he came and drew nigh to the house he heard musick and dancing
and he called one of the servants and asked what these things meant
and he said unto him thy brother is come and thy father hath killed the fatted calf because he hath received him safe and sound
and he was angry and would not go in therefore came his father out and intreated him
and he answering said to his father lo these many years do i serve thee neither transgressed i at any time thy commandment and yet thou never gavest me a kid that i might make merry with my friends
but as soon as this thy son was come which hath devoured thy living with harlots thou hast killed for him the fatted calf
and he said unto him son thou art ever with me and all that i have is thine
it was meet that we should make merry and be glad for this thy brother was dead and is alive again and was lost and is found
and he said also unto his disciples there was a certain rich man which had a steward and the same was accused unto him that he had wasted his goods
and he called him and said unto him how is it that i hear this of thee give an account of thy stewardship for thou mayest be no longer steward
then the steward said within himself what shall i do for my lord taketh away from me the stewardship i cannot dig to beg i am ashamed
i am resolved what to do that when i am put out of the stewardship they may receive me into their houses
so he called every one of his lord's debtors unto him and said unto the first how much owest thou unto my lord
and he said an hundred measures of oil and he said unto him take thy bill and sit down quickly and write fifty
then said he to another and how much owest thou and he said an hundred measures of wheat and he said unto him take thy bill and write fourscore
and the lord commended the unjust steward because he had done wisely for the children of this world are in their generation wiser than the children of light
and i say unto you make to yourselves friends of the mammon of unrighteousness that when ye fail they may receive you into everlasting habitations
he that is faithful in that which is least is faithful also in much and he that is unjust in the least is unjust also in much
if therefore ye have not been faithful in the unrighteous mammon who will commit to your trust the true riches
and if ye have not been faithful in that which is another man's who shall give you that which is your own
no servant can serve two masters for either he will hate the one and love the other or else he will hold to the one and despise the other ye cannot serve god and mammon
and the pharisees also who were covetous heard all these things and they derided him
and he said unto them ye are they which justify yourselves before men but god knoweth your hearts for that which is highly esteemed among men is abomination in the sight of god
the law and the prophets were until john since that time the kingdom of god is preached and every man presseth into it
and it is easier for heaven and earth to pass than one tittle of the law to fail
whosoever putteth away his wife and marrieth another committeth adultery and whosoever marrieth her that is put away from her husband committeth adultery
there was a certain rich man which was clothed in purple and fine linen and fared sumptuously every day
and there was a certain beggar named lazarus which was laid at his gate full of sores
and desiring to be fed with the crumbs which fell from the rich man's table moreover the dogs came and licked his sores
and it came to pass that the beggar died and was carried by the angels into abraham's bosom the rich man also died and was buried
and in hell he lift up his eyes being in torments and seeth abraham afar off and lazarus in his bosom
and he cried and said father abraham have mercy on me and send lazarus that he may dip the tip of his finger in water and cool my tongue for i am tormented in this flame
but abraham said son remember that thou in thy lifetime receivedst thy good things and likewise lazarus evil things but now he is comforted and thou art tormented
and beside all this between us and you there is a great gulf fixed so that they which would pass from hence to you cannot neither can they pass to us that would come from thence
then he said i pray thee therefore father that thou wouldest send him to my father's house
for i have five brethren that he may testify unto them lest they also come into this place of torment
abraham saith unto him they have moses and the prophets let them hear them
and he said nay father abraham but if one went unto them from the dead they will repent
and he said unto him if they hear not moses and the prophets neither will they be persuaded though one rose from the dead
then said he unto the disciples it is impossible but that offences will come but woe unto him through whom they come
it were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck and he cast into the sea than that he should offend one of these little ones
take heed to yourselves if thy brother trespass against thee rebuke him and if he repent forgive him
and if he trespass against thee seven times in a day and seven times in a day turn again to thee saying i repent thou shalt forgive him
and the apostles said unto the lord increase our faith
and the lord said if ye had faith as a grain of mustard seed ye might say unto this sycamine tree be thou plucked up by the root and be thou planted in the sea and it should obey you
but which of you having a servant plowing or feeding cattle will say unto him by and by when he is come from the field go and sit down to meat
and will not rather say unto him make ready wherewith i may sup and gird thyself and serve me till i have eaten and drunken and afterward thou shalt eat and drink
doth he thank that servant because he did the things that were commanded him i trow not
so likewise ye when ye shall have done all those things which are commanded you say we are unprofitable servants we have done that which was our duty to do
and it came to pass as he went to jerusalem that he passed through the midst of samaria and galilee
and as he entered into a certain village there met him ten men that were lepers which stood afar off
and they lifted up their voices and said jesus master have mercy on us
and when he saw them he said unto them go shew yourselves unto the priests and it came to pass that as they went they were cleansed
and one of them when he saw that he was healed turned back and with a loud voice glorified god
and fell down on his face at his feet giving him thanks and he was a samaritan
and jesus answering said were there not ten cleansed but where are the nine
there are not found that returned to give glory to god save this stranger
and he said unto him arise go thy way thy faith hath made thee whole
and when he was demanded of the pharisees when the kingdom of god should come he answered them and said the kingdom of god cometh not with observation
neither shall they say lo here or lo there for behold the kingdom of god is within you
and he said unto the disciples the days will come when ye shall desire to see one of the days of the son of man and ye shall not see it
and they shall say to you see here or see there go not after them nor follow them
for as the lightning that lighteneth out of the one part under heaven shineth unto the other part under heaven so shall also the son of man be in his day
but first must he suffer many things and be rejected of this generation
and as it was in the days of noe so shall it be also in the days of the son of man
they did eat they drank they married wives they were given in marriage until the day that noe entered into the ark and the flood came and destroyed them all
likewise also as it was in the days of lot they did eat they drank they bought they sold they planted they builded
but the same day that lot went out of sodom it rained fire and brimstone from heaven and destroyed them all
even thus shall it be in the day when the son of man is revealed
in that day he which shall be upon the housetop and his stuff in the house let him not come down to take it away and he that is in the field let him likewise not return back
remember lot's wife
whosoever shall seek to save his life shall lose it and whosoever shall lose his life shall preserve it
i tell you in that night there shall be two men in one bed the one shall be taken and the other shall be left
two women shall be grinding together the one shall be taken and the other left
two men shall be in the field the one shall be taken and the other left
and they answered and said unto him where lord and he said unto them wheresoever the body is thither will the eagles be gathered together
and he spake a parable unto them to this end that men ought always to pray and not to faint
saying there was in a city a judge which feared not god neither regarded man
and there was a widow in that city and she came unto him saying avenge me of mine adversary
and he would not for a while but afterward he said within himself though i fear not god nor regard man
yet because this widow troubleth me i will avenge her lest by her continual coming she weary me
and the lord said hear what the unjust judge saith
and shall not god avenge his own elect which cry day and night unto him though he bear long with them
i tell you that he will avenge them speedily nevertheless when the son of man cometh shall he find faith on the earth
and he spake this parable unto certain which trusted in themselves that they were righteous and despised others
two men went up into the temple to pray the one a pharisee and the other a publican
the pharisee stood and prayed thus with himself god i thank thee that i am not as other men are extortioners unjust adulterers or even as this publican
i fast twice in the week i give tithes of all that i possess
and the publican standing afar off would not lift up so much as his eyes unto heaven but smote upon his breast saying god be merciful to me a sinner
i tell you this man went down to his house justified rather than the other for every one that exalteth himself shall be abased and he that humbleth himself shall be exalted
and they brought unto him also infants that he would touch them but when his disciples saw it they rebuked them
but jesus called them unto him and said suffer little children to come unto me and forbid them not for of such is the kingdom of god
verily i say unto you whosoever shall not receive the kingdom of god as a little child shall in no wise enter therein
and a certain ruler asked him saying good master what shall i do to inherit eternal life
and jesus said unto him why callest thou me good none is good save one that is god
thou knowest the commandments do not commit adultery do not kill do not steal do not bear false witness honour thy father and thy mother
and he said all these have i kept from my youth up
now when jesus heard these things he said unto him yet lackest thou one thing sell all that thou hast and distribute unto the poor and thou shalt have treasure in heaven and come follow me
and when he heard this he was very sorrowful for he was very rich
and when jesus saw that he was very sorrowful he said how hardly shall they that have riches enter into the kingdom of god
for it is easier for a camel to go through a needle's eye than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of god
and they that heard it said who then can be saved
and he said the things which are impossible with men are possible with god
then peter said lo we have left all and followed thee
and he said unto them verily i say unto you there is no man that hath left house or parents or brethren or wife or children for the kingdom of god's sake
who shall not receive manifold more in this present time and in the world to come life everlasting
then he took unto him the twelve and said unto them behold we go up to jerusalem and all things that are written by the prophets concerning the son of man shall be accomplished
for he shall be delivered unto the gentiles and shall be mocked and spitefully entreated and spitted on
and they shall scourge him and put him to death and the third day he shall rise again
and they understood none of these things and this saying was hid from them neither knew they the things which were spoken
and it came to pass that as he was come nigh unto jericho a certain blind man sat by the way side begging
and hearing the multitude pass by he asked what it meant
and they told him that jesus of nazareth passeth by
and he cried saying jesus thou son of david have mercy on me
and they which went before rebuked him that he should hold his peace but he cried so much the more thou son of david have mercy on me
and jesus stood and commanded him to be brought unto him and when he was come near he asked him
saying what wilt thou that i shall do unto thee and he said lord that i may receive my sight
and jesus said unto him receive thy sight thy faith hath saved thee
and immediately he received his sight and followed him glorifying god and all the people when they saw it gave praise unto god
and jesus entered and passed through jericho
and behold there was a man named zacchaeus which was the chief among the publicans and he was rich
and he sought to see jesus who he was and could not for the press because he was little of stature
and he ran before and climbed up into a sycomore tree to see him for he was to pass that way
and when jesus came to the place he looked up and saw him and said unto him zacchaeus make haste and come down for to day i must abide at thy house
and he made haste and came down and received him joyfully
and when they saw it they all murmured saying that he was gone to be guest with a man that is a sinner
and zacchaeus stood and said unto the lord behold lord the half of my goods i give to the poor and if i have taken any thing from any man by false accusation i restore him fourfold
and jesus said unto him this day is salvation come to this house forsomuch as he also is a son of abraham
for the son of man is come to seek and to save that which was lost
and as they heard these things he added and spake a parable because he was nigh to jerusalem and because they thought that the kingdom of god should immediately appear
he said therefore a certain nobleman went into a far country to receive for himself a kingdom and to return
and he called his ten servants and delivered them ten pounds and said unto them occupy till i come
but his citizens hated him and sent a message after him saying we will not have this man to reign over us
and it came to pass that when he was returned having received the kingdom then he commanded these servants to be called unto him to whom he had given the money that he might know how much every man had gained by trading
then came the first saying lord thy pound hath gained ten pounds
and he said unto him well thou good servant because thou hast been faithful in a very little have thou authority over ten cities
and the second came saying lord thy pound hath gained five pounds
and he said likewise to him be thou also over five cities
and another came saying lord behold here is thy pound which i have kept laid up in a napkin
for i feared thee because thou art an austere man thou takest up that thou layedst not down and reapest that thou didst not sow
and he saith unto him out of thine own mouth will i judge thee thou wicked servant thou knewest that i was an austere man taking up that i laid not down and reaping that i did not sow
wherefore then gavest not thou my money into the bank that at my coming i might have required mine own with usury
and he said unto them that stood by take from him the pound and give it to him that hath ten pounds
and they said unto him lord he hath ten pounds
for i say unto you that unto every one which hath shall be given and from him that hath not even that he hath shall be taken away from him
but those mine enemies which would not that i should reign over them bring hither and slay them before me
and when he had thus spoken he went before ascending up to jerusalem
and it came to pass when he was come nigh to bethphage and bethany at the mount called the mount of olives he sent two of his disciples
saying go ye into the village over against you in the which at your entering ye shall find a colt tied whereon yet never man sat loose him and bring him hither
and if any man ask you why do ye loose him thus shall ye say unto him because the lord hath need of him
and they that were sent went their way and found even as he had said unto them
and as they were loosing the colt the owners thereof said unto them why loose ye the colt
and they said the lord hath need of him
and they brought him to jesus and they cast their garments upon the colt and they set jesus thereon
and as he went they spread their clothes in the way
and when he was come nigh even now at the descent of the mount of olives the whole multitude of the disciples began to rejoice and praise god with a loud voice for all the mighty works that they had seen
saying blessed be the king that cometh in the name of the lord peace in heaven and glory in the highest
and some of the pharisees from among the multitude said unto him master rebuke thy disciples
and he answered and said unto them i tell you that if these should hold their peace the stones would immediately cry out
and when he was come near he beheld the city and wept over it
saying if thou hadst known even thou at least in this thy day the things which belong unto thy peace but now they are hid from thine eyes
for the days shall come upon thee that thine enemies shall cast a trench about thee and compass thee round and keep thee in on every side
and shall lay thee even with the ground and thy children within thee and they shall not leave in thee one stone upon another because thou knewest not the time of thy visitation
and he went into the temple and began to cast out them that sold therein and them that bought
saying unto them it is written my house is the house of prayer but ye have made it a den of thieves
and he taught daily in the temple but the chief priests and the scribes and the chief of the people sought to destroy him
and could not find what they might do for all the people were very attentive to hear him
and it came to pass that on one of those days as he taught the people in the temple and preached the gospel the chief priests and the scribes came upon him with the elders
and spake unto him saying tell us by what authority doest thou these things or who is he that gave thee this authority
and he answered and said unto them i will also ask you one thing and answer me
the baptism of john was it from heaven or of men
and they reasoned with themselves saying if we shall say from heaven he will say why then believed ye him not
but and if we say of men all the people will stone us for they be persuaded that john was a prophet
and they answered that they could not tell whence it was
and jesus said unto them neither tell i you by what authority i do these things
then began he to speak to the people this parable a certain man planted a vineyard and let it forth to husbandmen and went into a far country for a long time
and at the season he sent a servant to the husbandmen that they should give him of the fruit of the vineyard but the husbandmen beat him and sent him away empty
and again he sent another servant and they beat him also and entreated him shamefully and sent him away empty
and again he sent a third and they wounded him also and cast him out
then said the lord of the vineyard what shall i do i will send my beloved son it may be they will reverence him when they see him
but when the husbandmen saw him they reasoned among themselves saying this is the heir come let us kill him that the inheritance may be ours
so they cast him out of the vineyard and killed him what therefore shall the lord of the vineyard do unto them
he shall come and destroy these husbandmen and shall give the vineyard to others and when they heard it they said god forbid
and he beheld them and said what is this then that is written the stone which the builders rejected the same is become the head of the corner
whosoever shall fall upon that stone shall be broken but on whomsoever it shall fall it will grind him to powder
and the chief priests and the scribes the same hour sought to lay hands on him and they feared the people for they perceived that he had spoken this parable against them
and they watched him and sent forth spies which should feign themselves just men that they might take hold of his words that so they might deliver him unto the power and authority of the governor
and they asked him saying master we know that thou sayest and teachest rightly neither acceptest thou the person of any but teachest the way of god truly
is it lawful for us to give tribute unto caesar or no
but he perceived their craftiness and said unto them why tempt ye me
shew me a penny whose image and superscription hath it they answered and said caesar's
and he said unto them render therefore unto caesar the things which be caesar's and unto god the things which be god's
and they could not take hold of his words before the people and they marvelled at his answer and held their peace
then came to him certain of the sadducees which deny that there is any resurrection and they asked him
saying master moses wrote unto us if any man's brother die having a wife and he die without children that his brother should take his wife and raise up seed unto his brother
there were therefore seven brethren and the first took a wife and died without children
and the second took her to wife and he died childless
and the third took her and in like manner the seven also and they left no children and died
last of all the woman died also
therefore in the resurrection whose wife of them is she for seven had her to wife
and jesus answering said unto them the children of this world marry and are given in marriage
but they which shall be accounted worthy to obtain that world and the resurrection from the dead neither marry nor are given in marriage
neither can they die any more for they are equal unto the angels and are the children of god being the children of the resurrection
now that the dead are raised even moses shewed at the bush when he calleth the lord the god of abraham and the god of isaac and the god of jacob
for he is not a god of the dead but of the living for all live unto him
then certain of the scribes answering said master thou hast well said
and after that they durst not ask him any question at all
and he said unto them how say they that christ is david's son
and david himself saith in the book of psalms the lord said unto my lord sit thou on my right hand
till i make thine enemies thy footstool
david therefore calleth him lord how is he then his son
then in the audience of all the people he said unto his disciples
beware of the scribes which desire to walk in long robes and love greetings in the markets and the highest seats in the synagogues and the chief rooms at feasts
which devour widows houses and for a shew make long prayers the same shall receive greater damnation
and he looked up and saw the rich men casting their gifts into the treasury
and he saw also a certain poor widow casting in thither two mites
and he said of a truth i say unto you that this poor widow hath cast in more than they all
for all these have of their abundance cast in unto the offerings of god but she of her penury hath cast in all the living that she had
and as some spake of the temple how it was adorned with goodly stones and gifts he said
as for these things which ye behold the days will come in the which there shall not be left one stone upon another that shall not be thrown down
and they asked him saying master but when shall these things be and what sign will there be when these things shall come to pass
and he said take heed that ye be not deceived for many shall come in my name saying i am christ and the time draweth near go ye not therefore after them
but when ye shall hear of wars and commotions be not terrified for these things must first come to pass but the end is not by and by
then said he unto them nation shall rise against nation and kingdom against kingdom
and great earthquakes shall be in divers places and famines and pestilences and fearful sights and great signs shall there be from heaven
but before all these they shall lay their hands on you and persecute you delivering you up to the synagogues and into prisons being brought before kings and rulers for my name's sake
and it shall turn to you for a testimony
settle it therefore in your hearts not to meditate before what ye shall answer
for i will give you a mouth and wisdom which all your adversaries shall not be able to gainsay nor resist
and ye shall be betrayed both by parents and brethren and kinsfolks and friends and some of you shall they cause to be put to death
and ye shall be hated of all men for my name's sake
but there shall not an hair of your head perish
in your patience possess ye your souls
and when ye shall see jerusalem compassed with armies then know that the desolation thereof is nigh
then let them which are in judaea flee to the mountains and let them which are in the midst of it depart out and let not them that are in the countries enter thereinto
for these be the days of vengeance that all things which are written may be fulfilled
but woe unto them that are with child and to them that give suck in those days for there shall be great distress in the land and wrath upon this people
and they shall fall by the edge of the sword and shall be led away captive into all nations and jerusalem shall be trodden down of the gentiles until the times of the gentiles be fulfilled
and there shall be signs in the sun and in the moon and in the stars and upon the earth distress of nations with perplexity the sea and the waves roaring
men's hearts failing them for fear and for looking after those things which are coming on the earth for the powers of heaven shall be shaken
and then shall they see the son of man coming in a cloud with power and great glory
and when these things begin to come to pass then look up and lift up your heads for your redemption draweth nigh
and he spake to them a parable behold the fig tree and all the trees
when they now shoot forth ye see and know of your own selves that summer is now nigh at hand
so likewise ye when ye see these things come to pass know ye that the kingdom of god is nigh at hand
verily i say unto you this generation shall not pass away till all be fulfilled
heaven and earth shall pass away but my words shall not pass away
and take heed to yourselves lest at any time your hearts be overcharged with surfeiting and drunkenness and cares of this life and so that day come upon you unawares
for as a snare shall it come on all them that dwell on the face of the whole earth
watch ye therefore and pray always that ye may be accounted worthy to escape all these things that shall come to pass and to stand before the son of man
and in the day time he was teaching in the temple and at night he went out and abode in the mount that is called the mount of olives
and all the people came early in the morning to him in the temple for to hear him
now the feast of unleavened bread drew nigh which is called the passover
and the chief priests and scribes sought how they might kill him for they feared the people
then entered satan into judas surnamed iscariot being of the number of the twelve
and he went his way and communed with the chief priests and captains how he might betray him unto them
and they were glad and covenanted to give him money
and he promised and sought opportunity to betray him unto them in the absence of the multitude
then came the day of unleavened bread when the passover must be killed
and he sent peter and john saying go and prepare us the passover that we may eat
and they said unto him where wilt thou that we prepare
and he said unto them behold when ye are entered into the city there shall a man meet you bearing a pitcher of water follow him into the house where he entereth in
and ye shall say unto the goodman of the house the master saith unto thee where is the guestchamber where i shall eat the passover with my disciples
and he shall shew you a large upper room furnished there make ready
and they went and found as he had said unto them and they made ready the passover
and when the hour was come he sat down and the twelve apostles with him
and he said unto them with desire i have desired to eat this passover with you before i suffer
for i say unto you i will not any more eat thereof until it be fulfilled in the kingdom of god
and he took the cup and gave thanks and said take this and divide it among yourselves
for i say unto you i will not drink of the fruit of the vine until the kingdom of god shall come
and he took bread and gave thanks and brake it and gave unto them saying this is my body which is given for you this do in remembrance of me
likewise also the cup after supper saying this cup is the new testament in my blood which is shed for you
but behold the hand of him that betrayeth me is with me on the table
and truly the son of man goeth as it was determined but woe unto that man by whom he is betrayed
and they began to enquire among themselves which of them it was that should do this thing
and there was also a strife among them which of them should be accounted the greatest
and he said unto them the kings of the gentiles exercise lordship over them and they that exercise authority upon them are called benefactors
but ye shall not be so but he that is greatest among you let him be as the younger and he that is chief as he that doth serve
for whether is greater he that sitteth at meat or he that serveth is not he that sitteth at meat but i am among you as he that serveth
ye are they which have continued with me in my temptations
and i appoint unto you a kingdom as my father hath appointed unto me
that ye may eat and drink at my table in my kingdom and sit on thrones judging the twelve tribes of israel
and the lord said simon simon behold satan hath desired to have you that he may sift you as wheat
but i have prayed for thee that thy faith fail not and when thou art converted strengthen thy brethren
and he said unto him lord i am ready to go with thee both into prison and to death
and he said i tell thee peter the cock shall not crow this day before that thou shalt thrice deny that thou knowest me
and he said unto them when i sent you without purse and scrip and shoes lacked ye any thing and they said nothing
then said he unto them but now he that hath a purse let him take it and likewise his scrip and he that hath no sword let him sell his garment and buy one
for i say unto you that this that is written must yet be accomplished in me and he was reckoned among the transgressors for the things concerning me have an end
and they said lord behold here are two swords and he said unto them it is enough
and he came out and went as he was wont to the mount of olives and his disciples also followed him
and when he was at the place he said unto them pray that ye enter not into temptation
and he was withdrawn from them about a stone's cast and kneeled down and prayed
saying father if thou be willing remove this cup from me nevertheless not my will but thine be done
and there appeared an angel unto him from heaven strengthening him
and being in an agony he prayed more earnestly and his sweat was as it were great drops of blood falling down to the ground
and when he rose up from prayer and was come to his disciples he found them sleeping for sorrow
and said unto them why sleep ye rise and pray lest ye enter into temptation
and while he yet spake behold a multitude and he that was called judas one of the twelve went before them and drew near unto jesus to kiss him
but jesus said unto him judas betrayest thou the son of man with a kiss
when they which were about him saw what would follow they said unto him lord shall we smite with the sword
and one of them smote the servant of the high priest and cut off his right ear
and jesus answered and said suffer ye thus far and he touched his ear and healed him
then jesus said unto the chief priests and captains of the temple and the elders which were come to him be ye come out as against a thief with swords and staves
when i was daily with you in the temple ye stretched forth no hands against me but this is your hour and the power of darkness
then took they him and led him and brought him into the high priest's house and peter followed afar off
and when they had kindled a fire in the midst of the hall and were set down together peter sat down among them
but a certain maid beheld him as he sat by the fire and earnestly looked upon him and said this man was also with him
and he denied him saying woman i know him not
and after a little while another saw him and said thou art also of them and peter said man i am not
and about the space of one hour after another confidently affirmed saying of a truth this fellow also was with him for he is a galilaean
and peter said man i know not what thou sayest and immediately while he yet spake the cock crew
and the lord turned and looked upon peter and peter remembered the word of the lord how he had said unto him before the cock crow thou shalt deny me thrice
and peter went out and wept bitterly
and the men that held jesus mocked him and smote him
and when they had blindfolded him they struck him on the face and asked him saying prophesy who is it that smote thee
and many other things blasphemously spake they against him
and as soon as it was day the elders of the people and the chief priests and the scribes came together and led him into their council saying
art thou the christ tell us and he said unto them if i tell you ye will not believe
and if i also ask you ye will not answer me nor let me go
hereafter shall the son of man sit on the right hand of the power of god
then said they all art thou then the son of god and he said unto them ye say that i am
and they said what need we any further witness for we ourselves have heard of his own mouth
and the whole multitude of them arose and led him unto pilate
and they began to accuse him saying we found this fellow perverting the nation and forbidding to give tribute to caesar saying that he himself is christ a king
and pilate asked him saying art thou the king of the jews and he answered him and said thou sayest it
then said pilate to the chief priests and to the people i find no fault in this man
and they were the more fierce saying he stirreth up the people teaching throughout all jewry beginning from galilee to this place
when pilate heard of galilee he asked whether the man were a galilaean
and as soon as he knew that he belonged unto herod's jurisdiction he sent him to herod who himself also was at jerusalem at that time
and when herod saw jesus he was exceeding glad for he was desirous to see him of a long season because he had heard many things of him and he hoped to have seen some miracle done by him
then he questioned with him in many words but he answered him nothing
and the chief priests and scribes stood and vehemently accused him
and herod with his men of war set him at nought and mocked him and arrayed him in a gorgeous robe and sent him again to pilate
and the same day pilate and herod were made friends together for before they were at enmity between themselves
and pilate when he had called together the chief priests and the rulers and the people
said unto them ye have brought this man unto me as one that perverteth the people and behold i having examined him before you have found no fault in this man touching those things whereof ye accuse him
no nor yet herod for i sent you to him and lo nothing worthy of death is done unto him
i will therefore chastise him and release him
for of necessity he must release one unto them at the feast
and they cried out all at once saying away with this man and release unto us barabbas
who for a certain sedition made in the city and for murder was cast into prison
pilate therefore willing to release jesus spake again to them
but they cried saying crucify him crucify him
and he said unto them the third time why what evil hath he done i have found no cause of death in him i will therefore chastise him and let him go
and they were instant with loud voices requiring that he might be crucified and the voices of them and of the chief priests prevailed
and pilate gave sentence that it should be as they required
and he released unto them him that for sedition and murder was cast into prison whom they had desired but he delivered jesus to their will
and as they led him away they laid hold upon one simon a cyrenian coming out of the country and on him they laid the cross that he might bear it after jesus
and there followed him a great company of people and of women which also bewailed and lamented him
but jesus turning unto them said daughters of jerusalem weep not for me but weep for yourselves and for your children
for behold the days are coming in the which they shall say blessed are the barren and the wombs that never bare and the paps which never gave suck
then shall they begin to say to the mountains fall on us and to the hills cover us
for if they do these things in a green tree what shall be done in the dry
and there were also two other malefactors led with him to be put to death
and when they were come to the place which is called calvary there they crucified him and the malefactors one on the right hand and the other on the left
then said jesus father forgive them for they know not what they do and they parted his raiment and cast lots
and the people stood beholding and the rulers also with them derided him saying he saved others let him save himself if he be christ the chosen of god
and the soldiers also mocked him coming to him and offering him vinegar
and saying if thou be the king of the jews save thyself
and a superscription also was written over him in letters of greek and latin and hebrew this is the king of the jews
and one of the malefactors which were hanged railed on him saying if thou be christ save thyself and us
but the other answering rebuked him saying dost not thou fear god seeing thou art in the same condemnation
and we indeed justly for we receive the due reward of our deeds but this man hath done nothing amiss
and he said unto jesus lord remember me when thou comest into thy kingdom
and jesus said unto him verily i say unto thee to day shalt thou be with me in paradise
and it was about the sixth hour and there was a darkness over all the earth until the ninth hour
and the sun was darkened and the veil of the temple was rent in the midst
and when jesus had cried with a loud voice he said father into thy hands i commend my spirit and having said thus he gave up the ghost
now when the centurion saw what was done he glorified god saying certainly this was a righteous man
and all the people that came together to that sight beholding the things which were done smote their breasts and returned
and all his acquaintance and the women that followed him from galilee stood afar off beholding these things
and behold there was a man named joseph a counsellor and he was a good man and a just
the same had not consented to the counsel and deed of them he was of arimathaea a city of the jews who also himself waited for the kingdom of god
this man went unto pilate and begged the body of jesus
and he took it down and wrapped it in linen and laid it in a sepulchre that was hewn in stone wherein never man before was laid
and that day was the preparation and the sabbath drew on
and the women also which came with him from galilee followed after and beheld the sepulchre and how his body was laid
and they returned and prepared spices and ointments and rested the sabbath day according to the commandment
now upon the first day of the week very early in the morning they came unto the sepulchre bringing the spices which they had prepared and certain others with them
and they found the stone rolled away from the sepulchre
and they entered in and found not the body of the lord jesus
and it came to pass as they were much perplexed thereabout behold two men stood by them in shining garments
and as they were afraid and bowed down their faces to the earth they said unto them why seek ye the living among the dead
he is not here but is risen remember how he spake unto you when he was yet in galilee
saying the son of man must be delivered into the hands of sinful men and be crucified and the third day rise again
and they remembered his words
and returned from the sepulchre and told all these things unto the eleven and to all the rest
it was mary magdalene and joanna and mary the mother of james and other women that were with them which told these things unto the apostles
and their words seemed to them as idle tales and they believed them not
then arose peter and ran unto the sepulchre and stooping down he beheld the linen clothes laid by themselves and departed wondering in himself at that which was come to pass
and behold two of them went that same day to a village called emmaus which was from jerusalem about threescore furlongs
and they talked together of all these things which had happened
and it came to pass that while they communed together and reasoned jesus himself drew near and went with them
but their eyes were holden that they should not know him
and he said unto them what manner of communications are these that ye have one to another as ye walk and are sad
and the one of them whose name was cleopas answering said unto him art thou only a stranger in jerusalem and hast not known the things which are come to pass there in these days
and he said unto them what things and they said unto him concerning jesus of nazareth which was a prophet mighty in deed and word before god and all the people
and how the chief priests and our rulers delivered him to be condemned to death and have crucified him
but we trusted that it had been he which should have redeemed israel and beside all this to day is the third day since these things were done
yea and certain women also of our company made us astonished which were early at the sepulchre
and when they found not his body they came saying that they had also seen a vision of angels which said that he was alive
and certain of them which were with us went to the sepulchre and found it even so as the women had said but him they saw not
then he said unto them o fools and slow of heart to believe all that the prophets have spoken
ought not christ to have suffered these things and to enter into his glory
and beginning at moses and all the prophets he expounded unto them in all the scriptures the things concerning himself
and they drew nigh unto the village whither they went and he made as though he would have gone further
but they constrained him saying abide with us for it is toward evening and the day is far spent and he went in to tarry with them
and it came to pass as he sat at meat with them he took bread and blessed it and brake and gave to them
and their eyes were opened and they knew him and he vanished out of their sight
and they said one to another did not our heart burn within us while he talked with us by the way and while he opened to us the scriptures
and they rose up the same hour and returned to jerusalem and found the eleven gathered together and them that were with them
saying the lord is risen indeed and hath appeared to simon
and they told what things were done in the way and how he was known of them in breaking of bread
and as they thus spake jesus himself stood in the midst of them and saith unto them peace be unto you
but they were terrified and affrighted and supposed that they had seen a spirit
and he said unto them why are ye troubled and why do thoughts arise in your hearts
behold my hands and my feet that it is i myself handle me and see for a spirit hath not flesh and bones as ye see me have
and when he had thus spoken he shewed them his hands and his feet
and while they yet believed not for joy and wondered he said unto them have ye here any meat
and they gave him a piece of a broiled fish and of an honeycomb
and he took it and did eat before them
and he said unto them these are the words which i spake unto you while i was yet with you that all things must be fulfilled which were written in the law of moses and in the prophets and in the psalms concerning me
then opened he their understanding that they might understand the scriptures
and said unto them thus it is written and thus it behoved christ to suffer and to rise from the dead the third day
and that repentance and remission of sins should be preached in his name among all nations beginning at jerusalem
and ye are witnesses of these things
and behold i send the promise of my father upon you but tarry ye in the city of jerusalem until ye be endued with power from on high
and he led them out as far as to bethany and he lifted up his hands and blessed them
and it came to pass while he blessed them he was parted from them and carried up into heaven
and they worshipped him and returned to jerusalem with great joy
and were continually in the temple praising and blessing god amen
in the beginning was the word and the word was with god and the word was god
the same was in the beginning with god
all things were made by him and without him was not any thing made that was made
in him was life and the life was the light of men
and the light shineth in darkness and the darkness comprehended it not
there was a man sent from god whose name was john
the same came for a witness to bear witness of the light that all men through him might believe
he was not that light but was sent to bear witness of that light
that was the true light which lighteth every man that cometh into the world
he was in the world and the world was made by him and the world knew him not
he came unto his own and his own received him not
but as many as received him to them gave he power to become the sons of god even to them that believe on his name
which were born not of blood nor of the will of the flesh nor of the will of man but of god
and the word was made flesh and dwelt among us and we beheld his glory the glory as of the only begotten of the father full of grace and truth
john bare witness of him and cried saying this was he of whom i spake he that cometh after me is preferred before me for he was before me
and of his fulness have all we received and grace for grace
for the law was given by moses but grace and truth came by jesus christ
no man hath seen god at any time the only begotten son which is in the bosom of the father he hath declared him
and this is the record of john when the jews sent priests and levites from jerusalem to ask him who art thou
and he confessed and denied not but confessed i am not the christ
and they asked him what then art thou elias and he saith i am not art thou that prophet and he answered no
then said they unto him who art thou that we may give an answer to them that sent us what sayest thou of thyself
he said i am the voice of one crying in the wilderness make straight the way of the lord as said the prophet esaias
and they which were sent were of the pharisees
and they asked him and said unto him why baptizest thou then if thou be not that christ nor elias neither that prophet
john answered them saying i baptize with water but there standeth one among you whom ye know not
he it is who coming after me is preferred before me whose shoe's latchet i am not worthy to unloose
these things were done in bethabara beyond jordan where john was baptizing
the next day john seeth jesus coming unto him and saith behold the lamb of god which taketh away the sin of the world
this is he of whom i said after me cometh a man which is preferred before me for he was before me
and i knew him not but that he should be made manifest to israel therefore am i come baptizing with water
and john bare record saying i saw the spirit descending from heaven like a dove and it abode upon him
and i knew him not but he that sent me to baptize with water the same said unto me upon whom thou shalt see the spirit descending and remaining on him the same is he which baptizeth with the holy ghost
and i saw and bare record that this is the son of god
again the next day after john stood and two of his disciples
and looking upon jesus as he walked he saith behold the lamb of god
and the two disciples heard him speak and they followed jesus
then jesus turned and saw them following and saith unto them what seek ye they said unto him rabbi which is to say being interpreted master where dwellest thou
he saith unto them come and see they came and saw where he dwelt and abode with him that day for it was about the tenth hour
one of the two which heard john speak and followed him was andrew simon peter's brother
he first findeth his own brother simon and saith unto him we have found the messias which is being interpreted the christ
and he brought him to jesus and when jesus beheld him he said thou art simon the son of jona thou shalt be called cephas which is by interpretation a stone
the day following jesus would go forth into galilee and findeth philip and saith unto him follow me
now philip was of bethsaida the city of andrew and peter
philip findeth nathanael and saith unto him we have found him of whom moses in the law and the prophets did write jesus of nazareth the son of joseph
and nathanael said unto him can there any good thing come out of nazareth philip saith unto him come and see
jesus saw nathanael coming to him and saith of him behold an israelite indeed in whom is no guile
nathanael saith unto him whence knowest thou me jesus answered and said unto him before that philip called thee when thou wast under the fig tree i saw thee
nathanael answered and saith unto him rabbi thou art the son of god thou art the king of israel
jesus answered and said unto him because i said unto thee i saw thee under the fig tree believest thou thou shalt see greater things than these
and he saith unto him verily verily i say unto you hereafter ye shall see heaven open and the angels of god ascending and descending upon the son of man
and the third day there was a marriage in cana of galilee and the mother of jesus was there
and both jesus was called and his disciples to the marriage
and when they wanted wine the mother of jesus saith unto him they have no wine
jesus saith unto her woman what have i to do with thee mine hour is not yet come
his mother saith unto the servants whatsoever he saith unto you do it
and there were set there six waterpots of stone after the manner of the purifying of the jews containing two or three firkins apiece
jesus saith unto them fill the waterpots with water and they filled them up to the brim
and he saith unto them draw out now and bear unto the governor of the feast and they bare it
when the ruler of the feast had tasted the water that was made wine and knew not whence it was but the servants which drew the water knew the governor of the feast called the bridegroom
and saith unto him every man at the beginning doth set forth good wine and when men have well drunk then that which is worse but thou hast kept the good wine until now
this beginning of miracles did jesus in cana of galilee and manifested forth his glory and his disciples believed on him
after this he went down to capernaum he and his mother and his brethren and his disciples and they continued there not many days
and the jews passover was at hand and jesus went up to jerusalem
and found in the temple those that sold oxen and sheep and doves and the changers of money sitting
and when he had made a scourge of small cords he drove them all out of the temple and the sheep and the oxen and poured out the changers money and overthrew the tables
and said unto them that sold doves take these things hence make not my father's house an house of merchandise
and his disciples remembered that it was written the zeal of thine house hath eaten me up
then answered the jews and said unto him what sign shewest thou unto us seeing that thou doest these things
jesus answered and said unto them destroy this temple and in three days i will raise it up
then said the jews forty and six years was this temple in building and wilt thou rear it up in three days
but he spake of the temple of his body
when therefore he was risen from the dead his disciples remembered that he had said this unto them and they believed the scripture and the word which jesus had said
now when he was in jerusalem at the passover in the feast day many believed in his name when they saw the miracles which he did
but jesus did not commit himself unto them because he knew all men
and needed not that any should testify of man for he knew what was in man
there was a man of the pharisees named nicodemus a ruler of the jews
the same came to jesus by night and said unto him rabbi we know that thou art a teacher come from god for no man can do these miracles that thou doest except god be with him
jesus answered and said unto him verily verily i say unto thee except a man be born again he cannot see the kingdom of god
nicodemus saith unto him how can a man be born when he is old can he enter the second time into his mother's womb and be born
jesus answered verily verily i say unto thee except a man be born of water and of the spirit he cannot enter into the kingdom of god
that which is born of the flesh is flesh and that which is born of the spirit is spirit
marvel not that i said unto thee ye must be born again
the wind bloweth where it listeth and thou hearest the sound thereof but canst not tell whence it cometh and whither it goeth so is every one that is born of the spirit
nicodemus answered and said unto him how can these things be
jesus answered and said unto him art thou a master of israel and knowest not these things
verily verily i say unto thee we speak that we do know and testify that we have seen and ye receive not our witness
if i have told you earthly things and ye believe not how shall ye believe if i tell you of heavenly things
and no man hath ascended up to heaven but he that came down from heaven even the son of man which is in heaven
and as moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness even so must the son of man be lifted up
that whosoever believeth in him should not perish but have eternal life
for god so loved the world that he gave his only begotten son that whosoever believeth in him should not perish but have everlasting life
for god sent not his son into the world to condemn the world but that the world through him might be saved
he that believeth on him is not condemned but he that believeth not is condemned already because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten son of god
and this is the condemnation that light is come into the world and men loved darkness rather than light because their deeds were evil
for every one that doeth evil hateth the light neither cometh to the light lest his deeds should be reproved
but he that doeth truth cometh to the light that his deeds may be made manifest that they are wrought in god
after these things came jesus and his disciples into the land of judaea and there he tarried with them and baptized
and john also was baptizing in aenon near to salim because there was much water there and they came and were baptized
for john was not yet cast into prison
then there arose a question between some of john's disciples and the jews about purifying
and they came unto john and said unto him rabbi he that was with thee beyond jordan to whom thou barest witness behold the same baptizeth and all men come to him
john answered and said a man can receive nothing except it be given him from heaven
ye yourselves bear me witness that i said i am not the christ but that i am sent before him
he that hath the bride is the bridegroom but the friend of the bridegroom which standeth and heareth him rejoiceth greatly because of the bridegroom's voice this my joy therefore is fulfilled
he must increase but i must decrease
he that cometh from above is above all he that is of the earth is earthly and speaketh of the earth he that cometh from heaven is above all
and what he hath seen and heard that he testifieth and no man receiveth his testimony
he that hath received his testimony hath set to his seal that god is true
for he whom god hath sent speaketh the words of god for god giveth not the spirit by measure unto him
the father loveth the son and hath given all things into his hand
he that believeth on the son hath everlasting life and he that believeth not the son shall not see life but the wrath of god abideth on him
when therefore the lord knew how the pharisees had heard that jesus made and baptized more disciples than john
though jesus himself baptized not but his disciples
he left judaea and departed again into galilee
and he must needs go through samaria
then cometh he to a city of samaria which is called sychar near to the parcel of ground that jacob gave to his son joseph
now jacob's well was there jesus therefore being wearied with his journey sat thus on the well and it was about the sixth hour
there cometh a woman of samaria to draw water jesus saith unto her give me to drink
for his disciples were gone away unto the city to buy meat
then saith the woman of samaria unto him how is it that thou being a jew askest drink of me which am a woman of samaria for the jews have no dealings with the samaritans
jesus answered and said unto her if thou knewest the gift of god and who it is that saith to thee give me to drink thou wouldest have asked of him and he would have given thee living water
the woman saith unto him sir thou hast nothing to draw with and the well is deep from whence then hast thou that living water
art thou greater than our father jacob which gave us the well and drank thereof himself and his children and his cattle
jesus answered and said unto her whosoever drinketh of this water shall thirst again
but whosoever drinketh of the water that i shall give him shall never thirst but the water that i shall give him shall be in him a well of water springing up into everlasting life
the woman saith unto him sir give me this water that i thirst not neither come hither to draw
jesus saith unto her go call thy husband and come hither
the woman answered and said i have no husband jesus said unto her thou hast well said i have no husband
for thou hast had five husbands and he whom thou now hast is not thy husband in that saidst thou truly
the woman saith unto him sir i perceive that thou art a prophet
our fathers worshipped in this mountain and ye say that in jerusalem is the place where men ought to worship
jesus saith unto her woman believe me the hour cometh when ye shall neither in this mountain nor yet at jerusalem worship the father
ye worship ye know not what we know what we worship for salvation is of the jews
but the hour cometh and now is when the true worshippers shall worship the father in spirit and in truth for the father seeketh such to worship him
god is a spirit and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth
the woman saith unto him i know that messias cometh which is called christ when he is come he will tell us all things
jesus saith unto her i that speak unto thee am he
and upon this came his disciples and marvelled that he talked with the woman yet no man said what seekest thou or why talkest thou with her
the woman then left her waterpot and went her way into the city and saith to the men
come see a man which told me all things that ever i did is not this the christ
then they went out of the city and came unto him
in the mean while his disciples prayed him saying master eat
but he said unto them i have meat to eat that ye know not of
therefore said the disciples one to another hath any man brought him ought to eat
jesus saith unto them my meat is to do the will of him that sent me and to finish his work
say not ye there are yet four months and then cometh harvest behold i say unto you lift up your eyes and look on the fields for they are white already to harvest
and he that reapeth receiveth wages and gathereth fruit unto life eternal that both he that soweth and he that reapeth may rejoice together
and herein is that saying true one soweth and another reapeth
i sent you to reap that whereon ye bestowed no labour other men laboured and ye are entered into their labours
and many of the samaritans of that city believed on him for the saying of the woman which testified he told me all that ever i did
so when the samaritans were come unto him they besought him that he would tarry with them and he abode there two days
and many more believed because of his own word
and said unto the woman now we believe not because of thy saying for we have heard him ourselves and know that this is indeed the christ the saviour of the world
now after two days he departed thence and went into galilee
for jesus himself testified that a prophet hath no honour in his own country
then when he was come into galilee the galilaeans received him having seen all the things that he did at jerusalem at the feast for they also went unto the feast
so jesus came again into cana of galilee where he made the water wine and there was a certain nobleman whose son was sick at capernaum
when he heard that jesus was come out of judaea into galilee he went unto him and besought him that he would come down and heal his son for he was at the point of death
then said jesus unto him except ye see signs and wonders ye will not believe
the nobleman saith unto him sir come down ere my child die
jesus saith unto him go thy way thy son liveth and the man believed the word that jesus had spoken unto him and he went his way
and as he was now going down his servants met him and told him saying thy son liveth
then enquired he of them the hour when he began to amend and they said unto him yesterday at the seventh hour the fever left him
so the father knew that it was at the same hour in the which jesus said unto him thy son liveth and himself believed and his whole house
this is again the second miracle that jesus did when he was come out of judaea into galilee
after this there was a feast of the jews and jesus went up to jerusalem
now there is at jerusalem by the sheep market a pool which is called in the hebrew tongue bethesda having five porches
in these lay a great multitude of impotent folk of blind halt withered waiting for the moving of the water
for an angel went down at a certain season into the pool and troubled the water whosoever then first after the troubling of the water stepped in was made whole of whatsoever disease he had
and a certain man was there which had an infirmity thirty and eight years
when jesus saw him lie and knew that he had been now a long time in that case he saith unto him wilt thou be made whole
the impotent man answered him sir i have no man when the water is troubled to put me into the pool but while i am coming another steppeth down before me
jesus saith unto him rise take up thy bed and walk
and immediately the man was made whole and took up his bed and walked and on the same day was the sabbath
the jews therefore said unto him that was cured it is the sabbath day it is not lawful for thee to carry thy bed
he answered them he that made me whole the same said unto me take up thy bed and walk
then asked they him what man is that which said unto thee take up thy bed and walk
and he that was healed wist not who it was for jesus had conveyed himself away a multitude being in that place
afterward jesus findeth him in the temple and said unto him behold thou art made whole sin no more lest a worse thing come unto thee
the man departed and told the jews that it was jesus which had made him whole
and therefore did the jews persecute jesus and sought to slay him because he had done these things on the sabbath day
but jesus answered them my father worketh hitherto and i work
therefore the jews sought the more to kill him because he not only had broken the sabbath but said also that god was his father making himself equal with god
then answered jesus and said unto them verily verily i say unto you the son can do nothing of himself but what he seeth the father do for what things soever he doeth these also doeth the son likewise
for the father loveth the son and sheweth him all things that himself doeth and he will shew him greater works than these that ye may marvel
for as the father raiseth up the dead and quickeneth them even so the son quickeneth whom he will
for the father judgeth no man but hath committed all judgment unto the son
that all men should honour the son even as they honour the father he that honoureth not the son honoureth not the father which hath sent him
verily verily i say unto you he that heareth my word and believeth on him that sent me hath everlasting life and shall not come into condemnation but is passed from death unto life
verily verily i say unto you the hour is coming and now is when the dead shall hear the voice of the son of god and they that hear shall live
for as the father hath life in himself so hath he given to the son to have life in himself
and hath given him authority to execute judgment also because he is the son of man
marvel not at this for the hour is coming in the which all that are in the graves shall hear his voice
and shall come forth they that have done good unto the resurrection of life and they that have done evil unto the resurrection of damnation
i can of mine own self do nothing as i hear i judge and my judgment is just because i seek not mine own will but the will of the father which hath sent me
if i bear witness of myself my witness is not true
there is another that beareth witness of me and i know that the witness which he witnesseth of me is true
ye sent unto john and he bare witness unto the truth
but i receive not testimony from man but these things i say that ye might be saved
he was a burning and a shining light and ye were willing for a season to rejoice in his light
but i have greater witness than that of john for the works which the father hath given me to finish the same works that i do bear witness of me that the father hath sent me
and the father himself which hath sent me hath borne witness of me ye have neither heard his voice at any time nor seen his shape
and ye have not his word abiding in you for whom he hath sent him ye believe not
search the scriptures for in them ye think ye have eternal life and they are they which testify of me
and ye will not come to me that ye might have life
i receive not honour from men
but i know you that ye have not the love of god in you
i am come in my father's name and ye receive me not if another shall come in his own name him ye will receive
how can ye believe which receive honour one of another and seek not the honour that cometh from god only
do not think that i will accuse you to the father there is one that accuseth you even moses in whom ye trust
for had ye believed moses ye would have believed me for he wrote of me
but if ye believe not his writings how shall ye believe my words
after these things jesus went over the sea of galilee which is the sea of tiberias
and a great multitude followed him because they saw his miracles which he did on them that were diseased
and jesus went up into a mountain and there he sat with his disciples
and the passover a feast of the jews was nigh
when jesus then lifted up his eyes and saw a great company come unto him he saith unto philip whence shall we buy bread that these may eat
and this he said to prove him for he himself knew what he would do
philip answered him two hundred pennyworth of bread is not sufficient for them that every one of them may take a little
one of his disciples andrew simon peter's brother saith unto him
there is a lad here which hath five barley loaves and two small fishes but what are they among so many
and jesus said make the men sit down now there was much grass in the place so the men sat down in number about five thousand
and jesus took the loaves and when he had given thanks he distributed to the disciples and the disciples to them that were set down and likewise of the fishes as much as they would
when they were filled he said unto his disciples gather up the fragments that remain that nothing be lost
therefore they gathered them together and filled twelve baskets with the fragments of the five barley loaves which remained over and above unto them that had eaten
then those men when they had seen the miracle that jesus did said this is of a truth that prophet that should come into the world
when jesus therefore perceived that they would come and take him by force to make him a king he departed again into a mountain himself alone
and when even was now come his disciples went down unto the sea
and entered into a ship and went over the sea toward capernaum and it was now dark and jesus was not come to them
and the sea arose by reason of a great wind that blew
so when they had rowed about five and twenty or thirty furlongs they see jesus walking on the sea and drawing nigh unto the ship and they were afraid
but he saith unto them it is i be not afraid
then they willingly received him into the ship and immediately the ship was at the land whither they went
the day following when the people which stood on the other side of the sea saw that there was none other boat there save that one whereinto his disciples were entered and that jesus went not with his disciples into the boat but that his disciples were gone away alone
howbeit there came other boats from tiberias nigh unto the place where they did eat bread after that the lord had given thanks
when the people therefore saw that jesus was not there neither his disciples they also took shipping and came to capernaum seeking for jesus
and when they had found him on the other side of the sea they said unto him rabbi when camest thou hither
jesus answered them and said verily verily i say unto you ye seek me not because ye saw the miracles but because ye did eat of the loaves and were filled
labour not for the meat which perisheth but for that meat which endureth unto everlasting life which the son of man shall give unto you for him hath god the father sealed
then said they unto him what shall we do that we might work the works of god
jesus answered and said unto them this is the work of god that ye believe on him whom he hath sent
they said therefore unto him what sign shewest thou then that we may see and believe thee what dost thou work
our fathers did eat manna in the desert as it is written he gave them bread from heaven to eat
then jesus said unto them verily verily i say unto you moses gave you not that bread from heaven but my father giveth you the true bread from heaven
for the bread of god is he which cometh down from heaven and giveth life unto the world
then said they unto him lord evermore give us this bread
and jesus said unto them i am the bread of life he that cometh to me shall never hunger and he that believeth on me shall never thirst
but i said unto you that ye also have seen me and believe not
all that the father giveth me shall come to me and him that cometh to me i will in no wise cast out
for i came down from heaven not to do mine own will but the will of him that sent me
and this is the father's will which hath sent me that of all which he hath given me i should lose nothing but should raise it up again at the last day
and this is the will of him that sent me that every one which seeth the son and believeth on him may have everlasting life and i will raise him up at the last day
the jews then murmured at him because he said i am the bread which came down from heaven
and they said is not this jesus the son of joseph whose father and mother we know how is it then that he saith i came down from heaven
jesus therefore answered and said unto them murmur not among yourselves
no man can come to me except the father which hath sent me draw him and i will raise him up at the last day
it is written in the prophets and they shall be all taught of god every man therefore that hath heard and hath learned of the father cometh unto me
not that any man hath seen the father save he which is of god he hath seen the father
verily verily i say unto you he that believeth on me hath everlasting life
i am that bread of life
your fathers did eat manna in the wilderness and are dead
this is the bread which cometh down from heaven that a man may eat thereof and not die
i am the living bread which came down from heaven if any man eat of this bread he shall live for ever and the bread that i will give is my flesh which i will give for the life of the world
the jews therefore strove among themselves saying how can this man give us his flesh to eat
then jesus said unto them verily verily i say unto you except ye eat the flesh of the son of man and drink his blood ye have no life in you
whoso eateth my flesh and drinketh my blood hath eternal life and i will raise him up at the last day
for my flesh is meat indeed and my blood is drink indeed
he that eateth my flesh and drinketh my blood dwelleth in me and i in him
as the living father hath sent me and i live by the father so he that eateth me even he shall live by me
this is that bread which came down from heaven not as your fathers did eat manna and are dead he that eateth of this bread shall live for ever
these things said he in the synagogue as he taught in capernaum
many therefore of his disciples when they had heard this said this is an hard saying who can hear it
when jesus knew in himself that his disciples murmured at it he said unto them doth this offend you
what and if ye shall see the son of man ascend up where he was before
it is the spirit that quickeneth the flesh profiteth nothing the words that i speak unto you they are spirit and they are life
but there are some of you that believe not for jesus knew from the beginning who they were that believed not and who should betray him
and he said therefore said i unto you that no man can come unto me except it were given unto him of my father
from that time many of his disciples went back and walked no more with him
then said jesus unto the twelve will ye also go away
then simon peter answered him lord to whom shall we go thou hast the words of eternal life
and we believe and are sure that thou art that christ the son of the living god
jesus answered them have not i chosen you twelve and one of you is a devil
he spake of judas iscariot the son of simon for he it was that should betray him being one of the twelve
after these things jesus walked in galilee for he would not walk in jewry because the jews sought to kill him
now the jews feast of tabernacles was at hand
his brethren therefore said unto him depart hence and go into judaea that thy disciples also may see the works that thou doest
for there is no man that doeth any thing in secret and he himself seeketh to be known openly if thou do these things shew thyself to the world
for neither did his brethren believe in him
then jesus said unto them my time is not yet come but your time is alway ready
the world cannot hate you but me it hateth because i testify of it that the works thereof are evil
go ye up unto this feast i go not up yet unto this feast for my time is not yet full come
when he had said these words unto them he abode still in galilee
but when his brethren were gone up then went he also up unto the feast not openly but as it were in secret
then the jews sought him at the feast and said where is he
and there was much murmuring among the people concerning him for some said he is a good man others said nay but he deceiveth the people
howbeit no man spake openly of him for fear of the jews
now about the midst of the feast jesus went up into the temple and taught
and the jews marvelled saying how knoweth this man letters having never learned
jesus answered them and said my doctrine is not mine but his that sent me
if any man will do his will he shall know of the doctrine whether it be of god or whether i speak of myself
he that speaketh of himself seeketh his own glory but he that seeketh his glory that sent him the same is true and no unrighteousness is in him
did not moses give you the law and yet none of you keepeth the law why go ye about to kill me
the people answered and said thou hast a devil who goeth about to kill thee
jesus answered and said unto them i have done one work and ye all marvel
moses therefore gave unto you circumcision not because it is of moses but of the fathers and ye on the sabbath day circumcise a man
if a man on the sabbath day receive circumcision that the law of moses should not be broken are ye angry at me because i have made a man every whit whole on the sabbath day
judge not according to the appearance but judge righteous judgment
then said some of them of jerusalem is not this he whom they seek to kill
but lo he speaketh boldly and they say nothing unto him do the rulers know indeed that this is the very christ
howbeit we know this man whence he is but when christ cometh no man knoweth whence he is
then cried jesus in the temple as he taught saying ye both know me and ye know whence i am and i am not come of myself but he that sent me is true whom ye know not
but i know him for i am from him and he hath sent me
then they sought to take him but no man laid hands on him because his hour was not yet come
and many of the people believed on him and said when christ cometh will he do more miracles than these which this man hath done
the pharisees heard that the people murmured such things concerning him and the pharisees and the chief priests sent officers to take him
then said jesus unto them yet a little while am i with you and then i go unto him that sent me
ye shall seek me and shall not find me and where i am thither ye cannot come
then said the jews among themselves whither will he go that we shall not find him will he go unto the dispersed among the gentiles and teach the gentiles
what manner of saying is this that he said ye shall seek me and shall not find me and where i am thither ye cannot come
in the last day that great day of the feast jesus stood and cried saying if any man thirst let him come unto me and drink
he that believeth on me as the scripture hath said out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water
but this spake he of the spirit which they that believe on him should receive for the holy ghost was not yet given because that jesus was not yet glorified
many of the people therefore when they heard this saying said of a truth this is the prophet
others said this is the christ but some said shall christ come out of galilee
hath not the scripture said that christ cometh of the seed of david and out of the town of bethlehem where david was
so there was a division among the people because of him
and some of them would have taken him but no man laid hands on him
then came the officers to the chief priests and pharisees and they said unto them why have ye not brought him
the officers answered never man spake like this man
then answered them the pharisees are ye also deceived
have any of the rulers or of the pharisees believed on him
but this people who knoweth not the law are cursed
nicodemus saith unto them he that came to jesus by night being one of them
doth our law judge any man before it hear him and know what he doeth
they answered and said unto him art thou also of galilee search and look for out of galilee ariseth no prophet
and every man went unto his own house
jesus went unto the mount of olives
and early in the morning he came again into the temple and all the people came unto him and he sat down and taught them
and the scribes and pharisees brought unto him a woman taken in adultery and when they had set her in the midst
they say unto him master this woman was taken in adultery in the very act
now moses in the law commanded us that such should be stoned but what sayest thou
this they said tempting him that they might have to accuse him but jesus stooped down and with his finger wrote on the ground as though he heard them not
so when they continued asking him he lifted up himself and said unto them he that is without sin among you let him first cast a stone at her
and again he stooped down and wrote on the ground
and they which heard it being convicted by their own conscience went out one by one beginning at the eldest even unto the last and jesus was left alone and the woman standing in the midst
when jesus had lifted up himself and saw none but the woman he said unto her woman where are those thine accusers hath no man condemned thee
she said no man lord and jesus said unto her neither do i condemn thee go and sin no more
then spake jesus again unto them saying i am the light of the world he that followeth me shall not walk in darkness but shall have the light of life
the pharisees therefore said unto him thou bearest record of thyself thy record is not true
jesus answered and said unto them though i bear record of myself yet my record is true for i know whence i came and whither i go but ye cannot tell whence i come and whither i go
ye judge after the flesh i judge no man
and yet if i judge my judgment is true for i am not alone but i and the father that sent me
it is also written in your law that the testimony of two men is true
i am one that bear witness of myself and the father that sent me beareth witness of me
then said they unto him where is thy father jesus answered ye neither know me nor my father if ye had known me ye should have known my father also
these words spake jesus in the treasury as he taught in the temple and no man laid hands on him for his hour was not yet come
then said jesus again unto them i go my way and ye shall seek me and shall die in your sins whither i go ye cannot come
then said the jews will he kill himself because he saith whither i go ye cannot come
and he said unto them ye are from beneath i am from above ye are of this world i am not of this world
i said therefore unto you that ye shall die in your sins for if ye believe not that i am he ye shall die in your sins
then said they unto him who art thou and jesus saith unto them even the same that i said unto you from the beginning
i have many things to say and to judge of you but he that sent me is true and i speak to the world those things which i have heard of him
they understood not that he spake to them of the father
then said jesus unto them when ye have lifted up the son of man then shall ye know that i am he and that i do nothing of myself but as my father hath taught me i speak these things
and he that sent me is with me the father hath not left me alone for i do always those things that please him
as he spake these words many believed on him
then said jesus to those jews which believed on him if ye continue in my word then are ye my disciples indeed
and ye shall know the truth and the truth shall make you free
they answered him we be abraham's seed and were never in bondage to any man how sayest thou ye shall be made free
jesus answered them verily verily i say unto you whosoever committeth sin is the servant of sin
and the servant abideth not in the house for ever but the son abideth ever
if the son therefore shall make you free ye shall be free indeed
i know that ye are abraham's seed but ye seek to kill me because my word hath no place in you
i speak that which i have seen with my father and ye do that which ye have seen with your father
they answered and said unto him abraham is our father jesus saith unto them if ye were abraham's children ye would do the works of abraham
but now ye seek to kill me a man that hath told you the truth which i have heard of god this did not abraham
ye do the deeds of your father then said they to him we be not born of fornication we have one father even god
jesus said unto them if god were your father ye would love me for i proceeded forth and came from god neither came i of myself but he sent me
why do ye not understand my speech even because ye cannot hear my word
ye are of your father the devil and the lusts of your father ye will do he was a murderer from the beginning and abode not in the truth because there is no truth in him when he speaketh a lie he speaketh of his own for he is a liar and the father of it
and because i tell you the truth ye believe me not
which of you convinceth me of sin and if i say the truth why do ye not believe me
he that is of god heareth god's words ye therefore hear them not because ye are not of god
then answered the jews and said unto him say we not well that thou art a samaritan and hast a devil
jesus answered i have not a devil but i honour my father and ye do dishonour me
and i seek not mine own glory there is one that seeketh and judgeth
verily verily i say unto you if a man keep my saying he shall never see death
then said the jews unto him now we know that thou hast a devil abraham is dead and the prophets and thou sayest if a man keep my saying he shall never taste of death
art thou greater than our father abraham which is dead and the prophets are dead whom makest thou thyself
jesus answered if i honour myself my honour is nothing it is my father that honoureth me of whom ye say that he is your god
yet ye have not known him but i know him and if i should say i know him not i shall be a liar like unto you but i know him and keep his saying
your father abraham rejoiced to see my day and he saw it and was glad
then said the jews unto him thou art not yet fifty years old and hast thou seen abraham
jesus said unto them verily verily i say unto you before abraham was i am
then took they up stones to cast at him but jesus hid himself and went out of the temple going through the midst of them and so passed by
and as jesus passed by he saw a man which was blind from his birth
and his disciples asked him saying master who did sin this man or his parents that he was born blind
jesus answered neither hath this man sinned nor his parents but that the works of god should be made manifest in him
i must work the works of him that sent me while it is day the night cometh when no man can work
as long as i am in the world i am the light of the world
when he had thus spoken he spat on the ground and made clay of the spittle and he anointed the eyes of the blind man with the clay
and said unto him go wash in the pool of siloam which is by interpretation sent he went his way therefore and washed and came seeing
the neighbours therefore and they which before had seen him that he was blind said is not this he that sat and begged
some said this is he others said he is like him but he said i am he
therefore said they unto him how were thine eyes opened
he answered and said a man that is called jesus made clay and anointed mine eyes and said unto me go to the pool of siloam and wash and i went and washed and i received sight
then said they unto him where is he he said i know not
they brought to the pharisees him that aforetime was blind
and it was the sabbath day when jesus made the clay and opened his eyes
then again the pharisees also asked him how he had received his sight he said unto them he put clay upon mine eyes and i washed and do see
therefore said some of the pharisees this man is not of god because he keepeth not the sabbath day others said how can a man that is a sinner do such miracles and there was a division among them
they say unto the blind man again what sayest thou of him that he hath opened thine eyes he said he is a prophet
but the jews did not believe concerning him that he had been blind and received his sight until they called the parents of him that had received his sight
and they asked them saying is this your son who ye say was born blind how then doth he now see
his parents answered them and said we know that this is our son and that he was born blind
but by what means he now seeth we know not or who hath opened his eyes we know not he is of age ask him he shall speak for himself
these words spake his parents because they feared the jews for the jews had agreed already that if any man did confess that he was christ he should be put out of the synagogue
therefore said his parents he is of age ask him
then again called they the man that was blind and said unto him give god the praise we know that this man is a sinner
he answered and said whether he be a sinner or no i know not one thing i know that whereas i was blind now i see
then said they to him again what did he to thee how opened he thine eyes
he answered them i have told you already and ye did not hear wherefore would ye hear it again will ye also be his disciples
then they reviled him and said thou art his disciple but we are moses disciples
we know that god spake unto moses as for this fellow we know not from whence he is
the man answered and said unto them why herein is a marvellous thing that ye know not from whence he is and yet he hath opened mine eyes
now we know that god heareth not sinners but if any man be a worshipper of god and doeth his will him he heareth
since the world began was it not heard that any man opened the eyes of one that was born blind
if this man were not of god he could do nothing
they answered and said unto him thou wast altogether born in sins and dost thou teach us and they cast him out
jesus heard that they had cast him out and when he had found him he said unto him dost thou believe on the son of god
he answered and said who is he lord that i might believe on him
and jesus said unto him thou hast both seen him and it is he that talketh with thee
and he said lord i believe and he worshipped him
and jesus said for judgment i am come into this world that they which see not might see and that they which see might be made blind
and some of the pharisees which were with him heard these words and said unto him are we blind also
jesus said unto them if ye were blind ye should have no sin but now ye say we see therefore your sin remaineth
verily verily i say unto you he that entereth not by the door into the sheepfold but climbeth up some other way the same is a thief and a robber
but he that entereth in by the door is the shepherd of the sheep
to him the porter openeth and the sheep hear his voice and he calleth his own sheep by name and leadeth them out
and when he putteth forth his own sheep he goeth before them and the sheep follow him for they know his voice
and a stranger will they not follow but will flee from him for they know not the voice of strangers
this parable spake jesus unto them but they understood not what things they were which he spake unto them
then said jesus unto them again verily verily i say unto you i am the door of the sheep
all that ever came before me are thieves and robbers but the sheep did not hear them
i am the door by me if any man enter in he shall be saved and shall go in and out and find pasture
the thief cometh not but for to steal and to kill and to destroy i am come that they might have life and that they might have it more abundantly
i am the good shepherd the good shepherd giveth his life for the sheep
but he that is an hireling and not the shepherd whose own the sheep are not seeth the wolf coming and leaveth the sheep and fleeth and the wolf catcheth them and scattereth the sheep
the hireling fleeth because he is an hireling and careth not for the sheep
i am the good shepherd and know my sheep and am known of mine
as the father knoweth me even so know i the father and i lay down my life for the sheep
and other sheep i have which are not of this fold them also i must bring and they shall hear my voice and there shall be one fold and one shepherd
therefore doth my father love me because i lay down my life that i might take it again
no man taketh it from me but i lay it down of myself i have power to lay it down and i have power to take it again this commandment have i received of my father
there was a division therefore again among the jews for these sayings
and many of them said he hath a devil and is mad why hear ye him
others said these are not the words of him that hath a devil can a devil open the eyes of the blind
and it was at jerusalem the feast of the dedication and it was winter
and jesus walked in the temple in solomon's porch
then came the jews round about him and said unto him how long dost thou make us to doubt if thou be the christ tell us plainly
jesus answered them i told you and ye believed not the works that i do in my father's name they bear witness of me
but ye believe not because ye are not of my sheep as i said unto you
my sheep hear my voice and i know them and they follow me
and i give unto them eternal life and they shall never perish neither shall any man pluck them out of my hand
my father which gave them me is greater than all and no man is able to pluck them out of my father's hand
i and my father are one
then the jews took up stones again to stone him
jesus answered them many good works have i shewed you from my father for which of those works do ye stone me
the jews answered him saying for a good work we stone thee not but for blasphemy and because that thou being a man makest thyself god
jesus answered them is it not written in your law i said ye are gods
if he called them gods unto whom the word of god came and the scripture cannot be broken
say ye of him whom the father hath sanctified and sent into the world thou blasphemest because i said i am the son of god
if i do not the works of my father believe me not
but if i do though ye believe not me believe the works that ye may know and believe that the father is in me and i in him
therefore they sought again to take him but he escaped out of their hand
and went away again beyond jordan into the place where john at first baptized and there he abode
and many resorted unto him and said john did no miracle but all things that john spake of this man were true
and many believed on him there
now a certain man was sick named lazarus of bethany the town of mary and her sister martha
it was that mary which anointed the lord with ointment and wiped his feet with her hair whose brother lazarus was sick
therefore his sisters sent unto him saying lord behold he whom thou lovest is sick
when jesus heard that he said this sickness is not unto death but for the glory of god that the son of god might be glorified thereby
now jesus loved martha and her sister and lazarus
when he had heard therefore that he was sick he abode two days still in the same place where he was
then after that saith he to his disciples let us go into judaea again
his disciples say unto him master the jews of late sought to stone thee and goest thou thither again
jesus answered are there not twelve hours in the day if any man walk in the day he stumbleth not because he seeth the light of this world
but if a man walk in the night he stumbleth because there is no light in him
these things said he and after that he saith unto them our friend lazarus sleepeth but i go that i may awake him out of sleep
then said his disciples lord if he sleep he shall do well
howbeit jesus spake of his death but they thought that he had spoken of taking of rest in sleep
then said jesus unto them plainly lazarus is dead
and i am glad for your sakes that i was not there to the intent ye may believe nevertheless let us go unto him
then said thomas which is called didymus unto his fellowdisciples let us also go that we may die with him
then when jesus came he found that he had lain in the grave four days already
now bethany was nigh unto jerusalem about fifteen furlongs off
and many of the jews came to martha and mary to comfort them concerning their brother
then martha as soon as she heard that jesus was coming went and met him but mary sat still in the house
then said martha unto jesus lord if thou hadst been here my brother had not died
but i know that even now whatsoever thou wilt ask of god god will give it thee
jesus saith unto her thy brother shall rise again
martha saith unto him i know that he shall rise again in the resurrection at the last day
jesus said unto her i am the resurrection and the life he that believeth in me though he were dead yet shall he live
and whosoever liveth and believeth in me shall never die believest thou this
she saith unto him yea lord i believe that thou art the christ the son of god which should come into the world
and when she had so said she went her way and called mary her sister secretly saying the master is come and calleth for thee
as soon as she heard that she arose quickly and came unto him
now jesus was not yet come into the town but was in that place where martha met him
the jews then which were with her in the house and comforted her when they saw mary that she rose up hastily and went out followed her saying she goeth unto the grave to weep there
then when mary was come where jesus was and saw him she fell down at his feet saying unto him lord if thou hadst been here my brother had not died
when jesus therefore saw her weeping and the jews also weeping which came with her he groaned in the spirit and was troubled
and said where have ye laid him they said unto him lord come and see
jesus wept
then said the jews behold how he loved him
and some of them said could not this man which opened the eyes of the blind have caused that even this man should not have died
jesus therefore again groaning in himself cometh to the grave it was a cave and a stone lay upon it
jesus said take ye away the stone martha the sister of him that was dead saith unto him lord by this time he stinketh for he hath been dead four days
jesus saith unto her said i not unto thee that if thou wouldest believe thou shouldest see the glory of god
then they took away the stone from the place where the dead was laid and jesus lifted up his eyes and said father i thank thee that thou hast heard me
and i knew that thou hearest me always but because of the people which stand by i said it that they may believe that thou hast sent me
and when he thus had spoken he cried with a loud voice lazarus come forth
and he that was dead came forth bound hand and foot with graveclothes and his face was bound about with a napkin jesus saith unto them loose him and let him go
then many of the jews which came to mary and had seen the things which jesus did believed on him
but some of them went their ways to the pharisees and told them what things jesus had done
then gathered the chief priests and the pharisees a council and said what do we for this man doeth many miracles
if we let him thus alone all men will believe on him and the romans shall come and take away both our place and nation
and one of them named caiaphas being the high priest that same year said unto them ye know nothing at all
nor consider that it is expedient for us that one man should die for the people and that the whole nation perish not
and this spake he not of himself but being high priest that year he prophesied that jesus should die for that nation
and not for that nation only but that also he should gather together in one the children of god that were scattered abroad
then from that day forth they took counsel together for to put him to death
jesus therefore walked no more openly among the jews but went thence unto a country near to the wilderness into a city called ephraim and there continued with his disciples
and the jews passover was nigh at hand and many went out of the country up to jerusalem before the passover to purify themselves
then sought they for jesus and spake among themselves as they stood in the temple what think ye that he will not come to the feast
now both the chief priests and the pharisees had given a commandment that if any man knew where he were he should shew it that they might take him
then jesus six days before the passover came to bethany where lazarus was which had been dead whom he raised from the dead
there they made him a supper and martha served but lazarus was one of them that sat at the table with him
then took mary a pound of ointment of spikenard very costly and anointed the feet of jesus and wiped his feet with her hair and the house was filled with the odour of the ointment
then saith one of his disciples judas iscariot simon's son which should betray him
why was not this ointment sold for three hundred pence and given to the poor
this he said not that he cared for the poor but because he was a thief and had the bag and bare what was put therein
then said jesus let her alone against the day of my burying hath she kept this
for the poor always ye have with you but me ye have not always
much people of the jews therefore knew that he was there and they came not for jesus sake only but that they might see lazarus also whom he had raised from the dead
but the chief priests consulted that they might put lazarus also to death
because that by reason of him many of the jews went away and believed on jesus
on the next day much people that were come to the feast when they heard that jesus was coming to jerusalem
took branches of palm trees and went forth to meet him and cried hosanna blessed is the king of israel that cometh in the name of the lord
and jesus when he had found a young ass sat thereon as it is written
fear not daughter of sion behold thy king cometh sitting on an ass's colt
these things understood not his disciples at the first but when jesus was glorified then remembered they that these things were written of him and that they had done these things unto him
the people therefore that was with him when he called lazarus out of his grave and raised him from the dead bare record
for this cause the people also met him for that they heard that he had done this miracle
the pharisees therefore said among themselves perceive ye how ye prevail nothing behold the world is gone after him
and there were certain greeks among them that came up to worship at the feast
the same came therefore to philip which was of bethsaida of galilee and desired him saying sir we would see jesus
philip cometh and telleth andrew and again andrew and philip tell jesus
and jesus answered them saying the hour is come that the son of man should be glorified
verily verily i say unto you except a corn of wheat fall into the ground and die it abideth alone but if it die it bringeth forth much fruit
he that loveth his life shall lose it and he that hateth his life in this world shall keep it unto life eternal
if any man serve me let him follow me and where i am there shall also my servant be if any man serve me him will my father honour
now is my soul troubled and what shall i say father save me from this hour but for this cause came i unto this hour
father glorify thy name then came there a voice from heaven saying i have both glorified it and will glorify it again
the people therefore that stood by and heard it said that it thundered others said an angel spake to him
jesus answered and said this voice came not because of me but for your sakes
now is the judgment of this world now shall the prince of this world be cast out
and i if i be lifted up from the earth will draw all men unto me
this he said signifying what death he should die
the people answered him we have heard out of the law that christ abideth for ever and how sayest thou the son of man must be lifted up who is this son of man
then jesus said unto them yet a little while is the light with you walk while ye have the light lest darkness come upon you for he that walketh in darkness knoweth not whither he goeth
while ye have light believe in the light that ye may be the children of light these things spake jesus and departed and did hide himself from them
but though he had done so many miracles before them yet they believed not on him
that the saying of esaias the prophet might be fulfilled which he spake lord who hath believed our report and to whom hath the arm of the lord been revealed
therefore they could not believe because that esaias said again
he hath blinded their eyes and hardened their heart that they should not see with their eyes nor understand with their heart and be converted and i should heal them
these things said esaias when he saw his glory and spake of him
nevertheless among the chief rulers also many believed on him but because of the pharisees they did not confess him lest they should be put out of the synagogue
for they loved the praise of men more than the praise of god
jesus cried and said he that believeth on me believeth not on me but on him that sent me
and he that seeth me seeth him that sent me
i am come a light into the world that whosoever believeth on me should not abide in darkness
and if any man hear my words and believe not i judge him not for i came not to judge the world but to save the world
he that rejecteth me and receiveth not my words hath one that judgeth him the word that i have spoken the same shall judge him in the last day
for i have not spoken of myself but the father which sent me he gave me a commandment what i should say and what i should speak
and i know that his commandment is life everlasting whatsoever i speak therefore even as the father said unto me so i speak
now before the feast of the passover when jesus knew that his hour was come that he should depart out of this world unto the father having loved his own which were in the world he loved them unto the end
and supper being ended the devil having now put into the heart of judas iscariot simon's son to betray him
jesus knowing that the father had given all things into his hands and that he was come from god and went to god
he riseth from supper and laid aside his garments and took a towel and girded himself
after that he poureth water into a bason and began to wash the disciples feet and to wipe them with the towel wherewith he was girded
then cometh he to simon peter and peter saith unto him lord dost thou wash my feet
jesus answered and said unto him what i do thou knowest not now but thou shalt know hereafter
peter saith unto him thou shalt never wash my feet jesus answered him if i wash thee not thou hast no part with me
simon peter saith unto him lord not my feet only but also my hands and my head
jesus saith to him he that is washed needeth not save to wash his feet but is clean every whit and ye are clean but not all
for he knew who should betray him therefore said he ye are not all clean
so after he had washed their feet and had taken his garments and was set down again he said unto them know ye what i have done to you
ye call me master and lord and ye say well for so i am
if i then your lord and master have washed your feet ye also ought to wash one another's feet
for i have given you an example that ye should do as i have done to you
verily verily i say unto you the servant is not greater than his lord neither he that is sent greater than he that sent him
if ye know these things happy are ye if ye do them
i speak not of you all i know whom i have chosen but that the scripture may be fulfilled he that eateth bread with me hath lifted up his heel against me
now i tell you before it come that when it is come to pass ye may believe that i am he
verily verily i say unto you he that receiveth whomsoever i send receiveth me and he that receiveth me receiveth him that sent me
when jesus had thus said he was troubled in spirit and testified and said verily verily i say unto you that one of you shall betray me
then the disciples looked one on another doubting of whom he spake
now there was leaning on jesus bosom one of his disciples whom jesus loved
simon peter therefore beckoned to him that he should ask who it should be of whom he spake
he then lying on jesus breast saith unto him lord who is it
jesus answered he it is to whom i shall give a sop when i have dipped it and when he had dipped the sop he gave it to judas iscariot the son of simon
and after the sop satan entered into him then said jesus unto him that thou doest do quickly
now no man at the table knew for what intent he spake this unto him
for some of them thought because judas had the bag that jesus had said unto him buy those things that we have need of against the feast or that he should give something to the poor
he then having received the sop went immediately out and it was night
therefore when he was gone out jesus said now is the son of man glorified and god is glorified in him
if god be glorified in him god shall also glorify him in himself and shall straightway glorify him
little children yet a little while i am with you ye shall seek me and as i said unto the jews whither i go ye cannot come so now i say to you
a new commandment i give unto you that ye love one another as i have loved you that ye also love one another
by this shall all men know that ye are my disciples if ye have love one to another
simon peter said unto him lord whither goest thou jesus answered him whither i go thou canst not follow me now but thou shalt follow me afterwards
peter said unto him lord why cannot i follow thee now i will lay down my life for thy sake
jesus answered him wilt thou lay down thy life for my sake verily verily i say unto thee the cock shall not crow till thou hast denied me thrice
let not your heart be troubled ye believe in god believe also in me
in my father's house are many mansions if it were not so i would have told you i go to prepare a place for you
and if i go and prepare a place for you i will come again and receive you unto myself that where i am there ye may be also
and whither i go ye know and the way ye know
thomas saith unto him lord we know not whither thou goest and how can we know the way
jesus saith unto him i am the way the truth and the life no man cometh unto the father but by me
if ye had known me ye should have known my father also and from henceforth ye know him and have seen him
philip saith unto him lord shew us the father and it sufficeth us
jesus saith unto him have i been so long time with you and yet hast thou not known me philip he that hath seen me hath seen the father and how sayest thou then shew us the father
believest thou not that i am in the father and the father in me the words that i speak unto you i speak not of myself but the father that dwelleth in me he doeth the works
believe me that i am in the father and the father in me or else believe me for the very works sake
verily verily i say unto you he that believeth on me the works that i do shall he do also and greater works than these shall he do because i go unto my father
and whatsoever ye shall ask in my name that will i do that the father may be glorified in the son
if ye shall ask any thing in my name i will do it
if ye love me keep my commandments
and i will pray the father and he shall give you another comforter that he may abide with you for ever
even the spirit of truth whom the world cannot receive because it seeth him not neither knoweth him but ye know him for he dwelleth with you and shall be in you
i will not leave you comfortless i will come to you
yet a little while and the world seeth me no more but ye see me because i live ye shall live also
at that day ye shall know that i am in my father and ye in me and i in you
he that hath my commandments and keepeth them he it is that loveth me and he that loveth me shall be loved of my father and i will love him and will manifest myself to him
judas saith unto him not iscariot lord how is it that thou wilt manifest thyself unto us and not unto the world
jesus answered and said unto him if a man love me he will keep my words and my father will love him and we will come unto him and make our abode with him
he that loveth me not keepeth not my sayings and the word which ye hear is not mine but the father's which sent me
these things have i spoken unto you being yet present with you
but the comforter which is the holy ghost whom the father will send in my name he shall teach you all things and bring all things to your remembrance whatsoever i have said unto you
peace i leave with you my peace i give unto you not as the world giveth give i unto you let not your heart be troubled neither let it be afraid
ye have heard how i said unto you i go away and come again unto you if ye loved me ye would rejoice because i said i go unto the father for my father is greater than i
and now i have told you before it come to pass that when it is come to pass ye might believe
hereafter i will not talk much with you for the prince of this world cometh and hath nothing in me
but that the world may know that i love the father and as the father gave me commandment even so i do arise let us go hence
i am the true vine and my father is the husbandman
every branch in me that beareth not fruit he taketh away and every branch that beareth fruit he purgeth it that it may bring forth more fruit
now ye are clean through the word which i have spoken unto you
abide in me and i in you as the branch cannot bear fruit of itself except it abide in the vine no more can ye except ye abide in me
i am the vine ye are the branches he that abideth in me and i in him the same bringeth forth much fruit for without me ye can do nothing
if a man abide not in me he is cast forth as a branch and is withered and men gather them and cast them into the fire and they are burned
if ye abide in me and my words abide in you ye shall ask what ye will and it shall be done unto you
herein is my father glorified that ye bear much fruit so shall ye be my disciples
as the father hath loved me so have i loved you continue ye in my love
if ye keep my commandments ye shall abide in my love even as i have kept my father's commandments and abide in his love
these things have i spoken unto you that my joy might remain in you and that your joy might be full
this is my commandment that ye love one another as i have loved you
greater love hath no man than this that a man lay down his life for his friends
ye are my friends if ye do whatsoever i command you
henceforth i call you not servants for the servant knoweth not what his lord doeth but i have called you friends for all things that i have heard of my father i have made known unto you
ye have not chosen me but i have chosen you and ordained you that ye should go and bring forth fruit and that your fruit should remain that whatsoever ye shall ask of the father in my name he may give it you
these things i command you that ye love one another
if the world hate you ye know that it hated me before it hated you
if ye were of the world the world would love his own but because ye are not of the world but i have chosen you out of the world therefore the world hateth you
remember the word that i said unto you the servant is not greater than his lord if they have persecuted me they will also persecute you if they have kept my saying they will keep yours also
but all these things will they do unto you for my name's sake because they know not him that sent me
if i had not come and spoken unto them they had not had sin but now they have no cloak for their sin
he that hateth me hateth my father also
if i had not done among them the works which none other man did they had not had sin but now have they both seen and hated both me and my father
but this cometh to pass that the word might be fulfilled that is written in their law they hated me without a cause
but when the comforter is come whom i will send unto you from the father even the spirit of truth which proceedeth from the father he shall testify of me
and ye also shall bear witness because ye have been with me from the beginning
these things have i spoken unto you that ye should not be offended
they shall put you out of the synagogues yea the time cometh that whosoever killeth you will think that he doeth god service
and these things will they do unto you because they have not known the father nor me
but these things have i told you that when the time shall come ye may remember that i told you of them and these things i said not unto you at the beginning because i was with you
but now i go my way to him that sent me and none of you asketh me whither goest thou
but because i have said these things unto you sorrow hath filled your heart
nevertheless i tell you the truth it is expedient for you that i go away for if i go not away the comforter will not come unto you but if i depart i will send him unto you
and when he is come he will reprove the world of sin and of righteousness and of judgment
of sin because they believe not on me
of righteousness because i go to my father and ye see me no more
of judgment because the prince of this world is judged
i have yet many things to say unto you but ye cannot bear them now
howbeit when he the spirit of truth is come he will guide you into all truth for he shall not speak of himself but whatsoever he shall hear that shall he speak and he will shew you things to come
he shall glorify me for he shall receive of mine and shall shew it unto you
all things that the father hath are mine therefore said i that he shall take of mine and shall shew it unto you
a little while and ye shall not see me and again a little while and ye shall see me because i go to the father
then said some of his disciples among themselves what is this that he saith unto us a little while and ye shall not see me and again a little while and ye shall see me and because i go to the father
they said therefore what is this that he saith a little while we cannot tell what he saith
now jesus knew that they were desirous to ask him and said unto them do ye enquire among yourselves of that i said a little while and ye shall not see me and again a little while and ye shall see me
verily verily i say unto you that ye shall weep and lament but the world shall rejoice and ye shall be sorrowful but your sorrow shall be turned into joy
a woman when she is in travail hath sorrow because her hour is come but as soon as she is delivered of the child she remembereth no more the anguish for joy that a man is born into the world
and ye now therefore have sorrow but i will see you again and your heart shall rejoice and your joy no man taketh from you
and in that day ye shall ask me nothing verily verily i say unto you whatsoever ye shall ask the father in my name he will give it you
hitherto have ye asked nothing in my name ask and ye shall receive that your joy may be full
these things have i spoken unto you in proverbs but the time cometh when i shall no more speak unto you in proverbs but i shall shew you plainly of the father
at that day ye shall ask in my name and i say not unto you that i will pray the father for you
for the father himself loveth you because ye have loved me and have believed that i came out from god
i came forth from the father and am come into the world again i leave the world and go to the father
his disciples said unto him lo now speakest thou plainly and speakest no proverb
now are we sure that thou knowest all things and needest not that any man should ask thee by this we believe that thou camest forth from god
jesus answered them do ye now believe
behold the hour cometh yea is now come that ye shall be scattered every man to his own and shall leave me alone and yet i am not alone because the father is with me
these things i have spoken unto you that in me ye might have peace in the world ye shall have tribulation but be of good cheer i have overcome the world
these words spake jesus and lifted up his eyes to heaven and said father the hour is come glorify thy son that thy son also may glorify thee
as thou hast given him power over all flesh that he should give eternal life to as many as thou hast given him
and this is life eternal that they might know thee the only true god and jesus christ whom thou hast sent
i have glorified thee on the earth i have finished the work which thou gavest me to do
and now o father glorify thou me with thine own self with the glory which i had with thee before the world was
i have manifested thy name unto the men which thou gavest me out of the world thine they were and thou gavest them me and they have kept thy word
now they have known that all things whatsoever thou hast given me are of thee
for i have given unto them the words which thou gavest me and they have received them and have known surely that i came out from thee and they have believed that thou didst send me
i pray for them i pray not for the world but for them which thou hast given me for they are thine
and all mine are thine and thine are mine and i am glorified in them
and now i am no more in the world but these are in the world and i come to thee holy father keep through thine own name those whom thou hast given me that they may be one as we are
while i was with them in the world i kept them in thy name those that thou gavest me i have kept and none of them is lost but the son of perdition that the scripture might be fulfilled
and now come i to thee and these things i speak in the world that they might have my joy fulfilled in themselves
i have given them thy word and the world hath hated them because they are not of the world even as i am not of the world
i pray not that thou shouldest take them out of the world but that thou shouldest keep them from the evil
they are not of the world even as i am not of the world
sanctify them through thy truth thy word is truth
as thou hast sent me into the world even so have i also sent them into the world
and for their sakes i sanctify myself that they also might be sanctified through the truth
neither pray i for these alone but for them also which shall believe on me through their word
that they all may be one as thou father art in me and i in thee that they also may be one in us that the world may believe that thou hast sent me
and the glory which thou gavest me i have given them that they may be one even as we are one
i in them and thou in me that they may be made perfect in one and that the world may know that thou hast sent me and hast loved them as thou hast loved me
father i will that they also whom thou hast given me be with me where i am that they may behold my glory which thou hast given me for thou lovedst me before the foundation of the world
o righteous father the world hath not known thee but i have known thee and these have known that thou hast sent me
and i have declared unto them thy name and will declare it that the love wherewith thou hast loved me may be in them and i in them
when jesus had spoken these words he went forth with his disciples over the brook cedron where was a garden into the which he entered and his disciples
and judas also which betrayed him knew the place for jesus ofttimes resorted thither with his disciples
judas then having received a band of men and officers from the chief priests and pharisees cometh thither with lanterns and torches and weapons
jesus therefore knowing all things that should come upon him went forth and said unto them whom seek ye
they answered him jesus of nazareth jesus saith unto them i am he and judas also which betrayed him stood with them
as soon then as he had said unto them i am he they went backward and fell to the ground
then asked he them again whom seek ye and they said jesus of nazareth
jesus answered i have told you that i am he if therefore ye seek me let these go their way
that the saying might be fulfilled which he spake of them which thou gavest me have i lost none
then simon peter having a sword drew it and smote the high priest's servant and cut off his right ear the servant's name was malchus
then said jesus unto peter put up thy sword into the sheath the cup which my father hath given me shall i not drink it
then the band and the captain and officers of the jews took jesus and bound him
and led him away to annas first for he was father in law to caiaphas which was the high priest that same year
now caiaphas was he which gave counsel to the jews that it was expedient that one man should die for the people
and simon peter followed jesus and so did another disciple that disciple was known unto the high priest and went in with jesus into the palace of the high priest
but peter stood at the door without then went out that other disciple which was known unto the high priest and spake unto her that kept the door and brought in peter
then saith the damsel that kept the door unto peter art not thou also one of this man's disciples he saith i am not
and the servants and officers stood there who had made a fire of coals for it was cold and they warmed themselves and peter stood with them and warmed himself
the high priest then asked jesus of his disciples and of his doctrine
jesus answered him i spake openly to the world i ever taught in the synagogue and in the temple whither the jews always resort and in secret have i said nothing
why askest thou me ask them which heard me what i have said unto them behold they know what i said
and when he had thus spoken one of the officers which stood by struck jesus with the palm of his hand saying answerest thou the high priest so
jesus answered him if i have spoken evil bear witness of the evil but if well why smitest thou me
now annas had sent him bound unto caiaphas the high priest
and simon peter stood and warmed himself they said therefore unto him art not thou also one of his disciples he denied it and said i am not
one of the servants of the high priest being his kinsman whose ear peter cut off saith did not i see thee in the garden with him
peter then denied again and immediately the cock crew
then led they jesus from caiaphas unto the hall of judgment and it was early and they themselves went not into the judgment hall lest they should be defiled but that they might eat the passover
pilate then went out unto them and said what accusation bring ye against this man
they answered and said unto him if he were not a malefactor we would not have delivered him up unto thee
then said pilate unto them take ye him and judge him according to your law the jews therefore said unto him it is not lawful for us to put any man to death
that the saying of jesus might be fulfilled which he spake signifying what death he should die
then pilate entered into the judgment hall again and called jesus and said unto him art thou the king of the jews
jesus answered him sayest thou this thing of thyself or did others tell it thee of me
pilate answered am i a jew thine own nation and the chief priests have delivered thee unto me what hast thou done
jesus answered my kingdom is not of this world if my kingdom were of this world then would my servants fight that i should not be delivered to the jews but now is my kingdom not from hence
pilate therefore said unto him art thou a king then jesus answered thou sayest that i am a king to this end was i born and for this cause came i into the world that i should bear witness unto the truth every one that is of the truth heareth my voice
pilate saith unto him what is truth and when he had said this he went out again unto the jews and saith unto them i find in him no fault at all
but ye have a custom that i should release unto you one at the passover will ye therefore that i release unto you the king of the jews
then cried they all again saying not this man but barabbas now barabbas was a robber
then pilate therefore took jesus and scourged him
and the soldiers platted a crown of thorns and put it on his head and they put on him a purple robe
and said hail king of the jews and they smote him with their hands
pilate therefore went forth again and saith unto them behold i bring him forth to you that ye may know that i find no fault in him
then came jesus forth wearing the crown of thorns and the purple robe and pilate saith unto them behold the man
when the chief priests therefore and officers saw him they cried out saying crucify him crucify him pilate saith unto them take ye him and crucify him for i find no fault in him
the jews answered him we have a law and by our law he ought to die because he made himself the son of god
when pilate therefore heard that saying he was the more afraid
and went again into the judgment hall and saith unto jesus whence art thou but jesus gave him no answer
then saith pilate unto him speakest thou not unto me knowest thou not that i have power to crucify thee and have power to release thee
jesus answered thou couldest have no power at all against me except it were given thee from above therefore he that delivered me unto thee hath the greater sin
and from thenceforth pilate sought to release him but the jews cried out saying if thou let this man go thou art not caesar's friend whosoever maketh himself a king speaketh against caesar
when pilate therefore heard that saying he brought jesus forth and sat down in the judgment seat in a place that is called the pavement but in the hebrew gabbatha
and it was the preparation of the passover and about the sixth hour and he saith unto the jews behold your king
but they cried out away with him away with him crucify him pilate saith unto them shall i crucify your king the chief priests answered we have no king but caesar
then delivered he him therefore unto them to be crucified and they took jesus and led him away
and he bearing his cross went forth into a place called the place of a skull which is called in the hebrew golgotha
where they crucified him and two other with him on either side one and jesus in the midst
and pilate wrote a title and put it on the cross and the writing was jesus of nazareth the king of the jews
this title then read many of the jews for the place where jesus was crucified was nigh to the city and it was written in hebrew and greek and latin
then said the chief priests of the jews to pilate write not the king of the jews but that he said i am king of the jews
pilate answered what i have written i have written
then the soldiers when they had crucified jesus took his garments and made four parts to every soldier a part and also his coat now the coat was without seam woven from the top throughout
they said therefore among themselves let us not rend it but cast lots for it whose it shall be that the scripture might be fulfilled which saith they parted my raiment among them and for my vesture they did cast lots these things therefore the soldiers did
now there stood by the cross of jesus his mother and his mother's sister mary the wife of cleophas and mary magdalene
when jesus therefore saw his mother and the disciple standing by whom he loved he saith unto his mother woman behold thy son
then saith he to the disciple behold thy mother and from that hour that disciple took her unto his own home
after this jesus knowing that all things were now accomplished that the scripture might be fulfilled saith i thirst
now there was set a vessel full of vinegar and they filled a spunge with vinegar and put it upon hyssop and put it to his mouth
when jesus therefore had received the vinegar he said it is finished and he bowed his head and gave up the ghost
the jews therefore because it was the preparation that the bodies should not remain upon the cross on the sabbath day for that sabbath day was an high day besought pilate that their legs might be broken and that they might be taken away
then came the soldiers and brake the legs of the first and of the other which was crucified with him
but when they came to jesus and saw that he was dead already they brake not his legs
but one of the soldiers with a spear pierced his side and forthwith came there out blood and water
and he that saw it bare record and his record is true and he knoweth that he saith true that ye might believe
for these things were done that the scripture should be fulfilled a bone of him shall not be broken
and again another scripture saith they shall look on him whom they pierced
and after this joseph of arimathaea being a disciple of jesus but secretly for fear of the jews besought pilate that he might take away the body of jesus and pilate gave him leave he came therefore and took the body of jesus
and there came also nicodemus which at the first came to jesus by night and brought a mixture of myrrh and aloes about an hundred pound weight
then took they the body of jesus and wound it in linen clothes with the spices as the manner of the jews is to bury
now in the place where he was crucified there was a garden and in the garden a new sepulchre wherein was never man yet laid
there laid they jesus therefore because of the jews preparation day for the sepulchre was nigh at hand
the first day of the week cometh mary magdalene early when it was yet dark unto the sepulchre and seeth the stone taken away from the sepulchre
then she runneth and cometh to simon peter and to the other disciple whom jesus loved and saith unto them they have taken away the lord out of the sepulchre and we know not where they have laid him
peter therefore went forth and that other disciple and came to the sepulchre
so they ran both together and the other disciple did outrun peter and came first to the sepulchre
and he stooping down and looking in saw the linen clothes lying yet went he not in
then cometh simon peter following him and went into the sepulchre and seeth the linen clothes lie
and the napkin that was about his head not lying with the linen clothes but wrapped together in a place by itself
then went in also that other disciple which came first to the sepulchre and he saw and believed
for as yet they knew not the scripture that he must rise again from the dead
then the disciples went away again unto their own home
but mary stood without at the sepulchre weeping and as she wept she stooped down and looked into the sepulchre
and seeth two angels in white sitting the one at the head and the other at the feet where the body of jesus had lain
and they say unto her woman why weepest thou she saith unto them because they have taken away my lord and i know not where they have laid him
and when she had thus said she turned herself back and saw jesus standing and knew not that it was jesus
jesus saith unto her woman why weepest thou whom seekest thou she supposing him to be the gardener saith unto him sir if thou have borne him hence tell me where thou hast laid him and i will take him away
jesus saith unto her mary she turned herself and saith unto him rabboni which is to say master
jesus saith unto her touch me not for i am not yet ascended to my father but go to my brethren and say unto them i ascend unto my father and your father and to my god and your god
mary magdalene came and told the disciples that she had seen the lord and that he had spoken these things unto her
then the same day at evening being the first day of the week when the doors were shut where the disciples were assembled for fear of the jews came jesus and stood in the midst and saith unto them peace be unto you
and when he had so said he shewed unto them his hands and his side then were the disciples glad when they saw the lord
then said jesus to them again peace be unto you as my father hath sent me even so send i you
and when he had said this he breathed on them and saith unto them receive ye the holy ghost
whose soever sins ye remit they are remitted unto them and whose soever sins ye retain they are retained
but thomas one of the twelve called didymus was not with them when jesus came
the other disciples therefore said unto him we have seen the lord but he said unto them except i shall see in his hands the print of the nails and put my finger into the print of the nails and thrust my hand into his side i will not believe
and after eight days again his disciples were within and thomas with them then came jesus the doors being shut and stood in the midst and said peace be unto you
then saith he to thomas reach hither thy finger and behold my hands and reach hither thy hand and thrust it into my side and be not faithless but believing
and thomas answered and said unto him my lord and my god
jesus saith unto him thomas because thou hast seen me thou hast believed blessed are they that have not seen and yet have believed
and many other signs truly did jesus in the presence of his disciples which are not written in this book
but these are written that ye might believe that jesus is the christ the son of god and that believing ye might have life through his name
after these things jesus shewed himself again to the disciples at the sea of tiberias and on this wise shewed he himself
there were together simon peter and thomas called didymus and nathanael of cana in galilee and the sons of zebedee and two other of his disciples
simon peter saith unto them i go a fishing they say unto him we also go with thee they went forth and entered into a ship immediately and that night they caught nothing
but when the morning was now come jesus stood on the shore but the disciples knew not that it was jesus
then jesus saith unto them children have ye any meat they answered him no
and he said unto them cast the net on the right side of the ship and ye shall find they cast therefore and now they were not able to draw it for the multitude of fishes
therefore that disciple whom jesus loved saith unto peter it is the lord now when simon peter heard that it was the lord he girt his fisher's coat unto him for he was naked and did cast himself into the sea
and the other disciples came in a little ship for they were not far from land but as it were two hundred cubits dragging the net with fishes
as soon then as they were come to land they saw a fire of coals there and fish laid thereon and bread
jesus saith unto them bring of the fish which ye have now caught
simon peter went up and drew the net to land full of great fishes an hundred and fifty and three and for all there were so many yet was not the net broken
jesus saith unto them come and dine and none of the disciples durst ask him who art thou knowing that it was the lord
jesus then cometh and taketh bread and giveth them and fish likewise
this is now the third time that jesus shewed himself to his disciples after that he was risen from the dead
so when they had dined jesus saith to simon peter simon son of jonas lovest thou me more than these he saith unto him yea lord thou knowest that i love thee he saith unto him feed my lambs
he saith to him again the second time simon son of jonas lovest thou me he saith unto him yea lord thou knowest that i love thee he saith unto him feed my sheep
he saith unto him the third time simon son of jonas lovest thou me peter was grieved because he said unto him the third time lovest thou me and he said unto him lord thou knowest all things thou knowest that i love thee jesus saith unto him feed my sheep
verily verily i say unto thee when thou wast young thou girdedst thyself and walkedst whither thou wouldest but when thou shalt be old thou shalt stretch forth thy hands and another shall gird thee and carry thee whither thou wouldest not
this spake he signifying by what death he should glorify god and when he had spoken this he saith unto him follow me
then peter turning about seeth the disciple whom jesus loved following which also leaned on his breast at supper and said lord which is he that betrayeth thee
peter seeing him saith to jesus lord and what shall this man do
jesus saith unto him if i will that he tarry till i come what is that to thee follow thou me
then went this saying abroad among the brethren that that disciple should not die yet jesus said not unto him he shall not die but if i will that he tarry till i come what is that to thee
this is the disciple which testifieth of these things and wrote these things and we know that his testimony is true
and there are also many other things which jesus did the which if they should be written every one i suppose that even the world itself could not contain the books that should be written amen
the former treatise have i made o theophilus of all that jesus began both to do and teach
until the day in which he was taken up after that he through the holy ghost had given commandments unto the apostles whom he had chosen
to whom also he shewed himself alive after his passion by many infallible proofs being seen of them forty days and speaking of the things pertaining to the kingdom of god
and being assembled together with them commanded them that they should not depart from jerusalem but wait for the promise of the father which saith he ye have heard of me
for john truly baptized with water but ye shall be baptized with the holy ghost not many days hence
when they therefore were come together they asked of him saying lord wilt thou at this time restore again the kingdom to israel
and he said unto them it is not for you to know the times or the seasons which the father hath put in his own power
but ye shall receive power after that the holy ghost is come upon you and ye shall be witnesses unto me both in jerusalem and in all judaea and in samaria and unto the uttermost part of the earth
and when he had spoken these things while they beheld he was taken up and a cloud received him out of their sight
and while they looked stedfastly toward heaven as he went up behold two men stood by them in white apparel
which also said ye men of galilee why stand ye gazing up into heaven this same jesus which is taken up from you into heaven shall so come in like manner as ye have seen him go into heaven
then returned they unto jerusalem from the mount called olivet which is from jerusalem a sabbath day's journey
and when they were come in they went up into an upper room where abode both peter and james and john and andrew philip and thomas bartholomew and matthew james the son of alphaeus and simon zelotes and judas the brother of james
these all continued with one accord in prayer and supplication with the women and mary the mother of jesus and with his brethren
and in those days peter stood up in the midst of the disciples and said the number of names together were about an hundred and twenty
men and brethren this scripture must needs have been fulfilled which the holy ghost by the mouth of david spake before concerning judas which was guide to them that took jesus
for he was numbered with us and had obtained part of this ministry
now this man purchased a field with the reward of iniquity and falling headlong he burst asunder in the midst and all his bowels gushed out
and it was known unto all the dwellers at jerusalem insomuch as that field is called in their proper tongue aceldama that is to say the field of blood
for it is written in the book of psalms let his habitation be desolate and let no man dwell therein and his bishoprick let another take
wherefore of these men which have companied with us all the time that the lord jesus went in and out among us
beginning from the baptism of john unto that same day that he was taken up from us must one be ordained to be a witness with us of his resurrection
and they appointed two joseph called barsabas who was surnamed justus and matthias
and they prayed and said thou lord which knowest the hearts of all men shew whether of these two thou hast chosen
that he may take part of this ministry and apostleship from which judas by transgression fell that he might go to his own place
and they gave forth their lots and the lot fell upon matthias and he was numbered with the eleven apostles
and when the day of pentecost was fully come they were all with one accord in one place
and suddenly there came a sound from heaven as of a rushing mighty wind and it filled all the house where they were sitting
and there appeared unto them cloven tongues like as of fire and it sat upon each of them
and they were all filled with the holy ghost and began to speak with other tongues as the spirit gave them utterance
and there were dwelling at jerusalem jews devout men out of every nation under heaven
now when this was noised abroad the multitude came together and were confounded because that every man heard them speak in his own language
and they were all amazed and marvelled saying one to another behold are not all these which speak galilaeans
and how hear we every man in our own tongue wherein we were born
parthians and medes and elamites and the dwellers in mesopotamia and in judaea and cappadocia in pontus and asia
phrygia and pamphylia in egypt and in the parts of libya about cyrene and strangers of rome jews and proselytes
cretes and arabians we do hear them speak in our tongues the wonderful works of god
and they were all amazed and were in doubt saying one to another what meaneth this
others mocking said these men are full of new wine
but peter standing up with the eleven lifted up his voice and said unto them ye men of judaea and all ye that dwell at jerusalem be this known unto you and hearken to my words
for these are not drunken as ye suppose seeing it is but the third hour of the day
but this is that which was spoken by the prophet joel
and it shall come to pass in the last days saith god i will pour out of my spirit upon all flesh and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy and your young men shall see visions and your old men shall dream dreams
and on my servants and on my handmaidens i will pour out in those days of my spirit and they shall prophesy
and i will shew wonders in heaven above and signs in the earth beneath blood and fire and vapour of smoke
the sun shall be turned into darkness and the moon into blood before that great and notable day of the lord come
and it shall come to pass that whosoever shall call on the name of the lord shall be saved
ye men of israel hear these words jesus of nazareth a man approved of god among you by miracles and wonders and signs which god did by him in the midst of you as ye yourselves also know
him being delivered by the determinate counsel and foreknowledge of god ye have taken and by wicked hands have crucified and slain
whom god hath raised up having loosed the pains of death because it was not possible that he should be holden of it
for david speaketh concerning him i foresaw the lord always before my face for he is on my right hand that i should not be moved
therefore did my heart rejoice and my tongue was glad moreover also my flesh shall rest in hope
because thou wilt not leave my soul in hell neither wilt thou suffer thine holy one to see corruption
thou hast made known to me the ways of life thou shalt make me full of joy with thy countenance
men and brethren let me freely speak unto you of the patriarch david that he is both dead and buried and his sepulchre is with us unto this day
therefore being a prophet and knowing that god had sworn with an oath to him that of the fruit of his loins according to the flesh he would raise up christ to sit on his throne
he seeing this before spake of the resurrection of christ that his soul was not left in hell neither his flesh did see corruption
this jesus hath god raised up whereof we all are witnesses
therefore being by the right hand of god exalted and having received of the father the promise of the holy ghost he hath shed forth this which ye now see and hear
for david is not ascended into the heavens but he saith himself the lord said unto my lord sit thou on my right hand
until i make thy foes thy footstool
therefore let all the house of israel know assuredly that god hath made that same jesus whom ye have crucified both lord and christ
now when they heard this they were pricked in their heart and said unto peter and to the rest of the apostles men and brethren what shall we do
then peter said unto them repent and be baptized every one of you in the name of jesus christ for the remission of sins and ye shall receive the gift of the holy ghost
for the promise is unto you and to your children and to all that are afar off even as many as the lord our god shall call
and with many other words did he testify and exhort saying save yourselves from this untoward generation
then they that gladly received his word were baptized and the same day there were added unto them about three thousand souls
and they continued stedfastly in the apostles doctrine and fellowship and in breaking of bread and in prayers
and fear came upon every soul and many wonders and signs were done by the apostles
and all that believed were together and had all things common
and sold their possessions and goods and parted them to all men as every man had need
and they continuing daily with one accord in the temple and breaking bread from house to house did eat their meat with gladness and singleness of heart
praising god and having favour with all the people and the lord added to the church daily such as should be saved
now peter and john went up together into the temple at the hour of prayer being the ninth hour
and a certain man lame from his mother's womb was carried whom they laid daily at the gate of the temple which is called beautiful to ask alms of them that entered into the temple
who seeing peter and john about to go into the temple asked an alms
and peter fastening his eyes upon him with john said look on us
and he gave heed unto them expecting to receive something of them
then peter said silver and gold have i none but such as i have give i thee in the name of jesus christ of nazareth rise up and walk
and he took him by the right hand and lifted him up and immediately his feet and ankle bones received strength
and he leaping up stood and walked and entered with them into the temple walking and leaping and praising god
and all the people saw him walking and praising god
and they knew that it was he which sat for alms at the beautiful gate of the temple and they were filled with wonder and amazement at that which had happened unto him
and as the lame man which was healed held peter and john all the people ran together unto them in the porch that is called solomon's greatly wondering
and when peter saw it he answered unto the people ye men of israel why marvel ye at this or why look ye so earnestly on us as though by our own power or holiness we had made this man to walk
the god of abraham and of isaac and of jacob the god of our fathers hath glorified his son jesus whom ye delivered up and denied him in the presence of pilate when he was determined to let him go
but ye denied the holy one and the just and desired a murderer to be granted unto you
and killed the prince of life whom god hath raised from the dead whereof we are witnesses
and his name through faith in his name hath made this man strong whom ye see and know yea the faith which is by him hath given him this perfect soundness in the presence of you all
and now brethren i wot that through ignorance ye did it as did also your rulers
but those things which god before had shewed by the mouth of all his prophets that christ should suffer he hath so fulfilled
repent ye therefore and be converted that your sins may be blotted out when the times of refreshing shall come from the presence of the lord
and he shall send jesus christ which before was preached unto you
whom the heaven must receive until the times of restitution of all things which god hath spoken by the mouth of all his holy prophets since the world began
for moses truly said unto the fathers a prophet shall the lord your god raise up unto you of your brethren like unto me him shall ye hear in all things whatsoever he shall say unto you
and it shall come to pass that every soul which will not hear that prophet shall be destroyed from among the people
yea and all the prophets from samuel and those that follow after as many as have spoken have likewise foretold of these days
ye are the children of the prophets and of the covenant which god made with our fathers saying unto abraham and in thy seed shall all the kindreds of the earth be blessed
unto you first god having raised up his son jesus sent him to bless you in turning away every one of you from his iniquities
and as they spake unto the people the priests and the captain of the temple and the sadducees came upon them
being grieved that they taught the people and preached through jesus the resurrection from the dead
and they laid hands on them and put them in hold unto the next day for it was now eventide
howbeit many of them which heard the word believed and the number of the men was about five thousand
and it came to pass on the morrow that their rulers and elders and scribes
and annas the high priest and caiaphas and john and alexander and as many as were of the kindred of the high priest were gathered together at jerusalem
and when they had set them in the midst they asked by what power or by what name have ye done this
then peter filled with the holy ghost said unto them ye rulers of the people and elders of israel
if we this day be examined of the good deed done to the impotent man by what means he is made whole
be it known unto you all and to all the people of israel that by the name of jesus christ of nazareth whom ye crucified whom god raised from the dead even by him doth this man stand here before you whole
this is the stone which was set at nought of you builders which is become the head of the corner
neither is there salvation in any other for there is none other name under heaven given among men whereby we must be saved
now when they saw the boldness of peter and john and perceived that they were unlearned and ignorant men they marvelled and they took knowledge of them that they had been with jesus
and beholding the man which was healed standing with them they could say nothing against it
but when they had commanded them to go aside out of the council they conferred among themselves
saying what shall we do to these men for that indeed a notable miracle hath been done by them is manifest to all them that dwell in jerusalem and we cannot deny it
but that it spread no further among the people let us straitly threaten them that they speak henceforth to no man in this name
and they called them and commanded them not to speak at all nor teach in the name of jesus
but peter and john answered and said unto them whether it be right in the sight of god to hearken unto you more than unto god judge ye
for we cannot but speak the things which we have seen and heard
so when they had further threatened them they let them go finding nothing how they might punish them because of the people for all men glorified god for that which was done
for the man was above forty years old on whom this miracle of healing was shewed
and being let go they went to their own company and reported all that the chief priests and elders had said unto them
and when they heard that they lifted up their voice to god with one accord and said lord thou art god which hast made heaven and earth and the sea and all that in them is
who by the mouth of thy servant david hast said why did the heathen rage and the people imagine vain things
the kings of the earth stood up and the rulers were gathered together against the lord and against his christ
for of a truth against thy holy child jesus whom thou hast anointed both herod and pontius pilate with the gentiles and the people of israel were gathered together
for to do whatsoever thy hand and thy counsel determined before to be done
and now lord behold their threatenings and grant unto thy servants that with all boldness they may speak thy word
by stretching forth thine hand to heal and that signs and wonders may be done by the name of thy holy child jesus
and when they had prayed the place was shaken where they were assembled together and they were all filled with the holy ghost and they spake the word of god with boldness
and the multitude of them that believed were of one heart and of one soul neither said any of them that ought of the things which he possessed was his own but they had all things common
and with great power gave the apostles witness of the resurrection of the lord jesus and great grace was upon them all
neither was there any among them that lacked for as many as were possessors of lands or houses sold them and brought the prices of the things that were sold
and laid them down at the apostles feet and distribution was made unto every man according as he had need
and joses who by the apostles was surnamed barnabas which is being interpreted the son of consolation a levite and of the country of cyprus
having land sold it and brought the money and laid it at the apostles feet
but a certain man named ananias with sapphira his wife sold a possession
and kept back part of the price his wife also being privy to it and brought a certain part and laid it at the apostles feet
but peter said ananias why hath satan filled thine heart to lie to the holy ghost and to keep back part of the price of the land
whiles it remained was it not thine own and after it was sold was it not in thine own power why hast thou conceived this thing in thine heart thou hast not lied unto men but unto god
and ananias hearing these words fell down and gave up the ghost and great fear came on all them that heard these things
and the young men arose wound him up and carried him out and buried him
and it was about the space of three hours after when his wife not knowing what was done came in
and peter answered unto her tell me whether ye sold the land for so much and she said yea for so much
then peter said unto her how is it that ye have agreed together to tempt the spirit of the lord behold the feet of them which have buried thy husband are at the door and shall carry thee out
then fell she down straightway at his feet and yielded up the ghost and the young men came in and found her dead and carrying her forth buried her by her husband
and great fear came upon all the church and upon as many as heard these things
and by the hands of the apostles were many signs and wonders wrought among the people and they were all with one accord in solomon's porch
and of the rest durst no man join himself to them but the people magnified them
and believers were the more added to the lord multitudes both of men and women
insomuch that they brought forth the sick into the streets and laid them on beds and couches that at the least the shadow of peter passing by might overshadow some of them
there came also a multitude out of the cities round about unto jerusalem bringing sick folks and them which were vexed with unclean spirits and they were healed every one
then the high priest rose up and all they that were with him which is the sect of the sadducees and were filled with indignation
and laid their hands on the apostles and put them in the common prison
but the angel of the lord by night opened the prison doors and brought them forth and said
go stand and speak in the temple to the people all the words of this life
and when they heard that they entered into the temple early in the morning and taught but the high priest came and they that were with him and called the council together and all the senate of the children of israel and sent to the prison to have them brought
but when the officers came and found them not in the prison they returned and told
saying the prison truly found we shut with all safety and the keepers standing without before the doors but when we had opened we found no man within
now when the high priest and the captain of the temple and the chief priests heard these things they doubted of them whereunto this would grow
then came one and told them saying behold the men whom ye put in prison are standing in the temple and teaching the people
then went the captain with the officers and brought them without violence for they feared the people lest they should have been stoned
and when they had brought them they set them before the council and the high priest asked them
saying did not we straitly command you that ye should not teach in this name and behold ye have filled jerusalem with your doctrine and intend to bring this man's blood upon us
then peter and the other apostles answered and said we ought to obey god rather than men
the god of our fathers raised up jesus whom ye slew and hanged on a tree
him hath god exalted with his right hand to be a prince and a saviour for to give repentance to israel and forgiveness of sins
and we are his witnesses of these things and so is also the holy ghost whom god hath given to them that obey him
when they heard that they were cut to the heart and took counsel to slay them
then stood there up one in the council a pharisee named gamaliel a doctor of the law had in reputation among all the people and commanded to put the apostles forth a little space
and said unto them ye men of israel take heed to yourselves what ye intend to do as touching these men
for before these days rose up theudas boasting himself to be somebody to whom a number of men about four hundred joined themselves who was slain and all as many as obeyed him were scattered and brought to nought
after this man rose up judas of galilee in the days of the taxing and drew away much people after him he also perished and all even as many as obeyed him were dispersed
and now i say unto you refrain from these men and let them alone for if this counsel or this work be of men it will come to nought
but if it be of god ye cannot overthrow it lest haply ye be found even to fight against god
and to him they agreed and when they had called the apostles and beaten them they commanded that they should not speak in the name of jesus and let them go
and they departed from the presence of the council rejoicing that they were counted worthy to suffer shame for his name
and daily in the temple and in every house they ceased not to teach and preach jesus christ
and in those days when the number of the disciples was multiplied there arose a murmuring of the grecians against the hebrews because their widows were neglected in the daily ministration
then the twelve called the multitude of the disciples unto them and said it is not reason that we should leave the word of god and serve tables
wherefore brethren look ye out among you seven men of honest report full of the holy ghost and wisdom whom we may appoint over this business
but we will give ourselves continually to prayer and to the ministry of the word
and the saying pleased the whole multitude and they chose stephen a man full of faith and of the holy ghost and philip and prochorus and nicanor and timon and parmenas and nicolas a proselyte of antioch
whom they set before the apostles and when they had prayed they laid their hands on them
and the word of god increased and the number of the disciples multiplied in jerusalem greatly and a great company of the priests were obedient to the faith
and stephen full of faith and power did great wonders and miracles among the people
then there arose certain of the synagogue which is called the synagogue of the libertines and cyrenians and alexandrians and of them of cilicia and of asia disputing with stephen
and they were not able to resist the wisdom and the spirit by which he spake
then they suborned men which said we have heard him speak blasphemous words against moses and against god
and they stirred up the people and the elders and the scribes and came upon him and caught him and brought him to the council
and set up false witnesses which said this man ceaseth not to speak blasphemous words against this holy place and the law
for we have heard him say that this jesus of nazareth shall destroy this place and shall change the customs which moses delivered us
and all that sat in the council looking stedfastly on him saw his face as it had been the face of an angel
then said the high priest are these things so
and he said men brethren and fathers hearken the god of glory appeared unto our father abraham when he was in mesopotamia before he dwelt in charran
and said unto him get thee out of thy country and from thy kindred and come into the land which i shall shew thee
then came he out of the land of the chaldaeans and dwelt in charran and from thence when his father was dead he removed him into this land wherein ye now dwell
and he gave him none inheritance in it no not so much as to set his foot on yet he promised that he would give it to him for a possession and to his seed after him when as yet he had no child
and god spake on this wise that his seed should sojourn in a strange land and that they should bring them into bondage and entreat them evil four hundred years
and the nation to whom they shall be in bondage will i judge said god and after that shall they come forth and serve me in this place
and he gave him the covenant of circumcision and so abraham begat isaac and circumcised him the eighth day and isaac begat jacob and jacob begat the twelve patriarchs
and the patriarchs moved with envy sold joseph into egypt but god was with him
and delivered him out of all his afflictions and gave him favour and wisdom in the sight of pharaoh king of egypt and he made him governor over egypt and all his house
now there came a dearth over all the land of egypt and chanaan and great affliction and our fathers found no sustenance
but when jacob heard that there was corn in egypt he sent out our fathers first
and at the second time joseph was made known to his brethren and joseph's kindred was made known unto pharaoh
then sent joseph and called his father jacob to him and all his kindred threescore and fifteen souls
so jacob went down into egypt and died he and our fathers
and were carried over into sychem and laid in the sepulchre that abraham bought for a sum of money of the sons of emmor the father of sychem
but when the time of the promise drew nigh which god had sworn to abraham the people grew and multiplied in egypt
till another king arose which knew not joseph
the same dealt subtilly with our kindred and evil entreated our fathers so that they cast out their young children to the end they might not live
in which time moses was born and was exceeding fair and nourished up in his father's house three months
and when he was cast out pharaoh's daughter took him up and nourished him for her own son
and moses was learned in all the wisdom of the egyptians and was mighty in words and in deeds
and when he was full forty years old it came into his heart to visit his brethren the children of israel
and seeing one of them suffer wrong he defended him and avenged him that was oppressed and smote the egyptian
for he supposed his brethren would have understood how that god by his hand would deliver them but they understood not
and the next day he shewed himself unto them as they strove and would have set them at one again saying sirs ye are brethren why do ye wrong one to another
but he that did his neighbour wrong thrust him away saying who made thee a ruler and a judge over us
wilt thou kill me as thou diddest the egyptian yesterday
then fled moses at this saying and was a stranger in the land of madian where he begat two sons
and when forty years were expired there appeared to him in the wilderness of mount sina an angel of the lord in a flame of fire in a bush
when moses saw it he wondered at the sight and as he drew near to behold it the voice of the lord came unto him
saying i am the god of thy fathers the god of abraham and the god of isaac and the god of jacob then moses trembled and durst not behold
then said the lord to him put off thy shoes from thy feet for the place where thou standest is holy ground
i have seen i have seen the affliction of my people which is in egypt and i have heard their groaning and am come down to deliver them and now come i will send thee into egypt
this moses whom they refused saying who made thee a ruler and a judge the same did god send to be a ruler and a deliverer by the hand of the angel which appeared to him in the bush
he brought them out after that he had shewed wonders and signs in the land of egypt and in the red sea and in the wilderness forty years
this is that moses which said unto the children of israel a prophet shall the lord your god raise up unto you of your brethren like unto me him shall ye hear
this is he that was in the church in the wilderness with the angel which spake to him in the mount sina and with our fathers who received the lively oracles to give unto us
to whom our fathers would not obey but thrust him from them and in their hearts turned back again into egypt
saying unto aaron make us gods to go before us for as for this moses which brought us out of the land of egypt we wot not what is become of him
and they made a calf in those days and offered sacrifice unto the idol and rejoiced in the works of their own hands
then god turned and gave them up to worship the host of heaven as it is written in the book of the prophets o ye house of israel have ye offered to me slain beasts and sacrifices by the space of forty years in the wilderness
yea ye took up the tabernacle of moloch and the star of your god remphan figures which ye made to worship them and i will carry you away beyond babylon
our fathers had the tabernacle of witness in the wilderness as he had appointed speaking unto moses that he should make it according to the fashion that he had seen
which also our fathers that came after brought in with jesus into the possession of the gentiles whom god drave out before the face of our fathers unto the days of david
who found favour before god and desired to find a tabernacle for the god of jacob
but solomon built him an house
howbeit the most high dwelleth not in temples made with hands as saith the prophet
heaven is my throne and earth is my footstool what house will ye build me saith the lord or what is the place of my rest
hath not my hand made all these things
ye stiffnecked and uncircumcised in heart and ears ye do always resist the holy ghost as your fathers did so do ye
which of the prophets have not your fathers persecuted and they have slain them which shewed before of the coming of the just one of whom ye have been now the betrayers and murderers
who have received the law by the disposition of angels and have not kept it
when they heard these things they were cut to the heart and they gnashed on him with their teeth
but he being full of the holy ghost looked up stedfastly into heaven and saw the glory of god and jesus standing on the right hand of god
and said behold i see the heavens opened and the son of man standing on the right hand of god
then they cried out with a loud voice and stopped their ears and ran upon him with one accord
and cast him out of the city and stoned him and the witnesses laid down their clothes at a young man's feet whose name was saul
and they stoned stephen calling upon god and saying lord jesus receive my spirit
and he kneeled down and cried with a loud voice lord lay not this sin to their charge and when he had said this he fell asleep
and saul was consenting unto his death and at that time there was a great persecution against the church which was at jerusalem and they were all scattered abroad throughout the regions of judaea and samaria except the apostles
and devout men carried stephen to his burial and made great lamentation over him
as for saul he made havock of the church entering into every house and haling men and women committed them to prison
therefore they that were scattered abroad went every where preaching the word
then philip went down to the city of samaria and preached christ unto them
and the people with one accord gave heed unto those things which philip spake hearing and seeing the miracles which he did
for unclean spirits crying with loud voice came out of many that were possessed with them and many taken with palsies and that were lame were healed
and there was great joy in that city
but there was a certain man called simon which beforetime in the same city used sorcery and bewitched the people of samaria giving out that himself was some great one
to whom they all gave heed from the least to the greatest saying this man is the great power of god
and to him they had regard because that of long time he had bewitched them with sorceries
but when they believed philip preaching the things concerning the kingdom of god and the name of jesus christ they were baptized both men and women
then simon himself believed also and when he was baptized he continued with philip and wondered beholding the miracles and signs which were done
now when the apostles which were at jerusalem heard that samaria had received the word of god they sent unto them peter and john
who when they were come down prayed for them that they might receive the holy ghost
for as yet he was fallen upon none of them only they were baptized in the name of the lord jesus
then laid they their hands on them and they received the holy ghost
and when simon saw that through laying on of the apostles hands the holy ghost was given he offered them money
saying give me also this power that on whomsoever i lay hands he may receive the holy ghost
but peter said unto him thy money perish with thee because thou hast thought that the gift of god may be purchased with money
thou hast neither part nor lot in this matter for thy heart is not right in the sight of god
repent therefore of this thy wickedness and pray god if perhaps the thought of thine heart may be forgiven thee
for i perceive that thou art in the gall of bitterness and in the bond of iniquity
then answered simon and said pray ye to the lord for me that none of these things which ye have spoken come upon me
and they when they had testified and preached the word of the lord returned to jerusalem and preached the gospel in many villages of the samaritans
and the angel of the lord spake unto philip saying arise and go toward the south unto the way that goeth down from jerusalem unto gaza which is desert
and he arose and went and behold a man of ethiopia an eunuch of great authority under candace queen of the ethiopians who had the charge of all her treasure and had come to jerusalem for to worship
was returning and sitting in his chariot read esaias the prophet
then the spirit said unto philip go near and join thyself to this chariot
and philip ran thither to him and heard him read the prophet esaias and said understandest thou what thou readest
and he said how can i except some man should guide me and he desired philip that he would come up and sit with him
the place of the scripture which he read was this he was led as a sheep to the slaughter and like a lamb dumb before his shearer so opened he not his mouth
in his humiliation his judgment was taken away and who shall declare his generation for his life is taken from the earth
and the eunuch answered philip and said i pray thee of whom speaketh the prophet this of himself or of some other man
then philip opened his mouth and began at the same scripture and preached unto him jesus
and as they went on their way they came unto a certain water and the eunuch said see here is water what doth hinder me to be baptized
and philip said if thou believest with all thine heart thou mayest and he answered and said i believe that jesus christ is the son of god
and he commanded the chariot to stand still and they went down both into the water both philip and the eunuch and he baptized him
and when they were come up out of the water the spirit of the lord caught away philip that the eunuch saw him no more and he went on his way rejoicing
but philip was found at azotus and passing through he preached in all the cities till he came to caesarea
and saul yet breathing out threatenings and slaughter against the disciples of the lord went unto the high priest
and desired of him letters to damascus to the synagogues that if he found any of this way whether they were men or women he might bring them bound unto jerusalem
and as he journeyed he came near damascus and suddenly there shined round about him a light from heaven
and he fell to the earth and heard a voice saying unto him saul saul why persecutest thou me
and he said who art thou lord and the lord said i am jesus whom thou persecutest it is hard for thee to kick against the pricks
and he trembling and astonished said lord what wilt thou have me to do and the lord said unto him arise and go into the city and it shall be told thee what thou must do
and the men which journeyed with him stood speechless hearing a voice but seeing no man
and saul arose from the earth and when his eyes were opened he saw no man but they led him by the hand and brought him into damascus
and he was three days without sight and neither did eat nor drink
and there was a certain disciple at damascus named ananias and to him said the lord in a vision ananias and he said behold i am here lord
and the lord said unto him arise and go into the street which is called straight and enquire in the house of judas for one called saul of tarsus for behold he prayeth
and hath seen in a vision a man named ananias coming in and putting his hand on him that he might receive his sight
then ananias answered lord i have heard by many of this man how much evil he hath done to thy saints at jerusalem
and here he hath authority from the chief priests to bind all that call on thy name
but the lord said unto him go thy way for he is a chosen vessel unto me to bear my name before the gentiles and kings and the children of israel
for i will shew him how great things he must suffer for my name's sake
and ananias went his way and entered into the house and putting his hands on him said brother saul the lord even jesus that appeared unto thee in the way as thou camest hath sent me that thou mightest receive thy sight and be filled with the holy ghost
and immediately there fell from his eyes as it had been scales and he received sight forthwith and arose and was baptized
and when he had received meat he was strengthened then was saul certain days with the disciples which were at damascus
and straightway he preached christ in the synagogues that he is the son of god
but all that heard him were amazed and said is not this he that destroyed them which called on this name in jerusalem and came hither for that intent that he might bring them bound unto the chief priests
but saul increased the more in strength and confounded the jews which dwelt at damascus proving that this is very christ
and after that many days were fulfilled the jews took counsel to kill him
but their laying await was known of saul and they watched the gates day and night to kill him
then the disciples took him by night and let him down by the wall in a basket
and when saul was come to jerusalem he assayed to join himself to the disciples but they were all afraid of him and believed not that he was a disciple
but barnabas took him and brought him to the apostles and declared unto them how he had seen the lord in the way and that he had spoken to him and how he had preached boldly at damascus in the name of jesus
and he was with them coming in and going out at jerusalem
and he spake boldly in the name of the lord jesus and disputed against the grecians but they went about to slay him
which when the brethren knew they brought him down to caesarea and sent him forth to tarsus
then had the churches rest throughout all judaea and galilee and samaria and were edified and walking in the fear of the lord and in the comfort of the holy ghost were multiplied
and it came to pass as peter passed throughout all quarters he came down also to the saints which dwelt at lydda
and there he found a certain man named aeneas which had kept his bed eight years and was sick of the palsy
and peter said unto him aeneas jesus christ maketh thee whole arise and make thy bed and he arose immediately
and all that dwelt at lydda and saron saw him and turned to the lord
now there was at joppa a certain disciple named tabitha which by interpretation is called dorcas this woman was full of good works and almsdeeds which she did
and it came to pass in those days that she was sick and died whom when they had washed they laid her in an upper chamber
and forasmuch as lydda was nigh to joppa and the disciples had heard that peter was there they sent unto him two men desiring him that he would not delay to come to them
then peter arose and went with them when he was come they brought him into the upper chamber and all the widows stood by him weeping and shewing the coats and garments which dorcas made while she was with them
but peter put them all forth and kneeled down and prayed and turning him to the body said tabitha arise and she opened her eyes and when she saw peter she sat up
and he gave her his hand and lifted her up and when he had called the saints and widows presented her alive
and it was known throughout all joppa and many believed in the lord
and it came to pass that he tarried many days in joppa with one simon a tanner
there was a certain man in caesarea called cornelius a centurion of the band called the italian band
a devout man and one that feared god with all his house which gave much alms to the people and prayed to god alway
he saw in a vision evidently about the ninth hour of the day an angel of god coming in to him and saying unto him cornelius
and when he looked on him he was afraid and said what is it lord and he said unto him thy prayers and thine alms are come up for a memorial before god
and now send men to joppa and call for one simon whose surname is peter
he lodgeth with one simon a tanner whose house is by the sea side he shall tell thee what thou oughtest to do
and when the angel which spake unto cornelius was departed he called two of his household servants and a devout soldier of them that waited on him continually
and when he had declared all these things unto them he sent them to joppa
on the morrow as they went on their journey and drew nigh unto the city peter went up upon the housetop to pray about the sixth hour
and he became very hungry and would have eaten but while they made ready he fell into a trance
and saw heaven opened and a certain vessel descending unto him as it had been a great sheet knit at the four corners and let down to the earth
wherein were all manner of fourfooted beasts of the earth and wild beasts and creeping things and fowls of the air
and there came a voice to him rise peter kill and eat
but peter said not so lord for i have never eaten any thing that is common or unclean
and the voice spake unto him again the second time what god hath cleansed that call not thou common
this was done thrice and the vessel was received up again into heaven
now while peter doubted in himself what this vision which he had seen should mean behold the men which were sent from cornelius had made enquiry for simon's house and stood before the gate
and called and asked whether simon which was surnamed peter were lodged there
while peter thought on the vision the spirit said unto him behold three men seek thee
arise therefore and get thee down and go with them doubting nothing for i have sent them
then peter went down to the men which were sent unto him from cornelius and said behold i am he whom ye seek what is the cause wherefore ye are come
and they said cornelius the centurion a just man and one that feareth god and of good report among all the nation of the jews was warned from god by an holy angel to send for thee into his house and to hear words of thee
then called he them in and lodged them and on the morrow peter went away with them and certain brethren from joppa accompanied him
and the morrow after they entered into caesarea and cornelius waited for them and had called together his kinsmen and near friends
and as peter was coming in cornelius met him and fell down at his feet and worshipped him
but peter took him up saying stand up i myself also am a man
and as he talked with him he went in and found many that were come together
and he said unto them ye know how that it is an unlawful thing for a man that is a jew to keep company or come unto one of another nation but god hath shewed me that i should not call any man common or unclean
therefore came i unto you without gainsaying as soon as i was sent for i ask therefore for what intent ye have sent for me
and cornelius said four days ago i was fasting until this hour and at the ninth hour i prayed in my house and behold a man stood before me in bright clothing
and said cornelius thy prayer is heard and thine alms are had in remembrance in the sight of god
send therefore to joppa and call hither simon whose surname is peter he is lodged in the house of one simon a tanner by the sea side who when he cometh shall speak unto thee
immediately therefore i sent to thee and thou hast well done that thou art come now therefore are we all here present before god to hear all things that are commanded thee of god
then peter opened his mouth and said of a truth i perceive that god is no respecter of persons
but in every nation he that feareth him and worketh righteousness is accepted with him
the word which god sent unto the children of israel preaching peace by jesus christ he is lord of all
that word i say ye know which was published throughout all judaea and began from galilee after the baptism which john preached
how god anointed jesus of nazareth with the holy ghost and with power who went about doing good and healing all that were oppressed of the devil for god was with him
and we are witnesses of all things which he did both in the land of the jews and in jerusalem whom they slew and hanged on a tree
him god raised up the third day and shewed him openly
not to all the people but unto witnesses chosen before of god even to us who did eat and drink with him after he rose from the dead
and he commanded us to preach unto the people and to testify that it is he which was ordained of god to be the judge of quick and dead
to him give all the prophets witness that through his name whosoever believeth in him shall receive remission of sins
while peter yet spake these words the holy ghost fell on all them which heard the word
and they of the circumcision which believed were astonished as many as came with peter because that on the gentiles also was poured out the gift of the holy ghost
for they heard them speak with tongues and magnify god then answered peter
can any man forbid water that these should not be baptized which have received the holy ghost as well as we
and he commanded them to be baptized in the name of the lord then prayed they him to tarry certain days
and the apostles and brethren that were in judaea heard that the gentiles had also received the word of god
and when peter was come up to jerusalem they that were of the circumcision contended with him
saying thou wentest in to men uncircumcised and didst eat with them
but peter rehearsed the matter from the beginning and expounded it by order unto them saying
i was in the city of joppa praying and in a trance i saw a vision a certain vessel descend as it had been a great sheet let down from heaven by four corners and it came even to me
upon the which when i had fastened mine eyes i considered and saw fourfooted beasts of the earth and wild beasts and creeping things and fowls of the air
and i heard a voice saying unto me arise peter slay and eat
but i said not so lord for nothing common or unclean hath at any time entered into my mouth
but the voice answered me again from heaven what god hath cleansed that call not thou common
and this was done three times and all were drawn up again into heaven
and behold immediately there were three men already come unto the house where i was sent from caesarea unto me
and the spirit bade me go with them nothing doubting moreover these six brethren accompanied me and we entered into the man's house
and he shewed us how he had seen an angel in his house which stood and said unto him send men to joppa and call for simon whose surname is peter
who shall tell thee words whereby thou and all thy house shall be saved
and as i began to speak the holy ghost fell on them as on us at the beginning
then remembered i the word of the lord how that he said john indeed baptized with water but ye shall be baptized with the holy ghost
forasmuch then as god gave them the like gift as he did unto us who believed on the lord jesus christ what was i that i could withstand god
when they heard these things they held their peace and glorified god saying then hath god also to the gentiles granted repentance unto life
now they which were scattered abroad upon the persecution that arose about stephen travelled as far as phenice and cyprus and antioch preaching the word to none but unto the jews only
and some of them were men of cyprus and cyrene which when they were come to antioch spake unto the grecians preaching the lord jesus
and the hand of the lord was with them and a great number believed and turned unto the lord
then tidings of these things came unto the ears of the church which was in jerusalem and they sent forth barnabas that he should go as far as antioch
who when he came and had seen the grace of god was glad and exhorted them all that with purpose of heart they would cleave unto the lord
for he was a good man and full of the holy ghost and of faith and much people was added unto the lord
then departed barnabas to tarsus for to seek saul
and when he had found him he brought him unto antioch and it came to pass that a whole year they assembled themselves with the church and taught much people and the disciples were called christians first in antioch
and in these days came prophets from jerusalem unto antioch
and there stood up one of them named agabus and signified by the spirit that there should be great dearth throughout all the world which came to pass in the days of claudius caesar
then the disciples every man according to his ability determined to send relief unto the brethren which dwelt in judaea
which also they did and sent it to the elders by the hands of barnabas and saul
now about that time herod the king stretched forth his hands to vex certain of the church
and he killed james the brother of john with the sword
and because he saw it pleased the jews he proceeded further to take peter also then were the days of unleavened bread
and when he had apprehended him he put him in prison and delivered him to four quaternions of soldiers to keep him intending after easter to bring him forth to the people
peter therefore was kept in prison but prayer was made without ceasing of the church unto god for him
and when herod would have brought him forth the same night peter was sleeping between two soldiers bound with two chains and the keepers before the door kept the prison
and behold the angel of the lord came upon him and a light shined in the prison and he smote peter on the side and raised him up saying arise up quickly and his chains fell off from his hands
and the angel said unto him gird thyself and bind on thy sandals and so he did and he saith unto him cast thy garment about thee and follow me
and he went out and followed him and wist not that it was true which was done by the angel but thought he saw a vision
when they were past the first and the second ward they came unto the iron gate that leadeth unto the city which opened to them of his own accord and they went out and passed on through one street and forthwith the angel departed from him
and when peter was come to himself he said now i know of a surety that the lord hath sent his angel and hath delivered me out of the hand of herod and from all the expectation of the people of the jews
and when he had considered the thing he came to the house of mary the mother of john whose surname was mark where many were gathered together praying
and as peter knocked at the door of the gate a damsel came to hearken named rhoda
and when she knew peter's voice she opened not the gate for gladness but ran in and told how peter stood before the gate
and they said unto her thou art mad but she constantly affirmed that it was even so then said they it is his angel
but peter continued knocking and when they had opened the door and saw him they were astonished
but he beckoning unto them with the hand to hold their peace declared unto them how the lord had brought him out of the prison and he said go shew these things unto james and to the brethren and he departed and went into another place
now as soon as it was day there was no small stir among the soldiers what was become of peter
and when herod had sought for him and found him not he examined the keepers and commanded that they should be put to death and he went down from judaea to caesarea and there abode
and herod was highly displeased with them of tyre and sidon but they came with one accord to him and having made blastus the king's chamberlain their friend desired peace because their country was nourished by the king's country
and upon a set day herod arrayed in royal apparel sat upon his throne and made an oration unto them
and the people gave a shout saying it is the voice of a god and not of a man
and immediately the angel of the lord smote him because he gave not god the glory and he was eaten of worms and gave up the ghost
but the word of god grew and multiplied
and barnabas and saul returned from jerusalem when they had fulfilled their ministry and took with them john whose surname was mark
now there were in the church that was at antioch certain prophets and teachers as barnabas and simeon that was called niger and lucius of cyrene and manaen which had been brought up with herod the tetrarch and saul
as they ministered to the lord and fasted the holy ghost said separate me barnabas and saul for the work whereunto i have called them
and when they had fasted and prayed and laid their hands on them they sent them away
so they being sent forth by the holy ghost departed unto seleucia and from thence they sailed to cyprus
and when they were at salamis they preached the word of god in the synagogues of the jews and they had also john to their minister
and when they had gone through the isle unto paphos they found a certain sorcerer a false prophet a jew whose name was barjesus
which was with the deputy of the country sergius paulus a prudent man who called for barnabas and saul and desired to hear the word of god
but elymas the sorcerer for so is his name by interpretation withstood them seeking to turn away the deputy from the faith
then saul who also is called paul filled with the holy ghost set his eyes on him
and said o full of all subtilty and all mischief thou child of the devil thou enemy of all righteousness wilt thou not cease to pervert the right ways of the lord
and now behold the hand of the lord is upon thee and thou shalt be blind not seeing the sun for a season and immediately there fell on him a mist and a darkness and he went about seeking some to lead him by the hand
then the deputy when he saw what was done believed being astonished at the doctrine of the lord
now when paul and his company loosed from paphos they came to perga in pamphylia and john departing from them returned to jerusalem
but when they departed from perga they came to antioch in pisidia and went into the synagogue on the sabbath day and sat down
and after the reading of the law and the prophets the rulers of the synagogue sent unto them saying ye men and brethren if ye have any word of exhortation for the people say on
then paul stood up and beckoning with his hand said men of israel and ye that fear god give audience
the god of this people of israel chose our fathers and exalted the people when they dwelt as strangers in the land of egypt and with an high arm brought he them out of it
and about the time of forty years suffered he their manners in the wilderness
and when he had destroyed seven nations in the land of chanaan he divided their land to them by lot
and after that he gave unto them judges about the space of four hundred and fifty years until samuel the prophet
and afterward they desired a king and god gave unto them saul the son of cis a man of the tribe of benjamin by the space of forty years
and when he had removed him he raised up unto them david to be their king to whom also he gave testimony and said i have found david the son of jesse a man after mine own heart which shall fulfil all my will
of this man's seed hath god according to his promise raised unto israel a saviour jesus
when john had first preached before his coming the baptism of repentance to all the people of israel
and as john fulfilled his course he said whom think ye that i am i am not he but behold there cometh one after me whose shoes of his feet i am not worthy to loose
men and brethren children of the stock of abraham and whosoever among you feareth god to you is the word of this salvation sent
for they that dwell at jerusalem and their rulers because they knew him not nor yet the voices of the prophets which are read every sabbath day they have fulfilled them in condemning him
and though they found no cause of death in him yet desired they pilate that he should be slain
and when they had fulfilled all that was written of him they took him down from the tree and laid him in a sepulchre
but god raised him from the dead
and he was seen many days of them which came up with him from galilee to jerusalem who are his witnesses unto the people
and we declare unto you glad tidings how that the promise which was made unto the fathers
god hath fulfilled the same unto us their children in that he hath raised up jesus again as it is also written in the second psalm thou art my son this day have i begotten thee
and as concerning that he raised him up from the dead now no more to return to corruption he said on this wise i will give you the sure mercies of david
wherefore he saith also in another psalm thou shalt not suffer thine holy one to see corruption
for david after he had served his own generation by the will of god fell on sleep and was laid unto his fathers and saw corruption
but he whom god raised again saw no corruption
be it known unto you therefore men and brethren that through this man is preached unto you the forgiveness of sins
and by him all that believe are justified from all things from which ye could not be justified by the law of moses
beware therefore lest that come upon you which is spoken of in the prophets
behold ye despisers and wonder and perish for i work a work in your days a work which ye shall in no wise believe though a man declare it unto you
and when the jews were gone out of the synagogue the gentiles besought that these words might be preached to them the next sabbath
now when the congregation was broken up many of the jews and religious proselytes followed paul and barnabas who speaking to them persuaded them to continue in the grace of god
and the next sabbath day came almost the whole city together to hear the word of god
but when the jews saw the multitudes they were filled with envy and spake against those things which were spoken by paul contradicting and blaspheming
then paul and barnabas waxed bold and said it was necessary that the word of god should first have been spoken to you but seeing ye put it from you and judge yourselves unworthy of everlasting life lo we turn to the gentiles
for so hath the lord commanded us saying i have set thee to be a light of the gentiles that thou shouldest be for salvation unto the ends of the earth
and when the gentiles heard this they were glad and glorified the word of the lord and as many as were ordained to eternal life believed
and the word of the lord was published throughout all the region
but the jews stirred up the devout and honourable women and the chief men of the city and raised persecution against paul and barnabas and expelled them out of their coasts
but they shook off the dust of their feet against them and came unto iconium
and the disciples were filled with joy and with the holy ghost
and it came to pass in iconium that they went both together into the synagogue of the jews and so spake that a great multitude both of the jews and also of the greeks believed
but the unbelieving jews stirred up the gentiles and made their minds evil affected against the brethren
long time therefore abode they speaking boldly in the lord which gave testimony unto the word of his grace and granted signs and wonders to be done by their hands
but the multitude of the city was divided and part held with the jews and part with the apostles
and when there was an assault made both of the gentiles and also of the jews with their rulers to use them despitefully and to stone them
they were ware of it and fled unto lystra and derbe cities of lycaonia and unto the region that lieth round about
and there they preached the gospel
and there sat a certain man at lystra impotent in his feet being a cripple from his mother's womb who never had walked
the same heard paul speak who stedfastly beholding him and perceiving that he had faith to be healed
said with a loud voice stand upright on thy feet and he leaped and walked
and when the people saw what paul had done they lifted up their voices saying in the speech of lycaonia the gods are come down to us in the likeness of men
and they called barnabas jupiter and paul mercurius because he was the chief speaker
then the priest of jupiter which was before their city brought oxen and garlands unto the gates and would have done sacrifice with the people
which when the apostles barnabas and paul heard of they rent their clothes and ran in among the people crying out
and saying sirs why do ye these things we also are men of like passions with you and preach unto you that ye should turn from these vanities unto the living god which made heaven and earth and the sea and all things that are therein
who in times past suffered all nations to walk in their own ways
nevertheless he left not himself without witness in that he did good and gave us rain from heaven and fruitful seasons filling our hearts with food and gladness
and with these sayings scarce restrained they the people that they had not done sacrifice unto them
and there came thither certain jews from antioch and iconium who persuaded the people and having stoned paul drew him out of the city supposing he had been dead
howbeit as the disciples stood round about him he rose up and came into the city and the next day he departed with barnabas to derbe
and when they had preached the gospel to that city and had taught many they returned again to lystra and to iconium and antioch
confirming the souls of the disciples and exhorting them to continue in the faith and that we must through much tribulation enter into the kingdom of god
and when they had ordained them elders in every church and had prayed with fasting they commended them to the lord on whom they believed
and after they had passed throughout pisidia they came to pamphylia
and when they had preached the word in perga they went down into attalia
and thence sailed to antioch from whence they had been recommended to the grace of god for the work which they fulfilled
and when they were come and had gathered the church together they rehearsed all that god had done with them and how he had opened the door of faith unto the gentiles
and there they abode long time with the disciples
and certain men which came down from judaea taught the brethren and said except ye be circumcised after the manner of moses ye cannot be saved
when therefore paul and barnabas had no small dissension and disputation with them they determined that paul and barnabas and certain other of them should go up to jerusalem unto the apostles and elders about this question
and being brought on their way by the church they passed through phenice and samaria declaring the conversion of the gentiles and they caused great joy unto all the brethren
and when they were come to jerusalem they were received of the church and of the apostles and elders and they declared all things that god had done with them
but there rose up certain of the sect of the pharisees which believed saying that it was needful to circumcise them and to command them to keep the law of moses
and the apostles and elders came together for to consider of this matter
and when there had been much disputing peter rose up and said unto them men and brethren ye know how that a good while ago god made choice among us that the gentiles by my mouth should hear the word of the gospel and believe
and god which knoweth the hearts bare them witness giving them the holy ghost even as he did unto us
and put no difference between us and them purifying their hearts by faith
now therefore why tempt ye god to put a yoke upon the neck of the disciples which neither our fathers nor we were able to bear
but we believe that through the grace of the lord jesus christ we shall be saved even as they
then all the multitude kept silence and gave audience to barnabas and paul declaring what miracles and wonders god had wrought among the gentiles by them
and after they had held their peace james answered saying men and brethren hearken unto me
simeon hath declared how god at the first did visit the gentiles to take out of them a people for his name
and to this agree the words of the prophets as it is written
after this i will return and will build again the tabernacle of david which is fallen down and i will build again the ruins thereof and i will set it up
that the residue of men might seek after the lord and all the gentiles upon whom my name is called saith the lord who doeth all these things
known unto god are all his works from the beginning of the world
wherefore my sentence is that we trouble not them which from among the gentiles are turned to god
but that we write unto them that they abstain from pollutions of idols and from fornication and from things strangled and from blood
for moses of old time hath in every city them that preach him being read in the synagogues every sabbath day
then pleased it the apostles and elders with the whole church to send chosen men of their own company to antioch with paul and barnabas namely judas surnamed barsabas and silas chief men among the brethren
and they wrote letters by them after this manner the apostles and elders and brethren send greeting unto the brethren which are of the gentiles in antioch and syria and cilicia
forasmuch as we have heard that certain which went out from us have troubled you with words subverting your souls saying ye must be circumcised and keep the law to whom we gave no such commandment
it seemed good unto us being assembled with one accord to send chosen men unto you with our beloved barnabas and paul
men that have hazarded their lives for the name of our lord jesus christ
we have sent therefore judas and silas who shall also tell you the same things by mouth
for it seemed good to the holy ghost and to us to lay upon you no greater burden than these necessary things
that ye abstain from meats offered to idols and from blood and from things strangled and from fornication from which if ye keep yourselves ye shall do well fare ye well
so when they were dismissed they came to antioch and when they had gathered the multitude together they delivered the epistle
which when they had read they rejoiced for the consolation
and judas and silas being prophets also themselves exhorted the brethren with many words and confirmed them
and after they had tarried there a space they were let go in peace from the brethren unto the apostles
notwithstanding it pleased silas to abide there still
paul also and barnabas continued in antioch teaching and preaching the word of the lord with many others also
and some days after paul said unto barnabas let us go again and visit our brethren in every city where we have preached the word of the lord and see how they do
and barnabas determined to take with them john whose surname was mark
but paul thought not good to take him with them who departed from them from pamphylia and went not with them to the work
and the contention was so sharp between them that they departed asunder one from the other and so barnabas took mark and sailed unto cyprus
and paul chose silas and departed being recommended by the brethren unto the grace of god
and he went through syria and cilicia confirming the churches
then came he to derbe and lystra and behold a certain disciple was there named timotheus the son of a certain woman which was a jewess and believed but his father was a greek
which was well reported of by the brethren that were at lystra and iconium
him would paul have to go forth with him and took and circumcised him because of the jews which were in those quarters for they knew all that his father was a greek
and as they went through the cities they delivered them the decrees for to keep that were ordained of the apostles and elders which were at jerusalem
and so were the churches established in the faith and increased in number daily
now when they had gone throughout phrygia and the region of galatia and were forbidden of the holy ghost to preach the word in asia
after they were come to mysia they assayed to go into bithynia but the spirit suffered them not
and they passing by mysia came down to troas
and a vision appeared to paul in the night there stood a man of macedonia and prayed him saying come over into macedonia and help us
and after he had seen the vision immediately we endeavoured to go into macedonia assuredly gathering that the lord had called us for to preach the gospel unto them
therefore loosing from troas we came with a straight course to samothracia and the next day to neapolis
and from thence to philippi which is the chief city of that part of macedonia and a colony and we were in that city abiding certain days
and on the sabbath we went out of the city by a river side where prayer was wont to be made and we sat down and spake unto the women which resorted thither
and a certain woman named lydia a seller of purple of the city of thyatira which worshipped god heard us whose heart the lord opened that she attended unto the things which were spoken of paul
and when she was baptized and her household she besought us saying if ye have judged me to be faithful to the lord come into my house and abide there and she constrained us
and it came to pass as we went to prayer a certain damsel possessed with a spirit of divination met us which brought her masters much gain by soothsaying
the same followed paul and us and cried saying these men are the servants of the most high god which shew unto us the way of salvation
and this did she many days but paul being grieved turned and said to the spirit i command thee in the name of jesus christ to come out of her and he came out the same hour
and when her masters saw that the hope of their gains was gone they caught paul and silas and drew them into the marketplace unto the rulers
and brought them to the magistrates saying these men being jews do exceedingly trouble our city
and teach customs which are not lawful for us to receive neither to observe being romans
and the multitude rose up together against them and the magistrates rent off their clothes and commanded to beat them
and when they had laid many stripes upon them they cast them into prison charging the jailor to keep them safely
who having received such a charge thrust them into the inner prison and made their feet fast in the stocks
and at midnight paul and silas prayed and sang praises unto god and the prisoners heard them
and suddenly there was a great earthquake so that the foundations of the prison were shaken and immediately all the doors were opened and every one's bands were loosed
and the keeper of the prison awaking out of his sleep and seeing the prison doors open he drew out his sword and would have killed himself supposing that the prisoners had been fled
but paul cried with a loud voice saying do thyself no harm for we are all here
then he called for a light and sprang in and came trembling and fell down before paul and silas
and brought them out and said sirs what must i do to be saved
and they said believe on the lord jesus christ and thou shalt be saved and thy house
and they spake unto him the word of the lord and to all that were in his house
and he took them the same hour of the night and washed their stripes and was baptized he and all his straightway
and when he had brought them into his house he set meat before them and rejoiced believing in god with all his house
and when it was day the magistrates sent the serjeants saying let those men go
and the keeper of the prison told this saying to paul the magistrates have sent to let you go now therefore depart and go in peace
but paul said unto them they have beaten us openly uncondemned being romans and have cast us into prison and now do they thrust us out privily nay verily but let them come themselves and fetch us out
and the serjeants told these words unto the magistrates and they feared when they heard that they were romans
and they came and besought them and brought them out and desired them to depart out of the city
and they went out of the prison and entered into the house of lydia and when they had seen the brethren they comforted them and departed
now when they had passed through amphipolis and apollonia they came to thessalonica where was a synagogue of the jews
and paul as his manner was went in unto them and three sabbath days reasoned with them out of the scriptures
opening and alleging that christ must needs have suffered and risen again from the dead and that this jesus whom i preach unto you is christ
and some of them believed and consorted with paul and silas and of the devout greeks a great multitude and of the chief women not a few
but the jews which believed not moved with envy took unto them certain lewd fellows of the baser sort and gathered a company and set all the city on an uproar and assaulted the house of jason and sought to bring them out to the people
and when they found them not they drew jason and certain brethren unto the rulers of the city crying these that have turned the world upside down are come hither also
whom jason hath received and these all do contrary to the decrees of caesar saying that there is another king one jesus
and they troubled the people and the rulers of the city when they heard these things
and when they had taken security of jason and of the other they let them go
and the brethren immediately sent away paul and silas by night unto berea who coming thither went into the synagogue of the jews
these were more noble than those in thessalonica in that they received the word with all readiness of mind and searched the scriptures daily whether those things were so
therefore many of them believed also of honourable women which were greeks and of men not a few
but when the jews of thessalonica had knowledge that the word of god was preached of paul at berea they came thither also and stirred up the people
and then immediately the brethren sent away paul to go as it were to the sea but silas and timotheus abode there still
and they that conducted paul brought him unto athens and receiving a commandment unto silas and timotheus for to come to him with all speed they departed
now while paul waited for them at athens his spirit was stirred in him when he saw the city wholly given to idolatry
therefore disputed he in the synagogue with the jews and with the devout persons and in the market daily with them that met with him
then certain philosophers of the epicureans and of the stoicks encountered him and some said what will this babbler say other some he seemeth to be a setter forth of strange gods because he preached unto them jesus and the resurrection
and they took him and brought him unto areopagus saying may we know what this new doctrine whereof thou speakest is
for thou bringest certain strange things to our ears we would know therefore what these things mean
for all the athenians and strangers which were there spent their time in nothing else but either to tell or to hear some new thing
then paul stood in the midst of mars hill and said ye men of athens i perceive that in all things ye are too superstitious
for as i passed by and beheld your devotions i found an altar with this inscription to the unknown god whom therefore ye ignorantly worship him declare i unto you
god that made the world and all things therein seeing that he is lord of heaven and earth dwelleth not in temples made with hands
neither is worshipped with men's hands as though he needed any thing seeing he giveth to all life and breath and all things
and hath made of one blood all nations of men for to dwell on all the face of the earth and hath determined the times before appointed and the bounds of their habitation
that they should seek the lord if haply they might feel after him and find him though he be not far from every one of us
for in him we live and move and have our being as certain also of your own poets have said for we are also his offspring
forasmuch then as we are the offspring of god we ought not to think that the godhead is like unto gold or silver or stone graven by art and man's device
and the times of this ignorance god winked at but now commandeth all men every where to repent
because he hath appointed a day in the which he will judge the world in righteousness by that man whom he hath ordained whereof he hath given assurance unto all men in that he hath raised him from the dead
and when they heard of the resurrection of the dead some mocked and others said we will hear thee again of this matter
so paul departed from among them
howbeit certain men clave unto him and believed among the which was dionysius the areopagite and a woman named damaris and others with them
after these things paul departed from athens and came to corinth
and found a certain jew named aquila born in pontus lately come from italy with his wife priscilla because that claudius had commanded all jews to depart from rome and came unto them
and because he was of the same craft he abode with them and wrought for by their occupation they were tentmakers
and he reasoned in the synagogue every sabbath and persuaded the jews and the greeks
and when silas and timotheus were come from macedonia paul was pressed in the spirit and testified to the jews that jesus was christ
and when they opposed themselves and blasphemed he shook his raiment and said unto them your blood be upon your own heads i am clean from henceforth i will go unto the gentiles
and he departed thence and entered into a certain man's house named justus one that worshipped god whose house joined hard to the synagogue
and crispus the chief ruler of the synagogue believed on the lord with all his house and many of the corinthians hearing believed and were baptized
then spake the lord to paul in the night by a vision be not afraid but speak and hold not thy peace
for i am with thee and no man shall set on thee to hurt thee for i have much people in this city
and he continued there a year and six months teaching the word of god among them
and when gallio was the deputy of achaia the jews made insurrection with one accord against paul and brought him to the judgment seat
saying this fellow persuadeth men to worship god contrary to the law
and when paul was now about to open his mouth gallio said unto the jews if it were a matter of wrong or wicked lewdness o ye jews reason would that i should bear with you
but if it be a question of words and names and of your law look ye to it for i will be no judge of such matters
and he drave them from the judgment seat
then all the greeks took sosthenes the chief ruler of the synagogue and beat him before the judgment seat and gallio cared for none of those things
and paul after this tarried there yet a good while and then took his leave of the brethren and sailed thence into syria and with him priscilla and aquila having shorn his head in cenchrea for he had a vow
and he came to ephesus and left them there but he himself entered into the synagogue and reasoned with the jews
when they desired him to tarry longer time with them he consented not
but bade them farewell saying i must by all means keep this feast that cometh in jerusalem but i will return again unto you if god will and he sailed from ephesus
and when he had landed at caesarea and gone up and saluted the church he went down to antioch
and after he had spent some time there he departed and went over all the country of galatia and phrygia in order strengthening all the disciples
and a certain jew named apollos born at alexandria an eloquent man and mighty in the scriptures came to ephesus
this man was instructed in the way of the lord and being fervent in the spirit he spake and taught diligently the things of the lord knowing only the baptism of john
and he began to speak boldly in the synagogue whom when aquila and priscilla had heard they took him unto them and expounded unto him the way of god more perfectly
and when he was disposed to pass into achaia the brethren wrote exhorting the disciples to receive him who when he was come helped them much which had believed through grace
for he mightily convinced the jews and that publickly shewing by the scriptures that jesus was christ
and it came to pass that while apollos was at corinth paul having passed through the upper coasts came to ephesus and finding certain disciples
he said unto them have ye received the holy ghost since ye believed and they said unto him we have not so much as heard whether there be any holy ghost
and he said unto them unto what then were ye baptized and they said unto john's baptism
then said paul john verily baptized with the baptism of repentance saying unto the people that they should believe on him which should come after him that is on christ jesus
when they heard this they were baptized in the name of the lord jesus
and when paul had laid his hands upon them the holy ghost came on them and they spake with tongues and prophesied
and all the men were about twelve
and he went into the synagogue and spake boldly for the space of three months disputing and persuading the things concerning the kingdom of god
but when divers were hardened and believed not but spake evil of that way before the multitude he departed from them and separated the disciples disputing daily in the school of one tyrannus
and this continued by the space of two years so that all they which dwelt in asia heard the word of the lord jesus both jews and greeks
and god wrought special miracles by the hands of paul
so that from his body were brought unto the sick handkerchiefs or aprons and the diseases departed from them and the evil spirits went out of them
then certain of the vagabond jews exorcists took upon them to call over them which had evil spirits the name of the lord jesus saying we adjure you by jesus whom paul preacheth
and there were seven sons of one sceva a jew and chief of the priests which did so
and the evil spirit answered and said jesus i know and paul i know but who are ye
and the man in whom the evil spirit was leaped on them and overcame them and prevailed against them so that they fled out of that house naked and wounded
and this was known to all the jews and greeks also dwelling at ephesus and fear fell on them all and the name of the lord jesus was magnified
and many that believed came and confessed and shewed their deeds
many of them also which used curious arts brought their books together and burned them before all men and they counted the price of them and found it fifty thousand pieces of silver
so mightily grew the word of god and prevailed
after these things were ended paul purposed in the spirit when he had passed through macedonia and achaia to go to jerusalem saying after i have been there i must also see rome
so he sent into macedonia two of them that ministered unto him timotheus and erastus but he himself stayed in asia for a season
and the same time there arose no small stir about that way
for a certain man named demetrius a silversmith which made silver shrines for diana brought no small gain unto the craftsmen
whom he called together with the workmen of like occupation and said sirs ye know that by this craft we have our wealth
moreover ye see and hear that not alone at ephesus but almost throughout all asia this paul hath persuaded and turned away much people saying that they be no gods which are made with hands
so that not only this our craft is in danger to be set at nought but also that the temple of the great goddess diana should be despised and her magnificence should be destroyed whom all asia and the world worshippeth
and when they heard these sayings they were full of wrath and cried out saying great is diana of the ephesians
and the whole city was filled with confusion and having caught gaius and aristarchus men of macedonia paul's companions in travel they rushed with one accord into the theatre
and when paul would have entered in unto the people the disciples suffered him not
and certain of the chief of asia which were his friends sent unto him desiring him that he would not adventure himself into the theatre
some therefore cried one thing and some another for the assembly was confused and the more part knew not wherefore they were come together
and they drew alexander out of the multitude the jews putting him forward and alexander beckoned with the hand and would have made his defence unto the people
but when they knew that he was a jew all with one voice about the space of two hours cried out great is diana of the ephesians
and when the townclerk had appeased the people he said ye men of ephesus what man is there that knoweth not how that the city of the ephesians is a worshipper of the great goddess diana and of the image which fell down from jupiter
seeing then that these things cannot be spoken against ye ought to be quiet and to do nothing rashly
for ye have brought hither these men which are neither robbers of churches nor yet blasphemers of your goddess
wherefore if demetrius and the craftsmen which are with him have a matter against any man the law is open and there are deputies let them implead one another
but if ye enquire any thing concerning other matters it shall be determined in a lawful assembly
for we are in danger to be called in question for this day's uproar there being no cause whereby we may give an account of this concourse
and when he had thus spoken he dismissed the assembly
and after the uproar was ceased paul called unto him the disciples and embraced them and departed for to go into macedonia
and when he had gone over those parts and had given them much exhortation he came into greece
and there abode three months and when the jews laid wait for him as he was about to sail into syria he purposed to return through macedonia
and there accompanied him into asia sopater of berea and of the thessalonians aristarchus and secundus and gaius of derbe and timotheus and of asia tychicus and trophimus
these going before tarried for us at troas
and we sailed away from philippi after the days of unleavened bread and came unto them to troas in five days where we abode seven days
and upon the first day of the week when the disciples came together to break bread paul preached unto them ready to depart on the morrow and continued his speech until midnight
and there were many lights in the upper chamber where they were gathered together
and there sat in a window a certain young man named eutychus being fallen into a deep sleep and as paul was long preaching he sunk down with sleep and fell down from the third loft and was taken up dead
and paul went down and fell on him and embracing him said trouble not yourselves for his life is in him
when he therefore was come up again and had broken bread and eaten and talked a long while even till break of day so he departed
and they brought the young man alive and were not a little comforted
and we went before to ship and sailed unto assos there intending to take in paul for so had he appointed minding himself to go afoot
and when he met with us at assos we took him in and came to mitylene
and we sailed thence and came the next day over against chios and the next day we arrived at samos and tarried at trogyllium and the next day we came to miletus
for paul had determined to sail by ephesus because he would not spend the time in asia for he hasted if it were possible for him to be at jerusalem the day of pentecost
and from miletus he sent to ephesus and called the elders of the church
and when they were come to him he said unto them ye know from the first day that i came into asia after what manner i have been with you at all seasons
serving the lord with all humility of mind and with many tears and temptations which befell me by the lying in wait of the jews
and how i kept back nothing that was profitable unto you but have shewed you and have taught you publickly and from house to house
testifying both to the jews and also to the greeks repentance toward god and faith toward our lord jesus christ
and now behold i go bound in the spirit unto jerusalem not knowing the things that shall befall me there
save that the holy ghost witnesseth in every city saying that bonds and afflictions abide me
but none of these things move me neither count i my life dear unto myself so that i might finish my course with joy and the ministry which i have received of the lord jesus to testify the gospel of the grace of god
and now behold i know that ye all among whom i have gone preaching the kingdom of god shall see my face no more
wherefore i take you to record this day that i am pure from the blood of all men
for i have not shunned to declare unto you all the counsel of god
take heed therefore unto yourselves and to all the flock over the which the holy ghost hath made you overseers to feed the church of god which he hath purchased with his own blood
for i know this that after my departing shall grievous wolves enter in among you not sparing the flock
also of your own selves shall men arise speaking perverse things to draw away disciples after them
therefore watch and remember that by the space of three years i ceased not to warn every one night and day with tears
and now brethren i commend you to god and to the word of his grace which is able to build you up and to give you an inheritance among all them which are sanctified
i have coveted no man's silver or gold or apparel
yea ye yourselves know that these hands have ministered unto my necessities and to them that were with me
i have shewed you all things how that so labouring ye ought to support the weak and to remember the words of the lord jesus how he said it is more blessed to give than to receive
and when he had thus spoken he kneeled down and prayed with them all
and they all wept sore and fell on paul's neck and kissed him
sorrowing most of all for the words which he spake that they should see his face no more and they accompanied him unto the ship
and it came to pass that after we were gotten from them and had launched we came with a straight course unto coos and the day following unto rhodes and from thence unto patara
and finding a ship sailing over unto phenicia we went aboard and set forth
now when we had discovered cyprus we left it on the left hand and sailed into syria and landed at tyre for there the ship was to unlade her burden
and finding disciples we tarried there seven days who said to paul through the spirit that he should not go up to jerusalem
and when we had accomplished those days we departed and went our way and they all brought us on our way with wives and children till we were out of the city and we kneeled down on the shore and prayed
and when we had taken our leave one of another we took ship and they returned home again
and when we had finished our course from tyre we came to ptolemais and saluted the brethren and abode with them one day
and the next day we that were of paul's company departed and came unto caesarea and we entered into the house of philip the evangelist which was one of the seven and abode with him
and the same man had four daughters virgins which did prophesy
and as we tarried there many days there came down from judaea a certain prophet named agabus
and when he was come unto us he took paul's girdle and bound his own hands and feet and said thus saith the holy ghost so shall the jews at jerusalem bind the man that owneth this girdle and shall deliver him into the hands of the gentiles
and when we heard these things both we and they of that place besought him not to go up to jerusalem
then paul answered what mean ye to weep and to break mine heart for i am ready not to be bound only but also to die at jerusalem for the name of the lord jesus
and when he would not be persuaded we ceased saying the will of the lord be done
and after those days we took up our carriages and went up to jerusalem
there went with us also certain of the disciples of caesarea and brought with them one mnason of cyprus an old disciple with whom we should lodge
and when we were come to jerusalem the brethren received us gladly
and the day following paul went in with us unto james and all the elders were present
and when he had saluted them he declared particularly what things god had wrought among the gentiles by his ministry
and when they heard it they glorified the lord and said unto him thou seest brother how many thousands of jews there are which believe and they are all zealous of the law
and they are informed of thee that thou teachest all the jews which are among the gentiles to forsake moses saying that they ought not to circumcise their children neither to walk after the customs
what is it therefore the multitude must needs come together for they will hear that thou art come
do therefore this that we say to thee we have four men which have a vow on them
them take and purify thyself with them and be at charges with them that they may shave their heads and all may know that those things whereof they were informed concerning thee are nothing but that thou thyself also walkest orderly and keepest the law
as touching the gentiles which believe we have written and concluded that they observe no such thing save only that they keep themselves from things offered to idols and from blood and from strangled and from fornication
then paul took the men and the next day purifying himself with them entered into the temple to signify the accomplishment of the days of purification until that an offering should be offered for every one of them
and when the seven days were almost ended the jews which were of asia when they saw him in the temple stirred up all the people and laid hands on him
crying out men of israel help this is the man that teacheth all men every where against the people and the law and this place and further brought greeks also into the temple and hath polluted this holy place
for they had seen before with him in the city trophimus an ephesian whom they supposed that paul had brought into the temple
and all the city was moved and the people ran together and they took paul and drew him out of the temple and forthwith the doors were shut
and as they went about to kill him tidings came unto the chief captain of the band that all jerusalem was in an uproar
who immediately took soldiers and centurions and ran down unto them and when they saw the chief captain and the soldiers they left beating of paul
then the chief captain came near and took him and commanded him to be bound with two chains and demanded who he was and what he had done
and some cried one thing some another among the multitude and when he could not know the certainty for the tumult he commanded him to be carried into the castle
and when he came upon the stairs so it was that he was borne of the soldiers for the violence of the people
for the multitude of the people followed after crying away with him
and as paul was to be led into the castle he said unto the chief captain may i speak unto thee who said canst thou speak greek
art not thou that egyptian which before these days madest an uproar and leddest out into the wilderness four thousand men that were murderers
but paul said i am a man which am a jew of tarsus a city in cilicia a citizen of no mean city and i beseech thee suffer me to speak unto the people
and when he had given him licence paul stood on the stairs and beckoned with the hand unto the people and when there was made a great silence he spake unto them in the hebrew tongue saying
men brethren and fathers hear ye my defence which i make now unto you
and when they heard that he spake in the hebrew tongue to them they kept the more silence and he saith
i am verily a man which am a jew born in tarsus a city in cilicia yet brought up in this city at the feet of gamaliel and taught according to the perfect manner of the law of the fathers and was zealous toward god as ye all are this day
and i persecuted this way unto the death binding and delivering into prisons both men and women
as also the high priest doth bear me witness and all the estate of the elders from whom also i received letters unto the brethren and went to damascus to bring them which were there bound unto jerusalem for to be punished
and it came to pass that as i made my journey and was come nigh unto damascus about noon suddenly there shone from heaven a great light round about me
and i fell unto the ground and heard a voice saying unto me saul saul why persecutest thou me
and i answered who art thou lord and he said unto me i am jesus of nazareth whom thou persecutest
and they that were with me saw indeed the light and were afraid but they heard not the voice of him that spake to me
and i said what shall i do lord and the lord said unto me arise and go into damascus and there it shall be told thee of all things which are appointed for thee to do
and when i could not see for the glory of that light being led by the hand of them that were with me i came into damascus
and one ananias a devout man according to the law having a good report of all the jews which dwelt there
came unto me and stood and said unto me brother saul receive thy sight and the same hour i looked up upon him
and he said the god of our fathers hath chosen thee that thou shouldest know his will and see that just one and shouldest hear the voice of his mouth
for thou shalt be his witness unto all men of what thou hast seen and heard
and now why tarriest thou arise and be baptized and wash away thy sins calling on the name of the lord
and it came to pass that when i was come again to jerusalem even while i prayed in the temple i was in a trance
and saw him saying unto me make haste and get thee quickly out of jerusalem for they will not receive thy testimony concerning me
and i said lord they know that i imprisoned and beat in every synagogue them that believed on thee
and when the blood of thy martyr stephen was shed i also was standing by and consenting unto his death and kept the raiment of them that slew him
and he said unto me depart for i will send thee far hence unto the gentiles
and they gave him audience unto this word and then lifted up their voices and said away with such a fellow from the earth for it is not fit that he should live
and as they cried out and cast off their clothes and threw dust into the air
the chief captain commanded him to be brought into the castle and bade that he should be examined by scourging that he might know wherefore they cried so against him
and as they bound him with thongs paul said unto the centurion that stood by is it lawful for you to scourge a man that is a roman and uncondemned
when the centurion heard that he went and told the chief captain saying take heed what thou doest for this man is a roman
then the chief captain came and said unto him tell me art thou a roman he said yea
and the chief captain answered with a great sum obtained i this freedom and paul said but i was free born
then straightway they departed from him which should have examined him and the chief captain also was afraid after he knew that he was a roman and because he had bound him
on the morrow because he would have known the certainty wherefore he was accused of the jews he loosed him from his bands and commanded the chief priests and all their council to appear and brought paul down and set him before them
and paul earnestly beholding the council said men and brethren i have lived in all good conscience before god until this day
and the high priest ananias commanded them that stood by him to smite him on the mouth
then said paul unto him god shall smite thee thou whited wall for sittest thou to judge me after the law and commandest me to be smitten contrary to the law
and they that stood by said revilest thou god's high priest
then said paul i wist not brethren that he was the high priest for it is written thou shalt not speak evil of the ruler of thy people
but when paul perceived that the one part were sadducees and the other pharisees he cried out in the council men and brethren i am a pharisee the son of a pharisee of the hope and resurrection of the dead i am called in question
and when he had so said there arose a dissension between the pharisees and the sadducees and the multitude was divided
for the sadducees say that there is no resurrection neither angel nor spirit but the pharisees confess both
and there arose a great cry and the scribes that were of the pharisees part arose and strove saying we find no evil in this man but if a spirit or an angel hath spoken to him let us not fight against god
and when there arose a great dissension the chief captain fearing lest paul should have been pulled in pieces of them commanded the soldiers to go down and to take him by force from among them and to bring him into the castle
and the night following the lord stood by him and said be of good cheer paul for as thou hast testified of me in jerusalem so must thou bear witness also at rome
and when it was day certain of the jews banded together and bound themselves under a curse saying that they would neither eat nor drink till they had killed paul
and they were more than forty which had made this conspiracy
and they came to the chief priests and elders and said we have bound ourselves under a great curse that we will eat nothing until we have slain paul
now therefore ye with the council signify to the chief captain that he bring him down unto you to morrow as though ye would enquire something more perfectly concerning him and we or ever he come near are ready to kill him
and when paul's sister's son heard of their lying in wait he went and entered into the castle and told paul
then paul called one of the centurions unto him and said bring this young man unto the chief captain for he hath a certain thing to tell him
so he took him and brought him to the chief captain and said paul the prisoner called me unto him and prayed me to bring this young man unto thee who hath something to say unto thee
then the chief captain took him by the hand and went with him aside privately and asked him what is that thou hast to tell me
and he said the jews have agreed to desire thee that thou wouldest bring down paul to morrow into the council as though they would enquire somewhat of him more perfectly
but do not thou yield unto them for there lie in wait for him of them more than forty men which have bound themselves with an oath that they will neither eat nor drink till they have killed him and now are they ready looking for a promise from thee
so the chief captain then let the young man depart and charged him see thou tell no man that thou hast shewed these things to me
and he called unto him two centurions saying make ready two hundred soldiers to go to caesarea and horsemen threescore and ten and spearmen two hundred at the third hour of the night
and provide them beasts that they may set paul on and bring him safe unto felix the governor
and he wrote a letter after this manner
claudius lysias unto the most excellent governor felix sendeth greeting
this man was taken of the jews and should have been killed of them then came i with an army and rescued him having understood that he was a roman
and when i would have known the cause wherefore they accused him i brought him forth into their council
whom i perceived to be accused of questions of their law but to have nothing laid to his charge worthy of death or of bonds
and when it was told me how that the jews laid wait for the man i sent straightway to thee and gave commandment to his accusers also to say before thee what they had against him farewell
then the soldiers as it was commanded them took paul and brought him by night to antipatris
on the morrow they left the horsemen to go with him and returned to the castle
who when they came to caesarea and delivered the epistle to the governor presented paul also before him
and when the governor had read the letter he asked of what province he was and when he understood that he was of cilicia
i will hear thee said he when thine accusers are also come and he commanded him to be kept in herod's judgment hall
and after five days ananias the high priest descended with the elders and with a certain orator named tertullus who informed the governor against paul
and when he was called forth tertullus began to accuse him saying seeing that by thee we enjoy great quietness and that very worthy deeds are done unto this nation by thy providence
we accept it always and in all places most noble felix with all thankfulness
notwithstanding that i be not further tedious unto thee i pray thee that thou wouldest hear us of thy clemency a few words
for we have found this man a pestilent fellow and a mover of sedition among all the jews throughout the world and a ringleader of the sect of the nazarenes
who also hath gone about to profane the temple whom we took and would have judged according to our law
but the chief captain lysias came upon us and with great violence took him away out of our hands
commanding his accusers to come unto thee by examining of whom thyself mayest take knowledge of all these things whereof we accuse him
and the jews also assented saying that these things were so
then paul after that the governor had beckoned unto him to speak answered forasmuch as i know that thou hast been of many years a judge unto this nation i do the more cheerfully answer for myself
because that thou mayest understand that there are yet but twelve days since i went up to jerusalem for to worship
and they neither found me in the temple disputing with any man neither raising up the people neither in the synagogues nor in the city
neither can they prove the things whereof they now accuse me
but this i confess unto thee that after the way which they call heresy so worship i the god of my fathers believing all things which are written in the law and in the prophets
and have hope toward god which they themselves also allow that there shall be a resurrection of the dead both of the just and unjust
and herein do i exercise myself to have always a conscience void of offence toward god and toward men
now after many years i came to bring alms to my nation and offerings
whereupon certain jews from asia found me purified in the temple neither with multitude nor with tumult
who ought to have been here before thee and object if they had ought against me
or else let these same here say if they have found any evil doing in me while i stood before the council
except it be for this one voice that i cried standing among them touching the resurrection of the dead i am called in question by you this day
and when felix heard these things having more perfect knowledge of that way he deferred them and said when lysias the chief captain shall come down i will know the uttermost of your matter
and he commanded a centurion to keep paul and to let him have liberty and that he should forbid none of his acquaintance to minister or come unto him
and after certain days when felix came with his wife drusilla which was a jewess he sent for paul and heard him concerning the faith in christ
and as he reasoned of righteousness temperance and judgment to come felix trembled and answered go thy way for this time when i have a convenient season i will call for thee
he hoped also that money should have been given him of paul that he might loose him wherefore he sent for him the oftener and communed with him
but after two years porcius festus came into felix room and felix willing to shew the jews a pleasure left paul bound
now when festus was come into the province after three days he ascended from caesarea to jerusalem
then the high priest and the chief of the jews informed him against paul and besought him
and desired favour against him that he would send for him to jerusalem laying wait in the way to kill him
but festus answered that paul should be kept at caesarea and that he himself would depart shortly thither
let them therefore said he which among you are able go down with me and accuse this man if there be any wickedness in him
and when he had tarried among them more than ten days he went down unto caesarea and the next day sitting on the judgment seat commanded paul to be brought
and when he was come the jews which came down from jerusalem stood round about and laid many and grievous complaints against paul which they could not prove
while he answered for himself neither against the law of the jews neither against the temple nor yet against caesar have i offended any thing at all
but festus willing to do the jews a pleasure answered paul and said wilt thou go up to jerusalem and there be judged of these things before me
then said paul i stand at caesar's judgment seat where i ought to be judged to the jews have i done no wrong as thou very well knowest
for if i be an offender or have committed any thing worthy of death i refuse not to die but if there be none of these things whereof these accuse me no man may deliver me unto them i appeal unto caesar
then festus when he had conferred with the council answered hast thou appealed unto caesar unto caesar shalt thou go
and after certain days king agrippa and bernice came unto caesarea to salute festus
and when they had been there many days festus declared paul's cause unto the king saying there is a certain man left in bonds by felix
about whom when i was at jerusalem the chief priests and the elders of the jews informed me desiring to have judgment against him
to whom i answered it is not the manner of the romans to deliver any man to die before that he which is accused have the accusers face to face and have licence to answer for himself concerning the crime laid against him
therefore when they were come hither without any delay on the morrow i sat on the judgment seat and commanded the man to be brought forth
against whom when the accusers stood up they brought none accusation of such things as i supposed
but had certain questions against him of their own superstition and of one jesus which was dead whom paul affirmed to be alive
and because i doubted of such manner of questions i asked him whether he would go to jerusalem and there be judged of these matters
but when paul had appealed to be reserved unto the hearing of augustus i commanded him to be kept till i might send him to caesar
then agrippa said unto festus i would also hear the man myself to morrow said he thou shalt hear him
and on the morrow when agrippa was come and bernice with great pomp and was entered into the place of hearing with the chief captains and principal men of the city at festus commandment paul was brought forth
and festus said king agrippa and all men which are here present with us ye see this man about whom all the multitude of the jews have dealt with me both at jerusalem and also here crying that he ought not to live any longer
but when i found that he had committed nothing worthy of death and that he himself hath appealed to augustus i have determined to send him
of whom i have no certain thing to write unto my lord wherefore i have brought him forth before you and specially before thee o king agrippa that after examination had i might have somewhat to write
for it seemeth to me unreasonable to send a prisoner and not withal to signify the crimes laid against him
then agrippa said unto paul thou art permitted to speak for thyself then paul stretched forth the hand and answered for himself
i think myself happy king agrippa because i shall answer for myself this day before thee touching all the things whereof i am accused of the jews
especially because i know thee to be expert in all customs and questions which are among the jews wherefore i beseech thee to hear me patiently
my manner of life from my youth which was at the first among mine own nation at jerusalem know all the jews
which knew me from the beginning if they would testify that after the most straitest sect of our religion i lived a pharisee
and now i stand and am judged for the hope of the promise made of god unto our fathers
unto which promise our twelve tribes instantly serving god day and night hope to come for which hope's sake king agrippa i am accused of the jews
why should it be thought a thing incredible with you that god should raise the dead
i verily thought with myself that i ought to do many things contrary to the name of jesus of nazareth
which thing i also did in jerusalem and many of the saints did i shut up in prison having received authority from the chief priests and when they were put to death i gave my voice against them
and i punished them oft in every synagogue and compelled them to blaspheme and being exceedingly mad against them i persecuted them even unto strange cities
whereupon as i went to damascus with authority and commission from the chief priests
at midday o king i saw in the way a light from heaven above the brightness of the sun shining round about me and them which journeyed with me
and when we were all fallen to the earth i heard a voice speaking unto me and saying in the hebrew tongue saul saul why persecutest thou me it is hard for thee to kick against the pricks
and i said who art thou lord and he said i am jesus whom thou persecutest
but rise and stand upon thy feet for i have appeared unto thee for this purpose to make thee a minister and a witness both of these things which thou hast seen and of those things in the which i will appear unto thee
delivering thee from the people and from the gentiles unto whom now i send thee
to open their eyes and to turn them from darkness to light and from the power of satan unto god that they may receive forgiveness of sins and inheritance among them which are sanctified by faith that is in me
whereupon o king agrippa i was not disobedient unto the heavenly vision
but shewed first unto them of damascus and at jerusalem and throughout all the coasts of judaea and then to the gentiles that they should repent and turn to god and do works meet for repentance
for these causes the jews caught me in the temple and went about to kill me
having therefore obtained help of god i continue unto this day witnessing both to small and great saying none other things than those which the prophets and moses did say should come
that christ should suffer and that he should be the first that should rise from the dead and should shew light unto the people and to the gentiles
and as he thus spake for himself festus said with a loud voice paul thou art beside thyself much learning doth make thee mad
but he said i am not mad most noble festus but speak forth the words of truth and soberness
for the king knoweth of these things before whom also i speak freely for i am persuaded that none of these things are hidden from him for this thing was not done in a corner
king agrippa believest thou the prophets i know that thou believest
then agrippa said unto paul almost thou persuadest me to be a christian
and paul said i would to god that not only thou but also all that hear me this day were both almost and altogether such as i am except these bonds
and when he had thus spoken the king rose up and the governor and bernice and they that sat with them
and when they were gone aside they talked between themselves saying this man doeth nothing worthy of death or of bonds
then said agrippa unto festus this man might have been set at liberty if he had not appealed unto caesar
and when it was determined that we should sail into italy they delivered paul and certain other prisoners unto one named julius a centurion of augustus band
and entering into a ship of adramyttium we launched meaning to sail by the coasts of asia one aristarchus a macedonian of thessalonica being with us
and the next day we touched at sidon and julius courteously entreated paul and gave him liberty to go unto his friends to refresh himself
and when we had launched from thence we sailed under cyprus because the winds were contrary
and when we had sailed over the sea of cilicia and pamphylia we came to myra a city of lycia
and there the centurion found a ship of alexandria sailing into italy and he put us therein
and when we had sailed slowly many days and scarce were come over against cnidus the wind not suffering us we sailed under crete over against salmone
and hardly passing it came unto a place which is called the fair havens nigh whereunto was the city of lasea
now when much time was spent and when sailing was now dangerous because the fast was now already past paul admonished them
and said unto them sirs i perceive that this voyage will be with hurt and much damage not only of the lading and ship but also of our lives
nevertheless the centurion believed the master and the owner of the ship more than those things which were spoken by paul
and because the haven was not commodious to winter in the more part advised to depart thence also if by any means they might attain to phenice and there to winter which is an haven of crete and lieth toward the south west and north west
and when the south wind blew softly supposing that they had obtained their purpose loosing thence they sailed close by crete
but not long after there arose against it a tempestuous wind called euroclydon
and when the ship was caught and could not bear up into the wind we let her drive
and running under a certain island which is called clauda we had much work to come by the boat
which when they had taken up they used helps undergirding the ship and fearing lest they should fall into the quicksands strake sail and so were driven
and we being exceedingly tossed with a tempest the next day they lightened the ship
and the third day we cast out with our own hands the tackling of the ship
and when neither sun nor stars in many days appeared and no small tempest lay on us all hope that we should be saved was then taken away
but after long abstinence paul stood forth in the midst of them and said sirs ye should have hearkened unto me and not have loosed from crete and to have gained this harm and loss
and now i exhort you to be of good cheer for there shall be no loss of any man's life among you but of the ship
for there stood by me this night the angel of god whose i am and whom i serve
saying fear not paul thou must be brought before caesar and lo god hath given thee all them that sail with thee
wherefore sirs be of good cheer for i believe god that it shall be even as it was told me
howbeit we must be cast upon a certain island
but when the fourteenth night was come as we were driven up and down in adria about midnight the shipmen deemed that they drew near to some country
and sounded and found it twenty fathoms and when they had gone a little further they sounded again and found it fifteen fathoms
then fearing lest we should have fallen upon rocks they cast four anchors out of the stern and wished for the day
and as the shipmen were about to flee out of the ship when they had let down the boat into the sea under colour as though they would have cast anchors out of the foreship
paul said to the centurion and to the soldiers except these abide in the ship ye cannot be saved
then the soldiers cut off the ropes of the boat and let her fall off
and while the day was coming on paul besought them all to take meat saying this day is the fourteenth day that ye have tarried and continued fasting having taken nothing
wherefore i pray you to take some meat for this is for your health for there shall not an hair fall from the head of any of you
and when he had thus spoken he took bread and gave thanks to god in presence of them all and when he had broken it he began to eat
then were they all of good cheer and they also took some meat
and we were in all in the ship two hundred threescore and sixteen souls
and when they had eaten enough they lightened the ship and cast out the wheat into the sea
and when it was day they knew not the land but they discovered a certain creek with a shore into the which they were minded if it were possible to thrust in the ship
and when they had taken up the anchors they committed themselves unto the sea and loosed the rudder bands and hoised up the mainsail to the wind and made toward shore
and falling into a place where two seas met they ran the ship aground and the forepart stuck fast and remained unmoveable but the hinder part was broken with the violence of the waves
and the soldiers counsel was to kill the prisoners lest any of them should swim out and escape
but the centurion willing to save paul kept them from their purpose and commanded that they which could swim should cast themselves first into the sea and get to land
and the rest some on boards and some on broken pieces of the ship and so it came to pass that they escaped all safe to land
and when they were escaped then they knew that the island was called melita
and the barbarous people shewed us no little kindness for they kindled a fire and received us every one because of the present rain and because of the cold
and when paul had gathered a bundle of sticks and laid them on the fire there came a viper out of the heat and fastened on his hand
and when the barbarians saw the venomous beast hang on his hand they said among themselves no doubt this man is a murderer whom though he hath escaped the sea yet vengeance suffereth not to live
and he shook off the beast into the fire and felt no harm
howbeit they looked when he should have swollen or fallen down dead suddenly but after they had looked a great while and saw no harm come to him they changed their minds and said that he was a god
in the same quarters were possessions of the chief man of the island whose name was publius who received us and lodged us three days courteously
and it came to pass that the father of publius lay sick of a fever and of a bloody flux to whom paul entered in and prayed and laid his hands on him and healed him
so when this was done others also which had diseases in the island came and were healed
who also honoured us with many honours and when we departed they laded us with such things as were necessary
and after three months we departed in a ship of alexandria which had wintered in the isle whose sign was castor and pollux
and landing at syracuse we tarried there three days
and from thence we fetched a compass and came to rhegium and after one day the south wind blew and we came the next day to puteoli
where we found brethren and were desired to tarry with them seven days and so we went toward rome
and from thence when the brethren heard of us they came to meet us as far as appii forum and the three taverns whom when paul saw he thanked god and took courage
and when we came to rome the centurion delivered the prisoners to the captain of the guard but paul was suffered to dwell by himself with a soldier that kept him
and it came to pass that after three days paul called the chief of the jews together and when they were come together he said unto them men and brethren though i have committed nothing against the people or customs of our fathers yet was i delivered prisoner from jerusalem into the hands of the romans
who when they had examined me would have let me go because there was no cause of death in me
but when the jews spake against it i was constrained to appeal unto caesar not that i had ought to accuse my nation of
for this cause therefore have i called for you to see you and to speak with you because that for the hope of israel i am bound with this chain
and they said unto him we neither received letters out of judaea concerning thee neither any of the brethren that came shewed or spake any harm of thee
but we desire to hear of thee what thou thinkest for as concerning this sect we know that every where it is spoken against
and when they had appointed him a day there came many to him into his lodging to whom he expounded and testified the kingdom of god persuading them concerning jesus both out of the law of moses and out of the prophets from morning till evening
and some believed the things which were spoken and some believed not
and when they agreed not among themselves they departed after that paul had spoken one word well spake the holy ghost by esaias the prophet unto our fathers
saying go unto this people and say hearing ye shall hear and shall not understand and seeing ye shall see and not perceive
for the heart of this people is waxed gross and their ears are dull of hearing and their eyes have they closed lest they should see with their eyes and hear with their ears and understand with their heart and should be converted and i should heal them
be it known therefore unto you that the salvation of god is sent unto the gentiles and that they will hear it
and when he had said these words the jews departed and had great reasoning among themselves
and paul dwelt two whole years in his own hired house and received all that came in unto him
preaching the kingdom of god and teaching those things which concern the lord jesus christ with all confidence no man forbidding him
paul a servant of jesus christ called to be an apostle separated unto the gospel of god
which he had promised afore by his prophets in the holy scriptures
concerning his son jesus christ our lord which was made of the seed of david according to the flesh
and declared to be the son of god with power according to the spirit of holiness by the resurrection from the dead
by whom we have received grace and apostleship for obedience to the faith among all nations for his name
among whom are ye also the called of jesus christ
to all that be in rome beloved of god called to be saints grace to you and peace from god our father and the lord jesus christ
first i thank my god through jesus christ for you all that your faith is spoken of throughout the whole world
for god is my witness whom i serve with my spirit in the gospel of his son that without ceasing i make mention of you always in my prayers
making request if by any means now at length i might have a prosperous journey by the will of god to come unto you
for i long to see you that i may impart unto you some spiritual gift to the end ye may be established
that is that i may be comforted together with you by the mutual faith both of you and me
now i would not have you ignorant brethren that oftentimes i purposed to come unto you but was let hitherto that i might have some fruit among you also even as among other gentiles
i am debtor both to the greeks and to the barbarians both to the wise and to the unwise
so as much as in me is i am ready to preach the gospel to you that are at rome also
for i am not ashamed of the gospel of christ for it is the power of god unto salvation to every one that believeth to the jew first and also to the greek
for therein is the righteousness of god revealed from faith to faith as it is written the just shall live by faith
for the wrath of god is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men who hold the truth in unrighteousness
because that which may be known of god is manifest in them for god hath shewed it unto them
for the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen being understood by the things that are made even his eternal power and godhead so that they are without excuse
because that when they knew god they glorified him not as god neither were thankful but became vain in their imaginations and their foolish heart was darkened
professing themselves to be wise they became fools
and changed the glory of the uncorruptible god into an image made like to corruptible man and to birds and fourfooted beasts and creeping things
wherefore god also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts to dishonour their own bodies between themselves
who changed the truth of god into a lie and worshipped and served the creature more than the creator who is blessed for ever amen
for this cause god gave them up unto vile affections for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature
and likewise also the men leaving the natural use of the woman burned in their lust one toward another men with men working that which is unseemly and receiving in themselves that recompence of their error which was meet
and even as they did not like to retain god in their knowledge god gave them over to a reprobate mind to do those things which are not convenient
being filled with all unrighteousness fornication wickedness covetousness maliciousness full of envy murder debate deceit malignity whisperers
backbiters haters of god despiteful proud boasters inventors of evil things disobedient to parents
without understanding covenantbreakers without natural affection implacable unmerciful
who knowing the judgment of god that they which commit such things are worthy of death not only do the same but have pleasure in them that do them
therefore thou art inexcusable o man whosoever thou art that judgest for wherein thou judgest another thou condemnest thyself for thou that judgest doest the same things
but we are sure that the judgment of god is according to truth against them which commit such things
and thinkest thou this o man that judgest them which do such things and doest the same that thou shalt escape the judgment of god
or despisest thou the riches of his goodness and forbearance and longsuffering not knowing that the goodness of god leadeth thee to repentance
but after thy hardness and impenitent heart treasurest up unto thyself wrath against the day of wrath and revelation of the righteous judgment of god
who will render to every man according to his deeds
to them who by patient continuance in well doing seek for glory and honour and immortality eternal life
but unto them that are contentious and do not obey the truth but obey unrighteousness indignation and wrath
tribulation and anguish upon every soul of man that doeth evil of the jew first and also of the gentile
but glory honour and peace to every man that worketh good to the jew first and also to the gentile
for there is no respect of persons with god
for as many as have sinned without law shall also perish without law and as many as have sinned in the law shall be judged by the law
for not the hearers of the law are just before god but the doers of the law shall be justified
for when the gentiles which have not the law do by nature the things contained in the law these having not the law are a law unto themselves
which shew the work of the law written in their hearts their conscience also bearing witness and their thoughts the mean while accusing or else excusing one another
in the day when god shall judge the secrets of men by jesus christ according to my gospel
behold thou art called a jew and restest in the law and makest thy boast of god
and knowest his will and approvest the things that are more excellent being instructed out of the law
and art confident that thou thyself art a guide of the blind a light of them which are in darkness
an instructor of the foolish a teacher of babes which hast the form of knowledge and of the truth in the law
thou therefore which teachest another teachest thou not thyself thou that preachest a man should not steal dost thou steal
thou that sayest a man should not commit adultery dost thou commit adultery thou that abhorrest idols dost thou commit sacrilege
thou that makest thy boast of the law through breaking the law dishonourest thou god
for the name of god is blasphemed among the gentiles through you as it is written
for circumcision verily profiteth if thou keep the law but if thou be a breaker of the law thy circumcision is made uncircumcision
therefore if the uncircumcision keep the righteousness of the law shall not his uncircumcision be counted for circumcision
and shall not uncircumcision which is by nature if it fulfil the law judge thee who by the letter and circumcision dost transgress the law
for he is not a jew which is one outwardly neither is that circumcision which is outward in the flesh
but he is a jew which is one inwardly and circumcision is that of the heart in the spirit and not in the letter whose praise is not of men but of god
what advantage then hath the jew or what profit is there of circumcision
much every way chiefly because that unto them were committed the oracles of god
for what if some did not believe shall their unbelief make the faith of god without effect
god forbid yea let god be true but every man a liar as it is written that thou mightest be justified in thy sayings and mightest overcome when thou art judged
but if our unrighteousness commend the righteousness of god what shall we say is god unrighteous who taketh vengeance i speak as a man
god forbid for then how shall god judge the world
for if the truth of god hath more abounded through my lie unto his glory why yet am i also judged as a sinner
and not rather as we be slanderously reported and as some affirm that we say let us do evil that good may come whose damnation is just
what then are we better than they no in no wise for we have before proved both jews and gentiles that they are all under sin
as it is written there is none righteous no not one
there is none that understandeth there is none that seeketh after god
they are all gone out of the way they are together become unprofitable there is none that doeth good no not one
their throat is an open sepulchre with their tongues they have used deceit the poison of asps is under their lips
whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness
their feet are swift to shed blood
destruction and misery are in their ways
and the way of peace have they not known
there is no fear of god before their eyes
now we know that what things soever the law saith it saith to them who are under the law that every mouth may be stopped and all the world may become guilty before god
therefore by the deeds of the law there shall no flesh be justified in his sight for by the law is the knowledge of sin
but now the righteousness of god without the law is manifested being witnessed by the law and the prophets
even the righteousness of god which is by faith of jesus christ unto all and upon all them that believe for there is no difference
for all have sinned and come short of the glory of god
being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in christ jesus
whom god hath set forth to be a propitiation through faith in his blood to declare his righteousness for the remission of sins that are past through the forbearance of god
to declare i say at this time his righteousness that he might be just and the justifier of him which believeth in jesus
where is boasting then it is excluded by what law of works nay but by the law of faith
therefore we conclude that a man is justified by faith without the deeds of the law
is he the god of the jews only is he not also of the gentiles yes of the gentiles also
seeing it is one god which shall justify the circumcision by faith and uncircumcision through faith
do we then make void the law through faith god forbid yea we establish the law
what shall we say then that abraham our father as pertaining to the flesh hath found
for if abraham were justified by works he hath whereof to glory but not before god
for what saith the scripture abraham believed god and it was counted unto him for righteousness
now to him that worketh is the reward not reckoned of grace but of debt
but to him that worketh not but believeth on him that justifieth the ungodly his faith is counted for righteousness
even as david also describeth the blessedness of the man unto whom god imputeth righteousness without works
saying blessed are they whose iniquities are forgiven and whose sins are covered
blessed is the man to whom the lord will not impute sin
cometh this blessedness then upon the circumcision only or upon the uncircumcision also for we say that faith was reckoned to abraham for righteousness
how was it then reckoned when he was in circumcision or in uncircumcision not in circumcision but in uncircumcision
and he received the sign of circumcision a seal of the righteousness of the faith which he had yet being uncircumcised that he might be the father of all them that believe though they be not circumcised that righteousness might be imputed unto them also
and the father of circumcision to them who are not of the circumcision only but who also walk in the steps of that faith of our father abraham which he had being yet uncircumcised
for the promise that he should be the heir of the world was not to abraham or to his seed through the law but through the righteousness of faith
for if they which are of the law be heirs faith is made void and the promise made of none effect
because the law worketh wrath for where no law is there is no transgression
therefore it is of faith that it might be by grace to the end the promise might be sure to all the seed not to that only which is of the law but to that also which is of the faith of abraham who is the father of us all
as it is written i have made thee a father of many nations before him whom he believed even god who quickeneth the dead and calleth those things which be not as though they were
who against hope believed in hope that he might become the father of many nations according to that which was spoken so shall thy seed be
and being not weak in faith he considered not his own body now dead when he was about an hundred years old neither yet the deadness of sarah's womb
he staggered not at the promise of god through unbelief but was strong in faith giving glory to god
and being fully persuaded that what he had promised he was able also to perform
and therefore it was imputed to him for righteousness
now it was not written for his sake alone that it was imputed to him
but for us also to whom it shall be imputed if we believe on him that raised up jesus our lord from the dead
who was delivered for our offences and was raised again for our justification
therefore being justified by faith we have peace with god through our lord jesus christ
by whom also we have access by faith into this grace wherein we stand and rejoice in hope of the glory of god
and not only so but we glory in tribulations also knowing that tribulation worketh patience
and patience experience and experience hope
and hope maketh not ashamed because the love of god is shed abroad in our hearts by the holy ghost which is given unto us
for when we were yet without strength in due time christ died for the ungodly
for scarcely for a righteous man will one die yet peradventure for a good man some would even dare to die
but god commendeth his love toward us in that while we were yet sinners christ died for us
much more then being now justified by his blood we shall be saved from wrath through him
for if when we were enemies we were reconciled to god by the death of his son much more being reconciled we shall be saved by his life
and not only so but we also joy in god through our lord jesus christ by whom we have now received the atonement
wherefore as by one man sin entered into the world and death by sin and so death passed upon all men for that all have sinned
for until the law sin was in the world but sin is not imputed when there is no law
nevertheless death reigned from adam to moses even over them that had not sinned after the similitude of adam's transgression who is the figure of him that was to come
but not as the offence so also is the free gift for if through the offence of one many be dead much more the grace of god and the gift by grace which is by one man jesus christ hath abounded unto many
and not as it was by one that sinned so is the gift for the judgment was by one to condemnation but the free gift is of many offences unto justification
for if by one man's offence death reigned by one much more they which receive abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness shall reign in life by one jesus christ
therefore as by the offence of one judgment came upon all men to condemnation even so by the righteousness of one the free gift came upon all men unto justification of life
for as by one man's disobedience many were made sinners so by the obedience of one shall many be made righteous
moreover the law entered that the offence might abound but where sin abounded grace did much more abound
that as sin hath reigned unto death even so might grace reign through righteousness unto eternal life by jesus christ our lord
what shall we say then shall we continue in sin that grace may abound
god forbid how shall we that are dead to sin live any longer therein
know ye not that so many of us as were baptized into jesus christ were baptized into his death
therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death that like as christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the father even so we also should walk in newness of life
for if we have been planted together in the likeness of his death we shall be also in the likeness of his resurrection
knowing this that our old man is crucified with him that the body of sin might be destroyed that henceforth we should not serve sin
for he that is dead is freed from sin
now if we be dead with christ we believe that we shall also live with him
knowing that christ being raised from the dead dieth no more death hath no more dominion over him
for in that he died he died unto sin once but in that he liveth he liveth unto god
likewise reckon ye also yourselves to be dead indeed unto sin but alive unto god through jesus christ our lord
let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body that ye should obey it in the lusts thereof
neither yield ye your members as instruments of unrighteousness unto sin but yield yourselves unto god as those that are alive from the dead and your members as instruments of righteousness unto god
for sin shall not have dominion over you for ye are not under the law but under grace
what then shall we sin because we are not under the law but under grace god forbid
know ye not that to whom ye yield yourselves servants to obey his servants ye are to whom ye obey whether of sin unto death or of obedience unto righteousness
but god be thanked that ye were the servants of sin but ye have obeyed from the heart that form of doctrine which was delivered you
being then made free from sin ye became the servants of righteousness
i speak after the manner of men because of the infirmity of your flesh for as ye have yielded your members servants to uncleanness and to iniquity unto iniquity even so now yield your members servants to righteousness unto holiness
for when ye were the servants of sin ye were free from righteousness
what fruit had ye then in those things whereof ye are now ashamed for the end of those things is death
but now being made free from sin and become servants to god ye have your fruit unto holiness and the end everlasting life
for the wages of sin is death but the gift of god is eternal life through jesus christ our lord
know ye not brethren for i speak to them that know the law how that the law hath dominion over a man as long as he liveth
for the woman which hath an husband is bound by the law to her husband so long as he liveth but if the husband be dead she is loosed from the law of her husband
so then if while her husband liveth she be married to another man she shall be called an adulteress but if her husband be dead she is free from that law so that she is no adulteress though she be married to another man
wherefore my brethren ye also are become dead to the law by the body of christ that ye should be married to another even to him who is raised from the dead that we should bring forth fruit unto god
for when we were in the flesh the motions of sins which were by the law did work in our members to bring forth fruit unto death
but now we are delivered from the law that being dead wherein we were held that we should serve in newness of spirit and not in the oldness of the letter
what shall we say then is the law sin god forbid nay i had not known sin but by the law for i had not known lust except the law had said thou shalt not covet
but sin taking occasion by the commandment wrought in me all manner of concupiscence for without the law sin was dead
for i was alive without the law once but when the commandment came sin revived and i died
and the commandment which was ordained to life i found to be unto death
for sin taking occasion by the commandment deceived me and by it slew me
wherefore the law is holy and the commandment holy and just and good
was then that which is good made death unto me god forbid but sin that it might appear sin working death in me by that which is good that sin by the commandment might become exceeding sinful
for we know that the law is spiritual but i am carnal sold under sin
for that which i do i allow not for what i would that do i not but what i hate that do i
if then i do that which i would not i consent unto the law that it is good
now then it is no more i that do it but sin that dwelleth in me
for i know that in me that is in my flesh dwelleth no good thing for to will is present with me but how to perform that which is good i find not
for the good that i would i do not but the evil which i would not that i do
now if i do that i would not it is no more i that do it but sin that dwelleth in me
i find then a law that when i would do good evil is present with me
for i delight in the law of god after the inward man
but i see another law in my members warring against the law of my mind and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members
o wretched man that i am who shall deliver me from the body of this death
i thank god through jesus christ our lord so then with the mind i myself serve the law of god but with the flesh the law of sin
there is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in christ jesus who walk not after the flesh but after the spirit
for the law of the spirit of life in christ jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death
for what the law could not do in that it was weak through the flesh god sending his own son in the likeness of sinful flesh and for sin condemned sin in the flesh
that the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us who walk not after the flesh but after the spirit
for they that are after the flesh do mind the things of the flesh but they that are after the spirit the things of the spirit
for to be carnally minded is death but to be spiritually minded is life and peace
because the carnal mind is enmity against god for it is not subject to the law of god neither indeed can be
so then they that are in the flesh cannot please god
but ye are not in the flesh but in the spirit if so be that the spirit of god dwell in you now if any man have not the spirit of christ he is none of his
and if christ be in you the body is dead because of sin but the spirit is life because of righteousness
but if the spirit of him that raised up jesus from the dead dwell in you he that raised up christ from the dead shall also quicken your mortal bodies by his spirit that dwelleth in you
therefore brethren we are debtors not to the flesh to live after the flesh
for if ye live after the flesh ye shall die but if ye through the spirit do mortify the deeds of the body ye shall live
for as many as are led by the spirit of god they are the sons of god
for ye have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear but ye have received the spirit of adoption whereby we cry abba father
the spirit itself beareth witness with our spirit that we are the children of god
and if children then heirs heirs of god and jointheirs with christ if so be that we suffer with him that we may be also glorified together
for i reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us
for the earnest expectation of the creature waiteth for the manifestation of the sons of god
for the creature was made subject to vanity not willingly but by reason of him who hath subjected the same in hope
because the creature itself also shall be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of god
for we know that the whole creation groaneth and travaileth in pain together until now
and not only they but ourselves also which have the firstfruits of the spirit even we ourselves groan within ourselves waiting for the adoption to wit the redemption of our body
for we are saved by hope but hope that is seen is not hope for what a man seeth why doth he yet hope for
but if we hope for that we see not then do we with patience wait for it
likewise the spirit also helpeth our infirmities for we know not what we should pray for as we ought but the spirit itself maketh intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered
and he that searcheth the hearts knoweth what is the mind of the spirit because he maketh intercession for the saints according to the will of god
and we know that all things work together for good to them that love god to them who are the called according to his purpose
for whom he did foreknow he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his son that he might be the firstborn among many brethren
moreover whom he did predestinate them he also called and whom he called them he also justified and whom he justified them he also glorified
what shall we then say to these things if god be for us who can be against us
he that spared not his own son but delivered him up for us all how shall he not with him also freely give us all things
who shall lay any thing to the charge of god's elect it is god that justifieth
who is he that condemneth it is christ that died yea rather that is risen again who is even at the right hand of god who also maketh intercession for us
who shall separate us from the love of christ shall tribulation or distress or persecution or famine or nakedness or peril or sword
as it is written for thy sake we are killed all the day long we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter
nay in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us
for i am persuaded that neither death nor life nor angels nor principalities nor powers nor things present nor things to come
nor height nor depth nor any other creature shall be able to separate us from the love of god which is in christ jesus our lord
i say the truth in christ i lie not my conscience also bearing me witness in the holy ghost
that i have great heaviness and continual sorrow in my heart
for i could wish that myself were accursed from christ for my brethren my kinsmen according to the flesh
who are israelites to whom pertaineth the adoption and the glory and the covenants and the giving of the law and the service of god and the promises
whose are the fathers and of whom as concerning the flesh christ came who is over all god blessed for ever amen
not as though the word of god hath taken none effect for they are not all israel which are of israel
neither because they are the seed of abraham are they all children but in isaac shall thy seed be called
that is they which are the children of the flesh these are not the children of god but the children of the promise are counted for the seed
for this is the word of promise at this time will i come and sarah shall have a son
and not only this but when rebecca also had conceived by one even by our father isaac
for the children being not yet born neither having done any good or evil that the purpose of god according to election might stand not of works but of him that calleth
it was said unto her the elder shall serve the younger
as it is written jacob have i loved but esau have i hated
what shall we say then is there unrighteousness with god god forbid
for he saith to moses i will have mercy on whom i will have mercy and i will have compassion on whom i will have compassion
so then it is not of him that willeth nor of him that runneth but of god that sheweth mercy
for the scripture saith unto pharaoh even for this same purpose have i raised thee up that i might shew my power in thee and that my name might be declared throughout all the earth
therefore hath he mercy on whom he will have mercy and whom he will he hardeneth
thou wilt say then unto me why doth he yet find fault for who hath resisted his will
nay but o man who art thou that repliest against god shall the thing formed say to him that formed it why hast thou made me thus
hath not the potter power over the clay of the same lump to make one vessel unto honour and another unto dishonour
what if god willing to shew his wrath and to make his power known endured with much longsuffering the vessels of wrath fitted to destruction
and that he might make known the riches of his glory on the vessels of mercy which he had afore prepared unto glory
even us whom he hath called not of the jews only but also of the gentiles
as he saith also in osee i will call them my people which were not my people and her beloved which was not beloved
and it shall come to pass that in the place where it was said unto them ye are not my people there shall they be called the children of the living god
esaias also crieth concerning israel though the number of the children of israel be as the sand of the sea a remnant shall be saved
for he will finish the work and cut it short in righteousness because a short work will the lord make upon the earth
and as esaias said before except the lord of sabaoth had left us a seed we had been as sodoma and been made like unto gomorrha
what shall we say then that the gentiles which followed not after righteousness have attained to righteousness even the righteousness which is of faith
but israel which followed after the law of righteousness hath not attained to the law of righteousness
wherefore because they sought it not by faith but as it were by the works of the law for they stumbled at that stumblingstone
as it is written behold i lay in sion a stumblingstone and rock of offence and whosoever believeth on him shall not be ashamed
brethren my heart's desire and prayer to god for israel is that they might be saved
for i bear them record that they have a zeal of god but not according to knowledge
for they being ignorant of god's righteousness and going about to establish their own righteousness have not submitted themselves unto the righteousness of god
for christ is the end of the law for righteousness to every one that believeth
for moses describeth the righteousness which is of the law that the man which doeth those things shall live by them
but the righteousness which is of faith speaketh on this wise say not in thine heart who shall ascend into heaven that is to bring christ down from above
or who shall descend into the deep that is to bring up christ again from the dead
but what saith it the word is nigh thee even in thy mouth and in thy heart that is the word of faith which we preach
that if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the lord jesus and shalt believe in thine heart that god hath raised him from the dead thou shalt be saved
for with the heart man believeth unto righteousness and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation
for the scripture saith whosoever believeth on him shall not be ashamed
for there is no difference between the jew and the greek for the same lord over all is rich unto all that call upon him
for whosoever shall call upon the name of the lord shall be saved
how then shall they call on him in whom they have not believed and how shall they believe in him of whom they have not heard and how shall they hear without a preacher
and how shall they preach except they be sent as it is written how beautiful are the feet of them that preach the gospel of peace and bring glad tidings of good things
but they have not all obeyed the gospel for esaias saith lord who hath believed our report
so then faith cometh by hearing and hearing by the word of god
but i say have they not heard yes verily their sound went into all the earth and their words unto the ends of the world
but i say did not israel know first moses saith i will provoke you to jealousy by them that are no people and by a foolish nation i will anger you
but esaias is very bold and saith i was found of them that sought me not i was made manifest unto them that asked not after me
but to israel he saith all day long i have stretched forth my hands unto a disobedient and gainsaying people
i say then hath god cast away his people god forbid for i also am an israelite of the seed of abraham of the tribe of benjamin
god hath not cast away his people which he foreknew wot ye not what the scripture saith of elias how he maketh intercession to god against israel saying
lord they have killed thy prophets and digged down thine altars and i am left alone and they seek my life
but what saith the answer of god unto him i have reserved to myself seven thousand men who have not bowed the knee to the image of baal
even so then at this present time also there is a remnant according to the election of grace
and if by grace then is it no more of works otherwise grace is no more grace but if it be of works then is it no more grace otherwise work is no more work
what then israel hath not obtained that which he seeketh for but the election hath obtained it and the rest were blinded
according as it is written god hath given them the spirit of slumber eyes that they should not see and ears that they should not hear unto this day
and david saith let their table be made a snare and a trap and a stumblingblock and a recompence unto them
let their eyes be darkened that they may not see and bow down their back alway
i say then have they stumbled that they should fall god forbid but rather through their fall salvation is come unto the gentiles for to provoke them to jealousy
now if the fall of them be the riches of the world and the diminishing of them the riches of the gentiles how much more their fulness
for i speak to you gentiles inasmuch as i am the apostle of the gentiles i magnify mine office
if by any means i may provoke to emulation them which are my flesh and might save some of them
for if the casting away of them be the reconciling of the world what shall the receiving of them be but life from the dead
for if the firstfruit be holy the lump is also holy and if the root be holy so are the branches
and if some of the branches be broken off and thou being a wild olive tree wert graffed in among them and with them partakest of the root and fatness of the olive tree
boast not against the branches but if thou boast thou bearest not the root but the root thee
thou wilt say then the branches were broken off that i might be graffed in
well because of unbelief they were broken off and thou standest by faith be not highminded but fear
for if god spared not the natural branches take heed lest he also spare not thee
behold therefore the goodness and severity of god on them which fell severity but toward thee goodness if thou continue in his goodness otherwise thou also shalt be cut off
and they also if they abide not still in unbelief shall be graffed in for god is able to graff them in again
for if thou wert cut out of the olive tree which is wild by nature and wert graffed contrary to nature into a good olive tree how much more shall these which be the natural branches be graffed into their own olive tree
for i would not brethren that ye should be ignorant of this mystery lest ye should be wise in your own conceits that blindness in part is happened to israel until the fulness of the gentiles be come in
and so all israel shall be saved as it is written there shall come out of sion the deliverer and shall turn away ungodliness from jacob
for this is my covenant unto them when i shall take away their sins
as concerning the gospel they are enemies for your sakes but as touching the election they are beloved for the fathers sakes
for the gifts and calling of god are without repentance
for as ye in times past have not believed god yet have now obtained mercy through their unbelief
even so have these also now not believed that through your mercy they also may obtain mercy
for god hath concluded them all in unbelief that he might have mercy upon all
o the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of god how unsearchable are his judgments and his ways past finding out
for who hath known the mind of the lord or who hath been his counsellor
or who hath first given to him and it shall be recompensed unto him again
for of him and through him and to him are all things to whom be glory for ever amen
i beseech you therefore brethren by the mercies of god that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice holy acceptable unto god which is your reasonable service
and be not conformed to this world but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind that ye may prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect will of god
for i say through the grace given unto me to every man that is among you not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think but to think soberly according as god hath dealt to every man the measure of faith
for as we have many members in one body and all members have not the same office
so we being many are one body in christ and every one members one of another
having then gifts differing according to the grace that is given to us whether prophecy let us prophesy according to the proportion of faith
or ministry let us wait on our ministering or he that teacheth on teaching
or he that exhorteth on exhortation he that giveth let him do it with simplicity he that ruleth with diligence he that sheweth mercy with cheerfulness
let love be without dissimulation abhor that which is evil cleave to that which is good
be kindly affectioned one to another with brotherly love in honour preferring one another
not slothful in business fervent in spirit serving the lord
rejoicing in hope patient in tribulation continuing instant in prayer
distributing to the necessity of saints given to hospitality
bless them which persecute you bless and curse not
rejoice with them that do rejoice and weep with them that weep
be of the same mind one toward another mind not high things but condescend to men of low estate be not wise in your own conceits
recompense to no man evil for evil provide things honest in the sight of all men
if it be possible as much as lieth in you live peaceably with all men
dearly beloved avenge not yourselves but rather give place unto wrath for it is written vengeance is mine i will repay saith the lord
therefore if thine enemy hunger feed him if he thirst give him drink for in so doing thou shalt heap coals of fire on his head
be not overcome of evil but overcome evil with good
let every soul be subject unto the higher powers for there is no power but of god the powers that be are ordained of god
whosoever therefore resisteth the power resisteth the ordinance of god and they that resist shall receive to themselves damnation
for rulers are not a terror to good works but to the evil wilt thou then not be afraid of the power do that which is good and thou shalt have praise of the same
for he is the minister of god to thee for good but if thou do that which is evil be afraid for he beareth not the sword in vain for he is the minister of god a revenger to execute wrath upon him that doeth evil
wherefore ye must needs be subject not only for wrath but also for conscience sake
for for this cause pay ye tribute also for they are god's ministers attending continually upon this very thing
render therefore to all their dues tribute to whom tribute is due custom to whom custom fear to whom fear honour to whom honour
owe no man any thing but to love one another for he that loveth another hath fulfilled the law
for this thou shalt not commit adultery thou shalt not kill thou shalt not steal thou shalt not bear false witness thou shalt not covet and if there be any other commandment it is briefly comprehended in this saying namely thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself
love worketh no ill to his neighbour therefore love is the fulfilling of the law
and that knowing the time that now it is high time to awake out of sleep for now is our salvation nearer than when we believed
the night is far spent the day is at hand let us therefore cast off the works of darkness and let us put on the armour of light
let us walk honestly as in the day not in rioting and drunkenness not in chambering and wantonness not in strife and envying
but put ye on the lord jesus christ and make not provision for the flesh to fulfil the lusts thereof
him that is weak in the faith receive ye but not to doubtful disputations
for one believeth that he may eat all things another who is weak eateth herbs
let not him that eateth despise him that eateth not and let not him which eateth not judge him that eateth for god hath received him
who art thou that judgest another man's servant to his own master he standeth or falleth yea he shall be holden up for god is able to make him stand
one man esteemeth one day above another another esteemeth every day alike let every man be fully persuaded in his own mind
he that regardeth the day regardeth it unto the lord and he that regardeth not the day to the lord he doth not regard it he that eateth eateth to the lord for he giveth god thanks and he that eateth not to the lord he eateth not and giveth god thanks
for none of us liveth to himself and no man dieth to himself
for whether we live we live unto the lord and whether we die we die unto the lord whether we live therefore or die we are the lord's
for to this end christ both died and rose and revived that he might be lord both of the dead and living
but why dost thou judge thy brother or why dost thou set at nought thy brother for we shall all stand before the judgment seat of christ
for it is written as i live saith the lord every knee shall bow to me and every tongue shall confess to god
so then every one of us shall give account of himself to god
let us not therefore judge one another any more but judge this rather that no man put a stumblingblock or an occasion to fall in his brother's way
i know and am persuaded by the lord jesus that there is nothing unclean of itself but to him that esteemeth any thing to be unclean to him it is unclean
but if thy brother be grieved with thy meat now walkest thou not charitably destroy not him with thy meat for whom christ died
let not then your good be evil spoken of
for the kingdom of god is not meat and drink but righteousness and peace and joy in the holy ghost
for he that in these things serveth christ is acceptable to god and approved of men
let us therefore follow after the things which make for peace and things wherewith one may edify another
for meat destroy not the work of god all things indeed are pure but it is evil for that man who eateth with offence
it is good neither to eat flesh nor to drink wine nor any thing whereby thy brother stumbleth or is offended or is made weak
hast thou faith have it to thyself before god happy is he that condemneth not himself in that thing which he alloweth
and he that doubteth is damned if he eat because he eateth not of faith for whatsoever is not of faith is sin
we then that are strong ought to bear the infirmities of the weak and not to please ourselves
let every one of us please his neighbour for his good to edification
for even christ pleased not himself but as it is written the reproaches of them that reproached thee fell on me
for whatsoever things were written aforetime were written for our learning that we through patience and comfort of the scriptures might have hope
now the god of patience and consolation grant you to be likeminded one toward another according to christ jesus
that ye may with one mind and one mouth glorify god even the father of our lord jesus christ
wherefore receive ye one another as christ also received us to the glory of god
now i say that jesus christ was a minister of the circumcision for the truth of god to confirm the promises made unto the fathers
and that the gentiles might glorify god for his mercy as it is written for this cause i will confess to thee among the gentiles and sing unto thy name
and again he saith rejoice ye gentiles with his people
and again praise the lord all ye gentiles and laud him all ye people
and again esaias saith there shall be a root of jesse and he that shall rise to reign over the gentiles in him shall the gentiles trust
now the god of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing that ye may abound in hope through the power of the holy ghost
and i myself also am persuaded of you my brethren that ye also are full of goodness filled with all knowledge able also to admonish one another
nevertheless brethren i have written the more boldly unto you in some sort as putting you in mind because of the grace that is given to me of god
that i should be the minister of jesus christ to the gentiles ministering the gospel of god that the offering up of the gentiles might be acceptable being sanctified by the holy ghost
i have therefore whereof i may glory through jesus christ in those things which pertain to god
for i will not dare to speak of any of those things which christ hath not wrought by me to make the gentiles obedient by word and deed
through mighty signs and wonders by the power of the spirit of god so that from jerusalem and round about unto illyricum i have fully preached the gospel of christ
yea so have i strived to preach the gospel not where christ was named lest i should build upon another man's foundation
but as it is written to whom he was not spoken of they shall see and they that have not heard shall understand
for which cause also i have been much hindered from coming to you
but now having no more place in these parts and having a great desire these many years to come unto you
whensoever i take my journey into spain i will come to you for i trust to see you in my journey and to be brought on my way thitherward by you if first i be somewhat filled with your company
but now i go unto jerusalem to minister unto the saints
for it hath pleased them of macedonia and achaia to make a certain contribution for the poor saints which are at jerusalem
it hath pleased them verily and their debtors they are for if the gentiles have been made partakers of their spiritual things their duty is also to minister unto them in carnal things
when therefore i have performed this and have sealed to them this fruit i will come by you into spain
and i am sure that when i come unto you i shall come in the fulness of the blessing of the gospel of christ
now i beseech you brethren for the lord jesus christ's sake and for the love of the spirit that ye strive together with me in your prayers to god for me
that i may be delivered from them that do not believe in judaea and that my service which i have for jerusalem may be accepted of the saints
that i may come unto you with joy by the will of god and may with you be refreshed
now the god of peace be with you all amen
i commend unto you phebe our sister which is a servant of the church which is at cenchrea
that ye receive her in the lord as becometh saints and that ye assist her in whatsoever business she hath need of you for she hath been a succourer of many and of myself also
greet priscilla and aquila my helpers in christ jesus
who have for my life laid down their own necks unto whom not only i give thanks but also all the churches of the gentiles
likewise greet the church that is in their house salute my wellbeloved epaenetus who is the firstfruits of achaia unto christ
greet mary who bestowed much labour on us
salute andronicus and junia my kinsmen and my fellowprisoners who are of note among the apostles who also were in christ before me
greet amplias my beloved in the lord
salute urbane our helper in christ and stachys my beloved
salute apelles approved in christ salute them which are of aristobulus household
salute herodion my kinsman greet them that be of the household of narcissus which are in the lord
salute tryphena and tryphosa who labour in the lord salute the beloved persis which laboured much in the lord
salute rufus chosen in the lord and his mother and mine
salute asyncritus phlegon hermas patrobas hermes and the brethren which are with them
salute philologus and julia nereus and his sister and olympas and all the saints which are with them
salute one another with an holy kiss the churches of christ salute you
now i beseech you brethren mark them which cause divisions and offences contrary to the doctrine which ye have learned and avoid them
for they that are such serve not our lord jesus christ but their own belly and by good words and fair speeches deceive the hearts of the simple
for your obedience is come abroad unto all men i am glad therefore on your behalf but yet i would have you wise unto that which is good and simple concerning evil
and the god of peace shall bruise satan under your feet shortly the grace of our lord jesus christ be with you amen
timotheus my workfellow and lucius and jason and sosipater my kinsmen salute you
i tertius who wrote this epistle salute you in the lord
gaius mine host and of the whole church saluteth you erastus the chamberlain of the city saluteth you and quartus a brother
the grace of our lord jesus christ be with you all amen
now to him that is of power to stablish you according to my gospel and the preaching of jesus christ according to the revelation of the mystery which was kept secret since the world began
but now is made manifest and by the scriptures of the prophets according to the commandment of the everlasting god made known to all nations for the obedience of faith
to god only wise be glory through jesus christ for ever amen
1cor11 paul called to be an apostle of jesus christ through the will of god and sosthenes our brother
1cor12 unto the church of god which is at corinth to them that are sanctified in christ jesus called to be saints with all that in every place call upon the name of jesus christ our lord both theirs and ours
1cor13 grace be unto you and peace from god our father and from the lord jesus christ
1cor14 i thank my god always on your behalf for the grace of god which is given you by jesus christ
1cor15 that in every thing ye are enriched by him in all utterance and in all knowledge
1cor16 even as the testimony of christ was confirmed in you
1cor17 so that ye come behind in no gift waiting for the coming of our lord jesus christ
1cor18 who shall also confirm you unto the end that ye may be blameless in the day of our lord jesus christ
1cor19 god is faithful by whom ye were called unto the fellowship of his son jesus christ our lord
1cor110 now i beseech you brethren by the name of our lord jesus christ that ye all speak the same thing and that there be no divisions among you but that ye be perfectly joined together in the same mind and in the same judgment
1cor111 for it hath been declared unto me of you my brethren by them which are of the house of chloe that there are contentions among you
1cor112 now this i say that every one of you saith i am of paul and i of apollos and i of cephas and i of christ
1cor113 is christ divided was paul crucified for you or were ye baptized in the name of paul
1cor114 i thank god that i baptized none of you but crispus and gaius
1cor115 lest any should say that i had baptized in mine own name
1cor116 and i baptized also the household of stephanas besides i know not whether i baptized any other
1cor117 for christ sent me not to baptize but to preach the gospel not with wisdom of words lest the cross of christ should be made of none effect
1cor118 for the preaching of the cross is to them that perish foolishness but unto us which are saved it is the power of god
1cor119 for it is written i will destroy the wisdom of the wise and will bring to nothing the understanding of the prudent
1cor120 where is the wise where is the scribe where is the disputer of this world hath not god made foolish the wisdom of this world
1cor121 for after that in the wisdom of god the world by wisdom knew not god it pleased god by the foolishness of preaching to save them that believe
1cor122 for the jews require a sign and the greeks seek after wisdom
1cor123 but we preach christ crucified unto the jews a stumblingblock and unto the greeks foolishness
1cor124 but unto them which are called both jews and greeks christ the power of god and the wisdom of god
1cor125 because the foolishness of god is wiser than men and the weakness of god is stronger than men
1cor126 for ye see your calling brethren how that not many wise men after the flesh not many mighty not many noble are called
1cor127 but god hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise and god hath chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty
1cor128 and base things of the world and things which are despised hath god chosen yea and things which are not to bring to nought things that are
1cor129 that no flesh should glory in his presence
1cor130 but of him are ye in christ jesus who of god is made unto us wisdom and righteousness and sanctification and redemption
1cor131 that according as it is written he that glorieth let him glory in the lord
1cor21 and i brethren when i came to you came not with excellency of speech or of wisdom declaring unto you the testimony of god
1cor22 for i determined not to know any thing among you save jesus christ and him crucified
1cor23 and i was with you in weakness and in fear and in much trembling
1cor24 and my speech and my preaching was not with enticing words of man's wisdom but in demonstration of the spirit and of power
1cor25 that your faith should not stand in the wisdom of men but in the power of god
1cor26 howbeit we speak wisdom among them that are perfect yet not the wisdom of this world nor of the princes of this world that come to nought
1cor27 but we speak the wisdom of god in a mystery even the hidden wisdom which god ordained before the world unto our glory
1cor28 which none of the princes of this world knew for had they known it they would not have crucified the lord of glory
1cor29 but as it is written eye hath not seen nor ear heard neither have entered into the heart of man the things which god hath prepared for them that love him
1cor210 but god hath revealed them unto us by his spirit for the spirit searcheth all things yea the deep things of god
1cor211 for what man knoweth the things of a man save the spirit of man which is in him even so the things of god knoweth no man but the spirit of god
1cor212 now we have received not the spirit of the world but the spirit which is of god that we might know the things that are freely given to us of god
1cor213 which things also we speak not in the words which man's wisdom teacheth but which the holy ghost teacheth comparing spiritual things with spiritual
1cor214 but the natural man receiveth not the things of the spirit of god for they are foolishness unto him neither can he know them because they are spiritually discerned
1cor215 but he that is spiritual judgeth all things yet he himself is judged of no man
1cor216 for who hath known the mind of the lord that he may instruct him but we have the mind of christ
1cor31 and i brethren could not speak unto you as unto spiritual but as unto carnal even as unto babes in christ
1cor32 i have fed you with milk and not with meat for hitherto ye were not able to bear it neither yet now are ye able
1cor33 for ye are yet carnal for whereas there is among you envying and strife and divisions are ye not carnal and walk as men
1cor34 for while one saith i am of paul and another i am of apollos are ye not carnal
1cor35 who then is paul and who is apollos but ministers by whom ye believed even as the lord gave to every man
1cor36 i have planted apollos watered but god gave the increase
1cor37 so then neither is he that planteth any thing neither he that watereth but god that giveth the increase
1cor38 now he that planteth and he that watereth are one and every man shall receive his own reward according to his own labour
1cor39 for we are labourers together with god ye are god's husbandry ye are god's building
1cor310 according to the grace of god which is given unto me as a wise masterbuilder i have laid the foundation and another buildeth thereon but let every man take heed how he buildeth thereupon
1cor311 for other foundation can no man lay than that is laid which is jesus christ
1cor312 now if any man build upon this foundation gold silver precious stones wood hay stubble
1cor313 every man's work shall be made manifest for the day shall declare it because it shall be revealed by fire and the fire shall try every man's work of what sort it is
1cor314 if any man's work abide which he hath built thereupon he shall receive a reward
1cor315 if any man's work shall be burned he shall suffer loss but he himself shall be saved yet so as by fire
1cor316 know ye not that ye are the temple of god and that the spirit of god dwelleth in you
1cor317 if any man defile the temple of god him shall god destroy for the temple of god is holy which temple ye are
1cor318 let no man deceive himself if any man among you seemeth to be wise in this world let him become a fool that he may be wise
1cor319 for the wisdom of this world is foolishness with god for it is written he taketh the wise in their own craftiness
1cor320 and again the lord knoweth the thoughts of the wise that they are vain
1cor321 therefore let no man glory in men for all things are yours
1cor322 whether paul or apollos or cephas or the world or life or death or things present or things to come all are yours
1cor323 and ye are christ's and christ is god's
1cor41 let a man so account of us as of the ministers of christ and stewards of the mysteries of god
1cor42 moreover it is required in stewards that a man be found faithful
1cor43 but with me it is a very small thing that i should be judged of you or of man's judgment yea i judge not mine own self
1cor44 for i know nothing by myself yet am i not hereby justified but he that judgeth me is the lord
1cor45 therefore judge nothing before the time until the lord come who both will bring to light the hidden things of darkness and will make manifest the counsels of the hearts and then shall every man have praise of god
1cor46 and these things brethren i have in a figure transferred to myself and to apollos for your sakes that ye might learn in us not to think of men above that which is written that no one of you be puffed up for one against another
1cor47 for who maketh thee to differ from another and what hast thou that thou didst not receive now if thou didst receive it why dost thou glory as if thou hadst not received it
1cor48 now ye are full now ye are rich ye have reigned as kings without us and i would to god ye did reign that we also might reign with you
1cor49 for i think that god hath set forth us the apostles last as it were appointed to death for we are made a spectacle unto the world and to angels and to men
1cor410 we are fools for christ's sake but ye are wise in christ we are weak but ye are strong ye are honourable but we are despised
1cor411 even unto this present hour we both hunger and thirst and are naked and are buffeted and have no certain dwellingplace
1cor412 and labour working with our own hands being reviled we bless being persecuted we suffer it
1cor413 being defamed we intreat we are made as the filth of the world and are the offscouring of all things unto this day
1cor414 i write not these things to shame you but as my beloved sons i warn you
1cor415 for though ye have ten thousand instructors in christ yet have ye not many fathers for in christ jesus i have begotten you through the gospel
1cor416 wherefore i beseech you be ye followers of me
1cor417 for this cause have i sent unto you timotheus who is my beloved son and faithful in the lord who shall bring you into remembrance of my ways which be in christ as i teach every where in every church
1cor418 now some are puffed up as though i would not come to you
1cor419 but i will come to you shortly if the lord will and will know not the speech of them which are puffed up but the power
1cor420 for the kingdom of god is not in word but in power
1cor421 what will ye shall i come unto you with a rod or in love and in the spirit of meekness
1cor51 it is reported commonly that there is fornication among you and such fornication as is not so much as named among the gentiles that one should have his father's wife
1cor52 and ye are puffed up and have not rather mourned that he that hath done this deed might be taken away from among you
1cor53 for i verily as absent in body but present in spirit have judged already as though i were present concerning him that hath so done this deed
1cor54 in the name of our lord jesus christ when ye are gathered together and my spirit with the power of our lord jesus christ
1cor55 to deliver such an one unto satan for the destruction of the flesh that the spirit may be saved in the day of the lord jesus
1cor56 your glorying is not good know ye not that a little leaven leaveneth the whole lump
1cor57 purge out therefore the old leaven that ye may be a new lump as ye are unleavened for even christ our passover is sacrificed for us
1cor58 therefore let us keep the feast not with old leaven neither with the leaven of malice and wickedness but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth
1cor59 i wrote unto you in an epistle not to company with fornicators
1cor510 yet not altogether with the fornicators of this world or with the covetous or extortioners or with idolaters for then must ye needs go out of the world
1cor511 but now i have written unto you not to keep company if any man that is called a brother be a fornicator or covetous or an idolater or a railer or a drunkard or an extortioner with such an one no not to eat
1cor512 for what have i to do to judge them also that are without do not ye judge them that are within
1cor513 but them that are without god judgeth therefore put away from among yourselves that wicked person
1cor61 dare any of you having a matter against another go to law before the unjust and not before the saints
1cor62 do ye not know that the saints shall judge the world and if the world shall be judged by you are ye unworthy to judge the smallest matters
1cor63 know ye not that we shall judge angels how much more things that pertain to this life
1cor64 if then ye have judgments of things pertaining to this life set them to judge who are least esteemed in the church
1cor65 i speak to your shame is it so that there is not a wise man among you no not one that shall be able to judge between his brethren
1cor66 but brother goeth to law with brother and that before the unbelievers
1cor67 now therefore there is utterly a fault among you because ye go to law one with another why do ye not rather take wrong why do ye not rather suffer yourselves to be defrauded
1cor68 nay ye do wrong and defraud and that your brethren
1cor69 know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of god be not deceived neither fornicators nor idolaters nor adulterers nor effeminate nor abusers of themselves with mankind
1cor610 nor thieves nor covetous nor drunkards nor revilers nor extortioners shall inherit the kingdom of god
1cor611 and such were some of you but ye are washed but ye are sanctified but ye are justified in the name of the lord jesus and by the spirit of our god
1cor612 all things are lawful unto me but all things are not expedient all things are lawful for me but i will not be brought under the power of any
1cor613 meats for the belly and the belly for meats but god shall destroy both it and them now the body is not for fornication but for the lord and the lord for the body
1cor614 and god hath both raised up the lord and will also raise up us by his own power
1cor615 know ye not that your bodies are the members of christ shall i then take the members of christ and make them the members of an harlot god forbid
1cor616 what know ye not that he which is joined to an harlot is one body for two saith he shall be one flesh
1cor617 but he that is joined unto the lord is one spirit
1cor618 flee fornication every sin that a man doeth is without the body but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body
1cor619 what know ye not that your body is the temple of the holy ghost which is in you which ye have of god and ye are not your own
1cor620 for ye are bought with a price therefore glorify god in your body and in your spirit which are god's
1cor71 now concerning the things whereof ye wrote unto me it is good for a man not to touch a woman
1cor72 nevertheless to avoid fornication let every man have his own wife and let every woman have her own husband
1cor73 let the husband render unto the wife due benevolence and likewise also the wife unto the husband
1cor74 the wife hath not power of her own body but the husband and likewise also the husband hath not power of his own body but the wife
1cor75 defraud ye not one the other except it be with consent for a time that ye may give yourselves to fasting and prayer and come together again that satan tempt you not for your incontinency
1cor76 but i speak this by permission and not of commandment
1cor77 for i would that all men were even as i myself but every man hath his proper gift of god one after this manner and another after that
1cor78 i say therefore to the unmarried and widows it is good for them if they abide even as i
1cor79 but if they cannot contain let them marry for it is better to marry than to burn
1cor710 and unto the married i command yet not i but the lord let not the wife depart from her husband
1cor711 but and if she depart let her remain unmarried or be reconciled to her husband and let not the husband put away his wife
1cor712 but to the rest speak i not the lord if any brother hath a wife that believeth not and she be pleased to dwell with him let him not put her away
1cor713 and the woman which hath an husband that believeth not and if he be pleased to dwell with her let her not leave him
1cor714 for the unbelieving husband is sanctified by the wife and the unbelieving wife is sanctified by the husband else were your children unclean but now are they holy
1cor715 but if the unbelieving depart let him depart a brother or a sister is not under bondage in such cases but god hath called us to peace
1cor716 for what knowest thou o wife whether thou shalt save thy husband or how knowest thou o man whether thou shalt save thy wife
1cor717 but as god hath distributed to every man as the lord hath called every one so let him walk and so ordain i in all churches
1cor718 is any man called being circumcised let him not become uncircumcised is any called in uncircumcision let him not be circumcised
1cor719 circumcision is nothing and uncircumcision is nothing but the keeping of the commandments of god
1cor720 let every man abide in the same calling wherein he was called
1cor721 art thou called being a servant care not for it but if thou mayest be made free use it rather
1cor722 for he that is called in the lord being a servant is the lord's freeman likewise also he that is called being free is christ's servant
1cor723 ye are bought with a price be not ye the servants of men
1cor724 brethren let every man wherein he is called therein abide with god
1cor725 now concerning virgins i have no commandment of the lord yet i give my judgment as one that hath obtained mercy of the lord to be faithful
1cor726 i suppose therefore that this is good for the present distress i say that it is good for a man so to be
1cor727 art thou bound unto a wife seek not to be loosed art thou loosed from a wife seek not a wife
1cor728 but and if thou marry thou hast not sinned and if a virgin marry she hath not sinned nevertheless such shall have trouble in the flesh but i spare you
1cor729 but this i say brethren the time is short it remaineth that both they that have wives be as though they had none
1cor730 and they that weep as though they wept not and they that rejoice as though they rejoiced not and they that buy as though they possessed not
1cor731 and they that use this world as not abusing it for the fashion of this world passeth away
1cor732 but i would have you without carefulness he that is unmarried careth for the things that belong to the lord how he may please the lord
1cor733 but he that is married careth for the things that are of the world how he may please his wife
1cor734 there is difference also between a wife and a virgin the unmarried woman careth for the things of the lord that she may be holy both in body and in spirit but she that is married careth for the things of the world how she may please her husband
1cor735 and this i speak for your own profit not that i may cast a snare upon you but for that which is comely and that ye may attend upon the lord without distraction
1cor736 but if any man think that he behaveth himself uncomely toward his virgin if she pass the flower of her age and need so require let him do what he will he sinneth not let them marry
1cor737 nevertheless he that standeth stedfast in his heart having no necessity but hath power over his own will and hath so decreed in his heart that he will keep his virgin doeth well
1cor738 so then he that giveth her in marriage doeth well but he that giveth her not in marriage doeth better
1cor739 the wife is bound by the law as long as her husband liveth but if her husband be dead she is at liberty to be married to whom she will only in the lord
1cor740 but she is happier if she so abide after my judgment and i think also that i have the spirit of god
1cor81 now as touching things offered unto idols we know that we all have knowledge knowledge puffeth up but charity edifieth
1cor82 and if any man think that he knoweth any thing he knoweth nothing yet as he ought to know
1cor83 but if any man love god the same is known of him
1cor84 as concerning therefore the eating of those things that are offered in sacrifice unto idols we know that an idol is nothing in the world and that there is none other god but one
1cor85 for though there be that are called gods whether in heaven or in earth as there be gods many and lords many
1cor86 but to us there is but one god the father of whom are all things and we in him and one lord jesus christ by whom are all things and we by him
1cor87 howbeit there is not in every man that knowledge for some with conscience of the idol unto this hour eat it as a thing offered unto an idol and their conscience being weak is defiled
1cor88 but meat commendeth us not to god for neither if we eat are we the better neither if we eat not are we the worse
1cor89 but take heed lest by any means this liberty of yours become a stumblingblock to them that are weak
1cor810 for if any man see thee which hast knowledge sit at meat in the idol's temple shall not the conscience of him which is weak be emboldened to eat those things which are offered to idols
1cor811 and through thy knowledge shall the weak brother perish for whom christ died
1cor812 but when ye sin so against the brethren and wound their weak conscience ye sin against christ
1cor813 wherefore if meat make my brother to offend i will eat no flesh while the world standeth lest i make my brother to offend
1cor91 am i not an apostle am i not free have i not seen jesus christ our lord are not ye my work in the lord
1cor92 if i be not an apostle unto others yet doubtless i am to you for the seal of mine apostleship are ye in the lord
1cor93 mine answer to them that do examine me is this
1cor94 have we not power to eat and to drink
1cor95 have we not power to lead about a sister a wife as well as other apostles and as the brethren of the lord and cephas
1cor96 or i only and barnabas have not we power to forbear working
1cor97 who goeth a warfare any time at his own charges who planteth a vineyard and eateth not of the fruit thereof or who feedeth a flock and eateth not of the milk of the flock
1cor98 say i these things as a man or saith not the law the same also
1cor99 for it is written in the law of moses thou shalt not muzzle the mouth of the ox that treadeth out the corn doth god take care for oxen
1cor910 or saith he it altogether for our sakes for our sakes no doubt this is written that he that ploweth should plow in hope and that he that thresheth in hope should be partaker of his hope
1cor911 if we have sown unto you spiritual things is it a great thing if we shall reap your carnal things
1cor912 if others be partakers of this power over you are not we rather nevertheless we have not used this power but suffer all things lest we should hinder the gospel of christ
1cor913 do ye not know that they which minister about holy things live of the things of the temple and they which wait at the altar are partakers with the altar
1cor914 even so hath the lord ordained that they which preach the gospel should live of the gospel
1cor915 but i have used none of these things neither have i written these things that it should be so done unto me for it were better for me to die than that any man should make my glorying void
1cor916 for though i preach the gospel i have nothing to glory of for necessity is laid upon me yea woe is unto me if i preach not the gospel
1cor917 for if i do this thing willingly i have a reward but if against my will a dispensation of the gospel is committed unto me
1cor918 what is my reward then verily that when i preach the gospel i may make the gospel of christ without charge that i abuse not my power in the gospel
1cor919 for though i be free from all men yet have i made myself servant unto all that i might gain the more
1cor920 and unto the jews i became as a jew that i might gain the jews to them that are under the law as under the law that i might gain them that are under the law
1cor921 to them that are without law as without law being not without law to god but under the law to christ that i might gain them that are without law
1cor922 to the weak became i as weak that i might gain the weak i am made all things to all men that i might by all means save some
1cor923 and this i do for the gospel's sake that i might be partaker thereof with you
1cor924 know ye not that they which run in a race run all but one receiveth the prize so run that ye may obtain
1cor925 and every man that striveth for the mastery is temperate in all things now they do it to obtain a corruptible crown but we an incorruptible
1cor926 i therefore so run not as uncertainly so fight i not as one that beateth the air
1cor927 but i keep under my body and bring it into subjection lest that by any means when i have preached to others i myself should be a castaway
1cor101 moreover brethren i would not that ye should be ignorant how that all our fathers were under the cloud and all passed through the sea
1cor102 and were all baptized unto moses in the cloud and in the sea
1cor103 and did all eat the same spiritual meat
1cor104 and did all drink the same spiritual drink for they drank of that spiritual rock that followed them and that rock was christ
1cor105 but with many of them god was not well pleased for they were overthrown in the wilderness
1cor106 now these things were our examples to the intent we should not lust after evil things as they also lusted
1cor107 neither be ye idolaters as were some of them as it is written the people sat down to eat and drink and rose up to play
1cor108 neither let us commit fornication as some of them committed and fell in one day three and twenty thousand
1cor109 neither let us tempt christ as some of them also tempted and were destroyed of serpents
1cor1010 neither murmur ye as some of them also murmured and were destroyed of the destroyer
1cor1011 now all these things happened unto them for ensamples and they are written for our admonition upon whom the ends of the world are come
1cor1012 wherefore let him that thinketh he standeth take heed lest he fall
1cor1013 there hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man but god is faithful who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able but will with the temptation also make a way to escape that ye may be able to bear it
1cor1014 wherefore my dearly beloved flee from idolatry
1cor1015 i speak as to wise men judge ye what i say
1cor1016 the cup of blessing which we bless is it not the communion of the blood of christ the bread which we break is it not the communion of the body of christ
1cor1017 for we being many are one bread and one body for we are all partakers of that one bread
1cor1018 behold israel after the flesh are not they which eat of the sacrifices partakers of the altar
1cor1019 what say i then that the idol is any thing or that which is offered in sacrifice to idols is any thing
1cor1020 but i say that the things which the gentiles sacrifice they sacrifice to devils and not to god and i would not that ye should have fellowship with devils
1cor1021 ye cannot drink the cup of the lord and the cup of devils ye cannot be partakers of the lord's table and of the table of devils
1cor1022 do we provoke the lord to jealousy are we stronger than he
1cor1023 all things are lawful for me but all things are not expedient all things are lawful for me but all things edify not
1cor1024 let no man seek his own but every man another's wealth
1cor1025 whatsoever is sold in the shambles that eat asking no question for conscience sake
1cor1026 for the earth is the lord's and the fulness thereof
1cor1027 if any of them that believe not bid you to a feast and ye be disposed to go whatsoever is set before you eat asking no question for conscience sake
1cor1028 but if any man say unto you this is offered in sacrifice unto idols eat not for his sake that shewed it and for conscience sake for the earth is the lord's and the fulness thereof
1cor1029 conscience i say not thine own but of the other for why is my liberty judged of another man's conscience
1cor1030 for if i by grace be a partaker why am i evil spoken of for that for which i give thanks
1cor1031 whether therefore ye eat or drink or whatsoever ye do do all to the glory of god
1cor1032 give none offence neither to the jews nor to the gentiles nor to the church of god
1cor1033 even as i please all men in all things not seeking mine own profit but the profit of many that they may be saved
1cor111 be ye followers of me even as i also am of christ
1cor112 now i praise you brethren that ye remember me in all things and keep the ordinances as i delivered them to you
1cor113 but i would have you know that the head of every man is christ and the head of the woman is the man and the head of christ is god
1cor114 every man praying or prophesying having his head covered dishonoureth his head
1cor115 but every woman that prayeth or prophesieth with her head uncovered dishonoureth her head for that is even all one as if she were shaven
1cor116 for if the woman be not covered let her also be shorn but if it be a shame for a woman to be shorn or shaven let her be covered
1cor117 for a man indeed ought not to cover his head forasmuch as he is the image and glory of god but the woman is the glory of the man
1cor118 for the man is not of the woman but the woman of the man
1cor119 neither was the man created for the woman but the woman for the man
1cor1110 for this cause ought the woman to have power on her head because of the angels
1cor1111 nevertheless neither is the man without the woman neither the woman without the man in the lord
1cor1112 for as the woman is of the man even so is the man also by the woman but all things of god
1cor1113 judge in yourselves is it comely that a woman pray unto god uncovered
1cor1114 doth not even nature itself teach you that if a man have long hair it is a shame unto him
1cor1115 but if a woman have long hair it is a glory to her for her hair is given her for a covering
1cor1116 but if any man seem to be contentious we have no such custom neither the churches of god
1cor1117 now in this that i declare unto you i praise you not that ye come together not for the better but for the worse
1cor1118 for first of all when ye come together in the church i hear that there be divisions among you and i partly believe it
1cor1119 for there must be also heresies among you that they which are approved may be made manifest among you
1cor1120 when ye come together therefore into one place this is not to eat the lord's supper
1cor1121 for in eating every one taketh before other his own supper and one is hungry and another is drunken
1cor1122 what have ye not houses to eat and to drink in or despise ye the church of god and shame them that have not what shall i say to you shall i praise you in this i praise you not
1cor1123 for i have received of the lord that which also i delivered unto you that the lord jesus the same night in which he was betrayed took bread
1cor1124 and when he had given thanks he brake it and said take eat this is my body which is broken for you this do in remembrance of me
1cor1125 after the same manner also he took the cup when he had supped saying this cup is the new testament in my blood this do ye as oft as ye drink it in remembrance of me
1cor1126 for as often as ye eat this bread and drink this cup ye do shew the lord's death till he come
1cor1127 wherefore whosoever shall eat this bread and drink this cup of the lord unworthily shall be guilty of the body and blood of the lord
1cor1128 but let a man examine himself and so let him eat of that bread and drink of that cup
1cor1129 for he that eateth and drinketh unworthily eateth and drinketh damnation to himself not discerning the lord's body
1cor1130 for this cause many are weak and sickly among you and many sleep
1cor1131 for if we would judge ourselves we should not be judged
1cor1132 but when we are judged we are chastened of the lord that we should not be condemned with the world
1cor1133 wherefore my brethren when ye come together to eat tarry one for another
1cor1134 and if any man hunger let him eat at home that ye come not together unto condemnation and the rest will i set in order when i come
1cor121 now concerning spiritual gifts brethren i would not have you ignorant
1cor122 ye know that ye were gentiles carried away unto these dumb idols even as ye were led
1cor123 wherefore i give you to understand that no man speaking by the spirit of god calleth jesus accursed and that no man can say that jesus is the lord but by the holy ghost
1cor124 now there are diversities of gifts but the same spirit
1cor125 and there are differences of administrations but the same lord
1cor126 and there are diversities of operations but it is the same god which worketh all in all
1cor127 but the manifestation of the spirit is given to every man to profit withal
1cor128 for to one is given by the spirit the word of wisdom to another the word of knowledge by the same spirit
1cor129 to another faith by the same spirit to another the gifts of healing by the same spirit
1cor1210 to another the working of miracles to another prophecy to another discerning of spirits to another divers kinds of tongues to another the interpretation of tongues
1cor1211 but all these worketh that one and the selfsame spirit dividing to every man severally as he will
1cor1212 for as the body is one and hath many members and all the members of that one body being many are one body so also is christ
1cor1213 for by one spirit are we all baptized into one body whether we be jews or gentiles whether we be bond or free and have been all made to drink into one spirit
1cor1214 for the body is not one member but many
1cor1215 if the foot shall say because i am not the hand i am not of the body is it therefore not of the body
1cor1216 and if the ear shall say because i am not the eye i am not of the body is it therefore not of the body
1cor1217 if the whole body were an eye where were the hearing if the whole were hearing where were the smelling
1cor1218 but now hath god set the members every one of them in the body as it hath pleased him
1cor1219 and if they were all one member where were the body
1cor1220 but now are they many members yet but one body
1cor1221 and the eye cannot say unto the hand i have no need of thee nor again the head to the feet i have no need of you
1cor1222 nay much more those members of the body which seem to be more feeble are necessary
1cor1223 and those members of the body which we think to be less honourable upon these we bestow more abundant honour and our uncomely parts have more abundant comeliness
1cor1224 for our comely parts have no need but god hath tempered the body together having given more abundant honour to that part which lacked
1cor1225 that there should be no schism in the body but that the members should have the same care one for another
1cor1226 and whether one member suffer all the members suffer with it or one member be honoured all the members rejoice with it
1cor1227 now ye are the body of christ and members in particular
1cor1228 and god hath set some in the church first apostles secondarily prophets thirdly teachers after that miracles then gifts of healings helps governments diversities of tongues
1cor1229 are all apostles are all prophets are all teachers are all workers of miracles
1cor1230 have all the gifts of healing do all speak with tongues do all interpret
1cor1231 but covet earnestly the best gifts and yet shew i unto you a more excellent way
1cor131 though i speak with the tongues of men and of angels and have not charity i am become as sounding brass or a tinkling cymbal
1cor132 and though i have the gift of prophecy and understand all mysteries and all knowledge and though i have all faith so that i could remove mountains and have not charity i am nothing
1cor133 and though i bestow all my goods to feed the poor and though i give my body to be burned and have not charity it profiteth me nothing
1cor134 charity suffereth long and is kind charity envieth not charity vaunteth not itself is not puffed up
1cor135 doth not behave itself unseemly seeketh not her own is not easily provoked thinketh no evil
1cor136 rejoiceth not in iniquity but rejoiceth in the truth
1cor137 beareth all things believeth all things hopeth all things endureth all things
1cor138 charity never faileth but whether there be prophecies they shall fail whether there be tongues they shall cease whether there be knowledge it shall vanish away
1cor139 for we know in part and we prophesy in part
1cor1310 but when that which is perfect is come then that which is in part shall be done away
1cor1311 when i was a child i spake as a child i understood as a child i thought as a child but when i became a man i put away childish things
1cor1312 for now we see through a glass darkly but then face to face now i know in part but then shall i know even as also i am known
1cor1313 and now abideth faith hope charity these three but the greatest of these is charity
1cor141 follow after charity and desire spiritual gifts but rather that ye may prophesy
1cor142 for he that speaketh in an unknown tongue speaketh not unto men but unto god for no man understandeth him howbeit in the spirit he speaketh mysteries
1cor143 but he that prophesieth speaketh unto men to edification and exhortation and comfort
1cor144 he that speaketh in an unknown tongue edifieth himself but he that prophesieth edifieth the church
1cor145 i would that ye all spake with tongues but rather that ye prophesied for greater is he that prophesieth than he that speaketh with tongues except he interpret that the church may receive edifying
1cor146 now brethren if i come unto you speaking with tongues what shall i profit you except i shall speak to you either by revelation or by knowledge or by prophesying or by doctrine
1cor147 and even things without life giving sound whether pipe or harp except they give a distinction in the sounds how shall it be known what is piped or harped
1cor148 for if the trumpet give an uncertain sound who shall prepare himself to the battle
1cor149 so likewise ye except ye utter by the tongue words easy to be understood how shall it be known what is spoken for ye shall speak into the air
1cor1410 there are it may be so many kinds of voices in the world and none of them is without signification
1cor1411 therefore if i know not the meaning of the voice i shall be unto him that speaketh a barbarian and he that speaketh shall be a barbarian unto me
1cor1412 even so ye forasmuch as ye are zealous of spiritual gifts seek that ye may excel to the edifying of the church
1cor1413 wherefore let him that speaketh in an unknown tongue pray that he may interpret
1cor1414 for if i pray in an unknown tongue my spirit prayeth but my understanding is unfruitful
1cor1415 what is it then i will pray with the spirit and i will pray with the understanding also i will sing with the spirit and i will sing with the understanding also
1cor1416 else when thou shalt bless with the spirit how shall he that occupieth the room of the unlearned say amen at thy giving of thanks seeing he understandeth not what thou sayest
1cor1417 for thou verily givest thanks well but the other is not edified
1cor1418 i thank my god i speak with tongues more than ye all
1cor1419 yet in the church i had rather speak five words with my understanding that by my voice i might teach others also than ten thousand words in an unknown tongue
1cor1420 brethren be not children in understanding howbeit in malice be ye children but in understanding be men
1cor1421 in the law it is written with men of other tongues and other lips will i speak unto this people and yet for all that will they not hear me saith the lord
1cor1422 wherefore tongues are for a sign not to them that believe but to them that believe not but prophesying serveth not for them that believe not but for them which believe
1cor1423 if therefore the whole church be come together into one place and all speak with tongues and there come in those that are unlearned or unbelievers will they not say that ye are mad
1cor1424 but if all prophesy and there come in one that believeth not or one unlearned he is convinced of all he is judged of all
1cor1425 and thus are the secrets of his heart made manifest and so falling down on his face he will worship god and report that god is in you of a truth
1cor1426 how is it then brethren when ye come together every one of you hath a psalm hath a doctrine hath a tongue hath a revelation hath an interpretation let all things be done unto edifying
1cor1427 if any man speak in an unknown tongue let it be by two or at the most by three and that by course and let one interpret
1cor1428 but if there be no interpreter let him keep silence in the church and let him speak to himself and to god
1cor1429 let the prophets speak two or three and let the other judge
1cor1430 if any thing be revealed to another that sitteth by let the first hold his peace
1cor1431 for ye may all prophesy one by one that all may learn and all may be comforted
1cor1432 and the spirits of the prophets are subject to the prophets
1cor1433 for god is not the author of confusion but of peace as in all churches of the saints
1cor1434 let your women keep silence in the churches for it is not permitted unto them to speak but they are commanded to be under obedience as also saith the law
1cor1435 and if they will learn any thing let them ask their husbands at home for it is a shame for women to speak in the church
1cor1436 what came the word of god out from you or came it unto you only
1cor1437 if any man think himself to be a prophet or spiritual let him acknowledge that the things that i write unto you are the commandments of the lord
1cor1438 but if any man be ignorant let him be ignorant
1cor1439 wherefore brethren covet to prophesy and forbid not to speak with tongues
1cor1440 let all things be done decently and in order
1cor151 moreover brethren i declare unto you the gospel which i preached unto you which also ye have received and wherein ye stand
1cor152 by which also ye are saved if ye keep in memory what i preached unto you unless ye have believed in vain
1cor153 for i delivered unto you first of all that which i also received how that christ died for our sins according to the scriptures
1cor154 and that he was buried and that he rose again the third day according to the scriptures
1cor155 and that he was seen of cephas then of the twelve
1cor156 after that he was seen of above five hundred brethren at once of whom the greater part remain unto this present but some are fallen asleep
1cor157 after that he was seen of james then of all the apostles
1cor158 and last of all he was seen of me also as of one born out of due time
1cor159 for i am the least of the apostles that am not meet to be called an apostle because i persecuted the church of god
1cor1510 but by the grace of god i am what i am and his grace which was bestowed upon me was not in vain but i laboured more abundantly than they all yet not i but the grace of god which was with me
1cor1511 therefore whether it were i or they so we preach and so ye believed
1cor1512 now if christ be preached that he rose from the dead how say some among you that there is no resurrection of the dead
1cor1513 but if there be no resurrection of the dead then is christ not risen
1cor1514 and if christ be not risen then is our preaching vain and your faith is also vain
1cor1515 yea and we are found false witnesses of god because we have testified of god that he raised up christ whom he raised not up if so be that the dead rise not
1cor1516 for if the dead rise not then is not christ raised
1cor1517 and if christ be not raised your faith is vain ye are yet in your sins
1cor1518 then they also which are fallen asleep in christ are perished
1cor1519 if in this life only we have hope in christ we are of all men most miserable
1cor1520 but now is christ risen from the dead and become the firstfruits of them that slept
1cor1521 for since by man came death by man came also the resurrection of the dead
1cor1522 for as in adam all die even so in christ shall all be made alive
1cor1523 but every man in his own order christ the firstfruits afterward they that are christ's at his coming
1cor1524 then cometh the end when he shall have delivered up the kingdom to god even the father when he shall have put down all rule and all authority and power
1cor1525 for he must reign till he hath put all enemies under his feet
1cor1526 the last enemy that shall be destroyed is death
1cor1527 for he hath put all things under his feet but when he saith all things are put under him it is manifest that he is excepted which did put all things under him
1cor1528 and when all things shall be subdued unto him then shall the son also himself be subject unto him that put all things under him that god may be all in all
1cor1529 else what shall they do which are baptized for the dead if the dead rise not at all why are they then baptized for the dead
1cor1530 and why stand we in jeopardy every hour
1cor1531 i protest by your rejoicing which i have in christ jesus our lord i die daily
1cor1532 if after the manner of men i have fought with beasts at ephesus what advantageth it me if the dead rise not let us eat and drink for to morrow we die
1cor1533 be not deceived evil communications corrupt good manners
1cor1534 awake to righteousness and sin not for some have not the knowledge of god i speak this to your shame
1cor1535 but some man will say how are the dead raised up and with what body do they come
1cor1536 thou fool that which thou sowest is not quickened except it die
1cor1537 and that which thou sowest thou sowest not that body that shall be but bare grain it may chance of wheat or of some other grain
1cor1538 but god giveth it a body as it hath pleased him and to every seed his own body
1cor1539 all flesh is not the same flesh but there is one kind of flesh of men another flesh of beasts another of fishes and another of birds
1cor1540 there are also celestial bodies and bodies terrestrial but the glory of the celestial is one and the glory of the terrestrial is another
1cor1541 there is one glory of the sun and another glory of the moon and another glory of the stars for one star differeth from another star in glory
1cor1542 so also is the resurrection of the dead it is sown in corruption it is raised in incorruption
1cor1543 it is sown in dishonour it is raised in glory it is sown in weakness it is raised in power
1cor1544 it is sown a natural body it is raised a spiritual body there is a natural body and there is a spiritual body
1cor1545 and so it is written the first man adam was made a living soul the last adam was made a quickening spirit
1cor1546 howbeit that was not first which is spiritual but that which is natural and afterward that which is spiritual
1cor1547 the first man is of the earth earthy the second man is the lord from heaven
1cor1548 as is the earthy such are they also that are earthy and as is the heavenly such are they also that are heavenly
1cor1549 and as we have borne the image of the earthy we shall also bear the image of the heavenly
1cor1550 now this i say brethren that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of god neither doth corruption inherit incorruption
1cor1551 behold i shew you a mystery we shall not all sleep but we shall all be changed
1cor1552 in a moment in the twinkling of an eye at the last trump for the trumpet shall sound and the dead shall be raised incorruptible and we shall be changed
1cor1553 for this corruptible must put on incorruption and this mortal must put on immortality
1cor1554 so when this corruptible shall have put on incorruption and this mortal shall have put on immortality then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written death is swallowed up in victory
1cor1555 o death where is thy sting o grave where is thy victory
1cor1556 the sting of death is sin and the strength of sin is the law
1cor1557 but thanks be to god which giveth us the victory through our lord jesus christ
1cor1558 therefore my beloved brethren be ye stedfast unmoveable always abounding in the work of the lord forasmuch as ye know that your labour is not in vain in the lord
1cor161 now concerning the collection for the saints as i have given order to the churches of galatia even so do ye
1cor162 upon the first day of the week let every one of you lay by him in store as god hath prospered him that there be no gatherings when i come
1cor163 and when i come whomsoever ye shall approve by your letters them will i send to bring your liberality unto jerusalem
1cor164 and if it be meet that i go also they shall go with me
1cor165 now i will come unto you when i shall pass through macedonia for i do pass through macedonia
1cor166 and it may be that i will abide yea and winter with you that ye may bring me on my journey whithersoever i go
1cor167 for i will not see you now by the way but i trust to tarry a while with you if the lord permit
1cor168 but i will tarry at ephesus until pentecost
1cor169 for a great door and effectual is opened unto me and there are many adversaries
1cor1610 now if timotheus come see that he may be with you without fear for he worketh the work of the lord as i also do
1cor1611 let no man therefore despise him but conduct him forth in peace that he may come unto me for i look for him with the brethren
1cor1612 as touching our brother apollos i greatly desired him to come unto you with the brethren but his will was not at all to come at this time but he will come when he shall have convenient time
1cor1613 watch ye stand fast in the faith quit you like men be strong
1cor1614 let all your things be done with charity
1cor1615 i beseech you brethren ye know the house of stephanas that it is the firstfruits of achaia and that they have addicted themselves to the ministry of the saints
1cor1616 that ye submit yourselves unto such and to every one that helpeth with us and laboureth
1cor1617 i am glad of the coming of stephanas and fortunatus and achaicus for that which was lacking on your part they have supplied
1cor1618 for they have refreshed my spirit and yours therefore acknowledge ye them that are such
1cor1619 the churches of asia salute you aquila and priscilla salute you much in the lord with the church that is in their house
1cor1620 all the brethren greet you greet ye one another with an holy kiss
1cor1621 the salutation of me paul with mine own hand
1cor1622 if any man love not the lord jesus christ let him be anathema maranatha
1cor1623 the grace of our lord jesus christ be with you
1cor1624 my love be with you all in christ jesus amen
2cor11 paul an apostle of jesus christ by the will of god and timothy our brother unto the church of god which is at corinth with all the saints which are in all achaia
2cor12 grace be to you and peace from god our father and from the lord jesus christ
2cor13 blessed be god even the father of our lord jesus christ the father of mercies and the god of all comfort
2cor14 who comforteth us in all our tribulation that we may be able to comfort them which are in any trouble by the comfort wherewith we ourselves are comforted of god
2cor15 for as the sufferings of christ abound in us so our consolation also aboundeth by christ
2cor16 and whether we be afflicted it is for your consolation and salvation which is effectual in the enduring of the same sufferings which we also suffer or whether we be comforted it is for your consolation and salvation
2cor17 and our hope of you is stedfast knowing that as ye are partakers of the sufferings so shall ye be also of the consolation
2cor18 for we would not brethren have you ignorant of our trouble which came to us in asia that we were pressed out of measure above strength insomuch that we despaired even of life
2cor19 but we had the sentence of death in ourselves that we should not trust in ourselves but in god which raiseth the dead
2cor110 who delivered us from so great a death and doth deliver in whom we trust that he will yet deliver us
2cor111 ye also helping together by prayer for us that for the gift bestowed upon us by the means of many persons thanks may be given by many on our behalf
2cor112 for our rejoicing is this the testimony of our conscience that in simplicity and godly sincerity not with fleshly wisdom but by the grace of god we have had our conversation in the world and more abundantly to youward
2cor113 for we write none other things unto you than what ye read or acknowledge and i trust ye shall acknowledge even to the end
2cor114 as also ye have acknowledged us in part that we are your rejoicing even as ye also are ours in the day of the lord jesus
2cor115 and in this confidence i was minded to come unto you before that ye might have a second benefit
2cor116 and to pass by you into macedonia and to come again out of macedonia unto you and of you to be brought on my way toward judaea
2cor117 when i therefore was thus minded did i use lightness or the things that i purpose do i purpose according to the flesh that with me there should be yea yea and nay nay
2cor118 but as god is true our word toward you was not yea and nay
2cor119 for the son of god jesus christ who was preached among you by us even by me and silvanus and timotheus was not yea and nay but in him was yea
2cor120 for all the promises of god in him are yea and in him amen unto the glory of god by us
2cor121 now he which stablisheth us with you in christ and hath anointed us is god
2cor122 who hath also sealed us and given the earnest of the spirit in our hearts
2cor123 moreover i call god for a record upon my soul that to spare you i came not as yet unto corinth
2cor124 not for that we have dominion over your faith but are helpers of your joy for by faith ye stand
2cor21 but i determined this with myself that i would not come again to you in heaviness
2cor22 for if i make you sorry who is he then that maketh me glad but the same which is made sorry by me
2cor23 and i wrote this same unto you lest when i came i should have sorrow from them of whom i ought to rejoice having confidence in you all that my joy is the joy of you all
2cor24 for out of much affliction and anguish of heart i wrote unto you with many tears not that ye should be grieved but that ye might know the love which i have more abundantly unto you
2cor25 but if any have caused grief he hath not grieved me but in part that i may not overcharge you all
2cor26 sufficient to such a man is this punishment which was inflicted of many
2cor27 so that contrariwise ye ought rather to forgive him and comfort him lest perhaps such a one should be swallowed up with overmuch sorrow
2cor28 wherefore i beseech you that ye would confirm your love toward him
2cor29 for to this end also did i write that i might know the proof of you whether ye be obedient in all things
2cor210 to whom ye forgive any thing i forgive also for if i forgave any thing to whom i forgave it for your sakes forgave i it in the person of christ
2cor211 lest satan should get an advantage of us for we are not ignorant of his devices
2cor212 furthermore when i came to troas to preach christ's gospel and a door was opened unto me of the lord
2cor213 i had no rest in my spirit because i found not titus my brother but taking my leave of them i went from thence into macedonia
2cor214 now thanks be unto god which always causeth us to triumph in christ and maketh manifest the savour of his knowledge by us in every place
2cor215 for we are unto god a sweet savour of christ in them that are saved and in them that perish
2cor216 to the one we are the savour of death unto death and to the other the savour of life unto life and who is sufficient for these things
2cor217 for we are not as many which corrupt the word of god but as of sincerity but as of god in the sight of god speak we in christ
2cor31 do we begin again to commend ourselves or need we as some others epistles of commendation to you or letters of commendation from you
2cor32 ye are our epistle written in our hearts known and read of all men
2cor33 forasmuch as ye are manifestly declared to be the epistle of christ ministered by us written not with ink but with the spirit of the living god not in tables of stone but in fleshy tables of the heart
2cor34 and such trust have we through christ to godward
2cor35 not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think any thing as of ourselves but our sufficiency is of god
2cor36 who also hath made us able ministers of the new testament not of the letter but of the spirit for the letter killeth but the spirit giveth life
2cor37 but if the ministration of death written and engraven in stones was glorious so that the children of israel could not stedfastly behold the face of moses for the glory of his countenance which glory was to be done away
2cor38 how shall not the ministration of the spirit be rather glorious
2cor39 for if the ministration of condemnation be glory much more doth the ministration of righteousness exceed in glory
2cor310 for even that which was made glorious had no glory in this respect by reason of the glory that excelleth
2cor311 for if that which is done away was glorious much more that which remaineth is glorious
2cor312 seeing then that we have such hope we use great plainness of speech
2cor313 and not as moses which put a vail over his face that the children of israel could not stedfastly look to the end of that which is abolished
2cor314 but their minds were blinded for until this day remaineth the same vail untaken away in the reading of the old testament which vail is done away in christ
2cor315 but even unto this day when moses is read the vail is upon their heart
2cor316 nevertheless when it shall turn to the lord the vail shall be taken away
2cor317 now the lord is that spirit and where the spirit of the lord is there is liberty
2cor318 but we all with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the lord are changed into the same image from glory to glory even as by the spirit of the lord
2cor41 therefore seeing we have this ministry as we have received mercy we faint not
2cor42 but have renounced the hidden things of dishonesty not walking in craftiness nor handling the word of god deceitfully but by manifestation of the truth commending ourselves to every man's conscience in the sight of god
2cor43 but if our gospel be hid it is hid to them that are lost
2cor44 in whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not lest the light of the glorious gospel of christ who is the image of god should shine unto them
2cor45 for we preach not ourselves but christ jesus the lord and ourselves your servants for jesus sake
2cor46 for god who commanded the light to shine out of darkness hath shined in our hearts to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of god in the face of jesus christ
2cor47 but we have this treasure in earthen vessels that the excellency of the power may be of god and not of us
2cor48 we are troubled on every side yet not distressed we are perplexed but not in despair
2cor49 persecuted but not forsaken cast down but not destroyed
2cor410 always bearing about in the body the dying of the lord jesus that the life also of jesus might be made manifest in our body
2cor411 for we which live are alway delivered unto death for jesus sake that the life also of jesus might be made manifest in our mortal flesh
2cor412 so then death worketh in us but life in you
2cor413 we having the same spirit of faith according as it is written i believed and therefore have i spoken we also believe and therefore speak
2cor414 knowing that he which raised up the lord jesus shall raise up us also by jesus and shall present us with you
2cor415 for all things are for your sakes that the abundant grace might through the thanksgiving of many redound to the glory of god
2cor416 for which cause we faint not but though our outward man perish yet the inward man is renewed day by day
2cor417 for our light affliction which is but for a moment worketh for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory
2cor418 while we look not at the things which are seen but at the things which are not seen for the things which are seen are temporal but the things which are not seen are eternal
2cor51 for we know that if our earthly house of this tabernacle were dissolved we have a building of god an house not made with hands eternal in the heavens
2cor52 for in this we groan earnestly desiring to be clothed upon with our house which is from heaven
2cor53 if so be that being clothed we shall not be found naked
2cor54 for we that are in this tabernacle do groan being burdened not for that we would be unclothed but clothed upon that mortality might be swallowed up of life
2cor55 now he that hath wrought us for the selfsame thing is god who also hath given unto us the earnest of the spirit
2cor56 therefore we are always confident knowing that whilst we are at home in the body we are absent from the lord
2cor57 for we walk by faith not by sight
2cor58 we are confident i say and willing rather to be absent from the body and to be present with the lord
2cor59 wherefore we labour that whether present or absent we may be accepted of him
2cor510 for we must all appear before the judgment seat of christ that every one may receive the things done in his body according to that he hath done whether it be good or bad
2cor511 knowing therefore the terror of the lord we persuade men but we are made manifest unto god and i trust also are made manifest in your consciences
2cor512 for we commend not ourselves again unto you but give you occasion to glory on our behalf that ye may have somewhat to answer them which glory in appearance and not in heart
2cor513 for whether we be beside ourselves it is to god or whether we be sober it is for your cause
2cor514 for the love of christ constraineth us because we thus judge that if one died for all then were all dead
2cor515 and that he died for all that they which live should not henceforth live unto themselves but unto him which died for them and rose again
2cor516 wherefore henceforth know we no man after the flesh yea though we have known christ after the flesh yet now henceforth know we him no more
2cor517 therefore if any man be in christ he is a new creature old things are passed away behold all things are become new
2cor518 and all things are of god who hath reconciled us to himself by jesus christ and hath given to us the ministry of reconciliation
2cor519 to wit that god was in christ reconciling the world unto himself not imputing their trespasses unto them and hath committed unto us the word of reconciliation
2cor520 now then we are ambassadors for christ as though god did beseech you by us we pray you in christ's stead be ye reconciled to god
2cor521 for he hath made him to be sin for us who knew no sin that we might be made the righteousness of god in him
2cor61 we then as workers together with him beseech you also that ye receive not the grace of god in vain
2cor62 for he saith i have heard thee in a time accepted and in the day of salvation have i succoured thee behold now is the accepted time behold now is the day of salvation
2cor63 giving no offence in any thing that the ministry be not blamed
2cor64 but in all things approving ourselves as the ministers of god in much patience in afflictions in necessities in distresses
2cor65 in stripes in imprisonments in tumults in labours in watchings in fastings
2cor66 by pureness by knowledge by longsuffering by kindness by the holy ghost by love unfeigned
2cor67 by the word of truth by the power of god by the armour of righteousness on the right hand and on the left
2cor68 by honour and dishonour by evil report and good report as deceivers and yet true
2cor69 as unknown and yet well known as dying and behold we live as chastened and not killed
2cor610 as sorrowful yet alway rejoicing as poor yet making many rich as having nothing and yet possessing all things
2cor611 o ye corinthians our mouth is open unto you our heart is enlarged
2cor612 ye are not straitened in us but ye are straitened in your own bowels
2cor613 now for a recompence in the same i speak as unto my children be ye also enlarged
2cor614 be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness and what communion hath light with darkness
2cor615 and what concord hath christ with belial or what part hath he that believeth with an infidel
2cor616 and what agreement hath the temple of god with idols for ye are the temple of the living god as god hath said i will dwell in them and walk in them and i will be their god and they shall be my people
2cor617 wherefore come out from among them and be ye separate saith the lord and touch not the unclean thing and i will receive you
2cor618 and will be a father unto you and ye shall be my sons and daughters saith the lord almighty
2cor71 having therefore these promises dearly beloved let us cleanse ourselves from all filthiness of the flesh and spirit perfecting holiness in the fear of god
2cor72 receive us we have wronged no man we have corrupted no man we have defrauded no man
2cor73 i speak not this to condemn you for i have said before that ye are in our hearts to die and live with you
2cor74 great is my boldness of speech toward you great is my glorying of you i am filled with comfort i am exceeding joyful in all our tribulation
2cor75 for when we were come into macedonia our flesh had no rest but we were troubled on every side without were fightings within were fears
2cor76 nevertheless god that comforteth those that are cast down comforted us by the coming of titus
2cor77 and not by his coming only but by the consolation wherewith he was comforted in you when he told us your earnest desire your mourning your fervent mind toward me so that i rejoiced the more
2cor78 for though i made you sorry with a letter i do not repent though i did repent for i perceive that the same epistle hath made you sorry though it were but for a season
2cor79 now i rejoice not that ye were made sorry but that ye sorrowed to repentance for ye were made sorry after a godly manner that ye might receive damage by us in nothing
2cor710 for godly sorrow worketh repentance to salvation not to be repented of but the sorrow of the world worketh death
2cor711 for behold this selfsame thing that ye sorrowed after a godly sort what carefulness it wrought in you yea what clearing of yourselves yea what indignation yea what fear yea what vehement desire yea what zeal yea what revenge in all things ye have approved yourselves to be clear in this matter
2cor712 wherefore though i wrote unto you i did it not for his cause that had done the wrong nor for his cause that suffered wrong but that our care for you in the sight of god might appear unto you
2cor713 therefore we were comforted in your comfort yea and exceedingly the more joyed we for the joy of titus because his spirit was refreshed by you all
2cor714 for if i have boasted any thing to him of you i am not ashamed but as we spake all things to you in truth even so our boasting which i made before titus is found a truth
2cor715 and his inward affection is more abundant toward you whilst he remembereth the obedience of you all how with fear and trembling ye received him
2cor716 i rejoice therefore that i have confidence in you in all things
2cor81 moreover brethren we do you to wit of the grace of god bestowed on the churches of macedonia
2cor82 how that in a great trial of affliction the abundance of their joy and their deep poverty abounded unto the riches of their liberality
2cor83 for to their power i bear record yea and beyond their power they were willing of themselves
2cor84 praying us with much intreaty that we would receive the gift and take upon us the fellowship of the ministering to the saints
2cor85 and this they did not as we hoped but first gave their own selves to the lord and unto us by the will of god
2cor86 insomuch that we desired titus that as he had begun so he would also finish in you the same grace also
2cor87 therefore as ye abound in every thing in faith and utterance and knowledge and in all diligence and in your love to us see that ye abound in this grace also
2cor88 i speak not by commandment but by occasion of the forwardness of others and to prove the sincerity of your love
2cor89 for ye know the grace of our lord jesus christ that though he was rich yet for your sakes he became poor that ye through his poverty might be rich
2cor810 and herein i give my advice for this is expedient for you who have begun before not only to do but also to be forward a year ago
2cor811 now therefore perform the doing of it that as there was a readiness to will so there may be a performance also out of that which ye have
2cor812 for if there be first a willing mind it is accepted according to that a man hath and not according to that he hath not
2cor813 for i mean not that other men be eased and ye burdened
2cor814 but by an equality that now at this time your abundance may be a supply for their want that their abundance also may be a supply for your want that there may be equality
2cor815 as it is written he that had gathered much had nothing over and he that had gathered little had no lack
2cor816 but thanks be to god which put the same earnest care into the heart of titus for you
2cor817 for indeed he accepted the exhortation but being more forward of his own accord he went unto you
2cor818 and we have sent with him the brother whose praise is in the gospel throughout all the churches
2cor819 and not that only but who was also chosen of the churches to travel with us with this grace which is administered by us to the glory of the same lord and declaration of your ready mind
2cor820 avoiding this that no man should blame us in this abundance which is administered by us
2cor821 providing for honest things not only in the sight of the lord but also in the sight of men
2cor822 and we have sent with them our brother whom we have oftentimes proved diligent in many things but now much more diligent upon the great confidence which i have in you
2cor823 whether any do enquire of titus he is my partner and fellowhelper concerning you or our brethren be enquired of they are the messengers of the churches and the glory of christ
2cor824 wherefore shew ye to them and before the churches the proof of your love and of our boasting on your behalf
2cor91 for as touching the ministering to the saints it is superfluous for me to write to you
2cor92 for i know the forwardness of your mind for which i boast of you to them of macedonia that achaia was ready a year ago and your zeal hath provoked very many
2cor93 yet have i sent the brethren lest our boasting of you should be in vain in this behalf that as i said ye may be ready
2cor94 lest haply if they of macedonia come with me and find you unprepared we that we say not ye should be ashamed in this same confident boasting
2cor95 therefore i thought it necessary to exhort the brethren that they would go before unto you and make up beforehand your bounty whereof ye had notice before that the same might be ready as a matter of bounty and not as of covetousness
2cor96 but this i say he which soweth sparingly shall reap also sparingly and he which soweth bountifully shall reap also bountifully
2cor97 every man according as he purposeth in his heart so let him give not grudgingly or of necessity for god loveth a cheerful giver
2cor98 and god is able to make all grace abound toward you that ye always having all sufficiency in all things may abound to every good work
2cor99 as it is written he hath dispersed abroad he hath given to the poor his righteousness remaineth for ever
2cor910 now he that ministereth seed to the sower both minister bread for your food and multiply your seed sown and increase the fruits of your righteousness
2cor911 being enriched in every thing to all bountifulness which causeth through us thanksgiving to god
2cor912 for the administration of this service not only supplieth the want of the saints but is abundant also by many thanksgivings unto god
2cor913 whiles by the experiment of this ministration they glorify god for your professed subjection unto the gospel of christ and for your liberal distribution unto them and unto all men
2cor914 and by their prayer for you which long after you for the exceeding grace of god in you
2cor915 thanks be unto god for his unspeakable gift
2cor101 now i paul myself beseech you by the meekness and gentleness of christ who in presence am base among you but being absent am bold toward you
2cor102 but i beseech you that i may not be bold when i am present with that confidence wherewith i think to be bold against some which think of us as if we walked according to the flesh
2cor103 for though we walk in the flesh we do not war after the flesh
2cor104 for the weapons of our warfare are not carnal but mighty through god to the pulling down of strong holds
2cor105 casting down imaginations and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of god and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of christ
2cor106 and having in a readiness to revenge all disobedience when your obedience is fulfilled
2cor107 do ye look on things after the outward appearance if any man trust to himself that he is christ's let him of himself think this again that as he is christ's even so are we christ's
2cor108 for though i should boast somewhat more of our authority which the lord hath given us for edification and not for your destruction i should not be ashamed
2cor109 that i may not seem as if i would terrify you by letters
2cor1010 for his letters say they are weighty and powerful but his bodily presence is weak and his speech contemptible
2cor1011 let such an one think this that such as we are in word by letters when we are absent such will we be also in deed when we are present
2cor1012 for we dare not make ourselves of the number or compare ourselves with some that commend themselves but they measuring themselves by themselves and comparing themselves among themselves are not wise
2cor1013 but we will not boast of things without our measure but according to the measure of the rule which god hath distributed to us a measure to reach even unto you
2cor1014 for we stretch not ourselves beyond our measure as though we reached not unto you for we are come as far as to you also in preaching the gospel of christ
2cor1015 not boasting of things without our measure that is of other men's labours but having hope when your faith is increased that we shall be enlarged by you according to our rule abundantly
2cor1016 to preach the gospel in the regions beyond you and not to boast in another man's line of things made ready to our hand
2cor1017 but he that glorieth let him glory in the lord
2cor1018 for not he that commendeth himself is approved but whom the lord commendeth
2cor111 would to god ye could bear with me a little in my folly and indeed bear with me
2cor112 for i am jealous over you with godly jealousy for i have espoused you to one husband that i may present you as a chaste virgin to christ
2cor113 but i fear lest by any means as the serpent beguiled eve through his subtilty so your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity that is in christ
2cor114 for if he that cometh preacheth another jesus whom we have not preached or if ye receive another spirit which ye have not received or another gospel which ye have not accepted ye might well bear with him
2cor115 for i suppose i was not a whit behind the very chiefest apostles
2cor116 but though i be rude in speech yet not in knowledge but we have been throughly made manifest among you in all things
2cor117 have i committed an offence in abasing myself that ye might be exalted because i have preached to you the gospel of god freely
2cor118 i robbed other churches taking wages of them to do you service
2cor119 and when i was present with you and wanted i was chargeable to no man for that which was lacking to me the brethren which came from macedonia supplied and in all things i have kept myself from being burdensome unto you and so will i keep myself
2cor1110 as the truth of christ is in me no man shall stop me of this boasting in the regions of achaia
2cor1111 wherefore because i love you not god knoweth
2cor1112 but what i do that i will do that i may cut off occasion from them which desire occasion that wherein they glory they may be found even as we
2cor1113 for such are false apostles deceitful workers transforming themselves into the apostles of christ
2cor1114 and no marvel for satan himself is transformed into an angel of light
2cor1115 therefore it is no great thing if his ministers also be transformed as the ministers of righteousness whose end shall be according to their works
2cor1116 i say again let no man think me a fool if otherwise yet as a fool receive me that i may boast myself a little
2cor1117 that which i speak i speak it not after the lord but as it were foolishly in this confidence of boasting
2cor1118 seeing that many glory after the flesh i will glory also
2cor1119 for ye suffer fools gladly seeing ye yourselves are wise
2cor1120 for ye suffer if a man bring you into bondage if a man devour you if a man take of you if a man exalt himself if a man smite you on the face
2cor1121 i speak as concerning reproach as though we had been weak howbeit whereinsoever any is bold i speak foolishly i am bold also
2cor1122 are they hebrews so am i are they israelites so am i are they the seed of abraham so am i
2cor1123 are they ministers of christ i speak as a fool i am more in labours more abundant in stripes above measure in prisons more frequent in deaths oft
2cor1124 of the jews five times received i forty stripes save one
2cor1125 thrice was i beaten with rods once was i stoned thrice i suffered shipwreck a night and a day i have been in the deep
2cor1126 in journeyings often in perils of waters in perils of robbers in perils by mine own countrymen in perils by the heathen in perils in the city in perils in the wilderness in perils in the sea in perils among false brethren
2cor1127 in weariness and painfulness in watchings often in hunger and thirst in fastings often in cold and nakedness
2cor1128 beside those things that are without that which cometh upon me daily the care of all the churches
2cor1129 who is weak and i am not weak who is offended and i burn not
2cor1130 if i must needs glory i will glory of the things which concern mine infirmities
2cor1131 the god and father of our lord jesus christ which is blessed for evermore knoweth that i lie not
2cor1132 in damascus the governor under aretas the king kept the city of the damascenes with a garrison desirous to apprehend me
2cor1133 and through a window in a basket was i let down by the wall and escaped his hands
2cor121 it is not expedient for me doubtless to glory i will come to visions and revelations of the lord
2cor122 i knew a man in christ above fourteen years ago whether in the body i cannot tell or whether out of the body i cannot tell god knoweth such an one caught up to the third heaven
2cor123 and i knew such a man whether in the body or out of the body i cannot tell god knoweth
2cor124 how that he was caught up into paradise and heard unspeakable words which it is not lawful for a man to utter
2cor125 of such an one will i glory yet of myself i will not glory but in mine infirmities
2cor126 for though i would desire to glory i shall not be a fool for i will say the truth but now i forbear lest any man should think of me above that which he seeth me to be or that he heareth of me
2cor127 and lest i should be exalted above measure through the abundance of the revelations there was given to me a thorn in the flesh the messenger of satan to buffet me lest i should be exalted above measure
2cor128 for this thing i besought the lord thrice that it might depart from me
2cor129 and he said unto me my grace is sufficient for thee for my strength is made perfect in weakness most gladly therefore will i rather glory in my infirmities that the power of christ may rest upon me
2cor1210 therefore i take pleasure in infirmities in reproaches in necessities in persecutions in distresses for christ's sake for when i am weak then am i strong
2cor1211 i am become a fool in glorying ye have compelled me for i ought to have been commended of you for in nothing am i behind the very chiefest apostles though i be nothing
2cor1212 truly the signs of an apostle were wrought among you in all patience in signs and wonders and mighty deeds
2cor1213 for what is it wherein ye were inferior to other churches except it be that i myself was not burdensome to you forgive me this wrong
2cor1214 behold the third time i am ready to come to you and i will not be burdensome to you for i seek not yours but you for the children ought not to lay up for the parents but the parents for the children
2cor1215 and i will very gladly spend and be spent for you though the more abundantly i love you the less i be loved
2cor1216 but be it so i did not burden you nevertheless being crafty i caught you with guile
2cor1217 did i make a gain of you by any of them whom i sent unto you
2cor1218 i desired titus and with him i sent a brother did titus make a gain of you walked we not in the same spirit walked we not in the same steps
2cor1219 again think ye that we excuse ourselves unto you we speak before god in christ but we do all things dearly beloved for your edifying
2cor1220 for i fear lest when i come i shall not find you such as i would and that i shall be found unto you such as ye would not lest there be debates envyings wraths strifes backbitings whisperings swellings tumults
2cor1221 and lest when i come again my god will humble me among you and that i shall bewail many which have sinned already and have not repented of the uncleanness and fornication and lasciviousness which they have committed
2cor131 this is the third time i am coming to you in the mouth of two or three witnesses shall every word be established
2cor132 i told you before and foretell you as if i were present the second time and being absent now i write to them which heretofore have sinned and to all other that if i come again i will not spare
2cor133 since ye seek a proof of christ speaking in me which to youward is not weak but is mighty in you
2cor134 for though he was crucified through weakness yet he liveth by the power of god for we also are weak in him but we shall live with him by the power of god toward you
2cor135 examine yourselves whether ye be in the faith prove your own selves know ye not your own selves how that jesus christ is in you except ye be reprobates
2cor136 but i trust that ye shall know that we are not reprobates
2cor137 now i pray to god that ye do no evil not that we should appear approved but that ye should do that which is honest though we be as reprobates
2cor138 for we can do nothing against the truth but for the truth
2cor139 for we are glad when we are weak and ye are strong and this also we wish even your perfection
2cor1310 therefore i write these things being absent lest being present i should use sharpness according to the power which the lord hath given me to edification and not to destruction
2cor1311 finally brethren farewell be perfect be of good comfort be of one mind live in peace and the god of love and peace shall be with you
2cor1312 greet one another with an holy kiss
2cor1313 all the saints salute you
2cor1314 the grace of the lord jesus christ and the love of god and the communion of the holy ghost be with you all amen
paul an apostle not of men neither by man but by jesus christ and god the father who raised him from the dead
and all the brethren which are with me unto the churches of galatia
grace be to you and peace from god the father and from our lord jesus christ
who gave himself for our sins that he might deliver us from this present evil world according to the will of god and our father
to whom be glory for ever and ever amen
i marvel that ye are so soon removed from him that called you into the grace of christ unto another gospel
which is not another but there be some that trouble you and would pervert the gospel of christ
but though we or an angel from heaven preach any other gospel unto you than that which we have preached unto you let him be accursed
as we said before so say i now again if any man preach any other gospel unto you than that ye have received let him be accursed
for do i now persuade men or god or do i seek to please men for if i yet pleased men i should not be the servant of christ
but i certify you brethren that the gospel which was preached of me is not after man
for i neither received it of man neither was i taught it but by the revelation of jesus christ
for ye have heard of my conversation in time past in the jews religion how that beyond measure i persecuted the church of god and wasted it
and profited in the jews religion above many my equals in mine own nation being more exceedingly zealous of the traditions of my fathers
but when it pleased god who separated me from my mother's womb and called me by his grace
to reveal his son in me that i might preach him among the heathen immediately i conferred not with flesh and blood
neither went i up to jerusalem to them which were apostles before me but i went into arabia and returned again unto damascus
then after three years i went up to jerusalem to see peter and abode with him fifteen days
but other of the apostles saw i none save james the lord's brother
now the things which i write unto you behold before god i lie not
afterwards i came into the regions of syria and cilicia
and was unknown by face unto the churches of judaea which were in christ
but they had heard only that he which persecuted us in times past now preacheth the faith which once he destroyed
and they glorified god in me
then fourteen years after i went up again to jerusalem with barnabas and took titus with me also
and i went up by revelation and communicated unto them that gospel which i preach among the gentiles but privately to them which were of reputation lest by any means i should run or had run in vain
but neither titus who was with me being a greek was compelled to be circumcised
and that because of false brethren unawares brought in who came in privily to spy out our liberty which we have in christ jesus that they might bring us into bondage
to whom we gave place by subjection no not for an hour that the truth of the gospel might continue with you
but of these who seemed to be somewhat whatsoever they were it maketh no matter to me god accepteth no man's person for they who seemed to be somewhat in conference added nothing to me
but contrariwise when they saw that the gospel of the uncircumcision was committed unto me as the gospel of the circumcision was unto peter
for he that wrought effectually in peter to the apostleship of the circumcision the same was mighty in me toward the gentiles
and when james cephas and john who seemed to be pillars perceived the grace that was given unto me they gave to me and barnabas the right hands of fellowship that we should go unto the heathen and they unto the circumcision
only they would that we should remember the poor the same which i also was forward to do
but when peter was come to antioch i withstood him to the face because he was to be blamed
for before that certain came from james he did eat with the gentiles but when they were come he withdrew and separated himself fearing them which were of the circumcision
and the other jews dissembled likewise with him insomuch that barnabas also was carried away with their dissimulation
but when i saw that they walked not uprightly according to the truth of the gospel i said unto peter before them all if thou being a jew livest after the manner of gentiles and not as do the jews why compellest thou the gentiles to live as do the jews
we who are jews by nature and not sinners of the gentiles
knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law but by the faith of jesus christ even we have believed in jesus christ that we might be justified by the faith of christ and not by the works of the law for by the works of the law shall no flesh be justified
but if while we seek to be justified by christ we ourselves also are found sinners is therefore christ the minister of sin god forbid
for if i build again the things which i destroyed i make myself a transgressor
for i through the law am dead to the law that i might live unto god
i am crucified with christ nevertheless i live yet not i but christ liveth in me and the life which i now live in the flesh i live by the faith of the son of god who loved me and gave himself for me
i do not frustrate the grace of god for if righteousness come by the law then christ is dead in vain
o foolish galatians who hath bewitched you that ye should not obey the truth before whose eyes jesus christ hath been evidently set forth crucified among you
this only would i learn of you received ye the spirit by the works of the law or by the hearing of faith
are ye so foolish having begun in the spirit are ye now made perfect by the flesh
have ye suffered so many things in vain if it be yet in vain
he therefore that ministereth to you the spirit and worketh miracles among you doeth he it by the works of the law or by the hearing of faith
even as abraham believed god and it was accounted to him for righteousness
know ye therefore that they which are of faith the same are the children of abraham
and the scripture foreseeing that god would justify the heathen through faith preached before the gospel unto abraham saying in thee shall all nations be blessed
so then they which be of faith are blessed with faithful abraham
for as many as are of the works of the law are under the curse for it is written cursed is every one that continueth not in all things which are written in the book of the law to do them
but that no man is justified by the law in the sight of god it is evident for the just shall live by faith
and the law is not of faith but the man that doeth them shall live in them
christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law being made a curse for us for it is written cursed is every one that hangeth on a tree
that the blessing of abraham might come on the gentiles through jesus christ that we might receive the promise of the spirit through faith
brethren i speak after the manner of men though it be but a man's covenant yet if it be confirmed no man disannulleth or addeth thereto
now to abraham and his seed were the promises made he saith not and to seeds as of many but as of one and to thy seed which is christ
and this i say that the covenant that was confirmed before of god in christ the law which was four hundred and thirty years after cannot disannul that it should make the promise of none effect
for if the inheritance be of the law it is no more of promise but god gave it to abraham by promise
wherefore then serveth the law it was added because of transgressions till the seed should come to whom the promise was made and it was ordained by angels in the hand of a mediator
now a mediator is not a mediator of one but god is one
is the law then against the promises of god god forbid for if there had been a law given which could have given life verily righteousness should have been by the law
but the scripture hath concluded all under sin that the promise by faith of jesus christ might be given to them that believe
but before faith came we were kept under the law shut up unto the faith which should afterwards be revealed
wherefore the law was our schoolmaster to bring us unto christ that we might be justified by faith
but after that faith is come we are no longer under a schoolmaster
for ye are all the children of god by faith in christ jesus
for as many of you as have been baptized into christ have put on christ
there is neither jew nor greek there is neither bond nor free there is neither male nor female for ye are all one in christ jesus
and if ye be christ's then are ye abraham's seed and heirs according to the promise
now i say that the heir as long as he is a child differeth nothing from a servant though he be lord of all
but is under tutors and governors until the time appointed of the father
even so we when we were children were in bondage under the elements of the world
but when the fulness of the time was come god sent forth his son made of a woman made under the law
to redeem them that were under the law that we might receive the adoption of sons
and because ye are sons god hath sent forth the spirit of his son into your hearts crying abba father
wherefore thou art no more a servant but a son and if a son then an heir of god through christ
howbeit then when ye knew not god ye did service unto them which by nature are no gods
but now after that ye have known god or rather are known of god how turn ye again to the weak and beggarly elements whereunto ye desire again to be in bondage
ye observe days and months and times and years
i am afraid of you lest i have bestowed upon you labour in vain
brethren i beseech you be as i am for i am as ye are ye have not injured me at all
ye know how through infirmity of the flesh i preached the gospel unto you at the first
and my temptation which was in my flesh ye despised not nor rejected but received me as an angel of god even as christ jesus
where is then the blessedness ye spake of for i bear you record that if it had been possible ye would have plucked out your own eyes and have given them to me
am i therefore become your enemy because i tell you the truth
they zealously affect you but not well yea they would exclude you that ye might affect them
but it is good to be zealously affected always in a good thing and not only when i am present with you
my little children of whom i travail in birth again until christ be formed in you
i desire to be present with you now and to change my voice for i stand in doubt of you
tell me ye that desire to be under the law do ye not hear the law
for it is written that abraham had two sons the one by a bondmaid the other by a freewoman
but he who was of the bondwoman was born after the flesh but he of the freewoman was by promise
which things are an allegory for these are the two covenants the one from the mount sinai which gendereth to bondage which is agar
for this agar is mount sinai in arabia and answereth to jerusalem which now is and is in bondage with her children
but jerusalem which is above is free which is the mother of us all
for it is written rejoice thou barren that bearest not break forth and cry thou that travailest not for the desolate hath many more children than she which hath an husband
now we brethren as isaac was are the children of promise
but as then he that was born after the flesh persecuted him that was born after the spirit even so it is now
nevertheless what saith the scripture cast out the bondwoman and her son for the son of the bondwoman shall not be heir with the son of the freewoman
so then brethren we are not children of the bondwoman but of the free
stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith christ hath made us free and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage
behold i paul say unto you that if ye be circumcised christ shall profit you nothing
for i testify again to every man that is circumcised that he is a debtor to do the whole law
christ is become of no effect unto you whosoever of you are justified by the law ye are fallen from grace
for we through the spirit wait for the hope of righteousness by faith
for in jesus christ neither circumcision availeth any thing nor uncircumcision but faith which worketh by love
ye did run well who did hinder you that ye should not obey the truth
this persuasion cometh not of him that calleth you
a little leaven leaveneth the whole lump
i have confidence in you through the lord that ye will be none otherwise minded but he that troubleth you shall bear his judgment whosoever he be
and i brethren if i yet preach circumcision why do i yet suffer persecution then is the offence of the cross ceased
i would they were even cut off which trouble you
for brethren ye have been called unto liberty only use not liberty for an occasion to the flesh but by love serve one another
for all the law is fulfilled in one word even in this thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself
but if ye bite and devour one another take heed that ye be not consumed one of another
this i say then walk in the spirit and ye shall not fulfil the lust of the flesh
for the flesh lusteth against the spirit and the spirit against the flesh and these are contrary the one to the other so that ye cannot do the things that ye would
but if ye be led of the spirit ye are not under the law
now the works of the flesh are manifest which are these adultery fornication uncleanness lasciviousness
idolatry witchcraft hatred variance emulations wrath strife seditions heresies
envyings murders drunkenness revellings and such like of the which i tell you before as i have also told you in time past that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of god
but the fruit of the spirit is love joy peace longsuffering gentleness goodness faith
meekness temperance against such there is no law
and they that are christ's have crucified the flesh with the affections and lusts
if we live in the spirit let us also walk in the spirit
let us not be desirous of vain glory provoking one another envying one another
brethren if a man be overtaken in a fault ye which are spiritual restore such an one in the spirit of meekness considering thyself lest thou also be tempted
bear ye one another's burdens and so fulfil the law of christ
for if a man think himself to be something when he is nothing he deceiveth himself
but let every man prove his own work and then shall he have rejoicing in himself alone and not in another
for every man shall bear his own burden
let him that is taught in the word communicate unto him that teacheth in all good things
be not deceived god is not mocked for whatsoever a man soweth that shall he also reap
for he that soweth to his flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption but he that soweth to the spirit shall of the spirit reap life everlasting
and let us not be weary in well doing for in due season we shall reap if we faint not
as we have therefore opportunity let us do good unto all men especially unto them who are of the household of faith
ye see how large a letter i have written unto you with mine own hand
as many as desire to make a fair shew in the flesh they constrain you to be circumcised only lest they should suffer persecution for the cross of christ
for neither they themselves who are circumcised keep the law but desire to have you circumcised that they may glory in your flesh
but god forbid that i should glory save in the cross of our lord jesus christ by whom the world is crucified unto me and i unto the world
for in christ jesus neither circumcision availeth any thing nor uncircumcision but a new creature
and as many as walk according to this rule peace be on them and mercy and upon the israel of god
from henceforth let no man trouble me for i bear in my body the marks of the lord jesus
brethren the grace of our lord jesus christ be with your spirit amen
paul an apostle of jesus christ by the will of god to the saints which are at ephesus and to the faithful in christ jesus
grace be to you and peace from god our father and from the lord jesus christ
blessed be the god and father of our lord jesus christ who hath blessed us with all spiritual blessings in heavenly places in christ
according as he hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the world that we should be holy and without blame before him in love
having predestinated us unto the adoption of children by jesus christ to himself according to the good pleasure of his will
to the praise of the glory of his grace wherein he hath made us accepted in the beloved
in whom we have redemption through his blood the forgiveness of sins according to the riches of his grace
wherein he hath abounded toward us in all wisdom and prudence
having made known unto us the mystery of his will according to his good pleasure which he hath purposed in himself
that in the dispensation of the fulness of times he might gather together in one all things in christ both which are in heaven and which are on earth even in him
in whom also we have obtained an inheritance being predestinated according to the purpose of him who worketh all things after the counsel of his own will
that we should be to the praise of his glory who first trusted in christ
in whom ye also trusted after that ye heard the word of truth the gospel of your salvation in whom also after that ye believed ye were sealed with that holy spirit of promise
which is the earnest of our inheritance until the redemption of the purchased possession unto the praise of his glory
wherefore i also after i heard of your faith in the lord jesus and love unto all the saints
cease not to give thanks for you making mention of you in my prayers
that the god of our lord jesus christ the father of glory may give unto you the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of him
the eyes of your understanding being enlightened that ye may know what is the hope of his calling and what the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the saints
and what is the exceeding greatness of his power to usward who believe according to the working of his mighty power
which he wrought in christ when he raised him from the dead and set him at his own right hand in the heavenly places
far above all principality and power and might and dominion and every name that is named not only in this world but also in that which is to come
and hath put all things under his feet and gave him to be the head over all things to the church
which is his body the fulness of him that filleth all in all
and you hath he quickened who were dead in trespasses and sins
wherein in time past ye walked according to the course of this world according to the prince of the power of the air the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience
among whom also we all had our conversation in times past in the lusts of our flesh fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind and were by nature the children of wrath even as others
but god who is rich in mercy for his great love wherewith he loved us
even when we were dead in sins hath quickened us together with christ by grace ye are saved
and hath raised us up together and made us sit together in heavenly places in christ jesus
that in the ages to come he might shew the exceeding riches of his grace in his kindness toward us through christ jesus
for by grace are ye saved through faith and that not of yourselves it is the gift of god
not of works lest any man should boast
for we are his workmanship created in christ jesus unto good works which god hath before ordained that we should walk in them
wherefore remember that ye being in time past gentiles in the flesh who are called uncircumcision by that which is called the circumcision in the flesh made by hands
that at that time ye were without christ being aliens from the commonwealth of israel and strangers from the covenants of promise having no hope and without god in the world
but now in christ jesus ye who sometimes were far off are made nigh by the blood of christ
for he is our peace who hath made both one and hath broken down the middle wall of partition between us
having abolished in his flesh the enmity even the law of commandments contained in ordinances for to make in himself of twain one new man so making peace
and that he might reconcile both unto god in one body by the cross having slain the enmity thereby
and came and preached peace to you which were afar off and to them that were nigh
for through him we both have access by one spirit unto the father
now therefore ye are no more strangers and foreigners but fellowcitizens with the saints and of the household of god
and are built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets jesus christ himself being the chief corner stone
in whom all the building fitly framed together groweth unto an holy temple in the lord
in whom ye also are builded together for an habitation of god through the spirit
for this cause i paul the prisoner of jesus christ for you gentiles
if ye have heard of the dispensation of the grace of god which is given me to youward
how that by revelation he made known unto me the mystery as i wrote afore in few words
whereby when ye read ye may understand my knowledge in the mystery of christ
which in other ages was not made known unto the sons of men as it is now revealed unto his holy apostles and prophets by the spirit
that the gentiles should be fellowheirs and of the same body and partakers of his promise in christ by the gospel
whereof i was made a minister according to the gift of the grace of god given unto me by the effectual working of his power
unto me who am less than the least of all saints is this grace given that i should preach among the gentiles the unsearchable riches of christ
and to make all men see what is the fellowship of the mystery which from the beginning of the world hath been hid in god who created all things by jesus christ
to the intent that now unto the principalities and powers in heavenly places might be known by the church the manifold wisdom of god
according to the eternal purpose which he purposed in christ jesus our lord
in whom we have boldness and access with confidence by the faith of him
wherefore i desire that ye faint not at my tribulations for you which is your glory
for this cause i bow my knees unto the father of our lord jesus christ
of whom the whole family in heaven and earth is named
that he would grant you according to the riches of his glory to be strengthened with might by his spirit in the inner man
that christ may dwell in your hearts by faith that ye being rooted and grounded in love
may be able to comprehend with all saints what is the breadth and length and depth and height
and to know the love of christ which passeth knowledge that ye might be filled with all the fulness of god
now unto him that is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think according to the power that worketh in us
unto him be glory in the church by christ jesus throughout all ages world without end amen
i therefore the prisoner of the lord beseech you that ye walk worthy of the vocation wherewith ye are called
with all lowliness and meekness with longsuffering forbearing one another in love
endeavouring to keep the unity of the spirit in the bond of peace
there is one body and one spirit even as ye are called in one hope of your calling
one lord one faith one baptism
one god and father of all who is above all and through all and in you all
but unto every one of us is given grace according to the measure of the gift of christ
wherefore he saith when he ascended up on high he led captivity captive and gave gifts unto men
now that he ascended what is it but that he also descended first into the lower parts of the earth
he that descended is the same also that ascended up far above all heavens that he might fill all things
and he gave some apostles and some prophets and some evangelists and some pastors and teachers
for the perfecting of the saints for the work of the ministry for the edifying of the body of christ
till we all come in the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the son of god unto a perfect man unto the measure of the stature of the fulness of christ
that we henceforth be no more children tossed to and fro and carried about with every wind of doctrine by the sleight of men and cunning craftiness whereby they lie in wait to deceive
but speaking the truth in love may grow up into him in all things which is the head even christ
from whom the whole body fitly joined together and compacted by that which every joint supplieth according to the effectual working in the measure of every part maketh increase of the body unto the edifying of itself in love
this i say therefore and testify in the lord that ye henceforth walk not as other gentiles walk in the vanity of their mind
having the understanding darkened being alienated from the life of god through the ignorance that is in them because of the blindness of their heart
who being past feeling have given themselves over unto lasciviousness to work all uncleanness with greediness
but ye have not so learned christ
if so be that ye have heard him and have been taught by him as the truth is in jesus
that ye put off concerning the former conversation the old man which is corrupt according to the deceitful lusts
and be renewed in the spirit of your mind
and that ye put on the new man which after god is created in righteousness and true holiness
wherefore putting away lying speak every man truth with his neighbour for we are members one of another
be ye angry and sin not let not the sun go down upon your wrath
neither give place to the devil
let him that stole steal no more but rather let him labour working with his hands the thing which is good that he may have to give to him that needeth
let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth but that which is good to the use of edifying that it may minister grace unto the hearers
and grieve not the holy spirit of god whereby ye are sealed unto the day of redemption
let all bitterness and wrath and anger and clamour and evil speaking be put away from you with all malice
and be ye kind one to another tenderhearted forgiving one another even as god for christ's sake hath forgiven you
be ye therefore followers of god as dear children
and walk in love as christ also hath loved us and hath given himself for us an offering and a sacrifice to god for a sweetsmelling savour
but fornication and all uncleanness or covetousness let it not be once named among you as becometh saints
neither filthiness nor foolish talking nor jesting which are not convenient but rather giving of thanks
for this ye know that no whoremonger nor unclean person nor covetous man who is an idolater hath any inheritance in the kingdom of christ and of god
let no man deceive you with vain words for because of these things cometh the wrath of god upon the children of disobedience
be not ye therefore partakers with them
for ye were sometimes darkness but now are ye light in the lord walk as children of light
for the fruit of the spirit is in all goodness and righteousness and truth
proving what is acceptable unto the lord
and have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness but rather reprove them
for it is a shame even to speak of those things which are done of them in secret
but all things that are reproved are made manifest by the light for whatsoever doth make manifest is light
wherefore he saith awake thou that sleepest and arise from the dead and christ shall give thee light
see then that ye walk circumspectly not as fools but as wise
redeeming the time because the days are evil
wherefore be ye not unwise but understanding what the will of the lord is
and be not drunk with wine wherein is excess but be filled with the spirit
speaking to yourselves in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs singing and making melody in your heart to the lord
giving thanks always for all things unto god and the father in the name of our lord jesus christ
submitting yourselves one to another in the fear of god
wives submit yourselves unto your own husbands as unto the lord
for the husband is the head of the wife even as christ is the head of the church and he is the saviour of the body
therefore as the church is subject unto christ so let the wives be to their own husbands in every thing
husbands love your wives even as christ also loved the church and gave himself for it
that he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word
that he might present it to himself a glorious church not having spot or wrinkle or any such thing but that it should be holy and without blemish
so ought men to love their wives as their own bodies he that loveth his wife loveth himself
for no man ever yet hated his own flesh but nourisheth and cherisheth it even as the lord the church
for we are members of his body of his flesh and of his bones
for this cause shall a man leave his father and mother and shall be joined unto his wife and they two shall be one flesh
this is a great mystery but i speak concerning christ and the church
nevertheless let every one of you in particular so love his wife even as himself and the wife see that she reverence her husband
children obey your parents in the lord for this is right
honour thy father and mother which is the first commandment with promise
that it may be well with thee and thou mayest live long on the earth
and ye fathers provoke not your children to wrath but bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the lord
servants be obedient to them that are your masters according to the flesh with fear and trembling in singleness of your heart as unto christ
not with eyeservice as menpleasers but as the servants of christ doing the will of god from the heart
with good will doing service as to the lord and not to men
knowing that whatsoever good thing any man doeth the same shall he receive of the lord whether he be bond or free
and ye masters do the same things unto them forbearing threatening knowing that your master also is in heaven neither is there respect of persons with him
finally my brethren be strong in the lord and in the power of his might
put on the whole armour of god that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil
for we wrestle not against flesh and blood but against principalities against powers against the rulers of the darkness of this world against spiritual wickedness in high places
wherefore take unto you the whole armour of god that ye may be able to withstand in the evil day and having done all to stand
stand therefore having your loins girt about with truth and having on the breastplate of righteousness
and your feet shod with the preparation of the gospel of peace
above all taking the shield of faith wherewith ye shall be able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked
and take the helmet of salvation and the sword of the spirit which is the word of god
praying always with all prayer and supplication in the spirit and watching thereunto with all perseverance and supplication for all saints
and for me that utterance may be given unto me that i may open my mouth boldly to make known the mystery of the gospel
for which i am an ambassador in bonds that therein i may speak boldly as i ought to speak
but that ye also may know my affairs and how i do tychicus a beloved brother and faithful minister in the lord shall make known to you all things
whom i have sent unto you for the same purpose that ye might know our affairs and that he might comfort your hearts
peace be to the brethren and love with faith from god the father and the lord jesus christ
grace be with all them that love our lord jesus christ in sincerity amen
paul and timotheus the servants of jesus christ to all the saints in christ jesus which are at philippi with the bishops and deacons
grace be unto you and peace from god our father and from the lord jesus christ
i thank my god upon every remembrance of you
always in every prayer of mine for you all making request with joy
for your fellowship in the gospel from the first day until now
being confident of this very thing that he which hath begun a good work in you will perform it until the day of jesus christ
even as it is meet for me to think this of you all because i have you in my heart inasmuch as both in my bonds and in the defence and confirmation of the gospel ye all are partakers of my grace
for god is my record how greatly i long after you all in the bowels of jesus christ
and this i pray that your love may abound yet more and more in knowledge and in all judgment
that ye may approve things that are excellent that ye may be sincere and without offence till the day of christ
being filled with the fruits of righteousness which are by jesus christ unto the glory and praise of god
but i would ye should understand brethren that the things which happened unto me have fallen out rather unto the furtherance of the gospel
so that my bonds in christ are manifest in all the palace and in all other places
and many of the brethren in the lord waxing confident by my bonds are much more bold to speak the word without fear
some indeed preach christ even of envy and strife and some also of good will
the one preach christ of contention not sincerely supposing to add affliction to my bonds
but the other of love knowing that i am set for the defence of the gospel
what then notwithstanding every way whether in pretence or in truth christ is preached and i therein do rejoice yea and will rejoice
for i know that this shall turn to my salvation through your prayer and the supply of the spirit of jesus christ
according to my earnest expectation and my hope that in nothing i shall be ashamed but that with all boldness as always so now also christ shall be magnified in my body whether it be by life or by death
for to me to live is christ and to die is gain
but if i live in the flesh this is the fruit of my labour yet what i shall choose i wot not
for i am in a strait betwixt two having a desire to depart and to be with christ which is far better
nevertheless to abide in the flesh is more needful for you
and having this confidence i know that i shall abide and continue with you all for your furtherance and joy of faith
that your rejoicing may be more abundant in jesus christ for me by my coming to you again
only let your conversation be as it becometh the gospel of christ that whether i come and see you or else be absent i may hear of your affairs that ye stand fast in one spirit with one mind striving together for the faith of the gospel
and in nothing terrified by your adversaries which is to them an evident token of perdition but to you of salvation and that of god
for unto you it is given in the behalf of christ not only to believe on him but also to suffer for his sake
having the same conflict which ye saw in me and now hear to be in me
if there be therefore any consolation in christ if any comfort of love if any fellowship of the spirit if any bowels and mercies
fulfil ye my joy that ye be likeminded having the same love being of one accord of one mind
let nothing be done through strife or vainglory but in lowliness of mind let each esteem other better than themselves
look not every man on his own things but every man also on the things of others
let this mind be in you which was also in christ jesus
who being in the form of god thought it not robbery to be equal with god
but made himself of no reputation and took upon him the form of a servant and was made in the likeness of men
and being found in fashion as a man he humbled himself and became obedient unto death even the death of the cross
wherefore god also hath highly exalted him and given him a name which is above every name
that at the name of jesus every knee should bow of things in heaven and things in earth and things under the earth
and that every tongue should confess that jesus christ is lord to the glory of god the father
wherefore my beloved as ye have always obeyed not as in my presence only but now much more in my absence work out your own salvation with fear and trembling
for it is god which worketh in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure
do all things without murmurings and disputings
that ye may be blameless and harmless the sons of god without rebuke in the midst of a crooked and perverse nation among whom ye shine as lights in the world
holding forth the word of life that i may rejoice in the day of christ that i have not run in vain neither laboured in vain
yea and if i be offered upon the sacrifice and service of your faith i joy and rejoice with you all
for the same cause also do ye joy and rejoice with me
but i trust in the lord jesus to send timotheus shortly unto you that i also may be of good comfort when i know your state
for i have no man likeminded who will naturally care for your state
for all seek their own not the things which are jesus christ's
but ye know the proof of him that as a son with the father he hath served with me in the gospel
him therefore i hope to send presently so soon as i shall see how it will go with me
but i trust in the lord that i also myself shall come shortly
yet i supposed it necessary to send to you epaphroditus my brother and companion in labour and fellowsoldier but your messenger and he that ministered to my wants
for he longed after you all and was full of heaviness because that ye had heard that he had been sick
for indeed he was sick nigh unto death but god had mercy on him and not on him only but on me also lest i should have sorrow upon sorrow
i sent him therefore the more carefully that when ye see him again ye may rejoice and that i may be the less sorrowful
receive him therefore in the lord with all gladness and hold such in reputation
because for the work of christ he was nigh unto death not regarding his life to supply your lack of service toward me
finally my brethren rejoice in the lord to write the same things to you to me indeed is not grievous but for you it is safe
beware of dogs beware of evil workers beware of the concision
for we are the circumcision which worship god in the spirit and rejoice in christ jesus and have no confidence in the flesh
though i might also have confidence in the flesh if any other man thinketh that he hath whereof he might trust in the flesh i more
circumcised the eighth day of the stock of israel of the tribe of benjamin an hebrew of the hebrews as touching the law a pharisee
concerning zeal persecuting the church touching the righteousness which is in the law blameless
but what things were gain to me those i counted loss for christ
yea doubtless and i count all things but loss for the excellency of the knowledge of christ jesus my lord for whom i have suffered the loss of all things and do count them but dung that i may win christ
and be found in him not having mine own righteousness which is of the law but that which is through the faith of christ the righteousness which is of god by faith
that i may know him and the power of his resurrection and the fellowship of his sufferings being made conformable unto his death
if by any means i might attain unto the resurrection of the dead
not as though i had already attained either were already perfect but i follow after if that i may apprehend that for which also i am apprehended of christ jesus
brethren i count not myself to have apprehended but this one thing i do forgetting those things which are behind and reaching forth unto those things which are before
i press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of god in christ jesus
let us therefore as many as be perfect be thus minded and if in any thing ye be otherwise minded god shall reveal even this unto you
nevertheless whereto we have already attained let us walk by the same rule let us mind the same thing
brethren be followers together of me and mark them which walk so as ye have us for an ensample
for many walk of whom i have told you often and now tell you even weeping that they are the enemies of the cross of christ
whose end is destruction whose god is their belly and whose glory is in their shame who mind earthly things
for our conversation is in heaven from whence also we look for the saviour the lord jesus christ
who shall change our vile body that it may be fashioned like unto his glorious body according to the working whereby he is able even to subdue all things unto himself
therefore my brethren dearly beloved and longed for my joy and crown so stand fast in the lord my dearly beloved
i beseech euodias and beseech syntyche that they be of the same mind in the lord
and i intreat thee also true yokefellow help those women which laboured with me in the gospel with clement also and with other my fellowlabourers whose names are in the book of life
rejoice in the lord alway and again i say rejoice
let your moderation be known unto all men the lord is at hand
be careful for nothing but in every thing by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto god
and the peace of god which passeth all understanding shall keep your hearts and minds through christ jesus
finally brethren whatsoever things are true whatsoever things are honest whatsoever things are just whatsoever things are pure whatsoever things are lovely whatsoever things are of good report if there be any virtue and if there be any praise think on these things
those things which ye have both learned and received and heard and seen in me do and the god of peace shall be with you
but i rejoiced in the lord greatly that now at the last your care of me hath flourished again wherein ye were also careful but ye lacked opportunity
not that i speak in respect of want for i have learned in whatsoever state i am therewith to be content
i know both how to be abased and i know how to abound every where and in all things i am instructed both to be full and to be hungry both to abound and to suffer need
i can do all things through christ which strengtheneth me
notwithstanding ye have well done that ye did communicate with my affliction
now ye philippians know also that in the beginning of the gospel when i departed from macedonia no church communicated with me as concerning giving and receiving but ye only
for even in thessalonica ye sent once and again unto my necessity
not because i desire a gift but i desire fruit that may abound to your account
but i have all and abound i am full having received of epaphroditus the things which were sent from you an odour of a sweet smell a sacrifice acceptable wellpleasing to god
but my god shall supply all your need according to his riches in glory by christ jesus
now unto god and our father be glory for ever and ever amen
salute every saint in christ jesus the brethren which are with me greet you
all the saints salute you chiefly they that are of caesar's household
the grace of our lord jesus christ be with you all amen
paul an apostle of jesus christ by the will of god and timotheus our brother
to the saints and faithful brethren in christ which are at colosse grace be unto you and peace from god our father and the lord jesus christ
we give thanks to god and the father of our lord jesus christ praying always for you
since we heard of your faith in christ jesus and of the love which ye have to all the saints
for the hope which is laid up for you in heaven whereof ye heard before in the word of the truth of the gospel
which is come unto you as it is in all the world and bringeth forth fruit as it doth also in you since the day ye heard of it and knew the grace of god in truth
as ye also learned of epaphras our dear fellowservant who is for you a faithful minister of christ
who also declared unto us your love in the spirit
for this cause we also since the day we heard it do not cease to pray for you and to desire that ye might be filled with the knowledge of his will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding
that ye might walk worthy of the lord unto all pleasing being fruitful in every good work and increasing in the knowledge of god
strengthened with all might according to his glorious power unto all patience and longsuffering with joyfulness
giving thanks unto the father which hath made us meet to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in light
who hath delivered us from the power of darkness and hath translated us into the kingdom of his dear son
in whom we have redemption through his blood even the forgiveness of sins
who is the image of the invisible god the firstborn of every creature
for by him were all things created that are in heaven and that are in earth visible and invisible whether they be thrones or dominions or principalities or powers all things were created by him and for him
and he is before all things and by him all things consist
and he is the head of the body the church who is the beginning the firstborn from the dead that in all things he might have the preeminence
for it pleased the father that in him should all fulness dwell
and having made peace through the blood of his cross by him to reconcile all things unto himself by him i say whether they be things in earth or things in heaven
and you that were sometime alienated and enemies in your mind by wicked works yet now hath he reconciled
in the body of his flesh through death to present you holy and unblameable and unreproveable in his sight
if ye continue in the faith grounded and settled and be not moved away from the hope of the gospel which ye have heard and which was preached to every creature which is under heaven whereof i paul am made a minister
who now rejoice in my sufferings for you and fill up that which is behind of the afflictions of christ in my flesh for his body's sake which is the church
whereof i am made a minister according to the dispensation of god which is given to me for you to fulfil the word of god
even the mystery which hath been hid from ages and from generations but now is made manifest to his saints
to whom god would make known what is the riches of the glory of this mystery among the gentiles which is christ in you the hope of glory
whom we preach warning every man and teaching every man in all wisdom that we may present every man perfect in christ jesus
whereunto i also labour striving according to his working which worketh in me mightily
for i would that ye knew what great conflict i have for you and for them at laodicea and for as many as have not seen my face in the flesh
that their hearts might be comforted being knit together in love and unto all riches of the full assurance of understanding to the acknowledgement of the mystery of god and of the father and of christ
in whom are hid all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge
and this i say lest any man should beguile you with enticing words
for though i be absent in the flesh yet am i with you in the spirit joying and beholding your order and the stedfastness of your faith in christ
as ye have therefore received christ jesus the lord so walk ye in him
rooted and built up in him and stablished in the faith as ye have been taught abounding therein with thanksgiving
beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit after the tradition of men after the rudiments of the world and not after christ
for in him dwelleth all the fulness of the godhead bodily
and ye are complete in him which is the head of all principality and power
in whom also ye are circumcised with the circumcision made without hands in putting off the body of the sins of the flesh by the circumcision of christ
buried with him in baptism wherein also ye are risen with him through the faith of the operation of god who hath raised him from the dead
and you being dead in your sins and the uncircumcision of your flesh hath he quickened together with him having forgiven you all trespasses
blotting out the handwriting of ordinances that was against us which was contrary to us and took it out of the way nailing it to his cross
and having spoiled principalities and powers he made a shew of them openly triumphing over them in it
let no man therefore judge you in meat or in drink or in respect of an holyday or of the new moon or of the sabbath days
which are a shadow of things to come but the body is of christ
let no man beguile you of your reward in a voluntary humility and worshipping of angels intruding into those things which he hath not seen vainly puffed up by his fleshly mind
and not holding the head from which all the body by joints and bands having nourishment ministered and knit together increaseth with the increase of god
wherefore if ye be dead with christ from the rudiments of the world why as though living in the world are ye subject to ordinances
touch not taste not handle not
which all are to perish with the using after the commandments and doctrines of men
which things have indeed a shew of wisdom in will worship and humility and neglecting of the body not in any honour to the satisfying of the flesh
if ye then be risen with christ seek those things which are above where christ sitteth on the right hand of god
set your affection on things above not on things on the earth
for ye are dead and your life is hid with christ in god
when christ who is our life shall appear then shall ye also appear with him in glory
mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth fornication uncleanness inordinate affection evil concupiscence and covetousness which is idolatry
for which things sake the wrath of god cometh on the children of disobedience
in the which ye also walked some time when ye lived in them
but now ye also put off all these anger wrath malice blasphemy filthy communication out of your mouth
lie not one to another seeing that ye have put off the old man with his deeds
and have put on the new man which is renewed in knowledge after the image of him that created him
where there is neither greek nor jew circumcision nor uncircumcision barbarian scythian bond nor free but christ is all and in all
put on therefore as the elect of god holy and beloved bowels of mercies kindness humbleness of mind meekness longsuffering
forbearing one another and forgiving one another if any man have a quarrel against any even as christ forgave you so also do ye
and above all these things put on charity which is the bond of perfectness
and let the peace of god rule in your hearts to the which also ye are called in one body and be ye thankful
let the word of christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom teaching and admonishing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs singing with grace in your hearts to the lord
and whatsoever ye do in word or deed do all in the name of the lord jesus giving thanks to god and the father by him
wives submit yourselves unto your own husbands as it is fit in the lord
husbands love your wives and be not bitter against them
children obey your parents in all things for this is well pleasing unto the lord
fathers provoke not your children to anger lest they be discouraged
servants obey in all things your masters according to the flesh not with eyeservice as menpleasers but in singleness of heart fearing god
and whatsoever ye do do it heartily as to the lord and not unto men
knowing that of the lord ye shall receive the reward of the inheritance for ye serve the lord christ
but he that doeth wrong shall receive for the wrong which he hath done and there is no respect of persons
masters give unto your servants that which is just and equal knowing that ye also have a master in heaven
continue in prayer and watch in the same with thanksgiving
withal praying also for us that god would open unto us a door of utterance to speak the mystery of christ for which i am also in bonds
that i may make it manifest as i ought to speak
walk in wisdom toward them that are without redeeming the time
let your speech be alway with grace seasoned with salt that ye may know how ye ought to answer every man
all my state shall tychicus declare unto you who is a beloved brother and a faithful minister and fellowservant in the lord
whom i have sent unto you for the same purpose that he might know your estate and comfort your hearts
with onesimus a faithful and beloved brother who is one of you they shall make known unto you all things which are done here
aristarchus my fellowprisoner saluteth you and marcus sister's son to barnabas touching whom ye received commandments if he come unto you receive him
and jesus which is called justus who are of the circumcision these only are my fellowworkers unto the kingdom of god which have been a comfort unto me
epaphras who is one of you a servant of christ saluteth you always labouring fervently for you in prayers that ye may stand perfect and complete in all the will of god
for i bear him record that he hath a great zeal for you and them that are in laodicea and them in hierapolis
luke the beloved physician and demas greet you
salute the brethren which are in laodicea and nymphas and the church which is in his house
and when this epistle is read among you cause that it be read also in the church of the laodiceans and that ye likewise read the epistle from laodicea
and say to archippus take heed to the ministry which thou hast received in the lord that thou fulfil it
the salutation by the hand of me paul remember my bonds grace be with you amen
1th11 paul and silvanus and timotheus unto the church of the thessalonians which is in god the father and in the lord jesus christ grace be unto you and peace from god our father and the lord jesus christ
1th12 we give thanks to god always for you all making mention of you in our prayers
1th13 remembering without ceasing your work of faith and labour of love and patience of hope in our lord jesus christ in the sight of god and our father
1th14 knowing brethren beloved your election of god
1th15 for our gospel came not unto you in word only but also in power and in the holy ghost and in much assurance as ye know what manner of men we were among you for your sake
1th16 and ye became followers of us and of the lord having received the word in much affliction with joy of the holy ghost
1th17 so that ye were ensamples to all that believe in macedonia and achaia
1th18 for from you sounded out the word of the lord not only in macedonia and achaia but also in every place your faith to godward is spread abroad so that we need not to speak any thing
1th19 for they themselves shew of us what manner of entering in we had unto you and how ye turned to god from idols to serve the living and true god
1th110 and to wait for his son from heaven whom he raised from the dead even jesus which delivered us from the wrath to come
1th21 for yourselves brethren know our entrance in unto you that it was not in vain
1th22 but even after that we had suffered before and were shamefully entreated as ye know at philippi we were bold in our god to speak unto you the gospel of god with much contention
1th23 for our exhortation was not of deceit nor of uncleanness nor in guile
1th24 but as we were allowed of god to be put in trust with the gospel even so we speak not as pleasing men but god which trieth our hearts
1th25 for neither at any time used we flattering words as ye know nor a cloke of covetousness god is witness
1th26 nor of men sought we glory neither of you nor yet of others when we might have been burdensome as the apostles of christ
1th27 but we were gentle among you even as a nurse cherisheth her children
1th28 so being affectionately desirous of you we were willing to have imparted unto you not the gospel of god only but also our own souls because ye were dear unto us
1th29 for ye remember brethren our labour and travail for labouring night and day because we would not be chargeable unto any of you we preached unto you the gospel of god
1th210 ye are witnesses and god also how holily and justly and unblameably we behaved ourselves among you that believe
1th211 as ye know how we exhorted and comforted and charged every one of you as a father doth his children
1th212 that ye would walk worthy of god who hath called you unto his kingdom and glory
1th213 for this cause also thank we god without ceasing because when ye received the word of god which ye heard of us ye received it not as the word of men but as it is in truth the word of god which effectually worketh also in you that believe
1th214 for ye brethren became followers of the churches of god which in judaea are in christ jesus for ye also have suffered like things of your own countrymen even as they have of the jews
1th215 who both killed the lord jesus and their own prophets and have persecuted us and they please not god and are contrary to all men
1th216 forbidding us to speak to the gentiles that they might be saved to fill up their sins alway for the wrath is come upon them to the uttermost
1th217 but we brethren being taken from you for a short time in presence not in heart endeavoured the more abundantly to see your face with great desire
1th218 wherefore we would have come unto you even i paul once and again but satan hindered us
1th219 for what is our hope or joy or crown of rejoicing are not even ye in the presence of our lord jesus christ at his coming
1th220 for ye are our glory and joy
1th31 wherefore when we could no longer forbear we thought it good to be left at athens alone
1th32 and sent timotheus our brother and minister of god and our fellowlabourer in the gospel of christ to establish you and to comfort you concerning your faith
1th33 that no man should be moved by these afflictions for yourselves know that we are appointed thereunto
1th34 for verily when we were with you we told you before that we should suffer tribulation even as it came to pass and ye know
1th35 for this cause when i could no longer forbear i sent to know your faith lest by some means the tempter have tempted you and our labour be in vain
1th36 but now when timotheus came from you unto us and brought us good tidings of your faith and charity and that ye have good remembrance of us always desiring greatly to see us as we also to see you
1th37 therefore brethren we were comforted over you in all our affliction and distress by your faith
1th38 for now we live if ye stand fast in the lord
1th39 for what thanks can we render to god again for you for all the joy wherewith we joy for your sakes before our god
1th310 night and day praying exceedingly that we might see your face and might perfect that which is lacking in your faith
1th311 now god himself and our father and our lord jesus christ direct our way unto you
1th312 and the lord make you to increase and abound in love one toward another and toward all men even as we do toward you
1th313 to the end he may stablish your hearts unblameable in holiness before god even our father at the coming of our lord jesus christ with all his saints
1th41 furthermore then we beseech you brethren and exhort you by the lord jesus that as ye have received of us how ye ought to walk and to please god so ye would abound more and more
1th42 for ye know what commandments we gave you by the lord jesus
1th43 for this is the will of god even your sanctification that ye should abstain from fornication
1th44 that every one of you should know how to possess his vessel in sanctification and honour
1th45 not in the lust of concupiscence even as the gentiles which know not god
1th46 that no man go beyond and defraud his brother in any matter because that the lord is the avenger of all such as we also have forewarned you and testified
1th47 for god hath not called us unto uncleanness but unto holiness
1th48 he therefore that despiseth despiseth not man but god who hath also given unto us his holy spirit
1th49 but as touching brotherly love ye need not that i write unto you for ye yourselves are taught of god to love one another
1th410 and indeed ye do it toward all the brethren which are in all macedonia but we beseech you brethren that ye increase more and more
1th411 and that ye study to be quiet and to do your own business and to work with your own hands as we commanded you
1th412 that ye may walk honestly toward them that are without and that ye may have lack of nothing
1th413 but i would not have you to be ignorant brethren concerning them which are asleep that ye sorrow not even as others which have no hope
1th414 for if we believe that jesus died and rose again even so them also which sleep in jesus will god bring with him
1th415 for this we say unto you by the word of the lord that we which are alive and remain unto the coming of the lord shall not prevent them which are asleep
1th416 for the lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout with the voice of the archangel and with the trump of god and the dead in christ shall rise first
1th417 then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the lord in the air and so shall we ever be with the lord
1th418 wherefore comfort one another with these words
1th51 but of the times and the seasons brethren ye have no need that i write unto you
1th52 for yourselves know perfectly that the day of the lord so cometh as a thief in the night
1th53 for when they shall say peace and safety then sudden destruction cometh upon them as travail upon a woman with child and they shall not escape
1th54 but ye brethren are not in darkness that that day should overtake you as a thief
1th55 ye are all the children of light and the children of the day we are not of the night nor of darkness
1th56 therefore let us not sleep as do others but let us watch and be sober
1th57 for they that sleep sleep in the night and they that be drunken are drunken in the night
1th58 but let us who are of the day be sober putting on the breastplate of faith and love and for an helmet the hope of salvation
1th59 for god hath not appointed us to wrath but to obtain salvation by our lord jesus christ
1th510 who died for us that whether we wake or sleep we should live together with him
1th511 wherefore comfort yourselves together and edify one another even as also ye do
1th512 and we beseech you brethren to know them which labour among you and are over you in the lord and admonish you
1th513 and to esteem them very highly in love for their work's sake and be at peace among yourselves
1th514 now we exhort you brethren warn them that are unruly comfort the feebleminded support the weak be patient toward all men
1th515 see that none render evil for evil unto any man but ever follow that which is good both among yourselves and to all men
1th516 rejoice evermore
1th517 pray without ceasing
1th518 in every thing give thanks for this is the will of god in christ jesus concerning you
1th519 quench not the spirit
1th520 despise not prophesyings
1th521 prove all things hold fast that which is good
1th522 abstain from all appearance of evil
1th523 and the very god of peace sanctify you wholly and i pray god your whole spirit and soul and body be preserved blameless unto the coming of our lord jesus christ
1th524 faithful is he that calleth you who also will do it
1th525 brethren pray for us
1th526 greet all the brethren with an holy kiss
1th527 i charge you by the lord that this epistle be read unto all the holy brethren
1th528 the grace of our lord jesus christ be with you amen
2th11 paul and silvanus and timotheus unto the church of the thessalonians in god our father and the lord jesus christ
2th12 grace unto you and peace from god our father and the lord jesus christ
2th13 we are bound to thank god always for you brethren as it is meet because that your faith groweth exceedingly and the charity of every one of you all toward each other aboundeth
2th14 so that we ourselves glory in you in the churches of god for your patience and faith in all your persecutions and tribulations that ye endure
2th15 which is a manifest token of the righteous judgment of god that ye may be counted worthy of the kingdom of god for which ye also suffer
2th16 seeing it is a righteous thing with god to recompense tribulation to them that trouble you
2th17 and to you who are troubled rest with us when the lord jesus shall be revealed from heaven with his mighty angels
2th18 in flaming fire taking vengeance on them that know not god and that obey not the gospel of our lord jesus christ
2th19 who shall be punished with everlasting destruction from the presence of the lord and from the glory of his power
2th110 when he shall come to be glorified in his saints and to be admired in all them that believe because our testimony among you was believed in that day
2th111 wherefore also we pray always for you that our god would count you worthy of this calling and fulfil all the good pleasure of his goodness and the work of faith with power
2th112 that the name of our lord jesus christ may be glorified in you and ye in him according to the grace of our god and the lord jesus christ
2th21 now we beseech you brethren by the coming of our lord jesus christ and by our gathering together unto him
2th22 that ye be not soon shaken in mind or be troubled neither by spirit nor by word nor by letter as from us as that the day of christ is at hand
2th23 let no man deceive you by any means for that day shall not come except there come a falling away first and that man of sin be revealed the son of perdition
2th24 who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called god or that is worshipped so that he as god sitteth in the temple of god shewing himself that he is god
2th25 remember ye not that when i was yet with you i told you these things
2th26 and now ye know what withholdeth that he might be revealed in his time
2th27 for the mystery of iniquity doth already work only he who now letteth will let until he be taken out of the way
2th28 and then shall that wicked be revealed whom the lord shall consume with the spirit of his mouth and shall destroy with the brightness of his coming
2th29 even him whose coming is after the working of satan with all power and signs and lying wonders
2th210 and with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish because they received not the love of the truth that they might be saved
2th211 and for this cause god shall send them strong delusion that they should believe a lie
2th212 that they all might be damned who believed not the truth but had pleasure in unrighteousness
2th213 but we are bound to give thanks alway to god for you brethren beloved of the lord because god hath from the beginning chosen you to salvation through sanctification of the spirit and belief of the truth
2th214 whereunto he called you by our gospel to the obtaining of the glory of our lord jesus christ
2th215 therefore brethren stand fast and hold the traditions which ye have been taught whether by word or our epistle
2th216 now our lord jesus christ himself and god even our father which hath loved us and hath given us everlasting consolation and good hope through grace
2th217 comfort your hearts and stablish you in every good word and work
2th31 finally brethren pray for us that the word of the lord may have free course and be glorified even as it is with you
2th32 and that we may be delivered from unreasonable and wicked men for all men have not faith
2th33 but the lord is faithful who shall stablish you and keep you from evil
2th34 and we have confidence in the lord touching you that ye both do and will do the things which we command you
2th35 and the lord direct your hearts into the love of god and into the patient waiting for christ
2th36 now we command you brethren in the name of our lord jesus christ that ye withdraw yourselves from every brother that walketh disorderly and not after the tradition which he received of us
2th37 for yourselves know how ye ought to follow us for we behaved not ourselves disorderly among you
2th38 neither did we eat any man's bread for nought but wrought with labour and travail night and day that we might not be chargeable to any of you
2th39 not because we have not power but to make ourselves an ensample unto you to follow us
2th310 for even when we were with you this we commanded you that if any would not work neither should he eat
2th311 for we hear that there are some which walk among you disorderly working not at all but are busybodies
2th312 now them that are such we command and exhort by our lord jesus christ that with quietness they work and eat their own bread
2th313 but ye brethren be not weary in well doing
2th314 and if any man obey not our word by this epistle note that man and have no company with him that he may be ashamed
2th315 yet count him not as an enemy but admonish him as a brother
2th316 now the lord of peace himself give you peace always by all means the lord be with you all
2th317 the salutation of paul with mine own hand which is the token in every epistle so i write
2th318 the grace of our lord jesus christ be with you all amen
1tim11 paul an apostle of jesus christ by the commandment of god our saviour and lord jesus christ which is our hope
1tim12 unto timothy my own son in the faith grace mercy and peace from god our father and jesus christ our lord
1tim13 as i besought thee to abide still at ephesus when i went into macedonia that thou mightest charge some that they teach no other doctrine
1tim14 neither give heed to fables and endless genealogies which minister questions rather than godly edifying which is in faith so do
1tim15 now the end of the commandment is charity out of a pure heart and of a good conscience and of faith unfeigned
1tim16 from which some having swerved have turned aside unto vain jangling
1tim17 desiring to be teachers of the law understanding neither what they say nor whereof they affirm
1tim18 but we know that the law is good if a man use it lawfully
1tim19 knowing this that the law is not made for a righteous man but for the lawless and disobedient for the ungodly and for sinners for unholy and profane for murderers of fathers and murderers of mothers for manslayers
1tim110 for whoremongers for them that defile themselves with mankind for menstealers for liars for perjured persons and if there be any other thing that is contrary to sound doctrine
1tim111 according to the glorious gospel of the blessed god which was committed to my trust
1tim112 and i thank christ jesus our lord who hath enabled me for that he counted me faithful putting me into the ministry
1tim113 who was before a blasphemer and a persecutor and injurious but i obtained mercy because i did it ignorantly in unbelief
1tim114 and the grace of our lord was exceeding abundant with faith and love which is in christ jesus
1tim115 this is a faithful saying and worthy of all acceptation that christ jesus came into the world to save sinners of whom i am chief
1tim116 howbeit for this cause i obtained mercy that in me first jesus christ might shew forth all longsuffering for a pattern to them which should hereafter believe on him to life everlasting
1tim117 now unto the king eternal immortal invisible the only wise god be honour and glory for ever and ever amen
1tim118 this charge i commit unto thee son timothy according to the prophecies which went before on thee that thou by them mightest war a good warfare
1tim119 holding faith and a good conscience which some having put away concerning faith have made shipwreck
1tim120 of whom is hymenaeus and alexander whom i have delivered unto satan that they may learn not to blaspheme
1tim21 i exhort therefore that first of all supplications prayers intercessions and giving of thanks be made for all men
1tim22 for kings and for all that are in authority that we may lead a quiet and peaceable life in all godliness and honesty
1tim23 for this is good and acceptable in the sight of god our saviour
1tim24 who will have all men to be saved and to come unto the knowledge of the truth
1tim25 for there is one god and one mediator between god and men the man christ jesus
1tim26 who gave himself a ransom for all to be testified in due time
1tim27 whereunto i am ordained a preacher and an apostle i speak the truth in christ and lie not a teacher of the gentiles in faith and verity
1tim28 i will therefore that men pray every where lifting up holy hands without wrath and doubting
1tim29 in like manner also that women adorn themselves in modest apparel with shamefacedness and sobriety not with broided hair or gold or pearls or costly array
1tim210 but which becometh women professing godliness with good works
1tim211 let the woman learn in silence with all subjection
1tim212 but i suffer not a woman to teach nor to usurp authority over the man but to be in silence
1tim213 for adam was first formed then eve
1tim214 and adam was not deceived but the woman being deceived was in the transgression
1tim215 notwithstanding she shall be saved in childbearing if they continue in faith and charity and holiness with sobriety
1tim31 this is a true saying if a man desire the office of a bishop he desireth a good work
1tim32 a bishop then must be blameless the husband of one wife vigilant sober of good behaviour given to hospitality apt to teach
1tim33 not given to wine no striker not greedy of filthy lucre but patient not a brawler not covetous
1tim34 one that ruleth well his own house having his children in subjection with all gravity
1tim35 for if a man know not how to rule his own house how shall he take care of the church of god
1tim36 not a novice lest being lifted up with pride he fall into the condemnation of the devil
1tim37 moreover he must have a good report of them which are without lest he fall into reproach and the snare of the devil
1tim38 likewise must the deacons be grave not doubletongued not given to much wine not greedy of filthy lucre
1tim39 holding the mystery of the faith in a pure conscience
1tim310 and let these also first be proved then let them use the office of a deacon being found blameless
1tim311 even so must their wives be grave not slanderers sober faithful in all things
1tim312 let the deacons be the husbands of one wife ruling their children and their own houses well
1tim313 for they that have used the office of a deacon well purchase to themselves a good degree and great boldness in the faith which is in christ jesus
1tim314 these things write i unto thee hoping to come unto thee shortly
1tim315 but if i tarry long that thou mayest know how thou oughtest to behave thyself in the house of god which is the church of the living god the pillar and ground of the truth
1tim316 and without controversy great is the mystery of godliness god was manifest in the flesh justified in the spirit seen of angels preached unto the gentiles believed on in the world received up into glory
1tim41 now the spirit speaketh expressly that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith giving heed to seducing spirits and doctrines of devils
1tim42 speaking lies in hypocrisy having their conscience seared with a hot iron
1tim43 forbidding to marry and commanding to abstain from meats which god hath created to be received with thanksgiving of them which believe and know the truth
1tim44 for every creature of god is good and nothing to be refused if it be received with thanksgiving
1tim45 for it is sanctified by the word of god and prayer
1tim46 if thou put the brethren in remembrance of these things thou shalt be a good minister of jesus christ nourished up in the words of faith and of good doctrine whereunto thou hast attained
1tim47 but refuse profane and old wives fables and exercise thyself rather unto godliness
1tim48 for bodily exercise profiteth little but godliness is profitable unto all things having promise of the life that now is and of that which is to come
1tim49 this is a faithful saying and worthy of all acceptation
1tim410 for therefore we both labour and suffer reproach because we trust in the living god who is the saviour of all men specially of those that believe
1tim411 these things command and teach
1tim412 let no man despise thy youth but be thou an example of the believers in word in conversation in charity in spirit in faith in purity
1tim413 till i come give attendance to reading to exhortation to doctrine
1tim414 neglect not the gift that is in thee which was given thee by prophecy with the laying on of the hands of the presbytery
1tim415 meditate upon these things give thyself wholly to them that thy profiting may appear to all
1tim416 take heed unto thyself and unto the doctrine continue in them for in doing this thou shalt both save thyself and them that hear thee
1tim51 rebuke not an elder but intreat him as a father and the younger men as brethren
1tim52 the elder women as mothers the younger as sisters with all purity
1tim53 honour widows that are widows indeed
1tim54 but if any widow have children or nephews let them learn first to shew piety at home and to requite their parents for that is good and acceptable before god
1tim55 now she that is a widow indeed and desolate trusteth in god and continueth in supplications and prayers night and day
1tim56 but she that liveth in pleasure is dead while she liveth
1tim57 and these things give in charge that they may be blameless
1tim58 but if any provide not for his own and specially for those of his own house he hath denied the faith and is worse than an infidel
1tim59 let not a widow be taken into the number under threescore years old having been the wife of one man
1tim510 well reported of for good works if she have brought up children if she have lodged strangers if she have washed the saints feet if she have relieved the afflicted if she have diligently followed every good work
1tim511 but the younger widows refuse for when they have begun to wax wanton against christ they will marry
1tim512 having damnation because they have cast off their first faith
1tim513 and withal they learn to be idle wandering about from house to house and not only idle but tattlers also and busybodies speaking things which they ought not
1tim514 i will therefore that the younger women marry bear children guide the house give none occasion to the adversary to speak reproachfully
1tim515 for some are already turned aside after satan
1tim516 if any man or woman that believeth have widows let them relieve them and let not the church be charged that it may relieve them that are widows indeed
1tim517 let the elders that rule well be counted worthy of double honour especially they who labour in the word and doctrine
1tim518 for the scripture saith thou shalt not muzzle the ox that treadeth out the corn and the labourer is worthy of his reward
1tim519 against an elder receive not an accusation but before two or three witnesses
1tim520 them that sin rebuke before all that others also may fear
1tim521 i charge thee before god and the lord jesus christ and the elect angels that thou observe these things without preferring one before another doing nothing by partiality
1tim522 lay hands suddenly on no man neither be partaker of other men's sins keep thyself pure
1tim523 drink no longer water but use a little wine for thy stomach's sake and thine often infirmities
1tim524 some men's sins are open beforehand going before to judgment and some men they follow after
1tim525 likewise also the good works of some are manifest beforehand and they that are otherwise cannot be hid
1tim61 let as many servants as are under the yoke count their own masters worthy of all honour that the name of god and his doctrine be not blasphemed
1tim62 and they that have believing masters let them not despise them because they are brethren but rather do them service because they are faithful and beloved partakers of the benefit these things teach and exhort
1tim63 if any man teach otherwise and consent not to wholesome words even the words of our lord jesus christ and to the doctrine which is according to godliness
1tim64 he is proud knowing nothing but doting about questions and strifes of words whereof cometh envy strife railings evil surmisings
1tim65 perverse disputings of men of corrupt minds and destitute of the truth supposing that gain is godliness from such withdraw thyself
1tim66 but godliness with contentment is great gain
1tim67 for we brought nothing into this world and it is certain we can carry nothing out
1tim68 and having food and raiment let us be therewith content
1tim69 but they that will be rich fall into temptation and a snare and into many foolish and hurtful lusts which drown men in destruction and perdition
1tim610 for the love of money is the root of all evil which while some coveted after they have erred from the faith and pierced themselves through with many sorrows
1tim611 but thou o man of god flee these things and follow after righteousness godliness faith love patience meekness
1tim612 fight the good fight of faith lay hold on eternal life whereunto thou art also called and hast professed a good profession before many witnesses
1tim613 i give thee charge in the sight of god who quickeneth all things and before christ jesus who before pontius pilate witnessed a good confession
1tim614 that thou keep this commandment without spot unrebukeable until the appearing of our lord jesus christ
1tim615 which in his times he shall shew who is the blessed and only potentate the king of kings and lord of lords
1tim616 who only hath immortality dwelling in the light which no man can approach unto whom no man hath seen nor can see to whom be honour and power everlasting amen
1tim617 charge them that are rich in this world that they be not highminded nor trust in uncertain riches but in the living god who giveth us richly all things to enjoy
1tim618 that they do good that they be rich in good works ready to distribute willing to communicate
1tim619 laying up in store for themselves a good foundation against the time to come that they may lay hold on eternal life
1tim620 o timothy keep that which is committed to thy trust avoiding profane and vain babblings and oppositions of science falsely so called
1tim621 which some professing have erred concerning the faith grace be with thee amen
2tim11 paul an apostle of jesus christ by the will of god according to the promise of life which is in christ jesus
2tim12 to timothy my dearly beloved son grace mercy and peace from god the father and christ jesus our lord
2tim13 i thank god whom i serve from my forefathers with pure conscience that without ceasing i have remembrance of thee in my prayers night and day
2tim14 greatly desiring to see thee being mindful of thy tears that i may be filled with joy
2tim15 when i call to remembrance the unfeigned faith that is in thee which dwelt first in thy grandmother lois and thy mother eunice and i am persuaded that in thee also
2tim16 wherefore i put thee in remembrance that thou stir up the gift of god which is in thee by the putting on of my hands
2tim17 for god hath not given us the spirit of fear but of power and of love and of a sound mind
2tim18 be not thou therefore ashamed of the testimony of our lord nor of me his prisoner but be thou partaker of the afflictions of the gospel according to the power of god
2tim19 who hath saved us and called us with an holy calling not according to our works but according to his own purpose and grace which was given us in christ jesus before the world began
2tim110 but is now made manifest by the appearing of our saviour jesus christ who hath abolished death and hath brought life and immortality to light through the gospel
2tim111 whereunto i am appointed a preacher and an apostle and a teacher of the gentiles
2tim112 for the which cause i also suffer these things nevertheless i am not ashamed for i know whom i have believed and am persuaded that he is able to keep that which i have committed unto him against that day
2tim113 hold fast the form of sound words which thou hast heard of me in faith and love which is in christ jesus
2tim114 that good thing which was committed unto thee keep by the holy ghost which dwelleth in us
2tim115 this thou knowest that all they which are in asia be turned away from me of whom are phygellus and hermogenes
2tim116 the lord give mercy unto the house of onesiphorus for he oft refreshed me and was not ashamed of my chain
2tim117 but when he was in rome he sought me out very diligently and found me
2tim118 the lord grant unto him that he may find mercy of the lord in that day and in how many things he ministered unto me at ephesus thou knowest very well
2tim21 thou therefore my son be strong in the grace that is in christ jesus
2tim22 and the things that thou hast heard of me among many witnesses the same commit thou to faithful men who shall be able to teach others also
2tim23 thou therefore endure hardness as a good soldier of jesus christ
2tim24 no man that warreth entangleth himself with the affairs of this life that he may please him who hath chosen him to be a soldier
2tim25 and if a man also strive for masteries yet is he not crowned except he strive lawfully
2tim26 the husbandman that laboureth must be first partaker of the fruits
2tim27 consider what i say and the lord give thee understanding in all things
2tim28 remember that jesus christ of the seed of david was raised from the dead according to my gospel
2tim29 wherein i suffer trouble as an evil doer even unto bonds but the word of god is not bound
2tim210 therefore i endure all things for the elect's sakes that they may also obtain the salvation which is in christ jesus with eternal glory
2tim211 it is a faithful saying for if we be dead with him we shall also live with him
2tim212 if we suffer we shall also reign with him if we deny him he also will deny us
2tim213 if we believe not yet he abideth faithful he cannot deny himself
2tim214 of these things put them in remembrance charging them before the lord that they strive not about words to no profit but to the subverting of the hearers
2tim215 study to shew thyself approved unto god a workman that needeth not to be ashamed rightly dividing the word of truth
2tim216 but shun profane and vain babblings for they will increase unto more ungodliness
2tim217 and their word will eat as doth a canker of whom is hymenaeus and philetus
2tim218 who concerning the truth have erred saying that the resurrection is past already and overthrow the faith of some
2tim219 nevertheless the foundation of god standeth sure having this seal the lord knoweth them that are his and let every one that nameth the name of christ depart from iniquity
2tim220 but in a great house there are not only vessels of gold and of silver but also of wood and of earth and some to honour and some to dishonour
2tim221 if a man therefore purge himself from these he shall be a vessel unto honour sanctified and meet for the master's use and prepared unto every good work
2tim222 flee also youthful lusts but follow righteousness faith charity peace with them that call on the lord out of a pure heart
2tim223 but foolish and unlearned questions avoid knowing that they do gender strifes
2tim224 and the servant of the lord must not strive but be gentle unto all men apt to teach patient
2tim225 in meekness instructing those that oppose themselves if god peradventure will give them repentance to the acknowledging of the truth
2tim226 and that they may recover themselves out of the snare of the devil who are taken captive by him at his will
2tim31 this know also that in the last days perilous times shall come
2tim32 for men shall be lovers of their own selves covetous boasters proud blasphemers disobedient to parents unthankful unholy
2tim33 without natural affection trucebreakers false accusers incontinent fierce despisers of those that are good
2tim34 traitors heady highminded lovers of pleasures more than lovers of god
2tim35 having a form of godliness but denying the power thereof from such turn away
2tim36 for of this sort are they which creep into houses and lead captive silly women laden with sins led away with divers lusts
2tim37 ever learning and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth
2tim38 now as jannes and jambres withstood moses so do these also resist the truth men of corrupt minds reprobate concerning the faith
2tim39 but they shall proceed no further for their folly shall be manifest unto all men as theirs also was
2tim310 but thou hast fully known my doctrine manner of life purpose faith longsuffering charity patience
2tim311 persecutions afflictions which came unto me at antioch at iconium at lystra what persecutions i endured but out of them all the lord delivered me
2tim312 yea and all that will live godly in christ jesus shall suffer persecution
2tim313 but evil men and seducers shall wax worse and worse deceiving and being deceived
2tim314 but continue thou in the things which thou hast learned and hast been assured of knowing of whom thou hast learned them
2tim315 and that from a child thou hast known the holy scriptures which are able to make thee wise unto salvation through faith which is in christ jesus
2tim316 all scripture is given by inspiration of god and is profitable for doctrine for reproof for correction for instruction in righteousness
2tim317 that the man of god may be perfect throughly furnished unto all good works
2tim41 i charge thee therefore before god and the lord jesus christ who shall judge the quick and the dead at his appearing and his kingdom
2tim42 preach the word be instant in season out of season reprove rebuke exhort with all longsuffering and doctrine
2tim43 for the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers having itching ears
2tim44 and they shall turn away their ears from the truth and shall be turned unto fables
2tim45 but watch thou in all things endure afflictions do the work of an evangelist make full proof of thy ministry
2tim46 for i am now ready to be offered and the time of my departure is at hand
2tim47 i have fought a good fight i have finished my course i have kept the faith
2tim48 henceforth there is laid up for me a crown of righteousness which the lord the righteous judge shall give me at that day and not to me only but unto all them also that love his appearing
2tim49 do thy diligence to come shortly unto me
2tim410 for demas hath forsaken me having loved this present world and is departed unto thessalonica crescens to galatia titus unto dalmatia
2tim411 only luke is with me take mark and bring him with thee for he is profitable to me for the ministry
2tim412 and tychicus have i sent to ephesus
2tim413 the cloke that i left at troas with carpus when thou comest bring with thee and the books but especially the parchments
2tim414 alexander the coppersmith did me much evil the lord reward him according to his works
2tim415 of whom be thou ware also for he hath greatly withstood our words
2tim416 at my first answer no man stood with me but all men forsook me i pray god that it may not be laid to their charge
2tim417 notwithstanding the lord stood with me and strengthened me that by me the preaching might be fully known and that all the gentiles might hear and i was delivered out of the mouth of the lion
2tim418 and the lord shall deliver me from every evil work and will preserve me unto his heavenly kingdom to whom be glory for ever and ever amen
2tim419 salute prisca and aquila and the household of onesiphorus
2tim420 erastus abode at corinth but trophimus have i left at miletum sick
2tim421 do thy diligence to come before winter eubulus greeteth thee and pudens and linus and claudia and all the brethren
2tim422 the lord jesus christ be with thy spirit grace be with you amen
paul a servant of god and an apostle of jesus christ according to the faith of god's elect and the acknowledging of the truth which is after godliness
in hope of eternal life which god that cannot lie promised before the world began
but hath in due times manifested his word through preaching which is committed unto me according to the commandment of god our saviour
to titus mine own son after the common faith grace mercy and peace from god the father and the lord jesus christ our saviour
for this cause left i thee in crete that thou shouldest set in order the things that are wanting and ordain elders in every city as i had appointed thee
if any be blameless the husband of one wife having faithful children not accused of riot or unruly
for a bishop must be blameless as the steward of god not selfwilled not soon angry not given to wine no striker not given to filthy lucre
but a lover of hospitality a lover of good men sober just holy temperate
holding fast the faithful word as he hath been taught that he may be able by sound doctrine both to exhort and to convince the gainsayers
for there are many unruly and vain talkers and deceivers specially they of the circumcision
whose mouths must be stopped who subvert whole houses teaching things which they ought not for filthy lucre's sake
one of themselves even a prophet of their own said the cretians are alway liars evil beasts slow bellies
this witness is true wherefore rebuke them sharply that they may be sound in the faith
not giving heed to jewish fables and commandments of men that turn from the truth
unto the pure all things are pure but unto them that are defiled and unbelieving is nothing pure but even their mind and conscience is defiled
they profess that they know god but in works they deny him being abominable and disobedient and unto every good work reprobate
but speak thou the things which become sound doctrine
that the aged men be sober grave temperate sound in faith in charity in patience
the aged women likewise that they be in behaviour as becometh holiness not false accusers not given to much wine teachers of good things
that they may teach the young women to be sober to love their husbands to love their children
to be discreet chaste keepers at home good obedient to their own husbands that the word of god be not blasphemed
young men likewise exhort to be sober minded
in all things shewing thyself a pattern of good works in doctrine shewing uncorruptness gravity sincerity
sound speech that cannot be condemned that he that is of the contrary part may be ashamed having no evil thing to say of you
exhort servants to be obedient unto their own masters and to please them well in all things not answering again
not purloining but shewing all good fidelity that they may adorn the doctrine of god our saviour in all things
for the grace of god that bringeth salvation hath appeared to all men
teaching us that denying ungodliness and worldly lusts we should live soberly righteously and godly in this present world
looking for that blessed hope and the glorious appearing of the great god and our saviour jesus christ
who gave himself for us that he might redeem us from all iniquity and purify unto himself a peculiar people zealous of good works
these things speak and exhort and rebuke with all authority let no man despise thee
put them in mind to be subject to principalities and powers to obey magistrates to be ready to every good work
to speak evil of no man to be no brawlers but gentle shewing all meekness unto all men
for we ourselves also were sometimes foolish disobedient deceived serving divers lusts and pleasures living in malice and envy hateful and hating one another
but after that the kindness and love of god our saviour toward man appeared
not by works of righteousness which we have done but according to his mercy he saved us by the washing of regeneration and renewing of the holy ghost
which he shed on us abundantly through jesus christ our saviour
that being justified by his grace we should be made heirs according to the hope of eternal life
this is a faithful saying and these things i will that thou affirm constantly that they which have believed in god might be careful to maintain good works these things are good and profitable unto men
but avoid foolish questions and genealogies and contentions and strivings about the law for they are unprofitable and vain
a man that is an heretick after the first and second admonition reject
knowing that he that is such is subverted and sinneth being condemned of himself
when i shall send artemas unto thee or tychicus be diligent to come unto me to nicopolis for i have determined there to winter
bring zenas the lawyer and apollos on their journey diligently that nothing be wanting unto them
and let ours also learn to maintain good works for necessary uses that they be not unfruitful
all that are with me salute thee greet them that love us in the faith grace be with you all amen
paul a prisoner of jesus christ and timothy our brother unto philemon our dearly beloved and fellowlabourer
and to our beloved apphia and archippus our fellowsoldier and to the church in thy house
grace to you and peace from god our father and the lord jesus christ
i thank my god making mention of thee always in my prayers
hearing of thy love and faith which thou hast toward the lord jesus and toward all saints
that the communication of thy faith may become effectual by the acknowledging of every good thing which is in you in christ jesus
for we have great joy and consolation in thy love because the bowels of the saints are refreshed by thee brother
wherefore though i might be much bold in christ to enjoin thee that which is convenient
yet for love's sake i rather beseech thee being such an one as paul the aged and now also a prisoner of jesus christ
i beseech thee for my son onesimus whom i have begotten in my bonds
which in time past was to thee unprofitable but now profitable to thee and to me
whom i have sent again thou therefore receive him that is mine own bowels
whom i would have retained with me that in thy stead he might have ministered unto me in the bonds of the gospel
but without thy mind would i do nothing that thy benefit should not be as it were of necessity but willingly
for perhaps he therefore departed for a season that thou shouldest receive him for ever
not now as a servant but above a servant a brother beloved specially to me but how much more unto thee both in the flesh and in the lord
if thou count me therefore a partner receive him as myself
if he hath wronged thee or oweth thee ought put that on mine account
i paul have written it with mine own hand i will repay it albeit i do not say to thee how thou owest unto me even thine own self besides
yea brother let me have joy of thee in the lord refresh my bowels in the lord
having confidence in thy obedience i wrote unto thee knowing that thou wilt also do more than i say
but withal prepare me also a lodging for i trust that through your prayers i shall be given unto you
there salute thee epaphras my fellowprisoner in christ jesus
marcus aristarchus demas lucas my fellowlabourers
the grace of our lord jesus christ be with your spirit amen
god who at sundry times and in divers manners spake in time past unto the fathers by the prophets
hath in these last days spoken unto us by his son whom he hath appointed heir of all things by whom also he made the worlds
who being the brightness of his glory and the express image of his person and upholding all things by the word of his power when he had by himself purged our sins sat down on the right hand of the majesty on high
being made so much better than the angels as he hath by inheritance obtained a more excellent name than they
for unto which of the angels said he at any time thou art my son this day have i begotten thee and again i will be to him a father and he shall be to me a son
and again when he bringeth in the firstbegotten into the world he saith and let all the angels of god worship him
and of the angels he saith who maketh his angels spirits and his ministers a flame of fire
but unto the son he saith thy throne o god is for ever and ever a sceptre of righteousness is the sceptre of thy kingdom
thou hast loved righteousness and hated iniquity therefore god even thy god hath anointed thee with the oil of gladness above thy fellows
and thou lord in the beginning hast laid the foundation of the earth and the heavens are the works of thine hands
they shall perish but thou remainest and they all shall wax old as doth a garment
and as a vesture shalt thou fold them up and they shall be changed but thou art the same and thy years shall not fail
but to which of the angels said he at any time sit on my right hand until i make thine enemies thy footstool
are they not all ministering spirits sent forth to minister for them who shall be heirs of salvation
therefore we ought to give the more earnest heed to the things which we have heard lest at any time we should let them slip
for if the word spoken by angels was stedfast and every transgression and disobedience received a just recompence of reward
how shall we escape if we neglect so great salvation which at the first began to be spoken by the lord and was confirmed unto us by them that heard him
god also bearing them witness both with signs and wonders and with divers miracles and gifts of the holy ghost according to his own will
for unto the angels hath he not put in subjection the world to come whereof we speak
but one in a certain place testified saying what is man that thou art mindful of him or the son of man that thou visitest him
thou madest him a little lower than the angels thou crownedst him with glory and honour and didst set him over the works of thy hands
thou hast put all things in subjection under his feet for in that he put all in subjection under him he left nothing that is not put under him but now we see not yet all things put under him
but we see jesus who was made a little lower than the angels for the suffering of death crowned with glory and honour that he by the grace of god should taste death for every man
for it became him for whom are all things and by whom are all things in bringing many sons unto glory to make the captain of their salvation perfect through sufferings
for both he that sanctifieth and they who are sanctified are all of one for which cause he is not ashamed to call them brethren
saying i will declare thy name unto my brethren in the midst of the church will i sing praise unto thee
and again i will put my trust in him and again behold i and the children which god hath given me
forasmuch then as the children are partakers of flesh and blood he also himself likewise took part of the same that through death he might destroy him that had the power of death that is the devil
and deliver them who through fear of death were all their lifetime subject to bondage
for verily he took not on him the nature of angels but he took on him the seed of abraham
wherefore in all things it behoved him to be made like unto his brethren that he might be a merciful and faithful high priest in things pertaining to god to make reconciliation for the sins of the people
for in that he himself hath suffered being tempted he is able to succour them that are tempted
wherefore holy brethren partakers of the heavenly calling consider the apostle and high priest of our profession christ jesus
who was faithful to him that appointed him as also moses was faithful in all his house
for this man was counted worthy of more glory than moses inasmuch as he who hath builded the house hath more honour than the house
for every house is builded by some man but he that built all things is god
and moses verily was faithful in all his house as a servant for a testimony of those things which were to be spoken after
but christ as a son over his own house whose house are we if we hold fast the confidence and the rejoicing of the hope firm unto the end
wherefore as the holy ghost saith to day if ye will hear his voice
harden not your hearts as in the provocation in the day of temptation in the wilderness
when your fathers tempted me proved me and saw my works forty years
wherefore i was grieved with that generation and said they do alway err in their heart and they have not known my ways
so i sware in my wrath they shall not enter into my rest
take heed brethren lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief in departing from the living god
but exhort one another daily while it is called to day lest any of you be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin
for we are made partakers of christ if we hold the beginning of our confidence stedfast unto the end
while it is said to day if ye will hear his voice harden not your hearts as in the provocation
for some when they had heard did provoke howbeit not all that came out of egypt by moses
but with whom was he grieved forty years was it not with them that had sinned whose carcases fell in the wilderness
and to whom sware he that they should not enter into his rest but to them that believed not
so we see that they could not enter in because of unbelief
let us therefore fear lest a promise being left us of entering into his rest any of you should seem to come short of it
for unto us was the gospel preached as well as unto them but the word preached did not profit them not being mixed with faith in them that heard it
for we which have believed do enter into rest as he said as i have sworn in my wrath if they shall enter into my rest although the works were finished from the foundation of the world
for he spake in a certain place of the seventh day on this wise and god did rest the seventh day from all his works
and in this place again if they shall enter into my rest
seeing therefore it remaineth that some must enter therein and they to whom it was first preached entered not in because of unbelief
again he limiteth a certain day saying in david to day after so long a time as it is said to day if ye will hear his voice harden not your hearts
for if jesus had given them rest then would he not afterward have spoken of another day
there remaineth therefore a rest to the people of god
for he that is entered into his rest he also hath ceased from his own works as god did from his
let us labour therefore to enter into that rest lest any man fall after the same example of unbelief
for the word of god is quick and powerful and sharper than any twoedged sword piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit and of the joints and marrow and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart
neither is there any creature that is not manifest in his sight but all things are naked and opened unto the eyes of him with whom we have to do
seeing then that we have a great high priest that is passed into the heavens jesus the son of god let us hold fast our profession
for we have not an high priest which cannot be touched with the feeling of our infirmities but was in all points tempted like as we are yet without sin
let us therefore come boldly unto the throne of grace that we may obtain mercy and find grace to help in time of need
for every high priest taken from among men is ordained for men in things pertaining to god that he may offer both gifts and sacrifices for sins
who can have compassion on the ignorant and on them that are out of the way for that he himself also is compassed with infirmity
and by reason hereof he ought as for the people so also for himself to offer for sins
and no man taketh this honour unto himself but he that is called of god as was aaron
so also christ glorified not himself to be made an high priest but he that said unto him thou art my son to day have i begotten thee
as he saith also in another place thou art a priest for ever after the order of melchisedec
who in the days of his flesh when he had offered up prayers and supplications with strong crying and tears unto him that was able to save him from death and was heard in that he feared
though he were a son yet learned he obedience by the things which he suffered
and being made perfect he became the author of eternal salvation unto all them that obey him
called of god an high priest after the order of melchisedec
of whom we have many things to say and hard to be uttered seeing ye are dull of hearing
for when for the time ye ought to be teachers ye have need that one teach you again which be the first principles of the oracles of god and are become such as have need of milk and not of strong meat
for every one that useth milk is unskilful in the word of righteousness for he is a babe
but strong meat belongeth to them that are of full age even those who by reason of use have their senses exercised to discern both good and evil
therefore leaving the principles of the doctrine of christ let us go on unto perfection not laying again the foundation of repentance from dead works and of faith toward god
of the doctrine of baptisms and of laying on of hands and of resurrection of the dead and of eternal judgment
and this will we do if god permit
for it is impossible for those who were once enlightened and have tasted of the heavenly gift and were made partakers of the holy ghost
and have tasted the good word of god and the powers of the world to come
if they shall fall away to renew them again unto repentance seeing they crucify to themselves the son of god afresh and put him to an open shame
for the earth which drinketh in the rain that cometh oft upon it and bringeth forth herbs meet for them by whom it is dressed receiveth blessing from god
but that which beareth thorns and briers is rejected and is nigh unto cursing whose end is to be burned
but beloved we are persuaded better things of you and things that accompany salvation though we thus speak
for god is not unrighteous to forget your work and labour of love which ye have shewed toward his name in that ye have ministered to the saints and do minister
and we desire that every one of you do shew the same diligence to the full assurance of hope unto the end
that ye be not slothful but followers of them who through faith and patience inherit the promises
for when god made promise to abraham because he could swear by no greater he sware by himself
saying surely blessing i will bless thee and multiplying i will multiply thee
and so after he had patiently endured he obtained the promise
for men verily swear by the greater and an oath for confirmation is to them an end of all strife
wherein god willing more abundantly to shew unto the heirs of promise the immutability of his counsel confirmed it by an oath
that by two immutable things in which it was impossible for god to lie we might have a strong consolation who have fled for refuge to lay hold upon the hope set before us
which hope we have as an anchor of the soul both sure and stedfast and which entereth into that within the veil
whither the forerunner is for us entered even jesus made an high priest for ever after the order of melchisedec
for this melchisedec king of salem priest of the most high god who met abraham returning from the slaughter of the kings and blessed him
to whom also abraham gave a tenth part of all first being by interpretation king of righteousness and after that also king of salem which is king of peace
without father without mother without descent having neither beginning of days nor end of life but made like unto the son of god abideth a priest continually
now consider how great this man was unto whom even the patriarch abraham gave the tenth of the spoils
and verily they that are of the sons of levi who receive the office of the priesthood have a commandment to take tithes of the people according to the law that is of their brethren though they come out of the loins of abraham
but he whose descent is not counted from them received tithes of abraham and blessed him that had the promises
and without all contradiction the less is blessed of the better
and here men that die receive tithes but there he receiveth them of whom it is witnessed that he liveth
and as i may so say levi also who receiveth tithes payed tithes in abraham
for he was yet in the loins of his father when melchisedec met him
if therefore perfection were by the levitical priesthood for under it the people received the law what further need was there that another priest should rise after the order of melchisedec and not be called after the order of aaron
for the priesthood being changed there is made of necessity a change also of the law
for he of whom these things are spoken pertaineth to another tribe of which no man gave attendance at the altar
for it is evident that our lord sprang out of juda of which tribe moses spake nothing concerning priesthood
and it is yet far more evident for that after the similitude of melchisedec there ariseth another priest
who is made not after the law of a carnal commandment but after the power of an endless life
for he testifieth thou art a priest for ever after the order of melchisedec
for there is verily a disannulling of the commandment going before for the weakness and unprofitableness thereof
for the law made nothing perfect but the bringing in of a better hope did by the which we draw nigh unto god
and inasmuch as not without an oath he was made priest
for those priests were made without an oath but this with an oath by him that said unto him the lord sware and will not repent thou art a priest for ever after the order of melchisedec
by so much was jesus made a surety of a better testament
and they truly were many priests because they were not suffered to continue by reason of death
but this man because he continueth ever hath an unchangeable priesthood
wherefore he is able also to save them to the uttermost that come unto god by him seeing he ever liveth to make intercession for them
for such an high priest became us who is holy harmless undefiled separate from sinners and made higher than the heavens
who needeth not daily as those high priests to offer up sacrifice first for his own sins and then for the people's for this he did once when he offered up himself
for the law maketh men high priests which have infirmity but the word of the oath which was since the law maketh the son who is consecrated for evermore
now of the things which we have spoken this is the sum we have such an high priest who is set on the right hand of the throne of the majesty in the heavens
a minister of the sanctuary and of the true tabernacle which the lord pitched and not man
for every high priest is ordained to offer gifts and sacrifices wherefore it is of necessity that this man have somewhat also to offer
for if he were on earth he should not be a priest seeing that there are priests that offer gifts according to the law
who serve unto the example and shadow of heavenly things as moses was admonished of god when he was about to make the tabernacle for see saith he that thou make all things according to the pattern shewed to thee in the mount
but now hath he obtained a more excellent ministry by how much also he is the mediator of a better covenant which was established upon better promises
for if that first covenant had been faultless then should no place have been sought for the second
for finding fault with them he saith behold the days come saith the lord when i will make a new covenant with the house of israel and with the house of judah
not according to the covenant that i made with their fathers in the day when i took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of egypt because they continued not in my covenant and i regarded them not saith the lord
for this is the covenant that i will make with the house of israel after those days saith the lord i will put my laws into their mind and write them in their hearts and i will be to them a god and they shall be to me a people
and they shall not teach every man his neighbour and every man his brother saying know the lord for all shall know me from the least to the greatest
for i will be merciful to their unrighteousness and their sins and their iniquities will i remember no more
in that he saith a new covenant he hath made the first old now that which decayeth and waxeth old is ready to vanish away
then verily the first covenant had also ordinances of divine service and a worldly sanctuary
for there was a tabernacle made the first wherein was the candlestick and the table and the shewbread which is called the sanctuary
and after the second veil the tabernacle which is called the holiest of all
which had the golden censer and the ark of the covenant overlaid round about with gold wherein was the golden pot that had manna and aaron's rod that budded and the tables of the covenant
and over it the cherubims of glory shadowing the mercyseat of which we cannot now speak particularly
now when these things were thus ordained the priests went always into the first tabernacle accomplishing the service of god
but into the second went the high priest alone once every year not without blood which he offered for himself and for the errors of the people
the holy ghost this signifying that the way into the holiest of all was not yet made manifest while as the first tabernacle was yet standing
which was a figure for the time then present in which were offered both gifts and sacrifices that could not make him that did the service perfect as pertaining to the conscience
which stood only in meats and drinks and divers washings and carnal ordinances imposed on them until the time of reformation
but christ being come an high priest of good things to come by a greater and more perfect tabernacle not made with hands that is to say not of this building
neither by the blood of goats and calves but by his own blood he entered in once into the holy place having obtained eternal redemption for us
for if the blood of bulls and of goats and the ashes of an heifer sprinkling the unclean sanctifieth to the purifying of the flesh
how much more shall the blood of christ who through the eternal spirit offered himself without spot to god purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living god
and for this cause he is the mediator of the new testament that by means of death for the redemption of the transgressions that were under the first testament they which are called might receive the promise of eternal inheritance
for where a testament is there must also of necessity be the death of the testator
for a testament is of force after men are dead otherwise it is of no strength at all while the testator liveth
whereupon neither the first testament was dedicated without blood
for when moses had spoken every precept to all the people according to the law he took the blood of calves and of goats with water and scarlet wool and hyssop and sprinkled both the book and all the people
saying this is the blood of the testament which god hath enjoined unto you
moreover he sprinkled with blood both the tabernacle and all the vessels of the ministry
and almost all things are by the law purged with blood and without shedding of blood is no remission
it was therefore necessary that the patterns of things in the heavens should be purified with these but the heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices than these
for christ is not entered into the holy places made with hands which are the figures of the true but into heaven itself now to appear in the presence of god for us
nor yet that he should offer himself often as the high priest entereth into the holy place every year with blood of others
for then must he often have suffered since the foundation of the world but now once in the end of the world hath he appeared to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself
and as it is appointed unto men once to die but after this the judgment
so christ was once offered to bear the sins of many and unto them that look for him shall he appear the second time without sin unto salvation
for the law having a shadow of good things to come and not the very image of the things can never with those sacrifices which they offered year by year continually make the comers thereunto perfect
for then would they not have ceased to be offered because that the worshippers once purged should have had no more conscience of sins
but in those sacrifices there is a remembrance again made of sins every year
for it is not possible that the blood of bulls and of goats should take away sins
wherefore when he cometh into the world he saith sacrifice and offering thou wouldest not but a body hast thou prepared me
in burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin thou hast had no pleasure
then said i lo i come in the volume of the book it is written of me to do thy will o god
above when he said sacrifice and offering and burnt offerings and offering for sin thou wouldest not neither hadst pleasure therein which are offered by the law
then said he lo i come to do thy will o god he taketh away the first that he may establish the second
by the which will we are sanctified through the offering of the body of jesus christ once for all
and every priest standeth daily ministering and offering oftentimes the same sacrifices which can never take away sins
but this man after he had offered one sacrifice for sins for ever sat down on the right hand of god
from henceforth expecting till his enemies be made his footstool
for by one offering he hath perfected for ever them that are sanctified
whereof the holy ghost also is a witness to us for after that he had said before
this is the covenant that i will make with them after those days saith the lord i will put my laws into their hearts and in their minds will i write them
and their sins and iniquities will i remember no more
now where remission of these is there is no more offering for sin
having therefore brethren boldness to enter into the holiest by the blood of jesus
by a new and living way which he hath consecrated for us through the veil that is to say his flesh
and having an high priest over the house of god
let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience and our bodies washed with pure water
let us hold fast the profession of our faith without wavering for he is faithful that promised
and let us consider one another to provoke unto love and to good works
not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together as the manner of some is but exhorting one another and so much the more as ye see the day approaching
for if we sin wilfully after that we have received the knowledge of the truth there remaineth no more sacrifice for sins
but a certain fearful looking for of judgment and fiery indignation which shall devour the adversaries
he that despised moses law died without mercy under two or three witnesses
of how much sorer punishment suppose ye shall he be thought worthy who hath trodden under foot the son of god and hath counted the blood of the covenant wherewith he was sanctified an unholy thing and hath done despite unto the spirit of grace
for we know him that hath said vengeance belongeth unto me i will recompense saith the lord and again the lord shall judge his people
it is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living god
but call to remembrance the former days in which after ye were illuminated ye endured a great fight of afflictions
partly whilst ye were made a gazingstock both by reproaches and afflictions and partly whilst ye became companions of them that were so used
for ye had compassion of me in my bonds and took joyfully the spoiling of your goods knowing in yourselves that ye have in heaven a better and an enduring substance
cast not away therefore your confidence which hath great recompence of reward
for ye have need of patience that after ye have done the will of god ye might receive the promise
for yet a little while and he that shall come will come and will not tarry
now the just shall live by faith but if any man draw back my soul shall have no pleasure in him
but we are not of them who draw back unto perdition but of them that believe to the saving of the soul
now faith is the substance of things hoped for the evidence of things not seen
for by it the elders obtained a good report
through faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of god so that things which are seen were not made of things which do appear
by faith abel offered unto god a more excellent sacrifice than cain by which he obtained witness that he was righteous god testifying of his gifts and by it he being dead yet speaketh
by faith enoch was translated that he should not see death and was not found because god had translated him for before his translation he had this testimony that he pleased god
but without faith it is impossible to please him for he that cometh to god must believe that he is and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him
by faith noah being warned of god of things not seen as yet moved with fear prepared an ark to the saving of his house by the which he condemned the world and became heir of the righteousness which is by faith
by faith abraham when he was called to go out into a place which he should after receive for an inheritance obeyed and he went out not knowing whither he went
by faith he sojourned in the land of promise as in a strange country dwelling in tabernacles with isaac and jacob the heirs with him of the same promise
for he looked for a city which hath foundations whose builder and maker is god
through faith also sara herself received strength to conceive seed and was delivered of a child when she was past age because she judged him faithful who had promised
therefore sprang there even of one and him as good as dead so many as the stars of the sky in multitude and as the sand which is by the sea shore innumerable
these all died in faith not having received the promises but having seen them afar off and were persuaded of them and embraced them and confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth
for they that say such things declare plainly that they seek a country
and truly if they had been mindful of that country from whence they came out they might have had opportunity to have returned
but now they desire a better country that is an heavenly wherefore god is not ashamed to be called their god for he hath prepared for them a city
by faith abraham when he was tried offered up isaac and he that had received the promises offered up his only begotten son
of whom it was said that in isaac shall thy seed be called
accounting that god was able to raise him up even from the dead from whence also he received him in a figure
by faith isaac blessed jacob and esau concerning things to come
by faith jacob when he was a dying blessed both the sons of joseph and worshipped leaning upon the top of his staff
by faith joseph when he died made mention of the departing of the children of israel and gave commandment concerning his bones
by faith moses when he was born was hid three months of his parents because they saw he was a proper child and they were not afraid of the king's commandment
by faith moses when he was come to years refused to be called the son of pharaoh's daughter
choosing rather to suffer affliction with the people of god than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season
esteeming the reproach of christ greater riches than the treasures in egypt for he had respect unto the recompence of the reward
by faith he forsook egypt not fearing the wrath of the king for he endured as seeing him who is invisible
through faith he kept the passover and the sprinkling of blood lest he that destroyed the firstborn should touch them
by faith they passed through the red sea as by dry land which the egyptians assaying to do were drowned
by faith the walls of jericho fell down after they were compassed about seven days
by faith the harlot rahab perished not with them that believed not when she had received the spies with peace
and what shall i more say for the time would fail me to tell of gedeon and of barak and of samson and of jephthae of david also and samuel and of the prophets
who through faith subdued kingdoms wrought righteousness obtained promises stopped the mouths of lions
quenched the violence of fire escaped the edge of the sword out of weakness were made strong waxed valiant in fight turned to flight the armies of the aliens
women received their dead raised to life again and others were tortured not accepting deliverance that they might obtain a better resurrection
and others had trial of cruel mockings and scourgings yea moreover of bonds and imprisonment
they were stoned they were sawn asunder were tempted were slain with the sword they wandered about in sheepskins and goatskins being destitute afflicted tormented
of whom the world was not worthy they wandered in deserts and in mountains and in dens and caves of the earth
and these all having obtained a good report through faith received not the promise
god having provided some better thing for us that they without us should not be made perfect
wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses let us lay aside every weight and the sin which doth so easily beset us and let us run with patience the race that is set before us
looking unto jesus the author and finisher of our faith who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross despising the shame and is set down at the right hand of the throne of god
for consider him that endured such contradiction of sinners against himself lest ye be wearied and faint in your minds
ye have not yet resisted unto blood striving against sin
and ye have forgotten the exhortation which speaketh unto you as unto children my son despise not thou the chastening of the lord nor faint when thou art rebuked of him
for whom the lord loveth he chasteneth and scourgeth every son whom he receiveth
if ye endure chastening god dealeth with you as with sons for what son is he whom the father chasteneth not
but if ye be without chastisement whereof all are partakers then are ye bastards and not sons
furthermore we have had fathers of our flesh which corrected us and we gave them reverence shall we not much rather be in subjection unto the father of spirits and live
for they verily for a few days chastened us after their own pleasure but he for our profit that we might be partakers of his holiness
now no chastening for the present seemeth to be joyous but grievous nevertheless afterward it yieldeth the peaceable fruit of righteousness unto them which are exercised thereby
wherefore lift up the hands which hang down and the feeble knees
and make straight paths for your feet lest that which is lame be turned out of the way but let it rather be healed
follow peace with all men and holiness without which no man shall see the lord
looking diligently lest any man fail of the grace of god lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble you and thereby many be defiled
lest there be any fornicator or profane person as esau who for one morsel of meat sold his birthright
for ye know how that afterward when he would have inherited the blessing he was rejected for he found no place of repentance though he sought it carefully with tears
for ye are not come unto the mount that might be touched and that burned with fire nor unto blackness and darkness and tempest
and the sound of a trumpet and the voice of words which voice they that heard intreated that the word should not be spoken to them any more
for they could not endure that which was commanded and if so much as a beast touch the mountain it shall be stoned or thrust through with a dart
and so terrible was the sight that moses said i exceedingly fear and quake
but ye are come unto mount sion and unto the city of the living god the heavenly jerusalem and to an innumerable company of angels
to the general assembly and church of the firstborn which are written in heaven and to god the judge of all and to the spirits of just men made perfect
and to jesus the mediator of the new covenant and to the blood of sprinkling that speaketh better things than that of abel
see that ye refuse not him that speaketh for if they escaped not who refused him that spake on earth much more shall not we escape if we turn away from him that speaketh from heaven
whose voice then shook the earth but now he hath promised saying yet once more i shake not the earth only but also heaven
and this word yet once more signifieth the removing of those things that are shaken as of things that are made that those things which cannot be shaken may remain
wherefore we receiving a kingdom which cannot be moved let us have grace whereby we may serve god acceptably with reverence and godly fear
for our god is a consuming fire
let brotherly love continue
be not forgetful to entertain strangers for thereby some have entertained angels unawares
remember them that are in bonds as bound with them and them which suffer adversity as being yourselves also in the body
marriage is honourable in all and the bed undefiled but whoremongers and adulterers god will judge
let your conversation be without covetousness and be content with such things as ye have for he hath said i will never leave thee nor forsake thee
so that we may boldly say the lord is my helper and i will not fear what man shall do unto me
remember them which have the rule over you who have spoken unto you the word of god whose faith follow considering the end of their conversation
jesus christ the same yesterday and to day and for ever
be not carried about with divers and strange doctrines for it is a good thing that the heart be established with grace not with meats which have not profited them that have been occupied therein
we have an altar whereof they have no right to eat which serve the tabernacle
for the bodies of those beasts whose blood is brought into the sanctuary by the high priest for sin are burned without the camp
wherefore jesus also that he might sanctify the people with his own blood suffered without the gate
let us go forth therefore unto him without the camp bearing his reproach
for here have we no continuing city but we seek one to come
by him therefore let us offer the sacrifice of praise to god continually that is the fruit of our lips giving thanks to his name
but to do good and to communicate forget not for with such sacrifices god is well pleased
obey them that have the rule over you and submit yourselves for they watch for your souls as they that must give account that they may do it with joy and not with grief for that is unprofitable for you
pray for us for we trust we have a good conscience in all things willing to live honestly
but i beseech you the rather to do this that i may be restored to you the sooner
now the god of peace that brought again from the dead our lord jesus that great shepherd of the sheep through the blood of the everlasting covenant
make you perfect in every good work to do his will working in you that which is wellpleasing in his sight through jesus christ to whom be glory for ever and ever amen
and i beseech you brethren suffer the word of exhortation for i have written a letter unto you in few words
know ye that our brother timothy is set at liberty with whom if he come shortly i will see you
salute all them that have the rule over you and all the saints they of italy salute you
grace be with you all amen
james a servant of god and of the lord jesus christ to the twelve tribes which are scattered abroad greeting
my brethren count it all joy when ye fall into divers temptations
knowing this that the trying of your faith worketh patience
but let patience have her perfect work that ye may be perfect and entire wanting nothing
if any of you lack wisdom let him ask of god that giveth to all men liberally and upbraideth not and it shall be given him
but let him ask in faith nothing wavering for he that wavereth is like a wave of the sea driven with the wind and tossed
for let not that man think that he shall receive any thing of the lord
a double minded man is unstable in all his ways
let the brother of low degree rejoice in that he is exalted
but the rich in that he is made low because as the flower of the grass he shall pass away
for the sun is no sooner risen with a burning heat but it withereth the grass and the flower thereof falleth and the grace of the fashion of it perisheth so also shall the rich man fade away in his ways
blessed is the man that endureth temptation for when he is tried he shall receive the crown of life which the lord hath promised to them that love him
let no man say when he is tempted i am tempted of god for god cannot be tempted with evil neither tempteth he any man
but every man is tempted when he is drawn away of his own lust and enticed
then when lust hath conceived it bringeth forth sin and sin when it is finished bringeth forth death
do not err my beloved brethren
every good gift and every perfect gift is from above and cometh down from the father of lights with whom is no variableness neither shadow of turning
of his own will begat he us with the word of truth that we should be a kind of firstfruits of his creatures
wherefore my beloved brethren let every man be swift to hear slow to speak slow to wrath
for the wrath of man worketh not the righteousness of god
wherefore lay apart all filthiness and superfluity of naughtiness and receive with meekness the engrafted word which is able to save your souls
but be ye doers of the word and not hearers only deceiving your own selves
for if any be a hearer of the word and not a doer he is like unto a man beholding his natural face in a glass
for he beholdeth himself and goeth his way and straightway forgetteth what manner of man he was
but whoso looketh into the perfect law of liberty and continueth therein he being not a forgetful hearer but a doer of the work this man shall be blessed in his deed
if any man among you seem to be religious and bridleth not his tongue but deceiveth his own heart this man's religion is vain
pure religion and undefiled before god and the father is this to visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction and to keep himself unspotted from the world
my brethren have not the faith of our lord jesus christ the lord of glory with respect of persons
for if there come unto your assembly a man with a gold ring in goodly apparel and there come in also a poor man in vile raiment
and ye have respect to him that weareth the gay clothing and say unto him sit thou here in a good place and say to the poor stand thou there or sit here under my footstool
are ye not then partial in yourselves and are become judges of evil thoughts
hearken my beloved brethren hath not god chosen the poor of this world rich in faith and heirs of the kingdom which he hath promised to them that love him
but ye have despised the poor do not rich men oppress you and draw you before the judgment seats
do not they blaspheme that worthy name by the which ye are called
if ye fulfil the royal law according to the scripture thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself ye do well
but if ye have respect to persons ye commit sin and are convinced of the law as transgressors
for whosoever shall keep the whole law and yet offend in one point he is guilty of all
for he that said do not commit adultery said also do not kill now if thou commit no adultery yet if thou kill thou art become a transgressor of the law
so speak ye and so do as they that shall be judged by the law of liberty
for he shall have judgment without mercy that hath shewed no mercy and mercy rejoiceth against judgment
what doth it profit my brethren though a man say he hath faith and have not works can faith save him
if a brother or sister be naked and destitute of daily food
and one of you say unto them depart in peace be ye warmed and filled notwithstanding ye give them not those things which are needful to the body what doth it profit
even so faith if it hath not works is dead being alone
yea a man may say thou hast faith and i have works shew me thy faith without thy works and i will shew thee my faith by my works
thou believest that there is one god thou doest well the devils also believe and tremble
but wilt thou know o vain man that faith without works is dead
was not abraham our father justified by works when he had offered isaac his son upon the altar
seest thou how faith wrought with his works and by works was faith made perfect
and the scripture was fulfilled which saith abraham believed god and it was imputed unto him for righteousness and he was called the friend of god
ye see then how that by works a man is justified and not by faith only
likewise also was not rahab the harlot justified by works when she had received the messengers and had sent them out another way
for as the body without the spirit is dead so faith without works is dead also
my brethren be not many masters knowing that we shall receive the greater condemnation
for in many things we offend all if any man offend not in word the same is a perfect man and able also to bridle the whole body
behold we put bits in the horses mouths that they may obey us and we turn about their whole body
behold also the ships which though they be so great and are driven of fierce winds yet are they turned about with a very small helm whithersoever the governor listeth
even so the tongue is a little member and boasteth great things behold how great a matter a little fire kindleth
and the tongue is a fire a world of iniquity so is the tongue among our members that it defileth the whole body and setteth on fire the course of nature and it is set on fire of hell
for every kind of beasts and of birds and of serpents and of things in the sea is tamed and hath been tamed of mankind
but the tongue can no man tame it is an unruly evil full of deadly poison
therewith bless we god even the father and therewith curse we men which are made after the similitude of god
out of the same mouth proceedeth blessing and cursing my brethren these things ought not so to be
doth a fountain send forth at the same place sweet water and bitter
can the fig tree my brethren bear olive berries either a vine figs so can no fountain both yield salt water and fresh
who is a wise man and endued with knowledge among you let him shew out of a good conversation his works with meekness of wisdom
but if ye have bitter envying and strife in your hearts glory not and lie not against the truth
this wisdom descendeth not from above but is earthly sensual devilish
for where envying and strife is there is confusion and every evil work
but the wisdom that is from above is first pure then peaceable gentle and easy to be intreated full of mercy and good fruits without partiality and without hypocrisy
and the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace of them that make peace
from whence come wars and fightings among you come they not hence even of your lusts that war in your members
ye lust and have not ye kill and desire to have and cannot obtain ye fight and war yet ye have not because ye ask not
ye ask and receive not because ye ask amiss that ye may consume it upon your lusts
ye adulterers and adulteresses know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with god whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy of god
do ye think that the scripture saith in vain the spirit that dwelleth in us lusteth to envy
but he giveth more grace wherefore he saith god resisteth the proud but giveth grace unto the humble
submit yourselves therefore to god resist the devil and he will flee from you
draw nigh to god and he will draw nigh to you cleanse your hands ye sinners and purify your hearts ye double minded
be afflicted and mourn and weep let your laughter be turned to mourning and your joy to heaviness
humble yourselves in the sight of the lord and he shall lift you up
speak not evil one of another brethren he that speaketh evil of his brother and judgeth his brother speaketh evil of the law and judgeth the law but if thou judge the law thou art not a doer of the law but a judge
there is one lawgiver who is able to save and to destroy who art thou that judgest another
go to now ye that say to day or to morrow we will go into such a city and continue there a year and buy and sell and get gain
whereas ye know not what shall be on the morrow for what is your life it is even a vapour that appeareth for a little time and then vanisheth away
for that ye ought to say if the lord will we shall live and do this or that
but now ye rejoice in your boastings all such rejoicing is evil
therefore to him that knoweth to do good and doeth it not to him it is sin
go to now ye rich men weep and howl for your miseries that shall come upon you
your riches are corrupted and your garments are motheaten
your gold and silver is cankered and the rust of them shall be a witness against you and shall eat your flesh as it were fire ye have heaped treasure together for the last days
behold the hire of the labourers who have reaped down your fields which is of you kept back by fraud crieth and the cries of them which have reaped are entered into the ears of the lord of sabaoth
ye have lived in pleasure on the earth and been wanton ye have nourished your hearts as in a day of slaughter
ye have condemned and killed the just and he doth not resist you
be patient therefore brethren unto the coming of the lord behold the husbandman waiteth for the precious fruit of the earth and hath long patience for it until he receive the early and latter rain
be ye also patient stablish your hearts for the coming of the lord draweth nigh
grudge not one against another brethren lest ye be condemned behold the judge standeth before the door
take my brethren the prophets who have spoken in the name of the lord for an example of suffering affliction and of patience
behold we count them happy which endure ye have heard of the patience of job and have seen the end of the lord that the lord is very pitiful and of tender mercy
but above all things my brethren swear not neither by heaven neither by the earth neither by any other oath but let your yea be yea and your nay nay lest ye fall into condemnation
is any among you afflicted let him pray is any merry let him sing psalms
is any sick among you let him call for the elders of the church and let them pray over him anointing him with oil in the name of the lord
and the prayer of faith shall save the sick and the lord shall raise him up and if he have committed sins they shall be forgiven him
confess your faults one to another and pray one for another that ye may be healed the effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much
elias was a man subject to like passions as we are and he prayed earnestly that it might not rain and it rained not on the earth by the space of three years and six months
and he prayed again and the heaven gave rain and the earth brought forth her fruit
brethren if any of you do err from the truth and one convert him
let him know that he which converteth the sinner from the error of his way shall save a soul from death and shall hide a multitude of sins
1pet11 peter an apostle of jesus christ to the strangers scattered throughout pontus galatia cappadocia asia and bithynia
1pet12 elect according to the foreknowledge of god the father through sanctification of the spirit unto obedience and sprinkling of the blood of jesus christ grace unto you and peace be multiplied
1pet13 blessed be the god and father of our lord jesus christ which according to his abundant mercy hath begotten us again unto a lively hope by the resurrection of jesus christ from the dead
1pet14 to an inheritance incorruptible and undefiled and that fadeth not away reserved in heaven for you
1pet15 who are kept by the power of god through faith unto salvation ready to be revealed in the last time
1pet16 wherein ye greatly rejoice though now for a season if need be ye are in heaviness through manifold temptations
1pet17 that the trial of your faith being much more precious than of gold that perisheth though it be tried with fire might be found unto praise and honour and glory at the appearing of jesus christ
1pet18 whom having not seen ye love in whom though now ye see him not yet believing ye rejoice with joy unspeakable and full of glory
1pet19 receiving the end of your faith even the salvation of your souls
1pet110 of which salvation the prophets have enquired and searched diligently who prophesied of the grace that should come unto you
1pet111 searching what or what manner of time the spirit of christ which was in them did signify when it testified beforehand the sufferings of christ and the glory that should follow
1pet112 unto whom it was revealed that not unto themselves but unto us they did minister the things which are now reported unto you by them that have preached the gospel unto you with the holy ghost sent down from heaven which things the angels desire to look into
1pet113 wherefore gird up the loins of your mind be sober and hope to the end for the grace that is to be brought unto you at the revelation of jesus christ
1pet114 as obedient children not fashioning yourselves according to the former lusts in your ignorance
1pet115 but as he which hath called you is holy so be ye holy in all manner of conversation
1pet116 because it is written be ye holy for i am holy
1pet117 and if ye call on the father who without respect of persons judgeth according to every man's work pass the time of your sojourning here in fear
1pet118 forasmuch as ye know that ye were not redeemed with corruptible things as silver and gold from your vain conversation received by tradition from your fathers
1pet119 but with the precious blood of christ as of a lamb without blemish and without spot
1pet120 who verily was foreordained before the foundation of the world but was manifest in these last times for you
1pet121 who by him do believe in god that raised him up from the dead and gave him glory that your faith and hope might be in god
1pet122 seeing ye have purified your souls in obeying the truth through the spirit unto unfeigned love of the brethren see that ye love one another with a pure heart fervently
1pet123 being born again not of corruptible seed but of incorruptible by the word of god which liveth and abideth for ever
1pet124 for all flesh is as grass and all the glory of man as the flower of grass the grass withereth and the flower thereof falleth away
1pet125 but the word of the lord endureth for ever and this is the word which by the gospel is preached unto you
1pet21 wherefore laying aside all malice and all guile and hypocrisies and envies and all evil speakings
1pet22 as newborn babes desire the sincere milk of the word that ye may grow thereby
1pet23 if so be ye have tasted that the lord is gracious
1pet24 to whom coming as unto a living stone disallowed indeed of men but chosen of god and precious
1pet25 ye also as lively stones are built up a spiritual house an holy priesthood to offer up spiritual sacrifices acceptable to god by jesus christ
1pet26 wherefore also it is contained in the scripture behold i lay in sion a chief corner stone elect precious and he that believeth on him shall not be confounded
1pet27 unto you therefore which believe he is precious but unto them which be disobedient the stone which the builders disallowed the same is made the head of the corner
1pet28 and a stone of stumbling and a rock of offence even to them which stumble at the word being disobedient whereunto also they were appointed
1pet29 but ye are a chosen generation a royal priesthood an holy nation a peculiar people that ye should shew forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvellous light
1pet210 which in time past were not a people but are now the people of god which had not obtained mercy but now have obtained mercy
1pet211 dearly beloved i beseech you as strangers and pilgrims abstain from fleshly lusts which war against the soul
1pet212 having your conversation honest among the gentiles that whereas they speak against you as evildoers they may by your good works which they shall behold glorify god in the day of visitation
1pet213 submit yourselves to every ordinance of man for the lord's sake whether it be to the king as supreme
1pet214 or unto governors as unto them that are sent by him for the punishment of evildoers and for the praise of them that do well
1pet215 for so is the will of god that with well doing ye may put to silence the ignorance of foolish men
1pet216 as free and not using your liberty for a cloke of maliciousness but as the servants of god
1pet217 honour all men love the brotherhood fear god honour the king
1pet218 servants be subject to your masters with all fear not only to the good and gentle but also to the froward
1pet219 for this is thankworthy if a man for conscience toward god endure grief suffering wrongfully
1pet220 for what glory is it if when ye be buffeted for your faults ye shall take it patiently but if when ye do well and suffer for it ye take it patiently this is acceptable with god
1pet221 for even hereunto were ye called because christ also suffered for us leaving us an example that ye should follow his steps
1pet222 who did no sin neither was guile found in his mouth
1pet223 who when he was reviled reviled not again when he suffered he threatened not but committed himself to him that judgeth righteously
1pet224 who his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree that we being dead to sins should live unto righteousness by whose stripes ye were healed
1pet225 for ye were as sheep going astray but are now returned unto the shepherd and bishop of your souls
1pet31 likewise ye wives be in subjection to your own husbands that if any obey not the word they also may without the word be won by the conversation of the wives
1pet32 while they behold your chaste conversation coupled with fear
1pet33 whose adorning let it not be that outward adorning of plaiting the hair and of wearing of gold or of putting on of apparel
1pet34 but let it be the hidden man of the heart in that which is not corruptible even the ornament of a meek and quiet spirit which is in the sight of god of great price
1pet35 for after this manner in the old time the holy women also who trusted in god adorned themselves being in subjection unto their own husbands
1pet36 even as sara obeyed abraham calling him lord whose daughters ye are as long as ye do well and are not afraid with any amazement
1pet37 likewise ye husbands dwell with them according to knowledge giving honour unto the wife as unto the weaker vessel and as being heirs together of the grace of life that your prayers be not hindered
1pet38 finally be ye all of one mind having compassion one of another love as brethren be pitiful be courteous
1pet39 not rendering evil for evil or railing for railing but contrariwise blessing knowing that ye are thereunto called that ye should inherit a blessing
1pet310 for he that will love life and see good days let him refrain his tongue from evil and his lips that they speak no guile
1pet311 let him eschew evil and do good let him seek peace and ensue it
1pet312 for the eyes of the lord are over the righteous and his ears are open unto their prayers but the face of the lord is against them that do evil
1pet313 and who is he that will harm you if ye be followers of that which is good
1pet314 but and if ye suffer for righteousness sake happy are ye and be not afraid of their terror neither be troubled
1pet315 but sanctify the lord god in your hearts and be ready always to give an answer to every man that asketh you a reason of the hope that is in you with meekness and fear
1pet316 having a good conscience that whereas they speak evil of you as of evildoers they may be ashamed that falsely accuse your good conversation in christ
1pet317 for it is better if the will of god be so that ye suffer for well doing than for evil doing
1pet318 for christ also hath once suffered for sins the just for the unjust that he might bring us to god being put to death in the flesh but quickened by the spirit
1pet319 by which also he went and preached unto the spirits in prison
1pet320 which sometime were disobedient when once the longsuffering of god waited in the days of noah while the ark was a preparing wherein few that is eight souls were saved by water
1pet321 the like figure whereunto even baptism doth also now save us not the putting away of the filth of the flesh but the answer of a good conscience toward god by the resurrection of jesus christ
1pet322 who is gone into heaven and is on the right hand of god angels and authorities and powers being made subject unto him
1pet41 forasmuch then as christ hath suffered for us in the flesh arm yourselves likewise with the same mind for he that hath suffered in the flesh hath ceased from sin
1pet42 that he no longer should live the rest of his time in the flesh to the lusts of men but to the will of god
1pet43 for the time past of our life may suffice us to have wrought the will of the gentiles when we walked in lasciviousness lusts excess of wine revellings banquetings and abominable idolatries
1pet44 wherein they think it strange that ye run not with them to the same excess of riot speaking evil of you
1pet45 who shall give account to him that is ready to judge the quick and the dead
1pet46 for for this cause was the gospel preached also to them that are dead that they might be judged according to men in the flesh but live according to god in the spirit
1pet47 but the end of all things is at hand be ye therefore sober and watch unto prayer
1pet48 and above all things have fervent charity among yourselves for charity shall cover the multitude of sins
1pet49 use hospitality one to another without grudging
1pet410 as every man hath received the gift even so minister the same one to another as good stewards of the manifold grace of god
1pet411 if any man speak let him speak as the oracles of god if any man minister let him do it as of the ability which god giveth that god in all things may be glorified through jesus christ to whom be praise and dominion for ever and ever amen
1pet412 beloved think it not strange concerning the fiery trial which is to try you as though some strange thing happened unto you
1pet413 but rejoice inasmuch as ye are partakers of christ's sufferings that when his glory shall be revealed ye may be glad also with exceeding joy
1pet414 if ye be reproached for the name of christ happy are ye for the spirit of glory and of god resteth upon you on their part he is evil spoken of but on your part he is glorified
1pet415 but let none of you suffer as a murderer or as a thief or as an evildoer or as a busybody in other men's matters
1pet416 yet if any man suffer as a christian let him not be ashamed but let him glorify god on this behalf
1pet417 for the time is come that judgment must begin at the house of god and if it first begin at us what shall the end be of them that obey not the gospel of god
1pet418 and if the righteous scarcely be saved where shall the ungodly and the sinner appear
1pet419 wherefore let them that suffer according to the will of god commit the keeping of their souls to him in well doing as unto a faithful creator
1pet51 the elders which are among you i exhort who am also an elder and a witness of the sufferings of christ and also a partaker of the glory that shall be revealed
1pet52 feed the flock of god which is among you taking the oversight thereof not by constraint but willingly not for filthy lucre but of a ready mind
1pet53 neither as being lords over god's heritage but being ensamples to the flock
1pet54 and when the chief shepherd shall appear ye shall receive a crown of glory that fadeth not away
1pet55 likewise ye younger submit yourselves unto the elder yea all of you be subject one to another and be clothed with humility for god resisteth the proud and giveth grace to the humble
1pet56 humble yourselves therefore under the mighty hand of god that he may exalt you in due time
1pet57 casting all your care upon him for he careth for you
1pet58 be sober be vigilant because your adversary the devil as a roaring lion walketh about seeking whom he may devour
1pet59 whom resist stedfast in the faith knowing that the same afflictions are accomplished in your brethren that are in the world
1pet510 but the god of all grace who hath called us unto his eternal glory by christ jesus after that ye have suffered a while make you perfect stablish strengthen settle you
1pet511 to him be glory and dominion for ever and ever amen
1pet512 by silvanus a faithful brother unto you as i suppose i have written briefly exhorting and testifying that this is the true grace of god wherein ye stand
1pet513 the church that is at babylon elected together with you saluteth you and so doth marcus my son
1pet514 greet ye one another with a kiss of charity peace be with you all that are in christ jesus amen
2pet11 simon peter a servant and an apostle of jesus christ to them that have obtained like precious faith with us through the righteousness of god and our saviour jesus christ
2pet12 grace and peace be multiplied unto you through the knowledge of god and of jesus our lord
2pet13 according as his divine power hath given unto us all things that pertain unto life and godliness through the knowledge of him that hath called us to glory and virtue
2pet14 whereby are given unto us exceeding great and precious promises that by these ye might be partakers of the divine nature having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust
2pet15 and beside this giving all diligence add to your faith virtue and to virtue knowledge
2pet16 and to knowledge temperance and to temperance patience and to patience godliness
2pet17 and to godliness brotherly kindness and to brotherly kindness charity
2pet18 for if these things be in you and abound they make you that ye shall neither be barren nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our lord jesus christ
2pet19 but he that lacketh these things is blind and cannot see afar off and hath forgotten that he was purged from his old sins
2pet110 wherefore the rather brethren give diligence to make your calling and election sure for if ye do these things ye shall never fall
2pet111 for so an entrance shall be ministered unto you abundantly into the everlasting kingdom of our lord and saviour jesus christ
2pet112 wherefore i will not be negligent to put you always in remembrance of these things though ye know them and be established in the present truth
2pet113 yea i think it meet as long as i am in this tabernacle to stir you up by putting you in remembrance
2pet114 knowing that shortly i must put off this my tabernacle even as our lord jesus christ hath shewed me
2pet115 moreover i will endeavour that ye may be able after my decease to have these things always in remembrance
2pet116 for we have not followed cunningly devised fables when we made known unto you the power and coming of our lord jesus christ but were eyewitnesses of his majesty
2pet117 for he received from god the father honour and glory when there came such a voice to him from the excellent glory this is my beloved son in whom i am well pleased
2pet118 and this voice which came from heaven we heard when we were with him in the holy mount
2pet119 we have also a more sure word of prophecy whereunto ye do well that ye take heed as unto a light that shineth in a dark place until the day dawn and the day star arise in your hearts
2pet120 knowing this first that no prophecy of the scripture is of any private interpretation
2pet121 for the prophecy came not in old time by the will of man but holy men of god spake as they were moved by the holy ghost
2pet21 but there were false prophets also among the people even as there shall be false teachers among you who privily shall bring in damnable heresies even denying the lord that bought them and bring upon themselves swift destruction
2pet22 and many shall follow their pernicious ways by reason of whom the way of truth shall be evil spoken of
2pet23 and through covetousness shall they with feigned words make merchandise of you whose judgment now of a long time lingereth not and their damnation slumbereth not
2pet24 for if god spared not the angels that sinned but cast them down to hell and delivered them into chains of darkness to be reserved unto judgment
2pet25 and spared not the old world but saved noah the eighth person a preacher of righteousness bringing in the flood upon the world of the ungodly
2pet26 and turning the cities of sodom and gomorrha into ashes condemned them with an overthrow making them an ensample unto those that after should live ungodly
2pet27 and delivered just lot vexed with the filthy conversation of the wicked
2pet28 for that righteous man dwelling among them in seeing and hearing vexed his righteous soul from day to day with their unlawful deeds
2pet29 the lord knoweth how to deliver the godly out of temptations and to reserve the unjust unto the day of judgment to be punished
2pet210 but chiefly them that walk after the flesh in the lust of uncleanness and despise government presumptuous are they selfwilled they are not afraid to speak evil of dignities
2pet211 whereas angels which are greater in power and might bring not railing accusation against them before the lord
2pet212 but these as natural brute beasts made to be taken and destroyed speak evil of the things that they understand not and shall utterly perish in their own corruption
2pet213 and shall receive the reward of unrighteousness as they that count it pleasure to riot in the day time spots they are and blemishes sporting themselves with their own deceivings while they feast with you
2pet214 having eyes full of adultery and that cannot cease from sin beguiling unstable souls an heart they have exercised with covetous practices cursed children
2pet215 which have forsaken the right way and are gone astray following the way of balaam the son of bosor who loved the wages of unrighteousness
2pet216 but was rebuked for his iniquity the dumb ass speaking with man's voice forbad the madness of the prophet
2pet217 these are wells without water clouds that are carried with a tempest to whom the mist of darkness is reserved for ever
2pet218 for when they speak great swelling words of vanity they allure through the lusts of the flesh through much wantonness those that were clean escaped from them who live in error
2pet219 while they promise them liberty they themselves are the servants of corruption for of whom a man is overcome of the same is he brought in bondage
2pet220 for if after they have escaped the pollutions of the world through the knowledge of the lord and saviour jesus christ they are again entangled therein and overcome the latter end is worse with them than the beginning
2pet221 for it had been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness than after they have known it to turn from the holy commandment delivered unto them
2pet222 but it is happened unto them according to the true proverb the dog is turned to his own vomit again and the sow that was washed to her wallowing in the mire
2pet31 this second epistle beloved i now write unto you in both which i stir up your pure minds by way of remembrance
2pet32 that ye may be mindful of the words which were spoken before by the holy prophets and of the commandment of us the apostles of the lord and saviour
2pet33 knowing this first that there shall come in the last days scoffers walking after their own lusts
2pet34 and saying where is the promise of his coming for since the fathers fell asleep all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation
2pet35 for this they willingly are ignorant of that by the word of god the heavens were of old and the earth standing out of the water and in the water
2pet36 whereby the world that then was being overflowed with water perished
2pet37 but the heavens and the earth which are now by the same word are kept in store reserved unto fire against the day of judgment and perdition of ungodly men
2pet38 but beloved be not ignorant of this one thing that one day is with the lord as a thousand years and a thousand years as one day
2pet39 the lord is not slack concerning his promise as some men count slackness but is longsuffering to usward not willing that any should perish but that all should come to repentance
2pet310 but the day of the lord will come as a thief in the night in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise and the elements shall melt with fervent heat the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up
2pet311 seeing then that all these things shall be dissolved what manner of persons ought ye to be in all holy conversation and godliness
2pet312 looking for and hasting unto the coming of the day of god wherein the heavens being on fire shall be dissolved and the elements shall melt with fervent heat
2pet313 nevertheless we according to his promise look for new heavens and a new earth wherein dwelleth righteousness
2pet314 wherefore beloved seeing that ye look for such things be diligent that ye may be found of him in peace without spot and blameless
2pet315 and account that the longsuffering of our lord is salvation even as our beloved brother paul also according to the wisdom given unto him hath written unto you
2pet316 as also in all his epistles speaking in them of these things in which are some things hard to be understood which they that are unlearned and unstable wrest as they do also the other scriptures unto their own destruction
2pet317 ye therefore beloved seeing ye know these things before beware lest ye also being led away with the error of the wicked fall from your own stedfastness
2pet318 but grow in grace and in the knowledge of our lord and saviour jesus christ to him be glory both now and for ever amen
1jn11 that which was from the beginning which we have heard which we have seen with our eyes which we have looked upon and our hands have handled of the word of life
1jn12 for the life was manifested and we have seen it and bear witness and shew unto you that eternal life which was with the father and was manifested unto us
1jn13 that which we have seen and heard declare we unto you that ye also may have fellowship with us and truly our fellowship is with the father and with his son jesus christ
1jn14 and these things write we unto you that your joy may be full
1jn15 this then is the message which we have heard of him and declare unto you that god is light and in him is no darkness at all
1jn16 if we say that we have fellowship with him and walk in darkness we lie and do not the truth
1jn17 but if we walk in the light as he is in the light we have fellowship one with another and the blood of jesus christ his son cleanseth us from all sin
1jn18 if we say that we have no sin we deceive ourselves and the truth is not in us
1jn19 if we confess our sins he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness
1jn110 if we say that we have not sinned we make him a liar and his word is not in us
1jn21 my little children these things write i unto you that ye sin not and if any man sin we have an advocate with the father jesus christ the righteous
1jn22 and he is the propitiation for our sins and not for ours only but also for the sins of the whole world
1jn23 and hereby we do know that we know him if we keep his commandments
1jn24 he that saith i know him and keepeth not his commandments is a liar and the truth is not in him
1jn25 but whoso keepeth his word in him verily is the love of god perfected hereby know we that we are in him
1jn26 he that saith he abideth in him ought himself also so to walk even as he walked
1jn27 brethren i write no new commandment unto you but an old commandment which ye had from the beginning the old commandment is the word which ye have heard from the beginning
1jn28 again a new commandment i write unto you which thing is true in him and in you because the darkness is past and the true light now shineth
1jn29 he that saith he is in the light and hateth his brother is in darkness even until now
1jn210 he that loveth his brother abideth in the light and there is none occasion of stumbling in him
1jn211 but he that hateth his brother is in darkness and walketh in darkness and knoweth not whither he goeth because that darkness hath blinded his eyes
1jn212 i write unto you little children because your sins are forgiven you for his name's sake
1jn213 i write unto you fathers because ye have known him that is from the beginning i write unto you young men because ye have overcome the wicked one i write unto you little children because ye have known the father
1jn214 i have written unto you fathers because ye have known him that is from the beginning i have written unto you young men because ye are strong and the word of god abideth in you and ye have overcome the wicked one
1jn215 love not the world neither the things that are in the world if any man love the world the love of the father is not in him
1jn216 for all that is in the world the lust of the flesh and the lust of the eyes and the pride of life is not of the father but is of the world
1jn217 and the world passeth away and the lust thereof but he that doeth the will of god abideth for ever
1jn218 little children it is the last time and as ye have heard that antichrist shall come even now are there many antichrists whereby we know that it is the last time
1jn219 they went out from us but they were not of us for if they had been of us they would no doubt have continued with us but they went out that they might be made manifest that they were not all of us
1jn220 but ye have an unction from the holy one and ye know all things
1jn221 i have not written unto you because ye know not the truth but because ye know it and that no lie is of the truth
1jn222 who is a liar but he that denieth that jesus is the christ he is antichrist that denieth the father and the son
1jn223 whosoever denieth the son the same hath not the father he that acknowledgeth the son hath the father also
1jn224 let that therefore abide in you which ye have heard from the beginning if that which ye have heard from the beginning shall remain in you ye also shall continue in the son and in the father
1jn225 and this is the promise that he hath promised us even eternal life
1jn226 these things have i written unto you concerning them that seduce you
1jn227 but the anointing which ye have received of him abideth in you and ye need not that any man teach you but as the same anointing teacheth you of all things and is truth and is no lie and even as it hath taught you ye shall abide in him
1jn228 and now little children abide in him that when he shall appear we may have confidence and not be ashamed before him at his coming
1jn229 if ye know that he is righteous ye know that every one that doeth righteousness is born of him
1jn31 behold what manner of love the father hath bestowed upon us that we should be called the sons of god therefore the world knoweth us not because it knew him not
1jn32 beloved now are we the sons of god and it doth not yet appear what we shall be but we know that when he shall appear we shall be like him for we shall see him as he is
1jn33 and every man that hath this hope in him purifieth himself even as he is pure
1jn34 whosoever committeth sin transgresseth also the law for sin is the transgression of the law
1jn35 and ye know that he was manifested to take away our sins and in him is no sin
1jn36 whosoever abideth in him sinneth not whosoever sinneth hath not seen him neither known him
1jn37 little children let no man deceive you he that doeth righteousness is righteous even as he is righteous
1jn38 he that committeth sin is of the devil for the devil sinneth from the beginning for this purpose the son of god was manifested that he might destroy the works of the devil
1jn39 whosoever is born of god doth not commit sin for his seed remaineth in him and he cannot sin because he is born of god
1jn310 in this the children of god are manifest and the children of the devil whosoever doeth not righteousness is not of god neither he that loveth not his brother
1jn311 for this is the message that ye heard from the beginning that we should love one another
1jn312 not as cain who was of that wicked one and slew his brother and wherefore slew he him because his own works were evil and his brother's righteous
1jn313 marvel not my brethren if the world hate you
1jn314 we know that we have passed from death unto life because we love the brethren he that loveth not his brother abideth in death
1jn315 whosoever hateth his brother is a murderer and ye know that no murderer hath eternal life abiding in him
1jn316 hereby perceive we the love of god because he laid down his life for us and we ought to lay down our lives for the brethren
1jn317 but whoso hath this world's good and seeth his brother have need and shutteth up his bowels of compassion from him how dwelleth the love of god in him
1jn318 my little children let us not love in word neither in tongue but in deed and in truth
1jn319 and hereby we know that we are of the truth and shall assure our hearts before him
1jn320 for if our heart condemn us god is greater than our heart and knoweth all things
1jn321 beloved if our heart condemn us not then have we confidence toward god
1jn322 and whatsoever we ask we receive of him because we keep his commandments and do those things that are pleasing in his sight
1jn323 and this is his commandment that we should believe on the name of his son jesus christ and love one another as he gave us commandment
1jn324 and he that keepeth his commandments dwelleth in him and he in him and hereby we know that he abideth in us by the spirit which he hath given us
1jn41 beloved believe not every spirit but try the spirits whether they are of god because many false prophets are gone out into the world
1jn42 hereby know ye the spirit of god every spirit that confesseth that jesus christ is come in the flesh is of god
1jn43 and every spirit that confesseth not that jesus christ is come in the flesh is not of god and this is that spirit of antichrist whereof ye have heard that it should come and even now already is it in the world
1jn44 ye are of god little children and have overcome them because greater is he that is in you than he that is in the world
1jn45 they are of the world therefore speak they of the world and the world heareth them
1jn46 we are of god he that knoweth god heareth us he that is not of god heareth not us hereby know we the spirit of truth and the spirit of error
1jn47 beloved let us love one another for love is of god and every one that loveth is born of god and knoweth god
1jn48 he that loveth not knoweth not god for god is love
1jn49 in this was manifested the love of god toward us because that god sent his only begotten son into the world that we might live through him
1jn410 herein is love not that we loved god but that he loved us and sent his son to be the propitiation for our sins
1jn411 beloved if god so loved us we ought also to love one another
1jn412 no man hath seen god at any time if we love one another god dwelleth in us and his love is perfected in us
1jn413 hereby know we that we dwell in him and he in us because he hath given us of his spirit
1jn414 and we have seen and do testify that the father sent the son to be the saviour of the world
1jn415 whosoever shall confess that jesus is the son of god god dwelleth in him and he in god
1jn416 and we have known and believed the love that god hath to us god is love and he that dwelleth in love dwelleth in god and god in him
1jn417 herein is our love made perfect that we may have boldness in the day of judgment because as he is so are we in this world
1jn418 there is no fear in love but perfect love casteth out fear because fear hath torment he that feareth is not made perfect in love
1jn419 we love him because he first loved us
1jn420 if a man say i love god and hateth his brother he is a liar for he that loveth not his brother whom he hath seen how can he love god whom he hath not seen
1jn421 and this commandment have we from him that he who loveth god love his brother also
1jn51 whosoever believeth that jesus is the christ is born of god and every one that loveth him that begat loveth him also that is begotten of him
1jn52 by this we know that we love the children of god when we love god and keep his commandments
1jn53 for this is the love of god that we keep his commandments and his commandments are not grievous
1jn54 for whatsoever is born of god overcometh the world and this is the victory that overcometh the world even our faith
1jn55 who is he that overcometh the world but he that believeth that jesus is the son of god
1jn56 this is he that came by water and blood even jesus christ not by water only but by water and blood and it is the spirit that beareth witness because the spirit is truth
1jn57 for there are three that bear record in heaven the father the word and the holy ghost and these three are one
1jn58 and there are three that bear witness in earth the spirit and the water and the blood and these three agree in one
1jn59 if we receive the witness of men the witness of god is greater for this is the witness of god which he hath testified of his son
1jn510 he that believeth on the son of god hath the witness in himself he that believeth not god hath made him a liar because he believeth not the record that god gave of his son
1jn511 and this is the record that god hath given to us eternal life and this life is in his son
1jn512 he that hath the son hath life and he that hath not the son of god hath not life
1jn513 these things have i written unto you that believe on the name of the son of god that ye may know that ye have eternal life and that ye may believe on the name of the son of god
1jn514 and this is the confidence that we have in him that if we ask any thing according to his will he heareth us
1jn515 and if we know that he hear us whatsoever we ask we know that we have the petitions that we desired of him
1jn516 if any man see his brother sin a sin which is not unto death he shall ask and he shall give him life for them that sin not unto death there is a sin unto death i do not say that he shall pray for it
1jn517 all unrighteousness is sin and there is a sin not unto death
1jn518 we know that whosoever is born of god sinneth not but he that is begotten of god keepeth himself and that wicked one toucheth him not
1jn519 and we know that we are of god and the whole world lieth in wickedness
1jn520 and we know that the son of god is come and hath given us an understanding that we may know him that is true and we are in him that is true even in his son jesus christ this is the true god and eternal life
1jn521 little children keep yourselves from idols amen
2jn11 the elder unto the elect lady and her children whom i love in the truth and not i only but also all they that have known the truth
2jn12 for the truth's sake which dwelleth in us and shall be with us for ever
2jn13 grace be with you mercy and peace from god the father and from the lord jesus christ the son of the father in truth and love
2jn14 i rejoiced greatly that i found of thy children walking in truth as we have received a commandment from the father
2jn15 and now i beseech thee lady not as though i wrote a new commandment unto thee but that which we had from the beginning that we love one another
2jn16 and this is love that we walk after his commandments this is the commandment that as ye have heard from the beginning ye should walk in it
2jn17 for many deceivers are entered into the world who confess not that jesus christ is come in the flesh this is a deceiver and an antichrist
2jn18 look to yourselves that we lose not those things which we have wrought but that we receive a full reward
2jn19 whosoever transgresseth and abideth not in the doctrine of christ hath not god he that abideth in the doctrine of christ he hath both the father and the son
2jn110 if there come any unto you and bring not this doctrine receive him not into your house neither bid him god speed
2jn111 for he that biddeth him god speed is partaker of his evil deeds
2jn112 having many things to write unto you i would not write with paper and ink but i trust to come unto you and speak face to face that our joy may be full
2jn113 the children of thy elect sister greet thee amen
3jn11 the elder unto the wellbeloved gaius whom i love in the truth
3jn12 beloved i wish above all things that thou mayest prosper and be in health even as thy soul prospereth
3jn13 for i rejoiced greatly when the brethren came and testified of the truth that is in thee even as thou walkest in the truth
3jn14 i have no greater joy than to hear that my children walk in truth
3jn15 beloved thou doest faithfully whatsoever thou doest to the brethren and to strangers
3jn16 which have borne witness of thy charity before the church whom if thou bring forward on their journey after a godly sort thou shalt do well
3jn17 because that for his name's sake they went forth taking nothing of the gentiles
3jn18 we therefore ought to receive such that we might be fellowhelpers to the truth
3jn19 i wrote unto the church but diotrephes who loveth to have the preeminence among them receiveth us not
3jn110 wherefore if i come i will remember his deeds which he doeth prating against us with malicious words and not content therewith neither doth he himself receive the brethren and forbiddeth them that would and casteth them out of the church
3jn111 beloved follow not that which is evil but that which is good he that doeth good is of god but he that doeth evil hath not seen god
3jn112 demetrius hath good report of all men and of the truth itself yea and we also bear record and ye know that our record is true
3jn113 i had many things to write but i will not with ink and pen write unto thee
3jn114 but i trust i shall shortly see thee and we shall speak face to face peace be to thee our friends salute thee greet the friends by name
jude the servant of jesus christ and brother of james to them that are sanctified by god the father and preserved in jesus christ and called
mercy unto you and peace and love be multiplied
beloved when i gave all diligence to write unto you of the common salvation it was needful for me to write unto you and exhort you that ye should earnestly contend for the faith which was once delivered unto the saints
for there are certain men crept in unawares who were before of old ordained to this condemnation ungodly men turning the grace of our god into lasciviousness and denying the only lord god and our lord jesus christ
i will therefore put you in remembrance though ye once knew this how that the lord having saved the people out of the land of egypt afterward destroyed them that believed not
and the angels which kept not their first estate but left their own habitation he hath reserved in everlasting chains under darkness unto the judgment of the great day
even as sodom and gomorrha and the cities about them in like manner giving themselves over to fornication and going after strange flesh are set forth for an example suffering the vengeance of eternal fire
likewise also these filthy dreamers defile the flesh despise dominion and speak evil of dignities
yet michael the archangel when contending with the devil he disputed about the body of moses durst not bring against him a railing accusation but said the lord rebuke thee
but these speak evil of those things which they know not but what they know naturally as brute beasts in those things they corrupt themselves
woe unto them for they have gone in the way of cain and ran greedily after the error of balaam for reward and perished in the gainsaying of core
these are spots in your feasts of charity when they feast with you feeding themselves without fear clouds they are without water carried about of winds trees whose fruit withereth without fruit twice dead plucked up by the roots
raging waves of the sea foaming out their own shame wandering stars to whom is reserved the blackness of darkness for ever
and enoch also the seventh from adam prophesied of these saying behold the lord cometh with ten thousands of his saints
to execute judgment upon all and to convince all that are ungodly among them of all their ungodly deeds which they have ungodly committed and of all their hard speeches which ungodly sinners have spoken against him
these are murmurers complainers walking after their own lusts and their mouth speaketh great swelling words having men's persons in admiration because of advantage
but beloved remember ye the words which were spoken before of the apostles of our lord jesus christ
how that they told you there should be mockers in the last time who should walk after their own ungodly lusts
these be they who separate themselves sensual having not the spirit
but ye beloved building up yourselves on your most holy faith praying in the holy ghost
keep yourselves in the love of god looking for the mercy of our lord jesus christ unto eternal life
and of some have compassion making a difference
and others save with fear pulling them out of the fire hating even the garment spotted by the flesh
now unto him that is able to keep you from falling and to present you faultless before the presence of his glory with exceeding joy
to the only wise god our saviour be glory and majesty dominion and power both now and ever amen
the revelation of jesus christ which god gave unto him to shew unto his servants things which must shortly come to pass and he sent and signified it by his angel unto his servant john
who bare record of the word of god and of the testimony of jesus christ and of all things that he saw
blessed is he that readeth and they that hear the words of this prophecy and keep those things which are written therein for the time is at hand
john to the seven churches which are in asia grace be unto you and peace from him which is and which was and which is to come and from the seven spirits which are before his throne
and from jesus christ who is the faithful witness and the first begotten of the dead and the prince of the kings of the earth unto him that loved us and washed us from our sins in his own blood
and hath made us kings and priests unto god and his father to him be glory and dominion for ever and ever amen
behold he cometh with clouds and every eye shall see him and they also which pierced him and all kindreds of the earth shall wail because of him even so amen
i am alpha and omega the beginning and the ending saith the lord which is and which was and which is to come the almighty
i john who also am your brother and companion in tribulation and in the kingdom and patience of jesus christ was in the isle that is called patmos for the word of god and for the testimony of jesus christ
i was in the spirit on the lord's day and heard behind me a great voice as of a trumpet
saying i am alpha and omega the first and the last and what thou seest write in a book and send it unto the seven churches which are in asia unto ephesus and unto smyrna and unto pergamos and unto thyatira and unto sardis and unto philadelphia and unto laodicea
and i turned to see the voice that spake with me and being turned i saw seven golden candlesticks
and in the midst of the seven candlesticks one like unto the son of man clothed with a garment down to the foot and girt about the paps with a golden girdle
his head and his hairs were white like wool as white as snow and his eyes were as a flame of fire
and his feet like unto fine brass as if they burned in a furnace and his voice as the sound of many waters
and he had in his right hand seven stars and out of his mouth went a sharp twoedged sword and his countenance was as the sun shineth in his strength
and when i saw him i fell at his feet as dead and he laid his right hand upon me saying unto me fear not i am the first and the last
i am he that liveth and was dead and behold i am alive for evermore amen and have the keys of hell and of death
write the things which thou hast seen and the things which are and the things which shall be hereafter
the mystery of the seven stars which thou sawest in my right hand and the seven golden candlesticks the seven stars are the angels of the seven churches and the seven candlesticks which thou sawest are the seven churches
unto the angel of the church of ephesus write these things saith he that holdeth the seven stars in his right hand who walketh in the midst of the seven golden candlesticks
i know thy works and thy labour and thy patience and how thou canst not bear them which are evil and thou hast tried them which say they are apostles and are not and hast found them liars
and hast borne and hast patience and for my name's sake hast laboured and hast not fainted
nevertheless i have somewhat against thee because thou hast left thy first love
remember therefore from whence thou art fallen and repent and do the first works or else i will come unto thee quickly and will remove thy candlestick out of his place except thou repent
but this thou hast that thou hatest the deeds of the nicolaitanes which i also hate
he that hath an ear let him hear what the spirit saith unto the churches to him that overcometh will i give to eat of the tree of life which is in the midst of the paradise of god
and unto the angel of the church in smyrna write these things saith the first and the last which was dead and is alive
i know thy works and tribulation and poverty but thou art rich and i know the blasphemy of them which say they are jews and are not but are the synagogue of satan
fear none of those things which thou shalt suffer behold the devil shall cast some of you into prison that ye may be tried and ye shall have tribulation ten days be thou faithful unto death and i will give thee a crown of life
he that hath an ear let him hear what the spirit saith unto the churches he that overcometh shall not be hurt of the second death
and to the angel of the church in pergamos write these things saith he which hath the sharp sword with two edges
i know thy works and where thou dwellest even where satan's seat is and thou holdest fast my name and hast not denied my faith even in those days wherein antipas was my faithful martyr who was slain among you where satan dwelleth
but i have a few things against thee because thou hast there them that hold the doctrine of balaam who taught balac to cast a stumblingblock before the children of israel to eat things sacrificed unto idols and to commit fornication
so hast thou also them that hold the doctrine of the nicolaitanes which thing i hate
repent or else i will come unto thee quickly and will fight against them with the sword of my mouth
he that hath an ear let him hear what the spirit saith unto the churches to him that overcometh will i give to eat of the hidden manna and will give him a white stone and in the stone a new name written which no man knoweth saving he that receiveth it
and unto the angel of the church in thyatira write these things saith the son of god who hath his eyes like unto a flame of fire and his feet are like fine brass
i know thy works and charity and service and faith and thy patience and thy works and the last to be more than the first
notwithstanding i have a few things against thee because thou sufferest that woman jezebel which calleth herself a prophetess to teach and to seduce my servants to commit fornication and to eat things sacrificed unto idols
and i gave her space to repent of her fornication and she repented not
behold i will cast her into a bed and them that commit adultery with her into great tribulation except they repent of their deeds
and i will kill her children with death and all the churches shall know that i am he which searcheth the reins and hearts and i will give unto every one of you according to your works
but unto you i say and unto the rest in thyatira as many as have not this doctrine and which have not known the depths of satan as they speak i will put upon you none other burden
but that which ye have already hold fast till i come
and he that overcometh and keepeth my works unto the end to him will i give power over the nations
and he shall rule them with a rod of iron as the vessels of a potter shall they be broken to shivers even as i received of my father
and i will give him the morning star
he that hath an ear let him hear what the spirit saith unto the churches
and unto the angel of the church in sardis write these things saith he that hath the seven spirits of god and the seven stars i know thy works that thou hast a name that thou livest and art dead
be watchful and strengthen the things which remain that are ready to die for i have not found thy works perfect before god
remember therefore how thou hast received and heard and hold fast and repent if therefore thou shalt not watch i will come on thee as a thief and thou shalt not know what hour i will come upon thee
thou hast a few names even in sardis which have not defiled their garments and they shall walk with me in white for they are worthy
he that overcometh the same shall be clothed in white raiment and i will not blot out his name out of the book of life but i will confess his name before my father and before his angels
he that hath an ear let him hear what the spirit saith unto the churches
and to the angel of the church in philadelphia write these things saith he that is holy he that is true he that hath the key of david he that openeth and no man shutteth and shutteth and no man openeth
i know thy works behold i have set before thee an open door and no man can shut it for thou hast a little strength and hast kept my word and hast not denied my name
behold i will make them of the synagogue of satan which say they are jews and are not but do lie behold i will make them to come and worship before thy feet and to know that i have loved thee
because thou hast kept the word of my patience i also will keep thee from the hour of temptation which shall come upon all the world to try them that dwell upon the earth
behold i come quickly hold that fast which thou hast that no man take thy crown
him that overcometh will i make a pillar in the temple of my god and he shall go no more out and i will write upon him the name of my god and the name of the city of my god which is new jerusalem which cometh down out of heaven from my god and i will write upon him my new name
he that hath an ear let him hear what the spirit saith unto the churches
and unto the angel of the church of the laodiceans write these things saith the amen the faithful and true witness the beginning of the creation of god
i know thy works that thou art neither cold nor hot i would thou wert cold or hot
so then because thou art lukewarm and neither cold nor hot i will spue thee out of my mouth
because thou sayest i am rich and increased with goods and have need of nothing and knowest not that thou art wretched and miserable and poor and blind and naked
i counsel thee to buy of me gold tried in the fire that thou mayest be rich and white raiment that thou mayest be clothed and that the shame of thy nakedness do not appear and anoint thine eyes with eyesalve that thou mayest see
as many as i love i rebuke and chasten be zealous therefore and repent
behold i stand at the door and knock if any man hear my voice and open the door i will come in to him and will sup with him and he with me
to him that overcometh will i grant to sit with me in my throne even as i also overcame and am set down with my father in his throne
he that hath an ear let him hear what the spirit saith unto the churches
after this i looked and behold a door was opened in heaven and the first voice which i heard was as it were of a trumpet talking with me which said come up hither and i will shew thee things which must be hereafter
and immediately i was in the spirit and behold a throne was set in heaven and one sat on the throne
and he that sat was to look upon like a jasper and a sardine stone and there was a rainbow round about the throne in sight like unto an emerald
and round about the throne were four and twenty seats and upon the seats i saw four and twenty elders sitting clothed in white raiment and they had on their heads crowns of gold
and out of the throne proceeded lightnings and thunderings and voices and there were seven lamps of fire burning before the throne which are the seven spirits of god
and before the throne there was a sea of glass like unto crystal and in the midst of the throne and round about the throne were four beasts full of eyes before and behind
and the first beast was like a lion and the second beast like a calf and the third beast had a face as a man and the fourth beast was like a flying eagle
and the four beasts had each of them six wings about him and they were full of eyes within and they rest not day and night saying holy holy holy lord god almighty which was and is and is to come
and when those beasts give glory and honour and thanks to him that sat on the throne who liveth for ever and ever
the four and twenty elders fall down before him that sat on the throne and worship him that liveth for ever and ever and cast their crowns before the throne saying
thou art worthy o lord to receive glory and honour and power for thou hast created all things and for thy pleasure they are and were created
and i saw in the right hand of him that sat on the throne a book written within and on the backside sealed with seven seals
and i saw a strong angel proclaiming with a loud voice who is worthy to open the book and to loose the seals thereof
and no man in heaven nor in earth neither under the earth was able to open the book neither to look thereon
and i wept much because no man was found worthy to open and to read the book neither to look thereon
and one of the elders saith unto me weep not behold the lion of the tribe of juda the root of david hath prevailed to open the book and to loose the seven seals thereof
and i beheld and lo in the midst of the throne and of the four beasts and in the midst of the elders stood a lamb as it had been slain having seven horns and seven eyes which are the seven spirits of god sent forth into all the earth
and he came and took the book out of the right hand of him that sat upon the throne
and when he had taken the book the four beasts and four and twenty elders fell down before the lamb having every one of them harps and golden vials full of odours which are the prayers of saints
and they sung a new song saying thou art worthy to take the book and to open the seals thereof for thou wast slain and hast redeemed us to god by thy blood out of every kindred and tongue and people and nation
and hast made us unto our god kings and priests and we shall reign on the earth
and i beheld and i heard the voice of many angels round about the throne and the beasts and the elders and the number of them was ten thousand times ten thousand and thousands of thousands
saying with a loud voice worthy is the lamb that was slain to receive power and riches and wisdom and strength and honour and glory and blessing
and every creature which is in heaven and on the earth and under the earth and such as are in the sea and all that are in them heard i saying blessing and honour and glory and power be unto him that sitteth upon the throne and unto the lamb for ever and ever
and the four beasts said amen and the four and twenty elders fell down and worshipped him that liveth for ever and ever
and i saw when the lamb opened one of the seals and i heard as it were the noise of thunder one of the four beasts saying come and see
and i saw and behold a white horse and he that sat on him had a bow and a crown was given unto him and he went forth conquering and to conquer
and when he had opened the second seal i heard the second beast say come and see
and there went out another horse that was red and power was given to him that sat thereon to take peace from the earth and that they should kill one another and there was given unto him a great sword
and when he had opened the third seal i heard the third beast say come and see and i beheld and lo a black horse and he that sat on him had a pair of balances in his hand
and i heard a voice in the midst of the four beasts say a measure of wheat for a penny and three measures of barley for a penny and see thou hurt not the oil and the wine
and when he had opened the fourth seal i heard the voice of the fourth beast say come and see
and i looked and behold a pale horse and his name that sat on him was death and hell followed with him and power was given unto them over the fourth part of the earth to kill with sword and with hunger and with death and with the beasts of the earth
and when he had opened the fifth seal i saw under the altar the souls of them that were slain for the word of god and for the testimony which they held
and they cried with a loud voice saying how long o lord holy and true dost thou not judge and avenge our blood on them that dwell on the earth
and white robes were given unto every one of them and it was said unto them that they should rest yet for a little season until their fellowservants also and their brethren that should be killed as they were should be fulfilled
and i beheld when he had opened the sixth seal and lo there was a great earthquake and the sun became black as sackcloth of hair and the moon became as blood
and the stars of heaven fell unto the earth even as a fig tree casteth her untimely figs when she is shaken of a mighty wind
and the heaven departed as a scroll when it is rolled together and every mountain and island were moved out of their places
and the kings of the earth and the great men and the rich men and the chief captains and the mighty men and every bondman and every free man hid themselves in the dens and in the rocks of the mountains
and said to the mountains and rocks fall on us and hide us from the face of him that sitteth on the throne and from the wrath of the lamb
for the great day of his wrath is come and who shall be able to stand
and after these things i saw four angels standing on the four corners of the earth holding the four winds of the earth that the wind should not blow on the earth nor on the sea nor on any tree
and i saw another angel ascending from the east having the seal of the living god and he cried with a loud voice to the four angels to whom it was given to hurt the earth and the sea
saying hurt not the earth neither the sea nor the trees till we have sealed the servants of our god in their foreheads
and i heard the number of them which were sealed and there were sealed an hundred and forty and four thousand of all the tribes of the children of israel
of the tribe of juda were sealed twelve thousand of the tribe of reuben were sealed twelve thousand of the tribe of gad were sealed twelve thousand
of the tribe of aser were sealed twelve thousand of the tribe of nephthalim were sealed twelve thousand of the tribe of manasses were sealed twelve thousand
of the tribe of simeon were sealed twelve thousand of the tribe of levi were sealed twelve thousand of the tribe of issachar were sealed twelve thousand
of the tribe of zabulon were sealed twelve thousand of the tribe of joseph were sealed twelve thousand of the tribe of benjamin were sealed twelve thousand
after this i beheld and lo a great multitude which no man could number of all nations and kindreds and people and tongues stood before the throne and before the lamb clothed with white robes and palms in their hands
and cried with a loud voice saying salvation to our god which sitteth upon the throne and unto the lamb
and all the angels stood round about the throne and about the elders and the four beasts and fell before the throne on their faces and worshipped god
saying amen blessing and glory and wisdom and thanksgiving and honour and power and might be unto our god for ever and ever amen
and one of the elders answered saying unto me what are these which are arrayed in white robes and whence came they
and i said unto him sir thou knowest and he said to me these are they which came out of great tribulation and have washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the lamb
therefore are they before the throne of god and serve him day and night in his temple and he that sitteth on the throne shall dwell among them
they shall hunger no more neither thirst any more neither shall the sun light on them nor any heat
for the lamb which is in the midst of the throne shall feed them and shall lead them unto living fountains of waters and god shall wipe away all tears from their eyes
and when he had opened the seventh seal there was silence in heaven about the space of half an hour
and i saw the seven angels which stood before god and to them were given seven trumpets
and another angel came and stood at the altar having a golden censer and there was given unto him much incense that he should offer it with the prayers of all saints upon the golden altar which was before the throne
and the smoke of the incense which came with the prayers of the saints ascended up before god out of the angel's hand
and the angel took the censer and filled it with fire of the altar and cast it into the earth and there were voices and thunderings and lightnings and an earthquake
and the seven angels which had the seven trumpets prepared themselves to sound
the first angel sounded and there followed hail and fire mingled with blood and they were cast upon the earth and the third part of trees was burnt up and all green grass was burnt up
and the second angel sounded and as it were a great mountain burning with fire was cast into the sea and the third part of the sea became blood
and the third part of the creatures which were in the sea and had life died and the third part of the ships were destroyed
and the third angel sounded and there fell a great star from heaven burning as it were a lamp and it fell upon the third part of the rivers and upon the fountains of waters
and the name of the star is called wormwood and the third part of the waters became wormwood and many men died of the waters because they were made bitter
and the fourth angel sounded and the third part of the sun was smitten and the third part of the moon and the third part of the stars so as the third part of them was darkened and the day shone not for a third part of it and the night likewise
and i beheld and heard an angel flying through the midst of heaven saying with a loud voice woe woe woe to the inhabiters of the earth by reason of the other voices of the trumpet of the three angels which are yet to sound
and the fifth angel sounded and i saw a star fall from heaven unto the earth and to him was given the key of the bottomless pit
and he opened the bottomless pit and there arose a smoke out of the pit as the smoke of a great furnace and the sun and the air were darkened by reason of the smoke of the pit
and there came out of the smoke locusts upon the earth and unto them was given power as the scorpions of the earth have power
and it was commanded them that they should not hurt the grass of the earth neither any green thing neither any tree but only those men which have not the seal of god in their foreheads
and to them it was given that they should not kill them but that they should be tormented five months and their torment was as the torment of a scorpion when he striketh a man
and in those days shall men seek death and shall not find it and shall desire to die and death shall flee from them
and the shapes of the locusts were like unto horses prepared unto battle and on their heads were as it were crowns like gold and their faces were as the faces of men
and they had hair as the hair of women and their teeth were as the teeth of lions
and they had breastplates as it were breastplates of iron and the sound of their wings was as the sound of chariots of many horses running to battle
and they had tails like unto scorpions and there were stings in their tails and their power was to hurt men five months
and they had a king over them which is the angel of the bottomless pit whose name in the hebrew tongue is abaddon but in the greek tongue hath his name apollyon
one woe is past and behold there come two woes more hereafter
and the sixth angel sounded and i heard a voice from the four horns of the golden altar which is before god
saying to the sixth angel which had the trumpet loose the four angels which are bound in the great river euphrates
and the four angels were loosed which were prepared for an hour and a day and a month and a year for to slay the third part of men
and the number of the army of the horsemen were two hundred thousand thousand and i heard the number of them
and thus i saw the horses in the vision and them that sat on them having breastplates of fire and of jacinth and brimstone and the heads of the horses were as the heads of lions and out of their mouths issued fire and smoke and brimstone
by these three was the third part of men killed by the fire and by the smoke and by the brimstone which issued out of their mouths
for their power is in their mouth and in their tails for their tails were like unto serpents and had heads and with them they do hurt
and the rest of the men which were not killed by these plagues yet repented not of the works of their hands that they should not worship devils and idols of gold and silver and brass and stone and of wood which neither can see nor hear nor walk
neither repented they of their murders nor of their sorceries nor of their fornication nor of their thefts
and i saw another mighty angel come down from heaven clothed with a cloud and a rainbow was upon his head and his face was as it were the sun and his feet as pillars of fire
and he had in his hand a little book open and he set his right foot upon the sea and his left foot on the earth
and cried with a loud voice as when a lion roareth and when he had cried seven thunders uttered their voices
and when the seven thunders had uttered their voices i was about to write and i heard a voice from heaven saying unto me seal up those things which the seven thunders uttered and write them not
and the angel which i saw stand upon the sea and upon the earth lifted up his hand to heaven
and sware by him that liveth for ever and ever who created heaven and the things that therein are and the earth and the things that therein are and the sea and the things which are therein that there should be time no longer
but in the days of the voice of the seventh angel when he shall begin to sound the mystery of god should be finished as he hath declared to his servants the prophets
and the voice which i heard from heaven spake unto me again and said go and take the little book which is open in the hand of the angel which standeth upon the sea and upon the earth
and i went unto the angel and said unto him give me the little book and he said unto me take it and eat it up and it shall make thy belly bitter but it shall be in thy mouth sweet as honey
and i took the little book out of the angel's hand and ate it up and it was in my mouth sweet as honey and as soon as i had eaten it my belly was bitter
and he said unto me thou must prophesy again before many peoples and nations and tongues and kings
and there was given me a reed like unto a rod and the angel stood saying rise and measure the temple of god and the altar and them that worship therein
but the court which is without the temple leave out and measure it not for it is given unto the gentiles and the holy city shall they tread under foot forty and two months
and i will give power unto my two witnesses and they shall prophesy a thousand two hundred and threescore days clothed in sackcloth
these are the two olive trees and the two candlesticks standing before the god of the earth
and if any man will hurt them fire proceedeth out of their mouth and devoureth their enemies and if any man will hurt them he must in this manner be killed
these have power to shut heaven that it rain not in the days of their prophecy and have power over waters to turn them to blood and to smite the earth with all plagues as often as they will
and when they shall have finished their testimony the beast that ascendeth out of the bottomless pit shall make war against them and shall overcome them and kill them
and their dead bodies shall lie in the street of the great city which spiritually is called sodom and egypt where also our lord was crucified
and they of the people and kindreds and tongues and nations shall see their dead bodies three days and an half and shall not suffer their dead bodies to be put in graves
and they that dwell upon the earth shall rejoice over them and make merry and shall send gifts one to another because these two prophets tormented them that dwelt on the earth
and after three days and an half the spirit of life from god entered into them and they stood upon their feet and great fear fell upon them which saw them
and they heard a great voice from heaven saying unto them come up hither and they ascended up to heaven in a cloud and their enemies beheld them
and the same hour was there a great earthquake and the tenth part of the city fell and in the earthquake were slain of men seven thousand and the remnant were affrighted and gave glory to the god of heaven
the second woe is past and behold the third woe cometh quickly
and the seventh angel sounded and there were great voices in heaven saying the kingdoms of this world are become the kingdoms of our lord and of his christ and he shall reign for ever and ever
and the four and twenty elders which sat before god on their seats fell upon their faces and worshipped god
saying we give thee thanks o lord god almighty which art and wast and art to come because thou hast taken to thee thy great power and hast reigned
and the nations were angry and thy wrath is come and the time of the dead that they should be judged and that thou shouldest give reward unto thy servants the prophets and to the saints and them that fear thy name small and great and shouldest destroy them which destroy the earth
and the temple of god was opened in heaven and there was seen in his temple the ark of his testament and there were lightnings and voices and thunderings and an earthquake and great hail
and there appeared a great wonder in heaven a woman clothed with the sun and the moon under her feet and upon her head a crown of twelve stars
and she being with child cried travailing in birth and pained to be delivered
and there appeared another wonder in heaven and behold a great red dragon having seven heads and ten horns and seven crowns upon his heads
and his tail drew the third part of the stars of heaven and did cast them to the earth and the dragon stood before the woman which was ready to be delivered for to devour her child as soon as it was born
and she brought forth a man child who was to rule all nations with a rod of iron and her child was caught up unto god and to his throne
and the woman fled into the wilderness where she hath a place prepared of god that they should feed her there a thousand two hundred and threescore days
and there was war in heaven michael and his angels fought against the dragon and the dragon fought and his angels
and prevailed not neither was their place found any more in heaven
and the great dragon was cast out that old serpent called the devil and satan which deceiveth the whole world he was cast out into the earth and his angels were cast out with him
and i heard a loud voice saying in heaven now is come salvation and strength and the kingdom of our god and the power of his christ for the accuser of our brethren is cast down which accused them before our god day and night
and they overcame him by the blood of the lamb and by the word of their testimony and they loved not their lives unto the death
therefore rejoice ye heavens and ye that dwell in them woe to the inhabiters of the earth and of the sea for the devil is come down unto you having great wrath because he knoweth that he hath but a short time
and when the dragon saw that he was cast unto the earth he persecuted the woman which brought forth the man child
and to the woman were given two wings of a great eagle that she might fly into the wilderness into her place where she is nourished for a time and times and half a time from the face of the serpent
and the serpent cast out of his mouth water as a flood after the woman that he might cause her to be carried away of the flood
and the earth helped the woman and the earth opened her mouth and swallowed up the flood which the dragon cast out of his mouth
and the dragon was wroth with the woman and went to make war with the remnant of her seed which keep the commandments of god and have the testimony of jesus christ
and i stood upon the sand of the sea and saw a beast rise up out of the sea having seven heads and ten horns and upon his horns ten crowns and upon his heads the name of blasphemy
and the beast which i saw was like unto a leopard and his feet were as the feet of a bear and his mouth as the mouth of a lion and the dragon gave him his power and his seat and great authority
and i saw one of his heads as it were wounded to death and his deadly wound was healed and all the world wondered after the beast
and they worshipped the dragon which gave power unto the beast and they worshipped the beast saying who is like unto the beast who is able to make war with him
and there was given unto him a mouth speaking great things and blasphemies and power was given unto him to continue forty and two months
and he opened his mouth in blasphemy against god to blaspheme his name and his tabernacle and them that dwell in heaven
and it was given unto him to make war with the saints and to overcome them and power was given him over all kindreds and tongues and nations
and all that dwell upon the earth shall worship him whose names are not written in the book of life of the lamb slain from the foundation of the world
if any man have an ear let him hear
he that leadeth into captivity shall go into captivity he that killeth with the sword must be killed with the sword here is the patience and the faith of the saints
and i beheld another beast coming up out of the earth and he had two horns like a lamb and he spake as a dragon
and he exerciseth all the power of the first beast before him and causeth the earth and them which dwell therein to worship the first beast whose deadly wound was healed
and he doeth great wonders so that he maketh fire come down from heaven on the earth in the sight of men
and deceiveth them that dwell on the earth by the means of those miracles which he had power to do in the sight of the beast saying to them that dwell on the earth that they should make an image to the beast which had the wound by a sword and did live
and he had power to give life unto the image of the beast that the image of the beast should both speak and cause that as many as would not worship the image of the beast should be killed
and he causeth all both small and great rich and poor free and bond to receive a mark in their right hand or in their foreheads
and that no man might buy or sell save he that had the mark or the name of the beast or the number of his name
here is wisdom let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast for it is the number of a man and his number is six hundred threescore and six
and i looked and lo a lamb stood on the mount sion and with him an hundred forty and four thousand having his father's name written in their foreheads
and i heard a voice from heaven as the voice of many waters and as the voice of a great thunder and i heard the voice of harpers harping with their harps
and they sung as it were a new song before the throne and before the four beasts and the elders and no man could learn that song but the hundred and forty and four thousand which were redeemed from the earth
these are they which were not defiled with women for they are virgins these are they which follow the lamb whithersoever he goeth these were redeemed from among men being the firstfruits unto god and to the lamb
and in their mouth was found no guile for they are without fault before the throne of god
and i saw another angel fly in the midst of heaven having the everlasting gospel to preach unto them that dwell on the earth and to every nation and kindred and tongue and people
saying with a loud voice fear god and give glory to him for the hour of his judgment is come and worship him that made heaven and earth and the sea and the fountains of waters
and there followed another angel saying babylon is fallen is fallen that great city because she made all nations drink of the wine of the wrath of her fornication
and the third angel followed them saying with a loud voice if any man worship the beast and his image and receive his mark in his forehead or in his hand
the same shall drink of the wine of the wrath of god which is poured out without mixture into the cup of his indignation and he shall be tormented with fire and brimstone in the presence of the holy angels and in the presence of the lamb
and the smoke of their torment ascendeth up for ever and ever and they have no rest day nor night who worship the beast and his image and whosoever receiveth the mark of his name
here is the patience of the saints here are they that keep the commandments of god and the faith of jesus
and i heard a voice from heaven saying unto me write blessed are the dead which die in the lord from henceforth yea saith the spirit that they may rest from their labours and their works do follow them
and i looked and behold a white cloud and upon the cloud one sat like unto the son of man having on his head a golden crown and in his hand a sharp sickle
and another angel came out of the temple crying with a loud voice to him that sat on the cloud thrust in thy sickle and reap for the time is come for thee to reap for the harvest of the earth is ripe
and he that sat on the cloud thrust in his sickle on the earth and the earth was reaped
and another angel came out of the temple which is in heaven he also having a sharp sickle
and another angel came out from the altar which had power over fire and cried with a loud cry to him that had the sharp sickle saying thrust in thy sharp sickle and gather the clusters of the vine of the earth for her grapes are fully ripe
and the angel thrust in his sickle into the earth and gathered the vine of the earth and cast it into the great winepress of the wrath of god
and the winepress was trodden without the city and blood came out of the winepress even unto the horse bridles by the space of a thousand and six hundred furlongs
and i saw another sign in heaven great and marvellous seven angels having the seven last plagues for in them is filled up the wrath of god
and i saw as it were a sea of glass mingled with fire and them that had gotten the victory over the beast and over his image and over his mark and over the number of his name stand on the sea of glass having the harps of god
and they sing the song of moses the servant of god and the song of the lamb saying great and marvellous are thy works lord god almighty just and true are thy ways thou king of saints
who shall not fear thee o lord and glorify thy name for thou only art holy for all nations shall come and worship before thee for thy judgments are made manifest
and after that i looked and behold the temple of the tabernacle of the testimony in heaven was opened
and the seven angels came out of the temple having the seven plagues clothed in pure and white linen and having their breasts girded with golden girdles
and one of the four beasts gave unto the seven angels seven golden vials full of the wrath of god who liveth for ever and ever
and the temple was filled with smoke from the glory of god and from his power and no man was able to enter into the temple till the seven plagues of the seven angels were fulfilled
and i heard a great voice out of the temple saying to the seven angels go your ways and pour out the vials of the wrath of god upon the earth
and the first went and poured out his vial upon the earth and there fell a noisome and grievous sore upon the men which had the mark of the beast and upon them which worshipped his image
and the second angel poured out his vial upon the sea and it became as the blood of a dead man and every living soul died in the sea
and the third angel poured out his vial upon the rivers and fountains of waters and they became blood
and i heard the angel of the waters say thou art righteous o lord which art and wast and shalt be because thou hast judged thus
for they have shed the blood of saints and prophets and thou hast given them blood to drink for they are worthy
and i heard another out of the altar say even so lord god almighty true and righteous are thy judgments
and the fourth angel poured out his vial upon the sun and power was given unto him to scorch men with fire
and men were scorched with great heat and blasphemed the name of god which hath power over these plagues and they repented not to give him glory
and the fifth angel poured out his vial upon the seat of the beast and his kingdom was full of darkness and they gnawed their tongues for pain
and blasphemed the god of heaven because of their pains and their sores and repented not of their deeds
and the sixth angel poured out his vial upon the great river euphrates and the water thereof was dried up that the way of the kings of the east might be prepared
and i saw three unclean spirits like frogs come out of the mouth of the dragon and out of the mouth of the beast and out of the mouth of the false prophet
for they are the spirits of devils working miracles which go forth unto the kings of the earth and of the whole world to gather them to the battle of that great day of god almighty
behold i come as a thief blessed is he that watcheth and keepeth his garments lest he walk naked and they see his shame
and he gathered them together into a place called in the hebrew tongue armageddon
and the seventh angel poured out his vial into the air and there came a great voice out of the temple of heaven from the throne saying it is done
and there were voices and thunders and lightnings and there was a great earthquake such as was not since men were upon the earth so mighty an earthquake and so great
and the great city was divided into three parts and the cities of the nations fell and great babylon came in remembrance before god to give unto her the cup of the wine of the fierceness of his wrath
and every island fled away and the mountains were not found
and there fell upon men a great hail out of heaven every stone about the weight of a talent and men blasphemed god because of the plague of the hail for the plague thereof was exceeding great
and there came one of the seven angels which had the seven vials and talked with me saying unto me come hither i will shew unto thee the judgment of the great whore that sitteth upon many waters
with whom the kings of the earth have committed fornication and the inhabitants of the earth have been made drunk with the wine of her fornication
so he carried me away in the spirit into the wilderness and i saw a woman sit upon a scarlet coloured beast full of names of blasphemy having seven heads and ten horns
and the woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet colour and decked with gold and precious stones and pearls having a golden cup in her hand full of abominations and filthiness of her fornication
and upon her forehead was a name written mystery babylon the great the mother of harlots and abominations of the earth
and i saw the woman drunken with the blood of the saints and with the blood of the martyrs of jesus and when i saw her i wondered with great admiration
and the angel said unto me wherefore didst thou marvel i will tell thee the mystery of the woman and of the beast that carrieth her which hath the seven heads and ten horns
the beast that thou sawest was and is not and shall ascend out of the bottomless pit and go into perdition and they that dwell on the earth shall wonder whose names were not written in the book of life from the foundation of the world when they behold the beast that was and is not and yet is
and here is the mind which hath wisdom the seven heads are seven mountains on which the woman sitteth
and there are seven kings five are fallen and one is and the other is not yet come and when he cometh he must continue a short space
and the beast that was and is not even he is the eighth and is of the seven and goeth into perdition
and the ten horns which thou sawest are ten kings which have received no kingdom as yet but receive power as kings one hour with the beast
these have one mind and shall give their power and strength unto the beast
these shall make war with the lamb and the lamb shall overcome them for he is lord of lords and king of kings and they that are with him are called and chosen and faithful
and he saith unto me the waters which thou sawest where the whore sitteth are peoples and multitudes and nations and tongues
and the ten horns which thou sawest upon the beast these shall hate the whore and shall make her desolate and naked and shall eat her flesh and burn her with fire
for god hath put in their hearts to fulfil his will and to agree and give their kingdom unto the beast until the words of god shall be fulfilled
and the woman which thou sawest is that great city which reigneth over the kings of the earth
and after these things i saw another angel come down from heaven having great power and the earth was lightened with his glory
and he cried mightily with a strong voice saying babylon the great is fallen is fallen and is become the habitation of devils and the hold of every foul spirit and a cage of every unclean and hateful bird
for all nations have drunk of the wine of the wrath of her fornication and the kings of the earth have committed fornication with her and the merchants of the earth are waxed rich through the abundance of her delicacies
and i heard another voice from heaven saying come out of her my people that ye be not partakers of her sins and that ye receive not of her plagues
for her sins have reached unto heaven and god hath remembered her iniquities
reward her even as she rewarded you and double unto her double according to her works in the cup which she hath filled fill to her double
how much she hath glorified herself and lived deliciously so much torment and sorrow give her for she saith in her heart i sit a queen and am no widow and shall see no sorrow
therefore shall her plagues come in one day death and mourning and famine and she shall be utterly burned with fire for strong is the lord god who judgeth her
and the kings of the earth who have committed fornication and lived deliciously with her shall bewail her and lament for her when they shall see the smoke of her burning
standing afar off for the fear of her torment saying alas alas that great city babylon that mighty city for in one hour is thy judgment come
and the merchants of the earth shall weep and mourn over her for no man buyeth their merchandise any more
the merchandise of gold and silver and precious stones and of pearls and fine linen and purple and silk and scarlet and all thyine wood and all manner vessels of ivory and all manner vessels of most precious wood and of brass and iron and marble
and cinnamon and odours and ointments and frankincense and wine and oil and fine flour and wheat and beasts and sheep and horses and chariots and slaves and souls of men
and the fruits that thy soul lusted after are departed from thee and all things which were dainty and goodly are departed from thee and thou shalt find them no more at all
the merchants of these things which were made rich by her shall stand afar off for the fear of her torment weeping and wailing
and saying alas alas that great city that was clothed in fine linen and purple and scarlet and decked with gold and precious stones and pearls
for in one hour so great riches is come to nought and every shipmaster and all the company in ships and sailors and as many as trade by sea stood afar off
and cried when they saw the smoke of her burning saying what city is like unto this great city
and they cast dust on their heads and cried weeping and wailing saying alas alas that great city wherein were made rich all that had ships in the sea by reason of her costliness for in one hour is she made desolate
rejoice over her thou heaven and ye holy apostles and prophets for god hath avenged you on her
and a mighty angel took up a stone like a great millstone and cast it into the sea saying thus with violence shall that great city babylon be thrown down and shall be found no more at all
and the voice of harpers and musicians and of pipers and trumpeters shall be heard no more at all in thee and no craftsman of whatsoever craft he be shall be found any more in thee and the sound of a millstone shall be heard no more at all in thee
and the light of a candle shall shine no more at all in thee and the voice of the bridegroom and of the bride shall be heard no more at all in thee for thy merchants were the great men of the earth for by thy sorceries were all nations deceived
and in her was found the blood of prophets and of saints and of all that were slain upon the earth
and after these things i heard a great voice of much people in heaven saying alleluia salvation and glory and honour and power unto the lord our god
for true and righteous are his judgments for he hath judged the great whore which did corrupt the earth with her fornication and hath avenged the blood of his servants at her hand
and again they said alleluia and her smoke rose up for ever and ever
and the four and twenty elders and the four beasts fell down and worshipped god that sat on the throne saying amen alleluia
and a voice came out of the throne saying praise our god all ye his servants and ye that fear him both small and great
and i heard as it were the voice of a great multitude and as the voice of many waters and as the voice of mighty thunderings saying alleluia for the lord god omnipotent reigneth
let us be glad and rejoice and give honour to him for the marriage of the lamb is come and his wife hath made herself ready
and to her was granted that she should be arrayed in fine linen clean and white for the fine linen is the righteousness of saints
and he saith unto me write blessed are they which are called unto the marriage supper of the lamb and he saith unto me these are the true sayings of god
and i fell at his feet to worship him and he said unto me see thou do it not i am thy fellowservant and of thy brethren that have the testimony of jesus worship god for the testimony of jesus is the spirit of prophecy
and i saw heaven opened and behold a white horse and he that sat upon him was called faithful and true and in righteousness he doth judge and make war
his eyes were as a flame of fire and on his head were many crowns and he had a name written that no man knew but he himself
and he was clothed with a vesture dipped in blood and his name is called the word of god
and the armies which were in heaven followed him upon white horses clothed in fine linen white and clean
and out of his mouth goeth a sharp sword that with it he should smite the nations and he shall rule them with a rod of iron and he treadeth the winepress of the fierceness and wrath of almighty god
and he hath on his vesture and on his thigh a name written king of kings and lord of lords
and i saw an angel standing in the sun and he cried with a loud voice saying to all the fowls that fly in the midst of heaven come and gather yourselves together unto the supper of the great god
that ye may eat the flesh of kings and the flesh of captains and the flesh of mighty men and the flesh of horses and of them that sit on them and the flesh of all men both free and bond both small and great
and i saw the beast and the kings of the earth and their armies gathered together to make war against him that sat on the horse and against his army
and the beast was taken and with him the false prophet that wrought miracles before him with which he deceived them that had received the mark of the beast and them that worshipped his image these both were cast alive into a lake of fire burning with brimstone
and the remnant were slain with the sword of him that sat upon the horse which sword proceeded out of his mouth and all the fowls were filled with their flesh
and i saw an angel come down from heaven having the key of the bottomless pit and a great chain in his hand
and he laid hold on the dragon that old serpent which is the devil and satan and bound him a thousand years
and cast him into the bottomless pit and shut him up and set a seal upon him that he should deceive the nations no more till the thousand years should be fulfilled and after that he must be loosed a little season
and i saw thrones and they sat upon them and judgment was given unto them and i saw the souls of them that were beheaded for the witness of jesus and for the word of god and which had not worshipped the beast neither his image neither had received his mark upon their foreheads or in their hands and they lived and reigned with christ a thousand years
but the rest of the dead lived not again until the thousand years were finished this is the first resurrection
blessed and holy is he that hath part in the first resurrection on such the second death hath no power but they shall be priests of god and of christ and shall reign with him a thousand years
and when the thousand years are expired satan shall be loosed out of his prison
and shall go out to deceive the nations which are in the four quarters of the earth gog and magog to gather them together to battle the number of whom is as the sand of the sea
and they went up on the breadth of the earth and compassed the camp of the saints about and the beloved city and fire came down from god out of heaven and devoured them
and the devil that deceived them was cast into the lake of fire and brimstone where the beast and the false prophet are and shall be tormented day and night for ever and ever
and i saw a great white throne and him that sat on it from whose face the earth and the heaven fled away and there was found no place for them
and i saw the dead small and great stand before god and the books were opened and another book was opened which is the book of life and the dead were judged out of those things which were written in the books according to their works
and the sea gave up the dead which were in it and death and hell delivered up the dead which were in them and they were judged every man according to their works
and death and hell were cast into the lake of fire this is the second death
and whosoever was not found written in the book of life was cast into the lake of fire
and i saw a new heaven and a new earth for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away and there was no more sea
and i john saw the holy city new jerusalem coming down from god out of heaven prepared as a bride adorned for her husband
and i heard a great voice out of heaven saying behold the tabernacle of god is with men and he will dwell with them and they shall be his people and god himself shall be with them and be their god
and god shall wipe away all tears from their eyes and there shall be no more death neither sorrow nor crying neither shall there be any more pain for the former things are passed away
and he that sat upon the throne said behold i make all things new and he said unto me write for these words are true and faithful
and he said unto me it is done i am alpha and omega the beginning and the end i will give unto him that is athirst of the fountain of the water of life freely
he that overcometh shall inherit all things and i will be his god and he shall be my son
but the fearful and unbelieving and the abominable and murderers and whoremongers and sorcerers and idolaters and all liars shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone which is the second death
and there came unto me one of the seven angels which had the seven vials full of the seven last plagues and talked with me saying come hither i will shew thee the bride the lamb's wife
and he carried me away in the spirit to a great and high mountain and shewed me that great city the holy jerusalem descending out of heaven from god
having the glory of god and her light was like unto a stone most precious even like a jasper stone clear as crystal
and had a wall great and high and had twelve gates and at the gates twelve angels and names written thereon which are the names of the twelve tribes of the children of israel
on the east three gates on the north three gates on the south three gates and on the west three gates
and the wall of the city had twelve foundations and in them the names of the twelve apostles of the lamb
and he that talked with me had a golden reed to measure the city and the gates thereof and the wall thereof
and the city lieth foursquare and the length is as large as the breadth and he measured the city with the reed twelve thousand furlongs the length and the breadth and the height of it are equal
and he measured the wall thereof an hundred and forty and four cubits according to the measure of a man that is of the angel
and the building of the wall of it was of jasper and the city was pure gold like unto clear glass
and the foundations of the wall of the city were garnished with all manner of precious stones the first foundation was jasper the second sapphire the third a chalcedony the fourth an emerald
the fifth sardonyx the sixth sardius the seventh chrysolyte the eighth beryl the ninth a topaz the tenth a chrysoprasus the eleventh a jacinth the twelfth an amethyst
and the twelve gates were twelve pearls every several gate was of one pearl and the street of the city was pure gold as it were transparent glass
and i saw no temple therein for the lord god almighty and the lamb are the temple of it
and the city had no need of the sun neither of the moon to shine in it for the glory of god did lighten it and the lamb is the light thereof
and the nations of them which are saved shall walk in the light of it and the kings of the earth do bring their glory and honour into it
and the gates of it shall not be shut at all by day for there shall be no night there
and they shall bring the glory and honour of the nations into it
and there shall in no wise enter into it any thing that defileth neither whatsoever worketh abomination or maketh a lie but they which are written in the lamb's book of life
and he shewed me a pure river of water of life clear as crystal proceeding out of the throne of god and of the lamb
in the midst of the street of it and on either side of the river was there the tree of life which bare twelve manner of fruits and yielded her fruit every month and the leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations
and there shall be no more curse but the throne of god and of the lamb shall be in it and his servants shall serve him
and they shall see his face and his name shall be in their foreheads
and there shall be no night there and they need no candle neither light of the sun for the lord god giveth them light and they shall reign for ever and ever
and he said unto me these sayings are faithful and true and the lord god of the holy prophets sent his angel to shew unto his servants the things which must shortly be done
behold i come quickly blessed is he that keepeth the sayings of the prophecy of this book
and i john saw these things and heard them and when i had heard and seen i fell down to worship before the feet of the angel which shewed me these things
then saith he unto me see thou do it not for i am thy fellowservant and of thy brethren the prophets and of them which keep the sayings of this book worship god
and he saith unto me seal not the sayings of the prophecy of this book for the time is at hand
he that is unjust let him be unjust still and he which is filthy let him be filthy still and he that is righteous let him be righteous still and he that is holy let him be holy still
and behold i come quickly and my reward is with me to give every man according as his work shall be
i am alpha and omega the beginning and the end the first and the last
blessed are they that do his commandments that they may have right to the tree of life and may enter in through the gates into the city
for without are dogs and sorcerers and whoremongers and murderers and idolaters and whosoever loveth and maketh a lie
i jesus have sent mine angel to testify unto you these things in the churches i am the root and the offspring of david and the bright and morning star
and the spirit and the bride say come and let him that heareth say come and let him that is athirst come and whosoever will let him take the water of life freely
for i testify unto every man that heareth the words of the prophecy of this book if any man shall add unto these things god shall add unto him the plagues that are written in this book
and if any man shall take away from the words of the book of this prophecy god shall take away his part out of the book of life and out of the holy city and from the things which are written in this book
he which testifieth these things saith surely i come quickly amen even so come lord jesus
the grace of our lord jesus christ be with you all amen
 antony and cleopatra
 dramatis personae
mark antony 
 
octavius caesar triumvirs
 
m aemilius 
lepidus lepidus 
sextus pompeius pompey
domitius enobarbus 
 
ventidius 
 
eros 
 
scarus friends to antony
 
dercetas 
 
demetrius 
 
philo 
mecaenas 
 
agrippa 
 
dolabella 
 
proculeius friends to caesar
 
thyreus 
 
gallus 
 
menas 
menecrates 
 friends to pompey
varrius 
taurus lieutenantgeneral to caesar
canidius lieutenantgeneral to antony
silius an officer in ventidius's army
euphronius an ambassador from antony to caesar
 
alexas 
 
mardian a eunuch 
 attendants on cleopatra
seleucus 
 
diomedes 
 a soothsayer soothsayer
 a clown clown
cleopatra queen of egypt
octavia sister to caesar and wife to antony
charmian 
 attendants on cleopatra
iras 
 officers soldiers messengers and other attendants
 first officer
 second officer
 third officer
 messenger
 second messenger
 first servant
 second servant
 egyptian
 guard
 first guard
 second guard
 attendant
 first attendant
 second attendant
scene in several parts of the roman empire
 antony and cleopatra
act i
scene i alexandria a room in cleopatra's palace
 enter demetrius and philo
philo nay but this dotage of our general's
 o'erflows the measure those his goodly eyes
 that o'er the files and musters of the war
 have glow'd like plated mars now bend now turn
 the office and devotion of their view
 upon a tawny front his captain's heart
 which in the scuffles of great fights hath burst
 the buckles on his breast reneges all temper
 and is become the bellows and the fan
 to cool a gipsy's lust
 flourish enter antony cleopatra her ladies
 the train with eunuchs fanning her
 look where they come
 take but good note and you shall see in him
 the triple pillar of the world transform'd
 into a strumpet's fool behold and see
cleopatra if it be love indeed tell me how much
mark antony there's beggary in the love that can be reckon'd
cleopatra i'll set a bourn how far to be beloved
mark antony then must thou needs find out new heaven new earth
 enter an attendant
attendant news my good lord from rome
mark antony grates me the sum
cleopatra nay hear them antony
 fulvia perchance is angry or who knows
 if the scarcebearded caesar have not sent
 his powerful mandate to you do this or this
 take in that kingdom and enfranchise that
 perform t or else we damn thee'
mark antony how my love
cleopatra perchance nay and most like
 you must not stay here longer your dismission
 is come from caesar therefore hear it antony
 where's fulvia's process caesar's i would say both
 call in the messengers as i am egypt's queen
 thou blushest antony and that blood of thine
 is caesar's homager else so thy cheek pays shame
 when shrilltongued fulvia scolds the messengers
mark antony let rome in tiber melt and the wide arch
 of the ranged empire fall here is my space
 kingdoms are clay our dungy earth alike
 feeds beast as man the nobleness of life
 is to do thus when such a mutual pair
 embracing
 and such a twain can do't in which i bind
 on pain of punishment the world to weet
 we stand up peerless
cleopatra excellent falsehood
 why did he marry fulvia and not love her
 i'll seem the fool i am not antony
 will be himself
mark antony but stirr'd by cleopatra
 now for the love of love and her soft hours
 let's not confound the time with conference harsh
 there's not a minute of our lives should stretch
 without some pleasure now what sport tonight
cleopatra hear the ambassadors
mark antony fie wrangling queen
 whom every thing becomes to chide to laugh
 to weep whose every passion fully strives
 to make itself in thee fair and admired
 no messenger but thine and all alone
 tonight we'll wander through the streets and note
 the qualities of people come my queen
 last night you did desire it speak not to us
 exeunt mark antony and cleopatra with
 their train
demetrius is caesar with antonius prized so slight
philo sir sometimes when he is not antony
 he comes too short of that great property
 which still should go with antony
demetrius i am full sorry
 that he approves the common liar who
 thus speaks of him at rome but i will hope
 of better deeds tomorrow rest you happy
 exeunt
 antony and cleopatra
act i
scene ii the same another room
 enter charmian iras alexas and a soothsayer
charmian lord alexas sweet alexas most any thing alexas
 almost most absolute alexas where's the soothsayer
 that you praised so to the queen o that i knew
 this husband which you say must charge his horns
 with garlands
alexas soothsayer
soothsayer your will
charmian is this the man is't you sir that know things
soothsayer in nature's infinite book of secrecy
 a little i can read
alexas show him your hand
 enter domitius enobarbus
domitius enobarbus bring in the banquet quickly wine enough
 cleopatra's health to drink
charmian good sir give me good fortune
soothsayer i make not but foresee
charmian pray then foresee me one
soothsayer you shall be yet far fairer than you are
charmian he means in flesh
iras no you shall paint when you are old
charmian wrinkles forbid
alexas vex not his prescience be attentive
charmian hush
soothsayer you shall be more beloving than beloved
charmian i had rather heat my liver with drinking
alexas nay hear him
charmian good now some excellent fortune let me be married
 to three kings in a forenoon and widow them all
 let me have a child at fifty to whom herod of jewry
 may do homage find me to marry me with octavius
 caesar and companion me with my mistress
soothsayer you shall outlive the lady whom you serve
charmian o excellent i love long life better than figs
soothsayer you have seen and proved a fairer former fortune
 than that which is to approach
charmian then belike my children shall have no names
 prithee how many boys and wenches must i have
soothsayer if every of your wishes had a womb
 and fertile every wish a million
charmian out fool i forgive thee for a witch
alexas you think none but your sheets are privy to your wishes
charmian nay come tell iras hers
alexas we'll know all our fortunes
domitius enobarbus mine and most of our fortunes tonight shall
 bedrunk to bed
iras there's a palm presages chastity if nothing else
charmian e'en as the o'erflowing nilus presageth famine
iras go you wild bedfellow you cannot soothsay
charmian nay if an oily palm be not a fruitful
 prognostication i cannot scratch mine ear prithee
 tell her but a workyday fortune
soothsayer your fortunes are alike
iras but how but how give me particulars
soothsayer i have said
iras am i not an inch of fortune better than she
charmian well if you were but an inch of fortune better than
 i where would you choose it
iras not in my husband's nose
charmian our worser thoughts heavens mend alexascome
 his fortune his fortune o let him marry a woman
 that cannot go sweet isis i beseech thee and let
 her die too and give him a worse and let worst
 follow worse till the worst of all follow him
 laughing to his grave fiftyfold a cuckold good
 isis hear me this prayer though thou deny me a
 matter of more weight good isis i beseech thee
iras amen dear goddess hear that prayer of the people
 for as it is a heartbreaking to see a handsome man
 loosewived so it is a deadly sorrow to behold a
 foul knave uncuckolded therefore dear isis keep
 decorum and fortune him accordingly
charmian amen
alexas lo now if it lay in their hands to make me a
 cuckold they would make themselves whores but
 they'ld do't
domitius enobarbus hush here comes antony
charmian not he the queen
 enter cleopatra
cleopatra saw you my lord
domitius enobarbus no lady
cleopatra was he not here
charmian no madam
cleopatra he was disposed to mirth but on the sudden
 a roman thought hath struck him enobarbus
domitius enobarbus madam
cleopatra seek him and bring him hither
 where's alexas
alexas here at your service my lord approaches
cleopatra we will not look upon him go with us
 exeunt
 enter mark antony with a messenger and attendants
messenger fulvia thy wife first came into the field
mark antony against my brother lucius
messenger ay
 but soon that war had end and the time's state
 made friends of them joining their force gainst caesar
 whose better issue in the war from italy
 upon the first encounter drave them
mark antony well what worst
messenger the nature of bad news infects the teller
mark antony when it concerns the fool or coward on
 things that are past are done with me tis thus
 who tells me true though in his tale lie death
 i hear him as he flatter'd
messenger labienus
 this is stiff newshath with his parthian force
 extended asia from euphrates
 his conquering banner shook from syria
 to lydia and to ionia whilst
mark antony antony thou wouldst say
messenger o my lord
mark antony speak to me home mince not the general tongue
 name cleopatra as she is call'd in rome
 rail thou in fulvia's phrase and taunt my faults
 with such full licence as both truth and malice
 have power to utter o then we bring forth weeds
 when our quick minds lie still and our ills told us
 is as our earing fare thee well awhile
messenger at your noble pleasure
 exit
mark antony from sicyon ho the news speak there
first attendant the man from sicyonis there such an one
second attendant he stays upon your will
mark antony let him appear
 these strong egyptian fetters i must break
 or lose myself in dotage
 enter another messenger
 what are you
second messenger fulvia thy wife is dead
mark antony where died she
second messenger in sicyon
 her length of sickness with what else more serious
 importeth thee to know this bears
 gives a letter
mark antony forbear me
 exit second messenger
 there's a great spirit gone thus did i desire it
 what our contempt doth often hurl from us
 we wish it ours again the present pleasure
 by revolution lowering does become
 the opposite of itself she's good being gone
 the hand could pluck her back that shoved her on
 i must from this enchanting queen break off
 ten thousand harms more than the ills i know
 my idleness doth hatch how now enobarbus
 reenter domitius enobarbus
domitius enobarbus what's your pleasure sir
mark antony i must with haste from hence
domitius enobarbus why then we kill all our women
 we see how mortal an unkindness is to them
 if they suffer our departure death's the word
mark antony i must be gone
domitius enobarbus under a compelling occasion let women die it were
 pity to cast them away for nothing though between
 them and a great cause they should be esteemed
 nothing cleopatra catching but the least noise of
 this dies instantly i have seen her die twenty
 times upon far poorer moment i do think there is
 mettle in death which commits some loving act upon
 her she hath such a celerity in dying
mark antony she is cunning past man's thought
 exit alexas
domitius enobarbus alack sir no her passions are made of nothing but
 the finest part of pure love we cannot call her
 winds and waters sighs and tears they are greater
 storms and tempests than almanacs can report this
 cannot be cunning in her if it be she makes a
 shower of rain as well as jove
mark antony would i had never seen her
domitius enobarbus o sir you had then left unseen a wonderful piece
 of work which not to have been blest withal would
 have discredited your travel
mark antony fulvia is dead
domitius enobarbus sir
mark antony fulvia is dead
domitius enobarbus fulvia
mark antony dead
domitius enobarbus why sir give the gods a thankful sacrifice when
 it pleaseth their deities to take the wife of a man
 from him it shows to man the tailors of the earth
 comforting therein that when old robes are worn
 out there are members to make new if there were
 no more women but fulvia then had you indeed a cut
 and the case to be lamented this grief is crowned
 with consolation your old smock brings forth a new
 petticoat and indeed the tears live in an onion
 that should water this sorrow
mark antony the business she hath broached in the state
 cannot endure my absence
domitius enobarbus and the business you have broached here cannot be
 without you especially that of cleopatra's which
 wholly depends on your abode
mark antony no more light answers let our officers
 have notice what we purpose i shall break
 the cause of our expedience to the queen
 and get her leave to part for not alone
 the death of fulvia with more urgent touches
 do strongly speak to us but the letters too
 of many our contriving friends in rome
 petition us at home sextus pompeius
 hath given the dare to caesar and commands
 the empire of the sea our slippery people
 whose love is never link'd to the deserver
 till his deserts are past begin to throw
 pompey the great and all his dignities
 upon his son who high in name and power
 higher than both in blood and life stands up
 for the main soldier whose quality going on
 the sides o the world may danger much is breeding
 which like the courser's hair hath yet but life
 and not a serpent's poison say our pleasure
 to such whose place is under us requires
 our quick remove from hence
domitius enobarbus i shall do't
 exeunt
 antony and cleopatra
act i
scene iii the same another room
 enter cleopatra charmian iras and alexas
cleopatra where is he
charmian i did not see him since
cleopatra see where he is who's with him what he does
 i did not send you if you find him sad
 say i am dancing if in mirth report
 that i am sudden sick quick and return
 exit alexas
charmian madam methinks if you did love him dearly
 you do not hold the method to enforce
 the like from him
cleopatra what should i do i do not
charmian in each thing give him way cross him nothing
cleopatra thou teachest like a fool the way to lose him
charmian tempt him not so too far i wish forbear
 in time we hate that which we often fear
 but here comes antony
 enter mark antony
cleopatra i am sick and sullen
mark antony i am sorry to give breathing to my purpose
cleopatra help me away dear charmian i shall fall
 it cannot be thus long the sides of nature
 will not sustain it
mark antony now my dearest queen
cleopatra pray you stand further from me
mark antony what's the matter
cleopatra i know by that same eye there's some good news
 what says the married woman you may go
 would she had never given you leave to come
 let her not say tis i that keep you here
 i have no power upon you hers you are
mark antony the gods best know
cleopatra o never was there queen
 so mightily betray'd yet at the first
 i saw the treasons planted
mark antony cleopatra
cleopatra why should i think you can be mine and true
 though you in swearing shake the throned gods
 who have been false to fulvia riotous madness
 to be entangled with those mouthmade vows
 which break themselves in swearing
mark antony most sweet queen
cleopatra nay pray you seek no colour for your going
 but bid farewell and go when you sued staying
 then was the time for words no going then
 eternity was in our lips and eyes
 bliss in our brows bent none our parts so poor
 but was a race of heaven they are so still
 or thou the greatest soldier of the world
 art turn'd the greatest liar
mark antony how now lady
cleopatra i would i had thy inches thou shouldst know
 there were a heart in egypt
mark antony hear me queen
 the strong necessity of time commands
 our services awhile but my full heart
 remains in use with you our italy
 shines o'er with civil swords sextus pompeius
 makes his approaches to the port of rome
 equality of two domestic powers
 breed scrupulous faction the hated grown to strength
 are newly grown to love the condemn'd pompey
 rich in his father's honour creeps apace
 into the hearts of such as have not thrived
 upon the present state whose numbers threaten
 and quietness grown sick of rest would purge
 by any desperate change my more particular
 and that which most with you should safe my going
 is fulvia's death
cleopatra though age from folly could not give me freedom
 it does from childishness can fulvia die
mark antony she's dead my queen
 look here and at thy sovereign leisure read
 the garboils she awaked at the last best
 see when and where she died
cleopatra o most false love
 where be the sacred vials thou shouldst fill
 with sorrowful water now i see i see
 in fulvia's death how mine received shall be
mark antony quarrel no more but be prepared to know
 the purposes i bear which are or cease
 as you shall give the advice by the fire
 that quickens nilus slime i go from hence
 thy soldier servant making peace or war
 as thou affect'st
cleopatra cut my lace charmian come
 but let it be i am quickly ill and well
 so antony loves
mark antony my precious queen forbear
 and give true evidence to his love which stands
 an honourable trial
cleopatra so fulvia told me
 i prithee turn aside and weep for her
 then bid adieu to me and say the tears
 belong to egypt good now play one scene
 of excellent dissembling and let it look
 life perfect honour
mark antony you'll heat my blood no more
cleopatra you can do better yet but this is meetly
mark antony now by my sword
cleopatra and target still he mends
 but this is not the best look prithee charmian
 how this herculean roman does become
 the carriage of his chafe
mark antony i'll leave you lady
cleopatra courteous lord one word
 sir you and i must part but that's not it
 sir you and i have loved but there's not it
 that you know well something it is i would
 o my oblivion is a very antony
 and i am all forgotten
mark antony but that your royalty
 holds idleness your subject i should take you
 for idleness itself
cleopatra tis sweating labour
 to bear such idleness so near the heart
 as cleopatra this but sir forgive me
 since my becomings kill me when they do not
 eye well to you your honour calls you hence
 therefore be deaf to my unpitied folly
 and all the gods go with you upon your sword
 sit laurel victory and smooth success
 be strew'd before your feet
mark antony let us go come
 our separation so abides and flies
 that thou residing here go'st yet with me
 and i hence fleeting here remain with thee away
 exeunt
 antony and cleopatra
act i
scene iv rome octavius caesar's house
 enter octavius caesar reading a letter lepidus
 and their train
octavius caesar you may see lepidus and henceforth know
 it is not caesar's natural vice to hate
 our great competitor from alexandria
 this is the news he fishes drinks and wastes
 the lamps of night in revel is not more manlike
 than cleopatra nor the queen of ptolemy
 more womanly than he hardly gave audience or
 vouchsafed to think he had partners you shall find there
 a man who is the abstract of all faults
 that all men follow
lepidus i must not think there are
 evils enow to darken all his goodness
 his faults in him seem as the spots of heaven
 more fiery by night's blackness hereditary
 rather than purchased what he cannot change
 than what he chooses
octavius caesar you are too indulgent let us grant it is not
 amiss to tumble on the bed of ptolemy
 to give a kingdom for a mirth to sit
 and keep the turn of tippling with a slave
 to reel the streets at noon and stand the buffet
 with knaves that smell of sweat say this
 becomes him
 as his composure must be rare indeed
 whom these things cannot blemishyet must antony
 no way excuse his soils when we do bear
 so great weight in his lightness if he fill'd
 his vacancy with his voluptuousness
 full surfeits and the dryness of his bones
 call on him for't but to confound such time
 that drums him from his sport and speaks as loud
 as his own state and ours'tis to be chid
 as we rate boys who being mature in knowledge
 pawn their experience to their present pleasure
 and so rebel to judgment
 enter a messenger
lepidus here's more news
messenger thy biddings have been done and every hour
 most noble caesar shalt thou have report
 how tis abroad pompey is strong at sea
 and it appears he is beloved of those
 that only have fear'd caesar to the ports
 the discontents repair and men's reports
 give him much wrong'd
octavius caesar i should have known no less
 it hath been taught us from the primal state
 that he which is was wish'd until he were
 and the ebb'd man ne'er loved till ne'er worth love
 comes dear'd by being lack'd this common body
 like to a vagabond flag upon the stream
 goes to and back lackeying the varying tide
 to rot itself with motion
messenger caesar i bring thee word
 menecrates and menas famous pirates
 make the sea serve them which they ear and wound
 with keels of every kind many hot inroads
 they make in italy the borders maritime
 lack blood to think on't and flush youth revolt
 no vessel can peep forth but tis as soon
 taken as seen for pompey's name strikes more
 than could his war resisted
octavius caesar antony
 leave thy lascivious wassails when thou once
 wast beaten from modena where thou slew'st
 hirtius and pansa consuls at thy heel
 did famine follow whom thou fought'st against
 though daintily brought up with patience more
 than savages could suffer thou didst drink
 the stale of horses and the gilded puddle
 which beasts would cough at thy palate then did deign
 the roughest berry on the rudest hedge
 yea like the stag when snow the pasture sheets
 the barks of trees thou browsed'st on the alps
 it is reported thou didst eat strange flesh
 which some did die to look on and all this
 it wounds thine honour that i speak it now
 was borne so like a soldier that thy cheek
 so much as lank'd not
lepidus tis pity of him
octavius caesar let his shames quickly
 drive him to rome tis time we twain
 did show ourselves i the field and to that end
 assemble we immediate council pompey
 thrives in our idleness
lepidus tomorrow caesar
 i shall be furnish'd to inform you rightly
 both what by sea and land i can be able
 to front this present time
octavius caesar till which encounter
 it is my business too farewell
lepidus farewell my lord what you shall know meantime
 of stirs abroad i shall beseech you sir
 to let me be partaker
octavius caesar doubt not sir
 i knew it for my bond
 exeunt
 antony and cleopatra
act i
scene v alexandria cleopatra's palace
 enter cleopatra charmian iras and mardian
cleopatra charmian
charmian madam
cleopatra ha ha
 give me to drink mandragora
charmian why madam
cleopatra that i might sleep out this great gap of time
 my antony is away
charmian you think of him too much
cleopatra o tis treason
charmian madam i trust not so
cleopatra thou eunuch mardian
mardian what's your highness pleasure
cleopatra not now to hear thee sing i take no pleasure
 in aught an eunuch has tis well for thee
 that being unseminar'd thy freer thoughts
 may not fly forth of egypt hast thou affections
mardian yes gracious madam
cleopatra indeed
mardian not in deed madam for i can do nothing
 but what indeed is honest to be done
 yet have i fierce affections and think
 what venus did with mars
cleopatra o charmian
 where think'st thou he is now stands he or sits he
 or does he walk or is he on his horse
 o happy horse to bear the weight of antony
 do bravely horse for wot'st thou whom thou movest
 the demiatlas of this earth the arm
 and burgonet of men he's speaking now
 or murmuring where's my serpent of old nile'
 for so he calls me now i feed myself
 with most delicious poison think on me
 that am with phoebus amorous pinches black
 and wrinkled deep in time broadfronted caesar
 when thou wast here above the ground i was
 a morsel for a monarch and great pompey
 would stand and make his eyes grow in my brow
 there would he anchor his aspect and die
 with looking on his life
 enter alexas from octavius caesar
alexas sovereign of egypt hail
cleopatra how much unlike art thou mark antony
 yet coming from him that great medicine hath
 with his tinct gilded thee
 how goes it with my brave mark antony
alexas last thing he did dear queen
 he kiss'dthe last of many doubled kisses
 this orient pearl his speech sticks in my heart
cleopatra mine ear must pluck it thence
alexas good friend quoth he
 say the firm roman to great egypt sends
 this treasure of an oyster at whose foot
 to mend the petty present i will piece
 her opulent throne with kingdoms all the east
 say thou shall call her mistress so he nodded
 and soberly did mount an armgaunt steed
 who neigh'd so high that what i would have spoke
 was beastly dumb'd by him
cleopatra what was he sad or merry
alexas like to the time o the year between the extremes
 of hot and cold he was nor sad nor merry
cleopatra o welldivided disposition note him
 note him good charmian tis the man but note him
 he was not sad for he would shine on those
 that make their looks by his he was not merry
 which seem'd to tell them his remembrance lay
 in egypt with his joy but between both
 o heavenly mingle be'st thou sad or merry
 the violence of either thee becomes
 so does it no man else met'st thou my posts
alexas ay madam twenty several messengers
 why do you send so thick
cleopatra who's born that day
 when i forget to send to antony
 shall die a beggar ink and paper charmian
 welcome my good alexas did i charmian
 ever love caesar so
charmian o that brave caesar
cleopatra be choked with such another emphasis
 say the brave antony
charmian the valiant caesar
cleopatra by isis i will give thee bloody teeth
 if thou with caesar paragon again
 my man of men
charmian by your most gracious pardon
 i sing but after you
cleopatra my salad days
 when i was green in judgment cold in blood
 to say as i said then but come away
 get me ink and paper
 he shall have every day a several greeting
 or i'll unpeople egypt
 exeunt
 antony and cleopatra
act ii
scene i messina pompey's house
 enter pompey menecrates and menas in
 warlike manner
pompey if the great gods be just they shall assist
 the deeds of justest men
menecrates know worthy pompey
 that what they do delay they not deny
pompey whiles we are suitors to their throne decays
 the thing we sue for
menecrates we ignorant of ourselves
 beg often our own harms which the wise powers
 deny us for our good so find we profit
 by losing of our prayers
pompey i shall do well
 the people love me and the sea is mine
 my powers are crescent and my auguring hope
 says it will come to the full mark antony
 in egypt sits at dinner and will make
 no wars without doors caesar gets money where
 he loses hearts lepidus flatters both
 of both is flatter'd but he neither loves
 nor either cares for him
menas caesar and lepidus
 are in the field a mighty strength they carry
pompey where have you this tis false
menas from silvius sir
pompey he dreams i know they are in rome together
 looking for antony but all the charms of love
 salt cleopatra soften thy waned lip
 let witchcraft join with beauty lust with both
 tie up the libertine in a field of feasts
 keep his brain fuming epicurean cooks
 sharpen with cloyless sauce his appetite
 that sleep and feeding may prorogue his honour
 even till a lethe'd dulness
 enter varrius
 how now varrius
varrius this is most certain that i shall deliver
 mark antony is every hour in rome
 expected since he went from egypt tis
 a space for further travel
pompey i could have given less matter
 a better ear menas i did not think
 this amorous surfeiter would have donn'd his helm
 for such a petty war his soldiership
 is twice the other twain but let us rear
 the higher our opinion that our stirring
 can from the lap of egypt's widow pluck
 the ne'erlustwearied antony
menas i cannot hope
 caesar and antony shall well greet together
 his wife that's dead did trespasses to caesar
 his brother warr'd upon him although i think
 not moved by antony
pompey i know not menas
 how lesser enmities may give way to greater
 were't not that we stand up against them all
 twere pregnant they should square between
 themselves
 for they have entertained cause enough
 to draw their swords but how the fear of us
 may cement their divisions and bind up
 the petty difference we yet not know
 be't as our gods will have't it only stands
 our lives upon to use our strongest hands
 come menas
 exeunt
 antony and cleopatra
act ii
scene ii rome the house of lepidus
 enter domitius enobarbus and lepidus
lepidus good enobarbus tis a worthy deed
 and shall become you well to entreat your captain
 to soft and gentle speech
domitius enobarbus i shall entreat him
 to answer like himself if caesar move him
 let antony look over caesar's head
 and speak as loud as mars by jupiter
 were i the wearer of antonius beard
 i would not shave't today
lepidus tis not a time
 for private stomaching
domitius enobarbus every time
 serves for the matter that is then born in't
lepidus but small to greater matters must give way
domitius enobarbus not if the small come first
lepidus your speech is passion
 but pray you stir no embers up here comes
 the noble antony
 enter mark antony and ventidius
domitius enobarbus and yonder caesar
 enter octavius caesar mecaenas and agrippa
mark antony if we compose well here to parthia
 hark ventidius
octavius caesar i do not know
 mecaenas ask agrippa
lepidus noble friends
 that which combined us was most great and let not
 a leaner action rend us what's amiss
 may it be gently heard when we debate
 our trivial difference loud we do commit
 murder in healing wounds then noble partners
 the rather for i earnestly beseech
 touch you the sourest points with sweetest terms
 nor curstness grow to the matter
mark antony tis spoken well
 were we before our armies and to fight
 i should do thus
 flourish
octavius caesar welcome to rome
mark antony thank you
octavius caesar sit
mark antony sit sir
octavius caesar nay then
mark antony i learn you take things ill which are not so
 or being concern you not
octavius caesar i must be laugh'd at
 if or for nothing or a little i
 should say myself offended and with you
 chiefly i the world more laugh'd at that i should
 once name you derogately when to sound your name
 it not concern'd me
mark antony my being in egypt caesar
 what was't to you
octavius caesar no more than my residing here at rome
 might be to you in egypt yet if you there
 did practise on my state your being in egypt
 might be my question
mark antony how intend you practised
octavius caesar you may be pleased to catch at mine intent
 by what did here befal me your wife and brother
 made wars upon me and their contestation
 was theme for you you were the word of war
mark antony you do mistake your business my brother never
 did urge me in his act i did inquire it
 and have my learning from some true reports
 that drew their swords with you did he not rather
 discredit my authority with yours
 and make the wars alike against my stomach
 having alike your cause of this my letters
 before did satisfy you if you'll patch a quarrel
 as matter whole you have not to make it with
 it must not be with this
octavius caesar you praise yourself
 by laying defects of judgment to me but
 you patch'd up your excuses
mark antony not so not so
 i know you could not lack i am certain on't
 very necessity of this thought that i
 your partner in the cause gainst which he fought
 could not with graceful eyes attend those wars
 which fronted mine own peace as for my wife
 i would you had her spirit in such another
 the third o the world is yours which with a snaffle
 you may pace easy but not such a wife
domitius enobarbus would we had all such wives that the men might go
 to wars with the women
mark antony so much uncurbable her garboils caesar
 made out of her impatience which not wanted
 shrewdness of policy too i grieving grant
 did you too much disquiet for that you must
 but say i could not help it
octavius caesar i wrote to you
 when rioting in alexandria you
 did pocket up my letters and with taunts
 did gibe my missive out of audience
mark antony sir
 he fell upon me ere admitted then
 three kings i had newly feasted and did want
 of what i was i the morning but next day
 i told him of myself which was as much
 as to have ask'd him pardon let this fellow
 be nothing of our strife if we contend
 out of our question wipe him
octavius caesar you have broken
 the article of your oath which you shall never
 have tongue to charge me with
lepidus soft caesar
mark antony no
 lepidus let him speak
 the honour is sacred which he talks on now
 supposing that i lack'd it but on caesar
 the article of my oath
octavius caesar to lend me arms and aid when i required them
 the which you both denied
mark antony neglected rather
 and then when poison'd hours had bound me up
 from mine own knowledge as nearly as i may
 i'll play the penitent to you but mine honesty
 shall not make poor my greatness nor my power
 work without it truth is that fulvia
 to have me out of egypt made wars here
 for which myself the ignorant motive do
 so far ask pardon as befits mine honour
 to stoop in such a case
lepidus tis noble spoken
mecaenas if it might please you to enforce no further
 the griefs between ye to forget them quite
 were to remember that the present need
 speaks to atone you
lepidus worthily spoken mecaenas
domitius enobarbus or if you borrow one another's love for the
 instant you may when you hear no more words of
 pompey return it again you shall have time to
 wrangle in when you have nothing else to do
mark antony thou art a soldier only speak no more
domitius enobarbus that truth should be silent i had almost forgot
mark antony you wrong this presence therefore speak no more
domitius enobarbus go to then your considerate stone
octavius caesar i do not much dislike the matter but
 the manner of his speech for't cannot be
 we shall remain in friendship our conditions
 so differing in their acts yet if i knew
 what hoop should hold us stanch from edge to edge
 o the world i would pursue it
agrippa give me leave caesar
octavius caesar speak agrippa
agrippa thou hast a sister by the mother's side
 admired octavia great mark antony
 is now a widower
octavius caesar say not so agrippa
 if cleopatra heard you your reproof
 were well deserved of rashness
mark antony i am not married caesar let me hear
 agrippa further speak
agrippa to hold you in perpetual amity
 to make you brothers and to knit your hearts
 with an unslipping knot take antony
 octavia to his wife whose beauty claims
 no worse a husband than the best of men
 whose virtue and whose general graces speak
 that which none else can utter by this marriage
 all little jealousies which now seem great
 and all great fears which now import their dangers
 would then be nothing truths would be tales
 where now half tales be truths her love to both
 would each to other and all loves to both
 draw after her pardon what i have spoke
 for tis a studied not a present thought
 by duty ruminated
mark antony will caesar speak
octavius caesar not till he hears how antony is touch'd
 with what is spoke already
mark antony what power is in agrippa
 if i would say agrippa be it so'
 to make this good
octavius caesar the power of caesar and
 his power unto octavia
mark antony may i never
 to this good purpose that so fairly shows
 dream of impediment let me have thy hand
 further this act of grace and from this hour
 the heart of brothers govern in our loves
 and sway our great designs
octavius caesar there is my hand
 a sister i bequeath you whom no brother
 did ever love so dearly let her live
 to join our kingdoms and our hearts and never
 fly off our loves again
lepidus happily amen
mark antony i did not think to draw my sword gainst pompey
 for he hath laid strange courtesies and great
 of late upon me i must thank him only
 lest my remembrance suffer ill report
 at heel of that defy him
lepidus time calls upon's
 of us must pompey presently be sought
 or else he seeks out us
mark antony where lies he
octavius caesar about the mount misenum
mark antony what is his strength by land
octavius caesar great and increasing but by sea
 he is an absolute master
mark antony so is the fame
 would we had spoke together haste we for it
 yet ere we put ourselves in arms dispatch we
 the business we have talk'd of
octavius caesar with most gladness
 and do invite you to my sister's view
 whither straight i'll lead you
mark antony let us lepidus
 not lack your company
lepidus noble antony
 not sickness should detain me
 flourish exeunt octavius caesar mark antony
 and lepidus
mecaenas welcome from egypt sir
domitius enobarbus half the heart of caesar worthy mecaenas my
 honourable friend agrippa
agrippa good enobarbus
mecaenas we have cause to be glad that matters are so well
 digested you stayed well by t in egypt
domitius enobarbus ay sir we did sleep day out of countenance and
 made the night light with drinking
mecaenas eight wildboars roasted whole at a breakfast and
 but twelve persons there is this true
domitius enobarbus this was but as a fly by an eagle we had much more
 monstrous matter of feast which worthily deserved noting
mecaenas she's a most triumphant lady if report be square to
 her
domitius enobarbus when she first met mark antony she pursed up
 his heart upon the river of cydnus
agrippa there she appeared indeed or my reporter devised
 well for her
domitius enobarbus i will tell you
 the barge she sat in like a burnish'd throne
 burn'd on the water the poop was beaten gold
 purple the sails and so perfumed that
 the winds were lovesick with them the oars were silver
 which to the tune of flutes kept stroke and made
 the water which they beat to follow faster
 as amorous of their strokes for her own person
 it beggar'd all description she did lie
 in her pavilionclothofgold of tissue
 o'erpicturing that venus where we see
 the fancy outwork nature on each side her
 stood pretty dimpled boys like smiling cupids
 with diverscolour'd fans whose wind did seem
 to glow the delicate cheeks which they did cool
 and what they undid did
agrippa o rare for antony
domitius enobarbus her gentlewomen like the nereides
 so many mermaids tended her i the eyes
 and made their bends adornings at the helm
 a seeming mermaid steers the silken tackle
 swell with the touches of those flowersoft hands
 that yarely frame the office from the barge
 a strange invisible perfume hits the sense
 of the adjacent wharfs the city cast
 her people out upon her and antony
 enthroned i the marketplace did sit alone
 whistling to the air which but for vacancy
 had gone to gaze on cleopatra too
 and made a gap in nature
agrippa rare egyptian
domitius enobarbus upon her landing antony sent to her
 invited her to supper she replied
 it should be better he became her guest
 which she entreated our courteous antony
 whom ne'er the word of no woman heard speak
 being barber'd ten times o'er goes to the feast
 and for his ordinary pays his heart
 for what his eyes eat only
agrippa royal wench
 she made great caesar lay his sword to bed
 he plough'd her and she cropp'd
domitius enobarbus i saw her once
 hop forty paces through the public street
 and having lost her breath she spoke and panted
 that she did make defect perfection
 and breathless power breathe forth
mecaenas now antony must leave her utterly
domitius enobarbus never he will not
 age cannot wither her nor custom stale
 her infinite variety other women cloy
 the appetites they feed but she makes hungry
 where most she satisfies for vilest things
 become themselves in her that the holy priests
 bless her when she is riggish
mecaenas if beauty wisdom modesty can settle
 the heart of antony octavia is
 a blessed lottery to him
agrippa let us go
 good enobarbus make yourself my guest
 whilst you abide here
domitius enobarbus humbly sir i thank you
 exeunt
 antony and cleopatra
act ii
scene iii the same octavius caesar's house
 enter mark antony octavius caesar octavia between
 them and attendants
mark antony the world and my great office will sometimes
 divide me from your bosom
octavia all which time
 before the gods my knee shall bow my prayers
 to them for you
mark antony good night sir my octavia
 read not my blemishes in the world's report
 i have not kept my square but that to come
 shall all be done by the rule good night dear lady
 good night sir
octavius caesar good night
 exeunt octavius caesar and octavia
 enter soothsayer
mark antony now sirrah you do wish yourself in egypt
soothsayer would i had never come from thence nor you thither
mark antony if you can your reason
soothsayer i see it in
 my motion have it not in my tongue but yet
 hie you to egypt again
mark antony say to me
 whose fortunes shall rise higher caesar's or mine
soothsayer caesar's
 therefore o antony stay not by his side
 thy demon that's thy spirit which keeps thee is
 noble courageous high unmatchable
 where caesar's is not but near him thy angel
 becomes a fear as being o'erpower'd therefore
 make space enough between you
mark antony speak this no more
soothsayer to none but thee no more but when to thee
 if thou dost play with him at any game
 thou art sure to lose and of that natural luck
 he beats thee gainst the odds thy lustre thickens
 when he shines by i say again thy spirit
 is all afraid to govern thee near him
 but he away tis noble
mark antony get thee gone
 say to ventidius i would speak with him
 exit soothsayer
 he shall to parthia be it art or hap
 he hath spoken true the very dice obey him
 and in our sports my better cunning faints
 under his chance if we draw lots he speeds
 his cocks do win the battle still of mine
 when it is all to nought and his quails ever
 beat mine inhoop'd at odds i will to egypt
 and though i make this marriage for my peace
 i the east my pleasure lies
 enter ventidius
 o come ventidius
 you must to parthia your commission's ready
 follow me and receive't
 exeunt
 antony and cleopatra
act ii
scene iv the same a street
 enter lepidus mecaenas and agrippa
lepidus trouble yourselves no further pray you hasten
 your generals after
agrippa sir mark antony
 will e'en but kiss octavia and we'll follow
lepidus till i shall see you in your soldier's dress
 which will become you both farewell
mecaenas we shall
 as i conceive the journey be at the mount
 before you lepidus
lepidus your way is shorter
 my purposes do draw me much about
 you'll win two days upon me
mecaenas 
 sir good success
agrippa 
lepidus farewell
 exeunt
 antony and cleopatra
act ii
scene v alexandria cleopatra's palace
 enter cleopatra charmian iras and alexas
cleopatra give me some music music moody food
 of us that trade in love
attendants the music ho
 enter mardian
cleopatra let it alone let's to billiards come charmian
charmian my arm is sore best play with mardian
cleopatra as well a woman with an eunuch play'd
 as with a woman come you'll play with me sir
mardian as well as i can madam
cleopatra and when good will is show'd though't come
 too short
 the actor may plead pardon i'll none now
 give me mine angle we'll to the river there
 my music playing far off i will betray
 tawnyfinn'd fishes my bended hook shall pierce
 their slimy jaws and as i draw them up
 i'll think them every one an antony
 and say ah ha you're caught'
charmian twas merry when
 you wager'd on your angling when your diver
 did hang a saltfish on his hook which he
 with fervency drew up
cleopatra that timeo times
 i laugh'd him out of patience and that night
 i laugh'd him into patience and next morn
 ere the ninth hour i drunk him to his bed
 then put my tires and mantles on him whilst
 i wore his sword philippan
 enter a messenger
 o from italy
 ram thou thy fruitful tidings in mine ears
 that long time have been barren
messenger madam madam
cleopatra antonius deadif thou say so villain
 thou kill'st thy mistress but well and free
 if thou so yield him there is gold and here
 my bluest veins to kiss a hand that kings
 have lipp'd and trembled kissing
messenger first madam he is well
cleopatra why there's more gold
 but sirrah mark we use
 to say the dead are well bring it to that
 the gold i give thee will i melt and pour
 down thy illuttering throat
messenger good madam hear me
cleopatra well go to i will
 but there's no goodness in thy face if antony
 be free and healthfulso tart a favour
 to trumpet such good tidings if not well
 thou shouldst come like a fury crown'd with snakes
 not like a formal man
messenger will't please you hear me
cleopatra i have a mind to strike thee ere thou speak'st
 yet if thou say antony lives is well
 or friends with caesar or not captive to him
 i'll set thee in a shower of gold and hail
 rich pearls upon thee
messenger madam he's well
cleopatra well said
messenger and friends with caesar
cleopatra thou'rt an honest man
messenger caesar and he are greater friends than ever
cleopatra make thee a fortune from me
messenger but yet madam
cleopatra i do not like but yet it does allay
 the good precedence fie upon but yet'
 but yet is as a gaoler to bring forth
 some monstrous malefactor prithee friend
 pour out the pack of matter to mine ear
 the good and bad together he's friends with caesar
 in state of health thou say'st and thou say'st free
messenger free madam no i made no such report
 he's bound unto octavia
cleopatra for what good turn
messenger for the best turn i the bed
cleopatra i am pale charmian
messenger madam he's married to octavia
cleopatra the most infectious pestilence upon thee
 strikes him down
messenger good madam patience
cleopatra what say you hence
 strikes him again
 horrible villain or i'll spurn thine eyes
 like balls before me i'll unhair thy head
 she hales him up and down
 thou shalt be whipp'd with wire and stew'd in brine
 smarting in lingering pickle
messenger gracious madam
 i that do bring the news made not the match
cleopatra say tis not so a province i will give thee
 and make thy fortunes proud the blow thou hadst
 shall make thy peace for moving me to rage
 and i will boot thee with what gift beside
 thy modesty can beg
messenger he's married madam
cleopatra rogue thou hast lived too long
 draws a knife
messenger nay then i'll run
 what mean you madam i have made no fault
 exit
charmian good madam keep yourself within yourself
 the man is innocent
cleopatra some innocents scape not the thunderbolt
 melt egypt into nile and kindly creatures
 turn all to serpents call the slave again
 though i am mad i will not bite him call
charmian he is afeard to come
cleopatra i will not hurt him
 exit charmian
 these hands do lack nobility that they strike
 a meaner than myself since i myself
 have given myself the cause
 reenter charmian and messenger
 come hither sir
 though it be honest it is never good
 to bring bad news give to a gracious message
 an host of tongues but let ill tidings tell
 themselves when they be felt
messenger i have done my duty
cleopatra is he married
 i cannot hate thee worser than i do
 if thou again say yes'
messenger he's married madam
cleopatra the gods confound thee dost thou hold there still
messenger should i lie madam
cleopatra o i would thou didst
 so half my egypt were submerged and made
 a cistern for scaled snakes go get thee hence
 hadst thou narcissus in thy face to me
 thou wouldst appear most ugly he is married
messenger i crave your highness pardon
cleopatra he is married
messenger take no offence that i would not offend you
 to punish me for what you make me do
 seems much unequal he's married to octavia
cleopatra o that his fault should make a knave of thee
 that art not what thou'rt sure of get thee hence
 the merchandise which thou hast brought from rome
 are all too dear for me lie they upon thy hand
 and be undone by em
 exit messenger
charmian good your highness patience
cleopatra in praising antony i have dispraised caesar
charmian many times madam
cleopatra i am paid for't now
 lead me from hence
 i faint o iras charmian tis no matter
 go to the fellow good alexas bid him
 report the feature of octavia her years
 her inclination let him not leave out
 the colour of her hair bring me word quickly
 exit alexas
 let him for ever golet him notcharmian
 though he be painted one way like a gorgon
 the other way's a mars bid you alexas
 to mardian
 bring me word how tall she is pity me charmian
 but do not speak to me lead me to my chamber
 exeunt
 antony and cleopatra
act ii
scene vi near misenum
 flourish enter pompey and menas at one door
 with drum and trumpet at another octavius caesar
 mark antony lepidus domitius enobarbus mecaenas
 with soldiers marching
pompey your hostages i have so have you mine
 and we shall talk before we fight
octavius caesar most meet
 that first we come to words and therefore have we
 our written purposes before us sent
 which if thou hast consider'd let us know
 if twill tie up thy discontented sword
 and carry back to sicily much tall youth
 that else must perish here
pompey to you all three
 the senators alone of this great world
 chief factors for the gods i do not know
 wherefore my father should revengers want
 having a son and friends since julius caesar
 who at philippi the good brutus ghosted
 there saw you labouring for him what was't
 that moved pale cassius to conspire and what
 made the allhonour'd honest roman brutus
 with the arm'd rest courtiers and beauteous freedom
 to drench the capitol but that they would
 have one man but a man and that is it
 hath made me rig my navy at whose burthen
 the anger'd ocean foams with which i meant
 to scourge the ingratitude that despiteful rome
 cast on my noble father
octavius caesar take your time
mark antony thou canst not fear us pompey with thy sails
 we'll speak with thee at sea at land thou know'st
 how much we do o'ercount thee
pompey at land indeed
 thou dost o'ercount me of my father's house
 but since the cuckoo builds not for himself
 remain in't as thou mayst
lepidus be pleased to tell us
 for this is from the presenthow you take
 the offers we have sent you
octavius caesar there's the point
mark antony which do not be entreated to but weigh
 what it is worth embraced
octavius caesar and what may follow
 to try a larger fortune
pompey you have made me offer
 of sicily sardinia and i must
 rid all the sea of pirates then to send
 measures of wheat to rome this greed upon
 to part with unhack'd edges and bear back
 our targes undinted
octavius caesar 
 
mark antony that's our offer
 
lepidus 
pompey know then
 i came before you here a man prepared
 to take this offer but mark antony
 put me to some impatience though i lose
 the praise of it by telling you must know
 when caesar and your brother were at blows
 your mother came to sicily and did find
 her welcome friendly
mark antony i have heard it pompey
 and am well studied for a liberal thanks
 which i do owe you
pompey let me have your hand
 i did not think sir to have met you here
mark antony the beds i the east are soft and thanks to you
 that call'd me timelier than my purpose hither
 for i have gain'd by t
octavius caesar since i saw you last
 there is a change upon you
pompey well i know not
 what counts harsh fortune casts upon my face
 but in my bosom shall she never come
 to make my heart her vassal
lepidus well met here
pompey i hope so lepidus thus we are agreed
 i crave our composition may be written
 and seal'd between us
octavius caesar that's the next to do
pompey we'll feast each other ere we part and let's
 draw lots who shall begin
mark antony that will i pompey
pompey no antony take the lot but first
 or last your fine egyptian cookery
 shall have the fame i have heard that julius caesar
 grew fat with feasting there
mark antony you have heard much
pompey i have fair meanings sir
mark antony and fair words to them
pompey then so much have i heard
 and i have heard apollodorus carried
domitius enobarbus no more of that he did so
pompey what i pray you
domitius enobarbus a certain queen to caesar in a mattress
pompey i know thee now how farest thou soldier
domitius enobarbus well
 and well am like to do for i perceive
 four feasts are toward
pompey let me shake thy hand
 i never hated thee i have seen thee fight
 when i have envied thy behavior
domitius enobarbus sir
 i never loved you much but i ha praised ye
 when you have well deserved ten times as much
 as i have said you did
pompey enjoy thy plainness
 it nothing ill becomes thee
 aboard my galley i invite you all
 will you lead lords
octavius caesar 
 
mark antony show us the way sir
 
lepidus 
pompey come
 exeunt all but menas and enobarbus
menas aside thy father pompey would ne'er have
 made this treatyyou and i have known sir
domitius enobarbus at sea i think
menas we have sir
domitius enobarbus you have done well by water
menas and you by land
domitius enobarbus i will praise any man that will praise me though it
 cannot be denied what i have done by land
menas nor what i have done by water
domitius enobarbus yes something you can deny for your own
 safety you have been a great thief by sea
menas and you by land
domitius enobarbus there i deny my land service but give me your
 hand menas if our eyes had authority here they
 might take two thieves kissing
menas all men's faces are true whatsome'er their hands are
domitius enobarbus but there is never a fair woman has a true face
menas no slander they steal hearts
domitius enobarbus we came hither to fight with you
menas for my part i am sorry it is turned to a drinking
 pompey doth this day laugh away his fortune
domitius enobarbus if he do sure he cannot weep't back again
menas you've said sir we looked not for mark antony
 here pray you is he married to cleopatra
domitius enobarbus caesar's sister is called octavia
menas true sir she was the wife of caius marcellus
domitius enobarbus but she is now the wife of marcus antonius
menas pray ye sir
domitius enobarbus tis true
menas then is caesar and he for ever knit together
domitius enobarbus if i were bound to divine of this unity i would
 not prophesy so
menas i think the policy of that purpose made more in the
 marriage than the love of the parties
domitius enobarbus i think so too but you shall find the band that
 seems to tie their friendship together will be the
 very strangler of their amity octavia is of a
 holy cold and still conversation
menas who would not have his wife so
domitius enobarbus not he that himself is not so which is mark antony
 he will to his egyptian dish again then shall the
 sighs of octavia blow the fire up in caesar and as
 i said before that which is the strength of their
 amity shall prove the immediate author of their
 variance antony will use his affection where it is
 he married but his occasion here
menas and thus it may be come sir will you aboard
 i have a health for you
domitius enobarbus i shall take it sir we have used our throats in egypt
menas come let's away
 exeunt
 antony and cleopatra
act ii
scene vii on board pompey's galley off misenum
 music plays enter two or three servants with
 a banquet
first servant here they'll be man some o their plants are
 illrooted already the least wind i the world
 will blow them down
second servant lepidus is highcoloured
first servant they have made him drink almsdrink
second servant as they pinch one another by the disposition he
 cries out no more reconciles them to his
 entreaty and himself to the drink
first servant but it raises the greater war between him and
 his discretion
second servant why this is to have a name in great men's
 fellowship i had as lief have a reed that will do
 me no service as a partisan i could not heave
first servant to be called into a huge sphere and not to be seen
 to move in't are the holes where eyes should be
 which pitifully disaster the cheeks
 a sennet sounded enter octavius caesar mark
 antony lepidus pompey agrippa mecaenas
 domitius enobarbus menas with other captains
mark antony to octavius caesar thus do they sir they take
 the flow o the nile
 by certain scales i the pyramid they know
 by the height the lowness or the mean if dearth
 or foison follow the higher nilus swells
 the more it promises as it ebbs the seedsman
 upon the slime and ooze scatters his grain
 and shortly comes to harvest
lepidus you've strange serpents there
mark antony ay lepidus
lepidus your serpent of egypt is bred now of your mud by the
 operation of your sun so is your crocodile
mark antony they are so
pompey sitand some wine a health to lepidus
lepidus i am not so well as i should be but i'll ne'er out
domitius enobarbus not till you have slept i fear me you'll be in till then
lepidus nay certainly i have heard the ptolemies'
 pyramises are very goodly things without
 contradiction i have heard that
menas aside to pompey pompey a word
pompey aside to menas say in mine ear
 what is't
menas aside to pompey forsake thy seat i do beseech
 thee captain
 and hear me speak a word
pompey aside to menas forbear me till anon
 this wine for lepidus
lepidus what manner o thing is your crocodile
mark antony it is shaped sir like itself and it is as broad
 as it hath breadth it is just so high as it is
 and moves with its own organs it lives by that
 which nourisheth it and the elements once out of
 it it transmigrates
lepidus what colour is it of
mark antony of it own colour too
lepidus tis a strange serpent
mark antony tis so and the tears of it are wet
octavius caesar will this description satisfy him
mark antony with the health that pompey gives him else he is a
 very epicure
pompey aside to menas go hang sir hang tell me of
 that away
 do as i bid you where's this cup i call'd for
menas aside to pompey if for the sake of merit thou
 wilt hear me
 rise from thy stool
pompey aside to menas i think thou'rt mad
 the matter
 rises and walks aside
menas i have ever held my cap off to thy fortunes
pompey thou hast served me with much faith what's else to say
 be jolly lords
mark antony these quicksands lepidus
 keep off them for you sink
menas wilt thou be lord of all the world
pompey what say'st thou
menas wilt thou be lord of the whole world that's twice
pompey how should that be
menas but entertain it
 and though thou think me poor i am the man
 will give thee all the world
pompey hast thou drunk well
menas now pompey i have kept me from the cup
 thou art if thou darest be the earthly jove
 whate'er the ocean pales or sky inclips
 is thine if thou wilt ha't
pompey show me which way
menas these three worldsharers these competitors
 are in thy vessel let me cut the cable
 and when we are put off fall to their throats
 all there is thine
pompey ah this thou shouldst have done
 and not have spoke on't in me tis villany
 in thee't had been good service thou must know
 tis not my profit that does lead mine honour
 mine honour it repent that e'er thy tongue
 hath so betray'd thine act being done unknown
 i should have found it afterwards well done
 but must condemn it now desist and drink
menas aside for this
 i'll never follow thy pall'd fortunes more
 who seeks and will not take when once tis offer'd
 shall never find it more
pompey this health to lepidus
mark antony bear him ashore i'll pledge it for him pompey
domitius enobarbus here's to thee menas
menas enobarbus welcome
pompey fill till the cup be hid
domitius enobarbus there's a strong fellow menas
 pointing to the attendant who carries off lepidus
menas why
domitius enobarbus a bears the third part of the world man see'st
 not
menas the third part then is drunk would it were all
 that it might go on wheels
domitius enobarbus drink thou increase the reels
menas come
pompey this is not yet an alexandrian feast
mark antony it ripens towards it strike the vessels ho
 here is to caesar
octavius caesar i could well forbear't
 it's monstrous labour when i wash my brain
 and it grows fouler
mark antony be a child o the time
octavius caesar possess it i'll make answer
 but i had rather fast from all four days
 than drink so much in one
domitius enobarbus ha my brave emperor
 to mark antony
 shall we dance now the egyptian bacchanals
 and celebrate our drink
pompey let's ha't good soldier
mark antony come let's all take hands
 till that the conquering wine hath steep'd our sense
 in soft and delicate lethe
domitius enobarbus all take hands
 make battery to our ears with the loud music
 the while i'll place you then the boy shall sing
 the holding every man shall bear as loud
 as his strong sides can volley
 music plays domitius enobarbus places them
 hand in hand
 the song
 come thou monarch of the vine
 plumpy bacchus with pink eyne
 in thy fats our cares be drown'd
 with thy grapes our hairs be crown'd
 cup us till the world go round
 cup us till the world go round
octavius caesar what would you more pompey good night good brother
 let me request you off our graver business
 frowns at this levity gentle lords let's part
 you see we have burnt our cheeks strong enobarb
 is weaker than the wine and mine own tongue
 splits what it speaks the wild disguise hath almost
 antick'd us all what needs more words good night
 good antony your hand
pompey i'll try you on the shore
mark antony and shall sir give's your hand
pompey o antony
 you have my father's housebut what we are friends
 come down into the boat
domitius enobarbus take heed you fall not
 exeunt all but domitius enobarbus and menas
 menas i'll not on shore
menas no to my cabin
 these drums these trumpets flutes what
 let neptune hear we bid a loud farewell
 to these great fellows sound and be hang'd sound out
 sound a flourish with drums
domitius enobarbus ho says a there's my cap
menas ho noble captain come
 exeunt
 antony and cleopatra
act iii
scene i a plain in syria
 enter ventidius as it were in triumph with silius
 and other romans officers and soldiers the dead
 body of pacorus borne before him
ventidius now darting parthia art thou struck and now
 pleased fortune does of marcus crassus death
 make me revenger bear the king's son's body
 before our army thy pacorus orodes
 pays this for marcus crassus
silius noble ventidius
 whilst yet with parthian blood thy sword is warm
 the fugitive parthians follow spur through media
 mesopotamia and the shelters whither
 the routed fly so thy grand captain antony
 shall set thee on triumphant chariots and
 put garlands on thy head
ventidius o silius silius
 i have done enough a lower place note well
 may make too great an act for learn this silius
 better to leave undone than by our deed
 acquire too high a fame when him we serve's away
 caesar and antony have ever won
 more in their officer than person sossius
 one of my place in syria his lieutenant
 for quick accumulation of renown
 which he achieved by the minute lost his favour
 who does i the wars more than his captain can
 becomes his captain's captain and ambition
 the soldier's virtue rather makes choice of loss
 than gain which darkens him
 i could do more to do antonius good
 but twould offend him and in his offence
 should my performance perish
silius thou hast ventidius
 that
 without the which a soldier and his sword
 grants scarce distinction thou wilt write to antony
ventidius i'll humbly signify what in his name
 that magical word of war we have effected
 how with his banners and his wellpaid ranks
 the ne'eryetbeaten horse of parthia
 we have jaded out o the field
silius where is he now
ventidius he purposeth to athens whither with what haste
 the weight we must convey with's will permit
 we shall appear before him on there pass along
 exeunt
 antony and cleopatra
act iii
scene ii rome an antechamber in octavius caesar's house
 enter agrippa at one door domitius enobarbus
 at another
agrippa what are the brothers parted
domitius enobarbus they have dispatch'd with pompey he is gone
 the other three are sealing octavia weeps
 to part from rome caesar is sad and lepidus
 since pompey's feast as menas says is troubled
 with the green sickness
agrippa tis a noble lepidus
domitius enobarbus a very fine one o how he loves caesar
agrippa nay but how dearly he adores mark antony
domitius enobarbus caesar why he's the jupiter of men
agrippa what's antony the god of jupiter
domitius enobarbus spake you of caesar how the nonpareil
agrippa o antony o thou arabian bird
domitius enobarbus would you praise caesar say caesar go no further
agrippa indeed he plied them both with excellent praises
domitius enobarbus but he loves caesar best yet he loves antony
 ho hearts tongues figures scribes bards
 poets cannot
 think speak cast write sing number ho
 his love to antony but as for caesar
 kneel down kneel down and wonder
agrippa both he loves
domitius enobarbus they are his shards and he their beetle
 trumpets within
 so
 this is to horse adieu noble agrippa
agrippa good fortune worthy soldier and farewell
 enter octavius caesar mark antony lepidus and octavia
mark antony no further sir
octavius caesar you take from me a great part of myself
 use me well in t sister prove such a wife
 as my thoughts make thee and as my farthest band
 shall pass on thy approof most noble antony
 let not the piece of virtue which is set
 betwixt us as the cement of our love
 to keep it builded be the ram to batter
 the fortress of it for better might we
 have loved without this mean if on both parts
 this be not cherish'd
mark antony make me not offended
 in your distrust
octavius caesar i have said
mark antony you shall not find
 though you be therein curious the least cause
 for what you seem to fear so the gods keep you
 and make the hearts of romans serve your ends
 we will here part
octavius caesar farewell my dearest sister fare thee well
 the elements be kind to thee and make
 thy spirits all of comfort fare thee well
octavia my noble brother
mark antony the april s in her eyes it is love's spring
 and these the showers to bring it on be cheerful
octavia sir look well to my husband's house and
octavius caesar what octavia
octavia i'll tell you in your ear
mark antony her tongue will not obey her heart nor can
 her heart inform her tonguethe swan's
 downfeather
 that stands upon the swell at full of tide
 and neither way inclines
domitius enobarbus aside to agrippa will caesar weep
agrippa aside to domitius enobarbus he has a cloud in s face
domitius enobarbus aside to agrippa he were the worse for that
 were he a horse
 so is he being a man
agrippa aside to domitius enobarbus why enobarbus
 when antony found julius caesar dead
 he cried almost to roaring and he wept
 when at philippi he found brutus slain
domitius enobarbus aside to agrippa that year indeed he was
 troubled with a rheum
 what willingly he did confound he wail'd
 believe't till i wept too
octavius caesar no sweet octavia
 you shall hear from me still the time shall not
 outgo my thinking on you
mark antony come sir come
 i'll wrestle with you in my strength of love
 look here i have you thus i let you go
 and give you to the gods
octavius caesar adieu be happy
lepidus let all the number of the stars give light
 to thy fair way
octavius caesar farewell farewell
 kisses octavia
mark antony farewell
 trumpets sound exeunt
 antony and cleopatra
act iii
scene iii alexandria cleopatra's palace
 enter cleopatra charmian iras and alexas
cleopatra where is the fellow
alexas half afeard to come
cleopatra go to go to
 enter the messenger as before
 come hither sir
alexas good majesty
 herod of jewry dare not look upon you
 but when you are well pleased
cleopatra that herod's head
 i'll have but how when antony is gone
 through whom i might command it come thou near
messenger most gracious majesty
cleopatra didst thou behold octavia
messenger ay dread queen
cleopatra where
messenger madam in rome
 i look'd her in the face and saw her led
 between her brother and mark antony
cleopatra is she as tall as me
messenger she is not madam
cleopatra didst hear her speak is she shrilltongued or low
messenger madam i heard her speak she is lowvoiced
cleopatra that's not so good he cannot like her long
charmian like her o isis tis impossible
cleopatra i think so charmian dull of tongue and dwarfish
 what majesty is in her gait remember
 if e'er thou look'dst on majesty
messenger she creeps
 her motion and her station are as one
 she shows a body rather than a life
 a statue than a breather
cleopatra is this certain
messenger or i have no observance
charmian three in egypt
 cannot make better note
cleopatra he's very knowing
 i do perceive't there's nothing in her yet
 the fellow has good judgment
charmian excellent
cleopatra guess at her years i prithee
messenger madam
 she was a widow
cleopatra widow charmian hark
messenger and i do think she's thirty
cleopatra bear'st thou her face in mind is't long or round
messenger round even to faultiness
cleopatra for the most part too they are foolish that are so
 her hair what colour
messenger brown madam and her forehead
 as low as she would wish it
cleopatra there's gold for thee
 thou must not take my former sharpness ill
 i will employ thee back again i find thee
 most fit for business go make thee ready
 our letters are prepared
 exit messenger
charmian a proper man
cleopatra indeed he is so i repent me much
 that so i harried him why methinks by him
 this creature's no such thing
charmian nothing madam
cleopatra the man hath seen some majesty and should know
charmian hath he seen majesty isis else defend
 and serving you so long
cleopatra i have one thing more to ask him yet good charmian
 but tis no matter thou shalt bring him to me
 where i will write all may be well enough
charmian i warrant you madam
 exeunt
 antony and cleopatra
act iii
scene iv athens a room in mark antony's house
 enter mark antony and octavia
mark antony nay nay octavia not only that
 that were excusable that and thousands more
 of semblable importbut he hath waged
 new wars gainst pompey made his will and read it
 to public ear
 spoke scantly of me when perforce he could not
 but pay me terms of honour cold and sickly
 he vented them most narrow measure lent me
 when the best hint was given him he not took't
 or did it from his teeth
octavia o my good lord
 believe not all or if you must believe
 stomach not all a more unhappy lady
 if this division chance ne'er stood between
 praying for both parts
 the good gods me presently
 when i shall pray o bless my lord and husband'
 undo that prayer by crying out as loud
 o bless my brother husband win win brother
 prays and destroys the prayer no midway
 twixt these extremes at all
mark antony gentle octavia
 let your best love draw to that point which seeks
 best to preserve it if i lose mine honour
 i lose myself better i were not yours
 than yours so branchless but as you requested
 yourself shall go between s the mean time lady
 i'll raise the preparation of a war
 shall stain your brother make your soonest haste
 so your desires are yours
octavia thanks to my lord
 the jove of power make me most weak most weak
 your reconciler wars twixt you twain would be
 as if the world should cleave and that slain men
 should solder up the rift
mark antony when it appears to you where this begins
 turn your displeasure that way for our faults
 can never be so equal that your love
 can equally move with them provide your going
 choose your own company and command what cost
 your heart has mind to
 exeunt
 antony and cleopatra
act iii
scene v the same another room
 enter domitius enobarbus and eros meeting
domitius enobarbus how now friend eros
eros there's strange news come sir
domitius enobarbus what man
eros caesar and lepidus have made wars upon pompey
domitius enobarbus this is old what is the success
eros caesar having made use of him in the wars gainst
 pompey presently denied him rivality would not let
 him partake in the glory of the action and not
 resting here accuses him of letters he had formerly
 wrote to pompey upon his own appeal seizes him so
 the poor third is up till death enlarge his confine
domitius enobarbus then world thou hast a pair of chaps no more
 and throw between them all the food thou hast
 they'll grind the one the other where's antony
eros he's walking in the gardenthus and spurns
 the rush that lies before him cries fool lepidus'
 and threats the throat of that his officer
 that murder'd pompey
domitius enobarbus our great navy's rigg'd
eros for italy and caesar more domitius
 my lord desires you presently my news
 i might have told hereafter
domitius enobarbus twill be naught
 but let it be bring me to antony
eros come sir
 exeunt
 antony and cleopatra
act iii
scene vi rome octavius caesar's house
 enter octavius caesar agrippa and mecaenas
octavius caesar contemning rome he has done all this and more
 in alexandria here's the manner of t
 i the marketplace on a tribunal silver'd
 cleopatra and himself in chairs of gold
 were publicly enthroned at the feet sat
 caesarion whom they call my father's son
 and all the unlawful issue that their lust
 since then hath made between them unto her
 he gave the stablishment of egypt made her
 of lower syria cyprus lydia
 absolute queen
mecaenas this in the public eye
octavius caesar i the common showplace where they exercise
 his sons he there proclaim'd the kings of kings
 great media parthia and armenia
 he gave to alexander to ptolemy he assign'd
 syria cilicia and phoenicia she
 in the habiliments of the goddess isis
 that day appear'd and oft before gave audience
 as tis reported so
mecaenas let rome be thus inform'd
agrippa who queasy with his insolence
 already will their good thoughts call from him
octavius caesar the people know it and have now received
 his accusations
agrippa who does he accuse
octavius caesar caesar and that having in sicily
 sextus pompeius spoil'd we had not rated him
 his part o the isle then does he say he lent me
 some shipping unrestored lastly he frets
 that lepidus of the triumvirate
 should be deposed and being that we detain
 all his revenue
agrippa sir this should be answer'd
octavius caesar tis done already and the messenger gone
 i have told him lepidus was grown too cruel
 that he his high authority abused
 and did deserve his change for what i have conquer'd
 i grant him part but then in his armenia
 and other of his conquer'd kingdoms i
 demand the like
mecaenas he'll never yield to that
octavius caesar nor must not then be yielded to in this
 enter octavia with her train
octavia hail caesar and my lord hail most dear caesar
octavius caesar that ever i should call thee castaway
octavia you have not call'd me so nor have you cause
octavius caesar why have you stol'n upon us thus you come not
 like caesar's sister the wife of antony
 should have an army for an usher and
 the neighs of horse to tell of her approach
 long ere she did appear the trees by the way
 should have borne men and expectation fainted
 longing for what it had not nay the dust
 should have ascended to the roof of heaven
 raised by your populous troops but you are come
 a marketmaid to rome and have prevented
 the ostentation of our love which left unshown
 is often left unloved we should have met you
 by sea and land supplying every stage
 with an augmented greeting
octavia good my lord
 to come thus was i not constrain'd but did
 on my free will my lord mark antony
 hearing that you prepared for war acquainted
 my grieved ear withal whereon i begg'd
 his pardon for return
octavius caesar which soon he granted
 being an obstruct tween his lust and him
octavia do not say so my lord
octavius caesar i have eyes upon him
 and his affairs come to me on the wind
 where is he now
octavia my lord in athens
octavius caesar no my most wronged sister cleopatra
 hath nodded him to her he hath given his empire
 up to a whore who now are levying
 the kings o the earth for war he hath assembled
 bocchus the king of libya archelaus
 of cappadocia philadelphos king
 of paphlagonia the thracian king adallas
 king malchus of arabia king of pont
 herod of jewry mithridates king
 of comagene polemon and amyntas
 the kings of mede and lycaonia
 with a more larger list of sceptres
octavia ay me most wretched
 that have my heart parted betwixt two friends
 that do afflict each other
octavius caesar welcome hither
 your letters did withhold our breaking forth
 till we perceived both how you were wrong led
 and we in negligent danger cheer your heart
 be you not troubled with the time which drives
 o'er your content these strong necessities
 but let determined things to destiny
 hold unbewail'd their way welcome to rome
 nothing more dear to me you are abused
 beyond the mark of thought and the high gods
 to do you justice make them ministers
 of us and those that love you best of comfort
 and ever welcome to us
agrippa welcome lady
mecaenas welcome dear madam
 each heart in rome does love and pity you
 only the adulterous antony most large
 in his abominations turns you off
 and gives his potent regiment to a trull
 that noises it against us
octavia is it so sir
octavius caesar most certain sister welcome pray you
 be ever known to patience my dear'st sister
 exeunt
 antony and cleopatra
act iii
scene vii near actium mark antony's camp
 enter cleopatra and domitius enobarbus
cleopatra i will be even with thee doubt it not
domitius enobarbus but why why why
cleopatra thou hast forspoke my being in these wars
 and say'st it is not fit
domitius enobarbus well is it is it
cleopatra if not denounced against us why should not we
 be there in person
domitius enobarbus aside well i could reply
 if we should serve with horse and mares together
 the horse were merely lost the mares would bear
 a soldier and his horse
cleopatra what is't you say
domitius enobarbus your presence needs must puzzle antony
 take from his heart take from his brain
 from's time
 what should not then be spared he is already
 traduced for levity and tis said in rome
 that photinus an eunuch and your maids
 manage this war
cleopatra sink rome and their tongues rot
 that speak against us a charge we bear i the war
 and as the president of my kingdom will
 appear there for a man speak not against it
 i will not stay behind
domitius enobarbus nay i have done
 here comes the emperor
 enter mark antony and canidius
mark antony is it not strange canidius
 that from tarentum and brundusium
 he could so quickly cut the ionian sea
 and take in toryne you have heard on't sweet
cleopatra celerity is never more admired
 than by the negligent
mark antony a good rebuke
 which might have well becomed the best of men
 to taunt at slackness canidius we
 will fight with him by sea
cleopatra by sea what else
canidius why will my lord do so
mark antony for that he dares us to't
domitius enobarbus so hath my lord dared him to single fight
canidius ay and to wage this battle at pharsalia
 where caesar fought with pompey but these offers
 which serve not for his vantage be shakes off
 and so should you
domitius enobarbus your ships are not well mann'd
 your mariners are muleters reapers people
 ingross'd by swift impress in caesar's fleet
 are those that often have gainst pompey fought
 their ships are yare yours heavy no disgrace
 shall fall you for refusing him at sea
 being prepared for land
mark antony by sea by sea
domitius enobarbus most worthy sir you therein throw away
 the absolute soldiership you have by land
 distract your army which doth most consist
 of warmark'd footmen leave unexecuted
 your own renowned knowledge quite forego
 the way which promises assurance and
 give up yourself merely to chance and hazard
 from firm security
mark antony i'll fight at sea
cleopatra i have sixty sails caesar none better
mark antony our overplus of shipping will we burn
 and with the rest fullmann'd from the head of actium
 beat the approaching caesar but if we fail
 we then can do't at land
 enter a messenger
 thy business
messenger the news is true my lord he is descried
 caesar has taken toryne
mark antony can he be there in person tis impossible
 strange that power should be canidius
 our nineteen legions thou shalt hold by land
 and our twelve thousand horse we'll to our ship
 away my thetis
 enter a soldier
 how now worthy soldier
soldier o noble emperor do not fight by sea
 trust not to rotten planks do you misdoubt
 this sword and these my wounds let the egyptians
 and the phoenicians go aducking we
 have used to conquer standing on the earth
 and fighting foot to foot
mark antony well well away
 exeunt mark antony queen cleopatra and domitius
 enobarbus
soldier by hercules i think i am i the right
canidius soldier thou art but his whole action grows
 not in the power on't so our leader's led
 and we are women's men
soldier you keep by land
 the legions and the horse whole do you not
canidius marcus octavius marcus justeius
 publicola and caelius are for sea
 but we keep whole by land this speed of caesar's
 carries beyond belief
soldier while he was yet in rome
 his power went out in such distractions as
 beguiled all spies
canidius who's his lieutenant hear you
soldier they say one taurus
canidius well i know the man
 enter a messenger
messenger the emperor calls canidius
canidius with news the time's with labour and throes forth
 each minute some
 exeunt
 antony and cleopatra
act iii
scene viii a plain near actium
 enter octavius caesar and taurus with his army marching
octavius caesar taurus
taurus my lord
octavius caesar strike not by land keep whole provoke not battle
 till we have done at sea do not exceed
 the prescript of this scroll our fortune lies
 upon this jump
 exeunt
 antony and cleopatra
act iii
scene ix another part of the plain
 enter mark antony and domitius enobarbus
mark antony set we our squadrons on yond side o the hill
 in eye of caesar's battle from which place
 we may the number of the ships behold
 and so proceed accordingly
 exeunt
 antony and cleopatra
act iii
scene x another part of the plain
 canidius marcheth with his land army one way over
 the stage and taurus the lieutenant of octavius
 caesar the other way after their going in is
 heard the noise of a seafight
 alarum enter domitius enobarbus
domitius enobarbus naught naught all naught i can behold no longer
 the antoniad the egyptian admiral
 with all their sixty fly and turn the rudder
 to see't mine eyes are blasted
 enter scarus
scarus gods and goddesses
 all the whole synod of them
domitius enobarbus what's thy passion
scarus the greater cantle of the world is lost
 with very ignorance we have kiss'd away
 kingdoms and provinces
domitius enobarbus how appears the fight
scarus on our side like the token'd pestilence
 where death is sure yon ribaudred nag of egypt
 whom leprosy o'ertakei the midst o the fight
 when vantage like a pair of twins appear'd
 both as the same or rather ours the elder
 the breese upon her like a cow in june
 hoists sails and flies
domitius enobarbus that i beheld
 mine eyes did sicken at the sight and could not
 endure a further view
scarus she once being loof'd
 the noble ruin of her magic antony
 claps on his seawing and like a doting mallard
 leaving the fight in height flies after her
 i never saw an action of such shame
 experience manhood honour ne'er before
 did violate so itself
domitius enobarbus alack alack
 enter canidius
canidius our fortune on the sea is out of breath
 and sinks most lamentably had our general
 been what he knew himself it had gone well
 o he has given example for our flight
 most grossly by his own
domitius enobarbus ay are you thereabouts
 why then good night indeed
canidius toward peloponnesus are they fled
scarus tis easy to't and there i will attend
 what further comes
canidius to caesar will i render
 my legions and my horse six kings already
 show me the way of yielding
domitius enobarbus i'll yet follow
 the wounded chance of antony though my reason
 sits in the wind against me
 exeunt
 antony and cleopatra
act iii
scene xi alexandria cleopatra's palace
 enter mark antony with attendants
mark antony hark the land bids me tread no more upon't
 it is ashamed to bear me friends come hither
 i am so lated in the world that i
 have lost my way for ever i have a ship
 laden with gold take that divide it fly
 and make your peace with caesar
all fly not we
mark antony i have fled myself and have instructed cowards
 to run and show their shoulders friends be gone
 i have myself resolved upon a course
 which has no need of you be gone
 my treasure's in the harbour take it o
 i follow'd that i blush to look upon
 my very hairs do mutiny for the white
 reprove the brown for rashness and they them
 for fear and doting friends be gone you shall
 have letters from me to some friends that will
 sweep your way for you pray you look not sad
 nor make replies of loathness take the hint
 which my despair proclaims let that be left
 which leaves itself to the seaside straightway
 i will possess you of that ship and treasure
 leave me i pray a little pray you now
 nay do so for indeed i have lost command
 therefore i pray you i'll see you by and by
 sits down
 enter cleopatra led by charmian and iras eros
 following
eros nay gentle madam to him comfort him
iras do most dear queen
charmian do why what else
cleopatra let me sit down o juno
mark antony no no no no no
eros see you here sir
mark antony o fie fie fie
charmian madam
iras madam o good empress
eros sir sir
mark antony yes my lord yes he at philippi kept
 his sword e'en like a dancer while i struck
 the lean and wrinkled cassius and twas i
 that the mad brutus ended he alone
 dealt on lieutenantry and no practise had
 in the brave squares of war yet nowno matter
cleopatra ah stand by
eros the queen my lord the queen
iras go to him madam speak to him
 he is unqualitied with very shame
cleopatra well then sustain him o
eros most noble sir arise the queen approaches
 her head's declined and death will seize her but
 your comfort makes the rescue
mark antony i have offended reputation
 a most unnoble swerving
eros sir the queen
mark antony o whither hast thou led me egypt see
 how i convey my shame out of thine eyes
 by looking back what i have left behind
 stroy'd in dishonour
cleopatra o my lord my lord
 forgive my fearful sails i little thought
 you would have follow'd
mark antony egypt thou knew'st too well
 my heart was to thy rudder tied by the strings
 and thou shouldst tow me after o'er my spirit
 thy full supremacy thou knew'st and that
 thy beck might from the bidding of the gods
 command me
cleopatra o my pardon
mark antony now i must
 to the young man send humble treaties dodge
 and palter in the shifts of lowness who
 with half the bulk o the world play'd as i pleased
 making and marring fortunes you did know
 how much you were my conqueror and that
 my sword made weak by my affection would
 obey it on all cause
cleopatra pardon pardon
mark antony fall not a tear i say one of them rates
 all that is won and lost give me a kiss
 even this repays me we sent our schoolmaster
 is he come back love i am full of lead
 some wine within there and our viands fortune knows
 we scorn her most when most she offers blows
 exeunt
 antony and cleopatra
act iii
scene xii egypt octavius caesar's camp
 enter octavius caesar dolabella thyreus with others
octavius caesar let him appear that's come from antony
 know you him
dolabella caesar tis his schoolmaster
 an argument that he is pluck'd when hither
 he sends so poor a pinion off his wing
 which had superfluous kings for messengers
 not many moons gone by
 enter euphronius ambassador from mark antony
octavius caesar approach and speak
euphronius such as i am i come from antony
 i was of late as petty to his ends
 as is the morndew on the myrtleleaf
 to his grand sea
octavius caesar be't so declare thine office
euphronius lord of his fortunes he salutes thee and
 requires to live in egypt which not granted
 he lessens his requests and to thee sues
 to let him breathe between the heavens and earth
 a private man in athens this for him
 next cleopatra does confess thy greatness
 submits her to thy might and of thee craves
 the circle of the ptolemies for her heirs
 now hazarded to thy grace
octavius caesar for antony
 i have no ears to his request the queen
 of audience nor desire shall fail so she
 from egypt drive her alldisgraced friend
 or take his life there this if she perform
 she shall not sue unheard so to them both
euphronius fortune pursue thee
octavius caesar bring him through the bands
 exit euphronius
 to thyreus to try eloquence now tis time dispatch
 from antony win cleopatra promise
 and in our name what she requires add more
 from thine invention offers women are not
 in their best fortunes strong but want will perjure
 the ne'er touch'd vestal try thy cunning thyreus
 make thine own edict for thy pains which we
 will answer as a law
thyreus caesar i go
octavius caesar observe how antony becomes his flaw
 and what thou think'st his very action speaks
 in every power that moves
thyreus caesar i shall
 exeunt
 antony and cleopatra
act iii
scene xiii alexandria cleopatra's palace
 enter cleopatra domitius enobarbus charmian and iras
cleopatra what shall we do enobarbus
domitius enobarbus think and die
cleopatra is antony or we in fault for this
domitius enobarbus antony only that would make his will
 lord of his reason what though you fled
 from that great face of war whose several ranges
 frighted each other why should he follow
 the itch of his affection should not then
 have nick'd his captainship at such a point
 when half to half the world opposed he being
 the meered question twas a shame no less
 than was his loss to course your flying flags
 and leave his navy gazing
cleopatra prithee peace
 enter mark antony with euphronius the ambassador
mark antony is that his answer
euphronius ay my lord
mark antony the queen shall then have courtesy so she
 will yield us up
euphronius he says so
mark antony let her know't
 to the boy caesar send this grizzled head
 and he will fill thy wishes to the brim
 with principalities
cleopatra that head my lord
mark antony to him again tell him he wears the rose
 of youth upon him from which the world should note
 something particular his coin ships legions
 may be a coward's whose ministers would prevail
 under the service of a child as soon
 as i the command of caesar i dare him therefore
 to lay his gay comparisons apart
 and answer me declined sword against sword
 ourselves alone i'll write it follow me
 exeunt mark antony and euphronius
domitius enobarbus aside yes like enough highbattled caesar will
 unstate his happiness and be staged to the show
 against a sworder i see men's judgments are
 a parcel of their fortunes and things outward
 do draw the inward quality after them
 to suffer all alike that he should dream
 knowing all measures the full caesar will
 answer his emptiness caesar thou hast subdued
 his judgment too
 enter an attendant
attendant a messenger from caesar
cleopatra what no more ceremony see my women
 against the blown rose may they stop their nose
 that kneel'd unto the buds admit him sir
 exit attendant
domitius enobarbus aside mine honesty and i begin to square
 the loyalty well held to fools does make
 our faith mere folly yet he that can endure
 to follow with allegiance a fall'n lord
 does conquer him that did his master conquer
 and earns a place i the story
 enter thyreus
cleopatra caesar's will
thyreus hear it apart
cleopatra none but friends say boldly
thyreus so haply are they friends to antony
domitius enobarbus he needs as many sir as caesar has
 or needs not us if caesar please our master
 will leap to be his friend for us you know
 whose he is we are and that is caesar's
thyreus so
 thus then thou most renown'd caesar entreats
 not to consider in what case thou stand'st
 further than he is caesar
cleopatra go on right royal
thyreus he knows that you embrace not antony
 as you did love but as you fear'd him
cleopatra o
thyreus the scars upon your honour therefore he
 does pity as constrained blemishes
 not as deserved
cleopatra he is a god and knows
 what is most right mine honour was not yielded
 but conquer'd merely
domitius enobarbus aside to be sure of that
 i will ask antony sir sir thou art so leaky
 that we must leave thee to thy sinking for
 thy dearest quit thee
 exit
thyreus shall i say to caesar
 what you require of him for he partly begs
 to be desired to give it much would please him
 that of his fortunes you should make a staff
 to lean upon but it would warm his spirits
 to hear from me you had left antony
 and put yourself under his shrowd
 the universal landlord
cleopatra what's your name
thyreus my name is thyreus
cleopatra most kind messenger
 say to great caesar this in deputation
 i kiss his conquering hand tell him i am prompt
 to lay my crown at s feet and there to kneel
 tell him from his allobeying breath i hear
 the doom of egypt
thyreus tis your noblest course
 wisdom and fortune combating together
 if that the former dare but what it can
 no chance may shake it give me grace to lay
 my duty on your hand
cleopatra your caesar's father oft
 when he hath mused of taking kingdoms in
 bestow'd his lips on that unworthy place
 as it rain'd kisses
 reenter mark antony and domitius enobarbus
mark antony favours by jove that thunders
 what art thou fellow
thyreus one that but performs
 the bidding of the fullest man and worthiest
 to have command obey'd
domitius enobarbus aside you will be whipp'd
mark antony approach there ah you kite now gods
 and devils
 authority melts from me of late when i cried ho'
 like boys unto a muss kings would start forth
 and cry your will have you no ears i am
 antony yet
 enter attendants
 take hence this jack and whip him
domitius enobarbus aside tis better playing with a lion's whelp
 than with an old one dying
mark antony moon and stars
 whip him were't twenty of the greatest tributaries
 that do acknowledge caesar should i find them
 so saucy with the hand of she herewhat's her name
 since she was cleopatra whip him fellows
 till like a boy you see him cringe his face
 and whine aloud for mercy take him hence
thyreus mark antony
mark antony tug him away being whipp'd
 bring him again this jack of caesar's shall
 bear us an errand to him
 exeunt attendants with thyreus
 you were half blasted ere i knew you ha
 have i my pillow left unpress'd in rome
 forborne the getting of a lawful race
 and by a gem of women to be abused
 by one that looks on feeders
cleopatra good my lord
mark antony you have been a boggler ever
 but when we in our viciousness grow hard
 o misery on'tthe wise gods seel our eyes
 in our own filth drop our clear judgments make us
 adore our errors laugh at's while we strut
 to our confusion
cleopatra o is't come to this
mark antony i found you as a morsel cold upon
 dead caesar's trencher nay you were a fragment
 of cneius pompey's besides what hotter hours
 unregister'd in vulgar fame you have
 luxuriously pick'd out for i am sure
 though you can guess what temperance should be
 you know not what it is
cleopatra wherefore is this
mark antony to let a fellow that will take rewards
 and say god quit you be familiar with
 my playfellow your hand this kingly seal
 and plighter of high hearts o that i were
 upon the hill of basan to outroar
 the horned herd for i have savage cause
 and to proclaim it civilly were like
 a halter'd neck which does the hangman thank
 for being yare about him
 reenter attendants with thyreus
 is he whipp'd
first attendant soundly my lord
mark antony cried he and begg'd a pardon
first attendant he did ask favour
mark antony if that thy father live let him repent
 thou wast not made his daughter and be thou sorry
 to follow caesar in his triumph since
 thou hast been whipp'd for following him henceforth
 the white hand of a lady fever thee
 shake thou to look on t get thee back to caesar
 tell him thy entertainment look thou say
 he makes me angry with him for he seems
 proud and disdainful harping on what i am
 not what he knew i was he makes me angry
 and at this time most easy tis to do't
 when my good stars that were my former guides
 have empty left their orbs and shot their fires
 into the abysm of hell if he mislike
 my speech and what is done tell him he has
 hipparchus my enfranched bondman whom
 he may at pleasure whip or hang or torture
 as he shall like to quit me urge it thou
 hence with thy stripes begone
 exit thyreus
cleopatra have you done yet
mark antony alack our terrene moon
 is now eclipsed and it portends alone
 the fall of antony
cleopatra i must stay his time
mark antony to flatter caesar would you mingle eyes
 with one that ties his points
cleopatra not know me yet
mark antony coldhearted toward me
cleopatra ah dear if i be so
 from my cold heart let heaven engender hail
 and poison it in the source and the first stone
 drop in my neck as it determines so
 dissolve my life the next caesarion smite
 till by degrees the memory of my womb
 together with my brave egyptians all
 by the discandying of this pelleted storm
 lie graveless till the flies and gnats of nile
 have buried them for prey
mark antony i am satisfied
 caesar sits down in alexandria where
 i will oppose his fate our force by land
 hath nobly held our sever'd navy too
 have knit again and fleet threatening most sealike
 where hast thou been my heart dost thou hear lady
 if from the field i shall return once more
 to kiss these lips i will appear in blood
 i and my sword will earn our chronicle
 there's hope in't yet
cleopatra that's my brave lord
mark antony i will be treblesinew'd hearted breathed
 and fight maliciously for when mine hours
 were nice and lucky men did ransom lives
 of me for jests but now i'll set my teeth
 and send to darkness all that stop me come
 let's have one other gaudy night call to me
 all my sad captains fill our bowls once more
 let's mock the midnight bell
cleopatra it is my birthday
 i had thought to have held it poor but since my lord
 is antony again i will be cleopatra
mark antony we will yet do well
cleopatra call all his noble captains to my lord
mark antony do so we'll speak to them and tonight i'll force
 the wine peep through their scars come on my queen
 there's sap in't yet the next time i do fight
 i'll make death love me for i will contend
 even with his pestilent scythe
 exeunt all but domitius enobarbus
domitius enobarbus now he'll outstare the lightning to be furious
 is to be frighted out of fear and in that mood
 the dove will peck the estridge and i see still
 a diminution in our captain's brain
 restores his heart when valour preys on reason
 it eats the sword it fights with i will seek
 some way to leave him
 exit
 antony and cleopatra
act iv
scene i before alexandria octavius caesar's camp
 enter octavius caesar agrippa and mecaenas with
 his army octavius caesar reading a letter
octavius caesar he calls me boy and chides as he had power
 to beat me out of egypt my messenger
 he hath whipp'd with rods dares me to personal combat
 caesar to antony let the old ruffian know
 i have many other ways to die meantime
 laugh at his challenge
mecaenas caesar must think
 when one so great begins to rage he's hunted
 even to falling give him no breath but now
 make boot of his distraction never anger
 made good guard for itself
octavius caesar let our best heads
 know that tomorrow the last of many battles
 we mean to fight within our files there are
 of those that served mark antony but late
 enough to fetch him in see it done
 and feast the army we have store to do't
 and they have earn'd the waste poor antony
 exeunt
 antony and cleopatra
act iv
scene ii alexandria cleopatra's palace
 enter mark antony cleopatra domitius enobarbus
 charmian iras alexas with others
mark antony he will not fight with me domitius
domitius enobarbus no
mark antony why should he not
domitius enobarbus he thinks being twenty times of better fortune
 he is twenty men to one
mark antony tomorrow soldier
 by sea and land i'll fight or i will live
 or bathe my dying honour in the blood
 shall make it live again woo't thou fight well
domitius enobarbus i'll strike and cry take all'
mark antony well said come on
 call forth my household servants let's tonight
 be bounteous at our meal
 enter three or four servitors
 give me thy hand
 thou hast been rightly honestso hast thou
 thouand thouand thouyou have served me well
 and kings have been your fellows
cleopatra aside to domitius enobarbus what means this
domitius enobarbus aside to cleopatra tis one of those odd
 tricks which sorrow shoots
 out of the mind
mark antony and thou art honest too
 i wish i could be made so many men
 and all of you clapp'd up together in
 an antony that i might do you service
 so good as you have done
all the gods forbid
mark antony well my good fellows wait on me tonight
 scant not my cups and make as much of me
 as when mine empire was your fellow too
 and suffer'd my command
cleopatra aside to domitius enobarbus what does he mean
domitius enobarbus aside to cleopatra to make his followers weep
mark antony tend me tonight
 may be it is the period of your duty
 haply you shall not see me more or if
 a mangled shadow perchance tomorrow
 you'll serve another master i look on you
 as one that takes his leave mine honest friends
 i turn you not away but like a master
 married to your good service stay till death
 tend me tonight two hours i ask no more
 and the gods yield you for't
domitius enobarbus what mean you sir
 to give them this discomfort look they weep
 and i an ass am onioneyed for shame
 transform us not to women
mark antony ho ho ho
 now the witch take me if i meant it thus
 grace grow where those drops fall
 my hearty friends
 you take me in too dolorous a sense
 for i spake to you for your comfort did desire you
 to burn this night with torches know my hearts
 i hope well of tomorrow and will lead you
 where rather i'll expect victorious life
 than death and honour let's to supper come
 and drown consideration
 exeunt
 antony and cleopatra
act iv
scene iii the same before the palace
 enter two soldiers to their guard
first soldier brother good night tomorrow is the day
second soldier it will determine one way fare you well
 heard you of nothing strange about the streets
first soldier nothing what news
second soldier belike tis but a rumour good night to you
first soldier well sir good night
 enter two other soldiers
second soldier soldiers have careful watch
third soldier and you good night good night
 they place themselves in every corner of the stage
fourth soldier here we and if tomorrow
 our navy thrive i have an absolute hope
 our landmen will stand up
third soldier tis a brave army
 and full of purpose
 music of the hautboys as under the stage
fourth soldier peace what noise
first soldier list list
second soldier hark
first soldier music i the air
third soldier under the earth
fourth soldier it signs well does it not
third soldier no
first soldier peace i say
 what should this mean
second soldier tis the god hercules whom antony loved
 now leaves him
first soldier walk let's see if other watchmen
 do hear what we do
 they advance to another post
second soldier how now masters
all speaking together how now
 how now do you hear this
first soldier ay is't not strange
third soldier do you hear masters do you hear
first soldier follow the noise so far as we have quarter
 let's see how it will give off
all content tis strange
 exeunt
 antony and cleopatra
act iv
scene iv the same a room in the palace
 enter mark antony and cleopatra charmian and
 others attending
mark antony eros mine armour eros
cleopatra sleep a little
mark antony no my chuck eros come mine armour eros
 enter eros with armour
 come good fellow put mine iron on
 if fortune be not ours today it is
 because we brave her come
cleopatra nay i'll help too
 what's this for
mark antony ah let be let be thou art
 the armourer of my heart false false this this
cleopatra sooth la i'll help thus it must be
mark antony well well
 we shall thrive now seest thou my good fellow
 go put on thy defences
eros briefly sir
cleopatra is not this buckled well
mark antony rarely rarely
 he that unbuckles this till we do please
 to daff't for our repose shall hear a storm
 thou fumblest eros and my queen's a squire
 more tight at this than thou dispatch o love
 that thou couldst see my wars today and knew'st
 the royal occupation thou shouldst see
 a workman in't
 enter an armed soldier
 good morrow to thee welcome
 thou look'st like him that knows a warlike charge
 to business that we love we rise betime
 and go to't with delight
soldier a thousand sir
 early though't be have on their riveted trim
 and at the port expect you
 shout trumpets flourish
 enter captains and soldiers
captain the morn is fair good morrow general
all good morrow general
mark antony tis well blown lads
 this morning like the spirit of a youth
 that means to be of note begins betimes
 so so come give me that this way well said
 fare thee well dame whate'er becomes of me
 this is a soldier's kiss rebukeable
 kisses her
 and worthy shameful cheque it were to stand
 on more mechanic compliment i'll leave thee
 now like a man of steel you that will fight
 follow me close i'll bring you to't adieu
 exeunt mark antony eros captains and soldiers
charmian please you retire to your chamber
cleopatra lead me
 he goes forth gallantly that he and caesar might
 determine this great war in single fight
 then antonybut nowwell on
 exeunt
 antony and cleopatra
act iv
scene v alexandria mark antony's camp
 trumpets sound enter mark antony and eros a
 soldier meeting them
soldier the gods make this a happy day to antony
mark antony would thou and those thy scars had once prevail'd
 to make me fight at land
soldier hadst thou done so
 the kings that have revolted and the soldier
 that has this morning left thee would have still
 follow'd thy heels
mark antony who's gone this morning
soldier who
 one ever near thee call for enobarbus
 he shall not hear thee or from caesar's camp
 say i am none of thine'
mark antony what say'st thou
soldier sir
 he is with caesar
eros sir his chests and treasure
 he has not with him
mark antony is he gone
soldier most certain
mark antony go eros send his treasure after do it
 detain no jot i charge thee write to him
 i will subscribegentle adieus and greetings
 say that i wish he never find more cause
 to change a master o my fortunes have
 corrupted honest men dispatchenobarbus
 exeunt
 antony and cleopatra
act iv
scene vi alexandria octavius caesar's camp
 flourish enter octavius caesar agrippa with
 domitius enobarbus and others
octavius caesar go forth agrippa and begin the fight
 our will is antony be took alive
 make it so known
agrippa caesar i shall
 exit
octavius caesar the time of universal peace is near
 prove this a prosperous day the threenook'd world
 shall bear the olive freely
 enter a messenger
messenger antony
 is come into the field
octavius caesar go charge agrippa
 plant those that have revolted in the van
 that antony may seem to spend his fury
 upon himself
 exeunt all but domitius enobarbus
domitius enobarbus alexas did revolt and went to jewry on
 affairs of antony there did persuade
 great herod to incline himself to caesar
 and leave his master antony for this pains
 caesar hath hang'd him canidius and the rest
 that fell away have entertainment but
 no honourable trust i have done ill
 of which i do accuse myself so sorely
 that i will joy no more
 enter a soldier of caesar's
soldier enobarbus antony
 hath after thee sent all thy treasure with
 his bounty overplus the messenger
 came on my guard and at thy tent is now
 unloading of his mules
domitius enobarbus i give it you
soldier mock not enobarbus
 i tell you true best you safed the bringer
 out of the host i must attend mine office
 or would have done't myself your emperor
 continues still a jove
 exit
domitius enobarbus i am alone the villain of the earth
 and feel i am so most o antony
 thou mine of bounty how wouldst thou have paid
 my better service when my turpitude
 thou dost so crown with gold this blows my heart
 if swift thought break it not a swifter mean
 shall outstrike thought but thought will do't i feel
 i fight against thee no i will go seek
 some ditch wherein to die the foul'st best fits
 my latter part of life
 exit
 antony and cleopatra
act iv
scene vii field of battle between the camps
 alarum drums and trumpets enter agrippa
 and others
agrippa retire we have engaged ourselves too far
 caesar himself has work and our oppression
 exceeds what we expected
 exeunt
 alarums enter mark antony and scarus wounded
scarus o my brave emperor this is fought indeed
 had we done so at first we had droven them home
 with clouts about their heads
mark antony thou bleed'st apace
scarus i had a wound here that was like a t
 but now tis made an h
mark antony they do retire
scarus we'll beat em into benchholes i have yet
 room for six scotches more
 enter eros
eros they are beaten sir and our advantage serves
 for a fair victory
scarus let us score their backs
 and snatch em up as we take hares behind
 tis sport to maul a runner
mark antony i will reward thee
 once for thy spritely comfort and tenfold
 for thy good valour come thee on
scarus i'll halt after
 exeunt
 antony and cleopatra
act iv
scene viii under the walls of alexandria
 alarum enter mark antony in a march scarus
 with others
mark antony we have beat him to his camp run one before
 and let the queen know of our gests tomorrow
 before the sun shall see s we'll spill the blood
 that has today escaped i thank you all
 for doughtyhanded are you and have fought
 not as you served the cause but as t had been
 each man's like mine you have shown all hectors
 enter the city clip your wives your friends
 tell them your feats whilst they with joyful tears
 wash the congealment from your wounds and kiss
 the honour'd gashes whole
 to scarus
 give me thy hand
 enter cleopatra attended
 to this great fairy i'll commend thy acts
 make her thanks bless thee
 to cleopatra
 o thou day o the world
 chain mine arm'd neck leap thou attire and all
 through proof of harness to my heart and there
 ride on the pants triumphing
cleopatra lord of lords
 o infinite virtue comest thou smiling from
 the world's great snare uncaught
mark antony my nightingale
 we have beat them to their beds what girl
 though grey
 do something mingle with our younger brown yet ha we
 a brain that nourishes our nerves and can
 get goal for goal of youth behold this man
 commend unto his lips thy favouring hand
 kiss it my warrior he hath fought today
 as if a god in hate of mankind had
 destroy'd in such a shape
cleopatra i'll give thee friend
 an armour all of gold it was a king's
mark antony he has deserved it were it carbuncled
 like holy phoebus car give me thy hand
 through alexandria make a jolly march
 bear our hack'd targets like the men that owe them
 had our great palace the capacity
 to camp this host we all would sup together
 and drink carouses to the next day's fate
 which promises royal peril trumpeters
 with brazen din blast you the city's ear
 make mingle with rattling tabourines
 that heaven and earth may strike their sounds together
 applauding our approach
 exeunt
 antony and cleopatra
act iv
scene ix octavius caesar's camp
 sentinels at their post
first soldier if we be not relieved within this hour
 we must return to the court of guard the night
 is shiny and they say we shall embattle
 by the second hour i the morn
second soldier this last day was
 a shrewd one to's
 enter domitius enobarbus
domitius enobarbus o bear me witness night
third soldier what man is this
second soldier stand close and list him
domitius enobarbus be witness to me o thou blessed moon
 when men revolted shall upon record
 bear hateful memory poor enobarbus did
 before thy face repent
first soldier enobarbus
third soldier peace
 hark further
domitius enobarbus o sovereign mistress of true melancholy
 the poisonous damp of night disponge upon me
 that life a very rebel to my will
 may hang no longer on me throw my heart
 against the flint and hardness of my fault
 which being dried with grief will break to powder
 and finish all foul thoughts o antony
 nobler than my revolt is infamous
 forgive me in thine own particular
 but let the world rank me in register
 a masterleaver and a fugitive
 o antony o antony
 dies
second soldier let's speak to him
first soldier let's hear him for the things he speaks
 may concern caesar
third soldier let's do so but he sleeps
first soldier swoons rather for so bad a prayer as his
 was never yet for sleep
second soldier go we to him
third soldier awake sir awake speak to us
second soldier hear you sir
first soldier the hand of death hath raught him
 drums afar off
 hark the drums
 demurely wake the sleepers let us bear him
 to the court of guard he is of note our hour
 is fully out
third soldier come on then
 he may recover yet
 exeunt with the body
 antony and cleopatra
act iv
scene x between the two camps
 enter mark antony and scarus with their army
mark antony their preparation is today by sea
 we please them not by land
scarus for both my lord
mark antony i would they'ld fight i the fire or i the air
 we'ld fight there too but this it is our foot
 upon the hills adjoining to the city
 shall stay with us order for sea is given
 they have put forth the haven 
 where their appointment we may best discover
 and look on their endeavour
 exeunt
 antony and cleopatra
act iv
scene xi another part of the same
 enter octavius caesar and his army
octavius caesar but being charged we will be still by land
 which as i take't we shall for his best force
 is forth to man his galleys to the vales
 and hold our best advantage
 exeunt
 antony and cleopatra
act iv
scene xii another part of the same
 enter mark antony and scarus
mark antony yet they are not join'd where yond pine
 does stand
 i shall discover all i'll bring thee word
 straight how tis like to go
 exit
scarus swallows have built
 in cleopatra's sails their nests the augurers
 say they know not they cannot tell look grimly
 and dare not speak their knowledge antony
 is valiant and dejected and by starts
 his fretted fortunes give him hope and fear
 of what he has and has not
 alarum afar off as at a seafight
 reenter mark antony
mark antony all is lost
 this foul egyptian hath betrayed me
 my fleet hath yielded to the foe and yonder
 they cast their caps up and carouse together
 like friends long lost tripleturn'd whore
 tis thou
 hast sold me to this novice and my heart
 makes only wars on thee bid them all fly
 for when i am revenged upon my charm
 i have done all bid them all fly begone
 exit scarus
 o sun thy uprise shall i see no more
 fortune and antony part here even here
 do we shake hands all come to this the hearts
 that spaniel'd me at heels to whom i gave
 their wishes do discandy melt their sweets
 on blossoming caesar and this pine is bark'd
 that overtopp'd them all betray'd i am
 o this false soul of egypt this grave charm
 whose eye beck'd forth my wars and call'd them home
 whose bosom was my crownet my chief end
 like a right gipsy hath at fast and loose
 beguiled me to the very heart of loss
 what eros eros
 enter cleopatra
 ah thou spell avaunt
cleopatra why is my lord enraged against his love
mark antony vanish or i shall give thee thy deserving
 and blemish caesar's triumph let him take thee
 and hoist thee up to the shouting plebeians
 follow his chariot like the greatest spot
 of all thy sex most monsterlike be shown
 for poor'st diminutives for doits and let
 patient octavia plough thy visage up
 with her prepared nails
 exit cleopatra
 tis well thou'rt gone
 if it be well to live but better twere
 thou fell'st into my fury for one death
 might have prevented many eros ho
 the shirt of nessus is upon me teach me
 alcides thou mine ancestor thy rage
 let me lodge lichas on the horns o the moon
 and with those hands that grasp'd the heaviest club
 subdue my worthiest self the witch shall die
 to the young roman boy she hath sold me and i fall
 under this plot she dies for't eros ho
 exit
 antony and cleopatra
act iv
scene xiii alexandria cleopatra's palace
 enter cleopatra charmian iras and mardian
cleopatra help me my women o he is more mad
 than telamon for his shield the boar of thessaly
 was never so emboss'd
charmian to the monument
 there lock yourself and send him word you are dead
 the soul and body rive not more in parting
 than greatness going off
cleopatra to the monument
 mardian go tell him i have slain myself
 say that the last i spoke was antony'
 and word it prithee piteously hence mardian
 and bring me how he takes my death
 to the monument
 exeunt
 antony and cleopatra
act iv
scene xiv the same another room
 enter mark antony and eros
mark antony eros thou yet behold'st me
eros ay noble lord
mark antony sometimes we see a cloud that's dragonish
 a vapour sometime like a bear or lion
 a tower'd citadel a pendent rock
 a forked mountain or blue promontory
 with trees upon't that nod unto the world
 and mock our eyes with air thou hast seen
 these signs
 they are black vesper's pageants
eros ay my lord
mark antony that which is now a horse even with a thought
 the rack dislimns and makes it indistinct
 as water is in water
eros it does my lord
mark antony my good knave eros now thy captain is
 even such a body here i am antony
 yet cannot hold this visible shape my knave
 i made these wars for egypt and the queen
 whose heart i thought i had for she had mine
 which whilst it was mine had annex'd unto't
 a million more now lostshe eros has
 pack'd cards with caesar and falseplay'd my glory
 unto an enemy's triumph
 nay weep not gentle eros there is left us
 ourselves to end ourselves
 enter mardian
 o thy vile lady
 she has robb'd me of my sword
mardian no antony
 my mistress loved thee and her fortunes mingled
 with thine entirely
mark antony hence saucy eunuch peace
 she hath betray'd me and shall die the death
mardian death of one person can be paid but once
 and that she has discharged what thou wouldst do
 is done unto thy hand the last she spake
 was antony most noble antony'
 then in the midst a tearing groan did break
 the name of antony it was divided
 between her heart and lips she render'd life
 thy name so buried in her
mark antony dead then
mardian dead
mark antony unarm eros the long day's task is done
 and we must sleep
 to mardian
 that thou depart'st hence safe
 does pay thy labour richly go
 exit mardian
 off pluck off
 the sevenfold shield of ajax cannot keep
 the battery from my heart o cleave my sides
 heart once be stronger than thy continent
 crack thy frail case apace eros apace
 no more a soldier bruised pieces go
 you have been nobly borne from me awhile
 exit eros
 i will o'ertake thee cleopatra and
 weep for my pardon so it must be for now
 all length is torture since the torch is out
 lie down and stray no farther now all labour
 mars what it does yea very force entangles
 itself with strength seal then and all is done
 erosi come my queenerosstay for me
 where souls do couch on flowers we'll hand in hand
 and with our sprightly port make the ghosts gaze
 dido and her aeneas shall want troops
 and all the haunt be ours come eros eros
 reenter eros
eros what would my lord
mark antony since cleopatra died
 i have lived in such dishonour that the gods
 detest my baseness i that with my sword
 quarter'd the world and o'er green neptune's back
 with ships made cities condemn myself to lack
 the courage of a woman less noble mind
 than she which by her death our caesar tells
 i am conqueror of myself thou art sworn eros
 that when the exigent should come which now
 is come indeed when i should see behind me
 the inevitable prosecution of
 disgrace and horror that on my command
 thou then wouldst kill me do't the time is come
 thou strikest not me tis caesar thou defeat'st
 put colour in thy cheek
eros the gods withhold me
 shall i do that which all the parthian darts
 though enemy lost aim and could not
mark antony eros
 wouldst thou be window'd in great rome and see
 thy master thus with pleach'd arms bending down
 his corrigible neck his face subdued
 to penetrative shame whilst the wheel'd seat
 of fortunate caesar drawn before him branded
 his baseness that ensued
eros i would not see't
mark antony come then for with a wound i must be cured
 draw that thy honest sword which thou hast worn
 most useful for thy country
eros o sir pardon me
mark antony when i did make thee free sworest thou not then
 to do this when i bade thee do it at once
 or thy precedent services are all
 but accidents unpurposed draw and come
eros turn from me then that noble countenance
 wherein the worship of the whole world lies
mark antony lo thee
 turning from him
eros my sword is drawn
mark antony then let it do at once
 the thing why thou hast drawn it
eros my dear master
 my captain and my emperor let me say
 before i strike this bloody stroke farewell
mark antony tis said man and farewell
eros farewell great chief shall i strike now
mark antony now eros
eros why there then thus i do escape the sorrow
 of antony's death
 kills himself
mark antony thricenobler than myself
 thou teachest me o valiant eros what
 i should and thou couldst not my queen and eros
 have by their brave instruction got upon me
 a nobleness in record but i will be
 a bridegroom in my death and run into't
 as to a lover's bed come then and eros
 thy master dies thy scholar to do thus
 falling on his sword
 i learn'd of thee how not dead not dead
 the guard ho o dispatch me
 enter dercetas and guard
first guard what's the noise
mark antony i have done my work in friends o make an end
 of what i have begun
second guard the star is fall'n
first guard and time is at his period
all alas and woe
mark antony let him that loves me strike me dead
first guard not i
second guard nor i
third guard nor any one
 exeunt guard
dercetas thy death and fortunes bid thy followers fly
 this sword but shown to caesar with this tidings
 shall enter me with him
 enter diomedes
diomedes where's antony
dercetas there diomed there
diomedes lives he
 wilt thou not answer man
 exit dercetas
mark antony art thou there diomed draw thy sword and give me
 sufficing strokes for death
diomedes most absolute lord
 my mistress cleopatra sent me to thee
mark antony when did she send thee
diomedes now my lord
mark antony where is she
diomedes lock'd in her monument she had a prophesying fear
 of what hath come to pass for when she saw
 which never shall be foundyou did suspect
 she had disposed with caesar and that your rage
 would not be purged she sent you word she was dead
 but fearing since how it might work hath sent
 me to proclaim the truth and i am come
 i dread too late
mark antony too late good diomed call my guard i prithee
diomedes what ho the emperor's guard the guard what ho
 come your lord calls
 enter four or five of the guard of mark antony
mark antony bear me good friends where cleopatra bides
 tis the last service that i shall command you
first guard woe woe are we sir you may not live to wear
 all your true followers out
all most heavy day
mark antony nay good my fellows do not please sharp fate
 to grace it with your sorrows bid that welcome
 which comes to punish us and we punish it
 seeming to bear it lightly take me up
 i have led you oft carry me now good friends
 and have my thanks for all
 exeunt bearing mark antony
 antony and cleopatra
act iv
scene xv the same a monument
 enter cleopatra and her maids aloft with
 charmian and iras
cleopatra o charmian i will never go from hence
charmian be comforted dear madam
cleopatra no i will not
 all strange and terrible events are welcome
 but comforts we despise our size of sorrow
 proportion'd to our cause must be as great
 as that which makes it
 enter below diomedes
 how now is he dead
diomedes his death's upon him but not dead
 look out o the other side your monument
 his guard have brought him thither
 enter below mark antony borne by the guard
cleopatra o sun
 burn the great sphere thou movest in
 darkling stand
 the varying shore o the world o antony
 antony antony help charmian help iras help
 help friends below let's draw him hither
mark antony peace
 not caesar's valour hath o'erthrown antony
 but antony's hath triumph'd on itself
cleopatra so it should be that none but antony
 should conquer antony but woe tis so
mark antony i am dying egypt dying only
 i here importune death awhile until
 of many thousand kisses the poor last
 i lay up thy lips
cleopatra i dare not dear
 dear my lord pardoni dare not
 lest i be taken not the imperious show
 of the fullfortuned caesar ever shall
 be brooch'd with me if knife drugs
 serpents have
 edge sting or operation i am safe
 your wife octavia with her modest eyes
 and still conclusion shall acquire no honour
 demuring upon me but come come antony
 help me my womenwe must draw thee up
 assist good friends
mark antony o quick or i am gone
cleopatra here's sport indeed how heavy weighs my lord
 our strength is all gone into heaviness
 that makes the weight had i great juno's power
 the strongwing'd mercury should fetch thee up
 and set thee by jove's side yet come a little
 wishes were ever foolso come come come
 they heave mark antony aloft to cleopatra
 and welcome welcome die where thou hast lived
 quicken with kissing had my lips that power
 thus would i wear them out
all a heavy sight
mark antony i am dying egypt dying
 give me some wine and let me speak a little
cleopatra no let me speak and let me rail so high
 that the false housewife fortune break her wheel
 provoked by my offence
mark antony one word sweet queen
 of caesar seek your honour with your safety o
cleopatra they do not go together
mark antony gentle hear me
 none about caesar trust but proculeius
cleopatra my resolution and my hands i'll trust
 none about caesar
mark antony the miserable change now at my end
 lament nor sorrow at but please your thoughts
 in feeding them with those my former fortunes
 wherein i lived the greatest prince o the world
 the noblest and do now not basely die
 not cowardly put off my helmet to
 my countrymana roman by a roman
 valiantly vanquish'd now my spirit is going
 i can no more
cleopatra noblest of men woo't die
 hast thou no care of me shall i abide
 in this dull world which in thy absence is
 no better than a sty o see my women
 mark antony dies
 the crown o the earth doth melt my lord
 o wither'd is the garland of the war
 the soldier's pole is fall'n young boys and girls
 are level now with men the odds is gone
 and there is nothing left remarkable
 beneath the visiting moon
 faints
charmian o quietness lady
iras she is dead too our sovereign
charmian lady
iras madam
charmian o madam madam madam
iras royal egypt empress
charmian peace peace iras
cleopatra no more but e'en a woman and commanded
 by such poor passion as the maid that milks
 and does the meanest chares it were for me
 to throw my sceptre at the injurious gods
 to tell them that this world did equal theirs
 till they had stol'n our jewel all's but naught
 patience is scottish and impatience does
 become a dog that's mad then is it sin
 to rush into the secret house of death
 ere death dare come to us how do you women
 what what good cheer why how now charmian
 my noble girls ah women women look
 our lamp is spent it's out good sirs take heart
 we'll bury him and then what's brave
 what's noble
 let's do it after the high roman fashion
 and make death proud to take us come away
 this case of that huge spirit now is cold
 ah women women come we have no friend
 but resolution and the briefest end
 exeunt those above bearing off mark antony's body
 antony and cleopatra
act v
scene i alexandria octavius caesar's camp
 enter octavius caesar agrippa dolabella mecaenas
 gallus proculeius and others his council of war
octavius caesar go to him dolabella bid him yield
 being so frustrate tell him he mocks
 the pauses that he makes
dolabella caesar i shall
 exit
 enter dercetas with the sword of mark antony
octavius caesar wherefore is that and what art thou that darest
 appear thus to us
dercetas i am call'd dercetas
 mark antony i served who best was worthy
 best to be served whilst he stood up and spoke
 he was my master and i wore my life
 to spend upon his haters if thou please
 to take me to thee as i was to him
 i'll be to caesar if thou pleasest not
 i yield thee up my life
octavius caesar what is't thou say'st
dercetas i say o caesar antony is dead
octavius caesar the breaking of so great a thing should make
 a greater crack the round world
 should have shook lions into civil streets
 and citizens to their dens the death of antony
 is not a single doom in the name lay
 a moiety of the world
dercetas he is dead caesar
 not by a public minister of justice
 nor by a hired knife but that self hand
 which writ his honour in the acts it did
 hath with the courage which the heart did lend it
 splitted the heart this is his sword
 i robb'd his wound of it behold it stain'd
 with his most noble blood
octavius caesar look you sad friends
 the gods rebuke me but it is tidings
 to wash the eyes of kings
agrippa and strange it is
 that nature must compel us to lament
 our most persisted deeds
mecaenas his taints and honours
 waged equal with him
agrippa a rarer spirit never
 did steer humanity but you gods will give us
 some faults to make us men caesar is touch'd
mecaenas when such a spacious mirror's set before him
 he needs must see himself
octavius caesar o antony
 i have follow'd thee to this but we do lance
 diseases in our bodies i must perforce
 have shown to thee such a declining day
 or look on thine we could not stall together
 in the whole world but yet let me lament
 with tears as sovereign as the blood of hearts
 that thou my brother my competitor
 in top of all design my mate in empire
 friend and companion in the front of war
 the arm of mine own body and the heart
 where mine his thoughts did kindlethat our stars
 unreconciliable should divide
 our equalness to this hear me good friends
 but i will tell you at some meeter season
 enter an egyptian
 the business of this man looks out of him
 we'll hear him what he says whence are you
egyptian a poor egyptian yet the queen my mistress
 confined in all she has her monument
 of thy intents desires instruction
 that she preparedly may frame herself
 to the way she's forced to
octavius caesar bid her have good heart
 she soon shall know of us by some of ours
 how honourable and how kindly we
 determine for her for caesar cannot live
 to be ungentle
egyptian so the gods preserve thee
 exit
octavius caesar come hither proculeius go and say
 we purpose her no shame give her what comforts
 the quality of her passion shall require
 lest in her greatness by some mortal stroke
 she do defeat us for her life in rome
 would be eternal in our triumph go
 and with your speediest bring us what she says
 and how you find of her
proculeius caesar i shall
 exit
octavius caesar gallus go you along
 exit gallus
 where's dolabella
 to second proculeius
all dolabella
octavius caesar let him alone for i remember now
 how he's employ'd he shall in time be ready
 go with me to my tent where you shall see
 how hardly i was drawn into this war
 how calm and gentle i proceeded still
 in all my writings go with me and see
 what i can show in this
 exeunt
 antony and cleopatra
act v
scene ii alexandria a room in the monument
 enter cleopatra charmian and iras
cleopatra my desolation does begin to make
 a better life tis paltry to be caesar
 not being fortune he's but fortune's knave
 a minister of her will and it is great
 to do that thing that ends all other deeds
 which shackles accidents and bolts up change
 which sleeps and never palates more the dug
 the beggar's nurse and caesar's
 enter to the gates of the monument proculeius
 gallus and soldiers
proculeius caesar sends greeting to the queen of egypt
 and bids thee study on what fair demands
 thou mean'st to have him grant thee
cleopatra what's thy name
proculeius my name is proculeius
cleopatra antony
 did tell me of you bade me trust you but
 i do not greatly care to be deceived
 that have no use for trusting if your master
 would have a queen his beggar you must tell him
 that majesty to keep decorum must
 no less beg than a kingdom if he please
 to give me conquer'd egypt for my son
 he gives me so much of mine own as i
 will kneel to him with thanks
proculeius be of good cheer
 you're fall'n into a princely hand fear nothing
 make your full reference freely to my lord
 who is so full of grace that it flows over
 on all that need let me report to him
 your sweet dependency and you shall find
 a conqueror that will pray in aid for kindness
 where he for grace is kneel'd to
cleopatra pray you tell him
 i am his fortune's vassal and i send him
 the greatness he has got i hourly learn
 a doctrine of obedience and would gladly
 look him i the face
proculeius this i'll report dear lady
 have comfort for i know your plight is pitied
 of him that caused it
gallus you see how easily she may be surprised
 here proculeius and two of the guard ascend the
 monument by a ladder placed against a window and
 having descended come behind cleopatra some of
 the guard unbar and open the gates
 to proculeius and the guard
 guard her till caesar come
 exit
iras royal queen
charmian o cleopatra thou art taken queen
cleopatra quick quick good hands
 drawing a dagger
proculeius hold worthy lady hold
 seizes and disarms her
 do not yourself such wrong who are in this
 relieved but not betray'd
cleopatra what of death too
 that rids our dogs of languish
proculeius cleopatra
 do not abuse my master's bounty by
 the undoing of yourself let the world see
 his nobleness well acted which your death
 will never let come forth
cleopatra where art thou death
 come hither come come come and take a queen
 worthy many babes and beggars
proculeius o temperance lady
cleopatra sir i will eat no meat i'll not drink sir
 if idle talk will once be necessary
 i'll not sleep neither this mortal house i'll ruin
 do caesar what he can know sir that i
 will not wait pinion'd at your master's court
 nor once be chastised with the sober eye
 of dull octavia shall they hoist me up
 and show me to the shouting varletry
 of censuring rome rather a ditch in egypt
 be gentle grave unto me rather on nilus mud
 lay me stark naked and let the waterflies
 blow me into abhorring rather make
 my country's high pyramides my gibbet
 and hang me up in chains
proculeius you do extend
 these thoughts of horror further than you shall
 find cause in caesar
 enter dolabella
dolabella proculeius
 what thou hast done thy master caesar knows
 and he hath sent for thee for the queen
 i'll take her to my guard
proculeius so dolabella
 it shall content me best be gentle to her
 to cleopatra
 to caesar i will speak what you shall please
 if you'll employ me to him
cleopatra say i would die
 exeunt proculeius and soldiers
dolabella most noble empress you have heard of me
cleopatra i cannot tell
dolabella assuredly you know me
cleopatra no matter sir what i have heard or known
 you laugh when boys or women tell their dreams
 is't not your trick
dolabella i understand not madam
cleopatra i dream'd there was an emperor antony
 o such another sleep that i might see
 but such another man
dolabella if it might please ye
cleopatra his face was as the heavens and therein stuck
 a sun and moon which kept their course
 and lighted
 the little o the earth
dolabella most sovereign creature
cleopatra his legs bestrid the ocean his rear'd arm
 crested the world his voice was propertied
 as all the tuned spheres and that to friends
 but when he meant to quail and shake the orb
 he was as rattling thunder for his bounty
 there was no winter in't an autumn twas
 that grew the more by reaping his delights
 were dolphinlike they show'd his back above
 the element they lived in in his livery
 walk'd crowns and crownets realms and islands were
 as plates dropp'd from his pocket
dolabella cleopatra
cleopatra think you there was or might be such a man
 as this i dream'd of
dolabella gentle madam no
cleopatra you lie up to the hearing of the gods
 but if there be or ever were one such
 it's past the size of dreaming nature wants stuff
 to vie strange forms with fancy yet to imagine
 and antony were nature's piece gainst fancy
 condemning shadows quite
dolabella hear me good madam
 your loss is as yourself great and you bear it
 as answering to the weight would i might never
 o'ertake pursued success but i do feel
 by the rebound of yours a grief that smites
 my very heart at root
cleopatra i thank you sir
 know you what caesar means to do with me
dolabella i am loath to tell you what i would you knew
cleopatra nay pray you sir
dolabella though he be honourable
cleopatra he'll lead me then in triumph
dolabella madam he will i know't
 flourish and shout within make way there
 octavius caesar'
 enter octavius caesar gallus proculeius
 mecaenas seleucus and others of his train
octavius caesar which is the queen of egypt
dolabella it is the emperor madam
 cleopatra kneels
octavius caesar arise you shall not kneel
 i pray you rise rise egypt
cleopatra sir the gods
 will have it thus my master and my lord
 i must obey
octavius caesar take to you no hard thoughts
 the record of what injuries you did us
 though written in our flesh we shall remember
 as things but done by chance
cleopatra sole sir o the world
 i cannot project mine own cause so well
 to make it clear but do confess i have
 been laden with like frailties which before
 have often shamed our sex
octavius caesar cleopatra know
 we will extenuate rather than enforce
 if you apply yourself to our intents
 which towards you are most gentle you shall find
 a benefit in this change but if you seek
 to lay on me a cruelty by taking
 antony's course you shall bereave yourself
 of my good purposes and put your children
 to that destruction which i'll guard them from
 if thereon you rely i'll take my leave
cleopatra and may through all the world tis yours and we
 your scutcheons and your signs of conquest shall
 hang in what place you please here my good lord
octavius caesar you shall advise me in all for cleopatra
cleopatra this is the brief of money plate and jewels
 i am possess'd of tis exactly valued
 not petty things admitted where's seleucus
seleucus here madam
cleopatra this is my treasurer let him speak my lord
 upon his peril that i have reserved
 to myself nothing speak the truth seleucus
seleucus madam
 i had rather seal my lips than to my peril
 speak that which is not
cleopatra what have i kept back
seleucus enough to purchase what you have made known
octavius caesar nay blush not cleopatra i approve
 your wisdom in the deed
cleopatra see caesar o behold
 how pomp is follow'd mine will now be yours
 and should we shift estates yours would be mine
 the ingratitude of this seleucus does
 even make me wild o slave of no more trust
 than love that's hired what goest thou back thou shalt
 go back i warrant thee but i'll catch thine eyes
 though they had wings slave soulless villain dog
 o rarely base
octavius caesar good queen let us entreat you
cleopatra o caesar what a wounding shame is this
 that thou vouchsafing here to visit me
 doing the honour of thy lordliness
 to one so meek that mine own servant should
 parcel the sum of my disgraces by
 addition of his envy say good caesar
 that i some lady trifles have reserved
 immoment toys things of such dignity
 as we greet modern friends withal and say
 some nobler token i have kept apart
 for livia and octavia to induce
 their mediation must i be unfolded
 with one that i have bred the gods it smites me
 beneath the fall i have
 to seleucus
 prithee go hence
 or i shall show the cinders of my spirits
 through the ashes of my chance wert thou a man
 thou wouldst have mercy on me
octavius caesar forbear seleucus
 exit seleucus
cleopatra be it known that we the greatest are misthought
 for things that others do and when we fall
 we answer others merits in our name
 are therefore to be pitied
octavius caesar cleopatra
 not what you have reserved nor what acknowledged
 put we i the roll of conquest still be't yours
 bestow it at your pleasure and believe
 caesar's no merchant to make prize with you
 of things that merchants sold therefore be cheer'd
 make not your thoughts your prisons no dear queen
 for we intend so to dispose you as
 yourself shall give us counsel feed and sleep
 our care and pity is so much upon you
 that we remain your friend and so adieu
cleopatra my master and my lord
octavius caesar not so adieu
 flourish exeunt octavius caesar and his train
cleopatra he words me girls he words me that i should not
 be noble to myself but hark thee charmian
 whispers charmian
iras finish good lady the bright day is done
 and we are for the dark
cleopatra hie thee again
 i have spoke already and it is provided
 go put it to the haste
charmian madam i will
 reenter dolabella
dolabella where is the queen
charmian behold sir
 exit
cleopatra dolabella
dolabella madam as thereto sworn by your command
 which my love makes religion to obey
 i tell you this caesar through syria
 intends his journey and within three days
 you with your children will he send before
 make your best use of this i have perform'd
 your pleasure and my promise
cleopatra dolabella
 i shall remain your debtor
dolabella i your servant
 adieu good queen i must attend on caesar
cleopatra farewell and thanks
 exit dolabella
 now iras what think'st thou
 thou an egyptian puppet shalt be shown
 in rome as well as i mechanic slaves
 with greasy aprons rules and hammers shall
 uplift us to the view in their thick breaths
 rank of gross diet shall be enclouded
 and forced to drink their vapour
iras the gods forbid
cleopatra nay tis most certain iras saucy lictors
 will catch at us like strumpets and scald rhymers
 ballad us out o tune the quick comedians
 extemporally will stage us and present
 our alexandrian revels antony
 shall be brought drunken forth and i shall see
 some squeaking cleopatra boy my greatness
 i the posture of a whore
iras o the good gods
cleopatra nay that's certain
iras i'll never see t for i am sure my nails
 are stronger than mine eyes
cleopatra why that's the way
 to fool their preparation and to conquer
 their most absurd intents
 reenter charmian
 now charmian
 show me my women like a queen go fetch
 my best attires i am again for cydnus
 to meet mark antony sirrah iras go
 now noble charmian we'll dispatch indeed
 and when thou hast done this chare i'll give thee leave
 to play till doomsday bring our crown and all
 wherefore's this noise
 exit iras a noise within
 enter a guardsman
guard here is a rural fellow
 that will not be denied your highness presence
 he brings you figs
cleopatra let him come in
 exit guardsman
 what poor an instrument
 may do a noble deed he brings me liberty
 my resolution's placed and i have nothing
 of woman in me now from head to foot
 i am marbleconstant now the fleeting moon
 no planet is of mine
 reenter guardsman with clown bringing in a basket
guard this is the man
cleopatra avoid and leave him
 exit guardsman
 hast thou the pretty worm of nilus there
 that kills and pains not
clown truly i have him but i would not be the party
 that should desire you to touch him for his biting
 is immortal those that do die of it do seldom or
 never recover
cleopatra rememberest thou any that have died on't
clown very many men and women too i heard of one of
 them no longer than yesterday a very honest woman
 but something given to lie as a woman should not
 do but in the way of honesty how she died of the
 biting of it what pain she felt truly she makes
 a very good report o the worm but he that will
 believe all that they say shall never be saved by
 half that they do but this is most fallible the
 worm's an odd worm
cleopatra get thee hence farewell
clown i wish you all joy of the worm
 setting down his basket
cleopatra farewell
clown you must think this look you that the worm will
 do his kind
cleopatra ay ay farewell
clown look you the worm is not to be trusted but in the
 keeping of wise people for indeed there is no
 goodness in worm
cleopatra take thou no care it shall be heeded
clown very good give it nothing i pray you for it is
 not worth the feeding
cleopatra will it eat me
clown you must not think i am so simple but i know the
 devil himself will not eat a woman i know that a
 woman is a dish for the gods if the devil dress her
 not but truly these same whoreson devils do the
 gods great harm in their women for in every ten
 that they make the devils mar five
cleopatra well get thee gone farewell
clown yes forsooth i wish you joy o the worm
 exit
 reenter iras with a robe crown &c
cleopatra give me my robe put on my crown i have
 immortal longings in me now no more
 the juice of egypt's grape shall moist this lip
 yare yare good iras quick methinks i hear
 antony call i see him rouse himself
 to praise my noble act i hear him mock
 the luck of caesar which the gods give men
 to excuse their after wrath husband i come
 now to that name my courage prove my title
 i am fire and air my other elements
 i give to baser life so have you done
 come then and take the last warmth of my lips
 farewell kind charmian iras long farewell
 kisses them iras falls and dies
 have i the aspic in my lips dost fall
 if thou and nature can so gently part
 the stroke of death is as a lover's pinch
 which hurts and is desired dost thou lie still
 if thus thou vanishest thou tell'st the world
 it is not worth leavetaking
charmian dissolve thick cloud and rain that i may say
 the gods themselves do weep
cleopatra this proves me base
 if she first meet the curled antony
 he'll make demand of her and spend that kiss
 which is my heaven to have come thou
 mortal wretch
 to an asp which she applies to her breast
 with thy sharp teeth this knot intrinsicate
 of life at once untie poor venomous fool
 be angry and dispatch o couldst thou speak
 that i might hear thee call great caesar ass
 unpolicied
charmian o eastern star
cleopatra peace peace
 dost thou not see my baby at my breast
 that sucks the nurse asleep
charmian o break o break
cleopatra as sweet as balm as soft as air as gentle
 o antonynay i will take thee too
 applying another asp to her arm
 what should i stay
 dies
charmian in this vile world so fare thee well
 now boast thee death in thy possession lies
 a lass unparallel'd downy windows close
 and golden phoebus never be beheld
 of eyes again so royal your crown's awry
 i'll mend it and then play
 enter the guard rushing in
first guard where is the queen
charmian speak softly wake her not
first guard caesar hath sent
charmian too slow a messenger
 applies an asp
 o come apace dispatch i partly feel thee
first guard approach ho all's not well caesar's beguiled
second guard there's dolabella sent from caesar call him
first guard what work is here charmian is this well done
charmian it is well done and fitting for a princess
 descended of so many royal kings
 ah soldier
 dies
 reenter dolabella
dolabella how goes it here
second guard all dead
dolabella caesar thy thoughts
 touch their effects in this thyself art coming
 to see perform'd the dreaded act which thou
 so sought'st to hinder
 within a way there a way for caesar'
 reenter octavius caesar and all his train marching
dolabella o sir you are too sure an augurer
 that you did fear is done
octavius caesar bravest at the last
 she levell'd at our purposes and being royal
 took her own way the manner of their deaths
 i do not see them bleed
dolabella who was last with them
first guard a simple countryman that brought her figs
 this was his basket
octavius caesar poison'd then
first guard o caesar
 this charmian lived but now she stood and spake
 i found her trimming up the diadem
 on her dead mistress tremblingly she stood
 and on the sudden dropp'd
octavius caesar o noble weakness
 if they had swallow'd poison twould appear
 by external swelling but she looks like sleep
 as she would catch another antony
 in her strong toil of grace
dolabella here on her breast
 there is a vent of blood and something blown
 the like is on her arm
first guard this is an aspic's trail and these figleaves
 have slime upon them such as the aspic leaves
 upon the caves of nile
octavius caesar most probable
 that so she died for her physician tells me
 she hath pursued conclusions infinite
 of easy ways to die take up her bed
 and bear her women from the monument
 she shall be buried by her antony
 no grave upon the earth shall clip in it
 a pair so famous high events as these
 strike those that make them and their story is
 no less in pity than his glory which
 brought them to be lamented our army shall
 in solemn show attend this funeral
 and then to rome come dolabella see
 high order in this great solemnity
 exeunt
 coriolanus
 dramatis personae
caius marcius marcus afterwards caius marcius coriolanus
 coriolanus
titus lartius lartius 
 generals against the volscians
cominius 
menenius agrippa friend to coriolanus menenius
sicinius velutus sicinius 
 tribunes of the people
junius brutus brutus 
young marcus son to coriolanus
 a roman herald herald
tullus aufidius general of the volscians aufidius
 lieutenant to aufidius lieutenant
 conspirators with aufidius
 first conspirator
 second conspirator
 third conspirator
 a citizen of antium
 two volscian guards
volumnia mother to coriolanus
virgilia wife to coriolanus
valeria friend to virgilia
 gentlewoman attending on virgilia gentlewoman
 roman and volscian senators patricians
 aediles lictors soldiers citizens messengers
 servants to aufidius and other attendants
 first senator
 second senator
 a patrician
 second patrician
 aedile
 first soldier
 second soldier
 first citizen
 second citizen
 third citizen
 fourth citizen
 fifth citizen
 sixth citizen
 seventh citizen
 messenger
 second messenger
 first serviceman
 second serviceman
 third serviceman
 officer
 first officer
 second officer
 roman
 first roman
 second roman
 third roman
 volsce
 first lord
 second lord
 third lord
scene rome and the neighbourhood corioli
 and the neighbourhood antium
 coriolanus
act i
scene i rome a street
 enter a company of mutinous citizens with staves
 clubs and other weapons
first citizen before we proceed any further hear me speak
all speak speak
first citizen you are all resolved rather to die than to famish
all resolved resolved
first citizen first you know caius marcius is chief enemy to the people
all we know't we know't
first citizen let us kill him and we'll have corn at our own price
 is't a verdict
all no more talking on't let it be done away away
second citizen one word good citizens
first citizen we are accounted poor citizens the patricians good
 what authority surfeits on would relieve us if they
 would yield us but the superfluity while it were
 wholesome we might guess they relieved us humanely
 but they think we are too dear the leanness that
 afflicts us the object of our misery is as an
 inventory to particularise their abundance our
 sufferance is a gain to them let us revenge this with
 our pikes ere we become rakes for the gods know i
 speak this in hunger for bread not in thirst for revenge
second citizen would you proceed especially against caius marcius
all against him first he's a very dog to the commonalty
second citizen consider you what services he has done for his country
first citizen very well and could be content to give him good
 report fort but that he pays himself with being proud
second citizen nay but speak not maliciously
first citizen i say unto you what he hath done famously he did
 it to that end though softconscienced men can be
 content to say it was for his country he did it to
 please his mother and to be partly proud which he
 is even till the altitude of his virtue
second citizen what he cannot help in his nature you account a
 vice in him you must in no way say he is covetous
first citizen if i must not i need not be barren of accusations
 he hath faults with surplus to tire in repetition
 shouts within
 what shouts are these the other side o the city
 is risen why stay we prating here to the capitol
all come come
first citizen soft who comes here
 enter menenius agrippa
second citizen worthy menenius agrippa one that hath always loved
 the people
first citizen he's one honest enough would all the rest were so
menenius what work's my countrymen in hand where go you
 with bats and clubs the matter speak i pray you
first citizen our business is not unknown to the senate they have
 had inkling this fortnight what we intend to do
 which now we'll show em in deeds they say poor
 suitors have strong breaths they shall know we
 have strong arms too
menenius why masters my good friends mine honest neighbours
 will you undo yourselves
first citizen we cannot sir we are undone already
menenius i tell you friends most charitable care
 have the patricians of you for your wants
 your suffering in this dearth you may as well
 strike at the heaven with your staves as lift them
 against the roman state whose course will on
 the way it takes cracking ten thousand curbs
 of more strong link asunder than can ever
 appear in your impediment for the dearth
 the gods not the patricians make it and
 your knees to them not arms must help alack
 you are transported by calamity
 thither where more attends you and you slander
 the helms o the state who care for you like fathers
 when you curse them as enemies
first citizen care for us true indeed they ne'er cared for us
 yet suffer us to famish and their storehouses
 crammed with grain make edicts for usury to
 support usurers repeal daily any wholesome act
 established against the rich and provide more
 piercing statutes daily to chain up and restrain
 the poor if the wars eat us not up they will and
 there's all the love they bear us
menenius either you must
 confess yourselves wondrous malicious
 or be accused of folly i shall tell you
 a pretty tale it may be you have heard it
 but since it serves my purpose i will venture
 to stale t a little more
first citizen well i'll hear it sir yet you must not think to
 fob off our disgrace with a tale but an t please
 you deliver
menenius there was a time when all the body's members
 rebell'd against the belly thus accused it
 that only like a gulf it did remain
 i the midst o the body idle and unactive
 still cupboarding the viand never bearing
 like labour with the rest where the other instruments
 did see and hear devise instruct walk feel
 and mutually participate did minister
 unto the appetite and affection common
 of the whole body the belly answer'd
first citizen well sir what answer made the belly
menenius sir i shall tell you with a kind of smile
 which ne'er came from the lungs but even thus
 for look you i may make the belly smile
 as well as speakit tauntingly replied
 to the discontented members the mutinous parts
 that envied his receipt even so most fitly
 as you malign our senators for that
 they are not such as you
first citizen your belly's answer what
 the kinglycrowned head the vigilant eye
 the counsellor heart the arm our soldier
 our steed the leg the tongue our trumpeter
 with other muniments and petty helps
 in this our fabric if that they
menenius what then
 fore me this fellow speaks what then what then
first citizen should by the cormorant belly be restrain'd
 who is the sink o the body
menenius well what then
first citizen the former agents if they did complain
 what could the belly answer
menenius i will tell you
 if you'll bestow a smallof what you have little
 patience awhile you'll hear the belly's answer
first citizen ye're long about it
menenius note me this good friend
 your most grave belly was deliberate
 not rash like his accusers and thus answer'd
 true is it my incorporate friends quoth he
 that i receive the general food at first
 which you do live upon and fit it is
 because i am the storehouse and the shop
 of the whole body but if you do remember
 i send it through the rivers of your blood
 even to the court the heart to the seat o the brain
 and through the cranks and offices of man
 the strongest nerves and small inferior veins
 from me receive that natural competency
 whereby they live and though that all at once
 you my good friends'this says the belly mark me
first citizen ay sir well well
menenius though all at once cannot
 see what i do deliver out to each
 yet i can make my audit up that all
 from me do back receive the flour of all
 and leave me but the bran what say you to't
first citizen it was an answer how apply you this
menenius the senators of rome are this good belly
 and you the mutinous members for examine
 their counsels and their cares digest things rightly
 touching the weal o the common you shall find
 no public benefit which you receive
 but it proceeds or comes from them to you
 and no way from yourselves what do you think
 you the great toe of this assembly
first citizen i the great toe why the great toe
menenius for that being one o the lowest basest poorest
 of this most wise rebellion thou go'st foremost
 thou rascal that art worst in blood to run
 lead'st first to win some vantage
 but make you ready your stiff bats and clubs
 rome and her rats are at the point of battle
 the one side must have bale
 enter caius marcius
 hail noble marcius
marcius thanks what's the matter you dissentious rogues
 that rubbing the poor itch of your opinion
 make yourselves scabs
first citizen we have ever your good word
marcius he that will give good words to thee will flatter
 beneath abhorring what would you have you curs
 that like nor peace nor war the one affrights you
 the other makes you proud he that trusts to you
 where he should find you lions finds you hares
 where foxes geese you are no surer no
 than is the coal of fire upon the ice
 or hailstone in the sun your virtue is
 to make him worthy whose offence subdues him
 and curse that justice did it
 who deserves greatness
 deserves your hate and your affections are
 a sick man's appetite who desires most that
 which would increase his evil he that depends
 upon your favours swims with fins of lead
 and hews down oaks with rushes hang ye trust ye
 with every minute you do change a mind
 and call him noble that was now your hate
 him vile that was your garland what's the matter
 that in these several places of the city
 you cry against the noble senate who
 under the gods keep you in awe which else
 would feed on one another what's their seeking
menenius for corn at their own rates whereof they say
 the city is well stored
marcius hang em they say
 they'll sit by the fire and presume to know
 what's done i the capitol who's like to rise
 who thrives and who declines side factions
 and give out
 conjectural marriages making parties strong
 and feebling such as stand not in their liking
 below their cobbled shoes they say there's
 grain enough
 would the nobility lay aside their ruth
 and let me use my sword i'll make a quarry
 with thousands of these quarter'd slaves as high
 as i could pick my lance
menenius nay these are almost thoroughly persuaded
 for though abundantly they lack discretion
 yet are they passing cowardly but i beseech you
 what says the other troop
marcius they are dissolved hang em
 they said they were anhungry sigh'd forth proverbs
 that hunger broke stone walls that dogs must eat
 that meat was made for mouths that the gods sent not
 corn for the rich men only with these shreds
 they vented their complainings which being answer'd
 and a petition granted them a strange one
 to break the heart of generosity
 and make bold power look palethey threw their caps
 as they would hang them on the horns o the moon
 shouting their emulation
menenius what is granted them
marcius five tribunes to defend their vulgar wisdoms
 of their own choice one's junius brutus
 sicinius velutus and i know not'sdeath
 the rabble should have first unroof'd the city
 ere so prevail'd with me it will in time
 win upon power and throw forth greater themes
 for insurrection's arguing
menenius this is strange
marcius go get you home you fragments
 enter a messenger hastily
messenger where's caius marcius
marcius here what's the matter
messenger the news is sir the volsces are in arms
marcius i am glad on t then we shall ha means to vent
 our musty superfluity see our best elders
 enter cominius titus lartius and other senators
 junius brutus and sicinius velutus
first senator marcius tis true that you have lately told us
 the volsces are in arms
marcius they have a leader
 tullus aufidius that will put you to t
 i sin in envying his nobility
 and were i any thing but what i am
 i would wish me only he
cominius you have fought together
marcius were half to half the world by the ears and he
 upon my party i'ld revolt to make
 only my wars with him he is a lion
 that i am proud to hunt
first senator then worthy marcius
 attend upon cominius to these wars
cominius it is your former promise
marcius sir it is
 and i am constant titus lartius thou
 shalt see me once more strike at tullus face
 what art thou stiff stand'st out
titus no caius marcius
 i'll lean upon one crutch and fight with t'other
 ere stay behind this business
menenius o truebred
first senator your company to the capitol where i know
 our greatest friends attend us
titus to cominius lead you on
 to marcius follow cominius we must follow you
 right worthy you priority
cominius noble marcius
first senator to the citizens hence to your homes be gone
marcius nay let them follow
 the volsces have much corn take these rats thither
 to gnaw their garners worshipful mutiners
 your valour puts well forth pray follow
 citizens steal away exeunt all but sicinius
 and brutus
sicinius was ever man so proud as is this marcius
brutus he has no equal
sicinius when we were chosen tribunes for the people
brutus mark'd you his lip and eyes
sicinius nay but his taunts
brutus being moved he will not spare to gird the gods
sicinius bemock the modest moon
brutus the present wars devour him he is grown
 too proud to be so valiant
sicinius such a nature
 tickled with good success disdains the shadow
 which he treads on at noon but i do wonder
 his insolence can brook to be commanded
 under cominius
brutus fame at the which he aims
 in whom already he's well graced can not
 better be held nor more attain'd than by
 a place below the first for what miscarries
 shall be the general's fault though he perform
 to the utmost of a man and giddy censure
 will then cry out of marcius o if he
 had borne the business'
sicinius besides if things go well
 opinion that so sticks on marcius shall
 of his demerits rob cominius
brutus come
 half all cominius honours are to marcius
 though marcius earned them not and all his faults
 to marcius shall be honours though indeed
 in aught he merit not
sicinius let's hence and hear
 how the dispatch is made and in what fashion
 more than his singularity he goes
 upon this present action
brutus lets along
 exeunt
 coriolanus
act i
scene ii corioli the senatehouse
 enter tullus aufidius and certain senators
first senator so your opinion is aufidius
 that they of rome are entered in our counsels
 and know how we proceed
aufidius is it not yours
 what ever have been thought on in this state
 that could be brought to bodily act ere rome
 had circumvention tis not four days gone
 since i heard thence these are the words i think
 i have the letter here yes here it is
 reads
 they have press'd a power but it is not known
 whether for east or west the dearth is great
 the people mutinous and it is rumour'd
 cominius marcius your old enemy
 who is of rome worse hated than of you
 and titus lartius a most valiant roman
 these three lead on this preparation
 whither tis bent most likely tis for you
 consider of it'
first senator our army's in the field
 we never yet made doubt but rome was ready
 to answer us
aufidius nor did you think it folly
 to keep your great pretences veil'd till when
 they needs must show themselves which
 in the hatching
 it seem'd appear'd to rome by the discovery
 we shall be shorten'd in our aim which was
 to take in many towns ere almost rome
 should know we were afoot
second senator noble aufidius
 take your commission hie you to your bands
 let us alone to guard corioli
 if they set down before s for the remove
 bring your army but i think you'll find
 they've not prepared for us
aufidius o doubt not that
 i speak from certainties nay more
 some parcels of their power are forth already
 and only hitherward i leave your honours
 if we and caius marcius chance to meet
 tis sworn between us we shall ever strike
 till one can do no more
all the gods assist you
aufidius and keep your honours safe
first senator farewell
second senator farewell
all farewell
 exeunt
 coriolanus
act i
scene iii rome a room in marcius house
 enter volumnia and virgilia they set them down
 on two low stools and sew
volumnia i pray you daughter sing or express yourself in a
 more comfortable sort if my son were my husband i
 should freelier rejoice in that absence wherein he
 won honour than in the embracements of his bed where
 he would show most love when yet he was but
 tenderbodied and the only son of my womb when
 youth with comeliness plucked all gaze his way when
 for a day of kings entreaties a mother should not
 sell him an hour from her beholding i considering
 how honour would become such a person that it was
 no better than picturelike to hang by the wall if
 renown made it not stir was pleased to let him seek
 danger where he was like to find fame to a cruel
 war i sent him from whence he returned his brows
 bound with oak i tell thee daughter i sprang not
 more in joy at first hearing he was a manchild
 than now in first seeing he had proved himself a
 man
virgilia but had he died in the business madam how then
volumnia then his good report should have been my son i
 therein would have found issue hear me profess
 sincerely had i a dozen sons each in my love
 alike and none less dear than thine and my good
 marcius i had rather had eleven die nobly for their
 country than one voluptuously surfeit out of action
 enter a gentlewoman
gentlewoman madam the lady valeria is come to visit you
virgilia beseech you give me leave to retire myself
volumnia indeed you shall not
 methinks i hear hither your husband's drum
 see him pluck aufidius down by the hair
 as children from a bear the volsces shunning him
 methinks i see him stamp thus and call thus
 come on you cowards you were got in fear
 though you were born in rome his bloody brow
 with his mail'd hand then wiping forth he goes
 like to a harvestman that's task'd to mow
 or all or lose his hire
virgilia his bloody brow o jupiter no blood
volumnia away you fool it more becomes a man
 than gilt his trophy the breasts of hecuba
 when she did suckle hector look'd not lovelier
 than hector's forehead when it spit forth blood
 at grecian sword contemning tell valeria
 we are fit to bid her welcome
 exit gentlewoman
virgilia heavens bless my lord from fell aufidius
volumnia he'll beat aufidius head below his knee
 and tread upon his neck
 enter valeria with an usher and gentlewoman
valeria my ladies both good day to you
volumnia sweet madam
virgilia i am glad to see your ladyship
valeria how do you both you are manifest housekeepers
 what are you sewing here a fine spot in good
 faith how does your little son
virgilia i thank your ladyship well good madam
volumnia he had rather see the swords and hear a drum than
 look upon his schoolmaster
valeria o my word the father's son i'll swear'tis a
 very pretty boy o my troth i looked upon him o'
 wednesday half an hour together has such a
 confirmed countenance i saw him run after a gilded
 butterfly and when he caught it he let it go
 again and after it again and over and over he
 comes and again catched it again or whether his
 fall enraged him or how twas he did so set his
 teeth and tear it o i warrant it how he mammocked
 it
volumnia one on s father's moods
valeria indeed la tis a noble child
virgilia a crack madam
valeria come lay aside your stitchery i must have you play
 the idle husewife with me this afternoon
virgilia no good madam i will not out of doors
valeria not out of doors
volumnia she shall she shall
virgilia indeed no by your patience i'll not over the
 threshold till my lord return from the wars
valeria fie you confine yourself most unreasonably come
 you must go visit the good lady that lies in
virgilia i will wish her speedy strength and visit her with
 my prayers but i cannot go thither
volumnia why i pray you
virgilia tis not to save labour nor that i want love
valeria you would be another penelope yet they say all
 the yarn she spun in ulysses absence did but fill
 ithaca full of moths come i would your cambric
 were sensible as your finger that you might leave
 pricking it for pity come you shall go with us
virgilia no good madam pardon me indeed i will not forth
valeria in truth la go with me and i'll tell you
 excellent news of your husband
virgilia o good madam there can be none yet
valeria verily i do not jest with you there came news from
 him last night
virgilia indeed madam
valeria in earnest it's true i heard a senator speak it
 thus it is the volsces have an army forth against
 whom cominius the general is gone with one part of
 our roman power your lord and titus lartius are set
 down before their city corioli they nothing doubt
 prevailing and to make it brief wars this is true
 on mine honour and so i pray go with us
virgilia give me excuse good madam i will obey you in every
 thing hereafter
volumnia let her alone lady as she is now she will but
 disease our better mirth
valeria in troth i think she would fare you well then
 come good sweet lady prithee virgilia turn thy
 solemness out o door and go along with us
virgilia no at a word madam indeed i must not i wish
 you much mirth
valeria well then farewell
 exeunt
 coriolanus
act i
scene iv before corioli
 enter with drum and colours marcius titus
 lartius captains and soldiers to them a
 messenger
marcius yonder comes news a wager they have met
lartius my horse to yours no
marcius tis done
lartius agreed
marcius say has our general met the enemy
messenger they lie in view but have not spoke as yet
lartius so the good horse is mine
marcius i'll buy him of you
lartius no i'll nor sell nor give him lend you him i will
 for half a hundred years summon the town
marcius how far off lie these armies
messenger within this mile and half
marcius then shall we hear their larum and they ours
 now mars i prithee make us quick in work
 that we with smoking swords may march from hence
 to help our fielded friends come blow thy blast
 they sound a parley enter two senators with others
 on the walls
 tutus aufidius is he within your walls
first senator no nor a man that fears you less than he
 that's lesser than a little
 drums afar off
 hark our drums
 are bringing forth our youth we'll break our walls
 rather than they shall pound us up our gates
 which yet seem shut we have but pinn'd with rushes
 they'll open of themselves
 alarum afar off
 hark you far off
 there is aufidius list what work he makes
 amongst your cloven army
marcius o they are at it
lartius their noise be our instruction ladders ho
 enter the army of the volsces
marcius they fear us not but issue forth their city
 now put your shields before your hearts and fight
 with hearts more proof than shields advance
 brave titus
 they do disdain us much beyond our thoughts
 which makes me sweat with wrath come on my fellows
 he that retires i'll take him for a volsce
 and he shall feel mine edge
 alarum the romans are beat back to their
 trenches reenter marcius cursing
marcius all the contagion of the south light on you
 you shames of rome you herd ofboils and plagues
 plaster you o'er that you may be abhorr'd
 further than seen and one infect another
 against the wind a mile you souls of geese
 that bear the shapes of men how have you run
 from slaves that apes would beat pluto and hell
 all hurt behind backs red and faces pale
 with flight and agued fear mend and charge home
 or by the fires of heaven i'll leave the foe
 and make my wars on you look to't come on
 if you'll stand fast we'll beat them to their wives
 as they us to our trenches followed
 another alarum the volsces fly and marcius
 follows them to the gates
 so now the gates are ope now prove good seconds
 tis for the followers fortune widens them
 not for the fliers mark me and do the like
 enters the gates
first soldier foolhardiness not i
second soldier nor i
 marcius is shut in
first soldier see they have shut him in
all to the pot i warrant him
 alarum continues
 reenter titus lartius
lartius what is become of marcius
all slain sir doubtless
first soldier following the fliers at the very heels
 with them he enters who upon the sudden
 clapp'd to their gates he is himself alone
 to answer all the city
lartius o noble fellow
 who sensibly outdares his senseless sword
 and when it bows stands up thou art left marcius
 a carbuncle entire as big as thou art
 were not so rich a jewel thou wast a soldier
 even to cato's wish not fierce and terrible
 only in strokes but with thy grim looks and
 the thunderlike percussion of thy sounds
 thou madst thine enemies shake as if the world
 were feverous and did tremble
 reenter marcius bleeding assaulted by the enemy
first soldier look sir
lartius o'tis marcius
 let's fetch him off or make remain alike
 they fight and all enter the city
 coriolanus
act i
scene v corioli a street
 enter certain romans with spoils
first roman this will i carry to rome
second roman and i this
third roman a murrain on't i took this for silver
 alarum continues still afar off
 enter marcius and titus lartius with a trumpet
marcius see here these movers that do prize their hours
 at a crack'd drachm cushions leaden spoons
 irons of a doit doublets that hangmen would
 bury with those that wore them these base slaves
 ere yet the fight be done pack up down with them
 and hark what noise the general makes to him
 there is the man of my soul's hate aufidius
 piercing our romans then valiant titus take
 convenient numbers to make good the city
 whilst i with those that have the spirit will haste
 to help cominius
lartius worthy sir thou bleed'st
 thy exercise hath been too violent for
 a second course of fight
marcius sir praise me not
 my work hath yet not warm'd me fare you well
 the blood i drop is rather physical
 than dangerous to me to aufidius thus
 i will appear and fight
lartius now the fair goddess fortune
 fall deep in love with thee and her great charms
 misguide thy opposers swords bold gentleman
 prosperity be thy page
marcius thy friend no less
 than those she placeth highest so farewell
lartius thou worthiest marcius
 exit marcius
 go sound thy trumpet in the marketplace
 call thither all the officers o the town
 where they shall know our mind away
 exeunt
 coriolanus
act i
scene vi near the camp of cominius
 enter cominius as it were in retire
 with soldiers
cominius breathe you my friends well fought
 we are come off
 like romans neither foolish in our stands
 nor cowardly in retire believe me sirs
 we shall be charged again whiles we have struck
 by interims and conveying gusts we have heard
 the charges of our friends ye roman gods
 lead their successes as we wish our own
 that both our powers with smiling
 fronts encountering
 may give you thankful sacrifice
 enter a messenger
 thy news
messenger the citizens of corioli have issued
 and given to lartius and to marcius battle
 i saw our party to their trenches driven
 and then i came away
cominius though thou speak'st truth
 methinks thou speak'st not well
 how long is't since
messenger above an hour my lord
cominius tis not a mile briefly we heard their drums
 how couldst thou in a mile confound an hour
 and bring thy news so late
messenger spies of the volsces
 held me in chase that i was forced to wheel
 three or four miles about else had i sir
 half an hour since brought my report
cominius who's yonder
 that does appear as he were flay'd o gods
 he has the stamp of marcius and i have
 beforetime seen him thus
marcius within come i too late
cominius the shepherd knows not thunder from a tabour
 more than i know the sound of marcius tongue
 from every meaner man
 enter marcius
marcius come i too late
cominius ay if you come not in the blood of others
 but mantled in your own
marcius o let me clip ye
 in arms as sound as when i woo'd in heart
 as merry as when our nuptial day was done
 and tapers burn'd to bedward
cominius flower of warriors
 how is it with titus lartius
marcius as with a man busied about decrees
 condemning some to death and some to exile
 ransoming him or pitying threatening the other
 holding corioli in the name of rome
 even like a fawning greyhound in the leash
 to let him slip at will
cominius where is that slave
 which told me they had beat you to your trenches
 where is he call him hither
marcius let him alone
 he did inform the truth but for our gentlemen
 the common filea plague tribunes for them
 the mouse ne'er shunn'd the cat as they did budge
 from rascals worse than they
cominius but how prevail'd you
marcius will the time serve to tell i do not think
 where is the enemy are you lords o the field
 if not why cease you till you are so
cominius marcius
 we have at disadvantage fought and did
 retire to win our purpose
marcius how lies their battle know you on which side
 they have placed their men of trust
cominius as i guess marcius
 their bands i the vaward are the antiates
 of their best trust o'er them aufidius
 their very heart of hope
marcius i do beseech you
 by all the battles wherein we have fought
 by the blood we have shed together by the vows
 we have made to endure friends that you directly
 set me against aufidius and his antiates
 and that you not delay the present but
 filling the air with swords advanced and darts
 we prove this very hour
cominius though i could wish
 you were conducted to a gentle bath
 and balms applied to you yet dare i never
 deny your asking take your choice of those
 that best can aid your action
marcius those are they
 that most are willing if any such be here
 as it were sin to doubtthat love this painting
 wherein you see me smear'd if any fear
 lesser his person than an ill report
 if any think brave death outweighs bad life
 and that his country's dearer than himself
 let him alone or so many so minded
 wave thus to express his disposition
 and follow marcius
 they all shout and wave their swords take him up in
 their arms and cast up their caps
 o me alone make you a sword of me
 if these shows be not outward which of you
 but is four volsces none of you but is
 able to bear against the great aufidius
 a shield as hard as his a certain number
 though thanks to all must i select
 from all the rest
 shall bear the business in some other fight
 as cause will be obey'd please you to march
 and four shall quickly draw out my command
 which men are best inclined
cominius march on my fellows
 make good this ostentation and you shall
 divide in all with us
 exeunt
 coriolanus
act i
scene vii the gates of corioli
 titus lartius having set a guard upon
 corioli going with drum and trumpet toward
 cominius and caius marcius enters with
 lieutenant other soldiers and a scout
lartius so let the ports be guarded keep your duties
 as i have set them down if i do send dispatch
 those centuries to our aid the rest will serve
 for a short holding if we lose the field
 we cannot keep the town
lieutenant fear not our care sir
lartius hence and shut your gates upon's
 our guider come to the roman camp conduct us
 exeunt
 coriolanus
act i
scene viii a field of battle
 alarum as in battle enter from opposite sides
 marcius and aufidius
marcius i'll fight with none but thee for i do hate thee
 worse than a promisebreaker
aufidius we hate alike
 not afric owns a serpent i abhor
 more than thy fame and envy fix thy foot
marcius let the first budger die the other's slave
 and the gods doom him after
aufidius if i fly marcius
 holloa me like a hare
marcius within these three hours tullus
 alone i fought in your corioli walls
 and made what work i pleased tis not my blood
 wherein thou seest me mask'd for thy revenge
 wrench up thy power to the highest
aufidius wert thou the hector
 that was the whip of your bragg'd progeny
 thou shouldst not scape me here
 they fight and certain volsces come to the aid of
 aufidius marcius fights till they be driven in
 breathless
 officious and not valiant you have shamed me
 in your condemned seconds
 exeunt
 coriolanus
act i
scene ix the roman camp
 flourish alarum a retreat is sounded flourish
 enter from one side cominius with the romans from
 the other side marcius with his arm in a scarf
cominius if i should tell thee o'er this thy day's work
 thou'ldst not believe thy deeds but i'll report it
 where senators shall mingle tears with smiles
 where great patricians shall attend and shrug
 i the end admire where ladies shall be frighted
 and gladly quaked hear more where the
 dull tribunes
 that with the fusty plebeians hate thine honours
 shall say against their hearts we thank the gods
 our rome hath such a soldier'
 yet camest thou to a morsel of this feast
 having fully dined before
 enter titus lartius with his power
 from the pursuit
lartius o general
 here is the steed we the caparison
 hadst thou beheld
marcius pray now no more my mother
 who has a charter to extol her blood
 when she does praise me grieves me i have done
 as you have done that's what i can induced
 as you have been that's for my country
 he that has but effected his good will
 hath overta'en mine act
cominius you shall not be
 the grave of your deserving rome must know
 the value of her own twere a concealment
 worse than a theft no less than a traducement
 to hide your doings and to silence that
 which to the spire and top of praises vouch'd
 would seem but modest therefore i beseech you
 in sign of what you are not to reward
 what you have donebefore our army hear me
marcius i have some wounds upon me and they smart
 to hear themselves remember'd
cominius should they not
 well might they fester gainst ingratitude
 and tent themselves with death of all the horses
 whereof we have ta'en good and good store of all
 the treasure in this field achieved and city
 we render you the tenth to be ta'en forth
 before the common distribution at
 your only choice
marcius i thank you general
 but cannot make my heart consent to take
 a bribe to pay my sword i do refuse it
 and stand upon my common part with those
 that have beheld the doing
 a long flourish they all cry marcius marcius'
 cast up their caps and lances cominius and lartius
 stand bare
marcius may these same instruments which you profane
 never sound more when drums and trumpets shall
 i the field prove flatterers let courts and cities be
 made all of falsefaced soothing
 when steel grows soft as the parasite's silk
 let him be made a coverture for the wars
 no more i say for that i have not wash'd
 my nose that bled or foil'd some debile wretch
 which without note here's many else have done
 you shout me forth
 in acclamations hyperbolical
 as if i loved my little should be dieted
 in praises sauced with lies
cominius too modest are you
 more cruel to your good report than grateful
 to us that give you truly by your patience
 if gainst yourself you be incensed we'll put you
 like one that means his proper harm in manacles
 then reason safely with you therefore be it known
 as to us to all the world that caius marcius
 wears this war's garland in token of the which
 my noble steed known to the camp i give him
 with all his trim belonging and from this time
 for what he did before corioli call him
 with all the applause and clamour of the host
 caius marcius coriolanus bear
 the addition nobly ever
 flourish trumpets sound and drums
all caius marcius coriolanus
coriolanus i will go wash
 and when my face is fair you shall perceive
 whether i blush or no howbeit i thank you
 i mean to stride your steed and at all times
 to undercrest your good addition
 to the fairness of my power
cominius so to our tent
 where ere we do repose us we will write
 to rome of our success you titus lartius
 must to corioli back send us to rome
 the best with whom we may articulate
 for their own good and ours
lartius i shall my lord
coriolanus the gods begin to mock me i that now
 refused most princely gifts am bound to beg
 of my lord general
cominius take't tis yours what is't
coriolanus i sometime lay here in corioli
 at a poor man's house he used me kindly
 he cried to me i saw him prisoner
 but then aufidius was within my view
 and wrath o'erwhelm'd my pity i request you
 to give my poor host freedom
cominius o well begg'd
 were he the butcher of my son he should
 be free as is the wind deliver him titus
lartius marcius his name
coriolanus by jupiter forgot
 i am weary yea my memory is tired
 have we no wine here
cominius go we to our tent
 the blood upon your visage dries tis time
 it should be look'd to come
 exeunt
 coriolanus
act i
scene x the camp of the volsces
 a flourish cornets enter tullus aufidius
 bloody with two or three soldiers
aufidius the town is ta'en
first soldier twill be deliver'd back on good condition
aufidius condition
 i would i were a roman for i cannot
 being a volsce be that i am condition
 what good condition can a treaty find
 i the part that is at mercy five times marcius
 i have fought with thee so often hast thou beat me
 and wouldst do so i think should we encounter
 as often as we eat by the elements
 if e'er again i meet him beard to beard
 he's mine or i am his mine emulation
 hath not that honour in't it had for where
 i thought to crush him in an equal force
 true sword to sword i'll potch at him some way
 or wrath or craft may get him
first soldier he's the devil
aufidius bolder though not so subtle my valour's poison'd
 with only suffering stain by him for him
 shall fly out of itself nor sleep nor sanctuary
 being naked sick nor fane nor capitol
 the prayers of priests nor times of sacrifice
 embarquements all of fury shall lift up
 their rotten privilege and custom gainst
 my hate to marcius where i find him were it
 at home upon my brother's guard even there
 against the hospitable canon would i
 wash my fierce hand in's heart go you to the city
 learn how tis held and what they are that must
 be hostages for rome
first soldier will not you go
aufidius i am attended at the cypress grove i pray you
 tis south the city millsbring me word thither
 how the world goes that to the pace of it
 i may spur on my journey
first soldier i shall sir
 exeunt
 coriolanus
act ii
scene i rome a public place
 enter menenius with the two tribunes of the people
 sicinius and brutus
menenius the augurer tells me we shall have news tonight
brutus good or bad
menenius not according to the prayer of the people for they
 love not marcius
sicinius nature teaches beasts to know their friends
menenius pray you who does the wolf love
sicinius the lamb
menenius ay to devour him as the hungry plebeians would the
 noble marcius
brutus he's a lamb indeed that baes like a bear
menenius he's a bear indeed that lives like a lamb you two
 are old men tell me one thing that i shall ask you
both well sir
menenius in what enormity is marcius poor in that you two
 have not in abundance
brutus he's poor in no one fault but stored with all
sicinius especially in pride
brutus and topping all others in boasting
menenius this is strange now do you two know how you are
 censured here in the city i mean of us o the
 righthand file do you
both why how are we censured
menenius because you talk of pride nowwill you not be angry
both well well sir well
menenius why tis no great matter for a very little thief of
 occasion will rob you of a great deal of patience
 give your dispositions the reins and be angry at
 your pleasures at the least if you take it as a
 pleasure to you in being so you blame marcius for
 being proud
brutus we do it not alone sir
menenius i know you can do very little alone for your helps
 are many or else your actions would grow wondrous
 single your abilities are too infantlike for
 doing much alone you talk of pride o that you
 could turn your eyes toward the napes of your necks
 and make but an interior survey of your good selves
 o that you could
brutus what then sir
menenius why then you should discover a brace of unmeriting
 proud violent testy magistrates alias fools as
 any in rome
sicinius menenius you are known well enough too
menenius i am known to be a humorous patrician and one that
 loves a cup of hot wine with not a drop of allaying
 tiber in't said to be something imperfect in
 favouring the first complaint hasty and tinderlike
 upon too trivial motion one that converses more
 with the buttock of the night than with the forehead
 of the morning what i think i utter and spend my
 malice in my breath meeting two such wealsmen as
 you arei cannot call you lycurgusesif the drink
 you give me touch my palate adversely i make a
 crooked face at it i can't say your worships have
 delivered the matter well when i find the ass in
 compound with the major part of your syllables and
 though i must be content to bear with those that say
 you are reverend grave men yet they lie deadly that
 tell you you have good faces if you see this in
 the map of my microcosm follows it that i am known
 well enough too what barm can your bisson
 conspectuities glean out of this character if i be
 known well enough too
brutus come sir come we know you well enough
menenius you know neither me yourselves nor any thing you
 are ambitious for poor knaves caps and legs you
 wear out a good wholesome forenoon in hearing a
 cause between an orange wife and a fossetseller
 and then rejourn the controversy of three pence to a
 second day of audience when you are hearing a
 matter between party and party if you chance to be
 pinched with the colic you make faces like
 mummers set up the bloody flag against all
 patience and in roaring for a chamberpot
 dismiss the controversy bleeding the more entangled
 by your hearing all the peace you make in their
 cause is calling both the parties knaves you are
 a pair of strange ones
brutus come come you are well understood to be a
 perfecter giber for the table than a necessary
 bencher in the capitol
menenius our very priests must become mockers if they shall
 encounter such ridiculous subjects as you are when
 you speak best unto the purpose it is not worth the
 wagging of your beards and your beards deserve not
 so honourable a grave as to stuff a botcher's
 cushion or to be entombed in an ass's pack
 saddle yet you must be saying marcius is proud
 who in a cheap estimation is worth predecessors
 since deucalion though peradventure some of the
 best of em were hereditary hangmen godden to
 your worships more of your conversation would
 infect my brain being the herdsmen of the beastly
 plebeians i will be bold to take my leave of you
 brutus and sicinius go aside
 enter volumnia virgilia and valeria
 how now my as fair as noble ladiesand the moon
 were she earthly no noblerwhither do you follow
 your eyes so fast
volumnia honourable menenius my boy marcius approaches for
 the love of juno let's go
menenius ha marcius coming home
volumnia ay worthy menenius and with most prosperous
 approbation
menenius take my cap jupiter and i thank thee hoo
 marcius coming home
volumnia 
 nay'tis true
virgilia 
volumnia look here's a letter from him the state hath
 another his wife another and i think there's one
 at home for you
menenius i will make my very house reel tonight a letter for
 me
virgilia yes certain there's a letter for you i saw't
menenius a letter for me it gives me an estate of seven
 years health in which time i will make a lip at
 the physician the most sovereign prescription in
 galen is but empiricutic and to this preservative
 of no better report than a horsedrench is he
 not wounded he was wont to come home wounded
virgilia o no no no
volumnia o he is wounded i thank the gods for't
menenius so do i too if it be not too much brings a'
 victory in his pocket the wounds become him
volumnia on's brows menenius he comes the third time home
 with the oaken garland
menenius has he disciplined aufidius soundly
volumnia titus lartius writes they fought together but
 aufidius got off
menenius and twas time for him too i'll warrant him that
 an he had stayed by him i would not have been so
 fidiused for all the chests in corioli and the gold
 that's in them is the senate possessed of this
volumnia good ladies let's go yes yes yes the senate
 has letters from the general wherein he gives my
 son the whole name of the war he hath in this
 action outdone his former deeds doubly
valeria in troth there's wondrous things spoke of him
menenius wondrous ay i warrant you and not without his
 true purchasing
virgilia the gods grant them true
volumnia true pow wow
menenius true i'll be sworn they are true
 where is he wounded
 to the tribunes
 god save your good worships marcius is coming
 home he has more cause to be proud where is he wounded
volumnia i the shoulder and i the left arm there will be
 large cicatrices to show the people when he shall
 stand for his place he received in the repulse of
 tarquin seven hurts i the body
menenius one i the neck and two i the thighthere's
 nine that i know
volumnia he had before this last expedition twentyfive
 wounds upon him
menenius now it's twentyseven every gash was an enemy's grave
 a shout and flourish
 hark the trumpets
volumnia these are the ushers of marcius before him he
 carries noise and behind him he leaves tears
 death that dark spirit in s nervy arm doth lie
 which being advanced declines and then men die
 a sennet trumpets sound enter cominius the
 general and titus lartius between them coriolanus
 crowned with an oaken garland with captains and
 soldiers and a herald
herald know rome that all alone marcius did fight
 within corioli gates where he hath won
 with fame a name to caius marcius these
 in honour follows coriolanus
 welcome to rome renowned coriolanus
 flourish
all welcome to rome renowned coriolanus
coriolanus no more of this it does offend my heart
 pray now no more
cominius look sir your mother
coriolanus o
 you have i know petition'd all the gods
 for my prosperity
 kneels
volumnia nay my good soldier up
 my gentle marcius worthy caius and
 by deedachieving honour newly named
 what is itcoriolanus must i call thee
 but o thy wife
coriolanus my gracious silence hail
 wouldst thou have laugh'd had i come coffin'd home
 that weep'st to see me triumph ay my dear
 such eyes the widows in corioli wear
 and mothers that lack sons
menenius now the gods crown thee
coriolanus and live you yet
 to valeria
 o my sweet lady pardon
volumnia i know not where to turn o welcome home
 and welcome general and ye're welcome all
menenius a hundred thousand welcomes i could weep
 and i could laugh i am light and heavy welcome
 a curse begin at very root on's heart
 that is not glad to see thee you are three
 that rome should dote on yet by the faith of men
 we have some old crabtrees here
 at home that will not
 be grafted to your relish yet welcome warriors
 we call a nettle but a nettle and
 the faults of fools but folly
cominius ever right
coriolanus menenius ever ever
herald give way there and go on
coriolanus to volumnia and virgilia your hand and yours
 ere in our own house i do shade my head
 the good patricians must be visited
 from whom i have received not only greetings
 but with them change of honours
volumnia i have lived
 to see inherited my very wishes
 and the buildings of my fancy only
 there's one thing wanting which i doubt not but
 our rome will cast upon thee
coriolanus know good mother
 i had rather be their servant in my way
 than sway with them in theirs
cominius on to the capitol
 flourish cornets exeunt in state as before
 brutus and sicinius come forward
brutus all tongues speak of him and the bleared sights
 are spectacled to see him your prattling nurse
 into a rapture lets her baby cry
 while she chats him the kitchen malkin pins
 her richest lockram bout her reechy neck
 clambering the walls to eye him stalls bulks windows
 are smother'd up leads fill'd and ridges horsed
 with variable complexions all agreeing
 in earnestness to see him seldshown flamens
 do press among the popular throngs and puff
 to win a vulgar station or veil'd dames
 commit the war of white and damask in
 their nicelygawded cheeks to the wanton spoil
 of phoebus burning kisses such a pother
 as if that whatsoever god who leads him
 were slily crept into his human powers
 and gave him graceful posture
sicinius on the sudden
 i warrant him consul
brutus then our office may
 during his power go sleep
sicinius he cannot temperately transport his honours
 from where he should begin and end but will
 lose those he hath won
brutus in that there's comfort
sicinius doubt not
 the commoners for whom we stand but they
 upon their ancient malice will forget
 with the least cause these his new honours which
 that he will give them make i as little question
 as he is proud to do't
brutus i heard him swear
 were he to stand for consul never would he
 appear i the marketplace nor on him put
 the napless vesture of humility
 nor showing as the manner is his wounds
 to the people beg their stinking breaths
sicinius tis right
brutus it was his word o he would miss it rather
 than carry it but by the suit of the gentry to him
 and the desire of the nobles
sicinius i wish no better
 than have him hold that purpose and to put it
 in execution
brutus tis most like he will
sicinius it shall be to him then as our good wills
 a sure destruction
brutus so it must fall out
 to him or our authorities for an end
 we must suggest the people in what hatred
 he still hath held them that to's power he would
 have made them mules silenced their pleaders and
 dispropertied their freedoms holding them
 in human action and capacity
 of no more soul nor fitness for the world
 than camels in the war who have their provand
 only for bearing burdens and sore blows
 for sinking under them
sicinius this as you say suggested
 at some time when his soaring insolence
 shall touch the peoplewhich time shall not want
 if he be put upon t and that's as easy
 as to set dogs on sheepwill be his fire
 to kindle their dry stubble and their blaze
 shall darken him for ever
 enter a messenger
brutus what's the matter
messenger you are sent for to the capitol tis thought
 that marcius shall be consul
 i have seen the dumb men throng to see him and
 the blind to bear him speak matrons flung gloves
 ladies and maids their scarfs and handkerchers
 upon him as he pass'd the nobles bended
 as to jove's statue and the commons made
 a shower and thunder with their caps and shouts
 i never saw the like
brutus let's to the capitol
 and carry with us ears and eyes for the time
 but hearts for the event
sicinius have with you
 exeunt
 coriolanus
act ii
scene ii the same the capitol
 enter two officers to lay cushions
first officer come come they are almost here how many stand
 for consulships
second officer three they say but tis thought of every one
 coriolanus will carry it
first officer that's a brave fellow but he's vengeance proud and
 loves not the common people
second officer faith there had been many great men that have
 flattered the people who ne'er loved them and there
 be many that they have loved they know not
 wherefore so that if they love they know not why
 they hate upon no better a ground therefore for
 coriolanus neither to care whether they love or hate
 him manifests the true knowledge he has in their
 disposition and out of his noble carelessness lets
 them plainly see't
first officer if he did not care whether he had their love or no
 he waved indifferently twixt doing them neither
 good nor harm but he seeks their hate with greater
 devotion than can render it him and leaves
 nothing undone that may fully discover him their
 opposite now to seem to affect the malice and
 displeasure of the people is as bad as that which he
 dislikes to flatter them for their love
second officer he hath deserved worthily of his country and his
 ascent is not by such easy degrees as those who
 having been supple and courteous to the people
 bonneted without any further deed to have them at
 an into their estimation and report but he hath so
 planted his honours in their eyes and his actions
 in their hearts that for their tongues to be
 silent and not confess so much were a kind of
 ingrateful injury to report otherwise were a
 malice that giving itself the lie would pluck
 reproof and rebuke from every ear that heard it
first officer no more of him he is a worthy man make way they
 are coming
 a sennet enter with actors before them cominius
 the consul menenius coriolanus senators
 sicinius and brutus the senators take their
 places the tribunes take their places by
 themselves coriolanus stands
menenius having determined of the volsces and
 to send for titus lartius it remains
 as the main point of this our aftermeeting
 to gratify his noble service that
 hath thus stood for his country therefore
 please you
 most reverend and grave elders to desire
 the present consul and last general
 in our wellfound successes to report
 a little of that worthy work perform'd
 by caius marcius coriolanus whom
 we met here both to thank and to remember
 with honours like himself
first senator speak good cominius
 leave nothing out for length and make us think
 rather our state's defective for requital
 than we to stretch it out
 to the tribunes
 masters o the people
 we do request your kindest ears and after
 your loving motion toward the common body
 to yield what passes here
sicinius we are convented
 upon a pleasing treaty and have hearts
 inclinable to honour and advance
 the theme of our assembly
brutus which the rather
 we shall be blest to do if he remember
 a kinder value of the people than
 he hath hereto prized them at
menenius that's off that's off
 i would you rather had been silent please you
 to hear cominius speak
brutus most willingly
 but yet my caution was more pertinent
 than the rebuke you give it
menenius he loves your people
 but tie him not to be their bedfellow
 worthy cominius speak
 coriolanus offers to go away
 nay keep your place
first senator sit coriolanus never shame to hear
 what you have nobly done
coriolanus your horror's pardon
 i had rather have my wounds to heal again
 than hear say how i got them
brutus sir i hope
 my words disbench'd you not
coriolanus no sir yet oft
 when blows have made me stay i fled from words
 you soothed not therefore hurt not but
 your people
 i love them as they weigh
menenius pray now sit down
coriolanus i had rather have one scratch my head i the sun
 when the alarum were struck than idly sit
 to hear my nothings monster'd
 exit
menenius masters of the people
 your multiplying spawn how can he flatter
 that's thousand to one good onewhen you now see
 he had rather venture all his limbs for honour
 than one on's ears to hear it proceed cominius
cominius i shall lack voice the deeds of coriolanus
 should not be utter'd feebly it is held
 that valour is the chiefest virtue and
 most dignifies the haver if it be
 the man i speak of cannot in the world
 be singly counterpoised at sixteen years
 when tarquin made a head for rome he fought
 beyond the mark of others our then dictator
 whom with all praise i point at saw him fight
 when with his amazonian chin he drove
 the bristled lips before him be bestrid
 an o'erpress'd roman and i the consul's view
 slew three opposers tarquin's self he met
 and struck him on his knee in that day's feats
 when he might act the woman in the scene
 he proved best man i the field and for his meed
 was browbound with the oak his pupil age
 manenter'd thus he waxed like a sea
 and in the brunt of seventeen battles since
 he lurch'd all swords of the garland for this last
 before and in corioli let me say
 i cannot speak him home he stopp'd the fliers
 and by his rare example made the coward
 turn terror into sport as weeds before
 a vessel under sail so men obey'd
 and fell below his stem his sword death's stamp
 where it did mark it took from face to foot
 he was a thing of blood whose every motion
 was timed with dying cries alone he enter'd
 the mortal gate of the city which he painted
 with shunless destiny aidless came off
 and with a sudden reinforcement struck
 corioli like a planet now all's his
 when by and by the din of war gan pierce
 his ready sense then straight his doubled spirit
 requicken'd what in flesh was fatigate
 and to the battle came he where he did
 run reeking o'er the lives of men as if
 twere a perpetual spoil and till we call'd
 both field and city ours he never stood
 to ease his breast with panting
menenius worthy man
first senator he cannot but with measure fit the honours
 which we devise him
cominius our spoils he kick'd at
 and look'd upon things precious as they were
 the common muck of the world he covets less
 than misery itself would give rewards
 his deeds with doing them and is content
 to spend the time to end it
menenius he's right noble
 let him be call'd for
first senator call coriolanus
officer he doth appear
 reenter coriolanus
menenius the senate coriolanus are well pleased
 to make thee consul
coriolanus i do owe them still
 my life and services
menenius it then remains
 that you do speak to the people
coriolanus i do beseech you
 let me o'erleap that custom for i cannot
 put on the gown stand naked and entreat them
 for my wounds sake to give their suffrage please you
 that i may pass this doing
sicinius sir the people
 must have their voices neither will they bate
 one jot of ceremony
menenius put them not to't
 pray you go fit you to the custom and
 take to you as your predecessors have
 your honour with your form
coriolanus it is apart
 that i shall blush in acting and might well
 be taken from the people
brutus mark you that
coriolanus to brag unto them thus i did and thus
 show them the unaching scars which i should hide
 as if i had received them for the hire
 of their breath only
menenius do not stand upon't
 we recommend to you tribunes of the people
 our purpose to them and to our noble consul
 wish we all joy and honour
senators to coriolanus come all joy and honour
 flourish of cornets exeunt all but sicinius
 and brutus
brutus you see how he intends to use the people
sicinius may they perceive's intent he will require them
 as if he did contemn what he requested
 should be in them to give
brutus come we'll inform them
 of our proceedings here on the marketplace
 i know they do attend us
 exeunt
 coriolanus
act ii
scene iii the same the forum
 enter seven or eight citizens
first citizen once if he do require our voices we ought not to deny him
second citizen we may sir if we will
third citizen we have power in ourselves to do it but it is a
 power that we have no power to do for if he show us
 his wounds and tell us his deeds we are to put our
 tongues into those wounds and speak for them so if
 he tell us his noble deeds we must also tell him
 our noble acceptance of them ingratitude is
 monstrous and for the multitude to be ingrateful
 were to make a monster of the multitude of the
 which we being members should bring ourselves to be
 monstrous members
first citizen and to make us no better thought of a little help
 will serve for once we stood up about the corn he
 himself stuck not to call us the manyheaded multitude
third citizen we have been called so of many not that our heads
 are some brown some black some auburn some bald
 but that our wits are so diversely coloured and
 truly i think if all our wits were to issue out of
 one skull they would fly east west north south
 and their consent of one direct way should be at
 once to all the points o the compass
second citizen think you so which way do you judge my wit would
 fly
third citizen nay your wit will not so soon out as another man's
 will'tis strongly wedged up in a blockhead but
 if it were at liberty twould sure southward
second citizen why that way
third citizen to lose itself in a fog where being three parts
 melted away with rotten dews the fourth would return
 for conscience sake to help to get thee a wife
second citizen you are never without your tricks you may you may
third citizen are you all resolved to give your voices but
 that's no matter the greater part carries it i
 say if he would incline to the people there was
 never a worthier man
 enter coriolanus in a gown of humility
 with menenius
 here he comes and in the gown of humility mark his
 behavior we are not to stay all together but to
 come by him where he stands by ones by twos and
 by threes he's to make his requests by
 particulars wherein every one of us has a single
 honour in giving him our own voices with our own
 tongues therefore follow me and i direct you how
 you shall go by him
all content content
 exeunt citizens
menenius o sir you are not right have you not known
 the worthiest men have done't
coriolanus what must i say
 i pray sir'plague upon't i cannot bring
 my tongue to such a pace'look sir my wounds
 i got them in my country's service when
 some certain of your brethren roar'd and ran
 from the noise of our own drums'
menenius o me the gods
 you must not speak of that you must desire them
 to think upon you
coriolanus think upon me hang em
 i would they would forget me like the virtues
 which our divines lose by em
menenius you'll mar all
 i'll leave you pray you speak to em i pray you
 in wholesome manner
 exit
coriolanus bid them wash their faces
 and keep their teeth clean
 reenter two of the citizens
 so here comes a brace
 reenter a third citizen
 you know the cause air of my standing here
third citizen we do sir tell us what hath brought you to't
coriolanus mine own desert
second citizen your own desert
coriolanus ay but not mine own desire
third citizen how not your own desire
coriolanus no sir'twas never my desire yet to trouble the
 poor with begging
third citizen you must think if we give you any thing we hope to
 gain by you
coriolanus well then i pray your price o the consulship
first citizen the price is to ask it kindly
coriolanus kindly sir i pray let me ha't i have wounds to
 show you which shall be yours in private your
 good voice sir what say you
second citizen you shall ha it worthy sir
coriolanus a match sir there's in all two worthy voices
 begged i have your alms adieu
third citizen but this is something odd
second citizen an twere to give againbut tis no matter
 exeunt the three citizens
 reenter two other citizens
coriolanus pray you now if it may stand with the tune of your
 voices that i may be consul i have here the
 customary gown
fourth citizen you have deserved nobly of your country and you
 have not deserved nobly
coriolanus your enigma
fourth citizen you have been a scourge to her enemies you have
 been a rod to her friends you have not indeed loved
 the common people
coriolanus you should account me the more virtuous that i have
 not been common in my love i will sir flatter my
 sworn brother the people to earn a dearer
 estimation of them tis a condition they account
 gentle and since the wisdom of their choice is
 rather to have my hat than my heart i will practise
 the insinuating nod and be off to them most
 counterfeitly that is sir i will counterfeit the
 bewitchment of some popular man and give it
 bountiful to the desirers therefore beseech you
 i may be consul
fifth citizen we hope to find you our friend and therefore give
 you our voices heartily
fourth citizen you have received many wounds for your country
coriolanus i will not seal your knowledge with showing them i
 will make much of your voices and so trouble you no further
both citizens the gods give you joy sir heartily
 exeunt
coriolanus most sweet voices
 better it is to die better to starve
 than crave the hire which first we do deserve
 why in this woolvish toge should i stand here
 to beg of hob and dick that do appear
 their needless vouches custom calls me to't
 what custom wills in all things should we do't
 the dust on antique time would lie unswept
 and mountainous error be too highly heapt
 for truth to o'erpeer rather than fool it so
 let the high office and the honour go
 to one that would do thus i am half through
 the one part suffer'd the other will i do
 reenter three citizens more
 here come more voices
 your voices for your voices i have fought
 watch'd for your voices for your voices bear
 of wounds two dozen odd battles thrice six
 i have seen and heard of for your voices have
 done many things some less some more your voices
 indeed i would be consul
sixth citizen he has done nobly and cannot go without any honest
 man's voice
seventh citizen therefore let him be consul the gods give him joy
 and make him good friend to the people
all citizens amen amen god save thee noble consul
 exeunt
coriolanus worthy voices
 reenter menenius with brutus and sicinius
menenius you have stood your limitation and the tribunes
 endue you with the people's voice remains
 that in the official marks invested you
 anon do meet the senate
coriolanus is this done
sicinius the custom of request you have discharged
 the people do admit you and are summon'd
 to meet anon upon your approbation
coriolanus where at the senatehouse
sicinius there coriolanus
coriolanus may i change these garments
sicinius you may sir
coriolanus that i'll straight do and knowing myself again
 repair to the senatehouse
menenius i'll keep you company will you along
brutus we stay here for the people
sicinius fare you well
 exeunt coriolanus and menenius
 he has it now and by his looks methink
 tis warm at s heart
brutus with a proud heart he wore his humble weeds
 will you dismiss the people
 reenter citizens
sicinius how now my masters have you chose this man
first citizen he has our voices sir
brutus we pray the gods he may deserve your loves
second citizen amen sir to my poor unworthy notice
 he mock'd us when he begg'd our voices
third citizen certainly
 he flouted us downright
first citizen no'tis his kind of speech he did not mock us
second citizen not one amongst us save yourself but says
 he used us scornfully he should have show'd us
 his marks of merit wounds received for's country
sicinius why so he did i am sure
citizens no no no man saw em
third citizen he said he had wounds which he could show
 in private
 and with his hat thus waving it in scorn
 i would be consul says he aged custom
 but by your voices will not so permit me
 your voices therefore when we granted that
 here was i thank you for your voices thank you
 your most sweet voices now you have left
 your voices
 i have no further with you was not this mockery
sicinius why either were you ignorant to see't
 or seeing it of such childish friendliness
 to yield your voices
brutus could you not have told him
 as you were lesson'd when he had no power
 but was a petty servant to the state
 he was your enemy ever spake against
 your liberties and the charters that you bear
 i the body of the weal and now arriving
 a place of potency and sway o the state
 if he should still malignantly remain
 fast foe to the plebeii your voices might
 be curses to yourselves you should have said
 that as his worthy deeds did claim no less
 than what he stood for so his gracious nature
 would think upon you for your voices and
 translate his malice towards you into love
 standing your friendly lord
sicinius thus to have said
 as you were foreadvised had touch'd his spirit
 and tried his inclination from him pluck'd
 either his gracious promise which you might
 as cause had call'd you up have held him to
 or else it would have gall'd his surly nature
 which easily endures not article
 tying him to aught so putting him to rage
 you should have ta'en the advantage of his choler
 and pass'd him unelected
brutus did you perceive
 he did solicit you in free contempt
 when he did need your loves and do you think
 that his contempt shall not be bruising to you
 when he hath power to crush why had your bodies
 no heart among you or had you tongues to cry
 against the rectorship of judgment
sicinius have you
 ere now denied the asker and now again
 of him that did not ask but mock bestow
 your suedfor tongues
third citizen he's not confirm'd we may deny him yet
second citizen and will deny him
 i'll have five hundred voices of that sound
first citizen i twice five hundred and their friends to piece em
brutus get you hence instantly and tell those friends
 they have chose a consul that will from them take
 their liberties make them of no more voice
 than dogs that are as often beat for barking
 as therefore kept to do so
sicinius let them assemble
 and on a safer judgment all revoke
 your ignorant election enforce his pride
 and his old hate unto you besides forget not
 with what contempt he wore the humble weed
 how in his suit he scorn'd you but your loves
 thinking upon his services took from you
 the apprehension of his present portance
 which most gibingly ungravely he did fashion
 after the inveterate hate he bears you
brutus lay
 a fault on us your tribunes that we laboured
 no impediment between but that you must
 cast your election on him
sicinius say you chose him
 more after our commandment than as guided
 by your own true affections and that your minds
 preoccupied with what you rather must do
 than what you should made you against the grain
 to voice him consul lay the fault on us
brutus ay spare us not say we read lectures to you
 how youngly he began to serve his country
 how long continued and what stock he springs of
 the noble house o the marcians from whence came
 that ancus marcius numa's daughter's son
 who after great hostilius here was king
 of the same house publius and quintus were
 that our beat water brought by conduits hither
 and censorinus nobly named so
 twice being by the people chosen censor
 was his great ancestor
sicinius one thus descended
 that hath beside well in his person wrought
 to be set high in place we did commend
 to your remembrances but you have found
 scaling his present bearing with his past
 that he's your fixed enemy and revoke
 your sudden approbation
brutus say you ne'er had done't
 harp on that stillbut by our putting on
 and presently when you have drawn your number
 repair to the capitol
all we will so almost all
 repent in their election
 exeunt citizens
brutus let them go on
 this mutiny were better put in hazard
 than stay past doubt for greater
 if as his nature is he fall in rage
 with their refusal both observe and answer
 the vantage of his anger
sicinius to the capitol come
 we will be there before the stream o the people
 and this shall seem as partly tis their own
 which we have goaded onward
 exeunt
 coriolanus
act iii
scene i rome a street
 cornets enter coriolanus menenius all the
 gentry cominius titus lartius and other senators
coriolanus tullus aufidius then had made new head
lartius he had my lord and that it was which caused
 our swifter composition
coriolanus so then the volsces stand but as at first
 ready when time shall prompt them to make road
 upon's again
cominius they are worn lord consul so
 that we shall hardly in our ages see
 their banners wave again
coriolanus saw you aufidius
lartius on safeguard he came to me and did curse
 against the volsces for they had so vilely
 yielded the town he is retired to antium
coriolanus spoke he of me
lartius he did my lord
coriolanus how what
lartius how often he had met you sword to sword
 that of all things upon the earth he hated
 your person most that he would pawn his fortunes
 to hopeless restitution so he might
 be call'd your vanquisher
coriolanus at antium lives he
lartius at antium
coriolanus i wish i had a cause to seek him there
 to oppose his hatred fully welcome home
 enter sicinius and brutus
 behold these are the tribunes of the people
 the tongues o the common mouth i do despise them
 for they do prank them in authority
 against all noble sufferance
sicinius pass no further
coriolanus ha what is that
brutus it will be dangerous to go on no further
coriolanus what makes this change
menenius the matter
cominius hath he not pass'd the noble and the common
brutus cominius no
coriolanus have i had children's voices
first senator tribunes give way he shall to the marketplace
brutus the people are incensed against him
sicinius stop
 or all will fall in broil
coriolanus are these your herd
 must these have voices that can yield them now
 and straight disclaim their tongues what are
 your offices
 you being their mouths why rule you not their teeth
 have you not set them on
menenius be calm be calm
coriolanus it is a purposed thing and grows by plot
 to curb the will of the nobility
 suffer't and live with such as cannot rule
 nor ever will be ruled
brutus call't not a plot
 the people cry you mock'd them and of late
 when corn was given them gratis you repined
 scandal'd the suppliants for the people call'd them
 timepleasers flatterers foes to nobleness
coriolanus why this was known before
brutus not to them all
coriolanus have you inform'd them sithence
brutus how i inform them
coriolanus you are like to do such business
brutus not unlike
 each way to better yours
coriolanus why then should i be consul by yond clouds
 let me deserve so ill as you and make me
 your fellow tribune
sicinius you show too much of that
 for which the people stir if you will pass
 to where you are bound you must inquire your way
 which you are out of with a gentler spirit
 or never be so noble as a consul
 nor yoke with him for tribune
menenius let's be calm
cominius the people are abused set on this paltering
 becomes not rome nor has coriolanus
 deserved this so dishonour'd rub laid falsely
 i the plain way of his merit
coriolanus tell me of corn
 this was my speech and i will speak't again
menenius not now not now
first senator not in this heat sir now
coriolanus now as i live i will my nobler friends
 i crave their pardons
 for the mutable rankscented many let them
 regard me as i do not flatter and
 therein behold themselves i say again
 in soothing them we nourish gainst our senate
 the cockle of rebellion insolence sedition
 which we ourselves have plough'd for sow'd
 and scatter'd
 by mingling them with us the honour'd number
 who lack not virtue no nor power but that
 which they have given to beggars
menenius well no more
first senator no more words we beseech you
coriolanus how no more
 as for my country i have shed my blood
 not fearing outward force so shall my lungs
 coin words till their decay against those measles
 which we disdain should tatter us yet sought
 the very way to catch them
brutus you speak o the people
 as if you were a god to punish not
 a man of their infirmity
sicinius twere well
 we let the people know't
menenius what what his choler
coriolanus choler
 were i as patient as the midnight sleep
 by jove twould be my mind
sicinius it is a mind
 that shall remain a poison where it is
 not poison any further
coriolanus shall remain
 hear you this triton of the minnows mark you
 his absolute shall'
cominius twas from the canon
coriolanus shall'
 o good but most unwise patricians why
 you grave but reckless senators have you thus
 given hydra here to choose an officer
 that with his peremptory shall being but
 the horn and noise o the monster's wants not spirit
 to say he'll turn your current in a ditch
 and make your channel his if he have power
 then vail your ignorance if none awake
 your dangerous lenity if you are learn'd
 be not as common fools if you are not
 let them have cushions by you you are plebeians
 if they be senators and they are no less
 when both your voices blended the great'st taste
 most palates theirs they choose their magistrate
 and such a one as he who puts his shall'
 his popular shall against a graver bench
 than ever frown in greece by jove himself
 it makes the consuls base and my soul aches
 to know when two authorities are up
 neither supreme how soon confusion
 may enter twixt the gap of both and take
 the one by the other
cominius well on to the marketplace
coriolanus whoever gave that counsel to give forth
 the corn o the storehouse gratis as twas used
 sometime in greece
menenius well well no more of that
coriolanus though there the people had more absolute power
 i say they nourish'd disobedience fed
 the ruin of the state
brutus why shall the people give
 one that speaks thus their voice
coriolanus i'll give my reasons
 more worthier than their voices they know the corn
 was not our recompense resting well assured
 that ne'er did service for't being press'd to the war
 even when the navel of the state was touch'd
 they would not thread the gates this kind of service
 did not deserve corn gratis being i the war
 their mutinies and revolts wherein they show'd
 most valour spoke not for them the accusation
 which they have often made against the senate
 all cause unborn could never be the motive
 of our so frank donation well what then
 how shall this bisson multitude digest
 the senate's courtesy let deeds express
 what's like to be their words we did request it
 we are the greater poll and in true fear
 they gave us our demands thus we debase
 the nature of our seats and make the rabble
 call our cares fears which will in time
 break ope the locks o the senate and bring in
 the crows to peck the eagles
menenius come enough
brutus enough with overmeasure
coriolanus no take more
 what may be sworn by both divine and human
 seal what i end withal this double worship
 where one part does disdain with cause the other
 insult without all reason where gentry title wisdom
 cannot conclude but by the yea and no
 of general ignoranceit must omit
 real necessities and give way the while
 to unstable slightness purpose so barr'd
 it follows
 nothing is done to purpose therefore beseech you
 you that will be less fearful than discreet
 that love the fundamental part of state
 more than you doubt the change on't that prefer
 a noble life before a long and wish
 to jump a body with a dangerous physic
 that's sure of death without it at once pluck out
 the multitudinous tongue let them not lick
 the sweet which is their poison your dishonour
 mangles true judgment and bereaves the state
 of that integrity which should become't
 not having the power to do the good it would
 for the in which doth control't
brutus has said enough
sicinius has spoken like a traitor and shall answer
 as traitors do
coriolanus thou wretch despite o'erwhelm thee
 what should the people do with these bald tribunes
 on whom depending their obedience fails
 to the greater bench in a rebellion
 when what's not meet but what must be was law
 then were they chosen in a better hour
 let what is meet be said it must be meet
 and throw their power i the dust
brutus manifest treason
sicinius this a consul no
brutus the aediles ho
 enter an aedile
 let him be apprehended
sicinius go call the people
 exit aedile
 in whose name myself
 attach thee as a traitorous innovator
 a foe to the public weal obey i charge thee
 and follow to thine answer
coriolanus hence old goat
senators &c we'll surety him
cominius aged sir hands off
coriolanus hence rotten thing or i shall shake thy bones
 out of thy garments
sicinius help ye citizens
 enter a rabble of citizens plebeians with
 the aediles
menenius on both sides more respect
sicinius here's he that would take from you all your power
brutus seize him aediles
citizens down with him down with him
senators &c weapons weapons weapons
 they all bustle about coriolanus crying
 tribunes patricians citizens what ho'
 sicinius brutus coriolanus citizens'
 peace peace peace stay hold peace'
menenius what is about to be i am out of breath
 confusion's near i cannot speak you tribunes
 to the people coriolanus patience
 speak good sicinius
sicinius hear me people peace
citizens let's hear our tribune peace speak speak speak
sicinius you are at point to lose your liberties
 marcius would have all from you marcius
 whom late you have named for consul
menenius fie fie fie
 this is the way to kindle not to quench
first senator to unbuild the city and to lay all flat
sicinius what is the city but the people
citizens true
 the people are the city
brutus by the consent of all we were establish'd
 the people's magistrates
citizens you so remain
menenius and so are like to do
cominius that is the way to lay the city flat
 to bring the roof to the foundation
 and bury all which yet distinctly ranges
 in heaps and piles of ruin
sicinius this deserves death
brutus or let us stand to our authority
 or let us lose it we do here pronounce
 upon the part o the people in whose power
 we were elected theirs marcius is worthy
 of present death
sicinius therefore lay hold of him
 bear him to the rock tarpeian and from thence
 into destruction cast him
brutus aediles seize him
citizens yield marcius yield
menenius hear me one word
 beseech you tribunes hear me but a word
aedile peace peace
menenius to brutus be that you seem truly your
 country's friend
 and temperately proceed to what you would
 thus violently redress
brutus sir those cold ways
 that seem like prudent helps are very poisonous
 where the disease is violent lay hands upon him
 and bear him to the rock
coriolanus no i'll die here
 drawing his sword
 there's some among you have beheld me fighting
 come try upon yourselves what you have seen me
menenius down with that sword tribunes withdraw awhile
brutus lay hands upon him
cominius help marcius help
 you that be noble help him young and old
citizens down with him down with him
 in this mutiny the tribunes the aediles and the
 people are beat in
menenius go get you to your house be gone away
 all will be naught else
second senator get you gone
cominius stand fast
 we have as many friends as enemies
menenius sham it be put to that
first senator the gods forbid
 i prithee noble friend home to thy house
 leave us to cure this cause
menenius for tis a sore upon us
 you cannot tent yourself be gone beseech you
cominius come sir along with us
coriolanus i would they were barbariansas they are
 though in rome litter'dnot romansas they are not
 though calved i the porch o the capitol
menenius be gone
 put not your worthy rage into your tongue
 one time will owe another
coriolanus on fair ground
 i could beat forty of them
cominius i could myself
 take up a brace o the best of them yea the
 two tribunes
 but now tis odds beyond arithmetic
 and manhood is call'd foolery when it stands
 against a falling fabric will you hence
 before the tag return whose rage doth rend
 like interrupted waters and o'erbear
 what they are used to bear
menenius pray you be gone
 i'll try whether my old wit be in request
 with those that have but little this must be patch'd
 with cloth of any colour
cominius nay come away
 exeunt coriolanus cominius and others
a patrician this man has marr'd his fortune
menenius his nature is too noble for the world
 he would not flatter neptune for his trident
 or jove for's power to thunder his heart's his mouth
 what his breast forges that his tongue must vent
 and being angry does forget that ever
 he heard the name of death
 a noise within
 here's goodly work
second patrician i would they were abed
menenius i would they were in tiber what the vengeance
 could he not speak em fair
 reenter brutus and sicinius with the rabble
sicinius where is this viper
 that would depopulate the city and
 be every man himself
menenius you worthy tribunes
sicinius he shall be thrown down the tarpeian rock
 with rigorous hands he hath resisted law
 and therefore law shall scorn him further trial
 than the severity of the public power
 which he so sets at nought
first citizen he shall well know
 the noble tribunes are the people's mouths
 and we their hands
citizens he shall sure on't
menenius sir sir
sicinius peace
menenius do not cry havoc where you should but hunt
 with modest warrant
sicinius sir how comes't that you
 have holp to make this rescue
menenius hear me speak
 as i do know the consul's worthiness
 so can i name his faults
sicinius consul what consul
menenius the consul coriolanus
brutus he consul
citizens no no no no no
menenius if by the tribunes leave and yours good people
 i may be heard i would crave a word or two
 the which shall turn you to no further harm
 than so much loss of time
sicinius speak briefly then
 for we are peremptory to dispatch
 this viperous traitor to eject him hence
 were but one danger and to keep him here
 our certain death therefore it is decreed
 he dies tonight
menenius now the good gods forbid
 that our renowned rome whose gratitude
 towards her deserved children is enroll'd
 in jove's own book like an unnatural dam
 should now eat up her own
sicinius he's a disease that must be cut away
menenius o he's a limb that has but a disease
 mortal to cut it off to cure it easy
 what has he done to rome that's worthy death
 killing our enemies the blood he hath lost
 which i dare vouch is more than that he hath
 by many an ouncehe dropp'd it for his country
 and what is left to lose it by his country
 were to us all that do't and suffer it
 a brand to the end o the world
sicinius this is clean kam
brutus merely awry when he did love his country
 it honour'd him
menenius the service of the foot
 being once gangrened is not then respected
 for what before it was
brutus we'll hear no more
 pursue him to his house and pluck him thence
 lest his infection being of catching nature
 spread further
menenius one word more one word
 this tigerfooted rage when it shall find
 the harm of unscann'd swiftness will too late
 tie leaden pounds to's heels proceed by process
 lest parties as he is beloved break out
 and sack great rome with romans
brutus if it were so
sicinius what do ye talk
 have we not had a taste of his obedience
 our aediles smote ourselves resisted come
menenius consider this he has been bred i the wars
 since he could draw a sword and is ill school'd
 in bolted language meal and bran together
 he throws without distinction give me leave
 i'll go to him and undertake to bring him
 where he shall answer by a lawful form
 in peace to his utmost peril
first senator noble tribunes
 it is the humane way the other course
 will prove too bloody and the end of it
 unknown to the beginning
sicinius noble menenius
 be you then as the people's officer
 masters lay down your weapons
brutus go not home
sicinius meet on the marketplace we'll attend you there
 where if you bring not marcius we'll proceed
 in our first way
menenius i'll bring him to you
 to the senators
 let me desire your company he must come
 or what is worst will follow
first senator pray you let's to him
 exeunt
 coriolanus
act iii
scene ii a room in coriolanus's house
 enter coriolanus with patricians
coriolanus let them puff all about mine ears present me
 death on the wheel or at wild horses heels
 or pile ten hills on the tarpeian rock
 that the precipitation might down stretch
 below the beam of sight yet will i still
 be thus to them
a patrician you do the nobler
coriolanus i muse my mother
 does not approve me further who was wont
 to call them woollen vassals things created
 to buy and sell with groats to show bare heads
 in congregations to yawn be still and wonder
 when one but of my ordinance stood up
 to speak of peace or war
 enter volumnia
 i talk of you
 why did you wish me milder would you have me
 false to my nature rather say i play
 the man i am
volumnia o sir sir sir
 i would have had you put your power well on
 before you had worn it out
coriolanus let go
volumnia you might have been enough the man you are
 with striving less to be so lesser had been
 the thwartings of your dispositions if
 you had not show'd them how ye were disposed
 ere they lack'd power to cross you
coriolanus let them hang
a patrician ay and burn too
 enter menenius and senators
menenius come come you have been too rough something
 too rough
 you must return and mend it
first senator there's no remedy
 unless by not so doing our good city
 cleave in the midst and perish
volumnia pray be counsell'd
 i have a heart as little apt as yours
 but yet a brain that leads my use of anger
 to better vantage
menenius well said noble woman
 before he should thus stoop to the herd but that
 the violent fit o the time craves it as physic
 for the whole state i would put mine armour on
 which i can scarcely bear
coriolanus what must i do
menenius return to the tribunes
coriolanus well what then what then
menenius repent what you have spoke
coriolanus for them i cannot do it to the gods
 must i then do't to them
volumnia you are too absolute
 though therein you can never be too noble
 but when extremities speak i have heard you say
 honour and policy like unsever'd friends
 i the war do grow together grant that and tell me
 in peace what each of them by the other lose
 that they combine not there
coriolanus tush tush
menenius a good demand
volumnia if it be honour in your wars to seem
 the same you are not which for your best ends
 you adopt your policy how is it less or worse
 that it shall hold companionship in peace
 with honour as in war since that to both
 it stands in like request
coriolanus why force you this
volumnia because that now it lies you on to speak
 to the people not by your own instruction
 nor by the matter which your heart prompts you
 but with such words that are but rooted in
 your tongue though but bastards and syllables
 of no allowance to your bosom's truth
 now this no more dishonours you at all
 than to take in a town with gentle words
 which else would put you to your fortune and
 the hazard of much blood
 i would dissemble with my nature where
 my fortunes and my friends at stake required
 i should do so in honour i am in this
 your wife your son these senators the nobles
 and you will rather show our general louts
 how you can frown than spend a fawn upon em
 for the inheritance of their loves and safeguard
 of what that want might ruin
menenius noble lady
 come go with us speak fair you may salve so
 not what is dangerous present but the loss
 of what is past
volumnia i prithee now my son
 go to them with this bonnet in thy hand
 and thus far having stretch'd ithere be with them
 thy knee bussing the stonesfor in such business
 action is eloquence and the eyes of the ignorant
 more learned than the earswaving thy head
 which often thus correcting thy stout heart
 now humble as the ripest mulberry
 that will not hold the handling or say to them
 thou art their soldier and being bred in broils
 hast not the soft way which thou dost confess
 were fit for thee to use as they to claim
 in asking their good loves but thou wilt frame
 thyself forsooth hereafter theirs so far
 as thou hast power and person
menenius this but done
 even as she speaks why their hearts were yours
 for they have pardons being ask'd as free
 as words to little purpose
volumnia prithee now
 go and be ruled although i know thou hadst rather
 follow thine enemy in a fiery gulf
 than flatter him in a bower here is cominius
 enter cominius
cominius i have been i the marketplace and sir'tis fit
 you make strong party or defend yourself
 by calmness or by absence all's in anger
menenius only fair speech
cominius i think twill serve if he
 can thereto frame his spirit
volumnia he must and will
 prithee now say you will and go about it
coriolanus must i go show them my unbarbed sconce
 must i with base tongue give my noble heart
 a lie that it must bear well i will do't
 yet were there but this single plot to lose
 this mould of marcius they to dust should grind it
 and throw't against the wind to the marketplace
 you have put me now to such a part which never
 i shall discharge to the life
cominius come come we'll prompt you
volumnia i prithee now sweet son as thou hast said
 my praises made thee first a soldier so
 to have my praise for this perform a part
 thou hast not done before
coriolanus well i must do't
 away my disposition and possess me
 some harlot's spirit my throat of war be turn'd
 which quired with my drum into a pipe
 small as an eunuch or the virgin voice
 that babies lulls asleep the smiles of knaves
 tent in my cheeks and schoolboys tears take up
 the glasses of my sight a beggar's tongue
 make motion through my lips and my arm'd knees
 who bow'd but in my stirrup bend like his
 that hath received an alms i will not do't
 lest i surcease to honour mine own truth
 and by my body's action teach my mind
 a most inherent baseness
volumnia at thy choice then
 to beg of thee it is my more dishonour
 than thou of them come all to ruin let
 thy mother rather feel thy pride than fear
 thy dangerous stoutness for i mock at death
 with as big heart as thou do as thou list
 thy valiantness was mine thou suck'dst it from me
 but owe thy pride thyself
coriolanus pray be content
 mother i am going to the marketplace
 chide me no more i'll mountebank their loves
 cog their hearts from them and come home beloved
 of all the trades in rome look i am going
 commend me to my wife i'll return consul
 or never trust to what my tongue can do
 i the way of flattery further
volumnia do your will
 exit
cominius away the tribunes do attend you arm yourself
 to answer mildly for they are prepared
 with accusations as i hear more strong
 than are upon you yet
coriolanus the word is mildly pray you let us go
 let them accuse me by invention i
 will answer in mine honour
menenius ay but mildly
coriolanus well mildly be it then mildly
 exeunt
 coriolanus
act iii
scene iii the same the forum
 enter sicinius and brutus
brutus in this point charge him home that he affects
 tyrannical power if he evade us there
 enforce him with his envy to the people
 and that the spoil got on the antiates
 was ne'er distributed
 enter an aedile
 what will he come
aedile he's coming
brutus how accompanied
aedile with old menenius and those senators
 that always favour'd him
sicinius have you a catalogue
 of all the voices that we have procured
 set down by the poll
aedile i have tis ready
sicinius have you collected them by tribes
aedile i have
sicinius assemble presently the people hither
 and when they bear me say it shall be so
 i the right and strength o the commons be it either
 for death for fine or banishment then let them
 if i say fine cry fine if death cry death'
 insisting on the old prerogative
 and power i the truth o the cause
aedile i shall inform them
brutus and when such time they have begun to cry
 let them not cease but with a din confused
 enforce the present execution
 of what we chance to sentence
aedile very well
sicinius make them be strong and ready for this hint
 when we shall hap to give t them
brutus go about it
 exit aedile
 put him to choler straight he hath been used
 ever to conquer and to have his worth
 of contradiction being once chafed he cannot
 be rein'd again to temperance then he speaks
 what's in his heart and that is there which looks
 with us to break his neck
sicinius well here he comes
 enter coriolanus menenius and cominius
 with senators and patricians
menenius calmly i do beseech you
coriolanus ay as an ostler that for the poorest piece
 will bear the knave by the volume the honour'd gods
 keep rome in safety and the chairs of justice
 supplied with worthy men plant love among s
 throng our large temples with the shows of peace
 and not our streets with war
first senator amen amen
menenius a noble wish
 reenter aedile with citizens
sicinius draw near ye people
aedile list to your tribunes audience peace i say
coriolanus first hear me speak
both tribunes well say peace ho
coriolanus shall i be charged no further than this present
 must all determine here
sicinius i do demand
 if you submit you to the people's voices
 allow their officers and are content
 to suffer lawful censure for such faults
 as shall be proved upon you
coriolanus i am content
menenius lo citizens he says he is content
 the warlike service he has done consider think
 upon the wounds his body bears which show
 like graves i the holy churchyard
coriolanus scratches with briers
 scars to move laughter only
menenius consider further
 that when he speaks not like a citizen
 you find him like a soldier do not take
 his rougher accents for malicious sounds
 but as i say such as become a soldier
 rather than envy you
cominius well well no more
coriolanus what is the matter
 that being pass'd for consul with full voice
 i am so dishonour'd that the very hour
 you take it off again
sicinius answer to us
coriolanus say then tis true i ought so
sicinius we charge you that you have contrived to take
 from rome all season'd office and to wind
 yourself into a power tyrannical
 for which you are a traitor to the people
coriolanus how traitor
menenius nay temperately your promise
coriolanus the fires i the lowest hell foldin the people
 call me their traitor thou injurious tribune
 within thine eyes sat twenty thousand deaths
 in thy hand clutch'd as many millions in
 thy lying tongue both numbers i would say
 thou liest unto thee with a voice as free
 as i do pray the gods
sicinius mark you this people
citizens to the rock to the rock with him
sicinius peace
 we need not put new matter to his charge
 what you have seen him do and heard him speak
 beating your officers cursing yourselves
 opposing laws with strokes and here defying
 those whose great power must try him even this
 so criminal and in such capital kind
 deserves the extremest death
brutus but since he hath
 served well for rome
coriolanus what do you prate of service
brutus i talk of that that know it
coriolanus you
menenius is this the promise that you made your mother
cominius know i pray you
coriolanus i know no further
 let them pronounce the steep tarpeian death
 vagabond exile raying pent to linger
 but with a grain a day i would not buy
 their mercy at the price of one fair word
 nor cheque my courage for what they can give
 to have't with saying good morrow'
sicinius for that he has
 as much as in him lies from time to time
 envied against the people seeking means
 to pluck away their power as now at last
 given hostile strokes and that not in the presence
 of dreaded justice but on the ministers
 that do distribute it in the name o the people
 and in the power of us the tribunes we
 even from this instant banish him our city
 in peril of precipitation
 from off the rock tarpeian never more
 to enter our rome gates i the people's name
 i say it shall be so
citizens it shall be so it shall be so let him away
 he's banish'd and it shall be so
cominius hear me my masters and my common friends
sicinius he's sentenced no more hearing
cominius let me speak
 i have been consul and can show for rome
 her enemies marks upon me i do love
 my country's good with a respect more tender
 more holy and profound than mine own life
 my dear wife's estimate her womb's increase
 and treasure of my loins then if i would
 speak that
sicinius we know your drift speak what
brutus there's no more to be said but he is banish'd
 as enemy to the people and his country
 it shall be so
citizens it shall be so it shall be so
coriolanus you common cry of curs whose breath i hate
 as reek o the rotten fens whose loves i prize
 as the dead carcasses of unburied men
 that do corrupt my air i banish you
 and here remain with your uncertainty
 let every feeble rumour shake your hearts
 your enemies with nodding of their plumes
 fan you into despair have the power still
 to banish your defenders till at length
 your ignorance which finds not till it feels
 making not reservation of yourselves
 still your own foes deliver you as most
 abated captives to some nation
 that won you without blows despising
 for you the city thus i turn my back
 there is a world elsewhere
 exeunt coriolanus cominius menenius senators
 and patricians
aedile the people's enemy is gone is gone
citizens our enemy is banish'd he is gone hoo hoo
 shouting and throwing up their caps
sicinius go see him out at gates and follow him
 as he hath followed you with all despite
 give him deserved vexation let a guard
 attend us through the city
citizens come come let's see him out at gates come
 the gods preserve our noble tribunes come
 exeunt
 coriolanus
act iv
scene i rome before a gate of the city
 enter coriolanus volumnia virgilia menenius
 cominius with the young nobility of rome
coriolanus come leave your tears a brief farewell the beast
 with many heads butts me away nay mother
 where is your ancient courage you were used
 to say extremity was the trier of spirits
 that common chances common men could bear
 that when the sea was calm all boats alike
 show'd mastership in floating fortune's blows
 when most struck home being gentle wounded craves
 a noble cunning you were used to load me
 with precepts that would make invincible
 the heart that conn'd them
virgilia o heavens o heavens
coriolanus nay prithee woman
volumnia now the red pestilence strike all trades in rome
 and occupations perish
coriolanus what what what
 i shall be loved when i am lack'd nay mother
 resume that spirit when you were wont to say
 if you had been the wife of hercules
 six of his labours you'ld have done and saved
 your husband so much sweat cominius
 droop not adieu farewell my wife my mother
 i'll do well yet thou old and true menenius
 thy tears are salter than a younger man's
 and venomous to thine eyes my sometime general
 i have seen thee stem and thou hast oft beheld
 hearthardening spectacles tell these sad women
 tis fond to wail inevitable strokes
 as tis to laugh at em my mother you wot well
 my hazards still have been your solace and
 believe't not lightlythough i go alone
 like to a lonely dragon that his fen
 makes fear'd and talk'd of more than seenyour son
 will or exceed the common or be caught
 with cautelous baits and practise
volumnia my first son
 whither wilt thou go take good cominius
 with thee awhile determine on some course
 more than a wild exposture to each chance
 that starts i the way before thee
coriolanus o the gods
cominius i'll follow thee a month devise with thee
 where thou shalt rest that thou mayst hear of us
 and we of thee so if the time thrust forth
 a cause for thy repeal we shall not send
 o'er the vast world to seek a single man
 and lose advantage which doth ever cool
 i the absence of the needer
coriolanus fare ye well
 thou hast years upon thee and thou art too full
 of the wars surfeits to go rove with one
 that's yet unbruised bring me but out at gate
 come my sweet wife my dearest mother and
 my friends of noble touch when i am forth
 bid me farewell and smile i pray you come
 while i remain above the ground you shall
 hear from me still and never of me aught
 but what is like me formerly
menenius that's worthily
 as any ear can hear come let's not weep
 if i could shake off but one seven years
 from these old arms and legs by the good gods
 i'ld with thee every foot
coriolanus give me thy hand come
 exeunt
 coriolanus
act iv
scene ii the same a street near the gate
 enter sicinius brutus and an aedile
sicinius bid them all home he's gone and we'll no further
 the nobility are vex'd whom we see have sided
 in his behalf
brutus now we have shown our power
 let us seem humbler after it is done
 than when it was adoing
sicinius bid them home
 say their great enemy is gone and they
 stand in their ancient strength
brutus dismiss them home
 exit aedile
 here comes his mother
sicinius let's not meet her
brutus why
sicinius they say she's mad
brutus they have ta'en note of us keep on your way
 enter volumnia virgilia and menenius
volumnia o ye're well met the hoarded plague o the gods
 requite your love
menenius peace peace be not so loud
volumnia if that i could for weeping you should hear
 nay and you shall hear some
 to brutus
 will you be gone
virgilia to sicinius you shall stay too i would i had the power
 to say so to my husband
sicinius are you mankind
volumnia ay fool is that a shame note but this fool
 was not a man my father hadst thou foxship
 to banish him that struck more blows for rome
 than thou hast spoken words
sicinius o blessed heavens
volumnia more noble blows than ever thou wise words
 and for rome's good i'll tell thee what yet go
 nay but thou shalt stay too i would my son
 were in arabia and thy tribe before him
 his good sword in his hand
sicinius what then
virgilia what then
 he'ld make an end of thy posterity
volumnia bastards and all
 good man the wounds that he does bear for rome
menenius come come peace
sicinius i would he had continued to his country
 as he began and not unknit himself
 the noble knot he made
brutus i would he had
volumnia i would he had twas you incensed the rabble
 cats that can judge as fitly of his worth
 as i can of those mysteries which heaven
 will not have earth to know
brutus pray let us go
volumnia now pray sir get you gone
 you have done a brave deed ere you go hear this
 as far as doth the capitol exceed
 the meanest house in rome so far my son
 this lady's husband here this do you see
 whom you have banish'd does exceed you all
brutus well well we'll leave you
sicinius why stay we to be baited
 with one that wants her wits
volumnia take my prayers with you
 exeunt tribunes
 i would the gods had nothing else to do
 but to confirm my curses could i meet em
 but once aday it would unclog my heart
 of what lies heavy to't
menenius you have told them home
 and by my troth you have cause you'll sup with me
volumnia anger's my meat i sup upon myself
 and so shall starve with feeding come let's go
 leave this faint puling and lament as i do
 in anger junolike come come come
menenius fie fie fie
 exeunt
 coriolanus
act iv
scene iii a highway between rome and antium
 enter a roman and a volsce meeting
roman i know you well sir and you know
 me your name i think is adrian
volsce it is so sir truly i have forgot you
roman i am a roman and my services are
 as you are against em know you me yet
volsce nicanor no
roman the same sir
volsce you had more beard when i last saw you but your
 favour is well approved by your tongue what's the
 news in rome i have a note from the volscian state
 to find you out there you have well saved me a
 day's journey
roman there hath been in rome strange insurrections the
 people against the senators patricians and nobles
volsce hath been is it ended then our state thinks not
 so they are in a most warlike preparation and
 hope to come upon them in the heat of their division
roman the main blaze of it is past but a small thing
 would make it flame again for the nobles receive
 so to heart the banishment of that worthy
 coriolanus that they are in a ripe aptness to take
 all power from the people and to pluck from them
 their tribunes for ever this lies glowing i can
 tell you and is almost mature for the violent
 breaking out
volsce coriolanus banished
roman banished sir
volsce you will be welcome with this intelligence nicanor
roman the day serves well for them now i have heard it
 said the fittest time to corrupt a man's wife is
 when she's fallen out with her husband your noble
 tullus aufidius will appear well in these wars his
 great opposer coriolanus being now in no request
 of his country
volsce he cannot choose i am most fortunate thus
 accidentally to encounter you you have ended my
 business and i will merrily accompany you home
roman i shall between this and supper tell you most
 strange things from rome all tending to the good of
 their adversaries have you an army ready say you
volsce a most royal one the centurions and their charges
 distinctly billeted already in the entertainment
 and to be on foot at an hour's warning
roman i am joyful to hear of their readiness and am the
 man i think that shall set them in present action
 so sir heartily well met and most glad of your company
volsce you take my part from me sir i have the most cause
 to be glad of yours
roman well let us go together
 exeunt
 coriolanus
act iv
scene iv antium before aufidius's house
 enter coriolanus in mean apparel disguised
 and muffled
coriolanus a goodly city is this antium city
 tis i that made thy widows many an heir
 of these fair edifices fore my wars
 have i heard groan and drop then know me not
 lest that thy wives with spits and boys with stones
 in puny battle slay me
 enter a citizen
 save you sir
citizen and you
coriolanus direct me if it be your will
 where great aufidius lies is he in antium
citizen he is and feasts the nobles of the state
 at his house this night
coriolanus which is his house beseech you
citizen this here before you
coriolanus thank you sir farewell
 exit citizen
 o world thy slippery turns friends now fast sworn
 whose double bosoms seem to wear one heart
 whose house whose bed whose meal and exercise
 are still together who twin as twere in love
 unseparable shall within this hour
 on a dissension of a doit break out
 to bitterest enmity so fellest foes
 whose passions and whose plots have broke their sleep
 to take the one the other by some chance
 some trick not worth an egg shall grow dear friends
 and interjoin their issues so with me
 my birthplace hate i and my love's upon
 this enemy town i'll enter if he slay me
 he does fair justice if he give me way
 i'll do his country service
 exit
 coriolanus
act iv
scene v the same a hall in aufidius's house
 music within enter a servingman
first servingman wine wine wine what service
 is here i think our fellows are asleep
 exit
 enter a second servingman
second servingman where's cotus my master calls
 for him cotus
 exit
 enter coriolanus
coriolanus a goodly house the feast smells well but i
 appear not like a guest
 reenter the first servingman
first servingman what would you have friend whence are you
 here's no place for you pray go to the door
 exit
coriolanus i have deserved no better entertainment
 in being coriolanus
 reenter second servingman
second servingman whence are you sir has the porter his eyes in his
 head that he gives entrance to such companions
 pray get you out
coriolanus away
second servingman away get you away
coriolanus now thou'rt troublesome
second servingman are you so brave i'll have you talked with anon
 enter a third servingman the first meets him
third servingman what fellow's this
first servingman a strange one as ever i looked on i cannot get him
 out of the house prithee call my master to him
 retires
third servingman what have you to do here fellow pray you avoid
 the house
coriolanus let me but stand i will not hurt your hearth
third servingman what are you
coriolanus a gentleman
third servingman a marvellous poor one
coriolanus true so i am
third servingman pray you poor gentleman take up some other
 station here's no place for you pray you avoid come
coriolanus follow your function go and batten on cold bits
 pushes him away
third servingman what you will not prithee tell my master what a
 strange guest he has here
second servingman and i shall
 exit
third servingman where dwellest thou
coriolanus under the canopy
third servingman under the canopy
coriolanus ay
third servingman where's that
coriolanus i the city of kites and crows
third servingman i the city of kites and crows what an ass it is
 then thou dwellest with daws too
coriolanus no i serve not thy master
third servingman how sir do you meddle with my master
coriolanus ay tis an honester service than to meddle with thy
 mistress thou pratest and pratest serve with thy
 trencher hence
 beats him away exit third servingman
 enter aufidius with the second servingman
aufidius where is this fellow
second servingman here sir i'ld have beaten him like a dog but for
 disturbing the lords within
 retires
aufidius whence comest thou what wouldst thou thy name
 why speak'st not speak man what's thy name
coriolanus if tullus
 unmuffling
 not yet thou knowest me and seeing me dost not
 think me for the man i am necessity
 commands me name myself
aufidius what is thy name
coriolanus a name unmusical to the volscians ears
 and harsh in sound to thine
aufidius say what's thy name
 thou hast a grim appearance and thy face
 bears a command in't though thy tackle's torn
 thou show'st a noble vessel what's thy name
coriolanus prepare thy brow to frown know'st
 thou me yet
aufidius i know thee not thy name
coriolanus my name is caius marcius who hath done
 to thee particularly and to all the volsces
 great hurt and mischief thereto witness may
 my surname coriolanus the painful service
 the extreme dangers and the drops of blood
 shed for my thankless country are requited
 but with that surname a good memory
 and witness of the malice and displeasure
 which thou shouldst bear me only that name remains
 the cruelty and envy of the people
 permitted by our dastard nobles who
 have all forsook me hath devour'd the rest
 and suffer'd me by the voice of slaves to be
 whoop'd out of rome now this extremity
 hath brought me to thy hearth not out of hope
 mistake me notto save my life for if
 i had fear'd death of all the men i the world
 i would have voided thee but in mere spite
 to be full quit of those my banishers
 stand i before thee here then if thou hast
 a heart of wreak in thee that wilt revenge
 thine own particular wrongs and stop those maims
 of shame seen through thy country speed
 thee straight
 and make my misery serve thy turn so use it
 that my revengeful services may prove
 as benefits to thee for i will fight
 against my canker'd country with the spleen
 of all the under fiends but if so be
 thou darest not this and that to prove more fortunes
 thou'rt tired then in a word i also am
 longer to live most weary and present
 my throat to thee and to thy ancient malice
 which not to cut would show thee but a fool
 since i have ever follow'd thee with hate
 drawn tuns of blood out of thy country's breast
 and cannot live but to thy shame unless
 it be to do thee service
aufidius o marcius marcius
 each word thou hast spoke hath weeded from my heart
 a root of ancient envy if jupiter
 should from yond cloud speak divine things
 and say tis true i'ld not believe them more
 than thee all noble marcius let me twine
 mine arms about that body where against
 my grained ash an hundred times hath broke
 and scarr'd the moon with splinters here i clip
 the anvil of my sword and do contest
 as hotly and as nobly with thy love
 as ever in ambitious strength i did
 contend against thy valour know thou first
 i loved the maid i married never man
 sigh'd truer breath but that i see thee here
 thou noble thing more dances my rapt heart
 than when i first my wedded mistress saw
 bestride my threshold why thou mars i tell thee
 we have a power on foot and i had purpose
 once more to hew thy target from thy brawn
 or lose mine arm fort thou hast beat me out
 twelve several times and i have nightly since
 dreamt of encounters twixt thyself and me
 we have been down together in my sleep
 unbuckling helms fisting each other's throat
 and waked half dead with nothing worthy marcius
 had we no quarrel else to rome but that
 thou art thence banish'd we would muster all
 from twelve to seventy and pouring war
 into the bowels of ungrateful rome
 like a bold flood o'erbear o come go in
 and take our friendly senators by the hands
 who now are here taking their leaves of me
 who am prepared against your territories
 though not for rome itself
coriolanus you bless me gods
aufidius therefore most absolute sir if thou wilt have
 the leading of thine own revenges take
 the one half of my commission and set down
 as best thou art experienced since thou know'st
 thy country's strength and weaknessthine own ways
 whether to knock against the gates of rome
 or rudely visit them in parts remote
 to fright them ere destroy but come in
 let me commend thee first to those that shall
 say yea to thy desires a thousand welcomes
 and more a friend than e'er an enemy
 yet marcius that was much your hand most welcome
 exeunt coriolanus and aufidius the two
 servingmen come forward
first servingman here's a strange alteration
second servingman by my hand i had thought to have strucken him with
 a cudgel and yet my mind gave me his clothes made a
 false report of him
first servingman what an arm he has he turned me about with his
 finger and his thumb as one would set up a top
second servingman nay i knew by his face that there was something in
 him he had sir a kind of face methoughti
 cannot tell how to term it
first servingman he had so looking as it werewould i were hanged
 but i thought there was more in him than i could think
second servingman so did i i'll be sworn he is simply the rarest
 man i the world
first servingman i think he is but a greater soldier than he you wot on
second servingman who my master
first servingman nay it's no matter for that
second servingman worth six on him
first servingman nay not so neither but i take him to be the
 greater soldier
second servingman faith look you one cannot tell how to say that
 for the defence of a town our general is excellent
first servingman ay and for an assault too
 reenter third servingman
third servingman o slaves i can tell you news news you rascals
first servingman 
 what what what let's partake
second servingman 
third servingman i would not be a roman of all nations i had as
 lieve be a condemned man
first servingman 
 wherefore wherefore
second servingman 
third servingman why here's he that was wont to thwack our general
 caius marcius
first servingman why do you say thwack our general 
third servingman i do not say thwack our general but he was always
 good enough for him
second servingman come we are fellows and friends he was ever too
 hard for him i have heard him say so himself
first servingman he was too hard for him directly to say the troth
 on't before corioli he scotched him and notched
 him like a carbon ado
second servingman an he had been cannibally given he might have
 broiled and eaten him too
first servingman but more of thy news
third servingman why he is so made on here within as if he were son
 and heir to mars set at upper end o the table no
 question asked him by any of the senators but they
 stand bald before him our general himself makes a
 mistress of him sanctifies himself with's hand and
 turns up the white o the eye to his discourse but
 the bottom of the news is that our general is cut i'
 the middle and but one half of what he was
 yesterday for the other has half by the entreaty
 and grant of the whole table he'll go he says
 and sowl the porter of rome gates by the ears he
 will mow all down before him and leave his passage polled
second servingman and he's as like to do't as any man i can imagine
third servingman do't he will do't for look you sir he has as
 many friends as enemies which friends sir as it
 were durst not look you sir show themselves as
 we term it his friends whilst he's in directitude
first servingman directitude what's that
third servingman but when they shall see sir his crest up again
 and the man in blood they will out of their
 burrows like conies after rain and revel all with
 him
first servingman but when goes this forward
third servingman tomorrow today presently you shall have the
 drum struck up this afternoon tis as it were a
 parcel of their feast and to be executed ere they
 wipe their lips
second servingman why then we shall have a stirring world again
 this peace is nothing but to rust iron increase
 tailors and breed balladmakers
first servingman let me have war say i it exceeds peace as far as
 day does night it's spritely waking audible and
 full of vent peace is a very apoplexy lethargy
 mulled deaf sleepy insensible a getter of more
 bastard children than war's a destroyer of men
second servingman tis so and as war in some sort may be said to
 be a ravisher so it cannot be denied but peace is a
 great maker of cuckolds
first servingman ay and it makes men hate one another
third servingman reason because they then less need one another
 the wars for my money i hope to see romans as cheap
 as volscians they are rising they are rising
all in in in in
 exeunt
 coriolanus
act iv
scene vi rome a public place
 enter sicinius and brutus
sicinius we hear not of him neither need we fear him
 his remedies are tame i the present peace
 and quietness of the people which before
 were in wild hurry here do we make his friends
 blush that the world goes well who rather had
 though they themselves did suffer by't behold
 dissentious numbers pestering streets than see
 our tradesmen with in their shops and going
 about their functions friendly
brutus we stood to't in good time
 enter menenius
 is this menenius
sicinius tis he'tis he o he is grown most kind of late
both tribunes hail sir
menenius hail to you both
sicinius your coriolanus
 is not much miss'd but with his friends
 the commonwealth doth stand and so would do
 were he more angry at it
menenius all's well and might have been much better if
 he could have temporized
sicinius where is he hear you
menenius nay i hear nothing his mother and his wife
 hear nothing from him
 enter three or four citizens
citizens the gods preserve you both
sicinius godden our neighbours
brutus godden to you all godden to you all
first citizen ourselves our wives and children on our knees
 are bound to pray for you both
sicinius live and thrive
brutus farewell kind neighbours we wish'd coriolanus
 had loved you as we did
citizens now the gods keep you
both tribunes farewell farewell
 exeunt citizens
sicinius this is a happier and more comely time
 than when these fellows ran about the streets
 crying confusion
brutus caius marcius was
 a worthy officer i the war but insolent
 o'ercome with pride ambitious past all thinking
 selfloving
sicinius and affecting one sole throne
 without assistance
menenius i think not so
sicinius we should by this to all our lamentation
 if he had gone forth consul found it so
brutus the gods have well prevented it and rome
 sits safe and still without him
 enter an aedile
aedile worthy tribunes
 there is a slave whom we have put in prison
 reports the volsces with two several powers
 are enter'd in the roman territories
 and with the deepest malice of the war
 destroy what lies before em
menenius tis aufidius
 who hearing of our marcius banishment
 thrusts forth his horns again into the world
 which were inshell'd when marcius stood for rome
 and durst not once peep out
sicinius come what talk you
 of marcius
brutus go see this rumourer whipp'd it cannot be
 the volsces dare break with us
menenius cannot be
 we have record that very well it can
 and three examples of the like have been
 within my age but reason with the fellow
 before you punish him where he heard this
 lest you shall chance to whip your information
 and beat the messenger who bids beware
 of what is to be dreaded
sicinius tell not me
 i know this cannot be
brutus not possible
 enter a messenger
messenger the nobles in great earnestness are going
 all to the senatehouse some news is come
 that turns their countenances
sicinius tis this slave
 go whip him fore the people's eyeshis raising
 nothing but his report
messenger yes worthy sir
 the slave's report is seconded and more
 more fearful is deliver'd
sicinius what more fearful
messenger it is spoke freely out of many mouths
 how probable i do not knowthat marcius
 join'd with aufidius leads a power gainst rome
 and vows revenge as spacious as between
 the young'st and oldest thing
sicinius this is most likely
brutus raised only that the weaker sort may wish
 good marcius home again
sicinius the very trick on't
menenius this is unlikely
 he and aufidius can no more atone
 than violentest contrariety
 enter a second messenger
second messenger you are sent for to the senate
 a fearful army led by caius marcius
 associated with aufidius rages
 upon our territories and have already
 o'erborne their way consumed with fire and took
 what lay before them
 enter cominius
cominius o you have made good work
menenius what news what news
cominius you have holp to ravish your own daughters and
 to melt the city leads upon your pates
 to see your wives dishonour'd to your noses
menenius what's the news what's the news
cominius your temples burned in their cement and
 your franchises whereon you stood confined
 into an auger's bore
menenius pray now your news
 you have made fair work i fear mepray your news
 if marcius should be join'd with volscians
cominius if
 he is their god he leads them like a thing
 made by some other deity than nature
 that shapes man better and they follow him
 against us brats with no less confidence
 than boys pursuing summer butterflies
 or butchers killing flies
menenius you have made good work
 you and your apronmen you that stood so up much
 on the voice of occupation and
 the breath of garliceaters
cominius he will shake
 your rome about your ears
menenius as hercules
 did shake down mellow fruit
 you have made fair work
brutus but is this true sir
cominius ay and you'll look pale
 before you find it other all the regions
 do smilingly revolt and who resist
 are mock'd for valiant ignorance
 and perish constant fools who is't can blame him
 your enemies and his find something in him
menenius we are all undone unless
 the noble man have mercy
cominius who shall ask it
 the tribunes cannot do't for shame the people
 deserve such pity of him as the wolf
 does of the shepherds for his best friends if they
 should say be good to rome they charged him even
 as those should do that had deserved his hate
 and therein show'd like enemies
menenius tis true
 if he were putting to my house the brand
 that should consume it i have not the face
 to say beseech you cease you have made fair hands
 you and your crafts you have crafted fair
cominius you have brought
 a trembling upon rome such as was never
 so incapable of help
both tribunes say not we brought it
menenius how was it we we loved him but like beasts
 and cowardly nobles gave way unto your clusters
 who did hoot him out o the city
cominius but i fear
 they'll roar him in again tullus aufidius
 the second name of men obeys his points
 as if he were his officer desperation
 is all the policy strength and defence
 that rome can make against them
 enter a troop of citizens
menenius here come the clusters
 and is aufidius with him you are they
 that made the air unwholesome when you cast
 your stinking greasy caps in hooting at
 coriolanus exile now he's coming
 and not a hair upon a soldier's head
 which will not prove a whip as many coxcombs
 as you threw caps up will he tumble down
 and pay you for your voices tis no matter
 if he could burn us all into one coal
 we have deserved it
citizens faith we hear fearful news
first citizen for mine own part
 when i said banish him i said twas pity
second citizen and so did i
third citizen and so did i and to say the truth so did very
 many of us that we did we did for the best and
 though we willingly consented to his banishment yet
 it was against our will
cominius ye re goodly things you voices
menenius you have made
 good work you and your cry shall's to the capitol
cominius o ay what else
 exeunt cominius and menenius
sicinius go masters get you home be not dismay'd
 these are a side that would be glad to have
 this true which they so seem to fear go home
 and show no sign of fear
first citizen the gods be good to us come masters let's home
 i ever said we were i the wrong when we banished
 him
second citizen so did we all but come let's home
 exeunt citizens
brutus i do not like this news
sicinius nor i
brutus let's to the capitol would half my wealth
 would buy this for a lie
sicinius pray let us go
 exeunt
 coriolanus
act iv
scene vii a camp at a small distance from rome
 enter aufidius and his lieutenant
aufidius do they still fly to the roman
lieutenant i do not know what witchcraft's in him but
 your soldiers use him as the grace fore meat
 their talk at table and their thanks at end
 and you are darken'd in this action sir
 even by your own
aufidius i cannot help it now
 unless by using means i lame the foot
 of our design he bears himself more proudlier
 even to my person than i thought he would
 when first i did embrace him yet his nature
 in that's no changeling and i must excuse
 what cannot be amended
lieutenant yet i wish sir
 i mean for your particularyou had not
 join'd in commission with him but either
 had borne the action of yourself or else
 to him had left it solely
aufidius i understand thee well and be thou sure
 when he shall come to his account he knows not
 what i can urge against him although it seems
 and so he thinks and is no less apparent
 to the vulgar eye that he bears all things fairly
 and shows good husbandry for the volscian state
 fights dragonlike and does achieve as soon
 as draw his sword yet he hath left undone
 that which shall break his neck or hazard mine
 whene'er we come to our account
lieutenant sir i beseech you think you he'll carry rome
aufidius all places yield to him ere he sits down
 and the nobility of rome are his
 the senators and patricians love him too
 the tribunes are no soldiers and their people
 will be as rash in the repeal as hasty
 to expel him thence i think he'll be to rome
 as is the osprey to the fish who takes it
 by sovereignty of nature first he was
 a noble servant to them but he could not
 carry his honours even whether twas pride
 which out of daily fortune ever taints
 the happy man whether defect of judgment
 to fail in the disposing of those chances
 which he was lord of or whether nature
 not to be other than one thing not moving
 from the casque to the cushion but commanding peace
 even with the same austerity and garb
 as he controll'd the war but one of these
 as he hath spices of them all not all
 for i dare so far free himmade him fear'd
 so hated and so banish'd but he has a merit
 to choke it in the utterance so our virtues
 lie in the interpretation of the time
 and power unto itself most commendable
 hath not a tomb so evident as a chair
 to extol what it hath done
 one fire drives out one fire one nail one nail
 rights by rights falter strengths by strengths do fail
 come let's away when caius rome is thine
 thou art poor'st of all then shortly art thou mine
 exeunt
 coriolanus
act v
scene i rome a public place
 enter menenius cominius sicinius brutus
 and others
menenius no i'll not go you hear what he hath said
 which was sometime his general who loved him
 in a most dear particular he call'd me father
 but what o that go you that banish'd him
 a mile before his tent fall down and knee
 the way into his mercy nay if he coy'd
 to hear cominius speak i'll keep at home
cominius he would not seem to know me
menenius do you hear
cominius yet one time he did call me by my name
 i urged our old acquaintance and the drops
 that we have bled together coriolanus
 he would not answer to forbad all names
 he was a kind of nothing titleless
 till he had forged himself a name o the fire
 of burning rome
menenius why so you have made good work
 a pair of tribunes that have rack'd for rome
 to make coals cheapa noble memory
cominius i minded him how royal twas to pardon
 when it was less expected he replied
 it was a bare petition of a state
 to one whom they had punish'd
menenius very well
 could he say less
cominius i offer'd to awaken his regard
 for's private friends his answer to me was
 he could not stay to pick them in a pile
 of noisome musty chaff he said twas folly
 for one poor grain or two to leave unburnt
 and still to nose the offence
menenius for one poor grain or two
 i am one of those his mother wife his child
 and this brave fellow too we are the grains
 you are the musty chaff and you are smelt
 above the moon we must be burnt for you
sicinius nay pray be patient if you refuse your aid
 in this so neverneeded help yet do not
 upbraid's with our distress but sure if you
 would be your country's pleader your good tongue
 more than the instant army we can make
 might stop our countryman
menenius no i'll not meddle
sicinius pray you go to him
menenius what should i do
brutus only make trial what your love can do
 for rome towards marcius
menenius well and say that marcius
 return me as cominius is return'd
 unheard what then
 but as a discontented friend griefshot
 with his unkindness say't be so
sicinius yet your good will
 must have that thanks from rome after the measure
 as you intended well
menenius i'll undertake t
 i think he'll hear me yet to bite his lip
 and hum at good cominius much unhearts me
 he was not taken well he had not dined
 the veins unfill'd our blood is cold and then
 we pout upon the morning are unapt
 to give or to forgive but when we have stuff'd
 these and these conveyances of our blood
 with wine and feeding we have suppler souls
 than in our priestlike fasts therefore i'll watch him
 till he be dieted to my request
 and then i'll set upon him
brutus you know the very road into his kindness
 and cannot lose your way
menenius good faith i'll prove him
 speed how it will i shall ere long have knowledge
 of my success
 exit
cominius he'll never hear him
sicinius not
cominius i tell you he does sit in gold his eye
 red as twould burn rome and his injury
 the gaoler to his pity i kneel'd before him
 twas very faintly he said rise dismiss'd me
 thus with his speechless hand what he would do
 he sent in writing after me what he would not
 bound with an oath to yield to his conditions
 so that all hope is vain
 unless his noble mother and his wife
 who as i hear mean to solicit him
 for mercy to his country therefore let's hence
 and with our fair entreaties haste them on
 exeunt
 coriolanus
act v
scene ii entrance of the volscian camp before rome
 two sentinels on guard
 enter to them menenius
first senator stay whence are you
second senator stand and go back
menenius you guard like men tis well but by your leave
 i am an officer of state and come
 to speak with coriolanus
first senator from whence
menenius from rome
first senator you may not pass you must return our general
 will no more hear from thence
second senator you'll see your rome embraced with fire before
 you'll speak with coriolanus
menenius good my friends
 if you have heard your general talk of rome
 and of his friends there it is lots to blanks
 my name hath touch'd your ears it is menenius
first senator be it so go back the virtue of your name
 is not here passable
menenius i tell thee fellow
 the general is my lover i have been
 the book of his good acts whence men have read
 his name unparallel'd haply amplified
 for i have ever verified my friends
 of whom he's chief with all the size that verity
 would without lapsing suffer nay sometimes
 like to a bowl upon a subtle ground
 i have tumbled past the throw and in his praise
 have almost stamp'd the leasing therefore fellow
 i must have leave to pass
first senator faith sir if you had told as many lies in his
 behalf as you have uttered words in your own you
 should not pass here no though it were as virtuous
 to lie as to live chastely therefore go back
menenius prithee fellow remember my name is menenius
 always factionary on the party of your general
second senator howsoever you have been his liar as you say you
 have i am one that telling true under him must
 say you cannot pass therefore go back
menenius has he dined canst thou tell for i would not
 speak with him till after dinner
first senator you are a roman are you
menenius i am as thy general is
first senator then you should hate rome as he does can you
 when you have pushed out your gates the very
 defender of them and in a violent popular
 ignorance given your enemy your shield think to
 front his revenges with the easy groans of old
 women the virginal palms of your daughters or with
 the palsied intercession of such a decayed dotant as
 you seem to be can you think to blow out the
 intended fire your city is ready to flame in with
 such weak breath as this no you are deceived
 therefore back to rome and prepare for your
 execution you are condemned our general has sworn
 you out of reprieve and pardon
menenius sirrah if thy captain knew i were here he would
 use me with estimation
second senator come my captain knows you not
menenius i mean thy general
first senator my general cares not for you back i say go lest
 i let forth your halfpint of blood backthat's
 the utmost of your having back
menenius nay but fellow fellow
 enter coriolanus and aufidius
coriolanus what's the matter
menenius now you companion i'll say an errand for you
 you shall know now that i am in estimation you shall
 perceive that a jack guardant cannot office me from
 my son coriolanus guess but by my entertainment
 with him if thou standest not i the state of
 hanging or of some death more long in
 spectatorship and crueller in suffering behold now
 presently and swoon for what's to come upon thee
 to coriolanus
 the glorious gods sit in hourly synod about thy
 particular prosperity and love thee no worse than
 thy old father menenius does o my son my son
 thou art preparing fire for us look thee here's
 water to quench it i was hardly moved to come to
 thee but being assured none but myself could move
 thee i have been blown out of your gates with
 sighs and conjure thee to pardon rome and thy
 petitionary countrymen the good gods assuage thy
 wrath and turn the dregs of it upon this varlet
 herethis who like a block hath denied my
 access to thee
coriolanus away
menenius how away
coriolanus wife mother child i know not my affairs
 are servanted to others though i owe
 my revenge properly my remission lies
 in volscian breasts that we have been familiar
 ingrate forgetfulness shall poison rather
 than pity note how much therefore be gone
 mine ears against your suits are stronger than
 your gates against my force yet for i loved thee
 take this along i writ it for thy sake
 gives a letter
 and would have rent it another word menenius
 i will not hear thee speak this man aufidius
 was my beloved in rome yet thou behold'st
aufidius you keep a constant temper
 exeunt coriolanus and aufidius
first senator now sir is your name menenius
second senator tis a spell you see of much power you know the
 way home again
first senator do you hear how we are shent for keeping your
 greatness back
second senator what cause do you think i have to swoon
menenius i neither care for the world nor your general for
 such things as you i can scarce think there's any
 ye're so slight he that hath a will to die by
 himself fears it not from another let your general
 do his worst for you be that you are long and
 your misery increase with your age i say to you
 as i was said to away
 exit
first senator a noble fellow i warrant him
second senator the worthy fellow is our general he's the rock the
 oak not to be windshaken
 exeunt
 coriolanus
act v
scene iii the tent of coriolanus
 enter coriolanus aufidius and others
coriolanus we will before the walls of rome tomorrow
 set down our host my partner in this action
 you must report to the volscian lords how plainly
 i have borne this business
aufidius only their ends
 you have respected stopp'd your ears against
 the general suit of rome never admitted
 a private whisper no not with such friends
 that thought them sure of you
coriolanus this last old man
 whom with a crack'd heart i have sent to rome
 loved me above the measure of a father
 nay godded me indeed their latest refuge
 was to send him for whose old love i have
 though i show'd sourly to him once more offer'd
 the first conditions which they did refuse
 and cannot now accept to grace him only
 that thought he could do more a very little
 i have yielded to fresh embassies and suits
 nor from the state nor private friends hereafter
 will i lend ear to ha what shout is this
 shout within
 shall i be tempted to infringe my vow
 in the same time tis made i will not
 enter in mourning habits virgilia volumnia
 leading young marcius valeria and attendants
 my wife comes foremost then the honour'd mould
 wherein this trunk was framed and in her hand
 the grandchild to her blood but out affection
 all bond and privilege of nature break
 let it be virtuous to be obstinate
 what is that curt'sy worth or those doves eyes
 which can make gods forsworn i melt and am not
 of stronger earth than others my mother bows
 as if olympus to a molehill should
 in supplication nod and my young boy
 hath an aspect of intercession which
 great nature cries deny not let the volsces
 plough rome and harrow italy i'll never
 be such a gosling to obey instinct but stand
 as if a man were author of himself
 and knew no other kin
virgilia my lord and husband
coriolanus these eyes are not the same i wore in rome
virgilia the sorrow that delivers us thus changed
 makes you think so
coriolanus like a dull actor now
 i have forgot my part and i am out
 even to a full disgrace best of my flesh
 forgive my tyranny but do not say
 for that forgive our romans o a kiss
 long as my exile sweet as my revenge
 now by the jealous queen of heaven that kiss
 i carried from thee dear and my true lip
 hath virgin'd it e'er since you gods i prate
 and the most noble mother of the world
 leave unsaluted sink my knee i the earth
 kneels
 of thy deep duty more impression show
 than that of common sons
volumnia o stand up blest
 whilst with no softer cushion than the flint
 i kneel before thee and unproperly
 show duty as mistaken all this while
 between the child and parent
 kneels
coriolanus what is this
 your knees to me to your corrected son
 then let the pebbles on the hungry beach
 fillip the stars then let the mutinous winds
 strike the proud cedars gainst the fiery sun
 murdering impossibility to make
 what cannot be slight work
volumnia thou art my warrior
 i holp to frame thee do you know this lady
coriolanus the noble sister of publicola
 the moon of rome chaste as the icicle
 that's curdied by the frost from purest snow
 and hangs on dian's temple dear valeria
volumnia this is a poor epitome of yours
 which by the interpretation of full time
 may show like all yourself
coriolanus the god of soldiers
 with the consent of supreme jove inform
 thy thoughts with nobleness that thou mayst prove
 to shame unvulnerable and stick i the wars
 like a great seamark standing every flaw
 and saving those that eye thee
volumnia your knee sirrah
coriolanus that's my brave boy
volumnia even he your wife this lady and myself
 are suitors to you
coriolanus i beseech you peace
 or if you'ld ask remember this before
 the thing i have forsworn to grant may never
 be held by you denials do not bid me
 dismiss my soldiers or capitulate
 again with rome's mechanics tell me not
 wherein i seem unnatural desire not
 to ally my rages and revenges with
 your colder reasons
volumnia o no more no more
 you have said you will not grant us any thing
 for we have nothing else to ask but that
 which you deny already yet we will ask
 that if you fail in our request the blame
 may hang upon your hardness therefore hear us
coriolanus aufidius and you volsces mark for we'll
 hear nought from rome in private your request
volumnia should we be silent and not speak our raiment
 and state of bodies would bewray what life
 we have led since thy exile think with thyself
 how more unfortunate than all living women
 are we come hither since that thy sight
 which should
 make our eyes flow with joy hearts dance
 with comforts
 constrains them weep and shake with fear and sorrow
 making the mother wife and child to see
 the son the husband and the father tearing
 his country's bowels out and to poor we
 thine enmity's most capital thou barr'st us
 our prayers to the gods which is a comfort
 that all but we enjoy for how can we
 alas how can we for our country pray
 whereto we are bound together with thy victory
 whereto we are bound alack or we must lose
 the country our dear nurse or else thy person
 our comfort in the country we must find
 an evident calamity though we had
 our wish which side should win for either thou
 must as a foreign recreant be led
 with manacles thorough our streets or else
 triumphantly tread on thy country's ruin
 and bear the palm for having bravely shed
 thy wife and children's blood for myself son
 i purpose not to wait on fortune till
 these wars determine if i cannot persuade thee
 rather to show a noble grace to both parts
 than seek the end of one thou shalt no sooner
 march to assault thy country than to tread
 trust to't thou shalt noton thy mother's womb
 that brought thee to this world
virgilia ay and mine
 that brought you forth this boy to keep your name
 living to time
young marcius a shall not tread on me
 i'll run away till i am bigger but then i'll fight
coriolanus not of a woman's tenderness to be
 requires nor child nor woman's face to see
 i have sat too long
 rising
volumnia nay go not from us thus
 if it were so that our request did tend
 to save the romans thereby to destroy
 the volsces whom you serve you might condemn us
 as poisonous of your honour no our suit
 is that you reconcile them while the volsces
 may say this mercy we have show'd the romans
 this we received and each in either side
 give the allhail to thee and cry be blest
 for making up this peace thou know'st great son
 the end of war's uncertain but this certain
 that if thou conquer rome the benefit
 which thou shalt thereby reap is such a name
 whose repetition will be dogg'd with curses
 whose chronicle thus writ the man was noble
 but with his last attempt he wiped it out
 destroy'd his country and his name remains
 to the ensuing age abhorr'd speak to me son
 thou hast affected the fine strains of honour
 to imitate the graces of the gods
 to tear with thunder the wide cheeks o the air
 and yet to charge thy sulphur with a bolt
 that should but rive an oak why dost not speak
 think'st thou it honourable for a noble man
 still to remember wrongs daughter speak you
 he cares not for your weeping speak thou boy
 perhaps thy childishness will move him more
 than can our reasons there's no man in the world
 more bound to s mother yet here he lets me prate
 like one i the stocks thou hast never in thy life
 show'd thy dear mother any courtesy
 when she poor hen fond of no second brood
 has cluck'd thee to the wars and safely home
 loaden with honour say my request's unjust
 and spurn me back but if it be not so
 thou art not honest and the gods will plague thee
 that thou restrain'st from me the duty which
 to a mother's part belongs he turns away
 down ladies let us shame him with our knees
 to his surname coriolanus longs more pride
 than pity to our prayers down an end
 this is the last so we will home to rome
 and die among our neighbours nay behold s
 this boy that cannot tell what he would have
 but kneels and holds up bands for fellowship
 does reason our petition with more strength
 than thou hast to deny t come let us go
 this fellow had a volscian to his mother
 his wife is in corioli and his child
 like him by chance yet give us our dispatch
 i am hush'd until our city be afire
 and then i'll speak a little
 he holds her by the hand silent
coriolanus o mother mother
 what have you done behold the heavens do ope
 the gods look down and this unnatural scene
 they laugh at o my mother mother o
 you have won a happy victory to rome
 but for your sonbelieve it o believe it
 most dangerously you have with him prevail'd
 if not most mortal to him but let it come
 aufidius though i cannot make true wars
 i'll frame convenient peace now good aufidius
 were you in my stead would you have heard
 a mother less or granted less aufidius
aufidius i was moved withal
coriolanus i dare be sworn you were
 and sir it is no little thing to make
 mine eyes to sweat compassion but good sir
 what peace you'll make advise me for my part
 i'll not to rome i'll back with you and pray you
 stand to me in this cause o mother wife
aufidius aside i am glad thou hast set thy mercy and
 thy honour
 at difference in thee out of that i'll work
 myself a former fortune
 the ladies make signs to coriolanus
coriolanus ay by and by
 to volumnia virgilia &c
 but we will drink together and you shall bear
 a better witness back than words which we
 on like conditions will have counterseal'd
 come enter with us ladies you deserve
 to have a temple built you all the swords
 in italy and her confederate arms
 could not have made this peace
 exeunt
 coriolanus
act v
scene iv rome a public place
 enter menenius and sicinius
menenius see you yond coign o the capitol yond
 cornerstone
sicinius why what of that
menenius if it be possible for you to displace it with your
 little finger there is some hope the ladies of
 rome especially his mother may prevail with him
 but i say there is no hope in't our throats are
 sentenced and stay upon execution
sicinius is't possible that so short a time can alter the
 condition of a man
menenius there is differency between a grub and a butterfly
 yet your butterfly was a grub this marcius is grown
 from man to dragon he has wings he's more than a
 creeping thing
sicinius he loved his mother dearly
menenius so did he me and he no more remembers his mother
 now than an eightyearold horse the tartness
 of his face sours ripe grapes when he walks he
 moves like an engine and the ground shrinks before
 his treading he is able to pierce a corslet with
 his eye talks like a knell and his hum is a
 battery he sits in his state as a thing made for
 alexander what he bids be done is finished with
 his bidding he wants nothing of a god but eternity
 and a heaven to throne in
sicinius yes mercy if you report him truly
menenius i paint him in the character mark what mercy his
 mother shall bring from him there is no more mercy
 in him than there is milk in a male tiger that
 shall our poor city find and all this is long of
 you
sicinius the gods be good unto us
menenius no in such a case the gods will not be good unto
 us when we banished him we respected not them
 and he returning to break our necks they respect not us
 enter a messenger
messenger sir if you'ld save your life fly to your house
 the plebeians have got your fellowtribune
 and hale him up and down all swearing if
 the roman ladies bring not comfort home
 they'll give him death by inches
 enter a second messenger
sicinius what's the news
second messenger good news good news the ladies have prevail'd
 the volscians are dislodged and marcius gone
 a merrier day did never yet greet rome
 no not the expulsion of the tarquins
sicinius friend
 art thou certain this is true is it most certain
second messenger as certain as i know the sun is fire
 where have you lurk'd that you make doubt of it
 ne'er through an arch so hurried the blown tide
 as the recomforted through the gates why hark you
 trumpets hautboys drums beat all together
 the trumpets sackbuts psalteries and fifes
 tabours and cymbals and the shouting romans
 make the sun dance hark you
 a shout within
menenius this is good news
 i will go meet the ladies this volumnia
 is worth of consuls senators patricians
 a city full of tribunes such as you
 a sea and land full you have pray'd well today
 this morning for ten thousand of your throats
 i'd not have given a doit hark how they joy
 music still with shouts
sicinius first the gods bless you for your tidings next
 accept my thankfulness
second messenger sir we have all
 great cause to give great thanks
sicinius they are near the city
second messenger almost at point to enter
sicinius we will meet them
 and help the joy
 exeunt
 coriolanus
act v
scene v the same a street near the gate
 enter two senators with volumnia virgilia
 valeria &c passing over the stage
 followed by patricians and others
first senator behold our patroness the life of rome
 call all your tribes together praise the gods
 and make triumphant fires strew flowers before them
 unshout the noise that banish'd marcius
 repeal him with the welcome of his mother
 cry welcome ladies welcome'
all welcome ladies welcome
 a flourish with drums and trumpets exeunt
 coriolanus
act v
scene vi antium a public place
 enter tullus aufidius with attendants
aufidius go tell the lords o the city i am here
 deliver them this paper having read it
 bid them repair to the market place where i
 even in theirs and in the commons ears
 will vouch the truth of it him i accuse
 the city ports by this hath enter'd and
 intends to appear before the people hoping
 to purge herself with words dispatch
 exeunt attendants
 enter three or four conspirators of aufidius faction
 most welcome
first conspirator how is it with our general
aufidius even so
 as with a man by his own alms empoison'd
 and with his charity slain
second conspirator most noble sir
 if you do hold the same intent wherein
 you wish'd us parties we'll deliver you
 of your great danger
aufidius sir i cannot tell
 we must proceed as we do find the people
third conspirator the people will remain uncertain whilst
 twixt you there's difference but the fall of either
 makes the survivor heir of all
aufidius i know it
 and my pretext to strike at him admits
 a good construction i raised him and i pawn'd
 mine honour for his truth who being so heighten'd
 he water'd his new plants with dews of flattery
 seducing so my friends and to this end
 he bow'd his nature never known before
 but to be rough unswayable and free
third conspirator sir his stoutness
 when he did stand for consul which he lost
 by lack of stooping
aufidius that i would have spoke of
 being banish'd for't he came unto my hearth
 presented to my knife his throat i took him
 made him jointservant with me gave him way
 in all his own desires nay let him choose
 out of my files his projects to accomplish
 my best and freshest men served his designments
 in mine own person holp to reap the fame
 which he did end all his and took some pride
 to do myself this wrong till at the last
 i seem'd his follower not partner and
 he waged me with his countenance as if
 i had been mercenary
first conspirator so he did my lord
 the army marvell'd at it and in the last
 when he had carried rome and that we look'd
 for no less spoil than glory
aufidius there was it
 for which my sinews shall be stretch'd upon him
 at a few drops of women's rheum which are
 as cheap as lies he sold the blood and labour
 of our great action therefore shall he die
 and i'll renew me in his fall but hark
 drums and trumpets sound with great shouts of
 the people
first conspirator your native town you enter'd like a post
 and had no welcomes home but he returns
 splitting the air with noise
second conspirator and patient fools
 whose children he hath slain their base throats tear
 with giving him glory
third conspirator therefore at your vantage
 ere he express himself or move the people
 with what he would say let him feel your sword
 which we will second when he lies along
 after your way his tale pronounced shall bury
 his reasons with his body
aufidius say no more
 here come the lords
 enter the lords of the city
all the lords you are most welcome home
aufidius i have not deserved it
 but worthy lords have you with heed perused
 what i have written to you
lords we have
first lord and grieve to hear't
 what faults he made before the last i think
 might have found easy fines but there to end
 where he was to begin and give away
 the benefit of our levies answering us
 with our own charge making a treaty where
 there was a yieldingthis admits no excuse
aufidius he approaches you shall hear him
 enter coriolanus marching with drum and
 colours commoners being with him
coriolanus hail lords i am return'd your soldier
 no more infected with my country's love
 than when i parted hence but still subsisting
 under your great command you are to know
 that prosperously i have attempted and
 with bloody passage led your wars even to
 the gates of rome our spoils we have brought home
 do more than counterpoise a full third part
 the charges of the action we have made peace
 with no less honour to the antiates
 than shame to the romans and we here deliver
 subscribed by the consuls and patricians
 together with the seal o the senate what
 we have compounded on
aufidius read it not noble lords
 but tell the traitor in the high'st degree
 he hath abused your powers
coriolanus traitor how now
aufidius ay traitor marcius
coriolanus marcius
aufidius ay marcius caius marcius dost thou think
 i'll grace thee with that robbery thy stol'n name
 coriolanus in corioli
 you lords and heads o the state perfidiously
 he has betray'd your business and given up
 for certain drops of salt your city rome
 i say your city to his wife and mother
 breaking his oath and resolution like
 a twist of rotten silk never admitting
 counsel o the war but at his nurse's tears
 he whined and roar'd away your victory
 that pages blush'd at him and men of heart
 look'd wondering each at other
coriolanus hear'st thou mars
aufidius name not the god thou boy of tears
coriolanus ha
aufidius no more
coriolanus measureless liar thou hast made my heart
 too great for what contains it boy o slave
 pardon me lords tis the first time that ever
 i was forced to scold your judgments my grave lords
 must give this cur the lie and his own notion
 who wears my stripes impress'd upon him that
 must bear my beating to his graveshall join
 to thrust the lie unto him
first lord peace both and hear me speak
coriolanus cut me to pieces volsces men and lads
 stain all your edges on me boy false hound
 if you have writ your annals true tis there
 that like an eagle in a dovecote i
 flutter'd your volscians in corioli
 alone i did it boy
aufidius why noble lords
 will you be put in mind of his blind fortune
 which was your shame by this unholy braggart
 fore your own eyes and ears
all conspirators let him die for't
all the people tear him to pieces do it presently he kill'd
 my son my daughter he killed my cousin
 marcus he killed my father'
second lord peace ho no outrage peace
 the man is noble and his fame foldsin
 this orb o the earth his last offences to us
 shall have judicious hearing stand aufidius
 and trouble not the peace
coriolanus o that i had him
 with six aufidiuses or more his tribe
 to use my lawful sword
aufidius insolent villain
all conspirators kill kill kill kill kill him
 the conspirators draw and kill coriolanus
 aufidius stands on his body
lords hold hold hold hold
aufidius my noble masters hear me speak
first lord o tullus
second lord thou hast done a deed whereat valour will weep
third lord tread not upon him masters all be quiet
 put up your swords
aufidius my lords when you shall knowas in this rage
 provoked by him you cannotthe great danger
 which this man's life did owe you you'll rejoice
 that he is thus cut off please it your honours
 to call me to your senate i'll deliver
 myself your loyal servant or endure
 your heaviest censure
first lord bear from hence his body
 and mourn you for him let him be regarded
 as the most noble corse that ever herald
 did follow to his urn
second lord his own impatience
 takes from aufidius a great part of blame
 let's make the best of it
aufidius my rage is gone
 and i am struck with sorrow take him up
 help three o the chiefest soldiers i'll be one
 beat thou the drum that it speak mournfully
 trail your steel pikes though in this city he
 hath widow'd and unchilded many a one
 which to this hour bewail the injury
 yet he shall have a noble memory assist
 exeunt bearing the body of coriolanus a dead
 march sounded
 hamlet
 dramatis personae
claudius king of denmark king claudius
hamlet son to the late and nephew to the present king
polonius lord chamberlain lord polonius
horatio friend to hamlet
laertes son to polonius
lucianus nephew to the king
voltimand 
 
cornelius 
 
rosencrantz courtiers
 
guildenstern 
 
osric 
 a gentleman gentlemen
 a priest first priest
marcellus 
 officers
bernardo 
francisco a soldier
reynaldo servant to polonius
 players
 first player
 player king
 player queen
 two clowns gravediggers
 first clown
 second clown
fortinbras prince of norway prince fortinbras
 a captain
 english ambassadors first ambassador
gertrude queen of denmark and mother to hamlet
 queen gertrude
ophelia daughter to polonius
 lords ladies officers soldiers sailors messengers
 and other attendants lord
 first sailor
 messenger
 ghost of hamlet's father ghost
scene denmark
 hamlet
act i
scene i elsinore a platform before the castle
 francisco at his post enter to him bernardo
bernardo who's there
francisco nay answer me stand and unfold yourself
bernardo long live the king
francisco bernardo
bernardo he
francisco you come most carefully upon your hour
bernardo tis now struck twelve get thee to bed francisco
francisco for this relief much thanks tis bitter cold
 and i am sick at heart
bernardo have you had quiet guard
francisco not a mouse stirring
bernardo well good night
 if you do meet horatio and marcellus
 the rivals of my watch bid them make haste
francisco i think i hear them stand ho who's there
 enter horatio and marcellus
horatio friends to this ground
marcellus and liegemen to the dane
francisco give you good night
marcellus o farewell honest soldier
 who hath relieved you
francisco bernardo has my place
 give you good night
 exit
marcellus holla bernardo
bernardo say
 what is horatio there
horatio a piece of him
bernardo welcome horatio welcome good marcellus
marcellus what has this thing appear'd again tonight
bernardo i have seen nothing
marcellus horatio says tis but our fantasy
 and will not let belief take hold of him
 touching this dreaded sight twice seen of us
 therefore i have entreated him along
 with us to watch the minutes of this night
 that if again this apparition come
 he may approve our eyes and speak to it
horatio tush tush twill not appear
bernardo sit down awhile
 and let us once again assail your ears
 that are so fortified against our story
 what we have two nights seen
horatio well sit we down
 and let us hear bernardo speak of this
bernardo last night of all
 when yond same star that's westward from the pole
 had made his course to illume that part of heaven
 where now it burns marcellus and myself
 the bell then beating one
 enter ghost
marcellus peace break thee off look where it comes again
bernardo in the same figure like the king that's dead
marcellus thou art a scholar speak to it horatio
bernardo looks it not like the king mark it horatio
horatio most like it harrows me with fear and wonder
bernardo it would be spoke to
marcellus question it horatio
horatio what art thou that usurp'st this time of night
 together with that fair and warlike form
 in which the majesty of buried denmark
 did sometimes march by heaven i charge thee speak
marcellus it is offended
bernardo see it stalks away
horatio stay speak speak i charge thee speak
 exit ghost
marcellus tis gone and will not answer
bernardo how now horatio you tremble and look pale
 is not this something more than fantasy
 what think you on't
horatio before my god i might not this believe
 without the sensible and true avouch
 of mine own eyes
marcellus is it not like the king
horatio as thou art to thyself
 such was the very armour he had on
 when he the ambitious norway combated
 so frown'd he once when in an angry parle
 he smote the sledded polacks on the ice
 tis strange
marcellus thus twice before and jump at this dead hour
 with martial stalk hath he gone by our watch
horatio in what particular thought to work i know not
 but in the gross and scope of my opinion
 this bodes some strange eruption to our state
marcellus good now sit down and tell me he that knows
 why this same strict and most observant watch
 so nightly toils the subject of the land
 and why such daily cast of brazen cannon
 and foreign mart for implements of war
 why such impress of shipwrights whose sore task
 does not divide the sunday from the week
 what might be toward that this sweaty haste
 doth make the night jointlabourer with the day
 who is't that can inform me
horatio that can i
 at least the whisper goes so our last king
 whose image even but now appear'd to us
 was as you know by fortinbras of norway
 thereto prick'd on by a most emulate pride
 dared to the combat in which our valiant hamlet
 for so this side of our known world esteem'd him
 did slay this fortinbras who by a seal'd compact
 well ratified by law and heraldry
 did forfeit with his life all those his lands
 which he stood seized of to the conqueror
 against the which a moiety competent
 was gaged by our king which had return'd
 to the inheritance of fortinbras
 had he been vanquisher as by the same covenant
 and carriage of the article design'd
 his fell to hamlet now sir young fortinbras
 of unimproved mettle hot and full
 hath in the skirts of norway here and there
 shark'd up a list of lawless resolutes
 for food and diet to some enterprise
 that hath a stomach in't which is no other
 as it doth well appear unto our state
 but to recover of us by strong hand
 and terms compulsatory those foresaid lands
 so by his father lost and this i take it
 is the main motive of our preparations
 the source of this our watch and the chief head
 of this posthaste and romage in the land
bernardo i think it be no other but e'en so
 well may it sort that this portentous figure
 comes armed through our watch so like the king
 that was and is the question of these wars
horatio a mote it is to trouble the mind's eye
 in the most high and palmy state of rome
 a little ere the mightiest julius fell
 the graves stood tenantless and the sheeted dead
 did squeak and gibber in the roman streets
 as stars with trains of fire and dews of blood
 disasters in the sun and the moist star
 upon whose influence neptune's empire stands
 was sick almost to doomsday with eclipse
 and even the like precurse of fierce events
 as harbingers preceding still the fates
 and prologue to the omen coming on
 have heaven and earth together demonstrated
 unto our climatures and countrymen
 but soft behold lo where it comes again
 reenter ghost
 i'll cross it though it blast me stay illusion
 if thou hast any sound or use of voice
 speak to me
 if there be any good thing to be done
 that may to thee do ease and grace to me
 speak to me
 cock crows
 if thou art privy to thy country's fate
 which happily foreknowing may avoid o speak
 or if thou hast uphoarded in thy life
 extorted treasure in the womb of earth
 for which they say you spirits oft walk in death
 speak of it stay and speak stop it marcellus
marcellus shall i strike at it with my partisan
horatio do if it will not stand
bernardo tis here
horatio tis here
marcellus tis gone
 exit ghost
 we do it wrong being so majestical
 to offer it the show of violence
 for it is as the air invulnerable
 and our vain blows malicious mockery
bernardo it was about to speak when the cock crew
horatio and then it started like a guilty thing
 upon a fearful summons i have heard
 the cock that is the trumpet to the morn
 doth with his lofty and shrillsounding throat
 awake the god of day and at his warning
 whether in sea or fire in earth or air
 the extravagant and erring spirit hies
 to his confine and of the truth herein
 this present object made probation
marcellus it faded on the crowing of the cock
 some say that ever gainst that season comes
 wherein our saviour's birth is celebrated
 the bird of dawning singeth all night long
 and then they say no spirit dares stir abroad
 the nights are wholesome then no planets strike
 no fairy takes nor witch hath power to charm
 so hallow'd and so gracious is the time
horatio so have i heard and do in part believe it
 but look the morn in russet mantle clad
 walks o'er the dew of yon high eastward hill
 break we our watch up and by my advice
 let us impart what we have seen tonight
 unto young hamlet for upon my life
 this spirit dumb to us will speak to him
 do you consent we shall acquaint him with it
 as needful in our loves fitting our duty
marcellus let's do't i pray and i this morning know
 where we shall find him most conveniently
 exeunt
 hamlet
act i
scene ii a room of state in the castle
 enter king claudius queen gertrude hamlet
 polonius laertes voltimand cornelius lords
 and attendants
king claudius though yet of hamlet our dear brother's death
 the memory be green and that it us befitted
 to bear our hearts in grief and our whole kingdom
 to be contracted in one brow of woe
 yet so far hath discretion fought with nature
 that we with wisest sorrow think on him
 together with remembrance of ourselves
 therefore our sometime sister now our queen
 the imperial jointress to this warlike state
 have we as twere with a defeated joy
 with an auspicious and a dropping eye
 with mirth in funeral and with dirge in marriage
 in equal scale weighing delight and dole
 taken to wife nor have we herein barr'd
 your better wisdoms which have freely gone
 with this affair along for all our thanks
 now follows that you know young fortinbras
 holding a weak supposal of our worth
 or thinking by our late dear brother's death
 our state to be disjoint and out of frame
 colleagued with the dream of his advantage
 he hath not fail'd to pester us with message
 importing the surrender of those lands
 lost by his father with all bonds of law
 to our most valiant brother so much for him
 now for ourself and for this time of meeting
 thus much the business is we have here writ
 to norway uncle of young fortinbras
 who impotent and bedrid scarcely hears
 of this his nephew's purposeto suppress
 his further gait herein in that the levies
 the lists and full proportions are all made
 out of his subject and we here dispatch
 you good cornelius and you voltimand
 for bearers of this greeting to old norway
 giving to you no further personal power
 to business with the king more than the scope
 of these delated articles allow
 farewell and let your haste commend your duty
cornelius 
 in that and all things will we show our duty
voltimand 
king claudius we doubt it nothing heartily farewell
 exeunt voltimand and cornelius
 and now laertes what's the news with you
 you told us of some suit what is't laertes
 you cannot speak of reason to the dane
 and loose your voice what wouldst thou beg laertes
 that shall not be my offer not thy asking
 the head is not more native to the heart
 the hand more instrumental to the mouth
 than is the throne of denmark to thy father
 what wouldst thou have laertes
laertes my dread lord
 your leave and favour to return to france
 from whence though willingly i came to denmark
 to show my duty in your coronation
 yet now i must confess that duty done
 my thoughts and wishes bend again toward france
 and bow them to your gracious leave and pardon
king claudius have you your father's leave what says polonius
lord polonius he hath my lord wrung from me my slow leave
 by laboursome petition and at last
 upon his will i seal'd my hard consent
 i do beseech you give him leave to go
king claudius take thy fair hour laertes time be thine
 and thy best graces spend it at thy will
 but now my cousin hamlet and my son
hamlet aside a little more than kin and less than kind
king claudius how is it that the clouds still hang on you
hamlet not so my lord i am too much i the sun
queen gertrude good hamlet cast thy nighted colour off
 and let thine eye look like a friend on denmark
 do not for ever with thy vailed lids
 seek for thy noble father in the dust
 thou know'st tis common all that lives must die
 passing through nature to eternity
hamlet ay madam it is common
queen gertrude if it be
 why seems it so particular with thee
hamlet seems madam nay it is i know not seems'
 tis not alone my inky cloak good mother
 nor customary suits of solemn black
 nor windy suspiration of forced breath
 no nor the fruitful river in the eye
 nor the dejected havior of the visage
 together with all forms moods shapes of grief
 that can denote me truly these indeed seem
 for they are actions that a man might play
 but i have that within which passeth show
 these but the trappings and the suits of woe
king claudius tis sweet and commendable in your nature hamlet
 to give these mourning duties to your father
 but you must know your father lost a father
 that father lost lost his and the survivor bound
 in filial obligation for some term
 to do obsequious sorrow but to persever
 in obstinate condolement is a course
 of impious stubbornness tis unmanly grief
 it shows a will most incorrect to heaven
 a heart unfortified a mind impatient
 an understanding simple and unschool'd
 for what we know must be and is as common
 as any the most vulgar thing to sense
 why should we in our peevish opposition
 take it to heart fie tis a fault to heaven
 a fault against the dead a fault to nature
 to reason most absurd whose common theme
 is death of fathers and who still hath cried
 from the first corse till he that died today
 this must be so we pray you throw to earth
 this unprevailing woe and think of us
 as of a father for let the world take note
 you are the most immediate to our throne
 and with no less nobility of love
 than that which dearest father bears his son
 do i impart toward you for your intent
 in going back to school in wittenberg
 it is most retrograde to our desire
 and we beseech you bend you to remain
 here in the cheer and comfort of our eye
 our chiefest courtier cousin and our son
queen gertrude let not thy mother lose her prayers hamlet
 i pray thee stay with us go not to wittenberg
hamlet i shall in all my best obey you madam
king claudius why tis a loving and a fair reply
 be as ourself in denmark madam come
 this gentle and unforced accord of hamlet
 sits smiling to my heart in grace whereof
 no jocund health that denmark drinks today
 but the great cannon to the clouds shall tell
 and the king's rouse the heavens all bruit again
 respeaking earthly thunder come away
 exeunt all but hamlet
hamlet o that this too too solid flesh would melt
 thaw and resolve itself into a dew
 or that the everlasting had not fix'd
 his canon gainst selfslaughter o god god
 how weary stale flat and unprofitable
 seem to me all the uses of this world
 fie on't ah fie tis an unweeded garden
 that grows to seed things rank and gross in nature
 possess it merely that it should come to this
 but two months dead nay not so much not two
 so excellent a king that was to this
 hyperion to a satyr so loving to my mother
 that he might not beteem the winds of heaven
 visit her face too roughly heaven and earth
 must i remember why she would hang on him
 as if increase of appetite had grown
 by what it fed on and yet within a month
 let me not think on'tfrailty thy name is woman
 a little month or ere those shoes were old
 with which she follow'd my poor father's body
 like niobe all tearswhy she even she
 o god a beast that wants discourse of reason
 would have mourn'd longermarried with my uncle
 my father's brother but no more like my father
 than i to hercules within a month
 ere yet the salt of most unrighteous tears
 had left the flushing in her galled eyes
 she married o most wicked speed to post
 with such dexterity to incestuous sheets
 it is not nor it cannot come to good
 but break my heart for i must hold my tongue
 enter horatio marcellus and bernardo
horatio hail to your lordship
hamlet i am glad to see you well
 horatioor i do forget myself
horatio the same my lord and your poor servant ever
hamlet sir my good friend i'll change that name with you
 and what make you from wittenberg horatio marcellus
marcellus my good lord
hamlet i am very glad to see you good even sir
 but what in faith make you from wittenberg
horatio a truant disposition good my lord
hamlet i would not hear your enemy say so
 nor shall you do mine ear that violence
 to make it truster of your own report
 against yourself i know you are no truant
 but what is your affair in elsinore
 we'll teach you to drink deep ere you depart
horatio my lord i came to see your father's funeral
hamlet i pray thee do not mock me fellowstudent
 i think it was to see my mother's wedding
horatio indeed my lord it follow'd hard upon
hamlet thrift thrift horatio the funeral baked meats
 did coldly furnish forth the marriage tables
 would i had met my dearest foe in heaven
 or ever i had seen that day horatio
 my fathermethinks i see my father
horatio where my lord
hamlet in my mind's eye horatio
horatio i saw him once he was a goodly king
hamlet he was a man take him for all in all
 i shall not look upon his like again
horatio my lord i think i saw him yesternight
hamlet saw who
horatio my lord the king your father
hamlet the king my father
horatio season your admiration for awhile
 with an attent ear till i may deliver
 upon the witness of these gentlemen
 this marvel to you
hamlet for god's love let me hear
horatio two nights together had these gentlemen
 marcellus and bernardo on their watch
 in the dead vast and middle of the night
 been thus encounter'd a figure like your father
 armed at point exactly capape
 appears before them and with solemn march
 goes slow and stately by them thrice he walk'd
 by their oppress'd and fearsurprised eyes
 within his truncheon's length whilst they distilled
 almost to jelly with the act of fear
 stand dumb and speak not to him this to me
 in dreadful secrecy impart they did
 and i with them the third night kept the watch
 where as they had deliver'd both in time
 form of the thing each word made true and good
 the apparition comes i knew your father
 these hands are not more like
hamlet but where was this
marcellus my lord upon the platform where we watch'd
hamlet did you not speak to it
horatio my lord i did
 but answer made it none yet once methought
 it lifted up its head and did address
 itself to motion like as it would speak
 but even then the morning cock crew loud
 and at the sound it shrunk in haste away
 and vanish'd from our sight
hamlet tis very strange
horatio as i do live my honour'd lord tis true
 and we did think it writ down in our duty
 to let you know of it
hamlet indeed indeed sirs but this troubles me
 hold you the watch tonight
marcellus 
 we do my lord
bernardo 
hamlet arm'd say you
marcellus 
 arm'd my lord
bernardo 
hamlet from top to toe
marcellus 
 my lord from head to foot
bernardo 
hamlet then saw you not his face
horatio o yes my lord he wore his beaver up
hamlet what look'd he frowningly
horatio a countenance more in sorrow than in anger
hamlet pale or red
horatio nay very pale
hamlet and fix'd his eyes upon you
horatio most constantly
hamlet i would i had been there
horatio it would have much amazed you
hamlet very like very like stay'd it long
horatio while one with moderate haste might tell a hundred
marcellus 
 longer longer
bernardo 
horatio not when i saw't
hamlet his beard was grizzledno
horatio it was as i have seen it in his life
 a sable silver'd
hamlet i will watch tonight
 perchance twill walk again
horatio i warrant it will
hamlet if it assume my noble father's person
 i'll speak to it though hell itself should gape
 and bid me hold my peace i pray you all
 if you have hitherto conceal'd this sight
 let it be tenable in your silence still
 and whatsoever else shall hap tonight
 give it an understanding but no tongue
 i will requite your loves so fare you well
 upon the platform twixt eleven and twelve
 i'll visit you
all our duty to your honour
hamlet your loves as mine to you farewell
 exeunt all but hamlet
 my father's spirit in arms all is not well
 i doubt some foul play would the night were come
 till then sit still my soul foul deeds will rise
 though all the earth o'erwhelm them to men's eyes
 exit
 hamlet
act i
scene iii a room in polonius house
 enter laertes and ophelia
laertes my necessaries are embark'd farewell
 and sister as the winds give benefit
 and convoy is assistant do not sleep
 but let me hear from you
ophelia do you doubt that
laertes for hamlet and the trifling of his favour
 hold it a fashion and a toy in blood
 a violet in the youth of primy nature
 forward not permanent sweet not lasting
 the perfume and suppliance of a minute no more
ophelia no more but so
laertes think it no more
 for nature crescent does not grow alone
 in thews and bulk but as this temple waxes
 the inward service of the mind and soul
 grows wide withal perhaps he loves you now
 and now no soil nor cautel doth besmirch
 the virtue of his will but you must fear
 his greatness weigh'd his will is not his own
 for he himself is subject to his birth
 he may not as unvalued persons do
 carve for himself for on his choice depends
 the safety and health of this whole state
 and therefore must his choice be circumscribed
 unto the voice and yielding of that body
 whereof he is the head then if he says he loves you
 it fits your wisdom so far to believe it
 as he in his particular act and place
 may give his saying deed which is no further
 than the main voice of denmark goes withal
 then weigh what loss your honour may sustain
 if with too credent ear you list his songs
 or lose your heart or your chaste treasure open
 to his unmaster'd importunity
 fear it ophelia fear it my dear sister
 and keep you in the rear of your affection
 out of the shot and danger of desire
 the chariest maid is prodigal enough
 if she unmask her beauty to the moon
 virtue itself scapes not calumnious strokes
 the canker galls the infants of the spring
 too oft before their buttons be disclosed
 and in the morn and liquid dew of youth
 contagious blastments are most imminent
 be wary then best safety lies in fear
 youth to itself rebels though none else near
ophelia i shall the effect of this good lesson keep
 as watchman to my heart but good my brother
 do not as some ungracious pastors do
 show me the steep and thorny way to heaven
 whiles like a puff'd and reckless libertine
 himself the primrose path of dalliance treads
 and recks not his own rede
laertes o fear me not
 i stay too long but here my father comes
 enter polonius
 a double blessing is a double grace
 occasion smiles upon a second leave
lord polonius yet here laertes aboard aboard for shame
 the wind sits in the shoulder of your sail
 and you are stay'd for there my blessing with thee
 and these few precepts in thy memory
 see thou character give thy thoughts no tongue
 nor any unproportioned thought his act
 be thou familiar but by no means vulgar
 those friends thou hast and their adoption tried
 grapple them to thy soul with hoops of steel
 but do not dull thy palm with entertainment
 of each newhatch'd unfledged comrade beware
 of entrance to a quarrel but being in
 bear't that the opposed may beware of thee
 give every man thy ear but few thy voice
 take each man's censure but reserve thy judgment
 costly thy habit as thy purse can buy
 but not express'd in fancy rich not gaudy
 for the apparel oft proclaims the man
 and they in france of the best rank and station
 are of a most select and generous chief in that
 neither a borrower nor a lender be
 for loan oft loses both itself and friend
 and borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry
 this above all to thine ownself be true
 and it must follow as the night the day
 thou canst not then be false to any man
 farewell my blessing season this in thee
laertes most humbly do i take my leave my lord
lord polonius the time invites you go your servants tend
laertes farewell ophelia and remember well
 what i have said to you
ophelia tis in my memory lock'd
 and you yourself shall keep the key of it
laertes farewell
 exit
lord polonius what is't ophelia be hath said to you
ophelia so please you something touching the lord hamlet
lord polonius marry well bethought
 tis told me he hath very oft of late
 given private time to you and you yourself
 have of your audience been most free and bounteous
 if it be so as so tis put on me
 and that in way of caution i must tell you
 you do not understand yourself so clearly
 as it behoves my daughter and your honour
 what is between you give me up the truth
ophelia he hath my lord of late made many tenders
 of his affection to me
lord polonius affection pooh you speak like a green girl
 unsifted in such perilous circumstance
 do you believe his tenders as you call them
ophelia i do not know my lord what i should think
lord polonius marry i'll teach you think yourself a baby
 that you have ta'en these tenders for true pay
 which are not sterling tender yourself more dearly
 ornot to crack the wind of the poor phrase
 running it thusyou'll tender me a fool
ophelia my lord he hath importuned me with love
 in honourable fashion
lord polonius ay fashion you may call it go to go to
ophelia and hath given countenance to his speech my lord
 with almost all the holy vows of heaven
lord polonius ay springes to catch woodcocks i do know
 when the blood burns how prodigal the soul
 lends the tongue vows these blazes daughter
 giving more light than heat extinct in both
 even in their promise as it is amaking
 you must not take for fire from this time
 be somewhat scanter of your maiden presence
 set your entreatments at a higher rate
 than a command to parley for lord hamlet
 believe so much in him that he is young
 and with a larger tether may he walk
 than may be given you in few ophelia
 do not believe his vows for they are brokers
 not of that dye which their investments show
 but mere implorators of unholy suits
 breathing like sanctified and pious bawds
 the better to beguile this is for all
 i would not in plain terms from this time forth
 have you so slander any moment leisure
 as to give words or talk with the lord hamlet
 look to't i charge you come your ways
ophelia i shall obey my lord
 exeunt
 hamlet
act i
scene iv the platform
 enter hamlet horatio and marcellus
hamlet the air bites shrewdly it is very cold
horatio it is a nipping and an eager air
hamlet what hour now
horatio i think it lacks of twelve
hamlet no it is struck
horatio indeed i heard it not then it draws near the season
 wherein the spirit held his wont to walk
 a flourish of trumpets and ordnance shot off within
 what does this mean my lord
hamlet the king doth wake tonight and takes his rouse
 keeps wassail and the swaggering upspring reels
 and as he drains his draughts of rhenish down
 the kettledrum and trumpet thus bray out
 the triumph of his pledge
horatio is it a custom
hamlet ay marry is't
 but to my mind though i am native here
 and to the manner born it is a custom
 more honour'd in the breach than the observance
 this heavyheaded revel east and west
 makes us traduced and tax'd of other nations
 they clepe us drunkards and with swinish phrase
 soil our addition and indeed it takes
 from our achievements though perform'd at height
 the pith and marrow of our attribute
 so oft it chances in particular men
 that for some vicious mole of nature in them
 as in their birthwherein they are not guilty
 since nature cannot choose his origin
 by the o'ergrowth of some complexion
 oft breaking down the pales and forts of reason
 or by some habit that too much o'erleavens
 the form of plausive manners that these men
 carrying i say the stamp of one defect
 being nature's livery or fortune's star
 their virtues elsebe they as pure as grace
 as infinite as man may undergo
 shall in the general censure take corruption
 from that particular fault the dram of eale
 doth all the noble substance of a doubt
 to his own scandal
horatio look my lord it comes
 enter ghost
hamlet angels and ministers of grace defend us
 be thou a spirit of health or goblin damn'd
 bring with thee airs from heaven or blasts from hell
 be thy intents wicked or charitable
 thou comest in such a questionable shape
 that i will speak to thee i'll call thee hamlet
 king father royal dane o answer me
 let me not burst in ignorance but tell
 why thy canonized bones hearsed in death
 have burst their cerements why the sepulchre
 wherein we saw thee quietly inurn'd
 hath oped his ponderous and marble jaws
 to cast thee up again what may this mean
 that thou dead corse again in complete steel
 revisit'st thus the glimpses of the moon
 making night hideous and we fools of nature
 so horridly to shake our disposition
 with thoughts beyond the reaches of our souls
 say why is this wherefore what should we do
 ghost beckons hamlet
horatio it beckons you to go away with it
 as if it some impartment did desire
 to you alone
marcellus look with what courteous action
 it waves you to a more removed ground
 but do not go with it
horatio no by no means
hamlet it will not speak then i will follow it
horatio do not my lord
hamlet why what should be the fear
 i do not set my life in a pin's fee
 and for my soul what can it do to that
 being a thing immortal as itself
 it waves me forth again i'll follow it
horatio what if it tempt you toward the flood my lord
 or to the dreadful summit of the cliff
 that beetles o'er his base into the sea
 and there assume some other horrible form
 which might deprive your sovereignty of reason
 and draw you into madness think of it
 the very place puts toys of desperation
 without more motive into every brain
 that looks so many fathoms to the sea
 and hears it roar beneath
hamlet it waves me still
 go on i'll follow thee
marcellus you shall not go my lord
hamlet hold off your hands
horatio be ruled you shall not go
hamlet my fate cries out
 and makes each petty artery in this body
 as hardy as the nemean lion's nerve
 still am i call'd unhand me gentlemen
 by heaven i'll make a ghost of him that lets me
 i say away go on i'll follow thee
 exeunt ghost and hamlet
horatio he waxes desperate with imagination
marcellus let's follow tis not fit thus to obey him
horatio have after to what issue will this come
marcellus something is rotten in the state of denmark
horatio heaven will direct it
marcellus nay let's follow him
 exeunt
 hamlet
act i
scene v another part of the platform
 enter ghost and hamlet
hamlet where wilt thou lead me speak i'll go no further
ghost mark me
hamlet i will
ghost my hour is almost come
 when i to sulphurous and tormenting flames
 must render up myself
hamlet alas poor ghost
ghost pity me not but lend thy serious hearing
 to what i shall unfold
hamlet speak i am bound to hear
ghost so art thou to revenge when thou shalt hear
hamlet what
ghost i am thy father's spirit
 doom'd for a certain term to walk the night
 and for the day confined to fast in fires
 till the foul crimes done in my days of nature
 are burnt and purged away but that i am forbid
 to tell the secrets of my prisonhouse
 i could a tale unfold whose lightest word
 would harrow up thy soul freeze thy young blood
 make thy two eyes like stars start from their spheres
 thy knotted and combined locks to part
 and each particular hair to stand on end
 like quills upon the fretful porpentine
 but this eternal blazon must not be
 to ears of flesh and blood list list o list
 if thou didst ever thy dear father love
hamlet o god
ghost revenge his foul and most unnatural murder
hamlet murder
ghost murder most foul as in the best it is
 but this most foul strange and unnatural
hamlet haste me to know't that i with wings as swift
 as meditation or the thoughts of love
 may sweep to my revenge
ghost i find thee apt
 and duller shouldst thou be than the fat weed
 that roots itself in ease on lethe wharf
 wouldst thou not stir in this now hamlet hear
 tis given out that sleeping in my orchard
 a serpent stung me so the whole ear of denmark
 is by a forged process of my death
 rankly abused but know thou noble youth
 the serpent that did sting thy father's life
 now wears his crown
hamlet o my prophetic soul my uncle
ghost ay that incestuous that adulterate beast
 with witchcraft of his wit with traitorous gifts
 o wicked wit and gifts that have the power
 so to seducewon to his shameful lust
 the will of my most seemingvirtuous queen
 o hamlet what a fallingoff was there
 from me whose love was of that dignity
 that it went hand in hand even with the vow
 i made to her in marriage and to decline
 upon a wretch whose natural gifts were poor
 to those of mine
 but virtue as it never will be moved
 though lewdness court it in a shape of heaven
 so lust though to a radiant angel link'd
 will sate itself in a celestial bed
 and prey on garbage
 but soft methinks i scent the morning air
 brief let me be sleeping within my orchard
 my custom always of the afternoon
 upon my secure hour thy uncle stole
 with juice of cursed hebenon in a vial
 and in the porches of my ears did pour
 the leperous distilment whose effect
 holds such an enmity with blood of man
 that swift as quicksilver it courses through
 the natural gates and alleys of the body
 and with a sudden vigour doth posset
 and curd like eager droppings into milk
 the thin and wholesome blood so did it mine
 and a most instant tetter bark'd about
 most lazarlike with vile and loathsome crust
 all my smooth body
 thus was i sleeping by a brother's hand
 of life of crown of queen at once dispatch'd
 cut off even in the blossoms of my sin
 unhousel'd disappointed unanel'd
 no reckoning made but sent to my account
 with all my imperfections on my head
 o horrible o horrible most horrible
 if thou hast nature in thee bear it not
 let not the royal bed of denmark be
 a couch for luxury and damned incest
 but howsoever thou pursuest this act
 taint not thy mind nor let thy soul contrive
 against thy mother aught leave her to heaven
 and to those thorns that in her bosom lodge
 to prick and sting her fare thee well at once
 the glowworm shows the matin to be near
 and gins to pale his uneffectual fire
 adieu adieu hamlet remember me
 exit
hamlet o all you host of heaven o earth what else
 and shall i couple hell o fie hold hold my heart
 and you my sinews grow not instant old
 but bear me stiffly up remember thee
 ay thou poor ghost while memory holds a seat
 in this distracted globe remember thee
 yea from the table of my memory
 i'll wipe away all trivial fond records
 all saws of books all forms all pressures past
 that youth and observation copied there
 and thy commandment all alone shall live
 within the book and volume of my brain
 unmix'd with baser matter yes by heaven
 o most pernicious woman
 o villain villain smiling damned villain
 my tablesmeet it is i set it down
 that one may smile and smile and be a villain
 at least i'm sure it may be so in denmark
 writing
 so uncle there you are now to my word
 it is adieu adieu remember me'
 i have sworn t
marcellus 
 within my lord my lord
horatio 
marcellus within lord hamlet
horatio within heaven secure him
hamlet so be it
horatio within hillo ho ho my lord
hamlet hillo ho ho boy come bird come
 enter horatio and marcellus
marcellus how is't my noble lord
horatio what news my lord
hamlet o wonderful
horatio good my lord tell it
hamlet no you'll reveal it
horatio not i my lord by heaven
marcellus nor i my lord
hamlet how say you then would heart of man once think it
 but you'll be secret
horatio 
 ay by heaven my lord
marcellus 
hamlet there's ne'er a villain dwelling in all denmark
 but he's an arrant knave
horatio there needs no ghost my lord come from the grave
 to tell us this
hamlet why right you are i the right
 and so without more circumstance at all
 i hold it fit that we shake hands and part
 you as your business and desire shall point you
 for every man has business and desire
 such as it is and for mine own poor part
 look you i'll go pray
horatio these are but wild and whirling words my lord
hamlet i'm sorry they offend you heartily
 yes faith heartily
horatio there's no offence my lord
hamlet yes by saint patrick but there is horatio
 and much offence too touching this vision here
 it is an honest ghost that let me tell you
 for your desire to know what is between us
 o'ermaster t as you may and now good friends
 as you are friends scholars and soldiers
 give me one poor request
horatio what is't my lord we will
hamlet never make known what you have seen tonight
horatio 
 my lord we will not
marcellus 
hamlet nay but swear't
horatio in faith
 my lord not i
marcellus nor i my lord in faith
hamlet upon my sword
marcellus we have sworn my lord already
hamlet indeed upon my sword indeed
ghost beneath swear
hamlet ah ha boy say'st thou so art thou there
 truepenny
 come onyou hear this fellow in the cellarage
 consent to swear
horatio propose the oath my lord
hamlet never to speak of this that you have seen
 swear by my sword
ghost beneath swear
hamlet hic et ubique then we'll shift our ground
 come hither gentlemen
 and lay your hands again upon my sword
 never to speak of this that you have heard
 swear by my sword
ghost beneath swear
hamlet well said old mole canst work i the earth so fast
 a worthy pioner once more remove good friends
horatio o day and night but this is wondrous strange
hamlet and therefore as a stranger give it welcome
 there are more things in heaven and earth horatio
 than are dreamt of in your philosophy but come
 here as before never so help you mercy
 how strange or odd soe'er i bear myself
 as i perchance hereafter shall think meet
 to put an antic disposition on
 that you at such times seeing me never shall
 with arms encumber'd thus or this headshake
 or by pronouncing of some doubtful phrase
 as well well we know or we could an if we would'
 or if we list to speak or there be an if they might'
 or such ambiguous giving out to note
 that you know aught of me this not to do
 so grace and mercy at your most need help you swear
ghost beneath swear
hamlet rest rest perturbed spirit
 they swear
 so gentlemen
 with all my love i do commend me to you
 and what so poor a man as hamlet is
 may do to express his love and friending to you
 god willing shall not lack let us go in together
 and still your fingers on your lips i pray
 the time is out of joint o cursed spite
 that ever i was born to set it right
 nay come let's go together
 exeunt
 hamlet
act ii
scene i a room in polonius house
 enter polonius and reynaldo
lord polonius give him this money and these notes reynaldo
reynaldo i will my lord
lord polonius you shall do marvellous wisely good reynaldo
 before you visit him to make inquire
 of his behavior
reynaldo my lord i did intend it
lord polonius marry well said very well said look you sir
 inquire me first what danskers are in paris
 and how and who what means and where they keep
 what company at what expense and finding
 by this encompassment and drift of question
 that they do know my son come you more nearer
 than your particular demands will touch it
 take you as twere some distant knowledge of him
 as thus i know his father and his friends
 and in part him  do you mark this reynaldo
reynaldo ay very well my lord
lord polonius and in part him but you may say not well
 but if't be he i mean he's very wild
 addicted so and so and there put on him
 what forgeries you please marry none so rank
 as may dishonour him take heed of that
 but sir such wanton wild and usual slips
 as are companions noted and most known
 to youth and liberty
reynaldo as gaming my lord
lord polonius ay or drinking fencing swearing quarrelling
 drabbing you may go so far
reynaldo my lord that would dishonour him
lord polonius faith no as you may season it in the charge
 you must not put another scandal on him
 that he is open to incontinency
 that's not my meaning but breathe his faults so quaintly
 that they may seem the taints of liberty
 the flash and outbreak of a fiery mind
 a savageness in unreclaimed blood
 of general assault
reynaldo but my good lord
lord polonius wherefore should you do this
reynaldo ay my lord
 i would know that
lord polonius marry sir here's my drift
 and i believe it is a fetch of wit
 you laying these slight sullies on my son
 as twere a thing a little soil'd i the working mark you
 your party in converse him you would sound
 having ever seen in the prenominate crimes
 the youth you breathe of guilty be assured
 he closes with you in this consequence
 good sir or so or friend or gentleman'
 according to the phrase or the addition
 of man and country
reynaldo very good my lord
lord polonius and then sir does he thishe doeswhat was i
 about to say by the mass i was about to say
 something where did i leave
reynaldo at closes in the consequence at friend or so'
 and gentleman'
lord polonius at closes in the consequence ay marry
 he closes thus i know the gentleman
 i saw him yesterday or t other day
 or then or then with such or such and as you say
 there was a gaming there o'ertook in's rouse
 there falling out at tennis or perchance
 i saw him enter such a house of sale'
 videlicet a brothel or so forth
 see you now
 your bait of falsehood takes this carp of truth
 and thus do we of wisdom and of reach
 with windlasses and with assays of bias
 by indirections find directions out
 so by my former lecture and advice
 shall you my son you have me have you not
reynaldo my lord i have
lord polonius god be wi you fare you well
reynaldo good my lord
lord polonius observe his inclination in yourself
reynaldo i shall my lord
lord polonius and let him ply his music
reynaldo well my lord
lord polonius farewell
 exit reynaldo
 enter ophelia
 how now ophelia what's the matter
ophelia o my lord my lord i have been so affrighted
lord polonius with what i the name of god
ophelia my lord as i was sewing in my closet
 lord hamlet with his doublet all unbraced
 no hat upon his head his stockings foul'd
 ungarter'd and downgyved to his ancle
 pale as his shirt his knees knocking each other
 and with a look so piteous in purport
 as if he had been loosed out of hell
 to speak of horrorshe comes before me
lord polonius mad for thy love
ophelia my lord i do not know
 but truly i do fear it
lord polonius what said he
ophelia he took me by the wrist and held me hard
 then goes he to the length of all his arm
 and with his other hand thus o'er his brow
 he falls to such perusal of my face
 as he would draw it long stay'd he so
 at last a little shaking of mine arm
 and thrice his head thus waving up and down
 he raised a sigh so piteous and profound
 as it did seem to shatter all his bulk
 and end his being that done he lets me go
 and with his head over his shoulder turn'd
 he seem'd to find his way without his eyes
 for out o doors he went without their helps
 and to the last bended their light on me
lord polonius come go with me i will go seek the king
 this is the very ecstasy of love
 whose violent property fordoes itself
 and leads the will to desperate undertakings
 as oft as any passion under heaven
 that does afflict our natures i am sorry
 what have you given him any hard words of late
ophelia no my good lord but as you did command
 i did repel his fetters and denied
 his access to me
lord polonius that hath made him mad
 i am sorry that with better heed and judgment
 i had not quoted him i fear'd he did but trifle
 and meant to wreck thee but beshrew my jealousy
 by heaven it is as proper to our age
 to cast beyond ourselves in our opinions
 as it is common for the younger sort
 to lack discretion come go we to the king
 this must be known which being kept close might
 move
 more grief to hide than hate to utter love
 exeunt
 hamlet
act ii
scene ii a room in the castle
 enter king claudius queen gertrude rosencrantz
 guildenstern and attendants
king claudius welcome dear rosencrantz and guildenstern
 moreover that we much did long to see you
 the need we have to use you did provoke
 our hasty sending something have you heard
 of hamlet's transformation so call it
 sith nor the exterior nor the inward man
 resembles that it was what it should be
 more than his father's death that thus hath put him
 so much from the understanding of himself
 i cannot dream of i entreat you both
 that being of so young days brought up with him
 and sith so neighbour'd to his youth and havior
 that you vouchsafe your rest here in our court
 some little time so by your companies
 to draw him on to pleasures and to gather
 so much as from occasion you may glean
 whether aught to us unknown afflicts him thus
 that open'd lies within our remedy
queen gertrude good gentlemen he hath much talk'd of you
 and sure i am two men there are not living
 to whom he more adheres if it will please you
 to show us so much gentry and good will
 as to expend your time with us awhile
 for the supply and profit of our hope
 your visitation shall receive such thanks
 as fits a king's remembrance
rosencrantz both your majesties
 might by the sovereign power you have of us
 put your dread pleasures more into command
 than to entreaty
guildenstern but we both obey
 and here give up ourselves in the full bent
 to lay our service freely at your feet
 to be commanded
king claudius thanks rosencrantz and gentle guildenstern
queen gertrude thanks guildenstern and gentle rosencrantz
 and i beseech you instantly to visit
 my too much changed son go some of you
 and bring these gentlemen where hamlet is
guildenstern heavens make our presence and our practises
 pleasant and helpful to him
queen gertrude ay amen
 exeunt rosencrantz guildenstern and some
 attendants
 enter polonius
lord polonius the ambassadors from norway my good lord
 are joyfully return'd
king claudius thou still hast been the father of good news
lord polonius have i my lord i assure my good liege
 i hold my duty as i hold my soul
 both to my god and to my gracious king
 and i do think or else this brain of mine
 hunts not the trail of policy so sure
 as it hath used to do that i have found
 the very cause of hamlet's lunacy
king claudius o speak of that that do i long to hear
lord polonius give first admittance to the ambassadors
 my news shall be the fruit to that great feast
king claudius thyself do grace to them and bring them in
 exit polonius
 he tells me my dear gertrude he hath found
 the head and source of all your son's distemper
queen gertrude i doubt it is no other but the main
 his father's death and our o'erhasty marriage
king claudius well we shall sift him
 reenter polonius with voltimand and cornelius
 welcome my good friends
 say voltimand what from our brother norway
voltimand most fair return of greetings and desires
 upon our first he sent out to suppress
 his nephew's levies which to him appear'd
 to be a preparation gainst the polack
 but better look'd into he truly found
 it was against your highness whereat grieved
 that so his sickness age and impotence
 was falsely borne in hand sends out arrests
 on fortinbras which he in brief obeys
 receives rebuke from norway and in fine
 makes vow before his uncle never more
 to give the assay of arms against your majesty
 whereon old norway overcome with joy
 gives him three thousand crowns in annual fee
 and his commission to employ those soldiers
 so levied as before against the polack
 with an entreaty herein further shown
 giving a paper
 that it might please you to give quiet pass
 through your dominions for this enterprise
 on such regards of safety and allowance
 as therein are set down
king claudius it likes us well
 and at our more consider'd time well read
 answer and think upon this business
 meantime we thank you for your welltook labour
 go to your rest at night we'll feast together
 most welcome home
 exeunt voltimand and cornelius
lord polonius this business is well ended
 my liege and madam to expostulate
 what majesty should be what duty is
 why day is day night night and time is time
 were nothing but to waste night day and time
 therefore since brevity is the soul of wit
 and tediousness the limbs and outward flourishes
 i will be brief your noble son is mad
 mad call i it for to define true madness
 what is't but to be nothing else but mad
 but let that go
queen gertrude more matter with less art
lord polonius madam i swear i use no art at all
 that he is mad tis true tis true tis pity
 and pity tis tis true a foolish figure
 but farewell it for i will use no art
 mad let us grant him then and now remains
 that we find out the cause of this effect
 or rather say the cause of this defect
 for this effect defective comes by cause
 thus it remains and the remainder thus perpend
 i have a daughterhave while she is mine
 who in her duty and obedience mark
 hath given me this now gather and surmise
 reads
 to the celestial and my soul's idol the most
 beautified ophelia'
 that's an ill phrase a vile phrase beautified is
 a vile phrase but you shall hear thus
 reads
 in her excellent white bosom these &c'
queen gertrude came this from hamlet to her
lord polonius good madam stay awhile i will be faithful
 reads
 doubt thou the stars are fire
 doubt that the sun doth move
 doubt truth to be a liar
 but never doubt i love
 o dear ophelia i am ill at these numbers
 i have not art to reckon my groans but that
 i love thee best o most best believe it adieu
 thine evermore most dear lady whilst
 this machine is to him hamlet'
 this in obedience hath my daughter shown me
 and more above hath his solicitings
 as they fell out by time by means and place
 all given to mine ear
king claudius but how hath she
 received his love
lord polonius what do you think of me
king claudius as of a man faithful and honourable
lord polonius i would fain prove so but what might you think
 when i had seen this hot love on the wing
 as i perceived it i must tell you that
 before my daughter told mewhat might you
 or my dear majesty your queen here think
 if i had play'd the desk or tablebook
 or given my heart a winking mute and dumb
 or look'd upon this love with idle sight
 what might you think no i went round to work
 and my young mistress thus i did bespeak
 lord hamlet is a prince out of thy star
 this must not be and then i precepts gave her
 that she should lock herself from his resort
 admit no messengers receive no tokens
 which done she took the fruits of my advice
 and he repulseda short tale to make
 fell into a sadness then into a fast
 thence to a watch thence into a weakness
 thence to a lightness and by this declension
 into the madness wherein now he raves
 and all we mourn for
king claudius do you think tis this
queen gertrude it may be very likely
lord polonius hath there been such a timei'd fain know that
 that i have positively said tis so'
 when it proved otherwise
king claudius not that i know
lord polonius pointing to his head and shoulder
 take this from this if this be otherwise
 if circumstances lead me i will find
 where truth is hid though it were hid indeed
 within the centre
king claudius how may we try it further
lord polonius you know sometimes he walks four hours together
 here in the lobby
queen gertrude so he does indeed
lord polonius at such a time i'll loose my daughter to him
 be you and i behind an arras then
 mark the encounter if he love her not
 and be not from his reason fall'n thereon
 let me be no assistant for a state
 but keep a farm and carters
king claudius we will try it
queen gertrude but look where sadly the poor wretch comes reading
lord polonius away i do beseech you both away
 i'll board him presently
 exeunt king claudius queen gertrude and
 attendants
 enter hamlet reading
 o give me leave
 how does my good lord hamlet
hamlet well godamercy
lord polonius do you know me my lord
hamlet excellent well you are a fishmonger
lord polonius not i my lord
hamlet then i would you were so honest a man
lord polonius honest my lord
hamlet ay sir to be honest as this world goes is to be
 one man picked out of ten thousand
lord polonius that's very true my lord
hamlet for if the sun breed maggots in a dead dog being a
 god kissing carrionhave you a daughter
lord polonius i have my lord
hamlet let her not walk i the sun conception is a
 blessing but not as your daughter may conceive
 friend look to t
lord polonius aside how say you by that still harping on my
 daughter yet he knew me not at first he said i
 was a fishmonger he is far gone far gone and
 truly in my youth i suffered much extremity for
 love very near this i'll speak to him again
 what do you read my lord
hamlet words words words
lord polonius what is the matter my lord
hamlet between who
lord polonius i mean the matter that you read my lord
hamlet slanders sir for the satirical rogue says here
 that old men have grey beards that their faces are
 wrinkled their eyes purging thick amber and
 plumtree gum and that they have a plentiful lack of
 wit together with most weak hams all which sir
 though i most powerfully and potently believe yet
 i hold it not honesty to have it thus set down for
 yourself sir should be old as i am if like a crab
 you could go backward
lord polonius aside though this be madness yet there is method
 in t will you walk out of the air my lord
hamlet into my grave
lord polonius indeed that is out o the air
 aside
 how pregnant sometimes his replies are a happiness
 that often madness hits on which reason and sanity
 could not so prosperously be delivered of i will
 leave him and suddenly contrive the means of
 meeting between him and my daughtermy honourable
 lord i will most humbly take my leave of you
hamlet you cannot sir take from me any thing that i will
 more willingly part withal except my life except
 my life except my life
lord polonius fare you well my lord
hamlet these tedious old fools
 enter rosencrantz and guildenstern
lord polonius you go to seek the lord hamlet there he is
rosencrantz to polonius god save you sir
 exit polonius
guildenstern my honoured lord
rosencrantz my most dear lord
hamlet my excellent good friends how dost thou
 guildenstern ah rosencrantz good lads how do ye both
rosencrantz as the indifferent children of the earth
guildenstern happy in that we are not overhappy
 on fortune's cap we are not the very button
hamlet nor the soles of her shoe
rosencrantz neither my lord
hamlet then you live about her waist or in the middle of
 her favours
guildenstern faith her privates we
hamlet in the secret parts of fortune o most true she
 is a strumpet what's the news
rosencrantz none my lord but that the world's grown honest
hamlet then is doomsday near but your news is not true
 let me question more in particular what have you
 my good friends deserved at the hands of fortune
 that she sends you to prison hither
guildenstern prison my lord
hamlet denmark's a prison
rosencrantz then is the world one
hamlet a goodly one in which there are many confines
 wards and dungeons denmark being one o the worst
rosencrantz we think not so my lord
hamlet why then tis none to you for there is nothing
 either good or bad but thinking makes it so to me
 it is a prison
rosencrantz why then your ambition makes it one tis too
 narrow for your mind
hamlet o god i could be bounded in a nut shell and count
 myself a king of infinite space were it not that i
 have bad dreams
guildenstern which dreams indeed are ambition for the very
 substance of the ambitious is merely the shadow of a dream
hamlet a dream itself is but a shadow
rosencrantz truly and i hold ambition of so airy and light a
 quality that it is but a shadow's shadow
hamlet then are our beggars bodies and our monarchs and
 outstretched heroes the beggars shadows shall we
 to the court for by my fay i cannot reason
rosencrantz 
 we'll wait upon you
guildenstern 
hamlet no such matter i will not sort you with the rest
 of my servants for to speak to you like an honest
 man i am most dreadfully attended but in the
 beaten way of friendship what make you at elsinore
rosencrantz to visit you my lord no other occasion
hamlet beggar that i am i am even poor in thanks but i
 thank you and sure dear friends my thanks are
 too dear a halfpenny were you not sent for is it
 your own inclining is it a free visitation come
 deal justly with me come come nay speak
guildenstern what should we say my lord
hamlet why any thing but to the purpose you were sent
 for and there is a kind of confession in your looks
 which your modesties have not craft enough to colour
 i know the good king and queen have sent for you
rosencrantz to what end my lord
hamlet that you must teach me but let me conjure you by
 the rights of our fellowship by the consonancy of
 our youth by the obligation of our everpreserved
 love and by what more dear a better proposer could
 charge you withal be even and direct with me
 whether you were sent for or no
rosencrantz aside to guildenstern what say you
hamlet aside nay then i have an eye of youif you
 love me hold not off
guildenstern my lord we were sent for
hamlet i will tell you why so shall my anticipation
 prevent your discovery and your secrecy to the king
 and queen moult no feather i have of latebut
 wherefore i know notlost all my mirth forgone all
 custom of exercises and indeed it goes so heavily
 with my disposition that this goodly frame the
 earth seems to me a sterile promontory this most
 excellent canopy the air look you this brave
 o'erhanging firmament this majestical roof fretted
 with golden fire why it appears no other thing to
 me than a foul and pestilent congregation of vapours
 what a piece of work is a man how noble in reason
 how infinite in faculty in form and moving how
 express and admirable in action how like an angel
 in apprehension how like a god the beauty of the
 world the paragon of animals and yet to me
 what is this quintessence of dust man delights not
 me no nor woman neither though by your smiling
 you seem to say so
rosencrantz my lord there was no such stuff in my thoughts
hamlet why did you laugh then when i said man delights not me'
rosencrantz to think my lord if you delight not in man what
 lenten entertainment the players shall receive from
 you we coted them on the way and hither are they
 coming to offer you service
hamlet he that plays the king shall be welcome his majesty
 shall have tribute of me the adventurous knight
 shall use his foil and target the lover shall not
 sigh gratis the humourous man shall end his part
 in peace the clown shall make those laugh whose
 lungs are tickled o the sere and the lady shall
 say her mind freely or the blank verse shall halt
 for't what players are they
rosencrantz even those you were wont to take delight in the
 tragedians of the city
hamlet how chances it they travel their residence both
 in reputation and profit was better both ways
rosencrantz i think their inhibition comes by the means of the
 late innovation
hamlet do they hold the same estimation they did when i was
 in the city are they so followed
rosencrantz no indeed are they not
hamlet how comes it do they grow rusty
rosencrantz nay their endeavour keeps in the wonted pace but
 there is sir an aery of children little eyases
 that cry out on the top of question and are most
 tyrannically clapped for't these are now the
 fashion and so berattle the common stagesso they
 call themthat many wearing rapiers are afraid of
 goosequills and dare scarce come thither
hamlet what are they children who maintains em how are
 they escoted will they pursue the quality no
 longer than they can sing will they not say
 afterwards if they should grow themselves to common
 playersas it is most like if their means are no
 bettertheir writers do them wrong to make them
 exclaim against their own succession
rosencrantz faith there has been much to do on both sides and
 the nation holds it no sin to tarre them to
 controversy there was for a while no money bid
 for argument unless the poet and the player went to
 cuffs in the question
hamlet is't possible
guildenstern o there has been much throwing about of brains
hamlet do the boys carry it away
rosencrantz ay that they do my lord hercules and his load too
hamlet it is not very strange for mine uncle is king of
 denmark and those that would make mows at him while
 my father lived give twenty forty fifty an
 hundred ducats apiece for his picture in little
 sblood there is something in this more than
 natural if philosophy could find it out
 flourish of trumpets within
guildenstern there are the players
hamlet gentlemen you are welcome to elsinore your hands
 come then the appurtenance of welcome is fashion
 and ceremony let me comply with you in this garb
 lest my extent to the players which i tell you
 must show fairly outward should more appear like
 entertainment than yours you are welcome but my
 unclefather and auntmother are deceived
guildenstern in what my dear lord
hamlet i am but mad northnorthwest when the wind is
 southerly i know a hawk from a handsaw
 enter polonius
lord polonius well be with you gentlemen
hamlet hark you guildenstern and you too at each ear a
 hearer that great baby you see there is not yet
 out of his swaddlingclouts
rosencrantz happily he's the second time come to them for they
 say an old man is twice a child
hamlet i will prophesy he comes to tell me of the players
 mark it you say right sir o monday morning
 twas so indeed
lord polonius my lord i have news to tell you
hamlet my lord i have news to tell you
 when roscius was an actor in rome
lord polonius the actors are come hither my lord
hamlet buz buz
lord polonius upon mine honour
hamlet then came each actor on his ass
lord polonius the best actors in the world either for tragedy
 comedy history pastoral pastoralcomical
 historicalpastoral tragicalhistorical tragical
 comicalhistoricalpastoral scene individable or
 poem unlimited seneca cannot be too heavy nor
 plautus too light for the law of writ and the
 liberty these are the only men
hamlet o jephthah judge of israel what a treasure hadst thou
lord polonius what a treasure had he my lord
hamlet why
 one fair daughter and no more
 the which he loved passing well'
lord polonius aside still on my daughter
hamlet am i not i the right old jephthah
lord polonius if you call me jephthah my lord i have a daughter
 that i love passing well
hamlet nay that follows not
lord polonius what follows then my lord
hamlet why
 as by lot god wot'
 and then you know
 it came to pass as most like it was'
 the first row of the pious chanson will show you
 more for look where my abridgement comes
 enter four or five players
 you are welcome masters welcome all i am glad
 to see thee well welcome good friends o my old
 friend thy face is valenced since i saw thee last
 comest thou to beard me in denmark what my young
 lady and mistress by'r lady your ladyship is
 nearer to heaven than when i saw you last by the
 altitude of a chopine pray god your voice like
 apiece of uncurrent gold be not cracked within the
 ring masters you are all welcome we'll e'en
 to't like french falconers fly at any thing we see
 we'll have a speech straight come give us a taste
 of your quality come a passionate speech
first player what speech my lord
hamlet i heard thee speak me a speech once but it was
 never acted or if it was not above once for the
 play i remember pleased not the million twas
 caviare to the general but it wasas i received
 it and others whose judgments in such matters
 cried in the top of minean excellent play well
 digested in the scenes set down with as much
 modesty as cunning i remember one said there
 were no sallets in the lines to make the matter
 savoury nor no matter in the phrase that might
 indict the author of affectation but called it an
 honest method as wholesome as sweet and by very
 much more handsome than fine one speech in it i
 chiefly loved twas aeneas tale to dido and
 thereabout of it especially where he speaks of
 priam's slaughter if it live in your memory begin
 at this line let me see let me see
 the rugged pyrrhus like the hyrcanian beast'
 it is not soit begins with pyrrhus
 the rugged pyrrhus he whose sable arms
 black as his purpose did the night resemble
 when he lay couched in the ominous horse
 hath now this dread and black complexion smear'd
 with heraldry more dismal head to foot
 now is he total gules horridly trick'd
 with blood of fathers mothers daughters sons
 baked and impasted with the parching streets
 that lend a tyrannous and damned light
 to their lord's murder roasted in wrath and fire
 and thus o'ersized with coagulate gore
 with eyes like carbuncles the hellish pyrrhus
 old grandsire priam seeks'
 so proceed you
lord polonius fore god my lord well spoken with good accent and
 good discretion
first player anon he finds him
 striking too short at greeks his antique sword
 rebellious to his arm lies where it falls
 repugnant to command unequal match'd
 pyrrhus at priam drives in rage strikes wide
 but with the whiff and wind of his fell sword
 the unnerved father falls then senseless ilium
 seeming to feel this blow with flaming top
 stoops to his base and with a hideous crash
 takes prisoner pyrrhus ear for lo his sword
 which was declining on the milky head
 of reverend priam seem'd i the air to stick
 so as a painted tyrant pyrrhus stood
 and like a neutral to his will and matter
 did nothing
 but as we often see against some storm
 a silence in the heavens the rack stand still
 the bold winds speechless and the orb below
 as hush as death anon the dreadful thunder
 doth rend the region so after pyrrhus pause
 aroused vengeance sets him new awork
 and never did the cyclops hammers fall
 on mars's armour forged for proof eterne
 with less remorse than pyrrhus bleeding sword
 now falls on priam
 out out thou strumpet fortune all you gods
 in general synod take away her power
 break all the spokes and fellies from her wheel
 and bowl the round nave down the hill of heaven
 as low as to the fiends'
lord polonius this is too long
hamlet it shall to the barber's with your beard prithee
 say on he's for a jig or a tale of bawdry or he
 sleeps say on come to hecuba
first player but who o who had seen the mobled queen'
hamlet the mobled queen'
lord polonius that's good mobled queen is good
first player run barefoot up and down threatening the flames
 with bisson rheum a clout upon that head
 where late the diadem stood and for a robe
 about her lank and all o'erteemed loins
 a blanket in the alarm of fear caught up
 who this had seen with tongue in venom steep'd
 gainst fortune's state would treason have
 pronounced
 but if the gods themselves did see her then
 when she saw pyrrhus make malicious sport
 in mincing with his sword her husband's limbs
 the instant burst of clamour that she made
 unless things mortal move them not at all
 would have made milch the burning eyes of heaven
 and passion in the gods'
lord polonius look whether he has not turned his colour and has
 tears in's eyes pray you no more
hamlet tis well i'll have thee speak out the rest soon
 good my lord will you see the players well
 bestowed do you hear let them be well used for
 they are the abstract and brief chronicles of the
 time after your death you were better have a bad
 epitaph than their ill report while you live
lord polonius my lord i will use them according to their desert
hamlet god's bodykins man much better use every man
 after his desert and who should scape whipping
 use them after your own honour and dignity the less
 they deserve the more merit is in your bounty
 take them in
lord polonius come sirs
hamlet follow him friends we'll hear a play tomorrow
 exit polonius with all the players but the first
 dost thou hear me old friend can you play the
 murder of gonzago
first player ay my lord
hamlet we'll ha't tomorrow night you could for a need
 study a speech of some dozen or sixteen lines which
 i would set down and insert in't could you not
first player ay my lord
hamlet very well follow that lord and look you mock him
 not
 exit first player
 my good friends i'll leave you till night you are
 welcome to elsinore
rosencrantz good my lord
hamlet ay so god be wi ye
 exeunt rosencrantz and guildenstern
 now i am alone
 o what a rogue and peasant slave am i
 is it not monstrous that this player here
 but in a fiction in a dream of passion
 could force his soul so to his own conceit
 that from her working all his visage wann'd
 tears in his eyes distraction in's aspect
 a broken voice and his whole function suiting
 with forms to his conceit and all for nothing
 for hecuba
 what's hecuba to him or he to hecuba
 that he should weep for her what would he do
 had he the motive and the cue for passion
 that i have he would drown the stage with tears
 and cleave the general ear with horrid speech
 make mad the guilty and appal the free
 confound the ignorant and amaze indeed
 the very faculties of eyes and ears yet i
 a dull and muddymettled rascal peak
 like johnadreams unpregnant of my cause
 and can say nothing no not for a king
 upon whose property and most dear life
 a damn'd defeat was made am i a coward
 who calls me villain breaks my pate across
 plucks off my beard and blows it in my face
 tweaks me by the nose gives me the lie i the throat
 as deep as to the lungs who does me this
 ha
 swounds i should take it for it cannot be
 but i am pigeonliver'd and lack gall
 to make oppression bitter or ere this
 i should have fatted all the region kites
 with this slave's offal bloody bawdy villain
 remorseless treacherous lecherous kindless villain
 o vengeance
 why what an ass am i this is most brave
 that i the son of a dear father murder'd
 prompted to my revenge by heaven and hell
 must like a whore unpack my heart with words
 and fall acursing like a very drab
 a scullion
 fie upon't foh about my brain i have heard
 that guilty creatures sitting at a play
 have by the very cunning of the scene
 been struck so to the soul that presently
 they have proclaim'd their malefactions
 for murder though it have no tongue will speak
 with most miraculous organ i'll have these players
 play something like the murder of my father
 before mine uncle i'll observe his looks
 i'll tent him to the quick if he but blench
 i know my course the spirit that i have seen
 may be the devil and the devil hath power
 to assume a pleasing shape yea and perhaps
 out of my weakness and my melancholy
 as he is very potent with such spirits
 abuses me to damn me i'll have grounds
 more relative than this the play s the thing
 wherein i'll catch the conscience of the king
 exit
 hamlet
act iii
scene i a room in the castle
 enter king claudius queen gertrude polonius
 ophelia rosencrantz and guildenstern
king claudius and can you by no drift of circumstance
 get from him why he puts on this confusion
 grating so harshly all his days of quiet
 with turbulent and dangerous lunacy
rosencrantz he does confess he feels himself distracted
 but from what cause he will by no means speak
guildenstern nor do we find him forward to be sounded
 but with a crafty madness keeps aloof
 when we would bring him on to some confession
 of his true state
queen gertrude did he receive you well
rosencrantz most like a gentleman
guildenstern but with much forcing of his disposition
rosencrantz niggard of question but of our demands
 most free in his reply
queen gertrude did you assay him
 to any pastime
rosencrantz madam it so fell out that certain players
 we o'erraught on the way of these we told him
 and there did seem in him a kind of joy
 to hear of it they are about the court
 and as i think they have already order
 this night to play before him
lord polonius tis most true
 and he beseech'd me to entreat your majesties
 to hear and see the matter
king claudius with all my heart and it doth much content me
 to hear him so inclined
 good gentlemen give him a further edge
 and drive his purpose on to these delights
rosencrantz we shall my lord
 exeunt rosencrantz and guildenstern
king claudius sweet gertrude leave us too
 for we have closely sent for hamlet hither
 that he as twere by accident may here
 affront ophelia
 her father and myself lawful espials
 will so bestow ourselves that seeing unseen
 we may of their encounter frankly judge
 and gather by him as he is behaved
 if t be the affliction of his love or no
 that thus he suffers for
queen gertrude i shall obey you
 and for your part ophelia i do wish
 that your good beauties be the happy cause
 of hamlet's wildness so shall i hope your virtues
 will bring him to his wonted way again
 to both your honours
ophelia madam i wish it may
 exit queen gertrude
lord polonius ophelia walk you here gracious so please you
 we will bestow ourselves
 to ophelia
 read on this book
 that show of such an exercise may colour
 your loneliness we are oft to blame in this
 tis too much provedthat with devotion's visage
 and pious action we do sugar o'er
 the devil himself
king claudius aside o tis too true
 how smart a lash that speech doth give my conscience
 the harlot's cheek beautied with plastering art
 is not more ugly to the thing that helps it
 than is my deed to my most painted word
 o heavy burthen
lord polonius i hear him coming let's withdraw my lord
 exeunt king claudius and polonius
 enter hamlet
hamlet to be or not to be that is the question
 whether tis nobler in the mind to suffer
 the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune
 or to take arms against a sea of troubles
 and by opposing end them to die to sleep
 no more and by a sleep to say we end
 the heartache and the thousand natural shocks
 that flesh is heir to tis a consummation
 devoutly to be wish'd to die to sleep
 to sleep perchance to dream ay there's the rub
 for in that sleep of death what dreams may come
 when we have shuffled off this mortal coil
 must give us pause there's the respect
 that makes calamity of so long life
 for who would bear the whips and scorns of time
 the oppressor's wrong the proud man's contumely
 the pangs of despised love the law's delay
 the insolence of office and the spurns
 that patient merit of the unworthy takes
 when he himself might his quietus make
 with a bare bodkin who would fardels bear
 to grunt and sweat under a weary life
 but that the dread of something after death
 the undiscover'd country from whose bourn
 no traveller returns puzzles the will
 and makes us rather bear those ills we have
 than fly to others that we know not of
 thus conscience does make cowards of us all
 and thus the native hue of resolution
 is sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought
 and enterprises of great pith and moment
 with this regard their currents turn awry
 and lose the name of actionsoft you now
 the fair ophelia nymph in thy orisons
 be all my sins remember'd
ophelia good my lord
 how does your honour for this many a day
hamlet i humbly thank you well well well
ophelia my lord i have remembrances of yours
 that i have longed long to redeliver
 i pray you now receive them
hamlet no not i
 i never gave you aught
ophelia my honour'd lord you know right well you did
 and with them words of so sweet breath composed
 as made the things more rich their perfume lost
 take these again for to the noble mind
 rich gifts wax poor when givers prove unkind
 there my lord
hamlet ha ha are you honest
ophelia my lord
hamlet are you fair
ophelia what means your lordship
hamlet that if you be honest and fair your honesty should
 admit no discourse to your beauty
ophelia could beauty my lord have better commerce than
 with honesty
hamlet ay truly for the power of beauty will sooner
 transform honesty from what it is to a bawd than the
 force of honesty can translate beauty into his
 likeness this was sometime a paradox but now the
 time gives it proof i did love you once
ophelia indeed my lord you made me believe so
hamlet you should not have believed me for virtue cannot
 so inoculate our old stock but we shall relish of
 it i loved you not
ophelia i was the more deceived
hamlet get thee to a nunnery why wouldst thou be a
 breeder of sinners i am myself indifferent honest
 but yet i could accuse me of such things that it
 were better my mother had not borne me i am very
 proud revengeful ambitious with more offences at
 my beck than i have thoughts to put them in
 imagination to give them shape or time to act them
 in what should such fellows as i do crawling
 between earth and heaven we are arrant knaves
 all believe none of us go thy ways to a nunnery
 where's your father
ophelia at home my lord
hamlet let the doors be shut upon him that he may play the
 fool no where but in's own house farewell
ophelia o help him you sweet heavens
hamlet if thou dost marry i'll give thee this plague for
 thy dowry be thou as chaste as ice as pure as
 snow thou shalt not escape calumny get thee to a
 nunnery go farewell or if thou wilt needs
 marry marry a fool for wise men know well enough
 what monsters you make of them to a nunnery go
 and quickly too farewell
ophelia o heavenly powers restore him
hamlet i have heard of your paintings too well enough god
 has given you one face and you make yourselves
 another you jig you amble and you lisp and
 nickname god's creatures and make your wantonness
 your ignorance go to i'll no more on't it hath
 made me mad i say we will have no more marriages
 those that are married already all but one shall
 live the rest shall keep as they are to a
 nunnery go
 exit
ophelia o what a noble mind is here o'erthrown
 the courtier's soldier's scholar's eye tongue sword
 the expectancy and rose of the fair state
 the glass of fashion and the mould of form
 the observed of all observers quite quite down
 and i of ladies most deject and wretched
 that suck'd the honey of his music vows
 now see that noble and most sovereign reason
 like sweet bells jangled out of tune and harsh
 that unmatch'd form and feature of blown youth
 blasted with ecstasy o woe is me
 to have seen what i have seen see what i see
 reenter king claudius and polonius
king claudius love his affections do not that way tend
 nor what he spake though it lack'd form a little
 was not like madness there's something in his soul
 o'er which his melancholy sits on brood
 and i do doubt the hatch and the disclose
 will be some danger which for to prevent
 i have in quick determination
 thus set it down he shall with speed to england
 for the demand of our neglected tribute
 haply the seas and countries different
 with variable objects shall expel
 this somethingsettled matter in his heart
 whereon his brains still beating puts him thus
 from fashion of himself what think you on't
lord polonius it shall do well but yet do i believe
 the origin and commencement of his grief
 sprung from neglected love how now ophelia
 you need not tell us what lord hamlet said
 we heard it all my lord do as you please
 but if you hold it fit after the play
 let his queen mother all alone entreat him
 to show his grief let her be round with him
 and i'll be placed so please you in the ear
 of all their conference if she find him not
 to england send him or confine him where
 your wisdom best shall think
king claudius it shall be so
 madness in great ones must not unwatch'd go
 exeunt
 hamlet
act iii
scene ii a hall in the castle
 enter hamlet and players
hamlet speak the speech i pray you as i pronounced it to
 you trippingly on the tongue but if you mouth it
 as many of your players do i had as lief the
 towncrier spoke my lines nor do not saw the air
 too much with your hand thus but use all gently
 for in the very torrent tempest and as i may say
 the whirlwind of passion you must acquire and beget
 a temperance that may give it smoothness o it
 offends me to the soul to hear a robustious
 periwigpated fellow tear a passion to tatters to
 very rags to split the ears of the groundlings who
 for the most part are capable of nothing but
 inexplicable dumbshows and noise i would have such
 a fellow whipped for o'erdoing termagant it
 outherods herod pray you avoid it
first player i warrant your honour
hamlet be not too tame neither but let your own discretion
 be your tutor suit the action to the word the
 word to the action with this special o'erstep not
 the modesty of nature for any thing so overdone is
 from the purpose of playing whose end both at the
 first and now was and is to hold as twere the
 mirror up to nature to show virtue her own feature
 scorn her own image and the very age and body of
 the time his form and pressure now this overdone
 or come tardy off though it make the unskilful
 laugh cannot but make the judicious grieve the
 censure of the which one must in your allowance
 o'erweigh a whole theatre of others o there be
 players that i have seen play and heard others
 praise and that highly not to speak it profanely
 that neither having the accent of christians nor
 the gait of christian pagan nor man have so
 strutted and bellowed that i have thought some of
 nature's journeymen had made men and not made them
 well they imitated humanity so abominably
first player i hope we have reformed that indifferently with us
 sir
hamlet o reform it altogether and let those that play
 your clowns speak no more than is set down for them
 for there be of them that will themselves laugh to
 set on some quantity of barren spectators to laugh
 too though in the mean time some necessary
 question of the play be then to be considered
 that's villanous and shows a most pitiful ambition
 in the fool that uses it go make you ready
 exeunt players
 enter polonius rosencrantz and guildenstern
 how now my lord i will the king hear this piece of work
lord polonius and the queen too and that presently
hamlet bid the players make haste
 exit polonius
 will you two help to hasten them
rosencrantz 
 we will my lord
guildenstern 
 exeunt rosencrantz and guildenstern
hamlet what ho horatio
 enter horatio
horatio here sweet lord at your service
hamlet horatio thou art e'en as just a man
 as e'er my conversation coped withal
horatio o my dear lord
hamlet nay do not think i flatter
 for what advancement may i hope from thee
 that no revenue hast but thy good spirits
 to feed and clothe thee why should the poor be flatter'd
 no let the candied tongue lick absurd pomp
 and crook the pregnant hinges of the knee
 where thrift may follow fawning dost thou hear
 since my dear soul was mistress of her choice
 and could of men distinguish her election
 hath seal'd thee for herself for thou hast been
 as one in suffering all that suffers nothing
 a man that fortune's buffets and rewards
 hast ta'en with equal thanks and blest are those
 whose blood and judgment are so well commingled
 that they are not a pipe for fortune's finger
 to sound what stop she please give me that man
 that is not passion's slave and i will wear him
 in my heart's core ay in my heart of heart
 as i do theesomething too much of this
 there is a play tonight before the king
 one scene of it comes near the circumstance
 which i have told thee of my father's death
 i prithee when thou seest that act afoot
 even with the very comment of thy soul
 observe mine uncle if his occulted guilt
 do not itself unkennel in one speech
 it is a damned ghost that we have seen
 and my imaginations are as foul
 as vulcan's stithy give him heedful note
 for i mine eyes will rivet to his face
 and after we will both our judgments join
 in censure of his seeming
horatio well my lord
 if he steal aught the whilst this play is playing
 and scape detecting i will pay the theft
hamlet they are coming to the play i must be idle
 get you a place
 danish march a flourish enter king claudius
 queen gertrude polonius ophelia rosencrantz
 guildenstern and others
king claudius how fares our cousin hamlet
hamlet excellent i faith of the chameleon's dish i eat
 the air promisecrammed you cannot feed capons so
king claudius i have nothing with this answer hamlet these words
 are not mine
hamlet no nor mine now
 to polonius
 my lord you played once i the university you say
lord polonius that did i my lord and was accounted a good actor
hamlet what did you enact
lord polonius i did enact julius caesar i was killed i the
 capitol brutus killed me
hamlet it was a brute part of him to kill so capital a calf
 there be the players ready
rosencrantz ay my lord they stay upon your patience
queen gertrude come hither my dear hamlet sit by me
hamlet no good mother here's metal more attractive
lord polonius to king claudius o ho do you mark that
hamlet lady shall i lie in your lap
 lying down at ophelia's feet
ophelia no my lord
hamlet i mean my head upon your lap
ophelia ay my lord
hamlet do you think i meant country matters
ophelia i think nothing my lord
hamlet that's a fair thought to lie between maids legs
ophelia what is my lord
hamlet nothing
ophelia you are merry my lord
hamlet who i
ophelia ay my lord
hamlet o god your only jigmaker what should a man do
 but be merry for look you how cheerfully my
 mother looks and my father died within these two hours
ophelia nay tis twice two months my lord
hamlet so long nay then let the devil wear black for
 i'll have a suit of sables o heavens die two
 months ago and not forgotten yet then there's
 hope a great man's memory may outlive his life half
 a year but by'r lady he must build churches
 then or else shall he suffer not thinking on with
 the hobbyhorse whose epitaph is for o for o
 the hobbyhorse is forgot'
 hautboys play the dumbshow enters
 enter a king and a queen very lovingly the queen
 embracing him and he her she kneels and makes
 show of protestation unto him he takes her up
 and declines his head upon her neck lays him down
 upon a bank of flowers she seeing him asleep
 leaves him anon comes in a fellow takes off his
 crown kisses it and pours poison in the king's
 ears and exit the queen returns finds the king
 dead and makes passionate action the poisoner
 with some two or three mutes comes in again
 seeming to lament with her the dead body is
 carried away the poisoner wooes the queen with
 gifts she seems loath and unwilling awhile but
 in the end accepts his love
 exeunt
ophelia what means this my lord
hamlet marry this is miching mallecho it means mischief
ophelia belike this show imports the argument of the play
 enter prologue
hamlet we shall know by this fellow the players cannot
 keep counsel they'll tell all
ophelia will he tell us what this show meant
hamlet ay or any show that you'll show him be not you
 ashamed to show he'll not shame to tell you what it means
ophelia you are naught you are naught i'll mark the play
prologue for us and for our tragedy
 here stooping to your clemency
 we beg your hearing patiently
 exit
hamlet is this a prologue or the posy of a ring
ophelia tis brief my lord
hamlet as woman's love
 enter two players king and queen
player king full thirty times hath phoebus cart gone round
 neptune's salt wash and tellus orbed ground
 and thirty dozen moons with borrow'd sheen
 about the world have times twelve thirties been
 since love our hearts and hymen did our hands
 unite commutual in most sacred bands
player queen so many journeys may the sun and moon
 make us again count o'er ere love be done
 but woe is me you are so sick of late
 so far from cheer and from your former state
 that i distrust you yet though i distrust
 discomfort you my lord it nothing must
 for women's fear and love holds quantity
 in neither aught or in extremity
 now what my love is proof hath made you know
 and as my love is sized my fear is so
 where love is great the littlest doubts are fear
 where little fears grow great great love grows there
player king faith i must leave thee love and shortly too
 my operant powers their functions leave to do
 and thou shalt live in this fair world behind
 honour'd beloved and haply one as kind
 for husband shalt thou
player queen o confound the rest
 such love must needs be treason in my breast
 in second husband let me be accurst
 none wed the second but who kill'd the first
hamlet aside wormwood wormwood
player queen the instances that second marriage move
 are base respects of thrift but none of love
 a second time i kill my husband dead
 when second husband kisses me in bed
player king i do believe you think what now you speak
 but what we do determine oft we break
 purpose is but the slave to memory
 of violent birth but poor validity
 which now like fruit unripe sticks on the tree
 but fall unshaken when they mellow be
 most necessary tis that we forget
 to pay ourselves what to ourselves is debt
 what to ourselves in passion we propose
 the passion ending doth the purpose lose
 the violence of either grief or joy
 their own enactures with themselves destroy
 where joy most revels grief doth most lament
 grief joys joy grieves on slender accident
 this world is not for aye nor tis not strange
 that even our loves should with our fortunes change
 for tis a question left us yet to prove
 whether love lead fortune or else fortune love
 the great man down you mark his favourite flies
 the poor advanced makes friends of enemies
 and hitherto doth love on fortune tend
 for who not needs shall never lack a friend
 and who in want a hollow friend doth try
 directly seasons him his enemy
 but orderly to end where i begun
 our wills and fates do so contrary run
 that our devices still are overthrown
 our thoughts are ours their ends none of our own
 so think thou wilt no second husband wed
 but die thy thoughts when thy first lord is dead
player queen nor earth to me give food nor heaven light
 sport and repose lock from me day and night
 to desperation turn my trust and hope
 an anchor's cheer in prison be my scope
 each opposite that blanks the face of joy
 meet what i would have well and it destroy
 both here and hence pursue me lasting strife
 if once a widow ever i be wife
hamlet if she should break it now
player king tis deeply sworn sweet leave me here awhile
 my spirits grow dull and fain i would beguile
 the tedious day with sleep
 sleeps
player queen sleep rock thy brain
 and never come mischance between us twain
 exit
hamlet madam how like you this play
queen gertrude the lady protests too much methinks
hamlet o but she'll keep her word
king claudius have you heard the argument is there no offence in t
hamlet no no they do but jest poison in jest no offence
 i the world
king claudius what do you call the play
hamlet the mousetrap marry how tropically this play
 is the image of a murder done in vienna gonzago is
 the duke's name his wife baptista you shall see
 anon tis a knavish piece of work but what o'
 that your majesty and we that have free souls it
 touches us not let the galled jade wince our
 withers are unwrung
 enter lucianus
 this is one lucianus nephew to the king
ophelia you are as good as a chorus my lord
hamlet i could interpret between you and your love if i
 could see the puppets dallying
ophelia you are keen my lord you are keen
hamlet it would cost you a groaning to take off my edge
ophelia still better and worse
hamlet so you must take your husbands begin murderer
 pox leave thy damnable faces and begin come
 the croaking raven doth bellow for revenge'
lucianus thoughts black hands apt drugs fit and time agreeing
 confederate season else no creature seeing
 thou mixture rank of midnight weeds collected
 with hecate's ban thrice blasted thrice infected
 thy natural magic and dire property
 on wholesome life usurp immediately
 pours the poison into the sleeper's ears
hamlet he poisons him i the garden for's estate his
 name's gonzago the story is extant and writ in
 choice italian you shall see anon how the murderer
 gets the love of gonzago's wife
ophelia the king rises
hamlet what frighted with false fire
queen gertrude how fares my lord
lord polonius give o'er the play
king claudius give me some light away
all lights lights lights
 exeunt all but hamlet and horatio
hamlet why let the stricken deer go weep
 the hart ungalled play
 for some must watch while some must sleep
 so runs the world away
 would not this sir and a forest of feathers if
 the rest of my fortunes turn turk with mewith two
 provincial roses on my razed shoes get me a
 fellowship in a cry of players sir
horatio half a share
hamlet a whole one i
 for thou dost know o damon dear
 this realm dismantled was
 of jove himself and now reigns here
 a very verypajock
horatio you might have rhymed
hamlet o good horatio i'll take the ghost's word for a
 thousand pound didst perceive
horatio very well my lord
hamlet upon the talk of the poisoning
horatio i did very well note him
hamlet ah ha come some music come the recorders
 for if the king like not the comedy
 why then belike he likes it not perdy
 come some music
 reenter rosencrantz and guildenstern
guildenstern good my lord vouchsafe me a word with you
hamlet sir a whole history
guildenstern the king sir
hamlet ay sir what of him
guildenstern is in his retirement marvellous distempered
hamlet with drink sir
guildenstern no my lord rather with choler
hamlet your wisdom should show itself more richer to
 signify this to his doctor for for me to put him
 to his purgation would perhaps plunge him into far
 more choler
guildenstern good my lord put your discourse into some frame and
 start not so wildly from my affair
hamlet i am tame sir pronounce
guildenstern the queen your mother in most great affliction of
 spirit hath sent me to you
hamlet you are welcome
guildenstern nay good my lord this courtesy is not of the right
 breed if it shall please you to make me a
 wholesome answer i will do your mother's
 commandment if not your pardon and my return
 shall be the end of my business
hamlet sir i cannot
guildenstern what my lord
hamlet make you a wholesome answer my wit's diseased but
 sir such answer as i can make you shall command
 or rather as you say my mother therefore no
 more but to the matter my mother you say
rosencrantz then thus she says your behavior hath struck her
 into amazement and admiration
hamlet o wonderful son that can so astonish a mother but
 is there no sequel at the heels of this mother's
 admiration impart
rosencrantz she desires to speak with you in her closet ere you
 go to bed
hamlet we shall obey were she ten times our mother have
 you any further trade with us
rosencrantz my lord you once did love me
hamlet so i do still by these pickers and stealers
rosencrantz good my lord what is your cause of distemper you
 do surely bar the door upon your own liberty if
 you deny your griefs to your friend
hamlet sir i lack advancement
rosencrantz how can that be when you have the voice of the king
 himself for your succession in denmark
hamlet ay but sir while the grass grows'the proverb
 is something musty
 reenter players with recorders
 o the recorders let me see one to withdraw with
 youwhy do you go about to recover the wind of me
 as if you would drive me into a toil
guildenstern o my lord if my duty be too bold my love is too
 unmannerly
hamlet i do not well understand that will you play upon
 this pipe
guildenstern my lord i cannot
hamlet i pray you
guildenstern believe me i cannot
hamlet i do beseech you
guildenstern i know no touch of it my lord
hamlet tis as easy as lying govern these ventages with
 your lingers and thumb give it breath with your
 mouth and it will discourse most eloquent music
 look you these are the stops
guildenstern but these cannot i command to any utterance of
 harmony i have not the skill
hamlet why look you now how unworthy a thing you make of
 me you would play upon me you would seem to know
 my stops you would pluck out the heart of my
 mystery you would sound me from my lowest note to
 the top of my compass and there is much music
 excellent voice in this little organ yet cannot
 you make it speak sblood do you think i am
 easier to be played on than a pipe call me what
 instrument you will though you can fret me yet you
 cannot play upon me
 enter polonius
 god bless you sir
lord polonius my lord the queen would speak with you and
 presently
hamlet do you see yonder cloud that's almost in shape of a camel
lord polonius by the mass and tis like a camel indeed
hamlet methinks it is like a weasel
lord polonius it is backed like a weasel
hamlet or like a whale
lord polonius very like a whale
hamlet then i will come to my mother by and by they fool
 me to the top of my bent i will come by and by
lord polonius i will say so
hamlet by and by is easily said
 exit polonius
 leave me friends
 exeunt all but hamlet
 tis now the very witching time of night
 when churchyards yawn and hell itself breathes out
 contagion to this world now could i drink hot blood
 and do such bitter business as the day
 would quake to look on soft now to my mother
 o heart lose not thy nature let not ever
 the soul of nero enter this firm bosom
 let me be cruel not unnatural
 i will speak daggers to her but use none
 my tongue and soul in this be hypocrites
 how in my words soever she be shent
 to give them seals never my soul consent
 exit
 hamlet
act iii
scene iii a room in the castle
 enter king claudius rosencrantz and guildenstern
king claudius i like him not nor stands it safe with us
 to let his madness range therefore prepare you
 i your commission will forthwith dispatch
 and he to england shall along with you
 the terms of our estate may not endure
 hazard so dangerous as doth hourly grow
 out of his lunacies
guildenstern we will ourselves provide
 most holy and religious fear it is
 to keep those many many bodies safe
 that live and feed upon your majesty
rosencrantz the single and peculiar life is bound
 with all the strength and armour of the mind
 to keep itself from noyance but much more
 that spirit upon whose weal depend and rest
 the lives of many the cease of majesty
 dies not alone but like a gulf doth draw
 what's near it with it it is a massy wheel
 fix'd on the summit of the highest mount
 to whose huge spokes ten thousand lesser things
 are mortised and adjoin'd which when it falls
 each small annexment petty consequence
 attends the boisterous ruin never alone
 did the king sigh but with a general groan
king claudius arm you i pray you to this speedy voyage
 for we will fetters put upon this fear
 which now goes too freefooted
rosencrantz 
 we will haste us
guildenstern 
 exeunt rosencrantz and guildenstern
 enter polonius
lord polonius my lord he's going to his mother's closet
 behind the arras i'll convey myself
 to hear the process and warrant she'll tax him home
 and as you said and wisely was it said
 tis meet that some more audience than a mother
 since nature makes them partial should o'erhear
 the speech of vantage fare you well my liege
 i'll call upon you ere you go to bed
 and tell you what i know
king claudius thanks dear my lord
 exit polonius
 o my offence is rank it smells to heaven
 it hath the primal eldest curse upon't
 a brother's murder pray can i not
 though inclination be as sharp as will
 my stronger guilt defeats my strong intent
 and like a man to double business bound
 i stand in pause where i shall first begin
 and both neglect what if this cursed hand
 were thicker than itself with brother's blood
 is there not rain enough in the sweet heavens
 to wash it white as snow whereto serves mercy
 but to confront the visage of offence
 and what's in prayer but this twofold force
 to be forestalled ere we come to fall
 or pardon'd being down then i'll look up
 my fault is past but o what form of prayer
 can serve my turn forgive me my foul murder'
 that cannot be since i am still possess'd
 of those effects for which i did the murder
 my crown mine own ambition and my queen
 may one be pardon'd and retain the offence
 in the corrupted currents of this world
 offence's gilded hand may shove by justice
 and oft tis seen the wicked prize itself
 buys out the law but tis not so above
 there is no shuffling there the action lies
 in his true nature and we ourselves compell'd
 even to the teeth and forehead of our faults
 to give in evidence what then what rests
 try what repentance can what can it not
 yet what can it when one can not repent
 o wretched state o bosom black as death
 o limed soul that struggling to be free
 art more engaged help angels make assay
 bow stubborn knees and heart with strings of steel
 be soft as sinews of the newborn babe
 all may be well
 retires and kneels
 enter hamlet
hamlet now might i do it pat now he is praying
 and now i'll do't and so he goes to heaven
 and so am i revenged that would be scann'd
 a villain kills my father and for that
 i his sole son do this same villain send
 to heaven
 o this is hire and salary not revenge
 he took my father grossly full of bread
 with all his crimes broad blown as flush as may
 and how his audit stands who knows save heaven
 but in our circumstance and course of thought
 tis heavy with him and am i then revenged
 to take him in the purging of his soul
 when he is fit and season'd for his passage
 no
 up sword and know thou a more horrid hent
 when he is drunk asleep or in his rage
 or in the incestuous pleasure of his bed
 at gaming swearing or about some act
 that has no relish of salvation in't
 then trip him that his heels may kick at heaven
 and that his soul may be as damn'd and black
 as hell whereto it goes my mother stays
 this physic but prolongs thy sickly days
 exit
king claudius rising my words fly up my thoughts remain below
 words without thoughts never to heaven go
 exit
 hamlet
act iii
scene iv the queen's closet
 enter queen margaret and polonius
lord polonius he will come straight look you lay home to him
 tell him his pranks have been too broad to bear with
 and that your grace hath screen'd and stood between
 much heat and him i'll sconce me even here
 pray you be round with him
hamlet within mother mother mother
queen gertrude i'll warrant you
 fear me not withdraw i hear him coming
 polonius hides behind the arras
 enter hamlet
hamlet now mother what's the matter
queen gertrude hamlet thou hast thy father much offended
hamlet mother you have my father much offended
queen gertrude come come you answer with an idle tongue
hamlet go go you question with a wicked tongue
queen gertrude why how now hamlet
hamlet what's the matter now
queen gertrude have you forgot me
hamlet no by the rood not so
 you are the queen your husband's brother's wife
 andwould it were not soyou are my mother
queen gertrude nay then i'll set those to you that can speak
hamlet come come and sit you down you shall not budge
 you go not till i set you up a glass
 where you may see the inmost part of you
queen gertrude what wilt thou do thou wilt not murder me
 help help ho
lord polonius behind what ho help help help
hamlet drawing how now a rat dead for a ducat dead
 makes a pass through the arras
lord polonius behind o i am slain
 falls and dies
queen gertrude o me what hast thou done
hamlet nay i know not
 is it the king
queen gertrude o what a rash and bloody deed is this
hamlet a bloody deed almost as bad good mother
 as kill a king and marry with his brother
queen gertrude as kill a king
hamlet ay lady twas my word
 lifts up the array and discovers polonius
 thou wretched rash intruding fool farewell
 i took thee for thy better take thy fortune
 thou find'st to be too busy is some danger
 leave wringing of your hands peace sit you down
 and let me wring your heart for so i shall
 if it be made of penetrable stuff
 if damned custom have not brass'd it so
 that it is proof and bulwark against sense
queen gertrude what have i done that thou darest wag thy tongue
 in noise so rude against me
hamlet such an act
 that blurs the grace and blush of modesty
 calls virtue hypocrite takes off the rose
 from the fair forehead of an innocent love
 and sets a blister there makes marriagevows
 as false as dicers oaths o such a deed
 as from the body of contraction plucks
 the very soul and sweet religion makes
 a rhapsody of words heaven's face doth glow
 yea this solidity and compound mass
 with tristful visage as against the doom
 is thoughtsick at the act
queen gertrude ay me what act
 that roars so loud and thunders in the index
hamlet look here upon this picture and on this
 the counterfeit presentment of two brothers
 see what a grace was seated on this brow
 hyperion's curls the front of jove himself
 an eye like mars to threaten and command
 a station like the herald mercury
 newlighted on a heavenkissing hill
 a combination and a form indeed
 where every god did seem to set his seal
 to give the world assurance of a man
 this was your husband look you now what follows
 here is your husband like a mildew'd ear
 blasting his wholesome brother have you eyes
 could you on this fair mountain leave to feed
 and batten on this moor ha have you eyes
 you cannot call it love for at your age
 the heyday in the blood is tame it's humble
 and waits upon the judgment and what judgment
 would step from this to this sense sure you have
 else could you not have motion but sure that sense
 is apoplex'd for madness would not err
 nor sense to ecstasy was ne'er so thrall'd
 but it reserved some quantity of choice
 to serve in such a difference what devil was't
 that thus hath cozen'd you at hoodmanblind
 eyes without feeling feeling without sight
 ears without hands or eyes smelling sans all
 or but a sickly part of one true sense
 could not so mope
 o shame where is thy blush rebellious hell
 if thou canst mutine in a matron's bones
 to flaming youth let virtue be as wax
 and melt in her own fire proclaim no shame
 when the compulsive ardour gives the charge
 since frost itself as actively doth burn
 and reason panders will
queen gertrude o hamlet speak no more
 thou turn'st mine eyes into my very soul
 and there i see such black and grained spots
 as will not leave their tinct
hamlet nay but to live
 in the rank sweat of an enseamed bed
 stew'd in corruption honeying and making love
 over the nasty sty
queen gertrude o speak to me no more
 these words like daggers enter in mine ears
 no more sweet hamlet
hamlet a murderer and a villain
 a slave that is not twentieth part the tithe
 of your precedent lord a vice of kings
 a cutpurse of the empire and the rule
 that from a shelf the precious diadem stole
 and put it in his pocket
queen gertrude no more
hamlet a king of shreds and patches
 enter ghost
 save me and hover o'er me with your wings
 you heavenly guards what would your gracious figure
queen gertrude alas he's mad
hamlet do you not come your tardy son to chide
 that lapsed in time and passion lets go by
 the important acting of your dread command o say
ghost do not forget this visitation
 is but to whet thy almost blunted purpose
 but look amazement on thy mother sits
 o step between her and her fighting soul
 conceit in weakest bodies strongest works
 speak to her hamlet
hamlet how is it with you lady
queen gertrude alas how is't with you
 that you do bend your eye on vacancy
 and with the incorporal air do hold discourse
 forth at your eyes your spirits wildly peep
 and as the sleeping soldiers in the alarm
 your bedded hair like life in excrements
 starts up and stands on end o gentle son
 upon the heat and flame of thy distemper
 sprinkle cool patience whereon do you look
hamlet on him on him look you how pale he glares
 his form and cause conjoin'd preaching to stones
 would make them capable do not look upon me
 lest with this piteous action you convert
 my stern effects then what i have to do
 will want true colour tears perchance for blood
queen gertrude to whom do you speak this
hamlet do you see nothing there
queen gertrude nothing at all yet all that is i see
hamlet nor did you nothing hear
queen gertrude no nothing but ourselves
hamlet why look you there look how it steals away
 my father in his habit as he lived
 look where he goes even now out at the portal
 exit ghost
queen gertrude this the very coinage of your brain
 this bodiless creation ecstasy
 is very cunning in
hamlet ecstasy
 my pulse as yours doth temperately keep time
 and makes as healthful music it is not madness
 that i have utter'd bring me to the test
 and i the matter will reword which madness
 would gambol from mother for love of grace
 lay not that mattering unction to your soul
 that not your trespass but my madness speaks
 it will but skin and film the ulcerous place
 whilst rank corruption mining all within
 infects unseen confess yourself to heaven
 repent what's past avoid what is to come
 and do not spread the compost on the weeds
 to make them ranker forgive me this my virtue
 for in the fatness of these pursy times
 virtue itself of vice must pardon beg
 yea curb and woo for leave to do him good
queen gertrude o hamlet thou hast cleft my heart in twain
hamlet o throw away the worser part of it
 and live the purer with the other half
 good night but go not to mine uncle's bed
 assume a virtue if you have it not
 that monster custom who all sense doth eat
 of habits devil is angel yet in this
 that to the use of actions fair and good
 he likewise gives a frock or livery
 that aptly is put on refrain tonight
 and that shall lend a kind of easiness
 to the next abstinence the next more easy
 for use almost can change the stamp of nature
 and either the devil or throw him out
 with wondrous potency once more good night
 and when you are desirous to be bless'd
 i'll blessing beg of you for this same lord
 pointing to polonius
 i do repent but heaven hath pleased it so
 to punish me with this and this with me
 that i must be their scourge and minister
 i will bestow him and will answer well
 the death i gave him so again good night
 i must be cruel only to be kind
 thus bad begins and worse remains behind
 one word more good lady
queen gertrude what shall i do
hamlet not this by no means that i bid you do
 let the bloat king tempt you again to bed
 pinch wanton on your cheek call you his mouse
 and let him for a pair of reechy kisses
 or paddling in your neck with his damn'd fingers
 make you to ravel all this matter out
 that i essentially am not in madness
 but mad in craft twere good you let him know
 for who that's but a queen fair sober wise
 would from a paddock from a bat a gib
 such dear concernings hide who would do so
 no in despite of sense and secrecy
 unpeg the basket on the house's top
 let the birds fly and like the famous ape
 to try conclusions in the basket creep
 and break your own neck down
queen gertrude be thou assured if words be made of breath
 and breath of life i have no life to breathe
 what thou hast said to me
hamlet i must to england you know that
queen gertrude alack
 i had forgot tis so concluded on
hamlet there's letters seal'd and my two schoolfellows
 whom i will trust as i will adders fang'd
 they bear the mandate they must sweep my way
 and marshal me to knavery let it work
 for tis the sport to have the engineer
 hoist with his own petard and t shall go hard
 but i will delve one yard below their mines
 and blow them at the moon o tis most sweet
 when in one line two crafts directly meet
 this man shall set me packing
 i'll lug the guts into the neighbour room
 mother good night indeed this counsellor
 is now most still most secret and most grave
 who was in life a foolish prating knave
 come sir to draw toward an end with you
 good night mother
 exeunt severally hamlet dragging in polonius
 hamlet
act iv
scene i a room in the castle
 enter king claudius queen gertrude rosencrantz
 and guildenstern
king claudius there's matter in these sighs these profound heaves
 you must translate tis fit we understand them
 where is your son
queen gertrude bestow this place on us a little while
 exeunt rosencrantz and guildenstern
 ah my good lord what have i seen tonight
king claudius what gertrude how does hamlet
queen gertrude mad as the sea and wind when both contend
 which is the mightier in his lawless fit
 behind the arras hearing something stir
 whips out his rapier cries a rat a rat'
 and in this brainish apprehension kills
 the unseen good old man
king claudius o heavy deed
 it had been so with us had we been there
 his liberty is full of threats to all
 to you yourself to us to every one
 alas how shall this bloody deed be answer'd
 it will be laid to us whose providence
 should have kept short restrain'd and out of haunt
 this mad young man but so much was our love
 we would not understand what was most fit
 but like the owner of a foul disease
 to keep it from divulging let it feed
 even on the pith of life where is he gone
queen gertrude to draw apart the body he hath kill'd
 o'er whom his very madness like some ore
 among a mineral of metals base
 shows itself pure he weeps for what is done
king claudius o gertrude come away
 the sun no sooner shall the mountains touch
 but we will ship him hence and this vile deed
 we must with all our majesty and skill
 both countenance and excuse ho guildenstern
 reenter rosencrantz and guildenstern
 friends both go join you with some further aid
 hamlet in madness hath polonius slain
 and from his mother's closet hath he dragg'd him
 go seek him out speak fair and bring the body
 into the chapel i pray you haste in this
 exeunt rosencrantz and guildenstern
 come gertrude we'll call up our wisest friends
 and let them know both what we mean to do
 and what's untimely done 
 whose whisper o'er the world's diameter
 as level as the cannon to his blank
 transports his poison'd shot may miss our name
 and hit the woundless air o come away
 my soul is full of discord and dismay
 exeunt
 hamlet
act iv
scene ii another room in the castle
 enter hamlet
hamlet safely stowed
rosencrantz 
 within hamlet lord hamlet
guildenstern 
hamlet what noise who calls on hamlet
 o here they come
 enter rosencrantz and guildenstern
rosencrantz what have you done my lord with the dead body
hamlet compounded it with dust whereto tis kin
rosencrantz tell us where tis that we may take it thence
 and bear it to the chapel
hamlet do not believe it
rosencrantz believe what
hamlet that i can keep your counsel and not mine own
 besides to be demanded of a sponge what
 replication should be made by the son of a king
rosencrantz take you me for a sponge my lord
hamlet ay sir that soaks up the king's countenance his
 rewards his authorities but such officers do the
 king best service in the end he keeps them like
 an ape in the corner of his jaw first mouthed to
 be last swallowed when he needs what you have
 gleaned it is but squeezing you and sponge you
 shall be dry again
rosencrantz i understand you not my lord
hamlet i am glad of it a knavish speech sleeps in a
 foolish ear
rosencrantz my lord you must tell us where the body is and go
 with us to the king
hamlet the body is with the king but the king is not with
 the body the king is a thing
guildenstern a thing my lord
hamlet of nothing bring me to him hide fox and all after
 exeunt
 hamlet
act iv
scene iii another room in the castle
 enter king claudius attended
king claudius i have sent to seek him and to find the body
 how dangerous is it that this man goes loose
 yet must not we put the strong law on him
 he's loved of the distracted multitude
 who like not in their judgment but their eyes
 and where tis so the offender's scourge is weigh'd
 but never the offence to bear all smooth and even
 this sudden sending him away must seem
 deliberate pause diseases desperate grown
 by desperate appliance are relieved
 or not at all
 enter rosencrantz
 how now what hath befall'n
rosencrantz where the dead body is bestow'd my lord
 we cannot get from him
king claudius but where is he
rosencrantz without my lord guarded to know your pleasure
king claudius bring him before us
rosencrantz ho guildenstern bring in my lord
 enter hamlet and guildenstern
king claudius now hamlet where's polonius
hamlet at supper
king claudius at supper where
hamlet not where he eats but where he is eaten a certain
 convocation of politic worms are e'en at him your
 worm is your only emperor for diet we fat all
 creatures else to fat us and we fat ourselves for
 maggots your fat king and your lean beggar is but
 variable service two dishes but to one table
 that's the end
king claudius alas alas
hamlet a man may fish with the worm that hath eat of a
 king and cat of the fish that hath fed of that worm
king claudius what dost you mean by this
hamlet nothing but to show you how a king may go a
 progress through the guts of a beggar
king claudius where is polonius
hamlet in heaven send hither to see if your messenger
 find him not there seek him i the other place
 yourself but indeed if you find him not within
 this month you shall nose him as you go up the
 stairs into the lobby
king claudius go seek him there
 to some attendants
hamlet he will stay till ye come
 exeunt attendants
king claudius hamlet this deed for thine especial safety
 which we do tender as we dearly grieve
 for that which thou hast donemust send thee hence
 with fiery quickness therefore prepare thyself
 the bark is ready and the wind at help
 the associates tend and every thing is bent
 for england
hamlet for england
king claudius ay hamlet
hamlet good
king claudius so is it if thou knew'st our purposes
hamlet i see a cherub that sees them but come for
 england farewell dear mother
king claudius thy loving father hamlet
hamlet my mother father and mother is man and wife man
 and wife is one flesh and so my mother come for england
 exit
king claudius follow him at foot tempt him with speed aboard
 delay it not i'll have him hence tonight
 away for every thing is seal'd and done
 that else leans on the affair pray you make haste
 exeunt rosencrantz and guildenstern
 and england if my love thou hold'st at aught
 as my great power thereof may give thee sense
 since yet thy cicatrice looks raw and red
 after the danish sword and thy free awe
 pays homage to usthou mayst not coldly set
 our sovereign process which imports at full
 by letters congruing to that effect
 the present death of hamlet do it england
 for like the hectic in my blood he rages
 and thou must cure me till i know tis done
 howe'er my haps my joys were ne'er begun
 exit
 hamlet
act iv
scene iv a plain in denmark
 enter fortinbras a captain and soldiers marching
prince fortinbras go captain from me greet the danish king
 tell him that by his licence fortinbras
 craves the conveyance of a promised march
 over his kingdom you know the rendezvous
 if that his majesty would aught with us
 we shall express our duty in his eye
 and let him know so
captain i will do't my lord
prince fortinbras go softly on
 exeunt fortinbras and soldiers
 enter hamlet rosencrantz guildenstern and others
hamlet good sir whose powers are these
captain they are of norway sir
hamlet how purposed sir i pray you
captain against some part of poland
hamlet who commands them sir
captain the nephews to old norway fortinbras
hamlet goes it against the main of poland sir
 or for some frontier
captain truly to speak and with no addition
 we go to gain a little patch of ground
 that hath in it no profit but the name
 to pay five ducats five i would not farm it
 nor will it yield to norway or the pole
 a ranker rate should it be sold in fee
hamlet why then the polack never will defend it
captain yes it is already garrison'd
hamlet two thousand souls and twenty thousand ducats
 will not debate the question of this straw
 this is the imposthume of much wealth and peace
 that inward breaks and shows no cause without
 why the man dies i humbly thank you sir
captain god be wi you sir
 exit
rosencrantz wilt please you go my lord
hamlet i'll be with you straight go a little before
 exeunt all except hamlet
 how all occasions do inform against me
 and spur my dull revenge what is a man
 if his chief good and market of his time
 be but to sleep and feed a beast no more
 sure he that made us with such large discourse
 looking before and after gave us not
 that capability and godlike reason
 to fust in us unused now whether it be
 bestial oblivion or some craven scruple
 of thinking too precisely on the event
 a thought which quarter'd hath but one part wisdom
 and ever three parts coward i do not know
 why yet i live to say this thing's to do'
 sith i have cause and will and strength and means
 to do't examples gross as earth exhort me
 witness this army of such mass and charge
 led by a delicate and tender prince
 whose spirit with divine ambition puff'd
 makes mouths at the invisible event
 exposing what is mortal and unsure
 to all that fortune death and danger dare
 even for an eggshell rightly to be great
 is not to stir without great argument
 but greatly to find quarrel in a straw
 when honour's at the stake how stand i then
 that have a father kill'd a mother stain'd
 excitements of my reason and my blood
 and let all sleep while to my shame i see
 the imminent death of twenty thousand men
 that for a fantasy and trick of fame
 go to their graves like beds fight for a plot
 whereon the numbers cannot try the cause
 which is not tomb enough and continent
 to hide the slain o from this time forth
 my thoughts be bloody or be nothing worth
 exit
 hamlet
act iv
scene v elsinore a room in the castle
 enter queen gertrude horatio and a gentleman
queen gertrude i will not speak with her
gentleman she is importunate indeed distract
 her mood will needs be pitied
queen gertrude what would she have
gentleman she speaks much of her father says she hears
 there's tricks i the world and hems and beats her heart
 spurns enviously at straws speaks things in doubt
 that carry but half sense her speech is nothing
 yet the unshaped use of it doth move
 the hearers to collection they aim at it
 and botch the words up fit to their own thoughts
 which as her winks and nods and gestures
 yield them
 indeed would make one think there might be thought
 though nothing sure yet much unhappily
horatio twere good she were spoken with for she may strew
 dangerous conjectures in illbreeding minds
queen gertrude let her come in
 exit horatio
 to my sick soul as sin's true nature is
 each toy seems prologue to some great amiss
 so full of artless jealousy is guilt
 it spills itself in fearing to be spilt
 reenter horatio with ophelia
ophelia where is the beauteous majesty of denmark
queen gertrude how now ophelia
ophelia sings
 how should i your true love know
 from another one
 by his cockle hat and staff
 and his sandal shoon
queen gertrude alas sweet lady what imports this song
ophelia say you nay pray you mark
 sings
 he is dead and gone lady
 he is dead and gone
 at his head a grassgreen turf
 at his heels a stone
queen gertrude nay but ophelia
ophelia pray you mark
 sings
 white his shroud as the mountain snow
 enter king claudius
queen gertrude alas look here my lord
ophelia sings
 larded with sweet flowers
 which bewept to the grave did go
 with truelove showers
king claudius how do you pretty lady
ophelia well god ild you they say the owl was a baker's
 daughter lord we know what we are but know not
 what we may be god be at your table
king claudius conceit upon her father
ophelia pray you let's have no words of this but when they
 ask you what it means say you this
 sings
 tomorrow is saint valentine's day
 all in the morning betime
 and i a maid at your window
 to be your valentine
 then up he rose and donn'd his clothes
 and dupp'd the chamberdoor
 let in the maid that out a maid
 never departed more
king claudius pretty ophelia
ophelia indeed la without an oath i'll make an end on't
 sings
 by gis and by saint charity
 alack and fie for shame
 young men will do't if they come to't
 by cock they are to blame
 quoth she before you tumbled me
 you promised me to wed
 so would i ha done by yonder sun
 an thou hadst not come to my bed
king claudius how long hath she been thus
ophelia i hope all will be well we must be patient but i
 cannot choose but weep to think they should lay him
 i the cold ground my brother shall know of it
 and so i thank you for your good counsel come my
 coach good night ladies good night sweet ladies
 good night good night
 exit
king claudius follow her close give her good watch
 i pray you
 exit horatio
 o this is the poison of deep grief it springs
 all from her father's death o gertrude gertrude
 when sorrows come they come not single spies
 but in battalions first her father slain
 next your son gone and he most violent author
 of his own just remove the people muddied
 thick and unwholesome in their thoughts and whispers
 for good polonius death and we have done but greenly
 in huggermugger to inter him poor ophelia
 divided from herself and her fair judgment
 without the which we are pictures or mere beasts
 last and as much containing as all these
 her brother is in secret come from france
 feeds on his wonder keeps himself in clouds
 and wants not buzzers to infect his ear
 with pestilent speeches of his father's death
 wherein necessity of matter beggar'd
 will nothing stick our person to arraign
 in ear and ear o my dear gertrude this
 like to a murderingpiece in many places
 gives me superfluous death
 a noise within
queen gertrude alack what noise is this
king claudius where are my switzers let them guard the door
 enter another gentleman
 what is the matter
gentleman save yourself my lord
 the ocean overpeering of his list
 eats not the flats with more impetuous haste
 than young laertes in a riotous head
 o'erbears your officers the rabble call him lord
 and as the world were now but to begin
 antiquity forgot custom not known
 the ratifiers and props of every word
 they cry choose we laertes shall be king'
 caps hands and tongues applaud it to the clouds
 laertes shall be king laertes king'
queen gertrude how cheerfully on the false trail they cry
 o this is counter you false danish dogs
king claudius the doors are broke
 noise within
 enter laertes armed danes following
laertes where is this king sirs stand you all without
danes no let's come in
laertes i pray you give me leave
danes we will we will
 they retire without the door
laertes i thank you keep the door o thou vile king
 give me my father
queen gertrude calmly good laertes
laertes that drop of blood that's calm proclaims me bastard
 cries cuckold to my father brands the harlot
 even here between the chaste unsmirched brow
 of my true mother
king claudius what is the cause laertes
 that thy rebellion looks so giantlike
 let him go gertrude do not fear our person
 there's such divinity doth hedge a king
 that treason can but peep to what it would
 acts little of his will tell me laertes
 why thou art thus incensed let him go gertrude
 speak man
laertes where is my father
king claudius dead
queen gertrude but not by him
king claudius let him demand his fill
laertes how came he dead i'll not be juggled with
 to hell allegiance vows to the blackest devil
 conscience and grace to the profoundest pit
 i dare damnation to this point i stand
 that both the worlds i give to negligence
 let come what comes only i'll be revenged
 most thoroughly for my father
king claudius who shall stay you
laertes my will not all the world
 and for my means i'll husband them so well
 they shall go far with little
king claudius good laertes
 if you desire to know the certainty
 of your dear father's death is't writ in your revenge
 that swoopstake you will draw both friend and foe
 winner and loser
laertes none but his enemies
king claudius will you know them then
laertes to his good friends thus wide i'll ope my arms
 and like the kind liferendering pelican
 repast them with my blood
king claudius why now you speak
 like a good child and a true gentleman
 that i am guiltless of your father's death
 and am most sensible in grief for it
 it shall as level to your judgment pierce
 as day does to your eye
danes within let her come in
laertes how now what noise is that
 reenter ophelia
 o heat dry up my brains tears seven times salt
 burn out the sense and virtue of mine eye
 by heaven thy madness shall be paid by weight
 till our scale turn the beam o rose of may
 dear maid kind sister sweet ophelia
 o heavens is't possible a young maid's wits
 should be as moral as an old man's life
 nature is fine in love and where tis fine
 it sends some precious instance of itself
 after the thing it loves
ophelia sings
 they bore him barefaced on the bier
 hey non nonny nonny hey nonny
 and in his grave rain'd many a tear
 fare you well my dove
laertes hadst thou thy wits and didst persuade revenge
 it could not move thus
ophelia sings
 you must sing adown adown
 an you call him adowna
 o how the wheel becomes it it is the false
 steward that stole his master's daughter
laertes this nothing's more than matter
ophelia there's rosemary that's for remembrance pray
 love remember and there is pansies that's for thoughts
laertes a document in madness thoughts and remembrance fitted
ophelia there's fennel for you and columbines there's rue
 for you and here's some for me we may call it
 herbgrace o sundays o you must wear your rue with
 a difference there's a daisy i would give you
 some violets but they withered all when my father
 died they say he made a good end
 sings
 for bonny sweet robin is all my joy
laertes thought and affliction passion hell itself
 she turns to favour and to prettiness
ophelia sings
 and will he not come again
 and will he not come again
 no no he is dead
 go to thy deathbed
 he never will come again
 his beard was as white as snow
 all flaxen was his poll
 he is gone he is gone
 and we cast away moan
 god ha mercy on his soul
 and of all christian souls i pray god god be wi ye
 exit
laertes do you see this o god
king claudius laertes i must commune with your grief
 or you deny me right go but apart
 make choice of whom your wisest friends you will
 and they shall hear and judge twixt you and me
 if by direct or by collateral hand
 they find us touch'd we will our kingdom give
 our crown our life and all that we can ours
 to you in satisfaction but if not
 be you content to lend your patience to us
 and we shall jointly labour with your soul
 to give it due content
laertes let this be so
 his means of death his obscure funeral
 no trophy sword nor hatchment o'er his bones
 no noble rite nor formal ostentation
 cry to be heard as twere from heaven to earth
 that i must call't in question
king claudius so you shall
 and where the offence is let the great axe fall
 i pray you go with me
 exeunt
 hamlet
act iv
scene vi another room in the castle
 enter horatio and a servant
horatio what are they that would speak with me
servant sailors sir they say they have letters for you
horatio let them come in
 exit servant
 i do not know from what part of the world
 i should be greeted if not from lord hamlet
 enter sailors
first sailor god bless you sir
horatio let him bless thee too
first sailor he shall sir an't please him there's a letter for
 you sir it comes from the ambassador that was
 bound for england if your name be horatio as i am
 let to know it is
horatio reads horatio when thou shalt have overlooked
 this give these fellows some means to the king
 they have letters for him ere we were two days old
 at sea a pirate of very warlike appointment gave us
 chase finding ourselves too slow of sail we put on
 a compelled valour and in the grapple i boarded
 them on the instant they got clear of our ship so
 i alone became their prisoner they have dealt with
 me like thieves of mercy but they knew what they
 did i am to do a good turn for them let the king
 have the letters i have sent and repair thou to me
 with as much speed as thou wouldst fly death i
 have words to speak in thine ear will make thee
 dumb yet are they much too light for the bore of
 the matter these good fellows will bring thee
 where i am rosencrantz and guildenstern hold their
 course for england of them i have much to tell
 thee farewell
 he that thou knowest thine hamlet'
 come i will make you way for these your letters
 and do't the speedier that you may direct me
 to him from whom you brought them
 exeunt
 hamlet
act iv
scene vii another room in the castle
 enter king claudius and laertes
king claudius now must your conscience my acquaintance seal
 and you must put me in your heart for friend
 sith you have heard and with a knowing ear
 that he which hath your noble father slain
 pursued my life
laertes it well appears but tell me
 why you proceeded not against these feats
 so crimeful and so capital in nature
 as by your safety wisdom all things else
 you mainly were stirr'd up
king claudius o for two special reasons
 which may to you perhaps seem much unsinew'd
 but yet to me they are strong the queen his mother
 lives almost by his looks and for myself
 my virtue or my plague be it either which
 she's so conjunctive to my life and soul
 that as the star moves not but in his sphere
 i could not but by her the other motive
 why to a public count i might not go
 is the great love the general gender bear him
 who dipping all his faults in their affection
 would like the spring that turneth wood to stone
 convert his gyves to graces so that my arrows
 too slightly timber'd for so loud a wind
 would have reverted to my bow again
 and not where i had aim'd them
laertes and so have i a noble father lost
 a sister driven into desperate terms
 whose worth if praises may go back again
 stood challenger on mount of all the age
 for her perfections but my revenge will come
king claudius break not your sleeps for that you must not think
 that we are made of stuff so flat and dull
 that we can let our beard be shook with danger
 and think it pastime you shortly shall hear more
 i loved your father and we love ourself
 and that i hope will teach you to imagine
 enter a messenger
 how now what news
messenger letters my lord from hamlet
 this to your majesty this to the queen
king claudius from hamlet who brought them
messenger sailors my lord they say i saw them not
 they were given me by claudio he received them
 of him that brought them
king claudius laertes you shall hear them leave us
 exit messenger
 reads
 high and mighty you shall know i am set naked on
 your kingdom tomorrow shall i beg leave to see
 your kingly eyes when i shall first asking your
 pardon thereunto recount the occasion of my sudden
 and more strange return hamlet'
 what should this mean are all the rest come back
 or is it some abuse and no such thing
laertes know you the hand
king claudius tis hamlets character naked
 and in a postscript here he says alone'
 can you advise me
laertes i'm lost in it my lord but let him come
 it warms the very sickness in my heart
 that i shall live and tell him to his teeth
 thus didest thou'
king claudius if it be so laertes
 as how should it be so how otherwise
 will you be ruled by me
laertes ay my lord
 so you will not o'errule me to a peace
king claudius to thine own peace if he be now return'd
 as checking at his voyage and that he means
 no more to undertake it i will work him
 to an exploit now ripe in my device
 under the which he shall not choose but fall
 and for his death no wind of blame shall breathe
 but even his mother shall uncharge the practise
 and call it accident
laertes my lord i will be ruled
 the rather if you could devise it so
 that i might be the organ
king claudius it falls right
 you have been talk'd of since your travel much
 and that in hamlet's hearing for a quality
 wherein they say you shine your sum of parts
 did not together pluck such envy from him
 as did that one and that in my regard
 of the unworthiest siege
laertes what part is that my lord
king claudius a very riband in the cap of youth
 yet needful too for youth no less becomes
 the light and careless livery that it wears
 than settled age his sables and his weeds
 importing health and graveness two months since
 here was a gentleman of normandy
 i've seen myself and served against the french
 and they can well on horseback but this gallant
 had witchcraft in't he grew unto his seat
 and to such wondrous doing brought his horse
 as he had been incorpsed and deminatured
 with the brave beast so far he topp'd my thought
 that i in forgery of shapes and tricks
 come short of what he did
laertes a norman was't
king claudius a norman
laertes upon my life lamond
king claudius the very same
laertes i know him well he is the brooch indeed
 and gem of all the nation
king claudius he made confession of you
 and gave you such a masterly report
 for art and exercise in your defence
 and for your rapier most especially
 that he cried out twould be a sight indeed
 if one could match you the scrimers of their nation
 he swore had had neither motion guard nor eye
 if you opposed them sir this report of his
 did hamlet so envenom with his envy
 that he could nothing do but wish and beg
 your sudden coming o'er to play with him
 now out of this
laertes what out of this my lord
king claudius laertes was your father dear to you
 or are you like the painting of a sorrow
 a face without a heart
laertes why ask you this
king claudius not that i think you did not love your father
 but that i know love is begun by time
 and that i see in passages of proof
 time qualifies the spark and fire of it
 there lives within the very flame of love
 a kind of wick or snuff that will abate it
 and nothing is at a like goodness still
 for goodness growing to a plurisy
 dies in his own too much that we would do
 we should do when we would for this would changes
 and hath abatements and delays as many
 as there are tongues are hands are accidents
 and then this should is like a spendthrift sigh
 that hurts by easing but to the quick o the ulcer
 hamlet comes back what would you undertake
 to show yourself your father's son in deed
 more than in words
laertes to cut his throat i the church
king claudius no place indeed should murder sanctuarize
 revenge should have no bounds but good laertes
 will you do this keep close within your chamber
 hamlet return'd shall know you are come home
 we'll put on those shall praise your excellence
 and set a double varnish on the fame
 the frenchman gave you bring you in fine together
 and wager on your heads he being remiss
 most generous and free from all contriving
 will not peruse the foils so that with ease
 or with a little shuffling you may choose
 a sword unbated and in a pass of practise
 requite him for your father
laertes i will do't
 and for that purpose i'll anoint my sword
 i bought an unction of a mountebank
 so mortal that but dip a knife in it
 where it draws blood no cataplasm so rare
 collected from all simples that have virtue
 under the moon can save the thing from death
 that is but scratch'd withal i'll touch my point
 with this contagion that if i gall him slightly
 it may be death
king claudius let's further think of this
 weigh what convenience both of time and means
 may fit us to our shape if this should fail
 and that our drift look through our bad performance
 twere better not assay'd therefore this project
 should have a back or second that might hold
 if this should blast in proof soft let me see
 we'll make a solemn wager on your cunnings i ha't
 when in your motion you are hot and dry
 as make your bouts more violent to that end
 and that he calls for drink i'll have prepared him
 a chalice for the nonce whereon but sipping
 if he by chance escape your venom'd stuck
 our purpose may hold there
 enter queen gertrude
 how now sweet queen
queen gertrude one woe doth tread upon another's heel
 so fast they follow your sister's drown'd laertes
laertes drown'd o where
queen gertrude there is a willow grows aslant a brook
 that shows his hoar leaves in the glassy stream
 there with fantastic garlands did she come
 of crowflowers nettles daisies and long purples
 that liberal shepherds give a grosser name
 but our cold maids do dead men's fingers call them
 there on the pendent boughs her coronet weeds
 clambering to hang an envious sliver broke
 when down her weedy trophies and herself
 fell in the weeping brook her clothes spread wide
 and mermaidlike awhile they bore her up
 which time she chanted snatches of old tunes
 as one incapable of her own distress
 or like a creature native and indued
 unto that element but long it could not be
 till that her garments heavy with their drink
 pull'd the poor wretch from her melodious lay
 to muddy death
laertes alas then she is drown'd
queen gertrude drown'd drown'd
laertes too much of water hast thou poor ophelia
 and therefore i forbid my tears but yet
 it is our trick nature her custom holds
 let shame say what it will when these are gone
 the woman will be out adieu my lord
 i have a speech of fire that fain would blaze
 but that this folly douts it
 exit
king claudius let's follow gertrude
 how much i had to do to calm his rage
 now fear i this will give it start again
 therefore let's follow
 exeunt
 hamlet
act v
scene i a churchyard
 enter two clowns with spades &c
first clown is she to be buried in christian burial that
 wilfully seeks her own salvation
second clown i tell thee she is and therefore make her grave
 straight the crowner hath sat on her and finds it
 christian burial
first clown how can that be unless she drowned herself in her
 own defence
second clown why tis found so
first clown it must be se offendendo it cannot be else for
 here lies the point if i drown myself wittingly
 it argues an act and an act hath three branches it
 is to act to do to perform argal she drowned
 herself wittingly
second clown nay but hear you goodman delver
first clown give me leave here lies the water good here
 stands the man good if the man go to this water
 and drown himself it is will he nill he he
 goesmark you that but if the water come to him
 and drown him he drowns not himself argal he
 that is not guilty of his own death shortens not his own life
second clown but is this law
first clown ay marry is't crowner's quest law
second clown will you ha the truth on't if this had not been
 a gentlewoman she should have been buried out o'
 christian burial
first clown why there thou say'st and the more pity that
 great folk should have countenance in this world to
 drown or hang themselves more than their even
 christian come my spade there is no ancient
 gentleman but gardeners ditchers and gravemakers
 they hold up adam's profession
second clown was he a gentleman
first clown he was the first that ever bore arms
second clown why he had none
first clown what art a heathen how dost thou understand the
 scripture the scripture says adam digged'
 could he dig without arms i'll put another
 question to thee if thou answerest me not to the
 purpose confess thyself
second clown go to
first clown what is he that builds stronger than either the
 mason the shipwright or the carpenter
second clown the gallowsmaker for that frame outlives a
 thousand tenants
first clown i like thy wit well in good faith the gallows
 does well but how does it well it does well to
 those that do in now thou dost ill to say the
 gallows is built stronger than the church argal
 the gallows may do well to thee to't again come
second clown who builds stronger than a mason a shipwright or
 a carpenter'
first clown ay tell me that and unyoke
second clown marry now i can tell
first clown to't
second clown mass i cannot tell
 enter hamlet and horatio at a distance
first clown cudgel thy brains no more about it for your dull
 ass will not mend his pace with beating and when
 you are asked this question next say a
 gravemaker the houses that he makes last till
 doomsday go get thee to yaughan fetch me a
 stoup of liquor
 exit second clown
 he digs and sings
 in youth when i did love did love
 methought it was very sweet
 to contract o the time for ah my behove
 o methought there was nothing meet
hamlet has this fellow no feeling of his business that he
 sings at gravemaking
horatio custom hath made it in him a property of easiness
hamlet tis e'en so the hand of little employment hath
 the daintier sense
first clown sings
 but age with his stealing steps
 hath claw'd me in his clutch
 and hath shipped me intil the land
 as if i had never been such
 throws up a skull
hamlet that skull had a tongue in it and could sing once
 how the knave jowls it to the ground as if it were
 cain's jawbone that did the first murder it
 might be the pate of a politician which this ass
 now o'erreaches one that would circumvent god
 might it not
horatio it might my lord
hamlet or of a courtier which could say good morrow
 sweet lord how dost thou good lord this might
 be my lord suchaone that praised my lord
 suchaone's horse when he meant to beg it might it not
horatio ay my lord
hamlet why e'en so and now my lady worm's chapless and
 knocked about the mazzard with a sexton's spade
 here's fine revolution an we had the trick to
 see't did these bones cost no more the breeding
 but to play at loggats with em mine ache to think on't
first clown sings
 a pickaxe and a spade a spade
 for and a shrouding sheet
 o a pit of clay for to be made
 for such a guest is meet
 throws up another skull
hamlet there's another why may not that be the skull of a
 lawyer where be his quiddities now his quillets
 his cases his tenures and his tricks why does he
 suffer this rude knave now to knock him about the
 sconce with a dirty shovel and will not tell him of
 his action of battery hum this fellow might be
 in's time a great buyer of land with his statutes
 his recognizances his fines his double vouchers
 his recoveries is this the fine of his fines and
 the recovery of his recoveries to have his fine
 pate full of fine dirt will his vouchers vouch him
 no more of his purchases and double ones too than
 the length and breadth of a pair of indentures the
 very conveyances of his lands will hardly lie in
 this box and must the inheritor himself have no more ha
horatio not a jot more my lord
hamlet is not parchment made of sheepskins
horatio ay my lord and of calfskins too
hamlet they are sheep and calves which seek out assurance
 in that i will speak to this fellow whose
 grave's this sirrah
first clown mine sir
 sings
 o a pit of clay for to be made
 for such a guest is meet
hamlet i think it be thine indeed for thou liest in't
first clown you lie out on't sir and therefore it is not
 yours for my part i do not lie in't and yet it is mine
hamlet thou dost lie in't to be in't and say it is thine
 tis for the dead not for the quick therefore thou liest
first clown tis a quick lie sir twill away gain from me to
 you
hamlet what man dost thou dig it for
first clown for no man sir
hamlet what woman then
first clown for none neither
hamlet who is to be buried in't
first clown one that was a woman sir but rest her soul she's dead
hamlet how absolute the knave is we must speak by the
 card or equivocation will undo us by the lord
 horatio these three years i have taken a note of
 it the age is grown so picked that the toe of the
 peasant comes so near the heel of the courtier he
 gaffs his kibe how long hast thou been a
 gravemaker
first clown of all the days i the year i came to't that day
 that our last king hamlet overcame fortinbras
hamlet how long is that since
first clown cannot you tell that every fool can tell that it
 was the very day that young hamlet was born he that
 is mad and sent into england
hamlet ay marry why was he sent into england
first clown why because he was mad he shall recover his wits
 there or if he do not it's no great matter there
hamlet why
first clown twill a not be seen in him there there the men
 are as mad as he
hamlet how came he mad
first clown very strangely they say
hamlet how strangely
first clown faith e'en with losing his wits
hamlet upon what ground
first clown why here in denmark i have been sexton here man
 and boy thirty years
hamlet how long will a man lie i the earth ere he rot
first clown i faith if he be not rotten before he dieas we
 have many pocky corses nowadays that will scarce
 hold the laying inhe will last you some eight year
 or nine year a tanner will last you nine year
hamlet why he more than another
first clown why sir his hide is so tanned with his trade that
 he will keep out water a great while and your water
 is a sore decayer of your whoreson dead body
 here's a skull now this skull has lain in the earth
 three and twenty years
hamlet whose was it
first clown a whoreson mad fellow's it was whose do you think it was
hamlet nay i know not
first clown a pestilence on him for a mad rogue a poured a
 flagon of rhenish on my head once this same skull
 sir was yorick's skull the king's jester
hamlet this
first clown e'en that
hamlet let me see
 takes the skull
 alas poor yorick i knew him horatio a fellow
 of infinite jest of most excellent fancy he hath
 borne me on his back a thousand times and now how
 abhorred in my imagination it is my gorge rims at
 it here hung those lips that i have kissed i know
 not how oft where be your gibes now your
 gambols your songs your flashes of merriment
 that were wont to set the table on a roar not one
 now to mock your own grinning quite chapfallen
 now get you to my lady's chamber and tell her let
 her paint an inch thick to this favour she must
 come make her laugh at that prithee horatio tell
 me one thing
horatio what's that my lord
hamlet dost thou think alexander looked o this fashion i'
 the earth
horatio e'en so
hamlet and smelt so pah
 puts down the skull
horatio e'en so my lord
hamlet to what base uses we may return horatio why may
 not imagination trace the noble dust of alexander
 till he find it stopping a bunghole
horatio twere to consider too curiously to consider so
hamlet no faith not a jot but to follow him thither with
 modesty enough and likelihood to lead it as
 thus alexander died alexander was buried
 alexander returneth into dust the dust is earth of
 earth we make loam and why of that loam whereto he
 was converted might they not stop a beerbarrel
 imperious caesar dead and turn'd to clay
 might stop a hole to keep the wind away
 o that that earth which kept the world in awe
 should patch a wall to expel the winter flaw
 but soft but soft aside here comes the king
 enter priest &c in procession the corpse of
 ophelia laertes and mourners following king
 claudius queen gertrude their trains &c
 the queen the courtiers who is this they follow
 and with such maimed rites this doth betoken
 the corse they follow did with desperate hand
 fordo its own life twas of some estate
 couch we awhile and mark
 retiring with horatio
laertes what ceremony else
hamlet that is laertes
 a very noble youth mark
laertes what ceremony else
first priest her obsequies have been as far enlarged
 as we have warrantise her death was doubtful
 and but that great command o'ersways the order
 she should in ground unsanctified have lodged
 till the last trumpet for charitable prayers
 shards flints and pebbles should be thrown on her
 yet here she is allow'd her virgin crants
 her maiden strewments and the bringing home
 of bell and burial
laertes must there no more be done
first priest no more be done
 we should profane the service of the dead
 to sing a requiem and such rest to her
 as to peaceparted souls
laertes lay her i the earth
 and from her fair and unpolluted flesh
 may violets spring i tell thee churlish priest
 a ministering angel shall my sister be
 when thou liest howling
hamlet what the fair ophelia
queen gertrude sweets to the sweet farewell
 scattering flowers
 i hoped thou shouldst have been my hamlet's wife
 i thought thy bridebed to have deck'd sweet maid
 and not have strew'd thy grave
laertes o treble woe
 fall ten times treble on that cursed head
 whose wicked deed thy most ingenious sense
 deprived thee of hold off the earth awhile
 till i have caught her once more in mine arms
 leaps into the grave
 now pile your dust upon the quick and dead
 till of this flat a mountain you have made
 to o'ertop old pelion or the skyish head
 of blue olympus
hamlet advancing what is he whose grief
 bears such an emphasis whose phrase of sorrow
 conjures the wandering stars and makes them stand
 like wonderwounded hearers this is i
 hamlet the dane
 leaps into the grave
laertes the devil take thy soul
 grappling with him
hamlet thou pray'st not well
 i prithee take thy fingers from my throat
 for though i am not splenitive and rash
 yet have i something in me dangerous
 which let thy wiseness fear hold off thy hand
king claudius pluck them asunder
queen gertrude hamlet hamlet
all gentlemen
horatio good my lord be quiet
 the attendants part them and they come out of the grave
hamlet why i will fight with him upon this theme
 until my eyelids will no longer wag
queen gertrude o my son what theme
hamlet i loved ophelia forty thousand brothers
 could not with all their quantity of love
 make up my sum what wilt thou do for her
king claudius o he is mad laertes
queen gertrude for love of god forbear him
hamlet swounds show me what thou'lt do
 woo't weep woo't fight woo't fast woo't tear thyself
 woo't drink up eisel eat a crocodile
 i'll do't dost thou come here to whine
 to outface me with leaping in her grave
 be buried quick with her and so will i
 and if thou prate of mountains let them throw
 millions of acres on us till our ground
 singeing his pate against the burning zone
 make ossa like a wart nay an thou'lt mouth
 i'll rant as well as thou
queen gertrude this is mere madness
 and thus awhile the fit will work on him
 anon as patient as the female dove
 when that her golden couplets are disclosed
 his silence will sit drooping
hamlet hear you sir
 what is the reason that you use me thus
 i loved you ever but it is no matter
 let hercules himself do what he may
 the cat will mew and dog will have his day
 exit
king claudius i pray you good horatio wait upon him
 exit horatio
 to laertes
 strengthen your patience in our last night's speech
 we'll put the matter to the present push
 good gertrude set some watch over your son
 this grave shall have a living monument
 an hour of quiet shortly shall we see
 till then in patience our proceeding be
 exeunt
 hamlet
act v
scene ii a hall in the castle
 enter hamlet and horatio
hamlet so much for this sir now shall you see the other
 you do remember all the circumstance
horatio remember it my lord
hamlet sir in my heart there was a kind of fighting
 that would not let me sleep methought i lay
 worse than the mutines in the bilboes rashly
 and praised be rashness for it let us know
 our indiscretion sometimes serves us well
 when our deep plots do pall and that should teach us
 there's a divinity that shapes our ends
 roughhew them how we will
horatio that is most certain
hamlet up from my cabin
 my seagown scarf'd about me in the dark
 groped i to find out them had my desire
 finger'd their packet and in fine withdrew
 to mine own room again making so bold
 my fears forgetting manners to unseal
 their grand commission where i found horatio
 o royal knaveryan exact command
 larded with many several sorts of reasons
 importing denmark's health and england's too
 with ho such bugs and goblins in my life
 that on the supervise no leisure bated
 no not to stay the grinding of the axe
 my head should be struck off
horatio is't possible
hamlet here's the commission read it at more leisure
 but wilt thou hear me how i did proceed
horatio i beseech you
hamlet being thus benetted round with villanies
 ere i could make a prologue to my brains
 they had begun the playi sat me down
 devised a new commission wrote it fair
 i once did hold it as our statists do
 a baseness to write fair and labour'd much
 how to forget that learning but sir now
 it did me yeoman's service wilt thou know
 the effect of what i wrote
horatio ay good my lord
hamlet an earnest conjuration from the king
 as england was his faithful tributary
 as love between them like the palm might flourish
 as peace should stiff her wheaten garland wear
 and stand a comma tween their amities
 and many suchlike as'es of great charge
 that on the view and knowing of these contents
 without debatement further more or less
 he should the bearers put to sudden death
 not shrivingtime allow'd
horatio how was this seal'd
hamlet why even in that was heaven ordinant
 i had my father's signet in my purse
 which was the model of that danish seal
 folded the writ up in form of the other
 subscribed it gave't the impression placed it safely
 the changeling never known now the next day
 was our seafight and what to this was sequent
 thou know'st already
horatio so guildenstern and rosencrantz go to't
hamlet why man they did make love to this employment
 they are not near my conscience their defeat
 does by their own insinuation grow
 tis dangerous when the baser nature comes
 between the pass and fell incensed points
 of mighty opposites
horatio why what a king is this
hamlet does it not think'st thee stand me now upon
 he that hath kill'd my king and whored my mother
 popp'd in between the election and my hopes
 thrown out his angle for my proper life
 and with such cozenageis't not perfect conscience
 to quit him with this arm and is't not to be damn'd
 to let this canker of our nature come
 in further evil
horatio it must be shortly known to him from england
 what is the issue of the business there
hamlet it will be short the interim is mine
 and a man's life's no more than to say one'
 but i am very sorry good horatio
 that to laertes i forgot myself
 for by the image of my cause i see
 the portraiture of his i'll court his favours
 but sure the bravery of his grief did put me
 into a towering passion
horatio peace who comes here
 enter osric
osric your lordship is right welcome back to denmark
hamlet i humbly thank you sir dost know this waterfly
horatio no my good lord
hamlet thy state is the more gracious for tis a vice to
 know him he hath much land and fertile let a
 beast be lord of beasts and his crib shall stand at
 the king's mess tis a chough but as i say
 spacious in the possession of dirt
osric sweet lord if your lordship were at leisure i
 should impart a thing to you from his majesty
hamlet i will receive it sir with all diligence of
 spirit put your bonnet to his right use tis for the head
osric i thank your lordship it is very hot
hamlet no believe me tis very cold the wind is
 northerly
osric it is indifferent cold my lord indeed
hamlet but yet methinks it is very sultry and hot for my
 complexion
osric exceedingly my lord it is very sultryas
 twerei cannot tell how but my lord his
 majesty bade me signify to you that he has laid a
 great wager on your head sir this is the matter
hamlet i beseech you remember
 hamlet moves him to put on his hat
osric nay good my lord for mine ease in good faith
 sir here is newly come to court laertes believe
 me an absolute gentleman full of most excellent
 differences of very soft society and great showing
 indeed to speak feelingly of him he is the card or
 calendar of gentry for you shall find in him the
 continent of what part a gentleman would see
hamlet sir his definement suffers no perdition in you
 though i know to divide him inventorially would
 dizzy the arithmetic of memory and yet but yaw
 neither in respect of his quick sail but in the
 verity of extolment i take him to be a soul of
 great article and his infusion of such dearth and
 rareness as to make true diction of him his
 semblable is his mirror and who else would trace
 him his umbrage nothing more
osric your lordship speaks most infallibly of him
hamlet the concernancy sir why do we wrap the gentleman
 in our more rawer breath
osric sir
horatio is't not possible to understand in another tongue
 you will do't sir really
hamlet what imports the nomination of this gentleman
osric of laertes
horatio his purse is empty already all's golden words are spent
hamlet of him sir
osric i know you are not ignorant
hamlet i would you did sir yet in faith if you did
 it would not much approve me well sir
osric you are not ignorant of what excellence laertes is
hamlet i dare not confess that lest i should compare with
 him in excellence but to know a man well were to
 know himself
osric i mean sir for his weapon but in the imputation
 laid on him by them in his meed he's unfellowed
hamlet what's his weapon
osric rapier and dagger
hamlet that's two of his weapons but well
osric the king sir hath wagered with him six barbary
 horses against the which he has imponed as i take
 it six french rapiers and poniards with their
 assigns as girdle hangers and so three of the
 carriages in faith are very dear to fancy very
 responsive to the hilts most delicate carriages
 and of very liberal conceit
hamlet what call you the carriages
horatio i knew you must be edified by the margent ere you had done
osric the carriages sir are the hangers
hamlet the phrase would be more german to the matter if we
 could carry cannon by our sides i would it might
 be hangers till then but on six barbary horses
 against six french swords their assigns and three
 liberalconceited carriages that's the french bet
 against the danish why is this imponed as you call it
osric the king sir hath laid that in a dozen passes
 between yourself and him he shall not exceed you
 three hits he hath laid on twelve for nine and it
 would come to immediate trial if your lordship
 would vouchsafe the answer
hamlet how if i answer no'
osric i mean my lord the opposition of your person in trial
hamlet sir i will walk here in the hall if it please his
 majesty tis the breathing time of day with me let
 the foils be brought the gentleman willing and the
 king hold his purpose i will win for him an i can
 if not i will gain nothing but my shame and the odd hits
osric shall i redeliver you e'en so
hamlet to this effect sir after what flourish your nature will
osric i commend my duty to your lordship
hamlet yours yours
 exit osric
 he does well to commend it himself there are no
 tongues else for's turn
horatio this lapwing runs away with the shell on his head
hamlet he did comply with his dug before he sucked it
 thus has heand many more of the same bevy that i
 know the dressy age dotes ononly got the tune of
 the time and outward habit of encounter a kind of
 yesty collection which carries them through and
 through the most fond and winnowed opinions and do
 but blow them to their trial the bubbles are out
 enter a lord
lord my lord his majesty commended him to you by young
 osric who brings back to him that you attend him in
 the hall he sends to know if your pleasure hold to
 play with laertes or that you will take longer time
hamlet i am constant to my purpose they follow the king's
 pleasure if his fitness speaks mine is ready now
 or whensoever provided i be so able as now
lord the king and queen and all are coming down
hamlet in happy time
lord the queen desires you to use some gentle
 entertainment to laertes before you fall to play
hamlet she well instructs me
 exit lord
horatio you will lose this wager my lord
hamlet i do not think so since he went into france i
 have been in continual practise i shall win at the
 odds but thou wouldst not think how ill all's here
 about my heart but it is no matter
horatio nay good my lord
hamlet it is but foolery but it is such a kind of
 gaingiving as would perhaps trouble a woman
horatio if your mind dislike any thing obey it i will
 forestall their repair hither and say you are not
 fit
hamlet not a whit we defy augury there's a special
 providence in the fall of a sparrow if it be now
 tis not to come if it be not to come it will be
 now if it be not now yet it will come the
 readiness is all since no man has aught of what he
 leaves what is't to leave betimes
 enter king claudius queen gertrude laertes
 lords osric and attendants with foils &c
king claudius come hamlet come and take this hand from me
 king claudius puts laertes hand into hamlet's
hamlet give me your pardon sir i've done you wrong
 but pardon't as you are a gentleman
 this presence knows
 and you must needs have heard how i am punish'd
 with sore distraction what i have done
 that might your nature honour and exception
 roughly awake i here proclaim was madness
 was't hamlet wrong'd laertes never hamlet
 if hamlet from himself be ta'en away
 and when he's not himself does wrong laertes
 then hamlet does it not hamlet denies it
 who does it then his madness if't be so
 hamlet is of the faction that is wrong'd
 his madness is poor hamlet's enemy
 sir in this audience
 let my disclaiming from a purposed evil
 free me so far in your most generous thoughts
 that i have shot mine arrow o'er the house
 and hurt my brother
laertes i am satisfied in nature
 whose motive in this case should stir me most
 to my revenge but in my terms of honour
 i stand aloof and will no reconcilement
 till by some elder masters of known honour
 i have a voice and precedent of peace
 to keep my name ungored but till that time
 i do receive your offer'd love like love
 and will not wrong it
hamlet i embrace it freely
 and will this brother's wager frankly play
 give us the foils come on
laertes come one for me
hamlet i'll be your foil laertes in mine ignorance
 your skill shall like a star i the darkest night
 stick fiery off indeed
laertes you mock me sir
hamlet no by this hand
king claudius give them the foils young osric cousin hamlet
 you know the wager
hamlet very well my lord
 your grace hath laid the odds o the weaker side
king claudius i do not fear it i have seen you both
 but since he is better'd we have therefore odds
laertes this is too heavy let me see another
hamlet this likes me well these foils have all a length
 they prepare to play
osric ay my good lord
king claudius set me the stoops of wine upon that table
 if hamlet give the first or second hit
 or quit in answer of the third exchange
 let all the battlements their ordnance fire
 the king shall drink to hamlet's better breath
 and in the cup an union shall he throw
 richer than that which four successive kings
 in denmark's crown have worn give me the cups
 and let the kettle to the trumpet speak
 the trumpet to the cannoneer without
 the cannons to the heavens the heavens to earth
 now the king dunks to hamlet come begin
 and you the judges bear a wary eye
hamlet come on sir
laertes come my lord
 they play
hamlet one
laertes no
hamlet judgment
osric a hit a very palpable hit
laertes well again
king claudius stay give me drink hamlet this pearl is thine
 here's to thy health
 trumpets sound and cannon shot off within
 give him the cup
hamlet i'll play this bout first set it by awhile come
 they play
 another hit what say you
laertes a touch a touch i do confess
king claudius our son shall win
queen gertrude he's fat and scant of breath
 here hamlet take my napkin rub thy brows
 the queen carouses to thy fortune hamlet
hamlet good madam
king claudius gertrude do not drink
queen gertrude i will my lord i pray you pardon me
king claudius aside it is the poison'd cup it is too late
hamlet i dare not drink yet madam by and by
queen gertrude come let me wipe thy face
laertes my lord i'll hit him now
king claudius i do not think't
laertes aside and yet tis almost gainst my conscience
hamlet come for the third laertes you but dally
 i pray you pass with your best violence
 i am afeard you make a wanton of me
laertes say you so come on
 they play
osric nothing neither way
laertes have at you now
 laertes wounds hamlet then in scuffling they
 change rapiers and hamlet wounds laertes
king claudius part them they are incensed
hamlet nay come again
 queen gertrude falls
osric look to the queen there ho
horatio they bleed on both sides how is it my lord
osric how is't laertes
laertes why as a woodcock to mine own springe osric
 i am justly kill'd with mine own treachery
hamlet how does the queen
king claudius she swounds to see them bleed
queen gertrude no no the drink the drinko my dear hamlet
 the drink the drink i am poison'd
 dies
hamlet o villany ho let the door be lock'd
 treachery seek it out
laertes it is here hamlet hamlet thou art slain
 no medicine in the world can do thee good
 in thee there is not half an hour of life
 the treacherous instrument is in thy hand
 unbated and envenom'd the foul practise
 hath turn'd itself on me lo here i lie
 never to rise again thy mother's poison'd
 i can no more the king the king's to blame
hamlet the pointenvenom'd too
 then venom to thy work
 stabs king claudius
all treason treason
king claudius o yet defend me friends i am but hurt
hamlet here thou incestuous murderous damned dane
 drink off this potion is thy union here
 follow my mother
 king claudius dies
laertes he is justly served
 it is a poison temper'd by himself
 exchange forgiveness with me noble hamlet
 mine and my father's death come not upon thee
 nor thine on me
 dies
hamlet heaven make thee free of it i follow thee
 i am dead horatio wretched queen adieu
 you that look pale and tremble at this chance
 that are but mutes or audience to this act
 had i but timeas this fell sergeant death
 is strict in his arresto i could tell you
 but let it be horatio i am dead
 thou livest report me and my cause aright
 to the unsatisfied
horatio never believe it
 i am more an antique roman than a dane
 here's yet some liquor left
hamlet as thou'rt a man
 give me the cup let go by heaven i'll have't
 o good horatio what a wounded name
 things standing thus unknown shall live behind me
 if thou didst ever hold me in thy heart
 absent thee from felicity awhile
 and in this harsh world draw thy breath in pain
 to tell my story
 march afar off and shot within
 what warlike noise is this
osric young fortinbras with conquest come from poland
 to the ambassadors of england gives
 this warlike volley
hamlet o i die horatio
 the potent poison quite o'ercrows my spirit
 i cannot live to hear the news from england
 but i do prophesy the election lights
 on fortinbras he has my dying voice
 so tell him with the occurrents more and less
 which have solicited the rest is silence
 dies
horatio now cracks a noble heart good night sweet prince
 and flights of angels sing thee to thy rest
 why does the drum come hither
 march within
 enter fortinbras the english ambassadors
 and others
prince fortinbras where is this sight
horatio what is it ye would see
 if aught of woe or wonder cease your search
prince fortinbras this quarry cries on havoc o proud death
 what feast is toward in thine eternal cell
 that thou so many princes at a shot
 so bloodily hast struck
first ambassador the sight is dismal
 and our affairs from england come too late
 the ears are senseless that should give us hearing
 to tell him his commandment is fulfill'd
 that rosencrantz and guildenstern are dead
 where should we have our thanks
horatio not from his mouth
 had it the ability of life to thank you
 he never gave commandment for their death
 but since so jump upon this bloody question
 you from the polack wars and you from england
 are here arrived give order that these bodies
 high on a stage be placed to the view
 and let me speak to the yet unknowing world
 how these things came about so shall you hear
 of carnal bloody and unnatural acts
 of accidental judgments casual slaughters
 of deaths put on by cunning and forced cause
 and in this upshot purposes mistook
 fall'n on the inventors reads all this can i
 truly deliver
prince fortinbras let us haste to hear it
 and call the noblest to the audience
 for me with sorrow i embrace my fortune
 i have some rights of memory in this kingdom
 which now to claim my vantage doth invite me
horatio of that i shall have also cause to speak
 and from his mouth whose voice will draw on more
 but let this same be presently perform'd
 even while men's minds are wild lest more mischance
 on plots and errors happen
prince fortinbras let four captains
 bear hamlet like a soldier to the stage
 for he was likely had he been put on
 to have proved most royally and for his passage
 the soldiers music and the rites of war
 speak loudly for him
 take up the bodies such a sight as this
 becomes the field but here shows much amiss
 go bid the soldiers shoot
 a dead march exeunt bearing off the dead
 bodies after which a peal of ordnance is shot off
 julius caesar
 dramatis personae
julius caesar caesar
octavius caesar octavius 
 
marcus antonius antony triumvirs after death of julius caesar
 
m aemilius 
lepidus lepidus 
cicero 
 
publius senators
 
popilius lena popilius 
marcus brutus brutus 
 
cassius 
 
casca 
 
trebonius 
 conspirators against julius caesar
ligarius 
 
decius brutus 
 
metellus cimber 
 
cinna 
flavius 
 tribunes
marullus 
artemidorus
of cnidos a teacher of rhetoric artemidorus
a soothsayer soothsayer
cinna a poet cinna the poet
another poet poet
lucilius 
 
titinius 
 
messala friends to brutus and cassius
 
young cato cato 
 
volumnius 
varro 
 
clitus 
 
claudius 
 servants to brutus
strato 
 
lucius 
 
dardanius 
pindarus servant to cassius
calpurnia wife to caesar
portia wife to brutus
 senators citizens guards attendants &c
 first citizen
 second citizen
 third citizen
 fourth citizen
 first commoner
 second commoner
 servant
 first soldier
 second soldier
 third soldier
 messenger
scene rome the neighbourhood of sardis the neighbourhood
 of philippi
 julius caesar
act i
scene i rome a street
 enter flavius marullus and certain commoners
flavius hence home you idle creatures get you home
 is this a holiday what know you not
 being mechanical you ought not walk
 upon a labouring day without the sign
 of your profession speak what trade art thou
first commoner why sir a carpenter
marullus where is thy leather apron and thy rule
 what dost thou with thy best apparel on
 you sir what trade are you
second commoner truly sir in respect of a fine workman i am but
 as you would say a cobbler
marullus but what trade art thou answer me directly
second commoner a trade sir that i hope i may use with a safe
 conscience which is indeed sir a mender of bad soles
marullus what trade thou knave thou naughty knave what trade
second commoner nay i beseech you sir be not out with me yet
 if you be out sir i can mend you
marullus what meanest thou by that mend me thou saucy fellow
second commoner why sir cobble you
flavius thou art a cobbler art thou
second commoner truly sir all that i live by is with the awl i
 meddle with no tradesman's matters nor women's
 matters but with awl i am indeed sir a surgeon
 to old shoes when they are in great danger i
 recover them as proper men as ever trod upon
 neat's leather have gone upon my handiwork
flavius but wherefore art not in thy shop today
 why dost thou lead these men about the streets
second commoner truly sir to wear out their shoes to get myself
 into more work but indeed sir we make holiday
 to see caesar and to rejoice in his triumph
marullus wherefore rejoice what conquest brings he home
 what tributaries follow him to rome
 to grace in captive bonds his chariotwheels
 you blocks you stones you worse than senseless things
 o you hard hearts you cruel men of rome
 knew you not pompey many a time and oft
 have you climb'd up to walls and battlements
 to towers and windows yea to chimneytops
 your infants in your arms and there have sat
 the livelong day with patient expectation
 to see great pompey pass the streets of rome
 and when you saw his chariot but appear
 have you not made an universal shout
 that tiber trembled underneath her banks
 to hear the replication of your sounds
 made in her concave shores
 and do you now put on your best attire
 and do you now cull out a holiday
 and do you now strew flowers in his way
 that comes in triumph over pompey's blood be gone
 run to your houses fall upon your knees
 pray to the gods to intermit the plague
 that needs must light on this ingratitude
flavius go go good countrymen and for this fault
 assemble all the poor men of your sort
 draw them to tiber banks and weep your tears
 into the channel till the lowest stream
 do kiss the most exalted shores of all
 exeunt all the commoners
 see whether their basest metal be not moved
 they vanish tonguetied in their guiltiness
 go you down that way towards the capitol
 this way will i disrobe the images
 if you do find them deck'd with ceremonies
marullus may we do so
 you know it is the feast of lupercal
flavius it is no matter let no images
 be hung with caesar's trophies i'll about
 and drive away the vulgar from the streets
 so do you too where you perceive them thick
 these growing feathers pluck'd from caesar's wing
 will make him fly an ordinary pitch
 who else would soar above the view of men
 and keep us all in servile fearfulness
 exeunt
 julius caesar
act i
scene ii a public place
 flourish enter caesar antony for the course
 calpurnia portia decius brutus cicero brutus
 cassius and casca a great crowd following among
 them a soothsayer
caesar calpurnia
casca peace ho caesar speaks
caesar calpurnia
calpurnia here my lord
caesar stand you directly in antonius way
 when he doth run his course antonius
antony caesar my lord
caesar forget not in your speed antonius
 to touch calpurnia for our elders say
 the barren touched in this holy chase
 shake off their sterile curse
antony i shall remember
 when caesar says do this it is perform'd
caesar set on and leave no ceremony out
 flourish
soothsayer caesar
caesar ha who calls
casca bid every noise be still peace yet again
caesar who is it in the press that calls on me
 i hear a tongue shriller than all the music
 cry caesar speak caesar is turn'd to hear
soothsayer beware the ides of march
caesar what man is that
brutus a soothsayer bids you beware the ides of march
caesar set him before me let me see his face
cassius fellow come from the throng look upon caesar
caesar what say'st thou to me now speak once again
soothsayer beware the ides of march
caesar he is a dreamer let us leave him pass
 sennet exeunt all except brutus and cassius
cassius will you go see the order of the course
brutus not i
cassius i pray you do
brutus i am not gamesome i do lack some part
 of that quick spirit that is in antony
 let me not hinder cassius your desires
 i'll leave you
cassius brutus i do observe you now of late
 i have not from your eyes that gentleness
 and show of love as i was wont to have
 you bear too stubborn and too strange a hand
 over your friend that loves you
brutus cassius
 be not deceived if i have veil'd my look
 i turn the trouble of my countenance
 merely upon myself vexed i am
 of late with passions of some difference
 conceptions only proper to myself
 which give some soil perhaps to my behaviors
 but let not therefore my good friends be grieved
 among which number cassius be you one
 nor construe any further my neglect
 than that poor brutus with himself at war
 forgets the shows of love to other men
cassius then brutus i have much mistook your passion
 by means whereof this breast of mine hath buried
 thoughts of great value worthy cogitations
 tell me good brutus can you see your face
brutus no cassius for the eye sees not itself
 but by reflection by some other things
cassius tis just
 and it is very much lamented brutus
 that you have no such mirrors as will turn
 your hidden worthiness into your eye
 that you might see your shadow i have heard
 where many of the best respect in rome
 except immortal caesar speaking of brutus
 and groaning underneath this age's yoke
 have wish'd that noble brutus had his eyes
brutus into what dangers would you lead me cassius
 that you would have me seek into myself
 for that which is not in me
cassius therefore good brutus be prepared to hear
 and since you know you cannot see yourself
 so well as by reflection i your glass
 will modestly discover to yourself
 that of yourself which you yet know not of
 and be not jealous on me gentle brutus
 were i a common laugher or did use
 to stale with ordinary oaths my love
 to every new protester if you know
 that i do fawn on men and hug them hard
 and after scandal them or if you know
 that i profess myself in banqueting
 to all the rout then hold me dangerous
 flourish and shout
brutus what means this shouting i do fear the people
 choose caesar for their king
cassius ay do you fear it
 then must i think you would not have it so
brutus i would not cassius yet i love him well
 but wherefore do you hold me here so long
 what is it that you would impart to me
 if it be aught toward the general good
 set honour in one eye and death i the other
 and i will look on both indifferently
 for let the gods so speed me as i love
 the name of honour more than i fear death
cassius i know that virtue to be in you brutus
 as well as i do know your outward favour
 well honour is the subject of my story
 i cannot tell what you and other men
 think of this life but for my single self
 i had as lief not be as live to be
 in awe of such a thing as i myself
 i was born free as caesar so were you
 we both have fed as well and we can both
 endure the winter's cold as well as he
 for once upon a raw and gusty day
 the troubled tiber chafing with her shores
 caesar said to me darest thou cassius now
 leap in with me into this angry flood
 and swim to yonder point upon the word
 accoutred as i was i plunged in
 and bade him follow so indeed he did
 the torrent roar'd and we did buffet it
 with lusty sinews throwing it aside
 and stemming it with hearts of controversy
 but ere we could arrive the point proposed
 caesar cried help me cassius or i sink'
 i as aeneas our great ancestor
 did from the flames of troy upon his shoulder
 the old anchises bear so from the waves of tiber
 did i the tired caesar and this man
 is now become a god and cassius is
 a wretched creature and must bend his body
 if caesar carelessly but nod on him
 he had a fever when he was in spain
 and when the fit was on him i did mark
 how he did shake tis true this god did shake
 his coward lips did from their colour fly
 and that same eye whose bend doth awe the world
 did lose his lustre i did hear him groan
 ay and that tongue of his that bade the romans
 mark him and write his speeches in their books
 alas it cried give me some drink titinius'
 as a sick girl ye gods it doth amaze me
 a man of such a feeble temper should
 so get the start of the majestic world
 and bear the palm alone
 shout flourish
brutus another general shout
 i do believe that these applauses are
 for some new honours that are heap'd on caesar
cassius why man he doth bestride the narrow world
 like a colossus and we petty men
 walk under his huge legs and peep about
 to find ourselves dishonourable graves
 men at some time are masters of their fates
 the fault dear brutus is not in our stars
 but in ourselves that we are underlings
 brutus and caesar what should be in that caesar'
 why should that name be sounded more than yours
 write them together yours is as fair a name
 sound them it doth become the mouth as well
 weigh them it is as heavy conjure with em
 brutus will start a spirit as soon as caesar
 now in the names of all the gods at once
 upon what meat doth this our caesar feed
 that he is grown so great age thou art shamed
 rome thou hast lost the breed of noble bloods
 when went there by an age since the great flood
 but it was famed with more than with one man
 when could they say till now that talk'd of rome
 that her wide walls encompass'd but one man
 now is it rome indeed and room enough
 when there is in it but one only man
 o you and i have heard our fathers say
 there was a brutus once that would have brook'd
 the eternal devil to keep his state in rome
 as easily as a king
brutus that you do love me i am nothing jealous
 what you would work me to i have some aim
 how i have thought of this and of these times
 i shall recount hereafter for this present
 i would not so with love i might entreat you
 be any further moved what you have said
 i will consider what you have to say
 i will with patience hear and find a time
 both meet to hear and answer such high things
 till then my noble friend chew upon this
 brutus had rather be a villager
 than to repute himself a son of rome
 under these hard conditions as this time
 is like to lay upon us
cassius i am glad that my weak words
 have struck but thus much show of fire from brutus
brutus the games are done and caesar is returning
cassius as they pass by pluck casca by the sleeve
 and he will after his sour fashion tell you
 what hath proceeded worthy note today
 reenter caesar and his train
brutus i will do so but look you cassius
 the angry spot doth glow on caesar's brow
 and all the rest look like a chidden train
 calpurnia's cheek is pale and cicero
 looks with such ferret and such fiery eyes
 as we have seen him in the capitol
 being cross'd in conference by some senators
cassius casca will tell us what the matter is
caesar antonius
antony caesar
caesar let me have men about me that are fat
 sleekheaded men and such as sleep o nights
 yond cassius has a lean and hungry look
 he thinks too much such men are dangerous
antony fear him not caesar he's not dangerous
 he is a noble roman and well given
caesar would he were fatter but i fear him not
 yet if my name were liable to fear
 i do not know the man i should avoid
 so soon as that spare cassius he reads much
 he is a great observer and he looks
 quite through the deeds of men he loves no plays
 as thou dost antony he hears no music
 seldom he smiles and smiles in such a sort
 as if he mock'd himself and scorn'd his spirit
 that could be moved to smile at any thing
 such men as he be never at heart's ease
 whiles they behold a greater than themselves
 and therefore are they very dangerous
 i rather tell thee what is to be fear'd
 than what i fear for always i am caesar
 come on my right hand for this ear is deaf
 and tell me truly what thou think'st of him
 sennet exeunt caesar and all his train but casca
casca you pull'd me by the cloak would you speak with me
brutus ay casca tell us what hath chanced today
 that caesar looks so sad
casca why you were with him were you not
brutus i should not then ask casca what had chanced
casca why there was a crown offered him and being
 offered him he put it by with the back of his hand
 thus and then the people fell ashouting
brutus what was the second noise for
casca why for that too
cassius they shouted thrice what was the last cry for
casca why for that too
brutus was the crown offered him thrice
casca ay marry was't and he put it by thrice every
 time gentler than other and at every puttingby
 mine honest neighbours shouted
cassius who offered him the crown
casca why antony
brutus tell us the manner of it gentle casca
casca i can as well be hanged as tell the manner of it
 it was mere foolery i did not mark it i saw mark
 antony offer him a crownyet twas not a crown
 neither twas one of these coronetsand as i told
 you he put it by once but for all that to my
 thinking he would fain have had it then he
 offered it to him again then he put it by again
 but to my thinking he was very loath to lay his
 fingers off it and then he offered it the third
 time he put it the third time by and still as he
 refused it the rabblement hooted and clapped their
 chapped hands and threw up their sweaty nightcaps
 and uttered such a deal of stinking breath because
 caesar refused the crown that it had almost choked
 caesar for he swounded and fell down at it and
 for mine own part i durst not laugh for fear of
 opening my lips and receiving the bad air
cassius but soft i pray you what did caesar swound
casca he fell down in the marketplace and foamed at
 mouth and was speechless
brutus tis very like he hath the failing sickness
cassius no caesar hath it not but you and i
 and honest casca we have the falling sickness
casca i know not what you mean by that but i am sure
 caesar fell down if the tagrag people did not
 clap him and hiss him according as he pleased and
 displeased them as they use to do the players in
 the theatre i am no true man
brutus what said he when he came unto himself
casca marry before he fell down when he perceived the
 common herd was glad he refused the crown he
 plucked me ope his doublet and offered them his
 throat to cut an i had been a man of any
 occupation if i would not have taken him at a word
 i would i might go to hell among the rogues and so
 he fell when he came to himself again he said
 if he had done or said any thing amiss he desired
 their worships to think it was his infirmity three
 or four wenches where i stood cried alas good
 soul and forgave him with all their hearts but
 there's no heed to be taken of them if caesar had
 stabbed their mothers they would have done no less
brutus and after that he came thus sad away
casca ay
cassius did cicero say any thing
casca ay he spoke greek
cassius to what effect
casca nay an i tell you that ill ne'er look you i the
 face again but those that understood him smiled at
 one another and shook their heads but for mine own
 part it was greek to me i could tell you more
 news too marullus and flavius for pulling scarfs
 off caesar's images are put to silence fare you
 well there was more foolery yet if i could
 remember it
cassius will you sup with me tonight casca
casca no i am promised forth
cassius will you dine with me tomorrow
casca ay if i be alive and your mind hold and your dinner
 worth the eating
cassius good i will expect you
casca do so farewell both
 exit
brutus what a blunt fellow is this grown to be
 he was quick mettle when he went to school
cassius so is he now in execution
 of any bold or noble enterprise
 however he puts on this tardy form
 this rudeness is a sauce to his good wit
 which gives men stomach to digest his words
 with better appetite
brutus and so it is for this time i will leave you
 tomorrow if you please to speak with me
 i will come home to you or if you will
 come home to me and i will wait for you
cassius i will do so till then think of the world
 exit brutus
 well brutus thou art noble yet i see
 thy honourable metal may be wrought
 from that it is disposed therefore it is meet
 that noble minds keep ever with their likes
 for who so firm that cannot be seduced
 caesar doth bear me hard but he loves brutus
 if i were brutus now and he were cassius
 he should not humour me i will this night
 in several hands in at his windows throw
 as if they came from several citizens
 writings all tending to the great opinion
 that rome holds of his name wherein obscurely
 caesar's ambition shall be glanced at
 and after this let caesar seat him sure
 for we will shake him or worse days endure
 exit
 julius caesar
act i
scene iii the same a street
 thunder and lightning enter from opposite sides
 casca with his sword drawn and cicero
cicero good even casca brought you caesar home
 why are you breathless and why stare you so
casca are not you moved when all the sway of earth
 shakes like a thing unfirm o cicero
 i have seen tempests when the scolding winds
 have rived the knotty oaks and i have seen
 the ambitious ocean swell and rage and foam
 to be exalted with the threatening clouds
 but never till tonight never till now
 did i go through a tempest dropping fire
 either there is a civil strife in heaven
 or else the world too saucy with the gods
 incenses them to send destruction
cicero why saw you any thing more wonderful
casca a common slaveyou know him well by sight
 held up his left hand which did flame and burn
 like twenty torches join'd and yet his hand
 not sensible of fire remain'd unscorch'd
 besidesi ha not since put up my sword
 against the capitol i met a lion
 who glared upon me and went surly by
 without annoying me and there were drawn
 upon a heap a hundred ghastly women
 transformed with their fear who swore they saw
 men all in fire walk up and down the streets
 and yesterday the bird of night did sit
 even at noonday upon the marketplace
 hooting and shrieking when these prodigies
 do so conjointly meet let not men say
 these are their reasons they are natural'
 for i believe they are portentous things
 unto the climate that they point upon
cicero indeed it is a strangedisposed time
 but men may construe things after their fashion
 clean from the purpose of the things themselves
 come caesar to the capitol tomorrow
casca he doth for he did bid antonius
 send word to you he would be there tomorrow
cicero good night then casca this disturbed sky
 is not to walk in
casca farewell cicero
 exit cicero
 enter cassius
cassius who's there
casca a roman
cassius casca by your voice
casca your ear is good cassius what night is this
cassius a very pleasing night to honest men
casca who ever knew the heavens menace so
cassius those that have known the earth so full of faults
 for my part i have walk'd about the streets
 submitting me unto the perilous night
 and thus unbraced casca as you see
 have bared my bosom to the thunderstone
 and when the cross blue lightning seem'd to open
 the breast of heaven i did present myself
 even in the aim and very flash of it
casca but wherefore did you so much tempt the heavens
 it is the part of men to fear and tremble
 when the most mighty gods by tokens send
 such dreadful heralds to astonish us
cassius you are dull casca and those sparks of life
 that should be in a roman you do want
 or else you use not you look pale and gaze
 and put on fear and cast yourself in wonder
 to see the strange impatience of the heavens
 but if you would consider the true cause
 why all these fires why all these gliding ghosts
 why birds and beasts from quality and kind
 why old men fool and children calculate
 why all these things change from their ordinance
 their natures and preformed faculties
 to monstrous qualitywhy you shall find
 that heaven hath infused them with these spirits
 to make them instruments of fear and warning
 unto some monstrous state
 now could i casca name to thee a man
 most like this dreadful night
 that thunders lightens opens graves and roars
 as doth the lion in the capitol
 a man no mightier than thyself or me
 in personal action yet prodigious grown
 and fearful as these strange eruptions are
casca tis caesar that you mean is it not cassius
cassius let it be who it is for romans now
 have thews and limbs like to their ancestors
 but woe the while our fathers minds are dead
 and we are govern'd with our mothers spirits
 our yoke and sufferance show us womanish
casca indeed they say the senators tomorrow
 mean to establish caesar as a king
 and he shall wear his crown by sea and land
 in every place save here in italy
cassius i know where i will wear this dagger then
 cassius from bondage will deliver cassius
 therein ye gods you make the weak most strong
 therein ye gods you tyrants do defeat
 nor stony tower nor walls of beaten brass
 nor airless dungeon nor strong links of iron
 can be retentive to the strength of spirit
 but life being weary of these worldly bars
 never lacks power to dismiss itself
 if i know this know all the world besides
 that part of tyranny that i do bear
 i can shake off at pleasure
 thunder still
casca so can i
 so every bondman in his own hand bears
 the power to cancel his captivity
cassius and why should caesar be a tyrant then
 poor man i know he would not be a wolf
 but that he sees the romans are but sheep
 he were no lion were not romans hinds
 those that with haste will make a mighty fire
 begin it with weak straws what trash is rome
 what rubbish and what offal when it serves
 for the base matter to illuminate
 so vile a thing as caesar but o grief
 where hast thou led me i perhaps speak this
 before a willing bondman then i know
 my answer must be made but i am arm'd
 and dangers are to me indifferent
casca you speak to casca and to such a man
 that is no fleering telltale hold my hand
 be factious for redress of all these griefs
 and i will set this foot of mine as far
 as who goes farthest
cassius there's a bargain made
 now know you casca i have moved already
 some certain of the noblestminded romans
 to undergo with me an enterprise
 of honourabledangerous consequence
 and i do know by this they stay for me
 in pompey's porch for now this fearful night
 there is no stir or walking in the streets
 and the complexion of the element
 in favour's like the work we have in hand
 most bloody fiery and most terrible
casca stand close awhile for here comes one in haste
cassius tis cinna i do know him by his gait
 he is a friend
 enter cinna
 cinna where haste you so
cinna to find out you who's that metellus cimber
cassius no it is casca one incorporate
 to our attempts am i not stay'd for cinna
cinna i am glad on t what a fearful night is this
 there's two or three of us have seen strange sights
cassius am i not stay'd for tell me
cinna yes you are
 o cassius if you could
 but win the noble brutus to our party
cassius be you content good cinna take this paper
 and look you lay it in the praetor's chair
 where brutus may but find it and throw this
 in at his window set this up with wax
 upon old brutus statue all this done
 repair to pompey's porch where you shall find us
 is decius brutus and trebonius there
cinna all but metellus cimber and he's gone
 to seek you at your house well i will hie
 and so bestow these papers as you bade me
cassius that done repair to pompey's theatre
 exit cinna
 come casca you and i will yet ere day
 see brutus at his house three parts of him
 is ours already and the man entire
 upon the next encounter yields him ours
casca o he sits high in all the people's hearts
 and that which would appear offence in us
 his countenance like richest alchemy
 will change to virtue and to worthiness
cassius him and his worth and our great need of him
 you have right well conceited let us go
 for it is after midnight and ere day
 we will awake him and be sure of him
 exeunt
 julius caesar
act ii
scene i rome brutus's orchard
 enter brutus
brutus what lucius ho
 i cannot by the progress of the stars
 give guess how near to day lucius i say
 i would it were my fault to sleep so soundly
 when lucius when awake i say what lucius
 enter lucius
lucius call'd you my lord
brutus get me a taper in my study lucius
 when it is lighted come and call me here
lucius i will my lord
 exit
brutus it must be by his death and for my part
 i know no personal cause to spurn at him
 but for the general he would be crown'd
 how that might change his nature there's the question
 it is the bright day that brings forth the adder
 and that craves wary walking crown himthat
 and then i grant we put a sting in him
 that at his will he may do danger with
 the abuse of greatness is when it disjoins
 remorse from power and to speak truth of caesar
 i have not known when his affections sway'd
 more than his reason but tis a common proof
 that lowliness is young ambition's ladder
 whereto the climberupward turns his face
 but when he once attains the upmost round
 he then unto the ladder turns his back
 looks in the clouds scorning the base degrees
 by which he did ascend so caesar may
 then lest he may prevent and since the quarrel
 will bear no colour for the thing he is
 fashion it thus that what he is augmented
 would run to these and these extremities
 and therefore think him as a serpent's egg
 which hatch'd would as his kind grow mischievous
 and kill him in the shell
 reenter lucius
lucius the taper burneth in your closet sir
 searching the window for a flint i found
 this paper thus seal'd up and i am sure
 it did not lie there when i went to bed
 gives him the letter
brutus get you to bed again it is not day
 is not tomorrow boy the ides of march
lucius i know not sir
brutus look in the calendar and bring me word
lucius i will sir
 exit
brutus the exhalations whizzing in the air
 give so much light that i may read by them
 opens the letter and reads
 brutus thou sleep'st awake and see thyself
 shall rome &c speak strike redress
 brutus thou sleep'st awake'
 such instigations have been often dropp'd
 where i have took them up
 shall rome &c thus must i piece it out
 shall rome stand under one man's awe what rome
 my ancestors did from the streets of rome
 the tarquin drive when he was call'd a king
 speak strike redress am i entreated
 to speak and strike o rome i make thee promise
 if the redress will follow thou receivest
 thy full petition at the hand of brutus
 reenter lucius
lucius sir march is wasted fourteen days
 knocking within
brutus tis good go to the gate somebody knocks
 exit lucius
 since cassius first did whet me against caesar
 i have not slept
 between the acting of a dreadful thing
 and the first motion all the interim is
 like a phantasma or a hideous dream
 the genius and the mortal instruments
 are then in council and the state of man
 like to a little kingdom suffers then
 the nature of an insurrection
 reenter lucius
lucius sir tis your brother cassius at the door
 who doth desire to see you
brutus is he alone
lucius no sir there are moe with him
brutus do you know them
lucius no sir their hats are pluck'd about their ears
 and half their faces buried in their cloaks
 that by no means i may discover them
 by any mark of favour
brutus let em enter
 exit lucius
 they are the faction o conspiracy
 shamest thou to show thy dangerous brow by night
 when evils are most free o then by day
 where wilt thou find a cavern dark enough
 to mask thy monstrous visage seek none conspiracy
 hide it in smiles and affability
 for if thou path thy native semblance on
 not erebus itself were dim enough
 to hide thee from prevention
 enter the conspirators cassius casca decius
 brutus cinna metellus cimber and trebonius
cassius i think we are too bold upon your rest
 good morrow brutus do we trouble you
brutus i have been up this hour awake all night
 know i these men that come along with you
cassius yes every man of them and no man here
 but honours you and every one doth wish
 you had but that opinion of yourself
 which every noble roman bears of you
 this is trebonius
brutus he is welcome hither
cassius this decius brutus
brutus he is welcome too
cassius this casca this cinna and this metellus cimber
brutus they are all welcome
 what watchful cares do interpose themselves
 betwixt your eyes and night
cassius shall i entreat a word
 brutus and cassius whisper
decius brutus here lies the east doth not the day break here
casca no
cinna o pardon sir it doth and yon gray lines
 that fret the clouds are messengers of day
casca you shall confess that you are both deceived
 here as i point my sword the sun arises
 which is a great way growing on the south
 weighing the youthful season of the year
 some two months hence up higher toward the north
 he first presents his fire and the high east
 stands as the capitol directly here
brutus give me your hands all over one by one
cassius and let us swear our resolution
brutus no not an oath if not the face of men
 the sufferance of our souls the time's abuse
 if these be motives weak break off betimes
 and every man hence to his idle bed
 so let highsighted tyranny range on
 till each man drop by lottery but if these
 as i am sure they do bear fire enough
 to kindle cowards and to steel with valour
 the melting spirits of women then countrymen
 what need we any spur but our own cause
 to prick us to redress what other bond
 than secret romans that have spoke the word
 and will not palter and what other oath
 than honesty to honesty engaged
 that this shall be or we will fall for it
 swear priests and cowards and men cautelous
 old feeble carrions and such suffering souls
 that welcome wrongs unto bad causes swear
 such creatures as men doubt but do not stain
 the even virtue of our enterprise
 nor the insuppressive mettle of our spirits
 to think that or our cause or our performance
 did need an oath when every drop of blood
 that every roman bears and nobly bears
 is guilty of a several bastardy
 if he do break the smallest particle
 of any promise that hath pass'd from him
cassius but what of cicero shall we sound him
 i think he will stand very strong with us
casca let us not leave him out
cinna no by no means
metellus cimber o let us have him for his silver hairs
 will purchase us a good opinion
 and buy men's voices to commend our deeds
 it shall be said his judgment ruled our hands
 our youths and wildness shall no whit appear
 but all be buried in his gravity
brutus o name him not let us not break with him
 for he will never follow any thing
 that other men begin
cassius then leave him out
casca indeed he is not fit
decius brutus shall no man else be touch'd but only caesar
cassius decius well urged i think it is not meet
 mark antony so well beloved of caesar
 should outlive caesar we shall find of him
 a shrewd contriver and you know his means
 if he improve them may well stretch so far
 as to annoy us all which to prevent
 let antony and caesar fall together
brutus our course will seem too bloody caius cassius
 to cut the head off and then hack the limbs
 like wrath in death and envy afterwards
 for antony is but a limb of caesar
 let us be sacrificers but not butchers caius
 we all stand up against the spirit of caesar
 and in the spirit of men there is no blood
 o that we then could come by caesar's spirit
 and not dismember caesar but alas
 caesar must bleed for it and gentle friends
 let's kill him boldly but not wrathfully
 let's carve him as a dish fit for the gods
 not hew him as a carcass fit for hounds
 and let our hearts as subtle masters do
 stir up their servants to an act of rage
 and after seem to chide em this shall make
 our purpose necessary and not envious
 which so appearing to the common eyes
 we shall be call'd purgers not murderers
 and for mark antony think not of him
 for he can do no more than caesar's arm
 when caesar's head is off
cassius yet i fear him
 for in the ingrafted love he bears to caesar
brutus alas good cassius do not think of him
 if he love caesar all that he can do
 is to himself take thought and die for caesar
 and that were much he should for he is given
 to sports to wildness and much company
trebonius there is no fear in him let him not die
 for he will live and laugh at this hereafter
 clock strikes
brutus peace count the clock
cassius the clock hath stricken three
trebonius tis time to part
cassius but it is doubtful yet
 whether caesar will come forth today or no
 for he is superstitious grown of late
 quite from the main opinion he held once
 of fantasy of dreams and ceremonies
 it may be these apparent prodigies
 the unaccustom'd terror of this night
 and the persuasion of his augurers
 may hold him from the capitol today
decius brutus never fear that if he be so resolved
 i can o'ersway him for he loves to hear
 that unicorns may be betray'd with trees
 and bears with glasses elephants with holes
 lions with toils and men with flatterers
 but when i tell him he hates flatterers
 he says he does being then most flattered
 let me work
 for i can give his humour the true bent
 and i will bring him to the capitol
cassius nay we will all of us be there to fetch him
brutus by the eighth hour is that the uttermost
cinna be that the uttermost and fail not then
metellus cimber caius ligarius doth bear caesar hard
 who rated him for speaking well of pompey
 i wonder none of you have thought of him
brutus now good metellus go along by him
 he loves me well and i have given him reasons
 send him but hither and i'll fashion him
cassius the morning comes upon s we'll leave you brutus
 and friends disperse yourselves but all remember
 what you have said and show yourselves true romans
brutus good gentlemen look fresh and merrily
 let not our looks put on our purposes
 but bear it as our roman actors do
 with untired spirits and formal constancy
 and so good morrow to you every one
 exeunt all but brutus
 boy lucius fast asleep it is no matter
 enjoy the honeyheavy dew of slumber
 thou hast no figures nor no fantasies
 which busy care draws in the brains of men
 therefore thou sleep'st so sound
 enter portia
portia brutus my lord
brutus portia what mean you wherefore rise you now
 it is not for your health thus to commit
 your weak condition to the raw cold morning
portia nor for yours neither you've ungently brutus
 stole from my bed and yesternight at supper
 you suddenly arose and walk'd about
 musing and sighing with your arms across
 and when i ask'd you what the matter was
 you stared upon me with ungentle looks
 i urged you further then you scratch'd your head
 and too impatiently stamp'd with your foot
 yet i insisted yet you answer'd not
 but with an angry wafture of your hand
 gave sign for me to leave you so i did
 fearing to strengthen that impatience
 which seem'd too much enkindled and withal
 hoping it was but an effect of humour
 which sometime hath his hour with every man
 it will not let you eat nor talk nor sleep
 and could it work so much upon your shape
 as it hath much prevail'd on your condition
 i should not know you brutus dear my lord
 make me acquainted with your cause of grief
brutus i am not well in health and that is all
portia brutus is wise and were he not in health
 he would embrace the means to come by it
brutus why so i do good portia go to bed
portia is brutus sick and is it physical
 to walk unbraced and suck up the humours
 of the dank morning what is brutus sick
 and will he steal out of his wholesome bed
 to dare the vile contagion of the night
 and tempt the rheumy and unpurged air
 to add unto his sickness no my brutus
 you have some sick offence within your mind
 which by the right and virtue of my place
 i ought to know of and upon my knees
 i charm you by my oncecommended beauty
 by all your vows of love and that great vow
 which did incorporate and make us one
 that you unfold to me yourself your half
 why you are heavy and what men tonight
 have had to resort to you for here have been
 some six or seven who did hide their faces
 even from darkness
brutus kneel not gentle portia
portia i should not need if you were gentle brutus
 within the bond of marriage tell me brutus
 is it excepted i should know no secrets
 that appertain to you am i yourself
 but as it were in sort or limitation
 to keep with you at meals comfort your bed
 and talk to you sometimes dwell i but in the suburbs
 of your good pleasure if it be no more
 portia is brutus harlot not his wife
brutus you are my true and honourable wife
 as dear to me as are the ruddy drops
 that visit my sad heart
portia if this were true then should i know this secret
 i grant i am a woman but withal
 a woman that lord brutus took to wife
 i grant i am a woman but withal
 a woman wellreputed cato's daughter
 think you i am no stronger than my sex
 being so father'd and so husbanded
 tell me your counsels i will not disclose em
 i have made strong proof of my constancy
 giving myself a voluntary wound
 here in the thigh can i bear that with patience
 and not my husband's secrets
brutus o ye gods
 render me worthy of this noble wife
 knocking within
 hark hark one knocks portia go in awhile
 and by and by thy bosom shall partake
 the secrets of my heart
 all my engagements i will construe to thee
 all the charactery of my sad brows
 leave me with haste
 exit portia
 lucius who's that knocks
 reenter lucius with ligarius
lucius he is a sick man that would speak with you
brutus caius ligarius that metellus spake of
 boy stand aside caius ligarius how
ligarius vouchsafe good morrow from a feeble tongue
brutus o what a time have you chose out brave caius
 to wear a kerchief would you were not sick
ligarius i am not sick if brutus have in hand
 any exploit worthy the name of honour
brutus such an exploit have i in hand ligarius
 had you a healthful ear to hear of it
ligarius by all the gods that romans bow before
 i here discard my sickness soul of rome
 brave son derived from honourable loins
 thou like an exorcist hast conjured up
 my mortified spirit now bid me run
 and i will strive with things impossible
 yea get the better of them what's to do
brutus a piece of work that will make sick men whole
ligarius but are not some whole that we must make sick
brutus that must we also what it is my caius
 i shall unfold to thee as we are going
 to whom it must be done
ligarius set on your foot
 and with a heart newfired i follow you
 to do i know not what but it sufficeth
 that brutus leads me on
brutus follow me then
 exeunt
 julius caesar
act ii
scene ii caesar's house
 thunder and lightning enter caesar in his
 nightgown
caesar nor heaven nor earth have been at peace tonight
 thrice hath calpurnia in her sleep cried out
 help ho they murder caesar who's within
 enter a servant
servant my lord
caesar go bid the priests do present sacrifice
 and bring me their opinions of success
servant i will my lord
 exit
 enter calpurnia
calpurnia what mean you caesar think you to walk forth
 you shall not stir out of your house today
caesar caesar shall forth the things that threaten'd me
 ne'er look'd but on my back when they shall see
 the face of caesar they are vanished
calpurnia caesar i never stood on ceremonies
 yet now they fright me there is one within
 besides the things that we have heard and seen
 recounts most horrid sights seen by the watch
 a lioness hath whelped in the streets
 and graves have yawn'd and yielded up their dead
 fierce fiery warriors fought upon the clouds
 in ranks and squadrons and right form of war
 which drizzled blood upon the capitol
 the noise of battle hurtled in the air
 horses did neigh and dying men did groan
 and ghosts did shriek and squeal about the streets
 o caesar these things are beyond all use
 and i do fear them
caesar what can be avoided
 whose end is purposed by the mighty gods
 yet caesar shall go forth for these predictions
 are to the world in general as to caesar
calpurnia when beggars die there are no comets seen
 the heavens themselves blaze forth the death of princes
caesar cowards die many times before their deaths
 the valiant never taste of death but once
 of all the wonders that i yet have heard
 it seems to me most strange that men should fear
 seeing that death a necessary end
 will come when it will come
 reenter servant
 what say the augurers
servant they would not have you to stir forth today
 plucking the entrails of an offering forth
 they could not find a heart within the beast
caesar the gods do this in shame of cowardice
 caesar should be a beast without a heart
 if he should stay at home today for fear
 no caesar shall not danger knows full well
 that caesar is more dangerous than he
 we are two lions litter'd in one day
 and i the elder and more terrible
 and caesar shall go forth
calpurnia alas my lord
 your wisdom is consumed in confidence
 do not go forth today call it my fear
 that keeps you in the house and not your own
 we'll send mark antony to the senatehouse
 and he shall say you are not well today
 let me upon my knee prevail in this
caesar mark antony shall say i am not well
 and for thy humour i will stay at home
 enter decius brutus
 here's decius brutus he shall tell them so
decius brutus caesar all hail good morrow worthy caesar
 i come to fetch you to the senatehouse
caesar and you are come in very happy time
 to bear my greeting to the senators
 and tell them that i will not come today
 cannot is false and that i dare not falser
 i will not come today tell them so decius
calpurnia say he is sick
caesar shall caesar send a lie
 have i in conquest stretch'd mine arm so far
 to be afraid to tell graybeards the truth
 decius go tell them caesar will not come
decius brutus most mighty caesar let me know some cause
 lest i be laugh'd at when i tell them so
caesar the cause is in my will i will not come
 that is enough to satisfy the senate
 but for your private satisfaction
 because i love you i will let you know
 calpurnia here my wife stays me at home
 she dreamt tonight she saw my statua
 which like a fountain with an hundred spouts
 did run pure blood and many lusty romans
 came smiling and did bathe their hands in it
 and these does she apply for warnings and portents
 and evils imminent and on her knee
 hath begg'd that i will stay at home today
decius brutus this dream is all amiss interpreted
 it was a vision fair and fortunate
 your statue spouting blood in many pipes
 in which so many smiling romans bathed
 signifies that from you great rome shall suck
 reviving blood and that great men shall press
 for tinctures stains relics and cognizance
 this by calpurnia's dream is signified
caesar and this way have you well expounded it
decius brutus i have when you have heard what i can say
 and know it now the senate have concluded
 to give this day a crown to mighty caesar
 if you shall send them word you will not come
 their minds may change besides it were a mock
 apt to be render'd for some one to say
 break up the senate till another time
 when caesar's wife shall meet with better dreams'
 if caesar hide himself shall they not whisper
 lo caesar is afraid'
 pardon me caesar for my dear dear love
 to our proceeding bids me tell you this
 and reason to my love is liable
caesar how foolish do your fears seem now calpurnia
 i am ashamed i did yield to them
 give me my robe for i will go
 enter publius brutus ligarius metellus casca
 trebonius and cinna
 and look where publius is come to fetch me
publius good morrow caesar
caesar welcome publius
 what brutus are you stirr'd so early too
 good morrow casca caius ligarius
 caesar was ne'er so much your enemy
 as that same ague which hath made you lean
 what is t o'clock
brutus caesar tis strucken eight
caesar i thank you for your pains and courtesy
 enter antony
 see antony that revels long o nights
 is notwithstanding up good morrow antony
antony so to most noble caesar
caesar bid them prepare within
 i am to blame to be thus waited for
 now cinna now metellus what trebonius
 i have an hour's talk in store for you
 remember that you call on me today
 be near me that i may remember you
trebonius caesar i will
 aside
 and so near will i be
 that your best friends shall wish i had been further
caesar good friends go in and taste some wine with me
 and we like friends will straightway go together
brutus aside that every like is not the same o caesar
 the heart of brutus yearns to think upon
 exeunt
 julius caesar
act ii
scene iii a street near the capitol
 enter artemidorus reading a paper
artemidorus caesar beware of brutus take heed of cassius
 come not near casca have an eye to cinna trust not
 trebonius mark well metellus cimber decius brutus
 loves thee not thou hast wronged caius ligarius
 there is but one mind in all these men and it is
 bent against caesar if thou beest not immortal
 look about you security gives way to conspiracy
 the mighty gods defend thee thy lover
 artemidorus'
 here will i stand till caesar pass along
 and as a suitor will i give him this
 my heart laments that virtue cannot live
 out of the teeth of emulation
 if thou read this o caesar thou mayst live
 if not the fates with traitors do contrive
 exit
 julius caesar
act ii
scene iv another part of the same street before the house of brutus
 enter portia and lucius
portia i prithee boy run to the senatehouse
 stay not to answer me but get thee gone
 why dost thou stay
lucius to know my errand madam
portia i would have had thee there and here again
 ere i can tell thee what thou shouldst do there
 o constancy be strong upon my side
 set a huge mountain tween my heart and tongue
 i have a man's mind but a woman's might
 how hard it is for women to keep counsel
 art thou here yet
lucius madam what should i do
 run to the capitol and nothing else
 and so return to you and nothing else
portia yes bring me word boy if thy lord look well
 for he went sickly forth and take good note
 what caesar doth what suitors press to him
 hark boy what noise is that
lucius i hear none madam
portia prithee listen well
 i heard a bustling rumour like a fray
 and the wind brings it from the capitol
lucius sooth madam i hear nothing
 enter the soothsayer
portia come hither fellow which way hast thou been
soothsayer at mine own house good lady
portia what is't o'clock
soothsayer about the ninth hour lady
portia is caesar yet gone to the capitol
soothsayer madam not yet i go to take my stand
 to see him pass on to the capitol
portia thou hast some suit to caesar hast thou not
soothsayer that i have lady if it will please caesar
 to be so good to caesar as to hear me
 i shall beseech him to befriend himself
portia why know'st thou any harm's intended towards him
soothsayer none that i know will be much that i fear may chance
 good morrow to you here the street is narrow
 the throng that follows caesar at the heels
 of senators of praetors common suitors
 will crowd a feeble man almost to death
 i'll get me to a place more void and there
 speak to great caesar as he comes along
 exit
portia i must go in ay me how weak a thing
 the heart of woman is o brutus
 the heavens speed thee in thine enterprise
 sure the boy heard me brutus hath a suit
 that caesar will not grant o i grow faint
 run lucius and commend me to my lord
 say i am merry come to me again
 and bring me word what he doth say to thee
 exeunt severally
 julius caesar
act iii
scene i rome before the capitol the senate sitting above
 a crowd of people among them artemidorus and the
 soothsayer flourish enter caesar brutus
 cassius casca decius brutus metellus cimber
 trebonius cinna antony lepidus popilius
 publius and others
caesar to the soothsayer the ides of march are come
soothsayer ay caesar but not gone
artemidorus hail caesar read this schedule
decius brutus trebonius doth desire you to o'erread
 at your best leisure this his humble suit
artemidorus o caesar read mine first for mine's a suit
 that touches caesar nearer read it great caesar
caesar what touches us ourself shall be last served
artemidorus delay not caesar read it instantly
caesar what is the fellow mad
publius sirrah give place
cassius what urge you your petitions in the street
 come to the capitol
 caesar goes up to the senatehouse the rest
 following
popilius i wish your enterprise today may thrive
cassius what enterprise popilius
popilius fare you well
 advances to caesar
brutus what said popilius lena
cassius he wish'd today our enterprise might thrive
 i fear our purpose is discovered
brutus look how he makes to caesar mark him
cassius casca be sudden for we fear prevention
 brutus what shall be done if this be known
 cassius or caesar never shall turn back
 for i will slay myself
brutus cassius be constant
 popilius lena speaks not of our purposes
 for look he smiles and caesar doth not change
cassius trebonius knows his time for look you brutus
 he draws mark antony out of the way
 exeunt antony and trebonius
decius brutus where is metellus cimber let him go
 and presently prefer his suit to caesar
brutus he is address'd press near and second him
cinna casca you are the first that rears your hand
caesar are we all ready what is now amiss
 that caesar and his senate must redress
metellus cimber most high most mighty and most puissant caesar
 metellus cimber throws before thy seat
 an humble heart
 kneeling
caesar i must prevent thee cimber
 these couchings and these lowly courtesies
 might fire the blood of ordinary men
 and turn preordinance and first decree
 into the law of children be not fond
 to think that caesar bears such rebel blood
 that will be thaw'd from the true quality
 with that which melteth fools i mean sweet words
 lowcrooked court'sies and base spanielfawning
 thy brother by decree is banished
 if thou dost bend and pray and fawn for him
 i spurn thee like a cur out of my way
 know caesar doth not wrong nor without cause
 will he be satisfied
metellus cimber is there no voice more worthy than my own
 to sound more sweetly in great caesar's ear
 for the repealing of my banish'd brother
brutus i kiss thy hand but not in flattery caesar
 desiring thee that publius cimber may
 have an immediate freedom of repeal
caesar what brutus
cassius pardon caesar caesar pardon
 as low as to thy foot doth cassius fall
 to beg enfranchisement for publius cimber
cassius i could be well moved if i were as you
 if i could pray to move prayers would move me
 but i am constant as the northern star
 of whose truefix'd and resting quality
 there is no fellow in the firmament
 the skies are painted with unnumber'd sparks
 they are all fire and every one doth shine
 but there's but one in all doth hold his place
 so in the world tis furnish'd well with men
 and men are flesh and blood and apprehensive
 yet in the number i do know but one
 that unassailable holds on his rank
 unshaked of motion and that i am he
 let me a little show it even in this
 that i was constant cimber should be banish'd
 and constant do remain to keep him so
cinna o caesar
caesar hence wilt thou lift up olympus
decius brutus great caesar
caesar doth not brutus bootless kneel
casca speak hands for me
 casca first then the other conspirators and
 brutus stab caesar
caesar et tu brute then fall caesar
 dies
cinna liberty freedom tyranny is dead
 run hence proclaim cry it about the streets
cassius some to the common pulpits and cry out
 liberty freedom and enfranchisement'
brutus people and senators be not affrighted
 fly not stand stiff ambition's debt is paid
casca go to the pulpit brutus
decius brutus and cassius too
brutus where's publius
cinna here quite confounded with this mutiny
metellus cimber stand fast together lest some friend of caesar's
 should chance
brutus talk not of standing publius good cheer
 there is no harm intended to your person
 nor to no roman else so tell them publius
cassius and leave us publius lest that the people
 rushing on us should do your age some mischief
brutus do so and let no man abide this deed
 but we the doers
 reenter trebonius
cassius where is antony
trebonius fled to his house amazed
 men wives and children stare cry out and run
 as it were doomsday
brutus fates we will know your pleasures
 that we shall die we know tis but the time
 and drawing days out that men stand upon
cassius why he that cuts off twenty years of life
 cuts off so many years of fearing death
brutus grant that and then is death a benefit
 so are we caesar's friends that have abridged
 his time of fearing death stoop romans stoop
 and let us bathe our hands in caesar's blood
 up to the elbows and besmear our swords
 then walk we forth even to the marketplace
 and waving our red weapons o'er our heads
 let's all cry peace freedom and liberty'
cassius stoop then and wash how many ages hence
 shall this our lofty scene be acted over
 in states unborn and accents yet unknown
brutus how many times shall caesar bleed in sport
 that now on pompey's basis lies along
 no worthier than the dust
cassius so oft as that shall be
 so often shall the knot of us be call'd
 the men that gave their country liberty
decius brutus what shall we forth
cassius ay every man away
 brutus shall lead and we will grace his heels
 with the most boldest and best hearts of rome
 enter a servant
brutus soft who comes here a friend of antony's
servant thus brutus did my master bid me kneel
 thus did mark antony bid me fall down
 and being prostrate thus he bade me say
 brutus is noble wise valiant and honest
 caesar was mighty bold royal and loving
 say i love brutus and i honour him
 say i fear'd caesar honour'd him and loved him
 if brutus will vouchsafe that antony
 may safely come to him and be resolved
 how caesar hath deserved to lie in death
 mark antony shall not love caesar dead
 so well as brutus living but will follow
 the fortunes and affairs of noble brutus
 thorough the hazards of this untrod state
 with all true faith so says my master antony
brutus thy master is a wise and valiant roman
 i never thought him worse
 tell him so please him come unto this place
 he shall be satisfied and by my honour
 depart untouch'd
servant i'll fetch him presently
 exit
brutus i know that we shall have him well to friend
cassius i wish we may but yet have i a mind
 that fears him much and my misgiving still
 falls shrewdly to the purpose
brutus but here comes antony
 reenter antony
 welcome mark antony
antony o mighty caesar dost thou lie so low
 are all thy conquests glories triumphs spoils
 shrunk to this little measure fare thee well
 i know not gentlemen what you intend
 who else must be let blood who else is rank
 if i myself there is no hour so fit
 as caesar's death hour nor no instrument
 of half that worth as those your swords made rich
 with the most noble blood of all this world
 i do beseech ye if you bear me hard
 now whilst your purpled hands do reek and smoke
 fulfil your pleasure live a thousand years
 i shall not find myself so apt to die
 no place will please me so no mean of death
 as here by caesar and by you cut off
 the choice and master spirits of this age
brutus o antony beg not your death of us
 though now we must appear bloody and cruel
 as by our hands and this our present act
 you see we do yet see you but our hands
 and this the bleeding business they have done
 our hearts you see not they are pitiful
 and pity to the general wrong of rome
 as fire drives out fire so pity pity
 hath done this deed on caesar for your part
 to you our swords have leaden points mark antony
 our arms in strength of malice and our hearts
 of brothers temper do receive you in
 with all kind love good thoughts and reverence
cassius your voice shall be as strong as any man's
 in the disposing of new dignities
brutus only be patient till we have appeased
 the multitude beside themselves with fear
 and then we will deliver you the cause
 why i that did love caesar when i struck him
 have thus proceeded
antony i doubt not of your wisdom
 let each man render me his bloody hand
 first marcus brutus will i shake with you
 next caius cassius do i take your hand
 now decius brutus yours now yours metellus
 yours cinna and my valiant casca yours
 though last not last in love yours good trebonius
 gentlemen allalas what shall i say
 my credit now stands on such slippery ground
 that one of two bad ways you must conceit me
 either a coward or a flatterer
 that i did love thee caesar o tis true
 if then thy spirit look upon us now
 shall it not grieve thee dearer than thy death
 to see thy thy anthony making his peace
 shaking the bloody fingers of thy foes
 most noble in the presence of thy corse
 had i as many eyes as thou hast wounds
 weeping as fast as they stream forth thy blood
 it would become me better than to close
 in terms of friendship with thine enemies
 pardon me julius here wast thou bay'd brave hart
 here didst thou fall and here thy hunters stand
 sign'd in thy spoil and crimson'd in thy lethe
 o world thou wast the forest to this hart
 and this indeed o world the heart of thee
 how like a deer strucken by many princes
 dost thou here lie
cassius mark antony
antony pardon me caius cassius
 the enemies of caesar shall say this
 then in a friend it is cold modesty
cassius i blame you not for praising caesar so
 but what compact mean you to have with us
 will you be prick'd in number of our friends
 or shall we on and not depend on you
antony therefore i took your hands but was indeed
 sway'd from the point by looking down on caesar
 friends am i with you all and love you all
 upon this hope that you shall give me reasons
 why and wherein caesar was dangerous
brutus or else were this a savage spectacle
 our reasons are so full of good regard
 that were you antony the son of caesar
 you should be satisfied
antony that's all i seek
 and am moreover suitor that i may
 produce his body to the marketplace
 and in the pulpit as becomes a friend
 speak in the order of his funeral
brutus you shall mark antony
cassius brutus a word with you
 aside to brutus
 you know not what you do do not consent
 that antony speak in his funeral
 know you how much the people may be moved
 by that which he will utter
brutus by your pardon
 i will myself into the pulpit first
 and show the reason of our caesar's death
 what antony shall speak i will protest
 he speaks by leave and by permission
 and that we are contented caesar shall
 have all true rites and lawful ceremonies
 it shall advantage more than do us wrong
cassius i know not what may fall i like it not
brutus mark antony here take you caesar's body
 you shall not in your funeral speech blame us
 but speak all good you can devise of caesar
 and say you do't by our permission
 else shall you not have any hand at all
 about his funeral and you shall speak
 in the same pulpit whereto i am going
 after my speech is ended
antony be it so
 i do desire no more
brutus prepare the body then and follow us
 exeunt all but antony
antony o pardon me thou bleeding piece of earth
 that i am meek and gentle with these butchers
 thou art the ruins of the noblest man
 that ever lived in the tide of times
 woe to the hand that shed this costly blood
 over thy wounds now do i prophesy
 which like dumb mouths do ope their ruby lips
 to beg the voice and utterance of my tongue
 a curse shall light upon the limbs of men
 domestic fury and fierce civil strife
 shall cumber all the parts of italy
 blood and destruction shall be so in use
 and dreadful objects so familiar
 that mothers shall but smile when they behold
 their infants quarter'd with the hands of war
 all pity choked with custom of fell deeds
 and caesar's spirit ranging for revenge
 with ate by his side come hot from hell
 shall in these confines with a monarch's voice
 cry havoc and let slip the dogs of war
 that this foul deed shall smell above the earth
 with carrion men groaning for burial
 enter a servant
 you serve octavius caesar do you not
servant i do mark antony
antony caesar did write for him to come to rome
servant he did receive his letters and is coming
 and bid me say to you by word of mouth
 o caesar
 seeing the body
antony thy heart is big get thee apart and weep
 passion i see is catching for mine eyes
 seeing those beads of sorrow stand in thine
 began to water is thy master coming
servant he lies tonight within seven leagues of rome
antony post back with speed and tell him what hath chanced
 here is a mourning rome a dangerous rome
 no rome of safety for octavius yet
 hie hence and tell him so yet stay awhile
 thou shalt not back till i have borne this corse
 into the marketplace there shall i try
 in my oration how the people take
 the cruel issue of these bloody men
 according to the which thou shalt discourse
 to young octavius of the state of things
 lend me your hand
 exeunt with caesar's body
 julius caesar
act iii
scene ii the forum
 enter brutus and cassius and a throng of citizens
citizens we will be satisfied let us be satisfied
brutus then follow me and give me audience friends
 cassius go you into the other street
 and part the numbers
 those that will hear me speak let em stay here
 those that will follow cassius go with him
 and public reasons shall be rendered
 of caesar's death
first citizen i will hear brutus speak
second citizen i will hear cassius and compare their reasons
 when severally we hear them rendered
 exit cassius with some of the citizens brutus
 goes into the pulpit
third citizen the noble brutus is ascended silence
brutus be patient till the last
 romans countrymen and lovers hear me for my
 cause and be silent that you may hear believe me
 for mine honour and have respect to mine honour that
 you may believe censure me in your wisdom and
 awake your senses that you may the better judge
 if there be any in this assembly any dear friend of
 caesar's to him i say that brutus love to caesar
 was no less than his if then that friend demand
 why brutus rose against caesar this is my answer
 not that i loved caesar less but that i loved
 rome more had you rather caesar were living and
 die all slaves than that caesar were dead to live
 all free men as caesar loved me i weep for him
 as he was fortunate i rejoice at it as he was
 valiant i honour him but as he was ambitious i
 slew him there is tears for his love joy for his
 fortune honour for his valour and death for his
 ambition who is here so base that would be a
 bondman if any speak for him have i offended
 who is here so rude that would not be a roman if
 any speak for him have i offended who is here so
 vile that will not love his country if any speak
 for him have i offended i pause for a reply
all none brutus none
brutus then none have i offended i have done no more to
 caesar than you shall do to brutus the question of
 his death is enrolled in the capitol his glory not
 extenuated wherein he was worthy nor his offences
 enforced for which he suffered death
 enter antony and others with caesar's body
 here comes his body mourned by mark antony who
 though he had no hand in his death shall receive
 the benefit of his dying a place in the
 commonwealth as which of you shall not with this
 i departthat as i slew my best lover for the
 good of rome i have the same dagger for myself
 when it shall please my country to need my death
all live brutus live live
first citizen bring him with triumph home unto his house
second citizen give him a statue with his ancestors
third citizen let him be caesar
fourth citizen caesar's better parts
 shall be crown'd in brutus
first citizen we'll bring him to his house
 with shouts and clamours
brutus my countrymen
second citizen peace silence brutus speaks
first citizen peace ho
brutus good countrymen let me depart alone
 and for my sake stay here with antony
 do grace to caesar's corpse and grace his speech
 tending to caesar's glories which mark antony
 by our permission is allow'd to make
 i do entreat you not a man depart
 save i alone till antony have spoke
 exit
first citizen stay ho and let us hear mark antony
third citizen let him go up into the public chair
 we'll hear him noble antony go up
antony for brutus sake i am beholding to you
 goes into the pulpit
fourth citizen what does he say of brutus
third citizen he says for brutus sake
 he finds himself beholding to us all
fourth citizen twere best he speak no harm of brutus here
first citizen this caesar was a tyrant
third citizen nay that's certain
 we are blest that rome is rid of him
second citizen peace let us hear what antony can say
antony you gentle romans
citizens peace ho let us hear him
antony friends romans countrymen lend me your ears
 i come to bury caesar not to praise him
 the evil that men do lives after them
 the good is oft interred with their bones
 so let it be with caesar the noble brutus
 hath told you caesar was ambitious
 if it were so it was a grievous fault
 and grievously hath caesar answer'd it
 here under leave of brutus and the rest
 for brutus is an honourable man
 so are they all all honourable men
 come i to speak in caesar's funeral
 he was my friend faithful and just to me
 but brutus says he was ambitious
 and brutus is an honourable man
 he hath brought many captives home to rome
 whose ransoms did the general coffers fill
 did this in caesar seem ambitious
 when that the poor have cried caesar hath wept
 ambition should be made of sterner stuff
 yet brutus says he was ambitious
 and brutus is an honourable man
 you all did see that on the lupercal
 i thrice presented him a kingly crown
 which he did thrice refuse was this ambition
 yet brutus says he was ambitious
 and sure he is an honourable man
 i speak not to disprove what brutus spoke
 but here i am to speak what i do know
 you all did love him once not without cause
 what cause withholds you then to mourn for him
 o judgment thou art fled to brutish beasts
 and men have lost their reason bear with me
 my heart is in the coffin there with caesar
 and i must pause till it come back to me
first citizen methinks there is much reason in his sayings
second citizen if thou consider rightly of the matter
 caesar has had great wrong
third citizen has he masters
 i fear there will a worse come in his place
fourth citizen mark'd ye his words he would not take the crown
 therefore tis certain he was not ambitious
first citizen if it be found so some will dear abide it
second citizen poor soul his eyes are red as fire with weeping
third citizen there's not a nobler man in rome than antony
fourth citizen now mark him he begins again to speak
antony but yesterday the word of caesar might
 have stood against the world now lies he there
 and none so poor to do him reverence
 o masters if i were disposed to stir
 your hearts and minds to mutiny and rage
 i should do brutus wrong and cassius wrong
 who you all know are honourable men
 i will not do them wrong i rather choose
 to wrong the dead to wrong myself and you
 than i will wrong such honourable men
 but here's a parchment with the seal of caesar
 i found it in his closet tis his will
 let but the commons hear this testament
 which pardon me i do not mean to read
 and they would go and kiss dead caesar's wounds
 and dip their napkins in his sacred blood
 yea beg a hair of him for memory
 and dying mention it within their wills
 bequeathing it as a rich legacy
 unto their issue
fourth citizen we'll hear the will read it mark antony
all the will the will we will hear caesar's will
antony have patience gentle friends i must not read it
 it is not meet you know how caesar loved you
 you are not wood you are not stones but men
 and being men bearing the will of caesar
 it will inflame you it will make you mad
 tis good you know not that you are his heirs
 for if you should o what would come of it
fourth citizen read the will we'll hear it antony
 you shall read us the will caesar's will
antony will you be patient will you stay awhile
 i have o'ershot myself to tell you of it
 i fear i wrong the honourable men
 whose daggers have stabb'd caesar i do fear it
fourth citizen they were traitors honourable men
all the will the testament
second citizen they were villains murderers the will read the will
antony you will compel me then to read the will
 then make a ring about the corpse of caesar
 and let me show you him that made the will
 shall i descend and will you give me leave
several citizens come down
second citizen descend
third citizen you shall have leave
 antony comes down
fourth citizen a ring stand round
first citizen stand from the hearse stand from the body
second citizen room for antony most noble antony
antony nay press not so upon me stand far off
several citizens stand back room bear back
antony if you have tears prepare to shed them now
 you all do know this mantle i remember
 the first time ever caesar put it on
 twas on a summer's evening in his tent
 that day he overcame the nervii
 look in this place ran cassius dagger through
 see what a rent the envious casca made
 through this the wellbeloved brutus stabb'd
 and as he pluck'd his cursed steel away
 mark how the blood of caesar follow'd it
 as rushing out of doors to be resolved
 if brutus so unkindly knock'd or no
 for brutus as you know was caesar's angel
 judge o you gods how dearly caesar loved him
 this was the most unkindest cut of all
 for when the noble caesar saw him stab
 ingratitude more strong than traitors arms
 quite vanquish'd him then burst his mighty heart
 and in his mantle muffling up his face
 even at the base of pompey's statua
 which all the while ran blood great caesar fell
 o what a fall was there my countrymen
 then i and you and all of us fell down
 whilst bloody treason flourish'd over us
 o now you weep and i perceive you feel
 the dint of pity these are gracious drops
 kind souls what weep you when you but behold
 our caesar's vesture wounded look you here
 here is himself marr'd as you see with traitors
first citizen o piteous spectacle
second citizen o noble caesar
third citizen o woful day
fourth citizen o traitors villains
first citizen o most bloody sight
second citizen we will be revenged
all revenge about seek burn fire kill slay
 let not a traitor live
antony stay countrymen
first citizen peace there hear the noble antony
second citizen we'll hear him we'll follow him we'll die with him
antony good friends sweet friends let me not stir you up
 to such a sudden flood of mutiny
 they that have done this deed are honourable
 what private griefs they have alas i know not
 that made them do it they are wise and honourable
 and will no doubt with reasons answer you
 i come not friends to steal away your hearts
 i am no orator as brutus is
 but as you know me all a plain blunt man
 that love my friend and that they know full well
 that gave me public leave to speak of him
 for i have neither wit nor words nor worth
 action nor utterance nor the power of speech
 to stir men's blood i only speak right on
 i tell you that which you yourselves do know
 show you sweet caesar's wounds poor poor dumb mouths
 and bid them speak for me but were i brutus
 and brutus antony there were an antony
 would ruffle up your spirits and put a tongue
 in every wound of caesar that should move
 the stones of rome to rise and mutiny
all we'll mutiny
first citizen we'll burn the house of brutus
third citizen away then come seek the conspirators
antony yet hear me countrymen yet hear me speak
all peace ho hear antony most noble antony
antony why friends you go to do you know not what
 wherein hath caesar thus deserved your loves
 alas you know not i must tell you then
 you have forgot the will i told you of
all most true the will let's stay and hear the will
antony here is the will and under caesar's seal
 to every roman citizen he gives
 to every several man seventyfive drachmas
second citizen most noble caesar we'll revenge his death
third citizen o royal caesar
antony hear me with patience
all peace ho
antony moreover he hath left you all his walks
 his private arbours and newplanted orchards
 on this side tiber he hath left them you
 and to your heirs for ever common pleasures
 to walk abroad and recreate yourselves
 here was a caesar when comes such another
first citizen never never come away away
 we'll burn his body in the holy place
 and with the brands fire the traitors houses
 take up the body
second citizen go fetch fire
third citizen pluck down benches
fourth citizen pluck down forms windows any thing
 exeunt citizens with the body
antony now let it work mischief thou art afoot
 take thou what course thou wilt
 enter a servant
 how now fellow
servant sir octavius is already come to rome
antony where is he
servant he and lepidus are at caesar's house
antony and thither will i straight to visit him
 he comes upon a wish fortune is merry
 and in this mood will give us any thing
servant i heard him say brutus and cassius
 are rid like madmen through the gates of rome
antony belike they had some notice of the people
 how i had moved them bring me to octavius
 exeunt
 julius caesar
act iii
scene iii a street
 enter cinna the poet
cinna the poet i dreamt tonight that i did feast with caesar
 and things unlucky charge my fantasy
 i have no will to wander forth of doors
 yet something leads me forth
 enter citizens
first citizen what is your name
second citizen whither are you going
third citizen where do you dwell
fourth citizen are you a married man or a bachelor
second citizen answer every man directly
first citizen ay and briefly
fourth citizen ay and wisely
third citizen ay and truly you were best
cinna the poet what is my name whither am i going where do i
 dwell am i a married man or a bachelor then to
 answer every man directly and briefly wisely and
 truly wisely i say i am a bachelor
second citizen that's as much as to say they are fools that marry
 you'll bear me a bang for that i fear proceed directly
cinna the poet directly i am going to caesar's funeral
first citizen as a friend or an enemy
cinna the poet as a friend
second citizen that matter is answered directly
fourth citizen for your dwellingbriefly
cinna the poet briefly i dwell by the capitol
third citizen your name sir truly
cinna the poet truly my name is cinna
first citizen tear him to pieces he's a conspirator
cinna the poet i am cinna the poet i am cinna the poet
fourth citizen tear him for his bad verses tear him for his bad verses
cinna the poet i am not cinna the conspirator
fourth citizen it is no matter his name's cinna pluck but his
 name out of his heart and turn him going
third citizen tear him tear him come brands ho firebrands
 to brutus to cassius burn all some to decius'
 house and some to casca's some to ligarius away go
 exeunt
 julius caesar
act iv
scene i a house in rome
 antony octavius and lepidus seated at a table
antony these many then shall die their names are prick'd
octavius your brother too must die consent you lepidus
lepidus i do consent
octavius prick him down antony
lepidus upon condition publius shall not live
 who is your sister's son mark antony
antony he shall not live look with a spot i damn him
 but lepidus go you to caesar's house
 fetch the will hither and we shall determine
 how to cut off some charge in legacies
lepidus what shall i find you here
octavius or here or at the capitol
 exit lepidus
antony this is a slight unmeritable man
 meet to be sent on errands is it fit
 the threefold world divided he should stand
 one of the three to share it
octavius so you thought him
 and took his voice who should be prick'd to die
 in our black sentence and proscription
antony octavius i have seen more days than you
 and though we lay these honours on this man
 to ease ourselves of divers slanderous loads
 he shall but bear them as the ass bears gold
 to groan and sweat under the business
 either led or driven as we point the way
 and having brought our treasure where we will
 then take we down his load and turn him off
 like to the empty ass to shake his ears
 and graze in commons
octavius you may do your will
 but he's a tried and valiant soldier
antony so is my horse octavius and for that
 i do appoint him store of provender
 it is a creature that i teach to fight
 to wind to stop to run directly on
 his corporal motion govern'd by my spirit
 and in some taste is lepidus but so
 he must be taught and train'd and bid go forth
 a barrenspirited fellow one that feeds
 on abjects orts and imitations
 which out of use and staled by other men
 begin his fashion do not talk of him
 but as a property and now octavius
 listen great thingsbrutus and cassius
 are levying powers we must straight make head
 therefore let our alliance be combined
 our best friends made our means stretch'd
 and let us presently go sit in council
 how covert matters may be best disclosed
 and open perils surest answered
octavius let us do so for we are at the stake
 and bay'd about with many enemies
 and some that smile have in their hearts i fear
 millions of mischiefs
 exeunt
 julius caesar
act iv
scene ii camp near sardis before brutus's tent
 drum enter brutus lucilius lucius and
 soldiers titinius and pindarus meeting them
brutus stand ho
lucilius give the word ho and stand
brutus what now lucilius is cassius near
lucilius he is at hand and pindarus is come
 to do you salutation from his master
brutus he greets me well your master pindarus
 in his own change or by ill officers
 hath given me some worthy cause to wish
 things done undone but if he be at hand
 i shall be satisfied
pindarus i do not doubt
 but that my noble master will appear
 such as he is full of regard and honour
brutus he is not doubted a word lucilius
 how he received you let me be resolved
lucilius with courtesy and with respect enough
 but not with such familiar instances
 nor with such free and friendly conference
 as he hath used of old
brutus thou hast described
 a hot friend cooling ever note lucilius
 when love begins to sicken and decay
 it useth an enforced ceremony
 there are no tricks in plain and simple faith
 but hollow men like horses hot at hand
 make gallant show and promise of their mettle
 but when they should endure the bloody spur
 they fall their crests and like deceitful jades
 sink in the trial comes his army on
lucilius they mean this night in sardis to be quarter'd
 the greater part the horse in general
 are come with cassius
brutus hark he is arrived
 low march within
 march gently on to meet him
 enter cassius and his powers
cassius stand ho
brutus stand ho speak the word along
first soldier stand
second soldier stand
third soldier stand
cassius most noble brother you have done me wrong
brutus judge me you gods wrong i mine enemies
 and if not so how should i wrong a brother
cassius brutus this sober form of yours hides wrongs
 and when you do them
brutus cassius be content
 speak your griefs softly i do know you well
 before the eyes of both our armies here
 which should perceive nothing but love from us
 let us not wrangle bid them move away
 then in my tent cassius enlarge your griefs
 and i will give you audience
cassius pindarus
 bid our commanders lead their charges off
 a little from this ground
brutus lucilius do you the like and let no man
 come to our tent till we have done our conference
 let lucius and titinius guard our door
 exeunt
 julius caesar
act iv
scene iii brutus's tent
 enter brutus and cassius
cassius that you have wrong'd me doth appear in this
 you have condemn'd and noted lucius pella
 for taking bribes here of the sardians
 wherein my letters praying on his side
 because i knew the man were slighted off
brutus you wronged yourself to write in such a case
cassius in such a time as this it is not meet
 that every nice offence should bear his comment
brutus let me tell you cassius you yourself
 are much condemn'd to have an itching palm
 to sell and mart your offices for gold
 to undeservers
cassius i an itching palm
 you know that you are brutus that speak this
 or by the gods this speech were else your last
brutus the name of cassius honours this corruption
 and chastisement doth therefore hide his head
cassius chastisement
brutus remember march the ides of march remember
 did not great julius bleed for justice sake
 what villain touch'd his body that did stab
 and not for justice what shall one of us
 that struck the foremost man of all this world
 but for supporting robbers shall we now
 contaminate our fingers with base bribes
 and sell the mighty space of our large honours
 for so much trash as may be grasped thus
 i had rather be a dog and bay the moon
 than such a roman
cassius brutus bay not me
 i'll not endure it you forget yourself
 to hedge me in i am a soldier i
 older in practise abler than yourself
 to make conditions
brutus go to you are not cassius
cassius i am
brutus i say you are not
cassius urge me no more i shall forget myself
 have mind upon your health tempt me no further
brutus away slight man
cassius is't possible
brutus hear me for i will speak
 must i give way and room to your rash choler
 shall i be frighted when a madman stares
cassius o ye gods ye gods must i endure all this
brutus all this ay more fret till your proud heart break
 go show your slaves how choleric you are
 and make your bondmen tremble must i budge
 must i observe you must i stand and crouch
 under your testy humour by the gods
 you shall digest the venom of your spleen
 though it do split you for from this day forth
 i'll use you for my mirth yea for my laughter
 when you are waspish
cassius is it come to this
brutus you say you are a better soldier
 let it appear so make your vaunting true
 and it shall please me well for mine own part
 i shall be glad to learn of noble men
cassius you wrong me every way you wrong me brutus
 i said an elder soldier not a better
 did i say better'
brutus if you did i care not
cassius when caesar lived he durst not thus have moved me
brutus peace peace you durst not so have tempted him
cassius i durst not
brutus no
cassius what durst not tempt him
brutus for your life you durst not
cassius do not presume too much upon my love
 i may do that i shall be sorry for
brutus you have done that you should be sorry for
 there is no terror cassius in your threats
 for i am arm'd so strong in honesty
 that they pass by me as the idle wind
 which i respect not i did send to you
 for certain sums of gold which you denied me
 for i can raise no money by vile means
 by heaven i had rather coin my heart
 and drop my blood for drachmas than to wring
 from the hard hands of peasants their vile trash
 by any indirection i did send
 to you for gold to pay my legions
 which you denied me was that done like cassius
 should i have answer'd caius cassius so
 when marcus brutus grows so covetous
 to lock such rascal counters from his friends
 be ready gods with all your thunderbolts
 dash him to pieces
cassius i denied you not
brutus you did
cassius i did not he was but a fool that brought
 my answer back brutus hath rived my heart
 a friend should bear his friend's infirmities
 but brutus makes mine greater than they are
brutus i do not till you practise them on me
cassius you love me not
brutus i do not like your faults
cassius a friendly eye could never see such faults
brutus a flatterer's would not though they do appear
 as huge as high olympus
cassius come antony and young octavius come
 revenge yourselves alone on cassius
 for cassius is aweary of the world
 hated by one he loves braved by his brother
 cheque'd like a bondman all his faults observed
 set in a notebook learn'd and conn'd by rote
 to cast into my teeth o i could weep
 my spirit from mine eyes there is my dagger
 and here my naked breast within a heart
 dearer than plutus mine richer than gold
 if that thou be'st a roman take it forth
 i that denied thee gold will give my heart
 strike as thou didst at caesar for i know
 when thou didst hate him worst thou lovedst him better
 than ever thou lovedst cassius
brutus sheathe your dagger
 be angry when you will it shall have scope
 do what you will dishonour shall be humour
 o cassius you are yoked with a lamb
 that carries anger as the flint bears fire
 who much enforced shows a hasty spark
 and straight is cold again
cassius hath cassius lived
 to be but mirth and laughter to his brutus
 when grief and blood illtemper'd vexeth him
brutus when i spoke that i was illtemper'd too
cassius do you confess so much give me your hand
brutus and my heart too
cassius o brutus
brutus what's the matter
cassius have not you love enough to bear with me
 when that rash humour which my mother gave me
 makes me forgetful
brutus yes cassius and from henceforth
 when you are overearnest with your brutus
 he'll think your mother chides and leave you so
poet within let me go in to see the generals
 there is some grudge between em tis not meet
 they be alone
lucilius within you shall not come to them
poet within nothing but death shall stay me
 enter poet followed by lucilius titinius and lucius
cassius how now what's the matter
poet for shame you generals what do you mean
 love and be friends as two such men should be
 for i have seen more years i'm sure than ye
cassius ha ha how vilely doth this cynic rhyme
brutus get you hence sirrah saucy fellow hence
cassius bear with him brutus tis his fashion
brutus i'll know his humour when he knows his time
 what should the wars do with these jigging fools
 companion hence
cassius away away be gone
 exit poet
brutus lucilius and titinius bid the commanders
 prepare to lodge their companies tonight
cassius and come yourselves and bring messala with you
 immediately to us
 exeunt lucilius and titinius
brutus lucius a bowl of wine
 exit lucius
cassius i did not think you could have been so angry
brutus o cassius i am sick of many griefs
cassius of your philosophy you make no use
 if you give place to accidental evils
brutus no man bears sorrow better portia is dead
cassius ha portia
brutus she is dead
cassius how scaped i killing when i cross'd you so
 o insupportable and touching loss
 upon what sickness
brutus impatient of my absence
 and grief that young octavius with mark antony
 have made themselves so strongfor with her death
 that tidings camewith this she fell distract
 and her attendants absent swallow'd fire
cassius and died so
brutus even so
cassius o ye immortal gods
 reenter lucius with wine and taper
brutus speak no more of her give me a bowl of wine
 in this i bury all unkindness cassius
cassius my heart is thirsty for that noble pledge
 fill lucius till the wine o'erswell the cup
 i cannot drink too much of brutus love
brutus come in titinius
 exit lucius
 reenter titinius with messala
 welcome good messala
 now sit we close about this taper here
 and call in question our necessities
cassius portia art thou gone
brutus no more i pray you
 messala i have here received letters
 that young octavius and mark antony
 come down upon us with a mighty power
 bending their expedition toward philippi
messala myself have letters of the selfsame tenor
brutus with what addition
messala that by proscription and bills of outlawry
 octavius antony and lepidus
 have put to death an hundred senators
brutus therein our letters do not well agree
 mine speak of seventy senators that died
 by their proscriptions cicero being one
cassius cicero one
messala cicero is dead
 and by that order of proscription
 had you your letters from your wife my lord
brutus no messala
messala nor nothing in your letters writ of her
brutus nothing messala
messala that methinks is strange
brutus why ask you hear you aught of her in yours
messala no my lord
brutus now as you are a roman tell me true
messala then like a roman bear the truth i tell
 for certain she is dead and by strange manner
brutus why farewell portia we must die messala
 with meditating that she must die once
 i have the patience to endure it now
messala even so great men great losses should endure
cassius i have as much of this in art as you
 but yet my nature could not bear it so
brutus well to our work alive what do you think
 of marching to philippi presently
cassius i do not think it good
brutus your reason
cassius this it is
 tis better that the enemy seek us
 so shall he waste his means weary his soldiers
 doing himself offence whilst we lying still
 are full of rest defense and nimbleness
brutus good reasons must of force give place to better
 the people twixt philippi and this ground
 do stand but in a forced affection
 for they have grudged us contribution
 the enemy marching along by them
 by them shall make a fuller number up
 come on refresh'd newadded and encouraged
 from which advantage shall we cut him off
 if at philippi we do face him there
 these people at our back
cassius hear me good brother
brutus under your pardon you must note beside
 that we have tried the utmost of our friends
 our legions are brimfull our cause is ripe
 the enemy increaseth every day
 we at the height are ready to decline
 there is a tide in the affairs of men
 which taken at the flood leads on to fortune
 omitted all the voyage of their life
 is bound in shallows and in miseries
 on such a full sea are we now afloat
 and we must take the current when it serves
 or lose our ventures
cassius then with your will go on
 we'll along ourselves and meet them at philippi
brutus the deep of night is crept upon our talk
 and nature must obey necessity
 which we will niggard with a little rest
 there is no more to say
cassius no more good night
 early tomorrow will we rise and hence
brutus lucius
 enter lucius
 my gown
 exit lucius
 farewell good messala
 good night titinius noble noble cassius
 good night and good repose
cassius o my dear brother
 this was an ill beginning of the night
 never come such division tween our souls
 let it not brutus
brutus every thing is well
cassius good night my lord
brutus good night good brother
titinius 
 good night lord brutus
messala 
brutus farewell every one
 exeunt all but brutus
 reenter lucius with the gown
 give me the gown where is thy instrument
lucius here in the tent
brutus what thou speak'st drowsily
 poor knave i blame thee not thou art o'erwatch'd
 call claudius and some other of my men
 i'll have them sleep on cushions in my tent
lucius varro and claudius
 enter varro and claudius
varro calls my lord
brutus i pray you sirs lie in my tent and sleep
 it may be i shall raise you by and by
 on business to my brother cassius
varro so please you we will stand and watch your pleasure
brutus i will not have it so lie down good sirs
 it may be i shall otherwise bethink me
 look lucius here's the book i sought for so
 i put it in the pocket of my gown
 varro and claudius lie down
lucius i was sure your lordship did not give it me
brutus bear with me good boy i am much forgetful
 canst thou hold up thy heavy eyes awhile
 and touch thy instrument a strain or two
lucius ay my lord an't please you
brutus it does my boy
 i trouble thee too much but thou art willing
lucius it is my duty sir
brutus i should not urge thy duty past thy might
 i know young bloods look for a time of rest
lucius i have slept my lord already
brutus it was well done and thou shalt sleep again
 i will not hold thee long if i do live
 i will be good to thee
 music and a song
 this is a sleepy tune o murderous slumber
 lay'st thou thy leaden mace upon my boy
 that plays thee music gentle knave good night
 i will not do thee so much wrong to wake thee
 if thou dost nod thou break'st thy instrument
 i'll take it from thee and good boy good night
 let me see let me see is not the leaf turn'd down
 where i left reading here it is i think
 enter the ghost of caesar
 how ill this taper burns ha who comes here
 i think it is the weakness of mine eyes
 that shapes this monstrous apparition
 it comes upon me art thou any thing
 art thou some god some angel or some devil
 that makest my blood cold and my hair to stare
 speak to me what thou art
ghost thy evil spirit brutus
brutus why comest thou
ghost to tell thee thou shalt see me at philippi
brutus well then i shall see thee again
ghost ay at philippi
brutus why i will see thee at philippi then
 exit ghost
 now i have taken heart thou vanishest
 ill spirit i would hold more talk with thee
 boy lucius varro claudius sirs awake claudius
lucius the strings my lord are false
brutus he thinks he still is at his instrument
 lucius awake
lucius my lord
brutus didst thou dream lucius that thou so criedst out
lucius my lord i do not know that i did cry
brutus yes that thou didst didst thou see any thing
lucius nothing my lord
brutus sleep again lucius sirrah claudius
 to varro
 fellow thou awake
varro my lord
claudius my lord
brutus why did you so cry out sirs in your sleep
varro 
 did we my lord
claudius 
brutus ay saw you any thing
varro no my lord i saw nothing
claudius nor i my lord
brutus go and commend me to my brother cassius
 bid him set on his powers betimes before
 and we will follow
varro 
 it shall be done my lord
claudius 
 exeunt
 julius caesar
act v
scene i the plains of philippi
 enter octavius antony and their army
octavius now antony our hopes are answered
 you said the enemy would not come down
 but keep the hills and upper regions
 it proves not so their battles are at hand
 they mean to warn us at philippi here
 answering before we do demand of them
antony tut i am in their bosoms and i know
 wherefore they do it they could be content
 to visit other places and come down
 with fearful bravery thinking by this face
 to fasten in our thoughts that they have courage
 but tis not so
 enter a messenger
messenger prepare you generals
 the enemy comes on in gallant show
 their bloody sign of battle is hung out
 and something to be done immediately
antony octavius lead your battle softly on
 upon the left hand of the even field
octavius upon the right hand i keep thou the left
antony why do you cross me in this exigent
octavius i do not cross you but i will do so
 march
 drum enter brutus cassius and their army
 lucilius titinius messala and others
brutus they stand and would have parley
cassius stand fast titinius we must out and talk
octavius mark antony shall we give sign of battle
antony no caesar we will answer on their charge
 make forth the generals would have some words
octavius stir not until the signal
brutus words before blows is it so countrymen
octavius not that we love words better as you do
brutus good words are better than bad strokes octavius
antony in your bad strokes brutus you give good words
 witness the hole you made in caesar's heart
 crying long live hail caesar'
cassius antony
 the posture of your blows are yet unknown
 but for your words they rob the hybla bees
 and leave them honeyless
antony not stingless too
brutus o yes and soundless too
 for you have stol'n their buzzing antony
 and very wisely threat before you sting
antony villains you did not so when your vile daggers
 hack'd one another in the sides of caesar
 you show'd your teeth like apes and fawn'd like hounds
 and bow'd like bondmen kissing caesar's feet
 whilst damned casca like a cur behind
 struck caesar on the neck o you flatterers
cassius flatterers now brutus thank yourself
 this tongue had not offended so today
 if cassius might have ruled
octavius come come the cause if arguing make us sweat
 the proof of it will turn to redder drops look
 i draw a sword against conspirators
 when think you that the sword goes up again
 never till caesar's three and thirty wounds
 be well avenged or till another caesar
 have added slaughter to the sword of traitors
brutus caesar thou canst not die by traitors hands
 unless thou bring'st them with thee
octavius so i hope
 i was not born to die on brutus sword
brutus o if thou wert the noblest of thy strain
 young man thou couldst not die more honourable
cassius a peevish schoolboy worthless of such honour
 join'd with a masker and a reveller
antony old cassius still
octavius come antony away
 defiance traitors hurl we in your teeth
 if you dare fight today come to the field
 if not when you have stomachs
 exeunt octavius antony and their army
cassius why now blow wind swell billow and swim bark
 the storm is up and all is on the hazard
brutus ho lucilius hark a word with you
lucilius standing forth my lord
 brutus and lucilius converse apart
cassius messala
messala standing forth what says my general
cassius messala
 this is my birthday as this very day
 was cassius born give me thy hand messala
 be thou my witness that against my will
 as pompey was am i compell'd to set
 upon one battle all our liberties
 you know that i held epicurus strong
 and his opinion now i change my mind
 and partly credit things that do presage
 coming from sardis on our former ensign
 two mighty eagles fell and there they perch'd
 gorging and feeding from our soldiers hands
 who to philippi here consorted us
 this morning are they fled away and gone
 and in their steads do ravens crows and kites
 fly o'er our heads and downward look on us
 as we were sickly prey their shadows seem
 a canopy most fatal under which
 our army lies ready to give up the ghost
messala believe not so
cassius i but believe it partly
 for i am fresh of spirit and resolved
 to meet all perils very constantly
brutus even so lucilius
cassius now most noble brutus
 the gods today stand friendly that we may
 lovers in peace lead on our days to age
 but since the affairs of men rest still incertain
 let's reason with the worst that may befall
 if we do lose this battle then is this
 the very last time we shall speak together
 what are you then determined to do
brutus even by the rule of that philosophy
 by which i did blame cato for the death
 which he did give himself i know not how
 but i do find it cowardly and vile
 for fear of what might fall so to prevent
 the time of life arming myself with patience
 to stay the providence of some high powers
 that govern us below
cassius then if we lose this battle
 you are contented to be led in triumph
 thorough the streets of rome
brutus no cassius no think not thou noble roman
 that ever brutus will go bound to rome
 he bears too great a mind but this same day
 must end that work the ides of march begun
 and whether we shall meet again i know not
 therefore our everlasting farewell take
 for ever and for ever farewell cassius
 if we do meet again why we shall smile
 if not why then this parting was well made
cassius for ever and for ever farewell brutus
 if we do meet again we'll smile indeed
 if not tis true this parting was well made
brutus why then lead on o that a man might know
 the end of this day's business ere it come
 but it sufficeth that the day will end
 and then the end is known come ho away
 exeunt
 julius caesar
act v
scene ii the same the field of battle
 alarum enter brutus and messala
brutus ride ride messala ride and give these bills
 unto the legions on the other side
 loud alarum
 let them set on at once for i perceive
 but cold demeanor in octavius wing
 and sudden push gives them the overthrow
 ride ride messala let them all come down
 exeunt
 julius caesar
act v
scene iii another part of the field
 alarums enter cassius and titinius
cassius o look titinius look the villains fly
 myself have to mine own turn'd enemy
 this ensign here of mine was turning back
 i slew the coward and did take it from him
titinius o cassius brutus gave the word too early
 who having some advantage on octavius
 took it too eagerly his soldiers fell to spoil
 whilst we by antony are all enclosed
 enter pindarus
pindarus fly further off my lord fly further off
 mark antony is in your tents my lord
 fly therefore noble cassius fly far off
cassius this hill is far enough look look titinius
 are those my tents where i perceive the fire
titinius they are my lord
cassius titinius if thou lovest me
 mount thou my horse and hide thy spurs in him
 till he have brought thee up to yonder troops
 and here again that i may rest assured
 whether yond troops are friend or enemy
titinius i will be here again even with a thought
 exit
cassius go pindarus get higher on that hill
 my sight was ever thick regard titinius
 and tell me what thou notest about the field
 pindarus ascends the hill
 this day i breathed first time is come round
 and where i did begin there shall i end
 my life is run his compass sirrah what news
pindarus above o my lord
cassius what news
pindarus above titinius is enclosed round about
 with horsemen that make to him on the spur
 yet he spurs on now they are almost on him
 now titinius now some light o he lights too
 he's ta'en
 shout
 and hark they shout for joy
cassius come down behold no more
 o coward that i am to live so long
 to see my best friend ta'en before my face
 pindarus descends
 come hither sirrah
 in parthia did i take thee prisoner
 and then i swore thee saving of thy life
 that whatsoever i did bid thee do
 thou shouldst attempt it come now keep thine oath
 now be a freeman and with this good sword
 that ran through caesar's bowels search this bosom
 stand not to answer here take thou the hilts
 and when my face is cover'd as tis now
 guide thou the sword
 pindarus stabs him
 caesar thou art revenged
 even with the sword that kill'd thee
 dies
pindarus so i am free yet would not so have been
 durst i have done my will o cassius
 far from this country pindarus shall run
 where never roman shall take note of him
 exit
 reenter titinius with messala
messala it is but change titinius for octavius
 is overthrown by noble brutus power
 as cassius legions are by antony
titinius these tidings will well comfort cassius
messala where did you leave him
titinius all disconsolate
 with pindarus his bondman on this hill
messala is not that he that lies upon the ground
titinius he lies not like the living o my heart
messala is not that he
titinius no this was he messala
 but cassius is no more o setting sun
 as in thy red rays thou dost sink tonight
 so in his red blood cassius day is set
 the sun of rome is set our day is gone
 clouds dews and dangers come our deeds are done
 mistrust of my success hath done this deed
messala mistrust of good success hath done this deed
 o hateful error melancholy's child
 why dost thou show to the apt thoughts of men
 the things that are not o error soon conceived
 thou never comest unto a happy birth
 but kill'st the mother that engender'd thee
titinius what pindarus where art thou pindarus
messala seek him titinius whilst i go to meet
 the noble brutus thrusting this report
 into his ears i may say thrusting it
 for piercing steel and darts envenomed
 shall be as welcome to the ears of brutus
 as tidings of this sight
titinius hie you messala
 and i will seek for pindarus the while
 exit messala
 why didst thou send me forth brave cassius
 did i not meet thy friends and did not they
 put on my brows this wreath of victory
 and bid me give it thee didst thou not hear their shouts
 alas thou hast misconstrued every thing
 but hold thee take this garland on thy brow
 thy brutus bid me give it thee and i
 will do his bidding brutus come apace
 and see how i regarded caius cassius
 by your leave godsthis is a roman's part
 come cassius sword and find titinius heart
 kills himself
 alarum reenter messala with brutus cato
 strato volumnius and lucilius
brutus where where messala doth his body lie
messala lo yonder and titinius mourning it
brutus titinius face is upward
cato he is slain
brutus o julius caesar thou art mighty yet
 thy spirit walks abroad and turns our swords
 in our own proper entrails
 low alarums
cato brave titinius
 look whether he have not crown'd dead cassius
brutus are yet two romans living such as these
 the last of all the romans fare thee well
 it is impossible that ever rome
 should breed thy fellow friends i owe more tears
 to this dead man than you shall see me pay
 i shall find time cassius i shall find time
 come therefore and to thasos send his body
 his funerals shall not be in our camp
 lest it discomfort us lucilius come
 and come young cato let us to the field
 labeo and flavius set our battles on
 tis three o'clock and romans yet ere night
 we shall try fortune in a second fight
 exeunt
 julius caesar
act v
scene iv another part of the field
 alarum enter fighting soldiers of both armies
 then brutus cato lucilius and others
brutus yet countrymen o yet hold up your heads
cato what bastard doth not who will go with me
 i will proclaim my name about the field
 i am the son of marcus cato ho
 a foe to tyrants and my country's friend
 i am the son of marcus cato ho
brutus and i am brutus marcus brutus i
 brutus my country's friend know me for brutus
 exit
lucilius o young and noble cato art thou down
 why now thou diest as bravely as titinius
 and mayst be honour'd being cato's son
first soldier yield or thou diest
lucilius only i yield to die
 there is so much that thou wilt kill me straight
 offering money
 kill brutus and be honour'd in his death
first soldier we must not a noble prisoner
second soldier room ho tell antony brutus is ta'en
first soldier i'll tell the news here comes the general
 enter antony
 brutus is ta'en brutus is ta'en my lord
antony where is he
lucilius safe antony brutus is safe enough
 i dare assure thee that no enemy
 shall ever take alive the noble brutus
 the gods defend him from so great a shame
 when you do find him or alive or dead
 he will be found like brutus like himself
antony this is not brutus friend but i assure you
 a prize no less in worth keep this man safe
 give him all kindness i had rather have
 such men my friends than enemies go on
 and see whether brutus be alive or dead
 and bring us word unto octavius tent
 how every thing is chanced
 exeunt
 julius caesar
act v
scene v another part of the field
 enter brutus dardanius clitus strato and
 volumnius
brutus come poor remains of friends rest on this rock
clitus statilius show'd the torchlight but my lord
 he came not back he is or ta'en or slain
brutus sit thee down clitus slaying is the word
 it is a deed in fashion hark thee clitus
 whispers
clitus what i my lord no not for all the world
brutus peace then no words
clitus i'll rather kill myself
brutus hark thee dardanius
 whispers
dardanius shall i do such a deed
clitus o dardanius
dardanius o clitus
clitus what ill request did brutus make to thee
dardanius to kill him clitus look he meditates
clitus now is that noble vessel full of grief
 that it runs over even at his eyes
brutus come hither good volumnius list a word
volumnius what says my lord
brutus why this volumnius
 the ghost of caesar hath appear'd to me
 two several times by night at sardis once
 and this last night here in philippi fields
 i know my hour is come
volumnius not so my lord
brutus nay i am sure it is volumnius
 thou seest the world volumnius how it goes
 our enemies have beat us to the pit
 low alarums
 it is more worthy to leap in ourselves
 than tarry till they push us good volumnius
 thou know'st that we two went to school together
 even for that our love of old i prithee
 hold thou my swordhilts whilst i run on it
volumnius that's not an office for a friend my lord
 alarum still
clitus fly fly my lord there is no tarrying here
brutus farewell to you and you and you volumnius
 strato thou hast been all this while asleep
 farewell to thee too strato countrymen
 my heart doth joy that yet in all my life
 i found no man but he was true to me
 i shall have glory by this losing day
 more than octavius and mark antony
 by this vile conquest shall attain unto
 so fare you well at once for brutus tongue
 hath almost ended his life's history
 night hangs upon mine eyes my bones would rest
 that have but labour'd to attain this hour
 alarum cry within fly fly fly'
clitus fly my lord fly
brutus hence i will follow
 exeunt clitus dardanius and volumnius
 i prithee strato stay thou by thy lord
 thou art a fellow of a good respect
 thy life hath had some smatch of honour in it
 hold then my sword and turn away thy face
 while i do run upon it wilt thou strato
strato give me your hand first fare you well my lord
brutus farewell good strato
 runs on his sword
 caesar now be still
 i kill'd not thee with half so good a will
 dies
 alarum retreat enter octavius antony messala
 lucilius and the army
octavius what man is that
messala my master's man strato where is thy master
strato free from the bondage you are in messala
 the conquerors can but make a fire of him
 for brutus only overcame himself
 and no man else hath honour by his death
lucilius so brutus should be found i thank thee brutus
 that thou hast proved lucilius saying true
octavius all that served brutus i will entertain them
 fellow wilt thou bestow thy time with me
strato ay if messala will prefer me to you
octavius do so good messala
messala how died my master strato
strato i held the sword and he did run on it
messala octavius then take him to follow thee
 that did the latest service to my master
antony this was the noblest roman of them all
 all the conspirators save only he
 did that they did in envy of great caesar
 he only in a general honest thought
 and common good to all made one of them
 his life was gentle and the elements
 so mix'd in him that nature might stand up
 and say to all the world this was a man'
octavius according to his virtue let us use him
 with all respect and rites of burial
 within my tent his bones tonight shall lie
 most like a soldier order'd honourably
 so call the field to rest and let's away
 to part the glories of this happy day
 exeunt
 king lear
 dramatis personae
lear king of britain king lear
king of france
duke of burgundy burgundy
duke of cornwall cornwall
duke of albany albany
earl of kent kent
earl of gloucester gloucester
edgar son to gloucester
edmund bastard son to gloucester
curan a courtier
old man tenant to gloucester
doctor
fool
oswald steward to goneril
 a captain employed by edmund captain
 gentleman attendant on cordelia gentleman
 a herald
 servants to cornwall
 first servant
 second servant
 third servant
goneril 
 
regan daughters to lear
 
cordelia 
 knights of lear's train captains messengers
 soldiers and attendants
 knight
 captain
 messenger
scene britain
 king lear
act i
scene i king lear's palace
 enter kent gloucester and edmund
kent i thought the king had more affected the duke of
 albany than cornwall
gloucester it did always seem so to us but now in the
 division of the kingdom it appears not which of
 the dukes he values most for equalities are so
 weighed that curiosity in neither can make choice
 of either's moiety
kent is not this your son my lord
gloucester his breeding sir hath been at my charge i have
 so often blushed to acknowledge him that now i am
 brazed to it
kent i cannot conceive you
gloucester sir this young fellow's mother could whereupon
 she grew roundwombed and had indeed sir a son
 for her cradle ere she had a husband for her bed
 do you smell a fault
kent i cannot wish the fault undone the issue of it
 being so proper
gloucester but i have sir a son by order of law some year
 elder than this who yet is no dearer in my account
 though this knave came something saucily into the
 world before he was sent for yet was his mother
 fair there was good sport at his making and the
 whoreson must be acknowledged do you know this
 noble gentleman edmund
edmund no my lord
gloucester my lord of kent remember him hereafter as my
 honourable friend
edmund my services to your lordship
kent i must love you and sue to know you better
edmund sir i shall study deserving
gloucester he hath been out nine years and away he shall
 again the king is coming
 sennet enter king lear cornwall albany
 goneril regan cordelia and attendants
king lear attend the lords of france and burgundy gloucester
gloucester i shall my liege
 exeunt gloucester and edmund
king lear meantime we shall express our darker purpose
 give me the map there know that we have divided
 in three our kingdom and tis our fast intent
 to shake all cares and business from our age
 conferring them on younger strengths while we
 unburthen'd crawl toward death our son of cornwall
 and you our no less loving son of albany
 we have this hour a constant will to publish
 our daughters several dowers that future strife
 may be prevented now the princes france and burgundy
 great rivals in our youngest daughter's love
 long in our court have made their amorous sojourn
 and here are to be answer'd tell me my daughters
 since now we will divest us both of rule
 interest of territory cares of state
 which of you shall we say doth love us most
 that we our largest bounty may extend
 where nature doth with merit challenge goneril
 our eldestborn speak first
goneril sir i love you more than words can wield the matter
 dearer than eyesight space and liberty
 beyond what can be valued rich or rare
 no less than life with grace health beauty honour
 as much as child e'er loved or father found
 a love that makes breath poor and speech unable
 beyond all manner of so much i love you
cordelia aside what shall cordelia do
 love and be silent
lear of all these bounds even from this line to this
 with shadowy forests and with champains rich'd
 with plenteous rivers and wideskirted meads
 we make thee lady to thine and albany's issue
 be this perpetual what says our second daughter
 our dearest regan wife to cornwall speak
regan sir i am made
 of the selfsame metal that my sister is
 and prize me at her worth in my true heart
 i find she names my very deed of love
 only she comes too short that i profess
 myself an enemy to all other joys
 which the most precious square of sense possesses
 and find i am alone felicitate
 in your dear highness love
cordelia aside then poor cordelia
 and yet not so since i am sure my love's
 more richer than my tongue
king lear to thee and thine hereditary ever
 remain this ample third of our fair kingdom
 no less in space validity and pleasure
 than that conferr'd on goneril now our joy
 although the last not least to whose young love
 the vines of france and milk of burgundy
 strive to be interess'd what can you say to draw
 a third more opulent than your sisters speak
cordelia nothing my lord
king lear nothing
cordelia nothing
king lear nothing will come of nothing speak again
cordelia unhappy that i am i cannot heave
 my heart into my mouth i love your majesty
 according to my bond nor more nor less
king lear how how cordelia mend your speech a little
 lest it may mar your fortunes
cordelia good my lord
 you have begot me bred me loved me i
 return those duties back as are right fit
 obey you love you and most honour you
 why have my sisters husbands if they say
 they love you all haply when i shall wed
 that lord whose hand must take my plight shall carry
 half my love with him half my care and duty
 sure i shall never marry like my sisters
 to love my father all
king lear but goes thy heart with this
cordelia ay good my lord
king lear so young and so untender
cordelia so young my lord and true
king lear let it be so thy truth then be thy dower
 for by the sacred radiance of the sun
 the mysteries of hecate and the night
 by all the operation of the orbs
 from whom we do exist and cease to be
 here i disclaim all my paternal care
 propinquity and property of blood
 and as a stranger to my heart and me
 hold thee from this for ever the barbarous scythian
 or he that makes his generation messes
 to gorge his appetite shall to my bosom
 be as well neighbour'd pitied and relieved
 as thou my sometime daughter
kent good my liege
king lear peace kent
 come not between the dragon and his wrath
 i loved her most and thought to set my rest
 on her kind nursery hence and avoid my sight
 so be my grave my peace as here i give
 her father's heart from her call france who stirs
 call burgundy cornwall and albany
 with my two daughters dowers digest this third
 let pride which she calls plainness marry her
 i do invest you jointly with my power
 preeminence and all the large effects
 that troop with majesty ourself by monthly course
 with reservation of an hundred knights
 by you to be sustain'd shall our abode
 make with you by due turns only we still retain
 the name and all the additions to a king
 the sway revenue execution of the rest
 beloved sons be yours which to confirm
 this coronet part betwixt you
 giving the crown
kent royal lear
 whom i have ever honour'd as my king
 loved as my father as my master follow'd
 as my great patron thought on in my prayers
king lear the bow is bent and drawn make from the shaft
kent let it fall rather though the fork invade
 the region of my heart be kent unmannerly
 when lear is mad what wilt thou do old man
 think'st thou that duty shall have dread to speak
 when power to flattery bows to plainness honour's bound
 when majesty stoops to folly reverse thy doom
 and in thy best consideration cheque
 this hideous rashness answer my life my judgment
 thy youngest daughter does not love thee least
 nor are those emptyhearted whose low sound
 reverbs no hollowness
king lear kent on thy life no more
kent my life i never held but as a pawn
 to wage against thy enemies nor fear to lose it
 thy safety being the motive
king lear out of my sight
kent see better lear and let me still remain
 the true blank of thine eye
king lear now by apollo
kent now by apollo king
 thou swear'st thy gods in vain
king lear o vassal miscreant
 laying his hand on his sword
albany 
 dear sir forbear
cornwall 
kent do
 kill thy physician and the fee bestow
 upon thy foul disease revoke thy doom
 or whilst i can vent clamour from my throat
 i'll tell thee thou dost evil
king lear hear me recreant
 on thine allegiance hear me
 since thou hast sought to make us break our vow
 which we durst never yet and with strain'd pride
 to come between our sentence and our power
 which nor our nature nor our place can bear
 our potency made good take thy reward
 five days we do allot thee for provision
 to shield thee from diseases of the world
 and on the sixth to turn thy hated back
 upon our kingdom if on the tenth day following
 thy banish'd trunk be found in our dominions
 the moment is thy death away by jupiter
 this shall not be revoked
kent fare thee well king sith thus thou wilt appear
 freedom lives hence and banishment is here
 to cordelia
 the gods to their dear shelter take thee maid
 that justly think'st and hast most rightly said
 to regan and goneril
 and your large speeches may your deeds approve
 that good effects may spring from words of love
 thus kent o princes bids you all adieu
 he'll shape his old course in a country new
 exit
 flourish reenter gloucester with king of france
 burgundy and attendants
gloucester here's france and burgundy my noble lord
king lear my lord of burgundy
 we first address towards you who with this king
 hath rivall'd for our daughter what in the least
 will you require in present dower with her
 or cease your quest of love
burgundy most royal majesty
 i crave no more than what your highness offer'd
 nor will you tender less
king lear right noble burgundy
 when she was dear to us we did hold her so
 but now her price is fall'n sir there she stands
 if aught within that little seeming substance
 or all of it with our displeasure pieced
 and nothing more may fitly like your grace
 she's there and she is yours
burgundy i know no answer
king lear will you with those infirmities she owes
 unfriended newadopted to our hate
 dower'd with our curse and stranger'd with our oath
 take her or leave her
burgundy pardon me royal sir
 election makes not up on such conditions
king lear then leave her sir for by the power that made me
 i tell you all her wealth
 to king of france
 for you great king
 i would not from your love make such a stray
 to match you where i hate therefore beseech you
 to avert your liking a more worthier way
 than on a wretch whom nature is ashamed
 almost to acknowledge hers
king of france this is most strange
 that she that even but now was your best object
 the argument of your praise balm of your age
 most best most dearest should in this trice of time
 commit a thing so monstrous to dismantle
 so many folds of favour sure her offence
 must be of such unnatural degree
 that monsters it or your forevouch'd affection
 fall'n into taint which to believe of her
 must be a faith that reason without miracle
 could never plant in me
cordelia i yet beseech your majesty
 if for i want that glib and oily art
 to speak and purpose not since what i well intend
 i'll do't before i speakthat you make known
 it is no vicious blot murder or foulness
 no unchaste action or dishonour'd step
 that hath deprived me of your grace and favour
 but even for want of that for which i am richer
 a stillsoliciting eye and such a tongue
 as i am glad i have not though not to have it
 hath lost me in your liking
king lear better thou
 hadst not been born than not to have pleased me better
king of france is it but thisa tardiness in nature
 which often leaves the history unspoke
 that it intends to do my lord of burgundy
 what say you to the lady love's not love
 when it is mingled with regards that stand
 aloof from the entire point will you have her
 she is herself a dowry
burgundy royal lear
 give but that portion which yourself proposed
 and here i take cordelia by the hand
 duchess of burgundy
king lear nothing i have sworn i am firm
burgundy i am sorry then you have so lost a father
 that you must lose a husband
cordelia peace be with burgundy
 since that respects of fortune are his love
 i shall not be his wife
king of france fairest cordelia that art most rich being poor
 most choice forsaken and most loved despised
 thee and thy virtues here i seize upon
 be it lawful i take up what's cast away
 gods gods tis strange that from their cold'st neglect
 my love should kindle to inflamed respect
 thy dowerless daughter king thrown to my chance
 is queen of us of ours and our fair france
 not all the dukes of waterish burgundy
 can buy this unprized precious maid of me
 bid them farewell cordelia though unkind
 thou losest here a better where to find
king lear thou hast her france let her be thine for we
 have no such daughter nor shall ever see
 that face of hers again therefore be gone
 without our grace our love our benison
 come noble burgundy
 flourish exeunt all but king of france goneril
 regan and cordelia
king of france bid farewell to your sisters
cordelia the jewels of our father with wash'd eyes
 cordelia leaves you i know you what you are
 and like a sister am most loath to call
 your faults as they are named use well our father
 to your professed bosoms i commit him
 but yet alas stood i within his grace
 i would prefer him to a better place
 so farewell to you both
regan prescribe not us our duties
goneril let your study
 be to content your lord who hath received you
 at fortune's alms you have obedience scanted
 and well are worth the want that you have wanted
cordelia time shall unfold what plaited cunning hides
 who cover faults at last shame them derides
 well may you prosper
king of france come my fair cordelia
 exeunt king of france and cordelia
goneril sister it is not a little i have to say of what
 most nearly appertains to us both i think our
 father will hence tonight
regan that's most certain and with you next month with us
goneril you see how full of changes his age is the
 observation we have made of it hath not been
 little he always loved our sister most and
 with what poor judgment he hath now cast her off
 appears too grossly
regan tis the infirmity of his age yet he hath ever
 but slenderly known himself
goneril the best and soundest of his time hath been but
 rash then must we look to receive from his age
 not alone the imperfections of longengraffed
 condition but therewithal the unruly waywardness
 that infirm and choleric years bring with them
regan such unconstant starts are we like to have from
 him as this of kent's banishment
goneril there is further compliment of leavetaking
 between france and him pray you let's hit
 together if our father carry authority with
 such dispositions as he bears this last
 surrender of his will but offend us
regan we shall further think on't
goneril we must do something and i the heat
 exeunt
 king lear
act i
scene ii the earl of gloucester's castle
 enter edmund with a letter
edmund thou nature art my goddess to thy law
 my services are bound wherefore should i
 stand in the plague of custom and permit
 the curiosity of nations to deprive me
 for that i am some twelve or fourteen moonshines
 lag of a brother why bastard wherefore base
 when my dimensions are as well compact
 my mind as generous and my shape as true
 as honest madam's issue why brand they us
 with base with baseness bastardy base base
 who in the lusty stealth of nature take
 more composition and fierce quality
 than doth within a dull stale tired bed
 go to the creating a whole tribe of fops
 got tween asleep and wake well then
 legitimate edgar i must have your land
 our father's love is to the bastard edmund
 as to the legitimate fine wordlegitimate
 well my legitimate if this letter speed
 and my invention thrive edmund the base
 shall top the legitimate i grow i prosper
 now gods stand up for bastards
 enter gloucester
gloucester kent banish'd thus and france in choler parted
 and the king gone tonight subscribed his power
 confined to exhibition all this done
 upon the gad edmund how now what news
edmund so please your lordship none
 putting up the letter
gloucester why so earnestly seek you to put up that letter
edmund i know no news my lord
gloucester what paper were you reading
edmund nothing my lord
gloucester no what needed then that terrible dispatch of
 it into your pocket the quality of nothing hath
 not such need to hide itself let's see come
 if it be nothing i shall not need spectacles
edmund i beseech you sir pardon me it is a letter
 from my brother that i have not all o'erread
 and for so much as i have perused i find it not
 fit for your o'erlooking
gloucester give me the letter sir
edmund i shall offend either to detain or give it the
 contents as in part i understand them are to blame
gloucester let's see let's see
edmund i hope for my brother's justification he wrote
 this but as an essay or taste of my virtue
gloucester reads this policy and reverence of age makes
 the world bitter to the best of our times keeps
 our fortunes from us till our oldness cannot relish
 them i begin to find an idle and fond bondage
 in the oppression of aged tyranny who sways not
 as it hath power but as it is suffered come to
 me that of this i may speak more if our father
 would sleep till i waked him you should half his
 revenue for ever and live the beloved of your
 brother edgar'
 humconspiracy'sleep till i waked himyou
 should enjoy half his revenue'my son edgar
 had he a hand to write this a heart and brain
 to breed it inwhen came this to you who
 brought it
edmund it was not brought me my lord there's the
 cunning of it i found it thrown in at the
 casement of my closet
gloucester you know the character to be your brother's
edmund if the matter were good my lord i durst swear
 it were his but in respect of that i would
 fain think it were not
gloucester it is his
edmund it is his hand my lord but i hope his heart is
 not in the contents
gloucester hath he never heretofore sounded you in this business
edmund never my lord but i have heard him oft
 maintain it to be fit that sons at perfect age
 and fathers declining the father should be as
 ward to the son and the son manage his revenue
gloucester o villain villain his very opinion in the
 letter abhorred villain unnatural detested
 brutish villain worse than brutish go sirrah
 seek him i'll apprehend him abominable villain
 where is he
edmund i do not well know my lord if it shall please
 you to suspend your indignation against my
 brother till you can derive from him better
 testimony of his intent you shall run a certain
 course where if you violently proceed against
 him mistaking his purpose it would make a great
 gap in your own honour and shake in pieces the
 heart of his obedience i dare pawn down my life
 for him that he hath wrote this to feel my
 affection to your honour and to no further
 pretence of danger
gloucester think you so
edmund if your honour judge it meet i will place you
 where you shall hear us confer of this and by an
 auricular assurance have your satisfaction and
 that without any further delay than this very evening
gloucester he cannot be such a monster
edmund nor is not sure
gloucester to his father that so tenderly and entirely
 loves him heaven and earth edmund seek him
 out wind me into him i pray you frame the
 business after your own wisdom i would unstate
 myself to be in a due resolution
edmund i will seek him sir presently convey the
 business as i shall find means and acquaint you withal
gloucester these late eclipses in the sun and moon portend
 no good to us though the wisdom of nature can
 reason it thus and thus yet nature finds itself
 scourged by the sequent effects love cools
 friendship falls off brothers divide in
 cities mutinies in countries discord in
 palaces treason and the bond cracked twixt son
 and father this villain of mine comes under the
 prediction there's son against father the king
 falls from bias of nature there's father against
 child we have seen the best of our time
 machinations hollowness treachery and all
 ruinous disorders follow us disquietly to our
 graves find out this villain edmund it shall
 lose thee nothing do it carefully and the
 noble and truehearted kent banished his
 offence honesty tis strange
 exit
edmund this is the excellent foppery of the world that
 when we are sick in fortuneoften the surfeit
 of our own behaviorwe make guilty of our
 disasters the sun the moon and the stars as
 if we were villains by necessity fools by
 heavenly compulsion knaves thieves and
 treachers by spherical predominance drunkards
 liars and adulterers by an enforced obedience of
 planetary influence and all that we are evil in
 by a divine thrusting on an admirable evasion
 of whoremaster man to lay his goatish
 disposition to the charge of a star my
 father compounded with my mother under the
 dragon's tail and my nativity was under ursa
 major so that it follows i am rough and
 lecherous tut i should have been that i am
 had the maidenliest star in the firmament
 twinkled on my bastardizing edgar
 enter edgar
 and pat he comes like the catastrophe of the old
 comedy my cue is villanous melancholy with a
 sigh like tom o bedlam o these eclipses do
 portend these divisions fa sol la mi
edgar how now brother edmund what serious
 contemplation are you in
edmund i am thinking brother of a prediction i read
 this other day what should follow these eclipses
edgar do you busy yourself about that
edmund i promise you the effects he writes of succeed
 unhappily as of unnaturalness between the child
 and the parent death dearth dissolutions of
 ancient amities divisions in state menaces and
 maledictions against king and nobles needless
 diffidences banishment of friends dissipation
 of cohorts nuptial breaches and i know not what
edgar how long have you been a sectary astronomical
edmund come come when saw you my father last
edgar why the night gone by
edmund spake you with him
edgar ay two hours together
edmund parted you in good terms found you no
 displeasure in him by word or countenance
edgar none at all
edmund bethink yourself wherein you may have offended
 him and at my entreaty forbear his presence
 till some little time hath qualified the heat of
 his displeasure which at this instant so rageth
 in him that with the mischief of your person it
 would scarcely allay
edgar some villain hath done me wrong
edmund that's my fear i pray you have a continent
 forbearance till the spied of his rage goes
 slower and as i say retire with me to my
 lodging from whence i will fitly bring you to
 hear my lord speak pray ye go there's my key
 if you do stir abroad go armed
edgar armed brother
edmund brother i advise you to the best go armed i
 am no honest man if there be any good meaning
 towards you i have told you what i have seen
 and heard but faintly nothing like the image
 and horror of it pray you away
edgar shall i hear from you anon
edmund i do serve you in this business
 exit edgar
 a credulous father and a brother noble
 whose nature is so far from doing harms
 that he suspects none on whose foolish honesty
 my practises ride easy i see the business
 let me if not by birth have lands by wit
 all with me's meet that i can fashion fit
 exit
 king lear
act i
scene iii the duke of albany's palace
 enter goneril and oswald her steward
goneril did my father strike my gentleman for chiding of his fool
oswald yes madam
goneril by day and night he wrongs me every hour
 he flashes into one gross crime or other
 that sets us all at odds i'll not endure it
 his knights grow riotous and himself upbraids us
 on every trifle when he returns from hunting
 i will not speak with him say i am sick
 if you come slack of former services
 you shall do well the fault of it i'll answer
oswald he's coming madam i hear him
 horns within
goneril put on what weary negligence you please
 you and your fellows i'll have it come to question
 if he dislike it let him to our sister
 whose mind and mine i know in that are one
 not to be overruled idle old man
 that still would manage those authorities
 that he hath given away now by my life
 old fools are babes again and must be used
 with cheques as flatterieswhen they are seen abused
 remember what i tell you
oswald well madam
goneril and let his knights have colder looks among you
 what grows of it no matter advise your fellows so
 i would breed from hence occasions and i shall
 that i may speak i'll write straight to my sister
 to hold my very course prepare for dinner
 exeunt
 king lear
act i
scene iv a hall in the same
 enter kent disguised
kent if but as well i other accents borrow
 that can my speech defuse my good intent
 may carry through itself to that full issue
 for which i razed my likeness now banish'd kent
 if thou canst serve where thou dost stand condemn'd
 so may it come thy master whom thou lovest
 shall find thee full of labours
 horns within enter king lear knights and
 attendants
king lear let me not stay a jot for dinner go get it ready
 exit an attendant
 how now what art thou
kent a man sir
king lear what dost thou profess what wouldst thou with us
kent i do profess to be no less than i seem to serve
 him truly that will put me in trust to love him
 that is honest to converse with him that is wise
 and says little to fear judgment to fight when i
 cannot choose and to eat no fish
king lear what art thou
kent a very honesthearted fellow and as poor as the king
king lear if thou be as poor for a subject as he is for a
 king thou art poor enough what wouldst thou
kent service
king lear who wouldst thou serve
kent you
king lear dost thou know me fellow
kent no sir but you have that in your countenance
 which i would fain call master
king lear what's that
kent authority
king lear what services canst thou do
kent i can keep honest counsel ride run mar a curious
 tale in telling it and deliver a plain message
 bluntly that which ordinary men are fit for i am
 qualified in and the best of me is diligence
king lear how old art thou
kent not so young sir to love a woman for singing nor
 so old to dote on her for any thing i have years
 on my back forty eight
king lear follow me thou shalt serve me if i like thee no
 worse after dinner i will not part from thee yet
 dinner ho dinner where's my knave my fool
 go you and call my fool hither
 exit an attendant
 enter oswald
 you you sirrah where's my daughter
oswald so please you
 exit
king lear what says the fellow there call the clotpoll back
 exit a knight
 where's my fool ho i think the world's asleep
 reenter knight
 how now where's that mongrel
knight he says my lord your daughter is not well
king lear why came not the slave back to me when i called him
knight sir he answered me in the roundest manner he would
 not
king lear he would not
knight my lord i know not what the matter is but to my
 judgment your highness is not entertained with that
 ceremonious affection as you were wont there's a
 great abatement of kindness appears as well in the
 general dependants as in the duke himself also and
 your daughter
king lear ha sayest thou so
knight i beseech you pardon me my lord if i be mistaken
 for my duty cannot be silent when i think your
 highness wronged
king lear thou but rememberest me of mine own conception i
 have perceived a most faint neglect of late which i
 have rather blamed as mine own jealous curiosity
 than as a very pretence and purpose of unkindness
 i will look further into't but where's my fool i
 have not seen him this two days
knight since my young lady's going into france sir the
 fool hath much pined away
king lear no more of that i have noted it well go you and
 tell my daughter i would speak with her
 exit an attendant
 go you call hither my fool
 exit an attendant
 reenter oswald
 o you sir you come you hither sir who am i
 sir
oswald my lady's father
king lear my lady's father my lord's knave your
 whoreson dog you slave you cur
oswald i am none of these my lord i beseech your pardon
king lear do you bandy looks with me you rascal
 striking him
oswald i'll not be struck my lord
kent nor tripped neither you base football player
 tripping up his heels
king lear i thank thee fellow thou servest me and i'll
 love thee
kent come sir arise away i'll teach you differences
 away away if you will measure your lubber's
 length again tarry but away go to have you
 wisdom so
 pushes oswald out
king lear now my friendly knave i thank thee there's
 earnest of thy service
 giving kent money
 enter fool
fool let me hire him too here's my coxcomb
 offering kent his cap
king lear how now my pretty knave how dost thou
fool sirrah you were best take my coxcomb
kent why fool
fool why for taking one's part that's out of favour
 nay an thou canst not smile as the wind sits
 thou'lt catch cold shortly there take my coxcomb
 why this fellow has banished two on's daughters
 and did the third a blessing against his will if
 thou follow him thou must needs wear my coxcomb
 how now nuncle would i had two coxcombs and two daughters
king lear why my boy
fool if i gave them all my living i'ld keep my coxcombs
 myself there's mine beg another of thy daughters
king lear take heed sirrah the whip
fool truth's a dog must to kennel he must be whipped
 out when lady the brach may stand by the fire and stink
king lear a pestilent gall to me
fool sirrah i'll teach thee a speech
king lear do
fool mark it nuncle
 have more than thou showest
 speak less than thou knowest
 lend less than thou owest
 ride more than thou goest
 learn more than thou trowest
 set less than thou throwest
 leave thy drink and thy whore
 and keep inadoor
 and thou shalt have more
 than two tens to a score
kent this is nothing fool
fool then tis like the breath of an unfee'd lawyer you
 gave me nothing for't can you make no use of
 nothing nuncle
king lear why no boy nothing can be made out of nothing
fool to kent prithee tell him so much the rent of
 his land comes to he will not believe a fool
king lear a bitter fool
fool dost thou know the difference my boy between a
 bitter fool and a sweet fool
king lear no lad teach me
fool that lord that counsell'd thee
 to give away thy land
 come place him here by me
 do thou for him stand
 the sweet and bitter fool
 will presently appear
 the one in motley here
 the other found out there
king lear dost thou call me fool boy
fool all thy other titles thou hast given away that
 thou wast born with
kent this is not altogether fool my lord
fool no faith lords and great men will not let me if
 i had a monopoly out they would have part on't
 and ladies too they will not let me have all fool
 to myself they'll be snatching give me an egg
 nuncle and i'll give thee two crowns
king lear what two crowns shall they be
fool why after i have cut the egg i the middle and eat
 up the meat the two crowns of the egg when thou
 clovest thy crown i the middle and gavest away
 both parts thou borest thy ass on thy back o'er
 the dirt thou hadst little wit in thy bald crown
 when thou gavest thy golden one away if i speak
 like myself in this let him be whipped that first
 finds it so
 singing
 fools had ne'er less wit in a year
 for wise men are grown foppish
 they know not how their wits to wear
 their manners are so apish
king lear when were you wont to be so full of songs sirrah
fool i have used it nuncle ever since thou madest thy
 daughters thy mothers for when thou gavest them
 the rod and put'st down thine own breeches
 singing
 then they for sudden joy did weep
 and i for sorrow sung
 that such a king should play bopeep
 and go the fools among
 prithee nuncle keep a schoolmaster that can teach
 thy fool to lie i would fain learn to lie
king lear an you lie sirrah we'll have you whipped
fool i marvel what kin thou and thy daughters are
 they'll have me whipped for speaking true thou'lt
 have me whipped for lying and sometimes i am
 whipped for holding my peace i had rather be any
 kind o thing than a fool and yet i would not be
 thee nuncle thou hast pared thy wit o both sides
 and left nothing i the middle here comes one o'
 the parings
 enter goneril
king lear how now daughter what makes that frontlet on
 methinks you are too much of late i the frown
fool thou wast a pretty fellow when thou hadst no need to
 care for her frowning now thou art an o without a
 figure i am better than thou art now i am a fool
 thou art nothing
 to goneril
 yes forsooth i will hold my tongue so your face
 bids me though you say nothing mum mum
 he that keeps nor crust nor crum
 weary of all shall want some
 pointing to king lear
 that's a shealed peascod
goneril not only sir this your alllicensed fool
 but other of your insolent retinue
 do hourly carp and quarrel breaking forth
 in rank and nottobe endured riots sir
 i had thought by making this well known unto you
 to have found a safe redress but now grow fearful
 by what yourself too late have spoke and done
 that you protect this course and put it on
 by your allowance which if you should the fault
 would not scape censure nor the redresses sleep
 which in the tender of a wholesome weal
 might in their working do you that offence
 which else were shame that then necessity
 will call discreet proceeding
fool for you trow nuncle
 the hedgesparrow fed the cuckoo so long
 that it's had it head bit off by it young
 so out went the candle and we were left darkling
king lear are you our daughter
goneril come sir
 i would you would make use of that good wisdom
 whereof i know you are fraught and put away
 these dispositions that of late transform you
 from what you rightly are
fool may not an ass know when the cart
 draws the horse whoop jug i love thee
king lear doth any here know me this is not lear
 doth lear walk thus speak thus where are his eyes
 either his notion weakens his discernings
 are lethargiedha waking tis not so
 who is it that can tell me who i am
fool lear's shadow
king lear i would learn that for by the
 marks of sovereignty knowledge and reason
 i should be false persuaded i had daughters
fool which they will make an obedient father
king lear your name fair gentlewoman
goneril this admiration sir is much o the savour
 of other your new pranks i do beseech you
 to understand my purposes aright
 as you are old and reverend you should be wise
 here do you keep a hundred knights and squires
 men so disorder'd so debosh'd and bold
 that this our court infected with their manners
 shows like a riotous inn epicurism and lust
 make it more like a tavern or a brothel
 than a graced palace the shame itself doth speak
 for instant remedy be then desired
 by her that else will take the thing she begs
 a little to disquantity your train
 and the remainder that shall still depend
 to be such men as may besort your age
 and know themselves and you
king lear darkness and devils
 saddle my horses call my train together
 degenerate bastard i'll not trouble thee
 yet have i left a daughter
goneril you strike my people and your disorder'd rabble
 make servants of their betters
 enter albany
king lear woe that too late repents
 to albany
 o sir are you come
 is it your will speak sir prepare my horses
 ingratitude thou marblehearted fiend
 more hideous when thou show'st thee in a child
 than the seamonster
albany pray sir be patient
king lear to goneril detested kite thou liest
 my train are men of choice and rarest parts
 that all particulars of duty know
 and in the most exact regard support
 the worships of their name o most small fault
 how ugly didst thou in cordelia show
 that like an engine wrench'd my frame of nature
 from the fix'd place drew from heart all love
 and added to the gall o lear lear lear
 beat at this gate that let thy folly in
 striking his head
 and thy dear judgment out go go my people
albany my lord i am guiltless as i am ignorant
 of what hath moved you
king lear it may be so my lord
 hear nature hear dear goddess hear
 suspend thy purpose if thou didst intend
 to make this creature fruitful
 into her womb convey sterility
 dry up in her the organs of increase
 and from her derogate body never spring
 a babe to honour her if she must teem
 create her child of spleen that it may live
 and be a thwart disnatured torment to her
 let it stamp wrinkles in her brow of youth
 with cadent tears fret channels in her cheeks
 turn all her mother's pains and benefits
 to laughter and contempt that she may feel
 how sharper than a serpent's tooth it is
 to have a thankless child away away
 exit
albany now gods that we adore whereof comes this
goneril never afflict yourself to know the cause
 but let his disposition have that scope
 that dotage gives it
 reenter king lear
king lear what fifty of my followers at a clap
 within a fortnight
albany what's the matter sir
king lear i'll tell thee
 to goneril
 life and death i am ashamed
 that thou hast power to shake my manhood thus
 that these hot tears which break from me perforce
 should make thee worth them blasts and fogs upon thee
 the untented woundings of a father's curse
 pierce every sense about thee old fond eyes
 beweep this cause again i'll pluck ye out
 and cast you with the waters that you lose
 to temper clay yea it is come to this
 let is be so yet have i left a daughter
 who i am sure is kind and comfortable
 when she shall hear this of thee with her nails
 she'll flay thy wolvish visage thou shalt find
 that i'll resume the shape which thou dost think
 i have cast off for ever thou shalt
 i warrant thee
 exeunt king lear kent and attendants
goneril do you mark that my lord
albany i cannot be so partial goneril
 to the great love i bear you
goneril pray you content what oswald ho
 to the fool
 you sir more knave than fool after your master
fool nuncle lear nuncle lear tarry and take the fool
 with thee
 a fox when one has caught her
 and such a daughter
 should sure to the slaughter
 if my cap would buy a halter
 so the fool follows after
 exit
goneril this man hath had good counsela hundred knights
 tis politic and safe to let him keep
 at point a hundred knights yes that on every dream
 each buzz each fancy each complaint dislike
 he may enguard his dotage with their powers
 and hold our lives in mercy oswald i say
albany well you may fear too far
goneril safer than trust too far
 let me still take away the harms i fear
 not fear still to be taken i know his heart
 what he hath utter'd i have writ my sister
 if she sustain him and his hundred knights
 when i have show'd the unfitness
 reenter oswald
 how now oswald
 what have you writ that letter to my sister
oswald yes madam
goneril take you some company and away to horse
 inform her full of my particular fear
 and thereto add such reasons of your own
 as may compact it more get you gone
 and hasten your return
 exit oswald
 no no my lord
 this milky gentleness and course of yours
 though i condemn not yet under pardon
 you are much more attask'd for want of wisdom
 than praised for harmful mildness
albany how far your eyes may pierce i can not tell
 striving to better oft we mar what's well
goneril nay then
albany well well the event
 exeunt
 king lear
act i
scene v court before the same
 enter king lear kent and fool
king lear go you before to gloucester with these letters
 acquaint my daughter no further with any thing you
 know than comes from her demand out of the letter
 if your diligence be not speedy i shall be there afore you
kent i will not sleep my lord till i have delivered
 your letter
 exit
fool if a man's brains were in's heels were't not in
 danger of kibes
king lear ay boy
fool then i prithee be merry thy wit shall ne'er go
 slipshod
king lear ha ha ha
fool shalt see thy other daughter will use thee kindly
 for though she's as like this as a crab's like an
 apple yet i can tell what i can tell
king lear why what canst thou tell my boy
fool she will taste as like this as a crab does to a
 crab thou canst tell why one's nose stands i'
 the middle on's face
king lear no
fool why to keep one's eyes of either side's nose that
 what a man cannot smell out he may spy into
king lear i did her wrong
fool canst tell how an oyster makes his shell
king lear no
fool nor i neither but i can tell why a snail has a house
king lear why
fool why to put his head in not to give it away to his
 daughters and leave his horns without a case
king lear i will forget my nature so kind a father be my
 horses ready
fool thy asses are gone about em the reason why the
 seven stars are no more than seven is a pretty reason
king lear because they are not eight
fool yes indeed thou wouldst make a good fool
king lear to take t again perforce monster ingratitude
fool if thou wert my fool nuncle i'ld have thee beaten
 for being old before thy time
king lear how's that
fool thou shouldst not have been old till thou hadst
 been wise
king lear o let me not be mad not mad sweet heaven
 keep me in temper i would not be mad
 enter gentleman
 how now are the horses ready
gentleman ready my lord
king lear come boy
fool she that's a maid now and laughs at my departure
 shall not be a maid long unless things be cut shorter
 exeunt
 king lear
act ii
scene i gloucester's castle
 enter edmund and curan meets him
edmund save thee curan
curan and you sir i have been with your father and
 given him notice that the duke of cornwall and regan
 his duchess will be here with him this night
edmund how comes that
curan nay i know not you have heard of the news abroad
 i mean the whispered ones for they are yet but
 earkissing arguments
edmund not i pray you what are they
curan have you heard of no likely wars toward twixt the
 dukes of cornwall and albany
edmund not a word
curan you may do then in time fare you well sir
 exit
edmund the duke be here tonight the better best
 this weaves itself perforce into my business
 my father hath set guard to take my brother
 and i have one thing of a queasy question
 which i must act briefness and fortune work
 brother a word descend brother i say
 enter edgar
 my father watches o sir fly this place
 intelligence is given where you are hid
 you have now the good advantage of the night
 have you not spoken gainst the duke of cornwall
 he's coming hither now i the night i the haste
 and regan with him have you nothing said
 upon his party gainst the duke of albany
 advise yourself
edgar i am sure on't not a word
edmund i hear my father coming pardon me
 in cunning i must draw my sword upon you
 draw seem to defend yourself now quit you well
 yield come before my father light ho here
 fly brother torches torches so farewell
 exit edgar
 some blood drawn on me would beget opinion
 wounds his arm
 of my more fierce endeavour i have seen drunkards
 do more than this in sport father father
 stop stop no help
 enter gloucester and servants with torches
gloucester now edmund where's the villain
edmund here stood he in the dark his sharp sword out
 mumbling of wicked charms conjuring the moon
 to stand auspicious mistress
gloucester but where is he
edmund look sir i bleed
gloucester where is the villain edmund
edmund fled this way sir when by no means he could
gloucester pursue him ho go after
 exeunt some servants
 by no means what
edmund persuade me to the murder of your lordship
 but that i told him the revenging gods
 gainst parricides did all their thunders bend
 spoke with how manifold and strong a bond
 the child was bound to the father sir in fine
 seeing how loathly opposite i stood
 to his unnatural purpose in fell motion
 with his prepared sword he charges home
 my unprovided body lanced mine arm
 but when he saw my best alarum'd spirits
 bold in the quarrel's right roused to the encounter
 or whether gasted by the noise i made
 full suddenly he fled
gloucester let him fly far
 not in this land shall he remain uncaught
 and founddispatch the noble duke my master
 my worthy arch and patron comes tonight
 by his authority i will proclaim it
 that he which finds him shall deserve our thanks
 bringing the murderous coward to the stake
 he that conceals him death
edmund when i dissuaded him from his intent
 and found him pight to do it with curst speech
 i threaten'd to discover him he replied
 thou unpossessing bastard dost thou think
 if i would stand against thee would the reposal
 of any trust virtue or worth in thee
 make thy words faith'd no what i should deny
 as this i would ay though thou didst produce
 my very characteri'ld turn it all
 to thy suggestion plot and damned practise
 and thou must make a dullard of the world
 if they not thought the profits of my death
 were very pregnant and potential spurs
 to make thee seek it'
gloucester strong and fasten'd villain
 would he deny his letter i never got him
 tucket within
 hark the duke's trumpets i know not why he comes
 all ports i'll bar the villain shall not scape
 the duke must grant me that besides his picture
 i will send far and near that all the kingdom
 may have the due note of him and of my land
 loyal and natural boy i'll work the means
 to make thee capable
 enter cornwall regan and attendants
cornwall how now my noble friend since i came hither
 which i can call but now i have heard strange news
regan if it be true all vengeance comes too short
 which can pursue the offender how dost my lord
gloucester o madam my old heart is crack'd it's crack'd
regan what did my father's godson seek your life
 he whom my father named your edgar
gloucester o lady lady shame would have it hid
regan was he not companion with the riotous knights
 that tend upon my father
gloucester i know not madam tis too bad too bad
edmund yes madam he was of that consort
regan no marvel then though he were ill affected
 tis they have put him on the old man's death
 to have the expense and waste of his revenues
 i have this present evening from my sister
 been well inform'd of them and with such cautions
 that if they come to sojourn at my house
 i'll not be there
cornwall nor i assure thee regan
 edmund i hear that you have shown your father
 a childlike office
edmund twas my duty sir
gloucester he did bewray his practise and received
 this hurt you see striving to apprehend him
cornwall is he pursued
gloucester ay my good lord
cornwall if he be taken he shall never more
 be fear'd of doing harm make your own purpose
 how in my strength you please for you edmund
 whose virtue and obedience doth this instant
 so much commend itself you shall be ours
 natures of such deep trust we shall much need
 you we first seize on
edmund i shall serve you sir
 truly however else
gloucester for him i thank your grace
cornwall you know not why we came to visit you
regan thus out of season threading darkeyed night
 occasions noble gloucester of some poise
 wherein we must have use of your advice
 our father he hath writ so hath our sister
 of differences which i least thought it fit
 to answer from our home the several messengers
 from hence attend dispatch our good old friend
 lay comforts to your bosom and bestow
 your needful counsel to our business
 which craves the instant use
gloucester i serve you madam
 your graces are right welcome
 exeunt
 king lear
act ii
scene ii before gloucester's castle
 enter kent and oswald severally
oswald good dawning to thee friend art of this house
kent ay
oswald where may we set our horses
kent i the mire
oswald prithee if thou lovest me tell me
kent i love thee not
oswald why then i care not for thee
kent if i had thee in lipsbury pinfold i would make thee
 care for me
oswald why dost thou use me thus i know thee not
kent fellow i know thee
oswald what dost thou know me for
kent a knave a rascal an eater of broken meats a
 base proud shallow beggarly threesuited
 hundredpound filthy worstedstocking knave a
 lilylivered actiontaking knave a whoreson
 glassgazing superserviceable finical rogue
 onetrunkinheriting slave one that wouldst be a
 bawd in way of good service and art nothing but
 the composition of a knave beggar coward pandar
 and the son and heir of a mongrel bitch one whom i
 will beat into clamorous whining if thou deniest
 the least syllable of thy addition
oswald why what a monstrous fellow art thou thus to rail
 on one that is neither known of thee nor knows thee
kent what a brazenfaced varlet art thou to deny thou
 knowest me is it two days ago since i tripped up
 thy heels and beat thee before the king draw you
 rogue for though it be night yet the moon
 shines i'll make a sop o the moonshine of you
 draw you whoreson cullionly barbermonger draw
 drawing his sword
oswald away i have nothing to do with thee
kent draw you rascal you come with letters against the
 king and take vanity the puppet's part against the
 royalty of her father draw you rogue or i'll so
 carbonado your shanks draw you rascal come your ways
oswald help ho murder help
kent strike you slave stand rogue stand you neat
 slave strike
 beating him
oswald help ho murder murder
 enter edmund with his rapier drawn cornwall
 regan gloucester and servants
edmund how now what's the matter
kent with you goodman boy an you please come i'll
 flesh ye come on young master
gloucester weapons arms what s the matter here
cornwall keep peace upon your lives
 he dies that strikes again what is the matter
regan the messengers from our sister and the king
cornwall what is your difference speak
oswald i am scarce in breath my lord
kent no marvel you have so bestirred your valour you
 cowardly rascal nature disclaims in thee a
 tailor made thee
cornwall thou art a strange fellow a tailor make a man
kent ay a tailor sir a stonecutter or painter could
 not have made him so ill though he had been but two
 hours at the trade
cornwall speak yet how grew your quarrel
oswald this ancient ruffian sir whose life i have spared
 at suit of his gray beard
kent thou whoreson zed thou unnecessary letter my
 lord if you will give me leave i will tread this
 unbolted villain into mortar and daub the wall of
 a jakes with him spare my gray beard you wagtail
cornwall peace sirrah
 you beastly knave know you no reverence
kent yes sir but anger hath a privilege
cornwall why art thou angry
kent that such a slave as this should wear a sword
 who wears no honesty such smiling rogues as these
 like rats oft bite the holy cords atwain
 which are too intrinse t unloose smooth every passion
 that in the natures of their lords rebel
 bring oil to fire snow to their colder moods
 renege affirm and turn their halcyon beaks
 with every gale and vary of their masters
 knowing nought like dogs but following
 a plague upon your epileptic visage
 smile you my speeches as i were a fool
 goose if i had you upon sarum plain
 i'ld drive ye cackling home to camelot
cornwall why art thou mad old fellow
gloucester how fell you out say that
kent no contraries hold more antipathy
 than i and such a knave
cornwall why dost thou call him a knave what's his offence
kent his countenance likes me not
cornwall no more perchance does mine nor his nor hers
kent sir tis my occupation to be plain
 i have seen better faces in my time
 than stands on any shoulder that i see
 before me at this instant
cornwall this is some fellow
 who having been praised for bluntness doth affect
 a saucy roughness and constrains the garb
 quite from his nature he cannot flatter he
 an honest mind and plain he must speak truth
 an they will take it so if not he's plain
 these kind of knaves i know which in this plainness
 harbour more craft and more corrupter ends
 than twenty silly ducking observants
 that stretch their duties nicely
kent sir in good sooth in sincere verity
 under the allowance of your great aspect
 whose influence like the wreath of radiant fire
 on flickering phoebus front
cornwall what mean'st by this
kent to go out of my dialect which you
 discommend so much i know sir i am no
 flatterer he that beguiled you in a plain
 accent was a plain knave which for my part
 i will not be though i should win your displeasure
 to entreat me to t
cornwall what was the offence you gave him
oswald i never gave him any
 it pleased the king his master very late
 to strike at me upon his misconstruction
 when he conjunct and flattering his displeasure
 tripp'd me behind being down insulted rail'd
 and put upon him such a deal of man
 that worthied him got praises of the king
 for him attempting who was selfsubdued
 and in the fleshment of this dread exploit
 drew on me here again
kent none of these rogues and cowards
 but ajax is their fool
cornwall fetch forth the stocks
 you stubborn ancient knave you reverend braggart
 we'll teach you
kent sir i am too old to learn
 call not your stocks for me i serve the king
 on whose employment i was sent to you
 you shall do small respect show too bold malice
 against the grace and person of my master
 stocking his messenger
cornwall fetch forth the stocks as i have life and honour
 there shall he sit till noon
regan till noon till night my lord and all night too
kent why madam if i were your father's dog
 you should not use me so
regan sir being his knave i will
cornwall this is a fellow of the selfsame colour
 our sister speaks of come bring away the stocks
 stocks brought out
gloucester let me beseech your grace not to do so
 his fault is much and the good king his master
 will cheque him for t your purposed low correction
 is such as basest and contemned'st wretches
 for pilferings and most common trespasses
 are punish'd with the king must take it ill
 that he's so slightly valued in his messenger
 should have him thus restrain'd
cornwall i'll answer that
regan my sister may receive it much more worse
 to have her gentleman abused assaulted
 for following her affairs put in his legs
 kent is put in the stocks
 come my good lord away
 exeunt all but gloucester and kent
gloucester i am sorry for thee friend tis the duke's pleasure
 whose disposition all the world well knows
 will not be rubb'd nor stopp'd i'll entreat for thee
kent pray do not sir i have watched and travell'd hard
 some time i shall sleep out the rest i'll whistle
 a good man's fortune may grow out at heels
 give you good morrow
gloucester the duke's to blame in this twill be ill taken
 exit
kent good king that must approve the common saw
 thou out of heaven's benediction comest
 to the warm sun
 approach thou beacon to this under globe
 that by thy comfortable beams i may
 peruse this letter nothing almost sees miracles
 but misery i know tis from cordelia
 who hath most fortunately been inform'd
 of my obscured course and shall find time
 from this enormous state seeking to give
 losses their remedies all weary and o'erwatch'd
 take vantage heavy eyes not to behold
 this shameful lodging
 fortune good night smile once more turn thy wheel
 sleeps
 king lear
act ii
scene iii a wood
 enter edgar
edgar i heard myself proclaim'd
 and by the happy hollow of a tree
 escaped the hunt no port is free no place
 that guard and most unusual vigilance
 does not attend my taking whiles i may scape
 i will preserve myself and am bethought
 to take the basest and most poorest shape
 that ever penury in contempt of man
 brought near to beast my face i'll grime with filth
 blanket my loins elf all my hair in knots
 and with presented nakedness outface
 the winds and persecutions of the sky
 the country gives me proof and precedent
 of bedlam beggars who with roaring voices
 strike in their numb'd and mortified bare arms
 pins wooden pricks nails sprigs of rosemary
 and with this horrible object from low farms
 poor pelting villages sheepcotes and mills
 sometime with lunatic bans sometime with prayers
 enforce their charity poor turlygod poor tom
 that's something yet edgar i nothing am
 exit
 king lear
act ii
scene iv before gloucester's castle kent in the stocks
 enter king lear fool and gentleman
king lear tis strange that they should so depart from home
 and not send back my messenger
gentleman as i learn'd
 the night before there was no purpose in them
 of this remove
kent hail to thee noble master
king lear ha
 makest thou this shame thy pastime
kent no my lord
fool ha ha he wears cruel garters horses are tied
 by the heads dogs and bears by the neck monkeys by
 the loins and men by the legs when a man's
 overlusty at legs then he wears wooden
 netherstocks
king lear what's he that hath so much thy place mistook
 to set thee here
kent it is both he and she
 your son and daughter
king lear no
kent yes
king lear no i say
kent i say yea
king lear no no they would not
kent yes they have
king lear by jupiter i swear no
kent by juno i swear ay
king lear they durst not do t
 they could not would not do t tis worse than murder
 to do upon respect such violent outrage
 resolve me with all modest haste which way
 thou mightst deserve or they impose this usage
 coming from us
kent my lord when at their home
 i did commend your highness letters to them
 ere i was risen from the place that show'd
 my duty kneeling came there a reeking post
 stew'd in his haste half breathless panting forth
 from goneril his mistress salutations
 deliver'd letters spite of intermission
 which presently they read on whose contents
 they summon'd up their meiny straight took horse
 commanded me to follow and attend
 the leisure of their answer gave me cold looks
 and meeting here the other messenger
 whose welcome i perceived had poison'd mine
 being the very fellow that of late
 display'd so saucily against your highness
 having more man than wit about me drew
 he raised the house with loud and coward cries
 your son and daughter found this trespass worth
 the shame which here it suffers
fool winter's not gone yet if the wildgeese fly that way
 fathers that wear rags
 do make their children blind
 but fathers that bear bags
 shall see their children kind
 fortune that arrant whore
 ne'er turns the key to the poor
 but for all this thou shalt have as many dolours
 for thy daughters as thou canst tell in a year
king lear o how this mother swells up toward my heart
 hysterica passio down thou climbing sorrow
 thy element's below where is this daughter
kent with the earl sir here within
king lear follow me not
 stay here
 exit
gentleman made you no more offence but what you speak of
kent none
 how chance the king comes with so small a train
fool and thou hadst been set i the stocks for that
 question thou hadst well deserved it
kent why fool
fool we'll set thee to school to an ant to teach thee
 there's no labouring i the winter all that follow
 their noses are led by their eyes but blind men and
 there's not a nose among twenty but can smell him
 that's stinking let go thy hold when a great wheel
 runs down a hill lest it break thy neck with
 following it but the great one that goes up the
 hill let him draw thee after when a wise man
 gives thee better counsel give me mine again i
 would have none but knaves follow it since a fool gives it
 that sir which serves and seeks for gain
 and follows but for form
 will pack when it begins to rain
 and leave thee in the storm
 but i will tarry the fool will stay
 and let the wise man fly
 the knave turns fool that runs away
 the fool no knave perdy
kent where learned you this fool
fool not i the stocks fool
 reenter king lear with gloucester
king lear deny to speak with me they are sick they are weary
 they have travell'd all the night mere fetches
 the images of revolt and flying off
 fetch me a better answer
gloucester my dear lord
 you know the fiery quality of the duke
 how unremoveable and fix'd he is
 in his own course
king lear vengeance plague death confusion
 fiery what quality why gloucester gloucester
 i'ld speak with the duke of cornwall and his wife
gloucester well my good lord i have inform'd them so
king lear inform'd them dost thou understand me man
gloucester ay my good lord
king lear the king would speak with cornwall the dear father
 would with his daughter speak commands her service
 are they inform'd of this my breath and blood
 fiery the fiery duke tell the hot duke that
 no but not yet may be he is not well
 infirmity doth still neglect all office
 whereto our health is bound we are not ourselves
 when nature being oppress'd commands the mind
 to suffer with the body i'll forbear
 and am fall'n out with my more headier will
 to take the indisposed and sickly fit
 for the sound man death on my state wherefore
 looking on kent
 should he sit here this act persuades me
 that this remotion of the duke and her
 is practise only give me my servant forth
 go tell the duke and s wife i'ld speak with them
 now presently bid them come forth and hear me
 or at their chamberdoor i'll beat the drum
 till it cry sleep to death
gloucester i would have all well betwixt you
 exit
king lear o me my heart my rising heart but down
fool cry to it nuncle as the cockney did to the eels
 when she put em i the paste alive she knapped em
 o the coxcombs with a stick and cried down
 wantons down twas her brother that in pure
 kindness to his horse buttered his hay
 enter cornwall regan gloucester and servants
king lear good morrow to you both
cornwall hail to your grace
 kent is set at liberty
regan i am glad to see your highness
king lear regan i think you are i know what reason
 i have to think so if thou shouldst not be glad
 i would divorce me from thy mother's tomb
 sepulchring an adultress
 to kent
 o are you free
 some other time for that beloved regan
 thy sister's naught o regan she hath tied
 sharptooth'd unkindness like a vulture here
 points to his heart
 i can scarce speak to thee thou'lt not believe
 with how depraved a qualityo regan
regan i pray you sir take patience i have hope
 you less know how to value her desert
 than she to scant her duty
king lear say how is that
regan i cannot think my sister in the least
 would fail her obligation if sir perchance
 she have restrain'd the riots of your followers
 tis on such ground and to such wholesome end
 as clears her from all blame
king lear my curses on her
regan o sir you are old
 nature in you stands on the very verge
 of her confine you should be ruled and led
 by some discretion that discerns your state
 better than you yourself therefore i pray you
 that to our sister you do make return
 say you have wrong'd her sir
king lear ask her forgiveness
 do you but mark how this becomes the house
 dear daughter i confess that i am old
 kneeling
 age is unnecessary on my knees i beg
 that you'll vouchsafe me raiment bed and food'
regan good sir no more these are unsightly tricks
 return you to my sister
king lear rising never regan
 she hath abated me of half my train
 look'd black upon me struck me with her tongue
 most serpentlike upon the very heart
 all the stored vengeances of heaven fall
 on her ingrateful top strike her young bones
 you taking airs with lameness
cornwall fie sir fie
king lear you nimble lightnings dart your blinding flames
 into her scornful eyes infect her beauty
 you fensuck'd fogs drawn by the powerful sun
 to fall and blast her pride
regan o the blest gods so will you wish on me
 when the rash mood is on
king lear no regan thou shalt never have my curse
 thy tenderhefted nature shall not give
 thee o'er to harshness her eyes are fierce but thine
 do comfort and not burn tis not in thee
 to grudge my pleasures to cut off my train
 to bandy hasty words to scant my sizes
 and in conclusion to oppose the bolt
 against my coming in thou better know'st
 the offices of nature bond of childhood
 effects of courtesy dues of gratitude
 thy half o the kingdom hast thou not forgot
 wherein i thee endow'd
regan good sir to the purpose
king lear who put my man i the stocks
 tucket within
cornwall what trumpet's that
regan i know't my sister's this approves her letter
 that she would soon be here
 enter oswald
 is your lady come
king lear this is a slave whose easyborrow'd pride
 dwells in the fickle grace of her he follows
 out varlet from my sight
cornwall what means your grace
king lear who stock'd my servant regan i have good hope
 thou didst not know on't who comes here o heavens
 enter goneril
 if you do love old men if your sweet sway
 allow obedience if yourselves are old
 make it your cause send down and take my part
 to goneril
 art not ashamed to look upon this beard
 o regan wilt thou take her by the hand
goneril why not by the hand sir how have i offended
 all's not offence that indiscretion finds
 and dotage terms so
king lear o sides you are too tough
 will you yet hold how came my man i the stocks
cornwall i set him there sir but his own disorders
 deserved much less advancement
king lear you did you
regan i pray you father being weak seem so
 if till the expiration of your month
 you will return and sojourn with my sister
 dismissing half your train come then to me
 i am now from home and out of that provision
 which shall be needful for your entertainment
king lear return to her and fifty men dismiss'd
 no rather i abjure all roofs and choose
 to wage against the enmity o the air
 to be a comrade with the wolf and owl
 necessity's sharp pinch return with her
 why the hotblooded france that dowerless took
 our youngest born i could as well be brought
 to knee his throne and squirelike pension beg
 to keep base life afoot return with her
 persuade me rather to be slave and sumpter
 to this detested groom
 pointing at oswald
goneril at your choice sir
king lear i prithee daughter do not make me mad
 i will not trouble thee my child farewell
 we'll no more meet no more see one another
 but yet thou art my flesh my blood my daughter
 or rather a disease that's in my flesh
 which i must needs call mine thou art a boil
 a plaguesore an embossed carbuncle
 in my corrupted blood but i'll not chide thee
 let shame come when it will i do not call it
 i do not bid the thunderbearer shoot
 nor tell tales of thee to highjudging jove
 mend when thou canst be better at thy leisure
 i can be patient i can stay with regan
 i and my hundred knights
regan not altogether so
 i look'd not for you yet nor am provided
 for your fit welcome give ear sir to my sister
 for those that mingle reason with your passion
 must be content to think you old and so
 but she knows what she does
king lear is this well spoken
regan i dare avouch it sir what fifty followers
 is it not well what should you need of more
 yea or so many sith that both charge and danger
 speak gainst so great a number how in one house
 should many people under two commands
 hold amity tis hard almost impossible
goneril why might not you my lord receive attendance
 from those that she calls servants or from mine
regan why not my lord if then they chanced to slack you
 we could control them if you will come to me
 for now i spy a dangeri entreat you
 to bring but five and twenty to no more
 will i give place or notice
king lear i gave you all
regan and in good time you gave it
king lear made you my guardians my depositaries
 but kept a reservation to be follow'd
 with such a number what must i come to you
 with five and twenty regan said you so
regan and speak't again my lord no more with me
king lear those wicked creatures yet do look wellfavour'd
 when others are more wicked not being the worst
 stands in some rank of praise
 to goneril
 i'll go with thee
 thy fifty yet doth double five and twenty
 and thou art twice her love
goneril hear me my lord
 what need you five and twenty ten or five
 to follow in a house where twice so many
 have a command to tend you
regan what need one
king lear o reason not the need our basest beggars
 are in the poorest thing superfluous
 allow not nature more than nature needs
 man's life's as cheap as beast's thou art a lady
 if only to go warm were gorgeous
 why nature needs not what thou gorgeous wear'st
 which scarcely keeps thee warm but for true need
 you heavens give me that patience patience i need
 you see me here you gods a poor old man
 as full of grief as age wretched in both
 if it be you that stir these daughters hearts
 against their father fool me not so much
 to bear it tamely touch me with noble anger
 and let not women's weapons waterdrops
 stain my man's cheeks no you unnatural hags
 i will have such revenges on you both
 that all the world shalli will do such things
 what they are yet i know not but they shall be
 the terrors of the earth you think i'll weep
 no i'll not weep
 i have full cause of weeping but this heart
 shall break into a hundred thousand flaws
 or ere i'll weep o fool i shall go mad
 exeunt king lear gloucester kent and fool
 storm and tempest
cornwall let us withdraw twill be a storm
regan this house is little the old man and his people
 cannot be well bestow'd
goneril tis his own blame hath put himself from rest
 and must needs taste his folly
regan for his particular i'll receive him gladly
 but not one follower
goneril so am i purposed
 where is my lord of gloucester
cornwall follow'd the old man forth he is return'd
 reenter gloucester
gloucester the king is in high rage
cornwall whither is he going
gloucester he calls to horse but will i know not whither
cornwall tis best to give him way he leads himself
goneril my lord entreat him by no means to stay
gloucester alack the night comes on and the bleak winds
 do sorely ruffle for many miles about
 there's scarce a bush
regan o sir to wilful men
 the injuries that they themselves procure
 must be their schoolmasters shut up your doors
 he is attended with a desperate train
 and what they may incense him to being apt
 to have his ear abused wisdom bids fear
cornwall shut up your doors my lord tis a wild night
 my regan counsels well come out o the storm
 exeunt
 king lear
act iii
scene i a heath
 storm still enter kent and a gentleman meeting
kent who's there besides foul weather
gentleman one minded like the weather most unquietly
kent i know you where's the king
gentleman contending with the fretful element
 bids the winds blow the earth into the sea
 or swell the curled water bove the main
 that things might change or cease tears his white hair
 which the impetuous blasts with eyeless rage
 catch in their fury and make nothing of
 strives in his little world of man to outscorn
 the toandfroconflicting wind and rain
 this night wherein the cubdrawn bear would couch
 the lion and the bellypinched wolf
 keep their fur dry unbonneted he runs
 and bids what will take all
kent but who is with him
gentleman none but the fool who labours to outjest
 his heartstruck injuries
kent sir i do know you
 and dare upon the warrant of my note
 commend a dear thing to you there is division
 although as yet the face of it be cover'd
 with mutual cunning twixt albany and cornwall
 who haveas who have not that their great stars
 throned and set highservants who seem no less
 which are to france the spies and speculations
 intelligent of our state what hath been seen
 either in snuffs and packings of the dukes
 or the hard rein which both of them have borne
 against the old kind king or something deeper
 whereof perchance these are but furnishings
 but true it is from france there comes a power
 into this scatter'd kingdom who already
 wise in our negligence have secret feet
 in some of our best ports and are at point
 to show their open banner now to you
 if on my credit you dare build so far
 to make your speed to dover you shall find
 some that will thank you making just report
 of how unnatural and bemadding sorrow
 the king hath cause to plain
 i am a gentleman of blood and breeding
 and from some knowledge and assurance offer
 this office to you
gentleman i will talk further with you
kent no do not
 for confirmation that i am much more
 than my outwall open this purse and take
 what it contains if you shall see cordelia
 as fear not but you shallshow her this ring
 and she will tell you who your fellow is
 that yet you do not know fie on this storm
 i will go seek the king
gentleman give me your hand have you no more to say
kent few words but to effect more than all yet
 that when we have found the kingin which your pain
 that way i'll thishe that first lights on him
 holla the other
 exeunt severally
 king lear
act iii
scene ii another part of the heath storm still
 enter king lear and fool
king lear blow winds and crack your cheeks rage blow
 you cataracts and hurricanoes spout
 till you have drench'd our steeples drown'd the cocks
 you sulphurous and thoughtexecuting fires
 vauntcouriers to oakcleaving thunderbolts
 singe my white head and thou allshaking thunder
 smite flat the thick rotundity o the world
 crack nature's moulds an germens spill at once
 that make ingrateful man
fool o nuncle court holywater in a dry
 house is better than this rainwater out o door
 good nuncle in and ask thy daughters blessing
 here's a night pities neither wise man nor fool
king lear rumble thy bellyful spit fire spout rain
 nor rain wind thunder fire are my daughters
 i tax not you you elements with unkindness
 i never gave you kingdom call'd you children
 you owe me no subscription then let fall
 your horrible pleasure here i stand your slave
 a poor infirm weak and despised old man
 but yet i call you servile ministers
 that have with two pernicious daughters join'd
 your high engender'd battles gainst a head
 so old and white as this o o tis foul
fool he that has a house to put's head in has a good
 headpiece
 the codpiece that will house
 before the head has any
 the head and he shall louse
 so beggars marry many
 the man that makes his toe
 what he his heart should make
 shall of a corn cry woe
 and turn his sleep to wake
 for there was never yet fair woman but she made
 mouths in a glass
king lear no i will be the pattern of all patience
 i will say nothing
 enter kent
kent who's there
fool marry here's grace and a codpiece that's a wise
 man and a fool
kent alas sir are you here things that love night
 love not such nights as these the wrathful skies
 gallow the very wanderers of the dark
 and make them keep their caves since i was man
 such sheets of fire such bursts of horrid thunder
 such groans of roaring wind and rain i never
 remember to have heard man's nature cannot carry
 the affliction nor the fear
king lear let the great gods
 that keep this dreadful pother o'er our heads
 find out their enemies now tremble thou wretch
 that hast within thee undivulged crimes
 unwhipp'd of justice hide thee thou bloody hand
 thou perjured and thou simular man of virtue
 that art incestuous caitiff to pieces shake
 that under covert and convenient seeming
 hast practised on man's life close pentup guilts
 rive your concealing continents and cry
 these dreadful summoners grace i am a man
 more sinn'd against than sinning
kent alack bareheaded
 gracious my lord hard by here is a hovel
 some friendship will it lend you gainst the tempest
 repose you there while i to this hard house
 more harder than the stones whereof tis raised
 which even but now demanding after you
 denied me to come inreturn and force
 their scanted courtesy
king lear my wits begin to turn
 come on my boy how dost my boy art cold
 i am cold myself where is this straw my fellow
 the art of our necessities is strange
 that can make vile things precious come
 your hovel
 poor fool and knave i have one part in my heart
 that's sorry yet for thee
fool singing
 he that has and a little tiny wit
 with hey ho the wind and the rain
 must make content with his fortunes fit
 for the rain it raineth every day
king lear true my good boy come bring us to this hovel
 exeunt king lear and kent
fool this is a brave night to cool a courtezan
 i'll speak a prophecy ere i go
 when priests are more in word than matter
 when brewers mar their malt with water
 when nobles are their tailors tutors
 no heretics burn'd but wenches suitors
 when every case in law is right
 no squire in debt nor no poor knight
 when slanders do not live in tongues
 nor cutpurses come not to throngs
 when usurers tell their gold i the field
 and bawds and whores do churches build
 then shall the realm of albion
 come to great confusion
 then comes the time who lives to see't
 that going shall be used with feet
 this prophecy merlin shall make for i live before his time
 exit
 king lear
act iii
scene iii gloucester's castle
 enter gloucester and edmund
gloucester alack alack edmund i like not this unnatural
 dealing when i desire their leave that i might
 pity him they took from me the use of mine own
 house charged me on pain of their perpetual
 displeasure neither to speak of him entreat for
 him nor any way sustain him
edmund most savage and unnatural
gloucester go to say you nothing there's a division betwixt
 the dukes and a worse matter than that i have
 received a letter this night tis dangerous to be
 spoken i have locked the letter in my closet
 these injuries the king now bears will be revenged
 home there's part of a power already footed we
 must incline to the king i will seek him and
 privily relieve him go you and maintain talk with
 the duke that my charity be not of him perceived
 if he ask for me i am ill and gone to bed
 though i die for it as no less is threatened me
 the king my old master must be relieved there is
 some strange thing toward edmund pray you be careful
 exit
edmund this courtesy forbid thee shall the duke
 instantly know and of that letter too
 this seems a fair deserving and must draw me
 that which my father loses no less than all
 the younger rises when the old doth fall
 exit
 king lear
act iii
scene iv the heath before a hovel
 enter king lear kent and fool
kent here is the place my lord good my lord enter
 the tyranny of the open night's too rough
 for nature to endure
 storm still
king lear let me alone
kent good my lord enter here
king lear wilt break my heart
kent i had rather break mine own good my lord enter
king lear thou think'st tis much that this contentious storm
 invades us to the skin so tis to thee
 but where the greater malady is fix'd
 the lesser is scarce felt thou'ldst shun a bear
 but if thy flight lay toward the raging sea
 thou'ldst meet the bear i the mouth when the
 mind's free
 the body's delicate the tempest in my mind
 doth from my senses take all feeling else
 save what beats there filial ingratitude
 is it not as this mouth should tear this hand
 for lifting food to't but i will punish home
 no i will weep no more in such a night
 to shut me out pour on i will endure
 in such a night as this o regan goneril
 your old kind father whose frank heart gave all
 o that way madness lies let me shun that
 no more of that
kent good my lord enter here
king lear prithee go in thyself seek thine own ease
 this tempest will not give me leave to ponder
 on things would hurt me more but i'll go in
 to the fool
 in boy go first you houseless poverty
 nay get thee in i'll pray and then i'll sleep
 fool goes in
 poor naked wretches whereso'er you are
 that bide the pelting of this pitiless storm
 how shall your houseless heads and unfed sides
 your loop'd and window'd raggedness defend you
 from seasons such as these o i have ta'en
 too little care of this take physic pomp
 expose thyself to feel what wretches feel
 that thou mayst shake the superflux to them
 and show the heavens more just
edgar within fathom and half fathom and half poor tom
 the fool runs out from the hovel
fool come not in here nuncle here's a spirit
 help me help me
kent give me thy hand who's there
fool a spirit a spirit he says his name's poor tom
kent what art thou that dost grumble there i the straw
 come forth
 enter edgar disguised as a mad man
edgar away the foul fiend follows me
 through the sharp hawthorn blows the cold wind
 hum go to thy cold bed and warm thee
king lear hast thou given all to thy two daughters
 and art thou come to this
edgar who gives any thing to poor tom whom the foul
 fiend hath led through fire and through flame and
 through ford and whirlipool e'er bog and quagmire
 that hath laid knives under his pillow and halters
 in his pew set ratsbane by his porridge made film
 proud of heart to ride on a bay trottinghorse over
 fourinched bridges to course his own shadow for a
 traitor bless thy five wits tom's acoldo do
 de do de do de bless thee from whirlwinds
 starblasting and taking do poor tom some
 charity whom the foul fiend vexes there could i
 have him nowand thereand there again and there
 storm still
king lear what have his daughters brought him to this pass
 couldst thou save nothing didst thou give them all
fool nay he reserved a blanket else we had been all shamed
king lear now all the plagues that in the pendulous air
 hang fated o'er men's faults light on thy daughters
kent he hath no daughters sir
king lear death traitor nothing could have subdued nature
 to such a lowness but his unkind daughters
 is it the fashion that discarded fathers
 should have thus little mercy on their flesh
 judicious punishment twas this flesh begot
 those pelican daughters
edgar pillicock sat on pillicockhill
 halloo halloo loo loo
fool this cold night will turn us all to fools and madmen
edgar take heed o the foul fiend obey thy parents
 keep thy word justly swear not commit not with
 man's sworn spouse set not thy sweet heart on proud
 array tom's acold
king lear what hast thou been
edgar a servingman proud in heart and mind that curled
 my hair wore gloves in my cap served the lust of
 my mistress heart and did the act of darkness with
 her swore as many oaths as i spake words and
 broke them in the sweet face of heaven one that
 slept in the contriving of lust and waked to do it
 wine loved i deeply dice dearly and in woman
 outparamoured the turk false of heart light of
 ear bloody of hand hog in sloth fox in stealth
 wolf in greediness dog in madness lion in prey
 let not the creaking of shoes nor the rustling of
 silks betray thy poor heart to woman keep thy foot
 out of brothels thy hand out of plackets thy pen
 from lenders books and defy the foul fiend
 still through the hawthorn blows the cold wind
 says suum mun ha no nonny
 dolphin my boy my boy sessa let him trot by
 storm still
king lear why thou wert better in thy grave than to answer
 with thy uncovered body this extremity of the skies
 is man no more than this consider him well thou
 owest the worm no silk the beast no hide the sheep
 no wool the cat no perfume ha here's three on
 s are sophisticated thou art the thing itself
 unaccommodated man is no more but such a poor bare
 forked animal as thou art off off you lendings
 come unbutton here
 tearing off his clothes
fool prithee nuncle be contented tis a naughty night
 to swim in now a little fire in a wild field were
 like an old lecher's heart a small spark all the
 rest on's body cold look here comes a walking fire
 enter gloucester with a torch
edgar this is the foul fiend flibbertigibbet he begins
 at curfew and walks till the first cock he gives
 the web and the pin squints the eye and makes the
 harelip mildews the white wheat and hurts the
 poor creature of earth
 s withold footed thrice the old
 he met the nightmare and her ninefold
 bid her alight
 and her troth plight
 and aroint thee witch aroint thee
kent how fares your grace
king lear what's he
kent who's there what is't you seek
gloucester what are you there your names
edgar poor tom that eats the swimming frog the toad
 the tadpole the wallnewt and the water that in
 the fury of his heart when the foul fiend rages
 eats cowdung for sallets swallows the old rat and
 the ditchdog drinks the green mantle of the
 standing pool who is whipped from tithing to
 tithing and stock punished and imprisoned who
 hath had three suits to his back six shirts to his
 body horse to ride and weapon to wear
 but mice and rats and such small deer
 have been tom's food for seven long year
 beware my follower peace smulkin peace thou fiend
gloucester what hath your grace no better company
edgar the prince of darkness is a gentleman
 modo he's call'd and mahu
gloucester our flesh and blood is grown so vile my lord
 that it doth hate what gets it
edgar poor tom's acold
gloucester go in with me my duty cannot suffer
 to obey in all your daughters hard commands
 though their injunction be to bar my doors
 and let this tyrannous night take hold upon you
 yet have i ventured to come seek you out
 and bring you where both fire and food is ready
king lear first let me talk with this philosopher
 what is the cause of thunder
kent good my lord take his offer go into the house
king lear i'll talk a word with this same learned theban
 what is your study
edgar how to prevent the fiend and to kill vermin
king lear let me ask you one word in private
kent importune him once more to go my lord
 his wits begin to unsettle
gloucester canst thou blame him
 storm still
 his daughters seek his death ah that good kent
 he said it would be thus poor banish'd man
 thou say'st the king grows mad i'll tell thee friend
 i am almost mad myself i had a son
 now outlaw'd from my blood he sought my life
 but lately very late i loved him friend
 no father his son dearer truth to tell thee
 the grief hath crazed my wits what a night's this
 i do beseech your grace
king lear o cry your mercy sir
 noble philosopher your company
edgar tom's acold
gloucester in fellow there into the hovel keep thee warm
king lear come let's in all
kent this way my lord
king lear with him
 i will keep still with my philosopher
kent good my lord soothe him let him take the fellow
gloucester take him you on
kent sirrah come on go along with us
king lear come good athenian
gloucester no words no words hush
edgar child rowland to the dark tower came
 his word was stillfie foh and fum
 i smell the blood of a british man
 exeunt
 king lear
act iii
scene v gloucester's castle
 enter cornwall and edmund
cornwall i will have my revenge ere i depart his house
edmund how my lord i may be censured that nature thus
 gives way to loyalty something fears me to think
 of
cornwall i now perceive it was not altogether your
 brother's evil disposition made him seek his death
 but a provoking merit set awork by a reprovable
 badness in himself
edmund how malicious is my fortune that i must repent to
 be just this is the letter he spoke of which
 approves him an intelligent party to the advantages
 of france o heavens that this treason were not
 or not i the detector
cornwall o with me to the duchess
edmund if the matter of this paper be certain you have
 mighty business in hand
cornwall true or false it hath made thee earl of
 gloucester seek out where thy father is that he
 may be ready for our apprehension
edmund aside if i find him comforting the king it will
 stuff his suspicion more fullyi will persevere in
 my course of loyalty though the conflict be sore
 between that and my blood
cornwall i will lay trust upon thee and thou shalt find a
 dearer father in my love
 exeunt
 king lear
act iii
scene vi a chamber in a farmhouse adjoining the castle
 enter gloucester king lear kent fool and edgar
gloucester here is better than the open air take it
 thankfully i will piece out the comfort with what
 addition i can i will not be long from you
kent all the power of his wits have given way to his
 impatience the gods reward your kindness
 exit gloucester
edgar frateretto calls me and tells me
 nero is an angler in the lake of darkness
 pray innocent and beware the foul fiend
fool prithee nuncle tell me whether a madman be a
 gentleman or a yeoman
king lear a king a king
fool no he's a yeoman that has a gentleman to his son
 for he's a mad yeoman that sees his son a gentleman
 before him
king lear to have a thousand with red burning spits
 come hissing in upon em
edgar the foul fiend bites my back
fool he's mad that trusts in the tameness of a wolf a
 horse's health a boy's love or a whore's oath
king lear it shall be done i will arraign them straight
 to edgar
 come sit thou here most learned justicer
 to the fool
 thou sapient sir sit here now you she foxes
edgar look where he stands and glares
 wantest thou eyes at trial madam
 come o'er the bourn bessy to me
fool her boat hath a leak
 and she must not speak
 why she dares not come over to thee
edgar the foul fiend haunts poor tom in the voice of a
 nightingale hopdance cries in tom's belly for two
 white herring croak not black angel i have no
 food for thee
kent how do you sir stand you not so amazed
 will you lie down and rest upon the cushions
king lear i'll see their trial first bring in the evidence
 to edgar
 thou robed man of justice take thy place
 to the fool
 and thou his yokefellow of equity
 bench by his side
 to kent
 you are o the commission
 sit you too
edgar let us deal justly
 sleepest or wakest thou jolly shepherd
 thy sheep be in the corn
 and for one blast of thy minikin mouth
 thy sheep shall take no harm
 pur the cat is gray
king lear arraign her first tis goneril i here take my
 oath before this honourable assembly she kicked the
 poor king her father
fool come hither mistress is your name goneril
king lear she cannot deny it
fool cry you mercy i took you for a jointstool
king lear and here's another whose warp'd looks proclaim
 what store her heart is made on stop her there
 arms arms sword fire corruption in the place
 false justicer why hast thou let her scape
edgar bless thy five wits
kent o pity sir where is the patience now
 that thou so oft have boasted to retain
edgar aside my tears begin to take his part so much
 they'll mar my counterfeiting
king lear the little dogs and all tray blanch and
 sweetheart see they bark at me
edgar tom will throw his head at them avaunt you curs
 be thy mouth or black or white
 tooth that poisons if it bite
 mastiff greyhound mongrel grim
 hound or spaniel brach or lym
 or bobtail tike or trundletail
 tom will make them weep and wail
 for with throwing thus my head
 dogs leap the hatch and all are fled
 do de de de sessa come march to wakes and
 fairs and markettowns poor tom thy horn is dry
king lear then let them anatomize regan see what breeds
 about her heart is there any cause in nature that
 makes these hard hearts
 to edgar
 you sir i entertain for one of my hundred only i
 do not like the fashion of your garments you will
 say they are persian attire but let them be changed
kent now good my lord lie here and rest awhile
king lear make no noise make no noise draw the curtains
 so so so we'll go to supper i he morning so so so
fool and i'll go to bed at noon
 reenter gloucester
gloucester come hither friend where is the king my master
kent here sir but trouble him not his wits are gone
gloucester good friend i prithee take him in thy arms
 i have o'erheard a plot of death upon him
 there is a litter ready lay him in t
 and drive towards dover friend where thou shalt meet
 both welcome and protection take up thy master
 if thou shouldst dally half an hour his life
 with thine and all that offer to defend him
 stand in assured loss take up take up
 and follow me that will to some provision
 give thee quick conduct
kent oppressed nature sleeps
 this rest might yet have balm'd thy broken senses
 which if convenience will not allow
 stand in hard cure
 to the fool
 come help to bear thy master
 thou must not stay behind
gloucester come come away
 exeunt all but edgar
edgar when we our betters see bearing our woes
 we scarcely think our miseries our foes
 who alone suffers suffers most i the mind
 leaving free things and happy shows behind
 but then the mind much sufferance doth o'er skip
 when grief hath mates and bearing fellowship
 how light and portable my pain seems now
 when that which makes me bend makes the king bow
 he childed as i father'd tom away
 mark the high noises and thyself bewray
 when false opinion whose wrong thought defiles thee
 in thy just proof repeals and reconciles thee
 what will hap more tonight safe scape the king
 lurk lurk
 exit
 king lear
act iii
scene vii gloucester's castle
 enter cornwall regan goneril edmund and servants
cornwall post speedily to my lord your husband show him
 this letter the army of france is landed seek
 out the villain gloucester
 exeunt some of the servants
regan hang him instantly
goneril pluck out his eyes
cornwall leave him to my displeasure edmund keep you our
 sister company the revenges we are bound to take
 upon your traitorous father are not fit for your
 beholding advise the duke where you are going to
 a most festinate preparation we are bound to the
 like our posts shall be swift and intelligent
 betwixt us farewell dear sister farewell my
 lord of gloucester
 enter oswald
 how now where's the king
oswald my lord of gloucester hath convey'd him hence
 some five or six and thirty of his knights
 hot questrists after him met him at gate
 who with some other of the lords dependants
 are gone with him towards dover where they boast
 to have wellarmed friends
cornwall get horses for your mistress
goneril farewell sweet lord and sister
cornwall edmund farewell
 exeunt goneril edmund and oswald
 go seek the traitor gloucester
 pinion him like a thief bring him before us
 exeunt other servants
 though well we may not pass upon his life
 without the form of justice yet our power
 shall do a courtesy to our wrath which men
 may blame but not control who's there the traitor
 enter gloucester brought in by two or three
regan ingrateful fox tis he
cornwall bind fast his corky arms
gloucester what mean your graces good my friends consider
 you are my guests do me no foul play friends
cornwall bind him i say
 servants bind him
regan hard hard o filthy traitor
gloucester unmerciful lady as you are i'm none
cornwall to this chair bind him villain thou shalt find
 regan plucks his beard
gloucester by the kind gods tis most ignobly done
 to pluck me by the beard
regan so white and such a traitor
gloucester naughty lady
 these hairs which thou dost ravish from my chin
 will quicken and accuse thee i am your host
 with robbers hands my hospitable favours
 you should not ruffle thus what will you do
cornwall come sir what letters had you late from france
regan be simple answerer for we know the truth
cornwall and what confederacy have you with the traitors
 late footed in the kingdom
regan to whose hands have you sent the lunatic king speak
gloucester i have a letter guessingly set down
 which came from one that's of a neutral heart
 and not from one opposed
cornwall cunning
regan and false
cornwall where hast thou sent the king
gloucester to dover
regan wherefore to dover wast thou not charged at peril
cornwall wherefore to dover let him first answer that
gloucester i am tied to the stake and i must stand the course
regan wherefore to dover sir
gloucester because i would not see thy cruel nails
 pluck out his poor old eyes nor thy fierce sister
 in his anointed flesh stick boarish fangs
 the sea with such a storm as his bare head
 in hellblack night endured would have buoy'd up
 and quench'd the stelled fires
 yet poor old heart he holp the heavens to rain
 if wolves had at thy gate howl'd that stern time
 thou shouldst have said good porter turn the key'
 all cruels else subscribed but i shall see
 the winged vengeance overtake such children
cornwall see't shalt thou never fellows hold the chair
 upon these eyes of thine i'll set my foot
gloucester he that will think to live till he be old
 give me some help o cruel o you gods
regan one side will mock another the other too
cornwall if you see vengeance
first servant hold your hand my lord
 i have served you ever since i was a child
 but better service have i never done you
 than now to bid you hold
regan how now you dog
first servant if you did wear a beard upon your chin
 i'd shake it on this quarrel what do you mean
cornwall my villain
 they draw and fight
first servant nay then come on and take the chance of anger
regan give me thy sword a peasant stand up thus
 takes a sword and runs at him behind
first servant o i am slain my lord you have one eye left
 to see some mischief on him o
 dies
cornwall lest it see more prevent it out vile jelly
 where is thy lustre now
gloucester all dark and comfortless where's my son edmund
 edmund enkindle all the sparks of nature
 to quit this horrid act
regan out treacherous villain
 thou call'st on him that hates thee it was he
 that made the overture of thy treasons to us
 who is too good to pity thee
gloucester o my follies then edgar was abused
 kind gods forgive me that and prosper him
regan go thrust him out at gates and let him smell
 his way to dover
 exit one with gloucester
 how is't my lord how look you
cornwall i have received a hurt follow me lady
 turn out that eyeless villain throw this slave
 upon the dunghill regan i bleed apace
 untimely comes this hurt give me your arm
 exit cornwall led by regan
second servant i'll never care what wickedness i do
 if this man come to good
third servant if she live long
 and in the end meet the old course of death
 women will all turn monsters
second servant let's follow the old earl and get the bedlam
 to lead him where he would his roguish madness
 allows itself to any thing
third servant go thou i'll fetch some flax and whites of eggs
 to apply to his bleeding face now heaven help him
 exeunt severally
 king lear
act iv
scene i the heath
 enter edgar
edgar yet better thus and known to be contemn'd
 than still contemn'd and flatter'd to be worst
 the lowest and most dejected thing of fortune
 stands still in esperance lives not in fear
 the lamentable change is from the best
 the worst returns to laughter welcome then
 thou unsubstantial air that i embrace
 the wretch that thou hast blown unto the worst
 owes nothing to thy blasts but who comes here
 enter gloucester led by an old man
 my father poorly led world world o world
 but that thy strange mutations make us hate thee
 lie would not yield to age
old man o my good lord i have been your tenant and
 your father's tenant these fourscore years
gloucester away get thee away good friend be gone
 thy comforts can do me no good at all
 thee they may hurt
old man alack sir you cannot see your way
gloucester i have no way and therefore want no eyes
 i stumbled when i saw full oft tis seen
 our means secure us and our mere defects
 prove our commodities o dear son edgar
 the food of thy abused father's wrath
 might i but live to see thee in my touch
 i'ld say i had eyes again
old man how now who's there
edgar aside o gods who is't can say i am at
 the worst'
 i am worse than e'er i was
old man tis poor mad tom
edgar aside and worse i may be yet the worst is not
 so long as we can say this is the worst'
old man fellow where goest
gloucester is it a beggarman
old man madman and beggar too
gloucester he has some reason else he could not beg
 i the last night's storm i such a fellow saw
 which made me think a man a worm my son
 came then into my mind and yet my mind
 was then scarce friends with him i have heard
 more since
 as flies to wanton boys are we to the gods
 they kill us for their sport
edgar aside how should this be
 bad is the trade that must play fool to sorrow
 angering itself and othersbless thee master
gloucester is that the naked fellow
old man ay my lord
gloucester then prithee get thee gone if for my sake
 thou wilt o'ertake us hence a mile or twain
 i the way toward dover do it for ancient love
 and bring some covering for this naked soul
 who i'll entreat to lead me
old man alack sir he is mad
gloucester tis the times plague when madmen lead the blind
 do as i bid thee or rather do thy pleasure
 above the rest be gone
old man i'll bring him the best parel that i have
 come on't what will
 exit
gloucester sirrah naked fellow
edgar poor tom's acold
 aside
 i cannot daub it further
gloucester come hither fellow
edgar aside and yet i mustbless thy sweet eyes they bleed
gloucester know'st thou the way to dover
edgar both stile and gate horseway and footpath poor
 tom hath been scared out of his good wits bless
 thee good man's son from the foul fiend five
 fiends have been in poor tom at once of lust as
 obidicut hobbididence prince of dumbness mahu of
 stealing modo of murder flibbertigibbet of
 mopping and mowing who since possesses chambermaids
 and waitingwomen so bless thee master
gloucester here take this purse thou whom the heavens plagues
 have humbled to all strokes that i am wretched
 makes thee the happier heavens deal so still
 let the superfluous and lustdieted man
 that slaves your ordinance that will not see
 because he doth not feel feel your power quickly
 so distribution should undo excess
 and each man have enough dost thou know dover
edgar ay master
gloucester there is a cliff whose high and bending head
 looks fearfully in the confined deep
 bring me but to the very brim of it
 and i'll repair the misery thou dost bear
 with something rich about me from that place
 i shall no leading need
edgar give me thy arm
 poor tom shall lead thee
 exeunt
 king lear
act iv
scene ii before albany's palace
 enter goneril and edmund
goneril welcome my lord i marvel our mild husband
 not met us on the way
 enter oswald
 now where's your master'
oswald madam within but never man so changed
 i told him of the army that was landed
 he smiled at it i told him you were coming
 his answer was the worse of gloucester's treachery
 and of the loyal service of his son
 when i inform'd him then he call'd me sot
 and told me i had turn'd the wrong side out
 what most he should dislike seems pleasant to him
 what like offensive
goneril to edmund then shall you go no further
 it is the cowish terror of his spirit
 that dares not undertake he'll not feel wrongs
 which tie him to an answer our wishes on the way
 may prove effects back edmund to my brother
 hasten his musters and conduct his powers
 i must change arms at home and give the distaff
 into my husband's hands this trusty servant
 shall pass between us ere long you are like to hear
 if you dare venture in your own behalf
 a mistress's command wear this spare speech
 giving a favour
 decline your head this kiss if it durst speak
 would stretch thy spirits up into the air
 conceive and fare thee well
edmund yours in the ranks of death
goneril my most dear gloucester
 exit edmund
 o the difference of man and man
 to thee a woman's services are due
 my fool usurps my body
oswald madam here comes my lord
 exit
 enter albany
goneril i have been worth the whistle
albany o goneril
 you are not worth the dust which the rude wind
 blows in your face i fear your disposition
 that nature which contemns its origin
 cannot be border'd certain in itself
 she that herself will sliver and disbranch
 from her material sap perforce must wither
 and come to deadly use
goneril no more the text is foolish
albany wisdom and goodness to the vile seem vile
 filths savour but themselves what have you done
 tigers not daughters what have you perform'd
 a father and a gracious aged man
 whose reverence even the headlugg'd bear would lick
 most barbarous most degenerate have you madded
 could my good brother suffer you to do it
 a man a prince by him so benefited
 if that the heavens do not their visible spirits
 send quickly down to tame these vile offences
 it will come
 humanity must perforce prey on itself
 like monsters of the deep
goneril milkliver'd man
 that bear'st a cheek for blows a head for wrongs
 who hast not in thy brows an eye discerning
 thine honour from thy suffering that not know'st
 fools do those villains pity who are punish'd
 ere they have done their mischief where's thy drum
 france spreads his banners in our noiseless land
 with plumed helm thy slayer begins threats
 whiles thou a moral fool sit'st still and criest
 alack why does he so'
albany see thyself devil
 proper deformity seems not in the fiend
 so horrid as in woman
goneril o vain fool
albany thou changed and selfcover'd thing for shame
 bemonster not thy feature were't my fitness
 to let these hands obey my blood
 they are apt enough to dislocate and tear
 thy flesh and bones howe'er thou art a fiend
 a woman's shape doth shield thee
goneril marry your manhood now
 enter a messenger
albany what news
messenger o my good lord the duke of cornwall's dead
 slain by his servant going to put out
 the other eye of gloucester
albany gloucester's eye
messenger a servant that he bred thrill'd with remorse
 opposed against the act bending his sword
 to his great master who thereat enraged
 flew on him and amongst them fell'd him dead
 but not without that harmful stroke which since
 hath pluck'd him after
albany this shows you are above
 you justicers that these our nether crimes
 so speedily can venge but o poor gloucester
 lost he his other eye
messenger both both my lord
 this letter madam craves a speedy answer
 tis from your sister
goneril aside one way i like this well
 but being widow and my gloucester with her
 may all the building in my fancy pluck
 upon my hateful life another way
 the news is not so tarti'll read and answer
 exit
albany where was his son when they did take his eyes
messenger come with my lady hither
albany he is not here
messenger no my good lord i met him back again
albany knows he the wickedness
messenger ay my good lord twas he inform'd against him
 and quit the house on purpose that their punishment
 might have the freer course
albany gloucester i live
 to thank thee for the love thou show'dst the king
 and to revenge thine eyes come hither friend
 tell me what more thou know'st
 exeunt
 king lear
act iv
scene iii the french camp near dover
 enter kent and a gentleman
kent why the king of france is so suddenly gone back
 know you the reason
gentleman something he left imperfect in the
 state which since his coming forth is thought
 of which imports to the kingdom so much
 fear and danger that his personal return was
 most required and necessary
kent who hath he left behind him general
gentleman the marshal of france monsieur la far
kent did your letters pierce the queen to any
 demonstration of grief
gentleman ay sir she took them read them in my presence
 and now and then an ample tear trill'd down
 her delicate cheek it seem'd she was a queen
 over her passion who most rebellike
 sought to be king o'er her
kent o then it moved her
gentleman not to a rage patience and sorrow strove
 who should express her goodliest you have seen
 sunshine and rain at once her smiles and tears
 were like a better way those happy smilets
 that play'd on her ripe lip seem'd not to know
 what guests were in her eyes which parted thence
 as pearls from diamonds dropp'd in brief
 sorrow would be a rarity most beloved
 if all could so become it
kent made she no verbal question
gentleman faith once or twice she heaved the name of father'
 pantingly forth as if it press'd her heart
 cried sisters sisters shame of ladies sisters
 kent father sisters what i the storm i the night
 let pity not be believed there she shook
 the holy water from her heavenly eyes
 and clamour moisten'd then away she started
 to deal with grief alone
kent it is the stars
 the stars above us govern our conditions
 else one self mate and mate could not beget
 such different issues you spoke not with her since
gentleman no
kent was this before the king return'd
gentleman no since
kent well sir the poor distressed lear's i the town
 who sometime in his better tune remembers
 what we are come about and by no means
 will yield to see his daughter
gentleman why good sir
kent a sovereign shame so elbows him his own unkindness
 that stripp'd her from his benediction turn'd her
 to foreign casualties gave her dear rights
 to his doghearted daughters these things sting
 his mind so venomously that burning shame
 detains him from cordelia
gentleman alack poor gentleman
kent of albany's and cornwall's powers you heard not
gentleman tis so they are afoot
kent well sir i'll bring you to our master lear
 and leave you to attend him some dear cause
 will in concealment wrap me up awhile
 when i am known aright you shall not grieve
 lending me this acquaintance i pray you go
 along with me
 exeunt
 king lear
act iv
scene iv the same a tent
 enter with drum and colours cordelia doctor and soldiers
cordelia alack tis he why he was met even now
 as mad as the vex'd sea singing aloud
 crown'd with rank fumiter and furrowweeds
 with burdocks hemlock nettles cuckooflowers
 darnel and all the idle weeds that grow
 in our sustaining corn a century send forth
 search every acre in the highgrown field
 and bring him to our eye
 exit an officer
 what can man's wisdom
 in the restoring his bereaved sense
 he that helps him take all my outward worth
doctor there is means madam
 our fosternurse of nature is repose
 the which he lacks that to provoke in him
 are many simples operative whose power
 will close the eye of anguish
cordelia all blest secrets
 all you unpublish'd virtues of the earth
 spring with my tears be aidant and remediate
 in the good man's distress seek seek for him
 lest his ungovern'd rage dissolve the life
 that wants the means to lead it
 enter a messenger
messenger news madam
 the british powers are marching hitherward
cordelia tis known before our preparation stands
 in expectation of them o dear father
 it is thy business that i go about
 therefore great france
 my mourning and important tears hath pitied
 no blown ambition doth our arms incite
 but love dear love and our aged father's right
 soon may i hear and see him
 exeunt
 king lear
act iv
scene v gloucester's castle
 enter regan and oswald
regan but are my brother's powers set forth
oswald ay madam
regan himself in person there
oswald madam with much ado
 your sister is the better soldier
regan lord edmund spake not with your lord at home
oswald no madam
regan what might import my sister's letter to him
oswald i know not lady
regan faith he is posted hence on serious matter
 it was great ignorance gloucester's eyes being out
 to let him live where he arrives he moves
 all hearts against us edmund i think is gone
 in pity of his misery to dispatch
 his nighted life moreover to descry
 the strength o the enemy
oswald i must needs after him madam with my letter
regan our troops set forth tomorrow stay with us
 the ways are dangerous
oswald i may not madam
 my lady charged my duty in this business
regan why should she write to edmund might not you
 transport her purposes by word belike
 somethingi know not what i'll love thee much
 let me unseal the letter
oswald madam i had rather
regan i know your lady does not love her husband
 i am sure of that and at her late being here
 she gave strange oeillades and most speaking looks
 to noble edmund i know you are of her bosom
oswald i madam
regan i speak in understanding you are i know't
 therefore i do advise you take this note
 my lord is dead edmund and i have talk'd
 and more convenient is he for my hand
 than for your lady's you may gather more
 if you do find him pray you give him this
 and when your mistress hears thus much from you
 i pray desire her call her wisdom to her
 so fare you well
 if you do chance to hear of that blind traitor
 preferment falls on him that cuts him off
oswald would i could meet him madam i should show
 what party i do follow
regan fare thee well
 exeunt
 king lear
act iv
scene vi fields near dover
 enter gloucester and edgar dressed like a peasant
gloucester when shall we come to the top of that same hill
edgar you do climb up it now look how we labour
gloucester methinks the ground is even
edgar horrible steep
 hark do you hear the sea
gloucester no truly
edgar why then your other senses grow imperfect
 by your eyes anguish
gloucester so may it be indeed
 methinks thy voice is alter'd and thou speak'st
 in better phrase and matter than thou didst
edgar you're much deceived in nothing am i changed
 but in my garments
gloucester methinks you're better spoken
edgar come on sir here's the place stand still how fearful
 and dizzy tis to cast one's eyes so low
 the crows and choughs that wing the midway air
 show scarce so gross as beetles half way down
 hangs one that gathers samphire dreadful trade
 methinks he seems no bigger than his head
 the fishermen that walk upon the beach
 appear like mice and yond tall anchoring bark
 diminish'd to her cock her cock a buoy
 almost too small for sight the murmuring surge
 that on the unnumber'd idle pebbles chafes
 cannot be heard so high i'll look no more
 lest my brain turn and the deficient sight
 topple down headlong
gloucester set me where you stand
edgar give me your hand you are now within a foot
 of the extreme verge for all beneath the moon
 would i not leap upright
gloucester let go my hand
 here friend s another purse in it a jewel
 well worth a poor man's taking fairies and gods
 prosper it with thee go thou farther off
 bid me farewell and let me hear thee going
edgar now fare you well good sir
gloucester with all my heart
edgar why i do trifle thus with his despair
 is done to cure it
gloucester kneeling o you mighty gods
 this world i do renounce and in your sights
 shake patiently my great affliction off
 if i could bear it longer and not fall
 to quarrel with your great opposeless wills
 my snuff and loathed part of nature should
 burn itself out if edgar live o bless him
 now fellow fare thee well
 he falls forward
edgar gone sir farewell
 and yet i know not how conceit may rob
 the treasury of life when life itself
 yields to the theft had he been where he thought
 by this had thought been past alive or dead
 ho you sir friend hear you sir speak
 thus might he pass indeed yet he revives
 what are you sir
gloucester away and let me die
edgar hadst thou been aught but gossamer feathers air
 so many fathom down precipitating
 thou'dst shiver'd like an egg but thou dost breathe
 hast heavy substance bleed'st not speak'st art sound
 ten masts at each make not the altitude
 which thou hast perpendicularly fell
 thy life's a miracle speak yet again
gloucester but have i fall'n or no
edgar from the dread summit of this chalky bourn
 look up aheight the shrillgorged lark so far
 cannot be seen or heard do but look up
gloucester alack i have no eyes
 is wretchedness deprived that benefit
 to end itself by death twas yet some comfort
 when misery could beguile the tyrant's rage
 and frustrate his proud will
edgar give me your arm
 up so how is t feel you your legs you stand
gloucester too well too well
edgar this is above all strangeness
 upon the crown o the cliff what thing was that
 which parted from you
gloucester a poor unfortunate beggar
edgar as i stood here below methought his eyes
 were two full moons he had a thousand noses
 horns whelk'd and waved like the enridged sea
 it was some fiend therefore thou happy father
 think that the clearest gods who make them honours
 of men's impossibilities have preserved thee
gloucester i do remember now henceforth i'll bear
 affliction till it do cry out itself
 enough enough and die that thing you speak of
 i took it for a man often twould say
 the fiend the fiend he led me to that place
edgar bear free and patient thoughts but who comes here
 enter king lear fantastically dressed with wild flowers
 the safer sense will ne'er accommodate
 his master thus
king lear no they cannot touch me for coining i am the
 king himself
edgar o thou sidepiercing sight
king lear nature's above art in that respect there's your
 pressmoney that fellow handles his bow like a
 crowkeeper draw me a clothier's yard look
 look a mouse peace peace this piece of toasted
 cheese will do t there's my gauntlet i'll prove
 it on a giant bring up the brown bills o well
 flown bird i the clout i the clout hewgh
 give the word
edgar sweet marjoram
king lear pass
gloucester i know that voice
king lear ha goneril with a white beard they flattered
 me like a dog and told me i had white hairs in my
 beard ere the black ones were there to say ay'
 and no to every thing that i said'ay and no'
 too was no good divinity when the rain came to
 wet me once and the wind to make me chatter when
 the thunder would not peace at my bidding there i
 found em there i smelt em out go to they are
 not men o their words they told me i was every
 thing tis a lie i am not agueproof
gloucester the trick of that voice i do well remember
 is t not the king
king lear ay every inch a king
 when i do stare see how the subject quakes
 i pardon that man's life what was thy cause adultery
 thou shalt not die die for adultery no
 the wren goes to t and the small gilded fly
 does lecher in my sight
 let copulation thrive for gloucester's bastard son
 was kinder to his father than my daughters
 got tween the lawful sheets
 to t luxury pellmell for i lack soldiers
 behold yond simpering dame
 whose face between her forks presages snow
 that minces virtue and does shake the head
 to hear of pleasure's name
 the fitchew nor the soiled horse goes to t
 with a more riotous appetite
 down from the waist they are centaurs
 though women all above
 but to the girdle do the gods inherit
 beneath is all the fiends'
 there's hell there's darkness there's the
 sulphurous pit
 burning scalding stench consumption fie
 fie fie pah pah give me an ounce of civet
 good apothecary to sweeten my imagination
 there's money for thee
gloucester o let me kiss that hand
king lear let me wipe it first it smells of mortality
gloucester o ruin'd piece of nature this great world
 shall so wear out to nought dost thou know me
king lear i remember thine eyes well enough dost thou squiny
 at me no do thy worst blind cupid i'll not
 love read thou this challenge mark but the
 penning of it
gloucester were all the letters suns i could not see one
edgar i would not take this from report it is
 and my heart breaks at it
king lear read
gloucester what with the case of eyes
king lear o ho are you there with me no eyes in your
 head nor no money in your purse your eyes are in
 a heavy case your purse in a light yet you see how
 this world goes
gloucester i see it feelingly
king lear what art mad a man may see how this world goes
 with no eyes look with thine ears see how yond
 justice rails upon yond simple thief hark in
 thine ear change places and handydandy which
 is the justice which is the thief thou hast seen
 a farmer's dog bark at a beggar
gloucester ay sir
king lear and the creature run from the cur there thou
 mightst behold the great image of authority a
 dog's obeyed in office
 thou rascal beadle hold thy bloody hand
 why dost thou lash that whore strip thine own back
 thou hotly lust'st to use her in that kind
 for which thou whipp'st her the usurer hangs the cozener
 through tatter'd clothes small vices do appear
 robes and furr'd gowns hide all plate sin with gold
 and the strong lance of justice hurtless breaks
 arm it in rags a pigmy's straw does pierce it
 none does offend none i say none i'll able em
 take that of me my friend who have the power
 to seal the accuser's lips get thee glass eyes
 and like a scurvy politician seem
 to see the things thou dost not now now now now
 pull off my boots harder harder so
edgar o matter and impertinency mix'd reason in madness
king lear if thou wilt weep my fortunes take my eyes
 i know thee well enough thy name is gloucester
 thou must be patient we came crying hither
 thou know'st the first time that we smell the air
 we wawl and cry i will preach to thee mark
gloucester alack alack the day
king lear when we are born we cry that we are come
 to this great stage of fools this a good block
 it were a delicate stratagem to shoe
 a troop of horse with felt i'll put t in proof
 and when i have stol'n upon these sonsinlaw
 then kill kill kill kill kill kill
 enter a gentleman with attendants
gentleman o here he is lay hand upon him sir
 your most dear daughter
king lear no rescue what a prisoner i am even
 the natural fool of fortune use me well
 you shall have ransom let me have surgeons
 i am cut to the brains
gentleman you shall have any thing
king lear no seconds all myself
 why this would make a man a man of salt
 to use his eyes for garden waterpots
 ay and laying autumn's dust
gentleman good sir
king lear i will die bravely like a bridegroom what
 i will be jovial come come i am a king
 my masters know you that
gentleman you are a royal one and we obey you
king lear then there's life in't nay if you get it you
 shall get it with running sa sa sa sa
 exit running attendants follow
gentleman a sight most pitiful in the meanest wretch
 past speaking of in a king thou hast one daughter
 who redeems nature from the general curse
 which twain have brought her to
edgar hail gentle sir
gentleman sir speed you what's your will
edgar do you hear aught sir of a battle toward
gentleman most sure and vulgar every one hears that
 which can distinguish sound
edgar but by your favour
 how near's the other army
gentleman near and on speedy foot the main descry
 stands on the hourly thought
edgar i thank you sir that's all
gentleman though that the queen on special cause is here
 her army is moved on
edgar i thank you sir
 exit gentleman
gloucester you evergentle gods take my breath from me
 let not my worser spirit tempt me again
 to die before you please
edgar well pray you father
gloucester now good sir what are you
edgar a most poor man made tame to fortune's blows
 who by the art of known and feeling sorrows
 am pregnant to good pity give me your hand
 i'll lead you to some biding
gloucester hearty thanks
 the bounty and the benison of heaven
 to boot and boot
 enter oswald
oswald a proclaim'd prize most happy
 that eyeless head of thine was first framed flesh
 to raise my fortunes thou old unhappy traitor
 briefly thyself remember the sword is out
 that must destroy thee
gloucester now let thy friendly hand
 put strength enough to't
 edgar interposes
oswald wherefore bold peasant
 darest thou support a publish'd traitor hence
 lest that the infection of his fortune take
 like hold on thee let go his arm
edgar ch'ill not let go zir without vurther casion
oswald let go slave or thou diest
edgar good gentleman go your gait and let poor volk
 pass an chud ha bin zwaggered out of my life
 twould not ha bin zo long as tis by a vortnight
 nay come not near th old man keep out che vor
 ye or ise try whether your costard or my ballow be
 the harder ch'ill be plain with you
oswald out dunghill
edgar ch'ill pick your teeth zir come no matter vor
 your foins
 they fight and edgar knocks him down
oswald slave thou hast slain me villain take my purse
 if ever thou wilt thrive bury my body
 and give the letters which thou find'st about me
 to edmund earl of gloucester seek him out
 upon the british party o untimely death
 dies
edgar i know thee well a serviceable villain
 as duteous to the vices of thy mistress
 as badness would desire
gloucester what is he dead
edgar sit you down father rest you
 let's see these pockets the letters that he speaks of
 may be my friends he's dead i am only sorry
 he had no other death'sman let us see
 leave gentle wax and manners blame us not
 to know our enemies minds we'ld rip their hearts
 their papers is more lawful
 reads
 let our reciprocal vows be remembered you have
 many opportunities to cut him off if your will
 want not time and place will be fruitfully offered
 there is nothing done if he return the conqueror
 then am i the prisoner and his bed my goal from
 the loathed warmth whereof deliver me and supply
 the place for your labour
 yourwife so i would say
 affectionate servant
 goneril'
 o undistinguish'd space of woman's will
 a plot upon her virtuous husband's life
 and the exchange my brother here in the sands
 thee i'll rake up the post unsanctified
 of murderous lechers and in the mature time
 with this ungracious paper strike the sight
 of the death practised duke for him tis well
 that of thy death and business i can tell
gloucester the king is mad how stiff is my vile sense
 that i stand up and have ingenious feeling
 of my huge sorrows better i were distract
 so should my thoughts be sever'd from my griefs
 and woes by wrong imaginations lose
 the knowledge of themselves
edgar give me your hand
 drum afar off
 far off methinks i hear the beaten drum
 come father i'll bestow you with a friend
 exeunt
 king lear
act iv
scene vii a tent in the french camp lear on a bed asleep
 soft music playing gentleman and others attending
 enter cordelia kent and doctor
cordelia o thou good kent how shall i live and work
 to match thy goodness my life will be too short
 and every measure fail me
kent to be acknowledged madam is o'erpaid
 all my reports go with the modest truth
 nor more nor clipp'd but so
cordelia be better suited
 these weeds are memories of those worser hours
 i prithee put them off
kent pardon me dear madam
 yet to be known shortens my made intent
 my boon i make it that you know me not
 till time and i think meet
cordelia then be't so my good lord
 to the doctor
 how does the king
doctor madam sleeps still
cordelia o you kind gods
 cure this great breach in his abused nature
 the untuned and jarring senses o wind up
 of this childchanged father
doctor so please your majesty
 that we may wake the king he hath slept long
cordelia be govern'd by your knowledge and proceed
 i the sway of your own will is he array'd
gentleman ay madam in the heaviness of his sleep
 we put fresh garments on him
doctor be by good madam when we do awake him
 i doubt not of his temperance
cordelia very well
doctor please you draw near louder the music there
cordelia o my dear father restoration hang
 thy medicine on my lips and let this kiss
 repair those violent harms that my two sisters
 have in thy reverence made
kent kind and dear princess
cordelia had you not been their father these white flakes
 had challenged pity of them was this a face
 to be opposed against the warring winds
 to stand against the deep dreadbolted thunder
 in the most terrible and nimble stroke
 of quick cross lightning to watchpoor perdu
 with this thin helm mine enemy's dog
 though he had bit me should have stood that night
 against my fire and wast thou fain poor father
 to hovel thee with swine and rogues forlorn
 in short and musty straw alack alack
 tis wonder that thy life and wits at once
 had not concluded all he wakes speak to him
doctor madam do you tis fittest
cordelia how does my royal lord how fares your majesty
king lear you do me wrong to take me out o the grave
 thou art a soul in bliss but i am bound
 upon a wheel of fire that mine own tears
 do scald like moulten lead
cordelia sir do you know me
king lear you are a spirit i know when did you die
cordelia still still far wide
doctor he's scarce awake let him alone awhile
king lear where have i been where am i fair daylight
 i am mightily abused i should e'en die with pity
 to see another thus i know not what to say
 i will not swear these are my hands let's see
 i feel this pin prick would i were assured
 of my condition
cordelia o look upon me sir
 and hold your hands in benediction o'er me
 no sir you must not kneel
king lear pray do not mock me
 i am a very foolish fond old man
 fourscore and upward not an hour more nor less
 and to deal plainly
 i fear i am not in my perfect mind
 methinks i should know you and know this man
 yet i am doubtful for i am mainly ignorant
 what place this is and all the skill i have
 remembers not these garments nor i know not
 where i did lodge last night do not laugh at me
 for as i am a man i think this lady
 to be my child cordelia
cordelia and so i am i am
king lear be your tears wet yes faith i pray weep not
 if you have poison for me i will drink it
 i know you do not love me for your sisters
 have as i do remember done me wrong
 you have some cause they have not
cordelia no cause no cause
king lear am i in france
kent in your own kingdom sir
king lear do not abuse me
doctor be comforted good madam the great rage
 you see is kill'd in him and yet it is danger
 to make him even o'er the time he has lost
 desire him to go in trouble him no more
 till further settling
cordelia will't please your highness walk
king lear you must bear with me
 pray you now forget and forgive i am old and foolish
 exeunt all but kent and gentleman
gentleman holds it true sir that the duke of cornwall was so slain
kent most certain sir
gentleman who is conductor of his people
kent as tis said the bastard son of gloucester
gentleman they say edgar his banished son is with the earl
 of kent in germany
kent report is changeable tis time to look about the
 powers of the kingdom approach apace
gentleman the arbitrement is like to be bloody fare you
 well sir
 exit
kent my point and period will be throughly wrought
 or well or ill as this day's battle's fought
 exit
 king lear
act v
scene i the british camp near dover
 enter with drum and colours edmund regan
 gentlemen and soldiers
edmund know of the duke if his last purpose hold
 or whether since he is advised by aught
 to change the course he's full of alteration
 and selfreproving bring his constant pleasure
 to a gentleman who goes out
regan our sister's man is certainly miscarried
edmund tis to be doubted madam
regan now sweet lord
 you know the goodness i intend upon you
 tell mebut trulybut then speak the truth
 do you not love my sister
edmund in honour'd love
regan but have you never found my brother's way
 to the forfended place
edmund that thought abuses you
regan i am doubtful that you have been conjunct
 and bosom'd with her as far as we call hers
edmund no by mine honour madam
regan i never shall endure her dear my lord
 be not familiar with her
edmund fear me not
 she and the duke her husband
 enter with drum and colours albany goneril and soldiers
goneril aside i had rather lose the battle than that sister
 should loosen him and me
albany our very loving sister well bemet
 sir this i hear the king is come to his daughter
 with others whom the rigor of our state
 forced to cry out where i could not be honest
 i never yet was valiant for this business
 it toucheth us as france invades our land
 not bolds the king with others whom i fear
 most just and heavy causes make oppose
edmund sir you speak nobly
regan why is this reason'd
goneril combine together gainst the enemy
 for these domestic and particular broils
 are not the question here
albany let's then determine
 with the ancient of war on our proceedings
edmund i shall attend you presently at your tent
regan sister you'll go with us
goneril no
regan tis most convenient pray you go with us
goneril aside o ho i know the riddlei will go
 as they are going out enter edgar disguised
edgar if e'er your grace had speech with man so poor
 hear me one word
albany i'll overtake you speak
 exeunt all but albany and edgar
edgar before you fight the battle ope this letter
 if you have victory let the trumpet sound
 for him that brought it wretched though i seem
 i can produce a champion that will prove
 what is avouched there if you miscarry
 your business of the world hath so an end
 and machination ceases fortune love you
albany stay till i have read the letter
edgar i was forbid it
 when time shall serve let but the herald cry
 and i'll appear again
albany why fare thee well i will o'erlook thy paper
 exit edgar
 reenter edmund
edmund the enemy's in view draw up your powers
 here is the guess of their true strength and forces
 by diligent discovery but your haste
 is now urged on you
albany we will greet the time
 exit
edmund to both these sisters have i sworn my love
 each jealous of the other as the stung
 are of the adder which of them shall i take
 both one or neither neither can be enjoy'd
 if both remain alive to take the widow
 exasperates makes mad her sister goneril
 and hardly shall i carry out my side
 her husband being alive now then we'll use
 his countenance for the battle which being done
 let her who would be rid of him devise
 his speedy taking off as for the mercy
 which he intends to lear and to cordelia
 the battle done and they within our power
 shall never see his pardon for my state
 stands on me to defend not to debate
 exit
 king lear
act v
scene ii a field between the two camps
 alarum within enter with drum and colours
 king lear cordelia and soldiers over the stage
 and exeunt
 enter edgar and gloucester
edgar here father take the shadow of this tree
 for your good host pray that the right may thrive
 if ever i return to you again
 i'll bring you comfort
gloucester grace go with you sir
 exit edgar
 alarum and retreat within reenter edgar
edgar away old man give me thy hand away
 king lear hath lost he and his daughter ta'en
 give me thy hand come on
gloucester no farther sir a man may rot even here
edgar what in ill thoughts again men must endure
 their going hence even as their coming hither
 ripeness is all come on
gloucester and that's true too
 exeunt
 king lear
act v
scene iii the british camp near dover
 enter in conquest with drum and colours edmund
 king lear and cordelia prisoners captain
 soldiers &c
edmund some officers take them away good guard
 until their greater pleasures first be known
 that are to censure them
cordelia we are not the first
 who with best meaning have incurr'd the worst
 for thee oppressed king am i cast down
 myself could else outfrown false fortune's frown
 shall we not see these daughters and these sisters
king lear no no no no come let's away to prison
 we two alone will sing like birds i the cage
 when thou dost ask me blessing i'll kneel down
 and ask of thee forgiveness so we'll live
 and pray and sing and tell old tales and laugh
 at gilded butterflies and hear poor rogues
 talk of court news and we'll talk with them too
 who loses and who wins who's in who's out
 and take upon's the mystery of things
 as if we were god's spies and we'll wear out
 in a wall'd prison packs and sects of great ones
 that ebb and flow by the moon
edmund take them away
king lear upon such sacrifices my cordelia
 the gods themselves throw incense have i caught thee
 he that parts us shall bring a brand from heaven
 and fire us hence like foxes wipe thine eyes
 the goodyears shall devour them flesh and fell
 ere they shall make us weep we'll see em starve
 first come
 exeunt king lear and cordelia guarded
edmund come hither captain hark
 take thou this note
 giving a paper
 go follow them to prison
 one step i have advanced thee if thou dost
 as this instructs thee thou dost make thy way
 to noble fortunes know thou this that men
 are as the time is to be tenderminded
 does not become a sword thy great employment
 will not bear question either say thou'lt do t
 or thrive by other means
captain i'll do t my lord
edmund about it and write happy when thou hast done
 mark i say instantly and carry it so
 as i have set it down
captain i cannot draw a cart nor eat dried oats
 if it be man's work i'll do t
 exit
 flourish enter albany goneril regan another
 captain and soldiers
albany sir you have shown today your valiant strain
 and fortune led you well you have the captives
 that were the opposites of this day's strife
 we do require them of you so to use them
 as we shall find their merits and our safety
 may equally determine
edmund sir i thought it fit
 to send the old and miserable king
 to some retention and appointed guard
 whose age has charms in it whose title more
 to pluck the common bosom on his side
 an turn our impress'd lances in our eyes
 which do command them with him i sent the queen
 my reason all the same and they are ready
 tomorrow or at further space to appear
 where you shall hold your session at this time
 we sweat and bleed the friend hath lost his friend
 and the best quarrels in the heat are cursed
 by those that feel their sharpness
 the question of cordelia and her father
 requires a fitter place
albany sir by your patience
 i hold you but a subject of this war
 not as a brother
regan that's as we list to grace him
 methinks our pleasure might have been demanded
 ere you had spoke so far he led our powers
 bore the commission of my place and person
 the which immediacy may well stand up
 and call itself your brother
goneril not so hot
 in his own grace he doth exalt himself
 more than in your addition
regan in my rights
 by me invested he compeers the best
goneril that were the most if he should husband you
regan jesters do oft prove prophets
goneril holla holla
 that eye that told you so look'd but asquint
regan lady i am not well else i should answer
 from a fullflowing stomach general
 take thou my soldiers prisoners patrimony
 dispose of them of me the walls are thine
 witness the world that i create thee here
 my lord and master
goneril mean you to enjoy him
albany the letalone lies not in your good will
edmund nor in thine lord
albany halfblooded fellow yes
regan to edmund let the drum strike and prove my title thine
albany stay yet hear reason edmund i arrest thee
 on capital treason and in thine attaint
 this gilded serpent
 pointing to goneril
 for your claim fair sister
 i bar it in the interest of my wife
 tis she is subcontracted to this lord
 and i her husband contradict your bans
 if you will marry make your loves to me
 my lady is bespoke
goneril an interlude
albany thou art arm'd gloucester let the trumpet sound
 if none appear to prove upon thy head
 thy heinous manifest and many treasons
 there is my pledge
 throwing down a glove
 i'll prove it on thy heart
 ere i taste bread thou art in nothing less
 than i have here proclaim'd thee
regan sick o sick
goneril aside if not i'll ne'er trust medicine
edmund there's my exchange
 throwing down a glove
 what in the world he is
 that names me traitor villainlike he lies
 call by thy trumpet he that dares approach
 on him on you who not i will maintain
 my truth and honour firmly
albany a herald ho
edmund a herald ho a herald
albany trust to thy single virtue for thy soldiers
 all levied in my name have in my name
 took their discharge
regan my sickness grows upon me
albany she is not well convey her to my tent
 exit regan led
 enter a herald
 come hither heraldlet the trumpet sound
 and read out this
captain sound trumpet
 a trumpet sounds
herald reads if any man of quality or degree within
 the lists of the army will maintain upon edmund
 supposed earl of gloucester that he is a manifold
 traitor let him appear by the third sound of the
 trumpet he is bold in his defence'
edmund sound
 first trumpet
herald again
 second trumpet
herald again
 third trumpet
 trumpet answers within
 enter edgar at the third sound armed with a
 trumpet before him
albany ask him his purposes why he appears
 upon this call o the trumpet
herald what are you
 your name your quality and why you answer
 this present summons
edgar know my name is lost
 by treason's tooth baregnawn and cankerbit
 yet am i noble as the adversary
 i come to cope
albany which is that adversary
edgar what's he that speaks for edmund earl of gloucester
edmund himself what say'st thou to him
edgar draw thy sword
 that if my speech offend a noble heart
 thy arm may do thee justice here is mine
 behold it is the privilege of mine honours
 my oath and my profession i protest
 maugre thy strength youth place and eminence
 despite thy victor sword and firenew fortune
 thy valour and thy heart thou art a traitor
 false to thy gods thy brother and thy father
 conspirant gainst this highillustrious prince
 and from the extremest upward of thy head
 to the descent and dust below thy foot
 a most toadspotted traitor say thou no'
 this sword this arm and my best spirits are bent
 to prove upon thy heart whereto i speak
 thou liest
edmund in wisdom i should ask thy name
 but since thy outside looks so fair and warlike
 and that thy tongue some say of breeding breathes
 what safe and nicely i might well delay
 by rule of knighthood i disdain and spurn
 back do i toss these treasons to thy head
 with the hellhated lie o'erwhelm thy heart
 which for they yet glance by and scarcely bruise
 this sword of mine shall give them instant way
 where they shall rest for ever trumpets speak
 alarums they fight edmund falls
albany save him save him
goneril this is practise gloucester
 by the law of arms thou wast not bound to answer
 an unknown opposite thou art not vanquish'd
 but cozen'd and beguiled
albany shut your mouth dame
 or with this paper shall i stop it hold sir
 thou worse than any name read thine own evil
 no tearing lady i perceive you know it
 gives the letter to edmund
goneril say if i do the laws are mine not thine
 who can arraign me for't
albany most monstrous oh
 know'st thou this paper
goneril ask me not what i know
 exit
albany go after her she's desperate govern her
edmund what you have charged me with that have i done
 and more much more the time will bring it out
 tis past and so am i but what art thou
 that hast this fortune on me if thou'rt noble
 i do forgive thee
edgar let's exchange charity
 i am no less in blood than thou art edmund
 if more the more thou hast wrong'd me
 my name is edgar and thy father's son
 the gods are just and of our pleasant vices
 make instruments to plague us
 the dark and vicious place where thee he got
 cost him his eyes
edmund thou hast spoken right tis true
 the wheel is come full circle i am here
albany methought thy very gait did prophesy
 a royal nobleness i must embrace thee
 let sorrow split my heart if ever i
 did hate thee or thy father
edgar worthy prince i know't
albany where have you hid yourself
 how have you known the miseries of your father
edgar by nursing them my lord list a brief tale
 and when tis told o that my heart would burst
 the bloody proclamation to escape
 that follow'd me so nearo our lives sweetness
 that we the pain of death would hourly die
 rather than die at oncetaught me to shift
 into a madman's rags to assume a semblance
 that very dogs disdain'd and in this habit
 met i my father with his bleeding rings
 their precious stones new lost became his guide
 led him begg'd for him saved him from despair
 nevero faultreveal'd myself unto him
 until some halfhour past when i was arm'd
 not sure though hoping of this good success
 i ask'd his blessing and from first to last
 told him my pilgrimage but his flaw'd heart
 alack too weak the conflict to support
 twixt two extremes of passion joy and grief
 burst smilingly
edmund this speech of yours hath moved me
 and shall perchance do good but speak you on
 you look as you had something more to say
albany if there be more more woeful hold it in
 for i am almost ready to dissolve
 hearing of this
edgar this would have seem'd a period
 to such as love not sorrow but another
 to amplify too much would make much more
 and top extremity
 whilst i was big in clamour came there in a man
 who having seen me in my worst estate
 shunn'd my abhorr'd society but then finding
 who twas that so endured with his strong arms
 he fastened on my neck and bellow'd out
 as he'ld burst heaven threw him on my father
 told the most piteous tale of lear and him
 that ever ear received which in recounting
 his grief grew puissant and the strings of life
 began to crack twice then the trumpets sounded
 and there i left him tranced
albany but who was this
edgar kent sir the banish'd kent who in disguise
 follow'd his enemy king and did him service
 improper for a slave
 enter a gentleman with a bloody knife
gentleman help help o help
edgar what kind of help
albany speak man
edgar what means that bloody knife
gentleman tis hot it smokes
 it came even from the heart ofo she's dead
albany who dead speak man
gentleman your lady sir your lady and her sister
 by her is poisoned she hath confess'd it
edmund i was contracted to them both all three
 now marry in an instant
edgar here comes kent
albany produce their bodies be they alive or dead
 this judgment of the heavens that makes us tremble
 touches us not with pity
 exit gentleman
 enter kent
 o is this he
 the time will not allow the compliment
 which very manners urges
kent i am come
 to bid my king and master aye good night
 is he not here
albany great thing of us forgot
 speak edmund where's the king and where's cordelia
 see'st thou this object kent
 the bodies of goneril and regan are brought in
kent alack why thus
edmund yet edmund was beloved
 the one the other poison'd for my sake
 and after slew herself
albany even so cover their faces
edmund i pant for life some good i mean to do
 despite of mine own nature quickly send
 be brief in it to the castle for my writ
 is on the life of lear and on cordelia
 nay send in time
albany run run o run
edgar to who my lord who hath the office send
 thy token of reprieve
edmund well thought on take my sword
 give it the captain
albany haste thee for thy life
 exit edgar
edmund he hath commission from thy wife and me
 to hang cordelia in the prison and
 to lay the blame upon her own despair
 that she fordid herself
albany the gods defend her bear him hence awhile
 edmund is borne off
 reenter king lear with cordelia dead in his arms
 edgar captain and others following
king lear howl howl howl howl o you are men of stones
 had i your tongues and eyes i'ld use them so
 that heaven's vault should crack she's gone for ever
 i know when one is dead and when one lives
 she's dead as earth lend me a lookingglass
 if that her breath will mist or stain the stone
 why then she lives
kent is this the promised end
edgar or image of that horror
albany fall and cease
king lear this feather stirs she lives if it be so
 it is a chance which does redeem all sorrows
 that ever i have felt
kent kneeling o my good master
king lear prithee away
edgar tis noble kent your friend
king lear a plague upon you murderers traitors all
 i might have saved her now she's gone for ever
 cordelia cordelia stay a little ha
 what is't thou say'st her voice was ever soft
 gentle and low an excellent thing in woman
 i kill'd the slave that was ahanging thee
captain tis true my lords he did
king lear did i not fellow
 i have seen the day with my good biting falchion
 i would have made them skip i am old now
 and these same crosses spoil me who are you
 mine eyes are not o the best i'll tell you straight
kent if fortune brag of two she loved and hated
 one of them we behold
king lear this is a dull sight are you not kent
kent the same
 your servant kent where is your servant caius
king lear he's a good fellow i can tell you that
 he'll strike and quickly too he's dead and rotten
kent no my good lord i am the very man
king lear i'll see that straight
kent that from your first of difference and decay
 have follow'd your sad steps
king lear you are welcome hither
kent nor no man else all's cheerless dark and deadly
 your eldest daughters have fordone them selves
 and desperately are dead
king lear ay so i think
albany he knows not what he says and vain it is
 that we present us to him
edgar very bootless
 enter a captain
captain edmund is dead my lord
albany that's but a trifle here
 you lords and noble friends know our intent
 what comfort to this great decay may come
 shall be applied for us we will resign
 during the life of this old majesty
 to him our absolute power
 to edgar and kent
 you to your rights
 with boot and such addition as your honours
 have more than merited all friends shall taste
 the wages of their virtue and all foes
 the cup of their deservings o see see
king lear and my poor fool is hang'd no no no life
 why should a dog a horse a rat have life
 and thou no breath at all thou'lt come no more
 never never never never never
 pray you undo this button thank you sir
 do you see this look on her look her lips
 look there look there
 dies
edgar he faints my lord my lord
kent break heart i prithee break
edgar look up my lord
kent vex not his ghost o let him pass he hates him much
 that would upon the rack of this tough world
 stretch him out longer
edgar he is gone indeed
kent the wonder is he hath endured so long
 he but usurp'd his life
albany bear them from hence our present business
 is general woe
 to kent and edgar
 friends of my soul you twain
 rule in this realm and the gored state sustain
kent i have a journey sir shortly to go
 my master calls me i must not say no
albany the weight of this sad time we must obey
 speak what we feel not what we ought to say
 the oldest hath borne most we that are young
 shall never see so much nor live so long
 exeunt with a dead march
 macbeth
 dramatis personae
duncan king of scotland
malcolm 
 his sons
donalbain 
macbeth 
 generals of the king's army
banquo 
macduff 
 
lennox 
 
ross 
 noblemen of scotland
menteith 
 
angus 
 
caithness 
fleance son to banquo
siward earl of northumberland general of the english forces
young siward his son
seyton an officer attending on macbeth
 boy son to macduff son
 an english doctor doctor
 a scotch doctor doctor
 a soldier
 a porter
 an old man
lady macbeth
lady macduff
 gentlewoman attending on lady macbeth gentlewoman
hecate
 three witches
 first witch
 second witch
 third witch
 apparitions
 first apparition
 second apparition
 third apparition
 lords gentlemen officers soldiers murderers
 attendants and messengers lord
 sergeant
 servant
 first murderer
 second murderer
 third murderer
 messenger
scene scotland england
 macbeth
act i
scene i a desert place
 thunder and lightning enter three witches
first witch when shall we three meet again
 in thunder lightning or in rain
second witch when the hurlyburly's done
 when the battle's lost and won
third witch that will be ere the set of sun
first witch where the place
second witch upon the heath
third witch there to meet with macbeth
first witch i come graymalkin
second witch paddock calls
third witch anon
all fair is foul and foul is fair
 hover through the fog and filthy air
 exeunt
 macbeth
act i
scene ii a camp near forres
 alarum within enter duncan malcolm donalbain
 lennox with attendants meeting a bleeding sergeant
duncan what bloody man is that he can report
 as seemeth by his plight of the revolt
 the newest state
malcolm this is the sergeant
 who like a good and hardy soldier fought
 gainst my captivity hail brave friend
 say to the king the knowledge of the broil
 as thou didst leave it
sergeant doubtful it stood
 as two spent swimmers that do cling together
 and choke their art the merciless macdonwald
 worthy to be a rebel for to that
 the multiplying villanies of nature
 do swarm upon himfrom the western isles
 of kerns and gallowglasses is supplied
 and fortune on his damned quarrel smiling
 show'd like a rebel's whore but all's too weak
 for brave macbethwell he deserves that name
 disdaining fortune with his brandish'd steel
 which smoked with bloody execution
 like valour's minion carved out his passage
 till he faced the slave
 which ne'er shook hands nor bade farewell to him
 till he unseam'd him from the nave to the chaps
 and fix'd his head upon our battlements
duncan o valiant cousin worthy gentleman
sergeant as whence the sun gins his reflection
 shipwrecking storms and direful thunders break
 so from that spring whence comfort seem'd to come
 discomfort swells mark king of scotland mark
 no sooner justice had with valour arm'd
 compell'd these skipping kerns to trust their heels
 but the norweyan lord surveying vantage
 with furbish'd arms and new supplies of men
 began a fresh assault
duncan dismay'd not this
 our captains macbeth and banquo
sergeant yes
 as sparrows eagles or the hare the lion
 if i say sooth i must report they were
 as cannons overcharged with double cracks so they
 doubly redoubled strokes upon the foe
 except they meant to bathe in reeking wounds
 or memorise another golgotha
 i cannot tell
 but i am faint my gashes cry for help
duncan so well thy words become thee as thy wounds
 they smack of honour both go get him surgeons
 exit sergeant attended
 who comes here
 enter ross
malcolm the worthy thane of ross
lennox what a haste looks through his eyes so should he look
 that seems to speak things strange
ross god save the king
duncan whence camest thou worthy thane
ross from fife great king
 where the norweyan banners flout the sky
 and fan our people cold norway himself
 with terrible numbers
 assisted by that most disloyal traitor
 the thane of cawdor began a dismal conflict
 till that bellona's bridegroom lapp'd in proof
 confronted him with selfcomparisons
 point against point rebellious arm gainst arm
 curbing his lavish spirit and to conclude
 the victory fell on us
duncan great happiness
ross that now
 sweno the norways king craves composition
 nor would we deign him burial of his men
 till he disbursed at saint colme's inch
 ten thousand dollars to our general use
duncan no more that thane of cawdor shall deceive
 our bosom interest go pronounce his present death
 and with his former title greet macbeth
ross i'll see it done
duncan what he hath lost noble macbeth hath won
 exeunt
 macbeth
act i
scene iii a heath near forres
 thunder enter the three witches
first witch where hast thou been sister
second witch killing swine
third witch sister where thou
first witch a sailor's wife had chestnuts in her lap
 and munch'd and munch'd and munch'd
 give me quoth i
 aroint thee witch the rumpfed ronyon cries
 her husband's to aleppo gone master o the tiger
 but in a sieve i'll thither sail
 and like a rat without a tail
 i'll do i'll do and i'll do
second witch i'll give thee a wind
first witch thou'rt kind
third witch and i another
first witch i myself have all the other
 and the very ports they blow
 all the quarters that they know
 i the shipman's card
 i will drain him dry as hay
 sleep shall neither night nor day
 hang upon his penthouse lid
 he shall live a man forbid
 weary se'nnights nine times nine
 shall he dwindle peak and pine
 though his bark cannot be lost
 yet it shall be tempesttost
 look what i have
second witch show me show me
first witch here i have a pilot's thumb
 wreck'd as homeward he did come
 drum within
third witch a drum a drum
 macbeth doth come
all the weird sisters hand in hand
 posters of the sea and land
 thus do go about about
 thrice to thine and thrice to mine
 and thrice again to make up nine
 peace the charm's wound up
 enter macbeth and banquo
macbeth so foul and fair a day i have not seen
banquo how far is't call'd to forres what are these
 so wither'd and so wild in their attire
 that look not like the inhabitants o the earth
 and yet are on't live you or are you aught
 that man may question you seem to understand me
 by each at once her chappy finger laying
 upon her skinny lips you should be women
 and yet your beards forbid me to interpret
 that you are so
macbeth speak if you can what are you
first witch all hail macbeth hail to thee thane of glamis
second witch all hail macbeth hail to thee thane of cawdor
third witch all hail macbeth thou shalt be king hereafter
banquo good sir why do you start and seem to fear
 things that do sound so fair i the name of truth
 are ye fantastical or that indeed
 which outwardly ye show my noble partner
 you greet with present grace and great prediction
 of noble having and of royal hope
 that he seems rapt withal to me you speak not
 if you can look into the seeds of time
 and say which grain will grow and which will not
 speak then to me who neither beg nor fear
 your favours nor your hate
first witch hail
second witch hail
third witch hail
first witch lesser than macbeth and greater
second witch not so happy yet much happier
third witch thou shalt get kings though thou be none
 so all hail macbeth and banquo
first witch banquo and macbeth all hail
macbeth stay you imperfect speakers tell me more
 by sinel's death i know i am thane of glamis
 but how of cawdor the thane of cawdor lives
 a prosperous gentleman and to be king
 stands not within the prospect of belief
 no more than to be cawdor say from whence
 you owe this strange intelligence or why
 upon this blasted heath you stop our way
 with such prophetic greeting speak i charge you
 witches vanish
banquo the earth hath bubbles as the water has
 and these are of them whither are they vanish'd
macbeth into the air and what seem'd corporal melted
 as breath into the wind would they had stay'd
banquo were such things here as we do speak about
 or have we eaten on the insane root
 that takes the reason prisoner
macbeth your children shall be kings
banquo you shall be king
macbeth and thane of cawdor too went it not so
banquo to the selfsame tune and words who's here
 enter ross and angus
ross the king hath happily received macbeth
 the news of thy success and when he reads
 thy personal venture in the rebels fight
 his wonders and his praises do contend
 which should be thine or his silenced with that
 in viewing o'er the rest o the selfsame day
 he finds thee in the stout norweyan ranks
 nothing afeard of what thyself didst make
 strange images of death as thick as hail
 came post with post and every one did bear
 thy praises in his kingdom's great defence
 and pour'd them down before him
angus we are sent
 to give thee from our royal master thanks
 only to herald thee into his sight
 not pay thee
ross and for an earnest of a greater honour
 he bade me from him call thee thane of cawdor
 in which addition hail most worthy thane
 for it is thine
banquo what can the devil speak true
macbeth the thane of cawdor lives why do you dress me
 in borrow'd robes
angus who was the thane lives yet
 but under heavy judgment bears that life
 which he deserves to lose whether he was combined
 with those of norway or did line the rebel
 with hidden help and vantage or that with both
 he labour'd in his country's wreck i know not
 but treasons capital confess'd and proved
 have overthrown him
macbeth aside glamis and thane of cawdor
 the greatest is behind
 to ross and angus
 thanks for your pains
 to banquo
 do you not hope your children shall be kings
 when those that gave the thane of cawdor to me
 promised no less to them
banquo that trusted home
 might yet enkindle you unto the crown
 besides the thane of cawdor but tis strange
 and oftentimes to win us to our harm
 the instruments of darkness tell us truths
 win us with honest trifles to betray's
 in deepest consequence
 cousins a word i pray you
macbeth aside two truths are told
 as happy prologues to the swelling act
 of the imperial themei thank you gentlemen
 aside this supernatural soliciting
 cannot be ill cannot be good if ill
 why hath it given me earnest of success
 commencing in a truth i am thane of cawdor
 if good why do i yield to that suggestion
 whose horrid image doth unfix my hair
 and make my seated heart knock at my ribs
 against the use of nature present fears
 are less than horrible imaginings
 my thought whose murder yet is but fantastical
 shakes so my single state of man that function
 is smother'd in surmise and nothing is
 but what is not
banquo look how our partner's rapt
macbeth aside if chance will have me king why chance may crown me
 without my stir
banquo new horrors come upon him
 like our strange garments cleave not to their mould
 but with the aid of use
macbeth aside come what come may
 time and the hour runs through the roughest day
banquo worthy macbeth we stay upon your leisure
macbeth give me your favour my dull brain was wrought
 with things forgotten kind gentlemen your pains
 are register'd where every day i turn
 the leaf to read them let us toward the king
 think upon what hath chanced and at more time
 the interim having weigh'd it let us speak
 our free hearts each to other
banquo very gladly
macbeth till then enough come friends
 exeunt
 macbeth
act i
scene iv forres the palace
 flourish enter duncan malcolm donalbain lennox
 and attendants
duncan is execution done on cawdor are not
 those in commission yet return'd
malcolm my liege
 they are not yet come back but i have spoke
 with one that saw him die who did report
 that very frankly he confess'd his treasons
 implored your highness pardon and set forth
 a deep repentance nothing in his life
 became him like the leaving it he died
 as one that had been studied in his death
 to throw away the dearest thing he owed
 as twere a careless trifle
duncan there's no art
 to find the mind's construction in the face
 he was a gentleman on whom i built
 an absolute trust
 enter macbeth banquo ross and angus
 o worthiest cousin
 the sin of my ingratitude even now
 was heavy on me thou art so far before
 that swiftest wing of recompense is slow
 to overtake thee would thou hadst less deserved
 that the proportion both of thanks and payment
 might have been mine only i have left to say
 more is thy due than more than all can pay
macbeth the service and the loyalty i owe
 in doing it pays itself your highness part
 is to receive our duties and our duties
 are to your throne and state children and servants
 which do but what they should by doing every thing
 safe toward your love and honour
duncan welcome hither
 i have begun to plant thee and will labour
 to make thee full of growing noble banquo
 that hast no less deserved nor must be known
 no less to have done so let me enfold thee
 and hold thee to my heart
banquo there if i grow
 the harvest is your own
duncan my plenteous joys
 wanton in fulness seek to hide themselves
 in drops of sorrow sons kinsmen thanes
 and you whose places are the nearest know
 we will establish our estate upon
 our eldest malcolm whom we name hereafter
 the prince of cumberland which honour must
 not unaccompanied invest him only
 but signs of nobleness like stars shall shine
 on all deservers from hence to inverness
 and bind us further to you
macbeth the rest is labour which is not used for you
 i'll be myself the harbinger and make joyful
 the hearing of my wife with your approach
 so humbly take my leave
duncan my worthy cawdor
macbeth aside the prince of cumberland that is a step
 on which i must fall down or else o'erleap
 for in my way it lies stars hide your fires
 let not light see my black and deep desires
 the eye wink at the hand yet let that be
 which the eye fears when it is done to see
 exit
duncan true worthy banquo he is full so valiant
 and in his commendations i am fed
 it is a banquet to me let's after him
 whose care is gone before to bid us welcome
 it is a peerless kinsman
 flourish exeunt
 macbeth
act i
scene v inverness macbeth's castle
 enter lady macbeth reading a letter
lady macbeth they met me in the day of success and i have
 learned by the perfectest report they have more in
 them than mortal knowledge when i burned in desire
 to question them further they made themselves air
 into which they vanished whiles i stood rapt in
 the wonder of it came missives from the king who
 allhailed me thane of cawdor by which title
 before these weird sisters saluted me and referred
 me to the coming on of time with hail king that
 shalt be this have i thought good to deliver
 thee my dearest partner of greatness that thou
 mightst not lose the dues of rejoicing by being
 ignorant of what greatness is promised thee lay it
 to thy heart and farewell'
 glamis thou art and cawdor and shalt be
 what thou art promised yet do i fear thy nature
 it is too full o the milk of human kindness
 to catch the nearest way thou wouldst be great
 art not without ambition but without
 the illness should attend it what thou wouldst highly
 that wouldst thou holily wouldst not play false
 and yet wouldst wrongly win thou'ldst have great glamis
 that which cries thus thou must do if thou have it
 and that which rather thou dost fear to do
 than wishest should be undone hie thee hither
 that i may pour my spirits in thine ear
 and chastise with the valour of my tongue
 all that impedes thee from the golden round
 which fate and metaphysical aid doth seem
 to have thee crown'd withal
 enter a messenger
 what is your tidings
messenger the king comes here tonight
lady macbeth thou'rt mad to say it
 is not thy master with him who were't so
 would have inform'd for preparation
messenger so please you it is true our thane is coming
 one of my fellows had the speed of him
 who almost dead for breath had scarcely more
 than would make up his message
lady macbeth give him tending
 he brings great news
 exit messenger
 the raven himself is hoarse
 that croaks the fatal entrance of duncan
 under my battlements come you spirits
 that tend on mortal thoughts unsex me here
 and fill me from the crown to the toe topfull
 of direst cruelty make thick my blood
 stop up the access and passage to remorse
 that no compunctious visitings of nature
 shake my fell purpose nor keep peace between
 the effect and it come to my woman's breasts
 and take my milk for gall you murdering ministers
 wherever in your sightless substances
 you wait on nature's mischief come thick night
 and pall thee in the dunnest smoke of hell
 that my keen knife see not the wound it makes
 nor heaven peep through the blanket of the dark
 to cry hold hold'
 enter macbeth
 great glamis worthy cawdor
 greater than both by the allhail hereafter
 thy letters have transported me beyond
 this ignorant present and i feel now
 the future in the instant
macbeth my dearest love
 duncan comes here tonight
lady macbeth and when goes hence
macbeth tomorrow as he purposes
lady macbeth o never
 shall sun that morrow see
 your face my thane is as a book where men
 may read strange matters to beguile the time
 look like the time bear welcome in your eye
 your hand your tongue look like the innocent flower
 but be the serpent under't he that's coming
 must be provided for and you shall put
 this night's great business into my dispatch
 which shall to all our nights and days to come
 give solely sovereign sway and masterdom
macbeth we will speak further
lady macbeth only look up clear
 to alter favour ever is to fear
 leave all the rest to me
 exeunt
 macbeth
act i
scene vi before macbeth's castle
 hautboys and torches enter duncan malcolm
 donalbain banquo lennox macduff ross angus
 and attendants
duncan this castle hath a pleasant seat the air
 nimbly and sweetly recommends itself
 unto our gentle senses
banquo this guest of summer
 the templehaunting martlet does approve
 by his loved mansionry that the heaven's breath
 smells wooingly here no jutty frieze
 buttress nor coign of vantage but this bird
 hath made his pendent bed and procreant cradle
 where they most breed and haunt i have observed
 the air is delicate
 enter lady macbeth
duncan see see our honour'd hostess
 the love that follows us sometime is our trouble
 which still we thank as love herein i teach you
 how you shall bid god ild us for your pains
 and thank us for your trouble
lady macbeth all our service
 in every point twice done and then done double
 were poor and single business to contend
 against those honours deep and broad wherewith
 your majesty loads our house for those of old
 and the late dignities heap'd up to them
 we rest your hermits
duncan where's the thane of cawdor
 we coursed him at the heels and had a purpose
 to be his purveyor but he rides well
 and his great love sharp as his spur hath holp him
 to his home before us fair and noble hostess
 we are your guest tonight
lady macbeth your servants ever
 have theirs themselves and what is theirs in compt
 to make their audit at your highness pleasure
 still to return your own
duncan give me your hand
 conduct me to mine host we love him highly
 and shall continue our graces towards him
 by your leave hostess
 exeunt
 macbeth
act i
scene vii macbeth's castle
 hautboys and torches enter a sewer and divers
 servants with dishes and service and pass over the
 stage then enter macbeth
macbeth if it were done when tis done then twere well
 it were done quickly if the assassination
 could trammel up the consequence and catch
 with his surcease success that but this blow
 might be the beall and the endall here
 but here upon this bank and shoal of time
 we'ld jump the life to come but in these cases
 we still have judgment here that we but teach
 bloody instructions which being taught return
 to plague the inventor this evenhanded justice
 commends the ingredients of our poison'd chalice
 to our own lips he's here in double trust
 first as i am his kinsman and his subject
 strong both against the deed then as his host
 who should against his murderer shut the door
 not bear the knife myself besides this duncan
 hath borne his faculties so meek hath been
 so clear in his great office that his virtues
 will plead like angels trumpettongued against
 the deep damnation of his takingoff
 and pity like a naked newborn babe
 striding the blast or heaven's cherubim horsed
 upon the sightless couriers of the air
 shall blow the horrid deed in every eye
 that tears shall drown the wind i have no spur
 to prick the sides of my intent but only
 vaulting ambition which o'erleaps itself
 and falls on the other
 enter lady macbeth
 how now what news
lady macbeth he has almost supp'd why have you left the chamber
macbeth hath he ask'd for me
lady macbeth know you not he has
macbeth we will proceed no further in this business
 he hath honour'd me of late and i have bought
 golden opinions from all sorts of people
 which would be worn now in their newest gloss
 not cast aside so soon
lady macbeth was the hope drunk
 wherein you dress'd yourself hath it slept since
 and wakes it now to look so green and pale
 at what it did so freely from this time
 such i account thy love art thou afeard
 to be the same in thine own act and valour
 as thou art in desire wouldst thou have that
 which thou esteem'st the ornament of life
 and live a coward in thine own esteem
 letting i dare not wait upon i would'
 like the poor cat i the adage
macbeth prithee peace
 i dare do all that may become a man
 who dares do more is none
lady macbeth what beast was't then
 that made you break this enterprise to me
 when you durst do it then you were a man
 and to be more than what you were you would
 be so much more the man nor time nor place
 did then adhere and yet you would make both
 they have made themselves and that their fitness now
 does unmake you i have given suck and know
 how tender tis to love the babe that milks me
 i would while it was smiling in my face
 have pluck'd my nipple from his boneless gums
 and dash'd the brains out had i so sworn as you
 have done to this
macbeth if we should fail
lady macbeth we fail
 but screw your courage to the stickingplace
 and we'll not fail when duncan is asleep
 whereto the rather shall his day's hard journey
 soundly invite himhis two chamberlains
 will i with wine and wassail so convince
 that memory the warder of the brain
 shall be a fume and the receipt of reason
 a limbeck only when in swinish sleep
 their drenched natures lie as in a death
 what cannot you and i perform upon
 the unguarded duncan what not put upon
 his spongy officers who shall bear the guilt
 of our great quell
macbeth bring forth menchildren only
 for thy undaunted mettle should compose
 nothing but males will it not be received
 when we have mark'd with blood those sleepy two
 of his own chamber and used their very daggers
 that they have done't
lady macbeth who dares receive it other
 as we shall make our griefs and clamour roar
 upon his death
macbeth i am settled and bend up
 each corporal agent to this terrible feat
 away and mock the time with fairest show
 false face must hide what the false heart doth know
 exeunt
 macbeth
act ii
scene i court of macbeth's castle
 enter banquo and fleance bearing a torch before him
banquo how goes the night boy
fleance the moon is down i have not heard the clock
banquo and she goes down at twelve
fleance i take't tis later sir
banquo hold take my sword there's husbandry in heaven
 their candles are all out take thee that too
 a heavy summons lies like lead upon me
 and yet i would not sleep merciful powers
 restrain in me the cursed thoughts that nature
 gives way to in repose
 enter macbeth and a servant with a torch
 give me my sword
 who's there
macbeth a friend
banquo what sir not yet at rest the king's abed
 he hath been in unusual pleasure and
 sent forth great largess to your offices
 this diamond he greets your wife withal
 by the name of most kind hostess and shut up
 in measureless content
macbeth being unprepared
 our will became the servant to defect
 which else should free have wrought
banquo all's well
 i dreamt last night of the three weird sisters
 to you they have show'd some truth
macbeth i think not of them
 yet when we can entreat an hour to serve
 we would spend it in some words upon that business
 if you would grant the time
banquo at your kind'st leisure
macbeth if you shall cleave to my consent when tis
 it shall make honour for you
banquo so i lose none
 in seeking to augment it but still keep
 my bosom franchised and allegiance clear
 i shall be counsell'd
macbeth good repose the while
banquo thanks sir the like to you
 exeunt banquo and fleance
macbeth go bid thy mistress when my drink is ready
 she strike upon the bell get thee to bed
 exit servant
 is this a dagger which i see before me
 the handle toward my hand come let me clutch thee
 i have thee not and yet i see thee still
 art thou not fatal vision sensible
 to feeling as to sight or art thou but
 a dagger of the mind a false creation
 proceeding from the heatoppressed brain
 i see thee yet in form as palpable
 as this which now i draw
 thou marshall'st me the way that i was going
 and such an instrument i was to use
 mine eyes are made the fools o the other senses
 or else worth all the rest i see thee still
 and on thy blade and dudgeon gouts of blood
 which was not so before there's no such thing
 it is the bloody business which informs
 thus to mine eyes now o'er the one halfworld
 nature seems dead and wicked dreams abuse
 the curtain'd sleep witchcraft celebrates
 pale hecate's offerings and wither'd murder
 alarum'd by his sentinel the wolf
 whose howl's his watch thus with his stealthy pace
 with tarquin's ravishing strides towards his design
 moves like a ghost thou sure and firmset earth
 hear not my steps which way they walk for fear
 thy very stones prate of my whereabout
 and take the present horror from the time
 which now suits with it whiles i threat he lives
 words to the heat of deeds too cold breath gives
 a bell rings
 i go and it is done the bell invites me
 hear it not duncan for it is a knell
 that summons thee to heaven or to hell
 exit
 macbeth
act ii
scene ii the same
 enter lady macbeth
lady macbeth that which hath made them drunk hath made me bold
 what hath quench'd them hath given me fire
 hark peace
 it was the owl that shriek'd the fatal bellman
 which gives the stern'st goodnight he is about it
 the doors are open and the surfeited grooms
 do mock their charge with snores i have drugg'd
 their possets
 that death and nature do contend about them
 whether they live or die
macbeth within who's there what ho
lady macbeth alack i am afraid they have awaked
 and tis not done the attempt and not the deed
 confounds us hark i laid their daggers ready
 he could not miss em had he not resembled
 my father as he slept i had done't
 enter macbeth
 my husband
macbeth i have done the deed didst thou not hear a noise
lady macbeth i heard the owl scream and the crickets cry
 did not you speak
macbeth when
lady macbeth now
macbeth as i descended
lady macbeth ay
macbeth hark
 who lies i the second chamber
lady macbeth donalbain
macbeth this is a sorry sight
 looking on his hands
lady macbeth a foolish thought to say a sorry sight
macbeth there's one did laugh in's sleep and one cried
 murder'
 that they did wake each other i stood and heard them
 but they did say their prayers and address'd them
 again to sleep
lady macbeth there are two lodged together
macbeth one cried god bless us and amen the other
 as they had seen me with these hangman's hands
 listening their fear i could not say amen'
 when they did say god bless us'
lady macbeth consider it not so deeply
macbeth but wherefore could not i pronounce amen'
 i had most need of blessing and amen'
 stuck in my throat
lady macbeth these deeds must not be thought
 after these ways so it will make us mad
macbeth methought i heard a voice cry sleep no more
 macbeth does murder sleep the innocent sleep
 sleep that knits up the ravell'd sleeve of care
 the death of each day's life sore labour's bath
 balm of hurt minds great nature's second course
 chief nourisher in life's feast
lady macbeth what do you mean
macbeth still it cried sleep no more to all the house
 glamis hath murder'd sleep and therefore cawdor
 shall sleep no more macbeth shall sleep no more'
lady macbeth who was it that thus cried why worthy thane
 you do unbend your noble strength to think
 so brainsickly of things go get some water
 and wash this filthy witness from your hand
 why did you bring these daggers from the place
 they must lie there go carry them and smear
 the sleepy grooms with blood
macbeth i'll go no more
 i am afraid to think what i have done
 look on't again i dare not
lady macbeth infirm of purpose
 give me the daggers the sleeping and the dead
 are but as pictures tis the eye of childhood
 that fears a painted devil if he do bleed
 i'll gild the faces of the grooms withal
 for it must seem their guilt
 exit knocking within
macbeth whence is that knocking
 how is't with me when every noise appals me
 what hands are here ha they pluck out mine eyes
 will all great neptune's ocean wash this blood
 clean from my hand no this my hand will rather
 the multitudinous seas in incarnadine
 making the green one red
 reenter lady macbeth
lady macbeth my hands are of your colour but i shame
 to wear a heart so white
 knocking within
 i hear a knocking
 at the south entry retire we to our chamber
 a little water clears us of this deed
 how easy is it then your constancy
 hath left you unattended
 knocking within
 hark more knocking
 get on your nightgown lest occasion call us
 and show us to be watchers be not lost
 so poorly in your thoughts
macbeth to know my deed twere best not know myself
 knocking within
 wake duncan with thy knocking i would thou couldst
 exeunt
 macbeth
act ii
scene iii the same
 knocking within enter a porter
porter here's a knocking indeed if a
 man were porter of hellgate he should have
 old turning the key
 knocking within
 knock
 knock knock who's there i the name of
 beelzebub here's a farmer that hanged
 himself on the expectation of plenty come in
 time have napkins enow about you here
 you'll sweat for't
 knocking within
 knock
 knock who's there in the other devil's
 name faith here's an equivocator that could
 swear in both the scales against either scale
 who committed treason enough for god's sake
 yet could not equivocate to heaven o come
 in equivocator
 knocking within
 knock
 knock knock who's there faith here's an
 english tailor come hither for stealing out of
 a french hose come in tailor here you may
 roast your goose
 knocking within
 knock
 knock never at quiet what are you but
 this place is too cold for hell i'll devilporter
 it no further i had thought to have let in
 some of all professions that go the primrose
 way to the everlasting bonfire
 knocking within
 anon anon i pray you remember the porter
 opens the gate
 enter macduff and lennox
macduff was it so late friend ere you went to bed
 that you do lie so late
porter faith sir we were carousing till the
 second cock and drink sir is a great
 provoker of three things
macduff what three things does drink especially provoke
porter marry sir nosepainting sleep and
 urine lechery sir it provokes and unprovokes
 it provokes the desire but it takes
 away the performance therefore much drink
 may be said to be an equivocator with lechery
 it makes him and it mars him it sets
 him on and it takes him off it persuades him
 and disheartens him makes him stand to and
 not stand to in conclusion equivocates him
 in a sleep and giving him the lie leaves him
macduff i believe drink gave thee the lie last night
porter that it did sir i the very throat on
 me but i requited him for his lie and i
 think being too strong for him though he took
 up my legs sometime yet i made a shift to cast
 him
macduff is thy master stirring
 enter macbeth
 our knocking has awaked him here he comes
lennox good morrow noble sir
macbeth good morrow both
macduff is the king stirring worthy thane
macbeth not yet
macduff he did command me to call timely on him
 i have almost slipp'd the hour
macbeth i'll bring you to him
macduff i know this is a joyful trouble to you
 but yet tis one
macbeth the labour we delight in physics pain
 this is the door
macduff i'll make so bold to call
 for tis my limited service
 exit
lennox goes the king hence today
macbeth he does he did appoint so
lennox the night has been unruly where we lay
 our chimneys were blown down and as they say
 lamentings heard i the air strange screams of death
 and prophesying with accents terrible
 of dire combustion and confused events
 new hatch'd to the woeful time the obscure bird
 clamour'd the livelong night some say the earth
 was feverous and did shake
macbeth twas a rough night
lennox my young remembrance cannot parallel
 a fellow to it
 reenter macduff
macduff o horror horror horror tongue nor heart
 cannot conceive nor name thee
macbeth 
 what's the matter
lennox 
macduff confusion now hath made his masterpiece
 most sacrilegious murder hath broke ope
 the lord's anointed temple and stole thence
 the life o the building
macbeth what is t you say the life
lennox mean you his majesty
macduff approach the chamber and destroy your sight
 with a new gorgon do not bid me speak
 see and then speak yourselves
 exeunt macbeth and lennox
 awake awake
 ring the alarumbell murder and treason
 banquo and donalbain malcolm awake
 shake off this downy sleep death's counterfeit
 and look on death itself up up and see
 the great doom's image malcolm banquo
 as from your graves rise up and walk like sprites
 to countenance this horror ring the bell
 bell rings
 enter lady macbeth
lady macbeth what's the business
 that such a hideous trumpet calls to parley
 the sleepers of the house speak speak
macduff o gentle lady
 tis not for you to hear what i can speak
 the repetition in a woman's ear
 would murder as it fell
 enter banquo
 o banquo banquo
 our royal master s murder'd
lady macbeth woe alas
 what in our house
banquo too cruel any where
 dear duff i prithee contradict thyself
 and say it is not so
 reenter macbeth and lennox with ross
macbeth had i but died an hour before this chance
 i had lived a blessed time for from this instant
 there s nothing serious in mortality
 all is but toys renown and grace is dead
 the wine of life is drawn and the mere lees
 is left this vault to brag of
 enter malcolm and donalbain
donalbain what is amiss
macbeth you are and do not know't
 the spring the head the fountain of your blood
 is stopp'd the very source of it is stopp'd
macduff your royal father s murder'd
malcolm o by whom
lennox those of his chamber as it seem'd had done t
 their hands and faces were an badged with blood
 so were their daggers which unwiped we found
 upon their pillows
 they stared and were distracted no man's life
 was to be trusted with them
macbeth o yet i do repent me of my fury
 that i did kill them
macduff wherefore did you so
macbeth who can be wise amazed temperate and furious
 loyal and neutral in a moment no man
 the expedition my violent love
 outrun the pauser reason here lay duncan
 his silver skin laced with his golden blood
 and his gash'd stabs look'd like a breach in nature
 for ruin's wasteful entrance there the murderers
 steep'd in the colours of their trade their daggers
 unmannerly breech'd with gore who could refrain
 that had a heart to love and in that heart
 courage to make s love known
lady macbeth help me hence ho
macduff look to the lady
malcolm aside to donalbain why do we hold our tongues
 that most may claim this argument for ours
donalbain aside to malcolm what should be spoken here
 where our fate
 hid in an augerhole may rush and seize us
 let s away
 our tears are not yet brew'd
malcolm aside to donalbain nor our strong sorrow
 upon the foot of motion
banquo look to the lady
 lady macbeth is carried out
 and when we have our naked frailties hid
 that suffer in exposure let us meet
 and question this most bloody piece of work
 to know it further fears and scruples shake us
 in the great hand of god i stand and thence
 against the undivulged pretence i fight
 of treasonous malice
macduff and so do i
all so all
macbeth let's briefly put on manly readiness
 and meet i the hall together
all well contented
 exeunt all but malcolm and donalbain
malcolm what will you do let's not consort with them
 to show an unfelt sorrow is an office
 which the false man does easy i'll to england
donalbain to ireland i our separated fortune
 shall keep us both the safer where we are
 there's daggers in men's smiles the near in blood
 the nearer bloody
malcolm this murderous shaft that's shot
 hath not yet lighted and our safest way
 is to avoid the aim therefore to horse
 and let us not be dainty of leavetaking
 but shift away there's warrant in that theft
 which steals itself when there's no mercy left
 exeunt
 macbeth
act ii
scene iv outside macbeth's castle
 enter ross and an old man
old man threescore and ten i can remember well
 within the volume of which time i have seen
 hours dreadful and things strange but this sore night
 hath trifled former knowings
ross ah good father
 thou seest the heavens as troubled with man's act
 threaten his bloody stage by the clock tis day
 and yet dark night strangles the travelling lamp
 is't night's predominance or the day's shame
 that darkness does the face of earth entomb
 when living light should kiss it
old man tis unnatural
 even like the deed that's done on tuesday last
 a falcon towering in her pride of place
 was by a mousing owl hawk'd at and kill'd
ross and duncan's horsesa thing most strange and certain
 beauteous and swift the minions of their race
 turn'd wild in nature broke their stalls flung out
 contending gainst obedience as they would make
 war with mankind
old man tis said they eat each other
ross they did so to the amazement of mine eyes
 that look'd upon't here comes the good macduff
 enter macduff
 how goes the world sir now
macduff why see you not
ross is't known who did this more than bloody deed
macduff those that macbeth hath slain
ross alas the day
 what good could they pretend
macduff they were suborn'd
 malcolm and donalbain the king's two sons
 are stol'n away and fled which puts upon them
 suspicion of the deed
ross gainst nature still
 thriftless ambition that wilt ravin up
 thine own life's means then tis most like
 the sovereignty will fall upon macbeth
macduff he is already named and gone to scone
 to be invested
ross where is duncan's body
macduff carried to colmekill
 the sacred storehouse of his predecessors
 and guardian of their bones
ross will you to scone
macduff no cousin i'll to fife
ross well i will thither
macduff well may you see things well done there adieu
 lest our old robes sit easier than our new
ross farewell father
old man god's benison go with you and with those
 that would make good of bad and friends of foes
 exeunt
 macbeth
act iii
scene i forres the palace
 enter banquo
banquo thou hast it now king cawdor glamis all
 as the weird women promised and i fear
 thou play'dst most foully for't yet it was said
 it should not stand in thy posterity
 but that myself should be the root and father
 of many kings if there come truth from them
 as upon thee macbeth their speeches shine
 why by the verities on thee made good
 may they not be my oracles as well
 and set me up in hope but hush no more
 sennet sounded enter macbeth as king lady
 macbeth as queen lennox ross lords ladies and
 attendants
macbeth here's our chief guest
lady macbeth if he had been forgotten
 it had been as a gap in our great feast
 and allthing unbecoming
macbeth tonight we hold a solemn supper sir
 and i'll request your presence
banquo let your highness
 command upon me to the which my duties
 are with a most indissoluble tie
 for ever knit
macbeth ride you this afternoon
banquo ay my good lord
macbeth we should have else desired your good advice
 which still hath been both grave and prosperous
 in this day's council but we'll take tomorrow
 is't far you ride
banquo as far my lord as will fill up the time
 twixt this and supper go not my horse the better
 i must become a borrower of the night
 for a dark hour or twain
macbeth fail not our feast
banquo my lord i will not
macbeth we hear our bloody cousins are bestow'd
 in england and in ireland not confessing
 their cruel parricide filling their hearers
 with strange invention but of that tomorrow
 when therewithal we shall have cause of state
 craving us jointly hie you to horse adieu
 till you return at night goes fleance with you
banquo ay my good lord our time does call upon s
macbeth i wish your horses swift and sure of foot
 and so i do commend you to their backs farewell
 exit banquo
 let every man be master of his time
 till seven at night to make society
 the sweeter welcome we will keep ourself
 till suppertime alone while then god be with you
 exeunt all but macbeth and an attendant
 sirrah a word with you attend those men
 our pleasure
attendant they are my lord without the palace gate
macbeth bring them before us
 exit attendant
 to be thus is nothing
 but to be safely thusour fears in banquo
 stick deep and in his royalty of nature
 reigns that which would be fear'd tis much he dares
 and to that dauntless temper of his mind
 he hath a wisdom that doth guide his valour
 to act in safety there is none but he
 whose being i do fear and under him
 my genius is rebuked as it is said
 mark antony's was by caesar he chid the sisters
 when first they put the name of king upon me
 and bade them speak to him then prophetlike
 they hail'd him father to a line of kings
 upon my head they placed a fruitless crown
 and put a barren sceptre in my gripe
 thence to be wrench'd with an unlineal hand
 no son of mine succeeding if t be so
 for banquo's issue have i filed my mind
 for them the gracious duncan have i murder'd
 put rancours in the vessel of my peace
 only for them and mine eternal jewel
 given to the common enemy of man
 to make them kings the seed of banquo kings
 rather than so come fate into the list
 and champion me to the utterance who's there
 reenter attendant with two murderers
 now go to the door and stay there till we call
 exit attendant
 was it not yesterday we spoke together
first murderer it was so please your highness
macbeth well then now
 have you consider'd of my speeches know
 that it was he in the times past which held you
 so under fortune which you thought had been
 our innocent self this i made good to you
 in our last conference pass'd in probation with you
 how you were borne in hand how cross'd
 the instruments
 who wrought with them and all things else that might
 to half a soul and to a notion crazed
 say thus did banquo'
first murderer you made it known to us
macbeth i did so and went further which is now
 our point of second meeting do you find
 your patience so predominant in your nature
 that you can let this go are you so gospell'd
 to pray for this good man and for his issue
 whose heavy hand hath bow'd you to the grave
 and beggar'd yours for ever
first murderer we are men my liege
macbeth ay in the catalogue ye go for men
 as hounds and greyhounds mongrels spaniels curs
 shoughs waterrugs and demiwolves are clept
 all by the name of dogs the valued file
 distinguishes the swift the slow the subtle
 the housekeeper the hunter every one
 according to the gift which bounteous nature
 hath in him closed whereby he does receive
 particular addition from the bill
 that writes them all alike and so of men
 now if you have a station in the file
 not i the worst rank of manhood say t
 and i will put that business in your bosoms
 whose execution takes your enemy off
 grapples you to the heart and love of us
 who wear our health but sickly in his life
 which in his death were perfect
second murderer i am one my liege
 whom the vile blows and buffets of the world
 have so incensed that i am reckless what
 i do to spite the world
first murderer and i another
 so weary with disasters tugg'd with fortune
 that i would set my lie on any chance
 to mend it or be rid on't
macbeth both of you
 know banquo was your enemy
both murderers true my lord
macbeth so is he mine and in such bloody distance
 that every minute of his being thrusts
 against my near'st of life and though i could
 with barefaced power sweep him from my sight
 and bid my will avouch it yet i must not
 for certain friends that are both his and mine
 whose loves i may not drop but wail his fall
 who i myself struck down and thence it is
 that i to your assistance do make love
 masking the business from the common eye
 for sundry weighty reasons
second murderer we shall my lord
 perform what you command us
first murderer though our lives
macbeth your spirits shine through you within this hour at most
 i will advise you where to plant yourselves
 acquaint you with the perfect spy o the time
 the moment on't for't must be done tonight
 and something from the palace always thought
 that i require a clearness and with him
 to leave no rubs nor botches in the work
 fleance his son that keeps him company
 whose absence is no less material to me
 than is his father's must embrace the fate
 of that dark hour resolve yourselves apart
 i'll come to you anon
both murderers we are resolved my lord
macbeth i'll call upon you straight abide within
 exeunt murderers
 it is concluded banquo thy soul's flight
 if it find heaven must find it out tonight
 exit
 macbeth
act iii
scene ii the palace
 enter lady macbeth and a servant
lady macbeth is banquo gone from court
servant ay madam but returns again tonight
lady macbeth say to the king i would attend his leisure
 for a few words
servant madam i will
 exit
lady macbeth nought's had all's spent
 where our desire is got without content
 tis safer to be that which we destroy
 than by destruction dwell in doubtful joy
 enter macbeth
 how now my lord why do you keep alone
 of sorriest fancies your companions making
 using those thoughts which should indeed have died
 with them they think on things without all remedy
 should be without regard what's done is done
macbeth we have scotch'd the snake not kill'd it
 she'll close and be herself whilst our poor malice
 remains in danger of her former tooth
 but let the frame of things disjoint both the
 worlds suffer
 ere we will eat our meal in fear and sleep
 in the affliction of these terrible dreams
 that shake us nightly better be with the dead
 whom we to gain our peace have sent to peace
 than on the torture of the mind to lie
 in restless ecstasy duncan is in his grave
 after life's fitful fever he sleeps well
 treason has done his worst nor steel nor poison
 malice domestic foreign levy nothing
 can touch him further
lady macbeth come on
 gentle my lord sleek o'er your rugged looks
 be bright and jovial among your guests tonight
macbeth so shall i love and so i pray be you
 let your remembrance apply to banquo
 present him eminence both with eye and tongue
 unsafe the while that we
 must lave our honours in these flattering streams
 and make our faces vizards to our hearts
 disguising what they are
lady macbeth you must leave this
macbeth o full of scorpions is my mind dear wife
 thou know'st that banquo and his fleance lives
lady macbeth but in them nature's copy's not eterne
macbeth there's comfort yet they are assailable
 then be thou jocund ere the bat hath flown
 his cloister'd flight ere to black hecate's summons
 the shardborne beetle with his drowsy hums
 hath rung night's yawning peal there shall be done
 a deed of dreadful note
lady macbeth what's to be done
macbeth be innocent of the knowledge dearest chuck
 till thou applaud the deed come seeling night
 scarf up the tender eye of pitiful day
 and with thy bloody and invisible hand
 cancel and tear to pieces that great bond
 which keeps me pale light thickens and the crow
 makes wing to the rooky wood
 good things of day begin to droop and drowse
 while night's black agents to their preys do rouse
 thou marvell'st at my words but hold thee still
 things bad begun make strong themselves by ill
 so prithee go with me
 exeunt
 macbeth
act iii
scene iii a park near the palace
 enter three murderers
first murderer but who did bid thee join with us
third murderer macbeth
second murderer he needs not our mistrust since he delivers
 our offices and what we have to do
 to the direction just
first murderer then stand with us
 the west yet glimmers with some streaks of day
 now spurs the lated traveller apace
 to gain the timely inn and near approaches
 the subject of our watch
third murderer hark i hear horses
banquo within give us a light there ho
second murderer then tis he the rest
 that are within the note of expectation
 already are i the court
first murderer his horses go about
third murderer almost a mile but he does usually
 so all men do from hence to the palace gate
 make it their walk
second murderer a light a light
 enter banquo and fleance with a torch
third murderer tis he
first murderer stand to't
banquo it will be rain tonight
first murderer let it come down
 they set upon banquo
banquo o treachery fly good fleance fly fly fly
 thou mayst revenge o slave
 dies fleance escapes
third murderer who did strike out the light
first murderer wast not the way
third murderer there's but one down the son is fled
second murderer we have lost
 best half of our affair
first murderer well let's away and say how much is done
 exeunt
 macbeth
act iii
scene iv the same hall in the palace
 a banquet prepared enter macbeth lady macbeth
 ross lennox lords and attendants
macbeth you know your own degrees sit down at first
 and last the hearty welcome
lords thanks to your majesty
macbeth ourself will mingle with society
 and play the humble host
 our hostess keeps her state but in best time
 we will require her welcome
lady macbeth pronounce it for me sir to all our friends
 for my heart speaks they are welcome
 first murderer appears at the door
macbeth see they encounter thee with their hearts thanks
 both sides are even here i'll sit i the midst
 be large in mirth anon we'll drink a measure
 the table round
 approaching the door
 there's blood on thy face
first murderer tis banquo's then
macbeth tis better thee without than he within
 is he dispatch'd
first murderer my lord his throat is cut that i did for him
macbeth thou art the best o the cutthroats yet he's good
 that did the like for fleance if thou didst it
 thou art the nonpareil
first murderer most royal sir
 fleance is scaped
macbeth then comes my fit again i had else been perfect
 whole as the marble founded as the rock
 as broad and general as the casing air
 but now i am cabin'd cribb'd confined bound in
 to saucy doubts and fears but banquo's safe
first murderer ay my good lord safe in a ditch he bides
 with twenty trenched gashes on his head
 the least a death to nature
macbeth thanks for that
 there the grown serpent lies the worm that's fled
 hath nature that in time will venom breed
 no teeth for the present get thee gone tomorrow
 we'll hear ourselves again
 exit murderer
lady macbeth my royal lord
 you do not give the cheer the feast is sold
 that is not often vouch'd while tis amaking
 tis given with welcome to feed were best at home
 from thence the sauce to meat is ceremony
 meeting were bare without it
macbeth sweet remembrancer
 now good digestion wait on appetite
 and health on both
lennox may't please your highness sit
 the ghost of banquo enters and sits in
 macbeth's place
macbeth here had we now our country's honour roof'd
 were the graced person of our banquo present
 who may i rather challenge for unkindness
 than pity for mischance
ross his absence sir
 lays blame upon his promise please't your highness
 to grace us with your royal company
macbeth the table's full
lennox here is a place reserved sir
macbeth where
lennox here my good lord what is't that moves your highness
macbeth which of you have done this
lords what my good lord
macbeth thou canst not say i did it never shake
 thy gory locks at me
ross gentlemen rise his highness is not well
lady macbeth sit worthy friends my lord is often thus
 and hath been from his youth pray you keep seat
 the fit is momentary upon a thought
 he will again be well if much you note him
 you shall offend him and extend his passion
 feed and regard him not are you a man
macbeth ay and a bold one that dare look on that
 which might appal the devil
lady macbeth o proper stuff
 this is the very painting of your fear
 this is the airdrawn dagger which you said
 led you to duncan o these flaws and starts
 impostors to true fear would well become
 a woman's story at a winter's fire
 authorized by her grandam shame itself
 why do you make such faces when all's done
 you look but on a stool
macbeth prithee see there behold look lo
 how say you
 why what care i if thou canst nod speak too
 if charnelhouses and our graves must send
 those that we bury back our monuments
 shall be the maws of kites
 ghost of banquo vanishes
lady macbeth what quite unmann'd in folly
macbeth if i stand here i saw him
lady macbeth fie for shame
macbeth blood hath been shed ere now i the olden time
 ere human statute purged the gentle weal
 ay and since too murders have been perform'd
 too terrible for the ear the times have been
 that when the brains were out the man would die
 and there an end but now they rise again
 with twenty mortal murders on their crowns
 and push us from our stools this is more strange
 than such a murder is
lady macbeth my worthy lord
 your noble friends do lack you
macbeth i do forget
 do not muse at me my most worthy friends
 i have a strange infirmity which is nothing
 to those that know me come love and health to all
 then i'll sit down give me some wine fill full
 i drink to the general joy o the whole table
 and to our dear friend banquo whom we miss
 would he were here to all and him we thirst
 and all to all
lords our duties and the pledge
 reenter ghost of banquo
macbeth avaunt and quit my sight let the earth hide thee
 thy bones are marrowless thy blood is cold
 thou hast no speculation in those eyes
 which thou dost glare with
lady macbeth think of this good peers
 but as a thing of custom tis no other
 only it spoils the pleasure of the time
macbeth what man dare i dare
 approach thou like the rugged russian bear
 the arm'd rhinoceros or the hyrcan tiger
 take any shape but that and my firm nerves
 shall never tremble or be alive again
 and dare me to the desert with thy sword
 if trembling i inhabit then protest me
 the baby of a girl hence horrible shadow
 unreal mockery hence
 ghost of banquo vanishes
 why so being gone
 i am a man again pray you sit still
lady macbeth you have displaced the mirth broke the good meeting
 with most admired disorder
macbeth can such things be
 and overcome us like a summer's cloud
 without our special wonder you make me strange
 even to the disposition that i owe
 when now i think you can behold such sights
 and keep the natural ruby of your cheeks
 when mine is blanched with fear
ross what sights my lord
lady macbeth i pray you speak not he grows worse and worse
 question enrages him at once good night
 stand not upon the order of your going
 but go at once
lennox good night and better health
 attend his majesty
lady macbeth a kind good night to all
 exeunt all but macbeth and lady macbeth
macbeth it will have blood they say blood will have blood
 stones have been known to move and trees to speak
 augurs and understood relations have
 by magotpies and choughs and rooks brought forth
 the secret'st man of blood what is the night
lady macbeth almost at odds with morning which is which
macbeth how say'st thou that macduff denies his person
 at our great bidding
lady macbeth did you send to him sir
macbeth i hear it by the way but i will send
 there's not a one of them but in his house
 i keep a servant fee'd i will tomorrow
 and betimes i will to the weird sisters
 more shall they speak for now i am bent to know
 by the worst means the worst for mine own good
 all causes shall give way i am in blood
 stepp'd in so far that should i wade no more
 returning were as tedious as go o'er
 strange things i have in head that will to hand
 which must be acted ere they may be scann'd
lady macbeth you lack the season of all natures sleep
macbeth come we'll to sleep my strange and selfabuse
 is the initiate fear that wants hard use
 we are yet but young in deed
 exeunt
 macbeth
act iii
scene v a heath
 thunder enter the three witches meeting hecate
first witch why how now hecate you look angerly
hecate have i not reason beldams as you are
 saucy and overbold how did you dare
 to trade and traffic with macbeth
 in riddles and affairs of death
 and i the mistress of your charms
 the close contriver of all harms
 was never call'd to bear my part
 or show the glory of our art
 and which is worse all you have done
 hath been but for a wayward son
 spiteful and wrathful who as others do
 loves for his own ends not for you
 but make amends now get you gone
 and at the pit of acheron
 meet me i the morning thither he
 will come to know his destiny
 your vessels and your spells provide
 your charms and every thing beside
 i am for the air this night i'll spend
 unto a dismal and a fatal end
 great business must be wrought ere noon
 upon the corner of the moon
 there hangs a vaporous drop profound
 i'll catch it ere it come to ground
 and that distill'd by magic sleights
 shall raise such artificial sprites
 as by the strength of their illusion
 shall draw him on to his confusion
 he shall spurn fate scorn death and bear
 he hopes bove wisdom grace and fear
 and you all know security
 is mortals chiefest enemy
 music and a song within come away come
 away &c
 hark i am call'd my little spirit see
 sits in a foggy cloud and stays for me
 exit
first witch come let's make haste she'll soon be back again
 exeunt
 macbeth
act iii
scene vi forres the palace
 enter lennox and another lord
lennox my former speeches have but hit your thoughts
 which can interpret further only i say
 things have been strangely borne the
 gracious duncan
 was pitied of macbeth marry he was dead
 and the rightvaliant banquo walk'd too late
 whom you may say if't please you fleance kill'd
 for fleance fled men must not walk too late
 who cannot want the thought how monstrous
 it was for malcolm and for donalbain
 to kill their gracious father damned fact
 how it did grieve macbeth did he not straight
 in pious rage the two delinquents tear
 that were the slaves of drink and thralls of sleep
 was not that nobly done ay and wisely too
 for twould have anger'd any heart alive
 to hear the men deny't so that i say
 he has borne all things well and i do think
 that had he duncan's sons under his key
 as an't please heaven he shall notthey
 should find
 what twere to kill a father so should fleance
 but peace for from broad words and cause he fail'd
 his presence at the tyrant's feast i hear
 macduff lives in disgrace sir can you tell
 where he bestows himself
lord the son of duncan
 from whom this tyrant holds the due of birth
 lives in the english court and is received
 of the most pious edward with such grace
 that the malevolence of fortune nothing
 takes from his high respect thither macduff
 is gone to pray the holy king upon his aid
 to wake northumberland and warlike siward
 that by the help of thesewith him above
 to ratify the workwe may again
 give to our tables meat sleep to our nights
 free from our feasts and banquets bloody knives
 do faithful homage and receive free honours
 all which we pine for now and this report
 hath so exasperate the king that he
 prepares for some attempt of war
lennox sent he to macduff
lord he did and with an absolute sir not i'
 the cloudy messenger turns me his back
 and hums as who should say you'll rue the time
 that clogs me with this answer'
lennox and that well might
 advise him to a caution to hold what distance
 his wisdom can provide some holy angel
 fly to the court of england and unfold
 his message ere he come that a swift blessing
 may soon return to this our suffering country
 under a hand accursed
lord i'll send my prayers with him
 exeunt
 macbeth
act iv
scene i a cavern in the middle a boiling cauldron
 thunder enter the three witches
first witch thrice the brinded cat hath mew'd
second witch thrice and once the hedgepig whined
third witch harpier cries tis time tis time
first witch round about the cauldron go
 in the poison'd entrails throw
 toad that under cold stone
 days and nights has thirtyone
 swelter'd venom sleeping got
 boil thou first i the charmed pot
all double double toil and trouble
 fire burn and cauldron bubble
second witch fillet of a fenny snake
 in the cauldron boil and bake
 eye of newt and toe of frog
 wool of bat and tongue of dog
 adder's fork and blindworm's sting
 lizard's leg and owlet's wing
 for a charm of powerful trouble
 like a hellbroth boil and bubble
all double double toil and trouble
 fire burn and cauldron bubble
third witch scale of dragon tooth of wolf
 witches mummy maw and gulf
 of the ravin'd saltsea shark
 root of hemlock digg'd i the dark
 liver of blaspheming jew
 gall of goat and slips of yew
 silver'd in the moon's eclipse
 nose of turk and tartar's lips
 finger of birthstrangled babe
 ditchdeliver'd by a drab
 make the gruel thick and slab
 add thereto a tiger's chaudron
 for the ingredients of our cauldron
all double double toil and trouble
 fire burn and cauldron bubble
second witch cool it with a baboon's blood
 then the charm is firm and good
 enter hecate to the other three witches
hecate o well done i commend your pains
 and every one shall share i the gains
 and now about the cauldron sing
 live elves and fairies in a ring
 enchanting all that you put in
 music and a song black spirits &c
 hecate retires
second witch by the pricking of my thumbs
 something wicked this way comes
 open locks
 whoever knocks
 enter macbeth
macbeth how now you secret black and midnight hags
 what is't you do
all a deed without a name
macbeth i conjure you by that which you profess
 howe'er you come to know it answer me
 though you untie the winds and let them fight
 against the churches though the yesty waves
 confound and swallow navigation up
 though bladed corn be lodged and trees blown down
 though castles topple on their warders heads
 though palaces and pyramids do slope
 their heads to their foundations though the treasure
 of nature's germens tumble all together
 even till destruction sicken answer me
 to what i ask you
first witch speak
second witch demand
third witch we'll answer
first witch say if thou'dst rather hear it from our mouths
 or from our masters
macbeth call em let me see em
first witch pour in sow's blood that hath eaten
 her nine farrow grease that's sweaten
 from the murderer's gibbet throw
 into the flame
all come high or low
 thyself and office deftly show
 thunder first apparition an armed head
macbeth tell me thou unknown power
first witch he knows thy thought
 hear his speech but say thou nought
first apparition macbeth macbeth macbeth beware macduff
 beware the thane of fife dismiss me enough
 descends
macbeth whate'er thou art for thy good caution thanks
 thou hast harp'd my fear aright but one
 word more
first witch he will not be commanded here's another
 more potent than the first
 thunder second apparition a bloody child
second apparition macbeth macbeth macbeth
macbeth had i three ears i'ld hear thee
second apparition be bloody bold and resolute laugh to scorn
 the power of man for none of woman born
 shall harm macbeth
 descends
macbeth then live macduff what need i fear of thee
 but yet i'll make assurance double sure
 and take a bond of fate thou shalt not live
 that i may tell palehearted fear it lies
 and sleep in spite of thunder
 thunder third apparition a child crowned
 with a tree in his hand
 what is this
 that rises like the issue of a king
 and wears upon his babybrow the round
 and top of sovereignty
all listen but speak not to't
third apparition be lionmettled proud and take no care
 who chafes who frets or where conspirers are
 macbeth shall never vanquish'd be until
 great birnam wood to high dunsinane hill
 shall come against him
 descends
macbeth that will never be
 who can impress the forest bid the tree
 unfix his earthbound root sweet bodements good
 rebellion's head rise never till the wood
 of birnam rise and our highplaced macbeth
 shall live the lease of nature pay his breath
 to time and mortal custom yet my heart
 throbs to know one thing tell me if your art
 can tell so much shall banquo's issue ever
 reign in this kingdom
all seek to know no more
macbeth i will be satisfied deny me this
 and an eternal curse fall on you let me know
 why sinks that cauldron and what noise is this
 hautboys
first witch show
second witch show
third witch show
all show his eyes and grieve his heart
 come like shadows so depart
 a show of eight kings the last with a glass in
 his hand ghost of banquo following
macbeth thou art too like the spirit of banquo down
 thy crown does sear mine eyeballs and thy hair
 thou other goldbound brow is like the first
 a third is like the former filthy hags
 why do you show me this a fourth start eyes
 what will the line stretch out to the crack of doom
 another yet a seventh i'll see no more
 and yet the eighth appears who bears a glass
 which shows me many more and some i see
 that twofold balls and treble scepters carry
 horrible sight now i see tis true
 for the bloodbolter'd banquo smiles upon me
 and points at them for his
 apparitions vanish
 what is this so
first witch ay sir all this is so but why
 stands macbeth thus amazedly
 come sisters cheer we up his sprites
 and show the best of our delights
 i'll charm the air to give a sound
 while you perform your antic round
 that this great king may kindly say
 our duties did his welcome pay
 music the witches dance and then vanish
 with hecate
macbeth where are they gone let this pernicious hour
 stand aye accursed in the calendar
 come in without there
 enter lennox
lennox what's your grace's will
macbeth saw you the weird sisters
lennox no my lord
macbeth came they not by you
lennox no indeed my lord
macbeth infected be the air whereon they ride
 and damn'd all those that trust them i did hear
 the galloping of horse who was't came by
lennox tis two or three my lord that bring you word
 macduff is fled to england
macbeth fled to england
lennox ay my good lord
macbeth time thou anticipatest my dread exploits
 the flighty purpose never is o'ertook
 unless the deed go with it from this moment
 the very firstlings of my heart shall be
 the firstlings of my hand and even now
 to crown my thoughts with acts be it thought and done
 the castle of macduff i will surprise
 seize upon fife give to the edge o the sword
 his wife his babes and all unfortunate souls
 that trace him in his line no boasting like a fool
 this deed i'll do before this purpose cool
 but no more sightswhere are these gentlemen
 come bring me where they are
 exeunt
 macbeth
act iv
scene ii fife macduff's castle
 enter lady macduff her son and ross
lady macduff what had he done to make him fly the land
ross you must have patience madam
lady macduff he had none
 his flight was madness when our actions do not
 our fears do make us traitors
ross you know not
 whether it was his wisdom or his fear
lady macduff wisdom to leave his wife to leave his babes
 his mansion and his titles in a place
 from whence himself does fly he loves us not
 he wants the natural touch for the poor wren
 the most diminutive of birds will fight
 her young ones in her nest against the owl
 all is the fear and nothing is the love
 as little is the wisdom where the flight
 so runs against all reason
ross my dearest coz
 i pray you school yourself but for your husband
 he is noble wise judicious and best knows
 the fits o the season i dare not speak
 much further
 but cruel are the times when we are traitors
 and do not know ourselves when we hold rumour
 from what we fear yet know not what we fear
 but float upon a wild and violent sea
 each way and move i take my leave of you
 shall not be long but i'll be here again
 things at the worst will cease or else climb upward
 to what they were before my pretty cousin
 blessing upon you
lady macduff father'd he is and yet he's fatherless
ross i am so much a fool should i stay longer
 it would be my disgrace and your discomfort
 i take my leave at once
 exit
lady macduff sirrah your father's dead
 and what will you do now how will you live
son as birds do mother
lady macduff what with worms and flies
son with what i get i mean and so do they
lady macduff poor bird thou'ldst never fear the net nor lime
 the pitfall nor the gin
son why should i mother poor birds they are not set for
 my father is not dead for all your saying
lady macduff yes he is dead how wilt thou do for a father
son nay how will you do for a husband
lady macduff why i can buy me twenty at any market
son then you'll buy em to sell again
lady macduff thou speak'st with all thy wit and yet i faith
 with wit enough for thee
son was my father a traitor mother
lady macduff ay that he was
son what is a traitor
lady macduff why one that swears and lies
son and be all traitors that do so
lady macduff every one that does so is a traitor and must be hanged
son and must they all be hanged that swear and lie
lady macduff every one
son who must hang them
lady macduff why the honest men
son then the liars and swearers are fools
 for there are liars and swearers enow to beat
 the honest men and hang up them
lady macduff now god help thee poor monkey
 but how wilt thou do for a father
son if he were dead you'ld weep for
 him if you would not it were a good sign
 that i should quickly have a new father
lady macduff poor prattler how thou talk'st
 enter a messenger
messenger bless you fair dame i am not to you known
 though in your state of honour i am perfect
 i doubt some danger does approach you nearly
 if you will take a homely man's advice
 be not found here hence with your little ones
 to fright you thus methinks i am too savage
 to do worse to you were fell cruelty
 which is too nigh your person heaven preserve you
 i dare abide no longer
 exit
lady macduff whither should i fly
 i have done no harm but i remember now
 i am in this earthly world where to do harm
 is often laudable to do good sometime
 accounted dangerous folly why then alas
 do i put up that womanly defence
 to say i have done no harm
 enter murderers
 what are these faces
first murderer where is your husband
lady macduff i hope in no place so unsanctified
 where such as thou mayst find him
first murderer he's a traitor
son thou liest thou shaghair'd villain
first murderer what you egg
 stabbing him
 young fry of treachery
son he has kill'd me mother
 run away i pray you
 dies
 exit lady macduff crying murder exeunt
 murderers following her
 macbeth
act iv
scene iii england before the king's palace
 enter malcolm and macduff
malcolm let us seek out some desolate shade and there
 weep our sad bosoms empty
macduff let us rather
 hold fast the mortal sword and like good men
 bestride our downfall'n birthdom each new morn
 new widows howl new orphans cry new sorrows
 strike heaven on the face that it resounds
 as if it felt with scotland and yell'd out
 like syllable of dolour
malcolm what i believe i'll wail
 what know believe and what i can redress
 as i shall find the time to friend i will
 what you have spoke it may be so perchance
 this tyrant whose sole name blisters our tongues
 was once thought honest you have loved him well
 he hath not touch'd you yet i am young
 but something
 you may deserve of him through me and wisdom
 to offer up a weak poor innocent lamb
 to appease an angry god
macduff i am not treacherous
malcolm but macbeth is
 a good and virtuous nature may recoil
 in an imperial charge but i shall crave
 your pardon
 that which you are my thoughts cannot transpose
 angels are bright still though the brightest fell
 though all things foul would wear the brows of grace
 yet grace must still look so
macduff i have lost my hopes
malcolm perchance even there where i did find my doubts
 why in that rawness left you wife and child
 those precious motives those strong knots of love
 without leavetaking i pray you
 let not my jealousies be your dishonours
 but mine own safeties you may be rightly just
 whatever i shall think
macduff bleed bleed poor country
 great tyranny lay thou thy basis sure
 for goodness dare not cheque thee wear thou
 thy wrongs
 the title is affeer'd fare thee well lord
 i would not be the villain that thou think'st
 for the whole space that's in the tyrant's grasp
 and the rich east to boot
malcolm be not offended
 i speak not as in absolute fear of you
 i think our country sinks beneath the yoke
 it weeps it bleeds and each new day a gash
 is added to her wounds i think withal
 there would be hands uplifted in my right
 and here from gracious england have i offer
 of goodly thousands but for all this
 when i shall tread upon the tyrant's head
 or wear it on my sword yet my poor country
 shall have more vices than it had before
 more suffer and more sundry ways than ever
 by him that shall succeed
macduff what should he be
malcolm it is myself i mean in whom i know
 all the particulars of vice so grafted
 that when they shall be open'd black macbeth
 will seem as pure as snow and the poor state
 esteem him as a lamb being compared
 with my confineless harms
macduff not in the legions
 of horrid hell can come a devil more damn'd
 in evils to top macbeth
malcolm i grant him bloody
 luxurious avaricious false deceitful
 sudden malicious smacking of every sin
 that has a name but there's no bottom none
 in my voluptuousness your wives your daughters
 your matrons and your maids could not fill up
 the cistern of my lust and my desire
 all continent impediments would o'erbear
 that did oppose my will better macbeth
 than such an one to reign
macduff boundless intemperance
 in nature is a tyranny it hath been
 the untimely emptying of the happy throne
 and fall of many kings but fear not yet
 to take upon you what is yours you may
 convey your pleasures in a spacious plenty
 and yet seem cold the time you may so hoodwink
 we have willing dames enough there cannot be
 that vulture in you to devour so many
 as will to greatness dedicate themselves
 finding it so inclined
malcolm with this there grows
 in my most illcomposed affection such
 a stanchless avarice that were i king
 i should cut off the nobles for their lands
 desire his jewels and this other's house
 and my morehaving would be as a sauce
 to make me hunger more that i should forge
 quarrels unjust against the good and loyal
 destroying them for wealth
macduff this avarice
 sticks deeper grows with more pernicious root
 than summerseeming lust and it hath been
 the sword of our slain kings yet do not fear
 scotland hath foisons to fill up your will
 of your mere own all these are portable
 with other graces weigh'd
malcolm but i have none the kingbecoming graces
 as justice verity temperance stableness
 bounty perseverance mercy lowliness
 devotion patience courage fortitude
 i have no relish of them but abound
 in the division of each several crime
 acting it many ways nay had i power i should
 pour the sweet milk of concord into hell
 uproar the universal peace confound
 all unity on earth
macduff o scotland scotland
malcolm if such a one be fit to govern speak
 i am as i have spoken
macduff fit to govern
 no not to live o nation miserable
 with an untitled tyrant bloodyscepter'd
 when shalt thou see thy wholesome days again
 since that the truest issue of thy throne
 by his own interdiction stands accursed
 and does blaspheme his breed thy royal father
 was a most sainted king the queen that bore thee
 oftener upon her knees than on her feet
 died every day she lived fare thee well
 these evils thou repeat'st upon thyself
 have banish'd me from scotland o my breast
 thy hope ends here
malcolm macduff this noble passion
 child of integrity hath from my soul
 wiped the black scruples reconciled my thoughts
 to thy good truth and honour devilish macbeth
 by many of these trains hath sought to win me
 into his power and modest wisdom plucks me
 from overcredulous haste but god above
 deal between thee and me for even now
 i put myself to thy direction and
 unspeak mine own detraction here abjure
 the taints and blames i laid upon myself
 for strangers to my nature i am yet
 unknown to woman never was forsworn
 scarcely have coveted what was mine own
 at no time broke my faith would not betray
 the devil to his fellow and delight
 no less in truth than life my first false speaking
 was this upon myself what i am truly
 is thine and my poor country's to command
 whither indeed before thy hereapproach
 old siward with ten thousand warlike men
 already at a point was setting forth
 now we'll together and the chance of goodness
 be like our warranted quarrel why are you silent
macduff such welcome and unwelcome things at once
 tis hard to reconcile
 enter a doctor
malcolm well more anoncomes the king forth i pray you
doctor ay sir there are a crew of wretched souls
 that stay his cure their malady convinces
 the great assay of art but at his touch
 such sanctity hath heaven given his hand
 they presently amend
malcolm i thank you doctor
 exit doctor
macduff what's the disease he means
malcolm tis call'd the evil
 a most miraculous work in this good king
 which often since my hereremain in england
 i have seen him do how he solicits heaven
 himself best knows but strangelyvisited people
 all swoln and ulcerous pitiful to the eye
 the mere despair of surgery he cures
 hanging a golden stamp about their necks
 put on with holy prayers and tis spoken
 to the succeeding royalty he leaves
 the healing benediction with this strange virtue
 he hath a heavenly gift of prophecy
 and sundry blessings hang about his throne
 that speak him full of grace
 enter ross
macduff see who comes here
malcolm my countryman but yet i know him not
macduff my evergentle cousin welcome hither
malcolm i know him now good god betimes remove
 the means that makes us strangers
ross sir amen
macduff stands scotland where it did
ross alas poor country
 almost afraid to know itself it cannot
 be call'd our mother but our grave where nothing
 but who knows nothing is once seen to smile
 where sighs and groans and shrieks that rend the air
 are made not mark'd where violent sorrow seems
 a modern ecstasy the dead man's knell
 is there scarce ask'd for who and good men's lives
 expire before the flowers in their caps
 dying or ere they sicken
macduff o relation
 too nice and yet too true
malcolm what's the newest grief
ross that of an hour's age doth hiss the speaker
 each minute teems a new one
macduff how does my wife
ross why well
macduff and all my children
ross well too
macduff the tyrant has not batter'd at their peace
ross no they were well at peace when i did leave em
macduff but not a niggard of your speech how goes't
ross when i came hither to transport the tidings
 which i have heavily borne there ran a rumour
 of many worthy fellows that were out
 which was to my belief witness'd the rather
 for that i saw the tyrant's power afoot
 now is the time of help your eye in scotland
 would create soldiers make our women fight
 to doff their dire distresses
malcolm be't their comfort
 we are coming thither gracious england hath
 lent us good siward and ten thousand men
 an older and a better soldier none
 that christendom gives out
ross would i could answer
 this comfort with the like but i have words
 that would be howl'd out in the desert air
 where hearing should not latch them
macduff what concern they
 the general cause or is it a feegrief
 due to some single breast
ross no mind that's honest
 but in it shares some woe though the main part
 pertains to you alone
macduff if it be mine
 keep it not from me quickly let me have it
ross let not your ears despise my tongue for ever
 which shall possess them with the heaviest sound
 that ever yet they heard
macduff hum i guess at it
ross your castle is surprised your wife and babes
 savagely slaughter'd to relate the manner
 were on the quarry of these murder'd deer
 to add the death of you
malcolm merciful heaven
 what man ne'er pull your hat upon your brows
 give sorrow words the grief that does not speak
 whispers the o'erfraught heart and bids it break
macduff my children too
ross wife children servants all
 that could be found
macduff and i must be from thence
 my wife kill'd too
ross i have said
malcolm be comforted
 let's make us medicines of our great revenge
 to cure this deadly grief
macduff he has no children all my pretty ones
 did you say all o hellkite all
 what all my pretty chickens and their dam
 at one fell swoop
malcolm dispute it like a man
macduff i shall do so
 but i must also feel it as a man
 i cannot but remember such things were
 that were most precious to me did heaven look on
 and would not take their part sinful macduff
 they were all struck for thee naught that i am
 not for their own demerits but for mine
 fell slaughter on their souls heaven rest them now
malcolm be this the whetstone of your sword let grief
 convert to anger blunt not the heart enrage it
macduff o i could play the woman with mine eyes
 and braggart with my tongue but gentle heavens
 cut short all intermission front to front
 bring thou this fiend of scotland and myself
 within my sword's length set him if he scape
 heaven forgive him too
malcolm this tune goes manly
 come go we to the king our power is ready
 our lack is nothing but our leave macbeth
 is ripe for shaking and the powers above
 put on their instruments receive what cheer you may
 the night is long that never finds the day
 exeunt
 macbeth
act v
scene i dunsinane anteroom in the castle
 enter a doctor of physic and a waitinggentlewoman
doctor i have two nights watched with you but can perceive
 no truth in your report when was it she last walked
gentlewoman since his majesty went into the field i have seen
 her rise from her bed throw her nightgown upon
 her unlock her closet take forth paper fold it
 write upon't read it afterwards seal it and again
 return to bed yet all this while in a most fast sleep
doctor a great perturbation in nature to receive at once
 the benefit of sleep and do the effects of
 watching in this slumbery agitation besides her
 walking and other actual performances what at any
 time have you heard her say
gentlewoman that sir which i will not report after her
doctor you may to me and tis most meet you should
gentlewoman neither to you nor any one having no witness to
 confirm my speech
 enter lady macbeth with a taper
 lo you here she comes this is her very guise
 and upon my life fast asleep observe her stand close
doctor how came she by that light
gentlewoman why it stood by her she has light by her
 continually tis her command
doctor you see her eyes are open
gentlewoman ay but their sense is shut
doctor what is it she does now look how she rubs her hands
gentlewoman it is an accustomed action with her to seem thus
 washing her hands i have known her continue in
 this a quarter of an hour
lady macbeth yet here's a spot
doctor hark she speaks i will set down what comes from
 her to satisfy my remembrance the more strongly
lady macbeth out damned spot out i sayone two why
 then tis time to do'thell is murkyfie my
 lord fie a soldier and afeard what need we
 fear who knows it when none can call our power to
 accountyet who would have thought the old man
 to have had so much blood in him
doctor do you mark that
lady macbeth the thane of fife had a wife where is she now
 what will these hands ne'er be cleanno more o'
 that my lord no more o that you mar all with
 this starting
doctor go to go to you have known what you should not
gentlewoman she has spoke what she should not i am sure of
 that heaven knows what she has known
lady macbeth here's the smell of the blood still all the
 perfumes of arabia will not sweeten this little
 hand oh oh oh
doctor what a sigh is there the heart is sorely charged
gentlewoman i would not have such a heart in my bosom for the
 dignity of the whole body
doctor well well well
gentlewoman pray god it be sir
doctor this disease is beyond my practise yet i have known
 those which have walked in their sleep who have died
 holily in their beds
lady macbeth wash your hands put on your nightgown look not so
 palei tell you yet again banquo's buried he
 cannot come out on's grave
doctor even so
lady macbeth to bed to bed there's knocking at the gate
 come come come come give me your hand what's
 done cannot be undoneto bed to bed to bed
 exit
doctor will she go now to bed
gentlewoman directly
doctor foul whisperings are abroad unnatural deeds
 do breed unnatural troubles infected minds
 to their deaf pillows will discharge their secrets
 more needs she the divine than the physician
 god god forgive us all look after her
 remove from her the means of all annoyance
 and still keep eyes upon her so good night
 my mind she has mated and amazed my sight
 i think but dare not speak
gentlewoman good night good doctor
 exeunt
 macbeth
act v
scene ii the country near dunsinane
 drum and colours enter menteith caithness angus
 lennox and soldiers
menteith the english power is near led on by malcolm
 his uncle siward and the good macduff
 revenges burn in them for their dear causes
 would to the bleeding and the grim alarm
 excite the mortified man
angus near birnam wood
 shall we well meet them that way are they coming
caithness who knows if donalbain be with his brother
lennox for certain sir he is not i have a file
 of all the gentry there is siward's son
 and many unrough youths that even now
 protest their first of manhood
menteith what does the tyrant
caithness great dunsinane he strongly fortifies
 some say he's mad others that lesser hate him
 do call it valiant fury but for certain
 he cannot buckle his distemper'd cause
 within the belt of rule
angus now does he feel
 his secret murders sticking on his hands
 now minutely revolts upbraid his faithbreach
 those he commands move only in command
 nothing in love now does he feel his title
 hang loose about him like a giant's robe
 upon a dwarfish thief
menteith who then shall blame
 his pester'd senses to recoil and start
 when all that is within him does condemn
 itself for being there
caithness well march we on
 to give obedience where tis truly owed
 meet we the medicine of the sickly weal
 and with him pour we in our country's purge
 each drop of us
lennox or so much as it needs
 to dew the sovereign flower and drown the weeds
 make we our march towards birnam
 exeunt marching
 macbeth
act v
scene iii dunsinane a room in the castle
 enter macbeth doctor and attendants
macbeth bring me no more reports let them fly all
 till birnam wood remove to dunsinane
 i cannot taint with fear what's the boy malcolm
 was he not born of woman the spirits that know
 all mortal consequences have pronounced me thus
 fear not macbeth no man that's born of woman
 shall e'er have power upon thee then fly
 false thanes
 and mingle with the english epicures
 the mind i sway by and the heart i bear
 shall never sag with doubt nor shake with fear
 enter a servant
 the devil damn thee black thou creamfaced loon
 where got'st thou that goose look
servant there is ten thousand
macbeth geese villain
servant soldiers sir
macbeth go prick thy face and overred thy fear
 thou lilyliver'd boy what soldiers patch
 death of thy soul those linen cheeks of thine
 are counsellors to fear what soldiers wheyface
servant the english force so please you
macbeth take thy face hence
 exit servant
 seytoni am sick at heart
 when i beholdseyton i saythis push
 will cheer me ever or disseat me now
 i have lived long enough my way of life
 is fall'n into the sear the yellow leaf
 and that which should accompany old age
 as honour love obedience troops of friends
 i must not look to have but in their stead
 curses not loud but deep mouthhonour breath
 which the poor heart would fain deny and dare not seyton
 enter seyton
seyton what is your gracious pleasure
macbeth what news more
seyton all is confirm'd my lord which was reported
macbeth i'll fight till from my bones my flesh be hack'd
 give me my armour
seyton tis not needed yet
macbeth i'll put it on
 send out more horses skirr the country round
 hang those that talk of fear give me mine armour
 how does your patient doctor
doctor not so sick my lord
 as she is troubled with thick coming fancies
 that keep her from her rest
macbeth cure her of that
 canst thou not minister to a mind diseased
 pluck from the memory a rooted sorrow
 raze out the written troubles of the brain
 and with some sweet oblivious antidote
 cleanse the stuff'd bosom of that perilous stuff
 which weighs upon the heart
doctor therein the patient
 must minister to himself
macbeth throw physic to the dogs i'll none of it
 come put mine armour on give me my staff
 seyton send out doctor the thanes fly from me
 come sir dispatch if thou couldst doctor cast
 the water of my land find her disease
 and purge it to a sound and pristine health
 i would applaud thee to the very echo
 that should applaud againpull't off i say
 what rhubarb cyme or what purgative drug
 would scour these english hence hear'st thou of them
doctor ay my good lord your royal preparation
 makes us hear something
macbeth bring it after me
 i will not be afraid of death and bane
 till birnam forest come to dunsinane
doctor aside were i from dunsinane away and clear
 profit again should hardly draw me here
 exeunt
 macbeth
act v
scene iv country near birnam wood
 drum and colours enter malcolm siward and young
 siward macduff menteith caithness angus
 lennox ross and soldiers marching
malcolm cousins i hope the days are near at hand
 that chambers will be safe
menteith we doubt it nothing
siward what wood is this before us
menteith the wood of birnam
malcolm let every soldier hew him down a bough
 and bear't before him thereby shall we shadow
 the numbers of our host and make discovery
 err in report of us
soldiers it shall be done
siward we learn no other but the confident tyrant
 keeps still in dunsinane and will endure
 our setting down before t
malcolm tis his main hope
 for where there is advantage to be given
 both more and less have given him the revolt
 and none serve with him but constrained things
 whose hearts are absent too
macduff let our just censures
 attend the true event and put we on
 industrious soldiership
siward the time approaches
 that will with due decision make us know
 what we shall say we have and what we owe
 thoughts speculative their unsure hopes relate
 but certain issue strokes must arbitrate
 towards which advance the war
 exeunt marching
 macbeth
act v
scene v dunsinane within the castle
 enter macbeth seyton and soldiers with drum
 and colours
macbeth hang out our banners on the outward walls
 the cry is still they come our castle's strength
 will laugh a siege to scorn here let them lie
 till famine and the ague eat them up
 were they not forced with those that should be ours
 we might have met them dareful beard to beard
 and beat them backward home
 a cry of women within
 what is that noise
seyton it is the cry of women my good lord
 exit
macbeth i have almost forgot the taste of fears
 the time has been my senses would have cool'd
 to hear a nightshriek and my fell of hair
 would at a dismal treatise rouse and stir
 as life were in't i have supp'd full with horrors
 direness familiar to my slaughterous thoughts
 cannot once start me
 reenter seyton
 wherefore was that cry
seyton the queen my lord is dead
macbeth she should have died hereafter
 there would have been a time for such a word
 tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow
 creeps in this petty pace from day to day
 to the last syllable of recorded time
 and all our yesterdays have lighted fools
 the way to dusty death out out brief candle
 life's but a walking shadow a poor player
 that struts and frets his hour upon the stage
 and then is heard no more it is a tale
 told by an idiot full of sound and fury
 signifying nothing
 enter a messenger
 thou comest to use thy tongue thy story quickly
messenger gracious my lord
 i should report that which i say i saw
 but know not how to do it
macbeth well say sir
messenger as i did stand my watch upon the hill
 i look'd toward birnam and anon methought
 the wood began to move
macbeth liar and slave
messenger let me endure your wrath if't be not so
 within this three mile may you see it coming
 i say a moving grove
macbeth if thou speak'st false
 upon the next tree shalt thou hang alive
 till famine cling thee if thy speech be sooth
 i care not if thou dost for me as much
 i pull in resolution and begin
 to doubt the equivocation of the fiend
 that lies like truth fear not till birnam wood
 do come to dunsinane and now a wood
 comes toward dunsinane arm arm and out
 if this which he avouches does appear
 there is nor flying hence nor tarrying here
 i gin to be aweary of the sun
 and wish the estate o the world were now undone
 ring the alarumbell blow wind come wrack
 at least we'll die with harness on our back
 exeunt
 macbeth
act v
scene vi dunsinane before the castle
 drum and colours enter malcolm siward macduff
 and their army with boughs
malcolm now near enough your leafy screens throw down
 and show like those you are you worthy uncle
 shall with my cousin your rightnoble son
 lead our first battle worthy macduff and we
 shall take upon s what else remains to do
 according to our order
siward fare you well
 do we but find the tyrant's power tonight
 let us be beaten if we cannot fight
macduff make all our trumpets speak give them all breath
 those clamorous harbingers of blood and death
 exeunt
 macbeth
act v
scene vii another part of the field
 alarums enter macbeth
macbeth they have tied me to a stake i cannot fly
 but bearlike i must fight the course what's he
 that was not born of woman such a one
 am i to fear or none
 enter young siward
young siward what is thy name
macbeth thou'lt be afraid to hear it
young siward no though thou call'st thyself a hotter name
 than any is in hell
macbeth my name's macbeth
young siward the devil himself could not pronounce a title
 more hateful to mine ear
macbeth no nor more fearful
young siward thou liest abhorred tyrant with my sword
 i'll prove the lie thou speak'st
 they fight and young siward is slain
macbeth thou wast born of woman
 but swords i smile at weapons laugh to scorn
 brandish'd by man that's of a woman born
 exit
 alarums enter macduff
macduff that way the noise is tyrant show thy face
 if thou be'st slain and with no stroke of mine
 my wife and children's ghosts will haunt me still
 i cannot strike at wretched kerns whose arms
 are hired to bear their staves either thou macbeth
 or else my sword with an unbatter'd edge
 i sheathe again undeeded there thou shouldst be
 by this great clatter one of greatest note
 seems bruited let me find him fortune
 and more i beg not
 exit alarums
 enter malcolm and siward
siward this way my lord the castle's gently render'd
 the tyrant's people on both sides do fight
 the noble thanes do bravely in the war
 the day almost itself professes yours
 and little is to do
malcolm we have met with foes
 that strike beside us
siward enter sir the castle
 exeunt alarums
 macbeth
act v
scene viii another part of the field
 enter macbeth
macbeth why should i play the roman fool and die
 on mine own sword whiles i see lives the gashes
 do better upon them
 enter macduff
macduff turn hellhound turn
macbeth of all men else i have avoided thee
 but get thee back my soul is too much charged
 with blood of thine already
macduff i have no words
 my voice is in my sword thou bloodier villain
 than terms can give thee out
 they fight
macbeth thou losest labour
 as easy mayst thou the intrenchant air
 with thy keen sword impress as make me bleed
 let fall thy blade on vulnerable crests
 i bear a charmed life which must not yield
 to one of woman born
macduff despair thy charm
 and let the angel whom thou still hast served
 tell thee macduff was from his mother's womb
 untimely ripp'd
macbeth accursed be that tongue that tells me so
 for it hath cow'd my better part of man
 and be these juggling fiends no more believed
 that palter with us in a double sense
 that keep the word of promise to our ear
 and break it to our hope i'll not fight with thee
macduff then yield thee coward
 and live to be the show and gaze o the time
 we'll have thee as our rarer monsters are
 painted on a pole and underwrit
 here may you see the tyrant'
macbeth i will not yield
 to kiss the ground before young malcolm's feet
 and to be baited with the rabble's curse
 though birnam wood be come to dunsinane
 and thou opposed being of no woman born
 yet i will try the last before my body
 i throw my warlike shield lay on macduff
 and damn'd be him that first cries hold enough'
 exeunt fighting alarums
 retreat flourish enter with drum and colours
 malcolm siward ross the other thanes and soldiers
malcolm i would the friends we miss were safe arrived
siward some must go off and yet by these i see
 so great a day as this is cheaply bought
malcolm macduff is missing and your noble son
ross your son my lord has paid a soldier's debt
 he only lived but till he was a man
 the which no sooner had his prowess confirm'd
 in the unshrinking station where he fought
 but like a man he died
siward then he is dead
ross ay and brought off the field your cause of sorrow
 must not be measured by his worth for then
 it hath no end
siward had he his hurts before
ross ay on the front
siward why then god's soldier be he
 had i as many sons as i have hairs
 i would not wish them to a fairer death
 and so his knell is knoll'd
malcolm he's worth more sorrow
 and that i'll spend for him
siward he's worth no more
 they say he parted well and paid his score
 and so god be with him here comes newer comfort
 reenter macduff with macbeth's head
macduff hail king for so thou art behold where stands
 the usurper's cursed head the time is free
 i see thee compass'd with thy kingdom's pearl
 that speak my salutation in their minds
 whose voices i desire aloud with mine
 hail king of scotland
all hail king of scotland
 flourish
malcolm we shall not spend a large expense of time
 before we reckon with your several loves
 and make us even with you my thanes and kinsmen
 henceforth be earls the first that ever scotland
 in such an honour named what's more to do
 which would be planted newly with the time
 as calling home our exiled friends abroad
 that fled the snares of watchful tyranny
 producing forth the cruel ministers
 of this dead butcher and his fiendlike queen
 who as tis thought by self and violent hands
 took off her life this and what needful else
 that calls upon us by the grace of grace
 we will perform in measure time and place
 so thanks to all at once and to each one
 whom we invite to see us crown'd at scone
 flourish exeunt
 othello
 dramatis personae
duke of venice
brabantio a senator
 other senators
 senator
 first senator
 second senator
gratiano brother to brabantio
lodovico kinsman to brabantio
othello a noble moor in the service of the venetian state
cassio his lieutenant
iago his ancient
roderigo a venetian gentleman
montano othello's predecessor in the government of cyprus
 clown servant to othello clown
desdemona daughter to brabantio and wife to othello
emilia wife to iago
bianca mistress to cassio
 sailor messenger herald officers gentlemen
 musicians and attendants
 sailor
 first officer
 messenger
 gentleman
 first gentleman
 second gentleman
 third gentleman
 first musician
scene venice a seaport in cyprus
 othello
act i
scene i venice a street
 enter roderigo and iago
roderigo tush never tell me i take it much unkindly
 that thou iago who hast had my purse
 as if the strings were thine shouldst know of this
iago sblood but you will not hear me
 if ever i did dream of such a matter abhor me
roderigo thou told'st me thou didst hold him in thy hate
iago despise me if i do not three great ones of the city
 in personal suit to make me his lieutenant
 offcapp'd to him and by the faith of man
 i know my price i am worth no worse a place
 but he as loving his own pride and purposes
 evades them with a bombast circumstance
 horribly stuff'd with epithets of war
 and in conclusion
 nonsuits my mediators for certes says he
 i have already chose my officer'
 and what was he
 forsooth a great arithmetician
 one michael cassio a florentine
 a fellow almost damn'd in a fair wife
 that never set a squadron in the field
 nor the division of a battle knows
 more than a spinster unless the bookish theoric
 wherein the toged consuls can propose
 as masterly as he mere prattle without practise
 is all his soldiership but he sir had the election
 and i of whom his eyes had seen the proof
 at rhodes at cyprus and on other grounds
 christian and heathen must be belee'd and calm'd
 by debitor and creditor this countercaster
 he in good time must his lieutenant be
 and igod bless the markhis moorship's ancient
roderigo by heaven i rather would have been his hangman
iago why there's no remedy tis the curse of service
 preferment goes by letter and affection
 and not by old gradation where each second
 stood heir to the first now sir be judge yourself
 whether i in any just term am affined
 to love the moor
roderigo i would not follow him then
iago o sir content you
 i follow him to serve my turn upon him
 we cannot all be masters nor all masters
 cannot be truly follow'd you shall mark
 many a duteous and kneecrooking knave
 that doting on his own obsequious bondage
 wears out his time much like his master's ass
 for nought but provender and when he's old cashier'd
 whip me such honest knaves others there are
 who trimm'd in forms and visages of duty
 keep yet their hearts attending on themselves
 and throwing but shows of service on their lords
 do well thrive by them and when they have lined
 their coats
 do themselves homage these fellows have some soul
 and such a one do i profess myself for sir
 it is as sure as you are roderigo
 were i the moor i would not be iago
 in following him i follow but myself
 heaven is my judge not i for love and duty
 but seeming so for my peculiar end
 for when my outward action doth demonstrate
 the native act and figure of my heart
 in compliment extern tis not long after
 but i will wear my heart upon my sleeve
 for daws to peck at i am not what i am
roderigo what a full fortune does the thicklips owe
 if he can carry't thus
iago call up her father
 rouse him make after him poison his delight
 proclaim him in the streets incense her kinsmen
 and though he in a fertile climate dwell
 plague him with flies though that his joy be joy
 yet throw such changes of vexation on't
 as it may lose some colour
roderigo here is her father's house i'll call aloud
iago do with like timorous accent and dire yell
 as when by night and negligence the fire
 is spied in populous cities
roderigo what ho brabantio signior brabantio ho
iago awake what ho brabantio thieves thieves thieves
 look to your house your daughter and your bags
 thieves thieves
 brabantio appears above at a window
brabantio what is the reason of this terrible summons
 what is the matter there
roderigo signior is all your family within
iago are your doors lock'd
brabantio why wherefore ask you this
iago zounds sir you're robb'd for shame put on
 your gown
 your heart is burst you have lost half your soul
 even now now very now an old black ram
 is topping your white ewe arise arise
 awake the snorting citizens with the bell
 or else the devil will make a grandsire of you
 arise i say
brabantio what have you lost your wits
roderigo most reverend signior do you know my voice
brabantio not i what are you
roderigo my name is roderigo
brabantio the worser welcome
 i have charged thee not to haunt about my doors
 in honest plainness thou hast heard me say
 my daughter is not for thee and now in madness
 being full of supper and distempering draughts
 upon malicious bravery dost thou come
 to start my quiet
roderigo sir sir sir
brabantio but thou must needs be sure
 my spirit and my place have in them power
 to make this bitter to thee
roderigo patience good sir
brabantio what tell'st thou me of robbing this is venice
 my house is not a grange
roderigo most grave brabantio
 in simple and pure soul i come to you
iago zounds sir you are one of those that will not
 serve god if the devil bid you because we come to
 do you service and you think we are ruffians you'll
 have your daughter covered with a barbary horse
 you'll have your nephews neigh to you you'll have
 coursers for cousins and gennets for germans
brabantio what profane wretch art thou
iago i am one sir that comes to tell you your daughter
 and the moor are now making the beast with two backs
brabantio thou art a villain
iago you area senator
brabantio this thou shalt answer i know thee roderigo
roderigo sir i will answer any thing but i beseech you
 if't be your pleasure and most wise consent
 as partly i find it is that your fair daughter
 at this oddeven and dull watch o the night
 transported with no worse nor better guard
 but with a knave of common hire a gondolier
 to the gross clasps of a lascivious moor
 if this be known to you and your allowance
 we then have done you bold and saucy wrongs
 but if you know not this my manners tell me
 we have your wrong rebuke do not believe
 that from the sense of all civility
 i thus would play and trifle with your reverence
 your daughter if you have not given her leave
 i say again hath made a gross revolt
 tying her duty beauty wit and fortunes
 in an extravagant and wheeling stranger
 of here and every where straight satisfy yourself
 if she be in her chamber or your house
 let loose on me the justice of the state
 for thus deluding you
brabantio strike on the tinder ho
 give me a taper call up all my people
 this accident is not unlike my dream
 belief of it oppresses me already
 light i say light
 exit above
iago farewell for i must leave you
 it seems not meet nor wholesome to my place
 to be producedas if i stay i shall
 against the moor for i do know the state
 however this may gall him with some cheque
 cannot with safety cast him for he's embark'd
 with such loud reason to the cyprus wars
 which even now stand in act that for their souls
 another of his fathom they have none
 to lead their business in which regard
 though i do hate him as i do hellpains
 yet for necessity of present life
 i must show out a flag and sign of love
 which is indeed but sign that you shall surely find him
 lead to the sagittary the raised search
 and there will i be with him so farewell
 exit
 enter below brabantio and servants with torches
brabantio it is too true an evil gone she is
 and what's to come of my despised time
 is nought but bitterness now roderigo
 where didst thou see her o unhappy girl
 with the moor say'st thou who would be a father
 how didst thou know twas she o she deceives me
 past thought what said she to you get more tapers
 raise all my kindred are they married think you
roderigo truly i think they are
brabantio o heaven how got she out o treason of the blood
 fathers from hence trust not your daughters minds
 by what you see them act is there not charms
 by which the property of youth and maidhood
 may be abused have you not read roderigo
 of some such thing
roderigo yes sir i have indeed
brabantio call up my brother o would you had had her
 some one way some another do you know
 where we may apprehend her and the moor
roderigo i think i can discover him if you please
 to get good guard and go along with me
brabantio pray you lead on at every house i'll call
 i may command at most get weapons ho
 and raise some special officers of night
 on good roderigo i'll deserve your pains
 exeunt
 othello
act i
scene ii another street
 enter othello iago and attendants with torches
iago though in the trade of war i have slain men
 yet do i hold it very stuff o the conscience
 to do no contrived murder i lack iniquity
 sometimes to do me service nine or ten times
 i had thought to have yerk'd him here under the ribs
othello tis better as it is
iago nay but he prated
 and spoke such scurvy and provoking terms
 against your honour
 that with the little godliness i have
 i did full hard forbear him but i pray you sir
 are you fast married be assured of this
 that the magnifico is much beloved
 and hath in his effect a voice potential
 as double as the duke's he will divorce you
 or put upon you what restraint and grievance
 the law with all his might to enforce it on
 will give him cable
othello let him do his spite
 my services which i have done the signiory
 shall outtongue his complaints tis yet to know
 which when i know that boasting is an honour
 i shall promulgatei fetch my life and being
 from men of royal siege and my demerits
 may speak unbonneted to as proud a fortune
 as this that i have reach'd for know iago
 but that i love the gentle desdemona
 i would not my unhoused free condition
 put into circumscription and confine
 for the sea's worth but look what lights come yond
iago those are the raised father and his friends
 you were best go in
othello not i i must be found
 my parts my title and my perfect soul
 shall manifest me rightly is it they
iago by janus i think no
 enter cassio and certain officers with torches
othello the servants of the duke and my lieutenant
 the goodness of the night upon you friends
 what is the news
cassio the duke does greet you general
 and he requires your hasteposthaste appearance
 even on the instant
othello what is the matter think you
cassio something from cyprus as i may divine
 it is a business of some heat the galleys
 have sent a dozen sequent messengers
 this very night at one another's heels
 and many of the consuls raised and met
 are at the duke's already you have been
 hotly call'd for
 when being not at your lodging to be found
 the senate hath sent about three several guests
 to search you out
othello tis well i am found by you
 i will but spend a word here in the house
 and go with you
 exit
cassio ancient what makes he here
iago faith he tonight hath boarded a land carack
 if it prove lawful prize he's made for ever
cassio i do not understand
iago he's married
cassio to who
 reenter othello
iago marry tocome captain will you go
othello have with you
cassio here comes another troop to seek for you
iago it is brabantio general be advised
 he comes to bad intent
 enter brabantio roderigo and officers with
 torches and weapons
othello holla stand there
roderigo signior it is the moor
brabantio down with him thief
 they draw on both sides
iago you roderigo come sir i am for you
othello keep up your bright swords for the dew will rust them
 good signior you shall more command with years
 than with your weapons
brabantio o thou foul thief where hast thou stow'd my daughter
 damn'd as thou art thou hast enchanted her
 for i'll refer me to all things of sense
 if she in chains of magic were not bound
 whether a maid so tender fair and happy
 so opposite to marriage that she shunned
 the wealthy curled darlings of our nation
 would ever have to incur a general mock
 run from her guardage to the sooty bosom
 of such a thing as thou to fear not to delight
 judge me the world if tis not gross in sense
 that thou hast practised on her with foul charms
 abused her delicate youth with drugs or minerals
 that weaken motion i'll have't disputed on
 tis probable and palpable to thinking
 i therefore apprehend and do attach thee
 for an abuser of the world a practiser
 of arts inhibited and out of warrant
 lay hold upon him if he do resist
 subdue him at his peril
othello hold your hands
 both you of my inclining and the rest
 were it my cue to fight i should have known it
 without a prompter where will you that i go
 to answer this your charge
brabantio to prison till fit time
 of law and course of direct session
 call thee to answer
othello what if i do obey
 how may the duke be therewith satisfied
 whose messengers are here about my side
 upon some present business of the state
 to bring me to him
first officer tis true most worthy signior
 the duke's in council and your noble self
 i am sure is sent for
brabantio how the duke in council
 in this time of the night bring him away
 mine's not an idle cause the duke himself
 or any of my brothers of the state
 cannot but feel this wrong as twere their own
 for if such actions may have passage free
 bondslaves and pagans shall our statesmen be
 exeunt
 othello
act i
scene iii a councilchamber
 the duke and senators sitting at a table officers
 attending
duke of venice there is no composition in these news
 that gives them credit
first senator indeed they are disproportion'd
 my letters say a hundred and seven galleys
duke of venice and mine a hundred and forty
second senator and mine two hundred
 but though they jump not on a just account
 as in these cases where the aim reports
 tis oft with differenceyet do they all confirm
 a turkish fleet and bearing up to cyprus
duke of venice nay it is possible enough to judgment
 i do not so secure me in the error
 but the main article i do approve
 in fearful sense
sailor within what ho what ho what ho
first officer a messenger from the galleys
 enter a sailor
duke of venice now what's the business
sailor the turkish preparation makes for rhodes
 so was i bid report here to the state
 by signior angelo
duke of venice how say you by this change
first senator this cannot be
 by no assay of reason tis a pageant
 to keep us in false gaze when we consider
 the importancy of cyprus to the turk
 and let ourselves again but understand
 that as it more concerns the turk than rhodes
 so may he with more facile question bear it
 for that it stands not in such warlike brace
 but altogether lacks the abilities
 that rhodes is dress'd in if we make thought of this
 we must not think the turk is so unskilful
 to leave that latest which concerns him first
 neglecting an attempt of ease and gain
 to wake and wage a danger profitless
duke of venice nay in all confidence he's not for rhodes
first officer here is more news
 enter a messenger
messenger the ottomites reverend and gracious
 steering with due course towards the isle of rhodes
 have there injointed them with an after fleet
first senator ay so i thought how many as you guess
messenger of thirty sail and now they do restem
 their backward course bearing with frank appearance
 their purposes toward cyprus signior montano
 your trusty and most valiant servitor
 with his free duty recommends you thus
 and prays you to believe him
duke of venice tis certain then for cyprus
 marcus luccicos is not he in town
first senator he's now in florence
duke of venice write from us to him postposthaste dispatch
first senator here comes brabantio and the valiant moor
 enter brabantio othello iago roderigo and officers
duke of venice valiant othello we must straight employ you
 against the general enemy ottoman
 to brabantio
 i did not see you welcome gentle signior
 we lack'd your counsel and your help tonight
brabantio so did i yours good your grace pardon me
 neither my place nor aught i heard of business
 hath raised me from my bed nor doth the general care
 take hold on me for my particular grief
 is of so floodgate and o'erbearing nature
 that it engluts and swallows other sorrows
 and it is still itself
duke of venice why what's the matter
brabantio my daughter o my daughter
duke of venice dead
senator 
brabantio ay to me
 she is abused stol'n from me and corrupted
 by spells and medicines bought of mountebanks
 for nature so preposterously to err
 being not deficient blind or lame of sense
 sans witchcraft could not
duke of venice whoe'er he be that in this foul proceeding
 hath thus beguiled your daughter of herself
 and you of her the bloody book of law
 you shall yourself read in the bitter letter
 after your own sense yea though our proper son
 stood in your action
brabantio humbly i thank your grace
 here is the man this moor whom now it seems
 your special mandate for the stateaffairs
 hath hither brought
duke of venice 
 we are very sorry for't
senator 
duke of venice to othello what in your own part can you say to this
brabantio nothing but this is so
othello most potent grave and reverend signiors
 my very noble and approved good masters
 that i have ta'en away this old man's daughter
 it is most true true i have married her
 the very head and front of my offending
 hath this extent no more rude am i in my speech
 and little bless'd with the soft phrase of peace
 for since these arms of mine had seven years pith
 till now some nine moons wasted they have used
 their dearest action in the tented field
 and little of this great world can i speak
 more than pertains to feats of broil and battle
 and therefore little shall i grace my cause
 in speaking for myself yet by your gracious patience
 i will a round unvarnish'd tale deliver
 of my whole course of love what drugs what charms
 what conjuration and what mighty magic
 for such proceeding i am charged withal
 i won his daughter
brabantio a maiden never bold
 of spirit so still and quiet that her motion
 blush'd at herself and she in spite of nature
 of years of country credit every thing
 to fall in love with what she fear'd to look on
 it is a judgment maim'd and most imperfect
 that will confess perfection so could err
 against all rules of nature and must be driven
 to find out practises of cunning hell
 why this should be i therefore vouch again
 that with some mixtures powerful o'er the blood
 or with some dram conjured to this effect
 he wrought upon her
duke of venice to vouch this is no proof
 without more wider and more overt test
 than these thin habits and poor likelihoods
 of modern seeming do prefer against him
first senator but othello speak
 did you by indirect and forced courses
 subdue and poison this young maid's affections
 or came it by request and such fair question
 as soul to soul affordeth
othello i do beseech you
 send for the lady to the sagittary
 and let her speak of me before her father
 if you do find me foul in her report
 the trust the office i do hold of you
 not only take away but let your sentence
 even fall upon my life
duke of venice fetch desdemona hither
othello ancient conduct them you best know the place
 exeunt iago and attendants
 and till she come as truly as to heaven
 i do confess the vices of my blood
 so justly to your grave ears i'll present
 how i did thrive in this fair lady's love
 and she in mine
duke of venice say it othello
othello her father loved me oft invited me
 still question'd me the story of my life
 from year to year the battles sieges fortunes
 that i have passed
 i ran it through even from my boyish days
 to the very moment that he bade me tell it
 wherein i spake of most disastrous chances
 of moving accidents by flood and field
 of hairbreadth scapes i the imminent deadly breach
 of being taken by the insolent foe
 and sold to slavery of my redemption thence
 and portance in my travels history
 wherein of antres vast and deserts idle
 rough quarries rocks and hills whose heads touch heaven
 it was my hint to speaksuch was the process
 and of the cannibals that each other eat
 the anthropophagi and men whose heads
 do grow beneath their shoulders this to hear
 would desdemona seriously incline
 but still the houseaffairs would draw her thence
 which ever as she could with haste dispatch
 she'ld come again and with a greedy ear
 devour up my discourse which i observing
 took once a pliant hour and found good means
 to draw from her a prayer of earnest heart
 that i would all my pilgrimage dilate
 whereof by parcels she had something heard
 but not intentively i did consent
 and often did beguile her of her tears
 when i did speak of some distressful stroke
 that my youth suffer'd my story being done
 she gave me for my pains a world of sighs
 she swore in faith twas strange twas passing strange
 twas pitiful twas wondrous pitiful
 she wish'd she had not heard it yet she wish'd
 that heaven had made her such a man she thank'd me
 and bade me if i had a friend that loved her
 i should but teach him how to tell my story
 and that would woo her upon this hint i spake
 she loved me for the dangers i had pass'd
 and i loved her that she did pity them
 this only is the witchcraft i have used
 here comes the lady let her witness it
 enter desdemona iago and attendants
duke of venice i think this tale would win my daughter too
 good brabantio
 take up this mangled matter at the best
 men do their broken weapons rather use
 than their bare hands
brabantio i pray you hear her speak
 if she confess that she was half the wooer
 destruction on my head if my bad blame
 light on the man come hither gentle mistress
 do you perceive in all this noble company
 where most you owe obedience
desdemona my noble father
 i do perceive here a divided duty
 to you i am bound for life and education
 my life and education both do learn me
 how to respect you you are the lord of duty
 i am hitherto your daughter but here's my husband
 and so much duty as my mother show'd
 to you preferring you before her father
 so much i challenge that i may profess
 due to the moor my lord
brabantio god be wi you i have done
 please it your grace on to the stateaffairs
 i had rather to adopt a child than get it
 come hither moor
 i here do give thee that with all my heart
 which but thou hast already with all my heart
 i would keep from thee for your sake jewel
 i am glad at soul i have no other child
 for thy escape would teach me tyranny
 to hang clogs on them i have done my lord
duke of venice let me speak like yourself and lay a sentence
 which as a grise or step may help these lovers
 into your favour
 when remedies are past the griefs are ended
 by seeing the worst which late on hopes depended
 to mourn a mischief that is past and gone
 is the next way to draw new mischief on
 what cannot be preserved when fortune takes
 patience her injury a mockery makes
 the robb'd that smiles steals something from the thief
 he robs himself that spends a bootless grief
brabantio so let the turk of cyprus us beguile
 we lose it not so long as we can smile
 he bears the sentence well that nothing bears
 but the free comfort which from thence he hears
 but he bears both the sentence and the sorrow
 that to pay grief must of poor patience borrow
 these sentences to sugar or to gall
 being strong on both sides are equivocal
 but words are words i never yet did hear
 that the bruised heart was pierced through the ear
 i humbly beseech you proceed to the affairs of state
duke of venice the turk with a most mighty preparation makes for
 cyprus othello the fortitude of the place is best
 known to you and though we have there a substitute
 of most allowed sufficiency yet opinion a
 sovereign mistress of effects throws a more safer
 voice on you you must therefore be content to
 slubber the gloss of your new fortunes with this
 more stubborn and boisterous expedition
othello the tyrant custom most grave senators
 hath made the flinty and steel couch of war
 my thricedriven bed of down i do agnise
 a natural and prompt alacrity
 i find in hardness and do undertake
 these present wars against the ottomites
 most humbly therefore bending to your state
 i crave fit disposition for my wife
 due reference of place and exhibition
 with such accommodation and besort
 as levels with her breeding
duke of venice if you please
 be't at her father's
brabantio i'll not have it so
othello nor i
desdemona nor i i would not there reside
 to put my father in impatient thoughts
 by being in his eye most gracious duke
 to my unfolding lend your prosperous ear
 and let me find a charter in your voice
 to assist my simpleness
duke of venice what would you desdemona
desdemona that i did love the moor to live with him
 my downright violence and storm of fortunes
 may trumpet to the world my heart's subdued
 even to the very quality of my lord
 i saw othello's visage in his mind
 and to his honour and his valiant parts
 did i my soul and fortunes consecrate
 so that dear lords if i be left behind
 a moth of peace and he go to the war
 the rites for which i love him are bereft me
 and i a heavy interim shall support
 by his dear absence let me go with him
othello let her have your voices
 vouch with me heaven i therefore beg it not
 to please the palate of my appetite
 nor to comply with heatthe young affects
 in me defunctand proper satisfaction
 but to be free and bounteous to her mind
 and heaven defend your good souls that you think
 i will your serious and great business scant
 for she is with me no when lightwing'd toys
 of feather'd cupid seal with wanton dullness
 my speculative and officed instruments
 that my disports corrupt and taint my business
 let housewives make a skillet of my helm
 and all indign and base adversities
 make head against my estimation
duke of venice be it as you shall privately determine
 either for her stay or going the affair cries haste
 and speed must answer it
first senator you must away tonight
othello with all my heart
duke of venice at nine i the morning here we'll meet again
 othello leave some officer behind
 and he shall our commission bring to you
 with such things else of quality and respect
 as doth import you
othello so please your grace my ancient
 a man he is of honest and trust
 to his conveyance i assign my wife
 with what else needful your good grace shall think
 to be sent after me
duke of venice let it be so
 good night to every one
 to brabantio
 and noble signior
 if virtue no delighted beauty lack
 your soninlaw is far more fair than black
first senator adieu brave moor use desdemona well
brabantio look to her moor if thou hast eyes to see
 she has deceived her father and may thee
 exeunt duke of venice senators officers &c
othello my life upon her faith honest iago
 my desdemona must i leave to thee
 i prithee let thy wife attend on her
 and bring them after in the best advantage
 come desdemona i have but an hour
 of love of worldly matters and direction
 to spend with thee we must obey the time
 exeunt othello and desdemona
roderigo iago
iago what say'st thou noble heart
roderigo what will i do thinkest thou
iago why go to bed and sleep
roderigo i will incontinently drown myself
iago if thou dost i shall never love thee after why
 thou silly gentleman
roderigo it is silliness to live when to live is torment and
 then have we a prescription to die when death is our physician
iago o villainous i have looked upon the world for four
 times seven years and since i could distinguish
 betwixt a benefit and an injury i never found man
 that knew how to love himself ere i would say i
 would drown myself for the love of a guineahen i
 would change my humanity with a baboon
roderigo what should i do i confess it is my shame to be so
 fond but it is not in my virtue to amend it
iago virtue a fig tis in ourselves that we are thus
 or thus our bodies are our gardens to the which
 our wills are gardeners so that if we will plant
 nettles or sow lettuce set hyssop and weed up
 thyme supply it with one gender of herbs or
 distract it with many either to have it sterile
 with idleness or manured with industry why the
 power and corrigible authority of this lies in our
 wills if the balance of our lives had not one
 scale of reason to poise another of sensuality the
 blood and baseness of our natures would conduct us
 to most preposterous conclusions but we have
 reason to cool our raging motions our carnal
 stings our unbitted lusts whereof i take this that
 you call love to be a sect or scion
roderigo it cannot be
iago it is merely a lust of the blood and a permission of
 the will come be a man drown thyself drown
 cats and blind puppies i have professed me thy
 friend and i confess me knit to thy deserving with
 cables of perdurable toughness i could never
 better stead thee than now put money in thy
 purse follow thou the wars defeat thy favour with
 an usurped beard i say put money in thy purse it
 cannot be that desdemona should long continue her
 love to the moor put money in thy pursenor he
 his to her it was a violent commencement and thou
 shalt see an answerable sequestrationput but
 money in thy purse these moors are changeable in
 their wills fill thy purse with moneythe food
 that to him now is as luscious as locusts shall be
 to him shortly as bitter as coloquintida she must
 change for youth when she is sated with his body
 she will find the error of her choice she must
 have change she must therefore put money in thy
 purse if thou wilt needs damn thyself do it a
 more delicate way than drowning make all the money
 thou canst if sanctimony and a frail vow betwixt
 an erring barbarian and a supersubtle venetian not
 too hard for my wits and all the tribe of hell thou
 shalt enjoy her therefore make money a pox of
 drowning thyself it is clean out of the way seek
 thou rather to be hanged in compassing thy joy than
 to be drowned and go without her
roderigo wilt thou be fast to my hopes if i depend on
 the issue
iago thou art sure of mego make moneyi have told
 thee often and i retell thee again and again i
 hate the moor my cause is hearted thine hath no
 less reason let us be conjunctive in our revenge
 against him if thou canst cuckold him thou dost
 thyself a pleasure me a sport there are many
 events in the womb of time which will be delivered
 traverse go provide thy money we will have more
 of this tomorrow adieu
roderigo where shall we meet i the morning
iago at my lodging
roderigo i'll be with thee betimes
iago go to farewell do you hear roderigo
roderigo what say you
iago no more of drowning do you hear
roderigo i am changed i'll go sell all my land
 exit
iago thus do i ever make my fool my purse
 for i mine own gain'd knowledge should profane
 if i would time expend with such a snipe
 but for my sport and profit i hate the moor
 and it is thought abroad that twixt my sheets
 he has done my office i know not if't be true
 but i for mere suspicion in that kind
 will do as if for surety he holds me well
 the better shall my purpose work on him
 cassio's a proper man let me see now
 to get his place and to plume up my will
 in double knaveryhow how let's see
 after some time to abuse othello's ear
 that he is too familiar with his wife
 he hath a person and a smooth dispose
 to be suspected framed to make women false
 the moor is of a free and open nature
 that thinks men honest that but seem to be so
 and will as tenderly be led by the nose
 as asses are
 i have't it is engender'd hell and night
 must bring this monstrous birth to the world's light
 exit
 othello
act ii
scene i a seaport in cyprus an open place near the quay
 enter montano and two gentlemen
montano what from the cape can you discern at sea
first gentleman nothing at all it is a highwrought flood
 i cannot twixt the heaven and the main
 descry a sail
montano methinks the wind hath spoke aloud at land
 a fuller blast ne'er shook our battlements
 if it hath ruffian'd so upon the sea
 what ribs of oak when mountains melt on them
 can hold the mortise what shall we hear of this
second gentleman a segregation of the turkish fleet
 for do but stand upon the foaming shore
 the chidden billow seems to pelt the clouds
 the windshaked surge with high and monstrous mane
 seems to cast water on the burning bear
 and quench the guards of the everfixed pole
 i never did like molestation view
 on the enchafed flood
montano if that the turkish fleet
 be not enshelter'd and embay'd they are drown'd
 it is impossible they bear it out
 enter a third gentleman
third gentleman news lads our wars are done
 the desperate tempest hath so bang'd the turks
 that their designment halts a noble ship of venice
 hath seen a grievous wreck and sufferance
 on most part of their fleet
montano how is this true
third gentleman the ship is here put in
 a veronesa michael cassio
 lieutenant to the warlike moor othello
 is come on shore the moor himself at sea
 and is in full commission here for cyprus
montano i am glad on't tis a worthy governor
third gentleman but this same cassio though he speak of comfort
 touching the turkish loss yet he looks sadly
 and prays the moor be safe for they were parted
 with foul and violent tempest
montano pray heavens he be
 for i have served him and the man commands
 like a full soldier let's to the seaside ho
 as well to see the vessel that's come in
 as to throw out our eyes for brave othello
 even till we make the main and the aerial blue
 an indistinct regard
third gentleman come let's do so
 for every minute is expectancy
 of more arrivance
 enter cassio
cassio thanks you the valiant of this warlike isle
 that so approve the moor o let the heavens
 give him defence against the elements
 for i have lost us him on a dangerous sea
montano is he well shipp'd
cassio his bark is stoutly timber'd his pilot
 of very expert and approved allowance
 therefore my hopes not surfeited to death
 stand in bold cure
 a cry within a sail a sail a sail'
 enter a fourth gentleman
cassio what noise
fourth gentleman the town is empty on the brow o the sea
 stand ranks of people and they cry a sail'
cassio my hopes do shape him for the governor
 guns heard
second gentlemen they do discharge their shot of courtesy
 our friends at least
cassio i pray you sir go forth
 and give us truth who tis that is arrived
second gentleman i shall
 exit
montano but good lieutenant is your general wived
cassio most fortunately he hath achieved a maid
 that paragons description and wild fame
 one that excels the quirks of blazoning pens
 and in the essential vesture of creation
 does tire the ingener
 reenter second gentleman
 how now who has put in
second gentleman tis one iago ancient to the general
cassio has had most favourable and happy speed
 tempests themselves high seas and howling winds
 the gutter'd rocks and congregated sands
 traitors ensteep'd to clog the guiltless keel
 as having sense of beauty do omit
 their mortal natures letting go safely by
 the divine desdemona
montano what is she
cassio she that i spake of our great captain's captain
 left in the conduct of the bold iago
 whose footing here anticipates our thoughts
 a se'nnight's speed great jove othello guard
 and swell his sail with thine own powerful breath
 that he may bless this bay with his tall ship
 make love's quick pants in desdemona's arms
 give renew'd fire to our extincted spirits
 and bring all cyprus comfort
 enter desdemona emilia iago roderigo and
 attendants
 o behold
 the riches of the ship is come on shore
 ye men of cyprus let her have your knees
 hail to thee lady and the grace of heaven
 before behind thee and on every hand
 enwheel thee round
desdemona i thank you valiant cassio
 what tidings can you tell me of my lord
cassio he is not yet arrived nor know i aught
 but that he's well and will be shortly here
desdemona o but i fearhow lost you company
cassio the great contention of the sea and skies
 parted our fellowshipbut hark a sail
 within a sail a sail guns heard
second gentleman they give their greeting to the citadel
 this likewise is a friend
cassio see for the news
 exit gentleman
 good ancient you are welcome
 to emilia
 welcome mistress
 let it not gall your patience good iago
 that i extend my manners tis my breeding
 that gives me this bold show of courtesy
 kissing her
iago sir would she give you so much of her lips
 as of her tongue she oft bestows on me
 you'll have enough
desdemona alas she has no speech
iago in faith too much
 i find it still when i have list to sleep
 marry before your ladyship i grant
 she puts her tongue a little in her heart
 and chides with thinking
emilia you have little cause to say so
iago come on come on you are pictures out of doors
 bells in your parlors wildcats in your kitchens
 saints m your injuries devils being offended
 players in your housewifery and housewives in your beds
desdemona o fie upon thee slanderer
iago nay it is true or else i am a turk
 you rise to play and go to bed to work
emilia you shall not write my praise
iago no let me not
desdemona what wouldst thou write of me if thou shouldst
 praise me
iago o gentle lady do not put me to't
 for i am nothing if not critical
desdemona come on assay there's one gone to the harbour
iago ay madam
desdemona i am not merry but i do beguile
 the thing i am by seeming otherwise
 come how wouldst thou praise me
iago i am about it but indeed my invention
 comes from my pate as birdlime does from frize
 it plucks out brains and all but my muse labours
 and thus she is deliver'd
 if she be fair and wise fairness and wit
 the one's for use the other useth it
desdemona well praised how if she be black and witty
iago if she be black and thereto have a wit
 she'll find a white that shall her blackness fit
desdemona worse and worse
emilia how if fair and foolish
iago she never yet was foolish that was fair
 for even her folly help'd her to an heir
desdemona these are old fond paradoxes to make fools laugh i'
 the alehouse what miserable praise hast thou for
 her that's foul and foolish
iago there's none so foul and foolish thereunto
 but does foul pranks which fair and wise ones do
desdemona o heavy ignorance thou praisest the worst best
 but what praise couldst thou bestow on a deserving
 woman indeed one that in the authority of her
 merit did justly put on the vouch of very malice itself
iago she that was ever fair and never proud
 had tongue at will and yet was never loud
 never lack'd gold and yet went never gay
 fled from her wish and yet said now i may'
 she that being anger'd her revenge being nigh
 bade her wrong stay and her displeasure fly
 she that in wisdom never was so frail
 to change the cod's head for the salmon's tail
 she that could think and ne'er disclose her mind
 see suitors following and not look behind
 she was a wight if ever such wight were
desdemona to do what
iago to suckle fools and chronicle small beer
desdemona o most lame and impotent conclusion do not learn
 of him emilia though he be thy husband how say
 you cassio is he not a most profane and liberal
 counsellor
cassio he speaks home madam you may relish him more in
 the soldier than in the scholar
iago aside he takes her by the palm ay well said
 whisper with as little a web as this will i
 ensnare as great a fly as cassio ay smile upon
 her do i will gyve thee in thine own courtship
 you say true tis so indeed if such tricks as
 these strip you out of your lieutenantry it had
 been better you had not kissed your three fingers so
 oft which now again you are most apt to play the
 sir in very good well kissed an excellent
 courtesy tis so indeed yet again your fingers
 to your lips would they were clysterpipes for your sake
 trumpet within
 the moor i know his trumpet
cassio tis truly so
desdemona let's meet him and receive him
cassio lo where he comes
 enter othello and attendants
othello o my fair warrior
desdemona my dear othello
othello it gives me wonder great as my content
 to see you here before me o my soul's joy
 if after every tempest come such calms
 may the winds blow till they have waken'd death
 and let the labouring bark climb hills of seas
 olympushigh and duck again as low
 as hell's from heaven if it were now to die
 twere now to be most happy for i fear
 my soul hath her content so absolute
 that not another comfort like to this
 succeeds in unknown fate
desdemona the heavens forbid
 but that our loves and comforts should increase
 even as our days do grow
othello amen to that sweet powers
 i cannot speak enough of this content
 it stops me here it is too much of joy
 and this and this the greatest discords be
 kissing her
 that e'er our hearts shall make
iago aside o you are well tuned now
 but i'll set down the pegs that make this music
 as honest as i am
othello come let us to the castle
 news friends our wars are done the turks
 are drown'd
 how does my old acquaintance of this isle
 honey you shall be well desired in cyprus
 i have found great love amongst them o my sweet
 i prattle out of fashion and i dote
 in mine own comforts i prithee good iago
 go to the bay and disembark my coffers
 bring thou the master to the citadel
 he is a good one and his worthiness
 does challenge much respect come desdemona
 once more well met at cyprus
 exeunt othello desdemona and attendants
iago do thou meet me presently at the harbour come
 hither if thou be'st valiant as they say base
 men being in love have then a nobility in their
 natures more than is native to themlist me the
 lieutenant tonight watches on the court of
 guardfirst i must tell thee thisdesdemona is
 directly in love with him
roderigo with him why tis not possible
iago lay thy finger thus and let thy soul be instructed
 mark me with what violence she first loved the moor
 but for bragging and telling her fantastical lies
 and will she love him still for prating let not
 thy discreet heart think it her eye must be fed
 and what delight shall she have to look on the
 devil when the blood is made dull with the act of
 sport there should be again to inflame it and to
 give satiety a fresh appetite loveliness in favour
 sympathy in years manners and beauties all which
 the moor is defective in now for want of these
 required conveniences her delicate tenderness will
 find itself abused begin to heave the gorge
 disrelish and abhor the moor very nature will
 instruct her in it and compel her to some second
 choice now sir this grantedas it is a most
 pregnant and unforced positionwho stands so
 eminent in the degree of this fortune as cassio
 does a knave very voluble no further
 conscionable than in putting on the mere form of
 civil and humane seeming for the better compassing
 of his salt and most hidden loose affection why
 none why none a slipper and subtle knave a
 finder of occasions that has an eye can stamp and
 counterfeit advantages though true advantage never
 present itself a devilish knave besides the
 knave is handsome young and hath all those
 requisites in him that folly and green minds look
 after a pestilent complete knave and the woman
 hath found him already
roderigo i cannot believe that in her she's full of
 most blessed condition
iago blessed fig'send the wine she drinks is made of
 grapes if she had been blessed she would never
 have loved the moor blessed pudding didst thou
 not see her paddle with the palm of his hand didst
 not mark that
roderigo yes that i did but that was but courtesy
iago lechery by this hand an index and obscure prologue
 to the history of lust and foul thoughts they met
 so near with their lips that their breaths embraced
 together villanous thoughts roderigo when these
 mutualities so marshal the way hard at hand comes
 the master and main exercise the incorporate
 conclusion pish but sir be you ruled by me i
 have brought you from venice watch you tonight
 for the command i'll lay't upon you cassio knows
 you not i'll not be far from you do you find
 some occasion to anger cassio either by speaking
 too loud or tainting his discipline or from what
 other course you please which the time shall more
 favourably minister
roderigo well
iago sir he is rash and very sudden in choler and haply
 may strike at you provoke him that he may for
 even out of that will i cause these of cyprus to
 mutiny whose qualification shall come into no true
 taste again but by the displanting of cassio so
 shall you have a shorter journey to your desires by
 the means i shall then have to prefer them and the
 impediment most profitably removed without the
 which there were no expectation of our prosperity
roderigo i will do this if i can bring it to any
 opportunity
iago i warrant thee meet me by and by at the citadel
 i must fetch his necessaries ashore farewell
roderigo adieu
 exit
iago that cassio loves her i do well believe it
 that she loves him tis apt and of great credit
 the moor howbeit that i endure him not
 is of a constant loving noble nature
 and i dare think he'll prove to desdemona
 a most dear husband now i do love her too
 not out of absolute lust though peradventure
 i stand accountant for as great a sin
 but partly led to diet my revenge
 for that i do suspect the lusty moor
 hath leap'd into my seat the thought whereof
 doth like a poisonous mineral gnaw my inwards
 and nothing can or shall content my soul
 till i am even'd with him wife for wife
 or failing so yet that i put the moor
 at least into a jealousy so strong
 that judgment cannot cure which thing to do
 if this poor trash of venice whom i trash
 for his quick hunting stand the putting on
 i'll have our michael cassio on the hip
 abuse him to the moor in the rank garb
 for i fear cassio with my nightcap too
 make the moor thank me love me and reward me
 for making him egregiously an ass
 and practising upon his peace and quiet
 even to madness tis here but yet confused
 knavery's plain face is never seen tin used
 exit
 othello
act ii
scene ii a street
 enter a herald with a proclamation people
 following
herald it is othello's pleasure our noble and valiant
 general that upon certain tidings now arrived
 importing the mere perdition of the turkish fleet
 every man put himself into triumph some to dance
 some to make bonfires each man to what sport and
 revels his addiction leads him for besides these
 beneficial news it is the celebration of his
 nuptial so much was his pleasure should be
 proclaimed all offices are open and there is full
 liberty of feasting from this present hour of five
 till the bell have told eleven heaven bless the
 isle of cyprus and our noble general othello
 exeunt
 othello
act ii
scene iii a hall in the castle
 enter othello desdemona cassio and attendants
othello good michael look you to the guard tonight
 let's teach ourselves that honourable stop
 not to outsport discretion
cassio iago hath direction what to do
 but notwithstanding with my personal eye
 will i look to't
othello iago is most honest
 michael good night tomorrow with your earliest
 let me have speech with you
 to desdemona
 come my dear love
 the purchase made the fruits are to ensue
 that profit's yet to come tween me and you
 good night
 exeunt othello desdemona and attendants
 enter iago
cassio welcome iago we must to the watch
iago not this hour lieutenant tis not yet ten o the
 clock our general cast us thus early for the love
 of his desdemona who let us not therefore blame
 he hath not yet made wanton the night with her and
 she is sport for jove
cassio she's a most exquisite lady
iago and i'll warrant her fun of game
cassio indeed she's a most fresh and delicate creature
iago what an eye she has methinks it sounds a parley of
 provocation
cassio an inviting eye and yet methinks right modest
iago and when she speaks is it not an alarum to love
cassio she is indeed perfection
iago well happiness to their sheets come lieutenant i
 have a stoup of wine and here without are a brace
 of cyprus gallants that would fain have a measure to
 the health of black othello
cassio not tonight good iago i have very poor and
 unhappy brains for drinking i could well wish
 courtesy would invent some other custom of
 entertainment
iago o they are our friends but one cup i'll drink for
 you
cassio i have drunk but one cup tonight and that was
 craftily qualified too and behold what innovation
 it makes here i am unfortunate in the infirmity
 and dare not task my weakness with any more
iago what man tis a night of revels the gallants
 desire it
cassio where are they
iago here at the door i pray you call them in
cassio i'll do't but it dislikes me
 exit
iago if i can fasten but one cup upon him
 with that which he hath drunk tonight already
 he'll be as full of quarrel and offence
 as my young mistress dog now my sick fool roderigo
 whom love hath turn'd almost the wrong side out
 to desdemona hath tonight caroused
 potations pottledeep and he's to watch
 three lads of cyprus noble swelling spirits
 that hold their honours in a wary distance
 the very elements of this warlike isle
 have i tonight fluster'd with flowing cups
 and they watch too now mongst this flock of drunkards
 am i to put our cassio in some action
 that may offend the islebut here they come
 if consequence do but approve my dream
 my boat sails freely both with wind and stream
 reenter cassio with him montano and gentlemen
 servants following with wine
cassio fore god they have given me a rouse already
montano good faith a little one not past a pint as i am
 a soldier
iago some wine ho
 sings
 and let me the canakin clink clink
 and let me the canakin clink
 a soldier's a man
 a life's but a span
 why then let a soldier drink
 some wine boys
cassio fore god an excellent song
iago i learned it in england where indeed they are
 most potent in potting your dane your german and
 your swagbellied hollanderdrink hoare nothing
 to your english
cassio is your englishman so expert in his drinking
iago why he drinks you with facility your dane dead
 drunk he sweats not to overthrow your almain he
 gives your hollander a vomit ere the next pottle
 can be filled
cassio to the health of our general
montano i am for it lieutenant and i'll do you justice
iago o sweet england
 king stephen was a worthy peer
 his breeches cost him but a crown
 he held them sixpence all too dear
 with that he call'd the tailor lown
 he was a wight of high renown
 and thou art but of low degree
 tis pride that pulls the country down
 then take thine auld cloak about thee
 some wine ho
cassio why this is a more exquisite song than the other
iago will you hear't again
cassio no for i hold him to be unworthy of his place that
 does those things well god's above all and there
 be souls must be saved and there be souls must not be saved
iago it's true good lieutenant
cassio for mine own partno offence to the general nor
 any man of qualityi hope to be saved
iago and so do i too lieutenant
cassio ay but by your leave not before me the
 lieutenant is to be saved before the ancient let's
 have no more of this let's to our affairsforgive
 us our sinsgentlemen let's look to our business
 do not think gentlemen i am drunk this is my
 ancient this is my right hand and this is my left
 i am not drunk now i can stand well enough and
 speak well enough
all excellent well
cassio why very well then you must not think then that i am drunk
 exit
montano to the platform masters come let's set the watch
iago you see this fellow that is gone before
 he is a soldier fit to stand by caesar
 and give direction and do but see his vice
 tis to his virtue a just equinox
 the one as long as the other tis pity of him
 i fear the trust othello puts him in
 on some odd time of his infirmity
 will shake this island
montano but is he often thus
iago tis evermore the prologue to his sleep
 he'll watch the horologe a double set
 if drink rock not his cradle
montano it were well
 the general were put in mind of it
 perhaps he sees it not or his good nature
 prizes the virtue that appears in cassio
 and looks not on his evils is not this true
 enter roderigo
iago aside to him how now roderigo
 i pray you after the lieutenant go
 exit roderigo
montano and tis great pity that the noble moor
 should hazard such a place as his own second
 with one of an ingraft infirmity
 it were an honest action to say
 so to the moor
iago not i for this fair island
 i do love cassio well and would do much
 to cure him of this evilbut hark what noise
 cry within help help'
 reenter cassio driving in roderigo
cassio you rogue you rascal
montano what's the matter lieutenant
cassio a knave teach me my duty
 i'll beat the knave into a twiggen bottle
roderigo beat me
cassio dost thou prate rogue
 striking roderigo
montano nay good lieutenant
 staying him
 i pray you sir hold your hand
cassio let me go sir
 or i'll knock you o'er the mazzard
montano come come
 you're drunk
cassio drunk
 they fight
iago aside to roderigo away i say go out and cry a mutiny
 exit roderigo
 nay good lieutenantalas gentlemen
 help holieutenantsirmontanosir
 help mastershere's a goodly watch indeed
 bell rings
 who's that which rings the belldiablo ho
 the town will rise god's will lieutenant hold
 you will be shamed for ever
 reenter othello and attendants
othello what is the matter here
montano zounds i bleed still i am hurt to the death
 faints
othello hold for your lives
iago hold ho lieutenantsirmontanogentlemen
 have you forgot all sense of place and duty
 hold the general speaks to you hold hold for shame
othello why how now ho from whence ariseth this
 are we turn'd turks and to ourselves do that
 which heaven hath forbid the ottomites
 for christian shame put by this barbarous brawl
 he that stirs next to carve for his own rage
 holds his soul light he dies upon his motion
 silence that dreadful bell it frights the isle
 from her propriety what is the matter masters
 honest iago that look'st dead with grieving
 speak who began this on thy love i charge thee
iago i do not know friends all but now even now
 in quarter and in terms like bride and groom
 devesting them for bed and then but now
 as if some planet had unwitted men
 swords out and tilting one at other's breast
 in opposition bloody i cannot speak
 any beginning to this peevish odds
 and would in action glorious i had lost
 those legs that brought me to a part of it
othello how comes it michael you are thus forgot
cassio i pray you pardon me i cannot speak
othello worthy montano you were wont be civil
 the gravity and stillness of your youth
 the world hath noted and your name is great
 in mouths of wisest censure what's the matter
 that you unlace your reputation thus
 and spend your rich opinion for the name
 of a nightbrawler give me answer to it
montano worthy othello i am hurt to danger
 your officer iago can inform you
 while i spare speech which something now
 offends me
 of all that i do know nor know i aught
 by me that's said or done amiss this night
 unless selfcharity be sometimes a vice
 and to defend ourselves it be a sin
 when violence assails us
othello now by heaven
 my blood begins my safer guides to rule
 and passion having my best judgment collied
 assays to lead the way if i once stir
 or do but lift this arm the best of you
 shall sink in my rebuke give me to know
 how this foul rout began who set it on
 and he that is approved in this offence
 though he had twinn'd with me both at a birth
 shall lose me what in a town of war
 yet wild the people's hearts brimful of fear
 to manage private and domestic quarrel
 in night and on the court and guard of safety
 tis monstrous iago who began't
montano if partially affined or leagued in office
 thou dost deliver more or less than truth
 thou art no soldier
iago touch me not so near
 i had rather have this tongue cut from my mouth
 than it should do offence to michael cassio
 yet i persuade myself to speak the truth
 shall nothing wrong him thus it is general
 montano and myself being in speech
 there comes a fellow crying out for help
 and cassio following him with determined sword
 to execute upon him sir this gentleman
 steps in to cassio and entreats his pause
 myself the crying fellow did pursue
 lest by his clamouras it so fell out
 the town might fall in fright he swift of foot
 outran my purpose and i return'd the rather
 for that i heard the clink and fall of swords
 and cassio high in oath which till tonight
 i ne'er might say before when i came back
 for this was briefi found them close together
 at blow and thrust even as again they were
 when you yourself did part them
 more of this matter cannot i report
 but men are men the best sometimes forget
 though cassio did some little wrong to him
 as men in rage strike those that wish them best
 yet surely cassio i believe received
 from him that fled some strange indignity
 which patience could not pass
othello i know iago
 thy honesty and love doth mince this matter
 making it light to cassio cassio i love thee
 but never more be officer of mine
 reenter desdemona attended
 look if my gentle love be not raised up
 i'll make thee an example
desdemona what's the matter
othello all's well now sweeting come away to bed
 sir for your hurts myself will be your surgeon
 lead him off
 to montano who is led off
 iago look with care about the town
 and silence those whom this vile brawl distracted
 come desdemona tis the soldiers life
 to have their balmy slumbers waked with strife
 exeunt all but iago and cassio
iago what are you hurt lieutenant
cassio ay past all surgery
iago marry heaven forbid
cassio reputation reputation reputation o i have lost
 my reputation i have lost the immortal part of
 myself and what remains is bestial my reputation
 iago my reputation
iago as i am an honest man i thought you had received
 some bodily wound there is more sense in that than
 in reputation reputation is an idle and most false
 imposition oft got without merit and lost without
 deserving you have lost no reputation at all
 unless you repute yourself such a loser what man
 there are ways to recover the general again you
 are but now cast in his mood a punishment more in
 policy than in malice even so as one would beat his
 offenceless dog to affright an imperious lion sue
 to him again and he's yours
cassio i will rather sue to be despised than to deceive so
 good a commander with so slight so drunken and so
 indiscreet an officer drunk and speak parrot
 and squabble swagger swear and discourse
 fustian with one's own shadow o thou invisible
 spirit of wine if thou hast no name to be known by
 let us call thee devil
iago what was he that you followed with your sword what
 had he done to you
cassio i know not
iago is't possible
cassio i remember a mass of things but nothing distinctly
 a quarrel but nothing wherefore o god that men
 should put an enemy in their mouths to steal away
 their brains that we should with joy pleasance
 revel and applause transform ourselves into beasts
iago why but you are now well enough how came you thus
 recovered
cassio it hath pleased the devil drunkenness to give place
 to the devil wrath one unperfectness shows me
 another to make me frankly despise myself
iago come you are too severe a moraler as the time
 the place and the condition of this country
 stands i could heartily wish this had not befallen
 but since it is as it is mend it for your own good
cassio i will ask him for my place again he shall tell me
 i am a drunkard had i as many mouths as hydra
 such an answer would stop them all to be now a
 sensible man by and by a fool and presently a
 beast o strange every inordinate cup is
 unblessed and the ingredient is a devil
iago come come good wine is a good familiar creature
 if it be well used exclaim no more against it
 and good lieutenant i think you think i love you
cassio i have well approved it sir i drunk
iago you or any man living may be drunk at a time man
 i'll tell you what you shall do our general's wife
 is now the general may say so in this respect for
 that he hath devoted and given up himself to the
 contemplation mark and denotement of her parts and
 graces confess yourself freely to her importune
 her help to put you in your place again she is of
 so free so kind so apt so blessed a disposition
 she holds it a vice in her goodness not to do more
 than she is requested this broken joint between
 you and her husband entreat her to splinter and my
 fortunes against any lay worth naming this
 crack of your love shall grow stronger than it was before
cassio you advise me well
iago i protest in the sincerity of love and honest kindness
cassio i think it freely and betimes in the morning i will
 beseech the virtuous desdemona to undertake for me
 i am desperate of my fortunes if they cheque me here
iago you are in the right good night lieutenant i
 must to the watch
cassio good night honest iago
 exit
iago and what's he then that says i play the villain
 when this advice is free i give and honest
 probal to thinking and indeed the course
 to win the moor again for tis most easy
 the inclining desdemona to subdue
 in any honest suit she's framed as fruitful
 as the free elements and then for her
 to win the moorwere't to renounce his baptism
 all seals and symbols of redeemed sin
 his soul is so enfetter'd to her love
 that she may make unmake do what she list
 even as her appetite shall play the god
 with his weak function how am i then a villain
 to counsel cassio to this parallel course
 directly to his good divinity of hell
 when devils will the blackest sins put on
 they do suggest at first with heavenly shows
 as i do now for whiles this honest fool
 plies desdemona to repair his fortunes
 and she for him pleads strongly to the moor
 i'll pour this pestilence into his ear
 that she repeals him for her body's lust
 and by how much she strives to do him good
 she shall undo her credit with the moor
 so will i turn her virtue into pitch
 and out of her own goodness make the net
 that shall enmesh them all
 reenter roderigo
 how now roderigo
roderigo i do follow here in the chase not like a hound that
 hunts but one that fills up the cry my money is
 almost spent i have been tonight exceedingly well
 cudgelled and i think the issue will be i shall
 have so much experience for my pains and so with
 no money at all and a little more wit return again to venice
iago how poor are they that have not patience
 what wound did ever heal but by degrees
 thou know'st we work by wit and not by witchcraft
 and wit depends on dilatory time
 does't not go well cassio hath beaten thee
 and thou by that small hurt hast cashier'd cassio
 though other things grow fair against the sun
 yet fruits that blossom first will first be ripe
 content thyself awhile by the mass tis morning
 pleasure and action make the hours seem short
 retire thee go where thou art billeted
 away i say thou shalt know more hereafter
 nay get thee gone
 exit roderigo
 two things are to be done
 my wife must move for cassio to her mistress
 i'll set her on
 myself the while to draw the moor apart
 and bring him jump when he may cassio find
 soliciting his wife ay that's the way
 dull not device by coldness and delay
 exit
 othello
act iii
scene i before the castle
 enter cassio and some musicians
cassio masters play here i will content your pains
 something that's brief and bid good morrow general'
 music
 enter clown
clown why masters have your instruments been in naples
 that they speak i the nose thus
first musician how sir how
clown are these i pray you windinstruments
first musician ay marry are they sir
clown o thereby hangs a tail
first musician whereby hangs a tale sir
clown marry sir by many a windinstrument that i know
 but masters here's money for you and the general
 so likes your music that he desires you for love's
 sake to make no more noise with it
first musician well sir we will not
clown if you have any music that may not be heard to't
 again but as they say to hear music the general
 does not greatly care
first musician we have none such sir
clown then put up your pipes in your bag for i'll away
 go vanish into air away
 exeunt musicians
cassio dost thou hear my honest friend
clown no i hear not your honest friend i hear you
cassio prithee keep up thy quillets there's a poor piece
 of gold for thee if the gentlewoman that attends
 the general's wife be stirring tell her there's
 one cassio entreats her a little favour of speech
 wilt thou do this
clown she is stirring sir if she will stir hither i
 shall seem to notify unto her
cassio do good my friend
 exit clown
 enter iago
 in happy time iago
iago you have not been abed then
cassio why no the day had broke
 before we parted i have made bold iago
 to send in to your wife my suit to her
 is that she will to virtuous desdemona
 procure me some access
iago i'll send her to you presently
 and i'll devise a mean to draw the moor
 out of the way that your converse and business
 may be more free
cassio i humbly thank you for't
 exit iago
 i never knew
 a florentine more kind and honest
 enter emilia
emilia good morrow good lieutenant i am sorry
 for your displeasure but all will sure be well
 the general and his wife are talking of it
 and she speaks for you stoutly the moor replies
 that he you hurt is of great fame in cyprus
 and great affinity and that in wholesome wisdom
 he might not but refuse you but he protests he loves you
 and needs no other suitor but his likings
 to take the safest occasion by the front
 to bring you in again
cassio yet i beseech you
 if you think fit or that it may be done
 give me advantage of some brief discourse
 with desdemona alone
emilia pray you come in
 i will bestow you where you shall have time
 to speak your bosom freely
cassio i am much bound to you
 exeunt
 othello
act iii
scene ii a room in the castle
 enter othello iago and gentlemen
othello these letters give iago to the pilot
 and by him do my duties to the senate
 that done i will be walking on the works
 repair there to me
iago well my good lord i'll do't
othello this fortification gentlemen shall we see't
gentleman we'll wait upon your lordship
 exeunt
 othello
act iii
scene iii the garden of the castle
 enter desdemona cassio and emilia
desdemona be thou assured good cassio i will do
 all my abilities in thy behalf
emilia good madam do i warrant it grieves my husband
 as if the case were his
desdemona o that's an honest fellow do not doubt cassio
 but i will have my lord and you again
 as friendly as you were
cassio bounteous madam
 whatever shall become of michael cassio
 he's never any thing but your true servant
desdemona i know't i thank you you do love my lord
 you have known him long and be you well assured
 he shall in strangeness stand no further off
 than in a polite distance
cassio ay but lady
 that policy may either last so long
 or feed upon such nice and waterish diet
 or breed itself so out of circumstance
 that i being absent and my place supplied
 my general will forget my love and service
desdemona do not doubt that before emilia here
 i give thee warrant of thy place assure thee
 if i do vow a friendship i'll perform it
 to the last article my lord shall never rest
 i'll watch him tame and talk him out of patience
 his bed shall seem a school his board a shrift
 i'll intermingle every thing he does
 with cassio's suit therefore be merry cassio
 for thy solicitor shall rather die
 than give thy cause away
emilia madam here comes my lord
cassio madam i'll take my leave
desdemona why stay and hear me speak
cassio madam not now i am very ill at ease
 unfit for mine own purposes
desdemona well do your discretion
 exit cassio
 enter othello and iago
iago ha i like not that
othello what dost thou say
iago nothing my lord or ifi know not what
othello was not that cassio parted from my wife
iago cassio my lord no sure i cannot think it
 that he would steal away so guiltylike
 seeing you coming
othello i do believe twas he
desdemona how now my lord
 i have been talking with a suitor here
 a man that languishes in your displeasure
othello who is't you mean
desdemona why your lieutenant cassio good my lord
 if i have any grace or power to move you
 his present reconciliation take
 for if he be not one that truly loves you
 that errs in ignorance and not in cunning
 i have no judgment in an honest face
 i prithee call him back
othello went he hence now
desdemona ay sooth so humbled
 that he hath left part of his grief with me
 to suffer with him good love call him back
othello not now sweet desdemona some other time
desdemona but shall't be shortly
othello the sooner sweet for you
desdemona shall't be tonight at supper
othello no not tonight
desdemona tomorrow dinner then
othello i shall not dine at home
 i meet the captains at the citadel
desdemona why then tomorrow night or tuesday morn
 on tuesday noon or night on wednesday morn
 i prithee name the time but let it not
 exceed three days in faith he's penitent
 and yet his trespass in our common reason
 save that they say the wars must make examples
 out of their bestis not almost a fault
 to incur a private cheque when shall he come
 tell me othello i wonder in my soul
 what you would ask me that i should deny
 or stand so mammering on what michael cassio
 that came awooing with you and so many a time
 when i have spoke of you dispraisingly
 hath ta'en your part to have so much to do
 to bring him in trust me i could do much
othello prithee no more let him come when he will
 i will deny thee nothing
desdemona why this is not a boon
 tis as i should entreat you wear your gloves
 or feed on nourishing dishes or keep you warm
 or sue to you to do a peculiar profit
 to your own person nay when i have a suit
 wherein i mean to touch your love indeed
 it shall be full of poise and difficult weight
 and fearful to be granted
othello i will deny thee nothing
 whereon i do beseech thee grant me this
 to leave me but a little to myself
desdemona shall i deny you no farewell my lord
othello farewell my desdemona i'll come to thee straight
desdemona emilia come be as your fancies teach you
 whate'er you be i am obedient
 exeunt desdemona and emilia
othello excellent wretch perdition catch my soul
 but i do love thee and when i love thee not
 chaos is come again
iago my noble lord
othello what dost thou say iago
iago did michael cassio when you woo'd my lady
 know of your love
othello he did from first to last why dost thou ask
iago but for a satisfaction of my thought
 no further harm
othello why of thy thought iago
iago i did not think he had been acquainted with her
othello o yes and went between us very oft
iago indeed
othello indeed ay indeed discern'st thou aught in that
 is he not honest
iago honest my lord
othello honest ay honest
iago my lord for aught i know
othello what dost thou think
iago think my lord
othello think my lord
 by heaven he echoes me
 as if there were some monster in his thought
 too hideous to be shown thou dost mean something
 i heard thee say even now thou likedst not that
 when cassio left my wife what didst not like
 and when i told thee he was of my counsel
 in my whole course of wooing thou criedst indeed'
 and didst contract and purse thy brow together
 as if thou then hadst shut up in thy brain
 some horrible conceit if thou dost love me
 show me thy thought
iago my lord you know i love you
othello i think thou dost
 and for i know thou'rt full of love and honesty
 and weigh'st thy words before thou givest them breath
 therefore these stops of thine fright me the more
 for such things in a false disloyal knave
 are tricks of custom but in a man that's just
 they are close delations working from the heart
 that passion cannot rule
iago for michael cassio
 i dare be sworn i think that he is honest
othello i think so too
iago men should be what they seem
 or those that be not would they might seem none
othello certain men should be what they seem
iago why then i think cassio's an honest man
othello nay yet there's more in this
 i prithee speak to me as to thy thinkings
 as thou dost ruminate and give thy worst of thoughts
 the worst of words
iago good my lord pardon me
 though i am bound to every act of duty
 i am not bound to that all slaves are free to
 utter my thoughts why say they are vile and false
 as where's that palace whereinto foul things
 sometimes intrude not who has a breast so pure
 but some uncleanly apprehensions
 keep leets and lawdays and in session sit
 with meditations lawful
othello thou dost conspire against thy friend iago
 if thou but think'st him wrong'd and makest his ear
 a stranger to thy thoughts
iago i do beseech you
 though i perchance am vicious in my guess
 as i confess it is my nature's plague
 to spy into abuses and oft my jealousy
 shapes faults that are notthat your wisdom yet
 from one that so imperfectly conceits
 would take no notice nor build yourself a trouble
 out of his scattering and unsure observance
 it were not for your quiet nor your good
 nor for my manhood honesty or wisdom
 to let you know my thoughts
othello what dost thou mean
iago good name in man and woman dear my lord
 is the immediate jewel of their souls
 who steals my purse steals trash tis something nothing
 twas mine tis his and has been slave to thousands
 but he that filches from me my good name
 robs me of that which not enriches him
 and makes me poor indeed
othello by heaven i'll know thy thoughts
iago you cannot if my heart were in your hand
 nor shall not whilst tis in my custody
othello ha
iago o beware my lord of jealousy
 it is the greeneyed monster which doth mock
 the meat it feeds on that cuckold lives in bliss
 who certain of his fate loves not his wronger
 but o what damned minutes tells he o'er
 who dotes yet doubts suspects yet strongly loves
othello o misery
iago poor and content is rich and rich enough
 but riches fineless is as poor as winter
 to him that ever fears he shall be poor
 good heaven the souls of all my tribe defend
 from jealousy
othello why why is this
 think'st thou i'ld make a lie of jealousy
 to follow still the changes of the moon
 with fresh suspicions no to be once in doubt
 is once to be resolved exchange me for a goat
 when i shall turn the business of my soul
 to such exsufflicate and blown surmises
 matching thy inference tis not to make me jealous
 to say my wife is fair feeds well loves company
 is free of speech sings plays and dances well
 where virtue is these are more virtuous
 nor from mine own weak merits will i draw
 the smallest fear or doubt of her revolt
 for she had eyes and chose me no iago
 i'll see before i doubt when i doubt prove
 and on the proof there is no more but this
 away at once with love or jealousy
iago i am glad of it for now i shall have reason
 to show the love and duty that i bear you
 with franker spirit therefore as i am bound
 receive it from me i speak not yet of proof
 look to your wife observe her well with cassio
 wear your eye thus not jealous nor secure
 i would not have your free and noble nature
 out of selfbounty be abused look to't
 i know our country disposition well
 in venice they do let heaven see the pranks
 they dare not show their husbands their best conscience
 is not to leave't undone but keep't unknown
othello dost thou say so
iago she did deceive her father marrying you
 and when she seem'd to shake and fear your looks
 she loved them most
othello and so she did
iago why go to then
 she that so young could give out such a seeming
 to seal her father's eyes up close as oak
 he thought twas witchcraftbut i am much to blame
 i humbly do beseech you of your pardon
 for too much loving you
othello i am bound to thee for ever
iago i see this hath a little dash'd your spirits
othello not a jot not a jot
iago i faith i fear it has
 i hope you will consider what is spoke
 comes from my love but i do see you're moved
 i am to pray you not to strain my speech
 to grosser issues nor to larger reach
 than to suspicion
othello i will not
iago should you do so my lord
 my speech should fall into such vile success
 as my thoughts aim not at cassio's my worthy friend
 my lord i see you're moved
othello no not much moved
 i do not think but desdemona's honest
iago long live she so and long live you to think so
othello and yet how nature erring from itself
iago ay there's the point asto be bold with you
 not to affect many proposed matches
 of her own clime complexion and degree
 whereto we see in all things nature tends
 foh one may smell in such a will most rank
 foul disproportion thoughts unnatural
 but pardon me i do not in position
 distinctly speak of her though i may fear
 her will recoiling to her better judgment
 may fall to match you with her country forms
 and happily repent
othello farewell farewell
 if more thou dost perceive let me know more
 set on thy wife to observe leave me iago
iago going my lord i take my leave
othello why did i marry this honest creature doubtless
 sees and knows more much more than he unfolds
iago returning my lord i would i might entreat
 your honour
 to scan this thing no further leave it to time
 though it be fit that cassio have his place
 for sure he fills it up with great ability
 yet if you please to hold him off awhile
 you shall by that perceive him and his means
 note if your lady strain his entertainment
 with any strong or vehement importunity
 much will be seen in that in the mean time
 let me be thought too busy in my fears
 as worthy cause i have to fear i am
 and hold her free i do beseech your honour
othello fear not my government
iago i once more take my leave
 exit
othello this fellow's of exceeding honesty
 and knows all qualities with a learned spirit
 of human dealings if i do prove her haggard
 though that her jesses were my dear heartstrings
 i'ld whistle her off and let her down the wind
 to pray at fortune haply for i am black
 and have not those soft parts of conversation
 that chamberers have or for i am declined
 into the vale of yearsyet that's not much
 she's gone i am abused and my relief
 must be to loathe her o curse of marriage
 that we can call these delicate creatures ours
 and not their appetites i had rather be a toad
 and live upon the vapour of a dungeon
 than keep a corner in the thing i love
 for others uses yet tis the plague of great ones
 prerogatived are they less than the base
 tis destiny unshunnable like death
 even then this forked plague is fated to us
 when we do quicken desdemona comes
 reenter desdemona and emilia
 if she be false o then heaven mocks itself
 i'll not believe't
desdemona how now my dear othello
 your dinner and the generous islanders
 by you invited do attend your presence
othello i am to blame
desdemona why do you speak so faintly
 are you not well
othello i have a pain upon my forehead here
desdemona faith that's with watching twill away again
 let me but bind it hard within this hour
 it will be well
othello your napkin is too little
 he puts the handkerchief from him and it drops
 let it alone come i'll go in with you
desdemona i am very sorry that you are not well
 exeunt othello and desdemona
emilia i am glad i have found this napkin
 this was her first remembrance from the moor
 my wayward husband hath a hundred times
 woo'd me to steal it but she so loves the token
 for he conjured her she should ever keep it
 that she reserves it evermore about her
 to kiss and talk to i'll have the work ta'en out
 and give't iago what he will do with it
 heaven knows not i
 i nothing but to please his fantasy
 reenter iago
iago how now what do you here alone
emilia do not you chide i have a thing for you
iago a thing for me it is a common thing
emilia ha
iago to have a foolish wife
emilia o is that all what will you give me now
 for the same handkerchief
iago what handkerchief
emilia what handkerchief
 why that the moor first gave to desdemona
 that which so often you did bid me steal
iago hast stol'n it from her
emilia no faith she let it drop by negligence
 and to the advantage i being here took't up
 look here it is
iago a good wench give it me
emilia what will you do with t that you have been
 so earnest
 to have me filch it
iago snatching it why what's that to you
emilia if it be not for some purpose of import
 give't me again poor lady she'll run mad
 when she shall lack it
iago be not acknown on t i have use for it
 go leave me
 exit emilia
 i will in cassio's lodging lose this napkin
 and let him find it trifles light as air
 are to the jealous confirmations strong
 as proofs of holy writ this may do something
 the moor already changes with my poison
 dangerous conceits are in their natures poisons
 which at the first are scarce found to distaste
 but with a little act upon the blood
 burn like the mines of sulphur i did say so
 look where he comes
 reenter othello
 not poppy nor mandragora
 nor all the drowsy syrups of the world
 shall ever medicine thee to that sweet sleep
 which thou owedst yesterday
othello ha ha false to me
iago why how now general no more of that
othello avaunt be gone thou hast set me on the rack
 i swear tis better to be much abused
 than but to know't a little
iago how now my lord
othello what sense had i of her stol'n hours of lust
 i saw't not thought it not it harm'd not me
 i slept the next night well was free and merry
 i found not cassio's kisses on her lips
 he that is robb'd not wanting what is stol'n
 let him not know't and he's not robb'd at all
iago i am sorry to hear this
othello i had been happy if the general camp
 pioners and all had tasted her sweet body
 so i had nothing known o now for ever
 farewell the tranquil mind farewell content
 farewell the plumed troop and the big wars
 that make ambition virtue o farewell
 farewell the neighing steed and the shrill trump
 the spiritstirring drum the earpiercing fife
 the royal banner and all quality
 pride pomp and circumstance of glorious war
 and o you mortal engines whose rude throats
 the immortal jove's dead clamours counterfeit
 farewell othello's occupation's gone
iago is't possible my lord
othello villain be sure thou prove my love a whore
 be sure of it give me the ocular proof
 or by the worth of man's eternal soul
 thou hadst been better have been born a dog
 than answer my waked wrath
iago is't come to this
othello make me to see't or at the least so prove it
 that the probation bear no hinge nor loop
 to hang a doubt on or woe upon thy life
iago my noble lord
othello if thou dost slander her and torture me
 never pray more abandon all remorse
 on horror's head horrors accumulate
 do deeds to make heaven weep all earth amazed
 for nothing canst thou to damnation add
 greater than that
iago o grace o heaven forgive me
 are you a man have you a soul or sense
 god be wi you take mine office o wretched fool
 that livest to make thine honesty a vice
 o monstrous world take note take note o world
 to be direct and honest is not safe
 i thank you for this profit and from hence
 i'll love no friend sith love breeds such offence
othello nay stay thou shouldst be honest
iago i should be wise for honesty's a fool
 and loses that it works for
othello by the world
 i think my wife be honest and think she is not
 i think that thou art just and think thou art not
 i'll have some proof her name that was as fresh
 as dian's visage is now begrimed and black
 as mine own face if there be cords or knives
 poison or fire or suffocating streams
 i'll not endure it would i were satisfied
iago i see sir you are eaten up with passion
 i do repent me that i put it to you
 you would be satisfied
othello would nay i will
iago and may but how how satisfied my lord
 would you the supervisor grossly gape on
 behold her topp'd
othello death and damnation o
iago it were a tedious difficulty i think
 to bring them to that prospect damn them then
 if ever mortal eyes do see them bolster
 more than their own what then how then
 what shall i say where's satisfaction
 it is impossible you should see this
 were they as prime as goats as hot as monkeys
 as salt as wolves in pride and fools as gross
 as ignorance made drunk but yet i say
 if imputation and strong circumstances
 which lead directly to the door of truth
 will give you satisfaction you may have't
othello give me a living reason she's disloyal
iago i do not like the office
 but sith i am enter'd in this cause so far
 prick'd to't by foolish honesty and love
 i will go on i lay with cassio lately
 and being troubled with a raging tooth
 i could not sleep
 there are a kind of men so loose of soul
 that in their sleeps will mutter their affairs
 one of this kind is cassio
 in sleep i heard him say sweet desdemona
 let us be wary let us hide our loves'
 and then sir would he gripe and wring my hand
 cry o sweet creature and then kiss me hard
 as if he pluck'd up kisses by the roots
 that grew upon my lips then laid his leg
 over my thigh and sigh'd and kiss'd and then
 cried cursed fate that gave thee to the moor'
othello o monstrous monstrous
iago nay this was but his dream
othello but this denoted a foregone conclusion
 tis a shrewd doubt though it be but a dream
iago and this may help to thicken other proofs
 that do demonstrate thinly
othello i'll tear her all to pieces
iago nay but be wise yet we see nothing done
 she may be honest yet tell me but this
 have you not sometimes seen a handkerchief
 spotted with strawberries in your wife's hand
othello i gave her such a one twas my first gift
iago i know not that but such a handkerchief
 i am sure it was your wife'sdid i today
 see cassio wipe his beard with
othello if it be that
iago if it be that or any that was hers
 it speaks against her with the other proofs
othello o that the slave had forty thousand lives
 one is too poor too weak for my revenge
 now do i see tis true look here iago
 all my fond love thus do i blow to heaven
 tis gone
 arise black vengeance from thy hollow cell
 yield up o love thy crown and hearted throne
 to tyrannous hate swell bosom with thy fraught
 for tis of aspics tongues
iago yet be content
othello o blood blood blood
iago patience i say your mind perhaps may change
othello never iago like to the pontic sea
 whose icy current and compulsive course
 ne'er feels retiring ebb but keeps due on
 to the propontic and the hellespont
 even so my bloody thoughts with violent pace
 shall ne'er look back ne'er ebb to humble love
 till that a capable and wide revenge
 swallow them up now by yond marble heaven
 kneels
 in the due reverence of a sacred vow
 i here engage my words
iago do not rise yet
 kneels
 witness you everburning lights above
 you elements that clip us round about
 witness that here iago doth give up
 the execution of his wit hands heart
 to wrong'd othello's service let him command
 and to obey shall be in me remorse
 what bloody business ever
 they rise
othello i greet thy love
 not with vain thanks but with acceptance bounteous
 and will upon the instant put thee to't
 within these three days let me hear thee say
 that cassio's not alive
iago my friend is dead tis done at your request
 but let her live
othello damn her lewd minx o damn her
 come go with me apart i will withdraw
 to furnish me with some swift means of death
 for the fair devil now art thou my lieutenant
iago i am your own for ever
 exeunt
 othello
act iii
scene iv before the castle
 enter desdemona emilia and clown
desdemona do you know sirrah where lieutenant cassio lies
clown i dare not say he lies any where
desdemona why man
clown he's a soldier and for one to say a soldier lies
 is stabbing
desdemona go to where lodges he
clown to tell you where he lodges is to tell you where i lie
desdemona can any thing be made of this
clown i know not where he lodges and for me to devise a
 lodging and say he lies here or he lies there were
 to lie in mine own throat
desdemona can you inquire him out and be edified by report
clown i will catechise the world for him that is make
 questions and by them answer
desdemona seek him bid him come hither tell him i have
 moved my lord on his behalf and hope all will be well
clown to do this is within the compass of man's wit and
 therefore i will attempt the doing it
 exit
desdemona where should i lose that handkerchief emilia
emilia i know not madam
desdemona believe me i had rather have lost my purse
 full of crusadoes and but my noble moor
 is true of mind and made of no such baseness
 as jealous creatures are it were enough
 to put him to ill thinking
emilia is he not jealous
desdemona who he i think the sun where he was born
 drew all such humours from him
emilia look where he comes
desdemona i will not leave him now till cassio
 be call'd to him
 enter othello
 how is't with you my lord
othello well my good lady
 aside
 o hardness to dissemble
 how do you desdemona
desdemona well my good lord
othello give me your hand this hand is moist my lady
desdemona it yet hath felt no age nor known no sorrow
othello this argues fruitfulness and liberal heart
 hot hot and moist this hand of yours requires
 a sequester from liberty fasting and prayer
 much castigation exercise devout
 for here's a young and sweating devil here
 that commonly rebels tis a good hand
 a frank one
desdemona you may indeed say so
 for twas that hand that gave away my heart
othello a liberal hand the hearts of old gave hands
 but our new heraldry is hands not hearts
desdemona i cannot speak of this come now your promise
othello what promise chuck
desdemona i have sent to bid cassio come speak with you
othello i have a salt and sorry rheum offends me
 lend me thy handkerchief
desdemona here my lord
othello that which i gave you
desdemona i have it not about me
othello not
desdemona no indeed my lord
othello that is a fault
 that handkerchief
 did an egyptian to my mother give
 she was a charmer and could almost read
 the thoughts of people she told her while
 she kept it
 twould make her amiable and subdue my father
 entirely to her love but if she lost it
 or made gift of it my father's eye
 should hold her loathed and his spirits should hunt
 after new fancies she dying gave it me
 and bid me when my fate would have me wive
 to give it her i did so and take heed on't
 make it a darling like your precious eye
 to lose't or give't away were such perdition
 as nothing else could match
desdemona is't possible
othello tis true there's magic in the web of it
 a sibyl that had number'd in the world
 the sun to course two hundred compasses
 in her prophetic fury sew'd the work
 the worms were hallow'd that did breed the silk
 and it was dyed in mummy which the skilful
 conserved of maidens hearts
desdemona indeed is't true
othello most veritable therefore look to't well
desdemona then would to god that i had never seen't
othello ha wherefore
desdemona why do you speak so startingly and rash
othello is't lost is't gone speak is it out
 o the way
desdemona heaven bless us
othello say you
desdemona it is not lost but what an if it were
othello how
desdemona i say it is not lost
othello fetch't let me see't
desdemona why so i can sir but i will not now
 this is a trick to put me from my suit
 pray you let cassio be received again
othello fetch me the handkerchief my mind misgives
desdemona come come
 you'll never meet a more sufficient man
othello the handkerchief
desdemona i pray talk me of cassio
othello the handkerchief
desdemona a man that all his time
 hath founded his good fortunes on your love
 shared dangers with you
othello the handkerchief
desdemona in sooth you are to blame
othello away
 exit
emilia is not this man jealous
desdemona i ne'er saw this before
 sure there's some wonder in this handkerchief
 i am most unhappy in the loss of it
emilia tis not a year or two shows us a man
 they are all but stomachs and we all but food
 to eat us hungerly and when they are full
 they belch us look you cassio and my husband
 enter cassio and iago
iago there is no other way tis she must do't
 and lo the happiness go and importune her
desdemona how now good cassio what's the news with you
cassio madam my former suit i do beseech you
 that by your virtuous means i may again
 exist and be a member of his love
 whom i with all the office of my heart
 entirely honour i would not be delay'd
 if my offence be of such mortal kind
 that nor my service past nor present sorrows
 nor purposed merit in futurity
 can ransom me into his love again
 but to know so must be my benefit
 so shall i clothe me in a forced content
 and shut myself up in some other course
 to fortune's alms
desdemona alas thricegentle cassio
 my advocation is not now in tune
 my lord is not my lord nor should i know him
 were he in favour as in humour alter'd
 so help me every spirit sanctified
 as i have spoken for you all my best
 and stood within the blank of his displeasure
 for my free speech you must awhile be patient
 what i can do i will and more i will
 than for myself i dare let that suffice you
iago is my lord angry
emilia he went hence but now
 and certainly in strange unquietness
iago can he be angry i have seen the cannon
 when it hath blown his ranks into the air
 and like the devil from his very arm
 puff'd his own brotherand can he be angry
 something of moment then i will go meet him
 there's matter in't indeed if he be angry
desdemona i prithee do so
 exit iago
 something sure of state
 either from venice or some unhatch'd practise
 made demonstrable here in cyprus to him
 hath puddled his clear spirit and in such cases
 men's natures wrangle with inferior things
 though great ones are their object tis even so
 for let our finger ache and it indues
 our other healthful members even to that sense
 of pain nay we must think men are not gods
 nor of them look for such observances
 as fit the bridal beshrew me much emilia
 i was unhandsome warrior as i am
 arraigning his unkindness with my soul
 but now i find i had suborn'd the witness
 and he's indicted falsely
emilia pray heaven it be statematters as you think
 and no conception nor no jealous toy
 concerning you
desdemona alas the day i never gave him cause
emilia but jealous souls will not be answer'd so
 they are not ever jealous for the cause
 but jealous for they are jealous tis a monster
 begot upon itself born on itself
desdemona heaven keep that monster from othello's mind
emilia lady amen
desdemona i will go seek him cassio walk hereabout
 if i do find him fit i'll move your suit
 and seek to effect it to my uttermost
cassio i humbly thank your ladyship
 exeunt desdemona and emilia
 enter bianca
bianca save you friend cassio
cassio what make you from home
 how is it with you my most fair bianca
 i faith sweet love i was coming to your house
bianca and i was going to your lodging cassio
 what keep a week away seven days and nights
 eight score eight hours and lovers absent hours
 more tedious than the dial eight score times
 o weary reckoning
cassio pardon me bianca
 i have this while with leaden thoughts been press'd
 but i shall in a more continuate time
 strike off this score of absence sweet bianca
 giving her desdemona's handkerchief
 take me this work out
bianca o cassio whence came this
 this is some token from a newer friend
 to the felt absence now i feel a cause
 is't come to this well well
cassio go to woman
 throw your vile guesses in the devil's teeth
 from whence you have them you are jealous now
 that this is from some mistress some remembrance
 no in good troth bianca
bianca why whose is it
cassio i know not sweet i found it in my chamber
 i like the work well ere it be demanded
 as like enough it willi'ld have it copied
 take it and do't and leave me for this time
bianca leave you wherefore
cassio i do attend here on the general
 and think it no addition nor my wish
 to have him see me woman'd
bianca why i pray you
cassio not that i love you not
bianca but that you do not love me
 i pray you bring me on the way a little
 and say if i shall see you soon at night
cassio tis but a little way that i can bring you
 for i attend here but i'll see you soon
bianca tis very good i must be circumstanced
 exeunt
 othello
act iv
scene i cyprus before the castle
 enter othello and iago
iago will you think so
othello think so iago
iago what
 to kiss in private
othello an unauthorized kiss
iago or to be naked with her friend in bed
 an hour or more not meaning any harm
othello naked in bed iago and not mean harm
 it is hypocrisy against the devil
 they that mean virtuously and yet do so
 the devil their virtue tempts and they tempt heaven
iago so they do nothing tis a venial slip
 but if i give my wife a handkerchief
othello what then
iago why then tis hers my lord and being hers
 she may i think bestow't on any man
othello she is protectress of her honour too
 may she give that
iago her honour is an essence that's not seen
 they have it very oft that have it not
 but for the handkerchief
othello by heaven i would most gladly have forgot it
 thou said'st it comes o'er my memory
 as doth the raven o'er the infected house
 boding to allhe had my handkerchief
iago ay what of that
othello that's not so good now
iago what
 if i had said i had seen him do you wrong
 or heard him sayas knaves be such abroad
 who having by their own importunate suit
 or voluntary dotage of some mistress
 convinced or supplied them cannot choose
 but they must blab
othello hath he said any thing
iago he hath my lord but be you well assured
 no more than he'll unswear
othello what hath he said
iago faith that he didi know not what he did
othello what what
iago lie
othello with her
iago with her on her what you will
othello lie with her lie on her we say lie on her when
 they belie her lie with her that's fulsome
 handkerchiefconfessionshandkerchiefto
 confess and be hanged for his labourfirst to be
 hanged and then to confessi tremble at it
 nature would not invest herself in such shadowing
 passion without some instruction it is not words
 that shake me thus pish noses ears and lips
 is't possibleconfesshandkerchiefo devil
 falls in a trance
iago work on
 my medicine work thus credulous fools are caught
 and many worthy and chaste dames even thus
 all guiltless meet reproach what ho my lord
 my lord i say othello
 enter cassio
 how now cassio
cassio what's the matter
iago my lord is fall'n into an epilepsy
 this is his second fit he had one yesterday
cassio rub him about the temples
iago no forbear
 the lethargy must have his quiet course
 if not he foams at mouth and by and by
 breaks out to savage madness look he stirs
 do you withdraw yourself a little while
 he will recover straight when he is gone
 i would on great occasion speak with you
 exit cassio
 how is it general have you not hurt your head
othello dost thou mock me
iago i mock you no by heaven
 would you would bear your fortune like a man
othello a horned man's a monster and a beast
iago there's many a beast then in a populous city
 and many a civil monster
othello did he confess it
iago good sir be a man
 think every bearded fellow that's but yoked
 may draw with you there's millions now alive
 that nightly lie in those unproper beds
 which they dare swear peculiar your case is better
 o tis the spite of hell the fiend's archmock
 to lip a wanton in a secure couch
 and to suppose her chaste no let me know
 and knowing what i am i know what she shall be
othello o thou art wise tis certain
iago stand you awhile apart
 confine yourself but in a patient list
 whilst you were here o'erwhelmed with your grief
 a passion most unsuiting such a man
 cassio came hither i shifted him away
 and laid good scuse upon your ecstasy
 bade him anon return and here speak with me
 the which he promised do but encave yourself
 and mark the fleers the gibes and notable scorns
 that dwell in every region of his face
 for i will make him tell the tale anew
 where how how oft how long ago and when
 he hath and is again to cope your wife
 i say but mark his gesture marry patience
 or i shall say you are all in all in spleen
 and nothing of a man
othello dost thou hear iago
 i will be found most cunning in my patience
 butdost thou hearmost bloody
iago that's not amiss
 but yet keep time in all will you withdraw
 othello retires
 now will i question cassio of bianca
 a housewife that by selling her desires
 buys herself bread and clothes it is a creature
 that dotes on cassio as tis the strumpet's plague
 to beguile many and be beguiled by one
 he when he hears of her cannot refrain
 from the excess of laughter here he comes
 reenter cassio
 as he shall smile othello shall go mad
 and his unbookish jealousy must construe
 poor cassio's smiles gestures and light behavior
 quite in the wrong how do you now lieutenant
cassio the worser that you give me the addition
 whose want even kills me
iago ply desdemona well and you are sure on't
 speaking lower
 now if this suit lay in bianco's power
 how quickly should you speed
cassio alas poor caitiff
othello look how he laughs already
iago i never knew woman love man so
cassio alas poor rogue i think i faith she loves me
othello now he denies it faintly and laughs it out
iago do you hear cassio
othello now he importunes him
 to tell it o'er go to well said well said
iago she gives it out that you shall marry hey
 do you intend it
cassio ha ha ha
othello do you triumph roman do you triumph
cassio i marry her what a customer prithee bear some
 charity to my wit do not think it so unwholesome
 ha ha ha
othello so so so so they laugh that win
iago faith the cry goes that you shall marry her
cassio prithee say true
iago i am a very villain else
othello have you scored me well
cassio this is the monkey's own giving out she is
 persuaded i will marry her out of her own love and
 flattery not out of my promise
othello iago beckons me now he begins the story
cassio she was here even now she haunts me in every place
 i was the other day talking on the seabank with
 certain venetians and thither comes the bauble
 and by this hand she falls me thus about my neck
othello crying o dear cassio as it were his gesture
 imports it
cassio so hangs and lolls and weeps upon me so hales
 and pulls me ha ha ha
othello now he tells how she plucked him to my chamber o
 i see that nose of yours but not that dog i shall
 throw it to
cassio well i must leave her company
iago before me look where she comes
cassio tis such another fitchew marry a perfumed one
 enter bianca
 what do you mean by this haunting of me
bianca let the devil and his dam haunt you what did you
 mean by that same handkerchief you gave me even now
 i was a fine fool to take it i must take out the
 worka likely piece of work that you should find
 it in your chamber and not know who left it there
 this is some minx's token and i must take out the
 work there give it your hobbyhorse wheresoever
 you had it i'll take out no work on't
cassio how now my sweet bianca how now how now
othello by heaven that should be my handkerchief
bianca an you'll come to supper tonight you may an you
 will not come when you are next prepared for
 exit
iago after her after her
cassio faith i must she'll rail in the street else
iago will you sup there
cassio faith i intend so
iago well i may chance to see you for i would very fain
 speak with you
cassio prithee come will you
iago go to say no more
 exit cassio
othello advancing how shall i murder him iago
iago did you perceive how he laughed at his vice
othello o iago
iago and did you see the handkerchief
othello was that mine
iago yours by this hand and to see how he prizes the
 foolish woman your wife she gave it him and he
 hath given it his whore
othello i would have him nine years akilling
 a fine woman a fair woman a sweet woman
iago nay you must forget that
othello ay let her rot and perish and be damned tonight
 for she shall not live no my heart is turned to
 stone i strike it and it hurts my hand o the
 world hath not a sweeter creature she might lie by
 an emperor's side and command him tasks
iago nay that's not your way
othello hang her i do but say what she is so delicate
 with her needle an admirable musician o she
 will sing the savageness out of a bear of so high
 and plenteous wit and invention
iago she's the worse for all this
othello o a thousand thousand times and then of so
 gentle a condition
iago ay too gentle
othello nay that's certain but yet the pity of it iago
 o iago the pity of it iago
iago if you are so fond over her iniquity give her
 patent to offend for if it touch not you it comes
 near nobody
othello i will chop her into messes cuckold me
iago o tis foul in her
othello with mine officer
iago that's fouler
othello get me some poison iago this night i'll not
 expostulate with her lest her body and beauty
 unprovide my mind again this night iago
iago do it not with poison strangle her in her bed even
 the bed she hath contaminated
othello good good the justice of it pleases very good
iago and for cassio let me be his undertaker you
 shall hear more by midnight
othello excellent good
 a trumpet within
 what trumpet is that same
iago something from venice sure tis lodovico
 come from the duke and see your wife is with him
 enter lodovico desdemona and attendants
lodovico save you worthy general
othello with all my heart sir
lodovico the duke and senators of venice greet you
 gives him a letter
othello i kiss the instrument of their pleasures
 opens the letter and reads
desdemona and what's the news good cousin lodovico
iago i am very glad to see you signior
 welcome to cyprus
lodovico i thank you how does lieutenant cassio
iago lives sir
desdemona cousin there's fall'n between him and my lord
 an unkind breach but you shall make all well
othello are you sure of that
desdemona my lord
othello reads this fail you not to do as you will'
lodovico he did not call he's busy in the paper
 is there division twixt my lord and cassio
desdemona a most unhappy one i would do much
 to atone them for the love i bear to cassio
othello fire and brimstone
desdemona my lord
othello are you wise
desdemona what is he angry
lodovico may be the letter moved him
 for as i think they do command him home
 deputing cassio in his government
desdemona trust me i am glad on't
othello indeed
desdemona my lord
othello i am glad to see you mad
desdemona why sweet othello
othello striking her devil
desdemona i have not deserved this
lodovico my lord this would not be believed in venice
 though i should swear i saw't tis very much
 make her amends she weeps
othello o devil devil
 if that the earth could teem with woman's tears
 each drop she falls would prove a crocodile
 out of my sight
desdemona i will not stay to offend you
 going
lodovico truly an obedient lady
 i do beseech your lordship call her back
othello mistress
desdemona my lord
othello what would you with her sir
lodovico who i my lord
othello ay you did wish that i would make her turn
 sir she can turn and turn and yet go on
 and turn again and she can weep sir weep
 and she's obedient as you say obedient
 very obedient proceed you in your tears
 concerning this siro wellpainted passion
 i am commanded home get you away
 i'll send for you anon sir i obey the mandate
 and will return to venice hence avaunt
 exit desdemona
 cassio shall have my place and sir tonight
 i do entreat that we may sup together
 you are welcome sir to cyprusgoats and monkeys
 exit
lodovico is this the noble moor whom our full senate
 call all in all sufficient is this the nature
 whom passion could not shake whose solid virtue
 the shot of accident nor dart of chance
 could neither graze nor pierce
iago he is much changed
lodovico are his wits safe is he not light of brain
iago he's that he is i may not breathe my censure
 what he might be if what he might he is not
 i would to heaven he were
lodovico what strike his wife
iago faith that was not so well yet would i knew
 that stroke would prove the worst
lodovico is it his use
 or did the letters work upon his blood
 and newcreate this fault
iago alas alas
 it is not honesty in me to speak
 what i have seen and known you shall observe him
 and his own courses will denote him so
 that i may save my speech do but go after
 and mark how he continues
lodovico i am sorry that i am deceived in him
 exeunt
 othello
act iv
scene ii a room in the castle
 enter othello and emilia
othello you have seen nothing then
emilia nor ever heard nor ever did suspect
othello yes you have seen cassio and she together
emilia but then i saw no harm and then i heard
 each syllable that breath made up between them
othello what did they never whisper
emilia never my lord
othello nor send you out o the way
emilia never
othello to fetch her fan her gloves her mask nor nothing
emilia never my lord
othello that's strange
emilia i durst my lord to wager she is honest
 lay down my soul at stake if you think other
 remove your thought it doth abuse your bosom
 if any wretch have put this in your head
 let heaven requite it with the serpent's curse
 for if she be not honest chaste and true
 there's no man happy the purest of their wives
 is foul as slander
othello bid her come hither go
 exit emilia
 she says enough yet she's a simple bawd
 that cannot say as much this is a subtle whore
 a closet lock and key of villanous secrets
 and yet she'll kneel and pray i have seen her do't
 enter desdemona with emilia
desdemona my lord what is your will
othello pray chuck come hither
desdemona what is your pleasure
othello let me see your eyes
 look in my face
desdemona what horrible fancy's this
othello to emilia some of your function mistress
 leave procreants alone and shut the door
 cough or cry hem if any body come
 your mystery your mystery nay dispatch
 exit emilia
desdemona upon my knees what doth your speech import
 i understand a fury in your words
 but not the words
othello why what art thou
desdemona your wife my lord your true
 and loyal wife
othello come swear it damn thyself
 lest being like one of heaven the devils themselves
 should fear to seize thee therefore be double damn'd
 swear thou art honest
desdemona heaven doth truly know it
othello heaven truly knows that thou art false as hell
desdemona to whom my lord with whom how am i false
othello o desdemona away away away
desdemona alas the heavy day why do you weep
 am i the motive of these tears my lord
 if haply you my father do suspect
 an instrument of this your calling back
 lay not your blame on me if you have lost him
 why i have lost him too
othello had it pleased heaven
 to try me with affliction had they rain'd
 all kinds of sores and shames on my bare head
 steep'd me in poverty to the very lips
 given to captivity me and my utmost hopes
 i should have found in some place of my soul
 a drop of patience but alas to make me
 a fixed figure for the time of scorn
 to point his slow unmoving finger at
 yet could i bear that too well very well
 but there where i have garner'd up my heart
 where either i must live or bear no life
 the fountain from the which my current runs
 or else dries up to be discarded thence
 or keep it as a cistern for foul toads
 to knot and gender in turn thy complexion there
 patience thou young and roselipp'd cherubin
 ay there look grim as hell
desdemona i hope my noble lord esteems me honest
othello o ay as summer flies are in the shambles
 that quicken even with blowing o thou weed
 who art so lovely fair and smell'st so sweet
 that the sense aches at thee would thou hadst
 ne'er been born
desdemona alas what ignorant sin have i committed
othello was this fair paper this most goodly book
 made to write whore upon what committed
 committed o thou public commoner
 i should make very forges of my cheeks
 that would to cinders burn up modesty
 did i but speak thy deeds what committed
 heaven stops the nose at it and the moon winks
 the bawdy wind that kisses all it meets
 is hush'd within the hollow mine of earth
 and will not hear it what committed
 impudent strumpet
desdemona by heaven you do me wrong
othello are you not a strumpet
desdemona no as i am a christian
 if to preserve this vessel for my lord
 from any other foul unlawful touch
 be not to be a strumpet i am none
othello what not a whore
desdemona no as i shall be saved
othello is't possible
desdemona o heaven forgive us
othello i cry you mercy then
 i took you for that cunning whore of venice
 that married with othello
 raising his voice
 you mistress
 that have the office opposite to saint peter
 and keep the gate of hell
 reenter emilia
 you you ay you
 we have done our course there's money for your pains
 i pray you turn the key and keep our counsel
 exit
emilia alas what does this gentleman conceive
 how do you madam how do you my good lady
desdemona faith half asleep
emilia good madam what's the matter with my lord
desdemona with who
emilia why with my lord madam
desdemona who is thy lord
emilia he that is yours sweet lady
desdemona i have none do not talk to me emilia
 i cannot weep nor answer have i none
 but what should go by water prithee tonight
 lay on my bed my wedding sheets remember
 and call thy husband hither
emilia here's a change indeed
 exit
desdemona tis meet i should be used so very meet
 how have i been behaved that he might stick
 the small'st opinion on my least misuse
 reenter emilia with iago
iago what is your pleasure madam
 how is't with you
desdemona i cannot tell those that do teach young babes
 do it with gentle means and easy tasks
 he might have chid me so for in good faith
 i am a child to chiding
iago what's the matter lady
emilia alas iago my lord hath so bewhored her
 thrown such despite and heavy terms upon her
 as true hearts cannot bear
desdemona am i that name iago
iago what name fair lady
desdemona such as she says my lord did say i was
emilia he call'd her whore a beggar in his drink
 could not have laid such terms upon his callat
iago why did he so
desdemona i do not know i am sure i am none such
iago do not weep do not weep alas the day
emilia hath she forsook so many noble matches
 her father and her country and her friends
 to be call'd whore would it not make one weep
desdemona it is my wretched fortune
iago beshrew him for't
 how comes this trick upon him
desdemona nay heaven doth know
emilia i will be hang'd if some eternal villain
 some busy and insinuating rogue
 some cogging cozening slave to get some office
 have not devised this slander i'll be hang'd else
iago fie there is no such man it is impossible
desdemona if any such there be heaven pardon him
emilia a halter pardon him and hell gnaw his bones
 why should he call her whore who keeps her company
 what place what time what form what likelihood
 the moor's abused by some most villanous knave
 some base notorious knave some scurvy fellow
 o heaven that such companions thou'ldst unfold
 and put in every honest hand a whip
 to lash the rascals naked through the world
 even from the east to the west
iago speak within door
emilia o fie upon them some such squire he was
 that turn'd your wit the seamy side without
 and made you to suspect me with the moor
iago you are a fool go to
desdemona o good iago
 what shall i do to win my lord again
 good friend go to him for by this light of heaven
 i know not how i lost him here i kneel
 if e'er my will did trespass gainst his love
 either in discourse of thought or actual deed
 or that mine eyes mine ears or any sense
 delighted them in any other form
 or that i do not yet and ever did
 and ever willthough he do shake me off
 to beggarly divorcementlove him dearly
 comfort forswear me unkindness may do much
 and his unkindness may defeat my life
 but never taint my love i cannot say whore'
 it does abhor me now i speak the word
 to do the act that might the addition earn
 not the world's mass of vanity could make me
iago i pray you be content tis but his humour
 the business of the state does him offence
 and he does chide with you
desdemona if twere no other
iago tis but so i warrant
 trumpets within
 hark how these instruments summon to supper
 the messengers of venice stay the meat
 go in and weep not all things shall be well
 exeunt desdemona and emilia
 enter roderigo
 how now roderigo
roderigo i do not find that thou dealest justly with me
iago what in the contrary
roderigo every day thou daffest me with some device iago
 and rather as it seems to me now keepest from me
 all conveniency than suppliest me with the least
 advantage of hope i will indeed no longer endure
 it nor am i yet persuaded to put up in peace what
 already i have foolishly suffered
iago will you hear me roderigo
roderigo faith i have heard too much for your words and
 performances are no kin together
iago you charge me most unjustly
roderigo with nought but truth i have wasted myself out of
 my means the jewels you have had from me to
 deliver to desdemona would half have corrupted a
 votarist you have told me she hath received them
 and returned me expectations and comforts of sudden
 respect and acquaintance but i find none
iago well go to very well
roderigo very well go to i cannot go to man nor tis
 not very well nay i think it is scurvy and begin
 to find myself fobbed in it
iago very well
roderigo i tell you tis not very well i will make myself
 known to desdemona if she will return me my
 jewels i will give over my suit and repent my
 unlawful solicitation if not assure yourself i
 will seek satisfaction of you
iago you have said now
roderigo ay and said nothing but what i protest intendment of doing
iago why now i see there's mettle in thee and even from
 this instant to build on thee a better opinion than
 ever before give me thy hand roderigo thou hast
 taken against me a most just exception but yet i
 protest i have dealt most directly in thy affair
roderigo it hath not appeared
iago i grant indeed it hath not appeared and your
 suspicion is not without wit and judgment but
 roderigo if thou hast that in thee indeed which i
 have greater reason to believe now than ever i mean
 purpose courage and valour this night show it if
 thou the next night following enjoy not desdemona
 take me from this world with treachery and devise
 engines for my life
roderigo well what is it is it within reason and compass
iago sir there is especial commission come from venice
 to depute cassio in othello's place
roderigo is that true why then othello and desdemona
 return again to venice
iago o no he goes into mauritania and takes away with
 him the fair desdemona unless his abode be
 lingered here by some accident wherein none can be
 so determinate as the removing of cassio
roderigo how do you mean removing of him
iago why by making him uncapable of othello's place
 knocking out his brains
roderigo and that you would have me to do
iago ay if you dare do yourself a profit and a right
 he sups tonight with a harlotry and thither will i
 go to him he knows not yet of his horrorable
 fortune if you will watch his going thence which
 i will fashion to fall out between twelve and one
 you may take him at your pleasure i will be near
 to second your attempt and he shall fall between
 us come stand not amazed at it but go along with
 me i will show you such a necessity in his death
 that you shall think yourself bound to put it on
 him it is now high suppertime and the night grows
 to waste about it
roderigo i will hear further reason for this
iago and you shall be satisfied
 exeunt
 othello
act iv
scene iii another room in the castle
 enter othello lodovico desdemona emilia and
 attendants
lodovico i do beseech you sir trouble yourself no further
othello o pardon me twill do me good to walk
lodovico madam good night i humbly thank your ladyship
desdemona your honour is most welcome
othello will you walk sir
 odesdemona
desdemona my lord
othello get you to bed on the instant i will be returned
 forthwith dismiss your attendant there look it be done
desdemona i will my lord
 exeunt othello lodovico and attendants
emilia how goes it now he looks gentler than he did
desdemona he says he will return incontinent
 he hath commanded me to go to bed
 and bade me to dismiss you
emilia dismiss me
desdemona it was his bidding therefore good emilia
 give me my nightly wearing and adieu
 we must not now displease him
emilia i would you had never seen him
desdemona so would not i my love doth so approve him
 that even his stubbornness his cheques his frowns
 prithee unpin mehave grace and favour in them
emilia i have laid those sheets you bade me on the bed
desdemona all's one good faith how foolish are our minds
 if i do die before thee prithee shroud me
 in one of those same sheets
emilia come come you talk
desdemona my mother had a maid call'd barbara
 she was in love and he she loved proved mad
 and did forsake her she had a song of willow'
 an old thing twas but it express'd her fortune
 and she died singing it that song tonight
 will not go from my mind i have much to do
 but to go hang my head all at one side
 and sing it like poor barbara prithee dispatch
emilia shall i go fetch your nightgown
desdemona no unpin me here
 this lodovico is a proper man
emilia a very handsome man
desdemona he speaks well
emilia i know a lady in venice would have walked barefoot
 to palestine for a touch of his nether lip
desdemona singing the poor soul sat sighing by a sycamore tree
 sing all a green willow
 her hand on her bosom her head on her knee
 sing willow willow willow
 the fresh streams ran by her and murmur'd her moans
 sing willow willow willow
 her salt tears fell from her and soften'd the stones
 lay by these
 singing
 sing willow willow willow
 prithee hie thee he'll come anon
 singing
 sing all a green willow must be my garland
 let nobody blame him his scorn i approve
 nay that's not nexthark who is't that knocks
emilia it's the wind
desdemona singing i call'd my love false love but what
 said he then
 sing willow willow willow
 if i court moe women you'll couch with moe men
 so get thee gone good night ate eyes do itch
 doth that bode weeping
emilia tis neither here nor there
desdemona i have heard it said so o these men these men
 dost thou in conscience thinktell me emilia
 that there be women do abuse their husbands
 in such gross kind
emilia there be some such no question
desdemona wouldst thou do such a deed for all the world
emilia why would not you
desdemona no by this heavenly light
emilia nor i neither by this heavenly light
 i might do't as well i the dark
desdemona wouldst thou do such a deed for all the world
emilia the world's a huge thing it is a great price
 for a small vice
desdemona in troth i think thou wouldst not
emilia in troth i think i should and undo't when i had
 done marry i would not do such a thing for a
 jointring nor for measures of lawn nor for
 gowns petticoats nor caps nor any petty
 exhibition but for the whole worldwhy who would
 not make her husband a cuckold to make him a
 monarch i should venture purgatory for't
desdemona beshrew me if i would do such a wrong
 for the whole world
emilia why the wrong is but a wrong i the world and
 having the world for your labour tis a wrong in your
 own world and you might quickly make it right
desdemona i do not think there is any such woman
emilia yes a dozen and as many to the vantage as would
 store the world they played for
 but i do think it is their husbands faults
 if wives do fall say that they slack their duties
 and pour our treasures into foreign laps
 or else break out in peevish jealousies
 throwing restraint upon us or say they strike us
 or scant our former having in despite
 why we have galls and though we have some grace
 yet have we some revenge let husbands know
 their wives have sense like them they see and smell
 and have their palates both for sweet and sour
 as husbands have what is it that they do
 when they change us for others is it sport
 i think it is and doth affection breed it
 i think it doth is't frailty that thus errs
 it is so too and have not we affections
 desires for sport and frailty as men have
 then let them use us well else let them know
 the ills we do their ills instruct us so
desdemona good night good night heaven me such uses send
 not to pick bad from bad but by bad mend
 exeunt
 othello
act v
scene i cyprus a street
 enter iago and roderigo
iago here stand behind this bulk straight will he come
 wear thy good rapier bare and put it home
 quick quick fear nothing i'll be at thy elbow
 it makes us or it mars us think on that
 and fix most firm thy resolution
roderigo be near at hand i may miscarry in't
iago here at thy hand be bold and take thy stand
 retires
roderigo i have no great devotion to the deed
 and yet he hath given me satisfying reasons
 tis but a man gone forth my sword he dies
iago i have rubb'd this young quat almost to the sense
 and he grows angry now whether he kill cassio
 or cassio him or each do kill the other
 every way makes my gain live roderigo
 he calls me to a restitution large
 of gold and jewels that i bobb'd from him
 as gifts to desdemona
 it must not be if cassio do remain
 he hath a daily beauty in his life
 that makes me ugly and besides the moor
 may unfold me to him there stand i in much peril
 no he must die but so i hear him coming
 enter cassio
roderigo i know his gait tis hevillain thou diest
 makes a pass at cassio
cassio that thrust had been mine enemy indeed
 but that my coat is better than thou know'st
 i will make proof of thine
 draws and wounds roderigo
roderigo o i am slain
 iago from behind wounds cassio in the leg and exit
cassio i am maim'd for ever help ho murder murder
 falls
 enter othello
othello the voice of cassio iago keeps his word
roderigo o villain that i am
othello it is even so
cassio o help ho light a surgeon
othello tis heo brave iago honest and just
 that hast such noble sense of thy friend's wrong
 thou teachest me minion your dear lies dead
 and your unblest fate hies strumpet i come
 forth of my heart those charms thine eyes are blotted
 thy bed luststain'd shall with lust's blood be spotted
 exit
 enter lodovico and gratiano
cassio what ho no watch no passage murder murder
gratiano tis some mischance the cry is very direful
cassio o help
lodovico hark
roderigo o wretched villain
lodovico two or three groan it is a heavy night
 these may be counterfeits let's think't unsafe
 to come in to the cry without more help
roderigo nobody come then shall i bleed to death
lodovico hark
 reenter iago with a light
gratiano here's one comes in his shirt with light and weapons
iago who's there whose noise is this that ones on murder
lodovico we do not know
iago did not you hear a cry
cassio here here for heaven's sake help me
iago what's the matter
gratiano this is othello's ancient as i take it
lodovico the same indeed a very valiant fellow
iago what are you here that cry so grievously
cassio iago o i am spoil'd undone by villains
 give me some help
iago o me lieutenant what villains have done this
cassio i think that one of them is hereabout
 and cannot make away
iago o treacherous villains
 what are you there come in and give some help
 to lodovico and gratiano
roderigo o help me here
cassio that's one of them
iago o murderous slave o villain
 stabs roderigo
roderigo o damn'd iago o inhuman dog
iago kill men i the darkwhere be these bloody thieves
 how silent is this townho murder murder
 what may you be are you of good or evil
lodovico as you shall prove us praise us
iago signior lodovico
lodovico he sir
iago i cry you mercy here's cassio hurt by villains
gratiano cassio
iago how is't brother
cassio my leg is cut in two
iago marry heaven forbid
 light gentlemen i'll bind it with my shirt
 enter bianca
bianca what is the matter ho who is't that cried
iago who is't that cried
bianca o my dear cassio my sweet cassio o cassio
 cassio cassio
iago o notable strumpet cassio may you suspect
 who they should be that have thus many led you
cassio no
gratiano i am to find you thus i have been to seek you
iago lend me a garter so o for a chair
 to bear him easily hence
bianca alas he faints o cassio cassio cassio
iago gentlemen all i do suspect this trash
 to be a party in this injury
 patience awhile good cassio come come
 lend me a light know we this face or no
 alas my friend and my dear countryman
 roderigo noyes sure o heaven roderigo
gratiano what of venice
iago even he sir did you know him
gratiano know him ay
iago signior gratiano i cry you gentle pardon
 these bloody accidents must excuse my manners
 that so neglected you
gratiano i am glad to see you
iago how do you cassio o a chair a chair
gratiano roderigo
iago he he tis he
 a chair brought in
 o that's well said the chair
gratiano some good man bear him carefully from hence
 i'll fetch the general's surgeon
 to bianca
 for you mistress
 save you your labour he that lies slain
 here cassio
 was my dear friend what malice was between you
cassio none in the world nor do i know the man
iago to bianca what look you pale o bear him out
 o the air
 cassio and roderigo are borne off
 stay you good gentlemen look you pale mistress
 do you perceive the gastness of her eye
 nay if you stare we shall hear more anon
 behold her well i pray you look upon her
 do you see gentlemen nay guiltiness will speak
 though tongues were out of use
 enter emilia
emilia las what's the matter what's the matter husband
iago cassio hath here been set on in the dark
 by roderigo and fellows that are scaped
 he's almost slain and roderigo dead
emilia alas good gentleman alas good cassio
iago this is the fruit of whoring prithee emilia
 go know of cassio where he supp'd tonight
 to bianca
 what do you shake at that
bianca he supp'd at my house but i therefore shake not
iago o did he so i charge you go with me
emilia fie fie upon thee strumpet
bianca i am no strumpet but of life as honest
 as you that thus abuse me
emilia as i foh fie upon thee
iago kind gentlemen let's go see poor cassio dress'd
 come mistress you must tell's another tale
 emilia run you to the citadel
 and tell my lord and lady what hath happ'd
 will you go on i pray
 aside
 this is the night
 that either makes me or fordoes me quite
 exeunt
 othello
act v
scene ii a bedchamber in the castle desdemona in bed asleep
 a light burning
 enter othello
othello it is the cause it is the cause my soul
 let me not name it to you you chaste stars
 it is the cause yet i'll not shed her blood
 nor scar that whiter skin of hers than snow
 and smooth as monumental alabaster
 yet she must die else she'll betray more men
 put out the light and then put out the light
 if i quench thee thou flaming minister
 i can again thy former light restore
 should i repent me but once put out thy light
 thou cunning'st pattern of excelling nature
 i know not where is that promethean heat
 that can thy light relume when i have pluck'd the rose
 i cannot give it vital growth again
 it must needs wither i'll smell it on the tree
 kissing her
 ah balmy breath that dost almost persuade
 justice to break her sword one more one more
 be thus when thou art dead and i will kill thee
 and love thee after one more and this the last
 so sweet was ne'er so fatal i must weep
 but they are cruel tears this sorrow's heavenly
 it strikes where it doth love she wakes
desdemona who's there othello
othello ay desdemona
desdemona will you come to bed my lord
othello have you pray'd tonight desdemona
desdemona ay my lord
othello if you bethink yourself of any crime
 unreconciled as yet to heaven and grace
 solicit for it straight
desdemona alas my lord what do you mean by that
othello well do it and be brief i will walk by
 i would not kill thy unprepared spirit
 no heaven forfend i would not kill thy soul
desdemona talk you of killing
othello ay i do
desdemona then heaven
 have mercy on me
othello amen with all my heart
desdemona if you say so i hope you will not kill me
othello hum
desdemona and yet i fear you for you are fatal then
 when your eyes roll so why i should fear i know not
 since guiltiness i know not but yet i feel i fear
othello think on thy sins
desdemona they are loves i bear to you
othello ay and for that thou diest
desdemona that death's unnatural that kills for loving
 alas why gnaw you so your nether lip
 some bloody passion shakes your very frame
 these are portents but yet i hope i hope
 they do not point on me
othello peace and be still
desdemona i will so what's the matter
othello that handkerchief which i so loved and gave thee
 thou gavest to cassio
desdemona no by my life and soul
 send for the man and ask him
othello sweet soul take heed
 take heed of perjury thou art on thy deathbed
desdemona ay but not yet to die
othello yes presently
 therefore confess thee freely of thy sin
 for to deny each article with oath
 cannot remove nor choke the strong conception
 that i do groan withal thou art to die
desdemona then lord have mercy on me
othello i say amen
desdemona and have you mercy too i never did
 offend you in my life never loved cassio
 but with such general warranty of heaven
 as i might love i never gave him token
othello by heaven i saw my handkerchief in's hand
 o perjured woman thou dost stone my heart
 and makest me call what i intend to do
 a murder which i thought a sacrifice
 i saw the handkerchief
desdemona he found it then
 i never gave it him send for him hither
 let him confess a truth
othello he hath confess'd
desdemona what my lord
othello that he hath used thee
desdemona how unlawfully
othello ay
desdemona he will not say so
othello no his mouth is stopp'd
 honest iago hath ta'en order for't
desdemona o my fear interprets what is he dead
othello had all his hairs been lives my great revenge
 had stomach for them all
desdemona alas he is betray'd and i undone
othello out strumpet weep'st thou for him to my face
desdemona o banish me my lord but kill me not
othello down strumpet
desdemona kill me tomorrow let me live tonight
othello nay if you strive
desdemona but half an hour
othello being done there is no pause
desdemona but while i say one prayer
othello it is too late
 he stifles her
emilia within my lord my lord what ho my lord my lord
othello what noise is this not dead not yet quite dead
 i that am cruel am yet merciful
 i would not have thee linger in thy pain so so
emilia within what ho my lord my lord
othello who's there
emilia within o good my lord i would speak a word with you
othello yes tis emilia by and by she's dead
 tis like she comes to speak of cassio's death
 the noise was here ha no more moving
 still as the grave shall she come in were't good
 i think she stirs againno what's best to do
 if she come in she'll sure speak to my wife
 my wife my wife what wife i have no wife
 o insupportable o heavy hour
 methinks it should be now a huge eclipse
 of sun and moon and that the affrighted globe
 should yawn at alteration
emilia within i do beseech you
 that i may speak with you o good my lord
othello i had forgot thee o come in emilia
 soft by and by let me the curtains draw
 where art thou
 unlocks the door
 enter emilia
 what's the matter with thee now
emilia o my good lord yonder's foul murders done
othello what now
emilia but now my lord
othello it is the very error of the moon
 she comes more nearer earth than she was wont
 and makes men mad
emilia cassio my lord hath kill'd a young venetian
 call'd roderigo
othello roderigo kill'd
 and cassio kill'd
emilia no cassio is not kill'd
othello not cassio kill'd then murder's out of tune
 and sweet revenge grows harsh
desdemona o falsely falsely murder'd
emilia alas what cry is that
othello that what
emilia out and alas that was my lady's voice
 help help ho help o lady speak again
 sweet desdemona o sweet mistress speak
desdemona a guiltless death i die
emilia o who hath done this deed
desdemona nobody i myself farewell
 commend me to my kind lord o farewell
 dies
othello why how should she be murder'd
emilia alas who knows
othello you heard her say herself it was not i
emilia she said so i must needs report the truth
othello she's like a liar gone to burning hell
 twas i that kill'd her
emilia o the more angel she
 and you the blacker devil
othello she turn'd to folly and she was a whore
emilia thou dost belie her and thou art a devil
othello she was false as water
emilia thou art rash as fire to say
 that she was false o she was heavenly true
othello cassio did top her ask thy husband else
 o i were damn'd beneath all depth in hell
 but that i did proceed upon just grounds
 to this extremity thy husband knew it all
emilia my husband
othello thy husband
emilia that she was false to wedlock
othello ay with cassio nay had she been true
 if heaven would make me such another world
 of one entire and perfect chrysolite
 i'ld not have sold her for it
emilia my husband
othello ay twas he that told me first
 an honest man he is and hates the slime
 that sticks on filthy deeds
emilia my husband
othello what needs this iteration woman i say thy husband
emilia o mistress villany hath made mocks with love
 my husband say that she was false
othello he woman
 i say thy husband dost understand the word
 my friend thy husband honest honest iago
emilia if he say so may his pernicious soul
 rot half a grain a day he lies to the heart
 she was too fond of her most filthy bargain
othello ha
emilia do thy worst
 this deed of thine is no more worthy heaven
 than thou wast worthy her
othello peace you were best
emilia thou hast not half that power to do me harm
 as i have to be hurt o gull o dolt
 as ignorant as dirt thou hast done a deed
 i care not for thy sword i'll make thee known
 though i lost twenty liveshelp help ho help
 the moor hath kill'd my mistress murder murder
 enter montano gratiano iago and others
montano what is the matter how now general
emilia o are you come iago you have done well
 that men must lay their murders on your neck
gratiano what is the matter
emilia disprove this villain if thou be'st a man
 he says thou told'st him that his wife was false
 i know thou didst not thou'rt not such a villain
 speak for my heart is full
iago i told him what i thought and told no more
 than what he found himself was apt and true
emilia but did you ever tell him she was false
iago i did
emilia you told a lie an odious damned lie
 upon my soul a lie a wicked lie
 she false with cassiodid you say with cassio
iago with cassio mistress go to charm your tongue
emilia i will not charm my tongue i am bound to speak
 my mistress here lies murder'd in her bed
all o heavens forfend
emilia and your reports have set the murder on
othello nay stare not masters it is true indeed
gratiano tis a strange truth
montano o monstrous act
emilia villany villany villany
 i think upon't i think i smell't o villany
 i thought so theni'll kill myself for grief
 o villany villany
iago what are you mad i charge you get you home
emilia good gentlemen let me have leave to speak
 tis proper i obey him but not now
 perchance iago i will ne'er go home
othello o o o
 he falls on the bed
emilia nay lay thee down and roar
 for thou hast kill'd the sweetest innocent
 that e'er did lift up eye
othello rising o she was foul
 i scarce did know you uncle there lies your niece
 whose breath indeed these hands have newly stopp'd
 i know this act shows horrible and grim
gratiano poor desdemona i am glad thy father's dead
 thy match was mortal to him and pure grief
 shore his old thread in twain did he live now
 this sight would make him do a desperate turn
 yea curse his better angel from his side
 and fall to reprobation
othello tis pitiful but yet iago knows
 that she with cassio hath the act of shame
 a thousand times committed cassio confess'd it
 and she did gratify his amorous works
 with that recognizance and pledge of love
 which i first gave her i saw it in his hand
 it was a handkerchief an antique token
 my father gave my mother
emilia o heaven o heavenly powers
iago come hold your peace
emilia twill out twill out i peace
 no i will speak as liberal as the north
 let heaven and men and devils let them all
 all all cry shame against me yet i'll speak
iago be wise and get you home
emilia i will not
 iago offers to stab emilia
gratiano fie
 your sword upon a woman
emilia o thou dull moor that handkerchief thou speak'st of
 i found by fortune and did give my husband
 for often with a solemn earnestness
 more than indeed belong'd to such a trifle
 he begg'd of me to steal it
iago villanous whore
emilia she give it cassio no alas i found it
 and i did give't my husband
iago filth thou liest
emilia by heaven i do not i do not gentlemen
 o murderous coxcomb what should such a fool
 do with so good a woman
othello are there no stones in heaven
 but what serve for the thunderprecious villain
 he runs at iago iago from behind stabs emilia and exit
gratiano the woman falls sure he hath kill'd his wife
emilia ay ay o lay me by my mistress side
gratiano he's gone but his wife's kill'd
montano tis a notorious villain take you this weapon
 which i have here recover'd from the moor
 come guard the door without let him not pass
 but kill him rather i'll after that same villain
 for tis a damned slave
 exeunt montano and gratiano
othello i am not valiant neither
 but ever puny whipster gets my sword
 but why should honour outlive honesty
 let it go all
emilia what did thy song bode lady
 hark canst thou hear me i will play the swan
 and die in music
 singing
 willow willow willow
 moor she was chaste she loved thee cruel moor
 so come my soul to bliss as i speak true
 so speaking as i think i die i die
 dies
othello i have another weapon in this chamber
 it is a sword of spain the icebrook's temper
 o here it is uncle i must come forth
gratiano within if thou attempt it it will cost thee dear
 thou hast no weapon and perforce must suffer
othello look in upon me then and speak with me
 or naked as i am i will assault thee
 reenter gratiano
gratiano what is the matter
othello behold i have a weapon
 a better never did itself sustain
 upon a soldier's thigh i have seen the day
 that with this little arm and this good sword
 i have made my way through more impediments
 than twenty times your stop but o vain boast
 who can control his fate tis not so now
 be not afraid though you do see me weapon'd
 here is my journey's end here is my butt
 and very seamark of my utmost sail
 do you go back dismay'd tis a lost fear
 man but a rush against othello's breast
 and he retires where should othello go
 now how dost thou look now o illstarr'd wench
 pale as thy smock when we shall meet at compt
 this look of thine will hurl my soul from heaven
 and fiends will snatch at it cold cold my girl
 even like thy chastity o cursed slave
 whip me ye devils
 from the possession of this heavenly sight
 blow me about in winds roast me in sulphur
 wash me in steepdown gulfs of liquid fire
 o desdemona desdemona dead
 oh oh oh
 enter lodovico montano cassio carried in a chair
 and officers with iago prisoner
lodovico where is this rash and most unfortunate man
othello that's he that was othello here i am
lodovico where is that viper bring the villain forth
othello i look down towards his feet but that's a fable
 if that thou best a devil i cannot kill thee
 wounds iago
lodovico wrench his sword from him
iago i bleed sir but not kill'd
othello i am not sorry neither i'ld have thee live
 for in my sense tis happiness to die
lodovico o thou othello thou wert once so good
 fall'n in the practise of a damned slave
 what shall be said to thee
othello why any thing
 an honourable murderer if you will
 for nought i did in hate but all in honour
lodovico this wretch hath part confess'd his villany
 did you and he consent in cassio's death
othello ay
cassio dear general i never gave you cause
othello i do believe it and i ask your pardon
 will you i pray demand that demidevil
 why he hath thus ensnared my soul and body
iago demand me nothing what you know you know
 from this time forth i never will speak word
lodovico what not to pray
gratiano torments will ope your lips
othello well thou dost best
lodovico sir you shall understand what hath befall'n
 which as i think you know not here is a letter
 found in the pocket of the slain roderigo
 and here another the one of them imports
 the death of cassio to be undertook
 by roderigo
othello o villain
cassio most heathenish and most gross
lodovico now here's another discontented paper
 found in his pocket too and this it seems
 roderigo meant to have sent this damned villain
 but that belike iago in the interim
 came in and satisfied him
othello o the pernicious caitiff
 how came you cassio by that handkerchief
 that was my wife's
cassio i found it in my chamber
 and he himself confess'd but even now
 that there he dropp'd it for a special purpose
 which wrought to his desire
othello o fool fool fool
cassio there is besides in roderigo's letter
 how he upbraids iago that he made him
 brave me upon the watch whereon it came
 that i was cast and even but now he spake
 after long seeming dead iago hurt him
 iago set him on
lodovico you must forsake this room and go with us
 your power and your command is taken off
 and cassio rules in cyprus for this slave
 if there be any cunning cruelty
 that can torment him much and hold him long
 it shall be his you shall close prisoner rest
 till that the nature of your fault be known
 to the venetian state come bring him away
othello soft you a word or two before you go
 i have done the state some service and they know't
 no more of that i pray you in your letters
 when you shall these unlucky deeds relate
 speak of me as i am nothing extenuate
 nor set down aught in malice then must you speak
 of one that loved not wisely but too well
 of one not easily jealous but being wrought
 perplex'd in the extreme of one whose hand
 like the base indian threw a pearl away
 richer than all his tribe of one whose subdued eyes
 albeit unused to the melting mood
 drop tears as fast as the arabian trees
 their medicinal gum set you down this
 and say besides that in aleppo once
 where a malignant and a turban'd turk
 beat a venetian and traduced the state
 i took by the throat the circumcised dog
 and smote him thus
 stabs himself
lodovico o bloody period
gratiano all that's spoke is marr'd
othello i kiss'd thee ere i kill'd thee no way but this
 killing myself to die upon a kiss
 falls on the bed and dies
cassio this did i fear but thought he had no weapon
 for he was great of heart
lodovico to iago o spartan dog
 more fell than anguish hunger or the sea
 look on the tragic loading of this bed
 this is thy work the object poisons sight
 let it be hid gratiano keep the house
 and seize upon the fortunes of the moor
 for they succeed on you to you lord governor
 remains the censure of this hellish villain
 the time the place the torture o enforce it
 myself will straight aboard and to the state
 this heavy act with heavy heart relate
 exeunt
 romeo and juliet
 dramatis personae
escalus prince of verona prince
paris a young nobleman kinsman to the prince
montague 
 heads of two houses at variance with each other
capulet 
 an old man cousin to capulet second capulet
romeo son to montague
mercutio kinsman to the prince and friend to romeo
benvolio nephew to montague and friend to romeo
tybalt nephew to lady capulet
friar laurence 
 franciscans
friar john 
balthasar servant to romeo
sampson 
 servants to capulet
gregory 
peter servant to juliet's nurse
abraham servant to montague
 an apothecary apothecary
 three musicians
 first musician
 second musician
 third musician
 page to paris page another page an officer
lady montague wife to montague
lady capulet wife to capulet
juliet daughter to capulet
 nurse to juliet nurse
 citizens of verona several men and women
 relations to both houses maskers
 guards watchmen and attendants
 first citizen
 servant
 first servant
 second servant
 first watchman
 second watchman
 third watchman
 chorus
scene verona mantua
 romeo and juliet
 prologue
 two households both alike in dignity
 in fair verona where we lay our scene
 from ancient grudge break to new mutiny
 where civil blood makes civil hands unclean
 from forth the fatal loins of these two foes
 a pair of starcross'd lovers take their life
 whole misadventured piteous overthrows
 do with their death bury their parents strife
 the fearful passage of their deathmark'd love
 and the continuance of their parents rage
 which but their children's end nought could remove
 is now the two hours traffic of our stage
 the which if you with patient ears attend
 what here shall miss our toil shall strive to mend
 romeo and juliet
act i
scene i verona a public place
 enter sampson and gregory of the house of capulet
 armed with swords and bucklers
sampson gregory o my word we'll not carry coals
gregory no for then we should be colliers
sampson i mean an we be in choler we'll draw
gregory ay while you live draw your neck out o the collar
sampson i strike quickly being moved
gregory but thou art not quickly moved to strike
sampson a dog of the house of montague moves me
gregory to move is to stir and to be valiant is to stand
 therefore if thou art moved thou runn'st away
sampson a dog of that house shall move me to stand i will
 take the wall of any man or maid of montague's
gregory that shows thee a weak slave for the weakest goes
 to the wall
sampson true and therefore women being the weaker vessels
 are ever thrust to the wall therefore i will push
 montague's men from the wall and thrust his maids
 to the wall
gregory the quarrel is between our masters and us their men
sampson tis all one i will show myself a tyrant when i
 have fought with the men i will be cruel with the
 maids and cut off their heads
gregory the heads of the maids
sampson ay the heads of the maids or their maidenheads
 take it in what sense thou wilt
gregory they must take it in sense that feel it
sampson me they shall feel while i am able to stand and
 tis known i am a pretty piece of flesh
gregory tis well thou art not fish if thou hadst thou
 hadst been poor john draw thy tool here comes
 two of the house of the montagues
sampson my naked weapon is out quarrel i will back thee
gregory how turn thy back and run
sampson fear me not
gregory no marry i fear thee
sampson let us take the law of our sides let them begin
gregory i will frown as i pass by and let them take it as
 they list
sampson nay as they dare i will bite my thumb at them
 which is a disgrace to them if they bear it
 enter abraham and balthasar
abraham do you bite your thumb at us sir
sampson i do bite my thumb sir
abraham do you bite your thumb at us sir
sampson aside to gregory is the law of our side if i say
 ay
gregory no
sampson no sir i do not bite my thumb at you sir but i
 bite my thumb sir
gregory do you quarrel sir
abraham quarrel sir no sir
sampson if you do sir i am for you i serve as good a man as you
abraham no better
sampson well sir
gregory say better here comes one of my master's kinsmen
sampson yes better sir
abraham you lie
sampson draw if you be men gregory remember thy swashing blow
 they fight
 enter benvolio
benvolio part fools
 put up your swords you know not what you do
 beats down their swords
 enter tybalt
tybalt what art thou drawn among these heartless hinds
 turn thee benvolio look upon thy death
benvolio i do but keep the peace put up thy sword
 or manage it to part these men with me
tybalt what drawn and talk of peace i hate the word
 as i hate hell all montagues and thee
 have at thee coward
 they fight
 enter several of both houses who join the fray
 then enter citizens with clubs
first citizen clubs bills and partisans strike beat them down
 down with the capulets down with the montagues
 enter capulet in his gown and lady capulet
capulet what noise is this give me my long sword ho
lady capulet a crutch a crutch why call you for a sword
capulet my sword i say old montague is come
 and flourishes his blade in spite of me
 enter montague and lady montague
montague thou villain capulethold me not let me go
lady montague thou shalt not stir a foot to seek a foe
 enter prince with attendants
prince rebellious subjects enemies to peace
 profaners of this neighbourstained steel
 will they not hear what ho you men you beasts
 that quench the fire of your pernicious rage
 with purple fountains issuing from your veins
 on pain of torture from those bloody hands
 throw your mistemper'd weapons to the ground
 and hear the sentence of your moved prince
 three civil brawls bred of an airy word
 by thee old capulet and montague
 have thrice disturb'd the quiet of our streets
 and made verona's ancient citizens
 cast by their grave beseeming ornaments
 to wield old partisans in hands as old
 canker'd with peace to part your canker'd hate
 if ever you disturb our streets again
 your lives shall pay the forfeit of the peace
 for this time all the rest depart away
 you capulet shall go along with me
 and montague come you this afternoon
 to know our further pleasure in this case
 to old freetown our common judgmentplace
 once more on pain of death all men depart
 exeunt all but montague lady montague and benvolio
montague who set this ancient quarrel new abroach
 speak nephew were you by when it began
benvolio here were the servants of your adversary
 and yours close fighting ere i did approach
 i drew to part them in the instant came
 the fiery tybalt with his sword prepared
 which as he breathed defiance to my ears
 he swung about his head and cut the winds
 who nothing hurt withal hiss'd him in scorn
 while we were interchanging thrusts and blows
 came more and more and fought on part and part
 till the prince came who parted either part
lady montague o where is romeo saw you him today
 right glad i am he was not at this fray
benvolio madam an hour before the worshipp'd sun
 peer'd forth the golden window of the east
 a troubled mind drave me to walk abroad
 where underneath the grove of sycamore
 that westward rooteth from the city's side
 so early walking did i see your son
 towards him i made but he was ware of me
 and stole into the covert of the wood
 i measuring his affections by my own
 that most are busied when they're most alone
 pursued my humour not pursuing his
 and gladly shunn'd who gladly fled from me
montague many a morning hath he there been seen
 with tears augmenting the fresh morning dew
 adding to clouds more clouds with his deep sighs
 but all so soon as the allcheering sun
 should in the furthest east begin to draw
 the shady curtains from aurora's bed
 away from the light steals home my heavy son
 and private in his chamber pens himself
 shuts up his windows locks far daylight out
 and makes himself an artificial night
 black and portentous must this humour prove
 unless good counsel may the cause remove
benvolio my noble uncle do you know the cause
montague i neither know it nor can learn of him
benvolio have you importuned him by any means
montague both by myself and many other friends
 but he his own affections counsellor
 is to himselfi will not say how true
 but to himself so secret and so close
 so far from sounding and discovery
 as is the bud bit with an envious worm
 ere he can spread his sweet leaves to the air
 or dedicate his beauty to the sun
 could we but learn from whence his sorrows grow
 we would as willingly give cure as know
 enter romeo
benvolio see where he comes so please you step aside
 i'll know his grievance or be much denied
montague i would thou wert so happy by thy stay
 to hear true shrift come madam let's away
 exeunt montague and lady montague
benvolio goodmorrow cousin
romeo is the day so young
benvolio but new struck nine
romeo ay me sad hours seem long
 was that my father that went hence so fast
benvolio it was what sadness lengthens romeo's hours
romeo not having that which having makes them short
benvolio in love
romeo out
benvolio of love
romeo out of her favour where i am in love
benvolio alas that love so gentle in his view
 should be so tyrannous and rough in proof
romeo alas that love whose view is muffled still
 should without eyes see pathways to his will
 where shall we dine o me what fray was here
 yet tell me not for i have heard it all
 here's much to do with hate but more with love
 why then o brawling love o loving hate
 o any thing of nothing first create
 o heavy lightness serious vanity
 misshapen chaos of wellseeming forms
 feather of lead bright smoke cold fire
 sick health
 stillwaking sleep that is not what it is
 this love feel i that feel no love in this
 dost thou not laugh
benvolio no coz i rather weep
romeo good heart at what
benvolio at thy good heart's oppression
romeo why such is love's transgression
 griefs of mine own lie heavy in my breast
 which thou wilt propagate to have it prest
 with more of thine this love that thou hast shown
 doth add more grief to too much of mine own
 love is a smoke raised with the fume of sighs
 being purged a fire sparkling in lovers eyes
 being vex'd a sea nourish'd with lovers tears
 what is it else a madness most discreet
 a choking gall and a preserving sweet
 farewell my coz
benvolio soft i will go along
 an if you leave me so you do me wrong
romeo tut i have lost myself i am not here
 this is not romeo he's some other where
benvolio tell me in sadness who is that you love
romeo what shall i groan and tell thee
benvolio groan why no
 but sadly tell me who
romeo bid a sick man in sadness make his will
 ah word ill urged to one that is so ill
 in sadness cousin i do love a woman
benvolio i aim'd so near when i supposed you loved
romeo a right good markman and she's fair i love
benvolio a right fair mark fair coz is soonest hit
romeo well in that hit you miss she'll not be hit
 with cupid's arrow she hath dian's wit
 and in strong proof of chastity well arm'd
 from love's weak childish bow she lives unharm'd
 she will not stay the siege of loving terms
 nor bide the encounter of assailing eyes
 nor ope her lap to saintseducing gold
 o she is rich in beauty only poor
 that when she dies with beauty dies her store
benvolio then she hath sworn that she will still live chaste
romeo she hath and in that sparing makes huge waste
 for beauty starved with her severity
 cuts beauty off from all posterity
 she is too fair too wise wisely too fair
 to merit bliss by making me despair
 she hath forsworn to love and in that vow
 do i live dead that live to tell it now
benvolio be ruled by me forget to think of her
romeo o teach me how i should forget to think
benvolio by giving liberty unto thine eyes
 examine other beauties
romeo tis the way
 to call hers exquisite in question more
 these happy masks that kiss fair ladies brows
 being black put us in mind they hide the fair
 he that is strucken blind cannot forget
 the precious treasure of his eyesight lost
 show me a mistress that is passing fair
 what doth her beauty serve but as a note
 where i may read who pass'd that passing fair
 farewell thou canst not teach me to forget
benvolio i'll pay that doctrine or else die in debt
 exeunt
 romeo and juliet
act i
scene ii a street
 enter capulet paris and servant
capulet but montague is bound as well as i
 in penalty alike and tis not hard i think
 for men so old as we to keep the peace
paris of honourable reckoning are you both
 and pity tis you lived at odds so long
 but now my lord what say you to my suit
capulet but saying o'er what i have said before
 my child is yet a stranger in the world
 she hath not seen the change of fourteen years
 let two more summers wither in their pride
 ere we may think her ripe to be a bride
paris younger than she are happy mothers made
capulet and too soon marr'd are those so early made
 the earth hath swallow'd all my hopes but she
 she is the hopeful lady of my earth
 but woo her gentle paris get her heart
 my will to her consent is but a part
 an she agree within her scope of choice
 lies my consent and fair according voice
 this night i hold an old accustom'd feast
 whereto i have invited many a guest
 such as i love and you among the store
 one more most welcome makes my number more
 at my poor house look to behold this night
 earthtreading stars that make dark heaven light
 such comfort as do lusty young men feel
 when wellapparell'd april on the heel
 of limping winter treads even such delight
 among fresh female buds shall you this night
 inherit at my house hear all all see
 and like her most whose merit most shall be
 which on more view of many mine being one
 may stand in number though in reckoning none
 come go with me
 to servant giving a paper
 go sirrah trudge about
 through fair verona find those persons out
 whose names are written there and to them say
 my house and welcome on their pleasure stay
 exeunt capulet and paris
servant find them out whose names are written here it is
 written that the shoemaker should meddle with his
 yard and the tailor with his last the fisher with
 his pencil and the painter with his nets but i am
 sent to find those persons whose names are here
 writ and can never find what names the writing
 person hath here writ i must to the learnedin good time
 enter benvolio and romeo
benvolio tut man one fire burns out another's burning
 one pain is lessen'd by another's anguish
 turn giddy and be holp by backward turning
 one desperate grief cures with another's languish
 take thou some new infection to thy eye
 and the rank poison of the old will die
romeo your plaintainleaf is excellent for that
benvolio for what i pray thee
romeo for your broken shin
benvolio why romeo art thou mad
romeo not mad but bound more than a madman is
 shut up in prison kept without my food
 whipp'd and tormented andgodden good fellow
servant god gi godden i pray sir can you read
romeo ay mine own fortune in my misery
servant perhaps you have learned it without book but i
 pray can you read any thing you see
romeo ay if i know the letters and the language
servant ye say honestly rest you merry
romeo stay fellow i can read
 reads
 signior martino and his wife and daughters
 county anselme and his beauteous sisters the lady
 widow of vitravio signior placentio and his lovely
 nieces mercutio and his brother valentine mine
 uncle capulet his wife and daughters my fair niece
 rosaline livia signior valentio and his cousin
 tybalt lucio and the lively helena a fair
 assembly whither should they come
servant up
romeo whither
servant to supper to our house
romeo whose house
servant my master's
romeo indeed i should have ask'd you that before
servant now i'll tell you without asking my master is the
 great rich capulet and if you be not of the house
 of montagues i pray come and crush a cup of wine
 rest you merry
 exit
benvolio at this same ancient feast of capulet's
 sups the fair rosaline whom thou so lovest
 with all the admired beauties of verona
 go thither and with unattainted eye
 compare her face with some that i shall show
 and i will make thee think thy swan a crow
romeo when the devout religion of mine eye
 maintains such falsehood then turn tears to fires
 and these who often drown'd could never die
 transparent heretics be burnt for liars
 one fairer than my love the allseeing sun
 ne'er saw her match since first the world begun
benvolio tut you saw her fair none else being by
 herself poised with herself in either eye
 but in that crystal scales let there be weigh'd
 your lady's love against some other maid
 that i will show you shining at this feast
 and she shall scant show well that now shows best
romeo i'll go along no such sight to be shown
 but to rejoice in splendor of mine own
 exeunt
 romeo and juliet
act i
scene iii a room in capulet's house
 enter lady capulet and nurse
lady capulet nurse where's my daughter call her forth to me
nurse now by my maidenhead at twelve year old
 i bade her come what lamb what ladybird
 god forbid where's this girl what juliet
 enter juliet
juliet how now who calls
nurse your mother
juliet madam i am here
 what is your will
lady capulet this is the matternurse give leave awhile
 we must talk in secretnurse come back again
 i have remember'd me thou's hear our counsel
 thou know'st my daughter's of a pretty age
nurse faith i can tell her age unto an hour
lady capulet she's not fourteen
nurse i'll lay fourteen of my teeth
 and yet to my teeth be it spoken i have but four
 she is not fourteen how long is it now
 to lammastide
lady capulet a fortnight and odd days
nurse even or odd of all days in the year
 come lammaseve at night shall she be fourteen
 susan and shegod rest all christian souls
 were of an age well susan is with god
 she was too good for me but as i said
 on lammaseve at night shall she be fourteen
 that shall she marry i remember it well
 tis since the earthquake now eleven years
 and she was wean'di never shall forget it
 of all the days of the year upon that day
 for i had then laid wormwood to my dug
 sitting in the sun under the dovehouse wall
 my lord and you were then at mantua
 nay i do bear a brainbut as i said
 when it did taste the wormwood on the nipple
 of my dug and felt it bitter pretty fool
 to see it tetchy and fall out with the dug
 shake quoth the dovehouse twas no need i trow
 to bid me trudge
 and since that time it is eleven years
 for then she could stand alone nay by the rood
 she could have run and waddled all about
 for even the day before she broke her brow
 and then my husbandgod be with his soul
 a was a merry mantook up the child
 yea quoth he dost thou fall upon thy face
 thou wilt fall backward when thou hast more wit
 wilt thou not jule and by my holidame
 the pretty wretch left crying and said ay'
 to see now how a jest shall come about
 i warrant an i should live a thousand years
 i never should forget it wilt thou not jule quoth he
 and pretty fool it stinted and said ay'
lady capulet enough of this i pray thee hold thy peace
nurse yes madam yet i cannot choose but laugh
 to think it should leave crying and say ay'
 and yet i warrant it had upon its brow
 a bump as big as a young cockerel's stone
 a parlous knock and it cried bitterly
 yea quoth my husband'fall'st upon thy face
 thou wilt fall backward when thou comest to age
 wilt thou not jule it stinted and said ay'
juliet and stint thou too i pray thee nurse say i
nurse peace i have done god mark thee to his grace
 thou wast the prettiest babe that e'er i nursed
 an i might live to see thee married once
 i have my wish
lady capulet marry that marry is the very theme
 i came to talk of tell me daughter juliet
 how stands your disposition to be married
juliet it is an honour that i dream not of
nurse an honour were not i thine only nurse
 i would say thou hadst suck'd wisdom from thy teat
lady capulet well think of marriage now younger than you
 here in verona ladies of esteem
 are made already mothers by my count
 i was your mother much upon these years
 that you are now a maid thus then in brief
 the valiant paris seeks you for his love
nurse a man young lady lady such a man
 as all the worldwhy he's a man of wax
lady capulet verona's summer hath not such a flower
nurse nay he's a flower in faith a very flower
lady capulet what say you can you love the gentleman
 this night you shall behold him at our feast
 read o'er the volume of young paris face
 and find delight writ there with beauty's pen
 examine every married lineament
 and see how one another lends content
 and what obscured in this fair volume lies
 find written in the margent of his eyes
 this precious book of love this unbound lover
 to beautify him only lacks a cover
 the fish lives in the sea and tis much pride
 for fair without the fair within to hide
 that book in many's eyes doth share the glory
 that in gold clasps locks in the golden story
 so shall you share all that he doth possess
 by having him making yourself no less
nurse no less nay bigger women grow by men
lady capulet speak briefly can you like of paris love
juliet i'll look to like if looking liking move
 but no more deep will i endart mine eye
 than your consent gives strength to make it fly
 enter a servant
servant madam the guests are come supper served up you
 called my young lady asked for the nurse cursed in
 the pantry and every thing in extremity i must
 hence to wait i beseech you follow straight
lady capulet we follow thee
 exit servant
 juliet the county stays
nurse go girl seek happy nights to happy days
 exeunt
 romeo and juliet
act i
scene iv a street
 enter romeo mercutio benvolio with five or six
 maskers torchbearers and others
romeo what shall this speech be spoke for our excuse
 or shall we on without a apology
benvolio the date is out of such prolixity
 we'll have no cupid hoodwink'd with a scarf
 bearing a tartar's painted bow of lath
 scaring the ladies like a crowkeeper
 nor no withoutbook prologue faintly spoke
 after the prompter for our entrance
 but let them measure us by what they will
 we'll measure them a measure and be gone
romeo give me a torch i am not for this ambling
 being but heavy i will bear the light
mercutio nay gentle romeo we must have you dance
romeo not i believe me you have dancing shoes
 with nimble soles i have a soul of lead
 so stakes me to the ground i cannot move
mercutio you are a lover borrow cupid's wings
 and soar with them above a common bound
romeo i am too sore enpierced with his shaft
 to soar with his light feathers and so bound
 i cannot bound a pitch above dull woe
 under love's heavy burden do i sink
mercutio and to sink in it should you burden love
 too great oppression for a tender thing
romeo is love a tender thing it is too rough
 too rude too boisterous and it pricks like thorn
mercutio if love be rough with you be rough with love
 prick love for pricking and you beat love down
 give me a case to put my visage in
 a visor for a visor what care i
 what curious eye doth quote deformities
 here are the beetle brows shall blush for me
benvolio come knock and enter and no sooner in
 but every man betake him to his legs
romeo a torch for me let wantons light of heart
 tickle the senseless rushes with their heels
 for i am proverb'd with a grandsire phrase
 i'll be a candleholder and look on
 the game was ne'er so fair and i am done
mercutio tut dun's the mouse the constable's own word
 if thou art dun we'll draw thee from the mire
 of this sirreverence love wherein thou stick'st
 up to the ears come we burn daylight ho
romeo nay that's not so
mercutio i mean sir in delay
 we waste our lights in vain like lamps by day
 take our good meaning for our judgment sits
 five times in that ere once in our five wits
romeo and we mean well in going to this mask
 but tis no wit to go
mercutio why may one ask
romeo i dream'd a dream tonight
mercutio and so did i
romeo well what was yours
mercutio that dreamers often lie
romeo in bed asleep while they do dream things true
mercutio o then i see queen mab hath been with you
 she is the fairies midwife and she comes
 in shape no bigger than an agatestone
 on the forefinger of an alderman
 drawn with a team of little atomies
 athwart men's noses as they lie asleep
 her wagonspokes made of long spiders legs
 the cover of the wings of grasshoppers
 the traces of the smallest spider's web
 the collars of the moonshine's watery beams
 her whip of cricket's bone the lash of film
 her wagoner a small greycoated gnat
 not so big as a round little worm
 prick'd from the lazy finger of a maid
 her chariot is an empty hazelnut
 made by the joiner squirrel or old grub
 time out o mind the fairies coachmakers
 and in this state she gallops night by night
 through lovers brains and then they dream of love
 o'er courtiers knees that dream on court'sies straight
 o'er lawyers fingers who straight dream on fees
 o'er ladies  lips who straight on kisses dream
 which oft the angry mab with blisters plagues
 because their breaths with sweetmeats tainted are
 sometime she gallops o'er a courtier's nose
 and then dreams he of smelling out a suit
 and sometime comes she with a tithepig's tail
 tickling a parson's nose as a lies asleep
 then dreams he of another benefice
 sometime she driveth o'er a soldier's neck
 and then dreams he of cutting foreign throats
 of breaches ambuscadoes spanish blades
 of healths fivefathom deep and then anon
 drums in his ear at which he starts and wakes
 and being thus frighted swears a prayer or two
 and sleeps again this is that very mab
 that plats the manes of horses in the night
 and bakes the elflocks in foul sluttish hairs
 which once untangled much misfortune bodes
 this is the hag when maids lie on their backs
 that presses them and learns them first to bear
 making them women of good carriage
 this is she
romeo peace peace mercutio peace
 thou talk'st of nothing
mercutio true i talk of dreams
 which are the children of an idle brain
 begot of nothing but vain fantasy
 which is as thin of substance as the air
 and more inconstant than the wind who wooes
 even now the frozen bosom of the north
 and being anger'd puffs away from thence
 turning his face to the dewdropping south
benvolio this wind you talk of blows us from ourselves
 supper is done and we shall come too late
romeo i fear too early for my mind misgives
 some consequence yet hanging in the stars
 shall bitterly begin his fearful date
 with this night's revels and expire the term
 of a despised life closed in my breast
 by some vile forfeit of untimely death
 but he that hath the steerage of my course
 direct my sail on lusty gentlemen
benvolio strike drum
 exeunt
 romeo and juliet
act i
scene v a hall in capulet's house
 musicians waiting enter servingmen with napkins
first servant where's potpan that he helps not to take away he
 shift a trencher he scrape a trencher
second servant when good manners shall lie all in one or two men's
 hands and they unwashed too tis a foul thing
first servant away with the jointstools remove the
 courtcupboard look to the plate good thou save
 me a piece of marchpane and as thou lovest me let
 the porter let in susan grindstone and nell
 antony and potpan
second servant ay boy ready
first servant you are looked for and called for asked for and
 sought for in the great chamber
second servant we cannot be here and there too cheerly boys be
 brisk awhile and the longer liver take all
 enter capulet with juliet and others of his house
 meeting the guests and maskers
capulet welcome gentlemen ladies that have their toes
 unplagued with corns will have a bout with you
 ah ha my mistresses which of you all
 will now deny to dance she that makes dainty
 she i'll swear hath corns am i come near ye now
 welcome gentlemen i have seen the day
 that i have worn a visor and could tell
 a whispering tale in a fair lady's ear
 such as would please tis gone tis gone tis gone
 you are welcome gentlemen come musicians play
 a hall a hall give room and foot it girls
 music plays and they dance
 more light you knaves and turn the tables up
 and quench the fire the room is grown too hot
 ah sirrah this unlook'dfor sport comes well
 nay sit nay sit good cousin capulet
 for you and i are past our dancing days
 how long is't now since last yourself and i
 were in a mask
second capulet by'r lady thirty years
capulet what man tis not so much tis not so much
 tis since the nuptials of lucentio
 come pentecost as quickly as it will
 some five and twenty years and then we mask'd
second capulet tis more tis more his son is elder sir
 his son is thirty
capulet will you tell me that
 his son was but a ward two years ago
romeo to a servingman what lady is that which doth
 enrich the hand
 of yonder knight
servant i know not sir
romeo o she doth teach the torches to burn bright
 it seems she hangs upon the cheek of night
 like a rich jewel in an ethiope's ear
 beauty too rich for use for earth too dear
 so shows a snowy dove trooping with crows
 as yonder lady o'er her fellows shows
 the measure done i'll watch her place of stand
 and touching hers make blessed my rude hand
 did my heart love till now forswear it sight
 for i ne'er saw true beauty till this night
tybalt this by his voice should be a montague
 fetch me my rapier boy what dares the slave
 come hither cover'd with an antic face
 to fleer and scorn at our solemnity
 now by the stock and honour of my kin
 to strike him dead i hold it not a sin
capulet why how now kinsman wherefore storm you so
tybalt uncle this is a montague our foe
 a villain that is hither come in spite
 to scorn at our solemnity this night
capulet young romeo is it
tybalt tis he that villain romeo
capulet content thee gentle coz let him alone
 he bears him like a portly gentleman
 and to say truth verona brags of him
 to be a virtuous and wellgovern'd youth
 i would not for the wealth of all the town
 here in my house do him disparagement
 therefore be patient take no note of him
 it is my will the which if thou respect
 show a fair presence and put off these frowns
 and illbeseeming semblance for a feast
tybalt it fits when such a villain is a guest
 i'll not endure him
capulet he shall be endured
 what goodman boy i say he shall go to
 am i the master here or you go to
 you'll not endure him god shall mend my soul
 you'll make a mutiny among my guests
 you will set cockahoop you'll be the man
tybalt why uncle tis a shame
capulet go to go to
 you are a saucy boy is't so indeed
 this trick may chance to scathe you i know what
 you must contrary me marry tis time
 well said my hearts you are a princox go
 be quiet ormore light more light for shame
 i'll make you quiet what cheerly my hearts
tybalt patience perforce with wilful choler meeting
 makes my flesh tremble in their different greeting
 i will withdraw but this intrusion shall
 now seeming sweet convert to bitter gall
 exit
romeo to juliet if i profane with my unworthiest hand
 this holy shrine the gentle fine is this
 my lips two blushing pilgrims ready stand
 to smooth that rough touch with a tender kiss
juliet good pilgrim you do wrong your hand too much
 which mannerly devotion shows in this
 for saints have hands that pilgrims hands do touch
 and palm to palm is holy palmers kiss
romeo have not saints lips and holy palmers too
juliet ay pilgrim lips that they must use in prayer
romeo o then dear saint let lips do what hands do
 they pray grant thou lest faith turn to despair
juliet saints do not move though grant for prayers sake
romeo then move not while my prayer's effect i take
 thus from my lips by yours my sin is purged
juliet then have my lips the sin that they have took
romeo sin from thy lips o trespass sweetly urged
 give me my sin again
juliet you kiss by the book
nurse madam your mother craves a word with you
romeo what is her mother
nurse marry bachelor
 her mother is the lady of the house
 and a good lady and a wise and virtuous
 i nursed her daughter that you talk'd withal
 i tell you he that can lay hold of her
 shall have the chinks
romeo is she a capulet
 o dear account my life is my foe's debt
benvolio away begone the sport is at the best
romeo ay so i fear the more is my unrest
capulet nay gentlemen prepare not to be gone
 we have a trifling foolish banquet towards
 is it e'en so why then i thank you all
 i thank you honest gentlemen good night
 more torches here come on then let's to bed
 ah sirrah by my fay it waxes late
 i'll to my rest
 exeunt all but juliet and nurse
juliet come hither nurse what is yond gentleman
nurse the son and heir of old tiberio
juliet what's he that now is going out of door
nurse marry that i think be young petrucio
juliet what's he that follows there that would not dance
nurse i know not
juliet go ask his name if he be married
 my grave is like to be my wedding bed
nurse his name is romeo and a montague
 the only son of your great enemy
juliet my only love sprung from my only hate
 too early seen unknown and known too late
 prodigious birth of love it is to me
 that i must love a loathed enemy
nurse what's this what's this
juliet a rhyme i learn'd even now
 of one i danced withal
 one calls within juliet'
nurse anon anon
 come let's away the strangers all are gone
 exeunt
 romeo and juliet
act ii
 prologue
 enter chorus
chorus now old desire doth in his deathbed lie
 and young affection gapes to be his heir
 that fair for which love groan'd for and would die
 with tender juliet match'd is now not fair
 now romeo is beloved and loves again
 alike betwitched by the charm of looks
 but to his foe supposed he must complain
 and she steal love's sweet bait from fearful hooks
 being held a foe he may not have access
 to breathe such vows as lovers use to swear
 and she as much in love her means much less
 to meet her newbeloved any where
 but passion lends them power time means to meet
 tempering extremities with extreme sweet
 exit
 romeo and juliet
act ii
scene i a lane by the wall of capulet's orchard
 enter romeo
romeo can i go forward when my heart is here
 turn back dull earth and find thy centre out
 he climbs the wall and leaps down within it
 enter benvolio and mercutio
benvolio romeo my cousin romeo
mercutio he is wise
 and on my lie hath stol'n him home to bed
benvolio he ran this way and leap'd this orchard wall
 call good mercutio
mercutio nay i'll conjure too
 romeo humours madman passion lover
 appear thou in the likeness of a sigh
 speak but one rhyme and i am satisfied
 cry but ay me pronounce but love and dove'
 speak to my gossip venus one fair word
 one nickname for her purblind son and heir
 young adam cupid he that shot so trim
 when king cophetua loved the beggarmaid
 he heareth not he stirreth not he moveth not
 the ape is dead and i must conjure him
 i conjure thee by rosaline's bright eyes
 by her high forehead and her scarlet lip
 by her fine foot straight leg and quivering thigh
 and the demesnes that there adjacent lie
 that in thy likeness thou appear to us
benvolio and if he hear thee thou wilt anger him
mercutio this cannot anger him twould anger him
 to raise a spirit in his mistress circle
 of some strange nature letting it there stand
 till she had laid it and conjured it down
 that were some spite my invocation
 is fair and honest and in his mistress name
 i conjure only but to raise up him
benvolio come he hath hid himself among these trees
 to be consorted with the humorous night
 blind is his love and best befits the dark
mercutio if love be blind love cannot hit the mark
 now will he sit under a medlar tree
 and wish his mistress were that kind of fruit
 as maids call medlars when they laugh alone
 romeo that she were o that she were
 an open et caetera thou a poperin pear
 romeo good night i'll to my trucklebed
 this fieldbed is too cold for me to sleep
 come shall we go
benvolio go then for tis in vain
 to seek him here that means not to be found
 exeunt
 romeo and juliet
act ii
scene ii capulet's orchard
 enter romeo
romeo he jests at scars that never felt a wound
 juliet appears above at a window
 but soft what light through yonder window breaks
 it is the east and juliet is the sun
 arise fair sun and kill the envious moon
 who is already sick and pale with grief
 that thou her maid art far more fair than she
 be not her maid since she is envious
 her vestal livery is but sick and green
 and none but fools do wear it cast it off
 it is my lady o it is my love
 o that she knew she were
 she speaks yet she says nothing what of that
 her eye discourses i will answer it
 i am too bold tis not to me she speaks
 two of the fairest stars in all the heaven
 having some business do entreat her eyes
 to twinkle in their spheres till they return
 what if her eyes were there they in her head
 the brightness of her cheek would shame those stars
 as daylight doth a lamp her eyes in heaven
 would through the airy region stream so bright
 that birds would sing and think it were not night
 see how she leans her cheek upon her hand
 o that i were a glove upon that hand
 that i might touch that cheek
juliet ay me
romeo she speaks
 o speak again bright angel for thou art
 as glorious to this night being o'er my head
 as is a winged messenger of heaven
 unto the whiteupturned wondering eyes
 of mortals that fall back to gaze on him
 when he bestrides the lazypacing clouds
 and sails upon the bosom of the air
juliet o romeo romeo wherefore art thou romeo
 deny thy father and refuse thy name
 or if thou wilt not be but sworn my love
 and i'll no longer be a capulet
romeo aside shall i hear more or shall i speak at this
juliet tis but thy name that is my enemy
 thou art thyself though not a montague
 what's montague it is nor hand nor foot
 nor arm nor face nor any other part
 belonging to a man o be some other name
 what's in a name that which we call a rose
 by any other name would smell as sweet
 so romeo would were he not romeo call'd
 retain that dear perfection which he owes
 without that title romeo doff thy name
 and for that name which is no part of thee
 take all myself
romeo i take thee at thy word
 call me but love and i'll be new baptized
 henceforth i never will be romeo
juliet what man art thou that thus bescreen'd in night
 so stumblest on my counsel
romeo by a name
 i know not how to tell thee who i am
 my name dear saint is hateful to myself
 because it is an enemy to thee
 had i it written i would tear the word
juliet my ears have not yet drunk a hundred words
 of that tongue's utterance yet i know the sound
 art thou not romeo and a montague
romeo neither fair saint if either thee dislike
juliet how camest thou hither tell me and wherefore
 the orchard walls are high and hard to climb
 and the place death considering who thou art
 if any of my kinsmen find thee here
romeo with love's light wings did i o'erperch these walls
 for stony limits cannot hold love out
 and what love can do that dares love attempt
 therefore thy kinsmen are no let to me
juliet if they do see thee they will murder thee
romeo alack there lies more peril in thine eye
 than twenty of their swords look thou but sweet
 and i am proof against their enmity
juliet i would not for the world they saw thee here
romeo i have night's cloak to hide me from their sight
 and but thou love me let them find me here
 my life were better ended by their hate
 than death prorogued wanting of thy love
juliet by whose direction found'st thou out this place
romeo by love who first did prompt me to inquire
 he lent me counsel and i lent him eyes
 i am no pilot yet wert thou as far
 as that vast shore wash'd with the farthest sea
 i would adventure for such merchandise
juliet thou know'st the mask of night is on my face
 else would a maiden blush bepaint my cheek
 for that which thou hast heard me speak tonight
 fain would i dwell on form fain fain deny
 what i have spoke but farewell compliment
 dost thou love me i know thou wilt say ay'
 and i will take thy word yet if thou swear'st
 thou mayst prove false at lovers perjuries
 then say jove laughs o gentle romeo
 if thou dost love pronounce it faithfully
 or if thou think'st i am too quickly won
 i'll frown and be perverse an say thee nay
 so thou wilt woo but else not for the world
 in truth fair montague i am too fond
 and therefore thou mayst think my havior light
 but trust me gentleman i'll prove more true
 than those that have more cunning to be strange
 i should have been more strange i must confess
 but that thou overheard'st ere i was ware
 my true love's passion therefore pardon me
 and not impute this yielding to light love
 which the dark night hath so discovered
romeo lady by yonder blessed moon i swear
 that tips with silver all these fruittree tops
juliet o swear not by the moon the inconstant moon
 that monthly changes in her circled orb
 lest that thy love prove likewise variable
romeo what shall i swear by
juliet do not swear at all
 or if thou wilt swear by thy gracious self
 which is the god of my idolatry
 and i'll believe thee
romeo if my heart's dear love
juliet well do not swear although i joy in thee
 i have no joy of this contract tonight
 it is too rash too unadvised too sudden
 too like the lightning which doth cease to be
 ere one can say it lightens sweet good night
 this bud of love by summer's ripening breath
 may prove a beauteous flower when next we meet
 good night good night as sweet repose and rest
 come to thy heart as that within my breast
romeo o wilt thou leave me so unsatisfied
juliet what satisfaction canst thou have tonight
romeo the exchange of thy love's faithful vow for mine
juliet i gave thee mine before thou didst request it
 and yet i would it were to give again
romeo wouldst thou withdraw it for what purpose love
juliet but to be frank and give it thee again
 and yet i wish but for the thing i have
 my bounty is as boundless as the sea
 my love as deep the more i give to thee
 the more i have for both are infinite
 nurse calls within
 i hear some noise within dear love adieu
 anon good nurse sweet montague be true
 stay but a little i will come again
 exit above
romeo o blessed blessed night i am afeard
 being in night all this is but a dream
 too flatteringsweet to be substantial
 reenter juliet above
juliet three words dear romeo and good night indeed
 if that thy bent of love be honourable
 thy purpose marriage send me word tomorrow
 by one that i'll procure to come to thee
 where and what time thou wilt perform the rite
 and all my fortunes at thy foot i'll lay
 and follow thee my lord throughout the world
nurse within madam
juliet i come anonbut if thou mean'st not well
 i do beseech thee
nurse within madam
juliet by and by i come
 to cease thy suit and leave me to my grief
 tomorrow will i send
romeo so thrive my soul
juliet a thousand times good night
 exit above
romeo a thousand times the worse to want thy light
 love goes toward love as schoolboys from
 their books
 but love from love toward school with heavy looks
 retiring
 reenter juliet above
juliet hist romeo hist o for a falconer's voice
 to lure this tasselgentle back again
 bondage is hoarse and may not speak aloud
 else would i tear the cave where echo lies
 and make her airy tongue more hoarse than mine
 with repetition of my romeo's name
romeo it is my soul that calls upon my name
 how silversweet sound lovers tongues by night
 like softest music to attending ears
juliet romeo
romeo my dear
juliet at what o'clock tomorrow
 shall i send to thee
romeo at the hour of nine
juliet i will not fail tis twenty years till then
 i have forgot why i did call thee back
romeo let me stand here till thou remember it
juliet i shall forget to have thee still stand there
 remembering how i love thy company
romeo and i'll still stay to have thee still forget
 forgetting any other home but this
juliet tis almost morning i would have thee gone
 and yet no further than a wanton's bird
 who lets it hop a little from her hand
 like a poor prisoner in his twisted gyves
 and with a silk thread plucks it back again
 so lovingjealous of his liberty
romeo i would i were thy bird
juliet sweet so would i
 yet i should kill thee with much cherishing
 good night good night parting is such
 sweet sorrow
 that i shall say good night till it be morrow
 exit above
romeo sleep dwell upon thine eyes peace in thy breast
 would i were sleep and peace so sweet to rest
 hence will i to my ghostly father's cell
 his help to crave and my dear hap to tell
 exit
 romeo and juliet
act ii
scene iii friar laurence's cell
 enter friar laurence with a basket
friar laurence the greyeyed morn smiles on the frowning night
 chequering the eastern clouds with streaks of light
 and flecked darkness like a drunkard reels
 from forth day's path and titan's fiery wheels
 now ere the sun advance his burning eye
 the day to cheer and night's dank dew to dry
 i must upfill this osier cage of ours
 with baleful weeds and preciousjuiced flowers
 the earth that's nature's mother is her tomb
 what is her burying grave that is her womb
 and from her womb children of divers kind
 we sucking on her natural bosom find
 many for many virtues excellent
 none but for some and yet all different
 o mickle is the powerful grace that lies
 in herbs plants stones and their true qualities
 for nought so vile that on the earth doth live
 but to the earth some special good doth give
 nor aught so good but strain'd from that fair use
 revolts from true birth stumbling on abuse
 virtue itself turns vice being misapplied
 and vice sometimes by action dignified
 within the infant rind of this small flower
 poison hath residence and medicine power
 for this being smelt with that part cheers each part
 being tasted slays all senses with the heart
 two such opposed kings encamp them still
 in man as well as herbs grace and rude will
 and where the worser is predominant
 full soon the canker death eats up that plant
 enter romeo
romeo good morrow father
friar laurence benedicite
 what early tongue so sweet saluteth me
 young son it argues a distemper'd head
 so soon to bid good morrow to thy bed
 care keeps his watch in every old man's eye
 and where care lodges sleep will never lie
 but where unbruised youth with unstuff'd brain
 doth couch his limbs there golden sleep doth reign
 therefore thy earliness doth me assure
 thou art uproused by some distemperature
 or if not so then here i hit it right
 our romeo hath not been in bed tonight
romeo that last is true the sweeter rest was mine
friar laurence god pardon sin wast thou with rosaline
romeo with rosaline my ghostly father no
 i have forgot that name and that name's woe
friar laurence that's my good son but where hast thou been then
romeo i'll tell thee ere thou ask it me again
 i have been feasting with mine enemy
 where on a sudden one hath wounded me
 that's by me wounded both our remedies
 within thy help and holy physic lies
 i bear no hatred blessed man for lo
 my intercession likewise steads my foe
friar laurence be plain good son and homely in thy drift
 riddling confession finds but riddling shrift
romeo then plainly know my heart's dear love is set
 on the fair daughter of rich capulet
 as mine on hers so hers is set on mine
 and all combined save what thou must combine
 by holy marriage when and where and how
 we met we woo'd and made exchange of vow
 i'll tell thee as we pass but this i pray
 that thou consent to marry us today
friar laurence holy saint francis what a change is here
 is rosaline whom thou didst love so dear
 so soon forsaken young men's love then lies
 not truly in their hearts but in their eyes
 jesu maria what a deal of brine
 hath wash'd thy sallow cheeks for rosaline
 how much salt water thrown away in waste
 to season love that of it doth not taste
 the sun not yet thy sighs from heaven clears
 thy old groans ring yet in my ancient ears
 lo here upon thy cheek the stain doth sit
 of an old tear that is not wash'd off yet
 if e'er thou wast thyself and these woes thine
 thou and these woes were all for rosaline
 and art thou changed pronounce this sentence then
 women may fall when there's no strength in men
romeo thou chid'st me oft for loving rosaline
friar laurence for doting not for loving pupil mine
romeo and bad'st me bury love
friar laurence not in a grave
 to lay one in another out to have
romeo i pray thee chide not she whom i love now
 doth grace for grace and love for love allow
 the other did not so
friar laurence o she knew well
 thy love did read by rote and could not spell
 but come young waverer come go with me
 in one respect i'll thy assistant be
 for this alliance may so happy prove
 to turn your households rancour to pure love
romeo o let us hence i stand on sudden haste
friar laurence wisely and slow they stumble that run fast
 exeunt
 romeo and juliet
act ii
scene iv a street
 enter benvolio and mercutio
mercutio where the devil should this romeo be
 came he not home tonight
benvolio not to his father's i spoke with his man
mercutio ah that same pale hardhearted wench that rosaline
 torments him so that he will sure run mad
benvolio tybalt the kinsman of old capulet
 hath sent a letter to his father's house
mercutio a challenge on my life
benvolio romeo will answer it
mercutio any man that can write may answer a letter
benvolio nay he will answer the letter's master how he
 dares being dared
mercutio alas poor romeo he is already dead stabbed with a
 white wench's black eye shot through the ear with a
 lovesong the very pin of his heart cleft with the
 blind bowboy's buttshaft and is he a man to
 encounter tybalt
benvolio why what is tybalt
mercutio more than prince of cats i can tell you o he is
 the courageous captain of compliments he fights as
 you sing pricksong keeps time distance and
 proportion rests me his minim rest one two and
 the third in your bosom the very butcher of a silk
 button a duellist a duellist a gentleman of the
 very first house of the first and second cause
 ah the immortal passado the punto reverso the
 hai
benvolio the what
mercutio the pox of such antic lisping affecting
 fantasticoes these new tuners of accents by jesu
 a very good blade a very tall man a very good
 whore why is not this a lamentable thing
 grandsire that we should be thus afflicted with
 these strange flies these fashionmongers these
 perdonami's who stand so much on the new form
 that they cannot at ease on the old bench o their
 bones their bones
 enter romeo
benvolio here comes romeo here comes romeo
mercutio without his roe like a dried herring flesh flesh
 how art thou fishified now is he for the numbers
 that petrarch flowed in laura to his lady was but a
 kitchenwench marry she had a better love to
 berhyme her dido a dowdy cleopatra a gipsy
 helen and hero hildings and harlots thisbe a grey
 eye or so but not to the purpose signior
 romeo bon jour there's a french salutation
 to your french slop you gave us the counterfeit
 fairly last night
romeo good morrow to you both what counterfeit did i give you
mercutio the ship sir the slip can you not conceive
romeo pardon good mercutio my business was great and in
 such a case as mine a man may strain courtesy
mercutio that's as much as to say such a case as yours
 constrains a man to bow in the hams
romeo meaning to court'sy
mercutio thou hast most kindly hit it
romeo a most courteous exposition
mercutio nay i am the very pink of courtesy
romeo pink for flower
mercutio right
romeo why then is my pump well flowered
mercutio well said follow me this jest now till thou hast
 worn out thy pump that when the single sole of it
 is worn the jest may remain after the wearing sole singular
romeo o singlesoled jest solely singular for the
 singleness
mercutio come between us good benvolio my wits faint
romeo switch and spurs switch and spurs or i'll cry a match
mercutio nay if thy wits run the wildgoose chase i have
 done for thou hast more of the wildgoose in one of
 thy wits than i am sure i have in my whole five
 was i with you there for the goose
romeo thou wast never with me for any thing when thou wast
 not there for the goose
mercutio i will bite thee by the ear for that jest
romeo nay good goose bite not
mercutio thy wit is a very bitter sweeting it is a most
 sharp sauce
romeo and is it not well served in to a sweet goose
mercutio o here's a wit of cheveril that stretches from an
 inch narrow to an ell broad
romeo i stretch it out for that word broad which added
 to the goose proves thee far and wide a broad goose
mercutio why is not this better now than groaning for love
 now art thou sociable now art thou romeo now art
 thou what thou art by art as well as by nature
 for this drivelling love is like a great natural
 that runs lolling up and down to hide his bauble in a hole
benvolio stop there stop there
mercutio thou desirest me to stop in my tale against the hair
benvolio thou wouldst else have made thy tale large
mercutio o thou art deceived i would have made it short
 for i was come to the whole depth of my tale and
 meant indeed to occupy the argument no longer
romeo here's goodly gear
 enter nurse and peter
mercutio a sail a sail
benvolio two two a shirt and a smock
nurse peter
peter anon
nurse my fan peter
mercutio good peter to hide her face for her fan's the
 fairer face
nurse god ye good morrow gentlemen
mercutio god ye good den fair gentlewoman
nurse is it good den
mercutio tis no less i tell you for the bawdy hand of the
 dial is now upon the prick of noon
nurse out upon you what a man are you
romeo one gentlewoman that god hath made for himself to
 mar
nurse by my troth it is well said for himself to mar'
 quoth a gentlemen can any of you tell me where i
 may find the young romeo
romeo i can tell you but young romeo will be older when
 you have found him than he was when you sought him
 i am the youngest of that name for fault of a worse
nurse you say well
mercutio yea is the worst well very well took i faith
 wisely wisely
nurse if you be he sir i desire some confidence with
 you
benvolio she will indite him to some supper
mercutio a bawd a bawd a bawd so ho
romeo what hast thou found
mercutio no hare sir unless a hare sir in a lenten pie
 that is something stale and hoar ere it be spent
 sings
 an old hare hoar
 and an old hare hoar
 is very good meat in lent
 but a hare that is hoar
 is too much for a score
 when it hoars ere it be spent
 romeo will you come to your father's we'll
 to dinner thither
romeo i will follow you
mercutio farewell ancient lady farewell
 singing
 lady lady lady'
 exeunt mercutio and benvolio
nurse marry farewell i pray you sir what saucy
 merchant was this that was so full of his ropery
romeo a gentleman nurse that loves to hear himself talk
 and will speak more in a minute than he will stand
 to in a month
nurse an a speak any thing against me i'll take him
 down an a were lustier than he is and twenty such
 jacks and if i cannot i'll find those that shall
 scurvy knave i am none of his flirtgills i am
 none of his skainsmates and thou must stand by
 too and suffer every knave to use me at his pleasure
peter i saw no man use you a pleasure if i had my weapon
 should quickly have been out i warrant you i dare
 draw as soon as another man if i see occasion in a
 good quarrel and the law on my side
nurse now afore god i am so vexed that every part about
 me quivers scurvy knave pray you sir a word
 and as i told you my young lady bade me inquire you
 out what she bade me say i will keep to myself
 but first let me tell ye if ye should lead her into
 a fool's paradise as they say it were a very gross
 kind of behavior as they say for the gentlewoman
 is young and therefore if you should deal double
 with her truly it were an ill thing to be offered
 to any gentlewoman and very weak dealing
romeo nurse commend me to thy lady and mistress i
 protest unto thee
nurse good heart and i faith i will tell her as much
 lord lord she will be a joyful woman
romeo what wilt thou tell her nurse thou dost not mark me
nurse i will tell her sir that you do protest which as
 i take it is a gentlemanlike offer
romeo bid her devise
 some means to come to shrift this afternoon
 and there she shall at friar laurence cell
 be shrived and married here is for thy pains
nurse no truly sir not a penny
romeo go to i say you shall
nurse this afternoon sir well she shall be there
romeo and stay good nurse behind the abbey wall
 within this hour my man shall be with thee
 and bring thee cords made like a tackled stair
 which to the high topgallant of my joy
 must be my convoy in the secret night
 farewell be trusty and i'll quit thy pains
 farewell commend me to thy mistress
nurse now god in heaven bless thee hark you sir
romeo what say'st thou my dear nurse
nurse is your man secret did you ne'er hear say
 two may keep counsel putting one away
romeo i warrant thee my man's as true as steel
nurse well sir my mistress is the sweetest ladylord
 lord when twas a little prating thingo there
 is a nobleman in town one paris that would fain
 lay knife aboard but she good soul had as lief
 see a toad a very toad as see him i anger her
 sometimes and tell her that paris is the properer
 man but i'll warrant you when i say so she looks
 as pale as any clout in the versal world doth not
 rosemary and romeo begin both with a letter
romeo ay nurse what of that both with an r
nurse ah mocker that's the dog's name r is for
 theno i know it begins with some other
 letterand she hath the prettiest sententious of
 it of you and rosemary that it would do you good
 to hear it
romeo commend me to thy lady
nurse ay a thousand times
 exit romeo
 peter
peter anon
nurse peter take my fan and go before and apace
 exeunt
 romeo and juliet
act ii
scene v capulet's orchard
 enter juliet
juliet the clock struck nine when i did send the nurse
 in half an hour she promised to return
 perchance she cannot meet him that's not so
 o she is lame love's heralds should be thoughts
 which ten times faster glide than the sun's beams
 driving back shadows over louring hills
 therefore do nimblepinion'd doves draw love
 and therefore hath the windswift cupid wings
 now is the sun upon the highmost hill
 of this day's journey and from nine till twelve
 is three long hours yet she is not come
 had she affections and warm youthful blood
 she would be as swift in motion as a ball
 my words would bandy her to my sweet love
 and his to me
 but old folks many feign as they were dead
 unwieldy slow heavy and pale as lead
 o god she comes
 enter nurse and peter
 o honey nurse what news
 hast thou met with him send thy man away
nurse peter stay at the gate
 exit peter
juliet now good sweet nurseo lord why look'st thou sad
 though news be sad yet tell them merrily
 if good thou shamest the music of sweet news
 by playing it to me with so sour a face
nurse i am aweary give me leave awhile
 fie how my bones ache what a jaunt have i had
juliet i would thou hadst my bones and i thy news
 nay come i pray thee speak good good nurse speak
nurse jesu what haste can you not stay awhile
 do you not see that i am out of breath
juliet how art thou out of breath when thou hast breath
 to say to me that thou art out of breath
 the excuse that thou dost make in this delay
 is longer than the tale thou dost excuse
 is thy news good or bad answer to that
 say either and i'll stay the circumstance
 let me be satisfied is't good or bad
nurse well you have made a simple choice you know not
 how to choose a man romeo no not he though his
 face be better than any man's yet his leg excels
 all men's and for a hand and a foot and a body
 though they be not to be talked on yet they are
 past compare he is not the flower of courtesy
 but i'll warrant him as gentle as a lamb go thy
 ways wench serve god what have you dined at home
juliet no no but all this did i know before
 what says he of our marriage what of that
nurse lord how my head aches what a head have i
 it beats as it would fall in twenty pieces
 my back o t other sideo my back my back
 beshrew your heart for sending me about
 to catch my death with jaunting up and down
juliet i faith i am sorry that thou art not well
 sweet sweet sweet nurse tell me what says my love
nurse your love says like an honest gentleman and a
 courteous and a kind and a handsome and i
 warrant a virtuouswhere is your mother
juliet where is my mother why she is within
 where should she be how oddly thou repliest
 your love says like an honest gentleman
 where is your mother'
nurse o god's lady dear
 are you so hot marry come up i trow
 is this the poultice for my aching bones
 henceforward do your messages yourself
juliet here's such a coil come what says romeo
nurse have you got leave to go to shrift today
juliet i have
nurse then hie you hence to friar laurence cell
 there stays a husband to make you a wife
 now comes the wanton blood up in your cheeks
 they'll be in scarlet straight at any news
 hie you to church i must another way
 to fetch a ladder by the which your love
 must climb a bird's nest soon when it is dark
 i am the drudge and toil in your delight
 but you shall bear the burden soon at night
 go i'll to dinner hie you to the cell
juliet hie to high fortune honest nurse farewell
 exeunt
 romeo and juliet
act ii
scene vi friar laurence's cell
 enter friar laurence and romeo
friar laurence so smile the heavens upon this holy act
 that after hours with sorrow chide us not
romeo amen amen but come what sorrow can
 it cannot countervail the exchange of joy
 that one short minute gives me in her sight
 do thou but close our hands with holy words
 then lovedevouring death do what he dare
 it is enough i may but call her mine
friar laurence these violent delights have violent ends
 and in their triumph die like fire and powder
 which as they kiss consume the sweetest honey
 is loathsome in his own deliciousness
 and in the taste confounds the appetite
 therefore love moderately long love doth so
 too swift arrives as tardy as too slow
 enter juliet
 here comes the lady o so light a foot
 will ne'er wear out the everlasting flint
 a lover may bestride the gossamer
 that idles in the wanton summer air
 and yet not fall so light is vanity
juliet good even to my ghostly confessor
friar laurence romeo shall thank thee daughter for us both
juliet as much to him else is his thanks too much
romeo ah juliet if the measure of thy joy
 be heap'd like mine and that thy skill be more
 to blazon it then sweeten with thy breath
 this neighbour air and let rich music's tongue
 unfold the imagined happiness that both
 receive in either by this dear encounter
juliet conceit more rich in matter than in words
 brags of his substance not of ornament
 they are but beggars that can count their worth
 but my true love is grown to such excess
 i cannot sum up sum of half my wealth
friar laurence come come with me and we will make short work
 for by your leaves you shall not stay alone
 till holy church incorporate two in one
 exeunt
 romeo and juliet
act iii
scene i a public place
 enter mercutio benvolio page and servants
benvolio i pray thee good mercutio let's retire
 the day is hot the capulets abroad
 and if we meet we shall not scape a brawl
 for now these hot days is the mad blood stirring
mercutio thou art like one of those fellows that when he
 enters the confines of a tavern claps me his sword
 upon the table and says god send me no need of
 thee and by the operation of the second cup draws
 it on the drawer when indeed there is no need
benvolio am i like such a fellow
mercutio come come thou art as hot a jack in thy mood as
 any in italy and as soon moved to be moody and as
 soon moody to be moved
benvolio and what to
mercutio nay an there were two such we should have none
 shortly for one would kill the other thou why
 thou wilt quarrel with a man that hath a hair more
 or a hair less in his beard than thou hast thou
 wilt quarrel with a man for cracking nuts having no
 other reason but because thou hast hazel eyes what
 eye but such an eye would spy out such a quarrel
 thy head is as fun of quarrels as an egg is full of
 meat and yet thy head hath been beaten as addle as
 an egg for quarrelling thou hast quarrelled with a
 man for coughing in the street because he hath
 wakened thy dog that hath lain asleep in the sun
 didst thou not fall out with a tailor for wearing
 his new doublet before easter with another for
 tying his new shoes with old riband and yet thou
 wilt tutor me from quarrelling
benvolio an i were so apt to quarrel as thou art any man
 should buy the feesimple of my life for an hour and a quarter
mercutio the feesimple o simple
benvolio by my head here come the capulets
mercutio by my heel i care not
 enter tybalt and others
tybalt follow me close for i will speak to them
 gentlemen good den a word with one of you
mercutio and but one word with one of us couple it with
 something make it a word and a blow
tybalt you shall find me apt enough to that sir an you
 will give me occasion
mercutio could you not take some occasion without giving
tybalt mercutio thou consort'st with romeo
mercutio consort what dost thou make us minstrels an
 thou make minstrels of us look to hear nothing but
 discords here's my fiddlestick here's that shall
 make you dance zounds consort
benvolio we talk here in the public haunt of men
 either withdraw unto some private place
 and reason coldly of your grievances
 or else depart here all eyes gaze on us
mercutio men's eyes were made to look and let them gaze
 i will not budge for no man's pleasure i
 enter romeo
tybalt well peace be with you sir here comes my man
mercutio but i'll be hanged sir if he wear your livery
 marry go before to field he'll be your follower
 your worship in that sense may call him man'
tybalt romeo the hate i bear thee can afford
 no better term than thisthou art a villain
romeo tybalt the reason that i have to love thee
 doth much excuse the appertaining rage
 to such a greeting villain am i none
 therefore farewell i see thou know'st me not
tybalt boy this shall not excuse the injuries
 that thou hast done me therefore turn and draw
romeo i do protest i never injured thee
 but love thee better than thou canst devise
 till thou shalt know the reason of my love
 and so good capuletwhich name i tender
 as dearly as my ownbe satisfied
mercutio o calm dishonourable vile submission
 alla stoccata carries it away
 draws
 tybalt you ratcatcher will you walk
tybalt what wouldst thou have with me
mercutio good king of cats nothing but one of your nine
 lives that i mean to make bold withal and as you
 shall use me hereafter drybeat the rest of the
 eight will you pluck your sword out of his pitcher
 by the ears make haste lest mine be about your
 ears ere it be out
tybalt i am for you
 drawing
romeo gentle mercutio put thy rapier up
mercutio come sir your passado
 they fight
romeo draw benvolio beat down their weapons
 gentlemen for shame forbear this outrage
 tybalt mercutio the prince expressly hath
 forbidden bandying in verona streets
 hold tybalt good mercutio
 tybalt under romeo's arm stabs mercutio and flies
 with his followers
mercutio i am hurt
 a plague o both your houses i am sped
 is he gone and hath nothing
benvolio what art thou hurt
mercutio ay ay a scratch a scratch marry tis enough
 where is my page go villain fetch a surgeon
 exit page
romeo courage man the hurt cannot be much
mercutio no tis not so deep as a well nor so wide as a
 churchdoor but tis enough'twill serve ask for
 me tomorrow and you shall find me a grave man i
 am peppered i warrant for this world a plague o'
 both your houses zounds a dog a rat a mouse a
 cat to scratch a man to death a braggart a
 rogue a villain that fights by the book of
 arithmetic why the devil came you between us i
 was hurt under your arm
romeo i thought all for the best
mercutio help me into some house benvolio
 or i shall faint a plague o both your houses
 they have made worms meat of me i have it
 and soundly too your houses
 exeunt mercutio and benvolio
romeo this gentleman the prince's near ally
 my very friend hath got his mortal hurt
 in my behalf my reputation stain'd
 with tybalt's slandertybalt that an hour
 hath been my kinsman o sweet juliet
 thy beauty hath made me effeminate
 and in my temper soften'd valour's steel
 reenter benvolio
benvolio o romeo romeo brave mercutio's dead
 that gallant spirit hath aspired the clouds
 which too untimely here did scorn the earth
romeo this day's black fate on more days doth depend
 this but begins the woe others must end
benvolio here comes the furious tybalt back again
romeo alive in triumph and mercutio slain
 away to heaven respective lenity
 and fireeyed fury be my conduct now
 reenter tybalt
 now tybalt take the villain back again
 that late thou gavest me for mercutio's soul
 is but a little way above our heads
 staying for thine to keep him company
 either thou or i or both must go with him
tybalt thou wretched boy that didst consort him here
 shalt with him hence
romeo this shall determine that
 they fight tybalt falls
benvolio romeo away be gone
 the citizens are up and tybalt slain
 stand not amazed the prince will doom thee death
 if thou art taken hence be gone away
romeo o i am fortune's fool
benvolio why dost thou stay
 exit romeo
 enter citizens &c
first citizen which way ran he that kill'd mercutio
 tybalt that murderer which way ran he
benvolio there lies that tybalt
first citizen up sir go with me
 i charge thee in the princes name obey
 enter prince attended montague capulet their
 wives and others
prince where are the vile beginners of this fray
benvolio o noble prince i can discover all
 the unlucky manage of this fatal brawl
 there lies the man slain by young romeo
 that slew thy kinsman brave mercutio
lady capulet tybalt my cousin o my brother's child
 o prince o cousin husband o the blood is spilt
 o my dear kinsman prince as thou art true
 for blood of ours shed blood of montague
 o cousin cousin
prince benvolio who began this bloody fray
benvolio tybalt here slain whom romeo's hand did slay
 romeo that spoke him fair bade him bethink
 how nice the quarrel was and urged withal
 your high displeasure all this uttered
 with gentle breath calm look knees humbly bow'd
 could not take truce with the unruly spleen
 of tybalt deaf to peace but that he tilts
 with piercing steel at bold mercutio's breast
 who all as hot turns deadly point to point
 and with a martial scorn with one hand beats
 cold death aside and with the other sends
 it back to tybalt whose dexterity
 retorts it romeo he cries aloud
 hold friends friends part and swifter than
 his tongue
 his agile arm beats down their fatal points
 and twixt them rushes underneath whose arm
 an envious thrust from tybalt hit the life
 of stout mercutio and then tybalt fled
 but by and by comes back to romeo
 who had but newly entertain'd revenge
 and to t they go like lightning for ere i
 could draw to part them was stout tybalt slain
 and as he fell did romeo turn and fly
 this is the truth or let benvolio die
lady capulet he is a kinsman to the montague
 affection makes him false he speaks not true
 some twenty of them fought in this black strife
 and all those twenty could but kill one life
 i beg for justice which thou prince must give
 romeo slew tybalt romeo must not live
prince romeo slew him he slew mercutio
 who now the price of his dear blood doth owe
montague not romeo prince he was mercutio's friend
 his fault concludes but what the law should end
 the life of tybalt
prince and for that offence
 immediately we do exile him hence
 i have an interest in your hate's proceeding
 my blood for your rude brawls doth lie ableeding
 but i'll amerce you with so strong a fine
 that you shall all repent the loss of mine
 i will be deaf to pleading and excuses
 nor tears nor prayers shall purchase out abuses
 therefore use none let romeo hence in haste
 else when he's found that hour is his last
 bear hence this body and attend our will
 mercy but murders pardoning those that kill
 exeunt
 romeo and juliet
act iii
scene ii capulet's orchard
 enter juliet
juliet gallop apace you fieryfooted steeds
 towards phoebus lodging such a wagoner
 as phaethon would whip you to the west
 and bring in cloudy night immediately
 spread thy close curtain loveperforming night
 that runaway's eyes may wink and romeo
 leap to these arms untalk'd of and unseen
 lovers can see to do their amorous rites
 by their own beauties or if love be blind
 it best agrees with night come civil night
 thou sobersuited matron all in black
 and learn me how to lose a winning match
 play'd for a pair of stainless maidenhoods
 hood my unmann'd blood bating in my cheeks
 with thy black mantle till strange love grown bold
 think true love acted simple modesty
 come night come romeo come thou day in night
 for thou wilt lie upon the wings of night
 whiter than new snow on a raven's back
 come gentle night come loving blackbrow'd night
 give me my romeo and when he shall die
 take him and cut him out in little stars
 and he will make the face of heaven so fine
 that all the world will be in love with night
 and pay no worship to the garish sun
 o i have bought the mansion of a love
 but not possess'd it and though i am sold
 not yet enjoy'd so tedious is this day
 as is the night before some festival
 to an impatient child that hath new robes
 and may not wear them o here comes my nurse
 and she brings news and every tongue that speaks
 but romeo's name speaks heavenly eloquence
 enter nurse with cords
 now nurse what news what hast thou there the cords
 that romeo bid thee fetch
nurse ay ay the cords
 throws them down
juliet ay me what news why dost thou wring thy hands
nurse ah welladay he's dead he's dead he's dead
 we are undone lady we are undone
 alack the day he's gone he's kill'd he's dead
juliet can heaven be so envious
nurse romeo can
 though heaven cannot o romeo romeo
 who ever would have thought it romeo
juliet what devil art thou that dost torment me thus
 this torture should be roar'd in dismal hell
 hath romeo slain himself say thou but i'
 and that bare vowel i shall poison more
 than the deathdarting eye of cockatrice
 i am not i if there be such an i
 or those eyes shut that make thee answer i'
 if he be slain say i or if not no
 brief sounds determine of my weal or woe
nurse i saw the wound i saw it with mine eyes
 god save the markhere on his manly breast
 a piteous corse a bloody piteous corse
 pale pale as ashes all bedaub'd in blood
 all in goreblood i swounded at the sight
juliet o break my heart poor bankrupt break at once
 to prison eyes ne'er look on liberty
 vile earth to earth resign end motion here
 and thou and romeo press one heavy bier
nurse o tybalt tybalt the best friend i had
 o courteous tybalt honest gentleman
 that ever i should live to see thee dead
juliet what storm is this that blows so contrary
 is romeo slaughter'd and is tybalt dead
 my dearloved cousin and my dearer lord
 then dreadful trumpet sound the general doom
 for who is living if those two are gone
nurse tybalt is gone and romeo banished
 romeo that kill'd him he is banished
juliet o god did romeo's hand shed tybalt's blood
nurse it did it did alas the day it did
juliet o serpent heart hid with a flowering face
 did ever dragon keep so fair a cave
 beautiful tyrant fiend angelical
 dovefeather'd raven wolvishravening lamb
 despised substance of divinest show
 just opposite to what thou justly seem'st
 a damned saint an honourable villain
 o nature what hadst thou to do in hell
 when thou didst bower the spirit of a fiend
 in moral paradise of such sweet flesh
 was ever book containing such vile matter
 so fairly bound o that deceit should dwell
 in such a gorgeous palace
nurse there's no trust
 no faith no honesty in men all perjured
 all forsworn all naught all dissemblers
 ah where's my man give me some aqua vitae
 these griefs these woes these sorrows make me old
 shame come to romeo
juliet blister'd be thy tongue
 for such a wish he was not born to shame
 upon his brow shame is ashamed to sit
 for tis a throne where honour may be crown'd
 sole monarch of the universal earth
 o what a beast was i to chide at him
nurse will you speak well of him that kill'd your cousin
juliet shall i speak ill of him that is my husband
 ah poor my lord what tongue shall smooth thy name
 when i thy threehours wife have mangled it
 but wherefore villain didst thou kill my cousin
 that villain cousin would have kill'd my husband
 back foolish tears back to your native spring
 your tributary drops belong to woe
 which you mistaking offer up to joy
 my husband lives that tybalt would have slain
 and tybalt's dead that would have slain my husband
 all this is comfort wherefore weep i then
 some word there was worser than tybalt's death
 that murder'd me i would forget it fain
 but o it presses to my memory
 like damned guilty deeds to sinners minds
 tybalt is dead and romeobanished'
 that banished that one word banished'
 hath slain ten thousand tybalts tybalt's death
 was woe enough if it had ended there
 or if sour woe delights in fellowship
 and needly will be rank'd with other griefs
 why follow'd not when she said tybalt's dead'
 thy father or thy mother nay or both
 which modern lamentations might have moved
 but with a rearward following tybalt's death
 romeo is banished to speak that word
 is father mother tybalt romeo juliet
 all slain all dead romeo is banished'
 there is no end no limit measure bound
 in that word's death no words can that woe sound
 where is my father and my mother nurse
nurse weeping and wailing over tybalt's corse
 will you go to them i will bring you thither
juliet wash they his wounds with tears mine shall be spent
 when theirs are dry for romeo's banishment
 take up those cords poor ropes you are beguiled
 both you and i for romeo is exiled
 he made you for a highway to my bed
 but i a maid die maidenwidowed
 come cords come nurse i'll to my weddingbed
 and death not romeo take my maidenhead
nurse hie to your chamber i'll find romeo
 to comfort you i wot well where he is
 hark ye your romeo will be here at night
 i'll to him he is hid at laurence cell
juliet o find him give this ring to my true knight
 and bid him come to take his last farewell
 exeunt
 romeo and juliet
act iii
scene iii friar laurence's cell
 enter friar laurence
friar laurence romeo come forth come forth thou fearful man
 affliction is enamour'd of thy parts
 and thou art wedded to calamity
 enter romeo
romeo father what news what is the prince's doom
 what sorrow craves acquaintance at my hand
 that i yet know not
friar laurence too familiar
 is my dear son with such sour company
 i bring thee tidings of the prince's doom
romeo what less than doomsday is the prince's doom
friar laurence a gentler judgment vanish'd from his lips
 not body's death but body's banishment
romeo ha banishment be merciful say death'
 for exile hath more terror in his look
 much more than death do not say banishment'
friar laurence hence from verona art thou banished
 be patient for the world is broad and wide
romeo there is no world without verona walls
 but purgatory torture hell itself
 hencebanished is banish'd from the world
 and world's exile is death then banished
 is death misterm'd calling death banishment
 thou cutt'st my head off with a golden axe
 and smilest upon the stroke that murders me
friar laurence o deadly sin o rude unthankfulness
 thy fault our law calls death but the kind prince
 taking thy part hath rush'd aside the law
 and turn'd that black word death to banishment
 this is dear mercy and thou seest it not
romeo tis torture and not mercy heaven is here
 where juliet lives and every cat and dog
 and little mouse every unworthy thing
 live here in heaven and may look on her
 but romeo may not more validity
 more honourable state more courtship lives
 in carrionflies than romeo they my seize
 on the white wonder of dear juliet's hand
 and steal immortal blessing from her lips
 who even in pure and vestal modesty
 still blush as thinking their own kisses sin
 but romeo may not he is banished
 flies may do this but i from this must fly
 they are free men but i am banished
 and say'st thou yet that exile is not death
 hadst thou no poison mix'd no sharpground knife
 no sudden mean of death though ne'er so mean
 but banished to kill me'banished'
 o friar the damned use that word in hell
 howlings attend it how hast thou the heart
 being a divine a ghostly confessor
 a sinabsolver and my friend profess'd
 to mangle me with that word banished'
friar laurence thou fond mad man hear me but speak a word
romeo o thou wilt speak again of banishment
friar laurence i'll give thee armour to keep off that word
 adversity's sweet milk philosophy
 to comfort thee though thou art banished
romeo yet banished hang up philosophy
 unless philosophy can make a juliet
 displant a town reverse a prince's doom
 it helps not it prevails not talk no more
friar laurence o then i see that madmen have no ears
romeo how should they when that wise men have no eyes
friar laurence let me dispute with thee of thy estate
romeo thou canst not speak of that thou dost not feel
 wert thou as young as i juliet thy love
 an hour but married tybalt murdered
 doting like me and like me banished
 then mightst thou speak then mightst thou tear thy hair
 and fall upon the ground as i do now
 taking the measure of an unmade grave
 knocking within
friar laurence arise one knocks good romeo hide thyself
romeo not i unless the breath of heartsick groans
 mistlike infold me from the search of eyes
 knocking
friar laurence hark how they knock who's there romeo arise
 thou wilt be taken stay awhile stand up
 knocking
 run to my study by and by god's will
 what simpleness is this i come i come
 knocking
 who knocks so hard whence come you what's your will
nurse within let me come in and you shall know
 my errand
 i come from lady juliet
friar laurence welcome then
 enter nurse
nurse o holy friar o tell me holy friar
 where is my lady's lord where's romeo
friar laurence there on the ground with his own tears made drunk
nurse o he is even in my mistress case
 just in her case o woful sympathy
 piteous predicament even so lies she
 blubbering and weeping weeping and blubbering
 stand up stand up stand and you be a man
 for juliet's sake for her sake rise and stand
 why should you fall into so deep an o
romeo nurse
nurse ah sir ah sir well death's the end of all
romeo spakest thou of juliet how is it with her
 doth she not think me an old murderer
 now i have stain'd the childhood of our joy
 with blood removed but little from her own
 where is she and how doth she and what says
 my conceal'd lady to our cancell'd love
nurse o she says nothing sir but weeps and weeps
 and now falls on her bed and then starts up
 and tybalt calls and then on romeo cries
 and then down falls again
romeo as if that name
 shot from the deadly level of a gun
 did murder her as that name's cursed hand
 murder'd her kinsman o tell me friar tell me
 in what vile part of this anatomy
 doth my name lodge tell me that i may sack
 the hateful mansion
 drawing his sword
friar laurence hold thy desperate hand
 art thou a man thy form cries out thou art
 thy tears are womanish thy wild acts denote
 the unreasonable fury of a beast
 unseemly woman in a seeming man
 or illbeseeming beast in seeming both
 thou hast amazed me by my holy order
 i thought thy disposition better temper'd
 hast thou slain tybalt wilt thou slay thyself
 and stay thy lady too that lives in thee
 by doing damned hate upon thyself
 why rail'st thou on thy birth the heaven and earth
 since birth and heaven and earth all three do meet
 in thee at once which thou at once wouldst lose
 fie fie thou shamest thy shape thy love thy wit
 which like a usurer abound'st in all
 and usest none in that true use indeed
 which should bedeck thy shape thy love thy wit
 thy noble shape is but a form of wax
 digressing from the valour of a man
 thy dear love sworn but hollow perjury
 killing that love which thou hast vow'd to cherish
 thy wit that ornament to shape and love
 misshapen in the conduct of them both
 like powder in a skitless soldier's flask
 is set afire by thine own ignorance
 and thou dismember'd with thine own defence
 what rouse thee man thy juliet is alive
 for whose dear sake thou wast but lately dead
 there art thou happy tybalt would kill thee
 but thou slew'st tybalt there are thou happy too
 the law that threaten'd death becomes thy friend
 and turns it to exile there art thou happy
 a pack of blessings lights up upon thy back
 happiness courts thee in her best array
 but like a misbehaved and sullen wench
 thou pout'st upon thy fortune and thy love
 take heed take heed for such die miserable
 go get thee to thy love as was decreed
 ascend her chamber hence and comfort her
 but look thou stay not till the watch be set
 for then thou canst not pass to mantua
 where thou shalt live till we can find a time
 to blaze your marriage reconcile your friends
 beg pardon of the prince and call thee back
 with twenty hundred thousand times more joy
 than thou went'st forth in lamentation
 go before nurse commend me to thy lady
 and bid her hasten all the house to bed
 which heavy sorrow makes them apt unto
 romeo is coming
nurse o lord i could have stay'd here all the night
 to hear good counsel o what learning is
 my lord i'll tell my lady you will come
romeo do so and bid my sweet prepare to chide
nurse here sir a ring she bid me give you sir
 hie you make haste for it grows very late
 exit
romeo how well my comfort is revived by this
friar laurence go hence good night and here stands all your state
 either be gone before the watch be set
 or by the break of day disguised from hence
 sojourn in mantua i'll find out your man
 and he shall signify from time to time
 every good hap to you that chances here
 give me thy hand tis late farewell good night
romeo but that a joy past joy calls out on me
 it were a grief so brief to part with thee farewell
 exeunt
 romeo and juliet
act iii
scene iv a room in capulet's house
 enter capulet lady capulet and paris
capulet things have fall'n out sir so unluckily
 that we have had no time to move our daughter
 look you she loved her kinsman tybalt dearly
 and so did iwell we were born to die
 tis very late she'll not come down tonight
 i promise you but for your company
 i would have been abed an hour ago
paris these times of woe afford no time to woo
 madam good night commend me to your daughter
lady capulet i will and know her mind early tomorrow
 tonight she is mew'd up to her heaviness
capulet sir paris i will make a desperate tender
 of my child's love i think she will be ruled
 in all respects by me nay more i doubt it not
 wife go you to her ere you go to bed
 acquaint her here of my son paris love
 and bid her mark you me on wednesday next
 but soft what day is this
paris monday my lord
capulet monday ha ha well wednesday is too soon
 o thursday let it be o thursday tell her
 she shall be married to this noble earl
 will you be ready do you like this haste
 we'll keep no great adoa friend or two
 for hark you tybalt being slain so late
 it may be thought we held him carelessly
 being our kinsman if we revel much
 therefore we'll have some half a dozen friends
 and there an end but what say you to thursday
paris my lord i would that thursday were tomorrow
capulet well get you gone o thursday be it then
 go you to juliet ere you go to bed
 prepare her wife against this weddingday
 farewell my lord light to my chamber ho
 afore me it is so very very late
 that we may call it early by and by
 good night
 exeunt
 romeo and juliet
act iii
scene v capulet's orchard
 enter romeo and juliet above at the window
juliet wilt thou be gone it is not yet near day
 it was the nightingale and not the lark
 that pierced the fearful hollow of thine ear
 nightly she sings on yon pomegranatetree
 believe me love it was the nightingale
romeo it was the lark the herald of the morn
 no nightingale look love what envious streaks
 do lace the severing clouds in yonder east
 night's candles are burnt out and jocund day
 stands tiptoe on the misty mountain tops
 i must be gone and live or stay and die
juliet yon light is not daylight i know it i
 it is some meteor that the sun exhales
 to be to thee this night a torchbearer
 and light thee on thy way to mantua
 therefore stay yet thou need'st not to be gone
romeo let me be ta'en let me be put to death
 i am content so thou wilt have it so
 i'll say yon grey is not the morning's eye
 tis but the pale reflex of cynthia's brow
 nor that is not the lark whose notes do beat
 the vaulty heaven so high above our heads
 i have more care to stay than will to go
 come death and welcome juliet wills it so
 how is't my soul let's talk it is not day
juliet it is it is hie hence be gone away
 it is the lark that sings so out of tune
 straining harsh discords and unpleasing sharps
 some say the lark makes sweet division
 this doth not so for she divideth us
 some say the lark and loathed toad change eyes
 o now i would they had changed voices too
 since arm from arm that voice doth us affray
 hunting thee hence with hunt'sup to the day
 o now be gone more light and light it grows
romeo more light and light more dark and dark our woes
 enter nurse to the chamber
nurse madam
juliet nurse
nurse your lady mother is coming to your chamber
 the day is broke be wary look about
 exit
juliet then window let day in and let life out
romeo farewell farewell one kiss and i'll descend
 he goeth down
juliet art thou gone so love lord ay husband friend
 i must hear from thee every day in the hour
 for in a minute there are many days
 o by this count i shall be much in years
 ere i again behold my romeo
romeo farewell
 i will omit no opportunity
 that may convey my greetings love to thee
juliet o think'st thou we shall ever meet again
romeo i doubt it not and all these woes shall serve
 for sweet discourses in our time to come
juliet o god i have an illdivining soul
 methinks i see thee now thou art below
 as one dead in the bottom of a tomb
 either my eyesight fails or thou look'st pale
romeo and trust me love in my eye so do you
 dry sorrow drinks our blood adieu adieu
 exit
juliet o fortune fortune all men call thee fickle
 if thou art fickle what dost thou with him
 that is renown'd for faith be fickle fortune
 for then i hope thou wilt not keep him long
 but send him back
lady capulet within ho daughter are you up
juliet who is't that calls is it my lady mother
 is she not down so late or up so early
 what unaccustom'd cause procures her hither
 enter lady capulet
lady capulet why how now juliet
juliet madam i am not well
lady capulet evermore weeping for your cousin's death
 what wilt thou wash him from his grave with tears
 an if thou couldst thou couldst not make him live
 therefore have done some grief shows much of love
 but much of grief shows still some want of wit
juliet yet let me weep for such a feeling loss
lady capulet so shall you feel the loss but not the friend
 which you weep for
juliet feeling so the loss
 cannot choose but ever weep the friend
lady capulet well girl thou weep'st not so much for his death
 as that the villain lives which slaughter'd him
juliet what villain madam
lady capulet that same villain romeo
juliet aside villain and he be many miles asunder
 god pardon him i do with all my heart
 and yet no man like he doth grieve my heart
lady capulet that is because the traitor murderer lives
juliet ay madam from the reach of these my hands
 would none but i might venge my cousin's death
lady capulet we will have vengeance for it fear thou not
 then weep no more i'll send to one in mantua
 where that same banish'd runagate doth live
 shall give him such an unaccustom'd dram
 that he shall soon keep tybalt company
 and then i hope thou wilt be satisfied
juliet indeed i never shall be satisfied
 with romeo till i behold himdead
 is my poor heart for a kinsman vex'd
 madam if you could find out but a man
 to bear a poison i would temper it
 that romeo should upon receipt thereof
 soon sleep in quiet o how my heart abhors
 to hear him named and cannot come to him
 to wreak the love i bore my cousin
 upon his body that slaughter'd him
lady capulet find thou the means and i'll find such a man
 but now i'll tell thee joyful tidings girl
juliet and joy comes well in such a needy time
 what are they i beseech your ladyship
lady capulet well well thou hast a careful father child
 one who to put thee from thy heaviness
 hath sorted out a sudden day of joy
 that thou expect'st not nor i look'd not for
juliet madam in happy time what day is that
lady capulet marry my child early next thursday morn
 the gallant young and noble gentleman
 the county paris at saint peter's church
 shall happily make thee there a joyful bride
juliet now by saint peter's church and peter too
 he shall not make me there a joyful bride
 i wonder at this haste that i must wed
 ere he that should be husband comes to woo
 i pray you tell my lord and father madam
 i will not marry yet and when i do i swear
 it shall be romeo whom you know i hate
 rather than paris these are news indeed
lady capulet here comes your father tell him so yourself
 and see how he will take it at your hands
 enter capulet and nurse
capulet when the sun sets the air doth drizzle dew
 but for the sunset of my brother's son
 it rains downright
 how now a conduit girl what still in tears
 evermore showering in one little body
 thou counterfeit'st a bark a sea a wind
 for still thy eyes which i may call the sea
 do ebb and flow with tears the bark thy body is
 sailing in this salt flood the winds thy sighs
 who raging with thy tears and they with them
 without a sudden calm will overset
 thy tempesttossed body how now wife
 have you deliver'd to her our decree
lady capulet ay sir but she will none she gives you thanks
 i would the fool were married to her grave
capulet soft take me with you take me with you wife
 how will she none doth she not give us thanks
 is she not proud doth she not count her blest
 unworthy as she is that we have wrought
 so worthy a gentleman to be her bridegroom
juliet not proud you have but thankful that you have
 proud can i never be of what i hate
 but thankful even for hate that is meant love
capulet how now how now choplogic what is this
 proud and i thank you and i thank you not'
 and yet not proud mistress minion you
 thank me no thankings nor proud me no prouds
 but fettle your fine joints gainst thursday next
 to go with paris to saint peter's church
 or i will drag thee on a hurdle thither
 out you greensickness carrion out you baggage
 you tallowface
lady capulet fie fie what are you mad
juliet good father i beseech you on my knees
 hear me with patience but to speak a word
capulet hang thee young baggage disobedient wretch
 i tell thee what get thee to church o thursday
 or never after look me in the face
 speak not reply not do not answer me
 my fingers itch wife we scarce thought us blest
 that god had lent us but this only child
 but now i see this one is one too much
 and that we have a curse in having her
 out on her hilding
nurse god in heaven bless her
 you are to blame my lord to rate her so
capulet and why my lady wisdom hold your tongue
 good prudence smatter with your gossips go
nurse i speak no treason
capulet o god ye godden
nurse may not one speak
capulet peace you mumbling fool
 utter your gravity o'er a gossip's bowl
 for here we need it not
lady capulet you are too hot
capulet god's bread it makes me mad
 day night hour tide time work play
 alone in company still my care hath been
 to have her match'd and having now provided
 a gentleman of noble parentage
 of fair demesnes youthful and nobly train'd
 stuff'd as they say with honourable parts
 proportion'd as one's thought would wish a man
 and then to have a wretched puling fool
 a whining mammet in her fortune's tender
 to answer i'll not wed i cannot love
 i am too young i pray you pardon me'
 but as you will not wed i'll pardon you
 graze where you will you shall not house with me
 look to't think on't i do not use to jest
 thursday is near lay hand on heart advise
 an you be mine i'll give you to my friend
 and you be not hang beg starve die in
 the streets
 for by my soul i'll ne'er acknowledge thee
 nor what is mine shall never do thee good
 trust to't bethink you i'll not be forsworn
 exit
juliet is there no pity sitting in the clouds
 that sees into the bottom of my grief
 o sweet my mother cast me not away
 delay this marriage for a month a week
 or if you do not make the bridal bed
 in that dim monument where tybalt lies
lady capulet talk not to me for i'll not speak a word
 do as thou wilt for i have done with thee
 exit
juliet o godo nurse how shall this be prevented
 my husband is on earth my faith in heaven
 how shall that faith return again to earth
 unless that husband send it me from heaven
 by leaving earth comfort me counsel me
 alack alack that heaven should practise stratagems
 upon so soft a subject as myself
 what say'st thou hast thou not a word of joy
 some comfort nurse
nurse faith here it is
 romeo is banish'd and all the world to nothing
 that he dares ne'er come back to challenge you
 or if he do it needs must be by stealth
 then since the case so stands as now it doth
 i think it best you married with the county
 o he's a lovely gentleman
 romeo's a dishclout to him an eagle madam
 hath not so green so quick so fair an eye
 as paris hath beshrew my very heart
 i think you are happy in this second match
 for it excels your first or if it did not
 your first is dead or twere as good he were
 as living here and you no use of him
juliet speakest thou from thy heart
nurse and from my soul too
 or else beshrew them both
juliet amen
nurse what
juliet well thou hast comforted me marvellous much
 go in and tell my lady i am gone
 having displeased my father to laurence cell
 to make confession and to be absolved
nurse marry i will and this is wisely done
 exit
juliet ancient damnation o most wicked fiend
 is it more sin to wish me thus forsworn
 or to dispraise my lord with that same tongue
 which she hath praised him with above compare
 so many thousand times go counsellor
 thou and my bosom henceforth shall be twain
 i'll to the friar to know his remedy
 if all else fail myself have power to die
 exit
 romeo and juliet
act iv
scene i friar laurence's cell
 enter friar laurence and paris
friar laurence on thursday sir the time is very short
paris my father capulet will have it so
 and i am nothing slow to slack his haste
friar laurence you say you do not know the lady's mind
 uneven is the course i like it not
paris immoderately she weeps for tybalt's death
 and therefore have i little talk'd of love
 for venus smiles not in a house of tears
 now sir her father counts it dangerous
 that she doth give her sorrow so much sway
 and in his wisdom hastes our marriage
 to stop the inundation of her tears
 which too much minded by herself alone
 may be put from her by society
 now do you know the reason of this haste
friar laurence aside i would i knew not why it should be slow'd
 look sir here comes the lady towards my cell
 enter juliet
paris happily met my lady and my wife
juliet that may be sir when i may be a wife
paris that may be must be love on thursday next
juliet what must be shall be
friar laurence that's a certain text
paris come you to make confession to this father
juliet to answer that i should confess to you
paris do not deny to him that you love me
juliet i will confess to you that i love him
paris so will ye i am sure that you love me
juliet if i do so it will be of more price
 being spoke behind your back than to your face
paris poor soul thy face is much abused with tears
juliet the tears have got small victory by that
 for it was bad enough before their spite
paris thou wrong'st it more than tears with that report
juliet that is no slander sir which is a truth
 and what i spake i spake it to my face
paris thy face is mine and thou hast slander'd it
juliet it may be so for it is not mine own
 are you at leisure holy father now
 or shall i come to you at evening mass
friar laurence my leisure serves me pensive daughter now
 my lord we must entreat the time alone
paris god shield i should disturb devotion
 juliet on thursday early will i rouse ye
 till then adieu and keep this holy kiss
 exit
juliet o shut the door and when thou hast done so
 come weep with me past hope past cure past help
friar laurence ah juliet i already know thy grief
 it strains me past the compass of my wits
 i hear thou must and nothing may prorogue it
 on thursday next be married to this county
juliet tell me not friar that thou hear'st of this
 unless thou tell me how i may prevent it
 if in thy wisdom thou canst give no help
 do thou but call my resolution wise
 and with this knife i'll help it presently
 god join'd my heart and romeo's thou our hands
 and ere this hand by thee to romeo seal'd
 shall be the label to another deed
 or my true heart with treacherous revolt
 turn to another this shall slay them both
 therefore out of thy longexperienced time
 give me some present counsel or behold
 twixt my extremes and me this bloody knife
 shall play the umpire arbitrating that
 which the commission of thy years and art
 could to no issue of true honour bring
 be not so long to speak i long to die
 if what thou speak'st speak not of remedy
friar laurence hold daughter i do spy a kind of hope
 which craves as desperate an execution
 as that is desperate which we would prevent
 if rather than to marry county paris
 thou hast the strength of will to slay thyself
 then is it likely thou wilt undertake
 a thing like death to chide away this shame
 that copest with death himself to scape from it
 and if thou darest i'll give thee remedy
juliet o bid me leap rather than marry paris
 from off the battlements of yonder tower
 or walk in thievish ways or bid me lurk
 where serpents are chain me with roaring bears
 or shut me nightly in a charnelhouse
 o'ercover'd quite with dead men's rattling bones
 with reeky shanks and yellow chapless skulls
 or bid me go into a newmade grave
 and hide me with a dead man in his shroud
 things that to hear them told have made me tremble
 and i will do it without fear or doubt
 to live an unstain'd wife to my sweet love
friar laurence hold then go home be merry give consent
 to marry paris wednesday is tomorrow
 tomorrow night look that thou lie alone
 let not thy nurse lie with thee in thy chamber
 take thou this vial being then in bed
 and this distilled liquor drink thou off
 when presently through all thy veins shall run
 a cold and drowsy humour for no pulse
 shall keep his native progress but surcease
 no warmth no breath shall testify thou livest
 the roses in thy lips and cheeks shall fade
 to paly ashes thy eyes windows fall
 like death when he shuts up the day of life
 each part deprived of supple government
 shall stiff and stark and cold appear like death
 and in this borrow'd likeness of shrunk death
 thou shalt continue two and forty hours
 and then awake as from a pleasant sleep
 now when the bridegroom in the morning comes
 to rouse thee from thy bed there art thou dead
 then as the manner of our country is
 in thy best robes uncover'd on the bier
 thou shalt be borne to that same ancient vault
 where all the kindred of the capulets lie
 in the mean time against thou shalt awake
 shall romeo by my letters know our drift
 and hither shall he come and he and i
 will watch thy waking and that very night
 shall romeo bear thee hence to mantua
 and this shall free thee from this present shame
 if no inconstant toy nor womanish fear
 abate thy valour in the acting it
juliet give me give me o tell not me of fear
friar laurence hold get you gone be strong and prosperous
 in this resolve i'll send a friar with speed
 to mantua with my letters to thy lord
juliet love give me strength and strength shall help afford
 farewell dear father
 exeunt
 romeo and juliet
act iv
scene ii hall in capulet's house
 enter capulet lady capulet nurse and two
 servingmen
capulet so many guests invite as here are writ
 exit first servant
 sirrah go hire me twenty cunning cooks
second servant you shall have none ill sir for i'll try if they
 can lick their fingers
capulet how canst thou try them so
second servant marry sir tis an ill cook that cannot lick his
 own fingers therefore he that cannot lick his
 fingers goes not with me
capulet go be gone
 exit second servant
 we shall be much unfurnished for this time
 what is my daughter gone to friar laurence
nurse ay forsooth
capulet well he may chance to do some good on her
 a peevish selfwill'd harlotry it is
nurse see where she comes from shrift with merry look
 enter juliet
capulet how now my headstrong where have you been gadding
juliet where i have learn'd me to repent the sin
 of disobedient opposition
 to you and your behests and am enjoin'd
 by holy laurence to fall prostrate here
 and beg your pardon pardon i beseech you
 henceforward i am ever ruled by you
capulet send for the county go tell him of this
 i'll have this knot knit up tomorrow morning
juliet i met the youthful lord at laurence cell
 and gave him what becomed love i might
 not step o'er the bounds of modesty
capulet why i am glad on't this is well stand up
 this is as't should be let me see the county
 ay marry go i say and fetch him hither
 now afore god this reverend holy friar
 our whole city is much bound to him
juliet nurse will you go with me into my closet
 to help me sort such needful ornaments
 as you think fit to furnish me tomorrow
lady capulet no not till thursday there is time enough
capulet go nurse go with her we'll to church tomorrow
 exeunt juliet and nurse
lady capulet we shall be short in our provision
 tis now near night
capulet tush i will stir about
 and all things shall be well i warrant thee wife
 go thou to juliet help to deck up her
 i'll not to bed tonight let me alone
 i'll play the housewife for this once what ho
 they are all forth well i will walk myself
 to county paris to prepare him up
 against tomorrow my heart is wondrous light
 since this same wayward girl is so reclaim'd
 exeunt
 romeo and juliet
act iv
scene iii juliet's chamber
 enter juliet and nurse
juliet ay those attires are best but gentle nurse
 i pray thee leave me to myself tonight
 for i have need of many orisons
 to move the heavens to smile upon my state
 which well thou know'st is cross and full of sin
 enter lady capulet
lady capulet what are you busy ho need you my help
juliet no madam we have cull'd such necessaries
 as are behoveful for our state tomorrow
 so please you let me now be left alone
 and let the nurse this night sit up with you
 for i am sure you have your hands full all
 in this so sudden business
lady capulet good night
 get thee to bed and rest for thou hast need
 exeunt lady capulet and nurse
juliet farewell god knows when we shall meet again
 i have a faint cold fear thrills through my veins
 that almost freezes up the heat of life
 i'll call them back again to comfort me
 nurse what should she do here
 my dismal scene i needs must act alone
 come vial
 what if this mixture do not work at all
 shall i be married then tomorrow morning
 no no this shall forbid it lie thou there
 laying down her dagger
 what if it be a poison which the friar
 subtly hath minister'd to have me dead
 lest in this marriage he should be dishonour'd
 because he married me before to romeo
 i fear it is and yet methinks it should not
 for he hath still been tried a holy man
 how if when i am laid into the tomb
 i wake before the time that romeo
 come to redeem me there's a fearful point
 shall i not then be stifled in the vault
 to whose foul mouth no healthsome air breathes in
 and there die strangled ere my romeo comes
 or if i live is it not very like
 the horrible conceit of death and night
 together with the terror of the place
 as in a vault an ancient receptacle
 where for these many hundred years the bones
 of all my buried ancestors are packed
 where bloody tybalt yet but green in earth
 lies festering in his shroud where as they say
 at some hours in the night spirits resort
 alack alack is it not like that i
 so early waking what with loathsome smells
 and shrieks like mandrakes torn out of the earth
 that living mortals hearing them run mad
 o if i wake shall i not be distraught
 environed with all these hideous fears
 and madly play with my forefather's joints
 and pluck the mangled tybalt from his shroud
 and in this rage with some great kinsman's bone
 as with a club dash out my desperate brains
 o look methinks i see my cousin's ghost
 seeking out romeo that did spit his body
 upon a rapier's point stay tybalt stay
 romeo i come this do i drink to thee
 she falls upon her bed within the curtains
 romeo and juliet
act iv
scene iv hall in capulet's house
 enter lady capulet and nurse
lady capulet hold take these keys and fetch more spices nurse
nurse they call for dates and quinces in the pastry
 enter capulet
capulet come stir stir stir the second cock hath crow'd
 the curfewbell hath rung tis three o'clock
 look to the baked meats good angelica
 spare not for the cost
nurse go you cotquean go
 get you to bed faith you'll be sick tomorrow
 for this night's watching
capulet no not a whit what i have watch'd ere now
 all night for lesser cause and ne'er been sick
lady capulet ay you have been a mousehunt in your time
 but i will watch you from such watching now
 exeunt lady capulet and nurse
capulet a jealous hood a jealous hood
 enter three or four servingmen with spits logs
 and baskets
 now fellow
 what's there
first servant things for the cook sir but i know not what
capulet make haste make haste
 exit first servant
 sirrah fetch drier logs
 call peter he will show thee where they are
second servant i have a head sir that will find out logs
 and never trouble peter for the matter
 exit
capulet mass and well said a merry whoreson ha
 thou shalt be loggerhead good faith tis day
 the county will be here with music straight
 for so he said he would i hear him near
 music within
 nurse wife what ho what nurse i say
 reenter nurse
 go waken juliet go and trim her up
 i'll go and chat with paris hie make haste
 make haste the bridegroom he is come already
 make haste i say
 exeunt
 romeo and juliet
act iv
scene v juliet's chamber
 enter nurse
nurse mistress what mistress juliet fast i warrant her she
 why lamb why lady fie you slugabed
 why love i say madam sweetheart why bride
 what not a word you take your pennyworths now
 sleep for a week for the next night i warrant
 the county paris hath set up his rest
 that you shall rest but little god forgive me
 marry and amen how sound is she asleep
 i must needs wake her madam madam madam
 ay let the county take you in your bed
 he'll fright you up i faith will it not be
 undraws the curtains
 what dress'd and in your clothes and down again
 i must needs wake you lady lady lady
 alas alas help help my lady's dead
 o welladay that ever i was born
 some aqua vitae ho my lord my lady
 enter lady capulet
lady capulet what noise is here
nurse o lamentable day
lady capulet what is the matter
nurse look look o heavy day
lady capulet o me o me my child my only life
 revive look up or i will die with thee
 help help call help
 enter capulet
capulet for shame bring juliet forth her lord is come
nurse she's dead deceased she's dead alack the day
lady capulet alack the day she's dead she's dead she's dead
capulet ha let me see her out alas she's cold
 her blood is settled and her joints are stiff
 life and these lips have long been separated
 death lies on her like an untimely frost
 upon the sweetest flower of all the field
nurse o lamentable day
lady capulet o woful time
capulet death that hath ta'en her hence to make me wail
 ties up my tongue and will not let me speak
 enter friar laurence and paris with musicians
friar laurence come is the bride ready to go to church
capulet ready to go but never to return
 o son the night before thy weddingday
 hath death lain with thy wife there she lies
 flower as she was deflowered by him
 death is my soninlaw death is my heir
 my daughter he hath wedded i will die
 and leave him all life living all is death's
paris have i thought long to see this morning's face
 and doth it give me such a sight as this
lady capulet accursed unhappy wretched hateful day
 most miserable hour that e'er time saw
 in lasting labour of his pilgrimage
 but one poor one one poor and loving child
 but one thing to rejoice and solace in
 and cruel death hath catch'd it from my sight
nurse o woe o woful woful woful day
 most lamentable day most woful day
 that ever ever i did yet behold
 o day o day o day o hateful day
 never was seen so black a day as this
 o woful day o woful day
paris beguiled divorced wronged spited slain
 most detestable death by thee beguil'd
 by cruel cruel thee quite overthrown
 o love o life not life but love in death
capulet despised distressed hated martyr'd kill'd
 uncomfortable time why camest thou now
 to murder murder our solemnity
 o child o child my soul and not my child
 dead art thou alack my child is dead
 and with my child my joys are buried
friar laurence peace ho for shame confusion's cure lives not
 in these confusions heaven and yourself
 had part in this fair maid now heaven hath all
 and all the better is it for the maid
 your part in her you could not keep from death
 but heaven keeps his part in eternal life
 the most you sought was her promotion
 for twas your heaven she should be advanced
 and weep ye now seeing she is advanced
 above the clouds as high as heaven itself
 o in this love you love your child so ill
 that you run mad seeing that she is well
 she's not well married that lives married long
 but she's best married that dies married young
 dry up your tears and stick your rosemary
 on this fair corse and as the custom is
 in all her best array bear her to church
 for though fond nature bids us an lament
 yet nature's tears are reason's merriment
capulet all things that we ordained festival
 turn from their office to black funeral
 our instruments to melancholy bells
 our wedding cheer to a sad burial feast
 our solemn hymns to sullen dirges change
 our bridal flowers serve for a buried corse
 and all things change them to the contrary
friar laurence sir go you in and madam go with him
 and go sir paris every one prepare
 to follow this fair corse unto her grave
 the heavens do lour upon you for some ill
 move them no more by crossing their high will
 exeunt capulet lady capulet paris and friar laurence
first musician faith we may put up our pipes and be gone
nurse honest goodfellows ah put up put up
 for well you know this is a pitiful case
 exit
first musician ay by my troth the case may be amended
 enter peter
peter musicians o musicians heart's ease heart's
 ease o an you will have me live play heart's ease'
first musician why heart's ease'
peter o musicians because my heart itself plays my
 heart is full of woe o play me some merry dump
 to comfort me
first musician not a dump we tis no time to play now
peter you will not then
first musician no
peter i will then give it you soundly
first musician what will you give us
peter no money on my faith but the gleek
 i will give you the minstrel
first musician then i will give you the servingcreature
peter then will i lay the servingcreature's dagger on
 your pate i will carry no crotchets i'll re you
 i'll fa you do you note me
first musician an you re us and fa us you note us
second musician pray you put up your dagger and put out your wit
peter then have at you with my wit i will drybeat you
 with an iron wit and put up my iron dagger answer
 me like men
 when griping grief the heart doth wound
 and doleful dumps the mind oppress
 then music with her silver sound'
 why silver sound why music with her silver
 sound what say you simon catling
musician marry sir because silver hath a sweet sound
peter pretty what say you hugh rebeck
second musician i say silver sound because musicians sound for silver
peter pretty too what say you james soundpost
third musician faith i know not what to say
peter o i cry you mercy you are the singer i will say
 for you it is music with her silver sound'
 because musicians have no gold for sounding
 then music with her silver sound
 with speedy help doth lend redress'
 exit
first musician what a pestilent knave is this same
second musician hang him jack come we'll in here tarry for the
 mourners and stay dinner
 exeunt
 romeo and juliet
act v
scene i mantua a street
 enter romeo
romeo if i may trust the flattering truth of sleep
 my dreams presage some joyful news at hand
 my bosom's lord sits lightly in his throne
 and all this day an unaccustom'd spirit
 lifts me above the ground with cheerful thoughts
 i dreamt my lady came and found me dead
 strange dream that gives a dead man leave
 to think
 and breathed such life with kisses in my lips
 that i revived and was an emperor
 ah me how sweet is love itself possess'd
 when but love's shadows are so rich in joy
 enter balthasar booted
 news from veronahow now balthasar
 dost thou not bring me letters from the friar
 how doth my lady is my father well
 how fares my juliet that i ask again
 for nothing can be ill if she be well
balthasar then she is well and nothing can be ill
 her body sleeps in capel's monument
 and her immortal part with angels lives
 i saw her laid low in her kindred's vault
 and presently took post to tell it you
 o pardon me for bringing these ill news
 since you did leave it for my office sir
romeo is it even so then i defy you stars
 thou know'st my lodging get me ink and paper
 and hire posthorses i will hence tonight
balthasar i do beseech you sir have patience
 your looks are pale and wild and do import
 some misadventure
romeo tush thou art deceived
 leave me and do the thing i bid thee do
 hast thou no letters to me from the friar
balthasar no my good lord
romeo no matter get thee gone
 and hire those horses i'll be with thee straight
 exit balthasar
 well juliet i will lie with thee tonight
 let's see for means o mischief thou art swift
 to enter in the thoughts of desperate men
 i do remember an apothecary
 and hereabouts he dwellswhich late i noted
 in tatter'd weeds with overwhelming brows
 culling of simples meagre were his looks
 sharp misery had worn him to the bones
 and in his needy shop a tortoise hung
 an alligator stuff'd and other skins
 of illshaped fishes and about his shelves
 a beggarly account of empty boxes
 green earthen pots bladders and musty seeds
 remnants of packthread and old cakes of roses
 were thinly scatter'd to make up a show
 noting this penury to myself i said
 an if a man did need a poison now
 whose sale is present death in mantua
 here lives a caitiff wretch would sell it him'
 o this same thought did but forerun my need
 and this same needy man must sell it me
 as i remember this should be the house
 being holiday the beggar's shop is shut
 what ho apothecary
 enter apothecary
apothecary who calls so loud
romeo come hither man i see that thou art poor
 hold there is forty ducats let me have
 a dram of poison such soonspeeding gear
 as will disperse itself through all the veins
 that the lifeweary taker may fall dead
 and that the trunk may be discharged of breath
 as violently as hasty powder fired
 doth hurry from the fatal cannon's womb
apothecary such mortal drugs i have but mantua's law
 is death to any he that utters them
romeo art thou so bare and full of wretchedness
 and fear'st to die famine is in thy cheeks
 need and oppression starveth in thine eyes
 contempt and beggary hangs upon thy back
 the world is not thy friend nor the world's law
 the world affords no law to make thee rich
 then be not poor but break it and take this
apothecary my poverty but not my will consents
romeo i pay thy poverty and not thy will
apothecary put this in any liquid thing you will
 and drink it off and if you had the strength
 of twenty men it would dispatch you straight
romeo there is thy gold worse poison to men's souls
 doing more murders in this loathsome world
 than these poor compounds that thou mayst not sell
 i sell thee poison thou hast sold me none
 farewell buy food and get thyself in flesh
 come cordial and not poison go with me
 to juliet's grave for there must i use thee
 exeunt
 romeo and juliet
act v
scene ii friar laurence's cell
 enter friar john
friar john holy franciscan friar brother ho
 enter friar laurence
friar laurence this same should be the voice of friar john
 welcome from mantua what says romeo
 or if his mind be writ give me his letter
friar john going to find a barefoot brother out
 one of our order to associate me
 here in this city visiting the sick
 and finding him the searchers of the town
 suspecting that we both were in a house
 where the infectious pestilence did reign
 seal'd up the doors and would not let us forth
 so that my speed to mantua there was stay'd
friar laurence who bare my letter then to romeo
friar john i could not send ithere it is again
 nor get a messenger to bring it thee
 so fearful were they of infection
friar laurence unhappy fortune by my brotherhood
 the letter was not nice but full of charge
 of dear import and the neglecting it
 may do much danger friar john go hence
 get me an iron crow and bring it straight
 unto my cell
friar john brother i'll go and bring it thee
 exit
friar laurence now must i to the monument alone
 within three hours will fair juliet wake
 she will beshrew me much that romeo
 hath had no notice of these accidents
 but i will write again to mantua
 and keep her at my cell till romeo come
 poor living corse closed in a dead man's tomb
 exit
 romeo and juliet
act v
scene iii a churchyard in it a tomb belonging to the capulets
 enter paris and his page bearing flowers and a torch
paris give me thy torch boy hence and stand aloof
 yet put it out for i would not be seen
 under yond yewtrees lay thee all along
 holding thine ear close to the hollow ground
 so shall no foot upon the churchyard tread
 being loose unfirm with digging up of graves
 but thou shalt hear it whistle then to me
 as signal that thou hear'st something approach
 give me those flowers do as i bid thee go
page aside i am almost afraid to stand alone
 here in the churchyard yet i will adventure
 retires
paris sweet flower with flowers thy bridal bed i strew
 o woe thy canopy is dust and stones
 which with sweet water nightly i will dew
 or wanting that with tears distill'd by moans
 the obsequies that i for thee will keep
 nightly shall be to strew thy grave and weep
 the page whistles
 the boy gives warning something doth approach
 what cursed foot wanders this way tonight
 to cross my obsequies and true love's rite
 what with a torch muffle me night awhile
 retires
 enter romeo and balthasar with a torch
 mattock &c
romeo give me that mattock and the wrenching iron
 hold take this letter early in the morning
 see thou deliver it to my lord and father
 give me the light upon thy life i charge thee
 whate'er thou hear'st or seest stand all aloof
 and do not interrupt me in my course
 why i descend into this bed of death
 is partly to behold my lady's face
 but chiefly to take thence from her dead finger
 a precious ring a ring that i must use
 in dear employment therefore hence be gone
 but if thou jealous dost return to pry
 in what i further shall intend to do
 by heaven i will tear thee joint by joint
 and strew this hungry churchyard with thy limbs
 the time and my intents are savagewild
 more fierce and more inexorable far
 than empty tigers or the roaring sea
balthasar i will be gone sir and not trouble you
romeo so shalt thou show me friendship take thou that
 live and be prosperous and farewell good fellow
balthasar aside for all this same i'll hide me hereabout
 his looks i fear and his intents i doubt
 retires
romeo thou detestable maw thou womb of death
 gorged with the dearest morsel of the earth
 thus i enforce thy rotten jaws to open
 and in despite i'll cram thee with more food
 opens the tomb
paris this is that banish'd haughty montague
 that murder'd my love's cousin with which grief
 it is supposed the fair creature died
 and here is come to do some villanous shame
 to the dead bodies i will apprehend him
 comes forward
 stop thy unhallow'd toil vile montague
 can vengeance be pursued further than death
 condemned villain i do apprehend thee
 obey and go with me for thou must die
romeo i must indeed and therefore came i hither
 good gentle youth tempt not a desperate man
 fly hence and leave me think upon these gone
 let them affright thee i beseech thee youth
 put not another sin upon my head
 by urging me to fury o be gone
 by heaven i love thee better than myself
 for i come hither arm'd against myself
 stay not be gone live and hereafter say
 a madman's mercy bade thee run away
paris i do defy thy conjurations
 and apprehend thee for a felon here
romeo wilt thou provoke me then have at thee boy
 they fight
page o lord they fight i will go call the watch
 exit
paris o i am slain
 falls
 if thou be merciful
 open the tomb lay me with juliet
 dies
romeo in faith i will let me peruse this face
 mercutio's kinsman noble county paris
 what said my man when my betossed soul
 did not attend him as we rode i think
 he told me paris should have married juliet
 said he not so or did i dream it so
 or am i mad hearing him talk of juliet
 to think it was so o give me thy hand
 one writ with me in sour misfortune's book
 i'll bury thee in a triumphant grave
 a grave o no a lantern slaughter'd youth
 for here lies juliet and her beauty makes
 this vault a feasting presence full of light
 death lie thou there by a dead man interr'd
 laying paris in the tomb
 how oft when men are at the point of death
 have they been merry which their keepers call
 a lightning before death o how may i
 call this a lightning o my love my wife
 death that hath suck'd the honey of thy breath
 hath had no power yet upon thy beauty
 thou art not conquer'd beauty's ensign yet
 is crimson in thy lips and in thy cheeks
 and death's pale flag is not advanced there
 tybalt liest thou there in thy bloody sheet
 o what more favour can i do to thee
 than with that hand that cut thy youth in twain
 to sunder his that was thine enemy
 forgive me cousin ah dear juliet
 why art thou yet so fair shall i believe
 that unsubstantial death is amorous
 and that the lean abhorred monster keeps
 thee here in dark to be his paramour
 for fear of that i still will stay with thee
 and never from this palace of dim night
 depart again here here will i remain
 with worms that are thy chambermaids o here
 will i set up my everlasting rest
 and shake the yoke of inauspicious stars
 from this worldwearied flesh eyes look your last
 arms take your last embrace and lips o you
 the doors of breath seal with a righteous kiss
 a dateless bargain to engrossing death
 come bitter conduct come unsavoury guide
 thou desperate pilot now at once run on
 the dashing rocks thy seasick weary bark
 here's to my love
 drinks
 o true apothecary
 thy drugs are quick thus with a kiss i die
 dies
 enter at the other end of the churchyard friar
 laurence with a lantern crow and spade
friar laurence saint francis be my speed how oft tonight
 have my old feet stumbled at graves who's there
balthasar here's one a friend and one that knows you well
friar laurence bliss be upon you tell me good my friend
 what torch is yond that vainly lends his light
 to grubs and eyeless skulls as i discern
 it burneth in the capel's monument
balthasar it doth so holy sir and there's my master
 one that you love
friar laurence who is it
balthasar romeo
friar laurence how long hath he been there
balthasar full half an hour
friar laurence go with me to the vault
balthasar i dare not sir
 my master knows not but i am gone hence
 and fearfully did menace me with death
 if i did stay to look on his intents
friar laurence stay then i'll go alone fear comes upon me
 o much i fear some ill unlucky thing
balthasar as i did sleep under this yewtree here
 i dreamt my master and another fought
 and that my master slew him
friar laurence romeo
 advances
 alack alack what blood is this which stains
 the stony entrance of this sepulchre
 what mean these masterless and gory swords
 to lie discolour'd by this place of peace
 enters the tomb
 romeo o pale who else what paris too
 and steep'd in blood ah what an unkind hour
 is guilty of this lamentable chance
 the lady stirs
 juliet wakes
juliet o comfortable friar where is my lord
 i do remember well where i should be
 and there i am where is my romeo
 noise within
friar laurence i hear some noise lady come from that nest
 of death contagion and unnatural sleep
 a greater power than we can contradict
 hath thwarted our intents come come away
 thy husband in thy bosom there lies dead
 and paris too come i'll dispose of thee
 among a sisterhood of holy nuns
 stay not to question for the watch is coming
 come go good juliet
 noise again
 i dare no longer stay
juliet go get thee hence for i will not away
 exit friar laurence
 what's here a cup closed in my true love's hand
 poison i see hath been his timeless end
 o churl drunk all and left no friendly drop
 to help me after i will kiss thy lips
 haply some poison yet doth hang on them
 to make die with a restorative
 kisses him
 thy lips are warm
first watchman within lead boy which way
juliet yea noise then i'll be brief o happy dagger
 snatching romeo's dagger
 this is thy sheath
 stabs herself
 there rust and let me die
 falls on romeo's body and dies
 enter watch with the page of paris
page this is the place there where the torch doth burn
first watchman the ground is bloody search about the churchyard
 go some of you whoe'er you find attach
 pitiful sight here lies the county slain
 and juliet bleeding warm and newly dead
 who here hath lain these two days buried
 go tell the prince run to the capulets
 raise up the montagues some others search
 we see the ground whereon these woes do lie
 but the true ground of all these piteous woes
 we cannot without circumstance descry
 reenter some of the watch with balthasar
second watchman here's romeo's man we found him in the churchyard
first watchman hold him in safety till the prince come hither
 reenter others of the watch with friar laurence
third watchman here is a friar that trembles sighs and weeps
 we took this mattock and this spade from him
 as he was coming from this churchyard side
first watchman a great suspicion stay the friar too
 enter the prince and attendants
prince what misadventure is so early up
 that calls our person from our morning's rest
 enter capulet lady capulet and others
capulet what should it be that they so shriek abroad
lady capulet the people in the street cry romeo
 some juliet and some paris and all run
 with open outcry toward our monument
prince what fear is this which startles in our ears
first watchman sovereign here lies the county paris slain
 and romeo dead and juliet dead before
 warm and new kill'd
prince search seek and know how this foul murder comes
first watchman here is a friar and slaughter'd romeo's man
 with instruments upon them fit to open
 these dead men's tombs
capulet o heavens o wife look how our daughter bleeds
 this dagger hath mista'enfor lo his house
 is empty on the back of montague
 and it missheathed in my daughter's bosom
lady capulet o me this sight of death is as a bell
 that warns my old age to a sepulchre
 enter montague and others
prince come montague for thou art early up
 to see thy son and heir more early down
montague alas my liege my wife is dead tonight
 grief of my son's exile hath stopp'd her breath
 what further woe conspires against mine age
prince look and thou shalt see
montague o thou untaught what manners is in this
 to press before thy father to a grave
prince seal up the mouth of outrage for a while
 till we can clear these ambiguities
 and know their spring their head their
 true descent
 and then will i be general of your woes
 and lead you even to death meantime forbear
 and let mischance be slave to patience
 bring forth the parties of suspicion
friar laurence i am the greatest able to do least
 yet most suspected as the time and place
 doth make against me of this direful murder
 and here i stand both to impeach and purge
 myself condemned and myself excused
prince then say at once what thou dost know in this
friar laurence i will be brief for my short date of breath
 is not so long as is a tedious tale
 romeo there dead was husband to that juliet
 and she there dead that romeo's faithful wife
 i married them and their stol'n marriageday
 was tybalt's doomsday whose untimely death
 banish'd the newmade bridegroom from the city
 for whom and not for tybalt juliet pined
 you to remove that siege of grief from her
 betroth'd and would have married her perforce
 to county paris then comes she to me
 and with wild looks bid me devise some mean
 to rid her from this second marriage
 or in my cell there would she kill herself
 then gave i her so tutor'd by my art
 a sleeping potion which so took effect
 as i intended for it wrought on her
 the form of death meantime i writ to romeo
 that he should hither come as this dire night
 to help to take her from her borrow'd grave
 being the time the potion's force should cease
 but he which bore my letter friar john
 was stay'd by accident and yesternight
 return'd my letter back then all alone
 at the prefixed hour of her waking
 came i to take her from her kindred's vault
 meaning to keep her closely at my cell
 till i conveniently could send to romeo
 but when i came some minute ere the time
 of her awaking here untimely lay
 the noble paris and true romeo dead
 she wakes and i entreated her come forth
 and bear this work of heaven with patience
 but then a noise did scare me from the tomb
 and she too desperate would not go with me
 but as it seems did violence on herself
 all this i know and to the marriage
 her nurse is privy and if aught in this
 miscarried by my fault let my old life
 be sacrificed some hour before his time
 unto the rigour of severest law
prince we still have known thee for a holy man
 where's romeo's man what can he say in this
balthasar i brought my master news of juliet's death
 and then in post he came from mantua
 to this same place to this same monument
 this letter he early bid me give his father
 and threatened me with death going in the vault
 i departed not and left him there
prince give me the letter i will look on it
 where is the county's page that raised the watch
 sirrah what made your master in this place
page he came with flowers to strew his lady's grave
 and bid me stand aloof and so i did
 anon comes one with light to ope the tomb
 and by and by my master drew on him
 and then i ran away to call the watch
prince this letter doth make good the friar's words
 their course of love the tidings of her death
 and here he writes that he did buy a poison
 of a poor pothecary and therewithal
 came to this vault to die and lie with juliet
 where be these enemies capulet montague
 see what a scourge is laid upon your hate
 that heaven finds means to kill your joys with love
 and i for winking at your discords too
 have lost a brace of kinsmen all are punish'd
capulet o brother montague give me thy hand
 this is my daughter's jointure for no more
 can i demand
montague but i can give thee more
 for i will raise her statue in pure gold
 that while verona by that name is known
 there shall no figure at such rate be set
 as that of true and faithful juliet
capulet as rich shall romeo's by his lady's lie
 poor sacrifices of our enmity
prince a glooming peace this morning with it brings
 the sun for sorrow will not show his head
 go hence to have more talk of these sad things
 some shall be pardon'd and some punished
 for never was a story of more woe
 than this of juliet and her romeo
 exeunt
 timon of athens
 dramatis personae
timon of athens
lucius 
 
lucullus flattering lords
 
sempronius 
ventidius one of timon's false friends
alcibiades an athenian captain
apemantus a churlish philosopher
flavius steward to timon
 poet painter jeweller and merchant poet
 painter
 jeweller
 merchant
 an old athenian old athenian
flaminius 
 
lucilius servants to timon
 
servilius 
caphis 
 
philotus 
 
titus 
 servants to timon's creditors
lucius 
 
hortensius 
 
and others 
 a page page
 a fool fool
 three strangers
 first stranger
 second stranger
 third stranger
phrynia 
 mistresses to alcibiades
timandra 
 cupid and amazons in the mask cupid
 other lords senators officers soldiers
 banditti and attendants
 first lord
 second lord
 third lord
 fourth lord
 senator
 first senator
 second senator
 third senator
 soldier
 first bandit
 second bandit
 third bandit
 messenger
 servant
 first servant
 second servant
 third servant
 varro's first servant
 varro's second servant
 lucilius servant
scene athens and the neighbouring woods
 timon of athens
act i
scene i athens a hall in timon's house
 enter poet painter jeweller merchant and
 others at several doors
poet good day sir
painter i am glad you're well
poet i have not seen you long how goes the world
painter it wears sir as it grows
poet ay that's well known
 but what particular rarity what strange
 which manifold record not matches see
 magic of bounty all these spirits thy power
 hath conjured to attend i know the merchant
painter i know them both th other's a jeweller
merchant o tis a worthy lord
jeweller nay that's most fix'd
merchant a most incomparable man breathed as it were
 to an untirable and continuate goodness
 he passes
jeweller i have a jewel here
merchant o pray let's see't for the lord timon sir
jeweller if he will touch the estimate but for that
poet reciting to himself when we for recompense have
 praised the vile
 it stains the glory in that happy verse
 which aptly sings the good'
merchant tis a good form
 looking at the jewel
jeweller and rich here is a water look ye
painter you are rapt sir in some work some dedication
 to the great lord
poet a thing slipp'd idly from me
 our poesy is as a gum which oozes
 from whence tis nourish'd the fire i the flint
 shows not till it be struck our gentle flame
 provokes itself and like the current flies
 each bound it chafes what have you there
painter a picture sir when comes your book forth
poet upon the heels of my presentment sir
 let's see your piece
painter tis a good piece
poet so tis this comes off well and excellent
painter indifferent
poet admirable how this grace
 speaks his own standing what a mental power
 this eye shoots forth how big imagination
 moves in this lip to the dumbness of the gesture
 one might interpret
painter it is a pretty mocking of the life
 here is a touch is't good
poet i will say of it
 it tutors nature artificial strife
 lives in these touches livelier than life
 enter certain senators and pass over
painter how this lord is follow'd
poet the senators of athens happy man
painter look more
poet you see this confluence this great flood
 of visitors
 i have in this rough work shaped out a man
 whom this beneath world doth embrace and hug
 with amplest entertainment my free drift
 halts not particularly but moves itself
 in a wide sea of wax no levell'd malice
 infects one comma in the course i hold
 but flies an eagle flight bold and forth on
 leaving no tract behind
painter how shall i understand you
poet i will unbolt to you
 you see how all conditions how all minds
 as well of glib and slippery creatures as
 of grave and austere quality tender down
 their services to lord timon his large fortune
 upon his good and gracious nature hanging
 subdues and properties to his love and tendance
 all sorts of hearts yea from the glassfaced flatterer
 to apemantus that few things loves better
 than to abhor himself even he drops down
 the knee before him and returns in peace
 most rich in timon's nod
painter i saw them speak together
poet sir i have upon a high and pleasant hill
 feign'd fortune to be throned the base o the mount
 is rank'd with all deserts all kind of natures
 that labour on the bosom of this sphere
 to propagate their states amongst them all
 whose eyes are on this sovereign lady fix'd
 one do i personate of lord timon's frame
 whom fortune with her ivory hand wafts to her
 whose present grace to present slaves and servants
 translates his rivals
painter tis conceived to scope
 this throne this fortune and this hill methinks
 with one man beckon'd from the rest below
 bowing his head against the sleepy mount
 to climb his happiness would be well express'd
 in our condition
poet nay sir but hear me on
 all those which were his fellows but of late
 some better than his value on the moment
 follow his strides his lobbies fill with tendance
 rain sacrificial whisperings in his ear
 make sacred even his stirrup and through him
 drink the free air
painter ay marry what of these
poet when fortune in her shift and change of mood
 spurns down her late beloved all his dependants
 which labour'd after him to the mountain's top
 even on their knees and hands let him slip down
 not one accompanying his declining foot
painter tis common
 a thousand moral paintings i can show
 that shall demonstrate these quick blows of fortune's
 more pregnantly than words yet you do well
 to show lord timon that mean eyes have seen
 the foot above the head
 trumpets sound enter timon addressing himself
 courteously to every suitor a messenger from
 ventidius talking with him lucilius and other
 servants following
timon imprison'd is he say you
messenger ay my good lord five talents is his debt
 his means most short his creditors most strait
 your honourable letter he desires
 to those have shut him up which failing
 periods his comfort
timon noble ventidius well
 i am not of that feather to shake off
 my friend when he must need me i do know him
 a gentleman that well deserves a help
 which he shall have i'll pay the debt
 and free him
messenger your lordship ever binds him
timon commend me to him i will send his ransom
 and being enfranchised bid him come to me
 tis not enough to help the feeble up
 but to support him after fare you well
messenger all happiness to your honour
 exit
 enter an old athenian
old athenian lord timon hear me speak
timon freely good father
old athenian thou hast a servant named lucilius
timon i have so what of him
old athenian most noble timon call the man before thee
timon attends he here or no lucilius
lucilius here at your lordship's service
old athenian this fellow here lord timon this thy creature
 by night frequents my house i am a man
 that from my first have been inclined to thrift
 and my estate deserves an heir more raised
 than one which holds a trencher
timon well what further
old athenian one only daughter have i no kin else
 on whom i may confer what i have got
 the maid is fair o the youngest for a bride
 and i have bred her at my dearest cost
 in qualities of the best this man of thine
 attempts her love i prithee noble lord
 join with me to forbid him her resort
 myself have spoke in vain
timon the man is honest
old athenian therefore he will be timon
 his honesty rewards him in itself
 it must not bear my daughter
timon does she love him
old athenian she is young and apt
 our own precedent passions do instruct us
 what levity's in youth
timon to lucilius love you the maid
lucilius ay my good lord and she accepts of it
old athenian if in her marriage my consent be missing
 i call the gods to witness i will choose
 mine heir from forth the beggars of the world
 and dispossess her all
timon how shall she be endow'd
 if she be mated with an equal husband
old athenian three talents on the present in future all
timon this gentleman of mine hath served me long
 to build his fortune i will strain a little
 for tis a bond in men give him thy daughter
 what you bestow in him i'll counterpoise
 and make him weigh with her
old athenian most noble lord
 pawn me to this your honour she is his
timon my hand to thee mine honour on my promise
lucilius humbly i thank your lordship never may
 the state or fortune fall into my keeping
 which is not owed to you
 exeunt lucilius and old athenian
poet vouchsafe my labour and long live your lordship
timon i thank you you shall hear from me anon
 go not away what have you there my friend
painter a piece of painting which i do beseech
 your lordship to accept
timon painting is welcome
 the painting is almost the natural man
 or since dishonour traffics with man's nature
 he is but outside these pencill'd figures are
 even such as they give out i like your work
 and you shall find i like it wait attendance
 till you hear further from me
painter the gods preserve ye
timon well fare you gentleman give me your hand
 we must needs dine together sir your jewel
 hath suffer'd under praise
jeweller what my lord dispraise
timon a more satiety of commendations
 if i should pay you for't as tis extoll'd
 it would unclew me quite
jeweller my lord tis rated
 as those which sell would give but you well know
 things of like value differing in the owners
 are prized by their masters believe't dear lord
 you mend the jewel by the wearing it
timon well mock'd
merchant no my good lord he speaks the common tongue
 which all men speak with him
timon look who comes here will you be chid
 enter apemantus
jeweller we'll bear with your lordship
merchant he'll spare none
timon good morrow to thee gentle apemantus
apemantus till i be gentle stay thou for thy good morrow
 when thou art timon's dog and these knaves honest
timon why dost thou call them knaves thou know'st them not
apemantus are they not athenians
timon yes
apemantus then i repent not
jeweller you know me apemantus
apemantus thou know'st i do i call'd thee by thy name
timon thou art proud apemantus
apemantus of nothing so much as that i am not like timon
timon whither art going
apemantus to knock out an honest athenian's brains
timon that's a deed thou'lt die for
apemantus right if doing nothing be death by the law
timon how likest thou this picture apemantus
apemantus the best for the innocence
timon wrought he not well that painted it
apemantus he wrought better that made the painter and yet
 he's but a filthy piece of work
painter you're a dog
apemantus thy mother's of my generation what's she if i be a dog
timon wilt dine with me apemantus
apemantus no i eat not lords
timon an thou shouldst thou ldst anger ladies
apemantus o they eat lords so they come by great bellies
timon that's a lascivious apprehension
apemantus so thou apprehendest it take it for thy labour
timon how dost thou like this jewel apemantus
apemantus not so well as plaindealing which will not cost a
 man a doit
timon what dost thou think tis worth
apemantus not worth my thinking how now poet
poet how now philosopher
apemantus thou liest
poet art not one
apemantus yes
poet then i lie not
apemantus art not a poet
poet yes
apemantus then thou liest look in thy last work where thou
 hast feigned him a worthy fellow
poet that's not feigned he is so
apemantus yes he is worthy of thee and to pay thee for thy
 labour he that loves to be flattered is worthy o'
 the flatterer heavens that i were a lord
timon what wouldst do then apemantus
apemantus e'en as apemantus does now hate a lord with my heart
timon what thyself
apemantus ay
timon wherefore
apemantus that i had no angry wit to be a lord
 art not thou a merchant
merchant ay apemantus
apemantus traffic confound thee if the gods will not
merchant if traffic do it the gods do it
apemantus traffic's thy god and thy god confound thee
 trumpet sounds enter a messenger
timon what trumpet's that
messenger tis alcibiades and some twenty horse
 all of companionship
timon pray entertain them give them guide to us
 exeunt some attendants
 you must needs dine with me go not you hence
 till i have thank'd you when dinner's done
 show me this piece i am joyful of your sights
 enter alcibiades with the rest
 most welcome sir
apemantus so so there
 aches contract and starve your supple joints
 that there should be small love mongst these
 sweet knaves
 and all this courtesy the strain of man's bred out
 into baboon and monkey
alcibiades sir you have saved my longing and i feed
 most hungerly on your sight
timon right welcome sir
 ere we depart we'll share a bounteous time
 in different pleasures pray you let us in
 exeunt all except apemantus
 enter two lords
first lord what time o day is't apemantus
apemantus time to be honest
first lord that time serves still
apemantus the more accursed thou that still omitt'st it
second lord thou art going to lord timon's feast
apemantus ay to see meat fill knaves and wine heat fools
second lord fare thee well fare thee well
apemantus thou art a fool to bid me farewell twice
second lord why apemantus
apemantus shouldst have kept one to thyself for i mean to
 give thee none
first lord hang thyself
apemantus no i will do nothing at thy bidding make thy
 requests to thy friend
second lord away unpeaceable dog or i'll spurn thee hence
apemantus i will fly like a dog the heels o the ass
 exit
first lord he's opposite to humanity come shall we in
 and taste lord timon's bounty he outgoes
 the very heart of kindness
second lord he pours it out plutus the god of gold
 is but his steward no meed but he repays
 sevenfold above itself no gift to him
 but breeds the giver a return exceeding
 all use of quittance
first lord the noblest mind he carries
 that ever govern'd man
second lord long may he live in fortunes shall we in
first lord i'll keep you company
 exeunt
 timon of athens
act i
scene ii a banquetingroom in timon's house
 hautboys playing loud music a great banquet
 served in flavius and others attending then enter
 timon alcibiades lords senators and ventidius
 then comes dropping after all apemantus
 discontentedly like himself
ventidius most honour'd timon
 it hath pleased the gods to remember my father's age
 and call him to long peace
 he is gone happy and has left me rich
 then as in grateful virtue i am bound
 to your free heart i do return those talents
 doubled with thanks and service from whose help
 i derived liberty
timon o by no means
 honest ventidius you mistake my love
 i gave it freely ever and there's none
 can truly say he gives if he receives
 if our betters play at that game we must not dare
 to imitate them faults that are rich are fair
ventidius a noble spirit
timon nay my lords
 they all stand ceremoniously looking on timon
 ceremony was but devised at first
 to set a gloss on faint deeds hollow welcomes
 recanting goodness sorry ere tis shown
 but where there is true friendship there needs none
 pray sit more welcome are ye to my fortunes
 than my fortunes to me
 they sit
first lord my lord we always have confess'd it
apemantus ho ho confess'd it hang'd it have you not
timon o apemantus you are welcome
apemantus no
 you shall not make me welcome
 i come to have thee thrust me out of doors
timon fie thou'rt a churl ye've got a humour there
 does not become a man tis much to blame
 they say my lords ira furor brevis est but yond
 man is ever angry go let him have a table by
 himself for he does neither affect company nor is
 he fit for't indeed
apemantus let me stay at thine apperil timon i come to
 observe i give thee warning on't
timon i take no heed of thee thou'rt an athenian
 therefore welcome i myself would have no power
 prithee let my meat make thee silent
apemantus i scorn thy meat twould choke me for i should
 ne'er flatter thee o you gods what a number of
 men eat timon and he sees em not it grieves me
 to see so many dip their meat in one man's blood
 and all the madness is he cheers them up too
 i wonder men dare trust themselves with men
 methinks they should invite them without knives
 good for their meat and safer for their lives
 there's much example for't the fellow that sits
 next him now parts bread with him pledges the
 breath of him in a divided draught is the readiest
 man to kill him t has been proved if i were a
 huge man i should fear to drink at meals
 lest they should spy my windpipe's dangerous notes
 great men should drink with harness on their throats
timon my lord in heart and let the health go round
second lord let it flow this way my good lord
apemantus flow this way a brave fellow he keeps his tides
 well those healths will make thee and thy state
 look ill timon here's that which is too weak to
 be a sinner honest water which ne'er left man i the mire
 this and my food are equals there's no odds
 feasts are too proud to give thanks to the gods
 apemantus grace
 immortal gods i crave no pelf
 i pray for no man but myself
 grant i may never prove so fond
 to trust man on his oath or bond
 or a harlot for her weeping
 or a dog that seems asleeping
 or a keeper with my freedom
 or my friends if i should need em
 amen so fall to't
 rich men sin and i eat root
 eats and drinks
 much good dich thy good heart apemantus
timon captain alcibiades your heart's in the field now
alcibiades my heart is ever at your service my lord
timon you had rather be at a breakfast of enemies than a
 dinner of friends
alcibiades so the were bleedingnew my lord there's no meat
 like em i could wish my best friend at such a feast
apemantus would all those fatterers were thine enemies then
 that then thou mightst kill em and bid me to em
first lord might we but have that happiness my lord that you
 would once use our hearts whereby we might express
 some part of our zeals we should think ourselves
 for ever perfect
timon o no doubt my good friends but the gods
 themselves have provided that i shall have much help
 from you how had you been my friends else why
 have you that charitable title from thousands did
 not you chiefly belong to my heart i have told
 more of you to myself than you can with modesty
 speak in your own behalf and thus far i confirm
 you o you gods think i what need we have any
 friends if we should ne'er have need of em they
 were the most needless creatures living should we
 ne'er have use for em and would most resemble
 sweet instruments hung up in cases that keep their
 sounds to themselves why i have often wished
 myself poorer that i might come nearer to you we
 are born to do benefits and what better or
 properer can we can our own than the riches of our
 friends o what a precious comfort tis to have
 so many like brothers commanding one another's
 fortunes o joy e'en made away ere t can be born
 mine eyes cannot hold out water methinks to
 forget their faults i drink to you
apemantus thou weepest to make them drink timon
second lord joy had the like conception in our eyes
 and at that instant like a babe sprung up
apemantus ho ho i laugh to think that babe a bastard
third lord i promise you my lord you moved me much
apemantus much
 tucket within
timon what means that trump
 enter a servant
 how now
servant please you my lord there are certain
 ladies most desirous of admittance
timon ladies what are their wills
servant there comes with them a forerunner my lord which
 bears that office to signify their pleasures
timon i pray let them be admitted
 enter cupid
cupid hail to thee worthy timon and to all
 that of his bounties taste the five best senses
 acknowledge thee their patron and come freely
 to gratulate thy plenteous bosom th ear
 taste touch and smell pleased from thy tale rise
 they only now come but to feast thine eyes
timon they're welcome all let em have kind admittance
 music make their welcome
 exit cupid
first lord you see my lord how ample you're beloved
 music reenter cupid with a mask of ladies
 as amazons with lutes in their hands
 dancing and playing
apemantus hoyday what a sweep of vanity comes this way
 they dance they are mad women
 like madness is the glory of this life
 as this pomp shows to a little oil and root
 we make ourselves fools to disport ourselves
 and spend our flatteries to drink those men
 upon whose age we void it up again
 with poisonous spite and envy
 who lives that's not depraved or depraves
 who dies that bears not one spurn to their graves
 of their friends gift
 i should fear those that dance before me now
 would one day stamp upon me t has been done
 men shut their doors against a setting sun
 the lords rise from table with much adoring of
 timon and to show their loves each singles out an
 amazon and all dance men with women a lofty
 strain or two to the hautboys and cease
timon you have done our pleasures much grace fair ladies
 set a fair fashion on our entertainment
 which was not half so beautiful and kind
 you have added worth unto t and lustre
 and entertain'd me with mine own device
 i am to thank you for t
first lady my lord you take us even at the best
apemantus faith for the worst is filthy and would not hold
 taking i doubt me
timon ladies there is an idle banquet attends you
 please you to dispose yourselves
all ladies most thankfully my lord
 exeunt cupid and ladies
timon flavius
flavius my lord
timon the little casket bring me hither
flavius yes my lord more jewels yet
 there is no crossing him in s humour
 aside
 else i should tell himwell i faith i should
 when all's spent he ld be cross'd then an he could
 tis pity bounty had not eyes behind
 that man might ne'er be wretched for his mind
 exit
first lord where be our men
servant here my lord in readiness
second lord our horses
 reenter flavius with the casket
timon o my friends
 i have one word to say to you look you my good lord
 i must entreat you honour me so much
 as to advance this jewel accept it and wear it
 kind my lord
first lord i am so far already in your gifts
all so are we all
 enter a servant
servant my lord there are certain nobles of the senate
 newly alighted and come to visit you
timon they are fairly welcome
flavius i beseech your honour
 vouchsafe me a word it does concern you near
timon near why then another time i'll hear thee
 i prithee let's be provided to show them
 entertainment
flavius aside i scarce know how
 enter a second servant
second servant may it please your honour lord lucius
 out of his free love hath presented to you
 four milkwhite horses trapp'd in silver
timon i shall accept them fairly let the presents
 be worthily entertain'd
 enter a third servant
 how now what news
third servant please you my lord that honourable
 gentleman lord lucullus entreats your company
 tomorrow to hunt with him and has sent your honour
 two brace of greyhounds
timon i'll hunt with him and let them be received
 not without fair reward
flavius aside what will this come to
 he commands us to provide and give great gifts
 and all out of an empty coffer
 nor will he know his purse or yield me this
 to show him what a beggar his heart is
 being of no power to make his wishes good
 his promises fly so beyond his state
 that what he speaks is all in debt he owes
 for every word he is so kind that he now
 pays interest for t his land's put to their books
 well would i were gently put out of office
 before i were forced out
 happier is he that has no friend to feed
 than such that do e'en enemies exceed
 i bleed inwardly for my lord
 exit
timon you do yourselves
 much wrong you bate too much of your own merits
 here my lord a trifle of our love
second lord with more than common thanks i will receive it
third lord o he's the very soul of bounty
timon and now i remember my lord you gave
 good words the other day of a bay courser
 i rode on it is yours because you liked it
second lord o i beseech you pardon me my lord in that
timon you may take my word my lord i know no man
 can justly praise but what he does affect
 i weigh my friend's affection with mine own
 i'll tell you true i'll call to you
all lords o none so welcome
timon i take all and your several visitations
 so kind to heart tis not enough to give
 methinks i could deal kingdoms to my friends
 and ne'er be weary alcibiades
 thou art a soldier therefore seldom rich
 it comes in charity to thee for all thy living
 is mongst the dead and all the lands thou hast
 lie in a pitch'd field
alcibiades ay defiled land my lord
first lord we are so virtuously bound
timon and so
 am i to you
second lord so infinitely endear'd
timon all to you lights more lights
first lord the best of happiness
 honour and fortunes keep with you lord timon
timon ready for his friends
 exeunt all but apemantus and timon
apemantus what a coil's here
 serving of becks and juttingout of bums
 i doubt whether their legs be worth the sums
 that are given for em friendship's full of dregs
 methinks false hearts should never have sound legs
 thus honest fools lay out their wealth on court'sies
timon now apemantus if thou wert not sullen i would be
 good to thee
apemantus no i'll nothing for if i should be bribed too
 there would be none left to rail upon thee and then
 thou wouldst sin the faster thou givest so long
 timon i fear me thou wilt give away thyself in
 paper shortly what need these feasts pomps and
 vainglories
timon nay an you begin to rail on society once i am
 sworn not to give regard to you farewell and come
 with better music
 exit
apemantus so
 thou wilt not hear me now thou shalt not then
 i'll lock thy heaven from thee
 o that men's ears should be
 to counsel deaf but not to flattery
 exit
 timon of athens
act ii
scene i a senator's house
 enter senator with papers in his hand
senator and late five thousand to varro and to isidore
 he owes nine thousand besides my former sum
 which makes it five and twenty still in motion
 of raging waste it cannot hold it will not
 if i want gold steal but a beggar's dog
 and give it timon why the dog coins gold
 if i would sell my horse and buy twenty more
 better than he why give my horse to timon
 ask nothing give it him it foals me straight
 and able horses no porter at his gate
 but rather one that smiles and still invites
 all that pass by it cannot hold no reason
 can found his state in safety caphis ho
 caphis i say
 enter caphis
caphis here sir what is your pleasure
senator get on your cloak and haste you to lord timon
 importune him for my moneys be not ceased
 with slight denial nor then silenced when
 commend me to your master'and the cap
 plays in the right hand thus but tell him
 my uses cry to me i must serve my turn
 out of mine own his days and times are past
 and my reliances on his fracted dates
 have smit my credit i love and honour him
 but must not break my back to heal his finger
 immediate are my needs and my relief
 must not be toss'd and turn'd to me in words
 but find supply immediate get you gone
 put on a most importunate aspect
 a visage of demand for i do fear
 when every feather sticks in his own wing
 lord timon will be left a naked gull
 which flashes now a phoenix get you gone
caphis i go sir
senator i go sir'take the bonds along with you
 and have the dates in contempt
caphis i will sir
senator go
 exeunt
 timon of athens
act ii
scene ii the same a hall in timon's house
 enter flavius with many bills in his hand
flavius no care no stop so senseless of expense
 that he will neither know how to maintain it
 nor cease his flow of riot takes no account
 how things go from him nor resumes no care
 of what is to continue never mind
 was to be so unwise to be so kind
 what shall be done he will not hear till feel
 i must be round with him now he comes from hunting
 fie fie fie fie
 enter caphis and the servants of isidore and varro
caphis good even varro what
 you come for money
varro's servant is't not your business too
caphis it is and yours too isidore
isidore's servant it is so
caphis would we were all discharged
varro's servant i fear it
caphis here comes the lord
 enter timon alcibiades and lords &c
timon so soon as dinner's done we'll forth again
 my alcibiades with me what is your will
caphis my lord here is a note of certain dues
timon dues whence are you
caphis of athens here my lord
timon go to my steward
caphis please it your lordship he hath put me off
 to the succession of new days this month
 my master is awaked by great occasion
 to call upon his own and humbly prays you
 that with your other noble parts you'll suit
 in giving him his right
timon mine honest friend
 i prithee but repair to me next morning
caphis nay good my lord
timon contain thyself good friend
varro's servant one varro's servant my good lord
isidore's servant from isidore
 he humbly prays your speedy payment
caphis if you did know my lord my master's wants
varro's servant twas due on forfeiture my lord six weeks and past
isidore's servant your steward puts me off my lord
 and i am sent expressly to your lordship
timon give me breath
 i do beseech you good my lords keep on
 i'll wait upon you instantly
 exeunt alcibiades and lords
 to flavius
 come hither pray you
 how goes the world that i am thus encounter'd
 with clamourous demands of datebroke bonds
 and the detention of longsincedue debts
 against my honour
flavius please you gentlemen
 the time is unagreeable to this business
 your importunacy cease till after dinner
 that i may make his lordship understand
 wherefore you are not paid
timon do so my friends see them well entertain'd
 exit
flavius pray draw near
 exit
 enter apemantus and fool
caphis stay stay here comes the fool with apemantus
 let's ha some sport with em
varro's servant hang him he'll abuse us
isidore's servant a plague upon him dog
varro's servant how dost fool
apemantus dost dialogue with thy shadow
varro's servant i speak not to thee
apemantus no'tis to thyself
 to the fool
 come away
isidore's servant there's the fool hangs on your back already
apemantus no thou stand'st single thou'rt not on him yet
caphis where's the fool now
apemantus he last asked the question poor rogues and
 usurers men bawds between gold and want
all servants what are we apemantus
apemantus asses
all servants why
apemantus that you ask me what you are and do not know
 yourselves speak to em fool
fool how do you gentlemen
all servants gramercies good fool how does your mistress
fool she's e'en setting on water to scald such chickens
 as you are would we could see you at corinth
apemantus good gramercy
 enter page
fool look you here comes my mistress page
page to the fool why how now captain what do you
 in this wise company how dost thou apemantus
apemantus would i had a rod in my mouth that i might answer
 thee profitably
page prithee apemantus read me the superscription of
 these letters i know not which is which
apemantus canst not read
page no
apemantus there will little learning die then that day thou
 art hanged this is to lord timon this to
 alcibiades go thou wast born a bastard and thou't
 die a bawd
page thou wast whelped a dog and thou shalt famish a
 dog's death answer not i am gone
 exit
apemantus e'en so thou outrunnest grace fool i will go with
 you to lord timon's
fool will you leave me there
apemantus if timon stay at home you three serve three usurers
all servants ay would they served us
apemantus so would ias good a trick as ever hangman served thief
fool are you three usurers men
all servants ay fool
fool i think no usurer but has a fool to his servant my
 mistress is one and i am her fool when men come
 to borrow of your masters they approach sadly and
 go away merry but they enter my mistress house
 merrily and go away sadly the reason of this
varro's servant i could render one
apemantus do it then that we may account thee a whoremaster
 and a knave which notwithstanding thou shalt be
 no less esteemed
varro's servant what is a whoremaster fool
fool a fool in good clothes and something like thee
 tis a spirit sometime't appears like a lord
 sometime like a lawyer sometime like a philosopher
 with two stones moe than's artificial one he is
 very often like a knight and generally in all
 shapes that man goes up and down in from fourscore
 to thirteen this spirit walks in
varro's servant thou art not altogether a fool
fool nor thou altogether a wise man as much foolery as
 i have so much wit thou lackest
apemantus that answer might have become apemantus
all servants aside aside here comes lord timon
 reenter timon and flavius
apemantus come with me fool come
fool i do not always follow lover elder brother and
 woman sometime the philosopher
 exeunt apemantus and fool
flavius pray you walk near i'll speak with you anon
 exeunt servants
timon you make me marvel wherefore ere this time
 had you not fully laid my state before me
 that i might so have rated my expense
 as i had leave of means
flavius you would not hear me
 at many leisures i proposed
timon go to
 perchance some single vantages you took
 when my indisposition put you back
 and that unaptness made your minister
 thus to excuse yourself
flavius o my good lord
 at many times i brought in my accounts
 laid them before you you would throw them off
 and say you found them in mine honesty
 when for some trifling present you have bid me
 return so much i have shook my head and wept
 yea gainst the authority of manners pray'd you
 to hold your hand more close i did endure
 not seldom nor no slight cheques when i have
 prompted you in the ebb of your estate
 and your great flow of debts my loved lord
 though you hear now too lateyet now's a time
 the greatest of your having lacks a half
 to pay your present debts
timon let all my land be sold
flavius tis all engaged some forfeited and gone
 and what remains will hardly stop the mouth
 of present dues the future comes apace
 what shall defend the interim and at length
 how goes our reckoning
timon to lacedaemon did my land extend
flavius o my good lord the world is but a word
 were it all yours to give it in a breath
 how quickly were it gone
timon you tell me true
flavius if you suspect my husbandry or falsehood
 call me before the exactest auditors
 and set me on the proof so the gods bless me
 when all our offices have been oppress'd
 with riotous feeders when our vaults have wept
 with drunken spilth of wine when every room
 hath blazed with lights and bray'd with minstrelsy
 i have retired me to a wasteful cock
 and set mine eyes at flow
timon prithee no more
flavius heavens have i said the bounty of this lord
 how many prodigal bits have slaves and peasants
 this night englutted who is not timon's
 what heart head sword force means but is
 lord timon's
 great timon noble worthy royal timon
 ah when the means are gone that buy this praise
 the breath is gone whereof this praise is made
 feastwon fastlost one cloud of winter showers
 these flies are couch'd
timon come sermon me no further
 no villanous bounty yet hath pass'd my heart
 unwisely not ignobly have i given
 why dost thou weep canst thou the conscience lack
 to think i shall lack friends secure thy heart
 if i would broach the vessels of my love
 and try the argument of hearts by borrowing
 men and men's fortunes could i frankly use
 as i can bid thee speak
flavius assurance bless your thoughts
timon and in some sort these wants of mine are crown'd
 that i account them blessings for by these
 shall i try friends you shall perceive how you
 mistake my fortunes i am wealthy in my friends
 within there flaminius servilius
 enter flaminius servilius and other servants
servants my lord my lord
timon i will dispatch you severally you to lord lucius
 to lord lucullus you i hunted with his honour
 today you to sempronius commend me to their
 loves and i am proud say that my occasions have
 found time to use em toward a supply of money let
 the request be fifty talents
flaminius as you have said my lord
flavius aside lord lucius and lucullus hum
timon go you sir to the senators
 of whom even to the state's best health i have
 deserved this hearingbid em send o the instant
 a thousand talents to me
flavius i have been bold
 for that i knew it the most general way
 to them to use your signet and your name
 but they do shake their heads and i am here
 no richer in return
timon is't true can't be
flavius they answer in a joint and corporate voice
 that now they are at fall want treasure cannot
 do what they would are sorryyou are honourable
 but yet they could have wish'dthey know not
 something hath been amissa noble nature
 may catch a wrenchwould all were well'tis pity
 and so intending other serious matters
 after distasteful looks and these hard fractions
 with certain halfcaps and coldmoving nods
 they froze me into silence
timon you gods reward them
 prithee man look cheerly these old fellows
 have their ingratitude in them hereditary
 their blood is caked tis cold it seldom flows
 tis lack of kindly warmth they are not kind
 and nature as it grows again toward earth
 is fashion'd for the journey dull and heavy
 to a servant
 go to ventidius
 to flavius
 prithee be not sad
 thou art true and honest ingeniously i speak
 no blame belongs to thee
 to servant
 ventidius lately
 buried his father by whose death he's stepp'd
 into a great estate when he was poor
 imprison'd and in scarcity of friends
 i clear'd him with five talents greet him from me
 bid him suppose some good necessity
 touches his friend which craves to be remember'd
 with those five talents
 exit servant
 to flavius
 that had give't these fellows
 to whom tis instant due ne'er speak or think
 that timon's fortunes mong his friends can sink
flavius i would i could not think it that thought is
 bounty's foe
 being free itself it thinks all others so
 exeunt
 timon of athens
act iii
scene i a room in lucullus house
 flaminius waiting enter a servant to him
servant i have told my lord of you he is coming down to you
flaminius i thank you sir
 enter lucullus
servant here's my lord
lucullus aside one of lord timon's men a gift i
 warrant why this hits right i dreamt of a silver
 basin and ewer tonight flaminius honest
 flaminius you are very respectively welcome sir
 fill me some wine
 exit servants
 and how does that honourable complete freehearted
 gentleman of athens thy very bountiful good lord
 and master
flaminius his health is well sir
lucullus i am right glad that his health is well sir and
 what hast thou there under thy cloak pretty flaminius
flaminius faith nothing but an empty box sir which in my
 lord's behalf i come to entreat your honour to
 supply who having great and instant occasion to
 use fifty talents hath sent to your lordship to
 furnish him nothing doubting your present
 assistance therein
lucullus la la la la nothing doubting says he alas
 good lord a noble gentleman tis if he would not
 keep so good a house many a time and often i ha'
 dined with him and told him on't and come again to
 supper to him of purpose to have him spend less
 and yet he would embrace no counsel take no warning
 by my coming every man has his fault and honesty
 is his i ha told him on't but i could ne'er get
 him from't
 reenter servant with wine
servant please your lordship here is the wine
lucullus flaminius i have noted thee always wise here's to thee
flaminius your lordship speaks your pleasure
lucullus i have observed thee always for a towardly prompt
 spiritgive thee thy dueand one that knows what
 belongs to reason and canst use the time well if
 the time use thee well good parts in thee
 to servant
 get you gone sirrah
 exit servant
 draw nearer honest flaminius thy lord's a
 bountiful gentleman but thou art wise and thou
 knowest well enough although thou comest to me
 that this is no time to lend money especially upon
 bare friendship without security here's three
 solidares for thee good boy wink at me and say
 thou sawest me not fare thee well
flaminius is't possible the world should so much differ
 and we alive that lived fly damned baseness
 to him that worships thee
 throwing the money back
lucullus ha now i see thou art a fool and fit for thy master
 exit
flaminius may these add to the number that may scald thee
 let moulten coin be thy damnation
 thou disease of a friend and not himself
 has friendship such a faint and milky heart
 it turns in less than two nights o you gods
 i feel master's passion this slave
 unto his honour has my lord's meat in him
 why should it thrive and turn to nutriment
 when he is turn'd to poison
 o may diseases only work upon't
 and when he's sick to death let not that part of nature
 which my lord paid for be of any power
 to expel sickness but prolong his hour
 exit
 timon of athens
act iii
scene ii a public place
 enter lucilius with three strangers
lucilius who the lord timon he is my very good friend and
 an honourable gentleman
first stranger we know him for no less though we are but strangers
 to him but i can tell you one thing my lord and
 which i hear from common rumours now lord timon's
 happy hours are done and past and his estate
 shrinks from him
lucilius fie no do not believe it he cannot want for money
second stranger but believe you this my lord that not long ago
 one of his men was with the lord lucullus to borrow
 so many talents nay urged extremely for't and
 showed what necessity belonged to't and yet was denied
lucilius how
second stranger i tell you denied my lord
lucilius what a strange case was that now before the gods
 i am ashamed on't denied that honourable man
 there was very little honour showed in't for my own
 part i must needs confess i have received some
 small kindnesses from him as money plate jewels
 and suchlike trifles nothing comparing to his
 yet had he mistook him and sent to me i should
 ne'er have denied his occasion so many talents
 enter servilius
servilius see by good hap yonder's my lord
 i have sweat to see his honour my honoured lord
 to lucius
lucilius servilius you are kindly met sir fare thee well
 commend me to thy honourable virtuous lord my very
 exquisite friend
servilius may it please your honour my lord hath sent
lucilius ha what has he sent i am so much endeared to
 that lord he's ever sending how shall i thank
 him thinkest thou and what has he sent now
servilius has only sent his present occasion now my lord
 requesting your lordship to supply his instant use
 with so many talents
lucilius i know his lordship is but merry with me
 he cannot want fifty five hundred talents
servilius but in the mean time he wants less my lord
 if his occasion were not virtuous
 i should not urge it half so faithfully
lucilius dost thou speak seriously servilius
servilius upon my soul'tis true sir
lucilius what a wicked beast was i to disfurnish myself
 against such a good time when i might ha shown
 myself honourable how unluckily it happened that i
 should purchase the day before for a little part
 and undo a great deal of honoured servilius now
 before the gods i am not able to dothe more
 beast i sayi was sending to use lord timon
 myself these gentlemen can witness but i would
 not for the wealth of athens i had done't now
 commend me bountifully to his good lordship and i
 hope his honour will conceive the fairest of me
 because i have no power to be kind and tell him
 this from me i count it one of my greatest
 afflictions say that i cannot pleasure such an
 honourable gentleman good servilius will you
 befriend me so far as to use mine own words to him
servilius yes sir i shall
lucilius i'll look you out a good turn servilius
 exit servilius
 true as you said timon is shrunk indeed
 and he that's once denied will hardly speed
 exit
first stranger do you observe this hostilius
second stranger ay too well
first stranger why this is the world's soul and just of the
 same piece
 is every flatterer's spirit who can call him
 his friend that dips in the same dish for in
 my knowing timon has been this lord's father
 and kept his credit with his purse
 supported his estate nay timon's money
 has paid his men their wages he ne'er drinks
 but timon's silver treads upon his lip
 and yeto see the monstrousness of man
 when he looks out in an ungrateful shape
 he does deny him in respect of his
 what charitable men afford to beggars
third stranger religion groans at it
first stranger for mine own part
 i never tasted timon in my life
 nor came any of his bounties over me
 to mark me for his friend yet i protest
 for his right noble mind illustrious virtue
 and honourable carriage
 had his necessity made use of me
 i would have put my wealth into donation
 and the best half should have return'd to him
 so much i love his heart but i perceive
 men must learn now with pity to dispense
 for policy sits above conscience
 exeunt
 timon of athens
act iii
scene iii a room in sempronius house
 enter sempronius and a servant of timon's
sempronius must he needs trouble me in thum'bove
 all others
 he might have tried lord lucius or lucullus
 and now ventidius is wealthy too
 whom he redeem'd from prison all these
 owe their estates unto him
servant my lord
 they have all been touch'd and found base metal for
 they have au denied him
sempronius how have they denied him
 has ventidius and lucullus denied him
 and does he send to me three hum
 it shows but little love or judgment in him
 must i be his last refuge his friends like
 physicians
 thrive give him over must i take the cure upon me
 has much disgraced me in't i'm angry at him
 that might have known my place i see no sense for't
 but his occasion might have woo'd me first
 for in my conscience i was the first man
 that e'er received gift from him
 and does he think so backwardly of me now
 that i'll requite its last no
 so it may prove an argument of laughter
 to the rest and mongst lords i be thought a fool
 i'ld rather than the worth of thrice the sum
 had sent to me first but for my mind's sake
 i'd such a courage to do him good but now return
 and with their faint reply this answer join
 who bates mine honour shall not know my coin
 exit
servant excellent your lordship's a goodly villain the
 devil knew not what he did when he made man
 politic he crossed himself by t and i cannot
 think but in the end the villainies of man will
 set him clear how fairly this lord strives to
 appear foul takes virtuous copies to be wicked
 like those that under hot ardent zeal would set
 whole realms on fire of such a nature is his
 politic love
 this was my lord's best hope now all are fled
 save only the gods now his friends are dead
 doors that were ne'er acquainted with their wards
 many a bounteous year must be employ'd
 now to guard sure their master
 and this is all a liberal course allows
 who cannot keep his wealth must keep his house
 exit
 timon of athens
act iii
scene iv the same a hall in timon's house
 enter two servants of varro and the servant of
 lucius meeting titus hortensius and other
 servants of timon's creditors waiting his coming out
varro's
first servant well met good morrow titus and hortensius
titus the like to you kind varro
hortensius lucius
 what do we meet together
lucilius servant ay and i think
 one business does command us all for mine is money
titus so is theirs and ours
 enter philotus
lucilius servant and sir philotus too
philotus good day at once
lucilius servant welcome good brother
 what do you think the hour
philotus labouring for nine
lucilius servant so much
philotus is not my lord seen yet
lucilius servant not yet
philotus i wonder on't he was wont to shine at seven
lucilius servant ay but the days are wax'd shorter with him
 you must consider that a prodigal course
 is like the sun's but not like his recoverable
 i fear tis deepest winter in lord timon's purse
 that is one may reach deep enough and yet
 find little
philotus i am of your fear for that
titus i'll show you how to observe a strange event
 your lord sends now for money
hortensius most true he does
titus and he wears jewels now of timon's gift
 for which i wait for money
hortensius it is against my heart
lucilius servant mark how strange it shows
 timon in this should pay more than he owes
 and e'en as if your lord should wear rich jewels
 and send for money for em
hortensius i'm weary of this charge the gods can witness
 i know my lord hath spent of timon's wealth
 and now ingratitude makes it worse than stealth
varro's
first servant yes mine's three thousand crowns what's yours
lucilius servant five thousand mine
varro's
first servant tis much deep and it should seem by the sun
 your master's confidence was above mine
 else surely his had equall'd
 enter flaminius
titus one of lord timon's men
lucilius servant flaminius sir a word pray is my lord ready to
 come forth
flaminius no indeed he is not
titus we attend his lordship pray signify so much
flaminius i need not tell him that he knows you are too diligent
 exit
 enter flavius in a cloak muffled
lucilius servant ha is not that his steward muffled so
 he goes away in a cloud call him call him
titus do you hear sir
varro's
second servant by your leave sir
flavius what do ye ask of me my friend
titus we wait for certain money here sir
flavius ay
 if money were as certain as your waiting
 twere sure enough
 why then preferr'd you not your sums and bills
 when your false masters eat of my lord's meat
 then they could smile and fawn upon his debts
 and take down the interest into their
 gluttonous maws
 you do yourselves but wrong to stir me up
 let me pass quietly
 believe t my lord and i have made an end
 i have no more to reckon he to spend
lucilius servant ay but this answer will not serve
flavius if twill not serve'tis not so base as you
 for you serve knaves
 exit
varro's
first servant how what does his cashiered worship mutter
varro's
second servant no matter what he's poor and that's revenge
 enough who can speak broader than he that has no
 house to put his head in such may rail against
 great buildings
 enter servilius
titus o here's servilius now we shall know some answer
servilius if i might beseech you gentlemen to repair some
 other hour i should derive much from't for
 take't of my soul my lord leans wondrously to
 discontent his comfortable temper has forsook him
 he's much out of health and keeps his chamber
lucilius servant many do keep their chambers are not sick
 and if it be so far beyond his health
 methinks he should the sooner pay his debts
 and make a clear way to the gods
servilius good gods
titus we cannot take this for answer sir
flaminius within servilius help my lord my lord
 enter timon in a rage flaminius following
timon what are my doors opposed against my passage
 have i been ever free and must my house
 be my retentive enemy my gaol
 the place which i have feasted does it now
 like all mankind show me an iron heart
lucilius servant put in now titus
titus my lord here is my bill
lucilius servant here's mine
hortensius and mine my lord
both
varro's servants and ours my lord
philotus all our bills
timon knock me down with em cleave me to the girdle
lucilius servant alas my lord
timon cut my heart in sums
titus mine fifty talents
timon tell out my blood
lucilius servant five thousand crowns my lord
timon five thousand drops pays that
 what yoursand yours
varro's
first servant my lord
varro's
second servant my lord
timon tear me take me and the gods fall upon you
 exit
hortensius faith i perceive our masters may throw their caps
 at their money these debts may well be called
 desperate ones for a madman owes em
 exeunt
 reenter timon and flavius
timon they have e'en put my breath from me the slaves
 creditors devils
flavius my dear lord
timon what if it should be so
flavius my lord
timon i'll have it so my steward
flavius here my lord
timon so fitly go bid all my friends again
 lucius lucullus and sempronius
 all sirrah all
 i'll once more feast the rascals
flavius o my lord
 you only speak from your distracted soul
 there is not so much left to furnish out
 a moderate table
timon be't not in thy care go
 i charge thee invite them all let in the tide
 of knaves once more my cook and i'll provide
 exeunt
 timon of athens
act iii
scene v the same the senatehouse the senate sitting
first senator my lord you have my voice to it the fault's
 bloody tis necessary he should die
 nothing emboldens sin so much as mercy
second senator most true the law shall bruise him
 enter alcibiades with attendants
alcibiades honour health and compassion to the senate
first senator now captain
alcibiades i am an humble suitor to your virtues
 for pity is the virtue of the law
 and none but tyrants use it cruelly
 it pleases time and fortune to lie heavy
 upon a friend of mine who in hot blood
 hath stepp'd into the law which is past depth
 to those that without heed do plunge into t
 he is a man setting his fate aside
 of comely virtues
 nor did he soil the fact with cowardice
 an honour in him which buys out his fault
 but with a noble fury and fair spirit
 seeing his reputation touch'd to death
 he did oppose his foe
 and with such sober and unnoted passion
 he did behave his anger ere twas spent
 as if he had but proved an argument
first senator you undergo too strict a paradox
 striving to make an ugly deed look fair
 your words have took such pains as if they labour'd
 to bring manslaughter into form and set quarrelling
 upon the head of valour which indeed
 is valour misbegot and came into the world
 when sects and factions were newly born
 he's truly valiant that can wisely suffer
 the worst that man can breathe and make his wrongs
 his outsides to wear them like his raiment
 carelessly
 and ne'er prefer his injuries to his heart
 to bring it into danger
 if wrongs be evils and enforce us kill
 what folly tis to hazard life for ill
alcibiades my lord
first senator you cannot make gross sins look clear
 to revenge is no valour but to bear
alcibiades my lords then under favour pardon me
 if i speak like a captain
 why do fond men expose themselves to battle
 and not endure all threats sleep upon't
 and let the foes quietly cut their throats
 without repugnancy if there be
 such valour in the bearing what make we
 abroad why then women are more valiant
 that stay at home if bearing carry it
 and the ass more captain than the lion the felon
 loaden with irons wiser than the judge
 if wisdom be in suffering o my lords
 as you are great be pitifully good
 who cannot condemn rashness in cold blood
 to kill i grant is sin's extremest gust
 but in defence by mercy tis most just
 to be in anger is impiety
 but who is man that is not angry
 weigh but the crime with this
second senator you breathe in vain
alcibiades in vain his service done
 at lacedaemon and byzantium
 were a sufficient briber for his life
first senator what's that
alcibiades i say my lords he has done fair service
 and slain in fight many of your enemies
 how full of valour did he bear himself
 in the last conflict and made plenteous wounds
second senator he has made too much plenty with em
 he's a sworn rioter he has a sin that often
 drowns him and takes his valour prisoner
 if there were no foes that were enough
 to overcome him in that beastly fury
 he has been known to commit outrages
 and cherish factions tis inferr'd to us
 his days are foul and his drink dangerous
first senator he dies
alcibiades hard fate he might have died in war
 my lords if not for any parts in him
 though his right arm might purchase his own time
 and be in debt to noneyet more to move you
 take my deserts to his and join em both
 and for i know your reverend ages love
 security i'll pawn my victories all
 my honours to you upon his good returns
 if by this crime he owes the law his life
 why let the war receive t in valiant gore
 for law is strict and war is nothing more
first senator we are for law he dies urge it no more
 on height of our displeasure friend or brother
 he forfeits his own blood that spills another
alcibiades must it be so it must not be my lords
 i do beseech you know me
second senator how
alcibiades call me to your remembrances
third senator what
alcibiades i cannot think but your age has forgot me
 it could not else be i should prove so base
 to sue and be denied such common grace
 my wounds ache at you
first senator do you dare our anger
 tis in few words but spacious in effect
 we banish thee for ever
alcibiades banish me
 banish your dotage banish usury
 that makes the senate ugly
first senator if after two days shine athens contain thee
 attend our weightier judgment and not to swell
 our spirit
 he shall be executed presently
 exeunt senators
alcibiades now the gods keep you old enough that you may live
 only in bone that none may look on you
 i'm worse than mad i have kept back their foes
 while they have told their money and let out
 their coin upon large interest i myself
 rich only in large hurts all those for this
 is this the balsam that the usuring senate
 pours into captains wounds banishment
 it comes not ill i hate not to be banish'd
 it is a cause worthy my spleen and fury
 that i may strike at athens i'll cheer up
 my discontented troops and lay for hearts
 tis honour with most lands to be at odds
 soldiers should brook as little wrongs as gods
 exit
 timon of athens
act iii
scene vi the same a banquetingroom in timon's house
 music tables set out servants attending
 enter divers lords senators and others at
 several doors
first lord the good time of day to you sir
second lord i also wish it to you i think this honourable lord
 did but try us this other day
first lord upon that were my thoughts tiring when we
 encountered i hope it is not so low with him as
 he made it seem in the trial of his several friends
second lord it should not be by the persuasion of his new feasting
first lord i should think so he hath sent me an earnest
 inviting which many my near occasions did urge me
 to put off but he hath conjured me beyond them and
 i must needs appear
second lord in like manner was i in debt to my importunate
 business but he would not hear my excuse i am
 sorry when he sent to borrow of me that my
 provision was out
first lord i am sick of that grief too as i understand how all
 things go
second lord every man here's so what would he have borrowed of
 you
first lord a thousand pieces
second lord a thousand pieces
first lord what of you
second lord he sent to me sirhere he comes
 enter timon and attendants
timon with all my heart gentlemen both and how fare you
first lord ever at the best hearing well of your lordship
second lord the swallow follows not summer more willing than we
 your lordship
timon aside nor more willingly leaves winter such
 summerbirds are men gentlemen our dinner will not
 recompense this long stay feast your ears with the
 music awhile if they will fare so harshly o the
 trumpet's sound we shall to t presently
first lord i hope it remains not unkindly with your lordship
 that i returned you an empty messenger
timon o sir let it not trouble you
second lord my noble lord
timon ah my good friend what cheer
second lord my most honourable lord i am e'en sick of shame
 that when your lordship this other day sent to me
 i was so unfortunate a beggar
timon think not on t sir
second lord if you had sent but two hours before
timon let it not cumber your better remembrance
 the banquet brought in
 come bring in all together
second lord all covered dishes
first lord royal cheer i warrant you
third lord doubt not that if money and the season can yield
 it
first lord how do you what's the news
third lord alcibiades is banished hear you of it
first lord 
 alcibiades banished
second lord 
third lord tis so be sure of it
first lord how how
second lord i pray you upon what
timon my worthy friends will you draw near
third lord i'll tell you more anon here's a noble feast toward
second lord this is the old man still
third lord will t hold will t hold
second lord it does but time willand so
third lord i do conceive
timon each man to his stool with that spur as he would to
 the lip of his mistress your diet shall be in all
 places alike make not a city feast of it to let
 the meat cool ere we can agree upon the first place
 sit sit the gods require our thanks
 you great benefactors sprinkle our society with
 thankfulness for your own gifts make yourselves
 praised but reserve still to give lest your
 deities be despised lend to each man enough that
 one need not lend to another for were your
 godheads to borrow of men men would forsake the
 gods make the meat be beloved more than the man
 that gives it let no assembly of twenty be without
 a score of villains if there sit twelve women at
 the table let a dozen of them beas they are the
 rest of your fees o godsthe senators of athens
 together with the common lag of peoplewhat is
 amiss in them you gods make suitable for
 destruction for these my present friends as they
 are to me nothing so in nothing bless them and to
 nothing are they welcome
 uncover dogs and lap
 the dishes are uncovered and seen to be full of
 warm water
some speak what does his lordship mean
some others i know not
timon may you a better feast never behold
 you knot of mouthfriends i smoke and lukewarm water
 is your perfection this is timon's last
 who stuck and spangled with your flatteries
 washes it off and sprinkles in your faces
 your reeking villany
 throwing the water in their faces
 live loathed and long
 most smiling smooth detested parasites
 courteous destroyers affable wolves meek bears
 you fools of fortune trencherfriends time's flies
 cap and knee slaves vapours and minutejacks
 of man and beast the infinite malady
 crust you quite o'er what dost thou go
 soft take thy physic firstthou tooand thou
 stay i will lend thee money borrow none
 throws the dishes at them and drives them out
 what all in motion henceforth be no feast
 whereat a villain's not a welcome guest
 burn house sink athens henceforth hated be
 of timon man and all humanity
 exit
 reenter the lords senators &c
first lord how now my lords
second lord know you the quality of lord timon's fury
third lord push did you see my cap
fourth lord i have lost my gown
first lord he's but a mad lord and nought but humour sways him
 he gave me a jewel th other day and now he has
 beat it out of my hat did you see my jewel
third lord did you see my cap
second lord here tis
fourth lord here lies my gown
first lord let's make no stay
second lord lord timon's mad
third lord i feel t upon my bones
fourth lord one day he gives us diamonds next day stones
 exeunt
 timon of athens
act iv
scene i without the walls of athens
 enter timon
timon let me look back upon thee o thou wall
 that girdlest in those wolves dive in the earth
 and fence not athens matrons turn incontinent
 obedience fail in children slaves and fools
 pluck the grave wrinkled senate from the bench
 and minister in their steads to general filths
 convert o the instant green virginity
 do t in your parents eyes bankrupts hold fast
 rather than render back out with your knives
 and cut your trusters throats bound servants steal
 largehanded robbers your grave masters are
 and pill by law maid to thy master's bed
 thy mistress is o the brothel son of sixteen
 pluck the lined crutch from thy old limping sire
 with it beat out his brains piety and fear
 religion to the gods peace justice truth
 domestic awe nightrest and neighbourhood
 instruction manners mysteries and trades
 degrees observances customs and laws
 decline to your confounding contraries
 and let confusion live plagues incident to men
 your potent and infectious fevers heap
 on athens ripe for stroke thou cold sciatica
 cripple our senators that their limbs may halt
 as lamely as their manners lust and liberty
 creep in the minds and marrows of our youth
 that gainst the stream of virtue they may strive
 and drown themselves in riot itches blains
 sow all the athenian bosoms and their crop
 be general leprosy breath infect breath
 at their society as their friendship may
 merely poison nothing i'll bear from thee
 but nakedness thou detestable town
 take thou that too with multiplying bans
 timon will to the woods where he shall find
 the unkindest beast more kinder than mankind
 the gods confoundhear me you good gods all
 the athenians both within and out that wall
 and grant as timon grows his hate may grow
 to the whole race of mankind high and low amen
 exit
 timon of athens
act iv
scene ii athens a room in timon's house
 enter flavius with two or three servants
first servant hear you master steward where's our master
 are we undone cast off nothing remaining
flavius alack my fellows what should i say to you
 let me be recorded by the righteous gods
 i am as poor as you
first servant such a house broke
 so noble a master fall'n all gone and not
 one friend to take his fortune by the arm
 and go along with him
second servant as we do turn our backs
 from our companion thrown into his grave
 so his familiars to his buried fortunes
 slink all away leave their false vows with him
 like empty purses pick'd and his poor self
 a dedicated beggar to the air
 with his disease of allshunn'd poverty
 walks like contempt alone more of our fellows
 enter other servants
flavius all broken implements of a ruin'd house
third servant yet do our hearts wear timon's livery
 that see i by our faces we are fellows still
 serving alike in sorrow leak'd is our bark
 and we poor mates stand on the dying deck
 hearing the surges threat we must all part
 into this sea of air
flavius good fellows all
 the latest of my wealth i'll share amongst you
 wherever we shall meet for timon's sake
 let's yet be fellows let's shake our heads and say
 as twere a knell unto our master's fortunes
 we have seen better days let each take some
 nay put out all your hands not one word more
 thus part we rich in sorrow parting poor
 servants embrace and part several ways
 o the fierce wretchedness that glory brings us
 who would not wish to be from wealth exempt
 since riches point to misery and contempt
 who would be so mock'd with glory or to live
 but in a dream of friendship
 to have his pomp and all what state compounds
 but only painted like his varnish'd friends
 poor honest lord brought low by his own heart
 undone by goodness strange unusual blood
 when man's worst sin is he does too much good
 who then dares to be half so kind again
 for bounty that makes gods does still mar men
 my dearest lord bless'd to be most accursed
 rich only to be wretched thy great fortunes
 are made thy chief afflictions alas kind lord
 he's flung in rage from this ingrateful seat
 of monstrous friends nor has he with him to
 supply his life or that which can command it
 i'll follow and inquire him out
 i'll ever serve his mind with my best will
 whilst i have gold i'll be his steward still
 exit
 timon of athens
act iv
scene iii woods and cave near the seashore
 enter timon from the cave
 o blessed breeding sun draw from the earth
 rotten humidity below thy sister's orb
 infect the air twinn'd brothers of one womb
 whose procreation residence and birth
 scarce is dividant touch them with several fortunes
 the greater scorns the lesser not nature
 to whom all sores lay siege can bear great fortune
 but by contempt of nature
 raise me this beggar and deny t that lord
 the senator shall bear contempt hereditary
 the beggar native honour
 it is the pasture lards the rother's sides
 the want that makes him lean who dares who dares
 in purity of manhood stand upright
 and say this man's a flatterer if one be
 so are they all for every grise of fortune
 is smooth'd by that below the learned pate
 ducks to the golden fool all is oblique
 there's nothing level in our cursed natures
 but direct villany therefore be abhorr'd
 all feasts societies and throngs of men
 his semblable yea himself timon disdains
 destruction fang mankind earth yield me roots
 digging
 who seeks for better of thee sauce his palate
 with thy most operant poison what is here
 gold yellow glittering precious gold no gods
 i am no idle votarist roots you clear heavens
 thus much of this will make black white foul fair
 wrong right base noble old young coward valiant
 ha you gods why this what this you gods why this
 will lug your priests and servants from your sides
 pluck stout men's pillows from below their heads
 this yellow slave
 will knit and break religions bless the accursed
 make the hoar leprosy adored place thieves
 and give them title knee and approbation
 with senators on the bench this is it
 that makes the wappen'd widow wed again
 she whom the spitalhouse and ulcerous sores
 would cast the gorge at this embalms and spices
 to the april day again come damned earth
 thou common whore of mankind that put'st odds
 among the route of nations i will make thee
 do thy right nature
 march afar off
 ha a drum thou'rt quick
 but yet i'll bury thee thou'lt go strong thief
 when gouty keepers of thee cannot stand
 nay stay thou out for earnest
 keeping some gold
 enter alcibiades with drum and fife in
 warlike manner phrynia and timandra
alcibiades what art thou there speak
timon a beast as thou art the canker gnaw thy heart
 for showing me again the eyes of man
alcibiades what is thy name is man so hateful to thee
 that art thyself a man
timon i am misanthropos and hate mankind
 for thy part i do wish thou wert a dog
 that i might love thee something
alcibiades i know thee well
 but in thy fortunes am unlearn'd and strange
timon i know thee too and more than that i know thee
 i not desire to know follow thy drum
 with man's blood paint the ground gules gules
 religious canons civil laws are cruel
 then what should war be this fell whore of thine
 hath in her more destruction than thy sword
 for all her cherubim look
phrynia thy lips rot off
timon i will not kiss thee then the rot returns
 to thine own lips again
alcibiades how came the noble timon to this change
timon as the moon does by wanting light to give
 but then renew i could not like the moon
 there were no suns to borrow of
alcibiades noble timon
 what friendship may i do thee
timon none but to
 maintain my opinion
alcibiades what is it timon
timon promise me friendship but perform none if thou
 wilt not promise the gods plague thee for thou art
 a man if thou dost perform confound thee for
 thou art a man
alcibiades i have heard in some sort of thy miseries
timon thou saw'st them when i had prosperity
alcibiades i see them now then was a blessed time
timon as thine is now held with a brace of harlots
timandra is this the athenian minion whom the world
 voiced so regardfully
timon art thou timandra
timandra yes
timon be a whore still they love thee not that use thee
 give them diseases leaving with thee their lust
 make use of thy salt hours season the slaves
 for tubs and baths bring down rosecheeked youth
 to the tubfast and the diet
timandra hang thee monster
alcibiades pardon him sweet timandra for his wits
 are drown'd and lost in his calamities
 i have but little gold of late brave timon
 the want whereof doth daily make revolt
 in my penurious band i have heard and grieved
 how cursed athens mindless of thy worth
 forgetting thy great deeds when neighbour states
 but for thy sword and fortune trod upon them
timon i prithee beat thy drum and get thee gone
alcibiades i am thy friend and pity thee dear timon
timon how dost thou pity him whom thou dost trouble
 i had rather be alone
alcibiades why fare thee well
 here is some gold for thee
timon keep it i cannot eat it
alcibiades when i have laid proud athens on a heap
timon warr'st thou gainst athens
alcibiades ay timon and have cause
timon the gods confound them all in thy conquest
 and thee after when thou hast conquer'd
alcibiades why me timon
timon that by killing of villains
 thou wast born to conquer my country
 put up thy gold go onhere's goldgo on
 be as a planetary plague when jove
 will o'er some highviced city hang his poison
 in the sick air let not thy sword skip one
 pity not honour'd age for his white beard
 he is an usurer strike me the counterfeit matron
 it is her habit only that is honest
 herself's a bawd let not the virgin's cheek
 make soft thy trenchant sword for those milkpaps
 that through the windowbars bore at men's eyes
 are not within the leaf of pity writ
 but set them down horrible traitors spare not the babe
 whose dimpled smiles from fools exhaust their mercy
 think it a bastard whom the oracle
 hath doubtfully pronounced thy throat shall cut
 and mince it sans remorse swear against objects
 put armour on thine ears and on thine eyes
 whose proof nor yells of mothers maids nor babes
 nor sight of priests in holy vestments bleeding
 shall pierce a jot there's gold to pay soldiers
 make large confusion and thy fury spent
 confounded be thyself speak not be gone
alcibiades hast thou gold yet i'll take the gold thou
 givest me
 not all thy counsel
timon dost thou or dost thou not heaven's curse
 upon thee
phrynia 
 give us some gold good timon hast thou more
timandra 
timon enough to make a whore forswear her trade
 and to make whores a bawd hold up you sluts
 your aprons mountant you are not oathable
 although i know you ll swear terribly swear
 into strong shudders and to heavenly agues
 the immortal gods that hear youspare your oaths
 i'll trust to your conditions be whores still
 and he whose pious breath seeks to convert you
 be strong in whore allure him burn him up
 let your close fire predominate his smoke
 and be no turncoats yet may your pains six months
 be quite contrary and thatch your poor thin roofs
 with burthens of the deadsome that were hang'd
 no matterwear them betray with them whore still
 paint till a horse may mire upon your face
 a pox of wrinkles
phrynia 
 well more gold what then
timandra believe't that we'll do any thing for gold
timon consumptions sow
 in hollow bones of man strike their sharp shins
 and mar men's spurring crack the lawyer's voice
 that he may never more false title plead
 nor sound his quillets shrilly hoar the flamen
 that scolds against the quality of flesh
 and not believes himself down with the nose
 down with it flat take the bridge quite away
 of him that his particular to foresee
 smells from the general weal make curl'dpate
 ruffians bald
 and let the unscarr'd braggarts of the war
 derive some pain from you plague all
 that your activity may defeat and quell
 the source of all erection there's more gold
 do you damn others and let this damn you
 and ditches grave you all
phrynia 
 more counsel with more money bounteous timon
timandra 
timon more whore more mischief first i have given you earnest
alcibiades strike up the drum towards athens farewell timon
 if i thrive well i'll visit thee again
timon if i hope well i'll never see thee more
alcibiades i never did thee harm
timon yes thou spokest well of me
alcibiades call'st thou that harm
timon men daily find it get thee away and take
 thy beagles with thee
alcibiades we but offend him strike
 drum beats exeunt alcibiades phrynia
 and timandra
timon that nature being sick of man's unkindness
 should yet be hungry common mother thou
 digging
 whose womb unmeasurable and infinite breast
 teems and feeds all whose selfsame mettle
 whereof thy proud child arrogant man is puff'd
 engenders the black toad and adder blue
 the gilded newt and eyeless venom'd worm
 with all the abhorred births below crisp heaven
 whereon hyperion's quickening fire doth shine
 yield him who all thy human sons doth hate
 from forth thy plenteous bosom one poor root
 ensear thy fertile and conceptious womb
 let it no more bring out ingrateful man
 go great with tigers dragons wolves and bears
 teem with new monsters whom thy upward face
 hath to the marbled mansion all above
 never presentedo a rootdear thanks
 dry up thy marrows vines and ploughtorn leas
 whereof ungrateful man with liquorish draughts
 and morsels unctuous greases his pure mind
 that from it all consideration slips
 enter apemantus
 more man plague plague
apemantus i was directed hither men report
 thou dost affect my manners and dost use them
timon tis then because thou dost not keep a dog
 whom i would imitate consumption catch thee
apemantus this is in thee a nature but infected
 a poor unmanly melancholy sprung
 from change of fortune why this spade this place
 this slavelike habit and these looks of care
 thy flatterers yet wear silk drink wine lie soft
 hug their diseased perfumes and have forgot
 that ever timon was shame not these woods
 by putting on the cunning of a carper
 be thou a flatterer now and seek to thrive
 by that which has undone thee hinge thy knee
 and let his very breath whom thou'lt observe
 blow off thy cap praise his most vicious strain
 and call it excellent thou wast told thus
 thou gavest thine ears like tapsters that bid welcome
 to knaves and all approachers tis most just
 that thou turn rascal hadst thou wealth again
 rascals should have t do not assume my likeness
timon were i like thee i'ld throw away myself
apemantus thou hast cast away thyself being like thyself
 a madman so long now a fool what think'st
 that the bleak air thy boisterous chamberlain
 will put thy shirt on warm will these moss'd trees
 that have outlived the eagle page thy heels
 and skip where thou point'st out will the
 cold brook
 candied with ice caudle thy morning taste
 to cure thy o'ernight's surfeit call the creatures
 whose naked natures live in an the spite
 of wreakful heaven whose bare unhoused trunks
 to the conflicting elements exposed
 answer mere nature bid them flatter thee
 o thou shalt find
timon a fool of thee depart
apemantus i love thee better now than e'er i did
timon i hate thee worse
apemantus why
timon thou flatter'st misery
apemantus i flatter not but say thou art a caitiff
timon why dost thou seek me out
apemantus to vex thee
timon always a villain's office or a fool's
 dost please thyself in't
apemantus ay
timon what a knave too
apemantus if thou didst put this sourcold habit on
 to castigate thy pride twere well but thou
 dost it enforcedly thou'ldst courtier be again
 wert thou not beggar willing misery
 outlives encertain pomp is crown'd before
 the one is filling still never complete
 the other at high wish best state contentless
 hath a distracted and most wretched being
 worse than the worst content
 thou shouldst desire to die being miserable
timon not by his breath that is more miserable
 thou art a slave whom fortune's tender arm
 with favour never clasp'd but bred a dog
 hadst thou like us from our first swath proceeded
 the sweet degrees that this brief world affords
 to such as may the passive drugs of it
 freely command thou wouldst have plunged thyself
 in general riot melted down thy youth
 in different beds of lust and never learn'd
 the icy precepts of respect but follow'd
 the sugar'd game before thee but myself
 who had the world as my confectionary
 the mouths the tongues the eyes and hearts of men
 at duty more than i could frame employment
 that numberless upon me stuck as leaves
 do on the oak hive with one winter's brush
 fell from their boughs and left me open bare
 for every storm that blows i to bear this
 that never knew but better is some burden
 thy nature did commence in sufferance time
 hath made thee hard in't why shouldst thou hate men
 they never flatter'd thee what hast thou given
 if thou wilt curse thy father that poor rag
 must be thy subject who in spite put stuff
 to some she beggar and compounded thee
 poor rogue hereditary hence be gone
 if thou hadst not been born the worst of men
 thou hadst been a knave and flatterer
apemantus art thou proud yet
timon ay that i am not thee
apemantus i that i was
 no prodigal
timon i that i am one now
 were all the wealth i have shut up in thee
 i'ld give thee leave to hang it get thee gone
 that the whole life of athens were in this
 thus would i eat it
 eating a root
apemantus here i will mend thy feast
 offering him a root
timon first mend my company take away thyself
apemantus so i shall mend mine own by the lack of thine
timon tis not well mended so it is but botch'd
 if not i would it were
apemantus what wouldst thou have to athens
timon thee thither in a whirlwind if thou wilt
 tell them there i have gold look so i have
apemantus here is no use for gold
timon the best and truest
 for here it sleeps and does no hired harm
apemantus where liest o nights timon
timon under that's above me
 where feed'st thou o days apemantus
apemantus where my stomach finds meat or rather where i eat
 it
timon would poison were obedient and knew my mind
apemantus where wouldst thou send it
timon to sauce thy dishes
apemantus the middle of humanity thou never knewest but the
 extremity of both ends when thou wast in thy gilt
 and thy perfume they mocked thee for too much
 curiosity in thy rags thou knowest none but art
 despised for the contrary there's a medlar for
 thee eat it
timon on what i hate i feed not
apemantus dost hate a medlar
timon ay though it look like thee
apemantus an thou hadst hated meddlers sooner thou shouldst
 have loved thyself better now what man didst thou
 ever know unthrift that was beloved after his means
timon who without those means thou talkest of didst thou
 ever know beloved
apemantus myself
timon i understand thee thou hadst some means to keep a
 dog
apemantus what things in the world canst thou nearest compare
 to thy flatterers
timon women nearest but men men are the things
 themselves what wouldst thou do with the world
 apemantus if it lay in thy power
apemantus give it the beasts to be rid of the men
timon wouldst thou have thyself fall in the confusion of
 men and remain a beast with the beasts
apemantus ay timon
timon a beastly ambition which the gods grant thee t'
 attain to if thou wert the lion the fox would
 beguile thee if thou wert the lamb the fox would
 eat three if thou wert the fox the lion would
 suspect thee when peradventure thou wert accused by
 the ass if thou wert the ass thy dulness would
 torment thee and still thou livedst but as a
 breakfast to the wolf if thou wert the wolf thy
 greediness would afflict thee and oft thou shouldst
 hazard thy life for thy dinner wert thou the
 unicorn pride and wrath would confound thee and
 make thine own self the conquest of thy fury wert
 thou a bear thou wouldst be killed by the horse
 wert thou a horse thou wouldst be seized by the
 leopard wert thou a leopard thou wert german to
 the lion and the spots of thy kindred were jurors on
 thy life all thy safety were remotion and thy
 defence absence what beast couldst thou be that
 were not subject to a beast and what a beast art
 thou already that seest not thy loss in
 transformation
apemantus if thou couldst please me with speaking to me thou
 mightst have hit upon it here the commonwealth of
 athens is become a forest of beasts
timon how has the ass broke the wall that thou art out of the city
apemantus yonder comes a poet and a painter the plague of
 company light upon thee i will fear to catch it
 and give way when i know not what else to do i'll
 see thee again
timon when there is nothing living but thee thou shalt be
 welcome i had rather be a beggar's dog than apemantus
apemantus thou art the cap of all the fools alive
timon would thou wert clean enough to spit upon
apemantus a plague on thee thou art too bad to curse
timon all villains that do stand by thee are pure
apemantus there is no leprosy but what thou speak'st
timon if i name thee
 i'll beat thee but i should infect my hands
apemantus i would my tongue could rot them off
timon away thou issue of a mangy dog
 choler does kill me that thou art alive
 i swound to see thee
apemantus would thou wouldst burst
timon away
 thou tedious rogue i am sorry i shall lose
 a stone by thee
 throws a stone at him
apemantus beast
timon slave
apemantus toad
timon rogue rogue rogue
 i am sick of this false world and will love nought
 but even the mere necessities upon t
 then timon presently prepare thy grave
 lie where the light foam the sea may beat
 thy gravestone daily make thine epitaph
 that death in me at others lives may laugh
 to the gold
 o thou sweet kingkiller and dear divorce
 twixt natural son and sire thou bright defiler
 of hymen's purest bed thou valiant mars
 thou ever young fresh loved and delicate wooer
 whose blush doth thaw the consecrated snow
 that lies on dian's lap thou visible god
 that solder'st close impossibilities
 and makest them kiss that speak'st with
 every tongue
 to every purpose o thou touch of hearts
 think thy slave man rebels and by thy virtue
 set them into confounding odds that beasts
 may have the world in empire
apemantus would twere so
 but not till i am dead i'll say thou'st gold
 thou wilt be throng'd to shortly
timon throng'd to
apemantus ay
timon thy back i prithee
apemantus live and love thy misery
timon long live so and so die
 exit apemantus
 i am quit
 moe things like men eat timon and abhor them
 enter banditti
first bandit where should he have this gold it is some poor
 fragment some slender sort of his remainder the
 mere want of gold and the fallingfrom of his
 friends drove him into this melancholy
second bandit it is noised he hath a mass of treasure
third bandit let us make the assay upon him if he care not
 for't he will supply us easily if he covetously
 reserve it how shall's get it
second bandit true for he bears it not about him tis hid
first bandit is not this he
banditti where
second bandit tis his description
third bandit he i know him
banditti save thee timon
timon now thieves
banditti soldiers not thieves
timon both too and women's sons
banditti we are not thieves but men that much do want
timon your greatest want is you want much of meat
 why should you want behold the earth hath roots
 within this mile break forth a hundred springs
 the oaks bear mast the briers scarlet hips
 the bounteous housewife nature on each bush
 lays her full mess before you want why want
first bandit we cannot live on grass on berries water
 as beasts and birds and fishes
timon nor on the beasts themselves the birds and fishes
 you must eat men yet thanks i must you con
 that you are thieves profess'd that you work not
 in holier shapes for there is boundless theft
 in limited professions rascal thieves
 here's gold go suck the subtle blood o the grape
 till the high fever seethe your blood to froth
 and so scape hanging trust not the physician
 his antidotes are poison and he slays
 moe than you rob take wealth and lives together
 do villany do since you protest to do't
 like workmen i'll example you with thievery
 the sun's a thief and with his great attraction
 robs the vast sea the moon's an arrant thief
 and her pale fire she snatches from the sun
 the sea's a thief whose liquid surge resolves
 the moon into salt tears the earth's a thief
 that feeds and breeds by a composture stolen
 from general excrement each thing's a thief
 the laws your curb and whip in their rough power
 have uncheque'd theft love not yourselves away
 rob one another there's more gold cut throats
 all that you meet are thieves to athens go
 break open shops nothing can you steal
 but thieves do lose it steal no less for this
 i give you and gold confound you howsoe'er amen
third bandit has almost charmed me from my profession by
 persuading me to it
first bandit tis in the malice of mankind that he thus advises
 us not to have us thrive in our mystery
second bandit i'll believe him as an enemy and give over my trade
first bandit let us first see peace in athens there is no time
 so miserable but a man may be true
 exeunt banditti
 enter flavius
flavius o you gods
 is yond despised and ruinous man my lord
 full of decay and failing o monument
 and wonder of good deeds evilly bestow'd
 what an alteration of honour
 has desperate want made
 what viler thing upon the earth than friends
 who can bring noblest minds to basest ends
 how rarely does it meet with this time's guise
 when man was wish'd to love his enemies
 grant i may ever love and rather woo
 those that would mischief me than those that do
 has caught me in his eye i will present
 my honest grief unto him and as my lord
 still serve him with my life my dearest master
timon away what art thou
flavius have you forgot me sir
timon why dost ask that i have forgot all men
 then if thou grant'st thou'rt a man i have forgot thee
flavius an honest poor servant of yours
timon then i know thee not
 i never had honest man about me i all
 i kept were knaves to serve in meat to villains
flavius the gods are witness
 ne'er did poor steward wear a truer grief
 for his undone lord than mine eyes for you
timon what dost thou weep come nearer then i
 love thee
 because thou art a woman and disclaim'st
 flinty mankind whose eyes do never give
 but thorough lust and laughter pity's sleeping
 strange times that weep with laughing not with weeping
flavius i beg of you to know me good my lord
 to accept my grief and whilst this poor wealth lasts
 to entertain me as your steward still
timon had i a steward
 so true so just and now so comfortable
 it almost turns my dangerous nature mild
 let me behold thy face surely this man
 was born of woman
 forgive my general and exceptless rashness
 you perpetualsober gods i do proclaim
 one honest manmistake me notbut one
 no more i prayand he's a steward
 how fain would i have hated all mankind
 and thou redeem'st thyself but all save thee
 i fell with curses
 methinks thou art more honest now than wise
 for by oppressing and betraying me
 thou mightst have sooner got another service
 for many so arrive at second masters
 upon their first lord's neck but tell me true
 for i must ever doubt though ne'er so sure
 is not thy kindness subtle covetous
 if not a usuring kindness and as rich men deal gifts
 expecting in return twenty for one
flavius no my most worthy master in whose breast
 doubt and suspect alas are placed too late
 you should have fear'd false times when you did feast
 suspect still comes where an estate is least
 that which i show heaven knows is merely love
 duty and zeal to your unmatched mind
 care of your food and living and believe it
 my most honour'd lord
 for any benefit that points to me
 either in hope or present i'ld exchange
 for this one wish that you had power and wealth
 to requite me by making rich yourself
timon look thee tis so thou singly honest man
 here take the gods out of my misery
 have sent thee treasure go live rich and happy
 but thus condition'd thou shalt build from men
 hate all curse all show charity to none
 but let the famish'd flesh slide from the bone
 ere thou relieve the beggar give to dogs
 what thou deny'st to men let prisons swallow em
 debts wither em to nothing be men like
 blasted woods
 and may diseases lick up their false bloods
 and so farewell and thrive
flavius o let me stay
 and comfort you my master
timon if thou hatest curses
 stay not fly whilst thou art blest and free
 ne'er see thou man and let me ne'er see thee
 exit flavius timon retires to his cave
 timon of athens
act v
scene i the woods before timon's cave
 enter poet and painter timon watching
 them from his cave
painter as i took note of the place it cannot be far where
 he abides
poet what's to be thought of him does the rumour hold
 for true that he's so full of gold
painter certain alcibiades reports it phrynia and
 timandra had gold of him he likewise enriched poor
 straggling soldiers with great quantity tis said
 he gave unto his steward a mighty sum
poet then this breaking of his has been but a try for his friends
painter nothing else you shall see him a palm in athens
 again and flourish with the highest therefore
 tis not amiss we tender our loves to him in this
 supposed distress of his it will show honestly in
 us and is very likely to load our purposes with
 what they travail for if it be a just true report
 that goes of his having
poet what have you now to present unto him
painter nothing at this time but my visitation only i will
 promise him an excellent piece
poet i must serve him so too tell him of an intent
 that's coming toward him
painter good as the best promising is the very air o the
 time it opens the eyes of expectation
 performance is ever the duller for his act and
 but in the plainer and simpler kind of people the
 deed of saying is quite out of use to promise is
 most courtly and fashionable performance is a kind
 of will or testament which argues a great sickness
 in his judgment that makes it
 timon comes from his cave behind
timon aside excellent workman thou canst not paint a
 man so bad as is thyself
poet i am thinking what i shall say i have provided for
 him it must be a personating of himself a satire
 against the softness of prosperity with a discovery
 of the infinite flatteries that follow youth and opulency
timon aside must thou needs stand for a villain in
 thine own work wilt thou whip thine own faults in
 other men do so i have gold for thee
poet nay let's seek him
 then do we sin against our own estate
 when we may profit meet and come too late
painter true
 when the day serves before blackcorner'd night
 find what thou want'st by free and offer'd light come
timon aside i'll meet you at the turn what a
 god's gold
 that he is worshipp'd in a baser temple
 than where swine feed
 tis thou that rigg'st the bark and plough'st the foam
 settlest admired reverence in a slave
 to thee be worship and thy saints for aye
 be crown'd with plagues that thee alone obey
 fit i meet them
 coming forward
poet hail worthy timon
painter our late noble master
timon have i once lived to see two honest men
poet sir
 having often of your open bounty tasted
 hearing you were retired your friends fall'n off
 whose thankless natureso abhorred spirits
 not all the whips of heaven are large enough
 what to you
 whose starlike nobleness gave life and influence
 to their whole being i am rapt and cannot cover
 the monstrous bulk of this ingratitude
 with any size of words
timon let it go naked men may see't the better
 you that are honest by being what you are
 make them best seen and known
painter he and myself
 have travail'd in the great shower of your gifts
 and sweetly felt it
timon ay you are honest men
painter we are hither come to offer you our service
timon most honest men why how shall i requite you
 can you eat roots and drink cold water no
both what we can do we'll do to do you service
timon ye're honest men ye've heard that i have gold
 i am sure you have speak truth ye're honest men
painter so it is said my noble lord but therefore
 came not my friend nor i
timon good honest men thou draw'st a counterfeit
 best in all athens thou'rt indeed the best
 thou counterfeit'st most lively
painter so so my lord
timon e'en so sir as i say and for thy fiction
 why thy verse swells with stuff so fine and smooth
 that thou art even natural in thine art
 but for all this my honestnatured friends
 i must needs say you have a little fault
 marry tis not monstrous in you neither wish i
 you take much pains to mend
both beseech your honour
 to make it known to us
timon you'll take it ill
both most thankfully my lord
timon will you indeed
both doubt it not worthy lord
timon there's never a one of you but trusts a knave
 that mightily deceives you
both do we my lord
timon ay and you hear him cog see him dissemble
 know his gross patchery love him feed him
 keep in your bosom yet remain assured
 that he's a madeup villain
painter i know none such my lord
poet nor i
timon look you i love you well i'll give you gold
 rid me these villains from your companies
 hang them or stab them drown them in a draught
 confound them by some course and come to me
 i'll give you gold enough
both name them my lord let's know them
timon you that way and you this but two in company
 each man apart all single and alone
 yet an archvillain keeps him company
 if where thou art two villains shall not be
 come not near him if thou wouldst not reside
 but where one villain is then him abandon
 hence pack there's gold you came for gold ye slaves
 to painter
 you have work'd for me there's payment for you hence
 to poet
 you are an alchemist make gold of that
 out rascal dogs
 beats them out and then retires to his cave
 enter flavius and two senators
flavius it is in vain that you would speak with timon
 for he is set so only to himself
 that nothing but himself which looks like man
 is friendly with him
first senator bring us to his cave
 it is our part and promise to the athenians
 to speak with timon
second senator at all times alike
 men are not still the same twas time and griefs
 that framed him thus time with his fairer hand
 offering the fortunes of his former days
 the former man may make him bring us to him
 and chance it as it may
flavius here is his cave
 peace and content be here lord timon timon
 look out and speak to friends the athenians
 by two of their most reverend senate greet thee
 speak to them noble timon
 timon comes from his cave
timon thou sun that comfort'st burn speak and
 be hang'd
 for each true word a blister and each false
 be as cauterizing to the root o the tongue
 consuming it with speaking
first senator worthy timon
timon of none but such as you and you of timon
first senator the senators of athens greet thee timon
timon i thank them and would send them back the plague
 could i but catch it for them
first senator o forget
 what we are sorry for ourselves in thee
 the senators with one consent of love
 entreat thee back to athens who have thought
 on special dignities which vacant lie
 for thy best use and wearing
second senator they confess
 toward thee forgetfulness too general gross
 which now the public body which doth seldom
 play the recanter feeling in itself
 a lack of timon's aid hath sense withal
 of its own fail restraining aid to timon
 and send forth us to make their sorrow'd render
 together with a recompense more fruitful
 than their offence can weigh down by the dram
 ay even such heaps and sums of love and wealth
 as shall to thee blot out what wrongs were theirs
 and write in thee the figures of their love
 ever to read them thine
timon you witch me in it
 surprise me to the very brink of tears
 lend me a fool's heart and a woman's eyes
 and i'll beweep these comforts worthy senators
first senator therefore so please thee to return with us
 and of our athens thine and ours to take
 the captainship thou shalt be met with thanks
 allow'd with absolute power and thy good name
 live with authority so soon we shall drive back
 of alcibiades the approaches wild
 who like a boar too savage doth root up
 his country's peace
second senator and shakes his threatening sword
 against the walls of athens
first senator therefore timon
timon well sir i will therefore i will sir thus
 if alcibiades kill my countrymen
 let alcibiades know this of timon
 that timon cares not but if be sack fair athens
 and take our goodly aged men by the beards
 giving our holy virgins to the stain
 of contumelious beastly madbrain'd war
 then let him know and tell him timon speaks it
 in pity of our aged and our youth
 i cannot choose but tell him that i care not
 and let him take't at worst for their knives care not
 while you have throats to answer for myself
 there's not a whittle in the unruly camp
 but i do prize it at my love before
 the reverend'st throat in athens so i leave you
 to the protection of the prosperous gods
 as thieves to keepers
flavius stay not all's in vain
timon why i was writing of my epitaph
 it will be seen tomorrow my long sickness
 of health and living now begins to mend
 and nothing brings me all things go live still
 be alcibiades your plague you his
 and last so long enough
first senator we speak in vain
timon but yet i love my country and am not
 one that rejoices in the common wreck
 as common bruit doth put it
first senator that's well spoke
timon commend me to my loving countrymen
first senator these words become your lips as they pass
 thorough them
second senator and enter in our ears like great triumphers
 in their applauding gates
timon commend me to them
 and tell them that to ease them of their griefs
 their fears of hostile strokes their aches losses
 their pangs of love with other incident throes
 that nature's fragile vessel doth sustain
 in life's uncertain voyage i will some kindness do them
 i'll teach them to prevent wild alcibiades wrath
first senator i like this well he will return again
timon i have a tree which grows here in my close
 that mine own use invites me to cut down
 and shortly must i fell it tell my friends
 tell athens in the sequence of degree
 from high to low throughout that whoso please
 to stop affliction let him take his haste
 come hither ere my tree hath felt the axe
 and hang himself i pray you do my greeting
flavius trouble him no further thus you still shall find him
timon come not to me again but say to athens
 timon hath made his everlasting mansion
 upon the beached verge of the salt flood
 who once a day with his embossed froth
 the turbulent surge shall cover thither come
 and let my gravestone be your oracle
 lips let sour words go by and language end
 what is amiss plague and infection mend
 graves only be men's works and death their gain
 sun hide thy beams timon hath done his reign
 retires to his cave
first senator his discontents are unremoveably
 coupled to nature
second senator our hope in him is dead let us return
 and strain what other means is left unto us
 in our dear peril
first senator it requires swift foot
 exeunt
 timon of athens
act v
scene ii before the walls of athens
 enter two senators and a messenger
first senator thou hast painfully discover'd are his files
 as full as thy report
messenger have spoke the least
 besides his expedition promises
 present approach
second senator we stand much hazard if they bring not timon
messenger i met a courier one mine ancient friend
 whom though in general part we were opposed
 yet our old love made a particular force
 and made us speak like friends this man was riding
 from alcibiades to timon's cave
 with letters of entreaty which imported
 his fellowship i the cause against your city
 in part for his sake moved
first senator here come our brothers
 enter the senators from timon
third senator no talk of timon nothing of him expect
 the enemies drum is heard and fearful scouring
 doth choke the air with dust in and prepare
 ours is the fall i fear our foes the snare
 exeunt
 timon of athens
act v
scene iii the woods timon's cave and a rude tomb seen
 enter a soldier seeking timon
soldier by all description this should be the place
 who's here speak ho no answer what is this
 timon is dead who hath outstretch'd his span
 some beast rear'd this there does not live a man
 dead sure and this his grave what's on this tomb
 i cannot read the character i'll take with wax
 our captain hath in every figure skill
 an aged interpreter though young in days
 before proud athens he's set down by this
 whose fall the mark of his ambition is
 exit
 timon of athens
act v
scene iv before the walls of athens
 trumpets sound enter alcibiades with his powers
alcibiades sound to this coward and lascivious town
 our terrible approach
 a parley sounded
 enter senators on the walls
 till now you have gone on and fill'd the time
 with all licentious measure making your wills
 the scope of justice till now myself and such
 as slept within the shadow of your power
 have wander'd with our traversed arms and breathed
 our sufferance vainly now the time is flush
 when crouching marrow in the bearer strong
 cries of itself no more now breathless wrong
 shall sit and pant in your great chairs of ease
 and pursy insolence shall break his wind
 with fear and horrid flight
first senator noble and young
 when thy first griefs were but a mere conceit
 ere thou hadst power or we had cause of fear
 we sent to thee to give thy rages balm
 to wipe out our ingratitude with loves
 above their quantity
second senator so did we woo
 transformed timon to our city's love
 by humble message and by promised means
 we were not all unkind nor all deserve
 the common stroke of war
first senator these walls of ours
 were not erected by their hands from whom
 you have received your griefs nor are they such
 that these great towers trophies and schools
 should fall
 for private faults in them
second senator nor are they living
 who were the motives that you first went out
 shame that they wanted cunning in excess
 hath broke their hearts march noble lord
 into our city with thy banners spread
 by decimation and a tithed death
 if thy revenges hunger for that food
 which nature loathestake thou the destined tenth
 and by the hazard of the spotted die
 let die the spotted
first senator all have not offended
 for those that were it is not square to take
 on those that are revenges crimes like lands
 are not inherited then dear countryman
 bring in thy ranks but leave without thy rage
 spare thy athenian cradle and those kin
 which in the bluster of thy wrath must fall
 with those that have offended like a shepherd
 approach the fold and cull the infected forth
 but kill not all together
second senator what thou wilt
 thou rather shalt enforce it with thy smile
 than hew to't with thy sword
first senator set but thy foot
 against our rampired gates and they shall ope
 so thou wilt send thy gentle heart before
 to say thou'lt enter friendly
second senator throw thy glove
 or any token of thine honour else
 that thou wilt use the wars as thy redress
 and not as our confusion all thy powers
 shall make their harbour in our town till we
 have seal'd thy full desire
alcibiades then there's my glove
 descend and open your uncharged ports
 those enemies of timon's and mine own
 whom you yourselves shall set out for reproof
 fall and no more and to atone your fears
 with my more noble meaning not a man
 shall pass his quarter or offend the stream
 of regular justice in your city's bounds
 but shall be render'd to your public laws
 at heaviest answer
both tis most nobly spoken
alcibiades descend and keep your words
 the senators descend and open the gates
 enter soldier
soldier my noble general timon is dead
 entomb'd upon the very hem o the sea
 and on his gravestone this insculpture which
 with wax i brought away whose soft impression
 interprets for my poor ignorance
alcibiades reads the epitaph here lies a
 wretched corse of wretched soul bereft
 seek not my name a plague consume you wicked
 caitiffs left
 here lie i timon who alive all living men did hate
 pass by and curse thy fill but pass and stay
 not here thy gait'
 these well express in thee thy latter spirits
 though thou abhorr'dst in us our human griefs
 scorn'dst our brain's flow and those our
 droplets which
 from niggard nature fall yet rich conceit
 taught thee to make vast neptune weep for aye
 on thy low grave on faults forgiven dead
 is noble timon of whose memory
 hereafter more bring me into your city
 and i will use the olive with my sword
 make war breed peace make peace stint war make each
 prescribe to other as each other's leech
 let our drums strike
 exeunt
 titus andronicus
 dramatis personae
saturninus son to the late emperor of rome and afterwards
 declared emperor
bassianus brother to saturninus in love with lavinia
titus andronicus a noble roman general against the goths
marcus andronicus tribune of the people and brother to titus
lucius 
 
quintus 
 sons to titus andronicus
martius 
 
mutius 
young lucius a boy son to lucius
publius son to marcus the tribune
sempronius 
 
caius kinsmen to titus
 
valentine 
aemilius a noble roman
alarbus 
 
demetrius sons to tamora
 
chiron 
aaron a moor beloved by tamora
 a captain tribune messenger and clown romans
 captain
 messenger
 clown
 goths and romans
 first goth
 second goth
 third goth
tamora queen of the goths
lavinia daughter of titus andronicus
 a nurse nurse
 senators tribunes officers soldiers and
 attendants
scene rome and the country near it
 titus andronicus
act i
scene i rome before the capitol
 the tomb of the andronici appearing the tribunes
 and senators aloft enter below from one side
 saturninus and his followers and from the other
 side bassianus and his followers with drum and colours
saturninus noble patricians patrons of my right
 defend the justice of my cause with arms
 and countrymen my loving followers
 plead my successive title with your swords
 i am his firstborn son that was the last
 that wore the imperial diadem of rome
 then let my father's honours live in me
 nor wrong mine age with this indignity
bassianus romans friends followers favorers of my right
 if ever bassianus caesar's son
 were gracious in the eyes of royal rome
 keep then this passage to the capitol
 and suffer not dishonour to approach
 the imperial seat to virtue consecrate
 to justice continence and nobility
 but let desert in pure election shine
 and romans fight for freedom in your choice
 enter marcus andronicus aloft with the crown
marcus andronicus princes that strive by factions and by friends
 ambitiously for rule and empery
 know that the people of rome for whom we stand
 a special party have by common voice
 in election for the roman empery
 chosen andronicus surnamed pius
 for many good and great deserts to rome
 a nobler man a braver warrior
 lives not this day within the city walls
 he by the senate is accit'd home
 from weary wars against the barbarous goths
 that with his sons a terror to our foes
 hath yoked a nation strong train'd up in arms
 ten years are spent since first he undertook
 this cause of rome and chastised with arms
 our enemies pride five times he hath return'd
 bleeding to rome bearing his valiant sons
 in coffins from the field
 and now at last laden with horror's spoils
 returns the good andronicus to rome
 renowned titus flourishing in arms
 let us entreat by honour of his name
 whom worthily you would have now succeed
 and in the capitol and senate's right
 whom you pretend to honour and adore
 that you withdraw you and abate your strength
 dismiss your followers and as suitors should
 plead your deserts in peace and humbleness
saturninus how fair the tribune speaks to calm my thoughts
bassianus marcus andronicus so i do ally
 in thy uprightness and integrity
 and so i love and honour thee and thine
 thy noble brother titus and his sons
 and her to whom my thoughts are humbled all
 gracious lavinia rome's rich ornament
 that i will here dismiss my loving friends
 and to my fortunes and the people's favor
 commit my cause in balance to be weigh'd
 exeunt the followers of bassianus
saturninus friends that have been thus forward in my right
 i thank you all and here dismiss you all
 and to the love and favor of my country
 commit myself my person and the cause
 exeunt the followers of saturninus
 rome be as just and gracious unto me
 as i am confident and kind to thee
 open the gates and let me in
bassianus tribunes and me a poor competitor
 flourish saturninus and bassianus go up into the capitol
 enter a captain
captain romans make way the good andronicus
 patron of virtue rome's best champion
 successful in the battles that he fights
 with honour and with fortune is return'd
 from where he circumscribed with his sword
 and brought to yoke the enemies of rome
 drums and trumpets sounded enter martius and
 mutius after them two men bearing a coffin
 covered with black then lucius and quintus after
 them titus andronicus and then tamora with
 alarbus demetrius chiron aaron and other goths
 prisoners soldiers and people following the
 bearers set down the coffin and titus speaks
titus andronicus hail rome victorious in thy mourning weeds
 lo as the bark that hath discharged her fraught
 returns with precious jading to the bay
 from whence at first she weigh'd her anchorage
 cometh andronicus bound with laurel boughs
 to resalute his country with his tears
 tears of true joy for his return to rome
 thou great defender of this capitol
 stand gracious to the rites that we intend
 romans of five and twenty valiant sons
 half of the number that king priam had
 behold the poor remains alive and dead
 these that survive let rome reward with love
 these that i bring unto their latest home
 with burial amongst their ancestors
 here goths have given me leave to sheathe my sword
 titus unkind and careless of thine own
 why suffer'st thou thy sons unburied yet
 to hover on the dreadful shore of styx
 make way to lay them by their brethren
 the tomb is opened
 there greet in silence as the dead are wont
 and sleep in peace slain in your country's wars
 o sacred receptacle of my joys
 sweet cell of virtue and nobility
 how many sons of mine hast thou in store
 that thou wilt never render to me more
lucius give us the proudest prisoner of the goths
 that we may hew his limbs and on a pile
 ad manes fratrum sacrifice his flesh
 before this earthy prison of their bones
 that so the shadows be not unappeased
 nor we disturb'd with prodigies on earth
titus andronicus i give him you the noblest that survives
 the eldest son of this distressed queen
tamora stay roman brethren gracious conqueror
 victorious titus rue the tears i shed
 a mother's tears in passion for her son
 and if thy sons were ever dear to thee
 o think my son to be as dear to me
 sufficeth not that we are brought to rome
 to beautify thy triumphs and return
 captive to thee and to thy roman yoke
 but must my sons be slaughter'd in the streets
 for valiant doings in their country's cause
 o if to fight for king and commonweal
 were piety in thine it is in these
 andronicus stain not thy tomb with blood
 wilt thou draw near the nature of the gods
 draw near them then in being merciful
 sweet mercy is nobility's true badge
 thrice noble titus spare my firstborn son
titus andronicus patient yourself madam and pardon me
 these are their brethren whom you goths beheld
 alive and dead and for their brethren slain
 religiously they ask a sacrifice
 to this your son is mark'd and die he must
 to appease their groaning shadows that are gone
lucius away with him and make a fire straight
 and with our swords upon a pile of wood
 let's hew his limbs till they be clean consumed
 exeunt lucius quintus martius and mutius with alarbus
tamora o cruel irreligious piety
chiron was ever scythia half so barbarous
demetrius oppose not scythia to ambitious rome
 alarbus goes to rest and we survive
 to tremble under titus threatening looks
 then madam stand resolved but hope withal
 the selfsame gods that arm'd the queen of troy
 with opportunity of sharp revenge
 upon the thracian tyrant in his tent
 may favor tamora the queen of goths
 when goths were goths and tamora was queen
 to quit the bloody wrongs upon her foes
 reenter lucius quintus martius and mutius with
 their swords bloody
lucius see lord and father how we have perform'd
 our roman rites alarbus limbs are lopp'd
 and entrails feed the sacrificing fire
 whose smoke like incense doth perfume the sky
 remaineth nought but to inter our brethren
 and with loud larums welcome them to rome
titus andronicus let it be so and let andronicus
 make this his latest farewell to their souls
 trumpets sounded and the coffin laid in the tomb
 in peace and honour rest you here my sons
 rome's readiest champions repose you here in rest
 secure from worldly chances and mishaps
 here lurks no treason here no envy swells
 here grow no damned grudges here are no storms
 no noise but silence and eternal sleep
 in peace and honour rest you here my sons
 enter lavinia
lavinia in peace and honour live lord titus long
 my noble lord and father live in fame
 lo at this tomb my tributary tears
 i render for my brethren's obsequies
 and at thy feet i kneel with tears of joy
 shed on the earth for thy return to rome
 o bless me here with thy victorious hand
 whose fortunes rome's best citizens applaud
titus andronicus kind rome that hast thus lovingly reserved
 the cordial of mine age to glad my heart
 lavinia live outlive thy father's days
 and fame's eternal date for virtue's praise
 enter below marcus andronicus and tribunes
 reenter saturninus and bassianus attended
marcus andronicus long live lord titus my beloved brother
 gracious triumpher in the eyes of rome
titus andronicus thanks gentle tribune noble brother marcus
marcus andronicus and welcome nephews from successful wars
 you that survive and you that sleep in fame
 fair lords your fortunes are alike in all
 that in your country's service drew your swords
 but safer triumph is this funeral pomp
 that hath aspired to solon's happiness
 and triumphs over chance in honour's bed
 titus andronicus the people of rome
 whose friend in justice thou hast ever been
 send thee by me their tribune and their trust
 this palliament of white and spotless hue
 and name thee in election for the empire
 with these our latedeceased emperor's sons
 be candidatus then and put it on
 and help to set a head on headless rome
titus andronicus a better head her glorious body fits
 than his that shakes for age and feebleness
 what should i don this robe and trouble you
 be chosen with proclamations today
 tomorrow yield up rule resign my life
 and set abroad new business for you all
 rome i have been thy soldier forty years
 and led my country's strength successfully
 and buried one and twenty valiant sons
 knighted in field slain manfully in arms
 in right and service of their noble country
 give me a staff of honour for mine age
 but not a sceptre to control the world
 upright he held it lords that held it last
marcus andronicus titus thou shalt obtain and ask the empery
saturninus proud and ambitious tribune canst thou tell
titus andronicus patience prince saturninus
saturninus romans do me right
 patricians draw your swords and sheathe them not
 till saturninus be rome's emperor
 andronicus would thou wert shipp'd to hell
 rather than rob me of the people's hearts
lucius proud saturnine interrupter of the good
 that nobleminded titus means to thee
titus andronicus content thee prince i will restore to thee
 the people's hearts and wean them from themselves
bassianus andronicus i do not flatter thee
 but honour thee and will do till i die
 my faction if thou strengthen with thy friends
 i will most thankful be and thanks to men
 of noble minds is honourable meed
titus andronicus people of rome and people's tribunes here
 i ask your voices and your suffrages
 will you bestow them friendly on andronicus
tribunes to gratify the good andronicus
 and gratulate his safe return to rome
 the people will accept whom he admits
titus andronicus tribunes i thank you and this suit i make
 that you create your emperor's eldest son
 lord saturnine whose virtues will i hope
 reflect on rome as titan's rays on earth
 and ripen justice in this commonweal
 then if you will elect by my advice
 crown him and say long live our emperor'
marcus andronicus with voices and applause of every sort
 patricians and plebeians we create
 lord saturninus rome's great emperor
 and say long live our emperor saturnine'
 a long flourish till they come down
saturninus titus andronicus for thy favors done
 to us in our election this day
 i give thee thanks in part of thy deserts
 and will with deeds requite thy gentleness
 and for an onset titus to advance
 thy name and honourable family
 lavinia will i make my empress
 rome's royal mistress mistress of my heart
 and in the sacred pantheon her espouse
 tell me andronicus doth this motion please thee
titus andronicus it doth my worthy lord and in this match
 i hold me highly honour'd of your grace
 and here in sight of rome to saturnine
 king and commander of our commonweal
 the wide world's emperor do i consecrate
 my sword my chariot and my prisoners
 presents well worthy rome's imperial lord
 receive them then the tribute that i owe
 mine honour's ensigns humbled at thy feet
saturninus thanks noble titus father of my life
 how proud i am of thee and of thy gifts
 rome shall record and when i do forget
 the least of these unspeakable deserts
 romans forget your fealty to me
titus andronicus to tamora now madam are you prisoner to
 an emperor
 to him that for your honour and your state
 will use you nobly and your followers
saturninus a goodly lady trust me of the hue
 that i would choose were i to choose anew
 clear up fair queen that cloudy countenance
 though chance of war hath wrought this change of cheer
 thou comest not to be made a scorn in rome
 princely shall be thy usage every way
 rest on my word and let not discontent
 daunt all your hopes madam he comforts you
 can make you greater than the queen of goths
 lavinia you are not displeased with this
lavinia not i my lord sith true nobility
 warrants these words in princely courtesy
saturninus thanks sweet lavinia romans let us go
 ransomless here we set our prisoners free
 proclaim our honours lords with trump and drum
 flourish saturninus courts tamora in dumb show
bassianus lord titus by your leave this maid is mine
 seizing lavinia
titus andronicus how sir are you in earnest then my lord
bassianus ay noble titus and resolved withal
 to do myself this reason and this right
marcus andronicus suum cuique is our roman justice
 this prince in justice seizeth but his own
lucius and that he will and shall if lucius live
titus andronicus traitors avaunt where is the emperor's guard
 treason my lord lavinia is surprised
saturninus surprised by whom
bassianus by him that justly may
 bear his betroth'd from all the world away
 exeunt bassianus and marcus with lavinia
mutius brothers help to convey her hence away
 and with my sword i'll keep this door safe
 exeunt lucius quintus and martius
titus andronicus follow my lord and i'll soon bring her back
mutius my lord you pass not here
titus andronicus what villain boy
 barr'st me my way in rome
 stabbing mutius
mutius help lucius help
 dies
 during the fray saturninus tamora demetrius
 chiron and aaron go out and reenter above
 reenter lucius
lucius my lord you are unjust and more than so
 in wrongful quarrel you have slain your son
titus andronicus nor thou nor he are any sons of mine
 my sons would never so dishonour me
 traitor restore lavinia to the emperor
lucius dead if you will but not to be his wife
 that is another's lawful promised love
 exit
saturninus no titus no the emperor needs her not
 nor her nor thee nor any of thy stock
 i'll trust by leisure him that mocks me once
 thee never nor thy traitorous haughty sons
 confederates all thus to dishonour me
 was there none else in rome to make a stale
 but saturnine full well andronicus
 agree these deeds with that proud brag of thine
 that said'st i begg'd the empire at thy hands
titus andronicus o monstrous what reproachful words are these
saturninus but go thy ways go give that changing piece
 to him that flourish'd for her with his sword
 a valiant soninlaw thou shalt enjoy
 one fit to bandy with thy lawless sons
 to ruffle in the commonwealth of rome
titus andronicus these words are razors to my wounded heart
saturninus and therefore lovely tamora queen of goths
 that like the stately phoebe mongst her nymphs
 dost overshine the gallant'st dames of rome
 if thou be pleased with this my sudden choice
 behold i choose thee tamora for my bride
 and will create thee empress of rome
 speak queen of goths dost thou applaud my choice
 and here i swear by all the roman gods
 sith priest and holy water are so near
 and tapers burn so bright and every thing
 in readiness for hymenaeus stand
 i will not resalute the streets of rome
 or climb my palace till from forth this place
 i lead espoused my bride along with me
tamora and here in sight of heaven to rome i swear
 if saturnine advance the queen of goths
 she will a handmaid be to his desires
 a loving nurse a mother to his youth
saturninus ascend fair queen pantheon lords accompany
 your noble emperor and his lovely bride
 sent by the heavens for prince saturnine
 whose wisdom hath her fortune conquered
 there shall we consummate our spousal rites
 exeunt all but titus
titus andronicus i am not bid to wait upon this bride
 titus when wert thou wont to walk alone
 dishonour'd thus and challenged of wrongs
 reenter marcus lucius quintus and martius
marcus andronicus o titus see o see what thou hast done
 in a bad quarrel slain a virtuous son
titus andronicus no foolish tribune no no son of mine
 nor thou nor these confederates in the deed
 that hath dishonour'd all our family
 unworthy brother and unworthy sons
lucius but let us give him burial as becomes
 give mutius burial with our brethren
titus andronicus traitors away he rests not in this tomb
 this monument five hundred years hath stood
 which i have sumptuously reedified
 here none but soldiers and rome's servitors
 repose in fame none basely slain in brawls
 bury him where you can he comes not here
marcus andronicus my lord this is impiety in you
 my nephew mutius deeds do plead for him
 he must be buried with his brethren
quintus 
 and shall or him we will accompany
martius 
titus andronicus and shall what villain was it that spake
 that word
quintus he that would vouch it in any place but here
titus andronicus what would you bury him in my despite
marcus andronicus no noble titus but entreat of thee
 to pardon mutius and to bury him
titus andronicus marcus even thou hast struck upon my crest
 and with these boys mine honour thou hast wounded
 my foes i do repute you every one
 so trouble me no more but get you gone
martius he is not with himself let us withdraw
quintus not i till mutius bones be buried
 marcus and the sons of titus kneel
marcus andronicus brother for in that name doth nature plead
quintus father and in that name doth nature speak
titus andronicus speak thou no more if all the rest will speed
marcus andronicus renowned titus more than half my soul
lucius dear father soul and substance of us all
marcus andronicus suffer thy brother marcus to inter
 his noble nephew here in virtue's nest
 that died in honour and lavinia's cause
 thou art a roman be not barbarous
 the greeks upon advice did bury ajax
 that slew himself and wise laertes son
 did graciously plead for his funerals
 let not young mutius then that was thy joy
 be barr'd his entrance here
titus andronicus rise marcus rise
 the dismall'st day is this that e'er i saw
 to be dishonour'd by my sons in rome
 well bury him and bury me the next
 mutius is put into the tomb
lucius there lie thy bones sweet mutius with thy friends
 till we with trophies do adorn thy tomb
all kneeling no man shed tears for noble mutius
 he lives in fame that died in virtue's cause
marcus andronicus my lord to step out of these dreary dumps
 how comes it that the subtle queen of goths
 is of a sudden thus advanced in rome
titus andronicus i know not marcus but i know it is
 whether by device or no the heavens can tell
 is she not then beholding to the man
 that brought her for this high good turn so far
 yes and will nobly him remunerate
 flourish reenter from one side saturninus
 attended tamora demetrius chiron and aaron from
 the other bassianus lavinia and others
saturninus so bassianus you have play'd your prize
 god give you joy sir of your gallant bride
bassianus and you of yours my lord i say no more
 nor wish no less and so i take my leave
saturninus traitor if rome have law or we have power
 thou and thy faction shall repent this rape
bassianus rape call you it my lord to seize my own
 my truthbetrothed love and now my wife
 but let the laws of rome determine all
 meanwhile i am possess'd of that is mine
saturninus tis good sir you are very short with us
 but if we live we'll be as sharp with you
bassianus my lord what i have done as best i may
 answer i must and shall do with my life
 only thus much i give your grace to know
 by all the duties that i owe to rome
 this noble gentleman lord titus here
 is in opinion and in honour wrong'd
 that in the rescue of lavinia
 with his own hand did slay his youngest son
 in zeal to you and highly moved to wrath
 to be controll'd in that he frankly gave
 receive him then to favor saturnine
 that hath express'd himself in all his deeds
 a father and a friend to thee and rome
titus andronicus prince bassianus leave to plead my deeds
 tis thou and those that have dishonour'd me
 rome and the righteous heavens be my judge
 how i have loved and honour'd saturnine
tamora my worthy lord if ever tamora
 were gracious in those princely eyes of thine
 then hear me speak in indifferently for all
 and at my suit sweet pardon what is past
saturninus what madam be dishonour'd openly
 and basely put it up without revenge
tamora not so my lord the gods of rome forfend
 i should be author to dishonour you
 but on mine honour dare i undertake
 for good lord titus innocence in all
 whose fury not dissembled speaks his griefs
 then at my suit look graciously on him
 lose not so noble a friend on vain suppose
 nor with sour looks afflict his gentle heart
 aside to saturninus my lord be ruled by me
 be won at last
 dissemble all your griefs and discontents
 you are but newly planted in your throne
 lest then the people and patricians too
 upon a just survey take titus part
 and so supplant you for ingratitude
 which rome reputes to be a heinous sin
 yield at entreats and then let me alone
 i'll find a day to massacre them all
 and raze their faction and their family
 the cruel father and his traitorous sons
 to whom i sued for my dear son's life
 and make them know what tis to let a queen
 kneel in the streets and beg for grace in vain
 aloud
 come come sweet emperor come andronicus
 take up this good old man and cheer the heart
 that dies in tempest of thy angry frown
saturninus rise titus rise my empress hath prevail'd
titus andronicus i thank your majesty and her my lord
 these words these looks infuse new life in me
tamora titus i am incorporate in rome
 a roman now adopted happily
 and must advise the emperor for his good
 this day all quarrels die andronicus
 and let it be mine honour good my lord
 that i have reconciled your friends and you
 for you prince bassianus i have pass'd
 my word and promise to the emperor
 that you will be more mild and tractable
 and fear not lords and you lavinia
 by my advice all humbled on your knees
 you shall ask pardon of his majesty
lucius we do and vow to heaven and to his highness
 that what we did was mildly as we might
 tendering our sister's honour and our own
marcus andronicus that on mine honour here i do protest
saturninus away and talk not trouble us no more
tamora nay nay sweet emperor we must all be friends
 the tribune and his nephews kneel for grace
 i will not be denied sweet heart look back
saturninus marcus for thy sake and thy brother's here
 and at my lovely tamora's entreats
 i do remit these young men's heinous faults stand up
 lavinia though you left me like a churl
 i found a friend and sure as death i swore
 i would not part a bachelor from the priest
 come if the emperor's court can feast two brides
 you are my guest lavinia and your friends
 this day shall be a loveday tamora
titus andronicus tomorrow an it please your majesty
 to hunt the panther and the hart with me
 with horn and hound we'll give your grace bonjour
saturninus be it so titus and gramercy too
 flourish exeunt
 titus andronicus
act ii
scene i rome before the palace
 enter aaron
aaron now climbeth tamora olympus top
 safe out of fortune's shot and sits aloft
 secure of thunder's crack or lightning flash
 advanced above pale envy's threatening reach
 as when the golden sun salutes the morn
 and having gilt the ocean with his beams
 gallops the zodiac in his glistering coach
 and overlooks the highestpeering hills
 so tamora
 upon her wit doth earthly honour wait
 and virtue stoops and trembles at her frown
 then aaron arm thy heart and fit thy thoughts
 to mount aloft with thy imperial mistress
 and mount her pitch whom thou in triumph long
 hast prisoner held fetter'd in amorous chains
 and faster bound to aaron's charming eyes
 than is prometheus tied to caucasus
 away with slavish weeds and servile thoughts
 i will be bright and shine in pearl and gold
 to wait upon this newmade empress
 to wait said i to wanton with this queen
 this goddess this semiramis this nymph
 this siren that will charm rome's saturnine
 and see his shipwreck and his commonweal's
 holloa what storm is this
 enter demetrius and chiron braving
demetrius chiron thy years want wit thy wit wants edge
 and manners to intrude where i am graced
 and may for aught thou know'st affected be
chiron demetrius thou dost overween in all
 and so in this to bear me down with braves
 tis not the difference of a year or two
 makes me less gracious or thee more fortunate
 i am as able and as fit as thou
 to serve and to deserve my mistress grace
 and that my sword upon thee shall approve
 and plead my passions for lavinia's love
aaron aside clubs clubs these lovers will not keep
 the peace
demetrius why boy although our mother unadvised
 gave you a dancingrapier by your side
 are you so desperate grown to threat your friends
 go to have your lath glued within your sheath
 till you know better how to handle it
chiron meanwhile sir with the little skill i have
 full well shalt thou perceive how much i dare
demetrius ay boy grow ye so brave
 they draw
aaron coming forward why how now lords
 so near the emperor's palace dare you draw
 and maintain such a quarrel openly
 full well i wot the ground of all this grudge
 i would not for a million of gold
 the cause were known to them it most concerns
 nor would your noble mother for much more
 be so dishonour'd in the court of rome
 for shame put up
demetrius not i till i have sheathed
 my rapier in his bosom and withal
 thrust these reproachful speeches down his throat
 that he hath breathed in my dishonour here
chiron for that i am prepared and full resolved
 foulspoken coward that thunder'st with thy tongue
 and with thy weapon nothing darest perform
aaron away i say
 now by the gods that warlike goths adore
 this petty brabble will undo us all
 why lords and think you not how dangerous
 it is to jet upon a prince's right
 what is lavinia then become so loose
 or bassianus so degenerate
 that for her love such quarrels may be broach'd
 without controlment justice or revenge
 young lords beware and should the empress know
 this discord's ground the music would not please
chiron i care not i knew she and all the world
 i love lavinia more than all the world
demetrius youngling learn thou to make some meaner choice
 lavinia is thine elder brother's hope
aaron why are ye mad or know ye not in rome
 how furious and impatient they be
 and cannot brook competitors in love
 i tell you lords you do but plot your deaths
 by this device
chiron aaron a thousand deaths
 would i propose to achieve her whom i love
aaron to achieve her how
demetrius why makest thou it so strange
 she is a woman therefore may be woo'd
 she is a woman therefore may be won
 she is lavinia therefore must be loved
 what man more water glideth by the mill
 than wots the miller of and easy it is
 of a cut loaf to steal a shive we know
 though bassianus be the emperor's brother
 better than he have worn vulcan's badge
aaron aside ay and as good as saturninus may
demetrius then why should he despair that knows to court it
 with words fair looks and liberality
 what hast not thou full often struck a doe
 and borne her cleanly by the keeper's nose
aaron why then it seems some certain snatch or so
 would serve your turns
chiron ay so the turn were served
demetrius aaron thou hast hit it
aaron would you had hit it too
 then should not we be tired with this ado
 why hark ye hark ye and are you such fools
 to square for this would it offend you then
 that both should speed
chiron faith not me
demetrius nor me so i were one
aaron for shame be friends and join for that you jar
 tis policy and stratagem must do
 that you affect and so must you resolve
 that what you cannot as you would achieve
 you must perforce accomplish as you may
 take this of me lucrece was not more chaste
 than this lavinia bassianus love
 a speedier course than lingering languishment
 must we pursue and i have found the path
 my lords a solemn hunting is in hand
 there will the lovely roman ladies troop
 the forest walks are wide and spacious
 and many unfrequented plots there are
 fitted by kind for rape and villany
 single you thither then this dainty doe
 and strike her home by force if not by words
 this way or not at all stand you in hope
 come come our empress with her sacred wit
 to villany and vengeance consecrate
 will we acquaint with all that we intend
 and she shall file our engines with advice
 that will not suffer you to square yourselves
 but to your wishes height advance you both
 the emperor's court is like the house of fame
 the palace full of tongues of eyes and ears
 the woods are ruthless dreadful deaf and dull
 there speak and strike brave boys and take
 your turns
 there serve your lusts shadow'd from heaven's eye
 and revel in lavinia's treasury
chiron thy counsel lad smells of no cowardice
demetrius sit fas aut nefas till i find the stream
 to cool this heat a charm to calm these fits
 per styga per manes vehor
 exeunt
 titus andronicus
act ii
scene ii a forest near rome horns and cry of hounds heard
 enter titus andronicus with hunters &c marcus
 lucius quintus and martius
titus andronicus the hunt is up the morn is bright and grey
 the fields are fragrant and the woods are green
 uncouple here and let us make a bay
 and wake the emperor and his lovely bride
 and rouse the prince and ring a hunter's peal
 that all the court may echo with the noise
 sons let it be your charge as it is ours
 to attend the emperor's person carefully
 i have been troubled in my sleep this night
 but dawning day new comfort hath inspired
 a cry of hounds and horns winded in a peal enter
 saturninus tamora bassianus lavinia demetrius
 chiron and attendants
 many good morrows to your majesty
 madam to you as many and as good
 i promised your grace a hunter's peal
saturninus and you have rung it lustily my lord
 somewhat too early for newmarried ladies
bassianus lavinia how say you
lavinia i say no
 i have been broad awake two hours and more
saturninus come on then horse and chariots let us have
 and to our sport
 to tamora
 madam now shall ye see
 our roman hunting
marcus andronicus i have dogs my lord
 will rouse the proudest panther in the chase
 and climb the highest promontory top
titus andronicus and i have horse will follow where the game
 makes way and run like swallows o'er the plain
demetrius chiron we hunt not we with horse nor hound
 but hope to pluck a dainty doe to ground
 exeunt
 titus andronicus
act ii
scene iii a lonely part of the forest
 enter aaron with a bag of gold
aaron he that had wit would think that i had none
 to bury so much gold under a tree
 and never after to inherit it
 let him that thinks of me so abjectly
 know that this gold must coin a stratagem
 which cunningly effected will beget
 a very excellent piece of villany
 and so repose sweet gold for their unrest
 hides the gold
 that have their alms out of the empress chest
 enter tamora
tamora my lovely aaron wherefore look'st thou sad
 when every thing doth make a gleeful boast
 the birds chant melody on every bush
 the snake lies rolled in the cheerful sun
 the green leaves quiver with the cooling wind
 and make a chequer'd shadow on the ground
 under their sweet shade aaron let us sit
 and whilst the babbling echo mocks the hounds
 replying shrilly to the welltuned horns
 as if a double hunt were heard at once
 let us sit down and mark their yelping noise
 and after conflict such as was supposed
 the wandering prince and dido once enjoy'd
 when with a happy storm they were surprised
 and curtain'd with a counselkeeping cave
 we may each wreathed in the other's arms
 our pastimes done possess a golden slumber
 whiles hounds and horns and sweet melodious birds
 be unto us as is a nurse's song
 of lullaby to bring her babe asleep
aaron madam though venus govern your desires
 saturn is dominator over mine
 what signifies my deadlystanding eye
 my silence and my cloudy melancholy
 my fleece of woolly hair that now uncurls
 even as an adder when she doth unroll
 to do some fatal execution
 no madam these are no venereal signs
 vengeance is in my heart death in my hand
 blood and revenge are hammering in my head
 hark tamora the empress of my soul
 which never hopes more heaven than rests in thee
 this is the day of doom for bassianus
 his philomel must lose her tongue today
 thy sons make pillage of her chastity
 and wash their hands in bassianus blood
 seest thou this letter take it up i pray thee
 and give the king this fatal plotted scroll
 now question me no more we are espied
 here comes a parcel of our hopeful booty
 which dreads not yet their lives destruction
tamora ah my sweet moor sweeter to me than life
aaron no more great empress bassianus comes
 be cross with him and i'll go fetch thy sons
 to back thy quarrels whatsoe'er they be
 exit
 enter bassianus and lavinia
bassianus who have we here rome's royal empress
 unfurnish'd of her wellbeseeming troop
 or is it dian habited like her
 who hath abandoned her holy groves
 to see the general hunting in this forest
tamora saucy controller of our private steps
 had i the power that some say dian had
 thy temples should be planted presently
 with horns as was actaeon's and the hounds
 should drive upon thy newtransformed limbs
 unmannerly intruder as thou art
lavinia under your patience gentle empress
 tis thought you have a goodly gift in horning
 and to be doubted that your moor and you
 are singled forth to try experiments
 jove shield your husband from his hounds today
 tis pity they should take him for a stag
bassianus believe me queen your swarth cimmerian
 doth make your honour of his body's hue
 spotted detested and abominable
 why are you sequester'd from all your train
 dismounted from your snowwhite goodly steed
 and wander'd hither to an obscure plot
 accompanied but with a barbarous moor
 if foul desire had not conducted you
lavinia and being intercepted in your sport
 great reason that my noble lord be rated
 for sauciness i pray you let us hence
 and let her joy her ravencolour'd love
 this valley fits the purpose passing well
bassianus the king my brother shall have note of this
lavinia ay for these slips have made him noted long
 good king to be so mightily abused
tamora why have i patience to endure all this
 enter demetrius and chiron
demetrius how now dear sovereign and our gracious mother
 why doth your highness look so pale and wan
tamora have i not reason think you to look pale
 these two have ticed me hither to this place
 a barren detested vale you see it is
 the trees though summer yet forlorn and lean
 o'ercome with moss and baleful mistletoe
 here never shines the sun here nothing breeds
 unless the nightly owl or fatal raven
 and when they show'd me this abhorred pit
 they told me here at dead time of the night
 a thousand fiends a thousand hissing snakes
 ten thousand swelling toads as many urchins
 would make such fearful and confused cries
 as any mortal body hearing it
 should straight fall mad or else die suddenly
 no sooner had they told this hellish tale
 but straight they told me they would bind me here
 unto the body of a dismal yew
 and leave me to this miserable death
 and then they call'd me foul adulteress
 lascivious goth and all the bitterest terms
 that ever ear did hear to such effect
 and had you not by wondrous fortune come
 this vengeance on me had they executed
 revenge it as you love your mother's life
 or be ye not henceforth call'd my children
demetrius this is a witness that i am thy son
 stabs bassianus
chiron and this for me struck home to show my strength
 also stabs bassianus who dies
lavinia ay come semiramis nay barbarous tamora
 for no name fits thy nature but thy own
tamora give me thy poniard you shall know my boys
 your mother's hand shall right your mother's wrong
demetrius stay madam here is more belongs to her
 first thrash the corn then after burn the straw
 this minion stood upon her chastity
 upon her nuptial vow her loyalty
 and with that painted hope braves your mightiness
 and shall she carry this unto her grave
chiron an if she do i would i were an eunuch
 drag hence her husband to some secret hole
 and make his dead trunk pillow to our lust
tamora but when ye have the honey ye desire
 let not this wasp outlive us both to sting
chiron i warrant you madam we will make that sure
 come mistress now perforce we will enjoy
 that nicepreserved honesty of yours
lavinia o tamora thou bear'st a woman's face
tamora i will not hear her speak away with her
lavinia sweet lords entreat her hear me but a word
demetrius listen fair madam let it be your glory
 to see her tears but be your heart to them
 as unrelenting flint to drops of rain
lavinia when did the tiger's young ones teach the dam
 o do not learn her wrath she taught it thee
 the milk thou suck'dst from her did turn to marble
 even at thy teat thou hadst thy tyranny
 yet every mother breeds not sons alike
 to chiron
 do thou entreat her show a woman pity
chiron what wouldst thou have me prove myself a bastard
lavinia tis true the raven doth not hatch a lark
 yet have i heardo could i find it now
 the lion moved with pity did endure
 to have his princely paws pared all away
 some say that ravens foster forlorn children
 the whilst their own birds famish in their nests
 o be to me though thy hard heart say no
 nothing so kind but something pitiful
tamora i know not what it means away with her
lavinia o let me teach thee for my father's sake
 that gave thee life when well he might have
 slain thee
 be not obdurate open thy deaf ears
tamora hadst thou in person ne'er offended me
 even for his sake am i pitiless
 remember boys i pour'd forth tears in vain
 to save your brother from the sacrifice
 but fierce andronicus would not relent
 therefore away with her and use her as you will
 the worse to her the better loved of me
lavinia o tamora be call'd a gentle queen
 and with thine own hands kill me in this place
 for tis not life that i have begg'd so long
 poor i was slain when bassianus died
tamora what begg'st thou then fond woman let me go
lavinia tis present death i beg and one thing more
 that womanhood denies my tongue to tell
 o keep me from their worse than killing lust
 and tumble me into some loathsome pit
 where never man's eye may behold my body
 do this and be a charitable murderer
tamora so should i rob my sweet sons of their fee
 no let them satisfy their lust on thee
demetrius away for thou hast stay'd us here too long
lavinia no grace no womanhood ah beastly creature
 the blot and enemy to our general name
 confusion fall
chiron nay then i'll stop your mouth bring thou her husband
 this is the hole where aaron bid us hide him
 demetrius throws the body of bassianus into the
 pit then exeunt demetrius and chiron dragging
 off lavinia
tamora farewell my sons see that you make her sure
 ne'er let my heart know merry cheer indeed
 till all the andronici be made away
 now will i hence to seek my lovely moor
 and let my spleenful sons this trull deflow'r
 exit
 reenter aaron with quintus and martius
aaron come on my lords the better foot before
 straight will i bring you to the loathsome pit
 where i espied the panther fast asleep
quintus my sight is very dull whate'er it bodes
martius and mine i promise you were't not for shame
 well could i leave our sport to sleep awhile
 falls into the pit
quintus what art thou fall'n what subtle hole is this
 whose mouth is cover'd with rudegrowing briers
 upon whose leaves are drops of newshed blood
 as fresh as morning dew distill'd on flowers
 a very fatal place it seems to me
 speak brother hast thou hurt thee with the fall
martius o brother with the dismall'st object hurt
 that ever eye with sight made heart lament
aaron aside now will i fetch the king to find them here
 that he thereby may give a likely guess
 how these were they that made away his brother
 exit
martius why dost not comfort me and help me out
 from this unhallowed and bloodstained hole
quintus i am surprised with an uncouth fear
 a chilling sweat o'erruns my trembling joints
 my heart suspects more than mine eye can see
martius to prove thou hast a truedivining heart
 aaron and thou look down into this den
 and see a fearful sight of blood and death
quintus aaron is gone and my compassionate heart
 will not permit mine eyes once to behold
 the thing whereat it trembles by surmise
 o tell me how it is for ne'er till now
 was i a child to fear i know not what
martius lord bassianus lies embrewed here
 all on a heap like to a slaughter'd lamb
 in this detested dark blooddrinking pit
quintus if it be dark how dost thou know tis he
martius upon his bloody finger he doth wear
 a precious ring that lightens all the hole
 which like a taper in some monument
 doth shine upon the dead man's earthy cheeks
 and shows the ragged entrails of the pit
 so pale did shine the moon on pyramus
 when he by night lay bathed in maiden blood
 o brother help me with thy fainting hand
 if fear hath made thee faint as me it hath
 out of this fell devouring receptacle
 as hateful as cocytus misty mouth
quintus reach me thy hand that i may help thee out
 or wanting strength to do thee so much good
 i may be pluck'd into the swallowing womb
 of this deep pit poor bassianus grave
 i have no strength to pluck thee to the brink
martius nor i no strength to climb without thy help
quintus thy hand once more i will not loose again
 till thou art here aloft or i below
 thou canst not come to me i come to thee
 falls in
 enter saturninus with aaron
saturninus along with me i'll see what hole is here
 and what he is that now is leap'd into it
 say who art thou that lately didst descend
 into this gaping hollow of the earth
martius the unhappy son of old andronicus
 brought hither in a most unlucky hour
 to find thy brother bassianus dead
saturninus my brother dead i know thou dost but jest
 he and his lady both are at the lodge
 upon the north side of this pleasant chase
 tis not an hour since i left him there
martius we know not where you left him all alive
 but out alas here have we found him dead
 reenter tamora with attendants titus
 andronicus and lucius
tamora where is my lord the king
saturninus here tamora though grieved with killing grief
tamora where is thy brother bassianus
saturninus now to the bottom dost thou search my wound
 poor bassianus here lies murdered
tamora then all too late i bring this fatal writ
 the complot of this timeless tragedy
 and wonder greatly that man's face can fold
 in pleasing smiles such murderous tyranny
 she giveth saturninus a letter
saturninus reads an if we miss to meet him handsomely
 sweet huntsman bassianus tis we mean
 do thou so much as dig the grave for him
 thou know'st our meaning look for thy reward
 among the nettles at the eldertree
 which overshades the mouth of that same pit
 where we decreed to bury bassianus
 do this and purchase us thy lasting friends'
 o tamora was ever heard the like
 this is the pit and this the eldertree
 look sirs if you can find the huntsman out
 that should have murdered bassianus here
aaron my gracious lord here is the bag of gold
saturninus to titus two of thy whelps fell curs of
 bloody kind
 have here bereft my brother of his life
 sirs drag them from the pit unto the prison
 there let them bide until we have devised
 some neverheardof torturing pain for them
tamora what are they in this pit o wondrous thing
 how easily murder is discovered
titus andronicus high emperor upon my feeble knee
 i beg this boon with tears not lightly shed
 that this fell fault of my accursed sons
 accursed if the fault be proved in them
saturninus if it be proved you see it is apparent
 who found this letter tamora was it you
tamora andronicus himself did take it up
titus andronicus i did my lord yet let me be their bail
 for by my father's reverend tomb i vow
 they shall be ready at your highness will
 to answer their suspicion with their lives
saturninus thou shalt not bail them see thou follow me
 some bring the murder'd body some the murderers
 let them not speak a word the guilt is plain
 for by my soul were there worse end than death
 that end upon them should be executed
tamora andronicus i will entreat the king
 fear not thy sons they shall do well enough
titus andronicus come lucius come stay not to talk with them
 exeunt
 titus andronicus
act ii
scene iv another part of the forest
 enter demetrius and chiron with lavinia ravished
 her hands cut off and her tongue cut out
demetrius so now go tell an if thy tongue can speak
 who twas that cut thy tongue and ravish'd thee
chiron write down thy mind bewray thy meaning so
 an if thy stumps will let thee play the scribe
demetrius see how with signs and tokens she can scrowl
chiron go home call for sweet water wash thy hands
demetrius she hath no tongue to call nor hands to wash
 and so let's leave her to her silent walks
chiron an twere my case i should go hang myself
demetrius if thou hadst hands to help thee knit the cord
 exeunt demetrius and chiron
 enter marcus
marcus who is this my niece that flies away so fast
 cousin a word where is your husband
 if i do dream would all my wealth would wake me
 if i do wake some planet strike me down
 that i may slumber in eternal sleep
 speak gentle niece what stern ungentle hands
 have lopp'd and hew'd and made thy body bare
 of her two branches those sweet ornaments
 whose circling shadows kings have sought to sleep in
 and might not gain so great a happiness
 as have thy love why dost not speak to me
 alas a crimson river of warm blood
 like to a bubbling fountain stirr'd with wind
 doth rise and fall between thy rosed lips
 coming and going with thy honey breath
 but sure some tereus hath deflowered thee
 and lest thou shouldst detect him cut thy tongue
 ah now thou turn'st away thy face for shame
 and notwithstanding all this loss of blood
 as from a conduit with three issuing spouts
 yet do thy cheeks look red as titan's face
 blushing to be encountered with a cloud
 shall i speak for thee shall i say tis so
 o that i knew thy heart and knew the beast
 that i might rail at him to ease my mind
 sorrow concealed like an oven stopp'd
 doth burn the heart to cinders where it is
 fair philomela she but lost her tongue
 and in a tedious sampler sew'd her mind
 but lovely niece that mean is cut from thee
 a craftier tereus cousin hast thou met
 and he hath cut those pretty fingers off
 that could have better sew'd than philomel
 o had the monster seen those lily hands
 tremble like aspenleaves upon a lute
 and make the silken strings delight to kiss them
 he would not then have touch'd them for his life
 or had he heard the heavenly harmony
 which that sweet tongue hath made
 he would have dropp'd his knife and fell asleep
 as cerberus at the thracian poet's feet
 come let us go and make thy father blind
 for such a sight will blind a father's eye
 one hour's storm will drown the fragrant meads
 what will whole months of tears thy father's eyes
 do not draw back for we will mourn with thee
 o could our mourning ease thy misery
 exeunt
 titus andronicus
act iii
scene i rome a street
 enter judges senators and tribunes with martius
 and quintus bound passing on to the place of
 execution titus going before pleading
titus andronicus hear me grave fathers noble tribunes stay
 for pity of mine age whose youth was spent
 in dangerous wars whilst you securely slept
 for all my blood in rome's great quarrel shed
 for all the frosty nights that i have watch'd
 and for these bitter tears which now you see
 filling the aged wrinkles in my cheeks
 be pitiful to my condemned sons
 whose souls are not corrupted as tis thought
 for two and twenty sons i never wept
 because they died in honour's lofty bed
 lieth down the judges &c pass by him and exeunt
 for these these tribunes in the dust i write
 my heart's deep languor and my soul's sad tears
 let my tears stanch the earth's dry appetite
 my sons sweet blood will make it shame and blush
 o earth i will befriend thee more with rain
 that shall distil from these two ancient urns
 than youthful april shall with all his showers
 in summer's drought i'll drop upon thee still
 in winter with warm tears i'll melt the snow
 and keep eternal springtime on thy face
 so thou refuse to drink my dear sons blood
 enter lucius with his sword drawn
 o reverend tribunes o gentle aged men
 unbind my sons reverse the doom of death
 and let me say that never wept before
 my tears are now prevailing orators
lucius o noble father you lament in vain
 the tribunes hear you not no man is by
 and you recount your sorrows to a stone
titus andronicus ah lucius for thy brothers let me plead
 grave tribunes once more i entreat of you
lucius my gracious lord no tribune hears you speak
titus andronicus why tis no matter man if they did hear
 they would not mark me or if they did mark
 they would not pity me yet plead i must
 and bootless unto them 
 therefore i tell my sorrows to the stones
 who though they cannot answer my distress
 yet in some sort they are better than the tribunes
 for that they will not intercept my tale
 when i do weep they humbly at my feet
 receive my tears and seem to weep with me
 and were they but attired in grave weeds
 rome could afford no tribune like to these
 a stone is soft as waxtribunes more hard than stones
 a stone is silent and offendeth not
 and tribunes with their tongues doom men to death
 rises
 but wherefore stand'st thou with thy weapon drawn
lucius to rescue my two brothers from their death
 for which attempt the judges have pronounced
 my everlasting doom of banishment
titus andronicus o happy man they have befriended thee
 why foolish lucius dost thou not perceive
 that rome is but a wilderness of tigers
 tigers must prey and rome affords no prey
 but me and mine how happy art thou then
 from these devourers to be banished
 but who comes with our brother marcus here
 enter marcus and lavinia
marcus andronicus titus prepare thy aged eyes to weep
 or if not so thy noble heart to break
 i bring consuming sorrow to thine age
titus andronicus will it consume me let me see it then
marcus andronicus this was thy daughter
titus andronicus why marcus so she is
lucius ay me this object kills me
titus andronicus fainthearted boy arise and look upon her
 speak lavinia what accursed hand
 hath made thee handless in thy father's sight
 what fool hath added water to the sea
 or brought a faggot to brightburning troy
 my grief was at the height before thou camest
 and now like nilus it disdaineth bounds
 give me a sword i'll chop off my hands too
 for they have fought for rome and all in vain
 and they have nursed this woe in feeding life
 in bootless prayer have they been held up
 and they have served me to effectless use
 now all the service i require of them
 is that the one will help to cut the other
 tis well lavinia that thou hast no hands
 for hands to do rome service are but vain
lucius speak gentle sister who hath martyr'd thee
marcus andronicus o that delightful engine of her thoughts
 that blabb'd them with such pleasing eloquence
 is torn from forth that pretty hollow cage
 where like a sweet melodious bird it sung
 sweet varied notes enchanting every ear
lucius o say thou for her who hath done this deed
marcus andronicus o thus i found her straying in the park
 seeking to hide herself as doth the deer
 that hath received some unrecuring wound
titus andronicus it was my deer and he that wounded her
 hath hurt me more than had he killed me dead
 for now i stand as one upon a rock
 environed with a wilderness of sea
 who marks the waxing tide grow wave by wave
 expecting ever when some envious surge
 will in his brinish bowels swallow him
 this way to death my wretched sons are gone
 here stands my other son a banished man
 and here my brother weeping at my woes
 but that which gives my soul the greatest spurn
 is dear lavinia dearer than my soul
 had i but seen thy picture in this plight
 it would have madded me what shall i do
 now i behold thy lively body so
 thou hast no hands to wipe away thy tears
 nor tongue to tell me who hath martyr'd thee
 thy husband he is dead and for his death
 thy brothers are condemn'd and dead by this
 look marcus ah son lucius look on her
 when i did name her brothers then fresh tears
 stood on her cheeks as doth the honeydew
 upon a gather'd lily almost wither'd
marcus andronicus perchance she weeps because they kill'd her husband
 perchance because she knows them innocent
titus andronicus if they did kill thy husband then be joyful
 because the law hath ta'en revenge on them
 no no they would not do so foul a deed
 witness the sorrow that their sister makes
 gentle lavinia let me kiss thy lips
 or make some sign how i may do thee ease
 shall thy good uncle and thy brother lucius
 and thou and i sit round about some fountain
 looking all downwards to behold our cheeks
 how they are stain'd as meadows yet not dry
 with miry slime left on them by a flood
 and in the fountain shall we gaze so long
 till the fresh taste be taken from that clearness
 and made a brinepit with our bitter tears
 or shall we cut away our hands like thine
 or shall we bite our tongues and in dumb shows
 pass the remainder of our hateful days
 what shall we do let us that have our tongues
 plot some deuce of further misery
 to make us wonder'd at in time to come
lucius sweet father cease your tears for at your grief
 see how my wretched sister sobs and weeps
marcus andronicus patience dear niece good titus dry thine eyes
titus andronicus ah marcus marcus brother well i wot
 thy napkin cannot drink a tear of mine
 for thou poor man hast drown'd it with thine own
lucius ah my lavinia i will wipe thy cheeks
titus andronicus mark marcus mark i understand her signs
 had she a tongue to speak now would she say
 that to her brother which i said to thee
 his napkin with his true tears all bewet
 can do no service on her sorrowful cheeks
 o what a sympathy of woe is this
 as far from help as limbo is from bliss
 enter aaron
aaron titus andronicus my lord the emperor
 sends thee this wordthat if thou love thy sons
 let marcus lucius or thyself old titus
 or any one of you chop off your hand
 and send it to the king he for the same
 will send thee hither both thy sons alive
 and that shall be the ransom for their fault
titus andronicus o gracious emperor o gentle aaron
 did ever raven sing so like a lark
 that gives sweet tidings of the sun's uprise
 with all my heart i'll send the emperor my hand
 good aaron wilt thou help to chop it off
lucius stay father for that noble hand of thine
 that hath thrown down so many enemies
 shall not be sent my hand will serve the turn
 my youth can better spare my blood than you
 and therefore mine shall save my brothers lives
marcus andronicus which of your hands hath not defended rome
 and rear'd aloft the bloody battleaxe
 writing destruction on the enemy's castle
 o none of both but are of high desert
 my hand hath been but idle let it serve
 to ransom my two nephews from their death
 then have i kept it to a worthy end
aaron nay come agree whose hand shall go along
 for fear they die before their pardon come
marcus andronicus my hand shall go
lucius by heaven it shall not go
titus andronicus sirs strive no more such wither'd herbs as these
 are meet for plucking up and therefore mine
lucius sweet father if i shall be thought thy son
 let me redeem my brothers both from death
marcus andronicus and for our father's sake and mother's care
 now let me show a brother's love to thee
titus andronicus agree between you i will spare my hand
lucius then i'll go fetch an axe
marcus andronicus but i will use the axe
 exeunt lucius and marcus
titus andronicus come hither aaron i'll deceive them both
 lend me thy hand and i will give thee mine
aaron aside if that be call'd deceit i will be honest
 and never whilst i live deceive men so
 but i'll deceive you in another sort
 and that you'll say ere half an hour pass
 cuts off titus's hand
 reenter lucius and marcus
titus andronicus now stay your strife what shall be is dispatch'd
 good aaron give his majesty my hand
 tell him it was a hand that warded him
 from thousand dangers bid him bury it
 more hath it merited that let it have
 as for my sons say i account of them
 as jewels purchased at an easy price
 and yet dear too because i bought mine own
aaron i go andronicus and for thy hand
 look by and by to have thy sons with thee
 aside
 their heads i mean o how this villany
 doth fat me with the very thoughts of it
 let fools do good and fair men call for grace
 aaron will have his soul black like his face
 exit
titus andronicus o here i lift this one hand up to heaven
 and bow this feeble ruin to the earth
 if any power pities wretched tears
 to that i call
 to lavinia
 what wilt thou kneel with me
 do then dear heart for heaven shall hear our prayers
 or with our sighs we'll breathe the welkin dim
 and stain the sun with fog as sometime clouds
 when they do hug him in their melting bosoms
marcus andronicus o brother speak with possibilities
 and do not break into these deep extremes
titus andronicus is not my sorrow deep having no bottom
 then be my passions bottomless with them
marcus andronicus but yet let reason govern thy lament
titus andronicus if there were reason for these miseries
 then into limits could i bind my woes
 when heaven doth weep doth not the earth o'erflow
 if the winds rage doth not the sea wax mad
 threatening the welkin with his bigswoln face
 and wilt thou have a reason for this coil
 i am the sea hark how her sighs do blow
 she is the weeping welkin i the earth
 then must my sea be moved with her sighs
 then must my earth with her continual tears
 become a deluge overflow'd and drown'd
 for why my bowels cannot hide her woes
 but like a drunkard must i vomit them
 then give me leave for losers will have leave
 to ease their stomachs with their bitter tongues
 enter a messenger with two heads and a hand
messenger worthy andronicus ill art thou repaid
 for that good hand thou sent'st the emperor
 here are the heads of thy two noble sons
 and here's thy hand in scorn to thee sent back
 thy griefs their sports thy resolution mock'd
 that woe is me to think upon thy woes
 more than remembrance of my father's death
 exit
marcus andronicus now let hot aetna cool in sicily
 and be my heart an everburning hell
 these miseries are more than may be borne
 to weep with them that weep doth ease some deal
 but sorrow flouted at is double death
lucius ah that this sight should make so deep a wound
 and yet detested life not shrink thereat
 that ever death should let life bear his name
 where life hath no more interest but to breathe
 lavinia kisses titus
marcus andronicus alas poor heart that kiss is comfortless
 as frozen water to a starved snake
titus andronicus when will this fearful slumber have an end
marcus andronicus now farewell flattery die andronicus
 thou dost not slumber see thy two sons heads
 thy warlike hand thy mangled daughter here
 thy other banish'd son with this dear sight
 struck pale and bloodless and thy brother i
 even like a stony image cold and numb
 ah now no more will i control thy griefs
 rend off thy silver hair thy other hand
 gnawing with thy teeth and be this dismal sight
 the closing up of our most wretched eyes
 now is a time to storm why art thou still
titus andronicus ha ha ha
marcus andronicus why dost thou laugh it fits not with this hour
titus andronicus why i have not another tear to shed
 besides this sorrow is an enemy
 and would usurp upon my watery eyes
 and make them blind with tributary tears
 then which way shall i find revenge's cave
 for these two heads do seem to speak to me
 and threat me i shall never come to bliss
 till all these mischiefs be return'd again
 even in their throats that have committed them
 come let me see what task i have to do
 you heavy people circle me about
 that i may turn me to each one of you
 and swear unto my soul to right your wrongs
 the vow is made come brother take a head
 and in this hand the other i will bear
 lavinia thou shalt be employ'd these arms
 bear thou my hand sweet wench between thy teeth
 as for thee boy go get thee from my sight
 thou art an exile and thou must not stay
 hie to the goths and raise an army there
 and if you love me as i think you do
 let's kiss and part for we have much to do
 exeunt titus marcus and lavinia
lucius farewell andronicus my noble father
 the wofull'st man that ever lived in rome
 farewell proud rome till lucius come again
 he leaves his pledges dearer than his life
 farewell lavinia my noble sister
 o would thou wert as thou tofore hast been
 but now nor lucius nor lavinia lives
 but in oblivion and hateful griefs
 if lucius live he will requite your wrongs
 and make proud saturnine and his empress
 beg at the gates like tarquin and his queen
 now will i to the goths and raise a power
 to be revenged on rome and saturnine
 exit
 titus andronicus
act iii
scene ii a room in titus's house a banquet set out
 enter titus marcus lavinia and young lucius a boy
titus andronicus so so now sit and look you eat no more
 than will preserve just so much strength in us
 as will revenge these bitter woes of ours
 marcus unknit that sorrowwreathen knot
 thy niece and i poor creatures want our hands
 and cannot passionate our tenfold grief
 with folded arms this poor right hand of mine
 is left to tyrannize upon my breast
 who when my heart all mad with misery
 beats in this hollow prison of my flesh
 then thus i thump it down
 to lavinia
 thou map of woe that thus dost talk in signs
 when thy poor heart beats with outrageous beating
 thou canst not strike it thus to make it still
 wound it with sighing girl kill it with groans
 or get some little knife between thy teeth
 and just against thy heart make thou a hole
 that all the tears that thy poor eyes let fall
 may run into that sink and soaking in
 drown the lamenting fool in seasalt tears
marcus andronicus fie brother fie teach her not thus to lay
 such violent hands upon her tender life
titus andronicus how now has sorrow made thee dote already
 why marcus no man should be mad but i
 what violent hands can she lay on her life
 ah wherefore dost thou urge the name of hands
 to bid aeneas tell the tale twice o'er
 how troy was burnt and he made miserable
 o handle not the theme to talk of hands
 lest we remember still that we have none
 fie fie how franticly i square my talk
 as if we should forget we had no hands
 if marcus did not name the word of hands
 come let's fall to and gentle girl eat this
 here is no drink hark marcus what she says
 i can interpret all her martyr'd signs
 she says she drinks no other drink but tears
 brew'd with her sorrow mesh'd upon her cheeks
 speechless complainer i will learn thy thought
 in thy dumb action will i be as perfect
 as begging hermits in their holy prayers
 thou shalt not sigh nor hold thy stumps to heaven
 nor wink nor nod nor kneel nor make a sign
 but i of these will wrest an alphabet
 and by still practise learn to know thy meaning
young lucius good grandsire leave these bitter deep laments
 make my aunt merry with some pleasing tale
marcus andronicus alas the tender boy in passion moved
 doth weep to see his grandsire's heaviness
titus andronicus peace tender sapling thou art made of tears
 and tears will quickly melt thy life away
 marcus strikes the dish with a knife
 what dost thou strike at marcus with thy knife
marcus andronicus at that that i have kill'd my lord a fly
titus andronicus out on thee murderer thou kill'st my heart
 mine eyes are cloy'd with view of tyranny
 a deed of death done on the innocent
 becomes not titus brother get thee gone
 i see thou art not for my company
marcus andronicus alas my lord i have but kill'd a fly
titus andronicus but how if that fly had a father and mother
 how would he hang his slender gilded wings
 and buzz lamenting doings in the air
 poor harmless fly
 that with his pretty buzzing melody
 came here to make us merry and thou hast
 kill'd him
marcus andronicus pardon me sir it was a black illfavor'd fly
 like to the empress moor therefore i kill'd him
titus andronicus o o o
 then pardon me for reprehending thee
 for thou hast done a charitable deed
 give me thy knife i will insult on him
 flattering myself as if it were the moor
 come hither purposely to poison me
 there's for thyself and that's for tamora
 ah sirrah
 yet i think we are not brought so low
 but that between us we can kill a fly
 that comes in likeness of a coalblack moor
marcus andronicus alas poor man grief has so wrought on him
 he takes false shadows for true substances
titus andronicus come take away lavinia go with me
 i'll to thy closet and go read with thee
 sad stories chanced in the times of old
 come boy and go with me thy sight is young
 and thou shalt read when mine begin to dazzle
 exeunt
 titus andronicus
act iv
scene i rome titus's garden
 enter young lucius and lavinia running after him
 and the boy flies from her with books under his
 arm then enter titus and marcus
young lucius help grandsire help my aunt lavinia
 follows me every where i know not why
 good uncle marcus see how swift she comes
 alas sweet aunt i know not what you mean
marcus andronicus stand by me lucius do not fear thine aunt
titus andronicus she loves thee boy too well to do thee harm
young lucius ay when my father was in rome she did
marcus andronicus what means my niece lavinia by these signs
titus andronicus fear her not lucius somewhat doth she mean
 see lucius see how much she makes of thee
 somewhither would she have thee go with her
 ah boy cornelia never with more care
 read to her sons than she hath read to thee
 sweet poetry and tully's orator
marcus andronicus canst thou not guess wherefore she plies thee thus
young lucius my lord i know not i nor can i guess
 unless some fit or frenzy do possess her
 for i have heard my grandsire say full oft
 extremity of griefs would make men mad
 and i have read that hecuba of troy
 ran mad through sorrow that made me to fear
 although my lord i know my noble aunt
 loves me as dear as e'er my mother did
 and would not but in fury fright my youth
 which made me down to throw my books and fly
 causeless perhaps but pardon me sweet aunt
 and madam if my uncle marcus go
 i will most willingly attend your ladyship
marcus andronicus lucius i will
 lavinia turns over with her stumps the books which
 lucius has let fall
titus andronicus how now lavinia marcus what means this
 some book there is that she desires to see
 which is it girl of these open them boy
 but thou art deeper read and better skill'd
 come and take choice of all my library
 and so beguile thy sorrow till the heavens
 reveal the damn'd contriver of this deed
 why lifts she up her arms in sequence thus
marcus andronicus i think she means that there was more than one
 confederate in the fact ay more there was
 or else to heaven she heaves them for revenge
titus andronicus lucius what book is that she tosseth so
young lucius grandsire tis ovid's metamorphoses
 my mother gave it me
marcus andronicus for love of her that's gone
 perhaps she cull'd it from among the rest
titus andronicus soft see how busily she turns the leaves
 helping her
 what would she find lavinia shall i read
 this is the tragic tale of philomel
 and treats of tereus treason and his rape
 and rape i fear was root of thine annoy
marcus andronicus see brother see note how she quotes the leaves
titus andronicus lavinia wert thou thus surprised sweet girl
 ravish'd and wrong'd as philomela was
 forced in the ruthless vast and gloomy woods see see
 ay such a place there is where we did hunt
 o had we never never hunted there
 pattern'd by that the poet here describes
 by nature made for murders and for rapes
marcus andronicus o why should nature build so foul a den
 unless the gods delight in tragedies
titus andronicus give signs sweet girl for here are none
 but friends
 what roman lord it was durst do the deed
 or slunk not saturnine as tarquin erst
 that left the camp to sin in lucrece bed
marcus andronicus sit down sweet niece brother sit down by me
 apollo pallas jove or mercury
 inspire me that i may this treason find
 my lord look here look here lavinia
 this sandy plot is plain guide if thou canst
 this after me when i have writ my name
 without the help of any hand at all
 he writes his name with his staff and guides it
 with feet and mouth
 cursed be that heart that forced us to this shift
 write thou good niece and here display at last
 what god will have discover'd for revenge
 heaven guide thy pen to print thy sorrows plain
 that we may know the traitors and the truth
 she takes the staff in her mouth and guides it
 with her stumps and writes
titus andronicus o do ye read my lord what she hath writ
 stuprum chiron demetrius'
marcus andronicus what what the lustful sons of tamora
 performers of this heinous bloody deed
titus andronicus magni dominator poli
 tam lentus audis scelera tam lentus vides
marcus andronicus o calm thee gentle lord although i know
 there is enough written upon this earth
 to stir a mutiny in the mildest thoughts
 and arm the minds of infants to exclaims
 my lord kneel down with me lavinia kneel
 and kneel sweet boy the roman hector's hope
 and swear with me as with the woful fere
 and father of that chaste dishonour'd dame
 lord junius brutus sware for lucrece rape
 that we will prosecute by good advice
 mortal revenge upon these traitorous goths
 and see their blood or die with this reproach
titus andronicus tis sure enough an you knew how
 but if you hunt these bearwhelps then beware
 the dam will wake and if she wind you once
 she's with the lion deeply still in league
 and lulls him whilst she playeth on her back
 and when he sleeps will she do what she list
 you are a young huntsman marcus let it alone
 and come i will go get a leaf of brass
 and with a gad of steel will write these words
 and lay it by the angry northern wind
 will blow these sands like sibyl's leaves abroad
 and where's your lesson then boy what say you
young lucius i say my lord that if i were a man
 their mother's bedchamber should not be safe
 for these bad bondmen to the yoke of rome
marcus andronicus ay that's my boy thy father hath full oft
 for his ungrateful country done the like
young lucius and uncle so will i an if i live
titus andronicus come go with me into mine armoury
 lucius i'll fit thee and withal my boy
 shalt carry from me to the empress sons
 presents that i intend to send them both
 come come thou'lt do thy message wilt thou not
young lucius ay with my dagger in their bosoms grandsire
titus andronicus no boy not so i'll teach thee another course
 lavinia come marcus look to my house
 lucius and i'll go brave it at the court
 ay marry will we sir and we'll be waited on
 exeunt titus lavinia and young lucius
marcus andronicus o heavens can you hear a good man groan
 and not relent or not compassion him
 marcus attend him in his ecstasy
 that hath more scars of sorrow in his heart
 than foemen's marks upon his batter'd shield
 but yet so just that he will not revenge
 revenge ye heavens for old andronicus
 exit
 titus andronicus
act iv
scene ii the same a room in the palace
 enter from one side aaron demetrius and
 chiron from the other side young lucius and an
 attendant with a bundle of weapons and verses
 writ upon them
chiron demetrius here's the son of lucius
 he hath some message to deliver us
aaron ay some mad message from his mad grandfather
young lucius my lords with all the humbleness i may
 i greet your honours from andronicus
 aside
 and pray the roman gods confound you both
demetrius gramercy lovely lucius what's the news
young lucius aside that you are both decipher'd that's the news
 for villains mark'd with rapemay it please you
 my grandsire well advised hath sent by me
 the goodliest weapons of his armoury
 to gratify your honourable youth
 the hope of rome for so he bade me say
 and so i do and with his gifts present
 your lordships that whenever you have need
 you may be armed and appointed well
 and so i leave you both
 aside
 like bloody villains
 exeunt young lucius and attendant
demetrius what's here a scroll and written round about
 let's see
 reads
 integer vitae scelerisque purus
 non eget mauri jaculis nec arcu'
chiron o tis a verse in horace i know it well
 i read it in the grammar long ago
aaron ay just a verse in horace right you have it
 aside
 now what a thing it is to be an ass
 here's no sound jest the old man hath found their guilt
 and sends them weapons wrapped about with lines
 that wound beyond their feeling to the quick
 but were our witty empress well afoot
 she would applaud andronicus conceit
 but let her rest in her unrest awhile
 and now young lords was't not a happy star
 led us to rome strangers and more than so
 captives to be advanced to this height
 it did me good before the palace gate
 to brave the tribune in his brother's hearing
demetrius but me more good to see so great a lord
 basely insinuate and send us gifts
aaron had he not reason lord demetrius
 did you not use his daughter very friendly
demetrius i would we had a thousand roman dames
 at such a bay by turn to serve our lust
chiron a charitable wish and full of love
aaron here lacks but your mother for to say amen
chiron and that would she for twenty thousand more
demetrius come let us go and pray to all the gods
 for our beloved mother in her pains
aaron aside pray to the devils the gods have given us over
 trumpets sound within
demetrius why do the emperor's trumpets flourish thus
chiron belike for joy the emperor hath a son
demetrius soft who comes here
 enter a nurse with a blackamoor child in her arms
nurse good morrow lords
 o tell me did you see aaron the moor
aaron well more or less or ne'er a whit at all
 here aaron is and what with aaron now
nurse o gentle aaron we are all undone
 now help or woe betide thee evermore
aaron why what a caterwauling dost thou keep
 what dost thou wrap and fumble in thine arms
nurse o that which i would hide from heaven's eye
 our empress shame and stately rome's disgrace
 she is deliver'd lords she is deliver'd
aaron to whom
nurse i mean she is brought abed
aaron well god give her good rest what hath he sent her
nurse a devil
aaron why then she is the devil's dam a joyful issue
nurse a joyless dismal black and sorrowful issue
 here is the babe as loathsome as a toad
 amongst the fairest breeders of our clime
 the empress sends it thee thy stamp thy seal
 and bids thee christen it with thy dagger's point
aaron zounds ye whore is black so base a hue
 sweet blowse you are a beauteous blossom sure
demetrius villain what hast thou done
aaron that which thou canst not undo
chiron thou hast undone our mother
aaron villain i have done thy mother
demetrius and therein hellish dog thou hast undone
 woe to her chance and damn'd her loathed choice
 accursed the offspring of so foul a fiend
chiron it shall not live
aaron it shall not die
nurse aaron it must the mother wills it so
aaron what must it nurse then let no man but i
 do execution on my flesh and blood
demetrius i'll broach the tadpole on my rapier's point
 nurse give it me my sword shall soon dispatch it
aaron sooner this sword shall plough thy bowels up
 takes the child from the nurse and draws
 stay murderous villains will you kill your brother
 now by the burning tapers of the sky
 that shone so brightly when this boy was got
 he dies upon my scimitar's sharp point
 that touches this my firstborn son and heir
 i tell you younglings not enceladus
 with all his threatening band of typhon's brood
 nor great alcides nor the god of war
 shall seize this prey out of his father's hands
 what what ye sanguine shallowhearted boys
 ye whitelimed walls ye alehouse painted signs
 coalblack is better than another hue
 in that it scorns to bear another hue
 for all the water in the ocean
 can never turn the swan's black legs to white
 although she lave them hourly in the flood
 tell the empress from me i am of age
 to keep mine own excuse it how she can
demetrius wilt thou betray thy noble mistress thus
aaron my mistress is my mistress this myself
 the vigour and the picture of my youth
 this before all the world do i prefer
 this maugre all the world will i keep safe
 or some of you shall smoke for it in rome
demetrius by this our mother is forever shamed
chiron rome will despise her for this foul escape
nurse the emperor in his rage will doom her death
chiron i blush to think upon this ignomy
aaron why there's the privilege your beauty bears
 fie treacherous hue that will betray with blushing
 the close enacts and counsels of the heart
 here's a young lad framed of another leer
 look how the black slave smiles upon the father
 as who should say old lad i am thine own'
 he is your brother lords sensibly fed
 of that selfblood that first gave life to you
 and from that womb where you imprison'd were
 he is enfranchised and come to light
 nay he is your brother by the surer side
 although my seal be stamped in his face
nurse aaron what shall i say unto the empress
demetrius advise thee aaron what is to be done
 and we will all subscribe to thy advice
 save thou the child so we may all be safe
aaron then sit we down and let us all consult
 my son and i will have the wind of you
 keep there now talk at pleasure of your safety
 they sit
demetrius how many women saw this child of his
aaron why so brave lords when we join in league
 i am a lamb but if you brave the moor
 the chafed boar the mountain lioness
 the ocean swells not so as aaron storms
 but say again how many saw the child
nurse cornelia the midwife and myself
 and no one else but the deliver'd empress
aaron the empress the midwife and yourself
 two may keep counsel when the third's away
 go to the empress tell her this i said
 he kills the nurse
 weke weke so cries a pig prepared to the spit
demetrius what mean'st thou aaron wherefore didst thou this
aaron o lord sir tis a deed of policy
 shall she live to betray this guilt of ours
 a longtongued babbling gossip no lords no
 and now be it known to you my full intent
 not far one muli lives my countryman
 his wife but yesternight was brought to bed
 his child is like to her fair as you are
 go pack with him and give the mother gold
 and tell them both the circumstance of all
 and how by this their child shall be advanced
 and be received for the emperor's heir
 and substituted in the place of mine
 to calm this tempest whirling in the court
 and let the emperor dandle him for his own
 hark ye lords ye see i have given her physic
 pointing to the nurse
 and you must needs bestow her funeral
 the fields are near and you are gallant grooms
 this done see that you take no longer days
 but send the midwife presently to me
 the midwife and the nurse well made away
 then let the ladies tattle what they please
chiron aaron i see thou wilt not trust the air
 with secrets
demetrius for this care of tamora
 herself and hers are highly bound to thee
 exeunt demetrius and chiron bearing off the
 nurse's body
aaron now to the goths as swift as swallow flies
 there to dispose this treasure in mine arms
 and secretly to greet the empress friends
 come on you thick lipp'd slave i'll bear you hence
 for it is you that puts us to our shifts
 i'll make you feed on berries and on roots
 and feed on curds and whey and suck the goat
 and cabin in a cave and bring you up
 to be a warrior and command a camp
 exit
 titus andronicus
act iv
scene iii the same a public place
 enter titus bearing arrows with letters at the
 ends of them with him marcus young lucius
 publius sempronius caius and other gentlemen
 with bows
titus andronicus come marcus come kinsmen this is the way
 sir boy now let me see your archery
 look ye draw home enough and tis there straight
 terras astraea reliquit
 be you remember'd marcus she's gone she's fled
 sirs take you to your tools you cousins shall
 go sound the ocean and cast your nets
 happily you may catch her in the sea
 yet there's as little justice as at land
 no publius and sempronius you must do it
 tis you must dig with mattock and with spade
 and pierce the inmost centre of the earth
 then when you come to pluto's region
 i pray you deliver him this petition
 tell him it is for justice and for aid
 and that it comes from old andronicus
 shaken with sorrows in ungrateful rome
 ah rome well well i made thee miserable
 what time i threw the people's suffrages
 on him that thus doth tyrannize o'er me
 go get you gone and pray be careful all
 and leave you not a manofwar unsearch'd
 this wicked emperor may have shipp'd her hence
 and kinsmen then we may go pipe for justice
marcus andronicus o publius is not this a heavy case
 to see thy noble uncle thus distract
publius therefore my lord it highly us concerns
 by day and night to attend him carefully
 and feed his humour kindly as we may
 till time beget some careful remedy
marcus andronicus kinsmen his sorrows are past remedy
 join with the goths and with revengeful war
 take wreak on rome for this ingratitude
 and vengeance on the traitor saturnine
titus andronicus publius how now how now my masters
 what have you met with her
publius no my good lord but pluto sends you word
 if you will have revenge from hell you shall
 marry for justice she is so employ'd
 he thinks with jove in heaven or somewhere else
 so that perforce you must needs stay a time
titus andronicus he doth me wrong to feed me with delays
 i'll dive into the burning lake below
 and pull her out of acheron by the heels
 marcus we are but shrubs no cedars we
 no bigboned men framed of the cyclops size
 but metal marcus steel to the very back
 yet wrung with wrongs more than our backs can bear
 and sith there's no justice in earth nor hell
 we will solicit heaven and move the gods
 to send down justice for to wreak our wrongs
 come to this gear you are a good archer marcus
 he gives them the arrows
 ad jovem that's for you here ad apollinem'
 ad martem that's for myself
 here boy to pallas here to mercury
 to saturn caius not to saturnine
 you were as good to shoot against the wind
 to it boy marcus loose when i bid
 of my word i have written to effect
 there's not a god left unsolicited
marcus andronicus kinsmen shoot all your shafts into the court
 we will afflict the emperor in his pride
titus andronicus now masters draw
 they shoot
 o well said lucius
 good boy in virgo's lap give it pallas
marcus andronicus my lord i aim a mile beyond the moon
 your letter is with jupiter by this
titus andronicus ha ha
 publius publius what hast thou done
 see see thou hast shot off one of taurus horns
marcus andronicus this was the sport my lord when publius shot
 the bull being gall'd gave aries such a knock
 that down fell both the ram's horns in the court
 and who should find them but the empress villain
 she laugh'd and told the moor he should not choose
 but give them to his master for a present
titus andronicus why there it goes god give his lordship joy
 enter a clown with a basket and two pigeons in
 it
 news news from heaven marcus the post is come
 sirrah what tidings have you any letters
 shall i have justice what says jupiter
clown o the gibbetmaker he says that he hath taken
 them down again for the man must not be hanged till
 the next week
titus andronicus but what says jupiter i ask thee
clown alas sir i know not jupiter i never drank with him
 in all my life
titus andronicus why villain art not thou the carrier
clown ay of my pigeons sir nothing else
titus andronicus why didst thou not come from heaven
clown from heaven alas sir i never came there god
 forbid i should be so bold to press to heaven in my
 young days why i am going with my pigeons to the
 tribunal plebs to take up a matter of brawl
 betwixt my uncle and one of the emperial's men
marcus andronicus why sir that is as fit as can be to serve for
 your oration and let him deliver the pigeons to
 the emperor from you
titus andronicus tell me can you deliver an oration to the emperor
 with a grace
clown nay truly sir i could never say grace in all my life
titus andronicus sirrah come hither make no more ado
 but give your pigeons to the emperor
 by me thou shalt have justice at his hands
 hold hold meanwhile here's money for thy charges
 give me pen and ink sirrah can you with a grace
 deliver a supplication
clown ay sir
titus andronicus then here is a supplication for you and when you
 come to him at the first approach you must kneel
 then kiss his foot then deliver up your pigeons and
 then look for your reward i'll be at hand sir see
 you do it bravely
clown i warrant you sir let me alone
titus andronicus sirrah hast thou a knife come let me see it
 here marcus fold it in the oration
 for thou hast made it like an humble suppliant
 and when thou hast given it the emperor
 knock at my door and tell me what he says
clown god be with you sir i will
titus andronicus come marcus let us go publius follow me
 exeunt
 titus andronicus
act iv
scene iv the same before the palace
 enter saturninus tamora demetrius chiron
 lords and others saturninus with the arrows in
 his hand that titus shot
saturninus why lords what wrongs are these was ever seen
 an emperor in rome thus overborne
 troubled confronted thus and for the extent
 of egal justice used in such contempt
 my lords you know as know the mightful gods
 however these disturbers of our peace
 buz in the people's ears there nought hath pass'd
 but even with law against the willful sons
 of old andronicus and what an if
 his sorrows have so overwhelm'd his wits
 shall we be thus afflicted in his wreaks
 his fits his frenzy and his bitterness
 and now he writes to heaven for his redress
 see here's to jove and this to mercury
 this to apollo this to the god of war
 sweet scrolls to fly about the streets of rome
 what's this but libelling against the senate
 and blazoning our injustice every where
 a goodly humour is it not my lords
 as who would say in rome no justice were
 but if i live his feigned ecstasies
 shall be no shelter to these outrages
 but he and his shall know that justice lives
 in saturninus health whom if she sleep
 he'll so awake as she in fury shall
 cut off the proud'st conspirator that lives
tamora my gracious lord my lovely saturnine
 lord of my life commander of my thoughts
 calm thee and bear the faults of titus age
 the effects of sorrow for his valiant sons
 whose loss hath pierced him deep and scarr'd his heart
 and rather comfort his distressed plight
 than prosecute the meanest or the best
 for these contempts
 aside
 why thus it shall become
 highwitted tamora to gloze with all
 but titus i have touched thee to the quick
 thy lifeblood out if aaron now be wise
 then is all safe the anchor's in the port
 enter clown
 how now good fellow wouldst thou speak with us
clown yea forsooth an your mistership be emperial
tamora empress i am but yonder sits the emperor
clown tis he god and saint stephen give you good den
 i have brought you a letter and a couple of pigeons here
 saturninus reads the letter
saturninus go take him away and hang him presently
clown how much money must i have
tamora come sirrah you must be hanged
clown hanged by'r lady then i have brought up a neck to
 a fair end
 exit guarded
saturninus despiteful and intolerable wrongs
 shall i endure this monstrous villany
 i know from whence this same device proceeds
 may this be borneas if his traitorous sons
 that died by law for murder of our brother
 have by my means been butcher'd wrongfully
 go drag the villain hither by the hair
 nor age nor honour shall shape privilege
 for this proud mock i'll be thy slaughterman
 sly frantic wretch that holp'st to make me great
 in hope thyself should govern rome and me
 enter aemilius
 what news with thee aemilius
aemilius arm arm my lordrome never had more cause
 the goths have gather'd head and with a power
 highresolved men bent to the spoil
 they hither march amain under conduct
 of lucius son to old andronicus
 who threats in course of this revenge to do
 as much as ever coriolanus did
saturninus is warlike lucius general of the goths
 these tidings nip me and i hang the head
 as flowers with frost or grass beat down with storms
 ay now begin our sorrows to approach
 tis he the common people love so much
 myself hath often overheard them say
 when i have walked like a private man
 that lucius banishment was wrongfully
 and they have wish'd that lucius were their emperor
tamora why should you fear is not your city strong
saturninus ay but the citizens favor lucius
 and will revolt from me to succor him
tamora king be thy thoughts imperious like thy name
 is the sun dimm'd that gnats do fly in it
 the eagle suffers little birds to sing
 and is not careful what they mean thereby
 knowing that with the shadow of his wings
 he can at pleasure stint their melody
 even so mayst thou the giddy men of rome
 then cheer thy spirit for know thou emperor
 i will enchant the old andronicus
 with words more sweet and yet more dangerous
 than baits to fish or honeystalks to sheep
 when as the one is wounded with the bait
 the other rotted with delicious feed
saturninus but he will not entreat his son for us
tamora if tamora entreat him then he will
 for i can smooth and fill his aged ear
 with golden promises that were his heart
 almost impregnable his old ears deaf
 yet should both ear and heart obey my tongue
 to aemilius
 go thou before be our ambassador
 say that the emperor requests a parley
 of warlike lucius and appoint the meeting
 even at his father's house the old andronicus
saturninus aemilius do this message honourably
 and if he stand on hostage for his safety
 bid him demand what pledge will please him best
aemilius your bidding shall i do effectually
 exit
tamora now will i to that old andronicus
 and temper him with all the art i have
 to pluck proud lucius from the warlike goths
 and now sweet emperor be blithe again
 and bury all thy fear in my devices
saturninus then go successantly and plead to him
 exeunt
 titus andronicus
act v
scene i plains near rome
 enter lucius with an army of goths with drum and colours
lucius approved warriors and my faithful friends
 i have received letters from great rome
 which signify what hate they bear their emperor
 and how desirous of our sight they are
 therefore great lords be as your titles witness
 imperious and impatient of your wrongs
 and wherein rome hath done you any scath
 let him make treble satisfaction
first goth brave slip sprung from the great andronicus
 whose name was once our terror now our comfort
 whose high exploits and honourable deeds
 ingrateful rome requites with foul contempt
 be bold in us we'll follow where thou lead'st
 like stinging bees in hottest summer's day
 led by their master to the flowered fields
 and be avenged on cursed tamora
all the goths and as he saith so say we all with him
lucius i humbly thank him and i thank you all
 but who comes here led by a lusty goth
 enter a goth leading aaron with his child in his arms
second goth renowned lucius from our troops i stray'd
 to gaze upon a ruinous monastery
 and as i earnestly did fix mine eye
 upon the wasted building suddenly
 i heard a child cry underneath a wall
 i made unto the noise when soon i heard
 the crying babe controll'd with this discourse
 peace tawny slave half me and half thy dam
 did not thy hue bewray whose brat thou art
 had nature lent thee but thy mother's look
 villain thou mightst have been an emperor
 but where the bull and cow are both milkwhite
 they never do beget a coalblack calf
 peace villain peace'even thus he rates
 the babe
 for i must bear thee to a trusty goth
 who when he knows thou art the empress babe
 will hold thee dearly for thy mother's sake'
 with this my weapon drawn i rush'd upon him
 surprised him suddenly and brought him hither
 to use as you think needful of the man
lucius o worthy goth this is the incarnate devil
 that robb'd andronicus of his good hand
 this is the pearl that pleased your empress eye
 and here's the base fruit of his burning lust
 say walleyed slave whither wouldst thou convey
 this growing image of thy fiendlike face
 why dost not speak what deaf not a word
 a halter soldiers hang him on this tree
 and by his side his fruit of bastardy
aaron touch not the boy he is of royal blood
lucius too like the sire for ever being good
 first hang the child that he may see it sprawl
 a sight to vex the father's soul withal
 get me a ladder
 a ladder brought which aaron is made to ascend
aaron lucius save the child
 and bear it from me to the empress
 if thou do this i'll show thee wondrous things
 that highly may advantage thee to hear
 if thou wilt not befall what may befall
 i'll speak no more but vengeance rot you all'
lucius say on an if it please me which thou speak'st
 thy child shall live and i will see it nourish'd
aaron an if it please thee why assure thee lucius
 twill vex thy soul to hear what i shall speak
 for i must talk of murders rapes and massacres
 acts of black night abominable deeds
 complots of mischief treason villanies
 ruthful to hear yet piteously perform'd
 and this shall all be buried by my death
 unless thou swear to me my child shall live
lucius tell on thy mind i say thy child shall live
aaron swear that he shall and then i will begin
lucius who should i swear by thou believest no god
 that granted how canst thou believe an oath
aaron what if i do not as indeed i do not
 yet for i know thou art religious
 and hast a thing within thee called conscience
 with twenty popish tricks and ceremonies
 which i have seen thee careful to observe
 therefore i urge thy oath for that i know
 an idiot holds his bauble for a god
 and keeps the oath which by that god he swears
 to that i'll urge him therefore thou shalt vow
 by that same god what god soe'er it be
 that thou adorest and hast in reverence
 to save my boy to nourish and bring him up
 or else i will discover nought to thee
lucius even by my god i swear to thee i will
aaron first know thou i begot him on the empress
lucius o most insatiate and luxurious woman
aaron tut lucius this was but a deed of charity
 to that which thou shalt hear of me anon
 twas her two sons that murder'd bassianus
 they cut thy sister's tongue and ravish'd her
 and cut her hands and trimm'd her as thou saw'st
lucius o detestable villain call'st thou that trimming
aaron why she was wash'd and cut and trimm'd and twas
 trim sport for them that had the doing of it
lucius o barbarous beastly villains like thyself
aaron indeed i was their tutor to instruct them
 that codding spirit had they from their mother
 as sure a card as ever won the set
 that bloody mind i think they learn'd of me
 as true a dog as ever fought at head
 well let my deeds be witness of my worth
 i train'd thy brethren to that guileful hole
 where the dead corpse of bassianus lay
 i wrote the letter that thy father found
 and hid the gold within the letter mention'd
 confederate with the queen and her two sons
 and what not done that thou hast cause to rue
 wherein i had no stroke of mischief in it
 i play'd the cheater for thy father's hand
 and when i had it drew myself apart
 and almost broke my heart with extreme laughter
 i pry'd me through the crevice of a wall
 when for his hand he had his two sons heads
 beheld his tears and laugh'd so heartily
 that both mine eyes were rainy like to his 
 and when i told the empress of this sport
 she swooned almost at my pleasing tale
 and for my tidings gave me twenty kisses
first goth what canst thou say all this and never blush
aaron ay like a black dog as the saying is
lucius art thou not sorry for these heinous deeds
aaron ay that i had not done a thousand more
 even now i curse the dayand yet i think
 few come within the compass of my curse
 wherein i did not some notorious ill
 as kill a man or else devise his death
 ravish a maid or plot the way to do it
 accuse some innocent and forswear myself
 set deadly enmity between two friends
 make poor men's cattle break their necks
 set fire on barns and haystacks in the night
 and bid the owners quench them with their tears
 oft have i digg'd up dead men from their graves
 and set them upright at their dear friends doors
 even when their sorrows almost were forgot
 and on their skins as on the bark of trees
 have with my knife carved in roman letters
 let not your sorrow die though i am dead'
 tut i have done a thousand dreadful things
 as willingly as one would kill a fly
 and nothing grieves me heartily indeed
 but that i cannot do ten thousand more
lucius bring down the devil for he must not die
 so sweet a death as hanging presently
aaron if there be devils would i were a devil
 to live and burn in everlasting fire
 so i might have your company in hell
 but to torment you with my bitter tongue
lucius sirs stop his mouth and let him speak no more
 enter a goth
third goth my lord there is a messenger from rome
 desires to be admitted to your presence
lucius let him come near
 enter aemilius
 welcome aemilius what's the news from rome
aemilius lord lucius and you princes of the goths
 the roman emperor greets you all by me
 and for he understands you are in arms
 he craves a parley at your father's house
 willing you to demand your hostages
 and they shall be immediately deliver'd
first goth what says our general
lucius aemilius let the emperor give his pledges
 unto my father and my uncle marcus
 and we will come march away
 exeunt
 titus andronicus
act v
scene ii rome before titus's house
 enter tamora demetrius and chiron disguised
tamora thus in this strange and sad habiliment
 i will encounter with andronicus
 and say i am revenge sent from below
 to join with him and right his heinous wrongs
 knock at his study where they say he keeps
 to ruminate strange plots of dire revenge
 tell him revenge is come to join with him
 and work confusion on his enemies
 they knock
 enter titus above
titus andronicus who doth molest my contemplation
 is it your trick to make me ope the door
 that so my sad decrees may fly away
 and all my study be to no effect
 you are deceived for what i mean to do
 see here in bloody lines i have set down
 and what is written shall be executed
tamora titus i am come to talk with thee
titus andronicus no not a word how can i grace my talk
 wanting a hand to give it action
 thou hast the odds of me therefore no more
tamora if thou didst know me thou wouldest talk with me
titus andronicus i am not mad i know thee well enough
 witness this wretched stump witness these crimson lines
 witness these trenches made by grief and care
 witness the tiring day and heavy night
 witness all sorrow that i know thee well
 for our proud empress mighty tamora
 is not thy coming for my other hand
tamora know thou sad man i am not tamora
 she is thy enemy and i thy friend
 i am revenge sent from the infernal kingdom
 to ease the gnawing vulture of thy mind
 by working wreakful vengeance on thy foes
 come down and welcome me to this world's light
 confer with me of murder and of death
 there's not a hollow cave or lurkingplace
 no vast obscurity or misty vale
 where bloody murder or detested rape
 can couch for fear but i will find them out
 and in their ears tell them my dreadful name
 revenge which makes the foul offender quake
titus andronicus art thou revenge and art thou sent to me
 to be a torment to mine enemies
tamora i am therefore come down and welcome me
titus andronicus do me some service ere i come to thee
 lo by thy side where rape and murder stands
 now give me some surance that thou art revenge
 stab them or tear them on thy chariotwheels
 and then i'll come and be thy waggoner
 and whirl along with thee about the globe
 provide thee two proper palfreys black as jet
 to hale thy vengeful waggon swift away
 and find out murderers in their guilty caves
 and when thy car is loaden with their heads
 i will dismount and by the waggonwheel
 trot like a servile footman all day long
 even from hyperion's rising in the east
 until his very downfall in the sea
 and day by day i'll do this heavy task
 so thou destroy rapine and murder there
tamora these are my ministers and come with me
titus andronicus are these thy ministers what are they call'd
tamora rapine and murder therefore called so
 cause they take vengeance of such kind of men
titus andronicus good lord how like the empress sons they are
 and you the empress but we worldly men
 have miserable mad mistaking eyes
 o sweet revenge now do i come to thee
 and if one arm's embracement will content thee
 i will embrace thee in it by and by
 exit above
tamora this closing with him fits his lunacy
 whate'er i forge to feed his brainsick fits
 do you uphold and maintain in your speeches
 for now he firmly takes me for revenge
 and being credulous in this mad thought
 i'll make him send for lucius his son
 and whilst i at a banquet hold him sure
 i'll find some cunning practise out of hand
 to scatter and disperse the giddy goths
 or at the least make them his enemies
 see here he comes and i must ply my theme
 enter titus below
titus andronicus long have i been forlorn and all for thee
 welcome dread fury to my woful house
 rapine and murder you are welcome too
 how like the empress and her sons you are
 well are you fitted had you but a moor
 could not all hell afford you such a devil
 for well i wot the empress never wags
 but in her company there is a moor
 and would you represent our queen aright
 it were convenient you had such a devil
 but welcome as you are what shall we do
tamora what wouldst thou have us do andronicus
demetrius show me a murderer i'll deal with him
chiron show me a villain that hath done a rape
 and i am sent to be revenged on him
tamora show me a thousand that have done thee wrong
 and i will be revenged on them all
titus andronicus look round about the wicked streets of rome
 and when thou find'st a man that's like thyself
 good murder stab him he's a murderer
 go thou with him and when it is thy hap
 to find another that is like to thee
 good rapine stab him he's a ravisher
 go thou with them and in the emperor's court
 there is a queen attended by a moor
 well mayst thou know her by thy own proportion
 for up and down she doth resemble thee
 i pray thee do on them some violent death
 they have been violent to me and mine
tamora well hast thou lesson'd us this shall we do
 but would it please thee good andronicus
 to send for lucius thy thricevaliant son
 who leads towards rome a band of warlike goths
 and bid him come and banquet at thy house
 when he is here even at thy solemn feast
 i will bring in the empress and her sons
 the emperor himself and all thy foes
 and at thy mercy shalt they stoop and kneel
 and on them shalt thou ease thy angry heart
 what says andronicus to this device
titus andronicus marcus my brother tis sad titus calls
 enter marcus
 go gentle marcus to thy nephew lucius
 thou shalt inquire him out among the goths
 bid him repair to me and bring with him
 some of the chiefest princes of the goths
 bid him encamp his soldiers where they are
 tell him the emperor and the empress too
 feast at my house and he shall feast with them
 this do thou for my love and so let him
 as he regards his aged father's life
marcus andronicus this will i do and soon return again
 exit
tamora now will i hence about thy business
 and take my ministers along with me
titus andronicus nay nay let rape and murder stay with me
 or else i'll call my brother back again
 and cleave to no revenge but lucius
tamora aside to her sons what say you boys will you
 bide with him
 whiles i go tell my lord the emperor
 how i have govern'd our determined jest
 yield to his humour smooth and speak him fair
 and tarry with him till i turn again
titus andronicus aside i know them all though they suppose me mad
 and will o'erreach them in their own devices
 a pair of cursed hellhounds and their dam
demetrius madam depart at pleasure leave us here
tamora farewell andronicus revenge now goes
 to lay a complot to betray thy foes
titus andronicus i know thou dost and sweet revenge farewell
 exit tamora
chiron tell us old man how shall we be employ'd
titus andronicus tut i have work enough for you to do
 publius come hither caius and valentine
 enter publius and others
publius what is your will
titus andronicus know you these two
publius the empress sons i take them chiron and demetrius
titus andronicus fie publius fie thou art too much deceived
 the one is murder rape is the other's name
 and therefore bind them gentle publius
 caius and valentine lay hands on them
 oft have you heard me wish for such an hour
 and now i find it therefore bind them sure
 and stop their mouths if they begin to cry
 exit
 publius &c lay hold on chiron and demetrius
chiron villains forbear we are the empress sons
publius and therefore do we what we are commanded
 stop close their mouths let them not speak a word
 is he sure bound look that you bind them fast
 reenter titus with lavinia he bearing a knife
 and she a basin
titus andronicus come come lavinia look thy foes are bound
 sirs stop their mouths let them not speak to me
 but let them hear what fearful words i utter
 o villains chiron and demetrius
 here stands the spring whom you have stain'd with mud
 this goodly summer with your winter mix'd
 you kill'd her husband and for that vile fault
 two of her brothers were condemn'd to death
 my hand cut off and made a merry jest
 both her sweet hands her tongue and that more dear
 than hands or tongue her spotless chastity
 inhuman traitors you constrain'd and forced
 what would you say if i should let you speak
 villains for shame you could not beg for grace
 hark wretches how i mean to martyr you
 this one hand yet is left to cut your throats
 whilst that lavinia tween her stumps doth hold
 the basin that receives your guilty blood
 you know your mother means to feast with me
 and calls herself revenge and thinks me mad
 hark villains i will grind your bones to dust
 and with your blood and it i'll make a paste
 and of the paste a coffin i will rear
 and make two pasties of your shameful heads
 and bid that strumpet your unhallow'd dam
 like to the earth swallow her own increase
 this is the feast that i have bid her to
 and this the banquet she shall surfeit on
 for worse than philomel you used my daughter
 and worse than progne i will be revenged
 and now prepare your throats lavinia come
 he cuts their throats
 receive the blood and when that they are dead
 let me go grind their bones to powder small
 and with this hateful liquor temper it
 and in that paste let their vile heads be baked
 come come be every one officious
 to make this banquet which i wish may prove
 more stern and bloody than the centaurs feast
 so now bring them in for i'll play the cook
 and see them ready gainst their mother comes
 exeunt bearing the dead bodies
 titus andronicus
act v
scene iii court of titus's house a banquet set out
 enter lucius marcus and goths with aaron prisoner
lucius uncle marcus since it is my father's mind
 that i repair to rome i am content
first goth and ours with thine befall what fortune will
lucius good uncle take you in this barbarous moor
 this ravenous tiger this accursed devil
 let him receive no sustenance fetter him
 till he be brought unto the empress face
 for testimony of her foul proceedings
 and see the ambush of our friends be strong
 i fear the emperor means no good to us
aaron some devil whisper curses in mine ear
 and prompt me that my tongue may utter forth
 the venomous malice of my swelling heart
lucius away inhuman dog unhallow'd slave
 sirs help our uncle to convey him in
 exeunt goths with aaron flourish within
 the trumpets show the emperor is at hand
 enter saturninus and tamora with aemilius
 tribunes senators and others
saturninus what hath the firmament more suns than one
lucius what boots it thee to call thyself a sun
marcus andronicus rome's emperor and nephew break the parle
 these quarrels must be quietly debated
 the feast is ready which the careful titus
 hath ordain'd to an honourable end
 for peace for love for league and good to rome
 please you therefore draw nigh and take your places
saturninus marcus we will
 hautboys sound the company sit down at table
 enter titus dressed like a cook lavinia veiled
 young lucius and others titus places the dishes
 on the table
titus andronicus welcome my gracious lord welcome dread queen
 welcome ye warlike goths welcome lucius
 and welcome all although the cheer be poor
 twill fill your stomachs please you eat of it
saturninus why art thou thus attired andronicus
titus andronicus because i would be sure to have all well
 to entertain your highness and your empress
tamora we are beholding to you good andronicus
titus andronicus an if your highness knew my heart you were
 my lord the emperor resolve me this
 was it well done of rash virginius
 to slay his daughter with his own right hand
 because she was enforced stain'd and deflower'd
saturninus it was andronicus
titus andronicus your reason mighty lord
saturninus because the girl should not survive her shame
 and by her presence still renew his sorrows
titus andronicus a reason mighty strong and effectual
 a pattern precedent and lively warrant
 for me most wretched to perform the like
 die die lavinia and thy shame with thee
 kills lavinia
 and with thy shame thy father's sorrow die
saturninus what hast thou done unnatural and unkind
titus andronicus kill'd her for whom my tears have made me blind
 i am as woful as virginius was
 and have a thousand times more cause than he
 to do this outrage and it now is done
saturninus what was she ravish'd tell who did the deed
titus andronicus will't please you eat will't please your
 highness feed
tamora why hast thou slain thine only daughter thus
titus andronicus not i twas chiron and demetrius
 they ravish'd her and cut away her tongue
 and they twas they that did her all this wrong
saturninus go fetch them hither to us presently
titus andronicus why there they are both baked in that pie
 whereof their mother daintily hath fed
 eating the flesh that she herself hath bred
 tis true tis true witness my knife's sharp point
 kills tamora
saturninus die frantic wretch for this accursed deed
 kills titus
lucius can the son's eye behold his father bleed
 there's meed for meed death for a deadly deed
 kills saturninus a great tumult lucius marcus
 and others go up into the balcony
marcus andronicus you sadfaced men people and sons of rome
 by uproar sever'd like a flight of fowl
 scatter'd by winds and high tempestuous gusts
 o let me teach you how to knit again
 this scatter'd corn into one mutual sheaf
 these broken limbs again into one body
 lest rome herself be bane unto herself
 and she whom mighty kingdoms court'sy to
 like a forlorn and desperate castaway
 do shameful execution on herself
 but if my frosty signs and chaps of age
 grave witnesses of true experience
 cannot induce you to attend my words
 to lucius
 speak rome's dear friend as erst our ancestor
 when with his solemn tongue he did discourse
 to lovesick dido's sad attending ear
 the story of that baleful burning night
 when subtle greeks surprised king priam's troy
 tell us what sinon hath bewitch'd our ears
 or who hath brought the fatal engine in
 that gives our troy our rome the civil wound
 my heart is not compact of flint nor steel
 nor can i utter all our bitter grief
 but floods of tears will drown my oratory
 and break my utterance even in the time
 when it should move you to attend me most
 lending your kind commiseration
 here is a captain let him tell the tale
 your hearts will throb and weep to hear him speak
lucius then noble auditory be it known to you
 that cursed chiron and demetrius
 were they that murdered our emperor's brother
 and they it were that ravished our sister
 for their fell faults our brothers were beheaded
 our father's tears despised and basely cozen'd
 of that true hand that fought rome's quarrel out
 and sent her enemies unto the grave
 lastly myself unkindly banished
 the gates shut on me and turn'd weeping out
 to beg relief among rome's enemies
 who drown'd their enmity in my true tears
 and oped their arms to embrace me as a friend
 i am the turned forth be it known to you
 that have preserved her welfare in my blood
 and from her bosom took the enemy's point
 sheathing the steel in my adventurous body
 alas you know i am no vaunter i
 my scars can witness dumb although they are
 that my report is just and full of truth
 but soft methinks i do digress too much
 citing my worthless praise o pardon me
 for when no friends are by men praise themselves
marcus andronicus now is my turn to speak behold this child
 pointing to the child in the arms of an attendant
 of this was tamora delivered
 the issue of an irreligious moor
 chief architect and plotter of these woes
 the villain is alive in titus house
 and as he is to witness this is true
 now judge what cause had titus to revenge
 these wrongs unspeakable past patience
 or more than any living man could bear
 now you have heard the truth what say you romans
 have we done aught amissshow us wherein
 and from the place where you behold us now
 the poor remainder of andronici
 will hand in hand all headlong cast us down
 and on the ragged stones beat forth our brains
 and make a mutual closure of our house
 speak romans speak and if you say we shall
 lo hand in hand lucius and i will fall
aemilius come come thou reverend man of rome
 and bring our emperor gently in thy hand
 lucius our emperor for well i know
 the common voice do cry it shall be so
all lucius all hail rome's royal emperor
marcus andronicus go go into old titus sorrowful house
 to attendants
 and hither hale that misbelieving moor
 to be adjudged some direful slaughtering death
 as punishment for his most wicked life
 exeunt attendants
 lucius marcus and the others descend
all lucius all hail rome's gracious governor
lucius thanks gentle romans may i govern so
 to heal rome's harms and wipe away her woe
 but gentle people give me aim awhile
 for nature puts me to a heavy task
 stand all aloof but uncle draw you near
 to shed obsequious tears upon this trunk
 o take this warm kiss on thy pale cold lips
 kissing titus
 these sorrowful drops upon thy bloodstain'd face
 the last true duties of thy noble son
marcus andronicus tear for tear and loving kiss for kiss
 thy brother marcus tenders on thy lips
 o were the sum of these that i should pay
 countless and infinite yet would i pay them
lucius come hither boy come come and learn of us
 to melt in showers thy grandsire loved thee well
 many a time he danced thee on his knee
 sung thee asleep his loving breast thy pillow
 many a matter hath he told to thee
 meet and agreeing with thine infancy
 in that respect then like a loving child
 shed yet some small drops from thy tender spring
 because kind nature doth require it so
 friends should associate friends in grief and woe
 bid him farewell commit him to the grave
 do him that kindness and take leave of him
young lucius o grandsire grandsire even with all my heart
 would i were dead so you did live again
 o lord i cannot speak to him for weeping
 my tears will choke me if i ope my mouth
 reenter attendants with aaron
aemilius you sad andronici have done with woes
 give sentence on this execrable wretch
 that hath been breeder of these dire events
lucius set him breastdeep in earth and famish him
 there let him stand and rave and cry for food
 if any one relieves or pities him
 for the offence he dies this is our doom
 some stay to see him fasten'd in the earth
aaron o why should wrath be mute and fury dumb
 i am no baby i that with base prayers
 i should repent the evils i have done
 ten thousand worse than ever yet i did
 would i perform if i might have my will
 if one good deed in all my life i did
 i do repent it from my very soul
lucius some loving friends convey the emperor hence
 and give him burial in his father's grave
 my father and lavinia shall forthwith
 be closed in our household's monument
 as for that heinous tiger tamora
 no funeral rite nor man m mourning weeds
 no mournful bell shall ring her burial
 but throw her forth to beasts and birds of prey
 her life was beastlike and devoid of pity
 and being so shall have like want of pity
 see justice done on aaron that damn'd moor
 by whom our heavy haps had their beginning
 then afterwards to order well the state
 that like events may ne'er it ruinate
 exeunt
 a lover's complaint
from off a hill whose concave womb reworded
a plaintful story from a sistering vale
my spirits to attend this double voice accorded
and down i laid to list the sadtuned tale
ere long espied a fickle maid full pale
tearing of papers breaking rings atwain
storming her world with sorrow's wind and rain
upon her head a platted hive of straw
which fortified her visage from the sun
whereon the thought might think sometime it saw
the carcass of beauty spent and done
time had not scythed all that youth begun
nor youth all quit but spite of heaven's fell rage
some beauty peep'd through lattice of sear'd age
oft did she heave her napkin to her eyne
which on it had conceited characters
laundering the silken figures in the brine
that season'd woe had pelleted in tears
and often reading what contents it bears
as often shrieking undistinguish'd woe
in clamours of all size both high and low
sometimes her levell'd eyes their carriage ride
as they did battery to the spheres intend
sometime diverted their poor balls are tied
to the orbed earth sometimes they do extend
their view right on anon their gazes lend
to every place at once and nowhere fix'd
the mind and sight distractedly commix'd
her hair nor loose nor tied in formal plat
proclaim'd in her a careless hand of pride
for some untuck'd descended her sheaved hat
hanging her pale and pined cheek beside
some in her threaden fillet still did bide
and true to bondage would not break from thence
though slackly braided in loose negligence
a thousand favours from a maund she drew
of amber crystal and of beaded jet
which one by one she in a river threw
upon whose weeping margent she was set
like usury applying wet to wet
or monarch's hands that let not bounty fall
where want cries some but where excess begs all
of folded schedules had she many a one
which she perused sigh'd tore and gave the flood
crack'd many a ring of posied gold and bone
bidding them find their sepulchres in mud
found yet moe letters sadly penn'd in blood
with sleided silk feat and affectedly
enswathed and seal'd to curious secrecy
these often bathed she in her fluxive eyes
and often kiss'd and often gan to tear
cried o false blood thou register of lies
what unapproved witness dost thou bear
ink would have seem'd more black and damned here'
this said in top of rage the lines she rents
big discontent so breaking their contents
a reverend man that grazed his cattle nigh
sometime a blusterer that the ruffle knew
of court of city and had let go by
the swiftest hours observed as they flew
towards this afflicted fancy fastly drew
and privileged by age desires to know
in brief the grounds and motives of her woe
so slides he down upon his grained bat
and comelydistant sits he by her side
when he again desires her being sat
her grievance with his hearing to divide
if that from him there may be aught applied
which may her suffering ecstasy assuage
'tis promised in the charity of age
'father she says though in me you behold
the injury of many a blasting hour
let it not tell your judgment i am old
not age but sorrow over me hath power
i might as yet have been a spreading flower
fresh to myself if i had selfapplied
love to myself and to no love beside
'but woe is me too early i attended
a youthful suitit was to gain my grace
of one by nature's outwards so commended
that maidens eyes stuck over all his face
love lack'd a dwelling and made him her place
and when in his fair parts she did abide
she was new lodged and newly deified
'his browny locks did hang in crooked curls
and every light occasion of the wind
upon his lips their silken parcels hurls
what's sweet to do to do will aptly find
each eye that saw him did enchant the mind
for on his visage was in little drawn
what largeness thinks in paradise was sawn
'small show of man was yet upon his chin
his phoenix down began but to appear
like unshorn velvet on that termless skin
whose bare outbragg'd the web it seem'd to wear
yet show'd his visage by that cost more dear
and nice affections wavering stood in doubt
if best were as it was or best without
'his qualities were beauteous as his form
for maidentongued he was and thereof free
yet if men moved him was he such a storm
as oft twixt may and april is to see
when winds breathe sweet untidy though they be
his rudeness so with his authorized youth
did livery falseness in a pride of truth
'well could he ride and often men would say
'that horse his mettle from his rider takes
proud of subjection noble by the sway
what rounds what bounds what course what stop
he makes'
and controversy hence a question takes
whether the horse by him became his deed
or he his manage by the welldoing steed
'but quickly on this side the verdict went
his real habitude gave life and grace
to appertainings and to ornament
accomplish'd in himself not in his case
all aids themselves made fairer by their place
came for additions yet their purposed trim
pieced not his grace but were all graced by him
'so on the tip of his subduing tongue
all kinds of arguments and question deep
all replication prompt and reason strong
for his advantage still did wake and sleep
to make the weeper laugh the laugher weep
he had the dialect and different skill
catching all passions in his craft of will
'that he did in the general bosom reign
of young of old and sexes both enchanted
to dwell with him in thoughts or to remain
in personal duty following where he haunted
consents bewitch'd ere he desire have granted
and dialogued for him what he would say
ask'd their own wills and made their wills obey
'many there were that did his picture get
to serve their eyes and in it put their mind
like fools that in th imagination set
the goodly objects which abroad they find
of lands and mansions theirs in thought assign'd
and labouring in moe pleasures to bestow them
than the true gouty landlord which doth owe them
'so many have that never touch'd his hand
sweetly supposed them mistress of his heart
my woeful self that did in freedom stand
and was my own feesimple not in part
what with his art in youth and youth in art
threw my affections in his charmed power
reserved the stalk and gave him all my flower
'yet did i not as some my equals did
demand of him nor being desired yielded
finding myself in honour so forbid
with safest distance i mine honour shielded
experience for me many bulwarks builded
of proofs newbleeding which remain'd the foil
of this false jewel and his amorous spoil
'but ah who ever shunn'd by precedent
the destined ill she must herself assay
or forced examples gainst her own content
to put the bypast perils in her way
counsel may stop awhile what will not stay
for when we rage advice is often seen
by blunting us to make our wits more keen
'nor gives it satisfaction to our blood
that we must curb it upon others proof
to be forbod the sweets that seem so good
for fear of harms that preach in our behoof
o appetite from judgment stand aloof
the one a palate hath that needs will taste
though reason weep and cry it is thy last'
'for further i could say this man's untrue'
and knew the patterns of his foul beguiling
heard where his plants in others orchards grew
saw how deceits were gilded in his smiling
knew vows were ever brokers to defiling
thought characters and words merely but art
and bastards of his foul adulterate heart
'and long upon these terms i held my city
till thus he gan besiege me gentle maid
have of my suffering youth some feeling pity
and be not of my holy vows afraid
that's to ye sworn to none was ever said
for feasts of love i have been call'd unto
till now did ne'er invite nor never woo
''all my offences that abroad you see
are errors of the blood none of the mind
love made them not with acture they may be
where neither party is nor true nor kind
they sought their shame that so their shame did find
and so much less of shame in me remains
by how much of me their reproach contains
''among the many that mine eyes have seen
not one whose flame my heart so much as warm'd
or my affection put to the smallest teen
or any of my leisures ever charm'd
harm have i done to them but ne'er was harm'd
kept hearts in liveries but mine own was free
and reign'd commanding in his monarchy
''look here what tributes wounded fancies sent me
of paled pearls and rubies red as blood
figuring that they their passions likewise lent me
of grief and blushes aptly understood
in bloodless white and the encrimson'd mood
effects of terror and dear modesty
encamp'd in hearts but fighting outwardly
''and lo behold these talents of their hair
with twisted metal amorously impleach'd
i have received from many a several fair
their kind acceptance weepingly beseech'd
with the annexions of fair gems enrich'd
and deepbrain'd sonnets that did amplify
each stone's dear nature worth and quality
''the diamondwhy twas beautiful and hard
whereto his invised properties did tend
the deepgreen emerald in whose fresh regard
weak sights their sickly radiance do amend
the heavenhued sapphire and the opal blend
with objects manifold each several stone
with wit well blazon'd smiled or made some moan
''lo all these trophies of affections hot
of pensived and subdued desires the tender
nature hath charged me that i hoard them not
but yield them up where i myself must render
that is to you my origin and ender
for these of force must your oblations be
since i their altar you enpatron me
''o then advance of yours that phraseless hand
whose white weighs down the airy scale of praise
take all these similes to your own command
hallow'd with sighs that burning lungs did raise
what me your minister for you obeys
works under you and to your audit comes
their distract parcels in combined sums
''lo this device was sent me from a nun
or sister sanctified of holiest note
which late her noble suit in court did shun
whose rarest havings made the blossoms dote
for she was sought by spirits of richest coat
but kept cold distance and did thence remove
to spend her living in eternal love
''but o my sweet what labour is't to leave
the thing we have not mastering what not strives
playing the place which did no form receive
playing patient sports in unconstrained gyves
she that her fame so to herself contrives
the scars of battle scapeth by the flight
and makes her absence valiant not her might
''o pardon me in that my boast is true
the accident which brought me to her eye
upon the moment did her force subdue
and now she would the caged cloister fly
religious love put out religion's eye
not to be tempted would she be immured
and now to tempt all liberty procured
''how mighty then you are o hear me tell
the broken bosoms that to me belong
have emptied all their fountains in my well
and mine i pour your ocean all among
i strong o'er them and you o'er me being strong
must for your victory us all congest
as compound love to physic your cold breast
''my parts had power to charm a sacred nun
who disciplined ay dieted in grace
believed her eyes when they to assail begun
all vows and consecrations giving place
o most potential love vow bond nor space
in thee hath neither sting knot nor confine
for thou art all and all things else are thine
''when thou impressest what are precepts worth
of stale example when thou wilt inflame
how coldly those impediments stand forth
of wealth of filial fear law kindred fame
love's arms are peace gainst rule gainst sense
'gainst shame
and sweetens in the suffering pangs it bears
the aloes of all forces shocks and fears
''now all these hearts that do on mine depend
feeling it break with bleeding groans they pine
and supplicant their sighs to you extend
to leave the battery that you make gainst mine
lending soft audience to my sweet design
and credent soul to that strongbonded oath
that shall prefer and undertake my troth'
'this said his watery eyes he did dismount
whose sights till then were levell'd on my face
each cheek a river running from a fount
with brinish current downward flow'd apace
o how the channel to the stream gave grace
who glazed with crystal gate the glowing roses
that flame through water which their hue encloses
'o father what a hell of witchcraft lies
in the small orb of one particular tear
but with the inundation of the eyes
what rocky heart to water will not wear
what breast so cold that is not warmed here
o cleft effect cold modesty hot wrath
both fire from hence and chill extincture hath
'for lo his passion but an art of craft
even there resolved my reason into tears
there my white stole of chastity i daff'd
shook off my sober guards and civil fears
appear to him as he to me appears
all melting though our drops this difference bore
his poison'd me and mine did him restore
'in him a plenitude of subtle matter
applied to cautels all strange forms receives
of burning blushes or of weeping water
or swooning paleness and he takes and leaves
in either's aptness as it best deceives
to blush at speeches rank to weep at woes
or to turn white and swoon at tragic shows
'that not a heart which in his level came
could scape the hail of his allhurting aim
showing fair nature is both kind and tame
and veil'd in them did win whom he would maim
against the thing he sought he would exclaim
when he most burn'd in heartwish'd luxury
he preach'd pure maid and praised cold chastity
'thus merely with the garment of a grace
the naked and concealed fiend he cover'd
that th unexperient gave the tempter place
which like a cherubin above them hover'd
who young and simple would not be so lover'd
ay me i fell and yet do question make
what i should do again for such a sake
'o that infected moisture of his eye
o that false fire which in his cheek so glow'd
o that forced thunder from his heart did fly
o that sad breath his spongy lungs bestow'd
o all that borrow'd motion seeming owed
would yet again betray the forebetray'd
and new pervert a reconciled maid'
 the rape of lucrece
to the
right honorable henry wriothesly
earl of southampton and baron of tichfield
the love i dedicate to your lordship is without end whereof
this pamphlet without beginning is but a superfluous moiety
the warrant i have of your honourable disposition not the worth
of my untutored lines makes it assured of acceptance what i
have done is yours what i have to do is yours being part in
all i have devoted yours were my worth greater my duty would
show greater meantime as it is it is bound to your lordship
to whom i wish long life still lengthened with all happiness
your lordship's in all duty
william shakespeare
 the rape of lucrece
 the argument
lucius tarquinius for his excessive pride surnamed superbus
after he had caused his own fatherinlaw servius tullius to be
cruelly murdered and contrary to the roman laws and customs
not requiring or staying for the people's suffrages had
possessed himself of the kingdom went accompanied with his sons
and other noblemen of rome to besiege ardea during which siege
the principal men of the army meeting one evening at the tent of
sextus tarquinius the king's son in their discourses after
supper every one commended the virtues of his own wife among
whom collatinus extolled the incomparable chastity of his wife
lucretia in that pleasant humour they posted to rome and
intending by their secret and sudden arrival to make trial of
that which every one had before avouched only collatinus finds
his wife though it were late in the night spinning amongst her
maids the other ladies were all found dancing and revelling or
in several disports whereupon the noblemen yielded collatinus
the victory and his wife the fame at that time sextus
tarquinius being inflamed with lucrece beauty yet smothering
his passions for the present departed with the rest back to the
camp from whence he shortly after privily withdrew himself and
was according to his estate royally entertained and lodged by
lucrece at collatium the same night he treacherously stealeth
into her chamber violently ravished her and early in the
morning speedeth away lucrece in this lamentable plight
hastily dispatcheth messengers one to rome for her father
another to the camp for collatine they came the one
accompanied with junius brutus the other with publius valerius
and finding lucrece attired in mourning habit demanded the cause
of her sorrow she first taking an oath of them for her
revenge revealed the actor and whole manner of his dealing and
withal suddenly stabbed herself which done with one consent
they all vowed to root out the whole hated family of the
tarquins and bearing the dead body to rome brutus acquainted
the people with the doer and manner of the vile deed with a
bitter invective against the tyranny of the king wherewith the
people were so moved that with one consent and a general
acclamation the tarquins were all exiled and the state
government changed from kings to consuls
 the rape of lucrece
from the besieged ardea all in post
borne by the trustless wings of false desire
lustbreathed tarquin leaves the roman host
and to collatium bears the lightless fire
which in pale embers hid lurks to aspire
and girdle with embracing flames the waist
of collatine's fair love lucrece the chaste
haply that name of chaste unhappily set
this bateless edge on his keen appetite
when collatine unwisely did not let
to praise the clear unmatched red and white
which triumph'd in that sky of his delight
where mortal stars as bright as heaven's beauties
with pure aspects did him peculiar duties
for he the night before in tarquin's tent
unlock'd the treasure of his happy state
what priceless wealth the heavens had him lent
in the possession of his beauteous mate
reckoning his fortune at such highproud rate
that kings might be espoused to more fame
but king nor peer to such a peerless dame
o happiness enjoy'd but of a few
and if possess'd as soon decay'd and done
as is the morning's silvermelting dew
against the golden splendor of the sun
an expired date cancell'd ere well begun
honour and beauty in the owner's arms
are weakly fortress'd from a world of harms
beauty itself doth of itself persuade
the eyes of men without an orator
what needeth then apologies be made
to set forth that which is so singular
or why is collatine the publisher
of that rich jewel he should keep unknown
from thievish ears because it is his own
perchance his boast of lucrece sovereignty
suggested this proud issue of a king
for by our ears our hearts oft tainted be
perchance that envy of so rich a thing
braving compare disdainfully did sting
his highpitch'd thoughts that meaner men should vaunt
that golden hap which their superiors want
but some untimely thought did instigate
his alltootimeless speed if none of those
his honour his affairs his friends his state
neglected all with swift intent he goes
to quench the coal which in his liver glows
o rash false heat wrapp'd in repentant cold
thy hasty spring still blasts and ne'er grows old
when at collatium this false lord arrived
well was he welcomed by the roman dame
within whose face beauty and virtue strived
which of them both should underprop her fame
when virtue bragg'd beauty would blush for shame
when beauty boasted blushes in despite
virtue would stain that o'er with silver white
but beauty in that white intituled
from venus doves doth challenge that fair field
then virtue claims from beauty beauty's red
which virtue gave the golden age to gild
their silver cheeks and call'd it then their shield
teaching them thus to use it in the fight
when shame assail'd the red should fence the white
this heraldry in lucrece face was seen
argued by beauty's red and virtue's white
of either's colour was the other queen
proving from world's minority their right
yet their ambition makes them still to fight
the sovereignty of either being so great
that oft they interchange each other's seat
their silent war of lilies and of roses
which tarquin view'd in her fair face's field
in their pure ranks his traitor eye encloses
where lest between them both it should be kill'd
the coward captive vanquished doth yield
to those two armies that would let him go
rather than triumph in so false a foe
now thinks he that her husband's shallow tongue
the niggard prodigal that praised her so
in that high task hath done her beauty wrong
which far exceeds his barren skill to show
therefore that praise which collatine doth owe
enchanted tarquin answers with surmise
in silent wonder of stillgazing eyes
this earthly saint adored by this devil
little suspecteth the false worshipper
for unstain'd thoughts do seldom dream on evil
birds never limed no secret bushes fear
so guiltless she securely gives good cheer
and reverend welcome to her princely guest
whose inward ill no outward harm express'd
for that he colour'd with his high estate
hiding base sin in plaits of majesty
that nothing in him seem'd inordinate
save something too much wonder of his eye
which having all all could not satisfy
but poorly rich so wanteth in his store
that cloy'd with much he pineth still for more
but she that never coped with stranger eyes
could pick no meaning from their parling looks
nor read the subtleshining secrecies
writ in the glassy margents of such books
she touch'd no unknown baits nor fear'd no hooks
nor could she moralize his wanton sight
more than his eyes were open'd to the light
he stories to her ears her husband's fame
won in the fields of fruitful italy
and decks with praises collatine's high name
made glorious by his manly chivalry
with bruised arms and wreaths of victory
her joy with heavedup hand she doth express
and wordless so greets heaven for his success
far from the purpose of his coming hither
he makes excuses for his being there
no cloudy show of stormy blustering weather
doth yet in his fair welkin once appear
till sable night mother of dread and fear
upon the world dim darkness doth display
and in her vaulty prison stows the day
for then is tarquin brought unto his bed
intending weariness with heavy spright
for after supper long he questioned
with modest lucrece and wore out the night
now leaden slumber with life's strength doth fight
and every one to rest themselves betake
save thieves and cares and troubled minds that wake
as one of which doth tarquin lie revolving
the sundry dangers of his will's obtaining
yet ever to obtain his will resolving
though weakbuilt hopes persuade him to abstaining
despair to gain doth traffic oft for gaining
and when great treasure is the meed proposed
though death be adjunct there's no death supposed
those that much covet are with gain so fond
for what they have not that which they possess
they scatter and unloose it from their bond
and so by hoping more they have but less
or gaining more the profit of excess
is but to surfeit and such griefs sustain
that they prove bankrupt in this poorrich gain
the aim of all is but to nurse the life
with honour wealth and ease in waning age
and in this aim there is such thwarting strife
that one for all or all for one we gage
as life for honour in fell battle's rage
honour for wealth and oft that wealth doth cost
the death of all and all together lost
so that in venturing ill we leave to be
the things we are for that which we expect
and this ambitious foul infirmity
in having much torments us with defect
of that we have so then we do neglect
the thing we have and all for want of wit
make something nothing by augmenting it
such hazard now must doting tarquin make
pawning his honour to obtain his lust
and for himself himself be must forsake
then where is truth if there be no selftrust
when shall he think to find a stranger just
when he himself himself confounds betrays
to slanderous tongues and wretched hateful days
now stole upon the time the dead of night
when heavy sleep had closed up mortal eyes
no comfortable star did lend his light
no noise but owls and wolves deathboding cries
now serves the season that they may surprise
the silly lambs pure thoughts are dead and still
while lust and murder wake to stain and kill
and now this lustful lord leap'd from his bed
throwing his mantle rudely o'er his arm
is madly toss'd between desire and dread
th one sweetly flatters th other feareth harm
but honest fear bewitch'd with lust's foul charm
doth too too oft betake him to retire
beaten away by brainsick rude desire
his falchion on a flint he softly smiteth
that from the cold stone sparks of fire do fly
whereat a waxen torch forthwith he lighteth
which must be lodestar to his lustful eye
and to the flame thus speaks advisedly
'as from this cold flint i enforced this fire
so lucrece must i force to my desire'
here pale with fear he doth premeditate
the dangers of his loathsome enterprise
and in his inward mind he doth debate
what following sorrow may on this arise
then looking scornfully he doth despise
his naked armour of stillslaughter'd lust
and justly thus controls his thoughts unjust
'fair torch burn out thy light and lend it not
to darken her whose light excelleth thine
and die unhallow'd thoughts before you blot
with your uncleanness that which is divine
offer pure incense to so pure a shrine
let fair humanity abhor the deed
that spots and stains love's modest snowwhite weed
'o shame to knighthood and to shining arms
o foul dishonour to my household's grave
o impious act including all foul harms
a martial man to be soft fancy's slave
true valour still a true respect should have
then my digression is so vile so base
that it will live engraven in my face
'yea though i die the scandal will survive
and be an eyesore in my golden coat
some loathsome dash the herald will contrive
to cipher me how fondly i did dote
that my posterity shamed with the note
shall curse my bones and hold it for no sin
to wish that i their father had not bin
'what win i if i gain the thing i seek
a dream a breath a froth of fleeting joy
who buys a minute's mirth to wail a week
or sells eternity to get a toy
for one sweet grape who will the vine destroy
or what fond beggar but to touch the crown
would with the sceptre straight be strucken down
'if collatinus dream of my intent
will he not wake and in a desperate rage
post hither this vile purpose to prevent
this siege that hath engirt his marriage
this blur to youth this sorrow to the sage
this dying virtue this surviving shame
whose crime will bear an everduring blame
'o what excuse can my invention make
when thou shalt charge me with so black a deed
will not my tongue be mute my frail joints shake
mine eyes forego their light my false heart bleed
the guilt being great the fear doth still exceed
and extreme fear can neither fight nor fly
but cowardlike with trembling terror die
'had collatinus kill'd my son or sire
or lain in ambush to betray my life
or were he not my dear friend this desire
might have excuse to work upon his wife
as in revenge or quittal of such strife
but as he is my kinsman my dear friend
the shame and fault finds no excuse nor end
'shameful it is ay if the fact be known
hateful it is there is no hate in loving
i'll beg her love but she is own
the worst is but denial and reproving
my will is strong past reason's weak removing
who fears a sentence or an old man's saw
shall by a painted cloth be kept in awe'
thus graceless holds he disputation
'tween frozen conscience and hotburning will
and with good thoughts make dispensation
urging the worser sense for vantage still
which in a moment doth confound and kill
all pure effects and doth so far proceed
that what is vile shows like a virtuous deed
quoth he she took me kindly by the hand
and gazed for tidings in my eager eyes
fearing some hard news from the warlike band
where her beloved collatinus lies
o how her fear did make her colour rise
first red as roses that on lawn we lay
then white as lawn the roses took away
'and how her hand in my hand being lock'd
forced it to tremble with her loyal fear
which struck her sad and then it faster rock'd
until her husband's welfare she did hear
whereat she smiled with so sweet a cheer
that had narcissus seen her as she stood
selflove had never drown'd him in the flood
'why hunt i then for colour or excuses
all orators are dumb when beauty pleadeth
poor wretches have remorse in poor abuses
love thrives not in the heart that shadows dreadeth
affection is my captain and he leadeth
and when his gaudy banner is display'd
the coward fights and will not be dismay'd
'then childish fear avaunt debating die
respect and reason wait on wrinkled age
my heart shall never countermand mine eye
sad pause and deep regard beseem the sage
my part is youth and beats these from the stage
desire my pilot is beauty my prize
then who fears sinking where such treasure lies'
as corn o'ergrown by weeds so heedful fear
is almost choked by unresisted lust
away he steals with open listening ear
full of foul hope and full of fond mistrust
both which as servitors to the unjust
so cross him with their opposite persuasion
that now he vows a league and now invasion
within his thought her heavenly image sits
and in the selfsame seat sits collatine
that eye which looks on her confounds his wits
that eye which him beholds as more divine
unto a view so false will not incline
but with a pure appeal seeks to the heart
which once corrupted takes the worser part
and therein heartens up his servile powers
who flatter'd by their leader's jocund show
stuff up his lust as minutes fill up hours
and as their captain so their pride doth grow
paying more slavish tribute than they owe
by reprobate desire thus madly led
the roman lord marcheth to lucrece bed
the locks between her chamber and his will
each one by him enforced retires his ward
but as they open they all rate his ill
which drives the creeping thief to some regard
the threshold grates the door to have him heard
nightwandering weasels shriek to see him there
they fright him yet he still pursues his fear
as each unwilling portal yields him way
through little vents and crannies of the place
the wind wars with his torch to make him stay
and blows the smoke of it into his face
extinguishing his conduct in this case
but his hot heart which fond desire doth scorch
puffs forth another wind that fires the torch
and being lighted by the light he spies
lucretia's glove wherein her needle sticks
he takes it from the rushes where it lies
and griping it the needle his finger pricks
as who should say this glove to wanton tricks
is not inured return again in haste
thou see'st our mistress ornaments are chaste'
but all these poor forbiddings could not stay him
he in the worst sense construes their denial
the doors the wind the glove that did delay him
he takes for accidental things of trial
or as those bars which stop the hourly dial
who with a lingering slay his course doth let
till every minute pays the hour his debt
'so so quoth he these lets attend the time
like little frosts that sometime threat the spring
to add a more rejoicing to the prime
and give the sneaped birds more cause to sing
pain pays the income of each precious thing
huge rocks high winds strong pirates shelves and sands
the merchant fears ere rich at home he lands'
now is he come unto the chamberdoor
that shuts him from the heaven of his thought
which with a yielding latch and with no more
hath barr'd him from the blessed thing be sought
so from himself impiety hath wrought
that for his prey to pray he doth begin
as if the heavens should countenance his sin
but in the midst of his unfruitful prayer
having solicited th eternal power
that his foul thoughts might compass his fair fair
and they would stand auspicious to the hour
even there he starts quoth he i must deflower
the powers to whom i pray abhor this fact
how can they then assist me in the act
'then love and fortune be my gods my guide
my will is back'd with resolution
thoughts are but dreams till their effects be tried
the blackest sin is clear'd with absolution
against love's fire fear's frost hath dissolution
the eye of heaven is out and misty night
covers the shame that follows sweet delight'
this said his guilty hand pluck'd up the latch
and with his knee the door he opens wide
the dove sleeps fast that this nightowl will catch
thus treason works ere traitors be espied
who sees the lurking serpent steps aside
but she sound sleeping fearing no such thing
lies at the mercy of his mortal sting
into the chamber wickedly he stalks
and gazeth on her yet unstained bed
the curtains being close about he walks
rolling his greedy eyeballs in his head
by their high treason is his heart misled
which gives the watchword to his hand full soon
to draw the cloud that hides the silver moon
look as the fair and fierypointed sun
rushing from forth a cloud bereaves our sight
even so the curtain drawn his eyes begun
to wink being blinded with a greater light
whether it is that she reflects so bright
that dazzleth them or else some shame supposed
but blind they are and keep themselves enclosed
o had they in that darksome prison died
then had they seen the period of their ill
then collatine again by lucrece side
in his clear bed might have reposed still
but they must ope this blessed league to kill
and holythoughted lucrece to their sight
must sell her joy her life her world's delight
her lily hand her rosy cheek lies under
cozening the pillow of a lawful kiss
who therefore angry seems to part in sunder
swelling on either side to want his bliss
between whose hills her head entombed is
where like a virtuous monument she lies
to be admired of lewd unhallow'd eyes
without the bed her other fair hand was
on the green coverlet whose perfect white
show'd like an april daisy on the grass
with pearly sweat resembling dew of night
her eyes like marigolds had sheathed their light
and canopied in darkness sweetly lay
till they might open to adorn the day
her hair like golden threads play'd with her breath
o modest wantons wanton modesty
showing life's triumph in the map of death
and death's dim look in life's mortality
each in her sleep themselves so beautify
as if between them twain there were no strife
but that life lived in death and death in life
her breasts like ivory globes circled with blue
a pair of maiden worlds unconquered
save of their lord no bearing yoke they knew
and him by oath they truly honoured
these worlds in tarquin new ambition bred
who like a foul ursurper went about
from this fair throne to heave the owner out
what could he see but mightily he noted
what did he note but strongly he desired
what he beheld on that he firmly doted
and in his will his wilful eye he tired
with more than admiration he admired
her azure veins her alabaster skin
her coral lips her snowwhite dimpled chin
as the grim lion fawneth o'er his prey
sharp hunger by the conquest satisfied
so o'er this sleeping soul doth tarquin stay
his rage of lust by gazing qualified
slack'd not suppress'd for standing by her side
his eye which late this mutiny restrains
unto a greater uproar tempts his veins
and they like straggling slaves for pillage fighting
obdurate vassals fell exploits effecting
in bloody death and ravishment delighting
nor children's tears nor mothers groans respecting
swell in their pride the onset still expecting
anon his beating heart alarum striking
gives the hot charge and bids them do their liking
his drumming heart cheers up his burning eye
his eye commends the leading to his hand
his hand as proud of such a dignity
smoking with pride march'd on to make his stand
on her bare breast the heart of all her land
whose ranks of blue veins as his hand did scale
left there round turrets destitute and pale
they mustering to the quiet cabinet
where their dear governess and lady lies
do tell her she is dreadfully beset
and fright her with confusion of their cries
she much amazed breaks ope her lock'dup eyes
who peeping forth this tumult to behold
are by his flaming torch dimm'd and controll'd
imagine her as one in dead of night
from forth dull sleep by dreadful fancy waking
that thinks she hath beheld some ghastly sprite
whose grim aspect sets every joint ashaking
what terror or tis but she in worser taking
from sleep disturbed heedfully doth view
the sight which makes supposed terror true
wrapp'd and confounded in a thousand fears
like to a newkill'd bird she trembling lies
she dares not look yet winking there appears
quickshifting antics ugly in her eyes
such shadows are the weak brain's forgeries
who angry that the eyes fly from their lights
in darkness daunts them with more dreadful sights
his hand that yet remains upon her breast
rude ram to batter such an ivory wall
may feel her heartpoor citizendistress'd
wounding itself to death rise up and fall
beating her bulk that his hand shakes withal
this moves in him more rage and lesser pity
to make the breach and enter this sweet city
first like a trumpet doth his tongue begin
to sound a parley to his heartless foe
who o'er the white sheet peers her whiter chin
the reason of this rash alarm to know
which he by dumb demeanor seeks to show
but she with vehement prayers urgeth still
under what colour he commits this ill
thus he replies the colour in thy face
that even for anger makes the lily pale
and the red rose blush at her own disgrace
shall plead for me and tell my loving tale
under that colour am i come to scale
thy neverconquer'd fort the fault is thine
for those thine eyes betray thee unto mine
'thus i forestall thee if thou mean to chide
thy beauty hath ensnared thee to this night
where thou with patience must my will abide
my will that marks thee for my earth's delight
which i to conquer sought with all my might
but as reproof and reason beat it dead
by thy bright beauty was it newly bred
'i see what crosses my attempt will bring
i know what thorns the growing rose defends
i think the honey guarded with a sting
all this beforehand counsel comprehends
but will is deaf and hears no heedful friends
only he hath an eye to gaze on beauty
and dotes on what he looks gainst law or duty
'i have debated even in my soul
what wrong what shame what sorrow i shall breed
but nothing can affection's course control
or stop the headlong fury of his speed
i know repentant tears ensue the deed
reproach disdain and deadly enmity
yet strive i to embrace mine infamy'
this said he shakes aloft his roman blade
which like a falcon towering in the skies
coucheth the fowl below with his wings shade
whose crooked beak threats if he mount he dies
so under his insulting falchion lies
harmless lucretia marking what he tells
with trembling fear as fowl hear falcon's bells
'lucrece quoth he'this night i must enjoy thee
if thou deny then force must work my way
for in thy bed i purpose to destroy thee
that done some worthless slave of thine i'll slay
to kill thine honour with thy life's decay
and in thy dead arms do i mean to place him
swearing i slew him seeing thee embrace him
'so thy surviving husband shall remain
the scornful mark of every open eye
thy kinsmen hang their heads at this disdain
thy issue blurr'd with nameless bastardy
and thou the author of their obloquy
shalt have thy trespass cited up in rhymes
and sung by children in succeeding times
'but if thou yield i rest thy secret friend
the fault unknown is as a thought unacted
a little harm done to a great good end
for lawful policy remains enacted
the poisonous simple sometimes is compacted
in a pure compound being so applied
his venom in effect is purified
'then for thy husband and thy children's sake
tender my suit bequeath not to their lot
the shame that from them no device can take
the blemish that will never be forgot
worse than a slavish wipe or birthhour's blot
for marks descried in men's nativity
are nature's faults not their own infamy'
here with a cockatrice deadkilling eye
he rouseth up himself and makes a pause
while she the picture of pure piety
like a white hind under the gripe's sharp claws
pleads in a wilderness where are no laws
to the rough beast that knows no gentle right
nor aught obeys but his foul appetite
but when a blackfaced cloud the world doth threat
in his dim mist the aspiring mountains hiding
from earth's dark womb some gentle gust doth get
which blows these pitchy vapours from their bidding
hindering their present fall by this dividing
so his unhallow'd haste her words delays
and moody pluto winks while orpheus plays
yet foul nightwaking cat he doth but dally
while in his holdfast foot the weak mouse panteth
her sad behavior feeds his vulture folly
a swallowing gulf that even in plenty wanteth
his ear her prayers admits but his heart granteth
no penetrable entrance to her plaining
tears harden lust though marble wear with raining
her pitypleading eyes are sadly fix'd
in the remorseless wrinkles of his face
her modest eloquence with sighs is mix'd
which to her oratory adds more grace
she puts the period often from his place
and midst the sentence so her accent breaks
that twice she doth begin ere once she speaks
she conjures him by high almighty jove
by knighthood gentry and sweet friendship's oath
by her untimely tears her husband's love
by holy human law and common troth
by heaven and earth and all the power of both
that to his borrow'd bed he make retire
and stoop to honour not to foul desire
quoth she reward not hospitality
with such black payment as thou hast pretended
mud not the fountain that gave drink to thee
mar not the thing that cannot be amended
end thy ill aim before thy shoot be ended
he is no woodman that doth bend his bow
to strike a poor unseasonable doe
'my husband is thy friend for his sake spare me
thyself art mighty for thine own sake leave me
myself a weakling do not then ensnare me
thou look'st not like deceit do not deceive me
my sighs like whirlwinds labour hence to heave thee
if ever man were moved with woman moans
be moved with my tears my sighs my groans
'all which together like a troubled ocean
beat at thy rocky and wreckthreatening heart
to soften it with their continual motion
for stones dissolved to water do convert
o if no harder than a stone thou art
melt at my tears and be compassionate
soft pity enters at an iron gate
'in tarquin's likeness i did entertain thee
hast thou put on his shape to do him shame
to all the host of heaven i complain me
thou wrong'st his honour wound'st his princely name
thou art not what thou seem'st and if the same
thou seem'st not what thou art a god a king
for kings like gods should govern everything
'how will thy shame be seeded in thine age
when thus thy vices bud before thy spring
if in thy hope thou darest do such outrage
what darest thou not when once thou art a king
o be remember'd no outrageous thing
from vassal actors can be wiped away
then kings misdeeds cannot be hid in clay
'this deed will make thee only loved for fear
but happy monarchs still are fear'd for love
with foul offenders thou perforce must bear
when they in thee the like offences prove
if but for fear of this thy will remove
for princes are the glass the school the book
where subjects eyes do learn do read do look
'and wilt thou be the school where lust shall learn
must he in thee read lectures of such shame
wilt thou be glass wherein it shall discern
authority for sin warrant for blame
to privilege dishonour in thy name
thou black'st reproach against longliving laud
and makest fair reputation but a bawd
'hast thou command by him that gave it thee
from a pure heart command thy rebel will
draw not thy sword to guard iniquity
for it was lent thee all that brood to kill
thy princely office how canst thou fulfil
when pattern'd by thy fault foul sin may say
he learn'd to sin and thou didst teach the way
'think but how vile a spectacle it were
to view thy present trespass in another
men's faults do seldom to themselves appear
their own transgressions partially they smother
this guilt would seem deathworthy in thy brother
o how are they wrapp'd in with infamies
that from their own misdeeds askance their eyes
'to thee to thee my heavedup hands appeal
not to seducing lust thy rash relier
i sue for exiled majesty's repeal
let him return and flattering thoughts retire
his true respect will prison false desire
and wipe the dim mist from thy doting eyne
that thou shalt see thy state and pity mine'
'have done quoth he my uncontrolled tide
turns not but swells the higher by this let
small lights are soon blown out huge fires abide
and with the wind in greater fury fret
the petty streams that pay a daily debt
to their salt sovereign with their fresh falls haste
add to his flow but alter not his taste'
'thou art quoth she a sea a sovereign king
and lo there falls into thy boundless flood
black lust dishonour shame misgoverning
who seek to stain the ocean of thy blood
if all these pretty ills shall change thy good
thy sea within a puddle's womb is hearsed
and not the puddle in thy sea dispersed
'so shall these slaves be king and thou their slave
thou nobly base they basely dignified
thou their fair life and they thy fouler grave
thou loathed in their shame they in thy pride
the lesser thing should not the greater hide
the cedar stoops not to the base shrub's foot
but low shrubs wither at the cedar's root
'so let thy thoughts low vassals to thy state'
no more quoth he by heaven i will not hear thee
yield to my love if not enforced hate
instead of love's coy touch shall rudely tear thee
that done despitefully i mean to bear thee
unto the base bed of some rascal groom
to be thy partner in this shameful doom'
this said he sets his foot upon the light
for light and lust are deadly enemies
shame folded up in blind concealing night
when most unseen then most doth tyrannize
the wolf hath seized his prey the poor lamb cries
till with her own white fleece her voice controll'd
entombs her outcry in her lips sweet fold
for with the nightly linen that she wears
he pens her piteous clamours in her head
cooling his hot face in the chastest tears
that ever modest eyes with sorrow shed
o that prone lust should stain so pure a bed
the spots whereof could weeping purify
her tears should drop on them perpetually
but she hath lost a dearer thing than life
and he hath won what he would lose again
this forced league doth force a further strife
this momentary joy breeds months of pain
this hot desire converts to cold disdain
pure chastity is rifled of her store
and lust the thief far poorer than before
look as the fullfed hound or gorged hawk
unapt for tender smell or speedy flight
make slow pursuit or altogether balk
the prey wherein by nature they delight
so surfeittaking tarquin fares this night
his taste delicious in digestion souring
devours his will that lived by foul devouring
o deeper sin than bottomless conceit
can comprehend in still imagination
drunken desire must vomit his receipt
ere he can see his own abomination
while lust is in his pride no exclamation
can curb his heat or rein his rash desire
till like a jade selfwill himself doth tire
and then with lank and lean discolour'd cheek
with heavy eye knit brow and strengthless pace
feeble desire all recreant poor and meek
like to a bankrupt beggar wails his case
the flesh being proud desire doth fight with grace
for there it revels and when that decays
the guilty rebel for remission prays
so fares it with this faultful lord of rome
who this accomplishment so hotly chased
for now against himself he sounds this doom
that through the length of times he stands disgraced
besides his soul's fair temple is defaced
to whose weak ruins muster troops of cares
to ask the spotted princess how she fares
she says her subjects with foul insurrection
have batter'd down her consecrated wall
and by their mortal fault brought in subjection
her immortality and made her thrall
to living death and pain perpetual
which in her prescience she controlled still
but her foresight could not forestall their will
even in this thought through the dark night he stealeth
a captive victor that hath lost in gain
bearing away the wound that nothing healeth
the scar that will despite of cure remain
leaving his spoil perplex'd in greater pain
she bears the load of lust he left behind
and he the burden of a guilty mind
he like a thievish dog creeps sadly thence
she like a wearied lamb lies panting there
he scowls and hates himself for his offence
she desperate with her nails her flesh doth tear
he faintly flies sneaking with guilty fear
she stays exclaiming on the direful night
he runs and chides his vanish'd loathed delight
he thence departs a heavy convertite
she there remains a hopeless castaway
he in his speed looks for the morning light
she prays she never may behold the day
'for day quoth she nights scapes doth open lay
and my true eyes have never practised how
to cloak offences with a cunning brow
'they think not but that every eye can see
the same disgrace which they themselves behold
and therefore would they still in darkness be
to have their unseen sin remain untold
for they their guilt with weeping will unfold
and grave like water that doth eat in steel
upon my cheeks what helpless shame i feel'
here she exclaims against repose and rest
and bids her eyes hereafter still be blind
she wakes her heart by beating on her breast
and bids it leap from thence where it may find
some purer chest to close so pure a mind
frantic with grief thus breathes she forth her spite
against the unseen secrecy of night
'o comfortkilling night image of hell
dim register and notary of shame
black stage for tragedies and murders fell
vast sinconcealing chaos nurse of blame
blind muffled bawd dark harbour for defame
grim cave of death whispering conspirator
with closetongued treason and the ravisher
'o hateful vaporous and foggy night
since thou art guilty of my cureless crime
muster thy mists to meet the eastern light
make war against proportion'd course of time
or if thou wilt permit the sun to climb
his wonted height yet ere he go to bed
knit poisonous clouds about his golden head
'with rotten damps ravish the morning air
let their exhaled unwholesome breaths make sick
the life of purity the supreme fair
ere he arrive his weary noontide prick
and let thy misty vapours march so thick
that in their smoky ranks his smother'd light
may set at noon and make perpetual night
'were tarquin night as he is but night's child
the silvershining queen he would distain
her twinkling handmaids too by him defiled
through night's black bosom should not peep again
so should i have copartners in my pain
and fellowship in woe doth woe assuage
as palmers chat makes short their pilgrimage
'where now i have no one to blush with me
to cross their arms and hang their heads with mine
to mask their brows and hide their infamy
but i alone alone must sit and pine
seasoning the earth with showers of silver brine
mingling my talk with tears my grief with groans
poor wasting monuments of lasting moans
'o night thou furnace of foulreeking smoke
let not the jealous day behold that face
which underneath thy black allhiding cloak
immodestly lies martyr'd with disgrace
keep still possession of thy gloomy place
that all the faults which in thy reign are made
may likewise be sepulchred in thy shade
'make me not object to the telltale day
the light will show character'd in my brow
the story of sweet chastity's decay
the impious breach of holy wedlock vow
yea the illiterate that know not how
to cipher what is writ in learned books
will quote my loathsome trespass in my looks
'the nurse to still her child will tell my story
and fright her crying babe with tarquin's name
the orator to deck his oratory
will couple my reproach to tarquin's shame
feastfinding minstrels tuning my defame
will tie the hearers to attend each line
how tarquin wronged me i collatine
'let my good name that senseless reputation
for collatine's dear love be kept unspotted
if that be made a theme for disputation
the branches of another root are rotted
and undeserved reproach to him allotted
that is as clear from this attaint of mine
as i ere this was pure to collatine
'o unseen shame invisible disgrace
o unfelt sore crestwounding private scar
reproach is stamp'd in collatinus face
and tarquin's eye may read the mot afar
how he in peace is wounded not in war
alas how many bear such shameful blows
which not themselves but he that gives them knows
'if collatine thine honour lay in me
from me by strong assault it is bereft
my honour lost and i a dronelike bee
have no perfection of my summer left
but robb'd and ransack'd by injurious theft
in thy weak hive a wandering wasp hath crept
and suck'd the honey which thy chaste bee kept
'yet am i guilty of thy honour's wrack
yet for thy honour did i entertain him
coming from thee i could not put him back
for it had been dishonour to disdain him
besides of weariness he did complain him
and talk'd of virtue o unlook'dfor evil
when virtue is profaned in such a devil
'why should the worm intrude the maiden bud
or hateful cuckoos hatch in sparrows nests
or toads infect fair founts with venom mud
or tyrant folly lurk in gentle breasts
or kings be breakers of their own behests
but no perfection is so absolute
that some impurity doth not pollute
'the aged man that coffersup his gold
is plagued with cramps and gouts and painful fits
and scarce hath eyes his treasure to behold
but like stillpining tantalus he sits
and useless barns the harvest of his wits
having no other pleasure of his gain
but torment that it cannot cure his pain
'so then he hath it when he cannot use it
and leaves it to be master'd by his young
who in their pride do presently abuse it
their father was too weak and they too strong
to hold their cursedblessed fortune long
the sweets we wish for turn to loathed sours
even in the moment that we call them ours
'unruly blasts wait on the tender spring
unwholesome weeds take root with precious flowers
the adder hisses where the sweet birds sing
what virtue breeds iniquity devours
we have no good that we can say is ours
but illannexed opportunity
or kills his life or else his quality
'o opportunity thy guilt is great
'tis thou that executest the traitor's treason
thou set'st the wolf where he the lamb may get
whoever plots the sin thou point'st the season
'tis thou that spurn'st at right at law at reason
and in thy shady cell where none may spy him
sits sin to seize the souls that wander by him
'thou makest the vestal violate her oath
thou blow'st the fire when temperance is thaw'd
thou smother'st honesty thou murder'st troth
thou foul abettor thou notorious bawd
thou plantest scandal and displacest laud
thou ravisher thou traitor thou false thief
thy honey turns to gall thy joy to grief
'thy secret pleasure turns to open shame
thy private feasting to a public fast
thy smoothing titles to a ragged name
thy sugar'd tongue to bitter wormwood taste
thy violent vanities can never last
how comes it then vile opportunity
being so bad such numbers seek for thee
'when wilt thou be the humble suppliant's friend
and bring him where his suit may be obtain'd
when wilt thou sort an hour great strifes to end
or free that soul which wretchedness hath chain'd
give physic to the sick ease to the pain'd
the poor lame blind halt creep cry out for thee
but they ne'er meet with opportunity
'the patient dies while the physician sleeps
the orphan pines while the oppressor feeds
justice is feasting while the widow weeps
advice is sporting while infection breeds
thou grant'st no time for charitable deeds
wrath envy treason rape and murder's rages
thy heinous hours wait on them as their pages
'when truth and virtue have to do with thee
a thousand crosses keep them from thy aid
they buy thy help but sin ne'er gives a fee
he gratis comes and thou art well appaid
as well to hear as grant what he hath said
my collatine would else have come to me
when tarquin did but he was stay'd by thee
guilty thou art of murder and of theft
guilty of perjury and subornation
guilty of treason forgery and shift
guilty of incest that abomination
an accessary by thine inclination
to all sins past and all that are to come
from the creation to the general doom
'misshapen time copesmate of ugly night
swift subtle post carrier of grisly care
eater of youth false slave to false delight
base watch of woes sin's packhorse virtue's snare
thou nursest all and murder'st all that are
o hear me then injurious shifting time
be guilty of my death since of my crime
'why hath thy servant opportunity
betray'd the hours thou gavest me to repose
cancell'd my fortunes and enchained me
to endless date of neverending woes
time's office is to fine the hate of foes
to eat up errors by opinion bred
not spend the dowry of a lawful bed
'time's glory is to calm contending kings
to unmask falsehood and bring truth to light
to stamp the seal of time in aged things
to wake the morn and sentinel the night
to wrong the wronger till he render right
to ruinate proud buildings with thy hours
and smear with dust their glittering golden towers
'to fill with wormholes stately monuments
to feed oblivion with decay of things
to blot old books and alter their contents
to pluck the quills from ancient ravens wings
to dry the old oak's sap and cherish springs
to spoil antiquities of hammer'd steel
and turn the giddy round of fortune's wheel
'to show the beldam daughters of her daughter
to make the child a man the man a child
to slay the tiger that doth live by slaughter
to tame the unicorn and lion wild
to mock the subtle in themselves beguiled
to cheer the ploughman with increaseful crops
and waste huge stones with little water drops
'why work'st thou mischief in thy pilgrimage
unless thou couldst return to make amends
one poor retiring minute in an age
would purchase thee a thousand thousand friends
lending him wit that to bad debtors lends
o this dread night wouldst thou one hour come back
i could prevent this storm and shun thy wrack
'thou ceaseless lackey to eternity
with some mischance cross tarquin in his flight
devise extremes beyond extremity
to make him curse this cursed crimeful night
let ghastly shadows his lewd eyes affright
and the dire thought of his committed evil
shape every bush a hideous shapeless devil
'disturb his hours of rest with restless trances
afflict him in his bed with bedrid groans
let there bechance him pitiful mischances
to make him moan but pity not his moans
stone him with harden'd hearts harder than stones
and let mild women to him lose their mildness
wilder to him than tigers in their wildness
'let him have time to tear his curled hair
let him have time against himself to rave
let him have time of time's help to despair
let him have time to live a loathed slave
let him have time a beggar's orts to crave
and time to see one that by alms doth live
disdain to him disdained scraps to give
'let him have time to see his friends his foes
and merry fools to mock at him resort
let him have time to mark how slow time goes
in time of sorrow and how swift and short
his time of folly and his time of sport
and ever let his unrecalling crime
have time to wail th abusing of his time
'o time thou tutor both to good and bad
teach me to curse him that thou taught'st this ill
at his own shadow let the thief run mad
himself himself seek every hour to kill
such wretched hands such wretched blood should spill
for who so base would such an office have
as slanderous death'sman to so base a slave
'the baser is he coming from a king
to shame his hope with deeds degenerate
the mightier man the mightier is the thing
that makes him honour'd or begets him hate
for greatest scandal waits on greatest state
the moon being clouded presently is miss'd
but little stars may hide them when they list
'the crow may bathe his coalblack wings in mire
and unperceived fly with the filth away
but if the like the snowwhite swan desire
the stain upon his silver down will stay
poor grooms are sightless night kings glorious day
gnats are unnoted wheresoe'er they fly
but eagles gazed upon with every eye
'out idle words servants to shallow fools
unprofitable sounds weak arbitrators
busy yourselves in skillcontending schools
debate where leisure serves with dull debaters
to trembling clients be you mediators
for me i force not argument a straw
since that my case is past the help of law
'in vain i rail at opportunity
at time at tarquin and uncheerful night
in vain i cavil with mine infamy
in vain i spurn at my confirm'd despite
this helpless smoke of words doth me no right
the remedy indeed to do me good
is to let forth my fouldefiled blood
'poor hand why quiver'st thou at this decree
honour thyself to rid me of this shame
for if i die my honour lives in thee
but if i live thou livest in my defame
since thou couldst not defend thy loyal dame
and wast afeard to scratch her wicked foe
kill both thyself and her for yielding so'
this said from her betumbled couch she starteth
to find some desperate instrument of death
but this no slaughterhouse no tool imparteth
to make more vent for passage of her breath
which thronging through her lips so vanisheth
as smoke from aetna that in air consumes
or that which from discharged cannon fumes
'in vain quoth she i live and seek in vain
some happy mean to end a hapless life
i fear'd by tarquin's falchion to be slain
yet for the selfsame purpose seek a knife
but when i fear'd i was a loyal wife
so am i now o no that cannot be
of that true type hath tarquin rifled me
'o that is gone for which i sought to live
and therefore now i need not fear to die
to clear this spot by death at least i give
a badge of fame to slander's livery
a dying life to living infamy
poor helpless help the treasure stol'n away
to burn the guiltless casket where it lay
'well well dear collatine thou shalt not know
the stained taste of violated troth
i will not wrong thy true affection so
to flatter thee with an infringed oath
this bastard graff shall never come to growth
he shall not boast who did thy stock pollute
that thou art doting father of his fruit
'nor shall he smile at thee in secret thought
nor laugh with his companions at thy state
but thou shalt know thy interest was not bought
basely with gold but stol'n from forth thy gate
for me i am the mistress of my fate
and with my trespass never will dispense
till life to death acquit my forced offence
'i will not poison thee with my attaint
nor fold my fault in cleanlycoin'd excuses
my sable ground of sin i will not paint
to hide the truth of this false night's abuses
my tongue shall utter all mine eyes like sluices
as from a mountainspring that feeds a dale
shall gush pure streams to purge my impure tale'
by this lamenting philomel had ended
the welltuned warble of her nightly sorrow
and solemn night with slow sad gait descended
to ugly hell when lo the blushing morrow
lends light to all fair eyes that light will borrow
but cloudy lucrece shames herself to see
and therefore still in night would cloister'd be
revealing day through every cranny spies
and seems to point her out where she sits weeping
to whom she sobbing speaks o eye of eyes
why pry'st thou through my window leave thy peeping
mock with thy tickling beams eyes that are sleeping
brand not my forehead with thy piercing light
for day hath nought to do what's done by night'
thus cavils she with every thing she sees
true grief is fond and testy as a child
who wayward once his mood with nought agrees
old woes not infant sorrows bear them mild
continuance tames the one the other wild
like an unpractised swimmer plunging still
with too much labour drowns for want of skill
so she deepdrenched in a sea of care
holds disputation with each thing she views
and to herself all sorrow doth compare
no object but her passion's strength renews
and as one shifts another straight ensues
sometime her grief is dumb and hath no words
sometime tis mad and too much talk affords
the little birds that tune their morning's joy
make her moans mad with their sweet melody
for mirth doth search the bottom of annoy
sad souls are slain in merry company
grief best is pleased with grief's society
true sorrow then is feelingly sufficed
when with like semblance it is sympathized
'tis double death to drown in ken of shore
he ten times pines that pines beholding food
to see the salve doth make the wound ache more
great grief grieves most at that would do it good
deep woes roll forward like a gentle flood
who being stopp'd the bounding banks o'erflows
grief dallied with nor law nor limit knows
'you mockingbirds quoth she your tunes entomb
within your hollowswelling feather'd breasts
and in my hearing be you mute and dumb
my restless discord loves no stops nor rests
a woeful hostess brooks not merry guests
relish your nimble notes to pleasing ears
distress likes dumps when time is kept with tears
'come philomel that sing'st of ravishment
make thy sad grove in my dishevell'd hair
as the dank earth weeps at thy languishment
so i at each sad strain will strain a tear
and with deep groans the diapason bear
for burdenwise i'll hum on tarquin still
while thou on tereus descant'st better skill
'and whiles against a thorn thou bear'st thy part
to keep thy sharp woes waking wretched i
to imitate thee well against my heart
will fix a sharp knife to affright mine eye
who if it wink shall thereon fall and die
these means as frets upon an instrument
shall tune our heartstrings to true languishment
'and for poor bird thou sing'st not in the day
as shaming any eye should thee behold
some dark deep desert seated from the way
that knows not parching heat nor freezing cold
will we find out and there we will unfold
to creatures stern sad tunes to change their kinds
since men prove beasts let beasts bear gentle minds'
as the poor frighted deer that stands at gaze
wildly determining which way to fly
or one encompass'd with a winding maze
that cannot tread the way out readily
so with herself is she in mutiny
to live or die which of the twain were better
when life is shamed and death reproach's debtor
'to kill myself quoth she alack what were it
but with my body my poor soul's pollution
they that lose half with greater patience bear it
than they whose whole is swallow'd in confusion
that mother tries a merciless conclusion
who having two sweet babes when death takes one
will slay the other and be nurse to none
'my body or my soul which was the dearer
when the one pure the other made divine
whose love of either to myself was nearer
when both were kept for heaven and collatine
ay me the bark peel'd from the lofty pine
his leaves will wither and his sap decay
so must my soul her bark being peel'd away
'her house is sack'd her quiet interrupted
her mansion batter'd by the enemy
her sacred temple spotted spoil'd corrupted
grossly engirt with daring infamy
then let it not be call'd impiety
if in this blemish'd fort i make some hole
through which i may convey this troubled soul
'yet die i will not till my collatine
have heard the cause of my untimely death
that he may vow in that sad hour of mine
revenge on him that made me stop my breath
my stained blood to tarquin i'll bequeath
which by him tainted shall for him be spent
and as his due writ in my testament
'my honour i'll bequeath unto the knife
that wounds my body so dishonoured
'tis honour to deprive dishonour'd life
the one will live the other being dead
so of shame's ashes shall my fame be bred
for in my death i murder shameful scorn
my shame so dead mine honour is newborn
'dear lord of that dear jewel i have lost
what legacy shall i bequeath to thee
my resolution love shall be thy boast
by whose example thou revenged mayest be
how tarquin must be used read it in me
myself thy friend will kill myself thy foe
and for my sake serve thou false tarquin so
'this brief abridgement of my will i make
my soul and body to the skies and ground
my resolution husband do thou take
mine honour be the knife's that makes my wound
my shame be his that did my fame confound
and all my fame that lives disbursed be
to those that live and think no shame of me
'thou collatine shalt oversee this will
how was i overseen that thou shalt see it
my blood shall wash the slander of mine ill
my life's foul deed my life's fair end shall free it
faint not faint heart but stoutly say so be it'
yield to my hand my hand shall conquer thee
thou dead both die and both shall victors be'
this plot of death when sadly she had laid
and wiped the brinish pearl from her bright eyes
with untuned tongue she hoarsely calls her maid
whose swift obedience to her mistress hies
for fleetwing'd duty with thought's feathers flies
poor lucrece cheeks unto her maid seem so
as winter meads when sun doth melt their snow
her mistress she doth give demure goodmorrow
with softslow tongue true mark of modesty
and sorts a sad look to her lady's sorrow
for why her face wore sorrow's livery
but durst not ask of her audaciously
why her two suns were cloudeclipsed so
nor why her fair cheeks overwash'd with woe
but as the earth doth weep the sun being set
each flower moisten'd like a melting eye
even so the maid with swelling drops gan wet
her circled eyne enforced by sympathy
of those fair suns set in her mistress sky
who in a saltwaved ocean quench their light
which makes the maid weep like the dewy night
a pretty while these pretty creatures stand
like ivory conduits coral cisterns filling
one justly weeps the other takes in hand
no cause but company of her drops spilling
their gentle sex to weep are often willing
grieving themselves to guess at others smarts
and then they drown their eyes or break their hearts
for men have marble women waxen minds
and therefore are they form'd as marble will
the weak oppress'd the impression of strange kinds
is form'd in them by force by fraud or skill
then call them not the authors of their ill
no more than wax shall be accounted evil
wherein is stamp'd the semblance of a devil
their smoothness like a goodly champaign plain
lays open all the little worms that creep
in men as in a roughgrown grove remain
cavekeeping evils that obscurely sleep
through crystal walls each little mote will peep
though men can cover crimes with bold stern looks
poor women's faces are their own fault's books
no man inveigh against the wither'd flower
but chide rough winter that the flower hath kill'd
not that devour'd but that which doth devour
is worthy blame o let it not be hild
poor women's faults that they are so fulfill'd
with men's abuses those proud lords to blame
make weakmade women tenants to their shame
the precedent whereof in lucrece view
assail'd by night with circumstances strong
of present death and shame that might ensue
by that her death to do her husband wrong
such danger to resistance did belong
that dying fear through all her body spread
and who cannot abuse a body dead
by this mild patience bid fair lucrece speak
to the poor counterfeit of her complaining
'my girl quoth she on what occasion break
those tears from thee that down thy cheeks are
raining
if thou dost weep for grief of my sustaining
know gentle wench it small avails my mood
if tears could help mine own would do me good
'but tell me girl when went'and there she stay'd
till after a deep groan'tarquin from hence'
'madam ere i was up replied the maid
'the more to blame my sluggard negligence
yet with the fault i thus far can dispense
myself was stirring ere the break of day
and ere i rose was tarquin gone away
'but lady if your maid may be so bold
she would request to know your heaviness'
'o peace quoth lucrece if it should be told
the repetition cannot make it less
for more it is than i can well express
and that deep torture may be call'd a hell
when more is felt than one hath power to tell
'go get me hither paper ink and pen
yet save that labour for i have them here
what should i say one of my husband's men
bid thou be ready by and by to bear
a letter to my lord my love my dear
bid him with speed prepare to carry it
the cause craves haste and it will soon be writ'
her maid is gone and she prepares to write
first hovering o'er the paper with her quill
conceit and grief an eager combat fight
what wit sets down is blotted straight with will
this is too curiousgood this blunt and ill
much like a press of people at a door
throng her inventions which shall go before
at last she thus begins thou worthy lord
of that unworthy wife that greeteth thee
health to thy person next vouchsafe t afford
if ever love thy lucrece thou wilt see
some present speed to come and visit me
so i commend me from our house in grief
my woes are tedious though my words are brief'
here folds she up the tenor of her woe
her certain sorrow writ uncertainly
by this short schedule collatine may know
her grief but not her grief's true quality
she dares not thereof make discovery
lest he should hold it her own gross abuse
ere she with blood had stain'd her stain'd excuse
besides the life and feeling of her passion
she hoards to spend when he is by to hear her
when sighs and groans and tears may grace the fashion
of her disgrace the better so to clear her
from that suspicion which the world might bear her
to shun this blot she would not blot the letter
with words till action might become them better
to see sad sights moves more than hear them told
for then eye interprets to the ear
the heavy motion that it doth behold
when every part a part of woe doth bear
'tis but a part of sorrow that we hear
deep sounds make lesser noise than shallow fords
and sorrow ebbs being blown with wind of words
her letter now is seal'd and on it writ
'at ardea to my lord with more than haste'
the post attends and she delivers it
charging the sourfaced groom to hie as fast
as lagging fowls before the northern blast
speed more than speed but dull and slow she deems
extremity still urgeth such extremes
the homely villain court'sies to her low
and blushing on her with a steadfast eye
receives the scroll without or yea or no
and forth with bashful innocence doth hie
but they whose guilt within their bosoms lie
imagine every eye beholds their blame
for lucrece thought he blush'd to her see shame
when silly groom god wot it was defect
of spirit life and bold audacity
such harmless creatures have a true respect
to talk in deeds while others saucily
promise more speed but do it leisurely
even so this pattern of the wornout age
pawn'd honest looks but laid no words to gage
his kindled duty kindled her mistrust
that two red fires in both their faces blazed
she thought he blush'd as knowing tarquin's lust
and blushing with him wistly on him gazed
her earnest eye did make him more amazed
the more she saw the blood his cheeks replenish
the more she thought he spied in her some blemish
but long she thinks till he return again
and yet the duteous vassal scarce is gone
the weary time she cannot entertain
for now tis stale to sigh to weep and groan
so woe hath wearied woe moan tired moan
that she her plaints a little while doth stay
pausing for means to mourn some newer way
at last she calls to mind where hangs a piece
of skilful painting made for priam's troy
before the which is drawn the power of greece
for helen's rape the city to destroy
threatening cloudkissing ilion with annoy
which the conceited painter drew so proud
as heaven it seem'd to kiss the turrets bow'd
a thousand lamentable objects there
in scorn of nature art gave lifeless life
many a dry drop seem'd a weeping tear
shed for the slaughter'd husband by the wife
the red blood reek'd to show the painter's strife
and dying eyes gleam'd forth their ashy lights
like dying coals burnt out in tedious nights
there might you see the labouring pioner
begrimed with sweat and smeared all with dust
and from the towers of troy there would appear
the very eyes of men through loopholes thrust
gazing upon the greeks with little lust
such sweet observance in this work was had
that one might see those faroff eyes look sad
in great commanders grace and majesty
you might behold triumphing in their faces
in youth quick bearing and dexterity
pale cowards marching on with trembling paces
which heartless peasants did so well resemble
that one would swear he saw them quake and tremble
in ajax and ulysses o what art
of physiognomy might one behold
the face of either cipher'd either's heart
their face their manners most expressly told
in ajax eyes blunt rage and rigor roll'd
but the mild glance that sly ulysses lent
show'd deep regard and smiling government
there pleading might you see grave nestor stand
as twere encouraging the greeks to fight
making such sober action with his hand
that it beguiled attention charm'd the sight
in speech it seem'd his beard all silver white
wagg'd up and down and from his lips did fly
thin winding breath which purl'd up to the sky
about him were a press of gaping faces
which seem'd to swallow up his sound advice
all jointly listening but with several graces
as if some mermaid did their ears entice
some high some low the painter was so nice
the scalps of many almost hid behind
to jump up higher seem'd to mock the mind
here one man's hand lean'd on another's head
his nose being shadow'd by his neighbour's ear
here one being throng'd bears back all boll'n and
red
another smother'd seems to pelt and swear
and in their rage such signs of rage they bear
as but for loss of nestor's golden words
it seem'd they would debate with angry swords
for much imaginary work was there
conceit deceitful so compact so kind
that for achilles image stood his spear
griped in an armed hand himself behind
was left unseen save to the eye of mind
a hand a foot a face a leg a head
stood for the whole to be imagined
and from the walls of strongbesieged troy
when their brave hope bold hector march'd to
field
stood many trojan mothers sharing joy
to see their youthful sons bright weapons wield
and to their hope they such odd action yield
that through their light joy seemed to appear
like bright things stain'd a kind of heavy fear
and from the strand of dardan where they fought
to simois reedy banks the red blood ran
whose waves to imitate the battle sought
with swelling ridges and their ranks began
to break upon the galled shore and than
retire again till meeting greater ranks
they join and shoot their foam at simois banks
to this wellpainted piece is lucrece come
to find a face where all distress is stell'd
many she sees where cares have carved some
but none where all distress and dolour dwell'd
till she despairing hecuba beheld
staring on priam's wounds with her old eyes
which bleeding under pyrrhus proud foot lies
in her the painter had anatomized
time's ruin beauty's wreck and grim care's reign
her cheeks with chaps and wrinkles were disguised
of what she was no semblance did remain
her blue blood changed to black in every vein
wanting the spring that those shrunk pipes had fed
show'd life imprison'd in a body dead
on this sad shadow lucrece spends her eyes
and shapes her sorrow to the beldam's woes
who nothing wants to answer her but cries
and bitter words to ban her cruel foes
the painter was no god to lend her those
and therefore lucrece swears he did her wrong
to give her so much grief and not a tongue
'poor instrument quoth she'without a sound
i'll tune thy woes with my lamenting tongue
and drop sweet balm in priam's painted wound
and rail on pyrrhus that hath done him wrong
and with my tears quench troy that burns so long
and with my knife scratch out the angry eyes
of all the greeks that are thine enemies
'show me the strumpet that began this stir
that with my nails her beauty i may tear
thy heat of lust fond paris did incur
this load of wrath that burning troy doth bear
thy eye kindled the fire that burneth here
and here in troy for trespass of thine eye
the sire the son the dame and daughter die
'why should the private pleasure of some one
become the public plague of many moe
let sin alone committed light alone
upon his head that hath transgressed so
let guiltless souls be freed from guilty woe
for one's offence why should so many fall
to plague a private sin in general
'lo here weeps hecuba here priam dies
here manly hector faints here troilus swounds
here friend by friend in bloody channel lies
and friend to friend gives unadvised wounds
and one man's lust these many lives confounds
had doting priam cheque'd his son's desire
troy had been bright with fame and not with fire'
here feelingly she weeps troy's painted woes
for sorrow like a heavyhanging bell
once set on ringing with his own weight goes
then little strength rings out the doleful knell
so lucrece set awork sad tales doth tell
to pencill'd pensiveness and colour'd sorrow
she lends them words and she their looks doth borrow
she throws her eyes about the painting round
and whom she finds forlorn she doth lament
at last she sees a wretched image bound
that piteous looks to phrygian shepherds lent
his face though full of cares yet show'd content
onward to troy with the blunt swains he goes
so mild that patience seem'd to scorn his woes
in him the painter labour'd with his skill
to hide deceit and give the harmless show
an humble gait calm looks eyes wailing still
a brow unbent that seem'd to welcome woe
cheeks neither red nor pale but mingled so
that blushing red no guilty instance gave
nor ashy pale the fear that false hearts have
but like a constant and confirmed devil
he entertain'd a show so seeming just
and therein so ensconced his secret evil
that jealousy itself could not mistrust
falsecreeping craft and perjury should thrust
into so bright a day such blackfaced storms
or blot with hellborn sin such saintlike forms
the wellskill'd workman this mild image drew
for perjured sinon whose enchanting story
the credulous old priam after slew
whose words like wildfire burnt the shining glory
of richbuilt ilion that the skies were sorry
and little stars shot from their fixed places
when their glass fell wherein they view'd their faces
this picture she advisedly perused
and chid the painter for his wondrous skill
saying some shape in sinon's was abused
so fair a form lodged not a mind so ill
and still on him she gazed and gazing still
such signs of truth in his plain face she spied
that she concludes the picture was belied
'it cannot be quoth she'that so much guile'
she would have said can lurk in such a look'
but tarquin's shape came in her mind the while
and from her tongue can lurk from cannot took
'it cannot be she in that sense forsook
and turn'd it thus it cannot be i find
but such a face should bear a wicked mind
'for even as subtle sinon here is painted
so sobersad so weary and so mild
as if with grief or travail he had fainted
to me came tarquin armed so beguiled
with outward honesty but yet defiled
with inward vice as priam him did cherish
so did i tarquin so my troy did perish
'look look how listening priam wets his eyes
to see those borrow'd tears that sinon sheds
priam why art thou old and yet not wise
for every tear he falls a trojan bleeds
his eye drops fire no water thence proceeds
those round clear pearls of his that move thy pity
are balls of quenchless fire to burn thy city
'such devils steal effects from lightless hell
for sinon in his fire doth quake with cold
and in that cold hotburning fire doth dwell
these contraries such unity do hold
only to flatter fools and make them bold
so priam's trust false sinon's tears doth flatter
that he finds means to burn his troy with water'
here all enraged such passion her assails
that patience is quite beaten from her breast
she tears the senseless sinon with her nails
comparing him to that unhappy guest
whose deed hath made herself herself detest
at last she smilingly with this gives o'er
'fool fool quoth she his wounds will not be sore'
thus ebbs and flows the current of her sorrow
and time doth weary time with her complaining
she looks for night and then she longs for morrow
and both she thinks too long with her remaining
short time seems long in sorrow's sharp sustaining
though woe be heavy yet it seldom sleeps
and they that watch see time how slow it creeps
which all this time hath overslipp'd her thought
that she with painted images hath spent
being from the feeling of her own grief brought
by deep surmise of others detriment
losing her woes in shows of discontent
it easeth some though none it ever cured
to think their dolour others have endured
but now the mindful messenger come back
brings home his lord and other company
who finds his lucrece clad in mourning black
and round about her tearstained eye
blue circles stream'd like rainbows in the sky
these watergalls in her dim element
foretell new storms to those already spent
which when her sadbeholding husband saw
amazedly in her sad face he stares
her eyes though sod in tears look'd red and raw
her lively colour kill'd with deadly cares
he hath no power to ask her how she fares
both stood like old acquaintance in a trance
met far from home wondering each other's chance
at last he takes her by the bloodless hand
and thus begins what uncouth ill event
hath thee befall'n that thou dost trembling stand
sweet love what spite hath thy fair colour spent
why art thou thus attired in discontent
unmask dear dear this moody heaviness
and tell thy grief that we may give redress'
three times with sighs she gives her sorrow fire
ere once she can discharge one word of woe
at length address'd to answer his desire
she modestly prepares to let them know
her honour is ta'en prisoner by the foe
while collatine and his consorted lords
with sad attention long to hear her words
and now this pale swan in her watery nest
begins the sad dirge of her certain ending
'few words quoth she shall fit the trespass best
where no excuse can give the fault amending
in me moe woes than words are now depending
and my laments would be drawn out too long
to tell them all with one poor tired tongue
'then be this all the task it hath to say
dear husband in the interest of thy bed
a stranger came and on that pillow lay
where thou was wont to rest thy weary head
and what wrong else may be imagined
by foul enforcement might be done to me
from that alas thy lucrece is not free
'for in the dreadful dead of dark midnight
with shining falchion in my chamber came
a creeping creature with a flaming light
and softly cried awake thou roman dame
and entertain my love else lasting shame
on thee and thine this night i will inflict
if thou my love's desire do contradict
 for some hardfavour'd groom of thine quoth he
'unless thou yoke thy liking to my will
i'll murder straight and then i'll slaughter thee
and swear i found you where you did fulfil
the loathsome act of lust and so did kill
the lechers in their deed this act will be
my fame and thy perpetual infamy'
'with this i did begin to start and cry
and then against my heart he sets his sword
swearing unless i took all patiently
i should not live to speak another word
so should my shame still rest upon record
and never be forgot in mighty rome
th adulterate death of lucrece and her groom
'mine enemy was strong my poor self weak
and far the weaker with so strong a fear
my bloody judge forbade my tongue to speak
no rightful plea might plead for justice there
his scarlet lust came evidence to swear
that my poor beauty had purloin'd his eyes
and when the judge is robb'd the prisoner dies
'o teach me how to make mine own excuse
or at the least this refuge let me find
though my gross blood be stain'd with this abuse
immaculate and spotless is my mind
that was not forced that never was inclined
to accessary yieldings but still pure
doth in her poison'd closet yet endure'
lo here the hopeless merchant of this loss
with head declined and voice damm'd up with woe
with sad set eyes and wretched arms across
from lips newwaxen pale begins to blow
the grief away that stops his answer so
but wretched as he is he strives in vain
what he breathes out his breath drinks up again
as through an arch the violent roaring tide
outruns the eye that doth behold his haste
yet in the eddy boundeth in his pride
back to the strait that forced him on so fast
in rage sent out recall'd in rage being past
even so his sighs his sorrows make a saw
to push grief on and back the same grief draw
which speechless woe of his poor she attendeth
and his untimely frenzy thus awaketh
'dear lord thy sorrow to my sorrow lendeth
another power no flood by raining slaketh
my woe too sensible thy passion maketh
more feelingpainful let it then suffice
to drown one woe one pair of weeping eyes
'and for my sake when i might charm thee so
for she that was thy lucrece now attend me
be suddenly revenged on my foe
thine mine his own suppose thou dost defend me
from what is past the help that thou shalt lend me
comes all too late yet let the traitor die
for sparing justice feeds iniquity
'but ere i name him you fair lords quoth she
speaking to those that came with collatine
'shall plight your honourable faiths to me
with swift pursuit to venge this wrong of mine
for tis a meritorious fair design
to chase injustice with revengeful arms
knights by their oaths should right poor ladies harms'
at this request with noble disposition
each present lord began to promise aid
as bound in knighthood to her imposition
longing to hear the hateful foe bewray'd
but she that yet her sad task hath not said
the protestation stops o speak  quoth she
'how may this forced stain be wiped from me
'what is the quality of mine offence
being constrain'd with dreadful circumstance
may my pure mind with the foul act dispense
my lowdeclined honour to advance
may any terms acquit me from this chance
the poison'd fountain clears itself again
and why not i from this compelled stain'
with this they all at once began to say
her body's stain her mind untainted clears
while with a joyless smile she turns away
the face that map which deep impression bears
of hard misfortune carved in it with tears
'no no quoth she no dame hereafter living
by my excuse shall claim excuse's giving'
here with a sigh as if her heart would break
she throws forth tarquin's name he he she says
but more than he her poor tongue could not speak
till after many accents and delays
untimely breathings sick and short assays
she utters this he he fair lords tis he
that guides this hand to give this wound to me'
even here she sheathed in her harmless breast
a harmful knife that thence her soul unsheathed
that blow did that it from the deep unrest
of that polluted prison where it breathed
her contrite sighs unto the clouds bequeath'd
her winged sprite and through her wounds doth fly
life's lasting date from cancell'd destiny
stonestill astonish'd with this deadly deed
stood collatine and all his lordly crew
till lucrece father that beholds her bleed
himself on her selfslaughter'd body threw
and from the purple fountain brutus drew
the murderous knife and as it left the place
her blood in poor revenge held it in chase
and bubbling from her breast it doth divide
in two slow rivers that the crimson blood
circles her body in on every side
who like a latesack'd island vastly stood
bare and unpeopled in this fearful flood
some of her blood still pure and red remain'd
and some look'd black and that false tarquin stain'd
about the mourning and congealed face
of that black blood a watery rigol goes
which seems to weep upon the tainted place
and ever since as pitying lucrece woes
corrupted blood some watery token shows
and blood untainted still doth red abide
blushing at that which is so putrified
'daughter dear daughter old lucretius cries
'that life was mine which thou hast here deprived
if in the child the father's image lies
where shall i live now lucrece is unlived
thou wast not to this end from me derived
if children predecease progenitors
we are their offspring and they none of ours
'poor broken glass i often did behold
in thy sweet semblance my old age new born
but now that fresh fair mirror dim and old
shows me a bareboned death by time outworn
o from thy cheeks my image thou hast torn
and shivered all the beauty of my glass
that i no more can see what once i was
'o time cease thou thy course and last no longer
if they surcease to be that should survive
shall rotten death make conquest of the stronger
and leave the faltering feeble souls alive
the old bees die the young possess their hive
then live sweet lucrece live again and see
thy father die and not thy father thee
by this starts collatine as from a dream
and bids lucretius give his sorrow place
and then in keycold lucrece bleeding stream
he falls and bathes the pale fear in his face
and counterfeits to die with her a space
till manly shame bids him possess his breath
and live to be revenged on her death
the deep vexation of his inward soul
hath served a dumb arrest upon his tongue
who mad that sorrow should his use control
or keep him from hearteasing words so long
begins to talk but through his lips do throng
weak words so thick come in his poor heart's aid
that no man could distinguish what he said
yet sometime tarquin was pronounced plain
but through his teeth as if the name he tore
this windy tempest till it blow up rain
held back his sorrow's tide to make it more
at last it rains and busy winds give o'er
then son and father weep with equal strife
who should weep most for daughter or for wife
the one doth call her his the other his
yet neither may possess the claim they lay
the father says she's mine o mine she is'
replies her husband do not take away
my sorrow's interest let no mourner say
he weeps for her for she was only mine
and only must be wail'd by collatine'
'o quoth lucretius i did give that life
which she too early and too late hath spill'd'
'woe woe quoth collatine she was my wife
i owed her and tis mine that she hath kill'd'
'my daughter and my wife with clamours fill'd
the dispersed air who holding lucrece life
answer'd their cries my daughter and my wife'
brutus who pluck'd the knife from lucrece side
seeing such emulation in their woe
began to clothe his wit in state and pride
burying in lucrece wound his folly's show
he with the romans was esteemed so
as sillyjeering idiots are with kings
for sportive words and uttering foolish things
but now he throws that shallow habit by
wherein deep policy did him disguise
and arm'd his longhid wits advisedly
to cheque the tears in collatinus eyes
'thou wronged lord of rome quoth be arise
let my unsounded self supposed a fool
now set thy longexperienced wit to school
'why collatine is woe the cure for woe
do wounds help wounds or grief help grievous deeds
is it revenge to give thyself a blow
for his foul act by whom thy fair wife bleeds
such childish humour from weak minds proceeds
thy wretched wife mistook the matter so
to slay herself that should have slain her foe
'courageous roman do not steep thy heart
in such relenting dew of lamentations
but kneel with me and help to bear thy part
to rouse our roman gods with invocations
that they will suffer these abominations
since rome herself in them doth stand disgraced
by our strong arms from forth her fair streets chased
'now by the capitol that we adore
and by this chaste blood so unjustly stain'd
by heaven's fair sun that breeds the fat earth's
store
by all our country rights in rome maintain'd
and by chaste lucrece soul that late complain'd
her wrongs to us and by this bloody knife
we will revenge the death of this true wife'
this said he struck his hand upon his breast
and kiss'd the fatal knife to end his vow
and to his protestation urged the rest
who wondering at him did his words allow
then jointly to the ground their knees they bow
and that deep vow which brutus made before
he doth again repeat and that they swore
when they had sworn to this advised doom
they did conclude to bear dead lucrece thence
to show her bleeding body thorough rome
and so to publish tarquin's foul offence
which being done with speedy diligence
the romans plausibly did give consent
to tarquin's everlasting banishment
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to the only begetter of
these insuing sonnets
mr w h all happiness
and that eternity
promised by
our everliving poet wisheth
the wellwishing
adventurer in
setting forth
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from fairest creatures we desire increase
that thereby beauty's rose might never die
but as the riper should by time decease
his tender heir might bear his memory
but thou contracted to thine own bright eyes
feed'st thy light'st flame with selfsubstantial fuel
making a famine where abundance lies
thyself thy foe to thy sweet self too cruel
thou that art now the world's fresh ornament
and only herald to the gaudy spring
within thine own bud buriest thy content
and tender churl makest waste in niggarding
 pity the world or else this glutton be
 to eat the world's due by the grave and thee
ii
when forty winters shall beseige thy brow
and dig deep trenches in thy beauty's field
thy youth's proud livery so gazed on now
will be a tatter'd weed of small worth held
then being ask'd where all thy beauty lies
where all the treasure of thy lusty days
to say within thine own deepsunken eyes
were an alleating shame and thriftless praise
how much more praise deserved thy beauty's use
if thou couldst answer this fair child of mine
shall sum my count and make my old excuse'
proving his beauty by succession thine
 this were to be new made when thou art old
 and see thy blood warm when thou feel'st it cold
iii
look in thy glass and tell the face thou viewest
now is the time that face should form another
whose fresh repair if now thou not renewest
thou dost beguile the world unbless some mother
for where is she so fair whose unear'd womb
disdains the tillage of thy husbandry
or who is he so fond will be the tomb
of his selflove to stop posterity
thou art thy mother's glass and she in thee
calls back the lovely april of her prime
so thou through windows of thine age shall see
despite of wrinkles this thy golden time
 but if thou live remember'd not to be
 die single and thine image dies with thee
iv
unthrifty loveliness why dost thou spend
upon thyself thy beauty's legacy
nature's bequest gives nothing but doth lend
and being frank she lends to those are free
then beauteous niggard why dost thou abuse
the bounteous largess given thee to give
profitless usurer why dost thou use
so great a sum of sums yet canst not live
for having traffic with thyself alone
thou of thyself thy sweet self dost deceive
then how when nature calls thee to be gone
what acceptable audit canst thou leave
 thy unused beauty must be tomb'd with thee
 which used lives th executor to be
v
those hours that with gentle work did frame
the lovely gaze where every eye doth dwell
will play the tyrants to the very same
and that unfair which fairly doth excel
for neverresting time leads summer on
to hideous winter and confounds him there
sap cheque'd with frost and lusty leaves quite gone
beauty o'ersnow'd and bareness every where
then were not summer's distillation left
a liquid prisoner pent in walls of glass
beauty's effect with beauty were bereft
nor it nor no remembrance what it was
 but flowers distill'd though they with winter meet
 leese but their show their substance still lives sweet
vi
then let not winter's ragged hand deface
in thee thy summer ere thou be distill'd
make sweet some vial treasure thou some place
with beauty's treasure ere it be selfkill'd
that use is not forbidden usury
which happies those that pay the willing loan
that's for thyself to breed another thee
or ten times happier be it ten for one
ten times thyself were happier than thou art
if ten of thine ten times refigured thee
then what could death do if thou shouldst depart
leaving thee living in posterity
 be not selfwill'd for thou art much too fair
 to be death's conquest and make worms thine heir
vii
lo in the orient when the gracious light
lifts up his burning head each under eye
doth homage to his newappearing sight
serving with looks his sacred majesty
and having climb'd the steepup heavenly hill
resembling strong youth in his middle age
yet mortal looks adore his beauty still
attending on his golden pilgrimage
but when from highmost pitch with weary car
like feeble age he reeleth from the day
the eyes fore duteous now converted are
from his low tract and look another way
 so thou thyself outgoing in thy noon
 unlook'd on diest unless thou get a son
viii
music to hear why hear'st thou music sadly
sweets with sweets war not joy delights in joy
why lovest thou that which thou receivest not gladly
or else receivest with pleasure thine annoy
if the true concord of welltuned sounds
by unions married do offend thine ear
they do but sweetly chide thee who confounds
in singleness the parts that thou shouldst bear
mark how one string sweet husband to another
strikes each in each by mutual ordering
resembling sire and child and happy mother
who all in one one pleasing note do sing
 whose speechless song being many seeming one
 sings this to thee thou single wilt prove none'
ix
is it for fear to wet a widow's eye
that thou consumest thyself in single life
ah if thou issueless shalt hap to die
the world will wail thee like a makeless wife
the world will be thy widow and still weep
that thou no form of thee hast left behind
when every private widow well may keep
by children's eyes her husband's shape in mind
look what an unthrift in the world doth spend
shifts but his place for still the world enjoys it
but beauty's waste hath in the world an end
and kept unused the user so destroys it
 no love toward others in that bosom sits
 that on himself such murderous shame commits
x
for shame deny that thou bear'st love to any
who for thyself art so unprovident
grant if thou wilt thou art beloved of many
but that thou none lovest is most evident
for thou art so possess'd with murderous hate
that gainst thyself thou stick'st not to conspire
seeking that beauteous roof to ruinate
which to repair should be thy chief desire
o change thy thought that i may change my mind
shall hate be fairer lodged than gentle love
be as thy presence is gracious and kind
or to thyself at least kindhearted prove
 make thee another self for love of me
 that beauty still may live in thine or thee
xi
as fast as thou shalt wane so fast thou growest
in one of thine from that which thou departest
and that fresh blood which youngly thou bestowest
thou mayst call thine when thou from youth convertest
herein lives wisdom beauty and increase
without this folly age and cold decay
if all were minded so the times should cease
and threescore year would make the world away
let those whom nature hath not made for store
harsh featureless and rude barrenly perish
look whom she best endow'd she gave the more
which bounteous gift thou shouldst in bounty cherish
 she carved thee for her seal and meant thereby
 thou shouldst print more not let that copy die
xii
when i do count the clock that tells the time
and see the brave day sunk in hideous night
when i behold the violet past prime
and sable curls all silver'd o'er with white
when lofty trees i see barren of leaves
which erst from heat did canopy the herd
and summer's green all girded up in sheaves
borne on the bier with white and bristly beard
then of thy beauty do i question make
that thou among the wastes of time must go
since sweets and beauties do themselves forsake
and die as fast as they see others grow
 and nothing gainst time's scythe can make defence
 save breed to brave him when he takes thee hence
xiii
o that you were yourself but love you are
no longer yours than you yourself here live
against this coming end you should prepare
and your sweet semblance to some other give
so should that beauty which you hold in lease
find no determination then you were
yourself again after yourself's decease
when your sweet issue your sweet form should bear
who lets so fair a house fall to decay
which husbandry in honour might uphold
against the stormy gusts of winter's day
and barren rage of death's eternal cold
 o none but unthrifts dear my love you know
 you had a father let your son say so
xiv
not from the stars do i my judgment pluck
and yet methinks i have astronomy
but not to tell of good or evil luck
of plagues of dearths or seasons quality
nor can i fortune to brief minutes tell
pointing to each his thunder rain and wind
or say with princes if it shall go well
by oft predict that i in heaven find
but from thine eyes my knowledge i derive
and constant stars in them i read such art
as truth and beauty shall together thrive
if from thyself to store thou wouldst convert
 or else of thee this i prognosticate
 thy end is truth's and beauty's doom and date
xv
when i consider every thing that grows
holds in perfection but a little moment
that this huge stage presenteth nought but shows
whereon the stars in secret influence comment
when i perceive that men as plants increase
cheered and cheque'd even by the selfsame sky
vaunt in their youthful sap at height decrease
and wear their brave state out of memory
then the conceit of this inconstant stay
sets you most rich in youth before my sight
where wasteful time debateth with decay
to change your day of youth to sullied night
 and all in war with time for love of you
 as he takes from you i engraft you new
xvi
but wherefore do not you a mightier way
make war upon this bloody tyrant time
and fortify yourself in your decay
with means more blessed than my barren rhyme
now stand you on the top of happy hours
and many maiden gardens yet unset
with virtuous wish would bear your living flowers
much liker than your painted counterfeit
so should the lines of life that life repair
which this time's pencil or my pupil pen
neither in inward worth nor outward fair
can make you live yourself in eyes of men
 to give away yourself keeps yourself still
 and you must live drawn by your own sweet skill
xvii
who will believe my verse in time to come
if it were fill'd with your most high deserts
though yet heaven knows it is but as a tomb
which hides your life and shows not half your parts
if i could write the beauty of your eyes
and in fresh numbers number all your graces
the age to come would say this poet lies
such heavenly touches ne'er touch'd earthly faces'
so should my papers yellow'd with their age
be scorn'd like old men of less truth than tongue
and your true rights be term'd a poet's rage
and stretched metre of an antique song
 but were some child of yours alive that time
 you should live twice in it and in my rhyme
xviii
shall i compare thee to a summer's day
thou art more lovely and more temperate
rough winds do shake the darling buds of may
and summer's lease hath all too short a date
sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines
and often is his gold complexion dimm'd
and every fair from fair sometime declines
by chance or nature's changing course untrimm'd
but thy eternal summer shall not fade
nor lose possession of that fair thou owest
nor shall death brag thou wander'st in his shade
when in eternal lines to time thou growest
 so long as men can breathe or eyes can see
 so long lives this and this gives life to thee
xix
devouring time blunt thou the lion's paws
and make the earth devour her own sweet brood
pluck the keen teeth from the fierce tiger's jaws
and burn the longlived phoenix in her blood
make glad and sorry seasons as thou fleets
and do whate'er thou wilt swiftfooted time
to the wide world and all her fading sweets
but i forbid thee one most heinous crime
o carve not with thy hours my love's fair brow
nor draw no lines there with thine antique pen
him in thy course untainted do allow
for beauty's pattern to succeeding men
 yet do thy worst old time despite thy wrong
 my love shall in my verse ever live young
xx
a woman's face with nature's own hand painted
hast thou the mastermistress of my passion
a woman's gentle heart but not acquainted
with shifting change as is false women's fashion
an eye more bright than theirs less false in rolling
gilding the object whereupon it gazeth
a man in hue all hues in his controlling
much steals men's eyes and women's souls amazeth
and for a woman wert thou first created
till nature as she wrought thee fell adoting
and by addition me of thee defeated
by adding one thing to my purpose nothing
 but since she prick'd thee out for women's pleasure
 mine be thy love and thy love's use their treasure
xxi
so is it not with me as with that muse
stirr'd by a painted beauty to his verse
who heaven itself for ornament doth use
and every fair with his fair doth rehearse
making a couplement of proud compare
with sun and moon with earth and sea's rich gems
with april's firstborn flowers and all things rare
that heaven's air in this huge rondure hems
o let me true in love but truly write
and then believe me my love is as fair
as any mother's child though not so bright
as those gold candles fix'd in heaven's air
 let them say more than like of hearsay well
 i will not praise that purpose not to sell
xxii
my glass shall not persuade me i am old
so long as youth and thou are of one date
but when in thee time's furrows i behold
then look i death my days should expiate
for all that beauty that doth cover thee
is but the seemly raiment of my heart
which in thy breast doth live as thine in me
how can i then be elder than thou art
o therefore love be of thyself so wary
as i not for myself but for thee will
bearing thy heart which i will keep so chary
as tender nurse her babe from faring ill
 presume not on thy heart when mine is slain
 thou gavest me thine not to give back again
xxiii
as an unperfect actor on the stage
who with his fear is put besides his part
or some fierce thing replete with too much rage
whose strength's abundance weakens his own heart
so i for fear of trust forget to say
the perfect ceremony of love's rite
and in mine own love's strength seem to decay
o'ercharged with burden of mine own love's might
o let my books be then the eloquence
and dumb presagers of my speaking breast
who plead for love and look for recompense
more than that tongue that more hath more express'd
 o learn to read what silent love hath writ
 to hear with eyes belongs to love's fine wit
xxiv
mine eye hath play'd the painter and hath stell'd
thy beauty's form in table of my heart
my body is the frame wherein tis held
and perspective it is the painter's art
for through the painter must you see his skill
to find where your true image pictured lies
which in my bosom's shop is hanging still
that hath his windows glazed with thine eyes
now see what good turns eyes for eyes have done
mine eyes have drawn thy shape and thine for me
are windows to my breast wherethrough the sun
delights to peep to gaze therein on thee
 yet eyes this cunning want to grace their art
 they draw but what they see know not the heart
xxv
let those who are in favour with their stars
of public honour and proud titles boast
whilst i whom fortune of such triumph bars
unlook'd for joy in that i honour most
great princes favourites their fair leaves spread
but as the marigold at the sun's eye
and in themselves their pride lies buried
for at a frown they in their glory die
the painful warrior famoused for fight
after a thousand victories once foil'd
is from the book of honour razed quite
and all the rest forgot for which he toil'd
 then happy i that love and am beloved
 where i may not remove nor be removed
xxvi
lord of my love to whom in vassalage
thy merit hath my duty strongly knit
to thee i send this written embassage
to witness duty not to show my wit
duty so great which wit so poor as mine
may make seem bare in wanting words to show it
but that i hope some good conceit of thine
in thy soul's thought all naked will bestow it
till whatsoever star that guides my moving
points on me graciously with fair aspect
and puts apparel on my tatter'd loving
to show me worthy of thy sweet respect
 then may i dare to boast how i do love thee
 till then not show my head where thou mayst prove me
xxvii
weary with toil i haste me to my bed
the dear repose for limbs with travel tired
but then begins a journey in my head
to work my mind when body's work's expired
for then my thoughts from far where i abide
intend a zealous pilgrimage to thee
and keep my drooping eyelids open wide
looking on darkness which the blind do see
save that my soul's imaginary sight
presents thy shadow to my sightless view
which like a jewel hung in ghastly night
makes black night beauteous and her old face new
 lo thus by day my limbs by night my mind
 for thee and for myself no quiet find
xxviii
how can i then return in happy plight
that am debarr'd the benefit of rest
when day's oppression is not eased by night
but day by night and night by day oppress'd
and each though enemies to either's reign
do in consent shake hands to torture me
the one by toil the other to complain
how far i toil still farther off from thee
i tell the day to please them thou art bright
and dost him grace when clouds do blot the heaven
so flatter i the swartcomplexion'd night
when sparkling stars twire not thou gild'st the even
but day doth daily draw my sorrows longer
 and night doth nightly make grief's strength
 seem stronger
xxix
when in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes
i all alone beweep my outcast state
and trouble deal heaven with my bootless cries
and look upon myself and curse my fate
wishing me like to one more rich in hope
featured like him like him with friends possess'd
desiring this man's art and that man's scope
with what i most enjoy contented least
yet in these thoughts myself almost despising
haply i think on thee and then my state
like to the lark at break of day arising
from sullen earth sings hymns at heaven's gate
 for thy sweet love remember'd such wealth brings
 that then i scorn to change my state with kings
xxx
when to the sessions of sweet silent thought
i summon up remembrance of things past
i sigh the lack of many a thing i sought
and with old woes new wail my dear time's waste
then can i drown an eye unused to flow
for precious friends hid in death's dateless night
and weep afresh love's long since cancell'd woe
and moan the expense of many a vanish'd sight
then can i grieve at grievances foregone
and heavily from woe to woe tell o'er
the sad account of forebemoaned moan
which i new pay as if not paid before
 but if the while i think on thee dear friend
 all losses are restored and sorrows end
xxxi
thy bosom is endeared with all hearts
which i by lacking have supposed dead
and there reigns love and all love's loving parts
and all those friends which i thought buried
how many a holy and obsequious tear
hath dear religious love stol'n from mine eye
as interest of the dead which now appear
but things removed that hidden in thee lie
thou art the grave where buried love doth live
hung with the trophies of my lovers gone
who all their parts of me to thee did give
that due of many now is thine alone
 their images i loved i view in thee
 and thou all they hast all the all of me
xxxii
if thou survive my wellcontented day
when that churl death my bones with dust shall cover
and shalt by fortune once more resurvey
these poor rude lines of thy deceased lover
compare them with the bettering of the time
and though they be outstripp'd by every pen
reserve them for my love not for their rhyme
exceeded by the height of happier men
o then vouchsafe me but this loving thought
'had my friend's muse grown with this growing age
a dearer birth than this his love had brought
to march in ranks of better equipage
 but since he died and poets better prove
 theirs for their style i'll read his for his love'
xxxiii
full many a glorious morning have i seen
flatter the mountaintops with sovereign eye
kissing with golden face the meadows green
gilding pale streams with heavenly alchemy
anon permit the basest clouds to ride
with ugly rack on his celestial face
and from the forlorn world his visage hide
stealing unseen to west with this disgrace
even so my sun one early morn did shine
with all triumphant splendor on my brow
but out alack he was but one hour mine
the region cloud hath mask'd him from me now
 yet him for this my love no whit disdaineth
 suns of the world may stain when heaven's sun staineth
xxxiv
why didst thou promise such a beauteous day
and make me travel forth without my cloak
to let base clouds o'ertake me in my way
hiding thy bravery in their rotten smoke
'tis not enough that through the cloud thou break
to dry the rain on my stormbeaten face
for no man well of such a salve can speak
that heals the wound and cures not the disgrace
nor can thy shame give physic to my grief
though thou repent yet i have still the loss
the offender's sorrow lends but weak relief
to him that bears the strong offence's cross
 ah but those tears are pearl which thy love sheds
 and they are rich and ransom all ill deeds
xxxv
no more be grieved at that which thou hast done
roses have thorns and silver fountains mud
clouds and eclipses stain both moon and sun
and loathsome canker lives in sweetest bud
all men make faults and even i in this
authorizing thy trespass with compare
myself corrupting salving thy amiss
excusing thy sins more than thy sins are
for to thy sensual fault i bring in sense
thy adverse party is thy advocate
and gainst myself a lawful plea commence
such civil war is in my love and hate
 that i an accessary needs must be
 to that sweet thief which sourly robs from me
xxxvi
let me confess that we two must be twain
although our undivided loves are one
so shall those blots that do with me remain
without thy help by me be borne alone
in our two loves there is but one respect
though in our lives a separable spite
which though it alter not love's sole effect
yet doth it steal sweet hours from love's delight
i may not evermore acknowledge thee
lest my bewailed guilt should do thee shame
nor thou with public kindness honour me
unless thou take that honour from thy name
 but do not so i love thee in such sort
 as thou being mine mine is thy good report
xxxvii
as a decrepit father takes delight
to see his active child do deeds of youth
so i made lame by fortune's dearest spite
take all my comfort of thy worth and truth
for whether beauty birth or wealth or wit
or any of these all or all or more
entitled in thy parts do crowned sit
i make my love engrafted to this store
so then i am not lame poor nor despised
whilst that this shadow doth such substance give
that i in thy abundance am sufficed
and by a part of all thy glory live
 look what is best that best i wish in thee
 this wish i have then ten times happy me
xxxviii
how can my muse want subject to invent
while thou dost breathe that pour'st into my verse
thine own sweet argument too excellent
for every vulgar paper to rehearse
o give thyself the thanks if aught in me
worthy perusal stand against thy sight
for who's so dumb that cannot write to thee
when thou thyself dost give invention light
be thou the tenth muse ten times more in worth
than those old nine which rhymers invocate
and he that calls on thee let him bring forth
eternal numbers to outlive long date
 if my slight muse do please these curious days
 the pain be mine but thine shall be the praise
xxxix
o how thy worth with manners may i sing
when thou art all the better part of me
what can mine own praise to mine own self bring
and what is t but mine own when i praise thee
even for this let us divided live
and our dear love lose name of single one
that by this separation i may give
that due to thee which thou deservest alone
o absence what a torment wouldst thou prove
were it not thy sour leisure gave sweet leave
to entertain the time with thoughts of love
which time and thoughts so sweetly doth deceive
 and that thou teachest how to make one twain
 by praising him here who doth hence remain
xl
take all my loves my love yea take them all
what hast thou then more than thou hadst before
no love my love that thou mayst true love call
all mine was thine before thou hadst this more
then if for my love thou my love receivest
i cannot blame thee for my love thou usest
but yet be blamed if thou thyself deceivest
by wilful taste of what thyself refusest
i do forgive thy robbery gentle thief
although thou steal thee all my poverty
and yet love knows it is a greater grief
to bear love's wrong than hate's known injury
 lascivious grace in whom all ill well shows
 kill me with spites yet we must not be foes
xli
those petty wrongs that liberty commits
when i am sometime absent from thy heart
thy beauty and thy years full well befits
for still temptation follows where thou art
gentle thou art and therefore to be won
beauteous thou art therefore to be assailed
and when a woman woos what woman's son
will sourly leave her till she have prevailed
ay me but yet thou mightest my seat forbear
and chide try beauty and thy straying youth
who lead thee in their riot even there
where thou art forced to break a twofold truth
 hers by thy beauty tempting her to thee
 thine by thy beauty being false to me
xlii
that thou hast her it is not all my grief
and yet it may be said i loved her dearly
that she hath thee is of my wailing chief
a loss in love that touches me more nearly
loving offenders thus i will excuse ye
thou dost love her because thou knowst i love her
and for my sake even so doth she abuse me
suffering my friend for my sake to approve her
if i lose thee my loss is my love's gain
and losing her my friend hath found that loss
both find each other and i lose both twain
and both for my sake lay on me this cross
 but here's the joy my friend and i are one
 sweet flattery then she loves but me alone
xliii
when most i wink then do mine eyes best see
for all the day they view things unrespected
but when i sleep in dreams they look on thee
and darkly bright are bright in dark directed
then thou whose shadow shadows doth make bright
how would thy shadow's form form happy show
to the clear day with thy much clearer light
when to unseeing eyes thy shade shines so
how would i say mine eyes be blessed made
by looking on thee in the living day
when in dead night thy fair imperfect shade
through heavy sleep on sightless eyes doth stay
 all days are nights to see till i see thee
 and nights bright days when dreams do show thee me
xliv
if the dull substance of my flesh were thought
injurious distance should not stop my way
for then despite of space i would be brought
from limits far remote where thou dost stay
no matter then although my foot did stand
upon the farthest earth removed from thee
for nimble thought can jump both sea and land
as soon as think the place where he would be
but ah thought kills me that i am not thought
to leap large lengths of miles when thou art gone
but that so much of earth and water wrought
i must attend time's leisure with my moan
 receiving nought by elements so slow
 but heavy tears badges of either's woe
xlv
the other two slight air and purging fire
are both with thee wherever i abide
the first my thought the other my desire
these presentabsent with swift motion slide
for when these quicker elements are gone
in tender embassy of love to thee
my life being made of four with two alone
sinks down to death oppress'd with melancholy
until life's composition be recured
by those swift messengers return'd from thee
who even but now come back again assured
of thy fair health recounting it to me
 this told i joy but then no longer glad
 i send them back again and straight grow sad
xlvi
mine eye and heart are at a mortal war
how to divide the conquest of thy sight
mine eye my heart thy picture's sight would bar
my heart mine eye the freedom of that right
my heart doth plead that thou in him dost lie
a closet never pierced with crystal eyes
but the defendant doth that plea deny
and says in him thy fair appearance lies
to cide this title is impanneled
a quest of thoughts all tenants to the heart
and by their verdict is determined
the clear eye's moiety and the dear heart's part
 as thus mine eye's due is thy outward part
 and my heart's right thy inward love of heart
xlvii
betwixt mine eye and heart a league is took
and each doth good turns now unto the other
when that mine eye is famish'd for a look
or heart in love with sighs himself doth smother
with my love's picture then my eye doth feast
and to the painted banquet bids my heart
another time mine eye is my heart's guest
and in his thoughts of love doth share a part
so either by thy picture or my love
thyself away art resent still with me
for thou not farther than my thoughts canst move
and i am still with them and they with thee
 or if they sleep thy picture in my sight
 awakes my heart to heart's and eye's delight
xlviii
how careful was i when i took my way
each trifle under truest bars to thrust
that to my use it might unused stay
from hands of falsehood in sure wards of trust
but thou to whom my jewels trifles are
most worthy of comfort now my greatest grief
thou best of dearest and mine only care
art left the prey of every vulgar thief
thee have i not lock'd up in any chest
save where thou art not though i feel thou art
within the gentle closure of my breast
from whence at pleasure thou mayst come and part
 and even thence thou wilt be stol'n i fear
 for truth proves thievish for a prize so dear
xlix
against that time if ever that time come
when i shall see thee frown on my defects
when as thy love hath cast his utmost sum
call'd to that audit by advised respects
against that time when thou shalt strangely pass
and scarcely greet me with that sun thine eye
when love converted from the thing it was
shall reasons find of settled gravity
against that time do i ensconce me here
within the knowledge of mine own desert
and this my hand against myself uprear
to guard the lawful reasons on thy part
 to leave poor me thou hast the strength of laws
 since why to love i can allege no cause
l
how heavy do i journey on the way
when what i seek my weary travel's end
doth teach that ease and that repose to say
'thus far the miles are measured from thy friend'
the beast that bears me tired with my woe
plods dully on to bear that weight in me
as if by some instinct the wretch did know
his rider loved not speed being made from thee
the bloody spur cannot provoke him on
that sometimes anger thrusts into his hide
which heavily he answers with a groan
more sharp to me than spurring to his side
 for that same groan doth put this in my mind
 my grief lies onward and my joy behind
li
thus can my love excuse the slow offence
of my dull bearer when from thee i speed
from where thou art why should i haste me thence
till i return of posting is no need
o what excuse will my poor beast then find
when swift extremity can seem but slow
then should i spur though mounted on the wind
in winged speed no motion shall i know
then can no horse with my desire keep pace
therefore desire of perfect'st love being made
shall neighno dull fleshin his fiery race
but love for love thus shall excuse my jade
 since from thee going he went wilfulslow
 towards thee i'll run and give him leave to go
lii
so am i as the rich whose blessed key
can bring him to his sweet uplocked treasure
the which he will not every hour survey
for blunting the fine point of seldom pleasure
therefore are feasts so solemn and so rare
since seldom coming in the long year set
like stones of worth they thinly placed are
or captain jewels in the carcanet
so is the time that keeps you as my chest
or as the wardrobe which the robe doth hide
to make some special instant special blest
by new unfolding his imprison'd pride
 blessed are you whose worthiness gives scope
 being had to triumph being lack'd to hope
liii
what is your substance whereof are you made
that millions of strange shadows on you tend
since every one hath every one one shade
and you but one can every shadow lend
describe adonis and the counterfeit
is poorly imitated after you
on helen's cheek all art of beauty set
and you in grecian tires are painted new
speak of the spring and foison of the year
the one doth shadow of your beauty show
the other as your bounty doth appear
and you in every blessed shape we know
 in all external grace you have some part
 but you like none none you for constant heart
liv
o how much more doth beauty beauteous seem
by that sweet ornament which truth doth give
the rose looks fair but fairer we it deem
for that sweet odour which doth in it live
the cankerblooms have full as deep a dye
as the perfumed tincture of the roses
hang on such thorns and play as wantonly
when summer's breath their masked buds discloses
but for their virtue only is their show
they live unwoo'd and unrespected fade
die to themselves sweet roses do not so
of their sweet deaths are sweetest odours made
 and so of you beauteous and lovely youth
 when that shall fade my verse distills your truth
lv
not marble nor the gilded monuments
of princes shall outlive this powerful rhyme
but you shall shine more bright in these contents
than unswept stone besmear'd with sluttish time
when wasteful war shall statues overturn
and broils root out the work of masonry
nor mars his sword nor war's quick fire shall burn
the living record of your memory
'gainst death and alloblivious enmity
shall you pace forth your praise shall still find room
even in the eyes of all posterity
that wear this world out to the ending doom
 so till the judgment that yourself arise
 you live in this and dwell in lover's eyes
lvi
sweet love renew thy force be it not said
thy edge should blunter be than appetite
which but today by feeding is allay'd
tomorrow sharpen'd in his former might
so love be thou although today thou fill
thy hungry eyes even till they wink with fullness
tomorrow see again and do not kill
the spirit of love with a perpetual dullness
let this sad interim like the ocean be
which parts the shore where two contracted new
come daily to the banks that when they see
return of love more blest may be the view
 else call it winter which being full of care
 makes summer's welcome thrice more wish'd more rare
lvii
being your slave what should i do but tend
upon the hours and times of your desire
i have no precious time at all to spend
nor services to do till you require
nor dare i chide the worldwithoutend hour
whilst i my sovereign watch the clock for you
nor think the bitterness of absence sour
when you have bid your servant once adieu
nor dare i question with my jealous thought
where you may be or your affairs suppose
but like a sad slave stay and think of nought
save where you are how happy you make those
 so true a fool is love that in your will
 though you do any thing he thinks no ill
lviii
that god forbid that made me first your slave
i should in thought control your times of pleasure
or at your hand the account of hours to crave
being your vassal bound to stay your leisure
o let me suffer being at your beck
the imprison'd absence of your liberty
and patience tame to sufferance bide each cheque
without accusing you of injury
be where you list your charter is so strong
that you yourself may privilege your time
to what you will to you it doth belong
yourself to pardon of selfdoing crime
 i am to wait though waiting so be hell
 not blame your pleasure be it ill or well
lix
if there be nothing new but that which is
hath been before how are our brains beguiled
which labouring for invention bear amiss
the second burden of a former child
o that record could with a backward look
even of five hundred courses of the sun
show me your image in some antique book
since mind at first in character was done
that i might see what the old world could say
to this composed wonder of your frame
whether we are mended or whether better they
or whether revolution be the same
 o sure i am the wits of former days
 to subjects worse have given admiring praise
lx
like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore
so do our minutes hasten to their end
each changing place with that which goes before
in sequent toil all forwards do contend
nativity once in the main of light
crawls to maturity wherewith being crown'd
crooked elipses gainst his glory fight
and time that gave doth now his gift confound
time doth transfix the flourish set on youth
and delves the parallels in beauty's brow
feeds on the rarities of nature's truth
and nothing stands but for his scythe to mow
 and yet to times in hope my verse shall stand
 praising thy worth despite his cruel hand
lxi
is it thy will thy image should keep open
my heavy eyelids to the weary night
dost thou desire my slumbers should be broken
while shadows like to thee do mock my sight
is it thy spirit that thou send'st from thee
so far from home into my deeds to pry
to find out shames and idle hours in me
the scope and tenor of thy jealousy
o no thy love though much is not so great
it is my love that keeps mine eye awake
mine own true love that doth my rest defeat
to play the watchman ever for thy sake
 for thee watch i whilst thou dost wake elsewhere
 from me far off with others all too near
lxii
sin of selflove possesseth all mine eye
and all my soul and all my every part
and for this sin there is no remedy
it is so grounded inward in my heart
methinks no face so gracious is as mine
no shape so true no truth of such account
and for myself mine own worth do define
as i all other in all worths surmount
but when my glass shows me myself indeed
beated and chopp'd with tann'd antiquity
mine own selflove quite contrary i read
self so selfloving were iniquity
 tis thee myself that for myself i praise
 painting my age with beauty of thy days
lxiii
against my love shall be as i am now
with time's injurious hand crush'd and o'erworn
when hours have drain'd his blood and fill'd his brow
with lines and wrinkles when his youthful morn
hath travell'd on to age's steepy night
and all those beauties whereof now he's king
are vanishing or vanish'd out of sight
stealing away the treasure of his spring
for such a time do i now fortify
against confounding age's cruel knife
that he shall never cut from memory
my sweet love's beauty though my lover's life
 his beauty shall in these black lines be seen
 and they shall live and he in them still green
lxiv
when i have seen by time's fell hand defaced
the rich proud cost of outworn buried age
when sometime lofty towers i see downrazed
and brass eternal slave to mortal rage
when i have seen the hungry ocean gain
advantage on the kingdom of the shore
and the firm soil win of the watery main
increasing store with loss and loss with store
when i have seen such interchange of state
or state itself confounded to decay
ruin hath taught me thus to ruminate
that time will come and take my love away
 this thought is as a death which cannot choose
 but weep to have that which it fears to lose
lxv
since brass nor stone nor earth nor boundless sea
but sad mortality o'ersways their power
how with this rage shall beauty hold a plea
whose action is no stronger than a flower
o how shall summer's honey breath hold out
against the wreckful siege of battering days
when rocks impregnable are not so stout
nor gates of steel so strong but time decays
o fearful meditation where alack
shall time's best jewel from time's chest lie hid
or what strong hand can hold his swift foot back
or who his spoil of beauty can forbid
 o none unless this miracle have might
 that in black ink my love may still shine bright
lxvi
tired with all these for restful death i cry
as to behold desert a beggar born
and needy nothing trimm'd in jollity
and purest faith unhappily forsworn
and guilded honour shamefully misplaced
and maiden virtue rudely strumpeted
and right perfection wrongfully disgraced
and strength by limping sway disabled
and art made tonguetied by authority
and folly doctorlike controlling skill
and simple truth miscall'd simplicity
and captive good attending captain ill
 tired with all these from these would i be gone
 save that to die i leave my love alone
lxvii
ah wherefore with infection should he live
and with his presence grace impiety
that sin by him advantage should achieve
and lace itself with his society
why should false painting imitate his cheek
and steal dead seeing of his living hue
why should poor beauty indirectly seek
roses of shadow since his rose is true
why should he live now nature bankrupt is
beggar'd of blood to blush through lively veins
for she hath no exchequer now but his
and proud of many lives upon his gains
 o him she stores to show what wealth she had
 in days long since before these last so bad
lxviii
thus is his cheek the map of days outworn
when beauty lived and died as flowers do now
before the bastard signs of fair were born
or durst inhabit on a living brow
before the golden tresses of the dead
the right of sepulchres were shorn away
to live a second life on second head
ere beauty's dead fleece made another gay
in him those holy antique hours are seen
without all ornament itself and true
making no summer of another's green
robbing no old to dress his beauty new
 and him as for a map doth nature store
 to show false art what beauty was of yore
lxix
those parts of thee that the world's eye doth view
want nothing that the thought of hearts can mend
all tongues the voice of souls give thee that due
uttering bare truth even so as foes commend
thy outward thus with outward praise is crown'd
but those same tongues that give thee so thine own
in other accents do this praise confound
by seeing farther than the eye hath shown
they look into the beauty of thy mind
and that in guess they measure by thy deeds
then churls their thoughts although their eyes were kind
to thy fair flower add the rank smell of weeds
 but why thy odour matcheth not thy show
 the solve is this that thou dost common grow
lxx
that thou art blamed shall not be thy defect
for slander's mark was ever yet the fair
the ornament of beauty is suspect
a crow that flies in heaven's sweetest air
so thou be good slander doth but approve
thy worth the greater being woo'd of time
for canker vice the sweetest buds doth love
and thou present'st a pure unstained prime
thou hast pass'd by the ambush of young days
either not assail'd or victor being charged
yet this thy praise cannot be so thy praise
to tie up envy evermore enlarged
 if some suspect of ill mask'd not thy show
 then thou alone kingdoms of hearts shouldst owe
lxxi
no longer mourn for me when i am dead
then you shall hear the surly sullen bell
give warning to the world that i am fled
from this vile world with vilest worms to dwell
nay if you read this line remember not
the hand that writ it for i love you so
that i in your sweet thoughts would be forgot
if thinking on me then should make you woe
o if i say you look upon this verse
when i perhaps compounded am with clay
do not so much as my poor name rehearse
but let your love even with my life decay
 lest the wise world should look into your moan
 and mock you with me after i am gone
lxxii
o lest the world should task you to recite
what merit lived in me that you should love
after my death dear love forget me quite
for you in me can nothing worthy prove
unless you would devise some virtuous lie
to do more for me than mine own desert
and hang more praise upon deceased i
than niggard truth would willingly impart
o lest your true love may seem false in this
that you for love speak well of me untrue
my name be buried where my body is
and live no more to shame nor me nor you
 for i am shamed by that which i bring forth
 and so should you to love things nothing worth
lxxiii
that time of year thou mayst in me behold
when yellow leaves or none or few do hang
upon those boughs which shake against the cold
bare ruin'd choirs where late the sweet birds sang
in me thou seest the twilight of such day
as after sunset fadeth in the west
which by and by black night doth take away
death's second self that seals up all in rest
in me thou see'st the glowing of such fire
that on the ashes of his youth doth lie
as the deathbed whereon it must expire
consumed with that which it was nourish'd by
 this thou perceivest which makes thy love more strong
 to love that well which thou must leave ere long
lxxiv
but be contented when that fell arrest
without all bail shall carry me away
my life hath in this line some interest
which for memorial still with thee shall stay
when thou reviewest this thou dost review
the very part was consecrate to thee
the earth can have but earth which is his due
my spirit is thine the better part of me
so then thou hast but lost the dregs of life
the prey of worms my body being dead
the coward conquest of a wretch's knife
too base of thee to be remembered
 the worth of that is that which it contains
 and that is this and this with thee remains
lxxv
so are you to my thoughts as food to life
or as sweetseason'd showers are to the ground
and for the peace of you i hold such strife
as twixt a miser and his wealth is found
now proud as an enjoyer and anon
doubting the filching age will steal his treasure
now counting best to be with you alone
then better'd that the world may see my pleasure
sometime all full with feasting on your sight
and by and by clean starved for a look
possessing or pursuing no delight
save what is had or must from you be took
 thus do i pine and surfeit day by day
 or gluttoning on all or all away
lxxvi
why is my verse so barren of new pride
so far from variation or quick change
why with the time do i not glance aside
to newfound methods and to compounds strange
why write i still all one ever the same
and keep invention in a noted weed
that every word doth almost tell my name
showing their birth and where they did proceed
o know sweet love i always write of you
and you and love are still my argument
so all my best is dressing old words new
spending again what is already spent
 for as the sun is daily new and old
 so is my love still telling what is told
lxxvii
thy glass will show thee how thy beauties wear
thy dial how thy precious minutes waste
the vacant leaves thy mind's imprint will bear
and of this book this learning mayst thou taste
the wrinkles which thy glass will truly show
of mouthed graves will give thee memory
thou by thy dial's shady stealth mayst know
time's thievish progress to eternity
look what thy memory can not contain
commit to these waste blanks and thou shalt find
those children nursed deliver'd from thy brain
to take a new acquaintance of thy mind
 these offices so oft as thou wilt look
 shall profit thee and much enrich thy book
lxxviii
so oft have i invoked thee for my muse
and found such fair assistance in my verse
as every alien pen hath got my use
and under thee their poesy disperse
thine eyes that taught the dumb on high to sing
and heavy ignorance aloft to fly
have added feathers to the learned's wing
and given grace a double majesty
yet be most proud of that which i compile
whose influence is thine and born of thee
in others works thou dost but mend the style
and arts with thy sweet graces graced be
 but thou art all my art and dost advance
 as high as learning my rude ignorance
lxxix
whilst i alone did call upon thy aid
my verse alone had all thy gentle grace
but now my gracious numbers are decay'd
and my sick muse doth give another place
i grant sweet love thy lovely argument
deserves the travail of a worthier pen
yet what of thee thy poet doth invent
he robs thee of and pays it thee again
he lends thee virtue and he stole that word
from thy behavior beauty doth he give
and found it in thy cheek he can afford
no praise to thee but what in thee doth live
 then thank him not for that which he doth say
 since what he owes thee thou thyself dost pay
lxxx
o how i faint when i of you do write
knowing a better spirit doth use your name
and in the praise thereof spends all his might
to make me tonguetied speaking of your fame
but since your worth wide as the ocean is
the humble as the proudest sail doth bear
my saucy bark inferior far to his
on your broad main doth wilfully appear
your shallowest help will hold me up afloat
whilst he upon your soundless deep doth ride
or being wreck'd i am a worthless boat
he of tall building and of goodly pride
 then if he thrive and i be cast away
 the worst was this my love was my decay
lxxxi
or i shall live your epitaph to make
or you survive when i in earth am rotten
from hence your memory death cannot take
although in me each part will be forgotten
your name from hence immortal life shall have
though i once gone to all the world must die
the earth can yield me but a common grave
when you entombed in men's eyes shall lie
your monument shall be my gentle verse
which eyes not yet created shall o'erread
and tongues to be your being shall rehearse
when all the breathers of this world are dead
 you still shall livesuch virtue hath my pen
 where breath most breathes even in the mouths of men
lxxxii
i grant thou wert not married to my muse
and therefore mayst without attaint o'erlook
the dedicated words which writers use
of their fair subject blessing every book
thou art as fair in knowledge as in hue
finding thy worth a limit past my praise
and therefore art enforced to seek anew
some fresher stamp of the timebettering days
and do so love yet when they have devised
what strained touches rhetoric can lend
thou truly fair wert truly sympathized
in true plain words by thy truetelling friend
 and their gross painting might be better used
 where cheeks need blood in thee it is abused
lxxxiii
i never saw that you did painting need
and therefore to your fair no painting set
i found or thought i found you did exceed
the barren tender of a poet's debt
and therefore have i slept in your report
that you yourself being extant well might show
how far a modern quill doth come too short
speaking of worth what worth in you doth grow
this silence for my sin you did impute
which shall be most my glory being dumb
for i impair not beauty being mute
when others would give life and bring a tomb
 there lives more life in one of your fair eyes
 than both your poets can in praise devise
lxxxiv
who is it that says most which can say more
than this rich praise that you alone are you
in whose confine immured is the store
which should example where your equal grew
lean penury within that pen doth dwell
that to his subject lends not some small glory
but he that writes of you if he can tell
that you are you so dignifies his story
let him but copy what in you is writ
not making worse what nature made so clear
and such a counterpart shall fame his wit
making his style admired every where
 you to your beauteous blessings add a curse
 being fond on praise which makes your praises worse
lxxxv
my tonguetied muse in manners holds her still
while comments of your praise richly compiled
reserve their character with golden quill
and precious phrase by all the muses filed
i think good thoughts whilst other write good words
and like unletter'd clerk still cry amen'
to every hymn that able spirit affords
in polish'd form of wellrefined pen
hearing you praised i say 'tis so tis true'
and to the most of praise add something more
but that is in my thought whose love to you
though words come hindmost holds his rank before
 then others for the breath of words respect
 me for my dumb thoughts speaking in effect
lxxxvi
was it the proud full sail of his great verse
bound for the prize of all too precious you
that did my ripe thoughts in my brain inhearse
making their tomb the womb wherein they grew
was it his spirit by spirits taught to write
above a mortal pitch that struck me dead
no neither he nor his compeers by night
giving him aid my verse astonished
he nor that affable familiar ghost
which nightly gulls him with intelligence
as victors of my silence cannot boast
i was not sick of any fear from thence
 but when your countenance fill'd up his line
 then lack'd i matter that enfeebled mine
lxxxvii
farewell thou art too dear for my possessing
and like enough thou know'st thy estimate
the charter of thy worth gives thee releasing
my bonds in thee are all determinate
for how do i hold thee but by thy granting
and for that riches where is my deserving
the cause of this fair gift in me is wanting
and so my patent back again is swerving
thyself thou gavest thy own worth then not knowing
or me to whom thou gavest it else mistaking
so thy great gift upon misprision growing
comes home again on better judgment making
 thus have i had thee as a dream doth flatter
 in sleep a king but waking no such matter
lxxxviii
when thou shalt be disposed to set me light
and place my merit in the eye of scorn
upon thy side against myself i'll fight
and prove thee virtuous though thou art forsworn
with mine own weakness being best acquainted
upon thy part i can set down a story
of faults conceal'd wherein i am attainted
that thou in losing me shalt win much glory
and i by this will be a gainer too
for bending all my loving thoughts on thee
the injuries that to myself i do
doing thee vantage doublevantage me
 such is my love to thee i so belong
 that for thy right myself will bear all wrong
lxxxix
say that thou didst forsake me for some fault
and i will comment upon that offence
speak of my lameness and i straight will halt
against thy reasons making no defence
thou canst not love disgrace me half so ill
to set a form upon desired change
as i'll myself disgrace knowing thy will
i will acquaintance strangle and look strange
be absent from thy walks and in my tongue
thy sweet beloved name no more shall dwell
lest i too much profane should do it wrong
and haply of our old acquaintance tell
 for thee against myself i'll vow debate
 for i must ne'er love him whom thou dost hate
xc
then hate me when thou wilt if ever now
now while the world is bent my deeds to cross
join with the spite of fortune make me bow
and do not drop in for an afterloss
ah do not when my heart hath scoped this sorrow
come in the rearward of a conquer'd woe
give not a windy night a rainy morrow
to linger out a purposed overthrow
if thou wilt leave me do not leave me last
when other petty griefs have done their spite
but in the onset come so shall i taste
at first the very worst of fortune's might
 and other strains of woe which now seem woe
 compared with loss of thee will not seem so
xci
some glory in their birth some in their skill
some in their wealth some in their bodies force
some in their garments though newfangled ill
some in their hawks and hounds some in their horse
and every humour hath his adjunct pleasure
wherein it finds a joy above the rest
but these particulars are not my measure
all these i better in one general best
thy love is better than high birth to me
richer than wealth prouder than garments cost
of more delight than hawks or horses be
and having thee of all men's pride i boast
 wretched in this alone that thou mayst take
 all this away and me most wretched make
xcii
but do thy worst to steal thyself away
for term of life thou art assured mine
and life no longer than thy love will stay
for it depends upon that love of thine
then need i not to fear the worst of wrongs
when in the least of them my life hath end
i see a better state to me belongs
than that which on thy humour doth depend
thou canst not vex me with inconstant mind
since that my life on thy revolt doth lie
o what a happy title do i find
happy to have thy love happy to die
 but what's so blessedfair that fears no blot
 thou mayst be false and yet i know it not
xciii
so shall i live supposing thou art true
like a deceived husband so love's face
may still seem love to me though alter'd new
thy looks with me thy heart in other place
for there can live no hatred in thine eye
therefore in that i cannot know thy change
in many's looks the false heart's history
is writ in moods and frowns and wrinkles strange
but heaven in thy creation did decree
that in thy face sweet love should ever dwell
whate'er thy thoughts or thy heart's workings be
thy looks should nothing thence but sweetness tell
 how like eve's apple doth thy beauty grow
 if thy sweet virtue answer not thy show
xciv
they that have power to hurt and will do none
that do not do the thing they most do show
who moving others are themselves as stone
unmoved cold and to temptation slow
they rightly do inherit heaven's graces
and husband nature's riches from expense
they are the lords and owners of their faces
others but stewards of their excellence
the summer's flower is to the summer sweet
though to itself it only live and die
but if that flower with base infection meet
the basest weed outbraves his dignity
 for sweetest things turn sourest by their deeds
 lilies that fester smell far worse than weeds
xcv
how sweet and lovely dost thou make the shame
which like a canker in the fragrant rose
doth spot the beauty of thy budding name
o in what sweets dost thou thy sins enclose
that tongue that tells the story of thy days
making lascivious comments on thy sport
cannot dispraise but in a kind of praise
naming thy name blesses an ill report
o what a mansion have those vices got
which for their habitation chose out thee
where beauty's veil doth cover every blot
and all things turn to fair that eyes can see
 take heed dear heart of this large privilege
 the hardest knife illused doth lose his edge
xcvi
some say thy fault is youth some wantonness
some say thy grace is youth and gentle sport
both grace and faults are loved of more and less
thou makest faults graces that to thee resort
as on the finger of a throned queen
the basest jewel will be well esteem'd
so are those errors that in thee are seen
to truths translated and for true things deem'd
how many lambs might the stem wolf betray
if like a lamb he could his looks translate
how many gazers mightst thou lead away
if thou wouldst use the strength of all thy state
 but do not so i love thee in such sort
 as thou being mine mine is thy good report
xcvii
how like a winter hath my absence been
from thee the pleasure of the fleeting year
what freezings have i felt what dark days seen
what old december's bareness every where
and yet this time removed was summer's time
the teeming autumn big with rich increase
bearing the wanton burden of the prime
like widow'd wombs after their lords decease
yet this abundant issue seem'd to me
but hope of orphans and unfather'd fruit
for summer and his pleasures wait on thee
and thou away the very birds are mute
 or if they sing tis with so dull a cheer
 that leaves look pale dreading the winter's near
xcviii
from you have i been absent in the spring
when proudpied april dress'd in all his trim
hath put a spirit of youth in every thing
that heavy saturn laugh'd and leap'd with him
yet nor the lays of birds nor the sweet smell
of different flowers in odour and in hue
could make me any summer's story tell
or from their proud lap pluck them where they grew
nor did i wonder at the lily's white
nor praise the deep vermilion in the rose
they were but sweet but figures of delight
drawn after you you pattern of all those
 yet seem'd it winter still and you away
 as with your shadow i with these did play
xcix
the forward violet thus did i chide
sweet thief whence didst thou steal thy sweet that smells
if not from my love's breath the purple pride
which on thy soft cheek for complexion dwells
in my love's veins thou hast too grossly dyed
the lily i condemned for thy hand
and buds of marjoram had stol'n thy hair
the roses fearfully on thorns did stand
one blushing shame another white despair
a third nor red nor white had stol'n of both
and to his robbery had annex'd thy breath
but for his theft in pride of all his growth
a vengeful canker eat him up to death
 more flowers i noted yet i none could see
 but sweet or colour it had stol'n from thee
c
where art thou muse that thou forget'st so long
to speak of that which gives thee all thy might
spend'st thou thy fury on some worthless song
darkening thy power to lend base subjects light
return forgetful muse and straight redeem
in gentle numbers time so idly spent
sing to the ear that doth thy lays esteem
and gives thy pen both skill and argument
rise resty muse my love's sweet face survey
if time have any wrinkle graven there
if any be a satire to decay
and make time's spoils despised every where
 give my love fame faster than time wastes life
 so thou prevent'st his scythe and crooked knife
ci
o truant muse what shall be thy amends
for thy neglect of truth in beauty dyed
both truth and beauty on my love depends
so dost thou too and therein dignified
make answer muse wilt thou not haply say
'truth needs no colour with his colour fix'd
beauty no pencil beauty's truth to lay
but best is best if never intermix'd'
because he needs no praise wilt thou be dumb
excuse not silence so for't lies in thee
to make him much outlive a gilded tomb
and to be praised of ages yet to be
 then do thy office muse i teach thee how
 to make him seem long hence as he shows now
cii
my love is strengthen'd though more weak in seeming
i love not less though less the show appear
that love is merchandized whose rich esteeming
the owner's tongue doth publish every where
our love was new and then but in the spring
when i was wont to greet it with my lays
as philomel in summer's front doth sing
and stops her pipe in growth of riper days
not that the summer is less pleasant now
than when her mournful hymns did hush the night
but that wild music burthens every bough
and sweets grown common lose their dear delight
 therefore like her i sometime hold my tongue
 because i would not dull you with my song
ciii
alack what poverty my muse brings forth
that having such a scope to show her pride
the argument all bare is of more worth
than when it hath my added praise beside
o blame me not if i no more can write
look in your glass and there appears a face
that overgoes my blunt invention quite
dulling my lines and doing me disgrace
were it not sinful then striving to mend
to mar the subject that before was well
for to no other pass my verses tend
than of your graces and your gifts to tell
 and more much more than in my verse can sit
 your own glass shows you when you look in it
civ
to me fair friend you never can be old
for as you were when first your eye i eyed
such seems your beauty still three winters cold
have from the forests shook three summers pride
three beauteous springs to yellow autumn turn'd
in process of the seasons have i seen
three april perfumes in three hot junes burn'd
since first i saw you fresh which yet are green
ah yet doth beauty like a dialhand
steal from his figure and no pace perceived
so your sweet hue which methinks still doth stand
hath motion and mine eye may be deceived
 for fear of which hear this thou age unbred
 ere you were born was beauty's summer dead
cv
let not my love be call'd idolatry
nor my beloved as an idol show
since all alike my songs and praises be
to one of one still such and ever so
kind is my love today tomorrow kind
still constant in a wondrous excellence
therefore my verse to constancy confined
one thing expressing leaves out difference
'fair kind and true is all my argument
'fair kind and true varying to other words
and in this change is my invention spent
three themes in one which wondrous scope affords
 fair kind and true have often lived alone
 which three till now never kept seat in one
cvi
when in the chronicle of wasted time
i see descriptions of the fairest wights
and beauty making beautiful old rhyme
in praise of ladies dead and lovely knights
then in the blazon of sweet beauty's best
of hand of foot of lip of eye of brow
i see their antique pen would have express'd
even such a beauty as you master now
so all their praises are but prophecies
of this our time all you prefiguring
and for they look'd but with divining eyes
they had not skill enough your worth to sing
 for we which now behold these present days
 had eyes to wonder but lack tongues to praise
cvii
not mine own fears nor the prophetic soul
of the wide world dreaming on things to come
can yet the lease of my true love control
supposed as forfeit to a confined doom
the mortal moon hath her eclipse endured
and the sad augurs mock their own presage
incertainties now crown themselves assured
and peace proclaims olives of endless age
now with the drops of this most balmy time
my love looks fresh and death to me subscribes
since spite of him i'll live in this poor rhyme
while he insults o'er dull and speechless tribes
 and thou in this shalt find thy monument
 when tyrants crests and tombs of brass are spent
cviii
what's in the brain that ink may character
which hath not figured to thee my true spirit
what's new to speak what new to register
that may express my love or thy dear merit
nothing sweet boy but yet like prayers divine
i must each day say o'er the very same
counting no old thing old thou mine i thine
even as when first i hallow'd thy fair name
so that eternal love in love's fresh case
weighs not the dust and injury of age
nor gives to necessary wrinkles place
but makes antiquity for aye his page
 finding the first conceit of love there bred
 where time and outward form would show it dead
cix
o never say that i was false of heart
though absence seem'd my flame to qualify
as easy might i from myself depart
as from my soul which in thy breast doth lie
that is my home of love if i have ranged
like him that travels i return again
just to the time not with the time exchanged
so that myself bring water for my stain
never believe though in my nature reign'd
all frailties that besiege all kinds of blood
that it could so preposterously be stain'd
to leave for nothing all thy sum of good
 for nothing this wide universe i call
 save thou my rose in it thou art my all
cx
alas tis true i have gone here and there
and made myself a motley to the view
gored mine own thoughts sold cheap what is most dear
made old offences of affections new
most true it is that i have look'd on truth
askance and strangely but by all above
these blenches gave my heart another youth
and worse essays proved thee my best of love
now all is done have what shall have no end
mine appetite i never more will grind
on newer proof to try an older friend
a god in love to whom i am confined
 then give me welcome next my heaven the best
 even to thy pure and most most loving breast
cxi
o for my sake do you with fortune chide
the guilty goddess of my harmful deeds
that did not better for my life provide
than public means which public manners breeds
thence comes it that my name receives a brand
and almost thence my nature is subdued
to what it works in like the dyer's hand
pity me then and wish i were renew'd
whilst like a willing patient i will drink
potions of eisel gainst my strong infection
no bitterness that i will bitter think
nor double penance to correct correction
 pity me then dear friend and i assure ye
 even that your pity is enough to cure me
cxii
your love and pity doth the impression fill
which vulgar scandal stamp'd upon my brow
for what care i who calls me well or ill
so you o'ergreen my bad my good allow
you are my all the world and i must strive
to know my shames and praises from your tongue
none else to me nor i to none alive
that my steel'd sense or changes right or wrong
in so profound abysm i throw all care
of others voices that my adder's sense
to critic and to flatterer stopped are
mark how with my neglect i do dispense
 you are so strongly in my purpose bred
 that all the world besides methinks are dead
cxiii
since i left you mine eye is in my mind
and that which governs me to go about
doth part his function and is partly blind
seems seeing but effectually is out
for it no form delivers to the heart
of bird of flower or shape which it doth latch
of his quick objects hath the mind no part
nor his own vision holds what it doth catch
for if it see the rudest or gentlest sight
the most sweet favour or deformed'st creature
the mountain or the sea the day or night
the crow or dove it shapes them to your feature
 incapable of more replete with you
 my most true mind thus makes mine eye untrue
cxiv
or whether doth my mind being crown'd with you
drink up the monarch's plague this flattery
or whether shall i say mine eye saith true
and that your love taught it this alchemy
to make of monsters and things indigest
such cherubins as your sweet self resemble
creating every bad a perfect best
as fast as objects to his beams assemble
o'tis the first tis flattery in my seeing
and my great mind most kingly drinks it up
mine eye well knows what with his gust is greeing
and to his palate doth prepare the cup
 if it be poison'd tis the lesser sin
 that mine eye loves it and doth first begin
cxv
those lines that i before have writ do lie
even those that said i could not love you dearer
yet then my judgment knew no reason why
my most full flame should afterwards burn clearer
but reckoning time whose million'd accidents
creep in twixt vows and change decrees of kings
tan sacred beauty blunt the sharp'st intents
divert strong minds to the course of altering things
alas why fearing of time's tyranny
might i not then say now i love you best'
when i was certain o'er incertainty
crowning the present doubting of the rest
 love is a babe then might i not say so
 to give full growth to that which still doth grow
cxvi
let me not to the marriage of true minds
admit impediments love is not love
which alters when it alteration finds
or bends with the remover to remove
o no it is an everfixed mark
that looks on tempests and is never shaken
it is the star to every wandering bark
whose worth's unknown although his height be taken
love's not time's fool though rosy lips and cheeks
within his bending sickle's compass come
love alters not with his brief hours and weeks
but bears it out even to the edge of doom
 if this be error and upon me proved
 i never writ nor no man ever loved
cxvii
accuse me thus that i have scanted all
wherein i should your great deserts repay
forgot upon your dearest love to call
whereto all bonds do tie me day by day
that i have frequent been with unknown minds
and given to time your own dearpurchased right
that i have hoisted sail to all the winds
which should transport me farthest from your sight
book both my wilfulness and errors down
and on just proof surmise accumulate
bring me within the level of your frown
but shoot not at me in your waken'd hate
 since my appeal says i did strive to prove
 the constancy and virtue of your love
cxviii
like as to make our appetites more keen
with eager compounds we our palate urge
as to prevent our maladies unseen
we sicken to shun sickness when we purge
even so being tuff of your ne'ercloying sweetness
to bitter sauces did i frame my feeding
and sick of welfare found a kind of meetness
to be diseased ere that there was true needing
thus policy in love to anticipate
the ills that were not grew to faults assured
and brought to medicine a healthful state
which rank of goodness would by ill be cured
 but thence i learn and find the lesson true
 drugs poison him that so fell sick of you
cxix
what potions have i drunk of siren tears
distill'd from limbecks foul as hell within
applying fears to hopes and hopes to fears
still losing when i saw myself to win
what wretched errors hath my heart committed
whilst it hath thought itself so blessed never
how have mine eyes out of their spheres been fitted
in the distraction of this madding fever
o benefit of ill now i find true
that better is by evil still made better
and ruin'd love when it is built anew
grows fairer than at first more strong far greater
 so i return rebuked to my content
 and gain by ill thrice more than i have spent
cxx
that you were once unkind befriends me now
and for that sorrow which i then did feel
needs must i under my transgression bow
unless my nerves were brass or hammer'd steel
for if you were by my unkindness shaken
as i by yours you've pass'd a hell of time
and i a tyrant have no leisure taken
to weigh how once i suffered in your crime
o that our night of woe might have remember'd
my deepest sense how hard true sorrow hits
and soon to you as you to me then tender'd
the humble slave which wounded bosoms fits
 but that your trespass now becomes a fee
 mine ransoms yours and yours must ransom me
cxxi
'tis better to be vile than vile esteem'd
when not to be receives reproach of being
and the just pleasure lost which is so deem'd
not by our feeling but by others seeing
for why should others false adulterate eyes
give salutation to my sportive blood
or on my frailties why are frailer spies
which in their wills count bad what i think good
no i am that i am and they that level
at my abuses reckon up their own
i may be straight though they themselves be bevel
by their rank thoughts my deeds must not be shown
 unless this general evil they maintain
 all men are bad and in their badness reign
cxxii
thy gift thy tables are within my brain
full character'd with lasting memory
which shall above that idle rank remain
beyond all date even to eternity
or at the least so long as brain and heart
have faculty by nature to subsist
till each to razed oblivion yield his part
of thee thy record never can be miss'd
that poor retention could not so much hold
nor need i tallies thy dear love to score
therefore to give them from me was i bold
to trust those tables that receive thee more
 to keep an adjunct to remember thee
 were to import forgetfulness in me
cxxiii
no time thou shalt not boast that i do change
thy pyramids built up with newer might
to me are nothing novel nothing strange
they are but dressings of a former sight
our dates are brief and therefore we admire
what thou dost foist upon us that is old
and rather make them born to our desire
than think that we before have heard them told
thy registers and thee i both defy
not wondering at the present nor the past
for thy records and what we see doth lie
made more or less by thy continual haste
 this i do vow and this shall ever be
 i will be true despite thy scythe and thee
cxxiv
if my dear love were but the child of state
it might for fortune's bastard be unfather'd'
as subject to time's love or to time's hate
weeds among weeds or flowers with flowers gather'd
no it was builded far from accident
it suffers not in smiling pomp nor falls
under the blow of thralled discontent
whereto the inviting time our fashion calls
it fears not policy that heretic
which works on leases of shortnumber'd hours
but all alone stands hugely politic
that it nor grows with heat nor drowns with showers
 to this i witness call the fools of time
 which die for goodness who have lived for crime
cxxv
were t aught to me i bore the canopy
with my extern the outward honouring
or laid great bases for eternity
which prove more short than waste or ruining
have i not seen dwellers on form and favour
lose all and more by paying too much rent
for compound sweet forgoing simple savour
pitiful thrivers in their gazing spent
no let me be obsequious in thy heart
and take thou my oblation poor but free
which is not mix'd with seconds knows no art
but mutual render only me for thee
 hence thou suborn'd informer a true soul
 when most impeach'd stands least in thy control
cxxvi
o thou my lovely boy who in thy power
dost hold time's fickle glass his sickle hour
who hast by waning grown and therein show'st
thy lovers withering as thy sweet self grow'st
if nature sovereign mistress over wrack
as thou goest onwards still will pluck thee back
she keeps thee to this purpose that her skill
may time disgrace and wretched minutes kill
yet fear her o thou minion of her pleasure
she may detain but not still keep her treasure
 her audit though delay'd answer'd must be
 and her quietus is to render thee
cxxvii
in the old age black was not counted fair
or if it were it bore not beauty's name
but now is black beauty's successive heir
and beauty slander'd with a bastard shame
for since each hand hath put on nature's power
fairing the foul with art's false borrow'd face
sweet beauty hath no name no holy bower
but is profaned if not lives in disgrace
therefore my mistress brows are raven black
her eyes so suited and they mourners seem
at such who not born fair no beauty lack
slandering creation with a false esteem
 yet so they mourn becoming of their woe
 that every tongue says beauty should look so
cxxviii
how oft when thou my music music play'st
upon that blessed wood whose motion sounds
with thy sweet fingers when thou gently sway'st
the wiry concord that mine ear confounds
do i envy those jacks that nimble leap
to kiss the tender inward of thy hand
whilst my poor lips which should that harvest reap
at the wood's boldness by thee blushing stand
to be so tickled they would change their state
and situation with those dancing chips
o'er whom thy fingers walk with gentle gait
making dead wood more blest than living lips
 since saucy jacks so happy are in this
 give them thy fingers me thy lips to kiss
cxxix
the expense of spirit in a waste of shame
is lust in action and till action lust
is perjured murderous bloody full of blame
savage extreme rude cruel not to trust
enjoy'd no sooner but despised straight
past reason hunted and no sooner had
past reason hated as a swallow'd bait
on purpose laid to make the taker mad
mad in pursuit and in possession so
had having and in quest to have extreme
a bliss in proof and proved a very woe
before a joy proposed behind a dream
 all this the world well knows yet none knows well
 to shun the heaven that leads men to this hell
cxxx
my mistress eyes are nothing like the sun
coral is far more red than her lips red
if snow be white why then her breasts are dun
if hairs be wires black wires grow on her head
i have seen roses damask'd red and white
but no such roses see i in her cheeks
and in some perfumes is there more delight
than in the breath that from my mistress reeks
i love to hear her speak yet well i know
that music hath a far more pleasing sound
i grant i never saw a goddess go
my mistress when she walks treads on the ground
 and yet by heaven i think my love as rare
 as any she belied with false compare
cxxxi
thou art as tyrannous so as thou art
as those whose beauties proudly make them cruel
for well thou know'st to my dear doting heart
thou art the fairest and most precious jewel
yet in good faith some say that thee behold
thy face hath not the power to make love groan
to say they err i dare not be so bold
although i swear it to myself alone
and to be sure that is not false i swear
a thousand groans but thinking on thy face
one on another's neck do witness bear
thy black is fairest in my judgment's place
 in nothing art thou black save in thy deeds
 and thence this slander as i think proceeds
cxxxii
thine eyes i love and they as pitying me
knowing thy heart torments me with disdain
have put on black and loving mourners be
looking with pretty ruth upon my pain
and truly not the morning sun of heaven
better becomes the grey cheeks of the east
nor that full star that ushers in the even
doth half that glory to the sober west
as those two mourning eyes become thy face
o let it then as well beseem thy heart
to mourn for me since mourning doth thee grace
and suit thy pity like in every part
 then will i swear beauty herself is black
 and all they foul that thy complexion lack
cxxxiii
beshrew that heart that makes my heart to groan
for that deep wound it gives my friend and me
is't not enough to torture me alone
but slave to slavery my sweet'st friend must be
me from myself thy cruel eye hath taken
and my next self thou harder hast engross'd
of him myself and thee i am forsaken
a torment thrice threefold thus to be cross'd
prison my heart in thy steel bosom's ward
but then my friend's heart let my poor heart bail
whoe'er keeps me let my heart be his guard
thou canst not then use rigor in my gaol
 and yet thou wilt for i being pent in thee
 perforce am thine and all that is in me
cxxxiv
so now i have confess'd that he is thine
and i myself am mortgaged to thy will
myself i'll forfeit so that other mine
thou wilt restore to be my comfort still
but thou wilt not nor he will not be free
for thou art covetous and he is kind
he learn'd but suretylike to write for me
under that bond that him as fast doth bind
the statute of thy beauty thou wilt take
thou usurer that put'st forth all to use
and sue a friend came debtor for my sake
so him i lose through my unkind abuse
 him have i lost thou hast both him and me
 he pays the whole and yet am i not free
cxxxv
whoever hath her wish thou hast thy will'
and will to boot and will in overplus
more than enough am i that vex thee still
to thy sweet will making addition thus
wilt thou whose will is large and spacious
not once vouchsafe to hide my will in thine
shall will in others seem right gracious
and in my will no fair acceptance shine
the sea all water yet receives rain still
and in abundance addeth to his store
so thou being rich in will add to thy will'
one will of mine to make thy large will more
 let no unkind no fair beseechers kill
 think all but one and me in that one will'
cxxxvi
if thy soul cheque thee that i come so near
swear to thy blind soul that i was thy will'
and will thy soul knows is admitted there
thus far for love my lovesuit sweet fulfil
'will will fulfil the treasure of thy love
ay fill it full with wills and my will one
in things of great receipt with ease we prove
among a number one is reckon'd none
then in the number let me pass untold
though in thy stores account i one must be
for nothing hold me so it please thee hold
that nothing me a something sweet to thee
 make but my name thy love and love that still
 and then thou lovest me for my name is will'
cxxxvii
thou blind fool love what dost thou to mine eyes
that they behold and see not what they see
they know what beauty is see where it lies
yet what the best is take the worst to be
if eyes corrupt by overpartial looks
be anchor'd in the bay where all men ride
why of eyes falsehood hast thou forged hooks
whereto the judgment of my heart is tied
why should my heart think that a several plot
which my heart knows the wide world's common place
or mine eyes seeing this say this is not
to put fair truth upon so foul a face
 in things right true my heart and eyes have erred
 and to this false plague are they now transferr'd
cxxxviii
when my love swears that she is made of truth
i do believe her though i know she lies
that she might think me some untutor'd youth
unlearned in the world's false subtleties
thus vainly thinking that she thinks me young
although she knows my days are past the best
simply i credit her false speaking tongue
on both sides thus is simple truth suppress'd
but wherefore says she not she is unjust
and wherefore say not i that i am old
o love's best habit is in seeming trust
and age in love loves not to have years told
 therefore i lie with her and she with me
 and in our faults by lies we flatter'd be
cxxxix
o call not me to justify the wrong
that thy unkindness lays upon my heart
wound me not with thine eye but with thy tongue
use power with power and slay me not by art
tell me thou lovest elsewhere but in my sight
dear heart forbear to glance thine eye aside
what need'st thou wound with cunning when thy might
is more than my o'erpress'd defense can bide
let me excuse thee ah my love well knows
her pretty looks have been mine enemies
and therefore from my face she turns my foes
that they elsewhere might dart their injuries
 yet do not so but since i am near slain
 kill me outright with looks and rid my pain
cxl
be wise as thou art cruel do not press
my tonguetied patience with too much disdain
lest sorrow lend me words and words express
the manner of my pitywanting pain
if i might teach thee wit better it were
though not to love yet love to tell me so
as testy sick men when their deaths be near
no news but health from their physicians know
for if i should despair i should grow mad
and in my madness might speak ill of thee
now this illwresting world is grown so bad
mad slanderers by mad ears believed be
 that i may not be so nor thou belied
 bear thine eyes straight though thy proud heart go wide
cxli
in faith i do not love thee with mine eyes
for they in thee a thousand errors note
but tis my heart that loves what they despise
who in despite of view is pleased to dote
nor are mine ears with thy tongue's tune delighted
nor tender feeling to base touches prone
nor taste nor smell desire to be invited
to any sensual feast with thee alone
but my five wits nor my five senses can
dissuade one foolish heart from serving thee
who leaves unsway'd the likeness of a man
thy proud hearts slave and vassal wretch to be
 only my plague thus far i count my gain
 that she that makes me sin awards me pain
cxlii
love is my sin and thy dear virtue hate
hate of my sin grounded on sinful loving
o but with mine compare thou thine own state
and thou shalt find it merits not reproving
or if it do not from those lips of thine
that have profaned their scarlet ornaments
and seal'd false bonds of love as oft as mine
robb'd others beds revenues of their rents
be it lawful i love thee as thou lovest those
whom thine eyes woo as mine importune thee
root pity in thy heart that when it grows
thy pity may deserve to pitied be
 if thou dost seek to have what thou dost hide
 by selfexample mayst thou be denied
cxliii
lo as a careful housewife runs to catch
one of her feather'd creatures broke away
sets down her babe and makes an swift dispatch
in pursuit of the thing she would have stay
whilst her neglected child holds her in chase
cries to catch her whose busy care is bent
to follow that which flies before her face
not prizing her poor infant's discontent
so runn'st thou after that which flies from thee
whilst i thy babe chase thee afar behind
but if thou catch thy hope turn back to me
and play the mother's part kiss me be kind
 so will i pray that thou mayst have thy will'
 if thou turn back and my loud crying still
cxliv
two loves i have of comfort and despair
which like two spirits do suggest me still
the better angel is a man right fair
the worser spirit a woman colour'd ill
to win me soon to hell my female evil
tempteth my better angel from my side
and would corrupt my saint to be a devil
wooing his purity with her foul pride
and whether that my angel be turn'd fiend
suspect i may but not directly tell
but being both from me both to each friend
i guess one angel in another's hell
 yet this shall i ne'er know but live in doubt
 till my bad angel fire my good one out
cxlv
those lips that love's own hand did make
breathed forth the sound that said i hate'
to me that languish'd for her sake
but when she saw my woeful state
straight in her heart did mercy come
chiding that tongue that ever sweet
was used in giving gentle doom
and taught it thus anew to greet
'i hate she alter'd with an end
that follow'd it as gentle day
doth follow night who like a fiend
from heaven to hell is flown away
 i hate from hate away she threw
 and saved my life saying not you'
cxlvi
poor soul the centre of my sinful earth
 these rebel powers that thee array
why dost thou pine within and suffer dearth
painting thy outward walls so costly gay
why so large cost having so short a lease
dost thou upon thy fading mansion spend
shall worms inheritors of this excess
eat up thy charge is this thy body's end
then soul live thou upon thy servant's loss
and let that pine to aggravate thy store
buy terms divine in selling hours of dross
within be fed without be rich no more
 so shalt thou feed on death that feeds on men
 and death once dead there's no more dying then
cxlvii
my love is as a fever longing still
for that which longer nurseth the disease
feeding on that which doth preserve the ill
the uncertain sickly appetite to please
my reason the physician to my love
angry that his prescriptions are not kept
hath left me and i desperate now approve
desire is death which physic did except
past cure i am now reason is past care
and franticmad with evermore unrest
my thoughts and my discourse as madmen's are
at random from the truth vainly express'd
 for i have sworn thee fair and thought thee bright
 who art as black as hell as dark as night
cxlviii
o me what eyes hath love put in my head
which have no correspondence with true sight
or if they have where is my judgment fled
that censures falsely what they see aright
if that be fair whereon my false eyes dote
what means the world to say it is not so
if it be not then love doth well denote
love's eye is not so true as all men's no'
how can it o how can love's eye be true
that is so vex'd with watching and with tears
no marvel then though i mistake my view
the sun itself sees not till heaven clears
 o cunning love with tears thou keep'st me blind
 lest eyes wellseeing thy foul faults should find
cxlix
canst thou o cruel say i love thee not
when i against myself with thee partake
do i not think on thee when i forgot
am of myself all tyrant for thy sake
who hateth thee that i do call my friend
on whom frown'st thou that i do fawn upon
nay if thou lour'st on me do i not spend
revenge upon myself with present moan
what merit do i in myself respect
that is so proud thy service to despise
when all my best doth worship thy defect
commanded by the motion of thine eyes
 but love hate on for now i know thy mind
 those that can see thou lovest and i am blind
cl
o from what power hast thou this powerful might
with insufficiency my heart to sway
to make me give the lie to my true sight
and swear that brightness doth not grace the day
whence hast thou this becoming of things ill
that in the very refuse of thy deeds
there is such strength and warrantize of skill
that in my mind thy worst all best exceeds
who taught thee how to make me love thee more
the more i hear and see just cause of hate
o though i love what others do abhor
with others thou shouldst not abhor my state
 if thy unworthiness raised love in me
 more worthy i to be beloved of thee
cli
love is too young to know what conscience is
yet who knows not conscience is born of love
then gentle cheater urge not my amiss
lest guilty of my faults thy sweet self prove
for thou betraying me i do betray
my nobler part to my gross body's treason
my soul doth tell my body that he may
triumph in love flesh stays no father reason
but rising at thy name doth point out thee
as his triumphant prize proud of this pride
he is contented thy poor drudge to be
to stand in thy affairs fall by thy side
 no want of conscience hold it that i call
 her love for whose dear love i rise and fall
clii
in loving thee thou know'st i am forsworn
but thou art twice forsworn to me love swearing
in act thy bedvow broke and new faith torn
in vowing new hate after new love bearing
but why of two oaths breach do i accuse thee
when i break twenty i am perjured most
for all my vows are oaths but to misuse thee
and all my honest faith in thee is lost
for i have sworn deep oaths of thy deep kindness
oaths of thy love thy truth thy constancy
and to enlighten thee gave eyes to blindness
or made them swear against the thing they see
 for i have sworn thee fair more perjured i
 to swear against the truth so foul a lie
cliii
cupid laid by his brand and fell asleep
a maid of dian's this advantage found
and his lovekindling fire did quickly steep
in a cold valleyfountain of that ground
which borrow'd from this holy fire of love
a dateless lively heat still to endure
and grew a seething bath which yet men prove
against strange maladies a sovereign cure
but at my mistress eye love's brand newfired
the boy for trial needs would touch my breast
i sick withal the help of bath desired
and thither hied a sad distemper'd guest
 but found no cure the bath for my help lies
 where cupid got new firemy mistress eyes
cliv
the little lovegod lying once asleep
laid by his side his heartinflaming brand
whilst many nymphs that vow'd chaste life to keep
came tripping by but in her maiden hand
the fairest votary took up that fire
which many legions of true hearts had warm'd
and so the general of hot desire
was sleeping by a virgin hand disarm'd
this brand she quenched in a cool well by
which from love's fire took heat perpetual
growing a bath and healthful remedy
for men diseased but i my mistress thrall
 came there for cure and this by that i prove
 love's fire heats water water cools not love
 the passionate pilgrim
i
when my love swears that she is made of truth
i do believe her though i know she lies
that she might think me some untutor'd youth
unskilful in the world's false forgeries
thus vainly thinking that she thinks me young
although i know my years be past the best
i smiling credit her falsespeaking tongue
outfacing faults in love with love's ill rest
but wherefore says my love that she is young
and wherefore say not i that i am old
o love's best habit is a soothing tongue
and age in love loves not to have years told
therefore i'll lie with love and love with me
since that our faults in love thus smother'd be
ii
two loves i have of comfort and despair
that like two spirits do suggest me still
my better angel is a man right fair
my worser spirit a woman colour'd ill
to win me soon to hell my female evil
tempteth my better angel from my side
and would corrupt my saint to be a devil
wooing his purity with her fair pride
and whether that my angel be turn'd fiend
suspect i may yet not directly tell
for being both to me both to each friend
i guess one angel in another's hell
the truth i shall not know but live in doubt
till my bad angel fire my good one out
iii
did not the heavenly rhetoric of thine eye
'gainst whom the world could not hold argument
persuade my heart to this false perjury
vows for thee broke deserve not punishment
a woman i forswore but i will prove
thou being a goddess i forswore not thee
my vow was earthly thou a heavenly love
thy grace being gain'd cures all disgrace in me
my vow was breath and breath a vapour is
then thou fair sun that on this earth doth shine
exhale this vapour vow in thee it is
if broken then it is no fault of mine
if by me broke what fool is not so wise
to break an oath to win a paradise
iv
sweet cytherea sitting by a brook
with young adonis lovely fresh and green
did court the lad with many a lovely look
such looks as none could look but beauty's queen
she told him stories to delight his ear
she showed him favors to allure his eye
to win his heart she touch'd him here and there
touches so soft still conquer chastity
but whether unripe years did want conceit
or he refused to take her figured proffer
the tender nibbler would not touch the bait
but smile and jest at every gentle offer
then fell she on her back fair queen and toward
he rose and ran away ah fool too froward
v
if love make me forsworn how shall i swear to love
o never faith could hold if not to beauty vow'd
though to myself forsworn to thee i'll constant prove
those thoughts to me like oaks to thee like osiers bow'd
study his bias leaves and makes his book thine eyes
where all those pleasures live that art can comprehend
if knowledge be the mark to know thee shall suffice
well learned is that tongue that well can thee commend
all ignorant that soul that sees thee without wonder
which is to me some praise that i thy parts admire
thine eye jove's lightning seems thy voice his dreadful
thunder
which not to anger bent is music and sweet fire
celestial as thou art o do not love that wrong
to sing heaven's praise with such an earthly tongue
vi
scarce had the sun dried up the dewy morn
and scarce the herd gone to the hedge for shade
when cytherea all in love forlorn
a longing tarriance for adonis made
under an osier growing by a brook
a brook where adon used to cool his spleen
hot was the day she hotter that did look
for his approach that often there had been
anon he comes and throws his mantle by
and stood stark naked on the brook's green brim
the sun look'd on the world with glorious eye
yet not so wistly as this queen on him
he spying her bounced in whereas he stood
'o jove quoth she why was not i a flood'
vii
fair is my love but not so fair as fickle
mild as a dove but neither true nor trusty
brighter than glass and yet as glass is brittle
softer than wax and yet as iron rusty
a lily pale with damask dye to grace her
none fairer nor none falser to deface her
her lips to mine how often hath she joined
between each kiss her oaths of true love swearing
how many tales to please me hath she coined
dreading my love the loss thereof still fearing
yet in the midst of all her pure protestings
her faith her oaths her tears and all were jestings
she burn'd with love as straw with fire flameth
she burn'd out love as soon as straw outburneth
she framed the love and yet she foil'd the framing
she bade love last and yet she fell aturning
was this a lover or a lecher whether
bad in the best though excellent in neither
viii
if music and sweet poetry agree
as they must needs the sister and the brother
then must the love be great twixt thee and me
because thou lovest the one and i the other
dowland to thee is dear whose heavenly touch
upon the lute doth ravish human sense
spenser to me whose deep conceit is such
as passing all conceit needs no defence
thou lovest to hear the sweet melodious sound
that phoebus lute the queen of music makes
and i in deep delight am chiefly drown'd
when as himself to singing he betakes
one god is god of both as poets feign
one knight loves both and both in thee remain
ix
fair was the morn when the fair queen of love
 
paler for sorrow than her milkwhite dove
for adon's sake a youngster proud and wild
her stand she takes upon a steepup hill
anon adonis comes with horn and hounds
she silly queen with more than love's good will
forbade the boy he should not pass those grounds
'once quoth she did i see a fair sweet youth
here in these brakes deepwounded with a boar
deep in the thigh a spectacle of ruth
see in my thigh quoth she here was the sore'
she showed hers he saw more wounds than one
and blushing fled and left her all alone
x
sweet rose fair flower untimely pluck'd soon vaded
pluck'd in the bud and vaded in the spring
bright orient pearl alack too timely shaded
fair creature kill'd too soon by death's sharp sting
like a green plum that hangs upon a tree
and falls through wind before the fall should be
i weep for thee and yet no cause i have
for why thou left'st me nothing in thy will
and yet thou left'st me more than i did crave
for why i craved nothing of thee still
o yes dear friend i pardon crave of thee
thy discontent thou didst bequeath to me
xi
venus with young adonis sitting by her
under a myrtle shade began to woo him
she told the youngling how god mars did try her
and as he fell to her so fell she to him
'even thus quoth she the warlike god embraced me'
and then she clipp'd adonis in her arms
'even thus quoth she the warlike god unlaced me'
as if the boy should use like loving charms
'even thus quoth she he seized on my lips'
and with her lips on his did act the seizure
and as she fetched breath away he skips
and would not take her meaning nor her pleasure
ah that i had my lady at this bay
to kiss and clip me till i run away
xii
crabbed age and youth cannot live together
youth is full of pleasance age is full of care
youth like summer morn age like winter weather
youth like summer brave age like winter bare
youth is full of sport age's breath is short
youth is nimble age is lame
youth is hot and bold age is weak and cold
youth is wild and age is tame
age i do abhor thee youth i do adore thee
o my love my love is young
age i do defy thee o sweet shepherd hie thee
for methinks thou stay'st too long
xiii
beauty is but a vain and doubtful good
a shining gloss that vadeth suddenly
a flower that dies when first it gins to bud
a brittle glass that's broken presently
a doubtful good a gloss a glass a flower
lost vaded broken dead within an hour
and as goods lost are seld or never found
as vaded gloss no rubbing will refresh
as flowers dead lie wither'd on the ground
as broken glass no cement can redress
so beauty blemish'd once's for ever lost
in spite of physic painting pain and cost
xiv
good night good rest ah neither be my share
she bade good night that kept my rest away
and daff'd me to a cabin hang'd with care
to descant on the doubts of my decay
'farewell quoth she and come again tomorrow'
fare well i could not for i supp'd with sorrow
yet at my parting sweetly did she smile
in scorn or friendship nill i construe whether
't may be she joy'd to jest at my exile
't may be again to make me wander thither
'wander a word for shadows like myself
as take the pain but cannot pluck the pelf
xv
lord how mine eyes throw gazes to the east
my heart doth charge the watch the morning rise
doth cite each moving sense from idle rest
not daring trust the office of mine eyes
while philomela sits and sings i sit and mark
and wish her lays were tuned like the lark
for she doth welcome daylight with her ditty
and drives away dark dismaldreaming night
the night so pack'd i post unto my pretty
heart hath his hope and eyes their wished sight
sorrow changed to solace solace mix'd with sorrow
for why she sigh'd and bade me come tomorrow
were i with her the night would post too soon
but now are minutes added to the hours
to spite me now each minute seems a moon
yet not for me shine sun to succor flowers
pack night peep day good day of night now borrow
short night tonight and length thyself tomorrow
 sonnets to sundry notes of music
xvi
it was a lording's daughter the fairest one of three
that liked of her master as well as well might be
till looking on an englishman the fair'st that eye could see
her fancy fell aturning
long was the combat doubtful that love with love did fight
to leave the master loveless or kill the gallant knight
to put in practise either alas it was a spite
unto the silly damsel
but one must be refused more mickle was the pain
that nothing could be used to turn them both to gain
for of the two the trusty knight was wounded with disdain
alas she could not help it
thus art with arms contending was victor of the day
which by a gift of learning did bear the maid away
then lullaby the learned man hath got the lady gay
for now my song is ended
xvii
on a day alack the day
love whose month was ever may
spied a blossom passing fair
playing in the wanton air
through the velvet leaves the wind
all unseen gan passage find
that the lover sick to death
wish'd himself the heaven's breath
'air quoth he thy cheeks may blow
air would i might triumph so
but alas my hand hath sworn
ne'er to pluck thee from thy thorn
vow alack for youth unmeet
youth so apt to pluck a sweet
thou for whom jove would swear
juno but an ethiope were
and deny himself for jove
turning mortal for thy love'
xviii
my flocks feed not
my ewes breed not
my rams speed not
all is amiss
love's denying
faith's defying
heart's renying
causer of this
all my merry jigs are quite forgot
all my lady's love is lost god wot
where her faith was firmly fix'd in love
there a nay is placed without remove
one silly cross
wrought all my loss
o frowning fortune cursed fickle dame
for now i see
inconstancy
more in women than in men remain
in black mourn i
all fears scorn i
love hath forlorn me
living in thrall
heart is bleeding
all help needing
o cruel speeding
fraughted with gall
my shepherd's pipe can sound no deal
my wether's bell rings doleful knell
my curtail dog that wont to have play'd
plays not at all but seems afraid
my sighs so deep
procure to weep
in howling wise to see my doleful plight
how sighs resound
through heartless ground
like a thousand vanquish'd men in bloody fight
clear wells spring not
sweet birds sing not
green plants bring not
forth their dye
herds stand weeping
flocks all sleeping
nymphs back peeping
fearfully
all our pleasure known to us poor swains
all our merry meetings on the plains
all our evening sport from us is fled
all our love is lost for love is dead
farewell sweet lass
thy like ne'er was
for a sweet content the cause of all my moan
poor corydon
must live alone
other help for him i see that there is none
xix
when as thine eye hath chose the dame
and stall'd the deer that thou shouldst strike
let reason rule things worthy blame
as well as fancy partial might
take counsel of some wiser head
neither too young nor yet unwed
and when thou comest thy tale to tell
smooth not thy tongue with filed talk
lest she some subtle practise smell
a cripple soon can find a halt
but plainly say thou lovest her well
and set thy person forth to sell
what though her frowning brows be bent
her cloudy looks will calm ere night
and then too late she will repent
that thus dissembled her delight
and twice desire ere it be day
that which with scorn she put away
what though she strive to try her strength
and ban and brawl and say thee nay
her feeble force will yield at length
when craft hath taught her thus to say
'had women been so strong as men
in faith you had not had it then'
and to her will frame all thy ways
spare not to spend and chiefly there
where thy desert may merit praise
by ringing in thy lady's ear
the strongest castle tower and town
the golden bullet beats it down
serve always with assured trust
and in thy suit be humble true
unless thy lady prove unjust
press never thou to choose anew
when time shall serve be thou not slack
to proffer though she put thee back
the wiles and guiles that women work
dissembled with an outward show
the tricks and toys that in them lurk
the cock that treads them shall not know
have you not heard it said full oft
a woman's nay doth stand for nought
think women still to strive with men
to sin and never for to saint
there is no heaven by holy then
when time with age doth them attaint
were kisses all the joys in bed
one woman would another wed
but soft enough too much i fear
lest that my mistress hear my song
she will not stick to round me i the ear
to teach my tongue to be so long
yet will she blush here be it said
to hear her secrets so bewray'd
xx
live with me and be my love
and we will all the pleasures prove
that hills and valleys dales and fields
and all the craggy mountains yields
there will we sit upon the rocks
and see the shepherds feed their flocks
by shallow rivers by whose falls
melodious birds sing madrigals
there will i make thee a bed of roses
with a thousand fragrant posies
a cap of flowers and a kirtle
embroider'd all with leaves of myrtle
a belt of straw and ivy buds
with coral clasps and amber studs
and if these pleasures may thee move
then live with me and be my love
love's answer
if that the world and love were young
and truth in every shepherd's tongue
these pretty pleasures might me move
to live with thee and be thy love
xxi
as it fell upon a day
in the merry month of may
sitting in a pleasant shade
which a grove of myrtles made
beasts did leap and birds did sing
trees did grow and plants did spring
every thing did banish moan
save the nightingale alone
she poor bird as all forlorn
lean'd her breast uptill a thorn
and there sung the dolefull'st ditty
that to hear it was great pity
'fie fie fie now would she cry
'tereu tereu by and by
that to hear her so complain
scarce i could from tears refrain
for her griefs so lively shown
made me think upon mine own
ah thought i thou mourn'st in vain
none takes pity on thy pain
senseless trees they cannot hear thee
ruthless beasts they will not cheer thee
king pandion he is dead
all thy friends are lapp'd in lead
all thy fellow birds do sing
careless of thy sorrowing
even so poor bird like thee
none alive will pity me
whilst as fickle fortune smiled
thou and i were both beguiled
every one that flatters thee
is no friend in misery
words are easy like the wind
faithful friends are hard to find
every man will be thy friend
whilst thou hast wherewith to spend
but if store of crowns be scant
no man will supply thy want
if that one be prodigal
bountiful they will him call
and with suchlike flattering
'pity but he were a king'
if he be addict to vice
quickly him they will entice
if to women he be bent
they have at commandement
but if fortune once do frown
then farewell his great renown
they that fawn'd on him before
use his company no more
he that is thy friend indeed
he will help thee in thy need
if thou sorrow he will weep
if thou wake he cannot sleep
thus of every grief in heart
he with thee doth bear a part
these are certain signs to know
faithful friend from flattering foe
 the phoenix and the turtle
 let the bird of loudest lay
 on the sole arabian tree
 herald sad and trumpet be
 to whose sound chaste wings obey
 but thou shrieking harbinger
 foul precurrer of the fiend
 augur of the fever's end
 to this troop come thou not near
 from this session interdict
 every fowl of tyrant wing
 save the eagle feather'd king
 keep the obsequy so strict
 let the priest in surplice white
 that defunctive music can
 be the deathdivining swan
 lest the requiem lack his right
 and thou trebledated crow
 that thy sable gender makest
 with the breath thou givest and takest
 mongst our mourners shalt thou go
 here the anthem doth commence
 love and constancy is dead
 phoenix and the turtle fled
 in a mutual flame from hence
 so they loved as love in twain
 had the essence but in one
 two distincts division none
 number there in love was slain
 hearts remote yet not asunder
 distance and no space was seen
 twixt the turtle and his queen
 but in them it were a wonder
 so between them love did shine
 that the turtle saw his right
 flaming in the phoenix sight
 either was the other's mine
 property was thus appalled
 that the self was not the same
 single nature's double name
 neither two nor one was called
 reason in itself confounded
 saw division grow together
 to themselves yet either neither
 simple were so well compounded
 that it cried how true a twain
 seemeth this concordant one
 love hath reason reason none
 if what parts can so remain
 whereupon it made this threne
 to the phoenix and the dove
 cosupremes and stars of love
 as chorus to their tragic scene
 threnos
 beauty truth and rarity
 grace in all simplicity
 here enclosed in cinders lie
 death is now the phoenix nest
 and the turtle's loyal breast
 to eternity doth rest
 leaving no posterity
 twas not their infirmity
 it was married chastity
 truth may seem but cannot be
 beauty brag but tis not she
 truth and beauty buried be
 to this urn let those repair
 that are either true or fair
 for these dead birds sigh a prayer
 venus and adonis
'vilia miretur vulgus mihi flavus apollo
pocula castalia plena ministret aqua'
to the
right honorable henry wriothesly
earl of southampton and baron of tichfield
right honorable
i know not how i shall offend in dedicating my
unpolished lines to your lordship nor how the world will
censure me for choosing so strong a prop to support so weak a
burden only if your honour seem but pleased i account
myself highly praised and vow to take advantage of all idle
hours till i have honoured you with some graver labour but if
the first heir of my invention prove deformed i shall be
sorry it had so noble a godfather and never after ear so
barren a land for fear it yield me still so bad a harvest
i leave it to your honourable survey and your honour to your
heart's content which i wish may always answer your own wish
and the world's hopeful expectation
your honour's in all duty
william shakespeare
even as the sun with purplecolour'd face
had ta'en his last leave of the weeping morn
rosecheek'd adonis hied him to the chase
hunting he loved but love he laugh'd to scorn
sickthoughted venus makes amain unto him
and like a boldfaced suitor gins to woo him
'thricefairer than myself thus she began
'the field's chief flower sweet above compare
stain to all nymphs more lovely than a man
more white and red than doves or roses are
nature that made thee with herself at strife
saith that the world hath ending with thy life
'vouchsafe thou wonder to alight thy steed
and rein his proud head to the saddlebow
if thou wilt deign this favour for thy meed
a thousand honey secrets shalt thou know
here come and sit where never serpent hisses
and being set i'll smother thee with kisses
'and yet not cloy thy lips with loathed satiety
but rather famish them amid their plenty
making them red and pale with fresh variety
ten kisses short as one one long as twenty
a summer's day will seem an hour but short
being wasted in such timebeguiling sport'
with this she seizeth on his sweating palm
the precedent of pith and livelihood
and trembling in her passion calls it balm
earth's sovereign salve to do a goddess good
being so enraged desire doth lend her force
courageously to pluck him from his horse
over one arm the lusty courser's rein
under her other was the tender boy
who blush'd and pouted in a dull disdain
with leaden appetite unapt to toy
she red and hot as coals of glowing fire
he red for shame but frosty in desire
the studded bridle on a ragged bough
nimbly she fastenso how quick is love
the steed is stalled up and even now
to tie the rider she begins to prove
backward she push'd him as she would be thrust
and govern'd him in strength though not in lust
so soon was she along as he was down
each leaning on their elbows and their hips
now doth she stroke his cheek now doth he frown
and gins to chide but soon she stops his lips
and kissing speaks with lustful language broken
'if thou wilt chide thy lips shall never open'
he burns with bashful shame she with her tears
doth quench the maiden burning of his cheeks
then with her windy sighs and golden hairs
to fan and blow them dry again she seeks
he saith she is immodest blames her miss
what follows more she murders with a kiss
even as an empty eagle sharp by fast
tires with her beak on feathers flesh and bone
shaking her wings devouring all in haste
till either gorge be stuff'd or prey be gone
even so she kissed his brow his cheek his chin
and where she ends she doth anew begin
forced to content but never to obey
panting he lies and breatheth in her face
she feedeth on the steam as on a prey
and calls it heavenly moisture air of grace
wishing her cheeks were gardens full of flowers
so they were dew'd with such distilling showers
look how a bird lies tangled in a net
so fasten'd in her arms adonis lies
pure shame and awed resistance made him fret
which bred more beauty in his angry eyes
rain added to a river that is rank
perforce will force it overflow the bank
still she entreats and prettily entreats
for to a pretty ear she tunes her tale
still is he sullen still he lours and frets
'twixt crimson shame and anger ashypale
being red she loves him best and being white
her best is better'd with a more delight
look how he can she cannot choose but love
and by her fair immortal hand she swears
from his soft bosom never to remove
till he take truce with her contending tears
which long have rain'd making her cheeks all wet
and one sweet kiss shall pay this countless debt
upon this promise did he raise his chin
like a divedapper peering through a wave
who being look'd on ducks as quickly in
so offers he to give what she did crave
but when her lips were ready for his pay
he winks and turns his lips another way
never did passenger in summer's heat
more thirst for drink than she for this good turn
her help she sees but help she cannot get
she bathes in water yet her fire must burn
'o pity gan she cry flinthearted boy
'tis but a kiss i beg why art thou coy
'i have been woo'd as i entreat thee now
even by the stern and direful god of war
whose sinewy neck in battle ne'er did bow
who conquers where he comes in every jar
yet hath he been my captive and my slave
and begg'd for that which thou unask'd shalt have
'over my altars hath he hung his lance
his batter'd shield his uncontrolled crest
and for my sake hath learn'd to sport and dance
to toy to wanton dally smile and jest
scorning his churlish drum and ensign red
making my arms his field his tent my bed
'thus he that overruled i oversway'd
leading him prisoner in a redrose chain
strongtempered steel his stronger strength obey'd
yet was he servile to my coy disdain
o be not proud nor brag not of thy might
for mastering her that foil'd the god of fight
'touch but my lips with those fair lips of thine
though mine be not so fair yet are they red
the kiss shall be thine own as well as mine
what seest thou in the ground hold up thy head
look in mine eyeballs there thy beauty lies
then why not lips on lips since eyes in eyes
'art thou ashamed to kiss then wink again
and i will wink so shall the day seem night
love keeps his revels where they are but twain
be bold to play our sport is not in sight
these bluevein'd violets whereon we lean
never can blab nor know not what we mean
'the tender spring upon thy tempting lip
shows thee unripe yet mayst thou well be tasted
make use of time let not advantage slip
beauty within itself should not be wasted
fair flowers that are not gather'd in their prime
rot and consume themselves in little time
'were i hardfavour'd foul or wrinkledold
illnurtured crooked churlish harsh in voice
o'erworn despised rheumatic and cold
thicksighted barren lean and lacking juice
then mightst thou pause for then i were not for thee
but having no defects why dost abhor me
'thou canst not see one wrinkle in my brow
mine eyes are gray and bright and quick in turning
my beauty as the spring doth yearly grow
my flesh is soft and plump my marrow burning
my smooth moist hand were it with thy hand felt
would in thy palm dissolve or seem to melt
'bid me discourse i will enchant thine ear
or like a fairy trip upon the green
or like a nymph with long dishevell'd hair
dance on the sands and yet no footing seen
love is a spirit all compact of fire
not gross to sink but light and will aspire
'witness this primrose bank whereon i lie
these forceless flowers like sturdy trees support me
two strengthless doves will draw me through the sky
from morn till night even where i list to sport me
is love so light sweet boy and may it be
that thou shouldst think it heavy unto thee
'is thine own heart to thine own face affected
can thy right hand seize love upon thy left
then woo thyself be of thyself rejected
steal thine own freedom and complain on theft
narcissus so himself himself forsook
and died to kiss his shadow in the brook
'torches are made to light jewels to wear
dainties to taste fresh beauty for the use
herbs for their smell and sappy plants to bear
things growing to themselves are growth's abuse
seeds spring from seeds and beauty breedeth beauty
thou wast begot to get it is thy duty
'upon the earth's increase why shouldst thou feed
unless the earth with thy increase be fed
by law of nature thou art bound to breed
that thine may live when thou thyself art dead
and so in spite of death thou dost survive
in that thy likeness still is left alive'
by this the lovesick queen began to sweat
for where they lay the shadow had forsook them
and titan tired in the midday heat
with burning eye did hotly overlook them
wishing adonis had his team to guide
so he were like him and by venus side
and now adonis with a lazy spright
and with a heavy dark disliking eye
his louring brows o'erwhelming his fair sight
like misty vapours when they blot the sky
souring his cheeks cries fie no more of love
the sun doth burn my face i must remove'
'ay me quoth venus young and so unkind
what bare excuses makest thou to be gone
i'll sigh celestial breath whose gentle wind
shall cool the heat of this descending sun
i'll make a shadow for thee of my hairs
if they burn too i'll quench them with my tears
'the sun that shines from heaven shines but warm
and lo i lie between that sun and thee
the heat i have from thence doth little harm
thine eye darts forth the fire that burneth me
and were i not immortal life were done
between this heavenly and earthly sun
'art thou obdurate flinty hard as steel
nay more than flint for stone at rain relenteth
art thou a woman's son and canst not feel
what tis to love how want of love tormenteth
o had thy mother borne so hard a mind
she had not brought forth thee but died unkind
'what am i that thou shouldst contemn me this
or what great danger dwells upon my suit
what were thy lips the worse for one poor kiss
speak fair but speak fair words or else be mute
give me one kiss i'll give it thee again
and one for interest if thou wilt have twain
'fie lifeless picture cold and senseless stone
wellpainted idol image dun and dead
statue contenting but the eye alone
thing like a man but of no woman bred
thou art no man though of a man's complexion
for men will kiss even by their own direction'
this said impatience chokes her pleading tongue
and swelling passion doth provoke a pause
red cheeks and fiery eyes blaze forth he wrong
being judge in love she cannot right her cause
and now she weeps and now she fain would speak
and now her sobs do her intendments break
sometimes she shakes her head and then his hand
now gazeth she on him now on the ground
sometimes her arms infold him like a band
she would he will not in her arms be bound
and when from thence he struggles to be gone
she locks her lily fingers one in one
'fondling she saith since i have hemm'd thee here
within the circuit of this ivory pale
i'll be a park and thou shalt be my deer
feed where thou wilt on mountain or in dale
graze on my lips and if those hills be dry
stray lower where the pleasant fountains lie
within this limit is relief enough
sweet bottomgrass and high delightful plain
round rising hillocks brakes obscure and rough
to shelter thee from tempest and from rain
then be my deer since i am such a park
no dog shall rouse thee though a thousand bark'
at this adonis smiles as in disdain
that in each cheek appears a pretty dimple
love made those hollows if himself were slain
he might be buried in a tomb so simple
foreknowing well if there he came to lie
why there love lived and there he could not die
these lovely caves these round enchanting pits
open'd their mouths to swallow venus liking
being mad before how doth she now for wits
struck dead at first what needs a second striking
poor queen of love in thine own law forlorn
to love a cheek that smiles at thee in scorn
now which way shall she turn what shall she say
her words are done her woes are more increasing
the time is spent her object will away
and from her twining arms doth urge releasing
'pity she cries some favour some remorse'
away he springs and hasteth to his horse
but lo from forth a copse that neighbors by
a breeding jennet lusty young and proud
adonis trampling courser doth espy
and forth she rushes snorts and neighs aloud
the strongneck'd steed being tied unto a tree
breaketh his rein and to her straight goes he
imperiously he leaps he neighs he bounds
and now his woven girths he breaks asunder
the bearing earth with his hard hoof he wounds
whose hollow womb resounds like heaven's thunder
the iron bit he crusheth tween his teeth
controlling what he was controlled with
his ears upprick'd his braided hanging mane
upon his compass'd crest now stand on end
his nostrils drink the air and forth again
as from a furnace vapours doth he send
his eye which scornfully glisters like fire
shows his hot courage and his high desire
sometime he trots as if he told the steps
with gentle majesty and modest pride
anon he rears upright curvets and leaps
as who should say lo thus my strength is tried
and this i do to captivate the eye
of the fair breeder that is standing by'
what recketh he his rider's angry stir
his flattering holla or his stand i say'
what cares he now for curb or pricking spur
for rich caparisons or trapping gay
he sees his love and nothing else he sees
for nothing else with his proud sight agrees
look when a painter would surpass the life
in limning out a wellproportion'd steed
his art with nature's workmanship at strife
as if the dead the living should exceed
so did this horse excel a common one
in shape in courage colour pace and bone
roundhoof'd shortjointed fetlocks shag and long
broad breast full eye small head and nostril wide
high crest short ears straight legs and passing strong
thin mane thick tail broad buttock tender hide
look what a horse should have he did not lack
save a proud rider on so proud a back
sometime he scuds far off and there he stares
anon he starts at stirring of a feather
to bid the wind a base he now prepares
and whether he run or fly they know not whether
for through his mane and tail the high wind sings
fanning the hairs who wave like feather'd wings
he looks upon his love and neighs unto her
she answers him as if she knew his mind
being proud as females are to see him woo her
she puts on outward strangeness seems unkind
spurns at his love and scorns the heat he feels
beating his kind embracements with her heels
then like a melancholy malcontent
he veils his tail that like a falling plume
cool shadow to his melting buttock lent
he stamps and bites the poor flies in his fume
his love perceiving how he is enraged
grew kinder and his fury was assuaged
his testy master goeth about to take him
when lo the unback'd breeder full of fear
jealous of catching swiftly doth forsake him
with her the horse and left adonis there
as they were mad unto the wood they hie them
outstripping crows that strive to overfly them
all swoln with chafing down adonis sits
banning his boisterous and unruly beast
and now the happy season once more fits
that lovesick love by pleading may be blest
for lovers say the heart hath treble wrong
when it is barr'd the aidance of the tongue
an oven that is stopp'd or river stay'd
burneth more hotly swelleth with more rage
so of concealed sorrow may be said
free vent of words love's fire doth assuage
but when the heart's attorney once is mute
the client breaks as desperate in his suit
he sees her coming and begins to glow
even as a dying coal revives with wind
and with his bonnet hides his angry brow
looks on the dull earth with disturbed mind
taking no notice that she is so nigh
for all askance he holds her in his eye
o what a sight it was wistly to view
how she came stealing to the wayward boy
to note the fighting conflict of her hue
how white and red each other did destroy
but now her cheek was pale and by and by
it flash'd forth fire as lightning from the sky
now was she just before him as he sat
and like a lowly lover down she kneels
with one fair hand she heaveth up his hat
her other tender hand his fair cheek feels
his tenderer cheek receives her soft hand's print
as apt as newfall'n snow takes any dint
o what a war of looks was then between them
her eyes petitioners to his eyes suing
his eyes saw her eyes as they had not seen them
her eyes woo'd still his eyes disdain'd the wooing
and all this dumb play had his acts made plain
with tears which choruslike her eyes did rain
full gently now she takes him by the hand
a lily prison'd in a gaol of snow
or ivory in an alabaster band
so white a friend engirts so white a foe
this beauteous combat wilful and unwilling
show'd like two silver doves that sit abilling
once more the engine of her thoughts began
'o fairest mover on this mortal round
would thou wert as i am and i a man
my heart all whole as thine thy heart my wound
for one sweet look thy help i would assure thee
though nothing but my body's bane would cure thee
'give me my hand saith he why dost thou feel it'
'give me my heart saith she and thou shalt have it
o give it me lest thy hard heart do steel it
and being steel'd soft sighs can never grave it
then love's deep groans i never shall regard
because adonis heart hath made mine hard'
'for shame he cries let go and let me go
my day's delight is past my horse is gone
and tis your fault i am bereft him so
i pray you hence and leave me here alone
for all my mind my thought my busy care
is how to get my palfrey from the mare'
thus she replies thy palfrey as he should
welcomes the warm approach of sweet desire
affection is a coal that must be cool'd
else suffer'd it will set the heart on fire
the sea hath bounds but deep desire hath none
therefore no marvel though thy horse be gone
'how like a jade he stood tied to the tree
servilely master'd with a leathern rein
but when he saw his love his youth's fair fee
he held such petty bondage in disdain
throwing the base thong from his bending crest
enfranchising his mouth his back his breast
'who sees his truelove in her naked bed
teaching the sheets a whiter hue than white
but when his glutton eye so full hath fed
his other agents aim at like delight
who is so faint that dare not be so bold
to touch the fire the weather being cold
'let me excuse thy courser gentle boy
and learn of him i heartily beseech thee
to take advantage on presented joy
though i were dumb yet his proceedings teach thee
o learn to love the lesson is but plain
and once made perfect never lost again'
i know not love quoth he nor will not know it
unless it be a boar and then i chase it
'tis much to borrow and i will not owe it
my love to love is love but to disgrace it
for i have heard it is a life in death
that laughs and weeps and all but with a breath
'who wears a garment shapeless and unfinish'd
who plucks the bud before one leaf put forth
if springing things be any jot diminish'd
they wither in their prime prove nothing worth
the colt that's back'd and burden'd being young
loseth his pride and never waxeth strong
'you hurt my hand with wringing let us part
and leave this idle theme this bootless chat
remove your siege from my unyielding heart
to love's alarms it will not ope the gate
dismiss your vows your feigned tears your flattery
for where a heart is hard they make no battery'
'what canst thou talk quoth she hast thou a tongue
o would thou hadst not or i had no hearing
thy mermaid's voice hath done me double wrong
i had my load before now press'd with bearing
melodious discord heavenly tune harshsounding
ear's deepsweet music and heart's deepsore wounding
'had i no eyes but ears my ears would love
that inward beauty and invisible
or were i deaf thy outward parts would move
each part in me that were but sensible
though neither eyes nor ears to hear nor see
yet should i be in love by touching thee
'say that the sense of feeling were bereft me
and that i could not see nor hear nor touch
and nothing but the very smell were left me
yet would my love to thee be still as much
for from the stillitory of thy face excelling
comes breath perfumed that breedeth love by
smelling
'but o what banquet wert thou to the taste
being nurse and feeder of the other four
would they not wish the feast might ever last
and bid suspicion doublelock the door
lest jealousy that sour unwelcome guest
should by his stealing in disturb the feast'
once more the rubycolour'd portal open'd
which to his speech did honey passage yield
like a red morn that ever yet betoken'd
wreck to the seaman tempest to the field
sorrow to shepherds woe unto the birds
gusts and foul flaws to herdmen and to herds
this ill presage advisedly she marketh
even as the wind is hush'd before it raineth
or as the wolf doth grin before he barketh
or as the berry breaks before it staineth
or like the deadly bullet of a gun
his meaning struck her ere his words begun
and at his look she flatly falleth down
for looks kill love and love by looks reviveth
a smile recures the wounding of a frown
but blessed bankrupt that by love so thriveth
the silly boy believing she is dead
claps her pale cheek till clapping makes it red
and all amazed brake off his late intent
for sharply he did think to reprehend her
which cunning love did wittily prevent
fair fall the wit that can so well defend her
for on the grass she lies as she were slain
till his breath breatheth life in her again
he wrings her nose he strikes her on the cheeks
he bends her fingers holds her pulses hard
he chafes her lips a thousand ways he seeks
to mend the hurt that his unkindness marr'd
he kisses her and she by her good will
will never rise so he will kiss her still
the night of sorrow now is turn'd to day
her two blue windows faintly she upheaveth
like the fair sun when in his fresh array
he cheers the morn and all the earth relieveth
and as the bright sun glorifies the sky
so is her face illumined with her eye
whose beams upon his hairless face are fix'd
as if from thence they borrow'd all their shine
were never four such lamps together mix'd
had not his clouded with his brow's repine
but hers which through the crystal tears gave light
shone like the moon in water seen by night
'o where am i quoth she in earth or heaven
or in the ocean drench'd or in the fire
what hour is this or morn or weary even
do i delight to die or life desire
but now i lived and life was death's annoy
but now i died and death was lively joy
'o thou didst kill me kill me once again
thy eyes shrewd tutor that hard heart of thine
hath taught them scornful tricks and such disdain
that they have murder'd this poor heart of mine
and these mine eyes true leaders to their queen
but for thy piteous lips no more had seen
'long may they kiss each other for this cure
o never let their crimson liveries wear
and as they last their verdure still endure
to drive infection from the dangerous year
that the stargazers having writ on death
may say the plague is banish'd by thy breath
'pure lips sweet seals in my soft lips imprinted
what bargains may i make still to be sealing
to sell myself i can be well contented
so thou wilt buy and pay and use good dealing
which purchase if thou make for fear of slips
set thy sealmanual on my waxred lips
'a thousand kisses buys my heart from me
and pay them at thy leisure one by one
what is ten hundred touches unto thee
are they not quickly told and quickly gone
say for nonpayment that the debt should double
is twenty hundred kisses such a trouble
'fair queen quoth he if any love you owe me
measure my strangeness with my unripe years
before i know myself seek not to know me
no fisher but the ungrown fry forbears
the mellow plum doth fall the green sticks fast
or being early pluck'd is sour to taste
'look the world's comforter with weary gait
his day's hot task hath ended in the west
the owl night's herald shrieks 'tis very late'
the sheep are gone to fold birds to their nest
and coalblack clouds that shadow heaven's light
do summon us to part and bid good night
'now let me say good night and so say you
if you will say so you shall have a kiss'
'good night quoth she and ere he says adieu'
the honey fee of parting tender'd is
her arms do lend his neck a sweet embrace
incorporate then they seem face grows to face
till breathless he disjoin'd and backward drew
the heavenly moisture that sweet coral mouth
whose precious taste her thirsty lips well knew
whereon they surfeit yet complain on drouth
he with her plenty press'd she faint with dearth
their lips together glued fall to the earth
now quick desire hath caught the yielding prey
and gluttonlike she feeds yet never filleth
her lips are conquerors his lips obey
paying what ransom the insulter willeth
whose vulture thought doth pitch the price so high
that she will draw his lips rich treasure dry
and having felt the sweetness of the spoil
with blindfold fury she begins to forage
her face doth reek and smoke her blood doth boil
and careless lust stirs up a desperate courage
planting oblivion beating reason back
forgetting shame's pure blush and honour's wrack
hot faint and weary with her hard embracing
like a wild bird being tamed with too much handling
or as the fleetfoot roe that's tired with chasing
or like the froward infant still'd with dandling
he now obeys and now no more resisteth
while she takes all she can not all she listeth
what wax so frozen but dissolves with tempering
and yields at last to every light impression
things out of hope are compass'd oft with venturing
chiefly in love whose leave exceeds commission
affection faints not like a palefaced coward
but then woos best when most his choice is froward
when he did frown o had she then gave over
such nectar from his lips she had not suck'd
foul words and frowns must not repel a lover
what though the rose have prickles yet tis pluck'd
were beauty under twenty locks kept fast
yet love breaks through and picks them all at last
for pity now she can no more detain him
the poor fool prays her that he may depart
she is resolved no longer to restrain him
bids him farewell and look well to her heart
the which by cupid's bow she doth protest
he carries thence incaged in his breast
'sweet boy she says this night i'll waste in sorrow
for my sick heart commands mine eyes to watch
tell me love's master shall we meet tomorrow
say shall we shall we wilt thou make the match'
he tells her no tomorrow he intends
to hunt the boar with certain of his friends
'the boar quoth she whereat a sudden pale
like lawn being spread upon the blushing rose
usurps her cheek she trembles at his tale
and on his neck her yoking arms she throws
she sinketh down still hanging by his neck
he on her belly falls she on her back
now is she in the very lists of love
her champion mounted for the hot encounter
all is imaginary she doth prove
he will not manage her although he mount her
that worse than tantalus is her annoy
to clip elysium and to lack her joy
even as poor birds deceived with painted grapes
do surfeit by the eye and pine the maw
even so she languisheth in her mishaps
as those poor birds that helpless berries saw
the warm effects which she in him finds missing
she seeks to kindle with continual kissing
but all in vain good queen it will not be
she hath assay'd as much as may be proved
her pleading hath deserved a greater fee
she's love she loves and yet she is not loved
'fie fie he says you crush me let me go
you have no reason to withhold me so'
'thou hadst been gone quoth she sweet boy ere this
but that thou told'st me thou wouldst hunt the boar
o be advised thou know'st not what it is
with javelin's point a churlish swine to gore
whose tushes never sheathed he whetteth still
like to a mortal butcher bent to kill
'on his bowback he hath a battle set
of bristly pikes that ever threat his foes
his eyes like glowworms shine when he doth fret
his snout digs sepulchres where'er he goes
being moved he strikes whate'er is in his way
and whom he strikes his cruel tushes slay
'his brawny sides with hairy bristles arm'd
are better proof than thy spear's point can enter
his short thick neck cannot be easily harm'd
being ireful on the lion he will venture
the thorny brambles and embracing bushes
as fearful of him part through whom he rushes
'alas he nought esteems that face of thine
to which love's eyes pay tributary gazes
nor thy soft hands sweet lips and crystal eyne
whose full perfection all the world amazes
but having thee at vantagewondrous dread
would root these beauties as he roots the mead
'o let him keep his loathsome cabin still
beauty hath nought to do with such foul fiends
come not within his danger by thy will
they that thrive well take counsel of their friends
when thou didst name the boar not to dissemble
i fear'd thy fortune and my joints did tremble
'didst thou not mark my face was it not white
saw'st thou not signs of fear lurk in mine eye
grew i not faint and fell i not downright
within my bosom whereon thou dost lie
my boding heart pants beats and takes no rest
but like an earthquake shakes thee on my breast
'for where love reigns disturbing jealousy
doth call himself affection's sentinel
gives false alarms suggesteth mutiny
and in a peaceful hour doth cry kill kill'
distempering gentle love in his desire
as air and water do abate the fire
'this sour informer this batebreeding spy
this canker that eats up love's tender spring
this carrytale dissentious jealousy
that sometime true news sometime false doth bring
knocks at my heat and whispers in mine ear
that if i love thee i thy death should fear
'and more than so presenteth to mine eye
the picture of an angrychafing boar
under whose sharp fangs on his back doth lie
an image like thyself all stain'd with gore
whose blood upon the fresh flowers being shed
doth make them droop with grief and hang the head
'what should i do seeing thee so indeed
that tremble at the imagination
the thought of it doth make my faint heart bleed
and fear doth teach it divination
i prophesy thy death my living sorrow
if thou encounter with the boar tomorrow
'but if thou needs wilt hunt be ruled by me
uncouple at the timorous flying hare
or at the fox which lives by subtlety
or at the roe which no encounter dare
pursue these fearful creatures o'er the downs
and on thy wellbreath'd horse keep with thy
hounds
'and when thou hast on foot the purblind hare
mark the poor wretch to overshoot his troubles
how he outruns the wind and with what care
he cranks and crosses with a thousand doubles
the many musets through the which he goes
are like a labyrinth to amaze his foes
'sometime he runs among a flock of sheep
to make the cunning hounds mistake their smell
and sometime where earthdelving conies keep
to stop the loud pursuers in their yell
and sometime sorteth with a herd of deer
danger deviseth shifts wit waits on fear
'for there his smell with others being mingled
the hot scentsnuffing hounds are driven to doubt
ceasing their clamorous cry till they have singled
with much ado the cold fault cleanly out
then do they spend their mouths echo replies
as if another chase were in the skies
'by this poor wat far off upon a hill
stands on his hinder legs with listening ear
to harken if his foes pursue him still
anon their loud alarums he doth hear
and now his grief may be compared well
to one sore sick that hears the passingbell
'then shalt thou see the dewbedabbled wretch
turn and return indenting with the way
each envious brier his weary legs doth scratch
each shadow makes him stop each murmur stay
for misery is trodden on by many
and being low never relieved by any
'lie quietly and hear a little more
nay do not struggle for thou shalt not rise
to make thee hate the hunting of the boar
unlike myself thou hear'st me moralize
applying this to that and so to so
for love can comment upon every woe
'where did i leave no matter where quoth he
'leave me and then the story aptly ends
the night is spent why what of that quoth she
'i am quoth he expected of my friends
and now tis dark and going i shall fall'
'in night quoth she desire sees best of all
'but if thou fall o then imagine this
the earth in love with thee thy footing trips
and all is but to rob thee of a kiss
rich preys make true men thieves so do thy lips
make modest dian cloudy and forlorn
lest she should steal a kiss and die forsworn
'now of this dark night i perceive the reason
cynthia for shame obscures her silver shine
till forging nature be condemn'd of treason
for stealing moulds from heaven that were divine
wherein she framed thee in high heaven's despite
to shame the sun by day and her by night
'and therefore hath she bribed the destinies
to cross the curious workmanship of nature
to mingle beauty with infirmities
and pure perfection with impure defeature
making it subject to the tyranny
of mad mischances and much misery
'as burning fevers agues pale and faint
lifepoisoning pestilence and frenzies wood
the marroweating sickness whose attaint
disorder breeds by heating of the blood
surfeits imposthumes grief and damn'd despair
swear nature's death for framing thee so fair
'and not the least of all these maladies
but in one minute's fight brings beauty under
both favour savour hue and qualities
whereat the impartial gazer late did wonder
are on the sudden wasted thaw'd and done
as mountainsnow melts with the midday sun
'therefore despite of fruitless chastity
lovelacking vestals and selfloving nuns
that on the earth would breed a scarcity
and barren dearth of daughters and of sons
be prodigal the lamp that burns by night
dries up his oil to lend the world his light
'what is thy body but a swallowing grave
seeming to bury that posterity
which by the rights of time thou needs must have
if thou destroy them not in dark obscurity
if so the world will hold thee in disdain
sith in thy pride so fair a hope is slain
'so in thyself thyself art made away
a mischief worse than civil homebred strife
or theirs whose desperate hands themselves do slay
or butchersire that reaves his son of life
foulcankering rust the hidden treasure frets
but gold that's put to use more gold begets'
'nay then quoth adon you will fall again
into your idle overhandled theme
the kiss i gave you is bestow'd in vain
and all in vain you strive against the stream
for by this blackfaced night desire's foul nurse
your treatise makes me like you worse and worse
'if love have lent you twenty thousand tongues
and every tongue more moving than your own
bewitching like the wanton mermaid's songs
yet from mine ear the tempting tune is blown
for know my heart stands armed in mine ear
and will not let a false sound enter there
'lest the deceiving harmony should run
into the quiet closure of my breast
and then my little heart were quite undone
in his bedchamber to be barr'd of rest
no lady no my heart longs not to groan
but soundly sleeps while now it sleeps alone
'what have you urged that i cannot reprove
the path is smooth that leadeth on to danger
i hate not love but your device in love
that lends embracements unto every stranger
you do it for increase o strange excuse
when reason is the bawd to lust's abuse
'call it not love for love to heaven is fled
since sweating lust on earth usurp'd his name
under whose simple semblance he hath fed
upon fresh beauty blotting it with blame
which the hot tyrant stains and soon bereaves
as caterpillars do the tender leaves
'love comforteth like sunshine after rain
but lust's effect is tempest after sun
love's gentle spring doth always fresh remain
lust's winter comes ere summer half be done
love surfeits not lust like a glutton dies
love is all truth lust full of forged lies
'more i could tell but more i dare not say
the text is old the orator too green
therefore in sadness now i will away
my face is full of shame my heart of teen
mine ears that to your wanton talk attended
do burn themselves for having so offended'
with this he breaketh from the sweet embrace
of those fair arms which bound him to her breast
and homeward through the dark laund runs apace
leaves love upon her back deeply distress'd
look how a bright star shooteth from the sky
so glides he in the night from venus eye
which after him she darts as one on shore
gazing upon a lateembarked friend
till the wild waves will have him seen no more
whose ridges with the meeting clouds contend
so did the merciless and pitchy night
fold in the object that did feed her sight
whereat amazed as one that unaware
hath dropp'd a precious jewel in the flood
or stonish'd as nightwanderers often are
their light blown out in some mistrustful wood
even so confounded in the dark she lay
having lost the fair discovery of her way
and now she beats her heart whereat it groans
that all the neighbour caves as seeming troubled
make verbal repetition of her moans
passion on passion deeply is redoubled
'ay me she cries and twenty times woe woe'
and twenty echoes twenty times cry so
she marking them begins a wailing note
and sings extemporally a woeful ditty
how love makes young men thrall and old men dote
how love is wise in folly foolishwitty
her heavy anthem still concludes in woe
and still the choir of echoes answer so
her song was tedious and outwore the night
for lovers hours are long though seeming short
if pleased themselves others they think delight
in suchlike circumstance with suchlike sport
their copious stories oftentimes begun
end without audience and are never done
for who hath she to spend the night withal
but idle sounds resembling parasites
like shrilltongued tapsters answering every call
soothing the humour of fantastic wits
she says 'tis so they answer all 'tis so'
and would say after her if she said no'
lo here the gentle lark weary of rest
from his moist cabinet mounts up on high
and wakes the morning from whose silver breast
the sun ariseth in his majesty
who doth the world so gloriously behold
that cedartops and hills seem burnish'd gold
venus salutes him with this fair goodmorrow
'o thou clear god and patron of all light
from whom each lamp and shining star doth borrow
the beauteous influence that makes him bright
there lives a son that suck'd an earthly mother
may lend thee light as thou dost lend to other'
this said she hasteth to a myrtle grove
musing the morning is so much o'erworn
and yet she hears no tidings of her love
she hearkens for his hounds and for his horn
anon she hears them chant it lustily
and all in haste she coasteth to the cry
and as she runs the bushes in the way
some catch her by the neck some kiss her face
some twine about her thigh to make her stay
she wildly breaketh from their strict embrace
like a milch doe whose swelling dugs do ache
hasting to feed her fawn hid in some brake
by this she hears the hounds are at a bay
whereat she starts like one that spies an adder
wreathed up in fatal folds just in his way
the fear whereof doth make him shake and shudder
even so the timorous yelping of the hounds
appals her senses and her spirit confounds
for now she knows it is no gentle chase
but the blunt boar rough bear or lion proud
because the cry remaineth in one place
where fearfully the dogs exclaim aloud
finding their enemy to be so curst
they all strain courtesy who shall cope him first
this dismal cry rings sadly in her ear
through which it enters to surprise her heart
who overcome by doubt and bloodless fear
with coldpale weakness numbs each feeling part
like soldiers when their captain once doth yield
they basely fly and dare not stay the field
thus stands she in a trembling ecstasy
till cheering up her senses all dismay'd
she tells them tis a causeless fantasy
and childish error that they are afraid
bids them leave quaking bids them fear no more
and with that word she spied the hunted boar
whose frothy mouth bepainted all with red
like milk and blood being mingled both together
a second fear through all her sinews spread
which madly hurries her she knows not whither
this way runs and now she will no further
but back retires to rate the boar for murther
a thousand spleens bear her a thousand ways
she treads the path that she untreads again
her more than haste is mated with delays
like the proceedings of a drunken brain
full of respects yet nought at all respecting
in hand with all things nought at all effecting
here kennell'd in a brake she finds a hound
and asks the weary caitiff for his master
and there another licking of his wound
'gainst venom'd sores the only sovereign plaster
and here she meets another sadly scowling
to whom she speaks and he replies with howling
when he hath ceased his illresounding noise
another flapmouth'd mourner black and grim
against the welkin volleys out his voice
another and another answer him
clapping their proud tails to the ground below
shaking their scratch'd ears bleeding as they go
look how the world's poor people are amazed
at apparitions signs and prodigies
whereon with fearful eyes they long have gazed
infusing them with dreadful prophecies
so she at these sad signs draws up her breath
and sighing it again exclaims on death
'hardfavour'd tyrant ugly meagre lean
hateful divorce of love'thus chides she death
'grimgrinning ghost earth's worm what dost thou mean
to stifle beauty and to steal his breath
who when he lived his breath and beauty set
gloss on the rose smell to the violet
'if he be deado no it cannot be
seeing his beauty thou shouldst strike at it
o yes it may thou hast no eyes to see
but hatefully at random dost thou hit
thy mark is feeble age but thy false dart
mistakes that aim and cleaves an infant's heart
'hadst thou but bid beware then he had spoke
and hearing him thy power had lost his power
the destinies will curse thee for this stroke
they bid thee crop a weed thou pluck'st a flower
love's golden arrow at him should have fled
and not death's ebon dart to strike dead
'dost thou drink tears that thou provokest such weeping
what may a heavy groan advantage thee
why hast thou cast into eternal sleeping
those eyes that taught all other eyes to see
now nature cares not for thy mortal vigour
since her best work is ruin'd with thy rigour'
here overcome as one full of despair
she vail'd her eyelids who like sluices stopt
the crystal tide that from her two cheeks fair
in the sweet channel of her bosom dropt
but through the floodgates breaks the silver rain
and with his strong course opens them again
o how her eyes and tears did lend and borrow
her eyes seen in the tears tears in her eye
both crystals where they view'd each other's sorrow
sorrow that friendly sighs sought still to dry
but like a stormy day now wind now rain
sighs dry her cheeks tears make them wet again
variable passions throng her constant woe
as striving who should best become her grief
all entertain'd each passion labours so
that every present sorrow seemeth chief
but none is best then join they all together
like many clouds consulting for foul weather
by this far off she hears some huntsman hollo
a nurse's song ne'er pleased her babe so well
the dire imagination she did follow
this sound of hope doth labour to expel
for now reviving joy bids her rejoice
and flatters her it is adonis voice
whereat her tears began to turn their tide
being prison'd in her eye like pearls in glass
yet sometimes falls an orient drop beside
which her cheek melts as scorning it should pass
to wash the foul face of the sluttish ground
who is but drunken when she seemeth drown'd
o hardbelieving love how strange it seems
not to believe and yet too credulous
thy weal and woe are both of them extremes
despair and hope makes thee ridiculous
the one doth flatter thee in thoughts unlikely
in likely thoughts the other kills thee quickly
now she unweaves the web that she hath wrought
adonis lives and death is not to blame
it was not she that call'd him allto naught
now she adds honours to his hateful name
she clepes him king of graves and grave for kings
imperious supreme of all mortal things
'no no quoth she sweet death i did but jest
yet pardon me i felt a kind of fear
when as i met the boar that bloody beast
which knows no pity but is still severe
then gentle shadowtruth i must confess
i rail'd on thee fearing my love's decease
''tis not my fault the boar provoked my tongue
be wreak'd on him invisible commander
'tis he foul creature that hath done thee wrong
i did but act he's author of thy slander
grief hath two tongues and never woman yet
could rule them both without ten women's wit'
thus hoping that adonis is alive
her rash suspect she doth extenuate
and that his beauty may the better thrive
with death she humbly doth insinuate
tells him of trophies statues tombs and stories
his victories his triumphs and his glories
'o jove quoth she how much a fool was i
to be of such a weak and silly mind
to wail his death who lives and must not die
till mutual overthrow of mortal kind
for he being dead with him is beauty slain
and beauty dead black chaos comes again
'fie fie fond love thou art so full of fear
as one with treasure laden hemm'd thieves
trifles unwitnessed with eye or ear
thy coward heart with false bethinking grieves'
even at this word she hears a merry horn
whereat she leaps that was but late forlorn
as falcon to the lure away she flies
the grass stoops not she treads on it so light
and in her haste unfortunately spies
the foul boar's conquest on her fair delight
which seen her eyes as murder'd with the view
like stars ashamed of day themselves withdrew
or as the snail whose tender horns being hit
shrinks backward in his shelly cave with pain
and there all smother'd up in shade doth sit
long after fearing to creep forth again
so at his bloody view her eyes are fled
into the deep dark cabins of her head
where they resign their office and their light
to the disposing of her troubled brain
who bids them still consort with ugly night
and never wound the heart with looks again
who like a king perplexed in his throne
by their suggestion gives a deadly groan
whereat each tributary subject quakes
as when the wind imprison'd in the ground
struggling for passage earth's foundation shakes
which with cold terror doth men's minds confound
this mutiny each part doth so surprise
that from their dark beds once more leap her eyes
and being open'd threw unwilling light
upon the wide wound that the boar had trench'd
in his soft flank whose wonted lily white
with purple tears that his wound wept was drench'd
no flower was nigh no grass herb leaf or weed
but stole his blood and seem'd with him to bleed
this solemn sympathy poor venus noteth
over one shoulder doth she hang her head
dumbly she passions franticly she doteth
she thinks he could not die he is not dead
her voice is stopt her joints forget to bow
her eyes are mad that they have wept til now
upon his hurt she looks so steadfastly
that her sight dazzling makes the wound seem three
and then she reprehends her mangling eye
that makes more gashes where no breach should be
his face seems twain each several limb is doubled
for oft the eye mistakes the brain being troubled
'my tongue cannot express my grief for one
and yet quoth she behold two adons dead
my sighs are blown away my salt tears gone
mine eyes are turn'd to fire my heart to lead
heavy heart's lead melt at mine eyes red fire
so shall i die by drops of hot desire
'alas poor world what treasure hast thou lost
what face remains alive that's worth the viewing
whose tongue is music now what canst thou boast
of things long since or any thing ensuing
the flowers are sweet their colours fresh and trim
but truesweet beauty lived and died with him
'bonnet nor veil henceforth no creature wear
nor sun nor wind will ever strive to kiss you
having no fair to lose you need not fear
the sun doth scorn you and the wind doth hiss you
but when adonis lived sun and sharp air
lurk'd like two thieves to rob him of his fair
'and therefore would he put his bonnet on
under whose brim the gaudy sun would peep
the wind would blow it off and being gone
play with his locks then would adonis weep
and straight in pity of his tender years
they both would strive who first should dry his tears
'to see his face the lion walk'd along
behind some hedge because he would not fear him
to recreate himself when he hath sung
the tiger would be tame and gently hear him
if he had spoke the wolf would leave his prey
and never fright the silly lamb that day
'when he beheld his shadow in the brook
the fishes spread on it their golden gills
when he was by the birds such pleasure took
that some would sing some other in their bills
would bring him mulberries and ripered cherries
he fed them with his sight they him with berries
'but this foul grim and urchinsnouted boar
whose downward eye still looketh for a grave
ne'er saw the beauteous livery that he wore
witness the entertainment that he gave
if he did see his face why then i know
he thought to kiss him and hath kill'd him so
''tis true tis true thus was adonis slain
he ran upon the boar with his sharp spear
who did not whet his teeth at him again
but by a kiss thought to persuade him there
and nuzzling in his flank the loving swine
sheathed unaware the tusk in his soft groin
'had i been tooth'd like him i must confess
with kissing him i should have kill'd him first
but he is dead and never did he bless
my youth with his the more am i accurst'
with this she falleth in the place she stood
and stains her face with his congealed blood
she looks upon his lips and they are pale
she takes him by the hand and that is cold
she whispers in his ears a heavy tale
as if they heard the woeful words she told
she lifts the cofferlids that close his eyes
where lo two lamps burnt out in darkness lies
two glasses where herself herself beheld
a thousand times and now no more reflect
their virtue lost wherein they late excell'd
and every beauty robb'd of his effect
'wonder of time quoth she this is my spite
that thou being dead the day should yet be light
'since thou art dead lo here i prophesy
sorrow on love hereafter shall attend
it shall be waited on with jealousy
find sweet beginning but unsavoury end
ne'er settled equally but high or low
that all love's pleasure shall not match his woe
'it shall be fickle false and full of fraud
bud and be blasted in a breathingwhile
the bottom poison and the top o'erstraw'd
with sweets that shall the truest sight beguile
the strongest body shall it make most weak
strike the wise dumb and teach the fool to speak
'it shall be sparing and too full of riot
teaching decrepit age to tread the measures
the staring ruffian shall it keep in quiet
pluck down the rich enrich the poor with treasures
it shall be ragingmad and sillymild
make the young old the old become a child
'it shall suspect where is no cause of fear
it shall not fear where it should most mistrust
it shall be merciful and too severe
and most deceiving when it seems most just
perverse it shall be where it shows most toward
put fear to valour courage to the coward
'it shall be cause of war and dire events
and set dissension twixt the son and sire
subject and servile to all discontents
as dry combustious matter is to fire
sith in his prime death doth my love destroy
they that love best their loves shall not enjoy'
by this the boy that by her side lay kill'd
was melted like a vapour from her sight
and in his blood that on the ground lay spill'd
a purple flower sprung up chequer'd with white
resembling well his pale cheeks and the blood
which in round drops upon their whiteness stood
she bows her head the newsprung flower to smell
comparing it to her adonis breath
and says within her bosom it shall dwell
since he himself is reft from her by death
she crops the stalk and in the breach appears
green dropping sap which she compares to tears
'poor flower quoth she this was thy fathers guise
sweet issue of a more sweetsmelling sire
for every little grief to wet his eyes
to grow unto himself was his desire
and so tis thine but know it is as good
to wither in my breast as in his blood
'here was thy father's bed here in my breast
thou art the next of blood and tis thy right
lo in this hollow cradle take thy rest
my throbbing heart shall rock thee day and night
there shall not be one minute in an hour
wherein i will not kiss my sweet love's flower'
thus weary of the world away she hies
and yokes her silver doves by whose swift aid
their mistress mounted through the empty skies
in her light chariot quickly is convey'd
holding their course to paphos where their queen
means to immure herself and not be seen
 all's well that ends well
 dramatis personae
king of france king
duke of florence duke
bertram count of rousillon
lafeu an old lord
parolles a follower of bertram
steward 
 servants to the countess of rousillon
clown 
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countess of
rousillon mother to bertram countess
helena a gentlewoman protected by the countess
 an old widow of florence widow
diana daughter to the widow
violenta 
 neighbours and friends to the widow
mariana 
 lords officers soldiers &c french and florentine
 first lord
 second lord
 fourth lord
 first gentleman
 second gentleman
 first soldier
 gentleman
scene rousillon paris florence marseilles
 all's well that ends well
act i
scene i rousillon the count's palace
 enter bertram the countess of rousillon helena
 and lafeu all in black
countess in delivering my son from me i bury a second husband
bertram and i in going madam weep o'er my father's death
 anew but i must attend his majesty's command to
 whom i am now in ward evermore in subjection
lafeu you shall find of the king a husband madam you
 sir a father he that so generally is at all times
 good must of necessity hold his virtue to you whose
 worthiness would stir it up where it wanted rather
 than lack it where there is such abundance
countess what hope is there of his majesty's amendment
lafeu he hath abandoned his physicians madam under whose
 practises he hath persecuted time with hope and
 finds no other advantage in the process but only the
 losing of hope by time
countess this young gentlewoman had a fathero that
 had how sad a passage tiswhose skill was
 almost as great as his honesty had it stretched so
 far would have made nature immortal and death
 should have play for lack of work would for the
 king's sake he were living i think it would be
 the death of the king's disease
lafeu how called you the man you speak of madam
countess he was famous sir in his profession and it was
 his great right to be so gerard de narbon
lafeu he was excellent indeed madam the king very
 lately spoke of him admiringly and mourningly he
 was skilful enough to have lived still if knowledge
 could be set up against mortality
bertram what is it my good lord the king languishes of
lafeu a fistula my lord
bertram i heard not of it before
lafeu i would it were not notorious was this gentlewoman
 the daughter of gerard de narbon
countess his sole child my lord and bequeathed to my
 overlooking i have those hopes of her good that
 her education promises her dispositions she
 inherits which makes fair gifts fairer for where
 an unclean mind carries virtuous qualities there
 commendations go with pity they are virtues and
 traitors too in her they are the better for their
 simpleness she derives her honesty and achieves her goodness
lafeu your commendations madam get from her tears
countess tis the best brine a maiden can season her praise
 in the remembrance of her father never approaches
 her heart but the tyranny of her sorrows takes all
 livelihood from her cheek no more of this helena
 go to no more lest it be rather thought you affect
 a sorrow than have it
helena i do affect a sorrow indeed but i have it too
lafeu moderate lamentation is the right of the dead
 excessive grief the enemy to the living
countess if the living be enemy to the grief the excess
 makes it soon mortal
bertram madam i desire your holy wishes
lafeu how understand we that
countess be thou blest bertram and succeed thy father
 in manners as in shape thy blood and virtue
 contend for empire in thee and thy goodness
 share with thy birthright love all trust a few
 do wrong to none be able for thine enemy
 rather in power than use and keep thy friend
 under thy own life's key be cheque'd for silence
 but never tax'd for speech what heaven more will
 that thee may furnish and my prayers pluck down
 fall on thy head farewell my lord
 tis an unseason'd courtier good my lord
 advise him
lafeu he cannot want the best
 that shall attend his love
countess heaven bless him farewell bertram
 exit
bertram to helena the best wishes that can be forged in
 your thoughts be servants to you be comfortable
 to my mother your mistress and make much of her
lafeu farewell pretty lady you must hold the credit of
 your father
 exeunt bertram and lafeu
helena o were that all i think not on my father
 and these great tears grace his remembrance more
 than those i shed for him what was he like
 i have forgot him my imagination
 carries no favour in't but bertram's
 i am undone there is no living none
 if bertram be away twere all one
 that i should love a bright particular star
 and think to wed it he is so above me
 in his bright radiance and collateral light
 must i be comforted not in his sphere
 the ambition in my love thus plagues itself
 the hind that would be mated by the lion
 must die for love twas pretty though plague
 to see him every hour to sit and draw
 his arched brows his hawking eye his curls
 in our heart's table heart too capable
 of every line and trick of his sweet favour
 but now he's gone and my idolatrous fancy
 must sanctify his reliques who comes here
 enter parolles
 aside
 one that goes with him i love him for his sake
 and yet i know him a notorious liar
 think him a great way fool solely a coward
 yet these fixed evils sit so fit in him
 that they take place when virtue's steely bones
 look bleak i the cold wind withal full oft we see
 cold wisdom waiting on superfluous folly
parolles save you fair queen
helena and you monarch
parolles no
helena and no
parolles are you meditating on virginity
helena ay you have some stain of soldier in you let me
 ask you a question man is enemy to virginity how
 may we barricado it against him
parolles keep him out
helena but he assails and our virginity though valiant
 in the defence yet is weak unfold to us some
 warlike resistance
parolles there is none man sitting down before you will
 undermine you and blow you up
helena bless our poor virginity from underminers and
 blowers up is there no military policy how
 virgins might blow up men
parolles virginity being blown down man will quicklier be
 blown up marry in blowing him down again with
 the breach yourselves made you lose your city it
 is not politic in the commonwealth of nature to
 preserve virginity loss of virginity is rational
 increase and there was never virgin got till
 virginity was first lost that you were made of is
 metal to make virgins virginity by being once lost
 may be ten times found by being ever kept it is
 ever lost tis too cold a companion away with t
helena i will stand for t a little though therefore i die a virgin
parolles there's little can be said in t tis against the
 rule of nature to speak on the part of virginity
 is to accuse your mothers which is most infallible
 disobedience he that hangs himself is a virgin
 virginity murders itself and should be buried in
 highways out of all sanctified limit as a desperate
 offendress against nature virginity breeds mites
 much like a cheese consumes itself to the very
 paring and so dies with feeding his own stomach
 besides virginity is peevish proud idle made of
 selflove which is the most inhibited sin in the
 canon keep it not you cannot choose but loose
 by't out with t within ten year it will make
 itself ten which is a goodly increase and the
 principal itself not much the worse away with t
helena how might one do sir to lose it to her own liking
parolles let me see marry ill to like him that ne'er it
 likes tis a commodity will lose the gloss with
 lying the longer kept the less worth off with t
 while tis vendible answer the time of request
 virginity like an old courtier wears her cap out
 of fashion richly suited but unsuitable just
 like the brooch and the toothpick which wear not
 now your date is better in your pie and your
 porridge than in your cheek and your virginity
 your old virginity is like one of our french
 withered pears it looks ill it eats drily marry
 tis a withered pear it was formerly better
 marry yet tis a withered pear will you anything with it
helena not my virginity yet 
 there shall your master have a thousand loves
 a mother and a mistress and a friend
 a phoenix captain and an enemy
 a guide a goddess and a sovereign
 a counsellor a traitress and a dear
 his humble ambition proud humility
 his jarring concord and his discord dulcet
 his faith his sweet disaster with a world
 of pretty fond adoptious christendoms
 that blinking cupid gossips now shall he
 i know not what he shall god send him well
 the court's a learning place and he is one
parolles what one i faith
helena that i wish well tis pity
parolles what's pity
helena that wishing well had not a body in't
 which might be felt that we the poorer born
 whose baser stars do shut us up in wishes
 might with effects of them follow our friends
 and show what we alone must think which never
 return us thanks
 enter page
page monsieur parolles my lord calls for you
 exit
parolles little helen farewell if i can remember thee i
 will think of thee at court
helena monsieur parolles you were born under a charitable star
parolles under mars i
helena i especially think under mars
parolles why under mars
helena the wars have so kept you under that you must needs
 be born under mars
parolles when he was predominant
helena when he was retrograde i think rather
parolles why think you so
helena you go so much backward when you fight
parolles that's for advantage
helena so is running away when fear proposes the safety
 but the composition that your valour and fear makes
 in you is a virtue of a good wing and i like the wear well
parolles i am so full of businesses i cannot answer thee
 acutely i will return perfect courtier in the
 which my instruction shall serve to naturalize
 thee so thou wilt be capable of a courtier's
 counsel and understand what advice shall thrust upon
 thee else thou diest in thine unthankfulness and
 thine ignorance makes thee away farewell when
 thou hast leisure say thy prayers when thou hast
 none remember thy friends get thee a good husband
 and use him as he uses thee so farewell
 exit
helena our remedies oft in ourselves do lie
 which we ascribe to heaven the fated sky
 gives us free scope only doth backward pull
 our slow designs when we ourselves are dull
 what power is it which mounts my love so high
 that makes me see and cannot feed mine eye
 the mightiest space in fortune nature brings
 to join like likes and kiss like native things
 impossible be strange attempts to those
 that weigh their pains in sense and do suppose
 what hath been cannot be who ever strove
 so show her merit that did miss her love
 the king's diseasemy project may deceive me
 but my intents are fix'd and will not leave me
 exit
 all's well that ends well
act i
scene ii paris the king's palace
 flourish of cornets enter the king of france
 with letters and divers attendants
king the florentines and senoys are by the ears
 have fought with equal fortune and continue
 a braving war
first lord so tis reported sir
king nay tis most credible we here received it
 a certainty vouch'd from our cousin austria
 with caution that the florentine will move us
 for speedy aid wherein our dearest friend
 prejudicates the business and would seem
 to have us make denial
first lord his love and wisdom
 approved so to your majesty may plead
 for amplest credence
king he hath arm'd our answer
 and florence is denied before he comes
 yet for our gentlemen that mean to see
 the tuscan service freely have they leave
 to stand on either part
second lord it well may serve
 a nursery to our gentry who are sick
 for breathing and exploit
king what's he comes here
 enter bertram lafeu and parolles
first lord it is the count rousillon my good lord
 young bertram
king youth thou bear'st thy father's face
 frank nature rather curious than in haste
 hath well composed thee thy father's moral parts
 mayst thou inherit too welcome to paris
bertram my thanks and duty are your majesty's
king i would i had that corporal soundness now
 as when thy father and myself in friendship
 first tried our soldiership he did look far
 into the service of the time and was
 discipled of the bravest he lasted long
 but on us both did haggish age steal on
 and wore us out of act it much repairs me
 to talk of your good father in his youth
 he had the wit which i can well observe
 today in our young lords but they may jest
 till their own scorn return to them unnoted
 ere they can hide their levity in honour
 so like a courtier contempt nor bitterness
 were in his pride or sharpness if they were
 his equal had awaked them and his honour
 clock to itself knew the true minute when
 exception bid him speak and at this time
 his tongue obey'd his hand who were below him
 he used as creatures of another place
 and bow'd his eminent top to their low ranks
 making them proud of his humility
 in their poor praise he humbled such a man
 might be a copy to these younger times
 which follow'd well would demonstrate them now
 but goers backward
bertram his good remembrance sir
 lies richer in your thoughts than on his tomb
 so in approof lives not his epitaph
 as in your royal speech
king would i were with him he would always say
 methinks i hear him now his plausive words
 he scatter'd not in ears but grafted them
 to grow there and to bear'let me not live'
 this his good melancholy oft began
 on the catastrophe and heel of pastime
 when it was out'let me not live quoth he
 after my flame lacks oil to be the snuff
 of younger spirits whose apprehensive senses
 all but new things disdain whose judgments are
 mere fathers of their garments whose constancies
 expire before their fashions this he wish'd
 i after him do after him wish too
 since i nor wax nor honey can bring home
 i quickly were dissolved from my hive
 to give some labourers room
second lord you are loved sir
 they that least lend it you shall lack you first
king i fill a place i know't how long is't count
 since the physician at your father's died
 he was much famed
bertram some six months since my lord
king if he were living i would try him yet
 lend me an arm the rest have worn me out
 with several applications nature and sickness
 debate it at their leisure welcome count
 my son's no dearer
bertram thank your majesty
 exeunt flourish
 all's well that ends well
act i
scene iii rousillon the count's palace
 enter countess steward and clown
countess i will now hear what say you of this gentlewoman
steward madam the care i have had to even your content i
 wish might be found in the calendar of my past
 endeavours for then we wound our modesty and make
 foul the clearness of our deservings when of
 ourselves we publish them
countess what does this knave here get you gone sirrah
 the complaints i have heard of you i do not all
 believe tis my slowness that i do not for i know
 you lack not folly to commit them and have ability
 enough to make such knaveries yours
clown tis not unknown to you madam i am a poor fellow
countess well sir
clown no madam tis not so well that i am poor though
 many of the rich are damned but if i may have
 your ladyship's good will to go to the world isbel
 the woman and i will do as we may
countess wilt thou needs be a beggar
clown i do beg your good will in this case
countess in what case
clown in isbel's case and mine own service is no
 heritage and i think i shall never have the
 blessing of god till i have issue o my body for
 they say barnes are blessings
countess tell me thy reason why thou wilt marry
clown my poor body madam requires it i am driven on
 by the flesh and he must needs go that the devil drives
countess is this all your worship's reason
clown faith madam i have other holy reasons such as they
 are
countess may the world know them
clown i have been madam a wicked creature as you and
 all flesh and blood are and indeed i do marry
 that i may repent
countess thy marriage sooner than thy wickedness
clown i am out o friends madam and i hope to have
 friends for my wife's sake
countess such friends are thine enemies knave
clown you're shallow madam in great friends for the
 knaves come to do that for me which i am aweary of
 he that ears my land spares my team and gives me
 leave to in the crop if i be his cuckold he's my
 drudge he that comforts my wife is the cherisher
 of my flesh and blood he that cherishes my flesh
 and blood loves my flesh and blood he that loves my
 flesh and blood is my friend ergo he that kisses
 my wife is my friend if men could be contented to
 be what they are there were no fear in marriage
 for young charbon the puritan and old poysam the
 papist howsome'er their hearts are severed in
 religion their heads are both one they may jowl
 horns together like any deer i the herd
countess wilt thou ever be a foulmouthed and calumnious knave
clown a prophet i madam and i speak the truth the next
 way
 for i the ballad will repeat
 which men full true shall find
 your marriage comes by destiny
 your cuckoo sings by kind
countess get you gone sir i'll talk with you more anon
steward may it please you madam that he bid helen come to
 you of her i am to speak
countess sirrah tell my gentlewoman i would speak with her
 helen i mean
clown was this fair face the cause quoth she
 why the grecians sacked troy
 fond done done fond
 was this king priam's joy
 with that she sighed as she stood
 with that she sighed as she stood
 and gave this sentence then
 among nine bad if one be good
 among nine bad if one be good
 there's yet one good in ten
countess what one good in ten you corrupt the song sirrah
clown one good woman in ten madam which is a purifying
 o the song would god would serve the world so all
 the year we'ld find no fault with the tithewoman
 if i were the parson one in ten quoth a an we
 might have a good woman born but one every blazing
 star or at an earthquake twould mend the lottery
 well a man may draw his heart out ere a pluck
 one
countess you'll be gone sir knave and do as i command you
clown that man should be at woman's command and yet no
 hurt done though honesty be no puritan yet it
 will do no hurt it will wear the surplice of
 humility over the black gown of a big heart i am
 going forsooth the business is for helen to come hither
 exit
countess well now
steward i know madam you love your gentlewoman entirely
countess faith i do her father bequeathed her to me and
 she herself without other advantage may lawfully
 make title to as much love as she finds there is
 more owing her than is paid and more shall be paid
 her than she'll demand
steward madam i was very late more near her than i think
 she wished me alone she was and did communicate
 to herself her own words to her own ears she
 thought i dare vow for her they touched not any
 stranger sense her matter was she loved your son
 fortune she said was no goddess that had put
 such difference betwixt their two estates love no
 god that would not extend his might only where
 qualities were level dian no queen of virgins that
 would suffer her poor knight surprised without
 rescue in the first assault or ransom afterward
 this she delivered in the most bitter touch of
 sorrow that e'er i heard virgin exclaim in which i
 held my duty speedily to acquaint you withal
 sithence in the loss that may happen it concerns
 you something to know it
countess you have discharged this honestly keep it to
 yourself many likelihoods informed me of this
 before which hung so tottering in the balance that
 i could neither believe nor misdoubt pray you
 leave me stall this in your bosom and i thank you
 for your honest care i will speak with you further anon
 exit steward
 enter helena
 even so it was with me when i was young
 if ever we are nature's these are ours this thorn
 doth to our rose of youth rightly belong
 our blood to us this to our blood is born
 it is the show and seal of nature's truth
 where love's strong passion is impress'd in youth
 by our remembrances of days foregone
 such were our faults or then we thought them none
 her eye is sick on't i observe her now
helena what is your pleasure madam
countess you know helen
 i am a mother to you
helena mine honourable mistress
countess nay a mother
 why not a mother when i said a mother'
 methought you saw a serpent what's in mother'
 that you start at it i say i am your mother
 and put you in the catalogue of those
 that were enwombed mine tis often seen
 adoption strives with nature and choice breeds
 a native slip to us from foreign seeds
 you ne'er oppress'd me with a mother's groan
 yet i express to you a mother's care
 god's mercy maiden does it curd thy blood
 to say i am thy mother what's the matter
 that this distemper'd messenger of wet
 the manycolour'd iris rounds thine eye
 why that you are my daughter
helena that i am not
countess i say i am your mother
helena pardon madam
 the count rousillon cannot be my brother
 i am from humble he from honour'd name
 no note upon my parents his all noble
 my master my dear lord he is and i
 his servant live and will his vassal die
 he must not be my brother
countess nor i your mother
helena you are my mother madam would you were
 so that my lord your son were not my brother
 indeed my mother or were you both our mothers
 i care no more for than i do for heaven
 so i were not his sister can't no other
 but i your daughter he must be my brother
countess yes helen you might be my daughterinlaw
 god shield you mean it not daughter and mother
 so strive upon your pulse what pale again
 my fear hath catch'd your fondness now i see
 the mystery of your loneliness and find
 your salt tears head now to all sense tis gross
 you love my son invention is ashamed
 against the proclamation of thy passion
 to say thou dost not therefore tell me true
 but tell me then tis so for look thy cheeks
 confess it th one to th other and thine eyes
 see it so grossly shown in thy behaviors
 that in their kind they speak it only sin
 and hellish obstinacy tie thy tongue
 that truth should be suspected speak is't so
 if it be so you have wound a goodly clew
 if it be not forswear't howe'er i charge thee
 as heaven shall work in me for thine avail
 tell me truly
helena good madam pardon me
countess do you love my son
helena your pardon noble mistress
countess love you my son
helena do not you love him madam
countess go not about my love hath in't a bond
 whereof the world takes note come come disclose
 the state of your affection for your passions
 have to the full appeach'd
helena then i confess
 here on my knee before high heaven and you
 that before you and next unto high heaven
 i love your son
 my friends were poor but honest so's my love
 be not offended for it hurts not him
 that he is loved of me i follow him not
 by any token of presumptuous suit
 nor would i have him till i do deserve him
 yet never know how that desert should be
 i know i love in vain strive against hope
 yet in this captious and intenible sieve
 i still pour in the waters of my love
 and lack not to lose still thus indianlike
 religious in mine error i adore
 the sun that looks upon his worshipper
 but knows of him no more my dearest madam
 let not your hate encounter with my love
 for loving where you do but if yourself
 whose aged honour cites a virtuous youth
 did ever in so true a flame of liking
 wish chastely and love dearly that your dian
 was both herself and love o then give pity
 to her whose state is such that cannot choose
 but lend and give where she is sure to lose
 that seeks not to find that her search implies
 but riddlelike lives sweetly where she dies
countess had you not lately an intentspeak truly
 to go to paris
helena madam i had
countess wherefore tell true
helena i will tell truth by grace itself i swear
 you know my father left me some prescriptions
 of rare and proved effects such as his reading
 and manifest experience had collected
 for general sovereignty and that he will'd me
 in heedfull'st reservation to bestow them
 as notes whose faculties inclusive were
 more than they were in note amongst the rest
 there is a remedy approved set down
 to cure the desperate languishings whereof
 the king is render'd lost
countess this was your motive
 for paris was it speak
helena my lord your son made me to think of this
 else paris and the medicine and the king
 had from the conversation of my thoughts
 haply been absent then
countess but think you helen
 if you should tender your supposed aid
 he would receive it he and his physicians
 are of a mind he that they cannot help him
 they that they cannot help how shall they credit
 a poor unlearned virgin when the schools
 embowell'd of their doctrine have left off
 the danger to itself
helena there's something in't
 more than my father's skill which was the greatest
 of his profession that his good receipt
 shall for my legacy be sanctified
 by the luckiest stars in heaven and would your honour
 but give me leave to try success i'ld venture
 the welllost life of mine on his grace's cure
 by such a day and hour
countess dost thou believe't
helena ay madam knowingly
countess why helen thou shalt have my leave and love
 means and attendants and my loving greetings
 to those of mine in court i'll stay at home
 and pray god's blessing into thy attempt
 be gone tomorrow and be sure of this
 what i can help thee to thou shalt not miss
 exeunt
 all's well that ends well
act ii
scene i paris the king's palace
 flourish of cornets enter the king attended
 with divers young lords taking leave for the
 florentine war bertram and parolles
king farewell young lords these warlike principles
 do not throw from you and you my lords farewell
 share the advice betwixt you if both gain all
 the gift doth stretch itself as tis received
 and is enough for both
first lord tis our hope sir
 after well enter'd soldiers to return
 and find your grace in health
king no no it cannot be and yet my heart
 will not confess he owes the malady
 that doth my life besiege farewell young lords
 whether i live or die be you the sons
 of worthy frenchmen let higher italy
 those bated that inherit but the fall
 of the last monarchysee that you come
 not to woo honour but to wed it when
 the bravest questant shrinks find what you seek
 that fame may cry you loud i say farewell
second lord health at your bidding serve your majesty
king those girls of italy take heed of them
 they say our french lack language to deny
 if they demand beware of being captives
 before you serve
both our hearts receive your warnings
king farewell come hither to me
 exit attended
first lord o my sweet lord that you will stay behind us
parolles tis not his fault the spark
second lord o tis brave wars
parolles most admirable i have seen those wars
bertram i am commanded here and kept a coil with
 too young and the next year and 'tis too early'
parolles an thy mind stand to't boy steal away bravely
bertram i shall stay here the forehorse to a smock
 creaking my shoes on the plain masonry
 till honour be bought up and no sword worn
 but one to dance with by heaven i'll steal away
first lord there's honour in the theft
parolles commit it count
second lord i am your accessary and so farewell
bertram i grow to you and our parting is a tortured body
first lord farewell captain
second lord sweet monsieur parolles
parolles noble heroes my sword and yours are kin good
 sparks and lustrous a word good metals you shall
 find in the regiment of the spinii one captain
 spurio with his cicatrice an emblem of war here
 on his sinister cheek it was this very sword
 entrenched it say to him i live and observe his
 reports for me
first lord we shall noble captain
 exeunt lords
parolles mars dote on you for his novices what will ye do
bertram stay the king
 reenter king bertram and parolles retire
parolles to bertram use a more spacious ceremony to the
 noble lords you have restrained yourself within the
 list of too cold an adieu be more expressive to
 them for they wear themselves in the cap of the
 time there do muster true gait eat speak and
 move under the influence of the most received star
 and though the devil lead the measure such are to
 be followed after them and take a more dilated farewell
bertram and i will do so
parolles worthy fellows and like to prove most sinewy swordmen
 exeunt bertram and parolles
 enter lafeu
lafeu kneeling pardon my lord for me and for my tidings
king i'll fee thee to stand up
lafeu then here's a man stands that has brought his pardon
 i would you had kneel'd my lord to ask me mercy
 and that at my bidding you could so stand up
king i would i had so i had broke thy pate
 and ask'd thee mercy for't
lafeu good faith across but my good lord tis thus
 will you be cured of your infirmity
king no
lafeu o will you eat no grapes my royal fox
 yes but you will my noble grapes an if
 my royal fox could reach them i have seen a medicine
 that's able to breathe life into a stone
 quicken a rock and make you dance canary
 with spritely fire and motion whose simple touch
 is powerful to araise king pepin nay
 to give great charlemain a pen in's hand
 and write to her a loveline
king what her is this
lafeu why doctor she my lord there's one arrived
 if you will see her now by my faith and honour
 if seriously i may convey my thoughts
 in this my light deliverance i have spoke
 with one that in her sex her years profession
 wisdom and constancy hath amazed me more
 than i dare blame my weakness will you see her
 for that is her demand and know her business
 that done laugh well at me
king now good lafeu
 bring in the admiration that we with thee
 may spend our wonder too or take off thine
 by wondering how thou took'st it
lafeu nay i'll fit you
 and not be all day neither
 exit
king thus he his special nothing ever prologues
 reenter lafeu with helena
lafeu nay come your ways
king this haste hath wings indeed
lafeu nay come your ways
 this is his majesty say your mind to him
 a traitor you do look like but such traitors
 his majesty seldom fears i am cressid's uncle
 that dare leave two together fare you well
 exit
king now fair one does your business follow us
helena ay my good lord
 gerard de narbon was my father
 in what he did profess well found
king i knew him
helena the rather will i spare my praises towards him
 knowing him is enough on's bed of death
 many receipts he gave me chiefly one
 which as the dearest issue of his practise
 and of his old experience the oily darling
 he bade me store up as a triple eye
 safer than mine own two more dear i have so
 and hearing your high majesty is touch'd
 with that malignant cause wherein the honour
 of my dear father's gift stands chief in power
 i come to tender it and my appliance
 with all bound humbleness
king we thank you maiden
 but may not be so credulous of cure
 when our most learned doctors leave us and
 the congregated college have concluded
 that labouring art can never ransom nature
 from her inaidible estate i say we must not
 so stain our judgment or corrupt our hope
 to prostitute our pastcure malady
 to empirics or to dissever so
 our great self and our credit to esteem
 a senseless help when help past sense we deem
helena my duty then shall pay me for my pains
 i will no more enforce mine office on you
 humbly entreating from your royal thoughts
 a modest one to bear me back a again
king i cannot give thee less to be call'd grateful
 thou thought'st to help me and such thanks i give
 as one near death to those that wish him live
 but what at full i know thou know'st no part
 i knowing all my peril thou no art
helena what i can do can do no hurt to try
 since you set up your rest gainst remedy
 he that of greatest works is finisher
 oft does them by the weakest minister
 so holy writ in babes hath judgment shown
 when judges have been babes great floods have flown
 from simple sources and great seas have dried
 when miracles have by the greatest been denied
 oft expectation fails and most oft there
 where most it promises and oft it hits
 where hope is coldest and despair most fits
king i must not hear thee fare thee well kind maid
 thy pains not used must by thyself be paid
 proffers not took reap thanks for their reward
helena inspired merit so by breath is barr'd
 it is not so with him that all things knows
 as tis with us that square our guess by shows
 but most it is presumption in us when
 the help of heaven we count the act of men
 dear sir to my endeavours give consent
 of heaven not me make an experiment
 i am not an impostor that proclaim
 myself against the level of mine aim
 but know i think and think i know most sure
 my art is not past power nor you past cure
king are thou so confident within what space
 hopest thou my cure
helena the great'st grace lending grace
 ere twice the horses of the sun shall bring
 their fiery torcher his diurnal ring
 ere twice in murk and occidental damp
 moist hesperus hath quench'd his sleepy lamp
 or four and twenty times the pilot's glass
 hath told the thievish minutes how they pass
 what is infirm from your sound parts shall fly
 health shall live free and sickness freely die
king upon thy certainty and confidence
 what darest thou venture
helena tax of impudence
 a strumpet's boldness a divulged shame
 traduced by odious ballads my maiden's name
 sear'd otherwise nay worseif worseextended
 with vilest torture let my life be ended
king methinks in thee some blessed spirit doth speak
 his powerful sound within an organ weak
 and what impossibility would slay
 in common sense sense saves another way
 thy life is dear for all that life can rate
 worth name of life in thee hath estimate
 youth beauty wisdom courage all
 that happiness and prime can happy call
 thou this to hazard needs must intimate
 skill infinite or monstrous desperate
 sweet practiser thy physic i will try
 that ministers thine own death if i die
helena if i break time or flinch in property
 of what i spoke unpitied let me die
 and well deserved not helping death's my fee
 but if i help what do you promise me
king make thy demand
helena but will you make it even
king ay by my sceptre and my hopes of heaven
helena then shalt thou give me with thy kingly hand
 what husband in thy power i will command
 exempted be from me the arrogance
 to choose from forth the royal blood of france
 my low and humble name to propagate
 with any branch or image of thy state
 but such a one thy vassal whom i know
 is free for me to ask thee to bestow
king here is my hand the premises observed
 thy will by my performance shall be served
 so make the choice of thy own time for i
 thy resolved patient on thee still rely
 more should i question thee and more i must
 though more to know could not be more to trust
 from whence thou camest how tended on but rest
 unquestion'd welcome and undoubted blest
 give me some help here ho if thou proceed
 as high as word my deed shall match thy meed
 flourish exeunt
 all's well that ends well
act ii
scene ii rousillon the count's palace
 enter countess and clown
countess come on sir i shall now put you to the height of
 your breeding
clown i will show myself highly fed and lowly taught i
 know my business is but to the court
countess to the court why what place make you special
 when you put off that with such contempt but to the court
clown truly madam if god have lent a man any manners he
 may easily put it off at court he that cannot make
 a leg put off's cap kiss his hand and say nothing
 has neither leg hands lip nor cap and indeed
 such a fellow to say precisely were not for the
 court but for me i have an answer will serve all
 men
countess marry that's a bountiful answer that fits all
 questions
clown it is like a barber's chair that fits all buttocks
 the pinbuttock the quatchbuttock the brawn
 buttock or any buttock
countess will your answer serve fit to all questions
clown as fit as ten groats is for the hand of an attorney
 as your french crown for your taffeta punk as tib's
 rush for tom's forefinger as a pancake for shrove
 tuesday a morris for mayday as the nail to his
 hole the cuckold to his horn as a scolding queen
 to a wrangling knave as the nun's lip to the
 friar's mouth nay as the pudding to his skin
countess have you i say an answer of such fitness for all
 questions
clown from below your duke to beneath your constable it
 will fit any question
countess it must be an answer of most monstrous size that
 must fit all demands
clown but a trifle neither in good faith if the learned
 should speak truth of it here it is and all that
 belongs to't ask me if i am a courtier it shall
 do you no harm to learn
countess to be young again if we could i will be a fool in
 question hoping to be the wiser by your answer i
 pray you sir are you a courtier
clown o lord sir there's a simple putting off more
 more a hundred of them
countess sir i am a poor friend of yours that loves you
clown o lord sir thick thick spare not me
countess i think sir you can eat none of this homely meat
clown o lord sir nay put me to't i warrant you
countess you were lately whipped sir as i think
clown o lord sir spare not me
countess do you cry o lord sir at your whipping and
 spare not me indeed your o lord sir is very
 sequent to your whipping you would answer very well
 to a whipping if you were but bound to't
clown i ne'er had worse luck in my life in my o lord
 sir i see things may serve long but not serve ever
countess i play the noble housewife with the time
 to entertain't so merrily with a fool
clown o lord sir why there't serves well again
countess an end sir to your business give helen this
 and urge her to a present answer back
 commend me to my kinsmen and my son
 this is not much
clown not much commendation to them
countess not much employment for you you understand me
clown most fruitfully i am there before my legs
countess haste you again
 exeunt severally
 all's well that ends well
act ii
scene iii paris the king's palace
 enter bertram lafeu and parolles
lafeu they say miracles are past and we have our
 philosophical persons to make modern and familiar
 things supernatural and causeless hence is it that
 we make trifles of terrors ensconcing ourselves
 into seeming knowledge when we should submit
 ourselves to an unknown fear
parolles why tis the rarest argument of wonder that hath
 shot out in our latter times
bertram and so tis
lafeu to be relinquish'd of the artists
parolles so i say
lafeu both of galen and paracelsus
parolles so i say
lafeu of all the learned and authentic fellows
parolles right so i say
lafeu that gave him out incurable
parolles why there tis so say i too
lafeu not to be helped
parolles right as twere a man assured of a
lafeu uncertain life and sure death
parolles just you say well so would i have said
lafeu i may truly say it is a novelty to the world
parolles it is indeed if you will have it in showing you
 shall read it inwhat do you call there
lafeu a showing of a heavenly effect in an earthly actor
parolles that's it i would have said the very same
lafeu why your dolphin is not lustier fore me
 i speak in respect
parolles nay tis strange tis very strange that is the
 brief and the tedious of it and he's of a most
 facinerious spirit that will not acknowledge it to be the
lafeu very hand of heaven
parolles ay so i say
lafeu in a most weak
 pausing
 and debile minister great power great
 transcendence which should indeed give us a
 further use to be made than alone the recovery of
 the king as to be
 pausing
 generally thankful
parolles i would have said it you say well here comes the king
 enter king helena and attendants lafeu and
 parolles retire
lafeu lustig as the dutchman says i'll like a maid the
 better whilst i have a tooth in my head why he's
 able to lead her a coranto
parolles mort du vinaigre is not this helen
lafeu fore god i think so
king go call before me all the lords in court
 sit my preserver by thy patient's side
 and with this healthful hand whose banish'd sense
 thou hast repeal'd a second time receive
 the confirmation of my promised gift
 which but attends thy naming
 enter three or four lords
 fair maid send forth thine eye this youthful parcel
 of noble bachelors stand at my bestowing
 o'er whom both sovereign power and father's voice
 i have to use thy frank election make
 thou hast power to choose and they none to forsake
helena to each of you one fair and virtuous mistress
 fall when love please marry to each but one
lafeu i'ld give bay curtal and his furniture
 my mouth no more were broken than these boys'
 and writ as little beard
king peruse them well
 not one of those but had a noble father
helena gentlemen
 heaven hath through me restored the king to health
all we understand it and thank heaven for you
helena i am a simple maid and therein wealthiest
 that i protest i simply am a maid
 please it your majesty i have done already
 the blushes in my cheeks thus whisper me
 we blush that thou shouldst choose but be refused
 let the white death sit on thy cheek for ever
 we'll ne'er come there again'
king make choice and see
 who shuns thy love shuns all his love in me
helena now dian from thy altar do i fly
 and to imperial love that god most high
 do my sighs stream sir will you hear my suit
first lord and grant it
helena thanks sir all the rest is mute
lafeu i had rather be in this choice than throw amesace
 for my life
helena the honour sir that flames in your fair eyes
 before i speak too threateningly replies
 love make your fortunes twenty times above
 her that so wishes and her humble love
second lord no better if you please
helena my wish receive
 which great love grant and so i take my leave
lafeu do all they deny her an they were sons of mine
 i'd have them whipped or i would send them to the
 turk to make eunuchs of
helena be not afraid that i your hand should take
 i'll never do you wrong for your own sake
 blessing upon your vows and in your bed
 find fairer fortune if you ever wed
lafeu these boys are boys of ice they'll none have her
 sure they are bastards to the english the french
 ne'er got em
helena you are too young too happy and too good
 to make yourself a son out of my blood
fourth lord fair one i think not so
lafeu there's one grape yet i am sure thy father drunk
 wine but if thou be'st not an ass i am a youth
 of fourteen i have known thee already
helena to bertram i dare not say i take you but i give
 me and my service ever whilst i live
 into your guiding power this is the man
king why then young bertram take her she's thy wife
bertram my wife my liege i shall beseech your highness
 in such a business give me leave to use
 the help of mine own eyes
king know'st thou not bertram
 what she has done for me
bertram yes my good lord
 but never hope to know why i should marry her
king thou know'st she has raised me from my sickly bed
bertram but follows it my lord to bring me down
 must answer for your raising i know her well
 she had her breeding at my father's charge
 a poor physician's daughter my wife disdain
 rather corrupt me ever
king tis only title thou disdain'st in her the which
 i can build up strange is it that our bloods
 of colour weight and heat pour'd all together
 would quite confound distinction yet stand off
 in differences so mighty if she be
 all that is virtuous save what thou dislikest
 a poor physician's daughter thou dislikest
 of virtue for the name but do not so
 from lowest place when virtuous things proceed
 the place is dignified by the doer's deed
 where great additions swell's and virtue none
 it is a dropsied honour good alone
 is good without a name vileness is so
 the property by what it is should go
 not by the title she is young wise fair
 in these to nature she's immediate heir
 and these breed honour that is honour's scorn
 which challenges itself as honour's born
 and is not like the sire honours thrive
 when rather from our acts we them derive
 than our foregoers the mere word's a slave
 debosh'd on every tomb on every grave
 a lying trophy and as oft is dumb
 where dust and damn'd oblivion is the tomb
 of honour'd bones indeed what should be said
 if thou canst like this creature as a maid
 i can create the rest virtue and she
 is her own dower honour and wealth from me
bertram i cannot love her nor will strive to do't
king thou wrong'st thyself if thou shouldst strive to choose
helena that you are well restored my lord i'm glad
 let the rest go
king my honour's at the stake which to defeat
 i must produce my power here take her hand
 proud scornful boy unworthy this good gift
 that dost in vile misprision shackle up
 my love and her desert that canst not dream
 we poising us in her defective scale
 shall weigh thee to the beam that wilt not know
 it is in us to plant thine honour where
 we please to have it grow cheque thy contempt
 obey our will which travails in thy good
 believe not thy disdain but presently
 do thine own fortunes that obedient right
 which both thy duty owes and our power claims
 or i will throw thee from my care for ever
 into the staggers and the careless lapse
 of youth and ignorance both my revenge and hate
 loosing upon thee in the name of justice
 without all terms of pity speak thine answer
bertram pardon my gracious lord for i submit
 my fancy to your eyes when i consider
 what great creation and what dole of honour
 flies where you bid it i find that she which late
 was in my nobler thoughts most base is now
 the praised of the king who so ennobled
 is as twere born so
king take her by the hand
 and tell her she is thine to whom i promise
 a counterpoise if not to thy estate
 a balance more replete
bertram i take her hand
king good fortune and the favour of the king
 smile upon this contract whose ceremony
 shall seem expedient on the nowborn brief
 and be perform'd tonight the solemn feast
 shall more attend upon the coming space
 expecting absent friends as thou lovest her
 thy love's to me religious else does err
 exeunt all but lafeu and parolles
lafeu advancing do you hear monsieur a word with you
parolles your pleasure sir
lafeu your lord and master did well to make his
 recantation
parolles recantation my lord my master
lafeu ay is it not a language i speak
parolles a most harsh one and not to be understood without
 bloody succeeding my master
lafeu are you companion to the count rousillon
parolles to any count to all counts to what is man
lafeu to what is count's man count's master is of
 another style
parolles you are too old sir let it satisfy you you are too old
lafeu i must tell thee sirrah i write man to which
 title age cannot bring thee
parolles what i dare too well do i dare not do
lafeu i did think thee for two ordinaries to be a pretty
 wise fellow thou didst make tolerable vent of thy
 travel it might pass yet the scarfs and the
 bannerets about thee did manifoldly dissuade me from
 believing thee a vessel of too great a burthen i
 have now found thee when i lose thee again i care
 not yet art thou good for nothing but taking up and
 that thou't scarce worth
parolles hadst thou not the privilege of antiquity upon thee
lafeu do not plunge thyself too far in anger lest thou
 hasten thy trial which iflord have mercy on thee
 for a hen so my good window of lattice fare thee
 well thy casement i need not open for i look
 through thee give me thy hand
parolles my lord you give me most egregious indignity
lafeu ay with all my heart and thou art worthy of it
parolles i have not my lord deserved it
lafeu yes good faith every dram of it and i will not
 bate thee a scruple
parolles well i shall be wiser
lafeu even as soon as thou canst for thou hast to pull at
 a smack o the contrary if ever thou be'st bound
 in thy scarf and beaten thou shalt find what it is
 to be proud of thy bondage i have a desire to hold
 my acquaintance with thee or rather my knowledge
 that i may say in the default he is a man i know
parolles my lord you do me most insupportable vexation
lafeu i would it were hellpains for thy sake and my poor
 doing eternal for doing i am past as i will by
 thee in what motion age will give me leave
 exit
parolles well thou hast a son shall take this disgrace off
 me scurvy old filthy scurvy lord well i must
 be patient there is no fettering of authority
 i'll beat him by my life if i can meet him with
 any convenience an he were double and double a
 lord i'll have no more pity of his age than i
 would ofi'll beat him an if i could but meet him again
 reenter lafeu
lafeu sirrah your lord and master's married there's news
 for you you have a new mistress
parolles i most unfeignedly beseech your lordship to make
 some reservation of your wrongs he is my good
 lord whom i serve above is my master
lafeu who god
parolles ay sir
lafeu the devil it is that's thy master why dost thou
 garter up thy arms o this fashion dost make hose of
 sleeves do other servants so thou wert best set
 thy lower part where thy nose stands by mine
 honour if i were but two hours younger i'ld beat
 thee methinks thou art a general offence and
 every man should beat thee i think thou wast
 created for men to breathe themselves upon thee
parolles this is hard and undeserved measure my lord
lafeu go to sir you were beaten in italy for picking a
 kernel out of a pomegranate you are a vagabond and
 no true traveller you are more saucy with lords
 and honourable personages than the commission of your
 birth and virtue gives you heraldry you are not
 worth another word else i'ld call you knave i leave you
 exit
parolles good very good it is so then good very good
 let it be concealed awhile
 reenter bertram
bertram undone and forfeited to cares for ever
parolles what's the matter sweetheart
bertram although before the solemn priest i have sworn
 i will not bed her
parolles what what sweetheart
bertram o my parolles they have married me
 i'll to the tuscan wars and never bed her
parolles france is a doghole and it no more merits
 the tread of a man's foot to the wars
bertram there's letters from my mother what the import is
 i know not yet
parolles ay that would be known to the wars my boy to the wars
 he wears his honour in a box unseen
 that hugs his kickywicky here at home
 spending his manly marrow in her arms
 which should sustain the bound and high curvet
 of mars's fiery steed to other regions
 france is a stable we that dwell in't jades
 therefore to the war
bertram it shall be so i'll send her to my house
 acquaint my mother with my hate to her
 and wherefore i am fled write to the king
 that which i durst not speak his present gift
 shall furnish me to those italian fields
 where noble fellows strike war is no strife
 to the dark house and the detested wife
parolles will this capriccio hold in thee art sure
bertram go with me to my chamber and advise me
 i'll send her straight away tomorrow
 i'll to the wars she to her single sorrow
parolles why these balls bound there's noise in it tis hard
 a young man married is a man that's marr'd
 therefore away and leave her bravely go
 the king has done you wrong but hush tis so
 exeunt
 all's well that ends well
act ii
scene iv paris the king's palace
 enter helena and clown
helena my mother greets me kindly is she well
clown she is not well but yet she has her health she's
 very merry but yet she is not well but thanks be
 given she's very well and wants nothing i the
 world but yet she is not well
helena if she be very well what does she ail that she's
 not very well
clown truly she's very well indeed but for two things
helena what two things
clown one that she's not in heaven whither god send her
 quickly the other that she's in earth from whence
 god send her quickly
 enter parolles
parolles bless you my fortunate lady
helena i hope sir i have your good will to have mine own
 good fortunes
parolles you had my prayers to lead them on and to keep them
 on have them still o my knave how does my old lady
clown so that you had her wrinkles and i her money
 i would she did as you say
parolles why i say nothing
clown marry you are the wiser man for many a man's
 tongue shakes out his master's undoing to say
 nothing to do nothing to know nothing and to have
 nothing is to be a great part of your title which
 is within a very little of nothing
parolles away thou'rt a knave
clown you should have said sir before a knave thou'rt a
 knave that's before me thou'rt a knave this had
 been truth sir
parolles go to thou art a witty fool i have found thee
clown did you find me in yourself sir or were you
 taught to find me the search sir was profitable
 and much fool may you find in you even to the
 world's pleasure and the increase of laughter
parolles a good knave i faith and well fed
 madam my lord will go away tonight
 a very serious business calls on him
 the great prerogative and rite of love
 which as your due time claims he does acknowledge
 but puts it off to a compell'd restraint
 whose want and whose delay is strew'd with sweets
 which they distil now in the curbed time
 to make the coming hour o'erflow with joy
 and pleasure drown the brim
helena what's his will else
parolles that you will take your instant leave o the king
 and make this haste as your own good proceeding
 strengthen'd with what apology you think
 may make it probable need
helena what more commands he
parolles that having this obtain'd you presently
 attend his further pleasure
helena in every thing i wait upon his will
parolles i shall report it so
helena i pray you
 exit parolles
 come sirrah
 exeunt
 all's well that ends well
act ii
scene v paris the king's palace
 enter lafeu and bertram
lafeu but i hope your lordship thinks not him a soldier
bertram yes my lord and of very valiant approof
lafeu you have it from his own deliverance
bertram and by other warranted testimony
lafeu then my dial goes not true i took this lark for a bunting
bertram i do assure you my lord he is very great in
 knowledge and accordingly valiant
lafeu i have then sinned against his experience and
 transgressed against his valour and my state that
 way is dangerous since i cannot yet find in my
 heart to repent here he comes i pray you make
 us friends i will pursue the amity
 enter parolles
parolles to bertram these things shall be done sir
lafeu pray you sir who's his tailor
parolles sir
lafeu o i know him well i sir he sir s a good
 workman a very good tailor
bertram aside to parolles is she gone to the king
parolles she is
bertram will she away tonight
parolles as you'll have her
bertram i have writ my letters casketed my treasure
 given order for our horses and tonight
 when i should take possession of the bride
 end ere i do begin
lafeu a good traveller is something at the latter end of a
 dinner but one that lies three thirds and uses a
 known truth to pass a thousand nothings with should
 be once heard and thrice beaten god save you captain
bertram is there any unkindness between my lord and you monsieur
parolles i know not how i have deserved to run into my lord's
 displeasure
lafeu you have made shift to run into t boots and spurs
 and all like him that leaped into the custard and
 out of it you'll run again rather than suffer
 question for your residence
bertram it may be you have mistaken him my lord
lafeu and shall do so ever though i took him at s
 prayers fare you well my lord and believe this
 of me there can be no kernel in this light nut the
 soul of this man is his clothes trust him not in
 matter of heavy consequence i have kept of them
 tame and know their natures farewell monsieur
 i have spoken better of you than you have or will to
 deserve at my hand but we must do good against evil
 exit
parolles an idle lord i swear
bertram i think so
parolles why do you not know him
bertram yes i do know him well and common speech
 gives him a worthy pass here comes my clog
 enter helena
helena i have sir as i was commanded from you
 spoke with the king and have procured his leave
 for present parting only he desires
 some private speech with you
bertram i shall obey his will
 you must not marvel helen at my course
 which holds not colour with the time nor does
 the ministration and required office
 on my particular prepared i was not
 for such a business therefore am i found
 so much unsettled this drives me to entreat you
 that presently you take our way for home
 and rather muse than ask why i entreat you
 for my respects are better than they seem
 and my appointments have in them a need
 greater than shows itself at the first view
 to you that know them not this to my mother
 giving a letter
 twill be two days ere i shall see you so
 i leave you to your wisdom
helena sir i can nothing say
 but that i am your most obedient servant
bertram come come no more of that
helena and ever shall
 with true observance seek to eke out that
 wherein toward me my homely stars have fail'd
 to equal my great fortune
bertram let that go
 my haste is very great farewell hie home
helena pray sir your pardon
bertram well what would you say
helena i am not worthy of the wealth i owe
 nor dare i say tis mine and yet it is
 but like a timorous thief most fain would steal
 what law does vouch mine own
bertram what would you have
helena something and scarce so much nothing indeed
 i would not tell you what i would my lord
 faith yes
 strangers and foes do sunder and not kiss
bertram i pray you stay not but in haste to horse
helena i shall not break your bidding good my lord
bertram where are my other men monsieur farewell
 exit helena
 go thou toward home where i will never come
 whilst i can shake my sword or hear the drum
 away and for our flight
parolles bravely coragio
 exeunt
 all's well that ends well
act iii
scene i florence the duke's palace
 flourish enter the duke of florence attended
 the two frenchmen with a troop of soldiers
duke so that from point to point now have you heard
 the fundamental reasons of this war
 whose great decision hath much blood let forth
 and more thirsts after
first lord holy seems the quarrel
 upon your grace's part black and fearful
 on the opposer
duke therefore we marvel much our cousin france
 would in so just a business shut his bosom
 against our borrowing prayers
second lord good my lord
 the reasons of our state i cannot yield
 but like a common and an outward man
 that the great figure of a council frames
 by selfunable motion therefore dare not
 say what i think of it since i have found
 myself in my incertain grounds to fail
 as often as i guess'd
duke be it his pleasure
first lord but i am sure the younger of our nature
 that surfeit on their ease will day by day
 come here for physic
duke welcome shall they be
 and all the honours that can fly from us
 shall on them settle you know your places well
 when better fall for your avails they fell
 tomorrow to the field
 flourish exeunt
 all's well that ends well
act iii
scene ii rousillon the count's palace
 enter countess and clown
countess it hath happened all as i would have had it save
 that he comes not along with her
clown by my troth i take my young lord to be a very
 melancholy man
countess by what observance i pray you
clown why he will look upon his boot and sing mend the
 ruff and sing ask questions and sing pick his
 teeth and sing i know a man that had this trick of
 melancholy sold a goodly manor for a song
countess let me see what he writes and when he means to come
 opening a letter
clown i have no mind to isbel since i was at court our
 old ling and our isbels o the country are nothing
 like your old ling and your isbels o the court
 the brains of my cupid's knocked out and i begin to
 love as an old man loves money with no stomach
countess what have we here
clown e'en that you have there
 exit
countess reads i have sent you a daughterinlaw she hath
 recovered the king and undone me i have wedded
 her not bedded her and sworn to make the not'
 eternal you shall hear i am run away know it
 before the report come if there be breadth enough
 in the world i will hold a long distance my duty
 to you your unfortunate son
 bertram
 this is not well rash and unbridled boy
 to fly the favours of so good a king
 to pluck his indignation on thy head
 by the misprising of a maid too virtuous
 for the contempt of empire
 reenter clown
clown o madam yonder is heavy news within between two
 soldiers and my young lady
countess what is the matter
clown nay there is some comfort in the news some
 comfort your son will not be killed so soon as i
 thought he would
countess why should he be killed
clown so say i madam if he run away as i hear he does
 the danger is in standing to't that's the loss of
 men though it be the getting of children here
 they come will tell you more for my part i only
 hear your son was run away
 exit
 enter helena and two gentlemen
first gentleman save you good madam
helena madam my lord is gone for ever gone
second gentleman do not say so
countess think upon patience pray you gentlemen
 i have felt so many quirks of joy and grief
 that the first face of neither on the start
 can woman me unto't where is my son i pray you
second gentleman madam he's gone to serve the duke of florence
 we met him thitherward for thence we came
 and after some dispatch in hand at court
 thither we bend again
helena look on his letter madam here's my passport
 reads
 when thou canst get the ring upon my finger which
 never shall come off and show me a child begotten
 of thy body that i am father to then call me
 husband but in such a then i write a never'
 this is a dreadful sentence
countess brought you this letter gentlemen
first gentleman ay madam
 and for the contents sake are sorry for our pain
countess i prithee lady have a better cheer
 if thou engrossest all the griefs are thine
 thou robb'st me of a moiety he was my son
 but i do wash his name out of my blood
 and thou art all my child towards florence is he
second gentleman ay madam
countess and to be a soldier
second gentleman such is his noble purpose and believe t
 the duke will lay upon him all the honour
 that good convenience claims
countess return you thither
first gentleman ay madam with the swiftest wing of speed
helena reads till i have no wife i have nothing in france
 tis bitter
countess find you that there
helena ay madam
first gentleman tis but the boldness of his hand haply which his
 heart was not consenting to
countess nothing in france until he have no wife
 there's nothing here that is too good for him
 but only she and she deserves a lord
 that twenty such rude boys might tend upon
 and call her hourly mistress who was with him
first gentleman a servant only and a gentleman
 which i have sometime known
countess parolles was it not
first gentleman ay my good lady he
countess a very tainted fellow and full of wickedness
 my son corrupts a wellderived nature
 with his inducement
first gentleman indeed good lady
 the fellow has a deal of that too much
 which holds him much to have
countess you're welcome gentlemen
 i will entreat you when you see my son
 to tell him that his sword can never win
 the honour that he loses more i'll entreat you
 written to bear along
second gentleman we serve you madam
 in that and all your worthiest affairs
countess not so but as we change our courtesies
 will you draw near
 exeunt countess and gentlemen
helena till i have no wife i have nothing in france'
 nothing in france until he has no wife
 thou shalt have none rousillon none in france
 then hast thou all again poor lord is't i
 that chase thee from thy country and expose
 those tender limbs of thine to the event
 of the nonesparing war and is it i
 that drive thee from the sportive court where thou
 wast shot at with fair eyes to be the mark
 of smoky muskets o you leaden messengers
 that ride upon the violent speed of fire
 fly with false aim move the stillpeering air
 that sings with piercing do not touch my lord
 whoever shoots at him i set him there
 whoever charges on his forward breast
 i am the caitiff that do hold him to't
 and though i kill him not i am the cause
 his death was so effected better twere
 i met the ravin lion when he roar'd
 with sharp constraint of hunger better twere
 that all the miseries which nature owes
 were mine at once no come thou home rousillon
 whence honour but of danger wins a scar
 as oft it loses all i will be gone
 my being here it is that holds thee hence
 shall i stay here to do't no no although
 the air of paradise did fan the house
 and angels officed all i will be gone
 that pitiful rumour may report my flight
 to consolate thine ear come night end day
 for with the dark poor thief i'll steal away
 exit
 all's well that ends well
act iii
scene iii florence before the duke's palace
 flourish enter the duke of florence bertram
 parolles soldiers drum and trumpets
duke the general of our horse thou art and we
 great in our hope lay our best love and credence
 upon thy promising fortune
bertram sir it is
 a charge too heavy for my strength but yet
 we'll strive to bear it for your worthy sake
 to the extreme edge of hazard
duke then go thou forth
 and fortune play upon thy prosperous helm
 as thy auspicious mistress
bertram this very day
 great mars i put myself into thy file
 make me but like my thoughts and i shall prove
 a lover of thy drum hater of love
 exeunt
 all's well that ends well
act iii
scene iv rousillon the count's palace
 enter countess and steward
countess alas and would you take the letter of her
 might you not know she would do as she has done
 by sending me a letter read it again
steward reads
 i am saint jaques pilgrim thither gone
 ambitious love hath so in me offended
 that barefoot plod i the cold ground upon
 with sainted vow my faults to have amended
 write write that from the bloody course of war
 my dearest master your dear son may hie
 bless him at home in peace whilst i from far
 his name with zealous fervor sanctify
 his taken labours bid him me forgive
 i his despiteful juno sent him forth
 from courtly friends with camping foes to live
 where death and danger dogs the heels of worth
 he is too good and fair for death and me
 whom i myself embrace to set him free
countess ah what sharp stings are in her mildest words
 rinaldo you did never lack advice so much
 as letting her pass so had i spoke with her
 i could have well diverted her intents
 which thus she hath prevented
steward pardon me madam
 if i had given you this at overnight
 she might have been o'erta'en and yet she writes
 pursuit would be but vain
countess what angel shall
 bless this unworthy husband he cannot thrive
 unless her prayers whom heaven delights to hear
 and loves to grant reprieve him from the wrath
 of greatest justice write write rinaldo
 to this unworthy husband of his wife
 let every word weigh heavy of her worth
 that he does weigh too light my greatest grief
 though little he do feel it set down sharply
 dispatch the most convenient messenger
 when haply he shall hear that she is gone
 he will return and hope i may that she
 hearing so much will speed her foot again
 led hither by pure love which of them both
 is dearest to me i have no skill in sense
 to make distinction provide this messenger
 my heart is heavy and mine age is weak
 grief would have tears and sorrow bids me speak
 exeunt
 all's well that ends well
act iii
scene v florence without the walls a tucket afar off
 enter an old widow of florence diana violenta
 and mariana with other citizens
widow nay come for if they do approach the city we
 shall lose all the sight
diana they say the french count has done most honourable service
widow it is reported that he has taken their greatest
 commander and that with his own hand he slew the
 duke's brother
 tucket
 we have lost our labour they are gone a contrary
 way hark you may know by their trumpets
mariana come let's return again and suffice ourselves with
 the report of it well diana take heed of this
 french earl the honour of a maid is her name and
 no legacy is so rich as honesty
widow i have told my neighbour how you have been solicited
 by a gentleman his companion
mariana i know that knave hang him one parolles a
 filthy officer he is in those suggestions for the
 young earl beware of them diana their promises
 enticements oaths tokens and all these engines of
 lust are not the things they go under many a maid
 hath been seduced by them and the misery is
 example that so terrible shows in the wreck of
 maidenhood cannot for all that dissuade succession
 but that they are limed with the twigs that threaten
 them i hope i need not to advise you further but
 i hope your own grace will keep you where you are
 though there were no further danger known but the
 modesty which is so lost
diana you shall not need to fear me
widow i hope so
 enter helena disguised like a pilgrim
 look here comes a pilgrim i know she will lie at
 my house thither they send one another i'll
 question her god save you pilgrim whither are you bound
helena to saint jaques le grand
 where do the palmers lodge i do beseech you
widow at the saint francis here beside the port
helena is this the way
widow ay marry is't
 a march afar
 hark you they come this way
 if you will tarry holy pilgrim
 but till the troops come by
 i will conduct you where you shall be lodged
 the rather for i think i know your hostess
 as ample as myself
helena is it yourself
widow if you shall please so pilgrim
helena i thank you and will stay upon your leisure
widow you came i think from france
helena i did so
widow here you shall see a countryman of yours
 that has done worthy service
helena his name i pray you
diana the count rousillon know you such a one
helena but by the ear that hears most nobly of him
 his face i know not
diana whatsome'er he is
 he's bravely taken here he stole from france
 as tis reported for the king had married him
 against his liking think you it is so
helena ay surely mere the truth i know his lady
diana there is a gentleman that serves the count
 reports but coarsely of her
helena what's his name
diana monsieur parolles
helena o i believe with him
 in argument of praise or to the worth
 of the great count himself she is too mean
 to have her name repeated all her deserving
 is a reserved honesty and that
 i have not heard examined
diana alas poor lady
 tis a hard bondage to become the wife
 of a detesting lord
widow i warrant good creature wheresoe'er she is
 her heart weighs sadly this young maid might do her
 a shrewd turn if she pleased
helena how do you mean
 may be the amorous count solicits her
 in the unlawful purpose
widow he does indeed
 and brokes with all that can in such a suit
 corrupt the tender honour of a maid
 but she is arm'd for him and keeps her guard
 in honestest defence
mariana the gods forbid else
widow so now they come
 drum and colours
 enter bertram parolles and the whole army
 that is antonio the duke's eldest son
 that escalus
helena which is the frenchman
diana he
 that with the plume tis a most gallant fellow
 i would he loved his wife if he were honester
 he were much goodlier is't not a handsome gentleman
helena i like him well
diana tis pity he is not honest yond's that same knave
 that leads him to these places were i his lady
 i would poison that vile rascal
helena which is he
diana that jackanapes with scarfs why is he melancholy
helena perchance he's hurt i the battle
parolles lose our drum well
mariana he's shrewdly vexed at something look he has spied us
widow marry hang you
mariana and your courtesy for a ringcarrier
 exeunt bertram parolles and army
widow the troop is past come pilgrim i will bring you
 where you shall host of enjoin'd penitents
 there's four or five to great saint jaques bound
 already at my house
helena i humbly thank you
 please it this matron and this gentle maid
 to eat with us tonight the charge and thanking
 shall be for me and to requite you further
 i will bestow some precepts of this virgin
 worthy the note
both we'll take your offer kindly
 exeunt
 all's well that ends well
act iii
scene vi camp before florence
 enter bertram and the two french lords
second lord nay good my lord put him to't let him have his
 way
first lord if your lordship find him not a hilding hold me no
 more in your respect
second lord on my life my lord a bubble
bertram do you think i am so far deceived in him
second lord believe it my lord in mine own direct knowledge
 without any malice but to speak of him as my
 kinsman he's a most notable coward an infinite and
 endless liar an hourly promisebreaker the owner
 of no one good quality worthy your lordship's
 entertainment
first lord it were fit you knew him lest reposing too far in
 his virtue which he hath not he might at some
 great and trusty business in a main danger fail you
bertram i would i knew in what particular action to try him
first lord none better than to let him fetch off his drum
 which you hear him so confidently undertake to do
second lord i with a troop of florentines will suddenly
 surprise him such i will have whom i am sure he
 knows not from the enemy we will bind and hoodwink
 him so that he shall suppose no other but that he
 is carried into the leaguer of the adversaries when
 we bring him to our own tents be but your lordship
 present at his examination if he do not for the
 promise of his life and in the highest compulsion of
 base fear offer to betray you and deliver all the
 intelligence in his power against you and that with
 the divine forfeit of his soul upon oath never
 trust my judgment in any thing
first lord o for the love of laughter let him fetch his drum
 he says he has a stratagem for't when your
 lordship sees the bottom of his success in't and to
 what metal this counterfeit lump of ore will be
 melted if you give him not john drum's
 entertainment your inclining cannot be removed
 here he comes
 enter parolles
second lord aside to bertram o for the love of laughter
 hinder not the honour of his design let him fetch
 off his drum in any hand
bertram how now monsieur this drum sticks sorely in your
 disposition
first lord a pox on't let it go tis but a drum
parolles but a drum is't but a drum a drum so lost
 there was excellent commandto charge in with our
 horse upon our own wings and to rend our own soldiers
first lord that was not to be blamed in the command of the
 service it was a disaster of war that caesar
 himself could not have prevented if he had been
 there to command
bertram well we cannot greatly condemn our success some
 dishonour we had in the loss of that drum but it is
 not to be recovered
parolles it might have been recovered
bertram it might but it is not now
parolles it is to be recovered but that the merit of
 service is seldom attributed to the true and exact
 performer i would have that drum or another or
 hic jacet'
bertram why if you have a stomach to't monsieur if you
 think your mystery in stratagem can bring this
 instrument of honour again into his native quarter
 be magnanimous in the enterprise and go on i will
 grace the attempt for a worthy exploit if you
 speed well in it the duke shall both speak of it
 and extend to you what further becomes his
 greatness even to the utmost syllable of your
 worthiness
parolles by the hand of a soldier i will undertake it
bertram but you must not now slumber in it
parolles i'll about it this evening and i will presently
 pen down my dilemmas encourage myself in my
 certainty put myself into my mortal preparation
 and by midnight look to hear further from me
bertram may i be bold to acquaint his grace you are gone about it
parolles i know not what the success will be my lord but
 the attempt i vow
bertram i know thou'rt valiant and to the possibility of
 thy soldiership will subscribe for thee farewell
parolles i love not many words
 exit
second lord no more than a fish loves water is not this a
 strange fellow my lord that so confidently seems
 to undertake this business which he knows is not to
 be done damns himself to do and dares better be
 damned than to do't
first lord you do not know him my lord as we do certain it
 is that he will steal himself into a man's favour and
 for a week escape a great deal of discoveries but
 when you find him out you have him ever after
bertram why do you think he will make no deed at all of
 this that so seriously he does address himself unto
second lord none in the world but return with an invention and
 clap upon you two or three probable lies but we
 have almost embossed him you shall see his fall
 tonight for indeed he is not for your lordship's respect
first lord we'll make you some sport with the fox ere we case
 him he was first smoked by the old lord lafeu
 when his disguise and he is parted tell me what a
 sprat you shall find him which you shall see this
 very night
second lord i must go look my twigs he shall be caught
bertram your brother he shall go along with me
second lord as't please your lordship i'll leave you
 exit
bertram now will i lead you to the house and show you
 the lass i spoke of
first lord but you say she's honest
bertram that's all the fault i spoke with her but once
 and found her wondrous cold but i sent to her
 by this same coxcomb that we have i the wind
 tokens and letters which she did resend
 and this is all i have done she's a fair creature
 will you go see her
first lord with all my heart my lord
 exeunt
 all's well that ends well
act iii
scene vii florence the widow's house
 enter helena and widow
helena if you misdoubt me that i am not she
 i know not how i shall assure you further
 but i shall lose the grounds i work upon
widow though my estate be fallen i was well born
 nothing acquainted with these businesses
 and would not put my reputation now
 in any staining act
helena nor would i wish you
 first give me trust the count he is my husband
 and what to your sworn counsel i have spoken
 is so from word to word and then you cannot
 by the good aid that i of you shall borrow
 err in bestowing it
widow i should believe you
 for you have show'd me that which well approves
 you're great in fortune
helena take this purse of gold
 and let me buy your friendly help thus far
 which i will overpay and pay again
 when i have found it the count he wooes your daughter
 lays down his wanton siege before her beauty
 resolved to carry her let her in fine consent
 as we'll direct her how tis best to bear it
 now his important blood will nought deny
 that she'll demand a ring the county wears
 that downward hath succeeded in his house
 from son to son some four or five descents
 since the first father wore it this ring he holds
 in most rich choice yet in his idle fire
 to buy his will it would not seem too dear
 howe'er repented after
widow now i see
 the bottom of your purpose
helena you see it lawful then it is no more
 but that your daughter ere she seems as won
 desires this ring appoints him an encounter
 in fine delivers me to fill the time
 herself most chastely absent after this
 to marry her i'll add three thousand crowns
 to what is passed already
widow i have yielded
 instruct my daughter how she shall persever
 that time and place with this deceit so lawful
 may prove coherent every night he comes
 with musics of all sorts and songs composed
 to her unworthiness it nothing steads us
 to chide him from our eaves for he persists
 as if his life lay on't
helena why then tonight
 let us assay our plot which if it speed
 is wicked meaning in a lawful deed
 and lawful meaning in a lawful act
 where both not sin and yet a sinful fact
 but let's about it
 exeunt
 all's well that ends well
act iv
scene i without the florentine camp
 enter second french lord with five or six other
 soldiers in ambush
second lord he can come no other way but by this hedgecorner
 when you sally upon him speak what terrible
 language you will though you understand it not
 yourselves no matter for we must not seem to
 understand him unless some one among us whom we
 must produce for an interpreter
first soldier good captain let me be the interpreter
second lord art not acquainted with him knows he not thy voice
first soldier no sir i warrant you
second lord but what linseywoolsey hast thou to speak to us again
first soldier e'en such as you speak to me
second lord he must think us some band of strangers i the
 adversary's entertainment now he hath a smack of
 all neighbouring languages therefore we must every
 one be a man of his own fancy not to know what we
 speak one to another so we seem to know is to
 know straight our purpose choughs language
 gabble enough and good enough as for you
 interpreter you must seem very politic but couch
 ho here he comes to beguile two hours in a sleep
 and then to return and swear the lies he forges
 enter parolles
parolles ten o'clock within these three hours twill be
 time enough to go home what shall i say i have
 done it must be a very plausive invention that
 carries it they begin to smoke me and disgraces
 have of late knocked too often at my door i find
 my tongue is too foolhardy but my heart hath the
 fear of mars before it and of his creatures not
 daring the reports of my tongue
second lord this is the first truth that e'er thine own tongue
 was guilty of
parolles what the devil should move me to undertake the
 recovery of this drum being not ignorant of the
 impossibility and knowing i had no such purpose i
 must give myself some hurts and say i got them in
 exploit yet slight ones will not carry it they
 will say came you off with so little and great
 ones i dare not give wherefore what's the
 instance tongue i must put you into a
 butterwoman's mouth and buy myself another of
 bajazet's mule if you prattle me into these perils
second lord is it possible he should know what he is and be
 that he is
parolles i would the cutting of my garments would serve the
 turn or the breaking of my spanish sword
second lord we cannot afford you so
parolles or the baring of my beard and to say it was in
 stratagem
second lord twould not do
parolles or to drown my clothes and say i was stripped
second lord hardly serve
parolles though i swore i leaped from the window of the citadel
second lord how deep
parolles thirty fathom
second lord three great oaths would scarce make that be believed
parolles i would i had any drum of the enemy's i would swear
 i recovered it
second lord you shall hear one anon
parolles a drum now of the enemy's
 alarum within
second lord throca movousus cargo cargo cargo
all cargo cargo cargo villiando par corbo cargo
parolles o ransom ransom do not hide mine eyes
 they seize and blindfold him
first soldier boskos thromuldo boskos
parolles i know you are the muskos regiment
 and i shall lose my life for want of language
 if there be here german or dane low dutch
 italian or french let him speak to me i'll
 discover that which shall undo the florentine
first soldier boskos vauvado i understand thee and can speak
 thy tongue kerely bonto sir betake thee to thy
 faith for seventeen poniards are at thy bosom
parolles o
first soldier o pray pray pray manka revania dulche
second lord oscorbidulchos volivorco
first soldier the general is content to spare thee yet
 and hoodwink'd as thou art will lead thee on
 to gather from thee haply thou mayst inform
 something to save thy life
parolles o let me live
 and all the secrets of our camp i'll show
 their force their purposes nay i'll speak that
 which you will wonder at
first soldier but wilt thou faithfully
parolles if i do not damn me
first soldier acordo linta
 come on thou art granted space
 exit with parolles guarded a short alarum within
second lord go tell the count rousillon and my brother
 we have caught the woodcock and will keep him muffled
 till we do hear from them
second soldier captain i will
second lord a will betray us all unto ourselves
 inform on that
second soldier so i will sir
second lord till then i'll keep him dark and safely lock'd
 exeunt
 all's well that ends well
act iv
scene ii florence the widow's house
 enter bertram and diana
bertram they told me that your name was fontibell
diana no my good lord diana
bertram titled goddess
 and worth it with addition but fair soul
 in your fine frame hath love no quality
 if quick fire of youth light not your mind
 you are no maiden but a monument
 when you are dead you should be such a one
 as you are now for you are cold and stem
 and now you should be as your mother was
 when your sweet self was got
diana she then was honest
bertram so should you be
diana no
 my mother did but duty such my lord
 as you owe to your wife
bertram no more o that
 i prithee do not strive against my vows
 i was compell'd to her but i love thee
 by love's own sweet constraint and will for ever
 do thee all rights of service
diana ay so you serve us
 till we serve you but when you have our roses
 you barely leave our thorns to prick ourselves
 and mock us with our bareness
bertram how have i sworn
diana tis not the many oaths that makes the truth
 but the plain single vow that is vow'd true
 what is not holy that we swear not by
 but take the high'st to witness then pray you tell me
 if i should swear by god's great attributes
 i loved you dearly would you believe my oaths
 when i did love you ill this has no holding
 to swear by him whom i protest to love
 that i will work against him therefore your oaths
 are words and poor conditions but unseal'd
 at least in my opinion
bertram change it change it
 be not so holycruel love is holy
 and my integrity ne'er knew the crafts
 that you do charge men with stand no more off
 but give thyself unto my sick desires
 who then recover say thou art mine and ever
 my love as it begins shall so persever
diana i see that men make ropes in such a scarre
 that we'll forsake ourselves give me that ring
bertram i'll lend it thee my dear but have no power
 to give it from me
diana will you not my lord
bertram it is an honour longing to our house
 bequeathed down from many ancestors
 which were the greatest obloquy i the world
 in me to lose
diana mine honour's such a ring
 my chastity's the jewel of our house
 bequeathed down from many ancestors
 which were the greatest obloquy i the world
 in me to lose thus your own proper wisdom
 brings in the champion honour on my part
 against your vain assault
bertram here take my ring
 my house mine honour yea my life be thine
 and i'll be bid by thee
diana when midnight comes knock at my chamberwindow
 i'll order take my mother shall not hear
 now will i charge you in the band of truth
 when you have conquer'd my yet maiden bed
 remain there but an hour nor speak to me
 my reasons are most strong and you shall know them
 when back again this ring shall be deliver'd
 and on your finger in the night i'll put
 another ring that what in time proceeds
 may token to the future our past deeds
 adieu till then then fail not you have won
 a wife of me though there my hope be done
bertram a heaven on earth i have won by wooing thee
 exit
diana for which live long to thank both heaven and me
 you may so in the end
 my mother told me just how he would woo
 as if she sat in s heart she says all men
 have the like oaths he had sworn to marry me
 when his wife's dead therefore i'll lie with him
 when i am buried since frenchmen are so braid
 marry that will i live and die a maid
 only in this disguise i think't no sin
 to cozen him that would unjustly win
 exit
 all's well that ends well
act iv
scene iii the florentine camp
 enter the two french lords and some two or three soldiers
first lord you have not given him his mother's letter
second lord i have delivered it an hour since there is
 something in't that stings his nature for on the
 reading it he changed almost into another man
first lord he has much worthy blame laid upon him for shaking
 off so good a wife and so sweet a lady
second lord especially he hath incurred the everlasting
 displeasure of the king who had even tuned his
 bounty to sing happiness to him i will tell you a
 thing but you shall let it dwell darkly with you
first lord when you have spoken it tis dead and i am the
 grave of it
second lord he hath perverted a young gentlewoman here in
 florence of a most chaste renown and this night he
 fleshes his will in the spoil of her honour he hath
 given her his monumental ring and thinks himself
 made in the unchaste composition
first lord now god delay our rebellion as we are ourselves
 what things are we
second lord merely our own traitors and as in the common course
 of all treasons we still see them reveal
 themselves till they attain to their abhorred ends
 so he that in this action contrives against his own
 nobility in his proper stream o'erflows himself
first lord is it not meant damnable in us to be trumpeters of
 our unlawful intents we shall not then have his
 company tonight
second lord not till after midnight for he is dieted to his hour
first lord that approaches apace i would gladly have him see
 his company anatomized that he might take a measure
 of his own judgments wherein so curiously he had
 set this counterfeit
second lord we will not meddle with him till he come for his
 presence must be the whip of the other
first lord in the mean time what hear you of these wars
second lord i hear there is an overture of peace
first lord nay i assure you a peace concluded
second lord what will count rousillon do then will he travel
 higher or return again into france
first lord i perceive by this demand you are not altogether
 of his council
second lord let it be forbid sir so should i be a great deal
 of his act
first lord sir his wife some two months since fled from his
 house her pretence is a pilgrimage to saint jaques
 le grand which holy undertaking with most austere
 sanctimony she accomplished and there residing the
 tenderness of her nature became as a prey to her
 grief in fine made a groan of her last breath and
 now she sings in heaven
second lord how is this justified
first lord the stronger part of it by her own letters which
 makes her story true even to the point of her
 death her death itself which could not be her
 office to say is come was faithfully confirmed by
 the rector of the place
second lord hath the count all this intelligence
first lord ay and the particular confirmations point from
 point so to the full arming of the verity
second lord i am heartily sorry that he'll be glad of this
first lord how mightily sometimes we make us comforts of our losses
second lord and how mightily some other times we drown our gain
 in tears the great dignity that his valour hath
 here acquired for him shall at home be encountered
 with a shame as ample
first lord the web of our life is of a mingled yarn good and
 ill together our virtues would be proud if our
 faults whipped them not and our crimes would
 despair if they were not cherished by our virtues
 enter a messenger
 how now where's your master
servant he met the duke in the street sir of whom he hath
 taken a solemn leave his lordship will next
 morning for france the duke hath offered him
 letters of commendations to the king
second lord they shall be no more than needful there if they
 were more than they can commend
first lord they cannot be too sweet for the king's tartness
 here's his lordship now
 enter bertram
 how now my lord is't not after midnight
bertram i have tonight dispatched sixteen businesses a
 month's length apiece by an abstract of success
 i have congied with the duke done my adieu with his
 nearest buried a wife mourned for her writ to my
 lady mother i am returning entertained my convoy
 and between these main parcels of dispatch effected
 many nicer needs the last was the greatest but
 that i have not ended yet
second lord if the business be of any difficulty and this
 morning your departure hence it requires haste of
 your lordship
bertram i mean the business is not ended as fearing to
 hear of it hereafter but shall we have this
 dialogue between the fool and the soldier come
 bring forth this counterfeit module he has deceived
 me like a doublemeaning prophesier
second lord bring him forth has sat i the stocks all night
 poor gallant knave
bertram no matter his heels have deserved it in usurping
 his spurs so long how does he carry himself
second lord i have told your lordship already the stocks carry
 him but to answer you as you would be understood
 he weeps like a wench that had shed her milk he
 hath confessed himself to morgan whom he supposes
 to be a friar from the time of his remembrance to
 this very instant disaster of his setting i the
 stocks and what think you he hath confessed
bertram nothing of me has a'
second lord his confession is taken and it shall be read to his
 face if your lordship be in't as i believe you
 are you must have the patience to hear it
 enter parolles guarded and first soldier
bertram a plague upon him muffled he can say nothing of
 me hush hush
first lord hoodman comes portotartarosa
first soldier he calls for the tortures what will you say
 without em
parolles i will confess what i know without constraint if
 ye pinch me like a pasty i can say no more
first soldier bosko chimurcho
first lord boblibindo chicurmurco
first soldier you are a merciful general our general bids you
 answer to what i shall ask you out of a note
parolles and truly as i hope to live
first soldier reads first demand of him how many horse the
 duke is strong what say you to that
parolles five or six thousand but very weak and
 unserviceable the troops are all scattered and
 the commanders very poor rogues upon my reputation
 and credit and as i hope to live
first soldier shall i set down your answer so
parolles do i'll take the sacrament on't how and which way you will
bertram all's one to him what a pastsaving slave is this
first lord you're deceived my lord this is monsieur
 parolles the gallant militaristthat was his own
 phrasethat had the whole theoric of war in the
 knot of his scarf and the practise in the chape of
 his dagger
second lord i will never trust a man again for keeping his sword
 clean nor believe he can have every thing in him
 by wearing his apparel neatly
first soldier well that's set down
parolles five or six thousand horse i said i will say
 trueor thereabouts set down for i'll speak truth
first lord he's very near the truth in this
bertram but i con him no thanks for't in the nature he
 delivers it
parolles poor rogues i pray you say
first soldier well that's set down
parolles i humbly thank you sir a truth's a truth the
 rogues are marvellous poor
first soldier reads demand of him of what strength they are
 afoot what say you to that
parolles by my troth sir if i were to live this present
 hour i will tell true let me see spurio a
 hundred and fifty sebastian so many corambus so
 many jaques so many guiltian cosmo lodowick
 and gratii two hundred and fifty each mine own
 company chitopher vaumond bentii two hundred and
 fifty each so that the musterfile rotten and
 sound upon my life amounts not to fifteen thousand
 poll half of the which dare not shake snow from off
 their cassocks lest they shake themselves to pieces
bertram what shall be done to him
first lord nothing but let him have thanks demand of him my
 condition and what credit i have with the duke
first soldier well that's set down
 reads
 you shall demand of him whether one captain dumain
 be i the camp a frenchman what his reputation is
 with the duke what his valour honesty and
 expertness in wars or whether he thinks it were not
 possible with wellweighing sums of gold to
 corrupt him to revolt what say you to this what
 do you know of it
parolles i beseech you let me answer to the particular of
 the inter'gatories demand them singly
first soldier do you know this captain dumain
parolles i know him a was a botcher's prentice in paris
 from whence he was whipped for getting the shrieve's
 fool with childa dumb innocent that could not
 say him nay
bertram nay by your leave hold your hands though i know
 his brains are forfeit to the next tile that falls
first soldier well is this captain in the duke of florence's camp
parolles upon my knowledge he is and lousy
first lord nay look not so upon me we shall hear of your
 lordship anon
first soldier what is his reputation with the duke
parolles the duke knows him for no other but a poor officer
 of mine and writ to me this other day to turn him
 out o the band i think i have his letter in my pocket
first soldier marry we'll search
parolles in good sadness i do not know either it is there
 or it is upon a file with the duke's other letters
 in my tent
first soldier here tis here's a paper shall i read it to you
parolles i do not know if it be it or no
bertram our interpreter does it well
first lord excellently
first soldier reads dian the count's a fool and full of gold'
parolles that is not the duke's letter sir that is an
 advertisement to a proper maid in florence one
 diana to take heed of the allurement of one count
 rousillon a foolish idle boy but for all that very
 ruttish i pray you sir put it up again
first soldier nay i'll read it first by your favour
parolles my meaning in't i protest was very honest in the
 behalf of the maid for i knew the young count to be
 a dangerous and lascivious boy who is a whale to
 virginity and devours up all the fry it finds
bertram damnable bothsides rogue
first soldier reads when he swears oaths bid him drop gold and take it
 after he scores he never pays the score
 half won is match well made match and well make it
 he ne'er pays afterdebts take it before
 and say a soldier dian told thee this
 men are to mell with boys are not to kiss
 for count of this the count's a fool i know it
 who pays before but not when he does owe it
 thine as he vowed to thee in thine ear
 parolles'
bertram he shall be whipped through the army with this rhyme
 in's forehead
second lord this is your devoted friend sir the manifold
 linguist and the armipotent soldier
bertram i could endure any thing before but a cat and now
 he's a cat to me
first soldier i perceive sir by the general's looks we shall be
 fain to hang you
parolles my life sir in any case not that i am afraid to
 die but that my offences being many i would
 repent out the remainder of nature let me live
 sir in a dungeon i the stocks or any where so i may live
first soldier we'll see what may be done so you confess freely
 therefore once more to this captain dumain you
 have answered to his reputation with the duke and to
 his valour what is his honesty
parolles he will steal sir an egg out of a cloister for
 rapes and ravishments he parallels nessus he
 professes not keeping of oaths in breaking em he
 is stronger than hercules he will lie sir with
 such volubility that you would think truth were a
 fool drunkenness is his best virtue for he will
 be swinedrunk and in his sleep he does little
 harm save to his bedclothes about him but they
 know his conditions and lay him in straw i have but
 little more to say sir of his honesty he has
 every thing that an honest man should not have what
 an honest man should have he has nothing
first lord i begin to love him for this
bertram for this description of thine honesty a pox upon
 him for me he's more and more a cat
first soldier what say you to his expertness in war
parolles faith sir he has led the drum before the english
 tragedians to belie him i will not and more of
 his soldiership i know not except in that country
 he had the honour to be the officer at a place there
 called mileend to instruct for the doubling of
 files i would do the man what honour i can but of
 this i am not certain
first lord he hath outvillained villany so far that the
 rarity redeems him
bertram a pox on him he's a cat still
first soldier his qualities being at this poor price i need not
 to ask you if gold will corrupt him to revolt
parolles sir for a quart d'ecu he will sell the feesimple
 of his salvation the inheritance of it and cut the
 entail from all remainders and a perpetual
 succession for it perpetually
first soldier what's his brother the other captain dumain
second lord why does be ask him of me
first soldier what's he
parolles e'en a crow o the same nest not altogether so
 great as the first in goodness but greater a great
 deal in evil he excels his brother for a coward
 yet his brother is reputed one of the best that is
 in a retreat he outruns any lackey marry in coming
 on he has the cramp
first soldier if your life be saved will you undertake to betray
 the florentine
parolles ay and the captain of his horse count rousillon
first soldier i'll whisper with the general and know his pleasure
parolles aside i'll no more drumming a plague of all
 drums only to seem to deserve well and to
 beguile the supposition of that lascivious young boy
 the count have i run into this danger yet who
 would have suspected an ambush where i was taken
first soldier there is no remedy sir but you must die the
 general says you that have so traitorously
 discovered the secrets of your army and made such
 pestiferous reports of men very nobly held can
 serve the world for no honest use therefore you
 must die come headsman off with his head
parolles o lord sir let me live or let me see my death
first lord that shall you and take your leave of all your friends
 unblinding him
 so look about you know you any here
bertram good morrow noble captain
second lord god bless you captain parolles
first lord god save you noble captain
second lord captain what greeting will you to my lord lafeu
 i am for france
first lord good captain will you give me a copy of the sonnet
 you writ to diana in behalf of the count rousillon
 an i were not a very coward i'ld compel it of you
 but fare you well
 exeunt bertram and lords
first soldier you are undone captain all but your scarf that
 has a knot on't yet
parolles who cannot be crushed with a plot
first soldier if you could find out a country where but women were
 that had received so much shame you might begin an
 impudent nation fare ye well sir i am for france
 too we shall speak of you there
 exit with soldiers
parolles yet am i thankful if my heart were great
 twould burst at this captain i'll be no more
 but i will eat and drink and sleep as soft
 as captain shall simply the thing i am
 shall make me live who knows himself a braggart
 let him fear this for it will come to pass
 that every braggart shall be found an ass
 rust sword cool blushes and parolles live
 safest in shame being fool'd by foolery thrive
 there's place and means for every man alive
 i'll after them
 exit
 all's well that ends well
act iv
scene iv florence the widow's house
 enter helena widow and diana
helena that you may well perceive i have not wrong'd you
 one of the greatest in the christian world
 shall be my surety fore whose throne tis needful
 ere i can perfect mine intents to kneel
 time was i did him a desired office
 dear almost as his life which gratitude
 through flinty tartar's bosom would peep forth
 and answer thanks i duly am inform'd
 his grace is at marseilles to which place
 we have convenient convoy you must know
 i am supposed dead the army breaking
 my husband hies him home where heaven aiding
 and by the leave of my good lord the king
 we'll be before our welcome
widow gentle madam
 you never had a servant to whose trust
 your business was more welcome
helena nor you mistress
 ever a friend whose thoughts more truly labour
 to recompense your love doubt not but heaven
 hath brought me up to be your daughter's dower
 as it hath fated her to be my motive
 and helper to a husband but o strange men
 that can such sweet use make of what they hate
 when saucy trusting of the cozen'd thoughts
 defiles the pitchy night so lust doth play
 with what it loathes for that which is away
 but more of this hereafter you diana
 under my poor instructions yet must suffer
 something in my behalf
diana let death and honesty
 go with your impositions i am yours
 upon your will to suffer
helena yet i pray you
 but with the word the time will bring on summer
 when briers shall have leaves as well as thorns
 and be as sweet as sharp we must away
 our wagon is prepared and time revives us
 all's well that ends well still the fine's the crown
 whate'er the course the end is the renown
 exeunt
 all's well that ends well
act iv
scene v rousillon the count's palace
 enter countess lafeu and clown
lafeu no no no your son was misled with a snipttaffeta
 fellow there whose villanous saffron would have
 made all the unbaked and doughy youth of a nation in
 his colour your daughterinlaw had been alive at
 this hour and your son here at home more advanced
 by the king than by that redtailed humblebee i speak of
countess i would i had not known him it was the death of the
 most virtuous gentlewoman that ever nature had
 praise for creating if she had partaken of my
 flesh and cost me the dearest groans of a mother i
 could not have owed her a more rooted love
lafeu twas a good lady twas a good lady we may pick a
 thousand salads ere we light on such another herb
clown indeed sir she was the sweet marjoram of the
 salad or rather the herb of grace
lafeu they are not herbs you knave they are noseherbs
clown i am no great nebuchadnezzar sir i have not much
 skill in grass
lafeu whether dost thou profess thyself a knave or a fool
clown a fool sir at a woman's service and a knave at a man's
lafeu your distinction
clown i would cozen the man of his wife and do his service
lafeu so you were a knave at his service indeed
clown and i would give his wife my bauble sir to do her service
lafeu i will subscribe for thee thou art both knave and fool
clown at your service
lafeu no no no
clown why sir if i cannot serve you i can serve as
 great a prince as you are
lafeu who's that a frenchman
clown faith sir a has an english name but his fisnomy
 is more hotter in france than there
lafeu what prince is that
clown the black prince sir alias the prince of
 darkness alias the devil
lafeu hold thee there's my purse i give thee not this
 to suggest thee from thy master thou talkest of
 serve him still
clown i am a woodland fellow sir that always loved a
 great fire and the master i speak of ever keeps a
 good fire but sure he is the prince of the
 world let his nobility remain in's court i am for
 the house with the narrow gate which i take to be
 too little for pomp to enter some that humble
 themselves may but the many will be too chill and
 tender and they'll be for the flowery way that
 leads to the broad gate and the great fire
lafeu go thy ways i begin to be aweary of thee and i
 tell thee so before because i would not fall out
 with thee go thy ways let my horses be well
 looked to without any tricks
clown if i put any tricks upon em sir they shall be
 jades tricks which are their own right by the law of nature
 exit
lafeu a shrewd knave and an unhappy
countess so he is my lord that's gone made himself much
 sport out of him by his authority he remains here
 which he thinks is a patent for his sauciness and
 indeed he has no pace but runs where he will
lafeu i like him well tis not amiss and i was about to
 tell you since i heard of the good lady's death and
 that my lord your son was upon his return home i
 moved the king my master to speak in the behalf of
 my daughter which in the minority of them both
 his majesty out of a selfgracious remembrance did
 first propose his highness hath promised me to do
 it and to stop up the displeasure he hath
 conceived against your son there is no fitter
 matter how does your ladyship like it
countess with very much content my lord and i wish it
 happily effected
lafeu his highness comes post from marseilles of as able
 body as when he numbered thirty he will be here
 tomorrow or i am deceived by him that in such
 intelligence hath seldom failed
countess it rejoices me that i hope i shall see him ere i
 die i have letters that my son will be here
 tonight i shall beseech your lordship to remain
 with me till they meet together
lafeu madam i was thinking with what manners i might
 safely be admitted
countess you need but plead your honourable privilege
lafeu lady of that i have made a bold charter but i
 thank my god it holds yet
 reenter clown
clown o madam yonder's my lord your son with a patch of
 velvet on's face whether there be a scar under't
 or no the velvet knows but tis a goodly patch of
 velvet his left cheek is a cheek of two pile and a
 half but his right cheek is worn bare
lafeu a scar nobly got or a noble scar is a good livery
 of honour so belike is that
clown but it is your carbonadoed face
lafeu let us go see your son i pray you i long to talk
 with the young noble soldier
clown faith there's a dozen of em with delicate fine
 hats and most courteous feathers which bow the head
 and nod at every man
 exeunt
 all's well that ends well
act v
scene i marseilles a street
 enter helena widow and diana with two
 attendants
helena but this exceeding posting day and night
 must wear your spirits low we cannot help it
 but since you have made the days and nights as one
 to wear your gentle limbs in my affairs
 be bold you do so grow in my requital
 as nothing can unroot you in happy time
 enter a gentleman
 this man may help me to his majesty's ear
 if he would spend his power god save you sir
gentleman and you
helena sir i have seen you in the court of france
gentleman i have been sometimes there
helena i do presume sir that you are not fallen
 from the report that goes upon your goodness
 an therefore goaded with most sharp occasions
 which lay nice manners by i put you to
 the use of your own virtues for the which
 i shall continue thankful
gentleman what's your will
helena that it will please you
 to give this poor petition to the king
 and aid me with that store of power you have
 to come into his presence
gentleman the king's not here
helena not here sir
gentleman not indeed
 he hence removed last night and with more haste
 than is his use
widow lord how we lose our pains
helena all's well that ends well yet
 though time seem so adverse and means unfit
 i do beseech you whither is he gone
gentleman marry as i take it to rousillon
 whither i am going
helena i do beseech you sir
 since you are like to see the king before me
 commend the paper to his gracious hand
 which i presume shall render you no blame
 but rather make you thank your pains for it
 i will come after you with what good speed
 our means will make us means
gentleman this i'll do for you
helena and you shall find yourself to be well thank'd
 whate'er falls more we must to horse again
 go go provide
 exeunt
 all's well that ends well
act v
scene ii rousillon before the count's palace
 enter clown and parolles following
parolles good monsieur lavache give my lord lafeu this
 letter i have ere now sir been better known to
 you when i have held familiarity with fresher
 clothes but i am now sir muddied in fortune's
 mood and smell somewhat strong of her strong
 displeasure
clown truly fortune's displeasure is but sluttish if it
 smell so strongly as thou speakest of i will
 henceforth eat no fish of fortune's buttering
 prithee allow the wind
parolles nay you need not to stop your nose sir i spake
 but by a metaphor
clown indeed sir if your metaphor stink i will stop my
 nose or against any man's metaphor prithee get
 thee further
parolles pray you sir deliver me this paper
clown foh prithee stand away a paper from fortune's
 closestool to give to a nobleman look here he
 comes himself
 enter lafeu
 here is a purr of fortune's sir or of fortune's
 catbut not a muskcatthat has fallen into the
 unclean fishpond of her displeasure and as he
 says is muddied withal pray you sir use the
 carp as you may for he looks like a poor decayed
 ingenious foolish rascally knave i do pity his
 distress in my similes of comfort and leave him to
 your lordship
 exit
parolles my lord i am a man whom fortune hath cruelly
 scratched
lafeu and what would you have me to do tis too late to
 pare her nails now wherein have you played the
 knave with fortune that she should scratch you who
 of herself is a good lady and would not have knaves
 thrive long under her there's a quart d'ecu for
 you let the justices make you and fortune friends
 i am for other business
parolles i beseech your honour to hear me one single word
lafeu you beg a single penny more come you shall ha't
 save your word
parolles my name my good lord is parolles
lafeu you beg more than word then cox my passion
 give me your hand how does your drum
parolles o my good lord you were the first that found me
lafeu was i in sooth and i was the first that lost thee
parolles it lies in you my lord to bring me in some grace
 for you did bring me out
lafeu out upon thee knave dost thou put upon me at once
 both the office of god and the devil one brings
 thee in grace and the other brings thee out
 trumpets sound
 the king's coming i know by his trumpets sirrah
 inquire further after me i had talk of you last
 night though you are a fool and a knave you shall
 eat go to follow
parolles i praise god for you
 exeunt
 all's well that ends well
act v
scene iii rousillon the count's palace
 flourish enter king countess lafeu the two
 french lords with attendants
king we lost a jewel of her and our esteem
 was made much poorer by it but your son
 as mad in folly lack'd the sense to know
 her estimation home
countess tis past my liege
 and i beseech your majesty to make it
 natural rebellion done i the blaze of youth
 when oil and fire too strong for reason's force
 o'erbears it and burns on
king my honour'd lady
 i have forgiven and forgotten all
 though my revenges were high bent upon him
 and watch'd the time to shoot
lafeu this i must say
 but first i beg my pardon the young lord
 did to his majesty his mother and his lady
 offence of mighty note but to himself
 the greatest wrong of all he lost a wife
 whose beauty did astonish the survey
 of richest eyes whose words all ears took captive
 whose dear perfection hearts that scorn'd to serve
 humbly call'd mistress
king praising what is lost
 makes the remembrance dear well call him hither
 we are reconciled and the first view shall kill
 all repetition let him not ask our pardon
 the nature of his great offence is dead
 and deeper than oblivion we do bury
 the incensing relics of it let him approach
 a stranger no offender and inform him
 so tis our will he should
gentleman i shall my liege
 exit
king what says he to your daughter have you spoke
lafeu all that he is hath reference to your highness
king then shall we have a match i have letters sent me
 that set him high in fame
 enter bertram
lafeu he looks well on't
king i am not a day of season
 for thou mayst see a sunshine and a hail
 in me at once but to the brightest beams
 distracted clouds give way so stand thou forth
 the time is fair again
bertram my highrepented blames
 dear sovereign pardon to me
king all is whole
 not one word more of the consumed time
 let's take the instant by the forward top
 for we are old and on our quick'st decrees
 the inaudible and noiseless foot of time
 steals ere we can effect them you remember
 the daughter of this lord
bertram admiringly my liege at first
 i stuck my choice upon her ere my heart
 durst make too bold a herald of my tongue
 where the impression of mine eye infixing
 contempt his scornful perspective did lend me
 which warp'd the line of every other favour
 scorn'd a fair colour or express'd it stolen
 extended or contracted all proportions
 to a most hideous object thence it came
 that she whom all men praised and whom myself
 since i have lost have loved was in mine eye
 the dust that did offend it
king well excused
 that thou didst love her strikes some scores away
 from the great compt but love that comes too late
 like a remorseful pardon slowly carried
 to the great sender turns a sour offence
 crying that's good that's gone our rash faults
 make trivial price of serious things we have
 not knowing them until we know their grave
 oft our displeasures to ourselves unjust
 destroy our friends and after weep their dust
 our own love waking cries to see what's done
 while shame full late sleeps out the afternoon
 be this sweet helen's knell and now forget her
 send forth your amorous token for fair maudlin
 the main consents are had and here we'll stay
 to see our widower's second marriageday
countess which better than the first o dear heaven bless
 or ere they meet in me o nature cesse
lafeu come on my son in whom my house's name
 must be digested give a favour from you
 to sparkle in the spirits of my daughter
 that she may quickly come
 bertram gives a ring
 by my old beard
 and every hair that's on't helen that's dead
 was a sweet creature such a ring as this
 the last that e'er i took her at court
 i saw upon her finger
bertram hers it was not
king now pray you let me see it for mine eye
 while i was speaking oft was fasten'd to't
 this ring was mine and when i gave it helen
 i bade her if her fortunes ever stood
 necessitied to help that by this token
 i would relieve her had you that craft to reave
 her
 of what should stead her most
bertram my gracious sovereign
 howe'er it pleases you to take it so
 the ring was never hers
countess son on my life
 i have seen her wear it and she reckon'd it
 at her life's rate
lafeu i am sure i saw her wear it
bertram you are deceived my lord she never saw it
 in florence was it from a casement thrown me
 wrapp'd in a paper which contain'd the name
 of her that threw it noble she was and thought
 i stood engaged but when i had subscribed
 to mine own fortune and inform'd her fully
 i could not answer in that course of honour
 as she had made the overture she ceased
 in heavy satisfaction and would never
 receive the ring again
king plutus himself
 that knows the tinct and multiplying medicine
 hath not in nature's mystery more science
 than i have in this ring twas mine twas helen's
 whoever gave it you then if you know
 that you are well acquainted with yourself
 confess twas hers and by what rough enforcement
 you got it from her she call'd the saints to surety
 that she would never put it from her finger
 unless she gave it to yourself in bed
 where you have never come or sent it us
 upon her great disaster
bertram she never saw it
king thou speak'st it falsely as i love mine honour
 and makest conjectural fears to come into me
 which i would fain shut out if it should prove
 that thou art so inhuman'twill not prove so
 and yet i know not thou didst hate her deadly
 and she is dead which nothing but to close
 her eyes myself could win me to believe
 more than to see this ring take him away
 guards seize bertram
 my forepast proofs howe'er the matter fall
 shall tax my fears of little vanity
 having vainly fear'd too little away with him
 we'll sift this matter further
bertram if you shall prove
 this ring was ever hers you shall as easy
 prove that i husbanded her bed in florence
 where yet she never was
 exit guarded
king i am wrapp'd in dismal thinkings
 enter a gentleman
gentleman gracious sovereign
 whether i have been to blame or no i know not
 here's a petition from a florentine
 who hath for four or five removes come short
 to tender it herself i undertook it
 vanquish'd thereto by the fair grace and speech
 of the poor suppliant who by this i know
 is here attending her business looks in her
 with an importing visage and she told me
 in a sweet verbal brief it did concern
 your highness with herself
king reads upon his many protestations to marry me
 when his wife was dead i blush to say it he won
 me now is the count rousillon a widower his vows
 are forfeited to me and my honour's paid to him he
 stole from florence taking no leave and i follow
 him to his country for justice grant it me o
 king in you it best lies otherwise a seducer
 flourishes and a poor maid is undone
 diana capilet
lafeu i will buy me a soninlaw in a fair and toll for
 this i'll none of him
king the heavens have thought well on thee lafeu
 to bring forth this discovery seek these suitors
 go speedily and bring again the count
 i am afeard the life of helen lady
 was foully snatch'd
countess now justice on the doers
 reenter bertram guarded
king i wonder sir sith wives are monsters to you
 and that you fly them as you swear them lordship
 yet you desire to marry
 enter widow and diana
 what woman's that
diana i am my lord a wretched florentine
 derived from the ancient capilet
 my suit as i do understand you know
 and therefore know how far i may be pitied
widow i am her mother sir whose age and honour
 both suffer under this complaint we bring
 and both shall cease without your remedy
king come hither count do you know these women
bertram my lord i neither can nor will deny
 but that i know them do they charge me further
diana why do you look so strange upon your wife
bertram she's none of mine my lord
diana if you shall marry
 you give away this hand and that is mine
 you give away heaven's vows and those are mine
 you give away myself which is known mine
 for i by vow am so embodied yours
 that she which marries you must marry me
 either both or none
lafeu your reputation comes too short for my daughter you
 are no husband for her
bertram my lord this is a fond and desperate creature
 whom sometime i have laugh'd with let your highness
 lay a more noble thought upon mine honour
 than for to think that i would sink it here
king sir for my thoughts you have them ill to friend
 till your deeds gain them fairer prove your honour
 than in my thought it lies
diana good my lord
 ask him upon his oath if he does think
 he had not my virginity
king what say'st thou to her
bertram she's impudent my lord
 and was a common gamester to the camp
diana he does me wrong my lord if i were so
 he might have bought me at a common price
 do not believe him o behold this ring
 whose high respect and rich validity
 did lack a parallel yet for all that
 he gave it to a commoner o the camp
 if i be one
countess he blushes and tis it
 of six preceding ancestors that gem
 conferr'd by testament to the sequent issue
 hath it been owed and worn this is his wife
 that ring's a thousand proofs
king methought you said
 you saw one here in court could witness it
diana i did my lord but loath am to produce
 so bad an instrument his name's parolles
lafeu i saw the man today if man he be
king find him and bring him hither
 exit an attendant
bertram what of him
 he's quoted for a most perfidious slave
 with all the spots o the world tax'd and debosh'd
 whose nature sickens but to speak a truth
 am i or that or this for what he'll utter
 that will speak any thing
king she hath that ring of yours
bertram i think she has certain it is i liked her
 and boarded her i the wanton way of youth
 she knew her distance and did angle for me
 madding my eagerness with her restraint
 as all impediments in fancy's course
 are motives of more fancy and in fine
 her infinite cunning with her modern grace
 subdued me to her rate she got the ring
 and i had that which any inferior might
 at marketprice have bought
diana i must be patient
 you that have turn'd off a first so noble wife
 may justly diet me i pray you yet
 since you lack virtue i will lose a husband
 send for your ring i will return it home
 and give me mine again
bertram i have it not
king what ring was yours i pray you
diana sir much like
 the same upon your finger
king know you this ring this ring was his of late
diana and this was it i gave him being abed
king the story then goes false you threw it him
 out of a casement
diana i have spoke the truth
 enter parolles
bertram my lord i do confess the ring was hers
king you boggle shrewdly every feather stars you
 is this the man you speak of
diana ay my lord
king tell me sirrah but tell me true i charge you
 not fearing the displeasure of your master
 which on your just proceeding i'll keep off
 by him and by this woman here what know you
parolles so please your majesty my master hath been an
 honourable gentleman tricks he hath had in him
 which gentlemen have
king come come to the purpose did he love this woman
parolles faith sir he did love her but how
king how i pray you
parolles he did love her sir as a gentleman loves a woman
king how is that
parolles he loved her sir and loved her not
king as thou art a knave and no knave what an
 equivocal companion is this
parolles i am a poor man and at your majesty's command
lafeu he's a good drum my lord but a naughty orator
diana do you know he promised me marriage
parolles faith i know more than i'll speak
king but wilt thou not speak all thou knowest
parolles yes so please your majesty i did go between them
 as i said but more than that he loved her for
 indeed he was mad for her and talked of satan and
 of limbo and of furies and i know not what yet i
 was in that credit with them at that time that i
 knew of their going to bed and of other motions
 as promising her marriage and things which would
 derive me ill will to speak of therefore i will not
 speak what i know
king thou hast spoken all already unless thou canst say
 they are married but thou art too fine in thy
 evidence therefore stand aside
 this ring you say was yours
diana ay my good lord
king where did you buy it or who gave it you
diana it was not given me nor i did not buy it
king who lent it you
diana it was not lent me neither
king where did you find it then
diana i found it not
king if it were yours by none of all these ways
 how could you give it him
diana i never gave it him
lafeu this woman's an easy glove my lord she goes off
 and on at pleasure
king this ring was mine i gave it his first wife
diana it might be yours or hers for aught i know
king take her away i do not like her now
 to prison with her and away with him
 unless thou tell'st me where thou hadst this ring
 thou diest within this hour
diana i'll never tell you
king take her away
diana i'll put in bail my liege
king i think thee now some common customer
diana by jove if ever i knew man twas you
king wherefore hast thou accused him all this while
diana because he's guilty and he is not guilty
 he knows i am no maid and he'll swear to't
 i'll swear i am a maid and he knows not
 great king i am no strumpet by my life
 i am either maid or else this old man's wife
king she does abuse our ears to prison with her
diana good mother fetch my bail stay royal sir
 exit widow
 the jeweller that owes the ring is sent for
 and he shall surety me but for this lord
 who hath abused me as he knows himself
 though yet he never harm'd me here i quit him
 he knows himself my bed he hath defiled
 and at that time he got his wife with child
 dead though she be she feels her young one kick
 so there's my riddle one that's dead is quick
 and now behold the meaning
 reenter widow with helena
king is there no exorcist
 beguiles the truer office of mine eyes
 is't real that i see
helena no my good lord
 tis but the shadow of a wife you see
 the name and not the thing
bertram both both o pardon
helena o my good lord when i was like this maid
 i found you wondrous kind there is your ring
 and look you here's your letter this it says
 when from my finger you can get this ring
 and are by me with child &c this is done
 will you be mine now you are doubly won
bertram if she my liege can make me know this clearly
 i'll love her dearly ever ever dearly
helena if it appear not plain and prove untrue
 deadly divorce step between me and you
 o my dear mother do i see you living
lafeu mine eyes smell onions i shall weep anon
 to parolles
 good tom drum lend me a handkercher so
 i thank thee wait on me home i'll make sport with thee
 let thy courtesies alone they are scurvy ones
king let us from point to point this story know
 to make the even truth in pleasure flow
 to diana
 if thou be'st yet a fresh uncropped flower
 choose thou thy husband and i'll pay thy dower
 for i can guess that by thy honest aid
 thou keep'st a wife herself thyself a maid
 of that and all the progress more or less
 resolvedly more leisure shall express
 all yet seems well and if it end so meet
 the bitter past more welcome is the sweet
 flourish
 all's well that ends well
 epilogue
king the king's a beggar now the play is done
 all is well ended if this suit be won
 that you express content which we will pay
 with strife to please you day exceeding day
 ours be your patience then and yours our parts
 your gentle hands lend us and take our hearts
 exeunt
 as you like it
 dramatis personae
duke senior living in banishment
duke frederick his brother an usurper of his dominions
amiens 
 lords attending on the banished duke
jaques 
le beau a courtier attending upon frederick
charles wrestler to frederick
oliver 
 
jaques jaques de boys sons of sir rowland de boys
 
orlando 
adam 
 servants to oliver
dennis 
touchstone a clown
sir oliver martext a vicar
corin 
 shepherds
silvius 
william a country fellow in love with audrey
 a person representing hymen hymen
rosalind daughter to the banished duke
celia daughter to frederick
phebe a shepherdess
audrey a country wench
 lords pages and attendants &c
 forester
 a lord
 first lord
 second lord
 first page
 second page
scene oliver's house duke frederick's court and the
 forest of arden
 as you like it
act i
scene i orchard of oliver's house
 enter orlando and adam
orlando as i remember adam it was upon this fashion
 bequeathed me by will but poor a thousand crowns
 and as thou sayest charged my brother on his
 blessing to breed me well and there begins my
 sadness my brother jaques he keeps at school and
 report speaks goldenly of his profit for my part
 he keeps me rustically at home or to speak more
 properly stays me here at home unkept for call you
 that keeping for a gentleman of my birth that
 differs not from the stalling of an ox his horses
 are bred better for besides that they are fair
 with their feeding they are taught their manage
 and to that end riders dearly hired but i his
 brother gain nothing under him but growth for the
 which his animals on his dunghills are as much
 bound to him as i besides this nothing that he so
 plentifully gives me the something that nature gave
 me his countenance seems to take from me he lets
 me feed with his hinds bars me the place of a
 brother and as much as in him lies mines my
 gentility with my education this is it adam that
 grieves me and the spirit of my father which i
 think is within me begins to mutiny against this
 servitude i will no longer endure it though yet i
 know no wise remedy how to avoid it
adam yonder comes my master your brother
orlando go apart adam and thou shalt hear how he will
 shake me up
 enter oliver
oliver now sir what make you here
orlando nothing i am not taught to make any thing
oliver what mar you then sir
orlando marry sir i am helping you to mar that which god
 made a poor unworthy brother of yours with idleness
oliver marry sir be better employed and be naught awhile
orlando shall i keep your hogs and eat husks with them
 what prodigal portion have i spent that i should
 come to such penury
oliver know you where your are sir
orlando o sir very well here in your orchard
oliver know you before whom sir
orlando ay better than him i am before knows me i know
 you are my eldest brother and in the gentle
 condition of blood you should so know me the
 courtesy of nations allows you my better in that
 you are the firstborn but the same tradition
 takes not away my blood were there twenty brothers
 betwixt us i have as much of my father in me as
 you albeit i confess your coming before me is
 nearer to his reverence
oliver what boy
orlando come come elder brother you are too young in this
oliver wilt thou lay hands on me villain
orlando i am no villain i am the youngest son of sir
 rowland de boys he was my father and he is thrice
 a villain that says such a father begot villains
 wert thou not my brother i would not take this hand
 from thy throat till this other had pulled out thy
 tongue for saying so thou hast railed on thyself
adam sweet masters be patient for your father's
 remembrance be at accord
oliver let me go i say
orlando i will not till i please you shall hear me my
 father charged you in his will to give me good
 education you have trained me like a peasant
 obscuring and hiding from me all gentlemanlike
 qualities the spirit of my father grows strong in
 me and i will no longer endure it therefore allow
 me such exercises as may become a gentleman or
 give me the poor allottery my father left me by
 testament with that i will go buy my fortunes
oliver and what wilt thou do beg when that is spent
 well sir get you in i will not long be troubled
 with you you shall have some part of your will i
 pray you leave me
orlando i will no further offend you than becomes me for my good
oliver get you with him you old dog
adam is old dog my reward most true i have lost my
 teeth in your service god be with my old master
 he would not have spoke such a word
 exeunt orlando and adam
oliver is it even so begin you to grow upon me i will
 physic your rankness and yet give no thousand
 crowns neither holla dennis
 enter dennis
dennis calls your worship
oliver was not charles the duke's wrestler here to speak with me
dennis so please you he is here at the door and importunes
 access to you
oliver call him in
 exit dennis
 twill be a good way and tomorrow the wrestling is
 enter charles
charles good morrow to your worship
oliver good monsieur charles what's the new news at the
 new court
charles there's no news at the court sir but the old news
 that is the old duke is banished by his younger
 brother the new duke and three or four loving lords
 have put themselves into voluntary exile with him
 whose lands and revenues enrich the new duke
 therefore he gives them good leave to wander
oliver can you tell if rosalind the duke's daughter be
 banished with her father
charles o no for the duke's daughter her cousin so loves
 her being ever from their cradles bred together
 that she would have followed her exile or have died
 to stay behind her she is at the court and no
 less beloved of her uncle than his own daughter and
 never two ladies loved as they do
oliver where will the old duke live
charles they say he is already in the forest of arden and
 a many merry men with him and there they live like
 the old robin hood of england they say many young
 gentlemen flock to him every day and fleet the time
 carelessly as they did in the golden world
oliver what you wrestle tomorrow before the new duke
charles marry do i sir and i came to acquaint you with a
 matter i am given sir secretly to understand
 that your younger brother orlando hath a disposition
 to come in disguised against me to try a fall
 tomorrow sir i wrestle for my credit and he that
 escapes me without some broken limb shall acquit him
 well your brother is but young and tender and
 for your love i would be loath to foil him as i
 must for my own honour if he come in therefore
 out of my love to you i came hither to acquaint you
 withal that either you might stay him from his
 intendment or brook such disgrace well as he shall
 run into in that it is a thing of his own search
 and altogether against my will
oliver charles i thank thee for thy love to me which
 thou shalt find i will most kindly requite i had
 myself notice of my brother's purpose herein and
 have by underhand means laboured to dissuade him from
 it but he is resolute i'll tell thee charles
 it is the stubbornest young fellow of france full
 of ambition an envious emulator of every man's
 good parts a secret and villanous contriver against
 me his natural brother therefore use thy
 discretion i had as lief thou didst break his neck
 as his finger and thou wert best look to't for if
 thou dost him any slight disgrace or if he do not
 mightily grace himself on thee he will practise
 against thee by poison entrap thee by some
 treacherous device and never leave thee till he
 hath ta'en thy life by some indirect means or other
 for i assure thee and almost with tears i speak
 it there is not one so young and so villanous this
 day living i speak but brotherly of him but
 should i anatomize him to thee as he is i must
 blush and weep and thou must look pale and wonder
charles i am heartily glad i came hither to you if he come
 tomorrow i'll give him his payment if ever he go
 alone again i'll never wrestle for prize more and
 so god keep your worship
oliver farewell good charles
 exit charles
 now will i stir this gamester i hope i shall see
 an end of him for my soul yet i know not why
 hates nothing more than he yet he's gentle never
 schooled and yet learned full of noble device of
 all sorts enchantingly beloved and indeed so much
 in the heart of the world and especially of my own
 people who best know him that i am altogether
 misprised but it shall not be so long this
 wrestler shall clear all nothing remains but that
 i kindle the boy thither which now i'll go about
 exit
 as you like it
act i
scene ii lawn before the duke's palace
 enter celia and rosalind
celia i pray thee rosalind sweet my coz be merry
rosalind dear celia i show more mirth than i am mistress of
 and would you yet i were merrier unless you could
 teach me to forget a banished father you must not
 learn me how to remember any extraordinary pleasure
celia herein i see thou lovest me not with the full weight
 that i love thee if my uncle thy banished father
 had banished thy uncle the duke my father so thou
 hadst been still with me i could have taught my
 love to take thy father for mine so wouldst thou
 if the truth of thy love to me were so righteously
 tempered as mine is to thee
rosalind well i will forget the condition of my estate to
 rejoice in yours
celia you know my father hath no child but i nor none is
 like to have and truly when he dies thou shalt
 be his heir for what he hath taken away from thy
 father perforce i will render thee again in
 affection by mine honour i will and when i break
 that oath let me turn monster therefore my
 sweet rose my dear rose be merry
rosalind from henceforth i will coz and devise sports let
 me see what think you of falling in love
celia marry i prithee do to make sport withal but
 love no man in good earnest nor no further in sport
 neither than with safety of a pure blush thou mayst
 in honour come off again
rosalind what shall be our sport then
celia let us sit and mock the good housewife fortune from
 her wheel that her gifts may henceforth be bestowed equally
rosalind i would we could do so for her benefits are
 mightily misplaced and the bountiful blind woman
 doth most mistake in her gifts to women
celia tis true for those that she makes fair she scarce
 makes honest and those that she makes honest she
 makes very illfavouredly
rosalind nay now thou goest from fortune's office to
 nature's fortune reigns in gifts of the world
 not in the lineaments of nature
 enter touchstone
celia no when nature hath made a fair creature may she
 not by fortune fall into the fire though nature
 hath given us wit to flout at fortune hath not
 fortune sent in this fool to cut off the argument
rosalind indeed there is fortune too hard for nature when
 fortune makes nature's natural the cutteroff of
 nature's wit
celia peradventure this is not fortune's work neither but
 nature's who perceiveth our natural wits too dull
 to reason of such goddesses and hath sent this
 natural for our whetstone for always the dulness of
 the fool is the whetstone of the wits how now
 wit whither wander you
touchstone mistress you must come away to your father
celia were you made the messenger
touchstone no by mine honour but i was bid to come for you
rosalind where learned you that oath fool
touchstone of a certain knight that swore by his honour they
 were good pancakes and swore by his honour the
 mustard was naught now i'll stand to it the
 pancakes were naught and the mustard was good and
 yet was not the knight forsworn
celia how prove you that in the great heap of your
 knowledge
rosalind ay marry now unmuzzle your wisdom
touchstone stand you both forth now stroke your chins and
 swear by your beards that i am a knave
celia by our beards if we had them thou art
touchstone by my knavery if i had it then i were but if you
 swear by that that is not you are not forsworn no
 more was this knight swearing by his honour for he
 never had any or if he had he had sworn it away
 before ever he saw those pancakes or that mustard
celia prithee who is't that thou meanest
touchstone one that old frederick your father loves
celia my father's love is enough to honour him enough
 speak no more of him you'll be whipped for taxation
 one of these days
touchstone the more pity that fools may not speak wisely what
 wise men do foolishly
celia by my troth thou sayest true for since the little
 wit that fools have was silenced the little foolery
 that wise men have makes a great show here comes
 monsieur le beau
rosalind with his mouth full of news
celia which he will put on us as pigeons feed their young
rosalind then shall we be newscrammed
celia all the better we shall be the more marketable
 enter le beau
 bon jour monsieur le beau what's the news
le beau fair princess you have lost much good sport
celia sport of what colour
le beau what colour madam how shall i answer you
rosalind as wit and fortune will
touchstone or as the destinies decree
celia well said that was laid on with a trowel
touchstone nay if i keep not my rank
rosalind thou losest thy old smell
le beau you amaze me ladies i would have told you of good
 wrestling which you have lost the sight of
rosalind you tell us the manner of the wrestling
le beau i will tell you the beginning and if it please
 your ladyships you may see the end for the best is
 yet to do and here where you are they are coming
 to perform it
celia well the beginning that is dead and buried
le beau there comes an old man and his three sons
celia i could match this beginning with an old tale
le beau three proper young men of excellent growth and presence
rosalind with bills on their necks be it known unto all men
 by these presents'
le beau the eldest of the three wrestled with charles the
 duke's wrestler which charles in a moment threw him
 and broke three of his ribs that there is little
 hope of life in him so he served the second and
 so the third yonder they lie the poor old man
 their father making such pitiful dole over them
 that all the beholders take his part with weeping
rosalind alas
touchstone but what is the sport monsieur that the ladies
 have lost
le beau why this that i speak of
touchstone thus men may grow wiser every day it is the first
 time that ever i heard breaking of ribs was sport
 for ladies
celia or i i promise thee
rosalind but is there any else longs to see this broken music
 in his sides is there yet another dotes upon
 ribbreaking shall we see this wrestling cousin
le beau you must if you stay here for here is the place
 appointed for the wrestling and they are ready to
 perform it
celia yonder sure they are coming let us now stay and see it
 flourish enter duke frederick lords orlando
 charles and attendants
duke frederick come on since the youth will not be entreated his
 own peril on his forwardness
rosalind is yonder the man
le beau even he madam
celia alas he is too young yet he looks successfully
duke frederick how now daughter and cousin are you crept hither
 to see the wrestling
rosalind ay my liege so please you give us leave
duke frederick you will take little delight in it i can tell you
 there is such odds in the man in pity of the
 challenger's youth i would fain dissuade him but he
 will not be entreated speak to him ladies see if
 you can move him
celia call him hither good monsieur le beau
duke frederick do so i'll not be by
le beau monsieur the challenger the princesses call for you
orlando i attend them with all respect and duty
rosalind young man have you challenged charles the wrestler
orlando no fair princess he is the general challenger i
 come but in as others do to try with him the
 strength of my youth
celia young gentleman your spirits are too bold for your
 years you have seen cruel proof of this man's
 strength if you saw yourself with your eyes or
 knew yourself with your judgment the fear of your
 adventure would counsel you to a more equal
 enterprise we pray you for your own sake to
 embrace your own safety and give over this attempt
rosalind do young sir your reputation shall not therefore
 be misprised we will make it our suit to the duke
 that the wrestling might not go forward
orlando i beseech you punish me not with your hard
 thoughts wherein i confess me much guilty to deny
 so fair and excellent ladies any thing but let
 your fair eyes and gentle wishes go with me to my
 trial wherein if i be foiled there is but one
 shamed that was never gracious if killed but one
 dead that was willing to be so i shall do my
 friends no wrong for i have none to lament me the
 world no injury for in it i have nothing only in
 the world i fill up a place which may be better
 supplied when i have made it empty
rosalind the little strength that i have i would it were with you
celia and mine to eke out hers
rosalind fare you well pray heaven i be deceived in you
celia your heart's desires be with you
charles come where is this young gallant that is so
 desirous to lie with his mother earth
orlando ready sir but his will hath in it a more modest working
duke frederick you shall try but one fall
charles no i warrant your grace you shall not entreat him
 to a second that have so mightily persuaded him
 from a first
orlando an you mean to mock me after you should not have
 mocked me before but come your ways
rosalind now hercules be thy speed young man
celia i would i were invisible to catch the strong
 fellow by the leg
 they wrestle
rosalind o excellent young man
celia if i had a thunderbolt in mine eye i can tell who
 should down
 shout charles is thrown
duke frederick no more no more
orlando yes i beseech your grace i am not yet well breathed
duke frederick how dost thou charles
le beau he cannot speak my lord
duke frederick bear him away what is thy name young man
orlando orlando my liege the youngest son of sir rowland de boys
duke frederick i would thou hadst been son to some man else
 the world esteem'd thy father honourable
 but i did find him still mine enemy
 thou shouldst have better pleased me with this deed
 hadst thou descended from another house
 but fare thee well thou art a gallant youth
 i would thou hadst told me of another father
 exeunt duke frederick train and le beau
celia were i my father coz would i do this
orlando i am more proud to be sir rowland's son
 his youngest son and would not change that calling
 to be adopted heir to frederick
rosalind my father loved sir rowland as his soul
 and all the world was of my father's mind
 had i before known this young man his son
 i should have given him tears unto entreaties
 ere he should thus have ventured
celia gentle cousin
 let us go thank him and encourage him
 my father's rough and envious disposition
 sticks me at heart sir you have well deserved
 if you do keep your promises in love
 but justly as you have exceeded all promise
 your mistress shall be happy
rosalind gentleman
 giving him a chain from her neck
 wear this for me one out of suits with fortune
 that could give more but that her hand lacks means
 shall we go coz
celia ay fare you well fair gentleman
orlando can i not say i thank you my better parts
 are all thrown down and that which here stands up
 is but a quintain a mere lifeless block
rosalind he calls us back my pride fell with my fortunes
 i'll ask him what he would did you call sir
 sir you have wrestled well and overthrown
 more than your enemies
celia will you go coz
rosalind have with you fare you well
 exeunt rosalind and celia
orlando what passion hangs these weights upon my tongue
 i cannot speak to her yet she urged conference
 o poor orlando thou art overthrown
 or charles or something weaker masters thee
 reenter le beau
le beau good sir i do in friendship counsel you
 to leave this place albeit you have deserved
 high commendation true applause and love
 yet such is now the duke's condition
 that he misconstrues all that you have done
 the duke is humorous what he is indeed
 more suits you to conceive than i to speak of
orlando i thank you sir and pray you tell me this
 which of the two was daughter of the duke
 that here was at the wrestling
le beau neither his daughter if we judge by manners
 but yet indeed the lesser is his daughter
 the other is daughter to the banish'd duke
 and here detain'd by her usurping uncle
 to keep his daughter company whose loves
 are dearer than the natural bond of sisters
 but i can tell you that of late this duke
 hath ta'en displeasure gainst his gentle niece
 grounded upon no other argument
 but that the people praise her for her virtues
 and pity her for her good father's sake
 and on my life his malice gainst the lady
 will suddenly break forth sir fare you well
 hereafter in a better world than this
 i shall desire more love and knowledge of you
orlando i rest much bounden to you fare you well
 exit le beau
 thus must i from the smoke into the smother
 from tyrant duke unto a tyrant brother
 but heavenly rosalind
 exit
 as you like it
act i
scene iii a room in the palace
 enter celia and rosalind
celia why cousin why rosalind cupid have mercy not a word
rosalind not one to throw at a dog
celia no thy words are too precious to be cast away upon
 curs throw some of them at me come lame me with reasons
rosalind then there were two cousins laid up when the one
 should be lamed with reasons and the other mad
 without any
celia but is all this for your father
rosalind no some of it is for my child's father o how
 full of briers is this workingday world
celia they are but burs cousin thrown upon thee in
 holiday foolery if we walk not in the trodden
 paths our very petticoats will catch them
rosalind i could shake them off my coat these burs are in my heart
celia hem them away
rosalind i would try if i could cry hem and have him
celia come come wrestle with thy affections
rosalind o they take the part of a better wrestler than myself
celia o a good wish upon you you will try in time in
 despite of a fall but turning these jests out of
 service let us talk in good earnest is it
 possible on such a sudden you should fall into so
 strong a liking with old sir rowland's youngest son
rosalind the duke my father loved his father dearly
celia doth it therefore ensue that you should love his son
 dearly by this kind of chase i should hate him
 for my father hated his father dearly yet i hate
 not orlando
rosalind no faith hate him not for my sake
celia why should i not doth he not deserve well
rosalind let me love him for that and do you love him
 because i do look here comes the duke
celia with his eyes full of anger
 enter duke frederick with lords
duke frederick mistress dispatch you with your safest haste
 and get you from our court
rosalind me uncle
duke frederick you cousin
 within these ten days if that thou be'st found
 so near our public court as twenty miles
 thou diest for it
rosalind i do beseech your grace
 let me the knowledge of my fault bear with me
 if with myself i hold intelligence
 or have acquaintance with mine own desires
 if that i do not dream or be not frantic
 as i do trust i am notthen dear uncle
 never so much as in a thought unborn
 did i offend your highness
duke frederick thus do all traitors
 if their purgation did consist in words
 they are as innocent as grace itself
 let it suffice thee that i trust thee not
rosalind yet your mistrust cannot make me a traitor
 tell me whereon the likelihood depends
duke frederick thou art thy father's daughter there's enough
rosalind so was i when your highness took his dukedom
 so was i when your highness banish'd him
 treason is not inherited my lord
 or if we did derive it from our friends
 what's that to me my father was no traitor
 then good my liege mistake me not so much
 to think my poverty is treacherous
celia dear sovereign hear me speak
duke frederick ay celia we stay'd her for your sake
 else had she with her father ranged along
celia i did not then entreat to have her stay
 it was your pleasure and your own remorse
 i was too young that time to value her
 but now i know her if she be a traitor
 why so am i we still have slept together
 rose at an instant learn'd play'd eat together
 and wheresoever we went like juno's swans
 still we went coupled and inseparable
duke frederick she is too subtle for thee and her smoothness
 her very silence and her patience
 speak to the people and they pity her
 thou art a fool she robs thee of thy name
 and thou wilt show more bright and seem more virtuous
 when she is gone then open not thy lips
 firm and irrevocable is my doom
 which i have pass'd upon her she is banish'd
celia pronounce that sentence then on me my liege
 i cannot live out of her company
duke frederick you are a fool you niece provide yourself
 if you outstay the time upon mine honour
 and in the greatness of my word you die
 exeunt duke frederick and lords
celia o my poor rosalind whither wilt thou go
 wilt thou change fathers i will give thee mine
 i charge thee be not thou more grieved than i am
rosalind i have more cause
celia thou hast not cousin
 prithee be cheerful know'st thou not the duke
 hath banish'd me his daughter
rosalind that he hath not
celia no hath not rosalind lacks then the love
 which teacheth thee that thou and i am one
 shall we be sunder'd shall we part sweet girl
 no let my father seek another heir
 therefore devise with me how we may fly
 whither to go and what to bear with us
 and do not seek to take your change upon you
 to bear your griefs yourself and leave me out
 for by this heaven now at our sorrows pale
 say what thou canst i'll go along with thee
rosalind why whither shall we go
celia to seek my uncle in the forest of arden
rosalind alas what danger will it be to us
 maids as we are to travel forth so far
 beauty provoketh thieves sooner than gold
celia i'll put myself in poor and mean attire
 and with a kind of umber smirch my face
 the like do you so shall we pass along
 and never stir assailants
rosalind were it not better
 because that i am more than common tall
 that i did suit me all points like a man
 a gallant curtleaxe upon my thigh
 a boarspear in my hand andin my heart
 lie there what hidden woman's fear there will
 we'll have a swashing and a martial outside
 as many other mannish cowards have
 that do outface it with their semblances
celia what shall i call thee when thou art a man
rosalind i'll have no worse a name than jove's own page
 and therefore look you call me ganymede
 but what will you be call'd
celia something that hath a reference to my state
 no longer celia but aliena
rosalind but cousin what if we assay'd to steal
 the clownish fool out of your father's court
 would he not be a comfort to our travel
celia he'll go along o'er the wide world with me
 leave me alone to woo him let's away
 and get our jewels and our wealth together
 devise the fittest time and safest way
 to hide us from pursuit that will be made
 after my flight now go we in content
 to liberty and not to banishment
 exeunt
 as you like it
act ii
scene i the forest of arden
 enter duke senior amiens and two or three lords
 like foresters
duke senior now my comates and brothers in exile
 hath not old custom made this life more sweet
 than that of painted pomp are not these woods
 more free from peril than the envious court
 here feel we but the penalty of adam
 the seasons difference as the icy fang
 and churlish chiding of the winter's wind
 which when it bites and blows upon my body
 even till i shrink with cold i smile and say
 this is no flattery these are counsellors
 that feelingly persuade me what i am'
 sweet are the uses of adversity
 which like the toad ugly and venomous
 wears yet a precious jewel in his head
 and this our life exempt from public haunt
 finds tongues in trees books in the running brooks
 sermons in stones and good in every thing
 i would not change it
amiens happy is your grace
 that can translate the stubbornness of fortune
 into so quiet and so sweet a style
duke senior come shall we go and kill us venison
 and yet it irks me the poor dappled fools
 being native burghers of this desert city
 should in their own confines with forked heads
 have their round haunches gored
first lord indeed my lord
 the melancholy jaques grieves at that
 and in that kind swears you do more usurp
 than doth your brother that hath banish'd you
 today my lord of amiens and myself
 did steal behind him as he lay along
 under an oak whose antique root peeps out
 upon the brook that brawls along this wood
 to the which place a poor sequester'd stag
 that from the hunter's aim had ta'en a hurt
 did come to languish and indeed my lord
 the wretched animal heaved forth such groans
 that their discharge did stretch his leathern coat
 almost to bursting and the big round tears
 coursed one another down his innocent nose
 in piteous chase and thus the hairy fool
 much marked of the melancholy jaques
 stood on the extremest verge of the swift brook
 augmenting it with tears
duke senior but what said jaques
 did he not moralize this spectacle
first lord o yes into a thousand similes
 first for his weeping into the needless stream
 poor deer quoth he thou makest a testament
 as worldlings do giving thy sum of more
 to that which had too much then being there alone
 left and abandon'd of his velvet friends
 'tis right quoth he thus misery doth part
 the flux of company anon a careless herd
 full of the pasture jumps along by him
 and never stays to greet him ay quoth jaques
 sweep on you fat and greasy citizens
 tis just the fashion wherefore do you look
 upon that poor and broken bankrupt there'
 thus most invectively he pierceth through
 the body of the country city court
 yea and of this our life swearing that we
 are mere usurpers tyrants and what's worse
 to fright the animals and to kill them up
 in their assign'd and native dwellingplace
duke senior and did you leave him in this contemplation
second lord we did my lord weeping and commenting
 upon the sobbing deer
duke senior show me the place
 i love to cope him in these sullen fits
 for then he's full of matter
first lord i'll bring you to him straight
 exeunt
 as you like it
act ii
scene ii a room in the palace
 enter duke frederick with lords
duke frederick can it be possible that no man saw them
 it cannot be some villains of my court
 are of consent and sufferance in this
first lord i cannot hear of any that did see her
 the ladies her attendants of her chamber
 saw her abed and in the morning early
 they found the bed untreasured of their mistress
second lord my lord the roynish clown at whom so oft
 your grace was wont to laugh is also missing
 hisperia the princess gentlewoman
 confesses that she secretly o'erheard
 your daughter and her cousin much commend
 the parts and graces of the wrestler
 that did but lately foil the sinewy charles
 and she believes wherever they are gone
 that youth is surely in their company
duke frederick send to his brother fetch that gallant hither
 if he be absent bring his brother to me
 i'll make him find him do this suddenly
 and let not search and inquisition quail
 to bring again these foolish runaways
 exeunt
 as you like it
act ii
scene iii before oliver's house
 enter orlando and adam meeting
orlando who's there
adam what my young master o my gentle master
 o my sweet master o you memory
 of old sir rowland why what make you here
 why are you virtuous why do people love you
 and wherefore are you gentle strong and valiant
 why would you be so fond to overcome
 the bonny priser of the humorous duke
 your praise is come too swiftly home before you
 know you not master to some kind of men
 their graces serve them but as enemies
 no more do yours your virtues gentle master
 are sanctified and holy traitors to you
 o what a world is this when what is comely
 envenoms him that bears it
orlando why what's the matter
adam o unhappy youth
 come not within these doors within this roof
 the enemy of all your graces lives
 your brotherno no brother yet the son
 yet not the son i will not call him son
 of him i was about to call his father
 hath heard your praises and this night he means
 to burn the lodging where you use to lie
 and you within it if he fail of that
 he will have other means to cut you off
 i overheard him and his practises
 this is no place this house is but a butchery
 abhor it fear it do not enter it
orlando why whither adam wouldst thou have me go
adam no matter whither so you come not here
orlando what wouldst thou have me go and beg my food
 or with a base and boisterous sword enforce
 a thievish living on the common road
 this i must do or know not what to do
 yet this i will not do do how i can
 i rather will subject me to the malice
 of a diverted blood and bloody brother
adam but do not so i have five hundred crowns
 the thrifty hire i saved under your father
 which i did store to be my fosternurse
 when service should in my old limbs lie lame
 and unregarded age in corners thrown
 take that and he that doth the ravens feed
 yea providently caters for the sparrow
 be comfort to my age here is the gold
 and all this i give you let me be your servant
 though i look old yet i am strong and lusty
 for in my youth i never did apply
 hot and rebellious liquors in my blood
 nor did not with unbashful forehead woo
 the means of weakness and debility
 therefore my age is as a lusty winter
 frosty but kindly let me go with you
 i'll do the service of a younger man
 in all your business and necessities
orlando o good old man how well in thee appears
 the constant service of the antique world
 when service sweat for duty not for meed
 thou art not for the fashion of these times
 where none will sweat but for promotion
 and having that do choke their service up
 even with the having it is not so with thee
 but poor old man thou prunest a rotten tree
 that cannot so much as a blossom yield
 in lieu of all thy pains and husbandry
 but come thy ways well go along together
 and ere we have thy youthful wages spent
 we'll light upon some settled low content
adam master go on and i will follow thee
 to the last gasp with truth and loyalty
 from seventeen years till now almost fourscore
 here lived i but now live here no more
 at seventeen years many their fortunes seek
 but at fourscore it is too late a week
 yet fortune cannot recompense me better
 than to die well and not my master's debtor
 exeunt
 as you like it
act ii
scene iv the forest of arden
 enter rosalind for ganymede celia for aliena
 and touchstone
rosalind o jupiter how weary are my spirits
touchstone i care not for my spirits if my legs were not weary
rosalind i could find in my heart to disgrace my man's
 apparel and to cry like a woman but i must comfort
 the weaker vessel as doublet and hose ought to show
 itself courageous to petticoat therefore courage
 good aliena
celia i pray you bear with me i cannot go no further
touchstone for my part i had rather bear with you than bear
 you yet i should bear no cross if i did bear you
 for i think you have no money in your purse
rosalind well this is the forest of arden
touchstone ay now am i in arden the more fool i when i was
 at home i was in a better place but travellers
 must be content
rosalind ay be so good touchstone
 enter corin and silvius
 look you who comes here a young man and an old in
 solemn talk
corin that is the way to make her scorn you still
silvius o corin that thou knew'st how i do love her
corin i partly guess for i have loved ere now
silvius no corin being old thou canst not guess
 though in thy youth thou wast as true a lover
 as ever sigh'd upon a midnight pillow
 but if thy love were ever like to mine
 as sure i think did never man love so
 how many actions most ridiculous
 hast thou been drawn to by thy fantasy
corin into a thousand that i have forgotten
silvius o thou didst then ne'er love so heartily
 if thou remember'st not the slightest folly
 that ever love did make thee run into
 thou hast not loved
 or if thou hast not sat as i do now
 wearying thy hearer in thy mistress praise
 thou hast not loved
 or if thou hast not broke from company
 abruptly as my passion now makes me
 thou hast not loved
 o phebe phebe phebe
 exit
rosalind alas poor shepherd searching of thy wound
 i have by hard adventure found mine own
touchstone and i mine i remember when i was in love i broke
 my sword upon a stone and bid him take that for
 coming anight to jane smile and i remember the
 kissing of her batlet and the cow's dugs that her
 pretty chopt hands had milked and i remember the
 wooing of a peascod instead of her from whom i took
 two cods and giving her them again said with
 weeping tears wear these for my sake we that are
 true lovers run into strange capers but as all is
 mortal in nature so is all nature in love mortal in folly
rosalind thou speakest wiser than thou art ware of
touchstone nay i shall ne'er be ware of mine own wit till i
 break my shins against it
rosalind jove jove this shepherd's passion
 is much upon my fashion
touchstone and mine but it grows something stale with me
celia i pray you one of you question yond man
 if he for gold will give us any food
 i faint almost to death
touchstone holla you clown
rosalind peace fool he's not thy kinsman
corin who calls
touchstone your betters sir
corin else are they very wretched
rosalind peace i say good even to you friend
corin and to you gentle sir and to you all
rosalind i prithee shepherd if that love or gold
 can in this desert place buy entertainment
 bring us where we may rest ourselves and feed
 here's a young maid with travel much oppress'd
 and faints for succor
corin fair sir i pity her
 and wish for her sake more than for mine own
 my fortunes were more able to relieve her
 but i am shepherd to another man
 and do not shear the fleeces that i graze
 my master is of churlish disposition
 and little recks to find the way to heaven
 by doing deeds of hospitality
 besides his cote his flocks and bounds of feed
 are now on sale and at our sheepcote now
 by reason of his absence there is nothing
 that you will feed on but what is come see
 and in my voice most welcome shall you be
rosalind what is he that shall buy his flock and pasture
corin that young swain that you saw here but erewhile
 that little cares for buying any thing
rosalind i pray thee if it stand with honesty
 buy thou the cottage pasture and the flock
 and thou shalt have to pay for it of us
celia and we will mend thy wages i like this place
 and willingly could waste my time in it
corin assuredly the thing is to be sold
 go with me if you like upon report
 the soil the profit and this kind of life
 i will your very faithful feeder be
 and buy it with your gold right suddenly
 exeunt
 as you like it
act ii
scene v the forest
 enter amiens jaques and others
 
 song
amiens under the greenwood tree
 who loves to lie with me
 and turn his merry note
 unto the sweet bird's throat
 come hither come hither come hither
 here shall he see no enemy
 but winter and rough weather
jaques more more i prithee more
amiens it will make you melancholy monsieur jaques
jaques i thank it more i prithee more i can suck
 melancholy out of a song as a weasel sucks eggs
 more i prithee more
amiens my voice is ragged i know i cannot please you
jaques i do not desire you to please me i do desire you to
 sing come more another stanzo call you em stanzos
amiens what you will monsieur jaques
jaques nay i care not for their names they owe me
 nothing will you sing
amiens more at your request than to please myself
jaques well then if ever i thank any man i'll thank you
 but that they call compliment is like the encounter
 of two dogapes and when a man thanks me heartily
 methinks i have given him a penny and he renders me
 the beggarly thanks come sing and you that will
 not hold your tongues
amiens well i'll end the song sirs cover the while the
 duke will drink under this tree he hath been all
 this day to look you
jaques and i have been all this day to avoid him he is
 too disputable for my company i think of as many
 matters as he but i give heaven thanks and make no
 boast of them come warble come
 
 song
 who doth ambition shun
 all together here
 and loves to live i the sun
 seeking the food he eats
 and pleased with what he gets
 come hither come hither come hither
 here shall he see no enemy
 but winter and rough weather
jaques i'll give you a verse to this note that i made
 yesterday in despite of my invention
amiens and i'll sing it
jaques thus it goes
 if it do come to pass
 that any man turn ass
 leaving his wealth and ease
 a stubborn will to please
 ducdame ducdame ducdame
 here shall he see
 gross fools as he
 an if he will come to me
amiens what's that ducdame'
jaques tis a greek invocation to call fools into a
 circle i'll go sleep if i can if i cannot i'll
 rail against all the firstborn of egypt
amiens and i'll go seek the duke his banquet is prepared
 exeunt severally
 as you like it
act ii
scene vi the forest
 enter orlando and adam
adam dear master i can go no further o i die for food
 here lie i down and measure out my grave farewell
 kind master
orlando why how now adam no greater heart in thee live
 a little comfort a little cheer thyself a little
 if this uncouth forest yield any thing savage i
 will either be food for it or bring it for food to
 thee thy conceit is nearer death than thy powers
 for my sake be comfortable hold death awhile at
 the arm's end i will here be with thee presently
 and if i bring thee not something to eat i will
 give thee leave to die but if thou diest before i
 come thou art a mocker of my labour well said
 thou lookest cheerly and i'll be with thee quickly
 yet thou liest in the bleak air come i will bear
 thee to some shelter and thou shalt not die for
 lack of a dinner if there live any thing in this
 desert cheerly good adam
 exeunt
 as you like it
act ii
scene vii the forest
 a table set out enter duke senior amiens and
 lords like outlaws
duke senior i think he be transform'd into a beast
 for i can no where find him like a man
first lord my lord he is but even now gone hence
 here was he merry hearing of a song
duke senior if he compact of jars grow musical
 we shall have shortly discord in the spheres
 go seek him tell him i would speak with him
 enter jaques
first lord he saves my labour by his own approach
duke senior why how now monsieur what a life is this
 that your poor friends must woo your company
 what you look merrily
jaques a fool a fool i met a fool i the forest
 a motley fool a miserable world
 as i do live by food i met a fool
 who laid him down and bask'd him in the sun
 and rail'd on lady fortune in good terms
 in good set terms and yet a motley fool
 good morrow fool quoth i no sir quoth he
 call me not fool till heaven hath sent me fortune'
 and then he drew a dial from his poke
 and looking on it with lacklustre eye
 says very wisely it is ten o'clock
 thus we may see quoth he how the world wags
 tis but an hour ago since it was nine
 and after one hour more twill be eleven
 and so from hour to hour we ripe and ripe
 and then from hour to hour we rot and rot
 and thereby hangs a tale when i did hear
 the motley fool thus moral on the time
 my lungs began to crow like chanticleer
 that fools should be so deepcontemplative
 and i did laugh sans intermission
 an hour by his dial o noble fool
 a worthy fool motley's the only wear
duke senior what fool is this
jaques o worthy fool one that hath been a courtier
 and says if ladies be but young and fair
 they have the gift to know it and in his brain
 which is as dry as the remainder biscuit
 after a voyage he hath strange places cramm'd
 with observation the which he vents
 in mangled forms o that i were a fool
 i am ambitious for a motley coat
duke senior thou shalt have one
jaques it is my only suit
 provided that you weed your better judgments
 of all opinion that grows rank in them
 that i am wise i must have liberty
 withal as large a charter as the wind
 to blow on whom i please for so fools have
 and they that are most galled with my folly
 they most must laugh and why sir must they so
 the why is plain as way to parish church
 he that a fool doth very wisely hit
 doth very foolishly although he smart
 not to seem senseless of the bob if not
 the wise man's folly is anatomized
 even by the squandering glances of the fool
 invest me in my motley give me leave
 to speak my mind and i will through and through
 cleanse the foul body of the infected world
 if they will patiently receive my medicine
duke senior fie on thee i can tell what thou wouldst do
jaques what for a counter would i do but good
duke senior most mischievous foul sin in chiding sin
 for thou thyself hast been a libertine
 as sensual as the brutish sting itself
 and all the embossed sores and headed evils
 that thou with licence of free foot hast caught
 wouldst thou disgorge into the general world
jaques why who cries out on pride
 that can therein tax any private party
 doth it not flow as hugely as the sea
 till that the weary very means do ebb
 what woman in the city do i name
 when that i say the citywoman bears
 the cost of princes on unworthy shoulders
 who can come in and say that i mean her
 when such a one as she such is her neighbour
 or what is he of basest function
 that says his bravery is not of my cost
 thinking that i mean him but therein suits
 his folly to the mettle of my speech
 there then how then what then let me see wherein
 my tongue hath wrong'd him if it do him right
 then he hath wrong'd himself if he be free
 why then my taxing like a wildgoose flies
 unclaim'd of any man but who comes here
 enter orlando with his sword drawn
orlando forbear and eat no more
jaques why i have eat none yet
orlando nor shalt not till necessity be served
jaques of what kind should this cock come of
duke senior art thou thus bolden'd man by thy distress
 or else a rude despiser of good manners
 that in civility thou seem'st so empty
orlando you touch'd my vein at first the thorny point
 of bare distress hath ta'en from me the show
 of smooth civility yet am i inland bred
 and know some nurture but forbear i say
 he dies that touches any of this fruit
 till i and my affairs are answered
jaques an you will not be answered with reason i must die
duke senior what would you have your gentleness shall force
 more than your force move us to gentleness
orlando i almost die for food and let me have it
duke senior sit down and feed and welcome to our table
orlando speak you so gently pardon me i pray you
 i thought that all things had been savage here
 and therefore put i on the countenance
 of stern commandment but whate'er you are
 that in this desert inaccessible
 under the shade of melancholy boughs
 lose and neglect the creeping hours of time
 if ever you have look'd on better days
 if ever been where bells have knoll'd to church
 if ever sat at any good man's feast
 if ever from your eyelids wiped a tear
 and know what tis to pity and be pitied
 let gentleness my strong enforcement be
 in the which hope i blush and hide my sword
duke senior true is it that we have seen better days
 and have with holy bell been knoll'd to church
 and sat at good men's feasts and wiped our eyes
 of drops that sacred pity hath engender'd
 and therefore sit you down in gentleness
 and take upon command what help we have
 that to your wanting may be minister'd
orlando then but forbear your food a little while
 whiles like a doe i go to find my fawn
 and give it food there is an old poor man
 who after me hath many a weary step
 limp'd in pure love till he be first sufficed
 oppress'd with two weak evils age and hunger
 i will not touch a bit
duke senior go find him out
 and we will nothing waste till you return
orlando i thank ye and be blest for your good comfort
 exit
duke senior thou seest we are not all alone unhappy
 this wide and universal theatre
 presents more woeful pageants than the scene
 wherein we play in
jaques all the world's a stage
 and all the men and women merely players
 they have their exits and their entrances
 and one man in his time plays many parts
 his acts being seven ages at first the infant
 mewling and puking in the nurse's arms
 and then the whining schoolboy with his satchel
 and shining morning face creeping like snail
 unwillingly to school and then the lover
 sighing like furnace with a woeful ballad
 made to his mistress eyebrow then a soldier
 full of strange oaths and bearded like the pard
 jealous in honour sudden and quick in quarrel
 seeking the bubble reputation
 even in the cannon's mouth and then the justice
 in fair round belly with good capon lined
 with eyes severe and beard of formal cut
 full of wise saws and modern instances
 and so he plays his part the sixth age shifts
 into the lean and slipper'd pantaloon
 with spectacles on nose and pouch on side
 his youthful hose well saved a world too wide
 for his shrunk shank and his big manly voice
 turning again toward childish treble pipes
 and whistles in his sound last scene of all
 that ends this strange eventful history
 is second childishness and mere oblivion
 sans teeth sans eyes sans taste sans everything
 reenter orlando with adam
duke senior welcome set down your venerable burthen
 and let him feed
orlando i thank you most for him
adam so had you need
 i scarce can speak to thank you for myself
duke senior welcome fall to i will not trouble you
 as yet to question you about your fortunes
 give us some music and good cousin sing
 
 song
amiens blow blow thou winter wind
 thou art not so unkind
 as man's ingratitude
 thy tooth is not so keen
 because thou art not seen
 although thy breath be rude
 heighho sing heighho unto the green holly
 most friendship is feigning most loving mere folly
 then heighho the holly
 this life is most jolly
 freeze freeze thou bitter sky
 that dost not bite so nigh
 as benefits forgot
 though thou the waters warp
 thy sting is not so sharp
 as friend remember'd not
 heighho sing &c
duke senior if that you were the good sir rowland's son
 as you have whisper'd faithfully you were
 and as mine eye doth his effigies witness
 most truly limn'd and living in your face
 be truly welcome hither i am the duke
 that loved your father the residue of your fortune
 go to my cave and tell me good old man
 thou art right welcome as thy master is
 support him by the arm give me your hand
 and let me all your fortunes understand
 exeunt
 as you like it
act iii
scene i a room in the palace
 enter duke frederick lords and oliver
duke frederick not see him since sir sir that cannot be
 but were i not the better part made mercy
 i should not seek an absent argument
 of my revenge thou present but look to it
 find out thy brother wheresoe'er he is
 seek him with candle bring him dead or living
 within this twelvemonth or turn thou no more
 to seek a living in our territory
 thy lands and all things that thou dost call thine
 worth seizure do we seize into our hands
 till thou canst quit thee by thy brothers mouth
 of what we think against thee
oliver o that your highness knew my heart in this
 i never loved my brother in my life
duke frederick more villain thou well push him out of doors
 and let my officers of such a nature
 make an extent upon his house and lands
 do this expediently and turn him going
 exeunt
 as you like it
act iii
scene ii the forest
 enter orlando with a paper
orlando hang there my verse in witness of my love
 and thou thricecrowned queen of night survey
 with thy chaste eye from thy pale sphere above
 thy huntress name that my full life doth sway
 o rosalind these trees shall be my books
 and in their barks my thoughts i'll character
 that every eye which in this forest looks
 shall see thy virtue witness'd every where
 run run orlando carve on every tree
 the fair the chaste and unexpressive she
 exit
 enter corin and touchstone
corin and how like you this shepherd's life master touchstone
touchstone truly shepherd in respect of itself it is a good
 life but in respect that it is a shepherd's life
 it is naught in respect that it is solitary i
 like it very well but in respect that it is
 private it is a very vile life now in respect it
 is in the fields it pleaseth me well but in
 respect it is not in the court it is tedious as
 is it a spare life look you it fits my humour well
 but as there is no more plenty in it it goes much
 against my stomach hast any philosophy in thee shepherd
corin no more but that i know the more one sickens the
 worse at ease he is and that he that wants money
 means and content is without three good friends
 that the property of rain is to wet and fire to
 burn that good pasture makes fat sheep and that a
 great cause of the night is lack of the sun that
 he that hath learned no wit by nature nor art may
 complain of good breeding or comes of a very dull kindred
touchstone such a one is a natural philosopher wast ever in
 court shepherd
corin no truly
touchstone then thou art damned
corin nay i hope
touchstone truly thou art damned like an illroasted egg all
 on one side
corin for not being at court your reason
touchstone why if thou never wast at court thou never sawest
 good manners if thou never sawest good manners
 then thy manners must be wicked and wickedness is
 sin and sin is damnation thou art in a parlous
 state shepherd
corin not a whit touchstone those that are good manners
 at the court are as ridiculous in the country as the
 behavior of the country is most mockable at the
 court you told me you salute not at the court but
 you kiss your hands that courtesy would be
 uncleanly if courtiers were shepherds
touchstone instance briefly come instance
corin why we are still handling our ewes and their
 fells you know are greasy
touchstone why do not your courtier's hands sweat and is not
 the grease of a mutton as wholesome as the sweat of
 a man shallow shallow a better instance i say come
corin besides our hands are hard
touchstone your lips will feel them the sooner shallow again
 a more sounder instance come
corin and they are often tarred over with the surgery of
 our sheep and would you have us kiss tar the
 courtier's hands are perfumed with civet
touchstone most shallow man thou wormsmeat in respect of a
 good piece of flesh indeed learn of the wise and
 perpend civet is of a baser birth than tar the
 very uncleanly flux of a cat mend the instance shepherd
corin you have too courtly a wit for me i'll rest
touchstone wilt thou rest damned god help thee shallow man
 god make incision in thee thou art raw
corin sir i am a true labourer i earn that i eat get
 that i wear owe no man hate envy no man's
 happiness glad of other men's good content with my
 harm and the greatest of my pride is to see my ewes
 graze and my lambs suck
touchstone that is another simple sin in you to bring the ewes
 and the rams together and to offer to get your
 living by the copulation of cattle to be bawd to a
 bellwether and to betray a shelamb of a
 twelvemonth to a crookedpated old cuckoldly ram
 out of all reasonable match if thou beest not
 damned for this the devil himself will have no
 shepherds i cannot see else how thou shouldst
 scape
corin here comes young master ganymede my new mistress's brother
 enter rosalind with a paper reading
rosalind from the east to western ind
 no jewel is like rosalind
 her worth being mounted on the wind
 through all the world bears rosalind
 all the pictures fairest lined
 are but black to rosalind
 let no fair be kept in mind
 but the fair of rosalind
touchstone i'll rhyme you so eight years together dinners and
 suppers and sleepinghours excepted it is the
 right butterwomen's rank to market
rosalind out fool
touchstone for a taste
 if a hart do lack a hind
 let him seek out rosalind
 if the cat will after kind
 so be sure will rosalind
 winter garments must be lined
 so must slender rosalind
 they that reap must sheaf and bind
 then to cart with rosalind
 sweetest nut hath sourest rind
 such a nut is rosalind
 he that sweetest rose will find
 must find love's prick and rosalind
 this is the very false gallop of verses why do you
 infect yourself with them
rosalind peace you dull fool i found them on a tree
touchstone truly the tree yields bad fruit
rosalind i'll graff it with you and then i shall graff it
 with a medlar then it will be the earliest fruit
 i the country for you'll be rotten ere you be half
 ripe and that's the right virtue of the medlar
touchstone you have said but whether wisely or no let the
 forest judge
 enter celia with a writing
rosalind peace here comes my sister reading stand aside
celia reads
 why should this a desert be
 for it is unpeopled no
 tongues i'll hang on every tree
 that shall civil sayings show
 some how brief the life of man
 runs his erring pilgrimage
 that the stretching of a span
 buckles in his sum of age
 some of violated vows
 twixt the souls of friend and friend
 but upon the fairest boughs
 or at every sentence end
 will i rosalinda write
 teaching all that read to know
 the quintessence of every sprite
 heaven would in little show
 therefore heaven nature charged
 that one body should be fill'd
 with all graces wideenlarged
 nature presently distill'd
 helen's cheek but not her heart
 cleopatra's majesty
 atalanta's better part
 sad lucretia's modesty
 thus rosalind of many parts
 by heavenly synod was devised
 of many faces eyes and hearts
 to have the touches dearest prized
 heaven would that she these gifts should have
 and i to live and die her slave
rosalind o most gentle pulpiter what tedious homily of love
 have you wearied your parishioners withal and never
 cried have patience good people'
celia how now back friends shepherd go off a little
 go with him sirrah
touchstone come shepherd let us make an honourable retreat
 though not with bag and baggage yet with scrip and scrippage
 exeunt corin and touchstone
celia didst thou hear these verses
rosalind o yes i heard them all and more too for some of
 them had in them more feet than the verses would bear
celia that's no matter the feet might bear the verses
rosalind ay but the feet were lame and could not bear
 themselves without the verse and therefore stood
 lamely in the verse
celia but didst thou hear without wondering how thy name
 should be hanged and carved upon these trees
rosalind i was seven of the nine days out of the wonder
 before you came for look here what i found on a
 palmtree i was never so berhymed since
 pythagoras time that i was an irish rat which i
 can hardly remember
celia trow you who hath done this
rosalind is it a man
celia and a chain that you once wore about his neck
 change you colour
rosalind i prithee who
celia o lord lord it is a hard matter for friends to
 meet but mountains may be removed with earthquakes
 and so encounter
rosalind nay but who is it
celia is it possible
rosalind nay i prithee now with most petitionary vehemence
 tell me who it is
celia o wonderful wonderful and most wonderful
 wonderful and yet again wonderful and after that
 out of all hooping
rosalind good my complexion dost thou think though i am
 caparisoned like a man i have a doublet and hose in
 my disposition one inch of delay more is a
 southsea of discovery i prithee tell me who is it
 quickly and speak apace i would thou couldst
 stammer that thou mightst pour this concealed man
 out of thy mouth as wine comes out of a narrow
 mouthed bottle either too much at once or none at
 all i prithee take the cork out of thy mouth that
 may drink thy tidings
celia so you may put a man in your belly
rosalind is he of god's making what manner of man is his
 head worth a hat or his chin worth a beard
celia nay he hath but a little beard
rosalind why god will send more if the man will be
 thankful let me stay the growth of his beard if
 thou delay me not the knowledge of his chin
celia it is young orlando that tripped up the wrestler's
 heels and your heart both in an instant
rosalind nay but the devil take mocking speak sad brow and
 true maid
celia i faith coz tis he
rosalind orlando
celia orlando
rosalind alas the day what shall i do with my doublet and
 hose what did he when thou sawest him what said
 he how looked he wherein went he what makes
 him here did he ask for me where remains he
 how parted he with thee and when shalt thou see
 him again answer me in one word
celia you must borrow me gargantua's mouth first tis a
 word too great for any mouth of this age's size to
 say ay and no to these particulars is more than to
 answer in a catechism
rosalind but doth he know that i am in this forest and in
 man's apparel looks he as freshly as he did the
 day he wrestled
celia it is as easy to count atomies as to resolve the
 propositions of a lover but take a taste of my
 finding him and relish it with good observance
 i found him under a tree like a dropped acorn
rosalind it may well be called jove's tree when it drops
 forth such fruit
celia give me audience good madam
rosalind proceed
celia there lay he stretched along like a wounded knight
rosalind though it be pity to see such a sight it well
 becomes the ground
celia cry holla to thy tongue i prithee it curvets
 unseasonably he was furnished like a hunter
rosalind o ominous he comes to kill my heart
celia i would sing my song without a burden thou bringest
 me out of tune
rosalind do you not know i am a woman when i think i must
 speak sweet say on
celia you bring me out soft comes he not here
 enter orlando and jaques
rosalind tis he slink by and note him
jaques i thank you for your company but good faith i had
 as lief have been myself alone
orlando and so had i but yet for fashion sake i thank you
 too for your society
jaques god be wi you let's meet as little as we can
orlando i do desire we may be better strangers
jaques i pray you mar no more trees with writing
 lovesongs in their barks
orlando i pray you mar no more of my verses with reading
 them illfavouredly
jaques rosalind is your love's name
orlando yes just
jaques i do not like her name
orlando there was no thought of pleasing you when she was
 christened
jaques what stature is she of
orlando just as high as my heart
jaques you are full of pretty answers have you not been
 acquainted with goldsmiths wives and conned them
 out of rings
orlando not so but i answer you right painted cloth from
 whence you have studied your questions
jaques you have a nimble wit i think twas made of
 atalanta's heels will you sit down with me and
 we two will rail against our mistress the world and
 all our misery
orlando i will chide no breather in the world but myself
 against whom i know most faults
jaques the worst fault you have is to be in love
orlando tis a fault i will not change for your best virtue
 i am weary of you
jaques by my troth i was seeking for a fool when i found
 you
orlando he is drowned in the brook look but in and you
 shall see him
jaques there i shall see mine own figure
orlando which i take to be either a fool or a cipher
jaques i'll tarry no longer with you farewell good
 signior love
orlando i am glad of your departure adieu good monsieur
 melancholy
 exit jaques
rosalind aside to celia i will speak to him like a saucy
 lackey and under that habit play the knave with him
 do you hear forester
orlando very well what would you
rosalind i pray you what is't o'clock
orlando you should ask me what time o day there's no clock
 in the forest
rosalind then there is no true lover in the forest else
 sighing every minute and groaning every hour would
 detect the lazy foot of time as well as a clock
orlando and why not the swift foot of time had not that
 been as proper
rosalind by no means sir time travels in divers paces with
 divers persons i'll tell you who time ambles
 withal who time trots withal who time gallops
 withal and who he stands still withal
orlando i prithee who doth he trot withal
rosalind marry he trots hard with a young maid between the
 contract of her marriage and the day it is
 solemnized if the interim be but a se'nnight
 time's pace is so hard that it seems the length of
 seven year
orlando who ambles time withal
rosalind with a priest that lacks latin and a rich man that
 hath not the gout for the one sleeps easily because
 he cannot study and the other lives merrily because
 he feels no pain the one lacking the burden of lean
 and wasteful learning the other knowing no burden
 of heavy tedious penury these time ambles withal
orlando who doth he gallop withal
rosalind with a thief to the gallows for though he go as
 softly as foot can fall he thinks himself too soon there
orlando who stays it still withal
rosalind with lawyers in the vacation for they sleep between
 term and term and then they perceive not how time moves
orlando where dwell you pretty youth
rosalind with this shepherdess my sister here in the
 skirts of the forest like fringe upon a petticoat
orlando are you native of this place
rosalind as the cony that you see dwell where she is kindled
orlando your accent is something finer than you could
 purchase in so removed a dwelling
rosalind i have been told so of many but indeed an old
 religious uncle of mine taught me to speak who was
 in his youth an inland man one that knew courtship
 too well for there he fell in love i have heard
 him read many lectures against it and i thank god
 i am not a woman to be touched with so many
 giddy offences as he hath generally taxed their
 whole sex withal
orlando can you remember any of the principal evils that he
 laid to the charge of women
rosalind there were none principal they were all like one
 another as halfpence are every one fault seeming
 monstrous till his fellow fault came to match it
orlando i prithee recount some of them
rosalind no i will not cast away my physic but on those that
 are sick there is a man haunts the forest that
 abuses our young plants with carving rosalind on
 their barks hangs odes upon hawthorns and elegies
 on brambles all forsooth deifying the name of
 rosalind if i could meet that fancymonger i would
 give him some good counsel for he seems to have the
 quotidian of love upon him
orlando i am he that is so loveshaked i pray you tell me
 your remedy
rosalind there is none of my uncle's marks upon you he
 taught me how to know a man in love in which cage
 of rushes i am sure you are not prisoner
orlando what were his marks
rosalind a lean cheek which you have not a blue eye and
 sunken which you have not an unquestionable
 spirit which you have not a beard neglected
 which you have not but i pardon you for that for
 simply your having in beard is a younger brother's
 revenue then your hose should be ungartered your
 bonnet unbanded your sleeve unbuttoned your shoe
 untied and every thing about you demonstrating a
 careless desolation but you are no such man you
 are rather pointdevice in your accoutrements as
 loving yourself than seeming the lover of any other
orlando fair youth i would i could make thee believe i love
rosalind me believe it you may as soon make her that you
 love believe it which i warrant she is apter to
 do than to confess she does that is one of the
 points in the which women still give the lie to
 their consciences but in good sooth are you he
 that hangs the verses on the trees wherein rosalind
 is so admired
orlando i swear to thee youth by the white hand of
 rosalind i am that he that unfortunate he
rosalind but are you so much in love as your rhymes speak
orlando neither rhyme nor reason can express how much
rosalind love is merely a madness and i tell you deserves
 as well a dark house and a whip as madmen do and
 the reason why they are not so punished and cured
 is that the lunacy is so ordinary that the whippers
 are in love too yet i profess curing it by counsel
orlando did you ever cure any so
rosalind yes one and in this manner he was to imagine me
 his love his mistress and i set him every day to
 woo me at which time would i being but a moonish
 youth grieve be effeminate changeable longing
 and liking proud fantastical apish shallow
 inconstant full of tears full of smiles for every
 passion something and for no passion truly any
 thing as boys and women are for the most part
 cattle of this colour would now like him now loathe
 him then entertain him then forswear him now weep
 for him then spit at him that i drave my suitor
 from his mad humour of love to a living humour of
 madness which was to forswear the full stream of
 the world and to live in a nook merely monastic
 and thus i cured him and this way will i take upon
 me to wash your liver as clean as a sound sheep's
 heart that there shall not be one spot of love in't
orlando i would not be cured youth
rosalind i would cure you if you would but call me rosalind
 and come every day to my cote and woo me
orlando now by the faith of my love i will tell me
 where it is
rosalind go with me to it and i'll show it you and by the way
 you shall tell me where in the forest you live
 will you go
orlando with all my heart good youth
rosalind nay you must call me rosalind come sister will you go
 exeunt
 as you like it
act iii
scene iii the forest
 enter touchstone and audrey jaques behind
touchstone come apace good audrey i will fetch up your
 goats audrey and how audrey am i the man yet
 doth my simple feature content you
audrey your features lord warrant us what features
touchstone i am here with thee and thy goats as the most
 capricious poet honest ovid was among the goths
jaques aside o knowledge illinhabited worse than jove
 in a thatched house
touchstone when a man's verses cannot be understood nor a
 man's good wit seconded with the forward child
 understanding it strikes a man more dead than a
 great reckoning in a little room truly i would
 the gods had made thee poetical
audrey i do not know what poetical is is it honest in
 deed and word is it a true thing
touchstone no truly for the truest poetry is the most
 feigning and lovers are given to poetry and what
 they swear in poetry may be said as lovers they do feign
audrey do you wish then that the gods had made me poetical
touchstone i do truly for thou swearest to me thou art
 honest now if thou wert a poet i might have some
 hope thou didst feign
audrey would you not have me honest
touchstone no truly unless thou wert hardfavoured for
 honesty coupled to beauty is to have honey a sauce to sugar
jaques aside a material fool
audrey well i am not fair and therefore i pray the gods
 make me honest
touchstone truly and to cast away honesty upon a foul slut
 were to put good meat into an unclean dish
audrey i am not a slut though i thank the gods i am foul
touchstone well praised be the gods for thy foulness
 sluttishness may come hereafter but be it as it may
 be i will marry thee and to that end i have been
 with sir oliver martext the vicar of the next
 village who hath promised to meet me in this place
 of the forest and to couple us
jaques aside i would fain see this meeting
audrey well the gods give us joy
touchstone amen a man may if he were of a fearful heart
 stagger in this attempt for here we have no temple
 but the wood no assembly but hornbeasts but what
 though courage as horns are odious they are
 necessary it is said many a man knows no end of
 his goods right many a man has good horns and
 knows no end of them well that is the dowry of
 his wife tis none of his own getting horns
 even so poor men alone no no the noblest deer
 hath them as huge as the rascal is the single man
 therefore blessed no as a walled town is more
 worthier than a village so is the forehead of a
 married man more honourable than the bare brow of a
 bachelor and by how much defence is better than no
 skill by so much is a horn more precious than to
 want here comes sir oliver
 enter sir oliver martext
 sir oliver martext you are well met will you
 dispatch us here under this tree or shall we go
 with you to your chapel
sir oliver martext is there none here to give the woman
touchstone i will not take her on gift of any man
sir oliver martext truly she must be given or the marriage is not lawful
jaques advancing
 proceed proceed i'll give her
touchstone good even good master whatyecall't how do you
 sir you are very well met god ild you for your
 last company i am very glad to see you even a
 toy in hand here sir nay pray be covered
jaques will you be married motley
touchstone as the ox hath his bow sir the horse his curb and
 the falcon her bells so man hath his desires and
 as pigeons bill so wedlock would be nibbling
jaques and will you being a man of your breeding be
 married under a bush like a beggar get you to
 church and have a good priest that can tell you
 what marriage is this fellow will but join you
 together as they join wainscot then one of you will
 prove a shrunk panel and like green timber warp warp
touchstone aside i am not in the mind but i were better to be
 married of him than of another for he is not like
 to marry me well and not being well married it
 will be a good excuse for me hereafter to leave my wife
jaques go thou with me and let me counsel thee
touchstone come sweet audrey
 we must be married or we must live in bawdry
 farewell good master oliver not
 o sweet oliver
 o brave oliver
 leave me not behind thee but
 wind away
 begone i say
 i will not to wedding with thee
 exeunt jaques touchstone and audrey
sir oliver martext tis no matter ne'er a fantastical knave of them
 all shall flout me out of my calling
 exit
 as you like it
act iii
scene iv the forest
 enter rosalind and celia
rosalind never talk to me i will weep
celia do i prithee but yet have the grace to consider
 that tears do not become a man
rosalind but have i not cause to weep
celia as good cause as one would desire therefore weep
rosalind his very hair is of the dissembling colour
celia something browner than judas's marry his kisses are
 judas's own children
rosalind i faith his hair is of a good colour
celia an excellent colour your chestnut was ever the only colour
rosalind and his kissing is as full of sanctity as the touch
 of holy bread
celia he hath bought a pair of cast lips of diana a nun
 of winter's sisterhood kisses not more religiously
 the very ice of chastity is in them
rosalind but why did he swear he would come this morning and
 comes not
celia nay certainly there is no truth in him
rosalind do you think so
celia yes i think he is not a pickpurse nor a
 horsestealer but for his verity in love i do
 think him as concave as a covered goblet or a
 wormeaten nut
rosalind not true in love
celia yes when he is in but i think he is not in
rosalind you have heard him swear downright he was
celia was is not is besides the oath of a lover is
 no stronger than the word of a tapster they are
 both the confirmer of false reckonings he attends
 here in the forest on the duke your father
rosalind i met the duke yesterday and had much question with
 him he asked me of what parentage i was i told
 him of as good as he so he laughed and let me go
 but what talk we of fathers when there is such a
 man as orlando
celia o that's a brave man he writes brave verses
 speaks brave words swears brave oaths and breaks
 them bravely quite traverse athwart the heart of
 his lover as a puisny tilter that spurs his horse
 but on one side breaks his staff like a noble
 goose but all's brave that youth mounts and folly
 guides who comes here
 enter corin
corin mistress and master you have oft inquired
 after the shepherd that complain'd of love
 who you saw sitting by me on the turf
 praising the proud disdainful shepherdess
 that was his mistress
celia well and what of him
corin if you will see a pageant truly play'd
 between the pale complexion of true love
 and the red glow of scorn and proud disdain
 go hence a little and i shall conduct you
 if you will mark it
rosalind o come let us remove
 the sight of lovers feedeth those in love
 bring us to this sight and you shall say
 i'll prove a busy actor in their play
 exeunt
 as you like it
act iii
scene v another part of the forest
 enter silvius and phebe
silvius sweet phebe do not scorn me do not phebe
 say that you love me not but say not so
 in bitterness the common executioner
 whose heart the accustom'd sight of death makes hard
 falls not the axe upon the humbled neck
 but first begs pardon will you sterner be
 than he that dies and lives by bloody drops
 enter rosalind celia and corin behind
phebe i would not be thy executioner
 i fly thee for i would not injure thee
 thou tell'st me there is murder in mine eye
 tis pretty sure and very probable
 that eyes that are the frail'st and softest things
 who shut their coward gates on atomies
 should be call'd tyrants butchers murderers
 now i do frown on thee with all my heart
 and if mine eyes can wound now let them kill thee
 now counterfeit to swoon why now fall down
 or if thou canst not o for shame for shame
 lie not to say mine eyes are murderers
 now show the wound mine eye hath made in thee
 scratch thee but with a pin and there remains
 some scar of it lean but upon a rush
 the cicatrice and capable impressure
 thy palm some moment keeps but now mine eyes
 which i have darted at thee hurt thee not
 nor i am sure there is no force in eyes
 that can do hurt
silvius o dear phebe
 if everas that ever may be near
 you meet in some fresh cheek the power of fancy
 then shall you know the wounds invisible
 that love's keen arrows make
phebe but till that time
 come not thou near me and when that time comes
 afflict me with thy mocks pity me not
 as till that time i shall not pity thee
rosalind and why i pray you who might be your mother
 that you insult exult and all at once
 over the wretched what though you have no beauty
 as by my faith i see no more in you
 than without candle may go dark to bed
 must you be therefore proud and pitiless
 why what means this why do you look on me
 i see no more in you than in the ordinary
 of nature's salework od's my little life
 i think she means to tangle my eyes too
 no faith proud mistress hope not after it
 tis not your inky brows your black silk hair
 your bugle eyeballs nor your cheek of cream
 that can entame my spirits to your worship
 you foolish shepherd wherefore do you follow her
 like foggy south puffing with wind and rain
 you are a thousand times a properer man
 than she a woman tis such fools as you
 that makes the world full of illfavour'd children
 tis not her glass but you that flatters her
 and out of you she sees herself more proper
 than any of her lineaments can show her
 but mistress know yourself down on your knees
 and thank heaven fasting for a good man's love
 for i must tell you friendly in your ear
 sell when you can you are not for all markets
 cry the man mercy love him take his offer
 foul is most foul being foul to be a scoffer
 so take her to thee shepherd fare you well
phebe sweet youth i pray you chide a year together
 i had rather hear you chide than this man woo
rosalind he's fallen in love with your foulness and she'll
 fall in love with my anger if it be so as fast as
 she answers thee with frowning looks i'll sauce her
 with bitter words why look you so upon me
phebe for no ill will i bear you
rosalind i pray you do not fall in love with me
 for i am falser than vows made in wine
 besides i like you not if you will know my house
 tis at the tuft of olives here hard by
 will you go sister shepherd ply her hard
 come sister shepherdess look on him better
 and be not proud though all the world could see
 none could be so abused in sight as he
 come to our flock
 exeunt rosalind celia and corin
phebe dead shepherd now i find thy saw of might
 who ever loved that loved not at first sight'
silvius sweet phebe
phebe ha what say'st thou silvius
silvius sweet phebe pity me
phebe why i am sorry for thee gentle silvius
silvius wherever sorrow is relief would be
 if you do sorrow at my grief in love
 by giving love your sorrow and my grief
 were both extermined
phebe thou hast my love is not that neighbourly
silvius i would have you
phebe why that were covetousness
 silvius the time was that i hated thee
 and yet it is not that i bear thee love
 but since that thou canst talk of love so well
 thy company which erst was irksome to me
 i will endure and i'll employ thee too
 but do not look for further recompense
 than thine own gladness that thou art employ'd
silvius so holy and so perfect is my love
 and i in such a poverty of grace
 that i shall think it a most plenteous crop
 to glean the broken ears after the man
 that the main harvest reaps loose now and then
 a scatter'd smile and that i'll live upon
phebe know'st now the youth that spoke to me erewhile
silvius not very well but i have met him oft
 and he hath bought the cottage and the bounds
 that the old carlot once was master of
phebe think not i love him though i ask for him
 tis but a peevish boy yet he talks well
 but what care i for words yet words do well
 when he that speaks them pleases those that hear
 it is a pretty youth not very pretty
 but sure he's proud and yet his pride becomes him
 he'll make a proper man the best thing in him
 is his complexion and faster than his tongue
 did make offence his eye did heal it up
 he is not very tall yet for his years he's tall
 his leg is but so so and yet tis well
 there was a pretty redness in his lip
 a little riper and more lusty red
 than that mix'd in his cheek twas just the difference
 between the constant red and mingled damask
 there be some women silvius had they mark'd him
 in parcels as i did would have gone near
 to fall in love with him but for my part
 i love him not nor hate him not and yet
 i have more cause to hate him than to love him
 for what had he to do to chide at me
 he said mine eyes were black and my hair black
 and now i am remember'd scorn'd at me
 i marvel why i answer'd not again
 but that's all one omittance is no quittance
 i'll write to him a very taunting letter
 and thou shalt bear it wilt thou silvius
silvius phebe with all my heart
phebe i'll write it straight
 the matter's in my head and in my heart
 i will be bitter with him and passing short
 go with me silvius
 exeunt
 as you like it
act iv
scene i the forest
 enter rosalind celia and jaques
jaques i prithee pretty youth let me be better acquainted
 with thee
rosalind they say you are a melancholy fellow
jaques i am so i do love it better than laughing
rosalind those that are in extremity of either are abominable
 fellows and betray themselves to every modern
 censure worse than drunkards
jaques why tis good to be sad and say nothing
rosalind why then tis good to be a post
jaques i have neither the scholar's melancholy which is
 emulation nor the musician's which is fantastical
 nor the courtier's which is proud nor the
 soldier's which is ambitious nor the lawyer's
 which is politic nor the lady's which is nice nor
 the lover's which is all these but it is a
 melancholy of mine own compounded of many simples
 extracted from many objects and indeed the sundry's
 contemplation of my travels in which my often
 rumination wraps me m a most humorous sadness
rosalind a traveller by my faith you have great reason to
 be sad i fear you have sold your own lands to see
 other men's then to have seen much and to have
 nothing is to have rich eyes and poor hands
jaques yes i have gained my experience
rosalind and your experience makes you sad i had rather have
 a fool to make me merry than experience to make me
 sad and to travel for it too
 enter orlando
orlando good day and happiness dear rosalind
jaques nay then god be wi you an you talk in blank verse
 exit
rosalind farewell monsieur traveller look you lisp and
 wear strange suits disable all the benefits of your
 own country be out of love with your nativity and
 almost chide god for making you that countenance you
 are or i will scarce think you have swam in a
 gondola why how now orlando where have you been
 all this while you a lover an you serve me such
 another trick never come in my sight more
orlando my fair rosalind i come within an hour of my promise
rosalind break an hour's promise in love he that will
 divide a minute into a thousand parts and break but
 a part of the thousandth part of a minute in the
 affairs of love it may be said of him that cupid
 hath clapped him o the shoulder but i'll warrant
 him heartwhole
orlando pardon me dear rosalind
rosalind nay an you be so tardy come no more in my sight i
 had as lief be wooed of a snail
orlando of a snail
rosalind ay of a snail for though he comes slowly he
 carries his house on his head a better jointure
 i think than you make a woman besides he brings
 his destiny with him
orlando what's that
rosalind why horns which such as you are fain to be
 beholding to your wives for but he comes armed in
 his fortune and prevents the slander of his wife
orlando virtue is no hornmaker and my rosalind is virtuous
rosalind and i am your rosalind
celia it pleases him to call you so but he hath a
 rosalind of a better leer than you
rosalind come woo me woo me for now i am in a holiday
 humour and like enough to consent what would you
 say to me now an i were your very very rosalind
orlando i would kiss before i spoke
rosalind nay you were better speak first and when you were
 gravelled for lack of matter you might take
 occasion to kiss very good orators when they are
 out they will spit and for lovers lackinggod
 warn usmatter the cleanliest shift is to kiss
orlando how if the kiss be denied
rosalind then she puts you to entreaty and there begins new matter
orlando who could be out being before his beloved mistress
rosalind marry that should you if i were your mistress or
 i should think my honesty ranker than my wit
orlando what of my suit
rosalind not out of your apparel and yet out of your suit
 am not i your rosalind
orlando i take some joy to say you are because i would be
 talking of her
rosalind well in her person i say i will not have you
orlando then in mine own person i die
rosalind no faith die by attorney the poor world is
 almost six thousand years old and in all this time
 there was not any man died in his own person
 videlicit in a lovecause troilus had his brains
 dashed out with a grecian club yet he did what he
 could to die before and he is one of the patterns
 of love leander he would have lived many a fair
 year though hero had turned nun if it had not been
 for a hot midsummer night for good youth he went
 but forth to wash him in the hellespont and being
 taken with the cramp was drowned and the foolish
 coroners of that age found it was hero of sestos'
 but these are all lies men have died from time to
 time and worms have eaten them but not for love
orlando i would not have my right rosalind of this mind
 for i protest her frown might kill me
rosalind by this hand it will not kill a fly but come now
 i will be your rosalind in a more comingon
 disposition and ask me what you will i will grant
 it
orlando then love me rosalind
rosalind yes faith will i fridays and saturdays and all
orlando and wilt thou have me
rosalind ay and twenty such
orlando what sayest thou
rosalind are you not good
orlando i hope so
rosalind why then can one desire too much of a good thing
 come sister you shall be the priest and marry us
 give me your hand orlando what do you say sister
orlando pray thee marry us
celia i cannot say the words
rosalind you must begin will you orlando'
celia go to will you orlando have to wife this rosalind
orlando i will
rosalind ay but when
orlando why now as fast as she can marry us
rosalind then you must say i take thee rosalind for wife'
orlando i take thee rosalind for wife
rosalind i might ask you for your commission but i do take
 thee orlando for my husband there's a girl goes
 before the priest and certainly a woman's thought
 runs before her actions
orlando so do all thoughts they are winged
rosalind now tell me how long you would have her after you
 have possessed her
orlando for ever and a day
rosalind say a day without the ever no no orlando
 men are april when they woo december when they wed
 maids are may when they are maids but the sky
 changes when they are wives i will be more jealous
 of thee than a barbary cockpigeon over his hen
 more clamorous than a parrot against rain more
 newfangled than an ape more giddy in my desires
 than a monkey i will weep for nothing like diana
 in the fountain and i will do that when you are
 disposed to be merry i will laugh like a hyen and
 that when thou art inclined to sleep
orlando but will my rosalind do so
rosalind by my life she will do as i do
orlando o but she is wise
rosalind or else she could not have the wit to do this the
 wiser the waywarder make the doors upon a woman's
 wit and it will out at the casement shut that and
 twill out at the keyhole stop that twill fly
 with the smoke out at the chimney
orlando a man that had a wife with such a wit he might say
 wit whither wilt'
rosalind nay you might keep that cheque for it till you met
 your wife's wit going to your neighbour's bed
orlando and what wit could wit have to excuse that
rosalind marry to say she came to seek you there you shall
 never take her without her answer unless you take
 her without her tongue o that woman that cannot
 make her fault her husband's occasion let her
 never nurse her child herself for she will breed
 it like a fool
orlando for these two hours rosalind i will leave thee
rosalind alas dear love i cannot lack thee two hours
orlando i must attend the duke at dinner by two o'clock i
 will be with thee again
rosalind ay go your ways go your ways i knew what you
 would prove my friends told me as much and i
 thought no less that flattering tongue of yours
 won me tis but one cast away and so come
 death two o'clock is your hour
orlando ay sweet rosalind
rosalind by my troth and in good earnest and so god mend
 me and by all pretty oaths that are not dangerous
 if you break one jot of your promise or come one
 minute behind your hour i will think you the most
 pathetical breakpromise and the most hollow lover
 and the most unworthy of her you call rosalind that
 may be chosen out of the gross band of the
 unfaithful therefore beware my censure and keep
 your promise
orlando with no less religion than if thou wert indeed my
 rosalind so adieu
rosalind well time is the old justice that examines all such
 offenders and let time try adieu
 exit orlando
celia you have simply misused our sex in your loveprate
 we must have your doublet and hose plucked over your
 head and show the world what the bird hath done to
 her own nest
rosalind o coz coz coz my pretty little coz that thou
 didst know how many fathom deep i am in love but
 it cannot be sounded my affection hath an unknown
 bottom like the bay of portugal
celia or rather bottomless that as fast as you pour
 affection in it runs out
rosalind no that same wicked bastard of venus that was begot
 of thought conceived of spleen and born of madness
 that blind rascally boy that abuses every one's eyes
 because his own are out let him be judge how deep i
 am in love i'll tell thee aliena i cannot be out
 of the sight of orlando i'll go find a shadow and
 sigh till he come
celia and i'll sleep
 exeunt
 as you like it
act iv
scene ii the forest
 enter jaques lords and foresters
jaques which is he that killed the deer
a lord sir it was i
jaques let's present him to the duke like a roman
 conqueror and it would do well to set the deer's
 horns upon his head for a branch of victory have
 you no song forester for this purpose
forester yes sir
jaques sing it tis no matter how it be in tune so it
 make noise enough
 
 song
forester what shall he have that kill'd the deer
 his leather skin and horns to wear
 then sing him home
 the rest shall bear this burden
 take thou no scorn to wear the horn
 it was a crest ere thou wast born
 thy father's father wore it
 and thy father bore it
 the horn the horn the lusty horn
 is not a thing to laugh to scorn
 exeunt
 as you like it
act iv
scene iii the forest
 enter rosalind and celia
rosalind how say you now is it not past two o'clock and
 here much orlando
celia i warrant you with pure love and troubled brain he
 hath ta'en his bow and arrows and is gone forth to
 sleep look who comes here
 enter silvius
silvius my errand is to you fair youth
 my gentle phebe bid me give you this
 i know not the contents but as i guess
 by the stern brow and waspish action
 which she did use as she was writing of it
 it bears an angry tenor pardon me
 i am but as a guiltless messenger
rosalind patience herself would startle at this letter
 and play the swaggerer bear this bear all
 she says i am not fair that i lack manners
 she calls me proud and that she could not love me
 were man as rare as phoenix od's my will
 her love is not the hare that i do hunt
 why writes she so to me well shepherd well
 this is a letter of your own device
silvius no i protest i know not the contents
 phebe did write it
rosalind come come you are a fool
 and turn'd into the extremity of love
 i saw her hand she has a leathern hand
 a freestonecolour'd hand i verily did think
 that her old gloves were on but twas her hands
 she has a huswife's hand but that's no matter
 i say she never did invent this letter
 this is a man's invention and his hand
silvius sure it is hers
rosalind why tis a boisterous and a cruel style
 a style forchallengers why she defies me
 like turk to christian women's gentle brain
 could not drop forth such giantrude invention
 such ethiope words blacker in their effect
 than in their countenance will you hear the letter
silvius so please you for i never heard it yet
 yet heard too much of phebe's cruelty
rosalind she phebes me mark how the tyrant writes
 reads
 art thou god to shepherd turn'd
 that a maiden's heart hath burn'd
 can a woman rail thus
silvius call you this railing
rosalind reads
 why thy godhead laid apart
 warr'st thou with a woman's heart
 did you ever hear such railing
 whiles the eye of man did woo me
 that could do no vengeance to me
 meaning me a beast
 if the scorn of your bright eyne
 have power to raise such love in mine
 alack in me what strange effect
 would they work in mild aspect
 whiles you chid me i did love
 how then might your prayers move
 he that brings this love to thee
 little knows this love in me
 and by him seal up thy mind
 whether that thy youth and kind
 will the faithful offer take
 of me and all that i can make
 or else by him my love deny
 and then i'll study how to die
silvius call you this chiding
celia alas poor shepherd
rosalind do you pity him no he deserves no pity wilt
 thou love such a woman what to make thee an
 instrument and play false strains upon thee not to
 be endured well go your way to her for i see
 love hath made thee a tame snake and say this to
 her that if she love me i charge her to love
 thee if she will not i will never have her unless
 thou entreat for her if you be a true lover
 hence and not a word for here comes more company
 exit silvius
 enter oliver
oliver good morrow fair ones pray you if you know
 where in the purlieus of this forest stands
 a sheepcote fenced about with olive trees
celia west of this place down in the neighbour bottom
 the rank of osiers by the murmuring stream
 left on your right hand brings you to the place
 but at this hour the house doth keep itself
 there's none within
oliver if that an eye may profit by a tongue
 then should i know you by description
 such garments and such years the boy is fair
 of female favour and bestows himself
 like a ripe sister the woman low
 and browner than her brother are not you
 the owner of the house i did inquire for
celia it is no boast being ask'd to say we are
oliver orlando doth commend him to you both
 and to that youth he calls his rosalind
 he sends this bloody napkin are you he
rosalind i am what must we understand by this
oliver some of my shame if you will know of me
 what man i am and how and why and where
 this handkercher was stain'd
celia i pray you tell it
oliver when last the young orlando parted from you
 he left a promise to return again
 within an hour and pacing through the forest
 chewing the food of sweet and bitter fancy
 lo what befell he threw his eye aside
 and mark what object did present itself
 under an oak whose boughs were moss'd with age
 and high top bald with dry antiquity
 a wretched ragged man o'ergrown with hair
 lay sleeping on his back about his neck
 a green and gilded snake had wreathed itself
 who with her head nimble in threats approach'd
 the opening of his mouth but suddenly
 seeing orlando it unlink'd itself
 and with indented glides did slip away
 into a bush under which bush's shade
 a lioness with udders all drawn dry
 lay couching head on ground with catlike watch
 when that the sleeping man should stir for tis
 the royal disposition of that beast
 to prey on nothing that doth seem as dead
 this seen orlando did approach the man
 and found it was his brother his elder brother
celia o i have heard him speak of that same brother
 and he did render him the most unnatural
 that lived amongst men
oliver and well he might so do
 for well i know he was unnatural
rosalind but to orlando did he leave him there
 food to the suck'd and hungry lioness
oliver twice did he turn his back and purposed so
 but kindness nobler ever than revenge
 and nature stronger than his just occasion
 made him give battle to the lioness
 who quickly fell before him in which hurtling
 from miserable slumber i awaked
celia are you his brother
rosalind wast you he rescued
celia was't you that did so oft contrive to kill him
oliver twas i but tis not i i do not shame
 to tell you what i was since my conversion
 so sweetly tastes being the thing i am
rosalind but for the bloody napkin
oliver by and by
 when from the first to last betwixt us two
 tears our recountments had most kindly bathed
 as how i came into that desert place
 in brief he led me to the gentle duke
 who gave me fresh array and entertainment
 committing me unto my brother's love
 who led me instantly unto his cave
 there stripp'd himself and here upon his arm
 the lioness had torn some flesh away
 which all this while had bled and now he fainted
 and cried in fainting upon rosalind
 brief i recover'd him bound up his wound
 and after some small space being strong at heart
 he sent me hither stranger as i am
 to tell this story that you might excuse
 his broken promise and to give this napkin
 dyed in his blood unto the shepherd youth
 that he in sport doth call his rosalind
 rosalind swoons
celia why how now ganymede sweet ganymede
oliver many will swoon when they do look on blood
celia there is more in it cousin ganymede
oliver look he recovers
rosalind i would i were at home
celia we'll lead you thither
 i pray you will you take him by the arm
oliver be of good cheer youth you a man you lack a
 man's heart
rosalind i do so i confess it ah sirrah a body would
 think this was well counterfeited i pray you tell
 your brother how well i counterfeited heighho
oliver this was not counterfeit there is too great
 testimony in your complexion that it was a passion
 of earnest
rosalind counterfeit i assure you
oliver well then take a good heart and counterfeit to be a man
rosalind so i do but i faith i should have been a woman by right
celia come you look paler and paler pray you draw
 homewards good sir go with us
oliver that will i for i must bear answer back
 how you excuse my brother rosalind
rosalind i shall devise something but i pray you commend
 my counterfeiting to him will you go
 exeunt
 as you like it
act v
scene i the forest
 enter touchstone and audrey
touchstone we shall find a time audrey patience gentle audrey
audrey faith the priest was good enough for all the old
 gentleman's saying
touchstone a most wicked sir oliver audrey a most vile
 martext but audrey there is a youth here in the
 forest lays claim to you
audrey ay i know who tis he hath no interest in me in
 the world here comes the man you mean
touchstone it is meat and drink to me to see a clown by my
 troth we that have good wits have much to answer
 for we shall be flouting we cannot hold
 enter william
william good even audrey
audrey god ye good even william
william and good even to you sir
touchstone good even gentle friend cover thy head cover thy
 head nay prithee be covered how old are you friend
william five and twenty sir
touchstone a ripe age is thy name william
william william sir
touchstone a fair name wast born i the forest here
william ay sir i thank god
touchstone thank god a good answer art rich
william faith sir so so
touchstone so so is good very good very excellent good and
 yet it is not it is but so so art thou wise
william ay sir i have a pretty wit
touchstone why thou sayest well i do now remember a saying
 the fool doth think he is wise but the wise man
 knows himself to be a fool the heathen
 philosopher when he had a desire to eat a grape
 would open his lips when he put it into his mouth
 meaning thereby that grapes were made to eat and
 lips to open you do love this maid
william i do sir
touchstone give me your hand art thou learned
william no sir
touchstone then learn this of me to have is to have for it
 is a figure in rhetoric that drink being poured out
 of a cup into a glass by filling the one doth empty
 the other for all your writers do consent that ipse
 is he now you are not ipse for i am he
william which he sir
touchstone he sir that must marry this woman therefore you
 clown abandonwhich is in the vulgar leavethe
 societywhich in the boorish is companyof this
 femalewhich in the common is woman which
 together is abandon the society of this female or
 clown thou perishest or to thy better
 understanding diest or to wit i kill thee make
 thee away translate thy life into death thy
 liberty into bondage i will deal in poison with
 thee or in bastinado or in steel i will bandy
 with thee in faction i will o'errun thee with
 policy i will kill thee a hundred and fifty ways
 therefore tremble and depart
audrey do good william
william god rest you merry sir
 exit
 enter corin
corin our master and mistress seeks you come away away
touchstone trip audrey trip audrey i attend i attend
 exeunt
 as you like it
act v
scene ii the forest
 enter orlando and oliver
orlando is't possible that on so little acquaintance you
 should like her that but seeing you should love
 her and loving woo and wooing she should
 grant and will you persever to enjoy her
oliver neither call the giddiness of it in question the
 poverty of her the small acquaintance my sudden
 wooing nor her sudden consenting but say with me
 i love aliena say with her that she loves me
 consent with both that we may enjoy each other it
 shall be to your good for my father's house and all
 the revenue that was old sir rowland's will i
 estate upon you and here live and die a shepherd
orlando you have my consent let your wedding be tomorrow
 thither will i invite the duke and all's contented
 followers go you and prepare aliena for look
 you here comes my rosalind
 enter rosalind
rosalind god save you brother
oliver and you fair sister
 exit
rosalind o my dear orlando how it grieves me to see thee
 wear thy heart in a scarf
orlando it is my arm
rosalind i thought thy heart had been wounded with the claws
 of a lion
orlando wounded it is but with the eyes of a lady
rosalind did your brother tell you how i counterfeited to
 swoon when he showed me your handkerchief
orlando ay and greater wonders than that
rosalind o i know where you are nay tis true there was
 never any thing so sudden but the fight of two rams
 and caesar's thrasonical brag of i came saw and
 overcame for your brother and my sister no sooner
 met but they looked no sooner looked but they
 loved no sooner loved but they sighed no sooner
 sighed but they asked one another the reason no
 sooner knew the reason but they sought the remedy
 and in these degrees have they made a pair of stairs
 to marriage which they will climb incontinent or
 else be incontinent before marriage they are in
 the very wrath of love and they will together clubs
 cannot part them
orlando they shall be married tomorrow and i will bid the
 duke to the nuptial but o how bitter a thing it
 is to look into happiness through another man's
 eyes by so much the more shall i tomorrow be at
 the height of heartheaviness by how much i shall
 think my brother happy in having what he wishes for
rosalind why then tomorrow i cannot serve your turn for rosalind
orlando i can live no longer by thinking
rosalind i will weary you then no longer with idle talking
 know of me then for now i speak to some purpose
 that i know you are a gentleman of good conceit i
 speak not this that you should bear a good opinion
 of my knowledge insomuch i say i know you are
 neither do i labour for a greater esteem than may in
 some little measure draw a belief from you to do
 yourself good and not to grace me believe then if
 you please that i can do strange things i have
 since i was three year old conversed with a
 magician most profound in his art and yet not
 damnable if you do love rosalind so near the heart
 as your gesture cries it out when your brother
 marries aliena shall you marry her i know into
 what straits of fortune she is driven and it is
 not impossible to me if it appear not inconvenient
 to you to set her before your eyes tomorrow human
 as she is and without any danger
orlando speakest thou in sober meanings
rosalind by my life i do which i tender dearly though i
 say i am a magician therefore put you in your
 best array bid your friends for if you will be
 married tomorrow you shall and to rosalind if you will
 enter silvius and phebe
 look here comes a lover of mine and a lover of hers
phebe youth you have done me much ungentleness
 to show the letter that i writ to you
rosalind i care not if i have it is my study
 to seem despiteful and ungentle to you
 you are there followed by a faithful shepherd
 look upon him love him he worships you
phebe good shepherd tell this youth what tis to love
silvius it is to be all made of sighs and tears
 and so am i for phebe
phebe and i for ganymede
orlando and i for rosalind
rosalind and i for no woman
silvius it is to be all made of faith and service
 and so am i for phebe
phebe and i for ganymede
orlando and i for rosalind
rosalind and i for no woman
silvius it is to be all made of fantasy
 all made of passion and all made of wishes
 all adoration duty and observance
 all humbleness all patience and impatience
 all purity all trial all observance
 and so am i for phebe
phebe and so am i for ganymede
orlando and so am i for rosalind
rosalind and so am i for no woman
phebe if this be so why blame you me to love you
silvius if this be so why blame you me to love you
orlando if this be so why blame you me to love you
rosalind who do you speak to why blame you me to love you'
orlando to her that is not here nor doth not hear
rosalind pray you no more of this tis like the howling
 of irish wolves against the moon
 to silvius
 i will help you if i can
 to phebe
 i would love you if i could tomorrow meet me all together
 to phebe
 i will marry you if ever i marry woman and i'll be
 married tomorrow
 to orlando
 i will satisfy you if ever i satisfied man and you
 shall be married tomorrow
 to silvius
 i will content you if what pleases you contents
 you and you shall be married tomorrow
 to orlando
 as you love rosalind meet
 to silvius
 as you love phebe meet and as i love no woman
 i'll meet so fare you well i have left you commands
silvius i'll not fail if i live
phebe nor i
orlando nor i
 exeunt
 as you like it
act v
scene iii the forest
 enter touchstone and audrey
touchstone tomorrow is the joyful day audrey tomorrow will
 we be married
audrey i do desire it with all my heart and i hope it is
 no dishonest desire to desire to be a woman of the
 world here comes two of the banished duke's pages
 enter two pages
first page well met honest gentleman
touchstone by my troth well met come sit sit and a song
second page we are for you sit i the middle
first page shall we clap into't roundly without hawking or
 spitting or saying we are hoarse which are the only
 prologues to a bad voice
second page i'faith i'faith and both in a tune like two
 gipsies on a horse
 
 song
 it was a lover and his lass
 with a hey and a ho and a hey nonino
 that o'er the green cornfield did pass
 in the spring time the only pretty ring time
 when birds do sing hey ding a ding ding
 sweet lovers love the spring
 between the acres of the rye
 with a hey and a ho and a hey nonino
 these pretty country folks would lie
 in spring time &c
 this carol they began that hour
 with a hey and a ho and a hey nonino
 how that a life was but a flower
 in spring time &c
 and therefore take the present time
 with a hey and a ho and a hey nonino
 for love is crowned with the prime
 in spring time &c
touchstone truly young gentlemen though there was no great
 matter in the ditty yet the note was very
 untuneable
first page you are deceived sir we kept time we lost not our time
touchstone by my troth yes i count it but time lost to hear
 such a foolish song god be wi you and god mend
 your voices come audrey
 exeunt
 as you like it
act v
scene iv the forest
 enter duke senior amiens jaques orlando oliver
 and celia
duke senior dost thou believe orlando that the boy
 can do all this that he hath promised
orlando i sometimes do believe and sometimes do not
 as those that fear they hope and know they fear
 enter rosalind silvius and phebe
rosalind patience once more whiles our compact is urged
 you say if i bring in your rosalind
 you will bestow her on orlando here
duke senior that would i had i kingdoms to give with her
rosalind and you say you will have her when i bring her
orlando that would i were i of all kingdoms king
rosalind you say you'll marry me if i be willing
phebe that will i should i die the hour after
rosalind but if you do refuse to marry me
 you'll give yourself to this most faithful shepherd
phebe so is the bargain
rosalind you say that you'll have phebe if she will
silvius though to have her and death were both one thing
rosalind i have promised to make all this matter even
 keep you your word o duke to give your daughter
 you yours orlando to receive his daughter
 keep your word phebe that you'll marry me
 or else refusing me to wed this shepherd
 keep your word silvius that you'll marry her
 if she refuse me and from hence i go
 to make these doubts all even
 exeunt rosalind and celia
duke senior i do remember in this shepherd boy
 some lively touches of my daughter's favour
orlando my lord the first time that i ever saw him
 methought he was a brother to your daughter
 but my good lord this boy is forestborn
 and hath been tutor'd in the rudiments
 of many desperate studies by his uncle
 whom he reports to be a great magician
 obscured in the circle of this forest
 enter touchstone and audrey
jaques there is sure another flood toward and these
 couples are coming to the ark here comes a pair of
 very strange beasts which in all tongues are called fools
touchstone salutation and greeting to you all
jaques good my lord bid him welcome this is the
 motleyminded gentleman that i have so often met in
 the forest he hath been a courtier he swears
touchstone if any man doubt that let him put me to my
 purgation i have trod a measure i have flattered
 a lady i have been politic with my friend smooth
 with mine enemy i have undone three tailors i have
 had four quarrels and like to have fought one
jaques and how was that ta'en up
touchstone faith we met and found the quarrel was upon the
 seventh cause
jaques how seventh cause good my lord like this fellow
duke senior i like him very well
touchstone god ild you sir i desire you of the like i
 press in here sir amongst the rest of the country
 copulatives to swear and to forswear according as
 marriage binds and blood breaks a poor virgin
 sir an illfavoured thing sir but mine own a poor
 humour of mine sir to take that that no man else
 will rich honesty dwells like a miser sir in a
 poor house as your pearl in your foul oyster
duke senior by my faith he is very swift and sententious
touchstone according to the fool's bolt sir and such dulcet diseases
jaques but for the seventh cause how did you find the
 quarrel on the seventh cause
touchstone upon a lie seven times removedbear your body more
 seeming audreyas thus sir i did dislike the
 cut of a certain courtier's beard he sent me word
 if i said his beard was not cut well he was in the
 mind it was this is called the retort courteous
 if i sent him word again it was not well cut he
 would send me word he cut it to please himself
 this is called the quip modest if again it was
 not well cut he disabled my judgment this is
 called the reply churlish if again it was not
 well cut he would answer i spake not true this
 is called the reproof valiant if again it was not
 well cut he would say i lied this is called the
 countercheque quarrelsome and so to the lie
 circumstantial and the lie direct
jaques and how oft did you say his beard was not well cut
touchstone i durst go no further than the lie circumstantial
 nor he durst not give me the lie direct and so we
 measured swords and parted
jaques can you nominate in order now the degrees of the lie
touchstone o sir we quarrel in print by the book as you have
 books for good manners i will name you the degrees
 the first the retort courteous the second the
 quip modest the third the reply churlish the
 fourth the reproof valiant the fifth the
 countercheque quarrelsome the sixth the lie with
 circumstance the seventh the lie direct all
 these you may avoid but the lie direct and you may
 avoid that too with an if i knew when seven
 justices could not take up a quarrel but when the
 parties were met themselves one of them thought but
 of an if as if you said so then i said so and
 they shook hands and swore brothers your if is the
 only peacemaker much virtue in if
jaques is not this a rare fellow my lord he's as good at
 any thing and yet a fool
duke senior he uses his folly like a stalkinghorse and under
 the presentation of that he shoots his wit
 enter hymen rosalind and celia
 still music
hymen then is there mirth in heaven
 when earthly things made even
 atone together
 good duke receive thy daughter
 hymen from heaven brought her
 yea brought her hither
 that thou mightst join her hand with his
 whose heart within his bosom is
rosalind to duke senior to you i give myself for i am yours
 to orlando
 to you i give myself for i am yours
duke senior if there be truth in sight you are my daughter
orlando if there be truth in sight you are my rosalind
phebe if sight and shape be true
 why then my love adieu
rosalind i'll have no father if you be not he
 i'll have no husband if you be not he
 nor ne'er wed woman if you be not she
hymen peace ho i bar confusion
 tis i must make conclusion
 of these most strange events
 here's eight that must take hands
 to join in hymen's bands
 if truth holds true contents
 you and you no cross shall part
 you and you are heart in heart
 you to his love must accord
 or have a woman to your lord
 you and you are sure together
 as the winter to foul weather
 whiles a wedlockhymn we sing
 feed yourselves with questioning
 that reason wonder may diminish
 how thus we met and these things finish
 
 song
 wedding is great juno's crown
 o blessed bond of board and bed
 tis hymen peoples every town
 high wedlock then be honoured
 honour high honour and renown
 to hymen god of every town
duke senior o my dear niece welcome thou art to me
 even daughter welcome in no less degree
phebe i will not eat my word now thou art mine
 thy faith my fancy to thee doth combine
 enter jaques de boys
jaques de boys let me have audience for a word or two
 i am the second son of old sir rowland
 that bring these tidings to this fair assembly
 duke frederick hearing how that every day
 men of great worth resorted to this forest
 address'd a mighty power which were on foot
 in his own conduct purposely to take
 his brother here and put him to the sword
 and to the skirts of this wild wood he came
 where meeting with an old religious man
 after some question with him was converted
 both from his enterprise and from the world
 his crown bequeathing to his banish'd brother
 and all their lands restored to them again
 that were with him exiled this to be true
 i do engage my life
duke senior welcome young man
 thou offer'st fairly to thy brothers wedding
 to one his lands withheld and to the other
 a land itself at large a potent dukedom
 first in this forest let us do those ends
 that here were well begun and well begot
 and after every of this happy number
 that have endured shrewd days and nights with us
 shall share the good of our returned fortune
 according to the measure of their states
 meantime forget this newfall'n dignity
 and fall into our rustic revelry
 play music and you brides and bridegrooms all
 with measure heap'd in joy to the measures fall
jaques sir by your patience if i heard you rightly
 the duke hath put on a religious life
 and thrown into neglect the pompous court
jaques de boys he hath
jaques to him will i out of these convertites
 there is much matter to be heard and learn'd
 to duke senior
 you to your former honour i bequeath
 your patience and your virtue well deserves it
 to orlando
 you to a love that your true faith doth merit
 to oliver
 you to your land and love and great allies
 to silvius
 you to a long and welldeserved bed
 to touchstone
 and you to wrangling for thy loving voyage
 is but for two months victuall'd so to your pleasures
 i am for other than for dancing measures
duke senior stay jaques stay
jaques to see no pastime i what you would have
 i'll stay to know at your abandon'd cave
 exit
duke senior proceed proceed we will begin these rites
 as we do trust they'll end in true delights
 a dance
 as you like it
 epilogue
rosalind it is not the fashion to see the lady the epilogue
 but it is no more unhandsome than to see the lord
 the prologue if it be true that good wine needs
 no bush tis true that a good play needs no
 epilogue yet to good wine they do use good bushes
 and good plays prove the better by the help of good
 epilogues what a case am i in then that am
 neither a good epilogue nor cannot insinuate with
 you in the behalf of a good play i am not
 furnished like a beggar therefore to beg will not
 become me my way is to conjure you and i'll begin
 with the women i charge you o women for the love
 you bear to men to like as much of this play as
 please you and i charge you o men for the love
 you bear to womenas i perceive by your simpering
 none of you hates themthat between you and the
 women the play may please if i were a woman i
 would kiss as many of you as had beards that pleased
 me complexions that liked me and breaths that i
 defied not and i am sure as many as have good
 beards or good faces or sweet breaths will for my
 kind offer when i make curtsy bid me farewell
 exeunt
 the comedy of errors
 dramatis personae
solinus duke of ephesus duke solinus
aegeon a merchant of syracuse
antipholus 
of ephesus 
 twin brothers and sons to aegeon and aemilia
antipholus 
of syracuse 
dromio of ephesus 
 twin brothers and attendants on the two antipholuses
dromio of syracuse 
balthazar a merchant
angelo a goldsmith
first merchant friend to antipholus of syracuse
second merchant to whom angelo is a debtor
pinch a schoolmaster
aemilia wife to aegeon an abbess at ephesus
adriana wife to antipholus of ephesus
luciana her sister
luce servant to adriana
 a courtezan
 gaoler officers and other attendants
 gaoler
 officer
 servant
scene ephesus
 the comedy of errors
act i
scene i a hall in duke solinus's palace
 enter duke solinus aegeon gaoler officers and other
 attendants
aegeon proceed solinus to procure my fall
 and by the doom of death end woes and all
duke solinus merchant of syracuse plead no more
 i am not partial to infringe our laws
 the enmity and discord which of late
 sprung from the rancorous outrage of your duke
 to merchants our welldealing countrymen
 who wanting guilders to redeem their lives
 have seal'd his rigorous statutes with their bloods
 excludes all pity from our threatening looks
 for since the mortal and intestine jars
 twixt thy seditious countrymen and us
 it hath in solemn synods been decreed
 both by the syracusians and ourselves
 to admit no traffic to our adverse towns nay more
 if any born at ephesus be seen
 at any syracusian marts and fairs
 again if any syracusian born
 come to the bay of ephesus he dies
 his goods confiscate to the duke's dispose
 unless a thousand marks be levied
 to quit the penalty and to ransom him
 thy substance valued at the highest rate
 cannot amount unto a hundred marks
 therefore by law thou art condemned to die
aegeon yet this my comfort when your words are done
 my woes end likewise with the evening sun
duke solinus well syracusian say in brief the cause
 why thou departed'st from thy native home
 and for what cause thou camest to ephesus
aegeon a heavier task could not have been imposed
 than i to speak my griefs unspeakable
 yet that the world may witness that my end
 was wrought by nature not by vile offence
 i'll utter what my sorrows give me leave
 in syracusa was i born and wed
 unto a woman happy but for me
 and by me had not our hap been bad
 with her i lived in joy our wealth increased
 by prosperous voyages i often made
 to epidamnum till my factor's death
 and the great care of goods at random left
 drew me from kind embracements of my spouse
 from whom my absence was not six months old
 before herself almost at fainting under
 the pleasing punishment that women bear
 had made provision for her following me
 and soon and safe arrived where i was
 there had she not been long but she became
 a joyful mother of two goodly sons
 and which was strange the one so like the other
 as could not be distinguish'd but by names
 that very hour and in the selfsame inn
 a meaner woman was delivered
 of such a burden male twins both alike
 thosefor their parents were exceeding poor
 i bought and brought up to attend my sons
 my wife not meanly proud of two such boys
 made daily motions for our home return
 unwilling i agreed alas too soon
 we came aboard
 a league from epidamnum had we sail'd
 before the always windobeying deep
 gave any tragic instance of our harm
 but longer did we not retain much hope
 for what obscured light the heavens did grant
 did but convey unto our fearful minds
 a doubtful warrant of immediate death
 which though myself would gladly have embraced
 yet the incessant weepings of my wife
 weeping before for what she saw must come
 and piteous plainings of the pretty babes
 that mourn'd for fashion ignorant what to fear
 forced me to seek delays for them and me
 and this it was for other means was none
 the sailors sought for safety by our boat
 and left the ship then sinkingripe to us
 my wife more careful for the latterborn
 had fasten'd him unto a small spare mast
 such as seafaring men provide for storms
 to him one of the other twins was bound
 whilst i had been like heedful of the other
 the children thus disposed my wife and i
 fixing our eyes on whom our care was fix'd
 fasten'd ourselves at either end the mast
 and floating straight obedient to the stream
 was carried towards corinth as we thought
 at length the sun gazing upon the earth
 dispersed those vapours that offended us
 and by the benefit of his wished light
 the seas wax'd calm and we discovered
 two ships from far making amain to us
 of corinth that of epidaurus this
 but ere they cameo let me say no more
 gather the sequel by that went before
duke solinus nay forward old man do not break off so
 for we may pity though not pardon thee
aegeon o had the gods done so i had not now
 worthily term'd them merciless to us
 for ere the ships could meet by twice five leagues
 we were encounterd by a mighty rock
 which being violently borne upon
 our helpful ship was splitted in the midst
 so that in this unjust divorce of us
 fortune had left to both of us alike
 what to delight in what to sorrow for
 her part poor soul seeming as burdened
 with lesser weight but not with lesser woe
 was carried with more speed before the wind
 and in our sight they three were taken up
 by fishermen of corinth as we thought
 at length another ship had seized on us
 and knowing whom it was their hap to save
 gave healthful welcome to their shipwreck'd guests
 and would have reft the fishers of their prey
 had not their bark been very slow of sail
 and therefore homeward did they bend their course
 thus have you heard me sever'd from my bliss
 that by misfortunes was my life prolong'd
 to tell sad stories of my own mishaps
duke solinus and for the sake of them thou sorrowest for
 do me the favour to dilate at full
 what hath befall'n of them and thee till now
aegeon my youngest boy and yet my eldest care
 at eighteen years became inquisitive
 after his brother and importuned me
 that his attendantso his case was like
 reft of his brother but retain'd his name
 might bear him company in the quest of him
 whom whilst i labour'd of a love to see
 i hazarded the loss of whom i loved
 five summers have i spent in furthest greece
 roaming clean through the bounds of asia
 and coasting homeward came to ephesus
 hopeless to find yet loath to leave unsought
 or that or any place that harbours men
 but here must end the story of my life
 and happy were i in my timely death
 could all my travels warrant me they live
duke solinus hapless aegeon whom the fates have mark'd
 to bear the extremity of dire mishap
 now trust me were it not against our laws
 against my crown my oath my dignity
 which princes would they may not disannul
 my soul would sue as advocate for thee
 but though thou art adjudged to the death
 and passed sentence may not be recall'd
 but to our honour's great disparagement
 yet i will favour thee in what i can
 therefore merchant i'll limit thee this day
 to seek thy life by beneficial help
 try all the friends thou hast in ephesus
 beg thou or borrow to make up the sum
 and live if no then thou art doom'd to die
 gaoler take him to thy custody
gaoler i will my lord
aegeon hopeless and helpless doth aegeon wend
 but to procrastinate his lifeless end
 exeunt
 the comedy of errors
act i
scene ii the mart
 enter antipholus of syracuse dromio of syracuse
 and first merchant
first merchant therefore give out you are of epidamnum
 lest that your goods too soon be confiscate
 this very day a syracusian merchant
 is apprehended for arrival here
 and not being able to buy out his life
 according to the statute of the town
 dies ere the weary sun set in the west
 there is your money that i had to keep
antipholus
of syracuse go bear it to the centaur where we host
 and stay there dromio till i come to thee
 within this hour it will be dinnertime
 till that i'll view the manners of the town
 peruse the traders gaze upon the buildings
 and then return and sleep within mine inn
 for with long travel i am stiff and weary
 get thee away
dromio of syracuse many a man would take you at your word
 and go indeed having so good a mean
 exit
antipholus
of syracuse a trusty villain sir that very oft
 when i am dull with care and melancholy
 lightens my humour with his merry jests
 what will you walk with me about the town
 and then go to my inn and dine with me
first merchant i am invited sir to certain merchants
 of whom i hope to make much benefit
 i crave your pardon soon at five o'clock
 please you i'll meet with you upon the mart
 and afterward consort you till bedtime
 my present business calls me from you now
antipholus
of syracuse farewell till then i will go lose myself
 and wander up and down to view the city
first merchant sir i commend you to your own content
 exit
antipholus
of syracuse he that commends me to mine own content
 commends me to the thing i cannot get
 i to the world am like a drop of water
 that in the ocean seeks another drop
 who falling there to find his fellow forth
 unseen inquisitive confounds himself
 so i to find a mother and a brother
 in quest of them unhappy lose myself
 enter dromio of ephesus
 here comes the almanac of my true date
 what now how chance thou art return'd so soon
dromio of ephesus return'd so soon rather approach'd too late
 the capon burns the pig falls from the spit
 the clock hath strucken twelve upon the bell
 my mistress made it one upon my cheek
 she is so hot because the meat is cold
 the meat is cold because you come not home
 you come not home because you have no stomach
 you have no stomach having broke your fast
 but we that know what tis to fast and pray
 are penitent for your default today
antipholus
of syracuse stop in your wind sir tell me this i pray
 where have you left the money that i gave you
dromio of ephesus osixpence that i had o wednesday last
 to pay the saddler for my mistress crupper
 the saddler had it sir i kept it not
antipholus
of syracuse i am not in a sportive humour now
 tell me and dally not where is the money
 we being strangers here how darest thou trust
 so great a charge from thine own custody
dromio of ephesus i pray you air as you sit at dinner
 i from my mistress come to you in post
 if i return i shall be post indeed
 for she will score your fault upon my pate
 methinks your maw like mine should be your clock
 and strike you home without a messenger
antipholus
of syracuse come dromio come these jests are out of season
 reserve them till a merrier hour than this
 where is the gold i gave in charge to thee
dromio of ephesus to me sir why you gave no gold to me
antipholus
of syracuse come on sir knave have done your foolishness
 and tell me how thou hast disposed thy charge
dromio of ephesus my charge was but to fetch you from the mart
 home to your house the phoenix sir to dinner
 my mistress and her sister stays for you
antipholus
of syracuse in what safe place you have bestow'd my money
 or i shall break that merry sconce of yours
 that stands on tricks when i am undisposed
 where is the thousand marks thou hadst of me
dromio of ephesus i have some marks of yours upon my pate
 some of my mistress marks upon my shoulders
 but not a thousand marks between you both
 if i should pay your worship those again
 perchance you will not bear them patiently
antipholus
of syracuse thy mistress marks what mistress slave hast thou
dromio of ephesus your worship's wife my mistress at the phoenix
 she that doth fast till you come home to dinner
 and prays that you will hie you home to dinner
antipholus
of syracuse what wilt thou flout me thus unto my face
 being forbid there take you that sir knave
dromio of ephesus what mean you sir for god's sake hold your hands
 nay and you will not sir i'll take my heels
 exit
antipholus
of syracuse upon my life by some device or other
 the villain is o'erraught of all my money
 they say this town is full of cozenage
 as nimble jugglers that deceive the eye
 darkworking sorcerers that change the mind
 soulkilling witches that deform the body
 disguised cheaters prating mountebanks
 and many suchlike liberties of sin
 if it prove so i will be gone the sooner
 i'll to the centaur to go seek this slave
 i greatly fear my money is not safe
 exit
 the comedy of errors
act ii
scene i the house of antipholus of ephesus
 enter adriana and luciana
adriana neither my husband nor the slave return'd
 that in such haste i sent to seek his master
 sure luciana it is two o'clock
luciana perhaps some merchant hath invited him
 and from the mart he's somewhere gone to dinner
 good sister let us dine and never fret
 a man is master of his liberty
 time is their master and when they see time
 they'll go or come if so be patient sister
adriana why should their liberty than ours be more
luciana because their business still lies out o door
adriana look when i serve him so he takes it ill
luciana o know he is the bridle of your will
adriana there's none but asses will be bridled so
luciana why headstrong liberty is lash'd with woe
 there's nothing situate under heaven's eye
 but hath his bound in earth in sea in sky
 the beasts the fishes and the winged fowls
 are their males subjects and at their controls
 men more divine the masters of all these
 lords of the wide world and wild watery seas
 indued with intellectual sense and souls
 of more preeminence than fish and fowls
 are masters to their females and their lords
 then let your will attend on their accords
adriana this servitude makes you to keep unwed
luciana not this but troubles of the marriagebed
adriana but were you wedded you would bear some sway
luciana ere i learn love i'll practise to obey
adriana how if your husband start some other where
luciana till he come home again i would forbear
adriana patience unmoved no marvel though she pause
 they can be meek that have no other cause
 a wretched soul bruised with adversity
 we bid be quiet when we hear it cry
 but were we burdened with like weight of pain
 as much or more would we ourselves complain
 so thou that hast no unkind mate to grieve thee
 with urging helpless patience wouldst relieve me
 but if thou live to see like right bereft
 this foolbegg'd patience in thee will be left
luciana well i will marry one day but to try
 here comes your man now is your husband nigh
 enter dromio of ephesus
adriana say is your tardy master now at hand
dromio of ephesus nay he's at two hands with me and that my two ears
 can witness
adriana say didst thou speak with him know'st thou his mind
dromio of ephesus ay ay he told his mind upon mine ear
 beshrew his hand i scarce could understand it
luciana spake he so doubtfully thou couldst not feel his meaning
dromio of ephesus nay he struck so plainly i could too well feel his
 blows and withal so doubtfully that i could scarce
 understand them
adriana but say i prithee is he coming home it seems he
 hath great care to please his wife
dromio of ephesus why mistress sure my master is hornmad
adriana hornmad thou villain
dromio of ephesus i mean not cuckoldmad
 but sure he is stark mad
 when i desired him to come home to dinner
 he ask'd me for a thousand marks in gold
 'tis dinnertime quoth i my gold quoth he
 your meat doth burn quoth i my gold quoth he
 will you come home quoth i my gold quoth he
 where is the thousand marks i gave thee villain'
 the pig quoth i is burn'd my gold quoth he
 my mistress sir quoth i hang up thy mistress
 i know not thy mistress out on thy mistress'
luciana quoth who
dromio of ephesus quoth my master
 i know quoth he no house no wife no mistress'
 so that my errand due unto my tongue
 i thank him i bare home upon my shoulders
 for in conclusion he did beat me there
adriana go back again thou slave and fetch him home
dromio of ephesus go back again and be new beaten home
 for god's sake send some other messenger
adriana back slave or i will break thy pate across
dromio of ephesus and he will bless that cross with other beating
 between you i shall have a holy head
adriana hence prating peasant fetch thy master home
dromio of ephesus am i so round with you as you with me
 that like a football you do spurn me thus
 you spurn me hence and he will spurn me hither
 if i last in this service you must case me in leather
 exit
luciana fie how impatience loureth in your face
adriana his company must do his minions grace
 whilst i at home starve for a merry look
 hath homely age the alluring beauty took
 from my poor cheek then he hath wasted it
 are my discourses dull barren my wit
 if voluble and sharp discourse be marr'd
 unkindness blunts it more than marble hard
 do their gay vestments his affections bait
 that's not my fault he's master of my state
 what ruins are in me that can be found
 by him not ruin'd then is he the ground
 of my defeatures my decayed fair
 a sunny look of his would soon repair
 but too unruly deer he breaks the pale
 and feeds from home poor i am but his stale
luciana selfharming jealousy fie beat it hence
adriana unfeeling fools can with such wrongs dispense
 i know his eye doth homage otherwhere
 or else what lets it but he would be here
 sister you know he promised me a chain
 would that alone alone he would detain
 so he would keep fair quarter with his bed
 i see the jewel best enamelled
 will lose his beauty yet the gold bides still
 that others touch and often touching will
 wear gold and no man that hath a name
 by falsehood and corruption doth it shame
 since that my beauty cannot please his eye
 i'll weep what's left away and weeping die
luciana how many fond fools serve mad jealousy
 exeunt
 the comedy of errors
act ii
scene ii a public place
 enter antipholus of syracuse
antipholus
of syracuse the gold i gave to dromio is laid up
 safe at the centaur and the heedful slave
 is wander'd forth in care to seek me out
 by computation and mine host's report
 i could not speak with dromio since at first
 i sent him from the mart see here he comes
 enter dromio of syracuse
 how now sir is your merry humour alter'd
 as you love strokes so jest with me again
 you know no centaur you received no gold
 your mistress sent to have me home to dinner
 my house was at the phoenix wast thou mad
 that thus so madly thou didst answer me
dromio of syracuse what answer sir when spake i such a word
antipholus
of syracuse even now even here not half an hour since
dromio of syracuse i did not see you since you sent me hence
 home to the centaur with the gold you gave me
antipholus
of syracuse villain thou didst deny the gold's receipt
 and told'st me of a mistress and a dinner
 for which i hope thou felt'st i was displeased
dromio of syracuse i am glad to see you in this merry vein
 what means this jest i pray you master tell me
antipholus
of syracuse yea dost thou jeer and flout me in the teeth
 think'st thou i jest hold take thou that and that
 beating him
dromio of syracuse hold sir for god's sake now your jest is earnest
 upon what bargain do you give it me
antipholus
of syracuse because that i familiarly sometimes
 do use you for my fool and chat with you
 your sauciness will jest upon my love
 and make a common of my serious hours
 when the sun shines let foolish gnats make sport
 but creep in crannies when he hides his beams
 if you will jest with me know my aspect
 and fashion your demeanor to my looks
 or i will beat this method in your sconce
dromio of syracuse sconce call you it so you would leave battering i
 had rather have it a head an you use these blows
 long i must get a sconce for my head and ensconce
 it too or else i shall seek my wit in my shoulders
 but i pray sir why am i beaten
antipholus
of syracuse dost thou not know
dromio of syracuse nothing sir but that i am beaten
antipholus
of syracuse shall i tell you why
dromio of syracuse ay sir and wherefore for they say every why hath
 a wherefore
antipholus
of syracuse why firstfor flouting me and then wherefore
 for urging it the second time to me
dromio of syracuse was there ever any man thus beaten out of season
 when in the why and the wherefore is neither rhyme
 nor reason
 well sir i thank you
antipholus
of syracuse thank me sir for what
dromio of syracuse marry sir for this something that you gave me for nothing
antipholus
of syracuse i'll make you amends next to give you nothing for
 something but say sir is it dinnertime
dromio of syracuse no sir i think the meat wants that i have
antipholus
of syracuse in good time sir what's that
dromio of syracuse basting
antipholus
of syracuse well sir then twill be dry
dromio of syracuse if it be sir i pray you eat none of it
antipholus
of syracuse your reason
dromio of syracuse lest it make you choleric and purchase me another
 dry basting
antipholus
of syracuse well sir learn to jest in good time there's a
 time for all things
dromio of syracuse i durst have denied that before you were so choleric
antipholus
of syracuse by what rule sir
dromio of syracuse marry sir by a rule as plain as the plain bald
 pate of father time himself
antipholus
of syracuse let's hear it
dromio of syracuse there's no time for a man to recover his hair that
 grows bald by nature
antipholus
of syracuse may he not do it by fine and recovery
dromio of syracuse yes to pay a fine for a periwig and recover the
 lost hair of another man
antipholus
of syracuse why is time such a niggard of hair being as it is
 so plentiful an excrement
dromio of syracuse because it is a blessing that he bestows on beasts
 and what he hath scanted men in hair he hath given them in wit
antipholus
of syracuse why but there's many a man hath more hair than wit
dromio of syracuse not a man of those but he hath the wit to lose his hair
antipholus
of syracuse why thou didst conclude hairy men plain dealers without wit
dromio of syracuse the plainer dealer the sooner lost yet he loseth
 it in a kind of jollity
antipholus
of syracuse for what reason
dromio of syracuse for two and sound ones too
antipholus
of syracuse nay not sound i pray you
dromio of syracuse sure ones then
antipholus
of syracuse nay not sure in a thing falsing
dromio of syracuse certain ones then
antipholus
of syracuse name them
dromio of syracuse the one to save the money that he spends in
 trimming the other that at dinner they should not
 drop in his porridge
antipholus
of syracuse you would all this time have proved there is no
 time for all things
dromio of syracuse marry and did sir namely no time to recover hair
 lost by nature
antipholus
of syracuse but your reason was not substantial why there is no
 time to recover
dromio of syracuse thus i mend it time himself is bald and therefore
 to the world's end will have bald followers
antipholus
of syracuse i knew twould be a bald conclusion
 but soft who wafts us yonder
 enter adriana and luciana
adriana ay ay antipholus look strange and frown
 some other mistress hath thy sweet aspects
 i am not adriana nor thy wife
 the time was once when thou unurged wouldst vow
 that never words were music to thine ear
 that never object pleasing in thine eye
 that never touch well welcome to thy hand
 that never meat sweetsavor'd in thy taste
 unless i spake or look'd or touch'd or carved to thee
 how comes it now my husband o how comes it
 that thou art thus estranged from thyself
 thyself i call it being strange to me
 that undividable incorporate
 am better than thy dear self's better part
 ah do not tear away thyself from me
 for know my love as easy mayest thou fall
 a drop of water in the breaking gulf
 and take unmingled that same drop again
 without addition or diminishing
 as take from me thyself and not me too
 how dearly would it touch me to the quick
 shouldst thou but hear i were licentious
 and that this body consecrate to thee
 by ruffian lust should be contaminate
 wouldst thou not spit at me and spurn at me
 and hurl the name of husband in my face
 and tear the stain'd skin off my harlotbrow
 and from my false hand cut the weddingring
 and break it with a deepdivorcing vow
 i know thou canst and therefore see thou do it
 i am possess'd with an adulterate blot
 my blood is mingled with the crime of lust
 for if we too be one and thou play false
 i do digest the poison of thy flesh
 being strumpeted by thy contagion
 keep then far league and truce with thy true bed
 i live unstain'd thou undishonoured
antipholus
of syracuse plead you to me fair dame i know you not
 in ephesus i am but two hours old
 as strange unto your town as to your talk
 who every word by all my wit being scann'd
 want wit in all one word to understand
luciana fie brother how the world is changed with you
 when were you wont to use my sister thus
 she sent for you by dromio home to dinner
antipholus
of syracuse by dromio
dromio of syracuse by me
adriana by thee and this thou didst return from him
 that he did buffet thee and in his blows
 denied my house for his me for his wife
antipholus
of syracuse did you converse sir with this gentlewoman
 what is the course and drift of your compact
dromio of syracuse i sir i never saw her till this time
antipholus
of syracuse villain thou liest for even her very words
 didst thou deliver to me on the mart
dromio of syracuse i never spake with her in all my life
antipholus
of syracuse how can she thus then call us by our names
 unless it be by inspiration
adriana how ill agrees it with your gravity
 to counterfeit thus grossly with your slave
 abetting him to thwart me in my mood
 be it my wrong you are from me exempt
 but wrong not that wrong with a more contempt
 come i will fasten on this sleeve of thine
 thou art an elm my husband i a vine
 whose weakness married to thy stronger state
 makes me with thy strength to communicate
 if aught possess thee from me it is dross
 usurping ivy brier or idle moss
 who all for want of pruning with intrusion
 infect thy sap and live on thy confusion
antipholus
of syracuse to me she speaks she moves me for her theme
 what was i married to her in my dream
 or sleep i now and think i hear all this
 what error drives our eyes and ears amiss
 until i know this sure uncertainty
 i'll entertain the offer'd fallacy
luciana dromio go bid the servants spread for dinner
dromio of syracuse o for my beads i cross me for a sinner
 this is the fairy land o spite of spites
 we talk with goblins owls and sprites
 if we obey them not this will ensue
 they'll suck our breath or pinch us black and blue
luciana why pratest thou to thyself and answer'st not
 dromio thou drone thou snail thou slug thou sot
dromio of syracuse i am transformed master am i not
antipholus
of syracuse i think thou art in mind and so am i
dromio of syracuse nay master both in mind and in my shape
antipholus
of syracuse thou hast thine own form
dromio of syracuse no i am an ape
luciana if thou art changed to aught tis to an ass
dromio of syracuse tis true she rides me and i long for grass
 tis so i am an ass else it could never be
 but i should know her as well as she knows me
adriana come come no longer will i be a fool
 to put the finger in the eye and weep
 whilst man and master laugh my woes to scorn
 come sir to dinner dromio keep the gate
 husband i'll dine above with you today
 and shrive you of a thousand idle pranks
 sirrah if any ask you for your master
 say he dines forth and let no creature enter
 come sister dromio play the porter well
antipholus
of syracuse am i in earth in heaven or in hell
 sleeping or waking mad or welladvised
 known unto these and to myself disguised
 i'll say as they say and persever so
 and in this mist at all adventures go
dromio of syracuse master shall i be porter at the gate
adriana ay and let none enter lest i break your pate
luciana come come antipholus we dine too late
 exeunt
 the comedy of errors
act iii
scene i before the house of antipholus of ephesus
 enter antipholus of ephesus dromio of ephesus
 angelo and balthazar
antipholus
of ephesus good signior angelo you must excuse us all
 my wife is shrewish when i keep not hours
 say that i linger'd with you at your shop
 to see the making of her carcanet
 and that tomorrow you will bring it home
 but here's a villain that would face me down
 he met me on the mart and that i beat him
 and charged him with a thousand marks in gold
 and that i did deny my wife and house
 thou drunkard thou what didst thou mean by this
dromio of ephesus say what you will sir but i know what i know
 that you beat me at the mart i have your hand to show
 if the skin were parchment and the blows you gave were ink
 your own handwriting would tell you what i think
antipholus
of ephesus i think thou art an ass
dromio of ephesus marry so it doth appear
 by the wrongs i suffer and the blows i bear
 i should kick being kick'd and being at that pass
 you would keep from my heels and beware of an ass
antipholus
of ephesus you're sad signior balthazar pray god our cheer
 may answer my good will and your good welcome here
balthazar i hold your dainties cheap sir and your
 welcome dear
antipholus
of ephesus o signior balthazar either at flesh or fish
 a table full of welcome make scarce one dainty dish
balthazar good meat sir is common that every churl affords
antipholus
of ephesus and welcome more common for that's nothing but words
balthazar small cheer and great welcome makes a merry feast
antipholus
of ephesus ay to a niggardly host and more sparing guest
 but though my cates be mean take them in good part
 better cheer may you have but not with better heart
 but soft my door is lock'd go bid them let us in
dromio of ephesus maud bridget marian cicel gillian ginn
dromio of syracuse within mome malthorse capon coxcomb
 idiot patch
 either get thee from the door or sit down at the hatch
 dost thou conjure for wenches that thou call'st
 for such store
 when one is one too many go get thee from the door
dromio of ephesus what patch is made our porter my master stays in
 the street
dromio of syracuse within let him walk from whence he came lest he
 catch cold on's feet
antipholus
of ephesus who talks within there ho open the door
dromio of syracuse within right sir i'll tell you when an you tell
 me wherefore
antipholus
of ephesus wherefore for my dinner i have not dined today
dromio of syracuse within nor today here you must not come again
 when you may
antipholus
of ephesus what art thou that keepest me out from the house i owe
dromio of syracuse within the porter for this time sir and my name
 is dromio
dromio of ephesus o villain thou hast stolen both mine office and my name
 the one ne'er got me credit the other mickle blame
 if thou hadst been dromio today in my place
 thou wouldst have changed thy face for a name or thy
 name for an ass
luce within what a coil is there dromio who are those
 at the gate
dromio of ephesus let my master in luce
luce within faith no he comes too late
 and so tell your master
dromio of ephesus o lord i must laugh
 have at you with a proverbshall i set in my staff
luce within have at you with another that'swhen
 can you tell
dromio of syracuse within if thy name be call'd luceluce thou hast
 answered him well
antipholus do you hear you minion you'll let us in i hope
of ephesus
luce within i thought to have asked you
dromio of syracuse within and you said no
dromio of ephesus so come help well struck there was blow for blow
antipholus
of ephesus thou baggage let me in
luce within can you tell for whose sake
dromio of ephesus master knock the door hard
luce within let him knock till it ache
antipholus
of ephesus you'll cry for this minion if i beat the door down
luce within what needs all that and a pair of stocks in the town
adriana within who is that at the door that keeps all
 this noise
dromio of syracuse within by my troth your town is troubled with
 unruly boys
antipholus
of ephesus are you there wife you might have come before
adriana within your wife sir knave go get you from the door
dromio of ephesus if you went in pain master this knave would go sore
angelo here is neither cheer sir nor welcome we would
 fain have either
balthazar in debating which was best we shall part with neither
dromio of ephesus they stand at the door master bid them welcome hither
antipholus
of ephesus there is something in the wind that we cannot get in
dromio of ephesus you would say so master if your garments were thin
 your cake there is warm within you stand here in the cold
 it would make a man mad as a buck to be so bought and sold
antipholus
of ephesus go fetch me something i'll break ope the gate
dromio of syracuse within break any breaking here and i'll break your
 knave's pate
dromio of ephesus a man may break a word with you sir and words are but wind
 ay and break it in your face so he break it not behind
dromio of syracuse within it seems thou want'st breaking out upon
 thee hind
dromio of ephesus here's too much out upon thee i pray thee
 let me in
dromio of syracuse within ay when fowls have no feathers and fish have no fin
antipholus
of ephesus well i'll break in go borrow me a crow
dromio of ephesus a crow without feather master mean you so
 for a fish without a fin there's a fowl without a feather
 if a crow help us in sirrah we'll pluck a crow together
antipholus
of ephesus go get thee gone fetch me an iron crow
balthazar have patience sir o let it not be so
 herein you war against your reputation
 and draw within the compass of suspect
 the unviolated honour of your wife
 once thisyour long experience of her wisdom
 her sober virtue years and modesty
 plead on her part some cause to you unknown
 and doubt not sir but she will well excuse
 why at this time the doors are made against you
 be ruled by me depart in patience
 and let us to the tiger all to dinner
 and about evening come yourself alone
 to know the reason of this strange restraint
 if by strong hand you offer to break in
 now in the stirring passage of the day
 a vulgar comment will be made of it
 and that supposed by the common rout
 against your yet ungalled estimation
 that may with foul intrusion enter in
 and dwell upon your grave when you are dead
 for slander lives upon succession
 for ever housed where it gets possession
antipholus
of ephesus you have prevailed i will depart in quiet
 and in despite of mirth mean to be merry
 i know a wench of excellent discourse
 pretty and witty wild and yet too gentle
 there will we dine this woman that i mean
 my wifebut i protest without desert
 hath oftentimes upbraided me withal
 to her will we to dinner
 to angelo
 get you home
 and fetch the chain by this i know tis made
 bring it i pray you to the porpentine
 for there's the house that chain will i bestow
 be it for nothing but to spite my wife
 upon mine hostess there good sir make haste
 since mine own doors refuse to entertain me
 i'll knock elsewhere to see if they'll disdain me
angelo i'll meet you at that place some hour hence
antipholus
of ephesus do so this jest shall cost me some expense
 exeunt
 the comedy of errors
act iii
scene ii the same
 enter luciana and antipholus of syracuse
luciana and may it be that you have quite forgot
 a husband's office shall antipholus
 even in the spring of love thy lovesprings rot
 shall love in building grow so ruinous
 if you did wed my sister for her wealth
 then for her wealth's sake use her with more kindness
 or if you like elsewhere do it by stealth
 muffle your false love with some show of blindness
 let not my sister read it in your eye
 be not thy tongue thy own shame's orator
 look sweet be fair become disloyalty
 apparel vice like virtue's harbinger
 bear a fair presence though your heart be tainted
 teach sin the carriage of a holy saint
 be secretfalse what need she be acquainted
 what simple thief brags of his own attaint
 tis double wrong to truant with your bed
 and let her read it in thy looks at board
 shame hath a bastard fame well managed
 ill deeds are doubled with an evil word
 alas poor women make us but believe
 being compact of credit that you love us
 though others have the arm show us the sleeve
 we in your motion turn and you may move us
 then gentle brother get you in again
 comfort my sister cheer her call her wife
 tis holy sport to be a little vain
 when the sweet breath of flattery conquers strife
antipholus
of syracuse sweet mistresswhat your name is else i know not
 nor by what wonder you do hit of mine
 less in your knowledge and your grace you show not
 than our earth's wonder more than earth divine
 teach me dear creature how to think and speak
 lay open to my earthygross conceit
 smother'd in errors feeble shallow weak
 the folded meaning of your words deceit
 against my soul's pure truth why labour you
 to make it wander in an unknown field
 are you a god would you create me new
 transform me then and to your power i'll yield
 but if that i am i then well i know
 your weeping sister is no wife of mine
 nor to her bed no homage do i owe
 far more far more to you do i decline
 o train me not sweet mermaid with thy note
 to drown me in thy sister's flood of tears
 sing siren for thyself and i will dote
 spread o'er the silver waves thy golden hairs
 and as a bed i'll take them and there lie
 and in that glorious supposition think
 he gains by death that hath such means to die
 let love being light be drowned if she sink
luciana what are you mad that you do reason so
antipholus
of syracuse not mad but mated how i do not know
luciana it is a fault that springeth from your eye
antipholus
of syracuse for gazing on your beams fair sun being by
luciana gaze where you should and that will clear your sight
antipholus
of syracuse as good to wink sweet love as look on night
luciana why call you me love call my sister so
antipholus
of syracuse thy sister's sister
luciana that's my sister
antipholus
of syracuse no
 it is thyself mine own self's better part
 mine eye's clear eye my dear heart's dearer heart
 my food my fortune and my sweet hope's aim
 my sole earth's heaven and my heaven's claim
luciana all this my sister is or else should be
antipholus
of syracuse call thyself sister sweet for i am thee
 thee will i love and with thee lead my life
 thou hast no husband yet nor i no wife
 give me thy hand
luciana o soft air hold you still
 i'll fetch my sister to get her good will
 exit
 enter dromio of syracuse
antipholus
of syracuse why how now dromio where runn'st thou so fast
dromio of syracuse do you know me sir am i dromio am i your man
 am i myself
antipholus
of syracuse thou art dromio thou art my man thou art thyself
dromio of syracuse i am an ass i am a woman's man and besides myself
antipholus what woman's man and how besides thyself besides thyself
dromio of syracuse marry sir besides myself i am due to a woman one
 that claims me one that haunts me one that will have me
antipholus
of syracuse what claim lays she to thee
dromio of syracuse marry sir such claim as you would lay to your
 horse and she would have me as a beast not that i
 being a beast she would have me but that she
 being a very beastly creature lays claim to me
antipholus
of syracuse what is she
dromio of syracuse a very reverent body ay such a one as a man may
 not speak of without he say sirreverence i have
 but lean luck in the match and yet is she a
 wondrous fat marriage
antipholus
of syracuse how dost thou mean a fat marriage
dromio of syracuse marry sir she's the kitchen wench and all grease
 and i know not what use to put her to but to make a
 lamp of her and run from her by her own light i
 warrant her rags and the tallow in them will burn a
 poland winter if she lives till doomsday
 she'll burn a week longer than the whole world
antipholus
of syracuse what complexion is she of
dromio of syracuse swart like my shoe but her face nothing half so
 clean kept for why she sweats a man may go over
 shoes in the grime of it
antipholus
of syracuse that's a fault that water will mend
dromio of syracuse no sir tis in grain noah's flood could not do it
antipholus
of syracuse what's her name
dromio of syracuse nell sir but her name and three quarters that's
 an ell and three quarters will not measure her from
 hip to hip
antipholus
of syracuse then she bears some breadth
dromio of syracuse no longer from head to foot than from hip to hip
 she is spherical like a globe i could find out
 countries in her
antipholus
of syracuse in what part of her body stands ireland
dromio of syracuse marry in her buttocks i found it out by the bogs
antipholus
of syracuse where scotland
dromio of syracuse i found it by the barrenness hard in the palm of the hand
antipholus
of syracuse where france
dromio of syracuse in her forehead armed and reverted making war
 against her heir
antipholus
of syracuse where england
dromio of syracuse i looked for the chalky cliffs but i could find no
 whiteness in them but i guess it stood in her chin
 by the salt rheum that ran between france and it
antipholus
of syracuse where spain
dromio of syracuse faith i saw it not but i felt it hot in her breath
antipholus
of syracuse where america the indies
dromio of syracuse oh sir upon her nose all o'er embellished with
 rubies carbuncles sapphires declining their rich
 aspect to the hot breath of spain who sent whole
 armadoes of caracks to be ballast at her nose
antipholus
of syracuse where stood belgia the netherlands
dromio of syracuse oh sir i did not look so low to conclude this
 drudge or diviner laid claim to me call'd me
 dromio swore i was assured to her told me what
 privy marks i had about me as the mark of my
 shoulder the mole in my neck the great wart on my
 left arm that i amazed ran from her as a witch
 and i think if my breast had not been made of
 faith and my heart of steel
 she had transform'd me to a curtal dog and made
 me turn i the wheel
antipholus
of syracuse go hie thee presently post to the road
 an if the wind blow any way from shore
 i will not harbour in this town tonight
 if any bark put forth come to the mart
 where i will walk till thou return to me
 if every one knows us and we know none
 tis time i think to trudge pack and be gone
dromio of syracuse as from a bear a man would run for life
 so fly i from her that would be my wife
 exit
antipholus
of syracuse there's none but witches do inhabit here
 and therefore tis high time that i were hence
 she that doth call me husband even my soul
 doth for a wife abhor but her fair sister
 possess'd with such a gentle sovereign grace
 of such enchanting presence and discourse
 hath almost made me traitor to myself
 but lest myself be guilty to selfwrong
 i'll stop mine ears against the mermaid's song
 enter angelo with the chain
angelo master antipholus
antipholus
of syracuse ay that's my name
angelo i know it well sir lo here is the chain
 i thought to have ta'en you at the porpentine
 the chain unfinish'd made me stay thus long
antipholus
of syracuse what is your will that i shall do with this
angelo what please yourself sir i have made it for you
antipholus
of syracuse made it for me sir i bespoke it not
angelo not once nor twice but twenty times you have
 go home with it and please your wife withal
 and soon at suppertime i'll visit you
 and then receive my money for the chain
antipholus
of syracuse i pray you sir receive the money now
 for fear you ne'er see chain nor money more
angelo you are a merry man sir fare you well
 exit
antipholus
of syracuse what i should think of this i cannot tell
 but this i think there's no man is so vain
 that would refuse so fair an offer'd chain
 i see a man here needs not live by shifts
 when in the streets he meets such golden gifts
 i'll to the mart and there for dromio stay
 if any ship put out then straight away
 exit
 the comedy of errors
act iv
scene i a public place
 enter second merchant angelo and an officer
second merchant you know since pentecost the sum is due
 and since i have not much importuned you
 nor now i had not but that i am bound
 to persia and want guilders for my voyage
 therefore make present satisfaction
 or i'll attach you by this officer
angelo even just the sum that i do owe to you
 is growing to me by antipholus
 and in the instant that i met with you
 he had of me a chain at five o'clock
 i shall receive the money for the same
 pleaseth you walk with me down to his house
 i will discharge my bond and thank you too
 enter antipholus of ephesus and dromio of ephesus
 from the courtezan's
officer that labour may you save see where he comes
antipholus
of ephesus while i go to the goldsmith's house go thou
 and buy a rope's end that will i bestow
 among my wife and her confederates
 for locking me out of my doors by day
 but soft i see the goldsmith get thee gone
 buy thou a rope and bring it home to me
dromio of ephesus i buy a thousand pound a year i buy a rope
 exit
antipholus
of ephesus a man is well holp up that trusts to you
 i promised your presence and the chain
 but neither chain nor goldsmith came to me
 belike you thought our love would last too long
 if it were chain'd together and therefore came not
angelo saving your merry humour here's the note
 how much your chain weighs to the utmost carat
 the fineness of the gold and chargeful fashion
 which doth amount to three odd ducats more
 than i stand debted to this gentleman
 i pray you see him presently discharged
 for he is bound to sea and stays but for it
antipholus
of ephesus i am not furnish'd with the present money
 besides i have some business in the town
 good signior take the stranger to my house
 and with you take the chain and bid my wife
 disburse the sum on the receipt thereof
 perchance i will be there as soon as you
angelo then you will bring the chain to her yourself
antipholus
of ephesus no bear it with you lest i come not time enough
angelo well sir i will have you the chain about you
antipholus
of ephesus an if i have not sir i hope you have
 or else you may return without your money
angelo nay come i pray you sir give me the chain
 both wind and tide stays for this gentleman
 and i to blame have held him here too long
antipholus
of ephesus good lord you use this dalliance to excuse
 your breach of promise to the porpentine
 i should have chid you for not bringing it
 but like a shrew you first begin to brawl
second merchant the hour steals on i pray you sir dispatch
angelo you hear how he importunes methe chain
antipholus
of ephesus why give it to my wife and fetch your money
angelo come come you know i gave it you even now
 either send the chain or send me by some token
antipholus
of ephesus fie now you run this humour out of breath
 where's the chain i pray you let me see it
second merchant my business cannot brook this dalliance
 good sir say whether you'll answer me or no
 if not i'll leave him to the officer
antipholus
of ephesus i answer you what should i answer you
angelo the money that you owe me for the chain
antipholus
of ephesus i owe you none till i receive the chain
angelo you know i gave it you half an hour since
antipholus
of ephesus you gave me none you wrong me much to say so
angelo you wrong me more sir in denying it
 consider how it stands upon my credit
second merchant well officer arrest him at my suit
officer i do and charge you in the duke's name to obey me
angelo this touches me in reputation
 either consent to pay this sum for me
 or i attach you by this officer
antipholus
of ephesus consent to pay thee that i never had
 arrest me foolish fellow if thou darest
angelo here is thy fee arrest him officer
 i would not spare my brother in this case
 if he should scorn me so apparently
officer i do arrest you sir you hear the suit
antipholus
of ephesus i do obey thee till i give thee bail
 but sirrah you shall buy this sport as dear
 as all the metal in your shop will answer
angelo sir sir i will have law in ephesus
 to your notorious shame i doubt it not
 enter dromio of syracuse from the bay
dromio of syracuse master there is a bark of epidamnum
 that stays but till her owner comes aboard
 and then sir she bears away our fraughtage sir
 i have convey'd aboard and i have bought
 the oil the balsamum and aquavitae
 the ship is in her trim the merry wind
 blows fair from land they stay for nought at all
 but for their owner master and yourself
antipholus
of ephesus how now a madman why thou peevish sheep
 what ship of epidamnum stays for me
dromio of syracuse a ship you sent me to to hire waftage
antipholus
of ephesus thou drunken slave i sent thee for a rope
 and told thee to what purpose and what end
dromio of syracuse you sent me for a rope's end as soon
 you sent me to the bay sir for a bark
antipholus
of ephesus i will debate this matter at more leisure
 and teach your ears to list me with more heed
 to adriana villain hie thee straight
 give her this key and tell her in the desk
 that's cover'd o'er with turkish tapestry
 there is a purse of ducats let her send it
 tell her i am arrested in the street
 and that shall bail me hie thee slave be gone
 on officer to prison till it come
 exeunt second merchant angelo officer and
 antipholus of ephesus
dromio of syracuse to adriana that is where we dined
 where dowsabel did claim me for her husband
 she is too big i hope for me to compass
 thither i must although against my will
 for servants must their masters minds fulfil
 exit
 the comedy of errors
act iv
scene ii the house of antipholus of ephesus
 enter adriana and luciana
adriana ah luciana did he tempt thee so
 mightst thou perceive austerely in his eye
 that he did plead in earnest yea or no
 look'd he or red or pale or sad or merrily
 what observation madest thou in this case
 of his heart's meteors tilting in his face
luciana first he denied you had in him no right
adriana he meant he did me none the more my spite
luciana then swore he that he was a stranger here
adriana and true he swore though yet forsworn he were
luciana then pleaded i for you
adriana and what said he
luciana that love i begg'd for you he begg'd of me
adriana with what persuasion did he tempt thy love
luciana with words that in an honest suit might move
 first he did praise my beauty then my speech
adriana didst speak him fair
luciana have patience i beseech
adriana i cannot nor i will not hold me still
 my tongue though not my heart shall have his will
 he is deformed crooked old and sere
 illfaced worse bodied shapeless everywhere
 vicious ungentle foolish blunt unkind
 stigmatical in making worse in mind
luciana who would be jealous then of such a one
 no evil lost is wail'd when it is gone
adriana ah but i think him better than i say
 and yet would herein others eyes were worse
 far from her nest the lapwing cries away
 my heart prays for him though my tongue do curse
 enter dromio of syracuse
dromio of syracuse here go the desk the purse sweet now make haste
luciana how hast thou lost thy breath
dromio of syracuse by running fast
adriana where is thy master dromio is he well
dromio of syracuse no he's in tartar limbo worse than hell
 a devil in an everlasting garment hath him
 one whose hard heart is button'd up with steel
 a fiend a fury pitiless and rough
 a wolf nay worse a fellow all in buff
 a backfriend a shoulderclapper one that
 countermands
 the passages of alleys creeks and narrow lands
 a hound that runs counter and yet draws dryfoot well
 one that before the judgement carries poor souls to hell
adriana why man what is the matter
dromio of syracuse i do not know the matter he is rested on the case
adriana what is he arrested tell me at whose suit
dromio of syracuse i know not at whose suit he is arrested well
 but he's in a suit of buff which rested him that can i tell
 will you send him mistress redemption the money in his desk
adriana go fetch it sister
 exit luciana
 this i wonder at
 that he unknown to me should be in debt
 tell me was he arrested on a band
dromio of syracuse not on a band but on a stronger thing
 a chain a chain do you not hear it ring
adriana what the chain
dromio of syracuse no no the bell tis time that i were gone
 it was two ere i left him and now the clock
 strikes one
adriana the hours come back that did i never hear
dromio of syracuse o yes if any hour meet a sergeant a turns back for
 very fear
adriana as if time were in debt how fondly dost thou reason
dromio of syracuse time is a very bankrupt and owes more than he's
 worth to season
 nay he's a thief too have you not heard men say
 that time comes stealing on by night and day
 if time be in debt and theft and a sergeant in the way
 hath he not reason to turn back an hour in a day
 reenter luciana with a purse
adriana go dromio there's the money bear it straight
 and bring thy master home immediately
 come sister i am press'd down with conceit
 conceit my comfort and my injury
 exeunt
 the comedy of errors
act iv
scene iii a public place
 enter antipholus of syracuse
antipholus
of syracuse there's not a man i meet but doth salute me
 as if i were their wellacquainted friend
 and every one doth call me by my name
 some tender money to me some invite me
 some other give me thanks for kindnesses
 some offer me commodities to buy
 even now a tailor call'd me in his shop
 and show'd me silks that he had bought for me
 and therewithal took measure of my body
 sure these are but imaginary wiles
 and lapland sorcerers inhabit here
 enter dromio of syracuse
dromio of syracuse master here's the gold you sent me for what have
 you got the picture of old adam newapparelled
antipholus
of syracuse what gold is this what adam dost thou mean
dromio of syracuse not that adam that kept the paradise but that adam
 that keeps the prison he that goes in the calf's
 skin that was killed for the prodigal he that came
 behind you sir like an evil angel and bid you
 forsake your liberty
antipholus
of syracuse i understand thee not
dromio of syracuse no why tis a plain case he that went like a
 bassviol in a case of leather the man sir
 that when gentlemen are tired gives them a sob
 and rests them he sir that takes pity on decayed
 men and gives them suits of durance he that sets up
 his rest to do more exploits with his mace than a
 morrispike
antipholus
of syracuse what thou meanest an officer
dromio of syracuse ay sir the sergeant of the band he that brings
 any man to answer it that breaks his band one that
 thinks a man always going to bed and says god
 give you good rest'
antipholus
of syracuse well sir there rest in your foolery is there any
dromio of syracuse why sir i brought you word an hour since that the
 bark expedition put forth tonight and then were
 you hindered by the sergeant to tarry for the hoy
 delay here are the angels that you sent for to
 deliver you
antipholus
of syracuse the fellow is distract and so am i
 and here we wander in illusions
 some blessed power deliver us from hence
 enter a courtezan
courtezan well met well met master antipholus
 i see sir you have found the goldsmith now
 is that the chain you promised me today
antipholus
of syracuse satan avoid i charge thee tempt me not
dromio of syracuse master is this mistress satan
antipholus
of syracuse it is the devil
dromio of syracuse nay she is worse she is the devil's dam and here
 she comes in the habit of a light wench and thereof
 comes that the wenches say god damn me that's as
 much to say god make me a light wench it is
 written they appear to men like angels of light
 light is an effect of fire and fire will burn
 ergo light wenches will burn come not near her
courtezan your man and you are marvellous merry sir
 will you go with me we'll mend our dinner here
dromio of syracuse master if you do expect spoonmeat or bespeak a
 long spoon
antipholus
of syracuse why dromio
dromio of syracuse marry he must have a long spoon that must eat with
 the devil
antipholus
of syracuse avoid then fiend what tell'st thou me of supping
 thou art as you are all a sorceress
 i conjure thee to leave me and be gone
courtezan give me the ring of mine you had at dinner
 or for my diamond the chain you promised
 and i'll be gone sir and not trouble you
dromio of syracuse some devils ask but the parings of one's nail
 a rush a hair a drop of blood a pin
 a nut a cherrystone
 but she more covetous would have a chain
 master be wise an if you give it her
 the devil will shake her chain and fright us with it
courtezan i pray you sir my ring or else the chain
 i hope you do not mean to cheat me so
antipholus
of syracuse avaunt thou witch come dromio let us go
dromio of syracuse fly pride says the peacock mistress that you know
 exeunt antipholus of syracuse and dromio of syracuse
courtezan now out of doubt antipholus is mad
 else would he never so demean himself
 a ring he hath of mine worth forty ducats
 and for the same he promised me a chain
 both one and other he denies me now
 the reason that i gather he is mad
 besides this present instance of his rage
 is a mad tale he told today at dinner
 of his own doors being shut against his entrance
 belike his wife acquainted with his fits
 on purpose shut the doors against his way
 my way is now to hie home to his house
 and tell his wife that being lunatic
 he rush'd into my house and took perforce
 my ring away this course i fittest choose
 for forty ducats is too much to lose
 exit
 the comedy of errors
act iv
scene iv a street
 enter antipholus of ephesus and the officer
antipholus
of ephesus fear me not man i will not break away
 i'll give thee ere i leave thee so much money
 to warrant thee as i am rested for
 my wife is in a wayward mood today
 and will not lightly trust the messenger
 that i should be attach'd in ephesus
 i tell you twill sound harshly in her ears
 enter dromio of ephesus with a rope'send
 here comes my man i think he brings the money
 how now sir have you that i sent you for
dromio of ephesus here's that i warrant you will pay them all
antipholus
of ephesus but where's the money
dromio of ephesus why sir i gave the money for the rope
antipholus
of ephesus five hundred ducats villain for a rope
dromio of ephesus i'll serve you sir five hundred at the rate
antipholus
of ephesus to what end did i bid thee hie thee home
dromio of ephesus to a rope'send sir and to that end am i returned
antipholus
of ephesus and to that end sir i will welcome you
 beating him
officer good sir be patient
dromio of ephesus nay tis for me to be patient i am in adversity
officer good now hold thy tongue
dromio of ephesus nay rather persuade him to hold his hands
antipholus
of ephesus thou whoreson senseless villain
dromio of ephesus i would i were senseless sir that i might not feel
 your blows
antipholus thou art sensible in nothing but blows and so is an
 ass
dromio of ephesus i am an ass indeed you may prove it by my long
 ears i have served him from the hour of my
 nativity to this instant and have nothing at his
 hands for my service but blows when i am cold he
 heats me with beating when i am warm he cools me
 with beating i am waked with it when i sleep
 raised with it when i sit driven out of doors with
 it when i go from home welcomed home with it when
 i return nay i bear it on my shoulders as a
 beggar wont her brat and i think when he hath
 lamed me i shall beg with it from door to door
antipholus
of ephesus come go along my wife is coming yonder
 enter adriana luciana the courtezan and pinch
dromio of ephesus mistress respice finem respect your end or
 rather the prophecy like the parrot beware the
 rope'send'
antipholus
of ephesus wilt thou still talk
 beating him
courtezan how say you now is not your husband mad
adriana his incivility confirms no less
 good doctor pinch you are a conjurer
 establish him in his true sense again
 and i will please you what you will demand
luciana alas how fiery and how sharp he looks
courtezan mark how he trembles in his ecstasy
pinch give me your hand and let me feel your pulse
antipholus
of ephesus there is my hand and let it feel your ear
 striking him
pinch i charge thee satan housed within this man
 to yield possession to my holy prayers
 and to thy state of darkness hie thee straight
 i conjure thee by all the saints in heaven
antipholus
of ephesus peace doting wizard peace i am not mad
adriana o that thou wert not poor distressed soul
antipholus
of ephesus you minion you are these your customers
 did this companion with the saffron face
 revel and feast it at my house today
 whilst upon me the guilty doors were shut
 and i denied to enter in my house
adriana o husband god doth know you dined at home
 where would you had remain'd until this time
 free from these slanders and this open shame
antipholus
of ephesus dined at home thou villain what sayest thou
dromio of ephesus sir sooth to say you did not dine at home
antipholus
of ephesus were not my doors lock'd up and i shut out
dromio of ephesus perdie your doors were lock'd and you shut out
antipholus
of ephesus and did not she herself revile me there
dromio of ephesus sans fable she herself reviled you there
antipholus
of ephesus did not her kitchenmaid rail taunt and scorn me
dromio of ephesus certes she did the kitchenvestal scorn'd you
antipholus
of ephesus and did not i in rage depart from thence
dromio of ephesus in verity you did my bones bear witness
 that since have felt the vigour of his rage
adriana is't good to soothe him in these contraries
pinch it is no shame the fellow finds his vein
 and yielding to him humours well his frenzy
antipholus
of ephesus thou hast suborn'd the goldsmith to arrest me
adriana alas i sent you money to redeem you
 by dromio here who came in haste for it
dromio of ephesus money by me heart and goodwill you might
 but surely master not a rag of money
antipholus
of ephesus went'st not thou to her for a purse of ducats
adriana he came to me and i deliver'd it
luciana and i am witness with her that she did
dromio of ephesus god and the ropemaker bear me witness
 that i was sent for nothing but a rope
pinch mistress both man and master is possess'd
 i know it by their pale and deadly looks
 they must be bound and laid in some dark room
antipholus
of ephesus say wherefore didst thou lock me forth today
 and why dost thou deny the bag of gold
adriana i did not gentle husband lock thee forth
dromio of ephesus and gentle master i received no gold
 but i confess sir that we were lock'd out
adriana dissembling villain thou speak'st false in both
antipholus
of ephesus dissembling harlot thou art false in all
 and art confederate with a damned pack
 to make a loathsome abject scorn of me
 but with these nails i'll pluck out these false eyes
 that would behold in me this shameful sport
 enter three or four and offer to bind him
 he strives
adriana o bind him bind him let him not come near me
pinch more company the fiend is strong within him
luciana ay me poor man how pale and wan he looks
antipholus
of ephesus what will you murder me thou gaoler thou
 i am thy prisoner wilt thou suffer them
 to make a rescue
officer masters let him go
 he is my prisoner and you shall not have him
pinch go bind this man for he is frantic too
 they offer to bind dromio of ephesus
adriana what wilt thou do thou peevish officer
 hast thou delight to see a wretched man
 do outrage and displeasure to himself
officer he is my prisoner if i let him go
 the debt he owes will be required of me
adriana i will discharge thee ere i go from thee
 bear me forthwith unto his creditor
 and knowing how the debt grows i will pay it
 good master doctor see him safe convey'd
 home to my house o most unhappy day
antipholus
of ephesus o most unhappy strumpet
dromio of ephesus master i am here entered in bond for you
antipholus
of ephesus out on thee villain wherefore dost thou mad me
dromio of ephesus will you be bound for nothing be mad good master
 cry the devil'
luciana god help poor souls how idly do they talk
adriana go bear him hence sister go you with me
 exeunt all but adriana luciana officer and
 courtezan
 say now whose suit is he arrested at
officer one angelo a goldsmith do you know him
adriana i know the man what is the sum he owes
officer two hundred ducats
adriana say how grows it due
officer due for a chain your husband had of him
adriana he did bespeak a chain for me but had it not
courtezan when as your husband all in rage today
 came to my house and took away my ring
 the ring i saw upon his finger now
 straight after did i meet him with a chain
adriana it may be so but i did never see it
 come gaoler bring me where the goldsmith is
 i long to know the truth hereof at large
 enter antipholus of syracuse with his rapier drawn
 and dromio of syracuse
luciana god for thy mercy they are loose again
adriana and come with naked swords
 let's call more help to have them bound again
officer away they'll kill us
 exeunt all but antipholus of syracuse and dromio
 of syracuse
antipholus
of syracuse i see these witches are afraid of swords
dromio of syracuse she that would be your wife now ran from you
antipholus
of syracuse come to the centaur fetch our stuff from thence
 i long that we were safe and sound aboard
dromio of syracuse faith stay here this night they will surely do us
 no harm you saw they speak us fair give us gold
 methinks they are such a gentle nation that but for
 the mountain of mad flesh that claims marriage of
 me i could find in my heart to stay here still and
 turn witch
antipholus
of syracuse i will not stay tonight for all the town
 therefore away to get our stuff aboard
 exeunt
 the comedy of errors
act v
scene i a street before a priory
 enter second merchant and angelo
angelo i am sorry sir that i have hinder'd you
 but i protest he had the chain of me
 though most dishonestly he doth deny it
second merchant how is the man esteemed here in the city
angelo of very reverend reputation sir
 of credit infinite highly beloved
 second to none that lives here in the city
 his word might bear my wealth at any time
second merchant speak softly yonder as i think he walks
 enter antipholus of syracuse and dromio of syracuse
angelo tis so and that self chain about his neck
 which he forswore most monstrously to have
 good sir draw near to me i'll speak to him
 signior antipholus i wonder much
 that you would put me to this shame and trouble
 and not without some scandal to yourself
 with circumstance and oaths so to deny
 this chain which now you wear so openly
 beside the charge the shame imprisonment
 you have done wrong to this my honest friend
 who but for staying on our controversy
 had hoisted sail and put to sea today
 this chain you had of me can you deny it
antipholus
of syracuse i think i had i never did deny it
second merchant yes that you did sir and forswore it too
antipholus
of syracuse who heard me to deny it or forswear it
second merchant these ears of mine thou know'st did hear thee
 fie on thee wretch tis pity that thou livest
 to walk where any honest man resort
antipholus
of syracuse thou art a villain to impeach me thus
 i'll prove mine honour and mine honesty
 against thee presently if thou darest stand
second merchant i dare and do defy thee for a villain
 they draw
 enter adriana luciana the courtezan and others
adriana hold hurt him not for god's sake he is mad
 some get within him take his sword away
 bind dromio too and bear them to my house
dromio of syracuse run master run for god's sake take a house
 this is some priory in or we are spoil'd
 exeunt antipholus of syracuse and dromio of syracuse
 to the priory
 enter the lady abbess aemilia
aemelia be quiet people wherefore throng you hither
adriana to fetch my poor distracted husband hence
 let us come in that we may bind him fast
 and bear him home for his recovery
angelo i knew he was not in his perfect wits
second merchant i am sorry now that i did draw on him
aemelia how long hath this possession held the man
adriana this week he hath been heavy sour sad
 and much different from the man he was
 but till this afternoon his passion
 ne'er brake into extremity of rage
aemelia hath he not lost much wealth by wreck of sea
 buried some dear friend hath not else his eye
 stray'd his affection in unlawful love
 a sin prevailing much in youthful men
 who give their eyes the liberty of gazing
 which of these sorrows is he subject to
adriana to none of these except it be the last
 namely some love that drew him oft from home
aemelia you should for that have reprehended him
adriana why so i did
aemelia ay but not rough enough
adriana as roughly as my modesty would let me
aemelia haply in private
adriana and in assemblies too
aemelia ay but not enough
adriana it was the copy of our conference
 in bed he slept not for my urging it
 at board he fed not for my urging it
 alone it was the subject of my theme
 in company i often glanced it
 still did i tell him it was vile and bad
aemelia and thereof came it that the man was mad
 the venom clamours of a jealous woman
 poisons more deadly than a mad dog's tooth
 it seems his sleeps were hinder'd by thy railing
 and therefore comes it that his head is light
 thou say'st his meat was sauced with thy upbraidings
 unquiet meals make ill digestions
 thereof the raging fire of fever bred
 and what's a fever but a fit of madness
 thou say'st his sports were hinderd by thy brawls
 sweet recreation barr'd what doth ensue
 but moody and dull melancholy
 kinsman to grim and comfortless despair
 and at her heels a huge infectious troop
 of pale distemperatures and foes to life
 in food in sport and lifepreserving rest
 to be disturb'd would mad or man or beast
 the consequence is then thy jealous fits
 have scared thy husband from the use of wits
luciana she never reprehended him but mildly
 when he demean'd himself rough rude and wildly
 why bear you these rebukes and answer not
adriana she did betray me to my own reproof
 good people enter and lay hold on him
aemelia no not a creature enters in my house
adriana then let your servants bring my husband forth
aemelia neither he took this place for sanctuary
 and it shall privilege him from your hands
 till i have brought him to his wits again
 or lose my labour in assaying it
adriana i will attend my husband be his nurse
 diet his sickness for it is my office
 and will have no attorney but myself
 and therefore let me have him home with me
aemelia be patient for i will not let him stir
 till i have used the approved means i have
 with wholesome syrups drugs and holy prayers
 to make of him a formal man again
 it is a branch and parcel of mine oath
 a charitable duty of my order
 therefore depart and leave him here with me
adriana i will not hence and leave my husband here
 and ill it doth beseem your holiness
 to separate the husband and the wife
aemelia be quiet and depart thou shalt not have him
 exit
luciana complain unto the duke of this indignity
adriana come go i will fall prostrate at his feet
 and never rise until my tears and prayers
 have won his grace to come in person hither
 and take perforce my husband from the abbess
second merchant by this i think the dial points at five
 anon i'm sure the duke himself in person
 comes this way to the melancholy vale
 the place of death and sorry execution
 behind the ditches of the abbey here
angelo upon what cause
second merchant to see a reverend syracusian merchant
 who put unluckily into this bay
 against the laws and statutes of this town
 beheaded publicly for his offence
angelo see where they come we will behold his death
luciana kneel to the duke before he pass the abbey
 enter duke solinus attended aegeon bareheaded with the
 headsman and other officers
duke solinus yet once again proclaim it publicly
 if any friend will pay the sum for him
 he shall not die so much we tender him
adriana justice most sacred duke against the abbess
duke solinus she is a virtuous and a reverend lady
 it cannot be that she hath done thee wrong
adriana may it please your grace antipholus my husband
 whom i made lord of me and all i had
 at your important lettersthis ill day
 a most outrageous fit of madness took him
 that desperately he hurried through the street
 with him his bondman all as mad as he
 doing displeasure to the citizens
 by rushing in their houses bearing thence
 rings jewels any thing his rage did like
 once did i get him bound and sent him home
 whilst to take order for the wrongs i went
 that here and there his fury had committed
 anon i wot not by what strong escape
 he broke from those that had the guard of him
 and with his mad attendant and himself
 each one with ireful passion with drawn swords
 met us again and madly bent on us
 chased us away till raising of more aid
 we came again to bind them then they fled
 into this abbey whither we pursued them
 and here the abbess shuts the gates on us
 and will not suffer us to fetch him out
 nor send him forth that we may bear him hence
 therefore most gracious duke with thy command
 let him be brought forth and borne hence for help
duke solinus long since thy husband served me in my wars
 and i to thee engaged a prince's word
 when thou didst make him master of thy bed
 to do him all the grace and good i could
 go some of you knock at the abbeygate
 and bid the lady abbess come to me
 i will determine this before i stir
 enter a servant
servant o mistress mistress shift and save yourself
 my master and his man are both broke loose
 beaten the maids arow and bound the doctor
 whose beard they have singed off with brands of fire
 and ever as it blazed they threw on him
 great pails of puddled mire to quench the hair
 my master preaches patience to him and the while
 his man with scissors nicks him like a fool
 and sure unless you send some present help
 between them they will kill the conjurer
adriana peace fool thy master and his man are here
 and that is false thou dost report to us
servant mistress upon my life i tell you true
 i have not breathed almost since i did see it
 he cries for you and vows if he can take you
 to scorch your face and to disfigure you
 cry within
 hark hark i hear him mistress fly be gone
duke solinus come stand by me fear nothing guard with halberds
adriana ay me it is my husband witness you
 that he is borne about invisible
 even now we housed him in the abbey here
 and now he's there past thought of human reason
 enter antipholus of ephesus and dromio of ephesus
antipholus
of ephesus justice most gracious duke o grant me justice
 even for the service that long since i did thee
 when i bestrid thee in the wars and took
 deep scars to save thy life even for the blood
 that then i lost for thee now grant me justice
aegeon unless the fear of death doth make me dote
 i see my son antipholus and dromio
antipholus
of ephesus justice sweet prince against that woman there
 she whom thou gavest to me to be my wife
 that hath abused and dishonour'd me
 even in the strength and height of injury
 beyond imagination is the wrong
 that she this day hath shameless thrown on me
duke solinus discover how and thou shalt find me just
antipholus
of ephesus this day great duke she shut the doors upon me
 while she with harlots feasted in my house
duke solinus a grievous fault say woman didst thou so
adriana no my good lord myself he and my sister
 today did dine together so befall my soul
 as this is false he burdens me withal
luciana ne'er may i look on day nor sleep on night
 but she tells to your highness simple truth
angelo o perjured woman they are both forsworn
 in this the madman justly chargeth them
antipholus
of ephesus my liege i am advised what i say
 neither disturbed with the effect of wine
 nor headyrash provoked with raging ire
 albeit my wrongs might make one wiser mad
 this woman lock'd me out this day from dinner
 that goldsmith there were he not pack'd with her
 could witness it for he was with me then
 who parted with me to go fetch a chain
 promising to bring it to the porpentine
 where balthazar and i did dine together
 our dinner done and he not coming thither
 i went to seek him in the street i met him
 and in his company that gentleman
 there did this perjured goldsmith swear me down
 that i this day of him received the chain
 which god he knows i saw not for the which
 he did arrest me with an officer
 i did obey and sent my peasant home
 for certain ducats he with none return'd
 then fairly i bespoke the officer
 to go in person with me to my house
 by the way we met
 my wife her sister and a rabble more
 of vile confederates along with them
 they brought one pinch a hungry leanfaced villain
 a mere anatomy a mountebank
 a threadbare juggler and a fortuneteller
 a needy holloweyed sharplooking wretch
 a deadlooking man this pernicious slave
 forsooth took on him as a conjurer
 and gazing in mine eyes feeling my pulse
 and with no face as twere outfacing me
 cries out i was possess'd then all together
 they fell upon me bound me bore me thence
 and in a dark and dankish vault at home
 there left me and my man both bound together
 till gnawing with my teeth my bonds in sunder
 i gain'd my freedom and immediately
 ran hither to your grace whom i beseech
 to give me ample satisfaction
 for these deep shames and great indignities
angelo my lord in truth thus far i witness with him
 that he dined not at home but was lock'd out
duke solinus but had he such a chain of thee or no
angelo he had my lord and when he ran in here
 these people saw the chain about his neck
second merchant besides i will be sworn these ears of mine
 heard you confess you had the chain of him
 after you first forswore it on the mart
 and thereupon i drew my sword on you
 and then you fled into this abbey here
 from whence i think you are come by miracle
antipholus
of ephesus i never came within these abbeywalls
 nor ever didst thou draw thy sword on me
 i never saw the chain so help me heaven
 and this is false you burden me withal
duke solinus why what an intricate impeach is this
 i think you all have drunk of circe's cup
 if here you housed him here he would have been
 if he were mad he would not plead so coldly
 you say he dined at home the goldsmith here
 denies that saying sirrah what say you
dromio of ephesus sir he dined with her there at the porpentine
courtezan he did and from my finger snatch'd that ring
antipholus
of ephesus tis true my liege this ring i had of her
duke solinus saw'st thou him enter at the abbey here
courtezan as sure my liege as i do see your grace
duke solinus why this is strange go call the abbess hither
 i think you are all mated or stark mad
 exit one to abbess
aegeon most mighty duke vouchsafe me speak a word
 haply i see a friend will save my life
 and pay the sum that may deliver me
duke solinus speak freely syracusian what thou wilt
aegeon is not your name sir call'd antipholus
 and is not that your bondman dromio
dromio of ephesus within this hour i was his bondman sir
 but he i thank him gnaw'd in two my cords
 now am i dromio and his man unbound
aegeon i am sure you both of you remember me
dromio of ephesus ourselves we do remember sir by you
 for lately we were bound as you are now
 you are not pinch's patient are you sir
aegeon why look you strange on me you know me well
antipholus i never saw you in my life till now
aegeon o grief hath changed me since you saw me last
 and careful hours with time's deformed hand
 have written strange defeatures in my face
 but tell me yet dost thou not know my voice
antipholus
of ephesus neither
aegeon dromio nor thou
dromio of ephesus no trust me sir nor i
aegeon i am sure thou dost
dromio of ephesus ay sir but i am sure i do not and whatsoever a
 man denies you are now bound to believe him
aegeon not know my voice o time's extremity
 hast thou so crack'd and splitted my poor tongue
 in seven short years that here my only son
 knows not my feeble key of untuned cares
 though now this grained face of mine be hid
 in sapconsuming winter's drizzled snow
 and all the conduits of my blood froze up
 yet hath my night of life some memory
 my wasting lamps some fading glimmer left
 my dull deaf ears a little use to hear
 all these old witnessesi cannot err
 tell me thou art my son antipholus
antipholus
of ephesus i never saw my father in my life
aegeon but seven years since in syracusa boy
 thou know'st we parted but perhaps my son
 thou shamest to acknowledge me in misery
antipholus
of ephesus the duke and all that know me in the city
 can witness with me that it is not so
 i ne'er saw syracusa in my life
duke solinus i tell thee syracusian twenty years
 have i been patron to antipholus
 during which time he ne'er saw syracusa
 i see thy age and dangers make thee dote
 reenter aemilia with antipholus of syracuse and
 dromio of syracuse
aemelia most mighty duke behold a man much wrong'd
 all gather to see them
adriana i see two husbands or mine eyes deceive me
duke solinus one of these men is genius to the other
 and so of these which is the natural man
 and which the spirit who deciphers them
dromio of syracuse i sir am dromio command him away
dromio of ephesus i sir am dromio pray let me stay
antipholus
of syracuse aegeon art thou not or else his ghost
dromio of syracuse o my old master who hath bound him here
aemelia whoever bound him i will loose his bonds
 and gain a husband by his liberty
 speak old aegeon if thou be'st the man
 that hadst a wife once call'd aemilia
 that bore thee at a burden two fair sons
 o if thou be'st the same aegeon speak
 and speak unto the same aemilia
aegeon if i dream not thou art aemilia
 if thou art she tell me where is that son
 that floated with thee on the fatal raft
aemelia by men of epidamnum he and i
 and the twin dromio all were taken up
 but by and by rude fishermen of corinth
 by force took dromio and my son from them
 and me they left with those of epidamnum
 what then became of them i cannot tell
 i to this fortune that you see me in
duke solinus why here begins his morning story right
 these two antipholuses these two so like
 and these two dromios one in semblance
 besides her urging of her wreck at sea
 these are the parents to these children
 which accidentally are met together
 antipholus thou camest from corinth first
antipholus
of syracuse no sir not i i came from syracuse
duke solinus stay stand apart i know not which is which
antipholus
of ephesus i came from corinth my most gracious lord
dromio of ephesus and i with him
antipholus
of ephesus brought to this town by that most famous warrior
 duke menaphon your most renowned uncle
adriana which of you two did dine with me today
antipholus
of syracuse i gentle mistress
adriana and are not you my husband
antipholus
of ephesus no i say nay to that
antipholus
of syracuse and so do i yet did she call me so
 and this fair gentlewoman her sister here
 did call me brother
 to luciana
 what i told you then
 i hope i shall have leisure to make good
 if this be not a dream i see and hear
angelo that is the chain sir which you had of me
antipholus
of syracuse i think it be sir i deny it not
antipholus
of ephesus and you sir for this chain arrested me
angelo i think i did sir i deny it not
adriana i sent you money sir to be your bail
 by dromio but i think he brought it not
dromio of ephesus no none by me
antipholus
of syracuse this purse of ducats i received from you
 and dromio my man did bring them me
 i see we still did meet each other's man
 and i was ta'en for him and he for me
 and thereupon these errors are arose
antipholus
of ephesus these ducats pawn i for my father here
duke solinus it shall not need thy father hath his life
courtezan sir i must have that diamond from you
antipholus
of ephesus there take it and much thanks for my good cheer
aemelia renowned duke vouchsafe to take the pains
 to go with us into the abbey here
 and hear at large discoursed all our fortunes
 and all that are assembled in this place
 that by this sympathized one day's error
 have suffer'd wrong go keep us company
 and we shall make full satisfaction
 thirtythree years have i but gone in travail
 of you my sons and till this present hour
 my heavy burden ne'er delivered
 the duke my husband and my children both
 and you the calendars of their nativity
 go to a gossips feast and go with me
 after so long grief such festivity
duke solinus with all my heart i'll gossip at this feast
 exeunt all but antipholus of syracuse antipholus
 of ephesus dromio of syracuse and dromio of ephesus
dromio of syracuse master shall i fetch your stuff from shipboard
antipholus
of ephesus dromio what stuff of mine hast thou embark'd
dromio of syracuse your goods that lay at host sir in the centaur
antipholus
of syracuse he speaks to me i am your master dromio
 come go with us we'll look to that anon
 embrace thy brother there rejoice with him
 exeunt antipholus of syracuse and antipholus of ephesus
dromio of syracuse there is a fat friend at your master's house
 that kitchen'd me for you today at dinner
 she now shall be my sister not my wife
dromio of ephesus methinks you are my glass and not my brother
 i see by you i am a sweetfaced youth
 will you walk in to see their gossiping
dromio of syracuse not i sir you are my elder
dromio of ephesus that's a question how shall we try it
dromio of syracuse we'll draw cuts for the senior till then lead thou first
dromio of ephesus nay then thus
 we came into the world like brother and brother
 and now let's go hand in hand not one before another
 exeunt
 cymbeline
 dramatis personae
cymbeline king of britain
cloten son to the queen by a former husband
posthumus leonatus a gentleman husband to imogen
belarius a banished lord disguised under the name of morgan
guiderius sons to cymbeline disguised under the names
 of polydote and cadwal supposed sons to
arviragus morgan
philario friend to posthumus 
 italians
iachimo friend to philario 
caius lucius general of the roman forces
pisanio servant to posthumus
cornelius a physician
 a roman captain captain
 two british captains
 first captain
 second captain
 a frenchman friend to philario
 frenchman
 two lords of cymbeline's court
 first lord
 second lord
 two gentlemen of the same
 first gentleman
 second gentleman
 two gaolers
 first gaoler
 second gaoler
queen wife to cymbeline
imogen daughter to cymbeline by a former queen
helen a lady attending on imogen
 lords ladies roman senators tribunes
 a soothsayer a dutchman a spaniard musicians
 officers captains soldiers messengers
 and other attendants lord
 lady
 first lady
 first senator
 second senator
 first tribune
 soothsayer
 messenger
 apparitions
 sicilius leonatus
 mother
 first brother
 second brother
 jupiter
scene britain rome
 cymbeline
act i
scene i britain the garden of cymbeline's palace
 enter two gentlemen
first gentleman you do not meet a man but frowns our bloods
 no more obey the heavens than our courtiers
 still seem as does the king
second gentleman but what's the matter
first gentleman his daughter and the heir of's kingdom whom
 he purposed to his wife's sole sona widow
 that late he marriedhath referr'd herself
 unto a poor but worthy gentleman she's wedded
 her husband banish'd she imprison'd all
 is outward sorrow though i think the king
 be touch'd at very heart
second gentleman none but the king
first gentleman he that hath lost her too so is the queen
 that most desired the match but not a courtier
 although they wear their faces to the bent
 of the king's look's hath a heart that is not
 glad at the thing they scowl at
second gentleman and why so
first gentleman he that hath miss'd the princess is a thing
 too bad for bad report and he that hath her
 i mean that married her alack good man
 and therefore banish'dis a creature such
 as to seek through the regions of the earth
 for one his like there would be something failing
 in him that should compare i do not think
 so fair an outward and such stuff within
 endows a man but he
second gentleman you speak him far
first gentleman i do extend him sir within himself
 crush him together rather than unfold
 his measure duly
second gentleman what's his name and birth
first gentleman i cannot delve him to the root his father
 was call'd sicilius who did join his honour
 against the romans with cassibelan
 but had his titles by tenantius whom
 he served with glory and admired success
 so gain'd the suraddition leonatus
 and had besides this gentleman in question
 two other sons who in the wars o the time
 died with their swords in hand for which
 their father
 then old and fond of issue took such sorrow
 that he quit being and his gentle lady
 big of this gentleman our theme deceased
 as he was born the king he takes the babe
 to his protection calls him posthumus leonatus
 breeds him and makes him of his bedchamber
 puts to him all the learnings that his time
 could make him the receiver of which he took
 as we do air fast as twas minister'd
 and in's spring became a harvest lived in court
 which rare it is to domost praised most loved
 a sample to the youngest to the more mature
 a glass that feated them and to the graver
 a child that guided dotards to his mistress
 for whom he now is banish'd her own price
 proclaims how she esteem'd him and his virtue
 by her election may be truly read
 what kind of man he is
second gentleman i honour him
 even out of your report but pray you tell me
 is she sole child to the king
first gentleman his only child
 he had two sons if this be worth your hearing
 mark it the eldest of them at three years old
 i the swathingclothes the other from their nursery
 were stol'n and to this hour no guess in knowledge
 which way they went
second gentleman how long is this ago
first gentleman some twenty years
second gentleman that a king's children should be so convey'd
 so slackly guarded and the search so slow
 that could not trace them
first gentleman howsoe'er tis strange
 or that the negligence may well be laugh'd at
 yet is it true sir
second gentleman i do well believe you
first gentleman we must forbear here comes the gentleman
 the queen and princess
 exeunt
 enter the queen posthumus leonatus and imogen
queen no be assured you shall not find me daughter
 after the slander of most stepmothers
 evileyed unto you you're my prisoner but
 your gaoler shall deliver you the keys
 that lock up your restraint for you posthumus
 so soon as i can win the offended king
 i will be known your advocate marry yet
 the fire of rage is in him and twere good
 you lean'd unto his sentence with what patience
 your wisdom may inform you
posthumus leonatus please your highness
 i will from hence today
queen you know the peril
 i'll fetch a turn about the garden pitying
 the pangs of barr'd affections though the king
 hath charged you should not speak together
 exit
imogen o
 dissembling courtesy how fine this tyrant
 can tickle where she wounds my dearest husband
 i something fear my father's wrath but nothing
 always reserved my holy dutywhat
 his rage can do on me you must be gone
 and i shall here abide the hourly shot
 of angry eyes not comforted to live
 but that there is this jewel in the world
 that i may see again
posthumus leonatus my queen my mistress
 o lady weep no more lest i give cause
 to be suspected of more tenderness
 than doth become a man i will remain
 the loyal'st husband that did e'er plight troth
 my residence in rome at one philario's
 who to my father was a friend to me
 known but by letter thither write my queen
 and with mine eyes i'll drink the words you send
 though ink be made of gall
 reenter queen
queen be brief i pray you
 if the king come i shall incur i know not
 how much of his displeasure
 aside
 yet i'll move him
 to walk this way i never do him wrong
 but he does buy my injuries to be friends
 pays dear for my offences
 exit
posthumus leonatus should we be taking leave
 as long a term as yet we have to live
 the loathness to depart would grow adieu
imogen nay stay a little
 were you but riding forth to air yourself
 such parting were too petty look here love
 this diamond was my mother's take it heart
 but keep it till you woo another wife
 when imogen is dead
posthumus leonatus how how another
 you gentle gods give me but this i have
 and sear up my embracements from a next
 with bonds of death
 putting on the ring
 remain remain thou here
 while sense can keep it on and sweetest fairest
 as i my poor self did exchange for you
 to your so infinite loss so in our trifles
 i still win of you for my sake wear this
 it is a manacle of love i'll place it
 upon this fairest prisoner
 putting a bracelet upon her arm
imogen o the gods
 when shall we see again
 enter cymbeline and lords
posthumus leonatus alack the king
cymbeline thou basest thing avoid hence from my sight
 if after this command thou fraught the court
 with thy unworthiness thou diest away
 thou'rt poison to my blood
posthumus leonatus the gods protect you
 and bless the good remainders of the court i am gone
 exit
imogen there cannot be a pinch in death
 more sharp than this is
cymbeline o disloyal thing
 that shouldst repair my youth thou heap'st
 a year's age on me
imogen i beseech you sir
 harm not yourself with your vexation
 i am senseless of your wrath a touch more rare
 subdues all pangs all fears
cymbeline past grace obedience
imogen past hope and in despair that way past grace
cymbeline that mightst have had the sole son of my queen
imogen o blest that i might not i chose an eagle
 and did avoid a puttock
cymbeline thou took'st a beggar wouldst have made my throne
 a seat for baseness
imogen no i rather added
 a lustre to it
cymbeline o thou vile one
imogen sir
 it is your fault that i have loved posthumus
 you bred him as my playfellow and he is
 a man worth any woman overbuys me
 almost the sum he pays
cymbeline what art thou mad
imogen almost sir heaven restore me would i were
 a neatherd's daughter and my leonatus
 our neighbour shepherd's son
cymbeline thou foolish thing
 reenter queen
 they were again together you have done
 not after our command away with her
 and pen her up
queen beseech your patience peace
 dear lady daughter peace sweet sovereign
 leave us to ourselves and make yourself some comfort
 out of your best advice
cymbeline nay let her languish
 a drop of blood a day and being aged
 die of this folly
 exeunt cymbeline and lords
queen fie you must give way
 enter pisanio
 here is your servant how now sir what news
pisanio my lord your son drew on my master
queen ha
 no harm i trust is done
pisanio there might have been
 but that my master rather play'd than fought
 and had no help of anger they were parted
 by gentlemen at hand
queen i am very glad on't
imogen your son's my father's friend he takes his part
 to draw upon an exile o brave sir
 i would they were in afric both together
 myself by with a needle that i might prick
 the goerback why came you from your master
pisanio on his command he would not suffer me
 to bring him to the haven left these notes
 of what commands i should be subject to
 when t pleased you to employ me
queen this hath been
 your faithful servant i dare lay mine honour
 he will remain so
pisanio i humbly thank your highness
queen pray walk awhile
imogen about some halfhour hence
 i pray you speak with me you shall at least
 go see my lord aboard for this time leave me
 exeunt
 cymbeline
act i
scene ii the same a public place
 enter cloten and two lords
first lord sir i would advise you to shift a shirt the
 violence of action hath made you reek as a
 sacrifice where air comes out air comes in
 there's none abroad so wholesome as that you vent
cloten if my shirt were bloody then to shift it have i hurt him
second lord aside no faith not so much as his patience
first lord hurt him his body's a passable carcass if he be
 not hurt it is a thoroughfare for steel if it be not hurt
second lord aside his steel was in debt it went o the
 backside the town
cloten the villain would not stand me
second lord aside no but he fled forward still toward your face
first lord stand you you have land enough of your own but
 he added to your having gave you some ground
second lord aside as many inches as you have oceans puppies
cloten i would they had not come between us
second lord aside so would i till you had measured how long
 a fool you were upon the ground
cloten and that she should love this fellow and refuse me
second lord aside if it be a sin to make a true election she
 is damned
first lord sir as i told you always her beauty and her brain
 go not together she's a good sign but i have seen
 small reflection of her wit
second lord aside she shines not upon fools lest the
 reflection should hurt her
cloten come i'll to my chamber would there had been some
 hurt done
second lord aside i wish not so unless it had been the fall
 of an ass which is no great hurt
cloten you'll go with us
first lord i'll attend your lordship
cloten nay come let's go together
second lord well my lord
 exeunt
 cymbeline
act i
scene iii a room in cymbeline's palace
 enter imogen and pisanio
imogen i would thou grew'st unto the shores o the haven
 and question'dst every sail if he should write
 and not have it twere a paper lost
 as offer'd mercy is what was the last
 that he spake to thee
pisanio it was his queen his queen
imogen then waved his handkerchief
pisanio and kiss'd it madam
imogen senseless linen happier therein than i
 and that was all
pisanio no madam for so long
 as he could make me with this eye or ear
 distinguish him from others he did keep
 the deck with glove or hat or handkerchief
 still waving as the fits and stirs of s mind
 could best express how slow his soul sail'd on
 how swift his ship
imogen thou shouldst have made him
 as little as a crow or less ere left
 to aftereye him
pisanio madam so i did
imogen i would have broke mine eyestrings crack'd them but
 to look upon him till the diminution
 of space had pointed him sharp as my needle
 nay follow'd him till he had melted from
 the smallness of a gnat to air and then
 have turn'd mine eye and wept but good pisanio
 when shall we hear from him
pisanio be assured madam
 with his next vantage
imogen i did not take my leave of him but had
 most pretty things to say ere i could tell him
 how i would think on him at certain hours
 such thoughts and such or i could make him swear
 the shes of italy should not betray
 mine interest and his honour or have charged him
 at the sixth hour of morn at noon at midnight
 to encounter me with orisons for then
 i am in heaven for him or ere i could
 give him that parting kiss which i had set
 betwixt two charming words comes in my father
 and like the tyrannous breathing of the north
 shakes all our buds from growing
 enter a lady
lady the queen madam
 desires your highness company
imogen those things i bid you do get them dispatch'd
 i will attend the queen
pisanio madam i shall
 exeunt
 cymbeline
act i
scene iv rome philario's house
 enter philario iachimo a frenchman a
 dutchman and a spaniard
iachimo believe it sir i have seen him in britain he was
 then of a crescent note expected to prove so worthy
 as since he hath been allowed the name of but i
 could then have looked on him without the help of
 admiration though the catalogue of his endowments
 had been tabled by his side and i to peruse him by items
philario you speak of him when he was less furnished than now
 he is with that which makes him both without and within
frenchman i have seen him in france we had very many there
 could behold the sun with as firm eyes as he
iachimo this matter of marrying his king's daughter wherein
 he must be weighed rather by her value than his own
 words him i doubt not a great deal from the matter
frenchman and then his banishment
iachimo ay and the approbation of those that weep this
 lamentable divorce under her colours are wonderfully
 to extend him be it but to fortify her judgment
 which else an easy battery might lay flat for
 taking a beggar without less quality but how comes
 it he is to sojourn with you how creeps
 acquaintance
philario his father and i were soldiers together to whom i
 have been often bound for no less than my life
 here comes the briton let him be so entertained
 amongst you as suits with gentlemen of your
 knowing to a stranger of his quality
 enter posthumus leonatus
 i beseech you all be better known to this
 gentleman whom i commend to you as a noble friend
 of mine how worthy he is i will leave to appear
 hereafter rather than story him in his own hearing
frenchman sir we have known together in orleans
posthumus leonatus since when i have been debtor to you for courtesies
 which i will be ever to pay and yet pay still
frenchman sir you o'errate my poor kindness i was glad i
 did atone my countryman and you it had been pity
 you should have been put together with so mortal a
 purpose as then each bore upon importance of so
 slight and trivial a nature
posthumus leonatus by your pardon sir i was then a young traveller
 rather shunned to go even with what i heard than in
 my every action to be guided by others experiences
 but upon my mended judgmentif i offend not to say
 it is mendedmy quarrel was not altogether slight
frenchman faith yes to be put to the arbitrement of swords
 and by such two that would by all likelihood have
 confounded one the other or have fallen both
iachimo can we with manners ask what was the difference
frenchman safely i think twas a contention in public
 which may without contradiction suffer the report
 it was much like an argument that fell out last
 night where each of us fell in praise of our
 country mistresses this gentleman at that time
 vouchingand upon warrant of bloody
 affirmationhis to be more fair virtuous wise
 chaste constantqualified and less attemptable
 than any the rarest of our ladies in france
iachimo that lady is not now living or this gentleman's
 opinion by this worn out
posthumus leonatus she holds her virtue still and i my mind
iachimo you must not so far prefer her fore ours of italy
posthumus leonatus being so far provoked as i was in france i would
 abate her nothing though i profess myself her
 adorer not her friend
iachimo as fair and as gooda kind of handinhand
 comparisonhad been something too fair and too good
 for any lady in britain if she went before others
 i have seen as that diamond of yours outlustres
 many i have beheld i could not but believe she
 excelled many but i have not seen the most
 precious diamond that is nor you the lady
posthumus leonatus i praised her as i rated her so do i my stone
iachimo what do you esteem it at
posthumus leonatus more than the world enjoys
iachimo either your unparagoned mistress is dead or she's
 outprized by a trifle
posthumus leonatus you are mistaken the one may be sold or given if
 there were wealth enough for the purchase or merit
 for the gift the other is not a thing for sale
 and only the gift of the gods
iachimo which the gods have given you
posthumus leonatus which by their graces i will keep
iachimo you may wear her in title yours but you know
 strange fowl light upon neighbouring ponds your
 ring may be stolen too so your brace of unprizable
 estimations the one is but frail and the other
 casual a cunning thief or a that way accomplished
 courtier would hazard the winning both of first and last
posthumus leonatus your italy contains none so accomplished a courtier
 to convince the honour of my mistress if in the
 holding or loss of that you term her frail i do
 nothing doubt you have store of thieves
 notwithstanding i fear not my ring
philario let us leave here gentlemen
posthumus leonatus sir with all my heart this worthy signior i
 thank him makes no stranger of me we are familiar at first
iachimo with five times so much conversation i should get
 ground of your fair mistress make her go back even
 to the yielding had i admittance and opportunity to friend
posthumus leonatus no no
iachimo i dare thereupon pawn the moiety of my estate to
 your ring which in my opinion o'ervalues it
 something but i make my wager rather against your
 confidence than her reputation and to bar your
 offence herein too i durst attempt it against any
 lady in the world
posthumus leonatus you are a great deal abused in too bold a
 persuasion and i doubt not you sustain what you're
 worthy of by your attempt
iachimo what's that
posthumus leonatus a repulse though your attempt as you call it
 deserve more a punishment too
philario gentlemen enough of this it came in too suddenly
 let it die as it was born and i pray you be
 better acquainted
iachimo would i had put my estate and my neighbour's on the
 approbation of what i have spoke
posthumus leonatus what lady would you choose to assail
iachimo yours whom in constancy you think stands so safe
 i will lay you ten thousand ducats to your ring
 that commend me to the court where your lady is
 with no more advantage than the opportunity of a
 second conference and i will bring from thence
 that honour of hers which you imagine so reserved
posthumus leonatus i will wage against your gold gold to it my ring
 i hold dear as my finger tis part of it
iachimo you are afraid and therein the wiser if you buy
 ladies flesh at a million a dram you cannot
 preserve it from tainting but i see you have some
 religion in you that you fear
posthumus leonatus this is but a custom in your tongue you bear a
 graver purpose i hope
iachimo i am the master of my speeches and would undergo
 what's spoken i swear
posthumus leonatus will you i shall but lend my diamond till your
 return let there be covenants drawn between's my
 mistress exceeds in goodness the hugeness of your
 unworthy thinking i dare you to this match here's my ring
philario i will have it no lay
iachimo by the gods it is one if i bring you no
 sufficient testimony that i have enjoyed the dearest
 bodily part of your mistress my ten thousand ducats
 are yours so is your diamond too if i come off
 and leave her in such honour as you have trust in
 she your jewel this your jewel and my gold are
 yours provided i have your commendation for my more
 free entertainment
posthumus leonatus i embrace these conditions let us have articles
 betwixt us only thus far you shall answer if
 you make your voyage upon her and give me directly
 to understand you have prevailed i am no further
 your enemy she is not worth our debate if she
 remain unseduced you not making it appear
 otherwise for your ill opinion and the assault you
 have made to her chastity you shall answer me with
 your sword
iachimo your hand a covenant we will have these things set
 down by lawful counsel and straight away for
 britain lest the bargain should catch cold and
 starve i will fetch my gold and have our two
 wagers recorded
posthumus leonatus agreed
 exeunt posthumus leonatus and iachimo
frenchman will this hold think you
philario signior iachimo will not from it
 pray let us follow em
 exeunt
 cymbeline
act i
scene v britain a room in cymbeline's palace
 enter queen ladies and cornelius
queen whiles yet the dew's on ground gather those flowers
 make haste who has the note of them
first lady i madam
queen dispatch
 exeunt ladies
 now master doctor have you brought those drugs
cornelius pleaseth your highness ay here they are madam
 presenting a small box
 but i beseech your grace without offence
 my conscience bids me askwherefore you have
 commanded of me those most poisonous compounds
 which are the movers of a languishing death
 but though slow deadly
queen i wonder doctor
 thou ask'st me such a question have i not been
 thy pupil long hast thou not learn'd me how
 to make perfumes distil preserve yea so
 that our great king himself doth woo me oft
 for my confections having thus far proceeded
 unless thou think'st me devilishis't not meet
 that i did amplify my judgment in
 other conclusions i will try the forces
 of these thy compounds on such creatures as
 we count not worth the hanging but none human
 to try the vigour of them and apply
 allayments to their act and by them gather
 their several virtues and effects
cornelius your highness
 shall from this practise but make hard your heart
 besides the seeing these effects will be
 both noisome and infectious
queen o content thee
 enter pisanio
 aside
 here comes a flattering rascal upon him
 will i first work he's for his master
 an enemy to my son how now pisanio
 doctor your service for this time is ended
 take your own way
cornelius aside i do suspect you madam
 but you shall do no harm
queen to pisanio hark thee a word
cornelius aside i do not like her she doth think she has
 strange lingering poisons i do know her spirit
 and will not trust one of her malice with
 a drug of such damn'd nature those she has
 will stupefy and dull the sense awhile
 which first perchance she'll prove on
 cats and dogs
 then afterward up higher but there is
 no danger in what show of death it makes
 more than the lockingup the spirits a time
 to be more fresh reviving she is fool'd
 with a most false effect and i the truer
 so to be false with her
queen no further service doctor
 until i send for thee
cornelius i humbly take my leave
 exit
queen weeps she still say'st thou dost thou think in time
 she will not quench and let instructions enter
 where folly now possesses do thou work
 when thou shalt bring me word she loves my son
 i'll tell thee on the instant thou art then
 as great as is thy master greater for
 his fortunes all lie speechless and his name
 is at last gasp return he cannot nor
 continue where he is to shift his being
 is to exchange one misery with another
 and every day that comes comes to decay
 a day's work in him what shalt thou expect
 to be depender on a thing that leans
 who cannot be new built nor has no friends
 so much as but to prop him
 the queen drops the box pisanio takes it up
 thou takest up
 thou know'st not what but take it for thy labour
 it is a thing i made which hath the king
 five times redeem'd from death i do not know
 what is more cordial nay i prethee take it
 it is an earnest of a further good
 that i mean to thee tell thy mistress how
 the case stands with her do't as from thyself
 think what a chance thou changest on but think
 thou hast thy mistress still to boot my son
 who shall take notice of thee i'll move the king
 to any shape of thy preferment such
 as thou'lt desire and then myself i chiefly
 that set thee on to this desert am bound
 to load thy merit richly call my women
 think on my words
 exit pisanio
 a sly and constant knave
 not to be shaked the agent for his master
 and the remembrancer of her to hold
 the handfast to her lord i have given him that
 which if he take shall quite unpeople her
 of liegers for her sweet and which she after
 except she bend her humour shall be assured
 to taste of too
 reenter pisanio and ladies
 so so well done well done
 the violets cowslips and the primroses
 bear to my closet fare thee well pisanio
 think on my words
 exeunt queen and ladies
pisanio and shall do
 but when to my good lord i prove untrue
 i'll choke myself there's all i'll do for you
 exit
 cymbeline
act i
scene vi the same another room in the palace
 enter imogen
imogen a father cruel and a stepdame false
 a foolish suitor to a wedded lady
 that hath her husband banish'do that husband
 my supreme crown of grief and those repeated
 vexations of it had i been thiefstol'n
 as my two brothers happy but most miserable
 is the desire that's glorious blest be those
 how mean soe'er that have their honest wills
 which seasons comfort who may this be fie
 enter pisanio and iachimo
pisanio madam a noble gentleman of rome
 comes from my lord with letters
iachimo change you madam
 the worthy leonatus is in safety
 and greets your highness dearly
 presents a letter
imogen thanks good sir
 you're kindly welcome
iachimo aside all of her that is out of door most rich
 if she be furnish'd with a mind so rare
 she is alone the arabian bird and i
 have lost the wager boldness be my friend
 arm me audacity from head to foot
 or like the parthian i shall flying fight
 rather directly fly
imogen reads he is one of the noblest note to whose
 kindnesses i am most infinitely tied reflect upon
 him accordingly as you value your trust
 leonatus'
 so far i read aloud
 but even the very middle of my heart
 is warm'd by the rest and takes it thankfully
 you are as welcome worthy sir as i
 have words to bid you and shall find it so
 in all that i can do
iachimo thanks fairest lady
 what are men mad hath nature given them eyes
 to see this vaulted arch and the rich crop
 of sea and land which can distinguish twixt
 the fiery orbs above and the twinn'd stones
 upon the number'd beach and can we not
 partition make with spectacles so precious
 twixt fair and foul
imogen what makes your admiration
iachimo it cannot be i the eye for apes and monkeys
 twixt two such shes would chatter this way and
 contemn with mows the other nor i the judgment
 for idiots in this case of favour would
 be wisely definite nor i the appetite
 sluttery to such neat excellence opposed
 should make desire vomit emptiness
 not so allured to feed
imogen what is the matter trow
iachimo the cloyed will
 that satiate yet unsatisfied desire that tub
 both fill'd and running ravening first the lamb
 longs after for the garbage
imogen what dear sir
 thus raps you are you well
iachimo thanks madam well
 to pisanio
 beseech you sir desire
 my man's abode where i did leave him he
 is strange and peevish
pisanio i was going sir
 to give him welcome
 exit
imogen continues well my lord his health beseech you
iachimo well madam
imogen is he disposed to mirth i hope he is
iachimo exceeding pleasant none a stranger there
 so merry and so gamesome he is call'd
 the briton reveller
imogen when he was here
 he did incline to sadness and ofttimes
 not knowing why
iachimo i never saw him sad
 there is a frenchman his companion one
 an eminent monsieur that it seems much loves
 a gallian girl at home he furnaces
 the thick sighs from him whiles the jolly briton
 your lord i meanlaughs from's free lungs cries o
 can my sides hold to think that man who knows
 by history report or his own proof
 what woman is yea what she cannot choose
 but must be will his free hours languish for
 assured bondage'
imogen will my lord say so
iachimo ay madam with his eyes in flood with laughter
 it is a recreation to be by
 and hear him mock the frenchman but heavens know
 some men are much to blame
imogen not he i hope
iachimo not he but yet heaven's bounty towards him might
 be used more thankfully in himself tis much
 in you which i account his beyond all talents
 whilst i am bound to wonder i am bound
 to pity too
imogen what do you pity sir
iachimo two creatures heartily
imogen am i one sir
 you look on me what wreck discern you in me
 deserves your pity
iachimo lamentable what
 to hide me from the radiant sun and solace
 i the dungeon by a snuff
imogen i pray you sir
 deliver with more openness your answers
 to my demands why do you pity me
iachimo that others do
 i was about to sayenjoy yourbut
 it is an office of the gods to venge it
 not mine to speak on t
imogen you do seem to know
 something of me or what concerns me pray you
 since doubling things go ill often hurts more
 than to be sure they do for certainties
 either are past remedies or timely knowing
 the remedy then borndiscover to me
 what both you spur and stop
iachimo had i this cheek
 to bathe my lips upon this hand whose touch
 whose every touch would force the feeler's soul
 to the oath of loyalty this object which
 takes prisoner the wild motion of mine eye
 fixing it only here should i damn'd then
 slaver with lips as common as the stairs
 that mount the capitol join gripes with hands
 made hard with hourly falsehoodfalsehood as
 with labour then bypeeping in an eye
 base and unlustrous as the smoky light
 that's fed with stinking tallow it were fit
 that all the plagues of hell should at one time
 encounter such revolt
imogen my lord i fear
 has forgot britain
iachimo and himself not i
 inclined to this intelligence pronounce
 the beggary of his change but tis your graces
 that from pay mutest conscience to my tongue
 charms this report out
imogen let me hear no more
iachimo o dearest soul your cause doth strike my heart
 with pity that doth make me sick a lady
 so fair and fasten'd to an empery
 would make the great'st king doubleto be partner'd
 with tomboys hired with that selfexhibition
 which your own coffers yield with diseased ventures
 that play with all infirmities for gold
 which rottenness can lend nature such boil'd stuff
 as well might poison poison be revenged
 or she that bore you was no queen and you
 recoil from your great stock
imogen revenged
 how should i be revenged if this be true
 as i have such a heart that both mine ears
 must not in haste abuseif it be true
 how should i be revenged
iachimo should he make me
 live like diana's priest betwixt cold sheets
 whiles he is vaulting variable ramps
 in your despite upon your purse revenge it
 i dedicate myself to your sweet pleasure
 more noble than that runagate to your bed
 and will continue fast to your affection
 still close as sure
imogen what ho pisanio
iachimo let me my service tender on your lips
imogen away i do condemn mine ears that have
 so long attended thee if thou wert honourable
 thou wouldst have told this tale for virtue not
 for such an end thou seek'stas base as strange
 thou wrong'st a gentleman who is as far
 from thy report as thou from honour and
 solicit'st here a lady that disdains
 thee and the devil alike what ho pisanio
 the king my father shall be made acquainted
 of thy assault if he shall think it fit
 a saucy stranger in his court to mart
 as in a romish stew and to expound
 his beastly mind to us he hath a court
 he little cares for and a daughter who
 he not respects at all what ho pisanio
iachimo o happy leonatus i may say
 the credit that thy lady hath of thee
 deserves thy trust and thy most perfect goodness
 her assured credit blessed live you long
 a lady to the worthiest sir that ever
 country call'd his and you his mistress only
 for the most worthiest fit give me your pardon
 i have spoke this to know if your affiance
 were deeply rooted and shall make your lord
 that which he is new o'er and he is one
 the truest manner'd such a holy witch
 that he enchants societies into him
 half all men's hearts are his
imogen you make amends
iachimo he sits mongst men like a descended god
 he hath a kind of honour sets him off
 more than a mortal seeming be not angry
 most mighty princess that i have adventured
 to try your taking a false report which hath
 honour'd with confirmation your great judgment
 in the election of a sir so rare
 which you know cannot err the love i bear him
 made me to fan you thus but the gods made you
 unlike all others chaffless pray your pardon
imogen all's well sir take my power i the court
 for yours
iachimo my humble thanks i had almost forgot
 to entreat your grace but in a small request
 and yet of moment to for it concerns
 your lord myself and other noble friends
 are partners in the business
imogen pray what is't
iachimo some dozen romans of us and your lord
 the best feather of our winghave mingled sums
 to buy a present for the emperor
 which i the factor for the rest have done
 in france tis plate of rare device and jewels
 of rich and exquisite form their values great
 and i am something curious being strange
 to have them in safe stowage may it please you
 to take them in protection
imogen willingly
 and pawn mine honour for their safety since
 my lord hath interest in them i will keep them
 in my bedchamber
iachimo they are in a trunk
 attended by my men i will make bold
 to send them to you only for this night
 i must aboard tomorrow
imogen o no no
iachimo yes i beseech or i shall short my word
 by lengthening my return from gallia
 i cross'd the seas on purpose and on promise
 to see your grace
imogen i thank you for your pains
 but not away tomorrow
iachimo o i must madam
 therefore i shall beseech you if you please
 to greet your lord with writing do't tonight
 i have outstood my time which is material
 to the tender of our present
imogen i will write
 send your trunk to me it shall safe be kept
 and truly yielded you you're very welcome
 exeunt
 cymbeline
act ii
scene i britain before cymbeline's palace
 enter cloten and two lords
cloten was there ever man had such luck when i kissed the
 jack upon an upcast to be hit away i had a
 hundred pound on't and then a whoreson jackanapes
 must take me up for swearing as if i borrowed mine
 oaths of him and might not spend them at my pleasure
first lord what got he by that you have broke his pate with
 your bowl
second lord aside if his wit had been like him that broke it
 it would have run all out
cloten when a gentleman is disposed to swear it is not for
 any standersby to curtail his oaths ha
second lord no my lord
 aside
 nor crop the ears of them
cloten whoreson dog i give him satisfaction
 would he had been one of my rank
second lord aside to have smelt like a fool
cloten i am not vexed more at any thing in the earth a
 pox on't i had rather not be so noble as i am
 they dare not fight with me because of the queen my
 mother every jackslave hath his bellyful of
 fighting and i must go up and down like a cock that
 nobody can match
second lord aside you are cock and capon too and you crow
 cock with your comb on
cloten sayest thou
second lord it is not fit your lordship should undertake every
 companion that you give offence to
cloten no i know that but it is fit i should commit
 offence to my inferiors
second lord ay it is fit for your lordship only
cloten why so i say
first lord did you hear of a stranger that's come to court tonight
cloten a stranger and i not know on't
second lord aside he's a strange fellow himself and knows it
 not
first lord there's an italian come and tis thought one of
 leonatus friends
cloten leonatus a banished rascal and he's another
 whatsoever he be who told you of this stranger
first lord one of your lordship's pages
cloten is it fit i went to look upon him is there no
 derogation in't
second lord you cannot derogate my lord
cloten not easily i think
second lord aside you are a fool granted therefore your
 issues being foolish do not derogate
cloten come i'll go see this italian what i have lost
 today at bowls i'll win tonight of him come go
second lord i'll attend your lordship
 exeunt cloten and first lord
 that such a crafty devil as is his mother
 should yield the world this ass a woman that
 bears all down with her brain and this her son
 cannot take two from twenty for his heart
 and leave eighteen alas poor princess
 thou divine imogen what thou endurest
 betwixt a father by thy stepdame govern'd
 a mother hourly coining plots a wooer
 more hateful than the foul expulsion is
 of thy dear husband than that horrid act
 of the divorce he'ld make the heavens hold firm
 the walls of thy dear honour keep unshaked
 that temple thy fair mind that thou mayst stand
 to enjoy thy banish'd lord and this great land
 exit
 cymbeline
act ii
scene ii imogen's bedchamber in cymbeline's palace
 a trunk in one corner of it
 imogen in bed reading a lady attending
imogen who's there my woman helen
lady please you madam
imogen what hour is it
lady almost midnight madam
imogen i have read three hours then mine eyes are weak
 fold down the leaf where i have left to bed
 take not away the taper leave it burning
 and if thou canst awake by four o the clock
 i prithee call me sleep hath seized me wholly
 exit lady
 to your protection i commend me gods
 from fairies and the tempters of the night
 guard me beseech ye
 sleeps iachimo comes from the trunk
iachimo the crickets sing and man's o'erlabour'd sense
 repairs itself by rest our tarquin thus
 did softly press the rushes ere he waken'd
 the chastity he wounded cytherea
 how bravely thou becomest thy bed fresh lily
 and whiter than the sheets that i might touch
 but kiss one kiss rubies unparagon'd
 how dearly they do't tis her breathing that
 perfumes the chamber thus the flame o the taper
 bows toward her and would underpeep her lids
 to see the enclosed lights now canopied
 under these windows white and azure laced
 with blue of heaven's own tinct but my design
 to note the chamber i will write all down
 such and such pictures there the window such
 the adornment of her bed the arras figures
 why such and such and the contents o the story
 ah but some natural notes about her body
 above ten thousand meaner moveables
 would testify to enrich mine inventory
 o sleep thou ape of death lie dull upon her
 and be her sense but as a monument
 thus in a chapel lying come off come off
 taking off her bracelet
 as slippery as the gordian knot was hard
 tis mine and this will witness outwardly
 as strongly as the conscience does within
 to the madding of her lord on her left breast
 a mole cinquespotted like the crimson drops
 i the bottom of a cowslip here's a voucher
 stronger than ever law could make this secret
 will force him think i have pick'd the lock and ta'en
 the treasure of her honour no more to what end
 why should i write this down that's riveted
 screw'd to my memory she hath been reading late
 the tale of tereus here the leaf's turn'd down
 where philomel gave up i have enough
 to the trunk again and shut the spring of it
 swift swift you dragons of the night that dawning
 may bare the raven's eye i lodge in fear
 though this a heavenly angel hell is here
 clock strikes
 one two three time time
 goes into the trunk the scene closes
 cymbeline
act ii
scene iii an antechamber adjoining imogen's apartments
 enter cloten and lords
first lord your lordship is the most patient man in loss the
 most coldest that ever turned up ace
cloten it would make any man cold to lose
first lord but not every man patient after the noble temper of
 your lordship you are most hot and furious when you win
cloten winning will put any man into courage if i could
 get this foolish imogen i should have gold enough
 it's almost morning is't not
first lord day my lord
cloten i would this music would come i am advised to give
 her music o mornings they say it will penetrate
 enter musicians
 come on tune if you can penetrate her with your
 fingering so we'll try with tongue too if none
 will do let her remain but i'll never give o'er
 first a very excellent goodconceited thing
 after a wonderful sweet air with admirable rich
 words to it and then let her consider
 song
 hark hark the lark at heaven's gate sings
 and phoebus gins arise
 his steeds to water at those springs
 on chaliced flowers that lies
 and winking marybuds begin
 to ope their golden eyes
 with every thing that pretty is
 my lady sweet arise
 arise arise
cloten so get you gone if this penetrate i will
 consider your music the better if it do not it is
 a vice in her ears which horsehairs and
 calves'guts nor the voice of unpaved eunuch to
 boot can never amend
 exeunt musicians
second lord here comes the king
cloten i am glad i was up so late for that's the reason i
 was up so early he cannot choose but take this
 service i have done fatherly
 enter cymbeline and queen
 good morrow to your majesty and to my gracious mother
cymbeline attend you here the door of our stern daughter
 will she not forth
cloten i have assailed her with music but she vouchsafes no notice
cymbeline the exile of her minion is too new
 she hath not yet forgot him some more time
 must wear the print of his remembrance out
 and then she's yours
queen you are most bound to the king
 who lets go by no vantages that may
 prefer you to his daughter frame yourself
 to orderly soliciting and be friended
 with aptness of the season make denials
 increase your services so seem as if
 you were inspired to do those duties which
 you tender to her that you in all obey her
 save when command to your dismission tends
 and therein you are senseless
cloten senseless not so
 enter a messenger
messenger so like you sir ambassadors from rome
 the one is caius lucius
cymbeline a worthy fellow
 albeit he comes on angry purpose now
 but that's no fault of his we must receive him
 according to the honour of his sender
 and towards himself his goodness forespent on us
 we must extend our notice our dear son
 when you have given good morning to your mistress
 attend the queen and us we shall have need
 to employ you towards this roman come our queen
 exeunt all but cloten
cloten if she be up i'll speak with her if not
 let her lie still and dream
 knocks
 by your leave ho
 i know her women are about her what
 if i do line one of their hands tis gold
 which buys admittance oft it doth yea and makes
 diana's rangers false themselves yield up
 their deer to the stand o the stealer and tis gold
 which makes the true man kill'd and saves the thief
 nay sometime hangs both thief and true man what
 can it not do and undo i will make
 one of her women lawyer to me for
 i yet not understand the case myself
 knocks
 by your leave
 enter a lady
lady who's there that knocks
cloten a gentleman
lady no more
cloten yes and a gentlewoman's son
lady that's more
 than some whose tailors are as dear as yours
 can justly boast of what's your lordship's pleasure
cloten your lady's person is she ready
lady ay
 to keep her chamber
cloten there is gold for you
 sell me your good report
lady how my good name or to report of you
 what i shall think is goodthe princess
 enter imogen
cloten good morrow fairest sister your sweet hand
 exit lady
imogen good morrow sir you lay out too much pains
 for purchasing but trouble the thanks i give
 is telling you that i am poor of thanks
 and scarce can spare them
cloten still i swear i love you
imogen if you but said so twere as deep with me
 if you swear still your recompense is still
 that i regard it not
cloten this is no answer
imogen but that you shall not say i yield being silent
 i would not speak i pray you spare me faith
 i shall unfold equal discourtesy
 to your best kindness one of your great knowing
 should learn being taught forbearance
cloten to leave you in your madness twere my sin
 i will not
imogen fools are not mad folks
cloten do you call me fool
imogen as i am mad i do
 if you'll be patient i'll no more be mad
 that cures us both i am much sorry sir
 you put me to forget a lady's manners
 by being so verbal and learn now for all
 that i which know my heart do here pronounce
 by the very truth of it i care not for you
 and am so near the lack of charity
 to accuse myselfi hate you which i had rather
 you felt than make't my boast
cloten you sin against
 obedience which you owe your father for
 the contract you pretend with that base wretch
 one bred of alms and foster'd with cold dishes
 with scraps o the court it is no contract none
 and though it be allow'd in meaner parties
 yet who than he more meanto knit their souls
 on whom there is no more dependency
 but brats and beggary in selffigured knot
 yet you are curb'd from that enlargement by
 the consequence o the crown and must not soil
 the precious note of it with a base slave
 a hilding for a livery a squire's cloth
 a pantler not so eminent
imogen profane fellow
 wert thou the son of jupiter and no more
 but what thou art besides thou wert too base
 to be his groom thou wert dignified enough
 even to the point of envy if twere made
 comparative for your virtues to be styled
 the underhangman of his kingdom and hated
 for being preferred so well
cloten the southfog rot him
imogen he never can meet more mischance than come
 to be but named of thee his meanest garment
 that ever hath but clipp'd his body is dearer
 in my respect than all the hairs above thee
 were they all made such men how now pisanio
 enter pisanio
cloten his garment now the devil
imogen to dorothy my woman hie thee presently
cloten his garment'
imogen i am sprited with a fool
 frighted and anger'd worse go bid my woman
 search for a jewel that too casually
 hath left mine arm it was thy master's shrew me
 if i would lose it for a revenue
 of any king's in europe i do think
 i saw't this morning confident i am
 last night twas on mine arm i kiss'd it
 i hope it be not gone to tell my lord
 that i kiss aught but he
pisanio twill not be lost
imogen i hope so go and search
 exit pisanio
cloten you have abused me
 his meanest garment'
imogen ay i said so sir
 if you will make't an action call witness to't
cloten i will inform your father
imogen your mother too
 she's my good lady and will conceive i hope
 but the worst of me so i leave you sir
 to the worst of discontent
 exit
cloten i'll be revenged
 his meanest garment well
 exit
cymbeline
act ii
scene iv rome philario's house
 enter posthumus and philario
posthumus leonatus fear it not sir i would i were so sure
 to win the king as i am bold her honour
 will remain hers
philario what means do you make to him
posthumus leonatus not any but abide the change of time
 quake in the present winter's state and wish
 that warmer days would come in these sear'd hopes
 i barely gratify your love they failing
 i must die much your debtor
philario your very goodness and your company
 o'erpays all i can do by this your king
 hath heard of great augustus caius lucius
 will do's commission throughly and i think
 he'll grant the tribute send the arrearages
 or look upon our romans whose remembrance
 is yet fresh in their grief
posthumus leonatus i do believe
 statist though i am none nor like to be
 that this will prove a war and you shall hear
 the legions now in gallia sooner landed
 in our notfearing britain than have tidings
 of any penny tribute paid our countrymen
 are men more order'd than when julius caesar
 smiled at their lack of skill but found
 their courage
 worthy his frowning at their discipline
 now mingled with their courages will make known
 to their approvers they are people such
 that mend upon the world
 enter iachimo
philario see iachimo
posthumus leonatus the swiftest harts have posted you by land
 and winds of all the comers kiss'd your sails
 to make your vessel nimble
philario welcome sir
posthumus leonatus i hope the briefness of your answer made
 the speediness of your return
iachimo your lady
 is one of the fairest that i have look'd upon
posthumus leonatus and therewithal the best or let her beauty
 look through a casement to allure false hearts
 and be false with them
iachimo here are letters for you
posthumus leonatus their tenor good i trust
iachimo tis very like
philario was caius lucius in the britain court
 when you were there
iachimo he was expected then
 but not approach'd
posthumus leonatus all is well yet
 sparkles this stone as it was wont or is't not
 too dull for your good wearing
iachimo if i had lost it
 i should have lost the worth of it in gold
 i'll make a journey twice as far to enjoy
 a second night of such sweet shortness which
 was mine in britain for the ring is won
posthumus leonatus the stone's too hard to come by
iachimo not a whit
 your lady being so easy
posthumus leonatus make not sir
 your loss your sport i hope you know that we
 must not continue friends
iachimo good sir we must
 if you keep covenant had i not brought
 the knowledge of your mistress home i grant
 we were to question further but i now
 profess myself the winner of her honour
 together with your ring and not the wronger
 of her or you having proceeded but
 by both your wills
posthumus leonatus if you can make't apparent
 that you have tasted her in bed my hand
 and ring is yours if not the foul opinion
 you had of her pure honour gains or loses
 your sword or mine or masterless leaves both
 to who shall find them
iachimo sir my circumstances
 being so near the truth as i will make them
 must first induce you to believe whose strength
 i will confirm with oath which i doubt not
 you'll give me leave to spare when you shall find
 you need it not
posthumus leonatus proceed
iachimo first her bedchamber
 where i confess i slept not but profess
 had that was well worth watchingit was hang'd
 with tapesty of silk and silver the story
 proud cleopatra when she met her roman
 and cydnus swell'd above the banks or for
 the press of boats or pride a piece of work
 so bravely done so rich that it did strive
 in workmanship and value which i wonder'd
 could be so rarely and exactly wrought
 since the true life on't was
posthumus leonatus this is true
 and this you might have heard of here by me
 or by some other
iachimo more particulars
 must justify my knowledge
posthumus leonatus so they must
 or do your honour injury
iachimo the chimney
 is south the chamber and the chimneypiece
 chaste dian bathing never saw i figures
 so likely to report themselves the cutter
 was as another nature dumb outwent her
 motion and breath left out
posthumus leonatus this is a thing
 which you might from relation likewise reap
 being as it is much spoke of
iachimo the roof o the chamber
 with golden cherubins is fretted her andirons
 i had forgot themwere two winking cupids
 of silver each on one foot standing nicely
 depending on their brands
posthumus leonatus this is her honour
 let it be granted you have seen all thisand praise
 be given to your remembrancethe description
 of what is in her chamber nothing saves
 the wager you have laid
iachimo then if you can
 showing the bracelet
 be pale i beg but leave to air this jewel see
 and now tis up again it must be married
 to that your diamond i'll keep them
posthumus leonatus jove
 once more let me behold it is it that
 which i left with her
iachimo siri thank herthat
 she stripp'd it from her arm i see her yet
 her pretty action did outsell her gift
 and yet enrich'd it too she gave it me and said
 she prized it once
posthumus leonatus may be she pluck'd it off
 to send it me
iachimo she writes so to you doth she
posthumus leonatus o no no no tis true here take this too
 gives the ring
 it is a basilisk unto mine eye
 kills me to look on't let there be no honour
 where there is beauty truth where semblance love
 where there's another man the vows of women
 of no more bondage be to where they are made
 than they are to their virtues which is nothing
 o above measure false
philario have patience sir
 and take your ring again tis not yet won
 it may be probable she lost it or
 who knows if one of her women being corrupted
 hath stol'n it from her
posthumus leonatus very true
 and so i hope he came by't back my ring
 render to me some corporal sign about her
 more evident than this for this was stolen
iachimo by jupiter i had it from her arm
posthumus leonatus hark you he swears by jupiter he swears
 tis truenay keep the ring'tis true i am sure
 she would not lose it her attendants are
 all sworn and honourablethey induced to steal it
 and by a strangerno he hath enjoyed her
 the cognizance of her incontinency
 is this she hath bought the name of whore
 thus dearly
 there take thy hire and all the fiends of hell
 divide themselves between you
philario sir be patient
 this is not strong enough to be believed
 of one persuaded well of
posthumus leonatus never talk on't
 she hath been colted by him
iachimo if you seek
 for further satisfying under her breast
 worthy the pressinglies a mole right proud
 of that most delicate lodging by my life
 i kiss'd it and it gave me present hunger
 to feed again though full you do remember
 this stain upon her
posthumus leonatus ay and it doth confirm
 another stain as big as hell can hold
 were there no more but it
iachimo will you hear more
posthumus leonatus spare your arithmetic never count the turns
 once and a million
iachimo i'll be sworn
posthumus leonatus no swearing
 if you will swear you have not done't you lie
 and i will kill thee if thou dost deny
 thou'st made me cuckold
iachimo i'll deny nothing
posthumus leonatus o that i had her here to tear her limbmeal
 i will go there and do't i the court before
 her father i'll do something
 exit
philario quite besides
 the government of patience you have won
 let's follow him and pervert the present wrath
 he hath against himself
iachimo with an my heart
 exeunt
 cymbeline
act ii
scene v another room in philario's house
 enter posthumus leonatus
posthumus leonatus is there no way for men to be but women
 must be halfworkers we are all bastards
 and that most venerable man which i
 did call my father was i know not where
 when i was stamp'd some coiner with his tools
 made me a counterfeit yet my mother seem'd
 the dian of that time so doth my wife
 the nonpareil of this o vengeance vengeance
 me of my lawful pleasure she restrain'd
 and pray'd me oft forbearance did it with
 a pudency so rosy the sweet view on't
 might well have warm'd old saturn that i thought her
 as chaste as unsunn'd snow o all the devils
 this yellow iachimo in an hourwast not
 or lessat firstperchance he spoke not but
 like a fullacorn'd boar a german one
 cried o and mounted found no opposition
 but what he look'd for should oppose and she
 should from encounter guard could i find out
 the woman's part in me for there's no motion
 that tends to vice in man but i affirm
 it is the woman's part be it lying note it
 the woman's flattering hers deceiving hers
 lust and rank thoughts hers hers revenges hers
 ambitions covetings change of prides disdain
 nice longing slanders mutability
 all faults that may be named nay that hell knows
 why hers in part or all but rather all
 for even to vice
 they are not constant but are changing still
 one vice but of a minute old for one
 not half so old as that i'll write against them
 detest them curse them yet tis greater skill
 in a true hate to pray they have their will
 the very devils cannot plague them better
 exit
 cymbeline
act iii
scene i britain a hall in cymbeline's palace
 enter in state cymbeline queen cloten
 and lords at one door and at another
 caius lucius and attendants
cymbeline now say what would augustus caesar with us
caius lucius when julius caesar whose remembrance yet
 lives in men's eyes and will to ears and tongues
 be theme and hearing ever was in this britain
 and conquer'd it cassibelan thine uncle
 famous in caesar's praises no whit less
 than in his feats deserving itfor him
 and his succession granted rome a tribute
 yearly three thousand pounds which by thee lately
 is left untender'd
queen and to kill the marvel
 shall be so ever
cloten there be many caesars
 ere such another julius britain is
 a world by itself and we will nothing pay
 for wearing our own noses
queen that opportunity
 which then they had to take from s to resume
 we have again remember sir my liege
 the kings your ancestors together with
 the natural bravery of your isle which stands
 as neptune's park ribbed and paled in
 with rocks unscalable and roaring waters
 with sands that will not bear your enemies boats
 but suck them up to the topmast a kind of conquest
 caesar made here but made not here his brag
 of came and saw and overcame  with shame
 that first that ever touch'd himhe was carried
 from off our coast twice beaten and his shipping
 poor ignorant baubles upon our terrible seas
 like eggshells moved upon their surges crack'd
 as easily gainst our rocks for joy whereof
 the famed cassibelan who was once at point
 o giglot fortuneto master caesar's sword
 made lud's town with rejoicing fires bright
 and britons strut with courage
cloten come there's no more tribute to be paid our
 kingdom is stronger than it was at that time and
 as i said there is no moe such caesars other of
 them may have crook'd noses but to owe such
 straight arms none
cymbeline son let your mother end
cloten we have yet many among us can gripe as hard as
 cassibelan i do not say i am one but i have a
 hand why tribute why should we pay tribute if
 caesar can hide the sun from us with a blanket or
 put the moon in his pocket we will pay him tribute
 for light else sir no more tribute pray you now
cymbeline you must know
 till the injurious romans did extort
 this tribute from us we were free
 caesar's ambition
 which swell'd so much that it did almost stretch
 the sides o the world against all colour here
 did put the yoke upon s which to shake off
 becomes a warlike people whom we reckon
 ourselves to be
cloten 
 we do
lords 
cymbeline say then to caesar
 our ancestor was that mulmutius which
 ordain'd our laws whose use the sword of caesar
 hath too much mangled whose repair and franchise
 shall by the power we hold be our good deed
 though rome be therefore angry mulmutius made our laws
 who was the first of britain which did put
 his brows within a golden crown and call'd
 himself a king
caius lucius i am sorry cymbeline
 that i am to pronounce augustus caesar
 caesar that hath more kings his servants than
 thyself domestic officersthine enemy
 receive it from me then war and confusion
 in caesar's name pronounce i gainst thee look
 for fury not to be resisted thus defied
 i thank thee for myself
cymbeline thou art welcome caius
 thy caesar knighted me my youth i spent
 much under him of him i gather'd honour
 which he to seek of me again perforce
 behoves me keep at utterance i am perfect
 that the pannonians and dalmatians for
 their liberties are now in arms a precedent
 which not to read would show the britons cold
 so caesar shall not find them
caius lucius let proof speak
cloten his majesty bids you welcome make
 pastime with us a day or two or longer if
 you seek us afterwards in other terms you
 shall find us in our saltwater girdle if you
 beat us out of it it is yours if you fall in
 the adventure our crows shall fare the better
 for you and there's an end
caius lucius so sir
cymbeline i know your master's pleasure and he mine
 all the remain is welcome'
 exeunt
 cymbeline
act iii
scene ii another room in the palace
 enter pisanio with a letter
pisanio how of adultery wherefore write you not
 what monster's her accuser leonatus
 o master what a strange infection
 is fall'n into thy ear what false italian
 as poisonoustongued as handed hath prevail'd
 on thy too ready hearing disloyal no
 she's punish'd for her truth and undergoes
 more goddesslike than wifelike such assaults
 as would take in some virtue o my master
 thy mind to her is now as low as were
 thy fortunes how that i should murder her
 upon the love and truth and vows which i
 have made to thy command i her her blood
 if it be so to do good service never
 let me be counted serviceable how look i
 that i should seem to lack humanity
 so much as this fact comes to
 reading
 do't the letter
 that i have sent her by her own command
 shall give thee opportunity o damn'd paper
 black as the ink that's on thee senseless bauble
 art thou a feodary for this act and look'st
 so virginlike without lo here she comes
 i am ignorant in what i am commanded
 enter imogen
imogen how now pisanio
pisanio madam here is a letter from my lord
imogen who thy lord that is my lord leonatus
 o learn'd indeed were that astronomer
 that knew the stars as i his characters
 he'ld lay the future open you good gods
 let what is here contain'd relish of love
 of my lord's health of his content yet not
 that we two are asunder let that grieve him
 some griefs are med'cinable that is one of them
 for it doth physic love of his content
 all but in that good wax thy leave blest be
 you bees that make these locks of counsel lovers
 and men in dangerous bonds pray not alike
 though forfeiters you cast in prison yet
 you clasp young cupid's tables good news gods
 reads
 justice and your father's wrath should he take me
 in his dominion could not be so cruel to me as
 you o the dearest of creatures would even renew me
 with your eyes take notice that i am in cambria
 at milfordhaven what your own love will out of
 this advise you follow so he wishes you all
 happiness that remains loyal to his vow and your
 increasing in love
 leonatus posthumus'
 o for a horse with wings hear'st thou pisanio
 he is at milfordhaven read and tell me
 how far tis thither if one of mean affairs
 may plod it in a week why may not i
 glide thither in a day then true pisanio
 who long'st like me to see thy lord who long'st
 let me batebut not like meyet long'st
 but in a fainter kindo not like me
 for mine's beyond beyondsay and speak thick
 love's counsellor should fill the bores of hearing
 to the smothering of the sensehow far it is
 to this same blessed milford and by the way
 tell me how wales was made so happy as
 to inherit such a haven but first of all
 how we may steal from hence and for the gap
 that we shall make in time from our hencegoing
 and our return to excuse but first how get hence
 why should excuse be born or e'er begot
 we'll talk of that hereafter prithee speak
 how many score of miles may we well ride
 twixt hour and hour
pisanio one score twixt sun and sun
 madam s enough for you
 aside
 and too much too
imogen why one that rode to's execution man
 could never go so slow i have heard of
 riding wagers
 where horses have been nimbler than the sands
 that run i the clock's behalf but this is foolery
 go bid my woman feign a sickness say
 she'll home to her father and provide me presently
 a ridingsuit no costlier than would fit
 a franklin's housewife
pisanio madam you're best consider
imogen i see before me man nor here nor here
 nor what ensues but have a fog in them
 that i cannot look through away i prithee
 do as i bid thee there's no more to say
 accessible is none but milford way
 exeunt
 cymbeline
act iii
scene iii wales a mountainous country with a cave
 enter from the cave belarius guiderius
 and arviragus following
belarius a goodly day not to keep house with such
 whose roof's as low as ours stoop boys this gate
 instructs you how to adore the heavens and bows you
 to a morning's holy office the gates of monarchs
 are arch'd so high that giants may jet through
 and keep their impious turbans on without
 good morrow to the sun hail thou fair heaven
 we house i the rock yet use thee not so hardly
 as prouder livers do
guiderius hail heaven
arviragus hail heaven
belarius now for our mountain sport up to yond hill
 your legs are young i'll tread these flats consider
 when you above perceive me like a crow
 that it is place which lessens and sets off
 and you may then revolve what tales i have told you
 of courts of princes of the tricks in war
 this service is not service so being done
 but being so allow'd to apprehend thus
 draws us a profit from all things we see
 and often to our comfort shall we find
 the sharded beetle in a safer hold
 than is the fullwing'd eagle o this life
 is nobler than attending for a cheque
 richer than doing nothing for a bauble
 prouder than rustling in unpaidfor silk
 such gain the cap of him that makes em fine
 yet keeps his book uncross'd no life to ours
guiderius out of your proof you speak we poor unfledged
 have never wing'd from view o the nest nor know not
 what air's from home haply this life is best
 if quiet life be best sweeter to you
 that have a sharper known well corresponding
 with your stiff age but unto us it is
 a cell of ignorance travelling abed
 a prison for a debtor that not dares
 to stride a limit
arviragus what should we speak of
 when we are old as you when we shall hear
 the rain and wind beat dark december how
 in this our pinching cave shall we discourse
 the freezing hours away we have seen nothing
 we are beastly subtle as the fox for prey
 like warlike as the wolf for what we eat
 our valour is to chase what flies our cage
 we make a quire as doth the prison'd bird
 and sing our bondage freely
belarius how you speak
 did you but know the city's usuries
 and felt them knowingly the art o the court
 as hard to leave as keep whose top to climb
 is certain falling or so slippery that
 the fear's as bad as falling the toil o the war
 a pain that only seems to seek out danger
 i the name of fame and honour which dies i'
 the search
 and hath as oft a slanderous epitaph
 as record of fair act nay many times
 doth ill deserve by doing well what's worse
 must court'sy at the censureo boys this story
 the world may read in me my body's mark'd
 with roman swords and my report was once
 first with the best of note cymbeline loved me
 and when a soldier was the theme my name
 was not far off then was i as a tree
 whose boughs did bend with fruit but in one night
 a storm or robbery call it what you will
 shook down my mellow hangings nay my leaves
 and left me bare to weather
guiderius uncertain favour
belarius my fault being nothingas i have told you oft
 but that two villains whose false oaths prevail'd
 before my perfect honour swore to cymbeline
 i was confederate with the romans so
 follow'd my banishment and this twenty years
 this rock and these demesnes have been my world
 where i have lived at honest freedom paid
 more pious debts to heaven than in all
 the foreend of my time but up to the mountains
 this is not hunters language he that strikes
 the venison first shall be the lord o the feast
 to him the other two shall minister
 and we will fear no poison which attends
 in place of greater state i'll meet you in the valleys
 exeunt guiderius and arviragus
 how hard it is to hide the sparks of nature
 these boys know little they are sons to the king
 nor cymbeline dreams that they are alive
 they think they are mine and though train'd
 up thus meanly
 i the cave wherein they bow their thoughts do hit
 the roofs of palaces and nature prompts them
 in simple and low things to prince it much
 beyond the trick of others this polydore
 the heir of cymbeline and britain who
 the king his father call'd guideriusjove
 when on my threefoot stool i sit and tell
 the warlike feats i have done his spirits fly out
 into my story say thus mine enemy fell
 and thus i set my foot on s neck even then
 the princely blood flows in his cheek he sweats
 strains his young nerves and puts himself in posture
 that acts my words the younger brother cadwal
 once arviragus in as like a figure
 strikes life into my speech and shows much more
 his own conceivinghark the game is roused
 o cymbeline heaven and my conscience knows
 thou didst unjustly banish me whereon
 at three and two years old i stole these babes
 thinking to bar thee of succession as
 thou reft'st me of my lands euriphile
 thou wast their nurse they took thee for
 their mother
 and every day do honour to her grave
 myself belarius that am morgan call'd
 they take for natural father the game is up
 exit
 cymbeline
act iii
scene iv country near milfordhaven
 enter pisanio and imogen
imogen thou told'st me when we came from horse the place
 was near at hand ne'er long'd my mother so
 to see me first as i have now pisanio man
 where is posthumus what is in thy mind
 that makes thee stare thus wherefore breaks that sigh
 from the inward of thee one but painted thus
 would be interpreted a thing perplex'd
 beyond selfexplication put thyself
 into a havior of less fear ere wildness
 vanquish my staider senses what's the matter
 why tender'st thou that paper to me with
 a look untender if't be summer news
 smile to't before if winterly thou need'st
 but keep that countenance still my husband's hand
 that drugdamn'd italy hath outcraftied him
 and he's at some hard point speak man thy tongue
 may take off some extremity which to read
 would be even mortal to me
pisanio please you read
 and you shall find me wretched man a thing
 the most disdain'd of fortune
imogen reads thy mistress pisanio hath played the
 strumpet in my bed the testimonies whereof lie
 bleeding in me i speak not out of weak surmises
 but from proof as strong as my grief and as certain
 as i expect my revenge that part thou pisanio
 must act for me if thy faith be not tainted with
 the breach of hers let thine own hands take away
 her life i shall give thee opportunity at
 milfordhaven she hath my letter for the purpose
 where if thou fear to strike and to make me certain
 it is done thou art the pandar to her dishonour and
 equally to me disloyal'
pisanio what shall i need to draw my sword the paper
 hath cut her throat already no tis slander
 whose edge is sharper than the sword whose tongue
 outvenoms all the worms of nile whose breath
 rides on the posting winds and doth belie
 all corners of the world kings queens and states
 maids matrons nay the secrets of the grave
 this viperous slander enters what cheer madam
imogen false to his bed what is it to be false
 to lie in watch there and to think on him
 to weep twixt clock and clock if sleep
 charge nature
 to break it with a fearful dream of him
 and cry myself awake that's false to's bed is it
pisanio alas good lady
imogen i false thy conscience witness iachimo
 thou didst accuse him of incontinency
 thou then look'dst like a villain now methinks
 thy favour's good enough some jay of italy
 whose mother was her painting hath betray'd him
 poor i am stale a garment out of fashion
 and for i am richer than to hang by the walls
 i must be ripp'dto pieces with meo
 men's vows are women's traitors all good seeming
 by thy revolt o husband shall be thought
 put on for villany not born where't grows
 but worn a bait for ladies
pisanio good madam hear me
imogen true honest men being heard like false aeneas
 were in his time thought false and sinon's weeping
 did scandal many a holy tear took pity
 from most true wretchedness so thou posthumus
 wilt lay the leaven on all proper men
 goodly and gallant shall be false and perjured
 from thy great fall come fellow be thou honest
 do thou thy master's bidding when thou see'st him
 a little witness my obedience look
 i draw the sword myself take it and hit
 the innocent mansion of my love my heart
 fear not tis empty of all things but grief
 thy master is not there who was indeed
 the riches of it do his bidding strike
 thou mayst be valiant in a better cause
 but now thou seem'st a coward
pisanio hence vile instrument
 thou shalt not damn my hand
imogen why i must die
 and if i do not by thy hand thou art
 no servant of thy master's against selfslaughter
 there is a prohibition so divine
 that cravens my weak hand come here's my heart
 something's afore't soft soft we'll no defence
 obedient as the scabbard what is here
 the scriptures of the loyal leonatus
 all turn'd to heresy away away
 corrupters of my faith you shall no more
 be stomachers to my heart thus may poor fools
 believe false teachers though those that
 are betray'd
 do feel the treason sharply yet the traitor
 stands in worse case of woe
 and thou posthumus thou that didst set up
 my disobedience gainst the king my father
 and make me put into contempt the suits
 of princely fellows shalt hereafter find
 it is no act of common passage but
 a strain of rareness and i grieve myself
 to think when thou shalt be disedged by her
 that now thou tirest on how thy memory
 will then be pang'd by me prithee dispatch
 the lamb entreats the butcher where's thy knife
 thou art too slow to do thy master's bidding
 when i desire it too
pisanio o gracious lady
 since i received command to do this business
 i have not slept one wink
imogen do't and to bed then
pisanio i'll wake mine eyeballs blind first
imogen wherefore then
 didst undertake it why hast thou abused
 so many miles with a pretence this place
 mine action and thine own our horses labour
 the time inviting thee the perturb'd court
 for my being absent whereunto i never
 purpose return why hast thou gone so far
 to be unbent when thou hast ta'en thy stand
 the elected deer before thee
pisanio but to win time
 to lose so bad employment in the which
 i have consider'd of a course good lady
 hear me with patience
imogen talk thy tongue weary speak
 i have heard i am a strumpet and mine ear
 therein false struck can take no greater wound
 nor tent to bottom that but speak
pisanio then madam
 i thought you would not back again
imogen most like
 bringing me here to kill me
pisanio not so neither
 but if i were as wise as honest then
 my purpose would prove well it cannot be
 but that my master is abused
 some villain ay and singular in his art
 hath done you both this cursed injury
imogen some roman courtezan
pisanio no on my life
 i'll give but notice you are dead and send him
 some bloody sign of it for tis commanded
 i should do so you shall be miss'd at court
 and that will well confirm it
imogen why good fellow
 what shall i do the where where bide how live
 or in my life what comfort when i am
 dead to my husband
pisanio if you'll back to the court
imogen no court no father nor no more ado
 with that harsh noble simple nothing
 that cloten whose lovesuit hath been to me
 as fearful as a siege
pisanio if not at court
 then not in britain must you bide
imogen where then
 hath britain all the sun that shines day night
 are they not but in britain i the world's volume
 our britain seems as of it but not in t
 in a great pool a swan's nest prithee think
 there's livers out of britain
pisanio i am most glad
 you think of other place the ambassador
 lucius the roman comes to milfordhaven
 tomorrow now if you could wear a mind
 dark as your fortune is and but disguise
 that which to appear itself must not yet be
 but by selfdanger you should tread a course
 pretty and full of view yea haply near
 the residence of posthumus so nigh at least
 that though his actions were not visible yet
 report should render him hourly to your ear
 as truly as he moves
imogen o for such means
 though peril to my modesty not death on't
 i would adventure
pisanio well then here's the point
 you must forget to be a woman change
 command into obedience fear and niceness
 the handmaids of all women or more truly
 woman its pretty selfinto a waggish courage
 ready in gibes quickanswer'd saucy and
 as quarrelous as the weasel nay you must
 forget that rarest treasure of your cheek
 exposing itbut o the harder heart
 alack no remedyto the greedy touch
 of commonkissing titan and forget
 your laboursome and dainty trims wherein
 you made great juno angry
imogen nay be brief
 i see into thy end and am almost
 a man already
pisanio first make yourself but like one
 forethinking this i have already fit
 tis in my cloakbagdoublet hat hose all
 that answer to them would you in their serving
 and with what imitation you can borrow
 from youth of such a season fore noble lucius
 present yourself desire his service tell him
 wherein you're happywhich you'll make him know
 if that his head have ear in musicdoubtless
 with joy he will embrace you for he's honourable
 and doubling that most holy your means abroad
 you have me rich and i will never fail
 beginning nor supplyment
imogen thou art all the comfort
 the gods will diet me with prithee away
 there's more to be consider'd but we'll even
 all that good time will give us this attempt
 i am soldier to and will abide it with
 a prince's courage away i prithee
pisanio well madam we must take a short farewell
 lest being miss'd i be suspected of
 your carriage from the court my noble mistress
 here is a box i had it from the queen
 what's in't is precious if you are sick at sea
 or stomachqualm'd at land a dram of this
 will drive away distemper to some shade
 and fit you to your manhood may the gods
 direct you to the best
imogen amen i thank thee
 exeunt severally
 cymbeline
act iii
scene v a room in cymbeline's palace
 enter cymbeline queen cloten lucius
 lords and attendants
cymbeline thus far and so farewell
caius lucius thanks royal sir
 my emperor hath wrote i must from hence
 and am right sorry that i must report ye
 my master's enemy
cymbeline our subjects sir
 will not endure his yoke and for ourself
 to show less sovereignty than they must needs
 appear unkinglike
caius lucius so sir i desire of you
 a conduct overland to milfordhaven
 madam all joy befal your grace
queen and you
cymbeline my lords you are appointed for that office
 the due of honour in no point omit
 so farewell noble lucius
caius lucius your hand my lord
cloten receive it friendly but from this time forth
 i wear it as your enemy
caius lucius sir the event
 is yet to name the winner fare you well
cymbeline leave not the worthy lucius good my lords
 till he have cross'd the severn happiness
 exeunt lucius and lords
queen he goes hence frowning but it honours us
 that we have given him cause
cloten tis all the better
 your valiant britons have their wishes in it
cymbeline lucius hath wrote already to the emperor
 how it goes here it fits us therefore ripely
 our chariots and our horsemen be in readiness
 the powers that he already hath in gallia
 will soon be drawn to head from whence he moves
 his war for britain
queen tis not sleepy business
 but must be look'd to speedily and strongly
cymbeline our expectation that it would be thus
 hath made us forward but my gentle queen
 where is our daughter she hath not appear'd
 before the roman nor to us hath tender'd
 the duty of the day she looks us like
 a thing more made of malice than of duty
 we have noted it call her before us for
 we have been too slight in sufferance
 exit an attendant
queen royal sir
 since the exile of posthumus most retired
 hath her life been the cure whereof my lord
 tis time must do beseech your majesty
 forbear sharp speeches to her she's a lady
 so tender of rebukes that words are strokes
 and strokes death to her
 reenter attendant
cymbeline where is she sir how
 can her contempt be answer'd
attendant please you sir
 her chambers are all lock'd and there's no answer
 that will be given to the loudest noise we make
queen my lord when last i went to visit her
 she pray'd me to excuse her keeping close
 whereto constrain'd by her infirmity
 she should that duty leave unpaid to you
 which daily she was bound to proffer this
 she wish'd me to make known but our great court
 made me to blame in memory
cymbeline her doors lock'd
 not seen of late grant heavens that which i fear
 prove false
 exit
queen son i say follow the king
cloten that man of hers pisanio her old servant
 have not seen these two days
queen go look after
 exit cloten
 pisanio thou that stand'st so for posthumus
 he hath a drug of mine i pray his absence
 proceed by swallowing that for he believes
 it is a thing most precious but for her
 where is she gone haply despair hath seized her
 or wing'd with fervor of her love she's flown
 to her desired posthumus gone she is
 to death or to dishonour and my end
 can make good use of either she being down
 i have the placing of the british crown
 reenter cloten
 how now my son
cloten tis certain she is fled
 go in and cheer the king he rages none
 dare come about him
queen aside all the better may
 this night forestall him of the coming day
 exit
cloten i love and hate her for she's fair and royal
 and that she hath all courtly parts more exquisite
 than lady ladies woman from every one
 the best she hath and she of all compounded
 outsells them all i love her therefore but
 disdaining me and throwing favours on
 the low posthumus slanders so her judgment
 that what's else rare is choked and in that point
 i will conclude to hate her nay indeed
 to be revenged upon her for when fools shall
 enter pisanio
 who is here what are you packing sirrah
 come hither ah you precious pander villain
 where is thy lady in a word or else
 thou art straightway with the fiends
pisanio o good my lord
cloten where is thy lady or by jupiter
 i will not ask again close villain
 i'll have this secret from thy heart or rip
 thy heart to find it is she with posthumus
 from whose so many weights of baseness cannot
 a dram of worth be drawn
pisanio alas my lord
 how can she be with him when was she missed
 he is in rome
cloten where is she sir come nearer
 no further halting satisfy me home
 what is become of her
pisanio o my allworthy lord
cloten allworthy villain
 discover where thy mistress is at once
 at the next word no more of worthy lord'
 speak or thy silence on the instant is
 thy condemnation and thy death
pisanio then sir
 this paper is the history of my knowledge
 touching her flight
 presenting a letter
cloten let's see't i will pursue her
 even to augustus throne
pisanio aside or this or perish
 she's far enough and what he learns by this
 may prove his travel not her danger
cloten hum
pisanio aside i'll write to my lord she's dead o imogen
 safe mayst thou wander safe return again
cloten sirrah is this letter true
pisanio sir as i think
cloten it is posthumus hand i know't sirrah if thou
 wouldst not be a villain but do me true service
 undergo those employments wherein i should have
 cause to use thee with a serious industry that is
 what villany soe'er i bid thee do to perform it
 directly and truly i would think thee an honest
 man thou shouldst neither want my means for thy
 relief nor my voice for thy preferment
pisanio well my good lord
cloten wilt thou serve me for since patiently and
 constantly thou hast stuck to the bare fortune of
 that beggar posthumus thou canst not in the
 course of gratitude but be a diligent follower of
 mine wilt thou serve me
pisanio sir i will
cloten give me thy hand here's my purse hast any of thy
 late master's garments in thy possession
pisanio i have my lord at my lodging the same suit he
 wore when he took leave of my lady and mistress
cloten the first service thou dost me fetch that suit
 hither let it be thy lint service go
pisanio i shall my lord
 exit
cloten meet thee at milfordhaveni forgot to ask him one
 thing i'll remember't anoneven there thou
 villain posthumus will i kill thee i would these
 garments were come she said upon a timethe
 bitterness of it i now belch from my heartthat she
 held the very garment of posthumus in more respect
 than my noble and natural person together with the
 adornment of my qualities with that suit upon my
 back will i ravish her first kill him and in her
 eyes there shall she see my valour which will then
 be a torment to her contempt he on the ground my
 speech of insultment ended on his dead body and
 when my lust hath dinedwhich as i say to vex
 her i will execute in the clothes that she so
 praisedto the court i'll knock her back foot
 her home again she hath despised me rejoicingly
 and i'll be merry in my revenge
 reenter pisanio with the clothes
 be those the garments
pisanio ay my noble lord
cloten how long is't since she went to milfordhaven
pisanio she can scarce be there yet
cloten bring this apparel to my chamber that is the second
 thing that i have commanded thee the third is
 that thou wilt be a voluntary mute to my design be
 but duteous and true preferment shall tender itself
 to thee my revenge is now at milford would i had
 wings to follow it come and be true
 exit
pisanio thou bid'st me to my loss for true to thee
 were to prove false which i will never be
 to him that is most true to milford go
 and find not her whom thou pursuest flow flow
 you heavenly blessings on her this fool's speed
 be cross'd with slowness labour be his meed
 exit
 cymbeline
act iii
scene vi wales before the cave of belarius
 enter imogen in boy's clothes
imogen i see a man's life is a tedious one
 i have tired myself and for two nights together
 have made the ground my bed i should be sick
 but that my resolution helps me milford
 when from the mountaintop pisanio show'd thee
 thou wast within a ken o jove i think
 foundations fly the wretched such i mean
 where they should be relieved two beggars told me
 i could not miss my way will poor folks lie
 that have afflictions on them knowing tis
 a punishment or trial yes no wonder
 when rich ones scarce tell true to lapse in fulness
 is sorer than to lie for need and falsehood
 is worse in kings than beggars my dear lord
 thou art one o the false ones now i think on thee
 my hunger's gone but even before i was
 at point to sink for food but what is this
 here is a path to't tis some savage hold
 i were best not to call i dare not call
 yet famine
 ere clean it o'erthrow nature makes it valiant
 plenty and peace breeds cowards hardness ever
 of hardiness is mother ho who's here
 if any thing that's civil speak if savage
 take or lend ho no answer then i'll enter
 best draw my sword and if mine enemy
 but fear the sword like me he'll scarcely look on't
 such a foe good heavens
 exit to the cave
 enter belarius guiderius and arviragus
belarius you polydote have proved best woodman and
 are master of the feast cadwal and i
 will play the cook and servant tis our match
 the sweat of industry would dry and die
 but for the end it works to come our stomachs
 will make what's homely savoury weariness
 can snore upon the flint when resty sloth
 finds the down pillow hard now peace be here
 poor house that keep'st thyself
guiderius i am thoroughly weary
arviragus i am weak with toil yet strong in appetite
guiderius there is cold meat i the cave we'll browse on that
 whilst what we have kill'd be cook'd
belarius looking into the cave
 stay come not in
 but that it eats our victuals i should think
 here were a fairy
guiderius what's the matter sir
belarius by jupiter an angel or if not
 an earthly paragon behold divineness
 no elder than a boy
 reenter imogen
imogen good masters harm me not
 before i enter'd here i call'd and thought
 to have begg'd or bought what i have took
 good troth
 i have stol'n nought nor would not though i had found
 gold strew'd i the floor here's money for my meat
 i would have left it on the board so soon
 as i had made my meal and parted
 with prayers for the provider
guiderius money youth
arviragus all gold and silver rather turn to dirt
 as tis no better reckon'd but of those
 who worship dirty gods
imogen i see you're angry
 know if you kill me for my fault i should
 have died had i not made it
belarius whither bound
imogen to milfordhaven
belarius what's your name
imogen fidele sir i have a kinsman who
 is bound for italy he embark'd at milford
 to whom being going almost spent with hunger
 i am fall'n in this offence
belarius prithee fair youth
 think us no churls nor measure our good minds
 by this rude place we live in well encounter'd
 tis almost night you shall have better cheer
 ere you depart and thanks to stay and eat it
 boys bid him welcome
guiderius were you a woman youth
 i should woo hard but be your groom in honesty
 i bid for you as i'd buy
arviragus i'll make't my comfort
 he is a man i'll love him as my brother
 and such a welcome as i'd give to him
 after long absence such is yours most welcome
 be sprightly for you fall mongst friends
imogen mongst friends
 if brothers
 aside
 would it had been so that they
 had been my father's sons then had my prize
 been less and so more equal ballasting
 to thee posthumus
belarius he wrings at some distress
guiderius would i could free't
arviragus or i whate'er it be
 what pain it cost what danger god's
belarius hark boys
 whispering
imogen great men
 that had a court no bigger than this cave
 that did attend themselves and had the virtue
 which their own conscience seal'd themlaying by
 that nothinggift of differing multitudes
 could not outpeer these twain pardon me gods
 i'd change my sex to be companion with them
 since leonatus's false
belarius it shall be so
 boys we'll go dress our hunt fair youth come in
 discourse is heavy fasting when we have supp'd
 we'll mannerly demand thee of thy story
 so far as thou wilt speak it
guiderius pray draw near
arviragus the night to the owl and morn to the lark
 less welcome
imogen thanks sir
arviragus i pray draw near
 exeunt
 cymbeline
act iii
scene vii rome a public place
 enter two senators and tribunes
first senator this is the tenor of the emperor's writ
 that since the common men are now in action
 gainst the pannonians and dalmatians
 and that the legions now in gallia are
 full weak to undertake our wars against
 the fall'noff britons that we do incite
 the gentry to this business he creates
 lucius preconsul and to you the tribunes
 for this immediate levy he commends
 his absolute commission long live caesar
first tribune is lucius general of the forces
second senator ay
first tribune remaining now in gallia
first senator with those legions
 which i have spoke of whereunto your levy
 must be supplyant the words of your commission
 will tie you to the numbers and the time
 of their dispatch
first tribune we will discharge our duty
 exeunt
 cymbeline
act iv
scene i wales near the cave of belarius
 enter cloten
cloten i am near to the place where they should meet if
 pisanio have mapped it truly how fit his garments
 serve me why should his mistress who was made by
 him that made the tailor not be fit too the
 rathersaving reverence of the wordfor tis said
 a woman's fitness comes by fits therein i must
 play the workman i dare speak it to myselffor it
 is not vainglory for a man and his glass to confer
 in his own chamberi mean the lines of my body are
 as well drawn as his no less young more strong
 not beneath him in fortunes beyond him in the
 advantage of the time above him in birth alike
 conversant in general services and more remarkable
 in single oppositions yet this imperceiverant
 thing loves him in my despite what mortality is
 posthumus thy head which now is growing upon thy
 shoulders shall within this hour be off thy
 mistress enforced thy garments cut to pieces before
 thy face and all this done spurn her home to her
 father who may haply be a little angry for my so
 rough usage but my mother having power of his
 testiness shall turn all into my commendations my
 horse is tied up safe out sword and to a sore
 purpose fortune put them into my hand this is
 the very description of their meetingplace and
 the fellow dares not deceive me
 exit
 cymbeline
act iv
scene ii before the cave of belarius
 enter from the cave belarius guiderius
 arviragus and imogen
belarius to imogen you are not well remain here in the cave
 we'll come to you after hunting
arviragus to imogen brother stay here
 are we not brothers
imogen so man and man should be
 but clay and clay differs in dignity
 whose dust is both alike i am very sick
guiderius go you to hunting i'll abide with him
imogen so sick i am not yet i am not well
 but not so citizen a wanton as
 to seem to die ere sick so please you leave me
 stick to your journal course the breach of custom
 is breach of all i am ill but your being by me
 cannot amend me society is no comfort
 to one not sociable i am not very sick
 since i can reason of it pray you trust me here
 i'll rob none but myself and let me die
 stealing so poorly
guiderius i love thee i have spoke it
 how much the quantity the weight as much
 as i do love my father
belarius what how how
arviragus if it be sin to say so i yoke me
 in my good brother's fault i know not why
 i love this youth and i have heard you say
 love's reason's without reason the bier at door
 and a demand who is't shall die i'd say
 my father not this youth'
belarius aside o noble strain
 o worthiness of nature breed of greatness
 cowards father cowards and base things sire base
 nature hath meal and bran contempt and grace
 i'm not their father yet who this should be
 doth miracle itself loved before me
 tis the ninth hour o the morn
arviragus brother farewell
imogen i wish ye sport
arviragus you health so please you sir
imogen aside these are kind creatures gods what lies
 i have heard
 our courtiers say all's savage but at court
 experience o thou disprovest report
 the imperious seas breed monsters for the dish
 poor tributary rivers as sweet fish
 i am sick still heartsick pisanio
 i'll now taste of thy drug
 swallows some
guiderius i could not stir him
 he said he was gentle but unfortunate
 dishonestly afflicted but yet honest
arviragus thus did he answer me yet said hereafter
 i might know more
belarius to the field to the field
 we'll leave you for this time go in and rest
arviragus we'll not be long away
belarius pray be not sick
 for you must be our housewife
imogen well or ill
 i am bound to you
belarius and shalt be ever
 exit imogen to the cave
 this youth how'er distress'd appears he hath had
 good ancestors
arviragus how angellike he sings
guiderius but his neat cookery he cut our roots
 in characters
 and sauced our broths as juno had been sick
 and he her dieter
arviragus nobly he yokes
 a smiling with a sigh as if the sigh
 was that it was for not being such a smile
 the smile mocking the sigh that it would fly
 from so divine a temple to commix
 with winds that sailors rail at
guiderius i do note
 that grief and patience rooted in him both
 mingle their spurs together
arviragus grow patience
 and let the stinking elder grief untwine
 his perishing root with the increasing vine
belarius it is great morning come away
 who's there
 enter cloten
cloten i cannot find those runagates that villain
 hath mock'd me i am faint
belarius those runagates'
 means he not us i partly know him tis
 cloten the son o the queen i fear some ambush
 i saw him not these many years and yet
 i know tis he we are held as outlaws hence
guiderius he is but one you and my brother search
 what companies are near pray you away
 let me alone with him
 exeunt belarius and arviragus
cloten soft what are you
 that fly me thus some villain mountaineers
 i have heard of such what slave art thou
guiderius a thing
 more slavish did i ne'er than answering
 a slave without a knock
cloten thou art a robber
 a lawbreaker a villain yield thee thief
guiderius to who to thee what art thou have not i
 an arm as big as thine a heart as big
 thy words i grant are bigger for i wear not
 my dagger in my mouth say what thou art
 why i should yield to thee
cloten thou villain base
 know'st me not by my clothes
guiderius no nor thy tailor rascal
 who is thy grandfather he made those clothes
 which as it seems make thee
cloten thou precious varlet
 my tailor made them not
guiderius hence then and thank
 the man that gave them thee thou art some fool
 i am loath to beat thee
cloten thou injurious thief
 hear but my name and tremble
guiderius what's thy name
cloten cloten thou villain
guiderius cloten thou double villain be thy name
 i cannot tremble at it were it toad or
 adder spider
 twould move me sooner
cloten to thy further fear
 nay to thy mere confusion thou shalt know
 i am son to the queen
guiderius i am sorry for t not seeming
 so worthy as thy birth
cloten art not afeard
guiderius those that i reverence those i fear the wise
 at fools i laugh not fear them
cloten die the death
 when i have slain thee with my proper hand
 i'll follow those that even now fled hence
 and on the gates of lud'stown set your heads
 yield rustic mountaineer
 exeunt fighting
 reenter belarius and arviragus
belarius no companies abroad
arviragus none in the world you did mistake him sure
belarius i cannot tell long is it since i saw him
 but time hath nothing blurr'd those lines of favour
 which then he wore the snatches in his voice
 and burst of speaking were as his i am absolute
 twas very cloten
arviragus in this place we left them
 i wish my brother make good time with him
 you say he is so fell
belarius being scarce made up
 i mean to man he had not apprehension
 of roaring terrors for the effect of judgment
 is oft the cause of fear but see thy brother
 reenter guiderius with cloten's head
guiderius this cloten was a fool an empty purse
 there was no money in't not hercules
 could have knock'd out his brains for he had none
 yet i not doing this the fool had borne
 my head as i do his
belarius what hast thou done
guiderius i am perfect what cut off one cloten's head
 son to the queen after his own report
 who call'd me traitor mountaineer and swore
 with his own single hand he'ld take us in
 displace our heads wherethank the godsthey grow
 and set them on lud'stown
belarius we are all undone
guiderius why worthy father what have we to lose
 but that he swore to take our lives the law
 protects not us then why should we be tender
 to let an arrogant piece of flesh threat us
 play judge and executioner all himself
 for we do fear the law what company
 discover you abroad
belarius no single soul
 can we set eye on but in all safe reason
 he must have some attendants though his humour
 was nothing but mutation ay and that
 from one bad thing to worse not frenzy not
 absolute madness could so far have raved
 to bring him here alone although perhaps
 it may be heard at court that such as we
 cave here hunt here are outlaws and in time
 may make some stronger head the which he hearing
 as it is like himmight break out and swear
 he'ld fetch us in yet is't not probable
 to come alone either he so undertaking
 or they so suffering then on good ground we fear
 if we do fear this body hath a tail
 more perilous than the head
arviragus let ordinance
 come as the gods foresay it howsoe'er
 my brother hath done well
belarius i had no mind
 to hunt this day the boy fidele's sickness
 did make my way long forth
guiderius with his own sword
 which he did wave against my throat i have ta'en
 his head from him i'll throw't into the creek
 behind our rock and let it to the sea
 and tell the fishes he's the queen's son cloten
 that's all i reck
 exit
belarius i fear twill be revenged
 would polydote thou hadst not done't though valour
 becomes thee well enough
arviragus would i had done't
 so the revenge alone pursued me polydore
 i love thee brotherly but envy much
 thou hast robb'd me of this deed i would revenges
 that possible strength might meet would seek us through
 and put us to our answer
belarius well tis done
 we'll hunt no more today nor seek for danger
 where there's no profit i prithee to our rock
 you and fidele play the cooks i'll stay
 till hasty polydote return and bring him
 to dinner presently
arviragus poor sick fidele
 i'll weringly to him to gain his colour
 i'ld let a parish of such clotens blood
 and praise myself for charity
 exit
belarius o thou goddess
 thou divine nature how thyself thou blazon'st
 in these two princely boys they are as gentle
 as zephyrs blowing below the violet
 not wagging his sweet head and yet as rough
 their royal blood enchafed as the rudest wind
 that by the top doth take the mountain pine
 and make him stoop to the vale tis wonder
 that an invisible instinct should frame them
 to royalty unlearn'd honour untaught
 civility not seen from other valour
 that wildly grows in them but yields a crop
 as if it had been sow'd yet still it's strange
 what cloten's being here to us portends
 or what his death will bring us
 reenter guiderius
guiderius where's my brother
 i have sent cloten's clotpoll down the stream
 in embassy to his mother his body's hostage
 for his return
 solemn music
belarius my ingenious instrument
 hark polydore it sounds but what occasion
 hath cadwal now to give it motion hark
guiderius is he at home
belarius he went hence even now
guiderius what does he mean since death of my dear'st mother
 it did not speak before all solemn things
 should answer solemn accidents the matter
 triumphs for nothing and lamenting toys
 is jollity for apes and grief for boys
 is cadwal mad
belarius look here he comes
 and brings the dire occasion in his arms
 of what we blame him for
 reenter arviragus with imogen as dead
 bearing her in his arms
arviragus the bird is dead
 that we have made so much on i had rather
 have skipp'd from sixteen years of age to sixty
 to have turn'd my leapingtime into a crutch
 than have seen this
guiderius o sweetest fairest lily
 my brother wears thee not the one half so well
 as when thou grew'st thyself
belarius o melancholy
 who ever yet could sound thy bottom find
 the ooze to show what coast thy sluggish crare
 might easiliest harbour in thou blessed thing
 jove knows what man thou mightst have made but i
 thou diedst a most rare boy of melancholy
 how found you him
arviragus stark as you see
 thus smiling as some fly hid tickled slumber
 not as death's dart being laugh'd at his
 right cheek
 reposing on a cushion
guiderius where
arviragus o the floor
 his arms thus leagued i thought he slept and put
 my clouted brogues from off my feet whose rudeness
 answer'd my steps too loud
guiderius why he but sleeps
 if he be gone he'll make his grave a bed
 with female fairies will his tomb be haunted
 and worms will not come to thee
arviragus with fairest flowers
 whilst summer lasts and i live here fidele
 i'll sweeten thy sad grave thou shalt not lack
 the flower that's like thy face pale primrose nor
 the azured harebell like thy veins no nor
 the leaf of eglantine whom not to slander
 outsweeten'd not thy breath the ruddock would
 with charitable billo bill soreshaming
 those richleft heirs that let their fathers lie
 without a monumentbring thee all this
 yea and furr'd moss besides when flowers are none
 to winterground thy corse
guiderius prithee have done
 and do not play in wenchlike words with that
 which is so serious let us bury him
 and not protract with admiration what
 is now due debt to the grave
arviragus say where shall's lay him
guiderius by good euriphile our mother
arviragus be't so
 and let us polydore though now our voices
 have got the mannish crack sing him to the ground
 as once our mother use like note and words
 save that euriphile must be fidele
guiderius cadwal
 i cannot sing i'll weep and word it with thee
 for notes of sorrow out of tune are worse
 than priests and fanes that lie
arviragus we'll speak it then
belarius great griefs i see medicine the less for cloten
 is quite forgot he was a queen's son boys
 and though he came our enemy remember
 he was paid for that though mean and
 mighty rotting
 together have one dust yet reverence
 that angel of the world doth make distinction
 of place tween high and low our foe was princely
 and though you took his life as being our foe
 yet bury him as a prince
guiderius pray you fetch him hither
 thersites body is as good as ajax'
 when neither are alive
arviragus if you'll go fetch him
 we'll say our song the whilst brother begin
 exit belarius
guiderius nay cadwal we must lay his head to the east
 my father hath a reason for't
arviragus tis true
guiderius come on then and remove him
arviragus so begin
 song
guiderius fear no more the heat o the sun
 nor the furious winter's rages
 thou thy worldly task hast done
 home art gone and ta'en thy wages
 golden lads and girls all must
 as chimneysweepers come to dust
arviragus fear no more the frown o the great
 thou art past the tyrant's stroke
 care no more to clothe and eat
 to thee the reed is as the oak
 the sceptre learning physic must
 all follow this and come to dust
guiderius fear no more the lightning flash
arviragus nor the alldreaded thunderstone
guiderius fear not slander censure rash
arviragus thou hast finish'd joy and moan
guiderius 
 all lovers young all lovers must
arviragus consign to thee and come to dust
guiderius no exorciser harm thee
arviragus nor no witchcraft charm thee
guiderius ghost unlaid forbear thee
arviragus nothing ill come near thee
guiderius 
 quiet consummation have
arviragus and renowned be thy grave
 reenter belarius with the body of cloten
guiderius we have done our obsequies come lay him down
belarius here's a few flowers but bout midnight more
 the herbs that have on them cold dew o the night
 are strewings fitt'st for graves upon their faces
 you were as flowers now wither'd even so
 these herblets shall which we upon you strew
 come on away apart upon our knees
 the ground that gave them first has them again
 their pleasures here are past so is their pain
 exeunt belarius guiderius and arviragus
imogen awaking yes sir to milfordhaven which is
 the way
 i thank youby yond bushpray how far thither
 ods pittikins can it be six mile yet
 i have gone all night faith i'll lie down and sleep
 but soft no bedfellowo gods and goddesses
 seeing the body of cloten
 these flowers are like the pleasures of the world
 this bloody man the care on't i hope i dream
 for so i thought i was a cavekeeper
 and cook to honest creatures but tis not so
 twas but a bolt of nothing shot at nothing
 which the brain makes of fumes our very eyes
 are sometimes like our judgments blind good faith
 i tremble stiff with fear but if there be
 yet left in heaven as small a drop of pity
 as a wren's eye fear'd gods a part of it
 the dream's here still even when i wake it is
 without me as within me not imagined felt
 a headless man the garments of posthumus
 i know the shape of's leg this is his hand
 his foot mercurial his martial thigh
 the brawns of hercules but his jovial face
 murder in heavenhow'tis gone pisanio
 all curses madded hecuba gave the greeks
 and mine to boot be darted on thee thou
 conspired with that irregulous devil cloten
 hast here cut off my lord to write and read
 be henceforth treacherous damn'd pisanio
 hath with his forged lettersdamn'd pisanio
 from this most bravest vessel of the world
 struck the maintop o posthumus alas
 where is thy head where's that ay me
 where's that
 pisanio might have kill'd thee at the heart
 and left this head on how should this be pisanio
 tis he and cloten malice and lucre in them
 have laid this woe here o tis pregnant pregnant
 the drug he gave me which he said was precious
 and cordial to me have i not found it
 murderous to the senses that confirms it home
 this is pisanio's deed and cloten's o
 give colour to my pale cheek with thy blood
 that we the horrider may seem to those
 which chance to find us o my lord my lord
 falls on the body
 enter lucius a captain and other officers
 and a soothsayer
captain to them the legions garrison'd in gailia
 after your will have cross'd the sea attending
 you here at milfordhaven with your ships
 they are in readiness
caius lucius but what from rome
captain the senate hath stirr'd up the confiners
 and gentlemen of italy most willing spirits
 that promise noble service and they come
 under the conduct of bold iachimo
 syenna's brother
caius lucius when expect you them
captain with the next benefit o the wind
caius lucius this forwardness
 makes our hopes fair command our present numbers
 be muster'd bid the captains look to't now sir
 what have you dream'd of late of this war's purpose
soothsayer last night the very gods show'd me a vision
 i fast and pray'd for their intelligencethus
 i saw jove's bird the roman eagle wing'd
 from the spongy south to this part of the west
 there vanish'd in the sunbeams which portends
 unless my sins abuse my divination
 success to the roman host
caius lucius dream often so
 and never false soft ho what trunk is here
 without his top the ruin speaks that sometime
 it was a worthy building how a page
 or dead or sleeping on him but dead rather
 for nature doth abhor to make his bed
 with the defunct or sleep upon the dead
 let's see the boy's face
captain he's alive my lord
caius lucius he'll then instruct us of this body young one
 inform us of thy fortunes for it seems
 they crave to be demanded who is this
 thou makest thy bloody pillow or who was he
 that otherwise than noble nature did
 hath alter'd that good picture what's thy interest
 in this sad wreck how came it who is it
 what art thou
imogen i am nothing or if not
 nothing to be were better this was my master
 a very valiant briton and a good
 that here by mountaineers lies slain alas
 there is no more such masters i may wander
 from east to occident cry out for service
 try many all good serve truly never
 find such another master
caius lucius lack good youth
 thou movest no less with thy complaining than
 thy master in bleeding say his name good friend
imogen richard du champ
 aside
 if i do lie and do
 no harm by it though the gods hear i hope
 they'll pardon itsay you sir
caius lucius thy name
imogen fidele sir
caius lucius thou dost approve thyself the very same
 thy name well fits thy faith thy faith thy name
 wilt take thy chance with me i will not say
 thou shalt be so well master'd but be sure
 no less beloved the roman emperor's letters
 sent by a consul to me should not sooner
 than thine own worth prefer thee go with me
imogen i'll follow sir but first an't please the gods
 i'll hide my master from the flies as deep
 as these poor pickaxes can dig and when
 with wild woodleaves and weeds i ha strew'd his grave
 and on it said a century of prayers
 such as i can twice o'er i'll weep and sigh
 and leaving so his service follow you
 so please you entertain me
caius lucius ay good youth
 and rather father thee than master thee
 my friends
 the boy hath taught us manly duties let us
 find out the prettiest daisied plot we can
 and make him with our pikes and partisans
 a grave come arm him boy he is preferr'd
 by thee to us and he shall be interr'd
 as soldiers can be cheerful wipe thine eyes
 some falls are means the happier to arise
 exeunt
 cymbeline
act iv
scene iii a room in cymbeline's palace
 enter cymbeline lords pisanio and attendants
cymbeline again and bring me word how tis with her
 exit an attendant
 a fever with the absence of her son
 a madness of which her life's in danger heavens
 how deeply you at once do touch me imogen
 the great part of my comfort gone my queen
 upon a desperate bed and in a time
 when fearful wars point at me her son gone
 so needful for this present it strikes me past
 the hope of comfort but for thee fellow
 who needs must know of her departure and
 dost seem so ignorant we'll enforce it from thee
 by a sharp torture
pisanio sir my life is yours
 i humbly set it at your will but for my mistress
 i nothing know where she remains why gone
 nor when she purposes return beseech your highness
 hold me your loyal servant
first lord good my liege
 the day that she was missing he was here
 i dare be bound he's true and shall perform
 all parts of his subjection loyally for cloten
 there wants no diligence in seeking him
 and will no doubt be found
cymbeline the time is troublesome
 to pisanio
 we'll slip you for a season but our jealousy
 does yet depend
first lord so please your majesty
 the roman legions all from gallia drawn
 are landed on your coast with a supply
 of roman gentlemen by the senate sent
cymbeline now for the counsel of my son and queen
 i am amazed with matter
first lord good my liege
 your preparation can affront no less
 than what you hear of come more for more
 you're ready
 the want is but to put those powers in motion
 that long to move
cymbeline i thank you let's withdraw
 and meet the time as it seeks us we fear not
 what can from italy annoy us but
 we grieve at chances here away
 exeunt all but pisanio
pisanio i heard no letter from my master since
 i wrote him imogen was slain tis strange
 nor hear i from my mistress who did promise
 to yield me often tidings neither know i
 what is betid to cloten but remain
 perplex'd in all the heavens still must work
 wherein i am false i am honest not true to be true
 these present wars shall find i love my country
 even to the note o the king or i'll fall in them
 all other doubts by time let them be clear'd
 fortune brings in some boats that are not steer'd
 exit
 cymbeline
act iv
scene iv wales before the cave of belarius
 enter belarius guiderius and arviragus
guiderius the noise is round about us
belarius let us from it
arviragus what pleasure sir find we in life to lock it
 from action and adventure
guiderius nay what hope
 have we in hiding us this way the romans
 must or for britons slay us or receive us
 for barbarous and unnatural revolts
 during their use and slay us after
belarius sons
 we'll higher to the mountains there secure us
 to the king's party there's no going newness
 of cloten's deathwe being not known not muster'd
 among the bandsmay drive us to a render
 where we have lived and so extort from's that
 which we have done whose answer would be death
 drawn on with torture
guiderius this is sir a doubt
 in such a time nothing becoming you
 nor satisfying us
arviragus it is not likely
 that when they hear the roman horses neigh
 behold their quarter'd fires have both their eyes
 and ears so cloy'd importantly as now
 that they will waste their time upon our note
 to know from whence we are
belarius o i am known
 of many in the army many years
 though cloten then but young you see not wore him
 from my remembrance and besides the king
 hath not deserved my service nor your loves
 who find in my exile the want of breeding
 the certainty of this hard life aye hopeless
 to have the courtesy your cradle promised
 but to be still hot summer's tamings and
 the shrinking slaves of winter
guiderius than be so
 better to cease to be pray sir to the army
 i and my brother are not known yourself
 so out of thought and thereto so o'ergrown
 cannot be question'd
arviragus by this sun that shines
 i'll thither what thing is it that i never
 did see man die scarce ever look'd on blood
 but that of coward hares hot goats and venison
 never bestrid a horse save one that had
 a rider like myself who ne'er wore rowel
 nor iron on his heel i am ashamed
 to look upon the holy sun to have
 the benefit of his blest beams remaining
 so long a poor unknown
guiderius by heavens i'll go
 if you will bless me sir and give me leave
 i'll take the better care but if you will not
 the hazard therefore due fall on me by
 the hands of romans
arviragus so say i amen
belarius no reason i since of your lives you set
 so slight a valuation should reserve
 my crack'd one to more care have with you boys
 if in your country wars you chance to die
 that is my bed too lads an there i'll lie
 lead lead
 aside
 the time seems long their blood
 thinks scorn
 till it fly out and show them princes born
 exeunt
 cymbeline
act v
scene i britain the roman camp
 enter posthumus with a bloody handkerchief
posthumus leonatus yea bloody cloth i'll keep thee for i wish'd
 thou shouldst be colour'd thus you married ones
 if each of you should take this course how many
 must murder wives much better than themselves
 for wrying but a little o pisanio
 every good servant does not all commands
 no bond but to do just ones gods if you
 should have ta'en vengeance on my faults i never
 had lived to put on this so had you saved
 the noble imogen to repent and struck
 me wretch more worth your vengeance but alack
 you snatch some hence for little faults that's love
 to have them fall no more you some permit
 to second ills with ills each elder worse
 and make them dread it to the doers thrift
 but imogen is your own do your best wills
 and make me blest to obey i am brought hither
 among the italian gentry and to fight
 against my lady's kingdom tis enough
 that britain i have kill'd thy mistress peace
 i'll give no wound to thee therefore good heavens
 hear patiently my purpose i'll disrobe me
 of these italian weeds and suit myself
 as does a briton peasant so i'll fight
 against the part i come with so i'll die
 for thee o imogen even for whom my life
 is every breath a death and thus unknown
 pitied nor hated to the face of peril
 myself i'll dedicate let me make men know
 more valour in me than my habits show
 gods put the strength o the leonati in me
 to shame the guise o the world i will begin
 the fashion less without and more within
 exit
 cymbeline
act v
scene ii field of battle between the british and roman camps
 enter from one side lucius iachimo and
 the roman army from the other side the
 british army posthumus leonatus following
 like a poor soldier they march over and go
 out then enter again in skirmish iachimo
 and posthumus leonatus he vanquisheth and disarmeth
 iachimo and then leaves him
iachimo the heaviness and guilt within my bosom
 takes off my manhood i have belied a lady
 the princess of this country and the air on't
 revengingly enfeebles me or could this carl
 a very drudge of nature's have subdued me
 in my profession knighthoods and honours borne
 as i wear mine are titles but of scorn
 if that thy gentry britain go before
 this lout as he exceeds our lords the odds
 is that we scarce are men and you are gods
 exit
 the battle continues the britons fly cymbeline is
 taken then enter to his rescue belarius
 guiderius and arviragus
belarius stand stand we have the advantage of the ground
 the lane is guarded nothing routs us but
 the villany of our fears
guiderius 
 stand stand and fight
arviragus 
 reenter posthumus leonatus and seconds the
 britons they rescue cymbeline and exeunt then
 reenter lucius and iachimo with imogen
caius lucius away boy from the troops and save thyself
 for friends kill friends and the disorder's such
 as war were hoodwink'd
iachimo tis their fresh supplies
caius lucius it is a day turn'd strangely or betimes
 let's reinforce or fly
 exeunt
 cymbeline
act v
scene iii another part of the field
 enter posthumus leonatus and a british lord
lord camest thou from where they made the stand
posthumus leonatus i did
 though you it seems come from the fliers
lord i did
posthumus leonatus no blame be to you sir for all was lost
 but that the heavens fought the king himself
 of his wings destitute the army broken
 and but the backs of britons seen all flying
 through a straight lane the enemy fullhearted
 lolling the tongue with slaughtering having work
 more plentiful than tools to do't struck down
 some mortally some slightly touch'd some falling
 merely through fear that the straight pass was damm'd
 with dead men hurt behind and cowards living
 to die with lengthen'd shame
lord where was this lane
posthumus leonatus close by the battle ditch'd and wall'd with turf
 which gave advantage to an ancient soldier
 an honest one i warrant who deserved
 so long a breeding as his white beard came to
 in doing this for's country athwart the lane
 he with two striplingslads more like to run
 the country base than to commit such slaughter
 with faces fit for masks or rather fairer
 than those for preservation cased or shame
 made good the passage cried to those that fled
 our britain s harts die flying not our men
 to darkness fleet souls that fly backwards stand
 or we are romans and will give you that
 like beasts which you shun beastly and may save
 but to look back in frown stand stand'
 these three
 three thousand confident in act as many
 for three performers are the file when all
 the rest do nothingwith this word stand stand'
 accommodated by the place more charming
 with their own nobleness which could have turn'd
 a distaff to a lance gilded pale looks
 part shame part spirit renew'd that some
 turn'd coward
 but by exampleo a sin in war
 damn'd in the first beginnersgan to look
 the way that they did and to grin like lions
 upon the pikes o the hunters then began
 a stop i the chaser a retire anon
 a rout confusion thick forthwith they fly
 chickens the way which they stoop'd eagles slaves
 the strides they victors made and now our cowards
 like fragments in hard voyages became
 the life o the need having found the backdoor open
 of the unguarded hearts heavens how they wound
 some slain before some dying some their friends
 o'er borne i the former wave ten chased by one
 are now each one the slaughterman of twenty
 those that would die or ere resist are grown
 the mortal bugs o the field
lord this was strange chance
 a narrow lane an old man and two boys
posthumus leonatus nay do not wonder at it you are made
 rather to wonder at the things you hear
 than to work any will you rhyme upon't
 and vent it for a mockery here is one
 two boys an old man twice a boy a lane
 preserved the britons was the romans bane'
lord nay be not angry sir
posthumus leonatus lack to what end
 who dares not stand his foe i'll be his friend
 for if he'll do as he is made to do
 i know he'll quickly fly my friendship too
 you have put me into rhyme
lord farewell you're angry
posthumus leonatus still going
 exit lord
 this is a lord o noble misery
 to be i the field and ask what news of me
 today how many would have given their honours
 to have saved their carcasses took heel to do't
 and yet died too i in mine own woe charm'd
 could not find death where i did hear him groan
 nor feel him where he struck being an ugly monster
 tis strange he hides him in fresh cups soft beds
 sweet words or hath more ministers than we
 that draw his knives i the war well i will find him
 for being now a favourer to the briton
 no more a briton i have resumed again
 the part i came in fight i will no more
 but yield me to the veriest hind that shall
 once touch my shoulder great the slaughter is
 here made by the roman great the answer be
 britons must take for me my ransom's death
 on either side i come to spend my breath
 which neither here i'll keep nor bear again
 but end it by some means for imogen
 enter two british captains and soldiers
first captain great jupiter be praised lucius is taken
 tis thought the old man and his sons were angels
second captain there was a fourth man in a silly habit
 that gave the affront with them
first captain so tis reported
 but none of em can be found stand who's there
posthumus leonatus a roman
 who had not now been drooping here if seconds
 had answer'd him
second captain lay hands on him a dog
 a leg of rome shall not return to tell
 what crows have peck'd them here he brags
 his service
 as if he were of note bring him to the king
 enter cymbeline belarius guiderius arviragus
 pisanio soldiers attendants and roman captives
 the captains present posthumus leonatus to
 cymbeline who delivers him over to a gaoler
 then exeunt omnes
 cymbeline
act v
scene iv a british prison
 enter posthumus leonatus and two gaolers
first gaoler you shall not now be stol'n you have locks upon you
 so graze as you find pasture
second gaoler ay or a stomach
 exeunt gaolers
posthumus leonatus most welcome bondage for thou art away
 think to liberty yet am i better
 than one that's sick o the gout since he had rather
 groan so in perpetuity than be cured
 by the sure physician death who is the key
 to unbar these locks my conscience thou art fetter'd
 more than my shanks and wrists you good gods give me
 the penitent instrument to pick that bolt
 then free for ever is't enough i am sorry
 so children temporal fathers do appease
 gods are more full of mercy must i repent
 i cannot do it better than in gyves
 desired more than constrain'd to satisfy
 if of my freedom tis the main part take
 no stricter render of me than my all
 i know you are more clement than vile men
 who of their broken debtors take a third
 a sixth a tenth letting them thrive again
 on their abatement that's not my desire
 for imogen's dear life take mine and though
 tis not so dear yet tis a life you coin'd it
 tween man and man they weigh not every stamp
 though light take pieces for the figure's sake
 you rather mine being yours and so great powers
 if you will take this audit take this life
 and cancel these cold bonds o imogen
 i'll speak to thee in silence
 sleeps
 solemn music enter as in an apparition
 sicilius leonatus father to posthumus leonatus
 an old man attired like a warrior leading in
 his hand an ancient matron his wife and mother
 to posthumus leonatus with music before them
 then after other music follow the two young
 leonati brothers to posthumus leonatus with
 wounds as they died in the wars they circle
 posthumus leonatus round as he lies sleeping
sicilius leonatus no more thou thundermaster show
 thy spite on mortal flies
 with mars fall out with juno chide
 that thy adulteries
 rates and revenges
 hath my poor boy done aught but well
 whose face i never saw
 i died whilst in the womb he stay'd
 attending nature's law
 whose father then as men report
 thou orphans father art
 thou shouldst have been and shielded him
 from this earthvexing smart
mother lucina lent not me her aid
 but took me in my throes
 that from me was posthumus ript
 came crying mongst his foes
 a thing of pity
sicilius leonatus great nature like his ancestry
 moulded the stuff so fair
 that he deserved the praise o the world
 as great sicilius heir
first brother when once he was mature for man
 in britain where was he
 that could stand up his parallel
 or fruitful object be
 in eye of imogen that best
 could deem his dignity
mother with marriage wherefore was he mock'd
 to be exiled and thrown
 from leonati seat and cast
 from her his dearest one
 sweet imogen
sicilius leonatus why did you suffer iachimo
 slight thing of italy
 to taint his nobler heart and brain
 with needless jealosy
 and to become the geck and scorn
 o th other's villany
second brother for this from stiller seats we came
 our parents and us twain
 that striking in our country's cause
 fell bravely and were slain
 our fealty and tenantius right
 with honour to maintain
first brother like hardiment posthumus hath
 to cymbeline perform'd
 then jupiter thou king of gods
 why hast thou thus adjourn'd
 the graces for his merits due
 being all to dolours turn'd
sicilius leonatus thy crystal window ope look out
 no longer exercise
 upon a valiant race thy harsh
 and potent injuries
mother since jupiter our son is good
 take off his miseries
sicilius leonatus peep through thy marble mansion help
 or we poor ghosts will cry
 to the shining synod of the rest
 against thy deity
first brother help jupiter or we appeal
 and from thy justice fly
second brother 
 jupiter descends in thunder and lightning sitting
 upon an eagle he throws a thunderbolt the
 apparitions fall on their knees
jupiter no more you petty spirits of region low
 offend our hearing hush how dare you ghosts
 accuse the thunderer whose bolt you know
 skyplanted batters all rebelling coasts
 poor shadows of elysium hence and rest
 upon your neverwithering banks of flowers
 be not with mortal accidents opprest
 no care of yours it is you know tis ours
 whom best i love i cross to make my gift
 the more delay'd delighted be content
 your lowlaid son our godhead will uplift
 his comforts thrive his trials well are spent
 our jovial star reign'd at his birth and in
 our temple was he married rise and fade
 he shall be lord of lady imogen
 and happier much by his affliction made
 this tablet lay upon his breast wherein
 our pleasure his full fortune doth confine
 and so away no further with your din
 express impatience lest you stir up mine
 mount eagle to my palace crystalline
 ascends
sicilius leonatus he came in thunder his celestial breath
 was sulphurous to smell the holy eagle
 stoop'd as to foot us his ascension is
 more sweet than our blest fields his royal bird
 prunes the immortal wing and cloys his beak
 as when his god is pleased
all thanks jupiter
sicilius leonatus the marble pavement closes he is enter'd
 his radiant root away and to be blest
 let us with care perform his great behest
 the apparitions vanish
posthumus leonatus waking sleep thou hast been a grandsire and begot
 a father to me and thou hast created
 a mother and two brothers but o scorn
 gone they went hence so soon as they were born
 and so i am awake poor wretches that depend
 on greatness favour dream as i have done
 wake and find nothing but alas i swerve
 many dream not to find neither deserve
 and yet are steep'd in favours so am i
 that have this golden chance and know not why
 what fairies haunt this ground a book o rare one
 be not as is our fangled world a garment
 nobler than that it covers let thy effects
 so follow to be most unlike our courtiers
 as good as promise
 reads
 when as a lion's whelp shall to himself unknown
 without seeking find and be embraced by a piece of
 tender air and when from a stately cedar shall be
 lopped branches which being dead many years
 shall after revive be jointed to the old stock and
 freshly grow then shall posthumus end his miseries
 britain be fortunate and flourish in peace and plenty'
 tis still a dream or else such stuff as madmen
 tongue and brain not either both or nothing
 or senseless speaking or a speaking such
 as sense cannot untie be what it is
 the action of my life is like it which
 i'll keep if but for sympathy
 reenter first gaoler
first gaoler come sir are you ready for death
posthumus leonatus overroasted rather ready long ago
first gaoler hanging is the word sir if
 you be ready for that you are well cooked
posthumus leonatus so if i prove a good repast to the
 spectators the dish pays the shot
first gaoler a heavy reckoning for you sir but the comfort is
 you shall be called to no more payments fear no
 more tavernbills which are often the sadness of
 parting as the procuring of mirth you come in
 flint for want of meat depart reeling with too
 much drink sorry that you have paid too much and
 sorry that you are paid too much purse and brain
 both empty the brain the heavier for being too
 light the purse too light being drawn of
 heaviness of this contradiction you shall now be
 quit o the charity of a penny cord it sums up
 thousands in a trice you have no true debitor and
 creditor but it of what's past is and to come
 the discharge your neck sir is pen book and
 counters so the acquittance follows
posthumus leonatus i am merrier to die than thou art to live
first gaoler indeed sir he that sleeps feels not the
 toothache but a man that were to sleep your
 sleep and a hangman to help him to bed i think he
 would change places with his officer for look you
 sir you know not which way you shall go
posthumus leonatus yes indeed do i fellow
first gaoler your death has eyes in s head then i have not seen
 him so pictured you must either be directed by
 some that take upon them to know or do take upon
 yourself that which i am sure you do not know or
 jump the after inquiry on your own peril and how
 you shall speed in your journey's end i think you'll
 never return to tell one
posthumus leonatus i tell thee fellow there are none want eyes to
 direct them the way i am going but such as wink and
 will not use them
first gaoler what an infinite mock is this that a man should
 have the best use of eyes to see the way of
 blindness i am sure hanging's the way of winking
 enter a messenger
messenger knock off his manacles bring your prisoner to the king
posthumus leonatus thou bring'st good news i am called to be made free
first gaoler i'll be hang'd then
posthumus leonatus thou shalt be then freer than a gaoler no bolts for the dead
 exeunt posthumus leonatus and messenger
first gaoler unless a man would marry a gallows and beget young
 gibbets i never saw one so prone yet on my
 conscience there are verier knaves desire to live
 for all he be a roman and there be some of them
 too that die against their wills so should i if i
 were one i would we were all of one mind and one
 mind good o there were desolation of gaolers and
 gallowses i speak against my present profit but
 my wish hath a preferment in t
 exeunt
 cymbeline
act v
scene v cymbeline's tent
 enter cymbeline belarius guiderius arviragus
 pisanio lords officers and attendants
cymbeline stand by my side you whom the gods have made
 preservers of my throne woe is my heart
 that the poor soldier that so richly fought
 whose rags shamed gilded arms whose naked breast
 stepp'd before larges of proof cannot be found
 he shall be happy that can find him if
 our grace can make him so
belarius i never saw
 such noble fury in so poor a thing
 such precious deeds in one that promises nought
 but beggary and poor looks
cymbeline no tidings of him
pisanio he hath been search'd among the dead and living
 but no trace of him
cymbeline to my grief i am
 the heir of his reward
 to belarius guiderius and arviragus
 which i will add
 to you the liver heart and brain of britain
 by whom i grant she lives tis now the time
 to ask of whence you are report it
belarius sir
 in cambria are we born and gentlemen
 further to boast were neither true nor modest
 unless i add we are honest
cymbeline bow your knees
 arise my knights o the battle i create you
 companions to our person and will fit you
 with dignities becoming your estates
 enter cornelius and ladies
 there's business in these faces why so sadly
 greet you our victory you look like romans
 and not o the court of britain
cornelius hail great king
 to sour your happiness i must report
 the queen is dead
cymbeline who worse than a physician
 would this report become but i consider
 by medicine life may be prolong'd yet death
 will seize the doctor too how ended she
cornelius with horror madly dying like her life
 which being cruel to the world concluded
 most cruel to herself what she confess'd
 i will report so please you these her women
 can trip me if i err who with wet cheeks
 were present when she finish'd
cymbeline prithee say
cornelius first she confess'd she never loved you only
 affected greatness got by you not you
 married your royalty was wife to your place
 abhorr'd your person
cymbeline she alone knew this
 and but she spoke it dying i would not
 believe her lips in opening it proceed
cornelius your daughter whom she bore in hand to love
 with such integrity she did confess
 was as a scorpion to her sight whose life
 but that her flight prevented it she had
 ta'en off by poison
cymbeline o most delicate fiend
 who is t can read a woman is there more
cornelius more sir and worse she did confess she had
 for you a mortal mineral which being took
 should by the minute feed on life and lingering
 by inches waste you in which time she purposed
 by watching weeping tendance kissing to
 o'ercome you with her show and in time
 when she had fitted you with her craft to work
 her son into the adoption of the crown
 but failing of her end by his strange absence
 grew shamelessdesperate open'd in despite
 of heaven and men her purposes repented
 the evils she hatch'd were not effected so
 despairing died
cymbeline heard you all this her women
first lady we did so please your highness
cymbeline mine eyes
 were not in fault for she was beautiful
 mine ears that heard her flattery nor my heart
 that thought her like her seeming it had
 been vicious
 to have mistrusted her yet o my daughter
 that it was folly in me thou mayst say
 and prove it in thy feeling heaven mend all
 enter lucius iachimo the soothsayer and other
 roman prisoners guarded posthumus leonatus
 behind and imogen
 thou comest not caius now for tribute that
 the britons have razed out though with the loss
 of many a bold one whose kinsmen have made suit
 that their good souls may be appeased with slaughter
 of you their captives which ourself have granted
 so think of your estate
caius lucius consider sir the chance of war the day
 was yours by accident had it gone with us
 we should not when the blood was cool
 have threaten'd
 our prisoners with the sword but since the gods
 will have it thus that nothing but our lives
 may be call'd ransom let it come sufficeth
 a roman with a roman's heart can suffer
 augustus lives to think on't and so much
 for my peculiar care this one thing only
 i will entreat my boy a briton born
 let him be ransom'd never master had
 a page so kind so duteous diligent
 so tender over his occasions true
 so feat so nurselike let his virtue join
 with my request which i make bold your highness
 cannot deny he hath done no briton harm
 though he have served a roman save him sir
 and spare no blood beside
cymbeline i have surely seen him
 his favour is familiar to me boy
 thou hast look'd thyself into my grace
 and art mine own i know not why wherefore
 to say live boy ne'er thank thy master live
 and ask of cymbeline what boon thou wilt
 fitting my bounty and thy state i'll give it
 yea though thou do demand a prisoner
 the noblest ta'en
imogen i humbly thank your highness
caius lucius i do not bid thee beg my life good lad
 and yet i know thou wilt
imogen no no alack
 there's other work in hand i see a thing
 bitter to me as death your life good master
 must shuffle for itself
caius lucius the boy disdains me
 he leaves me scorns me briefly die their joys
 that place them on the truth of girls and boys
 why stands he so perplex'd
cymbeline what wouldst thou boy
 i love thee more and more think more and more
 what's best to ask know'st him thou look'st on speak
 wilt have him live is he thy kin thy friend
imogen he is a roman no more kin to me
 than i to your highness who being born your vassal
 am something nearer
cymbeline wherefore eyest him so
imogen i'll tell you sir in private if you please
 to give me hearing
cymbeline ay with all my heart
 and lend my best attention what's thy name
imogen fidele sir
cymbeline thou'rt my good youth my page
 i'll be thy master walk with me speak freely
 cymbeline and imogen converse apart
belarius is not this boy revived from death
arviragus one sand another
 not more resembles that sweet rosy lad
 who died and was fidele what think you
guiderius the same dead thing alive
belarius peace peace see further he eyes us not forbear
 creatures may be alike were t he i am sure
 he would have spoke to us
guiderius but we saw him dead
belarius be silent let's see further
pisanio aside it is my mistress
 since she is living let the time run on
 to good or bad
 cymbeline and imogen come forward
cymbeline come stand thou by our side
 make thy demand aloud
 to iachimo
 sir step you forth
 give answer to this boy and do it freely
 or by our greatness and the grace of it
 which is our honour bitter torture shall
 winnow the truth from falsehood on speak to him
imogen my boon is that this gentleman may render
 of whom he had this ring
posthumus leonatus aside what's that to him
cymbeline that diamond upon your finger say
 how came it yours
iachimo thou'lt torture me to leave unspoken that
 which to be spoke would torture thee
cymbeline how me
iachimo i am glad to be constrain'd to utter that
 which torments me to conceal by villany
 i got this ring twas leonatus jewel
 whom thou didst banish andwhich more may
 grieve thee
 as it doth mea nobler sir ne'er lived
 twixt sky and ground wilt thou hear more my lord
cymbeline all that belongs to this
iachimo that paragon thy daughter
 for whom my heart drops blood and my false spirits
 quail to remembergive me leave i faint
cymbeline my daughter what of her renew thy strength
 i had rather thou shouldst live while nature will
 than die ere i hear more strive man and speak
iachimo upon a timeunhappy was the clock
 that struck the hourit was in romeaccursed
 the mansion where'twas at a feasto would
 our viands had been poison'd or at least
 those which i heaved to headthe good posthumus
 what should i say he was too good to be
 where ill men were and was the best of all
 amongst the rarest of good onessitting sadly
 hearing us praise our loves of italy
 for beauty that made barren the swell'd boast
 of him that best could speak for feature laming
 the shrine of venus or straightpight minerva
 postures beyond brief nature for condition
 a shop of all the qualities that man
 loves woman for besides that hook of wiving
 fairness which strikes the eye
cymbeline i stand on fire
 come to the matter
iachimo all too soon i shall
 unless thou wouldst grieve quickly this posthumus
 most like a noble lord in love and one
 that had a royal lover took his hint
 and not dispraising whom we praisedtherein
 he was as calm as virtuehe began
 his mistress picture which by his tongue
 being made
 and then a mind put in't either our brags
 were crack'd of kitchentrolls or his description
 proved us unspeaking sots
cymbeline nay nay to the purpose
iachimo your daughter's chastitythere it begins
 he spake of her as dian had hot dreams
 and she alone were cold whereat i wretch
 made scruple of his praise and wager'd with him
 pieces of gold gainst this which then he wore
 upon his honour'd finger to attain
 in suit the place of's bed and win this ring
 by hers and mine adultery he true knight
 no lesser of her honour confident
 than i did truly find her stakes this ring
 and would so had it been a carbuncle
 of phoebus wheel and might so safely had it
 been all the worth of's car away to britain
 post i in this design well may you sir
 remember me at court where i was taught
 of your chaste daughter the wide difference
 twixt amorous and villanous being thus quench'd
 of hope not longing mine italian brain
 gan in your duller britain operate
 most vilely for my vantage excellent
 and to be brief my practise so prevail'd
 that i return'd with simular proof enough
 to make the noble leonatus mad
 by wounding his belief in her renown
 with tokens thus and thus averting notes
 of chamberhanging pictures this her bracelet
 o cunning how i got itnay some marks
 of secret on her person that he could not
 but think her bond of chastity quite crack'd
 i having ta'en the forfeit whereupon
 methinks i see him now
posthumus leonatus advancing ay so thou dost
 italian fiend ay me most credulous fool
 egregious murderer thief any thing
 that's due to all the villains past in being
 to come o give me cord or knife or poison
 some upright justicer thou king send out
 for torturers ingenious it is i
 that all the abhorred things o the earth amend
 by being worse than they i am posthumus
 that kill'd thy daughtervillainlike i lie
 that caused a lesser villain than myself
 a sacrilegious thief to do't the temple
 of virtue was she yea and she herself
 spit and throw stones cast mire upon me set
 the dogs o the street to bay me every villain
 be call'd posthumus leonitus and
 be villany less than twas o imogen
 my queen my life my wife o imogen
 imogen imogen
imogen peace my lord hear hear
posthumus leonatus shall's have a play of this thou scornful page
 there lie thy part
 striking her she falls
pisanio o gentlemen help
 mine and your mistress o my lord posthumus
 you ne'er kill'd imogen til now help help
 mine honour'd lady
cymbeline does the world go round
posthumus leonatus how come these staggers on me
pisanio wake my mistress
cymbeline if this be so the gods do mean to strike me
 to death with mortal joy
pisanio how fares thy mistress
imogen o get thee from my sight
 thou gavest me poison dangerous fellow hence
 breathe not where princes are
cymbeline the tune of imogen
pisanio lady
 the gods throw stones of sulphur on me if
 that box i gave you was not thought by me
 a precious thing i had it from the queen
cymbeline new matter still
imogen it poison'd me
cornelius o gods
 i left out one thing which the queen confess'd
 which must approve thee honest if pisanio
 have said she given his mistress that confection
 which i gave him for cordial she is served
 as i would serve a rat'
cymbeline what's this comelius
cornelius the queen sir very oft importuned me
 to temper poisons for her still pretending
 the satisfaction of her knowledge only
 in killing creatures vile as cats and dogs
 of no esteem i dreading that her purpose
 was of more danger did compound for her
 a certain stuff which being ta'en would cease
 the present power of life but in short time
 all offices of nature should again
 do their due functions have you ta'en of it
imogen most like i did for i was dead
belarius my boys
 there was our error
guiderius this is sure fidele
imogen why did you throw your wedded lady from you
 think that you are upon a rock and now
 throw me again
 embracing him
posthumus leonatus hang there like a fruit my soul
 till the tree die
cymbeline how now my flesh my child
 what makest thou me a dullard in this act
 wilt thou not speak to me
imogen kneeling your blessing sir
belarius to guiderius and arviragus though you did love
 this youth i blame ye not
 you had a motive for't
cymbeline my tears that fall
 prove holy water on thee imogen
 thy mother's dead
imogen i am sorry for't my lord
cymbeline o she was nought and long of her it was
 that we meet here so strangely but her son
 is gone we know not how nor where
pisanio my lord
 now fear is from me i'll speak troth lord cloten
 upon my lady's missing came to me
 with his sword drawn foam'd at the mouth and swore
 if i discover'd not which way she was gone
 it was my instant death by accident
 had a feigned letter of my master's
 then in my pocket which directed him
 to seek her on the mountains near to milford
 where in a frenzy in my master's garments
 which he enforced from me away he posts
 with unchaste purpose and with oath to violate
 my lady's honour what became of him
 i further know not
guiderius let me end the story
 i slew him there
cymbeline marry the gods forfend
 i would not thy good deeds should from my lips
 pluck a bard sentence prithee valiant youth
 deny't again
guiderius i have spoke it and i did it
cymbeline he was a prince
guiderius a most incivil one the wrongs he did me
 were nothing princelike for he did provoke me
 with language that would make me spurn the sea
 if it could so roar to me i cut off's head
 and am right glad he is not standing here
 to tell this tale of mine
cymbeline i am sorry for thee
 by thine own tongue thou art condemn'd and must
 endure our law thou'rt dead
imogen that headless man
 i thought had been my lord
cymbeline bind the offender
 and take him from our presence
belarius stay sir king
 this man is better than the man he slew
 as well descended as thyself and hath
 more of thee merited than a band of clotens
 had ever scar for
 to the guard
 let his arms alone
 they were not born for bondage
cymbeline why old soldier
 wilt thou undo the worth thou art unpaid for
 by tasting of our wrath how of descent
 as good as we
arviragus in that he spake too far
cymbeline and thou shalt die for't
belarius we will die all three
 but i will prove that two on's are as good
 as i have given out him my sons i must
 for mine own part unfold a dangerous speech
 though haply well for you
arviragus your danger's ours
guiderius and our good his
belarius have at it then by leave
 thou hadst great king a subject who
 was call'd belarius
cymbeline what of him he is
 a banish'd traitor
belarius he it is that hath
 assumed this age indeed a banish'd man
 i know not how a traitor
cymbeline take him hence
 the whole world shall not save him
belarius not too hot
 first pay me for the nursing of thy sons
 and let it be confiscate all so soon
 as i have received it
cymbeline nursing of my sons
belarius i am too blunt and saucy here's my knee
 ere i arise i will prefer my sons
 then spare not the old father mighty sir
 these two young gentlemen that call me father
 and think they are my sons are none of mine
 they are the issue of your loins my liege
 and blood of your begetting
cymbeline how my issue
belarius so sure as you your father's i old morgan
 am that belarius whom you sometime banish'd
 your pleasure was my mere offence my punishment
 itself and all my treason that i suffer'd
 was all the harm i did these gentle princes
 for such and so they arethese twenty years
 have i train'd up those arts they have as i
 could put into them my breeding was sir as
 your highness knows their nurse euriphile
 whom for the theft i wedded stole these children
 upon my banishment i moved her to't
 having received the punishment before
 for that which i did then beaten for loyalty
 excited me to treason their dear loss
 the more of you twas felt the more it shaped
 unto my end of stealing them but gracious sir
 here are your sons again and i must lose
 two of the sweet'st companions in the world
 the benediction of these covering heavens
 fall on their heads like dew for they are worthy
 to inlay heaven with stars
cymbeline thou weep'st and speak'st
 the service that you three have done is more
 unlike than this thou tell'st i lost my children
 if these be they i know not how to wish
 a pair of worthier sons
belarius be pleased awhile
 this gentleman whom i call polydore
 most worthy prince as yours is true guiderius
 this gentleman my cadwal arviragus
 your younger princely son he sir was lapp'd
 in a most curious mantle wrought by the hand
 of his queen mother which for more probation
 i can with ease produce
cymbeline guiderius had
 upon his neck a mole a sanguine star
 it was a mark of wonder
belarius this is he
 who hath upon him still that natural stamp
 it was wise nature's end in the donation
 to be his evidence now
cymbeline o what am i
 a mother to the birth of three ne'er mother
 rejoiced deliverance more blest pray you be
 that after this strange starting from your orbs
 may reign in them now o imogen
 thou hast lost by this a kingdom
imogen no my lord
 i have got two worlds by t o my gentle brothers
 have we thus met o never say hereafter
 but i am truest speaker you call'd me brother
 when i was but your sister i you brothers
 when ye were so indeed
cymbeline did you e'er meet
arviragus ay my good lord
guiderius and at first meeting loved
 continued so until we thought he died
cornelius by the queen's dram she swallow'd
cymbeline o rare instinct
 when shall i hear all through this fierce
 abridgement
 hath to it circumstantial branches which
 distinction should be rich in where how lived you
 and when came you to serve our roman captive
 how parted with your brothers how first met them
 why fled you from the court and whither these
 and your three motives to the battle with
 i know not how much more should be demanded
 and all the other bydependencies
 from chance to chance but nor the time nor place
 will serve our long inter'gatories see
 posthumus anchors upon imogen
 and she like harmless lightning throws her eye
 on him her brother me her master hitting
 each object with a joy the counterchange
 is severally in all let's quit this ground
 and smoke the temple with our sacrifices
 to belarius
 thou art my brother so we'll hold thee ever
imogen you are my father too and did relieve me
 to see this gracious season
cymbeline all o'erjoy'd
 save these in bonds let them be joyful too
 for they shall taste our comfort
imogen my good master
 i will yet do you service
caius lucius happy be you
cymbeline the forlorn soldier that so nobly fought
 he would have well becomed this place and graced
 the thankings of a king
posthumus leonatus i am sir
 the soldier that did company these three
 in poor beseeming twas a fitment for
 the purpose i then follow'd that i was he
 speak iachimo i had you down and might
 have made you finish
iachimo kneeling i am down again
 but now my heavy conscience sinks my knee
 as then your force did take that life beseech you
 which i so often owe but your ring first
 and here the bracelet of the truest princess
 that ever swore her faith
posthumus leonatus kneel not to me
 the power that i have on you is to spare you
 the malice towards you to forgive you live
 and deal with others better
cymbeline nobly doom'd
 we'll learn our freeness of a soninlaw
 pardon's the word to all
arviragus you holp us sir
 as you did mean indeed to be our brother
 joy'd are we that you are
posthumus leonatus your servant princes good my lord of rome
 call forth your soothsayer as i slept methought
 great jupiter upon his eagle back'd
 appear'd to me with other spritely shows
 of mine own kindred when i waked i found
 this label on my bosom whose containing
 is so from sense in hardness that i can
 make no collection of it let him show
 his skill in the construction
caius lucius philarmonus
soothsayer here my good lord
caius lucius read and declare the meaning
soothsayer reads when as a lion's whelp shall to himself
 unknown without seeking find and be embraced by a
 piece of tender air and when from a stately cedar
 shall be lopped branches which being dead many
 years shall after revive be jointed to the old
 stock and freshly grow then shall posthumus end
 his miseries britain be fortunate and flourish in
 peace and plenty'
 thou leonatus art the lion's whelp
 the fit and apt construction of thy name
 being leonatus doth import so much
 to cymbeline
 the piece of tender air thy virtuous daughter
 which we call mollis aer and mollis aer'
 we term it mulier which mulier i divine
 is this most constant wife who even now
 answering the letter of the oracle
 unknown to you unsought were clipp'd about
 with this most tender air
cymbeline this hath some seeming
soothsayer the lofty cedar royal cymbeline
 personates thee and thy lopp'd branches point
 thy two sons forth who by belarius stol'n
 for many years thought dead are now revived
 to the majestic cedar join'd whose issue
 promises britain peace and plenty
cymbeline well
 my peace we will begin and caius lucius
 although the victor we submit to caesar
 and to the roman empire promising
 to pay our wonted tribute from the which
 we were dissuaded by our wicked queen
 whom heavens in justice both on her and hers
 have laid most heavy hand
soothsayer the fingers of the powers above do tune
 the harmony of this peace the vision
 which i made known to lucius ere the stroke
 of this yet scarcecold battle at this instant
 is full accomplish'd for the roman eagle
 from south to west on wing soaring aloft
 lessen'd herself and in the beams o the sun
 so vanish'd which foreshow'd our princely eagle
 the imperial caesar should again unite
 his favour with the radiant cymbeline
 which shines here in the west
cymbeline laud we the gods
 and let our crooked smokes climb to their nostrils
 from our blest altars publish we this peace
 to all our subjects set we forward let
 a roman and a british ensign wave
 friendly together so through lud'stown march
 and in the temple of great jupiter
 our peace we'll ratify seal it with feasts
 set on there never was a war did cease
 ere bloody hands were wash'd with such a peace
 exeunt
 love's labour's lost
 dramatis personae
ferdinand king of navarre
biron 
 
longaville lords attending on the king
 
dumain 
boyet 
 lords attending on the princess of france
mercade 
don
adriano de armado a fantastical spaniard
sir nathaniel a curate
holofernes a schoolmaster
dull a constable
costard a clown
moth page to armado
 a forester
 the princess of france princess
rosaline 
 
maria ladies attending on the princess
 
katharine 
jaquenetta a country wench
 lords attendants &c
 first lord
scene navarre
 love's labours lost
act i
scene i the king of navarre's park
 enter ferdinand king of navarre biron longaville
 and dumain
ferdinand let fame that all hunt after in their lives
 live register'd upon our brazen tombs
 and then grace us in the disgrace of death
 when spite of cormorant devouring time
 the endeavor of this present breath may buy
 that honour which shall bate his scythe's keen edge
 and make us heirs of all eternity
 therefore brave conquerorsfor so you are
 that war against your own affections
 and the huge army of the world's desires
 our late edict shall strongly stand in force
 navarre shall be the wonder of the world
 our court shall be a little academe
 still and contemplative in living art
 you three biron dumain and longaville
 have sworn for three years term to live with me
 my fellowscholars and to keep those statutes
 that are recorded in this schedule here
 your oaths are pass'd and now subscribe your names
 that his own hand may strike his honour down
 that violates the smallest branch herein
 if you are arm'd to do as sworn to do
 subscribe to your deep oaths and keep it too
longaville i am resolved tis but a three years fast
 the mind shall banquet though the body pine
 fat paunches have lean pates and dainty bits
 make rich the ribs but bankrupt quite the wits
dumain my loving lord dumain is mortified
 the grosser manner of these world's delights
 he throws upon the gross world's baser slaves
 to love to wealth to pomp i pine and die
 with all these living in philosophy
biron i can but say their protestation over
 so much dear liege i have already sworn
 that is to live and study here three years
 but there are other strict observances
 as not to see a woman in that term
 which i hope well is not enrolled there
 and one day in a week to touch no food
 and but one meal on every day beside
 the which i hope is not enrolled there
 and then to sleep but three hours in the night
 and not be seen to wink of all the day
 when i was wont to think no harm all night
 and make a dark night too of half the day
 which i hope well is not enrolled there
 o these are barren tasks too hard to keep
 not to see ladies study fast not sleep
ferdinand your oath is pass'd to pass away from these
biron let me say no my liege an if you please
 i only swore to study with your grace
 and stay here in your court for three years space
longaville you swore to that biron and to the rest
biron by yea and nay sir then i swore in jest
 what is the end of study let me know
ferdinand why that to know which else we should not know
biron things hid and barr'd you mean from common sense
ferdinand ay that is study's godlike recompense
biron come on then i will swear to study so
 to know the thing i am forbid to know
 as thusto study where i well may dine
 when i to feast expressly am forbid
 or study where to meet some mistress fine
 when mistresses from common sense are hid
 or having sworn too hard a keeping oath
 study to break it and not break my troth
 if study's gain be thus and this be so
 study knows that which yet it doth not know
 swear me to this and i will ne'er say no
ferdinand these be the stops that hinder study quite
 and train our intellects to vain delight
biron why all delights are vain but that most vain
 which with pain purchased doth inherit pain
 as painfully to pore upon a book
 to seek the light of truth while truth the while
 doth falsely blind the eyesight of his look
 light seeking light doth light of light beguile
 so ere you find where light in darkness lies
 your light grows dark by losing of your eyes
 study me how to please the eye indeed
 by fixing it upon a fairer eye
 who dazzling so that eye shall be his heed
 and give him light that it was blinded by
 study is like the heaven's glorious sun
 that will not be deepsearch'd with saucy looks
 small have continual plodders ever won
 save base authority from others books
 these earthly godfathers of heaven's lights
 that give a name to every fixed star
 have no more profit of their shining nights
 than those that walk and wot not what they are
 too much to know is to know nought but fame
 and every godfather can give a name
ferdinand how well he's read to reason against reading
dumain proceeded well to stop all good proceeding
longaville he weeds the corn and still lets grow the weeding
biron the spring is near when green geese are abreeding
dumain how follows that
biron fit in his place and time
dumain in reason nothing
biron something then in rhyme
ferdinand biron is like an envious sneaping frost
 that bites the firstborn infants of the spring
biron well say i am why should proud summer boast
 before the birds have any cause to sing
 why should i joy in any abortive birth
 at christmas i no more desire a rose
 than wish a snow in may's newfangled mirth
 but like of each thing that in season grows
 so you to study now it is too late
 climb o'er the house to unlock the little gate
ferdinand well sit you out go home biron adieu
biron no my good lord i have sworn to stay with you
 and though i have for barbarism spoke more
 than for that angel knowledge you can say
 yet confident i'll keep what i have swore
 and bide the penance of each three years day
 give me the paper let me read the same
 and to the strict'st decrees i'll write my name
ferdinand how well this yielding rescues thee from shame
biron reads item that no woman shall come within a
 mile of my court hath this been proclaimed
longaville four days ago
biron let's see the penalty
 reads
 on pain of losing her tongue who devised this penalty
longaville marry that did i
biron sweet lord and why
longaville to fright them hence with that dread penalty
biron a dangerous law against gentility
 reads
 item if any man be seen to talk with a woman
 within the term of three years he shall endure such
 public shame as the rest of the court can possibly devise'
 this article my liege yourself must break
 for well you know here comes in embassy
 the french king's daughter with yourself to speak
 a maid of grace and complete majesty
 about surrender up of aquitaine
 to her decrepit sick and bedrid father
 therefore this article is made in vain
 or vainly comes the admired princess hither
ferdinand what say you lords why this was quite forgot
biron so study evermore is overshot
 while it doth study to have what it would
 it doth forget to do the thing it should
 and when it hath the thing it hunteth most
 tis won as towns with fire so won so lost
ferdinand we must of force dispense with this decree
 she must lie here on mere necessity
biron necessity will make us all forsworn
 three thousand times within this three years space
 for every man with his affects is born
 not by might master'd but by special grace
 if i break faith this word shall speak for me
 i am forsworn on mere necessity'
 so to the laws at large i write my name
 subscribes
 and he that breaks them in the least degree
 stands in attainder of eternal shame
 suggestions are to other as to me
 but i believe although i seem so loath
 i am the last that will last keep his oath
 but is there no quick recreation granted
ferdinand ay that there is our court you know is haunted
 with a refined traveller of spain
 a man in all the world's new fashion planted
 that hath a mint of phrases in his brain
 one whom the music of his own vain tongue
 doth ravish like enchanting harmony
 a man of complements whom right and wrong
 have chose as umpire of their mutiny
 this child of fancy that armado hight
 for interim to our studies shall relate
 in highborn words the worth of many a knight
 from tawny spain lost in the world's debate
 how you delight my lords i know not i
 but i protest i love to hear him lie
 and i will use him for my minstrelsy
biron armado is a most illustrious wight
 a man of firenew words fashion's own knight
longaville costard the swain and he shall be our sport
 and so to study three years is but short
 enter dull with a letter and costard
dull which is the duke's own person
biron this fellow what wouldst
dull i myself reprehend his own person for i am his
 grace's tharborough but i would see his own person
 in flesh and blood
biron this is he
dull signior armearmecommends you there's villany
 abroad this letter will tell you more
costard sir the contempts thereof are as touching me
ferdinand a letter from the magnificent armado
biron how low soever the matter i hope in god for high words
longaville a high hope for a low heaven god grant us patience
biron to hear or forbear laughing
longaville to hear meekly sir and to laugh moderately or to
 forbear both
biron well sir be it as the style shall give us cause to
 climb in the merriness
costard the matter is to me sir as concerning jaquenetta
 the manner of it is i was taken with the manner
biron in what manner
costard in manner and form following sir all those three
 i was seen with her in the manorhouse sitting with
 her upon the form and taken following her into the
 park which put together is in manner and form
 following now sir for the mannerit is the
 manner of a man to speak to a woman for the form
 in some form
biron for the following sir
costard as it shall follow in my correction and god defend
 the right
ferdinand will you hear this letter with attention
biron as we would hear an oracle
costard such is the simplicity of man to hearken after the flesh
ferdinand reads great deputy the welkin's vicegerent and
 sole dominator of navarre my soul's earth's god
 and body's fostering patron'
costard not a word of costard yet
ferdinand reads so it is'
costard it may be so but if he say it is so he is in
 telling true but so
ferdinand peace
costard be to me and every man that dares not fight
ferdinand no words
costard of other men's secrets i beseech you
ferdinand reads so it is besieged with sablecoloured
 melancholy i did commend the blackoppressing humour
 to the most wholesome physic of thy healthgiving
 air and as i am a gentleman betook myself to
 walk the time when about the sixth hour when
 beasts most graze birds best peck and men sit down
 to that nourishment which is called supper so much
 for the time when now for the ground which which
 i mean i walked upon it is ycleped thy park then
 for the place where where i mean i did encounter
 that obscene and preposterous event that draweth
 from my snowwhite pen the eboncoloured ink which
 here thou viewest beholdest surveyest or seest
 but to the place where it standeth northnortheast
 and by east from the west corner of thy curious
 knotted garden there did i see that lowspirited
 swain that base minnow of thy mirth'
costard me
ferdinand reads that unlettered smallknowing soul'
costard me
ferdinand reads that shallow vassal'
costard still me
ferdinand reads which as i remember hight costard'
costard o me
ferdinand reads sorted and consorted contrary to thy
 established proclaimed edict and continent canon
 which witho withbut with this i passion to say
 wherewith
costard with a wench
ferdinand reads with a child of our grandmother eve a
 female or for thy more sweet understanding a
 woman him i as my everesteemed duty pricks me on
 have sent to thee to receive the meed of
 punishment by thy sweet grace's officer anthony
 dull a man of good repute carriage bearing and
 estimation'
dull me an't shall please you i am anthony dull
ferdinand reads for jaquenettaso is the weaker vessel
 called which i apprehended with the aforesaid
 swaini keep her as a vessel of the law's fury
 and shall at the least of thy sweet notice bring
 her to trial thine in all compliments of devoted
 and heartburning heat of duty
 don adriano de armado'
biron this is not so well as i looked for but the best
 that ever i heard
ferdinand ay the best for the worst but sirrah what say
 you to this
costard sir i confess the wench
ferdinand did you hear the proclamation
costard i do confess much of the hearing it but little of
 the marking of it
ferdinand it was proclaimed a year's imprisonment to be taken
 with a wench
costard i was taken with none sir i was taken with a damsel
ferdinand well it was proclaimed damsel'
costard this was no damsel neither sir she was a virgin
ferdinand it is so varied too for it was proclaimed virgin'
costard if it were i deny her virginity i was taken with a maid
ferdinand this maid will not serve your turn sir
costard this maid will serve my turn sir
ferdinand sir i will pronounce your sentence you shall fast
 a week with bran and water
costard i had rather pray a month with mutton and porridge
ferdinand and don armado shall be your keeper
 my lord biron see him deliver'd o'er
 and go we lords to put in practise that
 which each to other hath so strongly sworn
 exeunt ferdinand longaville and dumain
biron i'll lay my head to any good man's hat
 these oaths and laws will prove an idle scorn
 sirrah come on
costard i suffer for the truth sir for true it is i was
 taken with jaquenetta and jaquenetta is a true
 girl and therefore welcome the sour cup of
 prosperity affliction may one day smile again and
 till then sit thee down sorrow
 exeunt
 love's labours lost
act i
scene ii the same
 enter don adriano de armado and moth
don
adriano de armado boy what sign is it when a man of great spirit
 grows melancholy
moth a great sign sir that he will look sad
don
adriano de armado why sadness is one and the selfsame thing dear imp
moth no no o lord sir no
don
adriano de armado how canst thou part sadness and melancholy my
 tender juvenal
moth by a familiar demonstration of the working my tough senior
don
adriano de armado why tough senior why tough senior
moth why tender juvenal why tender juvenal
don
adriano de armado i spoke it tender juvenal as a congruent epitheton
 appertaining to thy young days which we may
 nominate tender
moth and i tough senior as an appertinent title to your
 old time which we may name tough
don adriano de
armado pretty and apt
moth how mean you sir i pretty and my saying apt or
 i apt and my saying pretty
don
adriano de armado thou pretty because little
moth little pretty because little wherefore apt
don
adriano de armado and therefore apt because quick
moth speak you this in my praise master
don
adriano de armado in thy condign praise
moth i will praise an eel with the same praise
don
adriano de armado what that an eel is ingenious
moth that an eel is quick
don
adriano de armado i do say thou art quick in answers thou heatest my blood
moth i am answered sir
don
adriano de armado i love not to be crossed
moth aside he speaks the mere contrary crosses love not him
don
adriano de armado i have promised to study three years with the duke
moth you may do it in an hour sir
don
adriano de armado impossible
moth how many is one thrice told
don
adriano de armado i am ill at reckoning it fitteth the spirit of a tapster
moth you are a gentleman and a gamester sir
don
adriano de armado i confess both they are both the varnish of a
 complete man
moth then i am sure you know how much the gross sum of
 deuceace amounts to
don
adriano de armado it doth amount to one more than two
moth which the base vulgar do call three
don
adriano de armado true
moth why sir is this such a piece of study now here
 is three studied ere ye'll thrice wink and how
 easy it is to put years to the word three and
 study three years in two words the dancing horse
 will tell you
don
adriano de armado a most fine figure
moth to prove you a cipher
don
adriano de armado i will hereupon confess i am in love and as it is
 base for a soldier to love so am i in love with a
 base wench if drawing my sword against the humour
 of affection would deliver me from the reprobate
 thought of it i would take desire prisoner and
 ransom him to any french courtier for a newdevised
 courtesy i think scorn to sigh methinks i should
 outswear cupid comfort me boy what great men
 have been in love
moth hercules master
don
adriano de armado most sweet hercules more authority dear boy name
 more and sweet my child let them be men of good
 repute and carriage
moth samson master he was a man of good carriage great
 carriage for he carried the towngates on his back
 like a porter and he was in love
don
adriano de armado o wellknit samson strongjointed samson i do
 excel thee in my rapier as much as thou didst me in
 carrying gates i am in love too who was samson's
 love my dear moth
moth a woman master
don
adriano de armado of what complexion
moth of all the four or the three or the two or one of the four
don
adriano de armado tell me precisely of what complexion
moth of the seawater green sir
don
adriano de armado is that one of the four complexions
moth as i have read sir and the best of them too
don
adriano de armado green indeed is the colour of lovers but to have a
 love of that colour methinks samson had small reason
 for it he surely affected her for her wit
moth it was so sir for she had a green wit
don
adriano de armado my love is most immaculate white and red
moth most maculate thoughts master are masked under
 such colours
don
adriano de armado define define welleducated infant
moth my father's wit and my mother's tongue assist me
don
adriano de armado sweet invocation of a child most pretty and
 pathetical
moth if she be made of white and red
 her faults will ne'er be known
 for blushing cheeks by faults are bred
 and fears by pale white shown
 then if she fear or be to blame
 by this you shall not know
 for still her cheeks possess the same
 which native she doth owe
 a dangerous rhyme master against the reason of
 white and red
don
adriano de armado is there not a ballad boy of the king and the beggar
moth the world was very guilty of such a ballad some
 three ages since but i think now tis not to be
 found or if it were it would neither serve for
 the writing nor the tune
don
adriano de armado i will have that subject newly writ o'er that i may
 example my digression by some mighty precedent
 boy i do love that country girl that i took in the
 park with the rational hind costard she deserves well
moth aside to be whipped and yet a better love than
 my master
don
adriano de armado sing boy my spirit grows heavy in love
moth and that's great marvel loving a light wench
don
adriano de armado i say sing
moth forbear till this company be past
 enter dull costard and jaquenetta
dull sir the duke's pleasure is that you keep costard
 safe and you must suffer him to take no delight
 nor no penance but a must fast three days a week
 for this damsel i must keep her at the park she
 is allowed for the daywoman fare you well
don
adriano de armado i do betray myself with blushing maid
jaquenetta man
don
adriano de armado i will visit thee at the lodge
jaquenetta that's hereby
don
adriano de armado i know where it is situate
jaquenetta lord how wise you are
don
adriano de armado i will tell thee wonders
jaquenetta with that face
don
adriano de armado i love thee
jaquenetta so i heard you say
don
adriano de armado and so farewell
jaquenetta fair weather after you
dull come jaquenetta away
 exeunt dull and jaquenetta
don
adriano de armado villain thou shalt fast for thy offences ere thou
 be pardoned
costard well sir i hope when i do it i shall do it on a
 full stomach
don
adriano de armado thou shalt be heavily punished
costard i am more bound to you than your fellows for they
 are but lightly rewarded
don
adriano de armado take away this villain shut him up
moth come you transgressing slave away
costard let me not be pent up sir i will fast being loose
moth no sir that were fast and loose thou shalt to prison
costard well if ever i do see the merry days of desolation
 that i have seen some shall see
moth what shall some see
costard nay nothing master moth but what they look upon
 it is not for prisoners to be too silent in their
 words and therefore i will say nothing i thank
 god i have as little patience as another man and
 therefore i can be quiet
 exeunt moth and costard
don
adriano de armado i do affect the very ground which is base where
 her shoe which is baser guided by her foot which
 is basest doth tread i shall be forsworn which
 is a great argument of falsehood if i love and
 how can that be true love which is falsely
 attempted love is a familiar love is a devil
 there is no evil angel but love yet was samson so
 tempted and he had an excellent strength yet was
 solomon so seduced and he had a very good wit
 cupid's buttshaft is too hard for hercules club
 and therefore too much odds for a spaniard's rapier
 the first and second cause will not serve my turn
 the passado he respects not the duello he regards
 not his disgrace is to be called boy but his
 glory is to subdue men adieu valour rust rapier
 be still drum for your manager is in love yea
 he loveth assist me some extemporal god of rhyme
 for i am sure i shall turn sonnet devise wit
 write pen for i am for whole volumes in folio
 exit
 love's labours lost
act ii
scene i the same
 enter the princess of france rosaline maria
 katharine boyet lords and other attendants
boyet now madam summon up your dearest spirits
 consider who the king your father sends
 to whom he sends and what's his embassy
 yourself held precious in the world's esteem
 to parley with the sole inheritor
 of all perfections that a man may owe
 matchless navarre the plea of no less weight
 than aquitaine a dowry for a queen
 be now as prodigal of all dear grace
 as nature was in making graces dear
 when she did starve the general world beside
 and prodigally gave them all to you
princess good lord boyet my beauty though but mean
 needs not the painted flourish of your praise
 beauty is bought by judgement of the eye
 not utter'd by base sale of chapmen's tongues
 i am less proud to hear you tell my worth
 than you much willing to be counted wise
 in spending your wit in the praise of mine
 but now to task the tasker good boyet
 you are not ignorant alltelling fame
 doth noise abroad navarre hath made a vow
 till painful study shall outwear three years
 no woman may approach his silent court
 therefore to's seemeth it a needful course
 before we enter his forbidden gates
 to know his pleasure and in that behalf
 bold of your worthiness we single you
 as our bestmoving fair solicitor
 tell him the daughter of the king of france
 on serious business craving quick dispatch
 importunes personal conference with his grace
 haste signify so much while we attend
 like humblevisaged suitors his high will
boyet proud of employment willingly i go
princess all pride is willing pride and yours is so
 exit boyet
 who are the votaries my loving lords
 that are vowfellows with this virtuous duke
first lord lord longaville is one
princess know you the man
maria i know him madam at a marriagefeast
 between lord perigort and the beauteous heir
 of jaques falconbridge solemnized
 in normandy saw i this longaville
 a man of sovereign parts he is esteem'd
 well fitted in arts glorious in arms
 nothing becomes him ill that he would well
 the only soil of his fair virtue's gloss
 if virtue's gloss will stain with any soil
 is a sharp wit matched with too blunt a will
 whose edge hath power to cut whose will still wills
 it should none spare that come within his power
princess some merry mocking lord belike is't so
maria they say so most that most his humours know
princess such shortlived wits do wither as they grow
 who are the rest
katharine the young dumain a wellaccomplished youth
 of all that virtue love for virtue loved
 most power to do most harm least knowing ill
 for he hath wit to make an ill shape good
 and shape to win grace though he had no wit
 i saw him at the duke alencon's once
 and much too little of that good i saw
 is my report to his great worthiness
rosaline another of these students at that time
 was there with him if i have heard a truth
 biron they call him but a merrier man
 within the limit of becoming mirth
 i never spent an hour's talk withal
 his eye begets occasion for his wit
 for every object that the one doth catch
 the other turns to a mirthmoving jest
 which his fair tongue conceit's expositor
 delivers in such apt and gracious words
 that aged ears play truant at his tales
 and younger hearings are quite ravished
 so sweet and voluble is his discourse
princess god bless my ladies are they all in love
 that every one her own hath garnished
 with such bedecking ornaments of praise
first lord here comes boyet
 reenter boyet
princess now what admittance lord
boyet navarre had notice of your fair approach
 and he and his competitors in oath
 were all address'd to meet you gentle lady
 before i came marry thus much i have learnt
 he rather means to lodge you in the field
 like one that comes here to besiege his court
 than seek a dispensation for his oath
 to let you enter his unpeopled house
 here comes navarre
 enter ferdinand longaville dumain biron and
 attendants
ferdinand fair princess welcome to the court of navarre
princess fair i give you back again and welcome i have
 not yet the roof of this court is too high to be
 yours and welcome to the wide fields too base to be mine
ferdinand you shall be welcome madam to my court
princess i will be welcome then conduct me thither
ferdinand hear me dear lady i have sworn an oath
princess our lady help my lord he'll be forsworn
ferdinand not for the world fair madam by my will
princess why will shall break it will and nothing else
ferdinand your ladyship is ignorant what it is
princess were my lord so his ignorance were wise
 where now his knowledge must prove ignorance
 i hear your grace hath sworn out housekeeping
 tis deadly sin to keep that oath my lord
 and sin to break it
 but pardon me i am too suddenbold
 to teach a teacher ill beseemeth me
 vouchsafe to read the purpose of my coming
 and suddenly resolve me in my suit
ferdinand madam i will if suddenly i may
princess you will the sooner that i were away
 for you'll prove perjured if you make me stay
biron did not i dance with you in brabant once
rosaline did not i dance with you in brabant once
biron i know you did
rosaline how needless was it then to ask the question
biron you must not be so quick
rosaline tis long of you that spur me with such questions
biron your wit's too hot it speeds too fast twill tire
rosaline not till it leave the rider in the mire
biron what time o day
rosaline the hour that fools should ask
biron now fair befall your mask
rosaline fair fall the face it covers
biron and send you many lovers
rosaline amen so you be none
biron nay then will i be gone
ferdinand madam your father here doth intimate
 the payment of a hundred thousand crowns
 being but the one half of an entire sum
 disbursed by my father in his wars
 but say that he or we as neither have
 received that sum yet there remains unpaid
 a hundred thousand more in surety of the which
 one part of aquitaine is bound to us
 although not valued to the money's worth
 if then the king your father will restore
 but that one half which is unsatisfied
 we will give up our right in aquitaine
 and hold fair friendship with his majesty
 but that it seems he little purposeth
 for here he doth demand to have repaid
 a hundred thousand crowns and not demands
 on payment of a hundred thousand crowns
 to have his title live in aquitaine
 which we much rather had depart withal
 and have the money by our father lent
 than aquitaine so gelded as it is
 dear princess were not his requests so far
 from reason's yielding your fair self should make
 a yielding gainst some reason in my breast
 and go well satisfied to france again
princess you do the king my father too much wrong
 and wrong the reputation of your name
 in so unseeming to confess receipt
 of that which hath so faithfully been paid
ferdinand i do protest i never heard of it
 and if you prove it i'll repay it back
 or yield up aquitaine
princess we arrest your word
 boyet you can produce acquittances
 for such a sum from special officers
 of charles his father
ferdinand satisfy me so
boyet so please your grace the packet is not come
 where that and other specialties are bound
 tomorrow you shall have a sight of them
ferdinand it shall suffice me at which interview
 all liberal reason i will yield unto
 meantime receive such welcome at my hand
 as honour without breach of honour may
 make tender of to thy true worthiness
 you may not come fair princess in my gates
 but here without you shall be so received
 as you shall deem yourself lodged in my heart
 though so denied fair harbour in my house
 your own good thoughts excuse me and farewell
 tomorrow shall we visit you again
princess sweet health and fair desires consort your grace
ferdinand thy own wish wish i thee in every place
 exit
biron lady i will commend you to mine own heart
rosaline pray you do my commendations i would be glad to see it
biron i would you heard it groan
rosaline is the fool sick
biron sick at the heart
rosaline alack let it blood
biron would that do it good
rosaline my physic says ay'
biron will you prick't with your eye
rosaline no point with my knife
biron now god save thy life
rosaline and yours from long living
biron i cannot stay thanksgiving
 retiring
dumain sir i pray you a word what lady is that same
boyet the heir of alencon katharine her name
dumain a gallant lady monsieur fare you well
 exit
longaville i beseech you a word what is she in the white
boyet a woman sometimes an you saw her in the light
longaville perchance light in the light i desire her name
boyet she hath but one for herself to desire that were a shame
longaville pray you sir whose daughter
boyet her mother's i have heard
longaville god's blessing on your beard
boyet good sir be not offended
 she is an heir of falconbridge
longaville nay my choler is ended
 she is a most sweet lady
boyet not unlike sir that may be
 exit longaville
biron what's her name in the cap
boyet rosaline by good hap
biron is she wedded or no
boyet to her will sir or so
biron you are welcome sir adieu
boyet farewell to me sir and welcome to you
 exit biron
maria that last is biron the merry madcap lord
 not a word with him but a jest
boyet and every jest but a word
princess it was well done of you to take him at his word
boyet i was as willing to grapple as he was to board
maria two hot sheeps marry
boyet and wherefore not ships
 no sheep sweet lamb unless we feed on your lips
maria you sheep and i pasture shall that finish the jest
boyet so you grant pasture for me
 offering to kiss her
maria not so gentle beast
 my lips are no common though several they be
boyet belonging to whom
maria to my fortunes and me
princess good wits will be jangling but gentles agree
 this civil war of wits were much better used
 on navarre and his bookmen for here tis abused
boyet if my observation which very seldom lies
 by the heart's still rhetoric disclosed with eyes
 deceive me not now navarre is infected
princess with what
boyet with that which we lovers entitle affected
princess your reason
boyet why all his behaviors did make their retire
 to the court of his eye peeping thorough desire
 his heart like an agate with your print impress'd
 proud with his form in his eye pride express'd
 his tongue all impatient to speak and not see
 did stumble with haste in his eyesight to be
 all senses to that sense did make their repair
 to feel only looking on fairest of fair
 methought all his senses were lock'd in his eye
 as jewels in crystal for some prince to buy
 who tendering their own worth from where they were glass'd
 did point you to buy them along as you pass'd
 his face's own margent did quote such amazes
 that all eyes saw his eyes enchanted with gazes
 i'll give you aquitaine and all that is his
 an you give him for my sake but one loving kiss
princess come to our pavilion boyet is disposed
boyet but to speak that in words which his eye hath
 disclosed
 i only have made a mouth of his eye
 by adding a tongue which i know will not lie
rosaline thou art an old lovemonger and speakest skilfully
maria he is cupid's grandfather and learns news of him
rosaline then was venus like her mother for her father is but grim
boyet do you hear my mad wenches
maria no
boyet what then do you see
rosaline ay our way to be gone
boyet you are too hard for me
 exeunt
 love's labours lost
act iii
scene i the same
 enter don adriano de armado and moth
don
adriano de armado warble child make passionate my sense of hearing
moth concolinel
 singing
don
adriano de armado sweet air go tenderness of years take this key
 give enlargement to the swain bring him festinately
 hither i must employ him in a letter to my love
moth master will you win your love with a french brawl
don
adriano de armado how meanest thou brawling in french
moth no my complete master but to jig off a tune at
 the tongue's end canary to it with your feet humour
 it with turning up your eyelids sigh a note and
 sing a note sometime through the throat as if you
 swallowed love with singing love sometime through
 the nose as if you snuffed up love by smelling
 love with your hat penthouselike o'er the shop of
 your eyes with your arms crossed on your thinbelly
 doublet like a rabbit on a spit or your hands in
 your pocket like a man after the old painting and
 keep not too long in one tune but a snip and away
 these are complements these are humours these
 betray nice wenches that would be betrayed without
 these and make them men of notedo you note
 methat most are affected to these
don
adriano de armado how hast thou purchased this experience
moth by my penny of observation
don
adriano de armado but obut o
moth the hobbyhorse is forgot'
don
adriano de armado callest thou my love hobbyhorse'
moth no master the hobbyhorse is but a colt and your
 love perhaps a hackney but have you forgot your love
don
adriano de armado almost i had
moth negligent student learn her by heart
don
adriano de armado by heart and in heart boy
moth and out of heart master all those three i will prove
don
adriano de armado what wilt thou prove
moth a man if i live and this by in and without upon
 the instant by heart you love her because your
 heart cannot come by her in heart you love her
 because your heart is in love with her and out of
 heart you love her being out of heart that you
 cannot enjoy her
don
adriano de armado i am all these three
moth and three times as much more and yet nothing at
 all
don
adriano de armado fetch hither the swain he must carry me a letter
moth a message well sympathized a horse to be ambassador
 for an ass
don
adriano de armado ha ha what sayest thou
moth marry sir you must send the ass upon the horse
 for he is very slowgaited but i go
don
adriano de armado the way is but short away
moth as swift as lead sir
don
adriano de armado the meaning pretty ingenious
 is not lead a metal heavy dull and slow
moth minime honest master or rather master no
don
adriano de armado i say lead is slow
moth you are too swift sir to say so
 is that lead slow which is fired from a gun
don
adriano de armado sweet smoke of rhetoric
 he reputes me a cannon and the bullet that's he
 i shoot thee at the swain
moth thump then and i flee
 exit
don
adriano de armado a most acute juvenal voluble and free of grace
 by thy favour sweet welkin i must sigh in thy face
 most rude melancholy valour gives thee place
 my herald is return'd
 reenter moth with costard
moth a wonder master here's a costard broken in a shin
don
adriano de armado some enigma some riddle come thy l'envoy begin
costard no enigma no riddle no l'envoy no salve in the
 mail sir o sir plantain a plain plantain no
 l'envoy no l'envoy no salve sir but a plantain
don
adriano de armado by virtue thou enforcest laughter thy silly
 thought my spleen the heaving of my lungs provokes
 me to ridiculous smiling o pardon me my stars
 doth the inconsiderate take salve for l'envoy and
 the word l'envoy for a salve
moth do the wise think them other is not l'envoy a salve
don
adriano de armado no page it is an epilogue or discourse to make plain
 some obscure precedence that hath tofore been sain
 i will example it
 the fox the ape and the humblebee
 were still at odds being but three
 there's the moral now the l'envoy
moth i will add the l'envoy say the moral again
don
adriano de armado the fox the ape and the humblebee
 were still at odds being but three
moth until the goose came out of door
 and stay'd the odds by adding four
 now will i begin your moral and do you follow with
 my l'envoy
 the fox the ape and the humblebee
 were still at odds being but three
don
adriano de armado until the goose came out of door
 staying the odds by adding four
moth a good l'envoy ending in the goose would you
 desire more
costard the boy hath sold him a bargain a goose that's flat
 sir your pennyworth is good an your goose be fat
 to sell a bargain well is as cunning as fast and loose
 let me see a fat l'envoy ay that's a fat goose
don
adriano de armado come hither come hither how did this argument begin
moth by saying that a costard was broken in a shin
 then call'd you for the l'envoy
costard true and i for a plantain thus came your
 argument in
 then the boy's fat l'envoy the goose that you bought
 and he ended the market
don
adriano de armado but tell me how was there a costard broken in a shin
moth i will tell you sensibly
costard thou hast no feeling of it moth i will speak that l'envoy
 i costard running out that was safely within
 fell over the threshold and broke my shin
don
adriano de armado we will talk no more of this matter
costard till there be more matter in the shin
don
adriano de armado sirrah costard i will enfranchise thee
costard o marry me to one frances i smell some l'envoy
 some goose in this
don
adriano de armado by my sweet soul i mean setting thee at liberty
 enfreedoming thy person thou wert immured
 restrained captivated bound
costard true true and now you will be my purgation and let me loose
don
adriano de armado i give thee thy liberty set thee from durance and
 in lieu thereof impose on thee nothing but this
 bear this significant
 giving a letter
 to the country maid jaquenetta
 there is remuneration for the best ward of mine
 honour is rewarding my dependents moth follow
 exit
moth like the sequel i signior costard adieu
costard my sweet ounce of man's flesh my incony jew
 exit moth
 now will i look to his remuneration remuneration
 o that's the latin word for three farthings three
 farthingsremuneration'what's the price of this
 inkle''one penny''no i'll give you a
 remuneration why it carries it remuneration
 why it is a fairer name than french crown i will
 never buy and sell out of this word
 enter biron
biron o my good knave costard exceedingly well met
costard pray you sir how much carnation ribbon may a man
 buy for a remuneration
biron what is a remuneration
costard marry sir halfpenny farthing
biron why then threefarthing worth of silk
costard i thank your worship god be wi you
biron stay slave i must employ thee
 as thou wilt win my favour good my knave
 do one thing for me that i shall entreat
costard when would you have it done sir
biron this afternoon
costard well i will do it sir fare you well
biron thou knowest not what it is
costard i shall know sir when i have done it
biron why villain thou must know first
costard i will come to your worship tomorrow morning
biron it must be done this afternoon
 hark slave it is but this
 the princess comes to hunt here in the park
 and in her train there is a gentle lady
 when tongues speak sweetly then they name her name
 and rosaline they call her ask for her
 and to her white hand see thou do commend
 this seal'dup counsel there's thy guerdon go
 giving him a shilling
costard gardon o sweet gardon better than remuneration
 a'levenpence farthing better most sweet gardon i
 will do it sir in print gardon remuneration
 exit
biron and i forsooth in love i that have been love's whip
 a very beadle to a humorous sigh
 a critic nay a nightwatch constable
 a domineering pedant o'er the boy
 than whom no mortal so magnificent
 this whimpled whining purblind wayward boy
 this seniorjunior giantdwarf dan cupid
 regent of loverhymes lord of folded arms
 the anointed sovereign of sighs and groans
 liege of all loiterers and malcontents
 dread prince of plackets king of codpieces
 sole imperator and great general
 of trotting paritorso my little heart
 and i to be a corporal of his field
 and wear his colours like a tumbler's hoop
 what i i love i sue i seek a wife
 a woman that is like a german clock
 still arepairing ever out of frame
 and never going aright being a watch
 but being watch'd that it may still go right
 nay to be perjured which is worst of all
 and among three to love the worst of all
 a wightly wanton with a velvet brow
 with two pitchballs stuck in her face for eyes
 ay and by heaven one that will do the deed
 though argus were her eunuch and her guard
 and i to sigh for her to watch for her
 to pray for her go to it is a plague
 that cupid will impose for my neglect
 of his almighty dreadful little might
 well i will love write sigh pray sue and groan
 some men must love my lady and some joan
 exit
 love's labours lost
act iv
scene i the same
 enter the princess and her train a forester
 boyet rosaline maria and katharine
princess was that the king that spurred his horse so hard
 against the steep uprising of the hill
boyet i know not but i think it was not he
princess whoe'er a was a show'd a mounting mind
 well lords today we shall have our dispatch
 on saturday we will return to france
 then forester my friend where is the bush
 that we must stand and play the murderer in
forester hereby upon the edge of yonder coppice
 a stand where you may make the fairest shoot
princess i thank my beauty i am fair that shoot
 and thereupon thou speak'st the fairest shoot
forester pardon me madam for i meant not so
princess what what first praise me and again say no
 o shortlived pride not fair alack for woe
forester yes madam fair
princess nay never paint me now
 where fair is not praise cannot mend the brow
 here good my glass take this for telling true
 fair payment for foul words is more than due
forester nothing but fair is that which you inherit
princess see see my beauty will be saved by merit
 o heresy in fair fit for these days
 a giving hand though foul shall have fair praise
 but come the bow now mercy goes to kill
 and shooting well is then accounted ill
 thus will i save my credit in the shoot
 not wounding pity would not let me do't
 if wounding then it was to show my skill
 that more for praise than purpose meant to kill
 and out of question so it is sometimes
 glory grows guilty of detested crimes
 when for fame's sake for praise an outward part
 we bend to that the working of the heart
 as i for praise alone now seek to spill
 the poor deer's blood that my heart means no ill
boyet do not curst wives hold that selfsovereignty
 only for praise sake when they strive to be
 lords o'er their lords
princess only for praise and praise we may afford
 to any lady that subdues a lord
boyet here comes a member of the commonwealth
 enter costard
costard god digyouden all pray you which is the head lady
princess thou shalt know her fellow by the rest that have no heads
costard which is the greatest lady the highest
princess the thickest and the tallest
costard the thickest and the tallest it is so truth is truth
 an your waist mistress were as slender as my wit
 one o these maids girdles for your waist should be fit
 are not you the chief woman you are the thickest here
princess what's your will sir what's your will
costard i have a letter from monsieur biron to one lady rosaline
princess o thy letter thy letter he's a good friend of mine
 stand aside good bearer boyet you can carve
 break up this capon
boyet i am bound to serve
 this letter is mistook it importeth none here
 it is writ to jaquenetta
princess we will read it i swear
 break the neck of the wax and every one give ear
 reads
boyet by heaven that thou art fair is most infallible
 true that thou art beauteous truth itself that
 thou art lovely more fairer than fair beautiful
 than beauteous truer than truth itself have
 commiseration on thy heroical vassal the
 magnanimous and most illustrate king cophetua set
 eye upon the pernicious and indubitate beggar
 zenelophon and he it was that might rightly say
 veni vidi vici which to annothanize in the
 vulgaro base and obscure vulgarvidelicet he
 came saw and overcame he came one saw two
 overcame three who came the king why did he
 come to see why did he see to overcome to
 whom came he to the beggar what saw he the
 beggar who overcame he the beggar the
 conclusion is victory on whose side the king's
 the captive is enriched on whose side the
 beggar's the catastrophe is a nuptial on whose
 side the king's no on both in one or one in
 both i am the king for so stands the comparison
 thou the beggar for so witnesseth thy lowliness
 shall i command thy love i may shall i enforce
 thy love i could shall i entreat thy love i
 will what shalt thou exchange for rags robes
 for tittles titles for thyself me thus
 expecting thy reply i profane my lips on thy foot
 my eyes on thy picture and my heart on thy every
 part thine in the dearest design of industry
 don adriano de armado'
 thus dost thou hear the nemean lion roar
 gainst thee thou lamb that standest as his prey
 submissive fall his princely feet before
 and he from forage will incline to play
 but if thou strive poor soul what art thou then
 food for his rage repasture for his den
princess what plume of feathers is he that indited this letter
 what vane what weathercock did you ever hear better
boyet i am much deceived but i remember the style
princess else your memory is bad going o'er it erewhile
boyet this armado is a spaniard that keeps here in court
 a phantasime a monarcho and one that makes sport
 to the prince and his bookmates
princess thou fellow a word
 who gave thee this letter
costard i told you my lord
princess to whom shouldst thou give it
costard from my lord to my lady
princess from which lord to which lady
costard from my lord biron a good master of mine
 to a lady of france that he call'd rosaline
princess thou hast mistaken his letter come lords away
 to rosaline
 here sweet put up this twill be thine another day
 exeunt princess and train
boyet who is the suitor who is the suitor
rosaline shall i teach you to know
boyet ay my continent of beauty
rosaline why she that bears the bow
 finely put off
boyet my lady goes to kill horns but if thou marry
 hang me by the neck if horns that year miscarry
 finely put on
rosaline well then i am the shooter
boyet and who is your deer
rosaline if we choose by the horns yourself come not near
 finely put on indeed
maria you still wrangle with her boyet and she strikes
 at the brow
boyet but she herself is hit lower have i hit her now
rosaline shall i come upon thee with an old saying that was
 a man when king pepin of france was a little boy as
 touching the hit it
boyet so i may answer thee with one as old that was a
 woman when queen guinover of britain was a little
 wench as touching the hit it
rosaline thou canst not hit it hit it hit it
 thou canst not hit it my good man
boyet an i cannot cannot cannot
 an i cannot another can
 exeunt rosaline and katharine
costard by my troth most pleasant how both did fit it
maria a mark marvellous well shot for they both did hit it
boyet a mark o mark but that mark a mark says my lady
 let the mark have a prick in't to mete at if it may be
maria wide o the bow hand i faith your hand is out
costard indeed a must shoot nearer or he'll ne'er hit the clout
boyet an if my hand be out then belike your hand is in
costard then will she get the upshoot by cleaving the pin
maria come come you talk greasily your lips grow foul
costard she's too hard for you at pricks sir challenge her to bowl
boyet i fear too much rubbing good night my good owl
 exeunt boyet and maria
costard by my soul a swain a most simple clown
 lord lord how the ladies and i have put him down
 o my troth most sweet jests most incony
 vulgar wit
 when it comes so smoothly off so obscenely as it
 were so fit
 armado o th one sideo a most dainty man
 to see him walk before a lady and to bear her fan
 to see him kiss his hand and how most sweetly a'
 will swear
 and his page o t other side that handful of wit
 ah heavens it is a most pathetical nit
 sola sola
 shout within
 exit costard running
 love's labours lost
act iv
scene ii the same
 enter holofernes sir nathaniel and dull
sir nathaniel very reverend sport truly and done in the testimony
 of a good conscience
holofernes the deer was as you know sanguis in blood ripe
 as the pomewater who now hangeth like a jewel in
 the ear of caelo the sky the welkin the heaven
 and anon falleth like a crab on the face of terra
 the soil the land the earth
sir nathaniel truly master holofernes the epithets are sweetly
 varied like a scholar at the least but sir i
 assure ye it was a buck of the first head
holofernes sir nathaniel haud credo
dull twas not a haud credo twas a pricket
holofernes most barbarous intimation yet a kind of
 insinuation as it were in via in way of
 explication facere as it were replication or
 rather ostentare to show as it were his
 inclination after his undressed unpolished
 uneducated unpruned untrained or rather
 unlettered or ratherest unconfirmed fashion to
 insert again my haud credo for a deer
dull i said the deer was not a haud credo twas a pricket
holofernes twicesod simplicity his coctus
 o thou monster ignorance how deformed dost thou look
sir nathaniel sir he hath never fed of the dainties that are bred
 in a book he hath not eat paper as it were he
 hath not drunk ink his intellect is not
 replenished he is only an animal only sensible in
 the duller parts
 and such barren plants are set before us that we
 thankful should be
 which we of taste and feeling are for those parts that
 do fructify in us more than he
 for as it would ill become me to be vain indiscreet or a fool
 so were there a patch set on learning to see him in a school
 but omne bene say i being of an old father's mind
 many can brook the weather that love not the wind
dull you two are bookmen can you tell me by your wit
 what was a month old at cain's birth that's not five
 weeks old as yet
holofernes dictynna goodman dull dictynna goodman dull
dull what is dictynna
sir nathaniel a title to phoebe to luna to the moon
holofernes the moon was a month old when adam was no more
 and raught not to five weeks when he came to
 fivescore
 the allusion holds in the exchange
dull tis true indeed the collusion holds in the exchange
holofernes god comfort thy capacity i say the allusion holds
 in the exchange
dull and i say the pollusion holds in the exchange for
 the moon is never but a month old and i say beside
 that twas a pricket that the princess killed
holofernes sir nathaniel will you hear an extemporal epitaph
 on the death of the deer and to humour the
 ignorant call i the deer the princess killed a pricket
sir nathaniel perge good master holofernes perge so it shall
 please you to abrogate scurrility
holofernes i will something affect the letter for it argues facility
 the preyful princess pierced and prick'd a pretty
 pleasing pricket
 some say a sore but not a sore till now made
 sore with shooting
 the dogs did yell put l to sore then sorel jumps
 from thicket
 or pricket sore or else sorel the people fall ahooting
 if sore be sore then l to sore makes fifty sores
 one sorel
 of one sore i an hundred make by adding but one more l
sir nathaniel a rare talent
dull aside if a talent be a claw look how he claws
 him with a talent
holofernes this is a gift that i have simple simple a
 foolish extravagant spirit full of forms figures
 shapes objects ideas apprehensions motions
 revolutions these are begot in the ventricle of
 memory nourished in the womb of pia mater and
 delivered upon the mellowing of occasion but the
 gift is good in those in whom it is acute and i am
 thankful for it
sir nathaniel sir i praise the lord for you and so may my
 parishioners for their sons are well tutored by
 you and their daughters profit very greatly under
 you you are a good member of the commonwealth
holofernes mehercle if their sons be ingenuous they shall
 want no instruction if their daughters be capable
 i will put it to them but vir sapit qui pauca
 loquitur a soul feminine saluteth us
 enter jaquenetta and costard
jaquenetta god give you good morrow master parson
holofernes master parson quasi person an if one should be
 pierced which is the one
costard marry master schoolmaster he that is likest to a hogshead
holofernes piercing a hogshead a good lustre of conceit in a
 tuft of earth fire enough for a flint pearl enough
 for a swine tis pretty it is well
jaquenetta good master parson be so good as read me this
 letter it was given me by costard and sent me
 from don armado i beseech you read it
holofernes fauste precor gelida quando pecus omne sub umbra
 ruminatand so forth ah good old mantuan i
 may speak of thee as the traveller doth of venice
 venetia venetia
 chi non ti vede non ti pretia
 old mantuan old mantuan who understandeth thee
 not loves thee not ut re sol la mi fa
 under pardon sir what are the contents or rather
 as horace says in hiswhat my soul verses
sir nathaniel ay sir and very learned
holofernes let me hear a staff a stanze a verse lege domine
sir nathaniel reads
 if love make me forsworn how shall i swear to love
 ah never faith could hold if not to beauty vow'd
 though to myself forsworn to thee i'll faithful prove
 those thoughts to me were oaks to thee like
 osiers bow'd
 study his bias leaves and makes his book thine eyes
 where all those pleasures live that art would
 comprehend
 if knowledge be the mark to know thee shall suffice
 well learned is that tongue that well can thee commend
 all ignorant that soul that sees thee without wonder
 which is to me some praise that i thy parts admire
 thy eye jove's lightning bears thy voice his dreadful thunder
 which not to anger bent is music and sweet fire
 celestial as thou art o pardon love this wrong
 that sings heaven's praise with such an earthly tongue
holofernes you find not the apostraphas and so miss the
 accent let me supervise the canzonet here are
 only numbers ratified but for the elegancy
 facility and golden cadence of poesy caret
 ovidius naso was the man and why indeed naso
 but for smelling out the odouriferous flowers of
 fancy the jerks of invention imitari is nothing
 so doth the hound his master the ape his keeper
 the tired horse his rider but damosella virgin
 was this directed to you
jaquenetta ay sir from one monsieur biron one of the strange
 queen's lords
holofernes i will overglance the superscript to the
 snowwhite hand of the most beauteous lady
 rosaline i will look again on the intellect of
 the letter for the nomination of the party writing
 to the person written unto your ladyship's in all
 desired employment biron sir nathaniel this
 biron is one of the votaries with the king and here
 he hath framed a letter to a sequent of the stranger
 queen's which accidentally or by the way of
 progression hath miscarried trip and go my
 sweet deliver this paper into the royal hand of the
 king it may concern much stay not thy
 compliment i forgive thy duty adieu
jaquenetta good costard go with me sir god save your life
costard have with thee my girl
 exeunt costard and jaquenetta
sir nathaniel sir you have done this in the fear of god very
 religiously and as a certain father saith
holofernes sir tell me not of the father i do fear colourable
 colours but to return to the verses did they
 please you sir nathaniel
sir nathaniel marvellous well for the pen
holofernes i do dine today at the father's of a certain pupil
 of mine where if before repast it shall please
 you to gratify the table with a grace i will on my
 privilege i have with the parents of the foresaid
 child or pupil undertake your ben venuto where i
 will prove those verses to be very unlearned
 neither savouring of poetry wit nor invention i
 beseech your society
sir nathaniel and thank you too for society saith the text is
 the happiness of life
holofernes and certes the text most infallibly concludes it
 to dull
 sir i do invite you too you shall not
 say me nay pauca verba away the gentles are at
 their game and we will to our recreation
 exeunt
 love's labours lost
act iv
scene iii the same
 enter biron with a paper
biron the king he is hunting the deer i am coursing
 myself they have pitched a toil i am toiling in
 a pitchpitch that defiles defile a foul
 word well set thee down sorrow for so they say
 the fool said and so say i and i the fool well
 proved wit by the lord this love is as mad as
 ajax it kills sheep it kills me i a sheep
 well proved again o my side i will not love if
 i do hang me i faith i will not o but her
 eyeby this light but for her eye i would not
 love her yes for her two eyes well i do nothing
 in the world but lie and lie in my throat by
 heaven i do love and it hath taught me to rhyme
 and to be melancholy and here is part of my rhyme
 and here my melancholy well she hath one o my
 sonnets already the clown bore it the fool sent
 it and the lady hath it sweet clown sweeter
 fool sweetest lady by the world i would not care
 a pin if the other three were in here comes one
 with a paper god give him grace to groan
 stands aside
 enter ferdinand with a paper
ferdinand ay me
biron aside shot by heaven proceed sweet cupid
 thou hast thumped him with thy birdbolt under the
 left pap in faith secrets
ferdinand reads
 so sweet a kiss the golden sun gives not
 to those fresh morning drops upon the rose
 as thy eyebeams when their fresh rays have smote
 the night of dew that on my cheeks down flows
 nor shines the silver moon one half so bright
 through the transparent bosom of the deep
 as doth thy face through tears of mine give light
 thou shinest in every tear that i do weep
 no drop but as a coach doth carry thee
 so ridest thou triumphing in my woe
 do but behold the tears that swell in me
 and they thy glory through my grief will show
 but do not love thyself then thou wilt keep
 my tears for glasses and still make me weep
 o queen of queens how far dost thou excel
 no thought can think nor tongue of mortal tell
 how shall she know my griefs i'll drop the paper
 sweet leaves shade folly who is he comes here
 steps aside
 what longaville and reading listen ear
biron now in thy likeness one more fool appear
 enter longaville with a paper
longaville ay me i am forsworn
biron why he comes in like a perjure wearing papers
ferdinand in love i hope sweet fellowship in shame
biron one drunkard loves another of the name
longaville am i the first that have been perjured so
biron i could put thee in comfort not by two that i know
 thou makest the triumviry the cornercap of society
 the shape of love's tyburn that hangs up simplicity
longaville i fear these stubborn lines lack power to move
 o sweet maria empress of my love
 these numbers will i tear and write in prose
biron o rhymes are guards on wanton cupid's hose
 disfigure not his slop
longaville this same shall go
 reads
 did not the heavenly rhetoric of thine eye
 gainst whom the world cannot hold argument
 persuade my heart to this false perjury
 vows for thee broke deserve not punishment
 a woman i forswore but i will prove
 thou being a goddess i forswore not thee
 my vow was earthly thou a heavenly love
 thy grace being gain'd cures all disgrace in me
 vows are but breath and breath a vapour is
 then thou fair sun which on my earth dost shine
 exhalest this vapourvow in thee it is
 if broken then it is no fault of mine
 if by me broke what fool is not so wise
 to lose an oath to win a paradise
biron this is the livervein which makes flesh a deity
 a green goose a goddess pure pure idolatry
 god amend us god amend we are much out o the way
longaville by whom shall i send thiscompany stay
 steps aside
biron all hid all hid an old infant play
 like a demigod here sit i in the sky
 and wretched fools secrets heedfully o'ereye
 more sacks to the mill o heavens i have my wish
 enter dumain with a paper
 dumain transform'd four woodcocks in a dish
dumain o most divine kate
biron o most profane coxcomb
dumain by heaven the wonder in a mortal eye
biron by earth she is not corporal there you lie
dumain her amber hair for foul hath amber quoted
biron an ambercolour'd raven was well noted
dumain as upright as the cedar
biron stoop i say
 her shoulder is with child
dumain as fair as day
biron ay as some days but then no sun must shine
dumain o that i had my wish
longaville and i had mine
ferdinand and i mine too good lord
biron amen so i had mine is not that a good word
dumain i would forget her but a fever she
 reigns in my blood and will remember'd be
biron a fever in your blood why then incision
 would let her out in saucers sweet misprision
dumain once more i'll read the ode that i have writ
biron once more i'll mark how love can vary wit
dumain reads
 on a dayalack the day
 love whose month is ever may
 spied a blossom passing fair
 playing in the wanton air
 through the velvet leaves the wind
 all unseen can passage find
 that the lover sick to death
 wish himself the heaven's breath
 air quoth he thy cheeks may blow
 air would i might triumph so
 but alack my hand is sworn
 ne'er to pluck thee from thy thorn
 vow alack for youth unmeet
 youth so apt to pluck a sweet
 do not call it sin in me
 that i am forsworn for thee
 thou for whom jove would swear
 juno but an ethiope were
 and deny himself for jove
 turning mortal for thy love
 this will i send and something else more plain
 that shall express my true love's fasting pain
 o would the king biron and longaville
 were lovers too ill to example ill
 would from my forehead wipe a perjured note
 for none offend where all alike do dote
longaville advancing dumain thy love is far from charity
 you may look pale but i should blush i know
 to be o'erheard and taken napping so
ferdinand advancing come sir you blush as his your case is such
 you chide at him offending twice as much
 you do not love maria longaville
 did never sonnet for her sake compile
 nor never lay his wreathed arms athwart
 his loving bosom to keep down his heart
 i have been closely shrouded in this bush
 and mark'd you both and for you both did blush
 i heard your guilty rhymes observed your fashion
 saw sighs reek from you noted well your passion
 ay me says one o jove the other cries
 one her hairs were gold crystal the other's eyes
 to longaville
 you would for paradise break faith and troth
 to dumain
 and jove for your love would infringe an oath
 what will biron say when that he shall hear
 faith so infringed which such zeal did swear
 how will he scorn how will he spend his wit
 how will he triumph leap and laugh at it
 for all the wealth that ever i did see
 i would not have him know so much by me
biron now step i forth to whip hypocrisy
 advancing
 ah good my liege i pray thee pardon me
 good heart what grace hast thou thus to reprove
 these worms for loving that art most in love
 your eyes do make no coaches in your tears
 there is no certain princess that appears
 you'll not be perjured tis a hateful thing
 tush none but minstrels like of sonneting
 but are you not ashamed nay are you not
 all three of you to be thus much o'ershot
 you found his mote the king your mote did see
 but i a beam do find in each of three
 o what a scene of foolery have i seen
 of sighs of groans of sorrow and of teen
 o me with what strict patience have i sat
 to see a king transformed to a gnat
 to see great hercules whipping a gig
 and profound solomon to tune a jig
 and nestor play at pushpin with the boys
 and critic timon laugh at idle toys
 where lies thy grief o tell me good dumain
 and gentle longaville where lies thy pain
 and where my liege's all about the breast
 a caudle ho
ferdinand too bitter is thy jest
 are we betray'd thus to thy overview
biron not you to me but i betray'd by you
 i that am honest i that hold it sin
 to break the vow i am engaged in
 i am betray'd by keeping company
 with men like men of inconstancy
 when shall you see me write a thing in rhyme
 or groan for love or spend a minute's time
 in pruning me when shall you hear that i
 will praise a hand a foot a face an eye
 a gait a state a brow a breast a waist
 a leg a limb
ferdinand soft whither away so fast
 a true man or a thief that gallops so
biron i post from love good lover let me go
 enter jaquenetta and costard
jaquenetta god bless the king
ferdinand what present hast thou there
costard some certain treason
ferdinand what makes treason here
costard nay it makes nothing sir
ferdinand if it mar nothing neither
 the treason and you go in peace away together
jaquenetta i beseech your grace let this letter be read
 our parson misdoubts it twas treason he said
ferdinand biron read it over
 giving him the paper
 where hadst thou it
jaquenetta of costard
ferdinand where hadst thou it
costard of dun adramadio dun adramadio
 biron tears the letter
ferdinand how now what is in you why dost thou tear it
biron a toy my liege a toy your grace needs not fear it
longaville it did move him to passion and therefore let's hear it
dumain it is biron's writing and here is his name
 gathering up the pieces
biron to costard ah you whoreson loggerhead you were
 born to do me shame
 guilty my lord guilty i confess i confess
ferdinand what
biron that you three fools lack'd me fool to make up the mess
 he he and you and you my liege and i
 are pickpurses in love and we deserve to die
 o dismiss this audience and i shall tell you more
dumain now the number is even
biron true true we are four
 will these turtles be gone
ferdinand hence sirs away
costard walk aside the true folk and let the traitors stay
 exeunt costard and jaquenetta
biron sweet lords sweet lovers o let us embrace
 as true we are as flesh and blood can be
 the sea will ebb and flow heaven show his face
 young blood doth not obey an old decree
 we cannot cross the cause why we were born
 therefore of all hands must we be forsworn
ferdinand what did these rent lines show some love of thine
biron did they quoth you who sees the heavenly rosaline
 that like a rude and savage man of inde
 at the first opening of the gorgeous east
 bows not his vassal head and strucken blind
 kisses the base ground with obedient breast
 what peremptory eaglesighted eye
 dares look upon the heaven of her brow
 that is not blinded by her majesty
ferdinand what zeal what fury hath inspired thee now
 my love her mistress is a gracious moon
 she an attending star scarce seen a light
biron my eyes are then no eyes nor i biron
 o but for my love day would turn to night
 of all complexions the cull'd sovereignty
 do meet as at a fair in her fair cheek
 where several worthies make one dignity
 where nothing wants that want itself doth seek
 lend me the flourish of all gentle tongues
 fie painted rhetoric o she needs it not
 to things of sale a seller's praise belongs
 she passes praise then praise too short doth blot
 a wither'd hermit fivescore winters worn
 might shake off fifty looking in her eye
 beauty doth varnish age as if newborn
 and gives the crutch the cradle's infancy
 o tis the sun that maketh all things shine
ferdinand by heaven thy love is black as ebony
biron is ebony like her o wood divine
 a wife of such wood were felicity
 o who can give an oath where is a book
 that i may swear beauty doth beauty lack
 if that she learn not of her eye to look
 no face is fair that is not full so black
ferdinand o paradox black is the badge of hell
 the hue of dungeons and the suit of night
 and beauty's crest becomes the heavens well
biron devils soonest tempt resembling spirits of light
 o if in black my lady's brows be deck'd
 it mourns that painting and usurping hair
 should ravish doters with a false aspect
 and therefore is she born to make black fair
 her favour turns the fashion of the days
 for native blood is counted painting now
 and therefore red that would avoid dispraise
 paints itself black to imitate her brow
dumain to look like her are chimneysweepers black
longaville and since her time are colliers counted bright
ferdinand and ethiopes of their sweet complexion crack
dumain dark needs no candles now for dark is light
biron your mistresses dare never come in rain
 for fear their colours should be wash'd away
ferdinand twere good yours did for sir to tell you plain
 i'll find a fairer face not wash'd today
biron i'll prove her fair or talk till doomsday here
ferdinand no devil will fright thee then so much as she
dumain i never knew man hold vile stuff so dear
longaville look here's thy love my foot and her face see
biron o if the streets were paved with thine eyes
 her feet were much too dainty for such tread
dumain o vile then as she goes what upward lies
 the street should see as she walk'd overhead
ferdinand but what of this are we not all in love
biron nothing so sure and thereby all forsworn
ferdinand then leave this chat and good biron now prove
 our loving lawful and our faith not torn
dumain ay marry there some flattery for this evil
longaville o some authority how to proceed
 some tricks some quillets how to cheat the devil
dumain some salve for perjury
biron tis more than need
 have at you then affection's men at arms
 consider what you first did swear unto
 to fast to study and to see no woman
 flat treason gainst the kingly state of youth
 say can you fast your stomachs are too young
 and abstinence engenders maladies
 and where that you have vow'd to study lords
 in that each of you have forsworn his book
 can you still dream and pore and thereon look
 for when would you my lord or you or you
 have found the ground of study's excellence
 without the beauty of a woman's face
 from women's eyes this doctrine i derive
 they are the ground the books the academes
 from whence doth spring the true promethean fire
 why universal plodding poisons up
 the nimble spirits in the arteries
 as motion and longduring action tires
 the sinewy vigour of the traveller
 now for not looking on a woman's face
 you have in that forsworn the use of eyes
 and study too the causer of your vow
 for where is any author in the world
 teaches such beauty as a woman's eye
 learning is but an adjunct to ourself
 and where we are our learning likewise is
 then when ourselves we see in ladies eyes
 do we not likewise see our learning there
 o we have made a vow to study lords
 and in that vow we have forsworn our books
 for when would you my liege or you or you
 in leaden contemplation have found out
 such fiery numbers as the prompting eyes
 of beauty's tutors have enrich'd you with
 other slow arts entirely keep the brain
 and therefore finding barren practisers
 scarce show a harvest of their heavy toil
 but love first learned in a lady's eyes
 lives not alone immured in the brain
 but with the motion of all elements
 courses as swift as thought in every power
 and gives to every power a double power
 above their functions and their offices
 it adds a precious seeing to the eye
 a lover's eyes will gaze an eagle blind
 a lover's ear will hear the lowest sound
 when the suspicious head of theft is stopp'd
 love's feeling is more soft and sensible
 than are the tender horns of cockl'd snails
 love's tongue proves dainty bacchus gross in taste
 for valour is not love a hercules
 still climbing trees in the hesperides
 subtle as sphinx as sweet and musical
 as bright apollo's lute strung with his hair
 and when love speaks the voice of all the gods
 makes heaven drowsy with the harmony
 never durst poet touch a pen to write
 until his ink were temper'd with love's sighs
 o then his lines would ravish savage ears
 and plant in tyrants mild humility
 from women's eyes this doctrine i derive
 they sparkle still the right promethean fire
 they are the books the arts the academes
 that show contain and nourish all the world
 else none at all in ought proves excellent
 then fools you were these women to forswear
 or keeping what is sworn you will prove fools
 for wisdom's sake a word that all men love
 or for love's sake a word that loves all men
 or for men's sake the authors of these women
 or women's sake by whom we men are men
 let us once lose our oaths to find ourselves
 or else we lose ourselves to keep our oaths
 it is religion to be thus forsworn
 for charity itself fulfills the law
 and who can sever love from charity
ferdinand saint cupid then and soldiers to the field
biron advance your standards and upon them lords
 pellmell down with them but be first advised
 in conflict that you get the sun of them
longaville now to plaindealing lay these glozes by
 shall we resolve to woo these girls of france
ferdinand and win them too therefore let us devise
 some entertainment for them in their tents
biron first from the park let us conduct them thither
 then homeward every man attach the hand
 of his fair mistress in the afternoon
 we will with some strange pastime solace them
 such as the shortness of the time can shape
 for revels dances masks and merry hours
 forerun fair love strewing her way with flowers
ferdinand away away no time shall be omitted
 that will betime and may by us be fitted
biron allons allons sow'd cockle reap'd no corn
 and justice always whirls in equal measure
 light wenches may prove plagues to men forsworn
 if so our copper buys no better treasure
 exeunt
 love's labours lost
act v
scene i the same
 enter holofernes sir nathaniel and dull
holofernes satis quod sufficit
sir nathaniel i praise god for you sir your reasons at dinner
 have been sharp and sententious pleasant without
 scurrility witty without affection audacious without
 impudency learned without opinion and strange with
 out heresy i did converse this quondam day with
 a companion of the king's who is intituled nomi
 nated or called don adriano de armado
holofernes novi hominem tanquam te his humour is lofty his
 discourse peremptory his tongue filed his eye
 ambitious his gait majestical and his general
 behavior vain ridiculous and thrasonical he is
 too picked too spruce too affected too odd as it
 were too peregrinate as i may call it
sir nathaniel a most singular and choice epithet
 draws out his tablebook
holofernes he draweth out the thread of his verbosity finer
 than the staple of his argument i abhor such
 fanatical phantasimes such insociable and
 pointdevise companions such rackers of
 orthography as to speak dout fine when he should
 say doubt det when he should pronounce debtd
 e b t not d e t he clepeth a calf cauf
 half hauf neighbour vocatur nebor neigh
 abbreviated ne this is abhominablewhich he
 would call abbominable it insinuateth me of
 insanie anne intelligis domine to make frantic lunatic
sir nathaniel laus deo bene intelligo
holofernes bon bon fort bon priscian a little scratch'd
 twill serve
sir nathaniel videsne quis venit
holofernes video et gaudeo
 enter don adriano de armado moth and costard
don
adriano de armado chirrah
 to moth
holofernes quare chirrah not sirrah
don
adriano de armado men of peace well encountered
holofernes most military sir salutation
moth aside to costard they have been at a great feast
 of languages and stolen the scraps
costard o they have lived long on the almsbasket of words
 i marvel thy master hath not eaten thee for a word
 for thou art not so long by the head as
 honorificabilitudinitatibus thou art easier
 swallowed than a flapdragon
moth peace the peal begins
don
adriano de armado to holofernes monsieur are you not lettered
moth yes yes he teaches boys the hornbook what is a
 b spelt backward with the horn on his head
holofernes ba pueritia with a horn added
moth ba most silly sheep with a horn you hear his learning
holofernes quis quis thou consonant
moth the third of the five vowels if you repeat them or
 the fifth if i
holofernes i will repeat thema e i
moth the sheep the other two concludes ito u
don
adriano de armado now by the salt wave of the mediterraneum a sweet
 touch a quick venue of wit snip snap quick and
 home it rejoiceth my intellect true wit
moth offered by a child to an old man which is witold
holofernes what is the figure what is the figure
moth horns
holofernes thou disputest like an infant go whip thy gig
moth lend me your horn to make one and i will whip about
 your infamy circum circaa gig of a cuckold's horn
costard an i had but one penny in the world thou shouldst
 have it to buy gingerbread hold there is the very
 remuneration i had of thy master thou halfpenny
 purse of wit thou pigeonegg of discretion o an
 the heavens were so pleased that thou wert but my
 bastard what a joyful father wouldst thou make me
 go to thou hast it ad dunghill at the fingers'
 ends as they say
holofernes o i smell false latin dunghill for unguem
don
adriano de armado artsman preambulate we will be singled from the
 barbarous do you not educate youth at the
 chargehouse on the top of the mountain
holofernes or mons the hill
don
adriano de armado at your sweet pleasure for the mountain
holofernes i do sans question
don
adriano de armado sir it is the king's most sweet pleasure and
 affection to congratulate the princess at her
 pavilion in the posteriors of this day which the
 rude multitude call the afternoon
holofernes the posterior of the day most generous sir is
 liable congruent and measurable for the afternoon
 the word is well culled chose sweet and apt i do
 assure you sir i do assure
don
adriano de armado sir the king is a noble gentleman and my familiar
 i do assure ye very good friend for what is
 inward between us let it pass i do beseech thee
 remember thy courtesy i beseech thee apparel thy
 head and among other important and most serious
 designs and of great import indeed too but let
 that pass for i must tell thee it will please his
 grace by the world sometime to lean upon my poor
 shoulder and with his royal finger thus dally
 with my excrement with my mustachio but sweet
 heart let that pass by the world i recount no
 fable some certain special honours it pleaseth his
 greatness to impart to armado a soldier a man of
 travel that hath seen the world but let that pass
 the very all of all isbut sweet heart i do
 implore secrecythat the king would have me
 present the princess sweet chuck with some
 delightful ostentation or show or pageant or
 antique or firework now understanding that the
 curate and your sweet self are good at such
 eruptions and sudden breaking out of mirth as it
 were i have acquainted you withal to the end to
 crave your assistance
holofernes sir you shall present before her the nine worthies
 sir as concerning some entertainment of time some
 show in the posterior of this day to be rendered by
 our assistants at the king's command and this most
 gallant illustrate and learned gentleman before
 the princess i say none so fit as to present the
 nine worthies
sir nathaniel where will you find men worthy enough to present them
holofernes joshua yourself myself and this gallant gentleman
 judas maccabaeus this swain because of his great
 limb or joint shall pass pompey the great the
 page hercules
don
adriano de armado pardon sir error he is not quantity enough for
 that worthy's thumb he is not so big as the end of his club
holofernes shall i have audience he shall present hercules in
 minority his enter and exit shall be strangling a
 snake and i will have an apology for that purpose
moth an excellent device so if any of the audience
 hiss you may cry well done hercules now thou
 crushest the snake that is the way to make an
 offence gracious though few have the grace to do it
don
adriano de armado for the rest of the worthies
holofernes i will play three myself
moth thriceworthy gentleman
don
adriano de armado shall i tell you a thing
holofernes we attend
don
adriano de armado we will have if this fadge not an antique i
 beseech you follow
holofernes via goodman dull thou hast spoken no word all this while
dull nor understood none neither sir
holofernes allons we will employ thee
dull i'll make one in a dance or so or i will play
 on the tabour to the worthies and let them dance the hay
holofernes most dull honest dull to our sport away
 exeunt
 love's labours lost
act v
scene ii the same
 enter the princess katharine rosaline and maria
princess sweet hearts we shall be rich ere we depart
 if fairings come thus plentifully in
 a lady wall'd about with diamonds
 look you what i have from the loving king
rosaline madame came nothing else along with that
princess nothing but this yes as much love in rhyme
 as would be cramm'd up in a sheet of paper
 writ o both sides the leaf margent and all
 that he was fain to seal on cupid's name
rosaline that was the way to make his godhead wax
 for he hath been five thousand years a boy
katharine ay and a shrewd unhappy gallows too
rosaline you'll ne'er be friends with him a kill'd your sister
katharine he made her melancholy sad and heavy
 and so she died had she been light like you
 of such a merry nimble stirring spirit
 she might ha been a grandam ere she died
 and so may you for a light heart lives long
rosaline what's your dark meaning mouse of this light word
katharine a light condition in a beauty dark
rosaline we need more light to find your meaning out
katharine you'll mar the light by taking it in snuff
 therefore i'll darkly end the argument
rosaline look what you do you do it still i the dark
katharine so do not you for you are a light wench
rosaline indeed i weigh not you and therefore light
katharine you weigh me not o that's you care not for me
rosaline great reason for past cure is still past care'
princess well bandied both a set of wit well play'd
 but rosaline you have a favour too
 who sent it and what is it
rosaline i would you knew
 an if my face were but as fair as yours
 my favour were as great be witness this
 nay i have verses too i thank biron
 the numbers true and were the numbering too
 i were the fairest goddess on the ground
 i am compared to twenty thousand fairs
 o he hath drawn my picture in his letter
princess any thing like
rosaline much in the letters nothing in the praise
princess beauteous as ink a good conclusion
katharine fair as a text b in a copybook
rosaline ware pencils ho let me not die your debtor
 my red dominical my golden letter
 o that your face were not so full of o's
katharine a pox of that jest and i beshrew all shrows
princess but katharine what was sent to you from fair dumain
katharine madam this glove
princess did he not send you twain
katharine yes madam and moreover
 some thousand verses of a faithful lover
 a huge translation of hypocrisy
 vilely compiled profound simplicity
maria this and these pearls to me sent longaville
 the letter is too long by half a mile
princess i think no less dost thou not wish in heart
 the chain were longer and the letter short
maria ay or i would these hands might never part
princess we are wise girls to mock our lovers so
rosaline they are worse fools to purchase mocking so
 that same biron i'll torture ere i go
 o that i knew he were but in by the week
 how i would make him fawn and beg and seek
 and wait the season and observe the times
 and spend his prodigal wits in bootless rhymes
 and shape his service wholly to my hests
 and make him proud to make me proud that jests
 so perttauntlike would i o'ersway his state
 that he should be my fool and i his fate
princess none are so surely caught when they are catch'd
 as wit turn'd fool folly in wisdom hatch'd
 hath wisdom's warrant and the help of school
 and wit's own grace to grace a learned fool
rosaline the blood of youth burns not with such excess
 as gravity's revolt to wantonness
maria folly in fools bears not so strong a note
 as foolery in the wise when wit doth dote
 since all the power thereof it doth apply
 to prove by wit worth in simplicity
princess here comes boyet and mirth is in his face
 enter boyet
boyet o i am stabb'd with laughter where's her grace
princess thy news boyet
boyet prepare madam prepare
 arm wenches arm encounters mounted are
 against your peace love doth approach disguised
 armed in arguments you'll be surprised
 muster your wits stand in your own defence
 or hide your heads like cowards and fly hence
princess saint denis to saint cupid what are they
 that charge their breath against us say scout say
boyet under the cool shade of a sycamore
 i thought to close mine eyes some half an hour
 when lo to interrupt my purposed rest
 toward that shade i might behold addrest
 the king and his companions warily
 i stole into a neighbour thicket by
 and overheard what you shall overhear
 that by and by disguised they will be here
 their herald is a pretty knavish page
 that well by heart hath conn'd his embassage
 action and accent did they teach him there
 thus must thou speak and thus thy body bear'
 and ever and anon they made a doubt
 presence majestical would put him out
 for quoth the king an angel shalt thou see
 yet fear not thou but speak audaciously'
 the boy replied an angel is not evil
 i should have fear'd her had she been a devil'
 with that all laugh'd and clapp'd him on the shoulder
 making the bold wag by their praises bolder
 one rubb'd his elbow thus and fleer'd and swore
 a better speech was never spoke before
 another with his finger and his thumb
 cried via we will do't come what will come'
 the third he caper'd and cried all goes well'
 the fourth turn'd on the toe and down he fell
 with that they all did tumble on the ground
 with such a zealous laughter so profound
 that in this spleen ridiculous appears
 to cheque their folly passion's solemn tears
princess but what but what come they to visit us
boyet they do they do and are apparell'd thus
 like muscovites or russians as i guess
 their purpose is to parle to court and dance
 and every one his lovefeat will advance
 unto his several mistress which they'll know
 by favours several which they did bestow
princess and will they so the gallants shall be task'd
 for ladies we shall every one be mask'd
 and not a man of them shall have the grace
 despite of suit to see a lady's face
 hold rosaline this favour thou shalt wear
 and then the king will court thee for his dear
 hold take thou this my sweet and give me thine
 so shall biron take me for rosaline
 and change your favours too so shall your loves
 woo contrary deceived by these removes
rosaline come on then wear the favours most in sight
katharine but in this changing what is your intent
princess the effect of my intent is to cross theirs
 they do it but in mocking merriment
 and mock for mock is only my intent
 their several counsels they unbosom shall
 to loves mistook and so be mock'd withal
 upon the next occasion that we meet
 with visages displayed to talk and greet
rosaline but shall we dance if they desire to't
princess no to the death we will not move a foot
 nor to their penn'd speech render we no grace
 but while tis spoke each turn away her face
boyet why that contempt will kill the speaker's heart
 and quite divorce his memory from his part
princess therefore i do it and i make no doubt
 the rest will ne'er come in if he be out
 there's no such sport as sport by sport o'erthrown
 to make theirs ours and ours none but our own
 so shall we stay mocking intended game
 and they well mock'd depart away with shame
 trumpets sound within
boyet the trumpet sounds be mask'd the maskers come
 the ladies mask
 enter blackamoors with music moth ferdinand
 biron longaville and dumain in russian habits
 and masked
moth all hail the richest beauties on the earth
boyet beauties no richer than rich taffeta
moth a holy parcel of the fairest dames
 the ladies turn their backs to him
 that ever turn'd theirbacksto mortal views
biron aside to moth their eyes villain their eyes
moth that ever turn'd their eyes to mortal viewsout
boyet true out indeed
moth out of your favours heavenly spirits vouchsafe
 not to behold
biron aside to moth once to behold rogue
moth once to behold with your sunbeamed eyes
 with your sunbeamed eyes
boyet they will not answer to that epithet
 you were best call it daughterbeamed eyes'
moth they do not mark me and that brings me out
biron is this your perfectness be gone you rogue
 exit moth
rosaline what would these strangers know their minds boyet
 if they do speak our language tis our will
 that some plain man recount their purposes
 know what they would
boyet what would you with the princess
biron nothing but peace and gentle visitation
rosaline what would they say they
boyet nothing but peace and gentle visitation
rosaline why that they have and bid them so be gone
boyet she says you have it and you may be gone
ferdinand say to her we have measured many miles
 to tread a measure with her on this grass
boyet they say that they have measured many a mile
 to tread a measure with you on this grass
rosaline it is not so ask them how many inches
 is in one mile if they have measured many
 the measure then of one is easily told
boyet if to come hither you have measured miles
 and many miles the princess bids you tell
 how many inches doth fill up one mile
biron tell her we measure them by weary steps
boyet she hears herself
rosaline how many weary steps
 of many weary miles you have o'ergone
 are number'd in the travel of one mile
biron we number nothing that we spend for you
 our duty is so rich so infinite
 that we may do it still without accompt
 vouchsafe to show the sunshine of your face
 that we like savages may worship it
rosaline my face is but a moon and clouded too
ferdinand blessed are clouds to do as such clouds do
 vouchsafe bright moon and these thy stars to shine
 those clouds removed upon our watery eyne
rosaline o vain petitioner beg a greater matter
 thou now request'st but moonshine in the water
ferdinand then in our measure do but vouchsafe one change
 thou bid'st me beg this begging is not strange
rosaline play music then nay you must do it soon
 music plays
 not yet no dance thus change i like the moon
ferdinand will you not dance how come you thus estranged
rosaline you took the moon at full but now she's changed
ferdinand yet still she is the moon and i the man
 the music plays vouchsafe some motion to it
rosaline our ears vouchsafe it
ferdinand but your legs should do it
rosaline since you are strangers and come here by chance
 we'll not be nice take hands we will not dance
ferdinand why take we hands then
rosaline only to part friends
 curtsy sweet hearts and so the measure ends
ferdinand more measure of this measure be not nice
rosaline we can afford no more at such a price
ferdinand prize you yourselves what buys your company
rosaline your absence only
ferdinand that can never be
rosaline then cannot we be bought and so adieu
 twice to your visor and half once to you
ferdinand if you deny to dance let's hold more chat
rosaline in private then
ferdinand i am best pleased with that
 they converse apart
biron whitehanded mistress one sweet word with thee
princess honey and milk and sugar there is three
biron nay then two treys and if you grow so nice
 metheglin wort and malmsey well run dice
 there's halfadozen sweets
princess seventh sweet adieu
 since you can cog i'll play no more with you
biron one word in secret
princess let it not be sweet
biron thou grievest my gall
princess gall bitter
biron therefore meet
 they converse apart
dumain will you vouchsafe with me to change a word
maria name it
dumain fair lady
maria say you so fair lord
 take that for your fair lady
dumain please it you
 as much in private and i'll bid adieu
 they converse apart
katharine what was your vizard made without a tongue
longaville i know the reason lady why you ask
katharine o for your reason quickly sir i long
longaville you have a double tongue within your mask
 and would afford my speechless vizard half
katharine veal quoth the dutchman is not veal a calf
longaville a calf fair lady
katharine no a fair lord calf
longaville let's part the word
katharine no i'll not be your half
 take all and wean it it may prove an ox
longaville look how you butt yourself in these sharp mocks
 will you give horns chaste lady do not so
katharine then die a calf before your horns do grow
longaville one word in private with you ere i die
katharine bleat softly then the butcher hears you cry
 they converse apart
boyet the tongues of mocking wenches are as keen
 as is the razor's edge invisible
 cutting a smaller hair than may be seen
 above the sense of sense so sensible
 seemeth their conference their conceits have wings
 fleeter than arrows bullets wind thought swifter things
rosaline not one word more my maids break off break off
biron by heaven all drybeaten with pure scoff
ferdinand farewell mad wenches you have simple wits
princess twenty adieus my frozen muscovits
 exeunt ferdinand lords and blackamoors
 are these the breed of wits so wonder'd at
boyet tapers they are with your sweet breaths puff'd out
rosaline wellliking wits they have gross gross fat fat
princess o poverty in wit kinglypoor flout
 will they not think you hang themselves tonight
 or ever but in vizards show their faces
 this pert biron was out of countenance quite
rosaline o they were all in lamentable cases
 the king was weepingripe for a good word
princess biron did swear himself out of all suit
maria dumain was at my service and his sword
 no point quoth i my servant straight was mute
katharine lord longaville said i came o'er his heart
 and trow you what he called me
princess qualm perhaps
katharine yes in good faith
princess go sickness as thou art
rosaline well better wits have worn plain statutecaps
 but will you hear the king is my love sworn
princess and quick biron hath plighted faith to me
katharine and longaville was for my service born
maria dumain is mine as sure as bark on tree
boyet madam and pretty mistresses give ear
 immediately they will again be here
 in their own shapes for it can never be
 they will digest this harsh indignity
princess will they return
boyet they will they will god knows
 and leap for joy though they are lame with blows
 therefore change favours and when they repair
 blow like sweet roses in this summer air
princess how blow how blow speak to be understood
boyet fair ladies mask'd are roses in their bud
 dismask'd their damask sweet commixture shown
 are angels vailing clouds or roses blown
princess avaunt perplexity what shall we do
 if they return in their own shapes to woo
rosaline good madam if by me you'll be advised
 let's mock them still as well known as disguised
 let us complain to them what fools were here
 disguised like muscovites in shapeless gear
 and wonder what they were and to what end
 their shallow shows and prologue vilely penn'd
 and their rough carriage so ridiculous
 should be presented at our tent to us
boyet ladies withdraw the gallants are at hand
princess whip to our tents as roes run o'er land
 exeunt princess rosaline katharine and maria
 reenter ferdinand biron longaville and dumain
 in their proper habits
ferdinand fair sir god save you where's the princess
boyet gone to her tent please it your majesty
 command me any service to her thither
ferdinand that she vouchsafe me audience for one word
boyet i will and so will she i know my lord
 exit
biron this fellow pecks up wit as pigeons pease
 and utters it again when god doth please
 he is wit's pedler and retails his wares
 at wakes and wassails meetings markets fairs
 and we that sell by gross the lord doth know
 have not the grace to grace it with such show
 this gallant pins the wenches on his sleeve
 had he been adam he had tempted eve
 a can carve too and lisp why this is he
 that kiss'd his hand away in courtesy
 this is the ape of form monsieur the nice
 that when he plays at tables chides the dice
 in honourable terms nay he can sing
 a mean most meanly and in ushering
 mend him who can the ladies call him sweet
 the stairs as he treads on them kiss his feet
 this is the flower that smiles on every one
 to show his teeth as white as whale's bone
 and consciences that will not die in debt
 pay him the due of honeytongued boyet
ferdinand a blister on his sweet tongue with my heart
 that put armado's page out of his part
biron see where it comes behavior what wert thou
 till this madman show'd thee and what art thou now
 reenter the princess ushered by boyet rosaline
 maria and katharine
ferdinand all hail sweet madam and fair time of day
princess fair in all hail is foul as i conceive
ferdinand construe my speeches better if you may
princess then wish me better i will give you leave
ferdinand we came to visit you and purpose now
 to lead you to our court vouchsafe it then
princess this field shall hold me and so hold your vow
 nor god nor i delights in perjured men
ferdinand rebuke me not for that which you provoke
 the virtue of your eye must break my oath
princess you nickname virtue vice you should have spoke
 for virtue's office never breaks men's troth
 now by my maiden honour yet as pure
 as the unsullied lily i protest
 a world of torments though i should endure
 i would not yield to be your house's guest
 so much i hate a breaking cause to be
 of heavenly oaths vow'd with integrity
ferdinand o you have lived in desolation here
 unseen unvisited much to our shame
princess not so my lord it is not so i swear
 we have had pastimes here and pleasant game
 a mess of russians left us but of late
ferdinand how madam russians
princess ay in truth my lord
 trim gallants full of courtship and of state
rosaline madam speak true it is not so my lord
 my lady to the manner of the days
 in courtesy gives undeserving praise
 we four indeed confronted were with four
 in russian habit here they stay'd an hour
 and talk'd apace and in that hour my lord
 they did not bless us with one happy word
 i dare not call them fools but this i think
 when they are thirsty fools would fain have drink
biron this jest is dry to me fair gentle sweet
 your wit makes wise things foolish when we greet
 with eyes best seeing heaven's fiery eye
 by light we lose light your capacity
 is of that nature that to your huge store
 wise things seem foolish and rich things but poor
rosaline this proves you wise and rich for in my eye
biron i am a fool and full of poverty
rosaline but that you take what doth to you belong
 it were a fault to snatch words from my tongue
biron o i am yours and all that i possess
rosaline all the fool mine
biron i cannot give you less
rosaline which of the vizards was it that you wore
biron where when what vizard why demand you this
rosaline there then that vizard that superfluous case
 that hid the worse and show'd the better face
ferdinand we are descried they'll mock us now downright
dumain let us confess and turn it to a jest
princess amazed my lord why looks your highness sad
rosaline help hold his brows he'll swoon why look you pale
 seasick i think coming from muscovy
biron thus pour the stars down plagues for perjury
 can any face of brass hold longer out
 here stand i lady dart thy skill at me
 bruise me with scorn confound me with a flout
 thrust thy sharp wit quite through my ignorance
 cut me to pieces with thy keen conceit
 and i will wish thee never more to dance
 nor never more in russian habit wait
 o never will i trust to speeches penn'd
 nor to the motion of a schoolboy's tongue
 nor never come in vizard to my friend
 nor woo in rhyme like a blind harper's song
 taffeta phrases silken terms precise
 threepiled hyperboles spruce affectation
 figures pedantical these summerflies
 have blown me full of maggot ostentation
 i do forswear them and i here protest
 by this white glovehow white the hand god knows
 henceforth my wooing mind shall be express'd
 in russet yeas and honest kersey noes
 and to begin wenchso god help me la
 my love to thee is sound sans crack or flaw
rosaline sans sans i pray you
biron yet i have a trick
 of the old rage bear with me i am sick
 i'll leave it by degrees soft let us see
 write lord have mercy on us on those three
 they are infected in their hearts it lies
 they have the plague and caught it of your eyes
 these lords are visited you are not free
 for the lord's tokens on you do i see
princess no they are free that gave these tokens to us
biron our states are forfeit seek not to undo us
rosaline it is not so for how can this be true
 that you stand forfeit being those that sue
biron peace for i will not have to do with you
rosaline nor shall not if i do as i intend
biron speak for yourselves my wit is at an end
ferdinand teach us sweet madam for our rude transgression
 some fair excuse
princess the fairest is confession
 were not you here but even now disguised
ferdinand madam i was
princess and were you well advised
ferdinand i was fair madam
princess when you then were here
 what did you whisper in your lady's ear
ferdinand that more than all the world i did respect her
princess when she shall challenge this you will reject her
ferdinand upon mine honour no
princess peace peace forbear
 your oath once broke you force not to forswear
ferdinand despise me when i break this oath of mine
princess i will and therefore keep it rosaline
 what did the russian whisper in your ear
rosaline madam he swore that he did hold me dear
 as precious eyesight and did value me
 above this world adding thereto moreover
 that he would wed me or else die my lover
princess god give thee joy of him the noble lord
 most honourably doth unhold his word
ferdinand what mean you madam by my life my troth
 i never swore this lady such an oath
rosaline by heaven you did and to confirm it plain
 you gave me this but take it sir again
ferdinand my faith and this the princess i did give
 i knew her by this jewel on her sleeve
princess pardon me sir this jewel did she wear
 and lord biron i thank him is my dear
 what will you have me or your pearl again
biron neither of either i remit both twain
 i see the trick on't here was a consent
 knowing aforehand of our merriment
 to dash it like a christmas comedy
 some carrytale some pleaseman some slight zany
 some mumblenews some trencherknight some dick
 that smiles his cheek in years and knows the trick
 to make my lady laugh when she's disposed
 told our intents before which once disclosed
 the ladies did change favours and then we
 following the signs woo'd but the sign of she
 now to our perjury to add more terror
 we are again forsworn in will and error
 much upon this it is and might not you
 to boyet
 forestall our sport to make us thus untrue
 do not you know my lady's foot by the squier
 and laugh upon the apple of her eye
 and stand between her back sir and the fire
 holding a trencher jesting merrily
 you put our page out go you are allow'd
 die when you will a smock shall be your shroud
 you leer upon me do you there's an eye
 wounds like a leaden sword
boyet full merrily
 hath this brave manage this career been run
biron lo he is tilting straight peace i have done
 enter costard
 welcome pure wit thou partest a fair fray
costard o lord sir they would know
 whether the three worthies shall come in or no
biron what are there but three
costard no sir but it is vara fine
 for every one pursents three
biron and three times thrice is nine
costard not so sir under correction sir i hope it is not so
 you cannot beg us sir i can assure you sir we know
 what we know
 i hope sir three times thrice sir
biron is not nine
costard under correction sir we know whereuntil it doth amount
biron by jove i always took three threes for nine
costard o lord sir it were pity you should get your living
 by reckoning sir
biron how much is it
costard o lord sir the parties themselves the actors
 sir will show whereuntil it doth amount for mine
 own part i am as they say but to parfect one man
 in one poor man pompion the great sir
biron art thou one of the worthies
costard it pleased them to think me worthy of pompion the
 great for mine own part i know not the degree of
 the worthy but i am to stand for him
biron go bid them prepare
costard we will turn it finely off sir we will take
 some care
 exit
ferdinand biron they will shame us let them not approach
biron we are shameproof my lord and tis some policy
 to have one show worse than the king's and his company
ferdinand i say they shall not come
princess nay my good lord let me o'errule you now
 that sport best pleases that doth least know how
 where zeal strives to content and the contents
 dies in the zeal of that which it presents
 their form confounded makes most form in mirth
 when great things labouring perish in their birth
biron a right description of our sport my lord
 enter don adriano de armado
don
adriano de armado anointed i implore so much expense of thy royal
 sweet breath as will utter a brace of words
 converses apart with ferdinand and delivers him a paper
princess doth this man serve god
biron why ask you
princess he speaks not like a man of god's making
don
adriano de armado that is all one my fair sweet honey monarch for
 i protest the schoolmaster is exceeding
 fantastical too too vain too too vain but we
 will put it as they say to fortuna de la guerra
 i wish you the peace of mind most royal couplement
 exit
ferdinand here is like to be a good presence of worthies he
 presents hector of troy the swain pompey the
 great the parish curate alexander armado's page
 hercules the pedant judas maccabaeus and if
 these four worthies in their first show thrive
 these four will change habits and present the other five
biron there is five in the first show
ferdinand you are deceived tis not so
biron the pedant the braggart the hedgepriest the fool
 and the boy
 abate throw at novum and the whole world again
 cannot pick out five such take each one in his vein
ferdinand the ship is under sail and here she comes amain
 enter costard for pompey
costard i pompey am
boyet you lie you are not he
costard i pompey am
boyet with libbard's head on knee
biron well said old mocker i must needs be friends
 with thee
costard i pompey am pompey surnamed the big
dumain the great
costard it is great sir
 pompey surnamed the great
 that oft in field with targe and shield did make
 my foe to sweat
 and travelling along this coast i here am come by chance
 and lay my arms before the legs of this sweet lass of france
 if your ladyship would say thanks pompey i had done
princess great thanks great pompey
costard tis not so much worth but i hope i was perfect i
 made a little fault in great'
biron my hat to a halfpenny pompey proves the best worthy
 enter sir nathaniel for alexander
sir nathaniel when in the world i lived i was the world's
 commander
 by east west north and south i spread my
 conquering might
 my scutcheon plain declares that i am alisander
boyet your nose says no you are not for it stands too right
biron your nose smells no in this most tendersmelling knight
princess the conqueror is dismay'd proceed good alexander
sir nathaniel when in the world i lived i was the world's
 commander
boyet most true tis right you were so alisander
biron pompey the great
costard your servant and costard
biron take away the conqueror take away alisander
costard to sir nathaniel o sir you have overthrown
 alisander the conqueror you will be scraped out of
 the painted cloth for this your lion that holds
 his pollaxe sitting on a closestool will be given
 to ajax he will be the ninth worthy a conqueror
 and afeard to speak run away for shame alisander
 sir nathaniel retires
 there an't shall please you a foolish mild man an
 honest man look you and soon dashed he is a
 marvellous good neighbour faith and a very good
 bowler but for alisanderalas you see how
 tisa little o'erparted but there are worthies
 acoming will speak their mind in some other sort
 enter holofernes for judas and moth for hercules
holofernes great hercules is presented by this imp
 whose club kill'd cerberus that threeheaded canis
 and when he was a babe a child a shrimp
 thus did he strangle serpents in his manus
 quoniam he seemeth in minority
 ergo i come with this apology
 keep some state in thy exit and vanish
 moth retires
 judas i am
dumain a judas
holofernes not iscariot sir
 judas i am ycliped maccabaeus
dumain judas maccabaeus clipt is plain judas
biron a kissing traitor how art thou proved judas
holofernes judas i am
dumain the more shame for you judas
holofernes what mean you sir
boyet to make judas hang himself
holofernes begin sir you are my elder
biron well followed judas was hanged on an elder
holofernes i will not be put out of countenance
biron because thou hast no face
holofernes what is this
boyet a citternhead
dumain the head of a bodkin
biron a death's face in a ring
longaville the face of an old roman coin scarce seen
boyet the pommel of caesar's falchion
dumain the carvedbone face on a flask
biron saint george's halfcheek in a brooch
dumain ay and in a brooch of lead
biron ay and worn in the cap of a toothdrawer
 and now forward for we have put thee in countenance
holofernes you have put me out of countenance
biron false we have given thee faces
holofernes but you have outfaced them all
biron an thou wert a lion we would do so
boyet therefore as he is an ass let him go
 and so adieu sweet jude nay why dost thou stay
dumain for the latter end of his name
biron for the ass to the jude give it himjudas away
holofernes this is not generous not gentle not humble
boyet a light for monsieur judas it grows dark he may stumble
 holofernes retires
princess alas poor maccabaeus how hath he been baited
 enter don adriano de armado for hector
biron hide thy head achilles here comes hector in arms
dumain though my mocks come home by me i will now be merry
ferdinand hector was but a troyan in respect of this
boyet but is this hector
ferdinand i think hector was not so cleantimbered
longaville his leg is too big for hector's
dumain more calf certain
boyet no he is best endued in the small
biron this cannot be hector
dumain he's a god or a painter for he makes faces
don
adriano de armado the armipotent mars of lances the almighty
 gave hector a gift
dumain a gilt nutmeg
biron a lemon
longaville stuck with cloves
dumain no cloven
don
adriano de armado peace
 the armipotent mars of lances the almighty
 gave hector a gift the heir of ilion
 a man so breathed that certain he would fight yea
 from morn till night out of his pavilion
 i am that flower
dumain that mint
longaville that columbine
don
adriano de armado sweet lord longaville rein thy tongue
longaville i must rather give it the rein for it runs against hector
dumain ay and hector's a greyhound
don
adriano de armado the sweet warman is dead and rotten sweet chucks
 beat not the bones of the buried when he breathed
 he was a man but i will forward with my device
 to the princess
 sweet royalty bestow on me the sense of hearing
princess speak brave hector we are much delighted
don
adriano de armado i do adore thy sweet grace's slipper
boyet aside to dumain loves her by the foot
dumain aside to boyet he may not by the yard
don
adriano de armado this hector far surmounted hannibal
costard the party is gone fellow hector she is gone she
 is two months on her way
don
adriano de armado what meanest thou
costard faith unless you play the honest troyan the poor
 wench is cast away she's quick the child brags in
 her belly already tis yours
don
adriano de armado dost thou infamonize me among potentates thou shalt
 die
costard then shall hector be whipped for jaquenetta that is
 quick by him and hanged for pompey that is dead by
 him
dumain most rare pompey
boyet renowned pompey
biron greater than great great great great pompey
 pompey the huge
dumain hector trembles
biron pompey is moved more ates more ates stir them
 on stir them on
dumain hector will challenge him
biron ay if a have no man's blood in's belly than will
 sup a flea
don
adriano de armado by the north pole i do challenge thee
costard i will not fight with a pole like a northern man
 i'll slash i'll do it by the sword i bepray you
 let me borrow my arms again
dumain room for the incensed worthies
costard i'll do it in my shirt
dumain most resolute pompey
moth master let me take you a buttonhole lower do you
 not see pompey is uncasing for the combat what mean
 you you will lose your reputation
don
adriano de armado gentlemen and soldiers pardon me i will not combat
 in my shirt
dumain you may not deny it pompey hath made the challenge
don
adriano de armado sweet bloods i both may and will
biron what reason have you for't
don
adriano de armado the naked truth of it is i have no shirt i go
 woolward for penance
boyet true and it was enjoined him in rome for want of
 linen since when i'll be sworn he wore none but
 a dishclout of jaquenetta's and that a wears next
 his heart for a favour
 enter mercade
mercade god save you madam
princess welcome mercade
 but that thou interrupt'st our merriment
mercade i am sorry madam for the news i bring
 is heavy in my tongue the king your father
princess dead for my life
mercade even so my tale is told
biron worthies away the scene begins to cloud
don
adriano de armado for mine own part i breathe free breath i have
 seen the day of wrong through the little hole of
 discretion and i will right myself like a soldier
 exeunt worthies
ferdinand how fares your majesty
princess boyet prepare i will away tonight
ferdinand madam not so i do beseech you stay
princess prepare i say i thank you gracious lords
 for all your fair endeavors and entreat
 out of a newsad soul that you vouchsafe
 in your rich wisdom to excuse or hide
 the liberal opposition of our spirits
 if overboldly we have borne ourselves
 in the converse of breath your gentleness
 was guilty of it farewell worthy lord
 a heavy heart bears not a nimble tongue
 excuse me so coming too short of thanks
 for my great suit so easily obtain'd
ferdinand the extreme parts of time extremely forms
 all causes to the purpose of his speed
 and often at his very loose decides
 that which long process could not arbitrate
 and though the mourning brow of progeny
 forbid the smiling courtesy of love
 the holy suit which fain it would convince
 yet since love's argument was first on foot
 let not the cloud of sorrow justle it
 from what it purposed since to wail friends lost
 is not by much so wholesomeprofitable
 as to rejoice at friends but newly found
princess i understand you not my griefs are double
biron honest plain words best pierce the ear of grief
 and by these badges understand the king
 for your fair sakes have we neglected time
 play'd foul play with our oaths your beauty ladies
 hath much deform'd us fashioning our humours
 even to the opposed end of our intents
 and what in us hath seem'd ridiculous
 as love is full of unbefitting strains
 all wanton as a child skipping and vain
 form'd by the eye and therefore like the eye
 full of strange shapes of habits and of forms
 varying in subjects as the eye doth roll
 to every varied object in his glance
 which particoated presence of loose love
 put on by us if in your heavenly eyes
 have misbecomed our oaths and gravities
 those heavenly eyes that look into these faults
 suggested us to make therefore ladies
 our love being yours the error that love makes
 is likewise yours we to ourselves prove false
 by being once false for ever to be true
 to those that make us bothfair ladies you
 and even that falsehood in itself a sin
 thus purifies itself and turns to grace
princess we have received your letters full of love
 your favours the ambassadors of love
 and in our maiden council rated them
 at courtship pleasant jest and courtesy
 as bombast and as lining to the time
 but more devout than this in our respects
 have we not been and therefore met your loves
 in their own fashion like a merriment
dumain our letters madam show'd much more than jest
longaville so did our looks
rosaline we did not quote them so
ferdinand now at the latest minute of the hour
 grant us your loves
princess a time methinks too short
 to make a worldwithoutend bargain in
 no no my lord your grace is perjured much
 full of dear guiltiness and therefore this
 if for my love as there is no such cause
 you will do aught this shall you do for me
 your oath i will not trust but go with speed
 to some forlorn and naked hermitage
 remote from all the pleasures of the world
 there stay until the twelve celestial signs
 have brought about the annual reckoning
 if this austere insociable life
 change not your offer made in heat of blood
 if frosts and fasts hard lodging and thin weeds
 nip not the gaudy blossoms of your love
 but that it bear this trial and last love
 then at the expiration of the year
 come challenge me challenge me by these deserts
 and by this virgin palm now kissing thine
 i will be thine and till that instant shut
 my woeful self up in a mourning house
 raining the tears of lamentation
 for the remembrance of my father's death
 if this thou do deny let our hands part
 neither entitled in the other's heart
ferdinand if this or more than this i would deny
 to flatter up these powers of mine with rest
 the sudden hand of death close up mine eye
 hence ever then my heart is in thy breast
biron and what to me my love and what to me
rosaline you must be purged too your sins are rack'd
 you are attaint with faults and perjury
 therefore if you my favour mean to get
 a twelvemonth shall you spend and never rest
 but seek the weary beds of people sick
dumain but what to me my love but what to me a wife
katharine a beard fair health and honesty
 with threefold love i wish you all these three
dumain o shall i say i thank you gentle wife
katharine not so my lord a twelvemonth and a day
 i'll mark no words that smoothfaced wooers say
 come when the king doth to my lady come
 then if i have much love i'll give you some
dumain i'll serve thee true and faithfully till then
katharine yet swear not lest ye be forsworn again
longaville what says maria
maria at the twelvemonth's end
 i'll change my black gown for a faithful friend
longaville i'll stay with patience but the time is long
maria the liker you few taller are so young
biron studies my lady mistress look on me
 behold the window of my heart mine eye
 what humble suit attends thy answer there
 impose some service on me for thy love
rosaline oft have i heard of you my lord biron
 before i saw you and the world's large tongue
 proclaims you for a man replete with mocks
 full of comparisons and wounding flouts
 which you on all estates will execute
 that lie within the mercy of your wit
 to weed this wormwood from your fruitful brain
 and therewithal to win me if you please
 without the which i am not to be won
 you shall this twelvemonth term from day to day
 visit the speechless sick and still converse
 with groaning wretches and your task shall be
 with all the fierce endeavor of your wit
 to enforce the pained impotent to smile
biron to move wild laughter in the throat of death
 it cannot be it is impossible
 mirth cannot move a soul in agony
rosaline why that's the way to choke a gibing spirit
 whose influence is begot of that loose grace
 which shallow laughing hearers give to fools
 a jest's prosperity lies in the ear
 of him that hears it never in the tongue
 of him that makes it then if sickly ears
 deaf'd with the clamours of their own dear groans
 will hear your idle scorns continue then
 and i will have you and that fault withal
 but if they will not throw away that spirit
 and i shall find you empty of that fault
 right joyful of your reformation
biron a twelvemonth well befall what will befall
 i'll jest a twelvemonth in an hospital
princess to ferdinand ay sweet my lord and so i take my leave
ferdinand no madam we will bring you on your way
biron our wooing doth not end like an old play
 jack hath not jill these ladies courtesy
 might well have made our sport a comedy
ferdinand come sir it wants a twelvemonth and a day
 and then twill end
biron that's too long for a play
 reenter don adriano de armado
don
adriano de armado sweet majesty vouchsafe me
princess was not that hector
dumain the worthy knight of troy
don
adriano de armado i will kiss thy royal finger and take leave i am
 a votary i have vowed to jaquenetta to hold the
 plough for her sweet love three years but most
 esteemed greatness will you hear the dialogue that
 the two learned men have compiled in praise of the
 owl and the cuckoo it should have followed in the
 end of our show
ferdinand call them forth quickly we will do so
don
adriano de armado holla approach
 reenter holofernes sir nathaniel moth costard
 and others
 this side is hiems winter this ver the spring
 the one maintained by the owl the other by the
 cuckoo ver begin
 the song
 
 spring
 when daisies pied and violets blue
 and ladysmocks all silverwhite
 and cuckoobuds of yellow hue
 do paint the meadows with delight
 the cuckoo then on every tree
 mocks married men for thus sings he cuckoo
 cuckoo cuckoo o word of fear
 unpleasing to a married ear
 when shepherds pipe on oaten straws
 and merry larks are ploughmen's clocks
 when turtles tread and rooks and daws
 and maidens bleach their summer smocks
 the cuckoo then on every tree
 mocks married men for thus sings he cuckoo
 cuckoo cuckoo o word of fear
 unpleasing to a married ear
 
 winter
 when icicles hang by the wall
 and dick the shepherd blows his nail
 and tom bears logs into the hall
 and milk comes frozen home in pail
 when blood is nipp'd and ways be foul
 then nightly sings the staring owl tuwhit
 tuwho a merry note
 while greasy joan doth keel the pot
 when all aloud the wind doth blow
 and coughing drowns the parson's saw
 and birds sit brooding in the snow
 and marian's nose looks red and raw
 when roasted crabs hiss in the bowl
 then nightly sings the staring owl tuwhit
 tuwho a merry note
 while greasy joan doth keel the pot
don
adriano de armado the words of mercury are harsh after the songs of
 apollo you that way we this way
 exeunt
 measure for measure
 dramatis personae
vincentio the duke duke vincentio
angelo deputy
escalus an ancient lord
claudio a young gentleman
lucio a fantastic
 two other gentlemen
 first gentleman
 second gentleman
 provost
peter friar peter 
 two friars
thomas friar thomas 
 a justice
varrius
elbow a simple constable
froth a foolish gentleman
pompey servant to mistress overdone
abhorson an executioner
barnardine a dissolute prisoner
isabella sister to claudio
mariana betrothed to angelo
juliet beloved of claudio
francisca a nun
mistress overdone a bawd
 lords officers citizens boy and attendant
 servant
 messenger
scene vienna
 measure for measure
act i
scene i an apartment in the duke's palace
 enter duke vincentio escalus lords and
 attendants
duke vincentio escalus
escalus my lord
duke vincentio of government the properties to unfold
 would seem in me to affect speech and discourse
 since i am put to know that your own science
 exceeds in that the lists of all advice
 my strength can give you then no more remains
 but that to your sufficiency 
 as your worth is able
 and let them work the nature of our people
 our city's institutions and the terms
 for common justice you're as pregnant in
 as art and practise hath enriched any
 that we remember there is our commission
 from which we would not have you warp call hither
 i say bid come before us angelo
 exit an attendant
 what figure of us think you he will bear
 for you must know we have with special soul
 elected him our absence to supply
 lent him our terror dress'd him with our love
 and given his deputation all the organs
 of our own power what think you of it
escalus if any in vienna be of worth
 to undergo such ample grace and honour
 it is lord angelo
duke vincentio look where he comes
 enter angelo
angelo always obedient to your grace's will
 i come to know your pleasure
duke vincentio angelo
 there is a kind of character in thy life
 that to the observer doth thy history
 fully unfold thyself and thy belongings
 are not thine own so proper as to waste
 thyself upon thy virtues they on thee
 heaven doth with us as we with torches do
 not light them for themselves for if our virtues
 did not go forth of us twere all alike
 as if we had them not spirits are not finely touch'd
 but to fine issues nor nature never lends
 the smallest scruple of her excellence
 but like a thrifty goddess she determines
 herself the glory of a creditor
 both thanks and use but i do bend my speech
 to one that can my part in him advertise
 hold therefore angelo
 in our remove be thou at full ourself
 mortality and mercy in vienna
 live in thy tongue and heart old escalus
 though first in question is thy secondary
 take thy commission
angelo now good my lord
 let there be some more test made of my metal
 before so noble and so great a figure
 be stamp'd upon it
duke vincentio no more evasion
 we have with a leaven'd and prepared choice
 proceeded to you therefore take your honours
 our haste from hence is of so quick condition
 that it prefers itself and leaves unquestion'd
 matters of needful value we shall write to you
 as time and our concernings shall importune
 how it goes with us and do look to know
 what doth befall you here so fare you well
 to the hopeful execution do i leave you
 of your commissions
angelo yet give leave my lord
 that we may bring you something on the way
duke vincentio my haste may not admit it
 nor need you on mine honour have to do
 with any scruple your scope is as mine own
 so to enforce or qualify the laws
 as to your soul seems good give me your hand
 i'll privily away i love the people
 but do not like to stage me to their eyes
 through it do well i do not relish well
 their loud applause and aves vehement
 nor do i think the man of safe discretion
 that does affect it once more fare you well
angelo the heavens give safety to your purposes
escalus lead forth and bring you back in happiness
duke i thank you fare you well
 exit
escalus i shall desire you sir to give me leave
 to have free speech with you and it concerns me
 to look into the bottom of my place
 a power i have but of what strength and nature
 i am not yet instructed
angelo tis so with me let us withdraw together
 and we may soon our satisfaction have
 touching that point
escalus i'll wait upon your honour
 exeunt
 measure for measure
act i
scene ii a street
 enter lucio and two gentlemen
lucio if the duke with the other dukes come not to
 composition with the king of hungary why then all
 the dukes fall upon the king
first gentleman heaven grant us its peace but not the king of
 hungary's
second gentleman amen
lucio thou concludest like the sanctimonious pirate that
 went to sea with the ten commandments but scraped
 one out of the table
second gentleman thou shalt not steal'
lucio ay that he razed
first gentleman why twas a commandment to command the captain and
 all the rest from their functions they put forth
 to steal there's not a soldier of us all that in
 the thanksgiving before meat do relish the petition
 well that prays for peace
second gentleman i never heard any soldier dislike it
lucio i believe thee for i think thou never wast where
 grace was said
second gentleman no a dozen times at least
first gentleman what in metre
lucio in any proportion or in any language
first gentleman i think or in any religion
lucio ay why not grace is grace despite of all
 controversy as for example thou thyself art a
 wicked villain despite of all grace
first gentleman well there went but a pair of shears between us
lucio i grant as there may between the lists and the
 velvet thou art the list
first gentleman and thou the velvet thou art good velvet thou'rt
 a threepiled piece i warrant thee i had as lief
 be a list of an english kersey as be piled as thou
 art piled for a french velvet do i speak
 feelingly now
lucio i think thou dost and indeed with most painful
 feeling of thy speech i will out of thine own
 confession learn to begin thy health but whilst i
 live forget to drink after thee
first gentleman i think i have done myself wrong have i not
second gentleman yes that thou hast whether thou art tainted or free
lucio behold behold where madam mitigation comes i
 have purchased as many diseases under her roof as come to
second gentleman to what i pray
lucio judge
second gentleman to three thousand dolours a year
first gentleman ay and more
lucio a french crown more
first gentleman thou art always figuring diseases in me but thou
 art full of error i am sound
lucio nay not as one would say healthy but so sound as
 things that are hollow thy bones are hollow
 impiety has made a feast of thee
 enter mistress overdone
first gentleman how now which of your hips has the most profound sciatica
mistress overdone well well there's one yonder arrested and carried
 to prison was worth five thousand of you all
second gentleman who's that i pray thee
mistress overdone marry sir that's claudio signior claudio
first gentleman claudio to prison tis not so
mistress overdone nay but i know tis so i saw him arrested saw
 him carried away and which is more within these
 three days his head to be chopped off
lucio but after all this fooling i would not have it so
 art thou sure of this
mistress overdone i am too sure of it and it is for getting madam
 julietta with child
lucio believe me this may be he promised to meet me two
 hours since and he was ever precise in
 promisekeeping
second gentleman besides you know it draws something near to the
 speech we had to such a purpose
first gentleman but most of all agreeing with the proclamation
lucio away let's go learn the truth of it
 exeunt lucio and gentlemen
mistress overdone thus what with the war what with the sweat what
 with the gallows and what with poverty i am
 customshrunk
 enter pompey
 how now what's the news with you
pompey yonder man is carried to prison
mistress overdone well what has he done
pompey a woman
mistress overdone but what's his offence
pompey groping for trouts in a peculiar river
mistress overdone what is there a maid with child by him
pompey no but there's a woman with maid by him you have
 not heard of the proclamation have you
mistress overdone what proclamation man
pompey all houses in the suburbs of vienna must be plucked down
mistress overdone and what shall become of those in the city
pompey they shall stand for seed they had gone down too
 but that a wise burgher put in for them
mistress overdone but shall all our houses of resort in the suburbs be
 pulled down
pompey to the ground mistress
mistress overdone why here's a change indeed in the commonwealth
 what shall become of me
pompey come fear you not good counsellors lack no
 clients though you change your place you need not
 change your trade i'll be your tapster still
 courage there will be pity taken on you you that
 have worn your eyes almost out in the service you
 will be considered
mistress overdone what's to do here thomas tapster let's withdraw
pompey here comes signior claudio led by the provost to
 prison and there's madam juliet
 exeunt
 enter provost claudio juliet and officers
claudio fellow why dost thou show me thus to the world
 bear me to prison where i am committed
provost i do it not in evil disposition
 but from lord angelo by special charge
claudio thus can the demigod authority
 make us pay down for our offence by weight
 the words of heaven on whom it will it will
 on whom it will not so yet still tis just
 reenter lucio and two gentlemen
lucio why how now claudio whence comes this restraint
claudio from too much liberty my lucio liberty
 as surfeit is the father of much fast
 so every scope by the immoderate use
 turns to restraint our natures do pursue
 like rats that ravin down their proper bane
 a thirsty evil and when we drink we die
lucio if could speak so wisely under an arrest i would
 send for certain of my creditors and yet to say
 the truth i had as lief have the foppery of freedom
 as the morality of imprisonment what's thy
 offence claudio
claudio what but to speak of would offend again
lucio what is't murder
claudio no
lucio lechery
claudio call it so
provost away sir you must go
claudio one word good friend lucio a word with you
lucio a hundred if they'll do you any good
 is lechery so look'd after
claudio thus stands it with me upon a true contract
 i got possession of julietta's bed
 you know the lady she is fast my wife
 save that we do the denunciation lack
 of outward order this we came not to
 only for propagation of a dower
 remaining in the coffer of her friends
 from whom we thought it meet to hide our love
 till time had made them for us but it chances
 the stealth of our most mutual entertainment
 with character too gross is writ on juliet
lucio with child perhaps
claudio unhappily even so
 and the new deputy now for the duke
 whether it be the fault and glimpse of newness
 or whether that the body public be
 a horse whereon the governor doth ride
 who newly in the seat that it may know
 he can command lets it straight feel the spur
 whether the tyranny be in his place
 or in his emmence that fills it up
 i stagger inbut this new governor
 awakes me all the enrolled penalties
 which have like unscour'd armour hung by the wall
 so long that nineteen zodiacs have gone round
 and none of them been worn and for a name
 now puts the drowsy and neglected act
 freshly on me tis surely for a name
lucio i warrant it is and thy head stands so tickle on
 thy shoulders that a milkmaid if she be in love
 may sigh it off send after the duke and appeal to
 him
claudio i have done so but he's not to be found
 i prithee lucio do me this kind service
 this day my sister should the cloister enter
 and there receive her approbation
 acquaint her with the danger of my state
 implore her in my voice that she make friends
 to the strict deputy bid herself assay him
 i have great hope in that for in her youth
 there is a prone and speechless dialect
 such as move men beside she hath prosperous art
 when she will play with reason and discourse
 and well she can persuade
lucio i pray she may as well for the encouragement of the
 like which else would stand under grievous
 imposition as for the enjoying of thy life who i
 would be sorry should be thus foolishly lost at a
 game of ticktack i'll to her
claudio i thank you good friend lucio
lucio within two hours
claudio come officer away
 exeunt
 measure for measure
act i
scene iii a monastery
 enter duke vincentio and friar thomas
duke vincentio no holy father throw away that thought
 believe not that the dribbling dart of love
 can pierce a complete bosom why i desire thee
 to give me secret harbour hath a purpose
 more grave and wrinkled than the aims and ends
 of burning youth
friar thomas may your grace speak of it
duke vincentio my holy sir none better knows than you
 how i have ever loved the life removed
 and held in idle price to haunt assemblies
 where youth and cost and witless bravery keeps
 i have deliver'd to lord angelo
 a man of stricture and firm abstinence
 my absolute power and place here in vienna
 and he supposes me travell'd to poland
 for so i have strew'd it in the common ear
 and so it is received now pious sir
 you will demand of me why i do this
friar thomas gladly my lord
duke vincentio we have strict statutes and most biting laws
 the needful bits and curbs to headstrong weeds
 which for this nineteen years we have let slip
 even like an o'ergrown lion in a cave
 that goes not out to prey now as fond fathers
 having bound up the threatening twigs of birch
 only to stick it in their children's sight
 for terror not to use in time the rod
 becomes more mock'd than fear'd so our decrees
 dead to infliction to themselves are dead
 and liberty plucks justice by the nose
 the baby beats the nurse and quite athwart
 goes all decorum
friar thomas it rested in your grace
 to unloose this tiedup justice when you pleased
 and it in you more dreadful would have seem'd
 than in lord angelo
duke vincentio i do fear too dreadful
 sith twas my fault to give the people scope
 twould be my tyranny to strike and gall them
 for what i bid them do for we bid this be done
 when evil deeds have their permissive pass
 and not the punishment therefore indeed my father
 i have on angelo imposed the office
 who may in the ambush of my name strike home
 and yet my nature never in the fight
 to do in slander and to behold his sway
 i will as twere a brother of your order
 visit both prince and people therefore i prithee
 supply me with the habit and instruct me
 how i may formally in person bear me
 like a true friar more reasons for this action
 at our more leisure shall i render you
 only this one lord angelo is precise
 stands at a guard with envy scarce confesses
 that his blood flows or that his appetite
 is more to bread than stone hence shall we see
 if power change purpose what our seemers be
 exeunt
 measure for measure
act i
scene iv a nunnery
 enter isabella and francisca
isabella and have you nuns no farther privileges
francisca are not these large enough
isabella yes truly i speak not as desiring more
 but rather wishing a more strict restraint
 upon the sisterhood the votarists of saint clare
lucio within ho peace be in this place
isabella who's that which calls
francisca it is a man's voice gentle isabella
 turn you the key and know his business of him
 you may i may not you are yet unsworn
 when you have vow'd you must not speak with men
 but in the presence of the prioress
 then if you speak you must not show your face
 or if you show your face you must not speak
 he calls again i pray you answer him
 exit
isabella peace and prosperity who is't that calls
 enter lucio
lucio hail virgin if you be as those cheekroses
 proclaim you are no less can you so stead me
 as bring me to the sight of isabella
 a novice of this place and the fair sister
 to her unhappy brother claudio
isabella why her unhappy brother let me ask
 the rather for i now must make you know
 i am that isabella and his sister
lucio gentle and fair your brother kindly greets you
 not to be weary with you he's in prison
isabella woe me for what
lucio for that which if myself might be his judge
 he should receive his punishment in thanks
 he hath got his friend with child
isabella sir make me not your story
lucio it is true
 i would notthough tis my familiar sin
 with maids to seem the lapwing and to jest
 tongue far from heartplay with all virgins so
 i hold you as a thing ensky'd and sainted
 by your renouncement an immortal spirit
 and to be talk'd with in sincerity
 as with a saint
isabella you do blaspheme the good in mocking me
lucio do not believe it fewness and truth tis thus
 your brother and his lover have embraced
 as those that feed grow full as blossoming time
 that from the seedness the bare fallow brings
 to teeming foison even so her plenteous womb
 expresseth his full tilth and husbandry
isabella some one with child by him my cousin juliet
lucio is she your cousin
isabella adoptedly as schoolmaids change their names
 by vain though apt affection
lucio she it is
isabella o let him marry her
lucio this is the point
 the duke is very strangely gone from hence
 bore many gentlemen myself being one
 in hand and hope of action but we do learn
 by those that know the very nerves of state
 his givingsout were of an infinite distance
 from his truemeant design upon his place
 and with full line of his authority
 governs lord angelo a man whose blood
 is very snowbroth one who never feels
 the wanton stings and motions of the sense
 but doth rebate and blunt his natural edge
 with profits of the mind study and fast
 heto give fear to use and liberty
 which have for long run by the hideous law
 as mice by lionshath pick'd out an act
 under whose heavy sense your brother's life
 falls into forfeit he arrests him on it
 and follows close the rigour of the statute
 to make him an example all hope is gone
 unless you have the grace by your fair prayer
 to soften angelo and that's my pith of business
 twixt you and your poor brother
isabella doth he so seek his life
lucio has censured him
 already and as i hear the provost hath
 a warrant for his execution
isabella alas what poor ability's in me
 to do him good
lucio assay the power you have
isabella my power alas i doubt
lucio our doubts are traitors
 and make us lose the good we oft might win
 by fearing to attempt go to lord angelo
 and let him learn to know when maidens sue
 men give like gods but when they weep and kneel
 all their petitions are as freely theirs
 as they themselves would owe them
isabella i'll see what i can do
lucio but speedily
isabella i will about it straight
 no longer staying but to give the mother
 notice of my affair i humbly thank you
 commend me to my brother soon at night
 i'll send him certain word of my success
lucio i take my leave of you
isabella good sir adieu
 exeunt
 measure for measure
act ii
scene i a hall in angelo's house
 enter angelo escalus and a justice provost
 officers and other attendants behind
angelo we must not make a scarecrow of the law
 setting it up to fear the birds of prey
 and let it keep one shape till custom make it
 their perch and not their terror
escalus ay but yet
 let us be keen and rather cut a little
 than fall and bruise to death alas this gentleman
 whom i would save had a most noble father
 let but your honour know
 whom i believe to be most strait in virtue
 that in the working of your own affections
 had time cohered with place or place with wishing
 or that the resolute acting of your blood
 could have attain'd the effect of your own purpose
 whether you had not sometime in your life
 err'd in this point which now you censure him
 and pull'd the law upon you
angelo tis one thing to be tempted escalus
 another thing to fall i not deny
 the jury passing on the prisoner's life
 may in the sworn twelve have a thief or two
 guiltier than him they try what's open made to justice
 that justice seizes what know the laws
 that thieves do pass on thieves tis very pregnant
 the jewel that we find we stoop and take't
 because we see it but what we do not see
 we tread upon and never think of it
 you may not so extenuate his offence
 for i have had such faults but rather tell me
 when i that censure him do so offend
 let mine own judgment pattern out my death
 and nothing come in partial sir he must die
escalus be it as your wisdom will
angelo where is the provost
provost here if it like your honour
angelo see that claudio
 be executed by nine tomorrow morning
 bring him his confessor let him be prepared
 for that's the utmost of his pilgrimage
 exit provost
escalus aside well heaven forgive him and forgive us all
 some rise by sin and some by virtue fall
 some run from brakes of ice and answer none
 and some condemned for a fault alone
 enter elbow and officers with froth and pompey
elbow come bring them away if these be good people in
 a commonweal that do nothing but use their abuses in
 common houses i know no law bring them away
angelo how now sir what's your name and what's the matter
elbow if it please your honour i am the poor duke's
 constable and my name is elbow i do lean upon
 justice sir and do bring in here before your good
 honour two notorious benefactors
angelo benefactors well what benefactors are they are
 they not malefactors
elbow if it please your honour i know not well what they
 are but precise villains they are that i am sure
 of and void of all profanation in the world that
 good christians ought to have
escalus this comes off well here's a wise officer
angelo go to what quality are they of elbow is your
 name why dost thou not speak elbow
pompey he cannot sir he's out at elbow
angelo what are you sir
elbow he sir a tapster sir parcelbawd one that
 serves a bad woman whose house sir was as they
 say plucked down in the suburbs and now she
 professes a hothouse which i think is a very ill house too
escalus how know you that
elbow my wife sir whom i detest before heaven and your honour
escalus how thy wife
elbow ay sir whom i thank heaven is an honest woman
escalus dost thou detest her therefore
elbow i say sir i will detest myself also as well as
 she that this house if it be not a bawd's house
 it is pity of her life for it is a naughty house
escalus how dost thou know that constable
elbow marry sir by my wife who if she had been a woman
 cardinally given might have been accused in
 fornication adultery and all uncleanliness there
escalus by the woman's means
elbow ay sir by mistress overdone's means but as she
 spit in his face so she defied him
pompey sir if it please your honour this is not so
elbow prove it before these varlets here thou honourable
 man prove it
escalus do you hear how he misplaces
pompey sir she came in great with child and longing
 saving your honour's reverence for stewed prunes
 sir we had but two in the house which at that very
 distant time stood as it were in a fruitdish a
 dish of some threepence your honours have seen
 such dishes they are not china dishes but very
 good dishes
escalus go to go to no matter for the dish sir
pompey no indeed sir not of a pin you are therein in
 the right but to the point as i say this
 mistress elbow being as i say with child and
 being greatbellied and longing as i said for
 prunes and having but two in the dish as i said
 master froth here this very man having eaten the
 rest as i said and as i say paying for them very
 honestly for as you know master froth i could
 not give you threepence again
froth no indeed
pompey very well you being then if you be remembered
 cracking the stones of the foresaid prunes
froth ay so i did indeed
pompey why very well i telling you then if you be
 remembered that such a one and such a one were past
 cure of the thing you wot of unless they kept very
 good diet as i told you
froth all this is true
pompey why very well then
escalus come you are a tedious fool to the purpose what
 was done to elbow's wife that he hath cause to
 complain of come me to what was done to her
pompey sir your honour cannot come to that yet
escalus no sir nor i mean it not
pompey sir but you shall come to it by your honour's
 leave and i beseech you look into master froth
 here sir a man of fourscore pound a year whose
 father died at hallowmas was't not at hallowmas
 master froth
froth allhallond eve
pompey why very well i hope here be truths he sir
 sitting as i say in a lower chair sir twas in
 the bunch of grapes where indeed you have a delight
 to sit have you not
froth i have so because it is an open room and good for winter
pompey why very well then i hope here be truths
angelo this will last out a night in russia
 when nights are longest there i'll take my leave
 and leave you to the hearing of the cause
 hoping you'll find good cause to whip them all
escalus i think no less good morrow to your lordship
 exit angelo
 now sir come on what was done to elbow's wife once more
pompey once sir there was nothing done to her once
elbow i beseech you sir ask him what this man did to my wife
pompey i beseech your honour ask me
escalus well sir what did this gentleman to her
pompey i beseech you sir look in this gentleman's face
 good master froth look upon his honour tis for a
 good purpose doth your honour mark his face
escalus ay sir very well
pompey nay i beseech you mark it well
escalus well i do so
pompey doth your honour see any harm in his face
escalus why no
pompey i'll be supposed upon a book his face is the worst
 thing about him good then if his face be the
 worst thing about him how could master froth do the
 constable's wife any harm i would know that of
 your honour
escalus he's in the right constable what say you to it
elbow first an it like you the house is a respected
 house next this is a respected fellow and his
 mistress is a respected woman
pompey by this hand sir his wife is a more respected
 person than any of us all
elbow varlet thou liest thou liest wicked varlet the
 time has yet to come that she was ever respected
 with man woman or child
pompey sir she was respected with him before he married with her
escalus which is the wiser here justice or iniquity is
 this true
elbow o thou caitiff o thou varlet o thou wicked
 hannibal i respected with her before i was married
 to her if ever i was respected with her or she
 with me let not your worship think me the poor
 duke's officer prove this thou wicked hannibal or
 i'll have mine action of battery on thee
escalus if he took you a box o the ear you might have your
 action of slander too
elbow marry i thank your good worship for it what is't
 your worship's pleasure i shall do with this wicked caitiff
escalus truly officer because he hath some offences in him
 that thou wouldst discover if thou couldst let him
 continue in his courses till thou knowest what they
 are
elbow marry i thank your worship for it thou seest thou
 wicked varlet now what's come upon thee thou art
 to continue now thou varlet thou art to continue
escalus where were you born friend
froth here in vienna sir
escalus are you of fourscore pounds a year
froth yes an't please you sir
escalus so what trade are you of sir
pomphey tapster a poor widow's tapster
escalus your mistress name
pomphey mistress overdone
escalus hath she had any more than one husband
pompey nine sir overdone by the last
escalus nine come hither to me master froth master
 froth i would not have you acquainted with
 tapsters they will draw you master froth and you
 will hang them get you gone and let me hear no
 more of you
froth i thank your worship for mine own part i never
 come into any room in a taphouse but i am drawn
 in
escalus well no more of it master froth farewell
 exit froth
 come you hither to me master tapster what's your
 name master tapster
pompey pompey
escalus what else
pompey bum sir
escalus troth and your bum is the greatest thing about you
 so that in the beastliest sense you are pompey the
 great pompey you are partly a bawd pompey
 howsoever you colour it in being a tapster are you
 not come tell me true it shall be the better for you
pompey truly sir i am a poor fellow that would live
escalus how would you live pompey by being a bawd what
 do you think of the trade pompey is it a lawful trade
pompey if the law would allow it sir
escalus but the law will not allow it pompey nor it shall
 not be allowed in vienna
pompey does your worship mean to geld and splay all the
 youth of the city
escalus no pompey
pompey truly sir in my poor opinion they will to't then
 if your worship will take order for the drabs and
 the knaves you need not to fear the bawds
escalus there are pretty orders beginning i can tell you
 it is but heading and hanging
pompey if you head and hang all that offend that way but
 for ten year together you'll be glad to give out a
 commission for more heads if this law hold in
 vienna ten year i'll rent the fairest house in it
 after threepence a bay if you live to see this
 come to pass say pompey told you so
escalus thank you good pompey and in requital of your
 prophecy hark you i advise you let me not find
 you before me again upon any complaint whatsoever
 no not for dwelling where you do if i do pompey
 i shall beat you to your tent and prove a shrewd
 caesar to you in plain dealing pompey i shall
 have you whipt so for this time pompey fare you well
pompey i thank your worship for your good counsel
 aside
 but i shall follow it as the flesh and fortune shall
 better determine
 whip me no no let carman whip his jade
 the valiant heart is not whipt out of his trade
 exit
escalus come hither to me master elbow come hither master
 constable how long have you been in this place of constable
elbow seven year and a half sir
escalus i thought by your readiness in the office you had
 continued in it some time you say seven years together
elbow and a half sir
escalus alas it hath been great pains to you they do you
 wrong to put you so oft upon t are there not men
 in your ward sufficient to serve it
elbow faith sir few of any wit in such matters as they
 are chosen they are glad to choose me for them i
 do it for some piece of money and go through with
 all
escalus look you bring me in the names of some six or seven
 the most sufficient of your parish
elbow to your worship's house sir
escalus to my house fare you well
 exit elbow
 what's o'clock think you
justice eleven sir
escalus i pray you home to dinner with me
justice i humbly thank you
escalus it grieves me for the death of claudio
 but there's no remedy
justice lord angelo is severe
escalus it is but needful
 mercy is not itself that oft looks so
 pardon is still the nurse of second woe
 but yetpoor claudio there is no remedy
 come sir
 exeunt
 measure for measure
act ii
scene ii another room in the same
 enter provost and a servant
servant he's hearing of a cause he will come straight
 i'll tell him of you
provost pray you do
 exit servant
 i'll know
 his pleasure may be he will relent alas
 he hath but as offended in a dream
 all sects all ages smack of this vice and he
 to die for't
 enter angelo
angelo now what's the matter provost
provost is it your will claudio shall die tomorrow
angelo did not i tell thee yea hadst thou not order
 why dost thou ask again
provost lest i might be too rash
 under your good correction i have seen
 when after execution judgment hath
 repented o'er his doom
angelo go to let that be mine
 do you your office or give up your place
 and you shall well be spared
provost i crave your honour's pardon
 what shall be done sir with the groaning juliet
 she's very near her hour
angelo dispose of her
 to some more fitter place and that with speed
 reenter servant
servant here is the sister of the man condemn'd
 desires access to you
angelo hath he a sister
provost ay my good lord a very virtuous maid
 and to be shortly of a sisterhood
 if not already
angelo well let her be admitted
 exit servant
 see you the fornicatress be removed
 let have needful but not lavish means
 there shall be order for't
 enter isabella and lucio
provost god save your honour
angelo stay a little while
 to isabella
 you're welcome what's your will
isabella i am a woeful suitor to your honour
 please but your honour hear me
angelo well what's your suit
isabella there is a vice that most i do abhor
 and most desire should meet the blow of justice
 for which i would not plead but that i must
 for which i must not plead but that i am
 at war twixt will and will not
angelo well the matter
isabella i have a brother is condemn'd to die
 i do beseech you let it be his fault
 and not my brother
provost aside heaven give thee moving graces
angelo condemn the fault and not the actor of it
 why every fault's condemn'd ere it be done
 mine were the very cipher of a function
 to fine the faults whose fine stands in record
 and let go by the actor
isabella o just but severe law
 i had a brother then heaven keep your honour
lucio aside to isabella give't not o'er so to him
 again entreat him
 kneel down before him hang upon his gown
 you are too cold if you should need a pin
 you could not with more tame a tongue desire it
 to him i say
isabella must he needs die
angelo maiden no remedy
isabella yes i do think that you might pardon him
 and neither heaven nor man grieve at the mercy
angelo i will not do't
isabella but can you if you would
angelo look what i will not that i cannot do
isabella but might you do't and do the world no wrong
 if so your heart were touch'd with that remorse
 as mine is to him
angelo he's sentenced tis too late
lucio aside to isabella you are too cold
isabella too late why no i that do speak a word
 may call it back again well believe this
 no ceremony that to great ones longs
 not the king's crown nor the deputed sword
 the marshal's truncheon nor the judge's robe
 become them with one half so good a grace
 as mercy does
 if he had been as you and you as he
 you would have slipt like him but he like you
 would not have been so stern
angelo pray you be gone
isabella i would to heaven i had your potency
 and you were isabel should it then be thus
 no i would tell what twere to be a judge
 and what a prisoner
lucio aside to isabella
 ay touch him there's the vein
angelo your brother is a forfeit of the law
 and you but waste your words
isabella alas alas
 why all the souls that were were forfeit once
 and he that might the vantage best have took
 found out the remedy how would you be
 if he which is the top of judgment should
 but judge you as you are o think on that
 and mercy then will breathe within your lips
 like man new made
angelo be you content fair maid
 it is the law not i condemn your brother
 were he my kinsman brother or my son
 it should be thus with him he must die tomorrow
isabella tomorrow o that's sudden spare him spare him
 he's not prepared for death even for our kitchens
 we kill the fowl of season shall we serve heaven
 with less respect than we do minister
 to our gross selves good good my lord bethink you
 who is it that hath died for this offence
 there's many have committed it
lucio aside to isabella ay well said
angelo the law hath not been dead though it hath slept
 those many had not dared to do that evil
 if the first that did the edict infringe
 had answer'd for his deed now tis awake
 takes note of what is done and like a prophet
 looks in a glass that shows what future evils
 either new or by remissness newconceived
 and so in progress to be hatch'd and born
 are now to have no successive degrees
 but ere they live to end
isabella yet show some pity
angelo i show it most of all when i show justice
 for then i pity those i do not know
 which a dismiss'd offence would after gall
 and do him right that answering one foul wrong
 lives not to act another be satisfied
 your brother dies tomorrow be content
isabella so you must be the first that gives this sentence
 and he that suffer's o it is excellent
 to have a giant's strength but it is tyrannous
 to use it like a giant
lucio aside to isabella that's well said
isabella could great men thunder
 as jove himself does jove would ne'er be quiet
 for every pelting petty officer
 would use his heaven for thunder
 nothing but thunder merciful heaven
 thou rather with thy sharp and sulphurous bolt
 split'st the unwedgeable and gnarled oak
 than the soft myrtle but man proud man
 drest in a little brief authority
 most ignorant of what he's most assured
 his glassy essence like an angry ape
 plays such fantastic tricks before high heaven
 as make the angels weep who with our spleens
 would all themselves laugh mortal
lucio aside to isabella o to him to him wench he
 will relent
 he's coming i perceive t
provost aside pray heaven she win him
isabella we cannot weigh our brother with ourself
 great men may jest with saints tis wit in them
 but in the less foul profanation
lucio thou'rt i the right girl more o that
isabella that in the captain's but a choleric word
 which in the soldier is flat blasphemy
lucio aside to isabella art avised o that more on t
angelo why do you put these sayings upon me
isabella because authority though it err like others
 hath yet a kind of medicine in itself
 that skins the vice o the top go to your bosom
 knock there and ask your heart what it doth know
 that's like my brother's fault if it confess
 a natural guiltiness such as is his
 let it not sound a thought upon your tongue
 against my brother's life
angelo aside she speaks and tis
 such sense that my sense breeds with it fare you well
isabella gentle my lord turn back
angelo i will bethink me come again tomorrow
isabella hark how i'll bribe you good my lord turn back
angelo how bribe me
isabella ay with such gifts that heaven shall share with you
lucio aside to isabella you had marr'd all else
isabella not with fond shekels of the tested gold
 or stones whose rates are either rich or poor
 as fancy values them but with true prayers
 that shall be up at heaven and enter there
 ere sunrise prayers from preserved souls
 from fasting maids whose minds are dedicate
 to nothing temporal
angelo well come to me tomorrow
lucio aside to isabella go to tis well away
isabella heaven keep your honour safe
angelo aside amen
 for i am that way going to temptation
 where prayers cross
isabella at what hour tomorrow
 shall i attend your lordship
angelo at any time fore noon
isabella save your honour
 exeunt isabella lucio and provost
angelo from thee even from thy virtue
 what's this what's this is this her fault or mine
 the tempter or the tempted who sins most
 ha
 not she nor doth she tempt but it is i
 that lying by the violet in the sun
 do as the carrion does not as the flower
 corrupt with virtuous season can it be
 that modesty may more betray our sense
 than woman's lightness having waste ground enough
 shall we desire to raze the sanctuary
 and pitch our evils there o fie fie fie
 what dost thou or what art thou angelo
 dost thou desire her foully for those things
 that make her good o let her brother live
 thieves for their robbery have authority
 when judges steal themselves what do i love her
 that i desire to hear her speak again
 and feast upon her eyes what is't i dream on
 o cunning enemy that to catch a saint
 with saints dost bait thy hook most dangerous
 is that temptation that doth goad us on
 to sin in loving virtue never could the strumpet
 with all her double vigour art and nature
 once stir my temper but this virtuous maid
 subdues me quite even till now
 when men were fond i smiled and wonder'd how
 exit
 measure for measure
act ii
scene iii a room in a prison
 enter severally duke vincentio disguised as a
 friar and provost
duke vincentio hail to you provost so i think you are
provost i am the provost what's your will good friar
duke vincentio bound by my charity and my blest order
 i come to visit the afflicted spirits
 here in the prison do me the common right
 to let me see them and to make me know
 the nature of their crimes that i may minister
 to them accordingly
provost i would do more than that if more were needful
 enter juliet
 look here comes one a gentlewoman of mine
 who falling in the flaws of her own youth
 hath blister'd her report she is with child
 and he that got it sentenced a young man
 more fit to do another such offence
 than die for this
duke vincentio when must he die
provost as i do think tomorrow
 i have provided for you stay awhile
 to juliet
 and you shall be conducted
duke vincentio repent you fair one of the sin you carry
juliet i do and bear the shame most patiently
duke vincentio i'll teach you how you shall arraign your conscience
 and try your penitence if it be sound
 or hollowly put on
juliet i'll gladly learn
duke vincentio love you the man that wrong'd you
juliet yes as i love the woman that wrong'd him
duke vincentio so then it seems your most offenceful act
 was mutually committed
juliet mutually
duke vincentio then was your sin of heavier kind than his
juliet i do confess it and repent it father
duke vincentio tis meet so daughter but lest you do repent
 as that the sin hath brought you to this shame
 which sorrow is always towards ourselves not heaven
 showing we would not spare heaven as we love it
 but as we stand in fear
juliet i do repent me as it is an evil
 and take the shame with joy
duke vincentio there rest
 your partner as i hear must die tomorrow
 and i am going with instruction to him
 grace go with you benedicite
 exit
juliet must die tomorrow o injurious love
 that respites me a life whose very comfort
 is still a dying horror
provost tis pity of him
 exeunt
 measure for measure
act ii
scene iv a room in angelo's house
 enter angelo
angelo when i would pray and think i think and pray
 to several subjects heaven hath my empty words
 whilst my invention hearing not my tongue
 anchors on isabel heaven in my mouth
 as if i did but only chew his name
 and in my heart the strong and swelling evil
 of my conception the state whereon i studied
 is like a good thing being often read
 grown fear'd and tedious yea my gravity
 whereinlet no man hear mei take pride
 could i with boot change for an idle plume
 which the air beats for vain o place o form
 how often dost thou with thy case thy habit
 wrench awe from fools and tie the wiser souls
 to thy false seeming blood thou art blood
 let's write good angel on the devil's horn
 tis not the devil's crest
 enter a servant
 how now who's there
servant one isabel a sister desires access to you
angelo teach her the way
 exit servant
 o heavens
 why does my blood thus muster to my heart
 making both it unable for itself
 and dispossessing all my other parts
 of necessary fitness
 so play the foolish throngs with one that swoons
 come all to help him and so stop the air
 by which he should revive and even so
 the general subject to a wellwish'd king
 quit their own part and in obsequious fondness
 crowd to his presence where their untaught love
 must needs appear offence
 enter isabella
 how now fair maid
isabella i am come to know your pleasure
angelo that you might know it would much better please me
 than to demand what tis your brother cannot live
isabella even so heaven keep your honour
angelo yet may he live awhile and it may be
 as long as you or i yet he must die
isabella under your sentence
angelo yea
isabella when i beseech you that in his reprieve
 longer or shorter he may be so fitted
 that his soul sicken not
angelo ha fie these filthy vices it were as good
 to pardon him that hath from nature stolen
 a man already made as to remit
 their saucy sweetness that do coin heaven's image
 in stamps that are forbid tis all as easy
 falsely to take away a life true made
 as to put metal in restrained means
 to make a false one
isabella tis set down so in heaven but not in earth
angelo say you so then i shall pose you quickly
 which had you rather that the most just law
 now took your brother's life or to redeem him
 give up your body to such sweet uncleanness
 as she that he hath stain'd
isabella sir believe this
 i had rather give my body than my soul
angelo i talk not of your soul our compell'd sins
 stand more for number than for accompt
isabella how say you
angelo nay i'll not warrant that for i can speak
 against the thing i say answer to this
 i now the voice of the recorded law
 pronounce a sentence on your brother's life
 might there not be a charity in sin
 to save this brother's life
isabella please you to do't
 i'll take it as a peril to my soul
 it is no sin at all but charity
angelo pleased you to do't at peril of your soul
 were equal poise of sin and charity
isabella that i do beg his life if it be sin
 heaven let me bear it you granting of my suit
 if that be sin i'll make it my morn prayer
 to have it added to the faults of mine
 and nothing of your answer
angelo nay but hear me
 your sense pursues not mine either you are ignorant
 or seem so craftily and that's not good
isabella let me be ignorant and in nothing good
 but graciously to know i am no better
angelo thus wisdom wishes to appear most bright
 when it doth tax itself as these black masks
 proclaim an enshield beauty ten times louder
 than beauty could display'd but mark me
 to be received plain i'll speak more gross
 your brother is to die
isabella so
angelo and his offence is so as it appears
 accountant to the law upon that pain
isabella true
angelo admit no other way to save his life
 as i subscribe not that nor any other
 but in the loss of questionthat you his sister
 finding yourself desired of such a person
 whose credit with the judge or own great place
 could fetch your brother from the manacles
 of the allbuilding law and that there were
 no earthly mean to save him but that either
 you must lay down the treasures of your body
 to this supposed or else to let him suffer
 what would you do
isabella as much for my poor brother as myself
 that is were i under the terms of death
 the impression of keen whips i'ld wear as rubies
 and strip myself to death as to a bed
 that longing have been sick for ere i'ld yield
 my body up to shame
angelo then must your brother die
isabella and twere the cheaper way
 better it were a brother died at once
 than that a sister by redeeming him
 should die for ever
angelo were not you then as cruel as the sentence
 that you have slander'd so
isabella ignomy in ransom and free pardon
 are of two houses lawful mercy
 is nothing kin to foul redemption
angelo you seem'd of late to make the law a tyrant
 and rather proved the sliding of your brother
 a merriment than a vice
isabella o pardon me my lord it oft falls out
 to have what we would have we speak not what we mean
 i something do excuse the thing i hate
 for his advantage that i dearly love
angelo we are all frail
isabella else let my brother die
 if not a feodary but only he
 owe and succeed thy weakness
angelo nay women are frail too
isabella ay as the glasses where they view themselves
 which are as easy broke as they make forms
 women help heaven men their creation mar
 in profiting by them nay call us ten times frail
 for we are soft as our complexions are
 and credulous to false prints
angelo i think it well
 and from this testimony of your own sex
 since i suppose we are made to be no stronger
 than faults may shake our frameslet me be bold
 i do arrest your words be that you are
 that is a woman if you be more you're none
 if you be one as you are well express'd
 by all external warrants show it now
 by putting on the destined livery
isabella i have no tongue but one gentle my lord
 let me entreat you speak the former language
angelo plainly conceive i love you
isabella my brother did love juliet
 and you tell me that he shall die for it
angelo he shall not isabel if you give me love
isabella i know your virtue hath a licence in't
 which seems a little fouler than it is
 to pluck on others
angelo believe me on mine honour
 my words express my purpose
isabella ha little honour to be much believed
 and most pernicious purpose seeming seeming
 i will proclaim thee angelo look for't
 sign me a present pardon for my brother
 or with an outstretch'd throat i'll tell the world aloud
 what man thou art
angelo who will believe thee isabel
 my unsoil'd name the austereness of my life
 my vouch against you and my place i the state
 will so your accusation overweigh
 that you shall stifle in your own report
 and smell of calumny i have begun
 and now i give my sensual race the rein
 fit thy consent to my sharp appetite
 lay by all nicety and prolixious blushes
 that banish what they sue for redeem thy brother
 by yielding up thy body to my will
 or else he must not only die the death
 but thy unkindness shall his death draw out
 to lingering sufferance answer me tomorrow
 or by the affection that now guides me most
 i'll prove a tyrant to him as for you
 say what you can my false o'erweighs your true
 exit
isabella to whom should i complain did i tell this
 who would believe me o perilous mouths
 that bear in them one and the selfsame tongue
 either of condemnation or approof
 bidding the law make court'sy to their will
 hooking both right and wrong to the appetite
 to follow as it draws i'll to my brother
 though he hath fallen by prompture of the blood
 yet hath he in him such a mind of honour
 that had he twenty heads to tender down
 on twenty bloody blocks he'ld yield them up
 before his sister should her body stoop
 to such abhorr'd pollution
 then isabel live chaste and brother die
 more than our brother is our chastity
 i'll tell him yet of angelo's request
 and fit his mind to death for his soul's rest
 exit
 measure for measure
act iii
scene i a room in the prison
 enter duke vincentio disguised as before claudio
 and provost
duke vincentio so then you hope of pardon from lord angelo
claudio the miserable have no other medicine
 but only hope
 i've hope to live and am prepared to die
duke vincentio be absolute for death either death or life
 shall thereby be the sweeter reason thus with life
 if i do lose thee i do lose a thing
 that none but fools would keep a breath thou art
 servile to all the skyey influences
 that dost this habitation where thou keep'st
 hourly afflict merely thou art death's fool
 for him thou labour'st by thy flight to shun
 and yet runn'st toward him still thou art not noble
 for all the accommodations that thou bear'st
 are nursed by baseness thou'rt by no means valiant
 for thou dost fear the soft and tender fork
 of a poor worm thy best of rest is sleep
 and that thou oft provokest yet grossly fear'st
 thy death which is no more thou art not thyself
 for thou exist'st on many a thousand grains
 that issue out of dust happy thou art not
 for what thou hast not still thou strivest to get
 and what thou hast forget'st thou art not certain
 for thy complexion shifts to strange effects
 after the moon if thou art rich thou'rt poor
 for like an ass whose back with ingots bows
 thou bear's thy heavy riches but a journey
 and death unloads thee friend hast thou none
 for thine own bowels which do call thee sire
 the mere effusion of thy proper loins
 do curse the gout serpigo and the rheum
 for ending thee no sooner thou hast nor youth nor age
 but as it were an afterdinner's sleep
 dreaming on both for all thy blessed youth
 becomes as aged and doth beg the alms
 of palsied eld and when thou art old and rich
 thou hast neither heat affection limb nor beauty
 to make thy riches pleasant what's yet in this
 that bears the name of life yet in this life
 lie hid moe thousand deaths yet death we fear
 that makes these odds all even
claudio i humbly thank you
 to sue to live i find i seek to die
 and seeking death find life let it come on
isabella within what ho peace here grace and good company
provost who's there come in the wish deserves a welcome
duke vincentio dear sir ere long i'll visit you again
claudio most holy sir i thank you
 enter isabella
isabella my business is a word or two with claudio
provost and very welcome look signior here's your sister
duke vincentio provost a word with you
provost as many as you please
duke vincentio bring me to hear them speak where i may be concealed
 exeunt duke vincentio and provost
claudio now sister what's the comfort
isabella why
 as all comforts are most good most good indeed
 lord angelo having affairs to heaven
 intends you for his swift ambassador
 where you shall be an everlasting leiger
 therefore your best appointment make with speed
 tomorrow you set on
claudio is there no remedy
isabella none but such remedy as to save a head
 to cleave a heart in twain
claudio but is there any
isabella yes brother you may live
 there is a devilish mercy in the judge
 if you'll implore it that will free your life
 but fetter you till death
claudio perpetual durance
isabella ay just perpetual durance a restraint
 though all the world's vastidity you had
 to a determined scope
claudio but in what nature
isabella in such a one as you consenting to't
 would bark your honour from that trunk you bear
 and leave you naked
claudio let me know the point
isabella o i do fear thee claudio and i quake
 lest thou a feverous life shouldst entertain
 and six or seven winters more respect
 than a perpetual honour darest thou die
 the sense of death is most in apprehension
 and the poor beetle that we tread upon
 in corporal sufferance finds a pang as great
 as when a giant dies
claudio why give you me this shame
 think you i can a resolution fetch
 from flowery tenderness if i must die
 i will encounter darkness as a bride
 and hug it in mine arms
isabella there spake my brother there my father's grave
 did utter forth a voice yes thou must die
 thou art too noble to conserve a life
 in base appliances this outwardsainted deputy
 whose settled visage and deliberate word
 nips youth i the head and follies doth emmew
 as falcon doth the fowl is yet a devil
 his filth within being cast he would appear
 a pond as deep as hell
claudio the prenzie angelo
isabella o tis the cunning livery of hell
 the damned'st body to invest and cover
 in prenzie guards dost thou think claudio
 if i would yield him my virginity
 thou mightst be freed
claudio o heavens it cannot be
isabella yes he would give't thee from this rank offence
 so to offend him still this night's the time
 that i should do what i abhor to name
 or else thou diest tomorrow
claudio thou shalt not do't
isabella o were it but my life
 i'ld throw it down for your deliverance
 as frankly as a pin
claudio thanks dear isabel
isabella be ready claudio for your death tomorrow
claudio yes has he affections in him
 that thus can make him bite the law by the nose
 when he would force it sure it is no sin
 or of the deadly seven it is the least
isabella which is the least
claudio if it were damnable he being so wise
 why would he for the momentary trick
 be perdurably fined o isabel
isabella what says my brother
claudio death is a fearful thing
isabella and shamed life a hateful
claudio ay but to die and go we know not where
 to lie in cold obstruction and to rot
 this sensible warm motion to become
 a kneaded clod and the delighted spirit
 to bathe in fiery floods or to reside
 in thrilling region of thickribbed ice
 to be imprison'd in the viewless winds
 and blown with restless violence round about
 the pendent world or to be worse than worst
 of those that lawless and incertain thought
 imagine howling tis too horrible
 the weariest and most loathed worldly life
 that age ache penury and imprisonment
 can lay on nature is a paradise
 to what we fear of death
isabella alas alas
claudio sweet sister let me live
 what sin you do to save a brother's life
 nature dispenses with the deed so far
 that it becomes a virtue
isabella o you beast
 o faithless coward o dishonest wretch
 wilt thou be made a man out of my vice
 is't not a kind of incest to take life
 from thine own sister's shame what should i think
 heaven shield my mother play'd my father fair
 for such a warped slip of wilderness
 ne'er issued from his blood take my defiance
 die perish might but my bending down
 reprieve thee from thy fate it should proceed
 i'll pray a thousand prayers for thy death
 no word to save thee
claudio nay hear me isabel
isabella o fie fie fie
 thy sin's not accidental but a trade
 mercy to thee would prove itself a bawd
 tis best thou diest quickly
claudio o hear me isabella
 reenter duke vincentio
duke vincentio vouchsafe a word young sister but one word
isabella what is your will
duke vincentio might you dispense with your leisure i would by and
 by have some speech with you the satisfaction i
 would require is likewise your own benefit
isabella i have no superfluous leisure my stay must be
 stolen out of other affairs but i will attend you awhile
 walks apart
duke vincentio son i have overheard what hath passed between you
 and your sister angelo had never the purpose to
 corrupt her only he hath made an essay of her
 virtue to practise his judgment with the disposition
 of natures she having the truth of honour in her
 hath made him that gracious denial which he is most
 glad to receive i am confessor to angelo and i
 know this to be true therefore prepare yourself to
 death do not satisfy your resolution with hopes
 that are fallible tomorrow you must die go to
 your knees and make ready
claudio let me ask my sister pardon i am so out of love
 with life that i will sue to be rid of it
duke vincentio hold you there farewell
 exit claudio
 provost a word with you
 reenter provost
provost what's your will father
duke vincentio that now you are come you will be gone leave me
 awhile with the maid my mind promises with my
 habit no loss shall touch her by my company
provost in good time
 exit provost isabella comes forward
duke vincentio the hand that hath made you fair hath made you good
 the goodness that is cheap in beauty makes beauty
 brief in goodness but grace being the soul of
 your complexion shall keep the body of it ever
 fair the assault that angelo hath made to you
 fortune hath conveyed to my understanding and but
 that frailty hath examples for his falling i should
 wonder at angelo how will you do to content this
 substitute and to save your brother
isabella i am now going to resolve him i had rather my
 brother die by the law than my son should be
 unlawfully born but o how much is the good duke
 deceived in angelo if ever he return and i can
 speak to him i will open my lips in vain or
 discover his government
duke vincentio that shall not be much amiss yet as the matter
 now stands he will avoid your accusation he made
 trial of you only therefore fasten your ear on my
 advisings to the love i have in doing good a
 remedy presents itself i do make myself believe
 that you may most uprighteously do a poor wronged
 lady a merited benefit redeem your brother from
 the angry law do no stain to your own gracious
 person and much please the absent duke if
 peradventure he shall ever return to have hearing of
 this business
isabella let me hear you speak farther i have spirit to do
 anything that appears not foul in the truth of my spirit
duke vincentio virtue is bold and goodness never fearful have
 you not heard speak of mariana the sister of
 frederick the great soldier who miscarried at sea
isabella i have heard of the lady and good words went with her name
duke vincentio she should this angelo have married was affianced
 to her by oath and the nuptial appointed between
 which time of the contract and limit of the
 solemnity her brother frederick was wrecked at sea
 having in that perished vessel the dowry of his
 sister but mark how heavily this befell to the
 poor gentlewoman there she lost a noble and
 renowned brother in his love toward her ever most
 kind and natural with him the portion and sinew of
 her fortune her marriagedowry with both her
 combinate husband this wellseeming angelo
isabella can this be so did angelo so leave her
duke vincentio left her in her tears and dried not one of them
 with his comfort swallowed his vows whole
 pretending in her discoveries of dishonour in few
 bestowed her on her own lamentation which she yet
 wears for his sake and he a marble to her tears
 is washed with them but relents not
isabella what a merit were it in death to take this poor maid
 from the world what corruption in this life that
 it will let this man live but how out of this can she avail
duke vincentio it is a rupture that you may easily heal and the
 cure of it not only saves your brother but keeps
 you from dishonour in doing it
isabella show me how good father
duke vincentio this forenamed maid hath yet in her the continuance
 of her first affection his unjust unkindness that
 in all reason should have quenched her love hath
 like an impediment in the current made it more
 violent and unruly go you to angelo answer his
 requiring with a plausible obedience agree with
 his demands to the point only refer yourself to
 this advantage first that your stay with him may
 not be long that the time may have all shadow and
 silence in it and the place answer to convenience
 this being granted in courseand now follows
 allwe shall advise this wronged maid to stead up
 your appointment go in your place if the encounter
 acknowledge itself hereafter it may compel him to
 her recompense and here by this is your brother
 saved your honour untainted the poor mariana
 advantaged and the corrupt deputy scaled the maid
 will i frame and make fit for his attempt if you
 think well to carry this as you may the doubleness
 of the benefit defends the deceit from reproof
 what think you of it
isabella the image of it gives me content already and i
 trust it will grow to a most prosperous perfection
duke vincentio it lies much in your holding up haste you speedily
 to angelo if for this night he entreat you to his
 bed give him promise of satisfaction i will
 presently to saint luke's there at the moated
 grange resides this dejected mariana at that
 place call upon me and dispatch with angelo that
 it may be quickly
isabella i thank you for this comfort fare you well good father
 exeunt severally
 measure for measure
act iii
scene ii the street before the prison
 enter on one side duke vincentio disguised as
 before on the other elbow and officers with pompey
elbow nay if there be no remedy for it but that you will
 needs buy and sell men and women like beasts we
 shall have all the world drink brown and white bastard
duke vincentio o heavens what stuff is here
pompey twas never merry world since of two usuries the
 merriest was put down and the worser allowed by
 order of law a furred gown to keep him warm and
 furred with fox and lambskins too to signify that
 craft being richer than innocency stands for the facing
elbow come your way sir bless you good father friar
duke vincentio and you good brother father what offence hath
 this man made you sir
elbow marry sir he hath offended the law and sir we
 take him to be a thief too sir for we have found
 upon him sir a strange picklock which we have
 sent to the deputy
duke vincentio fie sirrah a bawd a wicked bawd
 the evil that thou causest to be done
 that is thy means to live do thou but think
 what tis to cram a maw or clothe a back
 from such a filthy vice say to thyself
 from their abominable and beastly touches
 i drink i eat array myself and live
 canst thou believe thy living is a life
 so stinkingly depending go mend go mend
pompey indeed it does stink in some sort sir but yet
 sir i would prove
duke vincentio nay if the devil have given thee proofs for sin
 thou wilt prove his take him to prison officer
 correction and instruction must both work
 ere this rude beast will profit
elbow he must before the deputy sir he has given him
 warning the deputy cannot abide a whoremaster if
 he be a whoremonger and comes before him he were
 as good go a mile on his errand
duke vincentio that we were all as some would seem to be
 from our faults as faults from seeming free
elbow his neck will come to your waista cord sir
pompey i spy comfort i cry bail here's a gentleman and a
 friend of mine
 enter lucio
lucio how now noble pompey what at the wheels of
 caesar art thou led in triumph what is there
 none of pygmalion's images newly made woman to be
 had now for putting the hand in the pocket and
 extracting it clutch'd what reply ha what
 sayest thou to this tune matter and method is't
 not drowned i the last rain ha what sayest
 thou trot is the world as it was man which is
 the way is it sad and few words or how the
 trick of it
duke vincentio still thus and thus still worse
lucio how doth my dear morsel thy mistress procures she
 still ha
pompey troth sir she hath eaten up all her beef and she
 is herself in the tub
lucio why tis good it is the right of it it must be
 so ever your fresh whore and your powdered bawd
 an unshunned consequence it must be so art going
 to prison pompey
pompey yes faith sir
lucio why tis not amiss pompey farewell go say i
 sent thee thither for debt pompey or how
elbow for being a bawd for being a bawd
lucio well then imprison him if imprisonment be the
 due of a bawd why tis his right bawd is he
 doubtless and of antiquity too bawdborn
 farewell good pompey commend me to the prison
 pompey you will turn good husband now pompey you
 will keep the house
pompey i hope sir your good worship will be my bail
lucio no indeed will i not pompey it is not the wear
 i will pray pompey to increase your bondage if
 you take it not patiently why your mettle is the
 more adieu trusty pompey bless you friar
duke vincentio and you
lucio does bridget paint still pompey ha
elbow come your ways sir come
pompey you will not bail me then sir
lucio then pompey nor now what news abroad friar
 what news
elbow come your ways sir come
lucio go to kennel pompey go
 exeunt elbow pompey and officers
 what news friar of the duke
duke vincentio i know none can you tell me of any
lucio some say he is with the emperor of russia other
 some he is in rome but where is he think you
duke vincentio i know not where but wheresoever i wish him well
lucio it was a mad fantastical trick of him to steal from
 the state and usurp the beggary he was never born
 to lord angelo dukes it well in his absence he
 puts transgression to t
duke vincentio he does well in t
lucio a little more lenity to lechery would do no harm in
 him something too crabbed that way friar
duke vincentio it is too general a vice and severity must cure it
lucio yes in good sooth the vice is of a great kindred
 it is well allied but it is impossible to extirp
 it quite friar till eating and drinking be put
 down they say this angelo was not made by man and
 woman after this downright way of creation is it
 true think you
duke vincentio how should he be made then
lucio some report a seamaid spawned him some that he
 was begot between two stockfishes but it is
 certain that when he makes water his urine is
 congealed ice that i know to be true and he is a
 motion generative that's infallible
duke vincentio you are pleasant sir and speak apace
lucio why what a ruthless thing is this in him for the
 rebellion of a codpiece to take away the life of a
 man would the duke that is absent have done this
 ere he would have hanged a man for the getting a
 hundred bastards he would have paid for the nursing
 a thousand he had some feeling of the sport he
 knew the service and that instructed him to mercy
duke vincentio i never heard the absent duke much detected for
 women he was not inclined that way
lucio o sir you are deceived
duke vincentio tis not possible
lucio who not the duke yes your beggar of fifty and
 his use was to put a ducat in her clackdish the
 duke had crotchets in him he would be drunk too
 that let me inform you
duke vincentio you do him wrong surely
lucio sir i was an inward of his a shy fellow was the
 duke and i believe i know the cause of his
 withdrawing
duke vincentio what i prithee might be the cause
lucio no pardon tis a secret must be locked within the
 teeth and the lips but this i can let you
 understand the greater file of the subject held the
 duke to be wise
duke vincentio wise why no question but he was
lucio a very superficial ignorant unweighing fellow
duke vincentio either this is the envy in you folly or mistaking
 the very stream of his life and the business he hath
 helmed must upon a warranted need give him a better
 proclamation let him be but testimonied in his own
 bringingsforth and he shall appear to the
 envious a scholar a statesman and a soldier
 therefore you speak unskilfully or if your
 knowledge be more it is much darkened in your malice
lucio sir i know him and i love him
duke vincentio love talks with better knowledge and knowledge with
 dearer love
lucio come sir i know what i know
duke vincentio i can hardly believe that since you know not what
 you speak but if ever the duke return as our
 prayers are he may let me desire you to make your
 answer before him if it be honest you have spoke
 you have courage to maintain it i am bound to call
 upon you and i pray you your name
lucio sir my name is lucio well known to the duke
duke vincentio he shall know you better sir if i may live to
 report you
lucio i fear you not
duke vincentio o you hope the duke will return no more or you
 imagine me too unhurtful an opposite but indeed i
 can do you little harm you'll forswear this again
lucio i'll be hanged first thou art deceived in me
 friar but no more of this canst thou tell if
 claudio die tomorrow or no
duke vincentio why should he die sir
lucio why for filling a bottle with a tundish i would
 the duke we talk of were returned again the
 ungenitured agent will unpeople the province with
 continency sparrows must not build in his
 houseeaves because they are lecherous the duke
 yet would have dark deeds darkly answered he would
 never bring them to light would he were returned
 marry this claudio is condemned for untrussing
 farewell good friar i prithee pray for me the
 duke i say to thee again would eat mutton on
 fridays he's not past it yet and i say to thee
 he would mouth with a beggar though she smelt brown
 bread and garlic say that i said so farewell
 exit
duke vincentio no might nor greatness in mortality
 can censure scape backwounding calumny
 the whitest virtue strikes what king so strong
 can tie the gall up in the slanderous tongue
 but who comes here
 enter escalus provost and officers with mistress overdone
escalus go away with her to prison
mistress overdone good my lord be good to me your honour is accounted
 a merciful man good my lord
escalus double and treble admonition and still forfeit in
 the same kind this would make mercy swear and play
 the tyrant
provost a bawd of eleven years continuance may it please
 your honour
mistress overdone my lord this is one lucio's information against me
 mistress kate keepdown was with child by him in the
 duke's time he promised her marriage his child
 is a year and a quarter old come philip and jacob
 i have kept it myself and see how he goes about to abuse me
escalus that fellow is a fellow of much licence let him be
 called before us away with her to prison go to
 no more words
 exeunt officers with mistress overdone
 provost my brother angelo will not be altered
 claudio must die tomorrow let him be furnished
 with divines and have all charitable preparation
 if my brother wrought by my pity it should not be
 so with him
provost so please you this friar hath been with him and
 advised him for the entertainment of death
escalus good even good father
duke vincentio bliss and goodness on you
escalus of whence are you
duke vincentio not of this country though my chance is now
 to use it for my time i am a brother
 of gracious order late come from the see
 in special business from his holiness
escalus what news abroad i the world
duke vincentio none but that there is so great a fever on
 goodness that the dissolution of it must cure it
 novelty is only in request and it is as dangerous
 to be aged in any kind of course as it is virtuous
 to be constant in any undertaking there is scarce
 truth enough alive to make societies secure but
 security enough to make fellowships accurst much
 upon this riddle runs the wisdom of the world this
 news is old enough yet it is every day's news i
 pray you sir of what disposition was the duke
escalus one that above all other strifes contended
 especially to know himself
duke vincentio what pleasure was he given to
escalus rather rejoicing to see another merry than merry at
 any thing which professed to make him rejoice a
 gentleman of all temperance but leave we him to
 his events with a prayer they may prove prosperous
 and let me desire to know how you find claudio
 prepared i am made to understand that you have
 lent him visitation
duke vincentio he professes to have received no sinister measure
 from his judge but most willingly humbles himself
 to the determination of justice yet had he framed
 to himself by the instruction of his frailty many
 deceiving promises of life which i by my good
 leisure have discredited to him and now is he
 resolved to die
escalus you have paid the heavens your function and the
 prisoner the very debt of your calling i have
 laboured for the poor gentleman to the extremest
 shore of my modesty but my brother justice have i
 found so severe that he hath forced me to tell him
 he is indeed justice
duke vincentio if his own life answer the straitness of his
 proceeding it shall become him well wherein if he
 chance to fail he hath sentenced himself
escalus i am going to visit the prisoner fare you well
duke vincentio peace be with you
 exeunt escalus and provost
 he who the sword of heaven will bear
 should be as holy as severe
 pattern in himself to know
 grace to stand and virtue go
 more nor less to others paying
 than by selfoffences weighing
 shame to him whose cruel striking
 kills for faults of his own liking
 twice treble shame on angelo
 to weed my vice and let his grow
 o what may man within him hide
 though angel on the outward side
 how may likeness made in crimes
 making practise on the times
 to draw with idle spiders strings
 most ponderous and substantial things
 craft against vice i must apply
 with angelo tonight shall lie
 his old betrothed but despised
 so disguise shall by the disguised
 pay with falsehood false exacting
 and perform an old contracting
 exit
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act iv
scene i the moated grange at st luke's
 enter mariana and a boy
 boy sings
 take o take those lips away
 that so sweetly were forsworn
 and those eyes the break of day
 lights that do mislead the morn
 but my kisses bring again bring again
 seals of love but sealed in vain sealed in vain
mariana break off thy song and haste thee quick away
 here comes a man of comfort whose advice
 hath often still'd my brawling discontent
 exit boy
 enter duke vincentio disguised as before
 i cry you mercy sir and well could wish
 you had not found me here so musical
 let me excuse me and believe me so
 my mirth it much displeased but pleased my woe
duke vincentio tis good though music oft hath such a charm
 to make bad good and good provoke to harm
 i pray you tell me hath any body inquired
 for me here today much upon this time have
 i promised here to meet
mariana you have not been inquired after
 i have sat here all day
 enter isabella
duke vincentio i do constantly believe you the time is come even
 now i shall crave your forbearance a little may
 be i will call upon you anon for some advantage to yourself
mariana i am always bound to you
 exit
duke vincentio very well met and well come
 what is the news from this good deputy
isabella he hath a garden circummured with brick
 whose western side is with a vineyard back'd
 and to that vineyard is a planched gate
 that makes his opening with this bigger key
 this other doth command a little door
 which from the vineyard to the garden leads
 there have i made my promise
 upon the heavy middle of the night
 to call upon him
duke vincentio but shall you on your knowledge find this way
isabella i have ta'en a due and wary note upon't
 with whispering and most guilty diligence
 in action all of precept he did show me
 the way twice o'er
duke vincentio are there no other tokens
 between you greed concerning her observance
isabella no none but only a repair i the dark
 and that i have possess'd him my most stay
 can be but brief for i have made him know
 i have a servant comes with me along
 that stays upon me whose persuasion is
 i come about my brother
duke vincentio tis well borne up
 i have not yet made known to mariana
 a word of this what ho within come forth
 reenter mariana
 i pray you be acquainted with this maid
 she comes to do you good
isabella i do desire the like
duke vincentio do you persuade yourself that i respect you
mariana good friar i know you do and have found it
duke vincentio take then this your companion by the hand
 who hath a story ready for your ear
 i shall attend your leisure but make haste
 the vaporous night approaches
mariana will't please you walk aside
 exeunt mariana and isabella
duke vincentio o place and greatness millions of false eyes
 are stuck upon thee volumes of report
 run with these false and most contrarious quests
 upon thy doings thousand escapes of wit
 make thee the father of their idle dreams
 and rack thee in their fancies
 reenter mariana and isabella
 welcome how agreed
isabella she'll take the enterprise upon her father
 if you advise it
duke vincentio it is not my consent
 but my entreaty too
isabella little have you to say
 when you depart from him but soft and low
 remember now my brother'
mariana fear me not
duke vincentio nor gentle daughter fear you not at all
 he is your husband on a precontract
 to bring you thus together tis no sin
 sith that the justice of your title to him
 doth flourish the deceit come let us go
 our corn's to reap for yet our tithe's to sow
 exeunt
 measure for measure
act iv
scene ii a room in the prison
 enter provost and pompey
provost come hither sirrah can you cut off a man's head
pompey if the man be a bachelor sir i can but if he be a
 married man he's his wife's head and i can never
 cut off a woman's head
provost come sir leave me your snatches and yield me a
 direct answer tomorrow morning are to die claudio
 and barnardine here is in our prison a common
 executioner who in his office lacks a helper if
 you will take it on you to assist him it shall
 redeem you from your gyves if not you shall have
 your full time of imprisonment and your deliverance
 with an unpitied whipping for you have been a
 notorious bawd
pompey sir i have been an unlawful bawd time out of mind
 but yet i will be content to be a lawful hangman i
 would be glad to receive some instruction from my
 fellow partner
provost what ho abhorson where's abhorson there
 enter abhorson
abhorson do you call sir
provost sirrah here's a fellow will help you tomorrow in
 your execution if you think it meet compound with
 him by the year and let him abide here with you if
 not use him for the present and dismiss him he
 cannot plead his estimation with you he hath been a bawd
abhorson a bawd sir fie upon him he will discredit our mystery
provost go to sir you weigh equally a feather will turn
 the scale
 exit
pompey pray sir by your good favourfor surely sir a
 good favour you have but that you have a hanging
 lookdo you call sir your occupation a mystery
abhorson ay sir a mystery
pompey painting sir i have heard say is a mystery and
 your whores sir being members of my occupation
 using painting do prove my occupation a mystery
 but what mystery there should be in hanging if i
 should be hanged i cannot imagine
abhorson sir it is a mystery
pompey proof
abhorson every true man's apparel fits your thief if it be
 too little for your thief your true man thinks it
 big enough if it be too big for your thief your
 thief thinks it little enough so every true man's
 apparel fits your thief
 reenter provost
provost are you agreed
pompey sir i will serve him for i do find your hangman is
 a more penitent trade than your bawd he doth
 oftener ask forgiveness
provost you sirrah provide your block and your axe
 tomorrow four o'clock
abhorson come on bawd i will instruct thee in my trade follow
pompey i do desire to learn sir and i hope if you have
 occasion to use me for your own turn you shall find
 me yare for truly sir for your kindness i owe you
 a good turn
provost call hither barnardine and claudio
 exeunt pompey and abhorson
 the one has my pity not a jot the other
 being a murderer though he were my brother
 enter claudio
 look here's the warrant claudio for thy death
 tis now dead midnight and by eight tomorrow
 thou must be made immortal where's barnardine
claudio as fast lock'd up in sleep as guiltless labour
 when it lies starkly in the traveller's bones
 he will not wake
provost who can do good on him
 well go prepare yourself
 knocking within
 but hark what noise
 heaven give your spirits comfort
 exit claudio
 by and by
 i hope it is some pardon or reprieve
 for the most gentle claudio
 enter duke vincentio disguised as before
 welcome father
duke vincentio the best and wholesomest spirts of the night
 envelope you good provost who call'd here of late
provost none since the curfew rung
duke vincentio not isabel
provost no
duke vincentio they will then ere't be long
provost what comfort is for claudio
duke vincentio there's some in hope
provost it is a bitter deputy
duke vincentio not so not so his life is parallel'd
 even with the stroke and line of his great justice
 he doth with holy abstinence subdue
 that in himself which he spurs on his power
 to qualify in others were he meal'd with that
 which he corrects then were he tyrannous
 but this being so he's just
 knocking within
 now are they come
 exit provost
 this is a gentle provost seldom when
 the steeled gaoler is the friend of men
 knocking within
 how now what noise that spirit's possessed with haste
 that wounds the unsisting postern with these strokes
 reenter provost
provost there he must stay until the officer
 arise to let him in he is call'd up
duke vincentio have you no countermand for claudio yet
 but he must die tomorrow
provost none sir none
duke vincentio as near the dawning provost as it is
 you shall hear more ere morning
provost happily
 you something know yet i believe there comes
 no countermand no such example have we
 besides upon the very siege of justice
 lord angelo hath to the public ear
 profess'd the contrary
 enter a messenger
 this is his lordship's man
duke vincentio and here comes claudio's pardon
messenger giving a paper
 my lord hath sent you this note and by me this
 further charge that you swerve not from the
 smallest article of it neither in time matter or
 other circumstance good morrow for as i take it
 it is almost day
provost i shall obey him
 exit messenger
duke vincentio aside this is his pardon purchased by such sin
 for which the pardoner himself is in
 hence hath offence his quick celerity
 when it is born in high authority
 when vice makes mercy mercy's so extended
 that for the fault's love is the offender friended
 now sir what news
provost i told you lord angelo belike thinking me remiss
 in mine office awakens me with this unwonted
 puttingon methinks strangely for he hath not used it before
duke vincentio pray you let's hear
provost reads
 whatsoever you may hear to the contrary let
 claudio be executed by four of the clock and in the
 afternoon barnardine for my better satisfaction
 let me have claudio's head sent me by five let
 this be duly performed with a thought that more
 depends on it than we must yet deliver thus fail
 not to do your office as you will answer it at your peril'
 what say you to this sir
duke vincentio what is that barnardine who is to be executed in the
 afternoon
provost a bohemian born but here nursed un and bred one
 that is a prisoner nine years old
duke vincentio how came it that the absent duke had not either
 delivered him to his liberty or executed him i
 have heard it was ever his manner to do so
provost his friends still wrought reprieves for him and
 indeed his fact till now in the government of lord
 angelo came not to an undoubtful proof
duke vincentio it is now apparent
provost most manifest and not denied by himself
duke vincentio hath he born himself penitently in prison how
 seems he to be touched
provost a man that apprehends death no more dreadfully but
 as a drunken sleep careless reckless and fearless
 of what's past present or to come insensible of
 mortality and desperately mortal
duke vincentio he wants advice
provost he will hear none he hath evermore had the liberty
 of the prison give him leave to escape hence he
 would not drunk many times a day if not many days
 entirely drunk we have very oft awaked him as if
 to carry him to execution and showed him a seeming
 warrant for it it hath not moved him at all
duke vincentio more of him anon there is written in your brow
 provost honesty and constancy if i read it not
 truly my ancient skill beguiles me but in the
 boldness of my cunning i will lay myself in hazard
 claudio whom here you have warrant to execute is
 no greater forfeit to the law than angelo who hath
 sentenced him to make you understand this in a
 manifested effect i crave but four days respite
 for the which you are to do me both a present and a
 dangerous courtesy
provost pray sir in what
duke vincentio in the delaying death
provost a lack how may i do it having the hour limited
 and an express command under penalty to deliver
 his head in the view of angelo i may make my case
 as claudio's to cross this in the smallest
duke vincentio by the vow of mine order i warrant you if my
 instructions may be your guide let this barnardine
 be this morning executed and his head born to angelo
provost angelo hath seen them both and will discover the favour
duke vincentio o death's a great disguiser and you may add to it
 shave the head and tie the beard and say it was
 the desire of the penitent to be so bared before his
 death you know the course is common if any thing
 fall to you upon this more than thanks and good
 fortune by the saint whom i profess i will plead
 against it with my life
provost pardon me good father it is against my oath
duke vincentio were you sworn to the duke or to the deputy
provost to him and to his substitutes
duke vincentio you will think you have made no offence if the duke
 avouch the justice of your dealing
provost but what likelihood is in that
duke vincentio not a resemblance but a certainty yet since i see
 you fearful that neither my coat integrity nor
 persuasion can with ease attempt you i will go
 further than i meant to pluck all fears out of you
 look you sir here is the hand and seal of the
 duke you know the character i doubt not and the
 signet is not strange to you
provost i know them both
duke vincentio the contents of this is the return of the duke you
 shall anon overread it at your pleasure where you
 shall find within these two days he will be here
 this is a thing that angelo knows not for he this
 very day receives letters of strange tenor
 perchance of the duke's death perchance entering
 into some monastery but by chance nothing of what
 is writ look the unfolding star calls up the
 shepherd put not yourself into amazement how these
 things should be all difficulties are but easy
 when they are known call your executioner and off
 with barnardine's head i will give him a present
 shrift and advise him for a better place yet you
 are amazed but this shall absolutely resolve you
 come away it is almost clear dawn
 exeunt
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act iv
scene iii another room in the same
 enter pompey
pompey i am as well acquainted here as i was in our house
 of profession one would think it were mistress
 overdone's own house for here be many of her old
 customers first here's young master rash he's in
 for a commodity of brown paper and old ginger
 ninescore and seventeen pounds of which he made
 five marks ready money marry then ginger was not
 much in request for the old women were all dead
 then is there here one master caper at the suit of
 master threepile the mercer for some four suits of
 peachcoloured satin which now peaches him a
 beggar then have we here young dizy and young
 master deepvow and master copperspur and master
 starvelackey the rapier and dagger man and young
 dropheir that killed lusty pudding and master
 forthlight the tilter and brave master shooty the
 great traveller and wild halfcan that stabbed
 pots and i think forty more all great doers in
 our trade and are now for the lord's sake'
 enter abhorson
abhorson sirrah bring barnardine hither
pompey master barnardine you must rise and be hanged
 master barnardine
abhorson what ho barnardine
barnardine within a pox o your throats who makes that
 noise there what are you
pompey your friends sir the hangman you must be so
 good sir to rise and be put to death
barnardine within away you rogue away i am sleepy
abhorson tell him he must awake and that quickly too
pompey pray master barnardine awake till you are
 executed and sleep afterwards
abhorson go in to him and fetch him out
pompey he is coming sir he is coming i hear his straw rustle
abhorson is the axe upon the block sirrah
pompey very ready sir
 enter barnardine
barnardine how now abhorson what's the news with you
abhorson truly sir i would desire you to clap into your
 prayers for look you the warrant's come
barnardine you rogue i have been drinking all night i am not
 fitted for t
pompey o the better sir for he that drinks all night
 and is hanged betimes in the morning may sleep the
 sounder all the next day
abhorson look you sir here comes your ghostly father do
 we jest now think you
 enter duke vincentio disguised as before
duke vincentio sir induced by my charity and hearing how hastily
 you are to depart i am come to advise you comfort
 you and pray with you
barnardine friar not i i have been drinking hard all night
 and i will have more time to prepare me or they
 shall beat out my brains with billets i will not
 consent to die this day that's certain
duke vincentio o sir you must and therefore i beseech you
 look forward on the journey you shall go
barnardine i swear i will not die today for any man's
 persuasion
duke vincentio but hear you
barnardine not a word if you have any thing to say to me
 come to my ward for thence will not i today
 exit
duke vincentio unfit to live or die o gravel heart
 after him fellows bring him to the block
 exeunt abhorson and pompey
 reenter provost
provost now sir how do you find the prisoner
duke vincentio a creature unprepared unmeet for death
 and to transport him in the mind he is
 were damnable
provost here in the prison father
 there died this morning of a cruel fever
 one ragozine a most notorious pirate
 a man of claudio's years his beard and head
 just of his colour what if we do omit
 this reprobate till he were well inclined
 and satisfy the deputy with the visage
 of ragozine more like to claudio
duke vincentio o tis an accident that heaven provides
 dispatch it presently the hour draws on
 prefix'd by angelo see this be done
 and sent according to command whiles i
 persuade this rude wretch willingly to die
provost this shall be done good father presently
 but barnardine must die this afternoon
 and how shall we continue claudio
 to save me from the danger that might come
 if he were known alive
duke vincentio let this be done
 put them in secret holds both barnardine and claudio
 ere twice the sun hath made his journal greeting
 to the under generation you shall find
 your safety manifested
provost i am your free dependant
duke vincentio quick dispatch and send the head to angelo
 exit provost
 now will i write letters to angelo
 the provost he shall bear them whose contents
 shall witness to him i am near at home
 and that by great injunctions i am bound
 to enter publicly him i'll desire
 to meet me at the consecrated fount
 a league below the city and from thence
 by cold gradation and wellbalanced form
 we shall proceed with angelo
 reenter provost
provost here is the head i'll carry it myself
duke vincentio convenient is it make a swift return
 for i would commune with you of such things
 that want no ear but yours
provost i'll make all speed
 exit
isabella within peace ho be here
duke vincentio the tongue of isabel she's come to know
 if yet her brother's pardon be come hither
 but i will keep her ignorant of her good
 to make her heavenly comforts of despair
 when it is least expected
 enter isabella
isabella ho by your leave
duke vincentio good morning to you fair and gracious daughter
isabella the better given me by so holy a man
 hath yet the deputy sent my brother's pardon
duke vincentio he hath released him isabel from the world
 his head is off and sent to angelo
isabella nay but it is not so
duke vincentio it is no other show your wisdom daughter
 in your close patience
isabella o i will to him and pluck out his eyes
duke vincentio you shall not be admitted to his sight
isabella unhappy claudio wretched isabel
 injurious world most damned angelo
duke vincentio this nor hurts him nor profits you a jot
 forbear it therefore give your cause to heaven
 mark what i say which you shall find
 by every syllable a faithful verity
 the duke comes home tomorrow nay dry your eyes
 one of our convent and his confessor
 gives me this instance already he hath carried
 notice to escalus and angelo
 who do prepare to meet him at the gates
 there to give up their power if you can pace your wisdom
 in that good path that i would wish it go
 and you shall have your bosom on this wretch
 grace of the duke revenges to your heart
 and general honour
isabella i am directed by you
duke vincentio this letter then to friar peter give
 tis that he sent me of the duke's return
 say by this token i desire his company
 at mariana's house tonight her cause and yours
 i'll perfect him withal and he shall bring you
 before the duke and to the head of angelo
 accuse him home and home for my poor self
 i am combined by a sacred vow
 and shall be absent wend you with this letter
 command these fretting waters from your eyes
 with a light heart trust not my holy order
 if i pervert your course who's here
 enter lucio
lucio good even friar where's the provost
duke vincentio not within sir
lucio o pretty isabella i am pale at mine heart to see
 thine eyes so red thou must be patient i am fain
 to dine and sup with water and bran i dare not for
 my head fill my belly one fruitful meal would set
 me to t but they say the duke will be here
 tomorrow by my troth isabel i loved thy brother
 if the old fantastical duke of dark corners had been
 at home he had lived
 exit isabella
duke vincentio sir the duke is marvellous little beholding to your
 reports but the best is he lives not in them
lucio friar thou knowest not the duke so well as i do
 he's a better woodman than thou takest him for
duke vincentio well you'll answer this one day fare ye well
lucio nay tarry i'll go along with thee
 i can tell thee pretty tales of the duke
duke vincentio you have told me too many of him already sir if
 they be true if not true none were enough
lucio i was once before him for getting a wench with child
duke vincentio did you such a thing
lucio yes marry did i but i was fain to forswear it
 they would else have married me to the rotten medlar
duke vincentio sir your company is fairer than honest rest you well
lucio by my troth i'll go with thee to the lane's end
 if bawdy talk offend you we'll have very little of
 it nay friar i am a kind of burr i shall stick
 exeunt
 measure for measure
act iv
scene iv a room in angelo's house
 enter angelo and escalus
escalus every letter he hath writ hath disvouched other
angelo in most uneven and distracted manner his actions
 show much like to madness pray heaven his wisdom be
 not tainted and why meet him at the gates and
 redeliver our authorities there
escalus i guess not
angelo and why should we proclaim it in an hour before his
 entering that if any crave redress of injustice
 they should exhibit their petitions in the street
escalus he shows his reason for that to have a dispatch of
 complaints and to deliver us from devices
 hereafter which shall then have no power to stand
 against us
angelo well i beseech you let it be proclaimed betimes
 i the morn i'll call you at your house give
 notice to such men of sort and suit as are to meet
 him
escalus i shall sir fare you well
angelo good night
 exit escalus
 this deed unshapes me quite makes me unpregnant
 and dull to all proceedings a deflower'd maid
 and by an eminent body that enforced
 the law against it but that her tender shame
 will not proclaim against her maiden loss
 how might she tongue me yet reason dares her no
 for my authority bears of a credent bulk
 that no particular scandal once can touch
 but it confounds the breather he should have lived
 save that riotous youth with dangerous sense
 might in the times to come have ta'en revenge
 by so receiving a dishonour'd life
 with ransom of such shame would yet he had lived
 a lack when once our grace we have forgot
 nothing goes right we would and we would not
 exit
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act iv
scene v fields without the town
 enter duke vincentio in his own habit and friar peter
duke vincentio these letters at fit time deliver me
 giving letters
 the provost knows our purpose and our plot
 the matter being afoot keep your instruction
 and hold you ever to our special drift
 though sometimes you do blench from this to that
 as cause doth minister go call at flavius house
 and tell him where i stay give the like notice
 to valentinus rowland and to crassus
 and bid them bring the trumpets to the gate
 but send me flavius first
friar peter it shall be speeded well
 exit
 enter varrius
duke vincentio i thank thee varrius thou hast made good haste
 come we will walk there's other of our friends
 will greet us here anon my gentle varrius
 exeunt
 measure for measure
act iv
scene vi street near the city gate
 enter isabella and mariana
isabella to speak so indirectly i am loath
 i would say the truth but to accuse him so
 that is your part yet i am advised to do it
 he says to veil full purpose
mariana be ruled by him
isabella besides he tells me that if peradventure
 he speak against me on the adverse side
 i should not think it strange for tis a physic
 that's bitter to sweet end
mariana i would friar peter
isabella o peace the friar is come
 enter friar peter
friar peter come i have found you out a stand most fit
 where you may have such vantage on the duke
 he shall not pass you twice have the trumpets sounded
 the generous and gravest citizens
 have hent the gates and very near upon
 the duke is entering therefore hence away
 exeunt
 measure for measure
act v
scene i the city gate
 mariana veiled isabella and friar peter at their
 stand enter duke vincentio varrius lords
 angelo escalus lucio provost officers and
 citizens at several doors
duke vincentio my very worthy cousin fairly met
 our old and faithful friend we are glad to see you
angelo 
 happy return be to your royal grace
escalus 
duke vincentio many and hearty thankings to you both
 we have made inquiry of you and we hear
 such goodness of your justice that our soul
 cannot but yield you forth to public thanks
 forerunning more requital
angelo you make my bonds still greater
duke vincentio o your desert speaks loud and i should wrong it
 to lock it in the wards of covert bosom
 when it deserves with characters of brass
 a forted residence gainst the tooth of time
 and razure of oblivion give me your hand
 and let the subject see to make them know
 that outward courtesies would fain proclaim
 favours that keep within come escalus
 you must walk by us on our other hand
 and good supporters are you
 friar peter and isabella come forward
friar peter now is your time speak loud and kneel before him
isabella justice o royal duke vail your regard
 upon a wrong'd i would fain have said a maid
 o worthy prince dishonour not your eye
 by throwing it on any other object
 till you have heard me in my true complaint
 and given me justice justice justice justice
duke vincentio relate your wrongs in what by whom be brief
 here is lord angelo shall give you justice
 reveal yourself to him
isabella o worthy duke
 you bid me seek redemption of the devil
 hear me yourself for that which i must speak
 must either punish me not being believed
 or wring redress from you hear me o hear me here
angelo my lord her wits i fear me are not firm
 she hath been a suitor to me for her brother
 cut off by course of justice
isabella by course of justice
angelo and she will speak most bitterly and strange
isabella most strange but yet most truly will i speak
 that angelo's forsworn is it not strange
 that angelo's a murderer is t not strange
 that angelo is an adulterous thief
 an hypocrite a virginviolator
 is it not strange and strange
duke vincentio nay it is ten times strange
isabella it is not truer he is angelo
 than this is all as true as it is strange
 nay it is ten times true for truth is truth
 to the end of reckoning
duke vincentio away with her poor soul
 she speaks this in the infirmity of sense
isabella o prince i conjure thee as thou believest
 there is another comfort than this world
 that thou neglect me not with that opinion
 that i am touch'd with madness make not impossible
 that which but seems unlike tis not impossible
 but one the wicked'st caitiff on the ground
 may seem as shy as grave as just as absolute
 as angelo even so may angelo
 in all his dressings characts titles forms
 be an archvillain believe it royal prince
 if he be less he's nothing but he's more
 had i more name for badness
duke vincentio by mine honesty
 if she be madas i believe no other
 her madness hath the oddest frame of sense
 such a dependency of thing on thing
 as e'er i heard in madness
isabella o gracious duke
 harp not on that nor do not banish reason
 for inequality but let your reason serve
 to make the truth appear where it seems hid
 and hide the false seems true
duke vincentio many that are not mad
 have sure more lack of reason what would you say
isabella i am the sister of one claudio
 condemn'd upon the act of fornication
 to lose his head condemn'd by angelo
 i in probation of a sisterhood
 was sent to by my brother one lucio
 as then the messenger
lucio that's i an't like your grace
 i came to her from claudio and desired her
 to try her gracious fortune with lord angelo
 for her poor brother's pardon
isabella that's he indeed
duke vincentio you were not bid to speak
lucio no my good lord
 nor wish'd to hold my peace
duke vincentio i wish you now then
 pray you take note of it and when you have
 a business for yourself pray heaven you then
 be perfect
lucio i warrant your honour
duke vincentio the warrants for yourself take heed to't
isabella this gentleman told somewhat of my tale
lucio right
duke vincentio it may be right but you are i the wrong
 to speak before your time proceed
isabella i went
 to this pernicious caitiff deputy
duke vincentio that's somewhat madly spoken
isabella pardon it
 the phrase is to the matter
duke vincentio mended again the matter proceed
isabella in brief to set the needless process by
 how i persuaded how i pray'd and kneel'd
 how he refell'd me and how i replied
 for this was of much lengththe vile conclusion
 i now begin with grief and shame to utter
 he would not but by gift of my chaste body
 to his concupiscible intemperate lust
 release my brother and after much debatement
 my sisterly remorse confutes mine honour
 and i did yield to him but the next morn betimes
 his purpose surfeiting he sends a warrant
 for my poor brother's head
duke vincentio this is most likely
isabella o that it were as like as it is true
duke vincentio by heaven fond wretch thou knowist not what thou speak'st
 or else thou art suborn'd against his honour
 in hateful practise first his integrity
 stands without blemish next it imports no reason
 that with such vehemency he should pursue
 faults proper to himself if he had so offended
 he would have weigh'd thy brother by himself
 and not have cut him off some one hath set you on
 confess the truth and say by whose advice
 thou camest here to complain
isabella and is this all
 then o you blessed ministers above
 keep me in patience and with ripen'd time
 unfold the evil which is here wrapt up
 in countenance heaven shield your grace from woe
 as i thus wrong'd hence unbelieved go
duke vincentio i know you'ld fain be gone an officer
 to prison with her shall we thus permit
 a blasting and a scandalous breath to fall
 on him so near us this needs must be a practise
 who knew of your intent and coming hither
isabella one that i would were here friar lodowick
duke vincentio a ghostly father belike who knows that lodowick
lucio my lord i know him tis a meddling friar
 i do not like the man had he been lay my lord
 for certain words he spake against your grace
 in your retirement i had swinged him soundly
duke vincentio words against me this is a good friar belike
 and to set on this wretched woman here
 against our substitute let this friar be found
lucio but yesternight my lord she and that friar
 i saw them at the prison a saucy friar
 a very scurvy fellow
friar peter blessed be your royal grace
 i have stood by my lord and i have heard
 your royal ear abused first hath this woman
 most wrongfully accused your substitute
 who is as free from touch or soil with her
 as she from one ungot
duke vincentio we did believe no less
 know you that friar lodowick that she speaks of
friar peter i know him for a man divine and holy
 not scurvy nor a temporary meddler
 as he's reported by this gentleman
 and on my trust a man that never yet
 did as he vouches misreport your grace
lucio my lord most villanously believe it
friar peter well he in time may come to clear himself
 but at this instant he is sick my lord
 of a strange fever upon his mere request
 being come to knowledge that there was complaint
 intended gainst lord angelo came i hither
 to speak as from his mouth what he doth know
 is true and false and what he with his oath
 and all probation will make up full clear
 whensoever he's convented first for this woman
 to justify this worthy nobleman
 so vulgarly and personally accused
 her shall you hear disproved to her eyes
 till she herself confess it
duke vincentio good friar let's hear it
 isabella is carried off guarded and mariana comes forward
 do you not smile at this lord angelo
 o heaven the vanity of wretched fools
 give us some seats come cousin angelo
 in this i'll be impartial be you judge
 of your own cause is this the witness friar
 first let her show her face and after speak
mariana pardon my lord i will not show my face
 until my husband bid me
duke vincentio what are you married
mariana no my lord
duke vincentio are you a maid
mariana no my lord
duke vincentio a widow then
mariana neither my lord
duke vincentio why you are nothing then neither maid widow nor wife
lucio my lord she may be a punk for many of them are
 neither maid widow nor wife
duke vincentio silence that fellow i would he had some cause
 to prattle for himself
lucio well my lord
mariana my lord i do confess i ne'er was married
 and i confess besides i am no maid
 i have known my husband yet my husband
 knows not that ever he knew me
lucio he was drunk then my lord it can be no better
duke vincentio for the benefit of silence would thou wert so too
lucio well my lord
duke vincentio this is no witness for lord angelo
mariana now i come to't my lord
 she that accuses him of fornication
 in selfsame manner doth accuse my husband
 and charges him my lord with such a time
 when i'll depose i had him in mine arms
 with all the effect of love
angelo charges she more than me
mariana not that i know
duke vincentio no you say your husband
mariana why just my lord and that is angelo
 who thinks he knows that he ne'er knew my body
 but knows he thinks that he knows isabel's
angelo this is a strange abuse let's see thy face
mariana my husband bids me now i will unmask
 unveiling
 this is that face thou cruel angelo
 which once thou sworest was worth the looking on
 this is the hand which with a vow'd contract
 was fast belock'd in thine this is the body
 that took away the match from isabel
 and did supply thee at thy gardenhouse
 in her imagined person
duke vincentio know you this woman
lucio carnally she says
duke vincentio sirrah no more
lucio enough my lord
angelo my lord i must confess i know this woman
 and five years since there was some speech of marriage
 betwixt myself and her which was broke off
 partly for that her promised proportions
 came short of composition but in chief
 for that her reputation was disvalued
 in levity since which time of five years
 i never spake with her saw her nor heard from her
 upon my faith and honour
mariana noble prince
 as there comes light from heaven and words from breath
 as there is sense in truth and truth in virtue
 i am affianced this man's wife as strongly
 as words could make up vows and my good lord
 but tuesday night last gone in's gardenhouse
 he knew me as a wife as this is true
 let me in safety raise me from my knees
 or else for ever be confixed here
 a marble monument
angelo i did but smile till now
 now good my lord give me the scope of justice
 my patience here is touch'd i do perceive
 these poor informal women are no more
 but instruments of some more mightier member
 that sets them on let me have way my lord
 to find this practise out
duke vincentio ay with my heart
 and punish them to your height of pleasure
 thou foolish friar and thou pernicious woman
 compact with her that's gone think'st thou thy oaths
 though they would swear down each particular saint
 were testimonies against his worth and credit
 that's seal'd in approbation you lord escalus
 sit with my cousin lend him your kind pains
 to find out this abuse whence tis derived
 there is another friar that set them on
 let him be sent for
friar peter would he were here my lord for he indeed
 hath set the women on to this complaint
 your provost knows the place where he abides
 and he may fetch him
duke vincentio go do it instantly
 exit provost
 and you my noble and wellwarranted cousin
 whom it concerns to hear this matter forth
 do with your injuries as seems you best
 in any chastisement i for a while will leave you
 but stir not you till you have well determined
 upon these slanderers
escalus my lord we'll do it throughly
 exit duke
 signior lucio did not you say you knew that
 friar lodowick to be a dishonest person
lucio cucullus non facit monachum honest in nothing
 but in his clothes and one that hath spoke most
 villanous speeches of the duke
escalus we shall entreat you to abide here till he come and
 enforce them against him we shall find this friar a
 notable fellow
lucio as any in vienna on my word
escalus call that same isabel here once again i would speak with her
 exit an attendant
 pray you my lord give me leave to question you
 shall see how i'll handle her
lucio not better than he by her own report
escalus say you
lucio marry sir i think if you handled her privately
 she would sooner confess perchance publicly
 she'll be ashamed
escalus i will go darkly to work with her
lucio that's the way for women are light at midnight
 reenter officers with isabella and provost with
 the duke vincentio in his friar's habit
escalus come on mistress here's a gentlewoman denies all
 that you have said
lucio my lord here comes the rascal i spoke of here with
 the provost
escalus in very good time speak not you to him till we
 call upon you
lucio mum
escalus come sir did you set these women on to slander
 lord angelo they have confessed you did
duke vincentio tis false
escalus how know you where you are
duke vincentio respect to your great place and let the devil
 be sometime honour'd for his burning throne
 where is the duke tis he should hear me speak
escalus the duke's in us and we will hear you speak
 look you speak justly
duke vincentio boldly at least but o poor souls
 come you to seek the lamb here of the fox
 good night to your redress is the duke gone
 then is your cause gone too the duke's unjust
 thus to retort your manifest appeal
 and put your trial in the villain's mouth
 which here you come to accuse
lucio this is the rascal this is he i spoke of
escalus why thou unreverend and unhallow'd friar
 is't not enough thou hast suborn'd these women
 to accuse this worthy man but in foul mouth
 and in the witness of his proper ear
 to call him villain and then to glance from him
 to the duke himself to tax him with injustice
 take him hence to the rack with him we'll touse you
 joint by joint but we will know his purpose
 what unjust'
duke vincentio be not so hot the duke
 dare no more stretch this finger of mine than he
 dare rack his own his subject am i not
 nor here provincial my business in this state
 made me a looker on here in vienna
 where i have seen corruption boil and bubble
 till it o'errun the stew laws for all faults
 but faults so countenanced that the strong statutes
 stand like the forfeits in a barber's shop
 as much in mock as mark
escalus slander to the state away with him to prison
angelo what can you vouch against him signior lucio
 is this the man that you did tell us of
lucio tis he my lord come hither goodman baldpate
 do you know me
duke vincentio i remember you sir by the sound of your voice i
 met you at the prison in the absence of the duke
lucio o did you so and do you remember what you said of the duke
duke vincentio most notedly sir
lucio do you so sir and was the duke a fleshmonger a
 fool and a coward as you then reported him to be
duke vincentio you must sir change persons with me ere you make
 that my report you indeed spoke so of him and
 much more much worse
lucio o thou damnable fellow did not i pluck thee by the
 nose for thy speeches
duke vincentio i protest i love the duke as i love myself
angelo hark how the villain would close now after his
 treasonable abuses
escalus such a fellow is not to be talked withal away with
 him to prison where is the provost away with him
 to prison lay bolts enough upon him let him
 speak no more away with those giglots too and
 with the other confederate companion
duke vincentio to provost stay sir stay awhile
angelo what resists he help him lucio
lucio come sir come sir come sir foh sir why you
 baldpated lying rascal you must be hooded must
 you show your knave's visage with a pox to you
 show your sheepbiting face and be hanged an hour
 will't not off
 pulls off the friar's hood and discovers duke
 vincentio
duke vincentio thou art the first knave that e'er madest a duke
 first provost let me bail these gentle three
 to lucio
 sneak not away sir for the friar and you
 must have a word anon lay hold on him
lucio this may prove worse than hanging
duke vincentio to escalus what you have spoke i pardon sit you down
 we'll borrow place of him
 to angelo
 sir by your leave
 hast thou or word or wit or impudence
 that yet can do thee office if thou hast
 rely upon it till my tale be heard
 and hold no longer out
angelo o my dread lord
 i should be guiltier than my guiltiness
 to think i can be undiscernible
 when i perceive your grace like power divine
 hath look'd upon my passes then good prince
 no longer session hold upon my shame
 but let my trial be mine own confession
 immediate sentence then and sequent death
 is all the grace i beg
duke vincentio come hither mariana
 say wast thou e'er contracted to this woman
angelo i was my lord
duke vincentio go take her hence and marry her instantly
 do you the office friar which consummate
 return him here again go with him provost
 exeunt angelo mariana friar peter and provost
escalus my lord i am more amazed at his dishonour
 than at the strangeness of it
duke vincentio come hither isabel
 your friar is now your prince as i was then
 advertising and holy to your business
 not changing heart with habit i am still
 attorney'd at your service
isabella o give me pardon
 that i your vassal have employ'd and pain'd
 your unknown sovereignty
duke vincentio you are pardon'd isabel
 and now dear maid be you as free to us
 your brother's death i know sits at your heart
 and you may marvel why i obscured myself
 labouring to save his life and would not rather
 make rash remonstrance of my hidden power
 than let him so be lost o most kind maid
 it was the swift celerity of his death
 which i did think with slower foot came on
 that brain'd my purpose but peace be with him
 that life is better life past fearing death
 than that which lives to fear make it your comfort
 so happy is your brother
isabella i do my lord
 reenter angelo mariana friar peter and provost
duke vincentio for this newmarried man approaching here
 whose salt imagination yet hath wrong'd
 your well defended honour you must pardon
 for mariana's sake but as he adjudged your brother
 being criminal in double violation
 of sacred chastity and of promisebreach
 thereon dependent for your brother's life
 the very mercy of the law cries out
 most audible even from his proper tongue
 an angelo for claudio death for death'
 haste still pays haste and leisure answers leisure
 like doth quit like and measure still for measure
 then angelo thy fault's thus manifested
 which though thou wouldst deny denies thee vantage
 we do condemn thee to the very block
 where claudio stoop'd to death and with like haste
 away with him
mariana o my most gracious lord
 i hope you will not mock me with a husband
duke vincentio it is your husband mock'd you with a husband
 consenting to the safeguard of your honour
 i thought your marriage fit else imputation
 for that he knew you might reproach your life
 and choke your good to come for his possessions
 although by confiscation they are ours
 we do instate and widow you withal
 to buy you a better husband
mariana o my dear lord
 i crave no other nor no better man
duke vincentio never crave him we are definitive
mariana gentle my liege
 kneeling
duke vincentio you do but lose your labour
 away with him to death
 to lucio
 now sir to you
mariana o my good lord sweet isabel take my part
 lend me your knees and all my life to come
 i'll lend you all my life to do you service
duke vincentio against all sense you do importune her
 should she kneel down in mercy of this fact
 her brother's ghost his paved bed would break
 and take her hence in horror
mariana isabel
 sweet isabel do yet but kneel by me
 hold up your hands say nothing i'll speak all
 they say best men are moulded out of faults
 and for the most become much more the better
 for being a little bad so may my husband
 o isabel will you not lend a knee
duke vincentio he dies for claudio's death
isabella most bounteous sir
 kneeling
 look if it please you on this man condemn'd
 as if my brother lived i partly think
 a due sincerity govern'd his deeds
 till he did look on me since it is so
 let him not die my brother had but justice
 in that he did the thing for which he died
 for angelo
 his act did not o'ertake his bad intent
 and must be buried but as an intent
 that perish'd by the way thoughts are no subjects
 intents but merely thoughts
mariana merely my lord
duke vincentio your suit's unprofitable stand up i say
 i have bethought me of another fault
 provost how came it claudio was beheaded
 at an unusual hour
provost it was commanded so
duke vincentio had you a special warrant for the deed
provost no my good lord it was by private message
duke vincentio for which i do discharge you of your office
 give up your keys
provost pardon me noble lord
 i thought it was a fault but knew it not
 yet did repent me after more advice
 for testimony whereof one in the prison
 that should by private order else have died
 i have reserved alive
duke vincentio what's he
provost his name is barnardine
duke vincentio i would thou hadst done so by claudio
 go fetch him hither let me look upon him
 exit provost
escalus i am sorry one so learned and so wise
 as you lord angelo have still appear'd
 should slip so grossly both in the heat of blood
 and lack of temper'd judgment afterward
angelo i am sorry that such sorrow i procure
 and so deep sticks it in my penitent heart
 that i crave death more willingly than mercy
 tis my deserving and i do entreat it
 reenter provost with barnardine claudio muffled
 and juliet
duke vincentio which is that barnardine
provost this my lord
duke vincentio there was a friar told me of this man
 sirrah thou art said to have a stubborn soul
 that apprehends no further than this world
 and squarest thy life according thou'rt condemn'd
 but for those earthly faults i quit them all
 and pray thee take this mercy to provide
 for better times to come friar advise him
 i leave him to your hand what muffled fellow's that
provost this is another prisoner that i saved
 who should have died when claudio lost his head
 as like almost to claudio as himself
 unmuffles claudio
duke vincentio to isabella if he be like your brother for his sake
 is he pardon'd and for your lovely sake
 give me your hand and say you will be mine
 he is my brother too but fitter time for that
 by this lord angelo perceives he's safe
 methinks i see a quickening in his eye
 well angelo your evil quits you well
 look that you love your wife her worth worth yours
 i find an apt remission in myself
 and yet here's one in place i cannot pardon
 to lucio
 you sirrah that knew me for a fool a coward
 one all of luxury an ass a madman
 wherein have i so deserved of you
 that you extol me thus
lucio faith my lord i spoke it but according to the
 trick if you will hang me for it you may but i
 had rather it would please you i might be whipt
duke vincentio whipt first sir and hanged after
 proclaim it provost round about the city
 is any woman wrong'd by this lewd fellow
 as i have heard him swear himself there's one
 whom he begot with child let her appear
 and he shall marry her the nuptial finish'd
 let him be whipt and hang'd
lucio i beseech your highness do not marry me to a whore
 your highness said even now i made you a duke
 good my lord do not recompense me in making me a cuckold
duke vincentio upon mine honour thou shalt marry her
 thy slanders i forgive and therewithal
 remit thy other forfeits take him to prison
 and see our pleasure herein executed
lucio marrying a punk my lord is pressing to death
 whipping and hanging
duke vincentio slandering a prince deserves it
 exit officers with lucio
 she claudio that you wrong'd look you restore
 joy to you mariana love her angelo
 i have confess'd her and i know her virtue
 thanks good friend escalus for thy much goodness
 there's more behind that is more gratulate
 thanks provost for thy care and secrecy
 we shill employ thee in a worthier place
 forgive him angelo that brought you home
 the head of ragozine for claudio's
 the offence pardons itself dear isabel
 i have a motion much imports your good
 whereto if you'll a willing ear incline
 what's mine is yours and what is yours is mine
 so bring us to our palace where we'll show
 what's yet behind that's meet you all should know
 exeunt
 the merchant of venice
 dramatis personae
the duke of venice duke
the prince of 
morocco morocco 
 suitors to portia
the prince of 
arragon arragon 
antonio a merchant of venice
bassanio his friend suitor likewise to portia
salanio 
 
salarino 
 friends to antonio and bassanio
gratiano 
 
salerio 
lorenzo in love with jessica
shylock a rich jew
tubal a jew his friend
launcelot gobbo the clown servant to shylock launcelot
old gobbo father to launcelot gobbo
leonardo servant to bassanio
balthasar 
 servants to portia
stephano 
portia a rich heiress
nerissa her waitingmaid
jessica daughter to shylock
 magnificoes of venice officers of the court of justice
 gaoler servants to portia and other attendants
 servant
 clerk
scene partly at venice and partly at belmont
 the seat of portia on the continent
 the merchant of venice
act i
scene i venice a street
 enter antonio salarino and salanio
antonio in sooth i know not why i am so sad
 it wearies me you say it wearies you
 but how i caught it found it or came by it
 what stuff tis made of whereof it is born
 i am to learn
 and such a wantwit sadness makes of me
 that i have much ado to know myself
salarino your mind is tossing on the ocean
 there where your argosies with portly sail
 like signiors and rich burghers on the flood
 or as it were the pageants of the sea
 do overpeer the petty traffickers
 that curtsy to them do them reverence
 as they fly by them with their woven wings
salanio believe me sir had i such venture forth
 the better part of my affections would
 be with my hopes abroad i should be still
 plucking the grass to know where sits the wind
 peering in maps for ports and piers and roads
 and every object that might make me fear
 misfortune to my ventures out of doubt
 would make me sad
salarino my wind cooling my broth
 would blow me to an ague when i thought
 what harm a wind too great at sea might do
 i should not see the sandy hourglass run
 but i should think of shallows and of flats
 and see my wealthy andrew dock'd in sand
 vailing her hightop lower than her ribs
 to kiss her burial should i go to church
 and see the holy edifice of stone
 and not bethink me straight of dangerous rocks
 which touching but my gentle vessel's side
 would scatter all her spices on the stream
 enrobe the roaring waters with my silks
 and in a word but even now worth this
 and now worth nothing shall i have the thought
 to think on this and shall i lack the thought
 that such a thing bechanced would make me sad
 but tell not me i know antonio
 is sad to think upon his merchandise
antonio believe me no i thank my fortune for it
 my ventures are not in one bottom trusted
 nor to one place nor is my whole estate
 upon the fortune of this present year
 therefore my merchandise makes me not sad
salarino why then you are in love
antonio fie fie
salarino not in love neither then let us say you are sad
 because you are not merry and twere as easy
 for you to laugh and leap and say you are merry
 because you are not sad now by twoheaded janus
 nature hath framed strange fellows in her time
 some that will evermore peep through their eyes
 and laugh like parrots at a bagpiper
 and other of such vinegar aspect
 that they'll not show their teeth in way of smile
 though nestor swear the jest be laughable
 enter bassanio lorenzo and gratiano
salanio here comes bassanio your most noble kinsman
 gratiano and lorenzo fare ye well
 we leave you now with better company
salarino i would have stay'd till i had made you merry
 if worthier friends had not prevented me
antonio your worth is very dear in my regard
 i take it your own business calls on you
 and you embrace the occasion to depart
salarino good morrow my good lords
bassanio good signiors both when shall we laugh say when
 you grow exceeding strange must it be so
salarino we'll make our leisures to attend on yours
 exeunt salarino and salanio
lorenzo my lord bassanio since you have found antonio
 we two will leave you but at dinnertime
 i pray you have in mind where we must meet
bassanio i will not fail you
gratiano you look not well signior antonio
 you have too much respect upon the world
 they lose it that do buy it with much care
 believe me you are marvellously changed
antonio i hold the world but as the world gratiano
 a stage where every man must play a part
 and mine a sad one
gratiano let me play the fool
 with mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come
 and let my liver rather heat with wine
 than my heart cool with mortifying groans
 why should a man whose blood is warm within
 sit like his grandsire cut in alabaster
 sleep when he wakes and creep into the jaundice
 by being peevish i tell thee what antonio
 i love thee and it is my love that speaks
 there are a sort of men whose visages
 do cream and mantle like a standing pond
 and do a wilful stillness entertain
 with purpose to be dress'd in an opinion
 of wisdom gravity profound conceit
 as who should say i am sir oracle
 and when i ope my lips let no dog bark'
 o my antonio i do know of these
 that therefore only are reputed wise
 for saying nothing when i am very sure
 if they should speak would almost damn those ears
 which hearing them would call their brothers fools
 i'll tell thee more of this another time
 but fish not with this melancholy bait
 for this fool gudgeon this opinion
 come good lorenzo fare ye well awhile
 i'll end my exhortation after dinner
lorenzo well we will leave you then till dinnertime
 i must be one of these same dumb wise men
 for gratiano never lets me speak
gratiano well keep me company but two years moe
 thou shalt not know the sound of thine own tongue
antonio farewell i'll grow a talker for this gear
gratiano thanks i faith for silence is only commendable
 in a neat's tongue dried and a maid not vendible
 exeunt gratiano and lorenzo
antonio is that any thing now
bassanio gratiano speaks an infinite deal of nothing more
 than any man in all venice his reasons are as two
 grains of wheat hid in two bushels of chaff you
 shall seek all day ere you find them and when you
 have them they are not worth the search
antonio well tell me now what lady is the same
 to whom you swore a secret pilgrimage
 that you today promised to tell me of
bassanio tis not unknown to you antonio
 how much i have disabled mine estate
 by something showing a more swelling port
 than my faint means would grant continuance
 nor do i now make moan to be abridged
 from such a noble rate but my chief care
 is to come fairly off from the great debts
 wherein my time something too prodigal
 hath left me gaged to you antonio
 i owe the most in money and in love
 and from your love i have a warranty
 to unburden all my plots and purposes
 how to get clear of all the debts i owe
antonio i pray you good bassanio let me know it
 and if it stand as you yourself still do
 within the eye of honour be assured
 my purse my person my extremest means
 lie all unlock'd to your occasions
bassanio in my schooldays when i had lost one shaft
 i shot his fellow of the selfsame flight
 the selfsame way with more advised watch
 to find the other forth and by adventuring both
 i oft found both i urge this childhood proof
 because what follows is pure innocence
 i owe you much and like a wilful youth
 that which i owe is lost but if you please
 to shoot another arrow that self way
 which you did shoot the first i do not doubt
 as i will watch the aim or to find both
 or bring your latter hazard back again
 and thankfully rest debtor for the first
antonio you know me well and herein spend but time
 to wind about my love with circumstance
 and out of doubt you do me now more wrong
 in making question of my uttermost
 than if you had made waste of all i have
 then do but say to me what i should do
 that in your knowledge may by me be done
 and i am prest unto it therefore speak
bassanio in belmont is a lady richly left
 and she is fair and fairer than that word
 of wondrous virtues sometimes from her eyes
 i did receive fair speechless messages
 her name is portia nothing undervalued
 to cato's daughter brutus portia
 nor is the wide world ignorant of her worth
 for the four winds blow in from every coast
 renowned suitors and her sunny locks
 hang on her temples like a golden fleece
 which makes her seat of belmont colchos strand
 and many jasons come in quest of her
 o my antonio had i but the means
 to hold a rival place with one of them
 i have a mind presages me such thrift
 that i should questionless be fortunate
antonio thou know'st that all my fortunes are at sea
 neither have i money nor commodity
 to raise a present sum therefore go forth
 try what my credit can in venice do
 that shall be rack'd even to the uttermost
 to furnish thee to belmont to fair portia
 go presently inquire and so will i
 where money is and i no question make
 to have it of my trust or for my sake
 exeunt
 the merchant of venice
act i
scene ii belmont a room in portia's house
 enter portia and nerissa
portia by my troth nerissa my little body is aweary of
 this great world
nerissa you would be sweet madam if your miseries were in
 the same abundance as your good fortunes are and
 yet for aught i see they are as sick that surfeit
 with too much as they that starve with nothing it
 is no mean happiness therefore to be seated in the
 mean superfluity comes sooner by white hairs but
 competency lives longer
portia good sentences and well pronounced
nerissa they would be better if well followed
portia if to do were as easy as to know what were good to
 do chapels had been churches and poor men's
 cottages princes palaces it is a good divine that
 follows his own instructions i can easier teach
 twenty what were good to be done than be one of the
 twenty to follow mine own teaching the brain may
 devise laws for the blood but a hot temper leaps
 o'er a cold decree such a hare is madness the
 youth to skip o'er the meshes of good counsel the
 cripple but this reasoning is not in the fashion to
 choose me a husband o me the word choose i may
 neither choose whom i would nor refuse whom i
 dislike so is the will of a living daughter curbed
 by the will of a dead father is it not hard
 nerissa that i cannot choose one nor refuse none
nerissa your father was ever virtuous and holy men at their
 death have good inspirations therefore the lottery
 that he hath devised in these three chests of gold
 silver and lead whereof who chooses his meaning
 chooses you will no doubt never be chosen by any
 rightly but one who shall rightly love but what
 warmth is there in your affection towards any of
 these princely suitors that are already come
portia i pray thee overname them and as thou namest
 them i will describe them and according to my
 description level at my affection
nerissa first there is the neapolitan prince
portia ay that's a colt indeed for he doth nothing but
 talk of his horse and he makes it a great
 appropriation to his own good parts that he can
 shoe him himself i am much afeard my lady his
 mother played false with a smith
nerissa then there is the county palatine
portia he doth nothing but frown as who should say if you
 will not have me choose he hears merry tales and
 smiles not i fear he will prove the weeping
 philosopher when he grows old being so full of
 unmannerly sadness in his youth i had rather be
 married to a death'shead with a bone in his mouth
 than to either of these god defend me from these
 two
nerissa how say you by the french lord monsieur le bon
portia god made him and therefore let him pass for a man
 in truth i know it is a sin to be a mocker but
 he why he hath a horse better than the
 neapolitan's a better bad habit of frowning than
 the count palatine he is every man in no man if a
 throstle sing he falls straight a capering he will
 fence with his own shadow if i should marry him i
 should marry twenty husbands if he would despise me
 i would forgive him for if he love me to madness i
 shall never requite him
nerissa what say you then to falconbridge the young baron
 of england
portia you know i say nothing to him for he understands
 not me nor i him he hath neither latin french
 nor italian and you will come into the court and
 swear that i have a poor pennyworth in the english
 he is a proper man's picture but alas who can
 converse with a dumbshow how oddly he is suited
 i think he bought his doublet in italy his round
 hose in france his bonnet in germany and his
 behavior every where
nerissa what think you of the scottish lord his neighbour
portia that he hath a neighbourly charity in him for he
 borrowed a box of the ear of the englishman and
 swore he would pay him again when he was able i
 think the frenchman became his surety and sealed
 under for another
nerissa how like you the young german the duke of saxony's nephew
portia very vilely in the morning when he is sober and
 most vilely in the afternoon when he is drunk when
 he is best he is a little worse than a man and
 when he is worst he is little better than a beast
 and the worst fall that ever fell i hope i shall
 make shift to go without him
nerissa if he should offer to choose and choose the right
 casket you should refuse to perform your father's
 will if you should refuse to accept him
portia therefore for fear of the worst i pray thee set a
 deep glass of rhenish wine on the contrary casket
 for if the devil be within and that temptation
 without i know he will choose it i will do any
 thing nerissa ere i'll be married to a sponge
nerissa you need not fear lady the having any of these
 lords they have acquainted me with their
 determinations which is indeed to return to their
 home and to trouble you with no more suit unless
 you may be won by some other sort than your father's
 imposition depending on the caskets
portia if i live to be as old as sibylla i will die as
 chaste as diana unless i be obtained by the manner
 of my father's will i am glad this parcel of wooers
 are so reasonable for there is not one among them
 but i dote on his very absence and i pray god grant
 them a fair departure
nerissa do you not remember lady in your father's time a
 venetian a scholar and a soldier that came hither
 in company of the marquis of montferrat
portia yes yes it was bassanio as i think he was so called
nerissa true madam he of all the men that ever my foolish
 eyes looked upon was the best deserving a fair lady
portia i remember him well and i remember him worthy of
 thy praise
 enter a servingman
 how now what news
servant the four strangers seek for you madam to take
 their leave and there is a forerunner come from a
 fifth the prince of morocco who brings word the
 prince his master will be here tonight
portia if i could bid the fifth welcome with so good a
 heart as i can bid the other four farewell i should
 be glad of his approach if he have the condition
 of a saint and the complexion of a devil i had
 rather he should shrive me than wive me come
 nerissa sirrah go before
 whiles we shut the gates
 upon one wooer another knocks at the door
 exeunt
 the merchant of venice
act i
scene iii venice a public place
 enter bassanio and shylock
shylock three thousand ducats well
bassanio ay sir for three months
shylock for three months well
bassanio for the which as i told you antonio shall be bound
shylock antonio shall become bound well
bassanio may you stead me will you pleasure me shall i
 know your answer
shylock three thousand ducats for three months and antonio bound
bassanio your answer to that
shylock antonio is a good man
bassanio have you heard any imputation to the contrary
shylock oh no no no no my meaning in saying he is a
 good man is to have you understand me that he is
 sufficient yet his means are in supposition he
 hath an argosy bound to tripolis another to the
 indies i understand moreover upon the rialto he
 hath a third at mexico a fourth for england and
 other ventures he hath squandered abroad but ships
 are but boards sailors but men there be landrats
 and waterrats waterthieves and landthieves i
 mean pirates and then there is the peril of waters
 winds and rocks the man is notwithstanding
 sufficient three thousand ducats i think i may
 take his bond
bassanio be assured you may
shylock i will be assured i may and that i may be assured
 i will bethink me may i speak with antonio
bassanio if it please you to dine with us
shylock yes to smell pork to eat of the habitation which
 your prophet the nazarite conjured the devil into i
 will buy with you sell with you talk with you
 walk with you and so following but i will not eat
 with you drink with you nor pray with you what
 news on the rialto who is he comes here
 enter antonio
bassanio this is signior antonio
shylock aside how like a fawning publican he looks
 i hate him for he is a christian
 but more for that in low simplicity
 he lends out money gratis and brings down
 the rate of usance here with us in venice
 if i can catch him once upon the hip
 i will feed fat the ancient grudge i bear him
 he hates our sacred nation and he rails
 even there where merchants most do congregate
 on me my bargains and my wellwon thrift
 which he calls interest cursed be my tribe
 if i forgive him
bassanio shylock do you hear
shylock i am debating of my present store
 and by the near guess of my memory
 i cannot instantly raise up the gross
 of full three thousand ducats what of that
 tubal a wealthy hebrew of my tribe
 will furnish me but soft how many months
 do you desire
 to antonio
 rest you fair good signior
 your worship was the last man in our mouths
antonio shylock although i neither lend nor borrow
 by taking nor by giving of excess
 yet to supply the ripe wants of my friend
 i'll break a custom is he yet possess'd
 how much ye would
shylock ay ay three thousand ducats
antonio and for three months
shylock i had forgot three months you told me so
 well then your bond and let me see but hear you
 methought you said you neither lend nor borrow
 upon advantage
antonio i do never use it
shylock when jacob grazed his uncle laban's sheep
 this jacob from our holy abram was
 as his wise mother wrought in his behalf
 the third possessor ay he was the third
antonio and what of him did he take interest
shylock no not take interest not as you would say
 directly interest mark what jacob did
 when laban and himself were compromised
 that all the eanlings which were streak'd and pied
 should fall as jacob's hire the ewes being rank
 in the end of autumn turned to the rams
 and when the work of generation was
 between these woolly breeders in the act
 the skilful shepherd peel'd me certain wands
 and in the doing of the deed of kind
 he stuck them up before the fulsome ewes
 who then conceiving did in eaning time
 fall particolour'd lambs and those were jacob's
 this was a way to thrive and he was blest
 and thrift is blessing if men steal it not
antonio this was a venture sir that jacob served for
 a thing not in his power to bring to pass
 but sway'd and fashion'd by the hand of heaven
 was this inserted to make interest good
 or is your gold and silver ewes and rams
shylock i cannot tell i make it breed as fast
 but note me signior
antonio mark you this bassanio
 the devil can cite scripture for his purpose
 an evil soul producing holy witness
 is like a villain with a smiling cheek
 a goodly apple rotten at the heart
 o what a goodly outside falsehood hath
shylock three thousand ducats tis a good round sum
 three months from twelve then let me see the rate
antonio well shylock shall we be beholding to you
shylock signior antonio many a time and oft
 in the rialto you have rated me
 about my moneys and my usances
 still have i borne it with a patient shrug
 for sufferance is the badge of all our tribe
 you call me misbeliever cutthroat dog
 and spit upon my jewish gaberdine
 and all for use of that which is mine own
 well then it now appears you need my help
 go to then you come to me and you say
 shylock we would have moneys you say so
 you that did void your rheum upon my beard
 and foot me as you spurn a stranger cur
 over your threshold moneys is your suit
 what should i say to you should i not say
 hath a dog money is it possible
 a cur can lend three thousand ducats or
 shall i bend low and in a bondman's key
 with bated breath and whispering humbleness say this
 fair sir you spit on me on wednesday last
 you spurn'd me such a day another time
 you call'd me dog and for these courtesies
 i'll lend you thus much moneys'
antonio i am as like to call thee so again
 to spit on thee again to spurn thee too
 if thou wilt lend this money lend it not
 as to thy friends for when did friendship take
 a breed for barren metal of his friend
 but lend it rather to thine enemy
 who if he break thou mayst with better face
 exact the penalty
shylock why look you how you storm
 i would be friends with you and have your love
 forget the shames that you have stain'd me with
 supply your present wants and take no doit
 of usance for my moneys and you'll not hear me
 this is kind i offer
bassanio this were kindness
shylock this kindness will i show
 go with me to a notary seal me there
 your single bond and in a merry sport
 if you repay me not on such a day
 in such a place such sum or sums as are
 express'd in the condition let the forfeit
 be nominated for an equal pound
 of your fair flesh to be cut off and taken
 in what part of your body pleaseth me
antonio content i faith i'll seal to such a bond
 and say there is much kindness in the jew
bassanio you shall not seal to such a bond for me
 i'll rather dwell in my necessity
antonio why fear not man i will not forfeit it
 within these two months that's a month before
 this bond expires i do expect return
 of thrice three times the value of this bond
shylock o father abram what these christians are
 whose own hard dealings teaches them suspect
 the thoughts of others pray you tell me this
 if he should break his day what should i gain
 by the exaction of the forfeiture
 a pound of man's flesh taken from a man
 is not so estimable profitable neither
 as flesh of muttons beefs or goats i say
 to buy his favour i extend this friendship
 if he will take it so if not adieu
 and for my love i pray you wrong me not
antonio yes shylock i will seal unto this bond
shylock then meet me forthwith at the notary's
 give him direction for this merry bond
 and i will go and purse the ducats straight
 see to my house left in the fearful guard
 of an unthrifty knave and presently
 i will be with you
antonio hie thee gentle jew
 exit shylock
 the hebrew will turn christian he grows kind
bassanio i like not fair terms and a villain's mind
antonio come on in this there can be no dismay
 my ships come home a month before the day
 exeunt
 the merchant of venice
act ii
scene i belmont a room in portia's house
 flourish of cornets enter the prince of morocco
 and his train portia nerissa and others
 attending
morocco mislike me not for my complexion
 the shadow'd livery of the burnish'd sun
 to whom i am a neighbour and near bred
 bring me the fairest creature northward born
 where phoebus fire scarce thaws the icicles
 and let us make incision for your love
 to prove whose blood is reddest his or mine
 i tell thee lady this aspect of mine
 hath fear'd the valiant by my love i swear
 the bestregarded virgins of our clime
 have loved it too i would not change this hue
 except to steal your thoughts my gentle queen
portia in terms of choice i am not solely led
 by nice direction of a maiden's eyes
 besides the lottery of my destiny
 bars me the right of voluntary choosing
 but if my father had not scanted me
 and hedged me by his wit to yield myself
 his wife who wins me by that means i told you
 yourself renowned prince then stood as fair
 as any comer i have look'd on yet
 for my affection
morocco even for that i thank you
 therefore i pray you lead me to the caskets
 to try my fortune by this scimitar
 that slew the sophy and a persian prince
 that won three fields of sultan solyman
 i would outstare the sternest eyes that look
 outbrave the heart most daring on the earth
 pluck the young sucking cubs from the shebear
 yea mock the lion when he roars for prey
 to win thee lady but alas the while
 if hercules and lichas play at dice
 which is the better man the greater throw
 may turn by fortune from the weaker hand
 so is alcides beaten by his page
 and so may i blind fortune leading me
 miss that which one unworthier may attain
 and die with grieving
portia you must take your chance
 and either not attempt to choose at all
 or swear before you choose if you choose wrong
 never to speak to lady afterward
 in way of marriage therefore be advised
morocco nor will not come bring me unto my chance
portia first forward to the temple after dinner
 your hazard shall be made
morocco good fortune then
 to make me blest or cursed'st among men
 cornets and exeunt
 the merchant of venice
act ii
scene ii venice a street
 enter launcelot
launcelot certainly my conscience will serve me to run from
 this jew my master the fiend is at mine elbow and
 tempts me saying to me gobbo launcelot gobbo good
 launcelot or good gobbo or good launcelot
 gobbo use your legs take the start run away my
 conscience says no take heed honest launcelot
 take heed honest gobbo or as aforesaid honest
 launcelot gobbo do not run scorn running with thy
 heels well the most courageous fiend bids me
 pack via says the fiend away says the
 fiend for the heavens rouse up a brave mind'
 says the fiend and run well my conscience
 hanging about the neck of my heart says very wisely
 to me my honest friend launcelot being an honest
 man's son or rather an honest woman's son for
 indeed my father did something smack something
 grow to he had a kind of taste well my conscience
 says launcelot budge not budge says the
 fiend budge not says my conscience
 conscience say i you counsel well  fiend'
 say i you counsel well to be ruled by my
 conscience i should stay with the jew my master
 who god bless the mark is a kind of devil and to
 run away from the jew i should be ruled by the
 fiend who saving your reverence is the devil
 himself certainly the jew is the very devil
 incarnal and in my conscience my conscience is
 but a kind of hard conscience to offer to counsel
 me to stay with the jew the fiend gives the more
 friendly counsel i will run fiend my heels are
 at your command i will run
 enter old gobbo with a basket
gobbo master young man you i pray you which is the way
 to master jew's
launcelot aside o heavens this is my truebegotten father
 who being more than sandblind highgravel blind
 knows me not i will try confusions with him
gobbo master young gentleman i pray you which is the way
 to master jew's
launcelot turn up on your right hand at the next turning but
 at the next turning of all on your left marry at
 the very next turning turn of no hand but turn
 down indirectly to the jew's house
gobbo by god's sonties twill be a hard way to hit can
 you tell me whether one launcelot
 that dwells with him dwell with him or no
launcelot talk you of young master launcelot
 aside
 mark me now now will i raise the waters talk you
 of young master launcelot
gobbo no master sir but a poor man's son his father
 though i say it is an honest exceeding poor man
 and god be thanked well to live
launcelot well let his father be what a will we talk of
 young master launcelot
gobbo your worship's friend and launcelot sir
launcelot but i pray you ergo old man ergo i beseech you
 talk you of young master launcelot
gobbo of launcelot an't please your mastership
launcelot ergo master launcelot talk not of master
 launcelot father for the young gentleman
 according to fates and destinies and such odd
 sayings the sisters three and such branches of
 learning is indeed deceased or as you would say
 in plain terms gone to heaven
gobbo marry god forbid the boy was the very staff of my
 age my very prop
launcelot do i look like a cudgel or a hovelpost a staff or
 a prop do you know me father
gobbo alack the day i know you not young gentleman
 but i pray you tell me is my boy god rest his
 soul alive or dead
launcelot do you not know me father
gobbo alack sir i am sandblind i know you not
launcelot nay indeed if you had your eyes you might fail of
 the knowing me it is a wise father that knows his
 own child well old man i will tell you news of
 your son give me your blessing truth will come
 to light murder cannot be hid long a man's son
 may but at the length truth will out
gobbo pray you sir stand up i am sure you are not
 launcelot my boy
launcelot pray you let's have no more fooling about it but
 give me your blessing i am launcelot your boy
 that was your son that is your child that shall
 be
gobbo i cannot think you are my son
launcelot i know not what i shall think of that but i am
 launcelot the jew's man and i am sure margery your
 wife is my mother
gobbo her name is margery indeed i'll be sworn if thou
 be launcelot thou art mine own flesh and blood
 lord worshipped might he be what a beard hast thou
 got thou hast got more hair on thy chin than
 dobbin my fillhorse has on his tail
launcelot it should seem then that dobbin's tail grows
 backward i am sure he had more hair of his tail
 than i have of my face when i last saw him
gobbo lord how art thou changed how dost thou and thy
 master agree i have brought him a present how
 gree you now
launcelot well well but for mine own part as i have set
 up my rest to run away so i will not rest till i
 have run some ground my master's a very jew give
 him a present give him a halter i am famished in
 his service you may tell every finger i have with
 my ribs father i am glad you are come give me
 your present to one master bassanio who indeed
 gives rare new liveries if i serve not him i
 will run as far as god has any ground o rare
 fortune here comes the man to him father for i
 am a jew if i serve the jew any longer
 enter bassanio with leonardo and other followers
bassanio you may do so but let it be so hasted that supper
 be ready at the farthest by five of the clock see
 these letters delivered put the liveries to making
 and desire gratiano to come anon to my lodging
 exit a servant
launcelot to him father
gobbo god bless your worship
bassanio gramercy wouldst thou aught with me
gobbo here's my son sir a poor boy
launcelot not a poor boy sir but the rich jew's man that
 would sir as my father shall specify
gobbo he hath a great infection sir as one would say to serve
launcelot indeed the short and the long is i serve the jew
 and have a desire as my father shall specify
gobbo his master and he saving your worship's reverence
 are scarce catercousins
launcelot to be brief the very truth is that the jew having
 done me wrong doth cause me as my father being i
 hope an old man shall frutify unto you
gobbo i have here a dish of doves that i would bestow upon
 your worship and my suit is
launcelot in very brief the suit is impertinent to myself as
 your worship shall know by this honest old man and
 though i say it though old man yet poor man my father
bassanio one speak for both what would you
launcelot serve you sir
gobbo that is the very defect of the matter sir
bassanio i know thee well thou hast obtain'd thy suit
 shylock thy master spoke with me this day
 and hath preferr'd thee if it be preferment
 to leave a rich jew's service to become
 the follower of so poor a gentleman
launcelot the old proverb is very well parted between my
 master shylock and you sir you have the grace of
 god sir and he hath enough
bassanio thou speak'st it well go father with thy son
 take leave of thy old master and inquire
 my lodging out give him a livery
 more guarded than his fellows see it done
launcelot father in i cannot get a service no i have
 ne'er a tongue in my head well if any man in
 italy have a fairer table which doth offer to swear
 upon a book i shall have good fortune go to
 here's a simple line of life here's a small trifle
 of wives alas fifteen wives is nothing eleven
 widows and nine maids is a simple comingin for one
 man and then to scape drowning thrice and to be
 in peril of my life with the edge of a featherbed
 here are simple scapes well if fortune be a
 woman she's a good wench for this gear father
 come i'll take my leave of the jew in the twinkling of an eye
 exeunt launcelot and old gobbo
bassanio i pray thee good leonardo think on this
 these things being bought and orderly bestow'd
 return in haste for i do feast tonight
 my bestesteem'd acquaintance hie thee go
leonardo my best endeavours shall be done herein
 enter gratiano
gratiano where is your master
leonardo yonder sir he walks
 exit
gratiano signior bassanio
bassanio gratiano
gratiano i have a suit to you
bassanio you have obtain'd it
gratiano you must not deny me i must go with you to belmont
bassanio why then you must but hear thee gratiano
 thou art too wild too rude and bold of voice
 parts that become thee happily enough
 and in such eyes as ours appear not faults
 but where thou art not known why there they show
 something too liberal pray thee take pain
 to allay with some cold drops of modesty
 thy skipping spirit lest through thy wild behavior
 i be misconstrued in the place i go to
 and lose my hopes
gratiano signior bassanio hear me
 if i do not put on a sober habit
 talk with respect and swear but now and then
 wear prayerbooks in my pocket look demurely
 nay more while grace is saying hood mine eyes
 thus with my hat and sigh and say amen'
 use all the observance of civility
 like one well studied in a sad ostent
 to please his grandam never trust me more
bassanio well we shall see your bearing
gratiano nay but i bar tonight you shall not gauge me
 by what we do tonight
bassanio no that were pity
 i would entreat you rather to put on
 your boldest suit of mirth for we have friends
 that purpose merriment but fare you well
 i have some business
gratiano and i must to lorenzo and the rest
 but we will visit you at suppertime
 exeunt
 the merchant of venice
act ii
scene iii the same a room in shylock's house
 enter jessica and launcelot
jessica i am sorry thou wilt leave my father so
 our house is hell and thou a merry devil
 didst rob it of some taste of tediousness
 but fare thee well there is a ducat for thee
 and launcelot soon at supper shalt thou see
 lorenzo who is thy new master's guest
 give him this letter do it secretly
 and so farewell i would not have my father
 see me in talk with thee
launcelot adieu tears exhibit my tongue most beautiful
 pagan most sweet jew if a christian did not play
 the knave and get thee i am much deceived but
 adieu these foolish drops do something drown my
 manly spirit adieu
jessica farewell good launcelot
 exit launcelot
 alack what heinous sin is it in me
 to be ashamed to be my father's child
 but though i am a daughter to his blood
 i am not to his manners o lorenzo
 if thou keep promise i shall end this strife
 become a christian and thy loving wife
 exit
 the merchant of venice
act ii
scene iv the same a street
 enter gratiano lorenzo salarino and salanio
lorenzo nay we will slink away in suppertime
 disguise us at my lodging and return
 all in an hour
gratiano we have not made good preparation
salarino we have not spoke us yet of torchbearers
salanio tis vile unless it may be quaintly order'd
 and better in my mind not undertook
lorenzo tis now but four o'clock we have two hours
 to furnish us
 enter launcelot with a letter
 friend launcelot what's the news
launcelot an it shall please you to break up
 this it shall seem to signify
lorenzo i know the hand in faith tis a fair hand
 and whiter than the paper it writ on
 is the fair hand that writ
gratiano lovenews in faith
launcelot by your leave sir
lorenzo whither goest thou
launcelot marry sir to bid my old master the
 jew to sup tonight with my new master the christian
lorenzo hold here take this tell gentle jessica
 i will not fail her speak it privately
 go gentlemen
 exit launcelot
 will you prepare you for this masque tonight
 i am provided of a torchbearer
salanio ay marry i'll be gone about it straight
salanio and so will i
lorenzo meet me and gratiano
 at gratiano's lodging some hour hence
salarino tis good we do so
 exeunt salarino and salanio
gratiano was not that letter from fair jessica
lorenzo i must needs tell thee all she hath directed
 how i shall take her from her father's house
 what gold and jewels she is furnish'd with
 what page's suit she hath in readiness
 if e'er the jew her father come to heaven
 it will be for his gentle daughter's sake
 and never dare misfortune cross her foot
 unless she do it under this excuse
 that she is issue to a faithless jew
 come go with me peruse this as thou goest
 fair jessica shall be my torchbearer
 exeunt
 the merchant of venice
act ii
scene v the same before shylock's house
 enter shylock and launcelot
shylock well thou shalt see thy eyes shall be thy judge
 the difference of old shylock and bassanio
 what jessicathou shalt not gormandise
 as thou hast done with mewhat jessica
 and sleep and snore and rend apparel out
 why jessica i say
launcelot why jessica
shylock who bids thee call i do not bid thee call
launcelot your worship was wont to tell me that
 i could do nothing without bidding
 enter jessica
jessica call you what is your will
shylock i am bid forth to supper jessica
 there are my keys but wherefore should i go
 i am not bid for love they flatter me
 but yet i'll go in hate to feed upon
 the prodigal christian jessica my girl
 look to my house i am right loath to go
 there is some ill abrewing towards my rest
 for i did dream of moneybags tonight
launcelot i beseech you sir go my young master doth expect
 your reproach
shylock so do i his
launcelot an they have conspired together i will not say you
 shall see a masque but if you do then it was not
 for nothing that my nose fell ableeding on
 blackmonday last at six o'clock i the morning
 falling out that year on ashwednesday was four
 year in the afternoon
shylock what are there masques hear you me jessica
 lock up my doors and when you hear the drum
 and the vile squealing of the wryneck'd fife
 clamber not you up to the casements then
 nor thrust your head into the public street
 to gaze on christian fools with varnish'd faces
 but stop my house's ears i mean my casements
 let not the sound of shallow foppery enter
 my sober house by jacob's staff i swear
 i have no mind of feasting forth tonight
 but i will go go you before me sirrah
 say i will come
launcelot i will go before sir mistress look out at
 window for all this there will come a christian
 boy will be worth a jewess eye
 exit
shylock what says that fool of hagar's offspring ha
jessica his words were farewell mistress nothing else
shylock the patch is kind enough but a huge feeder
 snailslow in profit and he sleeps by day
 more than the wildcat drones hive not with me
 therefore i part with him and part with him
 to one that would have him help to waste
 his borrow'd purse well jessica go in
 perhaps i will return immediately
 do as i bid you shut doors after you
 fast bind fast find
 a proverb never stale in thrifty mind
 exit
jessica farewell and if my fortune be not crost
 i have a father you a daughter lost
 exit
 the merchant of venice
act ii
scene vi the same
 enter gratiano and salarino masqued
gratiano this is the penthouse under which lorenzo
 desired us to make stand
salarino his hour is almost past
gratiano and it is marvel he outdwells his hour
 for lovers ever run before the clock
salarino o ten times faster venus pigeons fly
 to seal love's bonds newmade than they are wont
 to keep obliged faith unforfeited
gratiano that ever holds who riseth from a feast
 with that keen appetite that he sits down
 where is the horse that doth untread again
 his tedious measures with the unbated fire
 that he did pace them first all things that are
 are with more spirit chased than enjoy'd
 how like a younker or a prodigal
 the scarfed bark puts from her native bay
 hugg'd and embraced by the strumpet wind
 how like the prodigal doth she return
 with overweather'd ribs and ragged sails
 lean rent and beggar'd by the strumpet wind
salarino here comes lorenzo more of this hereafter
 enter lorenzo
lorenzo sweet friends your patience for my long abode
 not i but my affairs have made you wait
 when you shall please to play the thieves for wives
 i'll watch as long for you then approach
 here dwells my father jew ho who's within
 enter jessica above in boy's clothes
jessica who are you tell me for more certainty
 albeit i'll swear that i do know your tongue
lorenzo lorenzo and thy love
jessica lorenzo certain and my love indeed
 for who love i so much and now who knows
 but you lorenzo whether i am yours
lorenzo heaven and thy thoughts are witness that thou art
jessica here catch this casket it is worth the pains
 i am glad tis night you do not look on me
 for i am much ashamed of my exchange
 but love is blind and lovers cannot see
 the pretty follies that themselves commit
 for if they could cupid himself would blush
 to see me thus transformed to a boy
lorenzo descend for you must be my torchbearer
jessica what must i hold a candle to my shames
 they in themselves goodsooth are too too light
 why tis an office of discovery love
 and i should be obscured
lorenzo so are you sweet
 even in the lovely garnish of a boy
 but come at once
 for the close night doth play the runaway
 and we are stay'd for at bassanio's feast
jessica i will make fast the doors and gild myself
 with some more ducats and be with you straight
 exit above
gratiano now by my hood a gentile and no jew
lorenzo beshrew me but i love her heartily
 for she is wise if i can judge of her
 and fair she is if that mine eyes be true
 and true she is as she hath proved herself
 and therefore like herself wise fair and true
 shall she be placed in my constant soul
 enter jessica below
 what art thou come on gentlemen away
 our masquing mates by this time for us stay
 exit with jessica and salarino
 enter antonio
antonio who's there
gratiano signior antonio
antonio fie fie gratiano where are all the rest
 tis nine o'clock our friends all stay for you
 no masque tonight the wind is come about
 bassanio presently will go aboard
 i have sent twenty out to seek for you
gratiano i am glad on't i desire no more delight
 than to be under sail and gone tonight
 exeunt
 the merchant of venice
act ii
scene vii belmont a room in portia's house
 flourish of cornets enter portia with the
 prince of morocco and their trains
portia go draw aside the curtains and discover
 the several caskets to this noble prince
 now make your choice
morocco the first of gold who this inscription bears
 who chooseth me shall gain what many men desire'
 the second silver which this promise carries
 who chooseth me shall get as much as he deserves'
 this third dull lead with warning all as blunt
 who chooseth me must give and hazard all he hath'
 how shall i know if i do choose the right
portia the one of them contains my picture prince
 if you choose that then i am yours withal
morocco some god direct my judgment let me see
 i will survey the inscriptions back again
 what says this leaden casket
 who chooseth me must give and hazard all he hath'
 must give for what for lead hazard for lead
 this casket threatens men that hazard all
 do it in hope of fair advantages
 a golden mind stoops not to shows of dross
 i'll then nor give nor hazard aught for lead
 what says the silver with her virgin hue
 who chooseth me shall get as much as he deserves'
 as much as he deserves pause there morocco
 and weigh thy value with an even hand
 if thou be'st rated by thy estimation
 thou dost deserve enough and yet enough
 may not extend so far as to the lady
 and yet to be afeard of my deserving
 were but a weak disabling of myself
 as much as i deserve why that's the lady
 i do in birth deserve her and in fortunes
 in graces and in qualities of breeding
 but more than these in love i do deserve
 what if i stray'd no further but chose here
 let's see once more this saying graved in gold
 who chooseth me shall gain what many men desire'
 why that's the lady all the world desires her
 from the four corners of the earth they come
 to kiss this shrine this mortalbreathing saint
 the hyrcanian deserts and the vasty wilds
 of wide arabia are as thoroughfares now
 for princes to come view fair portia
 the watery kingdom whose ambitious head
 spits in the face of heaven is no bar
 to stop the foreign spirits but they come
 as o'er a brook to see fair portia
 one of these three contains her heavenly picture
 is't like that lead contains her twere damnation
 to think so base a thought it were too gross
 to rib her cerecloth in the obscure grave
 or shall i think in silver she's immured
 being ten times undervalued to tried gold
 o sinful thought never so rich a gem
 was set in worse than gold they have in england
 a coin that bears the figure of an angel
 stamped in gold but that's insculp'd upon
 but here an angel in a golden bed
 lies all within deliver me the key
 here do i choose and thrive i as i may
portia there take it prince and if my form lie there
 then i am yours
 he unlocks the golden casket
morocco o hell what have we here
 a carrion death within whose empty eye
 there is a written scroll i'll read the writing
 reads
 all that glitters is not gold
 often have you heard that told
 many a man his life hath sold
 but my outside to behold
 gilded tombs do worms enfold
 had you been as wise as bold
 young in limbs in judgment old
 your answer had not been inscroll'd
 fare you well your suit is cold
 cold indeed and labour lost
 then farewell heat and welcome frost
 portia adieu i have too grieved a heart
 to take a tedious leave thus losers part
 exit with his train flourish of cornets
portia a gentle riddance draw the curtains go
 let all of his complexion choose me so
 exeunt
 the merchant of venice
act ii
scene viii venice a street
 enter salarino and salanio
salarino why man i saw bassanio under sail
 with him is gratiano gone along
 and in their ship i am sure lorenzo is not
salanio the villain jew with outcries raised the duke
 who went with him to search bassanio's ship
salarino he came too late the ship was under sail
 but there the duke was given to understand
 that in a gondola were seen together
 lorenzo and his amorous jessica
 besides antonio certified the duke
 they were not with bassanio in his ship
salanio i never heard a passion so confused
 so strange outrageous and so variable
 as the dog jew did utter in the streets
 my daughter o my ducats o my daughter
 fled with a christian o my christian ducats
 justice the law my ducats and my daughter
 a sealed bag two sealed bags of ducats
 of double ducats stolen from me by my daughter
 and jewels two stones two rich and precious stones
 stolen by my daughter justice find the girl
 she hath the stones upon her and the ducats'
salarino why all the boys in venice follow him
 crying his stones his daughter and his ducats
salanio let good antonio look he keep his day
 or he shall pay for this
salarino marry well remember'd
 i reason'd with a frenchman yesterday
 who told me in the narrow seas that part
 the french and english there miscarried
 a vessel of our country richly fraught
 i thought upon antonio when he told me
 and wish'd in silence that it were not his
salanio you were best to tell antonio what you hear
 yet do not suddenly for it may grieve him
salarino a kinder gentleman treads not the earth
 i saw bassanio and antonio part
 bassanio told him he would make some speed
 of his return he answer'd do not so
 slubber not business for my sake bassanio
 but stay the very riping of the time
 and for the jew's bond which he hath of me
 let it not enter in your mind of love
 be merry and employ your chiefest thoughts
 to courtship and such fair ostents of love
 as shall conveniently become you there'
 and even there his eye being big with tears
 turning his face he put his hand behind him
 and with affection wondrous sensible
 he wrung bassanio's hand and so they parted
salanio i think he only loves the world for him
 i pray thee let us go and find him out
 and quicken his embraced heaviness
 with some delight or other
salarino do we so
 exeunt
 the merchant of venice
act ii
scene ix belmont a room in portia's house
 enter nerissa with a servitor
nerissa quick quick i pray thee draw the curtain straight
 the prince of arragon hath ta'en his oath
 and comes to his election presently
 flourish of cornets enter the prince of arragon
 portia and their trains
portia behold there stand the caskets noble prince
 if you choose that wherein i am contain'd
 straight shall our nuptial rites be solemnized
 but if you fail without more speech my lord
 you must be gone from hence immediately
arragon i am enjoin'd by oath to observe three things
 first never to unfold to any one
 which casket twas i chose next if i fail
 of the right casket never in my life
 to woo a maid in way of marriage lastly
 if i do fail in fortune of my choice
 immediately to leave you and be gone
portia to these injunctions every one doth swear
 that comes to hazard for my worthless self
arragon and so have i address'd me fortune now
 to my heart's hope gold silver and base lead
 who chooseth me must give and hazard all he hath'
 you shall look fairer ere i give or hazard
 what says the golden chest ha let me see
 who chooseth me shall gain what many men desire'
 what many men desire that many may be meant
 by the fool multitude that choose by show
 not learning more than the fond eye doth teach
 which pries not to the interior but like the martlet
 builds in the weather on the outward wall
 even in the force and road of casualty
 i will not choose what many men desire
 because i will not jump with common spirits
 and rank me with the barbarous multitudes
 why then to thee thou silver treasurehouse
 tell me once more what title thou dost bear
 who chooseth me shall get as much as he deserves'
 and well said too for who shall go about
 to cozen fortune and be honourable
 without the stamp of merit let none presume
 to wear an undeserved dignity
 o that estates degrees and offices
 were not derived corruptly and that clear honour
 were purchased by the merit of the wearer
 how many then should cover that stand bare
 how many be commanded that command
 how much low peasantry would then be glean'd
 from the true seed of honour and how much honour
 pick'd from the chaff and ruin of the times
 to be newvarnish'd well but to my choice
 who chooseth me shall get as much as he deserves'
 i will assume desert give me a key for this
 and instantly unlock my fortunes here
 he opens the silver casket
portia too long a pause for that which you find there
arragon what's here the portrait of a blinking idiot
 presenting me a schedule i will read it
 how much unlike art thou to portia
 how much unlike my hopes and my deservings
 who chooseth me shall have as much as he deserves'
 did i deserve no more than a fool's head
 is that my prize are my deserts no better
portia to offend and judge are distinct offices
 and of opposed natures
arragon what is here
 reads
 the fire seven times tried this
 seven times tried that judgment is
 that did never choose amiss
 some there be that shadows kiss
 such have but a shadow's bliss
 there be fools alive i wis
 silver'd o'er and so was this
 take what wife you will to bed
 i will ever be your head
 so be gone you are sped
 still more fool i shall appear
 by the time i linger here
 with one fool's head i came to woo
 but i go away with two
 sweet adieu i'll keep my oath
 patiently to bear my wroth
 exeunt arragon and train
portia thus hath the candle singed the moth
 o these deliberate fools when they do choose
 they have the wisdom by their wit to lose
nerissa the ancient saying is no heresy
 hanging and wiving goes by destiny
portia come draw the curtain nerissa
 enter a servant
servant where is my lady
portia here what would my lord
servant madam there is alighted at your gate
 a young venetian one that comes before
 to signify the approaching of his lord
 from whom he bringeth sensible regreets
 to wit besides commends and courteous breath
 gifts of rich value yet i have not seen
 so likely an ambassador of love
 a day in april never came so sweet
 to show how costly summer was at hand
 as this forespurrer comes before his lord
portia no more i pray thee i am half afeard
 thou wilt say anon he is some kin to thee
 thou spend'st such highday wit in praising him
 come come nerissa for i long to see
 quick cupid's post that comes so mannerly
nerissa bassanio lord love if thy will it be
 exeunt
 the merchant of venice
act iii
scene i venice a street
 enter salanio and salarino
salanio now what news on the rialto
salarino why yet it lives there uncheck'd that antonio hath
 a ship of rich lading wrecked on the narrow seas
 the goodwins i think they call the place a very
 dangerous flat and fatal where the carcasses of many
 a tall ship lie buried as they say if my gossip
 report be an honest woman of her word
salanio i would she were as lying a gossip in that as ever
 knapped ginger or made her neighbours believe she
 wept for the death of a third husband but it is
 true without any slips of prolixity or crossing the
 plain highway of talk that the good antonio the
 honest antonioo that i had a title good enough
 to keep his name company
salarino come the full stop
salanio ha what sayest thou why the end is he hath
 lost a ship
salarino i would it might prove the end of his losses
salanio let me say amen betimes lest the devil cross my
 prayer for here he comes in the likeness of a jew
 enter shylock
 how now shylock what news among the merchants
shylock you know none so well none so well as you of my
 daughter's flight
salarino that's certain i for my part knew the tailor
 that made the wings she flew withal
salanio and shylock for his own part knew the bird was
 fledged and then it is the complexion of them all
 to leave the dam
shylock she is damned for it
salanio that's certain if the devil may be her judge
shylock my own flesh and blood to rebel
salanio out upon it old carrion rebels it at these years
shylock i say my daughter is my flesh and blood
salarino there is more difference between thy flesh and hers
 than between jet and ivory more between your bloods
 than there is between red wine and rhenish but
 tell us do you hear whether antonio have had any
 loss at sea or no
shylock there i have another bad match a bankrupt a
 prodigal who dare scarce show his head on the
 rialto a beggar that was used to come so smug upon
 the mart let him look to his bond he was wont to
 call me usurer let him look to his bond he was
 wont to lend money for a christian courtesy let him
 look to his bond
salarino why i am sure if he forfeit thou wilt not take
 his flesh what's that good for
shylock to bait fish withal if it will feed nothing else
 it will feed my revenge he hath disgraced me and
 hindered me half a million laughed at my losses
 mocked at my gains scorned my nation thwarted my
 bargains cooled my friends heated mine
 enemies and what's his reason i am a jew hath
 not a jew eyes hath not a jew hands organs
 dimensions senses affections passions fed with
 the same food hurt with the same weapons subject
 to the same diseases healed by the same means
 warmed and cooled by the same winter and summer as
 a christian is if you prick us do we not bleed
 if you tickle us do we not laugh if you poison
 us do we not die and if you wrong us shall we not
 revenge if we are like you in the rest we will
 resemble you in that if a jew wrong a christian
 what is his humility revenge if a christian
 wrong a jew what should his sufferance be by
 christian example why revenge the villany you
 teach me i will execute and it shall go hard but i
 will better the instruction
 enter a servant
servant gentlemen my master antonio is at his house and
 desires to speak with you both
salarino we have been up and down to seek him
 enter tubal
salanio here comes another of the tribe a third cannot be
 matched unless the devil himself turn jew
 exeunt salanio salarino and servant
shylock how now tubal what news from genoa hast thou
 found my daughter
tubal i often came where i did hear of her but cannot find her
shylock why there there there there a diamond gone
 cost me two thousand ducats in frankfort the curse
 never fell upon our nation till now i never felt it
 till now two thousand ducats in that and other
 precious precious jewels i would my daughter
 were dead at my foot and the jewels in her ear
 would she were hearsed at my foot and the ducats in
 her coffin no news of them why so and i know
 not what's spent in the search why thou loss upon
 loss the thief gone with so much and so much to
 find the thief and no satisfaction no revenge
 nor no in luck stirring but what lights on my
 shoulders no sighs but of my breathing no tears
 but of my shedding
tubal yes other men have ill luck too antonio as i
 heard in genoa
shylock what what what ill luck ill luck
tubal hath an argosy cast away coming from tripolis
shylock i thank god i thank god is't true is't true
tubal i spoke with some of the sailors that escaped the wreck
shylock i thank thee good tubal good news good news
 ha ha where in genoa
tubal your daughter spent in genoa as i heard in one
 night fourscore ducats
shylock thou stickest a dagger in me i shall never see my
 gold again fourscore ducats at a sitting
 fourscore ducats
tubal there came divers of antonio's creditors in my
 company to venice that swear he cannot choose but break
shylock i am very glad of it i'll plague him i'll torture
 him i am glad of it
tubal one of them showed me a ring that he had of your
 daughter for a monkey
shylock out upon her thou torturest me tubal it was my
 turquoise i had it of leah when i was a bachelor
 i would not have given it for a wilderness of monkeys
tubal but antonio is certainly undone
shylock nay that's true that's very true go tubal fee
 me an officer bespeak him a fortnight before i
 will have the heart of him if he forfeit for were
 he out of venice i can make what merchandise i
 will go go tubal and meet me at our synagogue
 go good tubal at our synagogue tubal
 exeunt
 the merchant of venice
act iii
scene ii belmont a room in portia's house
 enter bassanio portia gratiano nerissa and
 attendants
portia i pray you tarry pause a day or two
 before you hazard for in choosing wrong
 i lose your company therefore forbear awhile
 there's something tells me but it is not love
 i would not lose you and you know yourself
 hate counsels not in such a quality
 but lest you should not understand me well
 and yet a maiden hath no tongue but thought
 i would detain you here some month or two
 before you venture for me i could teach you
 how to choose right but i am then forsworn
 so will i never be so may you miss me
 but if you do you'll make me wish a sin
 that i had been forsworn beshrew your eyes
 they have o'erlook'd me and divided me
 one half of me is yours the other half yours
 mine own i would say but if mine then yours
 and so all yours o these naughty times
 put bars between the owners and their rights
 and so though yours not yours prove it so
 let fortune go to hell for it not i
 i speak too long but tis to peize the time
 to eke it and to draw it out in length
 to stay you from election
bassanio let me choose
 for as i am i live upon the rack
portia upon the rack bassanio then confess
 what treason there is mingled with your love
bassanio none but that ugly treason of mistrust
 which makes me fear the enjoying of my love
 there may as well be amity and life
 tween snow and fire as treason and my love
portia ay but i fear you speak upon the rack
 where men enforced do speak anything
bassanio promise me life and i'll confess the truth
portia well then confess and live
bassanio confess and love'
 had been the very sum of my confession
 o happy torment when my torturer
 doth teach me answers for deliverance
 but let me to my fortune and the caskets
portia away then i am lock'd in one of them
 if you do love me you will find me out
 nerissa and the rest stand all aloof
 let music sound while he doth make his choice
 then if he lose he makes a swanlike end
 fading in music that the comparison
 may stand more proper my eye shall be the stream
 and watery deathbed for him he may win
 and what is music then then music is
 even as the flourish when true subjects bow
 to a newcrowned monarch such it is
 as are those dulcet sounds in break of day
 that creep into the dreaming bridegroom's ear
 and summon him to marriage now he goes
 with no less presence but with much more love
 than young alcides when he did redeem
 the virgin tribute paid by howling troy
 to the seamonster i stand for sacrifice
 the rest aloof are the dardanian wives
 with bleared visages come forth to view
 the issue of the exploit go hercules
 live thou i live with much much more dismay
 i view the fight than thou that makest the fray
 music whilst bassanio comments on the caskets to himself
 
 song
 tell me where is fancy bred
 or in the heart or in the head
 how begot how nourished
 reply reply
 it is engender'd in the eyes
 with gazing fed and fancy dies
 in the cradle where it lies
 let us all ring fancy's knell
 i'll begin itding dong bell
all ding dong bell
bassanio so may the outward shows be least themselves
 the world is still deceived with ornament
 in law what plea so tainted and corrupt
 but being seasoned with a gracious voice
 obscures the show of evil in religion
 what damned error but some sober brow
 will bless it and approve it with a text
 hiding the grossness with fair ornament
 there is no vice so simple but assumes
 some mark of virtue on his outward parts
 how many cowards whose hearts are all as false
 as stairs of sand wear yet upon their chins
 the beards of hercules and frowning mars
 who inward search'd have livers white as milk
 and these assume but valour's excrement
 to render them redoubted look on beauty
 and you shall see tis purchased by the weight
 which therein works a miracle in nature
 making them lightest that wear most of it
 so are those crisped snaky golden locks
 which make such wanton gambols with the wind
 upon supposed fairness often known
 to be the dowry of a second head
 the skull that bred them in the sepulchre
 thus ornament is but the guiled shore
 to a most dangerous sea the beauteous scarf
 veiling an indian beauty in a word
 the seeming truth which cunning times put on
 to entrap the wisest therefore thou gaudy gold
 hard food for midas i will none of thee
 nor none of thee thou pale and common drudge
 tween man and man but thou thou meagre lead
 which rather threatenest than dost promise aught
 thy paleness moves me more than eloquence
 and here choose i joy be the consequence
portia aside how all the other passions fleet to air
 as doubtful thoughts and rashembraced despair
 and shuddering fear and greeneyed jealousy o love
 be moderate allay thy ecstasy
 in measure rein thy joy scant this excess
 i feel too much thy blessing make it less
 for fear i surfeit
bassanio what find i here
 opening the leaden casket
 fair portia's counterfeit what demigod
 hath come so near creation move these eyes
 or whether riding on the balls of mine
 seem they in motion here are sever'd lips
 parted with sugar breath so sweet a bar
 should sunder such sweet friends here in her hairs
 the painter plays the spider and hath woven
 a golden mesh to entrap the hearts of men
 faster than gnats in cobwebs but her eyes
 how could he see to do them having made one
 methinks it should have power to steal both his
 and leave itself unfurnish'd yet look how far
 the substance of my praise doth wrong this shadow
 in underprizing it so far this shadow
 doth limp behind the substance here's the scroll
 the continent and summary of my fortune
 reads
 you that choose not by the view
 chance as fair and choose as true
 since this fortune falls to you
 be content and seek no new
 if you be well pleased with this
 and hold your fortune for your bliss
 turn you where your lady is
 and claim her with a loving kiss
 a gentle scroll fair lady by your leave
 i come by note to give and to receive
 like one of two contending in a prize
 that thinks he hath done well in people's eyes
 hearing applause and universal shout
 giddy in spirit still gazing in a doubt
 whether these pearls of praise be his or no
 so thrice fair lady stand i even so
 as doubtful whether what i see be true
 until confirm'd sign'd ratified by you
portia you see me lord bassanio where i stand
 such as i am though for myself alone
 i would not be ambitious in my wish
 to wish myself much better yet for you
 i would be trebled twenty times myself
 a thousand times more fair ten thousand times more rich
 that only to stand high in your account
 i might in virtue beauties livings friends
 exceed account but the full sum of me
 is sum of something which to term in gross
 is an unlesson'd girl unschool'd unpractised
 happy in this she is not yet so old
 but she may learn happier than this
 she is not bred so dull but she can learn
 happiest of all is that her gentle spirit
 commits itself to yours to be directed
 as from her lord her governor her king
 myself and what is mine to you and yours
 is now converted but now i was the lord
 of this fair mansion master of my servants
 queen o'er myself and even now but now
 this house these servants and this same myself
 are yours my lord i give them with this ring
 which when you part from lose or give away
 let it presage the ruin of your love
 and be my vantage to exclaim on you
bassanio madam you have bereft me of all words
 only my blood speaks to you in my veins
 and there is such confusion in my powers
 as after some oration fairly spoke
 by a beloved prince there doth appear
 among the buzzing pleased multitude
 where every something being blent together
 turns to a wild of nothing save of joy
 express'd and not express'd but when this ring
 parts from this finger then parts life from hence
 o then be bold to say bassanio's dead
nerissa my lord and lady it is now our time
 that have stood by and seen our wishes prosper
 to cry good joy good joy my lord and lady
gratiano my lord bassanio and my gentle lady
 i wish you all the joy that you can wish
 for i am sure you can wish none from me
 and when your honours mean to solemnize
 the bargain of your faith i do beseech you
 even at that time i may be married too
bassanio with all my heart so thou canst get a wife
gratiano i thank your lordship you have got me one
 my eyes my lord can look as swift as yours
 you saw the mistress i beheld the maid
 you loved i loved for intermission
 no more pertains to me my lord than you
 your fortune stood upon the casket there
 and so did mine too as the matter falls
 for wooing here until i sweat again
 and sweating until my very roof was dry
 with oaths of love at last if promise last
 i got a promise of this fair one here
 to have her love provided that your fortune
 achieved her mistress
portia is this true nerissa
nerissa madam it is so you stand pleased withal
bassanio and do you gratiano mean good faith
gratiano yes faith my lord
bassanio our feast shall be much honour'd in your marriage
gratiano we'll play with them the first boy for a thousand ducats
nerissa what and stake down
gratiano no we shall ne'er win at that sport and stake down
 but who comes here lorenzo and his infidel what
 and my old venetian friend salerio
 enter lorenzo jessica and salerio a messenger
 from venice
bassanio lorenzo and salerio welcome hither
 if that the youth of my new interest here
 have power to bid you welcome by your leave
 i bid my very friends and countrymen
 sweet portia welcome
portia so do i my lord
 they are entirely welcome
lorenzo i thank your honour for my part my lord
 my purpose was not to have seen you here
 but meeting with salerio by the way
 he did entreat me past all saying nay
 to come with him along
salerio i did my lord
 and i have reason for it signior antonio
 commends him to you
 gives bassanio a letter
bassanio ere i ope his letter
 i pray you tell me how my good friend doth
salerio not sick my lord unless it be in mind
 nor well unless in mind his letter there
 will show you his estate
gratiano nerissa cheer yon stranger bid her welcome
 your hand salerio what's the news from venice
 how doth that royal merchant good antonio
 i know he will be glad of our success
 we are the jasons we have won the fleece
salerio i would you had won the fleece that he hath lost
portia there are some shrewd contents in yon same paper
 that steals the colour from bassanio's cheek
 some dear friend dead else nothing in the world
 could turn so much the constitution
 of any constant man what worse and worse
 with leave bassanio i am half yourself
 and i must freely have the half of anything
 that this same paper brings you
bassanio o sweet portia
 here are a few of the unpleasant'st words
 that ever blotted paper gentle lady
 when i did first impart my love to you
 i freely told you all the wealth i had
 ran in my veins i was a gentleman
 and then i told you true and yet dear lady
 rating myself at nothing you shall see
 how much i was a braggart when i told you
 my state was nothing i should then have told you
 that i was worse than nothing for indeed
 i have engaged myself to a dear friend
 engaged my friend to his mere enemy
 to feed my means here is a letter lady
 the paper as the body of my friend
 and every word in it a gaping wound
 issuing lifeblood but is it true salerio
 have all his ventures fail'd what not one hit
 from tripolis from mexico and england
 from lisbon barbary and india
 and not one vessel scape the dreadful touch
 of merchantmarring rocks
salerio not one my lord
 besides it should appear that if he had
 the present money to discharge the jew
 he would not take it never did i know
 a creature that did bear the shape of man
 so keen and greedy to confound a man
 he plies the duke at morning and at night
 and doth impeach the freedom of the state
 if they deny him justice twenty merchants
 the duke himself and the magnificoes
 of greatest port have all persuaded with him
 but none can drive him from the envious plea
 of forfeiture of justice and his bond
jessica when i was with him i have heard him swear
 to tubal and to chus his countrymen
 that he would rather have antonio's flesh
 than twenty times the value of the sum
 that he did owe him and i know my lord
 if law authority and power deny not
 it will go hard with poor antonio
portia is it your dear friend that is thus in trouble
bassanio the dearest friend to me the kindest man
 the bestcondition'd and unwearied spirit
 in doing courtesies and one in whom
 the ancient roman honour more appears
 than any that draws breath in italy
portia what sum owes he the jew
bassanio for me three thousand ducats
portia what no more
 pay him six thousand and deface the bond
 double six thousand and then treble that
 before a friend of this description
 shall lose a hair through bassanio's fault
 first go with me to church and call me wife
 and then away to venice to your friend
 for never shall you lie by portia's side
 with an unquiet soul you shall have gold
 to pay the petty debt twenty times over
 when it is paid bring your true friend along
 my maid nerissa and myself meantime
 will live as maids and widows come away
 for you shall hence upon your weddingday
 bid your friends welcome show a merry cheer
 since you are dear bought i will love you dear
 but let me hear the letter of your friend
bassanio reads sweet bassanio my ships have all
 miscarried my creditors grow cruel my estate is
 very low my bond to the jew is forfeit and since
 in paying it it is impossible i should live all
 debts are cleared between you and i if i might but
 see you at my death notwithstanding use your
 pleasure if your love do not persuade you to come
 let not my letter
portia o love dispatch all business and be gone
bassanio since i have your good leave to go away
 i will make haste but till i come again
 no bed shall e'er be guilty of my stay
 no rest be interposer twixt us twain
 exeunt
 the merchant of venice
act iii
scene iii venice a street
 enter shylock salarino antonio and gaoler
shylock gaoler look to him tell not me of mercy
 this is the fool that lent out money gratis
 gaoler look to him
antonio hear me yet good shylock
shylock i'll have my bond speak not against my bond
 i have sworn an oath that i will have my bond
 thou call'dst me dog before thou hadst a cause
 but since i am a dog beware my fangs
 the duke shall grant me justice i do wonder
 thou naughty gaoler that thou art so fond
 to come abroad with him at his request
antonio i pray thee hear me speak
shylock i'll have my bond i will not hear thee speak
 i'll have my bond and therefore speak no more
 i'll not be made a soft and dulleyed fool
 to shake the head relent and sigh and yield
 to christian intercessors follow not
 i'll have no speaking i will have my bond
 exit
salarino it is the most impenetrable cur
 that ever kept with men
antonio let him alone
 i'll follow him no more with bootless prayers
 he seeks my life his reason well i know
 i oft deliver'd from his forfeitures
 many that have at times made moan to me
 therefore he hates me
salarino i am sure the duke
 will never grant this forfeiture to hold
antonio the duke cannot deny the course of law
 for the commodity that strangers have
 with us in venice if it be denied
 will much impeach the justice of his state
 since that the trade and profit of the city
 consisteth of all nations therefore go
 these griefs and losses have so bated me
 that i shall hardly spare a pound of flesh
 tomorrow to my bloody creditor
 well gaoler on pray god bassanio come
 to see me pay his debt and then i care not
 exeunt
 the merchant of venice
act iii
scene iv belmont a room in portia's house
 enter portia nerissa lorenzo jessica and
 balthasar
lorenzo madam although i speak it in your presence
 you have a noble and a true conceit
 of godlike amity which appears most strongly
 in bearing thus the absence of your lord
 but if you knew to whom you show this honour
 how true a gentleman you send relief
 how dear a lover of my lord your husband
 i know you would be prouder of the work
 than customary bounty can enforce you
portia i never did repent for doing good
 nor shall not now for in companions
 that do converse and waste the time together
 whose souls do bear an equal yoke of love
 there must be needs a like proportion
 of lineaments of manners and of spirit
 which makes me think that this antonio
 being the bosom lover of my lord
 must needs be like my lord if it be so
 how little is the cost i have bestow'd
 in purchasing the semblance of my soul
 from out the state of hellish misery
 this comes too near the praising of myself
 therefore no more of it hear other things
 lorenzo i commit into your hands
 the husbandry and manage of my house
 until my lord's return for mine own part
 i have toward heaven breathed a secret vow
 to live in prayer and contemplation
 only attended by nerissa here
 until her husband and my lord's return
 there is a monastery two miles off
 and there will we abide i do desire you
 not to deny this imposition
 the which my love and some necessity
 now lays upon you
lorenzo madam with all my heart
 i shall obey you in all fair commands
portia my people do already know my mind
 and will acknowledge you and jessica
 in place of lord bassanio and myself
 and so farewell till we shall meet again
lorenzo fair thoughts and happy hours attend on you
jessica i wish your ladyship all heart's content
portia i thank you for your wish and am well pleased
 to wish it back on you fare you well jessica
 exeunt jessica and lorenzo
 now balthasar
 as i have ever found thee honesttrue
 so let me find thee still take this same letter
 and use thou all the endeavour of a man
 in speed to padua see thou render this
 into my cousin's hand doctor bellario
 and look what notes and garments he doth give thee
 bring them i pray thee with imagined speed
 unto the tranect to the common ferry
 which trades to venice waste no time in words
 but get thee gone i shall be there before thee
balthasar madam i go with all convenient speed
 exit
portia come on nerissa i have work in hand
 that you yet know not of we'll see our husbands
 before they think of us
nerissa shall they see us
portia they shall nerissa but in such a habit
 that they shall think we are accomplished
 with that we lack i'll hold thee any wager
 when we are both accoutred like young men
 i'll prove the prettier fellow of the two
 and wear my dagger with the braver grace
 and speak between the change of man and boy
 with a reed voice and turn two mincing steps
 into a manly stride and speak of frays
 like a fine bragging youth and tell quaint lies
 how honourable ladies sought my love
 which i denying they fell sick and died
 i could not do withal then i'll repent
 and wish for all that that i had not killed them
 and twenty of these puny lies i'll tell
 that men shall swear i have discontinued school
 above a twelvemonth i have within my mind
 a thousand raw tricks of these bragging jacks
 which i will practise
nerissa why shall we turn to men
portia fie what a question's that
 if thou wert near a lewd interpreter
 but come i'll tell thee all my whole device
 when i am in my coach which stays for us
 at the park gate and therefore haste away
 for we must measure twenty miles today
 exeunt
 the merchant of venice
act iii
scene v the same a garden
 enter launcelot and jessica
launcelot yes truly for look you the sins of the father
 are to be laid upon the children therefore i
 promise ye i fear you i was always plain with
 you and so now i speak my agitation of the matter
 therefore be of good cheer for truly i think you
 are damned there is but one hope in it that can do
 you any good and that is but a kind of bastard
 hope neither
jessica and what hope is that i pray thee
launcelot marry you may partly hope that your father got you
 not that you are not the jew's daughter
jessica that were a kind of bastard hope indeed so the
 sins of my mother should be visited upon me
launcelot truly then i fear you are damned both by father and
 mother thus when i shun scylla your father i
 fall into charybdis your mother well you are
 gone both ways
jessica i shall be saved by my husband he hath made me a
 christian
launcelot truly the more to blame he we were christians
 enow before e'en as many as could well live one by
 another this making christians will raise the
 price of hogs if we grow all to be porkeaters we
 shall not shortly have a rasher on the coals for money
 enter lorenzo
jessica i'll tell my husband launcelot what you say here he comes
lorenzo i shall grow jealous of you shortly launcelot if
 you thus get my wife into corners
jessica nay you need not fear us lorenzo launcelot and i
 are out he tells me flatly there is no mercy for
 me in heaven because i am a jew's daughter and he
 says you are no good member of the commonwealth
 for in converting jews to christians you raise the
 price of pork
lorenzo i shall answer that better to the commonwealth than
 you can the getting up of the negro's belly the
 moor is with child by you launcelot
launcelot it is much that the moor should be more than reason
 but if she be less than an honest woman she is
 indeed more than i took her for
lorenzo how every fool can play upon the word i think the
 best grace of wit will shortly turn into silence
 and discourse grow commendable in none only but
 parrots go in sirrah bid them prepare for dinner
launcelot that is done sir they have all stomachs
lorenzo goodly lord what a witsnapper are you then bid
 them prepare dinner
launcelot that is done too sir only cover is the word
lorenzo will you cover then sir
launcelot not so sir neither i know my duty
lorenzo yet more quarrelling with occasion wilt thou show
 the whole wealth of thy wit in an instant i pray
 tree understand a plain man in his plain meaning
 go to thy fellows bid them cover the table serve
 in the meat and we will come in to dinner
launcelot for the table sir it shall be served in for the
 meat sir it shall be covered for your coming in
 to dinner sir why let it be as humours and
 conceits shall govern
 exit
lorenzo o dear discretion how his words are suited
 the fool hath planted in his memory
 an army of good words and i do know
 a many fools that stand in better place
 garnish'd like him that for a tricksy word
 defy the matter how cheerest thou jessica
 and now good sweet say thy opinion
 how dost thou like the lord bassanio's wife
jessica past all expressing it is very meet
 the lord bassanio live an upright life
 for having such a blessing in his lady
 he finds the joys of heaven here on earth
 and if on earth he do not mean it then
 in reason he should never come to heaven
 why if two gods should play some heavenly match
 and on the wager lay two earthly women
 and portia one there must be something else
 pawn'd with the other for the poor rude world
 hath not her fellow
lorenzo even such a husband
 hast thou of me as she is for a wife
jessica nay but ask my opinion too of that
lorenzo i will anon first let us go to dinner
jessica nay let me praise you while i have a stomach
lorenzo no pray thee let it serve for tabletalk
 then howso'er thou speak'st mong other things
 i shall digest it
jessica well i'll set you forth
 exeunt
 the merchant of venice
act iv
scene i venice a court of justice
 enter the duke the magnificoes antonio bassanio
 gratiano salerio and others
duke what is antonio here
antonio ready so please your grace
duke i am sorry for thee thou art come to answer
 a stony adversary an inhuman wretch
 uncapable of pity void and empty
 from any dram of mercy
antonio i have heard
 your grace hath ta'en great pains to qualify
 his rigorous course but since he stands obdurate
 and that no lawful means can carry me
 out of his envy's reach i do oppose
 my patience to his fury and am arm'd
 to suffer with a quietness of spirit
 the very tyranny and rage of his
duke go one and call the jew into the court
salerio he is ready at the door he comes my lord
 enter shylock
duke make room and let him stand before our face
 shylock the world thinks and i think so too
 that thou but lead'st this fashion of thy malice
 to the last hour of act and then tis thought
 thou'lt show thy mercy and remorse more strange
 than is thy strange apparent cruelty
 and where thou now exact'st the penalty
 which is a pound of this poor merchant's flesh
 thou wilt not only loose the forfeiture
 but touch'd with human gentleness and love
 forgive a moiety of the principal
 glancing an eye of pity on his losses
 that have of late so huddled on his back
 enow to press a royal merchant down
 and pluck commiseration of his state
 from brassy bosoms and rough hearts of flint
 from stubborn turks and tartars never train'd
 to offices of tender courtesy
 we all expect a gentle answer jew
shylock i have possess'd your grace of what i purpose
 and by our holy sabbath have i sworn
 to have the due and forfeit of my bond
 if you deny it let the danger light
 upon your charter and your city's freedom
 you'll ask me why i rather choose to have
 a weight of carrion flesh than to receive
 three thousand ducats i'll not answer that
 but say it is my humour is it answer'd
 what if my house be troubled with a rat
 and i be pleased to give ten thousand ducats
 to have it baned what are you answer'd yet
 some men there are love not a gaping pig
 some that are mad if they behold a cat
 and others when the bagpipe sings i the nose
 cannot contain their urine for affection
 mistress of passion sways it to the mood
 of what it likes or loathes now for your answer
 as there is no firm reason to be render'd
 why he cannot abide a gaping pig
 why he a harmless necessary cat
 why he a woollen bagpipe but of force
 must yield to such inevitable shame
 as to offend himself being offended
 so can i give no reason nor i will not
 more than a lodged hate and a certain loathing
 i bear antonio that i follow thus
 a losing suit against him are you answer'd
bassanio this is no answer thou unfeeling man
 to excuse the current of thy cruelty
shylock i am not bound to please thee with my answers
bassanio do all men kill the things they do not love
shylock hates any man the thing he would not kill
bassanio every offence is not a hate at first
shylock what wouldst thou have a serpent sting thee twice
antonio i pray you think you question with the jew
 you may as well go stand upon the beach
 and bid the main flood bate his usual height
 you may as well use question with the wolf
 why he hath made the ewe bleat for the lamb
 you may as well forbid the mountain pines
 to wag their high tops and to make no noise
 when they are fretten with the gusts of heaven
 you may as well do anything most hard
 as seek to soften thatthan which what's harder
 his jewish heart therefore i do beseech you
 make no more offers use no farther means
 but with all brief and plain conveniency
 let me have judgment and the jew his will
bassanio for thy three thousand ducats here is six
shylock what judgment shall i dread doing
 were in six parts and every part a ducat
 i would not draw them i would have my bond
duke how shalt thou hope for mercy rendering none
shylock what judgment shall i dread doing no wrong
 you have among you many a purchased slave
 which like your asses and your dogs and mules
 you use in abject and in slavish parts
 because you bought them shall i say to you
 let them be free marry them to your heirs
 why sweat they under burthens let their beds
 be made as soft as yours and let their palates
 be season'd with such viands you will answer
 the slaves are ours so do i answer you
 the pound of flesh which i demand of him
 is dearly bought tis mine and i will have it
 if you deny me fie upon your law
 there is no force in the decrees of venice
 i stand for judgment answer shall i have it
duke upon my power i may dismiss this court
 unless bellario a learned doctor
 whom i have sent for to determine this
 come here today
salerio my lord here stays without
 a messenger with letters from the doctor
 new come from padua
duke bring us the letter call the messenger
bassanio good cheer antonio what man courage yet
 the jew shall have my flesh blood bones and all
 ere thou shalt lose for me one drop of blood
antonio i am a tainted wether of the flock
 meetest for death the weakest kind of fruit
 drops earliest to the ground and so let me
 you cannot better be employ'd bassanio
 than to live still and write mine epitaph
 enter nerissa dressed like a lawyer's clerk
duke came you from padua from bellario
nerissa from both my lord bellario greets your grace
 presenting a letter
bassanio why dost thou whet thy knife so earnestly
shylock to cut the forfeiture from that bankrupt there
gratiano not on thy sole but on thy soul harsh jew
 thou makest thy knife keen but no metal can
 no not the hangman's axe bear half the keenness
 of thy sharp envy can no prayers pierce thee
shylock no none that thou hast wit enough to make
gratiano o be thou damn'd inexecrable dog
 and for thy life let justice be accused
 thou almost makest me waver in my faith
 to hold opinion with pythagoras
 that souls of animals infuse themselves
 into the trunks of men thy currish spirit
 govern'd a wolf who hang'd for human slaughter
 even from the gallows did his fell soul fleet
 and whilst thou lay'st in thy unhallow'd dam
 infused itself in thee for thy desires
 are wolvish bloody starved and ravenous
shylock till thou canst rail the seal from off my bond
 thou but offend'st thy lungs to speak so loud
 repair thy wit good youth or it will fall
 to cureless ruin i stand here for law
duke this letter from bellario doth commend
 a young and learned doctor to our court
 where is he
nerissa he attendeth here hard by
 to know your answer whether you'll admit him
duke with all my heart some three or four of you
 go give him courteous conduct to this place
 meantime the court shall hear bellario's letter
clerk reads
 your grace shall understand that at the receipt of
 your letter i am very sick but in the instant that
 your messenger came in loving visitation was with
 me a young doctor of rome his name is balthasar i
 acquainted him with the cause in controversy between
 the jew and antonio the merchant we turned o'er
 many books together he is furnished with my
 opinion which bettered with his own learning the
 greatness whereof i cannot enough commend comes
 with him at my importunity to fill up your grace's
 request in my stead i beseech you let his lack of
 years be no impediment to let him lack a reverend
 estimation for i never knew so young a body with so
 old a head i leave him to your gracious
 acceptance whose trial shall better publish his
 commendation
duke you hear the learn'd bellario what he writes
 and here i take it is the doctor come
 enter portia dressed like a doctor of laws
 give me your hand come you from old bellario
portia i did my lord
duke you are welcome take your place
 are you acquainted with the difference
 that holds this present question in the court
portia i am informed thoroughly of the cause
 which is the merchant here and which the jew
duke antonio and old shylock both stand forth
portia is your name shylock
shylock shylock is my name
portia of a strange nature is the suit you follow
 yet in such rule that the venetian law
 cannot impugn you as you do proceed
 you stand within his danger do you not
antonio ay so he says
portia do you confess the bond
antonio i do
portia then must the jew be merciful
shylock on what compulsion must i tell me that
portia the quality of mercy is not strain'd
 it droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven
 upon the place beneath it is twice blest
 it blesseth him that gives and him that takes
 tis mightiest in the mightiest it becomes
 the throned monarch better than his crown
 his sceptre shows the force of temporal power
 the attribute to awe and majesty
 wherein doth sit the dread and fear of kings
 but mercy is above this sceptred sway
 it is enthroned in the hearts of kings
 it is an attribute to god himself
 and earthly power doth then show likest god's
 when mercy seasons justice therefore jew
 though justice be thy plea consider this
 that in the course of justice none of us
 should see salvation we do pray for mercy
 and that same prayer doth teach us all to render
 the deeds of mercy i have spoke thus much
 to mitigate the justice of thy plea
 which if thou follow this strict court of venice
 must needs give sentence gainst the merchant there
shylock my deeds upon my head i crave the law
 the penalty and forfeit of my bond
portia is he not able to discharge the money
bassanio yes here i tender it for him in the court
 yea twice the sum if that will not suffice
 i will be bound to pay it ten times o'er
 on forfeit of my hands my head my heart
 if this will not suffice it must appear
 that malice bears down truth and i beseech you
 wrest once the law to your authority
 to do a great right do a little wrong
 and curb this cruel devil of his will
portia it must not be there is no power in venice
 can alter a decree established
 twill be recorded for a precedent
 and many an error by the same example
 will rush into the state it cannot be
shylock a daniel come to judgment yea a daniel
 o wise young judge how i do honour thee
portia i pray you let me look upon the bond
shylock here tis most reverend doctor here it is
portia shylock there's thrice thy money offer'd thee
shylock an oath an oath i have an oath in heaven
 shall i lay perjury upon my soul
 no not for venice
portia why this bond is forfeit
 and lawfully by this the jew may claim
 a pound of flesh to be by him cut off
 nearest the merchant's heart be merciful
 take thrice thy money bid me tear the bond
shylock when it is paid according to the tenor
 it doth appear you are a worthy judge
 you know the law your exposition
 hath been most sound i charge you by the law
 whereof you are a welldeserving pillar
 proceed to judgment by my soul i swear
 there is no power in the tongue of man
 to alter me i stay here on my bond
antonio most heartily i do beseech the court
 to give the judgment
portia why then thus it is
 you must prepare your bosom for his knife
shylock o noble judge o excellent young man
portia for the intent and purpose of the law
 hath full relation to the penalty
 which here appeareth due upon the bond
shylock tis very true o wise and upright judge
 how much more elder art thou than thy looks
portia therefore lay bare your bosom
shylock ay his breast
 so says the bond doth it not noble judge
 nearest his heart those are the very words
portia it is so are there balance here to weigh
 the flesh
shylock i have them ready
portia have by some surgeon shylock on your charge
 to stop his wounds lest he do bleed to death
shylock is it so nominated in the bond
portia it is not so express'd but what of that
 twere good you do so much for charity
shylock i cannot find it tis not in the bond
portia you merchant have you any thing to say
antonio but little i am arm'd and well prepared
 give me your hand bassanio fare you well
 grieve not that i am fallen to this for you
 for herein fortune shows herself more kind
 than is her custom it is still her use
 to let the wretched man outlive his wealth
 to view with hollow eye and wrinkled brow
 an age of poverty from which lingering penance
 of such misery doth she cut me off
 commend me to your honourable wife
 tell her the process of antonio's end
 say how i loved you speak me fair in death
 and when the tale is told bid her be judge
 whether bassanio had not once a love
 repent but you that you shall lose your friend
 and he repents not that he pays your debt
 for if the jew do cut but deep enough
 i'll pay it presently with all my heart
bassanio antonio i am married to a wife
 which is as dear to me as life itself
 but life itself my wife and all the world
 are not with me esteem'd above thy life
 i would lose all ay sacrifice them all
 here to this devil to deliver you
portia your wife would give you little thanks for that
 if she were by to hear you make the offer
gratiano i have a wife whom i protest i love
 i would she were in heaven so she could
 entreat some power to change this currish jew
nerissa tis well you offer it behind her back
 the wish would make else an unquiet house
shylock these be the christian husbands i have a daughter
 would any of the stock of barrabas
 had been her husband rather than a christian
 aside
 we trifle time i pray thee pursue sentence
portia a pound of that same merchant's flesh is thine
 the court awards it and the law doth give it
shylock most rightful judge
portia and you must cut this flesh from off his breast
 the law allows it and the court awards it
shylock most learned judge a sentence come prepare
portia tarry a little there is something else
 this bond doth give thee here no jot of blood
 the words expressly are a pound of flesh'
 take then thy bond take thou thy pound of flesh
 but in the cutting it if thou dost shed
 one drop of christian blood thy lands and goods
 are by the laws of venice confiscate
 unto the state of venice
gratiano o upright judge mark jew o learned judge
shylock is that the law
portia thyself shalt see the act
 for as thou urgest justice be assured
 thou shalt have justice more than thou desirest
gratiano o learned judge mark jew a learned judge
shylock i take this offer then pay the bond thrice
 and let the christian go
bassanio here is the money
portia soft
 the jew shall have all justice soft no haste
 he shall have nothing but the penalty
gratiano o jew an upright judge a learned judge
portia therefore prepare thee to cut off the flesh
 shed thou no blood nor cut thou less nor more
 but just a pound of flesh if thou cut'st more
 or less than a just pound be it but so much
 as makes it light or heavy in the substance
 or the division of the twentieth part
 of one poor scruple nay if the scale do turn
 but in the estimation of a hair
 thou diest and all thy goods are confiscate
gratiano a second daniel a daniel jew
 now infidel i have you on the hip
portia why doth the jew pause take thy forfeiture
shylock give me my principal and let me go
bassanio i have it ready for thee here it is
portia he hath refused it in the open court
 he shall have merely justice and his bond
gratiano a daniel still say i a second daniel
 i thank thee jew for teaching me that word
shylock shall i not have barely my principal
portia thou shalt have nothing but the forfeiture
 to be so taken at thy peril jew
shylock why then the devil give him good of it
 i'll stay no longer question
portia tarry jew
 the law hath yet another hold on you
 it is enacted in the laws of venice
 if it be proved against an alien
 that by direct or indirect attempts
 he seek the life of any citizen
 the party gainst the which he doth contrive
 shall seize one half his goods the other half
 comes to the privy coffer of the state
 and the offender's life lies in the mercy
 of the duke only gainst all other voice
 in which predicament i say thou stand'st
 for it appears by manifest proceeding
 that indirectly and directly too
 thou hast contrived against the very life
 of the defendant and thou hast incurr'd
 the danger formerly by me rehearsed
 down therefore and beg mercy of the duke
gratiano beg that thou mayst have leave to hang thyself
 and yet thy wealth being forfeit to the state
 thou hast not left the value of a cord
 therefore thou must be hang'd at the state's charge
duke that thou shalt see the difference of our spirits
 i pardon thee thy life before thou ask it
 for half thy wealth it is antonio's
 the other half comes to the general state
 which humbleness may drive unto a fine
portia ay for the state not for antonio
shylock nay take my life and all pardon not that
 you take my house when you do take the prop
 that doth sustain my house you take my life
 when you do take the means whereby i live
portia what mercy can you render him antonio
gratiano a halter gratis nothing else for god's sake
antonio so please my lord the duke and all the court
 to quit the fine for one half of his goods
 i am content so he will let me have
 the other half in use to render it
 upon his death unto the gentleman
 that lately stole his daughter
 two things provided more that for this favour
 he presently become a christian
 the other that he do record a gift
 here in the court of all he dies possess'd
 unto his son lorenzo and his daughter
duke he shall do this or else i do recant
 the pardon that i late pronounced here
portia art thou contented jew what dost thou say
shylock i am content
portia clerk draw a deed of gift
shylock i pray you give me leave to go from hence
 i am not well send the deed after me
 and i will sign it
duke get thee gone but do it
gratiano in christening shalt thou have two godfathers
 had i been judge thou shouldst have had ten more
 to bring thee to the gallows not the font
 exit shylock
duke sir i entreat you home with me to dinner
portia i humbly do desire your grace of pardon
 i must away this night toward padua
 and it is meet i presently set forth
duke i am sorry that your leisure serves you not
 antonio gratify this gentleman
 for in my mind you are much bound to him
 exeunt duke and his train
bassanio most worthy gentleman i and my friend
 have by your wisdom been this day acquitted
 of grievous penalties in lieu whereof
 three thousand ducats due unto the jew
 we freely cope your courteous pains withal
antonio and stand indebted over and above
 in love and service to you evermore
portia he is well paid that is well satisfied
 and i delivering you am satisfied
 and therein do account myself well paid
 my mind was never yet more mercenary
 i pray you know me when we meet again
 i wish you well and so i take my leave
bassanio dear sir of force i must attempt you further
 take some remembrance of us as a tribute
 not as a fee grant me two things i pray you
 not to deny me and to pardon me
portia you press me far and therefore i will yield
 to antonio
 give me your gloves i'll wear them for your sake
 to bassanio
 and for your love i'll take this ring from you
 do not draw back your hand i'll take no more
 and you in love shall not deny me this
bassanio this ring good sir alas it is a trifle
 i will not shame myself to give you this
portia i will have nothing else but only this
 and now methinks i have a mind to it
bassanio there's more depends on this than on the value
 the dearest ring in venice will i give you
 and find it out by proclamation
 only for this i pray you pardon me
portia i see sir you are liberal in offers
 you taught me first to beg and now methinks
 you teach me how a beggar should be answer'd
bassanio good sir this ring was given me by my wife
 and when she put it on she made me vow
 that i should neither sell nor give nor lose it
portia that scuse serves many men to save their gifts
 an if your wife be not a madwoman
 and know how well i have deserved the ring
 she would not hold out enemy for ever
 for giving it to me well peace be with you
 exeunt portia and nerissa
antonio my lord bassanio let him have the ring
 let his deservings and my love withal
 be valued against your wife's commandment
bassanio go gratiano run and overtake him
 give him the ring and bring him if thou canst
 unto antonio's house away make haste
 exit gratiano
 come you and i will thither presently
 and in the morning early will we both
 fly toward belmont come antonio
 exeunt
 the merchant of venice
act iv
scene ii the same a street
 enter portia and nerissa
portia inquire the jew's house out give him this deed
 and let him sign it we'll away tonight
 and be a day before our husbands home
 this deed will be well welcome to lorenzo
 enter gratiano
gratiano fair sir you are well o'erta'en
 my lord bassanio upon more advice
 hath sent you here this ring and doth entreat
 your company at dinner
portia that cannot be
 his ring i do accept most thankfully
 and so i pray you tell him furthermore
 i pray you show my youth old shylock's house
gratiano that will i do
nerissa sir i would speak with you
 aside to portia
 i'll see if i can get my husband's ring
 which i did make him swear to keep for ever
portia aside to nerissa thou mayst i warrant
 we shall have old swearing
 that they did give the rings away to men
 but we'll outface them and outswear them too
 aloud
 away make haste thou knowist where i will tarry
nerissa come good sir will you show me to this house
 exeunt
 the merchant of venice
act v
scene i belmont avenue to portia's house
 enter lorenzo and jessica
lorenzo the moon shines bright in such a night as this
 when the sweet wind did gently kiss the trees
 and they did make no noise in such a night
 troilus methinks mounted the troyan walls
 and sigh'd his soul toward the grecian tents
 where cressid lay that night
jessica in such a night
 did thisbe fearfully o'ertrip the dew
 and saw the lion's shadow ere himself
 and ran dismay'd away
lorenzo in such a night
 stood dido with a willow in her hand
 upon the wild sea banks and waft her love
 to come again to carthage
jessica in such a night
 medea gather'd the enchanted herbs
 that did renew old aeson
lorenzo in such a night
 did jessica steal from the wealthy jew
 and with an unthrift love did run from venice
 as far as belmont
jessica in such a night
 did young lorenzo swear he loved her well
 stealing her soul with many vows of faith
 and ne'er a true one
lorenzo in such a night
 did pretty jessica like a little shrew
 slander her love and he forgave it her
jessica i would outnight you did no body come
 but hark i hear the footing of a man
 enter stephano
lorenzo who comes so fast in silence of the night
stephano a friend
lorenzo a friend what friend your name i pray you friend
stephano stephano is my name and i bring word
 my mistress will before the break of day
 be here at belmont she doth stray about
 by holy crosses where she kneels and prays
 for happy wedlock hours
lorenzo who comes with her
stephano none but a holy hermit and her maid
 i pray you is my master yet return'd
lorenzo he is not nor we have not heard from him
 but go we in i pray thee jessica
 and ceremoniously let us prepare
 some welcome for the mistress of the house
 enter launcelot
launcelot sola sola wo ha ho sola sola
lorenzo who calls
launcelot sola did you see master lorenzo
 master lorenzo sola sola
lorenzo leave hollaing man here
launcelot sola where where
lorenzo here
launcelot tell him there's a post come from my master with
 his horn full of good news my master will be here
 ere morning
 exit
lorenzo sweet soul let's in and there expect their coming
 and yet no matter why should we go in
 my friend stephano signify i pray you
 within the house your mistress is at hand
 and bring your music forth into the air
 exit stephano
 how sweet the moonlight sleeps upon this bank
 here will we sit and let the sounds of music
 creep in our ears soft stillness and the night
 become the touches of sweet harmony
 sit jessica look how the floor of heaven
 is thick inlaid with patines of bright gold
 there's not the smallest orb which thou behold'st
 but in his motion like an angel sings
 still quiring to the youngeyed cherubins
 such harmony is in immortal souls
 but whilst this muddy vesture of decay
 doth grossly close it in we cannot hear it
 enter musicians
 come ho and wake diana with a hymn
 with sweetest touches pierce your mistress ear
 and draw her home with music
 music
jessica i am never merry when i hear sweet music
lorenzo the reason is your spirits are attentive
 for do but note a wild and wanton herd
 or race of youthful and unhandled colts
 fetching mad bounds bellowing and neighing loud
 which is the hot condition of their blood
 if they but hear perchance a trumpet sound
 or any air of music touch their ears
 you shall perceive them make a mutual stand
 their savage eyes turn'd to a modest gaze
 by the sweet power of music therefore the poet
 did feign that orpheus drew trees stones and floods
 since nought so stockish hard and full of rage
 but music for the time doth change his nature
 the man that hath no music in himself
 nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds
 is fit for treasons stratagems and spoils
 the motions of his spirit are dull as night
 and his affections dark as erebus
 let no such man be trusted mark the music
 enter portia and nerissa
portia that light we see is burning in my hall
 how far that little candle throws his beams
 so shines a good deed in a naughty world
nerissa when the moon shone we did not see the candle
portia so doth the greater glory dim the less
 a substitute shines brightly as a king
 unto the king be by and then his state
 empties itself as doth an inland brook
 into the main of waters music hark
nerissa it is your music madam of the house
portia nothing is good i see without respect
 methinks it sounds much sweeter than by day
nerissa silence bestows that virtue on it madam
portia the crow doth sing as sweetly as the lark
 when neither is attended and i think
 the nightingale if she should sing by day
 when every goose is cackling would be thought
 no better a musician than the wren
 how many things by season season'd are
 to their right praise and true perfection
 peace ho the moon sleeps with endymion
 and would not be awaked
 music ceases
lorenzo that is the voice
 or i am much deceived of portia
portia he knows me as the blind man knows the cuckoo
 by the bad voice
lorenzo dear lady welcome home
portia we have been praying for our husbands healths
 which speed we hope the better for our words
 are they return'd
lorenzo madam they are not yet
 but there is come a messenger before
 to signify their coming
portia go in nerissa
 give order to my servants that they take
 no note at all of our being absent hence
 nor you lorenzo jessica nor you
 a tucket sounds
lorenzo your husband is at hand i hear his trumpet
 we are no telltales madam fear you not
portia this night methinks is but the daylight sick
 it looks a little paler tis a day
 such as the day is when the sun is hid
 enter bassanio antonio gratiano and
 their followers
bassanio we should hold day with the antipodes
 if you would walk in absence of the sun
portia let me give light but let me not be light
 for a light wife doth make a heavy husband
 and never be bassanio so for me
 but god sort all you are welcome home my lord
bassanio i thank you madam give welcome to my friend
 this is the man this is antonio
 to whom i am so infinitely bound
portia you should in all sense be much bound to him
 for as i hear he was much bound for you
antonio no more than i am well acquitted of
portia sir you are very welcome to our house
 it must appear in other ways than words
 therefore i scant this breathing courtesy
gratiano to nerissa by yonder moon i swear you do me wrong
 in faith i gave it to the judge's clerk
 would he were gelt that had it for my part
 since you do take it love so much at heart
portia a quarrel ho already what's the matter
gratiano about a hoop of gold a paltry ring
 that she did give me whose posy was
 for all the world like cutler's poetry
 upon a knife love me and leave me not'
nerissa what talk you of the posy or the value
 you swore to me when i did give it you
 that you would wear it till your hour of death
 and that it should lie with you in your grave
 though not for me yet for your vehement oaths
 you should have been respective and have kept it
 gave it a judge's clerk no god's my judge
 the clerk will ne'er wear hair on's face that had it
gratiano he will an if he live to be a man
nerissa ay if a woman live to be a man
gratiano now by this hand i gave it to a youth
 a kind of boy a little scrubbed boy
 no higher than thyself the judge's clerk
 a prating boy that begg'd it as a fee
 i could not for my heart deny it him
portia you were to blame i must be plain with you
 to part so slightly with your wife's first gift
 a thing stuck on with oaths upon your finger
 and so riveted with faith unto your flesh
 i gave my love a ring and made him swear
 never to part with it and here he stands
 i dare be sworn for him he would not leave it
 nor pluck it from his finger for the wealth
 that the world masters now in faith gratiano
 you give your wife too unkind a cause of grief
 an twere to me i should be mad at it
bassanio aside why i were best to cut my left hand off
 and swear i lost the ring defending it
gratiano my lord bassanio gave his ring away
 unto the judge that begg'd it and indeed
 deserved it too and then the boy his clerk
 that took some pains in writing he begg'd mine
 and neither man nor master would take aught
 but the two rings
portia what ring gave you my lord
 not that i hope which you received of me
bassanio if i could add a lie unto a fault
 i would deny it but you see my finger
 hath not the ring upon it it is gone
portia even so void is your false heart of truth
 by heaven i will ne'er come in your bed
 until i see the ring
nerissa nor i in yours
 till i again see mine
bassanio sweet portia
 if you did know to whom i gave the ring
 if you did know for whom i gave the ring
 and would conceive for what i gave the ring
 and how unwillingly i left the ring
 when nought would be accepted but the ring
 you would abate the strength of your displeasure
portia if you had known the virtue of the ring
 or half her worthiness that gave the ring
 or your own honour to contain the ring
 you would not then have parted with the ring
 what man is there so much unreasonable
 if you had pleased to have defended it
 with any terms of zeal wanted the modesty
 to urge the thing held as a ceremony
 nerissa teaches me what to believe
 i'll die for't but some woman had the ring
bassanio no by my honour madam by my soul
 no woman had it but a civil doctor
 which did refuse three thousand ducats of me
 and begg'd the ring the which i did deny him
 and suffer'd him to go displeased away
 even he that did uphold the very life
 of my dear friend what should i say sweet lady
 i was enforced to send it after him
 i was beset with shame and courtesy
 my honour would not let ingratitude
 so much besmear it pardon me good lady
 for by these blessed candles of the night
 had you been there i think you would have begg'd
 the ring of me to give the worthy doctor
portia let not that doctor e'er come near my house
 since he hath got the jewel that i loved
 and that which you did swear to keep for me
 i will become as liberal as you
 i'll not deny him any thing i have
 no not my body nor my husband's bed
 know him i shall i am well sure of it
 lie not a night from home watch me like argus
 if you do not if i be left alone
 now by mine honour which is yet mine own
 i'll have that doctor for my bedfellow
nerissa and i his clerk therefore be well advised
 how you do leave me to mine own protection
gratiano well do you so let not me take him then
 for if i do i'll mar the young clerk's pen
antonio i am the unhappy subject of these quarrels
portia sir grieve not you you are welcome notwithstanding
bassanio portia forgive me this enforced wrong
 and in the hearing of these many friends
 i swear to thee even by thine own fair eyes
 wherein i see myself
portia mark you but that
 in both my eyes he doubly sees himself
 in each eye one swear by your double self
 and there's an oath of credit
bassanio nay but hear me
 pardon this fault and by my soul i swear
 i never more will break an oath with thee
antonio i once did lend my body for his wealth
 which but for him that had your husband's ring
 had quite miscarried i dare be bound again
 my soul upon the forfeit that your lord
 will never more break faith advisedly
portia then you shall be his surety give him this
 and bid him keep it better than the other
antonio here lord bassanio swear to keep this ring
bassanio by heaven it is the same i gave the doctor
portia i had it of him pardon me bassanio
 for by this ring the doctor lay with me
nerissa and pardon me my gentle gratiano
 for that same scrubbed boy the doctor's clerk
 in lieu of this last night did lie with me
gratiano why this is like the mending of highways
 in summer where the ways are fair enough
 what are we cuckolds ere we have deserved it
portia speak not so grossly you are all amazed
 here is a letter read it at your leisure
 it comes from padua from bellario
 there you shall find that portia was the doctor
 nerissa there her clerk lorenzo here
 shall witness i set forth as soon as you
 and even but now return'd i have not yet
 enter'd my house antonio you are welcome
 and i have better news in store for you
 than you expect unseal this letter soon
 there you shall find three of your argosies
 are richly come to harbour suddenly
 you shall not know by what strange accident
 i chanced on this letter
antonio i am dumb
bassanio were you the doctor and i knew you not
gratiano were you the clerk that is to make me cuckold
nerissa ay but the clerk that never means to do it
 unless he live until he be a man
bassanio sweet doctor you shall be my bedfellow
 when i am absent then lie with my wife
antonio sweet lady you have given me life and living
 for here i read for certain that my ships
 are safely come to road
portia how now lorenzo
 my clerk hath some good comforts too for you
nerissa ay and i'll give them him without a fee
 there do i give to you and jessica
 from the rich jew a special deed of gift
 after his death of all he dies possess'd of
lorenzo fair ladies you drop manna in the way
 of starved people
portia it is almost morning
 and yet i am sure you are not satisfied
 of these events at full let us go in
 and charge us there upon inter'gatories
 and we will answer all things faithfully
gratiano let it be so the first inter'gatory
 that my nerissa shall be sworn on is
 whether till the next night she had rather stay
 or go to bed now being two hours to day
 but were the day come i should wish it dark
 that i were couching with the doctor's clerk
 well while i live i'll fear no other thing
 so sore as keeping safe nerissa's ring
 exeunt
 the merry wives of windsor
 dramatis personae
sir john falstaff falstaff
fenton a gentleman
shallow a country justice
slender cousin to shallow
ford 
 two gentlemen dwelling at windsor
page 
william page a boy son to page
sir hugh evans a welsh parson
doctor caius a french physician
 host of the garter inn host
bardolph 
 
pistol sharpers attending on falstaff
 
nym 
robin page to falstaff
simple servant to slender
rugby servant to doctor caius
mistress ford
mistress page
anne page her daughter
mistress quickly servant to doctor caius
 servants to page ford &c
 servant
 first servant
 second servant
scene windsor and the neighbourhood
 the merry wives of windsor
act i
scene i windsor before page's house
 enter shallow slender and sir hugh evans
shallow sir hugh persuade me not i will make a star
 chamber matter of it if he were twenty sir john
 falstaffs he shall not abuse robert shallow esquire
slender in the county of gloucester justice of peace and
 coram'
shallow ay cousin slender and custalourum
slender ay and ratolorum too and a gentleman born
 master parson who writes himself armigero in any
 bill warrant quittance or obligation armigero'
shallow ay that i do and have done any time these three
 hundred years
slender all his successors gone before him hath done't and
 all his ancestors that come after him may they may
 give the dozen white luces in their coat
shallow it is an old coat
sir hugh evans the dozen white louses do become an old coat well
 it agrees well passant it is a familiar beast to
 man and signifies love
shallow the luce is the fresh fish the salt fish is an old coat
slender i may quarter coz
shallow you may by marrying
sir hugh evans it is marring indeed if he quarter it
shallow not a whit
sir hugh evans yes py'r lady if he has a quarter of your coat
 there is but three skirts for yourself in my
 simple conjectures but that is all one if sir
 john falstaff have committed disparagements unto
 you i am of the church and will be glad to do my
 benevolence to make atonements and compremises
 between you
shallow the council shall bear it it is a riot
sir hugh evans it is not meet the council hear a riot there is no
 fear of got in a riot the council look you shall
 desire to hear the fear of got and not to hear a
 riot take your vizaments in that
shallow ha o my life if i were young again the sword
 should end it
sir hugh evans it is petter that friends is the sword and end it
 and there is also another device in my prain which
 peradventure prings goot discretions with it there
 is anne page which is daughter to master thomas
 page which is pretty virginity
slender mistress anne page she has brown hair and speaks
 small like a woman
sir hugh evans it is that fery person for all the orld as just as
 you will desire and seven hundred pounds of moneys
 and gold and silver is her grandsire upon his
 death'sbedgot deliver to a joyful resurrections
 give when she is able to overtake seventeen years
 old it were a goot motion if we leave our pribbles
 and prabbles and desire a marriage between master
 abraham and mistress anne page
slender did her grandsire leave her seven hundred pound
sir hugh evans ay and her father is make her a petter penny
slender i know the young gentlewoman she has good gifts
sir hugh evans seven hundred pounds and possibilities is goot gifts
shallow well let us see honest master page is falstaff there
sir hugh evans shall i tell you a lie i do despise a liar as i do
 despise one that is false or as i despise one that
 is not true the knight sir john is there and i
 beseech you be ruled by your wellwillers i will
 peat the door for master page
 knocks
 what hoa got pless your house here
page within who's there
 enter page
sir hugh evans here is got's plessing and your friend and justice
 shallow and here young master slender that
 peradventures shall tell you another tale if
 matters grow to your likings
page i am glad to see your worships well
 i thank you for my venison master shallow
shallow master page i am glad to see you much good do it
 your good heart i wished your venison better it
 was ill killed how doth good mistress pageand i
 thank you always with my heart la with my heart
page sir i thank you
shallow sir i thank you by yea and no i do
page i am glad to see you good master slender
slender how does your fallow greyhound sir i heard say he
 was outrun on cotsall
page it could not be judged sir
slender you'll not confess you'll not confess
shallow that he will not tis your fault tis your fault
 tis a good dog
page a cur sir
shallow sir he's a good dog and a fair dog can there be
 more said he is good and fair is sir john
 falstaff here
page sir he is within and i would i could do a good
 office between you
sir hugh evans it is spoke as a christians ought to speak
shallow he hath wronged me master page
page sir he doth in some sort confess it
shallow if it be confessed it is not redress'd is not that
 so master page he hath wronged me indeed he
 hath at a word he hath believe me robert
 shallow esquire saith he is wronged
page here comes sir john
 enter falstaff bardolph nym and pistol
falstaff now master shallow you'll complain of me to the king
shallow knight you have beaten my men killed my deer and
 broke open my lodge
falstaff but not kissed your keeper's daughter
shallow tut a pin this shall be answered
falstaff i will answer it straight i have done all this
 that is now answered
shallow the council shall know this
falstaff twere better for you if it were known in counsel
 you'll be laughed at
sir hugh evans pauca verba sir john goot worts
falstaff good worts good cabbage slender i broke your
 head what matter have you against me
slender marry sir i have matter in my head against you
 and against your conycatching rascals bardolph
 nym and pistol
bardolph you banbury cheese
slender ay it is no matter
pistol how now mephostophilus
slender ay it is no matter
nym slice i say pauca pauca slice that's my humour
slender where's simple my man can you tell cousin
sir hugh evans peace i pray you now let us understand there is
 three umpires in this matter as i understand that
 is master page fidelicet master page and there is
 myself fidelicet myself and the three party is
 lastly and finally mine host of the garter
page we three to hear it and end it between them
sir hugh evans fery goot i will make a prief of it in my note
 book and we will afterwards ork upon the cause with
 as great discreetly as we can
falstaff pistol
pistol he hears with ears
sir hugh evans the tevil and his tam what phrase is this he
 hears with ear why it is affectations
falstaff pistol did you pick master slender's purse
slender ay by these gloves did he or i would i might
 never come in mine own great chamber again else of
 seven groats in millsixpences and two edward
 shovelboards that cost me two shilling and two
 pence apiece of yead miller by these gloves
falstaff is this true pistol
sir hugh evans no it is false if it is a pickpurse
pistol ha thou mountainforeigner sir john and master mine
 i combat challenge of this latten bilbo
 word of denial in thy labras here
 word of denial froth and scum thou liest
slender by these gloves then twas he
nym be avised sir and pass good humours i will say
 marry trap with you if you run the nuthook's
 humour on me that is the very note of it
slender by this hat then he in the red face had it for
 though i cannot remember what i did when you made me
 drunk yet i am not altogether an ass
falstaff what say you scarlet and john
bardolph why sir for my part i say the gentleman had drunk
 himself out of his five sentences
sir hugh evans it is his five senses fie what the ignorance is
bardolph and being fap sir was as they say cashiered and
 so conclusions passed the careires
slender ay you spake in latin then too but tis no
 matter i'll ne'er be drunk whilst i live again
 but in honest civil godly company for this trick
 if i be drunk i'll be drunk with those that have
 the fear of god and not with drunken knaves
sir hugh evans so got udge me that is a virtuous mind
falstaff you hear all these matters denied gentlemen you hear it
 enter anne page with wine mistress ford
 and mistress page following
page nay daughter carry the wine in we'll drink within
 exit anne page
slender o heaven this is mistress anne page
page how now mistress ford
falstaff mistress ford by my troth you are very well met
 by your leave good mistress
 kisses her
page wife bid these gentlemen welcome come we have a
 hot venison pasty to dinner come gentlemen i hope
 we shall drink down all unkindness
 exeunt all except shallow slender and sir hugh evans
slender i had rather than forty shillings i had my book of
 songs and sonnets here
 enter simple
 how now simple where have you been i must wait
 on myself must i you have not the book of riddles
 about you have you
simple book of riddles why did you not lend it to alice
 shortcake upon allhallowmas last a fortnight
 afore michaelmas
shallow come coz come coz we stay for you a word with
 you coz marry this coz there is as twere a
 tender a kind of tender made afar off by sir hugh
 here do you understand me
slender ay sir you shall find me reasonable if it be so
 i shall do that that is reason
shallow nay but understand me
slender so i do sir
sir hugh evans give ear to his motions master slender i will
 description the matter to you if you be capacity of it
slender nay i will do as my cousin shallow says i pray
 you pardon me he's a justice of peace in his
 country simple though i stand here
sir hugh evans but that is not the question the question is
 concerning your marriage
shallow ay there's the point sir
sir hugh evans marry is it the very point of it to mistress anne page
slender why if it be so i will marry her upon any
 reasonable demands
sir hugh evans but can you affection the oman let us command to
 know that of your mouth or of your lips for divers
 philosophers hold that the lips is parcel of the
 mouth therefore precisely can you carry your
 good will to the maid
shallow cousin abraham slender can you love her
slender i hope sir i will do as it shall become one that
 would do reason
sir hugh evans nay got's lords and his ladies you must speak
 possitable if you can carry her your desires
 towards her
shallow that you must will you upon good dowry marry her
slender i will do a greater thing than that upon your
 request cousin in any reason
shallow nay conceive me conceive me sweet coz what i do
 is to pleasure you coz can you love the maid
slender i will marry her sir at your request but if there
 be no great love in the beginning yet heaven may
 decrease it upon better acquaintance when we are
 married and have more occasion to know one another
 i hope upon familiarity will grow more contempt
 but if you say marry her i will marry her that
 i am freely dissolved and dissolutely
sir hugh evans it is a fery discretion answer save the fall is in
 the ort dissolutely the ort is according to our
 meaning resolutely his meaning is good
shallow ay i think my cousin meant well
slender ay or else i would i might be hanged la
shallow here comes fair mistress anne
 reenter anne page
 would i were young for your sake mistress anne
anne page the dinner is on the table my father desires your
 worships company
shallow i will wait on him fair mistress anne
sir hugh evans od's plessed will i will not be absence at the grace
 exeunt shallow and sir hugh evans
anne page will't please your worship to come in sir
slender no i thank you forsooth heartily i am very well
anne page the dinner attends you sir
slender i am not ahungry i thank you forsooth go
 sirrah for all you are my man go wait upon my
 cousin shallow
 exit simple
 a justice of peace sometimes may be beholding to his
 friend for a man i keep but three men and a boy
 yet till my mother be dead but what though yet i
 live like a poor gentleman born
anne page i may not go in without your worship they will not
 sit till you come
slender i faith i'll eat nothing i thank you as much as
 though i did
anne page i pray you sir walk in
slender i had rather walk here i thank you i bruised
 my shin th other day with playing at sword and
 dagger with a master of fence three veneys for a
 dish of stewed prunes and by my troth i cannot
 abide the smell of hot meat since why do your
 dogs bark so be there bears i the town
anne page i think there are sir i heard them talked of
slender i love the sport well but i shall as soon quarrel at
 it as any man in england you are afraid if you see
 the bear loose are you not
anne page ay indeed sir
slender that's meat and drink to me now i have seen
 sackerson loose twenty times and have taken him by
 the chain but i warrant you the women have so
 cried and shrieked at it that it passed but women
 indeed cannot abide em they are very illfavored
 rough things
 reenter page
page come gentle master slender come we stay for you
slender i'll eat nothing i thank you sir
page by cock and pie you shall not choose sir come come
slender nay pray you lead the way
page come on sir
slender mistress anne yourself shall go first
anne page not i sir pray you keep on
slender i'll rather be unmannerly than troublesome
 you do yourself wrong indeed la
 exeunt
 the merry wives of windsor
act i
scene ii the same
 enter sir hugh evans and simple
sir hugh evans go your ways and ask of doctor caius house which
 is the way and there dwells one mistress quickly
 which is in the manner of his nurse or his dry
 nurse or his cook or his laundry his washer and
 his wringer
simple well sir
sir hugh evans nay it is petter yet give her this letter for it
 is a oman that altogether's acquaintance with
 mistress anne page and the letter is to desire
 and require her to solicit your master's desires to
 mistress anne page i pray you be gone i will
 make an end of my dinner there's pippins and cheese to come
 exeunt
 the merry wives of windsor
act i
scene iii a room in the garter inn
 enter falstaff host bardolph nym pistol
 and robin
falstaff mine host of the garter
host what says my bullyrook speak scholarly and wisely
falstaff truly mine host i must turn away some of my
 followers
host discard bully hercules cashier let them wag trot trot
falstaff i sit at ten pounds a week
host thou'rt an emperor caesar keisar and pheezar i
 will entertain bardolph he shall draw he shall
 tap said i well bully hector
falstaff do so good mine host
host i have spoke let him follow
 to bardolph
 let me see thee froth and lime i am at a word follow
 exit
falstaff bardolph follow him a tapster is a good trade
 an old cloak makes a new jerkin a withered
 servingman a fresh tapster go adieu
bardolph it is a life that i have desired i will thrive
pistol o base hungarian wight wilt thou the spigot wield
 exit bardolph
nym he was gotten in drink is not the humour conceited
falstaff i am glad i am so acquit of this tinderbox his
 thefts were too open his filching was like an
 unskilful singer he kept not time
nym the good humour is to steal at a minute's rest
pistol convey the wise it call steal foh a fico
 for the phrase
falstaff well sirs i am almost out at heels
pistol why then let kibes ensue
falstaff there is no remedy i must conycatch i must shift
pistol young ravens must have food
falstaff which of you know ford of this town
pistol i ken the wight he is of substance good
falstaff my honest lads i will tell you what i am about
pistol two yards and more
falstaff no quips now pistol indeed i am in the waist two
 yards about but i am now about no waste i am about
 thrift briefly i do mean to make love to ford's
 wife i spy entertainment in her she discourses
 she carves she gives the leer of invitation i
 can construe the action of her familiar style and
 the hardest voice of her behavior to be englished
 rightly is i am sir john falstaff's'
pistol he hath studied her will and translated her will
 out of honesty into english
nym the anchor is deep will that humour pass
falstaff now the report goes she has all the rule of her
 husband's purse he hath a legion of angels
pistol as many devils entertain and to her boy say i
nym the humour rises it is good humour me the angels
falstaff i have writ me here a letter to her and here
 another to page's wife who even now gave me good
 eyes too examined my parts with most judicious
 oeillades sometimes the beam of her view gilded my
 foot sometimes my portly belly
pistol then did the sun on dunghill shine
nym i thank thee for that humour
falstaff o she did so course o'er my exteriors with such a
 greedy intention that the appetite of her eye did
 seem to scorch me up like a burningglass here's
 another letter to her she bears the purse too she
 is a region in guiana all gold and bounty i will
 be cheater to them both and they shall be
 exchequers to me they shall be my east and west
 indies and i will trade to them both go bear thou
 this letter to mistress page and thou this to
 mistress ford we will thrive lads we will thrive
pistol shall i sir pandarus of troy become
 and by my side wear steel then lucifer take all
nym i will run no base humour here take the
 humourletter i will keep the havior of reputation
falstaff to robin hold sirrah bear you these letters tightly
 sail like my pinnace to these golden shores
 rogues hence avaunt vanish like hailstones go
 trudge plod away o the hoof seek shelter pack
 falstaff will learn the humour of the age
 french thrift you rogues myself and skirted page
 exeunt falstaff and robin
pistol let vultures gripe thy guts for gourd and fullam holds
 and high and low beguiles the rich and poor
 tester i'll have in pouch when thou shalt lack
 base phrygian turk
nym i have operations which be humours of revenge
pistol wilt thou revenge
nym by welkin and her star
pistol with wit or steel
nym with both the humours i
 i will discuss the humour of this love to page
pistol and i to ford shall eke unfold
 how falstaff varlet vile
 his dove will prove his gold will hold
 and his soft couch defile
nym my humour shall not cool i will incense page to
 deal with poison i will possess him with
 yellowness for the revolt of mine is dangerous
 that is my true humour
pistol thou art the mars of malecontents i second thee troop on
 exeunt
 the merry wives of windsor
act i
scene iv a room in doctor caius house
 enter mistress quickly simple and rugby
mistress quickly what john rugby i pray thee go to the casement
 and see if you can see my master master doctor
 caius coming if he do i faith and find any
 body in the house here will be an old abusing of
 god's patience and the king's english
rugby i'll go watch
mistress quickly go and we'll have a posset for't soon at night in
 faith at the latter end of a seacoal fire
 exit rugby
 an honest willing kind fellow as ever servant
 shall come in house withal and i warrant you no
 telltale nor no breedbate his worst fault is
 that he is given to prayer he is something peevish
 that way but nobody but has his fault but let
 that pass peter simple you say your name is
simple ay for fault of a better
mistress quickly and master slender's your master
simple ay forsooth
mistress quickly does he not wear a great round beard like a
 glover's paringknife
simple no forsooth he hath but a little wee face with a
 little yellow beard a caincoloured beard
mistress quickly a softlysprighted man is he not
simple ay forsooth but he is as tall a man of his hands
 as any is between this and his head he hath fought
 with a warrener
mistress quickly how say you o i should remember him does he not
 hold up his head as it were and strut in his gait
simple yes indeed does he
mistress quickly well heaven send anne page no worse fortune tell
 master parson evans i will do what i can for your
 master anne is a good girl and i wish
 reenter rugby
rugby out alas here comes my master
mistress quickly we shall all be shent run in here good young man
 go into this closet he will not stay long
 shuts simple in the closet
 what john rugby john what john i say
 go john go inquire for my master i doubt
 he be not well that he comes not home
 singing
 and down down adowna &c
 enter doctor caius
doctor caius vat is you sing i do not like des toys pray you
 go and vetch me in my closet un boitier vert a box
 a greena box do intend vat i speak a greena box
mistress quickly ay forsooth i'll fetch it you
 aside
 i am glad he went not in himself if he had found
 the young man he would have been hornmad
doctor caius fe fe fe fe ma foi il fait fort chaud je
 m'en vais a la courla grande affaire
mistress quickly is it this sir
doctor caius oui mette le au mon pocket depeche quickly vere
 is dat knave rugby
mistress quickly what john rugby john
rugby here sir
doctor caius you are john rugby and you are jack rugby come
 takea your rapier and come after my heel to the court
rugby tis ready sir here in the porch
doctor caius by my trot i tarry too long od's me
 qu'aij'oublie dere is some simples in my closet
 dat i vill not for the varld i shall leave behind
mistress quickly ay me he'll find the young man here and be mad
doctor caius o diable diable vat is in my closet villain larron
 pulling simple out
 rugby my rapier
mistress quickly good master be content
doctor caius wherefore shall i be contenta
mistress quickly the young man is an honest man
doctor caius what shall de honest man do in my closet dere is
 no honest man dat shall come in my closet
mistress quickly i beseech you be not so phlegmatic hear the truth
 of it he came of an errand to me from parson hugh
doctor caius vell
simple ay forsooth to desire her to
mistress quickly peace i pray you
doctor caius peacea your tongue speaka your tale
simple to desire this honest gentlewoman your maid to
 speak a good word to mistress anne page for my
 master in the way of marriage
mistress quickly this is all indeed la but i'll ne'er put my
 finger in the fire and need not
doctor caius sir hugh senda you rugby baille me some paper
 tarry you a littlea while
 writes
mistress quickly aside to simple i am glad he is so quiet if he
 had been thoroughly moved you should have heard him
 so loud and so melancholy but notwithstanding
 man i'll do you your master what good i can and
 the very yea and the no is the french doctor my
 masteri may call him my master look you for i
 keep his house and i wash wring brew bake
 scour dress meat and drink make the beds and do
 all myself
simple aside to mistress quickly tis a great charge to
 come under one body's hand
mistress quickly aside to simple are you avised o that you
 shall find it a great charge and to be up early
 and down late but notwithstandingto tell you in
 your ear i would have no words of itmy master
 himself is in love with mistress anne page but
 notwithstanding that i know anne's mindthat's
 neither here nor there
doctor caius you jack'nape givea this letter to sir hugh by
 gar it is a shallenge i will cut his troat in dee
 park and i will teach a scurvy jackanape priest
 to meddle or make you may be gone it is not good
 you tarry here by gar i will cut all his two
 stones by gar he shall not have a stone to throw
 at his dog
 exit simple
mistress quickly alas he speaks but for his friend
doctor caius it is no mattera ver dat do not you tella me
 dat i shall have anne page for myself by gar i
 vill kill de jack priest and i have appointed mine
 host of de jarteer to measure our weapon by gar i
 will myself have anne page
mistress quickly sir the maid loves you and all shall be well we
 must give folks leave to prate what the goodjer
doctor caius rugby come to the court with me by gar if i have
 not anne page i shall turn your head out of my
 door follow my heels rugby
 exeunt doctor caius and rugby
mistress quickly you shall have an fool'shead of your own no i
 know anne's mind for that never a woman in windsor
 knows more of anne's mind than i do nor can do more
 than i do with her i thank heaven
fenton within who's within there ho
mistress quickly who's there i trow come near the house i pray you
 enter fenton
fenton how now good woman how dost thou
mistress quickly the better that it pleases your good worship to ask
fenton what news how does pretty mistress anne
mistress quickly in truth sir and she is pretty and honest and
 gentle and one that is your friend i can tell you
 that by the way i praise heaven for it
fenton shall i do any good thinkest thou shall i not lose my suit
mistress quickly troth sir all is in his hands above but
 notwithstanding master fenton i'll be sworn on a
 book she loves you have not your worship a wart
 above your eye
fenton yes marry have i what of that
mistress quickly well thereby hangs a tale good faith it is such
 another nan but i detest an honest maid as ever
 broke bread we had an hour's talk of that wart i
 shall never laugh but in that maid's company but
 indeed she is given too much to allicholy and
 musing but for youwell go to
fenton well i shall see her today hold there's money
 for thee let me have thy voice in my behalf if
 thou seest her before me commend me
mistress quickly will i i'faith that we will and i will tell your
 worship more of the wart the next time we have
 confidence and of other wooers
fenton well farewell i am in great haste now
mistress quickly farewell to your worship
 exit fenton
 truly an honest gentleman but anne loves him not
 for i know anne's mind as well as another does out
 upon't what have i forgot
 exit
 the merry wives of windsor
act ii
scene i before page's house
 enter mistress page with a letter
mistress page what have i scaped loveletters in the holiday
 time of my beauty and am i now a subject for them
 let me see
 reads
 ask me no reason why i love you for though
 love use reason for his physician he admits him
 not for his counsellor you are not young no more
 am i go to then there's sympathy you are merry
 so am i ha ha then there's more sympathy you
 love sack and so do i would you desire better
 sympathy let it suffice thee mistress pageat
 the least if the love of soldier can suffice
 that i love thee i will not say pity me tis
 not a soldierlike phrase but i say love me by me
 thine own true knight
 by day or night
 or any kind of light
 with all his might
 for thee to fight john falstaff'
 what a herod of jewry is this o wicked
 world one that is wellnigh worn to pieces with
 age to show himself a young gallant what an
 unweighed behavior hath this flemish drunkard
 pickedwith the devil's nameout of my
 conversation that he dares in this manner assay me
 why he hath not been thrice in my company what
 should i say to him i was then frugal of my
 mirth heaven forgive me why i'll exhibit a bill
 in the parliament for the putting down of men how
 shall i be revenged on him for revenged i will be
 as sure as his guts are made of puddings
 enter mistress ford
mistress ford mistress page trust me i was going to your house
mistress page and trust me i was coming to you you look very
 ill
mistress ford nay i'll ne'er believe that i have to show to the contrary
mistress page faith but you do in my mind
mistress ford well i do then yet i say i could show you to the
 contrary o mistress page give me some counsel
mistress page what's the matter woman
mistress ford o woman if it were not for one trifling respect i
 could come to such honour
mistress page hang the trifle woman take the honour what is
 it dispense with trifles what is it
mistress ford if i would but go to hell for an eternal moment or so
 i could be knighted
mistress page what thou liest sir alice ford these knights
 will hack and so thou shouldst not alter the
 article of thy gentry
mistress ford we burn daylight here read read perceive how i
 might be knighted i shall think the worse of fat
 men as long as i have an eye to make difference of
 men's liking and yet he would not swear praised
 women's modesty and gave such orderly and
 wellbehaved reproof to all uncomeliness that i
 would have sworn his disposition would have gone to
 the truth of his words but they do no more adhere
 and keep place together than the hundredth psalm to
 the tune of green sleeves what tempest i trow
 threw this whale with so many tuns of oil in his
 belly ashore at windsor how shall i be revenged
 on him i think the best way were to entertain him
 with hope till the wicked fire of lust have melted
 him in his own grease did you ever hear the like
mistress page letter for letter but that the name of page and
 ford differs to thy great comfort in this mystery
 of ill opinions here's the twinbrother of thy
 letter but let thine inherit first for i
 protest mine never shall i warrant he hath a
 thousand of these letters writ with blank space for
 different namessure moreand these are of the
 second edition he will print them out of doubt
 for he cares not what he puts into the press when
 he would put us two i had rather be a giantess
 and lie under mount pelion well i will find you
 twenty lascivious turtles ere one chaste man
mistress ford why this is the very same the very hand the very
 words what doth he think of us
mistress page nay i know not it makes me almost ready to
 wrangle with mine own honesty i'll entertain
 myself like one that i am not acquainted withal
 for sure unless he know some strain in me that i
 know not myself he would never have boarded me in this fury
mistress ford boarding call you it i'll be sure to keep him
 above deck
mistress page so will i if he come under my hatches i'll never
 to sea again let's be revenged on him let's
 appoint him a meeting give him a show of comfort in
 his suit and lead him on with a finebaited delay
 till he hath pawned his horses to mine host of the garter
mistress ford nay i will consent to act any villany against him
 that may not sully the chariness of our honesty o
 that my husband saw this letter it would give
 eternal food to his jealousy
mistress page why look where he comes and my good man too he's
 as far from jealousy as i am from giving him cause
 and that i hope is an unmeasurable distance
mistress ford you are the happier woman
mistress page let's consult together against this greasy knight
 come hither
 they retire
 enter ford with pistol and page with nym
ford well i hope it be not so
pistol hope is a curtal dog in some affairs
 sir john affects thy wife
ford why sir my wife is not young
pistol he wooes both high and low both rich and poor
 both young and old one with another ford
 he loves the gallimaufry ford perpend
ford love my wife
pistol with liver burning hot prevent or go thou
 like sir actaeon he with ringwood at thy heels
 o odious is the name
ford what name sir
pistol the horn i say farewell
 take heed have open eye for thieves do foot by night
 take heed ere summer comes or cuckoobirds do sing
 away sir corporal nym
 believe it page he speaks sense
 exit
ford aside i will be patient i will find out this
nym to page and this is true i like not the humour
 of lying he hath wronged me in some humours i
 should have borne the humoured letter to her but i
 have a sword and it shall bite upon my necessity
 he loves your wife there's the short and the long
 my name is corporal nym i speak and i avouch tis
 true my name is nym and falstaff loves your wife
 adieu i love not the humour of bread and cheese
 and there's the humour of it adieu
 exit
page the humour of it quoth a here's a fellow
 frights english out of his wits
ford i will seek out falstaff
page i never heard such a drawling affecting rogue
ford if i do find it well
page i will not believe such a cataian though the priest
 o the town commended him for a true man
ford twas a good sensible fellow well
page how now meg
 mistress page and mistress ford come forward
mistress page whither go you george hark you
mistress ford how now sweet frank why art thou melancholy
ford i melancholy i am not melancholy get you home go
mistress ford faith thou hast some crotchets in thy head now
 will you go mistress page
mistress page have with you you'll come to dinner george
 aside to mistress ford
 look who comes yonder she shall be our messenger
 to this paltry knight
mistress ford aside to mistress page trust me i thought on her
 she'll fit it
 enter mistress quickly
mistress page you are come to see my daughter anne
mistress quickly ay forsooth and i pray how does good mistress anne
mistress page go in with us and see we have an hour's talk with
 you
 exeunt mistress page mistress ford and mistress quickly
page how now master ford
ford you heard what this knave told me did you not
page yes and you heard what the other told me
ford do you think there is truth in them
page hang em slaves i do not think the knight would
 offer it but these that accuse him in his intent
 towards our wives are a yoke of his discarded men
 very rogues now they be out of service
ford were they his men
page marry were they
ford i like it never the better for that does he lie at
 the garter
page ay marry does he if he should intend this voyage
 towards my wife i would turn her loose to him and
 what he gets more of her than sharp words let it
 lie on my head
ford i do not misdoubt my wife but i would be loath to
 turn them together a man may be too confident i
 would have nothing lie on my head i cannot be thus satisfied
page look where my ranting host of the garter comes
 there is either liquor in his pate or money in his
 purse when he looks so merrily
 enter host
 how now mine host
host how now bullyrook thou'rt a gentleman
 cavaleirojustice i say
 enter shallow
shallow i follow mine host i follow good even and
 twenty good master page master page will you go
 with us we have sport in hand
host tell him cavaleirojustice tell him bullyrook
shallow sir there is a fray to be fought between sir hugh
 the welsh priest and caius the french doctor
ford good mine host o the garter a word with you
 drawing him aside
host what sayest thou my bullyrook
shallow to page will you go with us to behold it my
 merry host hath had the measuring of their weapons
 and i think hath appointed them contrary places
 for believe me i hear the parson is no jester
 hark i will tell you what our sport shall be
 they converse apart
host hast thou no suit against my knight my
 guestcavaleire
ford none i protest but i'll give you a pottle of
 burnt sack to give me recourse to him and tell him
 my name is brook only for a jest
host my hand bully thou shalt have egress and regress
 said i welland thy name shall be brook it is
 a merry knight will you go anheires
shallow have with you mine host
page i have heard the frenchman hath good skill in
 his rapier
shallow tut sir i could have told you more in these times
 you stand on distance your passes stoccadoes and
 i know not what tis the heart master page tis
 here tis here i have seen the time with my long
 sword i would have made you four tall fellows skip like rats
host here boys here here shall we wag
page have with you i would rather hear them scold than fight
 exeunt host shallow and page
ford though page be a secure fool an stands so firmly
 on his wife's frailty yet i cannot put off my
 opinion so easily she was in his company at page's
 house and what they made there i know not well
 i will look further into't and i have a disguise
 to sound falstaff if i find her honest i lose not
 my labour if she be otherwise tis labour well bestowed
 exit
 the merry wives of windsor
act ii
scene ii a room in the garter inn
 enter falstaff and pistol
falstaff i will not lend thee a penny
pistol why then the world's mine oyster
 which i with sword will open
falstaff not a penny i have been content sir you should
 lay my countenance to pawn i have grated upon my
 good friends for three reprieves for you and your
 coachfellow nym or else you had looked through
 the grate like a geminy of baboons i am damned in
 hell for swearing to gentlemen my friends you were
 good soldiers and tall fellows and when mistress
 bridget lost the handle of her fan i took't upon
 mine honour thou hadst it not
pistol didst not thou share hadst thou not fifteen pence
falstaff reason you rogue reason thinkest thou i'll
 endanger my soul gratis at a word hang no more
 about me i am no gibbet for you go a short knife
 and a throng to your manor of pickthatch go
 you'll not bear a letter for me you rogue you
 stand upon your honour why thou unconfinable
 baseness it is as much as i can do to keep the
 terms of my honour precise i i i myself
 sometimes leaving the fear of god on the left hand
 and hiding mine honour in my necessity am fain to
 shuffle to hedge and to lurch and yet you rogue
 will ensconce your rags your catamountain
 looks your redlattice phrases and your
 boldbeating oaths under the shelter of your
 honour you will not do it you
pistol i do relent what would thou more of man
 enter robin
robin sir here's a woman would speak with you
falstaff let her approach
 enter mistress quickly
mistress quickly give your worship good morrow
falstaff good morrow good wife
mistress quickly not so an't please your worship
falstaff good maid then
mistress quickly i'll be sworn
 as my mother was the first hour i was born
falstaff i do believe the swearer what with me
mistress quickly shall i vouchsafe your worship a word or two
falstaff two thousand fair woman and i'll vouchsafe thee
 the hearing
mistress quickly there is one mistress ford siri pray come a
 little nearer this waysi myself dwell with master
 doctor caius
falstaff well on mistress ford you say
mistress quickly your worship says very true i pray your worship
 come a little nearer this ways
falstaff i warrant thee nobody hears mine own people mine
 own people
mistress quickly are they so god bless them and make them his servants
falstaff well mistress ford what of her
mistress quickly why sir she's a good creature lord lord your
 worship's a wanton well heaven forgive you and all
 of us i pray
falstaff mistress ford come mistress ford
mistress quickly marry this is the short and the long of it you
 have brought her into such a canaries as tis
 wonderful the best courtier of them all when the
 court lay at windsor could never have brought her
 to such a canary yet there has been knights and
 lords and gentlemen with their coaches i warrant
 you coach after coach letter after letter gift
 after gift smelling so sweetly all musk and so
 rushling i warrant you in silk and gold and in
 such alligant terms and in such wine and sugar of
 the best and the fairest that would have won any
 woman's heart and i warrant you they could never
 get an eyewink of her i had myself twenty angels
 given me this morning but i defy all angels in
 any such sort as they say but in the way of
 honesty and i warrant you they could never get
 her so much as sip on a cup with the proudest of
 them all and yet there has been earls nay which
 is more pensioners but i warrant you all is one with her
falstaff but what says she to me be brief my good
 shemercury
mistress quickly marry she hath received your letter for the which
 she thanks you a thousand times and she gives you
 to notify that her husband will be absence from his
 house between ten and eleven
falstaff ten and eleven
mistress quickly ay forsooth and then you may come and see the
 picture she says that you wot of master ford
 her husband will be from home alas the sweet
 woman leads an ill life with him he's a very
 jealousy man she leads a very frampold life with
 him good heart
falstaff ten and eleven woman commend me to her i will
 not fail her
mistress quickly why you say well but i have another messenger to
 your worship mistress page hath her hearty
 commendations to you too and let me tell you in
 your ear she's as fartuous a civil modest wife and
 one i tell you that will not miss you morning nor
 evening prayer as any is in windsor whoe'er be the
 other and she bade me tell your worship that her
 husband is seldom from home but she hopes there
 will come a time i never knew a woman so dote upon
 a man surely i think you have charms la yes in truth
falstaff not i i assure thee setting the attractions of my
 good parts aside i have no other charms
mistress quickly blessing on your heart for't
falstaff but i pray thee tell me this has ford's wife and
 page's wife acquainted each other how they love me
mistress quickly that were a jest indeed they have not so little
 grace i hope that were a trick indeed but
 mistress page would desire you to send her your
 little page of all loves her husband has a
 marvellous infection to the little page and truly
 master page is an honest man never a wife in
 windsor leads a better life than she does do what
 she will say what she will take all pay all go
 to bed when she list rise when she list all is as
 she will and truly she deserves it for if there
 be a kind woman in windsor she is one you must
 send her your page no remedy
falstaff why i will
mistress quickly nay but do so then and look you he may come and
 go between you both and in any case have a
 nayword that you may know one another's mind and
 the boy never need to understand any thing for
 tis not good that children should know any
 wickedness old folks you know have discretion
 as they say and know the world
falstaff fare thee well commend me to them both there's
 my purse i am yet thy debtor boy go along with
 this woman
 exeunt mistress quickly and robin
 this news distracts me
pistol this punk is one of cupid's carriers
 clap on more sails pursue up with your fights
 give fire she is my prize or ocean whelm them all
 exit
falstaff sayest thou so old jack go thy ways i'll make
 more of thy old body than i have done will they
 yet look after thee wilt thou after the expense
 of so much money be now a gainer good body i
 thank thee let them say tis grossly done so it be
 fairly done no matter
 enter bardolph
bardolph sir john there's one master brook below would fain
 speak with you and be acquainted with you and hath
 sent your worship a morning's draught of sack
falstaff brook is his name
bardolph ay sir
falstaff call him in
 exit bardolph
 such brooks are welcome to me that o'erflow such
 liquor ah ha mistress ford and mistress page
 have i encompassed you go to via
 reenter bardolph with ford disguised
ford bless you sir
falstaff and you sir would you speak with me
ford i make bold to press with so little preparation upon
 you
falstaff you're welcome what's your will give us leave drawer
 exit bardolph
ford sir i am a gentleman that have spent much my name is brook
falstaff good master brook i desire more acquaintance of you
ford good sir john i sue for yours not to charge you
 for i must let you understand i think myself in
 better plight for a lender than you are the which
 hath something embolden'd me to this unseasoned
 intrusion for they say if money go before all
 ways do lie open
falstaff money is a good soldier sir and will on
ford troth and i have a bag of money here troubles me
 if you will help to bear it sir john take all or
 half for easing me of the carriage
falstaff sir i know not how i may deserve to be your porter
ford i will tell you sir if you will give me the hearing
falstaff speak good master brook i shall be glad to be
 your servant
ford sir i hear you are a scholari will be brief
 with youand you have been a man long known to me
 though i had never so good means as desire to make
 myself acquainted with you i shall discover a
 thing to you wherein i must very much lay open mine
 own imperfection but good sir john as you have
 one eye upon my follies as you hear them unfolded
 turn another into the register of your own that i
 may pass with a reproof the easier sith you
 yourself know how easy it is to be such an offender
falstaff very well sir proceed
ford there is a gentlewoman in this town her husband's
 name is ford
falstaff well sir
ford i have long loved her and i protest to you
 bestowed much on her followed her with a doting
 observance engrossed opportunities to meet her
 fee'd every slight occasion that could but niggardly
 give me sight of her not only bought many presents
 to give her but have given largely to many to know
 what she would have given briefly i have pursued
 her as love hath pursued me which hath been on the
 wing of all occasions but whatsoever i have
 merited either in my mind or in my means meed
 i am sure i have received none unless experience
 be a jewel that i have purchased at an infinite
 rate and that hath taught me to say this
 love like a shadow flies when substance love pursues
 pursuing that that flies and flying what pursues'
falstaff have you received no promise of satisfaction at her hands
ford never
falstaff have you importuned her to such a purpose
ford never
falstaff of what quality was your love then
ford like a fair house built on another man's ground so
 that i have lost my edifice by mistaking the place
 where i erected it
falstaff to what purpose have you unfolded this to me
ford when i have told you that i have told you all
 some say that though she appear honest to me yet in
 other places she enlargeth her mirth so far that
 there is shrewd construction made of her now sir
 john here is the heart of my purpose you are a
 gentleman of excellent breeding admirable
 discourse of great admittance authentic in your
 place and person generally allowed for your many
 warlike courtlike and learned preparations
falstaff o sir
ford believe it for you know it there is money spend
 it spend it spend more spend all i have only
 give me so much of your time in exchange of it as
 to lay an amiable siege to the honesty of this
 ford's wife use your art of wooing win her to
 consent to you if any man may you may as soon as
 any
falstaff would it apply well to the vehemency of your
 affection that i should win what you would enjoy
 methinks you prescribe to yourself very preposterously
ford o understand my drift she dwells so securely on
 the excellency of her honour that the folly of my
 soul dares not present itself she is too bright to
 be looked against now could i could come to her
 with any detection in my hand my desires had
 instance and argument to commend themselves i
 could drive her then from the ward of her purity
 her reputation her marriagevow and a thousand
 other her defences which now are too too strongly
 embattled against me what say you to't sir john
falstaff master brook i will first make bold with your
 money next give me your hand and last as i am a
 gentleman you shall if you will enjoy ford's wife
ford o good sir
falstaff i say you shall
ford want no money sir john you shall want none
falstaff want no mistress ford master brook you shall want
 none i shall be with her i may tell you by her
 own appointment even as you came in to me her
 assistant or gobetween parted from me i say i
 shall be with her between ten and eleven for at
 that time the jealous rascally knave her husband
 will be forth come you to me at night you shall
 know how i speed
ford i am blest in your acquaintance do you know ford
 sir
falstaff hang him poor cuckoldly knave i know him not
 yet i wrong him to call him poor they say the
 jealous wittolly knave hath masses of money for the
 which his wife seems to me wellfavored i will
 use her as the key of the cuckoldly rogue's coffer
 and there's my harvesthome
ford i would you knew ford sir that you might avoid him
 if you saw him
falstaff hang him mechanical saltbutter rogue i will
 stare him out of his wits i will awe him with my
 cudgel it shall hang like a meteor o'er the
 cuckold's horns master brook thou shalt know i
 will predominate over the peasant and thou shalt
 lie with his wife come to me soon at night
 ford's a knave and i will aggravate his style
 thou master brook shalt know him for knave and
 cuckold come to me soon at night
 exit
ford what a damned epicurean rascal is this my heart is
 ready to crack with impatience who says this is
 improvident jealousy my wife hath sent to him the
 hour is fixed the match is made would any man
 have thought this see the hell of having a false
 woman my bed shall be abused my coffers
 ransacked my reputation gnawn at and i shall not
 only receive this villanous wrong but stand under
 the adoption of abominable terms and by him that
 does me this wrong terms names amaimon sounds
 well lucifer well barbason well yet they are
 devils additions the names of fiends but
 cuckold wittolcuckold the devil himself hath
 not such a name page is an ass a secure ass he
 will trust his wife he will not be jealous i will
 rather trust a fleming with my butter parson hugh
 the welshman with my cheese an irishman with my
 aquavitae bottle or a thief to walk my ambling
 gelding than my wife with herself then she plots
 then she ruminates then she devises and what they
 think in their hearts they may effect they will
 break their hearts but they will effect god be
 praised for my jealousy eleven o'clock the hour
 i will prevent this detect my wife be revenged on
 falstaff and laugh at page i will about it
 better three hours too soon than a minute too late
 fie fie fie cuckold cuckold cuckold
 exit
 the merry wives of windsor
act ii
scene iii a field near windsor
 enter doctor caius and rugby
doctor caius jack rugby
rugby sir
doctor caius vat is de clock jack
rugby tis past the hour sir that sir hugh promised to meet
doctor caius by gar he has save his soul dat he is no come he
 has pray his pible well dat he is no come by gar
 jack rugby he is dead already if he be come
rugby he is wise sir he knew your worship would kill
 him if he came
doctor caius by gar de herring is no dead so as i vill kill him
 take your rapier jack i vill tell you how i vill kill him
rugby alas sir i cannot fence
doctor caius villany take your rapier
rugby forbear here's company
 enter host shallow slender and page
host bless thee bully doctor
shallow save you master doctor caius
page now good master doctor
slender give you good morrow sir
doctor caius vat be all you one two tree four come for
host to see thee fight to see thee foin to see thee
 traverse to see thee here to see thee there to
 see thee pass thy punto thy stock thy reverse thy
 distance thy montant is he dead my ethiopian is
 he dead my francisco ha bully what says my
 aesculapius my galen my heart of elder ha is
 he dead bully stale is he dead
doctor caius by gar he is de coward jack priest of de vorld he
 is not show his face
host thou art a castalionkingurinal hector of greece my boy
doctor caius i pray you bear vitness that me have stay six or
 seven two tree hours for him and he is no come
shallow he is the wiser man master doctor he is a curer of
 souls and you a curer of bodies if you should
 fight you go against the hair of your professions
 is it not true master page
page master shallow you have yourself been a great
 fighter though now a man of peace
shallow bodykins master page though i now be old and of
 the peace if i see a sword out my finger itches to
 make one though we are justices and doctors and
 churchmen master page we have some salt of our
 youth in us we are the sons of women master page
page tis true master shallow
shallow it will be found so master page master doctor
 caius i am come to fetch you home i am sworn of
 the peace you have showed yourself a wise
 physician and sir hugh hath shown himself a wise
 and patient churchman you must go with me master doctor
host pardon guestjustice a word mounseur mockwater
doctor caius mockvater vat is dat
host mockwater in our english tongue is valour bully
doctor caius by gar den i have as mush mockvater as de
 englishman scurvy jackdog priest by gar me
 vill cut his ears
host he will clapperclaw thee tightly bully
doctor caius clapperdeclaw vat is dat
host that is he will make thee amends
doctor caius by gar me do look he shall clapperdeclaw me
 for by gar me vill have it
host and i will provoke him to't or let him wag
doctor caius me tank you for dat
host and moreover bullybut first master guest and
 master page and eke cavaleiro slender go you
 through the town to frogmore
 aside to them
page sir hugh is there is he
host he is there see what humour he is in and i will
 bring the doctor about by the fields will it do well
shallow we will do it
page 
 
shallow adieu good master doctor
 
slender 
 exeunt page shallow and slender
doctor caius by gar me vill kill de priest for he speak for a
 jackanape to anne page
host let him die sheathe thy impatience throw cold
 water on thy choler go about the fields with me
 through frogmore i will bring thee where mistress
 anne page is at a farmhouse afeasting and thou
 shalt woo her cried i aim said i well
doctor caius by gar me dank you for dat by gar i love you
 and i shall procurea you de good guest de earl
 de knight de lords de gentlemen my patients
host for the which i will be thy adversary toward anne
 page said i well
doctor caius by gar tis good vell said
host let us wag then
doctor caius come at my heels jack rugby
 exeunt
 the merry wives of windsor
act iii
scene i a field near frogmore
 enter sir hugh evans and simple
sir hugh evans i pray you now good master slender's servingman
 and friend simple by your name which way have you
 looked for master caius that calls himself doctor of physic
simple marry sir the pittieward the parkward every
 way old windsor way and every way but the town
 way
sir hugh evans i most fehemently desire you you will also look that
 way
simple i will sir
 exit
sir hugh evans pless my soul how full of chollors i am and
 trempling of mind i shall be glad if he have
 deceived me how melancholies i am i will knog
 his urinals about his knave's costard when i have
 good opportunities for the ork pless my soul
 sings
 to shallow rivers to whose falls
 melodious birds sings madrigals
 there will we make our peds of roses
 and a thousand fragrant posies
 to shallow
 mercy on me i have a great dispositions to cry
 sings
 melodious birds sing madrigals
 when as i sat in pabylon
 and a thousand vagram posies
 to shallow &c
 reenter simple
simple yonder he is coming this way sir hugh
sir hugh evans he's welcome
 sings
 to shallow rivers to whose falls
 heaven prosper the right what weapons is he
simple no weapons sir there comes my master master
 shallow and another gentleman from frogmore over
 the stile this way
sir hugh evans pray you give me my gown or else keep it in your arms
 enter page shallow and slender
shallow how now master parson good morrow good sir hugh
 keep a gamester from the dice and a good student
 from his book and it is wonderful
slender aside ah sweet anne page
page save you good sir hugh
sir hugh evans pless you from his mercy sake all of you
shallow what the sword and the word do you study them
 both master parson
page and youthful still in your doublet and hose this
 raw rheumatic day
sir hugh evans there is reasons and causes for it
page we are come to you to do a good office master parson
sir hugh evans fery well what is it
page yonder is a most reverend gentleman who belike
 having received wrong by some person is at most
 odds with his own gravity and patience that ever you
 saw
shallow i have lived fourscore years and upward i never
 heard a man of his place gravity and learning so
 wide of his own respect
sir hugh evans what is he
page i think you know him master doctor caius the
 renowned french physician
sir hugh evans got's will and his passion of my heart i had as
 lief you would tell me of a mess of porridge
page why
sir hugh evans he has no more knowledge in hibocrates and galen
 and he is a knave besides a cowardly knave as you
 would desires to be acquainted withal
page i warrant you he's the man should fight with him
shallow aside o sweet anne page
shallow it appears so by his weapons keep them asunder
 here comes doctor caius
 enter host doctor caius and rugby
page nay good master parson keep in your weapon
shallow so do you good master doctor
host disarm them and let them question let them keep
 their limbs whole and hack our english
doctor caius i pray you leta me speak a word with your ear
 vherefore vill you not meeta me
sir hugh evans aside to doctor caius pray you use your patience
 in good time
doctor caius by gar you are de coward de jack dog john ape
sir hugh evans aside to doctor caius pray you let us not be
 laughingstocks to other men's humours i desire you
 in friendship and i will one way or other make you amends
 aloud
 i will knog your urinals about your knave's cockscomb
 for missing your meetings and appointments
doctor caius diable jack rugbymine host de jarteerhave i
 not stay for him to kill him have i not at de place
 i did appoint
sir hugh evans as i am a christians soul now look you this is the
 place appointed i'll be judgement by mine host of
 the garter
host peace i say gallia and gaul french and welsh
 soulcurer and bodycurer
doctor caius ay dat is very good excellent
host peace i say hear mine host of the garter am i
 politic am i subtle am i a machiavel shall i
 lose my doctor no he gives me the potions and the
 motions shall i lose my parson my priest my sir
 hugh no he gives me the proverbs and the
 noverbs give me thy hand terrestrial so give me
 thy hand celestial so boys of art i have
 deceived you both i have directed you to wrong
 places your hearts are mighty your skins are
 whole and let burnt sack be the issue come lay
 their swords to pawn follow me lads of peace
 follow follow follow
shallow trust me a mad host follow gentlemen follow
slender aside o sweet anne page
 exeunt shallow slender page and host
doctor caius ha do i perceive dat have you makea de sot of
 us ha ha
sir hugh evans this is well he has made us his vloutingstog i
 desire you that we may be friends and let us knog
 our prains together to be revenge on this same
 scall scurvy cogging companion the host of the garter
doctor caius by gar with all my heart he promise to bring me
 where is anne page by gar he deceive me too
sir hugh evans well i will smite his noddles pray you follow
 exeunt
 the merry wives of windsor
act iii
scene ii a street
 enter mistress page and robin
mistress page nay keep your way little gallant you were wont to
 be a follower but now you are a leader whether
 had you rather lead mine eyes or eye your master's heels
robin i had rather forsooth go before you like a man
 than follow him like a dwarf
mistress page o you are a flattering boy now i see you'll be a courtier
 enter ford
ford well met mistress page whither go you
mistress page truly sir to see your wife is she at home
ford ay and as idle as she may hang together for want
 of company i think if your husbands were dead
 you two would marry
mistress page be sure of thattwo other husbands
ford where had you this pretty weathercock
mistress page i cannot tell what the dickens his name is my
 husband had him of what do you call your knight's
 name sirrah
robin sir john falstaff
ford sir john falstaff
mistress page he he i can never hit on's name there is such a
 league between my good man and he is your wife at
 home indeed
ford indeed she is
mistress page by your leave sir i am sick till i see her
 exeunt mistress page and robin
ford has page any brains hath he any eyes hath he any
 thinking sure they sleep he hath no use of them
 why this boy will carry a letter twenty mile as
 easy as a cannon will shoot pointblank twelve
 score he pieces out his wife's inclination he
 gives her folly motion and advantage and now she's
 going to my wife and falstaff's boy with her a
 man may hear this shower sing in the wind and
 falstaff's boy with her good plots they are laid
 and our revolted wives share damnation together
 well i will take him then torture my wife pluck
 the borrowed veil of modesty from the so seeming
 mistress page divulge page himself for a secure and
 wilful actaeon and to these violent proceedings all
 my neighbours shall cry aim
 clock heard
 the clock gives me my cue and my assurance bids me
 search there i shall find falstaff i shall be
 rather praised for this than mocked for it is as
 positive as the earth is firm that falstaff is
 there i will go
 enter page shallow slender host
 sir hugh evans doctor caius and rugby
shallow 
 
page well met master ford
 
&c 
ford trust me a good knot i have good cheer at home
 and i pray you all go with me
shallow i must excuse myself master ford
slender and so must i sir we have appointed to dine with
 mistress anne and i would not break with her for
 more money than i'll speak of
shallow we have lingered about a match between anne page and
 my cousin slender and this day we shall have our answer
slender i hope i have your good will father page
page you have master slender i stand wholly for you
 but my wife master doctor is for you altogether
doctor caius ay begar and de maid is lovea me my nursha
 quickly tell me so mush
host what say you to young master fenton he capers he
 dances he has eyes of youth he writes verses he
 speaks holiday he smells april and may he will
 carry't he will carry't tis in his buttons he
 will carry't
page not by my consent i promise you the gentleman is
 of no having he kept company with the wild prince
 and poins he is of too high a region he knows too
 much no he shall not knit a knot in his fortunes
 with the finger of my substance if he take her
 let him take her simply the wealth i have waits on
 my consent and my consent goes not that way
ford i beseech you heartily some of you go home with me
 to dinner besides your cheer you shall have
 sport i will show you a monster master doctor
 you shall go so shall you master page and you sir hugh
shallow well fare you well we shall have the freer wooing
 at master page's
 exeunt shallow and slender
doctor caius go home john rugby i come anon
 exit rugby
host farewell my hearts i will to my honest knight
 falstaff and drink canary with him
 exit
ford aside i think i shall drink in pipe wine first
 with him i'll make him dance will you go gentles
all have with you to see this monster
 exeunt
 the merry wives of windsor
act iii
scene iii a room in ford's house
 enter mistress ford and mistress page
mistress ford what john what robert
mistress page quickly quickly is the buckbasket
mistress ford i warrant what robin i say
 enter servants with a basket
mistress page come come come
mistress ford here set it down
mistress page give your men the charge we must be brief
mistress ford marry as i told you before john and robert be
 ready here hard by in the brewhouse and when i
 suddenly call you come forth and without any pause
 or staggering take this basket on your shoulders
 that done trudge with it in all haste and carry
 it among the whitsters in datchetmead and there
 empty it in the muddy ditch close by the thames side
mistress page you will do it
mistress ford i ha told them over and over they lack no
 direction be gone and come when you are called
 exeunt servants
mistress page here comes little robin
 enter robin
mistress ford how now my eyasmusket what news with you
robin my master sir john is come in at your backdoor
 mistress ford and requests your company
mistress page you little jackalent have you been true to us
robin ay i'll be sworn my master knows not of your
 being here and hath threatened to put me into
 everlasting liberty if i tell you of it for he
 swears he'll turn me away
mistress page thou'rt a good boy this secrecy of thine shall be
 a tailor to thee and shall make thee a new doublet
 and hose i'll go hide me
mistress ford do so go tell thy master i am alone
 exit robin
 mistress page remember you your cue
mistress page i warrant thee if i do not act it hiss me
 exit
mistress ford go to then we'll use this unwholesome humidity
 this gross watery pumpion we'll teach him to know
 turtles from jays
 enter falstaff
falstaff have i caught thee my heavenly jewel why now let
 me die for i have lived long enough this is the
 period of my ambition o this blessed hour
mistress ford o sweet sir john
falstaff mistress ford i cannot cog i cannot prate
 mistress ford now shall i sin in my wish i would
 thy husband were dead i'll speak it before the
 best lord i would make thee my lady
mistress ford i your lady sir john alas i should be a pitiful lady
falstaff let the court of france show me such another i see
 how thine eye would emulate the diamond thou hast
 the right arched beauty of the brow that becomes the
 shiptire the tirevaliant or any tire of
 venetian admittance
mistress ford a plain kerchief sir john my brows become nothing
 else nor that well neither
falstaff by the lord thou art a traitor to say so thou
 wouldst make an absolute courtier and the firm
 fixture of thy foot would give an excellent motion
 to thy gait in a semicircled farthingale i see
 what thou wert if fortune thy foe were not nature
 thy friend come thou canst not hide it
mistress ford believe me there is no such thing in me
falstaff what made me love thee let that persuade thee
 there's something extraordinary in thee come i
 cannot cog and say thou art this and that like a
 many of these lisping hawthornbuds that come like
 women in men's apparel and smell like bucklersbury
 in simple time i cannot but i love thee none
 but thee and thou deservest it
mistress ford do not betray me sir i fear you love mistress page
falstaff thou mightst as well say i love to walk by the
 countergate which is as hateful to me as the reek
 of a limekiln
mistress ford well heaven knows how i love you and you shall one
 day find it
falstaff keep in that mind i'll deserve it
mistress ford nay i must tell you so you do or else i could not
 be in that mind
robin within mistress ford mistress ford here's
 mistress page at the door sweating and blowing and
 looking wildly and would needs speak with you presently
falstaff she shall not see me i will ensconce me behind the arras
mistress ford pray you do so she's a very tattling woman
 falstaff hides himself
 reenter mistress page and robin
 what's the matter how now
mistress page o mistress ford what have you done you're shamed
 you're overthrown you're undone for ever
mistress ford what's the matter good mistress page
mistress page o welladay mistress ford having an honest man
 to your husband to give him such cause of suspicion
mistress ford what cause of suspicion
mistress page what cause of suspicion out pon you how am i
 mistook in you
mistress ford why alas what's the matter
mistress page your husband's coming hither woman with all the
 officers in windsor to search for a gentleman that
 he says is here now in the house by your consent to
 take an ill advantage of his assence you are undone
mistress ford tis not so i hope
mistress page pray heaven it be not so that you have such a man
 here but tis most certain your husband's coming
 with half windsor at his heels to search for such a
 one i come before to tell you if you know
 yourself clear why i am glad of it but if you
 have a friend here convey convey him out be not
 amazed call all your senses to you defend your
 reputation or bid farewell to your good life for ever
mistress ford what shall i do there is a gentleman my dear
 friend and i fear not mine own shame so much as his
 peril i had rather than a thousand pound he were
 out of the house
mistress page for shame never stand you had rather and you
 had rather your husband's here at hand bethink
 you of some conveyance in the house you cannot
 hide him o how have you deceived me look here
 is a basket if he be of any reasonable stature he
 may creep in here and throw foul linen upon him as
 if it were going to bucking orit is whitingtime
 send him by your two men to datchetmead
mistress ford he's too big to go in there what shall i do
falstaff coming forward let me see't let me see't o let
 me see't i'll in i'll in follow your friend's
 counsel i'll in
mistress page what sir john falstaff are these your letters knight
falstaff i love thee help me away let me creep in here
 i'll never
 gets into the basket they cover him with foul linen
mistress page help to cover your master boy call your men
 mistress ford you dissembling knight
mistress ford what john robert john
 exit robin
 reenter servants
 go take up these clothes here quickly where's the
 cowlstaff look how you drumble carry them to
 the laundress in datchetmeat quickly come
 enter ford page doctor caius and sir hugh evans
ford pray you come near if i suspect without cause
 why then make sport at me then let me be your jest
 i deserve it how now whither bear you this
servant to the laundress forsooth
mistress ford why what have you to do whither they bear it you
 were best meddle with buckwashing
ford buck i would i could wash myself of the buck
 buck buck buck ay buck i warrant you buck
 and of the season too it shall appear
 exeunt servants with the basket
 gentlemen i have dreamed tonight i'll tell you my
 dream here here here be my keys ascend my
 chambers search seek find out i'll warrant
 we'll unkennel the fox let me stop this way first
 locking the door
 so now uncape
page good master ford be contented you wrong yourself too much
ford true master page up gentlemen you shall see
 sport anon follow me gentlemen
 exit
sir hugh evans this is fery fantastical humours and jealousies
doctor caius by gar tis no the fashion of france it is not
 jealous in france
page nay follow him gentlemen see the issue of his search
 exeunt page doctor caius and sir hugh evans
mistress page is there not a double excellency in this
mistress ford i know not which pleases me better that my husband
 is deceived or sir john
mistress page what a taking was he in when your husband asked who
 was in the basket
mistress ford i am half afraid he will have need of washing so
 throwing him into the water will do him a benefit
mistress page hang him dishonest rascal i would all of the same
 strain were in the same distress
mistress ford i think my husband hath some special suspicion of
 falstaff's being here for i never saw him so gross
 in his jealousy till now
mistress page i will lay a plot to try that and we will yet have
 more tricks with falstaff his dissolute disease will
 scarce obey this medicine
mistress ford shall we send that foolish carrion mistress
 quickly to him and excuse his throwing into the
 water and give him another hope to betray him to
 another punishment
mistress page we will do it let him be sent for tomorrow
 eight o'clock to have amends
 reenter ford page doctor caius and
 sir hugh evans
ford i cannot find him may be the knave bragged of that
 he could not compass
mistress page aside to mistress ford heard you that
mistress ford you use me well master ford do you
ford ay i do so
mistress ford heaven make you better than your thoughts
ford amen
mistress page you do yourself mighty wrong master ford
ford ay ay i must bear it
sir hugh evans if there be any pody in the house and in the
 chambers and in the coffers and in the presses
 heaven forgive my sins at the day of judgment
doctor caius by gar nor i too there is no bodies
page fie fie master ford are you not ashamed what
 spirit what devil suggests this imagination i
 would not ha your distemper in this kind for the
 wealth of windsor castle
ford tis my fault master page i suffer for it
sir hugh evans you suffer for a pad conscience your wife is as
 honest a omans as i will desires among five
 thousand and five hundred too
doctor caius by gar i see tis an honest woman
ford well i promised you a dinner come come walk in
 the park i pray you pardon me i will hereafter
 make known to you why i have done this come
 wife come mistress page i pray you pardon me
 pray heartily pardon me
page let's go in gentlemen but trust me we'll mock
 him i do invite you tomorrow morning to my house
 to breakfast after we'll abirding together i
 have a fine hawk for the bush shall it be so
ford any thing
sir hugh evans if there is one i shall make two in the company
doctor caius if dere be one or two i shall makea the turd
ford pray you go master page
sir hugh evans i pray you now remembrance tomorrow on the lousy
 knave mine host
doctor caius dat is good by gar with all my heart
sir hugh evans a lousy knave to have his gibes and his mockeries
 exeunt
 the merry wives of windsor
act iii
scene iv a room in page's house
 enter fenton and anne page
fenton i see i cannot get thy father's love
 therefore no more turn me to him sweet nan
anne page alas how then
fenton why thou must be thyself
 he doth object i am too great of birth
 and that my state being gall'd with my expense
 i seek to heal it only by his wealth
 besides these other bars he lays before me
 my riots past my wild societies
 and tells me tis a thing impossible
 i should love thee but as a property
anne page may be he tells you true
fenton no heaven so speed me in my time to come
 albeit i will confess thy father's wealth
 was the first motive that i woo'd thee anne
 yet wooing thee i found thee of more value
 than stamps in gold or sums in sealed bags
 and tis the very riches of thyself
 that now i aim at
anne page gentle master fenton
 yet seek my father's love still seek it sir
 if opportunity and humblest suit
 cannot attain it why thenhark you hither
 they converse apart
 enter shallow slender and mistress quickly
shallow break their talk mistress quickly my kinsman shall
 speak for himself
slender i'll make a shaft or a bolt on't slid tis but
 venturing
shallow be not dismayed
slender no she shall not dismay me i care not for that
 but that i am afeard
mistress quickly hark ye master slender would speak a word with you
anne page i come to him
 aside
 this is my father's choice
 o what a world of vile illfavor'd faults
 looks handsome in three hundred pounds ayear
mistress quickly and how does good master fenton pray you a word with you
shallow she's coming to her coz o boy thou hadst a father
slender i had a father mistress anne my uncle can tell you
 good jests of him pray you uncle tell mistress
 anne the jest how my father stole two geese out of
 a pen good uncle
shallow mistress anne my cousin loves you
slender ay that i do as well as i love any woman in
 gloucestershire
shallow he will maintain you like a gentlewoman
slender ay that i will come cut and longtail under the
 degree of a squire
shallow he will make you a hundred and fifty pounds jointure
anne page good master shallow let him woo for himself
shallow marry i thank you for it i thank you for that good
 comfort she calls you coz i'll leave you
anne page now master slender
slender now good mistress anne
anne page what is your will
slender my will od's heartlings that's a pretty jest
 indeed i ne'er made my will yet i thank heaven i
 am not such a sickly creature i give heaven praise
anne page i mean master slender what would you with me
slender truly for mine own part i would little or nothing
 with you your father and my uncle hath made
 motions if it be my luck so if not happy man be
 his dole they can tell you how things go better
 than i can you may ask your father here he comes
 enter page and mistress page
page now master slender love him daughter anne
 why how now what does master fenton here
 you wrong me sir thus still to haunt my house
 i told you sir my daughter is disposed of
fenton nay master page be not impatient
mistress page good master fenton come not to my child
page she is no match for you
fenton sir will you hear me
page no good master fenton
 come master shallow come son slender in
 knowing my mind you wrong me master fenton
 exeunt page shallow and slender
mistress quickly speak to mistress page
fenton good mistress page for that i love your daughter
 in such a righteous fashion as i do
 perforce against all cheques rebukes and manners
 i must advance the colours of my love
 and not retire let me have your good will
anne page good mother do not marry me to yond fool
mistress page i mean it not i seek you a better husband
mistress quickly that's my master master doctor
anne page alas i had rather be set quick i the earth
 and bowl'd to death with turnips
mistress page come trouble not yourself good master fenton
 i will not be your friend nor enemy
 my daughter will i question how she loves you
 and as i find her so am i affected
 till then farewell sir she must needs go in
 her father will be angry
fenton farewell gentle mistress farewell nan
 exeunt mistress page and anne page
mistress quickly this is my doing now nay said i will you cast
 away your child on a fool and a physician look on
 master fenton this is my doing
fenton i thank thee and i pray thee once tonight
 give my sweet nan this ring there's for thy pains
mistress quickly now heaven send thee good fortune
 exit fenton
 a kind heart he hath a woman would run through
 fire and water for such a kind heart but yet i
 would my master had mistress anne or i would
 master slender had her or in sooth i would master
 fenton had her i will do what i can for them all
 three for so i have promised and i'll be as good
 as my word but speciously for master fenton well
 i must of another errand to sir john falstaff from
 my two mistresses what a beast am i to slack it
 exit
 the merry wives of windsor
act iii
scene v a room in the garter inn
 enter falstaff and bardolph
falstaff bardolph i say
bardolph here sir
falstaff go fetch me a quart of sack put a toast in't
 exit bardolph
 have i lived to be carried in a basket like a
 barrow of butcher's offal and to be thrown in the
 thames well if i be served such another trick
 i'll have my brains ta'en out and buttered and give
 them to a dog for a newyear's gift the rogues
 slighted me into the river with as little remorse as
 they would have drowned a blind bitch's puppies
 fifteen i the litter and you may know by my size
 that i have a kind of alacrity in sinking if the
 bottom were as deep as hell i should down i had
 been drowned but that the shore was shelvy and
 shallowa death that i abhor for the water swells
 a man and what a thing should i have been when i
 had been swelled i should have been a mountain of mummy
 reenter bardolph with sack
bardolph here's mistress quickly sir to speak with you
falstaff let me pour in some sack to the thames water for my
 belly's as cold as if i had swallowed snowballs for
 pills to cool the reins call her in
bardolph come in woman
 enter mistress quickly
mistress quickly by your leave i cry you mercy give your worship
 good morrow
falstaff take away these chalices go brew me a pottle of
 sack finely
bardolph with eggs sir
falstaff simple of itself i'll no pulletsperm in my brewage
 exit bardolph
 how now
mistress quickly marry sir i come to your worship from mistress ford
falstaff mistress ford i have had ford enough i was thrown
 into the ford i have my belly full of ford
mistress quickly alas the day good heart that was not her fault
 she does so take on with her men they mistook their erection
falstaff so did i mine to build upon a foolish woman's promise
mistress quickly well she laments sir for it that it would yearn
 your heart to see it her husband goes this morning
 abirding she desires you once more to come to her
 between eight and nine i must carry her word
 quickly she'll make you amends i warrant you
falstaff well i will visit her tell her so and bid her
 think what a man is let her consider his frailty
 and then judge of my merit
mistress quickly i will tell her
falstaff do so between nine and ten sayest thou
mistress quickly eight and nine sir
falstaff well be gone i will not miss her
mistress quickly peace be with you sir
 exit
falstaff i marvel i hear not of master brook he sent me word
 to stay within i like his money well o here he comes
 enter ford
ford bless you sir
falstaff now master brook you come to know what hath passed
 between me and ford's wife
ford that indeed sir john is my business
falstaff master brook i will not lie to you i was at her
 house the hour she appointed me
ford and sped you sir
falstaff very illfavoredly master brook
ford how so sir did she change her determination
falstaff no master brook but the peaking cornuto her
 husband master brook dwelling in a continual
 larum of jealousy comes me in the instant of our
 encounter after we had embraced kissed protested
 and as it were spoke the prologue of our comedy
 and at his heels a rabble of his companions thither
 provoked and instigated by his distemper and
 forsooth to search his house for his wife's love
ford what while you were there
falstaff while i was there
ford and did he search for you and could not find you
falstaff you shall hear as good luck would have it comes
 in one mistress page gives intelligence of ford's
 approach and in her invention and ford's wife's
 distraction they conveyed me into a buckbasket
ford a buckbasket
falstaff by the lord a buckbasket rammed me in with foul
 shirts and smocks socks foul stockings greasy
 napkins that master brook there was the rankest
 compound of villanous smell that ever offended nostril
ford and how long lay you there
falstaff nay you shall hear master brook what i have
 suffered to bring this woman to evil for your good
 being thus crammed in the basket a couple of ford's
 knaves his hinds were called forth by their
 mistress to carry me in the name of foul clothes to
 datchetlane they took me on their shoulders met
 the jealous knave their master in the door who
 asked them once or twice what they had in their
 basket i quaked for fear lest the lunatic knave
 would have searched it but fate ordaining he
 should be a cuckold held his hand well on went he
 for a search and away went i for foul clothes but
 mark the sequel master brook i suffered the pangs
 of three several deaths first an intolerable
 fright to be detected with a jealous rotten
 bellwether next to be compassed like a good
 bilbo in the circumference of a peck hilt to
 point heel to head and then to be stopped in
 like a strong distillation with stinking clothes
 that fretted in their own grease think of thata
 man of my kidneythink of thatthat am as subject
 to heat as butter a man of continual dissolution
 and thaw it was a miracle to scape suffocation
 and in the height of this bath when i was more than
 half stewed in grease like a dutch dish to be
 thrown into the thames and cooled glowing hot
 in that surge like a horseshoe think of
 thathissing hotthink of that master brook
ford in good sadness i am sorry that for my sake you
 have sufferd all this my suit then is desperate
 you'll undertake her no more
falstaff master brook i will be thrown into etna as i have
 been into thames ere i will leave her thus her
 husband is this morning gone abirding i have
 received from her another embassy of meeting twixt
 eight and nine is the hour master brook
ford tis past eight already sir
falstaff is it i will then address me to my appointment
 come to me at your convenient leisure and you shall
 know how i speed and the conclusion shall be
 crowned with your enjoying her adieu you shall
 have her master brook master brook you shall
 cuckold ford
 exit
ford hum ha is this a vision is this a dream do i
 sleep master ford awake awake master ford
 there's a hole made in your best coat master ford
 this tis to be married this tis to have linen
 and buckbaskets well i will proclaim myself
 what i am i will now take the lecher he is at my
 house he cannot scape me tis impossible he
 should he cannot creep into a halfpenny purse
 nor into a pepperbox but lest the devil that
 guides him should aid him i will search
 impossible places though what i am i cannot avoid
 yet to be what i would not shall not make me tame
 if i have horns to make one mad let the proverb go
 with me i'll be hornmad
 exit
 the merry wives of windsor
act iv
scene i a street
 enter mistress page mistress quickly and
 william page
mistress page is he at master ford's already think'st thou
mistress quickly sure he is by this or will be presently but
 truly he is very courageous mad about his throwing
 into the water mistress ford desires you to come suddenly
mistress page i'll be with her by and by i'll but bring my young
 man here to school look where his master comes
 tis a playingday i see
 enter sir hugh evans
 how now sir hugh no school today
sir hugh evans no master slender is let the boys leave to play
mistress quickly blessing of his heart
mistress page sir hugh my husband says my son profits nothing in
 the world at his book i pray you ask him some
 questions in his accidence
sir hugh evans come hither william hold up your head come
mistress page come on sirrah hold up your head answer your
 master be not afraid
sir hugh evans william how many numbers is in nouns
william page two
mistress quickly truly i thought there had been one number more
 because they say 'od's nouns'
sir hugh evans peace your tattlings what is fair william
william page pulcher
mistress quickly polecats there are fairer things than polecats sure
sir hugh evans you are a very simplicity oman i pray you peace
 what is lapis william
william page a stone
sir hugh evans and what is a stone william
william page a pebble
sir hugh evans no it is lapis i pray you remember in your prain
william page lapis
sir hugh evans that is a good william what is he william that
 does lend articles
william page articles are borrowed of the pronoun and be thus
 declined singulariter nominativo hic haec hoc
sir hugh evans nominativo hig hag hog pray you mark
 genitivo hujus well what is your accusative case
william page accusativo hinc
sir hugh evans i pray you have your remembrance child
 accusative hung hang hog
mistress quickly hanghog is latin for bacon i warrant you
sir hugh evans leave your prabbles oman what is the focative
 case william
william page ovocativo o
sir hugh evans remember william focative is caret
mistress quickly and that's a good root
sir hugh evans oman forbear
mistress page peace
sir hugh evans what is your genitive case plural william
william page genitive case
sir hugh evans ay
william page genitivehorum harum horum
mistress quickly vengeance of jenny's case fie on her never name
 her child if she be a whore
sir hugh evans for shame oman
mistress quickly you do ill to teach the child such words he
 teaches him to hick and to hack which they'll do
 fast enough of themselves and to call horum fie upon you
sir hugh evans oman art thou lunatics hast thou no
 understandings for thy cases and the numbers of the
 genders thou art as foolish christian creatures as
 i would desires
mistress page prithee hold thy peace
sir hugh evans show me now william some declensions of your pronouns
william page forsooth i have forgot
sir hugh evans it is qui quae quod if you forget your quies'
 your quaes and your quods you must be
 preeches go your ways and play go
mistress page he is a better scholar than i thought he was
sir hugh evans he is a good sprag memory farewell mistress page
mistress page adieu good sir hugh
 exit sir hugh evans
 get you home boy come we stay too long
 exeunt
 the merry wives of windsor
act iv
scene ii a room in ford's house
 enter falstaff and mistress ford
falstaff mistress ford your sorrow hath eaten up my
 sufferance i see you are obsequious in your love
 and i profess requital to a hair's breadth not
 only mistress ford in the simple
 office of love but in all the accoutrement
 complement and ceremony of it but are you
 sure of your husband now
mistress ford he's abirding sweet sir john
mistress page within what ho gossip ford what ho
mistress ford step into the chamber sir john
 exit falstaff
 enter mistress page
mistress page how now sweetheart who's at home besides yourself
mistress ford why none but mine own people
mistress page indeed
mistress ford no certainly
 aside to her
 speak louder
mistress page truly i am so glad you have nobody here
mistress ford why
mistress page why woman your husband is in his old lunes again
 he so takes on yonder with my husband so rails
 against all married mankind so curses all eve's
 daughters of what complexion soever and so buffets
 himself on the forehead crying peer out peer
 out that any madness i ever yet beheld seemed but
 tameness civility and patience to this his
 distemper he is in now i am glad the fat knight is not here
mistress ford why does he talk of him
mistress page of none but him and swears he was carried out the
 last time he searched for him in a basket protests
 to my husband he is now here and hath drawn him and
 the rest of their company from their sport to make
 another experiment of his suspicion but i am glad
 the knight is not here now he shall see his own foolery
mistress ford how near is he mistress page
mistress page hard by at street end he will be here anon
mistress ford i am undone the knight is here
mistress page why then you are utterly shamed and he's but a dead
 man what a woman are youaway with him away
 with him better shame than murder
ford which way should be go how should i bestow him
 shall i put him into the basket again
 reenter falstaff
falstaff no i'll come no more i the basket may i not go
 out ere he come
mistress page alas three of master ford's brothers watch the door
 with pistols that none shall issue out otherwise
 you might slip away ere he came but what make you here
falstaff what shall i do i'll creep up into the chimney
mistress ford there they always use to discharge their
 birdingpieces creep into the kilnhole
falstaff where is it
mistress ford he will seek there on my word neither press
 coffer chest trunk well vault but he hath an
 abstract for the remembrance of such places and
 goes to them by his note there is no hiding you in the house
falstaff i'll go out then
mistress page if you go out in your own semblance you die sir
 john unless you go out disguised
mistress ford how might we disguise him
mistress page alas the day i know not there is no woman's gown
 big enough for him otherwise he might put on a hat
 a muffler and a kerchief and so escape
falstaff good hearts devise something any extremity rather
 than a mischief
mistress ford my maid's aunt the fat woman of brentford has a
 gown above
mistress page on my word it will serve him she's as big as he
 is and there's her thrummed hat and her muffler
 too run up sir john
mistress ford go go sweet sir john mistress page and i will
 look some linen for your head
mistress page quick quick we'll come dress you straight put
 on the gown the while
 exit falstaff
mistress ford i would my husband would meet him in this shape he
 cannot abide the old woman of brentford he swears
 she's a witch forbade her my house and hath
 threatened to beat her
mistress page heaven guide him to thy husband's cudgel and the
 devil guide his cudgel afterwards
mistress ford but is my husband coming
mistress page ah in good sadness is he and talks of the basket
 too howsoever he hath had intelligence
mistress ford we'll try that for i'll appoint my men to carry the
 basket again to meet him at the door with it as
 they did last time
mistress page nay but he'll be here presently let's go dress him
 like the witch of brentford
mistress ford i'll first direct my men what they shall do with the
 basket go up i'll bring linen for him straight
 exit
mistress page hang him dishonest varlet we cannot misuse him enough
 we'll leave a proof by that which we will do
 wives may be merry and yet honest too
 we do not act that often jest and laugh
 tis old but true still swine eat all the draff
 exit
 reenter mistress ford with two servants
mistress ford go sirs take the basket again on your shoulders
 your master is hard at door if he bid you set it
 down obey him quickly dispatch
 exit
first servant come come take it up
second servant pray heaven it be not full of knight again
first servant i hope not i had as lief bear so much lead
 enter ford page shallow doctor caius and
 sir hugh evans
ford ay but if it prove true master page have you any
 way then to unfool me again set down the basket
 villain somebody call my wife youth in a basket
 o you panderly rascals there's a knot a ging a
 pack a conspiracy against me now shall the devil
 be shamed what wife i say come come forth
 behold what honest clothes you send forth to bleaching
page why this passes master ford you are not to go
 loose any longer you must be pinioned
sir hugh evans why this is lunatics this is mad as a mad dog
shallow indeed master ford this is not well indeed
ford so say i too sir
 reenter mistress ford
 come hither mistress ford mistress ford the honest
 woman the modest wife the virtuous creature that
 hath the jealous fool to her husband i suspect
 without cause mistress do i
mistress ford heaven be my witness you do if you suspect me in
 any dishonesty
ford well said brazenface hold it out come forth sirrah
 pulling clothes out of the basket
page this passes
mistress ford are you not ashamed let the clothes alone
ford i shall find you anon
sir hugh evans tis unreasonable will you take up your wife's
 clothes come away
ford empty the basket i say
mistress ford why man why
ford master page as i am a man there was one conveyed
 out of my house yesterday in this basket why may
 not he be there again in my house i am sure he is
 my intelligence is true my jealousy is reasonable
 pluck me out all the linen
mistress ford if you find a man there he shall die a flea's death
page here's no man
shallow by my fidelity this is not well master ford this
 wrongs you
sir hugh evans master ford you must pray and not follow the
 imaginations of your own heart this is jealousies
ford well he's not here i seek for
page no nor nowhere else but in your brain
ford help to search my house this one time if i find
 not what i seek show no colour for my extremity let
 me for ever be your tablesport let them say of
 me as jealous as ford chat searched a hollow
 walnut for his wife's leman satisfy me once more
 once more search with me
mistress ford what ho mistress page come you and the old woman
 down my husband will come into the chamber
ford old woman what old woman's that
mistress ford nay it is my maid's aunt of brentford
ford a witch a quean an old cozening quean have i not
 forbid her my house she comes of errands does
 she we are simple men we do not know what's
 brought to pass under the profession of
 fortunetelling she works by charms by spells
 by the figure and such daubery as this is beyond
 our element we know nothing come down you witch
 you hag you come down i say
mistress ford nay good sweet husband good gentlemen let him
 not strike the old woman
 reenter falstaff in woman's clothes and
 mistress page
mistress page come mother prat come give me your hand
ford i'll prat her
 beating him
 out of my door you witch you hag you baggage you
 polecat you runyon out out i'll conjure you
 i'll fortunetell you
 exit falstaff
mistress page are you not ashamed i think you have killed the
 poor woman
mistress ford nay he will do it tis a goodly credit for you
ford hang her witch
sir hugh evans by the yea and no i think the oman is a witch
 indeed i like not when a oman has a great peard
 i spy a great peard under his muffler
ford will you follow gentlemen i beseech you follow
 see but the issue of my jealousy if i cry out thus
 upon no trail never trust me when i open again
page let's obey his humour a little further come
 gentlemen
 exeunt ford page shallow doctor caius and
 sir hugh evans
mistress page trust me he beat him most pitifully
mistress ford nay by the mass that he did not he beat him most
 unpitifully methought
mistress page i'll have the cudgel hallowed and hung o'er the
 altar it hath done meritorious service
mistress ford what think you may we with the warrant of
 womanhood and the witness of a good conscience
 pursue him with any further revenge
mistress page the spirit of wantonness is sure scared out of
 him if the devil have him not in feesimple with
 fine and recovery he will never i think in the
 way of waste attempt us again
mistress ford shall we tell our husbands how we have served him
mistress page yes by all means if it be but to scrape the
 figures out of your husband's brains if they can
 find in their hearts the poor unvirtuous fat knight
 shall be any further afflicted we two will still be
 the ministers
mistress ford i'll warrant they'll have him publicly shamed and
 methinks there would be no period to the jest
 should he not be publicly shamed
mistress page come to the forge with it then shape it i would
 not have things cool
 exeunt
 the merry wives of windsor
act iv
scene iii a room in the garter inn
 enter host and bardolph
bardolph sir the germans desire to have three of your
 horses the duke himself will be tomorrow at
 court and they are going to meet him
host what duke should that be comes so secretly i hear
 not of him in the court let me speak with the
 gentlemen they speak english
bardolph ay sir i'll call them to you
host they shall have my horses but i'll make them pay
 i'll sauce them they have had my house a week at
 command i have turned away my other guests they
 must come off i'll sauce them come
 exeunt
 the merry wives of windsor
act iv
scene iv a room in ford's house
 enter page ford mistress page mistress ford
 and sir hugh evans
sir hugh evans tis one of the best discretions of a oman as ever
 i did look upon
page and did he send you both these letters at an instant
mistress page within a quarter of an hour
ford pardon me wife henceforth do what thou wilt
 i rather will suspect the sun with cold
 than thee with wantonness now doth thy honour stand
 in him that was of late an heretic
 as firm as faith
page tis well tis well no more
 be not as extreme in submission
 as in offence
 but let our plot go forward let our wives
 yet once again to make us public sport
 appoint a meeting with this old fat fellow
 where we may take him and disgrace him for it
ford there is no better way than that they spoke of
page how to send him word they'll meet him in the park
 at midnight fie fie he'll never come
sir hugh evans you say he has been thrown in the rivers and has
 been grievously peaten as an old oman methinks
 there should be terrors in him that he should not
 come methinks his flesh is punished he shall have
 no desires
page so think i too
mistress ford devise but how you'll use him when he comes
 and let us two devise to bring him thither
mistress page there is an old tale goes that herne the hunter
 sometime a keeper here in windsor forest
 doth all the wintertime at still midnight
 walk round about an oak with great ragg'd horns
 and there he blasts the tree and takes the cattle
 and makes milchkine yield blood and shakes a chain
 in a most hideous and dreadful manner
 you have heard of such a spirit and well you know
 the superstitious idleheaded eld
 received and did deliver to our age
 this tale of herne the hunter for a truth
page why yet there want not many that do fear
 in deep of night to walk by this herne's oak
 but what of this
mistress ford marry this is our device
 that falstaff at that oak shall meet with us
page well let it not be doubted but he'll come
 and in this shape when you have brought him thither
 what shall be done with him what is your plot
mistress page that likewise have we thought upon and thus
 nan page my daughter and my little son
 and three or four more of their growth we'll dress
 like urchins ouphes and fairies green and white
 with rounds of waxen tapers on their heads
 and rattles in their hands upon a sudden
 as falstaff she and i are newly met
 let them from forth a sawpit rush at once
 with some diffused song upon their sight
 we two in great amazedness will fly
 then let them all encircle him about
 and fairylike topinch the unclean knight
 and ask him why that hour of fairy revel
 in their so sacred paths he dares to tread
 in shape profane
mistress ford and till he tell the truth
 let the supposed fairies pinch him sound
 and burn him with their tapers
mistress page the truth being known
 we'll all present ourselves dishorn the spirit
 and mock him home to windsor
ford the children must
 be practised well to this or they'll ne'er do't
sir hugh evans i will teach the children their behaviors and i
 will be like a jackanapes also to burn the
 knight with my taber
ford that will be excellent i'll go and buy them vizards
mistress page my nan shall be the queen of all the fairies
 finely attired in a robe of white
page that silk will i go buy
 aside
 and in that time
 shall master slender steal my nan away
 and marry her at eton go send to falstaff straight
ford nay i'll to him again in name of brook
 he'll tell me all his purpose sure he'll come
mistress page fear not you that go get us properties
 and tricking for our fairies
sir hugh evans let us about it it is admirable pleasures and fery
 honest knaveries
 exeunt page ford and sir hugh evans
mistress page go mistress ford
 send quickly to sir john to know his mind
 exit mistress ford
 i'll to the doctor he hath my good will
 and none but he to marry with nan page
 that slender though well landed is an idiot
 and he my husband best of all affects
 the doctor is well money'd and his friends
 potent at court he none but he shall have her
 though twenty thousand worthier come to crave her
 exit
 the merry wives of windsor
act iv
scene v a room in the garter inn
 enter host and simple
host what wouldst thou have boor what thickskin
 speak breathe discuss brief short quick snap
simple marry sir i come to speak with sir john falstaff
 from master slender
host there's his chamber his house his castle his
 standingbed and trucklebed tis painted about
 with the story of the prodigal fresh and new go
 knock and call hell speak like an anthropophaginian
 unto thee knock i say
simple there's an old woman a fat woman gone up into his
 chamber i'll be so bold as stay sir till she come
 down i come to speak with her indeed
host ha a fat woman the knight may be robbed i'll
 call bully knight bully sir john speak from
 thy lungs military art thou there it is thine
 host thine ephesian calls
falstaff above how now mine host
host here's a bohemiantartar tarries the coming down of
 thy fat woman let her descend bully let her
 descend my chambers are honourable fie privacy
 fie
 enter falstaff
falstaff there was mine host an old fat woman even now with
 me but she's gone
simple pray you sir was't not the wise woman of
 brentford
falstaff ay marry was it musselshell what would you with her
simple my master sir master slender sent to her seeing
 her go through the streets to know sir whether
 one nym sir that beguiled him of a chain had the
 chain or no
falstaff i spake with the old woman about it
simple and what says she i pray sir
falstaff marry she says that the very same man that
 beguiled master slender of his chain cozened him of
 it
simple i would i could have spoken with the woman herself
 i had other things to have spoken with her too from
 him
falstaff what are they let us know
host ay come quick
simple i may not conceal them sir
host conceal them or thou diest
simple why sir they were nothing but about mistress anne
 page to know if it were my master's fortune to
 have her or no
falstaff tis tis his fortune
simple what sir
falstaff to have her or no go say the woman told me so
simple may i be bold to say so sir
falstaff ay sir like who more bold
simple i thank your worship i shall make my master glad
 with these tidings
 exit
host thou art clerkly thou art clerkly sir john was
 there a wise woman with thee
falstaff ay that there was mine host one that hath taught
 me more wit than ever i learned before in my life
 and i paid nothing for it neither but was paid for
 my learning
 enter bardolph
bardolph out alas sir cozenage mere cozenage
host where be my horses speak well of them varletto
bardolph run away with the cozeners for so soon as i came
 beyond eton they threw me off from behind one of
 them in a slough of mire and set spurs and away
 like three german devils three doctor faustuses
host they are gone but to meet the duke villain do not
 say they be fled germans are honest men
 enter sir hugh evans
sir hugh evans where is mine host
host what is the matter sir
sir hugh evans have a care of your entertainments there is a
 friend of mine come to town tells me there is three
 cozengermans that has cozened all the hosts of
 readins of maidenhead of colebrook of horses and
 money i tell you for good will look you you
 are wise and full of gibes and vloutingstocks and
 tis not convenient you should be cozened fare you well
 exit
 enter doctor caius
doctor caius vere is mine host de jarteer
host here master doctor in perplexity and doubtful dilemma
doctor caius i cannot tell vat is dat but it is tella me dat
 you make grand preparation for a duke de jamany by
 my trot dere is no duke dat the court is know to
 come i tell you for good vill adieu
 exit
host hue and cry villain go assist me knight i am
 undone fly run hue and cry villain i am undone
 exeunt host and bardolph
falstaff i would all the world might be cozened for i have
 been cozened and beaten too if it should come to
 the ear of the court how i have been transformed
 and how my transformation hath been washed and
 cudgelled they would melt me out of my fat drop by
 drop and liquor fishermen's boots with me i warrant
 they would whip me with their fine wits till i were
 as crestfallen as a dried pear i never prospered
 since i forswore myself at primero well if my
 wind were but long enough to say my prayers i would repent
 enter mistress quickly
 now whence come you
mistress quickly from the two parties forsooth
falstaff the devil take one party and his dam the other and
 so they shall be both bestowed i have suffered more
 for their sakes more than the villanous inconstancy
 of man's disposition is able to bear
mistress quickly and have not they suffered yes i warrant
 speciously one of them mistress ford good heart
 is beaten black and blue that you cannot see a
 white spot about her
falstaff what tellest thou me of black and blue i was
 beaten myself into all the colours of the rainbow
 and i was like to be apprehended for the witch of
 brentford but that my admirable dexterity of wit
 my counterfeiting the action of an old woman
 delivered me the knave constable had set me i the
 stocks i the common stocks for a witch
mistress quickly sir let me speak with you in your chamber you
 shall hear how things go and i warrant to your
 content here is a letter will say somewhat good
 hearts what ado here is to bring you together
 sure one of you does not serve heaven well that
 you are so crossed
falstaff come up into my chamber
 exeunt
 the merry wives of windsor
act iv
scene vi another room in the garter inn
 enter fenton and host
host master fenton talk not to me my mind is heavy i
 will give over all
fenton yet hear me speak assist me in my purpose
 and as i am a gentleman i'll give thee
 a hundred pound in gold more than your loss
host i will hear you master fenton and i will at the
 least keep your counsel
fenton from time to time i have acquainted you
 with the dear love i bear to fair anne page
 who mutually hath answer'd my affection
 so far forth as herself might be her chooser
 even to my wish i have a letter from her
 of such contents as you will wonder at
 the mirth whereof so larded with my matter
 that neither singly can be manifested
 without the show of both fat falstaff
 hath a great scene the image of the jest
 i'll show you here at large hark good mine host
 tonight at herne's oak just twixt twelve and one
 must my sweet nan present the fairy queen
 the purpose why is here in which disguise
 while other jests are something rank on foot
 her father hath commanded her to slip
 away with slender and with him at eton
 immediately to marry she hath consented now sir
 her mother ever strong against that match
 and firm for doctor caius hath appointed
 that he shall likewise shuffle her away
 while other sports are tasking of their minds
 and at the deanery where a priest attends
 straight marry her to this her mother's plot
 she seemingly obedient likewise hath
 made promise to the doctor now thus it rests
 her father means she shall be all in white
 and in that habit when slender sees his time
 to take her by the hand and bid her go
 she shall go with him her mother hath intended
 the better to denote her to the doctor
 for they must all be mask'd and vizarded
 that quaint in green she shall be loose enrobed
 with ribands pendent flaring bout her head
 and when the doctor spies his vantage ripe
 to pinch her by the hand and on that token
 the maid hath given consent to go with him
host which means she to deceive father or mother
fenton both my good host to go along with me
 and here it rests that you'll procure the vicar
 to stay for me at church twixt twelve and one
 and in the lawful name of marrying
 to give our hearts united ceremony
host well husband your device i'll to the vicar
 bring you the maid you shall not lack a priest
fenton so shall i evermore be bound to thee
 besides i'll make a present recompense
 exeunt
 the merry wives of windsor
act v
scene i a room in the garter inn
 enter falstaff and mistress quickly
falstaff prithee no more prattling go i'll hold this is
 the third time i hope good luck lies in odd
 numbers away i go they say there is divinity in
 odd numbers either in nativity chance or death away
mistress quickly i'll provide you a chain and i'll do what i can to
 get you a pair of horns
falstaff away i say time wears hold up your head and mince
 exit mistress quickly
 enter ford
 how now master brook master brook the matter
 will be known tonight or never be you in the
 park about midnight at herne's oak and you shall
 see wonders
ford went you not to her yesterday sir as you told me
 you had appointed
falstaff i went to her master brook as you see like a poor
 old man but i came from her master brook like a
 poor old woman that same knave ford her husband
 hath the finest mad devil of jealousy in him
 master brook that ever governed frenzy i will tell
 you he beat me grievously in the shape of a
 woman for in the shape of man master brook i fear
 not goliath with a weaver's beam because i know
 also life is a shuttle i am in haste go along
 with me i'll tell you all master brook since i
 plucked geese played truant and whipped top i knew
 not what twas to be beaten till lately follow
 me i'll tell you strange things of this knave
 ford on whom tonight i will be revenged and i
 will deliver his wife into your hand follow
 strange things in hand master brook follow
 exeunt
 the merry wives of windsor
act v
scene ii windsor park
 enter page shallow and slender
page come come we'll couch i the castleditch till we
 see the light of our fairies remember son slender
 my daughter
slender ay forsooth i have spoke with her and we have a
 nayword how to know one another i come to her in
 white and cry mum she cries budget and by
 that we know one another
shallow that's good too but what needs either your mum'
 or her budget the white will decipher her well
 enough it hath struck ten o'clock
page the night is dark light and spirits will become it
 well heaven prosper our sport no man means evil
 but the devil and we shall know him by his horns
 let's away follow me
 exeunt
 the merry wives of windsor
act v
scene iii a street leading to the park
 enter mistress page mistress ford and
 doctor caius
mistress page master doctor my daughter is in green when you
 see your time take her by the band away with her
 to the deanery and dispatch it quickly go before
 into the park we two must go together
doctor caius i know vat i have to do adieu
mistress page fare you well sir
 exit doctor caius
 my husband will not rejoice so much at the abuse of
 falstaff as he will chafe at the doctor's marrying
 my daughter but tis no matter better a little
 chiding than a great deal of heartbreak
mistress ford where is nan now and her troop of fairies and the
 welsh devil hugh
mistress page they are all couched in a pit hard by herne's oak
 with obscured lights which at the very instant of
 falstaff's and our meeting they will at once
 display to the night
mistress ford that cannot choose but amaze him
mistress page if he be not amazed he will be mocked if he be
 amazed he will every way be mocked
mistress ford we'll betray him finely
mistress page against such lewdsters and their lechery
 those that betray them do no treachery
mistress ford the hour draws on to the oak to the oak
 exeunt
 the merry wives of windsor
act v
scene iv windsor park
 enter sir hugh evans disguised with others as fairies
sir hugh evans trib trib fairies come and remember your parts
 be pold i pray you follow me into the pit and
 when i give the watch'ords do as i pid you
 come come trib trib
 exeunt
 the merry wives of windsor
act v
scene v another part of the park
 enter falstaff disguised as herne
falstaff the windsor bell hath struck twelve the minute
 draws on now the hotblooded gods assist me
 remember jove thou wast a bull for thy europa love
 set on thy horns o powerful love that in some
 respects makes a beast a man in some other a man
 a beast you were also jupiter a swan for the love
 of leda o omnipotent love how near the god drew
 to the complexion of a goose a fault done first in
 the form of a beast o jove a beastly fault and
 then another fault in the semblance of a fowl think
 on t jove a foul fault when gods have hot
 backs what shall poor men do for me i am here a
 windsor stag and the fattest i think i the
 forest send me a cool ruttime jove or who can
 blame me to piss my tallow who comes here my
 doe
 enter mistress ford and mistress page
mistress ford sir john art thou there my deer my male deer
falstaff my doe with the black scut let the sky rain
 potatoes let it thunder to the tune of green
 sleeves hail kissingcomfits and snow eringoes let
 there come a tempest of provocation i will shelter me here
mistress ford mistress page is come with me sweetheart
falstaff divide me like a bribe buck each a haunch i will
 keep my sides to myself my shoulders for the fellow
 of this walk and my horns i bequeath your husbands
 am i a woodman ha speak i like herne the hunter
 why now is cupid a child of conscience he makes
 restitution as i am a true spirit welcome
 noise within
mistress page alas what noise
mistress ford heaven forgive our sins
falstaff what should this be
mistress ford 
 away away
mistress page 
 they run off
falstaff i think the devil will not have me damned lest the
 oil that's in me should set hell on fire he would
 never else cross me thus
 enter sir hugh evans disguised as before pistol
 as hobgoblin mistress quickly anne page and
 others as fairies with tapers
mistress quickly fairies black grey green and white
 you moonshine revellers and shades of night
 you orphan heirs of fixed destiny
 attend your office and your quality
 crier hobgoblin make the fairy oyes
pistol elves list your names silence you airy toys
 cricket to windsor chimneys shalt thou leap
 where fires thou find'st unraked and hearths unswept
 there pinch the maids as blue as bilberry
 our radiant queen hates sluts and sluttery
falstaff they are fairies he that speaks to them shall die
 i'll wink and couch no man their works must eye
 lies down upon his face
sir hugh evans where's bede go you and where you find a maid
 that ere she sleep has thrice her prayers said
 raise up the organs of her fantasy
 sleep she as sound as careless infancy
 but those as sleep and think not on their sins
 pinch them arms legs backs shoulders sides and shins
mistress quickly about about
 search windsor castle elves within and out
 strew good luck ouphes on every sacred room
 that it may stand till the perpetual doom
 in state as wholesome as in state tis fit
 worthy the owner and the owner it
 the several chairs of order look you scour
 with juice of balm and every precious flower
 each fair instalment coat and several crest
 with loyal blazon evermore be blest
 and nightly meadowfairies look you sing
 like to the garter's compass in a ring
 the expressure that it bears green let it be
 more fertilefresh than all the field to see
 and honi soit qui mal y pense write
 in emerald tufts flowers purple blue and white
 let sapphire pearl and rich embroidery
 buckled below fair knighthood's bending knee
 fairies use flowers for their charactery
 away disperse but till tis one o'clock
 our dance of custom round about the oak
 of herne the hunter let us not forget
sir hugh evans pray you lock hand in hand yourselves in order set
 and twenty glowworms shall our lanterns be
 to guide our measure round about the tree
 but stay i smell a man of middleearth
falstaff heavens defend me from that welsh fairy lest he
 transform me to a piece of cheese
pistol vile worm thou wast o'erlook'd even in thy birth
mistress quickly with trialfire touch me his fingerend
 if he be chaste the flame will back descend
 and turn him to no pain but if he start
 it is the flesh of a corrupted heart
pistol a trial come
sir hugh evans come will this wood take fire
 they burn him with their tapers
falstaff oh oh oh
mistress quickly corrupt corrupt and tainted in desire
 about him fairies sing a scornful rhyme
 and as you trip still pinch him to your time
 
 song
 fie on sinful fantasy
 fie on lust and luxury
 lust is but a bloody fire
 kindled with unchaste desire
 fed in heart whose flames aspire
 as thoughts do blow them higher and higher
 pinch him fairies mutually
 pinch him for his villany
 pinch him and burn him and turn him about
 till candles and starlight and moonshine be out
 during this song they pinch falstaff doctor caius
 comes one way and steals away a boy in green
 slender another way and takes off a boy in white
 and fenton comes and steals away ann page
 a noise of hunting is heard within all the
 fairies run away falstaff pulls off his buck's
 head and rises
 enter page ford mistress page and mistress ford
page nay do not fly i think we have watch'd you now
 will none but herne the hunter serve your turn
mistress page i pray you come hold up the jest no higher
 now good sir john how like you windsor wives
 see you these husband do not these fair yokes
 become the forest better than the town
ford now sir who's a cuckold now master brook
 falstaff's a knave a cuckoldly knave here are his
 horns master brook and master brook he hath
 enjoyed nothing of ford's but his buckbasket his
 cudgel and twenty pounds of money which must be
 paid to master brook his horses are arrested for
 it master brook
mistress ford sir john we have had ill luck we could never meet
 i will never take you for my love again but i will
 always count you my deer
falstaff i do begin to perceive that i am made an ass
ford ay and an ox too both the proofs are extant
falstaff and these are not fairies i was three or four
 times in the thought they were not fairies and yet
 the guiltiness of my mind the sudden surprise of my
 powers drove the grossness of the foppery into a
 received belief in despite of the teeth of all
 rhyme and reason that they were fairies see now
 how wit may be made a jackalent when tis upon
 ill employment
sir hugh evans sir john falstaff serve got and leave your
 desires and fairies will not pinse you
ford well said fairy hugh
sir hugh evans and leave your jealousies too i pray you
ford i will never mistrust my wife again till thou art
 able to woo her in good english
falstaff have i laid my brain in the sun and dried it that
 it wants matter to prevent so gross o'erreaching as
 this am i ridden with a welsh goat too shall i
 have a coxcomb of frize tis time i were choked
 with a piece of toasted cheese
sir hugh evans seese is not good to give putter your belly is all putter
falstaff seese and putter have i lived to stand at the
 taunt of one that makes fritters of english this
 is enough to be the decay of lust and latewalking
 through the realm
mistress page why sir john do you think though we would have the
 virtue out of our hearts by the head and shoulders
 and have given ourselves without scruple to hell
 that ever the devil could have made you our delight
ford what a hodgepudding a bag of flax
mistress page a puffed man
page old cold withered and of intolerable entrails
ford and one that is as slanderous as satan
page and as poor as job
ford and as wicked as his wife
sir hugh evans and given to fornications and to taverns and sack
 and wine and metheglins and to drinkings and
 swearings and starings pribbles and prabbles
falstaff well i am your theme you have the start of me i
 am dejected i am not able to answer the welsh
 flannel ignorance itself is a plummet o'er me use
 me as you will
ford marry sir we'll bring you to windsor to one
 master brook that you have cozened of money to
 whom you should have been a pander over and above
 that you have suffered i think to repay that money
 will be a biting affliction
page yet be cheerful knight thou shalt eat a posset
 tonight at my house where i will desire thee to
 laugh at my wife that now laughs at thee tell her
 master slender hath married her daughter
mistress page aside doctors doubt that if anne page be my
 daughter she is by this doctor caius wife
 enter slender
slender whoa ho ho father page
page son how now how now son have you dispatched
slender dispatched i'll make the best in gloucestershire
 know on't would i were hanged la else
page of what son
slender i came yonder at eton to marry mistress anne page
 and she's a great lubberly boy if it had not been
 i the church i would have swinged him or he
 should have swinged me if i did not think it had
 been anne page would i might never stirand tis
 a postmaster's boy
page upon my life then you took the wrong
slender what need you tell me that i think so when i took
 a boy for a girl if i had been married to him for
 all he was in woman's apparel i would not have had
 him
page why this is your own folly did not i tell you how
 you should know my daughter by her garments
slender i went to her in white and cried mum and she
 cried budget as anne and i had appointed and yet
 it was not anne but a postmaster's boy
mistress page good george be not angry i knew of your purpose
 turned my daughter into green and indeed she is
 now with the doctor at the deanery and there married
 enter doctor caius
doctor caius vere is mistress page by gar i am cozened i ha'
 married un garcon a boy un paysan by gar a boy
 it is not anne page by gar i am cozened
mistress page why did you take her in green
doctor caius ay by gar and tis a boy by gar i'll raise all windsor
 exit
ford this is strange who hath got the right anne
page my heart misgives me here comes master fenton
 enter fenton and anne page
 how now master fenton
anne page pardon good father good my mother pardon
page now mistress how chance you went not with master slender
mistress page why went you not with master doctor maid
fenton you do amaze her hear the truth of it
 you would have married her most shamefully
 where there was no proportion held in love
 the truth is she and i long since contracted
 are now so sure that nothing can dissolve us
 the offence is holy that she hath committed
 and this deceit loses the name of craft
 of disobedience or unduteous title
 since therein she doth evitate and shun
 a thousand irreligious cursed hours
 which forced marriage would have brought upon her
ford stand not amazed here is no remedy
 in love the heavens themselves do guide the state
 money buys lands and wives are sold by fate
falstaff i am glad though you have ta'en a special stand to
 strike at me that your arrow hath glanced
page well what remedy fenton heaven give thee joy
 what cannot be eschew'd must be embraced
falstaff when nightdogs run all sorts of deer are chased
mistress page well i will muse no further master fenton
 heaven give you many many merry days
 good husband let us every one go home
 and laugh this sport o'er by a country fire
 sir john and all
ford let it be so sir john
 to master brook you yet shall hold your word
 for he tonight shall lie with mistress ford
 exeunt
 a midsummer night's dream
 dramatis personae
theseus duke of athens
egeus father to hermia
lysander 
 in love with hermia
demetrius 
philostrate master of the revels to theseus
quince a carpenter
snug a joiner
bottom a weaver
flute a bellowsmender
snout a tinker
starveling a tailor
hippolyta queen of the amazons betrothed to theseus
hermia daughter to egeus in love with lysander
helena in love with demetrius
oberon king of the fairies
titania queen of the fairies
puck or robin goodfellow
peaseblossom 
 
cobweb 
 fairies
moth 
 
mustardseed 
 other fairies attending their king and queen
 attendants on theseus and hippolyta
scene athens and a wood near it
 a midsummer night's dream
act i
scene i athens the palace of theseus
 enter theseus hippolyta philostrate and
 attendants
theseus now fair hippolyta our nuptial hour
 draws on apace four happy days bring in
 another moon but o methinks how slow
 this old moon wanes she lingers my desires
 like to a stepdame or a dowager
 long withering out a young man revenue
hippolyta four days will quickly steep themselves in night
 four nights will quickly dream away the time
 and then the moon like to a silver bow
 newbent in heaven shall behold the night
 of our solemnities
theseus go philostrate
 stir up the athenian youth to merriments
 awake the pert and nimble spirit of mirth
 turn melancholy forth to funerals
 the pale companion is not for our pomp
 exit philostrate
 hippolyta i woo'd thee with my sword
 and won thy love doing thee injuries
 but i will wed thee in another key
 with pomp with triumph and with revelling
 enter egeus hermia lysander and demetrius
egeus happy be theseus our renowned duke
theseus thanks good egeus what's the news with thee
egeus full of vexation come i with complaint
 against my child my daughter hermia
 stand forth demetrius my noble lord
 this man hath my consent to marry her
 stand forth lysander and my gracious duke
 this man hath bewitch'd the bosom of my child
 thou thou lysander thou hast given her rhymes
 and interchanged lovetokens with my child
 thou hast by moonlight at her window sung
 with feigning voice verses of feigning love
 and stolen the impression of her fantasy
 with bracelets of thy hair rings gawds conceits
 knacks trifles nosegays sweetmeats messengers
 of strong prevailment in unharden'd youth
 with cunning hast thou filch'd my daughter's heart
 turn'd her obedience which is due to me
 to stubborn harshness and my gracious duke
 be it so she will not here before your grace
 consent to marry with demetrius
 i beg the ancient privilege of athens
 as she is mine i may dispose of her
 which shall be either to this gentleman
 or to her death according to our law
 immediately provided in that case
theseus what say you hermia be advised fair maid
 to you your father should be as a god
 one that composed your beauties yea and one
 to whom you are but as a form in wax
 by him imprinted and within his power
 to leave the figure or disfigure it
 demetrius is a worthy gentleman
hermia so is lysander
theseus in himself he is
 but in this kind wanting your father's voice
 the other must be held the worthier
hermia i would my father look'd but with my eyes
theseus rather your eyes must with his judgment look
hermia i do entreat your grace to pardon me
 i know not by what power i am made bold
 nor how it may concern my modesty
 in such a presence here to plead my thoughts
 but i beseech your grace that i may know
 the worst that may befall me in this case
 if i refuse to wed demetrius
theseus either to die the death or to abjure
 for ever the society of men
 therefore fair hermia question your desires
 know of your youth examine well your blood
 whether if you yield not to your father's choice
 you can endure the livery of a nun
 for aye to be in shady cloister mew'd
 to live a barren sister all your life
 chanting faint hymns to the cold fruitless moon
 thriceblessed they that master so their blood
 to undergo such maiden pilgrimage
 but earthlier happy is the rose distill'd
 than that which withering on the virgin thorn
 grows lives and dies in single blessedness
hermia so will i grow so live so die my lord
 ere i will my virgin patent up
 unto his lordship whose unwished yoke
 my soul consents not to give sovereignty
theseus take time to pause and by the nest new moon
 the sealingday betwixt my love and me
 for everlasting bond of fellowship
 upon that day either prepare to die
 for disobedience to your father's will
 or else to wed demetrius as he would
 or on diana's altar to protest
 for aye austerity and single life
demetrius relent sweet hermia and lysander yield
 thy crazed title to my certain right
lysander you have her father's love demetrius
 let me have hermia's do you marry him
egeus scornful lysander true he hath my love
 and what is mine my love shall render him
 and she is mine and all my right of her
 i do estate unto demetrius
lysander i am my lord as well derived as he
 as well possess'd my love is more than his
 my fortunes every way as fairly rank'd
 if not with vantage as demetrius'
 and which is more than all these boasts can be
 i am beloved of beauteous hermia
 why should not i then prosecute my right
 demetrius i'll avouch it to his head
 made love to nedar's daughter helena
 and won her soul and she sweet lady dotes
 devoutly dotes dotes in idolatry
 upon this spotted and inconstant man
theseus i must confess that i have heard so much
 and with demetrius thought to have spoke thereof
 but being overfull of selfaffairs
 my mind did lose it but demetrius come
 and come egeus you shall go with me
 i have some private schooling for you both
 for you fair hermia look you arm yourself
 to fit your fancies to your father's will
 or else the law of athens yields you up
 which by no means we may extenuate
 to death or to a vow of single life
 come my hippolyta what cheer my love
 demetrius and egeus go along
 i must employ you in some business
 against our nuptial and confer with you
 of something nearly that concerns yourselves
egeus with duty and desire we follow you
 exeunt all but lysander and hermia
lysander how now my love why is your cheek so pale
 how chance the roses there do fade so fast
hermia belike for want of rain which i could well
 beteem them from the tempest of my eyes
lysander ay me for aught that i could ever read
 could ever hear by tale or history
 the course of true love never did run smooth
 but either it was different in blood
hermia o cross too high to be enthrall'd to low
lysander or else misgraffed in respect of years
hermia o spite too old to be engaged to young
lysander or else it stood upon the choice of friends
hermia o hell to choose love by another's eyes
lysander or if there were a sympathy in choice
 war death or sickness did lay siege to it
 making it momentany as a sound
 swift as a shadow short as any dream
 brief as the lightning in the collied night
 that in a spleen unfolds both heaven and earth
 and ere a man hath power to say behold'
 the jaws of darkness do devour it up
 so quick bright things come to confusion
hermia if then true lovers have been ever cross'd
 it stands as an edict in destiny
 then let us teach our trial patience
 because it is a customary cross
 as due to love as thoughts and dreams and sighs
 wishes and tears poor fancy's followers
lysander a good persuasion therefore hear me hermia
 i have a widow aunt a dowager
 of great revenue and she hath no child
 from athens is her house remote seven leagues
 and she respects me as her only son
 there gentle hermia may i marry thee
 and to that place the sharp athenian law
 cannot pursue us if thou lovest me then
 steal forth thy father's house tomorrow night
 and in the wood a league without the town
 where i did meet thee once with helena
 to do observance to a morn of may
 there will i stay for thee
hermia my good lysander
 i swear to thee by cupid's strongest bow
 by his best arrow with the golden head
 by the simplicity of venus doves
 by that which knitteth souls and prospers loves
 and by that fire which burn'd the carthage queen
 when the false troyan under sail was seen
 by all the vows that ever men have broke
 in number more than ever women spoke
 in that same place thou hast appointed me
 tomorrow truly will i meet with thee
lysander keep promise love look here comes helena
 enter helena
hermia god speed fair helena whither away
helena call you me fair that fair again unsay
 demetrius loves your fair o happy fair
 your eyes are lodestars and your tongue's sweet air
 more tuneable than lark to shepherd's ear
 when wheat is green when hawthorn buds appear
 sickness is catching o were favour so
 yours would i catch fair hermia ere i go
 my ear should catch your voice my eye your eye
 my tongue should catch your tongue's sweet melody
 were the world mine demetrius being bated
 the rest i'd give to be to you translated
 o teach me how you look and with what art
 you sway the motion of demetrius heart
hermia i frown upon him yet he loves me still
helena o that your frowns would teach my smiles such skill
hermia i give him curses yet he gives me love
helena o that my prayers could such affection move
hermia the more i hate the more he follows me
helena the more i love the more he hateth me
hermia his folly helena is no fault of mine
helena none but your beauty would that fault were mine
hermia take comfort he no more shall see my face
 lysander and myself will fly this place
 before the time i did lysander see
 seem'd athens as a paradise to me
 o then what graces in my love do dwell
 that he hath turn'd a heaven unto a hell
lysander helen to you our minds we will unfold
 tomorrow night when phoebe doth behold
 her silver visage in the watery glass
 decking with liquid pearl the bladed grass
 a time that lovers flights doth still conceal
 through athens gates have we devised to steal
hermia and in the wood where often you and i
 upon faint primrosebeds were wont to lie
 emptying our bosoms of their counsel sweet
 there my lysander and myself shall meet
 and thence from athens turn away our eyes
 to seek new friends and stranger companies
 farewell sweet playfellow pray thou for us
 and good luck grant thee thy demetrius
 keep word lysander we must starve our sight
 from lovers food till morrow deep midnight
lysander i will my hermia
 exit hermia
 helena adieu
 as you on him demetrius dote on you
 exit
helena how happy some o'er other some can be
 through athens i am thought as fair as she
 but what of that demetrius thinks not so
 he will not know what all but he do know
 and as he errs doting on hermia's eyes
 so i admiring of his qualities
 things base and vile folding no quantity
 love can transpose to form and dignity
 love looks not with the eyes but with the mind
 and therefore is wing'd cupid painted blind
 nor hath love's mind of any judgement taste
 wings and no eyes figure unheedy haste
 and therefore is love said to be a child
 because in choice he is so oft beguiled
 as waggish boys in game themselves forswear
 so the boy love is perjured every where
 for ere demetrius look'd on hermia's eyne
 he hail'd down oaths that he was only mine
 and when this hail some heat from hermia felt
 so he dissolved and showers of oaths did melt
 i will go tell him of fair hermia's flight
 then to the wood will he tomorrow night
 pursue her and for this intelligence
 if i have thanks it is a dear expense
 but herein mean i to enrich my pain
 to have his sight thither and back again
 exit
 a midsummer night's dream
act i
scene ii athens quince's house
 enter quince snug bottom flute snout and
 starveling
quince is all our company here
bottom you were best to call them generally man by man
 according to the scrip
quince here is the scroll of every man's name which is
 thought fit through all athens to play in our
 interlude before the duke and the duchess on his
 weddingday at night
bottom first good peter quince say what the play treats
 on then read the names of the actors and so grow
 to a point
quince marry our play is the most lamentable comedy and
 most cruel death of pyramus and thisby
bottom a very good piece of work i assure you and a
 merry now good peter quince call forth your
 actors by the scroll masters spread yourselves
quince answer as i call you nick bottom the weaver
bottom ready name what part i am for and proceed
quince you nick bottom are set down for pyramus
bottom what is pyramus a lover or a tyrant
quince a lover that kills himself most gallant for love
bottom that will ask some tears in the true performing of
 it if i do it let the audience look to their
 eyes i will move storms i will condole in some
 measure to the rest yet my chief humour is for a
 tyrant i could play ercles rarely or a part to
 tear a cat in to make all split
 the raging rocks
 and shivering shocks
 shall break the locks
 of prison gates
 and phibbus car
 shall shine from far
 and make and mar
 the foolish fates
 this was lofty now name the rest of the players
 this is ercles vein a tyrant's vein a lover is
 more condoling
quince francis flute the bellowsmender
flute here peter quince
quince flute you must take thisby on you
flute what is thisby a wandering knight
quince it is the lady that pyramus must love
flute nay faith let me not play a woman i have a beard coming
quince that's all one you shall play it in a mask and
 you may speak as small as you will
bottom an i may hide my face let me play thisby too i'll
 speak in a monstrous little voice thisne
 thisne ah pyramus lover dear thy thisby dear
 and lady dear'
quince no no you must play pyramus and flute you thisby
bottom well proceed
quince robin starveling the tailor
starveling here peter quince
quince robin starveling you must play thisby's mother
 tom snout the tinker
snout here peter quince
quince you pyramus father myself thisby's father
 snug the joiner you the lion's part and i
 hope here is a play fitted
snug have you the lion's part written pray you if it
 be give it me for i am slow of study
quince you may do it extempore for it is nothing but roaring
bottom let me play the lion too i will roar that i will
 do any man's heart good to hear me i will roar
 that i will make the duke say let him roar again
 let him roar again'
quince an you should do it too terribly you would fright
 the duchess and the ladies that they would shriek
 and that were enough to hang us all
all that would hang us every mother's son
bottom i grant you friends if that you should fright the
 ladies out of their wits they would have no more
 discretion but to hang us but i will aggravate my
 voice so that i will roar you as gently as any
 sucking dove i will roar you an twere any
 nightingale
quince you can play no part but pyramus for pyramus is a
 sweetfaced man a proper man as one shall see in a
 summer's day a most lovely gentlemanlike man
 therefore you must needs play pyramus
bottom well i will undertake it what beard were i best
 to play it in
quince why what you will
bottom i will discharge it in either your strawcolour
 beard your orangetawny beard your purpleingrain
 beard or your frenchcrowncolour beard your
 perfect yellow
quince some of your french crowns have no hair at all and
 then you will play barefaced but masters here
 are your parts and i am to entreat you request
 you and desire you to con them by tomorrow night
 and meet me in the palace wood a mile without the
 town by moonlight there will we rehearse for if
 we meet in the city we shall be dogged with
 company and our devices known in the meantime i
 will draw a bill of properties such as our play
 wants i pray you fail me not
bottom we will meet and there we may rehearse most
 obscenely and courageously take pains be perfect adieu
quince at the duke's oak we meet
bottom enough hold or cut bowstrings
 exeunt
 a midsummer night's dream
act ii
scene i a wood near athens
 enter from opposite sides a fairy and puck
puck how now spirit whither wander you
fairy over hill over dale
 thorough bush thorough brier
 over park over pale
 thorough flood thorough fire
 i do wander everywhere
 swifter than the moon's sphere
 and i serve the fairy queen
 to dew her orbs upon the green
 the cowslips tall her pensioners be
 in their gold coats spots you see
 those be rubies fairy favours
 in those freckles live their savours
 i must go seek some dewdrops here
 and hang a pearl in every cowslip's ear
 farewell thou lob of spirits i'll be gone
 our queen and all our elves come here anon
puck the king doth keep his revels here tonight
 take heed the queen come not within his sight
 for oberon is passing fell and wrath
 because that she as her attendant hath
 a lovely boy stolen from an indian king
 she never had so sweet a changeling
 and jealous oberon would have the child
 knight of his train to trace the forests wild
 but she perforce withholds the loved boy
 crowns him with flowers and makes him all her joy
 and now they never meet in grove or green
 by fountain clear or spangled starlight sheen
 but they do square that all their elves for fear
 creep into acorncups and hide them there
fairy either i mistake your shape and making quite
 or else you are that shrewd and knavish sprite
 call'd robin goodfellow are not you he
 that frights the maidens of the villagery
 skim milk and sometimes labour in the quern
 and bootless make the breathless housewife churn
 and sometime make the drink to bear no barm
 mislead nightwanderers laughing at their harm
 those that hobgoblin call you and sweet puck
 you do their work and they shall have good luck
 are not you he
puck thou speak'st aright
 i am that merry wanderer of the night
 i jest to oberon and make him smile
 when i a fat and beanfed horse beguile
 neighing in likeness of a filly foal
 and sometime lurk i in a gossip's bowl
 in very likeness of a roasted crab
 and when she drinks against her lips i bob
 and on her wither'd dewlap pour the ale
 the wisest aunt telling the saddest tale
 sometime for threefoot stool mistaketh me
 then slip i from her bum down topples she
 and tailor cries and falls into a cough
 and then the whole quire hold their hips and laugh
 and waxen in their mirth and neeze and swear
 a merrier hour was never wasted there
 but room fairy here comes oberon
fairy and here my mistress would that he were gone
 enter from one side oberon with his train
 from the other titania with hers
oberon ill met by moonlight proud titania
titania what jealous oberon fairies skip hence
 i have forsworn his bed and company
oberon tarry rash wanton am not i thy lord
titania then i must be thy lady but i know
 when thou hast stolen away from fairy land
 and in the shape of corin sat all day
 playing on pipes of corn and versing love
 to amorous phillida why art thou here
 come from the farthest steppe of india
 but that forsooth the bouncing amazon
 your buskin'd mistress and your warrior love
 to theseus must be wedded and you come
 to give their bed joy and prosperity
oberon how canst thou thus for shame titania
 glance at my credit with hippolyta
 knowing i know thy love to theseus
 didst thou not lead him through the glimmering night
 from perigenia whom he ravished
 and make him with fair aegle break his faith
 with ariadne and antiopa
titania these are the forgeries of jealousy
 and never since the middle summer's spring
 met we on hill in dale forest or mead
 by paved fountain or by rushy brook
 or in the beached margent of the sea
 to dance our ringlets to the whistling wind
 but with thy brawls thou hast disturb'd our sport
 therefore the winds piping to us in vain
 as in revenge have suck'd up from the sea
 contagious fogs which falling in the land
 have every pelting river made so proud
 that they have overborne their continents
 the ox hath therefore stretch'd his yoke in vain
 the ploughman lost his sweat and the green corn
 hath rotted ere his youth attain'd a beard
 the fold stands empty in the drowned field
 and crows are fatted with the murrion flock
 the nine men's morris is fill'd up with mud
 and the quaint mazes in the wanton green
 for lack of tread are undistinguishable
 the human mortals want their winter here
 no night is now with hymn or carol blest
 therefore the moon the governess of floods
 pale in her anger washes all the air
 that rheumatic diseases do abound
 and thorough this distemperature we see
 the seasons alter hoaryheaded frosts
 far in the fresh lap of the crimson rose
 and on old hiems thin and icy crown
 an odorous chaplet of sweet summer buds
 is as in mockery set the spring the summer
 the childing autumn angry winter change
 their wonted liveries and the mazed world
 by their increase now knows not which is which
 and this same progeny of evils comes
 from our debate from our dissension
 we are their parents and original
oberon do you amend it then it lies in you
 why should titania cross her oberon
 i do but beg a little changeling boy
 to be my henchman
titania set your heart at rest
 the fairy land buys not the child of me
 his mother was a votaress of my order
 and in the spiced indian air by night
 full often hath she gossip'd by my side
 and sat with me on neptune's yellow sands
 marking the embarked traders on the flood
 when we have laugh'd to see the sails conceive
 and grow bigbellied with the wanton wind
 which she with pretty and with swimming gait
 followingher womb then rich with my young squire
 would imitate and sail upon the land
 to fetch me trifles and return again
 as from a voyage rich with merchandise
 but she being mortal of that boy did die
 and for her sake do i rear up her boy
 and for her sake i will not part with him
oberon how long within this wood intend you stay
titania perchance till after theseus weddingday
 if you will patiently dance in our round
 and see our moonlight revels go with us
 if not shun me and i will spare your haunts
oberon give me that boy and i will go with thee
titania not for thy fairy kingdom fairies away
 we shall chide downright if i longer stay
 exit titania with her train
oberon well go thy way thou shalt not from this grove
 till i torment thee for this injury
 my gentle puck come hither thou rememberest
 since once i sat upon a promontory
 and heard a mermaid on a dolphin's back
 uttering such dulcet and harmonious breath
 that the rude sea grew civil at her song
 and certain stars shot madly from their spheres
 to hear the seamaid's music
puck i remember
oberon that very time i saw but thou couldst not
 flying between the cold moon and the earth
 cupid all arm'd a certain aim he took
 at a fair vestal throned by the west
 and loosed his loveshaft smartly from his bow
 as it should pierce a hundred thousand hearts
 but i might see young cupid's fiery shaft
 quench'd in the chaste beams of the watery moon
 and the imperial votaress passed on
 in maiden meditation fancyfree
 yet mark'd i where the bolt of cupid fell
 it fell upon a little western flower
 before milkwhite now purple with love's wound
 and maidens call it loveinidleness
 fetch me that flower the herb i shew'd thee once
 the juice of it on sleeping eyelids laid
 will make or man or woman madly dote
 upon the next live creature that it sees
 fetch me this herb and be thou here again
 ere the leviathan can swim a league
puck i'll put a girdle round about the earth
 in forty minutes
 exit
oberon having once this juice
 i'll watch titania when she is asleep
 and drop the liquor of it in her eyes
 the next thing then she waking looks upon
 be it on lion bear or wolf or bull
 on meddling monkey or on busy ape
 she shall pursue it with the soul of love
 and ere i take this charm from off her sight
 as i can take it with another herb
 i'll make her render up her page to me
 but who comes here i am invisible
 and i will overhear their conference
 enter demetrius helena following him
demetrius i love thee not therefore pursue me not
 where is lysander and fair hermia
 the one i'll slay the other slayeth me
 thou told'st me they were stolen unto this wood
 and here am i and wode within this wood
 because i cannot meet my hermia
 hence get thee gone and follow me no more
helena you draw me you hardhearted adamant
 but yet you draw not iron for my heart
 is true as steel leave you your power to draw
 and i shall have no power to follow you
demetrius do i entice you do i speak you fair
 or rather do i not in plainest truth
 tell you i do not nor i cannot love you
helena and even for that do i love you the more
 i am your spaniel and demetrius
 the more you beat me i will fawn on you
 use me but as your spaniel spurn me strike me
 neglect me lose me only give me leave
 unworthy as i am to follow you
 what worser place can i beg in your love
 and yet a place of high respect with me
 than to be used as you use your dog
demetrius tempt not too much the hatred of my spirit
 for i am sick when i do look on thee
helena and i am sick when i look not on you
demetrius you do impeach your modesty too much
 to leave the city and commit yourself
 into the hands of one that loves you not
 to trust the opportunity of night
 and the ill counsel of a desert place
 with the rich worth of your virginity
helena your virtue is my privilege for that
 it is not night when i do see your face
 therefore i think i am not in the night
 nor doth this wood lack worlds of company
 for you in my respect are all the world
 then how can it be said i am alone
 when all the world is here to look on me
demetrius i'll run from thee and hide me in the brakes
 and leave thee to the mercy of wild beasts
helena the wildest hath not such a heart as you
 run when you will the story shall be changed
 apollo flies and daphne holds the chase
 the dove pursues the griffin the mild hind
 makes speed to catch the tiger bootless speed
 when cowardice pursues and valour flies
demetrius i will not stay thy questions let me go
 or if thou follow me do not believe
 but i shall do thee mischief in the wood
helena ay in the temple in the town the field
 you do me mischief fie demetrius
 your wrongs do set a scandal on my sex
 we cannot fight for love as men may do
 we should be wood and were not made to woo
 exit demetrius
 i'll follow thee and make a heaven of hell
 to die upon the hand i love so well
 exit
oberon fare thee well nymph ere he do leave this grove
 thou shalt fly him and he shall seek thy love
 reenter puck
 hast thou the flower there welcome wanderer
puck ay there it is
oberon i pray thee give it me
 i know a bank where the wild thyme blows
 where oxlips and the nodding violet grows
 quite overcanopied with luscious woodbine
 with sweet muskroses and with eglantine
 there sleeps titania sometime of the night
 lull'd in these flowers with dances and delight
 and there the snake throws her enamell'd skin
 weed wide enough to wrap a fairy in
 and with the juice of this i'll streak her eyes
 and make her full of hateful fantasies
 take thou some of it and seek through this grove
 a sweet athenian lady is in love
 with a disdainful youth anoint his eyes
 but do it when the next thing he espies
 may be the lady thou shalt know the man
 by the athenian garments he hath on
 effect it with some care that he may prove
 more fond on her than she upon her love
 and look thou meet me ere the first cock crow
puck fear not my lord your servant shall do so
 exeunt
 a midsummer night's dream
act ii
scene ii another part of the wood
 enter titania with her train
titania come now a roundel and a fairy song
 then for the third part of a minute hence
 some to kill cankers in the muskrose buds
 some war with reremice for their leathern wings
 to make my small elves coats and some keep back
 the clamorous owl that nightly hoots and wonders
 at our quaint spirits sing me now asleep
 then to your offices and let me rest
 the fairies sing
 you spotted snakes with double tongue
 thorny hedgehogs be not seen
 newts and blindworms do no wrong
 come not near our fairy queen
 philomel with melody
 sing in our sweet lullaby
 lulla lulla lullaby lulla lulla lullaby
 never harm
 nor spell nor charm
 come our lovely lady nigh
 so good night with lullaby
 weaving spiders come not here
 hence you longlegg'd spinners hence
 beetles black approach not near
 worm nor snail do no offence
 philomel with melody &c
fairy hence away now all is well
 one aloof stand sentinel
 exeunt fairies titania sleeps
 enter oberon and squeezes the flower on titania's eyelids
oberon what thou seest when thou dost wake
 do it for thy truelove take
 love and languish for his sake
 be it ounce or cat or bear
 pard or boar with bristled hair
 in thy eye that shall appear
 when thou wakest it is thy dear
 wake when some vile thing is near
 exit
 enter lysander and hermia
lysander fair love you faint with wandering in the wood
 and to speak troth i have forgot our way
 we'll rest us hermia if you think it good
 and tarry for the comfort of the day
hermia be it so lysander find you out a bed
 for i upon this bank will rest my head
lysander one turf shall serve as pillow for us both
 one heart one bed two bosoms and one troth
hermia nay good lysander for my sake my dear
 lie further off yet do not lie so near
lysander o take the sense sweet of my innocence
 love takes the meaning in love's conference
 i mean that my heart unto yours is knit
 so that but one heart we can make of it
 two bosoms interchained with an oath
 so then two bosoms and a single troth
 then by your side no bedroom me deny
 for lying so hermia i do not lie
hermia lysander riddles very prettily
 now much beshrew my manners and my pride
 if hermia meant to say lysander lied
 but gentle friend for love and courtesy
 lie further off in human modesty
 such separation as may well be said
 becomes a virtuous bachelor and a maid
 so far be distant and good night sweet friend
 thy love ne'er alter till thy sweet life end
lysander amen amen to that fair prayer say i
 and then end life when i end loyalty
 here is my bed sleep give thee all his rest
hermia with half that wish the wisher's eyes be press'd
 they sleep
 enter puck
puck through the forest have i gone
 but athenian found i none
 on whose eyes i might approve
 this flower's force in stirring love
 night and silencewho is here
 weeds of athens he doth wear
 this is he my master said
 despised the athenian maid
 and here the maiden sleeping sound
 on the dank and dirty ground
 pretty soul she durst not lie
 near this lacklove this killcourtesy
 churl upon thy eyes i throw
 all the power this charm doth owe
 when thou wakest let love forbid
 sleep his seat on thy eyelid
 so awake when i am gone
 for i must now to oberon
 exit
 enter demetrius and helena running
helena stay though thou kill me sweet demetrius
demetrius i charge thee hence and do not haunt me thus
helena o wilt thou darkling leave me do not so
demetrius stay on thy peril i alone will go
 exit
helena o i am out of breath in this fond chase
 the more my prayer the lesser is my grace
 happy is hermia wheresoe'er she lies
 for she hath blessed and attractive eyes
 how came her eyes so bright not with salt tears
 if so my eyes are oftener wash'd than hers
 no no i am as ugly as a bear
 for beasts that meet me run away for fear
 therefore no marvel though demetrius
 do as a monster fly my presence thus
 what wicked and dissembling glass of mine
 made me compare with hermia's sphery eyne
 but who is here lysander on the ground
 dead or asleep i see no blood no wound
 lysander if you live good sir awake
lysander awaking and run through fire i will for thy sweet sake
 transparent helena nature shows art
 that through thy bosom makes me see thy heart
 where is demetrius o how fit a word
 is that vile name to perish on my sword
helena do not say so lysander say not so
 what though he love your hermia lord what though
 yet hermia still loves you then be content
lysander content with hermia no i do repent
 the tedious minutes i with her have spent
 not hermia but helena i love
 who will not change a raven for a dove
 the will of man is by his reason sway'd
 and reason says you are the worthier maid
 things growing are not ripe until their season
 so i being young till now ripe not to reason
 and touching now the point of human skill
 reason becomes the marshal to my will
 and leads me to your eyes where i o'erlook
 love's stories written in love's richest book
helena wherefore was i to this keen mockery born
 when at your hands did i deserve this scorn
 is't not enough is't not enough young man
 that i did never no nor never can
 deserve a sweet look from demetrius eye
 but you must flout my insufficiency
 good troth you do me wrong good sooth you do
 in such disdainful manner me to woo
 but fare you well perforce i must confess
 i thought you lord of more true gentleness
 o that a lady of one man refused
 should of another therefore be abused
 exit
lysander she sees not hermia hermia sleep thou there
 and never mayst thou come lysander near
 for as a surfeit of the sweetest things
 the deepest loathing to the stomach brings
 or as tie heresies that men do leave
 are hated most of those they did deceive
 so thou my surfeit and my heresy
 of all be hated but the most of me
 and all my powers address your love and might
 to honour helen and to be her knight
 exit
hermia awaking help me lysander help me do thy best
 to pluck this crawling serpent from my breast
 ay me for pity what a dream was here
 lysander look how i do quake with fear
 methought a serpent eat my heart away
 and you sat smiling at his cruel pray
 lysander what removed lysander lord
 what out of hearing gone no sound no word
 alack where are you speak an if you hear
 speak of all loves i swoon almost with fear
 no then i well perceive you all not nigh
 either death or you i'll find immediately
 exit
 a midsummer night's dream
act iii
scene i the wood titania lying asleep
 enter quince snug bottom flute snout and
 starveling
bottom are we all met
quince pat pat and here's a marvellous convenient place
 for our rehearsal this green plot shall be our
 stage this hawthornbrake our tiringhouse and we
 will do it in action as we will do it before the duke
bottom peter quince
quince what sayest thou bully bottom
bottom there are things in this comedy of pyramus and
 thisby that will never please first pyramus must
 draw a sword to kill himself which the ladies
 cannot abide how answer you that
snout by'r lakin a parlous fear
starveling i believe we must leave the killing out when all is done
bottom not a whit i have a device to make all well
 write me a prologue and let the prologue seem to
 say we will do no harm with our swords and that
 pyramus is not killed indeed and for the more
 better assurance tell them that i pyramus am not
 pyramus but bottom the weaver this will put them
 out of fear
quince well we will have such a prologue and it shall be
 written in eight and six
bottom no make it two more let it be written in eight and eight
snout will not the ladies be afeard of the lion
starveling i fear it i promise you
bottom masters you ought to consider with yourselves to
 bring ingod shield usa lion among ladies is a
 most dreadful thing for there is not a more fearful
 wildfowl than your lion living and we ought to
 look to t
snout therefore another prologue must tell he is not a lion
bottom nay you must name his name and half his face must
 be seen through the lion's neck and he himself
 must speak through saying thus or to the same
 defect'ladies'or fairladiesi would wish
 you'or i would request you'or i would
 entreat younot to fear not to tremble my life
 for yours if you think i come hither as a lion it
 were pity of my life no i am no such thing i am a
 man as other men are and there indeed let him name
 his name and tell them plainly he is snug the joiner
quince well it shall be so but there is two hard things
 that is to bring the moonlight into a chamber for
 you know pyramus and thisby meet by moonlight
snout doth the moon shine that night we play our play
bottom a calendar a calendar look in the almanac find
 out moonshine find out moonshine
quince yes it doth shine that night
bottom why then may you leave a casement of the great
 chamber window where we play open and the moon
 may shine in at the casement
quince ay or else one must come in with a bush of thorns
 and a lanthorn and say he comes to disfigure or to
 present the person of moonshine then there is
 another thing we must have a wall in the great
 chamber for pyramus and thisby says the story did
 talk through the chink of a wall
snout you can never bring in a wall what say you bottom
bottom some man or other must present wall and let him
 have some plaster or some loam or some roughcast
 about him to signify wall and let him hold his
 fingers thus and through that cranny shall pyramus
 and thisby whisper
quince if that may be then all is well come sit down
 every mother's son and rehearse your parts
 pyramus you begin when you have spoken your
 speech enter into that brake and so every one
 according to his cue
 enter puck behind
puck what hempen homespuns have we swaggering here
 so near the cradle of the fairy queen
 what a play toward i'll be an auditor
 an actor too perhaps if i see cause
quince speak pyramus thisby stand forth
bottom thisby the flowers of odious savours sweet
quince odours odours
bottom odours savours sweet
 so hath thy breath my dearest thisby dear
 but hark a voice stay thou but here awhile
 and by and by i will to thee appear
 exit
puck a stranger pyramus than e'er played here
 exit
flute must i speak now
quince ay marry must you for you must understand he goes
 but to see a noise that he heard and is to come again
flute most radiant pyramus most lilywhite of hue
 of colour like the red rose on triumphant brier
 most brisky juvenal and eke most lovely jew
 as true as truest horse that yet would never tire
 i'll meet thee pyramus at ninny's tomb
quince ninus tomb man why you must not speak that
 yet that you answer to pyramus you speak all your
 part at once cues and all pyramus enter your cue
 is past it is never tire'
flute oas true as truest horse that yet would
 never tire
 reenter puck and bottom with an ass's head
bottom if i were fair thisby i were only thine
quince o monstrous o strange we are haunted pray
 masters fly masters help
 exeunt quince snug flute snout and starveling
puck i'll follow you i'll lead you about a round
 through bog through bush through brake through brier
 sometime a horse i'll be sometime a hound
 a hog a headless bear sometime a fire
 and neigh and bark and grunt and roar and burn
 like horse hound hog bear fire at every turn
 exit
bottom why do they run away this is a knavery of them to
 make me afeard
 reenter snout
snout o bottom thou art changed what do i see on thee
bottom what do you see you see an asshead of your own do
 you
 exit snout
 reenter quince
quince bless thee bottom bless thee thou art
 translated
 exit
bottom i see their knavery this is to make an ass of me
 to fright me if they could but i will not stir
 from this place do what they can i will walk up
 and down here and i will sing that they shall hear
 i am not afraid
 sings
 the ousel cock so black of hue
 with orangetawny bill
 the throstle with his note so true
 the wren with little quill
titania awaking what angel wakes me from my flowery bed
bottom sings
 the finch the sparrow and the lark
 the plainsong cuckoo gray
 whose note full many a man doth mark
 and dares not answer nay
 for indeed who would set his wit to so foolish
 a bird who would give a bird the lie though he cry
 cuckoo never so
titania i pray thee gentle mortal sing again
 mine ear is much enamour'd of thy note
 so is mine eye enthralled to thy shape
 and thy fair virtue's force perforce doth move me
 on the first view to say to swear i love thee
bottom methinks mistress you should have little reason
 for that and yet to say the truth reason and
 love keep little company together nowadays the
 more the pity that some honest neighbours will not
 make them friends nay i can gleek upon occasion
titania thou art as wise as thou art beautiful
bottom not so neither but if i had wit enough to get out
 of this wood i have enough to serve mine own turn
titania out of this wood do not desire to go
 thou shalt remain here whether thou wilt or no
 i am a spirit of no common rate
 the summer still doth tend upon my state
 and i do love thee therefore go with me
 i'll give thee fairies to attend on thee
 and they shall fetch thee jewels from the deep
 and sing while thou on pressed flowers dost sleep
 and i will purge thy mortal grossness so
 that thou shalt like an airy spirit go
 peaseblossom cobweb moth and mustardseed
 enter peaseblossom cobweb moth and mustardseed
peaseblossom ready
cobweb and i
moth and i
mustardseed and i
all where shall we go
titania be kind and courteous to this gentleman
 hop in his walks and gambol in his eyes
 feed him with apricocks and dewberries
 with purple grapes green figs and mulberries
 the honeybags steal from the humblebees
 and for nighttapers crop their waxen thighs
 and light them at the fiery glowworm's eyes
 to have my love to bed and to arise
 and pluck the wings from painted butterflies
 to fan the moonbeams from his sleeping eyes
 nod to him elves and do him courtesies
peaseblossom hail mortal
cobweb hail
moth hail
mustardseed hail
bottom i cry your worship's mercy heartily i beseech your
 worship's name
cobweb cobweb
bottom i shall desire you of more acquaintance good master
 cobweb if i cut my finger i shall make bold with
 you your name honest gentleman
peaseblossom peaseblossom
bottom i pray you commend me to mistress squash your
 mother and to master peascod your father good
 master peaseblossom i shall desire you of more
 acquaintance too your name i beseech you sir
mustardseed mustardseed
bottom good master mustardseed i know your patience well
 that same cowardly giantlike oxbeef hath
 devoured many a gentleman of your house i promise
 you your kindred had made my eyes water ere now i
 desire your more acquaintance good master
 mustardseed
titania come wait upon him lead him to my bower
 the moon methinks looks with a watery eye
 and when she weeps weeps every little flower
 lamenting some enforced chastity
 tie up my love's tongue bring him silently
 exeunt
 a midsummer night's dream
act iii
scene ii another part of the wood
 enter oberon
oberon i wonder if titania be awaked
 then what it was that next came in her eye
 which she must dote on in extremity
 enter puck
 here comes my messenger
 how now mad spirit
 what nightrule now about this haunted grove
puck my mistress with a monster is in love
 near to her close and consecrated bower
 while she was in her dull and sleeping hour
 a crew of patches rude mechanicals
 that work for bread upon athenian stalls
 were met together to rehearse a play
 intended for great theseus nuptialday
 the shallowest thickskin of that barren sort
 who pyramus presented in their sport
 forsook his scene and enter'd in a brake
 when i did him at this advantage take
 an ass's nole i fixed on his head
 anon his thisbe must be answered
 and forth my mimic comes when they him spy
 as wild geese that the creeping fowler eye
 or russetpated choughs many in sort
 rising and cawing at the gun's report
 sever themselves and madly sweep the sky
 so at his sight away his fellows fly
 and at our stamp here o'er and o'er one falls
 he murder cries and help from athens calls
 their sense thus weak lost with their fears
 thus strong
 made senseless things begin to do them wrong
 for briers and thorns at their apparel snatch
 some sleeves some hats from yielders all
 things catch
 i led them on in this distracted fear
 and left sweet pyramus translated there
 when in that moment so it came to pass
 titania waked and straightway loved an ass
oberon this falls out better than i could devise
 but hast thou yet latch'd the athenian's eyes
 with the lovejuice as i did bid thee do
puck i took him sleepingthat is finish'd too
 and the athenian woman by his side
 that when he waked of force she must be eyed
 enter hermia and demetrius
oberon stand close this is the same athenian
puck this is the woman but not this the man
demetrius o why rebuke you him that loves you so
 lay breath so bitter on your bitter foe
hermia now i but chide but i should use thee worse
 for thou i fear hast given me cause to curse
 if thou hast slain lysander in his sleep
 being o'er shoes in blood plunge in the deep
 and kill me too
 the sun was not so true unto the day
 as he to me would he have stolen away
 from sleeping hermia i'll believe as soon
 this whole earth may be bored and that the moon
 may through the centre creep and so displease
 her brother's noontide with antipodes
 it cannot be but thou hast murder'd him
 so should a murderer look so dead so grim
demetrius so should the murder'd look and so should i
 pierced through the heart with your stern cruelty
 yet you the murderer look as bright as clear
 as yonder venus in her glimmering sphere
hermia what's this to my lysander where is he
 ah good demetrius wilt thou give him me
demetrius i had rather give his carcass to my hounds
hermia out dog out cur thou drivest me past the bounds
 of maiden's patience hast thou slain him then
 henceforth be never number'd among men
 o once tell true tell true even for my sake
 durst thou have look'd upon him being awake
 and hast thou kill'd him sleeping o brave touch
 could not a worm an adder do so much
 an adder did it for with doubler tongue
 than thine thou serpent never adder stung
demetrius you spend your passion on a misprised mood
 i am not guilty of lysander's blood
 nor is he dead for aught that i can tell
hermia i pray thee tell me then that he is well
demetrius an if i could what should i get therefore
hermia a privilege never to see me more
 and from thy hated presence part i so
 see me no more whether he be dead or no
 exit
demetrius there is no following her in this fierce vein
 here therefore for a while i will remain
 so sorrow's heaviness doth heavier grow
 for debt that bankrupt sleep doth sorrow owe
 which now in some slight measure it will pay
 if for his tender here i make some stay
 lies down and sleeps
oberon what hast thou done thou hast mistaken quite
 and laid the lovejuice on some truelove's sight
 of thy misprision must perforce ensue
 some true love turn'd and not a false turn'd true
puck then fate o'errules that one man holding troth
 a million fail confounding oath on oath
oberon about the wood go swifter than the wind
 and helena of athens look thou find
 all fancysick she is and pale of cheer
 with sighs of love that costs the fresh blood dear
 by some illusion see thou bring her here
 i'll charm his eyes against she do appear
puck i go i go look how i go
 swifter than arrow from the tartar's bow
 exit
oberon flower of this purple dye
 hit with cupid's archery
 sink in apple of his eye
 when his love he doth espy
 let her shine as gloriously
 as the venus of the sky
 when thou wakest if she be by
 beg of her for remedy
 reenter puck
puck captain of our fairy band
 helena is here at hand
 and the youth mistook by me
 pleading for a lover's fee
 shall we their fond pageant see
 lord what fools these mortals be
oberon stand aside the noise they make
 will cause demetrius to awake
puck then will two at once woo one
 that must needs be sport alone
 and those things do best please me
 that befal preposterously
 enter lysander and helena
lysander why should you think that i should woo in scorn
 scorn and derision never come in tears
 look when i vow i weep and vows so born
 in their nativity all truth appears
 how can these things in me seem scorn to you
 bearing the badge of faith to prove them true
helena you do advance your cunning more and more
 when truth kills truth o devilishholy fray
 these vows are hermia's will you give her o'er
 weigh oath with oath and you will nothing weigh
 your vows to her and me put in two scales
 will even weigh and both as light as tales
lysander i had no judgment when to her i swore
helena nor none in my mind now you give her o'er
lysander demetrius loves her and he loves not you
demetrius awaking o helena goddess nymph perfect divine
 to what my love shall i compare thine eyne
 crystal is muddy o how ripe in show
 thy lips those kissing cherries tempting grow
 that pure congealed white high taurus snow
 fann'd with the eastern wind turns to a crow
 when thou hold'st up thy hand o let me kiss
 this princess of pure white this seal of bliss
helena o spite o hell i see you all are bent
 to set against me for your merriment
 if you we re civil and knew courtesy
 you would not do me thus much injury
 can you not hate me as i know you do
 but you must join in souls to mock me too
 if you were men as men you are in show
 you would not use a gentle lady so
 to vow and swear and superpraise my parts
 when i am sure you hate me with your hearts
 you both are rivals and love hermia
 and now both rivals to mock helena
 a trim exploit a manly enterprise
 to conjure tears up in a poor maid's eyes
 with your derision none of noble sort
 would so offend a virgin and extort
 a poor soul's patience all to make you sport
lysander you are unkind demetrius be not so
 for you love hermia this you know i know
 and here with all good will with all my heart
 in hermia's love i yield you up my part
 and yours of helena to me bequeath
 whom i do love and will do till my death
helena never did mockers waste more idle breath
demetrius lysander keep thy hermia i will none
 if e'er i loved her all that love is gone
 my heart to her but as guestwise sojourn'd
 and now to helen is it home return'd
 there to remain
lysander helen it is not so
demetrius disparage not the faith thou dost not know
 lest to thy peril thou aby it dear
 look where thy love comes yonder is thy dear
 reenter hermia
hermia dark night that from the eye his function takes
 the ear more quick of apprehension makes
 wherein it doth impair the seeing sense
 it pays the hearing double recompense
 thou art not by mine eye lysander found
 mine ear i thank it brought me to thy sound
 but why unkindly didst thou leave me so
lysander why should he stay whom love doth press to go
hermia what love could press lysander from my side
lysander lysander's love that would not let him bide
 fair helena who more engilds the night
 than all you fiery oes and eyes of light
 why seek'st thou me could not this make thee know
 the hate i bear thee made me leave thee so
hermia you speak not as you think it cannot be
helena lo she is one of this confederacy
 now i perceive they have conjoin'd all three
 to fashion this false sport in spite of me
 injurious hermia most ungrateful maid
 have you conspired have you with these contrived
 to bait me with this foul derision
 is all the counsel that we two have shared
 the sisters vows the hours that we have spent
 when we have chid the hastyfooted time
 for parting uso is it all forgot
 all schooldays friendship childhood innocence
 we hermia like two artificial gods
 have with our needles created both one flower
 both on one sampler sitting on one cushion
 both warbling of one song both in one key
 as if our hands our sides voices and minds
 had been incorporate so we grow together
 like to a double cherry seeming parted
 but yet an union in partition
 two lovely berries moulded on one stem
 so with two seeming bodies but one heart
 two of the first like coats in heraldry
 due but to one and crowned with one crest
 and will you rent our ancient love asunder
 to join with men in scorning your poor friend
 it is not friendly tis not maidenly
 our sex as well as i may chide you for it
 though i alone do feel the injury
hermia i am amazed at your passionate words
 i scorn you not it seems that you scorn me
helena have you not set lysander as in scorn
 to follow me and praise my eyes and face
 and made your other love demetrius
 who even but now did spurn me with his foot
 to call me goddess nymph divine and rare
 precious celestial wherefore speaks he this
 to her he hates and wherefore doth lysander
 deny your love so rich within his soul
 and tender me forsooth affection
 but by your setting on by your consent
 what thought i be not so in grace as you
 so hung upon with love so fortunate
 but miserable most to love unloved
 this you should pity rather than despise
hernia i understand not what you mean by this
helena ay do persever counterfeit sad looks
 make mouths upon me when i turn my back
 wink each at other hold the sweet jest up
 this sport well carried shall be chronicled
 if you have any pity grace or manners
 you would not make me such an argument
 but fare ye well tis partly my own fault
 which death or absence soon shall remedy
lysander stay gentle helena hear my excuse
 my love my life my soul fair helena
helena o excellent
hermia sweet do not scorn her so
demetrius if she cannot entreat i can compel
lysander thou canst compel no more than she entreat
 thy threats have no more strength than her weak prayers
 helen i love thee by my life i do
 i swear by that which i will lose for thee
 to prove him false that says i love thee not
demetrius i say i love thee more than he can do
lysander if thou say so withdraw and prove it too
demetrius quick come
hermia lysander whereto tends all this
lysander away you ethiope
demetrius no no he'll 
 seem to break loose take on as you would follow
 but yet come not you are a tame man go
lysander hang off thou cat thou burr vile thing let loose
 or i will shake thee from me like a serpent
hermia why are you grown so rude what change is this
 sweet love
lysander thy love out tawny tartar out
 out loathed medicine hated potion hence
hermia do you not jest
helena yes sooth and so do you
lysander demetrius i will keep my word with thee
demetrius i would i had your bond for i perceive
 a weak bond holds you i'll not trust your word
lysander what should i hurt her strike her kill her dead
 although i hate her i'll not harm her so
hermia what can you do me greater harm than hate
 hate me wherefore o me what news my love
 am not i hermia are not you lysander
 i am as fair now as i was erewhile
 since night you loved me yet since night you left
 me
 why then you left meo the gods forbid
 in earnest shall i say
lysander ay by my life
 and never did desire to see thee more
 therefore be out of hope of question of doubt
 be certain nothing truer tis no jest
 that i do hate thee and love helena
hermia o me you juggler you cankerblossom
 you thief of love what have you come by night
 and stolen my love's heart from him
helena fine i'faith
 have you no modesty no maiden shame
 no touch of bashfulness what will you tear
 impatient answers from my gentle tongue
 fie fie you counterfeit you puppet you
hermia puppet why so ay that way goes the game
 now i perceive that she hath made compare
 between our statures she hath urged her height
 and with her personage her tall personage
 her height forsooth she hath prevail'd with him
 and are you grown so high in his esteem
 because i am so dwarfish and so low
 how low am i thou painted maypole speak
 how low am i i am not yet so low
 but that my nails can reach unto thine eyes
helena i pray you though you mock me gentlemen
 let her not hurt me i was never curst
 i have no gift at all in shrewishness
 i am a right maid for my cowardice
 let her not strike me you perhaps may think
 because she is something lower than myself
 that i can match her
hermia lower hark again
helena good hermia do not be so bitter with me
 i evermore did love you hermia
 did ever keep your counsels never wrong'd you
 save that in love unto demetrius
 i told him of your stealth unto this wood
 he follow'd you for love i follow'd him
 but he hath chid me hence and threaten'd me
 to strike me spurn me nay to kill me too
 and now so you will let me quiet go
 to athens will i bear my folly back
 and follow you no further let me go
 you see how simple and how fond i am
hermia why get you gone who is't that hinders you
helena a foolish heart that i leave here behind
hermia what with lysander
helena with demetrius
lysander be not afraid she shall not harm thee helena
demetrius no sir she shall not though you take her part
helena o when she's angry she is keen and shrewd
 she was a vixen when she went to school
 and though she be but little she is fierce
hermia little again nothing but low and little'
 why will you suffer her to flout me thus
 let me come to her
lysander get you gone you dwarf
 you minimus of hindering knotgrass made
 you bead you acorn
demetrius you are too officious
 in her behalf that scorns your services
 let her alone speak not of helena
 take not her part for if thou dost intend
 never so little show of love to her
 thou shalt aby it
lysander now she holds me not
 now follow if thou darest to try whose right
 of thine or mine is most in helena
demetrius follow nay i'll go with thee cheek by jole
 exeunt lysander and demetrius
hermia you mistress all this coil is long of you
 nay go not back
helena i will not trust you i
 nor longer stay in your curst company
 your hands than mine are quicker for a fray
 my legs are longer though to run away
 exit
hermia i am amazed and know not what to say
 exit
oberon this is thy negligence still thou mistakest
 or else committ'st thy knaveries wilfully
puck believe me king of shadows i mistook
 did not you tell me i should know the man
 by the athenian garment be had on
 and so far blameless proves my enterprise
 that i have nointed an athenian's eyes
 and so far am i glad it so did sort
 as this their jangling i esteem a sport
oberon thou see'st these lovers seek a place to fight
 hie therefore robin overcast the night
 the starry welkin cover thou anon
 with drooping fog as black as acheron
 and lead these testy rivals so astray
 as one come not within another's way
 like to lysander sometime frame thy tongue
 then stir demetrius up with bitter wrong
 and sometime rail thou like demetrius
 and from each other look thou lead them thus
 till o'er their brows deathcounterfeiting sleep
 with leaden legs and batty wings doth creep
 then crush this herb into lysander's eye
 whose liquor hath this virtuous property
 to take from thence all error with his might
 and make his eyeballs roll with wonted sight
 when they next wake all this derision
 shall seem a dream and fruitless vision
 and back to athens shall the lovers wend
 with league whose date till death shall never end
 whiles i in this affair do thee employ
 i'll to my queen and beg her indian boy
 and then i will her charmed eye release
 from monster's view and all things shall be peace
puck my fairy lord this must be done with haste
 for night's swift dragons cut the clouds full fast
 and yonder shines aurora's harbinger
 at whose approach ghosts wandering here and there
 troop home to churchyards damned spirits all
 that in crossways and floods have burial
 already to their wormy beds are gone
 for fear lest day should look their shames upon
 they willfully themselves exile from light
 and must for aye consort with blackbrow'd night
oberon but we are spirits of another sort
 i with the morning's love have oft made sport
 and like a forester the groves may tread
 even till the eastern gate all fieryred
 opening on neptune with fair blessed beams
 turns into yellow gold his salt green streams
 but notwithstanding haste make no delay
 we may effect this business yet ere day
 exit
puck up and down up and down
 i will lead them up and down
 i am fear'd in field and town
 goblin lead them up and down
 here comes one
 reenter lysander
lysander where art thou proud demetrius speak thou now
puck here villain drawn and ready where art thou
lysander i will be with thee straight
puck follow me then
 to plainer ground
 exit lysander as following the voice
 reenter demetrius
demetrius lysander speak again
 thou runaway thou coward art thou fled
 speak in some bush where dost thou hide thy head
puck thou coward art thou bragging to the stars
 telling the bushes that thou look'st for wars
 and wilt not come come recreant come thou child
 i'll whip thee with a rod he is defiled
 that draws a sword on thee
demetrius yea art thou there
puck follow my voice we'll try no manhood here
 exeunt
 reenter lysander
lysander he goes before me and still dares me on
 when i come where he calls then he is gone
 the villain is much lighterheel'd than i
 i follow'd fast but faster he did fly
 that fallen am i in dark uneven way
 and here will rest me
 lies down
 come thou gentle day
 for if but once thou show me thy grey light
 i'll find demetrius and revenge this spite
 sleeps
 reenter puck and demetrius
puck ho ho ho coward why comest thou not
demetrius abide me if thou darest for well i wot
 thou runn'st before me shifting every place
 and darest not stand nor look me in the face
 where art thou now
puck come hither i am here
demetrius nay then thou mock'st me thou shalt buy this dear
 if ever i thy face by daylight see
 now go thy way faintness constraineth me
 to measure out my length on this cold bed
 by day's approach look to be visited
 lies down and sleeps
 reenter helena
helena o weary night o long and tedious night
 abate thy hour shine comforts from the east
 that i may back to athens by daylight
 from these that my poor company detest
 and sleep that sometimes shuts up sorrow's eye
 steal me awhile from mine own company
 lies down and sleeps
puck yet but three come one more
 two of both kinds make up four
 here she comes curst and sad
 cupid is a knavish lad
 thus to make poor females mad
 reenter hermia
hermia never so weary never so in woe
 bedabbled with the dew and torn with briers
 i can no further crawl no further go
 my legs can keep no pace with my desires
 here will i rest me till the break of day
 heavens shield lysander if they mean a fray
 lies down and sleeps
puck on the ground
 sleep sound
 i'll apply
 to your eye
 gentle lover remedy
 squeezing the juice on lysander's eyes
 when thou wakest
 thou takest
 true delight
 in the sight
 of thy former lady's eye
 and the country proverb known
 that every man should take his own
 in your waking shall be shown
 jack shall have jill
 nought shall go ill
 the man shall have his mare again and all shall be well
 exit
 a midsummer night's dream
act iv
scene i the same lysander demetrius helena and hermia
 lying asleep
 enter titania and bottom peaseblossom cobweb moth
 mustardseed and other fairies attending oberon
 behind unseen
titania come sit thee down upon this flowery bed
 while i thy amiable cheeks do coy
 and stick muskroses in thy sleek smooth head
 and kiss thy fair large ears my gentle joy
bottom where's peaseblossom
peaseblossom ready
bottom scratch my head peaseblossom where's mounsieur cobweb
cobweb ready
bottom mounsieur cobweb good mounsieur get you your
 weapons in your hand and kill me a redhipped
 humblebee on the top of a thistle and good
 mounsieur bring me the honeybag do not fret
 yourself too much in the action mounsieur and
 good mounsieur have a care the honeybag break not
 i would be loath to have you overflown with a
 honeybag signior where's mounsieur mustardseed
mustardseed ready
bottom give me your neaf mounsieur mustardseed pray you
 leave your courtesy good mounsieur
mustardseed what's your will
bottom nothing good mounsieur but to help cavalery cobweb
 to scratch i must to the barber's monsieur for
 methinks i am marvellous hairy about the face and i
 am such a tender ass if my hair do but tickle me
 i must scratch
titania what wilt thou hear some music
 my sweet love
bottom i have a reasonable good ear in music let's have
 the tongs and the bones
titania or say sweet love what thou desirest to eat
bottom truly a peck of provender i could munch your good
 dry oats methinks i have a great desire to a bottle
 of hay good hay sweet hay hath no fellow
titania i have a venturous fairy that shall seek
 the squirrel's hoard and fetch thee new nuts
bottom i had rather have a handful or two of dried peas
 but i pray you let none of your people stir me i
 have an exposition of sleep come upon me
titania sleep thou and i will wind thee in my arms
 fairies begone and be all ways away
 exeunt fairies
 so doth the woodbine the sweet honeysuckle
 gently entwist the female ivy so
 enrings the barky fingers of the elm
 o how i love thee how i dote on thee
 they sleep
 enter puck
oberon advancing welcome good robin
 see'st thou this sweet sight
 her dotage now i do begin to pity
 for meeting her of late behind the wood
 seeking sweet favours from this hateful fool
 i did upbraid her and fall out with her
 for she his hairy temples then had rounded
 with a coronet of fresh and fragrant flowers
 and that same dew which sometime on the buds
 was wont to swell like round and orient pearls
 stood now within the pretty flowerets eyes
 like tears that did their own disgrace bewail
 when i had at my pleasure taunted her
 and she in mild terms begg'd my patience
 i then did ask of her her changeling child
 which straight she gave me and her fairy sent
 to bear him to my bower in fairy land
 and now i have the boy i will undo
 this hateful imperfection of her eyes
 and gentle puck take this transformed scalp
 from off the head of this athenian swain
 that he awaking when the other do
 may all to athens back again repair
 and think no more of this night's accidents
 but as the fierce vexation of a dream
 but first i will release the fairy queen
 be as thou wast wont to be
 see as thou wast wont to see
 dian's bud o'er cupid's flower
 hath such force and blessed power
 now my titania wake you my sweet queen
titania my oberon what visions have i seen
 methought i was enamour'd of an ass
oberon there lies your love
titania how came these things to pass
 o how mine eyes do loathe his visage now
oberon silence awhile robin take off this head
 titania music call and strike more dead
 than common sleep of all these five the sense
titania music ho music such as charmeth sleep
 music still
puck now when thou wakest with thine
 own fool's eyes peep
oberon sound music come my queen take hands with me
 and rock the ground whereon these sleepers be
 now thou and i are new in amity
 and will tomorrow midnight solemnly
 dance in duke theseus house triumphantly
 and bless it to all fair prosperity
 there shall the pairs of faithful lovers be
 wedded with theseus all in jollity
puck fairy king attend and mark
 i do hear the morning lark
oberon then my queen in silence sad
 trip we after the night's shade
 we the globe can compass soon
 swifter than the wandering moon
titania come my lord and in our flight
 tell me how it came this night
 that i sleeping here was found
 with these mortals on the ground
 exeunt
 horns winded within
 enter theseus hippolyta egeus and train
theseus go one of you find out the forester
 for now our observation is perform'd
 and since we have the vaward of the day
 my love shall hear the music of my hounds
 uncouple in the western valley let them go
 dispatch i say and find the forester
 exit an attendant
 we will fair queen up to the mountain's top
 and mark the musical confusion
 of hounds and echo in conjunction
hippolyta i was with hercules and cadmus once
 when in a wood of crete they bay'd the bear
 with hounds of sparta never did i hear
 such gallant chiding for besides the groves
 the skies the fountains every region near
 seem'd all one mutual cry i never heard
 so musical a discord such sweet thunder
theseus my hounds are bred out of the spartan kind
 so flew'd so sanded and their heads are hung
 with ears that sweep away the morning dew
 crookknee'd and dewlapp'd like thessalian bulls
 slow in pursuit but match'd in mouth like bells
 each under each a cry more tuneable
 was never holla'd to nor cheer'd with horn
 in crete in sparta nor in thessaly
 judge when you hear but soft what nymphs are these
egeus my lord this is my daughter here asleep
 and this lysander this demetrius is
 this helena old nedar's helena
 i wonder of their being here together
theseus no doubt they rose up early to observe
 the rite of may and hearing our intent
 came here in grace our solemnity
 but speak egeus is not this the day
 that hermia should give answer of her choice
egeus it is my lord
theseus go bid the huntsmen wake them with their horns
 horns and shout within lysander demetrius
 helena and hermia wake and start up
 good morrow friends saint valentine is past
 begin these woodbirds but to couple now
lysander pardon my lord
theseus i pray you all stand up
 i know you two are rival enemies
 how comes this gentle concord in the world
 that hatred is so far from jealousy
 to sleep by hate and fear no enmity
lysander my lord i shall reply amazedly
 half sleep half waking but as yet i swear
 i cannot truly say how i came here
 but as i thinkfor truly would i speak
 and now do i bethink me so it is
 i came with hermia hither our intent
 was to be gone from athens where we might
 without the peril of the athenian law
egeus enough enough my lord you have enough
 i beg the law the law upon his head
 they would have stolen away they would demetrius
 thereby to have defeated you and me
 you of your wife and me of my consent
 of my consent that she should be your wife
demetrius my lord fair helen told me of their stealth
 of this their purpose hither to this wood
 and i in fury hither follow'd them
 fair helena in fancy following me
 but my good lord i wot not by what power
 but by some power it ismy love to hermia
 melted as the snow seems to me now
 as the remembrance of an idle gaud
 which in my childhood i did dote upon
 and all the faith the virtue of my heart
 the object and the pleasure of mine eye
 is only helena to her my lord
 was i betroth'd ere i saw hermia
 but like in sickness did i loathe this food
 but as in health come to my natural taste
 now i do wish it love it long for it
 and will for evermore be true to it
theseus fair lovers you are fortunately met
 of this discourse we more will hear anon
 egeus i will overbear your will
 for in the temple by and by with us
 these couples shall eternally be knit
 and for the morning now is something worn
 our purposed hunting shall be set aside
 away with us to athens three and three
 we'll hold a feast in great solemnity
 come hippolyta
 exeunt theseus hippolyta egeus and train
demetrius these things seem small and undistinguishable
hermia methinks i see these things with parted eye
 when every thing seems double
helena so methinks
 and i have found demetrius like a jewel
 mine own and not mine own
demetrius are you sure
 that we are awake it seems to me
 that yet we sleep we dream do not you think
 the duke was here and bid us follow him
hermia yea and my father
helena and hippolyta
lysander and he did bid us follow to the temple
demetrius why then we are awake let's follow him
 and by the way let us recount our dreams
 exeunt
bottom awaking when my cue comes call me and i will
 answer my next is most fair pyramus heighho
 peter quince flute the bellowsmender snout
 the tinker starveling god's my life stolen
 hence and left me asleep i have had a most rare
 vision i have had a dream past the wit of man to
 say what dream it was man is but an ass if he go
 about to expound this dream methought i wasthere
 is no man can tell what methought i wasand
 methought i hadbut man is but a patched fool if
 he will offer to say what methought i had the eye
 of man hath not heard the ear of man hath not
 seen man's hand is not able to taste his tongue
 to conceive nor his heart to report what my dream
 was i will get peter quince to write a ballad of
 this dream it shall be called bottom's dream
 because it hath no bottom and i will sing it in the
 latter end of a play before the duke
 peradventure to make it the more gracious i shall
 sing it at her death
 exit
 a midsummer night's dream
act iv
scene ii athens quince's house
 enter quince flute snout and starveling
quince have you sent to bottom's house is he come home yet
starveling he cannot be heard of out of doubt he is
 transported
flute if he come not then the play is marred it goes
 not forward doth it
quince it is not possible you have not a man in all
 athens able to discharge pyramus but he
flute no he hath simply the best wit of any handicraft
 man in athens
quince yea and the best person too and he is a very
 paramour for a sweet voice
flute you must say paragon a paramour is god bless us
 a thing of naught
 enter snug
snug masters the duke is coming from the temple and
 there is two or three lords and ladies more married
 if our sport had gone forward we had all been made
 men
flute o sweet bully bottom thus hath he lost sixpence a
 day during his life he could not have scaped
 sixpence a day an the duke had not given him
 sixpence a day for playing pyramus i'll be hanged
 he would have deserved it sixpence a day in
 pyramus or nothing
 enter bottom
bottom where are these lads where are these hearts
quince bottom o most courageous day o most happy hour
bottom masters i am to discourse wonders but ask me not
 what for if i tell you i am no true athenian i
 will tell you every thing right as it fell out
quince let us hear sweet bottom
bottom not a word of me all that i will tell you is that
 the duke hath dined get your apparel together
 good strings to your beards new ribbons to your
 pumps meet presently at the palace every man look
 o'er his part for the short and the long is our
 play is preferred in any case let thisby have
 clean linen and let not him that plays the lion
 pair his nails for they shall hang out for the
 lion's claws and most dear actors eat no onions
 nor garlic for we are to utter sweet breath and i
 do not doubt but to hear them say it is a sweet
 comedy no more words away go away
 exeunt
 a midsummer night's dream
act v
scene i athens the palace of theseus
 enter theseus hippolyta philostrate lords and
 attendants
hippolyta tis strange my theseus that these
 lovers speak of
theseus more strange than true i never may believe
 these antique fables nor these fairy toys
 lovers and madmen have such seething brains
 such shaping fantasies that apprehend
 more than cool reason ever comprehends
 the lunatic the lover and the poet
 are of imagination all compact
 one sees more devils than vast hell can hold
 that is the madman the lover all as frantic
 sees helen's beauty in a brow of egypt
 the poet's eye in fine frenzy rolling
 doth glance from heaven to earth from earth to heaven
 and as imagination bodies forth
 the forms of things unknown the poet's pen
 turns them to shapes and gives to airy nothing
 a local habitation and a name
 such tricks hath strong imagination
 that if it would but apprehend some joy
 it comprehends some bringer of that joy
 or in the night imagining some fear
 how easy is a bush supposed a bear
hippolyta but all the story of the night told over
 and all their minds transfigured so together
 more witnesseth than fancy's images
 and grows to something of great constancy
 but howsoever strange and admirable
theseus here come the lovers full of joy and mirth
 enter lysander demetrius hermia and helena
 joy gentle friends joy and fresh days of love
 accompany your hearts
lysander more than to us
 wait in your royal walks your board your bed
theseus come now what masques what dances shall we have
 to wear away this long age of three hours
 between our aftersupper and bedtime
 where is our usual manager of mirth
 what revels are in hand is there no play
 to ease the anguish of a torturing hour
 call philostrate
philostrate here mighty theseus
theseus say what abridgement have you for this evening
 what masque what music how shall we beguile
 the lazy time if not with some delight
philostrate there is a brief how many sports are ripe
 make choice of which your highness will see first
 giving a paper
theseus reads the battle with the centaurs to be sung
 by an athenian eunuch to the harp'
 we'll none of that that have i told my love
 in glory of my kinsman hercules
 reads
 the riot of the tipsy bacchanals
 tearing the thracian singer in their rage'
 that is an old device and it was play'd
 when i from thebes came last a conqueror
 reads
 the thrice three muses mourning for the death
 of learning late deceased in beggary'
 that is some satire keen and critical
 not sorting with a nuptial ceremony
 reads
 a tedious brief scene of young pyramus
 and his love thisbe very tragical mirth'
 merry and tragical tedious and brief
 that is hot ice and wondrous strange snow
 how shall we find the concord of this discord
philostrate a play there is my lord some ten words long
 which is as brief as i have known a play
 but by ten words my lord it is too long
 which makes it tedious for in all the play
 there is not one word apt one player fitted
 and tragical my noble lord it is
 for pyramus therein doth kill himself
 which when i saw rehearsed i must confess
 made mine eyes water but more merry tears
 the passion of loud laughter never shed
theseus what are they that do play it
philostrate hardhanded men that work in athens here
 which never labour'd in their minds till now
 and now have toil'd their unbreathed memories
 with this same play against your nuptial
theseus and we will hear it
philostrate no my noble lord
 it is not for you i have heard it over
 and it is nothing nothing in the world
 unless you can find sport in their intents
 extremely stretch'd and conn'd with cruel pain
 to do you service
theseus i will hear that play
 for never anything can be amiss
 when simpleness and duty tender it
 go bring them in and take your places ladies
 exit philostrate
hippolyta i love not to see wretchedness o'er charged
 and duty in his service perishing
theseus why gentle sweet you shall see no such thing
hippolyta he says they can do nothing in this kind
theseus the kinder we to give them thanks for nothing
 our sport shall be to take what they mistake
 and what poor duty cannot do noble respect
 takes it in might not merit
 where i have come great clerks have purposed
 to greet me with premeditated welcomes
 where i have seen them shiver and look pale
 make periods in the midst of sentences
 throttle their practised accent in their fears
 and in conclusion dumbly have broke off
 not paying me a welcome trust me sweet
 out of this silence yet i pick'd a welcome
 and in the modesty of fearful duty
 i read as much as from the rattling tongue
 of saucy and audacious eloquence
 love therefore and tonguetied simplicity
 in least speak most to my capacity
 reenter philostrate
philostrate so please your grace the prologue is address'd
theseus let him approach
 flourish of trumpets
 enter quince for the prologue
prologue if we offend it is with our good will
 that you should think we come not to offend
 but with good will to show our simple skill
 that is the true beginning of our end
 consider then we come but in despite
 we do not come as minding to contest you
 our true intent is all for your delight
 we are not here that you should here repent you
 the actors are at hand and by their show
 you shall know all that you are like to know
theseus this fellow doth not stand upon points
lysander he hath rid his prologue like a rough colt he knows
 not the stop a good moral my lord it is not
 enough to speak but to speak true
hippolyta indeed he hath played on his prologue like a child
 on a recorder a sound but not in government
theseus his speech was like a tangled chain nothing
 impaired but all disordered who is next
 enter pyramus and thisbe wall moonshine and lion
prologue gentles perchance you wonder at this show
 but wonder on till truth make all things plain
 this man is pyramus if you would know
 this beauteous lady thisby is certain
 this man with lime and roughcast doth present
 wall that vile wall which did these lovers sunder
 and through wall's chink poor souls they are content
 to whisper at the which let no man wonder
 this man with lanthorn dog and bush of thorn
 presenteth moonshine for if you will know
 by moonshine did these lovers think no scorn
 to meet at ninus tomb there there to woo
 this grisly beast which lion hight by name
 the trusty thisby coming first by night
 did scare away or rather did affright
 and as she fled her mantle she did fall
 which lion vile with bloody mouth did stain
 anon comes pyramus sweet youth and tall
 and finds his trusty thisby's mantle slain
 whereat with blade with bloody blameful blade
 he bravely broach'd is boiling bloody breast
 and thisby tarrying in mulberry shade
 his dagger drew and died for all the rest
 let lion moonshine wall and lovers twain
 at large discourse while here they do remain
 exeunt prologue thisbe lion and moonshine
theseus i wonder if the lion be to speak
demetrius no wonder my lord one lion may when many asses do
wall in this same interlude it doth befall
 that i one snout by name present a wall
 and such a wall as i would have you think
 that had in it a crannied hole or chink
 through which the lovers pyramus and thisby
 did whisper often very secretly
 this loam this roughcast and this stone doth show
 that i am that same wall the truth is so
 and this the cranny is right and sinister
 through which the fearful lovers are to whisper
theseus would you desire lime and hair to speak better
demetrius it is the wittiest partition that ever i heard
 discourse my lord
 enter pyramus
theseus pyramus draws near the wall silence
pyramus o grimlook'd night o night with hue so black
 o night which ever art when day is not
 o night o night alack alack alack
 i fear my thisby's promise is forgot
 and thou o wall o sweet o lovely wall
 that stand'st between her father's ground and mine
 thou wall o wall o sweet and lovely wall
 show me thy chink to blink through with mine eyne
 wall holds up his fingers
 thanks courteous wall jove shield thee well for this
 but what see i no thisby do i see
 o wicked wall through whom i see no bliss
 cursed be thy stones for thus deceiving me
theseus the wall methinks being sensible should curse again
pyramus no in truth sir he should not deceiving me'
 is thisby's cue she is to enter now and i am to
 spy her through the wall you shall see it will
 fall pat as i told you yonder she comes
 enter thisbe
thisbe o wall full often hast thou heard my moans
 for parting my fair pyramus and me
 my cherry lips have often kiss'd thy stones
 thy stones with lime and hair knit up in thee
pyramus i see a voice now will i to the chink
 to spy an i can hear my thisby's face thisby
thisbe my love thou art my love i think
pyramus think what thou wilt i am thy lover's grace
 and like limander am i trusty still
thisbe and i like helen till the fates me kill
pyramus not shafalus to procrus was so true
thisbe as shafalus to procrus i to you
pyramus o kiss me through the hole of this vile wall
thisbe i kiss the wall's hole not your lips at all
pyramus wilt thou at ninny's tomb meet me straightway
thisbe tide life tide death i come without delay
 exeunt pyramus and thisbe
wall thus have i wall my part discharged so
 and being done thus wall away doth go
 exit
theseus now is the mural down between the two neighbours
demetrius no remedy my lord when walls are so wilful to hear
 without warning
hippolyta this is the silliest stuff that ever i heard
theseus the best in this kind are but shadows and the worst
 are no worse if imagination amend them
hippolyta it must be your imagination then and not theirs
theseus if we imagine no worse of them than they of
 themselves they may pass for excellent men here
 come two noble beasts in a man and a lion
 enter lion and moonshine
lion you ladies you whose gentle hearts do fear
 the smallest monstrous mouse that creeps on floor
 may now perchance both quake and tremble here
 when lion rough in wildest rage doth roar
 then know that i one snug the joiner am
 a lionfell nor else no lion's dam
 for if i should as lion come in strife
 into this place twere pity on my life
theseus a very gentle beast of a good conscience
demetrius the very best at a beast my lord that e'er i saw
lysander this lion is a very fox for his valour
theseus true and a goose for his discretion
demetrius not so my lord for his valour cannot carry his
 discretion and the fox carries the goose
theseus his discretion i am sure cannot carry his valour
 for the goose carries not the fox it is well
 leave it to his discretion and let us listen to the moon
moonshine this lanthorn doth the horned moon present
demetrius he should have worn the horns on his head
theseus he is no crescent and his horns are
 invisible within the circumference
moonshine this lanthorn doth the horned moon present
 myself the man i the moon do seem to be
theseus this is the greatest error of all the rest the man
 should be put into the lanthorn how is it else the
 man i the moon
demetrius he dares not come there for the candle for you
 see it is already in snuff
hippolyta i am aweary of this moon would he would change
theseus it appears by his small light of discretion that
 he is in the wane but yet in courtesy in all
 reason we must stay the time
lysander proceed moon
moonshine all that i have to say is to tell you that the
 lanthorn is the moon i the man in the moon this
 thornbush my thornbush and this dog my dog
demetrius why all these should be in the lanthorn for all
 these are in the moon but silence here comes thisbe
 enter thisbe
thisbe this is old ninny's tomb where is my love
lion roaring oh
 thisbe runs off
demetrius well roared lion
theseus well run thisbe
hippolyta well shone moon truly the moon shines with a
 good grace
 the lion shakes thisbe's mantle and exit
theseus well moused lion
lysander and so the lion vanished
demetrius and then came pyramus
 enter pyramus
pyramus sweet moon i thank thee for thy sunny beams
 i thank thee moon for shining now so bright
 for by thy gracious golden glittering gleams
 i trust to take of truest thisby sight
 but stay o spite
 but mark poor knight
 what dreadful dole is here
 eyes do you see
 how can it be
 o dainty duck o dear
 thy mantle good
 what stain'd with blood
 approach ye furies fell
 o fates come come
 cut thread and thrum
 quail crush conclude and quell
theseus this passion and the death of a dear friend would
 go near to make a man look sad
hippolyta beshrew my heart but i pity the man
pyramus o wherefore nature didst thou lions frame
 since lion vile hath here deflower'd my dear
 which isno nowhich was the fairest dame
 that lived that loved that liked that look'd
 with cheer
 come tears confound
 out sword and wound
 the pap of pyramus
 ay that left pap
 where heart doth hop
 stabs himself
 thus die i thus thus thus
 now am i dead
 now am i fled
 my soul is in the sky
 tongue lose thy light
 moon take thy flight
 exit moonshine
 now die die die die die
 dies
demetrius no die but an ace for him for he is but one
lysander less than an ace man for he is dead he is nothing
theseus with the help of a surgeon he might yet recover and
 prove an ass
hippolyta how chance moonshine is gone before thisbe comes
 back and finds her lover
theseus she will find him by starlight here she comes and
 her passion ends the play
 reenter thisbe
hippolyta methinks she should not use a long one for such a
 pyramus i hope she will be brief
demetrius a mote will turn the balance which pyramus which
 thisbe is the better he for a man god warrant us
 she for a woman god bless us
lysander she hath spied him already with those sweet eyes
demetrius and thus she means videlicet
thisbe asleep my love
 what dead my dove
 o pyramus arise
 speak speak quite dumb
 dead dead a tomb
 must cover thy sweet eyes
 these my lips
 this cherry nose
 these yellow cowslip cheeks
 are gone are gone
 lovers make moan
 his eyes were green as leeks
 o sisters three
 come come to me
 with hands as pale as milk
 lay them in gore
 since you have shore
 with shears his thread of silk
 tongue not a word
 come trusty sword
 come blade my breast imbrue
 stabs herself
 and farewell friends
 thus thisby ends
 adieu adieu adieu
 dies
theseus moonshine and lion are left to bury the dead
demetrius ay and wall too
bottom starting up no assure you the wall is down that
 parted their fathers will it please you to see the
 epilogue or to hear a bergomask dance between two
 of our company
theseus no epilogue i pray you for your play needs no
 excuse never excuse for when the players are all
 dead there needs none to be blamed marry if he
 that writ it had played pyramus and hanged himself
 in thisbe's garter it would have been a fine
 tragedy and so it is truly and very notably
 discharged but come your bergomask let your
 epilogue alone
 a dance
 the iron tongue of midnight hath told twelve
 lovers to bed tis almost fairy time
 i fear we shall outsleep the coming morn
 as much as we this night have overwatch'd
 this palpablegross play hath well beguiled
 the heavy gait of night sweet friends to bed
 a fortnight hold we this solemnity
 in nightly revels and new jollity
 exeunt
 enter puck
puck now the hungry lion roars
 and the wolf behowls the moon
 whilst the heavy ploughman snores
 all with weary task fordone
 now the wasted brands do glow
 whilst the screechowl screeching loud
 puts the wretch that lies in woe
 in remembrance of a shroud
 now it is the time of night
 that the graves all gaping wide
 every one lets forth his sprite
 in the churchway paths to glide
 and we fairies that do run
 by the triple hecate's team
 from the presence of the sun
 following darkness like a dream
 now are frolic not a mouse
 shall disturb this hallow'd house
 i am sent with broom before
 to sweep the dust behind the door
 enter oberon and titania with their train
oberon through the house give gathering light
 by the dead and drowsy fire
 every elf and fairy sprite
 hop as light as bird from brier
 and this ditty after me
 sing and dance it trippingly
titania first rehearse your song by rote
 to each word a warbling note
 hand in hand with fairy grace
 will we sing and bless this place
 song and dance
oberon now until the break of day
 through this house each fairy stray
 to the best bridebed will we
 which by us shall blessed be
 and the issue there create
 ever shall be fortunate
 so shall all the couples three
 ever true in loving be
 and the blots of nature's hand
 shall not in their issue stand
 never mole hare lip nor scar
 nor mark prodigious such as are
 despised in nativity
 shall upon their children be
 with this fielddew consecrate
 every fairy take his gait
 and each several chamber bless
 through this palace with sweet peace
 and the owner of it blest
 ever shall in safety rest
 trip away make no stay
 meet me all by break of day
 exeunt oberon titania and train
puck if we shadows have offended
 think but this and all is mended
 that you have but slumber'd here
 while these visions did appear
 and this weak and idle theme
 no more yielding but a dream
 gentles do not reprehend
 if you pardon we will mend
 and as i am an honest puck
 if we have unearned luck
 now to scape the serpent's tongue
 we will make amends ere long
 else the puck a liar call
 so good night unto you all
 give me your hands if we be friends
 and robin shall restore amends
 much ado about nothing
 dramatis personae
don pedro prince of arragon
don john his bastard brother
claudio a young lord of florence
benedick a young lord of padua
leonato governor of messina
antonio his brother
balthasar attendant on don pedro
conrade 
 followers of don john
borachio 
friar francis
dogberry a constable
verges a headborough
 a sexton
 a boy
hero daughter to leonato
beatrice niece to leonato
margaret 
 gentlewomen attending on hero
ursula 
 messengers watch attendants &c lord
 messenger
 watchman
 first watchman
 second watchman
scene messina
 much ado about nothing
act i
scene i before leonato's house
 enter leonato hero and beatrice with a
 messenger
leonato i learn in this letter that don peter of arragon
 comes this night to messina
messenger he is very near by this he was not three leagues off
 when i left him
leonato how many gentlemen have you lost in this action
messenger but few of any sort and none of name
leonato a victory is twice itself when the achiever brings
 home full numbers i find here that don peter hath
 bestowed much honour on a young florentine called claudio
messenger much deserved on his part and equally remembered by
 don pedro he hath borne himself beyond the
 promise of his age doing in the figure of a lamb
 the feats of a lion he hath indeed better
 bettered expectation than you must expect of me to
 tell you how
leonato he hath an uncle here in messina will be very much
 glad of it
messenger i have already delivered him letters and there
 appears much joy in him even so much that joy could
 not show itself modest enough without a badge of
 bitterness
leonato did he break out into tears
messenger in great measure
leonato a kind overflow of kindness there are no faces
 truer than those that are so washed how much
 better is it to weep at joy than to joy at weeping
beatrice i pray you is signior mountanto returned from the
 wars or no
messenger i know none of that name lady there was none such
 in the army of any sort
leonato what is he that you ask for niece
hero my cousin means signior benedick of padua
messenger o he's returned and as pleasant as ever he was
beatrice he set up his bills here in messina and challenged
 cupid at the flight and my uncle's fool reading
 the challenge subscribed for cupid and challenged
 him at the birdbolt i pray you how many hath he
 killed and eaten in these wars but how many hath
 he killed for indeed i promised to eat all of his killing
leonato faith niece you tax signior benedick too much
 but he'll be meet with you i doubt it not
messenger he hath done good service lady in these wars
beatrice you had musty victual and he hath holp to eat it
 he is a very valiant trencherman he hath an
 excellent stomach
messenger and a good soldier too lady
beatrice and a good soldier to a lady but what is he to a lord
messenger a lord to a lord a man to a man stuffed with all
 honourable virtues
beatrice it is so indeed he is no less than a stuffed man
 but for the stuffingwell we are all mortal
leonato you must not sir mistake my niece there is a
 kind of merry war betwixt signior benedick and her
 they never meet but there's a skirmish of wit
 between them
beatrice alas he gets nothing by that in our last
 conflict four of his five wits went halting off and
 now is the whole man governed with one so that if
 he have wit enough to keep himself warm let him
 bear it for a difference between himself and his
 horse for it is all the wealth that he hath left
 to be known a reasonable creature who is his
 companion now he hath every month a new sworn brother
messenger is't possible
beatrice very easily possible he wears his faith but as
 the fashion of his hat it ever changes with the
 next block
messenger i see lady the gentleman is not in your books
beatrice no an he were i would burn my study but i pray
 you who is his companion is there no young
 squarer now that will make a voyage with him to the devil
messenger he is most in the company of the right noble claudio
beatrice o lord he will hang upon him like a disease he
 is sooner caught than the pestilence and the taker
 runs presently mad god help the noble claudio if
 he have caught the benedick it will cost him a
 thousand pound ere a be cured
messenger i will hold friends with you lady
beatrice do good friend
leonato you will never run mad niece
beatrice no not till a hot january
messenger don pedro is approached
 enter don pedro don john claudio benedick
 and balthasar
don pedro good signior leonato you are come to meet your
 trouble the fashion of the world is to avoid
 cost and you encounter it
leonato never came trouble to my house in the likeness of
 your grace for trouble being gone comfort should
 remain but when you depart from me sorrow abides
 and happiness takes his leave
don pedro you embrace your charge too willingly i think this
 is your daughter
leonato her mother hath many times told me so
benedick were you in doubt sir that you asked her
leonato signior benedick no for then were you a child
don pedro you have it full benedick we may guess by this
 what you are being a man truly the lady fathers
 herself be happy lady for you are like an
 honourable father
benedick if signior leonato be her father she would not
 have his head on her shoulders for all messina as
 like him as she is
beatrice i wonder that you will still be talking signior
 benedick nobody marks you
benedick what my dear lady disdain are you yet living
beatrice is it possible disdain should die while she hath
 such meet food to feed it as signior benedick
 courtesy itself must convert to disdain if you come
 in her presence
benedick then is courtesy a turncoat but it is certain i
 am loved of all ladies only you excepted and i
 would i could find in my heart that i had not a hard
 heart for truly i love none
beatrice a dear happiness to women they would else have
 been troubled with a pernicious suitor i thank god
 and my cold blood i am of your humour for that i
 had rather hear my dog bark at a crow than a man
 swear he loves me
benedick god keep your ladyship still in that mind so some
 gentleman or other shall scape a predestinate
 scratched face
beatrice scratching could not make it worse an twere such
 a face as yours were
benedick well you are a rare parrotteacher
beatrice a bird of my tongue is better than a beast of yours
benedick i would my horse had the speed of your tongue and
 so good a continuer but keep your way i god's
 name i have done
beatrice you always end with a jade's trick i know you of old
don pedro that is the sum of all leonato signior claudio
 and signior benedick my dear friend leonato hath
 invited you all i tell him we shall stay here at
 the least a month and he heartily prays some
 occasion may detain us longer i dare swear he is no
 hypocrite but prays from his heart
leonato if you swear my lord you shall not be forsworn
 to don john
 let me bid you welcome my lord being reconciled to
 the prince your brother i owe you all duty
don john i thank you i am not of many words but i thank
 you
leonato please it your grace lead on
don pedro your hand leonato we will go together
 exeunt all except benedick and claudio
claudio benedick didst thou note the daughter of signior leonato
benedick i noted her not but i looked on her
claudio is she not a modest young lady
benedick do you question me as an honest man should do for
 my simple true judgment or would you have me speak
 after my custom as being a professed tyrant to their sex
claudio no i pray thee speak in sober judgment
benedick why i faith methinks she's too low for a high
 praise too brown for a fair praise and too little
 for a great praise only this commendation i can
 afford her that were she other than she is she
 were unhandsome and being no other but as she is i
 do not like her
claudio thou thinkest i am in sport i pray thee tell me
 truly how thou likest her
benedick would you buy her that you inquire after her
claudio can the world buy such a jewel
benedick yea and a case to put it into but speak you this
 with a sad brow or do you play the flouting jack
 to tell us cupid is a good harefinder and vulcan a
 rare carpenter come in what key shall a man take
 you to go in the song
claudio in mine eye she is the sweetest lady that ever i
 looked on
benedick i can see yet without spectacles and i see no such
 matter there's her cousin an she were not
 possessed with a fury exceeds her as much in beauty
 as the first of may doth the last of december but i
 hope you have no intent to turn husband have you
claudio i would scarce trust myself though i had sworn the
 contrary if hero would be my wife
benedick is't come to this in faith hath not the world
 one man but he will wear his cap with suspicion
 shall i never see a bachelor of threescore again
 go to i faith an thou wilt needs thrust thy neck
 into a yoke wear the print of it and sigh away
 sundays look don pedro is returned to seek you
 reenter don pedro
don pedro what secret hath held you here that you followed
 not to leonato's
benedick i would your grace would constrain me to tell
don pedro i charge thee on thy allegiance
benedick you hear count claudio i can be secret as a dumb
 man i would have you think so but on my
 allegiance mark you this on my allegiance he is
 in love with who now that is your grace's part
 mark how short his answer iswith hero leonato's
 short daughter
claudio if this were so so were it uttered
benedick like the old tale my lord it is not so nor
 twas not so but indeed god forbid it should be
 so'
claudio if my passion change not shortly god forbid it
 should be otherwise
don pedro amen if you love her for the lady is very well worthy
claudio you speak this to fetch me in my lord
don pedro by my troth i speak my thought
claudio and in faith my lord i spoke mine
benedick and by my two faiths and troths my lord i spoke mine
claudio that i love her i feel
don pedro that she is worthy i know
benedick that i neither feel how she should be loved nor
 know how she should be worthy is the opinion that
 fire cannot melt out of me i will die in it at the stake
don pedro thou wast ever an obstinate heretic in the despite
 of beauty
claudio and never could maintain his part but in the force
 of his will
benedick that a woman conceived me i thank her that she
 brought me up i likewise give her most humble
 thanks but that i will have a recheat winded in my
 forehead or hang my bugle in an invisible baldrick
 all women shall pardon me because i will not do
 them the wrong to mistrust any i will do myself the
 right to trust none and the fine is for the which
 i may go the finer i will live a bachelor
don pedro i shall see thee ere i die look pale with love
benedick with anger with sickness or with hunger my lord
 not with love prove that ever i lose more blood
 with love than i will get again with drinking pick
 out mine eyes with a balladmaker's pen and hang me
 up at the door of a brothelhouse for the sign of
 blind cupid
don pedro well if ever thou dost fall from this faith thou
 wilt prove a notable argument
benedick if i do hang me in a bottle like a cat and shoot
 at me and he that hits me let him be clapped on
 the shoulder and called adam
don pedro well as time shall try in time the savage bull
 doth bear the yoke'
benedick the savage bull may but if ever the sensible
 benedick bear it pluck off the bull's horns and set
 them in my forehead and let me be vilely painted
 and in such great letters as they write here is
 good horse to hire let them signify under my sign
 here you may see benedick the married man'
claudio if this should ever happen thou wouldst be hornmad
don pedro nay if cupid have not spent all his quiver in
 venice thou wilt quake for this shortly
benedick i look for an earthquake too then
don pedro well you temporize with the hours in the
 meantime good signior benedick repair to
 leonato's commend me to him and tell him i will
 not fail him at supper for indeed he hath made
 great preparation
benedick i have almost matter enough in me for such an
 embassage and so i commit you
claudio to the tuition of god from my house if i had it
don pedro the sixth of july your loving friend benedick
benedick nay mock not mock not the body of your
 discourse is sometime guarded with fragments and
 the guards are but slightly basted on neither ere
 you flout old ends any further examine your
 conscience and so i leave you
 exit
claudio my liege your highness now may do me good
don pedro my love is thine to teach teach it but how
 and thou shalt see how apt it is to learn
 any hard lesson that may do thee good
claudio hath leonato any son my lord
don pedro no child but hero she's his only heir
 dost thou affect her claudio
claudio o my lord
 when you went onward on this ended action
 i look'd upon her with a soldier's eye
 that liked but had a rougher task in hand
 than to drive liking to the name of love
 but now i am return'd and that warthoughts
 have left their places vacant in their rooms
 come thronging soft and delicate desires
 all prompting me how fair young hero is
 saying i liked her ere i went to wars
don pedro thou wilt be like a lover presently
 and tire the hearer with a book of words
 if thou dost love fair hero cherish it
 and i will break with her and with her father
 and thou shalt have her was't not to this end
 that thou began'st to twist so fine a story
claudio how sweetly you do minister to love
 that know love's grief by his complexion
 but lest my liking might too sudden seem
 i would have salved it with a longer treatise
don pedro what need the bridge much broader than the flood
 the fairest grant is the necessity
 look what will serve is fit tis once thou lovest
 and i will fit thee with the remedy
 i know we shall have revelling tonight
 i will assume thy part in some disguise
 and tell fair hero i am claudio
 and in her bosom i'll unclasp my heart
 and take her hearing prisoner with the force
 and strong encounter of my amorous tale
 then after to her father will i break
 and the conclusion is she shall be thine
 in practise let us put it presently
 exeunt
 much ado about nothing
act i
scene ii a room in leonato's house
 enter leonato and antonio meeting
leonato how now brother where is my cousin your son
 hath he provided this music
antonio he is very busy about it but brother i can tell
 you strange news that you yet dreamt not of
leonato are they good
antonio as the event stamps them but they have a good
 cover they show well outward the prince and count
 claudio walking in a thickpleached alley in mine
 orchard were thus much overheard by a man of mine
 the prince discovered to claudio that he loved my
 niece your daughter and meant to acknowledge it
 this night in a dance and if he found her
 accordant he meant to take the present time by the
 top and instantly break with you of it
leonato hath the fellow any wit that told you this
antonio a good sharp fellow i will send for him and
 question him yourself
leonato no no we will hold it as a dream till it appear
 itself but i will acquaint my daughter withal
 that she may be the better prepared for an answer
 if peradventure this be true go you and tell her of it
 enter attendants
 cousins you know what you have to do o i cry you
 mercy friend go you with me and i will use your
 skill good cousin have a care this busy time
 exeunt
 much ado about nothing
act i
scene iii the same
 enter don john and conrade
conrade what the goodyear my lord why are you thus out
 of measure sad
don john there is no measure in the occasion that breeds
 therefore the sadness is without limit
conrade you should hear reason
don john and when i have heard it what blessing brings it
conrade if not a present remedy at least a patient
 sufferance
don john i wonder that thou being as thou sayest thou art
 born under saturn goest about to apply a moral
 medicine to a mortifying mischief i cannot hide
 what i am i must be sad when i have cause and smile
 at no man's jests eat when i have stomach and wait
 for no man's leisure sleep when i am drowsy and
 tend on no man's business laugh when i am merry and
 claw no man in his humour
conrade yea but you must not make the full show of this
 till you may do it without controlment you have of
 late stood out against your brother and he hath
 ta'en you newly into his grace where it is
 impossible you should take true root but by the
 fair weather that you make yourself it is needful
 that you frame the season for your own harvest
don john i had rather be a canker in a hedge than a rose in
 his grace and it better fits my blood to be
 disdained of all than to fashion a carriage to rob
 love from any in this though i cannot be said to
 be a flattering honest man it must not be denied
 but i am a plaindealing villain i am trusted with
 a muzzle and enfranchised with a clog therefore i
 have decreed not to sing in my cage if i had my
 mouth i would bite if i had my liberty i would do
 my liking in the meantime let me be that i am and
 seek not to alter me
conrade can you make no use of your discontent
don john i make all use of it for i use it only
 who comes here
 enter borachio
 what news borachio
borachio i came yonder from a great supper the prince your
 brother is royally entertained by leonato and i
 can give you intelligence of an intended marriage
don john will it serve for any model to build mischief on
 what is he for a fool that betroths himself to
 unquietness
borachio marry it is your brother's right hand
don john who the most exquisite claudio
borachio even he
don john a proper squire and who and who which way looks
 he
borachio marry on hero the daughter and heir of leonato
don john a very forward marchchick how came you to this
borachio being entertained for a perfumer as i was smoking a
 musty room comes me the prince and claudio hand
 in hand in sad conference i whipt me behind the
 arras and there heard it agreed upon that the
 prince should woo hero for himself and having
 obtained her give her to count claudio
don john come come let us thither this may prove food to
 my displeasure that young startup hath all the
 glory of my overthrow if i can cross him any way i
 bless myself every way you are both sure and will assist me
conrade to the death my lord
don john let us to the great supper their cheer is the
 greater that i am subdued would the cook were of
 my mind shall we go prove what's to be done
borachio we'll wait upon your lordship
 exeunt
 much ado about nothing
act ii
scene i a hall in leonato's house
 enter leonato antonio hero beatrice and others
leonato was not count john here at supper
antonio i saw him not
beatrice how tartly that gentleman looks i never can see
 him but i am heartburned an hour after
hero he is of a very melancholy disposition
beatrice he were an excellent man that were made just in the
 midway between him and benedick the one is too
 like an image and says nothing and the other too
 like my lady's eldest son evermore tattling
leonato then half signior benedick's tongue in count john's
 mouth and half count john's melancholy in signior
 benedick's face
beatrice with a good leg and a good foot uncle and money
 enough in his purse such a man would win any woman
 in the world if a could get her goodwill
leonato by my troth niece thou wilt never get thee a
 husband if thou be so shrewd of thy tongue
antonio in faith she's too curst
beatrice too curst is more than curst i shall lessen god's
 sending that way for it is said god sends a curst
 cow short horns but to a cow too curst he sends none
leonato so by being too curst god will send you no horns
beatrice just if he send me no husband for the which
 blessing i am at him upon my knees every morning and
 evening lord i could not endure a husband with a
 beard on his face i had rather lie in the woollen
leonato you may light on a husband that hath no beard
beatrice what should i do with him dress him in my apparel
 and make him my waitinggentlewoman he that hath a
 beard is more than a youth and he that hath no
 beard is less than a man and he that is more than
 a youth is not for me and he that is less than a
 man i am not for him therefore i will even take
 sixpence in earnest of the bearward and lead his
 apes into hell
leonato well then go you into hell
beatrice no but to the gate and there will the devil meet
 me like an old cuckold with horns on his head and
 say get you to heaven beatrice get you to
 heaven here's no place for you maids so deliver
 i up my apes and away to saint peter for the
 heavens he shows me where the bachelors sit and
 there live we as merry as the day is long
antonio to hero well niece i trust you will be ruled
 by your father
beatrice yes faith it is my cousin's duty to make curtsy
 and say father as it please you but yet for all
 that cousin let him be a handsome fellow or else
 make another curtsy and say father as it please
 me'
leonato well niece i hope to see you one day fitted with a husband
beatrice not till god make men of some other metal than
 earth would it not grieve a woman to be
 overmastered with a pierce of valiant dust to make
 an account of her life to a clod of wayward marl
 no uncle i'll none adam's sons are my brethren
 and truly i hold it a sin to match in my kindred
leonato daughter remember what i told you if the prince
 do solicit you in that kind you know your answer
beatrice the fault will be in the music cousin if you be
 not wooed in good time if the prince be too
 important tell him there is measure in every thing
 and so dance out the answer for hear me hero
 wooing wedding and repenting is as a scotch jig
 a measure and a cinque pace the first suit is hot
 and hasty like a scotch jig and full as
 fantastical the wedding mannerlymodest as a
 measure full of state and ancientry and then comes
 repentance and with his bad legs falls into the
 cinque pace faster and faster till he sink into his grave
leonato cousin you apprehend passing shrewdly
beatrice i have a good eye uncle i can see a church by daylight
leonato the revellers are entering brother make good room
 all put on their masks
 enter don pedro claudio benedick balthasar
 don john borachio margaret ursula and others masked
don pedro lady will you walk about with your friend
hero so you walk softly and look sweetly and say nothing
 i am yours for the walk and especially when i walk away
don pedro with me in your company
hero i may say so when i please
don pedro and when please you to say so
hero when i like your favour for god defend the lute
 should be like the case
don pedro my visor is philemon's roof within the house is jove
hero why then your visor should be thatched
don pedro speak low if you speak love
 drawing her aside
balthasar well i would you did like me
margaret so would not i for your own sake for i have many
 illqualities
balthasar which is one
margaret i say my prayers aloud
balthasar i love you the better the hearers may cry amen
margaret god match me with a good dancer
balthasar amen
margaret and god keep him out of my sight when the dance is
 done answer clerk
balthasar no more words the clerk is answered
ursula i know you well enough you are signior antonio
antonio at a word i am not
ursula i know you by the waggling of your head
antonio to tell you true i counterfeit him
ursula you could never do him so illwell unless you were
 the very man here's his dry hand up and down you
 are he you are he
antonio at a word i am not
ursula come come do you think i do not know you by your
 excellent wit can virtue hide itself go to
 mum you are he graces will appear and there's an
 end
beatrice will you not tell me who told you so
benedick no you shall pardon me
beatrice nor will you not tell me who you are
benedick not now
beatrice that i was disdainful and that i had my good wit
 out of the hundred merry tales'well this was
 signior benedick that said so
benedick what's he
beatrice i am sure you know him well enough
benedick not i believe me
beatrice did he never make you laugh
benedick i pray you what is he
beatrice why he is the prince's jester a very dull fool
 only his gift is in devising impossible slanders
 none but libertines delight in him and the
 commendation is not in his wit but in his villany
 for he both pleases men and angers them and then
 they laugh at him and beat him i am sure he is in
 the fleet i would he had boarded me
benedick when i know the gentleman i'll tell him what you say
beatrice do do he'll but break a comparison or two on me
 which peradventure not marked or not laughed at
 strikes him into melancholy and then there's a
 partridge wing saved for the fool will eat no
 supper that night
 music
 we must follow the leaders
benedick in every good thing
beatrice nay if they lead to any ill i will leave them at
 the next turning
 dance then exeunt all except don john borachio
 and claudio
don john sure my brother is amorous on hero and hath
 withdrawn her father to break with him about it
 the ladies follow her and but one visor remains
borachio and that is claudio i know him by his bearing
don john are not you signior benedick
claudio you know me well i am he
don john signior you are very near my brother in his love
 he is enamoured on hero i pray you dissuade him
 from her she is no equal for his birth you may
 do the part of an honest man in it
claudio how know you he loves her
don john i heard him swear his affection
borachio so did i too and he swore he would marry her tonight
don john come let us to the banquet
 exeunt don john and borachio
claudio thus answer i in the name of benedick
 but hear these ill news with the ears of claudio
 tis certain so the prince wooes for himself
 friendship is constant in all other things
 save in the office and affairs of love
 therefore all hearts in love use their own tongues
 let every eye negotiate for itself
 and trust no agent for beauty is a witch
 against whose charms faith melteth into blood
 this is an accident of hourly proof
 which i mistrusted not farewell therefore hero
 reenter benedick
benedick count claudio
claudio yea the same
benedick come will you go with me
claudio whither
benedick even to the next willow about your own business
 county what fashion will you wear the garland of
 about your neck like an usurer's chain or under
 your arm like a lieutenant's scarf you must wear
 it one way for the prince hath got your hero
claudio i wish him joy of her
benedick why that's spoken like an honest drovier so they
 sell bullocks but did you think the prince would
 have served you thus
claudio i pray you leave me
benedick ho now you strike like the blind man twas the
 boy that stole your meat and you'll beat the post
claudio if it will not be i'll leave you
 exit
benedick alas poor hurt fowl now will he creep into sedges
 but that my lady beatrice should know me and not
 know me the prince's fool ha it may be i go
 under that title because i am merry yea but so i
 am apt to do myself wrong i am not so reputed it
 is the base though bitter disposition of beatrice
 that puts the world into her person and so gives me
 out well i'll be revenged as i may
 reenter don pedro
don pedro now signior where's the count did you see him
benedick troth my lord i have played the part of lady fame
 i found him here as melancholy as a lodge in a
 warren i told him and i think i told him true
 that your grace had got the good will of this young
 lady and i offered him my company to a willowtree
 either to make him a garland as being forsaken or
 to bind him up a rod as being worthy to be whipped
don pedro to be whipped what's his fault
benedick the flat transgression of a schoolboy who being
 overjoyed with finding a birds nest shows it his
 companion and he steals it
don pedro wilt thou make a trust a transgression the
 transgression is in the stealer
benedick yet it had not been amiss the rod had been made
 and the garland too for the garland he might have
 worn himself and the rod he might have bestowed on
 you who as i take it have stolen his birds nest
don pedro i will but teach them to sing and restore them to
 the owner
benedick if their singing answer your saying by my faith
 you say honestly
don pedro the lady beatrice hath a quarrel to you the
 gentleman that danced with her told her she is much
 wronged by you
benedick o she misused me past the endurance of a block
 an oak but with one green leaf on it would have
 answered her my very visor began to assume life and
 scold with her she told me not thinking i had been
 myself that i was the prince's jester that i was
 duller than a great thaw huddling jest upon jest
 with such impossible conveyance upon me that i stood
 like a man at a mark with a whole army shooting at
 me she speaks poniards and every word stabs
 if her breath were as terrible as her terminations
 there were no living near her she would infect to
 the north star i would not marry her though she
 were endowed with all that adam bad left him before
 he transgressed she would have made hercules have
 turned spit yea and have cleft his club to make
 the fire too come talk not of her you shall find
 her the infernal ate in good apparel i would to god
 some scholar would conjure her for certainly while
 she is here a man may live as quiet in hell as in a
 sanctuary and people sin upon purpose because they
 would go thither so indeed all disquiet horror
 and perturbation follows her
don pedro look here she comes
 enter claudio beatrice hero and leonato
benedick will your grace command me any service to the
 world's end i will go on the slightest errand now
 to the antipodes that you can devise to send me on
 i will fetch you a toothpicker now from the
 furthest inch of asia bring you the length of
 prester john's foot fetch you a hair off the great
 cham's beard do you any embassage to the pigmies
 rather than hold three words conference with this
 harpy you have no employment for me
don pedro none but to desire your good company
benedick o god sir here's a dish i love not i cannot
 endure my lady tongue
 exit
don pedro come lady come you have lost the heart of
 signior benedick
beatrice indeed my lord he lent it me awhile and i gave
 him use for it a double heart for his single one
 marry once before he won it of me with false dice
 therefore your grace may well say i have lost it
don pedro you have put him down lady you have put him down
beatrice so i would not he should do me my lord lest i
 should prove the mother of fools i have brought
 count claudio whom you sent me to seek
don pedro why how now count wherefore are you sad
claudio not sad my lord
don pedro how then sick
claudio neither my lord
beatrice the count is neither sad nor sick nor merry nor
 well but civil count civil as an orange and
 something of that jealous complexion
don pedro i faith lady i think your blazon to be true
 though i'll be sworn if he be so his conceit is
 false here claudio i have wooed in thy name and
 fair hero is won i have broke with her father
 and his good will obtained name the day of
 marriage and god give thee joy
leonato count take of me my daughter and with her my
 fortunes his grace hath made the match and an
 grace say amen to it
beatrice speak count tis your cue
claudio silence is the perfectest herald of joy i were
 but little happy if i could say how much lady as
 you are mine i am yours i give away myself for
 you and dote upon the exchange
beatrice speak cousin or if you cannot stop his mouth
 with a kiss and let not him speak neither
don pedro in faith lady you have a merry heart
beatrice yea my lord i thank it poor fool it keeps on
 the windy side of care my cousin tells him in his
 ear that he is in her heart
claudio and so she doth cousin
beatrice good lord for alliance thus goes every one to the
 world but i and i am sunburnt i may sit in a
 corner and cry heighho for a husband
don pedro lady beatrice i will get you one
beatrice i would rather have one of your father's getting
 hath your grace ne'er a brother like you your
 father got excellent husbands if a maid could come by them
don pedro will you have me lady
beatrice no my lord unless i might have another for
 workingdays your grace is too costly to wear
 every day but i beseech your grace pardon me i
 was born to speak all mirth and no matter
don pedro your silence most offends me and to be merry best
 becomes you for out of question you were born in
 a merry hour
beatrice no sure my lord my mother cried but then there
 was a star danced and under that was i born
 cousins god give you joy
leonato niece will you look to those things i told you of
beatrice i cry you mercy uncle by your grace's pardon
 exit
don pedro by my troth a pleasantspirited lady
leonato there's little of the melancholy element in her my
 lord she is never sad but when she sleeps and
 not ever sad then for i have heard my daughter say
 she hath often dreamed of unhappiness and waked
 herself with laughing
don pedro she cannot endure to hear tell of a husband
leonato o by no means she mocks all her wooers out of suit
don pedro she were an excellent wife for benedict
leonato o lord my lord if they were but a week married
 they would talk themselves mad
don pedro county claudio when mean you to go to church
claudio tomorrow my lord time goes on crutches till love
 have all his rites
leonato not till monday my dear son which is hence a just
 sevennight and a time too brief too to have all
 things answer my mind
don pedro come you shake the head at so long a breathing
 but i warrant thee claudio the time shall not go
 dully by us i will in the interim undertake one of
 hercules labours which is to bring signior
 benedick and the lady beatrice into a mountain of
 affection the one with the other i would fain have
 it a match and i doubt not but to fashion it if
 you three will but minister such assistance as i
 shall give you direction
leonato my lord i am for you though it cost me ten
 nights watchings
claudio and i my lord
don pedro and you too gentle hero
hero i will do any modest office my lord to help my
 cousin to a good husband
don pedro and benedick is not the unhopefullest husband that
 i know thus far can i praise him he is of a noble
 strain of approved valour and confirmed honesty i
 will teach you how to humour your cousin that she
 shall fall in love with benedick and i with your
 two helps will so practise on benedick that in
 despite of his quick wit and his queasy stomach he
 shall fall in love with beatrice if we can do this
 cupid is no longer an archer his glory shall be
 ours for we are the only lovegods go in with me
 and i will tell you my drift
 exeunt
 much ado about nothing
act ii
scene ii the same
 enter don john and borachio
don john it is so the count claudio shall marry the
 daughter of leonato
borachio yea my lord but i can cross it
don john any bar any cross any impediment will be
 medicinable to me i am sick in displeasure to him
 and whatsoever comes athwart his affection ranges
 evenly with mine how canst thou cross this marriage
borachio not honestly my lord but so covertly that no
 dishonesty shall appear in me
don john show me briefly how
borachio i think i told your lordship a year since how much
 i am in the favour of margaret the waiting
 gentlewoman to hero
don john i remember
borachio i can at any unseasonable instant of the night
 appoint her to look out at her lady's chamber window
don john what life is in that to be the death of this marriage
borachio the poison of that lies in you to temper go you to
 the prince your brother spare not to tell him that
 he hath wronged his honour in marrying the renowned
 claudiowhose estimation do you mightily hold
 upto a contaminated stale such a one as hero
don john what proof shall i make of that
borachio proof enough to misuse the prince to vex claudio
 to undo hero and kill leonato look you for any
 other issue
don john only to despite them i will endeavour any thing
borachio go then find me a meet hour to draw don pedro and
 the count claudio alone tell them that you know
 that hero loves me intend a kind of zeal both to the
 prince and claudio asin love of your brother's
 honour who hath made this match and his friend's
 reputation who is thus like to be cozened with the
 semblance of a maidthat you have discovered
 thus they will scarcely believe this without trial
 offer them instances which shall bear no less
 likelihood than to see me at her chamberwindow
 hear me call margaret hero hear margaret term me
 claudio and bring them to see this the very night
 before the intended weddingfor in the meantime i
 will so fashion the matter that hero shall be
 absentand there shall appear such seeming truth
 of hero's disloyalty that jealousy shall be called
 assurance and all the preparation overthrown
don john grow this to what adverse issue it can i will put
 it in practise be cunning in the working this and
 thy fee is a thousand ducats
borachio be you constant in the accusation and my cunning
 shall not shame me
don john i will presently go learn their day of marriage
 exeunt
 much ado about nothing
act ii
scene iii leonato's orchard
 enter benedick
benedick boy
 enter boy
boy signior
benedick in my chamberwindow lies a book bring it hither
 to me in the orchard
boy i am here already sir
benedick i know that but i would have thee hence and here again
 exit boy
 i do much wonder that one man seeing how much
 another man is a fool when he dedicates his
 behaviors to love will after he hath laughed at
 such shallow follies in others become the argument
 of his own scorn by failing in love and such a man
 is claudio i have known when there was no music
 with him but the drum and the fife and now had he
 rather hear the tabour and the pipe i have known
 when he would have walked ten mile afoot to see a
 good armour and now will he lie ten nights awake
 carving the fashion of a new doublet he was wont to
 speak plain and to the purpose like an honest man
 and a soldier and now is he turned orthography his
 words are a very fantastical banquet just so many
 strange dishes may i be so converted and see with
 these eyes i cannot tell i think not i will not
 be sworn but love may transform me to an oyster but
 i'll take my oath on it till he have made an oyster
 of me he shall never make me such a fool one woman
 is fair yet i am well another is wise yet i am
 well another virtuous yet i am well but till all
 graces be in one woman one woman shall not come in
 my grace rich she shall be that's certain wise
 or i'll none virtuous or i'll never cheapen her
 fair or i'll never look on her mild or come not
 near me noble or not i for an angel of good
 discourse an excellent musician and her hair shall
 be of what colour it please god ha the prince and
 monsieur love i will hide me in the arbour
 withdraws
 enter don pedro claudio and leonato
don pedro come shall we hear this music
claudio yea my good lord how still the evening is
 as hush'd on purpose to grace harmony
don pedro see you where benedick hath hid himself
claudio o very well my lord the music ended
 we'll fit the kidfox with a pennyworth
 enter balthasar with music
don pedro come balthasar we'll hear that song again
balthasar o good my lord tax not so bad a voice
 to slander music any more than once
don pedro it is the witness still of excellency
 to put a strange face on his own perfection
 i pray thee sing and let me woo no more
balthasar because you talk of wooing i will sing
 since many a wooer doth commence his suit
 to her he thinks not worthy yet he wooes
 yet will he swear he loves
don pedro now pray thee come
 or if thou wilt hold longer argument
 do it in notes
balthasar note this before my notes
 there's not a note of mine that's worth the noting
don pedro why these are very crotchets that he speaks
 note notes forsooth and nothing
 air
benedick now divine air now is his soul ravished is it
 not strange that sheeps guts should hale souls out
 of men's bodies well a horn for my money when
 all's done
 the song
balthasar sigh no more ladies sigh no more
 men were deceivers ever
 one foot in sea and one on shore
 to one thing constant never
 then sigh not so but let them go
 and be you blithe and bonny
 converting all your sounds of woe
 into hey nonny nonny
 sing no more ditties sing no moe
 of dumps so dull and heavy
 the fraud of men was ever so
 since summer first was leafy
 then sigh not so &c
don pedro by my troth a good song
balthasar and an ill singer my lord
don pedro ha no no faith thou singest well enough for a shift
benedick an he had been a dog that should have howled thus
 they would have hanged him and i pray god his bad
 voice bode no mischief i had as lief have heard the
 nightraven come what plague could have come after
 it
don pedro yea marry dost thou hear balthasar i pray thee
 get us some excellent music for tomorrow night we
 would have it at the lady hero's chamberwindow
balthasar the best i can my lord
don pedro do so farewell
 exit balthasar
 come hither leonato what was it you told me of
 today that your niece beatrice was in love with
 signior benedick
claudio o ay stalk on stalk on the fowl sits i did
 never think that lady would have loved any man
leonato no nor i neither but most wonderful that she
 should so dote on signior benedick whom she hath in
 all outward behaviors seemed ever to abhor
benedick is't possible sits the wind in that corner
leonato by my troth my lord i cannot tell what to think
 of it but that she loves him with an enraged
 affection it is past the infinite of thought
don pedro may be she doth but counterfeit
claudio faith like enough
leonato o god counterfeit there was never counterfeit of
 passion came so near the life of passion as she
 discovers it
don pedro why what effects of passion shows she
claudio bait the hook well this fish will bite
leonato what effects my lord she will sit you you heard
 my daughter tell you how
claudio she did indeed
don pedro how how pray you you amaze me i would have i
 thought her spirit had been invincible against all
 assaults of affection
leonato i would have sworn it had my lord especially
 against benedick
benedick i should think this a gull but that the
 whitebearded fellow speaks it knavery cannot
 sure hide himself in such reverence
claudio he hath ta'en the infection hold it up
don pedro hath she made her affection known to benedick
leonato no and swears she never will that's her torment
claudio tis true indeed so your daughter says shall
 i says she that have so oft encountered him
 with scorn write to him that i love him'
leonato this says she now when she is beginning to write to
 him for she'll be up twenty times a night and
 there will she sit in her smock till she have writ a
 sheet of paper my daughter tells us all
claudio now you talk of a sheet of paper i remember a
 pretty jest your daughter told us of
leonato o when she had writ it and was reading it over she
 found benedick and beatrice between the sheet
claudio that
leonato o she tore the letter into a thousand halfpence
 railed at herself that she should be so immodest
 to write to one that she knew would flout her i
 measure him says she by my own spirit for i
 should flout him if he writ to me yea though i
 love him i should'
claudio then down upon her knees she falls weeps sobs
 beats her heart tears her hair prays curses o
 sweet benedick god give me patience'
leonato she doth indeed my daughter says so and the
 ecstasy hath so much overborne her that my daughter
 is sometime afeared she will do a desperate outrage
 to herself it is very true
don pedro it were good that benedick knew of it by some
 other if she will not discover it
claudio to what end he would make but a sport of it and
 torment the poor lady worse
don pedro an he should it were an alms to hang him she's an
 excellent sweet lady and out of all suspicion
 she is virtuous
claudio and she is exceeding wise
don pedro in every thing but in loving benedick
leonato o my lord wisdom and blood combating in so tender
 a body we have ten proofs to one that blood hath
 the victory i am sorry for her as i have just
 cause being her uncle and her guardian
don pedro i would she had bestowed this dotage on me i would
 have daffed all other respects and made her half
 myself i pray you tell benedick of it and hear
 what a will say
leonato were it good think you
claudio hero thinks surely she will die for she says she
 will die if he love her not and she will die ere
 she make her love known and she will die if he woo
 her rather than she will bate one breath of her
 accustomed crossness
don pedro she doth well if she should make tender of her
 love tis very possible he'll scorn it for the
 man as you know all hath a contemptible spirit
claudio he is a very proper man
don pedro he hath indeed a good outward happiness
claudio before god and in my mind very wise
don pedro he doth indeed show some sparks that are like wit
claudio and i take him to be valiant
don pedro as hector i assure you and in the managing of
 quarrels you may say he is wise for either he
 avoids them with great discretion or undertakes
 them with a most christianlike fear
leonato if he do fear god a must necessarily keep peace
 if he break the peace he ought to enter into a
 quarrel with fear and trembling
don pedro and so will he do for the man doth fear god
 howsoever it seems not in him by some large jests
 he will make well i am sorry for your niece shall
 we go seek benedick and tell him of her love
claudio never tell him my lord let her wear it out with
 good counsel
leonato nay that's impossible she may wear her heart out first
don pedro well we will hear further of it by your daughter
 let it cool the while i love benedick well and i
 could wish he would modestly examine himself to see
 how much he is unworthy so good a lady
leonato my lord will you walk dinner is ready
claudio if he do not dote on her upon this i will never
 trust my expectation
don pedro let there be the same net spread for her and that
 must your daughter and her gentlewomen carry the
 sport will be when they hold one an opinion of
 another's dotage and no such matter that's the
 scene that i would see which will be merely a
 dumbshow let us send her to call him in to dinner
 exeunt don pedro claudio and leonato
benedick coming forward this can be no trick the
 conference was sadly borne they have the truth of
 this from hero they seem to pity the lady it
 seems her affections have their full bent love me
 why it must be requited i hear how i am censured
 they say i will bear myself proudly if i perceive
 the love come from her they say too that she will
 rather die than give any sign of affection i did
 never think to marry i must not seem proud happy
 are they that hear their detractions and can put
 them to mending they say the lady is fair tis a
 truth i can bear them witness and virtuous tis
 so i cannot reprove it and wise but for loving
 me by my troth it is no addition to her wit nor
 no great argument of her folly for i will be
 horribly in love with her i may chance have some
 odd quirks and remnants of wit broken on me
 because i have railed so long against marriage but
 doth not the appetite alter a man loves the meat
 in his youth that he cannot endure in his age
 shall quips and sentences and these paper bullets of
 the brain awe a man from the career of his humour
 no the world must be peopled when i said i would
 die a bachelor i did not think i should live till i
 were married here comes beatrice by this day
 she's a fair lady i do spy some marks of love in
 her
 enter beatrice
beatrice against my will i am sent to bid you come in to dinner
benedick fair beatrice i thank you for your pains
beatrice i took no more pains for those thanks than you take
 pains to thank me if it had been painful i would
 not have come
benedick you take pleasure then in the message
beatrice yea just so much as you may take upon a knife's
 point and choke a daw withal you have no stomach
 signior fare you well
 exit
benedick ha against my will i am sent to bid you come in
 to dinner there's a double meaning in that i took
 no more pains for those thanks than you took pains
 to thank me that's as much as to say any pains
 that i take for you is as easy as thanks if i do
 not take pity of her i am a villain if i do not
 love her i am a jew i will go get her picture
 exit
 much ado about nothing
act iii
scene i leonato's garden
 enter hero margaret and ursula
hero good margaret run thee to the parlor
 there shalt thou find my cousin beatrice
 proposing with the prince and claudio
 whisper her ear and tell her i and ursula
 walk in the orchard and our whole discourse
 is all of her say that thou overheard'st us
 and bid her steal into the pleached bower
 where honeysuckles ripen'd by the sun
 forbid the sun to enter like favourites
 made proud by princes that advance their pride
 against that power that bred it there will she hide her
 to listen our purpose this is thy office
 bear thee well in it and leave us alone
margaret i'll make her come i warrant you presently
 exit
hero now ursula when beatrice doth come
 as we do trace this alley up and down
 our talk must only be of benedick
 when i do name him let it be thy part
 to praise him more than ever man did merit
 my talk to thee must be how benedick
 is sick in love with beatrice of this matter
 is little cupid's crafty arrow made
 that only wounds by hearsay
 enter beatrice behind
 now begin
 for look where beatrice like a lapwing runs
 close by the ground to hear our conference
ursula the pleasant'st angling is to see the fish
 cut with her golden oars the silver stream
 and greedily devour the treacherous bait
 so angle we for beatrice who even now
 is couched in the woodbine coverture
 fear you not my part of the dialogue
hero then go we near her that her ear lose nothing
 of the false sweet bait that we lay for it
 approaching the bower
 no truly ursula she is too disdainful
 i know her spirits are as coy and wild
 as haggerds of the rock
ursula but are you sure
 that benedick loves beatrice so entirely
hero so says the prince and my newtrothed lord
ursula and did they bid you tell her of it madam
hero they did entreat me to acquaint her of it
 but i persuaded them if they loved benedick
 to wish him wrestle with affection
 and never to let beatrice know of it
ursula why did you so doth not the gentleman
 deserve as full as fortunate a bed
 as ever beatrice shall couch upon
hero o god of love i know he doth deserve
 as much as may be yielded to a man
 but nature never framed a woman's heart
 of prouder stuff than that of beatrice
 disdain and scorn ride sparkling in her eyes
 misprising what they look on and her wit
 values itself so highly that to her
 all matter else seems weak she cannot love
 nor take no shape nor project of affection
 she is so selfendeared
ursula sure i think so
 and therefore certainly it were not good
 she knew his love lest she make sport at it
hero why you speak truth i never yet saw man
 how wise how noble young how rarely featured
 but she would spell him backward if fairfaced
 she would swear the gentleman should be her sister
 if black why nature drawing of an antique
 made a foul blot if tall a lance illheaded
 if low an agate very vilely cut
 if speaking why a vane blown with all winds
 if silent why a block moved with none
 so turns she every man the wrong side out
 and never gives to truth and virtue that
 which simpleness and merit purchaseth
ursula sure sure such carping is not commendable
hero no not to be so odd and from all fashions
 as beatrice is cannot be commendable
 but who dare tell her so if i should speak
 she would mock me into air o she would laugh me
 out of myself press me to death with wit
 therefore let benedick like cover'd fire
 consume away in sighs waste inwardly
 it were a better death than die with mocks
 which is as bad as die with tickling
ursula yet tell her of it hear what she will say
hero no rather i will go to benedick
 and counsel him to fight against his passion
 and truly i'll devise some honest slanders
 to stain my cousin with one doth not know
 how much an ill word may empoison liking
ursula o do not do your cousin such a wrong
 she cannot be so much without true judgment
 having so swift and excellent a wit
 as she is prized to haveas to refuse
 so rare a gentleman as signior benedick
hero he is the only man of italy
 always excepted my dear claudio
ursula i pray you be not angry with me madam
 speaking my fancy signior benedick
 for shape for bearing argument and valour
 goes foremost in report through italy
hero indeed he hath an excellent good name
ursula his excellence did earn it ere he had it
 when are you married madam
hero why every day tomorrow come go in
 i'll show thee some attires and have thy counsel
 which is the best to furnish me tomorrow
ursula she's limed i warrant you we have caught her madam
hero if it proves so then loving goes by haps
 some cupid kills with arrows some with traps
 exeunt hero and ursula
beatrice coming forward
 what fire is in mine ears can this be true
 stand i condemn'd for pride and scorn so much
 contempt farewell and maiden pride adieu
 no glory lives behind the back of such
 and benedick love on i will requite thee
 taming my wild heart to thy loving hand
 if thou dost love my kindness shall incite thee
 to bind our loves up in a holy band
 for others say thou dost deserve and i
 believe it better than reportingly
 exit
 much ado about nothing
act iii
scene ii a room in leonato's house
 enter don pedro claudio benedick and leonato
don pedro i do but stay till your marriage be consummate and
 then go i toward arragon
claudio i'll bring you thither my lord if you'll
 vouchsafe me
don pedro nay that would be as great a soil in the new gloss
 of your marriage as to show a child his new coat
 and forbid him to wear it i will only be bold
 with benedick for his company for from the crown
 of his head to the sole of his foot he is all
 mirth he hath twice or thrice cut cupid's
 bowstring and the little hangman dare not shoot at
 him he hath a heart as sound as a bell and his
 tongue is the clapper for what his heart thinks his
 tongue speaks
benedick gallants i am not as i have been
leonato so say i methinks you are sadder
claudio i hope he be in love
don pedro hang him truant there's no true drop of blood in
 him to be truly touched with love if he be sad
 he wants money
benedick i have the toothache
don pedro draw it
benedick hang it
claudio you must hang it first and draw it afterwards
don pedro what sigh for the toothache
leonato where is but a humour or a worm
benedick well every one can master a grief but he that has
 it
claudio yet say i he is in love
don pedro there is no appearance of fancy in him unless it be
 a fancy that he hath to strange disguises as to be
 a dutchman today a frenchman tomorrow or in the
 shape of two countries at once as a german from
 the waist downward all slops and a spaniard from
 the hip upward no doublet unless he have a fancy
 to this foolery as it appears he hath he is no
 fool for fancy as you would have it appear he is
claudio if he be not in love with some woman there is no
 believing old signs a brushes his hat o'
 mornings what should that bode
don pedro hath any man seen him at the barber's
claudio no but the barber's man hath been seen with him
 and the old ornament of his cheek hath already
 stuffed tennisballs
leonato indeed he looks younger than he did by the loss of a beard
don pedro nay a rubs himself with civet can you smell him
 out by that
claudio that's as much as to say the sweet youth's in love
don pedro the greatest note of it is his melancholy
claudio and when was he wont to wash his face
don pedro yea or to paint himself for the which i hear
 what they say of him
claudio nay but his jesting spirit which is now crept into
 a lutestring and now governed by stops
don pedro indeed that tells a heavy tale for him conclude
 conclude he is in love
claudio nay but i know who loves him
don pedro that would i know too i warrant one that knows him not
claudio yes and his ill conditions and in despite of
 all dies for him
don pedro she shall be buried with her face upwards
benedick yet is this no charm for the toothache old
 signior walk aside with me i have studied eight
 or nine wise words to speak to you which these
 hobbyhorses must not hear
 exeunt benedick and leonato
don pedro for my life to break with him about beatrice
claudio tis even so hero and margaret have by this
 played their parts with beatrice and then the two
 bears will not bite one another when they meet
 enter don john
don john my lord and brother god save you
don pedro good den brother
don john if your leisure served i would speak with you
don pedro in private
don john if it please you yet count claudio may hear for
 what i would speak of concerns him
don pedro what's the matter
don john to claudio means your lordship to be married
 tomorrow
don pedro you know he does
don john i know not that when he knows what i know
claudio if there be any impediment i pray you discover it
don john you may think i love you not let that appear
 hereafter and aim better at me by that i now will
 manifest for my brother i think he holds you
 well and in dearness of heart hath holp to effect
 your ensuing marriagesurely suit ill spent and
 labour ill bestowed
don pedro why what's the matter
don john i came hither to tell you and circumstances
 shortened for she has been too long a talking of
 the lady is disloyal
claudio who hero
don pedro even she leonato's hero your hero every man's hero
claudio disloyal
don john the word is too good to paint out her wickedness i
 could say she were worse think you of a worse
 title and i will fit her to it wonder not till
 further warrant go but with me tonight you shall
 see her chamberwindow entered even the night
 before her weddingday if you love her then
 tomorrow wed her but it would better fit your honour
 to change your mind
claudio may this be so
don pedro i will not think it
don john if you dare not trust that you see confess not
 that you know if you will follow me i will show
 you enough and when you have seen more and heard
 more proceed accordingly
claudio if i see any thing tonight why i should not marry
 her tomorrow in the congregation where i should
 wed there will i shame her
don pedro and as i wooed for thee to obtain her i will join
 with thee to disgrace her
don john i will disparage her no farther till you are my
 witnesses bear it coldly but till midnight and
 let the issue show itself
don pedro o day untowardly turned
claudio o mischief strangely thwarting
don john o plague right well prevented so will you say when
 you have seen the sequel
 exeunt
 much ado about nothing
act iii
scene iii a street
 enter dogberry and verges with the watch
dogberry are you good men and true
verges yea or else it were pity but they should suffer
 salvation body and soul
dogberry nay that were a punishment too good for them if
 they should have any allegiance in them being
 chosen for the prince's watch
verges well give them their charge neighbour dogberry
dogberry first who think you the most desertless man to be
 constable
first watchman hugh otecake sir or george seacole for they can
 write and read
dogberry come hither neighbour seacole god hath blessed
 you with a good name to be a wellfavoured man is
 the gift of fortune but to write and read comes by nature
second watchman both which master constable
dogberry you have i knew it would be your answer well
 for your favour sir why give god thanks and make
 no boast of it and for your writing and reading
 let that appear when there is no need of such
 vanity you are thought here to be the most
 senseless and fit man for the constable of the
 watch therefore bear you the lantern this is your
 charge you shall comprehend all vagrom men you are
 to bid any man stand in the prince's name
second watchman how if a will not stand
dogberry why then take no note of him but let him go and
 presently call the rest of the watch together and
 thank god you are rid of a knave
verges if he will not stand when he is bidden he is none
 of the prince's subjects
dogberry true and they are to meddle with none but the
 prince's subjects you shall also make no noise in
 the streets for for the watch to babble and to
 talk is most tolerable and not to be endured
watchman we will rather sleep than talk we know what
 belongs to a watch
dogberry why you speak like an ancient and most quiet
 watchman for i cannot see how sleeping should
 offend only have a care that your bills be not
 stolen well you are to call at all the
 alehouses and bid those that are drunk get them to bed
watchman how if they will not
dogberry why then let them alone till they are sober if
 they make you not then the better answer you may
 say they are not the men you took them for
watchman well sir
dogberry if you meet a thief you may suspect him by virtue
 of your office to be no true man and for such
 kind of men the less you meddle or make with them
 why the more is for your honesty
watchman if we know him to be a thief shall we not lay
 hands on him
dogberry truly by your office you may but i think they
 that touch pitch will be defiled the most peaceable
 way for you if you do take a thief is to let him
 show himself what he is and steal out of your company
verges you have been always called a merciful man partner
dogberry truly i would not hang a dog by my will much more
 a man who hath any honesty in him
verges if you hear a child cry in the night you must call
 to the nurse and bid her still it
watchman how if the nurse be asleep and will not hear us
dogberry why then depart in peace and let the child wake
 her with crying for the ewe that will not hear her
 lamb when it baes will never answer a calf when he bleats
verges tis very true
dogberry this is the end of the chargeyou constable are
 to present the prince's own person if you meet the
 prince in the night you may stay him
verges nay by'r our lady that i think a cannot
dogberry five shillings to one on't with any man that knows
 the statutes he may stay him marry not without
 the prince be willing for indeed the watch ought
 to offend no man and it is an offence to stay a
 man against his will
verges by'r lady i think it be so
dogberry ha ha ha well masters good night an there be
 any matter of weight chances call up me keep your
 fellows counsels and your own and good night
 come neighbour
watchman well masters we hear our charge let us go sit here
 upon the churchbench till two and then all to bed
dogberry one word more honest neighbours i pray you watch
 about signior leonato's door for the wedding being
 there tomorrow there is a great coil tonight
 adieu be vigitant i beseech you
 exeunt dogberry and verges
 enter borachio and conrade
borachio what conrade
watchman aside peace stir not
borachio conrade i say
conrade here man i am at thy elbow
borachio mass and my elbow itched i thought there would a
 scab follow
conrade i will owe thee an answer for that and now forward
 with thy tale
borachio stand thee close then under this penthouse for
 it drizzles rain and i will like a true drunkard
 utter all to thee
watchman aside some treason masters yet stand close
borachio therefore know i have earned of don john a thousand ducats
conrade is it possible that any villany should be so dear
borachio thou shouldst rather ask if it were possible any
 villany should be so rich for when rich villains
 have need of poor ones poor ones may make what
 price they will
conrade i wonder at it
borachio that shows thou art unconfirmed thou knowest that
 the fashion of a doublet or a hat or a cloak is
 nothing to a man
conrade yes it is apparel
borachio i mean the fashion
conrade yes the fashion is the fashion
borachio tush i may as well say the fool's the fool but
 seest thou not what a deformed thief this fashion
 is
watchman aside i know that deformed a has been a vile
 thief this seven year a goes up and down like a
 gentleman i remember his name
borachio didst thou not hear somebody
conrade no twas the vane on the house
borachio seest thou not i say what a deformed thief this
 fashion is how giddily a turns about all the hot
 bloods between fourteen and fiveandthirty
 sometimes fashioning them like pharaoh's soldiers
 in the reeky painting sometime like god bel's
 priests in the old churchwindow sometime like the
 shaven hercules in the smirched wormeaten tapestry
 where his codpiece seems as massy as his club
conrade all this i see and i see that the fashion wears
 out more apparel than the man but art not thou
 thyself giddy with the fashion too that thou hast
 shifted out of thy tale into telling me of the fashion
borachio not so neither but know that i have tonight
 wooed margaret the lady hero's gentlewoman by the
 name of hero she leans me out at her mistress'
 chamberwindow bids me a thousand times good
 nighti tell this tale vilelyi should first
 tell thee how the prince claudio and my master
 planted and placed and possessed by my master don
 john saw afar off in the orchard this amiable encounter
conrade and thought they margaret was hero
borachio two of them did the prince and claudio but the
 devil my master knew she was margaret and partly
 by his oaths which first possessed them partly by
 the dark night which did deceive them but chiefly
 by my villany which did confirm any slander that
 don john had made away went claudio enraged swore
 he would meet her as he was appointed next morning
 at the temple and there before the whole
 congregation shame her with what he saw o'er night
 and send her home again without a husband
first watchman we charge you in the prince's name stand
second watchman call up the right master constable we have here
 recovered the most dangerous piece of lechery that
 ever was known in the commonwealth
first watchman and one deformed is one of them i know him a'
 wears a lock
conrade masters masters
second watchman you'll be made bring deformed forth i warrant you
conrade masters
first watchman never speak we charge you let us obey you to go with us
borachio we are like to prove a goodly commodity being taken
 up of these men's bills
conrade a commodity in question i warrant you come we'll obey you
 exeunt
 much ado about nothing
act iii
scene iv hero's apartment
 enter hero margaret and ursula
hero good ursula wake my cousin beatrice and desire
 her to rise
ursula i will lady
hero and bid her come hither
ursula well
 exit
margaret troth i think your other rabato were better
hero no pray thee good meg i'll wear this
margaret by my troth s not so good and i warrant your
 cousin will say so
hero my cousin's a fool and thou art another i'll wear
 none but this
margaret i like the new tire within excellently if the hair
 were a thought browner and your gown's a most rare
 fashion i faith i saw the duchess of milan's
 gown that they praise so
hero o that exceeds they say
margaret by my troth s but a nightgown in respect of
 yours cloth o gold and cuts and laced with
 silver set with pearls down sleeves side sleeves
 and skirts round underborne with a bluish tinsel
 but for a fine quaint graceful and excellent
 fashion yours is worth ten on t
hero god give me joy to wear it for my heart is
 exceeding heavy
margaret twill be heavier soon by the weight of a man
hero fie upon thee art not ashamed
margaret of what lady of speaking honourably is not
 marriage honourable in a beggar is not your lord
 honourable without marriage i think you would have
 me say saving your reverence a husband and bad
 thinking do not wrest true speaking i'll offend
 nobody is there any harm in the heavier for a
 husband none i think and it be the right husband
 and the right wife otherwise tis light and not
 heavy ask my lady beatrice else here she comes
 enter beatrice
hero good morrow coz
beatrice good morrow sweet hero
hero why how now do you speak in the sick tune
beatrice i am out of all other tune methinks
margaret clap's into light o love that goes without a
 burden do you sing it and i'll dance it
beatrice ye light o love with your heels then if your
 husband have stables enough you'll see he shall
 lack no barns
margaret o illegitimate construction i scorn that with my heels
beatrice tis almost five o'clock cousin tis time you were
 ready by my troth i am exceeding ill heighho
margaret for a hawk a horse or a husband
beatrice for the letter that begins them all h
margaret well and you be not turned turk there's no more
 sailing by the star
beatrice what means the fool trow
margaret nothing i but god send every one their heart's desire
hero these gloves the count sent me they are an
 excellent perfume
beatrice i am stuffed cousin i cannot smell
margaret a maid and stuffed there's goodly catching of cold
beatrice o god help me god help me how long have you
 professed apprehension
margaret even since you left it doth not my wit become me rarely
beatrice it is not seen enough you should wear it in your
 cap by my troth i am sick
margaret get you some of this distilled carduus benedictus
 and lay it to your heart it is the only thing for a qualm
hero there thou prickest her with a thistle
beatrice benedictus why benedictus you have some moral in
 this benedictus
margaret moral no by my troth i have no moral meaning i
 meant plain holythistle you may think perchance
 that i think you are in love nay by'r lady i am
 not such a fool to think what i list nor i list
 not to think what i can nor indeed i cannot think
 if i would think my heart out of thinking that you
 are in love or that you will be in love or that you
 can be in love yet benedick was such another and
 now is he become a man he swore he would never
 marry and yet now in despite of his heart he eats
 his meat without grudging and how you may be
 converted i know not but methinks you look with
 your eyes as other women do
beatrice what pace is this that thy tongue keeps
margaret not a false gallop
 reenter ursula
ursula madam withdraw the prince the count signior
 benedick don john and all the gallants of the
 town are come to fetch you to church
hero help to dress me good coz good meg good ursula
 exeunt
 much ado about nothing
act iii
scene v another room in leonato's house
 enter leonato with dogberry and verges
leonato what would you with me honest neighbour
dogberry marry sir i would have some confidence with you
 that decerns you nearly
leonato brief i pray you for you see it is a busy time with me
dogberry marry this it is sir
verges yes in truth it is sir
leonato what is it my good friends
dogberry goodman verges sir speaks a little off the
 matter an old man sir and his wits are not so
 blunt as god help i would desire they were but
 in faith honest as the skin between his brows
verges yes i thank god i am as honest as any man living
 that is an old man and no honester than i
dogberry comparisons are odorous palabras neighbour verges
leonato neighbours you are tedious
dogberry it pleases your worship to say so but we are the
 poor duke's officers but truly for mine own part
 if i were as tedious as a king i could find it in
 my heart to bestow it all of your worship
leonato all thy tediousness on me ah
dogberry yea an twere a thousand pound more than tis for
 i hear as good exclamation on your worship as of any
 man in the city and though i be but a poor man i
 am glad to hear it
verges and so am i
leonato i would fain know what you have to say
verges marry sir our watch tonight excepting your
 worship's presence ha ta'en a couple of as arrant
 knaves as any in messina
dogberry a good old man sir he will be talking as they
 say when the age is in the wit is out god help
 us it is a world to see well said i faith
 neighbour verges well god's a good man an two men
 ride of a horse one must ride behind an honest
 soul i faith sir by my troth he is as ever
 broke bread but god is to be worshipped all men
 are not alike alas good neighbour
leonato indeed neighbour he comes too short of you
dogberry gifts that god gives
leonato i must leave you
dogberry one word sir our watch sir have indeed
 comprehended two aspicious persons and we would
 have them this morning examined before your worship
leonato take their examination yourself and bring it me i
 am now in great haste as it may appear unto you
dogberry it shall be suffigance
leonato drink some wine ere you go fare you well
 enter a messenger
messenger my lord they stay for you to give your daughter to
 her husband
leonato i'll wait upon them i am ready
 exeunt leonato and messenger
dogberry go good partner go get you to francis seacole
 bid him bring his pen and inkhorn to the gaol we
 are now to examination these men
verges and we must do it wisely
dogberry we will spare for no wit i warrant you here's
 that shall drive some of them to a noncome only
 get the learned writer to set down our
 excommunication and meet me at the gaol
 exeunt
 much ado about nothing
act iv
scene i a church
 enter don pedro don john leonato friar francis
 claudio benedick hero beatrice and attendants
leonato come friar francis be brief only to the plain
 form of marriage and you shall recount their
 particular duties afterwards
friar francis you come hither my lord to marry this lady
claudio no
leonato to be married to her friar you come to marry her
friar francis lady you come hither to be married to this count
hero i do
friar francis if either of you know any inward impediment why you
 should not be conjoined charge you on your souls
 to utter it
claudio know you any hero
hero none my lord
friar francis know you any count
leonato i dare make his answer none
claudio o what men dare do what men may do what men daily
 do not knowing what they do
benedick how now interjections why then some be of
 laughing as ah ha he
claudio stand thee by friar father by your leave
 will you with free and unconstrained soul
 give me this maid your daughter
leonato as freely son as god did give her me
claudio and what have i to give you back whose worth
 may counterpoise this rich and precious gift
don pedro nothing unless you render her again
claudio sweet prince you learn me noble thankfulness
 there leonato take her back again
 give not this rotten orange to your friend
 she's but the sign and semblance of her honour
 behold how like a maid she blushes here
 o what authority and show of truth
 can cunning sin cover itself withal
 comes not that blood as modest evidence
 to witness simple virtue would you not swear
 all you that see her that she were a maid
 by these exterior shows but she is none
 she knows the heat of a luxurious bed
 her blush is guiltiness not modesty
leonato what do you mean my lord
claudio not to be married
 not to knit my soul to an approved wanton
leonato dear my lord if you in your own proof
 have vanquish'd the resistance of her youth
 and made defeat of her virginity
claudio i know what you would say if i have known her
 you will say she did embrace me as a husband
 and so extenuate the forehand sin
 no leonato
 i never tempted her with word too large
 but as a brother to his sister show'd
 bashful sincerity and comely love
hero and seem'd i ever otherwise to you
claudio out on thee seeming i will write against it
 you seem to me as dian in her orb
 as chaste as is the bud ere it be blown
 but you are more intemperate in your blood
 than venus or those pamper'd animals
 that rage in savage sensuality
hero is my lord well that he doth speak so wide
leonato sweet prince why speak not you
don pedro what should i speak
 i stand dishonour'd that have gone about
 to link my dear friend to a common stale
leonato are these things spoken or do i but dream
don john sir they are spoken and these things are true
benedick this looks not like a nuptial
hero true o god
claudio leonato stand i here
 is this the prince is this the prince's brother
 is this face hero's are our eyes our own
leonato all this is so but what of this my lord
claudio let me but move one question to your daughter
 and by that fatherly and kindly power
 that you have in her bid her answer truly
leonato i charge thee do so as thou art my child
hero o god defend me how am i beset
 what kind of catechising call you this
claudio to make you answer truly to your name
hero is it not hero who can blot that name
 with any just reproach
claudio marry that can hero
 hero itself can blot out hero's virtue
 what man was he talk'd with you yesternight
 out at your window betwixt twelve and one
 now if you are a maid answer to this
hero i talk'd with no man at that hour my lord
don pedro why then are you no maiden leonato
 i am sorry you must hear upon mine honour
 myself my brother and this grieved count
 did see her hear her at that hour last night
 talk with a ruffian at her chamberwindow
 who hath indeed most like a liberal villain
 confess'd the vile encounters they have had
 a thousand times in secret
don john fie fie they are not to be named my lord
 not to be spoke of
 there is not chastity enough in language
 without offence to utter them thus pretty lady
 i am sorry for thy much misgovernment
claudio o hero what a hero hadst thou been
 if half thy outward graces had been placed
 about thy thoughts and counsels of thy heart
 but fare thee well most foul most fair farewell
 thou pure impiety and impious purity
 for thee i'll lock up all the gates of love
 and on my eyelids shall conjecture hang
 to turn all beauty into thoughts of harm
 and never shall it more be gracious
leonato hath no man's dagger here a point for me
 hero swoons
beatrice why how now cousin wherefore sink you down
don john come let us go these things come thus to light
 smother her spirits up
 exeunt don pedro don john and claudio
benedick how doth the lady
beatrice dead i think help uncle
 hero why hero uncle signior benedick friar
leonato o fate take not away thy heavy hand
 death is the fairest cover for her shame
 that may be wish'd for
beatrice how now cousin hero
friar francis have comfort lady
leonato dost thou look up
friar francis yea wherefore should she not
leonato wherefore why doth not every earthly thing
 cry shame upon her could she here deny
 the story that is printed in her blood
 do not live hero do not ope thine eyes
 for did i think thou wouldst not quickly die
 thought i thy spirits were stronger than thy shames
 myself would on the rearward of reproaches
 strike at thy life grieved i i had but one
 chid i for that at frugal nature's frame
 o one too much by thee why had i one
 why ever wast thou lovely in my eyes
 why had i not with charitable hand
 took up a beggar's issue at my gates
 who smirch'd thus and mired with infamy
 i might have said no part of it is mine
 this shame derives itself from unknown loins'
 but mine and mine i loved and mine i praised
 and mine that i was proud on mine so much
 that i myself was to myself not mine
 valuing of herwhy she o she is fallen
 into a pit of ink that the wide sea
 hath drops too few to wash her clean again
 and salt too little which may season give
 to her foultainted flesh
benedick sir sir be patient
 for my part i am so attired in wonder
 i know not what to say
beatrice o on my soul my cousin is belied
benedick lady were you her bedfellow last night
beatrice no truly not although until last night
 i have this twelvemonth been her bedfellow
leonato confirm'd confirm'd o that is stronger made
 which was before barr'd up with ribs of iron
 would the two princes lie and claudio lie
 who loved her so that speaking of her foulness
 wash'd it with tears hence from her let her die
friar francis hear me a little for i have only been
 silent so long and given way unto
 this course of fortune 
 by noting of the lady i have mark'd
 a thousand blushing apparitions
 to start into her face a thousand innocent shames
 in angel whiteness beat away those blushes
 and in her eye there hath appear'd a fire
 to burn the errors that these princes hold
 against her maiden truth call me a fool
 trust not my reading nor my observations
 which with experimental seal doth warrant
 the tenor of my book trust not my age
 my reverence calling nor divinity
 if this sweet lady lie not guiltless here
 under some biting error
leonato friar it cannot be
 thou seest that all the grace that she hath left
 is that she will not add to her damnation
 a sin of perjury she not denies it
 why seek'st thou then to cover with excuse
 that which appears in proper nakedness
friar francis lady what man is he you are accused of
hero they know that do accuse me i know none
 if i know more of any man alive
 than that which maiden modesty doth warrant
 let all my sins lack mercy o my father
 prove you that any man with me conversed
 at hours unmeet or that i yesternight
 maintain'd the change of words with any creature
 refuse me hate me torture me to death
friar francis there is some strange misprision in the princes
benedick two of them have the very bent of honour
 and if their wisdoms be misled in this
 the practise of it lives in john the bastard
 whose spirits toil in frame of villanies
leonato i know not if they speak but truth of her
 these hands shall tear her if they wrong her honour
 the proudest of them shall well hear of it
 time hath not yet so dried this blood of mine
 nor age so eat up my invention
 nor fortune made such havoc of my means
 nor my bad life reft me so much of friends
 but they shall find awaked in such a kind
 both strength of limb and policy of mind
 ability in means and choice of friends
 to quit me of them throughly
friar francis pause awhile
 and let my counsel sway you in this case
 your daughter here the princes left for dead
 let her awhile be secretly kept in
 and publish it that she is dead indeed
 maintain a mourning ostentation
 and on your family's old monument
 hang mournful epitaphs and do all rites
 that appertain unto a burial
leonato what shall become of this what will this do
friar francis marry this well carried shall on her behalf
 change slander to remorse that is some good
 but not for that dream i on this strange course
 but on this travail look for greater birth
 she dying as it must so be maintain'd
 upon the instant that she was accused
 shall be lamented pitied and excused
 of every hearer for it so falls out
 that what we have we prize not to the worth
 whiles we enjoy it but being lack'd and lost
 why then we rack the value then we find
 the virtue that possession would not show us
 whiles it was ours so will it fare with claudio
 when he shall hear she died upon his words
 the idea of her life shall sweetly creep
 into his study of imagination
 and every lovely organ of her life
 shall come apparell'd in more precious habit
 more movingdelicate and full of life
 into the eye and prospect of his soul
 than when she lived indeed then shall he mourn
 if ever love had interest in his liver
 and wish he had not so accused her
 no though he thought his accusation true
 let this be so and doubt not but success
 will fashion the event in better shape
 than i can lay it down in likelihood
 but if all aim but this be levell'd false
 the supposition of the lady's death
 will quench the wonder of her infamy
 and if it sort not well you may conceal her
 as best befits her wounded reputation
 in some reclusive and religious life
 out of all eyes tongues minds and injuries
benedick signior leonato let the friar advise you
 and though you know my inwardness and love
 is very much unto the prince and claudio
 yet by mine honour i will deal in this
 as secretly and justly as your soul
 should with your body
leonato being that i flow in grief
 the smallest twine may lead me
friar francis tis well consented presently away
 for to strange sores strangely they strain the cure
 come lady die to live this weddingday
 perhaps is but prolong'd have patience and endure
 exeunt all but benedick and beatrice
benedick lady beatrice have you wept all this while
beatrice yea and i will weep a while longer
benedick i will not desire that
beatrice you have no reason i do it freely
benedick surely i do believe your fair cousin is wronged
beatrice ah how much might the man deserve of me that would right her
benedick is there any way to show such friendship
beatrice a very even way but no such friend
benedick may a man do it
beatrice it is a man's office but not yours
benedick i do love nothing in the world so well as you is
 not that strange
beatrice as strange as the thing i know not it were as
 possible for me to say i loved nothing so well as
 you but believe me not and yet i lie not i
 confess nothing nor i deny nothing i am sorry for my cousin
benedick by my sword beatrice thou lovest me
beatrice do not swear and eat it
benedick i will swear by it that you love me and i will make
 him eat it that says i love not you
beatrice will you not eat your word
benedick with no sauce that can be devised to it i protest
 i love thee
beatrice why then god forgive me
benedick what offence sweet beatrice
beatrice you have stayed me in a happy hour i was about to
 protest i loved you
benedick and do it with all thy heart
beatrice i love you with so much of my heart that none is
 left to protest
benedick come bid me do any thing for thee
beatrice kill claudio
benedick ha not for the wide world
beatrice you kill me to deny it farewell
benedick tarry sweet beatrice
beatrice i am gone though i am here there is no love in
 you nay i pray you let me go
benedick beatrice
beatrice in faith i will go
benedick we'll be friends first
beatrice you dare easier be friends with me than fight with mine enemy
benedick is claudio thine enemy
beatrice is he not approved in the height a villain that
 hath slandered scorned dishonoured my kinswoman o
 that i were a man what bear her in hand until they
 come to take hands and then with public
 accusation uncovered slander unmitigated rancour
 o god that i were a man i would eat his heart
 in the marketplace
benedick hear me beatrice
beatrice talk with a man out at a window a proper saying
benedick nay but beatrice
beatrice sweet hero she is wronged she is slandered she is undone
benedick beat
beatrice princes and counties surely a princely testimony
 a goodly count count comfect a sweet gallant
 surely o that i were a man for his sake or that i
 had any friend would be a man for my sake but
 manhood is melted into courtesies valour into
 compliment and men are only turned into tongue and
 trim ones too he is now as valiant as hercules
 that only tells a lie and swears it i cannot be a
 man with wishing therefore i will die a woman with grieving
benedick tarry good beatrice by this hand i love thee
beatrice use it for my love some other way than swearing by it
benedick think you in your soul the count claudio hath wronged hero
beatrice yea as sure as i have a thought or a soul
benedick enough i am engaged i will challenge him i will
 kiss your hand and so i leave you by this hand
 claudio shall render me a dear account as you
 hear of me so think of me go comfort your
 cousin i must say she is dead and so farewell
 exeunt
 much ado about nothing
act iv
scene ii a prison
 enter dogberry verges and sexton in gowns and
 the watch with conrade and borachio
dogberry is our whole dissembly appeared
verges o a stool and a cushion for the sexton
sexton which be the malefactors
dogberry marry that am i and my partner
verges nay that's certain we have the exhibition to examine
sexton but which are the offenders that are to be
 examined let them come before master constable
dogberry yea marry let them come before me what is your
 name friend
borachio borachio
dogberry pray write down borachio yours sirrah
conrade i am a gentleman sir and my name is conrade
dogberry write down master gentleman conrade masters do
 you serve god
conrade 
 yea sir we hope
borachio 
dogberry write down that they hope they serve god and
 write god first for god defend but god should go
 before such villains masters it is proved already
 that you are little better than false knaves and it
 will go near to be thought so shortly how answer
 you for yourselves
conrade marry sir we say we are none
dogberry a marvellous witty fellow i assure you but i
 will go about with him come you hither sirrah a
 word in your ear sir i say to you it is thought
 you are false knaves
borachio sir i say to you we are none
dogberry well stand aside fore god they are both in a
 tale have you writ down that they are none
sexton master constable you go not the way to examine
 you must call forth the watch that are their accusers
dogberry yea marry that's the eftest way let the watch
 come forth masters i charge you in the prince's
 name accuse these men
first watchman this man said sir that don john the prince's
 brother was a villain
dogberry write down prince john a villain why this is flat
 perjury to call a prince's brother villain
borachio master constable
dogberry pray thee fellow peace i do not like thy look
 i promise thee
sexton what heard you him say else
second watchman marry that he had received a thousand ducats of
 don john for accusing the lady hero wrongfully
dogberry flat burglary as ever was committed
verges yea by mass that it is
sexton what else fellow
first watchman and that count claudio did mean upon his words to
 disgrace hero before the whole assembly and not marry her
dogberry o villain thou wilt be condemned into everlasting
 redemption for this
sexton what else
watchman this is all
sexton and this is more masters than you can deny
 prince john is this morning secretly stolen away
 hero was in this manner accused in this very manner
 refused and upon the grief of this suddenly died
 master constable let these men be bound and
 brought to leonato's i will go before and show
 him their examination
 exit
dogberry come let them be opinioned
verges let them be in the hands
conrade off coxcomb
dogberry god's my life where's the sexton let him write
 down the prince's officer coxcomb come bind them
 thou naughty varlet
conrade away you are an ass you are an ass
dogberry dost thou not suspect my place dost thou not
 suspect my years o that he were here to write me
 down an ass but masters remember that i am an
 ass though it be not written down yet forget not
 that i am an ass no thou villain thou art full of
 piety as shall be proved upon thee by good witness
 i am a wise fellow and which is more an officer
 and which is more a householder and which is
 more as pretty a piece of flesh as any is in
 messina and one that knows the law go to and a
 rich fellow enough go to and a fellow that hath
 had losses and one that hath two gowns and every
 thing handsome about him bring him away o that
 i had been writ down an ass
 exeunt
 much ado about nothing
act v
scene i before leonato's house
 enter leonato and antonio
antonio if you go on thus you will kill yourself
 and tis not wisdom thus to second grief
 against yourself
leonato i pray thee cease thy counsel
 which falls into mine ears as profitless
 as water in a sieve give not me counsel
 nor let no comforter delight mine ear
 but such a one whose wrongs do suit with mine
 bring me a father that so loved his child
 whose joy of her is overwhelm'd like mine
 and bid him speak of patience
 measure his woe the length and breadth of mine
 and let it answer every strain for strain
 as thus for thus and such a grief for such
 in every lineament branch shape and form
 if such a one will smile and stroke his beard
 bid sorrow wag cry hem when he should groan
 patch grief with proverbs make misfortune drunk
 with candlewasters bring him yet to me
 and i of him will gather patience
 but there is no such man for brother men
 can counsel and speak comfort to that grief
 which they themselves not feel but tasting it
 their counsel turns to passion which before
 would give preceptial medicine to rage
 fetter strong madness in a silken thread
 charm ache with air and agony with words
 no no tis all men's office to speak patience
 to those that wring under the load of sorrow
 but no man's virtue nor sufficiency
 to be so moral when he shall endure
 the like himself therefore give me no counsel
 my griefs cry louder than advertisement
antonio therein do men from children nothing differ
leonato i pray thee peace i will be flesh and blood
 for there was never yet philosopher
 that could endure the toothache patiently
 however they have writ the style of gods
 and made a push at chance and sufferance
antonio yet bend not all the harm upon yourself
 make those that do offend you suffer too
leonato there thou speak'st reason nay i will do so
 my soul doth tell me hero is belied
 and that shall claudio know so shall the prince
 and all of them that thus dishonour her
antonio here comes the prince and claudio hastily
 enter don pedro and claudio
don pedro good den good den
claudio good day to both of you
leonato hear you my lords
don pedro we have some haste leonato
leonato some haste my lord well fare you well my lord
 are you so hasty now well all is one
don pedro nay do not quarrel with us good old man
antonio if he could right himself with quarreling
 some of us would lie low
claudio who wrongs him
leonato marry thou dost wrong me thou dissembler thou
 nay never lay thy hand upon thy sword
 i fear thee not
claudio marry beshrew my hand
 if it should give your age such cause of fear
 in faith my hand meant nothing to my sword
leonato tush tush man never fleer and jest at me
 i speak not like a dotard nor a fool
 as under privilege of age to brag
 what i have done being young or what would do
 were i not old know claudio to thy head
 thou hast so wrong'd mine innocent child and me
 that i am forced to lay my reverence by
 and with grey hairs and bruise of many days
 do challenge thee to trial of a man
 i say thou hast belied mine innocent child
 thy slander hath gone through and through her heart
 and she lies buried with her ancestors
 o in a tomb where never scandal slept
 save this of hers framed by thy villany
claudio my villany
leonato thine claudio thine i say
don pedro you say not right old man
leonato my lord my lord
 i'll prove it on his body if he dare
 despite his nice fence and his active practise
 his may of youth and bloom of lustihood
claudio away i will not have to do with you
leonato canst thou so daff me thou hast kill'd my child
 if thou kill'st me boy thou shalt kill a man
antonio he shall kill two of us and men indeed
 but that's no matter let him kill one first
 win me and wear me let him answer me
 come follow me boy come sir boy come follow me
 sir boy i'll whip you from your foining fence
 nay as i am a gentleman i will
leonato brother
antonio content yourself god knows i loved my niece
 and she is dead slander'd to death by villains
 that dare as well answer a man indeed
 as i dare take a serpent by the tongue
 boys apes braggarts jacks milksops
leonato brother antony
antonio hold you content what man i know them yea
 and what they weigh even to the utmost scruple
 scrambling outfacing fashionmonging boys
 that lie and cog and flout deprave and slander
 go anticly show outward hideousness
 and speak off half a dozen dangerous words
 how they might hurt their enemies if they durst
 and this is all
leonato but brother antony
antonio come tis no matter
 do not you meddle let me deal in this
don pedro gentlemen both we will not wake your patience
 my heart is sorry for your daughter's death
 but on my honour she was charged with nothing
 but what was true and very full of proof
leonato my lord my lord
don pedro i will not hear you
leonato no come brother away i will be heard
antonio and shall or some of us will smart for it
 exeunt leonato and antonio
don pedro see see here comes the man we went to seek
 enter benedick
claudio now signior what news
benedick good day my lord
don pedro welcome signior you are almost come to part
 almost a fray
claudio we had like to have had our two noses snapped off
 with two old men without teeth
don pedro leonato and his brother what thinkest thou had
 we fought i doubt we should have been too young for them
benedick in a false quarrel there is no true valour i came
 to seek you both
claudio we have been up and down to seek thee for we are
 highproof melancholy and would fain have it beaten
 away wilt thou use thy wit
benedick it is in my scabbard shall i draw it
don pedro dost thou wear thy wit by thy side
claudio never any did so though very many have been beside
 their wit i will bid thee draw as we do the
 minstrels draw to pleasure us
don pedro as i am an honest man he looks pale art thou
 sick or angry
claudio what courage man what though care killed a cat
 thou hast mettle enough in thee to kill care
benedick sir i shall meet your wit in the career and you
 charge it against me i pray you choose another subject
claudio nay then give him another staff this last was
 broke cross
don pedro by this light he changes more and more i think
 he be angry indeed
claudio if he be he knows how to turn his girdle
benedick shall i speak a word in your ear
claudio god bless me from a challenge
benedick aside to claudio you are a villain i jest not
 i will make it good how you dare with what you
 dare and when you dare do me right or i will
 protest your cowardice you have killed a sweet
 lady and her death shall fall heavy on you let me
 hear from you
claudio well i will meet you so i may have good cheer
don pedro what a feast a feast
claudio i faith i thank him he hath bid me to a calf's
 head and a capon the which if i do not carve most
 curiously say my knife's naught shall i not find
 a woodcock too
benedick sir your wit ambles well it goes easily
don pedro i'll tell thee how beatrice praised thy wit the
 other day i said thou hadst a fine wit true'
 said she a fine little one no said i a
 great wit right says she a great gross one'
 nay said i a good wit just said she it
 hurts nobody nay said i the gentleman
 is wise certain said she a wise gentleman'
 nay said i he hath the tongues that i
 believe said she for he swore a thing to me on
 monday night which he forswore on tuesday morning
 there's a double tongue there's two tongues thus
 did she an hour together transshape thy particular
 virtues yet at last she concluded with a sigh thou
 wast the properest man in italy
claudio for the which she wept heartily and said she cared
 not
don pedro yea that she did but yet for all that an if she
 did not hate him deadly she would love him dearly
 the old man's daughter told us all
claudio all all and moreover god saw him when he was
 hid in the garden
don pedro but when shall we set the savage bull's horns on
 the sensible benedick's head
claudio yea and text underneath here dwells benedick the
 married man'
benedick fare you well boy you know my mind i will leave
 you now to your gossiplike humour you break jests
 as braggarts do their blades which god be thanked
 hurt not my lord for your many courtesies i thank
 you i must discontinue your company your brother
 the bastard is fled from messina you have among
 you killed a sweet and innocent lady for my lord
 lackbeard there he and i shall meet and till
 then peace be with him
 exit
don pedro he is in earnest
claudio in most profound earnest and i'll warrant you for
 the love of beatrice
don pedro and hath challenged thee
claudio most sincerely
don pedro what a pretty thing man is when he goes in his
 doublet and hose and leaves off his wit
claudio he is then a giant to an ape but then is an ape a
 doctor to such a man
don pedro but soft you let me be pluck up my heart and
 be sad did he not say my brother was fled
 enter dogberry verges and the watch with conrade
 and borachio
dogberry come you sir if justice cannot tame you she
 shall ne'er weigh more reasons in her balance nay
 an you be a cursing hypocrite once you must be looked to
don pedro how now two of my brother's men bound borachio
 one
claudio hearken after their offence my lord
don pedro officers what offence have these men done
dogberry marry sir they have committed false report
 moreover they have spoken untruths secondarily
 they are slanders sixth and lastly they have
 belied a lady thirdly they have verified unjust
 things and to conclude they are lying knaves
don pedro first i ask thee what they have done thirdly i
 ask thee what's their offence sixth and lastly why
 they are committed and to conclude what you lay
 to their charge
claudio rightly reasoned and in his own division and by
 my troth there's one meaning well suited
don pedro who have you offended masters that you are thus
 bound to your answer this learned constable is
 too cunning to be understood what's your offence
borachio sweet prince let me go no farther to mine answer
 do you hear me and let this count kill me i have
 deceived even your very eyes what your wisdoms
 could not discover these shallow fools have brought
 to light who in the night overheard me confessing
 to this man how don john your brother incensed me
 to slander the lady hero how you were brought into
 the orchard and saw me court margaret in hero's
 garments how you disgraced her when you should
 marry her my villany they have upon record which
 i had rather seal with my death than repeat over
 to my shame the lady is dead upon mine and my
 master's false accusation and briefly i desire
 nothing but the reward of a villain
don pedro runs not this speech like iron through your blood
claudio i have drunk poison whiles he utter'd it
don pedro but did my brother set thee on to this
borachio yea and paid me richly for the practise of it
don pedro he is composed and framed of treachery
 and fled he is upon this villany
claudio sweet hero now thy image doth appear
 in the rare semblance that i loved it first
dogberry come bring away the plaintiffs by this time our
 sexton hath reformed signior leonato of the matter
 and masters do not forget to specify when time
 and place shall serve that i am an ass
verges here here comes master signior leonato and the
 sexton too
 reenter leonato and antonio with the sexton
leonato which is the villain let me see his eyes
 that when i note another man like him
 i may avoid him which of these is he
borachio if you would know your wronger look on me
leonato art thou the slave that with thy breath hast kill'd
 mine innocent child
borachio yea even i alone
leonato no not so villain thou beliest thyself
 here stand a pair of honourable men
 a third is fled that had a hand in it
 i thank you princes for my daughter's death
 record it with your high and worthy deeds
 twas bravely done if you bethink you of it
claudio i know not how to pray your patience
 yet i must speak choose your revenge yourself
 impose me to what penance your invention
 can lay upon my sin yet sinn'd i not
 but in mistaking
don pedro by my soul nor i
 and yet to satisfy this good old man
 i would bend under any heavy weight
 that he'll enjoin me to
leonato i cannot bid you bid my daughter live
 that were impossible but i pray you both
 possess the people in messina here
 how innocent she died and if your love
 can labour ought in sad invention
 hang her an epitaph upon her tomb
 and sing it to her bones sing it tonight
 tomorrow morning come you to my house
 and since you could not be my soninlaw
 be yet my nephew my brother hath a daughter
 almost the copy of my child that's dead
 and she alone is heir to both of us
 give her the right you should have given her cousin
 and so dies my revenge
claudio o noble sir
 your overkindness doth wring tears from me
 i do embrace your offer and dispose
 for henceforth of poor claudio
leonato tomorrow then i will expect your coming
 tonight i take my leave this naughty man
 shall face to face be brought to margaret
 who i believe was pack'd in all this wrong
 hired to it by your brother
borachio no by my soul she was not
 nor knew not what she did when she spoke to me
 but always hath been just and virtuous
 in any thing that i do know by her
dogberry moreover sir which indeed is not under white and
 black this plaintiff here the offender did call
 me ass i beseech you let it be remembered in his
 punishment and also the watch heard them talk of
 one deformed they say be wears a key in his ear and
 a lock hanging by it and borrows money in god's
 name the which he hath used so long and never paid
 that now men grow hardhearted and will lend nothing
 for god's sake pray you examine him upon that point
leonato i thank thee for thy care and honest pains
dogberry your worship speaks like a most thankful and
 reverend youth and i praise god for you
leonato there's for thy pains
dogberry god save the foundation
leonato go i discharge thee of thy prisoner and i thank thee
dogberry i leave an arrant knave with your worship which i
 beseech your worship to correct yourself for the
 example of others god keep your worship i wish
 your worship well god restore you to health i
 humbly give you leave to depart and if a merry
 meeting may be wished god prohibit it come neighbour
 exeunt dogberry and verges
leonato until tomorrow morning lords farewell
antonio farewell my lords we look for you tomorrow
don pedro we will not fail
claudio tonight i'll mourn with hero
leonato to the watch bring you these fellows on we'll
 talk with margaret
 how her acquaintance grew with this lewd fellow
 exeunt severally
 much ado about nothing
act v
scene ii leonato's garden
 enter benedick and margaret meeting
benedick pray thee sweet mistress margaret deserve well at
 my hands by helping me to the speech of beatrice
margaret will you then write me a sonnet in praise of my beauty
benedick in so high a style margaret that no man living
 shall come over it for in most comely truth thou
 deservest it
margaret to have no man come over me why shall i always
 keep below stairs
benedick thy wit is as quick as the greyhound's mouth it catches
margaret and yours as blunt as the fencer's foils which hit
 but hurt not
benedick a most manly wit margaret it will not hurt a
 woman and so i pray thee call beatrice i give
 thee the bucklers
margaret give us the swords we have bucklers of our own
benedick if you use them margaret you must put in the
 pikes with a vice and they are dangerous weapons for maids
margaret well i will call beatrice to you who i think hath legs
benedick and therefore will come
 exit margaret
 sings
 the god of love
 that sits above
 and knows me and knows me
 how pitiful i deserve
 i mean in singing but in loving leander the good
 swimmer troilus the first employer of panders and
 a whole bookful of these quondam carpetmangers
 whose names yet run smoothly in the even road of a
 blank verse why they were never so truly turned
 over and over as my poor self in love marry i
 cannot show it in rhyme i have tried i can find
 out no rhyme to lady but baby an innocent
 rhyme for scorn horn a hard rhyme for
 school fool a babbling rhyme very ominous
 endings no i was not born under a rhyming planet
 nor i cannot woo in festival terms
 enter beatrice
 sweet beatrice wouldst thou come when i called thee
beatrice yea signior and depart when you bid me
benedick o stay but till then
beatrice then is spoken fare you well now and yet ere
 i go let me go with that i came which is with
 knowing what hath passed between you and claudio
benedick only foul words and thereupon i will kiss thee
beatrice foul words is but foul wind and foul wind is but
 foul breath and foul breath is noisome therefore i
 will depart unkissed
benedick thou hast frighted the word out of his right sense
 so forcible is thy wit but i must tell thee
 plainly claudio undergoes my challenge and either
 i must shortly hear from him or i will subscribe
 him a coward and i pray thee now tell me for
 which of my bad parts didst thou first fall in love with me
beatrice for them all together which maintained so politic
 a state of evil that they will not admit any good
 part to intermingle with them but for which of my
 good parts did you first suffer love for me
benedick suffer love a good epithet i do suffer love
 indeed for i love thee against my will
beatrice in spite of your heart i think alas poor heart
 if you spite it for my sake i will spite it for
 yours for i will never love that which my friend hates
benedick thou and i are too wise to woo peaceably
beatrice it appears not in this confession there's not one
 wise man among twenty that will praise himself
benedick an old an old instance beatrice that lived in
 the lime of good neighbours if a man do not erect
 in this age his own tomb ere he dies he shall live
 no longer in monument than the bell rings and the
 widow weeps
beatrice and how long is that think you
benedick question why an hour in clamour and a quarter in
 rheum therefore is it most expedient for the
 wise if don worm his conscience find no
 impediment to the contrary to be the trumpet of his
 own virtues as i am to myself so much for
 praising myself who i myself will bear witness is
 praiseworthy and now tell me how doth your cousin
beatrice very ill
benedick and how do you
beatrice very ill too
benedick serve god love me and mend there will i leave
 you too for here comes one in haste
 enter ursula
ursula madam you must come to your uncle yonder's old
 coil at home it is proved my lady hero hath been
 falsely accused the prince and claudio mightily
 abused and don john is the author of all who is
 fed and gone will you come presently
beatrice will you go hear this news signior
benedick i will live in thy heart die in thy lap and be
 buried in thy eyes and moreover i will go with
 thee to thy uncle's
 exeunt
 much ado about nothing
act v
scene iii a church
 enter don pedro claudio and three or four
 with tapers
claudio is this the monument of leonato
lord it is my lord
claudio reading out of a scroll
 done to death by slanderous tongues
 was the hero that here lies
 death in guerdon of her wrongs
 gives her fame which never dies
 so the life that died with shame
 lives in death with glorious fame
 hang thou there upon the tomb
 praising her when i am dumb
 now music sound and sing your solemn hymn
 song
 pardon goddess of the night
 those that slew thy virgin knight
 for the which with songs of woe
 round about her tomb they go
 midnight assist our moan
 help us to sigh and groan
 heavily heavily
 graves yawn and yield your dead
 till death be uttered
 heavily heavily
claudio now unto thy bones good night
 yearly will i do this rite
don pedro good morrow masters put your torches out
 the wolves have prey'd and look the gentle day
 before the wheels of phoebus round about
 dapples the drowsy east with spots of grey
 thanks to you all and leave us fare you well
claudio good morrow masters each his several way
don pedro come let us hence and put on other weeds
 and then to leonato's we will go
claudio and hymen now with luckier issue speed's
 than this for whom we render'd up this woe
 exeunt
 much ado about nothing
act v
scene iv a room in leonato's house
 enter leonato antonio benedick beatrice
 margaret ursula friar francis and hero
friar francis did i not tell you she was innocent
leonato so are the prince and claudio who accused her
 upon the error that you heard debated
 but margaret was in some fault for this
 although against her will as it appears
 in the true course of all the question
antonio well i am glad that all things sort so well
benedick and so am i being else by faith enforced
 to call young claudio to a reckoning for it
leonato well daughter and you gentlewomen all
 withdraw into a chamber by yourselves
 and when i send for you come hither mask'd
 exeunt ladies
 the prince and claudio promised by this hour
 to visit me you know your office brother
 you must be father to your brother's daughter
 and give her to young claudio
antonio which i will do with confirm'd countenance
benedick friar i must entreat your pains i think
friar francis to do what signior
benedick to bind me or undo me one of them
 signior leonato truth it is good signior
 your niece regards me with an eye of favour
leonato that eye my daughter lent her tis most true
benedick and i do with an eye of love requite her
leonato the sight whereof i think you had from me
 from claudio and the prince but what's your will
benedick your answer sir is enigmatical
 but for my will my will is your good will
 may stand with ours this day to be conjoin'd
 in the state of honourable marriage
 in which good friar i shall desire your help
leonato my heart is with your liking
friar francis and my help
 here comes the prince and claudio
 enter don pedro and claudio and two or
 three others
don pedro good morrow to this fair assembly
leonato good morrow prince good morrow claudio
 we here attend you are you yet determined
 today to marry with my brother's daughter
claudio i'll hold my mind were she an ethiope
leonato call her forth brother here's the friar ready
 exit antonio
don pedro good morrow benedick why what's the matter
 that you have such a february face
 so full of frost of storm and cloudiness
claudio i think he thinks upon the savage bull
 tush fear not man we'll tip thy horns with gold
 and all europa shall rejoice at thee
 as once europa did at lusty jove
 when he would play the noble beast in love
benedick bull jove sir had an amiable low
 and some such strange bull leap'd your father's cow
 and got a calf in that same noble feat
 much like to you for you have just his bleat
claudio for this i owe you here comes other reckonings
 reenter antonio with the ladies masked
 which is the lady i must seize upon
antonio this same is she and i do give you her
claudio why then she's mine sweet let me see your face
leonato no that you shall not till you take her hand
 before this friar and swear to marry her
claudio give me your hand before this holy friar
 i am your husband if you like of me
hero and when i lived i was your other wife
 unmasking
 and when you loved you were my other husband
claudio another hero
hero nothing certainer
 one hero died defiled but i do live
 and surely as i live i am a maid
don pedro the former hero hero that is dead
leonato she died my lord but whiles her slander lived
friar francis all this amazement can i qualify
 when after that the holy rites are ended
 i'll tell you largely of fair hero's death
 meantime let wonder seem familiar
 and to the chapel let us presently
benedick soft and fair friar which is beatrice
beatrice unmasking i answer to that name what is your will
benedick do not you love me
beatrice why no no more than reason
benedick why then your uncle and the prince and claudio
 have been deceived they swore you did
beatrice do not you love me
benedick troth no no more than reason
beatrice why then my cousin margaret and ursula
 are much deceived for they did swear you did
benedick they swore that you were almost sick for me
beatrice they swore that you were wellnigh dead for me
benedick tis no such matter then you do not love me
beatrice no truly but in friendly recompense
leonato come cousin i am sure you love the gentleman
claudio and i'll be sworn upon't that he loves her
 for here's a paper written in his hand
 a halting sonnet of his own pure brain
 fashion'd to beatrice
hero and here's another
 writ in my cousin's hand stolen from her pocket
 containing her affection unto benedick
benedick a miracle here's our own hands against our hearts
 come i will have thee but by this light i take
 thee for pity
beatrice i would not deny you but by this good day i yield
 upon great persuasion and partly to save your life
 for i was told you were in a consumption
benedick peace i will stop your mouth
 kissing her
don pedro how dost thou benedick the married man
benedick i'll tell thee what prince a college of
 witcrackers cannot flout me out of my humour dost
 thou think i care for a satire or an epigram no
 if a man will be beaten with brains a shall wear
 nothing handsome about him in brief since i do
 purpose to marry i will think nothing to any
 purpose that the world can say against it and
 therefore never flout at me for what i have said
 against it for man is a giddy thing and this is my
 conclusion for thy part claudio i did think to
 have beaten thee but in that thou art like to be my
 kinsman live unbruised and love my cousin
claudio i had well hoped thou wouldst have denied beatrice
 that i might have cudgelled thee out of thy single
 life to make thee a doubledealer which out of
 question thou wilt be if my cousin do not look
 exceedingly narrowly to thee
benedick come come we are friends let's have a dance ere
 we are married that we may lighten our own hearts
 and our wives heels
leonato we'll have dancing afterward
benedick first of my word therefore play music prince
 thou art sad get thee a wife get thee a wife
 there is no staff more reverend than one tipped with horn
 enter a messenger
messenger my lord your brother john is ta'en in flight
 and brought with armed men back to messina
benedick think not on him till tomorrow
 i'll devise thee brave punishments for him
 strike up pipers
 dance
 exeunt
 pericles prince of tyre
 dramatis personae
antiochus king of antioch
pericles prince of tyre
helicanus 
 two lords of tyre
escanes 
simonides king of pentapolis
cleon governor of tarsus
lysimachus governor of mytilene
cerimon a lord of ephesus
thaliard a lord of antioch
philemon servant to cerimon
leonine servant to dionyza
 marshal marshal
 a pandar pandar
boult his servant
 the daughter of antiochus daughter
dionyza wife to cleon
thaisa daughter to simonides
marina daughter to pericles and thaisa
lychorida nurse to marina
 a bawd bawd
 lords knights gentlemen sailors pirates
 fishermen and messengers lord
 first lord
 second lord
 third lord
 first knight
 second knight
 third knight
 first gentleman
 second gentleman
 first sailor
 second sailor
 first pirate
 second pirate
 third pirate
 first fisherman
 second fisherman
 third fisherman
 messenger
diana
gower as chorus
scene dispersedly in various countries
 pericles prince of tyre
act i
 enter gower
 before the palace of antioch
 to sing a song that old was sung
 from ashes ancient gower is come
 assuming man's infirmities
 to glad your ear and please your eyes
 it hath been sung at festivals
 on embereves and holyales
 and lords and ladies in their lives
 have read it for restoratives
 the purchase is to make men glorious
 et bonum quo antiquius eo melius
 if you born in these latter times
 when wit's more ripe accept my rhymes
 and that to hear an old man sing
 may to your wishes pleasure bring
 i life would wish and that i might
 waste it for you like taperlight
 this antioch then antiochus the great
 built up this city for his chiefest seat
 the fairest in all syria
 i tell you what mine authors say
 this king unto him took a fere
 who died and left a female heir
 so buxom blithe and full of face
 as heaven had lent her all his grace
 with whom the father liking took
 and her to incest did provoke
 bad child worse father to entice his own
 to evil should be done by none
 but custom what they did begin
 was with long use account no sin
 the beauty of this sinful dame
 made many princes thither frame
 to seek her as a bedfellow
 in marriagepleasures playfellow
 which to prevent he made a law
 to keep her still and men in awe
 that whoso ask'd her for his wife
 his riddle told not lost his life
 so for her many a wight did die
 as yon grim looks do testify
 what now ensues to the judgment of your eye
 i give my cause who best can justify
 exit
 pericles prince of tyre
act i
scene i antioch a room in the palace
 enter antiochus prince pericles and followers
antiochus young prince of tyre you have at large received
 the danger of the task you undertake
pericles i have antiochus and with a soul
 embolden'd with the glory of her praise
 think death no hazard in this enterprise
antiochus bring in our daughter clothed like a bride
 for the embracements even of jove himself
 at whose conception till lucina reign'd
 nature this dowry gave to glad her presence
 the senatehouse of planets all did sit
 to knit in her their best perfections
 music enter the daughter of antiochus
pericles see where she comes apparell'd like the spring
 graces her subjects and her thoughts the king
 of every virtue gives renown to men
 her face the book of praises where is read
 nothing but curious pleasures as from thence
 sorrow were ever razed and testy wrath
 could never be her mild companion
 you gods that made me man and sway in love
 that have inflamed desire in my breast
 to taste the fruit of yon celestial tree
 or die in the adventure be my helps
 as i am son and servant to your will
 to compass such a boundless happiness
antiochus prince pericles
pericles that would be son to great antiochus
antiochus before thee stands this fair hesperides
 with golden fruit but dangerous to be touch'd
 for deathlike dragons here affright thee hard
 her face like heaven enticeth thee to view
 her countless glory which desert must gain
 and which without desert because thine eye
 presumes to reach all thy whole heap must die
 yon sometimes famous princes like thyself
 drawn by report adventurous by desire
 tell thee with speechless tongues and semblance pale
 that without covering save yon field of stars
 here they stand martyrs slain in cupid's wars
 and with dead cheeks advise thee to desist
 for going on death's net whom none resist
pericles antiochus i thank thee who hath taught
 my frail mortality to know itself
 and by those fearful objects to prepare
 this body like to them to what i must
 for death remember'd should be like a mirror
 who tells us life's but breath to trust it error
 i'll make my will then and as sick men do
 who know the world see heaven but feeling woe
 gripe not at earthly joys as erst they did
 so i bequeath a happy peace to you
 and all good men as every prince should do
 my riches to the earth from whence they came
 but my unspotted fire of love to you
 to the daughter of antiochus
 thus ready for the way of life or death
 i wait the sharpest blow antiochus
antiochus scorning advice read the conclusion then
 which read and not expounded tis decreed
 as these before thee thou thyself shalt bleed
daughter of all say'd yet mayst thou prove prosperous
 of all say'd yet i wish thee happiness
pericles like a bold champion i assume the lists
 nor ask advice of any other thought
 but faithfulness and courage
 he reads the riddle
 i am no viper yet i feed
 on mother's flesh which did me breed
 i sought a husband in which labour
 i found that kindness in a father
 he's father son and husband mild
 i mother wife and yet his child
 how they may be and yet in two
 as you will live resolve it you
 sharp physic is the last but o you powers
 that give heaven countless eyes to view men's acts
 why cloud they not their sights perpetually
 if this be true which makes me pale to read it
 fair glass of light i loved you and could still
 takes hold of the hand of the daughter of antiochus
 were not this glorious casket stored with ill
 but i must tell you now my thoughts revolt
 for he's no man on whom perfections wait
 that knowing sin within will touch the gate
 you are a fair viol and your sense the strings
 who finger'd to make man his lawful music
 would draw heaven down and all the gods to hearken
 but being play'd upon before your time
 hell only danceth at so harsh a chime
 good sooth i care not for you
antiochus prince pericles touch not upon thy life
 for that's an article within our law
 as dangerous as the rest your time's expired
 either expound now or receive your sentence
pericles great king
 few love to hear the sins they love to act
 twould braid yourself too near for me to tell it
 who has a book of all that monarchs do
 he's more secure to keep it shut than shown
 for vice repeated is like the wandering wind
 blows dust in other's eyes to spread itself
 and yet the end of all is bought thus dear
 the breath is gone and the sore eyes see clear
 to stop the air would hurt them the blind mole casts
 copp'd hills towards heaven to tell the earth is throng'd
 by man's oppression and the poor worm doth die for't
 kings are earth's gods in vice their law's
 their will
 and if jove stray who dares say jove doth ill
 it is enough you know and it is fit
 what being more known grows worse to smother it
 all love the womb that their first being bred
 then give my tongue like leave to love my head
antiochus aside heaven that i had thy head he has found
 the meaning
 but i will gloze with himyoung prince of tyre
 though by the tenor of our strict edict
 your exposition misinterpreting
 we might proceed to cancel of your days
 yet hope succeeding from so fair a tree
 as your fair self doth tune us otherwise
 forty days longer we do respite you
 if by which time our secret be undone
 this mercy shows we'll joy in such a son
 and until then your entertain shall be
 as doth befit our honour and your worth
 exeunt all but pericles
pericles how courtesy would seem to cover sin
 when what is done is like an hypocrite
 the which is good in nothing but in sight
 if it be true that i interpret false
 then were it certain you were not so bad
 as with foul incest to abuse your soul
 where now you're both a father and a son
 by your untimely claspings with your child
 which pleasure fits an husband not a father
 and she an eater of her mother's flesh
 by the defiling of her parent's bed
 and both like serpents are who though they feed
 on sweetest flowers yet they poison breed
 antioch farewell for wisdom sees those men
 blush not in actions blacker than the night
 will shun no course to keep them from the light
 one sin i know another doth provoke
 murder's as near to lust as flame to smoke
 poison and treason are the hands of sin
 ay and the targets to put off the shame
 then lest my lie be cropp'd to keep you clear
 by flight i'll shun the danger which i fear
 exit
 reenter antiochus
antiochus he hath found the meaning for which we mean
 to have his head
 he must not live to trumpet forth my infamy
 nor tell the world antiochus doth sin
 in such a loathed manner
 and therefore instantly this prince must die
 for by his fall my honour must keep high
 who attends us there
 enter thaliard
thaliard doth your highness call
antiochus thaliard
 you are of our chamber and our mind partakes
 her private actions to your secrecy
 and for your faithfulness we will advance you
 thaliard behold here's poison and here's gold
 we hate the prince of tyre and thou must kill him
 it fits thee not to ask the reason why
 because we bid it say is it done
thaliard my lord
 tis done
antiochus enough
 enter a messenger
 let your breath cool yourself telling your haste
messenger my lord prince pericles is fled
 exit
antiochus as thou
 wilt live fly after and like an arrow shot
 from a wellexperienced archer hits the mark
 his eye doth level at so thou ne'er return
 unless thou say prince pericles is dead'
thaliard my lord
 if i can get him within my pistol's length
 i'll make him sure enough so farewell to your highness
antiochus thaliard adieu
 exit thaliard
 till pericles be dead
 my heart can lend no succor to my head
 exit
 pericles prince of tyre
act i
scene ii tyre a room in the palace
 enter pericles
pericles to lords without let none disturb uswhy should
 this change of thoughts
 the sad companion dulleyed melancholy
 be my so used a guest as not an hour
 in the day's glorious walk or peaceful night
 the tomb where grief should sleep can breed me quiet
 here pleasures court mine eyes and mine eyes shun them
 and danger which i fear'd is at antioch
 whose aim seems far too short to hit me here
 yet neither pleasure's art can joy my spirits
 nor yet the other's distance comfort me
 then it is thus the passions of the mind
 that have their first conception by misdread
 have afternourishment and life by care
 and what was first but fear what might be done
 grows elder now and cares it be not done
 and so with me the great antiochus
 gainst whom i am too little to contend
 since he's so great can make his will his act
 will think me speaking though i swear to silence
 nor boots it me to say i honour him
 if he suspect i may dishonour him
 and what may make him blush in being known
 he'll stop the course by which it might be known
 with hostile forces he'll o'erspread the land
 and with the ostent of war will look so huge
 amazement shall drive courage from the state
 our men be vanquish'd ere they do resist
 and subjects punish'd that ne'er thought offence
 which care of them not pity of myself
 who am no more but as the tops of trees
 which fence the roots they grow by and defend them
 makes both my body pine and soul to languish
 and punish that before that he would punish
 enter helicanus with other lords
first lord joy and all comfort in your sacred breast
second lord and keep your mind till you return to us
 peaceful and comfortable
helicanus peace peace and give experience tongue
 they do abuse the king that flatter him
 for flattery is the bellows blows up sin
 the thing which is flatter'd but a spark
 to which that blast gives heat and stronger glowing
 whereas reproof obedient and in order
 fits kings as they are men for they may err
 when signior sooth here does proclaim a peace
 he flatters you makes war upon your life
 prince pardon me or strike me if you please
 i cannot be much lower than my knees
pericles all leave us else but let your cares o'erlook
 what shipping and what lading's in our haven
 and then return to us
 exeunt lords
 helicanus thou
 hast moved us what seest thou in our looks
helicanus an angry brow dread lord
pericles if there be such a dart in princes frowns
 how durst thy tongue move anger to our face
helicanus how dare the plants look up to heaven from whence
 they have their nourishment
pericles thou know'st i have power
 to take thy life from thee
helicanus kneeling
 i have ground the axe myself
 do you but strike the blow
pericles rise prithee rise
 sit down thou art no flatterer
 i thank thee for it and heaven forbid
 that kings should let their ears hear their
 faults hid
 fit counsellor and servant for a prince
 who by thy wisdom makest a prince thy servant
 what wouldst thou have me do
helicanus to bear with patience
 such griefs as you yourself do lay upon yourself
pericles thou speak'st like a physician helicanus
 that minister'st a potion unto me
 that thou wouldst tremble to receive thyself
 attend me then i went to antioch
 where as thou know'st against the face of death
 i sought the purchase of a glorious beauty
 from whence an issue i might propagate
 are arms to princes and bring joys to subjects
 her face was to mine eye beyond all wonder
 the resthark in thine earas black as incest
 which by my knowledge found the sinful father
 seem'd not to strike but smooth but thou
 know'st this
 tis time to fear when tyrants seem to kiss
 such fear so grew in me i hither fled
 under the covering of a careful night
 who seem'd my good protector and being here
 bethought me what was past what might succeed
 i knew him tyrannous and tyrants fears
 decrease not but grow faster than the years
 and should he doubt it as no doubt he doth
 that i should open to the listening air
 how many worthy princes bloods were shed
 to keep his bed of blackness unlaid ope
 to lop that doubt he'll fill this land with arms
 and make pretence of wrong that i have done him
 when all for mine if i may call offence
 must feel war's blow who spares not innocence
 which love to all of which thyself art one
 who now reprovest me for it
helicanus alas sir
pericles drew sleep out of mine eyes blood from my cheeks
 musings into my mind with thousand doubts
 how i might stop this tempest ere it came
 and finding little comfort to relieve them
 i thought it princely charity to grieve them
helicanus well my lord since you have given me leave to speak
 freely will i speak antiochus you fear
 and justly too i think you fear the tyrant
 who either by public war or private treason
 will take away your life
 therefore my lord go travel for a while
 till that his rage and anger be forgot
 or till the destinies do cut his thread of life
 your rule direct to any if to me
 day serves not light more faithful than i'll be
pericles i do not doubt thy faith
 but should he wrong my liberties in my absence
helicanus we'll mingle our bloods together in the earth
 from whence we had our being and our birth
pericles tyre i now look from thee then and to tarsus
 intend my travel where i'll hear from thee
 and by whose letters i'll dispose myself
 the care i had and have of subjects good
 on thee i lay whose wisdom's strength can bear it
 i'll take thy word for faith not ask thine oath
 who shuns not to break one will sure crack both
 but in our orbs we'll live so round and safe
 that time of both this truth shall ne'er convince
 thou show'dst a subject's shine i a true prince
 exeunt
 pericles prince of tyre
act i
scene iii tyre an antechamber in the palace
 enter thaliard
thaliard so this is tyre and this the court here must i
 kill king pericles and if i do it not i am sure to
 be hanged at home tis dangerous well i perceive
 he was a wise fellow and had good discretion that
 being bid to ask what he would of the king desired
 he might know none of his secrets now do i see he
 had some reason for't for if a king bid a man be a
 villain he's bound by the indenture of his oath to
 be one hush here come the lords of tyre
 enter helicanus and escanes with other lords of tyre
helicanus you shall not need my fellow peers of tyre
 further to question me of your king's departure
 his seal'd commission left in trust with me
 doth speak sufficiently he's gone to travel
thaliard aside how the king gone
helicanus if further yet you will be satisfied
 why as it were unlicensed of your loves
 he would depart i'll give some light unto you
 being at antioch
thaliard aside what from antioch
helicanus royal antiochuson what cause i know not
 took some displeasure at him at least he judged so
 and doubting lest that he had err'd or sinn'd
 to show his sorrow he'ld correct himself
 so puts himself unto the shipman's toil
 with whom each minute threatens life or death
thaliard aside well i perceive
 i shall not be hang'd now although i would
 but since he's gone the king's seas must please
 he scaped the land to perish at the sea
 i'll present myself peace to the lords of tyre
helicanus lord thaliard from antiochus is welcome
thaliard from him i come
 with message unto princely pericles
 but since my landing i have understood
 your lord has betook himself to unknown travels
 my message must return from whence it came
helicanus we have no reason to desire it
 commended to our master not to us
 yet ere you shall depart this we desire
 as friends to antioch we may feast in tyre
 exeunt
 pericles prince of tyre
act i
scene iv tarsus a room in the governor's house
 enter cleon the governor of tarsus with dionyza
 and others
cleon my dionyza shall we rest us here
 and by relating tales of others griefs
 see if twill teach us to forget our own
dionyza that were to blow at fire in hope to quench it
 for who digs hills because they do aspire
 throws down one mountain to cast up a higher
 o my distressed lord even such our griefs are
 here they're but felt and seen with mischief's eyes
 but like to groves being topp'd they higher rise
cleon o dionyza
 who wanteth food and will not say he wants it
 or can conceal his hunger till he famish
 our tongues and sorrows do sound deep
 our woes into the air our eyes do weep
 till tongues fetch breath that may proclaim them louder
 that if heaven slumber while their creatures want
 they may awake their helps to comfort them
 i'll then discourse our woes felt several years
 and wanting breath to speak help me with tears
dionyza i'll do my best sir
cleon this tarsus o'er which i have the government
 a city on whom plenty held full hand
 for riches strew'd herself even in the streets
 whose towers bore heads so high they kiss'd the clouds
 and strangers ne'er beheld but wondered at
 whose men and dames so jetted and adorn'd
 like one another's glass to trim them by
 their tables were stored full to glad the sight
 and not so much to feed on as delight
 all poverty was scorn'd and pride so great
 the name of help grew odious to repeat
dionyza o tis too true
cleon but see what heaven can do by this our change
 these mouths who but of late earth sea and air
 were all too little to content and please
 although they gave their creatures in abundance
 as houses are defiled for want of use
 they are now starved for want of exercise
 those palates who not yet two summers younger
 must have inventions to delight the taste
 would now be glad of bread and beg for it
 those mothers who to nousle up their babes
 thought nought too curious are ready now
 to eat those little darlings whom they loved
 so sharp are hunger's teeth that man and wife
 draw lots who first shall die to lengthen life
 here stands a lord and there a lady weeping
 here many sink yet those which see them fall
 have scarce strength left to give them burial
 is not this true
dionyza our cheeks and hollow eyes do witness it
cleon o let those cities that of plenty's cup
 and her prosperities so largely taste
 with their superfluous riots hear these tears
 the misery of tarsus may be theirs
 enter a lord
lord where's the lord governor
cleon here
 speak out thy sorrows which thou bring'st in haste
 for comfort is too far for us to expect
lord we have descried upon our neighbouring shore
 a portly sail of ships make hitherward
cleon i thought as much
 one sorrow never comes but brings an heir
 that may succeed as his inheritor
 and so in ours some neighbouring nation
 taking advantage of our misery
 hath stuff'd these hollow vessels with their power
 to beat us down the which are down already
 and make a conquest of unhappy me
 whereas no glory's got to overcome
lord that's the least fear for by the semblance
 of their white flags display'd they bring us peace
 and come to us as favourers not as foes
cleon thou speak'st like him's untutor'd to repeat
 who makes the fairest show means most deceit
 but bring they what they will and what they can
 what need we fear
 the ground's the lowest and we are half way there
 go tell their general we attend him here
 to know for what he comes and whence he comes
 and what he craves
lord i go my lord
 exit
cleon welcome is peace if he on peace consist
 if wars we are unable to resist
 enter pericles with attendants
pericles lord governor for so we hear you are
 let not our ships and number of our men
 be like a beacon fired to amaze your eyes
 we have heard your miseries as far as tyre
 and seen the desolation of your streets
 nor come we to add sorrow to your tears
 but to relieve them of their heavy load
 and these our ships you happily may think
 are like the trojan horse was stuff'd within
 with bloody veins expecting overthrow
 are stored with corn to make your needy bread
 and give them life whom hunger starved half dead
all the gods of greece protect you
 and we'll pray for you
pericles arise i pray you rise
 we do not look for reverence but to love
 and harbourage for ourself our ships and men
cleon the which when any shall not gratify
 or pay you with unthankfulness in thought
 be it our wives our children or ourselves
 the curse of heaven and men succeed their evils
 till whenthe which i hope shall ne'er be seen
 your grace is welcome to our town and us
pericles which welcome we'll accept feast here awhile
 until our stars that frown lend us a smile
 exeunt
 pericles prince of tyre
act ii
 enter gower
gower here have you seen a mighty king
 his child i wis to incest bring
 a better prince and benign lord
 that will prove awful both in deed and word
 be quiet then as men should be
 till he hath pass'd necessity
 i'll show you those in troubles reign
 losing a mite a mountain gain
 the good in conversation
 to whom i give my benison
 is still at tarsus where each man
 thinks all is writ he speken can
 and to remember what he does
 build his statue to make him glorious
 but tidings to the contrary
 are brought your eyes what need speak i
 dumb show
 enter at one door pericles talking with cleon all
 the train with them enter at another door a
 gentleman with a letter to pericles pericles
 shows the letter to cleon gives the messenger a
 reward and knights him exit pericles at one
 door and cleon at another
 good helicane that stay'd at home
 not to eat honey like a drone
 from others labours for though he strive
 to killen bad keep good alive
 and to fulfil his prince desire
 sends word of all that haps in tyre
 how thaliard came full bent with sin
 and had intent to murder him
 and that in tarsus was not best
 longer for him to make his rest
 he doing so put forth to seas
 where when men been there's seldom ease
 for now the wind begins to blow
 thunder above and deeps below
 make such unquiet that the ship
 should house him safe is wreck'd and split
 and he good prince having all lost
 by waves from coast to coast is tost
 all perishen of man of pelf
 ne aught escapen but himself
 till fortune tired with doing bad
 threw him ashore to give him glad
 and here he comes what shall be next
 pardon old gowerthis longs the text
 exit
 pericles prince of tyre
act ii
scene i pentapolis an open place by the seaside
 enter pericles wet
pericles yet cease your ire you angry stars of heaven
 wind rain and thunder remember earthly man
 is but a substance that must yield to you
 and i as fits my nature do obey you
 alas the sea hath cast me on the rocks
 wash'd me from shore to shore and left me breath
 nothing to think on but ensuing death
 let it suffice the greatness of your powers
 to have bereft a prince of all his fortunes
 and having thrown him from your watery grave
 here to have death in peace is all he'll crave
 enter three fishermen
first fisherman what ho pilch
second fisherman ha come and bring away the nets
first fisherman what patchbreech i say
third fisherman what say you master
first fisherman look how thou stirrest now come away or i'll
 fetch thee with a wanion
third fisherman faith master i am thinking of the poor men that
 were cast away before us even now
first fisherman alas poor souls it grieved my heart to hear what
 pitiful cries they made to us to help them when
 welladay we could scarce help ourselves
third fisherman nay master said not i as much when i saw the
 porpus how he bounced and tumbled they say
 they're half fish half flesh a plague on them
 they ne'er come but i look to be washed master i
 marvel how the fishes live in the sea
first fisherman why as men do aland the great ones eat up the
 little ones i can compare our rich misers to
 nothing so fitly as to a whale a plays and
 tumbles driving the poor fry before him and at
 last devours them all at a mouthful such whales
 have i heard on o the land who never leave gaping
 till they've swallowed the whole parish church
 steeple bells and all
pericles aside a pretty moral
third fisherman but master if i had been the sexton i would have
 been that day in the belfry
second fisherman why man
third fisherman because he should have swallowed me too and when i
 had been in his belly i would have kept such a
 jangling of the bells that he should never have
 left till he cast bells steeple church and
 parish up again but if the good king simonides
 were of my mind
pericles aside simonides
third fisherman we would purge the land of these drones that rob
 the bee of her honey
pericles aside how from the finny subject of the sea
 these fishers tell the infirmities of men
 and from their watery empire recollect
 all that may men approve or men detect
 peace be at your labour honest fishermen
second fisherman honest good fellow what's that if it be a day
 fits you search out of the calendar and nobody
 look after it
pericles may see the sea hath cast upon your coast
second fisherman what a drunken knave was the sea to cast thee in our
 way
pericles a man whom both the waters and the wind
 in that vast tenniscourt have made the ball
 for them to play upon entreats you pity him
 he asks of you that never used to beg
first fisherman no friend cannot you beg here's them in our
 country greece gets more with begging than we can do
 with working
second fisherman canst thou catch any fishes then
pericles i never practised it
second fisherman nay then thou wilt starve sure for here's nothing
 to be got nowadays unless thou canst fish for't
pericles what i have been i have forgot to know
 but what i am want teaches me to think on
 a man throng'd up with cold my veins are chill
 and have no more of life than may suffice
 to give my tongue that heat to ask your help
 which if you shall refuse when i am dead
 for that i am a man pray see me buried
first fisherman die quotha now gods forbid i have a gown here
 come put it on keep thee warm now afore me a
 handsome fellow come thou shalt go home and
 we'll have flesh for holidays fish for
 fastingdays and moreo'er puddings and flapjacks
 and thou shalt be welcome
pericles i thank you sir
second fisherman hark you my friend you said you could not beg
pericles i did but crave
second fisherman but crave then i'll turn craver too and so i
 shall scape whipping
pericles why are all your beggars whipped then
second fisherman o not all my friend not all for if all your
 beggars were whipped i would wish no better office
 than to be beadle but master i'll go draw up the
 net
 exit with third fisherman
pericles aside how well this honest mirth becomes their labour
first fisherman hark you sir do you know where ye are
pericles not well
first fisherman why i'll tell you this is called pentapolis and
 our king the good simonides
pericles the good king simonides do you call him
first fisherman ay sir and he deserves so to be called for his
 peaceable reign and good government
pericles he is a happy king since he gains from his subjects
 the name of good by his government how far is his
 court distant from this shore
first fisherman marry sir half a day's journey and i'll tell
 you he hath a fair daughter and tomorrow is her
 birthday and there are princes and knights come
 from all parts of the world to just and tourney for her love
pericles were my fortunes equal to my desires i could wish
 to make one there
first fisherman o sir things must be as they may and what a man
 cannot get he may lawfully deal forhis wife's soul
 reenter second and third fishermen drawing up a net
second fisherman help master help here's a fish hangs in the net
 like a poor man's right in the law twill hardly
 come out ha bots on't tis come at last and
 tis turned to a rusty armour
pericles an armour friends i pray you let me see it
 thanks fortune yet that after all my crosses
 thou givest me somewhat to repair myself
 and though it was mine own part of my heritage
 which my dead father did bequeath to me
 with this strict charge even as he left his life
 keep it my pericles it hath been a shield
 twixt me and death'and pointed to this brace
 for that it saved me keep it in like necessity
 the which the gods protect thee frommay
 defend thee'
 it kept where i kept i so dearly loved it
 till the rough seas that spare not any man
 took it in rage though calm'd have given't again
 i thank thee for't my shipwreck now's no ill
 since i have here my father's gift in's will
first fisherman what mean you sir
pericles to beg of you kind friends this coat of worth
 for it was sometime target to a king
 i know it by this mark he loved me dearly
 and for his sake i wish the having of it
 and that you'ld guide me to your sovereign's court
 where with it i may appear a gentleman
 and if that ever my low fortune's better
 i'll pay your bounties till then rest your debtor
first fisherman why wilt thou tourney for the lady
pericles i'll show the virtue i have borne in arms
first fisherman why do e take it and the gods give thee good on't
second fisherman ay but hark you my friend twas we that made up
 this garment through the rough seams of the waters
 there are certain condolements certain vails i
 hope sir if you thrive you'll remember from
 whence you had it
pericles believe t i will
 by your furtherance i am clothed in steel
 and spite of all the rapture of the sea
 this jewel holds his building on my arm
 unto thy value i will mount myself
 upon a courser whose delightful steps
 shall make the gazer joy to see him tread
 only my friend i yet am unprovided
 of a pair of bases
second fisherman we'll sure provide thou shalt have my best gown to
 make thee a pair and i'll bring thee to the court myself
pericles then honour be but a goal to my will
 this day i'll rise or else add ill to ill
 exeunt
 pericles prince of tyre
act ii
scene ii the same a public way or platform leading to the
 lists a pavilion by the side of it for the
 reception of king princess lords &c
 enter simonides thaisa lords and attendants
simonides are the knights ready to begin the triumph
first lord they are my liege
 and stay your coming to present themselves
simonides return them we are ready and our daughter
 in honour of whose birth these triumphs are
 sits here like beauty's child whom nature gat
 for men to see and seeing wonder at
 exit a lord
thaisa it pleaseth you my royal father to express
 my commendations great whose merit's less
simonides it's fit it should be so for princes are
 a model which heaven makes like to itself
 as jewels lose their glory if neglected
 so princes their renowns if not respected
 tis now your honour daughter to explain
 the labour of each knight in his device
thaisa which to preserve mine honour i'll perform
 enter a knight he passes over and his squire
 presents his shield to the princess
simonides who is the first that doth prefer himself
thaisa a knight of sparta my renowned father
 and the device he bears upon his shield
 is a black ethiope reaching at the sun
 the word lux tua vita mihi'
simonides he loves you well that holds his life of you
 the second knight passes over
 who is the second that presents himself
thaisa a prince of macedon my royal father
 and the device he bears upon his shield
 is an arm'd knight that's conquer'd by a lady
 the motto thus in spanish piu por dulzura que por fuerza'
 the third knight passes over
simonides and what's the third
thaisa the third of antioch
 and his device a wreath of chivalry
 the word me pompae provexit apex'
 the fourth knight passes over
simonides what is the fourth
thaisa a burning torch that's turned upside down
 the word quod me alit me extinguit'
simonides which shows that beauty hath his power and will
 which can as well inflame as it can kill
 the fifth knight passes over
thaisa the fifth an hand environed with clouds
 holding out gold that's by the touchstone tried
 the motto thus sic spectanda fides'
 the sixth knight pericles passes over
simonides and what's
 the sixth and last the which the knight himself
 with such a graceful courtesy deliver'd
thaisa he seems to be a stranger but his present is
 a wither'd branch that's only green at top
 the motto in hac spe vivo'
simonides a pretty moral
 from the dejected state wherein he is
 he hopes by you his fortunes yet may flourish
first lord he had need mean better than his outward show
 can any way speak in his just commend
 for by his rusty outside he appears
 to have practised more the whipstock than the lance
second lord he well may be a stranger for he comes
 to an honour'd triumph strangely furnished
third lord and on set purpose let his armour rust
 until this day to scour it in the dust
simonides opinion's but a fool that makes us scan
 the outward habit by the inward man
 but stay the knights are coming we will withdraw
 into the gallery
 exeunt
 great shouts within and all cry the mean knight'
 pericles prince of tyre
act ii
scene iii the same a hall of state a banquet prepared
 enter simonides thaisa lords attendants and
 knights from tilting
simonides knights
 to say you're welcome were superfluous
 to place upon the volume of your deeds
 as in a titlepage your worth in arms
 were more than you expect or more than's fit
 since every worth in show commends itself
 prepare for mirth for mirth becomes a feast
 you are princes and my guests
thaisa but you my knight and guest
 to whom this wreath of victory i give
 and crown you king of this day's happiness
pericles tis more by fortune lady than by merit
simonides call it by what you will the day is yours
 and here i hope is none that envies it
 in framing an artist art hath thus decreed
 to make some good but others to exceed
 and you are her labour'd scholar come queen o'
 the feast
 for daughter so you arehere take your place
 marshal the rest as they deserve their grace
knights we are honour'd much by good simonides
simonides your presence glads our days honour we love
 for who hates honour hates the gods above
marshal sir yonder is your place
pericles some other is more fit
first knight contend not sir for we are gentlemen
 that neither in our hearts nor outward eyes
 envy the great nor do the low despise
pericles you are right courteous knights
simonides sit sir sit
pericles by jove i wonder that is king of thoughts
 these cates resist me she but thought upon
thaisa by juno that is queen of marriage
 all viands that i eat do seem unsavoury
 wishing him my meat sure he's a gallant gentleman
simonides he's but a country gentleman
 has done no more than other knights have done
 has broken a staff or so so let it pass
thaisa to me he seems like diamond to glass
pericles yon king's to me like to my father's picture
 which tells me in that glory once he was
 had princes sit like stars about his throne
 and he the sun for them to reverence
 none that beheld him but like lesser lights
 did vail their crowns to his supremacy
 where now his son's like a glowworm in the night
 the which hath fire in darkness none in light
 whereby i see that time's the king of men
 he's both their parent and he is their grave
 and gives them what he will not what they crave
simonides what are you merry knights
knights who can be other in this royal presence
simonides here with a cup that's stored unto the brim
 as you do love fill to your mistress lips
 we drink this health to you
knights we thank your grace
simonides yet pause awhile
 yon knight doth sit too melancholy
 as if the entertainment in our court
 had not a show might countervail his worth
 note it not you thaisa
thaisa what is it
 to me my father
simonides o attend my daughter
 princes in this should live like gods above
 who freely give to every one that comes
 to honour them
 and princes not doing so are like to gnats
 which make a sound but kill'd are wonder'd at
 therefore to make his entrance more sweet
 here say we drink this standingbowl of wine to him
thaisa alas my father it befits not me
 unto a stranger knight to be so bold
 he may my proffer take for an offence
 since men take women's gifts for impudence
simonides how
 do as i bid you or you'll move me else
thaisa aside now by the gods he could not please me better
simonides and furthermore tell him we desire to know of him
 of whence he is his name and parentage
thaisa the king my father sir has drunk to you
pericles i thank him
thaisa wishing it so much blood unto your life
pericles i thank both him and you and pledge him freely
thaisa and further he desires to know of you
 of whence you are your name and parentage
pericles a gentleman of tyre my name pericles
 my education been in arts and arms
 who looking for adventures in the world
 was by the rough seas reft of ships and men
 and after shipwreck driven upon this shore
thaisa he thanks your grace names himself pericles
 a gentleman of tyre
 who only by misfortune of the seas
 bereft of ships and men cast on this shore
simonides now by the gods i pity his misfortune
 and will awake him from his melancholy
 come gentlemen we sit too long on trifles
 and waste the time which looks for other revels
 even in your armours as you are address'd
 will very well become a soldier's dance
 i will not have excuse with saying this
 loud music is too harsh for ladies heads
 since they love men in arms as well as beds
 the knights dance
 so this was well ask'd'twas so well perform'd
 come sir
 here is a lady that wants breathing too
 and i have heard you knights of tyre
 are excellent in making ladies trip
 and that their measures are as excellent
pericles in those that practise them they are my lord
simonides o that's as much as you would be denied
 of your fair courtesy
 the knights and ladies dance
 unclasp unclasp
 thanks gentlemen to all all have done well
 to pericles
 but you the best pages and lights to conduct
 these knights unto their several lodgings
 to pericles
 yours sir
 we have given order to be next our own
pericles i am at your grace's pleasure
simonides princes it is too late to talk of love
 and that's the mark i know you level at
 therefore each one betake him to his rest
 tomorrow all for speeding do their best
 exeunt
 pericles prince of tyre
act ii
scene iv tyre a room in the governor's house
 enter helicanus and escanes
helicanus no escanes know this of me
 antiochus from incest lived not free
 for which the most high gods not minding longer
 to withhold the vengeance that they had in store
 due to this heinous capital offence
 even in the height and pride of all his glory
 when he was seated in a chariot
 of an inestimable value and his daughter with him
 a fire from heaven came and shrivell'd up
 their bodies even to loathing for they so stunk
 that all those eyes adored them ere their fall
 scorn now their hand should give them burial
escanes twas very strange
helicanus and yet but justice for though
 this king were great his greatness was no guard
 to bar heaven's shaft but sin had his reward
escanes tis very true
 enter two or three lords
first lord see not a man in private conference
 or council has respect with him but he
second lord it shall no longer grieve without reproof
third lord and cursed be he that will not second it
first lord follow me then lord helicane a word
helicanus with me and welcome happy day my lords
first lord know that our griefs are risen to the top
 and now at length they overflow their banks
helicanus your griefs for what wrong not your prince you love
first lord wrong not yourself then noble helicane
 but if the prince do live let us salute him
 or know what ground's made happy by his breath
 if in the world he live we'll seek him out
 if in his grave he rest we'll find him there
 and be resolved he lives to govern us
 or dead give's cause to mourn his funeral
 and leave us to our free election
second lord whose death indeed's the strongest in our censure
 and knowing this kingdom is without a head
 like goodly buildings left without a roof
 soon fall to ruinyour noble self
 that best know how to rule and how to reign
 we thus submit untoour sovereign
all live noble helicane
helicanus for honour's cause forbear your suffrages
 if that you love prince pericles forbear
 take i your wish i leap into the seas
 where's hourly trouble for a minute's ease
 a twelvemonth longer let me entreat you to
 forbear the absence of your king
 if in which time expired he not return
 i shall with aged patience bear your yoke
 but if i cannot win you to this love
 go search like nobles like noble subjects
 and in your search spend your adventurous worth
 whom if you find and win unto return
 you shall like diamonds sit about his crown
first lord to wisdom he's a fool that will not yield
 and since lord helicane enjoineth us
 we with our travels will endeavour us
helicanus then you love us we you and we'll clasp hands
 when peers thus knit a kingdom ever stands
 exeunt
 pericles prince of tyre
act ii
scene v pentapolis a room in the palace
 enter simonides reading a letter at one door
 the knights meet him
first knight good morrow to the good simonides
simonides knights from my daughter this i let you know
 that for this twelvemonth she'll not undertake
 a married life
 her reason to herself is only known
 which yet from her by no means can i get
second knight may we not get access to her my lord
simonides faith by no means she has so strictly tied
 her to her chamber that tis impossible
 one twelve moons more she'll wear diana's livery
 this by the eye of cynthia hath she vow'd
 and on her virgin honour will not break it
third knight loath to bid farewell we take our leaves
 exeunt knights
simonides so
 they are well dispatch'd now to my daughter's letter
 she tells me here she'd wed the stranger knight
 or never more to view nor day nor light
 tis well mistress your choice agrees with mine
 i like that well nay how absolute she's in't
 not minding whether i dislike or no
 well i do commend her choice
 and will no longer have it be delay'd
 soft here he comes i must dissemble it
 enter pericles
pericles all fortune to the good simonides
simonides to you as much sir i am beholding to you
 for your sweet music this last night i do
 protest my ears were never better fed
 with such delightful pleasing harmony
pericles it is your grace's pleasure to commend
 not my desert
simonides sir you are music's master
pericles the worst of all her scholars my good lord
simonides let me ask you one thing
 what do you think of my daughter sir
pericles a most virtuous princess
simonides and she is fair too is she not
pericles as a fair day in summer wondrous fair
simonides sir my daughter thinks very well of you
 ay so well that you must be her master
 and she will be your scholar therefore look to it
pericles i am unworthy for her schoolmaster
simonides she thinks not so peruse this writing else
pericles aside what's here
 a letter that she loves the knight of tyre
 tis the king's subtlety to have my life
 o seek not to entrap me gracious lord
 a stranger and distressed gentleman
 that never aim'd so high to love your daughter
 but bent all offices to honour her
simonides thou hast bewitch'd my daughter and thou art
 a villain
pericles by the gods i have not
 never did thought of mine levy offence
 nor never did my actions yet commence
 a deed might gain her love or your displeasure
simonides traitor thou liest
pericles traitor
simonides ay traitor
pericles even in his throatunless it be the king
 that calls me traitor i return the lie
simonides aside now by the gods i do applaud his courage
pericles my actions are as noble as my thoughts
 that never relish'd of a base descent
 i came unto your court for honour's cause
 and not to be a rebel to her state
 and he that otherwise accounts of me
 this sword shall prove he's honour's enemy
simonides no
 here comes my daughter she can witness it
 enter thaisa
pericles then as you are as virtuous as fair
 resolve your angry father if my tongue
 did ere solicit or my hand subscribe
 to any syllable that made love to you
thaisa why sir say if you had
 who takes offence at that would make me glad
simonides yea mistress are you so peremptory
 aside
 i am glad on't with all my heart
 i'll tame you i'll bring you in subjection
 will you not having my consent
 bestow your love and your affections
 upon a stranger
 aside
 who for aught i know
 may be nor can i think the contrary
 as great in blood as i myself
 therefore hear you mistress either frame
 your will to mineand you sir hear you
 either be ruled by me or i will make you
 man and wife
 nay come your hands and lips must seal it too
 and being join'd i'll thus your hopes destroy
 and for a further griefgod give you joy
 what are you both pleased
thaisa yes if you love me sir
pericles even as my life or blood that fosters it
simonides what are you both agreed
both yes if it please your majesty
simonides it pleaseth me so well that i will see you wed
 and then with what haste you can get you to bed
 exeunt
 pericles prince of tyre
act iii
 enter gower
gower now sleep yslaked hath the rout
 no din but snores the house about
 made louder by the o'erfed breast
 of this most pompous marriagefeast
 the cat with eyne of burning coal
 now crouches fore the mouse's hole
 and crickets sing at the oven's mouth
 e'er the blither for their drouth
 hymen hath brought the bride to bed
 where by the loss of maidenhead
 a babe is moulded be attent
 and time that is so briefly spent
 with your fine fancies quaintly eche
 what's dumb in show i'll plain with speech
 dumb show
 enter pericles and simonides at one door with
 attendants a messenger meets them kneels and
 gives pericles a letter pericles shows it
 simonides the lords kneel to him then enter
 thaisa with child with lychorida a nurse the
 king shows her the letter she rejoices she and
 pericles takes leave of her father and depart with
 lychorida and their attendants then exeunt
 simonides and the rest
 by many a dern and painful perch
 of pericles the careful search
 by the four opposing coigns
 which the world together joins
 is made with all due diligence
 that horse and sail and high expense
 can stead the quest at last from tyre
 fame answering the most strange inquire
 to the court of king simonides
 are letters brought the tenor these
 antiochus and his daughter dead
 the men of tyrus on the head
 of helicanus would set on
 the crown of tyre but he will none
 the mutiny he there hastes t oppress
 says to em if king pericles
 come not home in twice six moons
 he obedient to their dooms
 will take the crown the sum of this
 brought hither to pentapolis
 yravished the regions round
 and every one with claps can sound
 our heirapparent is a king
 who dream'd who thought of such a thing'
 brief he must hence depart to tyre
 his queen with child makes her desire
 which who shall crossalong to go
 omit we all their dole and woe
 lychorida her nurse she takes
 and so to sea their vessel shakes
 on neptune's billow half the flood
 hath their keel cut but fortune's mood
 varies again the grisly north
 disgorges such a tempest forth
 that as a duck for life that dives
 so up and down the poor ship drives
 the lady shrieks and wellanear
 does fall in travail with her fear
 and what ensues in this fell storm
 shall for itself itself perform
 i nill relate action may
 conveniently the rest convey
 which might not what by me is told
 in your imagination hold
 this stage the ship upon whose deck
 the seatost pericles appears to speak
 exit
 pericles prince of tyre
act iii
scene i
 enter pericles on shipboard
pericles thou god of this great vast rebuke these surges
 which wash both heaven and hell and thou that hast
 upon the winds command bind them in brass
 having call'd them from the deep o still
 thy deafening dreadful thunders gently quench
 thy nimble sulphurous flashes o how lychorida
 how does my queen thou stormest venomously
 wilt thou spit all thyself the seaman's whistle
 is as a whisper in the ears of death
 unheard lychoridalucina o
 divinest patroness and midwife gentle
 to those that cry by night convey thy deity
 aboard our dancing boat make swift the pangs
 of my queen's travails
 enter lychorida with an infant
 now lychorida
lychorida here is a thing too young for such a place
 who if it had conceit would die as i
 am like to do take in your arms this piece
 of your dead queen
pericles how how lychorida
lychorida patience good sir do not assist the storm
 here's all that is left living of your queen
 a little daughter for the sake of it
 be manly and take comfort
pericles o you gods
 why do you make us love your goodly gifts
 and snatch them straight away we here below
 recall not what we give and therein may
 use honour with you
lychorida patience good sir
 even for this charge
pericles now mild may be thy life
 for a more blustrous birth had never babe
 quiet and gentle thy conditions for
 thou art the rudeliest welcome to this world
 that ever was prince's child happy what follows
 thou hast as chiding a nativity
 as fire air water earth and heaven can make
 to herald thee from the womb even at the first
 thy loss is more than can thy portage quit
 with all thou canst find here now the good gods
 throw their best eyes upon't
 enter two sailors
first sailor what courage sir god save you
pericles courage enough i do not fear the flaw
 it hath done to me the worst yet for the love
 of this poor infant this freshnew seafarer
 i would it would be quiet
first sailor slack the bolins there thou wilt not wilt thou
 blow and split thyself
second sailor but searoom an the brine and cloudy billow kiss
 the moon i care not
first sailor sir your queen must overboard the sea works high
 the wind is loud and will not lie till the ship be
 cleared of the dead
pericles that's your superstition
first sailor pardon us sir with us at sea it hath been still
 observed and we are strong in custom therefore
 briefly yield her for she must overboard straight
pericles as you think meet most wretched queen
lychorida here she lies sir
pericles a terrible childbed hast thou had my dear
 no light no fire the unfriendly elements
 forgot thee utterly nor have i time
 to give thee hallow'd to thy grave but straight
 must cast thee scarcely coffin'd in the ooze
 where for a monument upon thy bones
 and e'erremaining lamps the belching whale
 and humming water must o'erwhelm thy corpse
 lying with simple shells o lychorida
 bid nestor bring me spices ink and paper
 my casket and my jewels and bid nicander
 bring me the satin coffer lay the babe
 upon the pillow hie thee whiles i say
 a priestly farewell to her suddenly woman
 exit lychorida
second sailor sir we have a chest beneath the hatches caulked
 and bitumed ready
pericles i thank thee mariner say what coast is this
second sailor we are near tarsus
pericles thither gentle mariner
 alter thy course for tyre when canst thou reach it
second sailor by break of day if the wind cease
pericles o make for tarsus
 there will i visit cleon for the babe
 cannot hold out to tyrus there i'll leave it
 at careful nursing go thy ways good mariner
 i'll bring the body presently
 exeunt
 pericles prince of tyre
act iii
scene ii ephesus a room in cerimon's house
 enter cerimon with a servant and some persons who
 have been shipwrecked
cerimon philemon ho
 enter philemon
philemon doth my lord call
cerimon get fire and meat for these poor men
 t has been a turbulent and stormy night
servant i have been in many but such a night as this
 till now i ne'er endured
cerimon your master will be dead ere you return
 there's nothing can be minister'd to nature
 that can recover him
 to philemon
 give this to the pothecary
 and tell me how it works
 exeunt all but cerimon
 enter two gentlemen
first gentleman good morrow
second gentleman good morrow to your lordship
cerimon gentlemen
 why do you stir so early
first gentleman sir
 our lodgings standing bleak upon the sea
 shook as the earth did quake
 the very principals did seem to rend
 and allto topple pure surprise and fear
 made me to quit the house
second gentleman that is the cause we trouble you so early
 tis not our husbandry
cerimon o you say well
first gentleman but i much marvel that your lordship having
 rich tire about you should at these early hours
 shake off the golden slumber of repose
 tis most strange
 nature should be so conversant with pain
 being thereto not compell'd
cerimon i hold it ever
 virtue and cunning were endowments greater
 than nobleness and riches careless heirs
 may the two latter darken and expend
 but immortality attends the former
 making a man a god tis known i ever
 have studied physic through which secret art
 by turning o'er authorities i have
 together with my practise made familiar
 to me and to my aid the blest infusions
 that dwell in vegetives in metals stones
 and i can speak of the disturbances
 that nature works and of her cures which doth give me
 a more content in course of true delight
 than to be thirsty after tottering honour
 or tie my treasure up in silken bags
 to please the fool and death
second gentleman your honour has through ephesus pour'd forth
 your charity and hundreds call themselves
 your creatures who by you have been restored
 and not your knowledge your personal pain but even
 your purse still open hath built lord cerimon
 such strong renown as time shall ne'er decay
 enter two or three servants with a chest
first servant so lift there
cerimon what is that
first servant sir even now
 did the sea toss upon our shore this chest
 tis of some wreck
cerimon set t down let's look upon't
second gentleman tis like a coffin sir
cerimon whate'er it be
 tis wondrous heavy wrench it open straight
 if the sea's stomach be o'ercharged with gold
 tis a good constraint of fortune it belches upon us
second gentleman tis so my lord
cerimon how close tis caulk'd and bitumed
 did the sea cast it up
first servant i never saw so huge a billow sir
 as toss'd it upon shore
cerimon wrench it open
 soft it smells most sweetly in my sense
second gentleman a delicate odour
cerimon as ever hit my nostril so up with it
 o you most potent gods what's here a corse
first gentleman most strange
cerimon shrouded in cloth of state balm'd and entreasured
 with full bags of spices a passport too
 apollo perfect me in the characters
 reads from a scroll
 here i give to understand
 if e'er this coffin drive aland
 i king pericles have lost
 this queen worth all our mundane cost
 who finds her give her burying
 she was the daughter of a king
 besides this treasure for a fee
 the gods requite his charity'
 if thou livest pericles thou hast a heart
 that even cracks for woe this chanced tonight
second gentleman most likely sir
cerimon nay certainly tonight
 for look how fresh she looks they were too rough
 that threw her in the sea make a fire within
 fetch hither all my boxes in my closet
 exit a servant
 death may usurp on nature many hours
 and yet the fire of life kindle again
 the o'erpress'd spirits i heard of an egyptian
 that had nine hours lien dead
 who was by good appliance recovered
 reenter a servant with boxes napkins and fire
 well said well said the fire and cloths
 the rough and woeful music that we have
 cause it to sound beseech you
 the viol once more how thou stirr'st thou block
 the music therei pray you give her air
 gentlemen
 this queen will live nature awakes a warmth
 breathes out of her she hath not been entranced
 above five hours see how she gins to blow
 into life's flower again
first gentleman the heavens
 through you increase our wonder and set up
 your fame forever
cerimon she is alive behold
 her eyelids cases to those heavenly jewels
 which pericles hath lost
 begin to part their fringes of bright gold
 the diamonds of a most praised water
 do appear to make the world twice rich live
 and make us weep to hear your fate fair creature
 rare as you seem to be
 she moves
thaisa o dear diana
 where am i where's my lord what world is this
second gentleman is not this strange
first gentleman most rare
cerimon hush my gentle neighbours
 lend me your hands to the next chamber bear her
 get linen now this matter must be look'd to
 for her relapse is mortal come come
 and aesculapius guide us
 exeunt carrying her away
 pericles prince of tyre
act iii
scene iii tarsus a room in cleon's house
 enter pericles cleon dionyza and lychorida with
 marina in her arms
pericles most honour'd cleon i must needs be gone
 my twelve months are expired and tyrus stands
 in a litigious peace you and your lady
 take from my heart all thankfulness the gods
 make up the rest upon you
cleon your shafts of fortune though they hurt you mortally
 yet glance full wanderingly on us
dionyza o your sweet queen
 that the strict fates had pleased you had brought her hither
 to have bless'd mine eyes with her
pericles we cannot but obey
 the powers above us could i rage and roar
 as doth the sea she lies in yet the end
 must be as tis my gentle babe marina whom
 for she was born at sea i have named so here
 i charge your charity withal leaving her
 the infant of your care beseeching you
 to give her princely training that she may be
 manner'd as she is born
cleon fear not my lord but think
 your grace that fed my country with your corn
 for which the people's prayers still fall upon you
 must in your child be thought on if neglection
 should therein make me vile the common body
 by you relieved would force me to my duty
 but if to that my nature need a spur
 the gods revenge it upon me and mine
 to the end of generation
pericles i believe you
 your honour and your goodness teach me to't
 without your vows till she be married madam
 by bright diana whom we honour all
 unscissor'd shall this hair of mine remain
 though i show ill in't so i take my leave
 good madam make me blessed in your care
 in bringing up my child
dionyza i have one myself
 who shall not be more dear to my respect
 than yours my lord
pericles madam my thanks and prayers
cleon we'll bring your grace e'en to the edge o the shore
 then give you up to the mask'd neptune and
 the gentlest winds of heaven
pericles i will embrace
 your offer come dearest madam o no tears
 lychorida no tears
 look to your little mistress on whose grace
 you may depend hereafter come my lord
 exeunt
 pericles prince of tyre
act iii
scene iv ephesus a room in cerimon's house
 enter cerimon and thaisa
cerimon madam this letter and some certain jewels
 lay with you in your coffer which are now
 at your command know you the character
thaisa it is my lord's
 that i was shipp'd at sea i well remember
 even on my eaning time but whether there
 deliver'd by the holy gods
 i cannot rightly say but since king pericles
 my wedded lord i ne'er shall see again
 a vestal livery will i take me to
 and never more have joy
cerimon madam if this you purpose as ye speak
 diana's temple is not distant far
 where you may abide till your date expire
 moreover if you please a niece of mine
 shall there attend you
thaisa my recompense is thanks that's all
 yet my good will is great though the gift small
 exeunt
 pericles prince of tyre
act iv
 enter gower
gower imagine pericles arrived at tyre
 welcomed and settled to his own desire
 his woeful queen we leave at ephesus
 unto diana there a votaress
 now to marina bend your mind
 whom our fastgrowing scene must find
 at tarsus and by cleon train'd
 in music letters who hath gain'd
 of education all the grace
 which makes her both the heart and place
 of general wonder but alack
 that monster envy oft the wrack
 of earned praise marina's life
 seeks to take off by treason's knife
 and in this kind hath our cleon
 one daughter and a wench full grown
 even ripe for marriagerite this maid
 hight philoten and it is said
 for certain in our story she
 would ever with marina be
 be't when she weaved the sleided silk
 with fingers long small white as milk
 or when she would with sharp needle wound
 the cambric which she made more sound
 by hurting it or when to the lute
 she sung and made the nightbird mute
 that still records with moan or when
 she would with rich and constant pen
 vail to her mistress dian still
 this philoten contends in skill
 with absolute marina so
 with the dove of paphos might the crow
 vie feathers white marina gets
 all praises which are paid as debts
 and not as given this so darks
 in philoten all graceful marks
 that cleon's wife with envy rare
 a present murderer does prepare
 for good marina that her daughter
 might stand peerless by this slaughter
 the sooner her vile thoughts to stead
 lychorida our nurse is dead
 and cursed dionyza hath
 the pregnant instrument of wrath
 prest for this blow the unborn event
 i do commend to your content
 only i carry winged time
 post on the lame feet of my rhyme
 which never could i so convey
 unless your thoughts went on my way
 dionyza does appear
 with leonine a murderer
 exit
 pericles prince of tyre
act iv
scene i tarsus an open place near the seashore
 enter dionyza and leonine
dionyza thy oath remember thou hast sworn to do't
 tis but a blow which never shall be known
 thou canst not do a thing in the world so soon
 to yield thee so much profit let not conscience
 which is but cold inflaming love i thy bosom
 inflame too nicely nor let pity which
 even women have cast off melt thee but be
 a soldier to thy purpose
leonine i will do't but yet she is a goodly creature
dionyza the fitter then the gods should have her here
 she comes weeping for her only mistress death
 thou art resolved
leonine i am resolved
 enter marina with a basket of flowers
marina no i will rob tellus of her weed
 to strew thy green with flowers the yellows blues
 the purple violets and marigolds
 shall as a carpet hang upon thy grave
 while summerdays do last ay me poor maid
 born in a tempest when my mother died
 this world to me is like a lasting storm
 whirring me from my friends
dionyza how now marina why do you keep alone
 how chance my daughter is not with you do not
 consume your blood with sorrowing you have
 a nurse of me lord how your favour's changed
 with this unprofitable woe
 come give me your flowers ere the sea mar it
 walk with leonine the air is quick there
 and it pierces and sharpens the stomach come
 leonine take her by the arm walk with her
marina no i pray you
 i'll not bereave you of your servant
dionyza come come
 i love the king your father and yourself
 with more than foreign heart we every day
 expect him here when he shall come and find
 our paragon to all reports thus blasted
 he will repent the breadth of his great voyage
 blame both my lord and me that we have taken
 no care to your best courses go i pray you
 walk and be cheerful once again reserve
 that excellent complexion which did steal
 the eyes of young and old care not for me
 i can go home alone
marina well i will go
 but yet i have no desire to it
dionyza come come i know tis good for you
 walk half an hour leonine at the least
 remember what i have said
leonine i warrant you madam
dionyza i'll leave you my sweet lady for a while
 pray walk softly do not heat your blood
 what i must have a care of you
marina my thanks sweet madam
 exit dionyza
 is this wind westerly that blows
leonine southwest
marina when i was born the wind was north
leonine was't so
marina my father as nurse said did never fear
 but cried good seaman to the sailors galling
 his kingly hands haling ropes
 and clasping to the mast endured a sea
 that almost burst the deck
leonine when was this
marina when i was born
 never was waves nor wind more violent
 and from the laddertackle washes off
 a canvasclimber ha says one wilt out'
 and with a dropping industry they skip
 from stem to stern the boatswain whistles and
 the master calls and trebles their confusion
leonine come say your prayers
marina what mean you
leonine if you require a little space for prayer
 i grant it pray but be not tedious
 for the gods are quick of ear and i am sworn
 to do my work with haste
marina why will you kill me
leonine to satisfy my lady
marina why would she have me kill'd
 now as i can remember by my troth
 i never did her hurt in all my life
 i never spake bad word nor did ill turn
 to any living creature believe me la
 i never kill'd a mouse nor hurt a fly
 i trod upon a worm against my will
 but i wept for it how have i offended
 wherein my death might yield her any profit
 or my life imply her any danger
leonine my commission
 is not to reason of the deed but do it
marina you will not do't for all the world i hope
 you are well favour'd and your looks foreshow
 you have a gentle heart i saw you lately
 when you caught hurt in parting two that fought
 good sooth it show'd well in you do so now
 your lady seeks my life come you between
 and save poor me the weaker
leonine i am sworn
 and will dispatch
 he seizes her
 enter pirates
first pirate hold villain
 leonine runs away
second pirate a prize a prize
third pirate halfpart mates halfpart
 come let's have her aboard suddenly
 exeunt pirates with marina
 reenter leonine
leonine these roguing thieves serve the great pirate valdes
 and they have seized marina let her go
 there's no hope she will return i'll swear
 she's dead
 and thrown into the sea but i'll see further
 perhaps they will but please themselves upon her
 not carry her aboard if she remain
 whom they have ravish'd must by me be slain
 exit
 pericles prince of tyre
act iv
scene ii mytilene a room in a brothel
 enter pandar bawd and boult
pandar boult
boult sir
pandar search the market narrowly mytilene is full of
 gallants we lost too much money this mart by being
 too wenchless
bawd we were never so much out of creatures we have but
 poor three and they can do no more than they can
 do and they with continual action are even as good as rotten
pandar therefore let's have fresh ones whate'er we pay for
 them if there be not a conscience to be used in
 every trade we shall never prosper
bawd thou sayest true tis not our bringing up of poor
 bastardsas i think i have brought up some eleven
boult ay to eleven and brought them down again but
 shall i search the market
bawd what else man the stuff we have a strong wind
 will blow it to pieces they are so pitifully sodden
pandar thou sayest true they're too unwholesome o'
 conscience the poor transylvanian is dead that
 lay with the little baggage
boult ay she quickly pooped him she made him roastmeat
 for worms but i'll go search the market
 exit
pandar three or four thousand chequins were as pretty a
 proportion to live quietly and so give over
bawd why to give over i pray you is it a shame to get
 when we are old
pandar o our credit comes not in like the commodity nor
 the commodity wages not with the danger therefore
 if in our youths we could pick up some pretty
 estate twere not amiss to keep our door hatched
 besides the sore terms we stand upon with the gods
 will be strong with us for giving over
bawd come other sorts offend as well as we
pandar as well as we ay and better too we offend worse
 neither is our profession any trade it's no
 calling but here comes boult
 reenter boult with the pirates and marina
boult to marina come your ways my masters you say
 she's a virgin
first pirate o sir we doubt it not
boult master i have gone through for this piece you see
 if you like her so if not i have lost my earnest
bawd boult has she any qualities
boult she has a good face speaks well and has excellent
 good clothes there's no further necessity of
 qualities can make her be refused
bawd what's her price boult
boult i cannot be bated one doit of a thousand pieces
pandar well follow me my masters you shall have your
 money presently wife take her in instruct her
 what she has to do that she may not be raw in her
 entertainment
 exeunt pandar and pirates
bawd boult take you the marks of her the colour of her
 hair complexion height age with warrant of her
 virginity and cry he that will give most shall
 have her first such a maidenhead were no cheap
 thing if men were as they have been get this done
 as i command you
boult performance shall follow
 exit
marina alack that leonine was so slack so slow
 he should have struck not spoke or that these pirates
 not enough barbarous had not o'erboard thrown me
 for to seek my mother
bawd why lament you pretty one
marina that i am pretty
bawd come the gods have done their part in you
marina i accuse them not
bawd you are light into my hands where you are like to live
marina the more my fault
 to scape his hands where i was like to die
bawd ay and you shall live in pleasure
marina no
bawd yes indeed shall you and taste gentlemen of all
 fashions you shall fare well you shall have the
 difference of all complexions what do you stop your ears
marina are you a woman
bawd what would you have me be an i be not a woman
marina an honest woman or not a woman
bawd marry whip thee gosling i think i shall have
 something to do with you come you're a young
 foolish sapling and must be bowed as i would have
 you
marina the gods defend me
bawd if it please the gods to defend you by men then men
 must comfort you men must feed you men must stir
 you up boult's returned
 reenter boult
 now sir hast thou cried her through the market
boult i have cried her almost to the number of her hairs
 i have drawn her picture with my voice
bawd and i prithee tell me how dost thou find the
 inclination of the people especially of the younger sort
boult faith they listened to me as they would have
 hearkened to their father's testament there was a
 spaniard's mouth so watered that he went to bed to
 her very description
bawd we shall have him here tomorrow with his best ruff on
boult tonight tonight but mistress do you know the
 french knight that cowers i the hams
bawd who monsieur veroles
boult ay he he offered to cut a caper at the
 proclamation but he made a groan at it and swore
 he would see her tomorrow
bawd well well as for him he brought his disease
 hither here he does but repair it i know he will
 come in our shadow to scatter his crowns in the
 sun
boult well if we had of every nation a traveller we
 should lodge them with this sign
bawd to marina pray you come hither awhile you
 have fortunes coming upon you mark me you must
 seem to do that fearfully which you commit
 willingly despise profit where you have most gain
 to weep that you live as ye do makes pity in your
 lovers seldom but that pity begets you a good
 opinion and that opinion a mere profit
marina i understand you not
boult o take her home mistress take her home these
 blushes of hers must be quenched with some present practise
bawd thou sayest true i faith so they must for your
 bride goes to that with shame which is her way to go
 with warrant
boult faith some do and some do not but mistress if
 i have bargained for the joint
bawd thou mayst cut a morsel off the spit
boult i may so
bawd who should deny it come young one i like the
 manner of your garments well
boult ay by my faith they shall not be changed yet
bawd boult spend thou that in the town report what a
 sojourner we have you'll lose nothing by custom
 when nature flamed this piece she meant thee a good
 turn therefore say what a paragon she is and thou
 hast the harvest out of thine own report
boult i warrant you mistress thunder shall not so awake
 the beds of eels as my giving out her beauty stir up
 the lewdlyinclined i'll bring home some tonight
bawd come your ways follow me
marina if fires be hot knives sharp or waters deep
 untied i still my virgin knot will keep
 diana aid my purpose
bawd what have we to do with diana pray you will you go with us
 exeunt
 pericles prince of tyre
act iv
scene iii tarsus a room in cleon's house
 enter cleon and dionyza
dionyza why are you foolish can it be undone
cleon o dionyza such a piece of slaughter
 the sun and moon ne'er look'd upon
dionyza i think
 you'll turn a child again
cleon were i chief lord of all this spacious world
 i'ld give it to undo the deed o lady
 much less in blood than virtue yet a princess
 to equal any single crown o the earth
 i the justice of compare o villain leonine
 whom thou hast poison'd too
 if thou hadst drunk to him t had been a kindness
 becoming well thy fact what canst thou say
 when noble pericles shall demand his child
dionyza that she is dead nurses are not the fates
 to foster it nor ever to preserve
 she died at night i'll say so who can cross it
 unless you play the pious innocent
 and for an honest attribute cry out
 she died by foul play'
cleon o go to well well
 of all the faults beneath the heavens the gods
 do like this worst
dionyza be one of those that think
 the petty wrens of tarsus will fly hence
 and open this to pericles i do shame
 to think of what a noble strain you are
 and of how coward a spirit
cleon to such proceeding
 who ever but his approbation added
 though not his prime consent he did not flow
 from honourable sources
dionyza be it so then
 yet none does know but you how she came dead
 nor none can know leonine being gone
 she did disdain my child and stood between
 her and her fortunes none would look on her
 but cast their gazes on marina's face
 whilst ours was blurted at and held a malkin
 not worth the time of day it pierced me through
 and though you call my course unnatural
 you not your child well loving yet i find
 it greets me as an enterprise of kindness
 perform'd to your sole daughter
cleon heavens forgive it
dionyza and as for pericles
 what should he say we wept after her hearse
 and yet we mourn her monument
 is almost finish'd and her epitaphs
 in glittering golden characters express
 a general praise to her and care in us
 at whose expense tis done
cleon thou art like the harpy
 which to betray dost with thine angel's face
 seize with thine eagle's talons
dionyza you are like one that superstitiously
 doth swear to the gods that winter kills the flies
 but yet i know you'll do as i advise
 exeunt
 pericles prince of tyre
act iv
scene iv
 enter gower before the monument of marina at tarsus
gower thus time we waste and longest leagues make short
 sail seas in cockles have an wish but for't
 making to take your imagination
 from bourn to bourn region to region
 by you being pardon'd we commit no crime
 to use one language in each several clime
 where our scenes seem to live i do beseech you
 to learn of me who stand i the gaps to teach you
 the stages of our story pericles
 is now again thwarting the wayward seas
 attended on by many a lord and knight
 to see his daughter all his life's delight
 old escanes whom helicanus late
 advanced in time to great and high estate
 is left to govern bear you it in mind
 old helicanus goes along behind
 wellsailing ships and bounteous winds have brought
 this king to tarsusthink his pilot thought
 so with his steerage shall your thoughts grow on
 to fetch his daughter home who first is gone
 like motes and shadows see them move awhile
 your ears unto your eyes i'll reconcile
 dumb show
 enter pericles at one door with all his train
 cleon and dionyza at the other cleon shows
 pericles the tomb whereat pericles makes
 lamentation puts on sackcloth and in a mighty
 passion departs then exeunt cleon and dionyza
 see how belief may suffer by foul show
 this borrow'd passion stands for true old woe
 and pericles in sorrow all devour'd
 with sighs shot through and biggest tears
 o'ershower'd
 leaves tarsus and again embarks he swears
 never to wash his face nor cut his hairs
 he puts on sackcloth and to sea he bears
 a tempest which his mortal vessel tears
 and yet he rides it out now please you wit
 the epitaph is for marina writ
 by wicked dionyza
 reads the inscription on marina's monument
 the fairest sweet'st and best lies here
 who wither'd in her spring of year
 she was of tyrus the king's daughter
 on whom foul death hath made this slaughter
 marina was she call'd and at her birth
 thetis being proud swallow'd some part o the earth
 therefore the earth fearing to be o'erflow'd
 hath thetis birthchild on the heavens bestow'd
 wherefore she does and swears she'll never stint
 make raging battery upon shores of flint'
 no visor does become black villany
 so well as soft and tender flattery
 let pericles believe his daughter's dead
 and bear his courses to be ordered
 by lady fortune while our scene must play
 his daughter's woe and heavy welladay
 in her unholy service patience then
 and think you now are all in mytilene
 exit
 pericles prince of tyre
act iv
scene v mytilene a street before the brothel
 enter from the brothel two gentlemen
first gentleman did you ever hear the like
second gentleman no nor never shall do in such a place as this she
 being once gone
first gentleman but to have divinity preached there did you ever
 dream of such a thing
second gentleman no no come i am for no more bawdyhouses
 shall's go hear the vestals sing
first gentleman i'll do any thing now that is virtuous but i
 am out of the road of rutting for ever
 exeunt
 pericles prince of tyre
act iv
scene vi the same a room in the brothel
 enter pandar bawd and boult
pandar well i had rather than twice the worth of her she
 had ne'er come here
bawd fie fie upon her she's able to freeze the god
 priapus and undo a whole generation we must
 either get her ravished or be rid of her when she
 should do for clients her fitment and do me the
 kindness of our profession she has me her quirks
 her reasons her master reasons her prayers her
 knees that she would make a puritan of the devil
 if he should cheapen a kiss of her
boult faith i must ravish her or she'll disfurnish us
 of all our cavaliers and make our swearers priests
pandar now the pox upon her greensickness for me
bawd faith there's no way to be rid on't but by the
 way to the pox here comes the lord lysimachus disguised
boult we should have both lord and lown if the peevish
 baggage would but give way to customers
 enter lysimachus
lysimachus how now how a dozen of virginities
bawd now the gods tobless your honour
boult i am glad to see your honour in good health
lysimachus you may so tis the better for you that your
 resorters stand upon sound legs how now
 wholesome iniquity have you that a man may deal
 withal and defy the surgeon
bawd we have here one sir if she wouldbut there never
 came her like in mytilene
lysimachus if she'ld do the deed of darkness thou wouldst say
bawd your honour knows what tis to say well enough
lysimachus well call forth call forth
boult for flesh and blood sir white and red you shall
 see a rose and she were a rose indeed if she had but
lysimachus what prithee
boult o sir i can be modest
lysimachus that dignifies the renown of a bawd no less than it
 gives a good report to a number to be chaste
 exit boult
bawd here comes that which grows to the stalk never
 plucked yet i can assure you
 reenter boult with marina
 is she not a fair creature
lysimachus faith she would serve after a long voyage at sea
 well there's for you leave us
bawd i beseech your honour give me leave a word and
 i'll have done presently
lysimachus i beseech you do
bawd to marina first i would have you note this is
 an honourable man
marina i desire to find him so that i may worthily note him
bawd next he's the governor of this country and a man
 whom i am bound to
marina if he govern the country you are bound to him
 indeed but how honourable he is in that i know not
bawd pray you without any more virginal fencing will
 you use him kindly he will line your apron with gold
marina what he will do graciously i will thankfully receive
lysimachus ha you done
bawd my lord she's not paced yet you must take some
 pains to work her to your manage come we will
 leave his honour and her together go thy ways
 exeunt bawd pandar and boult
lysimachus now pretty one how long have you been at this trade
marina what trade sir
lysimachus why i cannot name't but i shall offend
marina i cannot be offended with my trade please you to name it
lysimachus how long have you been of this profession
marina e'er since i can remember
lysimachus did you go to t so young were you a gamester at
 five or at seven
marina earlier too sir if now i be one
lysimachus why the house you dwell in proclaims you to be a
 creature of sale
marina do you know this house to be a place of such resort
 and will come into t i hear say you are of
 honourable parts and are the governor of this place
lysimachus why hath your principal made known unto you who i am
marina who is my principal
lysimachus why your herbwoman she that sets seeds and roots
 of shame and iniquity o you have heard something
 of my power and so stand aloof for more serious
 wooing but i protest to thee pretty one my
 authority shall not see thee or else look friendly
 upon thee come bring me to some private place
 come come
marina if you were born to honour show it now
 if put upon you make the judgment good
 that thought you worthy of it
lysimachus how's this how's this some more be sage
marina for me
 that am a maid though most ungentle fortune
 have placed me in this sty where since i came
 diseases have been sold dearer than physic
 o that the gods
 would set me free from this unhallow'd place
 though they did change me to the meanest bird
 that flies i the purer air
lysimachus i did not think
 thou couldst have spoke so well ne'er dream'd thou couldst
 had i brought hither a corrupted mind
 thy speech had alter'd it hold here's gold for thee
 persever in that clear way thou goest
 and the gods strengthen thee
marina the good gods preserve you
lysimachus for me be you thoughten
 that i came with no ill intent for to me
 the very doors and windows savour vilely
 fare thee well thou art a piece of virtue and
 i doubt not but thy training hath been noble
 hold here's more gold for thee
 a curse upon him die he like a thief
 that robs thee of thy goodness if thou dost
 hear from me it shall be for thy good
 reenter boult
boult i beseech your honour one piece for me
lysimachus avaunt thou damned doorkeeper
 your house but for this virgin that doth prop it
 would sink and overwhelm you away
 exit
boult how's this we must take another course with you
 if your peevish chastity which is not worth a
 breakfast in the cheapest country under the cope
 shall undo a whole household let me be gelded like
 a spaniel come your ways
marina whither would you have me
boult i must have your maidenhead taken off or the common
 hangman shall execute it come your ways we'll
 have no more gentlemen driven away come your ways i say
 reenter bawd
bawd how now what's the matter
boult worse and worse mistress she has here spoken holy
 words to the lord lysimachus
bawd o abominable
boult she makes our profession as it were to stink afore
 the face of the gods
bawd marry hang her up for ever
boult the nobleman would have dealt with her like a
 nobleman and she sent him away as cold as a
 snowball saying his prayers too
bawd boult take her away use her at thy pleasure
 crack the glass of her virginity and make the rest malleable
boult an if she were a thornier piece of ground than she
 is she shall be ploughed
marina hark hark you gods
bawd she conjures away with her would she had never
 come within my doors marry hang you she's born
 to undo us will you not go the way of womenkind
 marry come up my dish of chastity with rosemary and bays
 exit
boult come mistress come your ways with me
marina whither wilt thou have me
boult to take from you the jewel you hold so dear
marina prithee tell me one thing first
boult come now your one thing
marina what canst thou wish thine enemy to be
boult why i could wish him to be my master or rather my mistress
marina neither of these are so bad as thou art
 since they do better thee in their command
 thou hold'st a place for which the pained'st fiend
 of hell would not in reputation change
 thou art the damned doorkeeper to every
 coistrel that comes inquiring for his tib
 to the choleric fisting of every rogue
 thy ear is liable thy food is such
 as hath been belch'd on by infected lungs
boult what would you have me do go to the wars would
 you where a man may serve seven years for the loss
 of a leg and have not money enough in the end to
 buy him a wooden one
marina do any thing but this thou doest empty
 old receptacles or common shores of filth
 serve by indenture to the common hangman
 any of these ways are yet better than this
 for what thou professest a baboon could he speak
 would own a name too dear o that the gods
 would safely deliver me from this place
 here here's gold for thee
 if that thy master would gain by thee
 proclaim that i can sing weave sew and dance
 with other virtues which i'll keep from boast
 and i will undertake all these to teach
 i doubt not but this populous city will
 yield many scholars
boult but can you teach all this you speak of
marina prove that i cannot take me home again
 and prostitute me to the basest groom
 that doth frequent your house
boult well i will see what i can do for thee if i can
 place thee i will
marina but amongst honest women
boult faith my acquaintance lies little amongst them
 but since my master and mistress have bought you
 there's no going but by their consent therefore i
 will make them acquainted with your purpose and i
 doubt not but i shall find them tractable enough
 come i'll do for thee what i can come your ways
 exeunt
 pericles prince of tyre
act v
 enter gower
gower marina thus the brothel scapes and chances
 into an honest house our story says
 she sings like one immortal and she dances
 as goddesslike to her admired lays
 deep clerks she dumbs and with her needle composes
 nature's own shape of bud bird branch or berry
 that even her art sisters the natural roses
 her inkle silk twin with the rubied cherry
 that pupils lacks she none of noble race
 who pour their bounty on her and her gain
 she gives the cursed bawd here we her place
 and to her father turn our thoughts again
 where we left him on the sea we there him lost
 whence driven before the winds he is arrived
 here where his daughter dwells and on this coast
 suppose him now at anchor the city strived
 god neptune's annual feast to keep from whence
 lysimachus our tyrian ship espies
 his banners sable trimm'd with rich expense
 and to him in his barge with fervor hies
 in your supposing once more put your sight
 of heavy pericles think this his bark
 where what is done in action more if might
 shall be discover'd please you sit and hark
 exit
 pericles prince of tyre
act v
scene i on board pericles ship off mytilene a close
 pavilion on deck with a curtain before it pericles
 within it reclined on a couch a barge lying
 beside the tyrian vessel
 enter two sailors one belonging to the tyrian
 vessel the other to the barge to them helicanus
tyrian sailor to the sailor of mytilene where is lord helicanus
 he can resolve you
 o here he is
 sir there's a barge put off from mytilene
 and in it is lysimachus the governor
 who craves to come aboard what is your will
helicanus that he have his call up some gentlemen
tyrian sailor ho gentlemen my lord calls
 enter two or three gentlemen
first gentleman doth your lordship call
helicanus gentlemen there's some of worth would come aboard
 i pray ye greet them fairly
 the gentlemen and the two sailors descend and go
 on board the barge
 enter from thence lysimachus and lords with the
 gentlemen and the two sailors
tyrian sailor sir
 this is the man that can in aught you would
 resolve you
lysimachus hail reverend sir the gods preserve you
helicanus and you sir to outlive the age i am
 and die as i would do
lysimachus you wish me well
 being on shore honouring of neptune's triumphs
 seeing this goodly vessel ride before us
 i made to it to know of whence you are
helicanus first what is your place
lysimachus i am the governor of this place you lie before
helicanus sir
 our vessel is of tyre in it the king
 a man who for this three months hath not spoken
 to any one nor taken sustenance
 but to prorogue his grief
lysimachus upon what ground is his distemperature
helicanus twould be too tedious to repeat
 but the main grief springs from the loss
 of a beloved daughter and a wife
lysimachus may we not see him
helicanus you may
 but bootless is your sight he will not speak to any
lysimachus yet let me obtain my wish
helicanus behold him
 pericles discovered
 this was a goodly person
 till the disaster that one mortal night
 drove him to this
lysimachus sir king all hail the gods preserve you
 hail royal sir
helicanus it is in vain he will not speak to you
first lord sir
 we have a maid in mytilene i durst wager
 would win some words of him
lysimachus tis well bethought
 she questionless with her sweet harmony
 and other chosen attractions would allure
 and make a battery through his deafen'd parts
 which now are midway stopp'd
 she is all happy as the fairest of all
 and with her fellow maids is now upon
 the leafy shelter that abuts against
 the island's side
 whispers a lord who goes off in the barge of
 lysimachus
helicanus sure all's effectless yet nothing we'll omit
 that bears recovery's name but since your kindness
 we have stretch'd thus far let us beseech you
 that for our gold we may provision have
 wherein we are not destitute for want
 but weary for the staleness
lysimachus o sir a courtesy
 which if we should deny the most just gods
 for every graff would send a caterpillar
 and so afflict our province yet once more
 let me entreat to know at large the cause
 of your king's sorrow
helicanus sit sir i will recount it to you
 but see i am prevented
 reenter from the barge lord with marina and a
 young lady
lysimachus o here is
 the lady that i sent for welcome fair one
 is't not a goodly presence
helicanus she's a gallant lady
lysimachus she's such a one that were i well assured
 came of a gentle kind and noble stock
 i'ld wish no better choice and think me rarely wed
 fair one all goodness that consists in bounty
 expect even here where is a kingly patient
 if that thy prosperous and artificial feat
 can draw him but to answer thee in aught
 thy sacred physic shall receive such pay
 as thy desires can wish
marina sir i will use
 my utmost skill in his recovery provided
 that none but i and my companion maid
 be suffer'd to come near him
lysimachus come let us leave her
 and the gods make her prosperous
 marina sings
lysimachus mark'd he your music
marina no nor look'd on us
lysimachus see she will speak to him
marina hail sir my lord lend ear
pericles hum ha
marina i am a maid
 my lord that ne'er before invited eyes
 but have been gazed on like a comet she speaks
 my lord that may be hath endured a grief
 might equal yours if both were justly weigh'd
 though wayward fortune did malign my state
 my derivation was from ancestors
 who stood equivalent with mighty kings
 but time hath rooted out my parentage
 and to the world and awkward casualties
 bound me in servitude
 aside
 i will desist
 but there is something glows upon my cheek
 and whispers in mine ear go not till he speak'
pericles my fortunesparentagegood parentage
 to equal minewas it not thus what say you
marina i said my lord if you did know my parentage
 you would not do me violence
pericles i do think so pray you turn your eyes upon me
 you are like something thatwhat countrywoman
 here of these shores
marina no nor of any shores
 yet i was mortally brought forth and am
 no other than i appear
pericles i am great with woe and shall deliver weeping
 my dearest wife was like this maid and such a one
 my daughter might have been my queen's square brows
 her stature to an inch as wandlike straight
 as silvervoiced her eyes as jewellike
 and cased as richly in pace another juno
 who starves the ears she feeds and makes them hungry
 the more she gives them speech where do you live
marina where i am but a stranger from the deck
 you may discern the place
pericles where were you bred
 and how achieved you these endowments which
 you make more rich to owe
marina if i should tell my history it would seem
 like lies disdain'd in the reporting
pericles prithee speak
 falseness cannot come from thee for thou look'st
 modest as justice and thou seem'st a palace
 for the crown'd truth to dwell in i will
 believe thee
 and make my senses credit thy relation
 to points that seem impossible for thou look'st
 like one i loved indeed what were thy friends
 didst thou not say when i did push thee back
 which was when i perceived theethat thou camest
 from good descending
marina so indeed i did
pericles report thy parentage i think thou said'st
 thou hadst been toss'd from wrong to injury
 and that thou thought'st thy griefs might equal mine
 if both were open'd
marina some such thing
 i said and said no more but what my thoughts
 did warrant me was likely
pericles tell thy story
 if thine consider'd prove the thousandth part
 of my endurance thou art a man and i
 have suffer'd like a girl yet thou dost look
 like patience gazing on kings graves and smiling
 extremity out of act what were thy friends
 how lost thou them thy name my most kind virgin
 recount i do beseech thee come sit by me
marina my name is marina
pericles o i am mock'd
 and thou by some incensed god sent hither
 to make the world to laugh at me
marina patience good sir
 or here i'll cease
pericles nay i'll be patient
 thou little know'st how thou dost startle me
 to call thyself marina
marina the name
 was given me by one that had some power
 my father and a king
pericles how a king's daughter
 and call'd marina
marina you said you would believe me
 but not to be a troubler of your peace
 i will end here
pericles but are you flesh and blood
 have you a working pulse and are no fairy
 motion well speak on where were you born
 and wherefore call'd marina
marina call'd marina
 for i was born at sea
pericles at sea what mother
marina my mother was the daughter of a king
 who died the minute i was born
 as my good nurse lychorida hath oft
 deliver'd weeping
pericles o stop there a little
 aside
 this is the rarest dream that e'er dull sleep
 did mock sad fools withal this cannot be
 my daughter's buried well where were you bred
 i'll hear you more to the bottom of your story
 and never interrupt you
marina you scorn believe me twere best i did give o'er
pericles i will believe you by the syllable
 of what you shall deliver yet give me leave
 how came you in these parts where were you bred
marina the king my father did in tarsus leave me
 till cruel cleon with his wicked wife
 did seek to murder me and having woo'd
 a villain to attempt it who having drawn to do't
 a crew of pirates came and rescued me
 brought me to mytilene but good sir
 whither will you have me why do you weep
 it may be
 you think me an impostor no good faith
 i am the daughter to king pericles
 if good king pericles be
pericles ho helicanus
helicanus calls my lord
pericles thou art a grave and noble counsellor
 most wise in general tell me if thou canst
 what this maid is or what is like to be
 that thus hath made me weep
helicanus i know not but
 here is the regent sir of mytilene
 speaks nobly of her
lysimachus she would never tell
 her parentage being demanded that
 she would sit still and weep
pericles o helicanus strike me honour'd sir
 give me a gash put me to present pain
 lest this great sea of joys rushing upon me
 o'erbear the shores of my mortality
 and drown me with their sweetness o come hither
 thou that beget'st him that did thee beget
 thou that wast born at sea buried at tarsus
 and found at sea again o helicanus
 down on thy knees thank the holy gods as loud
 as thunder threatens us this is marina
 what was thy mother's name tell me but that
 for truth can never be confirm'd enough
 though doubts did ever sleep
marina first sir i pray
 what is your title
pericles i am pericles of tyre but tell me now
 my drown'd queen's name as in the rest you said
 thou hast been godlike perfect
 the heir of kingdoms and another like
 to pericles thy father
marina is it no more to be your daughter than
 to say my mother's name was thaisa
 thaisa was my mother who did end
 the minute i began
pericles now blessing on thee rise thou art my child
 give me fresh garments mine own helicanus
 she is not dead at tarsus as she should have been
 by savage cleon she shall tell thee all
 when thou shalt kneel and justify in knowledge
 she is thy very princess who is this
helicanus sir tis the governor of mytilene
 who hearing of your melancholy state
 did come to see you
pericles i embrace you
 give me my robes i am wild in my beholding
 o heavens bless my girl but hark what music
 tell helicanus my marina tell him
 o'er point by point for yet he seems to doubt
 how sure you are my daughter but what music
helicanus my lord i hear none
pericles none
 the music of the spheres list my marina
lysimachus it is not good to cross him give him way
pericles rarest sounds do ye not hear
lysimachus my lord i hear
 music
pericles most heavenly music
 it nips me unto listening and thick slumber
 hangs upon mine eyes let me rest
 sleeps
lysimachus a pillow for his head
 so leave him all well my companion friends
 if this but answer to my just belief
 i'll well remember you
 exeunt all but pericles
 diana appears to pericles as in a vision
diana my temple stands in ephesus hie thee thither
 and do upon mine altar sacrifice
 there when my maiden priests are met together
 before the people all
 reveal how thou at sea didst lose thy wife
 to mourn thy crosses with thy daughter's call
 and give them repetition to the life
 or perform my bidding or thou livest in woe
 do it and happy by my silver bow
 awake and tell thy dream
 disappears
pericles celestial dian goddess argentine
 i will obey thee helicanus
 reenter helicanus lysimachus and marina
helicanus sir
pericles my purpose was for tarsus there to strike
 the inhospitable cleon but i am
 for other service first toward ephesus
 turn our blown sails eftsoons i'll tell thee why
 to lysimachus
 shall we refresh us sir upon your shore
 and give you gold for such provision
 as our intents will need
lysimachus sir
 with all my heart and when you come ashore
 i have another suit
pericles you shall prevail
 were it to woo my daughter for it seems
 you have been noble towards her
lysimachus sir lend me your arm
pericles come my marina
 exeunt
 pericles prince of tyre
act v
scene ii
 enter gower before the temple of diana at ephesus
gower now our sands are almost run
 more a little and then dumb
 this my last boon give me
 for such kindness must relieve me
 that you aptly will suppose
 what pageantry what feats what shows
 what minstrelsy and pretty din
 the regent made in mytilene
 to greet the king so he thrived
 that he is promised to be wived
 to fair marina but in no wise
 till he had done his sacrifice
 as dian bade whereto being bound
 the interim pray you all confound
 in feather'd briefness sails are fill'd
 and wishes fall out as they're will'd
 at ephesus the temple see
 our king and all his company
 that he can hither come so soon
 is by your fancy's thankful doom
 exit
 pericles prince of tyre
act v
scene iii the temple of diana at ephesus thaisa standing
 near the altar as high priestess a number of
 virgins on each side cerimon and other inhabitants
 of ephesus attending
 enter pericles with his train lysimachus
 helicanus marina and a lady
pericles hail dian to perform thy just command
 i here confess myself the king of tyre
 who frighted from my country did wed
 at pentapolis the fair thaisa
 at sea in childbed died she but brought forth
 a maidchild call'd marina who o goddess
 wears yet thy silver livery she at tarsus
 was nursed with cleon who at fourteen years
 he sought to murder but her better stars
 brought her to mytilene gainst whose shore
 riding her fortunes brought the maid aboard us
 where by her own most clear remembrance she
 made known herself my daughter
thaisa voice and favour
 you are you areo royal pericles
 faints
pericles what means the nun she dies help gentlemen
cerimon noble sir
 if you have told diana's altar true
 this is your wife
pericles reverend appearer no
 i threw her overboard with these very arms
cerimon upon this coast i warrant you
pericles tis most certain
cerimon look to the lady o she's but o'erjoy'd
 early in blustering morn this lady was
 thrown upon this shore i oped the coffin
 found there rich jewels recover'd her and placed her
 here in diana's temple
pericles may we see them
cerimon great sir they shall be brought you to my house
 whither i invite you look thaisa is recovered
thaisa o let me look
 if he be none of mine my sanctity
 will to my sense bend no licentious ear
 but curb it spite of seeing o my lord
 are you not pericles like him you spake
 like him you are did you not name a tempest
 a birth and death
pericles the voice of dead thaisa
thaisa that thaisa am i supposed dead
 and drown'd
pericles immortal dian
thaisa now i know you better
 when we with tears parted pentapolis
 the king my father gave you such a ring
 shows a ring
pericles this this no more you gods your present kindness
 makes my past miseries sports you shall do well
 that on the touching of her lips i may
 melt and no more be seen o come be buried
 a second time within these arms
marina my heart
 leaps to be gone into my mother's bosom
 kneels to thaisa
pericles look who kneels here flesh of thy flesh thaisa
 thy burden at the sea and call'd marina
 for she was yielded there
thaisa blest and mine own
helicanus hail madam and my queen
thaisa i know you not
pericles you have heard me say when i did fly from tyre
 i left behind an ancient substitute
 can you remember what i call'd the man
 i have named him oft
thaisa twas helicanus then
pericles still confirmation
 embrace him dear thaisa this is he
 now do i long to hear how you were found
 how possibly preserved and who to thank
 besides the gods for this great miracle
thaisa lord cerimon my lord this man
 through whom the gods have shown their power that can
 from first to last resolve you
pericles reverend sir
 the gods can have no mortal officer
 more like a god than you will you deliver
 how this dead queen relives
cerimon i will my lord
 beseech you first go with me to my house
 where shall be shown you all was found with her
 how she came placed here in the temple
 no needful thing omitted
pericles pure dian bless thee for thy vision i
 will offer nightoblations to thee thaisa
 this prince the fairbetrothed of your daughter
 shall marry her at pentapolis and now
 this ornament
 makes me look dismal will i clip to form
 and what this fourteen years no razor touch'd
 to grace thy marriageday i'll beautify
thaisa lord cerimon hath letters of good credit sir
 my father's dead
pericles heavens make a star of him yet there my queen
 we'll celebrate their nuptials and ourselves
 will in that kingdom spend our following days
 our son and daughter shall in tyrus reign
 lord cerimon we do our longing stay
 to hear the rest untold sir lead's the way
 exeunt
 enter gower
gower in antiochus and his daughter you have heard
 of monstrous lust the due and just reward
 in pericles his queen and daughter seen
 although assail'd with fortune fierce and keen
 virtue preserved from fell destruction's blast
 led on by heaven and crown'd with joy at last
 in helicanus may you well descry
 a figure of truth of faith of loyalty
 in reverend cerimon there well appears
 the worth that learned charity aye wears
 for wicked cleon and his wife when fame
 had spread their cursed deed and honour'd name
 of pericles to rage the city turn
 that him and his they in his palace burn
 the gods for murder seemed so content
 to punish them although not done but meant
 so on your patience evermore attending
 new joy wait on you here our play has ending
 exit
 the taming of the shrew
 dramatis personae
 a lord 
 
christopher sly a tinker sly persons in
 the induction
 hostess page players 
 huntsmen and servants 
 hostess
 page
 a player
 first huntsman
 second huntsman
 messenger
 first servant
 second servant
 third servant
baptista a rich gentleman of padua
vincentio an old gentleman of pisa
lucentio son to vincentio in love with bianca
petruchio a gentleman of verona a suitor to
 katharina
gremio 
 suitors to bianca
hortensio 
tranio 
 servants to lucentio
biondello 
grumio 
 
curtis 
 
nathaniel 
 
nicholas servants to petruchio
 
joseph 
 
philip 
 
peter 
 a pedant
katharina the shrew 
 daughters to baptista
bianca 
 widow
 tailor haberdasher and servants attending
 on baptista and petruchio
 tailor
 haberdasher
 first servant
scene padua and petruchio's country house
 the taming of the shrew
 induction
scene i before an alehouse on a heath
 enter hostess and sly
sly i'll pheeze you in faith
hostess a pair of stocks you rogue
sly ye are a baggage the slys are no rogues look in
 the chronicles we came in with richard conqueror
 therefore paucas pallabris let the world slide sessa
hostess you will not pay for the glasses you have burst
sly no not a denier go by jeronimy go to thy cold
 bed and warm thee
hostess i know my remedy i must go fetch the
 thirdborough
 exit
sly third or fourth or fifth borough i'll answer him
 by law i'll not budge an inch boy let him come
 and kindly
 falls asleep
 horns winded enter a lord from hunting with his train
lord huntsman i charge thee tender well my hounds
 brach merriman the poor cur is emboss'd
 and couple clowder with the deepmouth'd brach
 saw'st thou not boy how silver made it good
 at the hedgecorner in the coldest fault
 i would not lose the dog for twenty pound
first huntsman why belman is as good as he my lord
 he cried upon it at the merest loss
 and twice today pick'd out the dullest scent
 trust me i take him for the better dog
lord thou art a fool if echo were as fleet
 i would esteem him worth a dozen such
 but sup them well and look unto them all
 tomorrow i intend to hunt again
first huntsman i will my lord
lord what's here one dead or drunk see doth he breathe
second huntsman he breathes my lord were he not warm'd with ale
 this were a bed but cold to sleep so soundly
lord o monstrous beast how like a swine he lies
 grim death how foul and loathsome is thine image
 sirs i will practise on this drunken man
 what think you if he were convey'd to bed
 wrapp'd in sweet clothes rings put upon his fingers
 a most delicious banquet by his bed
 and brave attendants near him when he wakes
 would not the beggar then forget himself
first huntsman believe me lord i think he cannot choose
second huntsman it would seem strange unto him when he waked
lord even as a flattering dream or worthless fancy
 then take him up and manage well the jest
 carry him gently to my fairest chamber
 and hang it round with all my wanton pictures
 balm his foul head in warm distilled waters
 and burn sweet wood to make the lodging sweet
 procure me music ready when he wakes
 to make a dulcet and a heavenly sound
 and if he chance to speak be ready straight
 and with a low submissive reverence
 say what is it your honour will command'
 let one attend him with a silver basin
 full of rosewater and bestrew'd with flowers
 another bear the ewer the third a diaper
 and say will't please your lordship cool your hands'
 some one be ready with a costly suit
 and ask him what apparel he will wear
 another tell him of his hounds and horse
 and that his lady mourns at his disease
 persuade him that he hath been lunatic
 and when he says he is say that he dreams
 for he is nothing but a mighty lord
 this do and do it kindly gentle sirs
 it will be pastime passing excellent
 if it be husbanded with modesty
first huntsman my lord i warrant you we will play our part
 as he shall think by our true diligence
 he is no less than what we say he is
lord take him up gently and to bed with him
 and each one to his office when he wakes
 some bear out sly a trumpet sounds
 sirrah go see what trumpet tis that sounds
 exit servingman
 belike some noble gentleman that means
 travelling some journey to repose him here
 reenter servingman
 how now who is it
servant an't please your honour players
 that offer service to your lordship
lord bid them come near
 enter players
 now fellows you are welcome
players we thank your honour
lord do you intend to stay with me tonight
a player so please your lordship to accept our duty
lord with all my heart this fellow i remember
 since once he play'd a farmer's eldest son
 twas where you woo'd the gentlewoman so well
 i have forgot your name but sure that part
 was aptly fitted and naturally perform'd
a player i think twas soto that your honour means
lord tis very true thou didst it excellent
 well you are come to me in a happy time
 the rather for i have some sport in hand
 wherein your cunning can assist me much
 there is a lord will hear you play tonight
 but i am doubtful of your modesties
 lest overeyeing of his odd behavior
 for yet his honour never heard a play
 you break into some merry passion
 and so offend him for i tell you sirs
 if you should smile he grows impatient
a player fear not my lord we can contain ourselves
 were he the veriest antic in the world
lord go sirrah take them to the buttery
 and give them friendly welcome every one
 let them want nothing that my house affords
 exit one with the players
 sirrah go you to barthol'mew my page
 and see him dress'd in all suits like a lady
 that done conduct him to the drunkard's chamber
 and call him madam do him obeisance
 tell him from me as he will win my love
 he bear himself with honourable action
 such as he hath observed in noble ladies
 unto their lords by them accomplished
 such duty to the drunkard let him do
 with soft low tongue and lowly courtesy
 and say what is't your honour will command
 wherein your lady and your humble wife
 may show her duty and make known her love'
 and then with kind embracements tempting kisses
 and with declining head into his bosom
 bid him shed tears as being overjoy'd
 to see her noble lord restored to health
 who for this seven years hath esteem'd him
 no better than a poor and loathsome beggar
 and if the boy have not a woman's gift
 to rain a shower of commanded tears
 an onion will do well for such a shift
 which in a napkin being close convey'd
 shall in despite enforce a watery eye
 see this dispatch'd with all the haste thou canst
 anon i'll give thee more instructions
 exit a servingman
 i know the boy will well usurp the grace
 voice gait and action of a gentlewoman
 i long to hear him call the drunkard husband
 and how my men will stay themselves from laughter
 when they do homage to this simple peasant
 i'll in to counsel them haply my presence
 may well abate the overmerry spleen
 which otherwise would grow into extremes
 exeunt
 the taming of the shrew
 induction
scene ii a bedchamber in the lord's house
 enter aloft sly with attendants some with apparel
 others with basin and ewer and appurtenances and lord
sly for god's sake a pot of small ale
first servant will't please your lordship drink a cup of sack
second servant will't please your honour taste of these conserves
third servant what raiment will your honour wear today
sly i am christophero sly call not me honour nor
 lordship i ne'er drank sack in my life and if
 you give me any conserves give me conserves of
 beef ne'er ask me what raiment i'll wear for i
 have no more doublets than backs no more stockings
 than legs nor no more shoes than feet nay
 sometimes more feet than shoes or such shoes as my
 toes look through the overleather
lord heaven cease this idle humour in your honour
 o that a mighty man of such descent
 of such possessions and so high esteem
 should be infused with so foul a spirit
sly what would you make me mad am not i christopher
 sly old sly's son of burtonheath by birth a
 pedlar by education a cardmaker by transmutation a
 bearherd and now by present profession a tinker
 ask marian hacket the fat alewife of wincot if
 she know me not if she say i am not fourteen pence
 on the score for sheer ale score me up for the
 lyingest knave in christendom what i am not
 bestraught here's
third servant o this it is that makes your lady mourn
second servant o this is it that makes your servants droop
lord hence comes it that your kindred shuns your house
 as beaten hence by your strange lunacy
 o noble lord bethink thee of thy birth
 call home thy ancient thoughts from banishment
 and banish hence these abject lowly dreams
 look how thy servants do attend on thee
 each in his office ready at thy beck
 wilt thou have music hark apollo plays
 music
 and twenty caged nightingales do sing
 or wilt thou sleep we'll have thee to a couch
 softer and sweeter than the lustful bed
 on purpose trimm'd up for semiramis
 say thou wilt walk we will bestrew the ground
 or wilt thou ride thy horses shall be trapp'd
 their harness studded all with gold and pearl
 dost thou love hawking thou hast hawks will soar
 above the morning lark or wilt thou hunt
 thy hounds shall make the welkin answer them
 and fetch shrill echoes from the hollow earth
first servant say thou wilt course thy greyhounds are as swift
 as breathed stags ay fleeter than the roe
second servant dost thou love pictures we will fetch thee straight
 adonis painted by a running brook
 and cytherea all in sedges hid
 which seem to move and wanton with her breath
 even as the waving sedges play with wind
lord we'll show thee io as she was a maid
 and how she was beguiled and surprised
 as lively painted as the deed was done
third servant or daphne roaming through a thorny wood
 scratching her legs that one shall swear she bleeds
 and at that sight shall sad apollo weep
 so workmanly the blood and tears are drawn
lord thou art a lord and nothing but a lord
 thou hast a lady far more beautiful
 than any woman in this waning age
first servant and till the tears that she hath shed for thee
 like envious floods o'errun her lovely face
 she was the fairest creature in the world
 and yet she is inferior to none
sly am i a lord and have i such a lady
 or do i dream or have i dream'd till now
 i do not sleep i see i hear i speak
 i smell sweet savours and i feel soft things
 upon my life i am a lord indeed
 and not a tinker nor christophero sly
 well bring our lady hither to our sight
 and once again a pot o the smallest ale
second servant will't please your mightiness to wash your hands
 o how we joy to see your wit restored
 o that once more you knew but what you are
 these fifteen years you have been in a dream
 or when you waked so waked as if you slept
sly these fifteen years by my fay a goodly nap
 but did i never speak of all that time
first servant o yes my lord but very idle words
 for though you lay here in this goodly chamber
 yet would you say ye were beaten out of door
 and rail upon the hostess of the house
 and say you would present her at the leet
 because she brought stone jugs and no seal'd quarts
 sometimes you would call out for cicely hacket
sly ay the woman's maid of the house
third servant why sir you know no house nor no such maid
 nor no such men as you have reckon'd up
 as stephen sly and did john naps of greece
 and peter turph and henry pimpernell
 and twenty more such names and men as these
 which never were nor no man ever saw
sly now lord be thanked for my good amends
all amen
sly i thank thee thou shalt not lose by it
 enter the page as a lady with attendants
page how fares my noble lord
sly marry i fare well for here is cheer enough
 where is my wife
page here noble lord what is thy will with her
sly are you my wife and will not call me husband
 my men should call me lord i am your goodman
page my husband and my lord my lord and husband
 i am your wife in all obedience
sly i know it well what must i call her
lord madam
sly al'ce madam or joan madam
lord madam and nothing else so lords
 call ladies
sly madam wife they say that i have dream'd
 and slept above some fifteen year or more
page ay and the time seems thirty unto me
 being all this time abandon'd from your bed
sly tis much servants leave me and her alone
 madam undress you and come now to bed
page thrice noble lord let me entreat of you
 to pardon me yet for a night or two
 or if not so until the sun be set
 for your physicians have expressly charged
 in peril to incur your former malady
 that i should yet absent me from your bed
 i hope this reason stands for my excuse
sly ay it stands so that i may hardly
 tarry so long but i would be loath to fall into
 my dreams again i will therefore tarry in
 despite of the flesh and the blood
 enter a messenger
messenger your honour's players heating your amendment
 are come to play a pleasant comedy
 for so your doctors hold it very meet
 seeing too much sadness hath congeal'd your blood
 and melancholy is the nurse of frenzy
 therefore they thought it good you hear a play
 and frame your mind to mirth and merriment
 which bars a thousand harms and lengthens life
sly marry i will let them play it is not a
 comondy a christmas gambold or a tumblingtrick
page no my good lord it is more pleasing stuff
sly what household stuff
page it is a kind of history
sly well well see't come madam wife sit by my side
 and let the world slip we shall ne'er be younger
 flourish
 the taming of the shrew
act i
scene i padua a public place
 enter lucentio and his man tranio
lucentio tranio since for the great desire i had
 to see fair padua nursery of arts
 i am arrived for fruitful lombardy
 the pleasant garden of great italy
 and by my father's love and leave am arm'd
 with his good will and thy good company
 my trusty servant well approved in all
 here let us breathe and haply institute
 a course of learning and ingenious studies
 pisa renown'd for grave citizens
 gave me my being and my father first
 a merchant of great traffic through the world
 vincetino come of bentivolii
 vincetino's son brought up in florence
 it shall become to serve all hopes conceived
 to deck his fortune with his virtuous deeds
 and therefore tranio for the time i study
 virtue and that part of philosophy
 will i apply that treats of happiness
 by virtue specially to be achieved
 tell me thy mind for i have pisa left
 and am to padua come as he that leaves
 a shallow plash to plunge him in the deep
 and with satiety seeks to quench his thirst
tranio mi perdonato gentle master mine
 i am in all affected as yourself
 glad that you thus continue your resolve
 to suck the sweets of sweet philosophy
 only good master while we do admire
 this virtue and this moral discipline
 let's be no stoics nor no stocks i pray
 or so devote to aristotle's cheques
 as ovid be an outcast quite abjured
 balk logic with acquaintance that you have
 and practise rhetoric in your common talk
 music and poesy use to quicken you
 the mathematics and the metaphysics
 fall to them as you find your stomach serves you
 no profit grows where is no pleasure ta'en
 in brief sir study what you most affect
lucentio gramercies tranio well dost thou advise
 if biondello thou wert come ashore
 we could at once put us in readiness
 and take a lodging fit to entertain
 such friends as time in padua shall beget
 but stay a while what company is this
tranio master some show to welcome us to town
 enter baptista katharina bianca gremio and
 hortensio lucentio and tranio stand by
baptista gentlemen importune me no farther
 for how i firmly am resolved you know
 that is not bestow my youngest daughter
 before i have a husband for the elder
 if either of you both love katharina
 because i know you well and love you well
 leave shall you have to court her at your pleasure
gremio aside to cart her rather she's too rough for me
 there there hortensio will you any wife
katharina i pray you sir is it your will
 to make a stale of me amongst these mates
hortensio mates maid how mean you that no mates for you
 unless you were of gentler milder mould
katharina i'faith sir you shall never need to fear
 i wis it is not half way to her heart
 but if it were doubt not her care should be
 to comb your noddle with a threelegg'd stool
 and paint your face and use you like a fool
hortensia from all such devils good lord deliver us
gremio and me too good lord
tranio hush master here's some good pastime toward
 that wench is stark mad or wonderful froward
lucentio but in the other's silence do i see
 maid's mild behavior and sobriety
 peace tranio
tranio well said master mum and gaze your fill
baptista gentlemen that i may soon make good
 what i have said bianca get you in
 and let it not displease thee good bianca
 for i will love thee ne'er the less my girl
katharina a pretty peat it is best
 put finger in the eye an she knew why
bianca sister content you in my discontent
 sir to your pleasure humbly i subscribe
 my books and instruments shall be my company
 on them to took and practise by myself
lucentio hark tranio thou may'st hear minerva speak
hortensio signior baptista will you be so strange
 sorry am i that our good will effects
 bianca's grief
gremio why will you mew her up
 signior baptista for this fiend of hell
 and make her bear the penance of her tongue
baptista gentlemen content ye i am resolved
 go in bianca
 exit bianca
 and for i know she taketh most delight
 in music instruments and poetry
 schoolmasters will i keep within my house
 fit to instruct her youth if you hortensio
 or signior gremio you know any such
 prefer them hither for to cunning men
 i will be very kind and liberal
 to mine own children in good bringing up
 and so farewell katharina you may stay
 for i have more to commune with bianca
 exit
katharina why and i trust i may go too may i not what
 shall i be appointed hours as though belike i
 knew not what to take and what to leave ha
 exit
gremio you may go to the devil's dam your gifts are so
 good here's none will hold you their love is not
 so great hortensio but we may blow our nails
 together and fast it fairly out our cakes dough on
 both sides farewell yet for the love i bear my
 sweet bianca if i can by any means light on a fit
 man to teach her that wherein she delights i will
 wish him to her father
hortensio so will i signior gremio but a word i pray
 though the nature of our quarrel yet never brooked
 parle know now upon advice it toucheth us both
 that we may yet again have access to our fair
 mistress and be happy rivals in bianco's love to
 labour and effect one thing specially
gremio what's that i pray
hortensio marry sir to get a husband for her sister
gremio a husband a devil
hortensio i say a husband
gremio i say a devil thinkest thou hortensio though
 her father be very rich any man is so very a fool
 to be married to hell
hortensio tush gremio though it pass your patience and mine
 to endure her loud alarums why man there be good
 fellows in the world an a man could light on them
 would take her with all faults and money enough
gremio i cannot tell but i had as lief take her dowry with
 this condition to be whipped at the high cross
 every morning
hortensio faith as you say there's small choice in rotten
 apples but come since this bar in law makes us
 friends it shall be so far forth friendly
 maintained all by helping baptista's eldest daughter
 to a husband we set his youngest free for a husband
 and then have to't a fresh sweet bianca happy man
 be his dole he that runs fastest gets the ring
 how say you signior gremio
gremio i am agreed and would i had given him the best
 horse in padua to begin his wooing that would
 thoroughly woo her wed her and bed her and rid the
 house of her come on
 exeunt gremio and hortensio
tranio i pray sir tell me is it possible
 that love should of a sudden take such hold
lucentio o tranio till i found it to be true
 i never thought it possible or likely
 but see while idly i stood looking on
 i found the effect of love in idleness
 and now in plainness do confess to thee
 that art to me as secret and as dear
 as anna to the queen of carthage was
 tranio i burn i pine i perish tranio
 if i achieve not this young modest girl
 counsel me tranio for i know thou canst
 assist me tranio for i know thou wilt
tranio master it is no time to chide you now
 affection is not rated from the heart
 if love have touch'd you nought remains but so
 redime te captum quam queas minimo'
lucentio gramercies lad go forward this contents
 the rest will comfort for thy counsel's sound
tranio master you look'd so longly on the maid
 perhaps you mark'd not what's the pith of all
lucentio o yes i saw sweet beauty in her face
 such as the daughter of agenor had
 that made great jove to humble him to her hand
 when with his knees he kiss'd the cretan strand
tranio saw you no more mark'd you not how her sister
 began to scold and raise up such a storm
 that mortal ears might hardly endure the din
lucentio tranio i saw her coral lips to move
 and with her breath she did perfume the air
 sacred and sweet was all i saw in her
tranio nay then tis time to stir him from his trance
 i pray awake sir if you love the maid
 bend thoughts and wits to achieve her thus it stands
 her eldest sister is so curst and shrewd
 that till the father rid his hands of her
 master your love must live a maid at home
 and therefore has he closely mew'd her up
 because she will not be annoy'd with suitors
lucentio ah tranio what a cruel father's he
 but art thou not advised he took some care
 to get her cunning schoolmasters to instruct her
tranio ay marry am i sir and now tis plotted
lucentio i have it tranio
tranio master for my hand
 both our inventions meet and jump in one
lucentio tell me thine first
tranio you will be schoolmaster
 and undertake the teaching of the maid
 that's your device
lucentio it is may it be done
tranio not possible for who shall bear your part
 and be in padua here vincentio's son
 keep house and ply his book welcome his friends
 visit his countrymen and banquet them
lucentio basta content thee for i have it full
 we have not yet been seen in any house
 nor can we lie distinguish'd by our faces
 for man or master then it follows thus
 thou shalt be master tranio in my stead
 keep house and port and servants as i should
 i will some other be some florentine
 some neapolitan or meaner man of pisa
 tis hatch'd and shall be so tranio at once
 uncase thee take my colour'd hat and cloak
 when biondello comes he waits on thee
 but i will charm him first to keep his tongue
tranio so had you need
 in brief sir sith it your pleasure is
 and i am tied to be obedient
 for so your father charged me at our parting
 be serviceable to my son quoth he
 although i think twas in another sense
 i am content to be lucentio
 because so well i love lucentio
lucentio tranio be so because lucentio loves
 and let me be a slave to achieve that maid
 whose sudden sight hath thrall'd my wounded eye
 here comes the rogue
 enter biondello
 sirrah where have you been
biondello where have i been nay how now where are you
 master has my fellow tranio stolen your clothes or
 you stolen his or both pray what's the news
lucentio sirrah come hither tis no time to jest
 and therefore frame your manners to the time
 your fellow tranio here to save my life
 puts my apparel and my countenance on
 and i for my escape have put on his
 for in a quarrel since i came ashore
 i kill'd a man and fear i was descried
 wait you on him i charge you as becomes
 while i make way from hence to save my life
 you understand me
biondello i sir ne'er a whit
lucentio and not a jot of tranio in your mouth
 tranio is changed into lucentio
biondello the better for him would i were so too
tranio so could i faith boy to have the next wish after
 that lucentio indeed had baptista's youngest daughter
 but sirrah not for my sake but your master's i advise
 you use your manners discreetly in all kind of companies
 when i am alone why then i am tranio
 but in all places else your master lucentio
lucentio tranio let's go one thing more rests that
 thyself execute to make one among these wooers if
 thou ask me why sufficeth my reasons are both good
 and weighty
 exeunt
 the presenters above speak
first servant my lord you nod you do not mind the play
sly yes by saint anne do i a good matter surely
 comes there any more of it
page my lord tis but begun
sly tis a very excellent piece of work madam lady
 would twere done
 they sit and mark
 the taming of the shrew
act i
scene ii padua before hortensio's house
 enter petruchio and his man grumio
petruchio verona for a while i take my leave
 to see my friends in padua but of all
 my best beloved and approved friend
 hortensio and i trow this is his house
 here sirrah grumio knock i say
grumio knock sir whom should i knock is there man has
 rebused your worship
petruchio villain i say knock me here soundly
grumio knock you here sir why sir what am i sir that
 i should knock you here sir
petruchio villain i say knock me at this gate
 and rap me well or i'll knock your knave's pate
grumio my master is grown quarrelsome i should knock
 you first
 and then i know after who comes by the worst
petruchio will it not be
 faith sirrah an you'll not knock i'll ring it
 i'll try how you can sol fa and sing it
 he wrings him by the ears
grumio help masters help my master is mad
petruchio now knock when i bid you sirrah villain
 enter hortensio
hortensio how now what's the matter my old friend grumio
 and my good friend petruchio how do you all at verona
petruchio signior hortensio come you to part the fray
 con tutto il cuore ben trovato may i say
hortensio alla nostra casa ben venuto molto honorato signor
 mio petruchio rise grumio rise we will compound
 this quarrel
grumio nay tis no matter sir what he leges in latin
 if this be not a lawful case for me to leave his
 service look you sir he bid me knock him and rap
 him soundly sir well was it fit for a servant to
 use his master so being perhaps for aught i see
 two and thirty a pip out whom would to god i had
 well knock'd at first then had not grumio come by the worst
petruchio a senseless villain good hortensio
 i bade the rascal knock upon your gate
 and could not get him for my heart to do it
grumio knock at the gate o heavens spake you not these
 words plain sirrah knock me here rap me here
 knock me well and knock me soundly and come you
 now with knocking at the gate'
petruchio sirrah be gone or talk not i advise you
hortensio petruchio patience i am grumio's pledge
 why this's a heavy chance twixt him and you
 your ancient trusty pleasant servant grumio
 and tell me now sweet friend what happy gale
 blows you to padua here from old verona
petruchio such wind as scatters young men through the world
 to seek their fortunes farther than at home
 where small experience grows but in a few
 signior hortensio thus it stands with me
 antonio my father is deceased
 and i have thrust myself into this maze
 haply to wive and thrive as best i may
 crowns in my purse i have and goods at home
 and so am come abroad to see the world
hortensio petruchio shall i then come roundly to thee
 and wish thee to a shrewd illfavour'd wife
 thou'ldst thank me but a little for my counsel
 and yet i'll promise thee she shall be rich
 and very rich but thou'rt too much my friend
 and i'll not wish thee to her
petruchio signior hortensio twixt such friends as we
 few words suffice and therefore if thou know
 one rich enough to be petruchio's wife
 as wealth is burden of my wooing dance
 be she as foul as was florentius love
 as old as sibyl and as curst and shrewd
 as socrates xanthippe or a worse
 she moves me not or not removes at least
 affection's edge in me were she as rough
 as are the swelling adriatic seas
 i come to wive it wealthily in padua
 if wealthily then happily in padua
grumio nay look you sir he tells you flatly what his
 mind is why give him gold enough and marry him to
 a puppet or an agletbaby or an old trot with ne'er
 a tooth in her head though she have as many diseases
 as two and fifty horses why nothing comes amiss
 so money comes withal
hortensio petruchio since we are stepp'd thus far in
 i will continue that i broach'd in jest
 i can petruchio help thee to a wife
 with wealth enough and young and beauteous
 brought up as best becomes a gentlewoman
 her only fault and that is faults enough
 is that she is intolerable curst
 and shrewd and froward so beyond all measure
 that were my state far worser than it is
 i would not wed her for a mine of gold
petruchio hortensio peace thou know'st not gold's effect
 tell me her father's name and tis enough
 for i will board her though she chide as loud
 as thunder when the clouds in autumn crack
hortensio her father is baptista minola
 an affable and courteous gentleman
 her name is katharina minola
 renown'd in padua for her scolding tongue
petruchio i know her father though i know not her
 and he knew my deceased father well
 i will not sleep hortensio till i see her
 and therefore let me be thus bold with you
 to give you over at this first encounter
 unless you will accompany me thither
grumio i pray you sir let him go while the humour lasts
 o my word an she knew him as well as i do she
 would think scolding would do little good upon him
 she may perhaps call him half a score knaves or so
 why that's nothing an he begin once he'll rail in
 his ropetricks i'll tell you what sir an she
 stand him but a little he will throw a figure in
 her face and so disfigure her with it that she
 shall have no more eyes to see withal than a cat
 you know him not sir
hortensio tarry petruchio i must go with thee
 for in baptista's keep my treasure is
 he hath the jewel of my life in hold
 his youngest daughter beautiful binaca
 and her withholds from me and other more
 suitors to her and rivals in my love
 supposing it a thing impossible
 for those defects i have before rehearsed
 that ever katharina will be woo'd
 therefore this order hath baptista ta'en
 that none shall have access unto bianca
 till katharina the curst have got a husband
grumio katharina the curst
 a title for a maid of all titles the worst
hortensio now shall my friend petruchio do me grace
 and offer me disguised in sober robes
 to old baptista as a schoolmaster
 well seen in music to instruct bianca
 that so i may by this device at least
 have leave and leisure to make love to her
 and unsuspected court her by herself
grumio here's no knavery see to beguile the old folks
 how the young folks lay their heads together
 enter gremio and lucentio disguised
 master master look about you who goes there ha
hortensio peace grumio it is the rival of my love
 petruchio stand by a while
grumio a proper stripling and an amorous
gremio o very well i have perused the note
 hark you sir i'll have them very fairly bound
 all books of love see that at any hand
 and see you read no other lectures to her
 you understand me over and beside
 signior baptista's liberality
 i'll mend it with a largess take your paper too
 and let me have them very well perfumed
 for she is sweeter than perfume itself
 to whom they go to what will you read to her
lucentio whate'er i read to her i'll plead for you
 as for my patron stand you so assured
 as firmly as yourself were still in place
 yea and perhaps with more successful words
 than you unless you were a scholar sir
gremio o this learning what a thing it is
grumio o this woodcock what an ass it is
petruchio peace sirrah
hortensio grumio mum god save you signior gremio
gremio and you are well met signior hortensio
 trow you whither i am going to baptista minola
 i promised to inquire carefully
 about a schoolmaster for the fair bianca
 and by good fortune i have lighted well
 on this young man for learning and behavior
 fit for her turn well read in poetry
 and other books good ones i warrant ye
hortensio tis well and i have met a gentleman
 hath promised me to help me to another
 a fine musician to instruct our mistress
 so shall i no whit be behind in duty
 to fair bianca so beloved of me
gremio beloved of me and that my deeds shall prove
grumio and that his bags shall prove
hortensio gremio tis now no time to vent our love
 listen to me and if you speak me fair
 i'll tell you news indifferent good for either
 here is a gentleman whom by chance i met
 upon agreement from us to his liking
 will undertake to woo curst katharina
 yea and to marry her if her dowry please
gremio so said so done is well
 hortensio have you told him all her faults
petruchio i know she is an irksome brawling scold
 if that be all masters i hear no harm
gremio no say'st me so friend what countryman
petruchio born in verona old antonio's son
 my father dead my fortune lives for me
 and i do hope good days and long to see
gremio o sir such a life with such a wife were strange
 but if you have a stomach to't i god's name
 you shall have me assisting you in all
 but will you woo this wildcat
petruchio will i live
grumio will he woo her ay or i'll hang her
petruchio why came i hither but to that intent
 think you a little din can daunt mine ears
 have i not in my time heard lions roar
 have i not heard the sea puff'd up with winds
 rage like an angry boar chafed with sweat
 have i not heard great ordnance in the field
 and heaven's artillery thunder in the skies
 have i not in a pitched battle heard
 loud larums neighing steeds and trumpets clang
 and do you tell me of a woman's tongue
 that gives not half so great a blow to hear
 as will a chestnut in a farmer's fire
 tush tush fear boys with bugs
grumio for he fears none
gremio hortensio hark
 this gentleman is happily arrived
 my mind presumes for his own good and ours
hortensio i promised we would be contributors
 and bear his charging of wooing whatsoe'er
gremio and so we will provided that he win her
grumio i would i were as sure of a good dinner
 enter tranio brave and biondello
tranio gentlemen god save you if i may be bold
 tell me i beseech you which is the readiest way
 to the house of signior baptista minola
biondello he that has the two fair daughters is't he you mean
tranio even he biondello
gremio hark you sir you mean not her to
tranio perhaps him and her sir what have you to do
petruchio not her that chides sir at any hand i pray
tranio i love no chiders sir biondello let's away
lucentio well begun tranio
hortensio sir a word ere you go
 are you a suitor to the maid you talk of yea or no
tranio and if i be sir is it any offence
gremio no if without more words you will get you hence
tranio why sir i pray are not the streets as free
 for me as for you
gremio but so is not she
tranio for what reason i beseech you
gremio for this reason if you'll know
 that she's the choice love of signior gremio
hortensio that she's the chosen of signior hortensio
tranio softly my masters if you be gentlemen
 do me this right hear me with patience
 baptista is a noble gentleman
 to whom my father is not all unknown
 and were his daughter fairer than she is
 she may more suitors have and me for one
 fair leda's daughter had a thousand wooers
 then well one more may fair bianca have
 and so she shall lucentio shall make one
 though paris came in hope to speed alone
gremio what this gentleman will outtalk us all
lucentio sir give him head i know he'll prove a jade
petruchio hortensio to what end are all these words
hortensio sir let me be so bold as ask you
 did you yet ever see baptista's daughter
tranio no sir but hear i do that he hath two
 the one as famous for a scolding tongue
 as is the other for beauteous modesty
petruchio sir sir the first's for me let her go by
gremio yea leave that labour to great hercules
 and let it be more than alcides twelve
petruchio sir understand you this of me in sooth
 the youngest daughter whom you hearken for
 her father keeps from all access of suitors
 and will not promise her to any man
 until the elder sister first be wed
 the younger then is free and not before
tranio if it be so sir that you are the man
 must stead us all and me amongst the rest
 and if you break the ice and do this feat
 achieve the elder set the younger free
 for our access whose hap shall be to have her
 will not so graceless be to be ingrate
hortensio sir you say well and well you do conceive
 and since you do profess to be a suitor
 you must as we do gratify this gentleman
 to whom we all rest generally beholding
tranio sir i shall not be slack in sign whereof
 please ye we may contrive this afternoon
 and quaff carouses to our mistress health
 and do as adversaries do in law
 strive mightily but eat and drink as friends
grumio 
 o excellent motion fellows let's be gone
biondello 
hortensio the motion's good indeed and be it so
 petruchio i shall be your ben venuto
 exeunt
 the taming of the shrew
act ii
scene i padua a room in baptista's house
 enter katharina and bianca
bianca good sister wrong me not nor wrong yourself
 to make a bondmaid and a slave of me
 that i disdain but for these other gawds
 unbind my hands i'll pull them off myself
 yea all my raiment to my petticoat
 or what you will command me will i do
 so well i know my duty to my elders
katharina of all thy suitors here i charge thee tell
 whom thou lovest best see thou dissemble not
bianca believe me sister of all the men alive
 i never yet beheld that special face
 which i could fancy more than any other
katharina minion thou liest is't not hortensio
bianca if you affect him sister here i swear
 i'll plead for you myself but you shall have
 him
katharina o then belike you fancy riches more
 you will have gremio to keep you fair
bianca is it for him you do envy me so
 nay then you jest and now i well perceive
 you have but jested with me all this while
 i prithee sister kate untie my hands
katharina if that be jest then all the rest was so
 strikes her
 enter baptista
baptista why how now dame whence grows this insolence
 bianca stand aside poor girl she weeps
 go ply thy needle meddle not with her
 for shame thou helding of a devilish spirit
 why dost thou wrong her that did ne'er wrong thee
 when did she cross thee with a bitter word
katharina her silence flouts me and i'll be revenged
 flies after bianca
baptista what in my sight bianca get thee in
 exit bianca
katharina what will you not suffer me nay now i see
 she is your treasure she must have a husband
 i must dance barefoot on her wedding day
 and for your love to her lead apes in hell
 talk not to me i will go sit and weep
 till i can find occasion of revenge
 exit
baptista was ever gentleman thus grieved as i
 but who comes here
 enter gremio lucentio in the habit of a mean man
 petruchio with hortensio as a musician and tranio
 with biondello bearing a lute and books
gremio good morrow neighbour baptista
baptista good morrow neighbour gremio
 god save you gentlemen
petruchio and you good sir pray have you not a daughter
 call'd katharina fair and virtuous
baptista i have a daughter sir called katharina
gremio you are too blunt go to it orderly
petruchio you wrong me signior gremio give me leave
 i am a gentleman of verona sir
 that hearing of her beauty and her wit
 her affability and bashful modesty
 her wondrous qualities and mild behavior
 am bold to show myself a forward guest
 within your house to make mine eye the witness
 of that report which i so oft have heard
 and for an entrance to my entertainment
 i do present you with a man of mine
 presenting hortensio
 cunning in music and the mathematics
 to instruct her fully in those sciences
 whereof i know she is not ignorant
 accept of him or else you do me wrong
 his name is licio born in mantua
baptista you're welcome sir and he for your good sake
 but for my daughter katharina this i know
 she is not for your turn the more my grief
petruchio i see you do not mean to part with her
 or else you like not of my company
baptista mistake me not i speak but as i find
 whence are you sir what may i call your name
petruchio petruchio is my name antonio's son
 a man well known throughout all italy
baptista i know him well you are welcome for his sake
gremio saving your tale petruchio i pray
 let us that are poor petitioners speak too
 baccare you are marvellous forward
petruchio o pardon me signior gremio i would fain be doing
gremio i doubt it not sir but you will curse your
 wooing neighbour this is a gift very grateful i am
 sure of it to express the like kindness myself
 that have been more kindly beholding to you than
 any freely give unto you this young scholar
 presenting lucentio
 that hath been long studying at rheims as cunning
 in greek latin and other languages as the other
 in music and mathematics his name is cambio pray
 accept his service
baptista a thousand thanks signior gremio
 welcome good cambio
 to tranio
 but gentle sir methinks you walk like a stranger
 may i be so bold to know the cause of your coming
tranio pardon me sir the boldness is mine own
 that being a stranger in this city here
 do make myself a suitor to your daughter
 unto bianca fair and virtuous
 nor is your firm resolve unknown to me
 in the preferment of the eldest sister
 this liberty is all that i request
 that upon knowledge of my parentage
 i may have welcome mongst the rest that woo
 and free access and favour as the rest
 and toward the education of your daughters
 i here bestow a simple instrument
 and this small packet of greek and latin books
 if you accept them then their worth is great
baptista lucentio is your name of whence i pray
tranio of pisa sir son to vincentio
baptista a mighty man of pisa by report
 i know him well you are very welcome sir
 take you the lute and you the set of books
 you shall go see your pupils presently
 holla within
 enter a servant
 sirrah lead these gentlemen
 to my daughters and tell them both
 these are their tutors bid them use them well
 exit servant with lucentio and hortensio
 biondello following
 we will go walk a little in the orchard
 and then to dinner you are passing welcome
 and so i pray you all to think yourselves
petruchio signior baptista my business asketh haste
 and every day i cannot come to woo
 you knew my father well and in him me
 left solely heir to all his lands and goods
 which i have better'd rather than decreased
 then tell me if i get your daughter's love
 what dowry shall i have with her to wife
baptista after my death the one half of my lands
 and in possession twenty thousand crowns
petruchio and for that dowry i'll assure her of
 her widowhood be it that she survive me
 in all my lands and leases whatsoever
 let specialties be therefore drawn between us
 that covenants may be kept on either hand
baptista ay when the special thing is well obtain'd
 that is her love for that is all in all
petruchio why that is nothing for i tell you father
 i am as peremptory as she proudminded
 and where two raging fires meet together
 they do consume the thing that feeds their fury
 though little fire grows great with little wind
 yet extreme gusts will blow out fire and all
 so i to her and so she yields to me
 for i am rough and woo not like a babe
baptista well mayst thou woo and happy be thy speed
 but be thou arm'd for some unhappy words
petruchio ay to the proof as mountains are for winds
 that shake not though they blow perpetually
 reenter hortensio with his head broke
baptista how now my friend why dost thou look so pale
hortensio for fear i promise you if i look pale
baptista what will my daughter prove a good musician
hortensio i think she'll sooner prove a soldier
 iron may hold with her but never lutes
baptista why then thou canst not break her to the lute
hortensio why no for she hath broke the lute to me
 i did but tell her she mistook her frets
 and bow'd her hand to teach her fingering
 when with a most impatient devilish spirit
 frets call you these quoth she i'll fume
 with them'
 and with that word she struck me on the head
 and through the instrument my pate made way
 and there i stood amazed for a while
 as on a pillory looking through the lute
 while she did call me rascal fiddler
 and twangling jack with twenty such vile terms
 as had she studied to misuse me so
petruchio now by the world it is a lusty wench
 i love her ten times more than e'er i did
 o how i long to have some chat with her
baptista well go with me and be not so discomfited
 proceed in practise with my younger daughter
 she's apt to learn and thankful for good turns
 signior petruchio will you go with us
 or shall i send my daughter kate to you
petruchio i pray you do
 exeunt all but petruchio
 i will attend her here
 and woo her with some spirit when she comes
 say that she rail why then i'll tell her plain
 she sings as sweetly as a nightingale
 say that she frown i'll say she looks as clear
 as morning roses newly wash'd with dew
 say she be mute and will not speak a word
 then i'll commend her volubility
 and say she uttereth piercing eloquence
 if she do bid me pack i'll give her thanks
 as though she bid me stay by her a week
 if she deny to wed i'll crave the day
 when i shall ask the banns and when be married
 but here she comes and now petruchio speak
 enter katharina
 good morrow kate for that's your name i hear
katharina well have you heard but something hard of hearing
 they call me katharina that do talk of me
petruchio you lie in faith for you are call'd plain kate
 and bonny kate and sometimes kate the curst
 but kate the prettiest kate in christendom
 kate of kate hall my superdainty kate
 for dainties are all kates and therefore kate
 take this of me kate of my consolation
 hearing thy mildness praised in every town
 thy virtues spoke of and thy beauty sounded
 yet not so deeply as to thee belongs
 myself am moved to woo thee for my wife
katharina moved in good time let him that moved you hither
 remove you hence i knew you at the first
 you were a moveable
petruchio why what's a moveable
katharina a join'dstool
petruchio thou hast hit it come sit on me
katharina asses are made to bear and so are you
petruchio women are made to bear and so are you
katharina no such jade as you if me you mean
petruchio alas good kate i will not burden thee
 for knowing thee to be but young and light
katharina too light for such a swain as you to catch
 and yet as heavy as my weight should be
petruchio should be shouldbuzz
katharina well ta'en and like a buzzard
petruchio o slowwing'd turtle shall a buzzard take thee
katharina ay for a turtle as he takes a buzzard
petruchio come come you wasp i faith you are too angry
katharina if i be waspish best beware my sting
petruchio my remedy is then to pluck it out
katharina ay if the fool could find it where it lies
petruchio who knows not where a wasp does
 wear his sting in his tail
katharina in his tongue
petruchio whose tongue
katharina yours if you talk of tails and so farewell
petruchio what with my tongue in your tail nay come again
 good kate i am a gentleman
katharina that i'll try
 she strikes him
petruchio i swear i'll cuff you if you strike again
katharina so may you lose your arms
 if you strike me you are no gentleman
 and if no gentleman why then no arms
petruchio a herald kate o put me in thy books
katharina what is your crest a coxcomb
petruchio a combless cock so kate will be my hen
katharina no cock of mine you crow too like a craven
petruchio nay come kate come you must not look so sour
katharina it is my fashion when i see a crab
petruchio why here's no crab and therefore look not sour
katharina there is there is
petruchio then show it me
katharina had i a glass i would
petruchio what you mean my face
katharina well aim'd of such a young one
petruchio now by saint george i am too young for you
katharina yet you are wither'd
petruchio tis with cares
katharina i care not
petruchio nay hear you kate in sooth you scape not so
katharina i chafe you if i tarry let me go
petruchio no not a whit i find you passing gentle
 twas told me you were rough and coy and sullen
 and now i find report a very liar
 for thou are pleasant gamesome passing courteous
 but slow in speech yet sweet as springtime flowers
 thou canst not frown thou canst not look askance
 nor bite the lip as angry wenches will
 nor hast thou pleasure to be cross in talk
 but thou with mildness entertain'st thy wooers
 with gentle conference soft and affable
 why does the world report that kate doth limp
 o slanderous world kate like the hazeltwig
 is straight and slender and as brown in hue
 as hazel nuts and sweeter than the kernels
 o let me see thee walk thou dost not halt
katharina go fool and whom thou keep'st command
petruchio did ever dian so become a grove
 as kate this chamber with her princely gait
 o be thou dian and let her be kate
 and then let kate be chaste and dian sportful
katharina where did you study all this goodly speech
petruchio it is extempore from my motherwit
katharina a witty mother witless else her son
petruchio am i not wise
katharina yes keep you warm
petruchio marry so i mean sweet katharina in thy bed
 and therefore setting all this chat aside
 thus in plain terms your father hath consented
 that you shall be my wife your dowry greed on
 and will you nill you i will marry you
 now kate i am a husband for your turn
 for by this light whereby i see thy beauty
 thy beauty that doth make me like thee well
 thou must be married to no man but me
 for i am he am born to tame you kate
 and bring you from a wild kate to a kate
 conformable as other household kates
 here comes your father never make denial
 i must and will have katharina to my wife
 reenter baptista gremio and tranio
baptista now signior petruchio how speed you with my daughter
petruchio how but well sir how but well
 it were impossible i should speed amiss
baptista why how now daughter katharina in your dumps
katharina call you me daughter now i promise you
 you have show'd a tender fatherly regard
 to wish me wed to one half lunatic
 a madcup ruffian and a swearing jack
 that thinks with oaths to face the matter out
petruchio father tis thus yourself and all the world
 that talk'd of her have talk'd amiss of her
 if she be curst it is for policy
 for she's not froward but modest as the dove
 she is not hot but temperate as the morn
 for patience she will prove a second grissel
 and roman lucrece for her chastity
 and to conclude we have greed so well together
 that upon sunday is the weddingday
katharina i'll see thee hang'd on sunday first
gremio hark petruchio she says she'll see thee
 hang'd first
tranio is this your speeding nay then good night our part
petruchio be patient gentlemen i choose her for myself
 if she and i be pleased what's that to you
 tis bargain'd twixt us twain being alone
 that she shall still be curst in company
 i tell you tis incredible to believe
 how much she loves me o the kindest kate
 she hung about my neck and kiss on kiss
 she vied so fast protesting oath on oath
 that in a twink she won me to her love
 o you are novices tis a world to see
 how tame when men and women are alone
 a meacock wretch can make the curstest shrew
 give me thy hand kate i will unto venice
 to buy apparel gainst the weddingday
 provide the feast father and bid the guests
 i will be sure my katharina shall be fine
baptista i know not what to say but give me your hands
 god send you joy petruchio tis a match
gremio 
 amen say we we will be witnesses
tranio 
petruchio father and wife and gentlemen adieu
 i will to venice sunday comes apace
 we will have rings and things and fine array
 and kiss me kate we will be married o'sunday
 exeunt petruchio and katharina severally
gremio was ever match clapp'd up so suddenly
baptista faith gentlemen now i play a merchant's part
 and venture madly on a desperate mart
tranio twas a commodity lay fretting by you
 twill bring you gain or perish on the seas
baptista the gain i seek is quiet in the match
gremio no doubt but he hath got a quiet catch
 but now baptists to your younger daughter
 now is the day we long have looked for
 i am your neighbour and was suitor first
tranio and i am one that love bianca more
 than words can witness or your thoughts can guess
gremio youngling thou canst not love so dear as i
tranio graybeard thy love doth freeze
gremio but thine doth fry
 skipper stand back tis age that nourisheth
tranio but youth in ladies eyes that flourisheth
baptista content you gentlemen i will compound this strife
 tis deeds must win the prize and he of both
 that can assure my daughter greatest dower
 shall have my bianca's love
 say signior gremio what can you assure her
gremio first as you know my house within the city
 is richly furnished with plate and gold
 basins and ewers to lave her dainty hands
 my hangings all of tyrian tapestry
 in ivory coffers i have stuff'd my crowns
 in cypress chests my arras counterpoints
 costly apparel tents and canopies
 fine linen turkey cushions boss'd with pearl
 valance of venice gold in needlework
 pewter and brass and all things that belong
 to house or housekeeping then at my farm
 i have a hundred milchkine to the pail
 sixscore fat oxen standing in my stalls
 and all things answerable to this portion
 myself am struck in years i must confess
 and if i die tomorrow this is hers
 if whilst i live she will be only mine
tranio that only came well in sir list to me
 i am my father's heir and only son
 if i may have your daughter to my wife
 i'll leave her houses three or four as good
 within rich pisa walls as any one
 old signior gremio has in padua
 besides two thousand ducats by the year
 of fruitful land all which shall be her jointure
 what have i pinch'd you signior gremio
gremio two thousand ducats by the year of land
 my land amounts not to so much in all
 that she shall have besides an argosy
 that now is lying in marseilles road
 what have i choked you with an argosy
tranio gremio tis known my father hath no less
 than three great argosies besides two galliases
 and twelve tight galleys these i will assure her
 and twice as much whate'er thou offer'st next
gremio nay i have offer'd all i have no more
 and she can have no more than all i have
 if you like me she shall have me and mine
tranio why then the maid is mine from all the world
 by your firm promise gremio is outvied
baptista i must confess your offer is the best
 and let your father make her the assurance
 she is your own else you must pardon me
 if you should die before him where's her dower
tranio that's but a cavil he is old i young
gremio and may not young men die as well as old
baptista well gentlemen
 i am thus resolved on sunday next you know
 my daughter katharina is to be married
 now on the sunday following shall bianca
 be bride to you if you this assurance
 if not signior gremio
 and so i take my leave and thank you both
gremio adieu good neighbour
 exit baptista
 now i fear thee not
 sirrah young gamester your father were a fool
 to give thee all and in his waning age
 set foot under thy table tut a toy
 an old italian fox is not so kind my boy
 exit
tranio a vengeance on your crafty wither'd hide
 yet i have faced it with a card of ten
 tis in my head to do my master good
 i see no reason but supposed lucentio
 must get a father call'd supposed vincentio'
 and that's a wonder fathers commonly
 do get their children but in this case of wooing
 a child shall get a sire if i fail not of my cunning
 exit
 the taming of the shrew
act iii
scene i padua baptista's house
 enter lucentio hortensio and bianca
lucentio fiddler forbear you grow too forward sir
 have you so soon forgot the entertainment
 her sister katharina welcomed you withal
hortensio but wrangling pedant this is
 the patroness of heavenly harmony
 then give me leave to have prerogative
 and when in music we have spent an hour
 your lecture shall have leisure for as much
lucentio preposterous ass that never read so far
 to know the cause why music was ordain'd
 was it not to refresh the mind of man
 after his studies or his usual pain
 then give me leave to read philosophy
 and while i pause serve in your harmony
hortensio sirrah i will not bear these braves of thine
bianca why gentlemen you do me double wrong
 to strive for that which resteth in my choice
 i am no breeching scholar in the schools
 i'll not be tied to hours nor pointed times
 but learn my lessons as i please myself
 and to cut off all strife here sit we down
 take you your instrument play you the whiles
 his lecture will be done ere you have tuned
hortensio you'll leave his lecture when i am in tune
lucentio that will be never tune your instrument
bianca where left we last
lucentio here madam
 hic ibat simois hic est sigeia tellus
 hic steterat priami regia celsa senis'
bianca construe them
lucentio hic ibat as i told you before simois i am
 lucentio hic est son unto vincentio of pisa
 sigeia tellus disguised thus to get your love
 hic steterat and that lucentio that comes
 awooing priami is my man tranio regia'
 bearing my port celsa senis that we might
 beguile the old pantaloon
hortensio madam my instrument's in tune
bianca let's hear o fie the treble jars
lucentio spit in the hole man and tune again
bianca now let me see if i can construe it hic ibat
 simois i know you not hic est sigeia tellus i
 trust you not hic steterat priami take heed
 he hear us not regia presume not celsa senis'
 despair not
hortensio madam tis now in tune
lucentio all but the base
hortensio the base is right tis the base knave that jars
 aside
 how fiery and forward our pedant is
 now for my life the knave doth court my love
 pedascule i'll watch you better yet
bianca in time i may believe yet i mistrust
lucentio mistrust it not for sure aeacides
 was ajax call'd so from his grandfather
bianca i must believe my master else i promise you
 i should be arguing still upon that doubt
 but let it rest now licio to you
 good masters take it not unkindly pray
 that i have been thus pleasant with you both
hortensio you may go walk and give me leave a while
 my lessons make no music in three parts
lucentio are you so formal sir well i must wait
 aside
 and watch withal for but i be deceived
 our fine musician groweth amorous
hortensio madam before you touch the instrument
 to learn the order of my fingering
 i must begin with rudiments of art
 to teach you gamut in a briefer sort
 more pleasant pithy and effectual
 than hath been taught by any of my trade
 and there it is in writing fairly drawn
bianca why i am past my gamut long ago
hortensio yet read the gamut of hortensio
bianca reads 'gamut i am the ground of all accord
 a re to plead hortensio's passion
 b mi bianca take him for thy lord
 c fa ut that loves with all affection
 d sol re one clef two notes have i
 e la mi show pity or i die'
 call you this gamut tut i like it not
 old fashions please me best i am not so nice
 to change true rules for old inventions
 enter a servant
servant mistress your father prays you leave your books
 and help to dress your sister's chamber up
 you know tomorrow is the weddingday
bianca farewell sweet masters both i must be gone
 exeunt bianca and servant
lucentio faith mistress then i have no cause to stay
 exit
hortensio but i have cause to pry into this pedant
 methinks he looks as though he were in love
 yet if thy thoughts bianca be so humble
 to cast thy wandering eyes on every stale
 seize thee that list if once i find thee ranging
 hortensio will be quit with thee by changing
 exit
 the taming of the shrew
act iii
scene ii padua before baptista's house
 enter baptista gremio tranio katharina bianca
 lucentio and others attendants
baptista to tranio signior lucentio this is the
 pointed day
 that katharina and petruchio should be married
 and yet we hear not of our soninlaw
 what will be said what mockery will it be
 to want the bridegroom when the priest attends
 to speak the ceremonial rites of marriage
 what says lucentio to this shame of ours
katharina no shame but mine i must forsooth be forced
 to give my hand opposed against my heart
 unto a madbrain rudesby full of spleen
 who woo'd in haste and means to wed at leisure
 i told you i he was a frantic fool
 hiding his bitter jests in blunt behavior
 and to be noted for a merry man
 he'll woo a thousand point the day of marriage
 make feasts invite friends and proclaim the banns
 yet never means to wed where he hath woo'd
 now must the world point at poor katharina
 and say lo there is mad petruchio's wife
 if it would please him come and marry her'
tranio patience good katharina and baptista too
 upon my life petruchio means but well
 whatever fortune stays him from his word
 though he be blunt i know him passing wise
 though he be merry yet withal he's honest
katharina would katharina had never seen him though
 exit weeping followed by bianca and others
baptista go girl i cannot blame thee now to weep
 for such an injury would vex a very saint
 much more a shrew of thy impatient humour
 enter biondello
biondello master master news old news and such news as
 you never heard of
baptista is it new and old too how may that be
biondello why is it not news to hear of petruchio's coming
baptista is he come
biondello why no sir
baptista what then
biondello he is coming
baptista when will he be here
biondello when he stands where i am and sees you there
tranio but say what to thine old news
biondello why petruchio is coming in a new hat and an old
 jerkin a pair of old breeches thrice turned a pair
 of boots that have been candlecases one buckled
 another laced an old rusty sword ta'en out of the
 townarmory with a broken hilt and chapeless
 with two broken points his horse hipped with an
 old mothy saddle and stirrups of no kindred
 besides possessed with the glanders and like to mose
 in the chine troubled with the lampass infected
 with the fashions full of wingdalls sped with
 spavins rayed with yellows past cure of the fives
 stark spoiled with the staggers begnawn with the
 bots swayed in the back and shouldershotten
 nearlegged before and with a halfchequed bit
 and a headstall of sheeps leather which being
 restrained to keep him from stumbling hath been
 often burst and now repaired with knots one girth
 six time pieced and a woman's crupper of velure
 which hath two letters for her name fairly set down
 in studs and here and there pieced with packthread
baptista who comes with him
biondello o sir his lackey for all the world caparisoned
 like the horse with a linen stock on one leg and a
 kersey boothose on the other gartered with a red
 and blue list an old hat and the humour of forty
 fancies pricked in't for a feather a monster a
 very monster in apparel and not like a christian
 footboy or a gentleman's lackey
tranio tis some odd humour pricks him to this fashion
 yet oftentimes he goes but meanapparell'd
baptista i am glad he's come howsoe'er he comes
biondello why sir he comes not
baptista didst thou not say he comes
biondello who that petruchio came
baptista ay that petruchio came
biondello no sir i say his horse comes with him on his back
baptista why that's all one
biondello nay by saint jamy
 i hold you a penny
 a horse and a man
 is more than one
 and yet not many
 enter petruchio and grumio
petruchio come where be these gallants who's at home
baptista you are welcome sir
petruchio and yet i come not well
baptista and yet you halt not
tranio not so well apparell'd
 as i wish you were
petruchio were it better i should rush in thus
 but where is kate where is my lovely bride
 how does my father gentles methinks you frown
 and wherefore gaze this goodly company
 as if they saw some wondrous monument
 some comet or unusual prodigy
baptista why sir you know this is your weddingday
 first were we sad fearing you would not come
 now sadder that you come so unprovided
 fie doff this habit shame to your estate
 an eyesore to our solemn festival
tranio and tells us what occasion of import
 hath all so long detain'd you from your wife
 and sent you hither so unlike yourself
petruchio tedious it were to tell and harsh to hear
 sufficeth i am come to keep my word
 though in some part enforced to digress
 which at more leisure i will so excuse
 as you shall well be satisfied withal
 but where is kate i stay too long from her
 the morning wears tis time we were at church
tranio see not your bride in these unreverent robes
 go to my chamber put on clothes of mine
petruchio not i believe me thus i'll visit her
baptista but thus i trust you will not marry her
petruchio good sooth even thus therefore ha done with words
 to me she's married not unto my clothes
 could i repair what she will wear in me
 as i can change these poor accoutrements
 twere well for kate and better for myself
 but what a fool am i to chat with you
 when i should bid good morrow to my bride
 and seal the title with a lovely kiss
 exeunt petruchio and grumio
tranio he hath some meaning in his mad attire
 we will persuade him be it possible
 to put on better ere he go to church
baptista i'll after him and see the event of this
 exeunt baptista gremio and attendants
tranio but to her love concerneth us to add
 her father's liking which to bring to pass
 as i before unparted to your worship
 i am to get a manwhate'er he be
 it skills not much we'll fit him to our turn
 and he shall be vincentio of pisa
 and make assurance here in padua
 of greater sums than i have promised
 so shall you quietly enjoy your hope
 and marry sweet bianca with consent
lucentio were it not that my fellowschoolmaster
 doth watch bianca's steps so narrowly
 twere good methinks to steal our marriage
 which once perform'd let all the world say no
 i'll keep mine own despite of all the world
tranio that by degrees we mean to look into
 and watch our vantage in this business
 we'll overreach the greybeard gremio
 the narrowprying father minola
 the quaint musician amorous licio
 all for my master's sake lucentio
 reenter gremio
 signior gremio came you from the church
gremio as willingly as e'er i came from school
tranio and is the bride and bridegroom coming home
gremio a bridegroom say you tis a groom indeed
 a grumbling groom and that the girl shall find
tranio curster than she why tis impossible
gremio why he's a devil a devil a very fiend
tranio why she's a devil a devil the devil's dam
gremio tut she's a lamb a dove a fool to him
 i'll tell you sir lucentio when the priest
 should ask if katharina should be his wife
 ay by gogswouns quoth he and swore so loud
 that allamazed the priest let fall the book
 and as he stoop'd again to take it up
 the madbrain'd bridegroom took him such a cuff
 that down fell priest and book and book and priest
 now take them up quoth he if any list'
tranio what said the wench when he rose again
gremio trembled and shook for why he stamp'd and swore
 as if the vicar meant to cozen him
 but after many ceremonies done
 he calls for wine a health quoth he as if
 he had been aboard carousing to his mates
 after a storm quaff'd off the muscadel
 and threw the sops all in the sexton's face
 having no other reason
 but that his beard grew thin and hungerly
 and seem'd to ask him sops as he was drinking
 this done he took the bride about the neck
 and kiss'd her lips with such a clamorous smack
 that at the parting all the church did echo
 and i seeing this came thence for very shame
 and after me i know the rout is coming
 such a mad marriage never was before
 hark hark i hear the minstrels play
 music
 reenter petruchio katharina bianca baptista
 hortensio grumio and train
petruchio gentlemen and friends i thank you for your pains
 i know you think to dine with me today
 and have prepared great store of wedding cheer
 but so it is my haste doth call me hence
 and therefore here i mean to take my leave
baptista is't possible you will away tonight
petruchio i must away today before night come
 make it no wonder if you knew my business
 you would entreat me rather go than stay
 and honest company i thank you all
 that have beheld me give away myself
 to this most patient sweet and virtuous wife
 dine with my father drink a health to me
 for i must hence and farewell to you all
tranio let us entreat you stay till after dinner
petruchio it may not be
gremio let me entreat you
petruchio it cannot be
katharina let me entreat you
petruchio i am content
katharina are you content to stay
petruchio i am content you shall entreat me stay
 but yet not stay entreat me how you can
katharina now if you love me stay
petruchio grumio my horse
grumio ay sir they be ready the oats have eaten the horses
katharina nay then
 do what thou canst i will not go today
 no nor tomorrow not till i please myself
 the door is open sir there lies your way
 you may be jogging whiles your boots are green
 for me i'll not be gone till i please myself
 tis like you'll prove a jolly surly groom
 that take it on you at the first so roundly
petruchio o kate content thee prithee be not angry
katharina i will be angry what hast thou to do
 father be quiet he shall stay my leisure
gremio ay marry sir now it begins to work
katarina gentlemen forward to the bridal dinner
 i see a woman may be made a fool
 if she had not a spirit to resist
petruchio they shall go forward kate at thy command
 obey the bride you that attend on her
 go to the feast revel and domineer
 carouse full measure to her maidenhead
 be mad and merry or go hang yourselves
 but for my bonny kate she must with me
 nay look not big nor stamp nor stare nor fret
 i will be master of what is mine own
 she is my goods my chattels she is my house
 my household stuff my field my barn
 my horse my ox my ass my any thing
 and here she stands touch her whoever dare
 i'll bring mine action on the proudest he
 that stops my way in padua grumio
 draw forth thy weapon we are beset with thieves
 rescue thy mistress if thou be a man
 fear not sweet wench they shall not touch
 thee kate
 i'll buckler thee against a million
 exeunt petruchio katharina and grumio
baptista nay let them go a couple of quiet ones
gremio went they not quickly i should die with laughing
tranio of all mad matches never was the like
lucentio mistress what's your opinion of your sister
bianca that being mad herself she's madly mated
gremio i warrant him petruchio is kated
baptista neighbours and friends though bride and
 bridegroom wants
 for to supply the places at the table
 you know there wants no junkets at the feast
 lucentio you shall supply the bridegroom's place
 and let bianca take her sister's room
tranio shall sweet bianca practise how to bride it
baptista she shall lucentio come gentlemen let's go
 exeunt
 the taming of the shrew
act iv
scene i petruchio's country house
 enter grumio
grumio fie fie on all tired jades on all mad masters and
 all foul ways was ever man so beaten was ever
 man so rayed was ever man so weary i am sent
 before to make a fire and they are coming after to
 warm them now were not i a little pot and soon
 hot my very lips might freeze to my teeth my
 tongue to the roof of my mouth my heart in my
 belly ere i should come by a fire to thaw me but
 i with blowing the fire shall warm myself for
 considering the weather a taller man than i will
 take cold holla ho curtis
 enter curtis
curtis who is that calls so coldly
grumio a piece of ice if thou doubt it thou mayst slide
 from my shoulder to my heel with no greater a run
 but my head and my neck a fire good curtis
curtis is my master and his wife coming grumio
grumio o ay curtis ay and therefore fire fire cast
 on no water
curtis is she so hot a shrew as she's reported
grumio she was good curtis before this frost but thou
 knowest winter tames man woman and beast for it
 hath tamed my old master and my new mistress and
 myself fellow curtis
curtis away you threeinch fool i am no beast
grumio am i but three inches why thy horn is a foot and
 so long am i at the least but wilt thou make a
 fire or shall i complain on thee to our mistress
 whose hand she being now at hand thou shalt soon
 feel to thy cold comfort for being slow in thy hot office
curtis i prithee good grumio tell me how goes the world
grumio a cold world curtis in every office but thine and
 therefore fire do thy duty and have thy duty for
 my master and mistress are almost frozen to death
curtis there's fire ready and therefore good grumio the news
grumio why jack boy ho boy and as much news as
 will thaw
curtis come you are so full of conycatching
grumio why therefore fire for i have caught extreme cold
 where's the cook is supper ready the house
 trimmed rushes strewed cobwebs swept the
 servingmen in their new fustian their white
 stockings and every officer his weddinggarment on
 be the jacks fair within the jills fair without
 the carpets laid and every thing in order
curtis all ready and therefore i pray thee news
grumio first know my horse is tired my master and
 mistress fallen out
curtis how
grumio out of their saddles into the dirt and thereby
 hangs a tale
curtis let's ha't good grumio
grumio lend thine ear
curtis here
grumio there
 strikes him
curtis this is to feel a tale not to hear a tale
grumio and therefore tis called a sensible tale and this
 cuff was but to knock at your ear and beseech
 listening now i begin imprimis we came down a
 foul hill my master riding behind my mistress
curtis both of one horse
grumio what's that to thee
curtis why a horse
grumio tell thou the tale but hadst thou not crossed me
 thou shouldst have heard how her horse fell and she
 under her horse thou shouldst have heard in how
 miry a place how she was bemoiled how he left her
 with the horse upon her how he beat me because
 her horse stumbled how she waded through the dirt
 to pluck him off me how he swore how she prayed
 that never prayed before how i cried how the
 horses ran away how her bridle was burst how i
 lost my crupper with many things of worthy memory
 which now shall die in oblivion and thou return
 unexperienced to thy grave
curtis by this reckoning he is more shrew than she
grumio ay and that thou and the proudest of you all shall
 find when he comes home but what talk i of this
 call forth nathaniel joseph nicholas philip
 walter sugarsop and the rest let their heads be
 sleekly combed their blue coats brushed and their
 garters of an indifferent knit let them curtsy
 with their left legs and not presume to touch a hair
 of my master's horsetail till they kiss their
 hands are they all ready
curtis they are
grumio call them forth
curtis do you hear ho you must meet my master to
 countenance my mistress
grumio why she hath a face of her own
curtis who knows not that
grumio thou it seems that calls for company to
 countenance her
curtis i call them forth to credit her
grumio why she comes to borrow nothing of them
 enter four or five servingmen
nathaniel welcome home grumio
philip how now grumio
joseph what grumio
nicholas fellow grumio
nathaniel how now old lad
grumio welcome youhow now you what youfellow
 youand thus much for greeting now my spruce
 companions is all ready and all things neat
nathaniel all things is ready how near is our master
grumio e'en at hand alighted by this and therefore be
 notcock's passion silence i hear my master
 enter petruchio and katharina
petruchio where be these knaves what no man at door
 to hold my stirrup nor to take my horse
 where is nathaniel gregory philip
all servingmen here here sir here sir
petruchio here sir here sir here sir here sir
 you loggerheaded and unpolish'd grooms
 what no attendance no regard no duty
 where is the foolish knave i sent before
grumio here sir as foolish as i was before
petruchio you peasant swain you whoreson malthorse drudge
 did i not bid thee meet me in the park
 and bring along these rascal knaves with thee
grumio nathaniel's coat sir was not fully made
 and gabriel's pumps were all unpink'd i the heel
 there was no link to colour peter's hat
 and walter's dagger was not come from sheathing
 there were none fine but adam ralph and gregory
 the rest were ragged old and beggarly
 yet as they are here are they come to meet you
petruchio go rascals go and fetch my supper in
 exeunt servants
 singing
 where is the life that late i led
 where are thosesit down kate and welcome
 sound sound sound sound
 reenter servants with supper
 why when i say nay good sweet kate be merry
 off with my boots you rogues you villains when
 sings
 it was the friar of orders grey
 as he forth walked on his way
 out you rogue you pluck my foot awry
 take that and mend the plucking off the other
 strikes him
 be merry kate some water here what ho
 where's my spaniel troilus sirrah get you hence
 and bid my cousin ferdinand come hither
 one kate that you must kiss and be acquainted with
 where are my slippers shall i have some water
 enter one with water
 come kate and wash and welcome heartily
 you whoreson villain will you let it fall
 strikes him
katharina patience i pray you twas a fault unwilling
petruchio a whoreson beetleheaded flapear'd knave
 come kate sit down i know you have a stomach
 will you give thanks sweet kate or else shall i
 what's this mutton
first servant ay
petruchio who brought it
peter i
petruchio tis burnt and so is all the meat
 what dogs are these where is the rascal cook
 how durst you villains bring it from the dresser
 and serve it thus to me that love it not
 theretake it to you trenchers cups and all
 throws the meat &c about the stage
 you heedless joltheads and unmanner'd slaves
 what do you grumble i'll be with you straight
katharina i pray you husband be not so disquiet
 the meat was well if you were so contented
petruchio i tell thee kate twas burnt and dried away
 and i expressly am forbid to touch it
 for it engenders choler planteth anger
 and better twere that both of us did fast
 since of ourselves ourselves are choleric
 than feed it with such overroasted flesh
 be patient tomorrow t shall be mended
 and for this night we'll fast for company
 come i will bring thee to thy bridal chamber
 exeunt
 reenter servants severally
nathaniel peter didst ever see the like
peter he kills her in her own humour
 reenter curtis
grumio where is he
curtis in her chamber making a sermon of continency to her
 and rails and swears and rates that she poor soul
 knows not which way to stand to look to speak
 and sits as one newrisen from a dream
 away away for he is coming hither
 exeunt
 reenter petruchio
petruchio thus have i politicly begun my reign
 and tis my hope to end successfully
 my falcon now is sharp and passing empty
 and till she stoop she must not be fullgorged
 for then she never looks upon her lure
 another way i have to man my haggard
 to make her come and know her keeper's call
 that is to watch her as we watch these kites
 that bate and beat and will not be obedient
 she eat no meat today nor none shall eat
 last night she slept not nor tonight she shall not
 as with the meat some undeserved fault
 i'll find about the making of the bed
 and here i'll fling the pillow there the bolster
 this way the coverlet another way the sheets
 ay and amid this hurly i intend
 that all is done in reverend care of her
 and in conclusion she shall watch all night
 and if she chance to nod i'll rail and brawl
 and with the clamour keep her still awake
 this is a way to kill a wife with kindness
 and thus i'll curb her mad and headstrong humour
 he that knows better how to tame a shrew
 now let him speak tis charity to show
 exit
 the taming of the shrew
act iv
scene ii padua before baptista's house
 enter tranio and hortensio
tranio is't possible friend licio that mistress bianca
 doth fancy any other but lucentio
 i tell you sir she bears me fair in hand
hortensio sir to satisfy you in what i have said
 stand by and mark the manner of his teaching
 enter bianca and lucentio
lucentio now mistress profit you in what you read
bianca what master read you first resolve me that
lucentio i read that i profess the art to love
bianca and may you prove sir master of your art
lucentio while you sweet dear prove mistress of my heart
hortensio quick proceeders marry now tell me i pray
 you that durst swear at your mistress bianca
 loved none in the world so well as lucentio
tranio o despiteful love unconstant womankind
 i tell thee licio this is wonderful
hortensio mistake no more i am not licio
 nor a musician as i seem to be
 but one that scorn to live in this disguise
 for such a one as leaves a gentleman
 and makes a god of such a cullion
 know sir that i am call'd hortensio
tranio signior hortensio i have often heard
 of your entire affection to bianca
 and since mine eyes are witness of her lightness
 i will with you if you be so contented
 forswear bianca and her love for ever
hortensio see how they kiss and court signior lucentio
 here is my hand and here i firmly vow
 never to woo her no more but do forswear her
 as one unworthy all the former favours
 that i have fondly flatter'd her withal
tranio and here i take the unfeigned oath
 never to marry with her though she would entreat
 fie on her see how beastly she doth court him
hortensio would all the world but he had quite forsworn
 for me that i may surely keep mine oath
 i will be married to a wealthy widow
 ere three days pass which hath as long loved me
 as i have loved this proud disdainful haggard
 and so farewell signior lucentio
 kindness in women not their beauteous looks
 shall win my love and so i take my leave
 in resolution as i swore before
 exit
tranio mistress bianca bless you with such grace
 as longeth to a lover's blessed case
 nay i have ta'en you napping gentle love
 and have forsworn you with hortensio
bianca tranio you jest but have you both forsworn me
tranio mistress we have
lucentio then we are rid of licio
tranio i faith he'll have a lusty widow now
 that shall be wood and wedded in a day
bianca god give him joy
tranio ay and he'll tame her
bianca he says so tranio
tranio faith he is gone unto the tamingschool
bianca the tamingschool what is there such a place
tranio ay mistress and petruchio is the master
 that teacheth tricks eleven and twenty long
 to tame a shrew and charm her chattering tongue
 enter biondello
biondello o master master i have watch'd so long
 that i am dogweary but at last i spied
 an ancient angel coming down the hill
 will serve the turn
tranio what is he biondello
biondello master a mercatante or a pedant
 i know not what but format in apparel
 in gait and countenance surely like a father
lucentio and what of him tranio
tranio if he be credulous and trust my tale
 i'll make him glad to seem vincentio
 and give assurance to baptista minola
 as if he were the right vincentio
 take in your love and then let me alone
 exeunt lucentio and bianca
 enter a pedant
pedant god save you sir
tranio and you sir you are welcome
 travel you far on or are you at the farthest
pedant sir at the farthest for a week or two
 but then up farther and as for as rome
 and so to tripoli if god lend me life
tranio what countryman i pray
pedant of mantua
tranio of mantua sir marry god forbid
 and come to padua careless of your life
pedant my life sir how i pray for that goes hard
tranio tis death for any one in mantua
 to come to padua know you not the cause
 your ships are stay'd at venice and the duke
 for private quarrel twixt your duke and him
 hath publish'd and proclaim'd it openly
 tis marvel but that you are but newly come
 you might have heard it else proclaim'd about
pedant alas sir it is worse for me than so
 for i have bills for money by exchange
 from florence and must here deliver them
tranio well sir to do you courtesy
 this will i do and this i will advise you
 first tell me have you ever been at pisa
pedant ay sir in pisa have i often been
 pisa renowned for grave citizens
tranio among them know you one vincentio
pedant i know him not but i have heard of him
 a merchant of incomparable wealth
tranio he is my father sir and sooth to say
 in countenance somewhat doth resemble you
biondello aside as much as an apple doth an oyster
 and all one
tranio to save your life in this extremity
 this favour will i do you for his sake
 and think it not the worst of an your fortunes
 that you are like to sir vincentio
 his name and credit shall you undertake
 and in my house you shall be friendly lodged
 look that you take upon you as you should
 you understand me sir so shall you stay
 till you have done your business in the city
 if this be courtesy sir accept of it
pedant o sir i do and will repute you ever
 the patron of my life and liberty
tranio then go with me to make the matter good
 this by the way i let you understand
 my father is here look'd for every day
 to pass assurance of a dower in marriage
 twixt me and one baptista's daughter here
 in all these circumstances i'll instruct you
 go with me to clothe you as becomes you
 exeunt
 the taming of the shrew
act iv
scene iii a room in petruchio's house
 enter katharina and grumio
grumio no no forsooth i dare not for my life
katharina the more my wrong the more his spite appears
 what did he marry me to famish me
 beggars that come unto my father's door
 upon entreaty have a present aims
 if not elsewhere they meet with charity
 but i who never knew how to entreat
 nor never needed that i should entreat
 am starved for meat giddy for lack of sleep
 with oath kept waking and with brawling fed
 and that which spites me more than all these wants
 he does it under name of perfect love
 as who should say if i should sleep or eat
 twere deadly sickness or else present death
 i prithee go and get me some repast
 i care not what so it be wholesome food
grumio what say you to a neat's foot
katharina tis passing good i prithee let me have it
grumio i fear it is too choleric a meat
 how say you to a fat tripe finely broil'd
katharina i like it well good grumio fetch it me
grumio i cannot tell i fear tis choleric
 what say you to a piece of beef and mustard
katharina a dish that i do love to feed upon
grumio ay but the mustard is too hot a little
katharina why then the beef and let the mustard rest
grumio nay then i will not you shall have the mustard
 or else you get no beef of grumio
katharina then both or one or any thing thou wilt
grumio why then the mustard without the beef
katharina go get thee gone thou false deluding slave
 beats him
 that feed'st me with the very name of meat
 sorrow on thee and all the pack of you
 that triumph thus upon my misery
 go get thee gone i say
 enter petruchio and hortensio with meat
petruchio how fares my kate what sweeting all amort
hortensio mistress what cheer
katharina faith as cold as can be
petruchio pluck up thy spirits look cheerfully upon me
 here love thou see'st how diligent i am
 to dress thy meat myself and bring it thee
 i am sure sweet kate this kindness merits thanks
 what not a word nay then thou lovest it not
 and all my pains is sorted to no proof
 here take away this dish
katharina i pray you let it stand
petruchio the poorest service is repaid with thanks
 and so shall mine before you touch the meat
katharina i thank you sir
hortensio signior petruchio fie you are to blame
 come mistress kate i'll bear you company
petruchio aside eat it up all hortensio if thou lovest me
 much good do it unto thy gentle heart
 kate eat apace and now my honey love
 will we return unto thy father's house
 and revel it as bravely as the best
 with silken coats and caps and golden rings
 with ruffs and cuffs and fardingales and things
 with scarfs and fans and double change of bravery
 with amber bracelets beads and all this knavery
 what hast thou dined the tailor stays thy leisure
 to deck thy body with his ruffling treasure
 enter tailor
 come tailor let us see these ornaments
 lay forth the gown
 enter haberdasher
 what news with you sir
haberdasher here is the cap your worship did bespeak
petruchio why this was moulded on a porringer
 a velvet dish fie fie tis lewd and filthy
 why tis a cockle or a walnutshell
 a knack a toy a trick a baby's cap
 away with it come let me have a bigger
katharina i'll have no bigger this doth fit the time
 and gentlewomen wear such caps as these
petruchio when you are gentle you shall have one too
 and not till then
hortensio aside that will not be in haste
katharina why sir i trust i may have leave to speak
 and speak i will i am no child no babe
 your betters have endured me say my mind
 and if you cannot best you stop your ears
 my tongue will tell the anger of my heart
 or else my heart concealing it will break
 and rather than it shall i will be free
 even to the uttermost as i please in words
petruchio why thou say'st true it is a paltry cap
 a custardcoffin a bauble a silken pie
 i love thee well in that thou likest it not
katharina love me or love me not i like the cap
 and it i will have or i will have none
 exit haberdasher
petruchio thy gown why ay come tailor let us see't
 o mercy god what masquing stuff is here
 what's this a sleeve tis like a demicannon
 what up and down carved like an appletart
 here's snip and nip and cut and slish and slash
 like to a censer in a barber's shop
 why what i devil's name tailor call'st thou this
hortensio aside i see she's like to have neither cap nor gown
tailor you bid me make it orderly and well
 according to the fashion and the time
petruchio marry and did but if you be remember'd
 i did not bid you mar it to the time
 go hop me over every kennel home
 for you shall hop without my custom sir
 i'll none of it hence make your best of it
katharina i never saw a betterfashion'd gown
 more quaint more pleasing nor more commendable
 belike you mean to make a puppet of me
petruchio why true he means to make a puppet of thee
tailor she says your worship means to make
 a puppet of her
petruchio o monstrous arrogance thou liest thou thread
 thou thimble
 thou yard threequarters halfyard quarter nail
 thou flea thou nit thou wintercricket thou
 braved in mine own house with a skein of thread
 away thou rag thou quantity thou remnant
 or i shall so bemete thee with thy yard
 as thou shalt think on prating whilst thou livest
 i tell thee i that thou hast marr'd her gown
tailor your worship is deceived the gown is made
 just as my master had direction
 grumio gave order how it should be done
grumio i gave him no order i gave him the stuff
tailor but how did you desire it should be made
grumio marry sir with needle and thread
tailor but did you not request to have it cut
grumio thou hast faced many things
tailor i have
grumio face not me thou hast braved many men brave not
 me i will neither be faced nor braved i say unto
 thee i bid thy master cut out the gown but i did
 not bid him cut it to pieces ergo thou liest
tailor why here is the note of the fashion to testify
petruchio read it
grumio the note lies in's throat if he say i said so
tailor reads imprimis a loosebodied gown'
grumio master if ever i said loosebodied gown sew me in
 the skirts of it and beat me to death with a bottom
 of brown thread i said a gown
petruchio proceed
tailor reads with a small compassed cape'
grumio i confess the cape
tailor reads with a trunk sleeve'
grumio i confess two sleeves
tailor reads the sleeves curiously cut'
petruchio ay there's the villany
grumio error i the bill sir error i the bill
 i commanded the sleeves should be cut out and
 sewed up again and that i'll prove upon thee
 though thy little finger be armed in a thimble
tailor this is true that i say an i had thee
 in place where thou shouldst know it
grumio i am for thee straight take thou the
 bill give me thy meteyard and spare not me
hortensio godamercy grumio then he shall have no odds
petruchio well sir in brief the gown is not for me
grumio you are i the right sir tis for my mistress
petruchio go take it up unto thy master's use
grumio villain not for thy life take up my mistress'
 gown for thy master's use
petruchio why sir what's your conceit in that
grumio o sir the conceit is deeper than you think for
 take up my mistress gown to his master's use
 o fie fie fie
petruchio aside hortensio say thou wilt see the tailor paid
 go take it hence be gone and say no more
hortensio tailor i'll pay thee for thy gown tomorrow
 take no unkindness of his hasty words
 away i say commend me to thy master
 exit tailor
petruchio well come my kate we will unto your father's
 even in these honest mean habiliments
 our purses shall be proud our garments poor
 for tis the mind that makes the body rich
 and as the sun breaks through the darkest clouds
 so honour peereth in the meanest habit
 what is the jay more precious than the lark
 because his fathers are more beautiful
 or is the adder better than the eel
 because his painted skin contents the eye
 o no good kate neither art thou the worse
 for this poor furniture and mean array
 if thou account'st it shame lay it on me
 and therefore frolic we will hence forthwith
 to feast and sport us at thy father's house
 go call my men and let us straight to him
 and bring our horses unto longlane end
 there will we mount and thither walk on foot
 let's see i think tis now some seven o'clock
 and well we may come there by dinnertime
katharina i dare assure you sir tis almost two
 and twill be suppertime ere you come there
petruchio it shall be seven ere i go to horse
 look what i speak or do or think to do
 you are still crossing it sirs let't alone
 i will not go today and ere i do
 it shall be what o'clock i say it is
hortensio aside why so this gallant will command the sun
 exeunt
 the taming of the shrew
act iv
scene iv padua before baptista's house
 enter tranio and the pedant dressed like vincentio
tranio sir this is the house please it you that i call
pedant ay what else and but i be deceived
 signior baptista may remember me
 near twenty years ago in genoa
 where we were lodgers at the pegasus
tranio tis well and hold your own in any case
 with such austerity as longeth to a father
pedant i warrant you
 enter biondello
 but sir here comes your boy
 twere good he were school'd
tranio fear you not him sirrah biondello
 now do your duty throughly i advise you
 imagine twere the right vincentio
biondello tut fear not me
tranio but hast thou done thy errand to baptista
biondello i told him that your father was at venice
 and that you look'd for him this day in padua
tranio thou'rt a tall fellow hold thee that to drink
 here comes baptista set your countenance sir
 enter baptista and lucentio
 signior baptista you are happily met
 to the pedant
 sir this is the gentleman i told you of
 i pray you stand good father to me now
 give me bianca for my patrimony
pedant soft son
 sir by your leave having come to padua
 to gather in some debts my son lucentio
 made me acquainted with a weighty cause
 of love between your daughter and himself
 and for the good report i hear of you
 and for the love he beareth to your daughter
 and she to him to stay him not too long
 i am content in a good father's care
 to have him match'd and if you please to like
 no worse than i upon some agreement
 me shall you find ready and willing
 with one consent to have her so bestow'd
 for curious i cannot be with you
 signior baptista of whom i hear so well
baptista sir pardon me in what i have to say
 your plainness and your shortness please me well
 right true it is your son lucentio here
 doth love my daughter and she loveth him
 or both dissemble deeply their affections
 and therefore if you say no more than this
 that like a father you will deal with him
 and pass my daughter a sufficient dower
 the match is made and all is done
 your son shall have my daughter with consent
tranio i thank you sir where then do you know best
 we be affied and such assurance ta'en
 as shall with either part's agreement stand
baptista not in my house lucentio for you know
 pitchers have ears and i have many servants
 besides old gremio is hearkening still
 and happily we might be interrupted
tranio then at my lodging an it like you
 there doth my father lie and there this night
 we'll pass the business privately and well
 send for your daughter by your servant here
 my boy shall fetch the scrivener presently
 the worst is this that at so slender warning
 you are like to have a thin and slender pittance
baptista it likes me well biondello hie you home
 and bid bianca make her ready straight
 and if you will tell what hath happened
 lucentio's father is arrived in padua
 and how she's like to be lucentio's wife
biondello i pray the gods she may with all my heart
tranio dally not with the gods but get thee gone
 exit biondello
 signior baptista shall i lead the way
 welcome one mess is like to be your cheer
 come sir we will better it in pisa
baptista i follow you
 exeunt tranio pedant and baptista
 reenter biondello
biondello cambio
lucentio what sayest thou biondello
biondello you saw my master wink and laugh upon you
lucentio biondello what of that
biondello faith nothing but has left me here behind to
 expound the meaning or moral of his signs and tokens
lucentio i pray thee moralize them
biondello then thus baptista is safe talking with the
 deceiving father of a deceitful son
lucentio and what of him
biondello his daughter is to be brought by you to the supper
lucentio and then
biondello the old priest of saint luke's church is at your
 command at all hours
lucentio and what of all this
biondello i cannot tell expect they are busied about a
 counterfeit assurance take you assurance of her
 cum privilegio ad imprimendum solum to the
 church take the priest clerk and some sufficient
 honest witnesses if this be not that you look for
 i have no more to say but bid bianca farewell for
 ever and a day
lucentio hearest thou biondello
biondello i cannot tarry i knew a wench married in an
 afternoon as she went to the garden for parsley to
 stuff a rabbit and so may you sir and so adieu
 sir my master hath appointed me to go to saint
 luke's to bid the priest be ready to come against
 you come with your appendix
 exit
lucentio i may and will if she be so contented
 she will be pleased then wherefore should i doubt
 hap what hap may i'll roundly go about her
 it shall go hard if cambio go without her
 exit
 the taming of the shrew
act iv
scene v a public road
 enter petruchio katharina hortensio and servants
petruchio come on i god's name once more toward our father's
 good lord how bright and goodly shines the moon
katharina the moon the sun it is not moonlight now
petruchio i say it is the moon that shines so bright
katharina i know it is the sun that shines so bright
petruchio now by my mother's son and that's myself
 it shall be moon or star or what i list
 or ere i journey to your father's house
 go on and fetch our horses back again
 evermore cross'd and cross'd nothing but cross'd
hortensio say as he says or we shall never go
katharina forward i pray since we have come so far
 and be it moon or sun or what you please
 an if you please to call it a rushcandle
 henceforth i vow it shall be so for me
petruchio i say it is the moon
katharina i know it is the moon
petruchio nay then you lie it is the blessed sun
katharina then god be bless'd it is the blessed sun
 but sun it is not when you say it is not
 and the moon changes even as your mind
 what you will have it named even that it is
 and so it shall be so for katharina
hortensio petruchio go thy ways the field is won
petruchio well forward forward thus the bowl should run
 and not unluckily against the bias
 but soft company is coming here
 enter vincentio
 to vincentio
 good morrow gentle mistress where away
 tell me sweet kate and tell me truly too
 hast thou beheld a fresher gentlewoman
 such war of white and red within her cheeks
 what stars do spangle heaven with such beauty
 as those two eyes become that heavenly face
 fair lovely maid once more good day to thee
 sweet kate embrace her for her beauty's sake
hortensio a will make the man mad to make a woman of him
katharina young budding virgin fair and fresh and sweet
 whither away or where is thy abode
 happy the parents of so fair a child
 happier the man whom favourable stars
 allot thee for his lovely bedfellow
petruchio why how now kate i hope thou art not mad
 this is a man old wrinkled faded wither'd
 and not a maiden as thou say'st he is
katharina pardon old father my mistaking eyes
 that have been so bedazzled with the sun
 that everything i look on seemeth green
 now i perceive thou art a reverend father
 pardon i pray thee for my mad mistaking
petruchio do good old grandsire and withal make known
 which way thou travellest if along with us
 we shall be joyful of thy company
vincentio fair sir and you my merry mistress
 that with your strange encounter much amazed me
 my name is call'd vincentio my dwelling pisa
 and bound i am to padua there to visit
 a son of mine which long i have not seen
petruchio what is his name
vincentio lucentio gentle sir
petruchio happily we met the happier for thy son
 and now by law as well as reverend age
 i may entitle thee my loving father
 the sister to my wife this gentlewoman
 thy son by this hath married wonder not
 nor be grieved she is of good esteem
 her dowery wealthy and of worthy birth
 beside so qualified as may beseem
 the spouse of any noble gentleman
 let me embrace with old vincentio
 and wander we to see thy honest son
 who will of thy arrival be full joyous
vincentio but is it true or else is it your pleasure
 like pleasant travellers to break a jest
 upon the company you overtake
hortensio i do assure thee father so it is
petruchio come go along and see the truth hereof
 for our first merriment hath made thee jealous
 exeunt all but hortensio
hortensio well petruchio this has put me in heart
 have to my widow and if she be froward
 then hast thou taught hortensio to be untoward
 exit
 the taming of the shrew
act v
scene i padua before lucentio's house
 gremio discovered enter behind biondello
 lucentio and bianca
biondello softly and swiftly sir for the priest is ready
lucentio i fly biondello but they may chance to need thee
 at home therefore leave us
biondello nay faith i'll see the church o your back and
 then come back to my master's as soon as i can
 exeunt lucentio bianca and biondello
gremio i marvel cambio comes not all this while
 enter petruchio katharina vincentio grumio
 with attendants
petruchio sir here's the door this is lucentio's house
 my father's bears more toward the marketplace
 thither must i and here i leave you sir
vincentio you shall not choose but drink before you go
 i think i shall command your welcome here
 and by all likelihood some cheer is toward
 knocks
gremio they're busy within you were best knock louder
 pedant looks out of the window
pedant what's he that knocks as he would beat down the gate
vincentio is signior lucentio within sir
pedant he's within sir but not to be spoken withal
vincentio what if a man bring him a hundred pound or two to
 make merry withal
pedant keep your hundred pounds to yourself he shall
 need none so long as i live
petruchio nay i told you your son was well beloved in padua
 do you hear sir to leave frivolous circumstances
 i pray you tell signior lucentio that his father is
 come from pisa and is here at the door to speak with him
pedant thou liest his father is come from padua and here
 looking out at the window
vincentio art thou his father
pedant ay sir so his mother says if i may believe her
petruchio to vincentio why how now gentleman why this
 is flat knavery to take upon you another man's name
pedant lay hands on the villain i believe a means to
 cozen somebody in this city under my countenance
 reenter biondello
biondello i have seen them in the church together god send
 em good shipping but who is here mine old
 master vincentio now we are undone and brought to nothing
vincentio seeing biondello
 come hither crackhemp
biondello hope i may choose sir
vincentio come hither you rogue what have you forgot me
biondello forgot you no sir i could not forget you for i
 never saw you before in all my life
vincentio what you notorious villain didst thou never see
 thy master's father vincentio
biondello what my old worshipful old master yes marry sir
 see where he looks out of the window
vincentio is't so indeed
 beats biondello
biondello help help help here's a madman will murder me
 exit
pedant help son help signior baptista
 exit from above
petruchio prithee kate let's stand aside and see the end of
 this controversy
 they retire
 reenter pedant below tranio baptista and servants
tranio sir what are you that offer to beat my servant
vincentio what am i sir nay what are you sir o immortal
 gods o fine villain a silken doublet a velvet
 hose a scarlet cloak and a copatain hat o i
 am undone i am undone while i play the good
 husband at home my son and my servant spend all at
 the university
tranio how now what's the matter
baptista what is the man lunatic
tranio sir you seem a sober ancient gentleman by your
 habit but your words show you a madman why sir
 what cerns it you if i wear pearl and gold i
 thank my good father i am able to maintain it
vincentio thy father o villain he is a sailmaker in bergamo
baptista you mistake sir you mistake sir pray what do
 you think is his name
vincentio his name as if i knew not his name i have brought
 him up ever since he was three years old and his
 name is tranio
pedant away away mad ass his name is lucentio and he is
 mine only son and heir to the lands of me signior vincentio
vincentio lucentio o he hath murdered his master lay hold
 on him i charge you in the duke's name o my
 son my son tell me thou villain where is my son lucentio
tranio call forth an officer
 enter one with an officer
 carry this mad knave to the gaol father baptista
 i charge you see that he be forthcoming
vincentio carry me to the gaol
gremio stay officer he shall not go to prison
baptista talk not signior gremio i say he shall go to prison
gremio take heed signior baptista lest you be
 conycatched in this business i dare swear this
 is the right vincentio
pedant swear if thou darest
gremio nay i dare not swear it
tranio then thou wert best say that i am not lucentio
gremio yes i know thee to be signior lucentio
baptista away with the dotard to the gaol with him
vincentio thus strangers may be hailed and abused o
 monstrous villain
 reenter biondello with lucentio and bianca
biondello o we are spoiled andyonder he is deny him
 forswear him or else we are all undone
lucentio kneeling pardon sweet father
vincentio lives my sweet son
 exeunt biondello tranio and pedant as fast
 as may be
bianca pardon dear father
baptista how hast thou offended
 where is lucentio
lucentio here's lucentio
 right son to the right vincentio
 that have by marriage made thy daughter mine
 while counterfeit supposes bleared thine eyne
gremio here's packing with a witness to deceive us all
vincentio where is that damned villain tranio
 that faced and braved me in this matter so
baptista why tell me is not this my cambio
bianca cambio is changed into lucentio
lucentio love wrought these miracles bianca's love
 made me exchange my state with tranio
 while he did bear my countenance in the town
 and happily i have arrived at the last
 unto the wished haven of my bliss
 what tranio did myself enforced him to
 then pardon him sweet father for my sake
vincentio i'll slit the villain's nose that would have sent
 me to the gaol
baptista but do you hear sir have you married my daughter
 without asking my good will
vincentio fear not baptista we will content you go to but
 i will in to be revenged for this villany
 exit
baptista and i to sound the depth of this knavery
 exit
lucentio look not pale bianca thy father will not frown
 exeunt lucentio and bianca
gremio my cake is dough but i'll in among the rest
 out of hope of all but my share of the feast
 exit
katharina husband let's follow to see the end of this ado
petruchio first kiss me kate and we will
katharina what in the midst of the street
petruchio what art thou ashamed of me
katharina no sir god forbid but ashamed to kiss
petruchio why then let's home again come sirrah let's away
katharina nay i will give thee a kiss now pray thee love stay
petruchio is not this well come my sweet kate
 better once than never for never too late
 exeunt
 the taming of the shrew
act v
scene ii padua lucentio's house
 enter baptista vincentio gremio the pedant
 lucentio bianca petruchio katharina hortensio
 and widow tranio biondello and grumio the
 servingmen with tranio bringing in a banquet
lucentio at last though long our jarring notes agree
 and time it is when raging war is done
 to smile at scapes and perils overblown
 my fair bianca bid my father welcome
 while i with selfsame kindness welcome thine
 brother petruchio sister katharina
 and thou hortensio with thy loving widow
 feast with the best and welcome to my house
 my banquet is to close our stomachs up
 after our great good cheer pray you sit down
 for now we sit to chat as well as eat
petruchio nothing but sit and sit and eat and eat
baptista padua affords this kindness son petruchio
petruchio padua affords nothing but what is kind
hortensio for both our sakes i would that word were true
petruchio now for my life hortensio fears his widow
widow then never trust me if i be afeard
petruchio you are very sensible and yet you miss my sense
 i mean hortensio is afeard of you
widow he that is giddy thinks the world turns round
petruchio roundly replied
katharina mistress how mean you that
widow thus i conceive by him
petruchio conceives by me how likes hortensio that
hortensio my widow says thus she conceives her tale
petruchio very well mended kiss him for that good widow
katharina he that is giddy thinks the world turns round'
 i pray you tell me what you meant by that
widow your husband being troubled with a shrew
 measures my husband's sorrow by his woe
 and now you know my meaning
katharina a very mean meaning
widow right i mean you
katharina and i am mean indeed respecting you
petruchio to her kate
hortensio to her widow
petruchio a hundred marks my kate does put her down
hortensio that's my office
petruchio spoke like an officer ha to thee lad
 drinks to hortensio
baptista how likes gremio these quickwitted folks
gremio believe me sir they butt together well
bianca head and butt an hastywitted body
 would say your head and butt were head and horn
vincentio ay mistress bride hath that awaken'd you
bianca ay but not frighted me therefore i'll sleep again
petruchio nay that you shall not since you have begun
 have at you for a bitter jest or two
bianca am i your bird i mean to shift my bush
 and then pursue me as you draw your bow
 you are welcome all
 exeunt bianca katharina and widow
petruchio she hath prevented me here signior tranio
 this bird you aim'd at though you hit her not
 therefore a health to all that shot and miss'd
tranio o sir lucentio slipp'd me like his greyhound
 which runs himself and catches for his master
petruchio a good swift simile but something currish
tranio tis well sir that you hunted for yourself
 tis thought your deer does hold you at a bay
baptista o ho petruchio tranio hits you now
lucentio i thank thee for that gird good tranio
hortensio confess confess hath he not hit you here
petruchio a has a little gall'd me i confess
 and as the jest did glance away from me
 tis ten to one it maim'd you two outright
baptista now in good sadness son petruchio
 i think thou hast the veriest shrew of all
petruchio well i say no and therefore for assurance
 let's each one send unto his wife
 and he whose wife is most obedient
 to come at first when he doth send for her
 shall win the wager which we will propose
hortensio content what is the wager
lucentio twenty crowns
petruchio twenty crowns
 i'll venture so much of my hawk or hound
 but twenty times so much upon my wife
lucentio a hundred then
hortensio content
petruchio a match tis done
hortensio who shall begin
lucentio that will i
 go biondello bid your mistress come to me
biondello i go
 exit
baptista son i'll be your half bianca comes
lucentio i'll have no halves i'll bear it all myself
 reenter biondello
 how now what news
biondello sir my mistress sends you word
 that she is busy and she cannot come
petruchio how she is busy and she cannot come
 is that an answer
gremio ay and a kind one too
 pray god sir your wife send you not a worse
petruchio i hope better
hortensio sirrah biondello go and entreat my wife
 to come to me forthwith
 exit biondello
petruchio o ho entreat her
 nay then she must needs come
hortensio i am afraid sir
 do what you can yours will not be entreated
 reenter biondello
 now where's my wife
biondello she says you have some goodly jest in hand
 she will not come she bids you come to her
petruchio worse and worse she will not come o vile
 intolerable not to be endured
 sirrah grumio go to your mistress
 say i command her to come to me
 exit grumio
hortensio i know her answer
petruchio what
hortensio she will not
petruchio the fouler fortune mine and there an end
baptista now by my holidame here comes katharina
 reenter katarina
katharina what is your will sir that you send for me
petruchio where is your sister and hortensio's wife
katharina they sit conferring by the parlor fire
petruchio go fetch them hither if they deny to come
 swinge me them soundly forth unto their husbands
 away i say and bring them hither straight
 exit katharina
lucentio here is a wonder if you talk of a wonder
hortensio and so it is i wonder what it bodes
petruchio marry peace it bodes and love and quiet life
 and awful rule and right supremacy
 and to be short what not that's sweet and happy
baptista now fair befal thee good petruchio
 the wager thou hast won and i will add
 unto their losses twenty thousand crowns
 another dowry to another daughter
 for she is changed as she had never been
petruchio nay i will win my wager better yet
 and show more sign of her obedience
 her newbuilt virtue and obedience
 see where she comes and brings your froward wives
 as prisoners to her womanly persuasion
 reenter katharina with bianca and widow
 katharina that cap of yours becomes you not
 off with that bauble throw it underfoot
widow lord let me never have a cause to sigh
 till i be brought to such a silly pass
bianca fie what a foolish duty call you this
lucentio i would your duty were as foolish too
 the wisdom of your duty fair bianca
 hath cost me an hundred crowns since suppertime
bianca the more fool you for laying on my duty
petruchio katharina i charge thee tell these headstrong women
 what duty they do owe their lords and husbands
widow come come you're mocking we will have no telling
petruchio come on i say and first begin with her
widow she shall not
petruchio i say she shall and first begin with her
katharina fie fie unknit that threatening unkind brow
 and dart not scornful glances from those eyes
 to wound thy lord thy king thy governor
 it blots thy beauty as frosts do bite the meads
 confounds thy fame as whirlwinds shake fair buds
 and in no sense is meet or amiable
 a woman moved is like a fountain troubled
 muddy illseeming thick bereft of beauty
 and while it is so none so dry or thirsty
 will deign to sip or touch one drop of it
 thy husband is thy lord thy life thy keeper
 thy head thy sovereign one that cares for thee
 and for thy maintenance commits his body
 to painful labour both by sea and land
 to watch the night in storms the day in cold
 whilst thou liest warm at home secure and safe
 and craves no other tribute at thy hands
 but love fair looks and true obedience
 too little payment for so great a debt
 such duty as the subject owes the prince
 even such a woman oweth to her husband
 and when she is froward peevish sullen sour
 and not obedient to his honest will
 what is she but a foul contending rebel
 and graceless traitor to her loving lord
 i am ashamed that women are so simple
 to offer war where they should kneel for peace
 or seek for rule supremacy and sway
 when they are bound to serve love and obey
 why are our bodies soft and weak and smooth
 unapt to toil and trouble in the world
 but that our soft conditions and our hearts
 should well agree with our external parts
 come come you froward and unable worms
 my mind hath been as big as one of yours
 my heart as great my reason haply more
 to bandy word for word and frown for frown
 but now i see our lances are but straws
 our strength as weak our weakness past compare
 that seeming to be most which we indeed least are
 then vail your stomachs for it is no boot
 and place your hands below your husband's foot
 in token of which duty if he please
 my hand is ready may it do him ease
petruchio why there's a wench come on and kiss me kate
lucentio well go thy ways old lad for thou shalt ha't
vincentio tis a good hearing when children are toward
lucentio but a harsh hearing when women are froward
petruchio come kate we'll to bed
 we three are married but you two are sped
 to lucentio
 twas i won the wager though you hit the white
 and being a winner god give you good night
 exeunt petruchio and katharina
hortensio now go thy ways thou hast tamed a curst shrew
lucentio tis a wonder by your leave she will be tamed so
 exeunt
 the tempest
 dramatis personae
alonso king of naples
sebastian his brother
prospero the right duke of milan
antonio his brother the usurping duke of milan
ferdinand son to the king of naples
gonzalo an honest old counsellor
adrian 
 lords
francisco 
caliban a savage and deformed slave
trinculo a jester
stephano a drunken butler
 master of a ship master
 boatswain boatswain
 mariners mariners
miranda daughter to prospero
ariel an airy spirit
iris 
 
ceres 
 
juno presented by spirits
 
nymphs 
 
reapers 
 other spirits attending on prospero
scene a ship at sea an island
 the tempest
act i
scene i on a ship at sea a tempestuous noise
 of thunder and lightning heard
 enter a master and a boatswain
master boatswain
boatswain here master what cheer
master good speak to the mariners fall to't yarely
 or we run ourselves aground bestir bestir
 exit
 enter mariners
boatswain heigh my hearts cheerly cheerly my hearts
 yare yare take in the topsail tend to the
 master's whistle blow till thou burst thy wind
 if room enough
 enter alonso sebastian antonio ferdinand
 gonzalo and others
alonso good boatswain have care where's the master
 play the men
boatswain i pray now keep below
antonio where is the master boatswain
boatswain do you not hear him you mar our labour keep your
 cabins you do assist the storm
gonzalo nay good be patient
boatswain when the sea is hence what cares these roarers
 for the name of king to cabin silence trouble us not
gonzalo good yet remember whom thou hast aboard
boatswain none that i more love than myself you are a
 counsellor if you can command these elements to
 silence and work the peace of the present we will
 not hand a rope more use your authority if you
 cannot give thanks you have lived so long and make
 yourself ready in your cabin for the mischance of
 the hour if it so hap cheerly good hearts out
 of our way i say
 exit
gonzalo i have great comfort from this fellow methinks he
 hath no drowning mark upon him his complexion is
 perfect gallows stand fast good fate to his
 hanging make the rope of his destiny our cable
 for our own doth little advantage if he be not
 born to be hanged our case is miserable
 exeunt
 reenter boatswain
boatswain down with the topmast yare lower lower bring
 her to try with maincourse
 a cry within
 a plague upon this howling they are louder than
 the weather or our office
 reenter sebastian antonio and gonzalo
 yet again what do you here shall we give o'er
 and drown have you a mind to sink
sebastian a pox o your throat you bawling blasphemous
 incharitable dog
boatswain work you then
antonio hang cur hang you whoreson insolent noisemaker
 we are less afraid to be drowned than thou art
gonzalo i'll warrant him for drowning though the ship were
 no stronger than a nutshell and as leaky as an
 unstanched wench
boatswain lay her ahold ahold set her two courses off to
 sea again lay her off
 enter mariners wet
mariners all lost to prayers to prayers all lost
boatswain what must our mouths be cold
gonzalo the king and prince at prayers let's assist them
 for our case is as theirs
sebastian i'm out of patience
antonio we are merely cheated of our lives by drunkards
 this widechapp'd rascalwould thou mightst lie drowning
 the washing of ten tides
gonzalo he'll be hang'd yet
 though every drop of water swear against it
 and gape at widest to glut him
 a confused noise within mercy on us'
 we split we split''farewell my wife and
 children'
 farewell brother''we split we split we split'
antonio let's all sink with the king
sebastian let's take leave of him
 exeunt antonio and sebastian
gonzalo now would i give a thousand furlongs of sea for an
 acre of barren ground long heath brown furze any
 thing the wills above be done but i would fain
 die a dry death
 exeunt
 the tempest
act i
scene ii the island before prospero's cell
 enter prospero and miranda
miranda if by your art my dearest father you have
 put the wild waters in this roar allay them
 the sky it seems would pour down stinking pitch
 but that the sea mounting to the welkin's cheek
 dashes the fire out o i have suffered
 with those that i saw suffer a brave vessel
 who had no doubt some noble creature in her
 dash'd all to pieces o the cry did knock
 against my very heart poor souls they perish'd
 had i been any god of power i would
 have sunk the sea within the earth or ere
 it should the good ship so have swallow'd and
 the fraughting souls within her
prospero be collected
 no more amazement tell your piteous heart
 there's no harm done
miranda o woe the day
prospero no harm
 i have done nothing but in care of thee
 of thee my dear one thee my daughter who
 art ignorant of what thou art nought knowing
 of whence i am nor that i am more better
 than prospero master of a full poor cell
 and thy no greater father
miranda more to know
 did never meddle with my thoughts
prospero tis time
 i should inform thee farther lend thy hand
 and pluck my magic garment from me so
 lays down his mantle
 lie there my art wipe thou thine eyes have comfort
 the direful spectacle of the wreck which touch'd
 the very virtue of compassion in thee
 i have with such provision in mine art
 so safely ordered that there is no soul
 no not so much perdition as an hair
 betid to any creature in the vessel
 which thou heard'st cry which thou saw'st sink sit down
 for thou must now know farther
miranda you have often
 begun to tell me what i am but stopp'd
 and left me to a bootless inquisition
 concluding stay not yet'
prospero the hour's now come
 the very minute bids thee ope thine ear
 obey and be attentive canst thou remember
 a time before we came unto this cell
 i do not think thou canst for then thou wast not
 out three years old
miranda certainly sir i can
prospero by what by any other house or person
 of any thing the image tell me that
 hath kept with thy remembrance
miranda tis far off
 and rather like a dream than an assurance
 that my remembrance warrants had i not
 four or five women once that tended me
prospero thou hadst and more miranda but how is it
 that this lives in thy mind what seest thou else
 in the dark backward and abysm of time
 if thou remember'st aught ere thou camest here
 how thou camest here thou mayst
miranda but that i do not
prospero twelve year since miranda twelve year since
 thy father was the duke of milan and
 a prince of power
miranda sir are not you my father
prospero thy mother was a piece of virtue and
 she said thou wast my daughter and thy father
 was duke of milan and thou his only heir
 and princess no worse issued
miranda o the heavens
 what foul play had we that we came from thence
 or blessed was't we did
prospero both both my girl
 by foul play as thou say'st were we heaved thence
 but blessedly holp hither
miranda o my heart bleeds
 to think o the teen that i have turn'd you to
 which is from my remembrance please you farther
prospero my brother and thy uncle call'd antonio
 i pray thee mark methat a brother should
 be so perfidioushe whom next thyself
 of all the world i loved and to him put
 the manage of my state as at that time
 through all the signories it was the first
 and prospero the prime duke being so reputed
 in dignity and for the liberal arts
 without a parallel those being all my study
 the government i cast upon my brother
 and to my state grew stranger being transported
 and rapt in secret studies thy false uncle
 dost thou attend me
miranda sir most heedfully
prospero being once perfected how to grant suits
 how to deny them who to advance and who
 to trash for overtopping new created
 the creatures that were mine i say or changed em
 or else new form'd em having both the key
 of officer and office set all hearts i the state
 to what tune pleased his ear that now he was
 the ivy which had hid my princely trunk
 and suck'd my verdure out on't thou attend'st not
miranda o good sir i do
prospero i pray thee mark me
 i thus neglecting worldly ends all dedicated
 to closeness and the bettering of my mind
 with that which but by being so retired
 o'erprized all popular rate in my false brother
 awaked an evil nature and my trust
 like a good parent did beget of him
 a falsehood in its contrary as great
 as my trust was which had indeed no limit
 a confidence sans bound he being thus lorded
 not only with what my revenue yielded
 but what my power might else exact like one
 who having into truth by telling of it
 made such a sinner of his memory
 to credit his own lie he did believe
 he was indeed the duke out o the substitution
 and executing the outward face of royalty
 with all prerogative hence his ambition growing
 dost thou hear
miranda your tale sir would cure deafness
prospero to have no screen between this part he play'd
 and him he play'd it for he needs will be
 absolute milan me poor man my library
 was dukedom large enough of temporal royalties
 he thinks me now incapable confederates
 so dry he was for swaywi the king of naples
 to give him annual tribute do him homage
 subject his coronet to his crown and bend
 the dukedom yet unbow'dalas poor milan
 to most ignoble stooping
miranda o the heavens
prospero mark his condition and the event then tell me
 if this might be a brother
miranda i should sin
 to think but nobly of my grandmother
 good wombs have borne bad sons
prospero now the condition
 the king of naples being an enemy
 to me inveterate hearkens my brother's suit
 which was that he in lieu o the premises
 of homage and i know not how much tribute
 should presently extirpate me and mine
 out of the dukedom and confer fair milan
 with all the honours on my brother whereon
 a treacherous army levied one midnight
 fated to the purpose did antonio open
 the gates of milan and i the dead of darkness
 the ministers for the purpose hurried thence
 me and thy crying self
miranda alack for pity
 i not remembering how i cried out then
 will cry it o'er again it is a hint
 that wrings mine eyes to't
prospero hear a little further
 and then i'll bring thee to the present business
 which now's upon's without the which this story
 were most impertinent
miranda wherefore did they not
 that hour destroy us
prospero well demanded wench
 my tale provokes that question dear they durst not
 so dear the love my people bore me nor set
 a mark so bloody on the business but
 with colours fairer painted their foul ends
 in few they hurried us aboard a bark
 bore us some leagues to sea where they prepared
 a rotten carcass of a boat not rigg'd
 nor tackle sail nor mast the very rats
 instinctively had quit it there they hoist us
 to cry to the sea that roar'd to us to sigh
 to the winds whose pity sighing back again
 did us but loving wrong
miranda alack what trouble
 was i then to you
prospero o a cherubim
 thou wast that did preserve me thou didst smile
 infused with a fortitude from heaven
 when i have deck'd the sea with drops full salt
 under my burthen groan'd which raised in me
 an undergoing stomach to bear up
 against what should ensue
miranda how came we ashore
prospero by providence divine
 some food we had and some fresh water that
 a noble neapolitan gonzalo
 out of his charity being then appointed
 master of this design did give us with
 rich garments linens stuffs and necessaries
 which since have steaded much so of his gentleness
 knowing i loved my books he furnish'd me
 from mine own library with volumes that
 i prize above my dukedom
miranda would i might
 but ever see that man
prospero now i arise
 resumes his mantle
 sit still and hear the last of our seasorrow
 here in this island we arrived and here
 have i thy schoolmaster made thee more profit
 than other princesses can that have more time
 for vainer hours and tutors not so careful
miranda heavens thank you for't and now i pray you sir
 for still tis beating in my mind your reason
 for raising this seastorm
prospero know thus far forth
 by accident most strange bountiful fortune
 now my dear lady hath mine enemies
 brought to this shore and by my prescience
 i find my zenith doth depend upon
 a most auspicious star whose influence
 if now i court not but omit my fortunes
 will ever after droop here cease more questions
 thou art inclined to sleep tis a good dulness
 and give it way i know thou canst not choose
 miranda sleeps
 come away servant come i am ready now
 approach my ariel come
 enter ariel
ariel all hail great master grave sir hail i come
 to answer thy best pleasure be't to fly
 to swim to dive into the fire to ride
 on the curl'd clouds to thy strong bidding task
 ariel and all his quality
prospero hast thou spirit
 perform'd to point the tempest that i bade thee
ariel to every article
 i boarded the king's ship now on the beak
 now in the waist the deck in every cabin
 i flamed amazement sometime i'ld divide
 and burn in many places on the topmast
 the yards and bowsprit would i flame distinctly
 then meet and join jove's lightnings the precursors
 o the dreadful thunderclaps more momentary
 and sightoutrunning were not the fire and cracks
 of sulphurous roaring the most mighty neptune
 seem to besiege and make his bold waves tremble
 yea his dread trident shake
prospero my brave spirit
 who was so firm so constant that this coil
 would not infect his reason
ariel not a soul
 but felt a fever of the mad and play'd
 some tricks of desperation all but mariners
 plunged in the foaming brine and quit the vessel
 then all afire with me the king's son ferdinand
 with hair upstaringthen like reeds not hair
 was the first man that leap'd cried hell is empty
 and all the devils are here'
prospero why that's my spirit
 but was not this nigh shore
ariel close by my master
prospero but are they ariel safe
ariel not a hair perish'd
 on their sustaining garments not a blemish
 but fresher than before and as thou badest me
 in troops i have dispersed them bout the isle
 the king's son have i landed by himself
 whom i left cooling of the air with sighs
 in an odd angle of the isle and sitting
 his arms in this sad knot
prospero of the king's ship
 the mariners say how thou hast disposed
 and all the rest o the fleet
ariel safely in harbour
 is the king's ship in the deep nook where once
 thou call'dst me up at midnight to fetch dew
 from the stillvex'd bermoothes there she's hid
 the mariners all under hatches stow'd
 who with a charm join'd to their suffer'd labour
 i have left asleep and for the rest o the fleet
 which i dispersed they all have met again
 and are upon the mediterranean flote
 bound sadly home for naples
 supposing that they saw the king's ship wreck'd
 and his great person perish
prospero ariel thy charge
 exactly is perform'd but there's more work
 what is the time o the day
ariel past the mid season
prospero at least two glasses the time twixt six and now
 must by us both be spent most preciously
ariel is there more toil since thou dost give me pains
 let me remember thee what thou hast promised
 which is not yet perform'd me
prospero how now moody
 what is't thou canst demand
ariel my liberty
prospero before the time be out no more
ariel i prithee
 remember i have done thee worthy service
 told thee no lies made thee no mistakings served
 without or grudge or grumblings thou didst promise
 to bate me a full year
prospero dost thou forget
 from what a torment i did free thee
ariel no
prospero thou dost and think'st it much to tread the ooze
 of the salt deep
 to run upon the sharp wind of the north
 to do me business in the veins o the earth
 when it is baked with frost
ariel i do not sir
prospero thou liest malignant thing hast thou forgot
 the foul witch sycorax who with age and envy
 was grown into a hoop hast thou forgot her
ariel no sir
prospero thou hast where was she born speak tell me
ariel sir in argier
prospero o was she so i must
 once in a month recount what thou hast been
 which thou forget'st this damn'd witch sycorax
 for mischiefs manifold and sorceries terrible
 to enter human hearing from argier
 thou know'st was banish'd for one thing she did
 they would not take her life is not this true
ariel ay sir
prospero this blueeyed hag was hither brought with child
 and here was left by the sailors thou my slave
 as thou report'st thyself wast then her servant
 and for thou wast a spirit too delicate
 to act her earthy and abhorr'd commands
 refusing her grand hests she did confine thee
 by help of her more potent ministers
 and in her most unmitigable rage
 into a cloven pine within which rift
 imprison'd thou didst painfully remain
 a dozen years within which space she died
 and left thee there where thou didst vent thy groans
 as fast as millwheels strike then was this island
 save for the son that she did litter here
 a freckled whelp hagbornnot honour'd with
 a human shape
ariel yes caliban her son
prospero dull thing i say so he that caliban
 whom now i keep in service thou best know'st
 what torment i did find thee in thy groans
 did make wolves howl and penetrate the breasts
 of ever angry bears it was a torment
 to lay upon the damn'd which sycorax
 could not again undo it was mine art
 when i arrived and heard thee that made gape
 the pine and let thee out
ariel i thank thee master
prospero if thou more murmur'st i will rend an oak
 and peg thee in his knotty entrails till
 thou hast howl'd away twelve winters
ariel pardon master
 i will be correspondent to command
 and do my spiriting gently
prospero do so and after two days
 i will discharge thee
ariel that's my noble master
 what shall i do say what what shall i do
prospero go make thyself like a nymph o the sea be subject
 to no sight but thine and mine invisible
 to every eyeball else go take this shape
 and hither come in't go hence with diligence
 exit ariel
 awake dear heart awake thou hast slept well awake
miranda the strangeness of your story put
 heaviness in me
prospero shake it off come on
 we'll visit caliban my slave who never
 yields us kind answer
miranda tis a villain sir
 i do not love to look on
prospero but as tis
 we cannot miss him he does make our fire
 fetch in our wood and serves in offices
 that profit us what ho slave caliban
 thou earth thou speak
caliban within there's wood enough within
prospero come forth i say there's other business for thee
 come thou tortoise when
 reenter ariel like a waternymph
 fine apparition my quaint ariel
 hark in thine ear
ariel my lord it shall be done
 exit
prospero thou poisonous slave got by the devil himself
 upon thy wicked dam come forth
 enter caliban
caliban as wicked dew as e'er my mother brush'd
 with raven's feather from unwholesome fen
 drop on you both a southwest blow on ye
 and blister you all o'er
prospero for this be sure tonight thou shalt have cramps
 sidestitches that shall pen thy breath up urchins
 shall for that vast of night that they may work
 all exercise on thee thou shalt be pinch'd
 as thick as honeycomb each pinch more stinging
 than bees that made em
caliban i must eat my dinner
 this island's mine by sycorax my mother
 which thou takest from me when thou camest first
 thou strokedst me and madest much of me wouldst give me
 water with berries in't and teach me how
 to name the bigger light and how the less
 that burn by day and night and then i loved thee
 and show'd thee all the qualities o the isle
 the fresh springs brinepits barren place and fertile
 cursed be i that did so all the charms
 of sycorax toads beetles bats light on you
 for i am all the subjects that you have
 which first was mine own king and here you sty me
 in this hard rock whiles you do keep from me
 the rest o the island
prospero thou most lying slave
 whom stripes may move not kindness i have used thee
 filth as thou art with human care and lodged thee
 in mine own cell till thou didst seek to violate
 the honour of my child
caliban o ho o ho would't had been done
 thou didst prevent me i had peopled else
 this isle with calibans
prospero abhorred slave
 which any print of goodness wilt not take
 being capable of all ill i pitied thee
 took pains to make thee speak taught thee each hour
 one thing or other when thou didst not savage
 know thine own meaning but wouldst gabble like
 a thing most brutish i endow'd thy purposes
 with words that made them known but thy vile race
 though thou didst learn had that in't which
 good natures
 could not abide to be with therefore wast thou
 deservedly confined into this rock
 who hadst deserved more than a prison
caliban you taught me language and my profit on't
 is i know how to curse the red plague rid you
 for learning me your language
prospero hagseed hence
 fetch us in fuel and be quick thou'rt best
 to answer other business shrug'st thou malice
 if thou neglect'st or dost unwillingly
 what i command i'll rack thee with old cramps
 fill all thy bones with aches make thee roar
 that beasts shall tremble at thy din
caliban no pray thee
 aside
 i must obey his art is of such power
 it would control my dam's god setebos
 and make a vassal of him
prospero so slave hence
 exit caliban
 reenter ariel invisible playing and singing
 ferdinand following
 ariel's song
 come unto these yellow sands
 and then take hands
 courtsied when you have and kiss'd
 the wild waves whist
 foot it featly here and there
 and sweet sprites the burthen bear
 hark hark
 burthen dispersedly within bowwow
 the watchdogs bark
 burthen bowwow
 hark hark i hear
 the strain of strutting chanticleer
 cry cockadiddledow
ferdinand where should this music be i the air or the earth
 it sounds no more and sure it waits upon
 some god o the island sitting on a bank
 weeping again the king my father's wreck
 this music crept by me upon the waters
 allaying both their fury and my passion
 with its sweet air thence i have follow'd it
 or it hath drawn me rather but tis gone
 no it begins again
 ariel sings
 full fathom five thy father lies
 of his bones are coral made
 those are pearls that were his eyes
 nothing of him that doth fade
 but doth suffer a seachange
 into something rich and strange
 seanymphs hourly ring his knell
 burthen dingdong
 hark now i hear themdingdong bell
ferdinand the ditty does remember my drown'd father
 this is no mortal business nor no sound
 that the earth owes i hear it now above me
prospero the fringed curtains of thine eye advance
 and say what thou seest yond
miranda what is't a spirit
 lord how it looks about believe me sir
 it carries a brave form but tis a spirit
prospero no wench it eats and sleeps and hath such senses
 as we have such this gallant which thou seest
 was in the wreck and but he's something stain'd
 with grief that's beauty's canker thou mightst call him
 a goodly person he hath lost his fellows
 and strays about to find em
miranda i might call him
 a thing divine for nothing natural
 i ever saw so noble
prospero aside it goes on i see
 as my soul prompts it spirit fine spirit i'll free thee
 within two days for this
ferdinand most sure the goddess
 on whom these airs attend vouchsafe my prayer
 may know if you remain upon this island
 and that you will some good instruction give
 how i may bear me here my prime request
 which i do last pronounce is o you wonder
 if you be maid or no
miranda no wonder sir
 but certainly a maid
ferdinand my language heavens
 i am the best of them that speak this speech
 were i but where tis spoken
prospero how the best
 what wert thou if the king of naples heard thee
ferdinand a single thing as i am now that wonders
 to hear thee speak of naples he does hear me
 and that he does i weep myself am naples
 who with mine eyes never since at ebb beheld
 the king my father wreck'd
miranda alack for mercy
ferdinand yes faith and all his lords the duke of milan
 and his brave son being twain
prospero aside the duke of milan
 and his more braver daughter could control thee
 if now twere fit to do't at the first sight
 they have changed eyes delicate ariel
 i'll set thee free for this
 to ferdinand
 a word good sir
 i fear you have done yourself some wrong a word
miranda why speaks my father so ungently this
 is the third man that e'er i saw the first
 that e'er i sigh'd for pity move my father
 to be inclined my way
ferdinand o if a virgin
 and your affection not gone forth i'll make you
 the queen of naples
prospero soft sir one word more
 aside
 they are both in either's powers but this swift business
 i must uneasy make lest too light winning
 make the prize light
 to ferdinand
 one word more i charge thee
 that thou attend me thou dost here usurp
 the name thou owest not and hast put thyself
 upon this island as a spy to win it
 from me the lord on't
ferdinand no as i am a man
miranda there's nothing ill can dwell in such a temple
 if the ill spirit have so fair a house
 good things will strive to dwell with't
prospero follow me
 speak not you for him he's a traitor come
 i'll manacle thy neck and feet together
 seawater shalt thou drink thy food shall be
 the freshbrook muscles wither'd roots and husks
 wherein the acorn cradled follow
ferdinand no
 i will resist such entertainment till
 mine enemy has more power
 draws and is charmed from moving
miranda o dear father
 make not too rash a trial of him for
 he's gentle and not fearful
prospero what i say
 my foot my tutor put thy sword up traitor
 who makest a show but darest not strike thy conscience
 is so possess'd with guilt come from thy ward
 for i can here disarm thee with this stick
 and make thy weapon drop
miranda beseech you father
prospero hence hang not on my garments
miranda sir have pity
 i'll be his surety
prospero silence one word more
 shall make me chide thee if not hate thee what
 an advocate for an imposter hush
 thou think'st there is no more such shapes as he
 having seen but him and caliban foolish wench
 to the most of men this is a caliban
 and they to him are angels
miranda my affections
 are then most humble i have no ambition
 to see a goodlier man
prospero come on obey
 thy nerves are in their infancy again
 and have no vigour in them
ferdinand so they are
 my spirits as in a dream are all bound up
 my father's loss the weakness which i feel
 the wreck of all my friends nor this man's threats
 to whom i am subdued are but light to me
 might i but through my prison once a day
 behold this maid all corners else o the earth
 let liberty make use of space enough
 have i in such a prison
prospero aside it works
 to ferdinand
 come on
 thou hast done well fine ariel
 to ferdinand
 follow me
 to ariel
 hark what thou else shalt do me
miranda be of comfort
 my father's of a better nature sir
 than he appears by speech this is unwonted
 which now came from him
prospero thou shalt be free
 as mountain winds but then exactly do
 all points of my command
ariel to the syllable
prospero come follow speak not for him
 exeunt
 the tempest
act ii
scene i another part of the island
 enter alonso sebastian antonio gonzalo
 adrian francisco and others
gonzalo beseech you sir be merry you have cause
 so have we all of joy for our escape
 is much beyond our loss our hint of woe
 is common every day some sailor's wife
 the masters of some merchant and the merchant
 have just our theme of woe but for the miracle
 i mean our preservation few in millions
 can speak like us then wisely good sir weigh
 our sorrow with our comfort
alonso prithee peace
sebastian he receives comfort like cold porridge
antonio the visitor will not give him o'er so
sebastian look he's winding up the watch of his wit
 by and by it will strike
gonzalo sir
sebastian one tell
gonzalo when every grief is entertain'd that's offer'd
 comes to the entertainer
sebastian a dollar
gonzalo dolour comes to him indeed you
 have spoken truer than you purposed
sebastian you have taken it wiselier than i meant you should
gonzalo therefore my lord
antonio fie what a spendthrift is he of his tongue
alonso i prithee spare
gonzalo well i have done but yet
sebastian he will be talking
antonio which of he or adrian for a good
 wager first begins to crow
sebastian the old cock
antonio the cockerel
sebastian done the wager
antonio a laughter
sebastian a match
adrian though this island seem to be desert
sebastian ha ha ha so you're paid
adrian uninhabitable and almost inaccessible
sebastian yet
adrian yet
antonio he could not miss't
adrian it must needs be of subtle tender and delicate
 temperance
antonio temperance was a delicate wench
sebastian ay and a subtle as he most learnedly delivered
adrian the air breathes upon us here most sweetly
sebastian as if it had lungs and rotten ones
antonio or as twere perfumed by a fen
gonzalo here is everything advantageous to life
antonio true save means to live
sebastian of that there's none or little
gonzalo how lush and lusty the grass looks how green
antonio the ground indeed is tawny
sebastian with an eye of green in't
antonio he misses not much
sebastian no he doth but mistake the truth totally
gonzalo but the rarity of it iswhich is indeed almost
 beyond credit
sebastian as many vouched rarities are
gonzalo that our garments being as they were drenched in
 the sea hold notwithstanding their freshness and
 glosses being rather newdyed than stained with
 salt water
antonio if but one of his pockets could speak would it not
 say he lies
sebastian ay or very falsely pocket up his report
gonzalo methinks our garments are now as fresh as when we
 put them on first in afric at the marriage of
 the king's fair daughter claribel to the king of tunis
sebastian twas a sweet marriage and we prosper well in our return
adrian tunis was never graced before with such a paragon to
 their queen
gonzalo not since widow dido's time
antonio widow a pox o that how came that widow in
 widow dido
sebastian what if he had said widower aeneas too good lord
 how you take it
adrian widow dido said you you make me study of that
 she was of carthage not of tunis
gonzalo this tunis sir was carthage
adrian carthage
gonzalo i assure you carthage
sebastian his word is more than the miraculous harp he hath
 raised the wall and houses too
antonio what impossible matter will he make easy next
sebastian i think he will carry this island home in his pocket
 and give it his son for an apple
antonio and sowing the kernels of it in the sea bring
 forth more islands
gonzalo ay
antonio why in good time
gonzalo sir we were talking that our garments seem now
 as fresh as when we were at tunis at the marriage
 of your daughter who is now queen
antonio and the rarest that e'er came there
sebastian bate i beseech you widow dido
antonio o widow dido ay widow dido
gonzalo is not sir my doublet as fresh as the first day i
 wore it i mean in a sort
antonio that sort was well fished for
gonzalo when i wore it at your daughter's marriage
alonso you cram these words into mine ears against
 the stomach of my sense would i had never
 married my daughter there for coming thence
 my son is lost and in my rate she too
 who is so far from italy removed
 i ne'er again shall see her o thou mine heir
 of naples and of milan what strange fish
 hath made his meal on thee
francisco sir he may live
 i saw him beat the surges under him
 and ride upon their backs he trod the water
 whose enmity he flung aside and breasted
 the surge most swoln that met him his bold head
 bove the contentious waves he kept and oar'd
 himself with his good arms in lusty stroke
 to the shore that o'er his waveworn basis bow'd
 as stooping to relieve him i not doubt
 he came alive to land
alonso no no he's gone
sebastian sir you may thank yourself for this great loss
 that would not bless our europe with your daughter
 but rather lose her to an african
 where she at least is banish'd from your eye
 who hath cause to wet the grief on't
alonso prithee peace
sebastian you were kneel'd to and importuned otherwise
 by all of us and the fair soul herself
 weigh'd between loathness and obedience at
 which end o the beam should bow we have lost your
 son
 i fear for ever milan and naples have
 more widows in them of this business making
 than we bring men to comfort them
 the fault's your own
alonso so is the dear'st o the loss
gonzalo my lord sebastian
 the truth you speak doth lack some gentleness
 and time to speak it in you rub the sore
 when you should bring the plaster
sebastian very well
antonio and most chirurgeonly
gonzalo it is foul weather in us all good sir
 when you are cloudy
sebastian foul weather
antonio very foul
gonzalo had i plantation of this isle my lord
antonio he'ld sow't with nettleseed
sebastian or docks or mallows
gonzalo and were the king on't what would i do
sebastian scape being drunk for want of wine
gonzalo i the commonwealth i would by contraries
 execute all things for no kind of traffic
 would i admit no name of magistrate
 letters should not be known riches poverty
 and use of service none contract succession
 bourn bound of land tilth vineyard none
 no use of metal corn or wine or oil
 no occupation all men idle all
 and women too but innocent and pure
 no sovereignty
sebastian yet he would be king on't
antonio the latter end of his commonwealth forgets the
 beginning
gonzalo all things in common nature should produce
 without sweat or endeavour treason felony
 sword pike knife gun or need of any engine
 would i not have but nature should bring forth
 of its own kind all foison all abundance
 to feed my innocent people
sebastian no marrying mong his subjects
antonio none man all idle whores and knaves
gonzalo i would with such perfection govern sir
 to excel the golden age
sebastian god save his majesty
antonio long live gonzalo
gonzalo anddo you mark me sir
alonso prithee no more thou dost talk nothing to me
gonzalo i do well believe your highness and
 did it to minister occasion to these gentlemen
 who are of such sensible and nimble lungs that
 they always use to laugh at nothing
antonio twas you we laughed at
gonzalo who in this kind of merry fooling am nothing
 to you so you may continue and laugh at
 nothing still
antonio what a blow was there given
sebastian an it had not fallen flatlong
gonzalo you are gentlemen of brave metal you would lift
 the moon out of her sphere if she would continue
 in it five weeks without changing
 enter ariel invisible playing solemn music
sebastian we would so and then go a batfowling
antonio nay good my lord be not angry
gonzalo no i warrant you i will not adventure
 my discretion so weakly will you laugh
 me asleep for i am very heavy
antonio go sleep and hear us
 all sleep except alonso sebastian and antonio
alonso what all so soon asleep i wish mine eyes
 would with themselves shut up my thoughts i find
 they are inclined to do so
sebastian please you sir
 do not omit the heavy offer of it
 it seldom visits sorrow when it doth
 it is a comforter
antonio we two my lord
 will guard your person while you take your rest
 and watch your safety
alonso thank you wondrous heavy
 alonso sleeps exit ariel
sebastian what a strange drowsiness possesses them
antonio it is the quality o the climate
sebastian why
 doth it not then our eyelids sink i find not
 myself disposed to sleep
antonio nor i my spirits are nimble
 they fell together all as by consent
 they dropp'd as by a thunderstroke what might
 worthy sebastian o what mightno more
 and yet me thinks i see it in thy face
 what thou shouldst be the occasion speaks thee and
 my strong imagination sees a crown
 dropping upon thy head
sebastian what art thou waking
antonio do you not hear me speak
sebastian i do and surely
 it is a sleepy language and thou speak'st
 out of thy sleep what is it thou didst say
 this is a strange repose to be asleep
 with eyes wide open standing speaking moving
 and yet so fast asleep
antonio noble sebastian
 thou let'st thy fortune sleepdie rather wink'st
 whiles thou art waking
sebastian thou dost snore distinctly
 there's meaning in thy snores
antonio i am more serious than my custom you
 must be so too if heed me which to do
 trebles thee o'er
sebastian well i am standing water
antonio i'll teach you how to flow
sebastian do so to ebb
 hereditary sloth instructs me
antonio o
 if you but knew how you the purpose cherish
 whiles thus you mock it how in stripping it
 you more invest it ebbing men indeed
 most often do so near the bottom run
 by their own fear or sloth
sebastian prithee say on
 the setting of thine eye and cheek proclaim
 a matter from thee and a birth indeed
 which throes thee much to yield
antonio thus sir
 although this lord of weak remembrance this
 who shall be of as little memory
 when he is earth'd hath here almost persuade
 for he's a spirit of persuasion only
 professes to persuadethe king his son's alive
 tis as impossible that he's undrown'd
 and he that sleeps here swims
sebastian i have no hope
 that he's undrown'd
antonio o out of that no hope'
 what great hope have you no hope that way is
 another way so high a hope that even
 ambition cannot pierce a wink beyond
 but doubt discovery there will you grant with me
 that ferdinand is drown'd
sebastian he's gone
antonio then tell me
 who's the next heir of naples
sebastian claribel
antonio she that is queen of tunis she that dwells
 ten leagues beyond man's life she that from naples
 can have no note unless the sun were post
 the man i the moon's too slowtill newborn chins
 be rough and razorable she thatfrom whom
 we all were seaswallow'd though some cast again
 and by that destiny to perform an act
 whereof what's past is prologue what to come
 in yours and my discharge
sebastian what stuff is this how say you
 tis true my brother's daughter's queen of tunis
 so is she heir of naples twixt which regions
 there is some space
antonio a space whose every cubit
 seems to cry out how shall that claribel
 measure us back to naples keep in tunis
 and let sebastian wake say this were death
 that now hath seized them why they were no worse
 than now they are there be that can rule naples
 as well as he that sleeps lords that can prate
 as amply and unnecessarily
 as this gonzalo i myself could make
 a chough of as deep chat o that you bore
 the mind that i do what a sleep were this
 for your advancement do you understand me
sebastian methinks i do
antonio and how does your content
 tender your own good fortune
sebastian i remember
 you did supplant your brother prospero
antonio true
 and look how well my garments sit upon me
 much feater than before my brother's servants
 were then my fellows now they are my men
sebastian but for your conscience
antonio ay sir where lies that if twere a kibe
 twould put me to my slipper but i feel not
 this deity in my bosom twenty consciences
 that stand twixt me and milan candied be they
 and melt ere they molest here lies your brother
 no better than the earth he lies upon
 if he were that which now he's like that's dead
 whom i with this obedient steel three inches of it
 can lay to bed for ever whiles you doing thus
 to the perpetual wink for aye might put
 this ancient morsel this sir prudence who
 should not upbraid our course for all the rest
 they'll take suggestion as a cat laps milk
 they'll tell the clock to any business that
 we say befits the hour
sebastian thy case dear friend
 shall be my precedent as thou got'st milan
 i'll come by naples draw thy sword one stroke
 shall free thee from the tribute which thou payest
 and i the king shall love thee
antonio draw together
 and when i rear my hand do you the like
 to fall it on gonzalo
sebastian o but one word
 they talk apart
 reenter ariel invisible
ariel my master through his art foresees the danger
 that you his friend are in and sends me forth
 for else his project diesto keep them living
 sings in gonzalo's ear
 while you here do snoring lie
 openeyed conspiracy
 his time doth take
 if of life you keep a care
 shake off slumber and beware
 awake awake
antonio then let us both be sudden
gonzalo now good angels
 preserve the king
 they wake
alonso why how now ho awake why are you drawn
 wherefore this ghastly looking
gonzalo what's the matter
sebastian whiles we stood here securing your repose
 even now we heard a hollow burst of bellowing
 like bulls or rather lions did't not wake you
 it struck mine ear most terribly
alonso i heard nothing
antonio o twas a din to fright a monster's ear
 to make an earthquake sure it was the roar
 of a whole herd of lions
alonso heard you this gonzalo
gonzalo upon mine honour sir i heard a humming
 and that a strange one too which did awake me
 i shaked you sir and cried as mine eyes open'd
 i saw their weapons drawn there was a noise
 that's verily tis best we stand upon our guard
 or that we quit this place let's draw our weapons
alonso lead off this ground and let's make further search
 for my poor son
gonzalo heavens keep him from these beasts
 for he is sure i the island
alonso lead away
ariel prospero my lord shall know what i have done
 so king go safely on to seek thy son
 exeunt
 the tempest
act ii
scene ii another part of the island
 enter caliban with a burden of wood a noise of
 thunder heard
caliban all the infections that the sun sucks up
 from bogs fens flats on prosper fall and make him
 by inchmeal a disease his spirits hear me
 and yet i needs must curse but they'll nor pinch
 fright me with urchinshows pitch me i the mire
 nor lead me like a firebrand in the dark
 out of my way unless he bid em but
 for every trifle are they set upon me
 sometime like apes that mow and chatter at me
 and after bite me then like hedgehogs which
 lie tumbling in my barefoot way and mount
 their pricks at my footfall sometime am i
 all wound with adders who with cloven tongues
 do hiss me into madness
 enter trinculo
 lo now lo
 here comes a spirit of his and to torment me
 for bringing wood in slowly i'll fall flat
 perchance he will not mind me
trinculo here's neither bush nor shrub to bear off
 any weather at all and another storm brewing
 i hear it sing i the wind yond same black
 cloud yond huge one looks like a foul
 bombard that would shed his liquor if it
 should thunder as it did before i know not
 where to hide my head yond same cloud cannot
 choose but fall by pailfuls what have we
 here a man or a fish dead or alive a fish
 he smells like a fish a very ancient and fish
 like smell a kind of not of the newest poor
 john a strange fish were i in england now
 as once i was and had but this fish painted
 not a holiday fool there but would give a piece
 of silver there would this monster make a
 man any strange beast there makes a man
 when they will not give a doit to relieve a lame
 beggar they will lazy out ten to see a dead
 indian legged like a man and his fins like
 arms warm o my troth i do now let loose
 my opinion hold it no longer this is no fish
 but an islander that hath lately suffered by a
 thunderbolt
 thunder
 alas the storm is come again my best way is to
 creep under his gaberdine there is no other
 shelter hereabouts misery acquaints a man with
 strange bedfellows i will here shroud till the
 dregs of the storm be past
 enter stephano singing a bottle in his hand
stephano i shall no more to sea to sea
 here shall i die ashore
 this is a very scurvy tune to sing at a man's
 funeral well here's my comfort drinks
 sings
 the master the swabber the boatswain and i
 the gunner and his mate
 loved mall meg and marian and margery
 but none of us cared for kate
 for she had a tongue with a tang
 would cry to a sailor go hang
 she loved not the savour of tar nor of pitch
 yet a tailor might scratch her where'er she did itch
 then to sea boys and let her go hang
 this is a scurvy tune too but here's my comfort
 drinks
caliban do not torment me oh
stephano what's the matter have we devils here do you put
 tricks upon's with savages and men of ind ha i
 have not scaped drowning to be afeard now of your
 four legs for it hath been said as proper a man as
 ever went on four legs cannot make him give ground
 and it shall be said so again while stephano
 breathes at's nostrils
caliban the spirit torments me oh
stephano this is some monster of the isle with four legs who
 hath got as i take it an ague where the devil
 should he learn our language i will give him some
 relief if it be but for that if i can recover him
 and keep him tame and get to naples with him he's a
 present for any emperor that ever trod on neat's leather
caliban do not torment me prithee i'll bring my wood home faster
stephano he's in his fit now and does not talk after the
 wisest he shall taste of my bottle if he have
 never drunk wine afore will go near to remove his
 fit if i can recover him and keep him tame i will
 not take too much for him he shall pay for him that
 hath him and that soundly
caliban thou dost me yet but little hurt thou wilt anon i
 know it by thy trembling now prosper works upon thee
stephano come on your ways open your mouth here is that
 which will give language to you cat open your
 mouth this will shake your shaking i can tell you
 and that soundly you cannot tell who's your friend
 open your chaps again
trinculo i should know that voice it should bebut he is
 drowned and these are devils o defend me
stephano four legs and two voices a most delicate monster
 his forward voice now is to speak well of his
 friend his backward voice is to utter foul speeches
 and to detract if all the wine in my bottle will
 recover him i will help his ague come amen i
 will pour some in thy other mouth
trinculo stephano
stephano doth thy other mouth call me mercy mercy this is
 a devil and no monster i will leave him i have no
 long spoon
trinculo stephano if thou beest stephano touch me and
 speak to me for i am trinculobe not afeardthy
 good friend trinculo
stephano if thou beest trinculo come forth i'll pull thee
 by the lesser legs if any be trinculo's legs
 these are they thou art very trinculo indeed how
 camest thou to be the siege of this mooncalf can
 he vent trinculos
trinculo i took him to be killed with a thunderstroke but
 art thou not drowned stephano i hope now thou art
 not drowned is the storm overblown i hid me
 under the dead mooncalf's gaberdine for fear of
 the storm and art thou living stephano o
 stephano two neapolitans scaped
stephano prithee do not turn me about my stomach is not constant
caliban aside these be fine things an if they be
 not sprites
 that's a brave god and bears celestial liquor
 i will kneel to him
stephano how didst thou scape how camest thou hither
 swear by this bottle how thou camest hither i
 escaped upon a butt of sack which the sailors
 heaved o'erboard by this bottle which i made of
 the bark of a tree with mine own hands since i was
 cast ashore
caliban i'll swear upon that bottle to be thy true subject
 for the liquor is not earthly
stephano here swear then how thou escapedst
trinculo swum ashore man like a duck i can swim like a
 duck i'll be sworn
stephano here kiss the book though thou canst swim like a
 duck thou art made like a goose
trinculo o stephano hast any more of this
stephano the whole butt man my cellar is in a rock by the
 seaside where my wine is hid how now mooncalf
 how does thine ague
caliban hast thou not dropp'd from heaven
stephano out o the moon i do assure thee i was the man i'
 the moon when time was
caliban i have seen thee in her and i do adore thee
 my mistress show'd me thee and thy dog and thy bush
stephano come swear to that kiss the book i will furnish
 it anon with new contents swear
trinculo by this good light this is a very shallow monster
 i afeard of him a very weak monster the man i'
 the moon a most poor credulous monster well
 drawn monster in good sooth
caliban i'll show thee every fertile inch o th island
 and i will kiss thy foot i prithee be my god
trinculo by this light a most perfidious and drunken
 monster when s god's asleep he'll rob his bottle
caliban i'll kiss thy foot i'll swear myself thy subject
stephano come on then down and swear
trinculo i shall laugh myself to death at this puppyheaded
 monster a most scurvy monster i could find in my
 heart to beat him
stephano come kiss
trinculo but that the poor monster's in drink an abominable monster
caliban i'll show thee the best springs i'll pluck thee berries
 i'll fish for thee and get thee wood enough
 a plague upon the tyrant that i serve
 i'll bear him no more sticks but follow thee
 thou wondrous man
trinculo a most ridiculous monster to make a wonder of a
 poor drunkard
caliban i prithee let me bring thee where crabs grow
 and i with my long nails will dig thee pignuts
 show thee a jay's nest and instruct thee how
 to snare the nimble marmoset i'll bring thee
 to clustering filberts and sometimes i'll get thee
 young scamels from the rock wilt thou go with me
stephano i prithee now lead the way without any more
 talking trinculo the king and all our company
 else being drowned we will inherit here here
 bear my bottle fellow trinculo we'll fill him by
 and by again
caliban sings drunkenly
 farewell master farewell farewell
trinculo a howling monster a drunken monster
caliban no more dams i'll make for fish
 nor fetch in firing
 at requiring
 nor scrape trencher nor wash dish
 ban ban cacaliban
 has a new master get a new man
 freedom heyday heyday freedom freedom
 heyday freedom
stephano o brave monster lead the way
 exeunt
 the tempest
act iii
scene i before prospero's cell
 enter ferdinand bearing a log
ferdinand there be some sports are painful and their labour
 delight in them sets off some kinds of baseness
 are nobly undergone and most poor matters
 point to rich ends this my mean task
 would be as heavy to me as odious but
 the mistress which i serve quickens what's dead
 and makes my labours pleasures o she is
 ten times more gentle than her father's crabbed
 and he's composed of harshness i must remove
 some thousands of these logs and pile them up
 upon a sore injunction my sweet mistress
 weeps when she sees me work and says such baseness
 had never like executor i forget
 but these sweet thoughts do even refresh my labours
 most busy lest when i do it
 enter miranda and prospero at a distance unseen
miranda alas now pray you
 work not so hard i would the lightning had
 burnt up those logs that you are enjoin'd to pile
 pray set it down and rest you when this burns
 twill weep for having wearied you my father
 is hard at study pray now rest yourself
 he's safe for these three hours
ferdinand o most dear mistress
 the sun will set before i shall discharge
 what i must strive to do
miranda if you'll sit down
 i'll bear your logs the while pray give me that
 i'll carry it to the pile
ferdinand no precious creature
 i had rather crack my sinews break my back
 than you should such dishonour undergo
 while i sit lazy by
miranda it would become me
 as well as it does you and i should do it
 with much more ease for my good will is to it
 and yours it is against
prospero poor worm thou art infected
 this visitation shows it
miranda you look wearily
ferdinand no noble mistress'tis fresh morning with me
 when you are by at night i do beseech you
 chiefly that i might set it in my prayers
 what is your name
miranda mirandao my father
 i have broke your hest to say so
ferdinand admired miranda
 indeed the top of admiration worth
 what's dearest to the world full many a lady
 i have eyed with best regard and many a time
 the harmony of their tongues hath into bondage
 brought my too diligent ear for several virtues
 have i liked several women never any
 with so fun soul but some defect in her
 did quarrel with the noblest grace she owed
 and put it to the foil but you o you
 so perfect and so peerless are created
 of every creature's best
miranda i do not know
 one of my sex no woman's face remember
 save from my glass mine own nor have i seen
 more that i may call men than you good friend
 and my dear father how features are abroad
 i am skilless of but by my modesty
 the jewel in my dower i would not wish
 any companion in the world but you
 nor can imagination form a shape
 besides yourself to like of but i prattle
 something too wildly and my father's precepts
 i therein do forget
ferdinand i am in my condition
 a prince miranda i do think a king
 i would not soand would no more endure
 this wooden slavery than to suffer
 the fleshfly blow my mouth hear my soul speak
 the very instant that i saw you did
 my heart fly to your service there resides
 to make me slave to it and for your sake
 am i this patient logman
miranda do you love me
ferdinand o heaven o earth bear witness to this sound
 and crown what i profess with kind event
 if i speak true if hollowly invert
 what best is boded me to mischief i
 beyond all limit of what else i the world
 do love prize honour you
miranda i am a fool
 to weep at what i am glad of
prospero fair encounter
 of two most rare affections heavens rain grace
 on that which breeds between em
ferdinand wherefore weep you
miranda at mine unworthiness that dare not offer
 what i desire to give and much less take
 what i shall die to want but this is trifling
 and all the more it seeks to hide itself
 the bigger bulk it shows hence bashful cunning
 and prompt me plain and holy innocence
 i am your wife it you will marry me
 if not i'll die your maid to be your fellow
 you may deny me but i'll be your servant
 whether you will or no
ferdinand my mistress dearest
 and i thus humble ever
miranda my husband then
ferdinand ay with a heart as willing
 as bondage e'er of freedom here's my hand
miranda and mine with my heart in't and now farewell
 till half an hour hence
ferdinand a thousand thousand
 exeunt ferdinand and miranda severally
prospero so glad of this as they i cannot be
 who are surprised withal but my rejoicing
 at nothing can be more i'll to my book
 for yet ere suppertime must i perform
 much business appertaining
 exit
 the tempest
act iii
scene ii another part of the island
 enter caliban stephano and trinculo
stephano tell not me when the butt is out we will drink
 water not a drop before therefore bear up and
 board em servantmonster drink to me
trinculo servantmonster the folly of this island they
 say there's but five upon this isle we are three
 of them if th other two be brained like us the
 state totters
stephano drink servantmonster when i bid thee thy eyes
 are almost set in thy head
trinculo where should they be set else he were a brave
 monster indeed if they were set in his tail
stephano my manmonster hath drown'd his tongue in sack
 for my part the sea cannot drown me i swam ere i
 could recover the shore five and thirty leagues off
 and on by this light thou shalt be my lieutenant
 monster or my standard
trinculo your lieutenant if you list he's no standard
stephano we'll not run monsieur monster
trinculo nor go neither but you'll lie like dogs and yet say
 nothing neither
stephano mooncalf speak once in thy life if thou beest a
 good mooncalf
caliban how does thy honour let me lick thy shoe
 i'll not serve him he's not valiant
trinculo thou liest most ignorant monster i am in case to
 justle a constable why thou deboshed fish thou
 was there ever man a coward that hath drunk so much
 sack as i today wilt thou tell a monstrous lie
 being but half a fish and half a monster
caliban lo how he mocks me wilt thou let him my lord
trinculo lord quoth he that a monster should be such a natural
caliban lo lo again bite him to death i prithee
stephano trinculo keep a good tongue in your head if you
 prove a mutineerthe next tree the poor monster's
 my subject and he shall not suffer indignity
caliban i thank my noble lord wilt thou be pleased to
 hearken once again to the suit i made to thee
stephano marry will i kneel and repeat it i will stand
 and so shall trinculo
 enter ariel invisible
caliban as i told thee before i am subject to a tyrant a
 sorcerer that by his cunning hath cheated me of the island
ariel thou liest
caliban thou liest thou jesting monkey thou i would my
 valiant master would destroy thee i do not lie
stephano trinculo if you trouble him any more in's tale by
 this hand i will supplant some of your teeth
trinculo why i said nothing
stephano mum then and no more proceed
caliban i say by sorcery he got this isle
 from me he got it if thy greatness will
 revenge it on himfor i know thou darest
 but this thing dare not
stephano that's most certain
caliban thou shalt be lord of it and i'll serve thee
stephano how now shall this be compassed
 canst thou bring me to the party
caliban yea yea my lord i'll yield him thee asleep
 where thou mayst knock a nail into his bead
ariel thou liest thou canst not
caliban what a pied ninny's this thou scurvy patch
 i do beseech thy greatness give him blows
 and take his bottle from him when that's gone
 he shall drink nought but brine for i'll not show him
 where the quick freshes are
stephano trinculo run into no further danger
 interrupt the monster one word further and
 by this hand i'll turn my mercy out o doors
 and make a stockfish of thee
trinculo why what did i i did nothing i'll go farther
 off
stephano didst thou not say he lied
ariel thou liest
stephano do i so take thou that
 beats trinculo
 as you like this give me the lie another time
trinculo i did not give the lie out o your
 wits and bearing too a pox o your bottle
 this can sack and drinking do a murrain on
 your monster and the devil take your fingers
caliban ha ha ha
stephano now forward with your tale prithee stand farther
 off
caliban beat him enough after a little time
 i'll beat him too
stephano stand farther come proceed
caliban why as i told thee tis a custom with him
 i th afternoon to sleep there thou mayst brain him
 having first seized his books or with a log
 batter his skull or paunch him with a stake
 or cut his wezand with thy knife remember
 first to possess his books for without them
 he's but a sot as i am nor hath not
 one spirit to command they all do hate him
 as rootedly as i burn but his books
 he has brave utensilsfor so he calls them
 which when he has a house he'll deck withal
 and that most deeply to consider is
 the beauty of his daughter he himself
 calls her a nonpareil i never saw a woman
 but only sycorax my dam and she
 but she as far surpasseth sycorax
 as great'st does least
stephano is it so brave a lass
caliban ay lord she will become thy bed i warrant
 and bring thee forth brave brood
stephano monster i will kill this man his daughter and i
 will be king and queensave our gracesand
 trinculo and thyself shall be viceroys dost thou
 like the plot trinculo
trinculo excellent
stephano give me thy hand i am sorry i beat thee but
 while thou livest keep a good tongue in thy head
caliban within this half hour will he be asleep
 wilt thou destroy him then
stephano ay on mine honour
ariel this will i tell my master
caliban thou makest me merry i am full of pleasure
 let us be jocund will you troll the catch
 you taught me but whileere
stephano at thy request monster i will do reason any
 reason come on trinculo let us sing
 sings
 flout em and scout em
 and scout em and flout em
 thought is free
caliban that's not the tune
 ariel plays the tune on a tabour and pipe
stephano what is this same
trinculo this is the tune of our catch played by the picture
 of nobody
stephano if thou beest a man show thyself in thy likeness
 if thou beest a devil take't as thou list
trinculo o forgive me my sins
stephano he that dies pays all debts i defy thee mercy upon us
caliban art thou afeard
stephano no monster not i
caliban be not afeard the isle is full of noises
 sounds and sweet airs that give delight and hurt not
 sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
 will hum about mine ears and sometime voices
 that if i then had waked after long sleep
 will make me sleep again and then in dreaming
 the clouds methought would open and show riches
 ready to drop upon me that when i waked
 i cried to dream again
stephano this will prove a brave kingdom to me where i shall
 have my music for nothing
caliban when prospero is destroyed
stephano that shall be by and by i remember the story
trinculo the sound is going away let's follow it and
 after do our work
stephano lead monster we'll follow i would i could see
 this tabourer he lays it on
trinculo wilt come i'll follow stephano
 exeunt
 the tempest
act iii
scene iii another part of the island
 enter alonso sebastian antonio gonzalo
 adrian francisco and others
gonzalo by'r lakin i can go no further sir
 my old bones ache here's a maze trod indeed
 through forthrights and meanders by your patience
 i needs must rest me
alonso old lord i cannot blame thee
 who am myself attach'd with weariness
 to the dulling of my spirits sit down and rest
 even here i will put off my hope and keep it
 no longer for my flatterer he is drown'd
 whom thus we stray to find and the sea mocks
 our frustrate search on land well let him go
antonio aside to sebastian i am right glad that he's so
 out of hope
 do not for one repulse forego the purpose
 that you resolved to effect
sebastian aside to antonio the next advantage
 will we take throughly
antonio aside to sebastian let it be tonight
 for now they are oppress'd with travel they
 will not nor cannot use such vigilance
 as when they are fresh
sebastian aside to antonio i say tonight no more
 solemn and strange music
alonso what harmony is this my good friends hark
gonzalo marvellous sweet music
 enter prospero above invisible enter several
 strange shapes bringing in a banquet
 they dance about it with gentle actions of
 salutation and inviting the king &c to
 eat they depart
alonso give us kind keepers heavens what were these
sebastian a living drollery now i will believe
 that there are unicorns that in arabia
 there is one tree the phoenix throne one phoenix
 at this hour reigning there
antonio i'll believe both
 and what does else want credit come to me
 and i'll be sworn tis true travellers ne'er did
 lie
 though fools at home condemn em
gonzalo if in naples
 i should report this now would they believe me
 if i should say i saw such islanders
 for certes these are people of the island
 who though they are of monstrous shape yet note
 their manners are more gentlekind than of
 our human generation you shall find
 many nay almost any
prospero aside honest lord
 thou hast said well for some of you there present
 are worse than devils
alonso i cannot too much muse
 such shapes such gesture and such sound expressing
 although they want the use of tongue a kind
 of excellent dumb discourse
prospero aside praise in departing
francisco they vanish'd strangely
sebastian no matter since
 they have left their viands behind for we have stomachs
 will't please you taste of what is here
alonso not i
gonzalo faith sir you need not fear when we were boys
 who would believe that there were mountaineers
 dewlapp'd like bulls whose throats had hanging at em
 wallets of flesh or that there were such men
 whose heads stood in their breasts which now we find
 each putterout of five for one will bring us
 good warrant of
alonso i will stand to and feed
 although my last no matter since i feel
 the best is past brother my lord the duke
 stand to and do as we
 thunder and lightning enter ariel like a
 harpy claps his wings upon the table and
 with a quaint device the banquet vanishes
ariel you are three men of sin whom destiny
 that hath to instrument this lower world
 and what is in't the neversurfeited sea
 hath caused to belch up you and on this island
 where man doth not inhabit you mongst men
 being most unfit to live i have made you mad
 and even with suchlike valour men hang and drown
 their proper selves
 alonso sebastian &c draw their swords
 you fools i and my fellows
 are ministers of fate the elements
 of whom your swords are temper'd may as well
 wound the loud winds or with bemock'dat stabs
 kill the stillclosing waters as diminish
 one dowle that's in my plume my fellowministers
 are like invulnerable if you could hurt
 your swords are now too massy for your strengths
 and will not be uplifted but remember
 for that's my business to youthat you three
 from milan did supplant good prospero
 exposed unto the sea which hath requit it
 him and his innocent child for which foul deed
 the powers delaying not forgetting have
 incensed the seas and shores yea all the creatures
 against your peace thee of thy son alonso
 they have bereft and do pronounce by me
 lingering perdition worse than any death
 can be at once shall step by step attend
 you and your ways whose wraths to guard you from
 which here in this most desolate isle else falls
 upon your headsis nothing but heartsorrow
 and a clear life ensuing
 he vanishes in thunder then to soft music
 enter the shapes again and dance with
 mocks and mows and carrying out the table
prospero bravely the figure of this harpy hast thou
 perform'd my ariel a grace it had devouring
 of my instruction hast thou nothing bated
 in what thou hadst to say so with good life
 and observation strange my meaner ministers
 their several kinds have done my high charms work
 and these mine enemies are all knit up
 in their distractions they now are in my power
 and in these fits i leave them while i visit
 young ferdinand whom they suppose is drown'd
 and his and mine loved darling
 exit above
gonzalo i the name of something holy sir why stand you
 in this strange stare
alonso o it is monstrous monstrous
 methought the billows spoke and told me of it
 the winds did sing it to me and the thunder
 that deep and dreadful organpipe pronounced
 the name of prosper it did bass my trespass
 therefore my son i the ooze is bedded and
 i'll seek him deeper than e'er plummet sounded
 and with him there lie mudded
 exit
sebastian but one fiend at a time
 i'll fight their legions o'er
antonio i'll be thy second
 exeunt sebastian and antonio
gonzalo all three of them are desperate their great guilt
 like poison given to work a great time after
 now gins to bite the spirits i do beseech you
 that are of suppler joints follow them swiftly
 and hinder them from what this ecstasy
 may now provoke them to
adrian follow i pray you
 exeunt
 the tempest
act iv
scene i before prospero's cell
 enter prospero ferdinand and miranda
prospero if i have too austerely punish'd you
 your compensation makes amends for i
 have given you here a third of mine own life
 or that for which i live who once again
 i tender to thy hand all thy vexations
 were but my trials of thy love and thou
 hast strangely stood the test here afore heaven
 i ratify this my rich gift o ferdinand
 do not smile at me that i boast her off
 for thou shalt find she will outstrip all praise
 and make it halt behind her
ferdinand i do believe it
 against an oracle
prospero then as my gift and thine own acquisition
 worthily purchased take my daughter but
 if thou dost break her virginknot before
 all sanctimonious ceremonies may
 with full and holy rite be minister'd
 no sweet aspersion shall the heavens let fall
 to make this contract grow but barren hate
 soureyed disdain and discord shall bestrew
 the union of your bed with weeds so loathly
 that you shall hate it both therefore take heed
 as hymen's lamps shall light you
ferdinand as i hope
 for quiet days fair issue and long life
 with such love as tis now the murkiest den
 the most opportune place the strong'st suggestion
 our worser genius can shall never melt
 mine honour into lust to take away
 the edge of that day's celebration
 when i shall think or phoebus steeds are founder'd
 or night kept chain'd below
prospero fairly spoke
 sit then and talk with her she is thine own
 what ariel my industrious servant ariel
 enter ariel
ariel what would my potent master here i am
prospero thou and thy meaner fellows your last service
 did worthily perform and i must use you
 in such another trick go bring the rabble
 o'er whom i give thee power here to this place
 incite them to quick motion for i must
 bestow upon the eyes of this young couple
 some vanity of mine art it is my promise
 and they expect it from me
ariel presently
prospero ay with a twink
ariel before you can say come and go'
 and breathe twice and cry so so'
 each one tripping on his toe
 will be here with mop and mow
 do you love me master no
prospero dearly my delicate ariel do not approach
 till thou dost hear me call
ariel well i conceive
 exit
prospero look thou be true do not give dalliance
 too much the rein the strongest oaths are straw
 to the fire i the blood be more abstemious
 or else good night your vow
ferdinand i warrant you sir
 the white cold virgin snow upon my heart
 abates the ardour of my liver
prospero well
 now come my ariel bring a corollary
 rather than want a spirit appear and pertly
 no tongue all eyes be silent
 soft music
 enter iris
iris ceres most bounteous lady thy rich leas
 of wheat rye barley vetches oats and pease
 thy turfy mountains where live nibbling sheep
 and flat meads thatch'd with stover them to keep
 thy banks with pioned and twilled brims
 which spongy april at thy hest betrims
 to make cold nymphs chaste crowns and thy broom groves
 whose shadow the dismissed bachelor loves
 being lasslorn thy poleclipt vineyard
 and thy seamarge sterile and rockyhard
 where thou thyself dost airthe queen o the sky
 whose watery arch and messenger am i
 bids thee leave these and with her sovereign grace
 here on this grassplot in this very place
 to come and sport her peacocks fly amain
 approach rich ceres her to entertain
 enter ceres
ceres hail manycolour'd messenger that ne'er
 dost disobey the wife of jupiter
 who with thy saffron wings upon my flowers
 diffusest honeydrops refreshing showers
 and with each end of thy blue bow dost crown
 my bosky acres and my unshrubb'd down
 rich scarf to my proud earth why hath thy queen
 summon'd me hither to this shortgrass'd green
iris a contract of true love to celebrate
 and some donation freely to estate
 on the blest lovers
ceres tell me heavenly bow
 if venus or her son as thou dost know
 do now attend the queen since they did plot
 the means that dusky dis my daughter got
 her and her blind boy's scandal'd company
 i have forsworn
iris of her society
 be not afraid i met her deity
 cutting the clouds towards paphos and her son
 dovedrawn with her here thought they to have done
 some wanton charm upon this man and maid
 whose vows are that no bedright shall be paid
 till hymen's torch be lighted but vain
 mars's hot minion is returned again
 her waspishheaded son has broke his arrows
 swears he will shoot no more but play with sparrows
 and be a boy right out
ceres high'st queen of state
 great juno comes i know her by her gait
 enter juno
juno how does my bounteous sister go with me
 to bless this twain that they may prosperous be
 and honour'd in their issue
 they sing
juno honour riches marriageblessing
 long continuance and increasing
 hourly joys be still upon you
 juno sings her blessings upon you
ceres earth's increase foison plenty
 barns and garners never empty
 vines and clustering bunches growing
 plants with goodly burthen bowing
 spring come to you at the farthest
 in the very end of harvest
 scarcity and want shall shun you
 ceres blessing so is on you
ferdinand this is a most majestic vision and
 harmoniously charmingly may i be bold
 to think these spirits
prospero spirits which by mine art
 i have from their confines call'd to enact
 my present fancies
ferdinand let me live here ever
 so rare a wonder'd father and a wife
 makes this place paradise
 juno and ceres whisper and send iris on
 employment
prospero sweet now silence
 juno and ceres whisper seriously
 there's something else to do hush and be mute
 or else our spell is marr'd
iris you nymphs call'd naiads of the windring brooks
 with your sedged crowns and everharmless looks
 leave your crisp channels and on this green land
 answer your summons juno does command
 come temperate nymphs and help to celebrate
 a contract of true love be not too late
 enter certain nymphs
 you sunburnt sicklemen of august weary
 come hither from the furrow and be merry
 make holiday your ryestraw hats put on
 and these fresh nymphs encounter every one
 in country footing
 enter certain reapers properly habited they
 join with the nymphs in a graceful dance
 towards the end whereof prospero starts
 suddenly and speaks after which to a
 strange hollow and confused noise they
 heavily vanish
prospero aside i had forgot that foul conspiracy
 of the beast caliban and his confederates
 against my life the minute of their plot
 is almost come
 to the spirits
 well done avoid no more
ferdinand this is strange your father's in some passion
 that works him strongly
miranda never till this day
 saw i him touch'd with anger so distemper'd
prospero you do look my son in a moved sort
 as if you were dismay'd be cheerful sir
 our revels now are ended these our actors
 as i foretold you were all spirits and
 are melted into air into thin air
 and like the baseless fabric of this vision
 the cloudcapp'd towers the gorgeous palaces
 the solemn temples the great globe itself
 ye all which it inherit shall dissolve
 and like this insubstantial pageant faded
 leave not a rack behind we are such stuff
 as dreams are made on and our little life
 is rounded with a sleep sir i am vex'd
 bear with my weakness my brain is troubled
 be not disturb'd with my infirmity
 if you be pleased retire into my cell
 and there repose a turn or two i'll walk
 to still my beating mind
ferdinand 
 we wish your peace
miranda 
 exeunt
prospero come with a thought i thank thee ariel come
 enter ariel
ariel thy thoughts i cleave to what's thy pleasure
prospero spirit
 we must prepare to meet with caliban
ariel ay my commander when i presented ceres
 i thought to have told thee of it but i fear'd
 lest i might anger thee
prospero say again where didst thou leave these varlets
ariel i told you sir they were redhot with drinking
 so fun of valour that they smote the air
 for breathing in their faces beat the ground
 for kissing of their feet yet always bending
 towards their project then i beat my tabour
 at which like unback'd colts they prick'd
 their ears
 advanced their eyelids lifted up their noses
 as they smelt music so i charm'd their ears
 that calflike they my lowing follow'd through
 tooth'd briers sharp furzes pricking goss and thorns
 which entered their frail shins at last i left them
 i the filthymantled pool beyond your cell
 there dancing up to the chins that the foul lake
 o'erstunk their feet
prospero this was well done my bird
 thy shape invisible retain thou still
 the trumpery in my house go bring it hither
 for stale to catch these thieves
ariel i go i go
 exit
prospero a devil a born devil on whose nature
 nurture can never stick on whom my pains
 humanely taken all all lost quite lost
 and as with age his body uglier grows
 so his mind cankers i will plague them all
 even to roaring
 reenter ariel loaden with glistering apparel &c
 come hang them on this line
 prospero and ariel remain invisible enter
 caliban stephano and trinculo all wet
caliban pray you tread softly that the blind mole may not
 hear a foot fall we now are near his cell
stephano monster your fairy which you say is
 a harmless fairy has done little better than
 played the jack with us
trinculo monster i do smell all horsepiss at
 which my nose is in great indignation
stephano so is mine do you hear monster if i should take
 a displeasure against you look you
trinculo thou wert but a lost monster
caliban good my lord give me thy favour still
 be patient for the prize i'll bring thee to
 shall hoodwink this mischance therefore speak softly
 all's hush'd as midnight yet
trinculo ay but to lose our bottles in the pool
stephano there is not only disgrace and dishonour in that
 monster but an infinite loss
trinculo that's more to me than my wetting yet this is your
 harmless fairy monster
stephano i will fetch off my bottle though i be o'er ears
 for my labour
caliban prithee my king be quiet seest thou here
 this is the mouth o the cell no noise and enter
 do that good mischief which may make this island
 thine own for ever and i thy caliban
 for aye thy footlicker
stephano give me thy hand i do begin to have bloody thoughts
trinculo o king stephano o peer o worthy stephano look
 what a wardrobe here is for thee
caliban let it alone thou fool it is but trash
trinculo o ho monster we know what belongs to a frippery
 o king stephano
stephano put off that gown trinculo by this hand i'll have
 that gown
trinculo thy grace shall have it
caliban the dropsy drown this fool i what do you mean
 to dote thus on such luggage let's alone
 and do the murder first if he awake
 from toe to crown he'll fill our skins with pinches
 make us strange stuff
stephano be you quiet monster mistress line
 is not this my jerkin now is the jerkin under
 the line now jerkin you are like to lose your
 hair and prove a bald jerkin
trinculo do do we steal by line and level an't like your grace
stephano i thank thee for that jest here's a garment for't
 wit shall not go unrewarded while i am king of this
 country steal by line and level is an excellent
 pass of pate there's another garment for't
trinculo monster come put some lime upon your fingers and
 away with the rest
caliban i will have none on't we shall lose our time
 and all be turn'd to barnacles or to apes
 with foreheads villanous low
stephano monster layto your fingers help to bear this
 away where my hogshead of wine is or i'll turn you
 out of my kingdom go to carry this
trinculo and this
stephano ay and this
 a noise of hunters heard enter divers spirits
 in shape of dogs and hounds and hunt them about
 prospero and ariel setting them on
prospero hey mountain hey
ariel silver i there it goes silver
prospero fury fury there tyrant there hark hark
 caliban stephano and trinculo are
 driven out
 go charge my goblins that they grind their joints
 with dry convulsions shorten up their sinews
 with aged cramps and more pinchspotted make them
 than pard or cat o mountain
ariel hark they roar
prospero let them be hunted soundly at this hour
 lie at my mercy all mine enemies
 shortly shall all my labours end and thou
 shalt have the air at freedom for a little
 follow and do me service
 exeunt
 the tempest
act v
scene i before prospero's cell
 enter prospero in his magic robes and ariel
prospero now does my project gather to a head
 my charms crack not my spirits obey and time
 goes upright with his carriage how's the day
ariel on the sixth hour at which time my lord
 you said our work should cease
prospero i did say so
 when first i raised the tempest say my spirit
 how fares the king and's followers
ariel confined together
 in the same fashion as you gave in charge
 just as you left them all prisoners sir
 in the linegrove which weatherfends your cell
 they cannot budge till your release the king
 his brother and yours abide all three distracted
 and the remainder mourning over them
 brimful of sorrow and dismay but chiefly
 him that you term'd sir the good old lord gonzalo'
 his tears run down his beard like winter's drops
 from eaves of reeds your charm so strongly works em
 that if you now beheld them your affections
 would become tender
prospero dost thou think so spirit
ariel mine would sir were i human
prospero and mine shall
 hast thou which art but air a touch a feeling
 of their afflictions and shall not myself
 one of their kind that relish all as sharply
 passion as they be kindlier moved than thou art
 though with their high wrongs i am struck to the quick
 yet with my nobler reason gaitist my fury
 do i take part the rarer action is
 in virtue than in vengeance they being penitent
 the sole drift of my purpose doth extend
 not a frown further go release them ariel
 my charms i'll break their senses i'll restore
 and they shall be themselves
ariel i'll fetch them sir
 exit
prospero ye elves of hills brooks standing lakes and groves
 and ye that on the sands with printless foot
 do chase the ebbing neptune and do fly him
 when he comes back you demipuppets that
 by moonshine do the green sour ringlets make
 whereof the ewe not bites and you whose pastime
 is to make midnight mushrooms that rejoice
 to hear the solemn curfew by whose aid
 weak masters though ye be i have bedimm'd
 the noontide sun call'd forth the mutinous winds
 and twixt the green sea and the azured vault
 set roaring war to the dread rattling thunder
 have i given fire and rifted jove's stout oak
 with his own bolt the strongbased promontory
 have i made shake and by the spurs pluck'd up
 the pine and cedar graves at my command
 have waked their sleepers oped and let em forth
 by my so potent art but this rough magic
 i here abjure and when i have required
 some heavenly music which even now i do
 to work mine end upon their senses that
 this airy charm is for i'll break my staff
 bury it certain fathoms in the earth
 and deeper than did ever plummet sound
 i'll drown my book
 solemn music
 reenter ariel before then alonso with a
 frantic gesture attended by gonzalo
 sebastian and antonio in like manner
 attended by adrian and francisco they all
 enter the circle which prospero had made
 and there stand charmed which prospero
 observing speaks
 a solemn air and the best comforter
 to an unsettled fancy cure thy brains
 now useless boil'd within thy skull there stand
 for you are spellstopp'd
 holy gonzalo honourable man
 mine eyes even sociable to the show of thine
 fall fellowly drops the charm dissolves apace
 and as the morning steals upon the night
 melting the darkness so their rising senses
 begin to chase the ignorant fumes that mantle
 their clearer reason o good gonzalo
 my true preserver and a loyal sir
 to him you follow'st i will pay thy graces
 home both in word and deed most cruelly
 didst thou alonso use me and my daughter
 thy brother was a furtherer in the act
 thou art pinch'd fort now sebastian flesh and blood
 you brother mine that entertain'd ambition
 expell'd remorse and nature who with sebastian
 whose inward pinches therefore are most strong
 would here have kill'd your king i do forgive thee
 unnatural though thou art their understanding
 begins to swell and the approaching tide
 will shortly fill the reasonable shore
 that now lies foul and muddy not one of them
 that yet looks on me or would know me ariel
 fetch me the hat and rapier in my cell
 i will discase me and myself present
 as i was sometime milan quickly spirit
 thou shalt ere long be free
 ariel sings and helps to attire him
 where the bee sucks there suck i
 in a cowslip's bell i lie
 there i couch when owls do cry
 on the bat's back i do fly
 after summer merrily
 merrily merrily shall i live now
 under the blossom that hangs on the bough
prospero why that's my dainty ariel i shall miss thee
 but yet thou shalt have freedom so so so
 to the king's ship invisible as thou art
 there shalt thou find the mariners asleep
 under the hatches the master and the boatswain
 being awake enforce them to this place
 and presently i prithee
ariel i drink the air before me and return
 or ere your pulse twice beat
 exit
gonzalo all torment trouble wonder and amazement
 inhabits here some heavenly power guide us
 out of this fearful country
prospero behold sir king
 the wronged duke of milan prospero
 for more assurance that a living prince
 does now speak to thee i embrace thy body
 and to thee and thy company i bid
 a hearty welcome
alonso whether thou best he or no
 or some enchanted trifle to abuse me
 as late i have been i not know thy pulse
 beats as of flesh and blood and since i saw thee
 the affliction of my mind amends with which
 i fear a madness held me this must crave
 an if this be at all a most strange story
 thy dukedom i resign and do entreat
 thou pardon me my wrongs but how should prospero
 be living and be here
prospero first noble friend
 let me embrace thine age whose honour cannot
 be measured or confined
gonzalo whether this be
 or be not i'll not swear
prospero you do yet taste
 some subtilties o the isle that will not let you
 believe things certain welcome my friends all
 aside to sebastian and antonio
 but you my brace of lords were i so minded
 i here could pluck his highness frown upon you
 and justify you traitors at this time
 i will tell no tales
sebastian aside the devil speaks in him
prospero no
 for you most wicked sir whom to call brother
 would even infect my mouth i do forgive
 thy rankest fault all of them and require
 my dukedom of thee which perforce i know
 thou must restore
alonso if thou be'st prospero
 give us particulars of thy preservation
 how thou hast met us here who three hours since
 were wreck'd upon this shore where i have lost
 how sharp the point of this remembrance is
 my dear son ferdinand
prospero i am woe for't sir
alonso irreparable is the loss and patience
 says it is past her cure
prospero i rather think
 you have not sought her help of whose soft grace
 for the like loss i have her sovereign aid
 and rest myself content
alonso you the like loss
prospero as great to me as late and supportable
 to make the dear loss have i means much weaker
 than you may call to comfort you for i
 have lost my daughter
alonso a daughter
 o heavens that they were living both in naples
 the king and queen there that they were i wish
 myself were mudded in that oozy bed
 where my son lies when did you lose your daughter
prospero in this last tempest i perceive these lords
 at this encounter do so much admire
 that they devour their reason and scarce think
 their eyes do offices of truth their words
 are natural breath but howsoe'er you have
 been justled from your senses know for certain
 that i am prospero and that very duke
 which was thrust forth of milan who most strangely
 upon this shore where you were wreck'd was landed
 to be the lord on't no more yet of this
 for tis a chronicle of day by day
 not a relation for a breakfast nor
 befitting this first meeting welcome sir
 this cell's my court here have i few attendants
 and subjects none abroad pray you look in
 my dukedom since you have given me again
 i will requite you with as good a thing
 at least bring forth a wonder to content ye
 as much as me my dukedom
 here prospero discovers ferdinand and miranda
 playing at chess
miranda sweet lord you play me false
ferdinand no my dear'st love
 i would not for the world
miranda yes for a score of kingdoms you should wrangle
 and i would call it fair play
alonso if this prove
 a vision of the island one dear son
 shall i twice lose
sebastian a most high miracle
ferdinand though the seas threaten they are merciful
 i have cursed them without cause
 kneels
alonso now all the blessings
 of a glad father compass thee about
 arise and say how thou camest here
miranda o wonder
 how many goodly creatures are there here
 how beauteous mankind is o brave new world
 that has such people in't
prospero tis new to thee
alonso what is this maid with whom thou wast at play
 your eld'st acquaintance cannot be three hours
 is she the goddess that hath sever'd us
 and brought us thus together
ferdinand sir she is mortal
 but by immortal providence she's mine
 i chose her when i could not ask my father
 for his advice nor thought i had one she
 is daughter to this famous duke of milan
 of whom so often i have heard renown
 but never saw before of whom i have
 received a second life and second father
 this lady makes him to me
alonso i am hers
 but o how oddly will it sound that i
 must ask my child forgiveness
prospero there sir stop
 let us not burthen our remembrance with
 a heaviness that's gone
gonzalo i have inly wept
 or should have spoke ere this look down you god
 and on this couple drop a blessed crown
 for it is you that have chalk'd forth the way
 which brought us hither
alonso i say amen gonzalo
gonzalo was milan thrust from milan that his issue
 should become kings of naples o rejoice
 beyond a common joy and set it down
 with gold on lasting pillars in one voyage
 did claribel her husband find at tunis
 and ferdinand her brother found a wife
 where he himself was lost prospero his dukedom
 in a poor isle and all of us ourselves
 when no man was his own
alonso to ferdinand and miranda give me your hands
 let grief and sorrow still embrace his heart
 that doth not wish you joy
gonzalo be it so amen
 reenter ariel with the master and boatswain
 amazedly following
 o look sir look sir here is more of us
 i prophesied if a gallows were on land
 this fellow could not drown now blasphemy
 that swear'st grace o'erboard not an oath on shore
 hast thou no mouth by land what is the news
boatswain the best news is that we have safely found
 our king and company the next our ship
 which but three glasses since we gave out split
 is tight and yare and bravely rigg'd as when
 we first put out to sea
ariel aside to prospero sir all this service
 have i done since i went
prospero aside to ariel my tricksy spirit
alonso these are not natural events they strengthen
 from strange to stranger say how came you hither
boatswain if i did think sir i were well awake
 i'ld strive to tell you we were dead of sleep
 andhow we know notall clapp'd under hatches
 where but even now with strange and several noises
 of roaring shrieking howling jingling chains
 and more diversity of sounds all horrible
 we were awaked straightway at liberty
 where we in all her trim freshly beheld
 our royal good and gallant ship our master
 capering to eye her on a trice so please you
 even in a dream were we divided from them
 and were brought moping hither
ariel aside to prospero was't well done
prospero aside to ariel bravely my diligence thou shalt be free
alonso this is as strange a maze as e'er men trod
 and there is in this business more than nature
 was ever conduct of some oracle
 must rectify our knowledge
prospero sir my liege
 do not infest your mind with beating on
 the strangeness of this business at pick'd leisure
 which shall be shortly single i'll resolve you
 which to you shall seem probable of every
 these happen'd accidents till when be cheerful
 and think of each thing well
 aside to ariel
 come hither spirit
 set caliban and his companions free
 untie the spell
 exit ariel
 how fares my gracious sir
 there are yet missing of your company
 some few odd lads that you remember not
 reenter ariel driving in caliban stephano
 and trinculo in their stolen apparel
stephano every man shift for all the rest and
 let no man take care for himself for all is
 but fortune coragio bullymonster coragio
trinculo if these be true spies which i wear in my head
 here's a goodly sight
caliban o setebos these be brave spirits indeed
 how fine my master is i am afraid
 he will chastise me
sebastian ha ha
 what things are these my lord antonio
 will money buy em
antonio very like one of them
 is a plain fish and no doubt marketable
prospero mark but the badges of these men my lords
 then say if they be true this misshapen knave
 his mother was a witch and one so strong
 that could control the moon make flows and ebbs
 and deal in her command without her power
 these three have robb'd me and this demidevil
 for he's a bastard onehad plotted with them
 to take my life two of these fellows you
 must know and own this thing of darkness
 acknowledge mine
caliban i shall be pinch'd to death
alonso is not this stephano my drunken butler
sebastian he is drunk now where had he wine
alonso and trinculo is reeling ripe where should they
 find this grand liquor that hath gilded em
 how camest thou in this pickle
trinculo i have been in such a pickle since i
 saw you last that i fear me will never out of
 my bones i shall not fear flyblowing
sebastian why how now stephano
stephano o touch me not i am not stephano but a cramp
prospero you'ld be king o the isle sirrah
stephano i should have been a sore one then
alonso this is a strange thing as e'er i look'd on
 pointing to caliban
prospero he is as disproportion'd in his manners
 as in his shape go sirrah to my cell
 take with you your companions as you look
 to have my pardon trim it handsomely
caliban ay that i will and i'll be wise hereafter
 and seek for grace what a thricedouble ass
 was i to take this drunkard for a god
 and worship this dull fool
prospero go to away
alonso hence and bestow your luggage where you found it
sebastian or stole it rather
 exeunt caliban stephano and trinculo
prospero sir i invite your highness and your train
 to my poor cell where you shall take your rest
 for this one night which part of it i'll waste
 with such discourse as i not doubt shall make it
 go quick away the story of my life
 and the particular accidents gone by
 since i came to this isle and in the morn
 i'll bring you to your ship and so to naples
 where i have hope to see the nuptial
 of these our dearbeloved solemnized
 and thence retire me to my milan where
 every third thought shall be my grave
alonso i long
 to hear the story of your life which must
 take the ear strangely
prospero i'll deliver all
 and promise you calm seas auspicious gales
 and sail so expeditious that shall catch
 your royal fleet far off
 aside to ariel
 my ariel chick
 that is thy charge then to the elements
 be free and fare thou well please you draw near
 exeunt
 the tempest
 epilogue
 spoken by prospero
 now my charms are all o'erthrown
 and what strength i have's mine own
 which is most faint now tis true
 i must be here confined by you
 or sent to naples let me not
 since i have my dukedom got
 and pardon'd the deceiver dwell
 in this bare island by your spell
 but release me from my bands
 with the help of your good hands
 gentle breath of yours my sails
 must fill or else my project fails
 which was to please now i want
 spirits to enforce art to enchant
 and my ending is despair
 unless i be relieved by prayer
 which pierces so that it assaults
 mercy itself and frees all faults
 as you from crimes would pardon'd be
 let your indulgence set me free
 troilus and cressida
 dramatis personae
priam king of troy
hector 
 
troilus 
 
paris his sons
 
deiphobus 
 
helenus 
margarelon a bastard son of priam
aeneas 
 trojan commanders
antenor 
calchas a trojan priest taking part with the greeks
pandarus uncle to cressida
agamemnon the grecian general
menelaus his brother
achilles 
 
ajax 
 
ulysses 
 grecian princes
nestor 
 
diomedes 
 
patroclus 
thersites a deformed and scurrilous grecian
alexander servant to cressida
 servant to troilus boy
 servant to paris
 servant to diomedes servant
helen wife to menelaus
andromache wife to hector
cassandra daughter to priam a prophetess
cressida daughter to calchas
 trojan and greek soldiers and attendants
scene troy and the grecian camp before it
 troilus and cressida
 prologue
 in troy there lies the scene from isles of greece
 the princes orgulous their high blood chafed
 have to the port of athens sent their ships
 fraught with the ministers and instruments
 of cruel war sixty and nine that wore
 their crownets regal from the athenian bay
 put forth toward phrygia and their vow is made
 to ransack troy within whose strong immures
 the ravish'd helen menelaus queen
 with wanton paris sleeps and that's the quarrel
 to tenedos they come
 and the deepdrawing barks do there disgorge
 their warlike fraughtage now on dardan plains
 the fresh and yet unbruised greeks do pitch
 their brave pavilions priam's sixgated city
 dardan and tymbria helias chetas troien
 and antenorides with massy staples
 and corresponsive and fulfilling bolts
 sperr up the sons of troy
 now expectation tickling skittish spirits
 on one and other side trojan and greek
 sets all on hazard and hither am i come
 a prologue arm'd but not in confidence
 of author's pen or actor's voice but suited
 in like conditions as our argument
 to tell you fair beholders that our play
 leaps o'er the vaunt and firstlings of those broils
 beginning in the middle starting thence away
 to what may be digested in a play
 like or find fault do as your pleasures are
 now good or bad tis but the chance of war
 troilus and cressida
act i
scene i troy before priam's palace
 enter troilus armed and pandarus
troilus call here my varlet i'll unarm again
 why should i war without the walls of troy
 that find such cruel battle here within
 each trojan that is master of his heart
 let him to field troilus alas hath none
pandarus will this gear ne'er be mended
troilus the greeks are strong and skilful to their strength
 fierce to their skill and to their fierceness valiant
 but i am weaker than a woman's tear
 tamer than sleep fonder than ignorance
 less valiant than the virgin in the night
 and skilless as unpractised infancy
pandarus well i have told you enough of this for my part
 i'll not meddle nor make no further he that will
 have a cake out of the wheat must needs tarry the grinding
troilus have i not tarried
pandarus ay the grinding but you must tarry
 the bolting
troilus have i not tarried
pandarus ay the bolting but you must tarry the leavening
troilus still have i tarried
pandarus ay to the leavening but here's yet in the word
 hereafter the kneading the making of the cake the
 heating of the oven and the baking nay you must
 stay the cooling too or you may chance to burn your lips
troilus patience herself what goddess e'er she be
 doth lesser blench at sufferance than i do
 at priam's royal table do i sit
 and when fair cressid comes into my thoughts
 so traitor when she comes when is she thence
pandarus well she looked yesternight fairer than ever i saw
 her look or any woman else
troilus i was about to tell theewhen my heart
 as wedged with a sigh would rive in twain
 lest hector or my father should perceive me
 i have as when the sun doth light a storm
 buried this sigh in wrinkle of a smile
 but sorrow that is couch'd in seeming gladness
 is like that mirth fate turns to sudden sadness
pandarus an her hair were not somewhat darker than helen's
 well go tothere were no more comparison between
 the women but for my part she is my kinswoman i
 would not as they term it praise her but i would
 somebody had heard her talk yesterday as i did i
 will not dispraise your sister cassandra's wit but
troilus o pandarus i tell thee pandarus
 when i do tell thee there my hopes lie drown'd
 reply not in how many fathoms deep
 they lie indrench'd i tell thee i am mad
 in cressid's love thou answer'st she is fair'
 pour'st in the open ulcer of my heart
 her eyes her hair her cheek her gait her voice
 handlest in thy discourse o that her hand
 in whose comparison all whites are ink
 writing their own reproach to whose soft seizure
 the cygnet's down is harsh and spirit of sense
 hard as the palm of ploughman this thou tell'st me
 as true thou tell'st me when i say i love her
 but saying thus instead of oil and balm
 thou lay'st in every gash that love hath given me
 the knife that made it
pandarus i speak no more than truth
troilus thou dost not speak so much
pandarus faith i'll not meddle in't let her be as she is
 if she be fair tis the better for her an she be
 not she has the mends in her own hands
troilus good pandarus how now pandarus
pandarus i have had my labour for my travail illthought on of
 her and illthought on of you gone between and
 between but small thanks for my labour
troilus what art thou angry pandarus what with me
pandarus because she's kin to me therefore she's not so fair
 as helen an she were not kin to me she would be as
 fair on friday as helen is on sunday but what care
 i i care not an she were a blackamoor tis all one to me
troilus say i she is not fair
pandarus i do not care whether you do or no she's a fool to
 stay behind her father let her to the greeks and so
 i'll tell her the next time i see her for my part
 i'll meddle nor make no more i the matter
troilus pandarus
pandarus not i
troilus sweet pandarus
pandarus pray you speak no more to me i will leave all as i
 found it and there an end
 exit pandarus an alarum
troilus peace you ungracious clamours peace rude sounds
 fools on both sides helen must needs be fair
 when with your blood you daily paint her thus
 i cannot fight upon this argument
 it is too starved a subject for my sword
 but pandaruso gods how do you plague me
 i cannot come to cressid but by pandar
 and he's as tetchy to be woo'd to woo
 as she is stubbornchaste against all suit
 tell me apollo for thy daphne's love
 what cressid is what pandar and what we
 her bed is india there she lies a pearl
 between our ilium and where she resides
 let it be call'd the wild and wandering flood
 ourself the merchant and this sailing pandar
 our doubtful hope our convoy and our bark
 alarum enter aeneas
aeneas how now prince troilus wherefore not afield
troilus because not there this woman's answer sorts
 for womanish it is to be from thence
 what news aeneas from the field today
aeneas that paris is returned home and hurt
troilus by whom aeneas
aeneas troilus by menelaus
troilus let paris bleed tis but a scar to scorn
 paris is gored with menelaus horn
 alarum
aeneas hark what good sport is out of town today
troilus better at home if would i might were may'
 but to the sport abroad are you bound thither
aeneas in all swift haste
troilus come go we then together
 exeunt
 troilus and cressida
act i
scene ii the same a street
 enter cressida and alexander
cressida who were those went by
alexander queen hecuba and helen
cressida and whither go they
alexander up to the eastern tower
 whose height commands as subject all the vale
 to see the battle hector whose patience
 is as a virtue fix'd today was moved
 he chid andromache and struck his armourer
 and like as there were husbandry in war
 before the sun rose he was harness'd light
 and to the field goes he where every flower
 did as a prophet weep what it foresaw
 in hector's wrath
cressida what was his cause of anger
alexander the noise goes this there is among the greeks
 a lord of trojan blood nephew to hector
 they call him ajax
cressida good and what of him
alexander they say he is a very man per se
 and stands alone
cressida so do all men unless they are drunk sick or have no legs
alexander this man lady hath robbed many beasts of their
 particular additions he is as valiant as the lion
 churlish as the bear slow as the elephant a man
 into whom nature hath so crowded humours that his
 valour is crushed into folly his folly sauced with
 discretion there is no man hath a virtue that he
 hath not a glimpse of nor any man an attaint but he
 carries some stain of it he is melancholy without
 cause and merry against the hair he hath the
 joints of every thing but everything so out of joint
 that he is a gouty briareus many hands and no use
 or purblind argus all eyes and no sight
cressida but how should this man that makes
 me smile make hector angry
alexander they say he yesterday coped hector in the battle and
 struck him down the disdain and shame whereof hath
 ever since kept hector fasting and waking
cressida who comes here
alexander madam your uncle pandarus
 enter pandarus
cressida hector's a gallant man
alexander as may be in the world lady
pandarus what's that what's that
cressida good morrow uncle pandarus
pandarus good morrow cousin cressid what do you talk of
 good morrow alexander how do you cousin when
 were you at ilium
cressida this morning uncle
pandarus what were you talking of when i came was hector
 armed and gone ere ye came to ilium helen was not
 up was she
cressida hector was gone but helen was not up
pandarus even so hector was stirring early
cressida that were we talking of and of his anger
pandarus was he angry
cressida so he says here
pandarus true he was so i know the cause too he'll lay
 about him today i can tell them that and there's
 troilus will not come far behind him let them take
 heed of troilus i can tell them that too
cressida what is he angry too
pandarus who troilus troilus is the better man of the two
cressida o jupiter there's no comparison
pandarus what not between troilus and hector do you know a
 man if you see him
cressida ay if i ever saw him before and knew him
pandarus well i say troilus is troilus
cressida then you say as i say for i am sure he is not hector
pandarus no nor hector is not troilus in some degrees
cressida tis just to each of them he is himself
pandarus himself alas poor troilus i would he were
cressida so he is
pandarus condition i had gone barefoot to india
cressida he is not hector
pandarus himself no he's not himself would a were
 himself well the gods are above time must friend
 or end well troilus well i would my heart were
 in her body no hector is not a better man than troilus
cressida excuse me
pandarus he is elder
cressida pardon me pardon me
pandarus th other's not come to't you shall tell me another
 tale when th other's come to't hector shall not
 have his wit this year
cressida he shall not need it if he have his own
pandarus nor his qualities
cressida no matter
pandarus nor his beauty
cressida twould not become him his own's better
pandarus you have no judgment niece helen
 herself swore th other day that troilus for
 a brown favourfor so tis i must confess
 not brown neither
cressida no but brown
pandarus faith to say truth brown and not brown
cressida to say the truth true and not true
pandarus she praised his complexion above paris
cressida why paris hath colour enough
pandarus so he has
cressida then troilus should have too much if she praised
 him above his complexion is higher than his he
 having colour enough and the other higher is too
 flaming a praise for a good complexion i had as
 lief helen's golden tongue had commended troilus for
 a copper nose
pandarus i swear to you i think helen loves him better than paris
cressida then she's a merry greek indeed
pandarus nay i am sure she does she came to him th other
 day into the compassed windowand you know he
 has not past three or four hairs on his chin
cressida indeed a tapster's arithmetic may soon bring his
 particulars therein to a total
pandarus why he is very young and yet will he within
 three pound lift as much as his brother hector
cressida is he so young a man and so old a lifter
pandarus but to prove to you that helen loves him she came
 and puts me her white hand to his cloven chin
cressida juno have mercy how came it cloven
pandarus why you know tis dimpled i think his smiling
 becomes him better than any man in all phrygia
cressida o he smiles valiantly
pandarus does he not
cressida o yes an twere a cloud in autumn
pandarus why go to then but to prove to you that helen
 loves troilus
cressida troilus will stand to the proof if you'll
 prove it so
pandarus troilus why he esteems her no more than i esteem
 an addle egg
cressida if you love an addle egg as well as you love an idle
 head you would eat chickens i the shell
pandarus i cannot choose but laugh to think how she tickled
 his chin indeed she has a marvellous white hand i
 must needs confess
cressida without the rack
pandarus and she takes upon her to spy a white hair on his chin
cressida alas poor chin many a wart is richer
pandarus but there was such laughing queen hecuba laughed
 that her eyes ran o'er
cressida with millstones
pandarus and cassandra laughed
cressida but there was more temperate fire under the pot of
 her eyes did her eyes run o'er too
pandarus and hector laughed
cressida at what was all this laughing
pandarus marry at the white hair that helen spied on troilus chin
cressida an't had been a green hair i should have laughed
 too
pandarus they laughed not so much at the hair as at his pretty answer
cressida what was his answer
pandarus quoth she here's but two and fifty hairs on your
 chin and one of them is white
cressida this is her question
pandarus that's true make no question of that two and
 fifty hairs quoth he and one white that white
 hair is my father and all the rest are his sons'
 jupiter quoth she which of these hairs is paris
 my husband the forked one quoth he pluck't
 out and give it him but there was such laughing
 and helen so blushed an paris so chafed and all the
 rest so laughed that it passed
cressida so let it now for it has been while going by
pandarus well cousin i told you a thing yesterday think on't
cressida so i do
pandarus i'll be sworn tis true he will weep you an twere
 a man born in april
cressida and i'll spring up in his tears an twere a nettle
 against may
 a retreat sounded
pandarus hark they are coming from the field shall we
 stand up here and see them as they pass toward
 ilium good niece do sweet niece cressida
cressida at your pleasure
pandarus here here here's an excellent place here we may
 see most bravely i'll tell you them all by their
 names as they pass by but mark troilus above the rest
cressida speak not so loud
 aeneas passes
pandarus that's aeneas is not that a brave man he's one of
 the flowers of troy i can tell you but mark
 troilus you shall see anon
 antenor passes
cressida who's that
pandarus that's antenor he has a shrewd wit i can tell you
 and he's a man good enough he's one o the soundest
 judgments in whosoever and a proper man of person
 when comes troilus i'll show you troilus anon if
 he see me you shall see him nod at me
cressida will he give you the nod
pandarus you shall see
cressida if he do the rich shall have more
 hector passes
pandarus that's hector that that look you that there's a
 fellow go thy way hector there's a brave man
 niece o brave hector look how he looks there's
 a countenance is't not a brave man
cressida o a brave man
pandarus is a not it does a man's heart good look you
 what hacks are on his helmet look you yonder do
 you see look you there there's no jesting
 there's laying on take't off who will as they say
 there be hacks
cressida be those with swords
pandarus swords any thing he cares not an the devil come
 to him it's all one by god's lid it does one's
 heart good yonder comes paris yonder comes paris
 paris passes
 look ye yonder niece is't not a gallant man too
 is't not why this is brave now who said he came
 hurt home today he's not hurt why this will do
 helen's heart good now ha would i could see
 troilus now you shall see troilus anon
 helenus passes
cressida who's that
pandarus that's helenus i marvel where troilus is that's
 helenus i think he went not forth today that's helenus
cressida can helenus fight uncle
pandarus helenus no yes he'll fight indifferent well i
 marvel where troilus is hark do you not hear the
 people cry troilus helenus is a priest
cressida what sneaking fellow comes yonder
 troilus passes
pandarus where yonder that's deiphobus tis troilus
 there's a man niece hem brave troilus the
 prince of chivalry
cressida peace for shame peace
pandarus mark him note him o brave troilus look well upon
 him niece look you how his sword is bloodied and
 his helm more hacked than hector's and how he looks
 and how he goes o admirable youth he ne'er saw
 three and twenty go thy way troilus go thy way
 had i a sister were a grace or a daughter a goddess
 he should take his choice o admirable man paris
 paris is dirt to him and i warrant helen to
 change would give an eye to boot
cressida here come more
 forces pass
pandarus asses fools dolts chaff and bran chaff and bran
 porridge after meat i could live and die i the
 eyes of troilus ne'er look ne'er look the eagles
 are gone crows and daws crows and daws i had
 rather be such a man as troilus than agamemnon and
 all greece
cressida there is among the greeks achilles a better man than troilus
pandarus achilles a drayman a porter a very camel
cressida well well
pandarus well well why have you any discretion have
 you any eyes do you know what a man is is not
 birth beauty good shape discourse manhood
 learning gentleness virtue youth liberality
 and such like the spice and salt that season a man
cressida ay a minced man and then to be baked with no date
 in the pie for then the man's date's out
pandarus you are such a woman one knows not at what ward you
 lie
cressida upon my back to defend my belly upon my wit to
 defend my wiles upon my secrecy to defend mine
 honesty my mask to defend my beauty and you to
 defend all these and at all these wards i lie at a
 thousand watches
pandarus say one of your watches
cressida nay i'll watch you for that and that's one of the
 chiefest of them too if i cannot ward what i would
 not have hit i can watch you for telling how i took
 the blow unless it swell past hiding and then it's
 past watching
pandarus you are such another
 enter troilus's boy
boy sir my lord would instantly speak with you
pandarus where
boy at your own house there he unarms him
pandarus good boy tell him i come
 exit boy
 i doubt he be hurt fare ye well good niece
cressida adieu uncle
pandarus i'll be with you niece by and by
cressida to bring uncle
pandarus ay a token from troilus
cressida by the same token you are a bawd
 exit pandarus
 words vows gifts tears and love's full sacrifice
 he offers in another's enterprise
 but more in troilus thousand fold i see
 than in the glass of pandar's praise may be
 yet hold i off women are angels wooing
 things won are done joy's soul lies in the doing
 that she beloved knows nought that knows not this
 men prize the thing ungain'd more than it is
 that she was never yet that ever knew
 love got so sweet as when desire did sue
 therefore this maxim out of love i teach
 achievement is command ungain'd beseech
 then though my heart's content firm love doth bear
 nothing of that shall from mine eyes appear
 exeunt
 troilus and cressida
act i
scene iii the grecian camp before agamemnon's tent
 sennet enter agamemnon nestor ulysses
 menelaus and others
agamemnon princes
 what grief hath set the jaundice on your cheeks
 the ample proposition that hope makes
 in all designs begun on earth below
 fails in the promised largeness cheques and disasters
 grow in the veins of actions highest rear'd
 as knots by the conflux of meeting sap
 infect the sound pine and divert his grain
 tortive and errant from his course of growth
 nor princes is it matter new to us
 that we come short of our suppose so far
 that after seven years siege yet troy walls stand
 sith every action that hath gone before
 whereof we have record trial did draw
 bias and thwart not answering the aim
 and that unbodied figure of the thought
 that gave't surmised shape why then you princes
 do you with cheeks abash'd behold our works
 and call them shames which are indeed nought else
 but the protractive trials of great jove
 to find persistive constancy in men
 the fineness of which metal is not found
 in fortune's love for then the bold and coward
 the wise and fool the artist and unread
 the hard and soft seem all affined and kin
 but in the wind and tempest of her frown
 distinction with a broad and powerful fan
 puffing at all winnows the light away
 and what hath mass or matter by itself
 lies rich in virtue and unmingled
nestor with due observance of thy godlike seat
 great agamemnon nestor shall apply
 thy latest words in the reproof of chance
 lies the true proof of men the sea being smooth
 how many shallow bauble boats dare sail
 upon her patient breast making their way
 with those of nobler bulk
 but let the ruffian boreas once enrage
 the gentle thetis and anon behold
 the strongribb'd bark through liquid mountains cut
 bounding between the two moist elements
 like perseus horse where's then the saucy boat
 whose weak untimber'd sides but even now
 corivall'd greatness either to harbour fled
 or made a toast for neptune even so
 doth valour's show and valour's worth divide
 in storms of fortune for in her ray and brightness
 the herd hath more annoyance by the breeze
 than by the tiger but when the splitting wind
 makes flexible the knees of knotted oaks
 and flies fled under shade why then the thing of courage
 as roused with rage with rage doth sympathize
 and with an accent tuned in selfsame key
 retorts to chiding fortune
ulysses agamemnon
 thou great commander nerve and bone of greece
 heart of our numbers soul and only spirit
 in whom the tempers and the minds of all
 should be shut up hear what ulysses speaks
 besides the applause and approbation to which
 to agamemnon
 most mighty for thy place and sway
 to nestor
 and thou most reverend for thy stretch'dout life
 i give to both your speeches which were such
 as agamemnon and the hand of greece
 should hold up high in brass and such again
 as venerable nestor hatch'd in silver
 should with a bond of air strong as the axletree
 on which heaven rides knit all the greekish ears
 to his experienced tongue yet let it please both
 thou great and wise to hear ulysses speak
agamemnon speak prince of ithaca and be't of less expect
 that matter needless of importless burden
 divide thy lips than we are confident
 when rank thersites opes his mastic jaws
 we shall hear music wit and oracle
ulysses troy yet upon his basis had been down
 and the great hector's sword had lack'd a master
 but for these instances
 the specialty of rule hath been neglected
 and look how many grecian tents do stand
 hollow upon this plain so many hollow factions
 when that the general is not like the hive
 to whom the foragers shall all repair
 what honey is expected degree being vizarded
 the unworthiest shows as fairly in the mask
 the heavens themselves the planets and this centre
 observe degree priority and place
 insisture course proportion season form
 office and custom in all line of order
 and therefore is the glorious planet sol
 in noble eminence enthroned and sphered
 amidst the other whose medicinable eye
 corrects the ill aspects of planets evil
 and posts like the commandment of a king
 sans cheque to good and bad but when the planets
 in evil mixture to disorder wander
 what plagues and what portents what mutiny
 what raging of the sea shaking of earth
 commotion in the winds frights changes horrors
 divert and crack rend and deracinate
 the unity and married calm of states
 quite from their fixure o when degree is shaked
 which is the ladder to all high designs
 then enterprise is sick how could communities
 degrees in schools and brotherhoods in cities
 peaceful commerce from dividable shores
 the primogenitive and due of birth
 prerogative of age crowns sceptres laurels
 but by degree stand in authentic place
 take but degree away untune that string
 and hark what discord follows each thing meets
 in mere oppugnancy the bounded waters
 should lift their bosoms higher than the shores
 and make a sop of all this solid globe
 strength should be lord of imbecility
 and the rude son should strike his father dead
 force should be right or rather right and wrong
 between whose endless jar justice resides
 should lose their names and so should justice too
 then every thing includes itself in power
 power into will will into appetite
 and appetite an universal wolf
 so doubly seconded with will and power
 must make perforce an universal prey
 and last eat up himself great agamemnon
 this chaos when degree is suffocate
 follows the choking
 and this neglection of degree it is
 that by a pace goes backward with a purpose
 it hath to climb the general's disdain'd
 by him one step below he by the next
 that next by him beneath so every step
 exampled by the first pace that is sick
 of his superior grows to an envious fever
 of pale and bloodless emulation
 and tis this fever that keeps troy on foot
 not her own sinews to end a tale of length
 troy in our weakness stands not in her strength
nestor most wisely hath ulysses here discover'd
 the fever whereof all our power is sick
agamemnon the nature of the sickness found ulysses
 what is the remedy
ulysses the great achilles whom opinion crowns
 the sinew and the forehand of our host
 having his ear full of his airy fame
 grows dainty of his worth and in his tent
 lies mocking our designs with him patroclus
 upon a lazy bed the livelong day
 breaks scurril jests
 and with ridiculous and awkward action
 which slanderer he imitation calls
 he pageants us sometime great agamemnon
 thy topless deputation he puts on
 and like a strutting player whose conceit
 lies in his hamstring and doth think it rich
 to hear the wooden dialogue and sound
 twixt his stretch'd footing and the scaffoldage
 such tobepitied and o'erwrested seeming
 he acts thy greatness in and when he speaks
 tis like a chime amending with terms unsquared
 which from the tongue of roaring typhon dropp'd
 would seem hyperboles at this fusty stuff
 the large achilles on his press'd bed lolling
 from his deep chest laughs out a loud applause
 cries excellent tis agamemnon just
 now play me nestor hem and stroke thy beard
 as he being drest to some oration'
 that's done as near as the extremest ends
 of parallels as like as vulcan and his wife
 yet god achilles still cries excellent
 tis nestor right now play him me patroclus
 arming to answer in a night alarm'
 and then forsooth the faint defects of age
 must be the scene of mirth to cough and spit
 and with a palsyfumbling on his gorget
 shake in and out the rivet and at this sport
 sir valour dies cries o enough patroclus
 or give me ribs of steel i shall split all
 in pleasure of my spleen and in this fashion
 all our abilities gifts natures shapes
 severals and generals of grace exact
 achievements plots orders preventions
 excitements to the field or speech for truce
 success or loss what is or is not serves
 as stuff for these two to make paradoxes
nestor and in the imitation of these twain
 who as ulysses says opinion crowns
 with an imperial voicemany are infect
 ajax is grown selfwill'd and bears his head
 in such a rein in full as proud a place
 as broad achilles keeps his tent like him
 makes factious feasts rails on our state of war
 bold as an oracle and sets thersites
 a slave whose gall coins slanders like a mint
 to match us in comparisons with dirt
 to weaken and discredit our exposure
 how rank soever rounded in with danger
ulysses they tax our policy and call it cowardice
 count wisdom as no member of the war
 forestall prescience and esteem no act
 but that of hand the still and mental parts
 that do contrive how many hands shall strike
 when fitness calls them on and know by measure
 of their observant toil the enemies weight
 why this hath not a finger's dignity
 they call this bedwork mappery closetwar
 so that the ram that batters down the wall
 for the great swing and rudeness of his poise
 they place before his hand that made the engine
 or those that with the fineness of their souls
 by reason guide his execution
nestor let this be granted and achilles horse
 makes many thetis sons
 a tucket
agamemnon what trumpet look menelaus
menelaus from troy
 enter aeneas
agamemnon what would you fore our tent
aeneas is this great agamemnon's tent i pray you
agamemnon even this
aeneas may one that is a herald and a prince
 do a fair message to his kingly ears
agamemnon with surety stronger than achilles arm
 fore all the greekish heads which with one voice
 call agamemnon head and general
aeneas fair leave and large security how may
 a stranger to those most imperial looks
 know them from eyes of other mortals
agamemnon how
aeneas ay
 i ask that i might waken reverence
 and bid the cheek be ready with a blush
 modest as morning when she coldly eyes
 the youthful phoebus
 which is that god in office guiding men
 which is the high and mighty agamemnon
agamemnon this trojan scorns us or the men of troy
 are ceremonious courtiers
aeneas courtiers as free as debonair unarm'd
 as bending angels that's their fame in peace
 but when they would seem soldiers they have galls
 good arms strong joints true swords and
 jove's accord
 nothing so full of heart but peace aeneas
 peace trojan lay thy finger on thy lips
 the worthiness of praise distains his worth
 if that the praised himself bring the praise forth
 but what the repining enemy commends
 that breath fame blows that praise sole sure
 transcends
agamemnon sir you of troy call you yourself aeneas
aeneas ay greek that is my name
agamemnon what's your affair i pray you
aeneas sir pardon tis for agamemnon's ears
agamemnon he hears naught privately that comes from troy
aeneas nor i from troy come not to whisper him
 i bring a trumpet to awake his ear
 to set his sense on the attentive bent
 and then to speak
agamemnon speak frankly as the wind
 it is not agamemnon's sleeping hour
 that thou shalt know trojan he is awake
 he tells thee so himself
aeneas trumpet blow loud
 send thy brass voice through all these lazy tents
 and every greek of mettle let him know
 what troy means fairly shall be spoke aloud
 trumpet sounds
 we have great agamemnon here in troy
 a prince call'd hectorpriam is his father
 who in this dull and longcontinued truce
 is rusty grown he bade me take a trumpet
 and to this purpose speak kings princes lords
 if there be one among the fair'st of greece
 that holds his honour higher than his ease
 that seeks his praise more than he fears his peril
 that knows his valour and knows not his fear
 that loves his mistress more than in confession
 with truant vows to her own lips he loves
 and dare avow her beauty and her worth
 in other arms than hersto him this challenge
 hector in view of trojans and of greeks
 shall make it good or do his best to do it
 he hath a lady wiser fairer truer
 than ever greek did compass in his arms
 and will tomorrow with his trumpet call
 midway between your tents and walls of troy
 to rouse a grecian that is true in love
 if any come hector shall honour him
 if none he'll say in troy when he retires
 the grecian dames are sunburnt and not worth
 the splinter of a lance even so much
agamemnon this shall be told our lovers lord aeneas
 if none of them have soul in such a kind
 we left them all at home but we are soldiers
 and may that soldier a mere recreant prove
 that means not hath not or is not in love
 if then one is or hath or means to be
 that one meets hector if none else i am he
nestor tell him of nestor one that was a man
 when hector's grandsire suck'd he is old now
 but if there be not in our grecian host
 one noble man that hath one spark of fire
 to answer for his love tell him from me
 i'll hide my silver beard in a gold beaver
 and in my vantbrace put this wither'd brawn
 and meeting him will tell him that my lady
 was fairer than his grandam and as chaste
 as may be in the world his youth in flood
 i'll prove this truth with my three drops of blood
aeneas now heavens forbid such scarcity of youth
ulysses amen
agamemnon fair lord aeneas let me touch your hand
 to our pavilion shall i lead you sir
 achilles shall have word of this intent
 so shall each lord of greece from tent to tent
 yourself shall feast with us before you go
 and find the welcome of a noble foe
 exeunt all but ulysses and nestor
ulysses nestor
nestor what says ulysses
ulysses i have a young conception in my brain
 be you my time to bring it to some shape
nestor what is't
ulysses this tis
 blunt wedges rive hard knots the seeded pride
 that hath to this maturity blown up
 in rank achilles must or now be cropp'd
 or shedding breed a nursery of like evil
 to overbulk us all
nestor well and how
ulysses this challenge that the gallant hector sends
 however it is spread in general name
 relates in purpose only to achilles
nestor the purpose is perspicuous even as substance
 whose grossness little characters sum up
 and in the publication make no strain
 but that achilles were his brain as barren
 as banks of libyathough apollo knows
 tis dry enoughwill with great speed of judgment
 ay with celerity find hector's purpose
 pointing on him
ulysses and wake him to the answer think you
nestor yes tis most meet whom may you else oppose
 that can from hector bring his honour off
 if not achilles though't be a sportful combat
 yet in the trial much opinion dwells
 for here the trojans taste our dear'st repute
 with their finest palate and trust to me ulysses
 our imputation shall be oddly poised
 in this wild action for the success
 although particular shall give a scantling
 of good or bad unto the general
 and in such indexes although small pricks
 to their subsequent volumes there is seen
 the baby figure of the giant mass
 of things to come at large it is supposed
 he that meets hector issues from our choice
 and choice being mutual act of all our souls
 makes merit her election and doth boil
 as twere from us all a man distill'd
 out of our virtues who miscarrying
 what heart receives from hence the conquering part
 to steel a strong opinion to themselves
 which entertain'd limbs are his instruments
 in no less working than are swords and bows
 directive by the limbs
ulysses give pardon to my speech
 therefore tis meet achilles meet not hector
 let us like merchants show our foulest wares
 and think perchance they'll sell if not
 the lustre of the better yet to show
 shall show the better do not consent
 that ever hector and achilles meet
 for both our honour and our shame in this
 are dogg'd with two strange followers
nestor i see them not with my old eyes what are they
ulysses what glory our achilles shares from hector
 were he not proud we all should share with him
 but he already is too insolent
 and we were better parch in afric sun
 than in the pride and salt scorn of his eyes
 should he scape hector fair if he were foil'd
 why then we did our main opinion crush
 in taint of our best man no make a lottery
 and by device let blockish ajax draw
 the sort to fight with hector among ourselves
 give him allowance for the better man
 for that will physic the great myrmidon
 who broils in loud applause and make him fall
 his crest that prouder than blue iris bends
 if the dull brainless ajax come safe off
 we'll dress him up in voices if he fail
 yet go we under our opinion still
 that we have better men but hit or miss
 our project's life this shape of sense assumes
 ajax employ'd plucks down achilles plumes
nestor ulysses
 now i begin to relish thy advice
 and i will give a taste of it forthwith
 to agamemnon go we to him straight
 two curs shall tame each other pride alone
 must tarre the mastiffs on as twere their bone
 exeunt
 troilus and cressida
act ii
scene i a part of the grecian camp
 enter ajax and thersites
ajax thersites
thersites agamemnon how if he had boils full all over
 generally
ajax thersites
thersites and those boils did run say so did not the
 general run then were not that a botchy core
ajax dog
thersites then would come some matter from him i see none now
ajax thou bitchwolf's son canst thou not hear
 beating him
 feel then
thersites the plague of greece upon thee thou mongrel
 beefwitted lord
ajax speak then thou vinewedst leaven speak i will
 beat thee into handsomeness
thersites i shall sooner rail thee into wit and holiness but
 i think thy horse will sooner con an oration than
 thou learn a prayer without book thou canst strike
 canst thou a red murrain o thy jade's tricks
ajax toadstool learn me the proclamation
thersites dost thou think i have no sense thou strikest me thus
ajax the proclamation
thersites thou art proclaimed a fool i think
ajax do not porpentine do not my fingers itch
thersites i would thou didst itch from head to foot and i had
 the scratching of thee i would make thee the
 loathsomest scab in greece when thou art forth in
 the incursions thou strikest as slow as another
ajax i say the proclamation
thersites thou grumblest and railest every hour on achilles
 and thou art as full of envy at his greatness as
 cerberus is at proserpine's beauty ay that thou
 barkest at him
ajax mistress thersites
thersites thou shouldest strike him
ajax cobloaf
thersites he would pun thee into shivers with his fist as a
 sailor breaks a biscuit
ajax beating him you whoreson cur
thersites do do
ajax thou stool for a witch
thersites ay do do thou soddenwitted lord thou hast no
 more brain than i have in mine elbows an assinego
 may tutor thee thou scurvyvaliant ass thou art
 here but to thrash trojans and thou art bought and
 sold among those of any wit like a barbarian slave
 if thou use to beat me i will begin at thy heel and
 tell what thou art by inches thou thing of no
 bowels thou
ajax you dog
thersites you scurvy lord
ajax beating him you cur
thersites mars his idiot do rudeness do camel do do
 enter achilles and patroclus
achilles why how now ajax wherefore do you thus how now
 thersites what's the matter man
thersites you see him there do you
achilles ay what's the matter
thersites nay look upon him
achilles so i do what's the matter
thersites nay but regard him well
achilles well why i do so
thersites but yet you look not well upon him for whosoever you
 take him to be he is ajax
achilles i know that fool
thersites ay but that fool knows not himself
ajax therefore i beat thee
thersites lo lo lo lo what modicums of wit he utters his
 evasions have ears thus long i have bobbed his
 brain more than he has beat my bones i will buy
 nine sparrows for a penny and his pia mater is not
 worth the nineth part of a sparrow this lord
 achilles ajax who wears his wit in his belly and
 his guts in his head i'll tell you what i say of
 him
achilles what
thersites i say this ajax
 ajax offers to beat him
achilles nay good ajax
thersites has not so much wit
achilles nay i must hold you
thersites as will stop the eye of helen's needle for whom he
 comes to fight
achilles peace fool
thersites i would have peace and quietness but the fool will
 not he there that he look you there
ajax o thou damned cur i shall
achilles will you set your wit to a fool's
thersites no i warrant you for a fools will shame it
patroclus good words thersites
achilles what's the quarrel
ajax i bade the vile owl go learn me the tenor of the
 proclamation and he rails upon me
thersites i serve thee not
ajax well go to go to
thersites i serve here voluntarily
achilles your last service was sufferance twas not
 voluntary no man is beaten voluntary ajax was
 here the voluntary and you as under an impress
thersites e'en so a great deal of your wit too lies in your
 sinews or else there be liars hector have a great
 catch if he knock out either of your brains a'
 were as good crack a fusty nut with no kernel
achilles what with me too thersites
thersites there's ulysses and old nestor whose wit was mouldy
 ere your grandsires had nails on their toes yoke you
 like draughtoxen and make you plough up the wars
achilles what what
thersites yes good sooth to achilles to ajax to
ajax i shall cut out your tongue
thersites tis no matter i shall speak as much as thou
 afterwards
patroclus no more words thersites peace
thersites i will hold my peace when achilles brach bids me shall i
achilles there's for you patroclus
thersites i will see you hanged like clotpoles ere i come
 any more to your tents i will keep where there is
 wit stirring and leave the faction of fools
 exit
patroclus a good riddance
achilles marry this sir is proclaim'd through all our host
 that hector by the fifth hour of the sun
 will with a trumpet twixt our tents and troy
 tomorrow morning call some knight to arms
 that hath a stomach and such a one that dare
 maintaini know not what tis trash farewell
ajax farewell who shall answer him
achilles i know not tis put to lottery otherwise
 he knew his man
ajax o meaning you i will go learn more of it
 exeunt
 troilus and cressida
act ii
scene ii troy a room in priam's palace
 enter priam hector troilus paris and helenus
priam after so many hours lives speeches spent
 thus once again says nestor from the greeks
 deliver helen and all damage else
 as honour loss of time travail expense
 wounds friends and what else dear that is consumed
 in hot digestion of this cormorant war
 shall be struck off hector what say you to't
hector though no man lesser fears the greeks than i
 as far as toucheth my particular
 yet dread priam
 there is no lady of more softer bowels
 more spongy to suck in the sense of fear
 more ready to cry out who knows what follows'
 than hector is the wound of peace is surety
 surety secure but modest doubt is call'd
 the beacon of the wise the tent that searches
 to the bottom of the worst let helen go
 since the first sword was drawn about this question
 every tithe soul mongst many thousand dismes
 hath been as dear as helen i mean of ours
 if we have lost so many tenths of ours
 to guard a thing not ours nor worth to us
 had it our name the value of one ten
 what merit's in that reason which denies
 the yielding of her up
troilus fie fie my brother
 weigh you the worth and honour of a king
 so great as our dread father in a scale
 of common ounces will you with counters sum
 the past proportion of his infinite
 and buckle in a waist most fathomless
 with spans and inches so diminutive
 as fears and reasons fie for godly shame
helenus no marvel though you bite so sharp at reasons
 you are so empty of them should not our father
 bear the great sway of his affairs with reasons
 because your speech hath none that tells him so
troilus you are for dreams and slumbers brother priest
 you fur your gloves with reason here are
 your reasons
 you know an enemy intends you harm
 you know a sword employ'd is perilous
 and reason flies the object of all harm
 who marvels then when helenus beholds
 a grecian and his sword if he do set
 the very wings of reason to his heels
 and fly like chidden mercury from jove
 or like a star disorb'd nay if we talk of reason
 let's shut our gates and sleep manhood and honour
 should have harehearts would they but fat
 their thoughts
 with this cramm'd reason reason and respect
 make livers pale and lustihood deject
hector brother she is not worth what she doth cost
 the holding
troilus what is aught but as tis valued
hector but value dwells not in particular will
 it holds his estimate and dignity
 as well wherein tis precious of itself
 as in the prizer tis mad idolatry
 to make the service greater than the god
 and the will dotes that is attributive
 to what infectiously itself affects
 without some image of the affected merit
troilus i take today a wife and my election
 is led on in the conduct of my will
 my will enkindled by mine eyes and ears
 two traded pilots twixt the dangerous shores
 of will and judgment how may i avoid
 although my will distaste what it elected
 the wife i chose there can be no evasion
 to blench from this and to stand firm by honour
 we turn not back the silks upon the merchant
 when we have soil'd them nor the remainder viands
 we do not throw in unrespective sieve
 because we now are full it was thought meet
 paris should do some vengeance on the greeks
 your breath of full consent bellied his sails
 the seas and winds old wranglers took a truce
 and did him service he touch'd the ports desired
 and for an old aunt whom the greeks held captive
 he brought a grecian queen whose youth and freshness
 wrinkles apollo's and makes stale the morning
 why keep we her the grecians keep our aunt
 is she worth keeping why she is a pearl
 whose price hath launch'd above a thousand ships
 and turn'd crown'd kings to merchants
 if you'll avouch twas wisdom paris went
 as you must needs for you all cried go go'
 if you'll confess he brought home noble prize
 as you must needs for you all clapp'd your hands
 and cried inestimable'why do you now
 the issue of your proper wisdoms rate
 and do a deed that fortune never did
 beggar the estimation which you prized
 richer than sea and land o theft most base
 that we have stol'n what we do fear to keep
 but thieves unworthy of a thing so stol'n
 that in their country did them that disgrace
 we fear to warrant in our native place
cassandra within cry trojans cry
priam what noise what shriek is this
troilus tis our mad sister i do know her voice
cassandra within cry trojans
hector it is cassandra
 enter cassandra raving
cassandra cry trojans cry lend me ten thousand eyes
 and i will fill them with prophetic tears
hector peace sister peace
cassandra virgins and boys midage and wrinkled eld
 soft infancy that nothing canst but cry
 add to my clamours let us pay betimes
 a moiety of that mass of moan to come
 cry trojans cry practise your eyes with tears
 troy must not be nor goodly ilion stand
 our firebrand brother paris burns us all
 cry trojans cry a helen and a woe
 cry cry troy burns or else let helen go
 exit
hector now youthful troilus do not these high strains
 of divination in our sister work
 some touches of remorse or is your blood
 so madly hot that no discourse of reason
 nor fear of bad success in a bad cause
 can qualify the same
troilus why brother hector
 we may not think the justness of each act
 such and no other than event doth form it
 nor once deject the courage of our minds
 because cassandra's mad her brainsick raptures
 cannot distaste the goodness of a quarrel
 which hath our several honours all engaged
 to make it gracious for my private part
 i am no more touch'd than all priam's sons
 and jove forbid there should be done amongst us
 such things as might offend the weakest spleen
 to fight for and maintain
paris else might the world convince of levity
 as well my undertakings as your counsels
 but i attest the gods your full consent
 gave wings to my propension and cut off
 all fears attending on so dire a project
 for what alas can these my single arms
 what propugnation is in one man's valour
 to stand the push and enmity of those
 this quarrel would excite yet i protest
 were i alone to pass the difficulties
 and had as ample power as i have will
 paris should ne'er retract what he hath done
 nor faint in the pursuit
priam paris you speak
 like one besotted on your sweet delights
 you have the honey still but these the gall
 so to be valiant is no praise at all
paris sir i propose not merely to myself
 the pleasures such a beauty brings with it
 but i would have the soil of her fair rape
 wiped off in honourable keeping her
 what treason were it to the ransack'd queen
 disgrace to your great worths and shame to me
 now to deliver her possession up
 on terms of base compulsion can it be
 that so degenerate a strain as this
 should once set footing in your generous bosoms
 there's not the meanest spirit on our party
 without a heart to dare or sword to draw
 when helen is defended nor none so noble
 whose life were ill bestow'd or death unfamed
 where helen is the subject then i say
 well may we fight for her whom we know well
 the world's large spaces cannot parallel
hector paris and troilus you have both said well
 and on the cause and question now in hand
 have glozed but superficially not much
 unlike young men whom aristotle thought
 unfit to hear moral philosophy
 the reasons you allege do more conduce
 to the hot passion of distemper'd blood
 than to make up a free determination
 twixt right and wrong for pleasure and revenge
 have ears more deaf than adders to the voice
 of any true decision nature craves
 all dues be render'd to their owners now
 what nearer debt in all humanity
 than wife is to the husband if this law
 of nature be corrupted through affection
 and that great minds of partial indulgence
 to their benumbed wills resist the same
 there is a law in each wellorder'd nation
 to curb those raging appetites that are
 most disobedient and refractory
 if helen then be wife to sparta's king
 as it is known she is these moral laws
 of nature and of nations speak aloud
 to have her back return'd thus to persist
 in doing wrong extenuates not wrong
 but makes it much more heavy hector's opinion
 is this in way of truth yet ne'ertheless
 my spritely brethren i propend to you
 in resolution to keep helen still
 for tis a cause that hath no mean dependance
 upon our joint and several dignities
troilus why there you touch'd the life of our design
 were it not glory that we more affected
 than the performance of our heaving spleens
 i would not wish a drop of trojan blood
 spent more in her defence but worthy hector
 she is a theme of honour and renown
 a spur to valiant and magnanimous deeds
 whose present courage may beat down our foes
 and fame in time to come canonize us
 for i presume brave hector would not lose
 so rich advantage of a promised glory
 as smiles upon the forehead of this action
 for the wide world's revenue
hector i am yours
 you valiant offspring of great priamus
 i have a roisting challenge sent amongst
 the dun and factious nobles of the greeks
 will strike amazement to their drowsy spirits
 i was advertised their great general slept
 whilst emulation in the army crept
 this i presume will wake him
 exeunt
 troilus and cressida
act ii
scene iii the grecian camp before achilles tent
 enter thersites solus
thersites how now thersites what lost in the labyrinth of
 thy fury shall the elephant ajax carry it thus he
 beats me and i rail at him o worthy satisfaction
 would it were otherwise that i could beat him
 whilst he railed at me sfoot i'll learn to
 conjure and raise devils but i'll see some issue of
 my spiteful execrations then there's achilles a
 rare enginer if troy be not taken till these two
 undermine it the walls will stand till they fall of
 themselves o thou great thunderdarter of olympus
 forget that thou art jove the king of gods and
 mercury lose all the serpentine craft of thy
 caduceus if ye take not that little little less
 than little wit from them that they have which
 shortarmed ignorance itself knows is so abundant
 scarce it will not in circumvention deliver a fly
 from a spider without drawing their massy irons and
 cutting the web after this the vengeance on the
 whole camp or rather the boneache for that
 methinks is the curse dependent on those that war
 for a placket i have said my prayers and devil envy
 say amen what ho my lord achilles
 enter patroclus
patroclus who's there thersites good thersites come in and rail
thersites if i could have remembered a gilt counterfeit thou
 wouldst not have slipped out of my contemplation but
 it is no matter thyself upon thyself the common
 curse of mankind folly and ignorance be thine in
 great revenue heaven bless thee from a tutor and
 discipline come not near thee let thy blood be thy
 direction till thy death then if she that lays thee
 out says thou art a fair corse i'll be sworn and
 sworn upon't she never shrouded any but lazars
 amen where's achilles
patroclus what art thou devout wast thou in prayer
thersites ay the heavens hear me
 enter achilles
achilles who's there
patroclus thersites my lord
achilles where where art thou come why my cheese my
 digestion why hast thou not served thyself in to
 my table so many meals come what's agamemnon
thersites thy commander achilles then tell me patroclus
 what's achilles
patroclus thy lord thersites then tell me i pray thee
 what's thyself
thersites thy knower patroclus then tell me patroclus
 what art thou
patroclus thou mayst tell that knowest
achilles o tell tell
thersites i'll decline the whole question agamemnon commands
 achilles achilles is my lord i am patroclus'
 knower and patroclus is a fool
patroclus you rascal
thersites peace fool i have not done
achilles he is a privileged man proceed thersites
thersites agamemnon is a fool achilles is a fool thersites
 is a fool and as aforesaid patroclus is a fool
achilles derive this come
thersites agamemnon is a fool to offer to command achilles
 achilles is a fool to be commanded of agamemnon
 thersites is a fool to serve such a fool and
 patroclus is a fool positive
patroclus why am i a fool
thersites make that demand of the prover it suffices me thou
 art look you who comes here
achilles patroclus i'll speak with nobody
 come in with me thersites
 exit
thersites here is such patchery such juggling and such
 knavery all the argument is a cuckold and a
 whore a good quarrel to draw emulous factions
 and bleed to death upon now the dry serpigo on
 the subject and war and lechery confound all
 exit
 enter agamemnon ulysses nestor diomedes and ajax
agamemnon where is achilles
patroclus within his tent but ill disposed my lord
agamemnon let it be known to him that we are here
 he shent our messengers and we lay by
 our appertainments visiting of him
 let him be told so lest perchance he think
 we dare not move the question of our place
 or know not what we are
patroclus i shall say so to him
 exit
ulysses we saw him at the opening of his tent
 he is not sick
ajax yes lionsick sick of proud heart you may call it
 melancholy if you will favour the man but by my
 head tis pride but why why let him show us the
 cause a word my lord
 takes agamemnon aside
nestor what moves ajax thus to bay at him
ulysses achilles hath inveigled his fool from him
nestor who thersites
ulysses he
nestor then will ajax lack matter if he have lost his argument
ulysses no you see he is his argument that has his
 argument achilles
nestor all the better their fraction is more our wish than
 their faction but it was a strong composure a fool
 could disunite
ulysses the amity that wisdom knits not folly may easily
 untie here comes patroclus
 reenter patroclus
nestor no achilles with him
ulysses the elephant hath joints but none for courtesy
 his legs are legs for necessity not for flexure
patroclus achilles bids me say he is much sorry
 if any thing more than your sport and pleasure
 did move your greatness and this noble state
 to call upon him he hopes it is no other
 but for your health and your digestion sake
 and afterdinner's breath
agamemnon hear you patroclus
 we are too well acquainted with these answers
 but his evasion wing'd thus swift with scorn
 cannot outfly our apprehensions
 much attribute he hath and much the reason
 why we ascribe it to him yet all his virtues
 not virtuously on his own part beheld
 do in our eyes begin to lose their gloss
 yea like fair fruit in an unwholesome dish
 are like to rot untasted go and tell him
 we come to speak with him and you shall not sin
 if you do say we think him overproud
 and underhonest in selfassumption greater
 than in the note of judgment and worthier
 than himself
 here tend the savage strangeness he puts on
 disguise the holy strength of their command
 and underwrite in an observing kind
 his humorous predominance yea watch
 his pettish lunes his ebbs his flows as if
 the passage and whole carriage of this action
 rode on his tide go tell him this and add
 that if he overhold his price so much
 we'll none of him but let him like an engine
 not portable lie under this report
 bring action hither this cannot go to war
 a stirring dwarf we do allowance give
 before a sleeping giant tell him so
patroclus i shall and bring his answer presently
 exit
agamemnon in second voice we'll not be satisfied
 we come to speak with him ulysses enter you
 exit ulysses
ajax what is he more than another
agamemnon no more than what he thinks he is
ajax is he so much do you not think he thinks himself a
 better man than i am
agamemnon no question
ajax will you subscribe his thought and say he is
agamemnon no noble ajax you are as strong as valiant as
 wise no less noble much more gentle and altogether
 more tractable
ajax why should a man be proud how doth pride grow i
 know not what pride is
agamemnon your mind is the clearer ajax and your virtues the
 fairer he that is proud eats up himself pride is
 his own glass his own trumpet his own chronicle
 and whatever praises itself but in the deed devours
 the deed in the praise
ajax i do hate a proud man as i hate the engendering of toads
nestor yet he loves himself is't not strange
 aside
 reenter ulysses
ulysses achilles will not to the field tomorrow
agamemnon what's his excuse
ulysses he doth rely on none
 but carries on the stream of his dispose
 without observance or respect of any
 in will peculiar and in selfadmission
agamemnon why will he not upon our fair request
 untent his person and share the air with us
ulysses things small as nothing for request's sake only
 he makes important possess'd he is with greatness
 and speaks not to himself but with a pride
 that quarrels at selfbreath imagined worth
 holds in his blood such swoln and hot discourse
 that twixt his mental and his active parts
 kingdom'd achilles in commotion rages
 and batters down himself what should i say
 he is so plaguy proud that the deathtokens of it
 cry no recovery'
agamemnon let ajax go to him
 dear lord go you and greet him in his tent
 tis said he holds you well and will be led
 at your request a little from himself
ulysses o agamemnon let it not be so
 we'll consecrate the steps that ajax makes
 when they go from achilles shall the proud lord
 that bastes his arrogance with his own seam
 and never suffers matter of the world
 enter his thoughts save such as do revolve
 and ruminate himself shall he be worshipp'd
 of that we hold an idol more than he
 no this thrice worthy and right valiant lord
 must not so stale his palm nobly acquired
 nor by my will assubjugate his merit
 as amply titled as achilles is
 by going to achilles
 that were to enlard his fat already pride
 and add more coals to cancer when he burns
 with entertaining great hyperion
 this lord go to him jupiter forbid
 and say in thunder achilles go to him'
nestor aside to diomedes o this is well he rubs the
 vein of him
diomedes aside to nestor and how his silence drinks up
 this applause
ajax if i go to him with my armed fist i'll pash him o'er the face
agamemnon o no you shall not go
ajax an a be proud with me i'll pheeze his pride
 let me go to him
ulysses not for the worth that hangs upon our quarrel
ajax a paltry insolent fellow
nestor how he describes himself
ajax can he not be sociable
ulysses the raven chides blackness
ajax i'll let his humours blood
agamemnon he will be the physician that should be the patient
ajax an all men were o my mind
ulysses wit would be out of fashion
ajax a should not bear it so a should eat swords first
 shall pride carry it
nestor an twould you'ld carry half
ulysses a would have ten shares
ajax i will knead him i'll make him supple
nestor he's not yet through warm force him with praises
 pour in pour in his ambition is dry
ulysses to agamemnon my lord you feed too much on this dislike
nestor our noble general do not do so
diomedes you must prepare to fight without achilles
ulysses why tis this naming of him does him harm
 here is a manbut tis before his face
 i will be silent
nestor wherefore should you so
 he is not emulous as achilles is
ulysses know the whole world he is as valiant
ajax a whoreson dog that shall pelter thus with us
 would he were a trojan
nestor what a vice were it in ajax now
ulysses if he were proud
diomedes or covetous of praise
ulysses ay or surly borne
diomedes or strange or selfaffected
ulysses thank the heavens lord thou art of sweet composure
 praise him that got thee she that gave thee suck
 famed be thy tutor and thy parts of nature
 thrice famed beyond all erudition
 but he that disciplined thy arms to fight
 let mars divide eternity in twain
 and give him half and for thy vigour
 bullbearing milo his addition yield
 to sinewy ajax i will not praise thy wisdom
 which like a bourn a pale a shore confines
 thy spacious and dilated parts here's nestor
 instructed by the antiquary times
 he must he is he cannot but be wise
 put pardon father nestor were your days
 as green as ajax and your brain so temper'd
 you should not have the eminence of him
 but be as ajax
ajax shall i call you father
nestor ay my good son
diomedes be ruled by him lord ajax
ulysses there is no tarrying here the hart achilles
 keeps thicket please it our great general
 to call together all his state of war
 fresh kings are come to troy tomorrow
 we must with all our main of power stand fast
 and here's a lordcome knights from east to west
 and cull their flower ajax shall cope the best
agamemnon go we to council let achilles sleep
 light boats sail swift though greater hulks draw deep
 exeunt
 troilus and cressida
act iii
scene i troy priam's palace
 enter a servant and pandarus
pandarus friend you pray you a word do not you follow
 the young lord paris
servant ay sir when he goes before me
pandarus you depend upon him i mean
servant sir i do depend upon the lord
pandarus you depend upon a noble gentleman i must needs
 praise him
servant the lord be praised
pandarus you know me do you not
servant faith sir superficially
pandarus friend know me better i am the lord pandarus
servant i hope i shall know your honour better
pandarus i do desire it
servant you are in the state of grace
pandarus grace not so friend honour and lordship are my titles
 music within
 what music is this
servant i do but partly know sir it is music in parts
pandarus know you the musicians
servant wholly sir
pandarus who play they to
servant to the hearers sir
pandarus at whose pleasure friend
servant at mine sir and theirs that love music
pandarus command i mean friend
servant who shall i command sir
pandarus friend we understand not one another i am too
 courtly and thou art too cunning at whose request
 do these men play
servant that's to t indeed sir marry sir at the request
 of paris my lord who's there in person with him
 the mortal venus the heartblood of beauty love's
 invisible soul
pandarus who my cousin cressida
servant no sir helen could you not find out that by her
 attributes
pandarus it should seem fellow that thou hast not seen the
 lady cressida i come to speak with paris from the
 prince troilus i will make a complimental assault
 upon him for my business seethes
servant sodden business there's a stewed phrase indeed
 enter paris and helen attended
pandarus fair be to you my lord and to all this fair
 company fair desires in all fair measure
 fairly guide them especially to you fair queen
 fair thoughts be your fair pillow
helen dear lord you are full of fair words
pandarus you speak your fair pleasure sweet queen fair
 prince here is good broken music
paris you have broke it cousin and by my life you
 shall make it whole again you shall piece it out
 with a piece of your performance nell he is full
 of harmony
pandarus truly lady no
helen o sir
pandarus rude in sooth in good sooth very rude
paris well said my lord well you say so in fits
pandarus i have business to my lord dear queen my lord
 will you vouchsafe me a word
helen nay this shall not hedge us out we'll hear you
 sing certainly
pandarus well sweet queen you are pleasant with me but
 marry thus my lord my dear lord and most esteemed
 friend your brother troilus
helen my lord pandarus honeysweet lord
pandarus go to sweet queen to gocommends himself most
 affectionately to you
helen you shall not bob us out of our melody if you do
 our melancholy upon your head
pandarus sweet queen sweet queen that's a sweet queen i faith
helen and to make a sweet lady sad is a sour offence
pandarus nay that shall not serve your turn that shall not
 in truth la nay i care not for such words no
 no and my lord he desires you that if the king
 call for him at supper you will make his excuse
helen my lord pandarus
pandarus what says my sweet queen my very very sweet queen
paris what exploit's in hand where sups he tonight
helen nay but my lord
pandarus what says my sweet queen my cousin will fall out
 with you you must not know where he sups
paris i'll lay my life with my disposer cressida
pandarus no no no such matter you are wide come your
 disposer is sick
paris well i'll make excuse
pandarus ay good my lord why should you say cressida no
 your poor disposer's sick
paris i spy
pandarus you spy what do you spy come give me an
 instrument now sweet queen
helen why this is kindly done
pandarus my niece is horribly in love with a thing you have
 sweet queen
helen she shall have it my lord if it be not my lord paris
pandarus he no she'll none of him they two are twain
helen falling in after falling out may make them three
pandarus come come i'll hear no more of this i'll sing
 you a song now
helen ay ay prithee now by my troth sweet lord thou
 hast a fine forehead
pandarus ay you may you may
helen let thy song be love this love will undo us all
 o cupid cupid cupid
pandarus love ay that it shall i faith
paris ay good now love love nothing but love
pandarus in good troth it begins so
 sings
 love love nothing but love still more
 for o love's bow
 shoots buck and doe
 the shaft confounds
 not that it wounds
 but tickles still the sore
 these lovers cry oh oh they die
 yet that which seems the wound to kill
 doth turn oh oh to ha ha he
 so dying love lives still
 oh oh a while but ha ha ha
 oh oh groans out for ha ha ha
 heighho
helen in love i faith to the very tip of the nose
paris he eats nothing but doves love and that breeds hot
 blood and hot blood begets hot thoughts and hot
 thoughts beget hot deeds and hot deeds is love
pandarus is this the generation of love hot blood hot
 thoughts and hot deeds why they are vipers
 is love a generation of vipers sweet lord who's
 afield today
paris hector deiphobus helenus antenor and all the
 gallantry of troy i would fain have armed today
 but my nell would not have it so how chance my
 brother troilus went not
helen he hangs the lip at something you know all lord pandarus
pandarus not i honeysweet queen i long to hear how they
 sped today you'll remember your brother's excuse
paris to a hair
pandarus farewell sweet queen
helen commend me to your niece
pandarus i will sweet queen
 exit
 a retreat sounded
paris they're come from field let us to priam's hall
 to greet the warriors sweet helen i must woo you
 to help unarm our hector his stubborn buckles
 with these your white enchanting fingers touch'd
 shall more obey than to the edge of steel
 or force of greekish sinews you shall do more
 than all the island kingsdisarm great hector
helen twill make us proud to be his servant paris
 yea what he shall receive of us in duty
 gives us more palm in beauty than we have
 yea overshines ourself
paris sweet above thought i love thee
 exeunt
 troilus and cressida
act iii
scene ii the same pandarus orchard
 enter pandarus and troilus's boy meeting
pandarus how now where's thy master at my cousin
 cressida's
boy no sir he stays for you to conduct him thither
pandarus o here he comes
 enter troilus
 how now how now
troilus sirrah walk off
 exit boy
pandarus have you seen my cousin
troilus no pandarus i stalk about her door
 like a strange soul upon the stygian banks
 staying for waftage o be thou my charon
 and give me swift transportance to those fields
 where i may wallow in the lilybeds
 proposed for the deserver o gentle pandarus
 from cupid's shoulder pluck his painted wings
 and fly with me to cressid
pandarus walk here i the orchard i'll bring her straight
 exit
troilus i am giddy expectation whirls me round
 the imaginary relish is so sweet
 that it enchants my sense what will it be
 when that the watery palate tastes indeed
 love's thrice repured nectar death i fear me
 swooning destruction or some joy too fine
 too subtlepotent tuned too sharp in sweetness
 for the capacity of my ruder powers
 i fear it much and i do fear besides
 that i shall lose distinction in my joys
 as doth a battle when they charge on heaps
 the enemy flying
 reenter pandarus
pandarus she's making her ready she'll come straight you
 must be witty now she does so blush and fetches
 her wind so short as if she were frayed with a
 sprite i'll fetch her it is the prettiest
 villain she fetches her breath as short as a
 newta'en sparrow
 exit
troilus even such a passion doth embrace my bosom
 my heart beats thicker than a feverous pulse
 and all my powers do their bestowing lose
 like vassalage at unawares encountering
 the eye of majesty
 reenter pandarus with cressida
pandarus come come what need you blush shame's a baby
 here she is now swear the oaths now to her that
 you have sworn to me what are you gone again
 you must be watched ere you be made tame must you
 come your ways come your ways an you draw backward
 we'll put you i the fills why do you not speak to
 her come draw this curtain and let's see your
 picture alas the day how loath you are to offend
 daylight an twere dark you'ld close sooner
 so so rub on and kiss the mistress how now
 a kiss in feefarm build there carpenter the air
 is sweet nay you shall fight your hearts out ere
 i part you the falcon as the tercel for all the
 ducks i the river go to go to
troilus you have bereft me of all words lady
pandarus words pay no debts give her deeds but she'll
 bereave you o the deeds too if she call your
 activity in question what billing again here's
 in witness whereof the parties interchangeably'
 come in come in i'll go get a fire
 exit
cressida will you walk in my lord
troilus o cressida how often have i wished me thus
cressida wished my lord the gods granto my lord
troilus what should they grant what makes this pretty
 abruption what too curious dreg espies my sweet
 lady in the fountain of our love
cressida more dregs than water if my fears have eyes
troilus fears make devils of cherubims they never see truly
cressida blind fear that seeing reason leads finds safer
 footing than blind reason stumbling without fear to
 fear the worst oft cures the worse
troilus o let my lady apprehend no fear in all cupid's
 pageant there is presented no monster
cressida nor nothing monstrous neither
troilus nothing but our undertakings when we vow to weep
 seas live in fire eat rocks tame tigers thinking
 it harder for our mistress to devise imposition
 enough than for us to undergo any difficulty imposed
 this is the monstruosity in love lady that the will
 is infinite and the execution confined that the
 desire is boundless and the act a slave to limit
cressida they say all lovers swear more performance than they
 are able and yet reserve an ability that they never
 perform vowing more than the perfection of ten and
 discharging less than the tenth part of one they
 that have the voice of lions and the act of hares
 are they not monsters
troilus are there such such are not we praise us as we
 are tasted allow us as we prove our head shall go
 bare till merit crown it no perfection in reversion
 shall have a praise in present we will not name
 desert before his birth and being born his addition
 shall be humble few words to fair faith troilus
 shall be such to cressid as what envy can say worst
 shall be a mock for his truth and what truth can
 speak truest not truer than troilus
cressida will you walk in my lord
 reenter pandarus
pandarus what blushing still have you not done talking yet
cressida well uncle what folly i commit i dedicate to you
pandarus i thank you for that if my lord get a boy of you
 you'll give him me be true to my lord if he
 flinch chide me for it
troilus you know now your hostages your uncle's word and my
 firm faith
pandarus nay i'll give my word for her too our kindred
 though they be long ere they are wooed they are
 constant being won they are burs i can tell you
 they'll stick where they are thrown
cressida boldness comes to me now and brings me heart
 prince troilus i have loved you night and day
 for many weary months
troilus why was my cressid then so hard to win
cressida hard to seem won but i was won my lord
 with the first glance that everpardon me
 if i confess much you will play the tyrant
 i love you now but not till now so much
 but i might master it in faith i lie
 my thoughts were like unbridled children grown
 too headstrong for their mother see we fools
 why have i blabb'd who shall be true to us
 when we are so unsecret to ourselves
 but though i loved you well i woo'd you not
 and yet good faith i wish'd myself a man
 or that we women had men's privilege
 of speaking first sweet bid me hold my tongue
 for in this rapture i shall surely speak
 the thing i shall repent see see your silence
 cunning in dumbness from my weakness draws
 my very soul of counsel stop my mouth
troilus and shall albeit sweet music issues thence
pandarus pretty i faith
cressida my lord i do beseech you pardon me
 twas not my purpose thus to beg a kiss
 i am ashamed o heavens what have i done
 for this time will i take my leave my lord
troilus your leave sweet cressid
pandarus leave an you take leave till tomorrow morning
cressida pray you content you
troilus what offends you lady
cressida sir mine own company
troilus you cannot shun yourself
cressida let me go and try
 i have a kind of self resides with you
 but an unkind self that itself will leave
 to be another's fool i would be gone
 where is my wit i know not what i speak
troilus well know they what they speak that speak so wisely
cressida perchance my lord i show more craft than love
 and fell so roundly to a large confession
 to angle for your thoughts but you are wise
 or else you love not for to be wise and love
 exceeds man's might that dwells with gods above
troilus o that i thought it could be in a woman
 as if it can i will presume in you
 to feed for aye her ramp and flames of love
 to keep her constancy in plight and youth
 outliving beauty's outward with a mind
 that doth renew swifter than blood decays
 or that persuasion could but thus convince me
 that my integrity and truth to you
 might be affronted with the match and weight
 of such a winnow'd purity in love
 how were i then uplifted but alas
 i am as true as truth's simplicity
 and simpler than the infancy of truth
cressida in that i'll war with you
troilus o virtuous fight
 when right with right wars who shall be most right
 true swains in love shall in the world to come
 approve their truths by troilus when their rhymes
 full of protest of oath and big compare
 want similes truth tired with iteration
 as true as steel as plantage to the moon
 as sun to day as turtle to her mate
 as iron to adamant as earth to the centre
 yet after all comparisons of truth
 as truth's authentic author to be cited
 as true as troilus shall crown up the verse
 and sanctify the numbers
cressida prophet may you be
 if i be false or swerve a hair from truth
 when time is old and hath forgot itself
 when waterdrops have worn the stones of troy
 and blind oblivion swallow'd cities up
 and mighty states characterless are grated
 to dusty nothing yet let memory
 from false to false among false maids in love
 upbraid my falsehood when they've said as false
 as air as water wind or sandy earth
 as fox to lamb as wolf to heifer's calf
 pard to the hind or stepdame to her son'
 yea let them say to stick the heart of falsehood
 as false as cressid'
pandarus go to a bargain made seal it seal it i'll be the
 witness here i hold your hand here my cousin's
 if ever you prove false one to another since i have
 taken such pains to bring you together let all
 pitiful goersbetween be called to the world's end
 after my name call them all pandars let all
 constant men be troiluses all false women cressids
 and all brokersbetween pandars say amen
troilus amen
cressida amen
pandarus amen whereupon i will show you a chamber with a
 bed which bed because it shall not speak of your
 pretty encounters press it to death away
 and cupid grant all tonguetied maidens here
 bed chamber pandar to provide this gear
 exeunt
 troilus and cressida
act iii
scene iii the grecian camp before achilles tent
 enter agamemnon ulysses diomedes nestor ajax
 menelaus and calchas
calchas now princes for the service i have done you
 the advantage of the time prompts me aloud
 to call for recompense appear it to your mind
 that through the sight i bear in things to love
 i have abandon'd troy left my possession
 incurr'd a traitor's name exposed myself
 from certain and possess'd conveniences
 to doubtful fortunes sequestering from me all
 that time acquaintance custom and condition
 made tame and most familiar to my nature
 and here to do you service am become
 as new into the world strange unacquainted
 i do beseech you as in way of taste
 to give me now a little benefit
 out of those many register'd in promise
 which you say live to come in my behalf
agamemnon what wouldst thou of us trojan make demand
calchas you have a trojan prisoner call'd antenor
 yesterday took troy holds him very dear
 oft have youoften have you thanks therefore
 desired my cressid in right great exchange
 whom troy hath still denied but this antenor
 i know is such a wrest in their affairs
 that their negotiations all must slack
 wanting his manage and they will almost
 give us a prince of blood a son of priam
 in change of him let him be sent great princes
 and he shall buy my daughter and her presence
 shall quite strike off all service i have done
 in most accepted pain
agamemnon let diomedes bear him
 and bring us cressid hither calchas shall have
 what he requests of us good diomed
 furnish you fairly for this interchange
 withal bring word if hector will tomorrow
 be answer'd in his challenge ajax is ready
diomedes this shall i undertake and tis a burden
 which i am proud to bear
 exeunt diomedes and calchas
 enter achilles and patroclus before their tent
ulysses achilles stands i the entrance of his tent
 please it our general to pass strangely by him
 as if he were forgot and princes all
 lay negligent and loose regard upon him
 i will come last tis like he'll question me
 why such unplausive eyes are bent on him
 if so i have derision medicinable
 to use between your strangeness and his pride
 which his own will shall have desire to drink
 it may be good pride hath no other glass
 to show itself but pride for supple knees
 feed arrogance and are the proud man's fees
agamemnon we'll execute your purpose and put on
 a form of strangeness as we pass along
 so do each lord and either greet him not
 or else disdainfully which shall shake him more
 than if not look'd on i will lead the way
achilles what comes the general to speak with me
 you know my mind i'll fight no more gainst troy
agamemnon what says achilles would he aught with us
nestor would you my lord aught with the general
achilles no
nestor nothing my lord
agamemnon the better
 exeunt agamemnon and nestor
achilles good day good day
menelaus how do you how do you
 exit
achilles what does the cuckold scorn me
ajax how now patroclus
achilles good morrow ajax
ajax ha
achilles good morrow
ajax ay and good next day too
 exit
achilles what mean these fellows know they not achilles
patroclus they pass by strangely they were used to bend
 to send their smiles before them to achilles
 to come as humbly as they used to creep
 to holy altars
achilles what am i poor of late
 tis certain greatness once fall'n out with fortune
 must fall out with men too what the declined is
 he shall as soon read in the eyes of others
 as feel in his own fall for men like butterflies
 show not their mealy wings but to the summer
 and not a man for being simply man
 hath any honour but honour for those honours
 that are without him as place riches favour
 prizes of accident as oft as merit
 which when they fall as being slippery standers
 the love that lean'd on them as slippery too
 do one pluck down another and together
 die in the fall but tis not so with me
 fortune and i are friends i do enjoy
 at ample point all that i did possess
 save these men's looks who do methinks find out
 something not worth in me such rich beholding
 as they have often given here is ulysses
 i'll interrupt his reading
 how now ulysses
ulysses now great thetis son
achilles what are you reading
ulysses a strange fellow here
 writes me that man how dearly ever parted
 how much in having or without or in
 cannot make boast to have that which he hath
 nor feels not what he owes but by reflection
 as when his virtues shining upon others
 heat them and they retort that heat again
 to the first giver'
achilles this is not strange ulysses
 the beauty that is borne here in the face
 the bearer knows not but commends itself
 to others eyes nor doth the eye itself
 that most pure spirit of sense behold itself
 not going from itself but eye to eye opposed
 salutes each other with each other's form
 for speculation turns not to itself
 till it hath travell'd and is mirror'd there
 where it may see itself this is not strange at all
ulysses i do not strain at the position
 it is familiarbut at the author's drift
 who in his circumstance expressly proves
 that no man is the lord of any thing
 though in and of him there be much consisting
 till he communicate his parts to others
 nor doth he of himself know them for aught
 till he behold them form'd in the applause
 where they're extended who like an arch
 reverberates
 the voice again or like a gate of steel
 fronting the sun receives and renders back
 his figure and his heat i was much wrapt in this
 and apprehended here immediately
 the unknown ajax
 heavens what a man is there a very horse
 that has he knows not what nature what things there are
 most abject in regard and dear in use
 what things again most dear in the esteem
 and poor in worth now shall we see tomorrow
 an act that very chance doth throw upon him
 ajax renown'd o heavens what some men do
 while some men leave to do
 how some men creep in skittish fortune's hall
 whiles others play the idiots in her eyes
 how one man eats into another's pride
 while pride is fasting in his wantonness
 to see these grecian lordswhy even already
 they clap the lubber ajax on the shoulder
 as if his foot were on brave hector's breast
 and great troy shrieking
achilles i do believe it for they pass'd by me
 as misers do by beggars neither gave to me
 good word nor look what are my deeds forgot
ulysses time hath my lord a wallet at his back
 wherein he puts alms for oblivion
 a greatsized monster of ingratitudes
 those scraps are good deeds past which are devour'd
 as fast as they are made forgot as soon
 as done perseverance dear my lord
 keeps honour bright to have done is to hang
 quite out of fashion like a rusty mail
 in monumental mockery take the instant way
 for honour travels in a strait so narrow
 where one but goes abreast keep then the path
 for emulation hath a thousand sons
 that one by one pursue if you give way
 or hedge aside from the direct forthright
 like to an enter'd tide they all rush by
 and leave you hindmost
 or like a gallant horse fall'n in first rank
 lie there for pavement to the abject rear
 o'errun and trampled on then what they do in present
 though less than yours in past must o'ertop yours
 for time is like a fashionable host
 that slightly shakes his parting guest by the hand
 and with his arms outstretch'd as he would fly
 grasps in the comer welcome ever smiles
 and farewell goes out sighing o let not
 virtue seek
 remuneration for the thing it was
 for beauty wit
 high birth vigour of bone desert in service
 love friendship charity are subjects all
 to envious and calumniating time
 one touch of nature makes the whole world kin
 that all with one consent praise newborn gawds
 though they are made and moulded of things past
 and give to dust that is a little gilt
 more laud than gilt o'erdusted
 the present eye praises the present object
 then marvel not thou great and complete man
 that all the greeks begin to worship ajax
 since things in motion sooner catch the eye
 than what not stirs the cry went once on thee
 and still it might and yet it may again
 if thou wouldst not entomb thyself alive
 and case thy reputation in thy tent
 whose glorious deeds but in these fields of late
 made emulous missions mongst the gods themselves
 and drave great mars to faction
achilles of this my privacy
 i have strong reasons
ulysses but gainst your privacy
 the reasons are more potent and heroical
 tis known achilles that you are in love
 with one of priam's daughters
achilles ha known
ulysses is that a wonder
 the providence that's in a watchful state
 knows almost every grain of plutus gold
 finds bottom in the uncomprehensive deeps
 keeps place with thought and almost like the gods
 does thoughts unveil in their dumb cradles
 there is a mysterywith whom relation
 durst never meddlein the soul of state
 which hath an operation more divine
 than breath or pen can give expressure to
 all the commerce that you have had with troy
 as perfectly is ours as yours my lord
 and better would it fit achilles much
 to throw down hector than polyxena
 but it must grieve young pyrrhus now at home
 when fame shall in our islands sound her trump
 and all the greekish girls shall tripping sing
 great hector's sister did achilles win
 but our great ajax bravely beat down him'
 farewell my lord i as your lover speak
 the fool slides o'er the ice that you should break
 exit
patroclus to this effect achilles have i moved you
 a woman impudent and mannish grown
 is not more loathed than an effeminate man
 in time of action i stand condemn'd for this
 they think my little stomach to the war
 and your great love to me restrains you thus
 sweet rouse yourself and the weak wanton cupid
 shall from your neck unloose his amorous fold
 and like a dewdrop from the lion's mane
 be shook to air
achilles shall ajax fight with hector
patroclus ay and perhaps receive much honour by him
achilles i see my reputation is at stake
 my fame is shrewdly gored
patroclus o then beware
 those wounds heal ill that men do give themselves
 omission to do what is necessary
 seals a commission to a blank of danger
 and danger like an ague subtly taints
 even then when we sit idly in the sun
achilles go call thersites hither sweet patroclus
 i'll send the fool to ajax and desire him
 to invite the trojan lords after the combat
 to see us here unarm'd i have a woman's longing
 an appetite that i am sick withal
 to see great hector in his weeds of peace
 to talk with him and to behold his visage
 even to my full of view
 enter thersites
 a labour saved
thersites a wonder
achilles what
thersites ajax goes up and down the field asking for himself
achilles how so
thersites he must fight singly tomorrow with hector and is so
 prophetically proud of an heroical cudgelling that he
 raves in saying nothing
achilles how can that be
thersites why he stalks up and down like a peacocka stride
 and a stand ruminates like an hostess that hath no
 arithmetic but her brain to set down her reckoning
 bites his lip with a politic regard as who should
 say there were wit in this head an twould out'
 and so there is but it lies as coldly in him as fire
 in a flint which will not show without knocking
 the man's undone forever for if hector break not his
 neck i the combat he'll break t himself in
 vainglory he knows not me i said good morrow
 ajax and he replies thanks agamemnon what think
 you of this man that takes me for the general he's
 grown a very landfish languageless a monster
 a plague of opinion a man may wear it on both
 sides like a leather jerkin
achilles thou must be my ambassador to him thersites
thersites who i why he'll answer nobody he professes not
 answering speaking is for beggars he wears his
 tongue in's arms i will put on his presence let
 patroclus make demands to me you shall see the
 pageant of ajax
achilles to him patroclus tell him i humbly desire the
 valiant ajax to invite the most valorous hector
 to come unarmed to my tent and to procure
 safeconduct for his person of the magnanimous
 and most illustrious sixorseventimeshonoured
 captaingeneral of the grecian army agamemnon
 et cetera do this
patroclus jove bless great ajax
thersites hum
patroclus i come from the worthy achilles
thersites ha
patroclus who most humbly desires you to invite hector to his tent
thersites hum
patroclus and to procure safeconduct from agamemnon
thersites agamemnon
patroclus ay my lord
thersites ha
patroclus what say you to't
thersites god b wi you with all my heart
patroclus your answer sir
thersites if tomorrow be a fair day by eleven o'clock it will
 go one way or other howsoever he shall pay for me
 ere he has me
patroclus your answer sir
thersites fare you well with all my heart
achilles why but he is not in this tune is he
thersites no but he's out o tune thus what music will be in
 him when hector has knocked out his brains i know
 not but i am sure none unless the fiddler apollo
 get his sinews to make catlings on
achilles come thou shalt bear a letter to him straight
thersites let me bear another to his horse for that's the more
 capable creature
achilles my mind is troubled like a fountain stirr'd
 and i myself see not the bottom of it
 exeunt achilles and patroclus
thersites would the fountain of your mind were clear again
 that i might water an ass at it i had rather be a
 tick in a sheep than such a valiant ignorance
 exit
 troilus and cressida
act iv
scene i troy a street
 enter from one side aeneas and servant with a
 torch from the other paris deiphobus antenor
 diomedes and others with torches
paris see ho who is that there
deiphobus it is the lord aeneas
aeneas is the prince there in person
 had i so good occasion to lie long
 as you prince paris nothing but heavenly business
 should rob my bedmate of my company
diomedes that's my mind too good morrow lord aeneas
paris a valiant greek aeneastake his hand
 witness the process of your speech wherein
 you told how diomed a whole week by days
 did haunt you in the field
aeneas health to you valiant sir
 during all question of the gentle truce
 but when i meet you arm'd as black defiance
 as heart can think or courage execute
diomedes the one and other diomed embraces
 our bloods are now in calm and so long health
 but when contention and occasion meet
 by jove i'll play the hunter for thy life
 with all my force pursuit and policy
aeneas and thou shalt hunt a lion that will fly
 with his face backward in humane gentleness
 welcome to troy now by anchises life
 welcome indeed by venus hand i swear
 no man alive can love in such a sort
 the thing he means to kill more excellently
diomedes we sympathize jove let aeneas live
 if to my sword his fate be not the glory
 a thousand complete courses of the sun
 but in mine emulous honour let him die
 with every joint a wound and that tomorrow
aeneas we know each other well
diomedes we do and long to know each other worse
paris this is the most despiteful gentle greeting
 the noblest hateful love that e'er i heard of
 what business lord so early
aeneas i was sent for to the king but why i know not
paris his purpose meets you twas to bring this greek
 to calchas house and there to render him
 for the enfreed antenor the fair cressid
 let's have your company or if you please
 haste there before us i constantly do think
 or rather call my thought a certain knowledge
 my brother troilus lodges there tonight
 rouse him and give him note of our approach
 with the whole quality wherefore i fear
 we shall be much unwelcome
aeneas that i assure you
 troilus had rather troy were borne to greece
 than cressid borne from troy
paris there is no help
 the bitter disposition of the time
 will have it so on lord we'll follow you
aeneas good morrow all
 exit with servant
paris and tell me noble diomed faith tell me true
 even in the soul of sound goodfellowship
 who in your thoughts merits fair helen best
 myself or menelaus
diomedes both alike
 he merits well to have her that doth seek her
 not making any scruple of her soilure
 with such a hell of pain and world of charge
 and you as well to keep her that defend her
 not palating the taste of her dishonour
 with such a costly loss of wealth and friends
 he like a puling cuckold would drink up
 the lees and dregs of a flat tamed piece
 you like a lecher out of whorish loins
 are pleased to breed out your inheritors
 both merits poised each weighs nor less nor more
 but he as he the heavier for a whore
paris you are too bitter to your countrywoman
diomedes she's bitter to her country hear me paris
 for every false drop in her bawdy veins
 a grecian's life hath sunk for every scruple
 of her contaminated carrion weight
 a trojan hath been slain since she could speak
 she hath not given so many good words breath
 as for her greeks and trojans suffer'd death
paris fair diomed you do as chapmen do
 dispraise the thing that you desire to buy
 but we in silence hold this virtue well
 we'll but commend what we intend to sell
 here lies our way
 exeunt
 troilus and cressida
act iv
scene ii the same court of pandarus house
 enter troilus and cressida
troilus dear trouble not yourself the morn is cold
cressida then sweet my lord i'll call mine uncle down
 he shall unbolt the gates
troilus trouble him not
 to bed to bed sleep kill those pretty eyes
 and give as soft attachment to thy senses
 as infants empty of all thought
cressida good morrow then
troilus i prithee now to bed
cressida are you aweary of me
troilus o cressida but that the busy day
 waked by the lark hath roused the ribald crows
 and dreaming night will hide our joys no longer
 i would not from thee
cressida night hath been too brief
troilus beshrew the witch with venomous wights she stays
 as tediously as hell but flies the grasps of love
 with wings more momentaryswift than thought
 you will catch cold and curse me
cressida prithee tarry
 you men will never tarry
 o foolish cressid i might have still held off
 and then you would have tarried hark
 there's one up
pandarus within what s all the doors open here
troilus it is your uncle
cressida a pestilence on him now will he be mocking
 i shall have such a life
 enter pandarus
pandarus how now how now how go maidenheads here you
 maid where's my cousin cressid
cressida go hang yourself you naughty mocking uncle
 you bring me to do and then you flout me too
pandarus to do what to do what let her say
 what what have i brought you to do
cressida come come beshrew your heart you'll ne'er be good
 nor suffer others
pandarus ha ha alas poor wretch ah poor capocchia
 hast not slept tonight would he not a naughty
 man let it sleep a bugbear take him
cressida did not i tell you would he were knock'd i the head
 knocking within
 who's that at door good uncle go and see
 my lord come you again into my chamber
 you smile and mock me as if i meant naughtily
troilus ha ha
cressida come you are deceived i think of no such thing
 knocking within
 how earnestly they knock pray you come in
 i would not for half troy have you seen here
 exeunt troilus and cressida
pandarus who's there what's the matter will you beat
 down the door how now what's the matter
 enter aeneas
aeneas good morrow lord good morrow
pandarus who's there my lord aeneas by my troth
 i knew you not what news with you so early
aeneas is not prince troilus here
pandarus here what should he do here
aeneas come he is here my lord do not deny him
 it doth import him much to speak with me
pandarus is he here say you tis more than i know i'll
 be sworn for my own part i came in late what
 should he do here
aeneas whonay then come come you'll do him wrong
 ere you're ware you'll be so true to him to be
 false to him do not you know of him but yet go
 fetch him hither go
 reenter troilus
troilus how now what's the matter
aeneas my lord i scarce have leisure to salute you
 my matter is so rash there is at hand
 paris your brother and deiphobus
 the grecian diomed and our antenor
 deliver'd to us and for him forthwith
 ere the first sacrifice within this hour
 we must give up to diomedes hand
 the lady cressida
troilus is it so concluded
aeneas by priam and the general state of troy
 they are at hand and ready to effect it
troilus how my achievements mock me
 i will go meet them and my lord aeneas
 we met by chance you did not find me here
aeneas good good my lord the secrets of nature
 have not more gift in taciturnity
 exeunt troilus and aeneas
pandarus is't possible no sooner got but lost the devil
 take antenor the young prince will go mad a
 plague upon antenor i would they had broke s neck
 reenter cressida
cressida how now what's the matter who was here
pandarus ah ah
cressida why sigh you so profoundly where's my lord gone
 tell me sweet uncle what's the matter
pandarus would i were as deep under the earth as i am above
cressida o the gods what's the matter
pandarus prithee get thee in would thou hadst ne'er been
 born i knew thou wouldst be his death o poor
 gentleman a plague upon antenor
cressida good uncle i beseech you on my knees beseech you
 what's the matter
pandarus thou must be gone wench thou must be gone thou
 art changed for antenor thou must to thy father
 and be gone from troilus twill be his death
 twill be his bane he cannot bear it
cressida o you immortal gods i will not go
pandarus thou must
cressida i will not uncle i have forgot my father
 i know no touch of consanguinity
 no kin no love no blood no soul so near me
 as the sweet troilus o you gods divine
 make cressid's name the very crown of falsehood
 if ever she leave troilus time force and death
 do to this body what extremes you can
 but the strong base and building of my love
 is as the very centre of the earth
 drawing all things to it i'll go in and weep
pandarus do do
cressida tear my bright hair and scratch my praised cheeks
 crack my clear voice with sobs and break my heart
 with sounding troilus i will not go from troy
 exeunt
 troilus and cressida
act iv
scene iii the same street before pandarus house
 enter paris troilus aeneas deiphobus antenor
 and diomedes
paris it is great morning and the hour prefix'd
 of her delivery to this valiant greek
 comes fast upon good my brother troilus
 tell you the lady what she is to do
 and haste her to the purpose
troilus walk into her house
 i'll bring her to the grecian presently
 and to his hand when i deliver her
 think it an altar and thy brother troilus
 a priest there offering to it his own heart
 exit
paris i know what tis to love
 and would as i shall pity i could help
 please you walk in my lords
 exeunt
 troilus and cressida
act iv
scene iv the same pandarus house
 enter pandarus and cressida
pandarus be moderate be moderate
cressida why tell you me of moderation
 the grief is fine full perfect that i taste
 and violenteth in a sense as strong
 as that which causeth it how can i moderate it
 if i could temporize with my affection
 or brew it to a weak and colder palate
 the like allayment could i give my grief
 my love admits no qualifying dross
 no more my grief in such a precious loss
pandarus here here here he comes
 enter troilus
 ah sweet ducks
cressida o troilus troilus
 embracing him
pandarus what a pair of spectacles is here
 let me embrace too o heart as the goodly saying is
 o heart heavy heart
 why sigh'st thou without breaking
 where he answers again
 because thou canst not ease thy smart
 by friendship nor by speaking'
 there was never a truer rhyme let us cast away
 nothing for we may live to have need of such a
 verse we see it we see it how now lambs
troilus cressid i love thee in so strain'd a purity
 that the bless'd gods as angry with my fancy
 more bright in zeal than the devotion which
 cold lips blow to their deities take thee from me
cressida have the gods envy
pandarus ay ay ay ay tis too plain a case
cressida and is it true that i must go from troy
troilus a hateful truth
cressida what and from troilus too
troilus from troy and troilus
cressida is it possible
troilus and suddenly where injury of chance
 puts back leavetaking justles roughly by
 all time of pause rudely beguiles our lips
 of all rejoindure forcibly prevents
 our lock'd embrasures strangles our dear vows
 even in the birth of our own labouring breath
 we two that with so many thousand sighs
 did buy each other must poorly sell ourselves
 with the rude brevity and discharge of one
 injurious time now with a robber's haste
 crams his rich thievery up he knows not how
 as many farewells as be stars in heaven
 with distinct breath and consign'd kisses to them
 he fumbles up into a lose adieu
 and scants us with a single famish'd kiss
 distasted with the salt of broken tears
aeneas within my lord is the lady ready
troilus hark you are call'd some say the genius so
 cries come to him that instantly must die
 bid them have patience she shall come anon
pandarus where are my tears rain to lay this wind or
 my heart will be blown up by the root
 exit
cressida i must then to the grecians
troilus no remedy
cressida a woful cressid mongst the merry greeks
 when shall we see again
troilus hear me my love be thou but true of heart
cressida i true how now what wicked deem is this
troilus nay we must use expostulation kindly
 for it is parting from us
 i speak not be thou true as fearing thee
 for i will throw my glove to death himself
 that there's no maculation in thy heart
 but be thou true say i to fashion in
 my sequent protestation be thou true
 and i will see thee
cressida o you shall be exposed my lord to dangers
 as infinite as imminent but i'll be true
troilus and i'll grow friend with danger wear this sleeve
cressida and you this glove when shall i see you
troilus i will corrupt the grecian sentinels
 to give thee nightly visitation
 but yet be true
cressida o heavens be true again
troilus hear while i speak it love
 the grecian youths are full of quality
 they're loving well composed with gifts of nature
 flowing and swelling o'er with arts and exercise
 how novelty may move and parts with person
 alas a kind of godly jealousy
 which i beseech you call a virtuous sin
 makes me afeard
cressida o heavens you love me not
troilus die i a villain then
 in this i do not call your faith in question
 so mainly as my merit i cannot sing
 nor heel the high lavolt nor sweeten talk
 nor play at subtle games fair virtues all
 to which the grecians are most prompt and pregnant
 but i can tell that in each grace of these
 there lurks a still and dumbdiscoursive devil
 that tempts most cunningly but be not tempted
cressida do you think i will
troilus no
 but something may be done that we will not
 and sometimes we are devils to ourselves
 when we will tempt the frailty of our powers
 presuming on their changeful potency
aeneas within nay good my lord
troilus come kiss and let us part
paris within brother troilus
troilus good brother come you hither
 and bring aeneas and the grecian with you
cressida my lord will you be true
troilus who i alas it is my vice my fault
 whiles others fish with craft for great opinion
 i with great truth catch mere simplicity
 whilst some with cunning gild their copper crowns
 with truth and plainness i do wear mine bare
 fear not my truth the moral of my wit
 is plain and true there's all the reach of it
 enter aeneas paris antenor deiphobus
 and diomedes
 welcome sir diomed here is the lady
 which for antenor we deliver you
 at the port lord i'll give her to thy hand
 and by the way possess thee what she is
 entreat her fair and by my soul fair greek
 if e'er thou stand at mercy of my sword
 name cressida and thy life shall be as safe
 as priam is in ilion
diomedes fair lady cressid
 so please you save the thanks this prince expects
 the lustre in your eye heaven in your cheek
 pleads your fair usage and to diomed
 you shall be mistress and command him wholly
troilus grecian thou dost not use me courteously
 to shame the zeal of my petition to thee
 in praising her i tell thee lord of greece
 she is as far highsoaring o'er thy praises
 as thou unworthy to be call'd her servant
 i charge thee use her well even for my charge
 for by the dreadful pluto if thou dost not
 though the great bulk achilles be thy guard
 i'll cut thy throat
diomedes o be not moved prince troilus
 let me be privileged by my place and message
 to be a speaker free when i am hence
 i'll answer to my lust and know you lord
 i'll nothing do on charge to her own worth
 she shall be prized but that you say be't so'
 i'll speak it in my spirit and honour no'
troilus come to the port i'll tell thee diomed
 this brave shall oft make thee to hide thy head
 lady give me your hand and as we walk
 to our own selves bend we our needful talk
 exeunt troilus cressida and diomedes
 trumpet within
paris hark hector's trumpet
aeneas how have we spent this morning
 the prince must think me tardy and remiss
 that sore to ride before him to the field
paris tis troilus fault come come to field with him
deiphobus let us make ready straight
aeneas yea with a bridegroom's fresh alacrity
 let us address to tend on hector's heels
 the glory of our troy doth this day lie
 on his fair worth and single chivalry
 exeunt
 troilus and cressida
act iv
scene v the grecian camp lists set out
 enter ajax armed agamemnon achilles patroclus
 menelaus ulysses nestor and others
agamemnon here art thou in appointment fresh and fair
 anticipating time with starting courage
 give with thy trumpet a loud note to troy
 thou dreadful ajax that the appalled air
 may pierce the head of the great combatant
 and hale him hither
ajax thou trumpet there's my purse
 now crack thy lungs and split thy brazen pipe
 blow villain till thy sphered bias cheek
 outswell the colic of puff'd aquilon
 come stretch thy chest and let thy eyes spout blood
 thou blow'st for hector
 trumpet sounds
ulysses no trumpet answers
achilles tis but early days
agamemnon is not yond diomed with calchas daughter
ulysses tis he i ken the manner of his gait
 he rises on the toe that spirit of his
 in aspiration lifts him from the earth
 enter diomedes with cressida
agamemnon is this the lady cressid
diomedes even she
agamemnon most dearly welcome to the greeks sweet lady
nestor our general doth salute you with a kiss
ulysses yet is the kindness but particular
 twere better she were kiss'd in general
nestor and very courtly counsel i'll begin
 so much for nestor
achilles i'll take what winter from your lips fair lady
 achilles bids you welcome
menelaus i had good argument for kissing once
patroclus but that's no argument for kissing now
 for this popp'd paris in his hardiment
 and parted thus you and your argument
ulysses o deadly gall and theme of all our scorns
 for which we lose our heads to gild his horns
patroclus the first was menelaus kiss this mine
 patroclus kisses you
menelaus o this is trim
patroclus paris and i kiss evermore for him
menelaus i'll have my kiss sir lady by your leave
cressida in kissing do you render or receive
patroclus both take and give
cressida i'll make my match to live
 the kiss you take is better than you give
 therefore no kiss
menelaus i'll give you boot i'll give you three for one
cressida you're an odd man give even or give none
menelaus an odd man lady every man is odd
cressida no paris is not for you know tis true
 that you are odd and he is even with you
menelaus you fillip me o the head
cressida no i'll be sworn
ulysses it were no match your nail against his horn
 may i sweet lady beg a kiss of you
cressida you may
ulysses i do desire it
cressida why beg then
ulysses why then for venus sake give me a kiss
 when helen is a maid again and his
cressida i am your debtor claim it when tis due
ulysses never's my day and then a kiss of you
diomedes lady a word i'll bring you to your father
 exit with cressida
nestor a woman of quick sense
ulysses fie fie upon her
 there's language in her eye her cheek her lip
 nay her foot speaks her wanton spirits look out
 at every joint and motive of her body
 o these encounterers so glib of tongue
 that give accosting welcome ere it comes
 and wide unclasp the tables of their thoughts
 to every ticklish reader set them down
 for sluttish spoils of opportunity
 and daughters of the game
 trumpet within
all the trojans trumpet
agamemnon yonder comes the troop
 enter hector armed aeneas troilus and other
 trojans with attendants
aeneas hail all you state of greece what shall be done
 to him that victory commands or do you purpose
 a victor shall be known will you the knights
 shall to the edge of all extremity
 pursue each other or shall be divided
 by any voice or order of the field
 hector bade ask
agamemnon which way would hector have it
aeneas he cares not he'll obey conditions
achilles tis done like hector but securely done
 a little proudly and great deal misprizing
 the knight opposed
aeneas if not achilles sir
 what is your name
achilles if not achilles nothing
aeneas therefore achilles but whate'er know this
 in the extremity of great and little
 valour and pride excel themselves in hector
 the one almost as infinite as all
 the other blank as nothing weigh him well
 and that which looks like pride is courtesy
 this ajax is half made of hector's blood
 in love whereof half hector stays at home
 half heart half hand half hector comes to seek
 this blended knight half trojan and half greek
achilles a maiden battle then o i perceive you
 reenter diomedes
agamemnon here is sir diomed go gentle knight
 stand by our ajax as you and lord aeneas
 consent upon the order of their fight
 so be it either to the uttermost
 or else a breath the combatants being kin
 half stints their strife before their strokes begin
 ajax and hector enter the lists
ulysses they are opposed already
agamemnon what trojan is that same that looks so heavy
ulysses the youngest son of priam a true knight
 not yet mature yet matchless firm of word
 speaking in deeds and deedless in his tongue
 not soon provoked nor being provoked soon calm'd
 his heart and hand both open and both free
 for what he has he gives what thinks he shows
 yet gives he not till judgment guide his bounty
 nor dignifies an impure thought with breath
 manly as hector but more dangerous
 for hector in his blaze of wrath subscribes
 to tender objects but he in heat of action
 is more vindicative than jealous love
 they call him troilus and on him erect
 a second hope as fairly built as hector
 thus says aeneas one that knows the youth
 even to his inches and with private soul
 did in great ilion thus translate him to me
 alarum hector and ajax fight
agamemnon they are in action
nestor now ajax hold thine own
troilus hector thou sleep'st
 awake thee
agamemnon his blows are well disposed there ajax
diomedes you must no more
 trumpets cease
aeneas princes enough so please you
ajax i am not warm yet let us fight again
diomedes as hector pleases
hector why then will i no more
 thou art great lord my father's sister's son
 a cousingerman to great priam's seed
 the obligation of our blood forbids
 a gory emulation twixt us twain
 were thy commixtion greek and trojan so
 that thou couldst say this hand is grecian all
 and this is trojan the sinews of this leg
 all greek and this all troy my mother's blood
 runs on the dexter cheek and this sinister
 bounds in my father's by jove multipotent
 thou shouldst not bear from me a greekish member
 wherein my sword had not impressure made
 of our rank feud but the just gods gainsay
 that any drop thou borrow'dst from thy mother
 my sacred aunt should by my mortal sword
 be drain'd let me embrace thee ajax
 by him that thunders thou hast lusty arms
 hector would have them fall upon him thus
 cousin all honour to thee
ajax i thank thee hector
 thou art too gentle and too free a man
 i came to kill thee cousin and bear hence
 a great addition earned in thy death
hector not neoptolemus so mirable
 on whose bright crest fame with her loud'st oyes
 cries this is he could promise to himself
 a thought of added honour torn from hector
aeneas there is expectance here from both the sides
 what further you will do
hector we'll answer it
 the issue is embracement ajax farewell
ajax if i might in entreaties find success
 as seld i have the chancei would desire
 my famous cousin to our grecian tents
diomedes tis agamemnon's wish and great achilles
 doth long to see unarm'd the valiant hector
hector aeneas call my brother troilus to me
 and signify this loving interview
 to the expecters of our trojan part
 desire them home give me thy hand my cousin
 i will go eat with thee and see your knights
ajax great agamemnon comes to meet us here
hector the worthiest of them tell me name by name
 but for achilles mine own searching eyes
 shall find him by his large and portly size
agamemnon worthy of arms as welcome as to one
 that would be rid of such an enemy
 but that's no welcome understand more clear
 what's past and what's to come is strew'd with husks
 and formless ruin of oblivion
 but in this extant moment faith and troth
 strain'd purely from all hollow biasdrawing
 bids thee with most divine integrity
 from heart of very heart great hector welcome
hector i thank thee most imperious agamemnon
agamemnon to troilus my wellfamed lord of troy no
 less to you
menelaus let me confirm my princely brother's greeting
 you brace of warlike brothers welcome hither
hector who must we answer
aeneas the noble menelaus
hector o you my lord by mars his gauntlet thanks
 mock not that i affect the untraded oath
 your quondam wife swears still by venus glove
 she's well but bade me not commend her to you
menelaus name her not now sir she's a deadly theme
hector o pardon i offend
nestor i have thou gallant trojan seen thee oft
 labouring for destiny make cruel way
 through ranks of greekish youth and i have seen thee
 as hot as perseus spur thy phrygian steed
 despising many forfeits and subduements
 when thou hast hung thy advanced sword i the air
 not letting it decline on the declined
 that i have said to some my standers by
 lo jupiter is yonder dealing life'
 and i have seen thee pause and take thy breath
 when that a ring of greeks have hemm'd thee in
 like an olympian wrestling this have i seen
 but this thy countenance still lock'd in steel
 i never saw till now i knew thy grandsire
 and once fought with him he was a soldier good
 but by great mars the captain of us all
 never saw like thee let an old man embrace thee
 and worthy warrior welcome to our tents
aeneas tis the old nestor
hector let me embrace thee good old chronicle
 that hast so long walk'd hand in hand with time
 most reverend nestor i am glad to clasp thee
nestor i would my arms could match thee in contention
 as they contend with thee in courtesy
hector i would they could
nestor ha
 by this white beard i'ld fight with thee tomorrow
 well welcome welcome i have seen the time
ulysses i wonder now how yonder city stands
 when we have here her base and pillar by us
hector i know your favour lord ulysses well
 ah sir there's many a greek and trojan dead
 since first i saw yourself and diomed
 in ilion on your greekish embassy
ulysses sir i foretold you then what would ensue
 my prophecy is but half his journey yet
 for yonder walls that pertly front your town
 yond towers whose wanton tops do buss the clouds
 must kiss their own feet
hector i must not believe you
 there they stand yet and modestly i think
 the fall of every phrygian stone will cost
 a drop of grecian blood the end crowns all
 and that old common arbitrator time
 will one day end it
ulysses so to him we leave it
 most gentle and most valiant hector welcome
 after the general i beseech you next
 to feast with me and see me at my tent
achilles i shall forestall thee lord ulysses thou
 now hector i have fed mine eyes on thee
 i have with exact view perused thee hector
 and quoted joint by joint
hector is this achilles
achilles i am achilles
hector stand fair i pray thee let me look on thee
achilles behold thy fill
hector nay i have done already
achilles thou art too brief i will the second time
 as i would buy thee view thee limb by limb
hector o like a book of sport thou'lt read me o'er
 but there's more in me than thou understand'st
 why dost thou so oppress me with thine eye
achilles tell me you heavens in which part of his body
 shall i destroy him whether there or there or there
 that i may give the local wound a name
 and make distinct the very breach whereout
 hector's great spirit flew answer me heavens
hector it would discredit the blest gods proud man
 to answer such a question stand again
 think'st thou to catch my life so pleasantly
 as to prenominate in nice conjecture
 where thou wilt hit me dead
achilles i tell thee yea
hector wert thou an oracle to tell me so
 i'd not believe thee henceforth guard thee well
 for i'll not kill thee there nor there nor there
 but by the forge that stithied mars his helm
 i'll kill thee every where yea o'er and o'er
 you wisest grecians pardon me this brag
 his insolence draws folly from my lips
 but i'll endeavour deeds to match these words
 or may i never
ajax do not chafe thee cousin
 and you achilles let these threats alone
 till accident or purpose bring you to't
 you may have every day enough of hector
 if you have stomach the general state i fear
 can scarce entreat you to be odd with him
hector i pray you let us see you in the field
 we have had pelting wars since you refused
 the grecians cause
achilles dost thou entreat me hector
 tomorrow do i meet thee fell as death
 tonight all friends
hector thy hand upon that match
agamemnon first all you peers of greece go to my tent
 there in the full convive we afterwards
 as hector's leisure and your bounties shall
 concur together severally entreat him
 beat loud the tabourines let the trumpets blow
 that this great soldier may his welcome know
 exeunt all except troilus and ulysses
troilus my lord ulysses tell me i beseech you
 in what place of the field doth calchas keep
ulysses at menelaus tent most princely troilus
 there diomed doth feast with him tonight
 who neither looks upon the heaven nor earth
 but gives all gaze and bent of amorous view
 on the fair cressid
troilus shall sweet lord be bound to you so much
 after we part from agamemnon's tent
 to bring me thither
ulysses you shall command me sir
 as gentle tell me of what honour was
 this cressida in troy had she no lover there
 that wails her absence
troilus o sir to such as boasting show their scars
 a mock is due will you walk on my lord
 she was beloved she loved she is and doth
 but still sweet love is food for fortune's tooth
 exeunt
 troilus and cressida
act v
scene i the grecian camp before achilles tent
 enter achilles and patroclus
achilles i'll heat his blood with greekish wine tonight
 which with my scimitar i'll cool tomorrow
 patroclus let us feast him to the height
patroclus here comes thersites
 enter thersites
achilles how now thou core of envy
 thou crusty batch of nature what's the news
thersites why thou picture of what thou seemest and idol
 of idiot worshippers here's a letter for thee
achilles from whence fragment
thersites why thou full dish of fool from troy
patroclus who keeps the tent now
thersites the surgeon's box or the patient's wound
patroclus well said adversity and what need these tricks
thersites prithee be silent boy i profit not by thy talk
 thou art thought to be achilles male varlet
patroclus male varlet you rogue what's that
thersites why his masculine whore now the rotten diseases
 of the south the gutsgriping ruptures catarrhs
 loads o gravel i the back lethargies cold
 palsies raw eyes dirtrotten livers wheezing
 lungs bladders full of imposthume sciaticas
 limekilns i the palm incurable boneache and the
 rivelled feesimple of the tetter take and take
 again such preposterous discoveries
patroclus why thou damnable box of envy thou what meanest
 thou to curse thus
thersites do i curse thee
patroclus why no you ruinous butt you whoreson
 indistinguishable cur no
thersites no why art thou then exasperate thou idle
 immaterial skein of sleavesilk thou green sarcenet
 flap for a sore eye thou tassel of a prodigal's
 purse thou ah how the poor world is pestered
 with such waterflies diminutives of nature
patroclus out gall
thersites finchegg
achilles my sweet patroclus i am thwarted quite
 from my great purpose in tomorrow's battle
 here is a letter from queen hecuba
 a token from her daughter my fair love
 both taxing me and gaging me to keep
 an oath that i have sworn i will not break it
 fall greeks fail fame honour or go or stay
 my major vow lies here this i'll obey
 come come thersites help to trim my tent
 this night in banqueting must all be spent
 away patroclus
 exeunt achilles and patroclus
thersites with too much blood and too little brain these two
 may run mad but if with too much brain and too
 little blood they do i'll be a curer of madmen
 here's agamemnon an honest fellow enough and one
 that loves quails but he has not so much brain as
 earwax and the goodly transformation of jupiter
 there his brother the bullthe primitive statue
 and oblique memorial of cuckolds a thrifty
 shoeinghorn in a chain hanging at his brother's
 legto what form but that he is should wit larded
 with malice and malice forced with wit turn him to
 to an ass were nothing he is both ass and ox to
 an ox were nothing he is both ox and ass to be a
 dog a mule a cat a fitchew a toad a lizard an
 owl a puttock or a herring without a roe i would
 not care but to be menelaus i would conspire
 against destiny ask me not what i would be if i
 were not thersites for i care not to be the louse
 of a lazar so i were not menelaus heyday
 spirits and fires
 enter hector troilus ajax agamemnon ulysses
 nestor menelaus and diomedes with lights
agamemnon we go wrong we go wrong
ajax no yonder tis
 there where we see the lights
hector i trouble you
ajax no not a whit
ulysses here comes himself to guide you
 reenter achilles
achilles welcome brave hector welcome princes all
agamemnon so now fair prince of troy i bid good night
 ajax commands the guard to tend on you
hector thanks and good night to the greeks general
menelaus good night my lord
hector good night sweet lord menelaus
thersites sweet draught sweet quoth a sweet sink
 sweet sewer
achilles good night and welcome both at once to those
 that go or tarry
agamemnon good night
 exeunt agamemnon and menelaus
achilles old nestor tarries and you too diomed
 keep hector company an hour or two
diomedes i cannot lord i have important business
 the tide whereof is now good night great hector
hector give me your hand
ulysses aside to troilus follow his torch he goes to
 calchas tent
 i'll keep you company
troilus sweet sir you honour me
hector and so good night
 exit diomedes ulysses and troilus following
achilles come come enter my tent
 exeunt achilles hector ajax and nestor
thersites that same diomed's a falsehearted rogue a most
 unjust knave i will no more trust him when he leers
 than i will a serpent when he hisses he will spend
 his mouth and promise like brabbler the hound
 but when he performs astronomers foretell it it
 is prodigious there will come some change the sun
 borrows of the moon when diomed keeps his
 word i will rather leave to see hector than
 not to dog him they say he keeps a trojan
 drab and uses the traitor calchas tent i'll
 after nothing but lechery all incontinent varlets
 exit
 troilus and cressida
act v
scene ii the same before calchas tent
 enter diomedes
diomedes what are you up here ho speak
calchas within who calls
diomedes calchas i think where's your daughter
calchas within she comes to you
 enter troilus and ulysses at a distance
 after them thersites
ulysses stand where the torch may not discover us
 enter cressida
troilus cressid comes forth to him
diomedes how now my charge
cressida now my sweet guardian hark a word with you
 whispers
troilus yea so familiar
ulysses she will sing any man at first sight
thersites and any man may sing her if he can take her cliff
 she's noted
diomedes will you remember
cressida remember yes
diomedes nay but do then
 and let your mind be coupled with your words
troilus what should she remember
ulysses list
cressida sweet honey greek tempt me no more to folly
thersites roguery
diomedes nay then
cressida i'll tell you what
diomedes foh foh come tell a pin you are forsworn
cressida in faith i cannot what would you have me do
thersites a juggling trickto be secretly open
diomedes what did you swear you would bestow on me
cressida i prithee do not hold me to mine oath
 bid me do any thing but that sweet greek
diomedes good night
troilus hold patience
ulysses how now trojan
cressida diomed
diomedes no no good night i'll be your fool no more
troilus thy better must
cressida hark one word in your ear
troilus o plague and madness
ulysses you are moved prince let us depart i pray you
 lest your displeasure should enlarge itself
 to wrathful terms this place is dangerous
 the time right deadly i beseech you go
troilus behold i pray you
ulysses nay good my lord go off
 you flow to great distraction come my lord
troilus i pray thee stay
ulysses you have not patience come
troilus i pray you stay by hell and all hell's torments
 i will not speak a word
diomedes and so good night
cressida nay but you part in anger
troilus doth that grieve thee
 o wither'd truth
ulysses why how now lord
troilus by jove
 i will be patient
cressida guardianwhy greek
diomedes foh foh adieu you palter
cressida in faith i do not come hither once again
ulysses you shake my lord at something will you go
 you will break out
troilus she strokes his cheek
ulysses come come
troilus nay stay by jove i will not speak a word
 there is between my will and all offences
 a guard of patience stay a little while
thersites how the devil luxury with his fat rump and
 potatofinger tickles these together fry lechery fry
diomedes but will you then
cressida in faith i will la never trust me else
diomedes give me some token for the surety of it
cressida i'll fetch you one
 exit
ulysses you have sworn patience
troilus fear me not sweet lord
 i will not be myself nor have cognition
 of what i feel i am all patience
 reenter cressida
thersites now the pledge now now now
cressida here diomed keep this sleeve
troilus o beauty where is thy faith
ulysses my lord
troilus i will be patient outwardly i will
cressida you look upon that sleeve behold it well
 he loved meo false wenchgive't me again
diomedes whose was't
cressida it is no matter now i have't again
 i will not meet with you tomorrow night
 i prithee diomed visit me no more
thersites now she sharpens well said whetstone
diomedes i shall have it
cressida what this
diomedes ay that
cressida o all you gods o pretty pretty pledge
 thy master now lies thinking in his bed
 of thee and me and sighs and takes my glove
 and gives memorial dainty kisses to it
 as i kiss thee nay do not snatch it from me
 he that takes that doth take my heart withal
diomedes i had your heart before this follows it
troilus i did swear patience
cressida you shall not have it diomed faith you shall not
 i'll give you something else
diomedes i will have this whose was it
cressida it is no matter
diomedes come tell me whose it was
cressida twas one's that loved me better than you will
 but now you have it take it
diomedes whose was it
cressida by all diana's waitingwomen yond
 and by herself i will not tell you whose
diomedes tomorrow will i wear it on my helm
 and grieve his spirit that dares not challenge it
troilus wert thou the devil and worest it on thy horn
 it should be challenged
cressida well well tis done tis past and yet it is not
 i will not keep my word
diomedes why then farewell
 thou never shalt mock diomed again
cressida you shall not go one cannot speak a word
 but it straight starts you
diomedes i do not like this fooling
thersites nor i by pluto but that that likes not you pleases me best
diomedes what shall i come the hour
cressida ay comeo jovedo comei shall be plagued
diomedes farewell till then
cressida good night i prithee come
 exit diomedes
 troilus farewell one eye yet looks on thee
 but with my heart the other eye doth see
 ah poor our sex this fault in us i find
 the error of our eye directs our mind
 what error leads must err o then conclude
 minds sway'd by eyes are full of turpitude
 exit
thersites a proof of strength she could not publish more
 unless she said  my mind is now turn'd whore'
ulysses all's done my lord
troilus it is
ulysses why stay we then
troilus to make a recordation to my soul
 of every syllable that here was spoke
 but if i tell how these two did coact
 shall i not lie in publishing a truth
 sith yet there is a credence in my heart
 an esperance so obstinately strong
 that doth invert the attest of eyes and ears
 as if those organs had deceptious functions
 created only to calumniate
 was cressid here
ulysses i cannot conjure trojan
troilus she was not sure
ulysses most sure she was
troilus why my negation hath no taste of madness
ulysses nor mine my lord cressid was here but now
troilus let it not be believed for womanhood
 think we had mothers do not give advantage
 to stubborn critics apt without a theme
 for depravation to square the general sex
 by cressid's rule rather think this not cressid
ulysses what hath she done prince that can soil our mothers
troilus nothing at all unless that this were she
thersites will he swagger himself out on's own eyes
troilus this she no this is diomed's cressida
 if beauty have a soul this is not she
 if souls guide vows if vows be sanctimonies
 if sanctimony be the gods delight
 if there be rule in unity itself
 this is not she o madness of discourse
 that cause sets up with and against itself
 bifold authority where reason can revolt
 without perdition and loss assume all reason
 without revolt this is and is not cressid
 within my soul there doth conduce a fight
 of this strange nature that a thing inseparate
 divides more wider than the sky and earth
 and yet the spacious breadth of this division
 admits no orifex for a point as subtle
 as ariachne's broken woof to enter
 instance o instance strong as pluto's gates
 cressid is mine tied with the bonds of heaven
 instance o instance strong as heaven itself
 the bonds of heaven are slipp'd dissolved and loosed
 and with another knot fivefingertied
 the fractions of her faith orts of her love
 the fragments scraps the bits and greasy relics
 of her o'ereaten faith are bound to diomed
ulysses may worthy troilus be half attach'd
 with that which here his passion doth express
troilus ay greek and that shall be divulged well
 in characters as red as mars his heart
 inflamed with venus never did young man fancy
 with so eternal and so fix'd a soul
 hark greek as much as i do cressid love
 so much by weight hate i her diomed
 that sleeve is mine that he'll bear on his helm
 were it a casque composed by vulcan's skill
 my sword should bite it not the dreadful spout
 which shipmen do the hurricano call
 constringed in mass by the almighty sun
 shall dizzy with more clamour neptune's ear
 in his descent than shall my prompted sword
 falling on diomed
thersites he'll tickle it for his concupy
troilus o cressid o false cressid false false false
 let all untruths stand by thy stained name
 and they'll seem glorious
ulysses o contain yourself
 your passion draws ears hither
 enter aeneas
aeneas i have been seeking you this hour my lord
 hector by this is arming him in troy
 ajax your guard stays to conduct you home
troilus have with you prince my courteous lord adieu
 farewell revolted fair and diomed
 stand fast and wear a castle on thy head
ulysses i'll bring you to the gates
troilus accept distracted thanks
 exeunt troilus aeneas and ulysses
thersites would i could meet that rogue diomed i would
 croak like a raven i would bode i would bode
 patroclus will give me any thing for the
 intelligence of this whore the parrot will not
 do more for an almond than he for a commodious drab
 lechery lechery still wars and lechery nothing
 else holds fashion a burning devil take them
 exit
 troilus and cressida
act v
scene iii troy before priam's palace
 enter hector and andromache
andromache when was my lord so much ungently temper'd
 to stop his ears against admonishment
 unarm unarm and do not fight today
hector you train me to offend you get you in
 by all the everlasting gods i'll go
andromache my dreams will sure prove ominous to the day
hector no more i say
 enter cassandra
cassandra where is my brother hector
andromache here sister arm'd and bloody in intent
 consort with me in loud and dear petition
 pursue we him on knees for i have dream'd
 of bloody turbulence and this whole night
 hath nothing been but shapes and forms of slaughter
cassandra o tis true
hector ho bid my trumpet sound
cassandra no notes of sally for the heavens sweet brother
hector be gone i say the gods have heard me swear
cassandra the gods are deaf to hot and peevish vows
 they are polluted offerings more abhorr'd
 than spotted livers in the sacrifice
andromache o be persuaded do not count it holy
 to hurt by being just it is as lawful
 for we would give much to use violent thefts
 and rob in the behalf of charity
cassandra it is the purpose that makes strong the vow
 but vows to every purpose must not hold
 unarm sweet hector
hector hold you still i say
 mine honour keeps the weather of my fate
 lie every man holds dear but the brave man
 holds honour far more preciousdear than life
 enter troilus
 how now young man mean'st thou to fight today
andromache cassandra call my father to persuade
 exit cassandra
hector no faith young troilus doff thy harness youth
 i am today i the vein of chivalry
 let grow thy sinews till their knots be strong
 and tempt not yet the brushes of the war
 unarm thee go and doubt thou not brave boy
 i'll stand today for thee and me and troy
troilus brother you have a vice of mercy in you
 which better fits a lion than a man
hector what vice is that good troilus chide me for it
troilus when many times the captive grecian falls
 even in the fan and wind of your fair sword
 you bid them rise and live
hector o'tis fair play
troilus fool's play by heaven hector
hector how now how now
troilus for the love of all the gods
 let's leave the hermit pity with our mothers
 and when we have our armours buckled on
 the venom'd vengeance ride upon our swords
 spur them to ruthful work rein them from ruth
hector fie savage fie
troilus hector then tis wars
hector troilus i would not have you fight today
troilus who should withhold me
 not fate obedience nor the hand of mars
 beckoning with fiery truncheon my retire
 not priamus and hecuba on knees
 their eyes o'ergalled with recourse of tears
 not you my brother with your true sword drawn
 opposed to hinder me should stop my way
 but by my ruin
 reenter cassandra with priam
cassandra lay hold upon him priam hold him fast
 he is thy crutch now if thou lose thy stay
 thou on him leaning and all troy on thee
 fall all together
priam come hector come go back
 thy wife hath dream'd thy mother hath had visions
 cassandra doth foresee and i myself
 am like a prophet suddenly enrapt
 to tell thee that this day is ominous
 therefore come back
hector aeneas is afield
 and i do stand engaged to many greeks
 even in the faith of valour to appear
 this morning to them
priam ay but thou shalt not go
hector i must not break my faith
 you know me dutiful therefore dear sir
 let me not shame respect but give me leave
 to take that course by your consent and voice
 which you do here forbid me royal priam
cassandra o priam yield not to him
andromache do not dear father
hector andromache i am offended with you
 upon the love you bear me get you in
 exit andromache
troilus this foolish dreaming superstitious girl
 makes all these bodements
cassandra o farewell dear hector
 look how thou diest look how thy eye turns pale
 look how thy wounds do bleed at many vents
 hark how troy roars how hecuba cries out
 how poor andromache shrills her dolours forth
 behold distraction frenzy and amazement
 like witless antics one another meet
 and all cry hector hector's dead o hector
troilus away away
cassandra farewell yet soft hector take my leave
 thou dost thyself and all our troy deceive
 exit
hector you are amazed my liege at her exclaim
 go in and cheer the town we'll forth and fight
 do deeds worth praise and tell you them at night
priam farewell the gods with safety stand about thee
 exeunt severally priam and hector alarums
troilus they are at it hark proud diomed believe
 i come to lose my arm or win my sleeve
 enter pandarus
pandarus do you hear my lord do you hear
troilus what now
pandarus here's a letter come from yond poor girl
troilus let me read
pandarus a whoreson tisick a whoreson rascally tisick so
 troubles me and the foolish fortune of this girl
 and what one thing what another that i shall
 leave you one o these days and i have a rheum
 in mine eyes too and such an ache in my bones
 that unless a man were cursed i cannot tell what
 to think on't what says she there
troilus words words mere words no matter from the heart
 the effect doth operate another way
 tearing the letter
 go wind to wind there turn and change together
 my love with words and errors still she feeds
 but edifies another with her deeds
 exeunt severally
 troilus and cressida
act v
scene iv plains between troy and the grecian camp
 alarums excursions enter thersites
thersites now they are clapperclawing one another i'll go
 look on that dissembling abominable varlets diomed
 has got that same scurvy doting foolish young knave's
 sleeve of troy there in his helm i would fain see
 them meet that that same young trojan ass that
 loves the whore there might send that greekish
 whoremasterly villain with the sleeve back to the
 dissembling luxurious drab of a sleeveless errand
 o the t'other side the policy of those crafty
 swearing rascals that stale old mouseeaten dry
 cheese nestor and that same dogfox ulysses is
 not proved worthy a blackberry they set me up in
 policy that mongrel cur ajax against that dog of
 as bad a kind achilles and now is the cur ajax
 prouder than the cur achilles and will not arm
 today whereupon the grecians begin to proclaim
 barbarism and policy grows into an ill opinion
 soft here comes sleeve and t'other
 enter diomedes troilus following
troilus fly not for shouldst thou take the river styx
 i would swim after
diomedes thou dost miscall retire
 i do not fly but advantageous care
 withdrew me from the odds of multitude
 have at thee
thersites hold thy whore greciannow for thy whore
 trojannow the sleeve now the sleeve
 exeunt troilus and diomedes fighting
 enter hector
hector what art thou greek art thou for hector's match
 art thou of blood and honour
thersites no no i am a rascal a scurvy railing knave
 a very filthy rogue
hector i do believe thee live
 exit
thersites godamercy that thou wilt believe me but a
 plague break thy neck for frightening me what's
 become of the wenching rogues i think they have
 swallowed one another i would laugh at that
 miracle yet in a sort lechery eats itself
 i'll seek them
 exit
 troilus and cressida
act v
scene v another part of the plains
 enter diomedes and a servant
diomedes go go my servant take thou troilus horse
 present the fair steed to my lady cressid
 fellow commend my service to her beauty
 tell her i have chastised the amorous trojan
 and am her knight by proof
servant i go my lord
 exit
 enter agamemnon
agamemnon renew renew the fierce polydamas
 hath beat down menon bastard margarelon
 hath doreus prisoner
 and stands colossuswise waving his beam
 upon the pashed corses of the kings
 epistrophus and cedius polyxenes is slain
 amphimachus and thoas deadly hurt
 patroclus ta'en or slain and palamedes
 sore hurt and bruised the dreadful sagittary
 appals our numbers haste we diomed
 to reinforcement or we perish all
 enter nestor
nestor go bear patroclus body to achilles
 and bid the snailpaced ajax arm for shame
 there is a thousand hectors in the field
 now here he fights on galathe his horse
 and there lacks work anon he's there afoot
 and there they fly or die like scaled sculls
 before the belching whale then is he yonder
 and there the strawy greeks ripe for his edge
 fall down before him like the mower's swath
 here there and every where he leaves and takes
 dexterity so obeying appetite
 that what he will he does and does so much
 that proof is call'd impossibility
 enter ulysses
ulysses o courage courage princes great achilles
 is arming weeping cursing vowing vengeance
 patroclus wounds have roused his drowsy blood
 together with his mangled myrmidons
 that noseless handless hack'd and chipp'd come to him
 crying on hector ajax hath lost a friend
 and foams at mouth and he is arm'd and at it
 roaring for troilus who hath done today
 mad and fantastic execution
 engaging and redeeming of himself
 with such a careless force and forceless care
 as if that luck in very spite of cunning
 bade him win all
 enter ajax
ajax troilus thou coward troilus
 exit
diomedes ay there there
nestor so so we draw together
 enter achilles
achilles where is this hector
 come come thou boyqueller show thy face
 know what it is to meet achilles angry
 hector where's hector i will none but hector
 exeunt
 troilus and cressida
act v
scene vi another part of the plains
 enter ajax
ajax troilus thou coward troilus show thy head
 enter diomedes
diomedes troilus i say where's troilus
ajax what wouldst thou
diomedes i would correct him
ajax were i the general thou shouldst have my office
 ere that correction troilus i say what troilus
 enter troilus
troilus o traitor diomed turn thy false face thou traitor
 and pay thy life thou owest me for my horse
diomedes ha art thou there
ajax i'll fight with him alone stand diomed
diomedes he is my prize i will not look upon
troilus come both you cogging greeks have at you both
 exeunt fighting
 enter hector
hector yea troilus o well fought my youngest brother
 enter achilles
achilles now do i see thee ha have at thee hector
hector pause if thou wilt
achilles i do disdain thy courtesy proud trojan
 be happy that my arms are out of use
 my rest and negligence befriends thee now
 but thou anon shalt hear of me again
 till when go seek thy fortune
 exit
hector fare thee well
 i would have been much more a fresher man
 had i expected thee how now my brother
 reenter troilus
troilus ajax hath ta'en aeneas shall it be
 no by the flame of yonder glorious heaven
 he shall not carry him i'll be ta'en too
 or bring him off fate hear me what i say
 i reck not though i end my life today
 exit
 enter one in sumptuous armour
hector stand stand thou greek thou art a goodly mark
 no wilt thou not i like thy armour well
 i'll frush it and unlock the rivets all
 but i'll be master of it wilt thou not
 beast abide
 why then fly on i'll hunt thee for thy hide
 exeunt
 troilus and cressida
act v
scene vii another part of the plains
 enter achilles with myrmidons
achilles come here about me you my myrmidons
 mark what i say attend me where i wheel
 strike not a stroke but keep yourselves in breath
 and when i have the bloody hector found
 empale him with your weapons round about
 in fellest manner execute your aims
 follow me sirs and my proceedings eye
 it is decreed hector the great must die
 exeunt
 enter menelaus and paris fighting
 then thersites
thersites the cuckold and the cuckoldmaker are at it now
 bull now dog loo paris loo now my double
 henned sparrow loo paris loo the bull has the
 game ware horns ho
 exeunt paris and menelaus
 enter margarelon
margarelon turn slave and fight
thersites what art thou
margarelon a bastard son of priam's
thersites i am a bastard too i love bastards i am a bastard
 begot bastard instructed bastard in mind bastard
 in valour in every thing illegitimate one bear will
 not bite another and wherefore should one bastard
 take heed the quarrel's most ominous to us if the
 son of a whore fight for a whore he tempts judgment
 farewell bastard
 exit
margarelon the devil take thee coward
 exit
 troilus and cressida
act v
scene viii another part of the plains
 enter hector
hector most putrefied core so fair without
 thy goodly armour thus hath cost thy life
 now is my day's work done i'll take good breath
 rest sword thou hast thy fill of blood and death
 puts off his helmet and hangs his shield
 behind him
 enter achilles and myrmidons
achilles look hector how the sun begins to set
 how ugly night comes breathing at his heels
 even with the vail and darking of the sun
 to close the day up hector's life is done
hector i am unarm'd forego this vantage greek
achilles strike fellows strike this is the man i seek
 hector falls
 so ilion fall thou next now troy sink down
 here lies thy heart thy sinews and thy bone
 on myrmidons and cry you all amain
 achilles hath the mighty hector slain'
 a retreat sounded
 hark a retire upon our grecian part
myrmidons the trojan trumpets sound the like my lord
achilles the dragon wing of night o'erspreads the earth
 and sticklerlike the armies separates
 my halfsupp'd sword that frankly would have fed
 pleased with this dainty bait thus goes to bed
 sheathes his sword
 come tie his body to my horse's tail
 along the field i will the trojan trail
 exeunt
 troilus and cressida
act v
scene ix another part of the plains
 enter agamemnon ajax menelaus nestor diomedes
 and others marching shouts within
agamemnon hark hark what shout is that
nestor peace drums
 within
 achilles achilles hector's slain achilles
diomedes the bruit is hector's slain and by achilles
ajax if it be so yet bragless let it be
 great hector was a man as good as he
agamemnon march patiently along let one be sent
 to pray achilles see us at our tent
 if in his death the gods have us befriended
 great troy is ours and our sharp wars are ended
 exeunt marching
 troilus and cressida
act v
scene x another part of the plains
 enter aeneas and trojans
aeneas stand ho yet are we masters of the field
 never go home here starve we out the night
 enter troilus
troilus hector is slain
all hector the gods forbid
troilus he's dead and at the murderer's horse's tail
 in beastly sort dragg'd through the shameful field
 frown on you heavens effect your rage with speed
 sit gods upon your thrones and smile at troy
 i say at once let your brief plagues be mercy
 and linger not our sure destructions on
aeneas my lord you do discomfort all the host
troilus you understand me not that tell me so
 i do not speak of flight of fear of death
 but dare all imminence that gods and men
 address their dangers in hector is gone
 who shall tell priam so or hecuba
 let him that will a screechowl aye be call'd
 go in to troy and say there hector's dead
 there is a word will priam turn to stone
 make wells and niobes of the maids and wives
 cold statues of the youth and in a word
 scare troy out of itself but march away
 hector is dead there is no more to say
 stay yet you vile abominable tents
 thus proudly pight upon our phrygian plains
 let titan rise as early as he dare
 i'll through and through you and thou greatsized coward
 no space of earth shall sunder our two hates
 i'll haunt thee like a wicked conscience still
 that mouldeth goblins swift as frenzy's thoughts
 strike a free march to troy with comfort go
 hope of revenge shall hide our inward woe
 exeunt aeneas and trojans
 as troilus is going out enter from the other
 side pandarus
pandarus but hear you hear you
troilus hence brokerlackey ignomy and shame
 pursue thy life and live aye with thy name
 exit
pandarus a goodly medicine for my aching bones o world
 world world thus is the poor agent despised
 o traitors and bawds how earnestly are you set
 awork and how ill requited why should our
 endeavour be so loved and the performance so loathed
 what verse for it what instance for it let me see
 full merrily the humblebee doth sing
 till he hath lost his honey and his sting
 and being once subdued in armed tail
 sweet honey and sweet notes together fail
 good traders in the flesh set this in your
 painted cloths
 as many as be here of pander's hall
 your eyes half out weep out at pandar's fall
 or if you cannot weep yet give some groans
 though not for me yet for your aching bones
 brethren and sisters of the holddoor trade
 some two months hence my will shall here be made
 it should be now but that my fear is this
 some galled goose of winchester would hiss
 till then i'll sweat and seek about for eases
 and at that time bequeathe you my diseases
 exit
 twelfth night
 dramatis personae
orsino duke of illyria duke orsino
sebastian brother to viola
antonio a sea captain friend to sebastian
 a sea captain friend to viola captain
valentine 
 gentlemen attending on the duke
curio 
sir toby belch uncle to olivia
sir andrew
aguecheek sir andrew
malvolio steward to olivia
fabian 
 servants to olivia
feste a clown clown 
olivia
viola
maria olivia's woman
 lords priests sailors officers musicians
 and other attendants
 priest
 first officer
 second officer
 servant
scene a city in illyria and the seacoast near it
 twelfth night
act i
scene i duke orsino's palace
 enter duke orsino curio and other lords
 musicians attending
duke orsino if music be the food of love play on
 give me excess of it that surfeiting
 the appetite may sicken and so die
 that strain again it had a dying fall
 o it came o'er my ear like the sweet sound
 that breathes upon a bank of violets
 stealing and giving odour enough no more
 tis not so sweet now as it was before
 o spirit of love how quick and fresh art thou
 that notwithstanding thy capacity
 receiveth as the sea nought enters there
 of what validity and pitch soe'er
 but falls into abatement and low price
 even in a minute so full of shapes is fancy
 that it alone is high fantastical
curio will you go hunt my lord
duke orsino what curio
curio the hart
duke orsino why so i do the noblest that i have
 o when mine eyes did see olivia first
 methought she purged the air of pestilence
 that instant was i turn'd into a hart
 and my desires like fell and cruel hounds
 e'er since pursue me
 enter valentine
 how now what news from her
valentine so please my lord i might not be admitted
 but from her handmaid do return this answer
 the element itself till seven years heat
 shall not behold her face at ample view
 but like a cloistress she will veiled walk
 and water once a day her chamber round
 with eyeoffending brine all this to season
 a brother's dead love which she would keep fresh
 and lasting in her sad remembrance
duke orsino o she that hath a heart of that fine frame
 to pay this debt of love but to a brother
 how will she love when the rich golden shaft
 hath kill'd the flock of all affections else
 that live in her when liver brain and heart
 these sovereign thrones are all supplied and fill'd
 her sweet perfections with one self king
 away before me to sweet beds of flowers
 lovethoughts lie rich when canopied with bowers
 exeunt
 twelfth night
act i
scene ii the seacoast
 enter viola a captain and sailors
viola what country friends is this
captain this is illyria lady
viola and what should i do in illyria
 my brother he is in elysium
 perchance he is not drown'd what think you sailors
captain it is perchance that you yourself were saved
viola o my poor brother and so perchance may he be
captain true madam and to comfort you with chance
 assure yourself after our ship did split
 when you and those poor number saved with you
 hung on our driving boat i saw your brother
 most provident in peril bind himself
 courage and hope both teaching him the practise
 to a strong mast that lived upon the sea
 where like arion on the dolphin's back
 i saw him hold acquaintance with the waves
 so long as i could see
viola for saying so there's gold
 mine own escape unfoldeth to my hope
 whereto thy speech serves for authority
 the like of him know'st thou this country
captain ay madam well for i was bred and born
 not three hours travel from this very place
viola who governs here
captain a noble duke in nature as in name
viola what is the name
captain orsino
viola orsino i have heard my father name him
 he was a bachelor then
captain and so is now or was so very late
 for but a month ago i went from hence
 and then twas fresh in murmuras you know
 what great ones do the less will prattle of
 that he did seek the love of fair olivia
viola what's she
captain a virtuous maid the daughter of a count
 that died some twelvemonth since then leaving her
 in the protection of his son her brother
 who shortly also died for whose dear love
 they say she hath abjured the company
 and sight of men
viola o that i served that lady
 and might not be delivered to the world
 till i had made mine own occasion mellow
 what my estate is
captain that were hard to compass
 because she will admit no kind of suit
 no not the duke's
viola there is a fair behavior in thee captain
 and though that nature with a beauteous wall
 doth oft close in pollution yet of thee
 i will believe thou hast a mind that suits
 with this thy fair and outward character
 i prithee and i'll pay thee bounteously
 conceal me what i am and be my aid
 for such disguise as haply shall become
 the form of my intent i'll serve this duke
 thou shall present me as an eunuch to him
 it may be worth thy pains for i can sing
 and speak to him in many sorts of music
 that will allow me very worth his service
 what else may hap to time i will commit
 only shape thou thy silence to my wit
captain be you his eunuch and your mute i'll be
 when my tongue blabs then let mine eyes not see
viola i thank thee lead me on
 exeunt
 twelfth night
act i
scene iii olivia's house
 enter sir toby belch and maria
sir toby belch what a plague means my niece to take the death of
 her brother thus i am sure care's an enemy to life
maria by my troth sir toby you must come in earlier o'
 nights your cousin my lady takes great
 exceptions to your ill hours
sir toby belch why let her except before excepted
maria ay but you must confine yourself within the modest
 limits of order
sir toby belch confine i'll confine myself no finer than i am
 these clothes are good enough to drink in and so be
 these boots too an they be not let them hang
 themselves in their own straps
maria that quaffing and drinking will undo you i heard
 my lady talk of it yesterday and of a foolish
 knight that you brought in one night here to be her wooer
sir toby belch who sir andrew aguecheek
maria ay he
sir toby belch he's as tall a man as any's in illyria
maria what's that to the purpose
sir toby belch why he has three thousand ducats a year
maria ay but he'll have but a year in all these ducats
 he's a very fool and a prodigal
sir toby belch fie that you'll say so he plays o the
 violdegamboys and speaks three or four languages
 word for word without book and hath all the good
 gifts of nature
maria he hath indeed almost natural for besides that
 he's a fool he's a great quarreller and but that
 he hath the gift of a coward to allay the gust he
 hath in quarrelling tis thought among the prudent
 he would quickly have the gift of a grave
sir toby belch by this hand they are scoundrels and subtractors
 that say so of him who are they
maria they that add moreover he's drunk nightly in your company
sir toby belch with drinking healths to my niece i'll drink to
 her as long as there is a passage in my throat and
 drink in illyria he's a coward and a coystrill
 that will not drink to my niece till his brains turn
 o the toe like a parishtop what wench
 castiliano vulgo for here comes sir andrew agueface
 enter sir andrew
sir andrew sir toby belch how now sir toby belch
sir toby belch sweet sir andrew
sir andrew bless you fair shrew
maria and you too sir
sir toby belch accost sir andrew accost
sir andrew what's that
sir toby belch my niece's chambermaid
sir andrew good mistress accost i desire better acquaintance
maria my name is mary sir
sir andrew good mistress mary accost
sir toby belch you mistake knight accost is front her board
 her woo her assail her
sir andrew by my troth i would not undertake her in this
 company is that the meaning of accost'
maria fare you well gentlemen
sir toby belch an thou let part so sir andrew would thou mightst
 never draw sword again
sir andrew an you part so mistress i would i might never
 draw sword again fair lady do you think you have
 fools in hand
maria sir i have not you by the hand
sir andrew marry but you shall have and here's my hand
maria now sir thought is free i pray you bring
 your hand to the butterybar and let it drink
sir andrew wherefore sweetheart what's your metaphor
maria it's dry sir
sir andrew why i think so i am not such an ass but i can
 keep my hand dry but what's your jest
maria a dry jest sir
sir andrew are you full of them
maria ay sir i have them at my fingers ends marry
 now i let go your hand i am barren
 exit
sir toby belch o knight thou lackest a cup of canary when did i
 see thee so put down
sir andrew never in your life i think unless you see canary
 put me down methinks sometimes i have no more wit
 than a christian or an ordinary man has but i am a
 great eater of beef and i believe that does harm to my wit
sir toby belch no question
sir andrew an i thought that i'ld forswear it i'll ride home
 tomorrow sir toby
sir toby belch pourquoi my dear knight
sir andrew what is pourquoi do or not do i would i had
 bestowed that time in the tongues that i have in
 fencing dancing and bearbaiting o had i but
 followed the arts
sir toby belch then hadst thou had an excellent head of hair
sir andrew why would that have mended my hair
sir toby belch past question for thou seest it will not curl by nature
sir andrew but it becomes me well enough does't not
sir toby belch excellent it hangs like flax on a distaff and i
 hope to see a housewife take thee between her legs
 and spin it off
sir andrew faith i'll home tomorrow sir toby your niece
 will not be seen or if she be it's four to one
 she'll none of me the count himself here hard by woos her
sir toby belch she'll none o the count she'll not match above
 her degree neither in estate years nor wit i
 have heard her swear't tut there's life in't
 man
sir andrew i'll stay a month longer i am a fellow o the
 strangest mind i the world i delight in masques
 and revels sometimes altogether
sir toby belch art thou good at these kickshawses knight
sir andrew as any man in illyria whatsoever he be under the
 degree of my betters and yet i will not compare
 with an old man
sir toby belch what is thy excellence in a galliard knight
sir andrew faith i can cut a caper
sir toby belch and i can cut the mutton to't
sir andrew and i think i have the backtrick simply as strong
 as any man in illyria
sir toby belch wherefore are these things hid wherefore have
 these gifts a curtain before em are they like to
 take dust like mistress mall's picture why dost
 thou not go to church in a galliard and come home in
 a coranto my very walk should be a jig i would not
 so much as make water but in a sinkapace what
 dost thou mean is it a world to hide virtues in
 i did think by the excellent constitution of thy
 leg it was formed under the star of a galliard
sir andrew ay tis strong and it does indifferent well in a
 flamecoloured stock shall we set about some revels
sir toby belch what shall we do else were we not born under taurus
sir andrew taurus that's sides and heart
sir toby belch no sir it is legs and thighs let me see the
 caper ha higher ha ha excellent
 exeunt
 twelfth night
act i
scene iv duke orsino's palace
 enter valentine and viola in man's attire
valentine if the duke continue these favours towards you
 cesario you are like to be much advanced he hath
 known you but three days and already you are no stranger
viola you either fear his humour or my negligence that
 you call in question the continuance of his love
 is he inconstant sir in his favours
valentine no believe me
viola i thank you here comes the count
 enter duke orsino curio and attendants
duke orsino who saw cesario ho
viola on your attendance my lord here
duke orsino stand you a while aloof cesario
 thou know'st no less but all i have unclasp'd
 to thee the book even of my secret soul
 therefore good youth address thy gait unto her
 be not denied access stand at her doors
 and tell them there thy fixed foot shall grow
 till thou have audience
viola sure my noble lord
 if she be so abandon'd to her sorrow
 as it is spoke she never will admit me
duke orsino be clamorous and leap all civil bounds
 rather than make unprofited return
viola say i do speak with her my lord what then
duke orsino o then unfold the passion of my love
 surprise her with discourse of my dear faith
 it shall become thee well to act my woes
 she will attend it better in thy youth
 than in a nuncio's of more grave aspect
viola i think not so my lord
duke orsino dear lad believe it
 for they shall yet belie thy happy years
 that say thou art a man diana's lip
 is not more smooth and rubious thy small pipe
 is as the maiden's organ shrill and sound
 and all is semblative a woman's part
 i know thy constellation is right apt
 for this affair some four or five attend him
 all if you will for i myself am best
 when least in company prosper well in this
 and thou shalt live as freely as thy lord
 to call his fortunes thine
viola i'll do my best
 to woo your lady
 aside
 yet a barful strife
 whoe'er i woo myself would be his wife
 exeunt
 twelfth night
act i
scene v olivia's house
 enter maria and clown
maria nay either tell me where thou hast been or i will
 not open my lips so wide as a bristle may enter in
 way of thy excuse my lady will hang thee for thy absence
clown let her hang me he that is well hanged in this
 world needs to fear no colours
maria make that good
clown he shall see none to fear
maria a good lenten answer i can tell thee where that
 saying was born of i fear no colours'
clown where good mistress mary
maria in the wars and that may you be bold to say in your foolery
clown well god give them wisdom that have it and those
 that are fools let them use their talents
maria yet you will be hanged for being so long absent or
 to be turned away is not that as good as a hanging to you
clown many a good hanging prevents a bad marriage and
 for turning away let summer bear it out
maria you are resolute then
clown not so neither but i am resolved on two points
maria that if one break the other will hold or if both
 break your gaskins fall
clown apt in good faith very apt well go thy way if
 sir toby would leave drinking thou wert as witty a
 piece of eve's flesh as any in illyria
maria peace you rogue no more o that here comes my
 lady make your excuse wisely you were best
 exit
clown wit an't be thy will put me into good fooling
 those wits that think they have thee do very oft
 prove fools and i that am sure i lack thee may
 pass for a wise man for what says quinapalus
 better a witty fool than a foolish wit'
 enter olivia with malvolio
 god bless thee lady
olivia take the fool away
clown do you not hear fellows take away the lady
olivia go to you're a dry fool i'll no more of you
 besides you grow dishonest
clown two faults madonna that drink and good counsel
 will amend for give the dry fool drink then is
 the fool not dry bid the dishonest man mend
 himself if he mend he is no longer dishonest if
 he cannot let the botcher mend him any thing
 that's mended is but patched virtue that
 transgresses is but patched with sin and sin that
 amends is but patched with virtue if that this
 simple syllogism will serve so if it will not
 what remedy as there is no true cuckold but
 calamity so beauty's a flower the lady bade take
 away the fool therefore i say again take her away
olivia sir i bade them take away you
clown misprision in the highest degree lady cucullus non
 facit monachum that's as much to say as i wear not
 motley in my brain good madonna give me leave to
 prove you a fool
olivia can you do it
clown dexterously good madonna
olivia make your proof
clown i must catechise you for it madonna good my mouse
 of virtue answer me
olivia well sir for want of other idleness i'll bide your proof
clown good madonna why mournest thou
olivia good fool for my brother's death
clown i think his soul is in hell madonna
olivia i know his soul is in heaven fool
clown the more fool madonna to mourn for your brother's
 soul being in heaven take away the fool gentlemen
olivia what think you of this fool malvolio doth he not mend
malvolio yes and shall do till the pangs of death shake him
 infirmity that decays the wise doth ever make the
 better fool
clown god send you sir a speedy infirmity for the
 better increasing your folly sir toby will be
 sworn that i am no fox but he will not pass his
 word for two pence that you are no fool
olivia how say you to that malvolio
malvolio i marvel your ladyship takes delight in such a
 barren rascal i saw him put down the other day
 with an ordinary fool that has no more brain
 than a stone look you now he's out of his guard
 already unless you laugh and minister occasion to
 him he is gagged i protest i take these wise men
 that crow so at these set kind of fools no better
 than the fools zanies
olivia oh you are sick of selflove malvolio and taste
 with a distempered appetite to be generous
 guiltless and of free disposition is to take those
 things for birdbolts that you deem cannonbullets
 there is no slander in an allowed fool though he do
 nothing but rail nor no railing in a known discreet
 man though he do nothing but reprove
clown now mercury endue thee with leasing for thou
 speakest well of fools
 reenter maria
maria madam there is at the gate a young gentleman much
 desires to speak with you
olivia from the count orsino is it
maria i know not madam tis a fair young man and well attended
olivia who of my people hold him in delay
maria sir toby madam your kinsman
olivia fetch him off i pray you he speaks nothing but
 madman fie on him
 exit maria
 go you malvolio if it be a suit from the count i
 am sick or not at home what you will to dismiss it
 exit malvolio
 now you see sir how your fooling grows old and
 people dislike it
clown thou hast spoke for us madonna as if thy eldest
 son should be a fool whose skull jove cram with
 brains forhere he comesone of thy kin has a
 most weak pia mater
 enter sir toby belch
olivia by mine honour half drunk what is he at the gate cousin
sir toby belch a gentleman
olivia a gentleman what gentleman
sir toby belch tis a gentle man herea plague o these
 pickleherring how now sot
clown good sir toby
olivia cousin cousin how have you come so early by this lethargy
sir toby belch lechery i defy lechery there's one at the gate
olivia ay marry what is he
sir toby belch let him be the devil an he will i care not give
 me faith say i well it's all one
 exit
olivia what's a drunken man like fool
clown like a drowned man a fool and a mad man one
 draught above heat makes him a fool the second mads
 him and a third drowns him
olivia go thou and seek the crowner and let him sit o my
 coz for he's in the third degree of drink he's
 drowned go look after him
clown he is but mad yet madonna and the fool shall look
 to the madman
 exit
 reenter malvolio
malvolio madam yond young fellow swears he will speak with
 you i told him you were sick he takes on him to
 understand so much and therefore comes to speak
 with you i told him you were asleep he seems to
 have a foreknowledge of that too and therefore
 comes to speak with you what is to be said to him
 lady he's fortified against any denial
olivia tell him he shall not speak with me
malvolio has been told so and he says he'll stand at your
 door like a sheriff's post and be the supporter to
 a bench but he'll speak with you
olivia what kind o man is he
malvolio why of mankind
olivia what manner of man
malvolio of very ill manner he'll speak with you will you or no
olivia of what personage and years is he
malvolio not yet old enough for a man nor young enough for
 a boy as a squash is before tis a peascod or a
 cooling when tis almost an apple tis with him
 in standing water between boy and man he is very
 wellfavoured and he speaks very shrewishly one
 would think his mother's milk were scarce out of him
olivia let him approach call in my gentlewoman
malvolio gentlewoman my lady calls
 exit
 reenter maria
olivia give me my veil come throw it o'er my face
 we'll once more hear orsino's embassy
 enter viola and attendants
viola the honourable lady of the house which is she
olivia speak to me i shall answer for her
 your will
viola most radiant exquisite and unmatchable beautyi
 pray you tell me if this be the lady of the house
 for i never saw her i would be loath to cast away
 my speech for besides that it is excellently well
 penned i have taken great pains to con it good
 beauties let me sustain no scorn i am very
 comptible even to the least sinister usage
olivia whence came you sir
viola i can say little more than i have studied and that
 question's out of my part good gentle one give me
 modest assurance if you be the lady of the house
 that i may proceed in my speech
olivia are you a comedian
viola no my profound heart and yet by the very fangs
 of malice i swear i am not that i play are you
 the lady of the house
olivia if i do not usurp myself i am
viola most certain if you are she you do usurp
 yourself for what is yours to bestow is not yours
 to reserve but this is from my commission i will
 on with my speech in your praise and then show you
 the heart of my message
olivia come to what is important in't i forgive you the praise
viola alas i took great pains to study it and tis poetical
olivia it is the more like to be feigned i pray you
 keep it in i heard you were saucy at my gates
 and allowed your approach rather to wonder at you
 than to hear you if you be not mad be gone if
 you have reason be brief tis not that time of
 moon with me to make one in so skipping a dialogue
maria will you hoist sail sir here lies your way
viola no good swabber i am to hull here a little
 longer some mollification for your giant sweet
 lady tell me your mind i am a messenger
olivia sure you have some hideous matter to deliver when
 the courtesy of it is so fearful speak your office
viola it alone concerns your ear i bring no overture of
 war no taxation of homage i hold the olive in my
 hand my words are as fun of peace as matter
olivia yet you began rudely what are you what would you
viola the rudeness that hath appeared in me have i
 learned from my entertainment what i am and what i
 would are as secret as maidenhead to your ears
 divinity to any other's profanation
olivia give us the place alone we will hear this divinity
 exeunt maria and attendants
 now sir what is your text
viola most sweet lady
olivia a comfortable doctrine and much may be said of it
 where lies your text
viola in orsino's bosom
olivia in his bosom in what chapter of his bosom
viola to answer by the method in the first of his heart
olivia o i have read it it is heresy have you no more to say
viola good madam let me see your face
olivia have you any commission from your lord to negotiate
 with my face you are now out of your text but
 we will draw the curtain and show you the picture
 look you sir such a one i was this present is't
 not well done
 unveiling
viola excellently done if god did all
olivia tis in grain sir twill endure wind and weather
viola tis beauty truly blent whose red and white
 nature's own sweet and cunning hand laid on
 lady you are the cruell'st she alive
 if you will lead these graces to the grave
 and leave the world no copy
olivia o sir i will not be so hardhearted i will give
 out divers schedules of my beauty it shall be
 inventoried and every particle and utensil
 labelled to my will as item two lips
 indifferent red item two grey eyes with lids to
 them item one neck one chin and so forth were
 you sent hither to praise me
viola i see you what you are you are too proud
 but if you were the devil you are fair
 my lord and master loves you o such love
 could be but recompensed though you were crown'd
 the nonpareil of beauty
olivia how does he love me
viola with adorations fertile tears
 with groans that thunder love with sighs of fire
olivia your lord does know my mind i cannot love him
 yet i suppose him virtuous know him noble
 of great estate of fresh and stainless youth
 in voices well divulged free learn'd and valiant
 and in dimension and the shape of nature
 a gracious person but yet i cannot love him
 he might have took his answer long ago
viola if i did love you in my master's flame
 with such a suffering such a deadly life
 in your denial i would find no sense
 i would not understand it
olivia why what would you
viola make me a willow cabin at your gate
 and call upon my soul within the house
 write loyal cantons of contemned love
 and sing them loud even in the dead of night
 halloo your name to the reverberate hills
 and make the babbling gossip of the air
 cry out olivia o you should not rest
 between the elements of air and earth
 but you should pity me
olivia you might do much
 what is your parentage
viola above my fortunes yet my state is well
 i am a gentleman
olivia get you to your lord
 i cannot love him let him send no more
 unless perchance you come to me again
 to tell me how he takes it fare you well
 i thank you for your pains spend this for me
viola i am no fee'd post lady keep your purse
 my master not myself lacks recompense
 love make his heart of flint that you shall love
 and let your fervor like my master's be
 placed in contempt farewell fair cruelty
 exit
olivia what is your parentage'
 above my fortunes yet my state is well
 i am a gentleman i'll be sworn thou art
 thy tongue thy face thy limbs actions and spirit
 do give thee fivefold blazon not too fast
 soft soft
 unless the master were the man how now
 even so quickly may one catch the plague
 methinks i feel this youth's perfections
 with an invisible and subtle stealth
 to creep in at mine eyes well let it be
 what ho malvolio
 reenter malvolio
malvolio here madam at your service
olivia run after that same peevish messenger
 the county's man he left this ring behind him
 would i or not tell him i'll none of it
 desire him not to flatter with his lord
 nor hold him up with hopes i am not for him
 if that the youth will come this way tomorrow
 i'll give him reasons for't hie thee malvolio
malvolio madam i will
 exit
olivia i do i know not what and fear to find
 mine eye too great a flatterer for my mind
 fate show thy force ourselves we do not owe
 what is decreed must be and be this so
 exit
 twelfth night
act ii
scene i the seacoast
 enter antonio and sebastian
antonio will you stay no longer nor will you not that i go with you
sebastian by your patience no my stars shine darkly over
 me the malignancy of my fate might perhaps
 distemper yours therefore i shall crave of you your
 leave that i may bear my evils alone it were a bad
 recompense for your love to lay any of them on you
antonio let me yet know of you whither you are bound
sebastian no sooth sir my determinate voyage is mere
 extravagancy but i perceive in you so excellent a
 touch of modesty that you will not extort from me
 what i am willing to keep in therefore it charges
 me in manners the rather to express myself you
 must know of me then antonio my name is sebastian
 which i called roderigo my father was that
 sebastian of messaline whom i know you have heard
 of he left behind him myself and a sister both
 born in an hour if the heavens had been pleased
 would we had so ended but you sir altered that
 for some hour before you took me from the breach of
 the sea was my sister drowned
antonio alas the day
sebastian a lady sir though it was said she much resembled
 me was yet of many accounted beautiful but
 though i could not with such estimable wonder
 overfar believe that yet thus far i will boldly
 publish her she bore a mind that envy could not but
 call fair she is drowned already sir with salt
 water though i seem to drown her remembrance again with more
antonio pardon me sir your bad entertainment
sebastian o good antonio forgive me your trouble
antonio if you will not murder me for my love let me be
 your servant
sebastian if you will not undo what you have done that is
 kill him whom you have recovered desire it not
 fare ye well at once my bosom is full of kindness
 and i am yet so near the manners of my mother that
 upon the least occasion more mine eyes will tell
 tales of me i am bound to the count orsino's court farewell
 exit
antonio the gentleness of all the gods go with thee
 i have many enemies in orsino's court
 else would i very shortly see thee there
 but come what may i do adore thee so
 that danger shall seem sport and i will go
 exit
 twelfth night
act ii
scene ii a street
 enter viola malvolio following
malvolio were not you even now with the countess olivia
viola even now sir on a moderate pace i have since
 arrived but hither
malvolio she returns this ring to you sir you might have
 saved me my pains to have taken it away yourself
 she adds moreover that you should put your lord
 into a desperate assurance she will none of him
 and one thing more that you be never so hardy to
 come again in his affairs unless it be to report
 your lord's taking of this receive it so
viola she took the ring of me i'll none of it
malvolio come sir you peevishly threw it to her and her
 will is it should be so returned if it be worth
 stooping for there it lies in your eye if not be
 it his that finds it
 exit
viola i left no ring with her what means this lady
 fortune forbid my outside have not charm'd her
 she made good view of me indeed so much
 that sure methought her eyes had lost her tongue
 for she did speak in starts distractedly
 she loves me sure the cunning of her passion
 invites me in this churlish messenger
 none of my lord's ring why he sent her none
 i am the man if it be so as tis
 poor lady she were better love a dream
 disguise i see thou art a wickedness
 wherein the pregnant enemy does much
 how easy is it for the properfalse
 in women's waxen hearts to set their forms
 alas our frailty is the cause not we
 for such as we are made of such we be
 how will this fadge my master loves her dearly
 and i poor monster fond as much on him
 and she mistaken seems to dote on me
 what will become of this as i am man
 my state is desperate for my master's love
 as i am womannow alas the day
 what thriftless sighs shall poor olivia breathe
 o time thou must untangle this not i
 it is too hard a knot for me to untie
 exit
 twelfth night
act ii
scene iii olivia's house
 enter sir toby belch and sir andrew
sir toby belch approach sir andrew not to be abed after
 midnight is to be up betimes and diluculo
 surgere thou know'st
sir andrew nay my troth i know not but i know to be up
 late is to be up late
sir toby belch a false conclusion i hate it as an unfilled can
 to be up after midnight and to go to bed then is
 early so that to go to bed after midnight is to go
 to bed betimes does not our life consist of the
 four elements
sir andrew faith so they say but i think it rather consists
 of eating and drinking
sir toby belch thou'rt a scholar let us therefore eat and drink
 marian i say a stoup of wine
 enter clown
sir andrew here comes the fool i faith
clown how now my hearts did you never see the picture
 of we three'
sir toby belch welcome ass now let's have a catch
sir andrew by my troth the fool has an excellent breast i
 had rather than forty shillings i had such a leg
 and so sweet a breath to sing as the fool has in
 sooth thou wast in very gracious fooling last
 night when thou spokest of pigrogromitus of the
 vapians passing the equinoctial of queubus twas
 very good i faith i sent thee sixpence for thy
 leman hadst it
clown i did impeticos thy gratillity for malvolio's nose
 is no whipstock my lady has a white hand and the
 myrmidons are no bottleale houses
sir andrew excellent why this is the best fooling when all
 is done now a song
sir toby belch come on there is sixpence for you let's have a song
sir andrew there's a testril of me too if one knight give a
clown would you have a lovesong or a song of good life
sir toby belch a lovesong a lovesong
sir andrew ay ay i care not for good life
clown sings
 o mistress mine where are you roaming
 o stay and hear your true love's coming
 that can sing both high and low
 trip no further pretty sweeting
 journeys end in lovers meeting
 every wise man's son doth know
sir andrew excellent good i faith
sir toby belch good good
clown sings
 what is love tis not hereafter
 present mirth hath present laughter
 what's to come is still unsure
 in delay there lies no plenty
 then come kiss me sweet and twenty
 youth's a stuff will not endure
sir andrew a mellifluous voice as i am true knight
sir toby belch a contagious breath
sir andrew very sweet and contagious i faith
sir toby belch to hear by the nose it is dulcet in contagion
 but shall we make the welkin dance indeed shall we
 rouse the nightowl in a catch that will draw three
 souls out of one weaver shall we do that
sir andrew an you love me let's do't i am dog at a catch
clown by'r lady sir and some dogs will catch well
sir andrew most certain let our catch be thou knave'
clown hold thy peace thou knave knight i shall be
 constrained in't to call thee knave knight
sir andrew tis not the first time i have constrained one to
 call me knave begin fool it begins hold thy peace'
clown i shall never begin if i hold my peace
sir andrew good i faith come begin
 catch sung
 enter maria
maria what a caterwauling do you keep here if my lady
 have not called up her steward malvolio and bid him
 turn you out of doors never trust me
sir toby belch my lady's a cataian we are politicians malvolio's
 a pegaramsey and three merry men be we am not
 i consanguineous am i not of her blood
 tillyvally lady
 sings
 there dwelt a man in babylon lady lady'
clown beshrew me the knight's in admirable fooling
sir andrew ay he does well enough if he be disposed and so do
 i too he does it with a better grace but i do it
 more natural
sir toby belch sings o the twelfth day of december'
maria for the love o god peace
 enter malvolio
malvolio my masters are you mad or what are you have ye
 no wit manners nor honesty but to gabble like
 tinkers at this time of night do ye make an
 alehouse of my lady's house that ye squeak out your
 coziers catches without any mitigation or remorse
 of voice is there no respect of place persons nor
 time in you
sir toby belch we did keep time sir in our catches sneck up
malvolio sir toby i must be round with you my lady bade me
 tell you that though she harbours you as her
 kinsman she's nothing allied to your disorders if
 you can separate yourself and your misdemeanors you
 are welcome to the house if not an it would please
 you to take leave of her she is very willing to bid
 you farewell
sir toby belch farewell dear heart since i must needs be gone'
maria nay good sir toby
clown his eyes do show his days are almost done'
malvolio is't even so
sir toby belch but i will never die'
clown sir toby there you lie
malvolio this is much credit to you
sir toby belch shall i bid him go'
clown what an if you do'
sir toby belch shall i bid him go and spare not'
clown o no no no no you dare not'
sir toby belch out o tune sir ye lie art any more than a
 steward dost thou think because thou art
 virtuous there shall be no more cakes and ale
clown yes by saint anne and ginger shall be hot i the
 mouth too
sir toby belch thou'rt i the right go sir rub your chain with
 crumbs a stoup of wine maria
malvolio mistress mary if you prized my lady's favour at any
 thing more than contempt you would not give means
 for this uncivil rule she shall know of it by this hand
 exit
maria go shake your ears
sir andrew twere as good a deed as to drink when a man's
 ahungry to challenge him the field and then to
 break promise with him and make a fool of him
sir toby belch do't knight i'll write thee a challenge or i'll
 deliver thy indignation to him by word of mouth
maria sweet sir toby be patient for tonight since the
 youth of the count's was today with thy lady she is
 much out of quiet for monsieur malvolio let me
 alone with him if i do not gull him into a
 nayword and make him a common recreation do not
 think i have wit enough to lie straight in my bed
 i know i can do it
sir toby belch possess us possess us tell us something of him
maria marry sir sometimes he is a kind of puritan
sir andrew o if i thought that i'ld beat him like a dog
sir toby belch what for being a puritan thy exquisite reason
 dear knight
sir andrew i have no exquisite reason for't but i have reason
 good enough
maria the devil a puritan that he is or any thing
 constantly but a timepleaser an affectioned ass
 that cons state without book and utters it by great
 swarths the best persuaded of himself so
 crammed as he thinks with excellencies that it is
 his grounds of faith that all that look on him love
 him and on that vice in him will my revenge find
 notable cause to work
sir toby belch what wilt thou do
maria i will drop in his way some obscure epistles of
 love wherein by the colour of his beard the shape
 of his leg the manner of his gait the expressure
 of his eye forehead and complexion he shall find
 himself most feelingly personated i can write very
 like my lady your niece on a forgotten matter we
 can hardly make distinction of our hands
sir toby belch excellent i smell a device
sir andrew i have't in my nose too
sir toby belch he shall think by the letters that thou wilt drop
 that they come from my niece and that she's in
 love with him
maria my purpose is indeed a horse of that colour
sir andrew and your horse now would make him an ass
maria ass i doubt not
sir andrew o twill be admirable
maria sport royal i warrant you i know my physic will
 work with him i will plant you two and let the
 fool make a third where he shall find the letter
 observe his construction of it for this night to
 bed and dream on the event farewell
 exit
sir toby belch good night penthesilea
sir andrew before me she's a good wench
sir toby belch she's a beagle truebred and one that adores me
 what o that
sir andrew i was adored once too
sir toby belch let's to bed knight thou hadst need send for
 more money
sir andrew if i cannot recover your niece i am a foul way out
sir toby belch send for money knight if thou hast her not i'
 the end call me cut
sir andrew if i do not never trust me take it how you will
sir toby belch come come i'll go burn some sack tis too late
 to go to bed now come knight come knight
 exeunt
 twelfth night
act ii
scene iv duke orsino's palace
 enter duke orsino viola curio and others
duke orsino give me some music now good morrow friends
 now good cesario but that piece of song
 that old and antique song we heard last night
 methought it did relieve my passion much
 more than light airs and recollected terms
 of these most brisk and giddypaced times
 come but one verse
curio he is not here so please your lordship that should sing it
duke orsino who was it
curio feste the jester my lord a fool that the lady
 olivia's father took much delight in he is about the house
duke orsino seek him out and play the tune the while
 exit curio music plays
 come hither boy if ever thou shalt love
 in the sweet pangs of it remember me
 for such as i am all true lovers are
 unstaid and skittish in all motions else
 save in the constant image of the creature
 that is beloved how dost thou like this tune
viola it gives a very echo to the seat
 where love is throned
duke orsino thou dost speak masterly
 my life upon't young though thou art thine eye
 hath stay'd upon some favour that it loves
 hath it not boy
viola a little by your favour
duke orsino what kind of woman is't
viola of your complexion
duke orsino she is not worth thee then what years i faith
viola about your years my lord
duke orsino too old by heaven let still the woman take
 an elder than herself so wears she to him
 so sways she level in her husband's heart
 for boy however we do praise ourselves
 our fancies are more giddy and unfirm
 more longing wavering sooner lost and worn
 than women's are
viola i think it well my lord
duke orsino then let thy love be younger than thyself
 or thy affection cannot hold the bent
 for women are as roses whose fair flower
 being once display'd doth fall that very hour
viola and so they are alas that they are so
 to die even when they to perfection grow
 reenter curio and clown
duke orsino o fellow come the song we had last night
 mark it cesario it is old and plain
 the spinsters and the knitters in the sun
 and the free maids that weave their thread with bones
 do use to chant it it is silly sooth
 and dallies with the innocence of love
 like the old age
clown are you ready sir
duke orsino ay prithee sing
 music
 
 song
clown come away come away death
 and in sad cypress let me be laid
 fly away fly away breath
 i am slain by a fair cruel maid
 my shroud of white stuck all with yew
 o prepare it
 my part of death no one so true
 did share it
 not a flower not a flower sweet
 on my black coffin let there be strown
 not a friend not a friend greet
 my poor corpse where my bones shall be thrown
 a thousand thousand sighs to save
 lay me o where
 sad true lover never find my grave
 to weep there
duke orsino there's for thy pains
clown no pains sir i take pleasure in singing sir
duke orsino i'll pay thy pleasure then
clown truly sir and pleasure will be paid one time or another
duke orsino give me now leave to leave thee
clown now the melancholy god protect thee and the
 tailor make thy doublet of changeable taffeta for
 thy mind is a very opal i would have men of such
 constancy put to sea that their business might be
 every thing and their intent every where for that's
 it that always makes a good voyage of nothing farewell
 exit
duke orsino let all the rest give place
 curio and attendants retire
 once more cesario
 get thee to yond same sovereign cruelty
 tell her my love more noble than the world
 prizes not quantity of dirty lands
 the parts that fortune hath bestow'd upon her
 tell her i hold as giddily as fortune
 but tis that miracle and queen of gems
 that nature pranks her in attracts my soul
viola but if she cannot love you sir
duke orsino i cannot be so answer'd
viola sooth but you must
 say that some lady as perhaps there is
 hath for your love a great a pang of heart
 as you have for olivia you cannot love her
 you tell her so must she not then be answer'd
duke orsino there is no woman's sides
 can bide the beating of so strong a passion
 as love doth give my heart no woman's heart
 so big to hold so much they lack retention
 alas their love may be call'd appetite
 no motion of the liver but the palate
 that suffer surfeit cloyment and revolt
 but mine is all as hungry as the sea
 and can digest as much make no compare
 between that love a woman can bear me
 and that i owe olivia
viola ay but i know
duke orsino what dost thou know
viola too well what love women to men may owe
 in faith they are as true of heart as we
 my father had a daughter loved a man
 as it might be perhaps were i a woman
 i should your lordship
duke orsino and what's her history
viola a blank my lord she never told her love
 but let concealment like a worm i the bud
 feed on her damask cheek she pined in thought
 and with a green and yellow melancholy
 she sat like patience on a monument
 smiling at grief was not this love indeed
 we men may say more swear more but indeed
 our shows are more than will for still we prove
 much in our vows but little in our love
duke orsino but died thy sister of her love my boy
viola i am all the daughters of my father's house
 and all the brothers too and yet i know not
 sir shall i to this lady
duke orsino ay that's the theme
 to her in haste give her this jewel say
 my love can give no place bide no denay
 exeunt
 twelfth night
act ii
scene v olivia's garden
 enter sir toby belch sir andrew and fabian
sir toby belch come thy ways signior fabian
fabian nay i'll come if i lose a scruple of this sport
 let me be boiled to death with melancholy
sir toby belch wouldst thou not be glad to have the niggardly
 rascally sheepbiter come by some notable shame
fabian i would exult man you know he brought me out o'
 favour with my lady about a bearbaiting here
sir toby belch to anger him we'll have the bear again and we will
 fool him black and blue shall we not sir andrew
sir andrew an we do not it is pity of our lives
sir toby belch here comes the little villain
 enter maria
 how now my metal of india
maria get ye all three into the boxtree malvolio's
 coming down this walk he has been yonder i the
 sun practising behavior to his own shadow this half
 hour observe him for the love of mockery for i
 know this letter will make a contemplative idiot of
 him close in the name of jesting lie thou there
 throws down a letter
 for here comes the trout that must be caught with tickling
 exit
 enter malvolio
malvolio tis but fortune all is fortune maria once told
 me she did affect me and i have heard herself come
 thus near that should she fancy it should be one
 of my complexion besides she uses me with a more
 exalted respect than any one else that follows her
 what should i think on't
sir toby belch here's an overweening rogue
fabian o peace contemplation makes a rare turkeycock
 of him how he jets under his advanced plumes
sir andrew slight i could so beat the rogue
sir toby belch peace i say
malvolio to be count malvolio
sir toby belch ah rogue
sir andrew pistol him pistol him
sir toby belch peace peace
malvolio there is example for't the lady of the strachy
 married the yeoman of the wardrobe
sir andrew fie on him jezebel
fabian o peace now he's deeply in look how
 imagination blows him
malvolio having been three months married to her sitting in
 my state
sir toby belch o for a stonebow to hit him in the eye
malvolio calling my officers about me in my branched velvet
 gown having come from a daybed where i have left
 olivia sleeping
sir toby belch fire and brimstone
fabian o peace peace
malvolio and then to have the humour of state and after a
 demure travel of regard telling them i know my
 place as i would they should do theirs to for my
 kinsman toby
sir toby belch bolts and shackles
fabian o peace peace peace now now
malvolio seven of my people with an obedient start make
 out for him i frown the while and perchance wind
 up watch or play with mysome rich jewel toby
 approaches courtesies there to me
sir toby belch shall this fellow live
fabian though our silence be drawn from us with cars yet peace
malvolio i extend my hand to him thus quenching my familiar
 smile with an austere regard of control
sir toby belch and does not toby take you a blow o the lips then
malvolio saying cousin toby my fortunes having cast me on
 your niece give me this prerogative of speech'
sir toby belch what what
malvolio you must amend your drunkenness'
sir toby belch out scab
fabian nay patience or we break the sinews of our plot
malvolio besides you waste the treasure of your time with
 a foolish knight'
sir andrew that's me i warrant you
malvolio one sir andrew'
sir andrew i knew twas i for many do call me fool
malvolio what employment have we here
 taking up the letter
fabian now is the woodcock near the gin
sir toby belch o peace and the spirit of humour intimate reading
 aloud to him
malvolio by my life this is my lady's hand these be her
 very c's her u's and her t's and thus makes she her
 great p's it is in contempt of question her hand
sir andrew her c's her u's and her t's why that
malvolio reads to the unknown beloved this and my good
 wishes'her very phrases by your leave wax
 soft and the impressure her lucrece with which she
 uses to seal tis my lady to whom should this be
fabian this wins him liver and all
malvolio reads
 jove knows i love but who
 lips do not move
 no man must know
 no man must know what follows the numbers
 altered no man must know if this should be
 thee malvolio
sir toby belch marry hang thee brock
malvolio reads
 i may command where i adore
 but silence like a lucrece knife
 with bloodless stroke my heart doth gore
 m o a i doth sway my life
fabian a fustian riddle
sir toby belch excellent wench say i
malvolio m o a i doth sway my life nay but first let
 me see let me see let me see
fabian what dish o poison has she dressed him
sir toby belch and with what wing the staniel cheques at it
malvolio i may command where i adore why she may command
 me i serve her she is my lady why this is
 evident to any formal capacity there is no
 obstruction in this and the endwhat should
 that alphabetical position portend if i could make
 that resemble something in mesoftly m o a
 i
sir toby belch o ay make up that he is now at a cold scent
fabian sowter will cry upon't for all this though it be as
 rank as a fox
malvolio mmalvolio mwhy that begins my name
fabian did not i say he would work it out the cur is
 excellent at faults
malvolio mbut then there is no consonancy in the sequel
 that suffers under probation a should follow but o does
fabian and o shall end i hope
sir toby belch ay or i'll cudgel him and make him cry o
malvolio and then i comes behind
fabian ay an you had any eye behind you you might see
 more detraction at your heels than fortunes before
 you
malvolio m o a i this simulation is not as the former and
 yet to crush this a little it would bow to me for
 every one of these letters are in my name soft
 here follows prose
 reads
 if this fall into thy hand revolve in my stars i
 am above thee but be not afraid of greatness some
 are born great some achieve greatness and some
 have greatness thrust upon em thy fates open
 their hands let thy blood and spirit embrace them
 and to inure thyself to what thou art like to be
 cast thy humble slough and appear fresh be
 opposite with a kinsman surly with servants let
 thy tongue tang arguments of state put thyself into
 the trick of singularity she thus advises thee
 that sighs for thee remember who commended thy
 yellow stockings and wished to see thee ever
 crossgartered i say remember go to thou art
 made if thou desirest to be so if not let me see
 thee a steward still the fellow of servants and
 not worthy to touch fortune's fingers farewell
 she that would alter services with thee
 the fortunateunhappy'
 daylight and champaign discovers not more this is
 open i will be proud i will read politic authors
 i will baffle sir toby i will wash off gross
 acquaintance i will be pointdevise the very man
 i do not now fool myself to let imagination jade
 me for every reason excites to this that my lady
 loves me she did commend my yellow stockings of
 late she did praise my leg being crossgartered
 and in this she manifests herself to my love and
 with a kind of injunction drives me to these habits
 of her liking i thank my stars i am happy i will
 be strange stout in yellow stockings and
 crossgartered even with the swiftness of putting
 on jove and my stars be praised here is yet a
 postscript
 reads
 thou canst not choose but know who i am if thou
 entertainest my love let it appear in thy smiling
 thy smiles become thee well therefore in my
 presence still smile dear my sweet i prithee'
 jove i thank thee i will smile i will do
 everything that thou wilt have me
 exit
fabian i will not give my part of this sport for a pension
 of thousands to be paid from the sophy
sir toby belch i could marry this wench for this device
sir andrew so could i too
sir toby belch and ask no other dowry with her but such another jest
sir andrew nor i neither
fabian here comes my noble gullcatcher
 reenter maria
sir toby belch wilt thou set thy foot o my neck
sir andrew or o mine either
sir toby belch shall i play my freedom at traytrip and become thy
 bondslave
sir andrew i faith or i either
sir toby belch why thou hast put him in such a dream that when
 the image of it leaves him he must run mad
maria nay but say true does it work upon him
sir toby belch like aquavitae with a midwife
maria if you will then see the fruits of the sport mark
 his first approach before my lady he will come to
 her in yellow stockings and tis a colour she
 abhors and crossgartered a fashion she detests
 and he will smile upon her which will now be so
 unsuitable to her disposition being addicted to a
 melancholy as she is that it cannot but turn him
 into a notable contempt if you will see it follow
 me
sir toby belch to the gates of tartar thou most excellent devil of wit
sir andrew i'll make one too
 exeunt
 twelfth night
act iii
scene i olivia's garden
 enter viola and clown with a tabour
viola save thee friend and thy music dost thou live by
 thy tabour
clown no sir i live by the church
viola art thou a churchman
clown no such matter sir i do live by the church for
 i do live at my house and my house doth stand by
 the church
viola so thou mayst say the king lies by a beggar if a
 beggar dwell near him or the church stands by thy
 tabour if thy tabour stand by the church
clown you have said sir to see this age a sentence is
 but a cheveril glove to a good wit how quickly the
 wrong side may be turned outward
viola nay that's certain they that dally nicely with
 words may quickly make them wanton
clown i would therefore my sister had had no name sir
viola why man
clown why sir her name's a word and to dally with that
 word might make my sister wanton but indeed words
 are very rascals since bonds disgraced them
viola thy reason man
clown troth sir i can yield you none without words and
 words are grown so false i am loath to prove
 reason with them
viola i warrant thou art a merry fellow and carest for nothing
clown not so sir i do care for something but in my
 conscience sir i do not care for you if that be
 to care for nothing sir i would it would make you invisible
viola art not thou the lady olivia's fool
clown no indeed sir the lady olivia has no folly she
 will keep no fool sir till she be married and
 fools are as like husbands as pilchards are to
 herrings the husband's the bigger i am indeed not
 her fool but her corrupter of words
viola i saw thee late at the count orsino's
clown foolery sir does walk about the orb like the sun
 it shines every where i would be sorry sir but
 the fool should be as oft with your master as with
 my mistress i think i saw your wisdom there
viola nay an thou pass upon me i'll no more with thee
 hold there's expenses for thee
clown now jove in his next commodity of hair send thee a beard
viola by my troth i'll tell thee i am almost sick for
 one
 aside
 though i would not have it grow on my chin is thy
 lady within
clown would not a pair of these have bred sir
viola yes being kept together and put to use
clown i would play lord pandarus of phrygia sir to bring
 a cressida to this troilus
viola i understand you sir tis well begged
clown the matter i hope is not great sir begging but
 a beggar cressida was a beggar my lady is
 within sir i will construe to them whence you
 come who you are and what you would are out of my
 welkin i might say element but the word is overworn
 exit
viola this fellow is wise enough to play the fool
 and to do that well craves a kind of wit
 he must observe their mood on whom he jests
 the quality of persons and the time
 and like the haggard cheque at every feather
 that comes before his eye this is a practise
 as full of labour as a wise man's art
 for folly that he wisely shows is fit
 but wise men follyfall'n quite taint their wit
 enter sir toby belch and sir andrew
sir toby belch save you gentleman
viola and you sir
sir andrew dieu vous garde monsieur
viola et vous aussi votre serviteur
sir andrew i hope sir you are and i am yours
sir toby belch will you encounter the house my niece is desirous
 you should enter if your trade be to her
viola i am bound to your niece sir i mean she is the
 list of my voyage
sir toby belch taste your legs sir put them to motion
viola my legs do better understand me sir than i
 understand what you mean by bidding me taste my legs
sir toby belch i mean to go sir to enter
viola i will answer you with gait and entrance but we
 are prevented
 enter olivia and maria
 most excellent accomplished lady the heavens rain
 odours on you
sir andrew that youth's a rare courtier rain odours well
viola my matter hath no voice to your own most pregnant
 and vouchsafed ear
sir andrew odours pregnant and vouchsafed i'll get em
 all three all ready
olivia let the garden door be shut and leave me to my hearing
 exeunt sir toby belch sir andrew and maria
 give me your hand sir
viola my duty madam and most humble service
olivia what is your name
viola cesario is your servant's name fair princess
olivia my servant sir twas never merry world
 since lowly feigning was call'd compliment
 you're servant to the count orsino youth
viola and he is yours and his must needs be yours
 your servant's servant is your servant madam
olivia for him i think not on him for his thoughts
 would they were blanks rather than fill'd with me
viola madam i come to whet your gentle thoughts
 on his behalf
olivia o by your leave i pray you
 i bade you never speak again of him
 but would you undertake another suit
 i had rather hear you to solicit that
 than music from the spheres
viola dear lady
olivia give me leave beseech you i did send
 after the last enchantment you did here
 a ring in chase of you so did i abuse
 myself my servant and i fear me you
 under your hard construction must i sit
 to force that on you in a shameful cunning
 which you knew none of yours what might you think
 have you not set mine honour at the stake
 and baited it with all the unmuzzled thoughts
 that tyrannous heart can think to one of your receiving
 enough is shown a cypress not a bosom
 hideth my heart so let me hear you speak
viola i pity you
olivia that's a degree to love
viola no not a grize for tis a vulgar proof
 that very oft we pity enemies
olivia why then methinks tis time to smile again
 o world how apt the poor are to be proud
 if one should be a prey how much the better
 to fall before the lion than the wolf
 clock strikes
 the clock upbraids me with the waste of time
 be not afraid good youth i will not have you
 and yet when wit and youth is come to harvest
 your were is alike to reap a proper man
 there lies your way due west
viola then westwardho grace and good disposition
 attend your ladyship
 you'll nothing madam to my lord by me
olivia stay
 i prithee tell me what thou thinkest of me
viola that you do think you are not what you are
olivia if i think so i think the same of you
viola then think you right i am not what i am
olivia i would you were as i would have you be
viola would it be better madam than i am
 i wish it might for now i am your fool
olivia o what a deal of scorn looks beautiful
 in the contempt and anger of his lip
 a murderous guilt shows not itself more soon
 than love that would seem hid love's night is noon
 cesario by the roses of the spring
 by maidhood honour truth and every thing
 i love thee so that maugre all thy pride
 nor wit nor reason can my passion hide
 do not extort thy reasons from this clause
 for that i woo thou therefore hast no cause
 but rather reason thus with reason fetter
 love sought is good but given unsought better
viola by innocence i swear and by my youth
 i have one heart one bosom and one truth
 and that no woman has nor never none
 shall mistress be of it save i alone
 and so adieu good madam never more
 will i my master's tears to you deplore
olivia yet come again for thou perhaps mayst move
 that heart which now abhors to like his love
 exeunt
 twelfth night
act iii
scene ii olivia's house
 enter sir toby belch sir andrew and fabian
sir andrew no faith i'll not stay a jot longer
sir toby belch thy reason dear venom give thy reason
fabian you must needs yield your reason sir andrew
sir andrew marry i saw your niece do more favours to the
 count's servingman than ever she bestowed upon me
 i saw't i the orchard
sir toby belch did she see thee the while old boy tell me that
sir andrew as plain as i see you now
fabian this was a great argument of love in her toward you
sir andrew slight will you make an ass o me
fabian i will prove it legitimate sir upon the oaths of
 judgment and reason
sir toby belch and they have been grandjurymen since before noah
 was a sailor
fabian she did show favour to the youth in your sight only
 to exasperate you to awake your dormouse valour to
 put fire in your heart and brimstone in your liver
 you should then have accosted her and with some
 excellent jests firenew from the mint you should
 have banged the youth into dumbness this was
 looked for at your hand and this was balked the
 double gilt of this opportunity you let time wash
 off and you are now sailed into the north of my
 lady's opinion where you will hang like an icicle
 on a dutchman's beard unless you do redeem it by
 some laudable attempt either of valour or policy
sir andrew an't be any way it must be with valour for policy
 i hate i had as lief be a brownist as a
 politician
sir toby belch why then build me thy fortunes upon the basis of
 valour challenge me the count's youth to fight
 with him hurt him in eleven places my niece shall
 take note of it and assure thyself there is no
 lovebroker in the world can more prevail in man's
 commendation with woman than report of valour
fabian there is no way but this sir andrew
sir andrew will either of you bear me a challenge to him
sir toby belch go write it in a martial hand be curst and brief
 it is no matter how witty so it be eloquent and fun
 of invention taunt him with the licence of ink
 if thou thou'st him some thrice it shall not be
 amiss and as many lies as will lie in thy sheet of
 paper although the sheet were big enough for the
 bed of ware in england set em down go about it
 let there be gall enough in thy ink though thou
 write with a goosepen no matter about it
sir andrew where shall i find you
sir toby belch we'll call thee at the cubiculo go
 exit sir andrew
fabian this is a dear manikin to you sir toby
sir toby belch i have been dear to him lad some two thousand
 strong or so
fabian we shall have a rare letter from him but you'll
 not deliver't
sir toby belch never trust me then and by all means stir on the
 youth to an answer i think oxen and wainropes
 cannot hale them together for andrew if he were
 opened and you find so much blood in his liver as
 will clog the foot of a flea i'll eat the rest of
 the anatomy
fabian and his opposite the youth bears in his visage no
 great presage of cruelty
 enter maria
sir toby belch look where the youngest wren of nine comes
maria if you desire the spleen and will laugh yourself
 into stitches follow me yond gull malvolio is
 turned heathen a very renegado for there is no
 christian that means to be saved by believing
 rightly can ever believe such impossible passages
 of grossness he's in yellow stockings
sir toby belch and crossgartered
maria most villanously like a pedant that keeps a school
 i the church i have dogged him like his
 murderer he does obey every point of the letter
 that i dropped to betray him he does smile his
 face into more lines than is in the new map with the
 augmentation of the indies you have not seen such
 a thing as tis i can hardly forbear hurling things
 at him i know my lady will strike him if she do
 he'll smile and take't for a great favour
sir toby belch come bring us bring us where he is
 exeunt
 twelfth night
act iii
scene iii a street
 enter sebastian and antonio
sebastian i would not by my will have troubled you
 but since you make your pleasure of your pains
 i will no further chide you
antonio i could not stay behind you my desire
 more sharp than filed steel did spur me forth
 and not all love to see you though so much
 as might have drawn one to a longer voyage
 but jealousy what might befall your travel
 being skilless in these parts which to a stranger
 unguided and unfriended often prove
 rough and unhospitable my willing love
 the rather by these arguments of fear
 set forth in your pursuit
sebastian my kind antonio
 i can no other answer make but thanks
 and thanks and ever oft good turns
 are shuffled off with such uncurrent pay
 but were my worth as is my conscience firm
 you should find better dealing what's to do
 shall we go see the reliques of this town
antonio tomorrow sir best first go see your lodging
sebastian i am not weary and tis long to night
 i pray you let us satisfy our eyes
 with the memorials and the things of fame
 that do renown this city
antonio would you'ld pardon me
 i do not without danger walk these streets
 once in a seafight gainst the count his galleys
 i did some service of such note indeed
 that were i ta'en here it would scarce be answer'd
sebastian belike you slew great number of his people
antonio the offence is not of such a bloody nature
 albeit the quality of the time and quarrel
 might well have given us bloody argument
 it might have since been answer'd in repaying
 what we took from them which for traffic's sake
 most of our city did only myself stood out
 for which if i be lapsed in this place
 i shall pay dear
sebastian do not then walk too open
antonio it doth not fit me hold sir here's my purse
 in the south suburbs at the elephant
 is best to lodge i will bespeak our diet
 whiles you beguile the time and feed your knowledge
 with viewing of the town there shall you have me
sebastian why i your purse
antonio haply your eye shall light upon some toy
 you have desire to purchase and your store
 i think is not for idle markets sir
sebastian i'll be your pursebearer and leave you
 for an hour
antonio to the elephant
sebastian i do remember
 exeunt
 twelfth night
act iii
scene iv olivia's garden
 enter olivia and maria
olivia i have sent after him he says he'll come
 how shall i feast him what bestow of him
 for youth is bought more oft than begg'd or borrow'd
 i speak too loud
 where is malvolio he is sad and civil
 and suits well for a servant with my fortunes
 where is malvolio
maria he's coming madam but in very strange manner he
 is sure possessed madam
olivia why what's the matter does he rave
maria no madam he does nothing but smile your
 ladyship were best to have some guard about you if
 he come for sure the man is tainted in's wits
olivia go call him hither
 exit maria
 i am as mad as he
 if sad and merry madness equal be
 reenter maria with malvolio
 how now malvolio
malvolio sweet lady ho ho
olivia smilest thou
 i sent for thee upon a sad occasion
malvolio sad lady i could be sad this does make some
 obstruction in the blood this crossgartering but
 what of that if it please the eye of one it is
 with me as the very true sonnet is please one and
 please all'
olivia why how dost thou man what is the matter with thee
malvolio not black in my mind though yellow in my legs it
 did come to his hands and commands shall be
 executed i think we do know the sweet roman hand
olivia wilt thou go to bed malvolio
malvolio to bed ay sweetheart and i'll come to thee
olivia god comfort thee why dost thou smile so and kiss
 thy hand so oft
maria how do you malvolio
malvolio at your request yes nightingales answer daws
maria why appear you with this ridiculous boldness before my lady
malvolio be not afraid of greatness twas well writ
olivia what meanest thou by that malvolio
malvolio some are born great'
olivia ha
malvolio some achieve greatness'
olivia what sayest thou
malvolio and some have greatness thrust upon them'
olivia heaven restore thee
malvolio remember who commended thy yellow stockings'
olivia thy yellow stockings
malvolio and wished to see thee crossgartered'
olivia crossgartered
malvolio go to thou art made if thou desirest to be so'
olivia am i made
malvolio if not let me see thee a servant still'
olivia why this is very midsummer madness
 enter servant
servant madam the young gentleman of the count orsino's is
 returned i could hardly entreat him back he
 attends your ladyship's pleasure
olivia i'll come to him
 exit servant
 good maria let this fellow be looked to where's
 my cousin toby let some of my people have a special
 care of him i would not have him miscarry for the
 half of my dowry
 exeunt olivia and maria
malvolio o ho do you come near me now no worse man than
 sir toby to look to me this concurs directly with
 the letter she sends him on purpose that i may
 appear stubborn to him for she incites me to that
 in the letter cast thy humble slough says she
 be opposite with a kinsman surly with servants
 let thy tongue tang with arguments of state put
 thyself into the trick of singularity and
 consequently sets down the manner how as a sad
 face a reverend carriage a slow tongue in the
 habit of some sir of note and so forth i have
 limed her but it is jove's doing and jove make me
 thankful and when she went away now let this
 fellow be looked to fellow not malvolio nor
 after my degree but fellow why every thing
 adheres together that no dram of a scruple no
 scruple of a scruple no obstacle no incredulous
 or unsafe circumstancewhat can be said nothing
 that can be can come between me and the full
 prospect of my hopes well jove not i is the
 doer of this and he is to be thanked
 reenter maria with sir toby belch and fabian
sir toby belch which way is he in the name of sanctity if all
 the devils of hell be drawn in little and legion
 himself possessed him yet i'll speak to him
fabian here he is here he is how is't with you sir
 how is't with you man
malvolio go off i discard you let me enjoy my private go
 off
maria lo how hollow the fiend speaks within him did not
 i tell you sir toby my lady prays you to have a
 care of him
malvolio ah ha does she so
sir toby belch go to go to peace peace we must deal gently
 with him let me alone how do you malvolio how
 is't with you what man defy the devil
 consider he's an enemy to mankind
malvolio do you know what you say
maria la you an you speak ill of the devil how he takes
 it at heart pray god he be not bewitched
fabian carry his water to the wise woman
maria marry and it shall be done tomorrow morning if i
 live my lady would not lose him for more than i'll say
malvolio how now mistress
maria o lord
sir toby belch prithee hold thy peace this is not the way do
 you not see you move him let me alone with him
fabian no way but gentleness gently gently the fiend is
 rough and will not be roughly used
sir toby belch why how now my bawcock how dost thou chuck
malvolio sir
sir toby belch ay biddy come with me what man tis not for
 gravity to play at cherrypit with satan hang
 him foul collier
maria get him to say his prayers good sir toby get him to pray
malvolio my prayers minx
maria no i warrant you he will not hear of godliness
malvolio go hang yourselves all you are idle shallow
 things i am not of your element you shall know
 more hereafter
 exit
sir toby belch is't possible
fabian if this were played upon a stage now i could
 condemn it as an improbable fiction
sir toby belch his very genius hath taken the infection of the device man
maria nay pursue him now lest the device take air and taint
fabian why we shall make him mad indeed
maria the house will be the quieter
sir toby belch come we'll have him in a dark room and bound my
 niece is already in the belief that he's mad we
 may carry it thus for our pleasure and his penance
 till our very pastime tired out of breath prompt
 us to have mercy on him at which time we will
 bring the device to the bar and crown thee for a
 finder of madmen but see but see
 enter sir andrew
fabian more matter for a may morning
sir andrew here's the challenge read it warrant there's
 vinegar and pepper in't
fabian is't so saucy
sir andrew ay is't i warrant him do but read
sir toby belch give me
 reads
 youth whatsoever thou art thou art but a scurvy fellow'
fabian good and valiant
sir toby belch reads wonder not nor admire not in thy mind
 why i do call thee so for i will show thee no reason for't'
fabian a good note that keeps you from the blow of the law
sir toby belch reads thou comest to the lady olivia and in my
 sight she uses thee kindly but thou liest in thy
 throat that is not the matter i challenge thee for'
fabian very brief and to exceeding good senseless
sir toby belch reads i will waylay thee going home where if it
 be thy chance to kill me'
fabian good
sir toby belch reads thou killest me like a rogue and a villain'
fabian still you keep o the windy side of the law good
sir toby belch reads fare thee well and god have mercy upon
 one of our souls he may have mercy upon mine but
 my hope is better and so look to thyself thy
 friend as thou usest him and thy sworn enemy
 andrew aguecheek
 if this letter move him not his legs cannot
 i'll give't him
maria you may have very fit occasion for't he is now in
 some commerce with my lady and will by and by depart
sir toby belch go sir andrew scout me for him at the corner the
 orchard like a bumbaily so soon as ever thou seest
 him draw and as thou drawest swear horrible for
 it comes to pass oft that a terrible oath with a
 swaggering accent sharply twanged off gives manhood
 more approbation than ever proof itself would have
 earned him away
sir andrew nay let me alone for swearing
 exit
sir toby belch now will not i deliver his letter for the behavior
 of the young gentleman gives him out to be of good
 capacity and breeding his employment between his
 lord and my niece confirms no less therefore this
 letter being so excellently ignorant will breed no
 terror in the youth he will find it comes from a
 clodpole but sir i will deliver his challenge by
 word of mouth set upon aguecheek a notable report
 of valour and drive the gentleman as i know his
 youth will aptly receive it into a most hideous
 opinion of his rage skill fury and impetuosity
 this will so fright them both that they will kill
 one another by the look like cockatrices
 reenter olivia with viola
fabian here he comes with your niece give them way till
 he take leave and presently after him
sir toby belch i will meditate the while upon some horrid message
 for a challenge
 exeunt sir toby belch fabian and maria
olivia i have said too much unto a heart of stone
 and laid mine honour too unchary out
 there's something in me that reproves my fault
 but such a headstrong potent fault it is
 that it but mocks reproof
viola with the same havior that your passion bears
 goes on my master's grief
olivia here wear this jewel for me tis my picture
 refuse it not it hath no tongue to vex you
 and i beseech you come again tomorrow
 what shall you ask of me that i'll deny
 that honour saved may upon asking give
viola nothing but this your true love for my master
olivia how with mine honour may i give him that
 which i have given to you
viola i will acquit you
olivia well come again tomorrow fare thee well
 a fiend like thee might bear my soul to hell
 exit
 reenter sir toby belch and fabian
sir toby belch gentleman god save thee
viola and you sir
sir toby belch that defence thou hast betake thee to't of what
 nature the wrongs are thou hast done him i know
 not but thy intercepter full of despite bloody as
 the hunter attends thee at the orchardend
 dismount thy tuck be yare in thy preparation for
 thy assailant is quick skilful and deadly
viola you mistake sir i am sure no man hath any quarrel
 to me my remembrance is very free and clear from
 any image of offence done to any man
sir toby belch you'll find it otherwise i assure you therefore
 if you hold your life at any price betake you to
 your guard for your opposite hath in him what
 youth strength skill and wrath can furnish man withal
viola i pray you sir what is he
sir toby belch he is knight dubbed with unhatched rapier and on
 carpet consideration but he is a devil in private
 brawl souls and bodies hath he divorced three and
 his incensement at this moment is so implacable
 that satisfaction can be none but by pangs of death
 and sepulchre hob nob is his word give't or take't
viola i will return again into the house and desire some
 conduct of the lady i am no fighter i have heard
 of some kind of men that put quarrels purposely on
 others to taste their valour belike this is a man
 of that quirk
sir toby belch sir no his indignation derives itself out of a
 very competent injury therefore get you on and
 give him his desire back you shall not to the
 house unless you undertake that with me which with
 as much safety you might answer him therefore on
 or strip your sword stark naked for meddle you
 must that's certain or forswear to wear iron about you
viola this is as uncivil as strange i beseech you do me
 this courteous office as to know of the knight what
 my offence to him is it is something of my
 negligence nothing of my purpose
sir toby belch i will do so signior fabian stay you by this
 gentleman till my return
 exit
viola pray you sir do you know of this matter
fabian i know the knight is incensed against you even to a
 mortal arbitrement but nothing of the circumstance more
viola i beseech you what manner of man is he
fabian nothing of that wonderful promise to read him by
 his form as you are like to find him in the proof
 of his valour he is indeed sir the most skilful
 bloody and fatal opposite that you could possibly
 have found in any part of illyria will you walk
 towards him i will make your peace with him if i
 can
viola i shall be much bound to you for't i am one that
 had rather go with sir priest than sir knight i
 care not who knows so much of my mettle
 exeunt
 reenter sir toby belch with sir andrew
sir toby belch why man he's a very devil i have not seen such a
 firago i had a pass with him rapier scabbard and
 all and he gives me the stuck in with such a mortal
 motion that it is inevitable and on the answer he
 pays you as surely as your feet hit the ground they
 step on they say he has been fencer to the sophy
sir andrew pox on't i'll not meddle with him
sir toby belch ay but he will not now be pacified fabian can
 scarce hold him yonder
sir andrew plague on't an i thought he had been valiant and so
 cunning in fence i'ld have seen him damned ere i'ld
 have challenged him let him let the matter slip
 and i'll give him my horse grey capilet
sir toby belch i'll make the motion stand here make a good show
 on't this shall end without the perdition of souls
 aside
 marry i'll ride your horse as well as i ride you
 reenter fabian and viola
 to fabian
 i have his horse to take up the quarrel
 i have persuaded him the youth's a devil
fabian he is as horribly conceited of him and pants and
 looks pale as if a bear were at his heels
sir toby belch to viola there's no remedy sir he will fight
 with you for's oath sake marry he hath better
 bethought him of his quarrel and he finds that now
 scarce to be worth talking of therefore draw for
 the supportance of his vow he protests he will not hurt you
viola aside pray god defend me a little thing would
 make me tell them how much i lack of a man
fabian give ground if you see him furious
sir toby belch come sir andrew there's no remedy the gentleman
 will for his honour's sake have one bout with you
 he cannot by the duello avoid it but he has
 promised me as he is a gentleman and a soldier he
 will not hurt you come on to't
sir andrew pray god he keep his oath
viola i do assure you tis against my will
 they draw
 enter antonio
antonio put up your sword if this young gentleman
 have done offence i take the fault on me
 if you offend him i for him defy you
sir toby belch you sir why what are you
antonio one sir that for his love dares yet do more
 than you have heard him brag to you he will
sir toby belch nay if you be an undertaker i am for you
 they draw
 enter officers
fabian o good sir toby hold here come the officers
sir toby belch i'll be with you anon
viola pray sir put your sword up if you please
sir andrew marry will i sir and for that i promised you
 i'll be as good as my word he will bear you easily
 and reins well
first officer this is the man do thy office
second officer antonio i arrest thee at the suit of count orsino
antonio you do mistake me sir
first officer no sir no jot i know your favour well
 though now you have no seacap on your head
 take him away he knows i know him well
antonio i must obey
 to viola
 this comes with seeking you
 but there's no remedy i shall answer it
 what will you do now my necessity
 makes me to ask you for my purse it grieves me
 much more for what i cannot do for you
 than what befalls myself you stand amazed
 but be of comfort
second officer come sir away
antonio i must entreat of you some of that money
viola what money sir
 for the fair kindness you have show'd me here
 and part being prompted by your present trouble
 out of my lean and low ability
 i'll lend you something my having is not much
 i'll make division of my present with you
 hold there's half my coffer
antonio will you deny me now
 is't possible that my deserts to you
 can lack persuasion do not tempt my misery
 lest that it make me so unsound a man
 as to upbraid you with those kindnesses
 that i have done for you
viola i know of none
 nor know i you by voice or any feature
 i hate ingratitude more in a man
 than lying vainness babbling drunkenness
 or any taint of vice whose strong corruption
 inhabits our frail blood
antonio o heavens themselves
second officer come sir i pray you go
antonio let me speak a little this youth that you see here
 i snatch'd one half out of the jaws of death
 relieved him with such sanctity of love
 and to his image which methought did promise
 most venerable worth did i devotion
first officer what's that to us the time goes by away
antonio but o how vile an idol proves this god
 thou hast sebastian done good feature shame
 in nature there's no blemish but the mind
 none can be call'd deform'd but the unkind
 virtue is beauty but the beauteous evil
 are empty trunks o'erflourish'd by the devil
first officer the man grows mad away with him come come sir
antonio lead me on
 exit with officers
viola methinks his words do from such passion fly
 that he believes himself so do not i
 prove true imagination o prove true
 that i dear brother be now ta'en for you
sir toby belch come hither knight come hither fabian we'll
 whisper o'er a couplet or two of most sage saws
viola he named sebastian i my brother know
 yet living in my glass even such and so
 in favour was my brother and he went
 still in this fashion colour ornament
 for him i imitate o if it prove
 tempests are kind and salt waves fresh in love
 exit
sir toby belch a very dishonest paltry boy and more a coward than
 a hare his dishonesty appears in leaving his
 friend here in necessity and denying him and for
 his cowardship ask fabian
fabian a coward a most devout coward religious in it
sir andrew slid i'll after him again and beat him
sir toby belch do cuff him soundly but never draw thy sword
sir andrew an i do not
fabian come let's see the event
sir toby belch i dare lay any money twill be nothing yet
 exeunt
 twelfth night
act iv
scene i before olivia's house
 enter sebastian and clown
clown will you make me believe that i am not sent for you
sebastian go to go to thou art a foolish fellow
 let me be clear of thee
clown well held out i faith no i do not know you nor
 i am not sent to you by my lady to bid you come
 speak with her nor your name is not master cesario
 nor this is not my nose neither nothing that is so is so
sebastian i prithee vent thy folly somewhere else thou
 know'st not me
clown vent my folly he has heard that word of some
 great man and now applies it to a fool vent my
 folly i am afraid this great lubber the world
 will prove a cockney i prithee now ungird thy
 strangeness and tell me what i shall vent to my
 lady shall i vent to her that thou art coming
sebastian i prithee foolish greek depart from me there's
 money for thee if you tarry longer i shall give
 worse payment
clown by my troth thou hast an open hand these wise men
 that give fools money get themselves a good
 reportafter fourteen years purchase
 enter sir andrew sir toby belch and fabian
sir andrew now sir have i met you again there's for you
sebastian why there's for thee and there and there are all
 the people mad
sir toby belch hold sir or i'll throw your dagger o'er the house
clown this will i tell my lady straight i would not be
 in some of your coats for two pence
 exit
sir toby belch come on sir hold
sir andrew nay let him alone i'll go another way to work
 with him i'll have an action of battery against
 him if there be any law in illyria though i
 struck him first yet it's no matter for that
sebastian let go thy hand
sir toby belch come sir i will not let you go come my young
 soldier put up your iron you are well fleshed come on
sebastian i will be free from thee what wouldst thou now if
 thou darest tempt me further draw thy sword
sir toby belch what what nay then i must have an ounce or two
 of this malapert blood from you
 enter olivia
olivia hold toby on thy life i charge thee hold
sir toby belch madam
olivia will it be ever thus ungracious wretch
 fit for the mountains and the barbarous caves
 where manners ne'er were preach'd out of my sight
 be not offended dear cesario
 rudesby be gone
 exeunt sir toby belch sir andrew and fabian
 i prithee gentle friend
 let thy fair wisdom not thy passion sway
 in this uncivil and thou unjust extent
 against thy peace go with me to my house
 and hear thou there how many fruitless pranks
 this ruffian hath botch'd up that thou thereby
 mayst smile at this thou shalt not choose but go
 do not deny beshrew his soul for me
 he started one poor heart of mine in thee
sebastian what relish is in this how runs the stream
 or i am mad or else this is a dream
 let fancy still my sense in lethe steep
 if it be thus to dream still let me sleep
olivia nay come i prithee would thou'ldst be ruled by me
sebastian madam i will
olivia o say so and so be
 exeunt
 twelfth night
act iv
scene ii olivia's house
 enter maria and clown
maria nay i prithee put on this gown and this beard
 make him believe thou art sir topas the curate do
 it quickly i'll call sir toby the whilst
 exit
clown well i'll put it on and i will dissemble myself
 in't and i would i were the first that ever
 dissembled in such a gown i am not tall enough to
 become the function well nor lean enough to be
 thought a good student but to be said an honest man
 and a good housekeeper goes as fairly as to say a
 careful man and a great scholar the competitors enter
 enter sir toby belch and maria
sir toby belch jove bless thee master parson
clown bonos dies sir toby for as the old hermit of
 prague that never saw pen and ink very wittily
 said to a niece of king gorboduc that that is is'
 so i being master parson am master parson for
 what is that but that and is but is'
sir toby belch to him sir topas
clown what ho i say peace in this prison
sir toby belch the knave counterfeits well a good knave
malvolio within who calls there
clown sir topas the curate who comes to visit malvolio
 the lunatic
malvolio sir topas sir topas good sir topas go to my lady
clown out hyperbolical fiend how vexest thou this man
 talkest thou nothing but of ladies
sir toby belch well said master parson
malvolio sir topas never was man thus wronged good sir
 topas do not think i am mad they have laid me
 here in hideous darkness
clown fie thou dishonest satan i call thee by the most
 modest terms for i am one of those gentle ones
 that will use the devil himself with courtesy
 sayest thou that house is dark
malvolio as hell sir topas
clown why it hath bay windows transparent as barricadoes
 and the clearstores toward the south north are as
 lustrous as ebony and yet complainest thou of
 obstruction
malvolio i am not mad sir topas i say to you this house is dark
clown madman thou errest i say there is no darkness
 but ignorance in which thou art more puzzled than
 the egyptians in their fog
malvolio i say this house is as dark as ignorance though
 ignorance were as dark as hell and i say there
 was never man thus abused i am no more mad than you
 are make the trial of it in any constant question
clown what is the opinion of pythagoras concerning wild fowl
malvolio that the soul of our grandam might haply inhabit a bird
clown what thinkest thou of his opinion
malvolio i think nobly of the soul and no way approve his opinion
clown fare thee well remain thou still in darkness
 thou shalt hold the opinion of pythagoras ere i will
 allow of thy wits and fear to kill a woodcock lest
 thou dispossess the soul of thy grandam fare thee well
malvolio sir topas sir topas
sir toby belch my most exquisite sir topas
clown nay i am for all waters
maria thou mightst have done this without thy beard and
 gown he sees thee not
sir toby belch to him in thine own voice and bring me word how
 thou findest him i would we were well rid of this
 knavery if he may be conveniently delivered i
 would he were for i am now so far in offence with
 my niece that i cannot pursue with any safety this
 sport to the upshot come by and by to my chamber
 exeunt sir toby belch and maria
clown singing
 hey robin jolly robin
 tell me how thy lady does'
malvolio fool
clown my lady is unkind perdy'
malvolio fool
clown alas why is she so'
malvolio fool i say
clown she loves another'who calls ha
malvolio good fool as ever thou wilt deserve well at my
 hand help me to a candle and pen ink and paper
 as i am a gentleman i will live to be thankful to
 thee for't
clown master malvolio
malvolio ay good fool
clown alas sir how fell you besides your five wits
malvolio fool there was never a man so notoriously abused i
 am as well in my wits fool as thou art
clown but as well then you are mad indeed if you be no
 better in your wits than a fool
malvolio they have here propertied me keep me in darkness
 send ministers to me asses and do all they can to
 face me out of my wits
clown advise you what you say the minister is here
 malvolio malvolio thy wits the heavens restore
 endeavour thyself to sleep and leave thy vain
 bibble babble
malvolio sir topas
clown maintain no words with him good fellow who i
 sir not i sir god be wi you good sir topas
 merry amen i will sir i will
malvolio fool fool fool i say
clown alas sir be patient what say you sir i am
 shent for speaking to you
malvolio good fool help me to some light and some paper i
 tell thee i am as well in my wits as any man in illyria
clown welladay that you were sir
malvolio by this hand i am good fool some ink paper and
 light and convey what i will set down to my lady
 it shall advantage thee more than ever the bearing
 of letter did
clown i will help you to't but tell me true are you
 not mad indeed or do you but counterfeit
malvolio believe me i am not i tell thee true
clown nay i'll ne'er believe a madman till i see his
 brains i will fetch you light and paper and ink
malvolio fool i'll requite it in the highest degree i
 prithee be gone
clown singing
 i am gone sir
 and anon sir
 i'll be with you again
 in a trice
 like to the old vice
 your need to sustain
 who with dagger of lath
 in his rage and his wrath
 cries ah ha to the devil
 like a mad lad
 pare thy nails dad
 adieu good man devil
 exit
 twelfth night
act iv
scene iii olivia's garden
 enter sebastian
sebastian this is the air that is the glorious sun
 this pearl she gave me i do feel't and see't
 and though tis wonder that enwraps me thus
 yet tis not madness where's antonio then
 i could not find him at the elephant
 yet there he was and there i found this credit
 that he did range the town to seek me out
 his counsel now might do me golden service
 for though my soul disputes well with my sense
 that this may be some error but no madness
 yet doth this accident and flood of fortune
 so far exceed all instance all discourse
 that i am ready to distrust mine eyes
 and wrangle with my reason that persuades me
 to any other trust but that i am mad
 or else the lady's mad yet if twere so
 she could not sway her house command her followers
 take and give back affairs and their dispatch
 with such a smooth discreet and stable bearing
 as i perceive she does there's something in't
 that is deceiveable but here the lady comes
 enter olivia and priest
olivia blame not this haste of mine if you mean well
 now go with me and with this holy man
 into the chantry by there before him
 and underneath that consecrated roof
 plight me the full assurance of your faith
 that my most jealous and too doubtful soul
 may live at peace he shall conceal it
 whiles you are willing it shall come to note
 what time we will our celebration keep
 according to my birth what do you say
sebastian i'll follow this good man and go with you
 and having sworn truth ever will be true
olivia then lead the way good father and heavens so shine
 that they may fairly note this act of mine
 exeunt
 twelfth night
act v
scene i before olivia's house
 enter clown and fabian
fabian now as thou lovest me let me see his letter
clown good master fabian grant me another request
fabian any thing
clown do not desire to see this letter
fabian this is to give a dog and in recompense desire my
 dog again
 enter duke orsino viola curio and lords
duke orsino belong you to the lady olivia friends
clown ay sir we are some of her trappings
duke orsino i know thee well how dost thou my good fellow
clown truly sir the better for my foes and the worse
 for my friends
duke orsino just the contrary the better for thy friends
clown no sir the worse
duke orsino how can that be
clown marry sir they praise me and make an ass of me
 now my foes tell me plainly i am an ass so that by
 my foes sir i profit in the knowledge of myself
 and by my friends i am abused so that
 conclusions to be as kisses if your four negatives
 make your two affirmatives why then the worse for
 my friends and the better for my foes
duke orsino why this is excellent
clown by my troth sir no though it please you to be
 one of my friends
duke orsino thou shalt not be the worse for me there's gold
clown but that it would be doubledealing sir i would
 you could make it another
duke orsino o you give me ill counsel
clown put your grace in your pocket sir for this once
 and let your flesh and blood obey it
duke orsino well i will be so much a sinner to be a
 doubledealer there's another
clown primo secundo tertio is a good play and the old
 saying is the third pays for all the triplex
 sir is a good tripping measure or the bells of
 saint bennet sir may put you in mind one two three
duke orsino you can fool no more money out of me at this throw
 if you will let your lady know i am here to speak
 with her and bring her along with you it may awake
 my bounty further
clown marry sir lullaby to your bounty till i come
 again i go sir but i would not have you to think
 that my desire of having is the sin of covetousness
 but as you say sir let your bounty take a nap i
 will awake it anon
 exit
viola here comes the man sir that did rescue me
 enter antonio and officers
duke orsino that face of his i do remember well
 yet when i saw it last it was besmear'd
 as black as vulcan in the smoke of war
 a bawbling vessel was he captain of
 for shallow draught and bulk unprizable
 with which such scathful grapple did he make
 with the most noble bottom of our fleet
 that very envy and the tongue of loss
 cried fame and honour on him what's the matter
first officer orsino this is that antonio
 that took the phoenix and her fraught from candy
 and this is he that did the tiger board
 when your young nephew titus lost his leg
 here in the streets desperate of shame and state
 in private brabble did we apprehend him
viola he did me kindness sir drew on my side
 but in conclusion put strange speech upon me
 i know not what twas but distraction
duke orsino notable pirate thou saltwater thief
 what foolish boldness brought thee to their mercies
 whom thou in terms so bloody and so dear
 hast made thine enemies
antonio orsino noble sir
 be pleased that i shake off these names you give me
 antonio never yet was thief or pirate
 though i confess on base and ground enough
 orsino's enemy a witchcraft drew me hither
 that most ingrateful boy there by your side
 from the rude sea's enraged and foamy mouth
 did i redeem a wreck past hope he was
 his life i gave him and did thereto add
 my love without retention or restraint
 all his in dedication for his sake
 did i expose myself pure for his love
 into the danger of this adverse town
 drew to defend him when he was beset
 where being apprehended his false cunning
 not meaning to partake with me in danger
 taught him to face me out of his acquaintance
 and grew a twenty years removed thing
 while one would wink denied me mine own purse
 which i had recommended to his use
 not half an hour before
viola how can this be
duke orsino when came he to this town
antonio today my lord and for three months before
 no interim not a minute's vacancy
 both day and night did we keep company
 enter olivia and attendants
duke orsino here comes the countess now heaven walks on earth
 but for thee fellow fellow thy words are madness
 three months this youth hath tended upon me
 but more of that anon take him aside
olivia what would my lord but that he may not have
 wherein olivia may seem serviceable
 cesario you do not keep promise with me
viola madam
duke orsino gracious olivia
olivia what do you say cesario good my lord
viola my lord would speak my duty hushes me
olivia if it be aught to the old tune my lord
 it is as fat and fulsome to mine ear
 as howling after music
duke orsino still so cruel
olivia still so constant lord
duke orsino what to perverseness you uncivil lady
 to whose ingrate and unauspicious altars
 my soul the faithfull'st offerings hath breathed out
 that e'er devotion tender'd what shall i do
olivia even what it please my lord that shall become him
duke orsino why should i not had i the heart to do it
 like to the egyptian thief at point of death
 kill what i lovea savage jealousy
 that sometimes savours nobly but hear me this
 since you to nonregardance cast my faith
 and that i partly know the instrument
 that screws me from my true place in your favour
 live you the marblebreasted tyrant still
 but this your minion whom i know you love
 and whom by heaven i swear i tender dearly
 him will i tear out of that cruel eye
 where he sits crowned in his master's spite
 come boy with me my thoughts are ripe in mischief
 i'll sacrifice the lamb that i do love
 to spite a raven's heart within a dove
viola and i most jocund apt and willingly
 to do you rest a thousand deaths would die
olivia where goes cesario
viola after him i love
 more than i love these eyes more than my life
 more by all mores than e'er i shall love wife
 if i do feign you witnesses above
 punish my life for tainting of my love
olivia ay me detested how am i beguiled
viola who does beguile you who does do you wrong
olivia hast thou forgot thyself is it so long
 call forth the holy father
duke orsino come away
olivia whither my lord cesario husband stay
duke orsino husband
olivia ay husband can he that deny
duke orsino her husband sirrah
viola no my lord not i
olivia alas it is the baseness of thy fear
 that makes thee strangle thy propriety
 fear not cesario take thy fortunes up
 be that thou know'st thou art and then thou art
 as great as that thou fear'st
 enter priest
 o welcome father
 father i charge thee by thy reverence
 here to unfold though lately we intended
 to keep in darkness what occasion now
 reveals before tis ripe what thou dost know
 hath newly pass'd between this youth and me
priest a contract of eternal bond of love
 confirm'd by mutual joinder of your hands
 attested by the holy close of lips
 strengthen'd by interchangement of your rings
 and all the ceremony of this compact
 seal'd in my function by my testimony
 since when my watch hath told me toward my grave
 i have travell'd but two hours
duke orsino o thou dissembling cub what wilt thou be
 when time hath sow'd a grizzle on thy case
 or will not else thy craft so quickly grow
 that thine own trip shall be thine overthrow
 farewell and take her but direct thy feet
 where thou and i henceforth may never meet
viola my lord i do protest
olivia o do not swear
 hold little faith though thou hast too much fear
 enter sir andrew
sir andrew for the love of god a surgeon send one presently
 to sir toby
olivia what's the matter
sir andrew he has broke my head across and has given sir toby
 a bloody coxcomb too for the love of god your
 help i had rather than forty pound i were at home
olivia who has done this sir andrew
sir andrew the count's gentleman one cesario we took him for
 a coward but he's the very devil incardinate
duke orsino my gentleman cesario
sir andrew od's lifelings here he is you broke my head for
 nothing and that that i did i was set on to do't
 by sir toby
viola why do you speak to me i never hurt you
 you drew your sword upon me without cause
 but i bespoke you fair and hurt you not
sir andrew if a bloody coxcomb be a hurt you have hurt me i
 think you set nothing by a bloody coxcomb
 enter sir toby belch and clown
 here comes sir toby halting you shall hear more
 but if he had not been in drink he would have
 tickled you othergates than he did
duke orsino how now gentleman how is't with you
sir toby belch that's all one has hurt me and there's the end
 on't sot didst see dick surgeon sot
clown o he's drunk sir toby an hour agone his eyes
 were set at eight i the morning
sir toby belch then he's a rogue and a passy measures panyn i
 hate a drunken rogue
olivia away with him who hath made this havoc with them
sir andrew i'll help you sir toby because well be dressed together
sir toby belch will you help an asshead and a coxcomb and a
 knave a thinfaced knave a gull
olivia get him to bed and let his hurt be look'd to
 exeunt clown fabian sir toby belch and sir andrew
 enter sebastian
sebastian i am sorry madam i have hurt your kinsman
 but had it been the brother of my blood
 i must have done no less with wit and safety
 you throw a strange regard upon me and by that
 i do perceive it hath offended you
 pardon me sweet one even for the vows
 we made each other but so late ago
duke orsino one face one voice one habit and two persons
 a natural perspective that is and is not
sebastian antonio o my dear antonio
 how have the hours rack'd and tortured me
 since i have lost thee
antonio sebastian are you
sebastian fear'st thou that antonio
antonio how have you made division of yourself
 an apple cleft in two is not more twin
 than these two creatures which is sebastian
olivia most wonderful
sebastian do i stand there i never had a brother
 nor can there be that deity in my nature
 of here and every where i had a sister
 whom the blind waves and surges have devour'd
 of charity what kin are you to me
 what countryman what name what parentage
viola of messaline sebastian was my father
 such a sebastian was my brother too
 so went he suited to his watery tomb
 if spirits can assume both form and suit
 you come to fright us
sebastian a spirit i am indeed
 but am in that dimension grossly clad
 which from the womb i did participate
 were you a woman as the rest goes even
 i should my tears let fall upon your cheek
 and say thricewelcome drowned viola'
viola my father had a mole upon his brow
sebastian and so had mine
viola and died that day when viola from her birth
 had number'd thirteen years
sebastian o that record is lively in my soul
 he finished indeed his mortal act
 that day that made my sister thirteen years
viola if nothing lets to make us happy both
 but this my masculine usurp'd attire
 do not embrace me till each circumstance
 of place time fortune do cohere and jump
 that i am viola which to confirm
 i'll bring you to a captain in this town
 where lie my maiden weeds by whose gentle help
 i was preserved to serve this noble count
 all the occurrence of my fortune since
 hath been between this lady and this lord
sebastian to olivia so comes it lady you have been mistook
 but nature to her bias drew in that
 you would have been contracted to a maid
 nor are you therein by my life deceived
 you are betroth'd both to a maid and man
duke orsino be not amazed right noble is his blood
 if this be so as yet the glass seems true
 i shall have share in this most happy wreck
 to viola
 boy thou hast said to me a thousand times
 thou never shouldst love woman like to me
viola and all those sayings will i overswear
 and those swearings keep as true in soul
 as doth that orbed continent the fire
 that severs day from night
duke orsino give me thy hand
 and let me see thee in thy woman's weeds
viola the captain that did bring me first on shore
 hath my maid's garments he upon some action
 is now in durance at malvolio's suit
 a gentleman and follower of my lady's
olivia he shall enlarge him fetch malvolio hither
 and yet alas now i remember me
 they say poor gentleman he's much distract
 reenter clown with a letter and fabian
 a most extracting frenzy of mine own
 from my remembrance clearly banish'd his
 how does he sirrah
clown truly madam he holds belzebub at the staves's end as
 well as a man in his case may do has here writ a
 letter to you i should have given't you today
 morning but as a madman's epistles are no gospels
 so it skills not much when they are delivered
olivia open't and read it
clown look then to be well edified when the fool delivers
 the madman
 reads
 by the lord madam'
olivia how now art thou mad
clown no madam i do but read madness an your ladyship
 will have it as it ought to be you must allow vox
olivia prithee read i thy right wits
clown so i do madonna but to read his right wits is to
 read thus therefore perpend my princess and give ear
olivia read it you sirrah
 to fabian
fabian reads by the lord madam you wrong me and the
 world shall know it though you have put me into
 darkness and given your drunken cousin rule over
 me yet have i the benefit of my senses as well as
 your ladyship i have your own letter that induced
 me to the semblance i put on with the which i doubt
 not but to do myself much right or you much shame
 think of me as you please i leave my duty a little
 unthought of and speak out of my injury
 the madlyused malvolio'
olivia did he write this
clown ay madam
duke orsino this savours not much of distraction
olivia see him deliver'd fabian bring him hither
 exit fabian
 my lord so please you these things further
 thought on
 to think me as well a sister as a wife
 one day shall crown the alliance on't so please you
 here at my house and at my proper cost
duke orsino madam i am most apt to embrace your offer
 to viola
 your master quits you and for your service done him
 so much against the mettle of your sex
 so far beneath your soft and tender breeding
 and since you call'd me master for so long
 here is my hand you shall from this time be
 your master's mistress
olivia a sister you are she
 reenter fabian with malvolio
duke orsino is this the madman
olivia ay my lord this same
 how now malvolio
malvolio madam you have done me wrong
 notorious wrong
olivia have i malvolio no
malvolio lady you have pray you peruse that letter
 you must not now deny it is your hand
 write from it if you can in hand or phrase
 or say tis not your seal nor your invention
 you can say none of this well grant it then
 and tell me in the modesty of honour
 why you have given me such clear lights of favour
 bade me come smiling and crossgarter'd to you
 to put on yellow stockings and to frown
 upon sir toby and the lighter people
 and acting this in an obedient hope
 why have you suffer'd me to be imprison'd
 kept in a dark house visited by the priest
 and made the most notorious geck and gull
 that e'er invention play'd on tell me why
olivia alas malvolio this is not my writing
 though i confess much like the character
 but out of question tis maria's hand
 and now i do bethink me it was she
 first told me thou wast mad then camest in smiling
 and in such forms which here were presupposed
 upon thee in the letter prithee be content
 this practise hath most shrewdly pass'd upon thee
 but when we know the grounds and authors of it
 thou shalt be both the plaintiff and the judge
 of thine own cause
fabian good madam hear me speak
 and let no quarrel nor no brawl to come
 taint the condition of this present hour
 which i have wonder'd at in hope it shall not
 most freely i confess myself and toby
 set this device against malvolio here
 upon some stubborn and uncourteous parts
 we had conceived against him maria writ
 the letter at sir toby's great importance
 in recompense whereof he hath married her
 how with a sportful malice it was follow'd
 may rather pluck on laughter than revenge
 if that the injuries be justly weigh'd
 that have on both sides pass'd
olivia alas poor fool how have they baffled thee
clown why some are born great some achieve greatness
 and some have greatness thrown upon them i was
 one sir in this interlude one sir topas sir but
 that's all one by the lord fool i am not mad'
 but do you remember madam why laugh you at such
 a barren rascal an you smile not he's gagged'
 and thus the whirligig of time brings in his revenges
malvolio i'll be revenged on the whole pack of you
 exit
olivia he hath been most notoriously abused
duke orsino pursue him and entreat him to a peace
 he hath not told us of the captain yet
 when that is known and golden time convents
 a solemn combination shall be made
 of our dear souls meantime sweet sister
 we will not part from hence cesario come
 for so you shall be while you are a man
 but when in other habits you are seen
 orsino's mistress and his fancy's queen
 exeunt all except clown
clown sings
 when that i was and a little tiny boy
 with hey ho the wind and the rain
 a foolish thing was but a toy
 for the rain it raineth every day
 but when i came to man's estate
 with hey ho &c
 gainst knaves and thieves men shut their gate
 for the rain &c
 but when i came alas to wive
 with hey ho &c
 by swaggering could i never thrive
 for the rain &c
 but when i came unto my beds
 with hey ho &c
 with tosspots still had drunken heads
 for the rain &c
 a great while ago the world begun
 with hey ho &c
 but that's all one our play is done
 and we'll strive to please you every day
 exit
 the two gentlemen of verona
 dramatis personae
duke of milan father to silvia duke
valentine 
 the two gentlemen
proteus 
antonio father to proteus
thurio a foolish rival to valentine
eglamour agent for silvia in her escape
host where julia lodges host
outlaws with valentine
 first outlaw
 second outlaw
 third outlaw
speed a clownish servant to valentine
launce the like to proteus
panthino servant to antonio
julia beloved of proteus
silvia beloved of valentine
lucetta waitingwoman to julia
 servants musicians
scene verona milan the frontiers of mantua
 the two gentlemen of verona
act i
scene i verona an open place
 enter valentine and proteus
valentine cease to persuade my loving proteus
 homekeeping youth have ever homely wits
 were't not affection chains thy tender days
 to the sweet glances of thy honour'd love
 i rather would entreat thy company
 to see the wonders of the world abroad
 than living dully sluggardized at home
 wear out thy youth with shapeless idleness
 but since thou lovest love still and thrive therein
 even as i would when i to love begin
proteus wilt thou be gone sweet valentine adieu
 think on thy proteus when thou haply seest
 some rare noteworthy object in thy travel
 wish me partaker in thy happiness
 when thou dost meet good hap and in thy danger
 if ever danger do environ thee
 commend thy grievance to my holy prayers
 for i will be thy beadsman valentine
valentine and on a lovebook pray for my success
proteus upon some book i love i'll pray for thee
valentine that's on some shallow story of deep love
 how young leander cross'd the hellespont
proteus that's a deep story of a deeper love
 for he was more than over shoes in love
valentine tis true for you are over boots in love
 and yet you never swum the hellespont
proteus over the boots nay give me not the boots
valentine no i will not for it boots thee not
proteus what
valentine to be in love where scorn is bought with groans
 coy looks with heartsore sighs one fading moment's mirth
 with twenty watchful weary tedious nights
 if haply won perhaps a hapless gain
 if lost why then a grievous labour won
 however but a folly bought with wit
 or else a wit by folly vanquished
proteus so by your circumstance you call me fool
valentine so by your circumstance i fear you'll prove
proteus tis love you cavil at i am not love
valentine love is your master for he masters you
 and he that is so yoked by a fool
 methinks should not be chronicled for wise
proteus yet writers say as in the sweetest bud
 the eating canker dwells so eating love
 inhabits in the finest wits of all
valentine and writers say as the most forward bud
 is eaten by the canker ere it blow
 even so by love the young and tender wit
 is turn'd to folly blasting in the bud
 losing his verdure even in the prime
 and all the fair effects of future hopes
 but wherefore waste i time to counsel thee
 that art a votary to fond desire
 once more adieu my father at the road
 expects my coming there to see me shipp'd
proteus and thither will i bring thee valentine
valentine sweet proteus no now let us take our leave
 to milan let me hear from thee by letters
 of thy success in love and what news else
 betideth here in absence of thy friend
 and likewise will visit thee with mine
proteus all happiness bechance to thee in milan
valentine as much to you at home and so farewell
 exit
proteus he after honour hunts i after love
 he leaves his friends to dignify them more
 i leave myself my friends and all for love
 thou julia thou hast metamorphosed me
 made me neglect my studies lose my time
 war with good counsel set the world at nought
 made wit with musing weak heart sick with thought
 enter speed
speed sir proteus save you saw you my master
proteus but now he parted hence to embark for milan
speed twenty to one then he is shipp'd already
 and i have play'd the sheep in losing him
proteus indeed a sheep doth very often stray
 an if the shepherd be a while away
speed you conclude that my master is a shepherd then
 and i a sheep
proteus i do
speed why then my horns are his horns whether i wake or sleep
proteus a silly answer and fitting well a sheep
speed this proves me still a sheep
proteus true and thy master a shepherd
speed nay that i can deny by a circumstance
proteus it shall go hard but i'll prove it by another
speed the shepherd seeks the sheep and not the sheep the
 shepherd but i seek my master and my master seeks
 not me therefore i am no sheep
proteus the sheep for fodder follow the shepherd the
 shepherd for food follows not the sheep thou for
 wages followest thy master thy master for wages
 follows not thee therefore thou art a sheep
speed such another proof will make me cry baa'
proteus but dost thou hear gavest thou my letter to julia
speed ay sir i a lost mutton gave your letter to her
 a laced mutton and she a laced mutton gave me a
 lost mutton nothing for my labour
proteus here's too small a pasture for such store of muttons
speed if the ground be overcharged you were best stick her
proteus nay in that you are astray twere best pound you
speed nay sir less than a pound shall serve me for
 carrying your letter
proteus you mistake i mean the pounda pinfold
speed from a pound to a pin fold it over and over
 tis threefold too little for carrying a letter to
 your lover
proteus but what said she
speed first nodding ay
proteus nodaywhy that's noddy
speed you mistook sir i say she did nod and you ask
 me if she did nod and i say ay'
proteus and that set together is noddy
speed now you have taken the pains to set it together
 take it for your pains
proteus no no you shall have it for bearing the letter
speed well i perceive i must be fain to bear with you
proteus why sir how do you bear with me
speed marry sir the letter very orderly having nothing
 but the word noddy for my pains
proteus beshrew me but you have a quick wit
speed and yet it cannot overtake your slow purse
proteus come come open the matter in brief what said she
speed open your purse that the money and the matter may
 be both at once delivered
proteus well sir here is for your pains what said she
speed truly sir i think you'll hardly win her
proteus why couldst thou perceive so much from her
speed sir i could perceive nothing at all from her no
 not so much as a ducat for delivering your letter
 and being so hard to me that brought your mind i
 fear she'll prove as hard to you in telling your
 mind give her no token but stones for she's as
 hard as steel
proteus what said she nothing
speed no not so much as take this for thy pains to
 testify your bounty i thank you you have testerned
 me in requital whereof henceforth carry your
 letters yourself and so sir i'll commend you to my master
proteus go go be gone to save your ship from wreck
 which cannot perish having thee aboard
 being destined to a drier death on shore
 exit speed
 i must go send some better messenger
 i fear my julia would not deign my lines
 receiving them from such a worthless post
 exit
 the two gentlemen of verona
act i
scene ii the same garden of julia's house
 enter julla and lucetta
julia but say lucetta now we are alone
 wouldst thou then counsel me to fall in love
lucetta ay madam so you stumble not unheedfully
julia of all the fair resort of gentlemen
 that every day with parle encounter me
 in thy opinion which is worthiest love
lucetta please you repeat their names i'll show my mind
 according to my shallow simple skill
julia what think'st thou of the fair sir eglamour
lucetta as of a knight wellspoken neat and fine
 but were i you he never should be mine
julia what think'st thou of the rich mercatio
lucetta well of his wealth but of himself so so
julia what think'st thou of the gentle proteus
lucetta lord lord to see what folly reigns in us
julia how now what means this passion at his name
lucetta pardon dear madam tis a passing shame
 that i unworthy body as i am
 should censure thus on lovely gentlemen
julia why not on proteus as of all the rest
lucetta then thus of many good i think him best
julia your reason
lucetta i have no other but a woman's reason
 i think him so because i think him so
julia and wouldst thou have me cast my love on him
lucetta ay if you thought your love not cast away
julia why he of all the rest hath never moved me
lucetta yet he of all the rest i think best loves ye
julia his little speaking shows his love but small
lucetta fire that's closest kept burns most of all
julia they do not love that do not show their love
lucetta o they love least that let men know their love
julia i would i knew his mind
lucetta peruse this paper madam
julia to julia say from whom
lucetta that the contents will show
julia say say who gave it thee
lucetta valentine's page and sent i think from proteus
 he would have given it you but i being in the way
 did in your name receive it pardon the
 fault i pray
julia now by my modesty a goodly broker
 dare you presume to harbour wanton lines
 to whisper and conspire against my youth
 now trust me tis an office of great worth
 and you an officer fit for the place
 or else return no more into my sight
lucetta to plead for love deserves more fee than hate
julia will ye be gone
lucetta that you may ruminate
 exit
julia and yet i would i had o'erlooked the letter
 it were a shame to call her back again
 and pray her to a fault for which i chid her
 what a fool is she that knows i am a maid
 and would not force the letter to my view
 since maids in modesty say no to that
 which they would have the profferer construe ay'
 fie fie how wayward is this foolish love
 that like a testy babe will scratch the nurse
 and presently all humbled kiss the rod
 how churlishly i chid lucetta hence
 when willingly i would have had her here
 how angerly i taught my brow to frown
 when inward joy enforced my heart to smile
 my penance is to call lucetta back
 and ask remission for my folly past
 what ho lucetta
 reenter lucetta
lucetta what would your ladyship
julia is't near dinnertime
lucetta i would it were
 that you might kill your stomach on your meat
 and not upon your maid
julia what is't that you took up so gingerly
lucetta nothing
julia why didst thou stoop then
lucetta to take a paper up that i let fall
julia and is that paper nothing
lucetta nothing concerning me
julia then let it lie for those that it concerns
lucetta madam it will not lie where it concerns
 unless it have a false interpeter
julia some love of yours hath writ to you in rhyme
lucetta that i might sing it madam to a tune
 give me a note your ladyship can set
julia as little by such toys as may be possible
 best sing it to the tune of light o love'
lucetta it is too heavy for so light a tune
julia heavy belike it hath some burden then
lucetta ay and melodious were it would you sing it
julia and why not you
lucetta i cannot reach so high
julia let's see your song how now minion
lucetta keep tune there still so you will sing it out
 and yet methinks i do not like this tune
julia you do not
lucetta no madam it is too sharp
julia you minion are too saucy
lucetta nay now you are too flat
 and mar the concord with too harsh a descant
 there wanteth but a mean to fill your song
julia the mean is drown'd with your unruly bass
lucetta indeed i bid the base for proteus
julia this babble shall not henceforth trouble me
 here is a coil with protestation
 tears the letter
 go get you gone and let the papers lie
 you would be fingering them to anger me
lucetta she makes it strange but she would be best pleased
 to be so anger'd with another letter
 exit
julia nay would i were so anger'd with the same
 o hateful hands to tear such loving words
 injurious wasps to feed on such sweet honey
 and kill the bees that yield it with your stings
 i'll kiss each several paper for amends
 look here is writ kind julia unkind julia
 as in revenge of thy ingratitude
 i throw thy name against the bruising stones
 trampling contemptuously on thy disdain
 and here is writ lovewounded proteus'
 poor wounded name my bosom as a bed
 shall lodge thee till thy wound be thoroughly heal'd
 and thus i search it with a sovereign kiss
 but twice or thrice was proteus written down
 be calm good wind blow not a word away
 till i have found each letter in the letter
 except mine own name that some whirlwind bear
 unto a ragged fearfulhanging rock
 and throw it thence into the raging sea
 lo here in one line is his name twice writ
 poor forlorn proteus passionate proteus
 to the sweet julia that i'll tear away
 and yet i will not sith so prettily
 he couples it to his complaining names
 thus will i fold them one on another
 now kiss embrace contend do what you will
 reenter lucetta
lucetta madam
 dinner is ready and your father stays
julia well let us go
lucetta what shall these papers lie like telltales here
julia if you respect them best to take them up
lucetta nay i was taken up for laying them down
 yet here they shall not lie for catching cold
julia i see you have a month's mind to them
lucetta ay madam you may say what sights you see
 i see things too although you judge i wink
julia come come will't please you go
 exeunt
 the two gentlemen of verona
act i
scene iii the same antonio's house
 enter antonio and panthino
antonio tell me panthino what sad talk was that
 wherewith my brother held you in the cloister
panthino twas of his nephew proteus your son
antonio why what of him
panthino he wonder'd that your lordship
 would suffer him to spend his youth at home
 while other men of slender reputation
 put forth their sons to seek preferment out
 some to the wars to try their fortune there
 some to discover islands far away
 some to the studious universities
 for any or for all these exercises
 he said that proteus your son was meet
 and did request me to importune you
 to let him spend his time no more at home
 which would be great impeachment to his age
 in having known no travel in his youth
antonio nor need'st thou much importune me to that
 whereon this month i have been hammering
 i have consider'd well his loss of time
 and how he cannot be a perfect man
 not being tried and tutor'd in the world
 experience is by industry achieved
 and perfected by the swift course of time
 then tell me whither were i best to send him
panthino i think your lordship is not ignorant
 how his companion youthful valentine
 attends the emperor in his royal court
antonio i know it well
panthino twere good i think your lordship sent him thither
 there shall he practise tilts and tournaments
 hear sweet discourse converse with noblemen
 and be in eye of every exercise
 worthy his youth and nobleness of birth
antonio i like thy counsel well hast thou advised
 and that thou mayst perceive how well i like it
 the execution of it shall make known
 even with the speediest expedition
 i will dispatch him to the emperor's court
panthino tomorrow may it please you don alphonso
 with other gentlemen of good esteem
 are journeying to salute the emperor
 and to commend their service to his will
antonio good company with them shall proteus go
 and in good time now will we break with him
 enter proteus
proteus sweet love sweet lines sweet life
 here is her hand the agent of her heart
 here is her oath for love her honour's pawn
 o that our fathers would applaud our loves
 to seal our happiness with their consents
 o heavenly julia
antonio how now what letter are you reading there
proteus may't please your lordship tis a word or two
 of commendations sent from valentine
 deliver'd by a friend that came from him
antonio lend me the letter let me see what news
proteus there is no news my lord but that he writes
 how happily he lives how well beloved
 and daily graced by the emperor
 wishing me with him partner of his fortune
antonio and how stand you affected to his wish
proteus as one relying on your lordship's will
 and not depending on his friendly wish
antonio my will is something sorted with his wish
 muse not that i thus suddenly proceed
 for what i will i will and there an end
 i am resolved that thou shalt spend some time
 with valentinus in the emperor's court
 what maintenance he from his friends receives
 like exhibition thou shalt have from me
 tomorrow be in readiness to go
 excuse it not for i am peremptory
proteus my lord i cannot be so soon provided
 please you deliberate a day or two
antonio look what thou want'st shall be sent after thee
 no more of stay tomorrow thou must go
 come on panthino you shall be employ'd
 to hasten on his expedition
 exeunt antonio and panthino
proteus thus have i shunn'd the fire for fear of burning
 and drench'd me in the sea where i am drown'd
 i fear'd to show my father julia's letter
 lest he should take exceptions to my love
 and with the vantage of mine own excuse
 hath he excepted most against my love
 o how this spring of love resembleth
 the uncertain glory of an april day
 which now shows all the beauty of the sun
 and by and by a cloud takes all away
 reenter panthino
panthino sir proteus your father calls for you
 he is in haste therefore i pray you to go
proteus why this it is my heart accords thereto
 and yet a thousand times it answers no'
 exeunt
 the two gentlemen of verona
act ii
scene i milan the duke's palace
 enter valentine and speed
speed sir your glove
valentine not mine my gloves are on
speed why then this may be yours for this is but one
valentine ha let me see ay give it me it's mine
 sweet ornament that decks a thing divine
 ah silvia silvia
speed madam silvia madam silvia
valentine how now sirrah
speed she is not within hearing sir
valentine why sir who bade you call her
speed your worship sir or else i mistook
valentine well you'll still be too forward
speed and yet i was last chidden for being too slow
valentine go to sir tell me do you know madam silvia
speed she that your worship loves
valentine why how know you that i am in love
speed marry by these special marks first you have
 learned like sir proteus to wreathe your arms
 like a malecontent to relish a lovesong like a
 robinredbreast to walk alone like one that had
 the pestilence to sigh like a schoolboy that had
 lost his a b c to weep like a young wench that had
 buried her grandam to fast like one that takes
 diet to watch like one that fears robbing to
 speak puling like a beggar at hallowmas you were
 wont when you laughed to crow like a cock when you
 walked to walk like one of the lions when you
 fasted it was presently after dinner when you
 looked sadly it was for want of money and now you
 are metamorphosed with a mistress that when i look
 on you i can hardly think you my master
valentine are all these things perceived in me
speed they are all perceived without ye
valentine without me they cannot
speed without you nay that's certain for without you
 were so simple none else would but you are so
 without these follies that these follies are within
 you and shine through you like the water in an
 urinal that not an eye that sees you but is a
 physician to comment on your malady
valentine but tell me dost thou know my lady silvia
speed she that you gaze on so as she sits at supper
valentine hast thou observed that even she i mean
speed why sir i know her not
valentine dost thou know her by my gazing on her and yet
 knowest her not
speed is she not hardfavoured sir
valentine not so fair boy as wellfavoured
speed sir i know that well enough
valentine what dost thou know
speed that she is not so fair as of you wellfavoured
valentine i mean that her beauty is exquisite but her favour infinite
speed that's because the one is painted and the other out
 of all count
valentine how painted and how out of count
speed marry sir so painted to make her fair that no
 man counts of her beauty
valentine how esteemest thou me i account of her beauty
speed you never saw her since she was deformed
valentine how long hath she been deformed
speed ever since you loved her
valentine i have loved her ever since i saw her and still i
 see her beautiful
speed if you love her you cannot see her
valentine why
speed because love is blind o that you had mine eyes
 or your own eyes had the lights they were wont to
 have when you chid at sir proteus for going
 ungartered
valentine what should i see then
speed your own present folly and her passing deformity
 for he being in love could not see to garter his
 hose and you being in love cannot see to put on your hose
valentine belike boy then you are in love for last
 morning you could not see to wipe my shoes
speed true sir i was in love with my bed i thank you
 you swinged me for my love which makes me the
 bolder to chide you for yours
valentine in conclusion i stand affected to her
speed i would you were set so your affection would cease
valentine last night she enjoined me to write some lines to
 one she loves
speed and have you
valentine i have
speed are they not lamely writ
valentine no boy but as well as i can do them peace
 here she comes
speed aside o excellent motion o exceeding puppet
 now will he interpret to her
 enter silvia
valentine madam and mistress a thousand goodmorrows
speed aside o give ye good even here's a million of manners
silvia sir valentine and servant to you two thousand
speed aside he should give her interest and she gives it him
valentine as you enjoin'd me i have writ your letter
 unto the secret nameless friend of yours
 which i was much unwilling to proceed in
 but for my duty to your ladyship
silvia i thank you gentle servant tis very clerkly done
valentine now trust me madam it came hardly off
 for being ignorant to whom it goes
 i writ at random very doubtfully
silvia perchance you think too much of so much pains
valentine no madam so it stead you i will write
 please you command a thousand times as much and yet
silvia a pretty period well i guess the sequel
 and yet i will not name it and yet i care not
 and yet take this again and yet i thank you
 meaning henceforth to trouble you no more
speed aside and yet you will and yet another yet'
valentine what means your ladyship do you not like it
silvia yes yes the lines are very quaintly writ
 but since unwillingly take them again
 nay take them
valentine madam they are for you
silvia ay ay you writ them sir at my request
 but i will none of them they are for you
 i would have had them writ more movingly
valentine please you i'll write your ladyship another
silvia and when it's writ for my sake read it over
 and if it please you so if not why so
valentine if it please me madam what then
silvia why if it please you take it for your labour
 and so good morrow servant
 exit
speed o jest unseen inscrutable invisible
 as a nose on a man's face or a weathercock on a steeple
 my master sues to her and she hath
 taught her suitor
 he being her pupil to become her tutor
 o excellent device was there ever heard a better
 that my master being scribe to himself should write
 the letter
valentine how now sir what are you reasoning with yourself
speed nay i was rhyming tis you that have the reason
valentine to do what
speed to be a spokesman for madam silvia
valentine to whom
speed to yourself why she wooes you by a figure
valentine what figure
speed by a letter i should say
valentine why she hath not writ to me
speed what need she when she hath made you write to
 yourself why do you not perceive the jest
valentine no believe me
speed no believing you indeed sir but did you perceive
 her earnest
valentine she gave me none except an angry word
speed why she hath given you a letter
valentine that's the letter i writ to her friend
speed and that letter hath she delivered and there an end
valentine i would it were no worse
speed i'll warrant you tis as well
 for often have you writ to her and she in modesty
 or else for want of idle time could not again reply
 or fearing else some messenger that might her mind discover
 herself hath taught her love himself to write unto her lover
 all this i speak in print for in print i found it
 why muse you sir tis dinnertime
valentine i have dined
speed ay but hearken sir though the chameleon love can
 feed on the air i am one that am nourished by my
 victuals and would fain have meat o be not like
 your mistress be moved be moved
 exeunt
 the two gentlemen of verona
act ii
scene ii verona julia's house
 enter proteus and julia
proteus have patience gentle julia
julia i must where is no remedy
proteus when possibly i can i will return
julia if you turn not you will return the sooner
 keep this remembrance for thy julia's sake
 giving a ring
proteus why then we'll make exchange here take you this
julia and seal the bargain with a holy kiss
proteus here is my hand for my true constancy
 and when that hour o'erslips me in the day
 wherein i sigh not julia for thy sake
 the next ensuing hour some foul mischance
 torment me for my love's forgetfulness
 my father stays my coming answer not
 the tide is now nay not thy tide of tears
 that tide will stay me longer than i should
 julia farewell
 exit julia
 what gone without a word
 ay so true love should do it cannot speak
 for truth hath better deeds than words to grace it
 enter panthino
panthino sir proteus you are stay'd for
proteus go i come i come
 alas this parting strikes poor lovers dumb
 exeunt
 the two gentlemen of verona
act ii
scene iii the same a street
 enter launce leading a dog
launce nay twill be this hour ere i have done weeping
 all the kind of the launces have this very fault i
 have received my proportion like the prodigious
 son and am going with sir proteus to the imperial's
 court i think crab my dog be the sourestnatured
 dog that lives my mother weeping my father
 wailing my sister crying our maid howling our cat
 wringing her hands and all our house in a great
 perplexity yet did not this cruelhearted cur shed
 one tear he is a stone a very pebble stone and
 has no more pity in him than a dog a jew would have
 wept to have seen our parting why my grandam
 having no eyes look you wept herself blind at my
 parting nay i'll show you the manner of it this
 shoe is my father no this left shoe is my father
 no no this left shoe is my mother nay that
 cannot be so neither yes it is so it is so it
 hath the worser sole this shoe with the hole in
 it is my mother and this my father a vengeance
 on't there tis now sit this staff is my
 sister for look you she is as white as a lily and
 as small as a wand this hat is nan our maid i
 am the dog no the dog is himself and i am the
 dogoh the dog is me and i am myself ay so
 so now come i to my father father your blessing
 now should not the shoe speak a word for weeping
 now should i kiss my father well he weeps on now
 come i to my mother o that she could speak now
 like a wood woman well i kiss her why there
 tis here's my mother's breath up and down now
 come i to my sister mark the moan she makes now
 the dog all this while sheds not a tear nor speaks a
 word but see how i lay the dust with my tears
 enter panthino
panthino launce away away aboard thy master is shipped
 and thou art to post after with oars what's the
 matter why weepest thou man away ass you'll
 lose the tide if you tarry any longer
launce it is no matter if the tied were lost for it is the
 unkindest tied that ever any man tied
panthino what's the unkindest tide
launce why he that's tied here crab my dog
panthino tut man i mean thou'lt lose the flood and in
 losing the flood lose thy voyage and in losing
 thy voyage lose thy master and in losing thy
 master lose thy service and in losing thy
 servicewhy dost thou stop my mouth
launce for fear thou shouldst lose thy tongue
panthino where should i lose my tongue
launce in thy tale
panthino in thy tail
launce lose the tide and the voyage and the master and
 the service and the tied why man if the river
 were dry i am able to fill it with my tears if the
 wind were down i could drive the boat with my sighs
panthino come come away man i was sent to call thee
launce sir call me what thou darest
panthino wilt thou go
launce well i will go
 exeunt
 the two gentlemen of verona
act ii
scene iv milan the duke's palace
 enter silvia valentine thurio and speed
silvia servant
valentine mistress
speed master sir thurio frowns on you
valentine ay boy it's for love
speed not of you
valentine of my mistress then
speed twere good you knocked him
 exit
silvia servant you are sad
valentine indeed madam i seem so
thurio seem you that you are not
valentine haply i do
thurio so do counterfeits
valentine so do you
thurio what seem i that i am not
valentine wise
thurio what instance of the contrary
valentine your folly
thurio and how quote you my folly
valentine i quote it in your jerkin
thurio my jerkin is a doublet
valentine well then i'll double your folly
thurio how
silvia what angry sir thurio do you change colour
valentine give him leave madam he is a kind of chameleon
thurio that hath more mind to feed on your blood than live
 in your air
valentine you have said sir
thurio ay sir and done too for this time
valentine i know it well sir you always end ere you begin
silvia a fine volley of words gentlemen and quickly shot off
valentine tis indeed madam we thank the giver
silvia who is that servant
valentine yourself sweet lady for you gave the fire sir
 thurio borrows his wit from your ladyship's looks
 and spends what he borrows kindly in your company
thurio sir if you spend word for word with me i shall
 make your wit bankrupt
valentine i know it well sir you have an exchequer of words
 and i think no other treasure to give your
 followers for it appears by their bare liveries
 that they live by your bare words
silvia no more gentlemen no morehere comes my father
 enter duke
duke now daughter silvia you are hard beset
 sir valentine your father's in good health
 what say you to a letter from your friends
 of much good news
valentine my lord i will be thankful
 to any happy messenger from thence
duke know ye don antonio your countryman
valentine ay my good lord i know the gentleman
 to be of worth and worthy estimation
 and not without desert so well reputed
duke hath he not a son
valentine ay my good lord a son that well deserves
 the honour and regard of such a father
duke you know him well
valentine i know him as myself for from our infancy
 we have conversed and spent our hours together
 and though myself have been an idle truant
 omitting the sweet benefit of time
 to clothe mine age with angellike perfection
 yet hath sir proteus for that's his name
 made use and fair advantage of his days
 his years but young but his experience old
 his head unmellow'd but his judgment ripe
 and in a word for far behind his worth
 comes all the praises that i now bestow
 he is complete in feature and in mind
 with all good grace to grace a gentleman
duke beshrew me sir but if he make this good
 he is as worthy for an empress love
 as meet to be an emperor's counsellor
 well sir this gentleman is come to me
 with commendation from great potentates
 and here he means to spend his time awhile
 i think tis no unwelcome news to you
valentine should i have wish'd a thing it had been he
duke welcome him then according to his worth
 silvia i speak to you and you sir thurio
 for valentine i need not cite him to it
 i will send him hither to you presently
 exit
valentine this is the gentleman i told your ladyship
 had come along with me but that his mistress
 did hold his eyes lock'd in her crystal looks
silvia belike that now she hath enfranchised them
 upon some other pawn for fealty
valentine nay sure i think she holds them prisoners still
silvia nay then he should be blind and being blind
 how could he see his way to seek out you
valentine why lady love hath twenty pair of eyes
thurio they say that love hath not an eye at all
valentine to see such lovers thurio as yourself
 upon a homely object love can wink
silvia have done have done here comes the gentleman
 exit thurio
 enter proteus
valentine welcome dear proteus mistress i beseech you
 confirm his welcome with some special favour
silvia his worth is warrant for his welcome hither
 if this be he you oft have wish'd to hear from
valentine mistress it is sweet lady entertain him
 to be my fellowservant to your ladyship
silvia too low a mistress for so high a servant
proteus not so sweet lady but too mean a servant
 to have a look of such a worthy mistress
valentine leave off discourse of disability
 sweet lady entertain him for your servant
proteus my duty will i boast of nothing else
silvia and duty never yet did want his meed
 servant you are welcome to a worthless mistress
proteus i'll die on him that says so but yourself
silvia that you are welcome
proteus that you are worthless
 reenter thurio
thurio madam my lord your father would speak with you
silvia i wait upon his pleasure come sir thurio
 go with me once more new servant welcome
 i'll leave you to confer of home affairs
 when you have done we look to hear from you
proteus we'll both attend upon your ladyship
 exeunt silvia and thurio
valentine now tell me how do all from whence you came
proteus your friends are well and have them much commended
valentine and how do yours
proteus i left them all in health
valentine how does your lady and how thrives your love
proteus my tales of love were wont to weary you
 i know you joy not in a love discourse
valentine ay proteus but that life is alter'd now
 i have done penance for contemning love
 whose high imperious thoughts have punish'd me
 with bitter fasts with penitential groans
 with nightly tears and daily heartsore sighs
 for in revenge of my contempt of love
 love hath chased sleep from my enthralled eyes
 and made them watchers of mine own heart's sorrow
 o gentle proteus love's a mighty lord
 and hath so humbled me as i confess
 there is no woe to his correction
 nor to his service no such joy on earth
 now no discourse except it be of love
 now can i break my fast dine sup and sleep
 upon the very naked name of love
proteus enough i read your fortune in your eye
 was this the idol that you worship so
valentine even she and is she not a heavenly saint
proteus no but she is an earthly paragon
valentine call her divine
proteus i will not flatter her
valentine o flatter me for love delights in praises
proteus when i was sick you gave me bitter pills
 and i must minister the like to you
valentine then speak the truth by her if not divine
 yet let her be a principality
 sovereign to all the creatures on the earth
proteus except my mistress
valentine sweet except not any
 except thou wilt except against my love
proteus have i not reason to prefer mine own
valentine and i will help thee to prefer her too
 she shall be dignified with this high honour
 to bear my lady's train lest the base earth
 should from her vesture chance to steal a kiss
 and of so great a favour growing proud
 disdain to root the summerswelling flower
 and make rough winter everlastingly
proteus why valentine what braggardism is this
valentine pardon me proteus all i can is nothing
 to her whose worth makes other worthies nothing
 she is alone
proteus then let her alone
valentine not for the world why man she is mine own
 and i as rich in having such a jewel
 as twenty seas if all their sand were pearl
 the water nectar and the rocks pure gold
 forgive me that i do not dream on thee
 because thou see'st me dote upon my love
 my foolish rival that her father likes
 only for his possessions are so huge
 is gone with her along and i must after
 for love thou know'st is full of jealousy
proteus but she loves you
valentine ay and we are betroth'd nay more our
 marriagehour
 with all the cunning manner of our flight
 determined of how i must climb her window
 the ladder made of cords and all the means
 plotted and greed on for my happiness
 good proteus go with me to my chamber
 in these affairs to aid me with thy counsel
proteus go on before i shall inquire you forth
 i must unto the road to disembark
 some necessaries that i needs must use
 and then i'll presently attend you
valentine will you make haste
proteus i will
 exit valentine
 even as one heat another heat expels
 or as one nail by strength drives out another
 so the remembrance of my former love
 is by a newer object quite forgotten
 is it mine or valentine's praise
 her true perfection or my false transgression
 that makes me reasonless to reason thus
 she is fair and so is julia that i love
 that i did love for now my love is thaw'd
 which like a waxen image gainst a fire
 bears no impression of the thing it was
 methinks my zeal to valentine is cold
 and that i love him not as i was wont
 o but i love his lady too too much
 and that's the reason i love him so little
 how shall i dote on her with more advice
 that thus without advice begin to love her
 tis but her picture i have yet beheld
 and that hath dazzled my reason's light
 but when i look on her perfections
 there is no reason but i shall be blind
 if i can cheque my erring love i will
 if not to compass her i'll use my skill
 exit
 the two gentlemen of verona
act ii
scene v the same a street
 enter speed and launce severally
speed launce by mine honesty welcome to milan
launce forswear not thyself sweet youth for i am not
 welcome i reckon this always that a man is never
 undone till he be hanged nor never welcome to a
 place till some certain shot be paid and the hostess
 say welcome'
speed come on you madcap i'll to the alehouse with you
 presently where for one shot of five pence thou
 shalt have five thousand welcomes but sirrah how
 did thy master part with madam julia
launce marry after they closed in earnest they parted very
 fairly in jest
speed but shall she marry him
launce no
speed how then shall he marry her
launce no neither
speed what are they broken
launce no they are both as whole as a fish
speed why then how stands the matter with them
launce marry thus when it stands well with him it
 stands well with her
speed what an ass art thou i understand thee not
launce what a block art thou that thou canst not my
 staff understands me
speed what thou sayest
launce ay and what i do too look thee i'll but lean
 and my staff understands me
speed it stands under thee indeed
launce why standunder and understand is all one
speed but tell me true will't be a match
launce ask my dog if he say ay it will if he say no
 it will if he shake his tail and say nothing it will
speed the conclusion is then that it will
launce thou shalt never get such a secret from me but by a parable
speed tis well that i get it so but launce how sayest
 thou that my master is become a notable lover
launce i never knew him otherwise
speed than how
launce a notable lubber as thou reportest him to be
speed why thou whoreson ass thou mistakest me
launce why fool i meant not thee i meant thy master
speed i tell thee my master is become a hot lover
launce why i tell thee i care not though he burn himself
 in love if thou wilt go with me to the alehouse
 if not thou art an hebrew a jew and not worth the
 name of a christian
speed why
launce because thou hast not so much charity in thee as to
 go to the ale with a christian wilt thou go
speed at thy service
 exeunt
 the two gentlemen of verona
act ii
scene vi the same the duke's palace
 enter proteus
proteus to leave my julia shall i be forsworn
 to love fair silvia shall i be forsworn
 to wrong my friend i shall be much forsworn
 and even that power which gave me first my oath
 provokes me to this threefold perjury
 love bade me swear and love bids me forswear
 o sweetsuggesting love if thou hast sinned
 teach me thy tempted subject to excuse it
 at first i did adore a twinkling star
 but now i worship a celestial sun
 unheedful vows may heedfully be broken
 and he wants wit that wants resolved will
 to learn his wit to exchange the bad for better
 fie fie unreverend tongue to call her bad
 whose sovereignty so oft thou hast preferr'd
 with twenty thousand soulconfirming oaths
 i cannot leave to love and yet i do
 but there i leave to love where i should love
 julia i lose and valentine i lose
 if i keep them i needs must lose myself
 if i lose them thus find i by their loss
 for valentine myself for julia silvia
 i to myself am dearer than a friend
 for love is still most precious in itself
 and silviawitness heaven that made her fair
 shows julia but a swarthy ethiope
 i will forget that julia is alive
 remembering that my love to her is dead
 and valentine i'll hold an enemy
 aiming at silvia as a sweeter friend
 i cannot now prove constant to myself
 without some treachery used to valentine
 this night he meaneth with a corded ladder
 to climb celestial silvia's chamberwindow
 myself in counsel his competitor
 now presently i'll give her father notice
 of their disguising and pretended flight
 who all enraged will banish valentine
 for thurio he intends shall wed his daughter
 but valentine being gone i'll quickly cross
 by some sly trick blunt thurio's dull proceeding
 love lend me wings to make my purpose swift
 as thou hast lent me wit to plot this drift
 exit
 the two gentlemen of verona
act ii
scene vii verona julia's house
 enter julia and lucetta
julia counsel lucetta gentle girl assist me
 and even in kind love i do conjure thee
 who art the table wherein all my thoughts
 are visibly character'd and engraved
 to lesson me and tell me some good mean
 how with my honour i may undertake
 a journey to my loving proteus
lucetta alas the way is wearisome and long
julia a truedevoted pilgrim is not weary
 to measure kingdoms with his feeble steps
 much less shall she that hath love's wings to fly
 and when the flight is made to one so dear
 of such divine perfection as sir proteus
lucetta better forbear till proteus make return
julia o know'st thou not his looks are my soul's food
 pity the dearth that i have pined in
 by longing for that food so long a time
 didst thou but know the inly touch of love
 thou wouldst as soon go kindle fire with snow
 as seek to quench the fire of love with words
lucetta i do not seek to quench your love's hot fire
 but qualify the fire's extreme rage
 lest it should burn above the bounds of reason
julia the more thou damm'st it up the more it burns
 the current that with gentle murmur glides
 thou know'st being stopp'd impatiently doth rage
 but when his fair course is not hindered
 he makes sweet music with the enamell'ed stones
 giving a gentle kiss to every sedge
 he overtaketh in his pilgrimage
 and so by many winding nooks he strays
 with willing sport to the wild ocean
 then let me go and hinder not my course
 i'll be as patient as a gentle stream
 and make a pastime of each weary step
 till the last step have brought me to my love
 and there i'll rest as after much turmoil
 a blessed soul doth in elysium
lucetta but in what habit will you go along
julia not like a woman for i would prevent
 the loose encounters of lascivious men
 gentle lucetta fit me with such weeds
 as may beseem some wellreputed page
lucetta why then your ladyship must cut your hair
julia no girl i'll knit it up in silken strings
 with twenty oddconceited truelove knots
 to be fantastic may become a youth
 of greater time than i shall show to be
lucetta what fashion madam shall i make your breeches
julia that fits as well as tell me good my lord
 what compass will you wear your farthingale'
 why even what fashion thou best likest lucetta
lucetta you must needs have them with a codpiece madam
julia out out lucetta that would be illfavour'd
lucetta a round hose madam now's not worth a pin
 unless you have a codpiece to stick pins on
julia lucetta as thou lovest me let me have
 what thou thinkest meet and is most mannerly
 but tell me wench how will the world repute me
 for undertaking so unstaid a journey
 i fear me it will make me scandalized
lucetta if you think so then stay at home and go not
julia nay that i will not
lucetta then never dream on infamy but go
 if proteus like your journey when you come
 no matter who's displeased when you are gone
 i fear me he will scarce be pleased withal
julia that is the least lucetta of my fear
 a thousand oaths an ocean of his tears
 and instances of infinite of love
 warrant me welcome to my proteus
lucetta all these are servants to deceitful men
julia base men that use them to so base effect
 but truer stars did govern proteus birth
 his words are bonds his oaths are oracles
 his love sincere his thoughts immaculate
 his tears pure messengers sent from his heart
 his heart as far from fraud as heaven from earth
lucetta pray heaven he prove so when you come to him
julia now as thou lovest me do him not that wrong
 to bear a hard opinion of his truth
 only deserve my love by loving him
 and presently go with me to my chamber
 to take a note of what i stand in need of
 to furnish me upon my longing journey
 all that is mine i leave at thy dispose
 my goods my lands my reputation
 only in lieu thereof dispatch me hence
 come answer not but to it presently
 i am impatient of my tarriance
 exeunt
 the two gentlemen of verona
act iii
scene i milan the duke's palace
 enter duke thurio and proteus
duke sir thurio give us leave i pray awhile
 we have some secrets to confer about
 exit thurio
 now tell me proteus what's your will with me
proteus my gracious lord that which i would discover
 the law of friendship bids me to conceal
 but when i call to mind your gracious favours
 done to me undeserving as i am
 my duty pricks me on to utter that
 which else no worldly good should draw from me
 know worthy prince sir valentine my friend
 this night intends to steal away your daughter
 myself am one made privy to the plot
 i know you have determined to bestow her
 on thurio whom your gentle daughter hates
 and should she thus be stol'n away from you
 it would be much vexation to your age
 thus for my duty's sake i rather chose
 to cross my friend in his intended drift
 than by concealing it heap on your head
 a pack of sorrows which would press you down
 being unprevented to your timeless grave
duke proteus i thank thee for thine honest care
 which to requite command me while i live
 this love of theirs myself have often seen
 haply when they have judged me fast asleep
 and oftentimes have purposed to forbid
 sir valentine her company and my court
 but fearing lest my jealous aim might err
 and so unworthily disgrace the man
 a rashness that i ever yet have shunn'd
 i gave him gentle looks thereby to find
 that which thyself hast now disclosed to me
 and that thou mayst perceive my fear of this
 knowing that tender youth is soon suggested
 i nightly lodge her in an upper tower
 the key whereof myself have ever kept
 and thence she cannot be convey'd away
proteus know noble lord they have devised a mean
 how he her chamberwindow will ascend
 and with a corded ladder fetch her down
 for which the youthful lover now is gone
 and this way comes he with it presently
 where if it please you you may intercept him
 but good my lord do it so cunningly
 that my discovery be not aimed at
 for love of you not hate unto my friend
 hath made me publisher of this pretence
duke upon mine honour he shall never know
 that i had any light from thee of this
proteus adieu my lord sir valentine is coming
 exit
 enter valentine
duke sir valentine whither away so fast
valentine please it your grace there is a messenger
 that stays to bear my letters to my friends
 and i am going to deliver them
duke be they of much import
valentine the tenor of them doth but signify
 my health and happy being at your court
duke nay then no matter stay with me awhile
 i am to break with thee of some affairs
 that touch me near wherein thou must be secret
 tis not unknown to thee that i have sought
 to match my friend sir thurio to my daughter
valentine i know it well my lord and sure the match
 were rich and honourable besides the gentleman
 is full of virtue bounty worth and qualities
 beseeming such a wife as your fair daughter
 cannot your grace win her to fancy him
duke no trust me she is peevish sullen froward
 proud disobedient stubborn lacking duty
 neither regarding that she is my child
 nor fearing me as if i were her father
 and may i say to thee this pride of hers
 upon advice hath drawn my love from her
 and where i thought the remnant of mine age
 should have been cherish'd by her childlike duty
 i now am full resolved to take a wife
 and turn her out to who will take her in
 then let her beauty be her weddingdower
 for me and my possessions she esteems not
valentine what would your grace have me to do in this
duke there is a lady in verona here
 whom i affect but she is nice and coy
 and nought esteems my aged eloquence
 now therefore would i have thee to my tutor
 for long agone i have forgot to court
 besides the fashion of the time is changed
 how and which way i may bestow myself
 to be regarded in her sunbright eye
valentine win her with gifts if she respect not words
 dumb jewels often in their silent kind
 more than quick words do move a woman's mind
duke but she did scorn a present that i sent her
valentine a woman sometimes scorns what best contents her
 send her another never give her o'er
 for scorn at first makes afterlove the more
 if she do frown tis not in hate of you
 but rather to beget more love in you
 if she do chide tis not to have you gone
 for why the fools are mad if left alone
 take no repulse whatever she doth say
 for get you gone she doth not mean away'
 flatter and praise commend extol their graces
 though ne'er so black say they have angels faces
 that man that hath a tongue i say is no man
 if with his tongue he cannot win a woman
duke but she i mean is promised by her friends
 unto a youthful gentleman of worth
 and kept severely from resort of men
 that no man hath access by day to her
valentine why then i would resort to her by night
duke ay but the doors be lock'd and keys kept safe
 that no man hath recourse to her by night
valentine what lets but one may enter at her window
duke her chamber is aloft far from the ground
 and built so shelving that one cannot climb it
 without apparent hazard of his life
valentine why then a ladder quaintly made of cords
 to cast up with a pair of anchoring hooks
 would serve to scale another hero's tower
 so bold leander would adventure it
duke now as thou art a gentleman of blood
 advise me where i may have such a ladder
valentine when would you use it pray sir tell me that
duke this very night for love is like a child
 that longs for every thing that he can come by
valentine by seven o'clock i'll get you such a ladder
duke but hark thee i will go to her alone
 how shall i best convey the ladder thither
valentine it will be light my lord that you may bear it
 under a cloak that is of any length
duke a cloak as long as thine will serve the turn
valentine ay my good lord
duke then let me see thy cloak
 i'll get me one of such another length
valentine why any cloak will serve the turn my lord
duke how shall i fashion me to wear a cloak
 i pray thee let me feel thy cloak upon me
 what letter is this same what's here to silvia'
 and here an engine fit for my proceeding
 i'll be so bold to break the seal for once
 reads
 my thoughts do harbour with my silvia nightly
 and slaves they are to me that send them flying
 o could their master come and go as lightly
 himself would lodge where senseless they are lying
 my herald thoughts in thy pure bosom rest them
 while i their king that hither them importune
 do curse the grace that with such grace hath bless'd them
 because myself do want my servants fortune
 i curse myself for they are sent by me
 that they should harbour where their lord would be'
 what's here
 silvia this night i will enfranchise thee'
 tis so and here's the ladder for the purpose
 why phaetonfor thou art merops son
 wilt thou aspire to guide the heavenly car
 and with thy daring folly burn the world
 wilt thou reach stars because they shine on thee
 go base intruder overweening slave
 bestow thy fawning smiles on equal mates
 and think my patience more than thy desert
 is privilege for thy departure hence
 thank me for this more than for all the favours
 which all too much i have bestow'd on thee
 but if thou linger in my territories
 longer than swiftest expedition
 will give thee time to leave our royal court
 by heaven my wrath shall far exceed the love
 i ever bore my daughter or thyself
 be gone i will not hear thy vain excuse
 but as thou lovest thy life make speed from hence
 exit
valentine and why not death rather than living torment
 to die is to be banish'd from myself
 and silvia is myself banish'd from her
 is self from self a deadly banishment
 what light is light if silvia be not seen
 what joy is joy if silvia be not by
 unless it be to think that she is by
 and feed upon the shadow of perfection
 except i be by silvia in the night
 there is no music in the nightingale
 unless i look on silvia in the day
 there is no day for me to look upon
 she is my essence and i leave to be
 if i be not by her fair influence
 foster'd illumined cherish'd kept alive
 i fly not death to fly his deadly doom
 tarry i here i but attend on death
 but fly i hence i fly away from life
 enter proteus and launce
proteus run boy run run and seek him out
launce soho soho
proteus what seest thou
launce him we go to find there's not a hair on's head
 but tis a valentine
proteus valentine
valentine no
proteus who then his spirit
valentine neither
proteus what then
valentine nothing
launce can nothing speak master shall i strike
proteus who wouldst thou strike
launce nothing
proteus villain forbear
launce why sir i'll strike nothing i pray you
proteus sirrah i say forbear friend valentine a word
valentine my ears are stopt and cannot hear good news
 so much of bad already hath possess'd them
proteus then in dumb silence will i bury mine
 for they are harsh untuneable and bad
valentine is silvia dead
proteus no valentine
valentine no valentine indeed for sacred silvia
 hath she forsworn me
proteus no valentine
valentine no valentine if silvia have forsworn me
 what is your news
launce sir there is a proclamation that you are vanished
proteus that thou art banishedo that's the news
 from hence from silvia and from me thy friend
valentine o i have fed upon this woe already
 and now excess of it will make me surfeit
 doth silvia know that i am banished
proteus ay ay and she hath offer'd to the doom
 which unreversed stands in effectual force
 a sea of melting pearl which some call tears
 those at her father's churlish feet she tender'd
 with them upon her knees her humble self
 wringing her hands whose whiteness so became them
 as if but now they waxed pale for woe
 but neither bended knees pure hands held up
 sad sighs deep groans nor silvershedding tears
 could penetrate her uncompassionate sire
 but valentine if he be ta'en must die
 besides her intercession chafed him so
 when she for thy repeal was suppliant
 that to close prison he commanded her
 with many bitter threats of biding there
valentine no more unless the next word that thou speak'st
 have some malignant power upon my life
 if so i pray thee breathe it in mine ear
 as ending anthem of my endless dolour
proteus cease to lament for that thou canst not help
 and study help for that which thou lament'st
 time is the nurse and breeder of all good
 here if thou stay thou canst not see thy love
 besides thy staying will abridge thy life
 hope is a lover's staff walk hence with that
 and manage it against despairing thoughts
 thy letters may be here though thou art hence
 which being writ to me shall be deliver'd
 even in the milkwhite bosom of thy love
 the time now serves not to expostulate
 come i'll convey thee through the citygate
 and ere i part with thee confer at large
 of all that may concern thy loveaffairs
 as thou lovest silvia though not for thyself
 regard thy danger and along with me
valentine i pray thee launce an if thou seest my boy
 bid him make haste and meet me at the northgate
proteus go sirrah find him out come valentine
valentine o my dear silvia hapless valentine
 exeunt valentine and proteus
launce i am but a fool look you and yet i have the wit to
 think my master is a kind of a knave but that's
 all one if he be but one knave he lives not now
 that knows me to be in love yet i am in love but a
 team of horse shall not pluck that from me nor who
 tis i love and yet tis a woman but what woman i
 will not tell myself and yet tis a milkmaid yet
 tis not a maid for she hath had gossips yet tis
 a maid for she is her master's maid and serves for
 wages she hath more qualities than a waterspaniel
 which is much in a bare christian
 pulling out a paper
 here is the catelog of her condition
 imprimis she can fetch and carry why a horse
 can do no more nay a horse cannot fetch but only
 carry therefore is she better than a jade item
 she can milk look you a sweet virtue in a maid
 with clean hands
 enter speed
speed how now signior launce what news with your
 mastership
launce with my master's ship why it is at sea
speed well your old vice still mistake the word what
 news then in your paper
launce the blackest news that ever thou heardest
speed why man how black
launce why as black as ink
speed let me read them
launce fie on thee jolthead thou canst not read
speed thou liest i can
launce i will try thee tell me this who begot thee
speed marry the son of my grandfather
launce o illiterate loiterer it was the son of thy
 grandmother this proves that thou canst not read
speed come fool come try me in thy paper
launce there and st nicholas be thy speed
speed reads imprimis she can milk'
launce ay that she can
speed item she brews good ale'
launce and thereof comes the proverb blessing of your
 heart you brew good ale'
speed item she can sew'
launce that's as much as to say can she so
speed item she can knit'
launce what need a man care for a stock with a wench when
 she can knit him a stock
speed item she can wash and scour'
launce a special virtue for then she need not be washed
 and scoured
speed item she can spin'
launce then may i set the world on wheels when she can
 spin for her living
speed item she hath many nameless virtues'
launce that's as much as to say bastard virtues that
 indeed know not their fathers and therefore have no names
speed here follow her vices'
launce close at the heels of her virtues
speed item she is not to be kissed fasting in respect
 of her breath'
launce well that fault may be mended with a breakfast read on
speed item she hath a sweet mouth'
launce that makes amends for her sour breath
speed item she doth talk in her sleep'
launce it's no matter for that so she sleep not in her talk
speed item she is slow in words'
launce o villain that set this down among her vices to
 be slow in words is a woman's only virtue i pray
 thee out with't and place it for her chief virtue
speed item she is proud'
launce out with that too it was eve's legacy and cannot
 be ta'en from her
speed item she hath no teeth'
launce i care not for that neither because i love crusts
speed item she is curst'
launce well the best is she hath no teeth to bite
speed item she will often praise her liquor'
launce if her liquor be good she shall if she will not i
 will for good things should be praised
speed item she is too liberal'
launce of her tongue she cannot for that's writ down she
 is slow of of her purse she shall not for that
 i'll keep shut now of another thing she may and
 that cannot i help well proceed
speed item she hath more hair than wit and more faults
 than hairs and more wealth than faults'
launce stop there i'll have her she was mine and not
 mine twice or thrice in that last article
 rehearse that once more
speed item she hath more hair than wit'
launce more hair than wit it may be i'll prove it the
 cover of the salt hides the salt and therefore it
 is more than the salt the hair that covers the wit
 is more than the wit for the greater hides the
 less what's next
speed and more faults than hairs'
launce that's monstrous o that that were out
speed and more wealth than faults'
launce why that word makes the faults gracious well
 i'll have her and if it be a match as nothing is
 impossible
speed what then
launce why then will i tell theethat thy master stays
 for thee at the northgate
speed for me
launce for thee ay who art thou he hath stayed for a
 better man than thee
speed and must i go to him
launce thou must run to him for thou hast stayed so long
 that going will scarce serve the turn
speed why didst not tell me sooner pox of your love letters
 exit
launce now will he be swinged for reading my letter an
 unmannerly slave that will thrust himself into
 secrets i'll after to rejoice in the boy's correction
 exit
 the two gentlemen of verona
act iii
scene ii the same the duke's palace
 enter duke and thurio
duke sir thurio fear not but that she will love you
 now valentine is banish'd from her sight
thurio since his exile she hath despised me most
 forsworn my company and rail'd at me
 that i am desperate of obtaining her
duke this weak impress of love is as a figure
 trenched in ice which with an hour's heat
 dissolves to water and doth lose his form
 a little time will melt her frozen thoughts
 and worthless valentine shall be forgot
 enter proteus
 how now sir proteus is your countryman
 according to our proclamation gone
proteus gone my good lord
duke my daughter takes his going grievously
proteus a little time my lord will kill that grief
duke so i believe but thurio thinks not so
 proteus the good conceit i hold of thee
 for thou hast shown some sign of good desert
 makes me the better to confer with thee
proteus longer than i prove loyal to your grace
 let me not live to look upon your grace
duke thou know'st how willingly i would effect
 the match between sir thurio and my daughter
proteus i do my lord
duke and also i think thou art not ignorant
 how she opposes her against my will
proteus she did my lord when valentine was here
duke ay and perversely she persevers so
 what might we do to make the girl forget
 the love of valentine and love sir thurio
proteus the best way is to slander valentine
 with falsehood cowardice and poor descent
 three things that women highly hold in hate
duke ay but she'll think that it is spoke in hate
proteus ay if his enemy deliver it
 therefore it must with circumstance be spoken
 by one whom she esteemeth as his friend
duke then you must undertake to slander him
proteus and that my lord i shall be loath to do
 tis an ill office for a gentleman
 especially against his very friend
duke where your good word cannot advantage him
 your slander never can endamage him
 therefore the office is indifferent
 being entreated to it by your friend
proteus you have prevail'd my lord if i can do it
 by ought that i can speak in his dispraise
 she shall not long continue love to him
 but say this weed her love from valentine
 it follows not that she will love sir thurio
thurio therefore as you unwind her love from him
 lest it should ravel and be good to none
 you must provide to bottom it on me
 which must be done by praising me as much
 as you in worth dispraise sir valentine
duke and proteus we dare trust you in this kind
 because we know on valentine's report
 you are already love's firm votary
 and cannot soon revolt and change your mind
 upon this warrant shall you have access
 where you with silvia may confer at large
 for she is lumpish heavy melancholy
 and for your friend's sake will be glad of you
 where you may temper her by your persuasion
 to hate young valentine and love my friend
proteus as much as i can do i will effect
 but you sir thurio are not sharp enough
 you must lay lime to tangle her desires
 by wailful sonnets whose composed rhymes
 should be fullfraught with serviceable vows
duke ay
 much is the force of heavenbred poesy
proteus say that upon the altar of her beauty
 you sacrifice your tears your sighs your heart
 write till your ink be dry and with your tears
 moist it again and frame some feeling line
 that may discover such integrity
 for orpheus lute was strung with poets sinews
 whose golden touch could soften steel and stones
 make tigers tame and huge leviathans
 forsake unsounded deeps to dance on sands
 after your direlamenting elegies
 visit by night your lady's chamberwindow
 with some sweet concert to their instruments
 tune a deploring dump the night's dead silence
 will well become such sweetcomplaining grievance
 this or else nothing will inherit her
duke this discipline shows thou hast been in love
thurio and thy advice this night i'll put in practise
 therefore sweet proteus my directiongiver
 let us into the city presently
 to sort some gentlemen well skill'd in music
 i have a sonnet that will serve the turn
 to give the onset to thy good advice
duke about it gentlemen
proteus we'll wait upon your grace till after supper
 and afterward determine our proceedings
duke even now about it i will pardon you
 exeunt
 the two gentlemen of verona
act iv
scene i the frontiers of mantua a forest
 enter certain outlaws
first outlaw fellows stand fast i see a passenger
second outlaw if there be ten shrink not but down with em
 enter valentine and speed
third outlaw stand sir and throw us that you have about ye
 if not we'll make you sit and rifle you
speed sir we are undone these are the villains
 that all the travellers do fear so much
valentine my friends
first outlaw that's not so sir we are your enemies
second outlaw peace we'll hear him
third outlaw ay by my beard will we for he's a proper man
valentine then know that i have little wealth to lose
 a man i am cross'd with adversity
 my riches are these poor habiliments
 of which if you should here disfurnish me
 you take the sum and substance that i have
second outlaw whither travel you
valentine to verona
first outlaw whence came you
valentine from milan
third outlaw have you long sojourned there
valentine some sixteen months and longer might have stay'd
 if crooked fortune had not thwarted me
first outlaw what were you banish'd thence
valentine i was
second outlaw for what offence
valentine for that which now torments me to rehearse
 i kill'd a man whose death i much repent
 but yet i slew him manfully in fight
 without false vantage or base treachery
first outlaw why ne'er repent it if it were done so
 but were you banish'd for so small a fault
valentine i was and held me glad of such a doom
second outlaw have you the tongues
valentine my youthful travel therein made me happy
 or else i often had been miserable
third outlaw by the bare scalp of robin hood's fat friar
 this fellow were a king for our wild faction
first outlaw we'll have him sirs a word
speed master be one of them it's an honourable kind of thievery
valentine peace villain
second outlaw tell us this have you any thing to take to
valentine nothing but my fortune
third outlaw know then that some of us are gentlemen
 such as the fury of ungovern'd youth
 thrust from the company of awful men
 myself was from verona banished
 for practising to steal away a lady
 an heir and near allied unto the duke
second outlaw and i from mantua for a gentleman
 who in my mood i stabb'd unto the heart
first outlaw and i for such like petty crimes as these
 but to the purposefor we cite our faults
 that they may hold excus'd our lawless lives
 and partly seeing you are beautified
 with goodly shape and by your own report
 a linguist and a man of such perfection
 as we do in our quality much want
second outlaw indeed because you are a banish'd man
 therefore above the rest we parley to you
 are you content to be our general
 to make a virtue of necessity
 and live as we do in this wilderness
third outlaw what say'st thou wilt thou be of our consort
 say ay and be the captain of us all
 we'll do thee homage and be ruled by thee
 love thee as our commander and our king
first outlaw but if thou scorn our courtesy thou diest
second outlaw thou shalt not live to brag what we have offer'd
valentine i take your offer and will live with you
 provided that you do no outrages
 on silly women or poor passengers
third outlaw no we detest such vile base practises
 come go with us we'll bring thee to our crews
 and show thee all the treasure we have got
 which with ourselves all rest at thy dispose
 exeunt
 the two gentlemen of verona
act iv
scene ii milan outside the duke's palace under silvia's chamber
 enter proteus
proteus already have i been false to valentine
 and now i must be as unjust to thurio
 under the colour of commending him
 i have access my own love to prefer
 but silvia is too fair too true too holy
 to be corrupted with my worthless gifts
 when i protest true loyalty to her
 she twits me with my falsehood to my friend
 when to her beauty i commend my vows
 she bids me think how i have been forsworn
 in breaking faith with julia whom i loved
 and notwithstanding all her sudden quips
 the least whereof would quell a lover's hope
 yet spaniellike the more she spurns my love
 the more it grows and fawneth on her still
 but here comes thurio now must we to her window
 and give some evening music to her ear
 enter thurio and musicians
thurio how now sir proteus are you crept before us
proteus ay gentle thurio for you know that love
 will creep in service where it cannot go
thurio ay but i hope sir that you love not here
proteus sir but i do or else i would be hence
thurio who silvia
proteus ay silvia for your sake
thurio i thank you for your own now gentlemen
 let's tune and to it lustily awhile
 enter at a distance host and julia in boy's clothes
host now my young guest methinks you're allycholly i
 pray you why is it
julia marry mine host because i cannot be merry
host come we'll have you merry i'll bring you where
 you shall hear music and see the gentleman that you asked for
julia but shall i hear him speak
host ay that you shall
julia that will be music
 music plays
host hark hark
julia is he among these
host ay but peace let's hear em
 song
 who is silvia what is she
 that all our swains commend her
 holy fair and wise is she
 the heaven such grace did lend her
 that she might admired be
 is she kind as she is fair
 for beauty lives with kindness
 love doth to her eyes repair
 to help him of his blindness
 and being help'd inhabits there
 then to silvia let us sing
 that silvia is excelling
 she excels each mortal thing
 upon the dull earth dwelling
 to her let us garlands bring
host how now are you sadder than you were before how
 do you man the music likes you not
julia you mistake the musician likes me not
host why my pretty youth
julia he plays false father
host how out of tune on the strings
julia not so but yet so false that he grieves my very
 heartstrings
host you have a quick ear
julia ay i would i were deaf it makes me have a slow heart
host i perceive you delight not in music
julia not a whit when it jars so
host hark what fine change is in the music
julia ay that change is the spite
host you would have them always play but one thing
julia i would always have one play but one thing
 but host doth this sir proteus that we talk on
 often resort unto this gentlewoman
host i tell you what launce his man told me he loved
 her out of all nick
julia where is launce
host gone to seek his dog which tomorrow by his
 master's command he must carry for a present to his lady
julia peace stand aside the company parts
proteus sir thurio fear not you i will so plead
 that you shall say my cunning drift excels
thurio where meet we
proteus at saint gregory's well
thurio farewell
 exeunt thurio and musicians
 enter silvia above
proteus madam good even to your ladyship
silvia i thank you for your music gentlemen
 who is that that spake
proteus one lady if you knew his pure heart's truth
 you would quickly learn to know him by his voice
silvia sir proteus as i take it
proteus sir proteus gentle lady and your servant
silvia what's your will
proteus that i may compass yours
silvia you have your wish my will is even this
 that presently you hie you home to bed
 thou subtle perjured false disloyal man
 think'st thou i am so shallow so conceitless
 to be seduced by thy flattery
 that hast deceived so many with thy vows
 return return and make thy love amends
 for me by this pale queen of night i swear
 i am so far from granting thy request
 that i despise thee for thy wrongful suit
 and by and by intend to chide myself
 even for this time i spend in talking to thee
proteus i grant sweet love that i did love a lady
 but she is dead
julia aside twere false if i should speak it
 for i am sure she is not buried
silvia say that she be yet valentine thy friend
 survives to whom thyself art witness
 i am betroth'd and art thou not ashamed
 to wrong him with thy importunacy
proteus i likewise hear that valentine is dead
silvia and so suppose am i for in his grave
 assure thyself my love is buried
proteus sweet lady let me rake it from the earth
silvia go to thy lady's grave and call hers thence
 or at the least in hers sepulchre thine
julia aside he heard not that
proteus madam if your heart be so obdurate
 vouchsafe me yet your picture for my love
 the picture that is hanging in your chamber
 to that i'll speak to that i'll sigh and weep
 for since the substance of your perfect self
 is else devoted i am but a shadow
 and to your shadow will i make true love
julia aside if twere a substance you would sure
 deceive it
 and make it but a shadow as i am
silvia i am very loath to be your idol sir
 but since your falsehood shall become you well
 to worship shadows and adore false shapes
 send to me in the morning and i'll send it
 and so good rest
proteus as wretches have o'ernight
 that wait for execution in the morn
 exeunt proteus and silvia severally
julia host will you go
host by my halidom i was fast asleep
julia pray you where lies sir proteus
host marry at my house trust me i think tis almost
 day
julia not so but it hath been the longest night
 that e'er i watch'd and the most heaviest
 exeunt
 the two gentlemen of verona
act iv
scene iii the same
 enter eglamour
eglamour this is the hour that madam silvia
 entreated me to call and know her mind
 there's some great matter she'ld employ me in
 madam madam
 enter silvia above
silvia who calls
eglamour your servant and your friend
 one that attends your ladyship's command
silvia sir eglamour a thousand times good morrow
eglamour as many worthy lady to yourself
 according to your ladyship's impose
 i am thus early come to know what service
 it is your pleasure to command me in
silvia o eglamour thou art a gentleman
 think not i flatter for i swear i do not
 valiant wise remorseful well accomplish'd
 thou art not ignorant what dear good will
 i bear unto the banish'd valentine
 nor how my father would enforce me marry
 vain thurio whom my very soul abhors
 thyself hast loved and i have heard thee say
 no grief did ever come so near thy heart
 as when thy lady and thy true love died
 upon whose grave thou vow'dst pure chastity
 sir eglamour i would to valentine
 to mantua where i hear he makes abode
 and for the ways are dangerous to pass
 i do desire thy worthy company
 upon whose faith and honour i repose
 urge not my father's anger eglamour
 but think upon my grief a lady's grief
 and on the justice of my flying hence
 to keep me from a most unholy match
 which heaven and fortune still rewards with plagues
 i do desire thee even from a heart
 as full of sorrows as the sea of sands
 to bear me company and go with me
 if not to hide what i have said to thee
 that i may venture to depart alone
eglamour madam i pity much your grievances
 which since i know they virtuously are placed
 i give consent to go along with you
 recking as little what betideth me
 as much i wish all good befortune you
 when will you go
silvia this evening coming
eglamour where shall i meet you
silvia at friar patrick's cell
 where i intend holy confession
eglamour i will not fail your ladyship good morrow gentle lady
silvia good morrow kind sir eglamour
 exeunt severally
 the two gentlemen of verona
act iv
scene iv the same
 enter launce with his his dog
launce when a man's servant shall play the cur with him
 look you it goes hard one that i brought up of a
 puppy one that i saved from drowning when three or
 four of his blind brothers and sisters went to it
 i have taught him even as one would say precisely
 thus i would teach a dog i was sent to deliver
 him as a present to mistress silvia from my master
 and i came no sooner into the diningchamber but he
 steps me to her trencher and steals her capon's leg
 o tis a foul thing when a cur cannot keep himself
 in all companies i would have as one should say
 one that takes upon him to be a dog indeed to be
 as it were a dog at all things if i had not had
 more wit than he to take a fault upon me that he did
 i think verily he had been hanged for't sure as i
 live he had suffered for't you shall judge he
 thrusts me himself into the company of three or four
 gentlemanlike dogs under the duke's table he had
 not been therebless the marka pissing while but
 all the chamber smelt him out with the dog says
 one what cur is that says another whip him
 out says the third hang him up says the duke
 i having been acquainted with the smell before
 knew it was crab and goes me to the fellow that
 whips the dogs friend quoth i you mean to whip
 the dog ay marry do i quoth he you do him
 the more wrong quoth i 'twas i did the thing you
 wot of he makes me no more ado but whips me out
 of the chamber how many masters would do this for
 his servant nay i'll be sworn i have sat in the
 stocks for puddings he hath stolen otherwise he had
 been executed i have stood on the pillory for geese
 he hath killed otherwise he had suffered for't
 thou thinkest not of this now nay i remember the
 trick you served me when i took my leave of madam
 silvia did not i bid thee still mark me and do as i
 do when didst thou see me heave up my leg and make
 water against a gentlewoman's farthingale didst
 thou ever see me do such a trick
 enter proteus and julia
proteus sebastian is thy name i like thee well
 and will employ thee in some service presently
julia in what you please i'll do what i can
proteus i hope thou wilt
 to launce
 how now you whoreson peasant
 where have you been these two days loitering
launce marry sir i carried mistress silvia the dog you bade me
proteus and what says she to my little jewel
launce marry she says your dog was a cur and tells you
 currish thanks is good enough for such a present
proteus but she received my dog
launce no indeed did she not here have i brought him
 back again
proteus what didst thou offer her this from me
launce ay sir the other squirrel was stolen from me by
 the hangman boys in the marketplace and then i
 offered her mine own who is a dog as big as ten of
 yours and therefore the gift the greater
proteus go get thee hence and find my dog again
 or ne'er return again into my sight
 away i say stay'st thou to vex me here
 exit launce
 a slave that still an end turns me to shame
 sebastian i have entertained thee
 partly that i have need of such a youth
 that can with some discretion do my business
 for tis no trusting to yond foolish lout
 but chiefly for thy face and thy behavior
 which if my augury deceive me not
 witness good bringing up fortune and truth
 therefore know thou for this i entertain thee
 go presently and take this ring with thee
 deliver it to madam silvia
 she loved me well deliver'd it to me
julia it seems you loved not her to leave her token
 she is dead belike
proteus not so i think she lives
julia alas
proteus why dost thou cry alas'
julia i cannot choose
 but pity her
proteus wherefore shouldst thou pity her
julia because methinks that she loved you as well
 as you do love your lady silvia
 she dreams of him that has forgot her love
 you dote on her that cares not for your love
 tis pity love should be so contrary
 and thinking of it makes me cry alas'
proteus well give her that ring and therewithal
 this letter that's her chamber tell my lady
 i claim the promise for her heavenly picture
 your message done hie home unto my chamber
 where thou shalt find me sad and solitary
 exit
julia how many women would do such a message
 alas poor proteus thou hast entertain'd
 a fox to be the shepherd of thy lambs
 alas poor fool why do i pity him
 that with his very heart despiseth me
 because he loves her he despiseth me
 because i love him i must pity him
 this ring i gave him when he parted from me
 to bind him to remember my good will
 and now am i unhappy messenger
 to plead for that which i would not obtain
 to carry that which i would have refused
 to praise his faith which i would have dispraised
 i am my master's trueconfirmed love
 but cannot be true servant to my master
 unless i prove false traitor to myself
 yet will i woo for him but yet so coldly
 as heaven it knows i would not have him speed
 enter silvia attended
 gentlewoman good day i pray you be my mean
 to bring me where to speak with madam silvia
silvia what would you with her if that i be she
julia if you be she i do entreat your patience
 to hear me speak the message i am sent on
silvia from whom
julia from my master sir proteus madam
silvia o he sends you for a picture
julia ay madam
silvia ursula bring my picture here
 go give your master this tell him from me
 one julia that his changing thoughts forget
 would better fit his chamber than this shadow
julia madam please you peruse this letter
 pardon me madam i have unadvised
 deliver'd you a paper that i should not
 this is the letter to your ladyship
silvia i pray thee let me look on that again
julia it may not be good madam pardon me
silvia there hold
 i will not look upon your master's lines
 i know they are stuff'd with protestations
 and full of newfound oaths which he will break
 as easily as i do tear his paper
julia madam he sends your ladyship this ring
silvia the more shame for him that he sends it me
 for i have heard him say a thousand times
 his julia gave it him at his departure
 though his false finger have profaned the ring
 mine shall not do his julia so much wrong
julia she thanks you
silvia what say'st thou
julia i thank you madam that you tender her
 poor gentlewoman my master wrongs her much
silvia dost thou know her
julia almost as well as i do know myself
 to think upon her woes i do protest
 that i have wept a hundred several times
silvia belike she thinks that proteus hath forsook her
julia i think she doth and that's her cause of sorrow
silvia is she not passing fair
julia she hath been fairer madam than she is
 when she did think my master loved her well
 she in my judgment was as fair as you
 but since she did neglect her lookingglass
 and threw her sunexpelling mask away
 the air hath starved the roses in her cheeks
 and pinch'd the lilytincture of her face
 that now she is become as black as i
silvia how tall was she
julia about my stature for at pentecost
 when all our pageants of delight were play'd
 our youth got me to play the woman's part
 and i was trimm'd in madam julia's gown
 which served me as fit by all men's judgments
 as if the garment had been made for me
 therefore i know she is about my height
 and at that time i made her weep agood
 for i did play a lamentable part
 madam twas ariadne passioning
 for theseus perjury and unjust flight
 which i so lively acted with my tears
 that my poor mistress moved therewithal
 wept bitterly and would i might be dead
 if i in thought felt not her very sorrow
silvia she is beholding to thee gentle youth
 alas poor lady desolate and left
 i weep myself to think upon thy words
 here youth there is my purse i give thee this
 for thy sweet mistress sake because thou lovest her
 farewell
 exit silvia with attendants
julia and she shall thank you for't if e'er you know her
 a virtuous gentlewoman mild and beautiful
 i hope my master's suit will be but cold
 since she respects my mistress love so much
 alas how love can trifle with itself
 here is her picture let me see i think
 if i had such a tire this face of mine
 were full as lovely as is this of hers
 and yet the painter flatter'd her a little
 unless i flatter with myself too much
 her hair is auburn mine is perfect yellow
 if that be all the difference in his love
 i'll get me such a colour'd periwig
 her eyes are grey as glass and so are mine
 ay but her forehead's low and mine's as high
 what should it be that he respects in her
 but i can make respective in myself
 if this fond love were not a blinded god
 come shadow come and take this shadow up
 for tis thy rival o thou senseless form
 thou shalt be worshipp'd kiss'd loved and adored
 and were there sense in his idolatry
 my substance should be statue in thy stead
 i'll use thee kindly for thy mistress sake
 that used me so or else by jove i vow
 i should have scratch'd out your unseeing eyes
 to make my master out of love with thee
 exit
 the two gentlemen of verona
act v
scene i milan an abbey
 enter eglamour
eglamour the sun begins to gild the western sky
 and now it is about the very hour
 that silvia at friar patrick's cell should meet me
 she will not fail for lovers break not hours
 unless it be to come before their time
 so much they spur their expedition
 see where she comes
 enter silvia
 lady a happy evening
silvia amen amen go on good eglamour
 out at the postern by the abbeywall
 i fear i am attended by some spies
eglamour fear not the forest is not three leagues off
 if we recover that we are sure enough
 exeunt
 the two gentlemen of verona
act v
scene ii the same the duke's palace
 enter thurio proteus and julia
thurio sir proteus what says silvia to my suit
proteus o sir i find her milder than she was
 and yet she takes exceptions at your person
thurio what that my leg is too long
proteus no that it is too little
thurio i'll wear a boot to make it somewhat rounder
julia aside but love will not be spurr'd to what
 it loathes
thurio what says she to my face
proteus she says it is a fair one
thurio nay then the wanton lies my face is black
proteus but pearls are fair and the old saying is
 black men are pearls in beauteous ladies eyes
julia aside tis true such pearls as put out
 ladies eyes
 for i had rather wink than look on them
thurio how likes she my discourse
proteus ill when you talk of war
thurio but well when i discourse of love and peace
julia aside but better indeed when you hold your peace
thurio what says she to my valour
proteus o sir she makes no doubt of that
julia aside she needs not when she knows it cowardice
thurio what says she to my birth
proteus that you are well derived
julia aside true from a gentleman to a fool
thurio considers she my possessions
proteus o ay and pities them
thurio wherefore
julia aside that such an ass should owe them
proteus that they are out by lease
julia here comes the duke
 enter duke
duke how now sir proteus how now thurio
 which of you saw sir eglamour of late
thurio not i
proteus nor i
duke saw you my daughter
proteus neither
duke why then
 she's fled unto that peasant valentine
 and eglamour is in her company
 tis true for friar laurence met them both
 as he in penance wander'd through the forest
 him he knew well and guess'd that it was she
 but being mask'd he was not sure of it
 besides she did intend confession
 at patrick's cell this even and there she was not
 these likelihoods confirm her flight from hence
 therefore i pray you stand not to discourse
 but mount you presently and meet with me
 upon the rising of the mountainfoot
 that leads towards mantua whither they are fled
 dispatch sweet gentlemen and follow me
 exit
thurio why this it is to be a peevish girl
 that flies her fortune when it follows her
 i'll after more to be revenged on eglamour
 than for the love of reckless silvia
 exit
proteus and i will follow more for silvia's love
 than hate of eglamour that goes with her
 exit
julia and i will follow more to cross that love
 than hate for silvia that is gone for love
 exit
 the two gentlemen of verona
act v
scene iii the frontiers of mantua the forest
 enter outlaws with silvia
first outlaw come come
 be patient we must bring you to our captain
silvia a thousand more mischances than this one
 have learn'd me how to brook this patiently
second outlaw come bring her away
first outlaw where is the gentleman that was with her
third outlaw being nimblefooted he hath outrun us
 but moyses and valerius follow him
 go thou with her to the west end of the wood
 there is our captain we'll follow him that's fled
 the thicket is beset he cannot scape
first outlaw come i must bring you to our captain's cave
 fear not he bears an honourable mind
 and will not use a woman lawlessly
silvia o valentine this i endure for thee
 exeunt
 the two gentlemen of verona
act v
scene iv another part of the forest
 enter valentine
valentine how use doth breed a habit in a man
 this shadowy desert unfrequented woods
 i better brook than flourishing peopled towns
 here can i sit alone unseen of any
 and to the nightingale's complaining notes
 tune my distresses and record my woes
 o thou that dost inhabit in my breast
 leave not the mansion so long tenantless
 lest growing ruinous the building fall
 and leave no memory of what it was
 repair me with thy presence silvia
 thou gentle nymph cherish thy forlorn swain
 what halloing and what stir is this today
 these are my mates that make their wills their law
 have some unhappy passenger in chase
 they love me well yet i have much to do
 to keep them from uncivil outrages
 withdraw thee valentine who's this comes here
 enter proteus silvia and julia
proteus madam this service i have done for you
 though you respect not aught your servant doth
 to hazard life and rescue you from him
 that would have forced your honour and your love
 vouchsafe me for my meed but one fair look
 a smaller boon than this i cannot beg
 and less than this i am sure you cannot give
valentine aside how like a dream is this i see and hear
 love lend me patience to forbear awhile
silvia o miserable unhappy that i am
proteus unhappy were you madam ere i came
 but by my coming i have made you happy
silvia by thy approach thou makest me most unhappy
julia aside and me when he approacheth to your presence
silvia had i been seized by a hungry lion
 i would have been a breakfast to the beast
 rather than have false proteus rescue me
 o heaven be judge how i love valentine
 whose life's as tender to me as my soul
 and full as much for more there cannot be
 i do detest false perjured proteus
 therefore be gone solicit me no more
proteus what dangerous action stood it next to death
 would i not undergo for one calm look
 o tis the curse in love and still approved
 when women cannot love where they're beloved
silvia when proteus cannot love where he's beloved
 read over julia's heart thy first best love
 for whose dear sake thou didst then rend thy faith
 into a thousand oaths and all those oaths
 descended into perjury to love me
 thou hast no faith left now unless thou'dst two
 and that's far worse than none better have none
 than plural faith which is too much by one
 thou counterfeit to thy true friend
proteus in love
 who respects friend
silvia all men but proteus
proteus nay if the gentle spirit of moving words
 can no way change you to a milder form
 i'll woo you like a soldier at arms end
 and love you gainst the nature of loveforce ye
silvia o heaven
proteus i'll force thee yield to my desire
valentine ruffian let go that rude uncivil touch
 thou friend of an ill fashion
proteus valentine
valentine thou common friend that's without faith or love
 for such is a friend now treacherous man
 thou hast beguiled my hopes nought but mine eye
 could have persuaded me now i dare not say
 i have one friend alive thou wouldst disprove me
 who should be trusted when one's own right hand
 is perjured to the bosom proteus
 i am sorry i must never trust thee more
 but count the world a stranger for thy sake
 the private wound is deepest o time most accurst
 mongst all foes that a friend should be the worst
proteus my shame and guilt confounds me
 forgive me valentine if hearty sorrow
 be a sufficient ransom for offence
 i tender t here i do as truly suffer
 as e'er i did commit
valentine then i am paid
 and once again i do receive thee honest
 who by repentance is not satisfied
 is nor of heaven nor earth for these are pleased
 by penitence the eternal's wrath's appeased
 and that my love may appear plain and free
 all that was mine in silvia i give thee
julia o me unhappy
 swoons
proteus look to the boy
valentine why boy why wag how now what's the matter
 look up speak
julia o good sir my master charged me to deliver a ring
 to madam silvia which out of my neglect was never done
proteus where is that ring boy
julia here tis this is it
proteus how let me see
 why this is the ring i gave to julia
julia o cry you mercy sir i have mistook
 this is the ring you sent to silvia
proteus but how camest thou by this ring at my depart
 i gave this unto julia
julia and julia herself did give it me
 and julia herself hath brought it hither
proteus how julia
julia behold her that gave aim to all thy oaths
 and entertain'd em deeply in her heart
 how oft hast thou with perjury cleft the root
 o proteus let this habit make thee blush
 be thou ashamed that i have took upon me
 such an immodest raiment if shame live
 in a disguise of love
 it is the lesser blot modesty finds
 women to change their shapes than men their minds
proteus than men their minds tis true
 o heaven were man
 but constant he were perfect that one error
 fills him with faults makes him run through all the sins
 inconstancy falls off ere it begins
 what is in silvia's face but i may spy
 more fresh in julia's with a constant eye
valentine come come a hand from either
 let me be blest to make this happy close
 twere pity two such friends should be long foes
proteus bear witness heaven i have my wish for ever
julia and i mine
 enter outlaws with duke and thurio
outlaws a prize a prize a prize
valentine forbear forbear i say it is my lord the duke
 your grace is welcome to a man disgraced
 banished valentine
duke sir valentine
thurio yonder is silvia and silvia's mine
valentine thurio give back or else embrace thy death
 come not within the measure of my wrath
 do not name silvia thine if once again
 verona shall not hold thee here she stands
 take but possession of her with a touch
 i dare thee but to breathe upon my love
thurio sir valentine i care not for her i
 i hold him but a fool that will endanger
 his body for a girl that loves him not
 i claim her not and therefore she is thine
duke the more degenerate and base art thou
 to make such means for her as thou hast done
 and leave her on such slight conditions
 now by the honour of my ancestry
 i do applaud thy spirit valentine
 and think thee worthy of an empress love
 know then i here forget all former griefs
 cancel all grudge repeal thee home again
 plead a new state in thy unrivall'd merit
 to which i thus subscribe sir valentine
 thou art a gentleman and well derived
 take thou thy silvia for thou hast deserved her
valentine i thank your grace the gift hath made me happy
 i now beseech you for your daughter's sake
 to grant one boom that i shall ask of you
duke i grant it for thine own whate'er it be
valentine these banish'd men that i have kept withal
 are men endued with worthy qualities
 forgive them what they have committed here
 and let them be recall'd from their exile
 they are reformed civil full of good
 and fit for great employment worthy lord
duke thou hast prevail'd i pardon them and thee
 dispose of them as thou know'st their deserts
 come let us go we will include all jars
 with triumphs mirth and rare solemnity
valentine and as we walk along i dare be bold
 with our discourse to make your grace to smile
 what think you of this page my lord
duke i think the boy hath grace in him he blushes
valentine i warrant you my lord more grace than boy
duke what mean you by that saying
valentine please you i'll tell you as we pass along
 that you will wonder what hath fortuned
 come proteus tis your penance but to hear
 the story of your loves discovered
 that done our day of marriage shall be yours
 one feast one house one mutual happiness
 exeunt
 the winter's tale
 dramatis personae
leontes king of sicilia
mamillius young prince of sicilia
camillo 
 
antigonus 
 four lords of sicilia
cleomenes 
 
dion 
polixenes king of bohemia
florizel prince of bohemia
archidamus a lord of bohemia
old shepherd reputed father of perdita shepherd
clown his son
autolycus a rogue
 a mariner mariner
 a gaoler gaoler
hermione queen to leontes
perdita daughter to leontes and hermione
paulina wife to antigonus
emilia a lady attending on hermione
mopsa 
 shepherdesses
dorcas 
 other lords and gentlemen ladies officers
 and servants shepherds and shepherdesses
 first lord
 gentleman
 first gentleman
 second gentleman
 third gentleman
 first lady
 second lady
 officer
 servant
 first servant
 second servant
time as chorus
scene sicilia and bohemia
 the winter's tale
act i
scene i antechamber in leontes palace
 enter camillo and archidamus
archidamus if you shall chance camillo to visit bohemia on
 the like occasion whereon my services are now on
 foot you shall see as i have said great
 difference betwixt our bohemia and your sicilia
camillo i think this coming summer the king of sicilia
 means to pay bohemia the visitation which he justly owes him
archidamus wherein our entertainment shall shame us we will be
 justified in our loves for indeed
camillo beseech you
archidamus verily i speak it in the freedom of my knowledge
 we cannot with such magnificencein so rarei know
 not what to say we will give you sleepy drinks
 that your senses unintelligent of our insufficience
 may though they cannot praise us as little accuse
 us
camillo you pay a great deal too dear for what's given freely
archidamus believe me i speak as my understanding instructs me
 and as mine honesty puts it to utterance
camillo sicilia cannot show himself overkind to bohemia
 they were trained together in their childhoods and
 there rooted betwixt them then such an affection
 which cannot choose but branch now since their
 more mature dignities and royal necessities made
 separation of their society their encounters
 though not personal have been royally attorneyed
 with interchange of gifts letters loving
 embassies that they have seemed to be together
 though absent shook hands as over a vast and
 embraced as it were from the ends of opposed
 winds the heavens continue their loves
archidamus i think there is not in the world either malice or
 matter to alter it you have an unspeakable
 comfort of your young prince mamillius it is a
 gentleman of the greatest promise that ever came
 into my note
camillo i very well agree with you in the hopes of him it
 is a gallant child one that indeed physics the
 subject makes old hearts fresh they that went on
 crutches ere he was born desire yet their life to
 see him a man
archidamus would they else be content to die
camillo yes if there were no other excuse why they should
 desire to live
archidamus if the king had no son they would desire to live
 on crutches till he had one
 exeunt
 the winter's tale
act i
scene ii a room of state in the same
 enter leontes hermione mamillius
 polixenes camillo and attendants
polixenes nine changes of the watery star hath been
 the shepherd's note since we have left our throne
 without a burthen time as long again
 would be find up my brother with our thanks
 and yet we should for perpetuity
 go hence in debt and therefore like a cipher
 yet standing in rich place i multiply
 with one we thank you many thousands moe
 that go before it
leontes stay your thanks a while
 and pay them when you part
polixenes sir that's tomorrow
 i am question'd by my fears of what may chance
 or breed upon our absence that may blow
 no sneaping winds at home to make us say
 this is put forth too truly besides i have stay'd
 to tire your royalty
leontes we are tougher brother
 than you can put us to't
polixenes no longer stay
leontes one sevennight longer
polixenes very sooth tomorrow
leontes we'll part the time between's then and in that
 i'll no gainsaying
polixenes press me not beseech you so
 there is no tongue that moves none none i the world
 so soon as yours could win me so it should now
 were there necessity in your request although
 twere needful i denied it my affairs
 do even drag me homeward which to hinder
 were in your love a whip to me my stay
 to you a charge and trouble to save both
 farewell our brother
leontes tonguetied our queen
 speak you
hermione i had thought sir to have held my peace until
 you have drawn oaths from him not to stay you sir
 charge him too coldly tell him you are sure
 all in bohemia's well this satisfaction
 the bygone day proclaim'd say this to him
 he's beat from his best ward
leontes well said hermione
hermione to tell he longs to see his son were strong
 but let him say so then and let him go
 but let him swear so and he shall not stay
 we'll thwack him hence with distaffs
 yet of your royal presence i'll adventure
 the borrow of a week when at bohemia
 you take my lord i'll give him my commission
 to let him there a month behind the gest
 prefix'd for's parting yet good deed leontes
 i love thee not a jar o the clock behind
 what ladyshe her lord you'll stay
polixenes no madam
hermione nay but you will
polixenes i may not verily
hermione verily
 you put me off with limber vows but i
 though you would seek to unsphere the
 stars with oaths
 should yet say sir no going verily
 you shall not go a lady's verily s
 as potent as a lord's will you go yet
 force me to keep you as a prisoner
 not like a guest so you shall pay your fees
 when you depart and save your thanks how say you
 my prisoner or my guest by your dread verily'
 one of them you shall be
polixenes your guest then madam
 to be your prisoner should import offending
 which is for me less easy to commit
 than you to punish
hermione not your gaoler then
 but your kind hostess come i'll question you
 of my lord's tricks and yours when you were boys
 you were pretty lordings then
polixenes we were fair queen
 two lads that thought there was no more behind
 but such a day tomorrow as today
 and to be boy eternal
hermione was not my lord
 the verier wag o the two
polixenes we were as twinn'd lambs that did frisk i the sun
 and bleat the one at the other what we changed
 was innocence for innocence we knew not
 the doctrine of illdoing nor dream'd
 that any did had we pursued that life
 and our weak spirits ne'er been higher rear'd
 with stronger blood we should have answer'd heaven
 boldly not guilty the imposition clear'd
 hereditary ours
hermione by this we gather
 you have tripp'd since
polixenes o my most sacred lady
 temptations have since then been born to's for
 in those unfledged days was my wife a girl
 your precious self had then not cross'd the eyes
 of my young playfellow
hermione grace to boot
 of this make no conclusion lest you say
 your queen and i are devils yet go on
 the offences we have made you do we'll answer
 if you first sinn'd with us and that with us
 you did continue fault and that you slipp'd not
 with any but with us
leontes is he won yet
hermione he'll stay my lord
leontes at my request he would not
 hermione my dearest thou never spokest
 to better purpose
hermione never
leontes never but once
hermione what have i twice said well when was't before
 i prithee tell me cram's with praise and make's
 as fat as tame things one good deed dying tongueless
 slaughters a thousand waiting upon that
 our praises are our wages you may ride's
 with one soft kiss a thousand furlongs ere
 with spur we beat an acre but to the goal
 my last good deed was to entreat his stay
 what was my first it has an elder sister
 or i mistake you o would her name were grace
 but once before i spoke to the purpose when
 nay let me have't i long
leontes why that was when
 three crabbed months had sour'd themselves to death
 ere i could make thee open thy white hand
 and clap thyself my love then didst thou utter
 i am yours for ever'
hermione tis grace indeed
 why lo you now i have spoke to the purpose twice
 the one for ever earn'd a royal husband
 the other for some while a friend
leontes aside too hot too hot
 to mingle friendship far is mingling bloods
 i have tremor cordis on me my heart dances
 but not for joy not joy this entertainment
 may a free face put on derive a liberty
 from heartiness from bounty fertile bosom
 and well become the agent t may i grant
 but to be paddling palms and pinching fingers
 as now they are and making practised smiles
 as in a lookingglass and then to sigh as twere
 the mort o the deer o that is entertainment
 my bosom likes not nor my brows mamillius
 art thou my boy
mamillius ay my good lord
leontes i fecks
 why that's my bawcock what hast
 smutch'd thy nose
 they say it is a copy out of mine come captain
 we must be neat not neat but cleanly captain
 and yet the steer the heifer and the calf
 are all call'd neatstill virginalling
 upon his palmhow now you wanton calf
 art thou my calf
mamillius yes if you will my lord
leontes thou want'st a rough pash and the shoots that i have
 to be full like me yet they say we are
 almost as like as eggs women say so
 that will say anything but were they false
 as o'erdyed blacks as wind as waters false
 as dice are to be wish'd by one that fixes
 no bourn twixt his and mine yet were it true
 to say this boy were like me come sir page
 look on me with your welkin eye sweet villain
 most dear'st my collop can thy dammay't be
 affection thy intention stabs the centre
 thou dost make possible things not so held
 communicatest with dreamshow can this be
 with what's unreal thou coactive art
 and fellow'st nothing then tis very credent
 thou mayst cojoin with something and thou dost
 and that beyond commission and i find it
 and that to the infection of my brains
 and hardening of my brows
polixenes what means sicilia
hermione he something seems unsettled
polixenes how my lord
 what cheer how is't with you best brother
hermione you look as if you held a brow of much distraction
 are you moved my lord
leontes no in good earnest
 how sometimes nature will betray its folly
 its tenderness and make itself a pastime
 to harder bosoms looking on the lines
 of my boy's face methoughts i did recoil
 twentythree years and saw myself unbreech'd
 in my green velvet coat my dagger muzzled
 lest it should bite its master and so prove
 as ornaments oft do too dangerous
 how like methought i then was to this kernel
 this squash this gentleman mine honest friend
 will you take eggs for money
mamillius no my lord i'll fight
leontes you will why happy man be's dole my brother
 are you so fond of your young prince as we
 do seem to be of ours
polixenes if at home sir
 he's all my exercise my mirth my matter
 now my sworn friend and then mine enemy
 my parasite my soldier statesman all
 he makes a july's day short as december
 and with his varying childness cures in me
 thoughts that would thick my blood
leontes so stands this squire
 officed with me we two will walk my lord
 and leave you to your graver steps hermione
 how thou lovest us show in our brother's welcome
 let what is dear in sicily be cheap
 next to thyself and my young rover he's
 apparent to my heart
hermione if you would seek us
 we are yours i the garden shall's attend you there
leontes to your own bents dispose you you'll be found
 be you beneath the sky
 aside
 i am angling now
 though you perceive me not how i give line
 go to go to
 how she holds up the neb the bill to him
 and arms her with the boldness of a wife
 to her allowing husband
 exeunt polixenes hermione and attendants
 gone already
 inchthick kneedeep o'er head and
 ears a fork'd one
 go play boy play thy mother plays and i
 play too but so disgraced a part whose issue
 will hiss me to my grave contempt and clamour
 will be my knell go play boy play
 there have been
 or i am much deceived cuckolds ere now
 and many a man there is even at this present
 now while i speak this holds his wife by the arm
 that little thinks she has been sluiced in's absence
 and his pond fish'd by his next neighbour by
 sir smile his neighbour nay there's comfort in't
 whiles other men have gates and those gates open'd
 as mine against their will should all despair
 that have revolted wives the tenth of mankind
 would hang themselves physic for't there is none
 it is a bawdy planet that will strike
 where tis predominant and tis powerful think it
 from east west north and south be it concluded
 no barricado for a belly know't
 it will let in and out the enemy
 with bag and baggage many thousand on's
 have the disease and feel't not how now boy
mamillius i am like you they say
leontes why that's some comfort what camillo there
camillo ay my good lord
leontes go play mamillius thou'rt an honest man
 exit mamillius
 camillo this great sir will yet stay longer
camillo you had much ado to make his anchor hold
 when you cast out it still came home
leontes didst note it
camillo he would not stay at your petitions made
 his business more material
leontes didst perceive it
 aside
 they're here with me already whispering rounding
 sicilia is a soforth tis far gone
 when i shall gust it last how came't camillo
 that he did stay
camillo at the good queen's entreaty
leontes at the queen's be't good should be pertinent
 but so it is it is not was this taken
 by any understanding pate but thine
 for thy conceit is soaking will draw in
 more than the common blocks not noted is't
 but of the finer natures by some severals
 of headpiece extraordinary lower messes
 perchance are to this business purblind say
camillo business my lord i think most understand
 bohemia stays here longer
leontes ha
camillo stays here longer
leontes ay but why
camillo to satisfy your highness and the entreaties
 of our most gracious mistress
leontes satisfy
 the entreaties of your mistress satisfy
 let that suffice i have trusted thee camillo
 with all the nearest things to my heart as well
 my chambercouncils wherein priestlike thou
 hast cleansed my bosom i from thee departed
 thy penitent reform'd but we have been
 deceived in thy integrity deceived
 in that which seems so
camillo be it forbid my lord
leontes to bide upon't thou art not honest or
 if thou inclinest that way thou art a coward
 which hoxes honesty behind restraining
 from course required or else thou must be counted
 a servant grafted in my serious trust
 and therein negligent or else a fool
 that seest a game play'd home the rich stake drawn
 and takest it all for jest
camillo my gracious lord
 i may be negligent foolish and fearful
 in every one of these no man is free
 but that his negligence his folly fear
 among the infinite doings of the world
 sometime puts forth in your affairs my lord
 if ever i were wilfulnegligent
 it was my folly if industriously
 i play'd the fool it was my negligence
 not weighing well the end if ever fearful
 to do a thing where i the issue doubted
 where of the execution did cry out
 against the nonperformance twas a fear
 which oft infects the wisest these my lord
 are such allow'd infirmities that honesty
 is never free of but beseech your grace
 be plainer with me let me know my trespass
 by its own visage if i then deny it
 tis none of mine
leontes ha not you seen camillo
 but that's past doubt you have or your eyeglass
 is thicker than a cuckold's hornor heard
 for to a vision so apparent rumour
 cannot be muteor thoughtfor cogitation
 resides not in that man that does not think
 my wife is slippery if thou wilt confess
 or else be impudently negative
 to have nor eyes nor ears nor thought then say
 my wife's a hobbyhorse deserves a name
 as rank as any flaxwench that puts to
 before her trothplight say't and justify't
camillo i would not be a standerby to hear
 my sovereign mistress clouded so without
 my present vengeance taken shrew my heart
 you never spoke what did become you less
 than this which to reiterate were sin
 as deep as that though true
leontes is whispering nothing
 is leaning cheek to cheek is meeting noses
 kissing with inside lip stopping the career
 of laughing with a sigha note infallible
 of breaking honestyhorsing foot on foot
 skulking in corners wishing clocks more swift
 hours minutes noon midnight and all eyes
 blind with the pin and web but theirs theirs only
 that would unseen be wicked is this nothing
 why then the world and all that's in't is nothing
 the covering sky is nothing bohemia nothing
 my wife is nothing nor nothing have these nothings
 if this be nothing
camillo good my lord be cured
 of this diseased opinion and betimes
 for tis most dangerous
leontes say it be tis true
camillo no no my lord
leontes it is you lie you lie
 i say thou liest camillo and i hate thee
 pronounce thee a gross lout a mindless slave
 or else a hovering temporizer that
 canst with thine eyes at once see good and evil
 inclining to them both were my wife's liver
 infected as her life she would not live
 the running of one glass
camillo who does infect her
leontes why he that wears her like a medal hanging
 about his neck bohemia who if i
 had servants true about me that bare eyes
 to see alike mine honour as their profits
 their own particular thrifts they would do that
 which should undo more doing ay and thou
 his cupbearerwhom i from meaner form
 have benched and reared to worship who mayst see
 plainly as heaven sees earth and earth sees heaven
 how i am galledmightst bespice a cup
 to give mine enemy a lasting wink
 which draught to me were cordial
camillo sir my lord
 i could do this and that with no rash potion
 but with a lingering dram that should not work
 maliciously like poison but i cannot
 believe this crack to be in my dread mistress
 so sovereignly being honourable
 i have loved thee
leontes make that thy question and go rot
 dost think i am so muddy so unsettled
 to appoint myself in this vexation sully
 the purity and whiteness of my sheets
 which to preserve is sleep which being spotted
 is goads thorns nettles tails of wasps
 give scandal to the blood o the prince my son
 who i do think is mine and love as mine
 without ripe moving to't would i do this
 could man so blench
camillo i must believe you sir
 i do and will fetch off bohemia for't
 provided that when he's removed your highness
 will take again your queen as yours at first
 even for your son's sake and thereby for sealing
 the injury of tongues in courts and kingdoms
 known and allied to yours
leontes thou dost advise me
 even so as i mine own course have set down
 i'll give no blemish to her honour none
camillo my lord
 go then and with a countenance as clear
 as friendship wears at feasts keep with bohemia
 and with your queen i am his cupbearer
 if from me he have wholesome beverage
 account me not your servant
leontes this is all
 do't and thou hast the one half of my heart
 do't not thou split'st thine own
camillo i'll do't my lord
leontes i will seem friendly as thou hast advised me
 exit
camillo o miserable lady but for me
 what case stand i in i must be the poisoner
 of good polixenes and my ground to do't
 is the obedience to a master one
 who in rebellion with himself will have
 all that are his so too to do this deed
 promotion follows if i could find example
 of thousands that had struck anointed kings
 and flourish'd after i'ld not do't but since
 nor brass nor stone nor parchment bears not one
 let villany itself forswear't i must
 forsake the court to do't or no is certain
 to me a breakneck happy star reign now
 here comes bohemia
 reenter polixenes
polixenes this is strange methinks
 my favour here begins to warp not speak
 good day camillo
camillo hail most royal sir
polixenes what is the news i the court
camillo none rare my lord
polixenes the king hath on him such a countenance
 as he had lost some province and a region
 loved as he loves himself even now i met him
 with customary compliment when he
 wafting his eyes to the contrary and falling
 a lip of much contempt speeds from me and
 so leaves me to consider what is breeding
 that changeth thus his manners
camillo i dare not know my lord
polixenes how dare not do not do you know and dare not
 be intelligent to me tis thereabouts
 for to yourself what you do know you must
 and cannot say you dare not good camillo
 your changed complexions are to me a mirror
 which shows me mine changed too for i must be
 a party in this alteration finding
 myself thus alter'd with t
camillo there is a sickness
 which puts some of us in distemper but
 i cannot name the disease and it is caught
 of you that yet are well
polixenes how caught of me
 make me not sighted like the basilisk
 i have look'd on thousands who have sped the better
 by my regard but kill'd none so camillo
 as you are certainly a gentleman thereto
 clerklike experienced which no less adorns
 our gentry than our parents noble names
 in whose success we are gentlei beseech you
 if you know aught which does behove my knowledge
 thereof to be inform'd imprison't not
 in ignorant concealment
camillo i may not answer
polixenes a sickness caught of me and yet i well
 i must be answer'd dost thou hear camillo
 i conjure thee by all the parts of man
 which honour does acknowledge whereof the least
 is not this suit of mine that thou declare
 what incidency thou dost guess of harm
 is creeping toward me how far off how near
 which way to be prevented if to be
 if not how best to bear it
camillo sir i will tell you
 since i am charged in honour and by him
 that i think honourable therefore mark my counsel
 which must be even as swiftly follow'd as
 i mean to utter it or both yourself and me
 cry lost and so good night
polixenes on good camillo
camillo i am appointed him to murder you
polixenes by whom camillo
camillo by the king
polixenes for what
camillo he thinks nay with all confidence he swears
 as he had seen't or been an instrument
 to vice you to't that you have touch'd his queen
 forbiddenly
polixenes o then my best blood turn
 to an infected jelly and my name
 be yoked with his that did betray the best
 turn then my freshest reputation to
 a savour that may strike the dullest nostril
 where i arrive and my approach be shunn'd
 nay hated too worse than the great'st infection
 that e'er was heard or read
camillo swear his thought over
 by each particular star in heaven and
 by all their influences you may as well
 forbid the sea for to obey the moon
 as or by oath remove or counsel shake
 the fabric of his folly whose foundation
 is piled upon his faith and will continue
 the standing of his body
polixenes how should this grow
camillo i know not but i am sure tis safer to
 avoid what's grown than question how tis born
 if therefore you dare trust my honesty
 that lies enclosed in this trunk which you
 shall bear along impawn'd away tonight
 your followers i will whisper to the business
 and will by twos and threes at several posterns
 clear them o the city for myself i'll put
 my fortunes to your service which are here
 by this discovery lost be not uncertain
 for by the honour of my parents i
 have utter'd truth which if you seek to prove
 i dare not stand by nor shall you be safer
 than one condemn'd by the king's own mouth thereon
 his execution sworn
polixenes i do believe thee
 i saw his heart in s face give me thy hand
 be pilot to me and thy places shall
 still neighbour mine my ships are ready and
 my people did expect my hence departure
 two days ago this jealousy
 is for a precious creature as she's rare
 must it be great and as his person's mighty
 must it be violent and as he does conceive
 he is dishonour'd by a man which ever
 profess'd to him why his revenges must
 in that be made more bitter fear o'ershades me
 good expedition be my friend and comfort
 the gracious queen part of his theme but nothing
 of his illta'en suspicion come camillo
 i will respect thee as a father if
 thou bear'st my life off hence let us avoid
camillo it is in mine authority to command
 the keys of all the posterns please your highness
 to take the urgent hour come sir away
 exeunt
 the winter's tale
act ii
scene i a room in leontes palace
 enter hermione mamillius and ladies
hermione take the boy to you he so troubles me
 tis past enduring
first lady come my gracious lord
 shall i be your playfellow
mamillius no i'll none of you
first lady why my sweet lord
mamillius you'll kiss me hard and speak to me as if
 i were a baby still i love you better
second lady and why so my lord
mamillius not for because
 your brows are blacker yet black brows they say
 become some women best so that there be not
 too much hair there but in a semicircle
 or a halfmoon made with a pen
second lady who taught you this
mamillius i learnt it out of women's faces pray now
 what colour are your eyebrows
first lady blue my lord
mamillius nay that's a mock i have seen a lady's nose
 that has been blue but not her eyebrows
first lady hark ye
 the queen your mother rounds apace we shall
 present our services to a fine new prince
 one of these days and then you'ld wanton with us
 if we would have you
second lady she is spread of late
 into a goodly bulk good time encounter her
hermione what wisdom stirs amongst you come sir now
 i am for you again pray you sit by us
 and tell s a tale
mamillius merry or sad shall't be
hermione as merry as you will
mamillius a sad tale's best for winter i have one
 of sprites and goblins
hermione let's have that good sir
 come on sit down come on and do your best
 to fright me with your sprites you're powerful at it
mamillius there was a man
hermione nay come sit down then on
mamillius dwelt by a churchyard i will tell it softly
 yond crickets shall not hear it
hermione come on then
 and give't me in mine ear
 enter leontes with antigonus lords and others
leontes was he met there his train camillo with him
first lord behind the tuft of pines i met them never
 saw i men scour so on their way i eyed them
 even to their ships
leontes how blest am i
 in my just censure in my true opinion
 alack for lesser knowledge how accursed
 in being so blest there may be in the cup
 a spider steep'd and one may drink depart
 and yet partake no venom for his knowledge
 is not infected but if one present
 the abhorr'd ingredient to his eye make known
 how he hath drunk he cracks his gorge his sides
 with violent hefts i have drunk
 and seen the spider
 camillo was his help in this his pander
 there is a plot against my life my crown
 all's true that is mistrusted that false villain
 whom i employ'd was preemploy'd by him
 he has discover'd my design and i
 remain a pinch'd thing yea a very trick
 for them to play at will how came the posterns
 so easily open
first lord by his great authority
 which often hath no less prevail'd than so
 on your command
leontes i know't too well
 give me the boy i am glad you did not nurse him
 though he does bear some signs of me yet you
 have too much blood in him
hermione what is this sport
leontes bear the boy hence he shall not come about her
 away with him and let her sport herself
 with that she's big with for tis polixenes
 has made thee swell thus
hermione but i'ld say he had not
 and i'll be sworn you would believe my saying
 howe'er you lean to the nayward
leontes you my lords
 look on her mark her well be but about
 to say she is a goodly lady and
 the justice of your bearts will thereto add
 tis pity she's not honest honourable'
 praise her but for this her withoutdoor form
 which on my faith deserves high speech and straight
 the shrug the hum or ha these petty brands
 that calumny doth useo i am out
 that mercy does for calumny will sear
 virtue itself these shrugs these hums and ha's
 when you have said she's goodly come between
 ere you can say she's honest but be t known
 from him that has most cause to grieve it should be
 she's an adulteress
hermione should a villain say so
 the most replenish'd villain in the world
 he were as much more villain you my lord
 do but mistake
leontes you have mistook my lady
 polixenes for leontes o thou thing
 which i'll not call a creature of thy place
 lest barbarism making me the precedent
 should a like language use to all degrees
 and mannerly distinguishment leave out
 betwixt the prince and beggar i have said
 she's an adulteress i have said with whom
 more she's a traitor and camillo is
 a federary with her and one that knows
 what she should shame to know herself
 but with her most vile principal that she's
 a bedswerver even as bad as those
 that vulgars give bold'st titles ay and privy
 to this their late escape
hermione no by my life
 privy to none of this how will this grieve you
 when you shall come to clearer knowledge that
 you thus have publish'd me gentle my lord
 you scarce can right me throughly then to say
 you did mistake
leontes no if i mistake
 in those foundations which i build upon
 the centre is not big enough to bear
 a schoolboy's top away with her to prison
 he who shall speak for her is afar off guilty
 but that he speaks
hermione there's some ill planet reigns
 i must be patient till the heavens look
 with an aspect more favourable good my lords
 i am not prone to weeping as our sex
 commonly are the want of which vain dew
 perchance shall dry your pities but i have
 that honourable grief lodged here which burns
 worse than tears drown beseech you all my lords
 with thoughts so qualified as your charities
 shall best instruct you measure me and so
 the king's will be perform'd
leontes shall i be heard
hermione who is't that goes with me beseech your highness
 my women may be with me for you see
 my plight requires it do not weep good fools
 there is no cause when you shall know your mistress
 has deserved prison then abound in tears
 as i come out this action i now go on
 is for my better grace adieu my lord
 i never wish'd to see you sorry now
 i trust i shall my women come you have leave
leontes go do our bidding hence
 exit hermione guarded with ladies
first lord beseech your highness call the queen again
antigonus be certain what you do sir lest your justice
 prove violence in the which three great ones suffer
 yourself your queen your son
first lord for her my lord
 i dare my life lay down and will do't sir
 please you to accept it that the queen is spotless
 i the eyes of heaven and to you i mean
 in this which you accuse her
antigonus if it prove
 she's otherwise i'll keep my stables where
 i lodge my wife i'll go in couples with her
 than when i feel and see her no farther trust her
 for every inch of woman in the world
 ay every dram of woman's flesh is false if she be
leontes hold your peaces
first lord good my lord
antigonus it is for you we speak not for ourselves
 you are abused and by some putteron
 that will be damn'd for't would i knew the villain
 i would landdamn him be she honourflaw'd
 i have three daughters the eldest is eleven
 the second and the third nine and some five
 if this prove true they'll pay for't
 by mine honour
 i'll geld em all fourteen they shall not see
 to bring false generations they are coheirs
 and i had rather glib myself than they
 should not produce fair issue
leontes cease no more
 you smell this business with a sense as cold
 as is a dead man's nose but i do see't and feel't
 as you feel doing thus and see withal
 the instruments that feel
antigonus if it be so
 we need no grave to bury honesty
 there's not a grain of it the face to sweeten
 of the whole dungy earth
leontes what lack i credit
first lord i had rather you did lack than i my lord
 upon this ground and more it would content me
 to have her honour true than your suspicion
 be blamed for't how you might
leontes why what need we
 commune with you of this but rather follow
 our forceful instigation our prerogative
 calls not your counsels but our natural goodness
 imparts this which if you or stupefied
 or seeming so in skill cannot or will not
 relish a truth like us inform yourselves
 we need no more of your advice the matter
 the loss the gain the ordering on't is all
 properly ours
antigonus and i wish my liege
 you had only in your silent judgment tried it
 without more overture
leontes how could that be
 either thou art most ignorant by age
 or thou wert born a fool camillo's flight
 added to their familiarity
 which was as gross as ever touch'd conjecture
 that lack'd sight only nought for approbation
 but only seeing all other circumstances
 made up to the deed doth push on this proceeding
 yet for a greater confirmation
 for in an act of this importance twere
 most piteous to be wild i have dispatch'd in post
 to sacred delphos to apollo's temple
 cleomenes and dion whom you know
 of stuff'd sufficiency now from the oracle
 they will bring all whose spiritual counsel had
 shall stop or spur me have i done well
first lord well done my lord
leontes though i am satisfied and need no more
 than what i know yet shall the oracle
 give rest to the minds of others such as he
 whose ignorant credulity will not
 come up to the truth so have we thought it good
 from our free person she should be confined
 lest that the treachery of the two fled hence
 be left her to perform come follow us
 we are to speak in public for this business
 will raise us all
antigonus aside
 to laughter as i take it
 if the good truth were known
 exeunt
 the winter's tale
act ii
scene ii a prison
 enter paulina a gentleman and attendants
paulina the keeper of the prison call to him
 let him have knowledge who i am
 exit gentleman
 good lady
 no court in europe is too good for thee
 what dost thou then in prison
 reenter gentleman with the gaoler
 now good sir
 you know me do you not
gaoler for a worthy lady
 and one whom much i honour
paulina pray you then
 conduct me to the queen
gaoler i may not madam
 to the contrary i have express commandment
paulina here's ado
 to lock up honesty and honour from
 the access of gentle visitors
 is't lawful pray you
 to see her women any of them emilia
gaoler so please you madam
 to put apart these your attendants i
 shall bring emilia forth
paulina i pray now call her
 withdraw yourselves
 exeunt gentleman and attendants
gaoler and madam
 i must be present at your conference
paulina well be't so prithee
 exit gaoler
 here's such ado to make no stain a stain
 as passes colouring
 reenter gaoler with emilia
 dear gentlewoman
 how fares our gracious lady
emilia as well as one so great and so forlorn
 may hold together on her frights and griefs
 which never tender lady hath born greater
 she is something before her time deliver'd
paulina a boy
emilia a daughter and a goodly babe
 lusty and like to live the queen receives
 much comfort in't says my poor prisoner
 i am innocent as you'
paulina i dare be sworn
 these dangerous unsafe lunes i the king
 beshrew them
 he must be told on't and he shall the office
 becomes a woman best i'll take't upon me
 if i prove honeymouth'd let my tongue blister
 and never to my redlook'd anger be
 the trumpet any more pray you emilia
 commend my best obedience to the queen
 if she dares trust me with her little babe
 i'll show't the king and undertake to be
 her advocate to the loud'st we do not know
 how he may soften at the sight o the child
 the silence often of pure innocence
 persuades when speaking fails
emilia most worthy madam
 your honour and your goodness is so evident
 that your free undertaking cannot miss
 a thriving issue there is no lady living
 so meet for this great errand please your ladyship
 to visit the next room i'll presently
 acquaint the queen of your most noble offer
 who but today hammer'd of this design
 but durst not tempt a minister of honour
 lest she should be denied
paulina tell her emilia
 i'll use that tongue i have if wit flow from't
 as boldness from my bosom let t not be doubted
 i shall do good
emilia now be you blest for it
 i'll to the queen please you
 come something nearer
gaoler madam if't please the queen to send the babe
 i know not what i shall incur to pass it
 having no warrant
paulina you need not fear it sir
 this child was prisoner to the womb and is
 by law and process of great nature thence
 freed and enfranchised not a party to
 the anger of the king nor guilty of
 if any be the trespass of the queen
gaoler i do believe it
paulina do not you fear upon mine honour
 i will stand betwixt you and danger
 exeunt
 the winter's tale
act ii
scene iii a room in leontes palace
 enter leontes antigonus lords and servants
leontes nor night nor day no rest it is but weakness
 to bear the matter thus mere weakness if
 the cause were not in beingpart o the cause
 she the adulteress for the harlot king
 is quite beyond mine arm out of the blank
 and level of my brain plotproof but she
 i can hook to me say that she were gone
 given to the fire a moiety of my rest
 might come to me again who's there
first servant my lord
leontes how does the boy
first servant he took good rest tonight
 tis hoped his sickness is discharged
leontes to see his nobleness
 conceiving the dishonour of his mother
 he straight declined droop'd took it deeply
 fasten'd and fix'd the shame on't in himself
 threw off his spirit his appetite his sleep
 and downright languish'd leave me solely go
 see how he fares
 exit servant
 fie fie no thought of him
 the thought of my revenges that way
 recoil upon me in himself too mighty
 and in his parties his alliance let him be
 until a time may serve for present vengeance
 take it on her camillo and polixenes
 laugh at me make their pastime at my sorrow
 they should not laugh if i could reach them nor
 shall she within my power
 enter paulina with a child
first lord you must not enter
paulina nay rather good my lords be second to me
 fear you his tyrannous passion more alas
 than the queen's life a gracious innocent soul
 more free than he is jealous
antigonus that's enough
second servant madam he hath not slept tonight commanded
 none should come at him
paulina not so hot good sir
 i come to bring him sleep tis such as you
 that creep like shadows by him and do sigh
 at each his needless heavings such as you
 nourish the cause of his awaking i
 do come with words as medicinal as true
 honest as either to purge him of that humour
 that presses him from sleep
leontes what noise there ho
paulina no noise my lord but needful conference
 about some gossips for your highness
leontes how
 away with that audacious lady antigonus
 i charged thee that she should not come about me
 i knew she would
antigonus i told her so my lord
 on your displeasure's peril and on mine
 she should not visit you
leontes what canst not rule her
paulina from all dishonesty he can in this
 unless he take the course that you have done
 commit me for committing honour trust it
 he shall not rule me
antigonus la you now you hear
 when she will take the rein i let her run
 but she'll not stumble
paulina good my liege i come
 and i beseech you hear me who profess
 myself your loyal servant your physician
 your most obedient counsellor yet that dare
 less appear so in comforting your evils
 than such as most seem yours i say i come
 from your good queen
leontes good queen
paulina good queen my lord
 good queen i say good queen
 and would by combat make her good so were i
 a man the worst about you
leontes force her hence
paulina let him that makes but trifles of his eyes
 first hand me on mine own accord i'll off
 but first i'll do my errand the good queen
 for she is good hath brought you forth a daughter
 here tis commends it to your blessing
 laying down the child
leontes out
 a mankind witch hence with her out o door
 a most intelligencing bawd
paulina not so
 i am as ignorant in that as you
 in so entitling me and no less honest
 than you are mad which is enough i'll warrant
 as this world goes to pass for honest
leontes traitors
 will you not push her out give her the bastard
 thou dotard thou art womantired unroosted
 by thy dame partlet here take up the bastard
 take't up i say give't to thy crone
paulina for ever
 unvenerable be thy hands if thou
 takest up the princess by that forced baseness
 which he has put upon't
leontes he dreads his wife
paulina so i would you did then twere past all doubt
 you'ld call your children yours
leontes a nest of traitors
antigonus i am none by this good light
paulina nor i nor any
 but one that's here and that's himself for he
 the sacred honour of himself his queen's
 his hopeful son's his babe's betrays to slander
 whose sting is sharper than the sword's
 and will not
 for as the case now stands it is a curse
 he cannot be compell'd to'tonce remove
 the root of his opinion which is rotten
 as ever oak or stone was sound
leontes a callat
 of boundless tongue who late hath beat her husband
 and now baits me this brat is none of mine
 it is the issue of polixenes
 hence with it and together with the dam
 commit them to the fire
paulina it is yours
 and might we lay the old proverb to your charge
 so like you tis the worse behold my lords
 although the print be little the whole matter
 and copy of the father eye nose lip
 the trick of's frown his forehead nay the valley
 the pretty dimples of his chin and cheek
 his smiles
 the very mould and frame of hand nail finger
 and thou good goddess nature which hast made it
 so like to him that got it if thou hast
 the ordering of the mind too mongst all colours
 no yellow in't lest she suspect as he does
 her children not her husband's
leontes a gross hag
 and lozel thou art worthy to be hang'd
 that wilt not stay her tongue
antigonus hang all the husbands
 that cannot do that feat you'll leave yourself
 hardly one subject
leontes once more take her hence
paulina a most unworthy and unnatural lord
 can do no more
leontes i'll ha thee burnt
paulina i care not
 it is an heretic that makes the fire
 not she which burns in't i'll not call you tyrant
 but this most cruel usage of your queen
 not able to produce more accusation
 than your own weakhinged fancy something savours
 of tyranny and will ignoble make you
 yea scandalous to the world
leontes on your allegiance
 out of the chamber with her were i a tyrant
 where were her life she durst not call me so
 if she did know me one away with her
paulina i pray you do not push me i'll be gone
 look to your babe my lord tis yours
 jove send her
 a better guiding spirit what needs these hands
 you that are thus so tender o'er his follies
 will never do him good not one of you
 so so farewell we are gone
 exit
leontes thou traitor hast set on thy wife to this
 my child away with't even thou that hast
 a heart so tender o'er it take it hence
 and see it instantly consumed with fire
 even thou and none but thou take it up straight
 within this hour bring me word tis done
 and by good testimony or i'll seize thy life
 with what thou else call'st thine if thou refuse
 and wilt encounter with my wrath say so
 the bastard brains with these my proper hands
 shall i dash out go take it to the fire
 for thou set'st on thy wife
antigonus i did not sir
 these lords my noble fellows if they please
 can clear me in't
lords we can my royal liege
 he is not guilty of her coming hither
leontes you're liars all
first lord beseech your highness give us better credit
 we have always truly served you and beseech you
 so to esteem of us and on our knees we beg
 as recompense of our dear services
 past and to come that you do change this purpose
 which being so horrible so bloody must
 lead on to some foul issue we all kneel
leontes i am a feather for each wind that blows
 shall i live on to see this bastard kneel
 and call me father better burn it now
 than curse it then but be it let it live
 it shall not neither you sir come you hither
 you that have been so tenderly officious
 with lady margery your midwife there
 to save this bastard's lifefor tis a bastard
 so sure as this beard's grey
 what will you adventure
 to save this brat's life
antigonus any thing my lord
 that my ability may undergo
 and nobleness impose at least thus much
 i'll pawn the little blood which i have left
 to save the innocent any thing possible
leontes it shall be possible swear by this sword
 thou wilt perform my bidding
antigonus i will my lord
leontes mark and perform it see'st thou for the fail
 of any point in't shall not only be
 death to thyself but to thy lewdtongued wife
 whom for this time we pardon we enjoin thee
 as thou art liegeman to us that thou carry
 this female bastard hence and that thou bear it
 to some remote and desert place quite out
 of our dominions and that there thou leave it
 without more mercy to its own protection
 and favour of the climate as by strange fortune
 it came to us i do in justice charge thee
 on thy soul's peril and thy body's torture
 that thou commend it strangely to some place
 where chance may nurse or end it take it up
antigonus i swear to do this though a present death
 had been more merciful come on poor babe
 some powerful spirit instruct the kites and ravens
 to be thy nurses wolves and bears they say
 casting their savageness aside have done
 like offices of pity sir be prosperous
 in more than this deed does require and blessing
 against this cruelty fight on thy side
 poor thing condemn'd to loss
 exit with the child
leontes no i'll not rear
 another's issue
 enter a servant
servant please your highness posts
 from those you sent to the oracle are come
 an hour since cleomenes and dion
 being well arrived from delphos are both landed
 hasting to the court
first lord so please you sir their speed
 hath been beyond account
leontes twentythree days
 they have been absent tis good speed foretells
 the great apollo suddenly will have
 the truth of this appear prepare you lords
 summon a session that we may arraign
 our most disloyal lady for as she hath
 been publicly accused so shall she have
 a just and open trial while she lives
 my heart will be a burthen to me leave me
 and think upon my bidding
 exeunt
 the winter's tale
act iii
scene i a seaport in sicilia
 enter cleomenes and dion
cleomenes the climate's delicate the air most sweet
 fertile the isle the temple much surpassing
 the common praise it bears
dion i shall report
 for most it caught me the celestial habits
 methinks i so should term them and the reverence
 of the grave wearers o the sacrifice
 how ceremonious solemn and unearthly
 it was i the offering
cleomenes but of all the burst
 and the eardeafening voice o the oracle
 kin to jove's thunder so surprised my sense
 that i was nothing
dion if the event o the journey
 prove as successful to the queeno be't so
 as it hath been to us rare pleasant speedy
 the time is worth the use on't
cleomenes great apollo
 turn all to the best these proclamations
 so forcing faults upon hermione
 i little like
dion the violent carriage of it
 will clear or end the business when the oracle
 thus by apollo's great divine seal'd up
 shall the contents discover something rare
 even then will rush to knowledge go fresh horses
 and gracious be the issue
 exeunt
 the winter's tale
act iii
scene ii a court of justice
 enter leontes lords and officers
leontes this sessions to our great grief we pronounce
 even pushes gainst our heart the party tried
 the daughter of a king our wife and one
 of us too much beloved let us be clear'd
 of being tyrannous since we so openly
 proceed in justice which shall have due course
 even to the guilt or the purgation
 produce the prisoner
officer it is his highness pleasure that the queen
 appear in person here in court silence
 enter hermione guarded
 paulina and ladies attending
leontes read the indictment
officer reads hermione queen to the worthy
 leontes king of sicilia thou art here accused and
 arraigned of high treason in committing adultery
 with polixenes king of bohemia and conspiring
 with camillo to take away the life of our sovereign
 lord the king thy royal husband the pretence
 whereof being by circumstances partly laid open
 thou hermione contrary to the faith and allegiance
 of a true subject didst counsel and aid them for
 their better safety to fly away by night
hermione since what i am to say must be but that
 which contradicts my accusation and
 the testimony on my part no other
 but what comes from myself it shall scarce boot me
 to say not guilty mine integrity
 being counted falsehood shall as i express it
 be so received but thus if powers divine
 behold our human actions as they do
 i doubt not then but innocence shall make
 false accusation blush and tyranny
 tremble at patience you my lord best know
 who least will seem to do so my past life
 hath been as continent as chaste as true
 as i am now unhappy which is more
 than history can pattern though devised
 and play'd to take spectators for behold me
 a fellow of the royal bed which owe
 a moiety of the throne a great king's daughter
 the mother to a hopeful prince here standing
 to prate and talk for life and honour fore
 who please to come and hear for life i prize it
 as i weigh grief which i would spare for honour
 tis a derivative from me to mine
 and only that i stand for i appeal
 to your own conscience sir before polixenes
 came to your court how i was in your grace
 how merited to be so since he came
 with what encounter so uncurrent i
 have strain'd to appear thus if one jot beyond
 the bound of honour or in act or will
 that way inclining harden'd be the hearts
 of all that hear me and my near'st of kin
 cry fie upon my grave
leontes i ne'er heard yet
 that any of these bolder vices wanted
 less impudence to gainsay what they did
 than to perform it first
hermione that's true enough
 through tis a saying sir not due to me
leontes you will not own it
hermione more than mistress of
 which comes to me in name of fault i must not
 at all acknowledge for polixenes
 with whom i am accused i do confess
 i loved him as in honour he required
 with such a kind of love as might become
 a lady like me with a love even such
 so and no other as yourself commanded
 which not to have done i think had been in me
 both disobedience and ingratitude
 to you and toward your friend whose love had spoke
 even since it could speak from an infant freely
 that it was yours now for conspiracy
 i know not how it tastes though it be dish'd
 for me to try how all i know of it
 is that camillo was an honest man
 and why he left your court the gods themselves
 wotting no more than i are ignorant
leontes you knew of his departure as you know
 what you have underta'en to do in's absence
hermione sir
 you speak a language that i understand not
 my life stands in the level of your dreams
 which i'll lay down
leontes your actions are my dreams
 you had a bastard by polixenes
 and i but dream'd it as you were past all shame
 those of your fact are soso past all truth
 which to deny concerns more than avails for as
 thy brat hath been cast out like to itself
 no father owning itwhich is indeed
 more criminal in thee than itso thou
 shalt feel our justice in whose easiest passage
 look for no less than death
hermione sir spare your threats
 the bug which you would fright me with i seek
 to me can life be no commodity
 the crown and comfort of my life your favour
 i do give lost for i do feel it gone
 but know not how it went my second joy
 and firstfruits of my body from his presence
 i am barr'd like one infectious my third comfort
 starr'd most unluckily is from my breast
 the innocent milk in its most innocent mouth
 haled out to murder myself on every post
 proclaimed a strumpet with immodest hatred
 the childbed privilege denied which longs
 to women of all fashion lastly hurried
 here to this place i the open air before
 i have got strength of limit now my liege
 tell me what blessings i have here alive
 that i should fear to die therefore proceed
 but yet hear this mistake me not no life
 i prize it not a straw but for mine honour
 which i would free if i shall be condemn'd
 upon surmises all proofs sleeping else
 but what your jealousies awake i tell you
 tis rigor and not law your honours all
 i do refer me to the oracle
 apollo be my judge
first lord this your request
 is altogether just therefore bring forth
 and in apollos name his oracle
 exeunt certain officers
hermione the emperor of russia was my father
 o that he were alive and here beholding
 his daughter's trial that he did but see
 the flatness of my misery yet with eyes
 of pity not revenge
 reenter officers with cleomenes and dion
officer you here shall swear upon this sword of justice
 that you cleomenes and dion have
 been both at delphos and from thence have brought
 the seal'dup oracle by the hand deliver'd
 of great apollo's priest and that since then
 you have not dared to break the holy seal
 nor read the secrets in't
cleomenes 
 all this we swear
dion 
leontes break up the seals and read
officer reads hermione is chaste
 polixenes blameless camillo a true subject leontes
 a jealous tyrant his innocent babe truly begotten
 and the king shall live without an heir if that
 which is lost be not found
lords now blessed be the great apollo
hermione praised
leontes hast thou read truth
officer ay my lord even so
 as it is here set down
leontes there is no truth at all i the oracle
 the sessions shall proceed this is mere falsehood
 enter servant
servant my lord the king the king
leontes what is the business
servant o sir i shall be hated to report it
 the prince your son with mere conceit and fear
 of the queen's speed is gone
leontes how gone
servant is dead
leontes apollo's angry and the heavens themselves
 do strike at my injustice
 hermione swoons
 how now there
paulina this news is mortal to the queen look down
 and see what death is doing
leontes take her hence
 her heart is but o'ercharged she will recover
 i have too much believed mine own suspicion
 beseech you tenderly apply to her
 some remedies for life
 exeunt paulina and ladies with hermione
 apollo pardon
 my great profaneness gainst thine oracle
 i'll reconcile me to polixenes
 new woo my queen recall the good camillo
 whom i proclaim a man of truth of mercy
 for being transported by my jealousies
 to bloody thoughts and to revenge i chose
 camillo for the minister to poison
 my friend polixenes which had been done
 but that the good mind of camillo tardied
 my swift command though i with death and with
 reward did threaten and encourage him
 not doing t and being done he most humane
 and fill'd with honour to my kingly guest
 unclasp'd my practise quit his fortunes here
 which you knew great and to the hazard
 of all encertainties himself commended
 no richer than his honour how he glisters
 thorough my rust and how his pity
 does my deeds make the blacker
 reenter paulina
paulina woe the while
 o cut my lace lest my heart cracking it
 break too
first lord what fit is this good lady
paulina what studied torments tyrant hast for me
 what wheels racks fires what flaying boiling
 in leads or oils what old or newer torture
 must i receive whose every word deserves
 to taste of thy most worst thy tyranny
 together working with thy jealousies
 fancies too weak for boys too green and idle
 for girls of nine o think what they have done
 and then run mad indeed stark mad for all
 thy bygone fooleries were but spices of it
 that thou betray'dst polixenes'twas nothing
 that did but show thee of a fool inconstant
 and damnable ingrateful nor was't much
 thou wouldst have poison'd good camillo's honour
 to have him kill a king poor trespasses
 more monstrous standing by whereof i reckon
 the casting forth to crows thy babydaughter
 to be or none or little though a devil
 would have shed water out of fire ere done't
 nor is't directly laid to thee the death
 of the young prince whose honourable thoughts
 thoughts high for one so tender cleft the heart
 that could conceive a gross and foolish sire
 blemish'd his gracious dam this is not no
 laid to thy answer but the lasto lords
 when i have said cry woe the queen the queen
 the sweet'st dear'st creature's dead
 and vengeance for't
 not dropp'd down yet
first lord the higher powers forbid
paulina i say she's dead i'll swear't if word nor oath
 prevail not go and see if you can bring
 tincture or lustre in her lip her eye
 heat outwardly or breath within i'll serve you
 as i would do the gods but o thou tyrant
 do not repent these things for they are heavier
 than all thy woes can stir therefore betake thee
 to nothing but despair a thousand knees
 ten thousand years together naked fasting
 upon a barren mountain and still winter
 in storm perpetual could not move the gods
 to look that way thou wert
leontes go on go on
 thou canst not speak too much i have deserved
 all tongues to talk their bitterest
first lord say no more
 howe'er the business goes you have made fault
 i the boldness of your speech
paulina i am sorry for't
 all faults i make when i shall come to know them
 i do repent alas i have show'd too much
 the rashness of a woman he is touch'd
 to the noble heart what's gone and what's past help
 should be past grief do not receive affliction
 at my petition i beseech you rather
 let me be punish'd that have minded you
 of what you should forget now good my liege
 sir royal sir forgive a foolish woman
 the love i bore your queenlo fool again
 i'll speak of her no more nor of your children
 i'll not remember you of my own lord
 who is lost too take your patience to you
 and i'll say nothing
leontes thou didst speak but well
 when most the truth which i receive much better
 than to be pitied of thee prithee bring me
 to the dead bodies of my queen and son
 one grave shall be for both upon them shall
 the causes of their death appear unto
 our shame perpetual once a day i'll visit
 the chapel where they lie and tears shed there
 shall be my recreation so long as nature
 will bear up with this exercise so long
 i daily vow to use it come and lead me
 unto these sorrows
 exeunt
 the winter's tale
act iii
scene iii bohemia a desert country near the sea
 enter antigonus with a child and a mariner
antigonus thou art perfect then our ship hath touch'd upon
 the deserts of bohemia
mariner ay my lord and fear
 we have landed in ill time the skies look grimly
 and threaten present blusters in my conscience
 the heavens with that we have in hand are angry
 and frown upon s
antigonus their sacred wills be done go get aboard
 look to thy bark i'll not be long before
 i call upon thee
mariner make your best haste and go not
 too far i the land tis like to be loud weather
 besides this place is famous for the creatures
 of prey that keep upon't
antigonus go thou away
 i'll follow instantly
mariner i am glad at heart
 to be so rid o the business
 exit
antigonus come poor babe
 i have heard but not believed
 the spirits o the dead
 may walk again if such thing be thy mother
 appear'd to me last night for ne'er was dream
 so like a waking to me comes a creature
 sometimes her head on one side some another
 i never saw a vessel of like sorrow
 so fill'd and so becoming in pure white robes
 like very sanctity she did approach
 my cabin where i lay thrice bow'd before me
 and gasping to begin some speech her eyes
 became two spouts the fury spent anon
 did this breakfrom her good antigonus
 since fate against thy better disposition
 hath made thy person for the throwerout
 of my poor babe according to thine oath
 places remote enough are in bohemia
 there weep and leave it crying and for the babe
 is counted lost for ever perdita
 i prithee call't for this ungentle business
 put on thee by my lord thou ne'er shalt see
 thy wife paulina more and so with shrieks
 she melted into air affrighted much
 i did in time collect myself and thought
 this was so and no slumber dreams are toys
 yet for this once yea superstitiously
 i will be squared by this i do believe
 hermione hath suffer'd death and that
 apollo would this being indeed the issue
 of king polixenes it should here be laid
 either for life or death upon the earth
 of its right father blossom speed thee well
 there lie and there thy character there these
 which may if fortune please both breed thee pretty
 and still rest thine the storm begins poor wretch
 that for thy mother's fault art thus exposed
 to loss and what may follow weep i cannot
 but my heart bleeds and most accursed am i
 to be by oath enjoin'd to this farewell
 the day frowns more and more thou'rt like to have
 a lullaby too rough i never saw
 the heavens so dim by day a savage clamour
 well may i get aboard this is the chase
 i am gone for ever
 exit pursued by a bear
 enter a shepherd
shepherd i would there were no age between sixteen and
 threeandtwenty or that youth would sleep out the
 rest for there is nothing in the between but
 getting wenches with child wronging the ancientry
 stealing fightinghark you now would any but
 these boiled brains of nineteen and twoandtwenty
 hunt this weather they have scared away two of my
 best sheep which i fear the wolf will sooner find
 than the master if any where i have them tis by
 the seaside browsing of ivy good luck an't be thy
 will what have we here mercy on s a barne a very
 pretty barne a boy or a child i wonder a
 pretty one a very pretty one sure some scape
 though i am not bookish yet i can read
 waitinggentlewoman in the scape this has been
 some stairwork some trunkwork some
 behinddoorwork they were warmer that got this
 than the poor thing is here i'll take it up for
 pity yet i'll tarry till my son come he hallooed
 but even now whoa ho hoa
 enter clown
clown hilloa loa
shepherd what art so near if thou'lt see a thing to talk
 on when thou art dead and rotten come hither what
 ailest thou man
clown i have seen two such sights by sea and by land
 but i am not to say it is a sea for it is now the
 sky betwixt the firmament and it you cannot thrust
 a bodkin's point
shepherd why boy how is it
clown i would you did but see how it chafes how it rages
 how it takes up the shore but that's not the
 point o the most piteous cry of the poor souls
 sometimes to see em and not to see em now the
 ship boring the moon with her mainmast and anon
 swallowed with yest and froth as you'ld thrust a
 cork into a hogshead and then for the
 landservice to see how the bear tore out his
 shoulderbone how he cried to me for help and said
 his name was antigonus a nobleman but to make an
 end of the ship to see how the sea flapdragoned
 it but first how the poor souls roared and the
 sea mocked them and how the poor gentleman roared
 and the bear mocked him both roaring louder than
 the sea or weather
shepherd name of mercy when was this boy
clown now now i have not winked since i saw these
 sights the men are not yet cold under water nor
 the bear half dined on the gentleman he's at it
 now
shepherd would i had been by to have helped the old man
clown i would you had been by the ship side to have
 helped her there your charity would have lacked footing
shepherd heavy matters heavy matters but look thee here
 boy now bless thyself thou mettest with things
 dying i with things newborn here's a sight for
 thee look thee a bearingcloth for a squire's
 child look thee here take up take up boy
 open't so let's see it was told me i should be
 rich by the fairies this is some changeling
 open't what's within boy
clown you're a made old man if the sins of your youth
 are forgiven you you're well to live gold all gold
shepherd this is fairy gold boy and twill prove so up
 with't keep it close home home the next way
 we are lucky boy and to be so still requires
 nothing but secrecy let my sheep go come good
 boy the next way home
clown go you the next way with your findings i'll go see
 if the bear be gone from the gentleman and how much
 he hath eaten they are never curst but when they
 are hungry if there be any of him left i'll bury
 it
shepherd that's a good deed if thou mayest discern by that
 which is left of him what he is fetch me to the
 sight of him
clown marry will i and you shall help to put him i the ground
shepherd tis a lucky day boy and we'll do good deeds on't
 exeunt
 the winter's tale
act iv
scene i
 enter time the chorus
time i that please some try all both joy and terror
 of good and bad that makes and unfolds error
 now take upon me in the name of time
 to use my wings impute it not a crime
 to me or my swift passage that i slide
 o'er sixteen years and leave the growth untried
 of that wide gap since it is in my power
 to o'erthrow law and in one selfborn hour
 to plant and o'erwhelm custom let me pass
 the same i am ere ancient'st order was
 or what is now received i witness to
 the times that brought them in so shall i do
 to the freshest things now reigning and make stale
 the glistering of this present as my tale
 now seems to it your patience this allowing
 i turn my glass and give my scene such growing
 as you had slept between leontes leaving
 the effects of his fond jealousies so grieving
 that he shuts up himself imagine me
 gentle spectators that i now may be
 in fair bohemia and remember well
 i mentioned a son o the king's which florizel
 i now name to you and with speed so pace
 to speak of perdita now grown in grace
 equal with wondering what of her ensues
 i list not prophecy but let time's news
 be known when tis brought forth
 a shepherd's daughter
 and what to her adheres which follows after
 is the argument of time of this allow
 if ever you have spent time worse ere now
 if never yet that time himself doth say
 he wishes earnestly you never may
 exit
 the winter's tale
act iv
scene ii bohemia the palace of polixenes
 enter polixenes and camillo
polixenes i pray thee good camillo be no more importunate
 tis a sickness denying thee any thing a death to
 grant this
camillo it is fifteen years since i saw my country though
 i have for the most part been aired abroad i
 desire to lay my bones there besides the penitent
 king my master hath sent for me to whose feeling
 sorrows i might be some allay or i o'erween to
 think so which is another spur to my departure
polixenes as thou lovest me camillo wipe not out the rest of
 thy services by leaving me now the need i have of
 thee thine own goodness hath made better not to
 have had thee than thus to want thee thou having
 made me businesses which none without thee can
 sufficiently manage must either stay to execute
 them thyself or take away with thee the very
 services thou hast done which if i have not enough
 considered as too much i cannot to be more
 thankful to thee shall be my study and my profit
 therein the heaping friendships of that fatal
 country sicilia prithee speak no more whose very
 naming punishes me with the remembrance of that
 penitent as thou callest him and reconciled king
 my brother whose loss of his most precious queen
 and children are even now to be afresh lamented
 say to me when sawest thou the prince florizel my
 son kings are no less unhappy their issue not
 being gracious than they are in losing them when
 they have approved their virtues
camillo sir it is three days since i saw the prince what
 his happier affairs may be are to me unknown but i
 have missingly noted he is of late much retired
 from court and is less frequent to his princely
 exercises than formerly he hath appeared
polixenes i have considered so much camillo and with some
 care so far that i have eyes under my service which
 look upon his removedness from whom i have this
 intelligence that he is seldom from the house of a
 most homely shepherd a man they say that from
 very nothing and beyond the imagination of his
 neighbours is grown into an unspeakable estate
camillo i have heard sir of such a man who hath a
 daughter of most rare note the report of her is
 extended more than can be thought to begin from such a cottage
polixenes that's likewise part of my intelligence but i
 fear the angle that plucks our son thither thou
 shalt accompany us to the place where we will not
 appearing what we are have some question with the
 shepherd from whose simplicity i think it not
 uneasy to get the cause of my son's resort thither
 prithee be my present partner in this business and
 lay aside the thoughts of sicilia
camillo i willingly obey your command
polixenes my best camillo we must disguise ourselves
 exeunt
 the winter's tale
act iv
scene iii a road near the shepherd's cottage
 enter autolycus singing
autolycus when daffodils begin to peer
 with heigh the doxy over the dale
 why then comes in the sweet o the year
 for the red blood reigns in the winter's pale
 the white sheet bleaching on the hedge
 with heigh the sweet birds o how they sing
 doth set my pugging tooth on edge
 for a quart of ale is a dish for a king
 the lark that tirralyra chants
 with heigh with heigh the thrush and the jay
 are summer songs for me and my aunts
 while we lie tumbling in the hay
 i have served prince florizel and in my time
 wore threepile but now i am out of service
 but shall i go mourn for that my dear
 the pale moon shines by night
 and when i wander here and there
 i then do most go right
 if tinkers may have leave to live
 and bear the sowskin budget
 then my account i well may give
 and in the stocks avouch it
 my traffic is sheets when the kite builds look to
 lesser linen my father named me autolycus who
 being as i am littered under mercury was likewise
 a snapperup of unconsidered trifles with die and
 drab i purchased this caparison and my revenue is
 the silly cheat gallows and knock are too powerful
 on the highway beating and hanging are terrors to
 me for the life to come i sleep out the thought
 of it a prize a prize
 enter clown
clown let me see every leven wether tods every tod
 yields pound and odd shilling fifteen hundred
 shorn what comes the wool to
autolycus aside
 if the springe hold the cock's mine
clown i cannot do't without counters let me see what am
 i to buy for our sheepshearing feast three pound
 of sugar five pound of currants ricewhat will
 this sister of mine do with rice but my father
 hath made her mistress of the feast and she lays it
 on she hath made me four and twenty nosegays for
 the shearers threemansongmen all and very good
 ones but they are most of them means and bases but
 one puritan amongst them and he sings psalms to
 hornpipes i must have saffron to colour the warden
 pies mace datesnone that's out of my note
 nutmegs seven a race or two of ginger but that i
 may beg four pound of prunes and as many of
 raisins o the sun
autolycus o that ever i was born
 grovelling on the ground
clown i the name of me
autolycus o help me help me pluck but off these rags and
 then death death
clown alack poor soul thou hast need of more rags to lay
 on thee rather than have these off
autolycus o sir the loathsomeness of them offends me more
 than the stripes i have received which are mighty
 ones and millions
clown alas poor man a million of beating may come to a
 great matter
autolycus i am robbed sir and beaten my money and apparel
 ta'en from me and these detestable things put upon
 me
clown what by a horseman or a footman
autolycus a footman sweet sir a footman
clown indeed he should be a footman by the garments he
 has left with thee if this be a horseman's coat
 it hath seen very hot service lend me thy hand
 i'll help thee come lend me thy hand
autolycus o good sir tenderly o
clown alas poor soul
autolycus o good sir softly good sir i fear sir my
 shoulderblade is out
clown how now canst stand
autolycus picking his pocket
 softly dear sir good sir softly you ha done me
 a charitable office
clown dost lack any money i have a little money for thee
autolycus no good sweet sir no i beseech you sir i have
 a kinsman not past three quarters of a mile hence
 unto whom i was going i shall there have money or
 any thing i want offer me no money i pray you
 that kills my heart
clown what manner of fellow was he that robbed you
autolycus a fellow sir that i have known to go about with
 trollmydames i knew him once a servant of the
 prince i cannot tell good sir for which of his
 virtues it was but he was certainly whipped out of the court
clown his vices you would say there's no virtue whipped
 out of the court they cherish it to make it stay
 there and yet it will no more but abide
autolycus vices i would say sir i know this man well he
 hath been since an apebearer then a
 processserver a bailiff then he compassed a
 motion of the prodigal son and married a tinker's
 wife within a mile where my land and living lies
 and having flown over many knavish professions he
 settled only in rogue some call him autolycus
clown out upon him prig for my life prig he haunts
 wakes fairs and bearbaitings
autolycus very true sir he sir he that's the rogue that
 put me into this apparel
clown not a more cowardly rogue in all bohemia if you had
 but looked big and spit at him he'ld have run
autolycus i must confess to you sir i am no fighter i am
 false of heart that way and that he knew i warrant
 him
clown how do you now
autolycus sweet sir much better than i was i can stand and
 walk i will even take my leave of you and pace
 softly towards my kinsman's
clown shall i bring thee on the way
autolycus no goodfaced sir no sweet sir
clown then fare thee well i must go buy spices for our
 sheepshearing
autolycus prosper you sweet sir
 exit clown
 your purse is not hot enough to purchase your spice
 i'll be with you at your sheepshearing too if i
 make not this cheat bring out another and the
 shearers prove sheep let me be unrolled and my name
 put in the book of virtue
 sings
 jog on jog on the footpath way
 and merrily hent the stilea
 a merry heart goes all the day
 your sad tires in a milea
 exit
 the winter's tale
act iv
scene iv the shepherd's cottage
 enter florizel and perdita
florizel these your unusual weeds to each part of you
 do give a life no shepherdess but flora
 peering in april's front this your sheepshearing
 is as a meeting of the petty gods
 and you the queen on't
perdita sir my gracious lord
 to chide at your extremes it not becomes me
 o pardon that i name them your high self
 the gracious mark o the land you have obscured
 with a swain's wearing and me poor lowly maid
 most goddesslike prank'd up but that our feasts
 in every mess have folly and the feeders
 digest it with a custom i should blush
 to see you so attired sworn i think
 to show myself a glass
florizel i bless the time
 when my good falcon made her flight across
 thy father's ground
perdita now jove afford you cause
 to me the difference forges dread your greatness
 hath not been used to fear even now i tremble
 to think your father by some accident
 should pass this way as you did o the fates
 how would he look to see his work so noble
 vilely bound up what would he say or how
 should i in these my borrow'd flaunts behold
 the sternness of his presence
florizel apprehend
 nothing but jollity the gods themselves
 humbling their deities to love have taken
 the shapes of beasts upon them jupiter
 became a bull and bellow'd the green neptune
 a ram and bleated and the firerobed god
 golden apollo a poor humble swain
 as i seem now their transformations
 were never for a piece of beauty rarer
 nor in a way so chaste since my desires
 run not before mine honour nor my lusts
 burn hotter than my faith
perdita o but sir
 your resolution cannot hold when tis
 opposed as it must be by the power of the king
 one of these two must be necessities
 which then will speak that you must
 change this purpose
 or i my life
florizel thou dearest perdita
 with these forced thoughts i prithee darken not
 the mirth o the feast or i'll be thine my fair
 or not my father's for i cannot be
 mine own nor any thing to any if
 i be not thine to this i am most constant
 though destiny say no be merry gentle
 strangle such thoughts as these with any thing
 that you behold the while your guests are coming
 lift up your countenance as it were the day
 of celebration of that nuptial which
 we two have sworn shall come
perdita o lady fortune
 stand you auspicious
florizel see your guests approach
 address yourself to entertain them sprightly
 and let's be red with mirth
 enter shepherd clown mopsa dorcas and
 others with polixenes and camillo disguised
shepherd fie daughter when my old wife lived upon
 this day she was both pantler butler cook
 both dame and servant welcomed all served all
 would sing her song and dance her turn now here
 at upper end o the table now i the middle
 on his shoulder and his her face o fire
 with labour and the thing she took to quench it
 she would to each one sip you are retired
 as if you were a feasted one and not
 the hostess of the meeting pray you bid
 these unknown friends to's welcome for it is
 a way to make us better friends more known
 come quench your blushes and present yourself
 that which you are mistress o the feast come on
 and bid us welcome to your sheepshearing
 as your good flock shall prosper
perdita to polixenes sir welcome
 it is my father's will i should take on me
 the hostessship o the day
 to camillo
 you're welcome sir
 give me those flowers there dorcas reverend sirs
 for you there's rosemary and rue these keep
 seeming and savour all the winter long
 grace and remembrance be to you both
 and welcome to our shearing
polixenes shepherdess
 a fair one are youwell you fit our ages
 with flowers of winter
perdita sir the year growing ancient
 not yet on summer's death nor on the birth
 of trembling winter the fairest
 flowers o the season
 are our carnations and streak'd gillyvors
 which some call nature's bastards of that kind
 our rustic garden's barren and i care not
 to get slips of them
polixenes wherefore gentle maiden
 do you neglect them
perdita for i have heard it said
 there is an art which in their piedness shares
 with great creating nature
polixenes say there be
 yet nature is made better by no mean
 but nature makes that mean so over that art
 which you say adds to nature is an art
 that nature makes you see sweet maid we marry
 a gentler scion to the wildest stock
 and make conceive a bark of baser kind
 by bud of nobler race this is an art
 which does mend nature change it rather but
 the art itself is nature
perdita so it is
polixenes then make your garden rich in gillyvors
 and do not call them bastards
perdita i'll not put
 the dibble in earth to set one slip of them
 no more than were i painted i would wish
 this youth should say twere well and only therefore
 desire to breed by me here's flowers for you
 hot lavender mints savoury marjoram
 the marigold that goes to bed wi the sun
 and with him rises weeping these are flowers
 of middle summer and i think they are given
 to men of middle age you're very welcome
camillo i should leave grazing were i of your flock
 and only live by gazing
perdita out alas
 you'd be so lean that blasts of january
 would blow you through and through
 now my fair'st friend
 i would i had some flowers o the spring that might
 become your time of day and yours and yours
 that wear upon your virgin branches yet
 your maidenheads growing o proserpina
 for the flowers now that frighted thou let'st fall
 from dis's waggon daffodils
 that come before the swallow dares and take
 the winds of march with beauty violets dim
 but sweeter than the lids of juno's eyes
 or cytherea's breath pale primroses
 that die unmarried ere they can behold
 bight phoebus in his strengtha malady
 most incident to maids bold oxlips and
 the crown imperial lilies of all kinds
 the flowerdeluce being one o these i lack
 to make you garlands of and my sweet friend
 to strew him o'er and o'er
florizel what like a corse
perdita no like a bank for love to lie and play on
 not like a corse or if not to be buried
 but quick and in mine arms come take your flowers
 methinks i play as i have seen them do
 in whitsun pastorals sure this robe of mine
 does change my disposition
florizel what you do
 still betters what is done when you speak sweet
 i'ld have you do it ever when you sing
 i'ld have you buy and sell so so give alms
 pray so and for the ordering your affairs
 to sing them too when you do dance i wish you
 a wave o the sea that you might ever do
 nothing but that move still still so
 and own no other function each your doing
 so singular in each particular
 crowns what you are doing in the present deed
 that all your acts are queens
perdita o doricles
 your praises are too large but that your youth
 and the true blood which peepeth fairly through't
 do plainly give you out an unstain'd shepherd
 with wisdom i might fear my doricles
 you woo'd me the false way
florizel i think you have
 as little skill to fear as i have purpose
 to put you to't but come our dance i pray
 your hand my perdita so turtles pair
 that never mean to part
perdita i'll swear for em
polixenes this is the prettiest lowborn lass that ever
 ran on the greensward nothing she does or seems
 but smacks of something greater than herself
 too noble for this place
camillo he tells her something
 that makes her blood look out good sooth she is
 the queen of curds and cream
clown come on strike up
dorcas mopsa must be your mistress marry garlic
 to mend her kissing with
mopsa now in good time
clown not a word a word we stand upon our manners
 come strike up
 music here a dance of shepherds and
 shepherdesses
polixenes pray good shepherd what fair swain is this
 which dances with your daughter
shepherd they call him doricles and boasts himself
 to have a worthy feeding but i have it
 upon his own report and i believe it
 he looks like sooth he says he loves my daughter
 i think so too for never gazed the moon
 upon the water as he'll stand and read
 as twere my daughter's eyes and to be plain
 i think there is not half a kiss to choose
 who loves another best
polixenes she dances featly
shepherd so she does any thing though i report it
 that should be silent if young doricles
 do light upon her she shall bring him that
 which he not dreams of
 enter servant
servant o master if you did but hear the pedlar at the
 door you would never dance again after a tabour and
 pipe no the bagpipe could not move you he sings
 several tunes faster than you'll tell money he
 utters them as he had eaten ballads and all men's
 ears grew to his tunes
clown he could never come better he shall come in i
 love a ballad but even too well if it be doleful
 matter merrily set down or a very pleasant thing
 indeed and sung lamentably
servant he hath songs for man or woman of all sizes no
 milliner can so fit his customers with gloves he
 has the prettiest lovesongs for maids so without
 bawdry which is strange with such delicate
 burthens of dildos and fadings jump her and thump
 her and where some stretchmouthed rascal would
 as it were mean mischief and break a foul gap into
 the matter he makes the maid to answer whoop do me
 no harm good man puts him off slights him with
 whoop do me no harm good man'
polixenes this is a brave fellow
clown believe me thou talkest of an admirable conceited
 fellow has he any unbraided wares
servant he hath ribbons of an the colours i the rainbow
 points more than all the lawyers in bohemia can
 learnedly handle though they come to him by the
 gross inkles caddisses cambrics lawns why he
 sings em over as they were gods or goddesses you
 would think a smock were a sheangel he so chants
 to the sleevehand and the work about the square on't
clown prithee bring him in and let him approach singing
perdita forewarn him that he use no scurrilous words in s tunes
 exit servant
clown you have of these pedlars that have more in them
 than you'ld think sister
perdita ay good brother or go about to think
 enter autolycus singing
autolycus lawn as white as driven snow
 cyprus black as e'er was crow
 gloves as sweet as damask roses
 masks for faces and for noses
 bugle bracelet necklace amber
 perfume for a lady's chamber
 golden quoifs and stomachers
 for my lads to give their dears
 pins and pokingsticks of steel
 what maids lack from head to heel
 come buy of me come come buy come buy
 buy lads or else your lasses cry come buy
clown if i were not in love with mopsa thou shouldst take
 no money of me but being enthralled as i am it
 will also be the bondage of certain ribbons and gloves
mopsa i was promised them against the feast but they come
 not too late now
dorcas he hath promised you more than that or there be liars
mopsa he hath paid you all he promised you may be he has
 paid you more which will shame you to give him again
clown is there no manners left among maids will they
 wear their plackets where they should bear their
 faces is there not milkingtime when you are
 going to bed or kilnhole to whistle off these
 secrets but you must be tittletattling before all
 our guests tis well they are whispering clamour
 your tongues and not a word more
mopsa i have done come you promised me a tawdrylace
 and a pair of sweet gloves
clown have i not told thee how i was cozened by the way
 and lost all my money
autolycus and indeed sir there are cozeners abroad
 therefore it behoves men to be wary
clown fear not thou man thou shalt lose nothing here
autolycus i hope so sir for i have about me many parcels of charge
clown what hast here ballads
mopsa pray now buy some i love a ballad in print o'
 life for then we are sure they are true
autolycus here's one to a very doleful tune how a usurer's
 wife was brought to bed of twenty moneybags at a
 burthen and how she longed to eat adders heads and
 toads carbonadoed
mopsa is it true think you
autolycus very true and but a month old
dorcas bless me from marrying a usurer
autolycus here's the midwife's name to't one mistress
 taleporter and five or six honest wives that were
 present why should i carry lies abroad
mopsa pray you now buy it
clown come on lay it by and let's first see moe
 ballads we'll buy the other things anon
autolycus here's another ballad of a fish that appeared upon
 the coast on wednesday the fourscore of april
 forty thousand fathom above water and sung this
 ballad against the hard hearts of maids it was
 thought she was a woman and was turned into a cold
 fish for she would not exchange flesh with one that
 loved her the ballad is very pitiful and as true
dorcas is it true too think you
autolycus five justices hands at it and witnesses more than
 my pack will hold
clown lay it by too another
autolycus this is a merry ballad but a very pretty one
mopsa let's have some merry ones
autolycus why this is a passing merry one and goes to
 the tune of two maids wooing a man there's
 scarce a maid westward but she sings it tis in
 request i can tell you
mopsa we can both sing it if thou'lt bear a part thou
 shalt hear tis in three parts
dorcas we had the tune on't a month ago
autolycus i can bear my part you must know tis my
 occupation have at it with you
 song
autolycus get you hence for i must go
 where it fits not you to know
dorcas whither
mopsa o whither
dorcas whither
mopsa it becomes thy oath full well
 thou to me thy secrets tell
dorcas me too let me go thither
mopsa or thou goest to the orange or mill
dorcas if to either thou dost ill
autolycus neither
dorcas what neither
autolycus neither
dorcas thou hast sworn my love to be
mopsa thou hast sworn it more to me
 then whither goest say whither
clown we'll have this song out anon by ourselves my
 father and the gentlemen are in sad talk and we'll
 not trouble them come bring away thy pack after
 me wenches i'll buy for you both pedlar let's
 have the first choice follow me girls
 exit with dorcas and mopsa
autolycus and you shall pay well for em
 follows singing
 will you buy any tape
 or lace for your cape
 my dainty duck my deara
 any silk any thread
 any toys for your head
 of the new'st and finest finest weara
 come to the pedlar
 money's a medler
 that doth utter all men's warea
 exit
 reenter servant
servant master there is three carters three shepherds
 three neatherds three swineherds that have made
 themselves all men of hair they call themselves
 saltiers and they have a dance which the wenches
 say is a gallimaufry of gambols because they are
 not in't but they themselves are o the mind if it
 be not too rough for some that know little but
 bowling it will please plentifully
shepherd away we'll none on t here has been too much
 homely foolery already i know sir we weary you
polixenes you weary those that refresh us pray let's see
 these four threes of herdsmen
servant one three of them by their own report sir hath
 danced before the king and not the worst of the
 three but jumps twelve foot and a half by the squier
shepherd leave your prating since these good men are
 pleased let them come in but quickly now
servant why they stay at door sir
 exit
 here a dance of twelve satyrs
polixenes o father you'll know more of that hereafter
 to camillo
 is it not too far gone tis time to part them
 he's simple and tells much
 to florizel
 how now fair shepherd
 your heart is full of something that does take
 your mind from feasting sooth when i was young
 and handed love as you do i was wont
 to load my she with knacks i would have ransack'd
 the pedlar's silken treasury and have pour'd it
 to her acceptance you have let him go
 and nothing marted with him if your lass
 interpretation should abuse and call this
 your lack of love or bounty you were straited
 for a reply at least if you make a care
 of happy holding her
florizel old sir i know
 she prizes not such trifles as these are
 the gifts she looks from me are pack'd and lock'd
 up in my heart which i have given already
 but not deliver'd o hear me breathe my life
 before this ancient sir who it should seem
 hath sometime loved i take thy hand this hand
 as soft as dove's down and as white as it
 or ethiopian's tooth or the fann'd
 snow that's bolted
 by the northern blasts twice o'er
polixenes what follows this
 how prettily the young swain seems to wash
 the hand was fair before i have put you out
 but to your protestation let me hear
 what you profess
florizel do and be witness to t
polixenes and this my neighbour too
florizel and he and more
 than he and men the earth the heavens and all
 that were i crown'd the most imperial monarch
 thereof most worthy were i the fairest youth
 that ever made eye swerve had force and knowledge
 more than was ever man's i would not prize them
 without her love for her employ them all
 commend them and condemn them to her service
 or to their own perdition
polixenes fairly offer'd
camillo this shows a sound affection
shepherd but my daughter
 say you the like to him
perdita i cannot speak
 so well nothing so well no nor mean better
 by the pattern of mine own thoughts i cut out
 the purity of his
shepherd take hands a bargain
 and friends unknown you shall bear witness to t
 i give my daughter to him and will make
 her portion equal his
florizel o that must be
 i the virtue of your daughter one being dead
 i shall have more than you can dream of yet
 enough then for your wonder but come on
 contract us fore these witnesses
shepherd come your hand
 and daughter yours
polixenes soft swain awhile beseech you
 have you a father
florizel i have but what of him
polixenes knows he of this
florizel he neither does nor shall
polixenes methinks a father
 is at the nuptial of his son a guest
 that best becomes the table pray you once more
 is not your father grown incapable
 of reasonable affairs is he not stupid
 with age and altering rheums can he speak hear
 know man from man dispute his own estate
 lies he not bedrid and again does nothing
 but what he did being childish
florizel no good sir
 he has his health and ampler strength indeed
 than most have of his age
polixenes by my white beard
 you offer him if this be so a wrong
 something unfilial reason my son
 should choose himself a wife but as good reason
 the father all whose joy is nothing else
 but fair posterity should hold some counsel
 in such a business
florizel i yield all this
 but for some other reasons my grave sir
 which tis not fit you know i not acquaint
 my father of this business
polixenes let him know't
florizel he shall not
polixenes prithee let him
florizel no he must not
shepherd let him my son he shall not need to grieve
 at knowing of thy choice
florizel come come he must not
 mark our contract
polixenes mark your divorce young sir
 discovering himself
 whom son i dare not call thou art too base
 to be acknowledged thou a sceptre's heir
 that thus affect'st a sheephook thou old traitor
 i am sorry that by hanging thee i can
 but shorten thy life one week and thou fresh piece
 of excellent witchcraft who of force must know
 the royal fool thou copest with
shepherd o my heart
polixenes i'll have thy beauty scratch'd with briers and made
 more homely than thy state for thee fond boy
 if i may ever know thou dost but sigh
 that thou no more shalt see this knack as never
 i mean thou shalt we'll bar thee from succession
 not hold thee of our blood no not our kin
 far than deucalion off mark thou my words
 follow us to the court thou churl for this time
 though full of our displeasure yet we free thee
 from the dead blow of it and you enchantment
 worthy enough a herdsman yea him too
 that makes himself but for our honour therein
 unworthy theeif ever henceforth thou
 these rural latches to his entrance open
 or hoop his body more with thy embraces
 i will devise a death as cruel for thee
 as thou art tender to't
 exit
perdita even here undone
 i was not much afeard for once or twice
 i was about to speak and tell him plainly
 the selfsame sun that shines upon his court
 hides not his visage from our cottage but
 looks on alike will't please you sir be gone
 i told you what would come of this beseech you
 of your own state take care this dream of mine
 being now awake i'll queen it no inch farther
 but milk my ewes and weep
camillo why how now father
 speak ere thou diest
shepherd i cannot speak nor think
 nor dare to know that which i know o sir
 you have undone a man of fourscore three
 that thought to fill his grave in quiet yea
 to die upon the bed my father died
 to lie close by his honest bones but now
 some hangman must put on my shroud and lay me
 where no priest shovels in dust o cursed wretch
 that knew'st this was the prince
 and wouldst adventure
 to mingle faith with him undone undone
 if i might die within this hour i have lived
 to die when i desire
 exit
florizel why look you so upon me
 i am but sorry not afeard delay'd
 but nothing alter'd what i was i am
 more straining on for plucking back not following
 my leash unwillingly
camillo gracious my lord
 you know your father's temper at this time
 he will allow no speech which i do guess
 you do not purpose to him and as hardly
 will he endure your sight as yet i fear
 then till the fury of his highness settle
 come not before him
florizel i not purpose it
 i think camillo
camillo even he my lord
perdita how often have i told you twould be thus
 how often said my dignity would last
 but till twere known
florizel it cannot fail but by
 the violation of my faith and then
 let nature crush the sides o the earth together
 and mar the seeds within lift up thy looks
 from my succession wipe me father i
 am heir to my affection
camillo be advised
florizel i am and by my fancy if my reason
 will thereto be obedient i have reason
 if not my senses better pleased with madness
 do bid it welcome
camillo this is desperate sir
florizel so call it but it does fulfil my vow
 i needs must think it honesty camillo
 not for bohemia nor the pomp that may
 be thereat glean'd for all the sun sees or
 the close earth wombs or the profound sea hides
 in unknown fathoms will i break my oath
 to this my fair beloved therefore i pray you
 as you have ever been my father's honour'd friend
 when he shall miss meas in faith i mean not
 to see him any morecast your good counsels
 upon his passion let myself and fortune
 tug for the time to come this you may know
 and so deliver i am put to sea
 with her whom here i cannot hold on shore
 and most opportune to our need i have
 a vessel rides fast by but not prepared
 for this design what course i mean to hold
 shall nothing benefit your knowledge nor
 concern me the reporting
camillo o my lord
 i would your spirit were easier for advice
 or stronger for your need
florizel hark perdita
 drawing her aside
 i'll hear you by and by
camillo he's irremoveable
 resolved for flight now were i happy if
 his going i could frame to serve my turn
 save him from danger do him love and honour
 purchase the sight again of dear sicilia
 and that unhappy king my master whom
 i so much thirst to see
florizel now good camillo
 i am so fraught with curious business that
 i leave out ceremony
camillo sir i think
 you have heard of my poor services i the love
 that i have borne your father
florizel very nobly
 have you deserved it is my father's music
 to speak your deeds not little of his care
 to have them recompensed as thought on
camillo well my lord
 if you may please to think i love the king
 and through him what is nearest to him which is
 your gracious self embrace but my direction
 if your more ponderous and settled project
 may suffer alteration on mine honour
 i'll point you where you shall have such receiving
 as shall become your highness where you may
 enjoy your mistress from the whom i see
 there's no disjunction to be made but by
 as heavens forefendyour ruin marry her
 and with my best endeavours in your absence
 your discontenting father strive to qualify
 and bring him up to liking
florizel how camillo
 may this almost a miracle be done
 that i may call thee something more than man
 and after that trust to thee
camillo have you thought on
 a place whereto you'll go
florizel not any yet
 but as the unthoughton accident is guilty
 to what we wildly do so we profess
 ourselves to be the slaves of chance and flies
 of every wind that blows
camillo then list to me
 this follows if you will not change your purpose
 but undergo this flight make for sicilia
 and there present yourself and your fair princess
 for so i see she must be fore leontes
 she shall be habited as it becomes
 the partner of your bed methinks i see
 leontes opening his free arms and weeping
 his welcomes forth asks thee the son forgiveness
 as twere i the father's person kisses the hands
 of your fresh princess o'er and o'er divides him
 twixt his unkindness and his kindness the one
 he chides to hell and bids the other grow
 faster than thought or time
florizel worthy camillo
 what colour for my visitation shall i
 hold up before him
camillo sent by the king your father
 to greet him and to give him comforts sir
 the manner of your bearing towards him with
 what you as from your father shall deliver
 things known betwixt us three i'll write you down
 the which shall point you forth at every sitting
 what you must say that he shall not perceive
 but that you have your father's bosom there
 and speak his very heart
florizel i am bound to you
 there is some sap in this
camillo a cause more promising
 than a wild dedication of yourselves
 to unpath'd waters undream'd shores most certain
 to miseries enough no hope to help you
 but as you shake off one to take another
 nothing so certain as your anchors who
 do their best office if they can but stay you
 where you'll be loath to be besides you know
 prosperity's the very bond of love
 whose fresh complexion and whose heart together
 affliction alters
perdita one of these is true
 i think affliction may subdue the cheek
 but not take in the mind
camillo yea say you so
 there shall not at your father's house these
 seven years
 be born another such
florizel my good camillo
 she is as forward of her breeding as
 she is i the rear our birth
camillo i cannot say tis pity
 she lacks instructions for she seems a mistress
 to most that teach
perdita your pardon sir for this
 i'll blush you thanks
florizel my prettiest perdita
 but o the thorns we stand upon camillo
 preserver of my father now of me
 the medicine of our house how shall we do
 we are not furnish'd like bohemia's son
 nor shall appear in sicilia
camillo my lord
 fear none of this i think you know my fortunes
 do all lie there it shall be so my care
 to have you royally appointed as if
 the scene you play were mine for instance sir
 that you may know you shall not want one word
 they talk aside
 reenter autolycus
autolycus ha ha what a fool honesty is and trust his
 sworn brother a very simple gentleman i have sold
 all my trumpery not a counterfeit stone not a
 ribbon glass pomander brooch tablebook ballad
 knife tape glove shoetie bracelet hornring
 to keep my pack from fasting they throng who
 should buy first as if my trinkets had been
 hallowed and brought a benediction to the buyer
 by which means i saw whose purse was best in
 picture and what i saw to my good use i
 remembered my clown who wants but something to
 be a reasonable man grew so in love with the
 wenches song that he would not stir his pettitoes
 till he had both tune and words which so drew the
 rest of the herd to me that all their other senses
 stuck in ears you might have pinched a placket it
 was senseless twas nothing to geld a codpiece of a
 purse i could have filed keys off that hung in
 chains no hearing no feeling but my sir's song
 and admiring the nothing of it so that in this
 time of lethargy i picked and cut most of their
 festival purses and had not the old man come in
 with a whoobub against his daughter and the king's
 son and scared my choughs from the chaff i had not
 left a purse alive in the whole army
 camillo florizel and perdita come forward
camillo nay but my letters by this means being there
 so soon as you arrive shall clear that doubt
florizel and those that you'll procure from king leontes
camillo shall satisfy your father
perdita happy be you
 all that you speak shows fair
camillo who have we here
 seeing autolycus
 we'll make an instrument of this omit
 nothing may give us aid
autolycus if they have overheard me now why hanging
camillo how now good fellow why shakest thou so fear
 not man here's no harm intended to thee
autolycus i am a poor fellow sir
camillo why be so still here's nobody will steal that from
 thee yet for the outside of thy poverty we must
 make an exchange therefore discase thee instantly
 thou must think there's a necessity in'tand
 change garments with this gentleman though the
 pennyworth on his side be the worst yet hold thee
 there's some boot
autolycus i am a poor fellow sir
 aside
 i know ye well enough
camillo nay prithee dispatch the gentleman is half
 flayed already
autolycus are you in earnest sir
 aside
 i smell the trick on't
florizel dispatch i prithee
autolycus indeed i have had earnest but i cannot with
 conscience take it
camillo unbuckle unbuckle
 florizel and autolycus exchange garments
 fortunate mistresslet my prophecy
 come home to yeyou must retire yourself
 into some covert take your sweetheart's hat
 and pluck it o'er your brows muffle your face
 dismantle you and as you can disliken
 the truth of your own seeming that you may
 for i do fear eyes overto shipboard
 get undescried
perdita i see the play so lies
 that i must bear a part
camillo no remedy
 have you done there
florizel should i now meet my father
 he would not call me son
camillo nay you shall have no hat
 giving it to perdita
 come lady come farewell my friend
autolycus adieu sir
florizel o perdita what have we twain forgot
 pray you a word
camillo aside what i do next shall be to tell the king
 of this escape and whither they are bound
 wherein my hope is i shall so prevail
 to force him after in whose company
 i shall review sicilia for whose sight
 i have a woman's longing
florizel fortune speed us
 thus we set on camillo to the seaside
camillo the swifter speed the better
 exeunt florizel perdita and camillo
autolycus i understand the business i hear it to have an
 open ear a quick eye and a nimble hand is
 necessary for a cutpurse a good nose is requisite
 also to smell out work for the other senses i see
 this is the time that the unjust man doth thrive
 what an exchange had this been without boot what
 a boot is here with this exchange sure the gods do
 this year connive at us and we may do any thing
 extempore the prince himself is about a piece of
 iniquity stealing away from his father with his
 clog at his heels if i thought it were a piece of
 honesty to acquaint the king withal i would not
 do't i hold it the more knavery to conceal it
 and therein am i constant to my profession
 reenter clown and shepherd
 aside aside here is more matter for a hot brain
 every lane's end every shop church session
 hanging yields a careful man work
clown see see what a man you are now
 there is no other way but to tell the king
 she's a changeling and none of your flesh and blood
shepherd nay but hear me
clown nay but hear me
shepherd go to then
clown she being none of your flesh and blood your flesh
 and blood has not offended the king and so your
 flesh and blood is not to be punished by him show
 those things you found about her those secret
 things all but what she has with her this being
 done let the law go whistle i warrant you
shepherd i will tell the king all every word yea and his
 son's pranks too who i may say is no honest man
 neither to his father nor to me to go about to make
 me the king's brotherinlaw
clown indeed brotherinlaw was the farthest off you
 could have been to him and then your blood had been
 the dearer by i know how much an ounce
autolycus aside very wisely puppies
shepherd well let us to the king there is that in this
 fardel will make him scratch his beard
autolycus aside i know not what impediment this complaint
 may be to the flight of my master
clown pray heartily he be at palace
autolycus aside though i am not naturally honest i am so
 sometimes by chance let me pocket up my pedlar's excrement
 takes off his false beard
 how now rustics whither are you bound
shepherd to the palace an it like your worship
autolycus your affairs there what with whom the condition
 of that fardel the place of your dwelling your
 names your ages of what having breeding and any
 thing that is fitting to be known discover
clown we are but plain fellows sir
autolycus a lie you are rough and hairy let me have no
 lying it becomes none but tradesmen and they
 often give us soldiers the lie but we pay them for
 it with stamped coin not stabbing steel therefore
 they do not give us the lie
clown your worship had like to have given us one if you
 had not taken yourself with the manner
shepherd are you a courtier an't like you sir
autolycus whether it like me or no i am a courtier seest
 thou not the air of the court in these enfoldings
 hath not my gait in it the measure of the court
 receives not thy nose courtodor from me reflect i
 not on thy baseness courtcontempt thinkest thou
 for that i insinuate or toaze from thee thy
 business i am therefore no courtier i am courtier
 capape and one that will either push on or pluck
 back thy business there whereupon i command thee to
 open thy affair
shepherd my business sir is to the king
autolycus what advocate hast thou to him
shepherd i know not an't like you
clown advocate's the courtword for a pheasant say you
 have none
shepherd none sir i have no pheasant cock nor hen
autolycus how blessed are we that are not simple men
 yet nature might have made me as these are
 therefore i will not disdain
clown this cannot be but a great courtier
shepherd his garments are rich but he wears
 them not handsomely
clown he seems to be the more noble in being fantastical
 a great man i'll warrant i know by the picking
 on's teeth
autolycus the fardel there what's i the fardel
 wherefore that box
shepherd sir there lies such secrets in this fardel and box
 which none must know but the king and which he
 shall know within this hour if i may come to the
 speech of him
autolycus age thou hast lost thy labour
shepherd why sir
autolycus the king is not at the palace he is gone aboard a
 new ship to purge melancholy and air himself for
 if thou beest capable of things serious thou must
 know the king is full of grief
shepard so tis said sir about his son that should have
 married a shepherd's daughter
autolycus if that shepherd be not in handfast let him fly
 the curses he shall have the tortures he shall
 feel will break the back of man the heart of monster
clown think you so sir
autolycus not he alone shall suffer what wit can make heavy
 and vengeance bitter but those that are germane to
 him though removed fifty times shall all come
 under the hangman which though it be great pity
 yet it is necessary an old sheepwhistling rogue a
 ramtender to offer to have his daughter come into
 grace some say he shall be stoned but that death
 is too soft for him say i draw our throne into a
 sheepcote all deaths are too few the sharpest too easy
clown has the old man e'er a son sir do you hear an't
 like you sir
autolycus he has a son who shall be flayed alive then
 nointed over with honey set on the head of a
 wasp's nest then stand till he be three quarters
 and a dram dead then recovered again with
 aquavitae or some other hot infusion then raw as
 he is and in the hottest day prognostication
 proclaims shall be be set against a brickwall the
 sun looking with a southward eye upon him where he
 is to behold him with flies blown to death but what
 talk we of these traitorly rascals whose miseries
 are to be smiled at their offences being so
 capital tell me for you seem to be honest plain
 men what you have to the king being something
 gently considered i'll bring you where he is
 aboard tender your persons to his presence
 whisper him in your behalfs and if it be in man
 besides the king to effect your suits here is man
 shall do it
clown he seems to be of great authority close with him
 give him gold and though authority be a stubborn
 bear yet he is oft led by the nose with gold show
 the inside of your purse to the outside of his hand
 and no more ado remember stoned and flayed alive'
shepherd an't please you sir to undertake the business for
 us here is that gold i have i'll make it as much
 more and leave this young man in pawn till i bring it you
autolycus after i have done what i promised
shepherd ay sir
autolycus well give me the moiety are you a party in this business
clown in some sort sir but though my case be a pitiful
 one i hope i shall not be flayed out of it
autolycus o that's the case of the shepherd's son hang him
 he'll be made an example
clown comfort good comfort we must to the king and show
 our strange sights he must know tis none of your
 daughter nor my sister we are gone else sir i
 will give you as much as this old man does when the
 business is performed and remain as he says your
 pawn till it be brought you
autolycus i will trust you walk before toward the seaside
 go on the right hand i will but look upon the
 hedge and follow you
clown we are blest in this man as i may say even blest
shepherd let's before as he bids us he was provided to do us good
 exeunt shepherd and clown
autolycus if i had a mind to be honest i see fortune would
 not suffer me she drops booties in my mouth i am
 courted now with a double occasion gold and a means
 to do the prince my master good which who knows how
 that may turn back to my advancement i will bring
 these two moles these blind ones aboard him if he
 think it fit to shore them again and that the
 complaint they have to the king concerns him
 nothing let him call me rogue for being so far
 officious for i am proof against that title and
 what shame else belongs to't to him will i present
 them there may be matter in it
 exit
 the winter's tale
act v
scene i a room in leontes palace
 enter leontes cleomenes dion paulina and servants
cleomenes sir you have done enough and have perform'd
 a saintlike sorrow no fault could you make
 which you have not redeem'd indeed paid down
 more penitence than done trespass at the last
 do as the heavens have done forget your evil
 with them forgive yourself
leontes whilst i remember
 her and her virtues i cannot forget
 my blemishes in them and so still think of
 the wrong i did myself which was so much
 that heirless it hath made my kingdom and
 destroy'd the sweet'st companion that e'er man
 bred his hopes out of
paulina true too true my lord
 if one by one you wedded all the world
 or from the all that are took something good
 to make a perfect woman she you kill'd
 would be unparallel'd
leontes i think so kill'd
 she i kill'd i did so but thou strikest me
 sorely to say i did it is as bitter
 upon thy tongue as in my thought now good now
 say so but seldom
cleomenes not at all good lady
 you might have spoken a thousand things that would
 have done the time more benefit and graced
 your kindness better
paulina you are one of those
 would have him wed again
dion if you would not so
 you pity not the state nor the remembrance
 of his most sovereign name consider little
 what dangers by his highness fail of issue
 may drop upon his kingdom and devour
 incertain lookers on what were more holy
 than to rejoice the former queen is well
 what holier than for royalty's repair
 for present comfort and for future good
 to bless the bed of majesty again
 with a sweet fellow to't
paulina there is none worthy
 respecting her that's gone besides the gods
 will have fulfill'd their secret purposes
 for has not the divine apollo said
 is't not the tenor of his oracle
 that king leontes shall not have an heir
 till his lost child be found which that it shall
 is all as monstrous to our human reason
 as my antigonus to break his grave
 and come again to me who on my life
 did perish with the infant tis your counsel
 my lord should to the heavens be contrary
 oppose against their wills
 to leontes
 care not for issue
 the crown will find an heir great alexander
 left his to the worthiest so his successor
 was like to be the best
leontes good paulina
 who hast the memory of hermione
 i know in honour o that ever i
 had squared me to thy counsel then even now
 i might have look'd upon my queen's full eyes
 have taken treasure from her lips
paulina and left them
 more rich for what they yielded
leontes thou speak'st truth
 no more such wives therefore no wife one worse
 and better used would make her sainted spirit
 again possess her corpse and on this stage
 where we're offenders now appear soulvex'd
 and begin why to me'
paulina had she such power
 she had just cause
leontes she had and would incense me
 to murder her i married
paulina i should so
 were i the ghost that walk'd i'ld bid you mark
 her eye and tell me for what dull part in't
 you chose her then i'ld shriek that even your ears
 should rift to hear me and the words that follow'd
 should be remember mine'
leontes stars stars
 and all eyes else dead coals fear thou no wife
 i'll have no wife paulina
paulina will you swear
 never to marry but by my free leave
leontes never paulina so be blest my spirit
paulina then good my lords bear witness to his oath
cleomenes you tempt him overmuch
paulina unless another
 as like hermione as is her picture
 affront his eye
cleomenes good madam
paulina i have done
 yet if my lord will marryif you will sir
 no remedy but you willgive me the office
 to choose you a queen she shall not be so young
 as was your former but she shall be such
 as walk'd your first queen's ghost
 it should take joy
 to see her in your arms
leontes my true paulina
 we shall not marry till thou bid'st us
paulina that
 shall be when your first queen's again in breath
 never till then
 enter a gentleman
gentleman one that gives out himself prince florizel
 son of polixenes with his princess she
 the fairest i have yet beheld desires access
 to your high presence
leontes what with him he comes not
 like to his father's greatness his approach
 so out of circumstance and sudden tells us
 tis not a visitation framed but forced
 by need and accident what train
gentleman but few
 and those but mean
leontes his princess say you with him
gentleman ay the most peerless piece of earth i think
 that e'er the sun shone bright on
paulina o hermione
 as every present time doth boast itself
 above a better gone so must thy grave
 give way to what's seen now sir you yourself
 have said and writ so but your writing now
 is colder than that theme she had not been
 nor was not to be equall'd'thus your verse
 flow'd with her beauty once tis shrewdly ebb'd
 to say you have seen a better
gentleman pardon madam
 the one i have almost forgotyour pardon
 the other when she has obtain'd your eye
 will have your tongue too this is a creature
 would she begin a sect might quench the zeal
 of all professors else make proselytes
 of who she but bid follow
paulina how not women
gentleman women will love her that she is a woman
 more worth than any man men that she is
 the rarest of all women
leontes go cleomenes
 yourself assisted with your honour'd friends
 bring them to our embracement still tis strange
 exeunt cleomenes and others
 he thus should steal upon us
paulina had our prince
 jewel of children seen this hour he had pair'd
 well with this lord there was not full a month
 between their births
leontes prithee no more cease thou know'st
 he dies to me again when talk'd of sure
 when i shall see this gentleman thy speeches
 will bring me to consider that which may
 unfurnish me of reason they are come
 reenter cleomenes and others with florizel and perdita
 your mother was most true to wedlock prince
 for she did print your royal father off
 conceiving you were i but twentyone
 your father's image is so hit in you
 his very air that i should call you brother
 as i did him and speak of something wildly
 by us perform'd before most dearly welcome
 and your fair princessgoddesso alas
 i lost a couple that twixt heaven and earth
 might thus have stood begetting wonder as
 you gracious couple do and then i lost
 all mine own follythe society
 amity too of your brave father whom
 though bearing misery i desire my life
 once more to look on him
florizel by his command
 have i here touch'd sicilia and from him
 give you all greetings that a king at friend
 can send his brother and but infirmity
 which waits upon worn times hath something seized
 his wish'd ability he had himself
 the lands and waters twixt your throne and his
 measured to look upon you whom he loves
 he bade me say somore than all the sceptres
 and those that bear them living
leontes o my brother
 good gentleman the wrongs i have done thee stir
 afresh within me and these thy offices
 so rarely kind are as interpreters
 of my behindhand slackness welcome hither
 as is the spring to the earth and hath he too
 exposed this paragon to the fearful usage
 at least ungentle of the dreadful neptune
 to greet a man not worth her pains much less
 the adventure of her person
florizel good my lord
 she came from libya
leontes where the warlike smalus
 that noble honour'd lord is fear'd and loved
florizel most royal sir from thence from him whose daughter
 his tears proclaim'd his parting with her thence
 a prosperous southwind friendly we have cross'd
 to execute the charge my father gave me
 for visiting your highness my best train
 i have from your sicilian shores dismiss'd
 who for bohemia bend to signify
 not only my success in libya sir
 but my arrival and my wife's in safety
 here where we are
leontes the blessed gods
 purge all infection from our air whilst you
 do climate here you have a holy father
 a graceful gentleman against whose person
 so sacred as it is i have done sin
 for which the heavens taking angry note
 have left me issueless and your father's blest
 as he from heaven merits it with you
 worthy his goodness what might i have been
 might i a son and daughter now have look'd on
 such goodly things as you
 enter a lord
lord most noble sir
 that which i shall report will bear no credit
 were not the proof so nigh please you great sir
 bohemia greets you from himself by me
 desires you to attach his son who has
 his dignity and duty both cast off
 fled from his father from his hopes and with
 a shepherd's daughter
leontes where's bohemia speak
lord here in your city i now came from him
 i speak amazedly and it becomes
 my marvel and my message to your court
 whiles he was hastening in the chase it seems
 of this fair couple meets he on the way
 the father of this seeming lady and
 her brother having both their country quitted
 with this young prince
florizel camillo has betray'd me
 whose honour and whose honesty till now
 endured all weathers
lord lay't so to his charge
 he's with the king your father
leontes who camillo
lord camillo sir i spake with him who now
 has these poor men in question never saw i
 wretches so quake they kneel they kiss the earth
 forswear themselves as often as they speak
 bohemia stops his ears and threatens them
 with divers deaths in death
perdita o my poor father
 the heaven sets spies upon us will not have
 our contract celebrated
leontes you are married
florizel we are not sir nor are we like to be
 the stars i see will kiss the valleys first
 the odds for high and low's alike
leontes my lord
 is this the daughter of a king
florizel she is
 when once she is my wife
leontes that once i see by your good father's speed
 will come on very slowly i am sorry
 most sorry you have broken from his liking
 where you were tied in duty and as sorry
 your choice is not so rich in worth as beauty
 that you might well enjoy her
florizel dear look up
 though fortune visible an enemy
 should chase us with my father power no jot
 hath she to change our loves beseech you sir
 remember since you owed no more to time
 than i do now with thought of such affections
 step forth mine advocate at your request
 my father will grant precious things as trifles
leontes would he do so i'ld beg your precious mistress
 which he counts but a trifle
paulina sir my liege
 your eye hath too much youth in't not a month
 fore your queen died she was more worth such gazes
 than what you look on now
leontes i thought of her
 even in these looks i made
 to florizel
 but your petition
 is yet unanswer'd i will to your father
 your honour not o'erthrown by your desires
 i am friend to them and you upon which errand
 i now go toward him therefore follow me
 and mark what way i make come good my lord
 exeunt
 the winter's tale
act v
scene ii before leontes palace
 enter autolycus and a gentleman
autolycus beseech you sir were you present at this relation
first gentleman i was by at the opening of the fardel heard the old
 shepherd deliver the manner how he found it
 whereupon after a little amazedness we were all
 commanded out of the chamber only this methought i
 heard the shepherd say he found the child
autolycus i would most gladly know the issue of it
first gentleman i make a broken delivery of the business but the
 changes i perceived in the king and camillo were
 very notes of admiration they seemed almost with
 staring on one another to tear the cases of their
 eyes there was speech in their dumbness language
 in their very gesture they looked as they had heard
 of a world ransomed or one destroyed a notable
 passion of wonder appeared in them but the wisest
 beholder that knew no more but seeing could not
 say if the importance were joy or sorrow but in the
 extremity of the one it must needs be
 enter another gentleman
 here comes a gentleman that haply knows more
 the news rogero
second gentleman nothing but bonfires the oracle is fulfilled the
 king's daughter is found such a deal of wonder is
 broken out within this hour that balladmakers
 cannot be able to express it
 enter a third gentleman
 here comes the lady paulina's steward he can
 deliver you more how goes it now sir this news
 which is called true is so like an old tale that
 the verity of it is in strong suspicion has the king
 found his heir
third gentleman most true if ever truth were pregnant by
 circumstance that which you hear you'll swear you
 see there is such unity in the proofs the mantle
 of queen hermione's her jewel about the neck of it
 the letters of antigonus found with it which they
 know to be his character the majesty of the
 creature in resemblance of the mother the affection
 of nobleness which nature shows above her breeding
 and many other evidences proclaim her with all
 certainty to be the king's daughter did you see
 the meeting of the two kings
second gentleman no
third gentleman then have you lost a sight which was to be seen
 cannot be spoken of there might you have beheld one
 joy crown another so and in such manner that it
 seemed sorrow wept to take leave of them for their
 joy waded in tears there was casting up of eyes
 holding up of hands with countenances of such
 distraction that they were to be known by garment
 not by favour our king being ready to leap out of
 himself for joy of his found daughter as if that
 joy were now become a loss cries o thy mother
 thy mother then asks bohemia forgiveness then
 embraces his soninlaw then again worries he his
 daughter with clipping her now he thanks the old
 shepherd which stands by like a weatherbitten
 conduit of many kings reigns i never heard of such
 another encounter which lames report to follow it
 and undoes description to do it
second gentleman what pray you became of antigonus that carried
 hence the child
third gentleman like an old tale still which will have matter to
 rehearse though credit be asleep and not an ear
 open he was torn to pieces with a bear this
 avouches the shepherd's son who has not only his
 innocence which seems much to justify him but a
 handkerchief and rings of his that paulina knows
first gentleman what became of his bark and his followers
third gentleman wrecked the same instant of their master's death and
 in the view of the shepherd so that all the
 instruments which aided to expose the child were
 even then lost when it was found but o the noble
 combat that twixt joy and sorrow was fought in
 paulina she had one eye declined for the loss of
 her husband another elevated that the oracle was
 fulfilled she lifted the princess from the earth
 and so locks her in embracing as if she would pin
 her to her heart that she might no more be in danger
 of losing
first gentleman the dignity of this act was worth the audience of
 kings and princes for by such was it acted
third gentleman one of the prettiest touches of all and that which
 angled for mine eyes caught the water though not
 the fish was when at the relation of the queen's
 death with the manner how she came to't bravely
 confessed and lamented by the king how
 attentiveness wounded his daughter till from one
 sign of dolour to another she did with an alas'
 i would fain say bleed tears for i am sure my
 heart wept blood who was most marble there changed
 colour some swooned all sorrowed if all the world
 could have seen t the woe had been universal
first gentleman are they returned to the court
third gentleman no the princess hearing of her mother's statue
 which is in the keeping of paulinaa piece many
 years in doing and now newly performed by that rare
 italian master julio romano who had he himself
 eternity and could put breath into his work would
 beguile nature of her custom so perfectly he is her
 ape he so near to hermione hath done hermione that
 they say one would speak to her and stand in hope of
 answer thither with all greediness of affection
 are they gone and there they intend to sup
second gentleman i thought she had some great matter there in hand
 for she hath privately twice or thrice a day ever
 since the death of hermione visited that removed
 house shall we thither and with our company piece
 the rejoicing
first gentleman who would be thence that has the benefit of access
 every wink of an eye some new grace will be born
 our absence makes us unthrifty to our knowledge
 let's along
 exeunt gentlemen
autolycus now had i not the dash of my former life in me
 would preferment drop on my head i brought the old
 man and his son aboard the prince told him i heard
 them talk of a fardel and i know not what but he
 at that time overfond of the shepherd's daughter
 so he then took her to be who began to be much
 seasick and himself little better extremity of
 weather continuing this mystery remained
 undiscovered but tis all one to me for had i
 been the finder out of this secret it would not
 have relished among my other discredits
 enter shepherd and clown
 here come those i have done good to against my will
 and already appearing in the blossoms of their fortune
shepherd come boy i am past moe children but thy sons and
 daughters will be all gentlemen born
clown you are well met sir you denied to fight with me
 this other day because i was no gentleman born
 see you these clothes say you see them not and
 think me still no gentleman born you were best say
 these robes are not gentlemen born give me the
 lie do and try whether i am not now a gentleman born
autolycus i know you are now sir a gentleman born
clown ay and have been so any time these four hours
shepherd and so have i boy
clown so you have but i was a gentleman born before my
 father for the king's son took me by the hand and
 called me brother and then the two kings called my
 father brother and then the prince my brother and
 the princess my sister called my father father and
 so we wept and there was the first gentlemanlike
 tears that ever we shed
shepherd we may live son to shed many more
clown ay or else twere hard luck being in so
 preposterous estate as we are
autolycus i humbly beseech you sir to pardon me all the
 faults i have committed to your worship and to give
 me your good report to the prince my master
shepherd prithee son do for we must be gentle now we are
 gentlemen
clown thou wilt amend thy life
autolycus ay an it like your good worship
clown give me thy hand i will swear to the prince thou
 art as honest a true fellow as any is in bohemia
shepherd you may say it but not swear it
clown not swear it now i am a gentleman let boors and
 franklins say it i'll swear it
shepherd how if it be false son
clown if it be ne'er so false a true gentleman may swear
 it in the behalf of his friend and i'll swear to
 the prince thou art a tall fellow of thy hands and
 that thou wilt not be drunk but i know thou art no
 tall fellow of thy hands and that thou wilt be
 drunk but i'll swear it and i would thou wouldst
 be a tall fellow of thy hands
autolycus i will prove so sir to my power
clown ay by any means prove a tall fellow if i do not
 wonder how thou darest venture to be drunk not
 being a tall fellow trust me not hark the kings
 and the princes our kindred are going to see the
 queen's picture come follow us we'll be thy
 good masters
 exeunt
 the winter's tale
act v
scene iii a chapel in paulina's house
 enter leontes polixenes florizel perdita
 camillo paulina lords and attendants
leontes o grave and good paulina the great comfort
 that i have had of thee
paulina what sovereign sir
 i did not well i meant well all my services
 you have paid home but that you have vouchsafed
 with your crown'd brother and these your contracted
 heirs of your kingdoms my poor house to visit
 it is a surplus of your grace which never
 my life may last to answer
leontes o paulina
 we honour you with trouble but we came
 to see the statue of our queen your gallery
 have we pass'd through not without much content
 in many singularities but we saw not
 that which my daughter came to look upon
 the statue of her mother
paulina as she lived peerless
 so her dead likeness i do well believe
 excels whatever yet you look'd upon
 or hand of man hath done therefore i keep it
 lonely apart but here it is prepare
 to see the life as lively mock'd as ever
 still sleep mock'd death behold and say tis well
 paulina draws a curtain and discovers hermione
 standing like a statue
 i like your silence it the more shows off
 your wonder but yet speak first you my liege
 comes it not something near
leontes her natural posture
 chide me dear stone that i may say indeed
 thou art hermione or rather thou art she
 in thy not chiding for she was as tender
 as infancy and grace but yet paulina
 hermione was not so much wrinkled nothing
 so aged as this seems
polixenes o not by much
paulina so much the more our carver's excellence
 which lets go by some sixteen years and makes her
 as she lived now
leontes as now she might have done
 so much to my good comfort as it is
 now piercing to my soul o thus she stood
 even with such life of majesty warm life
 as now it coldly stands when first i woo'd her
 i am ashamed does not the stone rebuke me
 for being more stone than it o royal piece
 there's magic in thy majesty which has
 my evils conjured to remembrance and
 from thy admiring daughter took the spirits
 standing like stone with thee
perdita and give me leave
 and do not say tis superstition that
 i kneel and then implore her blessing lady
 dear queen that ended when i but began
 give me that hand of yours to kiss
paulina o patience
 the statue is but newly fix'd the colour's not dry
camillo my lord your sorrow was too sore laid on
 which sixteen winters cannot blow away
 so many summers dry scarce any joy
 did ever so long live no sorrow
 but kill'd itself much sooner
polixenes dear my brother
 let him that was the cause of this have power
 to take off so much grief from you as he
 will piece up in himself
paulina indeed my lord
 if i had thought the sight of my poor image
 would thus have wrought youfor the stone is mine
 i'ld not have show'd it
leontes do not draw the curtain
paulina no longer shall you gaze on't lest your fancy
 may think anon it moves
leontes let be let be
 would i were dead but that methinks already
 what was he that did make it see my lord
 would you not deem it breathed and that those veins
 did verily bear blood
polixenes masterly done
 the very life seems warm upon her lip
leontes the fixture of her eye has motion in't
 as we are mock'd with art
paulina i'll draw the curtain
 my lord's almost so far transported that
 he'll think anon it lives
leontes o sweet paulina
 make me to think so twenty years together
 no settled senses of the world can match
 the pleasure of that madness let t alone
paulina i am sorry sir i have thus far stirr'd you but
 i could afflict you farther
leontes do paulina
 for this affliction has a taste as sweet
 as any cordial comfort still methinks
 there is an air comes from her what fine chisel
 could ever yet cut breath let no man mock me
 for i will kiss her
paulina good my lord forbear
 the ruddiness upon her lip is wet
 you'll mar it if you kiss it stain your own
 with oily painting shall i draw the curtain
leontes no not these twenty years
perdita so long could i
 stand by a looker on
paulina either forbear
 quit presently the chapel or resolve you
 for more amazement if you can behold it
 i'll make the statue move indeed descend
 and take you by the hand but then you'll think
 which i protest againsti am assisted
 by wicked powers
leontes what you can make her do
 i am content to look on what to speak
 i am content to hear for tis as easy
 to make her speak as move
paulina it is required
 you do awake your faith then all stand still
 on those that think it is unlawful business
 i am about let them depart
leontes proceed
 no foot shall stir
paulina music awake her strike
 music
 tis time descend be stone no more approach
 strike all that look upon with marvel come
 i'll fill your grave up stir nay come away
 bequeath to death your numbness for from him
 dear life redeems you you perceive she stirs
 hermione comes down
 start not her actions shall be holy as
 you hear my spell is lawful do not shun her
 until you see her die again for then
 you kill her double nay present your hand
 when she was young you woo'd her now in age
 is she become the suitor
leontes o she's warm
 if this be magic let it be an art
 lawful as eating
polixenes she embraces him
camillo she hangs about his neck
 if she pertain to life let her speak too
polixenes ay and make't manifest where she has lived
 or how stolen from the dead
paulina that she is living
 were it but told you should be hooted at
 like an old tale but it appears she lives
 though yet she speak not mark a little while
 please you to interpose fair madam kneel
 and pray your mother's blessing turn good lady
 our perdita is found
hermione you gods look down
 and from your sacred vials pour your graces
 upon my daughter's head tell me mine own
 where hast thou been preserved where lived how found
 thy father's court for thou shalt hear that i
 knowing by paulina that the oracle
 gave hope thou wast in being have preserved
 myself to see the issue
paulina there's time enough for that
 lest they desire upon this push to trouble
 your joys with like relation go together
 you precious winners all your exultation
 partake to every one i an old turtle
 will wing me to some wither'd bough and there
 my mate that's never to be found again
 lament till i am lost
leontes o peace paulina
 thou shouldst a husband take by my consent
 as i by thine a wife this is a match
 and made between's by vows thou hast found mine
 but how is to be question'd for i saw her
 as i thought dead and have in vain said many
 a prayer upon her grave i'll not seek far
 for him i partly know his mindto find thee
 an honourable husband come camillo
 and take her by the hand whose worth and honesty
 is richly noted and here justified
 by us a pair of kings let's from this place
 what look upon my brother both your pardons
 that e'er i put between your holy looks
 my ill suspicion this is your soninlaw
 and son unto the king who heavens directing
 is trothplight to your daughter good paulina
 lead us from hence where we may leisurely
 each one demand an answer to his part
 perform'd in this wide gap of time since first
 we were dissever'd hastily lead away
 exeunt
 1 king henry iv
 dramatis personae
king henry the fourth king henry iv
henry
prince of wales prince henry 
 sons of the king
john of lancaster lancaster 
westmoreland
sir walter blunt
thomas percy earl of worcester earl of worcester
henry percy earl of northumberland northumberland
henry percy surnamed hotspur his son hotspur
edmund mortimer earl of march mortimer
richard scroop archbishop of york archbishop of york
archibald earl of douglas douglas
owen glendower
sir richard vernon vernon
sir john falstaff falstaff
sir michael a friend to the archbishop of york
poins
gadshill
peto
bardolph
francis a waiter
lady percy wife to hotspur and sister to mortimer
lady mortimer daughter to glendower
 and wife to mortimer
mistress quickly hostess of a tavern in eastcheap hostess
 lords officers sheriff vintner chamberlain
 drawers two carriers travellers attendants
 and an ostler
 sheriff
 vintner
 chamberlain
 first carrier
 second carrier
 first traveller
 servant
 messenger
 ostler
scene england
 1 king henry iv
act i
scene i london the palace
 enter king henry lord john of lancaster the earl
 of westmoreland sir walter blunt and others
king henry iv so shaken as we are so wan with care
 find we a time for frighted peace to pant
 and breathe shortwinded accents of new broils
 to be commenced in strands afar remote
 no more the thirsty entrance of this soil
 shall daub her lips with her own children's blood
 nor more shall trenching war channel her fields
 nor bruise her flowerets with the armed hoofs
 of hostile paces those opposed eyes
 which like the meteors of a troubled heaven
 all of one nature of one substance bred
 did lately meet in the intestine shock
 and furious close of civil butchery
 shall now in mutual wellbeseeming ranks
 march all one way and be no more opposed
 against acquaintance kindred and allies
 the edge of war like an illsheathed knife
 no more shall cut his master therefore friends
 as far as to the sepulchre of christ
 whose soldier now under whose blessed cross
 we are impressed and engaged to fight
 forthwith a power of english shall we levy
 whose arms were moulded in their mothers womb
 to chase these pagans in those holy fields
 over whose acres walk'd those blessed feet
 which fourteen hundred years ago were nail'd
 for our advantage on the bitter cross
 but this our purpose now is twelve month old
 and bootless tis to tell you we will go
 therefore we meet not now then let me hear
 of you my gentle cousin westmoreland
 what yesternight our council did decree
 in forwarding this dear expedience
westmoreland my liege this haste was hot in question
 and many limits of the charge set down
 but yesternight when all athwart there came
 a post from wales loaden with heavy news
 whose worst was that the noble mortimer
 leading the men of herefordshire to fight
 against the irregular and wild glendower
 was by the rude hands of that welshman taken
 a thousand of his people butchered
 upon whose dead corpse there was such misuse
 such beastly shameless transformation
 by those welshwomen done as may not be
 without much shame retold or spoken of
king henry iv it seems then that the tidings of this broil
 brake off our business for the holy land
westmoreland this match'd with other did my gracious lord
 for more uneven and unwelcome news
 came from the north and thus it did import
 on holyrood day the gallant hotspur there
 young harry percy and brave archibald
 that evervaliant and approved scot
 at holmedon met
 where they did spend a sad and bloody hour
 as by discharge of their artillery
 and shape of likelihood the news was told
 for he that brought them in the very heat
 and pride of their contention did take horse
 uncertain of the issue any way
king henry iv here is a dear a true industrious friend
 sir walter blunt new lighted from his horse
 stain'd with the variation of each soil
 betwixt that holmedon and this seat of ours
 and he hath brought us smooth and welcome news
 the earl of douglas is discomfited
 ten thousand bold scots two and twenty knights
 balk'd in their own blood did sir walter see
 on holmedon's plains of prisoners hotspur took
 mordake the earl of fife and eldest son
 to beaten douglas and the earl of athol
 of murray angus and menteith
 and is not this an honourable spoil
 a gallant prize ha cousin is it not
westmoreland in faith
 it is a conquest for a prince to boast of
king henry iv yea there thou makest me sad and makest me sin
 in envy that my lord northumberland
 should be the father to so blest a son
 a son who is the theme of honour's tongue
 amongst a grove the very straightest plant
 who is sweet fortune's minion and her pride
 whilst i by looking on the praise of him
 see riot and dishonour stain the brow
 of my young harry o that it could be proved
 that some nighttripping fairy had exchanged
 in cradleclothes our children where they lay
 and call'd mine percy his plantagenet
 then would i have his harry and he mine
 but let him from my thoughts what think you coz
 of this young percy's pride the prisoners
 which he in this adventure hath surprised
 to his own use he keeps and sends me word
 i shall have none but mordake earl of fife
westmoreland this is his uncle's teaching this is worcester
 malevolent to you in all aspects
 which makes him prune himself and bristle up
 the crest of youth against your dignity
king henry iv but i have sent for him to answer this
 and for this cause awhile we must neglect
 our holy purpose to jerusalem
 cousin on wednesday next our council we
 will hold at windsor so inform the lords
 but come yourself with speed to us again
 for more is to be said and to be done
 than out of anger can be uttered
westmoreland i will my liege
 exeunt
 1 king henry iv
act i
scene ii london an apartment of the prince's
 enter the prince of wales and falstaff
falstaff now hal what time of day is it lad
prince henry thou art so fatwitted with drinking of old sack
 and unbuttoning thee after supper and sleeping upon
 benches after noon that thou hast forgotten to
 demand that truly which thou wouldst truly know
 what a devil hast thou to do with the time of the
 day unless hours were cups of sack and minutes
 capons and clocks the tongues of bawds and dials the
 signs of leapinghouses and the blessed sun himself
 a fair hot wench in flamecoloured taffeta i see no
 reason why thou shouldst be so superfluous to demand
 the time of the day
falstaff indeed you come near me now hal for we that take
 purses go by the moon and the seven stars and not
 by phoebus he'that wandering knight so fair and
 i prithee sweet wag when thou art king as god
 save thy gracemajesty i should say for grace
 thou wilt have none
prince henry what none
falstaff no by my troth not so much as will serve to
 prologue to an egg and butter
prince henry well how then come roundly roundly
falstaff marry then sweet wag when thou art king let not
 us that are squires of the night's body be called
 thieves of the day's beauty let us be diana's
 foresters gentlemen of the shade minions of the
 moon and let men say we be men of good government
 being governed as the sea is by our noble and
 chaste mistress the moon under whose countenance we steal
prince henry thou sayest well and it holds well too for the
 fortune of us that are the moon's men doth ebb and
 flow like the sea being governed as the sea is
 by the moon as for proof now a purse of gold
 most resolutely snatched on monday night and most
 dissolutely spent on tuesday morning got with
 swearing lay by and spent with crying bring in'
 now in as low an ebb as the foot of the ladder
 and by and by in as high a flow as the ridge of the gallows
falstaff by the lord thou sayest true lad and is not my
 hostess of the tavern a most sweet wench
prince henry as the honey of hybla my old lad of the castle and
 is not a buff jerkin a most sweet robe of durance
falstaff how now how now mad wag what in thy quips and
 thy quiddities what a plague have i to do with a
 buff jerkin
prince henry why what a pox have i to do with my hostess of the tavern
falstaff well thou hast called her to a reckoning many a
 time and oft
prince henry did i ever call for thee to pay thy part
falstaff no i'll give thee thy due thou hast paid all there
prince henry yea and elsewhere so far as my coin would stretch
 and where it would not i have used my credit
falstaff yea and so used it that were it not here apparent
 that thou art heir apparentbut i prithee sweet
 wag shall there be gallows standing in england when
 thou art king and resolution thus fobbed as it is
 with the rusty curb of old father antic the law do
 not thou when thou art king hang a thief
prince henry no thou shalt
falstaff shall i o rare by the lord i'll be a brave judge
prince henry thou judgest false already i mean thou shalt have
 the hanging of the thieves and so become a rare hangman
falstaff well hal well and in some sort it jumps with my
 humour as well as waiting in the court i can tell
 you
prince henry for obtaining of suits
falstaff yea for obtaining of suits whereof the hangman
 hath no lean wardrobe sblood i am as melancholy
 as a gib cat or a lugged bear
prince henry or an old lion or a lover's lute
falstaff yea or the drone of a lincolnshire bagpipe
prince henry what sayest thou to a hare or the melancholy of
 moorditch
falstaff thou hast the most unsavoury similes and art indeed
 the most comparative rascalliest sweet young
 prince but hal i prithee trouble me no more
 with vanity i would to god thou and i knew where a
 commodity of good names were to be bought an old
 lord of the council rated me the other day in the
 street about you sir but i marked him not and yet
 he talked very wisely but i regarded him not and
 yet he talked wisely and in the street too
prince henry thou didst well for wisdom cries out in the
 streets and no man regards it
falstaff o thou hast damnable iteration and art indeed able
 to corrupt a saint thou hast done much harm upon
 me hal god forgive thee for it before i knew
 thee hal i knew nothing and now am i if a man
 should speak truly little better than one of the
 wicked i must give over this life and i will give
 it over by the lord and i do not i am a villain
 i'll be damned for never a king's son in
 christendom
prince henry where shall we take a purse tomorrow jack
falstaff zounds where thou wilt lad i'll make one an i
 do not call me villain and baffle me
prince henry i see a good amendment of life in thee from praying
 to pursetaking
falstaff why hal tis my vocation hal tis no sin for a
 man to labour in his vocation
 enter poins
 poins now shall we know if gadshill have set a
 match o if men were to be saved by merit what
 hole in hell were hot enough for him this is the
 most omnipotent villain that ever cried stand to
 a true man
prince henry good morrow ned
poins good morrow sweet hal what says monsieur remorse
 what says sir john sack and sugar jack how
 agrees the devil and thee about thy soul that thou
 soldest him on goodfriday last for a cup of madeira
 and a cold capon's leg
prince henry sir john stands to his word the devil shall have
 his bargain for he was never yet a breaker of
 proverbs he will give the devil his due
poins then art thou damned for keeping thy word with the devil
prince henry else he had been damned for cozening the devil
poins but my lads my lads tomorrow morning by four
 o'clock early at gadshill there are pilgrims going
 to canterbury with rich offerings and traders
 riding to london with fat purses i have vizards
 for you all you have horses for yourselves
 gadshill lies tonight in rochester i have bespoke
 supper tomorrow night in eastcheap we may do it
 as secure as sleep if you will go i will stuff
 your purses full of crowns if you will not tarry
 at home and be hanged
falstaff hear ye yedward if i tarry at home and go not
 i'll hang you for going
poins you will chops
falstaff hal wilt thou make one
prince henry who i rob i a thief not i by my faith
falstaff there's neither honesty manhood nor good
 fellowship in thee nor thou camest not of the blood
 royal if thou darest not stand for ten shillings
prince henry well then once in my days i'll be a madcap
falstaff why that's well said
prince henry well come what will i'll tarry at home
falstaff by the lord i'll be a traitor then when thou art king
prince henry i care not
poins sir john i prithee leave the prince and me alone
 i will lay him down such reasons for this adventure
 that he shall go
falstaff well god give thee the spirit of persuasion and him
 the ears of profiting that what thou speakest may
 move and what he hears may be believed that the
 true prince may for recreation sake prove a false
 thief for the poor abuses of the time want
 countenance farewell you shall find me in eastcheap
prince henry farewell thou latter spring farewell allhallown summer
 exit falstaff
poins now my good sweet honey lord ride with us
 tomorrow i have a jest to execute that i cannot
 manage alone falstaff bardolph peto and gadshill
 shall rob those men that we have already waylaid
 yourself and i will not be there and when they
 have the booty if you and i do not rob them cut
 this head off from my shoulders
prince henry how shall we part with them in setting forth
poins why we will set forth before or after them and
 appoint them a place of meeting wherein it is at
 our pleasure to fail and then will they adventure
 upon the exploit themselves which they shall have
 no sooner achieved but we'll set upon them
prince henry yea but tis like that they will know us by our
 horses by our habits and by every other
 appointment to be ourselves
poins tut our horses they shall not see i'll tie them
 in the wood our vizards we will change after we
 leave them and sirrah i have cases of buckram
 for the nonce to immask our noted outward garments
prince henry yea but i doubt they will be too hard for us
poins well for two of them i know them to be as
 truebred cowards as ever turned back and for the
 third if he fight longer than he sees reason i'll
 forswear arms the virtue of this jest will be the
 incomprehensible lies that this same fat rogue will
 tell us when we meet at supper how thirty at
 least he fought with what wards what blows what
 extremities he endured and in the reproof of this
 lies the jest
prince henry well i'll go with thee provide us all things
 necessary and meet me tomorrow night in eastcheap
 there i'll sup farewell
poins farewell my lord
 exit poins
prince henry i know you all and will awhile uphold
 the unyoked humour of your idleness
 yet herein will i imitate the sun
 who doth permit the base contagious clouds
 to smother up his beauty from the world
 that when he please again to be himself
 being wanted he may be more wonder'd at
 by breaking through the foul and ugly mists
 of vapours that did seem to strangle him
 if all the year were playing holidays
 to sport would be as tedious as to work
 but when they seldom come they wish'd for come
 and nothing pleaseth but rare accidents
 so when this loose behavior i throw off
 and pay the debt i never promised
 by how much better than my word i am
 by so much shall i falsify men's hopes
 and like bright metal on a sullen ground
 my reformation glittering o'er my fault
 shall show more goodly and attract more eyes
 than that which hath no foil to set it off
 i'll so offend to make offence a skill
 redeeming time when men think least i will
 exit
 1 king henry iv
act i
scene iii london the palace
 enter the king northumberland worcester hotspur
 sir walter blunt with others
king henry iv my blood hath been too cold and temperate
 unapt to stir at these indignities
 and you have found me for accordingly
 you tread upon my patience but be sure
 i will from henceforth rather be myself
 mighty and to be fear'd than my condition
 which hath been smooth as oil soft as young down
 and therefore lost that title of respect
 which the proud soul ne'er pays but to the proud
earl of worcester our house my sovereign liege little deserves
 the scourge of greatness to be used on it
 and that same greatness too which our own hands
 have holp to make so portly
northumberland my lord
king henry iv worcester get thee gone for i do see
 danger and disobedience in thine eye
 o sir your presence is too bold and peremptory
 and majesty might never yet endure
 the moody frontier of a servant brow
 you have good leave to leave us when we need
 your use and counsel we shall send for you
 exit worcester
 you were about to speak
 to north
northumberland yea my good lord
 those prisoners in your highness name demanded
 which harry percy here at holmedon took
 were as he says not with such strength denied
 as is deliver'd to your majesty
 either envy therefore or misprison
 is guilty of this fault and not my son
hotspur my liege i did deny no prisoners
 but i remember when the fight was done
 when i was dry with rage and extreme toil
 breathless and faint leaning upon my sword
 came there a certain lord neat and trimly dress'd
 fresh as a bridegroom and his chin new reap'd
 show'd like a stubbleland at harvesthome
 he was perfumed like a milliner
 and twixt his finger and his thumb he held
 a pouncetbox which ever and anon
 he gave his nose and took't away again
 who therewith angry when it next came there
 took it in snuff and still he smiled and talk'd
 and as the soldiers bore dead bodies by
 he call'd them untaught knaves unmannerly
 to bring a slovenly unhandsome corse
 betwixt the wind and his nobility
 with many holiday and lady terms
 he question'd me amongst the rest demanded
 my prisoners in your majesty's behalf
 i then all smarting with my wounds being cold
 to be so pester'd with a popinjay
 out of my grief and my impatience
 answer'd neglectingly i know not what
 he should or he should not for he made me mad
 to see him shine so brisk and smell so sweet
 and talk so like a waitinggentlewoman
 of guns and drums and woundsgod save the mark
 and telling me the sovereign'st thing on earth
 was parmaceti for an inward bruise
 and that it was great pity so it was
 this villanous saltpetre should be digg'd
 out of the bowels of the harmless earth
 which many a good tall fellow had destroy'd
 so cowardly and but for these vile guns
 he would himself have been a soldier
 this bald unjointed chat of his my lord
 i answer'd indirectly as i said
 and i beseech you let not his report
 come current for an accusation
 betwixt my love and your high majesty
sir walter blunt the circumstance consider'd good my lord
 whate'er lord harry percy then had said
 to such a person and in such a place
 at such a time with all the rest retold
 may reasonably die and never rise
 to do him wrong or any way impeach
 what then he said so he unsay it now
king henry iv why yet he doth deny his prisoners
 but with proviso and exception
 that we at our own charge shall ransom straight
 his brotherinlaw the foolish mortimer
 who on my soul hath wilfully betray'd
 the lives of those that he did lead to fight
 against that great magician damn'd glendower
 whose daughter as we hear the earl of march
 hath lately married shall our coffers then
 be emptied to redeem a traitor home
 shall we but treason and indent with fears
 when they have lost and forfeited themselves
 no on the barren mountains let him starve
 for i shall never hold that man my friend
 whose tongue shall ask me for one penny cost
 to ransom home revolted mortimer
hotspur revolted mortimer
 he never did fall off my sovereign liege
 but by the chance of war to prove that true
 needs no more but one tongue for all those wounds
 those mouthed wounds which valiantly he took
 when on the gentle severn's sedgy bank
 in single opposition hand to hand
 he did confound the best part of an hour
 in changing hardiment with great glendower
 three times they breathed and three times did
 they drink
 upon agreement of swift severn's flood
 who then affrighted with their bloody looks
 ran fearfully among the trembling reeds
 and hid his crisp head in the hollow bank
 bloodstained with these valiant combatants
 never did base and rotten policy
 colour her working with such deadly wounds
 nor could the noble mortimer
 receive so many and all willingly
 then let not him be slander'd with revolt
king henry iv thou dost belie him percy thou dost belie him
 he never did encounter with glendower
 i tell thee
 he durst as well have met the devil alone
 as owen glendower for an enemy
 art thou not ashamed but sirrah henceforth
 let me not hear you speak of mortimer
 send me your prisoners with the speediest means
 or you shall hear in such a kind from me
 as will displease you my lord northumberland
 we licence your departure with your son
 send us your prisoners or you will hear of it
 exeunt king henry blunt and train
hotspur an if the devil come and roar for them
 i will not send them i will after straight
 and tell him so for i will ease my heart
 albeit i make a hazard of my head
northumberland what drunk with choler stay and pause awhile
 here comes your uncle
 reenter worcester
hotspur speak of mortimer
 zounds i will speak of him and let my soul
 want mercy if i do not join with him
 yea on his part i'll empty all these veins
 and shed my dear blood drop by drop in the dust
 but i will lift the downtrod mortimer
 as high in the air as this unthankful king
 as this ingrate and canker'd bolingbroke
northumberland brother the king hath made your nephew mad
earl of worcester who struck this heat up after i was gone
hotspur he will forsooth have all my prisoners
 and when i urged the ransom once again
 of my wife's brother then his cheek look'd pale
 and on my face he turn'd an eye of death
 trembling even at the name of mortimer
earl of worcester i cannot blame him was not he proclaim'd
 by richard that dead is the next of blood
northumberland he was i heard the proclamation
 and then it was when the unhappy king
 whose wrongs in us god pardondid set forth
 upon his irish expedition
 from whence he intercepted did return
 to be deposed and shortly murdered
earl of worcester and for whose death we in the world's wide mouth
 live scandalized and foully spoken of
hotspur but soft i pray you did king richard then
 proclaim my brother edmund mortimer
 heir to the crown
northumberland he did myself did hear it
hotspur nay then i cannot blame his cousin king
 that wished him on the barren mountains starve
 but shall it be that you that set the crown
 upon the head of this forgetful man
 and for his sake wear the detested blot
 of murderous subornation shall it be
 that you a world of curses undergo
 being the agents or base second means
 the cords the ladder or the hangman rather
 o pardon me that i descend so low
 to show the line and the predicament
 wherein you range under this subtle king
 shall it for shame be spoken in these days
 or fill up chronicles in time to come
 that men of your nobility and power
 did gage them both in an unjust behalf
 as both of yougod pardon ithave done
 to put down richard that sweet lovely rose
 an plant this thorn this canker bolingbroke
 and shall it in more shame be further spoken
 that you are fool'd discarded and shook off
 by him for whom these shames ye underwent
 no yet time serves wherein you may redeem
 your banish'd honours and restore yourselves
 into the good thoughts of the world again
 revenge the jeering and disdain'd contempt
 of this proud king who studies day and night
 to answer all the debt he owes to you
 even with the bloody payment of your deaths
 therefore i say
earl of worcester peace cousin say no more
 and now i will unclasp a secret book
 and to your quickconceiving discontents
 i'll read you matter deep and dangerous
 as full of peril and adventurous spirit
 as to o'erwalk a current roaring loud
 on the unsteadfast footing of a spear
hotspur if he fall in good night or sink or swim
 send danger from the east unto the west
 so honour cross it from the north to south
 and let them grapple o the blood more stirs
 to rouse a lion than to start a hare
northumberland imagination of some great exploit
 drives him beyond the bounds of patience
hotspur by heaven methinks it were an easy leap
 to pluck bright honour from the palefaced moon
 or dive into the bottom of the deep
 where fathomline could never touch the ground
 and pluck up drowned honour by the locks
 so he that doth redeem her thence might wear
 without corrival all her dignities
 but out upon this halffaced fellowship
earl of worcester he apprehends a world of figures here
 but not the form of what he should attend
 good cousin give me audience for a while
hotspur i cry you mercy
earl of worcester those same noble scots
 that are your prisoners
hotspur i'll keep them all
 by god he shall not have a scot of them
 no if a scot would save his soul he shall not
 i'll keep them by this hand
earl of worcester you start away
 and lend no ear unto my purposes
 those prisoners you shall keep
hotspur nay i will that's flat
 he said he would not ransom mortimer
 forbad my tongue to speak of mortimer
 but i will find him when he lies asleep
 and in his ear i'll holla mortimer'
 nay
 i'll have a starling shall be taught to speak
 nothing but mortimer and give it him
 to keep his anger still in motion
earl of worcester hear you cousin a word
hotspur all studies here i solemnly defy
 save how to gall and pinch this bolingbroke
 and that same swordandbuckler prince of wales
 but that i think his father loves him not
 and would be glad he met with some mischance
 i would have him poison'd with a pot of ale
earl of worcester farewell kinsman i'll talk to you
 when you are better temper'd to attend
northumberland why what a waspstung and impatient fool
 art thou to break into this woman's mood
 tying thine ear to no tongue but thine own
hotspur why look you i am whipp'd and scourged with rods
 nettled and stung with pismires when i hear
 of this vile politician bolingbroke
 in richard's timewhat do you call the place
 a plague upon it it is in gloucestershire
 twas where the madcap duke his uncle kept
 his uncle york where i first bow'd my knee
 unto this king of smiles this bolingbroke
 sblood
 when you and he came back from ravenspurgh
northumberland at berkley castle
hotspur you say true
 why what a candy deal of courtesy
 this fawning greyhound then did proffer me
 look'when his infant fortune came to age'
 and gentle harry percy and kind cousin'
 o the devil take such cozeners god forgive me
 good uncle tell your tale i have done
earl of worcester nay if you have not to it again
 we will stay your leisure
hotspur i have done i faith
earl of worcester then once more to your scottish prisoners
 deliver them up without their ransom straight
 and make the douglas son your only mean
 for powers in scotland which for divers reasons
 which i shall send you written be assured
 will easily be granted you my lord
 to northumberland
 your son in scotland being thus employ'd
 shall secretly into the bosom creep
 of that same noble prelate well beloved
 the archbishop
hotspur of york is it not
earl of worcester true who bears hard
 his brother's death at bristol the lord scroop
 i speak not this in estimation
 as what i think might be but what i know
 is ruminated plotted and set down
 and only stays but to behold the face
 of that occasion that shall bring it on
hotspur i smell it upon my life it will do well
northumberland before the game is afoot thou still let'st slip
hotspur why it cannot choose but be a noble plot
 and then the power of scotland and of york
 to join with mortimer ha
earl of worcester and so they shall
hotspur in faith it is exceedingly well aim'd
earl of worcester and tis no little reason bids us speed
 to save our heads by raising of a head
 for bear ourselves as even as we can
 the king will always think him in our debt
 and think we think ourselves unsatisfied
 till he hath found a time to pay us home
 and see already how he doth begin
 to make us strangers to his looks of love
hotspur he does he does we'll be revenged on him
earl of worcester cousin farewell no further go in this
 than i by letters shall direct your course
 when time is ripe which will be suddenly
 i'll steal to glendower and lord mortimer
 where you and douglas and our powers at once
 as i will fashion it shall happily meet
 to bear our fortunes in our own strong arms
 which now we hold at much uncertainty
northumberland farewell good brother we shall thrive i trust
hotspur uncle adieu o let the hours be short
 till fields and blows and groans applaud our sport
 exeunt
 1 king henry iv
act ii
scene i rochester an inn yard
 enter a carrier with a lantern in his hand
first carrier heighho an it be not four by the day i'll be
 hanged charles wain is over the new chimney and
 yet our horse not packed what ostler
ostler within anon anon
first carrier i prithee tom beat cut's saddle put a few flocks
 in the point poor jade is wrung in the withers out
 of all cess
 enter another carrier
second carrier peas and beans are as dank here as a dog and that
 is the next way to give poor jades the bots this
 house is turned upside down since robin ostler died
first carrier poor fellow never joyed since the price of oats
 rose it was the death of him
second carrier i think this be the most villanous house in all
 london road for fleas i am stung like a tench
first carrier like a tench by the mass there is ne'er a king
 christen could be better bit than i have been since
 the first cock
second carrier why they will allow us ne'er a jordan and then we
 leak in your chimney and your chamberlie breeds
 fleas like a loach
first carrier what ostler come away and be hanged
second carrier i have a gammon of bacon and two razors of ginger
 to be delivered as far as charingcross
first carrier god's body the turkeys in my pannier are quite
 starved what ostler a plague on thee hast thou
 never an eye in thy head canst not hear an
 twere not as good deed as drink to break the pate
 on thee i am a very villain come and be hanged
 hast thou no faith in thee
 enter gadshill
gadshill good morrow carriers what's o'clock
first carrier i think it be two o'clock
gadshill i pray thee lend me thy lantern to see my gelding
 in the stable
first carrier nay by god soft i know a trick worth two of that i faith
gadshill i pray thee lend me thine
second carrier ay when can'st tell lend me thy lantern quoth
 he marry i'll see thee hanged first
gadshill sirrah carrier what time do you mean to come to london
second carrier time enough to go to bed with a candle i warrant
 thee come neighbour mugs we'll call up the
 gentleman they will along with company for they
 have great charge
 exeunt carriers
gadshill what ho chamberlain
chamberlain within at hand quoth pickpurse
gadshill that's even as fair asat hand quoth the
 chamberlain for thou variest no more from picking
 of purses than giving direction doth from labouring
 thou layest the plot how
 enter chamberlain
chamberlain good morrow master gadshill it holds current that
 i told you yesternight there's a franklin in the
 wild of kent hath brought three hundred marks with
 him in gold i heard him tell it to one of his
 company last night at supper a kind of auditor one
 that hath abundance of charge too god knows what
 they are up already and call for eggs and butter
 they will away presently
gadshill sirrah if they meet not with saint nicholas'
 clerks i'll give thee this neck
chamberlain no i'll none of it i pray thee keep that for the
 hangman for i know thou worshippest st nicholas
 as truly as a man of falsehood may
gadshill what talkest thou to me of the hangman if i hang
 i'll make a fat pair of gallows for if i hang old
 sir john hangs with me and thou knowest he is no
 starveling tut there are other trojans that thou
 dreamest not of the which for sport sake are
 content to do the profession some grace that would
 if matters should be looked into for their own
 credit sake make all whole i am joined with no
 footland rakers no longstaff sixpenny strikers
 none of these mad mustachio purplehued maltworms
 but with nobility and tranquillity burgomasters and
 great oneyers such as can hold in such as will
 strike sooner than speak and speak sooner than
 drink and drink sooner than pray and yet zounds
 i lie for they pray continually to their saint the
 commonwealth or rather not pray to her but prey
 on her for they ride up and down on her and make
 her their boots
chamberlain what the commonwealth their boots will she hold
 out water in foul way
gadshill she will she will justice hath liquored her we
 steal as in a castle cocksure we have the receipt
 of fernseed we walk invisible
chamberlain nay by my faith i think you are more beholding to
 the night than to fernseed for your walking invisible
gadshill give me thy hand thou shalt have a share in our
 purchase as i am a true man
chamberlain nay rather let me have it as you are a false thief
gadshill go to homo is a common name to all men bid the
 ostler bring my gelding out of the stable farewell
 you muddy knave
 exeunt
 1 king henry iv
act ii
scene ii the highway near gadshill
 enter prince henry and poins
poins come shelter shelter i have removed falstaff's
 horse and he frets like a gummed velvet
prince henry stand close
 enter falstaff
falstaff poins poins and be hanged poins
prince henry peace ye fatkidneyed rascal what a brawling dost
 thou keep
falstaff where's poins hal
prince henry he is walked up to the top of the hill i'll go seek him
falstaff i am accursed to rob in that thief's company the
 rascal hath removed my horse and tied him i know
 not where if i travel but four foot by the squier
 further afoot i shall break my wind well i doubt
 not but to die a fair death for all this if i
 scape hanging for killing that rogue i have
 forsworn his company hourly any time this two and
 twenty years and yet i am bewitched with the
 rogue's company if the rascal hath not given me
 medicines to make me love him i'll be hanged it
 could not be else i have drunk medicines poins
 hal a plague upon you both bardolph peto
 i'll starve ere i'll rob a foot further an twere
 not as good a deed as drink to turn true man and to
 leave these rogues i am the veriest varlet that
 ever chewed with a tooth eight yards of uneven
 ground is threescore and ten miles afoot with me
 and the stonyhearted villains know it well enough
 a plague upon it when thieves cannot be true one to another
 they whistle
 whew a plague upon you all give me my horse you
 rogues give me my horse and be hanged
prince henry peace ye fatguts lie down lay thine ear close
 to the ground and list if thou canst hear the tread
 of travellers
falstaff have you any levers to lift me up again being down
 sblood i'll not bear mine own flesh so far afoot
 again for all the coin in thy father's exchequer
 what a plague mean ye to colt me thus
prince henry thou liest thou art not colted thou art uncolted
falstaff i prithee good prince hal help me to my horse
 good king's son
prince henry out ye rogue shall i be your ostler
falstaff go hang thyself in thine own heirapparent
 garters if i be ta'en i'll peach for this an i
 have not ballads made on you all and sung to filthy
 tunes let a cup of sack be my poison when a jest
 is so forward and afoot too i hate it
 enter gadshill bardolph and peto
gadshill stand
falstaff so i do against my will
poins o tis our setter i know his voice bardolph
 what news
bardolph case ye case ye on with your vizards there s
 money of the king's coming down the hill tis going
 to the king's exchequer
falstaff you lie ye rogue tis going to the king's tavern
gadshill there's enough to make us all
falstaff to be hanged
prince henry sirs you four shall front them in the narrow lane
 ned poins and i will walk lower if they scape
 from your encounter then they light on us
peto how many be there of them
gadshill some eight or ten
falstaff zounds will they not rob us
prince henry what a coward sir john paunch
falstaff indeed i am not john of gaunt your grandfather
 but yet no coward hal
prince henry well we leave that to the proof
poins sirrah jack thy horse stands behind the hedge
 when thou needest him there thou shalt find him
 farewell and stand fast
falstaff now cannot i strike him if i should be hanged
prince henry ned where are our disguises
poins here hard by stand close
 exeunt prince henry and poins
falstaff now my masters happy man be his dole say i
 every man to his business
 enter the travellers
first traveller come neighbour the boy shall lead our horses down
 the hill we'll walk afoot awhile and ease our legs
thieves stand
travellers jesus bless us
falstaff strike down with them cut the villains throats
 ah whoreson caterpillars baconfed knaves they
 hate us youth down with them fleece them
travellers o we are undone both we and ours for ever
falstaff hang ye gorbellied knaves are ye undone no ye
 fat chuffs i would your store were here on
 bacons on what ye knaves young men must live
 you are grandjurors are ye we'll jure ye faith
 here they rob them and bind them exeunt
 reenter prince henry and poins
prince henry the thieves have bound the true men now could thou
 and i rob the thieves and go merrily to london it
 would be argument for a week laughter for a month
 and a good jest for ever
poins stand close i hear them coming
 enter the thieves again
falstaff come my masters let us share and then to horse
 before day an the prince and poins be not two
 arrant cowards there's no equity stirring there's
 no more valour in that poins than in a wildduck
prince henry your money
poins villains
 as they are sharing the prince and poins set upon
 them they all run away and falstaff after a blow
 or two runs away too leaving the booty behind them
prince henry got with much ease now merrily to horse
 the thieves are all scatter'd and possess'd with fear
 so strongly that they dare not meet each other
 each takes his fellow for an officer
 away good ned falstaff sweats to death
 and lards the lean earth as he walks along
 were t not for laughing i should pity him
poins how the rogue roar'd
 exeunt
 1 king henry iv
act ii
scene iii warkworth castle
 enter hotspur solus reading a letter
hotspur but for mine own part my lord i could be well
 contented to be there in respect of the love i bear
 your house he could be contented why is he not
 then in respect of the love he bears our house
 he shows in this he loves his own barn better than
 he loves our house let me see some more the
 purpose you undertake is dangerous'why that's
 certain tis dangerous to take a cold to sleep to
 drink but i tell you my lord fool out of this
 nettle danger we pluck this flower safety the
 purpose you undertake is dangerous the friends you
 have named uncertain the time itself unsorted and
 your whole plot too light for the counterpoise of so
 great an opposition say you so say you so i say
 unto you again you are a shallow cowardly hind and
 you lie what a lackbrain is this by the lord
 our plot is a good plot as ever was laid our
 friends true and constant a good plot good
 friends and full of expectation an excellent plot
 very good friends what a frostyspirited rogue is
 this why my lord of york commends the plot and the
 general course of action zounds an i were now by
 this rascal i could brain him with his lady's fan
 is there not my father my uncle and myself lord
 edmund mortimer my lord of york and owen glendower
 is there not besides the douglas have i not all
 their letters to meet me in arms by the ninth of the
 next month and are they not some of them set
 forward already what a pagan rascal is this an
 infidel ha you shall see now in very sincerity
 of fear and cold heart will he to the king and lay
 open all our proceedings o i could divide myself
 and go to buffets for moving such a dish of
 skim milk with so honourable an action hang him
 let him tell the king we are prepared i will set
 forward tonight
 enter lady percy
 how now kate i must leave you within these two hours
lady percy o my good lord why are you thus alone
 for what offence have i this fortnight been
 a banish'd woman from my harry's bed
 tell me sweet lord what is't that takes from thee
 thy stomach pleasure and thy golden sleep
 why dost thou bend thine eyes upon the earth
 and start so often when thou sit'st alone
 why hast thou lost the fresh blood in thy cheeks
 and given my treasures and my rights of thee
 to thickeyed musing and cursed melancholy
 in thy faint slumbers i by thee have watch'd
 and heard thee murmur tales of iron wars
 speak terms of manage to thy bounding steed
 cry courage to the field and thou hast talk'd
 of sallies and retires of trenches tents
 of palisadoes frontiers parapets
 of basilisks of cannon culverin
 of prisoners ransom and of soldiers slain
 and all the currents of a heady fight
 thy spirit within thee hath been so at war
 and thus hath so bestirr'd thee in thy sleep
 that beads of sweat have stood upon thy brow
 like bubbles in a latedisturbed stream
 and in thy face strange motions have appear'd
 such as we see when men restrain their breath
 on some great sudden hest o what portents are these
 some heavy business hath my lord in hand
 and i must know it else he loves me not
hotspur what ho
 enter servant
 is gilliams with the packet gone
servant he is my lord an hour ago
hotspur hath butler brought those horses from the sheriff
servant one horse my lord he brought even now
hotspur what horse a roan a cropear is it not
servant it is my lord
hotspur that roan shall by my throne
 well i will back him straight o esperance
 bid butler lead him forth into the park
 exit servant
lady percy but hear you my lord
hotspur what say'st thou my lady
lady percy what is it carries you away
hotspur why my horse my love my horse
lady percy out you madheaded ape
 a weasel hath not such a deal of spleen
 as you are toss'd with in faith
 i'll know your business harry that i will
 i fear my brother mortimer doth stir
 about his title and hath sent for you
 to line his enterprise but if you go
hotspur so far afoot i shall be weary love
lady percy come come you paraquito answer me
 directly unto this question that i ask
 in faith i'll break thy little finger harry
 an if thou wilt not tell me all things true
hotspur away
 away you trifler love i love thee not
 i care not for thee kate this is no world
 to play with mammets and to tilt with lips
 we must have bloody noses and crack'd crowns
 and pass them current too god's me my horse
 what say'st thou kate what would'st thou
 have with me
lady percy do you not love me do you not indeed
 well do not then for since you love me not
 i will not love myself do you not love me
 nay tell me if you speak in jest or no
hotspur come wilt thou see me ride
 and when i am on horseback i will swear
 i love thee infinitely but hark you kate
 i must not have you henceforth question me
 whither i go nor reason whereabout
 whither i must i must and to conclude
 this evening must i leave you gentle kate
 i know you wise but yet no farther wise
 than harry percy's wife constant you are
 but yet a woman and for secrecy
 no lady closer for i well believe
 thou wilt not utter what thou dost not know
 and so far will i trust thee gentle kate
lady percy how so far
hotspur not an inch further but hark you kate
 whither i go thither shall you go too
 today will i set forth tomorrow you
 will this content you kate
lady percy it must of force
 exeunt
 1 king henry iv
act ii
scene iv the boar'shead tavern eastcheap
 enter prince henry and poins
prince henry ned prithee come out of that fat room and lend me
 thy hand to laugh a little
poins where hast been hal
prince henry with three or four loggerheads amongst three or four
 score hogsheads i have sounded the very
 basestring of humility sirrah i am sworn brother
 to a leash of drawers and can call them all by
 their christen names as tom dick and francis
 they take it already upon their salvation that
 though i be but the prince of wales yet i am king
 of courtesy and tell me flatly i am no proud jack
 like falstaff but a corinthian a lad of mettle a
 good boy by the lord so they call me and when i
 am king of england i shall command all the good
 lads in eastcheap they call drinking deep dyeing
 scarlet and when you breathe in your watering they
 cry hem and bid you play it off to conclude i
 am so good a proficient in one quarter of an hour
 that i can drink with any tinker in his own language
 during my life i tell thee ned thou hast lost
 much honour that thou wert not with me in this sweet
 action but sweet nedto sweeten which name of
 ned i give thee this pennyworth of sugar clapped
 even now into my hand by an underskinker one that
 never spake other english in his life than eight
 shillings and sixpence and you are welcome with
 this shrill addition anon anon sir score a pint
 of bastard in the halfmoon or so but ned to
 drive away the time till falstaff come i prithee
 do thou stand in some byroom while i question my
 puny drawer to what end he gave me the sugar and do
 thou never leave calling francis that his tale
 to me may be nothing but anon step aside and
 i'll show thee a precedent
poins francis
prince henry thou art perfect
poins francis
 exit poins
 enter francis
francis anon anon sir look down into the pomgarnet ralph
prince henry come hither francis
francis my lord
prince henry how long hast thou to serve francis
francis forsooth five years and as much as to
poins within francis
francis anon anon sir
prince henry five year by'r lady a long lease for the clinking
 of pewter but francis darest thou be so valiant
 as to play the coward with thy indenture and show it
 a fair pair of heels and run from it
francis o lord sir i'll be sworn upon all the books in
 england i could find in my heart
poins within francis
francis anon sir
prince henry how old art thou francis
francis let me seeabout michaelmas next i shall be
poins within francis
francis anon sir pray stay a little my lord
prince henry nay but hark you francis for the sugar thou
 gavest me'twas a pennyworth wast't not
francis o lord i would it had been two
prince henry i will give thee for it a thousand pound ask me
 when thou wilt and thou shalt have it
poins within francis
francis anon anon
prince henry anon francis no francis but tomorrow francis
 or francis o thursday or indeed francis when
 thou wilt but francis
francis my lord
prince henry wilt thou rob this leathern jerkin crystalbutton
 notpated agatering pukestocking caddisgarter
 smoothtongue spanishpouch
francis o lord sir who do you mean
prince henry why then your brown bastard is your only drink
 for look you francis your white canvas doublet
 will sully in barbary sir it cannot come to so much
francis what sir
poins within francis
prince henry away you rogue dost thou not hear them call
 here they both call him the drawer stands amazed
 not knowing which way to go
 enter vintner
vintner what standest thou still and hearest such a
 calling look to the guests within
 exit francis
 my lord old sir john with halfadozen more are
 at the door shall i let them in
prince henry let them alone awhile and then open the door
 exit vintner
 poins
 reenter poins
poins anon anon sir
prince henry sirrah falstaff and the rest of the thieves are at
 the door shall we be merry
poins as merry as crickets my lad but hark ye what
 cunning match have you made with this jest of the
 drawer come what's the issue
prince henry i am now of all humours that have showed themselves
 humours since the old days of goodman adam to the
 pupil age of this present twelve o'clock at midnight
 reenter francis
 what's o'clock francis
francis anon anon sir
 exit
prince henry that ever this fellow should have fewer words than a
 parrot and yet the son of a woman his industry is
 upstairs and downstairs his eloquence the parcel of
 a reckoning i am not yet of percy's mind the
 hotspur of the north he that kills me some six or
 seven dozen of scots at a breakfast washes his
 hands and says to his wife fie upon this quiet
 life i want work o my sweet harry says she
 how many hast thou killed today give my roan
 horse a drench says he and answers some
 fourteen an hour after a trifle a trifle i
 prithee call in falstaff i'll play percy and
 that damned brawn shall play dame mortimer his
 wife rivo says the drunkard call in ribs call in tallow
 enter falstaff gadshill bardolph and peto
 francis following with wine
poins welcome jack where hast thou been
falstaff a plague of all cowards i say and a vengeance too
 marry and amen give me a cup of sack boy ere i
 lead this life long i'll sew nether stocks and mend
 them and foot them too a plague of all cowards
 give me a cup of sack rogue is there no virtue extant
 he drinks
prince henry didst thou never see titan kiss a dish of butter
 pitifulhearted titan that melted at the sweet tale
 of the sun's if thou didst then behold that compound
falstaff you rogue here's lime in this sack too there is
 nothing but roguery to be found in villanous man
 yet a coward is worse than a cup of sack with lime
 in it a villanous coward go thy ways old jack
 die when thou wilt if manhood good manhood be
 not forgot upon the face of the earth then am i a
 shotten herring there live not three good men
 unhanged in england and one of them is fat and
 grows old god help the while a bad world i say
 i would i were a weaver i could sing psalms or any
 thing a plague of all cowards i say still
prince henry how now woolsack what mutter you
falstaff a king's son if i do not beat thee out of thy
 kingdom with a dagger of lath and drive all thy
 subjects afore thee like a flock of wildgeese
 i'll never wear hair on my face more you prince of wales
prince henry why you whoreson round man what's the matter
falstaff are not you a coward answer me to that and poins there
poins zounds ye fat paunch an ye call me coward by the
 lord i'll stab thee
falstaff i call thee coward i'll see thee damned ere i call
 thee coward but i would give a thousand pound i
 could run as fast as thou canst you are straight
 enough in the shoulders you care not who sees your
 back call you that backing of your friends a
 plague upon such backing give me them that will
 face me give me a cup of sack i am a rogue if i
 drunk today
prince henry o villain thy lips are scarce wiped since thou
 drunkest last
falstaff all's one for that
 he drinks
 a plague of all cowards still say i
prince henry what's the matter
falstaff what's the matter there be four of us here have
 ta'en a thousand pound this day morning
prince henry where is it jack where is it
falstaff where is it taken from us it is a hundred upon
 poor four of us
prince henry what a hundred man
falstaff i am a rogue if i were not at halfsword with a
 dozen of them two hours together i have scaped by
 miracle i am eight times thrust through the
 doublet four through the hose my buckler cut
 through and through my sword hacked like a
 handsawecce signum i never dealt better since
 i was a man all would not do a plague of all
 cowards let them speak if they speak more or
 less than truth they are villains and the sons of darkness
prince henry speak sirs how was it
gadshill we four set upon some dozen
falstaff sixteen at least my lord
gadshill and bound them
peto no no they were not bound
falstaff you rogue they were bound every man of them or i
 am a jew else an ebrew jew
gadshill as we were sharing some six or seven fresh men set upon us
falstaff and unbound the rest and then come in the other
prince henry what fought you with them all
falstaff all i know not what you call all but if i fought
 not with fifty of them i am a bunch of radish if
 there were not two or three and fifty upon poor old
 jack then am i no twolegged creature
prince henry pray god you have not murdered some of them
falstaff nay that's past praying for i have peppered two
 of them two i am sure i have paid two rogues
 in buckram suits i tell thee what hal if i tell
 thee a lie spit in my face call me horse thou
 knowest my old ward here i lay and thus i bore my
 point four rogues in buckram let drive at me
prince henry what four thou saidst but two even now
falstaff four hal i told thee four
poins ay ay he said four
falstaff these four came all afront and mainly thrust at
 me i made me no more ado but took all their seven
 points in my target thus
prince henry seven why there were but four even now
falstaff in buckram
poins ay four in buckram suits
falstaff seven by these hilts or i am a villain else
prince henry prithee let him alone we shall have more anon
falstaff dost thou hear me hal
prince henry ay and mark thee too jack
falstaff do so for it is worth the listening to these nine
 in buckram that i told thee of
prince henry so two more already
falstaff their points being broken
poins down fell their hose
falstaff began to give me ground but i followed me close
 came in foot and hand and with a thought seven of
 the eleven i paid
prince henry o monstrous eleven buckram men grown out of two
falstaff but as the devil would have it three misbegotten
 knaves in kendal green came at my back and let drive
 at me for it was so dark hal that thou couldst
 not see thy hand
prince henry these lies are like their father that begets them
 gross as a mountain open palpable why thou
 claybrained guts thou knottypated fool thou
 whoreson obscene grease tallowcatch
falstaff what art thou mad art thou mad is not the truth
 the truth
prince henry why how couldst thou know these men in kendal
 green when it was so dark thou couldst not see thy
 hand come tell us your reason what sayest thou to this
poins come your reason jack your reason
falstaff what upon compulsion zounds an i were at the
 strappado or all the racks in the world i would
 not tell you on compulsion give you a reason on
 compulsion if reasons were as plentiful as
 blackberries i would give no man a reason upon
 compulsion i
prince henry i'll be no longer guilty of this sin this sanguine
 coward this bedpresser this horsebackbreaker
 this huge hill of flesh
falstaff sblood you starveling you elfskin you dried
 neat's tongue you bull's pizzle you stockfish o
 for breath to utter what is like thee you
 tailor'syard you sheath you bowcase you vile
 standingtuck
prince henry well breathe awhile and then to it again and
 when thou hast tired thyself in base comparisons
 hear me speak but this
poins mark jack
prince henry we two saw you four set on four and bound them and
 were masters of their wealth mark now how a plain
 tale shall put you down then did we two set on you
 four and with a word outfaced you from your
 prize and have it yea and can show it you here in
 the house and falstaff you carried your guts
 away as nimbly with as quick dexterity and roared
 for mercy and still run and roared as ever i heard
 bullcalf what a slave art thou to hack thy sword
 as thou hast done and then say it was in fight
 what trick what device what startinghole canst
 thou now find out to hide thee from this open and
 apparent shame
poins come let's hear jack what trick hast thou now
falstaff by the lord i knew ye as well as he that made ye
 why hear you my masters was it for me to kill the
 heirapparent should i turn upon the true prince
 why thou knowest i am as valiant as hercules but
 beware instinct the lion will not touch the true
 prince instinct is a great matter i was now a
 coward on instinct i shall think the better of
 myself and thee during my life i for a valiant
 lion and thou for a true prince but by the lord
 lads i am glad you have the money hostess clap
 to the doors watch tonight pray tomorrow
 gallants lads boys hearts of gold all the titles
 of good fellowship come to you what shall we be
 merry shall we have a play extempore
prince henry content and the argument shall be thy running away
falstaff ah no more of that hal an thou lovest me
 enter hostess
hostess o jesu my lord the prince
prince henry how now my lady the hostess what sayest thou to
 me
hostess marry my lord there is a nobleman of the court at
 door would speak with you he says he comes from
 your father
prince henry give him as much as will make him a royal man and
 send him back again to my mother
falstaff what manner of man is he
hostess an old man
falstaff what doth gravity out of his bed at midnight shall
 i give him his answer
prince henry prithee do jack
falstaff faith and i'll send him packing
 exit falstaff
prince henry now sirs by'r lady you fought fair so did you
 peto so did you bardolph you are lions too you
 ran away upon instinct you will not touch the true
 prince no fie
bardolph faith i ran when i saw others run
prince henry faith tell me now in earnest how came falstaff's
 sword so hacked
peto why he hacked it with his dagger and said he would
 swear truth out of england but he would make you
 believe it was done in fight and persuaded us to do the like
bardolph yea and to tickle our noses with speargrass to
 make them bleed and then to beslubber our garments
 with it and swear it was the blood of true men i
 did that i did not this seven year before i blushed
 to hear his monstrous devices
prince henry o villain thou stolest a cup of sack eighteen years
 ago and wert taken with the manner and ever since
 thou hast blushed extempore thou hadst fire and
 sword on thy side and yet thou rannest away what
 instinct hadst thou for it
bardolph my lord do you see these meteors do you behold
 these exhalations
prince henry i do
bardolph what think you they portend
prince henry hot livers and cold purses
bardolph choler my lord if rightly taken
prince henry no if rightly taken halter
 reenter falstaff
 here comes lean jack here comes barebone
 how now my sweet creature of bombast
 how long is't ago jack since thou sawest thine own knee
falstaff my own knee when i was about thy years hal i was
 not an eagle's talon in the waist i could have
 crept into any alderman's thumbring a plague of
 sighing and grief it blows a man up like a
 bladder there's villanous news abroad here was
 sir john bracy from your father you must to the
 court in the morning that same mad fellow of the
 north percy and he of wales that gave amamon the
 bastinado and made lucifer cuckold and swore the
 devil his true liegeman upon the cross of a welsh
 hookwhat a plague call you him
poins o glendower
falstaff owen owen the same and his soninlaw mortimer
 and old northumberland and that sprightly scot of
 scots douglas that runs o horseback up a hill
 perpendicular
prince henry he that rides at high speed and with his pistol
 kills a sparrow flying
falstaff you have hit it
prince henry so did he never the sparrow
falstaff well that rascal hath good mettle in him he will not run
prince henry why what a rascal art thou then to praise him so
 for running
falstaff o horseback ye cuckoo but afoot he will not budge a foot
prince henry yes jack upon instinct
falstaff i grant ye upon instinct well he is there too
 and one mordake and a thousand bluecaps more
 worcester is stolen away tonight thy father's
 beard is turned white with the news you may buy
 land now as cheap as stinking mackerel
prince henry why then it is like if there come a hot june and
 this civil buffeting hold we shall buy maidenheads
 as they buy hobnails by the hundreds
falstaff by the mass lad thou sayest true it is like we
 shall have good trading that way but tell me hal
 art not thou horrible afeard thou being
 heirapparent could the world pick thee out three
 such enemies again as that fiend douglas that
 spirit percy and that devil glendower art thou
 not horribly afraid doth not thy blood thrill at
 it
prince henry not a whit i faith i lack some of thy instinct
falstaff well thou wert be horribly chid tomorrow when thou
 comest to thy father if thou love me practise an answer
prince henry do thou stand for my father and examine me upon the
 particulars of my life
falstaff shall i content this chair shall be my state
 this dagger my sceptre and this cushion my crown
prince henry thy state is taken for a joinedstool thy golden
 sceptre for a leaden dagger and thy precious rich
 crown for a pitiful bald crown
falstaff well an the fire of grace be not quite out of thee
 now shalt thou be moved give me a cup of sack to
 make my eyes look red that it may be thought i have
 wept for i must speak in passion and i will do it
 in king cambyses vein
prince henry well here is my leg
falstaff and here is my speech stand aside nobility
hostess o jesu this is excellent sport i faith
falstaff weep not sweet queen for trickling tears are vain
hostess o the father how he holds his countenance
falstaff for god's sake lords convey my tristful queen
 for tears do stop the floodgates of her eyes
hostess o jesu he doth it as like one of these harlotry
 players as ever i see
falstaff peace good pintpot peace good ticklebrain
 harry i do not only marvel where thou spendest thy
 time but also how thou art accompanied for though
 the camomile the more it is trodden on the faster
 it grows yet youth the more it is wasted the
 sooner it wears that thou art my son i have
 partly thy mother's word partly my own opinion
 but chiefly a villanous trick of thine eye and a
 foolishhanging of thy nether lip that doth warrant
 me if then thou be son to me here lies the point
 why being son to me art thou so pointed at shall
 the blessed sun of heaven prove a micher and eat
 blackberries a question not to be asked shall
 the sun of england prove a thief and take purses a
 question to be asked there is a thing harry
 which thou hast often heard of and it is known to
 many in our land by the name of pitch this pitch
 as ancient writers do report doth defile so doth
 the company thou keepest for harry now i do not
 speak to thee in drink but in tears not in
 pleasure but in passion not in words only but in
 woes also and yet there is a virtuous man whom i
 have often noted in thy company but i know not his name
prince henry what manner of man an it like your majesty
falstaff a goodly portly man i faith and a corpulent of a
 cheerful look a pleasing eye and a most noble
 carriage and as i think his age some fifty or
 by'r lady inclining to three score and now i
 remember me his name is falstaff if that man
 should be lewdly given he deceiveth me for harry
 i see virtue in his looks if then the tree may be
 known by the fruit as the fruit by the tree then
 peremptorily i speak it there is virtue in that
 falstaff him keep with the rest banish and tell
 me now thou naughty varlet tell me where hast
 thou been this month
prince henry dost thou speak like a king do thou stand for me
 and i'll play my father
falstaff depose me if thou dost it half so gravely so
 majestically both in word and matter hang me up by
 the heels for a rabbitsucker or a poulter's hare
prince henry well here i am set
falstaff and here i stand judge my masters
prince henry now harry whence come you
falstaff my noble lord from eastcheap
prince henry the complaints i hear of thee are grievous
falstaff sblood my lord they are false nay i'll tickle
 ye for a young prince i faith
prince henry swearest thou ungracious boy henceforth ne'er look
 on me thou art violently carried away from grace
 there is a devil haunts thee in the likeness of an
 old fat man a tun of man is thy companion why
 dost thou converse with that trunk of humours that
 boltinghutch of beastliness that swollen parcel
 of dropsies that huge bombard of sack that stuffed
 cloakbag of guts that roasted manningtree ox with
 the pudding in his belly that reverend vice that
 grey iniquity that father ruffian that vanity in
 years wherein is he good but to taste sack and
 drink it wherein neat and cleanly but to carve a
 capon and eat it wherein cunning but in craft
 wherein crafty but in villany wherein villanous
 but in all things wherein worthy but in nothing
falstaff i would your grace would take me with you whom
 means your grace
prince henry that villanous abominable misleader of youth
 falstaff that old whitebearded satan
falstaff my lord the man i know
prince henry i know thou dost
falstaff but to say i know more harm in him than in myself
 were to say more than i know that he is old the
 more the pity his white hairs do witness it but
 that he is saving your reverence a whoremaster
 that i utterly deny if sack and sugar be a fault
 god help the wicked if to be old and merry be a
 sin then many an old host that i know is damned if
 to be fat be to be hated then pharaoh's lean kine
 are to be loved no my good lord banish peto
 banish bardolph banish poins but for sweet jack
 falstaff kind jack falstaff true jack falstaff
 valiant jack falstaff and therefore more valiant
 being as he is old jack falstaff banish not him
 thy harry's company banish not him thy harry's
 company banish plump jack and banish all the world
prince henry i do i will
 a knocking heard
 exeunt hostess francis and bardolph
 reenter bardolph running
bardolph o my lord my lord the sheriff with a most
 monstrous watch is at the door
falstaff out ye rogue play out the play i have much to
 say in the behalf of that falstaff
 reenter the hostess
hostess o jesu my lord my lord
prince henry heigh heigh the devil rides upon a fiddlestick
 what's the matter
hostess the sheriff and all the watch are at the door they
 are come to search the house shall i let them in
falstaff dost thou hear hal never call a true piece of
 gold a counterfeit thou art essentially mad
 without seeming so
prince henry and thou a natural coward without instinct
falstaff i deny your major if you will deny the sheriff
 so if not let him enter if i become not a cart
 as well as another man a plague on my bringing up
 i hope i shall as soon be strangled with a halter as another
prince henry go hide thee behind the arras the rest walk up
 above now my masters for a true face and good
 conscience
falstaff both which i have had but their date is out and
 therefore i'll hide me
prince henry call in the sheriff
 exeunt all except prince henry and peto
 enter sheriff and the carrier
 now master sheriff what is your will with me
sheriff first pardon me my lord a hue and cry
 hath follow'd certain men unto this house
prince henry what men
sheriff one of them is well known my gracious lord
 a gross fat man
carrier as fat as butter
prince henry the man i do assure you is not here
 for i myself at this time have employ'd him
 and sheriff i will engage my word to thee
 that i will by tomorrow dinnertime
 send him to answer thee or any man
 for any thing he shall be charged withal
 and so let me entreat you leave the house
sheriff i will my lord there are two gentlemen
 have in this robbery lost three hundred marks
prince henry it may be so if he have robb'd these men
 he shall be answerable and so farewell
sheriff good night my noble lord
prince henry i think it is good morrow is it not
sheriff indeed my lord i think it be two o'clock
 exeunt sheriff and carrier
prince henry this oily rascal is known as well as paul's go
 call him forth
peto falstafffast asleep behind the arras and
 snorting like a horse
prince henry hark how hard he fetches breath search his pockets
 he searcheth his pockets and findeth certain papers
 what hast thou found
peto nothing but papers my lord
prince henry let's see what they be read them
peto reads item a capon 2s 2d
 item sauce 4d
 item sack two gallons 5s 8d
 item anchovies and sack after supper 2s 6d
 item bread ob
prince henry o monstrous but one halfpennyworth of bread to
 this intolerable deal of sack what there is else
 keep close we'll read it at more advantage there
 let him sleep till day i'll to the court in the
 morning we must all to the wars and thy place
 shall be honourable i'll procure this fat rogue a
 charge of foot and i know his death will be a
 march of twelvescore the money shall be paid
 back again with advantage be with me betimes in
 the morning and so good morrow peto
 exeunt
peto good morrow good my lord
 1 king henry iv
act iii
scene i bangor the archdeacon's house
 enter hotspur worcester mortimer and glendower
mortimer these promises are fair the parties sure
 and our induction full of prosperous hope
hotspur lord mortimer and cousin glendower
 will you sit down
 and uncle worcester a plague upon it
 i have forgot the map
glendower no here it is
 sit cousin percy sit good cousin hotspur
 for by that name as oft as lancaster
 doth speak of you his cheek looks pale and with
 a rising sigh he wisheth you in heaven
hotspur and you in hell as oft as he hears owen glendower spoke of
glendower i cannot blame him at my nativity
 the front of heaven was full of fiery shapes
 of burning cressets and at my birth
 the frame and huge foundation of the earth
 shaked like a coward
hotspur why so it would have done at the same season if
 your mother's cat had but kittened though yourself
 had never been born
glendower i say the earth did shake when i was born
hotspur and i say the earth was not of my mind
 if you suppose as fearing you it shook
glendower the heavens were all on fire the earth did tremble
hotspur o then the earth shook to see the heavens on fire
 and not in fear of your nativity
 diseased nature oftentimes breaks forth
 in strange eruptions oft the teeming earth
 is with a kind of colic pinch'd and vex'd
 by the imprisoning of unruly wind
 within her womb which for enlargement striving
 shakes the old beldam earth and topples down
 steeples and mossgrown towers at your birth
 our grandam earth having this distemperature
 in passion shook
glendower cousin of many men
 i do not bear these crossings give me leave
 to tell you once again that at my birth
 the front of heaven was full of fiery shapes
 the goats ran from the mountains and the herds
 were strangely clamorous to the frighted fields
 these signs have mark'd me extraordinary
 and all the courses of my life do show
 i am not in the roll of common men
 where is he living clipp'd in with the sea
 that chides the banks of england scotland wales
 which calls me pupil or hath read to me
 and bring him out that is but woman's son
 can trace me in the tedious ways of art
 and hold me pace in deep experiments
hotspur i think there's no man speaks better welsh
 i'll to dinner
mortimer peace cousin percy you will make him mad
glendower i can call spirits from the vasty deep
hotspur why so can i or so can any man
 but will they come when you do call for them
glendower why i can teach you cousin to command
 the devil
hotspur and i can teach thee coz to shame the devil
 by telling truth tell truth and shame the devil
 if thou have power to raise him bring him hither
 and i'll be sworn i have power to shame him hence
 o while you live tell truth and shame the devil
mortimer come come no more of this unprofitable chat
glendower three times hath henry bolingbroke made head
 against my power thrice from the banks of wye
 and sandybottom'd severn have i sent him
 bootless home and weatherbeaten back
hotspur home without boots and in foul weather too
 how scapes he agues in the devil's name
glendower come here's the map shall we divide our right
 according to our threefold order ta'en
mortimer the archdeacon hath divided it
 into three limits very equally
 england from trent and severn hitherto
 by south and east is to my part assign'd
 all westward wales beyond the severn shore
 and all the fertile land within that bound
 to owen glendower and dear coz to you
 the remnant northward lying off from trent
 and our indentures tripartite are drawn
 which being sealed interchangeably
 a business that this night may execute
 tomorrow cousin percy you and i
 and my good lord of worcester will set forth
 to meet your father and the scottish power
 as is appointed us at shrewsbury
 my father glendower is not ready yet
 not shall we need his help these fourteen days
 within that space you may have drawn together
 your tenants friends and neighbouring gentlemen
glendower a shorter time shall send me to you lords
 and in my conduct shall your ladies come
 from whom you now must steal and take no leave
 for there will be a world of water shed
 upon the parting of your wives and you
hotspur methinks my moiety north from burton here
 in quantity equals not one of yours
 see how this river comes me cranking in
 and cuts me from the best of all my land
 a huge halfmoon a monstrous cantle out
 i'll have the current in this place damm'd up
 and here the smug and silver trent shall run
 in a new channel fair and evenly
 it shall not wind with such a deep indent
 to rob me of so rich a bottom here
glendower not wind it shall it must you see it doth
mortimer yea but
 mark how he bears his course and runs me up
 with like advantage on the other side
 gelding the opposed continent as much
 as on the other side it takes from you
earl of worcester yea but a little charge will trench him here
 and on this north side win this cape of land
 and then he runs straight and even
hotspur i'll have it so a little charge will do it
glendower i'll not have it alter'd
hotspur will not you
glendower no nor you shall not
hotspur who shall say me nay
glendower why that will i
hotspur let me not understand you then speak it in welsh
glendower i can speak english lord as well as you
 for i was train'd up in the english court
 where being but young i framed to the harp
 many an english ditty lovely well
 and gave the tongue a helpful ornament
 a virtue that was never seen in you
hotspur marry
 and i am glad of it with all my heart
 i had rather be a kitten and cry mew
 than one of these same metre balladmongers
 i had rather hear a brazen canstick turn'd
 or a dry wheel grate on the axletree
 and that would set my teeth nothing on edge
 nothing so much as mincing poetry
 tis like the forced gait of a shuffling nag
glendower come you shall have trent turn'd
hotspur i do not care i'll give thrice so much land
 to any welldeserving friend
 but in the way of bargain mark ye me
 i'll cavil on the ninth part of a hair
 are the indentures drawn shall we be gone
glendower the moon shines fair you may away by night
 i'll haste the writer and withal
 break with your wives of your departure hence
 i am afraid my daughter will run mad
 so much she doteth on her mortimer
 exit glendower
mortimer fie cousin percy how you cross my father
hotspur i cannot choose sometime he angers me
 with telling me of the mouldwarp and the ant
 of the dreamer merlin and his prophecies
 and of a dragon and a finless fish
 a clipwing'd griffin and a moulten raven
 a couching lion and a ramping cat
 and such a deal of skimbleskamble stuff
 as puts me from my faith i tell you what
 he held me last night at least nine hours
 in reckoning up the several devils names
 that were his lackeys i cried hum and well go to'
 but mark'd him not a word o he is as tedious
 as a tired horse a railing wife
 worse than a smoky house i had rather live
 with cheese and garlic in a windmill far
 than feed on cates and have him talk to me
 in any summerhouse in christendom
mortimer in faith he is a worthy gentleman
 exceedingly well read and profited
 in strange concealments valiant as a lion
 and as wondrous affable and as bountiful
 as mines of india shall i tell you cousin
 he holds your temper in a high respect
 and curbs himself even of his natural scope
 when you come cross his humour faith he does
 i warrant you that man is not alive
 might so have tempted him as you have done
 without the taste of danger and reproof
 but do not use it oft let me entreat you
earl of worcester in faith my lord you are too wilfulblame
 and since your coming hither have done enough
 to put him quite beside his patience
 you must needs learn lord to amend this fault
 though sometimes it show greatness courage blood
 and that's the dearest grace it renders you
 yet oftentimes it doth present harsh rage
 defect of manners want of government
 pride haughtiness opinion and disdain
 the least of which haunting a nobleman
 loseth men's hearts and leaves behind a stain
 upon the beauty of all parts besides
 beguiling them of commendation
hotspur well i am school'd good manners be your speed
 here come our wives and let us take our leave
 reenter glendower with the ladies
mortimer this is the deadly spite that angers me
 my wife can speak no english i no welsh
glendower my daughter weeps she will not part with you
 she'll be a soldier too she'll to the wars
mortimer good father tell her that she and my aunt percy
 shall follow in your conduct speedily
 glendower speaks to her in welsh and she
 answers him in the same
glendower she is desperate here a peevish selfwind harlotry
 one that no persuasion can do good upon
 the lady speaks in welsh
mortimer i understand thy looks that pretty welsh
 which thou pour'st down from these swelling heavens
 i am too perfect in and but for shame
 in such a parley should i answer thee
 the lady speaks again in welsh
 i understand thy kisses and thou mine
 and that's a feeling disputation
 but i will never be a truant love
 till i have learned thy language for thy tongue
 makes welsh as sweet as ditties highly penn'd
 sung by a fair queen in a summer's bower
 with ravishing division to her lute
glendower nay if you melt then will she run mad
 the lady speaks again in welsh
mortimer o i am ignorance itself in this
glendower she bids you on the wanton rushes lay you down
 and rest your gentle head upon her lap
 and she will sing the song that pleaseth you
 and on your eyelids crown the god of sleep
 charming your blood with pleasing heaviness
 making such difference twixt wake and sleep
 as is the difference betwixt day and night
 the hour before the heavenlyharness'd team
 begins his golden progress in the east
mortimer with all my heart i'll sit and hear her sing
 by that time will our book i think be drawn
glendower do so
 and those musicians that shall play to you
 hang in the air a thousand leagues from hence
 and straight they shall be here sit and attend
hotspur come kate thou art perfect in lying down come
 quick quick that i may lay my head in thy lap
lady percy go ye giddy goose
 the music plays
hotspur now i perceive the devil understands welsh
 and tis no marvel he is so humorous
 by'r lady he is a good musician
lady percy then should you be nothing but musical for you are
 altogether governed by humours lie still ye thief
 and hear the lady sing in welsh
hotspur i had rather hear lady my brach howl in irish
lady percy wouldst thou have thy head broken
hotspur no
lady percy then be still
hotspur neither'tis a woman's fault
lady percy now god help thee
hotspur to the welsh lady's bed
lady percy what's that
hotspur peace she sings
 here the lady sings a welsh song
hotspur come kate i'll have your song too
lady percy not mine in good sooth
hotspur not yours in good sooth heart you swear like a
 comfitmaker's wife not you in good sooth and
 as true as i live and as god shall mend me and
 as sure as day'
 and givest such sarcenet surety for thy oaths
 as if thou never walk'st further than finsbury
 swear me kate like a lady as thou art
 a good mouthfilling oath and leave in sooth'
 and such protest of peppergingerbread
 to velvetguards and sundaycitizens
 come sing
lady percy i will not sing
hotspur tis the next way to turn tailor or be redbreast
 teacher an the indentures be drawn i'll away
 within these two hours and so come in when ye will
 exit
glendower come come lord mortimer you are as slow
 as hot lord percy is on fire to go
 by this our book is drawn we'll but seal
 and then to horse immediately
mortimer with all my heart
 exeunt
 1 king henry iv
act iii
scene ii london the palace
 enter king henry iv prince henry and others
king henry iv lords give us leave the prince of wales and i
 must have some private conference but be near at hand
 for we shall presently have need of you
 exeunt lords
 i know not whether god will have it so
 for some displeasing service i have done
 that in his secret doom out of my blood
 he'll breed revengement and a scourge for me
 but thou dost in thy passages of life
 make me believe that thou art only mark'd
 for the hot vengeance and the rod of heaven
 to punish my mistreadings tell me else
 could such inordinate and low desires
 such poor such bare such lewd such mean attempts
 such barren pleasures rude society
 as thou art match'd withal and grafted to
 accompany the greatness of thy blood
 and hold their level with thy princely heart
prince henry so please your majesty i would i could
 quit all offences with as clear excuse
 as well as i am doubtless i can purge
 myself of many i am charged withal
 yet such extenuation let me beg
 as in reproof of many tales devised
 which oft the ear of greatness needs must hear
 by smiling pickthanks and base newsmongers
 i may for some things true wherein my youth
 hath faulty wander'd and irregular
 find pardon on my true submission
king henry iv god pardon thee yet let me wonder harry
 at thy affections which do hold a wing
 quite from the flight of all thy ancestors
 thy place in council thou hast rudely lost
 which by thy younger brother is supplied
 and art almost an alien to the hearts
 of all the court and princes of my blood
 the hope and expectation of thy time
 is ruin'd and the soul of every man
 prophetically doth forethink thy fall
 had i so lavish of my presence been
 so commonhackney'd in the eyes of men
 so stale and cheap to vulgar company
 opinion that did help me to the crown
 had still kept loyal to possession
 and left me in reputeless banishment
 a fellow of no mark nor likelihood
 by being seldom seen i could not stir
 but like a comet i was wonder'd at
 that men would tell their children this is he'
 others would say where which is bolingbroke'
 and then i stole all courtesy from heaven
 and dress'd myself in such humility
 that i did pluck allegiance from men's hearts
 loud shouts and salutations from their mouths
 even in the presence of the crowned king
 thus did i keep my person fresh and new
 my presence like a robe pontifical
 ne'er seen but wonder'd at and so my state
 seldom but sumptuous showed like a feast
 and won by rareness such solemnity
 the skipping king he ambled up and down
 with shallow jesters and rash bavin wits
 soon kindled and soon burnt carded his state
 mingled his royalty with capering fools
 had his great name profaned with their scorns
 and gave his countenance against his name
 to laugh at gibing boys and stand the push
 of every beardless vain comparative
 grew a companion to the common streets
 enfeoff'd himself to popularity
 that being daily swallow'd by men's eyes
 they surfeited with honey and began
 to loathe the taste of sweetness whereof a little
 more than a little is by much too much
 so when he had occasion to be seen
 he was but as the cuckoo is in june
 heard not regarded seen but with such eyes
 as sick and blunted with community
 afford no extraordinary gaze
 such as is bent on sunlike majesty
 when it shines seldom in admiring eyes
 but rather drowzed and hung their eyelids down
 slept in his face and render'd such aspect
 as cloudy men use to their adversaries
 being with his presence glutted gorged and full
 and in that very line harry standest thou
 for thou has lost thy princely privilege
 with vile participation not an eye
 but is aweary of thy common sight
 save mine which hath desired to see thee more
 which now doth that i would not have it do
 make blind itself with foolish tenderness
prince henry i shall hereafter my thrice gracious lord
 be more myself
king henry iv for all the world
 as thou art to this hour was richard then
 when i from france set foot at ravenspurgh
 and even as i was then is percy now
 now by my sceptre and my soul to boot
 he hath more worthy interest to the state
 than thou the shadow of succession
 for of no right nor colour like to right
 he doth fill fields with harness in the realm
 turns head against the lion's armed jaws
 and being no more in debt to years than thou
 leads ancient lords and reverend bishops on
 to bloody battles and to bruising arms
 what neverdying honour hath he got
 against renowned douglas whose high deeds
 whose hot incursions and great name in arms
 holds from all soldiers chief majority
 and military title capital
 through all the kingdoms that acknowledge christ
 thrice hath this hotspur mars in swathling clothes
 this infant warrior in his enterprises
 discomfited great douglas ta'en him once
 enlarged him and made a friend of him
 to fill the mouth of deep defiance up
 and shake the peace and safety of our throne
 and what say you to this percy northumberland
 the archbishop's grace of york douglas mortimer
 capitulate against us and are up
 but wherefore do i tell these news to thee
 why harry do i tell thee of my foes
 which art my near'st and dearest enemy
 thou that art like enough through vassal fear
 base inclination and the start of spleen
 to fight against me under percy's pay
 to dog his heels and curtsy at his frowns
 to show how much thou art degenerate
prince henry do not think so you shall not find it so
 and god forgive them that so much have sway'd
 your majesty's good thoughts away from me
 i will redeem all this on percy's head
 and in the closing of some glorious day
 be bold to tell you that i am your son
 when i will wear a garment all of blood
 and stain my favours in a bloody mask
 which wash'd away shall scour my shame with it
 and that shall be the day whene'er it lights
 that this same child of honour and renown
 this gallant hotspur this allpraised knight
 and your unthoughtof harry chance to meet
 for every honour sitting on his helm
 would they were multitudes and on my head
 my shames redoubled for the time will come
 that i shall make this northern youth exchange
 his glorious deeds for my indignities
 percy is but my factor good my lord
 to engross up glorious deeds on my behalf
 and i will call him to so strict account
 that he shall render every glory up
 yea even the slightest worship of his time
 or i will tear the reckoning from his heart
 this in the name of god i promise here
 the which if he be pleased i shall perform
 i do beseech your majesty may salve
 the longgrown wounds of my intemperance
 if not the end of life cancels all bands
 and i will die a hundred thousand deaths
 ere break the smallest parcel of this vow
king henry iv a hundred thousand rebels die in this
 thou shalt have charge and sovereign trust herein
 enter blunt
 how now good blunt thy looks are full of speed
sir walter blunt so hath the business that i come to speak of
 lord mortimer of scotland hath sent word
 that douglas and the english rebels met
 the eleventh of this month at shrewsbury
 a mighty and a fearful head they are
 if promises be kept on every hand
 as ever offer'd foul play in the state
king henry iv the earl of westmoreland set forth today
 with him my son lord john of lancaster
 for this advertisement is five days old
 on wednesday next harry you shall set forward
 on thursday we ourselves will march our meeting
 is bridgenorth and harry you shall march
 through gloucestershire by which account
 our business valued some twelve days hence
 our general forces at bridgenorth shall meet
 our hands are full of business let's away
 advantage feeds him fat while men delay
 exeunt
 1 king henry iv
act iii
scene iii eastcheap the boar'shead tavern
 enter falstaff and bardolph
falstaff bardolph am i not fallen away vilely since this last
 action do i not bate do i not dwindle why my
 skin hangs about me like an like an old lady's loose
 gown i am withered like an old applejohn well
 i'll repent and that suddenly while i am in some
 liking i shall be out of heart shortly and then i
 shall have no strength to repent an i have not
 forgotten what the inside of a church is made of i
 am a peppercorn a brewer's horse the inside of a
 church company villanous company hath been the
 spoil of me
bardolph sir john you are so fretful you cannot live long
falstaff why there is it come sing me a bawdy song make
 me merry i was as virtuously given as a gentleman
 need to be virtuous enough swore little diced not
 above seven times a week went to a bawdyhouse once
 in a quarterof an hour paid money that i
 borrowed three of four times lived well and in
 good compass and now i live out of all order out
 of all compass
bardolph why you are so fat sir john that you must needs
 be out of all compass out of all reasonable
 compass sir john
falstaff do thou amend thy face and i'll amend my life
 thou art our admiral thou bearest the lantern in
 the poop but tis in the nose of thee thou art the
 knight of the burning lamp
bardolph why sir john my face does you no harm
falstaff no i'll be sworn i make as good use of it as many
 a man doth of a death'shead or a memento mori i
 never see thy face but i think upon hellfire and
 dives that lived in purple for there he is in his
 robes burning burning if thou wert any way
 given to virtue i would swear by thy face my oath
 should be by this fire that's god's angel but
 thou art altogether given over and wert indeed but
 for the light in thy face the son of utter
 darkness when thou rannest up gadshill in the
 night to catch my horse if i did not think thou
 hadst been an ignis fatuus or a ball of wildfire
 there's no purchase in money o thou art a
 perpetual triumph an everlasting bonfirelight
 thou hast saved me a thousand marks in links and
 torches walking with thee in the night betwixt
 tavern and tavern but the sack that thou hast
 drunk me would have bought me lights as good cheap
 at the dearest chandler's in europe i have
 maintained that salamander of yours with fire any
 time this two and thirty years god reward me for
 it
bardolph sblood i would my face were in your belly
falstaff godamercy so should i be sure to be heartburned
 enter hostess
 how now dame partlet the hen have you inquired
 yet who picked my pocket
hostess why sir john what do you think sir john do you
 think i keep thieves in my house i have searched
 i have inquired so has my husband man by man boy
 by boy servant by servant the tithe of a hair
 was never lost in my house before
falstaff ye lie hostess bardolph was shaved and lost many
 a hair and i'll be sworn my pocket was picked go
 to you are a woman go
hostess who i no i defy thee god's light i was never
 called so in mine own house before
falstaff go to i know you well enough
hostess no sir john you do not know me sir john i know
 you sir john you owe me money sir john and now
 you pick a quarrel to beguile me of it i bought
 you a dozen of shirts to your back
falstaff dowlas filthy dowlas i have given them away to
 bakers wives and they have made bolters of them
hostess now as i am a true woman holland of eight
 shillings an ell you owe money here besides sir
 john for your diet and bydrinkings and money lent
 you four and twenty pound
falstaff he had his part of it let him pay
hostess he alas he is poor he hath nothing
falstaff how poor look upon his face what call you rich
 let them coin his nose let them coin his cheeks
 ill not pay a denier what will you make a younker
 of me shall i not take mine case in mine inn but i
 shall have my pocket picked i have lost a
 sealring of my grandfather's worth forty mark
hostess o jesu i have heard the prince tell him i know not
 how oft that ring was copper
falstaff how the prince is a jack a sneakcup sblood an
 he were here i would cudgel him like a dog if he
 would say so
 enter prince henry and peto marching and falstaff
 meets them playing on his truncheon like a life
 how now lad is the wind in that door i faith
 must we all march
bardolph yea two and two newgate fashion
hostess my lord i pray you hear me
prince henry what sayest thou mistress quickly how doth thy
 husband i love him well he is an honest man
hostess good my lord hear me
falstaff prithee let her alone and list to me
prince henry what sayest thou jack
falstaff the other night i fell asleep here behind the arras
 and had my pocket picked this house is turned
 bawdyhouse they pick pockets
prince henry what didst thou lose jack
falstaff wilt thou believe me hal three or four bonds of
 forty pound apiece and a sealring of my
 grandfather's
prince henry a trifle some eightpenny matter
hostess so i told him my lord and i said i heard your
 grace say so and my lord he speaks most vilely
 of you like a foulmouthed man as he is and said
 he would cudgel you
prince henry what he did not
hostess there's neither faith truth nor womanhood in me else
falstaff there's no more faith in thee than in a stewed
 prune nor no more truth in thee than in a drawn
 fox and for womanhood maid marian may be the
 deputy's wife of the ward to thee go you thing
 go
hostess say what thing what thing
falstaff what thing why a thing to thank god on
hostess i am no thing to thank god on i would thou
 shouldst know it i am an honest man's wife and
 setting thy knighthood aside thou art a knave to
 call me so
falstaff setting thy womanhood aside thou art a beast to say
 otherwise
hostess say what beast thou knave thou
falstaff what beast why an otter
prince henry an otter sir john why an otter
falstaff why she's neither fish nor flesh a man knows not
 where to have her
hostess thou art an unjust man in saying so thou or any
 man knows where to have me thou knave thou
prince henry thou sayest true hostess and he slanders thee most grossly
hostess so he doth you my lord and said this other day you
 ought him a thousand pound
prince henry sirrah do i owe you a thousand pound
falstaff a thousand pound ha a million thy love is worth
 a million thou owest me thy love
hostess nay my lord he called you jack and said he would
 cudgel you
falstaff did i bardolph
bardolph indeed sir john you said so
falstaff yea if he said my ring was copper
prince henry i say tis copper darest thou be as good as thy word now
falstaff why hal thou knowest as thou art but man i dare
 but as thou art prince i fear thee as i fear the
 roaring of a lion's whelp
prince henry and why not as the lion
falstaff the king is to be feared as the lion dost thou
 think i'll fear thee as i fear thy father nay an
 i do i pray god my girdle break
prince henry o if it should how would thy guts fall about thy
 knees but sirrah there's no room for faith
 truth nor honesty in this bosom of thine it is all
 filled up with guts and midriff charge an honest
 woman with picking thy pocket why thou whoreson
 impudent embossed rascal if there were anything in
 thy pocket but tavernreckonings memorandums of
 bawdyhouses and one poor pennyworth of
 sugarcandy to make thee longwinded if thy pocket
 were enriched with any other injuries but these i
 am a villain and yet you will stand to if you will
 not pocket up wrong art thou not ashamed
falstaff dost thou hear hal thou knowest in the state of
 innocency adam fell and what should poor jack
 falstaff do in the days of villany thou seest i
 have more flesh than another man and therefore more
 frailty you confess then you picked my pocket
prince henry it appears so by the story
falstaff hostess i forgive thee go make ready breakfast
 love thy husband look to thy servants cherish thy
 guests thou shalt find me tractable to any honest
 reason thou seest i am pacified still nay
 prithee be gone
 exit hostess
 now hal to the news at court for the robbery
 lad how is that answered
prince henry o my sweet beef i must still be good angel to
 thee the money is paid back again
falstaff o i do not like that paying back tis a double labour
prince henry i am good friends with my father and may do any thing
falstaff rob me the exchequer the first thing thou doest and
 do it with unwashed hands too
bardolph do my lord
prince henry i have procured thee jack a charge of foot
falstaff i would it had been of horse where shall i find
 one that can steal well o for a fine thief of the
 age of two and twenty or thereabouts i am
 heinously unprovided well god be thanked for
 these rebels they offend none but the virtuous i
 laud them i praise them
prince henry bardolph
bardolph my lord
prince henry go bear this letter to lord john of lancaster to my
 brother john this to my lord of westmoreland
 exit bardolph
 go peto to horse to horse for thou and i have
 thirty miles to ride yet ere dinner time
 exit peto
 jack meet me tomorrow in the temple hall at two
 o'clock in the afternoon
 there shalt thou know thy charge and there receive
 money and order for their furniture
 the land is burning percy stands on high
 and either we or they must lower lie
 exit prince henry
falstaff rare words brave world hostess my breakfast come
 o i could wish this tavern were my drum
 exit
 1 king henry iv
act iv
scene i the rebel camp near shrewsbury
 enter hotspur worcester and douglas
hotspur well said my noble scot if speaking truth
 in this fine age were not thought flattery
 such attribution should the douglas have
 as not a soldier of this season's stamp
 should go so general current through the world
 by god i cannot flatter i do defy
 the tongues of soothers but a braver place
 in my heart's love hath no man than yourself
 nay task me to my word approve me lord
earl of douglas thou art the king of honour
 no man so potent breathes upon the ground
 but i will beard him
hotspur do so and tis well
 enter a messenger with letters
 what letters hast thou therei can but thank you
messenger these letters come from your father
hotspur letters from him why comes he not himself
messenger he cannot come my lord he is grievous sick
hotspur zounds how has he the leisure to be sick
 in such a rustling time who leads his power
 under whose government come they along
messenger his letters bear his mind not i my lord
earl of worcester i prithee tell me doth he keep his bed
messenger he did my lord four days ere i set forth
 and at the time of my departure thence
 he was much fear'd by his physicians
earl of worcester i would the state of time had first been whole
 ere he by sickness had been visited
 his health was never better worth than now
hotspur sick now droop now this sickness doth infect
 the very lifeblood of our enterprise
 tis catching hither even to our camp
 he writes me here that inward sickness
 and that his friends by deputation could not
 so soon be drawn nor did he think it meet
 to lay so dangerous and dear a trust
 on any soul removed but on his own
 yet doth he give us bold advertisement
 that with our small conjunction we should on
 to see how fortune is disposed to us
 for as he writes there is no quailing now
 because the king is certainly possess'd
 of all our purposes what say you to it
earl of worcester your father's sickness is a maim to us
hotspur a perilous gash a very limb lopp'd off
 and yet in faith it is not his present want
 seems more than we shall find it were it good
 to set the exact wealth of all our states
 all at one cast to set so rich a main
 on the nice hazard of one doubtful hour
 it were not good for therein should we read
 the very bottom and the soul of hope
 the very list the very utmost bound
 of all our fortunes
earl of douglas faith and so we should
 where now remains a sweet reversion
 we may boldly spend upon the hope of what
 is to come in
 a comfort of retirement lives in this
hotspur a rendezvous a home to fly unto
 if that the devil and mischance look big
 upon the maidenhead of our affairs
earl of worcester but yet i would your father had been here
 the quality and hair of our attempt
 brooks no division it will be thought
 by some that know not why he is away
 that wisdom loyalty and mere dislike
 of our proceedings kept the earl from hence
 and think how such an apprehension
 may turn the tide of fearful faction
 and breed a kind of question in our cause
 for well you know we of the offering side
 must keep aloof from strict arbitrement
 and stop all sightholes every loop from whence
 the eye of reason may pry in upon us
 this absence of your father's draws a curtain
 that shows the ignorant a kind of fear
 before not dreamt of
hotspur you strain too far
 i rather of his absence make this use
 it lends a lustre and more great opinion
 a larger dare to our great enterprise
 than if the earl were here for men must think
 if we without his help can make a head
 to push against a kingdom with his help
 we shall o'erturn it topsyturvy down
 yet all goes well yet all our joints are whole
earl of douglas as heart can think there is not such a word
 spoke of in scotland as this term of fear
 enter sir richard vernon
hotspur my cousin vernon welcome by my soul
vernon pray god my news be worth a welcome lord
 the earl of westmoreland seven thousand strong
 is marching hitherwards with him prince john
hotspur no harm what more
vernon and further i have learn'd
 the king himself in person is set forth
 or hitherwards intended speedily
 with strong and mighty preparation
hotspur he shall be welcome too where is his son
 the nimblefooted madcap prince of wales
 and his comrades that daff'd the world aside
 and bid it pass
vernon all furnish'd all in arms
 all plumed like estridges that with the wind
 baited like eagles having lately bathed
 glittering in golden coats like images
 as full of spirit as the month of may
 and gorgeous as the sun at midsummer
 wanton as youthful goats wild as young bulls
 i saw young harry with his beaver on
 his cuisses on his thighs gallantly arm'd
 rise from the ground like feather'd mercury
 and vaulted with such ease into his seat
 as if an angel dropp'd down from the clouds
 to turn and wind a fiery pegasus
 and witch the world with noble horsemanship
hotspur no more no more worse than the sun in march
 this praise doth nourish agues let them come
 they come like sacrifices in their trim
 and to the fireeyed maid of smoky war
 all hot and bleeding will we offer them
 the mailed mars shall on his altar sit
 up to the ears in blood i am on fire
 to hear this rich reprisal is so nigh
 and yet not ours come let me taste my horse
 who is to bear me like a thunderbolt
 against the bosom of the prince of wales
 harry to harry shall hot horse to horse
 meet and ne'er part till one drop down a corse
 o that glendower were come
vernon there is more news
 i learn'd in worcester as i rode along
 he cannot draw his power this fourteen days
earl of douglas that's the worst tidings that i hear of yet
worcester ay by my faith that bears a frosty sound
hotspur what may the king's whole battle reach unto
vernon to thirty thousand
hotspur forty let it be
 my father and glendower being both away
 the powers of us may serve so great a day
 come let us take a muster speedily
 doomsday is near die all die merrily
earl of douglas talk not of dying i am out of fear
 of death or death's hand for this onehalf year
 exeunt
 1 king henry iv
act iv
scene ii a public road near coventry
 enter falstaff and bardolph
falstaff bardolph get thee before to coventry fill me a
 bottle of sack our soldiers shall march through
 we'll to sutton co'fil tonight
bardolph will you give me money captain
falstaff lay out lay out
bardolph this bottle makes an angel
falstaff an if it do take it for thy labour and if it make
 twenty take them all i'll answer the coinage bid
 my lieutenant peto meet me at town's end
bardolph i will captain farewell
 exit
falstaff if i be not ashamed of my soldiers i am a soused
 gurnet i have misused the king's press damnably
 i have got in exchange of a hundred and fifty
 soldiers three hundred and odd pounds i press me
 none but good householders yeoman's sons inquire
 me out contracted bachelors such as had been asked
 twice on the banns such a commodity of warm slaves
 as had as lieve hear the devil as a drum such as
 fear the report of a caliver worse than a struck
 fowl or a hurt wildduck i pressed me none but such
 toastsandbutter with hearts in their bellies no
 bigger than pins heads and they have bought out
 their services and now my whole charge consists of
 ancients corporals lieutenants gentlemen of
 companies slaves as ragged as lazarus in the
 painted cloth where the glutton's dogs licked his
 sores and such as indeed were never soldiers but
 discarded unjust servingmen younger sons to
 younger brothers revolted tapsters and ostlers
 tradefallen the cankers of a calm world and a
 long peace ten times more dishonourable ragged than
 an old faced ancient and such have i to fill up
 the rooms of them that have bought out their
 services that you would think that i had a hundred
 and fifty tattered prodigals lately come from
 swinekeeping from eating draff and husks a mad
 fellow met me on the way and told me i had unloaded
 all the gibbets and pressed the dead bodies no eye
 hath seen such scarecrows i'll not march through
 coventry with them that's flat nay and the
 villains march wide betwixt the legs as if they had
 gyves on for indeed i had the most of them out of
 prison there's but a shirt and a half in all my
 company and the half shirt is two napkins tacked
 together and thrown over the shoulders like an
 herald's coat without sleeves and the shirt to say
 the truth stolen from my host at saint alban's or
 the rednose innkeeper of daventry but that's all
 one they'll find linen enough on every hedge
 enter the prince and westmoreland
prince henry how now blown jack how now quilt
falstaff what hal how now mad wag what a devil dost thou
 in warwickshire my good lord of westmoreland i
 cry you mercy i thought your honour had already been
 at shrewsbury
westmoreland faith sir john'tis more than time that i were
 there and you too but my powers are there already
 the king i can tell you looks for us all we must
 away all night
falstaff tut never fear me i am as vigilant as a cat to
 steal cream
prince henry i think to steal cream indeed for thy theft hath
 already made thee butter but tell me jack whose
 fellows are these that come after
falstaff mine hal mine
prince henry i did never see such pitiful rascals
falstaff tut tut good enough to toss food for powder food
 for powder they'll fill a pit as well as better
 tush man mortal men mortal men
westmoreland ay but sir john methinks they are exceeding poor
 and bare too beggarly
falstaff faith for their poverty i know not where they had
 that and for their bareness i am sure they never
 learned that of me
prince henry no i'll be sworn unless you call three fingers on
 the ribs bare but sirrah make haste percy is
 already in the field
falstaff what is the king encamped
westmoreland he is sir john i fear we shall stay too long
falstaff well
 to the latter end of a fray and the beginning of a feast
 fits a dull fighter and a keen guest
 exeunt
 1 king henry iv
act iv
scene iii the rebel camp near shrewsbury
 enter hotspur worcester douglas and vernon
hotspur we'll fight with him tonight
earl of worcester it may not be
earl of douglas you give him then the advantage
vernon not a whit
hotspur why say you so looks he not for supply
vernon so do we
hotspur his is certain ours is doubtful
earl of worcester good cousin be advised stir not tonight
vernon do not my lord
earl of douglas you do not counsel well
 you speak it out of fear and cold heart
vernon do me no slander douglas by my life
 and i dare well maintain it with my life
 if wellrespected honour bid me on
 i hold as little counsel with weak fear
 as you my lord or any scot that this day lives
 let it be seen tomorrow in the battle
 which of us fears
earl of douglas yea or tonight
vernon content
hotspur tonight say i
vernon come come it nay not be i wonder much
 being men of such great leading as you are
 that you foresee not what impediments
 drag back our expedition certain horse
 of my cousin vernon's are not yet come up
 your uncle worcester's horse came but today
 and now their pride and mettle is asleep
 their courage with hard labour tame and dull
 that not a horse is half the half of himself
hotspur so are the horses of the enemy
 in general journeybated and brought low
 the better part of ours are full of rest
earl of worcester the number of the king exceedeth ours
 for god's sake cousin stay till all come in
 the trumpet sounds a parley
 enter sir walter blunt
sir walter blunt i come with gracious offers from the king
 if you vouchsafe me hearing and respect
hotspur welcome sir walter blunt and would to god
 you were of our determination
 some of us love you well and even those some
 envy your great deservings and good name
 because you are not of our quality
 but stand against us like an enemy
sir walter blunt and god defend but still i should stand so
 so long as out of limit and true rule
 you stand against anointed majesty
 but to my charge the king hath sent to know
 the nature of your griefs and whereupon
 you conjure from the breast of civil peace
 such bold hostility teaching his duteous land
 audacious cruelty if that the king
 have any way your good deserts forgot
 which he confesseth to be manifold
 he bids you name your griefs and with all speed
 you shall have your desires with interest
 and pardon absolute for yourself and these
 herein misled by your suggestion
hotspur the king is kind and well we know the king
 knows at what time to promise when to pay
 my father and my uncle and myself
 did give him that same royalty he wears
 and when he was not six and twenty strong
 sick in the world's regard wretched and low
 a poor unminded outlaw sneaking home
 my father gave him welcome to the shore
 and when he heard him swear and vow to god
 he came but to be duke of lancaster
 to sue his livery and beg his peace
 with tears of innocency and terms of zeal
 my father in kind heart and pity moved
 swore him assistance and perform'd it too
 now when the lords and barons of the realm
 perceived northumberland did lean to him
 the more and less came in with cap and knee
 met him in boroughs cities villages
 attended him on bridges stood in lanes
 laid gifts before him proffer'd him their oaths
 gave him their heirs as pages follow'd him
 even at the heels in golden multitudes
 he presently as greatness knows itself
 steps me a little higher than his vow
 made to my father while his blood was poor
 upon the naked shore at ravenspurgh
 and now forsooth takes on him to reform
 some certain edicts and some strait decrees
 that lie too heavy on the commonwealth
 cries out upon abuses seems to weep
 over his country's wrongs and by this face
 this seeming brow of justice did he win
 the hearts of all that he did angle for
 proceeded further cut me off the heads
 of all the favourites that the absent king
 in deputation left behind him here
 when he was personal in the irish war
sir walter blunt tut i came not to hear this
hotspur then to the point
 in short time after he deposed the king
 soon after that deprived him of his life
 and in the neck of that task'd the whole state
 to make that worse suffer'd his kinsman march
 who is if every owner were well placed
 indeed his king to be engaged in wales
 there without ransom to lie forfeited
 disgraced me in my happy victories
 sought to entrap me by intelligence
 rated mine uncle from the councilboard
 in rage dismiss'd my father from the court
 broke oath on oath committed wrong on wrong
 and in conclusion drove us to seek out
 this head of safety and withal to pry
 into his title the which we find
 too indirect for long continuance
sir walter blunt shall i return this answer to the king
hotspur not so sir walter we'll withdraw awhile
 go to the king and let there be impawn'd
 some surety for a safe return again
 and in the morning early shall my uncle
 bring him our purposes and so farewell
sir walter blunt i would you would accept of grace and love
hotspur and may be so we shall
sir walter blunt pray god you do
 exeunt
 1 king henry iv
act iv
scene iv york the archbishop's palace
 enter the archbishop of york and sir michael
archbishop of york hie good sir michael bear this sealed brief
 with winged haste to the lord marshal
 this to my cousin scroop and all the rest
 to whom they are directed if you knew
 how much they do to import you would make haste
sir michael my good lord
 i guess their tenor
archbishop of york like enough you do
 tomorrow good sir michael is a day
 wherein the fortune of ten thousand men
 must bide the touch for sir at shrewsbury
 as i am truly given to understand
 the king with mighty and quickraised power
 meets with lord harry and i fear sir michael
 what with the sickness of northumberland
 whose power was in the first proportion
 and what with owen glendower's absence thence
 who with them was a rated sinew too
 and comes not in o'erruled by prophecies
 i fear the power of percy is too weak
 to wage an instant trial with the king
sir michael why my good lord you need not fear
 there is douglas and lord mortimer
archbishop of york no mortimer is not there
sir michael but there is mordake vernon lord harry percy
 and there is my lord of worcester and a head
 of gallant warriors noble gentlemen
archbishop of york and so there is but yet the king hath drawn
 the special head of all the land together
 the prince of wales lord john of lancaster
 the noble westmoreland and warlike blunt
 and moe corrivals and dear men
 of estimation and command in arms
sir michael doubt not my lord they shall be well opposed
archbishop of york i hope no less yet needful tis to fear
 and to prevent the worst sir michael speed
 for if lord percy thrive not ere the king
 dismiss his power he means to visit us
 for he hath heard of our confederacy
 and tis but wisdom to make strong against him
 therefore make haste i must go write again
 to other friends and so farewell sir michael
 exeunt
 1 king henry iv
act v
scene i king henry iv's camp near shrewsbury
 enter king henry prince henry lord john of
 lancaster earl of westmoreland sir walter blunt
 and falstaff
king henry iv how bloodily the sun begins to peer
 above yon busky hill the day looks pale
 at his distemperature
prince henry the southern wind
 doth play the trumpet to his purposes
 and by his hollow whistling in the leaves
 foretells a tempest and a blustering day
king henry iv then with the losers let it sympathize
 for nothing can seem foul to those that win
 the trumpet sounds
 enter worcester and vernon
 how now my lord of worcester tis not well
 that you and i should meet upon such terms
 as now we meet you have deceived our trust
 and made us doff our easy robes of peace
 to crush our old limbs in ungentle steel
 this is not well my lord this is not well
 what say you to it will you again unknit
 this curlish knot of allabhorred war
 and move in that obedient orb again
 where you did give a fair and natural light
 and be no more an exhaled meteor
 a prodigy of fear and a portent
 of broached mischief to the unborn times
earl of worcester hear me my liege
 for mine own part i could be well content
 to entertain the lagend of my life
 with quiet hours for i do protest
 i have not sought the day of this dislike
king henry iv you have not sought it how comes it then
falstaff rebellion lay in his way and he found it
prince henry peace chewet peace
earl of worcester it pleased your majesty to turn your looks
 of favour from myself and all our house
 and yet i must remember you my lord
 we were the first and dearest of your friends
 for you my staff of office did i break
 in richard's time and posted day and night
 to meet you on the way and kiss your hand
 when yet you were in place and in account
 nothing so strong and fortunate as i
 it was myself my brother and his son
 that brought you home and boldly did outdare
 the dangers of the time you swore to us
 and you did swear that oath at doncaster
 that you did nothing purpose gainst the state
 nor claim no further than your newfall'n right
 the seat of gaunt dukedom of lancaster
 to this we swore our aid but in short space
 it rain'd down fortune showering on your head
 and such a flood of greatness fell on you
 what with our help what with the absent king
 what with the injuries of a wanton time
 the seeming sufferances that you had borne
 and the contrarious winds that held the king
 so long in his unlucky irish wars
 that all in england did repute him dead
 and from this swarm of fair advantages
 you took occasion to be quickly woo'd
 to gripe the general sway into your hand
 forget your oath to us at doncaster
 and being fed by us you used us so
 as that ungentle hull the cuckoo's bird
 useth the sparrow did oppress our nest
 grew by our feeding to so great a bulk
 that even our love durst not come near your sight
 for fear of swallowing but with nimble wing
 we were enforced for safety sake to fly
 out of sight and raise this present head
 whereby we stand opposed by such means
 as you yourself have forged against yourself
 by unkind usage dangerous countenance
 and violation of all faith and troth
 sworn to us in your younger enterprise
king henry iv these things indeed you have articulate
 proclaim'd at marketcrosses read in churches
 to face the garment of rebellion
 with some fine colour that may please the eye
 of fickle changelings and poor discontents
 which gape and rub the elbow at the news
 of hurlyburly innovation
 and never yet did insurrection want
 such watercolours to impaint his cause
 nor moody beggars starving for a time
 of pellmell havoc and confusion
prince henry in both your armies there is many a soul
 shall pay full dearly for this encounter
 if once they join in trial tell your nephew
 the prince of wales doth join with all the world
 in praise of henry percy by my hopes
 this present enterprise set off his head
 i do not think a braver gentleman
 more activevaliant or more valiantyoung
 more daring or more bold is now alive
 to grace this latter age with noble deeds
 for my part i may speak it to my shame
 i have a truant been to chivalry
 and so i hear he doth account me too
 yet this before my father's majesty
 i am content that he shall take the odds
 of his great name and estimation
 and will to save the blood on either side
 try fortune with him in a single fight
king henry iv and prince of wales so dare we venture thee
 albeit considerations infinite
 do make against it no good worcester no
 we love our people well even those we love
 that are misled upon your cousin's part
 and will they take the offer of our grace
 both he and they and you every man
 shall be my friend again and i'll be his
 so tell your cousin and bring me word
 what he will do but if he will not yield
 rebuke and dread correction wait on us
 and they shall do their office so be gone
 we will not now be troubled with reply
 we offer fair take it advisedly
 exeunt worcester and vernon
prince henry it will not be accepted on my life
 the douglas and the hotspur both together
 are confident against the world in arms
king henry iv hence therefore every leader to his charge
 for on their answer will we set on them
 and god befriend us as our cause is just
 exeunt all but prince henry and falstaff
falstaff hal if thou see me down in the battle and bestride
 me so tis a point of friendship
prince henry nothing but a colossus can do thee that friendship
 say thy prayers and farewell
falstaff i would twere bedtime hal and all well
prince henry why thou owest god a death
 exit prince henry
falstaff tis not due yet i would be loath to pay him before
 his day what need i be so forward with him that
 calls not on me well tis no matter honour pricks
 me on yea but how if honour prick me off when i
 come on how then can honour set to a leg no or
 an arm no or take away the grief of a wound no
 honour hath no skill in surgery then no what is
 honour a word what is in that word honour what
 is that honour air a trim reckoning who hath it
 he that died o wednesday doth he feel it no
 doth he hear it no tis insensible then yea
 to the dead but will it not live with the living
 no why detraction will not suffer it therefore
 i'll none of it honour is a mere scutcheon and so
 ends my catechism
 exit
 1 king henry iv
act v
scene ii the rebel camp
 enter worcester and vernon
earl of worcester o no my nephew must not know sir richard
 the liberal and kind offer of the king
vernon twere best he did
earl of worcester then are we all undone
 it is not possible it cannot be
 the king should keep his word in loving us
 he will suspect us still and find a time
 to punish this offence in other faults
 suspicion all our lives shall be stuck full of eyes
 for treason is but trusted like the fox
 who ne'er so tame so cherish'd and lock'd up
 will have a wild trick of his ancestors
 look how we can or sad or merrily
 interpretation will misquote our looks
 and we shall feed like oxen at a stall
 the better cherish'd still the nearer death
 my nephew's trespass may be well forgot
 it hath the excuse of youth and heat of blood
 and an adopted name of privilege
 a hairbrain'd hotspur govern'd by a spleen
 all his offences live upon my head
 and on his father's we did train him on
 and his corruption being ta'en from us
 we as the spring of all shall pay for all
 therefore good cousin let not harry know
 in any case the offer of the king
vernon deliver what you will i'll say tis so
 here comes your cousin
 enter hotspur and douglas
hotspur my uncle is return'd
 deliver up my lord of westmoreland
 uncle what news
earl of worcester the king will bid you battle presently
earl of douglas defy him by the lord of westmoreland
hotspur lord douglas go you and tell him so
earl of douglas marry and shall and very willingly
 exit
earl of worcester there is no seeming mercy in the king
hotspur did you beg any god forbid
earl of worcester i told him gently of our grievances
 of his oathbreaking which he mended thus
 by now forswearing that he is forsworn
 he calls us rebels traitors and will scourge
 with haughty arms this hateful name in us
 reenter the earl of douglas
earl of douglas arm gentlemen to arms for i have thrown
 a brave defiance in king henry's teeth
 and westmoreland that was engaged did bear it
 which cannot choose but bring him quickly on
earl of worcester the prince of wales stepp'd forth before the king
 and nephew challenged you to single fight
hotspur o would the quarrel lay upon our heads
 and that no man might draw short breath today
 but i and harry monmouth tell me tell me
 how show'd his tasking seem'd it in contempt
vernon no by my soul i never in my life
 did hear a challenge urged more modestly
 unless a brother should a brother dare
 to gentle exercise and proof of arms
 he gave you all the duties of a man
 trimm'd up your praises with a princely tongue
 spoke to your deservings like a chronicle
 making you ever better than his praise
 by still dispraising praise valued in you
 and which became him like a prince indeed
 he made a blushing cital of himself
 and chid his truant youth with such a grace
 as if he master'd there a double spirit
 of teaching and of learning instantly
 there did he pause but let me tell the world
 if he outlive the envy of this day
 england did never owe so sweet a hope
 so much misconstrued in his wantonness
hotspur cousin i think thou art enamoured
 on his follies never did i hear
 of any prince so wild a libertine
 but be he as he will yet once ere night
 i will embrace him with a soldier's arm
 that he shall shrink under my courtesy
 arm arm with speed and fellows soldiers friends
 better consider what you have to do
 than i that have not well the gift of tongue
 can lift your blood up with persuasion
 enter a messenger
messenger my lord here are letters for you
hotspur i cannot read them now
 o gentlemen the time of life is short
 to spend that shortness basely were too long
 if life did ride upon a dial's point
 still ending at the arrival of an hour
 an if we live we live to tread on kings
 if die brave death when princes die with us
 now for our consciences the arms are fair
 when the intent of bearing them is just
 enter another messenger
messenger my lord prepare the king comes on apace
hotspur i thank him that he cuts me from my tale
 for i profess not talking only this
 let each man do his best and here draw i
 a sword whose temper i intend to stain
 with the best blood that i can meet withal
 in the adventure of this perilous day
 now esperance percy and set on
 sound all the lofty instruments of war
 and by that music let us all embrace
 for heaven to earth some of us never shall
 a second time do such a courtesy
 the trumpets sound they embrace and exeunt
 1 king henry iv
act v
scene iii plain between the camps
 king henry enters with his power alarum to the
 battle then enter douglas and sir walter blunt
sir walter blunt what is thy name that in the battle thus
 thou crossest me what honour dost thou seek
 upon my head
earl of douglas know then my name is douglas
 and i do haunt thee in the battle thus
 because some tell me that thou art a king
sir walter blunt they tell thee true
earl of douglas the lord of stafford dear today hath bought
 thy likeness for instead of thee king harry
 this sword hath ended him so shall it thee
 unless thou yield thee as my prisoner
sir walter blunt i was not born a yielder thou proud scot
 and thou shalt find a king that will revenge
 lord stafford's death
 they fight douglas kills sir walter blunt
 enter hotspur
hotspur o douglas hadst thou fought at holmedon thus
 never had triumph'd upon a scot
earl of douglas all's done all's won here breathless lies the king
hotspur where
earl of douglas here
hotspur this douglas no i know this face full well
 a gallant knight he was his name was blunt
 semblably furnish'd like the king himself
earl of douglas a fool go with thy soul whither it goes
 a borrow'd title hast thou bought too dear
 why didst thou tell me that thou wert a king
hotspur the king hath many marching in his coats
earl of douglas now by my sword i will kill all his coats
 i'll murder all his wardrobe piece by piece
 until i meet the king
hotspur up and away
 our soldiers stand full fairly for the day
 exeunt
 alarum enter falstaff solus
falstaff though i could scape shotfree at london i fear
 the shot here here's no scoring but upon the pate
 soft who are you sir walter blunt there's honour
 for you here's no vanity i am as hot as moulten
 lead and as heavy too god keep lead out of me i
 need no more weight than mine own bowels i have
 led my ragamuffins where they are peppered there's
 not three of my hundred and fifty left alive and
 they are for the town's end to beg during life
 but who comes here
 enter prince henry
prince henry what stand'st thou idle here lend me thy sword
 many a nobleman lies stark and stiff
 under the hoofs of vaunting enemies
 whose deaths are yet unrevenged i prithee
 lend me thy sword
falstaff o hal i prithee give me leave to breathe awhile
 turk gregory never did such deeds in arms as i have
 done this day i have paid percy i have made him sure
prince henry he is indeed and living to kill thee i prithee
 lend me thy sword
falstaff nay before god hal if percy be alive thou get'st
 not my sword but take my pistol if thou wilt
prince henry give it to me what is it in the case
falstaff ay hal tis hot tis hot there's that will sack a city
 prince henry draws it out and finds it to be a
 bottle of sack
prince henry what is it a time to jest and dally now
 he throws the bottle at him exit
falstaff well if percy be alive i'll pierce him if he do
 come in my way so if he do not if i come in his
 willingly let him make a carbonado of me i like
 not such grinning honour as sir walter hath give me
 life which if i can save so if not honour comes
 unlooked for and there's an end
 exit falstaff
 1 king henry iv
act v
scene iv another part of the field
 alarum excursions enter prince henry lord john
 of lancaster and earl of westmoreland
king henry iv i prithee
 harry withdraw thyself thou bleed'st too much
 lord john of lancaster go you with him
lancaster not i my lord unless i did bleed too
prince henry i beseech your majesty make up
 lest your retirement do amaze your friends
king henry iv i will do so
 my lord of westmoreland lead him to his tent
westmoreland come my lord i'll lead you to your tent
prince henry lead me my lord i do not need your help
 and god forbid a shallow scratch should drive
 the prince of wales from such a field as this
 where stain'd nobility lies trodden on
 and rebels arms triumph in massacres
lancaster we breathe too long come cousin westmoreland
 our duty this way lies for god's sake come
 exeunt lancaster and westmoreland
prince henry by god thou hast deceived me lancaster
 i did not think thee lord of such a spirit
 before i loved thee as a brother john
 but now i do respect thee as my soul
king henry iv i saw him hold lord percy at the point
 with lustier maintenance than i did look for
 of such an ungrown warrior
prince henry o this boy
 lends mettle to us all
 exit
 enter douglas
earl of douglas another king they grow like hydra's heads
 i am the douglas fatal to all those
 that wear those colours on them what art thou
 that counterfeit'st the person of a king
king henry iv the king himself who douglas grieves at heart
 so many of his shadows thou hast met
 and not the very king i have two boys
 seek percy and thyself about the field
 but seeing thou fall'st on me so luckily
 i will assay thee so defend thyself
earl of douglas i fear thou art another counterfeit
 and yet in faith thou bear'st thee like a king
 but mine i am sure thou art whoe'er thou be
 and thus i win thee
 they fight king henry being in danger prince
 henry enters
prince henry hold up thy head vile scot or thou art like
 never to hold it up again the spirits
 of valiant shirley stafford blunt are in my arms
 it is the prince of wales that threatens thee
 who never promiseth but he means to pay
 they fight douglas flies
 cheerly my lord how fares your grace
 sir nicholas gawsey hath for succor sent
 and so hath clifton i'll to clifton straight
king henry iv stay and breathe awhile
 thou hast redeem'd thy lost opinion
 and show'd thou makest some tender of my life
 in this fair rescue thou hast brought to me
prince henry o god they did me too much injury
 that ever said i hearken'd for your death
 if it were so i might have let alone
 the insulting hand of douglas over you
 which would have been as speedy in your end
 as all the poisonous potions in the world
 and saved the treacherous labour of your son
king henry iv make up to clifton i'll to sir nicholas gawsey
 exit
 enter hotspur
hotspur if i mistake not thou art harry monmouth
prince henry thou speak'st as if i would deny my name
hotspur my name is harry percy
prince henry why then i see
 a very valiant rebel of the name
 i am the prince of wales and think not percy
 to share with me in glory any more
 two stars keep not their motion in one sphere
 nor can one england brook a double reign
 of harry percy and the prince of wales
hotspur nor shall it harry for the hour is come
 to end the one of us and would to god
 thy name in arms were now as great as mine
prince henry i'll make it greater ere i part from thee
 and all the budding honours on thy crest
 i'll crop to make a garland for my head
hotspur i can no longer brook thy vanities
 they fight
 enter falstaff
falstaff well said hal to it hal nay you shall find no
 boy's play here i can tell you
 reenter douglas he fights with falstaff
 who falls down as if he were dead and exit
 douglas hotspur is wounded and falls
hotspur o harry thou hast robb'd me of my youth
 i better brook the loss of brittle life
 than those proud titles thou hast won of me
 they wound my thoughts worse than sword my flesh
 but thought's the slave of life and life time's fool
 and time that takes survey of all the world
 must have a stop o i could prophesy
 but that the earthy and cold hand of death
 lies on my tongue no percy thou art dust
 and food for
 dies
prince henry for worms brave percy fare thee well great heart
 illweaved ambition how much art thou shrunk
 when that this body did contain a spirit
 a kingdom for it was too small a bound
 but now two paces of the vilest earth
 is room enough this earth that bears thee dead
 bears not alive so stout a gentleman
 if thou wert sensible of courtesy
 i should not make so dear a show of zeal
 but let my favours hide thy mangled face
 and even in thy behalf i'll thank myself
 for doing these fair rites of tenderness
 adieu and take thy praise with thee to heaven
 thy ignominy sleep with thee in the grave
 but not remember'd in thy epitaph
 he spieth falstaff on the ground
 what old acquaintance could not all this flesh
 keep in a little life poor jack farewell
 i could have better spared a better man
 o i should have a heavy miss of thee
 if i were much in love with vanity
 death hath not struck so fat a deer today
 though many dearer in this bloody fray
 embowell'd will i see thee by and by
 till then in blood by noble percy lie
 exit prince henry
falstaff rising up embowelled if thou embowel me today
 i'll give you leave to powder me and eat me too
 tomorrow sblood'twas time to counterfeit or
 that hot termagant scot had paid me scot and lot too
 counterfeit i lie i am no counterfeit to die
 is to be a counterfeit for he is but the
 counterfeit of a man who hath not the life of a man
 but to counterfeit dying when a man thereby
 liveth is to be no counterfeit but the true and
 perfect image of life indeed the better part of
 valour is discretion in the which better part i
 have saved my life'zounds i am afraid of this
 gunpowder percy though he be dead how if he
 should counterfeit too and rise by my faith i am
 afraid he would prove the better counterfeit
 therefore i'll make him sure yea and i'll swear i
 killed him why may not he rise as well as i
 nothing confutes me but eyes and nobody sees me
 therefore sirrah
 stabbing him
 with a new wound in your thigh come you along with me
 takes up hotspur on his back
 reenter prince henry and lord john of lancaster
prince henry come brother john full bravely hast thou flesh'd
 thy maiden sword
lancaster but soft whom have we here
 did you not tell me this fat man was dead
prince henry i did i saw him dead
 breathless and bleeding on the ground art
 thou alive
 or is it fantasy that plays upon our eyesight
 i prithee speak we will not trust our eyes
 without our ears thou art not what thou seem'st
falstaff no that's certain i am not a double man but if i
 be not jack falstaff then am i a jack there is percy
 throwing the body down
 if your father will do me any honour so if not let
 him kill the next percy himself i look to be either
 earl or duke i can assure you
prince henry why percy i killed myself and saw thee dead
falstaff didst thou lord lord how this world is given to
 lying i grant you i was down and out of breath
 and so was he but we rose both at an instant and
 fought a long hour by shrewsbury clock if i may be
 believed so if not let them that should reward
 valour bear the sin upon their own heads i'll take
 it upon my death i gave him this wound in the
 thigh if the man were alive and would deny it
 zounds i would make him eat a piece of my sword
lancaster this is the strangest tale that ever i heard
prince henry this is the strangest fellow brother john
 come bring your luggage nobly on your back
 for my part if a lie may do thee grace
 i'll gild it with the happiest terms i have
 a retreat is sounded
 the trumpet sounds retreat the day is ours
 come brother let us to the highest of the field
 to see what friends are living who are dead
 exeunt prince henry and lancaster
falstaff i'll follow as they say for reward he that
 rewards me god reward him if i do grow great
 i'll grow less for i'll purge and leave sack and
 live cleanly as a nobleman should do
 exit
 1 king henry iv
act v
scene v another part of the field
 the trumpets sound enter king henry iv prince
 henry lord john lancaster earl of westmoreland
 with worcester and vernon prisoners
king henry iv thus ever did rebellion find rebuke
 illspirited worcester did not we send grace
 pardon and terms of love to all of you
 and wouldst thou turn our offers contrary
 misuse the tenor of thy kinsman's trust
 three knights upon our party slain today
 a noble earl and many a creature else
 had been alive this hour
 if like a christian thou hadst truly borne
 betwixt our armies true intelligence
earl of worcester what i have done my safety urged me to
 and i embrace this fortune patiently
 since not to be avoided it falls on me
king henry iv bear worcester to the death and vernon too
 other offenders we will pause upon
 exeunt worcester and vernon guarded
 how goes the field
prince henry the noble scot lord douglas when he saw
 the fortune of the day quite turn'd from him
 the noble percy slain and all his men
 upon the foot of fear fled with the rest
 and falling from a hill he was so bruised
 that the pursuers took him at my tent
 the douglas is and i beseech your grace
 i may dispose of him
king henry iv with all my heart
prince henry then brother john of lancaster to you
 this honourable bounty shall belong
 go to the douglas and deliver him
 up to his pleasure ransomless and free
 his valour shown upon our crests today
 hath taught us how to cherish such high deeds
 even in the bosom of our adversaries
lancaster i thank your grace for this high courtesy
 which i shall give away immediately
king henry iv then this remains that we divide our power
 you son john and my cousin westmoreland
 towards york shall bend you with your dearest speed
 to meet northumberland and the prelate scroop
 who as we hear are busily in arms
 myself and you son harry will towards wales
 to fight with glendower and the earl of march
 rebellion in this land shall lose his sway
 meeting the cheque of such another day
 and since this business so fair is done
 let us not leave till all our own be won
 exeunt
 1 king henry vi
 dramatis personae
king
henry the sixth king henry vi
duke of gloucester uncle to the king and protector gloucester
duke of bedford uncle to the king and regent of france bedford
thomas beaufort duke of exeter greatuncle to the king exeter
henry beaufort greatuncle to the king bishop of winchester and
 afterwards cardinal bishop of winchester
john beaufort earl afterwards duke of somerset somerset
richard
plantagenet son of richard late earl of cambridge richard
 plantagenet afterwards duke of york
 york
earl of warwick warwick
earl of salisbury salisbury
earl of suffolk suffolk
lord talbot afterwards earl of shrewsbury talbot
john talbot lord talbot's son
edmund mortimer earl of march mortimer
sir john fastolfe fastolfe
sir william lucy lucy
sir
william glansdale glandsdale
sir
thomas gargrave gargrave
mayor of london mayor
woodvile lieutenant of the tower
vernon of the whiterose or york faction
basset of the redrose or lancaster faction
 a lawyer lawyer
 mortimer's keepers first gaoler
charles dauphin and afterwards king of france
reignier duke of anjou and titular king of naples
duke of burgundy burgundy
duke of alencon alencon
bastard of orleans
 governor of paris
 mastergunner of orleans mastergunner
 and his son boy
 general of the french forces in bourdeaux general
 a french sergeant sargeant
 a porter
 an old shepherd father to joan la pucelle shepherd
margaret daughter to reignier afterwards married to king henry
countess
of auvergne
joan la pucelle commonly called joan of arc
 lords warders of the tower heralds officers
 soldiers messengers and attendants
 first warder
 second warder
 captain
 officer
 soldier
 first soldier
 watch
 scout
 first sentinel
 servant
 first servingman
 second servingman
 third servingman
 fiends appearing to la pucelle
scene partly in england and partly in france
 1 king henry vi
act i
scene i westminster abbey
 dead march enter the funeral of king henry the
 fifth attended on by dukes of bedford regent of
 france gloucester protector and exeter earl of
 warwick the bishop of winchester heralds &c
bedford hung be the heavens with black yield day to night
 comets importing change of times and states
 brandish your crystal tresses in the sky
 and with them scourge the bad revolting stars
 that have consented unto henry's death
 king henry the fifth too famous to live long
 england ne'er lost a king of so much worth
gloucester england ne'er had a king until his time
 virtue he had deserving to command
 his brandish'd sword did blind men with his beams
 his arms spread wider than a dragon's wings
 his sparking eyes replete with wrathful fire
 more dazzled and drove back his enemies
 than midday sun fierce bent against their faces
 what should i say his deeds exceed all speech
 he ne'er lift up his hand but conquered
exeter we mourn in black why mourn we not in blood
 henry is dead and never shall revive
 upon a wooden coffin we attend
 and death's dishonourable victory
 we with our stately presence glorify
 like captives bound to a triumphant car
 what shall we curse the planets of mishap
 that plotted thus our glory's overthrow
 or shall we think the subtlewitted french
 conjurers and sorcerers that afraid of him
 by magic verses have contrived his end
bishop
of winchester he was a king bless'd of the king of kings
 unto the french the dreadful judgementday
 so dreadful will not be as was his sight
 the battles of the lord of hosts he fought
 the church's prayers made him so prosperous
gloucester the church where is it had not churchmen pray'd
 his thread of life had not so soon decay'd
 none do you like but an effeminate prince
 whom like a schoolboy you may overawe
bishop
of winchester gloucester whate'er we like thou art protector
 and lookest to command the prince and realm
 thy wife is proud she holdeth thee in awe
 more than god or religious churchmen may
gloucester name not religion for thou lovest the flesh
 and ne'er throughout the year to church thou go'st
 except it be to pray against thy foes
bedford cease cease these jars and rest your minds in peace
 let's to the altar heralds wait on us
 instead of gold we'll offer up our arms
 since arms avail not now that henry's dead
 posterity await for wretched years
 when at their mothers moist eyes babes shall suck
 our isle be made a nourish of salt tears
 and none but women left to wail the dead
 henry the fifth thy ghost i invocate
 prosper this realm keep it from civil broils
 combat with adverse planets in the heavens
 a far more glorious star thy soul will make
 than julius caesar or bright
 enter a messenger
messenger my honourable lords health to you all
 sad tidings bring i to you out of france
 of loss of slaughter and discomfiture
 guienne champagne rheims orleans
 paris guysors poictiers are all quite lost
bedford what say'st thou man before dead henry's corse
 speak softly or the loss of those great towns
 will make him burst his lead and rise from death
gloucester is paris lost is rouen yielded up
 if henry were recall'd to life again
 these news would cause him once more yield the ghost
exeter how were they lost what treachery was used
messenger no treachery but want of men and money
 amongst the soldiers this is muttered
 that here you maintain several factions
 and whilst a field should be dispatch'd and fought
 you are disputing of your generals
 one would have lingering wars with little cost
 another would fly swift but wanteth wings
 a third thinks without expense at all
 by guileful fair words peace may be obtain'd
 awake awake english nobility
 let not sloth dim your horrors newbegot
 cropp'd are the flowerdeluces in your arms
 of england's coat one half is cut away
exeter were our tears wanting to this funeral
 these tidings would call forth their flowing tides
bedford me they concern regent i am of france
 give me my steeled coat i'll fight for france
 away with these disgraceful wailing robes
 wounds will i lend the french instead of eyes
 to weep their intermissive miseries
 enter to them another messenger
messenger lords view these letters full of bad mischance
 france is revolted from the english quite
 except some petty towns of no import
 the dauphin charles is crowned king of rheims
 the bastard of orleans with him is join'd
 reignier duke of anjou doth take his part
 the duke of alencon flieth to his side
exeter the dauphin crowned king all fly to him
 o whither shall we fly from this reproach
gloucester we will not fly but to our enemies throats
 bedford if thou be slack i'll fight it out
bedford gloucester why doubt'st thou of my forwardness
 an army have i muster'd in my thoughts
 wherewith already france is overrun
 enter another messenger
messenger my gracious lords to add to your laments
 wherewith you now bedew king henry's hearse
 i must inform you of a dismal fight
 betwixt the stout lord talbot and the french
bishop
of winchester what wherein talbot overcame is't so
messenger o no wherein lord talbot was o'erthrown
 the circumstance i'll tell you more at large
 the tenth of august last this dreadful lord
 retiring from the siege of orleans
 having full scarce six thousand in his troop
 by three and twenty thousand of the french
 was round encompassed and set upon
 no leisure had he to enrank his men
 he wanted pikes to set before his archers
 instead whereof sharp stakes pluck'd out of hedges
 they pitched in the ground confusedly
 to keep the horsemen off from breaking in
 more than three hours the fight continued
 where valiant talbot above human thought
 enacted wonders with his sword and lance
 hundreds he sent to hell and none durst stand him
 here there and every where enraged he flew
 the french exclaim'd the devil was in arms
 all the whole army stood agazed on him
 his soldiers spying his undaunted spirit
 a talbot a talbot cried out amain
 and rush'd into the bowels of the battle
 here had the conquest fully been seal'd up
 if sir john fastolfe had not play'd the coward
 he being in the vaward placed behind
 with purpose to relieve and follow them
 cowardly fled not having struck one stroke
 hence grew the general wreck and massacre
 enclosed were they with their enemies
 a base walloon to win the dauphin's grace
 thrust talbot with a spear into the back
 whom all france with their chief assembled strength
 durst not presume to look once in the face
bedford is talbot slain then i will slay myself
 for living idly here in pomp and ease
 whilst such a worthy leader wanting aid
 unto his dastard foemen is betray'd
messenger o no he lives but is took prisoner
 and lord scales with him and lord hungerford
 most of the rest slaughter'd or took likewise
bedford his ransom there is none but i shall pay
 i'll hale the dauphin headlong from his throne
 his crown shall be the ransom of my friend
 four of their lords i'll change for one of ours
 farewell my masters to my task will i
 bonfires in france forthwith i am to make
 to keep our great saint george's feast withal
 ten thousand soldiers with me i will take
 whose bloody deeds shall make all europe quake
messenger so you had need for orleans is besieged
 the english army is grown weak and faint
 the earl of salisbury craveth supply
 and hardly keeps his men from mutiny
 since they so few watch such a multitude
exeter remember lords your oaths to henry sworn
 either to quell the dauphin utterly
 or bring him in obedience to your yoke
bedford i do remember it and here take my leave
 to go about my preparation
 exit
gloucester i'll to the tower with all the haste i can
 to view the artillery and munition
 and then i will proclaim young henry king
 exit
exeter to eltham will i where the young king is
 being ordain'd his special governor
 and for his safety there i'll best devise
 exit
bishop
of winchester each hath his place and function to attend
 i am left out for me nothing remains
 but long i will not be jack out of office
 the king from eltham i intend to steal
 and sit at chiefest stern of public weal
 exeunt
 1 king henry vi
act i
scene ii france before orleans
 sound a flourish enter charles alencon and
 reignier marching with drum and soldiers
charles mars his true moving even as in the heavens
 so in the earth to this day is not known
 late did he shine upon the english side
 now we are victors upon us he smiles
 what towns of any moment but we have
 at pleasure here we lie near orleans
 otherwhiles the famish'd english like pale ghosts
 faintly besiege us one hour in a month
alencon they want their porridge and their fat bullbeeves
 either they must be dieted like mules
 and have their provender tied to their mouths
 or piteous they will look like drowned mice
reignier let's raise the siege why live we idly here
 talbot is taken whom we wont to fear
 remaineth none but madbrain'd salisbury
 and he may well in fretting spend his gall
 nor men nor money hath he to make war
charles sound sound alarum we will rush on them
 now for the honour of the forlorn french
 him i forgive my death that killeth me
 when he sees me go back one foot or fly
 exeunt
 here alarum they are beaten back by the english
 with great loss reenter charles alencon and reignier
charles who ever saw the like what men have i
 dogs cowards dastards i would ne'er have fled
 but that they left me midst my enemies
reignier salisbury is a desperate homicide
 he fighteth as one weary of his life
 the other lords like lions wanting food
 do rush upon us as their hungry prey
alencon froissart a countryman of ours records
 england all olivers and rowlands bred
 during the time edward the third did reign
 more truly now may this be verified
 for none but samsons and goliases
 it sendeth forth to skirmish one to ten
 lean rawboned rascals who would e'er suppose
 they had such courage and audacity
charles let's leave this town for they are harebrain'd slaves
 and hunger will enforce them to be more eager
 of old i know them rather with their teeth
 the walls they'll tear down than forsake the siege
reignier i think by some odd gimmors or device
 their arms are set like clocks stiff to strike on
 else ne'er could they hold out so as they do
 by my consent we'll even let them alone
alencon be it so
 enter the bastard of orleans
bastard of orleans where's the prince dauphin i have news for him
charles bastard of orleans thrice welcome to us
bastard of orleans methinks your looks are sad your cheer appall'd
 hath the late overthrow wrought this offence
 be not dismay'd for succor is at hand
 a holy maid hither with me i bring
 which by a vision sent to her from heaven
 ordained is to raise this tedious siege
 and drive the english forth the bounds of france
 the spirit of deep prophecy she hath
 exceeding the nine sibyls of old rome
 what's past and what's to come she can descry
 speak shall i call her in believe my words
 for they are certain and unfallible
charles go call her in
 exit bastard of orleans
 but first to try her skill
 reignier stand thou as dauphin in my place
 question her proudly let thy looks be stern
 by this means shall we sound what skill she hath
 reenter the bastard of orleans with joan la pucelle
reignier fair maid is't thou wilt do these wondrous feats
joan la pucelle reignier is't thou that thinkest to beguile me
 where is the dauphin come come from behind
 i know thee well though never seen before
 be not amazed there's nothing hid from me
 in private will i talk with thee apart
 stand back you lords and give us leave awhile
reignier she takes upon her bravely at first dash
joan la pucelle dauphin i am by birth a shepherd's daughter
 my wit untrain'd in any kind of art
 heaven and our lady gracious hath it pleased
 to shine on my contemptible estate
 lo whilst i waited on my tender lambs
 and to sun's parching heat display'd my cheeks
 god's mother deigned to appear to me
 and in a vision full of majesty
 will'd me to leave my base vocation
 and free my country from calamity
 her aid she promised and assured success
 in complete glory she reveal'd herself
 and whereas i was black and swart before
 with those clear rays which she infused on me
 that beauty am i bless'd with which you see
 ask me what question thou canst possible
 and i will answer unpremeditated
 my courage try by combat if thou darest
 and thou shalt find that i exceed my sex
 resolve on this thou shalt be fortunate
 if thou receive me for thy warlike mate
charles thou hast astonish'd me with thy high terms
 only this proof i'll of thy valour make
 in single combat thou shalt buckle with me
 and if thou vanquishest thy words are true
 otherwise i renounce all confidence
joan la pucelle i am prepared here is my keenedged sword
 deck'd with five flowerdeluces on each side
 the which at touraine in saint katharine's
 churchyard
 out of a great deal of old iron i chose forth
charles then come o god's name i fear no woman
joan la pucelle and while i live i'll ne'er fly from a man
 here they fight and joan la pucelle overcomes
charles stay stay thy hands thou art an amazon
 and fightest with the sword of deborah
joan la pucelle christ's mother helps me else i were too weak
charles whoe'er helps thee tis thou that must help me
 impatiently i burn with thy desire
 my heart and hands thou hast at once subdued
 excellent pucelle if thy name be so
 let me thy servant and not sovereign be
 tis the french dauphin sueth to thee thus
joan la pucelle i must not yield to any rites of love
 for my profession's sacred from above
 when i have chased all thy foes from hence
 then will i think upon a recompense
charles meantime look gracious on thy prostrate thrall
reignier my lord methinks is very long in talk
alencon doubtless he shrives this woman to her smock
 else ne'er could he so long protract his speech
reignier shall we disturb him since he keeps no mean
alencon he may mean more than we poor men do know
 these women are shrewd tempters with their tongues
reignier my lord where are you what devise you on
 shall we give over orleans or no
joan la pucelle why no i say distrustful recreants
 fight till the last gasp i will be your guard
charles what she says i'll confirm we'll fight it out
joan la pucelle assign'd am i to be the english scourge
 this night the siege assuredly i'll raise
 expect saint martin's summer halcyon days
 since i have entered into these wars
 glory is like a circle in the water
 which never ceaseth to enlarge itself
 till by broad spreading it disperse to nought
 with henry's death the english circle ends
 dispersed are the glories it included
 now am i like that proud insulting ship
 which caesar and his fortune bare at once
charles was mahomet inspired with a dove
 thou with an eagle art inspired then
 helen the mother of great constantine
 nor yet saint philip's daughters were like thee
 bright star of venus fall'n down on the earth
 how may i reverently worship thee enough
alencon leave off delays and let us raise the siege
reignier woman do what thou canst to save our honours
 drive them from orleans and be immortalized
charles presently we'll try come let's away about it
 no prophet will i trust if she prove false
 exeunt
 1 king henry vi
act i
scene iii london before the tower
 enter gloucester with his servingmen in blue coats
gloucester i am come to survey the tower this day
 since henry's death i fear there is conveyance
 where be these warders that they wait not here
 open the gates tis gloucester that calls
first warder within who's there that knocks so imperiously
first servingman it is the noble duke of gloucester
second warder within whoe'er he be you may not be let in
first servingman villains answer you so the lord protector
first warder within the lord protect him so we answer him
 we do no otherwise than we are will'd
gloucester who willed you or whose will stands but mine
 there's none protector of the realm but i
 break up the gates i'll be your warrantize
 shall i be flouted thus by dunghill grooms
 gloucester's men rush at the tower gates and
 woodvile the lieutenant speaks within
woodvile what noise is this what traitors have we here
gloucester lieutenant is it you whose voice i hear
 open the gates here's gloucester that would enter
woodvile have patience noble duke i may not open
 the cardinal of winchester forbids
 from him i have express commandment
 that thou nor none of thine shall be let in
gloucester fainthearted woodvile prizest him fore me
 arrogant winchester that haughty prelate
 whom henry our late sovereign ne'er could brook
 thou art no friend to god or to the king
 open the gates or i'll shut thee out shortly
servingmen open the gates unto the lord protector
 or we'll burst them open if that you come not quickly
 enter to the protector at the tower gates bishop
 of winchester and his men in tawny coats
bishop
of winchester how now ambitious humphry what means this
gloucester peel'd priest dost thou command me to be shut out
bishop
of winchester i do thou most usurping proditor
 and not protector of the king or realm
gloucester stand back thou manifest conspirator
 thou that contrivedst to murder our dead lord
 thou that givest whores indulgences to sin
 i'll canvass thee in thy broad cardinal's hat
 if thou proceed in this thy insolence
bishop
of winchester nay stand thou back i will not budge a foot
 this be damascus be thou cursed cain
 to slay thy brother abel if thou wilt
gloucester i will not slay thee but i'll drive thee back
 thy scarlet robes as a child's bearingcloth
 i'll use to carry thee out of this place
bishop
of winchester do what thou darest i beard thee to thy face
gloucester what am i dared and bearded to my face
 draw men for all this privileged place
 blue coats to tawny coats priest beware your beard
 i mean to tug it and to cuff you soundly
 under my feet i stamp thy cardinal's hat
 in spite of pope or dignities of church
 here by the cheeks i'll drag thee up and down
bishop
of winchester gloucester thou wilt answer this before the pope
gloucester winchester goose i cry a rope a rope
 now beat them hence why do you let them stay
 thee i'll chase hence thou wolf in sheep's array
 out tawny coats out scarlet hypocrite
 here gloucester's men beat out bishop of
 winchester's men and enter in the hurly
 burly the mayor of london and his officers
mayor fie lords that you being supreme magistrates
 thus contumeliously should break the peace
gloucester peace mayor thou know'st little of my wrongs
 here's beaufort that regards nor god nor king
 hath here distrain'd the tower to his use
bishop
of winchester here's gloucester a foe to citizens
 one that still motions war and never peace
 o'ercharging your free purses with large fines
 that seeks to overthrow religion
 because he is protector of the realm
 and would have armour here out of the tower
 to crown himself king and suppress the prince
gloucester i will not answer thee with words but blows
 here they skirmish again
mayor naught rests for me in this tumultuous strife
 but to make open proclamation
 come officer as loud as e'er thou canst
 cry
officer all manner of men assembled here in arms this day
 against god's peace and the king's we charge and
 command you in his highness name to repair to
 your several dwellingplaces and not to wear
 handle or use any sword weapon or dagger
 henceforward upon pain of death
gloucester cardinal i'll be no breaker of the law
 but we shall meet and break our minds at large
bishop
of winchester gloucester we will meet to thy cost be sure
 thy heartblood i will have for this day's work
mayor i'll call for clubs if you will not away
 this cardinal's more haughty than the devil
gloucester mayor farewell thou dost but what thou mayst
bishop
of winchester abominable gloucester guard thy head
 for i intend to have it ere long
 exeunt severally gloucester and bishop of
 winchester with their servingmen
mayor see the coast clear'd and then we will depart
 good god these nobles should such stomachs bear
 i myself fight not once in forty year
 exeunt
 1 king henry vi
act i
scene iv orleans
 enter on the walls a master gunner and his boy
mastergunner sirrah thou know'st how orleans is besieged
 and how the english have the suburbs won
boy father i know and oft have shot at them
 howe'er unfortunate i miss'd my aim
mastergunner but now thou shalt not be thou ruled by me
 chief mastergunner am i of this town
 something i must do to procure me grace
 the prince's espials have informed me
 how the english in the suburbs close intrench'd
 wont through a secret grate of iron bars
 in yonder tower to overpeer the city
 and thence discover how with most advantage
 they may vex us with shot or with assault
 to intercept this inconvenience
 a piece of ordnance gainst it i have placed
 and even these three days have i watch'd
 if i could see them
 now do thou watch for i can stay no longer
 if thou spy'st any run and bring me word
 and thou shalt find me at the governor's
 exit
boy father i warrant you take you no care
 i'll never trouble you if i may spy them
 exit
 enter on the turrets salisbury and talbot
 glansdale gargrave and others
salisbury talbot my life my joy again return'd
 how wert thou handled being prisoner
 or by what means got'st thou to be released
 discourse i prithee on this turret's top
talbot the duke of bedford had a prisoner
 call'd the brave lord ponton de santrailles
 for him was i exchanged and ransomed
 but with a baser man of arms by far
 once in contempt they would have barter'd me
 which i disdaining scorn'd and craved death
 rather than i would be so vile esteem'd
 in fine redeem'd i was as i desired
 but o the treacherous fastolfe wounds my heart
 whom with my bare fists i would execute
 if i now had him brought into my power
salisbury yet tell'st thou not how thou wert entertain'd
talbot with scoffs and scorns and contumelious taunts
 in open marketplace produced they me
 to be a public spectacle to all
 here said they is the terror of the french
 the scarecrow that affrights our children so
 then broke i from the officers that led me
 and with my nails digg'd stones out of the ground
 to hurl at the beholders of my shame
 my grisly countenance made others fly
 none durst come near for fear of sudden death
 in iron walls they deem'd me not secure
 so great fear of my name mongst them was spread
 that they supposed i could rend bars of steel
 and spurn in pieces posts of adamant
 wherefore a guard of chosen shot i had
 that walked about me every minutewhile
 and if i did but stir out of my bed
 ready they were to shoot me to the heart
 enter the boy with a linstock
salisbury i grieve to hear what torments you endured
 but we will be revenged sufficiently
 now it is suppertime in orleans
 here through this grate i count each one
 and view the frenchmen how they fortify
 let us look in the sight will much delight thee
 sir thomas gargrave and sir william glansdale
 let me have your express opinions
 where is best place to make our battery next
gargrave i think at the north gate for there stand lords
glansdale and i here at the bulwark of the bridge
talbot for aught i see this city must be famish'd
 or with light skirmishes enfeebled
 here they shoot salisbury and gargrave fall
salisbury o lord have mercy on us wretched sinners
gargrave o lord have mercy on me woful man
talbot what chance is this that suddenly hath cross'd us
 speak salisbury at least if thou canst speak
 how farest thou mirror of all martial men
 one of thy eyes and thy cheek's side struck off
 accursed tower accursed fatal hand
 that hath contrived this woful tragedy
 in thirteen battles salisbury o'ercame
 henry the fifth he first train'd to the wars
 whilst any trump did sound or drum struck up
 his sword did ne'er leave striking in the field
 yet livest thou salisbury though thy speech doth fail
 one eye thou hast to look to heaven for grace
 the sun with one eye vieweth all the world
 heaven be thou gracious to none alive
 if salisbury wants mercy at thy hands
 bear hence his body i will help to bury it
 sir thomas gargrave hast thou any life
 speak unto talbot nay look up to him
 salisbury cheer thy spirit with this comfort
 thou shalt not die whiles
 he beckons with his hand and smiles on me
 as who should say when i am dead and gone
 remember to avenge me on the french'
 plantagenet i will and like thee nero
 play on the lute beholding the towns burn
 wretched shall france be only in my name
 here an alarum and it thunders and lightens
 what stir is this what tumult's in the heavens
 whence cometh this alarum and the noise
 enter a messenger
messenger my lord my lord the french have gathered head
 the dauphin with one joan la pucelle join'd
 a holy prophetess new risen up
 is come with a great power to raise the siege
 here salisbury lifteth himself up and groans
talbot hear hear how dying salisbury doth groan
 it irks his heart he cannot be revenged
 frenchmen i'll be a salisbury to you
 pucelle or puzzel dolphin or dogfish
 your hearts i'll stamp out with my horse's heels
 and make a quagmire of your mingled brains
 convey me salisbury into his tent
 and then we'll try what these dastard frenchmen dare
 alarum exeunt
 1 king henry vi
act i
scene v the same
 here an alarum again and talbot pursueth the
 dauphin and driveth him then enter joan la
 pucelle driving englishmen before her and exit
 after them then reenter talbot
talbot where is my strength my valour and my force
 our english troops retire i cannot stay them
 a woman clad in armour chaseth them
 reenter joan la pucelle
 here here she comes i'll have a bout with thee
 devil or devil's dam i'll conjure thee
 blood will i draw on thee thou art a witch
 and straightway give thy soul to him thou servest
joan la pucelle come come tis only i that must disgrace thee
 here they fight
talbot heavens can you suffer hell so to prevail
 my breast i'll burst with straining of my courage
 and from my shoulders crack my arms asunder
 but i will chastise this highminded strumpet
 they fight again
joan la pucelle talbot farewell thy hour is not yet come
 i must go victual orleans forthwith
 a short alarum then enter the town with soldiers
 o'ertake me if thou canst i scorn thy strength
 go go cheer up thy hungrystarved men
 help salisbury to make his testament
 this day is ours as many more shall be
 exit
talbot my thoughts are whirled like a potter's wheel
 i know not where i am nor what i do
 a witch by fear not force like hannibal
 drives back our troops and conquers as she lists
 so bees with smoke and doves with noisome stench
 are from their hives and houses driven away
 they call'd us for our fierceness english dogs
 now like to whelps we crying run away
 a short alarum
 hark countrymen either renew the fight
 or tear the lions out of england's coat
 renounce your soil give sheep in lions stead
 sheep run not half so treacherous from the wolf
 or horse or oxen from the leopard
 as you fly from your oftsubdued slaves
 alarum here another skirmish
 it will not be retire into your trenches
 you all consented unto salisbury's death
 for none would strike a stroke in his revenge
 pucelle is enter'd into orleans
 in spite of us or aught that we could do
 o would i were to die with salisbury
 the shame hereof will make me hide my head
 exit talbot alarum retreat flourish
 1 king henry vi
act i
scene vi the same
 enter on the walls joan la pucelle charles
 reignier alencon and soldiers
joan la pucelle advance our waving colours on the walls
 rescued is orleans from the english
 thus joan la pucelle hath perform'd her word
charles divinest creature astraea's daughter
 how shall i honour thee for this success
 thy promises are like adonis gardens
 that one day bloom'd and fruitful were the next
 france triumph in thy glorious prophetess
 recover'd is the town of orleans
 more blessed hap did ne'er befall our state
reignier why ring not out the bells aloud throughout the town
 dauphin command the citizens make bonfires
 and feast and banquet in the open streets
 to celebrate the joy that god hath given us
alencon all france will be replete with mirth and joy
 when they shall hear how we have play'd the men
charles tis joan not we by whom the day is won
 for which i will divide my crown with her
 and all the priests and friars in my realm
 shall in procession sing her endless praise
 a statelier pyramis to her i'll rear
 than rhodope's or memphis ever was
 in memory of her when she is dead
 her ashes in an urn more precious
 than the richjewel'd of darius
 transported shall be at high festivals
 before the kings and queens of france
 no longer on saint denis will we cry
 but joan la pucelle shall be france's saint
 come in and let us banquet royally
 after this golden day of victory
 flourish exeunt
 1 king henry vi
act ii
scene i before orleans
 enter a sergeant of a band with two sentinels
sergeant sirs take your places and be vigilant
 if any noise or soldier you perceive
 near to the walls by some apparent sign
 let us have knowledge at the court of guard
first sentinel sergeant you shall
 exit sergeant
 thus are poor servitors
 when others sleep upon their quiet beds
 constrain'd to watch in darkness rain and cold
 enter talbot bedford burgundy and forces with
 scalingladders their drums beating a dead march
talbot lord regent and redoubted burgundy
 by whose approach the regions of artois
 wallon and picardy are friends to us
 this happy night the frenchmen are secure
 having all day caroused and banqueted
 embrace we then this opportunity
 as fitting best to quittance their deceit
 contrived by art and baleful sorcery
bedford coward of france how much he wrongs his fame
 despairing of his own arm's fortitude
 to join with witches and the help of hell
burgundy traitors have never other company
 but what's that pucelle whom they term so pure
talbot a maid they say
bedford a maid and be so martial
burgundy pray god she prove not masculine ere long
 if underneath the standard of the french
 she carry armour as she hath begun
talbot well let them practise and converse with spirits
 god is our fortress in whose conquering name
 let us resolve to scale their flinty bulwarks
bedford ascend brave talbot we will follow thee
talbot not all together better far i guess
 that we do make our entrance several ways
 that if it chance the one of us do fail
 the other yet may rise against their force
bedford agreed i'll to yond corner
burgundy and i to this
talbot and here will talbot mount or make his grave
 now salisbury for thee and for the right
 of english henry shall this night appear
 how much in duty i am bound to both
sentinels arm arm the enemy doth make assault
 cry st george a talbot'
 the french leap over the walls in their shirts
 enter several ways the bastard of orleans
 alencon and reignier half ready and half unready
alencon how now my lords what all unready so
bastard of orleans unready ay and glad we scaped so well
reignier twas time i trow to wake and leave our beds
 hearing alarums at our chamberdoors
alencon of all exploits since first i follow'd arms
 ne'er heard i of a warlike enterprise
 more venturous or desperate than this
bastard of orleans i think this talbot be a fiend of hell
reignier if not of hell the heavens sure favour him
alencon here cometh charles i marvel how he sped
bastard of orleans tut holy joan was his defensive guard
 enter charles and joan la pucelle
charles is this thy cunning thou deceitful dame
 didst thou at first to flatter us withal
 make us partakers of a little gain
 that now our loss might be ten times so much
joan la pucelle wherefore is charles impatient with his friend
 at all times will you have my power alike
 sleeping or waking must i still prevail
 or will you blame and lay the fault on me
 improvident soldiers had your watch been good
 this sudden mischief never could have fall'n
charles duke of alencon this was your default
 that being captain of the watch tonight
 did look no better to that weighty charge
alencon had all your quarters been as safely kept
 as that whereof i had the government
 we had not been thus shamefully surprised
bastard of orleans mine was secure
reignier and so was mine my lord
charles and for myself most part of all this night
 within her quarter and mine own precinct
 i was employ'd in passing to and fro
 about relieving of the sentinels
 then how or which way should they first break in
joan la pucelle question my lords no further of the case
 how or which way tis sure they found some place
 but weakly guarded where the breach was made
 and now there rests no other shift but this
 to gather our soldiers scatter'd and dispersed
 and lay new platforms to endamage them
 alarum enter an english soldier crying a
 talbot a talbot they fly leaving their
 clothes behind
soldier i'll be so bold to take what they have left
 the cry of talbot serves me for a sword
 for i have loaden me with many spoils
 using no other weapon but his name
 exit
 1 king henry vi
act ii
scene ii orleans within the town
 enter talbot bedford burgundy a captain and others
bedford the day begins to break and night is fled
 whose pitchy mantle overveil'd the earth
 here sound retreat and cease our hot pursuit
 retreat sounded
talbot bring forth the body of old salisbury
 and here advance it in the marketplace
 the middle centre of this cursed town
 now have i paid my vow unto his soul
 for every drop of blood was drawn from him
 there hath at least five frenchmen died tonight
 and that hereafter ages may behold
 what ruin happen'd in revenge of him
 within their chiefest temple i'll erect
 a tomb wherein his corpse shall be interr'd
 upon the which that every one may read
 shall be engraved the sack of orleans
 the treacherous manner of his mournful death
 and what a terror he had been to france
 but lords in all our bloody massacre
 i muse we met not with the dauphin's grace
 his newcome champion virtuous joan of arc
 nor any of his false confederates
bedford tis thought lord talbot when the fight began
 roused on the sudden from their drowsy beds
 they did amongst the troops of armed men
 leap o'er the walls for refuge in the field
burgundy myself as far as i could well discern
 for smoke and dusky vapours of the night
 am sure i scared the dauphin and his trull
 when arm in arm they both came swiftly running
 like to a pair of loving turtledoves
 that could not live asunder day or night
 after that things are set in order here
 we'll follow them with all the power we have
 enter a messenger
messenger all hail my lords which of this princely train
 call ye the warlike talbot for his acts
 so much applauded through the realm of france
talbot here is the talbot who would speak with him
messenger the virtuous lady countess of auvergne
 with modesty admiring thy renown
 by me entreats great lord thou wouldst vouchsafe
 to visit her poor castle where she lies
 that she may boast she hath beheld the man
 whose glory fills the world with loud report
burgundy is it even so nay then i see our wars
 will turn unto a peaceful comic sport
 when ladies crave to be encounter'd with
 you may not my lord despise her gentle suit
talbot ne'er trust me then for when a world of men
 could not prevail with all their oratory
 yet hath a woman's kindness overruled
 and therefore tell her i return great thanks
 and in submission will attend on her
 will not your honours bear me company
bedford no truly it is more than manners will
 and i have heard it said unbidden guests
 are often welcomest when they are gone
talbot well then alone since there's no remedy
 i mean to prove this lady's courtesy
 come hither captain
 whispers
 you perceive my mind
captain i do my lord and mean accordingly
 exeunt
 1 king henry vi
act ii
scene iii auvergne the countess's castle
 enter the countess and her porter
countess
of auvergne porter remember what i gave in charge
 and when you have done so bring the keys to me
porter madam i will
 exit
countess
of auvergne the plot is laid if all things fall out right
 i shall as famous be by this exploit
 as scythian tomyris by cyrus death
 great is the rumor of this dreadful knight
 and his achievements of no less account
 fain would mine eyes be witness with mine ears
 to give their censure of these rare reports
 enter messenger and talbot
messenger madam
 according as your ladyship desired
 by message craved so is lord talbot come
countess
of auvergne and he is welcome what is this the man
messenger madam it is
countess
of auvergne is this the scourge of france
 is this the talbot so much fear'd abroad
 that with his name the mothers still their babes
 i see report is fabulous and false
 i thought i should have seen some hercules
 a second hector for his grim aspect
 and large proportion of his strongknit limbs
 alas this is a child a silly dwarf
 it cannot be this weak and writhled shrimp
 should strike such terror to his enemies
talbot madam i have been bold to trouble you
 but since your ladyship is not at leisure
 i'll sort some other time to visit you
countess
of auvergne what means he now go ask him whither he goes
messenger stay my lord talbot for my lady craves
 to know the cause of your abrupt departure
talbot marry for that she's in a wrong belief
 i go to certify her talbot's here
 reenter porter with keys
countess
of auvergne if thou be he then art thou prisoner
talbot prisoner to whom
countess
of auvergne to me bloodthirsty lord
 and for that cause i trained thee to my house
 long time thy shadow hath been thrall to me
 for in my gallery thy picture hangs
 but now the substance shall endure the like
 and i will chain these legs and arms of thine
 that hast by tyranny these many years
 wasted our country slain our citizens
 and sent our sons and husbands captivate
talbot ha ha ha
countess
of auvergne laughest thou wretch thy mirth shall turn to moan
talbot i laugh to see your ladyship so fond
 to think that you have aught but talbot's shadow
 whereon to practise your severity
countess
of auvergne why art not thou the man
talbot i am indeed
countess
of auvergne then have i substance too
talbot no no i am but shadow of myself
 you are deceived my substance is not here
 for what you see is but the smallest part
 and least proportion of humanity
 i tell you madam were the whole frame here
 it is of such a spacious lofty pitch
 your roof were not sufficient to contain't
countess
of auvergne this is a riddling merchant for the nonce
 he will be here and yet he is not here
 how can these contrarieties agree
talbot that will i show you presently
 winds his horn drums strike up a peal of
 ordnance enter soldiers
 how say you madam are you now persuaded
 that talbot is but shadow of himself
 these are his substance sinews arms and strength
 with which he yoketh your rebellious necks
 razeth your cities and subverts your towns
 and in a moment makes them desolate
countess
of auvergne victorious talbot pardon my abuse
 i find thou art no less than fame hath bruited
 and more than may be gather'd by thy shape
 let my presumption not provoke thy wrath
 for i am sorry that with reverence
 i did not entertain thee as thou art
talbot be not dismay'd fair lady nor misconstrue
 the mind of talbot as you did mistake
 the outward composition of his body
 what you have done hath not offended me
 nor other satisfaction do i crave
 but only with your patience that we may
 taste of your wine and see what cates you have
 for soldiers stomachs always serve them well
countess
of auvergne with all my heart and think me honoured
 to feast so great a warrior in my house
 exeunt
 1 king henry vi
act ii
scene iv london the templegarden
 enter the earls of somerset suffolk and warwick
 richard plantagenet vernon and another lawyer
richard
plantagenet great lords and gentlemen what means this silence
 dare no man answer in a case of truth
suffolk within the templehall we were too loud
 the garden here is more convenient
richard
plantagenet then say at once if i maintain'd the truth
 or else was wrangling somerset in the error
suffolk faith i have been a truant in the law
 and never yet could frame my will to it
 and therefore frame the law unto my will
somerset judge you my lord of warwick then between us
warwick between two hawks which flies the higher pitch
 between two dogs which hath the deeper mouth
 between two blades which bears the better temper
 between two horses which doth bear him best
 between two girls which hath the merriest eye
 i have perhaps some shallow spirit of judgement
 but in these nice sharp quillets of the law
 good faith i am no wiser than a daw
richard
plantagenet tut tut here is a mannerly forbearance
 the truth appears so naked on my side
 that any purblind eye may find it out
somerset and on my side it is so well apparell'd
 so clear so shining and so evident
 that it will glimmer through a blind man's eye
richard
plantagenet since you are tonguetied and so loath to speak
 in dumb significants proclaim your thoughts
 let him that is a trueborn gentleman
 and stands upon the honour of his birth
 if he suppose that i have pleaded truth
 from off this brier pluck a white rose with me
somerset let him that is no coward nor no flatterer
 but dare maintain the party of the truth
 pluck a red rose from off this thorn with me
warwick i love no colours and without all colour
 of base insinuating flattery
 i pluck this white rose with plantagenet
suffolk i pluck this red rose with young somerset
 and say withal i think he held the right
vernon stay lords and gentlemen and pluck no more
 till you conclude that he upon whose side
 the fewest roses are cropp'd from the tree
 shall yield the other in the right opinion
somerset good master vernon it is well objected
 if i have fewest i subscribe in silence
richard
plantagenet and i
vernon then for the truth and plainness of the case
 i pluck this pale and maiden blossom here
 giving my verdict on the white rose side
somerset prick not your finger as you pluck it off
 lest bleeding you do paint the white rose red
 and fall on my side so against your will
vernon if i my lord for my opinion bleed
 opinion shall be surgeon to my hurt
 and keep me on the side where still i am
somerset well well come on who else
lawyer unless my study and my books be false
 the argument you held was wrong in you
 to somerset
 in sign whereof i pluck a white rose too
richard
plantagenet now somerset where is your argument
somerset here in my scabbard meditating that
 shall dye your white rose in a bloody red
richard
plantagenet meantime your cheeks do counterfeit our roses
 for pale they look with fear as witnessing
 the truth on our side
somerset no plantagenet
 tis not for fear but anger that thy cheeks
 blush for pure shame to counterfeit our roses
 and yet thy tongue will not confess thy error
richard
plantagenet hath not thy rose a canker somerset
somerset hath not thy rose a thorn plantagenet
richard
plantagenet ay sharp and piercing to maintain his truth
 whiles thy consuming canker eats his falsehood
somerset well i'll find friends to wear my bleeding roses
 that shall maintain what i have said is true
 where false plantagenet dare not be seen
richard
plantagenet now by this maiden blossom in my hand
 i scorn thee and thy fashion peevish boy
suffolk turn not thy scorns this way plantagenet
richard
plantagenet proud pole i will and scorn both him and thee
suffolk i'll turn my part thereof into thy throat
somerset away away good william de la pole
 we grace the yeoman by conversing with him
warwick now by god's will thou wrong'st him somerset
 his grandfather was lionel duke of clarence
 third son to the third edward king of england
 spring crestless yeomen from so deep a root
richard
plantagenet he bears him on the place's privilege
 or durst not for his craven heart say thus
somerset by him that made me i'll maintain my words
 on any plot of ground in christendom
 was not thy father richard earl of cambridge
 for treason executed in our late king's days
 and by his treason stand'st not thou attainted
 corrupted and exempt from ancient gentry
 his trespass yet lives guilty in thy blood
 and till thou be restored thou art a yeoman
richard
plantagenet my father was attached not attainted
 condemn'd to die for treason but no traitor
 and that i'll prove on better men than somerset
 were growing time once ripen'd to my will
 for your partaker pole and you yourself
 i'll note you in my book of memory
 to scourge you for this apprehension
 look to it well and say you are well warn'd
somerset ah thou shalt find us ready for thee still
 and know us by these colours for thy foes
 for these my friends in spite of thee shall wear
richard
plantagenet and by my soul this pale and angry rose
 as cognizance of my blooddrinking hate
 will i for ever and my faction wear
 until it wither with me to my grave
 or flourish to the height of my degree
suffolk go forward and be choked with thy ambition
 and so farewell until i meet thee next
 exit
somerset have with thee pole farewell ambitious richard
 exit
richard
plantagenet how i am braved and must perforce endure it
warwick this blot that they object against your house
 shall be wiped out in the next parliament
 call'd for the truce of winchester and gloucester
 and if thou be not then created york
 i will not live to be accounted warwick
 meantime in signal of my love to thee
 against proud somerset and william pole
 will i upon thy party wear this rose
 and here i prophesy this brawl today
 grown to this faction in the templegarden
 shall send between the red rose and the white
 a thousand souls to death and deadly night
richard
plantagenet good master vernon i am bound to you
 that you on my behalf would pluck a flower
vernon in your behalf still will i wear the same
lawyer and so will i
richard
plantagenet thanks gentle sir
 come let us four to dinner i dare say
 this quarrel will drink blood another day
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 1 king henry vi
act ii
scene v the tower of london
 enter mortimer brought in a chair and gaolers
mortimer kind keepers of my weak decaying age
 let dying mortimer here rest himself
 even like a man new haled from the rack
 so fare my limbs with long imprisonment
 and these grey locks the pursuivants of death
 nestorlike aged in an age of care
 argue the end of edmund mortimer
 these eyes like lamps whose wasting oil is spent
 wax dim as drawing to their exigent
 weak shoulders overborne with burthening grief
 and pithless arms like to a wither'd vine
 that droops his sapless branches to the ground
 yet are these feet whose strengthless stay is numb
 unable to support this lump of clay
 swiftwinged with desire to get a grave
 as witting i no other comfort have
 but tell me keeper will my nephew come
first gaoler richard plantagenet my lord will come
 we sent unto the temple unto his chamber
 and answer was return'd that he will come
mortimer enough my soul shall then be satisfied
 poor gentleman his wrong doth equal mine
 since henry monmouth first began to reign
 before whose glory i was great in arms
 this loathsome sequestration have i had
 and even since then hath richard been obscured
 deprived of honour and inheritance
 but now the arbitrator of despairs
 just death kind umpire of men's miseries
 with sweet enlargement doth dismiss me hence
 i would his troubles likewise were expired
 that so he might recover what was lost
 enter richard plantagenet
first gaoler my lord your loving nephew now is come
mortimer richard plantagenet my friend is he come
richard
plantagenet ay noble uncle thus ignobly used
 your nephew late despised richard comes
mortimer direct mine arms i may embrace his neck
 and in his bosom spend my latter gasp
 o tell me when my lips do touch his cheeks
 that i may kindly give one fainting kiss
 and now declare sweet stem from york's great stock
 why didst thou say of late thou wert despised
richard
plantagenet first lean thine aged back against mine arm
 and in that ease i'll tell thee my disease
 this day in argument upon a case
 some words there grew twixt somerset and me
 among which terms he used his lavish tongue
 and did upbraid me with my father's death
 which obloquy set bars before my tongue
 else with the like i had requited him
 therefore good uncle for my father's sake
 in honour of a true plantagenet
 and for alliance sake declare the cause
 my father earl of cambridge lost his head
mortimer that cause fair nephew that imprison'd me
 and hath detain'd me all my flowering youth
 within a loathsome dungeon there to pine
 was cursed instrument of his decease
richard
plantagenet discover more at large what cause that was
 for i am ignorant and cannot guess
mortimer i will if that my fading breath permit
 and death approach not ere my tale be done
 henry the fourth grandfather to this king
 deposed his nephew richard edward's son
 the firstbegotten and the lawful heir
 of edward king the third of that descent
 during whose reign the percies of the north
 finding his usurpation most unjust
 endeavor'd my advancement to the throne
 the reason moved these warlike lords to this
 was for thatyoung king richard thus removed
 leaving no heir begotten of his body
 i was the next by birth and parentage
 for by my mother i derived am
 from lionel duke of clarence the third son
 to king edward the third whereas he
 from john of gaunt doth bring his pedigree
 being but fourth of that heroic line
 but mark as in this haughty attempt
 they laboured to plant the rightful heir
 i lost my liberty and they their lives
 long after this when henry the fifth
 succeeding his father bolingbroke did reign
 thy father earl of cambridge then derived
 from famous edmund langley duke of york
 marrying my sister that thy mother was
 again in pity of my hard distress
 levied an army weening to redeem
 and have install'd me in the diadem
 but as the rest so fell that noble earl
 and was beheaded thus the mortimers
 in whom the tide rested were suppress'd
richard
plantagenet of which my lord your honour is the last
mortimer true and thou seest that i no issue have
 and that my fainting words do warrant death
 thou art my heir the rest i wish thee gather
 but yet be wary in thy studious care
richard
plantagenet thy grave admonishments prevail with me
 but yet methinks my father's execution
 was nothing less than bloody tyranny
mortimer with silence nephew be thou politic
 strongfixed is the house of lancaster
 and like a mountain not to be removed
 but now thy uncle is removing hence
 as princes do their courts when they are cloy'd
 with long continuance in a settled place
richard
plantagenet o uncle would some part of my young years
 might but redeem the passage of your age
mortimer thou dost then wrong me as that slaughterer doth
 which giveth many wounds when one will kill
 mourn not except thou sorrow for my good
 only give order for my funeral
 and so farewell and fair be all thy hopes
 and prosperous be thy life in peace and war
 dies
richard
plantagenet and peace no war befall thy parting soul
 in prison hast thou spent a pilgrimage
 and like a hermit overpass'd thy days
 well i will lock his counsel in my breast
 and what i do imagine let that rest
 keepers convey him hence and i myself
 will see his burial better than his life
 exeunt gaolers bearing out the body of mortimer
 here dies the dusky torch of mortimer
 choked with ambition of the meaner sort
 and for those wrongs those bitter injuries
 which somerset hath offer'd to my house
 i doubt not but with honour to redress
 and therefore haste i to the parliament
 either to be restored to my blood
 or make my ill the advantage of my good
 exit
 1 king henry vi
act iii
scene i london the parliamenthouse
 flourish enter king henry vi exeter gloucester
 warwick somerset and suffolk the bishop of
 winchester richard plantagenet and others
 gloucester offers to put up a bill bishop of
 winchester snatches it and tears it
bishop
of winchester comest thou with deep premeditated lines
 with written pamphlets studiously devised
 humphrey of gloucester if thou canst accuse
 or aught intend'st to lay unto my charge
 do it without invention suddenly
 as i with sudden and extemporal speech
 purpose to answer what thou canst object
gloucester presumptuous priest this place commands my patience
 or thou shouldst find thou hast dishonour'd me
 think not although in writing i preferr'd
 the manner of thy vile outrageous crimes
 that therefore i have forged or am not able
 verbatim to rehearse the method of my pen
 no prelate such is thy audacious wickedness
 thy lewd pestiferous and dissentious pranks
 as very infants prattle of thy pride
 thou art a most pernicious usurer
 forward by nature enemy to peace
 lascivious wanton more than well beseems
 a man of thy profession and degree
 and for thy treachery what's more manifest
 in that thou laid'st a trap to take my life
 as well at london bridge as at the tower
 beside i fear me if thy thoughts were sifted
 the king thy sovereign is not quite exempt
 from envious malice of thy swelling heart
bishop
of winchester gloucester i do defy thee lords vouchsafe
 to give me hearing what i shall reply
 if i were covetous ambitious or perverse
 as he will have me how am i so poor
 or how haps it i seek not to advance
 or raise myself but keep my wonted calling
 and for dissension who preferreth peace
 more than i doexcept i be provoked
 no my good lords it is not that offends
 it is not that that hath incensed the duke
 it is because no one should sway but he
 no one but he should be about the king
 and that engenders thunder in his breast
 and makes him roar these accusations forth
 but he shall know i am as good
gloucester as good
 thou bastard of my grandfather
bishop
of winchester ay lordly sir for what are you i pray
 but one imperious in another's throne
gloucester am i not protector saucy priest
bishop
of winchester and am not i a prelate of the church
gloucester yes as an outlaw in a castle keeps
 and useth it to patronage his theft
bishop
of winchester unreverent gloster
gloucester thou art reverent
 touching thy spiritual function not thy life
bishop
of winchester rome shall remedy this
warwick roam thither then
somerset my lord it were your duty to forbear
warwick ay see the bishop be not overborne
somerset methinks my lord should be religious
 and know the office that belongs to such
warwick methinks his lordship should be humbler
 it fitteth not a prelate so to plead
somerset yes when his holy state is touch'd so near
warwick state holy or unhallow'd what of that
 is not his grace protector to the king
richard
plantagenet aside plantagenet i see must hold his tongue
 lest it be said speak sirrah when you should
 must your bold verdict enter talk with lords'
 else would i have a fling at winchester
king henry vi uncles of gloucester and of winchester
 the special watchmen of our english weal
 i would prevail if prayers might prevail
 to join your hearts in love and amity
 o what a scandal is it to our crown
 that two such noble peers as ye should jar
 believe me lords my tender years can tell
 civil dissension is a viperous worm
 that gnaws the bowels of the commonwealth
 a noise within down with the tawnycoats'
 what tumult's this
warwick an uproar i dare warrant
 begun through malice of the bishop's men
 a noise again stones stones enter mayor
mayor o my good lords and virtuous henry
 pity the city of london pity us
 the bishop and the duke of gloucester's men
 forbidden late to carry any weapon
 have fill'd their pockets full of pebble stones
 and banding themselves in contrary parts
 do pelt so fast at one another's pate
 that many have their giddy brains knock'd out
 our windows are broke down in every street
 and we for fear compell'd to shut our shops
 enter servingmen in skirmish with bloody pates
king henry vi we charge you on allegiance to ourself
 to hold your slaughtering hands and keep the peace
 pray uncle gloucester mitigate this strife
first servingman nay if we be forbidden stones
 we'll fall to it with our teeth
second servingman do what ye dare we are as resolute
 skirmish again
gloucester you of my household leave this peevish broil
 and set this unaccustom'd fight aside
third servingman my lord we know your grace to be a man
 just and upright and for your royal birth
 inferior to none but to his majesty
 and ere that we will suffer such a prince
 so kind a father of the commonweal
 to be disgraced by an inkhorn mate
 we and our wives and children all will fight
 and have our bodies slaughtered by thy foes
first servingman ay and the very parings of our nails
 shall pitch a field when we are dead
 begin again
gloucester stay stay i say
 and if you love me as you say you do
 let me persuade you to forbear awhile
king henry vi o how this discord doth afflict my soul
 can you my lord of winchester behold
 my sighs and tears and will not once relent
 who should be pitiful if you be not
 or who should study to prefer a peace
 if holy churchmen take delight in broils
warwick yield my lord protector yield winchester
 except you mean with obstinate repulse
 to slay your sovereign and destroy the realm
 you see what mischief and what murder too
 hath been enacted through your enmity
 then be at peace except ye thirst for blood
bishop
of winchester he shall submit or i will never yield
gloucester compassion on the king commands me stoop
 or i would see his heart out ere the priest
 should ever get that privilege of me
warwick behold my lord of winchester the duke
 hath banish'd moody discontented fury
 as by his smoothed brows it doth appear
 why look you still so stern and tragical
gloucester here winchester i offer thee my hand
king henry vi fie uncle beaufort i have heard you preach
 that malice was a great and grievous sin
 and will not you maintain the thing you teach
 but prove a chief offender in the same
warwick sweet king the bishop hath a kindly gird
 for shame my lord of winchester relent
 what shall a child instruct you what to do
bishop
of winchester well duke of gloucester i will yield to thee
 love for thy love and hand for hand i give
gloucester aside ay but i fear me with a hollow heart
 see here my friends and loving countrymen
 this token serveth for a flag of truce
 betwixt ourselves and all our followers
 so help me god as i dissemble not
bishop
of winchester aside so help me god as i intend it not
king henry vi o loving uncle kind duke of gloucester
 how joyful am i made by this contract
 away my masters trouble us no more
 but join in friendship as your lords have done
first servingman content i'll to the surgeon's
second servingman and so will i
third servingman and i will see what physic the tavern affords
 exeunt servingmen mayor &c
warwick accept this scroll most gracious sovereign
 which in the right of richard plantagenet
 we do exhibit to your majesty
gloucester well urged my lord of warwick or sweet prince
 and if your grace mark every circumstance
 you have great reason to do richard right
 especially for those occasions
 at eltham place i told your majesty
king henry vi and those occasions uncle were of force
 therefore my loving lords our pleasure is
 that richard be restored to his blood
warwick let richard be restored to his blood
 so shall his father's wrongs be recompensed
bishop
of winchester as will the rest so willeth winchester
king henry vi if richard will be true not that alone
 but all the whole inheritance i give
 that doth belong unto the house of york
 from whence you spring by lineal descent
richard
plantagenet thy humble servant vows obedience
 and humble service till the point of death
king henry vi stoop then and set your knee against my foot
 and in reguerdon of that duty done
 i gird thee with the valiant sword of york
 rise richard like a true plantagenet
 and rise created princely duke of york
richard
plantagenet and so thrive richard as thy foes may fall
 and as my duty springs so perish they
 that grudge one thought against your majesty
all welcome high prince the mighty duke of york
somerset aside perish base prince ignoble duke of york
gloucester now will it best avail your majesty
 to cross the seas and to be crown'd in france
 the presence of a king engenders love
 amongst his subjects and his loyal friends
 as it disanimates his enemies
king henry vi when gloucester says the word king henry goes
 for friendly counsel cuts off many foes
gloucester your ships already are in readiness
 sennet flourish exeunt all but exeter
exeter ay we may march in england or in france
 not seeing what is likely to ensue
 this late dissension grown betwixt the peers
 burns under feigned ashes of forged love
 and will at last break out into a flame
 as fester'd members rot but by degree
 till bones and flesh and sinews fall away
 so will this base and envious discord breed
 and now i fear that fatal prophecy
 which in the time of henry named the fifth
 was in the mouth of every sucking babe
 that henry born at monmouth should win all
 and henry born at windsor lose all
 which is so plain that exeter doth wish
 his days may finish ere that hapless time
 exit
 1 king henry vi
act iii
scene ii france before rouen
 enter joan la pucelle disguised with four soldiers
 with sacks upon their backs
joan la pucelle these are the city gates the gates of rouen
 through which our policy must make a breach
 take heed be wary how you place your words
 talk like the vulgar sort of market men
 that come to gather money for their corn
 if we have entrance as i hope we shall
 and that we find the slothful watch but weak
 i'll by a sign give notice to our friends
 that charles the dauphin may encounter them
first soldier our sacks shall be a mean to sack the city
 and we be lords and rulers over rouen
 therefore we'll knock
 knocks
watch within qui est la
joan la pucelle paysans pauvres gens de france
 poor market folks that come to sell their corn
watch enter go in the market bell is rung
joan la pucelle now rouen i'll shake thy bulwarks to the ground
 exeunt
 enter charles the bastard of orleans alencon
 reignier and forces
charles saint denis bless this happy stratagem
 and once again we'll sleep secure in rouen
bastard of orleans here enter'd pucelle and her practisants
 now she is there how will she specify
 where is the best and safest passage in
reignier by thrusting out a torch from yonder tower
 which once discern'd shows that her meaning is
 no way to that for weakness which she enter'd
 enter joan la pucelle on the top thrusting out a
 torch burning
joan la pucelle behold this is the happy wedding torch
 that joineth rouen unto her countrymen
 but burning fatal to the talbotites
 exit
bastard of orleans see noble charles the beacon of our friend
 the burning torch in yonder turret stands
charles now shine it like a comet of revenge
 a prophet to the fall of all our foes
reignier defer no time delays have dangerous ends
 enter and cry the dauphin presently
 and then do execution on the watch
 alarum exeunt
 an alarum enter talbot in an excursion
talbot france thou shalt rue this treason with thy tears
 if talbot but survive thy treachery
 pucelle that witch that damned sorceress
 hath wrought this hellish mischief unawares
 that hardly we escaped the pride of france
 exit
 an alarum excursions bedford brought in sick
 in a chair enter talbot and burgundy without
 within joan la pucelle charles bastard of orleans
 alencon and reignier on the walls
joan la pucelle good morrow gallants want ye corn for bread
 i think the duke of burgundy will fast
 before he'll buy again at such a rate
 twas full of darnel do you like the taste
burgundy scoff on vile fiend and shameless courtezan
 i trust ere long to choke thee with thine own
 and make thee curse the harvest of that corn
charles your grace may starve perhaps before that time
bedford o let no words but deeds revenge this treason
joan la pucelle what will you do good greybeard break a lance
 and run a tilt at death within a chair
talbot foul fiend of france and hag of all despite
 encompass'd with thy lustful paramours
 becomes it thee to taunt his valiant age
 and twit with cowardice a man half dead
 damsel i'll have a bout with you again
 or else let talbot perish with this shame
joan la pucelle are ye so hot sir yet pucelle hold thy peace
 if talbot do but thunder rain will follow
 the english whisper together in council
 god speed the parliament who shall be the speaker
talbot dare ye come forth and meet us in the field
joan la pucelle belike your lordship takes us then for fools
 to try if that our own be ours or no
talbot i speak not to that railing hecate
 but unto thee alencon and the rest
 will ye like soldiers come and fight it out
alencon signior no
talbot signior hang base muleters of france
 like peasant footboys do they keep the walls
 and dare not take up arms like gentlemen
joan la pucelle away captains let's get us from the walls
 for talbot means no goodness by his looks
 god be wi you my lord we came but to tell you
 that we are here
 exeunt from the walls
talbot and there will we be too ere it be long
 or else reproach be talbot's greatest fame
 vow burgundy by honour of thy house
 prick'd on by public wrongs sustain'd in france
 either to get the town again or die
 and i as sure as english henry lives
 and as his father here was conqueror
 as sure as in this latebetrayed town
 great coeurdelion's heart was buried
 so sure i swear to get the town or die
burgundy my vows are equal partners with thy vows
talbot but ere we go regard this dying prince
 the valiant duke of bedford come my lord
 we will bestow you in some better place
 fitter for sickness and for crazy age
bedford lord talbot do not so dishonour me
 here will i sit before the walls of rouen
 and will be partner of your weal or woe
burgundy courageous bedford let us now persuade you
bedford not to be gone from hence for once i read
 that stout pendragon in his litter sick
 came to the field and vanquished his foes
 methinks i should revive the soldiers hearts
 because i ever found them as myself
talbot undaunted spirit in a dying breast
 then be it so heavens keep old bedford safe
 and now no more ado brave burgundy
 but gather we our forces out of hand
 and set upon our boasting enemy
 exeunt all but bedford and attendants
 an alarum excursions enter fastolfe and
 a captain
captain whither away sir john fastolfe in such haste
fastolfe whither away to save myself by flight
 we are like to have the overthrow again
captain what will you fly and leave lord talbot
fastolfe ay
 all the talbots in the world to save my life
 exit
captain cowardly knight ill fortune follow thee
 exit
 retreat excursions joan la pucelle alencon
 and charles fly
bedford now quiet soul depart when heaven please
 for i have seen our enemies overthrow
 what is the trust or strength of foolish man
 they that of late were daring with their scoffs
 are glad and fain by flight to save themselves
 bedford dies and is carried in by two in his chair
 an alarum reenter talbot burgundy and the rest
talbot lost and recover'd in a day again
 this is a double honour burgundy
 yet heavens have glory for this victory
burgundy warlike and martial talbot burgundy
 enshrines thee in his heart and there erects
 thy noble deeds as valour's monuments
talbot thanks gentle duke but where is pucelle now
 i think her old familiar is asleep
 now where's the bastard's braves and charles his gleeks
 what all amort rouen hangs her head for grief
 that such a valiant company are fled
 now will we take some order in the town
 placing therein some expert officers
 and then depart to paris to the king
 for there young henry with his nobles lie
burgundy what wills lord talbot pleaseth burgundy
talbot but yet before we go let's not forget
 the noble duke of bedford late deceased
 but see his exequies fulfill'd in rouen
 a braver soldier never couched lance
 a gentler heart did never sway in court
 but kings and mightiest potentates must die
 for that's the end of human misery
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 1 king henry vi
act iii
scene iii the plains near rouen
 enter charles the bastard of orleans alencon joan
 la pucelle and forces
joan la pucelle dismay not princes at this accident
 nor grieve that rouen is so recovered
 care is no cure but rather corrosive
 for things that are not to be remedied
 let frantic talbot triumph for a while
 and like a peacock sweep along his tail
 we'll pull his plumes and take away his train
 if dauphin and the rest will be but ruled
charles we have been guided by thee hitherto
 and of thy cunning had no diffidence
 one sudden foil shall never breed distrust
bastard of orleans search out thy wit for secret policies
 and we will make thee famous through the world
alencon we'll set thy statue in some holy place
 and have thee reverenced like a blessed saint
 employ thee then sweet virgin for our good
joan la pucelle then thus it must be this doth joan devise
 by fair persuasions mix'd with sugar'd words
 we will entice the duke of burgundy
 to leave the talbot and to follow us
charles ay marry sweeting if we could do that
 france were no place for henry's warriors
 nor should that nation boast it so with us
 but be extirped from our provinces
alencon for ever should they be expulsed from france
 and not have title of an earldom here
joan la pucelle your honours shall perceive how i will work
 to bring this matter to the wished end
 drum sounds afar off
 hark by the sound of drum you may perceive
 their powers are marching unto parisward
 here sound an english march enter and pass over
 at a distance talbot and his forces
 there goes the talbot with his colours spread
 and all the troops of english after him
 french march enter burgundy and forces
 now in the rearward comes the duke and his
 fortune in favour makes him lag behind
 summon a parley we will talk with him
 trumpets sound a parley
charles a parley with the duke of burgundy
burgundy who craves a parley with the burgundy
joan la pucelle the princely charles of france thy countryman
burgundy what say'st thou charles for i am marching hence
charles speak pucelle and enchant him with thy words
joan la pucelle brave burgundy undoubted hope of france
 stay let thy humble handmaid speak to thee
burgundy speak on but be not overtedious
joan la pucelle look on thy country look on fertile france
 and see the cities and the towns defaced
 by wasting ruin of the cruel foe
 as looks the mother on her lowly babe
 when death doth close his tender dying eyes
 see see the pining malady of france
 behold the wounds the most unnatural wounds
 which thou thyself hast given her woful breast
 o turn thy edged sword another way
 strike those that hurt and hurt not those that help
 one drop of blood drawn from thy country's bosom
 should grieve thee more than streams of foreign gore
 return thee therefore with a flood of tears
 and wash away thy country's stained spots
burgundy either she hath bewitch'd me with her words
 or nature makes me suddenly relent
joan la pucelle besides all french and france exclaims on thee
 doubting thy birth and lawful progeny
 who joint'st thou with but with a lordly nation
 that will not trust thee but for profit's sake
 when talbot hath set footing once in france
 and fashion'd thee that instrument of ill
 who then but english henry will be lord
 and thou be thrust out like a fugitive
 call we to mind and mark but this for proof
 was not the duke of orleans thy foe
 and was he not in england prisoner
 but when they heard he was thine enemy
 they set him free without his ransom paid
 in spite of burgundy and all his friends
 see then thou fight'st against thy countrymen
 and joint'st with them will be thy slaughtermen
 come come return return thou wandering lord
 charles and the rest will take thee in their arms
burgundy i am vanquished these haughty words of hers
 have batter'd me like roaring cannonshot
 and made me almost yield upon my knees
 forgive me country and sweet countrymen
 and lords accept this hearty kind embrace
 my forces and my power of men are yours
 so farewell talbot i'll no longer trust thee
joan la pucelle aside done like a frenchman turn and turn again
charles welcome brave duke thy friendship makes us fresh
bastard of orleans and doth beget new courage in our breasts
alencon pucelle hath bravely play'd her part in this
 and doth deserve a coronet of gold
charles now let us on my lords and join our powers
 and seek how we may prejudice the foe
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 1 king henry vi
act iii
scene iv paris the palace
 enter king henry vi gloucester bishop of
 winchester york suffolk somerset warwick
 exeter vernon basset and others to them
 with his soldiers talbot
talbot my gracious prince and honourable peers
 hearing of your arrival in this realm
 i have awhile given truce unto my wars
 to do my duty to my sovereign
 in sign whereof this arm that hath reclaim'd
 to your obedience fifty fortresses
 twelve cities and seven walled towns of strength
 beside five hundred prisoners of esteem
 lets fall his sword before your highness feet
 and with submissive loyalty of heart
 ascribes the glory of his conquest got
 first to my god and next unto your grace
 kneels
king henry vi is this the lord talbot uncle gloucester
 that hath so long been resident in france
gloucester yes if it please your majesty my liege
king henry vi welcome brave captain and victorious lord
 when i was young as yet i am not old
 i do remember how my father said
 a stouter champion never handled sword
 long since we were resolved of your truth
 your faithful service and your toil in war
 yet never have you tasted our reward
 or been reguerdon'd with so much as thanks
 because till now we never saw your face
 therefore stand up and for these good deserts
 we here create you earl of shrewsbury
 and in our coronation take your place
 sennet flourish exeunt all but vernon and basset
vernon now sir to you that were so hot at sea
 disgracing of these colours that i wear
 in honour of my noble lord of york
 darest thou maintain the former words thou spakest
basset yes sir as well as you dare patronage
 the envious barking of your saucy tongue
 against my lord the duke of somerset
vernon sirrah thy lord i honour as he is
basset why what is he as good a man as york
vernon hark ye not so in witness take ye that
 strikes him
basset villain thou know'st the law of arms is such
 that whoso draws a sword tis present death
 or else this blow should broach thy dearest blood
 but i'll unto his majesty and crave
 i may have liberty to venge this wrong
 when thou shalt see i'll meet thee to thy cost
vernon well miscreant i'll be there as soon as you
 and after meet you sooner than you would
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 1 king henry vi
act iv
scene i paris a hall of state
 enter king henry vi gloucester bishop of
 winchester york suffolk somerset warwick
 talbot exeter the governor of paris and others
gloucester lord bishop set the crown upon his head
bishop
of winchester god save king henry of that name the sixth
gloucester now governor of paris take your oath
 that you elect no other king but him
 esteem none friends but such as are his friends
 and none your foes but such as shall pretend
 malicious practises against his state
 this shall ye do so help you righteous god
 enter fastolfe
fastolfe my gracious sovereign as i rode from calais
 to haste unto your coronation
 a letter was deliver'd to my hands
 writ to your grace from the duke of burgundy
talbot shame to the duke of burgundy and thee
 i vow'd base knight when i did meet thee next
 to tear the garter from thy craven's leg
 plucking it off
 which i have done because unworthily
 thou wast installed in that high degree
 pardon me princely henry and the rest
 this dastard at the battle of patay
 when but in all i was six thousand strong
 and that the french were almost ten to one
 before we met or that a stroke was given
 like to a trusty squire did run away
 in which assault we lost twelve hundred men
 myself and divers gentlemen beside
 were there surprised and taken prisoners
 then judge great lords if i have done amiss
 or whether that such cowards ought to wear
 this ornament of knighthood yea or no
gloucester to say the truth this fact was infamous
 and ill beseeming any common man
 much more a knight a captain and a leader
talbot when first this order was ordain'd my lords
 knights of the garter were of noble birth
 valiant and virtuous full of haughty courage
 such as were grown to credit by the wars
 not fearing death nor shrinking for distress
 but always resolute in most extremes
 he then that is not furnish'd in this sort
 doth but usurp the sacred name of knight
 profaning this most honourable order
 and should if i were worthy to be judge
 be quite degraded like a hedgeborn swain
 that doth presume to boast of gentle blood
king henry vi stain to thy countrymen thou hear'st thy doom
 be packing therefore thou that wast a knight
 henceforth we banish thee on pain of death
 exit fastolfe
 and now my lord protector view the letter
 sent from our uncle duke of burgundy
gloucester what means his grace that he hath changed his style
 no more but plain and bluntly to the king'
 hath he forgot he is his sovereign
 or doth this churlish superscription
 pretend some alteration in good will
 what's here
 reads
 i have upon especial cause
 moved with compassion of my country's wreck
 together with the pitiful complaints
 of such as your oppression feeds upon
 forsaken your pernicious faction
 and join'd with charles the rightful king of france'
 o monstrous treachery can this be so
 that in alliance amity and oaths
 there should be found such false dissembling guile
king henry vi what doth my uncle burgundy revolt
gloucester he doth my lord and is become your foe
king henry vi is that the worst this letter doth contain
gloucester it is the worst and all my lord he writes
king henry vi why then lord talbot there shall talk with him
 and give him chastisement for this abuse
 how say you my lord are you not content
talbot content my liege yes but that i am prevented
 i should have begg'd i might have been employ'd
king henry vi then gather strength and march unto him straight
 let him perceive how ill we brook his treason
 and what offence it is to flout his friends
talbot i go my lord in heart desiring still
 you may behold confusion of your foes
 exit
 enter vernon and basset
vernon grant me the combat gracious sovereign
basset and me my lord grant me the combat too
york this is my servant hear him noble prince
somerset and this is mine sweet henry favour him
king henry vi be patient lords and give them leave to speak
 say gentlemen what makes you thus exclaim
 and wherefore crave you combat or with whom
vernon with him my lord for he hath done me wrong
basset and i with him for he hath done me wrong
king henry vi what is that wrong whereof you both complain
 first let me know and then i'll answer you
basset crossing the sea from england into france
 this fellow here with envious carping tongue
 upbraided me about the rose i wear
 saying the sanguine colour of the leaves
 did represent my master's blushing cheeks
 when stubbornly he did repugn the truth
 about a certain question in the law
 argued betwixt the duke of york and him
 with other vile and ignominious terms
 in confutation of which rude reproach
 and in defence of my lord's worthiness
 i crave the benefit of law of arms
vernon and that is my petition noble lord
 for though he seem with forged quaint conceit
 to set a gloss upon his bold intent
 yet know my lord i was provoked by him
 and he first took exceptions at this badge
 pronouncing that the paleness of this flower
 bewray'd the faintness of my master's heart
york will not this malice somerset be left
somerset your private grudge my lord of york will out
 though ne'er so cunningly you smother it
king henry vi good lord what madness rules in brainsick men
 when for so slight and frivolous a cause
 such factious emulations shall arise
 good cousins both of york and somerset
 quiet yourselves i pray and be at peace
york let this dissension first be tried by fight
 and then your highness shall command a peace
somerset the quarrel toucheth none but us alone
 betwixt ourselves let us decide it then
york there is my pledge accept it somerset
vernon nay let it rest where it began at first
basset confirm it so mine honourable lord
gloucester confirm it so confounded be your strife
 and perish ye with your audacious prate
 presumptuous vassals are you not ashamed
 with this immodest clamorous outrage
 to trouble and disturb the king and us
 and you my lords methinks you do not well
 to bear with their perverse objections
 much less to take occasion from their mouths
 to raise a mutiny betwixt yourselves
 let me persuade you take a better course
exeter it grieves his highness good my lords be friends
king henry vi come hither you that would be combatants
 henceforth i charge you as you love our favour
 quite to forget this quarrel and the cause
 and you my lords remember where we are
 in france amongst a fickle wavering nation
 if they perceive dissension in our looks
 and that within ourselves we disagree
 how will their grudging stomachs be provoked
 to wilful disobedience and rebel
 beside what infamy will there arise
 when foreign princes shall be certified
 that for a toy a thing of no regard
 king henry's peers and chief nobility
 destroy'd themselves and lost the realm of france
 o think upon the conquest of my father
 my tender years and let us not forego
 that for a trifle that was bought with blood
 let me be umpire in this doubtful strife
 i see no reason if i wear this rose
 putting on a red rose
 that any one should therefore be suspicious
 i more incline to somerset than york
 both are my kinsmen and i love them both
 as well they may upbraid me with my crown
 because forsooth the king of scots is crown'd
 but your discretions better can persuade
 than i am able to instruct or teach
 and therefore as we hither came in peace
 so let us still continue peace and love
 cousin of york we institute your grace
 to be our regent in these parts of france
 and good my lord of somerset unite
 your troops of horsemen with his bands of foot
 and like true subjects sons of your progenitors
 go cheerfully together and digest
 your angry choler on your enemies
 ourself my lord protector and the rest
 after some respite will return to calais
 from thence to england where i hope ere long
 to be presented by your victories
 with charles alencon and that traitorous rout
 flourish exeunt all but york warwick exeter
 and vernon
warwick my lord of york i promise you the king
 prettily methought did play the orator
york and so he did but yet i like it not
 in that he wears the badge of somerset
warwick tush that was but his fancy blame him not
 i dare presume sweet prince he thought no harm
york an if i wist he didbut let it rest
 other affairs must now be managed
 exeunt all but exeter
exeter well didst thou richard to suppress thy voice
 for had the passions of thy heart burst out
 i fear we should have seen decipher'd there
 more rancorous spite more furious raging broils
 than yet can be imagined or supposed
 but howsoe'er no simple man that sees
 this jarring discord of nobility
 this shouldering of each other in the court
 this factious bandying of their favourites
 but that it doth presage some ill event
 tis much when sceptres are in children's hands
 but more when envy breeds unkind division
 there comes the rain there begins confusion
 exit
 1 king henry vi
act iv
scene ii before bourdeaux
 enter talbot with trump and drum
talbot go to the gates of bourdeaux trumpeter
 summon their general unto the wall
 trumpet sounds enter general and others aloft
 english john talbot captains calls you forth
 servant in arms to harry king of england
 and thus he would open your city gates
 be humble to us call my sovereign yours
 and do him homage as obedient subjects
 and i'll withdraw me and my bloody power
 but if you frown upon this proffer'd peace
 you tempt the fury of my three attendants
 lean famine quartering steel and climbing fire
 who in a moment even with the earth
 shall lay your stately and airbraving towers
 if you forsake the offer of their love
general thou ominous and fearful owl of death
 our nation's terror and their bloody scourge
 the period of thy tyranny approacheth
 on us thou canst not enter but by death
 for i protest we are well fortified
 and strong enough to issue out and fight
 if thou retire the dauphin well appointed
 stands with the snares of war to tangle thee
 on either hand thee there are squadrons pitch'd
 to wall thee from the liberty of flight
 and no way canst thou turn thee for redress
 but death doth front thee with apparent spoil
 and pale destruction meets thee in the face
 ten thousand french have ta'en the sacrament
 to rive their dangerous artillery
 upon no christian soul but english talbot
 lo there thou stand'st a breathing valiant man
 of an invincible unconquer'd spirit
 this is the latest glory of thy praise
 that i thy enemy due thee withal
 for ere the glass that now begins to run
 finish the process of his sandy hour
 these eyes that see thee now well coloured
 shall see thee wither'd bloody pale and dead
 drum afar off
 hark hark the dauphin's drum a warning bell
 sings heavy music to thy timorous soul
 and mine shall ring thy dire departure out
 exeunt general &c
talbot he fables not i hear the enemy
 out some light horsemen and peruse their wings
 o negligent and heedless discipline
 how are we park'd and bounded in a pale
 a little herd of england's timorous deer
 mazed with a yelping kennel of french curs
 if we be english deer be then in blood
 not rascallike to fall down with a pinch
 but rather moodymad and desperate stags
 turn on the bloody hounds with heads of steel
 and make the cowards stand aloof at bay
 sell every man his life as dear as mine
 and they shall find dear deer of us my friends
 god and saint george talbot and england's right
 prosper our colours in this dangerous fight
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 1 king henry vi
act iv
scene iii plains in gascony
 enter a messenger that meets york enter york
 with trumpet and many soldiers
york are not the speedy scouts return'd again
 that dogg'd the mighty army of the dauphin
messenger they are return'd my lord and give it out
 that he is march'd to bourdeaux with his power
 to fight with talbot as he march'd along
 by your espials were discovered
 two mightier troops than that the dauphin led
 which join'd with him and made their march for bourdeaux
york a plague upon that villain somerset
 that thus delays my promised supply
 of horsemen that were levied for this siege
 renowned talbot doth expect my aid
 and i am lowted by a traitor villain
 and cannot help the noble chevalier
 god comfort him in this necessity
 if he miscarry farewell wars in france
 enter sir william lucy
lucy thou princely leader of our english strength
 never so needful on the earth of france
 spur to the rescue of the noble talbot
 who now is girdled with a waist of iron
 and hemm'd about with grim destruction
 to bourdeaux warlike duke to bourdeaux york
 else farewell talbot france and england's honour
york o god that somerset who in proud heart
 doth stop my cornets were in talbot's place
 so should we save a valiant gentleman
 by forfeiting a traitor and a coward
 mad ire and wrathful fury makes me weep
 that thus we die while remiss traitors sleep
lucy o send some succor to the distress'd lord
york he dies we lose i break my warlike word
 we mourn france smiles we lose they daily get
 all long of this vile traitor somerset
lucy then god take mercy on brave talbot's soul
 and on his son young john who two hours since
 i met in travel toward his warlike father
 this seven years did not talbot see his son
 and now they meet where both their lives are done
york alas what joy shall noble talbot have
 to bid his young son welcome to his grave
 away vexation almost stops my breath
 that sunder'd friends greet in the hour of death
 lucy farewell no more my fortune can
 but curse the cause i cannot aid the man
 maine blois poictiers and tours are won away
 long all of somerset and his delay
 exit with his soldiers
lucy thus while the vulture of sedition
 feeds in the bosom of such great commanders
 sleeping neglection doth betray to loss
 the conquest of our scarce cold conqueror
 that ever living man of memory
 henry the fifth whiles they each other cross
 lives honours lands and all hurry to loss
 exit
 1 king henry vi
act iv
scene iv other plains in gascony
 enter somerset with his army a captain of
 talbot's with him
somerset it is too late i cannot send them now
 this expedition was by york and talbot
 too rashly plotted all our general force
 might with a sally of the very town
 be buckled with the overdaring talbot
 hath sullied all his gloss of former honour
 by this unheedful desperate wild adventure
 york set him on to fight and die in shame
 that talbot dead great york might bear the name
captain here is sir william lucy who with me
 set from our o'ermatch'd forces forth for aid
 enter sir william lucy
somerset how now sir william whither were you sent
lucy whither my lord from bought and sold lord talbot
 who ring'd about with bold adversity
 cries out for noble york and somerset
 to beat assailing death from his weak legions
 and whiles the honourable captain there
 drops bloody sweat from his warwearied limbs
 and in advantage lingering looks for rescue
 you his false hopes the trust of england's honour
 keep off aloof with worthless emulation
 let not your private discord keep away
 the levied succors that should lend him aid
 while he renowned noble gentleman
 yields up his life unto a world of odds
 orleans the bastard charles burgundy
 alencon reignier compass him about
 and talbot perisheth by your default
somerset york set him on york should have sent him aid
lucy and york as fast upon your grace exclaims
 swearing that you withhold his levied host
 collected for this expedition
somerset york lies he might have sent and had the horse
 i owe him little duty and less love
 and take foul scorn to fawn on him by sending
lucy the fraud of england not the force of france
 hath now entrapp'd the nobleminded talbot
 never to england shall he bear his life
 but dies betray'd to fortune by your strife
somerset come go i will dispatch the horsemen straight
 within six hours they will be at his aid
lucy too late comes rescue he is ta'en or slain
 for fly he could not if he would have fled
 and fly would talbot never though he might
somerset if he be dead brave talbot then adieu
lucy his fame lives in the world his shame in you
 exeunt
 1 king henry vi
act iv
scene v the english camp near bourdeaux
 enter talbot and john his son
talbot o young john talbot i did send for thee
 to tutor thee in stratagems of war
 that talbot's name might be in thee revived
 when sapless age and weak unable limbs
 should bring thy father to his drooping chair
 but o malignant and illboding stars
 now thou art come unto a feast of death
 a terrible and unavoided danger
 therefore dear boy mount on my swiftest horse
 and i'll direct thee how thou shalt escape
 by sudden flight come dally not be gone
john talbot is my name talbot and am i your son
 and shall i fly o if you love my mother
 dishonour not her honourable name
 to make a bastard and a slave of me
 the world will say he is not talbot's blood
 that basely fled when noble talbot stood
talbot fly to revenge my death if i be slain
john talbot he that flies so will ne'er return again
talbot if we both stay we both are sure to die
john talbot then let me stay and father do you fly
 your loss is great so your regard should be
 my worth unknown no loss is known in me
 upon my death the french can little boast
 in yours they will in you all hopes are lost
 flight cannot stain the honour you have won
 but mine it will that no exploit have done
 you fled for vantage everyone will swear
 but if i bow they'll say it was for fear
 there is no hope that ever i will stay
 if the first hour i shrink and run away
 here on my knee i beg mortality
 rather than life preserved with infamy
talbot shall all thy mother's hopes lie in one tomb
john talbot ay rather than i'll shame my mother's womb
talbot upon my blessing i command thee go
john talbot to fight i will but not to fly the foe
talbot part of thy father may be saved in thee
john talbot no part of him but will be shame in me
talbot thou never hadst renown nor canst not lose it
john talbot yes your renowned name shall flight abuse it
talbot thy father's charge shall clear thee from that stain
john talbot you cannot witness for me being slain
 if death be so apparent then both fly
talbot and leave my followers here to fight and die
 my age was never tainted with such shame
john talbot and shall my youth be guilty of such blame
 no more can i be sever'd from your side
 than can yourself yourself in twain divide
 stay go do what you will the like do i
 for live i will not if my father die
talbot then here i take my leave of thee fair son
 born to eclipse thy life this afternoon
 come side by side together live and die
 and soul with soul from france to heaven fly
 exeunt
 1 king henry vi
act iv
scene vi a field of battle
 alarum excursions wherein john talbot is
 hemmed about and talbot rescues him
talbot saint george and victory fight soldiers fight
 the regent hath with talbot broke his word
 and left us to the rage of france his sword
 where is john talbot pause and take thy breath
 i gave thee life and rescued thee from death
john talbot o twice my father twice am i thy son
 the life thou gavest me first was lost and done
 till with thy warlike sword despite of late
 to my determined time thou gavest new date
talbot when from the dauphin's crest thy sword struck fire
 it warm'd thy father's heart with proud desire
 of boldfaced victory then leaden age
 quicken'd with youthful spleen and warlike rage
 beat down alencon orleans burgundy
 and from the pride of gallia rescued thee
 the ireful bastard orleans that drew blood
 from thee my boy and had the maidenhood
 of thy first fight i soon encountered
 and interchanging blows i quickly shed
 some of his bastard blood and in disgrace
 bespoke him thus contaminated base
 and misbegotten blood i spill of thine
 mean and right poor for that pure blood of mine
 which thou didst force from talbot my brave boy'
 here purposing the bastard to destroy
 came in strong rescue speak thy father's care
 art thou not weary john how dost thou fare
 wilt thou yet leave the battle boy and fly
 now thou art seal'd the son of chivalry
 fly to revenge my death when i am dead
 the help of one stands me in little stead
 o too much folly is it well i wot
 to hazard all our lives in one small boat
 if i today die not with frenchmen's rage
 tomorrow i shall die with mickle age
 by me they nothing gain an if i stay
 tis but the shortening of my life one day
 in thee thy mother dies our household's name
 my death's revenge thy youth and england's fame
 all these and more we hazard by thy stay
 all these are saved if thou wilt fly away
john talbot the sword of orleans hath not made me smart
 these words of yours draw lifeblood from my heart
 on that advantage bought with such a shame
 to save a paltry life and slay bright fame
 before young talbot from old talbot fly
 the coward horse that bears me fail and die
 and like me to the peasant boys of france
 to be shame's scorn and subject of mischance
 surely by all the glory you have won
 an if i fly i am not talbot's son
 then talk no more of flight it is no boot
 if son to talbot die at talbot's foot
talbot then follow thou thy desperate sire of crete
 thou icarus thy life to me is sweet
 if thou wilt fight fight by thy father's side
 and commendable proved let's die in pride
 exeunt
 1 king henry vi
act iv
scene vii another part of the field
 alarum excursions enter talbot led by a servant
talbot where is my other life mine own is gone
 o where's young talbot where is valiant john
 triumphant death smear'd with captivity
 young talbot's valour makes me smile at thee
 when he perceived me shrink and on my knee
 his bloody sword he brandish'd over me
 and like a hungry lion did commence
 rough deeds of rage and stern impatience
 but when my angry guardant stood alone
 tendering my ruin and assail'd of none
 dizzyeyed fury and great rage of heart
 suddenly made him from my side to start
 into the clustering battle of the french
 and in that sea of blood my boy did drench
 his overmounting spirit and there died
 my icarus my blossom in his pride
servant o my dear lord lo where your son is borne
 enter soldiers with the body of john talbot
talbot thou antic death which laugh'st us here to scorn
 anon from thy insulting tyranny
 coupled in bonds of perpetuity
 two talbots winged through the lither sky
 in thy despite shall scape mortality
 o thou whose wounds become hardfavour'd death
 speak to thy father ere thou yield thy breath
 brave death by speaking whether he will or no
 imagine him a frenchman and thy foe
 poor boy he smiles methinks as who should say
 had death been french then death had died today
 come come and lay him in his father's arms
 my spirit can no longer bear these harms
 soldiers adieu i have what i would have
 now my old arms are young john talbot's grave
 dies
 enter charles alencon burgundy bastard of
 orleans joan la pucelle and forces
charles had york and somerset brought rescue in
 we should have found a bloody day of this
bastard of orleans how the young whelp of talbot's ragingwood
 did flesh his puny sword in frenchmen's blood
joan la pucelle once i encounter'd him and thus i said
 thou maiden youth be vanquish'd by a maid'
 but with a proud majestical high scorn
 he answer'd thus young talbot was not born
 to be the pillage of a giglot wench'
 so rushing in the bowels of the french
 he left me proudly as unworthy fight
burgundy doubtless he would have made a noble knight
 see where he lies inhearsed in the arms
 of the most bloody nurser of his harms
bastard of orleans hew them to pieces hack their bones asunder
 whose life was england's glory gallia's wonder
charles o no forbear for that which we have fled
 during the life let us not wrong it dead
 enter sir william lucy attended herald of the
 french preceding
lucy herald conduct me to the dauphin's tent
 to know who hath obtained the glory of the day
charles on what submissive message art thou sent
lucy submission dauphin tis a mere french word
 we english warriors wot not what it means
 i come to know what prisoners thou hast ta'en
 and to survey the bodies of the dead
charles for prisoners ask'st thou hell our prison is
 but tell me whom thou seek'st
lucy but where's the great alcides of the field
 valiant lord talbot earl of shrewsbury
 created for his rare success in arms
 great earl of washford waterford and valence
 lord talbot of goodrig and urchinfield
 lord strange of blackmere lord verdun of alton
 lord cromwell of wingfield lord furnival of sheffield
 the thricevictorious lord of falconbridge
 knight of the noble order of saint george
 worthy saint michael and the golden fleece
 great marshal to henry the sixth
 of all his wars within the realm of france
joan la pucelle here is a silly stately style indeed
 the turk that two and fifty kingdoms hath
 writes not so tedious a style as this
 him that thou magnifiest with all these titles
 stinking and flyblown lies here at our feet
lucy is talbot slain the frenchmen's only scourge
 your kingdom's terror and black nemesis
 o were mine eyeballs into bullets turn'd
 that i in rage might shoot them at your faces
 o that i could but call these dead to life
 it were enough to fright the realm of france
 were but his picture left amongst you here
 it would amaze the proudest of you all
 give me their bodies that i may bear them hence
 and give them burial as beseems their worth
joan la pucelle i think this upstart is old talbot's ghost
 he speaks with such a proud commanding spirit
 for god's sake let him have em to keep them here
 they would but stink and putrefy the air
charles go take their bodies hence
lucy i'll bear them hence but from their ashes shall be rear'd
 a phoenix that shall make all france afeard
charles so we be rid of them do with em what thou wilt
 and now to paris in this conquering vein
 all will be ours now bloody talbot's slain
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 1 king henry vi
act v
scene i london the palace
 sennet enter king henry vi gloucester and exeter
king henry vi have you perused the letters from the pope
 the emperor and the earl of armagnac
gloucester i have my lord and their intent is this
 they humbly sue unto your excellence
 to have a godly peace concluded of
 between the realms of england and of france
king henry vi how doth your grace affect their motion
gloucester well my good lord and as the only means
 to stop effusion of our christian blood
 and stablish quietness on every side
king henry vi ay marry uncle for i always thought
 it was both impious and unnatural
 that such immanity and bloody strife
 should reign among professors of one faith
gloucester beside my lord the sooner to effect
 and surer bind this knot of amity
 the earl of armagnac near knit to charles
 a man of great authority in france
 proffers his only daughter to your grace
 in marriage with a large and sumptuous dowry
king henry vi marriage uncle alas my years are young
 and fitter is my study and my books
 than wanton dalliance with a paramour
 yet call the ambassador and as you please
 so let them have their answers every one
 i shall be well content with any choice
 tends to god's glory and my country's weal
 enter cardinal of winchester in cardinal's habit
 a legate and two ambassadors
exeter what is my lord of winchester install'd
 and call'd unto a cardinal's degree
 then i perceive that will be verified
 henry the fifth did sometime prophesy
 if once he come to be a cardinal
 he'll make his cap coequal with the crown'
king henry vi my lords ambassadors your several suits
 have been consider'd and debated on
 and therefore are we certainly resolved
 to draw conditions of a friendly peace
 which by my lord of winchester we mean
 shall be transported presently to france
gloucester and for the proffer of my lord your master
 i have inform'd his highness so at large
 as liking of the lady's virtuous gifts
 her beauty and the value of her dower
 he doth intend she shall be england's queen
king henry vi in argument and proof of which contract
 bear her this jewel pledge of my affection
 and so my lord protector see them guarded
 and safely brought to dover where inshipp'd
 commit them to the fortune of the sea
 exeunt all but cardinal of winchester and legate
cardinal
of winchester stay my lord legate you shall first receive
 the sum of money which i promised
 should be deliver'd to his holiness
 for clothing me in these grave ornaments
legate i will attend upon your lordship's leisure
cardinal
of winchester aside now winchester will not submit i trow
 or be inferior to the proudest peer
 humphrey of gloucester thou shalt well perceive
 that neither in birth or for authority
 the bishop will be overborne by thee
 i'll either make thee stoop and bend thy knee
 or sack this country with a mutiny
 exeunt
 1 king henry vi
act v
scene ii france plains in anjou
 enter charles burgundy alencon bastard of
 orleans reignier joan la pucelle and forces
charles these news my lord may cheer our drooping spirits
 tis said the stout parisians do revolt
 and turn again unto the warlike french
alencon then march to paris royal charles of france
 and keep not back your powers in dalliance
joan la pucelle peace be amongst them if they turn to us
 else ruin combat with their palaces
 enter scout
scout success unto our valiant general
 and happiness to his accomplices
charles what tidings send our scouts i prithee speak
scout the english army that divided was
 into two parties is now conjoined in one
 and means to give you battle presently
charles somewhat too sudden sirs the warning is
 but we will presently provide for them
burgundy i trust the ghost of talbot is not there
 now he is gone my lord you need not fear
joan la pucelle of all base passions fear is most accursed
 command the conquest charles it shall be thine
 let henry fret and all the world repine
charles then on my lords and france be fortunate
 exeunt
 1 king henry vi
act v
scene iii before angiers
 alarum excursions enter joan la pucelle
joan la pucelle the regent conquers and the frenchmen fly
 now help ye charming spells and periapts
 and ye choice spirits that admonish me
 and give me signs of future accidents
 thunder
 you speedy helpers that are substitutes
 under the lordly monarch of the north
 appear and aid me in this enterprise
 enter fiends
 this speedy and quick appearance argues proof
 of your accustom'd diligence to me
 now ye familiar spirits that are cull'd
 out of the powerful regions under earth
 help me this once that france may get the field
 they walk and speak not
 o hold me not with silence overlong
 where i was wont to feed you with my blood
 i'll lop a member off and give it you
 in earnest of further benefit
 so you do condescend to help me now
 they hang their heads
 no hope to have redress my body shall
 pay recompense if you will grant my suit
 they shake their heads
 cannot my body nor bloodsacrifice
 entreat you to your wonted furtherance
 then take my soul my body soul and all
 before that england give the french the foil
 they depart
 see they forsake me now the time is come
 that france must vail her loftyplumed crest
 and let her head fall into england's lap
 my ancient incantations are too weak
 and hell too strong for me to buckle with
 now france thy glory droopeth to the dust
 exit
 excursions reenter joan la pucelle fighting hand
 to hand with york joan la pucelle is taken the
 french fly
york damsel of france i think i have you fast
 unchain your spirits now with spelling charms
 and try if they can gain your liberty
 a goodly prize fit for the devil's grace
 see how the ugly wench doth bend her brows
 as if with circe she would change my shape
joan la pucelle changed to a worser shape thou canst not be
york o charles the dauphin is a proper man
 no shape but his can please your dainty eye
joan la pucelle a plaguing mischief light on charles and thee
 and may ye both be suddenly surprised
 by bloody hands in sleeping on your beds
york fell banning hag enchantress hold thy tongue
joan la pucelle i prithee give me leave to curse awhile
york curse miscreant when thou comest to the stake
 exeunt
 alarum enter suffolk with margaret in his hand
suffolk be what thou wilt thou art my prisoner
 gazes on her
 o fairest beauty do not fear nor fly
 for i will touch thee but with reverent hands
 i kiss these fingers for eternal peace
 and lay them gently on thy tender side
 who art thou say that i may honour thee
margaret margaret my name and daughter to a king
 the king of naples whosoe'er thou art
suffolk an earl i am and suffolk am i call'd
 be not offended nature's miracle
 thou art allotted to be ta'en by me
 so doth the swan her downy cygnets save
 keeping them prisoner underneath her wings
 yet if this servile usage once offend
 go and be free again as suffolk's friend
 she is going
 o stay i have no power to let her pass
 my hand would free her but my heart says no
 as plays the sun upon the glassy streams
 twinkling another counterfeited beam
 so seems this gorgeous beauty to mine eyes
 fain would i woo her yet i dare not speak
 i'll call for pen and ink and write my mind
 fie de la pole disable not thyself
 hast not a tongue is she not here
 wilt thou be daunted at a woman's sight
 ay beauty's princely majesty is such
 confounds the tongue and makes the senses rough
margaret say earl of suffolkif thy name be so
 what ransom must i pay before i pass
 for i perceive i am thy prisoner
suffolk how canst thou tell she will deny thy suit
 before thou make a trial of her love
margaret why speak'st thou not what ransom must i pay
suffolk she's beautiful and therefore to be woo'd
 she is a woman therefore to be won
margaret wilt thou accept of ransom yea or no
suffolk fond man remember that thou hast a wife
 then how can margaret be thy paramour
margaret i were best to leave him for he will not hear
suffolk there all is marr'd there lies a cooling card
margaret he talks at random sure the man is mad
suffolk and yet a dispensation may be had
margaret and yet i would that you would answer me
suffolk i'll win this lady margaret for whom
 why for my king tush that's a wooden thing
margaret he talks of wood it is some carpenter
suffolk yet so my fancy may be satisfied
 and peace established between these realms
 but there remains a scruple in that too
 for though her father be the king of naples
 duke of anjou and maine yet is he poor
 and our nobility will scorn the match
margaret hear ye captain are you not at leisure
suffolk it shall be so disdain they ne'er so much
 henry is youthful and will quickly yield
 madam i have a secret to reveal
margaret what though i be enthrall'd he seems a knight
 and will not any way dishonour me
suffolk lady vouchsafe to listen what i say
margaret perhaps i shall be rescued by the french
 and then i need not crave his courtesy
suffolk sweet madam give me a hearing in a cause
margaret tush women have been captivate ere now
suffolk lady wherefore talk you so
margaret i cry you mercy tis but quid for quo
suffolk say gentle princess would you not suppose
 your bondage happy to be made a queen
margaret to be a queen in bondage is more vile
 than is a slave in base servility
 for princes should be free
suffolk and so shall you
 if happy england's royal king be free
margaret why what concerns his freedom unto me
suffolk i'll undertake to make thee henry's queen
 to put a golden sceptre in thy hand
 and set a precious crown upon thy head
 if thou wilt condescend to be my
margaret what
suffolk his love
margaret i am unworthy to be henry's wife
suffolk no gentle madam i unworthy am
 to woo so fair a dame to be his wife
 and have no portion in the choice myself
 how say you madam are ye so content
margaret an if my father please i am content
suffolk then call our captains and our colours forth
 and madam at your father's castle walls
 we'll crave a parley to confer with him
 a parley sounded enter reignier on the walls
 see reignier see thy daughter prisoner
reignier to whom
suffolk to me
reignier suffolk what remedy
 i am a soldier and unapt to weep
 or to exclaim on fortune's fickleness
suffolk yes there is remedy enough my lord
 consent and for thy honour give consent
 thy daughter shall be wedded to my king
 whom i with pain have woo'd and won thereto
 and this her easyheld imprisonment
 hath gained thy daughter princely liberty
reignier speaks suffolk as he thinks
suffolk fair margaret knows
 that suffolk doth not flatter face or feign
reignier upon thy princely warrant i descend
 to give thee answer of thy just demand
 exit from the walls
suffolk and here i will expect thy coming
 trumpets sound enter reignier below
reignier welcome brave earl into our territories
 command in anjou what your honour pleases
suffolk thanks reignier happy for so sweet a child
 fit to be made companion with a king
 what answer makes your grace unto my suit
reignier since thou dost deign to woo her little worth
 to be the princely bride of such a lord
 upon condition i may quietly
 enjoy mine own the country maine and anjou
 free from oppression or the stroke of war
 my daughter shall be henry's if he please
suffolk that is her ransom i deliver her
 and those two counties i will undertake
 your grace shall well and quietly enjoy
reignier and i again in henry's royal name
 as deputy unto that gracious king
 give thee her hand for sign of plighted faith
suffolk reignier of france i give thee kingly thanks
 because this is in traffic of a king
 aside
 and yet methinks i could be well content
 to be mine own attorney in this case
 i'll over then to england with this news
 and make this marriage to be solemnized
 so farewell reignier set this diamond safe
 in golden palaces as it becomes
reignier i do embrace thee as i would embrace
 the christian prince king henry were he here
margaret farewell my lord good wishes praise and prayers
 shall suffolk ever have of margaret
 going
suffolk farewell sweet madam but hark you margaret
 no princely commendations to my king
margaret such commendations as becomes a maid
 a virgin and his servant say to him
suffolk words sweetly placed and modestly directed
 but madam i must trouble you again
 no loving token to his majesty
margaret yes my good lord a pure unspotted heart
 never yet taint with love i send the king
suffolk and this withal
 kisses her
margaret that for thyself i will not so presume
 to send such peevish tokens to a king
 exeunt reignier and margaret
suffolk o wert thou for myself but suffolk stay
 thou mayst not wander in that labyrinth
 there minotaurs and ugly treasons lurk
 solicit henry with her wondrous praise
 bethink thee on her virtues that surmount
 and natural graces that extinguish art
 repeat their semblance often on the seas
 that when thou comest to kneel at henry's feet
 thou mayst bereave him of his wits with wonder
 exit
 1 king henry vi
act v
scene iv camp of the york in anjou
 enter york warwick and others
york bring forth that sorceress condemn'd to burn
 enter joan la pucelle guarded and a shepherd
shepherd ah joan this kills thy father's heart outright
 have i sought every country far and near
 and now it is my chance to find thee out
 must i behold thy timeless cruel death
 ah joan sweet daughter joan i'll die with thee
joan la pucelle decrepit miser base ignoble wretch
 i am descended of a gentler blood
 thou art no father nor no friend of mine
shepherd out out my lords an please you tis not so
 i did beget her all the parish knows
 her mother liveth yet can testify
 she was the first fruit of my bachelorship
warwick graceless wilt thou deny thy parentage
york this argues what her kind of life hath been
 wicked and vile and so her death concludes
shepherd fie joan that thou wilt be so obstacle
 god knows thou art a collop of my flesh
 and for thy sake have i shed many a tear
 deny me not i prithee gentle joan
joan la pucelle peasant avaunt you have suborn'd this man
 of purpose to obscure my noble birth
shepherd tis true i gave a noble to the priest
 the morn that i was wedded to her mother
 kneel down and take my blessing good my girl
 wilt thou not stoop now cursed be the time
 of thy nativity i would the milk
 thy mother gave thee when thou suck'dst her breast
 had been a little ratsbane for thy sake
 or else when thou didst keep my lambs afield
 i wish some ravenous wolf had eaten thee
 dost thou deny thy father cursed drab
 o burn her burn her hanging is too good
 exit
york take her away for she hath lived too long
 to fill the world with vicious qualities
joan la pucelle first let me tell you whom you have condemn'd
 not me begotten of a shepherd swain
 but issued from the progeny of kings
 virtuous and holy chosen from above
 by inspiration of celestial grace
 to work exceeding miracles on earth
 i never had to do with wicked spirits
 but you that are polluted with your lusts
 stain'd with the guiltless blood of innocents
 corrupt and tainted with a thousand vices
 because you want the grace that others have
 you judge it straight a thing impossible
 to compass wonders but by help of devils
 no misconceived joan of arc hath been
 a virgin from her tender infancy
 chaste and immaculate in very thought
 whose maiden blood thus rigorously effused
 will cry for vengeance at the gates of heaven
york ay ay away with her to execution
warwick and hark ye sirs because she is a maid
 spare for no faggots let there be enow
 place barrels of pitch upon the fatal stake
 that so her torture may be shortened
joan la pucelle will nothing turn your unrelenting hearts
 then joan discover thine infirmity
 that warranteth by law to be thy privilege
 i am with child ye bloody homicides
 murder not then the fruit within my womb
 although ye hale me to a violent death
york now heaven forfend the holy maid with child
warwick the greatest miracle that e'er ye wrought
 is all your strict preciseness come to this
york she and the dauphin have been juggling
 i did imagine what would be her refuge
warwick well go to we'll have no bastards live
 especially since charles must father it
joan la pucelle you are deceived my child is none of his
 it was alencon that enjoy'd my love
york alencon that notorious machiavel
 it dies an if it had a thousand lives
joan la pucelle o give me leave i have deluded you
 twas neither charles nor yet the duke i named
 but reignier king of naples that prevail'd
warwick a married man that's most intolerable
york why here's a girl i think she knows not well
 there were so many whom she may accuse
warwick it's sign she hath been liberal and free
york and yet forsooth she is a virgin pure
 strumpet thy words condemn thy brat and thee
 use no entreaty for it is in vain
joan la pucelle then lead me hence with whom i leave my curse
 may never glorious sun reflex his beams
 upon the country where you make abode
 but darkness and the gloomy shade of death
 environ you till mischief and despair
 drive you to break your necks or hang yourselves
 exit guarded
york break thou in pieces and consume to ashes
 thou foul accursed minister of hell
 enter cardinal of winchester attended
cardinal
of winchester lord regent i do greet your excellence
 with letters of commission from the king
 for know my lords the states of christendom
 moved with remorse of these outrageous broils
 have earnestly implored a general peace
 betwixt our nation and the aspiring french
 and here at hand the dauphin and his train
 approacheth to confer about some matter
york is all our travail turn'd to this effect
 after the slaughter of so many peers
 so many captains gentlemen and soldiers
 that in this quarrel have been overthrown
 and sold their bodies for their country's benefit
 shall we at last conclude effeminate peace
 have we not lost most part of all the towns
 by treason falsehood and by treachery
 our great progenitors had conquered
 o warwick warwick i foresee with grief
 the utter loss of all the realm of france
warwick be patient york if we conclude a peace
 it shall be with such strict and severe covenants
 as little shall the frenchmen gain thereby
 enter charles alencon bastard of orleans
 reignier and others
charles since lords of england it is thus agreed
 that peaceful truce shall be proclaim'd in france
 we come to be informed by yourselves
 what the conditions of that league must be
york speak winchester for boiling choler chokes
 the hollow passage of my poison'd voice
 by sight of these our baleful enemies
cardinal
of winchester charles and the rest it is enacted thus
 that in regard king henry gives consent
 of mere compassion and of lenity
 to ease your country of distressful war
 and suffer you to breathe in fruitful peace
 you shall become true liegemen to his crown
 and charles upon condition thou wilt swear
 to pay him tribute submit thyself
 thou shalt be placed as viceroy under him
 and still enjoy thy regal dignity
alencon must he be then as shadow of himself
 adorn his temples with a coronet
 and yet in substance and authority
 retain but privilege of a private man
 this proffer is absurd and reasonless
charles tis known already that i am possess'd
 with more than half the gallian territories
 and therein reverenced for their lawful king
 shall i for lucre of the rest unvanquish'd
 detract so much from that prerogative
 as to be call'd but viceroy of the whole
 no lord ambassador i'll rather keep
 that which i have than coveting for more
 be cast from possibility of all
york insulting charles hast thou by secret means
 used intercession to obtain a league
 and now the matter grows to compromise
 stand'st thou aloof upon comparison
 either accept the title thou usurp'st
 of benefit proceeding from our king
 and not of any challenge of desert
 or we will plague thee with incessant wars
reignier my lord you do not well in obstinacy
 to cavil in the course of this contract
 if once it be neglected ten to one
 we shall not find like opportunity
alencon to say the truth it is your policy
 to save your subjects from such massacre
 and ruthless slaughters as are daily seen
 by our proceeding in hostility
 and therefore take this compact of a truce
 although you break it when your pleasure serves
warwick how say'st thou charles shall our condition stand
charles it shall
 only reserved you claim no interest
 in any of our towns of garrison
york then swear allegiance to his majesty
 as thou art knight never to disobey
 nor be rebellious to the crown of england
 thou nor thy nobles to the crown of england
 so now dismiss your army when ye please
 hang up your ensign let your drums be still
 for here we entertain a solemn peace
 exeunt
 1 king henry vi
act v
scene v london the palace
 enter suffolk in conference with king henry vi
 gloucester and exeter
king henry vi your wondrous rare description noble earl
 of beauteous margaret hath astonish'd me
 her virtues graced with external gifts
 do breed love's settled passions in my heart
 and like as rigor of tempestuous gusts
 provokes the mightiest hulk against the tide
 so am i driven by breath of her renown
 either to suffer shipwreck or arrive
 where i may have fruition of her love
suffolk tush my good lord this superficial tale
 is but a preface of her worthy praise
 the chief perfections of that lovely dame
 had i sufficient skill to utter them
 would make a volume of enticing lines
 able to ravish any dull conceit
 and which is more she is not so divine
 so fullreplete with choice of all delights
 but with as humble lowliness of mind
 she is content to be at your command
 command i mean of virtuous chaste intents
 to love and honour henry as her lord
king henry vi and otherwise will henry ne'er presume
 therefore my lord protector give consent
 that margaret may be england's royal queen
gloucester so should i give consent to flatter sin
 you know my lord your highness is betroth'd
 unto another lady of esteem
 how shall we then dispense with that contract
 and not deface your honour with reproach
suffolk as doth a ruler with unlawful oaths
 or one that at a triumph having vow'd
 to try his strength forsaketh yet the lists
 by reason of his adversary's odds
 a poor earl's daughter is unequal odds
 and therefore may be broke without offence
gloucester why what i pray is margaret more than that
 her father is no better than an earl
 although in glorious titles he excel
suffolk yes lord her father is a king
 the king of naples and jerusalem
 and of such great authority in france
 as his alliance will confirm our peace
 and keep the frenchmen in allegiance
gloucester and so the earl of armagnac may do
 because he is near kinsman unto charles
exeter beside his wealth doth warrant a liberal dower
 where reignier sooner will receive than give
suffolk a dower my lords disgrace not so your king
 that he should be so abject base and poor
 to choose for wealth and not for perfect love
 henry is able to enrich his queen
 and not seek a queen to make him rich
 so worthless peasants bargain for their wives
 as marketmen for oxen sheep or horse
 marriage is a matter of more worth
 than to be dealt in by attorneyship
 not whom we will but whom his grace affects
 must be companion of his nuptial bed
 and therefore lords since he affects her most
 it most of all these reasons bindeth us
 in our opinions she should be preferr'd
 for what is wedlock forced but a hell
 an age of discord and continual strife
 whereas the contrary bringeth bliss
 and is a pattern of celestial peace
 whom should we match with henry being a king
 but margaret that is daughter to a king
 her peerless feature joined with her birth
 approves her fit for none but for a king
 her valiant courage and undaunted spirit
 more than in women commonly is seen
 will answer our hope in issue of a king
 for henry son unto a conqueror
 is likely to beget more conquerors
 if with a lady of so high resolve
 as is fair margaret he be link'd in love
 then yield my lords and here conclude with me
 that margaret shall be queen and none but she
king henry vi whether it be through force of your report
 my noble lord of suffolk or for that
 my tender youth was never yet attaint
 with any passion of inflaming love
 i cannot tell but this i am assured
 i feel such sharp dissension in my breast
 such fierce alarums both of hope and fear
 as i am sick with working of my thoughts
 take therefore shipping post my lord to france
 agree to any covenants and procure
 that lady margaret do vouchsafe to come
 to cross the seas to england and be crown'd
 king henry's faithful and anointed queen
 for your expenses and sufficient charge
 among the people gather up a tenth
 be gone i say for till you do return
 i rest perplexed with a thousand cares
 and you good uncle banish all offence
 if you do censure me by what you were
 not what you are i know it will excuse
 this sudden execution of my will
 and so conduct me where from company
 i may revolve and ruminate my grief
 exit
gloucester ay grief i fear me both at first and last
 exeunt gloucester and exeter
suffolk thus suffolk hath prevail'd and thus he goes
 as did the youthful paris once to greece
 with hope to find the like event in love
 but prosper better than the trojan did
 margaret shall now be queen and rule the king
 but i will rule both her the king and realm
 exit
 2 king henry iv
 dramatis personae
rumour the presenter
king henry the fourth king henry iv
prince henry 
of wales prince henry 
 afterwards king henry v 
 
thomas duke of sons of king henry
clarence clarence 
 
prince humphrey 
of gloucester gloucester 
earl of warwick warwick
earl of
westmoreland westmoreland
earl of surrey
gower
harcourt
blunt
 lord chiefjustice of the king's bench
 lord chiefjustice
 a servant of the chiefjustice
earl of
northumberland northumberland
scroop
archbishop of york archbishop of york
lord mowbray mowbray
lord hastings hastings
lord bardolph
sir john colevile colevile
travers 
 retainers of northumberland
morton 
sir john falstaff falstaff
 his page page
bardolph
pistol
poins
peto
shallow 
 country justices
silence 
davy servant to shallow
mouldy 
 
shadow 
 
wart recruits
 
feeble 
 
bullcalf 
fang 
 sheriff's officers
snare 
lady
northumberland
lady percy
mistress quickly hostess of a tavern in eastcheap
doll tearsheet
 lords and attendants porter drawers
 beadles grooms &c
 first messenger
 porter
 first drawer
 second drawer
 first beadle
 first groom
 second groom
 a dancer speaker of the epilogue
scene england
 2 king henry iv
 induction
 warkworth before the castle
 enter rumour painted full of tongues
rumour open your ears for which of you will stop
 the vent of hearing when loud rumour speaks
 i from the orient to the drooping west
 making the wind my posthorse still unfold
 the acts commenced on this ball of earth
 upon my tongues continual slanders ride
 the which in every language i pronounce
 stuffing the ears of men with false reports
 i speak of peace while covert enmity
 under the smile of safety wounds the world
 and who but rumour who but only i
 make fearful musters and prepared defence
 whiles the big year swoln with some other grief
 is thought with child by the stern tyrant war
 and no such matter rumour is a pipe
 blown by surmises jealousies conjectures
 and of so easy and so plain a stop
 that the blunt monster with uncounted heads
 the stilldiscordant wavering multitude
 can play upon it but what need i thus
 my wellknown body to anatomize
 among my household why is rumour here
 i run before king harry's victory
 who in a bloody field by shrewsbury
 hath beaten down young hotspur and his troops
 quenching the flame of bold rebellion
 even with the rebel's blood but what mean i
 to speak so true at first my office is
 to noise abroad that harry monmouth fell
 under the wrath of noble hotspur's sword
 and that the king before the douglas rage
 stoop'd his anointed head as low as death
 this have i rumour'd through the peasant towns
 between that royal field of shrewsbury
 and this wormeaten hold of ragged stone
 where hotspur's father old northumberland
 lies craftysick the posts come tiring on
 and not a man of them brings other news
 than they have learn'd of me from rumour's tongues
 they bring smooth comforts false worse than
 true wrongs
 exit
 2 king henry iv
act i
scene i the same
 enter lord bardolph
lord bardolph who keeps the gate here ho
 the porter opens the gate
 where is the earl
porter what shall i say you are
lord bardolph tell thou the earl
 that the lord bardolph doth attend him here
porter his lordship is walk'd forth into the orchard
 please it your honour knock but at the gate
 and he himself wilt answer
 enter northumberland
lord bardolph here comes the earl
 exit porter
northumberland what news lord bardolph every minute now
 should be the father of some stratagem
 the times are wild contention like a horse
 full of high feeding madly hath broke loose
 and bears down all before him
lord bardolph noble earl
 i bring you certain news from shrewsbury
northumberland good an god will
lord bardolph as good as heart can wish
 the king is almost wounded to the death
 and in the fortune of my lord your son
 prince harry slain outright and both the blunts
 kill'd by the hand of douglas young prince john
 and westmoreland and stafford fled the field
 and harry monmouth's brawn the hulk sir john
 is prisoner to your son o such a day
 so fought so follow'd and so fairly won
 came not till now to dignify the times
 since caesar's fortunes
northumberland how is this derived
 saw you the field came you from shrewsbury
lord bardolph i spake with one my lord that came from thence
 a gentleman well bred and of good name
 that freely render'd me these news for true
northumberland here comes my servant travers whom i sent
 on tuesday last to listen after news
 enter travers
lord bardolph my lord i overrode him on the way
 and he is furnish'd with no certainties
 more than he haply may retail from me
northumberland now travers what good tidings comes with you
travers my lord sir john umfrevile turn'd me back
 with joyful tidings and being better horsed
 outrode me after him came spurring hard
 a gentleman almost forspent with speed
 that stopp'd by me to breathe his bloodied horse
 he ask'd the way to chester and of him
 i did demand what news from shrewsbury
 he told me that rebellion had bad luck
 and that young harry percy's spur was cold
 with that he gave his able horse the head
 and bending forward struck his armed heels
 against the panting sides of his poor jade
 up to the rowelhead and starting so
 he seem'd in running to devour the way
 staying no longer question
northumberland ha again
 said he young harry percy's spur was cold
 of hotspur coldspur that rebellion
 had met ill luck
lord bardolph my lord i'll tell you what
 if my young lord your son have not the day
 upon mine honour for a silken point
 i'll give my barony never talk of it
northumberland why should that gentleman that rode by travers
 give then such instances of loss
lord bardolph who he
 he was some hilding fellow that had stolen
 the horse he rode on and upon my life
 spoke at a venture look here comes more news
 enter morton
northumberland yea this man's brow like to a titleleaf
 foretells the nature of a tragic volume
 so looks the strand whereon the imperious flood
 hath left a witness'd usurpation
 say morton didst thou come from shrewsbury
morton i ran from shrewsbury my noble lord
 where hateful death put on his ugliest mask
 to fright our party
northumberland how doth my son and brother
 thou tremblest and the whiteness in thy cheek
 is apter than thy tongue to tell thy errand
 even such a man so faint so spiritless
 so dull so dead in look so woebegone
 drew priam's curtain in the dead of night
 and would have told him half his troy was burnt
 but priam found the fire ere he his tongue
 and i my percy's death ere thou report'st it
 this thou wouldst say your son did thus and thus
 your brother thus so fought the noble douglas'
 stopping my greedy ear with their bold deeds
 but in the end to stop my ear indeed
 thou hast a sigh to blow away this praise
 ending with brother son and all are dead'
morton douglas is living and your brother yet
 but for my lord your son
northumberland why he is dead
 see what a ready tongue suspicion hath
 he that but fears the thing he would not know
 hath by instinct knowledge from others eyes
 that what he fear'd is chanced yet speak morton
 tell thou an earl his divination lies
 and i will take it as a sweet disgrace
 and make thee rich for doing me such wrong
morton you are too great to be by me gainsaid
 your spirit is too true your fears too certain
northumberland yet for all this say not that percy's dead
 i see a strange confession in thine eye
 thou shakest thy head and hold'st it fear or sin
 to speak a truth if he be slain say so
 the tongue offends not that reports his death
 and he doth sin that doth belie the dead
 not he which says the dead is not alive
 yet the first bringer of unwelcome news
 hath but a losing office and his tongue
 sounds ever after as a sullen bell
 remember'd tolling a departing friend
lord bardolph i cannot think my lord your son is dead
morton i am sorry i should force you to believe
 that which i would to god i had not seen
 but these mine eyes saw him in bloody state
 rendering faint quittance wearied and outbreathed
 to harry monmouth whose swift wrath beat down
 the neverdaunted percy to the earth
 from whence with life he never more sprung up
 in few his death whose spirit lent a fire
 even to the dullest peasant in his camp
 being bruited once took fire and heat away
 from the best temper'd courage in his troops
 for from his metal was his party steel'd
 which once in him abated all the rest
 turn'd on themselves like dull and heavy lead
 and as the thing that's heavy in itself
 upon enforcement flies with greatest speed
 so did our men heavy in hotspur's loss
 lend to this weight such lightness with their fear
 that arrows fled not swifter toward their aim
 than did our soldiers aiming at their safety
 fly from the field then was the noble worcester
 too soon ta'en prisoner and that furious scot
 the bloody douglas whose welllabouring sword
 had three times slain the appearance of the king
 gan vail his stomach and did grace the shame
 of those that turn'd their backs and in his flight
 stumbling in fear was took the sum of all
 is that the king hath won and hath sent out
 a speedy power to encounter you my lord
 under the conduct of young lancaster
 and westmoreland this is the news at full
northumberland for this i shall have time enough to mourn
 in poison there is physic and these news
 having been well that would have made me sick
 being sick have in some measure made me well
 and as the wretch whose feverweaken'd joints
 like strengthless hinges buckle under life
 impatient of his fit breaks like a fire
 out of his keeper's arms even so my limbs
 weaken'd with grief being now enraged with grief
 are thrice themselves hence therefore thou nice crutch
 a scaly gauntlet now with joints of steel
 must glove this hand and hence thou sickly quoif
 thou art a guard too wanton for the head
 which princes flesh'd with conquest aim to hit
 now bind my brows with iron and approach
 the ragged'st hour that time and spite dare bring
 to frown upon the enraged northumberland
 let heaven kiss earth now let not nature's hand
 keep the wild flood confined let order die
 and let this world no longer be a stage
 to feed contention in a lingering act
 but let one spirit of the firstborn cain
 reign in all bosoms that each heart being set
 on bloody courses the rude scene may end
 and darkness be the burier of the dead
travers this strained passion doth you wrong my lord
lord bardolph sweet earl divorce not wisdom from your honour
morton the lives of all your loving complices
 lean on your health the which if you give o'er
 to stormy passion must perforce decay
 you cast the event of war my noble lord
 and summ'd the account of chance before you said
 let us make head it was your presurmise
 that in the dole of blows your son might drop
 you knew he walk'd o'er perils on an edge
 more likely to fall in than to get o'er
 you were advised his flesh was capable
 of wounds and scars and that his forward spirit
 would lift him where most trade of danger ranged
 yet did you say go forth and none of this
 though strongly apprehended could restrain
 the stiffborne action what hath then befallen
 or what hath this bold enterprise brought forth
 more than that being which was like to be
lord bardolph we all that are engaged to this loss
 knew that we ventured on such dangerous seas
 that if we wrought our life twas ten to one
 and yet we ventured for the gain proposed
 choked the respect of likely peril fear'd
 and since we are o'erset venture again
 come we will all put forth body and goods
morton tis more than time and my most noble lord
 i hear for certain and do speak the truth
 the gentle archbishop of york is up
 with wellappointed powers he is a man
 who with a double surety binds his followers
 my lord your son had only but the corpse
 but shadows and the shows of men to fight
 for that same word rebellion did divide
 the action of their bodies from their souls
 and they did fight with queasiness constrain'd
 as men drink potions that their weapons only
 seem'd on our side but for their spirits and souls
 this word rebellion it had froze them up
 as fish are in a pond but now the bishop
 turns insurrection to religion
 supposed sincere and holy in his thoughts
 he's followed both with body and with mind
 and doth enlarge his rising with the blood
 of fair king richard scraped from pomfret stones
 derives from heaven his quarrel and his cause
 tells them he doth bestride a bleeding land
 gasping for life under great bolingbroke
 and more and less do flock to follow him
northumberland i knew of this before but to speak truth
 this present grief had wiped it from my mind
 go in with me and counsel every man
 the aptest way for safety and revenge
 get posts and letters and make friends with speed
 never so few and never yet more need
 exeunt
 2 king henry iv
act i
scene ii london a street
 enter falstaff with his page bearing his sword
 and buckler
falstaff sirrah you giant what says the doctor to my water
page he said sir the water itself was a good healthy
 water but for the party that owed it he might
 have more diseases than he knew for
falstaff men of all sorts take a pride to gird at me the
 brain of this foolishcompounded clay man is not
 able to invent anything that tends to laughter more
 than i invent or is invented on me i am not only
 witty in myself but the cause that wit is in other
 men i do here walk before thee like a sow that
 hath overwhelmed all her litter but one if the
 prince put thee into my service for any other reason
 than to set me off why then i have no judgment
 thou whoreson mandrake thou art fitter to be worn
 in my cap than to wait at my heels i was never
 manned with an agate till now but i will inset you
 neither in gold nor silver but in vile apparel and
 send you back again to your master for a jewel
 the juvenal the prince your master whose chin is
 not yet fledged i will sooner have a beard grow in
 the palm of my hand than he shall get one on his
 cheek and yet he will not stick to say his face is
 a faceroyal god may finish it when he will tis
 not a hair amiss yet he may keep it still at a
 faceroyal for a barber shall never earn sixpence
 out of it and yet he'll be crowing as if he had
 writ man ever since his father was a bachelor he
 may keep his own grace but he's almost out of mine
 i can assure him what said master dombledon about
 the satin for my short cloak and my slops
page he said sir you should procure him better
 assurance than bardolph he would not take his
 band and yours he liked not the security
falstaff let him be damned like the glutton pray god his
 tongue be hotter a whoreson achitophel a rascally
 yeaforsooth knave to bear a gentleman in hand
 and then stand upon security the whoreson
 smoothpates do now wear nothing but high shoes and
 bunches of keys at their girdles and if a man is
 through with them in honest taking up then they
 must stand upon security i had as lief they would
 put ratsbane in my mouth as offer to stop it with
 security i looked a should have sent me two and
 twenty yards of satin as i am a true knight and he
 sends me security well he may sleep in security
 for he hath the horn of abundance and the lightness
 of his wife shines through it and yet cannot he
 see though he have his own lanthorn to light him
 where's bardolph
page he's gone into smithfield to buy your worship a horse
falstaff i bought him in paul's and he'll buy me a horse in
 smithfield an i could get me but a wife in the
 stews i were manned horsed and wived
 enter the lord chiefjustice and servant
page sir here comes the nobleman that committed the
 prince for striking him about bardolph
falstaff wait close i will not see him
lord chiefjustice what's he that goes there
servant falstaff an't please your lordship
lord chiefjustice he that was in question for the robbery
servant he my lord but he hath since done good service at
 shrewsbury and as i hear is now going with some
 charge to the lord john of lancaster
lord chiefjustice what to york call him back again
servant sir john falstaff
falstaff boy tell him i am deaf
page you must speak louder my master is deaf
lord chiefjustice i am sure he is to the hearing of any thing good
 go pluck him by the elbow i must speak with him
servant sir john
falstaff what a young knave and begging is there not
 wars is there not employment doth not the king
 lack subjects do not the rebels need soldiers
 though it be a shame to be on any side but one it
 is worse shame to beg than to be on the worst side
 were it worse than the name of rebellion can tell
 how to make it
servant you mistake me sir
falstaff why sir did i say you were an honest man setting
 my knighthood and my soldiership aside i had lied
 in my throat if i had said so
servant i pray you sir then set your knighthood and our
 soldiership aside and give me leave to tell you
 you lie in your throat if you say i am any other
 than an honest man
falstaff i give thee leave to tell me so i lay aside that
 which grows to me if thou gettest any leave of me
 hang me if thou takest leave thou wert better be
 hanged you hunt counter hence avaunt
servant sir my lord would speak with you
lord chiefjustice sir john falstaff a word with you
falstaff my good lord god give your lordship good time of
 day i am glad to see your lordship abroad i heard
 say your lordship was sick i hope your lordship
 goes abroad by advice your lordship though not
 clean past your youth hath yet some smack of age in
 you some relish of the saltness of time and i must
 humbly beseech your lordship to have a reverent care
 of your health
lord chiefjustice sir john i sent for you before your expedition to
 shrewsbury
falstaff an't please your lordship i hear his majesty is
 returned with some discomfort from wales
lord chiefjustice i talk not of his majesty you would not come when
 i sent for you
falstaff and i hear moreover his highness is fallen into
 this same whoreson apoplexy
lord chiefjustice well god mend him i pray you let me speak with
 you
falstaff this apoplexy is as i take it a kind of lethargy
 an't please your lordship a kind of sleeping in the
 blood a whoreson tingling
lord chiefjustice what tell you me of it be it as it is
falstaff it hath its original from much grief from study and
 perturbation of the brain i have read the cause of
 his effects in galen it is a kind of deafness
lord chiefjustice i think you are fallen into the disease for you
 hear not what i say to you
falstaff very well my lord very well rather an't please
 you it is the disease of not listening the malady
 of not marking that i am troubled withal
lord chiefjustice to punish you by the heels would amend the
 attention of your ears and i care not if i do
 become your physician
falstaff i am as poor as job my lord but not so patient
 your lordship may minister the potion of
 imprisonment to me in respect of poverty but how
 should i be your patient to follow your
 prescriptions the wise may make some dram of a
 scruple or indeed a scruple itself
lord chiefjustice i sent for you when there were matters against you
 for your life to come speak with me
falstaff as i was then advised by my learned counsel in the
 laws of this landservice i did not come
lord chiefjustice well the truth is sir john you live in great infamy
falstaff he that buckles him in my belt cannot live in less
lord chiefjustice your means are very slender and your waste is great
falstaff i would it were otherwise i would my means were
 greater and my waist slenderer
lord chiefjustice you have misled the youthful prince
falstaff the young prince hath misled me i am the fellow
 with the great belly and he my dog
lord chiefjustice well i am loath to gall a newhealed wound your
 day's service at shrewsbury hath a little gilded
 over your night's exploit on gad'shill you may
 thank the unquiet time for your quiet o'erposting
 that action
falstaff my lord
lord chiefjustice but since all is well keep it so wake not a
 sleeping wolf
falstaff to wake a wolf is as bad as to smell a fox
lord chiefjustice what you are as a candle the better part burnt
 out
falstaff a wassail candle my lord all tallow if i did say
 of wax my growth would approve the truth
lord chiefjustice there is not a white hair on your face but should
 have his effect of gravity
falstaff his effect of gravy gravy gravy
lord chiefjustice you follow the young prince up and down like his
 ill angel
falstaff not so my lord your ill angel is light but i hope
 he that looks upon me will take me without weighing
 and yet in some respects i grant i cannot go i
 cannot tell virtue is of so little regard in these
 costermonger times that true valour is turned
 bearherd pregnancy is made a tapster and hath
 his quick wit wasted in giving reckonings all the
 other gifts appertinent to man as the malice of
 this age shapes them are not worth a gooseberry
 you that are old consider not the capacities of us
 that are young you do measure the heat of our
 livers with the bitterness of your galls and we
 that are in the vaward of our youth i must confess
 are wags too
lord chiefjustice do you set down your name in the scroll of youth
 that are written down old with all the characters of
 age have you not a moist eye a dry hand a
 yellow cheek a white beard a decreasing leg an
 increasing belly is not your voice broken your
 wind short your chin double your wit single and
 every part about you blasted with antiquity and
 will you yet call yourself young fie fie fie sir john
falstaff my lord i was born about three of the clock in the
 afternoon with a white head and something a round
 belly for my voice i have lost it with halloing
 and singing of anthems to approve my youth
 further i will not the truth is i am only old in
 judgment and understanding and he that will caper
 with me for a thousand marks let him lend me the
 money and have at him for the box of the ear that
 the prince gave you he gave it like a rude prince
 and you took it like a sensible lord i have
 chequed him for it and the young lion repents
 marry not in ashes and sackcloth but in new silk
 and old sack
lord chiefjustice well god send the prince a better companion
falstaff god send the companion a better prince i cannot
 rid my hands of him
lord chiefjustice well the king hath severed you and prince harry i
 hear you are going with lord john of lancaster
 against the archbishop and the earl of
 northumberland
falstaff yea i thank your pretty sweet wit for it but look
 you pray all you that kiss my lady peace at home
 that our armies join not in a hot day for by the
 lord i take but two shirts out with me and i mean
 not to sweat extraordinarily if it be a hot day
 and i brandish any thing but a bottle i would i
 might never spit white again there is not a
 dangerous action can peep out his head but i am
 thrust upon it well i cannot last ever but it
 was alway yet the trick of our english nation if
 they have a good thing to make it too common if
 ye will needs say i am an old man you should give
 me rest i would to god my name were not so
 terrible to the enemy as it is i were better to be
 eaten to death with a rust than to be scoured to
 nothing with perpetual motion
lord chiefjustice well be honest be honest and god bless your
 expedition
falstaff will your lordship lend me a thousand pound to
 furnish me forth
lord chiefjustice not a penny not a penny you are too impatient to
 bear crosses fare you well commend me to my
 cousin westmoreland
 exeunt chiefjustice and servant
falstaff if i do fillip me with a threeman beetle a man
 can no more separate age and covetousness than a'
 can part young limbs and lechery but the gout
 galls the one and the pox pinches the other and
 so both the degrees prevent my curses boy
page sir
falstaff what money is in my purse
page seven groats and two pence
falstaff i can get no remedy against this consumption of the
 purse borrowing only lingers and lingers it out
 but the disease is incurable go bear this letter
 to my lord of lancaster this to the prince this
 to the earl of westmoreland and this to old
 mistress ursula whom i have weekly sworn to marry
 since i perceived the first white hair on my chin
 about it you know where to find me
 exit page
 a pox of this gout or a gout of this pox for
 the one or the other plays the rogue with my great
 toe tis no matter if i do halt i have the wars
 for my colour and my pension shall seem the more
 reasonable a good wit will make use of any thing
 i will turn diseases to commodity
 exit
 2 king henry iv
act i
scene iii york the archbishop's palace
 enter the archbishop of york the lords hastings
 mowbray and bardolph
archbishop of york thus have you heard our cause and known our means
 and my most noble friends i pray you all
 speak plainly your opinions of our hopes
 and first lord marshal what say you to it
mowbray i well allow the occasion of our arms
 but gladly would be better satisfied
 how in our means we should advance ourselves
 to look with forehead bold and big enough
 upon the power and puissance of the king
hastings our present musters grow upon the file
 to five and twenty thousand men of choice
 and our supplies live largely in the hope
 of great northumberland whose bosom burns
 with an incensed fire of injuries
lord bardolph the question then lord hastings standeth thus
 whether our present five and twenty thousand
 may hold up head without northumberland
hastings with him we may
lord bardolph yea marry there's the point
 but if without him we be thought too feeble
 my judgment is we should not step too far
 till we had his assistance by the hand
 for in a theme so bloodyfaced as this
 conjecture expectation and surmise
 of aids incertain should not be admitted
archbishop of york tis very true lord bardolph for indeed
 it was young hotspur's case at shrewsbury
lord bardolph it was my lord who lined himself with hope
 eating the air on promise of supply
 flattering himself in project of a power
 much smaller than the smallest of his thoughts
 and so with great imagination
 proper to madmen led his powers to death
 and winking leap'd into destruction
hastings but by your leave it never yet did hurt
 to lay down likelihoods and forms of hope
lord bardolph yes if this present quality of war
 indeed the instant action a cause on foot
 lives so in hope as in an early spring
 we see the appearing buds which to prove fruit
 hope gives not so much warrant as despair
 that frosts will bite them when we mean to build
 we first survey the plot then draw the model
 and when we see the figure of the house
 then must we rate the cost of the erection
 which if we find outweighs ability
 what do we then but draw anew the model
 in fewer offices or at last desist
 to build at all much more in this great work
 which is almost to pluck a kingdom down
 and set another up should we survey
 the plot of situation and the model
 consent upon a sure foundation
 question surveyors know our own estate
 how able such a work to undergo
 to weigh against his opposite or else
 we fortify in paper and in figures
 using the names of men instead of men
 like one that draws the model of a house
 beyond his power to build it who half through
 gives o'er and leaves his partcreated cost
 a naked subject to the weeping clouds
 and waste for churlish winter's tyranny
hastings grant that our hopes yet likely of fair birth
 should be stillborn and that we now possess'd
 the utmost man of expectation
 i think we are a body strong enough
 even as we are to equal with the king
lord bardolph what is the king but five and twenty thousand
hastings to us no more nay not so much lord bardolph
 for his divisions as the times do brawl
 are in three heads one power against the french
 and one against glendower perforce a third
 must take up us so is the unfirm king
 in three divided and his coffers sound
 with hollow poverty and emptiness
archbishop of york that he should draw his several strengths together
 and come against us in full puissance
 need not be dreaded
hastings if he should do so
 he leaves his back unarm'd the french and welsh
 baying him at the heels never fear that
lord bardolph who is it like should lead his forces hither
hastings the duke of lancaster and westmoreland
 against the welsh himself and harry monmouth
 but who is substituted gainst the french
 i have no certain notice
archbishop of york let us on
 and publish the occasion of our arms
 the commonwealth is sick of their own choice
 their overgreedy love hath surfeited
 an habitation giddy and unsure
 hath he that buildeth on the vulgar heart
 o thou fond many with what loud applause
 didst thou beat heaven with blessing bolingbroke
 before he was what thou wouldst have him be
 and being now trimm'd in thine own desires
 thou beastly feeder art so full of him
 that thou provokest thyself to cast him up
 so so thou common dog didst thou disgorge
 thy glutton bosom of the royal richard
 and now thou wouldst eat thy dead vomit up
 and howl'st to find it what trust is in
 these times
 they that when richard lived would have him die
 are now become enamour'd on his grave
 thou that threw'st dust upon his goodly head
 when through proud london he came sighing on
 after the admired heels of bolingbroke
 criest now o earth yield us that king again
 and take thou this o thoughts of men accursed
 past and to come seems best things present worst
mowbray shall we go draw our numbers and set on
hastings we are time's subjects and time bids be gone
 exeunt
 2 king henry iv
act ii
scene i london a street
 enter mistress quickly fang and his boy with her
 and snare following
mistress quickly master fang have you entered the action
fang it is entered
mistress quickly where's your yeoman is't a lusty yeoman will a'
 stand to t
fang sirrah where's snare
mistress quickly o lord ay good master snare
snare here here
fang snare we must arrest sir john falstaff
mistress quickly yea good master snare i have entered him and all
snare it may chance cost some of us our lives for he will stab
mistress quickly alas the day take heed of him he stabbed me in
 mine own house and that most beastly in good
 faith he cares not what mischief he does if his
 weapon be out he will foin like any devil he will
 spare neither man woman nor child
fang if i can close with him i care not for his thrust
mistress quickly no nor i neither i'll be at your elbow
fang an i but fist him once an a come but within my vice
mistress quickly i am undone by his going i warrant you he's an
 infinitive thing upon my score good master fang
 hold him sure good master snare let him not
 scape a comes continuantly to piecornersaving
 your manhoodsto buy a saddle and he is indited to
 dinner to the lubber'shead in lumbert street to
 master smooth's the silkman i pray ye since my
 exion is entered and my case so openly known to the
 world let him be brought in to his answer a
 hundred mark is a long one for a poor lone woman to
 bear and i have borne and borne and borne and
 have been fubbed off and fubbed off and fubbed
 off from this day to that day that it is a shame
 to be thought on there is no honesty in such
 dealing unless a woman should be made an ass and a
 beast to bear every knave's wrong yonder he
 comes and that errant malmseynose knave bardolph
 with him do your offices do your offices master
 fang and master snare do me do me do me your offices
 enter falstaff page and bardolph
falstaff how now whose mare's dead what's the matter
fang sir john i arrest you at the suit of mistress quickly
falstaff away varlets draw bardolph cut me off the
 villain's head throw the quean in the channel
mistress quickly throw me in the channel i'll throw thee in the
 channel wilt thou wilt thou thou bastardly
 rogue murder murder ah thou honeysuckle
 villain wilt thou kill god's officers and the
 king's ah thou honeyseed rogue thou art a
 honeyseed a manqueller and a womanqueller
falstaff keep them off bardolph
fang a rescue a rescue
mistress quickly good people bring a rescue or two thou wo't wo't
 thou thou wo't wo't ta do do thou rogue do
 thou hempseed
falstaff away you scullion you rampallion you
 fustilarian i'll tickle your catastrophe
 enter the lord chiefjustice and his men
lord chiefjustice what is the matter keep the peace here ho
mistress quickly good my lord be good to me i beseech you stand to me
lord chiefjustice how now sir john what are you brawling here
 doth this become your place your time and business
 you should have been well on your way to york
 stand from him fellow wherefore hang'st upon him
mistress quickly o most worshipful lord an't please your grace i am
 a poor widow of eastcheap and he is arrested at my suit
lord chiefjustice for what sum
mistress quickly it is more than for some my lord it is for all
 all i have he hath eaten me out of house and home
 he hath put all my substance into that fat belly of
 his but i will have some of it out again or i
 will ride thee o nights like the mare
falstaff i think i am as like to ride the mare if i have
 any vantage of ground to get up
lord chiefjustice how comes this sir john fie what man of good
 temper would endure this tempest of exclamation
 are you not ashamed to enforce a poor widow to so
 rough a course to come by her own
falstaff what is the gross sum that i owe thee
mistress quickly marry if thou wert an honest man thyself and the
 money too thou didst swear to me upon a
 parcelgilt goblet sitting in my dolphinchamber
 at the round table by a seacoal fire upon
 wednesday in wheeson week when the prince broke
 thy head for liking his father to a singingman of
 windsor thou didst swear to me then as i was
 washing thy wound to marry me and make me my lady
 thy wife canst thou deny it did not goodwife
 keech the butcher's wife come in then and call me
 gossip quickly coming in to borrow a mess of
 vinegar telling us she had a good dish of prawns
 whereby thou didst desire to eat some whereby i
 told thee they were ill for a green wound and
 didst thou not when she was gone down stairs
 desire me to be no more so familiarity with such
 poor people saying that ere long they should call
 me madam and didst thou not kiss me and bid me
 fetch thee thirty shillings i put thee now to thy
 bookoath deny it if thou canst
falstaff my lord this is a poor mad soul and she says up
 and down the town that the eldest son is like you
 she hath been in good case and the truth is
 poverty hath distracted her but for these foolish
 officers i beseech you i may have redress against them
lord chiefjustice sir john sir john i am well acquainted with your
 manner of wrenching the true cause the false way it
 is not a confident brow nor the throng of words
 that come with such more than impudent sauciness
 from you can thrust me from a level consideration
 you have as it appears to me practised upon the
 easyyielding spirit of this woman and made her
 serve your uses both in purse and in person
mistress quickly yea in truth my lord
lord chiefjustice pray thee peace pay her the debt you owe her and
 unpay the villany you have done her the one you
 may do with sterling money and the other with
 current repentance
falstaff my lord i will not undergo this sneap without
 reply you call honourable boldness impudent
 sauciness if a man will make courtesy and say
 nothing he is virtuous no my lord my humble
 duty remembered i will not be your suitor i say
 to you i do desire deliverance from these officers
 being upon hasty employment in the king's affairs
lord chiefjustice you speak as having power to do wrong but answer
 in the effect of your reputation and satisfy this
 poor woman
falstaff come hither hostess
 enter gower
lord chiefjustice now master gower what news
gower the king my lord and harry prince of wales
 are near at hand the rest the paper tells
falstaff as i am a gentleman
mistress quickly faith you said so before
falstaff as i am a gentleman come no more words of it
mistress quickly by this heavenly ground i tread on i must be fain
 to pawn both my plate and the tapestry of my
 diningchambers
falstaff glasses glasses is the only drinking and for thy
 walls a pretty slight drollery or the story of
 the prodigal or the german hunting in waterwork
 is worth a thousand of these bedhangings and these
 flybitten tapestries let it be ten pound if thou
 canst come an twere not for thy humours there's
 not a better wench in england go wash thy face
 and draw the action come thou must not be in
 this humour with me dost not know me come come i
 know thou wast set on to this
mistress quickly pray thee sir john let it be but twenty nobles i'
 faith i am loath to pawn my plate so god save me
 la
falstaff let it alone i'll make other shift you'll be a
 fool still
mistress quickly well you shall have it though i pawn my gown i
 hope you'll come to supper you'll pay me all together
falstaff will i live
 to bardolph
 go with her with her hook on hook on
mistress quickly will you have doll tearsheet meet you at supper
falstaff no more words let's have her
 exeunt mistress quickly bardolph officers and boy
lord chiefjustice i have heard better news
falstaff what's the news my lord
lord chiefjustice where lay the king last night
gower at basingstoke my lord
falstaff i hope my lord all's well what is the news my lord
lord chiefjustice come all his forces back
gower no fifteen hundred foot five hundred horse
 are marched up to my lord of lancaster
 against northumberland and the archbishop
falstaff comes the king back from wales my noble lord
lord chiefjustice you shall have letters of me presently
 come go along with me good master gower
falstaff my lord
lord chiefjustice what's the matter
falstaff master gower shall i entreat you with me to dinner
gower i must wait upon my good lord here i thank you
 good sir john
lord chiefjustice sir john you loiter here too long being you are to
 take soldiers up in counties as you go
falstaff will you sup with me master gower
lord chiefjustice what foolish master taught you these manners sir john
falstaff master gower if they become me not he was a fool
 that taught them me this is the right fencing
 grace my lord tap for tap and so part fair
lord chiefjustice now the lord lighten thee thou art a great fool
 exeunt
 2 king henry iv
act ii
scene ii london another street
 enter prince henry and poins
prince henry before god i am exceeding weary
poins is't come to that i had thought weariness durst not
 have attached one of so high blood
prince henry faith it does me though it discolours the
 complexion of my greatness to acknowledge it doth
 it not show vilely in me to desire small beer
poins why a prince should not be so loosely studied as
 to remember so weak a composition
prince henry belike then my appetite was not princely got for
 by my troth i do now remember the poor creature
 small beer but indeed these humble
 considerations make me out of love with my
 greatness what a disgrace is it to me to remember
 thy name or to know thy face tomorrow or to
 take note how many pair of silk stockings thou
 hast viz these and those that were thy
 peachcoloured ones or to bear the inventory of thy
 shirts as one for superfluity and another for
 use but that the tenniscourtkeeper knows better
 than i for it is a low ebb of linen with thee when
 thou keepest not racket there as thou hast not done
 a great while because the rest of thy low
 countries have made a shift to eat up thy holland
 and god knows whether those that bawl out the ruins
 of thy linen shall inherit his kingdom but the
 midwives say the children are not in the fault
 whereupon the world increases and kindreds are
 mightily strengthened
poins how ill it follows after you have laboured so hard
 you should talk so idly tell me how many good
 young princes would do so their fathers being so
 sick as yours at this time is
prince henry shall i tell thee one thing poins
poins yes faith and let it be an excellent good thing
prince henry it shall serve among wits of no higher breeding than thine
poins go to i stand the push of your one thing that you
 will tell
prince henry marry i tell thee it is not meet that i should be
 sad now my father is sick albeit i could tell
 thee as to one it pleases me for fault of a
 better to call my friend i could be sad and sad
 indeed too
poins very hardly upon such a subject
prince henry by this hand thou thinkest me as far in the devil's
 book as thou and falstaff for obduracy and
 persistency let the end try the man but i tell
 thee my heart bleeds inwardly that my father is so
 sick and keeping such vile company as thou art
 hath in reason taken from me all ostentation of sorrow
poins the reason
prince henry what wouldst thou think of me if i should weep
poins i would think thee a most princely hypocrite
prince henry it would be every man's thought and thou art a
 blessed fellow to think as every man thinks never
 a man's thought in the world keeps the roadway
 better than thine every man would think me an
 hypocrite indeed and what accites your most
 worshipful thought to think so
poins why because you have been so lewd and so much
 engraffed to falstaff
prince henry and to thee
poins by this light i am well spoke on i can hear it
 with my own ears the worst that they can say of
 me is that i am a second brother and that i am a
 proper fellow of my hands and those two things i
 confess i cannot help by the mass here comes bardolph
 enter bardolph and page
prince henry and the boy that i gave falstaff a had him from
 me christian and look if the fat villain have not
 transformed him ape
bardolph god save your grace
prince henry and yours most noble bardolph
bardolph come you virtuous ass you bashful fool must you
 be blushing wherefore blush you now what a
 maidenly manatarms are you become is't such a
 matter to get a pottlepot's maidenhead
page a calls me e'en now my lord through a red
 lattice and i could discern no part of his face
 from the window at last i spied his eyes and
 methought he had made two holes in the alewife's
 new petticoat and so peeped through
prince henry has not the boy profited
bardolph away you whoreson upright rabbit away
page away you rascally althaea's dream away
prince henry instruct us boy what dream boy
page marry my lord althaea dreamed she was delivered
 of a firebrand and therefore i call him her dream
prince henry a crown's worth of good interpretation there tis
 boy
poins o that this good blossom could be kept from
 cankers well there is sixpence to preserve thee
bardolph an you do not make him hanged among you the
 gallows shall have wrong
prince henry and how doth thy master bardolph
bardolph well my lord he heard of your grace's coming to
 town there's a letter for you
poins delivered with good respect and how doth the
 martlemas your master
bardolph in bodily health sir
poins marry the immortal part needs a physician but
 that moves not him though that be sick it dies
 not
prince henry i do allow this wen to be as familiar with me as my
 dog and he holds his place for look you how be writes
poins reads john falstaff knight'every man must
 know that as oft as he has occasion to name
 himself even like those that are kin to the king
 for they never prick their finger but they say
 there's some of the king's blood spilt how
 comes that says he that takes upon him not to
 conceive the answer is as ready as a borrower's
 cap i am the king's poor cousin sir'
prince henry nay they will be kin to us or they will fetch it
 from japhet but to the letter
poins reads sir john falstaff knight to the son of
 the king nearest his father harry prince of
 wales greeting why this is a certificate
prince henry peace
poins reads i will imitate the honourable romans in
 brevity he sure means brevity in breath
 shortwinded i commend me to thee i commend
 thee and i leave thee be not too familiar with
 poins for he misuses thy favours so much that he
 swears thou art to marry his sister nell repent
 at idle times as thou mayest and so farewell
 thine by yea and no which is as much as to
 say as thou usest him jack falstaff with my
 familiars john with my brothers and sisters
 and sir john with all europe'
 my lord i'll steep this letter in sack and make him eat it
prince henry that's to make him eat twenty of his words but do
 you use me thus ned must i marry your sister
poins god send the wench no worse fortune but i never said so
prince henry well thus we play the fools with the time and the
 spirits of the wise sit in the clouds and mock us
 is your master here in london
bardolph yea my lord
prince henry where sups he doth the old boar feed in the old frank
bardolph at the old place my lord in eastcheap
prince henry what company
page ephesians my lord of the old church
prince henry sup any women with him
page none my lord but old mistress quickly and
 mistress doll tearsheet
prince henry what pagan may that be
page a proper gentlewoman sir and a kinswoman of my master's
prince henry even such kin as the parish heifers are to the town
 bull shall we steal upon them ned at supper
poins i am your shadow my lord i'll follow you
prince henry sirrah you boy and bardolph no word to your
 master that i am yet come to town there's for
 your silence
bardolph i have no tongue sir
page and for mine sir i will govern it
prince henry fare you well go
 exeunt bardolph and page
 this doll tearsheet should be some road
poins i warrant you as common as the way between saint
 alban's and london
prince henry how might we see falstaff bestow himself tonight
 in his true colours and not ourselves be seen
poins put on two leathern jerkins and aprons and wait
 upon him at his table as drawers
prince henry from a god to a bull a heavy decension it was
 jove's case from a prince to a prentice a low
 transformation that shall be mine for in every
 thing the purpose must weigh with the folly
 follow me ned
 exeunt
 2 king henry iv
act ii
scene iii warkworth before the castle
 enter northumberland lady northumberland and lady percy
northumberland i pray thee loving wife and gentle daughter
 give even way unto my rough affairs
 put not you on the visage of the times
 and be like them to percy troublesome
lady
northumberland i have given over i will speak no more
 do what you will your wisdom be your guide
northumberland alas sweet wife my honour is at pawn
 and but my going nothing can redeem it
lady percy o yet for god's sake go not to these wars
 the time was father that you broke your word
 when you were more endeared to it than now
 when your own percy when my heart's dear harry
 threw many a northward look to see his father
 bring up his powers but he did long in vain
 who then persuaded you to stay at home
 there were two honours lost yours and your son's
 for yours the god of heaven brighten it
 for his it stuck upon him as the sun
 in the grey vault of heaven and by his light
 did all the chivalry of england move
 to do brave acts he was indeed the glass
 wherein the noble youth did dress themselves
 he had no legs that practised not his gait
 and speaking thick which nature made his blemish
 became the accents of the valiant
 for those that could speak low and tardily
 would turn their own perfection to abuse
 to seem like him so that in speech in gait
 in diet in affections of delight
 in military rules humours of blood
 he was the mark and glass copy and book
 that fashion'd others and him o wondrous him
 o miracle of men him did you leave
 second to none unseconded by you
 to look upon the hideous god of war
 in disadvantage to abide a field
 where nothing but the sound of hotspur's name
 did seem defensible so you left him
 never o never do his ghost the wrong
 to hold your honour more precise and nice
 with others than with him let them alone
 the marshal and the archbishop are strong
 had my sweet harry had but half their numbers
 today might i hanging on hotspur's neck
 have talk'd of monmouth's grave
northumberland beshrew your heart
 fair daughter you do draw my spirits from me
 with new lamenting ancient oversights
 but i must go and meet with danger there
 or it will seek me in another place
 and find me worse provided
lady
northumberland o fly to scotland
 till that the nobles and the armed commons
 have of their puissance made a little taste
lady percy if they get ground and vantage of the king
 then join you with them like a rib of steel
 to make strength stronger but for all our loves
 first let them try themselves so did your son
 he was so suffer'd so came i a widow
 and never shall have length of life enough
 to rain upon remembrance with mine eyes
 that it may grow and sprout as high as heaven
 for recordation to my noble husband
northumberland come come go in with me tis with my mind
 as with the tide swell'd up unto his height
 that makes a stillstand running neither way
 fain would i go to meet the archbishop
 but many thousand reasons hold me back
 i will resolve for scotland there am i
 till time and vantage crave my company
 exeunt
 2 king henry iv
act ii
scene iv london the boar'shead tavern in eastcheap
 enter two drawers
first drawer what the devil hast thou brought there applejohns
 thou knowest sir john cannot endure an applejohn
second drawer mass thou sayest true the prince once set a dish
 of applejohns before him and told him there were
 five more sir johns and putting off his hat said
 i will now take my leave of these six dry round
 old withered knights it angered him to the
 heart but he hath forgot that
first drawer why then cover and set them down and see if
 thou canst find out sneak's noise mistress
 tearsheet would fain hear some music dispatch the
 room where they supped is too hot they'll come in straight
second drawer sirrah here will be the prince and master poins
 anon and they will put on two of our jerkins and
 aprons and sir john must not know of it bardolph
 hath brought word
first drawer by the mass here will be old utis it will be an
 excellent stratagem
second drawer i'll see if i can find out sneak
 exit
 enter mistress quickly and doll tearsheet
mistress quickly i faith sweetheart methinks now you are in an
 excellent good temperality your pulsidge beats as
 extraordinarily as heart would desire and your
 colour i warrant you is as red as any rose in good
 truth la but i faith you have drunk too much
 canaries and that's a marvellous searching wine
 and it perfumes the blood ere one can say what's
 this how do you now
doll tearsheet better than i was hem
mistress quickly why that's well said a good heart's worth gold
 lo here comes sir john
 enter falstaff
falstaff singing when arthur first in court'
 empty the jordan
 exit first drawer
 singing
 and was a worthy king how now mistress doll
mistress quickly sick of a calm yea good faith
falstaff so is all her sect an they be once in a calm they are sick
doll tearsheet you muddy rascal is that all the comfort you give me
falstaff you make fat rascals mistress doll
doll tearsheet i make them gluttony and diseases make them i
 make them not
falstaff if the cook help to make the gluttony you help to
 make the diseases doll we catch of you doll we
 catch of you grant that my poor virtue grant that
doll tearsheet yea joy our chains and our jewels
falstaff your broaches pearls and ouches for to serve
 bravely is to come halting off you know to come
 off the breach with his pike bent bravely and to
 surgery bravely to venture upon the charged
 chambers bravely
doll tearsheet hang yourself you muddy conger hang yourself
mistress quickly by my troth this is the old fashion you two never
 meet but you fall to some discord you are both
 i good truth as rheumatic as two dry toasts you
 cannot one bear with another's confirmities what
 the goodyear one must bear and that must be
 you you are the weaker vessel as they say the
 emptier vessel
doll tearsheet can a weak empty vessel bear such a huge full
 hogshead there's a whole merchant's venture of
 bourdeaux stuff in him you have not seen a hulk
 better stuffed in the hold come i'll be friends
 with thee jack thou art going to the wars and
 whether i shall ever see thee again or no there is
 nobody cares
 reenter first drawer
first drawer sir ancient pistol's below and would speak with
 you
doll tearsheet hang him swaggering rascal let him not come
 hither it is the foulmouthed'st rogue in england
mistress quickly if he swagger let him not come here no by my
 faith i must live among my neighbours i'll no
 swaggerers i am in good name and fame with the
 very best shut the door there comes no swaggerers
 here i have not lived all this while to have
 swaggering now shut the door i pray you
falstaff dost thou hear hostess
mistress quickly pray ye pacify yourself sir john there comes no
 swaggerers here
falstaff dost thou hear it is mine ancient
mistress quickly tillyfally sir john ne'er tell me your ancient
 swaggerer comes not in my doors i was before master
 tisick the debuty t'other day and as he said to
 me twas no longer ago than wednesday last i'
 good faith neighbour quickly says he master
 dumbe our minister was by then neighbour
 quickly says he receive those that are civil
 for said he you are in an ill name now a'
 said so i can tell whereupon for says he you
 are an honest woman and well thought on therefore
 take heed what guests you receive receive says
 he no swaggering companions there comes none
 here you would bless you to hear what he said
 no i'll no swaggerers
falstaff he's no swaggerer hostess a tame cheater i'
 faith you may stroke him as gently as a puppy
 greyhound he'll not swagger with a barbary hen if
 her feathers turn back in any show of resistance
 call him up drawer
 exit first drawer
mistress quickly cheater call you him i will bar no honest man my
 house nor no cheater but i do not love
 swaggering by my troth i am the worse when one
 says swagger feel masters how i shake look you
 i warrant you
doll tearsheet so you do hostess
mistress quickly do i yea in very truth do i an twere an aspen
 leaf i cannot abide swaggerers
 enter pistol bardolph and page
pistol god save you sir john
falstaff welcome ancient pistol here pistol i charge
 you with a cup of sack do you discharge upon mine hostess
pistol i will discharge upon her sir john with two bullets
falstaff she is pistolproof sir you shall hardly offend
 her
mistress quickly come i'll drink no proofs nor no bullets i'll
 drink no more than will do me good for no man's
 pleasure i
pistol then to you mistress dorothy i will charge you
doll tearsheet charge me i scorn you scurvy companion what
 you poor base rascally cheating lacklinen
 mate away you mouldy rogue away i am meat for
 your master
pistol i know you mistress dorothy
doll tearsheet away you cutpurse rascal you filthy bung away
 by this wine i'll thrust my knife in your mouldy
 chaps an you play the saucy cuttle with me away
 you bottleale rascal you baskethilt stale
 juggler you since when i pray you sir god's
 light with two points on your shoulder much
pistol god let me not live but i will murder your ruff for this
falstaff no more pistol i would not have you go off here
 discharge yourself of our company pistol
mistress quickly no good captain pistol not here sweet captain
doll tearsheet captain thou abominable damned cheater art thou
 not ashamed to be called captain an captains were
 of my mind they would truncheon you out for
 taking their names upon you before you have earned
 them you a captain you slave for what for
 tearing a poor whore's ruff in a bawdyhouse he a
 captain hang him rogue he lives upon mouldy
 stewed prunes and dried cakes a captain god's
 light these villains will make the word as odious
 as the word occupy which was an excellent good
 word before it was ill sorted therefore captains
 had need look to t
bardolph pray thee go down good ancient
falstaff hark thee hither mistress doll
pistol not i i tell thee what corporal bardolph i could
 tear her i'll be revenged of her
page pray thee go down
pistol i'll see her damned first to pluto's damned lake
 by this hand to the infernal deep with erebus and
 tortures vile also hold hook and line say i
 down down dogs down faitors have we not
 hiren here
mistress quickly good captain peesel be quiet tis very late i'
 faith i beseek you now aggravate your choler
pistol these be good humours indeed shall packhorses
 and hollow pamper'd jades of asia
 which cannot go but thirty mile aday
 compare with caesars and with cannibals
 and trojan greeks nay rather damn them with
 king cerberus and let the welkin roar
 shall we fall foul for toys
mistress quickly by my troth captain these are very bitter words
bardolph be gone good ancient this will grow to abrawl anon
pistol die men like dogs give crowns like pins have we
 not heren here
mistress quickly o my word captain there's none such here what
 the goodyear do you think i would deny her for
 god's sake be quiet
pistol then feed and be fat my fair calipolis
 come give's some sack
 si fortune me tormente sperato me contento'
 fear we broadsides no let the fiend give fire
 give me some sack and sweetheart lie thou there
 laying down his sword
 come we to full points here and are etceteras nothing
falstaff pistol i would be quiet
pistol sweet knight i kiss thy neaf what we have seen
 the seven stars
doll tearsheet for god's sake thrust him down stairs i cannot
 endure such a fustian rascal
pistol thrust him down stairs know we not galloway nags
falstaff quoit him down bardolph like a shovegroat
 shilling nay an a do nothing but speak nothing
 a shall be nothing here
bardolph come get you down stairs
pistol what shall we have incision shall we imbrue
 snatching up his sword
 then death rock me asleep abridge my doleful days
 why then let grievous ghastly gaping wounds
 untwine the sisters three come atropos i say
mistress quickly here's goodly stuff toward
falstaff give me my rapier boy
doll tearsheet i pray thee jack i pray thee do not draw
falstaff get you down stairs
 drawing and driving pistol out
mistress quickly here's a goodly tumult i'll forswear keeping
 house afore i'll be in these tirrits and frights
 so murder i warrant now alas alas put up
 your naked weapons put up your naked weapons
 exeunt pistol and bardolph
doll tearsheet i pray thee jack be quiet the rascal's gone
 ah you whoreson little valiant villain you
mistress quickly he you not hurt i the groin methought a made a
 shrewd thrust at your belly
 reenter bardolph
falstaff have you turned him out o doors
bardolph yea sir the rascal's drunk you have hurt him
 sir i the shoulder
falstaff a rascal to brave me
doll tearsheet ah you sweet little rogue you alas poor ape
 how thou sweatest come let me wipe thy face
 come on you whoreson chops ah rogue i'faith i
 love thee thou art as valorous as hector of troy
 worth five of agamemnon and ten times better than
 the nine worthies ah villain
falstaff a rascally slave i will toss the rogue in a blanket
doll tearsheet do an thou darest for thy heart an thou dost
 i'll canvass thee between a pair of sheets
 enter music
page the music is come sir
falstaff let them play play sirs sit on my knee doll
 a rascal bragging slave the rogue fled from me
 like quicksilver
doll tearsheet i faith and thou followedst him like a church
 thou whoreson little tidy bartholomew boarpig
 when wilt thou leave fighting o days and foining
 o nights and begin to patch up thine old body for heaven
 enter behind prince henry and poins disguised
falstaff peace good doll do not speak like a death'shead
 do not bid me remember mine end
doll tearsheet sirrah what humour's the prince of
falstaff a good shallow young fellow a would have made a
 good pantler a would ha chipp'd bread well
doll tearsheet they say poins has a good wit
falstaff he a good wit hang him baboon his wit's as thick
 as tewksbury mustard there's no more conceit in him
 than is in a mallet
doll tearsheet why does the prince love him so then
falstaff because their legs are both of a bigness and a'
 plays at quoits well and eats conger and fennel
 and drinks off candles ends for flapdragons and
 rides the wildmare with the boys and jumps upon
 joinedstools and swears with a good grace and
 wears his boots very smooth like unto the sign of
 the leg and breeds no bate with telling of discreet
 stories and such other gambol faculties a has
 that show a weak mind and an able body for the
 which the prince admits him for the prince himself
 is such another the weight of a hair will turn the
 scales between their avoirdupois
prince henry would not this nave of a wheel have his ears cut off
poins let's beat him before his whore
prince henry look whether the withered elder hath not his poll
 clawed like a parrot
poins is it not strange that desire should so many years
 outlive performance
falstaff kiss me doll
prince henry saturn and venus this year in conjunction what
 says the almanac to that
poins and look whether the fiery trigon his man be not
 lisping to his master's old tables his notebook
 his counselkeeper
falstaff thou dost give me flattering busses
doll tearsheet by my troth i kiss thee with a most constant heart
falstaff i am old i am old
doll tearsheet i love thee better than i love e'er a scurvy young
 boy of them all
falstaff what stuff wilt have a kirtle of i shall receive
 money o thursday shalt have a cap tomorrow a
 merry song come it grows late we'll to bed
 thou'lt forget me when i am gone
doll tearsheet by my troth thou'lt set me aweeping an thou
 sayest so prove that ever i dress myself handsome
 till thy return well harken at the end
falstaff some sack francis
prince henry 
 anon anon sir
poins 
 coming forward
falstaff ha a bastard son of the king's and art not thou
 poins his brother
prince henry why thou globe of sinful continents what a life
 dost thou lead
falstaff a better than thou i am a gentleman thou art a drawer
prince henry very true sir and i come to draw you out by the ears
mistress quickly o the lord preserve thy good grace by my troth
 welcome to london now the lord bless that sweet
 face of thine o jesu are you come from wales
falstaff thou whoreson mad compound of majesty by this light
 flesh and corrupt blood thou art welcome
doll tearsheet how you fat fool i scorn you
poins my lord he will drive you out of your revenge and
 turn all to a merriment if you take not the heat
prince henry you whoreson candlemine you how vilely did you
 speak of me even now before this honest virtuous
 civil gentlewoman
mistress quickly god's blessing of your good heart and so she is
 by my troth
falstaff didst thou hear me
prince henry yea and you knew me as you did when you ran away
 by gad'shill you knew i was at your back and
 spoke it on purpose to try my patience
falstaff no no no not so i did not think thou wast within hearing
prince henry i shall drive you then to confess the wilful abuse
 and then i know how to handle you
falstaff no abuse hal o mine honour no abuse
prince henry not to dispraise me and call me pantier and
 breadchipper and i know not what
falstaff no abuse hal
poins no abuse
falstaff no abuse ned i the world honest ned none i
 dispraised him before the wicked that the wicked
 might not fall in love with him in which doing i
 have done the part of a careful friend and a true
 subject and thy father is to give me thanks for it
 no abuse hal none ned none no faith boys none
prince henry see now whether pure fear and entire cowardice doth
 not make thee wrong this virtuous gentlewoman to
 close with us is she of the wicked is thine
 hostess here of the wicked or is thy boy of the
 wicked or honest bardolph whose zeal burns in his
 nose of the wicked
poins answer thou dead elm answer
falstaff the fiend hath pricked down bardolph irrecoverable
 and his face is lucifer's privykitchen where he
 doth nothing but roast maltworms for the boy
 there is a good angel about him but the devil
 outbids him too
prince henry for the women
falstaff for one of them she is in hell already and burns
 poor souls for the other i owe her money and
 whether she be damned for that i know not
mistress quickly no i warrant you
falstaff no i think thou art not i think thou art quit for
 that marry there is another indictment upon thee
 for suffering flesh to be eaten in thy house
 contrary to the law for the which i think thou wilt howl
mistress quickly all victuallers do so what's a joint of mutton or
 two in a whole lent
prince henry you gentlewoman
doll tearsheet what says your grace
falstaff his grace says that which his flesh rebels against
 knocking within
mistress quickly who knocks so loud at door look to the door there francis
 enter peto
prince henry peto how now what news
peto the king your father is at westminster
 and there are twenty weak and wearied posts
 come from the north and as i came along
 i met and overtook a dozen captains
 bareheaded sweating knocking at the taverns
 and asking every one for sir john falstaff
prince henry by heaven poins i feel me much to blame
 so idly to profane the precious time
 when tempest of commotion like the south
 borne with black vapour doth begin to melt
 and drop upon our bare unarmed heads
 give me my sword and cloak falstaff good night
 exeunt prince henry poins peto and bardolph
falstaff now comes in the sweetest morsel of the night and
 we must hence and leave it unpicked
 knocking within
 more knocking at the door
 reenter bardolph
 how now what's the matter
bardolph you must away to court sir presently
 a dozen captains stay at door for you
falstaff to the page pay the musicians sirrah farewell
 hostess farewell doll you see my good wenches
 how men of merit are sought after the undeserver
 may sleep when the man of action is called on
 farewell good wenches if i be not sent away post
 i will see you again ere i go
doll tearsheet i cannot speak if my heart be not read to burst
 well sweet jack have a care of thyself
falstaff farewell farewell
 exeunt falstaff and bardolph
mistress quickly well fare thee well i have known thee these
 twentynine years come peascodtime but an
 honester and truerhearted manwell fare thee well
bardolph within mistress tearsheet
mistress quickly what's the matter
bardolph within good mistress tearsheet come to my master
mistress quickly o run doll run run good doll come
 she comes blubbered
 yea will you come doll
 exeunt
 2 king henry iv
act iii
scene i westminster the palace
 enter king henry iv in his nightgown with a page
king henry iv go call the earls of surrey and of warwick
 but ere they come bid them o'erread these letters
 and well consider of them make good speed
 exit page
 how many thousand of my poorest subjects
 are at this hour asleep o sleep o gentle sleep
 nature's soft nurse how have i frighted thee
 that thou no more wilt weigh my eyelids down
 and steep my senses in forgetfulness
 why rather sleep liest thou in smoky cribs
 upon uneasy pallets stretching thee
 and hush'd with buzzing nightflies to thy slumber
 than in the perfumed chambers of the great
 under the canopies of costly state
 and lull'd with sound of sweetest melody
 o thou dull god why liest thou with the vile
 in loathsome beds and leavest the kingly couch
 a watchcase or a common larumbell
 wilt thou upon the high and giddy mast
 seal up the shipboy's eyes and rock his brains
 in cradle of the rude imperious surge
 and in the visitation of the winds
 who take the ruffian billows by the top
 curling their monstrous heads and hanging them
 with deafening clamour in the slippery clouds
 that with the hurly death itself awakes
 canst thou o partial sleep give thy repose
 to the wet seaboy in an hour so rude
 and in the calmest and most stillest night
 with all appliances and means to boot
 deny it to a king then happy low lie down
 uneasy lies the head that wears a crown
 enter warwick and surrey
warwick many good morrows to your majesty
king henry iv is it good morrow lords
warwick tis one o'clock and past
king henry iv why then good morrow to you all my lords
 have you read o'er the letters that i sent you
warwick we have my liege
king henry iv then you perceive the body of our kingdom
 how foul it is what rank diseases grow
 and with what danger near the heart of it
warwick it is but as a body yet distemper'd
 which to his former strength may be restored
 with good advice and little medicine
 my lord northumberland will soon be cool'd
king henry iv o god that one might read the book of fate
 and see the revolution of the times
 make mountains level and the continent
 weary of solid firmness melt itself
 into the sea and other times to see
 the beachy girdle of the ocean
 too wide for neptune's hips how chances mock
 and changes fill the cup of alteration
 with divers liquors o if this were seen
 the happiest youth viewing his progress through
 what perils past what crosses to ensue
 would shut the book and sit him down and die
 tis not ten years gone
 since richard and northumberland great friends
 did feast together and in two years after
 were they at wars it is but eight years since
 this percy was the man nearest my soul
 who like a brother toil'd in my affairs
 and laid his love and life under my foot
 yea for my sake even to the eyes of richard
 gave him defiance but which of you was by
 you cousin nevil as i may remember
 to warwick
 when richard with his eye brimful of tears
 then cheque'd and rated by northumberland
 did speak these words now proved a prophecy
 northumberland thou ladder by the which
 my cousin bolingbroke ascends my throne'
 though then god knows i had no such intent
 but that necessity so bow'd the state
 that i and greatness were compell'd to kiss
 the time shall come thus did he follow it
 the time will come that foul sin gathering head
 shall break into corruption so went on
 foretelling this same time's condition
 and the division of our amity
warwick there is a history in all men's lives
 figuring the nature of the times deceased
 the which observed a man may prophesy
 with a near aim of the main chance of things
 as yet not come to life which in their seeds
 and weak beginnings lie intreasured
 such things become the hatch and brood of time
 and by the necessary form of this
 king richard might create a perfect guess
 that great northumberland then false to him
 would of that seed grow to a greater falseness
 which should not find a ground to root upon
 unless on you
king henry iv are these things then necessities
 then let us meet them like necessities
 and that same word even now cries out on us
 they say the bishop and northumberland
 are fifty thousand strong
warwick it cannot be my lord
 rumour doth double like the voice and echo
 the numbers of the fear'd please it your grace
 to go to bed upon my soul my lord
 the powers that you already have sent forth
 shall bring this prize in very easily
 to comfort you the more i have received
 a certain instance that glendower is dead
 your majesty hath been this fortnight ill
 and these unseason'd hours perforce must add
 unto your sickness
king henry iv i will take your counsel
 and were these inward wars once out of hand
 we would dear lords unto the holy land
 exeunt
 2 king henry iv
act iii
scene ii gloucestershire before shallow's house
 enter shallow and silence meeting mouldy
 shadow wart feeble bullcalf a servant or two
 with them
shallow come on come on come on sir give me your hand
 sir give me your hand sir an early stirrer by
 the rood and how doth my good cousin silence
silence good morrow good cousin shallow
shallow and how doth my cousin your bedfellow and your
 fairest daughter and mine my goddaughter ellen
silence alas a black ousel cousin shallow
shallow by yea and nay sir i dare say my cousin william is
 become a good scholar he is at oxford still is he not
silence indeed sir to my cost
shallow a must then to the inns o court shortly i was
 once of clement's inn where i think they will
 talk of mad shallow yet
silence you were called lusty shallow then cousin
shallow by the mass i was called any thing and i would
 have done any thing indeed too and roundly too
 there was i and little john doit of staffordshire
 and black george barnes and francis pickbone and
 will squele a cotswold man you had not four such
 swingebucklers in all the inns o court again and
 i may say to you we knew where the bonarobas were
 and had the best of them all at commandment then
 was jack falstaff now sir john a boy and page to
 thomas mowbray duke of norfolk
silence this sir john cousin that comes hither anon about soldiers
shallow the same sir john the very same i see him break
 skogan's head at the courtgate when a was a
 crack not thus high and the very same day did i
 fight with one sampson stockfish a fruiterer
 behind gray's inn jesu jesu the mad days that i
 have spent and to see how many of my old
 acquaintance are dead
silence we shall all follow cousin
shadow certain tis certain very sure very sure death
 as the psalmist saith is certain to all all shall
 die how a good yoke of bullocks at stamford fair
silence by my troth i was not there
shallow death is certain is old double of your town living
 yet
silence dead sir
shallow jesu jesu dead a drew a good bow and dead a'
 shot a fine shoot john a gaunt loved him well and
 betted much money on his head dead a would have
 clapped i the clout at twelve score and carried
 you a forehand shaft a fourteen and fourteen and a
 half that it would have done a man's heart good to
 see how a score of ewes now
silence thereafter as they be a score of good ewes may be
 worth ten pounds
shallow and is old double dead
silence here come two of sir john falstaff's men as i think
 enter bardolph and one with him
bardolph good morrow honest gentlemen i beseech you which
 is justice shallow
shallow i am robert shallow sir a poor esquire of this
 county and one of the king's justices of the peace
 what is your good pleasure with me
bardolph my captain sir commends him to you my captain
 sir john falstaff a tall gentleman by heaven and
 a most gallant leader
shallow he greets me well sir i knew him a good backsword
 man how doth the good knight may i ask how my
 lady his wife doth
bardolph sir pardon a soldier is better accommodated than
 with a wife
shallow it is well said in faith sir and it is well said
 indeed too better accommodated it is good yea
 indeed is it good phrases are surely and ever
 were very commendable accommodated it comes of
 accommodo very good a good phrase
bardolph pardon me sir i have heard the word phrase call
 you it by this good day i know not the phrase
 but i will maintain the word with my sword to be a
 soldierlike word and a word of exceeding good
 command by heaven accommodated that is when a
 man is as they say accommodated or when a man is
 being whereby a may be thought to be accommodated
 which is an excellent thing
shallow it is very just
 enter falstaff
 look here comes good sir john give me your good
 hand give me your worship's good hand by my
 troth you like well and bear your years very well
 welcome good sir john
falstaff i am glad to see you well good master robert
 shallow master surecard as i think
shallow no sir john it is my cousin silence in commission with me
falstaff good master silence it well befits you should be of
 the peace
silence your goodworship is welcome
falstaff fie this is hot weather gentlemen have you
 provided me here half a dozen sufficient men
shallow marry have we sir will you sit
falstaff let me see them i beseech you
shallow where's the roll where's the roll where's the
 roll let me see let me see let me see so so
 yea marry sir ralph mouldy let them appear as
 i call let them do so let them do so let me
 see where is mouldy
mouldy here an't please you
shallow what think you sir john a goodlimbed fellow
 young strong and of good friends
falstaff is thy name mouldy
mouldy yea an't please you
falstaff tis the more time thou wert used
shallow ha ha ha most excellent i faith things that
 are mouldy lack use very singular good in faith
 well said sir john very well said
falstaff prick him
mouldy i was pricked well enough before an you could have
 let me alone my old dame will be undone now for
 one to do her husbandry and her drudgery you need
 not to have pricked me there are other men fitter
 to go out than i
falstaff go to peace mouldy you shall go mouldy it is
 time you were spent
mouldy spent
shallow peace fellow peace stand aside know you where
 you are for the other sir john let me see
 simon shadow
falstaff yea marry let me have him to sit under he's like
 to be a cold soldier
shallow where's shadow
shadow here sir
falstaff shadow whose son art thou
shadow my mother's son sir
falstaff thy mother's son like enough and thy father's
 shadow so the son of the female is the shadow of
 the male it is often so indeed but much of the
 father's substance
shallow do you like him sir john
falstaff shadow will serve for summer prick him for we have
 a number of shadows to fill up the musterbook
shallow thomas wart
falstaff where's he
wart here sir
falstaff is thy name wart
wart yea sir
falstaff thou art a very ragged wart
shallow shall i prick him down sir john
falstaff it were superfluous for his apparel is built upon
 his back and the whole frame stands upon pins
 prick him no more
shallow ha ha ha you can do it sir you can do it i
 commend you well francis feeble
feeble here sir
falstaff what trade art thou feeble
feeble a woman's tailor sir
shallow shall i prick him sir
falstaff you may but if he had been a man's tailor he'ld
 ha pricked you wilt thou make as many holes in
 an enemy's battle as thou hast done in a woman's petticoat
feeble i will do my good will sir you can have no more
falstaff well said good woman's tailor well said
 courageous feeble thou wilt be as valiant as the
 wrathful dove or most magnanimous mouse prick the
 woman's tailor well master shallow deep master shallow
feeble i would wart might have gone sir
falstaff i would thou wert a man's tailor that thou mightst
 mend him and make him fit to go i cannot put him
 to a private soldier that is the leader of so many
 thousands let that suffice most forcible feeble
feeble it shall suffice sir
falstaff i am bound to thee reverend feeble who is next
shallow peter bullcalf o the green
falstaff yea marry let's see bullcalf
bullcalf here sir
falstaff fore god a likely fellow come prick me bullcalf
 till he roar again
bullcalf o lord good my lord captain
falstaff what dost thou roar before thou art pricked
bullcalf o lord sir i am a diseased man
falstaff what disease hast thou
bullcalf a whoreson cold sir a cough sir which i caught
 with ringing in the king's affairs upon his
 coronationday sir
falstaff come thou shalt go to the wars in a gown we wilt
 have away thy cold and i will take such order that
 my friends shall ring for thee is here all
shallow here is two more called than your number you must
 have but four here sir and so i pray you go in
 with me to dinner
falstaff come i will go drink with you but i cannot tarry
 dinner i am glad to see you by my troth master shallow
shallow o sir john do you remember since we lay all night
 in the windmill in saint george's field
falstaff no more of that good master shallow no more of that
shallow ha twas a merry night and is jane nightwork alive
falstaff she lives master shallow
shallow she never could away with me
falstaff never never she would always say she could not
 abide master shallow
shallow by the mass i could anger her to the heart she
 was then a bonaroba doth she hold her own well
falstaff old old master shallow
shallow nay she must be old she cannot choose but be old
 certain she's old and had robin nightwork by old
 nightwork before i came to clement's inn
silence that's fiftyfive year ago
shallow ha cousin silence that thou hadst seen that that
 this knight and i have seen ha sir john said i well
falstaff we have heard the chimes at midnight master shallow
shallow that we have that we have that we have in faith
 sir john we have our watchword was hem boys'
 come let's to dinner come let's to dinner
 jesus the days that we have seen come come
 exeunt falstaff and justices
bullcalf good master corporate bardolph stand my friend
 and here's four harry ten shillings in french crowns
 for you in very truth sir i had as lief be
 hanged sir as go and yet for mine own part sir
 i do not care but rather because i am unwilling
 and for mine own part have a desire to stay with
 my friends else sir i did not care for mine own
 part so much
bardolph go to stand aside
mouldy and good master corporal captain for my old
 dame's sake stand my friend she has nobody to do
 any thing about her when i am gone and she is old
 and cannot help herself you shall have forty sir
bardolph go to stand aside
feeble by my troth i care not a man can die but once we
 owe god a death i'll ne'er bear a base mind
 an't be my destiny so an't be not so no man is
 too good to serve's prince and let it go which way
 it will he that dies this year is quit for the next
bardolph well said thou'rt a good fellow
feeble faith i'll bear no base mind
 reenter falstaff and the justices
falstaff come sir which men shall i have
shallow four of which you please
bardolph sir a word with you i have three pound to free
 mouldy and bullcalf
falstaff go to well
shallow come sir john which four will you have
falstaff do you choose for me
shallow marry then mouldy bullcalf feeble and shadow
falstaff mouldy and bullcalf for you mouldy stay at home
 till you are past service and for your part
 bullcalf grow till you come unto it i will none of you
shallow sir john sir john do not yourself wrong they are
 your likeliest men and i would have you served with the best
falstaff will you tell me master shallow how to choose a
 man care i for the limb the thewes the stature
 bulk and big assemblance of a man give me the
 spirit master shallow here's wart you see what a
 ragged appearance it is a shall charge you and
 discharge you with the motion of a pewterer's
 hammer come off and on swifter than he that gibbets
 on the brewer's bucket and this same halffaced
 fellow shadow give me this man he presents no
 mark to the enemy the foeman may with as great aim
 level at the edge of a penknife and for a retreat
 how swiftly will this feeble the woman's tailor run
 off o give me the spare men and spare me the
 great ones put me a caliver into wart's hand bardolph
bardolph hold wart traverse thus thus thus
falstaff come manage me your caliver so very well go
 to very good exceeding good o give me always a
 little lean old chapt bald shot well said i'
 faith wart thou'rt a good scab hold there's a
 tester for thee
shallow he is not his craft's master he doth not do it
 right i remember at mileend green when i lay at
 clement's inni was then sir dagonet in arthur's
 showthere was a little quiver fellow and a'
 would manage you his piece thus and a would about
 and about and come you in and come you in rah
 tah tah would a say bounce would a say and
 away again would a go and again would a come i
 shall ne'er see such a fellow
falstaff these fellows will do well master shallow god
 keep you master silence i will not use many words
 with you fare you well gentlemen both i thank
 you i must a dozen mile tonight bardolph give
 the soldiers coats
shallow sir john the lord bless you god prosper your
 affairs god send us peace at your return visit
 our house let our old acquaintance be renewed
 peradventure i will with ye to the court
falstaff fore god i would you would master shallow
shallow go to i have spoke at a word god keep you
falstaff fare you well gentle gentlemen
 exeunt justices
 on bardolph lead the men away
 exeunt bardolph recruits &c
 as i return i will fetch off these justices i do
 see the bottom of justice shallow lord lord how
 subject we old men are to this vice of lying this
 same starved justice hath done nothing but prate to
 me of the wildness of his youth and the feats he
 hath done about turnbull street and every third
 word a lie duer paid to the hearer than the turk's
 tribute i do remember him at clement's inn like a
 man made after supper of a cheeseparing when a'
 was naked he was for all the world like a forked
 radish with a head fantastically carved upon it
 with a knife a was so forlorn that his
 dimensions to any thick sight were invincible a'
 was the very genius of famine yet lecherous as a
 monkey and the whores called him mandrake a came
 ever in the rearward of the fashion and sung those
 tunes to the overscutched huswives that he heard the
 carmen whistle and swear they were his fancies or
 his goodnights and now is this vice's dagger
 become a squire and talks as familiarly of john a
 gaunt as if he had been sworn brother to him and
 i'll be sworn a ne'er saw him but once in the
 tiltyard and then he burst his head for crowding
 among the marshal's men i saw it and told john a
 gaunt he beat his own name for you might have
 thrust him and all his apparel into an eelskin the
 case of a treble hautboy was a mansion for him a
 court and now has he land and beefs well i'll
 be acquainted with him if i return and it shall
 go hard but i will make him a philosopher's two
 stones to me if the young dace be a bait for the
 old pike i see no reason in the law of nature but i
 may snap at him let time shape and there an end
 exit
 2 king henry iv
act iv
scene i yorkshire gaultree forest
 enter the archbishop of york mowbray lord
 hastings and others
archbishop of york what is this forest call'd
hastings tis gaultree forest an't shall please your grace
archbishop of york here stand my lords and send discoverers forth
 to know the numbers of our enemies
hastings we have sent forth already
archbishop of york tis well done
 my friends and brethren in these great affairs
 i must acquaint you that i have received
 newdated letters from northumberland
 their cold intent tenor and substance thus
 here doth he wish his person with such powers
 as might hold sortance with his quality
 the which he could not levy whereupon
 he is retired to ripe his growing fortunes
 to scotland and concludes in hearty prayers
 that your attempts may overlive the hazard
 and fearful melting of their opposite
mowbray thus do the hopes we have in him touch ground
 and dash themselves to pieces
 enter a messenger
hastings now what news
messenger west of this forest scarcely off a mile
 in goodly form comes on the enemy
 and by the ground they hide i judge their number
 upon or near the rate of thirty thousand
mowbray the just proportion that we gave them out
 let us sway on and face them in the field
archbishop of york what wellappointed leader fronts us here
 enter westmoreland
mowbray i think it is my lord of westmoreland
westmoreland health and fair greeting from our general
 the prince lord john and duke of lancaster
archbishop of york say on my lord of westmoreland in peace
 what doth concern your coming
westmoreland then my lord
 unto your grace do i in chief address
 the substance of my speech if that rebellion
 came like itself in base and abject routs
 led on by bloody youth guarded with rags
 and countenanced by boys and beggary
 i say if damn'd commotion so appear'd
 in his true native and most proper shape
 you reverend father and these noble lords
 had not been here to dress the ugly form
 of base and bloody insurrection
 with your fair honours you lord archbishop
 whose see is by a civil peace maintained
 whose beard the silver hand of peace hath touch'd
 whose learning and good letters peace hath tutor'd
 whose white investments figure innocence
 the dove and very blessed spirit of peace
 wherefore do you so ill translate ourself
 out of the speech of peace that bears such grace
 into the harsh and boisterous tongue of war
 turning your books to graves your ink to blood
 your pens to lances and your tongue divine
 to a trumpet and a point of war
archbishop of york wherefore do i this so the question stands
 briefly to this end we are all diseased
 and with our surfeiting and wanton hours
 have brought ourselves into a burning fever
 and we must bleed for it of which disease
 our late king richard being infected died
 but my most noble lord of westmoreland
 i take not on me here as a physician
 nor do i as an enemy to peace
 troop in the throngs of military men
 but rather show awhile like fearful war
 to diet rank minds sick of happiness
 and purge the obstructions which begin to stop
 our very veins of life hear me more plainly
 i have in equal balance justly weigh'd
 what wrongs our arms may do what wrongs we suffer
 and find our griefs heavier than our offences
 we see which way the stream of time doth run
 and are enforced from our most quiet there
 by the rough torrent of occasion
 and have the summary of all our griefs
 when time shall serve to show in articles
 which long ere this we offer'd to the king
 and might by no suit gain our audience
 when we are wrong'd and would unfold our griefs
 we are denied access unto his person
 even by those men that most have done us wrong
 the dangers of the days but newly gone
 whose memory is written on the earth
 with yet appearing blood and the examples
 of every minute's instance present now
 hath put us in these illbeseeming arms
 not to break peace or any branch of it
 but to establish here a peace indeed
 concurring both in name and quality
westmoreland when ever yet was your appeal denied
 wherein have you been galled by the king
 what peer hath been suborn'd to grate on you
 that you should seal this lawless bloody book
 of forged rebellion with a seal divine
 and consecrate commotion's bitter edge
archbishop of york my brother general the commonwealth
 to brother born an household cruelty
 i make my quarrel in particular
westmoreland there is no need of any such redress
 or if there were it not belongs to you
mowbray why not to him in part and to us all
 that feel the bruises of the days before
 and suffer the condition of these times
 to lay a heavy and unequal hand
 upon our honours
westmoreland o my good lord mowbray
 construe the times to their necessities
 and you shall say indeed it is the time
 and not the king that doth you injuries
 yet for your part it not appears to me
 either from the king or in the present time
 that you should have an inch of any ground
 to build a grief on were you not restored
 to all the duke of norfolk's signories
 your noble and right well remember'd father's
mowbray what thing in honour had my father lost
 that need to be revived and breathed in me
 the king that loved him as the state stood then
 was force perforce compell'd to banish him
 and then that harry bolingbroke and he
 being mounted and both roused in their seats
 their neighing coursers daring of the spur
 their armed staves in charge their beavers down
 their eyes of fire sparking through sights of steel
 and the loud trumpet blowing them together
 then then when there was nothing could have stay'd
 my father from the breast of bolingbroke
 o when the king did throw his warder down
 his own life hung upon the staff he threw
 then threw he down himself and all their lives
 that by indictment and by dint of sword
 have since miscarried under bolingbroke
westmoreland you speak lord mowbray now you know not what
 the earl of hereford was reputed then
 in england the most valiant gentlemen
 who knows on whom fortune would then have smiled
 but if your father had been victor there
 he ne'er had borne it out of coventry
 for all the country in a general voice
 cried hate upon him and all their prayers and love
 were set on hereford whom they doted on
 and bless'd and graced indeed more than the king
 but this is mere digression from my purpose
 here come i from our princely general
 to know your griefs to tell you from his grace
 that he will give you audience and wherein
 it shall appear that your demands are just
 you shall enjoy them every thing set off
 that might so much as think you enemies
mowbray but he hath forced us to compel this offer
 and it proceeds from policy not love
westmoreland mowbray you overween to take it so
 this offer comes from mercy not from fear
 for lo within a ken our army lies
 upon mine honour all too confident
 to give admittance to a thought of fear
 our battle is more full of names than yours
 our men more perfect in the use of arms
 our armour all as strong our cause the best
 then reason will our heart should be as good
 say you not then our offer is compell'd
mowbray well by my will we shall admit no parley
westmoreland that argues but the shame of your offence
 a rotten case abides no handling
hastings hath the prince john a full commission
 in very ample virtue of his father
 to hear and absolutely to determine
 of what conditions we shall stand upon
westmoreland that is intended in the general's name
 i muse you make so slight a question
archbishop of york then take my lord of westmoreland this schedule
 for this contains our general grievances
 each several article herein redress'd
 all members of our cause both here and hence
 that are insinew'd to this action
 acquitted by a true substantial form
 and present execution of our wills
 to us and to our purposes confined
 we come within our awful banks again
 and knit our powers to the arm of peace
westmoreland this will i show the general please you lords
 in sight of both our battles we may meet
 and either end in peace which god so frame
 or to the place of difference call the swords
 which must decide it
archbishop of york my lord we will do so
 exit westmoreland
mowbray there is a thing within my bosom tells me
 that no conditions of our peace can stand
hastings fear you not that if we can make our peace
 upon such large terms and so absolute
 as our conditions shall consist upon
 our peace shall stand as firm as rocky mountains
mowbray yea but our valuation shall be such
 that every slight and falsederived cause
 yea every idle nice and wanton reason
 shall to the king taste of this action
 that were our royal faiths martyrs in love
 we shall be winnow'd with so rough a wind
 that even our corn shall seem as light as chaff
 and good from bad find no partition
archbishop of york no no my lord note this the king is weary
 of dainty and such picking grievances
 for he hath found to end one doubt by death
 revives two greater in the heirs of life
 and therefore will he wipe his tables clean
 and keep no telltale to his memory
 that may repeat and history his loss
 to new remembrance for full well he knows
 he cannot so precisely weed this land
 as his misdoubts present occasion
 his foes are so enrooted with his friends
 that plucking to unfix an enemy
 he doth unfasten so and shake a friend
 so that this land like an offensive wife
 that hath enraged him on to offer strokes
 as he is striking holds his infant up
 and hangs resolved correction in the arm
 that was uprear'd to execution
hastings besides the king hath wasted all his rods
 on late offenders that he now doth lack
 the very instruments of chastisement
 so that his power like to a fangless lion
 may offer but not hold
archbishop of york tis very true
 and therefore be assured my good lord marshal
 if we do now make our atonement well
 our peace will like a broken limb united
 grow stronger for the breaking
mowbray be it so
 here is return'd my lord of westmoreland
 reenter westmoreland
westmoreland the prince is here at hand pleaseth your lordship
 to meet his grace just distance tween our armies
mowbray your grace of york in god's name then set forward
archbishop of york before and greet his grace my lord we come
 exeunt
 2 king henry iv
act iv
scene ii another part of the forest
 enter from one side mowbray attended afterwards
 the archbishop of york hastings and others from
 the other side prince john of lancaster and
 westmoreland officers and others with them
lancaster you are well encounter'd here my cousin mowbray
 good day to you gentle lord archbishop
 and so to you lord hastings and to all
 my lord of york it better show'd with you
 when that your flock assembled by the bell
 encircled you to hear with reverence
 your exposition on the holy text
 than now to see you here an iron man
 cheering a rout of rebels with your drum
 turning the word to sword and life to death
 that man that sits within a monarch's heart
 and ripens in the sunshine of his favour
 would he abuse the countenance of the king
 alack what mischiefs might he set abrooch
 in shadow of such greatness with you lord bishop
 it is even so who hath not heard it spoken
 how deep you were within the books of god
 to us the speaker in his parliament
 to us the imagined voice of god himself
 the very opener and intelligencer
 between the grace the sanctities of heaven
 and our dull workings o who shall believe
 but you misuse the reverence of your place
 employ the countenance and grace of heaven
 as a false favourite doth his prince's name
 in deeds dishonourable you have ta'en up
 under the counterfeited zeal of god
 the subjects of his substitute my father
 and both against the peace of heaven and him
 have here upswarm'd them
archbishop of york good my lord of lancaster
 i am not here against your father's peace
 but as i told my lord of westmoreland
 the time misorder'd doth in common sense
 crowd us and crush us to this monstrous form
 to hold our safety up i sent your grace
 the parcels and particulars of our grief
 the which hath been with scorn shoved from the court
 whereon this hydra son of war is born
 whose dangerous eyes may well be charm'd asleep
 with grant of our most just and right desires
 and true obedience of this madness cured
 stoop tamely to the foot of majesty
mowbray if not we ready are to try our fortunes
 to the last man
hastings and though we here fall down
 we have supplies to second our attempt
 if they miscarry theirs shall second them
 and so success of mischief shall be born
 and heir from heir shall hold this quarrel up
 whiles england shall have generation
lancaster you are too shallow hastings much too shallow
 to sound the bottom of the aftertimes
westmoreland pleaseth your grace to answer them directly
 how far forth you do like their articles
lancaster i like them all and do allow them well
 and swear here by the honour of my blood
 my father's purposes have been mistook
 and some about him have too lavishly
 wrested his meaning and authority
 my lord these griefs shall be with speed redress'd
 upon my soul they shall if this may please you
 discharge your powers unto their several counties
 as we will ours and here between the armies
 let's drink together friendly and embrace
 that all their eyes may bear those tokens home
 of our restored love and amity
archbishop of york i take your princely word for these redresses
lancaster i give it you and will maintain my word
 and thereupon i drink unto your grace
hastings go captain and deliver to the army
 this news of peace let them have pay and part
 i know it will well please them hie thee captain
 exit officer
archbishop of york to you my noble lord of westmoreland
westmoreland i pledge your grace and if you knew what pains
 i have bestow'd to breed this present peace
 you would drink freely but my love to ye
 shall show itself more openly hereafter
archbishop of york i do not doubt you
westmoreland i am glad of it
 health to my lord and gentle cousin mowbray
mowbray you wish me health in very happy season
 for i am on the sudden something ill
archbishop of york against ill chances men are ever merry
 but heaviness foreruns the good event
westmoreland therefore be merry coz since sudden sorrow
 serves to say thus some good thing comes
 tomorrow'
archbishop of york believe me i am passing light in spirit
mowbray so much the worse if your own rule be true
 shouts within
lancaster the word of peace is render'd hark how they shout
mowbray this had been cheerful after victory
archbishop of york a peace is of the nature of a conquest
 for then both parties nobly are subdued
 and neither party loser
lancaster go my lord
 and let our army be discharged too
 exit westmoreland
 and good my lord so please you let our trains
 march by us that we may peruse the men
 we should have coped withal
archbishop of york go good lord hastings
 and ere they be dismissed let them march by
 exit hastings
lancaster i trust lords we shall lie tonight together
 reenter westmoreland
 now cousin wherefore stands our army still
westmoreland the leaders having charge from you to stand
 will not go off until they hear you speak
lancaster they know their duties
 reenter hastings
hastings my lord our army is dispersed already
 like youthful steers unyoked they take their courses
 east west north south or like a school broke up
 each hurries toward his home and sportingplace
westmoreland good tidings my lord hastings for the which
 i do arrest thee traitor of high treason
 and you lord archbishop and you lord mowbray
 of capitol treason i attach you both
mowbray is this proceeding just and honourable
westmoreland is your assembly so
archbishop of york will you thus break your faith
lancaster i pawn'd thee none
 i promised you redress of these same grievances
 whereof you did complain which by mine honour
 i will perform with a most christian care
 but for you rebels look to taste the due
 meet for rebellion and such acts as yours
 most shallowly did you these arms commence
 fondly brought here and foolishly sent hence
 strike up our drums pursue the scatter'd stray
 god and not we hath safely fought today
 some guard these traitors to the block of death
 treason's true bed and yielder up of breath
 exeunt
 2 king henry iv
act iv
scene iii another part of the forest
 alarum excursions enter falstaff and colevile meeting
falstaff what's your name sir of what condition are you
 and of what place i pray
colevile i am a knight sir and my name is colevile of the dale
falstaff well then colevile is your name a knight is your
 degree and your place the dale colevile shall be
 still your name a traitor your degree and the
 dungeon your place a place deep enough so shall
 you be still colevile of the dale
colevile are not you sir john falstaff
falstaff as good a man as he sir whoe'er i am do ye
 yield sir or shall i sweat for you if i do
 sweat they are the drops of thy lovers and they
 weep for thy death therefore rouse up fear and
 trembling and do observance to my mercy
colevile i think you are sir john falstaff and in that
 thought yield me
falstaff i have a whole school of tongues in this belly of
 mine and not a tongue of them all speaks any other
 word but my name an i had but a belly of any
 indifference i were simply the most active fellow
 in europe my womb my womb my womb undoes me
 here comes our general
 enter prince john of lancaster westmoreland
 blunt and others
lancaster the heat is past follow no further now
 call in the powers good cousin westmoreland
 exit westmoreland
 now falstaff where have you been all this while
 when every thing is ended then you come
 these tardy tricks of yours will on my life
 one time or other break some gallows back
falstaff i would be sorry my lord but it should be thus i
 never knew yet but rebuke and cheque was the reward
 of valour do you think me a swallow an arrow or a
 bullet have i in my poor and old motion the
 expedition of thought i have speeded hither with
 the very extremest inch of possibility i have
 foundered nine score and odd posts and here
 traveltainted as i am have in my pure and
 immaculate valour taken sir john colevile of the
 dale a most furious knight and valorous enemy
 but what of that he saw me and yielded that i
 may justly say with the hooknosed fellow of rome
 i came saw and overcame'
lancaster it was more of his courtesy than your deserving
falstaff i know not here he is and here i yield him and
 i beseech your grace let it be booked with the
 rest of this day's deeds or by the lord i will
 have it in a particular ballad else with mine own
 picture on the top on't colevile kissing my foot
 to the which course if i be enforced if you do not
 all show like gilt twopences to me and i in the
 clear sky of fame o'ershine you as much as the full
 moon doth the cinders of the element which show
 like pins heads to her believe not the word of
 the noble therefore let me have right and let
 desert mount
lancaster thine's too heavy to mount
falstaff let it shine then
lancaster thine's too thick to shine
falstaff let it do something my good lord that may do me
 good and call it what you will
lancaster is thy name colevile
colevile it is my lord
lancaster a famous rebel art thou colevile
falstaff and a famous true subject took him
colevile i am my lord but as my betters are
 that led me hither had they been ruled by me
 you should have won them dearer than you have
falstaff i know not how they sold themselves but thou like
 a kind fellow gavest thyself away gratis and i
 thank thee for thee
 reenter westmoreland
lancaster now have you left pursuit
westmoreland retreat is made and execution stay'd
lancaster send colevile with his confederates
 to york to present execution
 blunt lead him hence and see you guard him sure
 exeunt blunt and others with colevile
 and now dispatch we toward the court my lords
 i hear the king my father is sore sick
 our news shall go before us to his majesty
 which cousin you shall bear to comfort him
 and we with sober speed will follow you
falstaff my lord i beseech you give me leave to go
 through gloucestershire and when you come to court
 stand my good lord pray in your good report
lancaster fare you well falstaff i in my condition
 shall better speak of you than you deserve
 exeunt all but falstaff
falstaff i would you had but the wit twere better than
 your dukedom good faith this same young sober
 blooded boy doth not love me nor a man cannot make
 him laugh but that's no marvel he drinks no wine
 there's never none of these demure boys come to any
 proof for thin drink doth so overcool their blood
 and making many fishmeals that they fall into a
 kind of male greensickness and then when they
 marry they get wenches they are generally fools
 and cowards which some of us should be too but for
 inflammation a good sherris sack hath a twofold
 operation in it it ascends me into the brain
 dries me there all the foolish and dull and curdy
 vapours which environ it makes it apprehensive
 quick forgetive full of nimble fiery and
 delectable shapes which delivered o'er to the
 voice the tongue which is the birth becomes
 excellent wit the second property of your
 excellent sherris is the warming of the blood
 which before cold and settled left the liver
 white and pale which is the badge of pusillanimity
 and cowardice but the sherris warms it and makes
 it course from the inwards to the parts extreme
 it illumineth the face which as a beacon gives
 warning to all the rest of this little kingdom
 man to arm and then the vital commoners and
 inland petty spirits muster me all to their captain
 the heart who great and puffed up with this
 retinue doth any deed of courage and this valour
 comes of sherris so that skill in the weapon is
 nothing without sack for that sets it awork and
 learning a mere hoard of gold kept by a devil till
 sack commences it and sets it in act and use
 hereof comes it that prince harry is valiant for
 the cold blood he did naturally inherit of his
 father he hath like lean sterile and bare land
 manured husbanded and tilled with excellent
 endeavour of drinking good and good store of fertile
 sherris that he is become very hot and valiant if
 i had a thousand sons the first humane principle i
 would teach them should be to forswear thin
 potations and to addict themselves to sack
 enter bardolph
 how now bardolph
bardolph the army is discharged all and gone
falstaff let them go i'll through gloucestershire and
 there will i visit master robert shallow esquire
 i have him already tempering between my finger and
 my thumb and shortly will i seal with him come away
 exeunt
 2 king henry iv
act iv
scene iv westminster the jerusalem chamber
 enter king henry iv the princes thomas of clarence
 and humphrey of gloucester warwick and others
king henry iv now lords if god doth give successful end
 to this debate that bleedeth at our doors
 we will our youth lead on to higher fields
 and draw no swords but what are sanctified
 our navy is address'd our power collected
 our substitutes in absence well invested
 and every thing lies level to our wish
 only we want a little personal strength
 and pause us till these rebels now afoot
 come underneath the yoke of government
warwick both which we doubt not but your majesty
 shall soon enjoy
king henry iv humphrey my son of gloucester
 where is the prince your brother
gloucester i think he's gone to hunt my lord at windsor
king henry iv and how accompanied
gloucester i do not know my lord
king henry iv is not his brother thomas of clarence with him
gloucester no my good lord he is in presence here
clarence what would my lord and father
king henry iv nothing but well to thee thomas of clarence
 how chance thou art not with the prince thy brother
 he loves thee and thou dost neglect him thomas
 thou hast a better place in his affection
 than all thy brothers cherish it my boy
 and noble offices thou mayst effect
 of mediation after i am dead
 between his greatness and thy other brethren
 therefore omit him not blunt not his love
 nor lose the good advantage of his grace
 by seeming cold or careless of his will
 for he is gracious if he be observed
 he hath a tear for pity and a hand
 open as day for melting charity
 yet notwithstanding being incensed he's flint
 as humorous as winter and as sudden
 as flaws congealed in the spring of day
 his temper therefore must be well observed
 chide him for faults and do it reverently
 when thou perceive his blood inclined to mirth
 but being moody give him line and scope
 till that his passions like a whale on ground
 confound themselves with working learn this thomas
 and thou shalt prove a shelter to thy friends
 a hoop of gold to bind thy brothers in
 that the united vessel of their blood
 mingled with venom of suggestion
 as force perforce the age will pour it in
 shall never leak though it do work as strong
 as aconitum or rash gunpowder
clarence i shall observe him with all care and love
king henry iv why art thou not at windsor with him thomas
clarence he is not there today he dines in london
king henry iv and how accompanied canst thou tell that
clarence with poins and other his continual followers
king henry iv most subject is the fattest soil to weeds
 and he the noble image of my youth
 is overspread with them therefore my grief
 stretches itself beyond the hour of death
 the blood weeps from my heart when i do shape
 in forms imaginary the unguided days
 and rotten times that you shall look upon
 when i am sleeping with my ancestors
 for when his headstrong riot hath no curb
 when rage and hot blood are his counsellors
 when means and lavish manners meet together
 o with what wings shall his affections fly
 towards fronting peril and opposed decay
warwick my gracious lord you look beyond him quite
 the prince but studies his companions
 like a strange tongue wherein to gain the language
 tis needful that the most immodest word
 be look'd upon and learn'd which once attain'd
 your highness knows comes to no further use
 but to be known and hated so like gross terms
 the prince will in the perfectness of time
 cast off his followers and their memory
 shall as a pattern or a measure live
 by which his grace must mete the lives of others
 turning past evils to advantages
king henry iv tis seldom when the bee doth leave her comb
 in the dead carrion
 enter westmoreland
 who's here westmoreland
westmoreland health to my sovereign and new happiness
 added to that that i am to deliver
 prince john your son doth kiss your grace's hand
 mowbray the bishop scroop hastings and all
 are brought to the correction of your law
 there is not now a rebel's sword unsheath'd
 but peace puts forth her olive every where
 the manner how this action hath been borne
 here at more leisure may your highness read
 with every course in his particular
king henry iv o westmoreland thou art a summer bird
 which ever in the haunch of winter sings
 the lifting up of day
 enter harcourt
 look here's more news
harcourt from enemies heaven keep your majesty
 and when they stand against you may they fall
 as those that i am come to tell you of
 the earl northumberland and the lord bardolph
 with a great power of english and of scots
 are by the sheriff of yorkshire overthrown
 the manner and true order of the fight
 this packet please it you contains at large
king henry iv and wherefore should these good news make me sick
 will fortune never come with both hands full
 but write her fair words still in foulest letters
 she either gives a stomach and no food
 such are the poor in health or else a feast
 and takes away the stomach such are the rich
 that have abundance and enjoy it not
 i should rejoice now at this happy news
 and now my sight fails and my brain is giddy
 o me come near me now i am much ill
gloucester comfort your majesty
clarence o my royal father
westmoreland my sovereign lord cheer up yourself look up
warwick be patient princes you do know these fits
 are with his highness very ordinary
 stand from him give him air he'll straight be well
clarence no no he cannot long hold out these pangs
 the incessant care and labour of his mind
 hath wrought the mure that should confine it in
 so thin that life looks through and will break out
gloucester the people fear me for they do observe
 unfather'd heirs and loathly births of nature
 the seasons change their manners as the year
 had found some months asleep and leap'd them over
clarence the river hath thrice flow'd no ebb between
 and the old folk time's doting chronicles
 say it did so a little time before
 that our greatgrandsire edward sick'd and died
warwick speak lower princes for the king recovers
gloucester this apoplexy will certain be his end
king henry iv i pray you take me up and bear me hence
 into some other chamber softly pray
 2 king henry iv
act iv
scene v another chamber
 king henry iv lying on a bed clarence
 gloucester warwick and others in attendance
king henry iv let there be no noise made my gentle friends
 unless some dull and favourable hand
 will whisper music to my weary spirit
warwick call for the music in the other room
king henry iv set me the crown upon my pillow here
clarence his eye is hollow and he changes much
warwick less noise less noise
 enter prince henry
prince henry who saw the duke of clarence
clarence i am here brother full of heaviness
prince henry how now rain within doors and none abroad
 how doth the king
gloucester exceeding ill
prince henry heard he the good news yet
 tell it him
gloucester he alter'd much upon the hearing it
prince henry if he be sick with joy he'll recover without physic
warwick not so much noise my lords sweet prince
 speak low
 the king your father is disposed to sleep
clarence let us withdraw into the other room
warwick will't please your grace to go along with us
prince henry no i will sit and watch here by the king
 exeunt all but prince henry
 why doth the crown lie there upon his pillow
 being so troublesome a bedfellow
 o polish'd perturbation golden care
 that keep'st the ports of slumber open wide
 to many a watchful night sleep with it now
 yet not so sound and half so deeply sweet
 as he whose brow with homely biggen bound
 snores out the watch of night o majesty
 when thou dost pinch thy bearer thou dost sit
 like a rich armour worn in heat of day
 that scalds with safety by his gates of breath
 there lies a downy feather which stirs not
 did he suspire that light and weightless down
 perforce must move my gracious lord my father
 this sleep is sound indeed this is a sleep
 that from this golden rigol hath divorced
 so many english kings thy due from me
 is tears and heavy sorrows of the blood
 which nature love and filial tenderness
 shall o dear father pay thee plenteously
 my due from thee is this imperial crown
 which as immediate as thy place and blood
 derives itself to me lo here it sits
 which god shall guard and put the world's whole strength
 into one giant arm it shall not force
 this lineal honour from me this from thee
 will i to mine leave as tis left to me
 exit
king henry iv warwick gloucester clarence
 reenter warwick gloucester clarence and the rest
clarence doth the king call
warwick what would your majesty how fares your grace
king henry iv why did you leave me here alone my lords
clarence we left the prince my brother here my liege
 who undertook to sit and watch by you
king henry iv the prince of wales where is he let me see him
 he is not here
warwick this door is open he is gone this way
gloucester he came not through the chamber where we stay'd
king henry iv where is the crown who took it from my pillow
warwick when we withdrew my liege we left it here
king henry iv the prince hath ta'en it hence go seek him out
 is he so hasty that he doth suppose
 my sleep my death
 find him my lord of warwick chide him hither
 exit warwick
 this part of his conjoins with my disease
 and helps to end me see sons what things you are
 how quickly nature falls into revolt
 when gold becomes her object
 for this the foolish overcareful fathers
 have broke their sleep with thoughts their brains with care
 their bones with industry
 for this they have engrossed and piled up
 the canker'd heaps of strangeachieved gold
 for this they have been thoughtful to invest
 their sons with arts and martial exercises
 when like the bee culling from every flower
 the virtuous sweets
 our thighs pack'd with wax our mouths with honey
 we bring it to the hive and like the bees
 are murdered for our pains this bitter taste
 yield his engrossments to the ending father
 reenter warwick
 now where is he that will not stay so long
 till his friend sickness hath determined me
warwick my lord i found the prince in the next room
 washing with kindly tears his gentle cheeks
 with such a deep demeanor in great sorrow
 that tyranny which never quaff'd but blood
 would by beholding him have wash'd his knife
 with gentle eyedrops he is coming hither
king henry iv but wherefore did he take away the crown
 reenter prince henry
 lo where he comes come hither to me harry
 depart the chamber leave us here alone
 exeunt warwick and the rest
prince henry i never thought to hear you speak again
king henry iv thy wish was father harry to that thought
 i stay too long by thee i weary thee
 dost thou so hunger for mine empty chair
 that thou wilt needs invest thee with my honours
 before thy hour be ripe o foolish youth
 thou seek'st the greatness that will o'erwhelm thee
 stay but a little for my cloud of dignity
 is held from falling with so weak a wind
 that it will quickly drop my day is dim
 thou hast stolen that which after some few hours
 were thine without offence and at my death
 thou hast seal'd up my expectation
 thy life did manifest thou lovedst me not
 and thou wilt have me die assured of it
 thou hidest a thousand daggers in thy thoughts
 which thou hast whetted on thy stony heart
 to stab at half an hour of my life
 what canst thou not forbear me half an hour
 then get thee gone and dig my grave thyself
 and bid the merry bells ring to thine ear
 that thou art crowned not that i am dead
 let all the tears that should bedew my hearse
 be drops of balm to sanctify thy head
 only compound me with forgotten dust
 give that which gave thee life unto the worms
 pluck down my officers break my decrees
 for now a time is come to mock at form
 harry the fifth is crown'd up vanity
 down royal state all you sage counsellors hence
 and to the english court assemble now
 from every region apes of idleness
 now neighbour confines purge you of your scum
 have you a ruffian that will swear drink dance
 revel the night rob murder and commit
 the oldest sins the newest kind of ways
 be happy he will trouble you no more
 england shall double gild his treble guilt
 england shall give him office honour might
 for the fifth harry from curb'd licence plucks
 the muzzle of restraint and the wild dog
 shall flesh his tooth on every innocent
 o my poor kingdom sick with civil blows
 when that my care could not withhold thy riots
 what wilt thou do when riot is thy care
 o thou wilt be a wilderness again
 peopled with wolves thy old inhabitants
prince henry o pardon me my liege but for my tears
 the moist impediments unto my speech
 i had forestall'd this dear and deep rebuke
 ere you with grief had spoke and i had heard
 the course of it so far there is your crown
 and he that wears the crown immortally
 long guard it yours if i affect it more
 than as your honour and as your renown
 let me no more from this obedience rise
 which my most inward true and duteous spirit
 teacheth this prostrate and exterior bending
 god witness with me when i here came in
 and found no course of breath within your majesty
 how cold it struck my heart if i do feign
 o let me in my present wildness die
 and never live to show the incredulous world
 the noble change that i have purposed
 coming to look on you thinking you dead
 and dead almost my liege to think you were
 i spake unto this crown as having sense
 and thus upbraided it the care on thee depending
 hath fed upon the body of my father
 therefore thou best of gold art worst of gold
 other less fine in carat is more precious
 preserving life in medicine potable
 but thou most fine most honour'd most renown'd
 hast eat thy bearer up thus my most royal liege
 accusing it i put it on my head
 to try with it as with an enemy
 that had before my face murder'd my father
 the quarrel of a true inheritor
 but if it did infect my blood with joy
 or swell my thoughts to any strain of pride
 if any rebel or vain spirit of mine
 did with the least affection of a welcome
 give entertainment to the might of it
 let god for ever keep it from my head
 and make me as the poorest vassal is
 that doth with awe and terror kneel to it
king henry iv o my son
 god put it in thy mind to take it hence
 that thou mightst win the more thy father's love
 pleading so wisely in excuse of it
 come hither harry sit thou by my bed
 and hear i think the very latest counsel
 that ever i shall breathe god knows my son
 by what bypaths and indirect crook'd ways
 i met this crown and i myself know well
 how troublesome it sat upon my head
 to thee it shall descend with bitter quiet
 better opinion better confirmation
 for all the soil of the achievement goes
 with me into the earth it seem'd in me
 but as an honour snatch'd with boisterous hand
 and i had many living to upbraid
 my gain of it by their assistances
 which daily grew to quarrel and to bloodshed
 wounding supposed peace all these bold fears
 thou see'st with peril i have answered
 for all my reign hath been but as a scene
 acting that argument and now my death
 changes the mode for what in me was purchased
 falls upon thee in a more fairer sort
 so thou the garland wear'st successively
 yet though thou stand'st more sure than i could do
 thou art not firm enough since griefs are green
 and all my friends which thou must make thy friends
 have but their stings and teeth newly ta'en out
 by whose fell working i was first advanced
 and by whose power i well might lodge a fear
 to be again displaced which to avoid
 i cut them off and had a purpose now
 to lead out many to the holy land
 lest rest and lying still might make them look
 too near unto my state therefore my harry
 be it thy course to busy giddy minds
 with foreign quarrels that action hence borne out
 may waste the memory of the former days
 more would i but my lungs are wasted so
 that strength of speech is utterly denied me
 how i came by the crown o god forgive
 and grant it may with thee in true peace live
prince henry my gracious liege
 you won it wore it kept it gave it me
 then plain and right must my possession be
 which i with more than with a common pain
 gainst all the world will rightfully maintain
 enter lord john of lancaster
king henry iv look look here comes my john of lancaster
lancaster health peace and happiness to my royal father
king henry iv thou bring'st me happiness and peace son john
 but health alack with youthful wings is flown
 from this bare wither'd trunk upon thy sight
 my worldly business makes a period
 where is my lord of warwick
prince henry my lord of warwick
 enter warwick and others
king henry iv doth any name particular belong
 unto the lodging where i first did swoon
warwick tis call'd jerusalem my noble lord
king henry iv laud be to god even there my life must end
 it hath been prophesied to me many years
 i should not die but in jerusalem
 which vainly i supposed the holy land
 but bear me to that chamber there i'll lie
 in that jerusalem shall harry die
 exeunt
 2 king henry iv
act v
scene i gloucestershire shallow's house
 enter shallow falstaff bardolph and page
shallow by cock and pie sir you shall not away tonight
 what davy i say
falstaff you must excuse me master robert shallow
shallow i will not excuse you you shall not be excused
 excuses shall not be admitted there is no excuse
 shall serve you shall not be excused why davy
 enter davy
davy here sir
shallow davy davy davy davy let me see davy let me
 see davy let me see yea marry william cook
 bid him come hither sir john you shall not be excused
davy marry sir thus those precepts cannot be served
 and again sir shall we sow the headland with wheat
shallow with red wheat davy but for william cook are
 there no young pigeons
davy yes sir here is now the smith's note for shoeing
 and ploughirons
shallow let it be cast and paid sir john you shall not be excused
davy now sir a new link to the bucket must need be
 had and sir do you mean to stop any of william's
 wages about the sack he lost the other day at
 hinckley fair
shallow a shall answer it some pigeons davy a couple
 of shortlegged hens a joint of mutton and any
 pretty little tiny kickshaws tell william cook
davy doth the man of war stay all night sir
shallow yea davy i will use him well a friend i the
 court is better than a penny in purse use his men
 well davy for they are arrant knaves and will backbite
davy no worse than they are backbitten sir for they
 have marvellous foul linen
shallow well conceited davy about thy business davy
davy i beseech you sir to countenance william visor of
 woncot against clement perkes of the hill
shallow there is many complaints davy against that visor
 that visor is an arrant knave on my knowledge
davy i grant your worship that he is a knave sir but
 yet god forbid sir but a knave should have some
 countenance at his friend's request an honest
 man sir is able to speak for himself when a knave
 is not i have served your worship truly sir
 this eight years and if i cannot once or twice in
 a quarter bear out a knave against an honest man i
 have but a very little credit with your worship the
 knave is mine honest friend sir therefore i
 beseech your worship let him be countenanced
shallow go to i say he shall have no wrong look about davy
 exit davy
 where are you sir john come come come off
 with your boots give me your hand master bardolph
bardolph i am glad to see your worship
shallow i thank thee with all my heart kind
 master bardolph and welcome my tall fellow
 to the page
 come sir john
falstaff i'll follow you good master robert shallow
 exit shallow
 bardolph look to our horses
 exeunt bardolph and page
 if i were sawed into quantities i should make four
 dozen of such bearded hermits staves as master
 shallow it is a wonderful thing to see the
 semblable coherence of his men's spirits and his
 they by observing of him do bear themselves like
 foolish justices he by conversing with them is
 turned into a justicelike servingman their
 spirits are so married in conjunction with the
 participation of society that they flock together in
 consent like so many wildgeese if i had a suit
 to master shallow i would humour his men with the
 imputation of being near their master if to his
 men i would curry with master shallow that no man
 could better command his servants it is certain
 that either wise bearing or ignorant carriage is
 caught as men take diseases one of another
 therefore let men take heed of their company i
 will devise matter enough out of this shallow to
 keep prince harry in continual laughter the wearing
 out of six fashions which is four terms or two
 actions and a shall laugh without intervallums o
 it is much that a lie with a slight oath and a jest
 with a sad brow will do with a fellow that never
 had the ache in his shoulders o you shall see him
 laugh till his face be like a wet cloak ill laid up
shallow within sir john
falstaff i come master shallow i come master shallow
 exit
 2 king henry iv
act v
scene ii westminster the palace
 enter warwick and the lord chiefjustice meeting
warwick how now my lord chiefjustice whither away
lord chiefjustice how doth the king
warwick exceeding well his cares are now all ended
lord chiefjustice i hope not dead
warwick he's walk'd the way of nature
 and to our purposes he lives no more
lord chiefjustice i would his majesty had call'd me with him
 the service that i truly did his life
 hath left me open to all injuries
warwick indeed i think the young king loves you not
lord chiefjustice i know he doth not and do arm myself
 to welcome the condition of the time
 which cannot look more hideously upon me
 than i have drawn it in my fantasy
 enter lancaster clarence gloucester
 westmoreland and others
warwick here come the heavy issue of dead harry
 o that the living harry had the temper
 of him the worst of these three gentlemen
 how many nobles then should hold their places
 that must strike sail to spirits of vile sort
lord chiefjustice o god i fear all will be overturn'd
lancaster good morrow cousin warwick good morrow
gloucester 
 good morrow cousin
clarence 
lancaster we meet like men that had forgot to speak
warwick we do remember but our argument
 is all too heavy to admit much talk
lancaster well peace be with him that hath made us heavy
lord chiefjustice peace be with us lest we be heavier
gloucester o good my lord you have lost a friend indeed
 and i dare swear you borrow not that face
 of seeming sorrow it is sure your own
lancaster though no man be assured what grace to find
 you stand in coldest expectation
 i am the sorrier would twere otherwise
clarence well you must now speak sir john falstaff fair
 which swims against your stream of quality
lord chiefjustice sweet princes what i did i did in honour
 led by the impartial conduct of my soul
 and never shall you see that i will beg
 a ragged and forestall'd remission
 if truth and upright innocency fail me
 i'll to the king my master that is dead
 and tell him who hath sent me after him
warwick here comes the prince
 enter king henry v attended
lord chiefjustice good morrow and god save your majesty
king henry v this new and gorgeous garment majesty
 sits not so easy on me as you think
 brothers you mix your sadness with some fear
 this is the english not the turkish court
 not amurath an amurath succeeds
 but harry harry yet be sad good brothers
 for by my faith it very well becomes you
 sorrow so royally in you appears
 that i will deeply put the fashion on
 and wear it in my heart why then be sad
 but entertain no more of it good brothers
 than a joint burden laid upon us all
 for me by heaven i bid you be assured
 i'll be your father and your brother too
 let me but bear your love i ll bear your cares
 yet weep that harry's dead and so will i
 but harry lives that shall convert those tears
 by number into hours of happiness
princes we hope no other from your majesty
king henry v you all look strangely on me and you most
 you are i think assured i love you not
lord chiefjustice i am assured if i be measured rightly
 your majesty hath no just cause to hate me
king henry v no
 how might a prince of my great hopes forget
 so great indignities you laid upon me
 what rate rebuke and roughly send to prison
 the immediate heir of england was this easy
 may this be wash'd in lethe and forgotten
lord chiefjustice i then did use the person of your father
 the image of his power lay then in me
 and in the administration of his law
 whiles i was busy for the commonwealth
 your highness pleased to forget my place
 the majesty and power of law and justice
 the image of the king whom i presented
 and struck me in my very seat of judgment
 whereon as an offender to your father
 i gave bold way to my authority
 and did commit you if the deed were ill
 be you contented wearing now the garland
 to have a son set your decrees at nought
 to pluck down justice from your awful bench
 to trip the course of law and blunt the sword
 that guards the peace and safety of your person
 nay more to spurn at your most royal image
 and mock your workings in a second body
 question your royal thoughts make the case yours
 be now the father and propose a son
 hear your own dignity so much profaned
 see your most dreadful laws so loosely slighted
 behold yourself so by a son disdain'd
 and then imagine me taking your part
 and in your power soft silencing your son
 after this cold considerance sentence me
 and as you are a king speak in your state
 what i have done that misbecame my place
 my person or my liege's sovereignty
king henry v you are right justice and you weigh this well
 therefore still bear the balance and the sword
 and i do wish your honours may increase
 till you do live to see a son of mine
 offend you and obey you as i did
 so shall i live to speak my father's words
 happy am i that have a man so bold
 that dares do justice on my proper son
 and not less happy having such a son
 that would deliver up his greatness so
 into the hands of justice you did commit me
 for which i do commit into your hand
 the unstained sword that you have used to bear
 with this remembrance that you use the same
 with the like bold just and impartial spirit
 as you have done gainst me there is my hand
 you shall be as a father to my youth
 my voice shall sound as you do prompt mine ear
 and i will stoop and humble my intents
 to your wellpractised wise directions
 and princes all believe me i beseech you
 my father is gone wild into his grave
 for in his tomb lie my affections
 and with his spirit sadly i survive
 to mock the expectation of the world
 to frustrate prophecies and to raze out
 rotten opinion who hath writ me down
 after my seeming the tide of blood in me
 hath proudly flow'd in vanity till now
 now doth it turn and ebb back to the sea
 where it shall mingle with the state of floods
 and flow henceforth in formal majesty
 now call we our high court of parliament
 and let us choose such limbs of noble counsel
 that the great body of our state may go
 in equal rank with the best govern'd nation
 that war or peace or both at once may be
 as things acquainted and familiar to us
 in which you father shall have foremost hand
 our coronation done we will accite
 as i before remember'd all our state
 and god consigning to my good intents
 no prince nor peer shall have just cause to say
 god shorten harry's happy life one day
 exeunt
 2 king henry iv
act v
scene iii gloucestershire shallow's orchard
 enter falstaff shallow silence davy bardolph
 and the page
shallow nay you shall see my orchard where in an arbour
 we will eat a last year's pippin of my own graffing
 with a dish of caraways and so forth come
 cousin silence and then to bed
falstaff fore god you have here a goodly dwelling and a rich
shallow barren barren barren beggars all beggars all
 sir john marry good air spread davy spread
 davy well said davy
falstaff this davy serves you for good uses he is your
 servingman and your husband
shallow a good varlet a good varlet a very good varlet
 sir john by the mass i have drunk too much sack
 at supper a good varlet now sit down now sit
 down come cousin
silence ah sirrah quotha we shall
 do nothing but eat and make good cheer
 singing
 and praise god for the merry year
 when flesh is cheap and females dear
 and lusty lads roam here and there
 so merrily
 and ever among so merrily
falstaff there's a merry heart good master silence i'll
 give you a health for that anon
shallow give master bardolph some wine davy
davy sweet sir sit i'll be with you anon most sweet
 sir sit master page good master page sit
 proface what you want in meat we'll have in drink
 but you must bear the heart's all
 exit
shallow be merry master bardolph and my little soldier
 there be merry
silence be merry be merry my wife has all
 singing
 for women are shrews both short and tall
 tis merry in hall when beards wag all
 and welcome merry shrovetide
 be merry be merry
falstaff i did not think master silence had been a man of
 this mettle
silence who i i have been merry twice and once ere now
 reenter davy
davy there's a dish of leathercoats for you
 to bardolph
shallow davy
davy your worship i'll be with you straight
 to bardolph
 a cup of wine sir
silence a cup of wine that's brisk and fine
 singing
 and drink unto the leman mine
 and a merry heart lives longa
falstaff well said master silence
silence an we shall be merry now comes in the sweet o the night
falstaff health and long life to you master silence
silence fill the cup and let it come
 singing
 i'll pledge you a mile to the bottom
shallow honest bardolph welcome if thou wantest any
 thing and wilt not call beshrew thy heart
 welcome my little tiny thief
 to the page
 and welcome indeed too i'll drink to master
 bardolph and to all the cavaleros about london
davy i hove to see london once ere i die
bardolph an i might see you there davy
shallow by the mass you'll crack a quart together ha
 will you not master bardolph
bardolph yea sir in a pottlepot
shallow by god's liggens i thank thee the knave will
 stick by thee i can assure thee that a will not
 out he is true bred
bardolph and i'll stick by him sir
shallow why there spoke a king lack nothing be merry
 knocking within
 look who's at door there ho who knocks
 exit davy
falstaff why now you have done me right
 to silence seeing him take off a bumper
silence singing
 do me right
 and dub me knight samingo
 is't not so
falstaff tis so
silence is't so why then say an old man can do somewhat
 reenter davy
davy an't please your worship there's one pistol come
 from the court with news
falstaff from the court let him come in
 enter pistol
 how now pistol
pistol sir john god save you
falstaff what wind blew you hither pistol
pistol not the ill wind which blows no man to good sweet
 knight thou art now one of the greatest men in this realm
silence by'r lady i think a be but goodman puff of barson
pistol puff
 puff in thy teeth most recreant coward base
 sir john i am thy pistol and thy friend
 and helterskelter have i rode to thee
 and tidings do i bring and lucky joys
 and golden times and happy news of price
falstaff i pray thee now deliver them like a man of this world
pistol a foutre for the world and worldlings base
 i speak of africa and golden joys
falstaff o base assyrian knight what is thy news
 let king cophetua know the truth thereof
silence and robin hood scarlet and john
 singing
pistol shall dunghill curs confront the helicons
 and shall good news be baffled
 then pistol lay thy head in furies lap
silence honest gentleman i know not your breeding
pistol why then lament therefore
shallow give me pardon sir if sir you come with news
 from the court i take it there's but two ways
 either to utter them or to conceal them i am
 sir under the king in some authority
pistol under which king besonian speak or die
shallow under king harry
pistol harry the fourth or fifth
shallow harry the fourth
pistol a foutre for thine office
 sir john thy tender lambkin now is king
 harry the fifth's the man i speak the truth
 when pistol lies do this and fig me like
 the bragging spaniard
falstaff what is the old king dead
pistol as nail in door the things i speak are just
falstaff away bardolph saddle my horse master robert
 shallow choose what office thou wilt in the land
 tis thine pistol i will doublecharge thee with dignities
bardolph o joyful day
 i would not take a knighthood for my fortune
pistol what i do bring good news
falstaff carry master silence to bed master shallow my
 lord shallowbe what thou wilt i am fortune's
 stewardget on thy boots we'll ride all night
 o sweet pistol away bardolph
 exit bardolph
 come pistol utter more to me and withal devise
 something to do thyself good boot boot master
 shallow i know the young king is sick for me let
 us take any man's horses the laws of england are at
 my commandment blessed are they that have been my
 friends and woe to my lord chiefjustice
pistol let vultures vile seize on his lungs also
 where is the life that late i led say they
 why here it is welcome these pleasant days
 exeunt
 2 king henry iv
act v
scene iv london a street
 enter beadles dragging in hostess quickly
 and doll tearsheet
mistress quickly no thou arrant knave i would to god that i might
 die that i might have thee hanged thou hast
 drawn my shoulder out of joint
first beadle the constables have delivered her over to me and
 she shall have whippingcheer enough i warrant
 her there hath been a man or two lately killed about her
doll tearsheet nuthook nuthook you lie come on i ll tell
 thee what thou damned tripevisaged rascal an
 the child i now go with do miscarry thou wert
 better thou hadst struck thy mother thou
 paperfaced villain
mistress quickly o the lord that sir john were come he would make
 this a bloody day to somebody but i pray god the
 fruit of her womb miscarry
first beadle if it do you shall have a dozen of cushions again
 you have but eleven now come i charge you both go
 with me for the man is dead that you and pistol
 beat amongst you
doll tearsheet i'll tell you what you thin man in a censer i
 will have you as soundly swinged for thisyou
 bluebottle rogue you filthy famished correctioner
 if you be not swinged i'll forswear halfkirtles
first beadle come come you she knighterrant come
mistress quickly o god that right should thus overcome might
 well of sufferance comes ease
doll tearsheet come you rogue come bring me to a justice
mistress quickly ay come you starved bloodhound
doll tearsheet goodman death goodman bones
mistress quickly thou atomy thou
doll tearsheet come you thin thing come you rascal
first beadle very well
 exeunt
 2 king henry iv
act v
scene v a public place near westminster abbey
 enter two grooms strewing rushes
first groom more rushes more rushes
second groom the trumpets have sounded twice
first groom twill be two o'clock ere they come from the
 coronation dispatch dispatch
 exeunt
 enter falstaff shallow pistol
 bardolph and page
falstaff stand here by me master robert shallow i will
 make the king do you grace i will leer upon him as
 a comes by and do but mark the countenance that he
 will give me
pistol god bless thy lungs good knight
falstaff come here pistol stand behind me o if i had had
 time to have made new liveries i would have
 bestowed the thousand pound i borrowed of you but
 tis no matter this poor show doth better this
 doth infer the zeal i had to see him
shallow it doth so
falstaff it shows my earnestness of affection
shallow it doth so
falstaff my devotion
shallow it doth it doth it doth
falstaff as it were to ride day and night and not to
 deliberate not to remember not to have patience
 to shift me
shallow it is best certain
falstaff but to stand stained with travel and sweating with
 desire to see him thinking of nothing else
 putting all affairs else in oblivion as if there
 were nothing else to be done but to see him
pistol tis semper idem for obsque hoc nihil est'
 tis all in every part
shallow tis so indeed
pistol my knight i will inflame thy noble liver
 and make thee rage
 thy doll and helen of thy noble thoughts
 is in base durance and contagious prison
 haled thither
 by most mechanical and dirty hand
 rouse up revenge from ebon den with fell
 alecto's snake
 for doll is in pistol speaks nought but truth
falstaff i will deliver her
 shouts within and the trumpets sound
pistol there roar'd the sea and trumpetclangor sounds
 enter king henry v and his train the lord chief
 justice among them
falstaff god save thy grace king hal my royal hal
pistol the heavens thee guard and keep most royal imp of fame
falstaff god save thee my sweet boy
king henry iv my lord chiefjustice speak to that vain man
lord chiefjustice have you your wits know you what tis to speak
falstaff my king my jove i speak to thee my heart
king henry iv i know thee not old man fall to thy prayers
 how ill white hairs become a fool and jester
 i have long dream'd of such a kind of man
 so surfeitswell'd so old and so profane
 but being awaked i do despise my dream
 make less thy body hence and more thy grace
 leave gormandizing know the grave doth gape
 for thee thrice wider than for other men
 reply not to me with a foolborn jest
 presume not that i am the thing i was
 for god doth know so shall the world perceive
 that i have turn'd away my former self
 so will i those that kept me company
 when thou dost hear i am as i have been
 approach me and thou shalt be as thou wast
 the tutor and the feeder of my riots
 till then i banish thee on pain of death
 as i have done the rest of my misleaders
 not to come near our person by ten mile
 for competence of life i will allow you
 that lack of means enforce you not to evil
 and as we hear you do reform yourselves
 we will according to your strengths and qualities
 give you advancement be it your charge my lord
 to see perform'd the tenor of our word set on
 exeunt king henry v &c
falstaff master shallow i owe you a thousand pound
shallow yea marry sir john which i beseech you to let me
 have home with me
falstaff that can hardly be master shallow do not you
 grieve at this i shall be sent for in private to
 him look you he must seem thus to the world
 fear not your advancements i will be the man yet
 that shall make you great
shallow i cannot well perceive how unless you should give
 me your doublet and stuff me out with straw i
 beseech you good sir john let me have five hundred
 of my thousand
falstaff sir i will be as good as my word this that you
 heard was but a colour
shallow a colour that i fear you will die in sir john
falstaff fear no colours go with me to dinner come
 lieutenant pistol come bardolph i shall be sent
 for soon at night
 reenter prince john of lancaster the lord
 chiefjustice officers with them
lord chiefjustice go carry sir john falstaff to the fleet
 take all his company along with him
falstaff my lord my lord
lord chiefjustice i cannot now speak i will hear you soon
 take them away
pistol si fortune me tormenta spero contenta
 exeunt all but prince john and the lord
 chiefjustice
lancaster i like this fair proceeding of the king's
 he hath intent his wonted followers
 shall all be very well provided for
 but all are banish'd till their conversations
 appear more wise and modest to the world
lord chiefjustice and so they are
lancaster the king hath call'd his parliament my lord
lord chiefjustice he hath
lancaster i will lay odds that ere this year expire
 we bear our civil swords and native fire
 as far as france i beard a bird so sing
 whose music to my thinking pleased the king
 come will you hence
 exeunt
 2 king henry iv
 epilogue
 spoken by a dancer
 first my fear then my courtesy last my speech
 my fear is your displeasure my courtesy my duty
 and my speech to beg your pardons if you look
 for a good speech now you undo me for what i have
 to say is of mine own making and what indeed i
 should say will i doubt prove mine own marring
 but to the purpose and so to the venture be it
 known to you as it is very well i was lately here
 in the end of a displeasing play to pray your
 patience for it and to promise you a better i
 meant indeed to pay you with this which if like an
 ill venture it come unluckily home i break and
 you my gentle creditors lose here i promised you
 i would be and here i commit my body to your
 mercies bate me some and i will pay you some and
 as most debtors do promise you infinitely
 if my tongue cannot entreat you to acquit me will
 you command me to use my legs and yet that were but
 light payment to dance out of your debt but a
 good conscience will make any possible satisfaction
 and so would i all the gentlewomen here have
 forgiven me if the gentlemen will not then the
 gentlemen do not agree with the gentlewomen which
 was never seen before in such an assembly
 one word more i beseech you if you be not too
 much cloyed with fat meat our humble author will
 continue the story with sir john in it and make
 you merry with fair katharine of france where for
 any thing i know falstaff shall die of a sweat
 unless already a be killed with your hard
 opinions for oldcastle died a martyr and this is
 not the man my tongue is weary when my legs are
 too i will bid you good night and so kneel down
 before you but indeed to pray for the queen
 2 king henry vi
 dramatis personae
king henry
the sixth king henry vi
humphrey duke of gloucester his uncle gloucester
cardinal beaufort bishop of winchester greatuncle to the king
 cardinal
richard
plantagenet duke of york york
edward 
 his sons
richard 
duke of somerset somerset
duke of suffolk suffolk
duke of buckingham buckingham
lord clifford clifford
young clifford his son
earl of salisbury salisbury
earl of warwick warwick
lord scales scales
lord say say
sir humphrey
stafford sir humphrey
william stafford sir humphrey stafford's brother
sir john stanley stanley
vaux
matthew goffe
 a seacaptain captain master and master'smate
walter whitmore
 two gentlemen prisoners with suffolk
 first gentleman
 second gentleman
john hume hume 
 priests
john southwell 
bolingbroke a conjurer
thomas horner an armourer horner
peter thomas horner's man
 clerk of chatham clerk
 mayor of saint alban's mayor
simpcox an impostor
alexander iden a kentish gentleman iden
jack cade a rebel cade
george bevis bevis 
 
john holland holland 
 
dick the butcher dick 
 followers of cade
smith the weaver smith 
 
michael michael 
 
&c 
 two murderers
 first murderer
 second murderer
queen margaret queen to king henry
eleanor duchess of gloucester duchess
margaret jourdain a witch
 wife to simpcox wife
 lords ladies and attendants petitioners
 aldermen a herald a beadle sheriff and
 officers citizens prentices falconers
 guards soldiers messengers &c
 first neighbour
 second neighbour
 third neighbour
 first petitioner
 second petitioner
 herald
 beadle
 sheriff
 servant
 soldier
 townsman
 first prentice
 second prentice
 post
 messenger
 a spirit spirit
scene england
 2 king henry vi
act i
scene i london the palace
 flourish of trumpets then hautboys enter king
 henry vi gloucester salisbury warwick and
 cardinal on the one side queen margaret suffolk
 york somerset and buckingham on the other
suffolk as by your high imperial majesty
 i had in charge at my depart for france
 as procurator to your excellence
 to marry princess margaret for your grace
 so in the famous ancient city tours
 in presence of the kings of france and sicil
 the dukes of orleans calaber bretagne and alencon
 seven earls twelve barons and twenty reverend bishops
 i have perform'd my task and was espoused
 and humbly now upon my bended knee
 in sight of england and her lordly peers
 deliver up my title in the queen
 to your most gracious hands that are the substance
 of that great shadow i did represent
 the happiest gift that ever marquess gave
 the fairest queen that ever king received
king henry vi suffolk arise welcome queen margaret
 i can express no kinder sign of love
 than this kind kiss o lord that lends me life
 lend me a heart replete with thankfulness
 for thou hast given me in this beauteous face
 a world of earthly blessings to my soul
 if sympathy of love unite our thoughts
queen margaret great king of england and my gracious lord
 the mutual conference that my mind hath had
 by day by night waking and in my dreams
 in courtly company or at my beads
 with you mine alderliefest sovereign
 makes me the bolder to salute my king
 with ruder terms such as my wit affords
 and overjoy of heart doth minister
king henry vi her sight did ravish but her grace in speech
 her words yclad with wisdom's majesty
 makes me from wondering fall to weeping joys
 such is the fulness of my heart's content
 lords with one cheerful voice welcome my love
all kneeling long live queen margaret england's
 happiness
queen margaret we thank you all
 flourish
suffolk my lord protector so it please your grace
 here are the articles of contracted peace
 between our sovereign and the french king charles
 for eighteen months concluded by consent
gloucester reads imprimis it is agreed between the french
 king charles and william de la pole marquess of
 suffolk ambassador for henry king of england that
 the said henry shall espouse the lady margaret
 daughter unto reignier king of naples sicilia and
 jerusalem and crown her queen of england ere the
 thirtieth of may next ensuing item that the duchy
 of anjou and the county of maine shall be released
 and delivered to the king her father'
 lets the paper fall
king henry vi uncle how now
gloucester pardon me gracious lord
 some sudden qualm hath struck me at the heart
 and dimm'd mine eyes that i can read no further
king henry vi uncle of winchester i pray read on
cardinal reads item it is further agreed between them
 that the duchies of anjou and maine shall be
 released and delivered over to the king her father
 and she sent over of the king of england's own
 proper cost and charges without having any dowry'
king henry vi they please us well lord marquess kneel down
 we here create thee the first duke of suffolk
 and gird thee with the sword cousin of york
 we here discharge your grace from being regent
 i the parts of france till term of eighteen months
 be full expired thanks uncle winchester
 gloucester york buckingham somerset
 salisbury and warwick
 we thank you all for the great favour done
 in entertainment to my princely queen
 come let us in and with all speed provide
 to see her coronation be perform'd
 exeunt king henry vi queen margaret and suffolk
gloucester brave peers of england pillars of the state
 to you duke humphrey must unload his grief
 your grief the common grief of all the land
 what did my brother henry spend his youth
 his valour coin and people in the wars
 did he so often lodge in open field
 in winter's cold and summer's parching heat
 to conquer france his true inheritance
 and did my brother bedford toil his wits
 to keep by policy what henry got
 have you yourselves somerset buckingham
 brave york salisbury and victorious warwick
 received deep scars in france and normandy
 or hath mine uncle beaufort and myself
 with all the learned council of the realm
 studied so long sat in the councilhouse
 early and late debating to and fro
 how france and frenchmen might be kept in awe
 and had his highness in his infancy
 crowned in paris in despite of foes
 and shall these labours and these honours die
 shall henry's conquest bedford's vigilance
 your deeds of war and all our counsel die
 o peers of england shameful is this league
 fatal this marriage cancelling your fame
 blotting your names from books of memory
 razing the characters of your renown
 defacing monuments of conquer'd france
 undoing all as all had never been
cardinal nephew what means this passionate discourse
 this peroration with such circumstance
 for france tis ours and we will keep it still
gloucester ay uncle we will keep it if we can
 but now it is impossible we should
 suffolk the newmade duke that rules the roast
 hath given the duchy of anjou and maine
 unto the poor king reignier whose large style
 agrees not with the leanness of his purse
salisbury now by the death of him that died for all
 these counties were the keys of normandy
 but wherefore weeps warwick my valiant son
warwick for grief that they are past recovery
 for were there hope to conquer them again
 my sword should shed hot blood mine eyes no tears
 anjou and maine myself did win them both
 those provinces these arms of mine did conquer
 and are the cities that i got with wounds
 delivered up again with peaceful words
 mort dieu
york for suffolk's duke may he be suffocate
 that dims the honour of this warlike isle
 france should have torn and rent my very heart
 before i would have yielded to this league
 i never read but england's kings have had
 large sums of gold and dowries with their wives
 and our king henry gives away his own
 to match with her that brings no vantages
gloucester a proper jest and never heard before
 that suffolk should demand a whole fifteenth
 for costs and charges in transporting her
 she should have stayed in france and starved
 in france before
cardinal my lord of gloucester now ye grow too hot
 it was the pleasure of my lord the king
gloucester my lord of winchester i know your mind
 tis not my speeches that you do mislike
 but tis my presence that doth trouble ye
 rancour will out proud prelate in thy face
 i see thy fury if i longer stay
 we shall begin our ancient bickerings
 lordings farewell and say when i am gone
 i prophesied france will be lost ere long
 exit
cardinal so there goes our protector in a rage
 tis known to you he is mine enemy
 nay more an enemy unto you all
 and no great friend i fear me to the king
 consider lords he is the next of blood
 and heir apparent to the english crown
 had henry got an empire by his marriage
 and all the wealthy kingdoms of the west
 there's reason he should be displeased at it
 look to it lords let not his smoothing words
 bewitch your hearts be wise and circumspect
 what though the common people favour him
 calling him humphrey the good duke of
 gloucester'
 clapping their hands and crying with loud voice
 jesu maintain your royal excellence'
 with god preserve the good duke humphrey'
 i fear me lords for all this flattering gloss
 he will be found a dangerous protector
buckingham why should he then protect our sovereign
 he being of age to govern of himself
 cousin of somerset join you with me
 and all together with the duke of suffolk
 we'll quickly hoise duke humphrey from his seat
cardinal this weighty business will not brook delay
 i'll to the duke of suffolk presently
 exit
somerset cousin of buckingham though humphrey's pride
 and greatness of his place be grief to us
 yet let us watch the haughty cardinal
 his insolence is more intolerable
 than all the princes in the land beside
 if gloucester be displaced he'll be protector
buckingham or thou or i somerset will be protector
 despite duke humphrey or the cardinal
 exeunt buckingham and somerset
salisbury pride went before ambition follows him
 while these do labour for their own preferment
 behoves it us to labour for the realm
 i never saw but humphrey duke of gloucester
 did bear him like a noble gentleman
 oft have i seen the haughty cardinal
 more like a soldier than a man o the church
 as stout and proud as he were lord of all
 swear like a ruffian and demean himself
 unlike the ruler of a commonweal
 warwick my son the comfort of my age
 thy deeds thy plainness and thy housekeeping
 hath won the greatest favour of the commons
 excepting none but good duke humphrey
 and brother york thy acts in ireland
 in bringing them to civil discipline
 thy late exploits done in the heart of france
 when thou wert regent for our sovereign
 have made thee fear'd and honour'd of the people
 join we together for the public good
 in what we can to bridle and suppress
 the pride of suffolk and the cardinal
 with somerset's and buckingham's ambition
 and as we may cherish duke humphrey's deeds
 while they do tend the profit of the land
warwick so god help warwick as he loves the land
 and common profit of his country
york aside and so says york for he hath greatest cause
salisbury then let's make haste away and look unto the main
warwick unto the main o father maine is lost
 that maine which by main force warwick did win
 and would have kept so long as breath did last
 main chance father you meant but i meant maine
 which i will win from france or else be slain
 exeunt warwick and salisbury
york anjou and maine are given to the french
 paris is lost the state of normandy
 stands on a tickle point now they are gone
 suffolk concluded on the articles
 the peers agreed and henry was well pleased
 to change two dukedoms for a duke's fair daughter
 i cannot blame them all what is't to them
 tis thine they give away and not their own
 pirates may make cheap pennyworths of their pillage
 and purchase friends and give to courtezans
 still revelling like lords till all be gone
 while as the silly owner of the goods
 weeps over them and wrings his hapless hands
 and shakes his head and trembling stands aloof
 while all is shared and all is borne away
 ready to starve and dare not touch his own
 so york must sit and fret and bite his tongue
 while his own lands are bargain'd for and sold
 methinks the realms of england france and ireland
 bear that proportion to my flesh and blood
 as did the fatal brand althaea burn'd
 unto the prince's heart of calydon
 anjou and maine both given unto the french
 cold news for me for i had hope of france
 even as i have of fertile england's soil
 a day will come when york shall claim his own
 and therefore i will take the nevils parts
 and make a show of love to proud duke humphrey
 and when i spy advantage claim the crown
 for that's the golden mark i seek to hit
 nor shall proud lancaster usurp my right
 nor hold the sceptre in his childish fist
 nor wear the diadem upon his head
 whose churchlike humours fits not for a crown
 then york be still awhile till time do serve
 watch thou and wake when others be asleep
 to pry into the secrets of the state
 till henry surfeiting in joys of love
 with his new bride and england's dearbought queen
 and humphrey with the peers be fall'n at jars
 then will i raise aloft the milkwhite rose
 with whose sweet smell the air shall be perfumed
 and in my standard bear the arms of york
 to grapple with the house of lancaster
 and force perforce i'll make him yield the crown
 whose bookish rule hath pull'd fair england down
 exit
 2 king henry vi
act i
scene ii gloucester's house
 enter gloucester and his duchess
duchess why droops my lord like overripen'd corn
 hanging the head at ceres plenteous load
 why doth the great duke humphrey knit his brows
 as frowning at the favours of the world
 why are thine eyes fixed to the sullen earth
 gazing on that which seems to dim thy sight
 what seest thou there king henry's diadem
 enchased with all the honours of the world
 if so gaze on and grovel on thy face
 until thy head be circled with the same
 put forth thy hand reach at the glorious gold
 what is't too short i'll lengthen it with mine
 and having both together heaved it up
 we'll both together lift our heads to heaven
 and never more abase our sight so low
 as to vouchsafe one glance unto the ground
gloucester o nell sweet nell if thou dost love thy lord
 banish the canker of ambitious thoughts
 and may that thought when i imagine ill
 against my king and nephew virtuous henry
 be my last breathing in this mortal world
 my troublous dream this night doth make me sad
duchess what dream'd my lord tell me and i'll requite it
 with sweet rehearsal of my morning's dream
gloucester methought this staff mine officebadge in court
 was broke in twain by whom i have forgot
 but as i think it was by the cardinal
 and on the pieces of the broken wand
 were placed the heads of edmund duke of somerset
 and william de la pole first duke of suffolk
 this was my dream what it doth bode god knows
duchess tut this was nothing but an argument
 that he that breaks a stick of gloucester's grove
 shall lose his head for his presumption
 but list to me my humphrey my sweet duke
 methought i sat in seat of majesty
 in the cathedral church of westminster
 and in that chair where kings and queens are crown'd
 where henry and dame margaret kneel'd to me
 and on my head did set the diadem
gloucester nay eleanor then must i chide outright
 presumptuous dame illnurtured eleanor
 art thou not second woman in the realm
 and the protector's wife beloved of him
 hast thou not worldly pleasure at command
 above the reach or compass of thy thought
 and wilt thou still be hammering treachery
 to tumble down thy husband and thyself
 from top of honour to disgrace's feet
 away from me and let me hear no more
duchess what what my lord are you so choleric
 with eleanor for telling but her dream
 next time i'll keep my dreams unto myself
 and not be cheque'd
gloucester nay be not angry i am pleased again
 enter messenger
messenger my lord protector tis his highness pleasure
 you do prepare to ride unto saint alban's
 where as the king and queen do mean to hawk
gloucester i go come nell thou wilt ride with us
duchess yes my good lord i'll follow presently
 exeunt gloucester and messenger
 follow i must i cannot go before
 while gloucester bears this base and humble mind
 were i a man a duke and next of blood
 i would remove these tedious stumblingblocks
 and smooth my way upon their headless necks
 and being a woman i will not be slack
 to play my part in fortune's pageant
 where are you there sir john nay fear not man
 we are alone here's none but thee and i
 enter hume
hume jesus preserve your royal majesty
duchess what say'st thou majesty i am but grace
hume but by the grace of god and hume's advice
 your grace's title shall be multiplied
duchess what say'st thou man hast thou as yet conferr'd
 with margery jourdain the cunning witch
 with roger bolingbroke the conjurer
 and will they undertake to do me good
hume this they have promised to show your highness
 a spirit raised from depth of underground
 that shall make answer to such questions
 as by your grace shall be propounded him
duchess it is enough i'll think upon the questions
 when from st alban's we do make return
 we'll see these things effected to the full
 here hume take this reward make merry man
 with thy confederates in this weighty cause
 exit
hume hume must make merry with the duchess gold
 marry and shall but how now sir john hume
 seal up your lips and give no words but mum
 the business asketh silent secrecy
 dame eleanor gives gold to bring the witch
 gold cannot come amiss were she a devil
 yet have i gold flies from another coast
 i dare not say from the rich cardinal
 and from the great and newmade duke of suffolk
 yet i do find it so for to be plain
 they knowing dame eleanor's aspiring humour
 have hired me to undermine the duchess
 and buz these conjurations in her brain
 they say a crafty knave does need no broker'
 yet am i suffolk and the cardinal's broker
 hume if you take not heed you shall go near
 to call them both a pair of crafty knaves
 well so it stands and thus i fear at last
 hume's knavery will be the duchess wreck
 and her attainture will be humphrey's fall
 sort how it will i shall have gold for all
 exit
 2 king henry vi
act i
scene iii the palace
 enter three or four petitioners peter the
 armourer's man being one
first petitioner my masters let's stand close my lord protector
 will come this way by and by and then we may deliver
 our supplications in the quill
second petitioner marry the lord protect him for he's a good man
 jesu bless him
 enter suffolk and queen margaret
peter here a comes methinks and the queen with him
 i'll be the first sure
second petitioner come back fool this is the duke of suffolk and
 not my lord protector
suffolk how now fellow would'st anything with me
first petitioner i pray my lord pardon me i took ye for my lord
 protector
queen margaret reading to my lord protector are your
 supplications to his lordship let me see them
 what is thine
first petitioner mine is an't please your grace against john
 goodman my lord cardinal's man for keeping my
 house and lands and wife and all from me
suffolk thy wife too that's some wrong indeed what's
 yours what's here
 reads
 against the duke of suffolk for enclosing the
 commons of melford how now sir knave
second petitioner alas sir i am but a poor petitioner of our whole township
peter giving his petition against my master thomas
 horner for saying that the duke of york was rightful
 heir to the crown
queen margaret what sayst thou did the duke of york say he was
 rightful heir to the crown
peter that my master was no forsooth my master said
 that he was and that the king was an usurper
suffolk who is there
 enter servant
 take this fellow in and send for
 his master with a pursuivant presently we'll hear
 more of your matter before the king
 exit servant with peter
queen margaret and as for you that love to be protected
 under the wings of our protector's grace
 begin your suits anew and sue to him
 tears the supplication
 away base cullions suffolk let them go
all come let's be gone
 exeunt
queen margaret my lord of suffolk say is this the guise
 is this the fashion in the court of england
 is this the government of britain's isle
 and this the royalty of albion's king
 what shall king henry be a pupil still
 under the surly gloucester's governance
 am i a queen in title and in style
 and must be made a subject to a duke
 i tell thee pole when in the city tours
 thou ran'st a tilt in honour of my love
 and stolest away the ladies hearts of france
 i thought king henry had resembled thee
 in courage courtship and proportion
 but all his mind is bent to holiness
 to number avemaries on his beads
 his champions are the prophets and apostles
 his weapons holy saws of sacred writ
 his study is his tiltyard and his loves
 are brazen images of canonized saints
 i would the college of the cardinals
 would choose him pope and carry him to rome
 and set the triple crown upon his head
 that were a state fit for his holiness
suffolk madam be patient as i was cause
 your highness came to england so will i
 in england work your grace's full content
queen margaret beside the haughty protector have we beaufort
 the imperious churchman somerset buckingham
 and grumbling york and not the least of these
 but can do more in england than the king
suffolk and he of these that can do most of all
 cannot do more in england than the nevils
 salisbury and warwick are no simple peers
queen margaret not all these lords do vex me half so much
 as that proud dame the lord protector's wife
 she sweeps it through the court with troops of ladies
 more like an empress than duke humphrey's wife
 strangers in court do take her for the queen
 she bears a duke's revenues on her back
 and in her heart she scorns our poverty
 shall i not live to be avenged on her
 contemptuous baseborn callet as she is
 she vaunted mongst her minions t'other day
 the very train of her worst wearing gown
 was better worth than all my father's lands
 till suffolk gave two dukedoms for his daughter
suffolk madam myself have limed a bush for her
 and placed a quire of such enticing birds
 that she will light to listen to the lays
 and never mount to trouble you again
 so let her rest and madam list to me
 for i am bold to counsel you in this
 although we fancy not the cardinal
 yet must we join with him and with the lords
 till we have brought duke humphrey in disgrace
 as for the duke of york this late complaint
 will make but little for his benefit
 so one by one we'll weed them all at last
 and you yourself shall steer the happy helm
 sound a sennet enter king henry vi gloucester
 cardinal buckingham york somerset salisbury
 warwick and the duchess
king henry vi for my part noble lords i care not which
 or somerset or york all's one to me
york if york have ill demean'd himself in france
 then let him be denay'd the regentship
somerset if somerset be unworthy of the place
 let york be regent i will yield to him
warwick whether your grace be worthy yea or no
 dispute not that york is the worthier
cardinal ambitious warwick let thy betters speak
warwick the cardinal's not my better in the field
buckingham all in this presence are thy betters warwick
warwick warwick may live to be the best of all
salisbury peace son and show some reason buckingham
 why somerset should be preferred in this
queen margaret because the king forsooth will have it so
gloucester madam the king is old enough himself
 to give his censure these are no women's matters
queen margaret if he be old enough what needs your grace
 to be protector of his excellence
gloucester madam i am protector of the realm
 and at his pleasure will resign my place
suffolk resign it then and leave thine insolence
 since thou wert kingas who is king but thou
 the commonwealth hath daily run to wreck
 the dauphin hath prevail'd beyond the seas
 and all the peers and nobles of the realm
 have been as bondmen to thy sovereignty
cardinal the commons hast thou rack'd the clergy's bags
 are lank and lean with thy extortions
somerset thy sumptuous buildings and thy wife's attire
 have cost a mass of public treasury
buckingham thy cruelty in execution
 upon offenders hath exceeded law
 and left thee to the mercy of the law
queen margaret they sale of offices and towns in france
 if they were known as the suspect is great
 would make thee quickly hop without thy head
 exit gloucester queen margaret drops her fan
 give me my fan what minion can ye not
 she gives the duchess a box on the ear
 i cry you mercy madam was it you
duchess was't i yea i it was proud frenchwoman
 could i come near your beauty with my nails
 i'd set my ten commandments in your face
king henry vi sweet aunt be quiet twas against her will
duchess against her will good king look to't in time
 she'll hamper thee and dandle thee like a baby
 though in this place most master wear no breeches
 she shall not strike dame eleanor unrevenged
 exit
buckingham lord cardinal i will follow eleanor
 and listen after humphrey how he proceeds
 she's tickled now her fume needs no spurs
 she'll gallop far enough to her destruction
 exit
 reenter gloucester
gloucester now lords my choler being overblown
 with walking once about the quadrangle
 i come to talk of commonwealth affairs
 as for your spiteful false objections
 prove them and i lie open to the law
 but god in mercy so deal with my soul
 as i in duty love my king and country
 but to the matter that we have in hand
 i say my sovereign york is meetest man
 to be your regent in the realm of france
suffolk before we make election give me leave
 to show some reason of no little force
 that york is most unmeet of any man
york i'll tell thee suffolk why i am unmeet
 first for i cannot flatter thee in pride
 next if i be appointed for the place
 my lord of somerset will keep me here
 without discharge money or furniture
 till france be won into the dauphin's hands
 last time i danced attendance on his will
 till paris was besieged famish'd and lost
warwick that can i witness and a fouler fact
 did never traitor in the land commit
suffolk peace headstrong warwick
warwick image of pride why should i hold my peace
 enter horner the armourer and his man
 peter guarded
suffolk because here is a man accused of treason
 pray god the duke of york excuse himself
york doth any one accuse york for a traitor
king henry vi what mean'st thou suffolk tell me what are these
suffolk please it your majesty this is the man
 that doth accuse his master of high treason
 his words were these that richard duke of york
 was rightful heir unto the english crown
 and that your majesty was a usurper
king henry vi say man were these thy words
horner an't shall please your majesty i never said nor
 thought any such matter god is my witness i am
 falsely accused by the villain
peter by these ten bones my lords he did speak them to
 me in the garret one night as we were scouring my
 lord of york's armour
york base dunghill villain and mechanical
 i'll have thy head for this thy traitor's speech
 i do beseech your royal majesty
 let him have all the rigor of the law
horner alas my lord hang me if ever i spake the words
 my accuser is my prentice and when i did correct
 him for his fault the other day he did vow upon his
 knees he would be even with me i have good
 witness of this therefore i beseech your majesty
 do not cast away an honest man for a villain's
 accusation
king henry vi uncle what shall we say to this in law
gloucester this doom my lord if i may judge
 let somerset be regent over the french
 because in york this breeds suspicion
 and let these have a day appointed them
 for single combat in convenient place
 for he hath witness of his servant's malice
 this is the law and this duke humphrey's doom
somerset i humbly thank your royal majesty
horner and i accept the combat willingly
peter alas my lord i cannot fight for god's sake pity
 my case the spite of man prevaileth against me o
 lord have mercy upon me i shall never be able to
 fight a blow o lord my heart
gloucester sirrah or you must fight or else be hang'd
king henry vi away with them to prison and the day of combat
 shall be the last of the next month come
 somerset we'll see thee sent away
 flourish exeunt
 2 king henry vi
act i
scene iv gloucester's garden
 enter margaret jourdain hume southwell and
 bolingbroke
hume come my masters the duchess i tell you expects
 performance of your promises
bolingbroke master hume we are therefore provided will her
 ladyship behold and hear our exorcisms
hume ay what else fear you not her courage
bolingbroke i have heard her reported to be a woman of an
 invincible spirit but it shall be convenient
 master hume that you be by her aloft while we be
 busy below and so i pray you go in god's name
 and leave us
 exit hume
 mother jourdain be you
 prostrate and grovel on the earth john southwell
 read you and let us to our work
 enter the duchess aloft hume following
duchess well said my masters and welcome all to this
 gear the sooner the better
bolingbroke patience good lady wizards know their times
 deep night dark night the silent of the night
 the time of night when troy was set on fire
 the time when screechowls cry and bandogs howl
 and spirits walk and ghosts break up their graves
 that time best fits the work we have in hand
 madam sit you and fear not whom we raise
 we will make fast within a hallow'd verge
 here they do the ceremonies belonging and make the
 circle bolingbroke or southwell reads conjuro te
 &c it thunders and lightens terribly then the
 spirit riseth
spirit adsum
margaret jourdain asmath
 by the eternal god whose name and power
 thou tremblest at answer that i shall ask
 for till thou speak thou shalt not pass from hence
spirit ask what thou wilt that i had said and done
bolingbroke first of the king what shall of him become'
 reading out of a paper
spirit the duke yet lives that henry shall depose
 but him outlive and die a violent death
 as the spirit speaks southwell writes the answer
bolingbroke what fates await the duke of suffolk'
spirit by water shall he die and take his end
bolingbroke what shall befall the duke of somerset'
spirit let him shun castles
 safer shall he be upon the sandy plains
 than where castles mounted stand
 have done for more i hardly can endure
bolingbroke descend to darkness and the burning lake
 false fiend avoid
 thunder and lightning exit spirit
 enter york and buckingham with their guard
 and break in
york lay hands upon these traitors and their trash
 beldam i think we watch'd you at an inch
 what madam are you there the king and commonweal
 are deeply indebted for this piece of pains
 my lord protector will i doubt it not
 see you well guerdon'd for these good deserts
duchess not half so bad as thine to england's king
 injurious duke that threatest where's no cause
buckingham true madam none at all what call you this
 away with them let them be clapp'd up close
 and kept asunder you madam shall with us
 stafford take her to thee
 exeunt above duchess and hume guarded
 we'll see your trinkets here all forthcoming
 all away
 exeunt guard with margaret jourdain southwell &c
york lord buckingham methinks you watch'd her well
 a pretty plot well chosen to build upon
 now pray my lord let's see the devil's writ
 what have we here
 reads
 the duke yet lives that henry shall depose
 but him outlive and die a violent death'
 why this is just
 aio te aeacida romanos vincere posse'
 well to the rest
 tell me what fate awaits the duke of suffolk
 by water shall he die and take his end
 what shall betide the duke of somerset
 let him shun castles
 safer shall he be upon the sandy plains
 than where castles mounted stand'
 come come my lords
 these oracles are hardly attain'd
 and hardly understood
 the king is now in progress towards saint alban's
 with him the husband of this lovely lady
 thither go these news as fast as horse can
 carry them
 a sorry breakfast for my lord protector
buckingham your grace shall give me leave my lord of york
 to be the post in hope of his reward
york at your pleasure my good lord who's within
 there ho
 enter a servingman
 invite my lords of salisbury and warwick
 to sup with me tomorrow night away
 exeunt
 2 king henry vi
act ii
scene i saint alban's
 enter king henry vi queen margaret gloucester
 cardinal and suffolk with falconers halloing
queen margaret believe me lords for flying at the brook
 i saw not better sport these seven years day
 yet by your leave the wind was very high
 and ten to one old joan had not gone out
king henry vi but what a point my lord your falcon made
 and what a pitch she flew above the rest
 to see how god in all his creatures works
 yea man and birds are fain of climbing high
suffolk no marvel an it like your majesty
 my lord protector's hawks do tower so well
 they know their master loves to be aloft
 and bears his thoughts above his falcon's pitch
gloucester my lord tis but a base ignoble mind
 that mounts no higher than a bird can soar
cardinal i thought as much he would be above the clouds
gloucester ay my lord cardinal how think you by that
 were it not good your grace could fly to heaven
king henry vi the treasury of everlasting joy
cardinal thy heaven is on earth thine eyes and thoughts
 beat on a crown the treasure of thy heart
 pernicious protector dangerous peer
 that smooth'st it so with king and commonweal
gloucester what cardinal is your priesthood grown peremptory
 tantaene animis coelestibus irae
 churchmen so hot good uncle hide such malice
 with such holiness can you do it
suffolk no malice sir no more than well becomes
 so good a quarrel and so bad a peer
gloucester as who my lord
suffolk why as you my lord
 an't like your lordly lordprotectorship
gloucester why suffolk england knows thine insolence
queen margaret and thy ambition gloucester
king henry vi i prithee peace good queen
 and whet not on these furious peers
 for blessed are the peacemakers on earth
cardinal let me be blessed for the peace i make
 against this proud protector with my sword
gloucester aside to cardinal faith holy uncle would
 twere come to that
cardinal aside to gloucester marry when thou darest
gloucester aside to cardinal make up no factious
 numbers for the matter
 in thine own person answer thy abuse
cardinal aside to gloucester ay where thou darest
 not peep an if thou darest
 this evening on the east side of the grove
king henry vi how now my lords
cardinal believe me cousin gloucester
 had not your man put up the fowl so suddenly
 we had had more sport
 aside to gloucester
 come with thy twohand sword
gloucester true uncle
cardinal aside to gloucester are ye advised the
 east side of the grove
gloucester aside to cardinal cardinal i am with you
king henry vi why how now uncle gloucester
gloucester talking of hawking nothing else my lord
 aside to cardinal
 now by god's mother priest i'll shave your crown for this
 or all my fence shall fail
cardinal aside to gloucester medice teipsum
 protector see to't well protect yourself
king henry vi the winds grow high so do your stomachs lords
 how irksome is this music to my heart
 when such strings jar what hope of harmony
 i pray my lords let me compound this strife
 enter a townsman of saint alban's crying a miracle'
gloucester what means this noise
 fellow what miracle dost thou proclaim
townsman a miracle a miracle
suffolk come to the king and tell him what miracle
townsman forsooth a blind man at saint alban's shrine
 within this halfhour hath received his sight
 a man that ne'er saw in his life before
king henry vi now god be praised that to believing souls
 gives light in darkness comfort in despair
 enter the mayor of saint alban's and his
 brethren bearing simpcox between two in a
 chair simpcox's wife following
cardinal here comes the townsmen on procession
 to present your highness with the man
king henry vi great is his comfort in this earthly vale
 although by his sight his sin be multiplied
gloucester stand by my masters bring him near the king
 his highness pleasure is to talk with him
king henry vi good fellow tell us here the circumstance
 that we for thee may glorify the lord
 what hast thou been long blind and now restored
simpcox born blind an't please your grace
wife ay indeed was he
suffolk what woman is this
wife his wife an't like your worship
gloucester hadst thou been his mother thou couldst have
 better told
king henry vi where wert thou born
simpcox at berwick in the north an't like your grace
king henry vi poor soul god's goodness hath been great to thee
 let never day nor night unhallow'd pass
 but still remember what the lord hath done
queen margaret tell me good fellow camest thou here by chance
 or of devotion to this holy shrine
simpcox god knows of pure devotion being call'd
 a hundred times and oftener in my sleep
 by good saint alban who said simpcox come
 come offer at my shrine and i will help thee'
wife most true forsooth and many time and oft
 myself have heard a voice to call him so
cardinal what art thou lame
simpcox ay god almighty help me
suffolk how camest thou so
simpcox a fall off of a tree
wife a plumtree master
gloucester how long hast thou been blind
simpcox born so master
gloucester what and wouldst climb a tree
simpcox but that in all my life when i was a youth
wife too true and bought his climbing very dear
gloucester mass thou lovedst plums well that wouldst
 venture so
simpcox alas good master my wife desired some damsons
 and made me climb with danger of my life
gloucester a subtle knave but yet it shall not serve
 let me see thine eyes wink now now open them
 in my opinion yet thou seest not well
simpcox yes master clear as day i thank god and
 saint alban
gloucester say'st thou me so what colour is this cloak of
simpcox red master red as blood
gloucester why that's well said what colour is my gown of
simpcox black forsooth coalblack as jet
king henry vi why then thou know'st what colour jet is of
suffolk and yet i think jet did he never see
gloucester but cloaks and gowns before this day a many
wife never before this day in all his life
gloucester tell me sirrah what's my name
simpcox alas master i know not
gloucester what's his name
simpcox i know not
gloucester nor his
simpcox no indeed master
gloucester what's thine own name
simpcox saunder simpcox an if it please you master
gloucester then saunder sit there the lyingest knave in
 christendom if thou hadst been born blind thou
 mightest as well have known all our names as thus to
 name the several colours we do wear sight may
 distinguish of colours but suddenly to nominate them
 all it is impossible my lords saint alban here
 hath done a miracle and would ye not think his
 cunning to be great that could restore this cripple
 to his legs again
simpcox o master that you could
gloucester my masters of saint alban's have you not beadles in
 your town and things called whips
mayor yes my lord if it please your grace
gloucester then send for one presently
mayor sirrah go fetch the beadle hither straight
 exit an attendant
gloucester now fetch me a stool hither by and by now sirrah
 if you mean to save yourself from whipping leap me
 over this stool and run away
simpcox alas master i am not able to stand alone
 you go about to torture me in vain
 enter a beadle with whips
gloucester well sir we must have you find your legs sirrah
 beadle whip him till he leap over that same stool
beadle i will my lord come on sirrah off with your
 doublet quickly
simpcox alas master what shall i do i am not able to stand
 after the beadle hath hit him once he leaps over
 the stool and runs away and they follow and cry a miracle'
king henry vi o god seest thou this and bearest so long
queen margaret it made me laugh to see the villain run
gloucester follow the knave and take this drab away
wife alas sir we did it for pure need
gloucester let them be whipped through every markettown till
 they come to berwick from whence they came
 exeunt wife beadle mayor &c
cardinal duke humphrey has done a miracle today
suffolk true made the lame to leap and fly away
gloucester but you have done more miracles than i
 you made in a day my lord whole towns to fly
 enter buckingham
king henry vi what tidings with our cousin buckingham
buckingham such as my heart doth tremble to unfold
 a sort of naughty persons lewdly bent
 under the countenance and confederacy
 of lady eleanor the protector's wife
 the ringleader and head of all this rout
 have practised dangerously against your state
 dealing with witches and with conjurers
 whom we have apprehended in the fact
 raising up wicked spirits from under ground
 demanding of king henry's life and death
 and other of your highness privycouncil
 as more at large your grace shall understand
cardinal aside to gloucester and so my lord protector
 by this means
 your lady is forthcoming yet at london
 this news i think hath turn'd your weapon's edge
 tis like my lord you will not keep your hour
gloucester ambitious churchman leave to afflict my heart
 sorrow and grief have vanquish'd all my powers
 and vanquish'd as i am i yield to thee
 or to the meanest groom
king henry vi o god what mischiefs work the wicked ones
 heaping confusion on their own heads thereby
queen margaret gloucester see here the tainture of thy nest
 and look thyself be faultless thou wert best
gloucester madam for myself to heaven i do appeal
 how i have loved my king and commonweal
 and for my wife i know not how it stands
 sorry i am to hear what i have heard
 noble she is but if she have forgot
 honour and virtue and conversed with such
 as like to pitch defile nobility
 i banish her my bed and company
 and give her as a prey to law and shame
 that hath dishonour'd gloucester's honest name
king henry vi well for this night we will repose us here
 tomorrow toward london back again
 to look into this business thoroughly
 and call these foul offenders to their answers
 and poise the cause in justice equal scales
 whose beam stands sure whose rightful cause prevails
 flourish exeunt
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act ii
scene ii london york's garden
 enter york salisbury and warwick
york now my good lords of salisbury and warwick
 our simple supper ended give me leave
 in this close walk to satisfy myself
 in craving your opinion of my title
 which is infallible to england's crown
salisbury my lord i long to hear it at full
warwick sweet york begin and if thy claim be good
 the nevils are thy subjects to command
york then thus
 edward the third my lords had seven sons
 the first edward the black prince prince of wales
 the second william of hatfield and the third
 lionel duke of clarence next to whom
 was john of gaunt the duke of lancaster
 the fifth was edmund langley duke of york
 the sixth was thomas of woodstock duke of gloucester
 william of windsor was the seventh and last
 edward the black prince died before his father
 and left behind him richard his only son
 who after edward the third's death reign'd as king
 till henry bolingbroke duke of lancaster
 the eldest son and heir of john of gaunt
 crown'd by the name of henry the fourth
 seized on the realm deposed the rightful king
 sent his poor queen to france from whence she came
 and him to pomfret where as all you know
 harmless richard was murder'd traitorously
warwick father the duke hath told the truth
 thus got the house of lancaster the crown
york which now they hold by force and not by right
 for richard the first son's heir being dead
 the issue of the next son should have reign'd
salisbury but william of hatfield died without an heir
york the third son duke of clarence from whose line
 i claimed the crown had issue philippe a daughter
 who married edmund mortimer earl of march
 edmund had issue roger earl of march
 roger had issue edmund anne and eleanor
salisbury this edmund in the reign of bolingbroke
 as i have read laid claim unto the crown
 and but for owen glendower had been king
 who kept him in captivity till he died
 but to the rest
york his eldest sister anne
 my mother being heir unto the crown
 married richard earl of cambridge who was son
 to edmund langley edward the third's fifth son
 by her i claim the kingdom she was heir
 to roger earl of march who was the son
 of edmund mortimer who married philippe
 sole daughter unto lionel duke of clarence
 so if the issue of the elder son
 succeed before the younger i am king
warwick what plain proceeding is more plain than this
 henry doth claim the crown from john of gaunt
 the fourth son york claims it from the third
 till lionel's issue fails his should not reign
 it fails not yet but flourishes in thee
 and in thy sons fair slips of such a stock
 then father salisbury kneel we together
 and in this private plot be we the first
 that shall salute our rightful sovereign
 with honour of his birthright to the crown
both long live our sovereign richard england's king
york we thank you lords but i am not your king
 till i be crown'd and that my sword be stain'd
 with heartblood of the house of lancaster
 and that's not suddenly to be perform'd
 but with advice and silent secrecy
 do you as i do in these dangerous days
 wink at the duke of suffolk's insolence
 at beaufort's pride at somerset's ambition
 at buckingham and all the crew of them
 till they have snared the shepherd of the flock
 that virtuous prince the good duke humphrey
 tis that they seek and they in seeking that
 shall find their deaths if york can prophesy
salisbury my lord break we off we know your mind at full
warwick my heart assures me that the earl of warwick
 shall one day make the duke of york a king
york and nevil this i do assure myself
 richard shall live to make the earl of warwick
 the greatest man in england but the king
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act ii
scene iii a hall of justice
 sound trumpets enter king henry vi queen
 margaret gloucester york suffolk and salisbury
 the duchess margaret jourdain southwell hume
 and bolingbroke under guard
king henry vi stand forth dame eleanor cobham gloucester's wife
 in sight of god and us your guilt is great
 receive the sentence of the law for sins
 such as by god's book are adjudged to death
 you four from hence to prison back again
 from thence unto the place of execution
 the witch in smithfield shall be burn'd to ashes
 and you three shall be strangled on the gallows
 you madam for you are more nobly born
 despoiled of your honour in your life
 shall after three days open penance done
 live in your country here in banishment
 with sir john stanley in the isle of man
duchess welcome is banishment welcome were my death
gloucester eleanor the law thou see'st hath judged thee
 i cannot justify whom the law condemns
 exeunt duchess and other prisoners guarded
 mine eyes are full of tears my heart of grief
 ah humphrey this dishonour in thine age
 will bring thy head with sorrow to the ground
 i beseech your majesty give me leave to go
 sorrow would solace and mine age would ease
king henry vi stay humphrey duke of gloucester ere thou go
 give up thy staff henry will to himself
 protector be and god shall be my hope
 my stay my guide and lantern to my feet
 and go in peace humphrey no less beloved
 than when thou wert protector to thy king
queen margaret i see no reason why a king of years
 should be to be protected like a child
 god and king henry govern england's realm
 give up your staff sir and the king his realm
gloucester my staff here noble henry is my staff
 as willingly do i the same resign
 as e'er thy father henry made it mine
 and even as willingly at thy feet i leave it
 as others would ambitiously receive it
 farewell good king when i am dead and gone
 may honourable peace attend thy throne
 exit
queen margaret why now is henry king and margaret queen
 and humphrey duke of gloucester scarce himself
 that bears so shrewd a maim two pulls at once
 his lady banish'd and a limb lopp'd off
 this staff of honour raught there let it stand
 where it best fits to be in henry's hand
suffolk thus droops this lofty pine and hangs his sprays
 thus eleanor's pride dies in her youngest days
york lords let him go please it your majesty
 this is the day appointed for the combat
 and ready are the appellant and defendant
 the armourer and his man to enter the lists
 so please your highness to behold the fight
queen margaret ay good my lord for purposely therefore
 left i the court to see this quarrel tried
king henry vi o god's name see the lists and all things fit
 here let them end it and god defend the right
york i never saw a fellow worse bested
 or more afraid to fight than is the appellant
 the servant of this armourer my lords
 enter at one door horner the armourer and his
 neighbours drinking to him so much that he is drunk
 and he enters with a drum before him and his staff
 with a sandbag fastened to it and at the other
 door peter his man with a drum and sandbag and
 prentices drinking to him
first neighbour here neighbour horner i drink to you in a cup of
 sack and fear not neighbour you shall do well enough
second neighbour and here neighbour here's a cup of charneco
third neighbour and here's a pot of good double beer neighbour
 drink and fear not your man
horner let it come i faith and i'll pledge you all and
 a fig for peter
first prentice here peter i drink to thee and be not afraid
second prentice be merry peter and fear not thy master fight
 for credit of the prentices
peter i thank you all drink and pray for me i pray
 you for i think i have taken my last draught in
 this world here robin an if i die i give thee
 my apron and will thou shalt have my hammer
 and here tom take all the money that i have o
 lord bless me i pray god for i am never able to
 deal with my master he hath learnt me so much fence already
salisbury come leave your drinking and fall to blows
 sirrah what's thy name
peter peter forsooth
salisbury peter what more
peter thump
salisbury thump then see thou thump thy master well
horner masters i am come hither as it were upon my man's
 instigation to prove him a knave and myself an
 honest man and touching the duke of york i will
 take my death i never meant him any ill nor the
 king nor the queen and therefore peter have at
 thee with a downright blow
york dispatch this knave's tongue begins to double
 sound trumpets alarum to the combatants
 alarum they fight and peter strikes him down
horner hold peter hold i confess i confess treason
 dies
york take away his weapon fellow thank god and the
 good wine in thy master's way
peter o god have i overcome mine enemy in this presence
 o peter thou hast prevailed in right
king henry vi go take hence that traitor from our sight
 for his death we do perceive his guilt
 and god in justice hath revealed to us
 the truth and innocence of this poor fellow
 which he had thought to have murder'd wrongfully
 come fellow follow us for thy reward
 sound a flourish exeunt
 2 king henry vi
act ii
scene iv a street
 enter gloucester and his servingmen in
 mourning cloaks
gloucester thus sometimes hath the brightest day a cloud
 and after summer evermore succeeds
 barren winter with his wrathful nipping cold
 so cares and joys abound as seasons fleet
 sirs what's o'clock
servants ten my lord
gloucester ten is the hour that was appointed me
 to watch the coming of my punish'd duchess
 uneath may she endure the flinty streets
 to tread them with her tenderfeeling feet
 sweet nell ill can thy noble mind abrook
 the abject people gazing on thy face
 with envious looks laughing at thy shame
 that erst did follow thy proud chariotwheels
 when thou didst ride in triumph through the streets
 but soft i think she comes and i'll prepare
 my tearstain'd eyes to see her miseries
 enter the duchess in a white sheet and a taper
 burning in her hand with stanley the sheriff
 and officers
servant so please your grace we'll take her from the sheriff
gloucester no stir not for your lives let her pass by
duchess come you my lord to see my open shame
 now thou dost penance too look how they gaze
 see how the giddy multitude do point
 and nod their heads and throw their eyes on thee
 ah gloucester hide thee from their hateful looks
 and in thy closet pent up rue my shame
 and ban thine enemies both mine and thine
gloucester be patient gentle nell forget this grief
duchess ah gloucester teach me to forget myself
 for whilst i think i am thy married wife
 and thou a prince protector of this land
 methinks i should not thus be led along
 mail'd up in shame with papers on my back
 and followed with a rabble that rejoice
 to see my tears and hear my deepfet groans
 the ruthless flint doth cut my tender feet
 and when i start the envious people laugh
 and bid me be advised how i tread
 ah humphrey can i bear this shameful yoke
 trow'st thou that e'er i'll look upon the world
 or count them happy that enjoy the sun
 no dark shall be my light and night my day
 to think upon my pomp shall be my hell
 sometime i'll say i am duke humphrey's wife
 and he a prince and ruler of the land
 yet so he ruled and such a prince he was
 as he stood by whilst i his forlorn duchess
 was made a wonder and a pointingstock
 to every idle rascal follower
 but be thou mild and blush not at my shame
 nor stir at nothing till the axe of death
 hang over thee as sure it shortly will
 for suffolk he that can do all in all
 with her that hateth thee and hates us all
 and york and impious beaufort that false priest
 have all limed bushes to betray thy wings
 and fly thou how thou canst they'll tangle thee
 but fear not thou until thy foot be snared
 nor never seek prevention of thy foes
gloucester ah nell forbear thou aimest all awry
 i must offend before i be attainted
 and had i twenty times so many foes
 and each of them had twenty times their power
 all these could not procure me any scathe
 so long as i am loyal true and crimeless
 wouldst have me rescue thee from this reproach
 why yet thy scandal were not wiped away
 but i in danger for the breach of law
 thy greatest help is quiet gentle nell
 i pray thee sort thy heart to patience
 these few days wonder will be quickly worn
 enter a herald
herald i summon your grace to his majesty's parliament
 holden at bury the first of this next month
gloucester and my consent ne'er ask'd herein before
 this is close dealing well i will be there
 exit herald
 my nell i take my leave and master sheriff
 let not her penance exceed the king's commission
sheriff an't please your grace here my commission stays
 and sir john stanley is appointed now
 to take her with him to the isle of man
gloucester must you sir john protect my lady here
stanley so am i given in charge may't please your grace
gloucester entreat her not the worse in that i pray
 you use her well the world may laugh again
 and i may live to do you kindness if
 you do it her and so sir john farewell
duchess what gone my lord and bid me not farewell
gloucester witness my tears i cannot stay to speak
 exeunt gloucester and servingmen
duchess art thou gone too all comfort go with thee
 for none abides with me my joy is death
 death at whose name i oft have been afear'd
 because i wish'd this world's eternity
 stanley i prithee go and take me hence
 i care not whither for i beg no favour
 only convey me where thou art commanded
stanley why madam that is to the isle of man
 there to be used according to your state
duchess that's bad enough for i am but reproach
 and shall i then be used reproachfully
stanley like to a duchess and duke humphrey's lady
 according to that state you shall be used
duchess sheriff farewell and better than i fare
 although thou hast been conduct of my shame
sheriff it is my office and madam pardon me
duchess ay ay farewell thy office is discharged
 come stanley shall we go
stanley madam your penance done throw off this sheet
 and go we to attire you for our journey
duchess my shame will not be shifted with my sheet
 no it will hang upon my richest robes
 and show itself attire me how i can
 go lead the way i long to see my prison
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 2 king henry vi
act iii
scene i the abbey at bury st edmund's
 sound a sennet enter king henry vi queen
 margaret cardinal suffolk york buckingham
 salisbury and warwick to the parliament
king henry vi i muse my lord of gloucester is not come
 tis not his wont to be the hindmost man
 whate'er occasion keeps him from us now
queen margaret can you not see or will ye not observe
 the strangeness of his alter'd countenance
 with what a majesty he bears himself
 how insolent of late he is become
 how proud how peremptory and unlike himself
 we know the time since he was mild and affable
 and if we did but glance a faroff look
 immediately he was upon his knee
 that all the court admired him for submission
 but meet him now and be it in the morn
 when every one will give the time of day
 he knits his brow and shows an angry eye
 and passeth by with stiff unbowed knee
 disdaining duty that to us belongs
 small curs are not regarded when they grin
 but great men tremble when the lion roars
 and humphrey is no little man in england
 first note that he is near you in descent
 and should you fall he as the next will mount
 me seemeth then it is no policy
 respecting what a rancorous mind he bears
 and his advantage following your decease
 that he should come about your royal person
 or be admitted to your highness council
 by flattery hath he won the commons hearts
 and when he please to make commotion
 tis to be fear'd they all will follow him
 now tis the spring and weeds are shallowrooted
 suffer them now and they'll o'ergrow the garden
 and choke the herbs for want of husbandry
 the reverent care i bear unto my lord
 made me collect these dangers in the duke
 if it be fond call it a woman's fear
 which fear if better reasons can supplant
 i will subscribe and say i wrong'd the duke
 my lord of suffolk buckingham and york
 reprove my allegation if you can
 or else conclude my words effectual
suffolk well hath your highness seen into this duke
 and had i first been put to speak my mind
 i think i should have told your grace's tale
 the duchess by his subornation
 upon my life began her devilish practises
 or if he were not privy to those faults
 yet by reputing of his high descent
 as next the king he was successive heir
 and such high vaunts of his nobility
 did instigate the bedlam brainsick duchess
 by wicked means to frame our sovereign's fall
 smooth runs the water where the brook is deep
 and in his simple show he harbours treason
 the fox barks not when he would steal the lamb
 no no my sovereign gloucester is a man
 unsounded yet and full of deep deceit
cardinal did he not contrary to form of law
 devise strange deaths for small offences done
york and did he not in his protectorship
 levy great sums of money through the realm
 for soldiers pay in france and never sent it
 by means whereof the towns each day revolted
buckingham tut these are petty faults to faults unknown
 which time will bring to light in smooth
 duke humphrey
king henry vi my lords at once the care you have of us
 to mow down thorns that would annoy our foot
 is worthy praise but shall i speak my conscience
 our kinsman gloucester is as innocent
 from meaning treason to our royal person
 as is the sucking lamb or harmless dove
 the duke is virtuous mild and too well given
 to dream on evil or to work my downfall
queen margaret ah what's more dangerous than this fond affiance
 seems he a dove his feathers are but borrowed
 for he's disposed as the hateful raven
 is he a lamb his skin is surely lent him
 for he's inclined as is the ravenous wolf
 who cannot steal a shape that means deceit
 take heed my lord the welfare of us all
 hangs on the cutting short that fraudful man
 enter somerset
somerset all health unto my gracious sovereign
king henry vi welcome lord somerset what news from france
somerset that all your interest in those territories
 is utterly bereft you all is lost
king henry vi cold news lord somerset but god's will be done
york aside cold news for me for i had hope of france
 as firmly as i hope for fertile england
 thus are my blossoms blasted in the bud
 and caterpillars eat my leaves away
 but i will remedy this gear ere long
 or sell my title for a glorious grave
 enter gloucester
gloucester all happiness unto my lord the king
 pardon my liege that i have stay'd so long
suffolk nay gloucester know that thou art come too soon
 unless thou wert more loyal than thou art
 i do arrest thee of high treason here
gloucester well suffolk thou shalt not see me blush
 nor change my countenance for this arrest
 a heart unspotted is not easily daunted
 the purest spring is not so free from mud
 as i am clear from treason to my sovereign
 who can accuse me wherein am i guilty
york tis thought my lord that you took bribes of france
 and being protector stayed the soldiers pay
 by means whereof his highness hath lost france
gloucester is it but thought so what are they that think it
 i never robb'd the soldiers of their pay
 nor ever had one penny bribe from france
 so help me god as i have watch'd the night
 ay night by night in studying good for england
 that doit that e'er i wrested from the king
 or any groat i hoarded to my use
 be brought against me at my trialday
 no many a pound of mine own proper store
 because i would not tax the needy commons
 have i disbursed to the garrisons
 and never ask'd for restitution
cardinal it serves you well my lord to say so much
gloucester i say no more than truth so help me god
york in your protectorship you did devise
 strange tortures for offenders never heard of
 that england was defamed by tyranny
gloucester why tis well known that whiles i was
 protector
 pity was all the fault that was in me
 for i should melt at an offender's tears
 and lowly words were ransom for their fault
 unless it were a bloody murderer
 or foul felonious thief that fleeced poor passengers
 i never gave them condign punishment
 murder indeed that bloody sin i tortured
 above the felon or what trespass else
suffolk my lord these faults are easy quickly answered
 but mightier crimes are laid unto your charge
 whereof you cannot easily purge yourself
 i do arrest you in his highness name
 and here commit you to my lord cardinal
 to keep until your further time of trial
king henry vi my lord of gloucester tis my special hope
 that you will clear yourself from all suspect
 my conscience tells me you are innocent
gloucester ah gracious lord these days are dangerous
 virtue is choked with foul ambition
 and charity chased hence by rancour's hand
 foul subornation is predominant
 and equity exiled your highness land
 i know their complot is to have my life
 and if my death might make this island happy
 and prove the period of their tyranny
 i would expend it with all willingness
 but mine is made the prologue to their play
 for thousands more that yet suspect no peril
 will not conclude their plotted tragedy
 beaufort's red sparkling eyes blab his heart's malice
 and suffolk's cloudy brow his stormy hate
 sharp buckingham unburthens with his tongue
 the envious load that lies upon his heart
 and dogged york that reaches at the moon
 whose overweening arm i have pluck'd back
 by false accuse doth level at my life
 and you my sovereign lady with the rest
 causeless have laid disgraces on my head
 and with your best endeavour have stirr'd up
 my liefest liege to be mine enemy
 ay all you have laid your heads together
 myself had notice of your conventicles
 and all to make away my guiltless life
 i shall not want false witness to condemn me
 nor store of treasons to augment my guilt
 the ancient proverb will be well effected
 a staff is quickly found to beat a dog'
cardinal my liege his railing is intolerable
 if those that care to keep your royal person
 from treason's secret knife and traitors rage
 be thus upbraided chid and rated at
 and the offender granted scope of speech
 twill make them cool in zeal unto your grace
suffolk hath he not twit our sovereign lady here
 with ignominious words though clerkly couch'd
 as if she had suborned some to swear
 false allegations to o'erthrow his state
queen margaret but i can give the loser leave to chide
gloucester far truer spoke than meant i lose indeed
 beshrew the winners for they play'd me false
 and well such losers may have leave to speak
buckingham he'll wrest the sense and hold us here all day
 lord cardinal he is your prisoner
cardinal sirs take away the duke and guard him sure
gloucester ah thus king henry throws away his crutch
 before his legs be firm to bear his body
 thus is the shepherd beaten from thy side
 and wolves are gnarling who shall gnaw thee first
 ah that my fear were false ah that it were
 for good king henry thy decay i fear
 exit guarded
king henry vi my lords what to your wisdoms seemeth best
 do or undo as if ourself were here
queen margaret what will your highness leave the parliament
king henry vi ay margaret my heart is drown'd with grief
 whose flood begins to flow within mine eyes
 my body round engirt with misery
 for what's more miserable than discontent
 ah uncle humphrey in thy face i see
 the map of honour truth and loyalty
 and yet good humphrey is the hour to come
 that e'er i proved thee false or fear'd thy faith
 what louring star now envies thy estate
 that these great lords and margaret our queen
 do seek subversion of thy harmless life
 thou never didst them wrong nor no man wrong
 and as the butcher takes away the calf
 and binds the wretch and beats it when it strays
 bearing it to the bloody slaughterhouse
 even so remorseless have they borne him hence
 and as the dam runs lowing up and down
 looking the way her harmless young one went
 and can do nought but wail her darling's loss
 even so myself bewails good gloucester's case
 with sad unhelpful tears and with dimm'd eyes
 look after him and cannot do him good
 so mighty are his vowed enemies
 his fortunes i will weep and twixt each groan
 say who's a traitor gloucester he is none'
 exeunt all but queen margaret cardinal
 suffolk and york somerset remains apart
queen margaret free lords cold snow melts with the sun's hot beams
 henry my lord is cold in great affairs
 too full of foolish pity and gloucester's show
 beguiles him as the mournful crocodile
 with sorrow snares relenting passengers
 or as the snake roll'd in a flowering bank
 with shining chequer'd slough doth sting a child
 that for the beauty thinks it excellent
 believe me lords were none more wise than i
 and yet herein i judge mine own wit good
 this gloucester should be quickly rid the world
 to rid us of the fear we have of him
cardinal that he should die is worthy policy
 but yet we want a colour for his death
 tis meet he be condemn'd by course of law
suffolk but in my mind that were no policy
 the king will labour still to save his life
 the commons haply rise to save his life
 and yet we have but trivial argument
 more than mistrust that shows him worthy death
york so that by this you would not have him die
suffolk ah york no man alive so fain as i
york tis york that hath more reason for his death
 but my lord cardinal and you my lord of suffolk
 say as you think and speak it from your souls
 were't not all one an empty eagle were set
 to guard the chicken from a hungry kite
 as place duke humphrey for the king's protector
queen margaret so the poor chicken should be sure of death
suffolk madam tis true and were't not madness then
 to make the fox surveyor of the fold
 who being accused a crafty murderer
 his guilt should be but idly posted over
 because his purpose is not executed
 no let him die in that he is a fox
 by nature proved an enemy to the flock
 before his chaps be stain'd with crimson blood
 as humphrey proved by reasons to my liege
 and do not stand on quillets how to slay him
 be it by gins by snares by subtlety
 sleeping or waking tis no matter how
 so he be dead for that is good deceit
 which mates him first that first intends deceit
queen margaret thricenoble suffolk tis resolutely spoke
suffolk not resolute except so much were done
 for things are often spoke and seldom meant
 but that my heart accordeth with my tongue
 seeing the deed is meritorious
 and to preserve my sovereign from his foe
 say but the word and i will be his priest
cardinal but i would have him dead my lord of suffolk
 ere you can take due orders for a priest
 say you consent and censure well the deed
 and i'll provide his executioner
 i tender so the safety of my liege
suffolk here is my hand the deed is worthy doing
queen margaret and so say i
york and i and now we three have spoke it
 it skills not greatly who impugns our doom
 enter a post
post great lords from ireland am i come amain
 to signify that rebels there are up
 and put the englishmen unto the sword
 send succors lords and stop the rage betime
 before the wound do grow uncurable
 for being green there is great hope of help
cardinal a breach that craves a quick expedient stop
 what counsel give you in this weighty cause
york that somerset be sent as regent thither
 tis meet that lucky ruler be employ'd
 witness the fortune he hath had in france
somerset if york with all his farfet policy
 had been the regent there instead of me
 he never would have stay'd in france so long
york no not to lose it all as thou hast done
 i rather would have lost my life betimes
 than bring a burthen of dishonour home
 by staying there so long till all were lost
 show me one scar character'd on thy skin
 men's flesh preserved so whole do seldom win
queen margaret nay then this spark will prove a raging fire
 if wind and fuel be brought to feed it with
 no more good york sweet somerset be still
 thy fortune york hadst thou been regent there
 might happily have proved far worse than his
york what worse than nought nay then a shame take all
somerset and in the number thee that wishest shame
cardinal my lord of york try what your fortune is
 the uncivil kerns of ireland are in arms
 and temper clay with blood of englishmen
 to ireland will you lead a band of men
 collected choicely from each county some
 and try your hap against the irishmen
york i will my lord so please his majesty
suffolk why our authority is his consent
 and what we do establish he confirms
 then noble york take thou this task in hand
york i am content provide me soldiers lords
 whiles i take order for mine own affairs
suffolk a charge lord york that i will see perform'd
 but now return we to the false duke humphrey
cardinal no more of him for i will deal with him
 that henceforth he shall trouble us no more
 and so break off the day is almost spent
 lord suffolk you and i must talk of that event
york my lord of suffolk within fourteen days
 at bristol i expect my soldiers
 for there i'll ship them all for ireland
suffolk i'll see it truly done my lord of york
 exeunt all but york
york now york or never steel thy fearful thoughts
 and change misdoubt to resolution
 be that thou hopest to be or what thou art
 resign to death it is not worth the enjoying
 let palefaced fear keep with the meanborn man
 and find no harbour in a royal heart
 faster than springtime showers comes thought
 on thought
 and not a thought but thinks on dignity
 my brain more busy than the labouring spider
 weaves tedious snares to trap mine enemies
 well nobles well tis politicly done
 to send me packing with an host of men
 i fear me you but warm the starved snake
 who cherish'd in your breasts will sting
 your hearts
 twas men i lack'd and you will give them me
 i take it kindly and yet be well assured
 you put sharp weapons in a madman's hands
 whiles i in ireland nourish a mighty band
 i will stir up in england some black storm
 shall blow ten thousand souls to heaven or hell
 and this fell tempest shall not cease to rage
 until the golden circuit on my head
 like to the glorious sun's transparent beams
 do calm the fury of this madbred flaw
 and for a minister of my intent
 i have seduced a headstrong kentishman
 john cade of ashford
 to make commotion as full well he can
 under the title of john mortimer
 in ireland have i seen this stubborn cade
 oppose himself against a troop of kerns
 and fought so long till that his thighs with darts
 were almost like a sharpquill'd porpentine
 and in the end being rescued i have seen
 him caper upright like a wild morisco
 shaking the bloody darts as he his bells
 full often like a shaghair'd crafty kern
 hath he conversed with the enemy
 and undiscover'd come to me again
 and given me notice of their villanies
 this devil here shall be my substitute
 for that john mortimer which now is dead
 in face in gait in speech he doth resemble
 by this i shall perceive the commons mind
 how they affect the house and claim of york
 say he be taken rack'd and tortured
 i know no pain they can inflict upon him
 will make him say i moved him to those arms
 say that he thrive as tis great like he will
 why then from ireland come i with my strength
 and reap the harvest which that rascal sow'd
 for humphrey being dead as he shall be
 and henry put apart the next for me
 exit
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act iii
scene ii bury st edmund's a room of state
 enter certain murderers hastily
first murderer run to my lord of suffolk let him know
 we have dispatch'd the duke as he commanded
second murderer o that it were to do what have we done
 didst ever hear a man so penitent
 enter suffolk
first murder here comes my lord
suffolk now sirs have you dispatch'd this thing
first murderer ay my good lord he's dead
suffolk why that's well said go get you to my house
 i will reward you for this venturous deed
 the king and all the peers are here at hand
 have you laid fair the bed is all things well
 according as i gave directions
first murderer tis my good lord
suffolk away be gone
 exeunt murderers
 sound trumpets enter king henry vi queen
 margaret cardinal somerset with attendants
king henry vi go call our uncle to our presence straight
 say we intend to try his grace today
 if he be guilty as tis published
suffolk i'll call him presently my noble lord
 exit
king henry vi lords take your places and i pray you all
 proceed no straiter gainst our uncle gloucester
 than from true evidence of good esteem
 he be approved in practise culpable
queen margaret god forbid any malice should prevail
 that faultless may condemn a nobleman
 pray god he may acquit him of suspicion
king henry vi i thank thee meg these words content me much
 reenter suffolk
 how now why look'st thou pale why tremblest thou
 where is our uncle what's the matter suffolk
suffolk dead in his bed my lord gloucester is dead
queen margaret marry god forfend
cardinal god's secret judgment i did dream tonight
 the duke was dumb and could not speak a word
 king henry vi swoons
queen margaret how fares my lord help lords the king is dead
somerset rear up his body wring him by the nose
queen margaret run go help help o henry ope thine eyes
suffolk he doth revive again madam be patient
king henry vi o heavenly god
queen margaret how fares my gracious lord
suffolk comfort my sovereign gracious henry comfort
king henry vi what doth my lord of suffolk comfort me
 came he right now to sing a raven's note
 whose dismal tune bereft my vital powers
 and thinks he that the chirping of a wren
 by crying comfort from a hollow breast
 can chase away the firstconceived sound
 hide not thy poison with such sugar'd words
 lay not thy hands on me forbear i say
 their touch affrights me as a serpent's sting
 thou baleful messenger out of my sight
 upon thy eyeballs murderous tyranny
 sits in grim majesty to fright the world
 look not upon me for thine eyes are wounding
 yet do not go away come basilisk
 and kill the innocent gazer with thy sight
 for in the shade of death i shall find joy
 in life but double death now gloucester's dead
queen margaret why do you rate my lord of suffolk thus
 although the duke was enemy to him
 yet he most christianlike laments his death
 and for myself foe as he was to me
 might liquid tears or heartoffending groans
 or bloodconsuming sighs recall his life
 i would be blind with weeping sick with groans
 look pale as primrose with blooddrinking sighs
 and all to have the noble duke alive
 what know i how the world may deem of me
 for it is known we were but hollow friends
 it may be judged i made the duke away
 so shall my name with slander's tongue be wounded
 and princes courts be fill'd with my reproach
 this get i by his death ay me unhappy
 to be a queen and crown'd with infamy
king henry vi ah woe is me for gloucester wretched man
queen margaret be woe for me more wretched than he is
 what dost thou turn away and hide thy face
 i am no loathsome leper look on me
 what art thou like the adder waxen deaf
 be poisonous too and kill thy forlorn queen
 is all thy comfort shut in gloucester's tomb
 why then dame margaret was ne'er thy joy
 erect his statue and worship it
 and make my image but an alehouse sign
 was i for this nigh wreck'd upon the sea
 and twice by awkward wind from england's bank
 drove back again unto my native clime
 what boded this but well forewarning wind
 did seem to say seek not a scorpion's nest
 nor set no footing on this unkind shore'
 what did i then but cursed the gentle gusts
 and he that loosed them forth their brazen caves
 and bid them blow towards england's blessed shore
 or turn our stern upon a dreadful rock
 yet aeolus would not be a murderer
 but left that hateful office unto thee
 the prettyvaulting sea refused to drown me
 knowing that thou wouldst have me drown'd on shore
 with tears as salt as sea through thy unkindness
 the splitting rocks cower'd in the sinking sands
 and would not dash me with their ragged sides
 because thy flinty heart more hard than they
 might in thy palace perish margaret
 as far as i could ken thy chalky cliffs
 when from thy shore the tempest beat us back
 i stood upon the hatches in the storm
 and when the dusky sky began to rob
 my earnestgaping sight of thy land's view
 i took a costly jewel from my neck
 a heart it was bound in with diamonds
 and threw it towards thy land the sea received it
 and so i wish'd thy body might my heart
 and even with this i lost fair england's view
 and bid mine eyes be packing with my heart
 and call'd them blind and dusky spectacles
 for losing ken of albion's wished coast
 how often have i tempted suffolk's tongue
 the agent of thy foul inconstancy
 to sit and witch me as ascanius did
 when he to madding dido would unfold
 his father's acts commenced in burning troy
 am i not witch'd like her or thou not false like him
 ay me i can no more die margaret
 for henry weeps that thou dost live so long
 noise within enter warwick salisbury and many commons
warwick it is reported mighty sovereign
 that good duke humphrey traitorously is murder'd
 by suffolk and the cardinal beaufort's means
 the commons like an angry hive of bees
 that want their leader scatter up and down
 and care not who they sting in his revenge
 myself have calm'd their spleenful mutiny
 until they hear the order of his death
king henry vi that he is dead good warwick tis too true
 but how he died god knows not henry
 enter his chamber view his breathless corpse
 and comment then upon his sudden death
warwick that shall i do my liege stay salisbury
 with the rude multitude till i return
 exit
king henry vi o thou that judgest all things stay my thoughts
 my thoughts that labour to persuade my soul
 some violent hands were laid on humphrey's life
 if my suspect be false forgive me god
 for judgment only doth belong to thee
 fain would i go to chafe his paly lips
 with twenty thousand kisses and to drain
 upon his face an ocean of salt tears
 to tell my love unto his dumb deaf trunk
 and with my fingers feel his hand unfeeling
 but all in vain are these mean obsequies
 and to survey his dead and earthly image
 what were it but to make my sorrow greater
 reenter warwick and others bearing
 gloucester's body on a bed
warwick come hither gracious sovereign view this body
king henry vi that is to see how deep my grave is made
 for with his soul fled all my worldly solace
 for seeing him i see my life in death
warwick as surely as my soul intends to live
 with that dread king that took our state upon him
 to free us from his father's wrathful curse
 i do believe that violent hands were laid
 upon the life of this thricefamed duke
suffolk a dreadful oath sworn with a solemn tongue
 what instance gives lord warwick for his vow
warwick see how the blood is settled in his face
 oft have i seen a timelyparted ghost
 of ashy semblance meagre pale and bloodless
 being all descended to the labouring heart
 who in the conflict that it holds with death
 attracts the same for aidance gainst the enemy
 which with the heart there cools and ne'er returneth
 to blush and beautify the cheek again
 but see his face is black and full of blood
 his eyeballs further out than when he lived
 staring full ghastly like a strangled man
 his hair uprear'd his nostrils stretched with struggling
 his hands abroad display'd as one that grasp'd
 and tugg'd for life and was by strength subdued
 look on the sheets his hair you see is sticking
 his wellproportion'd beard made rough and rugged
 like to the summer's corn by tempest lodged
 it cannot be but he was murder'd here
 the least of all these signs were probable
suffolk why warwick who should do the duke to death
 myself and beaufort had him in protection
 and we i hope sir are no murderers
warwick but both of you were vow'd duke humphrey's foes
 and you forsooth had the good duke to keep
 tis like you would not feast him like a friend
 and tis well seen he found an enemy
queen margaret then you belike suspect these noblemen
 as guilty of duke humphrey's timeless death
warwick who finds the heifer dead and bleeding fresh
 and sees fast by a butcher with an axe
 but will suspect twas he that made the slaughter
 who finds the partridge in the puttock's nest
 but may imagine how the bird was dead
 although the kite soar with unbloodied beak
 even so suspicious is this tragedy
queen margaret are you the butcher suffolk where's your knife
 is beaufort term'd a kite where are his talons
suffolk i wear no knife to slaughter sleeping men
 but here's a vengeful sword rusted with ease
 that shall be scoured in his rancorous heart
 that slanders me with murder's crimson badge
 say if thou darest proud lord of warwickshire
 that i am faulty in duke humphrey's death
 exeunt cardinal somerset and others
warwick what dares not warwick if false suffolk dare him
queen margaret he dares not calm his contumelious spirit
 nor cease to be an arrogant controller
 though suffolk dare him twenty thousand times
warwick madam be still with reverence may i say
 for every word you speak in his behalf
 is slander to your royal dignity
suffolk bluntwitted lord ignoble in demeanor
 if ever lady wrong'd her lord so much
 thy mother took into her blameful bed
 some stern untutor'd churl and noble stock
 was graft with crabtree slip whose fruit thou art
 and never of the nevils noble race
warwick but that the guilt of murder bucklers thee
 and i should rob the deathsman of his fee
 quitting thee thereby of ten thousand shames
 and that my sovereign's presence makes me mild
 i would false murderous coward on thy knee
 make thee beg pardon for thy passed speech
 and say it was thy mother that thou meant'st
 that thou thyself was born in bastardy
 and after all this fearful homage done
 give thee thy hire and send thy soul to hell
 pernicious bloodsucker of sleeping men
suffolk thou shall be waking well i shed thy blood
 if from this presence thou darest go with me
warwick away even now or i will drag thee hence
 unworthy though thou art i'll cope with thee
 and do some service to duke humphrey's ghost
 exeunt suffolk and warwick
king henry vi what stronger breastplate than a heart untainted
 thrice is he armed that hath his quarrel just
 and he but naked though lock'd up in steel
 whose conscience with injustice is corrupted
 a noise within
queen margaret what noise is this
 reenter suffolk and warwick with their
 weapons drawn
king henry vi why how now lords your wrathful weapons drawn
 here in our presence dare you be so bold
 why what tumultuous clamour have we here
suffolk the traitorous warwick with the men of bury
 set all upon me mighty sovereign
salisbury to the commons entering sirs stand apart
 the king shall know your mind
 dread lord the commons send you word by me
 unless lord suffolk straight be done to death
 or banished fair england's territories
 they will by violence tear him from your palace
 and torture him with grievous lingering death
 they say by him the good duke humphrey died
 they say in him they fear your highness death
 and mere instinct of love and loyalty
 free from a stubborn opposite intent
 as being thought to contradict your liking
 makes them thus forward in his banishment
 they say in care of your most royal person
 that if your highness should intend to sleep
 and charge that no man should disturb your rest
 in pain of your dislike or pain of death
 yet notwithstanding such a strait edict
 were there a serpent seen with forked tongue
 that slily glided towards your majesty
 it were but necessary you were waked
 lest being suffer'd in that harmful slumber
 the mortal worm might make the sleep eternal
 and therefore do they cry though you forbid
 that they will guard you whether you will or no
 from such fell serpents as false suffolk is
 with whose envenomed and fatal sting
 your loving uncle twenty times his worth
 they say is shamefully bereft of life
commons within an answer from the king my
 lord of salisbury
suffolk tis like the commons rude unpolish'd hinds
 could send such message to their sovereign
 but you my lord were glad to be employ'd
 to show how quaint an orator you are
 but all the honour salisbury hath won
 is that he was the lord ambassador
 sent from a sort of tinkers to the king
commons within an answer from the king or we will all break in
king henry vi go salisbury and tell them all from me
 i thank them for their tender loving care
 and had i not been cited so by them
 yet did i purpose as they do entreat
 for sure my thoughts do hourly prophesy
 mischance unto my state by suffolk's means
 and therefore by his majesty i swear
 whose far unworthy deputy i am
 he shall not breathe infection in this air
 but three days longer on the pain of death
 exit salisbury
queen margaret o henry let me plead for gentle suffolk
king henry vi ungentle queen to call him gentle suffolk
 no more i say if thou dost plead for him
 thou wilt but add increase unto my wrath
 had i but said i would have kept my word
 but when i swear it is irrevocable
 if after three days space thou here be'st found
 on any ground that i am ruler of
 the world shall not be ransom for thy life
 come warwick come good warwick go with me
 i have great matters to impart to thee
 exeunt all but queen margaret and suffolk
queen margaret mischance and sorrow go along with you
 heart's discontent and sour affliction
 be playfellows to keep you company
 there's two of you the devil make a third
 and threefold vengeance tend upon your steps
suffolk cease gentle queen these execrations
 and let thy suffolk take his heavy leave
queen margaret fie coward woman and softhearted wretch
 hast thou not spirit to curse thine enemy
suffolk a plague upon them wherefore should i curse them
 would curses kill as doth the mandrake's groan
 i would invent as bittersearching terms
 as curst as harsh and horrible to hear
 deliver'd strongly through my fixed teeth
 with full as many signs of deadly hate
 as leanfaced envy in her loathsome cave
 my tongue should stumble in mine earnest words
 mine eyes should sparkle like the beaten flint
 mine hair be fixed on end as one distract
 ay every joint should seem to curse and ban
 and even now my burthen'd heart would break
 should i not curse them poison be their drink
 gall worse than gall the daintiest that they taste
 their sweetest shade a grove of cypress trees
 their chiefest prospect murdering basilisks
 their softest touch as smart as lizards sting
 their music frightful as the serpent's hiss
 and boding screechowls make the concert full
 all the foul terrors in darkseated hell
queen margaret enough sweet suffolk thou torment'st thyself
 and these dread curses like the sun gainst glass
 or like an overcharged gun recoil
 and turn the force of them upon thyself
suffolk you bade me ban and will you bid me leave
 now by the ground that i am banish'd from
 well could i curse away a winter's night
 though standing naked on a mountain top
 where biting cold would never let grass grow
 and think it but a minute spent in sport
queen margaret o let me entreat thee cease give me thy hand
 that i may dew it with my mournful tears
 nor let the rain of heaven wet this place
 to wash away my woful monuments
 o could this kiss be printed in thy hand
 that thou mightst think upon these by the seal
 through whom a thousand sighs are breathed for thee
 so get thee gone that i may know my grief
 tis but surmised whiles thou art standing by
 as one that surfeits thinking on a want
 i will repeal thee or be well assured
 adventure to be banished myself
 and banished i am if but from thee
 go speak not to me even now be gone
 o go not yet even thus two friends condemn'd
 embrace and kiss and take ten thousand leaves
 loather a hundred times to part than die
 yet now farewell and farewell life with thee
suffolk thus is poor suffolk ten times banished
 once by the king and three times thrice by thee
 tis not the land i care for wert thou thence
 a wilderness is populous enough
 so suffolk had thy heavenly company
 for where thou art there is the world itself
 with every several pleasure in the world
 and where thou art not desolation
 i can no more live thou to joy thy life
 myself no joy in nought but that thou livest
 enter vaux
queen margaret wither goes vaux so fast what news i prithee
vaux to signify unto his majesty
 that cardinal beaufort is at point of death
 for suddenly a grievous sickness took him
 that makes him gasp and stare and catch the air
 blaspheming god and cursing men on earth
 sometimes he talks as if duke humphrey's ghost
 were by his side sometime he calls the king
 and whispers to his pillow as to him
 the secrets of his overcharged soul
 and i am sent to tell his majesty
 that even now he cries aloud for him
queen margaret go tell this heavy message to the king
 exit vaux
 ay me what is this world what news are these
 but wherefore grieve i at an hour's poor loss
 omitting suffolk's exile my soul's treasure
 why only suffolk mourn i not for thee
 and with the southern clouds contend in tears
 theirs for the earth's increase mine for my sorrows
 now get thee hence the king thou know'st is coming
 if thou be found by me thou art but dead
suffolk if i depart from thee i cannot live
 and in thy sight to die what were it else
 but like a pleasant slumber in thy lap
 here could i breathe my soul into the air
 as mild and gentle as the cradlebabe
 dying with mother's dug between its lips
 where from thy sight i should be raging mad
 and cry out for thee to close up mine eyes
 to have thee with thy lips to stop my mouth
 so shouldst thou either turn my flying soul
 or i should breathe it so into thy body
 and then it lived in sweet elysium
 to die by thee were but to die in jest
 from thee to die were torture more than death
 o let me stay befall what may befall
queen margaret away though parting be a fretful corrosive
 it is applied to a deathful wound
 to france sweet suffolk let me hear from thee
 for wheresoe'er thou art in this world's globe
 i'll have an iris that shall find thee out
suffolk i go
queen margaret and take my heart with thee
suffolk a jewel lock'd into the wofull'st cask
 that ever did contain a thing of worth
 even as a splitted bark so sunder we
 this way fall i to death
queen margaret this way for me
 exeunt severally
 2 king henry vi
act iii
scene iii a bedchamber
 enter the king salisbury warwick to the
 cardinal in bed
king henry vi how fares my lord speak beaufort to
 thy sovereign
cardinal if thou be'st death i'll give thee england's treasure
 enough to purchase such another island
 so thou wilt let me live and feel no pain
king henry vi ah what a sign it is of evil life
 where death's approach is seen so terrible
warwick beaufort it is thy sovereign speaks to thee
cardinal bring me unto my trial when you will
 died he not in his bed where should he die
 can i make men live whether they will or no
 o torture me no more i will confess
 alive again then show me where he is
 i'll give a thousand pound to look upon him
 he hath no eyes the dust hath blinded them
 comb down his hair look look it stands upright
 like limetwigs set to catch my winged soul
 give me some drink and bid the apothecary
 bring the strong poison that i bought of him
king henry vi o thou eternal mover of the heavens
 look with a gentle eye upon this wretch
 o beat away the busy meddling fiend
 that lays strong siege unto this wretch's soul
 and from his bosom purge this black despair
warwick see how the pangs of death do make him grin
salisbury disturb him not let him pass peaceably
king henry vi peace to his soul if god's good pleasure be
 lord cardinal if thou think'st on heaven's bliss
 hold up thy hand make signal of thy hope
 he dies and makes no sign o god forgive him
warwick so bad a death argues a monstrous life
king henry vi forbear to judge for we are sinners all
 close up his eyes and draw the curtain close
 and let us all to meditation
 exeunt
 2 king henry vi
act iv
scene i the coast of kent
 alarum fight at sea ordnance goes off enter a
 captain a master a master'smate walter whitmore
 and others with them suffolk and others prisoners
captain the gaudy blabbing and remorseful day
 is crept into the bosom of the sea
 and now loudhowling wolves arouse the jades
 that drag the tragic melancholy night
 who with their drowsy slow and flagging wings
 clip dead men's graves and from their misty jaws
 breathe foul contagious darkness in the air
 therefore bring forth the soldiers of our prize
 for whilst our pinnace anchors in the downs
 here shall they make their ransom on the sand
 or with their blood stain this discolour'd shore
 master this prisoner freely give i thee
 and thou that art his mate make boot of this
 the other walter whitmore is thy share
first gentleman what is my ransom master let me know
master a thousand crowns or else lay down your head
master'smate and so much shall you give or off goes yours
captain what think you much to pay two thousand crowns
 and bear the name and port of gentlemen
 cut both the villains throats for die you shall
 the lives of those which we have lost in fight
 be counterpoised with such a petty sum
first gentleman i'll give it sir and therefore spare my life
second gentleman and so will i and write home for it straight
whitmore i lost mine eye in laying the prize aboard
 and therefore to revenge it shalt thou die
 to suffolk
 and so should these if i might have my will
captain be not so rash take ransom let him live
suffolk look on my george i am a gentleman
 rate me at what thou wilt thou shalt be paid
whitmore and so am i my name is walter whitmore
 how now why start'st thou what doth
 death affright
suffolk thy name affrights me in whose sound is death
 a cunning man did calculate my birth
 and told me that by water i should die
 yet let not this make thee be bloodyminded
 thy name is gaultier being rightly sounded
whitmore gaultier or walter which it is i care not
 never yet did base dishonour blur our name
 but with our sword we wiped away the blot
 therefore when merchantlike i sell revenge
 broke be my sword my arms torn and defaced
 and i proclaim'd a coward through the world
suffolk stay whitmore for thy prisoner is a prince
 the duke of suffolk william de la pole
whitmore the duke of suffolk muffled up in rags
suffolk ay but these rags are no part of the duke
 jove sometimes went disguised and why not i
captain but jove was never slain as thou shalt be
suffolk obscure and lowly swain king henry's blood
 the honourable blood of lancaster
 must not be shed by such a jaded groom
 hast thou not kiss'd thy hand and held my stirrup
 bareheaded plodded by my footcloth mule
 and thought thee happy when i shook my head
 how often hast thou waited at my cup
 fed from my trencher kneel'd down at the board
 when i have feasted with queen margaret
 remember it and let it make thee crestfall'n
 ay and allay this thy abortive pride
 how in our voiding lobby hast thou stood
 and duly waited for my coming forth
 this hand of mine hath writ in thy behalf
 and therefore shall it charm thy riotous tongue
whitmore speak captain shall i stab the forlorn swain
captain first let my words stab him as he hath me
suffolk base slave thy words are blunt and so art thou
captain convey him hence and on our longboat's side
 strike off his head
suffolk thou darest not for thy own
captain yes pole
suffolk pole
captain pool sir pool lord
 ay kennel puddle sink whose filth and dirt
 troubles the silver spring where england drinks
 now will i dam up this thy yawning mouth
 for swallowing the treasure of the realm
 thy lips that kiss'd the queen shall sweep the ground
 and thou that smiledst at good duke humphrey's death
 against the senseless winds shalt grin in vain
 who in contempt shall hiss at thee again
 and wedded be thou to the hags of hell
 for daring to affy a mighty lord
 unto the daughter of a worthless king
 having neither subject wealth nor diadem
 by devilish policy art thou grown great
 and like ambitious sylla overgorged
 with gobbets of thy mother's bleeding heart
 by thee anjou and maine were sold to france
 the false revolting normans thorough thee
 disdain to call us lord and picardy
 hath slain their governors surprised our forts
 and sent the ragged soldiers wounded home
 the princely warwick and the nevils all
 whose dreadful swords were never drawn in vain
 as hating thee are rising up in arms
 and now the house of york thrust from the crown
 by shameful murder of a guiltless king
 and lofty proud encroaching tyranny
 burns with revenging fire whose hopeful colours
 advance our halffaced sun striving to shine
 under the which is writ invitis nubibus'
 the commons here in kent are up in arms
 and to conclude reproach and beggary
 is crept into the palace of our king
 and all by thee away convey him hence
suffolk o that i were a god to shoot forth thunder
 upon these paltry servile abject drudges
 small things make base men proud this villain here
 being captain of a pinnace threatens more
 than bargulus the strong illyrian pirate
 drones suck not eagles blood but rob beehives
 it is impossible that i should die
 by such a lowly vassal as thyself
 thy words move rage and not remorse in me
 i go of message from the queen to france
 i charge thee waft me safely cross the channel
captain walter
whitmore come suffolk i must waft thee to thy death
suffolk gelidus timor occupat artus it is thee i fear
whitmore thou shalt have cause to fear before i leave thee
 what are ye daunted now now will ye stoop
first gentleman my gracious lord entreat him speak him fair
suffolk suffolk's imperial tongue is stern and rough
 used to command untaught to plead for favour
 far be it we should honour such as these
 with humble suit no rather let my head
 stoop to the block than these knees bow to any
 save to the god of heaven and to my king
 and sooner dance upon a bloody pole
 than stand uncover'd to the vulgar groom
 true nobility is exempt from fear
 more can i bear than you dare execute
captain hale him away and let him talk no more
suffolk come soldiers show what cruelty ye can
 that this my death may never be forgot
 great men oft die by vile bezonians
 a roman sworder and banditto slave
 murder'd sweet tully brutus bastard hand
 stabb'd julius caesar savage islanders
 pompey the great and suffolk dies by pirates
 exeunt whitmore and others with suffolk
captain and as for these whose ransom we have set
 it is our pleasure one of them depart
 therefore come you with us and let him go
 exeunt all but the first gentleman
 reenter whitmore with suffolk's body
whitmore there let his head and lifeless body lie
 until the queen his mistress bury it
 exit
first gentleman o barbarous and bloody spectacle
 his body will i bear unto the king
 if he revenge it not yet will his friends
 so will the queen that living held him dear
 exit with the body
 2 king henry vi
act iv
scene ii blackheath
 enter george bevis and john holland
bevis come and get thee a sword though made of a lath
 they have been up these two days
holland they have the more need to sleep now then
bevis i tell thee jack cade the clothier means to dress
 the commonwealth and turn it and set a new nap upon it
holland so he had need for tis threadbare well i say it
 was never merry world in england since gentlemen came up
bevis o miserable age virtue is not regarded in handicraftsmen
holland the nobility think scorn to go in leather aprons
bevis nay more the king's council are no good workmen
holland true and yet it is said labour in thy vocation
 which is as much to say as let the magistrates be
 labouring men and therefore should we be
 magistrates
bevis thou hast hit it for there's no better sign of a
 brave mind than a hard hand
holland i see them i see them there's best's son the
 tanner of wingham
bevis he shall have the skin of our enemies to make
 dog'sleather of
holland and dick the butcher
bevis then is sin struck down like an ox and iniquity's
 throat cut like a calf
holland and smith the weaver
bevis argo their thread of life is spun
holland come come let's fall in with them
 drum enter cade dick the butcher smith the
 weaver and a sawyer with infinite numbers
cade we john cade so termed of our supposed father
dick aside or rather of stealing a cade of herrings
cade for our enemies shall fall before us inspired with
 the spirit of putting down kings and princes
 command silence
dick silence
cade my father was a mortimer
dick aside he was an honest man and a good
 bricklayer
cade my mother a plantagenet
dick aside i knew her well she was a midwife
cade my wife descended of the lacies
dick aside she was indeed a pedler's daughter and
 sold many laces
smith aside but now of late notable to travel with her
 furred pack she washes bucks here at home
cade therefore am i of an honourable house
dick aside ay by my faith the field is honourable
 and there was he borne under a hedge for his
 father had never a house but the cage
cade valiant i am
smith aside a must needs for beggary is valiant
cade i am able to endure much
dick aside no question of that for i have seen him
 whipped three marketdays together
cade i fear neither sword nor fire
smith aside he need not fear the sword for his coat is of proof
dick aside but methinks he should stand in fear of
 fire being burnt i the hand for stealing of sheep
cade be brave then for your captain is brave and vows
 reformation there shall be in england seven
 halfpenny loaves sold for a penny the threehooped
 pot shall have ten hoops and i will make it felony
 to drink small beer all the realm shall be in
 common and in cheapside shall my palfrey go to
 grass and when i am king as king i will be
all god save your majesty
cade i thank you good people there shall be no money
 all shall eat and drink on my score and i will
 apparel them all in one livery that they may agree
 like brothers and worship me their lord
dick the first thing we do let's kill all the lawyers
cade nay that i mean to do is not this a lamentable
 thing that of the skin of an innocent lamb should
 be made parchment that parchment being scribbled
 o'er should undo a man some say the bee stings
 but i say tis the bee's wax for i did but seal
 once to a thing and i was never mine own man
 since how now who's there
 enter some bringing forward the clerk of chatham
smith the clerk of chatham he can write and read and
 cast accompt
cade o monstrous
smith we took him setting of boys copies
cade here's a villain
smith has a book in his pocket with red letters in't
cade nay then he is a conjurer
dick nay he can make obligations and write courthand
cade i am sorry for't the man is a proper man of mine
 honour unless i find him guilty he shall not die
 come hither sirrah i must examine thee what is thy name
clerk emmanuel
dick they use to write it on the top of letters twill
 go hard with you
cade let me alone dost thou use to write thy name or
 hast thou a mark to thyself like an honest
 plaindealing man
clerk sir i thank god i have been so well brought up
 that i can write my name
all he hath confessed away with him he's a villain
 and a traitor
cade away with him i say hang him with his pen and
 inkhorn about his neck
 exit one with the clerk
 enter michael
michael where's our general
cade here i am thou particular fellow
michael fly fly fly sir humphrey stafford and his
 brother are hard by with the king's forces
cade stand villain stand or i'll fell thee down he
 shall be encountered with a man as good as himself
 he is but a knight is a'
michael no
cade to equal him i will make myself a knight presently
 kneels
 rise up sir john mortimer
 rises
 now have at him
 enter sir humphrey and william stafford with
 drum and soldiers
sir humphrey rebellious hinds the filth and scum of kent
 mark'd for the gallows lay your weapons down
 home to your cottages forsake this groom
 the king is merciful if you revolt
william stafford but angry wrathful and inclined to blood
 if you go forward therefore yield or die
cade as for these silkencoated slaves i pass not
 it is to you good people that i speak
 over whom in time to come i hope to reign
 for i am rightful heir unto the crown
sir humphrey villain thy father was a plasterer
 and thou thyself a shearman art thou not
cade and adam was a gardener
william stafford and what of that
cade marry this edmund mortimer earl of march
 married the duke of clarence daughter did he not
sir humphrey ay sir
cade by her he had two children at one birth
william stafford that's false
cade ay there's the question but i say tis true
 the elder of them being put to nurse
 was by a beggarwoman stolen away
 and ignorant of his birth and parentage
 became a bricklayer when he came to age
 his son am i deny it if you can
dick nay tis too true therefore he shall be king
smith sir he made a chimney in my father's house and
 the bricks are alive at this day to testify it
 therefore deny it not
sir humphrey and will you credit this base drudge's words
 that speaks he knows not what
all ay marry will we therefore get ye gone
william stafford jack cade the duke of york hath taught you this
cade aside he lies for i invented it myself
 go to sirrah tell the king from me that for his
 father's sake henry the fifth in whose time boys
 went to spancounter for french crowns i am content
 he shall reign but i'll be protector over him
dick and furthermore well have the lord say's head for
 selling the dukedom of maine
cade and good reason for thereby is england mained and
 fain to go with a staff but that my puissance holds
 it up fellow kings i tell you that that lord say
 hath gelded the commonwealth and made it an eunuch
 and more than that he can speak french and
 therefore he is a traitor
sir humphrey o gross and miserable ignorance
cade nay answer if you can the frenchmen are our
 enemies go to then i ask but this can he that
 speaks with the tongue of an enemy be a good
 counsellor or no
all no no and therefore we'll have his head
william stafford well seeing gentle words will not prevail
 assail them with the army of the king
sir humphrey herald away and throughout every town
 proclaim them traitors that are up with cade
 that those which fly before the battle ends
 may even in their wives and children's sight
 be hang'd up for example at their doors
 and you that be the king's friends follow me
 exeunt william stafford and sir humphrey and soldiers
cade and you that love the commons follow me
 now show yourselves men tis for liberty
 we will not leave one lord one gentleman
 spare none but such as go in clouted shoon
 for they are thrifty honest men and such
 as would but that they dare not take our parts
dick they are all in order and march toward us
cade but then are we in order when we are most
 out of order come march forward
 exeunt
 2 king henry vi
act iv
scene iii another part of blackheath
 alarums to the fight wherein sir humphrey and
 william stafford are slain enter cade and the rest
cade where's dick the butcher of ashford
dick here sir
cade they fell before thee like sheep and oxen and thou
 behavedst thyself as if thou hadst been in thine own
 slaughterhouse therefore thus will i reward thee
 the lent shall be as long again as it is and thou
 shalt have a licence to kill for a hundred lacking
 one
dick i desire no more
cade and to speak truth thou deservest no less this
 monument of the victory will i bear
 putting on sir humphrey's brigandine
 and the bodies shall be dragged at my horse heels
 till i do come to london where we will have the
 mayor's sword borne before us
dick if we mean to thrive and do good break open the
 gaols and let out the prisoners
cade fear not that i warrant thee come let's march
 towards london
 exeunt
 2 king henry vi
act iv
scene iv london the palace
 enter king henry vi with a supplication and the
 queen with suffolk's head buckingham and lord say
queen margaret oft have i heard that grief softens the mind
 and makes it fearful and degenerate
 think therefore on revenge and cease to weep
 but who can cease to weep and look on this
 here may his head lie on my throbbing breast
 but where's the body that i should embrace
buckingham what answer makes your grace to the rebels'
 supplication
king henry vi i'll send some holy bishop to entreat
 for god forbid so many simple souls
 should perish by the sword and i myself
 rather than bloody war shall cut them short
 will parley with jack cade their general
 but stay i'll read it over once again
queen margaret ah barbarous villains hath this lovely face
 ruled like a wandering planet over me
 and could it not enforce them to relent
 that were unworthy to behold the same
king henry vi lord say jack cade hath sworn to have thy head
say ay but i hope your highness shall have his
king henry vi how now madam
 still lamenting and mourning for suffolk's death
 i fear me love if that i had been dead
 thou wouldst not have mourn'd so much for me
queen margaret no my love i should not mourn but die for thee
 enter a messenger
king henry vi how now what news why comest thou in such haste
messenger the rebels are in southwark fly my lord
 jack cade proclaims himself lord mortimer
 descended from the duke of clarence house
 and calls your grace usurper openly
 and vows to crown himself in westminster
 his army is a ragged multitude
 of hinds and peasants rude and merciless
 sir humphrey stafford and his brother's death
 hath given them heart and courage to proceed
 all scholars lawyers courtiers gentlemen
 they call false caterpillars and intend their death
king henry vi o graceless men they know not what they do
buckingham my gracious lord return to killingworth
 until a power be raised to put them down
queen margaret ah were the duke of suffolk now alive
 these kentish rebels would be soon appeased
king henry vi lord say the traitors hate thee
 therefore away with us to killingworth
say so might your grace's person be in danger
 the sight of me is odious in their eyes
 and therefore in this city will i stay
 and live alone as secret as i may
 enter another messenger
messenger jack cade hath gotten london bridge
 the citizens fly and forsake their houses
 the rascal people thirsting after prey
 join with the traitor and they jointly swear
 to spoil the city and your royal court
buckingham then linger not my lord away take horse
king henry vi come margaret god our hope will succor us
queen margaret my hope is gone now suffolk is deceased
king henry vi farewell my lord trust not the kentish rebels
buckingham trust nobody for fear you be betray'd
say the trust i have is in mine innocence
 and therefore am i bold and resolute
 exeunt
 2 king henry vi
act iv
scene v london the tower
 enter scales upon the tower walking
 then enter two or three citizens below
scales how now is jack cade slain
first citizen no my lord nor likely to be slain for they have
 won the bridge killing all those that withstand
 them the lord mayor craves aid of your honour from
 the tower to defend the city from the rebels
scales such aid as i can spare you shall command
 but i am troubled here with them myself
 the rebels have assay'd to win the tower
 but get you to smithfield and gather head
 and thither i will send you matthew goffe
 fight for your king your country and your lives
 and so farewell for i must hence again
 exeunt
 2 king henry vi
act iv
scene vi london cannon street
 enter cade and the rest and strikes his staff on
 londonstone
cade now is mortimer lord of this city and here sitting
 upon londonstone i charge and command that of the
 city's cost the pissingconduit run nothing but
 claret wine this first year of our reign and now
 henceforward it shall be treason for any that calls
 me other than lord mortimer
 enter a soldier running
soldier jack cade jack cade
cade knock him down there
 they kill him
smith if this fellow be wise he'll never call ye jack
 cade more i think he hath a very fair warning
dick my lord there's an army gathered together in
 smithfield
cade come then let's go fight with them but first go
 and set london bridge on fire and if you can burn
 down the tower too come let's away
 exeunt
 2 king henry vi
act iv
scene vii london smithfield
 alarums matthew goffe is slain and all the rest
 then enter cade with his company
cade so sirs now go some and pull down the savoy
 others to the inns of court down with them all
dick i have a suit unto your lordship
cade be it a lordship thou shalt have it for that word
dick only that the laws of england may come out of your mouth
holland aside mass twill be sore law then for he was
 thrust in the mouth with a spear and tis not whole
 yet
smith aside nay john it will be stinking law for his
 breath stinks with eating toasted cheese
cade i have thought upon it it shall be so away burn
 all the records of the realm my mouth shall be
 the parliament of england
holland aside then we are like to have biting statutes
 unless his teeth be pulled out
cade and henceforward all things shall be in common
 enter a messenger
messenger my lord a prize a prize here's the lord say
 which sold the towns in france he that made us pay
 one and twenty fifteens and one shilling to the
 pound the last subsidy
 enter bevis with lord say
cade well he shall be beheaded for it ten times ah
 thou say thou serge nay thou buckram lord now
 art thou within pointblank of our jurisdiction
 regal what canst thou answer to my majesty for
 giving up of normandy unto mounsieur basimecu the
 dauphin of france be it known unto thee by these
 presence even the presence of lord mortimer that i
 am the besom that must sweep the court clean of such
 filth as thou art thou hast most traitorously
 corrupted the youth of the realm in erecting a
 grammar school and whereas before our forefathers
 had no other books but the score and the tally thou
 hast caused printing to be used and contrary to
 the king his crown and dignity thou hast built a
 papermill it will be proved to thy face that thou
 hast men about thee that usually talk of a noun and
 a verb and such abominable words as no christian
 ear can endure to hear thou hast appointed
 justices of peace to call poor men before them
 about matters they were not able to answer
 moreover thou hast put them in prison and because
 they could not read thou hast hanged them when
 indeed only for that cause they have been most
 worthy to live thou dost ride in a footcloth dost thou not
say what of that
cade marry thou oughtest not to let thy horse wear a
 cloak when honester men than thou go in their hose
 and doublets
dick and work in their shirt too as myself for example
 that am a butcher
say you men of kent
dick what say you of kent
say nothing but this tis bona terra mala gens'
cade away with him away with him he speaks latin
say hear me but speak and bear me where you will
 kent in the commentaries caesar writ
 is term'd the civil'st place of this isle
 sweet is the country because full of riches
 the people liberal valiant active wealthy
 which makes me hope you are not void of pity
 i sold not maine i lost not normandy
 yet to recover them would lose my life
 justice with favour have i always done
 prayers and tears have moved me gifts could never
 when have i aught exacted at your hands
 but to maintain the king the realm and you
 large gifts have i bestow'd on learned clerks
 because my book preferr'd me to the king
 and seeing ignorance is the curse of god
 knowledge the wing wherewith we fly to heaven
 unless you be possess'd with devilish spirits
 you cannot but forbear to murder me
 this tongue hath parley'd unto foreign kings
 for your behoof
cade tut when struck'st thou one blow in the field
say great men have reaching hands oft have i struck
 those that i never saw and struck them dead
bevis o monstrous coward what to come behind folks
say these cheeks are pale for watching for your good
cade give him a box o the ear and that will make em red again
say long sitting to determine poor men's causes
 hath made me full of sickness and diseases
cade ye shall have a hempen caudle then and the help of hatchet
dick why dost thou quiver man
say the palsy and not fear provokes me
cade nay he nods at us as who should say i'll be even
 with you i'll see if his head will stand steadier
 on a pole or no take him away and behead him
say tell me wherein have i offended most
 have i affected wealth or honour speak
 are my chests fill'd up with extorted gold
 is my apparel sumptuous to behold
 whom have i injured that ye seek my death
 these hands are free from guiltless bloodshedding
 this breast from harbouring foul deceitful thoughts
 o let me live
cade aside i feel remorse in myself with his words
 but i'll bridle it he shall die an it be but for
 pleading so well for his life away with him he
 has a familiar under his tongue he speaks not o'
 god's name go take him away i say and strike
 off his head presently and then break into his
 soninlaw's house sir james cromer and strike off
 his head and bring them both upon two poles hither
all it shall be done
say ah countrymen if when you make your prayers
 god should be so obdurate as yourselves
 how would it fare with your departed souls
 and therefore yet relent and save my life
cade away with him and do as i command ye
 exeunt some with lord say
 the proudest peer in the realm shall not wear a head
 on his shoulders unless he pay me tribute there
 shall not a maid be married but she shall pay to me
 her maidenhead ere they have it men shall hold of
 me in capite and we charge and command that their
 wives be as free as heart can wish or tongue can tell
dick my lord when shall we go to cheapside and take up
 commodities upon our bills
cade marry presently
all o brave
 reenter one with the heads
cade but is not this braver let them kiss one another
 for they loved well when they were alive now part
 them again lest they consult about the giving up of
 some more towns in france soldiers defer the
 spoil of the city until night for with these borne
 before us instead of maces will we ride through
 the streets and at every corner have them kiss away
 exeunt
 2 king henry vi
act iv
scene viii southwark
 alarum and retreat enter cade and all his
 rabblement
cade up fish street down saint magnus corner kill
 and knock down throw them into thames
 sound a parley
 what noise is this i hear dare any be so bold to
 sound retreat or parley when i command them kill
 enter buckingham and clifford attended
buckingham ay here they be that dare and will disturb thee
 know cade we come ambassadors from the king
 unto the commons whom thou hast misled
 and here pronounce free pardon to them all
 that will forsake thee and go home in peace
clifford what say ye countrymen will ye relent
 and yield to mercy whilst tis offer'd you
 or let a rebel lead you to your deaths
 who loves the king and will embrace his pardon
 fling up his cap and say god save his majesty'
 who hateth him and honours not his father
 henry the fifth that made all france to quake
 shake he his weapon at us and pass by
all god save the king god save the king
cade what buckingham and clifford are ye so brave and
 you base peasants do ye believe him will you
 needs be hanged with your pardons about your necks
 hath my sword therefore broke through london gates
 that you should leave me at the white hart in
 southwark i thought ye would never have given out
 these arms till you had recovered your ancient
 freedom but you are all recreants and dastards
 and delight to live in slavery to the nobility let
 them break your backs with burthens take your
 houses over your heads ravish your wives and
 daughters before your faces for me i will make
 shift for one and so god's curse light upon you
 all
all we'll follow cade we'll follow cade
clifford is cade the son of henry the fifth
 that thus you do exclaim you'll go with him
 will he conduct you through the heart of france
 and make the meanest of you earls and dukes
 alas he hath no home no place to fly to
 nor knows he how to live but by the spoil
 unless by robbing of your friends and us
 were't not a shame that whilst you live at jar
 the fearful french whom you late vanquished
 should make a start o'er seas and vanquish you
 methinks already in this civil broil
 i see them lording it in london streets
 crying villiago unto all they meet
 better ten thousand baseborn cades miscarry
 than you should stoop unto a frenchman's mercy
 to france to france and get what you have lost
 spare england for it is your native coast
 henry hath money you are strong and manly
 god on our side doubt not of victory
all a clifford a clifford we'll follow the king and clifford
cade was ever feather so lightly blown to and fro as this
 multitude the name of henry the fifth hales them
 to an hundred mischiefs and makes them leave me
 desolate i see them lay their heads together to
 surprise me my sword make way for me for here is
 no staying in despite of the devils and hell have
 through the very middest of you and heavens and
 honour be witness that no want of resolution in me
 but only my followers base and ignominious
 treasons makes me betake me to my heels
 exit
buckingham what is he fled go some and follow him
 and he that brings his head unto the king
 shall have a thousand crowns for his reward
 exeunt some of them
 follow me soldiers we'll devise a mean
 to reconcile you all unto the king
 exeunt
 2 king henry vi
act iv
scene ix kenilworth castle
 sound trumpets enter king henry vi queen
 margaret and somerset on the terrace
king henry vi was ever king that joy'd an earthly throne
 and could command no more content than i
 no sooner was i crept out of my cradle
 but i was made a king at nine months old
 was never subject long'd to be a king
 as i do long and wish to be a subject
 enter buckingham and clifford
buckingham health and glad tidings to your majesty
king henry vi why buckingham is the traitor cade surprised
 or is he but retired to make him strong
 enter below multitudes with halters about
 their necks
clifford he is fled my lord and all his powers do yield
 and humbly thus with halters on their necks
 expect your highness doom of life or death
king henry vi then heaven set ope thy everlasting gates
 to entertain my vows of thanks and praise
 soldiers this day have you redeemed your lives
 and show'd how well you love your prince and country
 continue still in this so good a mind
 and henry though he be infortunate
 assure yourselves will never be unkind
 and so with thanks and pardon to you all
 i do dismiss you to your several countries
all god save the king god save the king
 enter a messenger
messenger please it your grace to be advertised
 the duke of york is newly come from ireland
 and with a puissant and a mighty power
 of gallowglasses and stout kerns
 is marching hitherward in proud array
 and still proclaimeth as he comes along
 his arms are only to remove from thee
 the duke of somerset whom he terms traitor
king henry vi thus stands my state twixt cade and york distress'd
 like to a ship that having scaped a tempest
 is straightway calm'd and boarded with a pirate
 but now is cade driven back his men dispersed
 and now is york in arms to second him
 i pray thee buckingham go and meet him
 and ask him what's the reason of these arms
 tell him i'll send duke edmund to the tower
 and somerset we'll commit thee thither
 until his army be dismiss'd from him
somerset my lord
 i'll yield myself to prison willingly
 or unto death to do my country good
king henry vi in any case be not too rough in terms
 for he is fierce and cannot brook hard language
buckingham i will my lord and doubt not so to deal
 as all things shall redound unto your good
king henry vi come wife let's in and learn to govern better
 for yet may england curse my wretched reign
 flourish exeunt
 2 king henry vi
act iv
scene x kent iden's garden
 enter cade
cade fie on ambition fie on myself that have a sword
 and yet am ready to famish these five days have i
 hid me in these woods and durst not peep out for
 all the country is laid for me but now am i so
 hungry that if i might have a lease of my life for a
 thousand years i could stay no longer wherefore
 on a brick wall have i climbed into this garden to
 see if i can eat grass or pick a sallet another
 while which is not amiss to cool a man's stomach
 this hot weather and i think this word sallet'
 was born to do me good for many a time but for a
 sallet my brainpan had been cleft with a brown
 bill and many a time when i have been dry and
 bravely marching it hath served me instead of a
 quart pot to drink in and now the word sallet'
 must serve me to feed on
 enter iden
iden lord who would live turmoiled in the court
 and may enjoy such quiet walks as these
 this small inheritance my father left me
 contenteth me and worth a monarchy
 i seek not to wax great by others waning
 or gather wealth i care not with what envy
 sufficeth that i have maintains my state
 and sends the poor well pleased from my gate
cade here's the lord of the soil come to seize me for a
 stray for entering his feesimple without leave
 ah villain thou wilt betray me and get a thousand
 crowns of the king carrying my head to him but
 i'll make thee eat iron like an ostrich and swallow
 my sword like a great pin ere thou and i part
iden why rude companion whatsoe'er thou be
 i know thee not why then should i betray thee
 is't not enough to break into my garden
 and like a thief to come to rob my grounds
 climbing my walls in spite of me the owner
 but thou wilt brave me with these saucy terms
cade brave thee ay by the best blood that ever was
 broached and beard thee too look on me well i
 have eat no meat these five days yet come thou and
 thy five men and if i do not leave you all as dead
 as a doornail i pray god i may never eat grass more
iden nay it shall ne'er be said while england stands
 that alexander iden an esquire of kent
 took odds to combat a poor famish'd man
 oppose thy steadfastgazing eyes to mine
 see if thou canst outface me with thy looks
 set limb to limb and thou art far the lesser
 thy hand is but a finger to my fist
 thy leg a stick compared with this truncheon
 my foot shall fight with all the strength thou hast
 and if mine arm be heaved in the air
 thy grave is digg'd already in the earth
 as for words whose greatness answers words
 let this my sword report what speech forbears
cade by my valour the most complete champion that ever i
 heard steel if thou turn the edge or cut not out
 the burlyboned clown in chines of beef ere thou
 sleep in thy sheath i beseech god on my knees thou
 mayst be turned to hobnails
 here they fight cade falls
 o i am slain famine and no other hath slain me
 let ten thousand devils come against me and give me
 but the ten meals i have lost and i'll defy them
 all wither garden and be henceforth a
 buryingplace to all that do dwell in this house
 because the unconquered soul of cade is fled
iden is't cade that i have slain that monstrous traitor
 sword i will hollow thee for this thy deed
 and hang thee o'er my tomb when i am dead
 ne'er shall this blood be wiped from thy point
 but thou shalt wear it as a herald's coat
 to emblaze the honour that thy master got
cade iden farewell and be proud of thy victory tell
 kent from me she hath lost her best man and exhort
 all the world to be cowards for i that never
 feared any am vanquished by famine not by valour
 dies
iden how much thou wrong'st me heaven be my judge
 die damned wretch the curse of her that bare thee
 and as i thrust thy body in with my sword
 so wish i i might thrust thy soul to hell
 hence will i drag thee headlong by the heels
 unto a dunghill which shall be thy grave
 and there cut off thy most ungracious head
 which i will bear in triumph to the king
 leaving thy trunk for crows to feed upon
 exit
 2 king henry vi
act v
scene i fields between dartford and blackheath
 enter york and his army of irish with drum
 and colours
york from ireland thus comes york to claim his right
 and pluck the crown from feeble henry's head
 ring bells aloud burn bonfires clear and bright
 to entertain great england's lawful king
 ah sancta majestas who would not buy thee dear
 let them obey that know not how to rule
 this hand was made to handle naught but gold
 i cannot give due action to my words
 except a sword or sceptre balance it
 a sceptre shall it have have i a soul
 on which i'll toss the flowerdeluce of france
 enter buckingham
 whom have we here buckingham to disturb me
 the king hath sent him sure i must dissemble
buckingham york if thou meanest well i greet thee well
york humphrey of buckingham i accept thy greeting
 art thou a messenger or come of pleasure
buckingham a messenger from henry our dread liege
 to know the reason of these arms in peace
 or why thou being a subject as i am
 against thy oath and true allegiance sworn
 should raise so great a power without his leave
 or dare to bring thy force so near the court
york aside scarce can i speak my choler is so great
 o i could hew up rocks and fight with flint
 i am so angry at these abject terms
 and now like ajax telamonius
 on sheep or oxen could i spend my fury
 i am far better born than is the king
 more like a king more kingly in my thoughts
 but i must make fair weather yet a while
 till henry be more weak and i more strong
 buckingham i prithee pardon me
 that i have given no answer all this while
 my mind was troubled with deep melancholy
 the cause why i have brought this army hither
 is to remove proud somerset from the king
 seditious to his grace and to the state
buckingham that is too much presumption on thy part
 but if thy arms be to no other end
 the king hath yielded unto thy demand
 the duke of somerset is in the tower
york upon thine honour is he prisoner
buckingham upon mine honour he is prisoner
york then buckingham i do dismiss my powers
 soldiers i thank you all disperse yourselves
 meet me tomorrow in st george's field
 you shall have pay and every thing you wish
 and let my sovereign virtuous henry
 command my eldest son nay all my sons
 as pledges of my fealty and love
 i'll send them all as willing as i live
 lands goods horse armour any thing i have
 is his to use so somerset may die
buckingham york i commend this kind submission
 we twain will go into his highness tent
 enter king henry vi and attendants
king henry vi buckingham doth york intend no harm to us
 that thus he marcheth with thee arm in arm
york in all submission and humility
 york doth present himself unto your highness
king henry vi then what intends these forces thou dost bring
york to heave the traitor somerset from hence
 and fight against that monstrous rebel cade
 who since i heard to be discomfited
 enter iden with cade's head
iden if one so rude and of so mean condition
 may pass into the presence of a king
 lo i present your grace a traitor's head
 the head of cade whom i in combat slew
king henry vi the head of cade great god how just art thou
 o let me view his visage being dead
 that living wrought me such exceeding trouble
 tell me my friend art thou the man that slew him
iden i was an't like your majesty
king henry vi how art thou call'd and what is thy degree
iden alexander iden that's my name
 a poor esquire of kent that loves his king
buckingham so please it you my lord twere not amiss
 he were created knight for his good service
king henry vi iden kneel down
 he kneels
 rise up a knight
 we give thee for reward a thousand marks
 and will that thou henceforth attend on us
iden may iden live to merit such a bounty
 and never live but true unto his liege
 rises
 enter queen margaret and somerset
king henry vi see buckingham somerset comes with the queen
 go bid her hide him quickly from the duke
queen margaret for thousand yorks he shall not hide his head
 but boldly stand and front him to his face
york how now is somerset at liberty
 then york unloose thy longimprison'd thoughts
 and let thy tongue be equal with thy heart
 shall i endure the sight of somerset
 false king why hast thou broken faith with me
 knowing how hardly i can brook abuse
 king did i call thee no thou art not king
 not fit to govern and rule multitudes
 which darest not no nor canst not rule a traitor
 that head of thine doth not become a crown
 thy hand is made to grasp a palmer's staff
 and not to grace an awful princely sceptre
 that gold must round engirt these brows of mine
 whose smile and frown like to achilles spear
 is able with the change to kill and cure
 here is a hand to hold a sceptre up
 and with the same to act controlling laws
 give place by heaven thou shalt rule no more
 o'er him whom heaven created for thy ruler
somerset o monstrous traitor i arrest thee york
 of capital treason gainst the king and crown
 obey audacious traitor kneel for grace
york wouldst have me kneel first let me ask of these
 if they can brook i bow a knee to man
 sirrah call in my sons to be my bail
 exit attendant
 i know ere they will have me go to ward
 they'll pawn their swords for my enfranchisement
queen margaret call hither clifford bid him come amain
 to say if that the bastard boys of york
 shall be the surety for their traitor father
 exit buckingham
york o bloodbesotted neapolitan
 outcast of naples england's bloody scourge
 the sons of york thy betters in their birth
 shall be their father's bail and bane to those
 that for my surety will refuse the boys
 enter edward and richard
 see where they come i'll warrant they'll
 make it good
 enter clifford and young clifford
queen margaret and here comes clifford to deny their bail
clifford health and all happiness to my lord the king
 kneels
york i thank thee clifford say what news with thee
 nay do not fright us with an angry look
 we are thy sovereign clifford kneel again
 for thy mistaking so we pardon thee
clifford this is my king york i do not mistake
 but thou mistakest me much to think i do
 to bedlam with him is the man grown mad
king henry vi ay clifford a bedlam and ambitious humour
 makes him oppose himself against his king
clifford he is a traitor let him to the tower
 and chop away that factious pate of his
queen margaret he is arrested but will not obey
 his sons he says shall give their words for him
york will you not sons
edward ay noble father if our words will serve
richard and if words will not then our weapons shall
clifford why what a brood of traitors have we here
york look in a glass and call thy image so
 i am thy king and thou a falseheart traitor
 call hither to the stake my two brave bears
 that with the very shaking of their chains
 they may astonish these felllurking curs
 bid salisbury and warwick come to me
 enter the warwick and salisbury
clifford are these thy bears we'll bait thy bears to death
 and manacle the bearward in their chains
 if thou darest bring them to the baiting place
richard oft have i seen a hot o'erweening cur
 run back and bite because he was withheld
 who being suffer'd with the bear's fell paw
 hath clapp'd his tail between his legs and cried
 and such a piece of service will you do
 if you oppose yourselves to match lord warwick
clifford hence heap of wrath foul indigested lump
 as crooked in thy manners as thy shape
york nay we shall heat you thoroughly anon
clifford take heed lest by your heat you burn yourselves
king henry vi why warwick hath thy knee forgot to bow
 old salisbury shame to thy silver hair
 thou mad misleader of thy brainsick son
 what wilt thou on thy deathbed play the ruffian
 and seek for sorrow with thy spectacles
 o where is faith o where is loyalty
 if it be banish'd from the frosty head
 where shall it find a harbour in the earth
 wilt thou go dig a grave to find out war
 and shame thine honourable age with blood
 why art thou old and want'st experience
 or wherefore dost abuse it if thou hast it
 for shame in duty bend thy knee to me
 that bows unto the grave with mickle age
salisbury my lord i have consider'd with myself
 the title of this most renowned duke
 and in my conscience do repute his grace
 the rightful heir to england's royal seat
king henry vi hast thou not sworn allegiance unto me
salisbury i have
king henry vi canst thou dispense with heaven for such an oath
salisbury it is great sin to swear unto a sin
 but greater sin to keep a sinful oath
 who can be bound by any solemn vow
 to do a murderous deed to rob a man
 to force a spotless virgin's chastity
 to reave the orphan of his patrimony
 to wring the widow from her custom'd right
 and have no other reason for this wrong
 but that he was bound by a solemn oath
queen margaret a subtle traitor needs no sophister
king henry vi call buckingham and bid him arm himself
york call buckingham and all the friends thou hast
 i am resolved for death or dignity
clifford the first i warrant thee if dreams prove true
warwick you were best to go to bed and dream again
 to keep thee from the tempest of the field
clifford i am resolved to bear a greater storm
 than any thou canst conjure up today
 and that i'll write upon thy burgonet
 might i but know thee by thy household badge
warwick now by my father's badge old nevil's crest
 the rampant bear chain'd to the ragged staff
 this day i'll wear aloft my burgonet
 as on a mountain top the cedar shows
 that keeps his leaves in spite of any storm
 even to affright thee with the view thereof
clifford and from thy burgonet i'll rend thy bear
 and tread it under foot with all contempt
 despite the bearward that protects the bear
young clifford and so to arms victorious father
 to quell the rebels and their complices
richard fie charity for shame speak not in spite
 for you shall sup with jesu christ tonight
young clifford foul stigmatic that's more than thou canst tell
richard if not in heaven you'll surely sup in hell
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 2 king henry vi
act v
scene ii saint alban's
 alarums to the battle enter warwick
warwick clifford of cumberland tis warwick calls
 and if thou dost not hide thee from the bear
 now when the angry trumpet sounds alarum
 and dead men's cries do fill the empty air
 clifford i say come forth and fight with me
 proud northern lord clifford of cumberland
 warwick is hoarse with calling thee to arms
 enter york
 how now my noble lord what all afoot
york the deadlyhanded clifford slew my steed
 but match to match i have encounter'd him
 and made a prey for carrion kites and crows
 even of the bonny beast he loved so well
 enter clifford
warwick of one or both of us the time is come
york hold warwick seek thee out some other chase
 for i myself must hunt this deer to death
warwick then nobly york tis for a crown thou fight'st
 as i intend clifford to thrive today
 it grieves my soul to leave thee unassail'd
 exit
clifford what seest thou in me york why dost thou pause
york with thy brave bearing should i be in love
 but that thou art so fast mine enemy
clifford nor should thy prowess want praise and esteem
 but that tis shown ignobly and in treason
york so let it help me now against thy sword
 as i in justice and true right express it
clifford my soul and body on the action both
york a dreadful lay address thee instantly
 they fight and clifford falls
clifford la fin couronne les oeuvres
 dies
york thus war hath given thee peace for thou art still
 peace with his soul heaven if it be thy will
 exit
 enter young clifford
young clifford shame and confusion all is on the rout
 fear frames disorder and disorder wounds
 where it should guard o war thou son of hell
 whom angry heavens do make their minister
 throw in the frozen bosoms of our part
 hot coals of vengeance let no soldier fly
 he that is truly dedicate to war
 hath no selflove nor he that loves himself
 hath not essentially but by circumstance
 the name of valour
 seeing his dead father
 o let the vile world end
 and the premised flames of the last day
 knit earth and heaven together
 now let the general trumpet blow his blast
 particularities and petty sounds
 to cease wast thou ordain'd dear father
 to lose thy youth in peace and to achieve
 the silver livery of advised age
 and in thy reverence and thy chairdays thus
 to die in ruffian battle even at this sight
 my heart is turn'd to stone and while tis mine
 it shall be stony york not our old men spares
 no more will i their babes tears virginal
 shall be to me even as the dew to fire
 and beauty that the tyrant oft reclaims
 shall to my flaming wrath be oil and flax
 henceforth i will not have to do with pity
 meet i an infant of the house of york
 into as many gobbets will i cut it
 as wild medea young absyrtus did
 in cruelty will i seek out my fame
 come thou new ruin of old clifford's house
 as did aeneas old anchises bear
 so bear i thee upon my manly shoulders
 but then aeneas bare a living load
 nothing so heavy as these woes of mine
 exit bearing off his father
 enter richard and somerset to fight somerset
 is killed
richard so lie thou there
 for underneath an alehouse paltry sign
 the castle in saint alban's somerset
 hath made the wizard famous in his death
 sword hold thy temper heart be wrathful still
 priests pray for enemies but princes kill
 exit
 fight excursions enter king henry vi queen
 margaret and others
queen margaret away my lord you are slow for shame away
king henry vi can we outrun the heavens good margaret stay
queen margaret what are you made of you'll nor fight nor fly
 now is it manhood wisdom and defence
 to give the enemy way and to secure us
 by what we can which can no more but fly
 alarum afar off
 if you be ta'en we then should see the bottom
 of all our fortunes but if we haply scape
 as well we may if not through your neglect
 we shall to london get where you are loved
 and where this breach now in our fortunes made
 may readily be stopp'd
 reenter young clifford
young clifford but that my heart's on future mischief set
 i would speak blasphemy ere bid you fly
 but fly you must uncurable discomfit
 reigns in the hearts of all our present parts
 away for your relief and we will live
 to see their day and them our fortune give
 away my lord away
 exeunt
 2 king henry vi
act v
scene iii fields near st alban's
 alarum retreat enter york richard warwick
 and soldiers with drum and colours
york of salisbury who can report of him
 that winter lion who in rage forgets
 aged contusions and all brush of time
 and like a gallant in the brow of youth
 repairs him with occasion this happy day
 is not itself nor have we won one foot
 if salisbury be lost
richard my noble father
 three times today i holp him to his horse
 three times bestrid him thrice i led him off
 persuaded him from any further act
 but still where danger was still there i met him
 and like rich hangings in a homely house
 so was his will in his old feeble body
 but noble as he is look where he comes
 enter salisbury
salisbury now by my sword well hast thou fought today
 by the mass so did we all i thank you richard
 god knows how long it is i have to live
 and it hath pleased him that three times today
 you have defended me from imminent death
 well lords we have not got that which we have
 tis not enough our foes are this time fled
 being opposites of such repairing nature
york i know our safety is to follow them
 for as i hear the king is fled to london
 to call a present court of parliament
 let us pursue him ere the writs go forth
 what says lord warwick shall we after them
warwick after them nay before them if we can
 now by my faith lords twas a glorious day
 saint alban's battle won by famous york
 shall be eternized in all age to come
 sound drums and trumpets and to london all
 and more such days as these to us befall
 exeunt
 3 king henry vi
 
 
 dramatis personae
king henry the sixth
edward
prince of wales his son prince edward
king lewis xi king of france king lewis xi
duke of somerset somerset
duke of exeter exeter
earl of oxford oxford
earl of
northumberland northumberland
earl of
westmoreland westmoreland
lord clifford clifford
richard
plantagenet duke of york york
edward edward earl of march 
 afterwards king edward iv 
 king edward iv 
 
edmund earl of rutland rutland 
 his sons
george george afterwards duke of 
 clarence clarence 
 
richard richard afterwards duke of 
 gloucester gloucester 
duke of norfolk norfolk
marquess of
montague montague
earl of warwick warwick
earl of pembroke pembroke
lord hastings hastings
lord stafford stafford
sir john mortimer john mortimer 
 uncles to the duke of york
sir hugh mortimer hugh mortimer 
henry earl of richmond a youth henry of richmond
lord rivers brother to lady grey rivers
sir
william stanley stanley
sir
john montgomery montgomery
sir
john somerville somerville
 tutor to rutland tutor
 mayor of york mayor
 lieutenant of the tower lieutenant
 a nobleman nobleman
 two keepers
 first keeper
 second keeper
 a huntsman huntsman
 a son that has killed his father son
 a father that has killed his son father
queen margaret
lady grey afterwards queen to edward iv queen elizabeth
bona sister to the french queen
 soldiers attendants messengers watchmen &c
 soldier
 post
 messenger
 first messenger
 second messenger
 first watchman
 second watchman
 third watchman
scene england and france
act i
scene i london the parliamenthouse
 alarum enter york edward richard norfolk
 montague warwick and soldiers
warwick i wonder how the king escaped our hands
york while we pursued the horsemen of the north
 he slily stole away and left his men
 whereat the great lord of northumberland
 whose warlike ears could never brook retreat
 cheer'd up the drooping army and himself
 lord clifford and lord stafford all abreast
 charged our main battle's front and breaking in
 were by the swords of common soldiers slain
edward lord stafford's father duke of buckingham
 is either slain or wounded dangerously
 i cleft his beaver with a downright blow
 that this is true father behold his blood
montague and brother here's the earl of wiltshire's blood
 whom i encounter'd as the battles join'd
richard speak thou for me and tell them what i did
 throwing down somerset's head
york richard hath best deserved of all my sons
 but is your grace dead my lord of somerset
norfolk such hope have all the line of john of gaunt
richard thus do i hope to shake king henry's head
warwick and so do i victorious prince of york
 before i see thee seated in that throne
 which now the house of lancaster usurps
 i vow by heaven these eyes shall never close
 this is the palace of the fearful king
 and this the regal seat possess it york
 for this is thine and not king henry's heirs'
york assist me then sweet warwick and i will
 for hither we have broken in by force
norfolk we'll all assist you he that flies shall die
york thanks gentle norfolk stay by me my lords
 and soldiers stay and lodge by me this night
 they go up
warwick and when the king comes offer no violence
 unless he seek to thrust you out perforce
york the queen this day here holds her parliament
 but little thinks we shall be of her council
 by words or blows here let us win our right
richard arm'd as we are let's stay within this house
warwick the bloody parliament shall this be call'd
 unless plantagenet duke of york be king
 and bashful henry deposed whose cowardice
 hath made us bywords to our enemies
york then leave me not my lords be resolute
 i mean to take possession of my right
warwick neither the king nor he that loves him best
 the proudest he that holds up lancaster
 dares stir a wing if warwick shake his bells
 i'll plant plantagenet root him up who dares
 resolve thee richard claim the english crown
 flourish enter king henry vi clifford
 northumberland westmoreland exeter and the rest
king henry vi my lords look where the sturdy rebel sits
 even in the chair of state belike he means
 back'd by the power of warwick that false peer
 to aspire unto the crown and reign as king
 earl of northumberland he slew thy father
 and thine lord clifford and you both have vow'd revenge
 on him his sons his favourites and his friends
northumberland if i be not heavens be revenged on me
clifford the hope thereof makes clifford mourn in steel
westmoreland what shall we suffer this let's pluck him down
 my heart for anger burns i cannot brook it
king henry vi be patient gentle earl of westmoreland
clifford patience is for poltroons such as he
 he durst not sit there had your father lived
 my gracious lord here in the parliament
 let us assail the family of york
northumberland well hast thou spoken cousin be it so
king henry vi ah know you not the city favours them
 and they have troops of soldiers at their beck
exeter but when the duke is slain they'll quickly fly
king henry vi far be the thought of this from henry's heart
 to make a shambles of the parliamenthouse
 cousin of exeter frowns words and threats
 shall be the war that henry means to use
 thou factious duke of york descend my throne
 and kneel for grace and mercy at my feet
 i am thy sovereign
york i am thine
exeter for shame come down he made thee duke of york
york twas my inheritance as the earldom was
exeter thy father was a traitor to the crown
warwick exeter thou art a traitor to the crown
 in following this usurping henry
clifford whom should he follow but his natural king
warwick true clifford and that's richard duke of york
king henry vi and shall i stand and thou sit in my throne
york it must and shall be so content thyself
warwick be duke of lancaster let him be king
westmoreland he is both king and duke of lancaster
 and that the lord of westmoreland shall maintain
warwick and warwick shall disprove it you forget
 that we are those which chased you from the field
 and slew your fathers and with colours spread
 march'd through the city to the palace gates
northumberland yes warwick i remember it to my grief
 and by his soul thou and thy house shall rue it
westmoreland plantagenet of thee and these thy sons
 thy kinsman and thy friends i'll have more lives
 than drops of blood were in my father's veins
clifford urge it no more lest that instead of words
 i send thee warwick such a messenger
 as shall revenge his death before i stir
warwick poor clifford how i scorn his worthless threats
york will you we show our title to the crown
 if not our swords shall plead it in the field
king henry vi what title hast thou traitor to the crown
 thy father was as thou art duke of york
 thy grandfather roger mortimer earl of march
 i am the son of henry the fifth
 who made the dauphin and the french to stoop
 and seized upon their towns and provinces
warwick talk not of france sith thou hast lost it all
king henry vi the lord protector lost it and not i
 when i was crown'd i was but nine months old
richard you are old enough now and yet methinks you lose
 father tear the crown from the usurper's head
edward sweet father do so set it on your head
montague good brother as thou lovest and honourest arms
 let's fight it out and not stand cavilling thus
richard sound drums and trumpets and the king will fly
york sons peace
king henry vi peace thou and give king henry leave to speak
warwick plantagenet shall speak first hear him lords
 and be you silent and attentive too
 for he that interrupts him shall not live
king henry vi think'st thou that i will leave my kingly throne
 wherein my grandsire and my father sat
 no first shall war unpeople this my realm
 ay and their colours often borne in france
 and now in england to our heart's great sorrow
 shall be my windingsheet why faint you lords
 my title's good and better far than his
warwick prove it henry and thou shalt be king
king henry vi henry the fourth by conquest got the crown
york twas by rebellion against his king
king henry vi aside i know not what to say my title's weak
 tell me may not a king adopt an heir
york what then
king henry vi an if he may then am i lawful king
 for richard in the view of many lords
 resign'd the crown to henry the fourth
 whose heir my father was and i am his
york he rose against him being his sovereign
 and made him to resign his crown perforce
warwick suppose my lords he did it unconstrain'd
 think you twere prejudicial to his crown
exeter no for he could not so resign his crown
 but that the next heir should succeed and reign
king henry vi art thou against us duke of exeter
exeter his is the right and therefore pardon me
york why whisper you my lords and answer not
exeter my conscience tells me he is lawful king
king henry vi aside all will revolt from me and turn to him
northumberland plantagenet for all the claim thou lay'st
 think not that henry shall be so deposed
warwick deposed he shall be in despite of all
northumberland thou art deceived tis not thy southern power
 of essex norfolk suffolk nor of kent
 which makes thee thus presumptuous and proud
 can set the duke up in despite of me
clifford king henry be thy title right or wrong
 lord clifford vows to fight in thy defence
 may that ground gape and swallow me alive
 where i shall kneel to him that slew my father
king henry vi o clifford how thy words revive my heart
york henry of lancaster resign thy crown
 what mutter you or what conspire you lords
warwick do right unto this princely duke of york
 or i will fill the house with armed men
 and over the chair of state where now he sits
 write up his title with usurping blood
 he stamps with his foot and the soldiers show
 themselves
king henry vi my lord of warwick hear me but one word
 let me for this my lifetime reign as king
york confirm the crown to me and to mine heirs
 and thou shalt reign in quiet while thou livest
king henry vi i am content richard plantagenet
 enjoy the kingdom after my decease
clifford what wrong is this unto the prince your son
warwick what good is this to england and himself
westmoreland base fearful and despairing henry
clifford how hast thou injured both thyself and us
westmoreland i cannot stay to hear these articles
northumberland nor i
clifford come cousin let us tell the queen these news
westmoreland farewell fainthearted and degenerate king
 in whose cold blood no spark of honour bides
northumberland be thou a prey unto the house of york
 and die in bands for this unmanly deed
clifford in dreadful war mayst thou be overcome
 or live in peace abandon'd and despised
 exeunt northumberland clifford and westmoreland
warwick turn this way henry and regard them not
exeter they seek revenge and therefore will not yield
king henry vi ah exeter
warwick why should you sigh my lord
king henry vi not for myself lord warwick but my son
 whom i unnaturally shall disinherit
 but be it as it may i here entail
 the crown to thee and to thine heirs for ever
 conditionally that here thou take an oath
 to cease this civil war and whilst i live
 to honour me as thy king and sovereign
 and neither by treason nor hostility
 to seek to put me down and reign thyself
york this oath i willingly take and will perform
warwick long live king henry plantagenet embrace him
king henry vi and long live thou and these thy forward sons
york now york and lancaster are reconciled
exeter accursed be he that seeks to make them foes
 sennet here they come down
york farewell my gracious lord i'll to my castle
warwick and i'll keep london with my soldiers
norfolk and i to norfolk with my followers
montague and i unto the sea from whence i came
 exeunt york edward edmund george richard
 warwick norfolk montague their soldiers and
 attendants
king henry vi and i with grief and sorrow to the court
 enter queen margaret and prince edward
exeter here comes the queen whose looks bewray her anger
 i'll steal away
king henry vi exeter so will i
queen margaret nay go not from me i will follow thee
king henry vi be patient gentle queen and i will stay
queen margaret who can be patient in such extremes
 ah wretched man would i had died a maid
 and never seen thee never borne thee son
 seeing thou hast proved so unnatural a father
 hath he deserved to lose his birthright thus
 hadst thou but loved him half so well as i
 or felt that pain which i did for him once
 or nourish'd him as i did with my blood
 thou wouldst have left thy dearest heartblood there
 rather than have that savage duke thine heir
 and disinherited thine only son
prince edward father you cannot disinherit me
 if you be king why should not i succeed
king henry vi pardon me margaret pardon me sweet son
 the earl of warwick and the duke enforced me
queen margaret enforced thee art thou king and wilt be forced
 i shame to hear thee speak ah timorous wretch
 thou hast undone thyself thy son and me
 and given unto the house of york such head
 as thou shalt reign but by their sufferance
 to entail him and his heirs unto the crown
 what is it but to make thy sepulchre
 and creep into it far before thy time
 warwick is chancellor and the lord of calais
 stern falconbridge commands the narrow seas
 the duke is made protector of the realm
 and yet shalt thou be safe such safety finds
 the trembling lamb environed with wolves
 had i been there which am a silly woman
 the soldiers should have toss'd me on their pikes
 before i would have granted to that act
 but thou preferr'st thy life before thine honour
 and seeing thou dost i here divorce myself
 both from thy table henry and thy bed
 until that act of parliament be repeal'd
 whereby my son is disinherited
 the northern lords that have forsworn thy colours
 will follow mine if once they see them spread
 and spread they shall be to thy foul disgrace
 and utter ruin of the house of york
 thus do i leave thee come son let's away
 our army is ready come we'll after them
king henry vi stay gentle margaret and hear me speak
queen margaret thou hast spoke too much already get thee gone
king henry vi gentle son edward thou wilt stay with me
queen margaret ay to be murder'd by his enemies
prince edward when i return with victory from the field
 i'll see your grace till then i'll follow her
queen margaret come son away we may not linger thus
 exeunt queen margaret and prince edward
king henry vi poor queen how love to me and to her son
 hath made her break out into terms of rage
 revenged may she be on that hateful duke
 whose haughty spirit winged with desire
 will cost my crown and like an empty eagle
 tire on the flesh of me and of my son
 the loss of those three lords torments my heart
 i'll write unto them and entreat them fair
 come cousin you shall be the messenger
exeter and i i hope shall reconcile them all
 exeunt
 3 king henry vi
act i
scene ii sandal castle
 enter richard edward and montague
richard brother though i be youngest give me leave
edward no i can better play the orator
montague but i have reasons strong and forcible
 enter york
york why how now sons and brother at a strife
 what is your quarrel how began it first
edward no quarrel but a slight contention
york about what
richard about that which concerns your grace and us
 the crown of england father which is yours
york mine boy not till king henry be dead
richard your right depends not on his life or death
edward now you are heir therefore enjoy it now
 by giving the house of lancaster leave to breathe
 it will outrun you father in the end
york i took an oath that he should quietly reign
edward but for a kingdom any oath may be broken
 i would break a thousand oaths to reign one year
richard no god forbid your grace should be forsworn
york i shall be if i claim by open war
richard i'll prove the contrary if you'll hear me speak
york thou canst not son it is impossible
richard an oath is of no moment being not took
 before a true and lawful magistrate
 that hath authority over him that swears
 henry had none but did usurp the place
 then seeing twas he that made you to depose
 your oath my lord is vain and frivolous
 therefore to arms and father do but think
 how sweet a thing it is to wear a crown
 within whose circuit is elysium
 and all that poets feign of bliss and joy
 why do we finger thus i cannot rest
 until the white rose that i wear be dyed
 even in the lukewarm blood of henry's heart
york richard enough i will be king or die
 brother thou shalt to london presently
 and whet on warwick to this enterprise
 thou richard shalt to the duke of norfolk
 and tell him privily of our intent
 you edward shall unto my lord cobham
 with whom the kentishmen will willingly rise
 in them i trust for they are soldiers
 witty courteous liberal full of spirit
 while you are thus employ'd what resteth more
 but that i seek occasion how to rise
 and yet the king not privy to my drift
 nor any of the house of lancaster
 enter a messenger
 but stay what news why comest thou in such post
messenger the queen with all the northern earls and lords
 intend here to besiege you in your castle
 she is hard by with twenty thousand men
 and therefore fortify your hold my lord
york ay with my sword what think'st thou that we fear them
 edward and richard you shall stay with me
 my brother montague shall post to london
 let noble warwick cobham and the rest
 whom we have left protectors of the king
 with powerful policy strengthen themselves
 and trust not simple henry nor his oaths
montague brother i go i'll win them fear it not
 and thus most humbly i do take my leave
 exit
 enter john mortimer and hugh mortimer
 sir john and sir hugh mortimer mine uncles
 you are come to sandal in a happy hour
 the army of the queen mean to besiege us
john mortimer she shall not need we'll meet her in the field
york what with five thousand men
richard ay with five hundred father for a need
 a woman's general what should we fear
 a march afar off
edward i hear their drums let's set our men in order
 and issue forth and bid them battle straight
york five men to twenty though the odds be great
 i doubt not uncle of our victory
 many a battle have i won in france
 when as the enemy hath been ten to one
 why should i not now have the like success
 alarum exeunt
 3 king henry vi
act i
scene iii field of battle betwixt sandal castle and wakefield
 alarums enter rutland and his tutor
rutland ah whither shall i fly to scape their hands
 ah tutor look where bloody clifford comes
 enter clifford and soldiers
clifford chaplain away thy priesthood saves thy life
 as for the brat of this accursed duke
 whose father slew my father he shall die
tutor and i my lord will bear him company
clifford soldiers away with him
tutor ah clifford murder not this innocent child
 lest thou be hated both of god and man
 exit dragged off by soldiers
clifford how now is he dead already or is it fear
 that makes him close his eyes i'll open them
rutland so looks the pentup lion o'er the wretch
 that trembles under his devouring paws
 and so he walks insulting o'er his prey
 and so he comes to rend his limbs asunder
 ah gentle clifford kill me with thy sword
 and not with such a cruel threatening look
 sweet clifford hear me speak before i die
 i am too mean a subject for thy wrath
 be thou revenged on men and let me live
clifford in vain thou speak'st poor boy my father's blood
 hath stopp'd the passage where thy words should enter
rutland then let my father's blood open it again
 he is a man and clifford cope with him
clifford had thy brethren here their lives and thine
 were not revenge sufficient for me
 no if i digg'd up thy forefathers graves
 and hung their rotten coffins up in chains
 it could not slake mine ire nor ease my heart
 the sight of any of the house of york
 is as a fury to torment my soul
 and till i root out their accursed line
 and leave not one alive i live in hell
 therefore
 lifting his hand
rutland o let me pray before i take my death
 to thee i pray sweet clifford pity me
clifford such pity as my rapier's point affords
rutland i never did thee harm why wilt thou slay me
clifford thy father hath
rutland but twas ere i was born
 thou hast one son for his sake pity me
 lest in revenge thereof sith god is just
 he be as miserably slain as i
 ah let me live in prison all my days
 and when i give occasion of offence
 then let me die for now thou hast no cause
clifford no cause
 thy father slew my father therefore die
 stabs him
rutland di faciant laudis summa sit ista tuae
 dies
clifford plantagenet i come plantagenet
 and this thy son's blood cleaving to my blade
 shall rust upon my weapon till thy blood
 congeal'd with this do make me wipe off both
 exit
 3 king henry vi
act i
scene iv another part of the field
 alarum enter york
york the army of the queen hath got the field
 my uncles both are slain in rescuing me
 and all my followers to the eager foe
 turn back and fly like ships before the wind
 or lambs pursued by hungerstarved wolves
 my sons god knows what hath bechanced them
 but this i know they have demean'd themselves
 like men born to renown by life or death
 three times did richard make a lane to me
 and thrice cried courage father fight it out'
 and full as oft came edward to my side
 with purple falchion painted to the hilt
 in blood of those that had encounter'd him
 and when the hardiest warriors did retire
 richard cried charge and give no foot of ground'
 and cried a crown or else a glorious tomb
 a sceptre or an earthly sepulchre'
 with this we charged again but out alas
 we bodged again as i have seen a swan
 with bootless labour swim against the tide
 and spend her strength with overmatching waves
 a short alarum within
 ah hark the fatal followers do pursue
 and i am faint and cannot fly their fury
 and were i strong i would not shun their fury
 the sands are number'd that make up my life
 here must i stay and here my life must end
 enter queen margaret clifford northumberland
 prince edward and soldiers
 come bloody clifford rough northumberland
 i dare your quenchless fury to more rage
 i am your butt and i abide your shot
northumberland yield to our mercy proud plantagenet
clifford ay to such mercy as his ruthless arm
 with downright payment show'd unto my father
 now phaethon hath tumbled from his car
 and made an evening at the noontide prick
york my ashes as the phoenix may bring forth
 a bird that will revenge upon you all
 and in that hope i throw mine eyes to heaven
 scorning whate'er you can afflict me with
 why come you not what multitudes and fear
clifford so cowards fight when they can fly no further
 so doves do peck the falcon's piercing talons
 so desperate thieves all hopeless of their lives
 breathe out invectives gainst the officers
york o clifford but bethink thee once again
 and in thy thought o'errun my former time
 and if though canst for blushing view this face
 and bite thy tongue that slanders him with cowardice
 whose frown hath made thee faint and fly ere this
clifford i will not bandy with thee word for word
 but buckle with thee blows twice two for one
queen margaret hold valiant clifford for a thousand causes
 i would prolong awhile the traitor's life
 wrath makes him deaf speak thou northumberland
northumberland hold clifford do not honour him so much
 to prick thy finger though to wound his heart
 what valour were it when a cur doth grin
 for one to thrust his hand between his teeth
 when he might spurn him with his foot away
 it is war's prize to take all vantages
 and ten to one is no impeach of valour
 they lay hands on york who struggles
clifford ay ay so strives the woodcock with the gin
northumberland so doth the cony struggle in the net
york so triumph thieves upon their conquer'd booty
 so true men yield with robbers so o'ermatch'd
northumberland what would your grace have done unto him now
queen margaret brave warriors clifford and northumberland
 come make him stand upon this molehill here
 that raught at mountains with outstretched arms
 yet parted but the shadow with his hand
 what was it you that would be england's king
 was't you that revell'd in our parliament
 and made a preachment of your high descent
 where are your mess of sons to back you now
 the wanton edward and the lusty george
 and where's that valiant crookback prodigy
 dicky your boy that with his grumbling voice
 was wont to cheer his dad in mutinies
 or with the rest where is your darling rutland
 look york i stain'd this napkin with the blood
 that valiant clifford with his rapier's point
 made issue from the bosom of the boy
 and if thine eyes can water for his death
 i give thee this to dry thy cheeks withal
 alas poor york but that i hate thee deadly
 i should lament thy miserable state
 i prithee grieve to make me merry york
 what hath thy fiery heart so parch'd thine entrails
 that not a tear can fall for rutland's death
 why art thou patient man thou shouldst be mad
 and i to make thee mad do mock thee thus
 stamp rave and fret that i may sing and dance
 thou wouldst be fee'd i see to make me sport
 york cannot speak unless he wear a crown
 a crown for york and lords bow low to him
 hold you his hands whilst i do set it on
 putting a paper crown on his head
 ay marry sir now looks he like a king
 ay this is he that took king henry's chair
 and this is he was his adopted heir
 but how is it that great plantagenet
 is crown'd so soon and broke his solemn oath
 as i bethink me you should not be king
 till our king henry had shook hands with death
 and will you pale your head in henry's glory
 and rob his temples of the diadem
 now in his life against your holy oath
 o tis a fault too too unpardonable
 off with the crown and with the crown his head
 and whilst we breathe take time to do him dead
clifford that is my office for my father's sake
queen margaret nay stay lets hear the orisons he makes
york shewolf of france but worse than wolves of france
 whose tongue more poisons than the adder's tooth
 how illbeseeming is it in thy sex
 to triumph like an amazonian trull
 upon their woes whom fortune captivates
 but that thy face is vizardlike unchanging
 made impudent with use of evil deeds
 i would assay proud queen to make thee blush
 to tell thee whence thou camest of whom derived
 were shame enough to shame thee wert thou not shameless
 thy father bears the type of king of naples
 of both the sicils and jerusalem
 yet not so wealthy as an english yeoman
 hath that poor monarch taught thee to insult
 it needs not nor it boots thee not proud queen
 unless the adage must be verified
 that beggars mounted run their horse to death
 tis beauty that doth oft make women proud
 but god he knows thy share thereof is small
 tis virtue that doth make them most admired
 the contrary doth make thee wonder'd at
 tis government that makes them seem divine
 the want thereof makes thee abominable
 thou art as opposite to every good
 as the antipodes are unto us
 or as the south to the septentrion
 o tiger's heart wrapt in a woman's hide
 how couldst thou drain the lifeblood of the child
 to bid the father wipe his eyes withal
 and yet be seen to bear a woman's face
 women are soft mild pitiful and flexible
 thou stern obdurate flinty rough remorseless
 bids't thou me rage why now thou hast thy wish
 wouldst have me weep why now thou hast thy will
 for raging wind blows up incessant showers
 and when the rage allays the rain begins
 these tears are my sweet rutland's obsequies
 and every drop cries vengeance for his death
 gainst thee fell clifford and thee false
 frenchwoman
northumberland beshrew me but his passion moves me so
 that hardly can i cheque my eyes from tears
york that face of his the hungry cannibals
 would not have touch'd would not have stain'd with blood
 but you are more inhuman more inexorable
 o ten times more than tigers of hyrcania
 see ruthless queen a hapless father's tears
 this cloth thou dip'dst in blood of my sweet boy
 and i with tears do wash the blood away
 keep thou the napkin and go boast of this
 and if thou tell'st the heavy story right
 upon my soul the hearers will shed tears
 yea even my foes will shed fastfalling tears
 and say alas it was a piteous deed'
 there take the crown and with the crown my curse
 and in thy need such comfort come to thee
 as now i reap at thy too cruel hand
 hardhearted clifford take me from the world
 my soul to heaven my blood upon your heads
northumberland had he been slaughterman to all my kin
 i should not for my life but weep with him
 to see how inly sorrow gripes his soul
queen margaret what weepingripe my lord northumberland
 think but upon the wrong he did us all
 and that will quickly dry thy melting tears
clifford here's for my oath here's for my father's death
 stabbing him
queen margaret and here's to right our gentlehearted king
 stabbing him
york open thy gate of mercy gracious god
 my soul flies through these wounds to seek out thee
 dies
queen margaret off with his head and set it on york gates
 so york may overlook the town of york
 flourish exeunt
 3 king henry vi
act ii
scene i a plain near mortimer's cross in herefordshire
 a march enter edward richard and their power
edward i wonder how our princely father scaped
 or whether he be scaped away or no
 from clifford's and northumberland's pursuit
 had he been ta'en we should have heard the news
 had he been slain we should have heard the news
 or had he scaped methinks we should have heard
 the happy tidings of his good escape
 how fares my brother why is he so sad
richard i cannot joy until i be resolved
 where our right valiant father is become
 i saw him in the battle range about
 and watch'd him how he singled clifford forth
 methought he bore him in the thickest troop
 as doth a lion in a herd of neat
 or as a bear encompass'd round with dogs
 who having pinch'd a few and made them cry
 the rest stand all aloof and bark at him
 so fared our father with his enemies
 so fled his enemies my warlike father
 methinks tis prize enough to be his son
 see how the morning opes her golden gates
 and takes her farewell of the glorious sun
 how well resembles it the prime of youth
 trimm'd like a younker prancing to his love
edward dazzle mine eyes or do i see three suns
richard three glorious suns each one a perfect sun
 not separated with the racking clouds
 but sever'd in a pale clearshining sky
 see see they join embrace and seem to kiss
 as if they vow'd some league inviolable
 now are they but one lamp one light one sun
 in this the heaven figures some event
edward tis wondrous strange the like yet never heard of
 i think it cites us brother to the field
 that we the sons of brave plantagenet
 each one already blazing by our meeds
 should notwithstanding join our lights together
 and overshine the earth as this the world
 whate'er it bodes henceforward will i bear
 upon my target three fairshining suns
richard nay bear three daughters by your leave i speak it
 you love the breeder better than the male
 enter a messenger
 but what art thou whose heavy looks foretell
 some dreadful story hanging on thy tongue
messenger ah one that was a woful lookeron
 when as the noble duke of york was slain
 your princely father and my loving lord
edward o speak no more for i have heard too much
richard say how he died for i will hear it all
messenger environed he was with many foes
 and stood against them as the hope of troy
 against the greeks that would have enter'd troy
 but hercules himself must yield to odds
 and many strokes though with a little axe
 hew down and fell the hardesttimber'd oak
 by many hands your father was subdued
 but only slaughter'd by the ireful arm
 of unrelenting clifford and the queen
 who crown'd the gracious duke in high despite
 laugh'd in his face and when with grief he wept
 the ruthless queen gave him to dry his cheeks
 a napkin steeped in the harmless blood
 of sweet young rutland by rough clifford slain
 and after many scorns many foul taunts
 they took his head and on the gates of york
 they set the same and there it doth remain
 the saddest spectacle that e'er i view'd
edward sweet duke of york our prop to lean upon
 now thou art gone we have no staff no stay
 o clifford boisterous clifford thou hast slain
 the flower of europe for his chivalry
 and treacherously hast thou vanquish'd him
 for hand to hand he would have vanquish'd thee
 now my soul's palace is become a prison
 ah would she break from hence that this my body
 might in the ground be closed up in rest
 for never henceforth shall i joy again
 never o never shall i see more joy
richard i cannot weep for all my body's moisture
 scarce serves to quench my furnaceburning heart
 nor can my tongue unload my heart's great burthen
 for selfsame wind that i should speak withal
 is kindling coals that fires all my breast
 and burns me up with flames that tears would quench
 to weep is to make less the depth of grief
 tears then for babes blows and revenge for me
 richard i bear thy name i'll venge thy death
 or die renowned by attempting it
edward his name that valiant duke hath left with thee
 his dukedom and his chair with me is left
richard nay if thou be that princely eagle's bird
 show thy descent by gazing gainst the sun
 for chair and dukedom throne and kingdom say
 either that is thine or else thou wert not his
 march enter warwick montague and their army
warwick how now fair lords what fare what news abroad
richard great lord of warwick if we should recount
 our baleful news and at each word's deliverance
 stab poniards in our flesh till all were told
 the words would add more anguish than the wounds
 o valiant lord the duke of york is slain
edward o warwick warwick that plantagenet
 which held three dearly as his soul's redemption
 is by the stern lord clifford done to death
warwick ten days ago i drown'd these news in tears
 and now to add more measure to your woes
 i come to tell you things sith then befall'n
 after the bloody fray at wakefield fought
 where your brave father breathed his latest gasp
 tidings as swiftly as the posts could run
 were brought me of your loss and his depart
 i then in london keeper of the king
 muster'd my soldiers gather'd flocks of friends
 and very well appointed as i thought
 march'd toward saint alban's to intercept the queen
 bearing the king in my behalf along
 for by my scouts i was advertised
 that she was coming with a full intent
 to dash our late decree in parliament
 touching king henry's oath and your succession
 short tale to make we at saint alban's met
 our battles join'd and both sides fiercely fought
 but whether twas the coldness of the king
 who look'd full gently on his warlike queen
 that robb'd my soldiers of their heated spleen
 or whether twas report of her success
 or more than common fear of clifford's rigour
 who thunders to his captives blood and death
 i cannot judge but to conclude with truth
 their weapons like to lightning came and went
 our soldiers like the nightowl's lazy flight
 or like an idle thresher with a flail
 fell gently down as if they struck their friends
 i cheer'd them up with justice of our cause
 with promise of high pay and great rewards
 but all in vain they had no heart to fight
 and we in them no hope to win the day
 so that we fled the king unto the queen
 lord george your brother norfolk and myself
 in haste posthaste are come to join with you
 for in the marches here we heard you were
 making another head to fight again
edward where is the duke of norfolk gentle warwick
 and when came george from burgundy to england
warwick some six miles off the duke is with the soldiers
 and for your brother he was lately sent
 from your kind aunt duchess of burgundy
 with aid of soldiers to this needful war
richard twas odds belike when valiant warwick fled
 oft have i heard his praises in pursuit
 but ne'er till now his scandal of retire
warwick nor now my scandal richard dost thou hear
 for thou shalt know this strong right hand of mine
 can pluck the diadem from faint henry's head
 and wring the awful sceptre from his fist
 were he as famous and as bold in war
 as he is famed for mildness peace and prayer
richard i know it well lord warwick blame me not
 tis love i bear thy glories makes me speak
 but in this troublous time what's to be done
 shall we go throw away our coats of steel
 and wrap our bodies in black mourning gowns
 numbering our avemaries with our beads
 or shall we on the helmets of our foes
 tell our devotion with revengeful arms
 if for the last say ay and to it lords
warwick why therefore warwick came to seek you out
 and therefore comes my brother montague
 attend me lords the proud insulting queen
 with clifford and the haught northumberland
 and of their feather many more proud birds
 have wrought the easymelting king like wax
 he swore consent to your succession
 his oath enrolled in the parliament
 and now to london all the crew are gone
 to frustrate both his oath and what beside
 may make against the house of lancaster
 their power i think is thirty thousand strong
 now if the help of norfolk and myself
 with all the friends that thou brave earl of march
 amongst the loving welshmen canst procure
 will but amount to five and twenty thousand
 why via to london will we march amain
 and once again bestride our foaming steeds
 and once again cry charge upon our foes'
 but never once again turn back and fly
richard ay now methinks i hear great warwick speak
 ne'er may he live to see a sunshine day
 that cries retire if warwick bid him stay
edward lord warwick on thy shoulder will i lean
 and when thou fail'stas god forbid the hour
 must edward fall which peril heaven forfend
warwick no longer earl of march but duke of york
 the next degree is england's royal throne
 for king of england shalt thou be proclaim'd
 in every borough as we pass along
 and he that throws not up his cap for joy
 shall for the fault make forfeit of his head
 king edward valiant richard montague
 stay we no longer dreaming of renown
 but sound the trumpets and about our task
richard then clifford were thy heart as hard as steel
 as thou hast shown it flinty by thy deeds
 i come to pierce it or to give thee mine
edward then strike up drums god and saint george for us
 enter a messenger
warwick how now what news
messenger the duke of norfolk sends you word by me
 the queen is coming with a puissant host
 and craves your company for speedy counsel
warwick why then it sorts brave warriors let's away
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 3 king henry vi
act ii
scene ii before york
 flourish enter king henry vi queen margaret
 prince edward clifford and northumberland with
 drum and trumpets
queen margaret welcome my lord to this brave town of york
 yonder's the head of that archenemy
 that sought to be encompass'd with your crown
 doth not the object cheer your heart my lord
king henry vi ay as the rocks cheer them that fear their wreck
 to see this sight it irks my very soul
 withhold revenge dear god tis not my fault
 nor wittingly have i infringed my vow
clifford my gracious liege this too much lenity
 and harmful pity must be laid aside
 to whom do lions cast their gentle looks
 not to the beast that would usurp their den
 whose hand is that the forest bear doth lick
 not his that spoils her young before her face
 who scapes the lurking serpent's mortal sting
 not he that sets his foot upon her back
 the smallest worm will turn being trodden on
 and doves will peck in safeguard of their brood
 ambitious york doth level at thy crown
 thou smiling while he knit his angry brows
 he but a duke would have his son a king
 and raise his issue like a loving sire
 thou being a king blest with a goodly son
 didst yield consent to disinherit him
 which argued thee a most unloving father
 unreasonable creatures feed their young
 and though man's face be fearful to their eyes
 yet in protection of their tender ones
 who hath not seen them even with those wings
 which sometime they have used with fearful flight
 make war with him that climb'd unto their nest
 offer their own lives in their young's defence
 for shame my liege make them your precedent
 were it not pity that this goodly boy
 should lose his birthright by his father's fault
 and long hereafter say unto his child
 what my greatgrandfather and his grandsire got
 my careless father fondly gave away'
 ah what a shame were this look on the boy
 and let his manly face which promiseth
 successful fortune steel thy melting heart
 to hold thine own and leave thine own with him
king henry vi full well hath clifford play'd the orator
 inferring arguments of mighty force
 but clifford tell me didst thou never hear
 that things illgot had ever bad success
 and happy always was it for that son
 whose father for his hoarding went to hell
 i'll leave my son my virtuous deeds behind
 and would my father had left me no more
 for all the rest is held at such a rate
 as brings a thousandfold more care to keep
 than in possession and jot of pleasure
 ah cousin york would thy best friends did know
 how it doth grieve me that thy head is here
queen margaret my lord cheer up your spirits our foes are nigh
 and this soft courage makes your followers faint
 you promised knighthood to our forward son
 unsheathe your sword and dub him presently
 edward kneel down
king henry vi edward plantagenet arise a knight
 and learn this lesson draw thy sword in right
prince my gracious father by your kingly leave
 i'll draw it as apparent to the crown
 and in that quarrel use it to the death
clifford why that is spoken like a toward prince
 enter a messenger
messenger royal commanders be in readiness
 for with a band of thirty thousand men
 comes warwick backing of the duke of york
 and in the towns as they do march along
 proclaims him king and many fly to him
 darraign your battle for they are at hand
clifford i would your highness would depart the field
 the queen hath best success when you are absent
queen margaret ay good my lord and leave us to our fortune
king henry vi why that's my fortune too therefore i'll stay
northumberland be it with resolution then to fight
prince edward my royal father cheer these noble lords
 and hearten those that fight in your defence
 unsheathe your sword good father cry saint george'
 march enter edward george richard warwick
 norfolk montague and soldiers
edward now perjured henry wilt thou kneel for grace
 and set thy diadem upon my head
 or bide the mortal fortune of the field
queen margaret go rate thy minions proud insulting boy
 becomes it thee to be thus bold in terms
 before thy sovereign and thy lawful king
edward i am his king and he should bow his knee
 i was adopted heir by his consent
 since when his oath is broke for as i hear
 you that are king though he do wear the crown
 have caused him by new act of parliament
 to blot out me and put his own son in
clifford and reason too
 who should succeed the father but the son
richard are you there butcher o i cannot speak
clifford ay crookback here i stand to answer thee
 or any he the proudest of thy sort
richard twas you that kill'd young rutland was it not
clifford ay and old york and yet not satisfied
richard for god's sake lords give signal to the fight
warwick what say'st thou henry wilt thou yield the crown
queen margaret why how now longtongued warwick dare you speak
 when you and i met at saint alban's last
 your legs did better service than your hands
warwick then twas my turn to fly and now tis thine
clifford you said so much before and yet you fled
warwick twas not your valour clifford drove me thence
northumberland no nor your manhood that durst make you stay
richard northumberland i hold thee reverently
 break off the parley for scarce i can refrain
 the execution of my bigswoln heart
 upon that clifford that cruel childkiller
clifford i slew thy father call'st thou him a child
richard ay like a dastard and a treacherous coward
 as thou didst kill our tender brother rutland
 but ere sunset i'll make thee curse the deed
king henry vi have done with words my lords and hear me speak
queen margaret defy them then or else hold close thy lips
king henry vi i prithee give no limits to my tongue
 i am a king and privileged to speak
clifford my liege the wound that bred this meeting here
 cannot be cured by words therefore be still
richard then executioner unsheathe thy sword
 by him that made us all i am resolved
 that clifford's manhood lies upon his tongue
edward say henry shall i have my right or no
 a thousand men have broke their fasts today
 that ne'er shall dine unless thou yield the crown
warwick if thou deny their blood upon thy head
 for york in justice puts his armour on
prince edward if that be right which warwick says is right
 there is no wrong but every thing is right
richard whoever got thee there thy mother stands
 for well i wot thou hast thy mother's tongue
queen margaret but thou art neither like thy sire nor dam
 but like a foul misshapen stigmatic
 mark'd by the destinies to be avoided
 as venom toads or lizards dreadful stings
richard iron of naples hid with english gilt
 whose father bears the title of a king
 as if a channel should be call'd the sea
 shamest thou not knowing whence thou art extraught
 to let thy tongue detect thy baseborn heart
edward a wisp of straw were worth a thousand crowns
 to make this shameless callet know herself
 helen of greece was fairer far than thou
 although thy husband may be menelaus
 and ne'er was agamemnon's brother wrong'd
 by that false woman as this king by thee
 his father revell'd in the heart of france
 and tamed the king and made the dauphin stoop
 and had he match'd according to his state
 he might have kept that glory to this day
 but when he took a beggar to his bed
 and graced thy poor sire with his bridalday
 even then that sunshine brew'd a shower for him
 that wash'd his father's fortunes forth of france
 and heap'd sedition on his crown at home
 for what hath broach'd this tumult but thy pride
 hadst thou been meek our title still had slept
 and we in pity of the gentle king
 had slipp'd our claim until another age
george but when we saw our sunshine made thy spring
 and that thy summer bred us no increase
 we set the axe to thy usurping root
 and though the edge hath something hit ourselves
 yet know thou since we have begun to strike
 we'll never leave till we have hewn thee down
 or bathed thy growing with our heated bloods
edward and in this resolution i defy thee
 not willing any longer conference
 since thou deniest the gentle king to speak
 sound trumpets let our bloody colours wave
 and either victory or else a grave
queen margaret stay edward
edward no wrangling woman we'll no longer stay
 these words will cost ten thousand lives this day
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 3 king henry vi
act ii
scene iii a field of battle between towton and saxton in
 yorkshire
 alarum excursions enter warwick
warwick forspent with toil as runners with a race
 i lay me down a little while to breathe
 for strokes received and many blows repaid
 have robb'd my strongknit sinews of their strength
 and spite of spite needs must i rest awhile
 enter edward running
edward smile gentle heaven or strike ungentle death
 for this world frowns and edward's sun is clouded
warwick how now my lord what hap what hope of good
 enter george
george our hap is loss our hope but sad despair
 our ranks are broke and ruin follows us
 what counsel give you whither shall we fly
edward bootless is flight they follow us with wings
 and weak we are and cannot shun pursuit
 enter richard
richard ah warwick why hast thou withdrawn thyself
 thy brother's blood the thirsty earth hath drunk
 broach'd with the steely point of clifford's lance
 and in the very pangs of death he cried
 like to a dismal clangour heard from far
 warwick revenge brother revenge my death'
 so underneath the belly of their steeds
 that stain'd their fetlocks in his smoking blood
 the noble gentleman gave up the ghost
warwick then let the earth be drunken with our blood
 i'll kill my horse because i will not fly
 why stand we like softhearted women here
 wailing our losses whiles the foe doth rage
 and look upon as if the tragedy
 were play'd in jest by counterfeiting actors
 here on my knee i vow to god above
 i'll never pause again never stand still
 till either death hath closed these eyes of mine
 or fortune given me measure of revenge
edward o warwick i do bend my knee with thine
 and in this vow do chain my soul to thine
 and ere my knee rise from the earth's cold face
 i throw my hands mine eyes my heart to thee
 thou setter up and plucker down of kings
 beseeching thee if with they will it stands
 that to my foes this body must be prey
 yet that thy brazen gates of heaven may ope
 and give sweet passage to my sinful soul
 now lords take leave until we meet again
 where'er it be in heaven or in earth
richard brother give me thy hand and gentle warwick
 let me embrace thee in my weary arms
 i that did never weep now melt with woe
 that winter should cut off our springtime so
warwick away away once more sweet lords farewell
george yet let us all together to our troops
 and give them leave to fly that will not stay
 and call them pillars that will stand to us
 and if we thrive promise them such rewards
 as victors wear at the olympian games
 this may plant courage in their quailing breasts
 for yet is hope of life and victory
 forslow no longer make we hence amain
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 3 king henry vi
act ii
scene iv another part of the field
 excursions enter richard and clifford
richard now clifford i have singled thee alone
 suppose this arm is for the duke of york
 and this for rutland both bound to revenge
 wert thou environ'd with a brazen wall
clifford now richard i am with thee here alone
 this is the hand that stabb'd thy father york
 and this the hand that slew thy brother rutland
 and here's the heart that triumphs in their death
 and cheers these hands that slew thy sire and brother
 to execute the like upon thyself
 and so have at thee
 they fight warwick comes clifford flies
richard nay warwick single out some other chase
 for i myself will hunt this wolf to death
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 3 king henry vi
act ii
scene v another part of the field
 alarum enter king henry vi alone
king henry vi this battle fares like to the morning's war
 when dying clouds contend with growing light
 what time the shepherd blowing of his nails
 can neither call it perfect day nor night
 now sways it this way like a mighty sea
 forced by the tide to combat with the wind
 now sways it that way like the selfsame sea
 forced to retire by fury of the wind
 sometime the flood prevails and then the wind
 now one the better then another best
 both tugging to be victors breast to breast
 yet neither conqueror nor conquered
 so is the equal of this fell war
 here on this molehill will i sit me down
 to whom god will there be the victory
 for margaret my queen and clifford too
 have chid me from the battle swearing both
 they prosper best of all when i am thence
 would i were dead if god's good will were so
 for what is in this world but grief and woe
 o god methinks it were a happy life
 to be no better than a homely swain
 to sit upon a hill as i do now
 to carve out dials quaintly point by point
 thereby to see the minutes how they run
 how many make the hour full complete
 how many hours bring about the day
 how many days will finish up the year
 how many years a mortal man may live
 when this is known then to divide the times
 so many hours must i tend my flock
 so many hours must i take my rest
 so many hours must i contemplate
 so many hours must i sport myself
 so many days my ewes have been with young
 so many weeks ere the poor fools will ean
 so many years ere i shall shear the fleece
 so minutes hours days months and years
 pass'd over to the end they were created
 would bring white hairs unto a quiet grave
 ah what a life were this how sweet how lovely
 gives not the hawthornbush a sweeter shade
 to shepherds looking on their silly sheep
 than doth a rich embroider'd canopy
 to kings that fear their subjects treachery
 o yes it doth a thousandfold it doth
 and to conclude the shepherd's homely curds
 his cold thin drink out of his leather bottle
 his wonted sleep under a fresh tree's shade
 all which secure and sweetly he enjoys
 is far beyond a prince's delicates
 his viands sparkling in a golden cup
 his body couched in a curious bed
 when care mistrust and treason waits on him
 alarum enter a son that has killed his father
 dragging in the dead body
son ill blows the wind that profits nobody
 this man whom hand to hand i slew in fight
 may be possessed with some store of crowns
 and i that haply take them from him now
 may yet ere night yield both my life and them
 to some man else as this dead man doth me
 who's this o god it is my father's face
 whom in this conflict i unwares have kill'd
 o heavy times begetting such events
 from london by the king was i press'd forth
 my father being the earl of warwick's man
 came on the part of york press'd by his master
 and i who at his hands received my life him
 have by my hands of life bereaved him
 pardon me god i knew not what i did
 and pardon father for i knew not thee
 my tears shall wipe away these bloody marks
 and no more words till they have flow'd their fill
king henry vi o piteous spectacle o bloody times
 whiles lions war and battle for their dens
 poor harmless lambs abide their enmity
 weep wretched man i'll aid thee tear for tear
 and let our hearts and eyes like civil war
 be blind with tears and break o'ercharged with grief
 enter a father that has killed his son bringing in the body
father thou that so stoutly hast resisted me
 give me thy gold if thou hast any gold
 for i have bought it with an hundred blows
 but let me see is this our foeman's face
 ah no no no it is mine only son
 ah boy if any life be left in thee
 throw up thine eye see see what showers arise
 blown with the windy tempest of my heart
 upon thy words that kill mine eye and heart
 o pity god this miserable age
 what stratagems how fell how butcherly
 erroneous mutinous and unnatural
 this deadly quarrel daily doth beget
 o boy thy father gave thee life too soon
 and hath bereft thee of thy life too late
king henry vi woe above woe grief more than common grief
 o that my death would stay these ruthful deeds
 o pity pity gentle heaven pity
 the red rose and the white are on his face
 the fatal colours of our striving houses
 the one his purple blood right well resembles
 the other his pale cheeks methinks presenteth
 wither one rose and let the other flourish
 if you contend a thousand lives must wither
son how will my mother for a father's death
 take on with me and ne'er be satisfied
father how will my wife for slaughter of my son
 shed seas of tears and ne'er be satisfied
king henry vi how will the country for these woful chances
 misthink the king and not be satisfied
son was ever son so rued a father's death
father was ever father so bemoan'd his son
king henry vi was ever king so grieved for subjects woe
 much is your sorrow mine ten times so much
son i'll bear thee hence where i may weep my fill
 exit with the body
father these arms of mine shall be thy windingsheet
 my heart sweet boy shall be thy sepulchre
 for from my heart thine image ne'er shall go
 my sighing breast shall be thy funeral bell
 and so obsequious will thy father be
 even for the loss of thee having no more
 as priam was for all his valiant sons
 i'll bear thee hence and let them fight that will
 for i have murdered where i should not kill
 exit with the body
king henry vi sadhearted men much overgone with care
 here sits a king more woful than you are
 alarums excursions enter queen margaret prince
 edward and exeter
prince edward fly father fly for all your friends are fled
 and warwick rages like a chafed bull
 away for death doth hold us in pursuit
queen margaret mount you my lord towards berwick post amain
 edward and richard like a brace of greyhounds
 having the fearful flying hare in sight
 with fiery eyes sparkling for very wrath
 and bloody steel grasp'd in their ireful hands
 are at our backs and therefore hence amain
exeter away for vengeance comes along with them
 nay stay not to expostulate make speed
 or else come after i'll away before
king henry vi nay take me with thee good sweet exeter
 not that i fear to stay but love to go
 whither the queen intends forward away
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 3 king henry vi
act ii
scene vi another part of the field
 a loud alarum enter clifford wounded
clifford here burns my candle out ay here it dies
 which whiles it lasted gave king henry light
 o lancaster i fear thy overthrow
 more than my body's parting with my soul
 my love and fear glued many friends to thee
 and now i fall thy tough commixture melts
 impairing henry strengthening misproud york
 the common people swarm like summer flies
 and whither fly the gnats but to the sun
 and who shines now but henry's enemies
 o phoebus hadst thou never given consent
 that phaethon should cheque thy fiery steeds
 thy burning car never had scorch'd the earth
 and henry hadst thou sway'd as kings should do
 or as thy father and his father did
 giving no ground unto the house of york
 they never then had sprung like summer flies
 i and ten thousand in this luckless realm
 had left no mourning widows for our death
 and thou this day hadst kept thy chair in peace
 for what doth cherish weeds but gentle air
 and what makes robbers bold but too much lenity
 bootless are plaints and cureless are my wounds
 no way to fly nor strength to hold out flight
 the foe is merciless and will not pity
 for at their hands i have deserved no pity
 the air hath got into my deadly wounds
 and much effuse of blood doth make me faint
 come york and richard warwick and the rest
 i stabb'd your fathers bosoms split my breast
 he faints
 alarum and retreat enter edward george richard
 montague warwick and soldiers
edward now breathe we lords good fortune bids us pause
 and smooth the frowns of war with peaceful looks
 some troops pursue the bloodyminded queen
 that led calm henry though he were a king
 as doth a sail fill'd with a fretting gust
 command an argosy to stem the waves
 but think you lords that clifford fled with them
warwick no tis impossible he should escape
 for though before his face i speak the words
 your brother richard mark'd him for the grave
 and wheresoe'er he is he's surely dead
 clifford groans and dies
edward whose soul is that which takes her heavy leave
richard a deadly groan like life and death's departing
edward see who it is and now the battle's ended
 if friend or foe let him be gently used
richard revoke that doom of mercy for tis clifford
 who not contented that he lopp'd the branch
 in hewing rutland when his leaves put forth
 but set his murdering knife unto the root
 from whence that tender spray did sweetly spring
 i mean our princely father duke of york
warwick from off the gates of york fetch down the head
 your father's head which clifford placed there
 instead whereof let this supply the room
 measure for measure must be answered
edward bring forth that fatal screechowl to our house
 that nothing sung but death to us and ours
 now death shall stop his dismal threatening sound
 and his illboding tongue no more shall speak
warwick i think his understanding is bereft
 speak clifford dost thou know who speaks to thee
 dark cloudy death o'ershades his beams of life
 and he nor sees nor hears us what we say
richard o would he did and so perhaps he doth
 tis but his policy to counterfeit
 because he would avoid such bitter taunts
 which in the time of death he gave our father
george if so thou think'st vex him with eager words
richard clifford ask mercy and obtain no grace
edward clifford repent in bootless penitence
warwick clifford devise excuses for thy faults
george while we devise fell tortures for thy faults
richard thou didst love york and i am son to york
edward thou pitied'st rutland i will pity thee
george where's captain margaret to fence you now
warwick they mock thee clifford swear as thou wast wont
richard what not an oath nay then the world goes hard
 when clifford cannot spare his friends an oath
 i know by that he's dead and by my soul
 if this right hand would buy two hour's life
 that i in all despite might rail at him
 this hand should chop it off and with the
 issuing blood
 stifle the villain whose unstanched thirst
 york and young rutland could not satisfy
warwick ay but he's dead off with the traitor's head
 and rear it in the place your father's stands
 and now to london with triumphant march
 there to be crowned england's royal king
 from whence shall warwick cut the sea to france
 and ask the lady bona for thy queen
 so shalt thou sinew both these lands together
 and having france thy friend thou shalt not dread
 the scatter'd foe that hopes to rise again
 for though they cannot greatly sting to hurt
 yet look to have them buzz to offend thine ears
 first will i see the coronation
 and then to brittany i'll cross the sea
 to effect this marriage so it please my lord
edward even as thou wilt sweet warwick let it be
 for in thy shoulder do i build my seat
 and never will i undertake the thing
 wherein thy counsel and consent is wanting
 richard i will create thee duke of gloucester
 and george of clarence warwick as ourself
 shall do and undo as him pleaseth best
richard let me be duke of clarence george of gloucester
 for gloucester's dukedom is too ominous
warwick tut that's a foolish observation
 richard be duke of gloucester now to london
 to see these honours in possession
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 3 king henry vi
act iii
scene i a forest in the north of england
 enter two keepers with crossbows in their hands
first keeper under this thickgrown brake we'll shroud ourselves
 for through this laund anon the deer will come
 and in this covert will we make our stand
 culling the principal of all the deer
second keeper i'll stay above the hill so both may shoot
first keeper that cannot be the noise of thy crossbow
 will scare the herd and so my shoot is lost
 here stand we both and aim we at the best
 and for the time shall not seem tedious
 i'll tell thee what befell me on a day
 in this selfplace where now we mean to stand
second keeper here comes a man let's stay till he be past
 enter king henry vi disguised with a prayerbook
king henry vi from scotland am i stol'n even of pure love
 to greet mine own land with my wishful sight
 no harry harry tis no land of thine
 thy place is fill'd thy sceptre wrung from thee
 thy balm wash'd off wherewith thou wast anointed
 no bending knee will call thee caesar now
 no humble suitors press to speak for right
 no not a man comes for redress of thee
 for how can i help them and not myself
first keeper ay here's a deer whose skin's a keeper's fee
 this is the quondam king let's seize upon him
king henry vi let me embrace thee sour adversity
 for wise men say it is the wisest course
second keeper why linger we let us lay hands upon him
first keeper forbear awhile we'll hear a little more
king henry vi my queen and son are gone to france for aid
 and as i hear the great commanding warwick
 is thither gone to crave the french king's sister
 to wife for edward if this news be true
 poor queen and son your labour is but lost
 for warwick is a subtle orator
 and lewis a prince soon won with moving words
 by this account then margaret may win him
 for she's a woman to be pitied much
 her sighs will make a battery in his breast
 her tears will pierce into a marble heart
 the tiger will be mild whiles she doth mourn
 and nero will be tainted with remorse
 to hear and see her plaints her brinish tears
 ay but she's come to beg warwick to give
 she on his left side craving aid for henry
 he on his right asking a wife for edward
 she weeps and says her henry is deposed
 he smiles and says his edward is install'd
 that she poor wretch for grief can speak no more
 whiles warwick tells his title smooths the wrong
 inferreth arguments of mighty strength
 and in conclusion wins the king from her
 with promise of his sister and what else
 to strengthen and support king edward's place
 o margaret thus twill be and thou poor soul
 art then forsaken as thou went'st forlorn
second keeper say what art thou that talk'st of kings and queens
king henry vi more than i seem and less than i was born to
 a man at least for less i should not be
 and men may talk of kings and why not i
second keeper ay but thou talk'st as if thou wert a king
king henry vi why so i am in mind and that's enough
second keeper but if thou be a king where is thy crown
king henry vi my crown is in my heart not on my head
 not decked with diamonds and indian stones
 nor to be seen my crown is called content
 a crown it is that seldom kings enjoy
second keeper well if you be a king crown'd with content
 your crown content and you must be contented
 to go along with us for as we think
 you are the king king edward hath deposed
 and we his subjects sworn in all allegiance
 will apprehend you as his enemy
king henry vi but did you never swear and break an oath
second keeper no never such an oath nor will not now
king henry vi where did you dwell when i was king of england
second keeper here in this country where we now remain
king henry vi i was anointed king at nine months old
 my father and my grandfather were kings
 and you were sworn true subjects unto me
 and tell me then have you not broke your oaths
first keeper no
 for we were subjects but while you were king
king henry vi why am i dead do i not breathe a man
 ah simple men you know not what you swear
 look as i blow this feather from my face
 and as the air blows it to me again
 obeying with my wind when i do blow
 and yielding to another when it blows
 commanded always by the greater gust
 such is the lightness of you common men
 but do not break your oaths for of that sin
 my mild entreaty shall not make you guilty
 go where you will the king shall be commanded
 and be you kings command and i'll obey
first keeper we are true subjects to the king king edward
king henry vi so would you be again to henry
 if he were seated as king edward is
first keeper we charge you in god's name and the king's
 to go with us unto the officers
king henry vi in god's name lead your king's name be obey'd
 and what god will that let your king perform
 and what he will i humbly yield unto
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 3 king henry vi
act iii
scene ii london the palace
 enter king edward iv gloucester clarence and
 lady grey
king edward iv brother of gloucester at saint alban's field
 this lady's husband sir richard grey was slain
 his lands then seized on by the conqueror
 her suit is now to repossess those lands
 which we in justice cannot well deny
 because in quarrel of the house of york
 the worthy gentleman did lose his life
gloucester your highness shall do well to grant her suit
 it were dishonour to deny it her
king edward iv it were no less but yet i'll make a pause
gloucester aside to clarence yea is it so
 i see the lady hath a thing to grant
 before the king will grant her humble suit
clarence aside to gloucester he knows the game how true
 he keeps the wind
gloucester aside to clarence silence
king edward iv widow we will consider of your suit
 and come some other time to know our mind
lady grey right gracious lord i cannot brook delay
 may it please your highness to resolve me now
 and what your pleasure is shall satisfy me
gloucester aside to clarence ay widow then i'll warrant
 you all your lands
 an if what pleases him shall pleasure you
 fight closer or good faith you'll catch a blow
clarence aside to gloucester i fear her not unless she
 chance to fall
gloucester aside to clarence god forbid that for he'll
 take vantages
king edward iv how many children hast thou widow tell me
clarence aside to gloucester i think he means to beg a
 child of her
gloucester aside to clarence nay whip me then he'll rather
 give her two
lady grey three my most gracious lord
gloucester aside to clarence you shall have four if you'll
 be ruled by him
king edward iv twere pity they should lose their father's lands
lady grey be pitiful dread lord and grant it then
king edward iv lords give us leave i'll try this widow's wit
gloucester aside to clarence ay good leave have you for
 you will have leave
 till youth take leave and leave you to the crutch
 gloucester and clarence retire
king edward iv now tell me madam do you love your children
lady grey ay full as dearly as i love myself
king edward iv and would you not do much to do them good
lady grey to do them good i would sustain some harm
king edward iv then get your husband's lands to do them good
lady grey therefore i came unto your majesty
king edward iv i'll tell you how these lands are to be got
lady grey so shall you bind me to your highness service
king edward iv what service wilt thou do me if i give them
lady grey what you command that rests in me to do
king edward iv but you will take exceptions to my boon
lady grey no gracious lord except i cannot do it
king edward iv ay but thou canst do what i mean to ask
lady grey why then i will do what your grace commands
gloucester aside to clarence he plies her hard and much rain
 wears the marble
clarence aside to gloucester as red as fire nay then
 her wax must melt
lady grey why stops my lord shall i not hear my task
king edward iv an easy task tis but to love a king
lady grey that's soon perform'd because i am a subject
king edward iv why then thy husband's lands i freely give thee
lady grey i take my leave with many thousand thanks
gloucester aside to clarence the match is made she seals it
 with a curtsy
king edward iv but stay thee tis the fruits of love i mean
lady grey the fruits of love i mean my loving liege
king edward iv ay but i fear me in another sense
 what love think'st thou i sue so much to get
lady grey my love till death my humble thanks my prayers
 that love which virtue begs and virtue grants
king edward iv no by my troth i did not mean such love
lady grey why then you mean not as i thought you did
king edward iv but now you partly may perceive my mind
lady grey my mind will never grant what i perceive
 your highness aims at if i aim aright
king edward iv to tell thee plain i aim to lie with thee
lady grey to tell you plain i had rather lie in prison
king edward iv why then thou shalt not have thy husband's lands
lady grey why then mine honesty shall be my dower
 for by that loss i will not purchase them
king edward iv therein thou wrong'st thy children mightily
lady grey herein your highness wrongs both them and me
 but mighty lord this merry inclination
 accords not with the sadness of my suit
 please you dismiss me either with ay or no'
king edward iv ay if thou wilt say ay to my request
 no if thou dost say no to my demand
lady grey then no my lord my suit is at an end
gloucester aside to clarence the widow likes him not she
 knits her brows
clarence aside to gloucester he is the bluntest wooer in
 christendom
king edward iv aside her looks do argue her replete with modesty
 her words do show her wit incomparable
 all her perfections challenge sovereignty
 one way or other she is for a king
 and she shall be my love or else my queen
 say that king edward take thee for his queen
lady grey tis better said than done my gracious lord
 i am a subject fit to jest withal
 but far unfit to be a sovereign
king edward iv sweet widow by my state i swear to thee
 i speak no more than what my soul intends
 and that is to enjoy thee for my love
lady grey and that is more than i will yield unto
 i know i am too mean to be your queen
 and yet too good to be your concubine
king edward iv you cavil widow i did mean my queen
lady grey twill grieve your grace my sons should call you father
king edward iv no more than when my daughters call thee mother
 thou art a widow and thou hast some children
 and by god's mother i being but a bachelor
 have other some why tis a happy thing
 to be the father unto many sons
 answer no more for thou shalt be my queen
gloucester aside to clarence the ghostly father now hath done
 his shrift
clarence aside to gloucester when he was made a shriver
 twas for shift
king edward iv brothers you muse what chat we two have had
gloucester the widow likes it not for she looks very sad
king edward iv you'll think it strange if i should marry her
clarence to whom my lord
king edward iv why clarence to myself
gloucester that would be ten days wonder at the least
clarence that's a day longer than a wonder lasts
gloucester by so much is the wonder in extremes
king edward iv well jest on brothers i can tell you both
 her suit is granted for her husband's lands
 enter a nobleman
nobleman my gracious lord henry your foe is taken
 and brought your prisoner to your palace gate
king edward iv see that he be convey'd unto the tower
 and go we brothers to the man that took him
 to question of his apprehension
 widow go you along lords use her honourably
 exeunt all but gloucester
gloucester ay edward will use women honourably
 would he were wasted marrow bones and all
 that from his loins no hopeful branch may spring
 to cross me from the golden time i look for
 and yet between my soul's desire and me
 the lustful edward's title buried
 is clarence henry and his son young edward
 and all the unlook'd for issue of their bodies
 to take their rooms ere i can place myself
 a cold premeditation for my purpose
 why then i do but dream on sovereignty
 like one that stands upon a promontory
 and spies a faroff shore where he would tread
 wishing his foot were equal with his eye
 and chides the sea that sunders him from thence
 saying he'll lade it dry to have his way
 so do i wish the crown being so far off
 and so i chide the means that keeps me from it
 and so i say i'll cut the causes off
 flattering me with impossibilities
 my eye's too quick my heart o'erweens too much
 unless my hand and strength could equal them
 well say there is no kingdom then for richard
 what other pleasure can the world afford
 i'll make my heaven in a lady's lap
 and deck my body in gay ornaments
 and witch sweet ladies with my words and looks
 o miserable thought and more unlikely
 than to accomplish twenty golden crowns
 why love forswore me in my mother's womb
 and for i should not deal in her soft laws
 she did corrupt frail nature with some bribe
 to shrink mine arm up like a wither'd shrub
 to make an envious mountain on my back
 where sits deformity to mock my body
 to shape my legs of an unequal size
 to disproportion me in every part
 like to a chaos or an unlick'd bearwhelp
 that carries no impression like the dam
 and am i then a man to be beloved
 o monstrous fault to harbour such a thought
 then since this earth affords no joy to me
 but to command to cheque to o'erbear such
 as are of better person than myself
 i'll make my heaven to dream upon the crown
 and whiles i live to account this world but hell
 until my misshaped trunk that bears this head
 be round impaled with a glorious crown
 and yet i know not how to get the crown
 for many lives stand between me and home
 and ilike one lost in a thorny wood
 that rends the thorns and is rent with the thorns
 seeking a way and straying from the way
 not knowing how to find the open air
 but toiling desperately to find it out
 torment myself to catch the english crown
 and from that torment i will free myself
 or hew my way out with a bloody axe
 why i can smile and murder whiles i smile
 and cry content to that which grieves my heart
 and wet my cheeks with artificial tears
 and frame my face to all occasions
 i'll drown more sailors than the mermaid shall
 i'll slay more gazers than the basilisk
 i'll play the orator as well as nestor
 deceive more slily than ulysses could
 and like a sinon take another troy
 i can add colours to the chameleon
 change shapes with proteus for advantages
 and set the murderous machiavel to school
 can i do this and cannot get a crown
 tut were it farther off i'll pluck it down
 exit
 3 king henry vi
act iii
scene iii france king lewis xi's palace
 flourish enter king lewis xi his sister bona
 his admiral called bourbon prince edward queen
 margaret and oxford king lewis xi sits and
 riseth up again
king lewis xi fair queen of england worthy margaret
 sit down with us it ill befits thy state
 and birth that thou shouldst stand while lewis doth sit
queen margaret no mighty king of france now margaret
 must strike her sail and learn awhile to serve
 where kings command i was i must confess
 great albion's queen in former golden days
 but now mischance hath trod my title down
 and with dishonour laid me on the ground
 where i must take like seat unto my fortune
 and to my humble seat conform myself
king lewis xi why say fair queen whence springs this deep despair
queen margaret from such a cause as fills mine eyes with tears
 and stops my tongue while heart is drown'd in cares
king lewis xi whate'er it be be thou still like thyself
 and sit thee by our side
 seats her by him
 yield not thy neck
 to fortune's yoke but let thy dauntless mind
 still ride in triumph over all mischance
 be plain queen margaret and tell thy grief
 it shall be eased if france can yield relief
queen margaret those gracious words revive my drooping thoughts
 and give my tonguetied sorrows leave to speak
 now therefore be it known to noble lewis
 that henry sole possessor of my love
 is of a king become a banish'd man
 and forced to live in scotland a forlorn
 while proud ambitious edward duke of york
 usurps the regal title and the seat
 of england's trueanointed lawful king
 this is the cause that i poor margaret
 with this my son prince edward henry's heir
 am come to crave thy just and lawful aid
 and if thou fail us all our hope is done
 scotland hath will to help but cannot help
 our people and our peers are both misled
 our treasures seized our soldiers put to flight
 and as thou seest ourselves in heavy plight
king lewis xi renowned queen with patience calm the storm
 while we bethink a means to break it off
queen margaret the more we stay the stronger grows our foe
king lewis xi the more i stay the more i'll succor thee
queen margaret o but impatience waiteth on true sorrow
 and see where comes the breeder of my sorrow
 enter warwick
king lewis xi what's he approacheth boldly to our presence
queen margaret our earl of warwick edward's greatest friend
king lewis xi welcome brave warwick what brings thee to france
 he descends she ariseth
queen margaret ay now begins a second storm to rise
 for this is he that moves both wind and tide
warwick from worthy edward king of albion
 my lord and sovereign and thy vowed friend
 i come in kindness and unfeigned love
 first to do greetings to thy royal person
 and then to crave a league of amity
 and lastly to confirm that amity
 with a nuptial knot if thou vouchsafe to grant
 that virtuous lady bona thy fair sister
 to england's king in lawful marriage
queen margaret aside if that go forward henry's hope is done
warwick to bona and gracious madam in our king's behalf
 i am commanded with your leave and favour
 humbly to kiss your hand and with my tongue
 to tell the passion of my sovereign's heart
 where fame late entering at his heedful ears
 hath placed thy beauty's image and thy virtue
queen margaret king lewis and lady bona hear me speak
 before you answer warwick his demand
 springs not from edward's wellmeant honest love
 but from deceit bred by necessity
 for how can tyrants safely govern home
 unless abroad they purchase great alliance
 to prove him tyrant this reason may suffice
 that henry liveth still but were he dead
 yet here prince edward stands king henry's son
 look therefore lewis that by this league and marriage
 thou draw not on thy danger and dishonour
 for though usurpers sway the rule awhile
 yet heavens are just and time suppresseth wrongs
warwick injurious margaret
prince edward and why not queen
warwick because thy father henry did usurp
 and thou no more are prince than she is queen
oxford then warwick disannuls great john of gaunt
 which did subdue the greatest part of spain
 and after john of gaunt henry the fourth
 whose wisdom was a mirror to the wisest
 and after that wise prince henry the fifth
 who by his prowess conquered all france
 from these our henry lineally descends
warwick oxford how haps it in this smooth discourse
 you told not how henry the sixth hath lost
 all that which henry fifth had gotten
 methinks these peers of france should smile at that
 but for the rest you tell a pedigree
 of threescore and two years a silly time
 to make prescription for a kingdom's worth
oxford why warwick canst thou speak against thy liege
 whom thou obeyed'st thirty and six years
 and not bewray thy treason with a blush
warwick can oxford that did ever fence the right
 now buckler falsehood with a pedigree
 for shame leave henry and call edward king
oxford call him my king by whose injurious doom
 my elder brother the lord aubrey vere
 was done to death and more than so my father
 even in the downfall of his mellow'd years
 when nature brought him to the door of death
 no warwick no while life upholds this arm
 this arm upholds the house of lancaster
warwick and i the house of york
king lewis xi queen margaret prince edward and oxford
 vouchsafe at our request to stand aside
 while i use further conference with warwick
 they stand aloof
queen margaret heavens grant that warwick's words bewitch him not
king lewis xi now warwick tell me even upon thy conscience
 is edward your true king for i were loath
 to link with him that were not lawful chosen
warwick thereon i pawn my credit and mine honour
king lewis xi but is he gracious in the people's eye
warwick the more that henry was unfortunate
king lewis xi then further all dissembling set aside
 tell me for truth the measure of his love
 unto our sister bona
warwick such it seems
 as may beseem a monarch like himself
 myself have often heard him say and swear
 that this his love was an eternal plant
 whereof the root was fix'd in virtue's ground
 the leaves and fruit maintain'd with beauty's sun
 exempt from envy but not from disdain
 unless the lady bona quit his pain
king lewis xi now sister let us hear your firm resolve
bona your grant or your denial shall be mine
 to warwick
 yet i confess that often ere this day
 when i have heard your king's desert recounted
 mine ear hath tempted judgment to desire
king lewis xi then warwick thus our sister shall be edward's
 and now forthwith shall articles be drawn
 touching the jointure that your king must make
 which with her dowry shall be counterpoised
 draw near queen margaret and be a witness
 that bona shall be wife to the english king
prince edward to edward but not to the english king
queen margaret deceitful warwick it was thy device
 by this alliance to make void my suit
 before thy coming lewis was henry's friend
king lewis xi and still is friend to him and margaret
 but if your title to the crown be weak
 as may appear by edward's good success
 then tis but reason that i be released
 from giving aid which late i promised
 yet shall you have all kindness at my hand
 that your estate requires and mine can yield
warwick henry now lives in scotland at his ease
 where having nothing nothing can he lose
 and as for you yourself our quondam queen
 you have a father able to maintain you
 and better twere you troubled him than france
queen margaret peace impudent and shameless warwick peace
 proud setter up and puller down of kings
 i will not hence till with my talk and tears
 both full of truth i make king lewis behold
 thy sly conveyance and thy lord's false love
 for both of you are birds of selfsame feather
 post blows a horn within
king lewis xi warwick this is some post to us or thee
 enter a post
post to warwick my lord ambassador these letters are for you
 sent from your brother marquess montague
 to king lewis xi
 these from our king unto your majesty
 to queen margaret
 and madam these for you from whom i know not
 they all read their letters
oxford i like it well that our fair queen and mistress
 smiles at her news while warwick frowns at his
prince edward nay mark how lewis stamps as he were nettled
 i hope all's for the best
king lewis xi warwick what are thy news and yours fair queen
queen margaret mine such as fill my heart with unhoped joys
warwick mine full of sorrow and heart's discontent
king lewis xi what has your king married the lady grey
 and now to soothe your forgery and his
 sends me a paper to persuade me patience
 is this the alliance that he seeks with france
 dare he presume to scorn us in this manner
queen margaret i told your majesty as much before
 this proveth edward's love and warwick's honesty
warwick king lewis i here protest in sight of heaven
 and by the hope i have of heavenly bliss
 that i am clear from this misdeed of edward's
 no more my king for he dishonours me
 but most himself if he could see his shame
 did i forget that by the house of york
 my father came untimely to his death
 did i let pass the abuse done to my niece
 did i impale him with the regal crown
 did i put henry from his native right
 and am i guerdon'd at the last with shame
 shame on himself for my desert is honour
 and to repair my honour lost for him
 i here renounce him and return to henry
 my noble queen let former grudges pass
 and henceforth i am thy true servitor
 i will revenge his wrong to lady bona
 and replant henry in his former state
queen margaret warwick these words have turn'd my hate to love
 and i forgive and quite forget old faults
 and joy that thou becomest king henry's friend
warwick so much his friend ay his unfeigned friend
 that if king lewis vouchsafe to furnish us
 with some few bands of chosen soldiers
 i'll undertake to land them on our coast
 and force the tyrant from his seat by war
 tis not his newmade bride shall succor him
 and as for clarence as my letters tell me
 he's very likely now to fall from him
 for matching more for wanton lust than honour
 or than for strength and safety of our country
bona dear brother how shall bona be revenged
 but by thy help to this distressed queen
queen margaret renowned prince how shall poor henry live
 unless thou rescue him from foul despair
bona my quarrel and this english queen's are one
warwick and mine fair lady bona joins with yours
king lewis xi and mine with hers and thine and margaret's
 therefore at last i firmly am resolved
 you shall have aid
queen margaret let me give humble thanks for all at once
king lewis xi then england's messenger return in post
 and tell false edward thy supposed king
 that lewis of france is sending over masquers
 to revel it with him and his new bride
 thou seest what's past go fear thy king withal
bona tell him in hope he'll prove a widower shortly
 i'll wear the willow garland for his sake
queen margaret tell him my mourning weeds are laid aside
 and i am ready to put armour on
warwick tell him from me that he hath done me wrong
 and therefore i'll uncrown him ere't be long
 there's thy reward be gone
 exit post
king lewis xi but warwick
 thou and oxford with five thousand men
 shall cross the seas and bid false edward battle
 and as occasion serves this noble queen
 and prince shall follow with a fresh supply
 yet ere thou go but answer me one doubt
 what pledge have we of thy firm loyalty
warwick this shall assure my constant loyalty
 that if our queen and this young prince agree
 i'll join mine eldest daughter and my joy
 to him forthwith in holy wedlock bands
queen margaret yes i agree and thank you for your motion
 son edward she is fair and virtuous
 therefore delay not give thy hand to warwick
 and with thy hand thy faith irrevocable
 that only warwick's daughter shall be thine
prince edward yes i accept her for she well deserves it
 and here to pledge my vow i give my hand
 he gives his hand to warwick
king lewis xi why stay we now these soldiers shall be levied
 and thou lord bourbon our high admiral
 shalt waft them over with our royal fleet
 i long till edward fall by war's mischance
 for mocking marriage with a dame of france
 exeunt all but warwick
warwick i came from edward as ambassador
 but i return his sworn and mortal foe
 matter of marriage was the charge he gave me
 but dreadful war shall answer his demand
 had he none else to make a stale but me
 then none but i shall turn his jest to sorrow
 i was the chief that raised him to the crown
 and i'll be chief to bring him down again
 not that i pity henry's misery
 but seek revenge on edward's mockery
 exit
 3 king henry vi
act iv
scene i london the palace
 enter gloucester clarence somerset and montague
gloucester now tell me brother clarence what think you
 of this new marriage with the lady grey
 hath not our brother made a worthy choice
clarence alas you know tis far from hence to france
 how could he stay till warwick made return
somerset my lords forbear this talk here comes the king
gloucester and his wellchosen bride
clarence i mind to tell him plainly what i think
 flourish enter king edward iv attended queen
 elizabeth pembroke stafford hastings and others
king edward iv now brother of clarence how like you our choice
 that you stand pensive as half malcontent
clarence as well as lewis of france or the earl of warwick
 which are so weak of courage and in judgment
 that they'll take no offence at our abuse
king edward iv suppose they take offence without a cause
 they are but lewis and warwick i am edward
 your king and warwick's and must have my will
gloucester and shall have your will because our king
 yet hasty marriage seldom proveth well
king edward iv yea brother richard are you offended too
gloucester not i
 no god forbid that i should wish them sever'd
 whom god hath join'd together ay and twere pity
 to sunder them that yoke so well together
king edward iv setting your scorns and your mislike aside
 tell me some reason why the lady grey
 should not become my wife and england's queen
 and you too somerset and montague
 speak freely what you think
clarence then this is mine opinion that king lewis
 becomes your enemy for mocking him
 about the marriage of the lady bona
gloucester and warwick doing what you gave in charge
 is now dishonoured by this new marriage
king edward iv what if both lewis and warwick be appeased
 by such invention as i can devise
montague yet to have join'd with france in such alliance
 would more have strengthen'd this our commonwealth
 gainst foreign storms than any homebred marriage
hastings why knows not montague that of itself
 england is safe if true within itself
montague but the safer when tis back'd with france
hastings tis better using france than trusting france
 let us be back'd with god and with the seas
 which he hath given for fence impregnable
 and with their helps only defend ourselves
 in them and in ourselves our safety lies
clarence for this one speech lord hastings well deserves
 to have the heir of the lord hungerford
king edward iv ay what of that it was my will and grant
 and for this once my will shall stand for law
gloucester and yet methinks your grace hath not done well
 to give the heir and daughter of lord scales
 unto the brother of your loving bride
 she better would have fitted me or clarence
 but in your bride you bury brotherhood
clarence or else you would not have bestow'd the heir
 of the lord bonville on your new wife's son
 and leave your brothers to go speed elsewhere
king edward iv alas poor clarence is it for a wife
 that thou art malcontent i will provide thee
clarence in choosing for yourself you show'd your judgment
 which being shallow you give me leave
 to play the broker in mine own behalf
 and to that end i shortly mind to leave you
king edward iv leave me or tarry edward will be king
 and not be tied unto his brother's will
queen elizabeth my lords before it pleased his majesty
 to raise my state to title of a queen
 do me but right and you must all confess
 that i was not ignoble of descent
 and meaner than myself have had like fortune
 but as this title honours me and mine
 so your dislike to whom i would be pleasing
 doth cloud my joys with danger and with sorrow
king edward iv my love forbear to fawn upon their frowns
 what danger or what sorrow can befall thee
 so long as edward is thy constant friend
 and their true sovereign whom they must obey
 nay whom they shall obey and love thee too
 unless they seek for hatred at my hands
 which if they do yet will i keep thee safe
 and they shall feel the vengeance of my wrath
gloucester aside i hear yet say not much but think the more
 enter a post
king edward iv now messenger what letters or what news
 from france
post my sovereign liege no letters and few words
 but such as i without your special pardon
 dare not relate
king edward iv go to we pardon thee therefore in brief
 tell me their words as near as thou canst guess them
 what answer makes king lewis unto our letters
post at my depart these were his very words
 go tell false edward thy supposed king
 that lewis of france is sending over masquers
 to revel it with him and his new bride'
king edward iv is lewis so brave belike he thinks me henry
 but what said lady bona to my marriage
post these were her words utter'd with mad disdain
 tell him in hope he'll prove a widower shortly
 i'll wear the willow garland for his sake'
king edward iv i blame not her she could say little less
 she had the wrong but what said henry's queen
 for i have heard that she was there in place
post tell him quoth she my mourning weeds are done
 and i am ready to put armour on'
king edward iv belike she minds to play the amazon
 but what said warwick to these injuries
post he more incensed against your majesty
 than all the rest discharged me with these words
 tell him from me that he hath done me wrong
 and therefore i'll uncrown him ere't be long'
king edward iv ha durst the traitor breathe out so proud words
 well i will arm me being thus forewarn'd
 they shall have wars and pay for their presumption
 but say is warwick friends with margaret
post ay gracious sovereign they are so link'd in
 friendship
 that young prince edward marries warwick's daughter
clarence belike the elder clarence will have the younger
 now brother king farewell and sit you fast
 for i will hence to warwick's other daughter
 that though i want a kingdom yet in marriage
 i may not prove inferior to yourself
 you that love me and warwick follow me
 exit clarence and somerset follows
gloucester aside not i
 my thoughts aim at a further matter i
 stay not for the love of edward but the crown
king edward iv clarence and somerset both gone to warwick
 yet am i arm'd against the worst can happen
 and haste is needful in this desperate case
 pembroke and stafford you in our behalf
 go levy men and make prepare for war
 they are already or quickly will be landed
 myself in person will straight follow you
 exeunt pembroke and stafford
 but ere i go hastings and montague
 resolve my doubt you twain of all the rest
 are near to warwick by blood and by alliance
 tell me if you love warwick more than me
 if it be so then both depart to him
 i rather wish you foes than hollow friends
 but if you mind to hold your true obedience
 give me assurance with some friendly vow
 that i may never have you in suspect
montague so god help montague as he proves true
hastings and hastings as he favours edward's cause
king edward iv now brother richard will you stand by us
gloucester ay in despite of all that shall withstand you
king edward iv why so then am i sure of victory
 now therefore let us hence and lose no hour
 till we meet warwick with his foreign power
 exeunt
 3 king henry vi
act iv
scene ii a plain in warwickshire
 enter warwick and oxford with french soldiers
warwick trust me my lord all hitherto goes well
 the common people by numbers swarm to us
 enter clarence and somerset
 but see where somerset and clarence come
 speak suddenly my lords are we all friends
clarence fear not that my lord
warwick then gentle clarence welcome unto warwick
 and welcome somerset i hold it cowardice
 to rest mistrustful where a noble heart
 hath pawn'd an open hand in sign of love
 else might i think that clarence edward's brother
 were but a feigned friend to our proceedings
 but welcome sweet clarence my daughter shall be thine
 and now what rests but in night's coverture
 thy brother being carelessly encamp'd
 his soldiers lurking in the towns about
 and but attended by a simple guard
 we may surprise and take him at our pleasure
 our scouts have found the adventure very easy
 that as ulysses and stout diomede
 with sleight and manhood stole to rhesus tents
 and brought from thence the thracian fatal steeds
 so we well cover'd with the night's black mantle
 at unawares may beat down edward's guard
 and seize himself i say not slaughter him
 for i intend but only to surprise him
 you that will follow me to this attempt
 applaud the name of henry with your leader
 they all cry henry'
 why then let's on our way in silent sort
 for warwick and his friends god and saint george
 exeunt
 3 king henry vi
act iv
scene iii edward's camp near warwick
 enter three watchmen to guard king edward iv's tent
first watchman come on my masters each man take his stand
 the king by this is set him down to sleep
second watchman what will he not to bed
first watchman why no for he hath made a solemn vow
 never to lie and take his natural rest
 till warwick or himself be quite suppress'd
second watchman tomorrow then belike shall be the day
 if warwick be so near as men report
third watchman but say i pray what nobleman is that
 that with the king here resteth in his tent
first watchman tis the lord hastings the king's chiefest friend
third watchman o is it so but why commands the king
 that his chief followers lodge in towns about him
 while he himself keeps in the cold field
second watchman tis the more honour because more dangerous
third watchman ay but give me worship and quietness
 i like it better than a dangerous honour
 if warwick knew in what estate he stands
 tis to be doubted he would waken him
first watchman unless our halberds did shut up his passage
second watchman ay wherefore else guard we his royal tent
 but to defend his person from nightfoes
 enter warwick clarence oxford somerset and
 french soldiers silent all
warwick this is his tent and see where stand his guard
 courage my masters honour now or never
 but follow me and edward shall be ours
first watchman who goes there
second watchman stay or thou diest
 warwick and the rest cry all warwick warwick'
 and set upon the guard who fly crying arm
 arm warwick and the rest following them
 the drum playing and trumpet sounding reenter
 warwick somerset and the rest bringing king
 edward iv out in his gown sitting in a chair
 richard and hastings fly over the stage
somerset what are they that fly there
warwick richard and hastings let them go here is the duke
king edward iv the duke why warwick when we parted
 thou call'dst me king
warwick ay but the case is alter'd
 when you disgraced me in my embassade
 then i degraded you from being king
 and come now to create you duke of york
 alas how should you govern any kingdom
 that know not how to use ambassadors
 nor how to be contented with one wife
 nor how to use your brothers brotherly
 nor how to study for the people's welfare
 nor how to shroud yourself from enemies
king edward iv yea brother of clarence are thou here too
 nay then i see that edward needs must down
 yet warwick in despite of all mischance
 of thee thyself and all thy complices
 edward will always bear himself as king
 though fortune's malice overthrow my state
 my mind exceeds the compass of her wheel
warwick then for his mind be edward england's king
 takes off his crown
 but henry now shall wear the english crown
 and be true king indeed thou but the shadow
 my lord of somerset at my request
 see that forthwith duke edward be convey'd
 unto my brother archbishop of york
 when i have fought with pembroke and his fellows
 i'll follow you and tell what answer
 lewis and the lady bona send to him
 now for a while farewell good duke of york
 they lead him out forcibly
king edward iv what fates impose that men must needs abide
 it boots not to resist both wind and tide
 exit guarded
oxford what now remains my lords for us to do
 but march to london with our soldiers
warwick ay that's the first thing that we have to do
 to free king henry from imprisonment
 and see him seated in the regal throne
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 3 king henry vi
act iv
scene iv london the palace
 enter queen elizabeth and rivers
rivers madam what makes you in this sudden change
queen elizabeth why brother rivers are you yet to learn
 what late misfortune is befall'n king edward
rivers what loss of some pitch'd battle against warwick
queen elizabeth no but the loss of his own royal person
rivers then is my sovereign slain
queen elizabeth ay almost slain for he is taken prisoner
 either betray'd by falsehood of his guard
 or by his foe surprised at unawares
 and as i further have to understand
 is new committed to the bishop of york
 fell warwick's brother and by that our foe
rivers these news i must confess are full of grief
 yet gracious madam bear it as you may
 warwick may lose that now hath won the day
queen elizabeth till then fair hope must hinder life's decay
 and i the rather wean me from despair
 for love of edward's offspring in my womb
 this is it that makes me bridle passion
 and bear with mildness my misfortune's cross
 ay ay for this i draw in many a tear
 and stop the rising of bloodsucking sighs
 lest with my sighs or tears i blast or drown
 king edward's fruit true heir to the english crown
rivers but madam where is warwick then become
queen elizabeth i am inform'd that he comes towards london
 to set the crown once more on henry's head
 guess thou the rest king edward's friends must down
 but to prevent the tyrant's violence
 for trust not him that hath once broken faith
 i'll hence forthwith unto the sanctuary
 to save at least the heir of edward's right
 there shall i rest secure from force and fraud
 come therefore let us fly while we may fly
 if warwick take us we are sure to die
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act iv
scene v a park near middleham castle in yorkshire
 enter gloucester hastings and stanley
gloucester now my lord hastings and sir william stanley
 leave off to wonder why i drew you hither
 into this chiefest thicket of the park
 thus stands the case you know our king my brother
 is prisoner to the bishop here at whose hands
 he hath good usage and great liberty
 and often but attended with weak guard
 comes hunting this way to disport himself
 i have advertised him by secret means
 that if about this hour he make his way
 under the colour of his usual game
 he shall here find his friends with horse and men
 to set him free from his captivity
 enter king edward iv and a huntsman with him
huntsman this way my lord for this way lies the game
king edward iv nay this way man see where the huntsmen stand
 now brother of gloucester lord hastings and the rest
 stand you thus close to steal the bishop's deer
gloucester brother the time and case requireth haste
 your horse stands ready at the parkcorner
king edward iv but whither shall we then
hastings to lynn my lord
 and ship from thence to flanders
gloucester well guess'd believe me for that was my meaning
king edward iv stanley i will requite thy forwardness
gloucester but wherefore stay we tis no time to talk
king edward iv huntsman what say'st thou wilt thou go along
huntsman better do so than tarry and be hang'd
gloucester come then away let's ha no more ado
king edward iv bishop farewell shield thee from warwick's frown
 and pray that i may repossess the crown
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 3 king henry vi
act iv
scene vi london the tower
 flourish enter king henry vi clarence warwick
 somerset henry of richmond oxford montague and
 lieutenant of the tower
king henry vi master lieutenant now that god and friends
 have shaken edward from the regal seat
 and turn'd my captive state to liberty
 my fear to hope my sorrows unto joys
 at our enlargement what are thy due fees
lieutenant subjects may challenge nothing of their sovereigns
 but if an humble prayer may prevail
 i then crave pardon of your majesty
king henry vi for what lieutenant for well using me
 nay be thou sure i'll well requite thy kindness
 for that it made my imprisonment a pleasure
 ay such a pleasure as incaged birds
 conceive when after many moody thoughts
 at last by notes of household harmony
 they quite forget their loss of liberty
 but warwick after god thou set'st me free
 and chiefly therefore i thank god and thee
 he was the author thou the instrument
 therefore that i may conquer fortune's spite
 by living low where fortune cannot hurt me
 and that the people of this blessed land
 may not be punish'd with my thwarting stars
 warwick although my head still wear the crown
 i here resign my government to thee
 for thou art fortunate in all thy deeds
warwick your grace hath still been famed for virtuous
 and now may seem as wise as virtuous
 by spying and avoiding fortune's malice
 for few men rightly temper with the stars
 yet in this one thing let me blame your grace
 for choosing me when clarence is in place
clarence no warwick thou art worthy of the sway
 to whom the heavens in thy nativity
 adjudged an olive branch and laurel crown
 as likely to be blest in peace and war
 and therefore i yield thee my free consent
warwick and i choose clarence only for protector
king henry vi warwick and clarence give me both your hands
 now join your hands and with your hands your hearts
 that no dissension hinder government
 i make you both protectors of this land
 while i myself will lead a private life
 and in devotion spend my latter days
 to sin's rebuke and my creator's praise
warwick what answers clarence to his sovereign's will
clarence that he consents if warwick yield consent
 for on thy fortune i repose myself
warwick why then though loath yet must i be content
 we'll yoke together like a double shadow
 to henry's body and supply his place
 i mean in bearing weight of government
 while he enjoys the honour and his ease
 and clarence now then it is more than needful
 forthwith that edward be pronounced a traitor
 and all his lands and goods be confiscate
clarence what else and that succession be determined
warwick ay therein clarence shall not want his part
king henry vi but with the first of all your chief affairs
 let me entreat for i command no more
 that margaret your queen and my son edward
 be sent for to return from france with speed
 for till i see them here by doubtful fear
 my joy of liberty is half eclipsed
clarence it shall be done my sovereign with all speed
king henry vi my lord of somerset what youth is that
 of whom you seem to have so tender care
somerset my liege it is young henry earl of richmond
king henry vi come hither england's hope
 lays his hand on his head
 if secret powers
 suggest but truth to my divining thoughts
 this pretty lad will prove our country's bliss
 his looks are full of peaceful majesty
 his head by nature framed to wear a crown
 his hand to wield a sceptre and himself
 likely in time to bless a regal throne
 make much of him my lords for this is he
 must help you more than you are hurt by me
 enter a post
warwick what news my friend
post that edward is escaped from your brother
 and fled as he hears since to burgundy
warwick unsavoury news but how made he escape
post he was convey'd by richard duke of gloucester
 and the lord hastings who attended him
 in secret ambush on the forest side
 and from the bishop's huntsmen rescued him
 for hunting was his daily exercise
warwick my brother was too careless of his charge
 but let us hence my sovereign to provide
 a salve for any sore that may betide
 exeunt all but somerset henry of richmond and oxford
somerset my lord i like not of this flight of edward's
 for doubtless burgundy will yield him help
 and we shall have more wars before t be long
 as henry's late presaging prophecy
 did glad my heart with hope of this young richmond
 so doth my heart misgive me in these conflicts
 what may befall him to his harm and ours
 therefore lord oxford to prevent the worst
 forthwith we'll send him hence to brittany
 till storms be past of civil enmity
oxford ay for if edward repossess the crown
 tis like that richmond with the rest shall down
somerset it shall be so he shall to brittany
 come therefore let's about it speedily
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 3 king henry vi
act iv
scene vii before york
 flourish enter king edward iv gloucester
 hastings and soldiers
king edward iv now brother richard lord hastings and the rest
 yet thus far fortune maketh us amends
 and says that once more i shall interchange
 my waned state for henry's regal crown
 well have we pass'd and now repass'd the seas
 and brought desired help from burgundy
 what then remains we being thus arrived
 from ravenspurgh haven before the gates of york
 but that we enter as into our dukedom
gloucester the gates made fast brother i like not this
 for many men that stumble at the threshold
 are well foretold that danger lurks within
king edward iv tush man abodements must not now affright us
 by fair or foul means we must enter in
 for hither will our friends repair to us
hastings my liege i'll knock once more to summon them
 enter on the walls the mayor of york and his brethren
mayor my lords we were forewarned of your coming
 and shut the gates for safety of ourselves
 for now we owe allegiance unto henry
king edward iv but master mayor if henry be your king
 yet edward at the least is duke of york
mayor true my good lord i know you for no less
king edward iv why and i challenge nothing but my dukedom
 as being well content with that alone
gloucester aside but when the fox hath once got in his nose
 he'll soon find means to make the body follow
hastings why master mayor why stand you in a doubt
 open the gates we are king henry's friends
mayor ay say you so the gates shall then be open'd
 they descend
gloucester a wise stout captain and soon persuaded
hastings the good old man would fain that all were well
 so twere not long of him but being enter'd
 i doubt not i but we shall soon persuade
 both him and all his brothers unto reason
 enter the mayor and two aldermen below
king edward iv so master mayor these gates must not be shut
 but in the night or in the time of war
 what fear not man but yield me up the keys
 takes his keys
 for edward will defend the town and thee
 and all those friends that deign to follow me
 march enter montgomery with drum and soldiers
gloucester brother this is sir john montgomery
 our trusty friend unless i be deceived
king edward iv welcome sir john but why come you in arms
montague to help king edward in his time of storm
 as every loyal subject ought to do
king edward iv thanks good montgomery but we now forget
 our title to the crown and only claim
 our dukedom till god please to send the rest
montague then fare you well for i will hence again
 i came to serve a king and not a duke
 drummer strike up and let us march away
 the drum begins to march
king edward iv nay stay sir john awhile and we'll debate
 by what safe means the crown may be recover'd
montague what talk you of debating in few words
 if you'll not here proclaim yourself our king
 i'll leave you to your fortune and be gone
 to keep them back that come to succor you
 why shall we fight if you pretend no title
gloucester why brother wherefore stand you on nice points
king edward iv when we grow stronger then we'll make our claim
 till then tis wisdom to conceal our meaning
hastings away with scrupulous wit now arms must rule
gloucester and fearless minds climb soonest unto crowns
 brother we will proclaim you out of hand
 the bruit thereof will bring you many friends
king edward iv then be it as you will for tis my right
 and henry but usurps the diadem
montague ay now my sovereign speaketh like himself
 and now will i be edward's champion
hastings sound trumpet edward shall be here proclaim'd
 come fellowsoldier make thou proclamation
 flourish
soldier edward the fourth by the grace of god king of
 england and france and lord of ireland &c
montague and whosoe'er gainsays king edward's right
 by this i challenge him to single fight
 throws down his gauntlet
all long live edward the fourth
king edward iv thanks brave montgomery and thanks unto you all
 if fortune serve me i'll requite this kindness
 now for this night let's harbour here in york
 and when the morning sun shall raise his car
 above the border of this horizon
 we'll forward towards warwick and his mates
 for well i wot that henry is no soldier
 ah froward clarence how evil it beseems thee
 to flatter henry and forsake thy brother
 yet as we may we'll meet both thee and warwick
 come on brave soldiers doubt not of the day
 and that once gotten doubt not of large pay
 exeunt
 3 king henry vi
act iv
scene viii london the palace
 flourish enter king henry vi warwick montague
 clarence exeter and oxford
warwick what counsel lords edward from belgia
 with hasty germans and blunt hollanders
 hath pass'd in safety through the narrow seas
 and with his troops doth march amain to london
 and many giddy people flock to him
king henry vi let's levy men and beat him back again
clarence a little fire is quickly trodden out
 which being suffer'd rivers cannot quench
warwick in warwickshire i have truehearted friends
 not mutinous in peace yet bold in war
 those will i muster up and thou son clarence
 shalt stir up in suffolk norfolk and in kent
 the knights and gentlemen to come with thee
 thou brother montague in buckingham
 northampton and in leicestershire shalt find
 men well inclined to hear what thou command'st
 and thou brave oxford wondrous well beloved
 in oxfordshire shalt muster up thy friends
 my sovereign with the loving citizens
 like to his island girt in with the ocean
 or modest dian circled with her nymphs
 shall rest in london till we come to him
 fair lords take leave and stand not to reply
 farewell my sovereign
king henry vi farewell my hector and my troy's true hope
clarence in sign of truth i kiss your highness hand
king henry vi wellminded clarence be thou fortunate
montague comfort my lord and so i take my leave
oxford and thus i seal my truth and bid adieu
king henry vi sweet oxford and my loving montague
 and all at once once more a happy farewell
warwick farewell sweet lords let's meet at coventry
 exeunt all but king henry vi and exeter
king henry vi here at the palace i will rest awhile
 cousin of exeter what thinks your lordship
 methinks the power that edward hath in field
 should not be able to encounter mine
exeter the doubt is that he will seduce the rest
king henry vi that's not my fear my meed hath got me fame
 i have not stopp'd mine ears to their demands
 nor posted off their suits with slow delays
 my pity hath been balm to heal their wounds
 my mildness hath allay'd their swelling griefs
 my mercy dried their waterflowing tears
 i have not been desirous of their wealth
 nor much oppress'd them with great subsidies
 nor forward of revenge though they much err'd
 then why should they love edward more than me
 no exeter these graces challenge grace
 and when the lion fawns upon the lamb
 the lamb will never cease to follow him
 shout within a lancaster a lancaster'
exeter hark hark my lord what shouts are these
 enter king edward iv gloucester and soldiers
king edward iv seize on the shamefaced henry bear him hence
 and once again proclaim us king of england
 you are the fount that makes small brooks to flow
 now stops thy spring my sea sha$l suck them dry
 and swell so much the higher by their ebb
 hence with him to the tower let him not speak
 exeunt some with king henry vi
 and lords towards coventry bend we our course
 where peremptory warwick now remains
 the sun shines hot and if we use delay
 cold biting winter mars our hopedfor hay
gloucester away betimes before his forces join
 and take the greatgrown traitor unawares
 brave warriors march amain towards coventry
 exeunt
 3 king henry vi
act v
scene i coventry
 enter warwick the mayor of coventry two messengers
 and others upon the walls
warwick where is the post that came from valiant oxford
 how far hence is thy lord mine honest fellow
first messenger by this at dunsmore marching hitherward
warwick how far off is our brother montague
 where is the post that came from montague
second messenger by this at daintry with a puissant troop
 enter sir john somerville
warwick say somerville what says my loving son
 and by thy guess how nigh is clarence now
somerset at southam i did leave him with his forces
 and do expect him here some two hours hence
 drum heard
warwick then clarence is at hand i hear his drum
somerset it is not his my lord here southam lies
 the drum your honour hears marcheth from warwick
warwick who should that be belike unlook'dfor friends
somerset they are at hand and you shall quickly know
 march flourish enter king edward iv gloucester
 and soldiers
king edward iv go trumpet to the walls and sound a parle
gloucester see how the surly warwick mans the wall
warwick o unbid spite is sportful edward come
 where slept our scouts or how are they seduced
 that we could hear no news of his repair
king edward iv now warwick wilt thou ope the city gates
 speak gentle words and humbly bend thy knee
 call edward king and at his hands beg mercy
 and he shall pardon thee these outrages
warwick nay rather wilt thou draw thy forces hence
 confess who set thee up and pluck'd thee own
 call warwick patron and be penitent
 and thou shalt still remain the duke of york
gloucester i thought at least he would have said the king
 or did he make the jest against his will
warwick is not a dukedom sir a goodly gift
gloucester ay by my faith for a poor earl to give
 i'll do thee service for so good a gift
warwick twas i that gave the kingdom to thy brother
king edward iv why then tis mine if but by warwick's gift
warwick thou art no atlas for so great a weight
 and weakling warwick takes his gift again
 and henry is my king warwick his subject
king edward iv but warwick's king is edward's prisoner
 and gallant warwick do but answer this
 what is the body when the head is off
gloucester alas that warwick had no more forecast
 but whiles he thought to steal the single ten
 the king was slily finger'd from the deck
 you left poor henry at the bishop's palace
 and ten to one you'll meet him in the tower
edward tis even so yet you are warwick still
gloucester come warwick take the time kneel down kneel down
 nay when strike now or else the iron cools
warwick i had rather chop this hand off at a blow
 and with the other fling it at thy face
 than bear so low a sail to strike to thee
king edward iv sail how thou canst have wind and tide thy friend
 this hand fast wound about thy coalblack hair
 shall whiles thy head is warm and new cut off
 write in the dust this sentence with thy blood
 windchanging warwick now can change no more'
 enter oxford with drum and colours
warwick o cheerful colours see where oxford comes
oxford oxford oxford for lancaster
 he and his forces enter the city
gloucester the gates are open let us enter too
king edward iv so other foes may set upon our backs
 stand we in good array for they no doubt
 will issue out again and bid us battle
 if not the city being but of small defence
 we'll quickly rouse the traitors in the same
warwick o welcome oxford for we want thy help
 enter montague with drum and colours
montague montague montague for lancaster
 he and his forces enter the city
gloucester thou and thy brother both shall buy this treason
 even with the dearest blood your bodies bear
king edward iv the harder match'd the greater victory
 my mind presageth happy gain and conquest
 enter somerset with drum and colours
somerset somerset somerset for lancaster
 he and his forces enter the city
gloucester two of thy name both dukes of somerset
 have sold their lives unto the house of york
 and thou shalt be the third if this sword hold
 enter clarence with drum and colours
warwick and lo where george of clarence sweeps along
 of force enough to bid his brother battle
 with whom an upright zeal to right prevails
 more than the nature of a brother's love
 come clarence come thou wilt if warwick call
clarence father of warwick know you what this means
 taking his red rose out of his hat
 look here i throw my infamy at thee
 i will not ruinate my father's house
 who gave his blood to lime the stones together
 and set up lancaster why trow'st thou warwick
 that clarence is so harsh so blunt unnatural
 to bend the fatal instruments of war
 against his brother and his lawful king
 perhaps thou wilt object my holy oath
 to keep that oath were more impiety
 than jephthah's when he sacrificed his daughter
 i am so sorry for my trespass made
 that to deserve well at my brother's hands
 i here proclaim myself thy mortal foe
 with resolution wheresoe'er i meet thee
 as i will meet thee if thou stir abroad
 to plague thee for thy foul misleading me
 and so proudhearted warwick i defy thee
 and to my brother turn my blushing cheeks
 pardon me edward i will make amends
 and richard do not frown upon my faults
 for i will henceforth be no more unconstant
king edward iv now welcome more and ten times more beloved
 than if thou never hadst deserved our hate
gloucester welcome good clarence this is brotherlike
warwick o passing traitor perjured and unjust
king edward iv what warwick wilt thou leave the town and fight
 or shall we beat the stones about thine ears
warwick alas i am not coop'd here for defence
 i will away towards barnet presently
 and bid thee battle edward if thou darest
king edward iv yes warwick edward dares and leads the way
 lords to the field saint george and victory
 exeunt king edward and his company march warwick
 and his company follow
 3 king henry vi
act v
scene ii a field of battle near barnet
 alarum and excursions enter king edward iv bringing
 forth warwick wounded
king edward iv so lie thou there die thou and die our fear
 for warwick was a bug that fear'd us all
 now montague sit fast i seek for thee
 that warwick's bones may keep thine company
 exit
warwick ah who is nigh come to me friend or foe
 and tell me who is victor york or warwick
 why ask i that my mangled body shows
 my blood my want of strength my sick heart shows
 that i must yield my body to the earth
 and by my fall the conquest to my foe
 thus yields the cedar to the axe's edge
 whose arms gave shelter to the princely eagle
 under whose shade the ramping lion slept
 whose topbranch overpeer'd jove's spreading tree
 and kept low shrubs from winter's powerful wind
 these eyes that now are dimm'd with death's black veil
 have been as piercing as the midday sun
 to search the secret treasons of the world
 the wrinkles in my brows now filled with blood
 were liken'd oft to kingly sepulchres
 for who lived king but i could dig his grave
 and who durst mine when warwick bent his brow
 lo now my glory smear'd in dust and blood
 my parks my walks my manors that i had
 even now forsake me and of all my lands
 is nothing left me but my body's length
 why what is pomp rule reign but earth and dust
 and live we how we can yet die we must
 enter oxford and somerset
somerset ah warwick warwick wert thou as we are
 we might recover all our loss again
 the queen from france hath brought a puissant power
 even now we heard the news ah could'st thou fly
warwick why then i would not fly ah montague
 if thou be there sweet brother take my hand
 and with thy lips keep in my soul awhile
 thou lovest me not for brother if thou didst
 thy tears would wash this cold congealed blood
 that glues my lips and will not let me speak
 come quickly montague or i am dead
somerset ah warwick montague hath breathed his last
 and to the latest gasp cried out for warwick
 and said commend me to my valiant brother'
 and more he would have said and more he spoke
 which sounded like a clamour in a vault
 that mought not be distinguished but at last
 i well might hear delivered with a groan
 o farewell warwick'
warwick sweet rest his soul fly lords and save yourselves
 for warwick bids you all farewell to meet in heaven
 dies
oxford away away to meet the queen's great power
 here they bear away his body exeunt
 3 king henry vi
act v
scene iii another part of the field
 flourish enter king edward iv in triumph with
 gloucester clarence and the rest
king edward iv thus far our fortune keeps an upward course
 and we are graced with wreaths of victory
 but in the midst of this brightshining day
 i spy a black suspicious threatening cloud
 that will encounter with our glorious sun
 ere he attain his easeful western bed
 i mean my lords those powers that the queen
 hath raised in gallia have arrived our coast
 and as we hear march on to fight with us
clarence a little gale will soon disperse that cloud
 and blow it to the source from whence it came
 the very beams will dry those vapours up
 for every cloud engenders not a storm
gloucester the queen is valued thirty thousand strong
 and somerset with oxford fled to her
 if she have time to breathe be well assured
 her faction will be full as strong as ours
king edward iv we are advertised by our loving friends
 that they do hold their course toward tewksbury
 we having now the best at barnet field
 will thither straight for willingness rids way
 and as we march our strength will be augmented
 in every county as we go along
 strike up the drum cry courage and away
 exeunt
 3 king henry vi
act v
scene iv plains near tewksbury
 march enter queen margaret prince edward
 somerset oxford and soldiers
queen margaret great lords wise men ne'er sit and wail their loss
 but cheerly seek how to redress their harms
 what though the mast be now blown overboard
 the cable broke the holdinganchor lost
 and half our sailors swallow'd in the flood
 yet lives our pilot still is't meet that he
 should leave the helm and like a fearful lad
 with tearful eyes add water to the sea
 and give more strength to that which hath too much
 whiles in his moan the ship splits on the rock
 which industry and courage might have saved
 ah what a shame ah what a fault were this
 say warwick was our anchor what of that
 and montague our topmost what of him
 our slaughter'd friends the tackles what of these
 why is not oxford here another anchor
 and somerset another goodly mast
 the friends of france our shrouds and tacklings
 and though unskilful why not ned and i
 for once allow'd the skilful pilot's charge
 we will not from the helm to sit and weep
 but keep our course though the rough wind say no
 from shelves and rocks that threaten us with wreck
 as good to chide the waves as speak them fair
 and what is edward but ruthless sea
 what clarence but a quicksand of deceit
 and richard but a ragged fatal rock
 all these the enemies to our poor bark
 say you can swim alas tis but a while
 tread on the sand why there you quickly sink
 bestride the rock the tide will wash you off
 or else you famish that's a threefold death
 this speak i lords to let you understand
 if case some one of you would fly from us
 that there's no hopedfor mercy with the brothers
 more than with ruthless waves with sands and rocks
 why courage then what cannot be avoided
 twere childish weakness to lament or fear
prince edward methinks a woman of this valiant spirit
 should if a coward heard her speak these words
 infuse his breast with magnanimity
 and make him naked foil a man at arms
 i speak not this as doubting any here
 for did i but suspect a fearful man
 he should have leave to go away betimes
 lest in our need he might infect another
 and make him of like spirit to himself
 if any such be hereas god forbid
 let him depart before we need his help
oxford women and children of so high a courage
 and warriors faint why twere perpetual shame
 o brave young prince thy famous grandfather
 doth live again in thee long mayst thou live
 to bear his image and renew his glories
somerset and he that will not fight for such a hope
 go home to bed and like the owl by day
 if he arise be mock'd and wonder'd at
queen margaret thanks gentle somerset sweet oxford thanks
prince edward and take his thanks that yet hath nothing else
 enter a messenger
messenger prepare you lords for edward is at hand
 ready to fight therefore be resolute
oxford i thought no less it is his policy
 to haste thus fast to find us unprovided
somerset but he's deceived we are in readiness
queen margaret this cheers my heart to see your forwardness
oxford here pitch our battle hence we will not budge
 flourish and march enter king edward iv gloucester
 clarence and soldiers
king edward iv brave followers yonder stands the thorny wood
 which by the heavens assistance and your strength
 must by the roots be hewn up yet ere night
 i need not add more fuel to your fire
 for well i wot ye blaze to burn them out
 give signal to the fight and to it lords
queen margaret lords knights and gentlemen what i should say
 my tears gainsay for every word i speak
 ye see i drink the water of mine eyes
 therefore no more but this henry your sovereign
 is prisoner to the foe his state usurp'd
 his realm a slaughterhouse his subjects slain
 his statutes cancell'd and his treasure spent
 and yonder is the wolf that makes this spoil
 you fight in justice then in god's name lords
 be valiant and give signal to the fight
 alarum retreat excursions exeunt
 3 king henry vi
act v
scene v another part of the field
 flourish enter king edward iv gloucester clarence
 and soldiers with queen margaret oxford and
 somerset prisoners
king edward iv now here a period of tumultuous broils
 away with oxford to hames castle straight
 for somerset off with his guilty head
 go bear them hence i will not hear them speak
oxford for my part i'll not trouble thee with words
somerset nor i but stoop with patience to my fortune
 exeunt oxford and somerset guarded
queen margaret so part we sadly in this troublous world
 to meet with joy in sweet jerusalem
king edward iv is proclamation made that who finds edward
 shall have a high reward and he his life
gloucester it is and lo where youthful edward comes
 enter soldiers with prince edward
king edward iv bring forth the gallant let us hear him speak
 what can so young a thorn begin to prick
 edward what satisfaction canst thou make
 for bearing arms for stirring up my subjects
 and all the trouble thou hast turn'd me to
prince edward speak like a subject proud ambitious york
 suppose that i am now my father's mouth
 resign thy chair and where i stand kneel thou
 whilst i propose the selfsame words to thee
 which traitor thou wouldst have me answer to
queen margaret ah that thy father had been so resolved
gloucester that you might still have worn the petticoat
 and ne'er have stol'n the breech from lancaster
prince edward let aesop fable in a winter's night
 his currish riddles sort not with this place
gloucester by heaven brat i'll plague ye for that word
queen margaret ay thou wast born to be a plague to men
gloucester for god's sake take away this captive scold
prince edward nay take away this scolding crookback rather
king edward iv peace wilful boy or i will charm your tongue
clarence untutor'd lad thou art too malapert
prince edward i know my duty you are all undutiful
 lascivious edward and thou perjured george
 and thou misshapen dick i tell ye all
 i am your better traitors as ye are
 and thou usurp'st my father's right and mine
king edward iv take that thou likeness of this railer here
 stabs him
gloucester sprawl'st thou take that to end thy agony
 stabs him
clarence and there's for twitting me with perjury
 stabs him
queen margaret o kill me too
gloucester marry and shall
 offers to kill her
king edward iv hold richard hold for we have done too much
gloucester why should she live to fill the world with words
king edward iv what doth she swoon use means for her recovery
gloucester clarence excuse me to the king my brother
 i'll hence to london on a serious matter
 ere ye come there be sure to hear some news
clarence what what
gloucester the tower the tower
 exit
queen margaret o ned sweet ned speak to thy mother boy
 canst thou not speak o traitors murderers
 they that stabb'd caesar shed no blood at all
 did not offend nor were not worthy blame
 if this foul deed were by to equal it
 he was a man this in respect a child
 and men ne'er spend their fury on a child
 what's worse than murderer that i may name it
 no no my heart will burst and if i speak
 and i will speak that so my heart may burst
 butchers and villains bloody cannibals
 how sweet a plant have you untimely cropp'd
 you have no children butchers if you had
 the thought of them would have stirr'd up remorse
 but if you ever chance to have a child
 look in his youth to have him so cut off
 as deathmen you have rid this sweet young prince
king edward iv away with her go bear her hence perforce
queen margaret nay never bear me hence dispatch me here
 here sheathe thy sword i'll pardon thee my death
 what wilt thou not then clarence do it thou
clarence by heaven i will not do thee so much ease
queen margaret good clarence do sweet clarence do thou do it
clarence didst thou not hear me swear i would not do it
queen margaret ay but thou usest to forswear thyself
 twas sin before but now tis charity
 what wilt thou not where is that devil's butcher
 hardfavour'd richard richard where art thou
 thou art not here murder is thy almsdeed
 petitioners for blood thou ne'er put'st back
king edward iv away i say i charge ye bear her hence
queen margaret so come to you and yours as to this prince
 exit led out forcibly
king edward iv where's richard gone
clarence to london all in post and as i guess
 to make a bloody supper in the tower
king edward iv he's sudden if a thing comes in his head
 now march we hence discharge the common sort
 with pay and thanks and let's away to london
 and see our gentle queen how well she fares
 by this i hope she hath a son for me
 exeunt
 3 king henry vi
act v
scene vi london the tower
 enter king henry vi and gloucester with the
 lieutenant on the walls
gloucester good day my lord what at your book so hard
king henry vi ay my good lordmy lord i should say rather
 tis sin to flatter good was little better
 good gloucester and good devil were alike
 and both preposterous therefore not good lord'
gloucester sirrah leave us to ourselves we must confer
 exit lieutenant
king henry vi so flies the reckless shepherd from the wolf
 so first the harmless sheep doth yield his fleece
 and next his throat unto the butcher's knife
 what scene of death hath roscius now to act
gloucester suspicion always haunts the guilty mind
 the thief doth fear each bush an officer
king henry vi the bird that hath been limed in a bush
 with trembling wings misdoubteth every bush
 and i the hapless male to one sweet bird
 have now the fatal object in my eye
 where my poor young was limed was caught and kill'd
gloucester why what a peevish fool was that of crete
 that taught his son the office of a fowl
 an yet for all his wings the fool was drown'd
king henry vi i daedalus my poor boy icarus
 thy father minos that denied our course
 the sun that sear'd the wings of my sweet boy
 thy brother edward and thyself the sea
 whose envious gulf did swallow up his life
 ah kill me with thy weapon not with words
 my breast can better brook thy dagger's point
 than can my ears that tragic history
 but wherefore dost thou come is't for my life
gloucester think'st thou i am an executioner
king henry vi a persecutor i am sure thou art
 if murdering innocents be executing
 why then thou art an executioner
gloucester thy son i kill'd for his presumption
king henry vi hadst thou been kill'd when first thou didst presume
 thou hadst not lived to kill a son of mine
 and thus i prophesy that many a thousand
 which now mistrust no parcel of my fear
 and many an old man's sigh and many a widow's
 and many an orphan's waterstanding eye
 men for their sons wives for their husbands
 and orphans for their parents timeless death
 shall rue the hour that ever thou wast born
 the owl shriek'd at thy birthan evil sign
 the nightcrow cried aboding luckless time
 dogs howl'd and hideous tempest shook down trees
 the raven rook'd her on the chimney's top
 and chattering pies in dismal discords sung
 thy mother felt more than a mother's pain
 and yet brought forth less than a mother's hope
 to wit an indigested and deformed lump
 not like the fruit of such a goodly tree
 teeth hadst thou in thy head when thou wast born
 to signify thou camest to bite the world
 and if the rest be true which i have heard
 thou camest
gloucester i'll hear no more die prophet in thy speech
 stabs him
 for this amongst the rest was i ordain'd
king henry vi ay and for much more slaughter after this
 god forgive my sins and pardon thee
 dies
gloucester what will the aspiring blood of lancaster
 sink in the ground i thought it would have mounted
 see how my sword weeps for the poor king's death
 o may such purple tears be alway shed
 from those that wish the downfall of our house
 if any spark of life be yet remaining
 down down to hell and say i sent thee thither
 stabs him again
 i that have neither pity love nor fear
 indeed tis true that henry told me of
 for i have often heard my mother say
 i came into the world with my legs forward
 had i not reason think ye to make haste
 and seek their ruin that usurp'd our right
 the midwife wonder'd and the women cried
 o jesus bless us he is born with teeth'
 and so i was which plainly signified
 that i should snarl and bite and play the dog
 then since the heavens have shaped my body so
 let hell make crook'd my mind to answer it
 i have no brother i am like no brother
 and this word love which graybeards call divine
 be resident in men like one another
 and not in me i am myself alone
 clarence beware thou keep'st me from the light
 but i will sort a pitchy day for thee
 for i will buz abroad such prophecies
 that edward shall be fearful of his life
 and then to purge his fear i'll be thy death
 king henry and the prince his son are gone
 clarence thy turn is next and then the rest
 counting myself but bad till i be best
 i'll throw thy body in another room
 and triumph henry in thy day of doom
 exit with the body
 3 king henry vi
act v
scene vii london the palace
 flourish enter king edward iv queen elizabeth
 clarence gloucester hastings a nurse with the
 young prince and attendants
king edward iv once more we sit in england's royal throne
 repurchased with the blood of enemies
 what valiant foemen like to autumn's corn
 have we mow'd down in tops of all their pride
 three dukes of somerset threefold renown'd
 for hardy and undoubted champions
 two cliffords as the father and the son
 and two northumberlands two braver men
 ne'er spurr'd their coursers at the trumpet's sound
 with them the two brave bears warwick and montague
 that in their chains fetter'd the kingly lion
 and made the forest tremble when they roar'd
 thus have we swept suspicion from our seat
 and made our footstool of security
 come hither bess and let me kiss my boy
 young ned for thee thine uncles and myself
 have in our armours watch'd the winter's night
 went all afoot in summer's scalding heat
 that thou mightst repossess the crown in peace
 and of our labours thou shalt reap the gain
gloucester aside i'll blast his harvest if your head were laid
 for yet i am not look'd on in the world
 this shoulder was ordain'd so thick to heave
 and heave it shall some weight or break my back
 work thou the wayand thou shalt execute
king edward iv clarence and gloucester love my lovely queen
 and kiss your princely nephew brothers both
clarence the duty that i owe unto your majesty
 i seal upon the lips of this sweet babe
queen elizabeth thanks noble clarence worthy brother thanks
gloucester and that i love the tree from whence thou sprang'st
 witness the loving kiss i give the fruit
 aside to say the truth so judas kiss'd his master
 and cried all hail when as he meant all harm
king edward iv now am i seated as my soul delights
 having my country's peace and brothers loves
clarence what will your grace have done with margaret
 reignier her father to the king of france
 hath pawn'd the sicils and jerusalem
 and hither have they sent it for her ransom
king edward iv away with her and waft her hence to france
 and now what rests but that we spend the time
 with stately triumphs mirthful comic shows
 such as befits the pleasure of the court
 sound drums and trumpets farewell sour annoy
 for here i hope begins our lasting joy
 exeunt
 king henry v
 dramatis personae
king henry the fifth king henry v
duke of gloucester gloucester 
 brothers to the king
duke of bedford bedford 
duke of exeter uncle to the king exeter
duke of york cousin to the king york
earl of salisbury salisbury
earl of
westmoreland westmoreland
earl of warwick warwick
bishop of
canterbury canterbury
bishop of ely ely
earl of cambridge cambridge
lord scroop scroop
sir thomas grey grey
sir
thomas erpingham erpingham 
 
gower 
 
fluellen officers in king henry's army
 
macmorris 
 
jamy 
bates 
 
court soldiers in the same
 
williams 
pistol
nym
bardolph
 boy
 a herald
charles the sixth king of france king of france french king
lewis the dauphin dauphin
duke of burgundy burgundy
duke of orleans orleans
duke of bourbon bourbon
 the constable of france constable
rambures 
 french lords
grandpre 
governor of harfleur
montjoy a french herald
 ambassadors to the king of england
isabel queen of france queen isabel
katharine daughter to charles and isabel
alice a lady attending on her
 hostess of a tavern in eastcheap formerly
 mistress quickly and now married to pistol
 lords ladies officers soldiers citizens
 messengers and attendants chorus
 hostess
 first ambassador
 messenger
 french soldier
scene england afterwards france
 king henry v
 prologue
 enter chorus
chorus o for a muse of fire that would ascend
 the brightest heaven of invention
 a kingdom for a stage princes to act
 and monarchs to behold the swelling scene
 then should the warlike harry like himself
 assume the port of mars and at his heels
 leash'd in like hounds should famine sword and fire
 crouch for employment but pardon and gentles all
 the flat unraised spirits that have dared
 on this unworthy scaffold to bring forth
 so great an object can this cockpit hold
 the vasty fields of france or may we cram
 within this wooden o the very casques
 that did affright the air at agincourt
 o pardon since a crooked figure may
 attest in little place a million
 and let us ciphers to this great accompt
 on your imaginary forces work
 suppose within the girdle of these walls
 are now confined two mighty monarchies
 whose high upreared and abutting fronts
 the perilous narrow ocean parts asunder
 piece out our imperfections with your thoughts
 into a thousand parts divide on man
 and make imaginary puissance
 think when we talk of horses that you see them
 printing their proud hoofs i the receiving earth
 for tis your thoughts that now must deck our kings
 carry them here and there jumping o'er times
 turning the accomplishment of many years
 into an hourglass for the which supply
 admit me chorus to this history
 who prologuelike your humble patience pray
 gently to hear kindly to judge our play
 exit
 king henry v
act i
scene i london an antechamber in the king's palace
 enter the archbishop of canterbury and the bishop of ely
canterbury my lord i'll tell you that self bill is urged
 which in the eleventh year of the last king's reign
 was like and had indeed against us pass'd
 but that the scambling and unquiet time
 did push it out of farther question
ely but how my lord shall we resist it now
canterbury it must be thought on if it pass against us
 we lose the better half of our possession
 for all the temporal lands which men devout
 by testament have given to the church
 would they strip from us being valued thus
 as much as would maintain to the king's honour
 full fifteen earls and fifteen hundred knights
 six thousand and two hundred good esquires
 and to relief of lazars and weak age
 of indigent faint souls past corporal toil
 a hundred almshouses right well supplied
 and to the coffers of the king beside
 a thousand pounds by the year thus runs the bill
ely this would drink deep
canterbury twould drink the cup and all
ely but what prevention
canterbury the king is full of grace and fair regard
ely and a true lover of the holy church
canterbury the courses of his youth promised it not
 the breath no sooner left his father's body
 but that his wildness mortified in him
 seem'd to die too yea at that very moment
 consideration like an angel came
 and whipp'd the offending adam out of him
 leaving his body as a paradise
 to envelop and contain celestial spirits
 never was such a sudden scholar made
 never came reformation in a flood
 with such a heady currance scouring faults
 nor never hydraheaded wilfulness
 so soon did lose his seat and all at once
 as in this king
ely we are blessed in the change
canterbury hear him but reason in divinity
 and alladmiring with an inward wish
 you would desire the king were made a prelate
 hear him debate of commonwealth affairs
 you would say it hath been all in all his study
 list his discourse of war and you shall hear
 a fearful battle render'd you in music
 turn him to any cause of policy
 the gordian knot of it he will unloose
 familiar as his garter that when he speaks
 the air a charter'd libertine is still
 and the mute wonder lurketh in men's ears
 to steal his sweet and honey'd sentences
 so that the art and practic part of life
 must be the mistress to this theoric
 which is a wonder how his grace should glean it
 since his addiction was to courses vain
 his companies unletter'd rude and shallow
 his hours fill'd up with riots banquets sports
 and never noted in him any study
 any retirement any sequestration
 from open haunts and popularity
ely the strawberry grows underneath the nettle
 and wholesome berries thrive and ripen best
 neighbour'd by fruit of baser quality
 and so the prince obscured his contemplation
 under the veil of wildness which no doubt
 grew like the summer grass fastest by night
 unseen yet crescive in his faculty
canterbury it must be so for miracles are ceased
 and therefore we must needs admit the means
 how things are perfected
ely but my good lord
 how now for mitigation of this bill
 urged by the commons doth his majesty
 incline to it or no
canterbury he seems indifferent
 or rather swaying more upon our part
 than cherishing the exhibiters against us
 for i have made an offer to his majesty
 upon our spiritual convocation
 and in regard of causes now in hand
 which i have open'd to his grace at large
 as touching france to give a greater sum
 than ever at one time the clergy yet
 did to his predecessors part withal
ely how did this offer seem received my lord
canterbury with good acceptance of his majesty
 save that there was not time enough to hear
 as i perceived his grace would fain have done
 the severals and unhidden passages
 of his true titles to some certain dukedoms
 and generally to the crown and seat of france
 derived from edward his greatgrandfather
ely what was the impediment that broke this off
canterbury the french ambassador upon that instant
 craved audience and the hour i think is come
 to give him hearing is it four o'clock
ely it is
canterbury then go we in to know his embassy
 which i could with a ready guess declare
 before the frenchman speak a word of it
ely i'll wait upon you and i long to hear it
 exeunt
 king henry v
act i
scene ii the same the presence chamber
 enter king henry v gloucester bedford exeter
 warwick westmoreland and attendants
king henry v where is my gracious lord of canterbury
exeter not here in presence
king henry v send for him good uncle
westmoreland shall we call in the ambassador my liege
king henry v not yet my cousin we would be resolved
 before we hear him of some things of weight
 that task our thoughts concerning us and france
 enter the archbishop of canterbury and the bishop of ely
canterbury god and his angels guard your sacred throne
 and make you long become it
king henry v sure we thank you
 my learned lord we pray you to proceed
 and justly and religiously unfold
 why the law salique that they have in france
 or should or should not bar us in our claim
 and god forbid my dear and faithful lord
 that you should fashion wrest or bow your reading
 or nicely charge your understanding soul
 with opening titles miscreate whose right
 suits not in native colours with the truth
 for god doth know how many now in health
 shall drop their blood in approbation
 of what your reverence shall incite us to
 therefore take heed how you impawn our person
 how you awake our sleeping sword of war
 we charge you in the name of god take heed
 for never two such kingdoms did contend
 without much fall of blood whose guiltless drops
 are every one a woe a sore complaint
 gainst him whose wrong gives edge unto the swords
 that make such waste in brief mortality
 under this conjuration speak my lord
 for we will hear note and believe in heart
 that what you speak is in your conscience wash'd
 as pure as sin with baptism
canterbury then hear me gracious sovereign and you peers
 that owe yourselves your lives and services
 to this imperial throne there is no bar
 to make against your highness claim to france
 but this which they produce from pharamond
 in terram salicam mulieres ne succedant'
 no woman shall succeed in salique land'
 which salique land the french unjustly gloze
 to be the realm of france and pharamond
 the founder of this law and female bar
 yet their own authors faithfully affirm
 that the land salique is in germany
 between the floods of sala and of elbe
 where charles the great having subdued the saxons
 there left behind and settled certain french
 who holding in disdain the german women
 for some dishonest manners of their life
 establish'd then this law to wit no female
 should be inheritrix in salique land
 which salique as i said twixt elbe and sala
 is at this day in germany call'd meisen
 then doth it well appear that salique law
 was not devised for the realm of france
 nor did the french possess the salique land
 until four hundred one and twenty years
 after defunction of king pharamond
 idly supposed the founder of this law
 who died within the year of our redemption
 four hundred twentysix and charles the great
 subdued the saxons and did seat the french
 beyond the river sala in the year
 eight hundred five besides their writers say
 king pepin which deposed childeric
 did as heir general being descended
 of blithild which was daughter to king clothair
 make claim and title to the crown of france
 hugh capet also who usurped the crown
 of charles the duke of lorraine sole heir male
 of the true line and stock of charles the great
 to find his title with some shows of truth
 through in pure truth it was corrupt and naught
 convey'd himself as heir to the lady lingare
 daughter to charlemain who was the son
 to lewis the emperor and lewis the son
 of charles the great also king lewis the tenth
 who was sole heir to the usurper capet
 could not keep quiet in his conscience
 wearing the crown of france till satisfied
 that fair queen isabel his grandmother
 was lineal of the lady ermengare
 daughter to charles the foresaid duke of lorraine
 by the which marriage the line of charles the great
 was reunited to the crown of france
 so that as clear as is the summer's sun
 king pepin's title and hugh capet's claim
 king lewis his satisfaction all appear
 to hold in right and title of the female
 so do the kings of france unto this day
 howbeit they would hold up this salique law
 to bar your highness claiming from the female
 and rather choose to hide them in a net
 than amply to imbar their crooked titles
 usurp'd from you and your progenitors
king henry v may i with right and conscience make this claim
canterbury the sin upon my head dread sovereign
 for in the book of numbers is it writ
 when the man dies let the inheritance
 descend unto the daughter gracious lord
 stand for your own unwind your bloody flag
 look back into your mighty ancestors
 go my dread lord to your greatgrandsire's tomb
 from whom you claim invoke his warlike spirit
 and your greatuncle's edward the black prince
 who on the french ground play'd a tragedy
 making defeat on the full power of france
 whiles his most mighty father on a hill
 stood smiling to behold his lion's whelp
 forage in blood of french nobility
 o noble english that could entertain
 with half their forces the full pride of france
 and let another half stand laughing by
 all out of work and cold for action
ely awake remembrance of these valiant dead
 and with your puissant arm renew their feats
 you are their heir you sit upon their throne
 the blood and courage that renowned them
 runs in your veins and my thricepuissant liege
 is in the very maymorn of his youth
 ripe for exploits and mighty enterprises
exeter your brother kings and monarchs of the earth
 do all expect that you should rouse yourself
 as did the former lions of your blood
westmoreland they know your grace hath cause and means and might
 so hath your highness never king of england
 had nobles richer and more loyal subjects
 whose hearts have left their bodies here in england
 and lie pavilion'd in the fields of france
canterbury o let their bodies follow my dear liege
 with blood and sword and fire to win your right
 in aid whereof we of the spiritualty
 will raise your highness such a mighty sum
 as never did the clergy at one time
 bring in to any of your ancestors
king henry v we must not only arm to invade the french
 but lay down our proportions to defend
 against the scot who will make road upon us
 with all advantages
canterbury they of those marches gracious sovereign
 shall be a wall sufficient to defend
 our inland from the pilfering borderers
king henry v we do not mean the coursing snatchers only
 but fear the main intendment of the scot
 who hath been still a giddy neighbour to us
 for you shall read that my greatgrandfather
 never went with his forces into france
 but that the scot on his unfurnish'd kingdom
 came pouring like the tide into a breach
 with ample and brim fulness of his force
 galling the gleaned land with hot assays
 girding with grievous siege castles and towns
 that england being empty of defence
 hath shook and trembled at the ill neighbourhood
canterbury she hath been then more fear'd than harm'd my liege
 for hear her but exampled by herself
 when all her chivalry hath been in france
 and she a mourning widow of her nobles
 she hath herself not only well defended
 but taken and impounded as a stray
 the king of scots whom she did send to france
 to fill king edward's fame with prisoner kings
 and make her chronicle as rich with praise
 as is the ooze and bottom of the sea
 with sunken wreck and sunless treasuries
westmoreland but there's a saying very old and true
 if that you will france win
 then with scotland first begin'
 for once the eagle england being in prey
 to her unguarded nest the weasel scot
 comes sneaking and so sucks her princely eggs
 playing the mouse in absence of the cat
 to tear and havoc more than she can eat
exeter it follows then the cat must stay at home
 yet that is but a crush'd necessity
 since we have locks to safeguard necessaries
 and pretty traps to catch the petty thieves
 while that the armed hand doth fight abroad
 the advised head defends itself at home
 for government though high and low and lower
 put into parts doth keep in one consent
 congreeing in a full and natural close
 like music
canterbury therefore doth heaven divide
 the state of man in divers functions
 setting endeavour in continual motion
 to which is fixed as an aim or butt
 obedience for so work the honeybees
 creatures that by a rule in nature teach
 the act of order to a peopled kingdom
 they have a king and officers of sorts
 where some like magistrates correct at home
 others like merchants venture trade abroad
 others like soldiers armed in their stings
 make boot upon the summer's velvet buds
 which pillage they with merry march bring home
 to the tentroyal of their emperor
 who busied in his majesty surveys
 the singing masons building roofs of gold
 the civil citizens kneading up the honey
 the poor mechanic porters crowding in
 their heavy burdens at his narrow gate
 the sadeyed justice with his surly hum
 delivering o'er to executors pale
 the lazy yawning drone i this infer
 that many things having full reference
 to one consent may work contrariously
 as many arrows loosed several ways
 come to one mark as many ways meet in one town
 as many fresh streams meet in one salt sea
 as many lines close in the dial's centre
 so may a thousand actions once afoot
 end in one purpose and be all well borne
 without defeat therefore to france my liege
 divide your happy england into four
 whereof take you one quarter into france
 and you withal shall make all gallia shake
 if we with thrice such powers left at home
 cannot defend our own doors from the dog
 let us be worried and our nation lose
 the name of hardiness and policy
king henry v call in the messengers sent from the dauphin
 exeunt some attendants
 now are we well resolved and by god's help
 and yours the noble sinews of our power
 france being ours we'll bend it to our awe
 or break it all to pieces or there we'll sit
 ruling in large and ample empery
 o'er france and all her almost kingly dukedoms
 or lay these bones in an unworthy urn
 tombless with no remembrance over them
 either our history shall with full mouth
 speak freely of our acts or else our grave
 like turkish mute shall have a tongueless mouth
 not worshipp'd with a waxen epitaph
 enter ambassadors of france
 now are we well prepared to know the pleasure
 of our fair cousin dauphin for we hear
 your greeting is from him not from the king
first ambassador may't please your majesty to give us leave
 freely to render what we have in charge
 or shall we sparingly show you far off
 the dauphin's meaning and our embassy
king henry v we are no tyrant but a christian king
 unto whose grace our passion is as subject
 as are our wretches fetter'd in our prisons
 therefore with frank and with uncurbed plainness
 tell us the dauphin's mind
first ambassador thus then in few
 your highness lately sending into france
 did claim some certain dukedoms in the right
 of your great predecessor king edward the third
 in answer of which claim the prince our master
 says that you savour too much of your youth
 and bids you be advised there's nought in france
 that can be with a nimble galliard won
 you cannot revel into dukedoms there
 he therefore sends you meeter for your spirit
 this tun of treasure and in lieu of this
 desires you let the dukedoms that you claim
 hear no more of you this the dauphin speaks
king henry v what treasure uncle
exeter tennisballs my liege
king henry v we are glad the dauphin is so pleasant with us
 his present and your pains we thank you for
 when we have march'd our rackets to these balls
 we will in france by god's grace play a set
 shall strike his father's crown into the hazard
 tell him he hath made a match with such a wrangler
 that all the courts of france will be disturb'd
 with chaces and we understand him well
 how he comes o'er us with our wilder days
 not measuring what use we made of them
 we never valued this poor seat of england
 and therefore living hence did give ourself
 to barbarous licence as tis ever common
 that men are merriest when they are from home
 but tell the dauphin i will keep my state
 be like a king and show my sail of greatness
 when i do rouse me in my throne of france
 for that i have laid by my majesty
 and plodded like a man for workingdays
 but i will rise there with so full a glory
 that i will dazzle all the eyes of france
 yea strike the dauphin blind to look on us
 and tell the pleasant prince this mock of his
 hath turn'd his balls to gunstones and his soul
 shall stand sore charged for the wasteful vengeance
 that shall fly with them for many a thousand widows
 shall this his mock mock out of their dear husbands
 mock mothers from their sons mock castles down
 and some are yet ungotten and unborn
 that shall have cause to curse the dauphin's scorn
 but this lies all within the will of god
 to whom i do appeal and in whose name
 tell you the dauphin i am coming on
 to venge me as i may and to put forth
 my rightful hand in a wellhallow'd cause
 so get you hence in peace and tell the dauphin
 his jest will savour but of shallow wit
 when thousands weep more than did laugh at it
 convey them with safe conduct fare you well
 exeunt ambassadors
exeter this was a merry message
king henry v we hope to make the sender blush at it
 therefore my lords omit no happy hour
 that may give furtherance to our expedition
 for we have now no thought in us but france
 save those to god that run before our business
 therefore let our proportions for these wars
 be soon collected and all things thought upon
 that may with reasonable swiftness add
 more feathers to our wings for god before
 we'll chide this dauphin at his father's door
 therefore let every man now task his thought
 that this fair action may on foot be brought
 exeunt flourish
 king henry v
act ii
 prologue
 enter chorus
chorus now all the youth of england are on fire
 and silken dalliance in the wardrobe lies
 now thrive the armourers and honour's thought
 reigns solely in the breast of every man
 they sell the pasture now to buy the horse
 following the mirror of all christian kings
 with winged heels as english mercuries
 for now sits expectation in the air
 and hides a sword from hilts unto the point
 with crowns imperial crowns and coronets
 promised to harry and his followers
 the french advised by good intelligence
 of this most dreadful preparation
 shake in their fear and with pale policy
 seek to divert the english purposes
 o england model to thy inward greatness
 like little body with a mighty heart
 what mightst thou do that honour would thee do
 were all thy children kind and natural
 but see thy fault france hath in thee found out
 a nest of hollow bosoms which he fills
 with treacherous crowns and three corrupted men
 one richard earl of cambridge and the second
 henry lord scroop of masham and the third
 sir thomas grey knight of northumberland
 have for the gilt of franceo guilt indeed
 confirm'd conspiracy with fearful france
 and by their hands this grace of kings must die
 if hell and treason hold their promises
 ere he take ship for france and in southampton
 linger your patience on and we'll digest
 the abuse of distance force a play
 the sum is paid the traitors are agreed
 the king is set from london and the scene
 is now transported gentles to southampton
 there is the playhouse now there must you sit
 and thence to france shall we convey you safe
 and bring you back charming the narrow seas
 to give you gentle pass for if we may
 we'll not offend one stomach with our play
 but till the king come forth and not till then
 unto southampton do we shift our scene
 exit
 king henry v
act ii
scene i london a street
 enter corporal nym and lieutenant bardolph
bardolph well met corporal nym
nym good morrow lieutenant bardolph
bardolph what are ancient pistol and you friends yet
nym for my part i care not i say little but when
 time shall serve there shall be smiles but that
 shall be as it may i dare not fight but i will
 wink and hold out mine iron it is a simple one but
 what though it will toast cheese and it will
 endure cold as another man's sword will and
 there's an end
bardolph i will bestow a breakfast to make you friends and
 we'll be all three sworn brothers to france let it
 be so good corporal nym
nym faith i will live so long as i may that's the
 certain of it and when i cannot live any longer i
 will do as i may that is my rest that is the
 rendezvous of it
bardolph it is certain corporal that he is married to nell
 quickly and certainly she did you wrong for you
 were trothplight to her
nym i cannot tell things must be as they may men may
 sleep and they may have their throats about them at
 that time and some say knives have edges it must
 be as it may though patience be a tired mare yet
 she will plod there must be conclusions well i
 cannot tell
 enter pistol and hostess
bardolph here comes ancient pistol and his wife good
 corporal be patient here how now mine host pistol
pistol base tike call'st thou me host now by this hand
 i swear i scorn the term nor shall my nell keep lodgers
hostess no by my troth not long for we cannot lodge and
 board a dozen or fourteen gentlewomen that live
 honestly by the prick of their needles but it will
 be thought we keep a bawdy house straight
 nym and pistol draw
 o well a day lady if he be not drawn now we
 shall see wilful adultery and murder committed
bardolph good lieutenant good corporal offer nothing here
nym pish
pistol pish for thee iceland dog thou prickear'd cur of iceland
hostess good corporal nym show thy valour and put up your sword
nym will you shog off i would have you solus
pistol solus egregious dog o viper vile
 the solus in thy most mervailous face
 the solus in thy teeth and in thy throat
 and in thy hateful lungs yea in thy maw perdy
 and which is worse within thy nasty mouth
 i do retort the solus in thy bowels
 for i can take and pistol's cock is up
 and flashing fire will follow
nym i am not barbason you cannot conjure me i have an
 humour to knock you indifferently well if you grow
 foul with me pistol i will scour you with my
 rapier as i may in fair terms if you would walk
 off i would prick your guts a little in good
 terms as i may and that's the humour of it
pistol o braggart vile and damned furious wight
 the grave doth gape and doting death is near
 therefore exhale
bardolph hear me hear me what i say he that strikes the
 first stroke i'll run him up to the hilts as i am a soldier
 draws
pistol an oath of mickle might and fury shall abate
 give me thy fist thy forefoot to me give
 thy spirits are most tall
nym i will cut thy throat one time or other in fair
 terms that is the humour of it
pistol couple a gorge'
 that is the word i thee defy again
 o hound of crete think'st thou my spouse to get
 no to the spital go
 and from the powdering tub of infamy
 fetch forth the lazar kite of cressid's kind
 doll tearsheet she by name and her espouse
 i have and i will hold the quondam quickly
 for the only she andpauca there's enough go to
 enter the boy
boy mine host pistol you must come to my master and
 you hostess he is very sick and would to bed
 good bardolph put thy face between his sheets and
 do the office of a warmingpan faith he's very ill
bardolph away you rogue
hostess by my troth he'll yield the crow a pudding one of
 these days the king has killed his heart good
 husband come home presently
 exeunt hostess and boy
bardolph come shall i make you two friends we must to
 france together why the devil should we keep
 knives to cut one another's throats
pistol let floods o'erswell and fiends for food howl on
nym you'll pay me the eight shillings i won of you at betting
pistol base is the slave that pays
nym that now i will have that's the humour of it
pistol as manhood shall compound push home
 they draw
bardolph by this sword he that makes the first thrust i'll
 kill him by this sword i will
pistol sword is an oath and oaths must have their course
bardolph corporal nym an thou wilt be friends be friends
 an thou wilt not why then be enemies with me too
 prithee put up
nym i shall have my eight shillings i won of you at betting
pistol a noble shalt thou have and present pay
 and liquor likewise will i give to thee
 and friendship shall combine and brotherhood
 i'll live by nym and nym shall live by me
 is not this just for i shall sutler be
 unto the camp and profits will accrue
 give me thy hand
nym i shall have my noble
pistol in cash most justly paid
nym well then that's the humour of't
 reenter hostess
hostess as ever you came of women come in quickly to sir
 john ah poor heart he is so shaked of a burning
 quotidian tertian that it is most lamentable to
 behold sweet men come to him
nym the king hath run bad humours on the knight that's
 the even of it
pistol nym thou hast spoke the right
 his heart is fracted and corroborate
nym the king is a good king but it must be as it may
 he passes some humours and careers
pistol let us condole the knight for lambkins we will live
 king henry v
act ii
scene ii southampton a councilchamber
 enter exeter bedford and westmoreland
bedford fore god his grace is bold to trust these traitors
exeter they shall be apprehended by and by
westmoreland how smooth and even they do bear themselves
 as if allegiance in their bosoms sat
 crowned with faith and constant loyalty
bedford the king hath note of all that they intend
 by interception which they dream not of
exeter nay but the man that was his bedfellow
 whom he hath dull'd and cloy'd with gracious favours
 that he should for a foreign purse so sell
 his sovereign's life to death and treachery
 trumpets sound enter king henry v scroop
 cambridge grey and attendants
king henry v now sits the wind fair and we will aboard
 my lord of cambridge and my kind lord of masham
 and you my gentle knight give me your thoughts
 think you not that the powers we bear with us
 will cut their passage through the force of france
 doing the execution and the act
 for which we have in head assembled them
scroop no doubt my liege if each man do his best
king henry v i doubt not that since we are well persuaded
 we carry not a heart with us from hence
 that grows not in a fair consent with ours
 nor leave not one behind that doth not wish
 success and conquest to attend on us
cambridge never was monarch better fear'd and loved
 than is your majesty there's not i think a subject
 that sits in heartgrief and uneasiness
 under the sweet shade of your government
grey true those that were your father's enemies
 have steep'd their galls in honey and do serve you
 with hearts create of duty and of zeal
king henry v we therefore have great cause of thankfulness
 and shall forget the office of our hand
 sooner than quittance of desert and merit
 according to the weight and worthiness
scroop so service shall with steeled sinews toil
 and labour shall refresh itself with hope
 to do your grace incessant services
king henry v we judge no less uncle of exeter
 enlarge the man committed yesterday
 that rail'd against our person we consider
 it was excess of wine that set him on
 and on his more advice we pardon him
scroop that's mercy but too much security
 let him be punish'd sovereign lest example
 breed by his sufferance more of such a kind
king henry v o let us yet be merciful
cambridge so may your highness and yet punish too
grey sir
 you show great mercy if you give him life
 after the taste of much correction
king henry v alas your too much love and care of me
 are heavy orisons gainst this poor wretch
 if little faults proceeding on distemper
 shall not be wink'd at how shall we stretch our eye
 when capital crimes chew'd swallow'd and digested
 appear before us we'll yet enlarge that man
 though cambridge scroop and grey in their dear care
 and tender preservation of our person
 would have him punished and now to our french causes
 who are the late commissioners
cambridge i one my lord
 your highness bade me ask for it today
scroop so did you me my liege
grey and i my royal sovereign
king henry v then richard earl of cambridge there is yours
 there yours lord scroop of masham and sir knight
 grey of northumberland this same is yours
 read them and know i know your worthiness
 my lord of westmoreland and uncle exeter
 we will aboard to night why how now gentlemen
 what see you in those papers that you lose
 so much complexion look ye how they change
 their cheeks are paper why what read you there
 that hath so cowarded and chased your blood
 out of appearance
cambridge i do confess my fault
 and do submit me to your highness mercy
grey 
 to which we all appeal
scroop 
king henry v the mercy that was quick in us but late
 by your own counsel is suppress'd and kill'd
 you must not dare for shame to talk of mercy
 for your own reasons turn into your bosoms
 as dogs upon their masters worrying you
 see you my princes and my noble peers
 these english monsters my lord of cambridge here
 you know how apt our love was to accord
 to furnish him with all appertinents
 belonging to his honour and this man
 hath for a few light crowns lightly conspired
 and sworn unto the practises of france
 to kill us here in hampton to the which
 this knight no less for bounty bound to us
 than cambridge is hath likewise sworn but o
 what shall i say to thee lord scroop thou cruel
 ingrateful savage and inhuman creature
 thou that didst bear the key of all my counsels
 that knew'st the very bottom of my soul
 that almost mightst have coin'd me into gold
 wouldst thou have practised on me for thy use
 may it be possible that foreign hire
 could out of thee extract one spark of evil
 that might annoy my finger tis so strange
 that though the truth of it stands off as gross
 as black and white my eye will scarcely see it
 treason and murder ever kept together
 as two yokedevils sworn to either's purpose
 working so grossly in a natural cause
 that admiration did not whoop at them
 but thou gainst all proportion didst bring in
 wonder to wait on treason and on murder
 and whatsoever cunning fiend it was
 that wrought upon thee so preposterously
 hath got the voice in hell for excellence
 all other devils that suggest by treasons
 do botch and bungle up damnation
 with patches colours and with forms being fetch'd
 from glistering semblances of piety
 but he that temper'd thee bade thee stand up
 gave thee no instance why thou shouldst do treason
 unless to dub thee with the name of traitor
 if that same demon that hath gull'd thee thus
 should with his lion gait walk the whole world
 he might return to vasty tartar back
 and tell the legions i can never win
 a soul so easy as that englishman's'
 o how hast thou with jealousy infected
 the sweetness of affiance show men dutiful
 why so didst thou seem they grave and learned
 why so didst thou come they of noble family
 why so didst thou seem they religious
 why so didst thou or are they spare in diet
 free from gross passion or of mirth or anger
 constant in spirit not swerving with the blood
 garnish'd and deck'd in modest complement
 not working with the eye without the ear
 and but in purged judgment trusting neither
 such and so finely bolted didst thou seem
 and thus thy fall hath left a kind of blot
 to mark the fullfraught man and best indued
 with some suspicion i will weep for thee
 for this revolt of thine methinks is like
 another fall of man their faults are open
 arrest them to the answer of the law
 and god acquit them of their practises
exeter i arrest thee of high treason by the name of
 richard earl of cambridge
 i arrest thee of high treason by the name of
 henry lord scroop of masham
 i arrest thee of high treason by the name of
 thomas grey knight of northumberland
scroop our purposes god justly hath discover'd
 and i repent my fault more than my death
 which i beseech your highness to forgive
 although my body pay the price of it
cambridge for me the gold of france did not seduce
 although i did admit it as a motive
 the sooner to effect what i intended
 but god be thanked for prevention
 which i in sufferance heartily will rejoice
 beseeching god and you to pardon me
grey never did faithful subject more rejoice
 at the discovery of most dangerous treason
 than i do at this hour joy o'er myself
 prevented from a damned enterprise
 my fault but not my body pardon sovereign
king henry v god quit you in his mercy hear your sentence
 you have conspired against our royal person
 join'd with an enemy proclaim'd and from his coffers
 received the golden earnest of our death
 wherein you would have sold your king to slaughter
 his princes and his peers to servitude
 his subjects to oppression and contempt
 and his whole kingdom into desolation
 touching our person seek we no revenge
 but we our kingdom's safety must so tender
 whose ruin you have sought that to her laws
 we do deliver you get you therefore hence
 poor miserable wretches to your death
 the taste whereof god of his mercy give
 you patience to endure and true repentance
 of all your dear offences bear them hence
 exeunt cambridge scroop and grey guarded
 now lords for france the enterprise whereof
 shall be to you as us like glorious
 we doubt not of a fair and lucky war
 since god so graciously hath brought to light
 this dangerous treason lurking in our way
 to hinder our beginnings we doubt not now
 but every rub is smoothed on our way
 then forth dear countrymen let us deliver
 our puissance into the hand of god
 putting it straight in expedition
 cheerly to sea the signs of war advance
 no king of england if not king of france
 exeunt
 king henry v
act ii
scene iii london before a tavern
 enter pistol hostess nym bardolph and boy
hostess prithee honeysweet husband let me bring thee to staines
pistol no for my manly heart doth yearn
 bardolph be blithe nym rouse thy vaunting veins
 boy bristle thy courage up for falstaff he is dead
 and we must yearn therefore
bardolph would i were with him wheresome'er he is either in
 heaven or in hell
hostess nay sure he's not in hell he's in arthur's
 bosom if ever man went to arthur's bosom a made
 a finer end and went away an it had been any
 christom child a parted even just between twelve
 and one even at the turning o the tide for after
 i saw him fumble with the sheets and play with
 flowers and smile upon his fingers ends i knew
 there was but one way for his nose was as sharp as
 a pen and a babbled of green fields how now
 sir john quoth i what man be o good
 cheer so a cried out god god god three or
 four times now i to comfort him bid him a'
 should not think of god i hoped there was no need
 to trouble himself with any such thoughts yet so
 a bade me lay more clothes on his feet i put my
 hand into the bed and felt them and they were as
 cold as any stone then i felt to his knees and
 they were as cold as any stone and so upward and
 upward and all was as cold as any stone
nym they say he cried out of sack
hostess ay that a did
bardolph and of women
hostess nay that a did not
boy yes that a did and said they were devils
 incarnate
hostess a could never abide carnation twas a colour he
 never liked
boy a said once the devil would have him about women
hostess a did in some sort indeed handle women but then
 he was rheumatic and talked of the whore of babylon
boy do you not remember a saw a flea stick upon
 bardolph's nose and a said it was a black soul
 burning in hellfire
bardolph well the fuel is gone that maintained that fire
 that's all the riches i got in his service
nym shall we shog the king will be gone from
 southampton
pistol come let's away my love give me thy lips
 look to my chattels and my movables
 let senses rule the word is pitch and pay'
 trust none
 for oaths are straws men's faiths are wafercakes
 and holdfast is the only dog my duck
 therefore caveto be thy counsellor
 go clear thy crystals yokefellows in arms
 let us to france like horseleeches my boys
 to suck to suck the very blood to suck
boy and that's but unwholesome food they say
pistol touch her soft mouth and march
bardolph farewell hostess
 kissing her
nym i cannot kiss that is the humour of it but adieu
pistol let housewifery appear keep close i thee command
hostess farewell adieu
 exeunt
 king henry v
act ii
scene iv france the king's palace
 flourish enter the french king the dauphin the
 dukes of berri and bretagne the constable and others
king of france thus comes the english with full power upon us
 and more than carefully it us concerns
 to answer royally in our defences
 therefore the dukes of berri and of bretagne
 of brabant and of orleans shall make forth
 and you prince dauphin with all swift dispatch
 to line and new repair our towns of war
 with men of courage and with means defendant
 for england his approaches makes as fierce
 as waters to the sucking of a gulf
 it fits us then to be as provident
 as fear may teach us out of late examples
 left by the fatal and neglected english
 upon our fields
dauphin my most redoubted father
 it is most meet we arm us gainst the foe
 for peace itself should not so dull a kingdom
 though war nor no known quarrel were in question
 but that defences musters preparations
 should be maintain'd assembled and collected
 as were a war in expectation
 therefore i say tis meet we all go forth
 to view the sick and feeble parts of france
 and let us do it with no show of fear
 no with no more than if we heard that england
 were busied with a whitsun morrisdance
 for my good liege she is so idly king'd
 her sceptre so fantastically borne
 by a vain giddy shallow humorous youth
 that fear attends her not
constable o peace prince dauphin
 you are too much mistaken in this king
 question your grace the late ambassadors
 with what great state he heard their embassy
 how well supplied with noble counsellors
 how modest in exception and withal
 how terrible in constant resolution
 and you shall find his vanities forespent
 were but the outside of the roman brutus
 covering discretion with a coat of folly
 as gardeners do with ordure hide those roots
 that shall first spring and be most delicate
dauphin well tis not so my lord high constable
 but though we think it so it is no matter
 in cases of defence tis best to weigh
 the enemy more mighty than he seems
 so the proportions of defence are fill'd
 which of a weak or niggardly projection
 doth like a miser spoil his coat with scanting
 a little cloth
king of france think we king harry strong
 and princes look you strongly arm to meet him
 the kindred of him hath been flesh'd upon us
 and he is bred out of that bloody strain
 that haunted us in our familiar paths
 witness our too much memorable shame
 when cressy battle fatally was struck
 and all our princes captiv'd by the hand
 of that black name edward black prince of wales
 whiles that his mountain sire on mountain standing
 up in the air crown'd with the golden sun
 saw his heroical seed and smiled to see him
 mangle the work of nature and deface
 the patterns that by god and by french fathers
 had twenty years been made this is a stem
 of that victorious stock and let us fear
 the native mightiness and fate of him
 enter a messenger
messenger ambassadors from harry king of england
 do crave admittance to your majesty
king of france we'll give them present audience go and bring them
 exeunt messenger and certain lords
 you see this chase is hotly follow'd friends
dauphin turn head and stop pursuit for coward dogs
 most spend their mouths when what they seem to threaten
 runs far before them good my sovereign
 take up the english short and let them know
 of what a monarchy you are the head
 selflove my liege is not so vile a sin
 as selfneglecting
 reenter lords with exeter and train
king of france from our brother england
exeter from him and thus he greets your majesty
 he wills you in the name of god almighty
 that you divest yourself and lay apart
 the borrow'd glories that by gift of heaven
 by law of nature and of nations long
 to him and to his heirs namely the crown
 and all widestretched honours that pertain
 by custom and the ordinance of times
 unto the crown of france that you may know
 tis no sinister nor no awkward claim
 pick'd from the wormholes of longvanish'd days
 nor from the dust of old oblivion raked
 he sends you this most memorable line
 in every branch truly demonstrative
 willing to overlook this pedigree
 and when you find him evenly derived
 from his most famed of famous ancestors
 edward the third he bids you then resign
 your crown and kingdom indirectly held
 from him the native and true challenger
king of france or else what follows
exeter bloody constraint for if you hide the crown
 even in your hearts there will he rake for it
 therefore in fierce tempest is he coming
 in thunder and in earthquake like a jove
 that if requiring fail he will compel
 and bids you in the bowels of the lord
 deliver up the crown and to take mercy
 on the poor souls for whom this hungry war
 opens his vasty jaws and on your head
 turning the widows tears the orphans cries
 the dead men's blood the pining maidens groans
 for husbands fathers and betrothed lovers
 that shall be swallow'd in this controversy
 this is his claim his threatening and my message
 unless the dauphin be in presence here
 to whom expressly i bring greeting too
king of france for us we will consider of this further
 tomorrow shall you bear our full intent
 back to our brother england
dauphin for the dauphin
 i stand here for him what to him from england
exeter scorn and defiance slight regard contempt
 and any thing that may not misbecome
 the mighty sender doth he prize you at
 thus says my king an if your father's highness
 do not in grant of all demands at large
 sweeten the bitter mock you sent his majesty
 he'll call you to so hot an answer of it
 that caves and womby vaultages of france
 shall chide your trespass and return your mock
 in second accent of his ordnance
dauphin say if my father render fair return
 it is against my will for i desire
 nothing but odds with england to that end
 as matching to his youth and vanity
 i did present him with the paris balls
exeter he'll make your paris louvre shake for it
 were it the mistresscourt of mighty europe
 and be assured you'll find a difference
 as we his subjects have in wonder found
 between the promise of his greener days
 and these he masters now now he weighs time
 even to the utmost grain that you shall read
 in your own losses if he stay in france
king of france tomorrow shall you know our mind at full
exeter dispatch us with all speed lest that our king
 come here himself to question our delay
 for he is footed in this land already
king of france you shall be soon dispatch's with fair conditions
 a night is but small breath and little pause
 to answer matters of this consequence
 flourish exeunt
 king henry v
act iii
 prologue
 enter chorus
chorus thus with imagined wing our swift scene flies
 in motion of no less celerity
 than that of thought suppose that you have seen
 the wellappointed king at hampton pier
 embark his royalty and his brave fleet
 with silken streamers the young phoebus fanning
 play with your fancies and in them behold
 upon the hempen tackle shipboys climbing
 hear the shrill whistle which doth order give
 to sounds confused behold the threaden sails
 borne with the invisible and creeping wind
 draw the huge bottoms through the furrow'd sea
 breasting the lofty surge o do but think
 you stand upon the ravage and behold
 a city on the inconstant billows dancing
 for so appears this fleet majestical
 holding due course to harfleur follow follow
 grapple your minds to sternage of this navy
 and leave your england as dead midnight still
 guarded with grandsires babies and old women
 either past or not arrived to pith and puissance
 for who is he whose chin is but enrich'd
 with one appearing hair that will not follow
 these cull'd and choicedrawn cavaliers to france
 work work your thoughts and therein see a siege
 behold the ordnance on their carriages
 with fatal mouths gaping on girded harfleur
 suppose the ambassador from the french comes back
 tells harry that the king doth offer him
 katharine his daughter and with her to dowry
 some petty and unprofitable dukedoms
 the offer likes not and the nimble gunner
 with linstock now the devilish cannon touches
 alarum and chambers go off
 and down goes all before them still be kind
 and eke out our performance with your mind
 exit
 king henry v
act iii
scene i france before harfleur
 alarum enter king henry exeter bedford
 gloucester and soldiers with scalingladders
king henry v once more unto the breach dear friends once more
 or close the wall up with our english dead
 in peace there's nothing so becomes a man
 as modest stillness and humility
 but when the blast of war blows in our ears
 then imitate the action of the tiger
 stiffen the sinews summon up the blood
 disguise fair nature with hardfavour'd rage
 then lend the eye a terrible aspect
 let pry through the portage of the head
 like the brass cannon let the brow o'erwhelm it
 as fearfully as doth a galled rock
 o'erhang and jutty his confounded base
 swill'd with the wild and wasteful ocean
 now set the teeth and stretch the nostril wide
 hold hard the breath and bend up every spirit
 to his full height on on you noblest english
 whose blood is fet from fathers of warproof
 fathers that like so many alexanders
 have in these parts from morn till even fought
 and sheathed their swords for lack of argument
 dishonour not your mothers now attest
 that those whom you call'd fathers did beget you
 be copy now to men of grosser blood
 and teach them how to war and you good yeoman
 whose limbs were made in england show us here
 the mettle of your pasture let us swear
 that you are worth your breeding which i doubt not
 for there is none of you so mean and base
 that hath not noble lustre in your eyes
 i see you stand like greyhounds in the slips
 straining upon the start the game's afoot
 follow your spirit and upon this charge
 cry god for harry england and saint george'
 exeunt alarum and chambers go off
 king henry v
act iii
scene ii the same
 enter nym bardolph pistol and boy
bardolph on on on on on to the breach to the breach
nym pray thee corporal stay the knocks are too hot
 and for mine own part i have not a case of lives
 the humour of it is too hot that is the very
 plainsong of it
pistol the plainsong is most just for humours do abound
 knocks go and come god's vassals drop and die
 and sword and shield
 in bloody field
 doth win immortal fame
boy would i were in an alehouse in london i would give
 all my fame for a pot of ale and safety
pistol and i
 if wishes would prevail with me
 my purpose should not fail with me
 but thither would i hie
boy as duly but not as truly
 as bird doth sing on bough
 enter fluellen
fluellen up to the breach you dogs avaunt you cullions
 driving them forward
pistol be merciful great duke to men of mould
 abate thy rage abate thy manly rage
 abate thy rage great duke
 good bawcock bate thy rage use lenity sweet chuck
nym these be good humours your honour wins bad humours
 exeunt all but boy
boy as young as i am i have observed these three
 swashers i am boy to them all three but all they
 three though they would serve me could not be man
 to me for indeed three such antics do not amount to
 a man for bardolph he is whitelivered and
 redfaced by the means whereof a faces it out but
 fights not for pistol he hath a killing tongue
 and a quiet sword by the means whereof a breaks
 words and keeps whole weapons for nym he hath
 heard that men of few words are the best men and
 therefore he scorns to say his prayers lest a'
 should be thought a coward but his few bad words
 are matched with as few good deeds for a never
 broke any man's head but his own and that was
 against a post when he was drunk they will steal
 any thing and call it purchase bardolph stole a
 lutecase bore it twelve leagues and sold it for
 three half pence nym and bardolph are sworn
 brothers in filching and in calais they stole a
 fireshovel i knew by that piece of service the
 men would carry coals they would have me as
 familiar with men's pockets as their gloves or their
 handkerchers which makes much against my manhood
 if i should take from another's pocket to put into
 mine for it is plain pocketing up of wrongs i
 must leave them and seek some better service
 their villany goes against my weak stomach and
 therefore i must cast it up
 exit
 reenter fluellen gower following
gower captain fluellen you must come presently to the
 mines the duke of gloucester would speak with you
fluellen to the mines tell you the duke it is not so good
 to come to the mines for look you the mines is
 not according to the disciplines of the war the
 concavities of it is not sufficient for look you
 the athversary you may discuss unto the duke look
 you is digt himself four yard under the
 countermines by cheshu i think a will plough up
 all if there is not better directions
gower the duke of gloucester to whom the order of the
 siege is given is altogether directed by an
 irishman a very valiant gentleman i faith
fluellen it is captain macmorris is it not
gower i think it be
fluellen by cheshu he is an ass as in the world i will
 verify as much in his beard be has no more
 directions in the true disciplines of the wars look
 you of the roman disciplines than is a puppydog
 enter macmorris and captain jamy
gower here a comes and the scots captain captain jamy with him
fluellen captain jamy is a marvellous falourous gentleman
 that is certain and of great expedition and
 knowledge in th aunchient wars upon my particular
 knowledge of his directions by cheshu he will
 maintain his argument as well as any military man in
 the world in the disciplines of the pristine wars
 of the romans
jamy i say gudday captain fluellen
fluellen godden to your worship good captain james
gower how now captain macmorris have you quit the
 mines have the pioneers given o'er
macmorris by chrish la tish ill done the work ish give
 over the trompet sound the retreat by my hand i
 swear and my father's soul the work ish ill done
 it ish give over i would have blowed up the town so
 chrish save me la in an hour o tish ill done
 tish ill done by my hand tish ill done
fluellen captain macmorris i beseech you now will you
 voutsafe me look you a few disputations with you
 as partly touching or concerning the disciplines of
 the war the roman wars in the way of argument
 look you and friendly communication partly to
 satisfy my opinion and partly for the satisfaction
 look you of my mind as touching the direction of
 the military discipline that is the point
jamy it sall be vary gud gud feith gud captains bath
 and i sall quit you with gud leve as i may pick
 occasion that sall i marry
macmorris it is no time to discourse so chrish save me the
 day is hot and the weather and the wars and the
 king and the dukes it is no time to discourse the
 town is beseeched and the trumpet call us to the
 breach and we talk and be chrish do nothing
 tis shame for us all so god sa me tis shame to
 stand still it is shame by my hand and there is
 throats to be cut and works to be done and there
 ish nothing done so chrish sa me la
jamy by the mess ere theise eyes of mine take themselves
 to slomber ay'll de gud service or ay'll lig i'
 the grund for it ay or go to death and ay'll pay
 t as valourously as i may that sall i suerly do
 that is the breff and the long marry i wad full
 fain hear some question tween you tway
fluellen captain macmorris i think look you under your
 correction there is not many of your nation
macmorris of my nation what ish my nation ish a villain
 and a bastard and a knave and a rascal what ish
 my nation who talks of my nation
fluellen look you if you take the matter otherwise than is
 meant captain macmorris peradventure i shall think
 you do not use me with that affability as in
 discretion you ought to use me look you being as
 good a man as yourself both in the disciplines of
 war and in the derivation of my birth and in
 other particularities
macmorris i do not know you so good a man as myself so
 chrish save me i will cut off your head
gower gentlemen both you will mistake each other
jamy a that's a foul fault
 a parley sounded
gower the town sounds a parley
fluellen captain macmorris when there is more better
 opportunity to be required look you i will be so
 bold as to tell you i know the disciplines of war
 and there is an end
 exeunt
 king henry v
act iii
scene iii the same before the gates
 the governor and some citizens on the walls the
 english forces below enter king henry and his train
king henry v how yet resolves the governor of the town
 this is the latest parle we will admit
 therefore to our best mercy give yourselves
 or like to men proud of destruction
 defy us to our worst for as i am a soldier
 a name that in my thoughts becomes me best
 if i begin the battery once again
 i will not leave the halfachieved harfleur
 till in her ashes she lie buried
 the gates of mercy shall be all shut up
 and the flesh'd soldier rough and hard of heart
 in liberty of bloody hand shall range
 with conscience wide as hell mowing like grass
 your freshfair virgins and your flowering infants
 what is it then to me if impious war
 array'd in flames like to the prince of fiends
 do with his smirch'd complexion all fell feats
 enlink'd to waste and desolation
 what is't to me when you yourselves are cause
 if your pure maidens fall into the hand
 of hot and forcing violation
 what rein can hold licentious wickedness
 when down the hill he holds his fierce career
 we may as bootless spend our vain command
 upon the enraged soldiers in their spoil
 as send precepts to the leviathan
 to come ashore therefore you men of harfleur
 take pity of your town and of your people
 whiles yet my soldiers are in my command
 whiles yet the cool and temperate wind of grace
 o'erblows the filthy and contagious clouds
 of heady murder spoil and villany
 if not why in a moment look to see
 the blind and bloody soldier with foul hand
 defile the locks of your shrillshrieking daughters
 your fathers taken by the silver beards
 and their most reverend heads dash'd to the walls
 your naked infants spitted upon pikes
 whiles the mad mothers with their howls confused
 do break the clouds as did the wives of jewry
 at herod's bloodyhunting slaughtermen
 what say you will you yield and this avoid
 or guilty in defence be thus destroy'd
governor our expectation hath this day an end
 the dauphin whom of succors we entreated
 returns us that his powers are yet not ready
 to raise so great a siege therefore great king
 we yield our town and lives to thy soft mercy
 enter our gates dispose of us and ours
 for we no longer are defensible
king henry v open your gates come uncle exeter
 go you and enter harfleur there remain
 and fortify it strongly gainst the french
 use mercy to them all for us dear uncle
 the winter coming on and sickness growing
 upon our soldiers we will retire to calais
 tonight in harfleur we will be your guest
 tomorrow for the march are we addrest
 flourish the king and his train enter the town
 king henry v
act iii
scene iv the french king's palace
 enter katharine and alice
katharine alice tu as ete en angleterre et tu parles bien le langage
alice un peu madame
katharine je te prie m'enseignez il faut que j'apprenne a
 parler comment appelezvous la main en anglois
alice la main elle est appelee de hand
katharine de hand et les doigts
alice les doigts ma foi j'oublie les doigts mais je me
 souviendrai les doigts je pense qu'ils sont
 appeles de fingres oui de fingres
katharine la main de hand les doigts de fingres je pense
 que je suis le bon ecolier j'ai gagne deux mots
 d'anglois vitement comment appelezvous les ongles
alice les ongles nous les appelons de nails
katharine de nails ecoutez ditesmoi si je parle bien de
 hand de fingres et de nails
alice c'est bien dit madame il est fort bon anglois
katharine ditesmoi l'anglois pour le bras
alice de arm madame
katharine et le coude
alice de elbow
katharine de elbow je m'en fais la repetition de tous les
 mots que vous m'avez appris des a present
alice il est trop difficile madame comme je pense
katharine excusezmoi alice ecoutez de hand de fingres
 de nails de arma de bilbow
alice de elbow madame
katharine o seigneur dieu je m'en oublie de elbow comment
 appelezvous le col
alice de neck madame
katharine de nick et le menton
alice de chin
katharine de sin le col de nick de menton de sin
alice oui sauf votre honneur en verite vous prononcez
 les mots aussi droit que les natifs d'angleterre
katharine je ne doute point d'apprendre par la grace de dieu
 et en peu de temps
alice n'avez vous pas deja oublie ce que je vous ai enseigne
katharine non je reciterai a vous promptement de hand de
 fingres de mails
alice de nails madame
katharine de nails de arm de ilbow
alice sauf votre honneur de elbow
katharine ainsi disje de elbow de nick et de sin comment
 appelezvous le pied et la robe
alice de foot madame et de coun
katharine de foot et de coun o seigneur dieu ce sont mots
 de son mauvais corruptible gros et impudique et
 non pour les dames d'honneur d'user je ne voudrais
 prononcer ces mots devant les seigneurs de france
 pour tout le monde foh le foot et le coun
 neanmoins je reciterai une autre fois ma lecon
 ensemble de hand de fingres de nails de arm de
 elbow de nick de sin de foot de coun
alice excellent madame
katharine c'est assez pour une fois allonsnous a diner
 exeunt
 king henry v
act iii
scene v the same
 enter the king of france the dauphin the duke of
 bourbon the constable of france and others
king of france tis certain he hath pass'd the river somme
constable and if he be not fought withal my lord
 let us not live in france let us quit all
 and give our vineyards to a barbarous people
dauphin o dieu vivant shall a few sprays of us
 the emptying of our fathers luxury
 our scions put in wild and savage stock
 spirt up so suddenly into the clouds
 and overlook their grafters
bourbon normans but bastard normans norman bastards
 mort de ma vie if they march along
 unfought withal but i will sell my dukedom
 to buy a slobbery and a dirty farm
 in that nookshotten isle of albion
constable dieu de batailles where have they this mettle
 is not their climate foggy raw and dull
 on whom as in despite the sun looks pale
 killing their fruit with frowns can sodden water
 a drench for surrein'd jades their barleybroth
 decoct their cold blood to such valiant heat
 and shall our quick blood spirited with wine
 seem frosty o for honour of our land
 let us not hang like roping icicles
 upon our houses thatch whiles a more frosty people
 sweat drops of gallant youth in our rich fields
 poor we may call them in their native lords
dauphin by faith and honour
 our madams mock at us and plainly say
 our mettle is bred out and they will give
 their bodies to the lust of english youth
 to newstore france with bastard warriors
bourbon they bid us to the english dancingschools
 and teach lavoltas high and swift corantos
 saying our grace is only in our heels
 and that we are most lofty runaways
king of france where is montjoy the herald speed him hence
 let him greet england with our sharp defiance
 up princes and with spirit of honour edged
 more sharper than your swords hie to the field
 charles delabreth high constable of france
 you dukes of orleans bourbon and of berri
 alencon brabant bar and burgundy
 jaques chatillon rambures vaudemont
 beaumont grandpre roussi and fauconberg
 foix lestrale bouciqualt and charolois
 high dukes great princes barons lords and knights
 for your great seats now quit you of great shames
 bar harry england that sweeps through our land
 with pennons painted in the blood of harfleur
 rush on his host as doth the melted snow
 upon the valleys whose low vassal seat
 the alps doth spit and void his rheum upon
 go down upon him you have power enough
 and in a captive chariot into rouen
 bring him our prisoner
constable this becomes the great
 sorry am i his numbers are so few
 his soldiers sick and famish'd in their march
 for i am sure when he shall see our army
 he'll drop his heart into the sink of fear
 and for achievement offer us his ransom
king of france therefore lord constable haste on montjoy
 and let him say to england that we send
 to know what willing ransom he will give
 prince dauphin you shall stay with us in rouen
dauphin not so i do beseech your majesty
king of france be patient for you shall remain with us
 now forth lord constable and princes all
 and quickly bring us word of england's fall
 exeunt
 king henry v
act iii
scene vi the english camp in picardy
 enter gower and fluellen meeting
gower how now captain fluellen come you from the bridge
fluellen i assure you there is very excellent services
 committed at the bridge
gower is the duke of exeter safe
fluellen the duke of exeter is as magnanimous as agamemnon
 and a man that i love and honour with my soul and my
 heart and my duty and my life and my living and
 my uttermost power he is notgod be praised and
 blessedany hurt in the world but keeps the
 bridge most valiantly with excellent discipline
 there is an aunchient lieutenant there at the
 pridge i think in my very conscience he is as
 valiant a man as mark antony and he is a man of no
 estimation in the world but did see him do as
 gallant service
gower what do you call him
fluellen he is called aunchient pistol
gower i know him not
 enter pistol
fluellen here is the man
pistol captain i thee beseech to do me favours
 the duke of exeter doth love thee well
fluellen ay i praise god and i have merited some love at
 his hands
pistol bardolph a soldier firm and sound of heart
 and of buxom valour hath by cruel fate
 and giddy fortune's furious fickle wheel
 that goddess blind
 that stands upon the rolling restless stone
fluellen by your patience aunchient pistol fortune is
 painted blind with a muffler afore her eyes to
 signify to you that fortune is blind and she is
 painted also with a wheel to signify to you which
 is the moral of it that she is turning and
 inconstant and mutability and variation and her
 foot look you is fixed upon a spherical stone
 which rolls and rolls and rolls in good truth
 the poet makes a most excellent description of it
 fortune is an excellent moral
pistol fortune is bardolph's foe and frowns on him
 for he hath stolen a pax and hanged must a be
 a damned death
 let gallows gape for dog let man go free
 and let not hemp his windpipe suffocate
 but exeter hath given the doom of death
 for pax of little price
 therefore go speak the duke will hear thy voice
 and let not bardolph's vital thread be cut
 with edge of penny cord and vile reproach
 speak captain for his life and i will thee requite
fluellen aunchient pistol i do partly understand your meaning
pistol why then rejoice therefore
fluellen certainly aunchient it is not a thing to rejoice
 at for if look you he were my brother i would
 desire the duke to use his good pleasure and put
 him to execution for discipline ought to be used
pistol die and be damn'd and figo for thy friendship
fluellen it is well
pistol the fig of spain
 exit
fluellen very good
gower why this is an arrant counterfeit rascal i
 remember him now a bawd a cutpurse
fluellen i'll assure you a uttered as brave words at the
 bridge as you shall see in a summer's day but it
 is very well what he has spoke to me that is well
 i warrant you when time is serve
gower why tis a gull a fool a rogue that now and then
 goes to the wars to grace himself at his return
 into london under the form of a soldier and such
 fellows are perfect in the great commanders names
 and they will learn you by rote where services were
 done at such and such a sconce at such a breach
 at such a convoy who came off bravely who was
 shot who disgraced what terms the enemy stood on
 and this they con perfectly in the phrase of war
 which they trick up with newtuned oaths and what
 a beard of the general's cut and a horrid suit of
 the camp will do among foaming bottles and
 alewashed wits is wonderful to be thought on but
 you must learn to know such slanders of the age or
 else you may be marvellously mistook
fluellen i tell you what captain gower i do perceive he is
 not the man that he would gladly make show to the
 world he is if i find a hole in his coat i will
 tell him my mind
 drum heard
 hark you the king is coming and i must speak with
 him from the pridge
 drum and colours enter king henry gloucester and soldiers
 god pless your majesty
king henry v how now fluellen camest thou from the bridge
fluellen ay so please your majesty the duke of exeter has
 very gallantly maintained the pridge the french is
 gone off look you and there is gallant and most
 prave passages marry th athversary was have
 possession of the pridge but he is enforced to
 retire and the duke of exeter is master of the
 pridge i can tell your majesty the duke is a
 prave man
king henry v what men have you lost fluellen
fluellen the perdition of th athversary hath been very
 great reasonable great marry for my part i
 think the duke hath lost never a man but one that
 is like to be executed for robbing a church one
 bardolph if your majesty know the man his face is
 all bubukles and whelks and knobs and flames o'
 fire and his lips blows at his nose and it is like
 a coal of fire sometimes plue and sometimes red
 but his nose is executed and his fire's out
king henry v we would have all such offenders so cut off and we
 give express charge that in our marches through the
 country there be nothing compelled from the
 villages nothing taken but paid for none of the
 french upbraided or abused in disdainful language
 for when lenity and cruelty play for a kingdom the
 gentler gamester is the soonest winner
 tucket enter montjoy
montjoy you know me by my habit
king henry v well then i know thee what shall i know of thee
montjoy my master's mind
king henry v unfold it
montjoy thus says my king say thou to harry of england
 though we seemed dead we did but sleep advantage
 is a better soldier than rashness tell him we
 could have rebuked him at harfleur but that we
 thought not good to bruise an injury till it were
 full ripe now we speak upon our cue and our voice
 is imperial england shall repent his folly see
 his weakness and admire our sufferance bid him
 therefore consider of his ransom which must
 proportion the losses we have borne the subjects we
 have lost the disgrace we have digested which in
 weight to reanswer his pettiness would bow under
 for our losses his exchequer is too poor for the
 effusion of our blood the muster of his kingdom too
 faint a number and for our disgrace his own
 person kneeling at our feet but a weak and
 worthless satisfaction to this add defiance and
 tell him for conclusion he hath betrayed his
 followers whose condemnation is pronounced so far
 my king and master so much my office
king henry v what is thy name i know thy quality
montjoy montjoy
king henry v thou dost thy office fairly turn thee back
 and tell thy king i do not seek him now
 but could be willing to march on to calais
 without impeachment for to say the sooth
 though tis no wisdom to confess so much
 unto an enemy of craft and vantage
 my people are with sickness much enfeebled
 my numbers lessened and those few i have
 almost no better than so many french
 who when they were in health i tell thee herald
 i thought upon one pair of english legs
 did march three frenchmen yet forgive me god
 that i do brag thus this your air of france
 hath blown that vice in me i must repent
 go therefore tell thy master here i am
 my ransom is this frail and worthless trunk
 my army but a weak and sickly guard
 yet god before tell him we will come on
 though france himself and such another neighbour
 stand in our way there's for thy labour montjoy
 go bid thy master well advise himself
 if we may pass we will if we be hinder'd
 we shall your tawny ground with your red blood
 discolour and so montjoy fare you well
 the sum of all our answer is but this
 we would not seek a battle as we are
 nor as we are we say we will not shun it
 so tell your master
montjoy i shall deliver so thanks to your highness
 exit
gloucester i hope they will not come upon us now
king henry v we are in god's hand brother not in theirs
 march to the bridge it now draws toward night
 beyond the river we'll encamp ourselves
 and on tomorrow bid them march away
 exeunt
 king henry v
act iii
scene vii the french camp near agincourt
 enter the constable of france the lord rambures
 orleans dauphin with others
constable tut i have the best armour of the world would it were day
orleans you have an excellent armour but let my horse have his due
constable it is the best horse of europe
orleans will it never be morning
dauphin my lord of orleans and my lord high constable you
 talk of horse and armour
orleans you are as well provided of both as any prince in the world
dauphin what a long night is this i will not change my
 horse with any that treads but on four pasterns
 ca ha he bounds from the earth as if his
 entrails were hairs le cheval volant the pegasus
 chez les narines de feu when i bestride him i
 soar i am a hawk he trots the air the earth
 sings when he touches it the basest horn of his
 hoof is more musical than the pipe of hermes
orleans he's of the colour of the nutmeg
dauphin and of the heat of the ginger it is a beast for
 perseus he is pure air and fire and the dull
 elements of earth and water never appear in him but
 only in patient stillness while his rider mounts
 him he is indeed a horse and all other jades you
 may call beasts
constable indeed my lord it is a most absolute and excellent horse
dauphin it is the prince of palfreys his neigh is like the
 bidding of a monarch and his countenance enforces homage
orleans no more cousin
dauphin nay the man hath no wit that cannot from the
 rising of the lark to the lodging of the lamb vary
 deserved praise on my palfrey it is a theme as
 fluent as the sea turn the sands into eloquent
 tongues and my horse is argument for them all
 tis a subject for a sovereign to reason on and for
 a sovereign's sovereign to ride on and for the
 world familiar to us and unknown to lay apart
 their particular functions and wonder at him i
 once writ a sonnet in his praise and began thus
 wonder of nature'
orleans i have heard a sonnet begin so to one's mistress
dauphin then did they imitate that which i composed to my
 courser for my horse is my mistress
orleans your mistress bears well
dauphin me well which is the prescript praise and
 perfection of a good and particular mistress
constable nay for methought yesterday your mistress shrewdly
 shook your back
dauphin so perhaps did yours
constable mine was not bridled
dauphin o then belike she was old and gentle and you rode
 like a kern of ireland your french hose off and in
 your straight strossers
constable you have good judgment in horsemanship
dauphin be warned by me then they that ride so and ride
 not warily fall into foul bogs i had rather have
 my horse to my mistress
constable i had as lief have my mistress a jade
dauphin i tell thee constable my mistress wears his own hair
constable i could make as true a boast as that if i had a sow
 to my mistress
dauphin le chien est retourne a son propre vomissement et
 la truie lavee au bourbier thou makest use of any thing
constable yet do i not use my horse for my mistress or any
 such proverb so little kin to the purpose
rambures my lord constable the armour that i saw in your tent
 tonight are those stars or suns upon it
constable stars my lord
dauphin some of them will fall tomorrow i hope
constable and yet my sky shall not want
dauphin that may be for you bear a many superfluously and
 twere more honour some were away
constable even as your horse bears your praises who would
 trot as well were some of your brags dismounted
dauphin would i were able to load him with his desert will
 it never be day i will trot tomorrow a mile and
 my way shall be paved with english faces
constable i will not say so for fear i should be faced out of
 my way but i would it were morning for i would
 fain be about the ears of the english
rambures who will go to hazard with me for twenty prisoners
constable you must first go yourself to hazard ere you have them
dauphin tis midnight i'll go arm myself
 exit
orleans the dauphin longs for morning
rambures he longs to eat the english
constable i think he will eat all he kills
orleans by the white hand of my lady he's a gallant prince
constable swear by her foot that she may tread out the oath
orleans he is simply the most active gentleman of france
constable doing is activity and he will still be doing
orleans he never did harm that i heard of
constable nor will do none tomorrow he will keep that good name still
orleans i know him to be valiant
constable i was told that by one that knows him better than
 you
orleans what's he
constable marry he told me so himself and he said he cared
 not who knew it
orleans he needs not it is no hidden virtue in him
constable by my faith sir but it is never any body saw it
 but his lackey tis a hooded valour and when it
 appears it will bate
orleans ill will never said well
constable i will cap that proverb with there is flattery in friendship'
orleans and i will take up that with give the devil his due'
constable well placed there stands your friend for the
 devil have at the very eye of that proverb with a
 pox of the devil'
orleans you are the better at proverbs by how much a
 fool's bolt is soon shot'
constable you have shot over
orleans tis not the first time you were overshot
 enter a messenger
messenger my lord high constable the english lie within
 fifteen hundred paces of your tents
constable who hath measured the ground
messenger the lord grandpre
constable a valiant and most expert gentleman would it were
 day alas poor harry of england he longs not for
 the dawning as we do
orleans what a wretched and peevish fellow is this king of
 england to mope with his fatbrained followers so
 far out of his knowledge
constable if the english had any apprehension they would run away
orleans that they lack for if their heads had any
 intellectual armour they could never wear such heavy
 headpieces
rambures that island of england breeds very valiant
 creatures their mastiffs are of unmatchable courage
orleans foolish curs that run winking into the mouth of a
 russian bear and have their heads crushed like
 rotten apples you may as well say that's a
 valiant flea that dare eat his breakfast on the lip of a lion
constable just just and the men do sympathize with the
 mastiffs in robustious and rough coming on leaving
 their wits with their wives and then give them
 great meals of beef and iron and steel they will
 eat like wolves and fight like devils
orleans ay but these english are shrewdly out of beef
constable then shall we find tomorrow they have only stomachs
 to eat and none to fight now is it time to arm
 come shall we about it
orleans it is now two o'clock but let me see by ten
 we shall have each a hundred englishmen
 exeunt
 king henry v
act iv
 prologue
 enter chorus
chorus now entertain conjecture of a time
 when creeping murmur and the poring dark
 fills the wide vessel of the universe
 from camp to camp through the foul womb of night
 the hum of either army stilly sounds
 that the fixed sentinels almost receive
 the secret whispers of each other's watch
 fire answers fire and through their paly flames
 each battle sees the other's umber'd face
 steed threatens steed in high and boastful neighs
 piercing the night's dull ear and from the tents
 the armourers accomplishing the knights
 with busy hammers closing rivets up
 give dreadful note of preparation
 the country cocks do crow the clocks do toll
 and the third hour of drowsy morning name
 proud of their numbers and secure in soul
 the confident and overlusty french
 do the lowrated english play at dice
 and chide the cripple tardygaited night
 who like a foul and ugly witch doth limp
 so tediously away the poor condemned english
 like sacrifices by their watchful fires
 sit patiently and inly ruminate
 the morning's danger and their gesture sad
 investing lanklean cheeks and warworn coats
 presenteth them unto the gazing moon
 so many horrid ghosts o now who will behold
 the royal captain of this ruin'd band
 walking from watch to watch from tent to tent
 let him cry praise and glory on his head'
 for forth he goes and visits all his host
 bids them good morrow with a modest smile
 and calls them brothers friends and countrymen
 upon his royal face there is no note
 how dread an army hath enrounded him
 nor doth he dedicate one jot of colour
 unto the weary and allwatched night
 but freshly looks and overbears attaint
 with cheerful semblance and sweet majesty
 that every wretch pining and pale before
 beholding him plucks comfort from his looks
 a largess universal like the sun
 his liberal eye doth give to every one
 thawing cold fear that mean and gentle all
 behold as may unworthiness define
 a little touch of harry in the night
 and so our scene must to the battle fly
 whereo for pitywe shall much disgrace
 with four or five most vile and ragged foils
 right illdisposed in brawl ridiculous
 the name of agincourt yet sit and see
 minding true things by what their mockeries be
 exit
 king henry v
act iv
scene i the english camp at agincourt
 enter king henry bedford and gloucester
king henry v gloucester tis true that we are in great danger
 the greater therefore should our courage be
 good morrow brother bedford god almighty
 there is some soul of goodness in things evil
 would men observingly distil it out
 for our bad neighbour makes us early stirrers
 which is both healthful and good husbandry
 besides they are our outward consciences
 and preachers to us all admonishing
 that we should dress us fairly for our end
 thus may we gather honey from the weed
 and make a moral of the devil himself
 enter erpingham
 good morrow old sir thomas erpingham
 a good soft pillow for that good white head
 were better than a churlish turf of france
erpingham not so my liege this lodging likes me better
 since i may say now lie i like a king'
king henry v tis good for men to love their present pains
 upon example so the spirit is eased
 and when the mind is quicken'd out of doubt
 the organs though defunct and dead before
 break up their drowsy grave and newly move
 with casted slough and fresh legerity
 lend me thy cloak sir thomas brothers both
 commend me to the princes in our camp
 do my good morrow to them and anon
 desire them an to my pavilion
gloucester we shall my liege
erpingham shall i attend your grace
king henry v no my good knight
 go with my brothers to my lords of england
 i and my bosom must debate awhile
 and then i would no other company
erpingham the lord in heaven bless thee noble harry
 exeunt all but king henry
king henry v godamercy old heart thou speak'st cheerfully
 enter pistol
pistol qui va la
king henry v a friend
pistol discuss unto me art thou officer
 or art thou base common and popular
king henry v i am a gentleman of a company
pistol trail'st thou the puissant pike
king henry v even so what are you
pistol as good a gentleman as the emperor
king henry v then you are a better than the king
pistol the king's a bawcock and a heart of gold
 a lad of life an imp of fame
 of parents good of fist most valiant
 i kiss his dirty shoe and from heartstring
 i love the lovely bully what is thy name
king henry v harry le roy
pistol le roy a cornish name art thou of cornish crew
king henry v no i am a welshman
pistol know'st thou fluellen
king henry v yes
pistol tell him i'll knock his leek about his pate
 upon saint davy's day
king henry v do not you wear your dagger in your cap that day
 lest he knock that about yours
pistol art thou his friend
king henry v and his kinsman too
pistol the figo for thee then
king henry v i thank you god be with you
pistol my name is pistol call'd
 exit
king henry v it sorts well with your fierceness
 enter fluellen and gower
gower captain fluellen
fluellen so in the name of jesu christ speak lower it is
 the greatest admiration of the universal world when
 the true and aunchient prerogatifes and laws of the
 wars is not kept if you would take the pains but to
 examine the wars of pompey the great you shall
 find i warrant you that there is no tiddle toddle
 nor pibble pabble in pompey's camp i warrant you
 you shall find the ceremonies of the wars and the
 cares of it and the forms of it and the sobriety
 of it and the modesty of it to be otherwise
gower why the enemy is loud you hear him all night
fluellen if the enemy is an ass and a fool and a prating
 coxcomb is it meet think you that we should also
 look you be an ass and a fool and a prating
 coxcomb in your own conscience now
gower i will speak lower
fluellen i pray you and beseech you that you will
 exeunt gower and fluellen
king henry v though it appear a little out of fashion
 there is much care and valour in this welshman
 enter three soldiers john bates alexander court
 and michael williams
court brother john bates is not that the morning which
 breaks yonder
bates i think it be but we have no great cause to desire
 the approach of day
williams we see yonder the beginning of the day but i think
 we shall never see the end of it who goes there
king henry v a friend
williams under what captain serve you
king henry v under sir thomas erpingham
williams a good old commander and a most kind gentleman i
 pray you what thinks he of our estate
king henry v even as men wrecked upon a sand that look to be
 washed off the next tide
bates he hath not told his thought to the king
king henry v no nor it is not meet he should for though i
 speak it to you i think the king is but a man as i
 am the violet smells to him as it doth to me the
 element shows to him as it doth to me all his
 senses have but human conditions his ceremonies
 laid by in his nakedness he appears but a man and
 though his affections are higher mounted than ours
 yet when they stoop they stoop with the like
 wing therefore when he sees reason of fears as we
 do his fears out of doubt be of the same relish
 as ours are yet in reason no man should possess
 him with any appearance of fear lest he by showing
 it should dishearten his army
bates he may show what outward courage he will but i
 believe as cold a night as tis he could wish
 himself in thames up to the neck and so i would he
 were and i by him at all adventures so we were quit here
king henry v by my troth i will speak my conscience of the king
 i think he would not wish himself any where but
 where he is
bates then i would he were here alone so should he be
 sure to be ransomed and a many poor men's lives saved
king henry v i dare say you love him not so ill to wish him here
 alone howsoever you speak this to feel other men's
 minds methinks i could not die any where so
 contented as in the king's company his cause being
 just and his quarrel honourable
williams that's more than we know
bates ay or more than we should seek after for we know
 enough if we know we are the kings subjects if
 his cause be wrong our obedience to the king wipes
 the crime of it out of us
williams but if the cause be not good the king himself hath
 a heavy reckoning to make when all those legs and
 arms and heads chopped off in battle shall join
 together at the latter day and cry all we died at
 such a place some swearing some crying for a
 surgeon some upon their wives left poor behind
 them some upon the debts they owe some upon their
 children rawly left i am afeard there are few die
 well that die in a battle for how can they
 charitably dispose of any thing when blood is their
 argument now if these men do not die well it
 will be a black matter for the king that led them to
 it whom to disobey were against all proportion of
 subjection
king henry v so if a son that is by his father sent about
 merchandise do sinfully miscarry upon the sea the
 imputation of his wickedness by your rule should be
 imposed upon his father that sent him or if a
 servant under his master's command transporting a
 sum of money be assailed by robbers and die in
 many irreconciled iniquities you may call the
 business of the master the author of the servant's
 damnation but this is not so the king is not
 bound to answer the particular endings of his
 soldiers the father of his son nor the master of
 his servant for they purpose not their death when
 they purpose their services besides there is no
 king be his cause never so spotless if it come to
 the arbitrement of swords can try it out with all
 unspotted soldiers some peradventure have on them
 the guilt of premeditated and contrived murder
 some of beguiling virgins with the broken seals of
 perjury some making the wars their bulwark that
 have before gored the gentle bosom of peace with
 pillage and robbery now if these men have
 defeated the law and outrun native punishment
 though they can outstrip men they have no wings to
 fly from god war is his beadle war is vengeance
 so that here men are punished for beforebreach of
 the king's laws in now the king's quarrel where
 they feared the death they have borne life away
 and where they would be safe they perish then if
 they die unprovided no more is the king guilty of
 their damnation than he was before guilty of those
 impieties for the which they are now visited every
 subject's duty is the king's but every subject's
 soul is his own therefore should every soldier in
 the wars do as every sick man in his bed wash every
 mote out of his conscience and dying so death
 is to him advantage or not dying the time was
 blessedly lost wherein such preparation was gained
 and in him that escapes it were not sin to think
 that making god so free an offer he let him
 outlive that day to see his greatness and to teach
 others how they should prepare
williams tis certain every man that dies ill the ill upon
 his own head the king is not to answer it
bates but i do not desire he should answer for me and
 yet i determine to fight lustily for him
king henry v i myself heard the king say he would not be ransomed
williams ay he said so to make us fight cheerfully but
 when our throats are cut he may be ransomed and we
 ne'er the wiser
king henry v if i live to see it i will never trust his word after
williams you pay him then that's a perilous shot out of an
 eldergun that a poor and private displeasure can
 do against a monarch you may as well go about to
 turn the sun to ice with fanning in his face with a
 peacock's feather you'll never trust his word
 after come tis a foolish saying
king henry v your reproof is something too round i should be
 angry with you if the time were convenient
williams let it be a quarrel between us if you live
king henry v i embrace it
williams how shall i know thee again
king henry v give me any gage of thine and i will wear it in my
 bonnet then if ever thou darest acknowledge it i
 will make it my quarrel
williams here's my glove give me another of thine
king henry v there
williams this will i also wear in my cap if ever thou come
 to me and say after tomorrow this is my glove'
 by this hand i will take thee a box on the ear
king henry v if ever i live to see it i will challenge it
williams thou darest as well be hanged
king henry v well i will do it though i take thee in the
 king's company
williams keep thy word fare thee well
bates be friends you english fools be friends we have
 french quarrels enow if you could tell how to reckon
king henry v indeed the french may lay twenty french crowns to
 one they will beat us for they bear them on their
 shoulders but it is no english treason to cut
 french crowns and tomorrow the king himself will
 be a clipper
 exeunt soldiers
 upon the king let us our lives our souls
 our debts our careful wives
 our children and our sins lay on the king
 we must bear all o hard condition
 twinborn with greatness subject to the breath
 of every fool whose sense no more can feel
 but his own wringing what infinite heart'sease
 must kings neglect that private men enjoy
 and what have kings that privates have not too
 save ceremony save general ceremony
 and what art thou thou idle ceremony
 what kind of god art thou that suffer'st more
 of mortal griefs than do thy worshippers
 what are thy rents what are thy comings in
 o ceremony show me but thy worth
 what is thy soul of adoration
 art thou aught else but place degree and form
 creating awe and fear in other men
 wherein thou art less happy being fear'd
 than they in fearing
 what drink'st thou oft instead of homage sweet
 but poison'd flattery o be sick great greatness
 and bid thy ceremony give thee cure
 think'st thou the fiery fever will go out
 with titles blown from adulation
 will it give place to flexure and low bending
 canst thou when thou command'st the beggar's knee
 command the health of it no thou proud dream
 that play'st so subtly with a king's repose
 i am a king that find thee and i know
 tis not the balm the sceptre and the ball
 the sword the mace the crown imperial
 the intertissued robe of gold and pearl
 the farced title running fore the king
 the throne he sits on nor the tide of pomp
 that beats upon the high shore of this world
 no not all these thricegorgeous ceremony
 not all these laid in bed majestical
 can sleep so soundly as the wretched slave
 who with a body fill'd and vacant mind
 gets him to rest cramm'd with distressful bread
 never sees horrid night the child of hell
 but like a lackey from the rise to set
 sweats in the eye of phoebus and all night
 sleeps in elysium next day after dawn
 doth rise and help hyperion to his horse
 and follows so the everrunning year
 with profitable labour to his grave
 and but for ceremony such a wretch
 winding up days with toil and nights with sleep
 had the forehand and vantage of a king
 the slave a member of the country's peace
 enjoys it but in gross brain little wots
 what watch the king keeps to maintain the peace
 whose hours the peasant best advantages
 enter erpingham
erpingham my lord your nobles jealous of your absence
 seek through your camp to find you
king henry v good old knight
 collect them all together at my tent
 i'll be before thee
erpingham i shall do't my lord
 exit
king henry v o god of battles steel my soldiers hearts
 possess them not with fear take from them now
 the sense of reckoning if the opposed numbers
 pluck their hearts from them not today o lord
 o not today think not upon the fault
 my father made in compassing the crown
 i richard's body have interred anew
 and on it have bestow'd more contrite tears
 than from it issued forced drops of blood
 five hundred poor i have in yearly pay
 who twice aday their wither'd hands hold up
 toward heaven to pardon blood and i have built
 two chantries where the sad and solemn priests
 sing still for richard's soul more will i do
 though all that i can do is nothing worth
 since that my penitence comes after all
 imploring pardon
 enter gloucester
gloucester my liege
king henry v my brother gloucester's voice ay
 i know thy errand i will go with thee
 the day my friends and all things stay for me
 exeunt
 king henry v
act iv
scene ii the french camp
 enter the dauphin orleans rambures and others
orleans the sun doth gild our armour up my lords
dauphin montez a cheval my horse varlet laquais ha
orleans o brave spirit
dauphin via les eaux et la terre
orleans rien puis l'air et la feu
dauphin ciel cousin orleans
 enter constable
 now my lord constable
constable hark how our steeds for present service neigh
dauphin mount them and make incision in their hides
 that their hot blood may spin in english eyes
 and dout them with superfluous courage ha
rambures what will you have them weep our horses blood
 how shall we then behold their natural tears
 enter messenger
messenger the english are embattled you french peers
constable to horse you gallant princes straight to horse
 do but behold yon poor and starved band
 and your fair show shall suck away their souls
 leaving them but the shales and husks of men
 there is not work enough for all our hands
 scarce blood enough in all their sickly veins
 to give each naked curtleaxe a stain
 that our french gallants shall today draw out
 and sheathe for lack of sport let us but blow on them
 the vapour of our valour will o'erturn them
 tis positive gainst all exceptions lords
 that our superfluous lackeys and our peasants
 who in unnecessary action swarm
 about our squares of battle were enow
 to purge this field of such a hilding foe
 though we upon this mountain's basis by
 took stand for idle speculation
 but that our honours must not what's to say
 a very little little let us do
 and all is done then let the trumpets sound
 the tucket sonance and the note to mount
 for our approach shall so much dare the field
 that england shall couch down in fear and yield
 enter grandpre
grandpre why do you stay so long my lords of france
 yon island carrions desperate of their bones
 illfavouredly become the morning field
 their ragged curtains poorly are let loose
 and our air shakes them passing scornfully
 big mars seems bankrupt in their beggar'd host
 and faintly through a rusty beaver peeps
 the horsemen sit like fixed candlesticks
 with torchstaves in their hand and their poor jades
 lob down their heads dropping the hides and hips
 the gum downroping from their paledead eyes
 and in their pale dull mouths the gimmal bit
 lies foul with chew'd grass still and motionless
 and their executors the knavish crows
 fly o'er them all impatient for their hour
 description cannot suit itself in words
 to demonstrate the life of such a battle
 in life so lifeless as it shows itself
constable they have said their prayers and they stay for death
dauphin shall we go send them dinners and fresh suits
 and give their fasting horses provender
 and after fight with them
constable i stay but for my guidon to the field
 i will the banner from a trumpet take
 and use it for my haste come come away
 the sun is high and we outwear the day
 exeunt
 king henry v
act iv
scene iii the english camp
 enter gloucester bedford exeter erpingham with
 all his host salisbury and westmoreland
gloucester where is the king
bedford the king himself is rode to view their battle
westmoreland of fighting men they have full three score thousand
exeter there's five to one besides they all are fresh
salisbury god's arm strike with us tis a fearful odds
 god be wi you princes all i'll to my charge
 if we no more meet till we meet in heaven
 then joyfully my noble lord of bedford
 my dear lord gloucester and my good lord exeter
 and my kind kinsman warriors all adieu
bedford farewell good salisbury and good luck go with thee
exeter farewell kind lord fight valiantly today
 and yet i do thee wrong to mind thee of it
 for thou art framed of the firm truth of valour
 exit salisbury
bedford he is full of valour as of kindness
 princely in both
 enter the king
westmoreland o that we now had here
 but one ten thousand of those men in england
 that do no work today
king henry v what's he that wishes so
 my cousin westmoreland no my fair cousin
 if we are mark'd to die we are enow
 to do our country loss and if to live
 the fewer men the greater share of honour
 god's will i pray thee wish not one man more
 by jove i am not covetous for gold
 nor care i who doth feed upon my cost
 it yearns me not if men my garments wear
 such outward things dwell not in my desires
 but if it be a sin to covet honour
 i am the most offending soul alive
 no faith my coz wish not a man from england
 god's peace i would not lose so great an honour
 as one man more methinks would share from me
 for the best hope i have o do not wish one more
 rather proclaim it westmoreland through my host
 that he which hath no stomach to this fight
 let him depart his passport shall be made
 and crowns for convoy put into his purse
 we would not die in that man's company
 that fears his fellowship to die with us
 this day is called the feast of crispian
 he that outlives this day and comes safe home
 will stand a tiptoe when the day is named
 and rouse him at the name of crispian
 he that shall live this day and see old age
 will yearly on the vigil feast his neighbours
 and say tomorrow is saint crispian'
 then will he strip his sleeve and show his scars
 and say these wounds i had on crispin's day'
 old men forget yet all shall be forgot
 but he'll remember with advantages
 what feats he did that day then shall our names
 familiar in his mouth as household words
 harry the king bedford and exeter
 warwick and talbot salisbury and gloucester
 be in their flowing cups freshly remember'd
 this story shall the good man teach his son
 and crispin crispian shall ne'er go by
 from this day to the ending of the world
 but we in it shall be remember'd
 we few we happy few we band of brothers
 for he today that sheds his blood with me
 shall be my brother be he ne'er so vile
 this day shall gentle his condition
 and gentlemen in england now abed
 shall think themselves accursed they were not here
 and hold their manhoods cheap whiles any speaks
 that fought with us upon saint crispin's day
 reenter salisbury
salisbury my sovereign lord bestow yourself with speed
 the french are bravely in their battles set
 and will with all expedience charge on us
king henry v all things are ready if our minds be so
westmoreland perish the man whose mind is backward now
king henry v thou dost not wish more help from england coz
westmoreland god's will my liege would you and i alone
 without more help could fight this royal battle
king henry v why now thou hast unwish'd five thousand men
 which likes me better than to wish us one
 you know your places god be with you all
 tucket enter montjoy
montjoy once more i come to know of thee king harry
 if for thy ransom thou wilt now compound
 before thy most assured overthrow
 for certainly thou art so near the gulf
 thou needs must be englutted besides in mercy
 the constable desires thee thou wilt mind
 thy followers of repentance that their souls
 may make a peaceful and a sweet retire
 from off these fields where wretches their poor bodies
 must lie and fester
king henry v who hath sent thee now
montjoy the constable of france
king henry v i pray thee bear my former answer back
 bid them achieve me and then sell my bones
 good god why should they mock poor fellows thus
 the man that once did sell the lion's skin
 while the beast lived was killed with hunting him
 a many of our bodies shall no doubt
 find native graves upon the which i trust
 shall witness live in brass of this day's work
 and those that leave their valiant bones in france
 dying like men though buried in your dunghills
 they shall be famed for there the sun shall greet them
 and draw their honours reeking up to heaven
 leaving their earthly parts to choke your clime
 the smell whereof shall breed a plague in france
 mark then abounding valour in our english
 that being dead like to the bullet's grazing
 break out into a second course of mischief
 killing in relapse of mortality
 let me speak proudly tell the constable
 we are but warriors for the workingday
 our gayness and our gilt are all besmirch'd
 with rainy marching in the painful field
 there's not a piece of feather in our host
 good argument i hope we will not fly
 and time hath worn us into slovenry
 but by the mass our hearts are in the trim
 and my poor soldiers tell me yet ere night
 they'll be in fresher robes or they will pluck
 the gay new coats o'er the french soldiers heads
 and turn them out of service if they do this
 as if god please they shallmy ransom then
 will soon be levied herald save thou thy labour
 come thou no more for ransom gentle herald
 they shall have none i swear but these my joints
 which if they have as i will leave em them
 shall yield them little tell the constable
montjoy i shall king harry and so fare thee well
 thou never shalt hear herald any more
 exit
king henry v i fear thou'lt once more come again for ransom
 enter york
york my lord most humbly on my knee i beg
 the leading of the vaward
king henry v take it brave york now soldiers march away
 and how thou pleasest god dispose the day
 exeunt
 king henry v
act iv
scene iv the field of battle
 alarum excursions enter pistol french soldier and boy
pistol yield cur
french soldier je pense que vous etes gentilhomme de bonne qualite
pistol qualtitie calmie custure me art thou a gentleman
 what is thy name discuss
french soldier o seigneur dieu
pistol o signieur dew should be a gentleman
 perpend my words o signieur dew and mark
 o signieur dew thou diest on point of fox
 except o signieur thou do give to me
 egregious ransom
french soldier o prenez misericorde ayez pitie de moi
pistol moy shall not serve i will have forty moys
 or i will fetch thy rim out at thy throat
 in drops of crimson blood
french soldier estil impossible d'echapper la force de ton bras
pistol brass cur
 thou damned and luxurious mountain goat
 offer'st me brass
french soldier o pardonnez moi
pistol say'st thou me so is that a ton of moys
 come hither boy ask me this slave in french
 what is his name
boy ecoutez comment etesvous appele
french soldier monsieur le fer
boy he says his name is master fer
pistol master fer i'll fer him and firk him and ferret
 him discuss the same in french unto him
boy i do not know the french for fer and ferret and firk
pistol bid him prepare for i will cut his throat
french soldier que ditil monsieur
boy il me commande de vous dire que vous faites vous
 pret car ce soldat ici est dispose tout a cette
 heure de couper votre gorge
pistol owy cuppele gorge permafoy
 peasant unless thou give me crowns brave crowns
 or mangled shalt thou be by this my sword
french soldier o je vous supplie pour l'amour de dieu me
 pardonner je suis gentilhomme de bonne maison
 gardez ma vie et je vous donnerai deux cents ecus
pistol what are his words
boy he prays you to save his life he is a gentleman of
 a good house and for his ransom he will give you
 two hundred crowns
pistol tell him my fury shall abate and i the crowns will take
french soldier petit monsieur que ditil
boy encore qu'il est contre son jurement de pardonner
 aucun prisonnier neanmoins pour les ecus que vous
 l'avez promis il est content de vous donner la
 liberte le franchisement
french soldier sur mes genoux je vous donne mille remercimens et
 je m'estime heureux que je suis tombe entre les
 mains d'un chevalier je pense le plus brave
 vaillant et tres distingue seigneur d'angleterre
pistol expound unto me boy
boy he gives you upon his knees a thousand thanks and
 he esteems himself happy that he hath fallen into
 the hands of one as he thinks the most brave
 valorous and thriceworthy signieur of england
pistol as i suck blood i will some mercy show
 follow me
boy suivezvous le grand capitaine
 exeunt pistol and french soldier
 i did never know so full a voice issue from so
 empty a heart but the saying is true the empty
 vessel makes the greatest sound bardolph and nym
 had ten times more valour than this roaring devil i'
 the old play that every one may pare his nails with
 a wooden dagger and they are both hanged and so
 would this be if he durst steal any thing
 adventurously i must stay with the lackeys with
 the luggage of our camp the french might have a
 good prey of us if he knew of it for there is
 none to guard it but boys
 exit
 king henry v
act iv
scene v another part of the field
 enter constable orleans bourbon dauphin and rambures
constable o diable
orleans o seigneur le jour est perdu tout est perdu
dauphin mort de ma vie all is confounded all
 reproach and everlasting shame
 sits mocking in our plumes o merchante fortune
 do not run away
 a short alarum
constable why all our ranks are broke
dauphin o perdurable shame let's stab ourselves
 be these the wretches that we play'd at dice for
orleans is this the king we sent to for his ransom
bourbon shame and eternal shame nothing but shame
 let us die in honour once more back again
 and he that will not follow bourbon now
 let him go hence and with his cap in hand
 like a base pander hold the chamberdoor
 whilst by a slave no gentler than my dog
 his fairest daughter is contaminated
constable disorder that hath spoil'd us friend us now
 let us on heaps go offer up our lives
orleans we are enow yet living in the field
 to smother up the english in our throngs
 if any order might be thought upon
bourbon the devil take order now i'll to the throng
 let life be short else shame will be too long
 exeunt
 king henry v
act iv
scene vi another part of the field
 alarums enter king henry and forces exeter and others
king henry v well have we done thrice valiant countrymen
 but all's not done yet keep the french the field
exeter the duke of york commends him to your majesty
king henry v lives he good uncle thrice within this hour
 i saw him down thrice up again and fighting
 from helmet to the spur all blood he was
exeter in which array brave soldier doth he lie
 larding the plain and by his bloody side
 yokefellow to his honourowing wounds
 the noble earl of suffolk also lies
 suffolk first died and york all haggled over
 comes to him where in gore he lay insteep'd
 and takes him by the beard kisses the gashes
 that bloodily did spawn upon his face
 and cries aloud tarry dear cousin suffolk
 my soul shall thine keep company to heaven
 tarry sweet soul for mine then fly abreast
 as in this glorious and wellfoughten field
 we kept together in our chivalry'
 upon these words i came and cheer'd him up
 he smiled me in the face raught me his hand
 and with a feeble gripe says dear my lord
 commend my service to me sovereign'
 so did he turn and over suffolk's neck
 he threw his wounded arm and kiss'd his lips
 and so espoused to death with blood he seal'd
 a testament of nobleending love
 the pretty and sweet manner of it forced
 those waters from me which i would have stopp'd
 but i had not so much of man in me
 and all my mother came into mine eyes
 and gave me up to tears
king henry v i blame you not
 for hearing this i must perforce compound
 with mistful eyes or they will issue too
 alarum
 but hark what new alarum is this same
 the french have reinforced their scatter'd men
 then every soldier kill his prisoners
 give the word through
 exeunt
 king henry v
act iv
scene vii another part of the field
 enter fluellen and gower
fluellen kill the poys and the luggage tis expressly
 against the law of arms tis as arrant a piece of
 knavery mark you now as can be offer't in your
 conscience now is it not
gower tis certain there's not a boy left alive and the
 cowardly rascals that ran from the battle ha done
 this slaughter besides they have burned and
 carried away all that was in the king's tent
 wherefore the king most worthily hath caused every
 soldier to cut his prisoner's throat o tis a
 gallant king
fluellen ay he was porn at monmouth captain gower what
 call you the town's name where alexander the pig was born
gower alexander the great
fluellen why i pray you is not pig great the pig or the
 great or the mighty or the huge or the
 magnanimous are all one reckonings save the phrase
 is a little variations
gower i think alexander the great was born in macedon his
 father was called philip of macedon as i take it
fluellen i think it is in macedon where alexander is porn i
 tell you captain if you look in the maps of the
 orld i warrant you sall find in the comparisons
 between macedon and monmouth that the situations
 look you is both alike there is a river in
 macedon and there is also moreover a river at
 monmouth it is called wye at monmouth but it is
 out of my prains what is the name of the other
 river but tis all one tis alike as my fingers is
 to my fingers and there is salmons in both if you
 mark alexander's life well harry of monmouth's life
 is come after it indifferent well for there is
 figures in all things alexander god knows and
 you know in his rages and his furies and his
 wraths and his cholers and his moods and his
 displeasures and his indignations and also being a
 little intoxicates in his prains did in his ales and
 his angers look you kill his best friend cleitus
gower our king is not like him in that he never killed
 any of his friends
fluellen it is not well done mark you now take the tales out
 of my mouth ere it is made and finished i speak
 but in the figures and comparisons of it as
 alexander killed his friend cleitus being in his
 ales and his cups so also harry monmouth being in
 his right wits and his good judgments turned away
 the fat knight with the great bellydoublet he
 was full of jests and gipes and knaveries and
 mocks i have forgot his name
gower sir john falstaff
fluellen that is he i'll tell you there is good men porn at monmouth
gower here comes his majesty
 alarum enter king henry and forces warwick
 gloucester exeter and others
king henry v i was not angry since i came to france
 until this instant take a trumpet herald
 ride thou unto the horsemen on yon hill
 if they will fight with us bid them come down
 or void the field they do offend our sight
 if they'll do neither we will come to them
 and make them skirr away as swift as stones
 enforced from the old assyrian slings
 besides we'll cut the throats of those we have
 and not a man of them that we shall take
 shall taste our mercy go and tell them so
 enter montjoy
exeter here comes the herald of the french my liege
gloucester his eyes are humbler than they used to be
king henry v how now what means this herald know'st thou not
 that i have fined these bones of mine for ransom
 comest thou again for ransom
montjoy no great king
 i come to thee for charitable licence
 that we may wander o'er this bloody field
 to look our dead and then to bury them
 to sort our nobles from our common men
 for many of our princeswoe the while
 lie drown'd and soak'd in mercenary blood
 so do our vulgar drench their peasant limbs
 in blood of princes and their wounded steeds
 fret fetlock deep in gore and with wild rage
 yerk out their armed heels at their dead masters
 killing them twice o give us leave great king
 to view the field in safety and dispose
 of their dead bodies
king henry v i tell thee truly herald
 i know not if the day be ours or no
 for yet a many of your horsemen peer
 and gallop o'er the field
montjoy the day is yours
king henry v praised be god and not our strength for it
 what is this castle call'd that stands hard by
montjoy they call it agincourt
king henry v then call we this the field of agincourt
 fought on the day of crispin crispianus
fluellen your grandfather of famous memory an't please your
 majesty and your greatuncle edward the plack
 prince of wales as i have read in the chronicles
 fought a most prave pattle here in france
king henry v they did fluellen
fluellen your majesty says very true if your majesties is
 remembered of it the welshmen did good service in a
 garden where leeks did grow wearing leeks in their
 monmouth caps which your majesty know to this
 hour is an honourable badge of the service and i do
 believe your majesty takes no scorn to wear the leek
 upon saint tavy's day
king henry v i wear it for a memorable honour
 for i am welsh you know good countryman
fluellen all the water in wye cannot wash your majesty's
 welsh plood out of your pody i can tell you that
 god pless it and preserve it as long as it pleases
 his grace and his majesty too
king henry v thanks good my countryman
fluellen by jeshu i am your majesty's countryman i care not
 who know it i will confess it to all the orld i
 need not to be ashamed of your majesty praised be
 god so long as your majesty is an honest man
king henry v god keep me so our heralds go with him
 bring me just notice of the numbers dead
 on both our parts call yonder fellow hither
 points to williams exeunt heralds with montjoy
exeter soldier you must come to the king
king henry v soldier why wearest thou that glove in thy cap
williams an't please your majesty tis the gage of one that
 i should fight withal if he be alive
king henry v an englishman
williams an't please your majesty a rascal that swaggered
 with me last night who if alive and ever dare to
 challenge this glove i have sworn to take him a box
 o th ear or if i can see my glove in his cap
 which he swore as he was a soldier he would wear
 if alive i will strike it out soundly
king henry v what think you captain fluellen is it fit this
 soldier keep his oath
fluellen he is a craven and a villain else an't please your
 majesty in my conscience
king henry v it may be his enemy is a gentleman of great sort
 quite from the answer of his degree
fluellen though he be as good a gentleman as the devil is as
 lucifer and belzebub himself it is necessary look
 your grace that he keep his vow and his oath if
 he be perjured see you now his reputation is as
 arrant a villain and a jacksauce as ever his black
 shoe trod upon god's ground and his earth in my
 conscience la
king henry v then keep thy vow sirrah when thou meetest the fellow
williams so i will my liege as i live
king henry v who servest thou under
williams under captain gower my liege
fluellen gower is a good captain and is good knowledge and
 literatured in the wars
king henry v call him hither to me soldier
williams i will my liege
 exit
king henry v here fluellen wear thou this favour for me and
 stick it in thy cap when alencon and myself were
 down together i plucked this glove from his helm
 if any man challenge this he is a friend to
 alencon and an enemy to our person if thou
 encounter any such apprehend him an thou dost me love
fluellen your grace doo's me as great honours as can be
 desired in the hearts of his subjects i would fain
 see the man that has but two legs that shall find
 himself aggrieved at this glove that is all but i
 would fain see it once an please god of his grace
 that i might see
king henry v knowest thou gower
fluellen he is my dear friend an please you
king henry v pray thee go seek him and bring him to my tent
fluellen i will fetch him
 exit
king henry v my lord of warwick and my brother gloucester
 follow fluellen closely at the heels
 the glove which i have given him for a favour
 may haply purchase him a box o th ear
 it is the soldier's i by bargain should
 wear it myself follow good cousin warwick
 if that the soldier strike him as i judge
 by his blunt bearing he will keep his word
 some sudden mischief may arise of it
 for i do know fluellen valiant
 and touched with choler hot as gunpowder
 and quickly will return an injury
 follow and see there be no harm between them
 go you with me uncle of exeter
 exeunt
 king henry v
act iv
scene viii before king henry's pavilion
 enter gower and williams
williams i warrant it is to knight you captain
 enter fluellen
fluellen god's will and his pleasure captain i beseech you
 now come apace to the king there is more good
 toward you peradventure than is in your knowledge to dream of
williams sir know you this glove
fluellen know the glove i know the glove is glove
williams i know this and thus i challenge it
 strikes him
fluellen sblood an arrant traitor as any is in the
 universal world or in france or in england
gower how now sir you villain
williams do you think i'll be forsworn
fluellen stand away captain gower i will give treason his
 payment into ploughs i warrant you
williams i am no traitor
fluellen that's a lie in thy throat i charge you in his
 majesty's name apprehend him he's a friend of the
 duke alencon's
 enter warwick and gloucester
warwick how now how now what's the matter
fluellen my lord of warwick here ispraised be god for it
 a most contagious treason come to light look
 you as you shall desire in a summer's day here is
 his majesty
 enter king henry and exeter
king henry v how now what's the matter
fluellen my liege here is a villain and a traitor that
 look your grace has struck the glove which your
 majesty is take out of the helmet of alencon
williams my liege this was my glove here is the fellow of
 it and he that i gave it to in change promised to
 wear it in his cap i promised to strike him if he
 did i met this man with my glove in his cap and i
 have been as good as my word
fluellen your majesty hear now saving your majesty's
 manhood what an arrant rascally beggarly lousy
 knave it is i hope your majesty is pear me
 testimony and witness and will avouchment that
 this is the glove of alencon that your majesty is
 give me in your conscience now
king henry v give me thy glove soldier look here is the
 fellow of it
 twas i indeed thou promised'st to strike
 and thou hast given me most bitter terms
fluellen an please your majesty let his neck answer for it
 if there is any martial law in the world
king henry v how canst thou make me satisfaction
williams all offences my lord come from the heart never
 came any from mine that might offend your majesty
king henry v it was ourself thou didst abuse
williams your majesty came not like yourself you appeared to
 me but as a common man witness the night your
 garments your lowliness and what your highness
 suffered under that shape i beseech you take it for
 your own fault and not mine for had you been as i
 took you for i made no offence therefore i
 beseech your highness pardon me
king henry v here uncle exeter fill this glove with crowns
 and give it to this fellow keep it fellow
 and wear it for an honour in thy cap
 till i do challenge it give him the crowns
 and captain you must needs be friends with him
fluellen by this day and this light the fellow has mettle
 enough in his belly hold there is twelve pence
 for you and i pray you to serve got and keep you
 out of prawls and prabbles and quarrels and
 dissensions and i warrant you it is the better for you
williams i will none of your money
fluellen it is with a good will i can tell you it will
 serve you to mend your shoes come wherefore should
 you be so pashful your shoes is not so good tis
 a good silling i warrant you or i will change it
 enter an english herald
king henry v now herald are the dead number'd
herald here is the number of the slaughter'd french
king henry v what prisoners of good sort are taken uncle
exeter charles duke of orleans nephew to the king
 john duke of bourbon and lord bouciqualt
 of other lords and barons knights and squires
 full fifteen hundred besides common men
king henry v this note doth tell me of ten thousand french
 that in the field lie slain of princes in this number
 and nobles bearing banners there lie dead
 one hundred twenty six added to these
 of knights esquires and gallant gentlemen
 eight thousand and four hundred of the which
 five hundred were but yesterday dubb'd knights
 so that in these ten thousand they have lost
 there are but sixteen hundred mercenaries
 the rest are princes barons lords knights squires
 and gentlemen of blood and quality
 the names of those their nobles that lie dead
 charles delabreth high constable of france
 jaques of chatillon admiral of france
 the master of the crossbows lord rambures
 great master of france the brave sir guichard dolphin
 john duke of alencon anthony duke of brabant
 the brother of the duke of burgundy
 and edward duke of bar of lusty earls
 grandpre and roussi fauconberg and foix
 beaumont and marle vaudemont and lestrale
 here was a royal fellowship of death
 where is the number of our english dead
 herald shews him another paper
 edward the duke of york the earl of suffolk
 sir richard ketly davy gam esquire
 none else of name and of all other men
 but five and twenty o god thy arm was here
 and not to us but to thy arm alone
 ascribe we all when without stratagem
 but in plain shock and even play of battle
 was ever known so great and little loss
 on one part and on the other take it god
 for it is none but thine
exeter tis wonderful
king henry v come go we in procession to the village
 and be it death proclaimed through our host
 to boast of this or take the praise from god
 which is his only
fluellen is it not lawful an please your majesty to tell
 how many is killed
king henry v yes captain but with this acknowledgement
 that god fought for us
fluellen yes my conscience he did us great good
king henry v do we all holy rites
 let there be sung non nobis and te deum'
 the dead with charity enclosed in clay
 and then to calais and to england then
 where ne'er from france arrived more happy men
 exeunt
 king henry v
act v
 prologue
 enter chorus
chorus vouchsafe to those that have not read the story
 that i may prompt them and of such as have
 i humbly pray them to admit the excuse
 of time of numbers and due course of things
 which cannot in their huge and proper life
 be here presented now we bear the king
 toward calais grant him there there seen
 heave him away upon your winged thoughts
 athwart the sea behold the english beach
 pales in the flood with men with wives and boys
 whose shouts and claps outvoice the deep mouth'd sea
 which like a mighty whiffler fore the king
 seems to prepare his way so let him land
 and solemnly see him set on to london
 so swift a pace hath thought that even now
 you may imagine him upon blackheath
 where that his lords desire him to have borne
 his bruised helmet and his bended sword
 before him through the city he forbids it
 being free from vainness and selfglorious pride
 giving full trophy signal and ostent
 quite from himself to god but now behold
 in the quick forge and workinghouse of thought
 how london doth pour out her citizens
 the mayor and all his brethren in best sort
 like to the senators of the antique rome
 with the plebeians swarming at their heels
 go forth and fetch their conquering caesar in
 as by a lower but loving likelihood
 were now the general of our gracious empress
 as in good time he may from ireland coming
 bringing rebellion broached on his sword
 how many would the peaceful city quit
 to welcome him much more and much more cause
 did they this harry now in london place him
 as yet the lamentation of the french
 invites the king of england's stay at home
 the emperor's coming in behalf of france
 to order peace between them and omit
 all the occurrences whatever chanced
 till harry's backreturn again to france
 there must we bring him and myself have play'd
 the interim by remembering you tis past
 then brook abridgment and your eyes advance
 after your thoughts straight back again to france
 exit
 king henry v
act v
scene i france the english camp
 enter fluellen and gower
gower nay that's right but why wear you your leek today
 saint davy's day is past
fluellen there is occasions and causes why and wherefore in
 all things i will tell you asse my friend
 captain gower the rascally scald beggarly
 lousy pragging knave pistol which you and
 yourself and all the world know to be no petter
 than a fellow look you now of no merits he is
 come to me and prings me pread and salt yesterday
 look you and bid me eat my leek it was in place
 where i could not breed no contention with him but
 i will be so bold as to wear it in my cap till i see
 him once again and then i will tell him a little
 piece of my desires
 enter pistol
gower why here he comes swelling like a turkeycock
fluellen tis no matter for his swellings nor his
 turkeycocks god pless you aunchient pistol you
 scurvy lousy knave god pless you
pistol ha art thou bedlam dost thou thirst base trojan
 to have me fold up parca's fatal web
 hence i am qualmish at the smell of leek
fluellen i peseech you heartily scurvy lousy knave at my
 desires and my requests and my petitions to eat
 look you this leek because look you you do not
 love it nor your affections and your appetites and
 your digestions doo's not agree with it i would
 desire you to eat it
pistol not for cadwallader and all his goats
fluellen there is one goat for you
 strikes him
 will you be so good scauld knave as eat it
pistol base trojan thou shalt die
fluellen you say very true scauld knave when god's will is
 i will desire you to live in the mean time and eat
 your victuals come there is sauce for it
 strikes him
 you called me yesterday mountainsquire but i will
 make you today a squire of low degree i pray you
 fall to if you can mock a leek you can eat a leek
gower enough captain you have astonished him
fluellen i say i will make him eat some part of my leek or
 i will peat his pate four days bite i pray you it
 is good for your green wound and your ploody coxcomb
pistol must i bite
fluellen yes certainly and out of doubt and out of question
 too and ambiguities
pistol by this leek i will most horribly revenge i eat
 and eat i swear
fluellen eat i pray you will you have some more sauce to
 your leek there is not enough leek to swear by
pistol quiet thy cudgel thou dost see i eat
fluellen much good do you scauld knave heartily nay pray
 you throw none away the skin is good for your
 broken coxcomb when you take occasions to see leeks
 hereafter i pray you mock at em that is all
pistol good
fluellen ay leeks is good hold you there is a groat to
 heal your pate
pistol me a groat
fluellen yes verily and in truth you shall take it or i
 have another leek in my pocket which you shall eat
pistol i take thy groat in earnest of revenge
fluellen if i owe you any thing i will pay you in cudgels
 you shall be a woodmonger and buy nothing of me but
 cudgels god b wi you and keep you and heal your pate
 exit
pistol all hell shall stir for this
gower go go you are a counterfeit cowardly knave will
 you mock at an ancient tradition begun upon an
 honourable respect and worn as a memorable trophy of
 predeceased valour and dare not avouch in your deeds
 any of your words i have seen you gleeking and
 galling at this gentleman twice or thrice you
 thought because he could not speak english in the
 native garb he could not therefore handle an
 english cudgel you find it otherwise and
 henceforth let a welsh correction teach you a good
 english condition fare ye well
 exit
pistol doth fortune play the huswife with me now
 news have i that my nell is dead i the spital
 of malady of france
 and there my rendezvous is quite cut off
 old i do wax and from my weary limbs
 honour is cudgelled well bawd i'll turn
 and something lean to cutpurse of quick hand
 to england will i steal and there i'll steal
 and patches will i get unto these cudgell'd scars
 and swear i got them in the gallia wars
 exit
 king henry v
act v
scene ii france a royal palace
 enter at one door king henry exeter bedford
 gloucester warwick westmoreland and other lords
 at another the french king queen isabel the
 princess katharine alice and other ladies the
 duke of burgundy and his train
king henry v peace to this meeting wherefore we are met
 unto our brother france and to our sister
 health and fair time of day joy and good wishes
 to our most fair and princely cousin katharine
 and as a branch and member of this royalty
 by whom this great assembly is contrived
 we do salute you duke of burgundy
 and princes french and peers health to you all
king of france right joyous are we to behold your face
 most worthy brother england fairly met
 so are you princes english every one
queen isabel so happy be the issue brother england
 of this good day and of this gracious meeting
 as we are now glad to behold your eyes
 your eyes which hitherto have borne in them
 against the french that met them in their bent
 the fatal balls of murdering basilisks
 the venom of such looks we fairly hope
 have lost their quality and that this day
 shall change all griefs and quarrels into love
king henry v to cry amen to that thus we appear
queen isabel you english princes all i do salute you
burgundy my duty to you both on equal love
 great kings of france and england that i have labour'd
 with all my wits my pains and strong endeavours
 to bring your most imperial majesties
 unto this bar and royal interview
 your mightiness on both parts best can witness
 since then my office hath so far prevail'd
 that face to face and royal eye to eye
 you have congreeted let it not disgrace me
 if i demand before this royal view
 what rub or what impediment there is
 why that the naked poor and mangled peace
 dear nurse of arts and joyful births
 should not in this best garden of the world
 our fertile france put up her lovely visage
 alas she hath from france too long been chased
 and all her husbandry doth lie on heaps
 corrupting in its own fertility
 her vine the merry cheerer of the heart
 unpruned dies her hedges evenpleach'd
 like prisoners wildly overgrown with hair
 put forth disorder'd twigs her fallow leas
 the darnel hemlock and rank fumitory
 doth root upon while that the coulter rusts
 that should deracinate such savagery
 the even mead that erst brought sweetly forth
 the freckled cowslip burnet and green clover
 wanting the scythe all uncorrected rank
 conceives by idleness and nothing teems
 but hateful docks rough thistles kecksies burs
 losing both beauty and utility
 and as our vineyards fallows meads and hedges
 defective in their natures grow to wildness
 even so our houses and ourselves and children
 have lost or do not learn for want of time
 the sciences that should become our country
 but grow like savagesas soldiers will
 that nothing do but meditate on blood
 to swearing and stern looks diffused attire
 and every thing that seems unnatural
 which to reduce into our former favour
 you are assembled and my speech entreats
 that i may know the let why gentle peace
 should not expel these inconveniences
 and bless us with her former qualities
king henry v if duke of burgundy you would the peace
 whose want gives growth to the imperfections
 which you have cited you must buy that peace
 with full accord to all our just demands
 whose tenors and particular effects
 you have enscheduled briefly in your hands
burgundy the king hath heard them to the which as yet
 there is no answer made
king henry v well then the peace
 which you before so urged lies in his answer
king of france i have but with a cursorary eye
 o'erglanced the articles pleaseth your grace
 to appoint some of your council presently
 to sit with us once more with better heed
 to resurvey them we will suddenly
 pass our accept and peremptory answer
king henry v brother we shall go uncle exeter
 and brother clarence and you brother gloucester
 warwick and huntingdon go with the king
 and take with you free power to ratify
 augment or alter as your wisdoms best
 shall see advantageable for our dignity
 any thing in or out of our demands
 and we'll consign thereto will you fair sister
 go with the princes or stay here with us
queen isabel our gracious brother i will go with them
 haply a woman's voice may do some good
 when articles too nicely urged be stood on
king henry v yet leave our cousin katharine here with us
 she is our capital demand comprised
 within the forerank of our articles
queen isabel she hath good leave
 exeunt all except henry katharine and alice
king henry v fair katharine and most fair
 will you vouchsafe to teach a soldier terms
 such as will enter at a lady's ear
 and plead his lovesuit to her gentle heart
katharine your majesty shall mock at me i cannot speak your england
king henry v o fair katharine if you will love me soundly with
 your french heart i will be glad to hear you
 confess it brokenly with your english tongue do
 you like me kate
katharine pardonnezmoi i cannot tell vat is like me'
king henry v an angel is like you kate and you are like an angel
katharine que ditil que je suis semblable a les anges
alice oui vraiment sauf votre grace ainsi ditil
king henry v i said so dear katharine and i must not blush to
 affirm it
katharine o bon dieu les langues des hommes sont pleines de
 tromperies
king henry v what says she fair one that the tongues of men
 are full of deceits
alice oui dat de tongues of de mans is be full of
 deceits dat is de princess
king henry v the princess is the better englishwoman i faith
 kate my wooing is fit for thy understanding i am
 glad thou canst speak no better english for if
 thou couldst thou wouldst find me such a plain king
 that thou wouldst think i had sold my farm to buy my
 crown i know no ways to mince it in love but
 directly to say i love you then if you urge me
 farther than to say do you in faith i wear out
 my suit give me your answer i faith do and so
 clap hands and a bargain how say you lady
katharine sauf votre honneur me understand vell
king henry v marry if you would put me to verses or to dance for
 your sake kate why you undid me for the one i
 have neither words nor measure and for the other i
 have no strength in measure yet a reasonable
 measure in strength if i could win a lady at
 leapfrog or by vaulting into my saddle with my
 armour on my back under the correction of bragging
 be it spoken i should quickly leap into a wife
 or if i might buffet for my love or bound my horse
 for her favours i could lay on like a butcher and
 sit like a jackanapes never off but before god
 kate i cannot look greenly nor gasp out my
 eloquence nor i have no cunning in protestation
 only downright oaths which i never use till urged
 nor never break for urging if thou canst love a
 fellow of this temper kate whose face is not worth
 sunburning that never looks in his glass for love
 of any thing he sees there let thine eye be thy
 cook i speak to thee plain soldier if thou canst
 love me for this take me if not to say to thee
 that i shall die is true but for thy love by the
 lord no yet i love thee too and while thou
 livest dear kate take a fellow of plain and
 uncoined constancy for he perforce must do thee
 right because he hath not the gift to woo in other
 places for these fellows of infinite tongue that
 can rhyme themselves into ladies favours they do
 always reason themselves out again what a
 speaker is but a prater a rhyme is but a ballad a
 good leg will fall a straight back will stoop a
 black beard will turn white a curled pate will grow
 bald a fair face will wither a full eye will wax
 hollow but a good heart kate is the sun and the
 moon or rather the sun and not the moon for it
 shines bright and never changes but keeps his
 course truly if thou would have such a one take
 me and take me take a soldier take a soldier
 take a king and what sayest thou then to my love
 speak my fair and fairly i pray thee
katharine is it possible dat i sould love de enemy of france
king henry v no it is not possible you should love the enemy of
 france kate but in loving me you should love
 the friend of france for i love france so well that
 i will not part with a village of it i will have it
 all mine and kate when france is mine and i am
 yours then yours is france and you are mine
katharine i cannot tell vat is dat
king henry v no kate i will tell thee in french which i am
 sure will hang upon my tongue like a newmarried
 wife about her husband's neck hardly to be shook
 off je quand sur le possession de france et quand
 vous avez le possession de moilet me see what
 then saint denis be my speeddonc votre est
 france et vous etes mienne it is as easy for me
 kate to conquer the kingdom as to speak so much
 more french i shall never move thee in french
 unless it be to laugh at me
katharine sauf votre honneur le francois que vous parlez il
 est meilleur que l'anglois lequel je parle
king henry v no faith is't not kate but thy speaking of my
 tongue and i thine most trulyfalsely must needs
 be granted to be much at one but kate dost thou
 understand thus much english canst thou love me
katharine i cannot tell
king henry v can any of your neighbours tell kate i'll ask
 them come i know thou lovest me and at night
 when you come into your closet you'll question this
 gentlewoman about me and i know kate you will to
 her dispraise those parts in me that you love with
 your heart but good kate mock me mercifully the
 rather gentle princess because i love thee
 cruelly if ever thou beest mine kate as i have a
 saving faith within me tells me thou shalt i get
 thee with scambling and thou must therefore needs
 prove a good soldierbreeder shall not thou and i
 between saint denis and saint george compound a
 boy half french half english that shall go to
 constantinople and take the turk by the beard
 shall we not what sayest thou my fair
 flowerdeluce
katharine i do not know dat
king henry v no tis hereafter to know but now to promise do
 but now promise kate you will endeavour for your
 french part of such a boy and for my english moiety
 take the word of a king and a bachelor how answer
 you la plus belle katharine du monde mon tres cher
 et devin deesse
katharine your majestee ave fausse french enough to deceive de
 most sage demoiselle dat is en france
king henry v now fie upon my false french by mine honour in
 true english i love thee kate by which honour i
 dare not swear thou lovest me yet my blood begins to
 flatter me that thou dost notwithstanding the poor
 and untempering effect of my visage now beshrew
 my father's ambition he was thinking of civil wars
 when he got me therefore was i created with a
 stubborn outside with an aspect of iron that when
 i come to woo ladies i fright them but in faith
 kate the elder i wax the better i shall appear
 my comfort is that old age that ill layer up of
 beauty can do no more spoil upon my face thou
 hast me if thou hast me at the worst and thou
 shalt wear me if thou wear me better and better
 and therefore tell me most fair katharine will you
 have me put off your maiden blushes avouch the
 thoughts of your heart with the looks of an empress
 take me by the hand and say harry of england i am
 thine which word thou shalt no sooner bless mine
 ear withal but i will tell thee aloud england is
 thine ireland is thine france is thine and harry
 plantagenet is thine who though i speak it before
 his face if he be not fellow with the best king
 thou shalt find the best king of good fellows
 come your answer in broken music for thy voice is
 music and thy english broken therefore queen of
 all katharine break thy mind to me in broken
 english wilt thou have me
katharine dat is as it sall please de roi mon pere
king henry v nay it will please him well kate it shall please
 him kate
katharine den it sall also content me
king henry v upon that i kiss your hand and i call you my queen
katharine laissez mon seigneur laissez laissez ma foi je
 ne veux point que vous abaissiez votre grandeur en
 baisant la main d'une de votre seigeurie indigne
 serviteur excusezmoi je vous supplie mon
 trespuissant seigneur
king henry v then i will kiss your lips kate
katharine les dames et demoiselles pour etre baisees devant
 leur noces il n'est pas la coutume de france
king henry v madam my interpreter what says she
alice dat it is not be de fashion pour les ladies of
 francei cannot tell vat is baiser en anglish
king henry v to kiss
alice your majesty entendre bettre que moi
king henry v it is not a fashion for the maids in france to kiss
 before they are married would she say
alice oui vraiment
king henry v o kate nice customs curtsy to great kings dear
 kate you and i cannot be confined within the weak
 list of a country's fashion we are the makers of
 manners kate and the liberty that follows our
 places stops the mouth of all findfaults as i will
 do yours for upholding the nice fashion of your
 country in denying me a kiss therefore patiently
 and yielding
 kissing her
 you have witchcraft in your lips kate there is
 more eloquence in a sugar touch of them than in the
 tongues of the french council and they should
 sooner persuade harry of england than a general
 petition of monarchs here comes your father
 reenter the french king and his queen burgundy
 and other lords
burgundy god save your majesty my royal cousin teach you
 our princess english
king henry v i would have her learn my fair cousin how
 perfectly i love her and that is good english
burgundy is she not apt
king henry v our tongue is rough coz and my condition is not
 smooth so that having neither the voice nor the
 heart of flattery about me i cannot so conjure up
 the spirit of love in her that he will appear in
 his true likeness
burgundy pardon the frankness of my mirth if i answer you
 for that if you would conjure in her you must
 make a circle if conjure up love in her in his true
 likeness he must appear naked and blind can you
 blame her then being a maid yet rosed over with the
 virgin crimson of modesty if she deny the
 appearance of a naked blind boy in her naked seeing
 self it were my lord a hard condition for a maid
 to consign to
king henry v yet they do wink and yield as love is blind and enforces
burgundy they are then excused my lord when they see not
 what they do
king henry v then good my lord teach your cousin to consent winking
burgundy i will wink on her to consent my lord if you will
 teach her to know my meaning for maids well
 summered and warm kept are like flies at
 bartholomewtide blind though they have their
 eyes and then they will endure handling which
 before would not abide looking on
king henry v this moral ties me over to time and a hot summer
 and so i shall catch the fly your cousin in the
 latter end and she must be blind too
burgundy as love is my lord before it loves
king henry v it is so and you may some of you thank love for
 my blindness who cannot see many a fair french city
 for one fair french maid that stands in my way
french king yes my lord you see them perspectively the cities
 turned into a maid for they are all girdled with
 maiden walls that war hath never entered
king henry v shall kate be my wife
french king so please you
king henry v i am content so the maiden cities you talk of may
 wait on her so the maid that stood in the way for
 my wish shall show me the way to my will
french king we have consented to all terms of reason
king henry v is't so my lords of england
westmoreland the king hath granted every article
 his daughter first and then in sequel all
 according to their firm proposed natures
exeter only he hath not yet subscribed this
 where your majesty demands that the king of france
 having any occasion to write for matter of grant
 shall name your highness in this form and with this
 addition in french notre trescher fils henri roi
 d'angleterre heritier de france and thus in
 latin praeclarissimus filius noster henricus rex
 angliae et haeres franciae
french king nor this i have not brother so denied
 but your request shall make me let it pass
king henry v i pray you then in love and dear alliance
 let that one article rank with the rest
 and thereupon give me your daughter
french king take her fair son and from her blood raise up
 issue to me that the contending kingdoms
 of france and england whose very shores look pale
 with envy of each other's happiness
 may cease their hatred and this dear conjunction
 plant neighbourhood and christianlike accord
 in their sweet bosoms that never war advance
 his bleeding sword twixt england and fair france
all amen
king henry v now welcome kate and bear me witness all
 that here i kiss her as my sovereign queen
 flourish
queen isabel god the best maker of all marriages
 combine your hearts in one your realms in one
 as man and wife being two are one in love
 so be there twixt your kingdoms such a spousal
 that never may ill office or fell jealousy
 which troubles oft the bed of blessed marriage
 thrust in between the paction of these kingdoms
 to make divorce of their incorporate league
 that english may as french french englishmen
 receive each other god speak this amen
all amen
king henry v prepare we for our marriageon which day
 my lord of burgundy we'll take your oath
 and all the peers for surety of our leagues
 then shall i swear to kate and you to me
 and may our oaths well kept and prosperous be
 sennet exeunt
 king henry v
 epilogue
 enter chorus
chorus thus far with rough and allunable pen
 our bending author hath pursued the story
 in little room confining mighty men
 mangling by starts the full course of their glory
 small time but in that small most greatly lived
 this star of england fortune made his sword
 by which the world's best garden be achieved
 and of it left his son imperial lord
 henry the sixth in infant bands crown'd king
 of france and england did this king succeed
 whose state so many had the managing
 that they lost france and made his england bleed
 which oft our stage hath shown and for their sake
 in your fair minds let this acceptance take
 exit
 king henry viii
 dramatis personae
king henry
the eighth king henry viii
cardinal wolsey
cardinal campeius
capucius ambassador from the emperor charles v
cranmer archbishop of canterbury
duke of norfolk norfolk
duke of buckingham buckingham
duke of suffolk suffolk
earl of surrey surrey
lord chamberlain chamberlain
lord chancellor chancellor
gardiner bishop of winchester
 bishop of lincoln lincoln
lord abergavenny abergavenny
lord sands sands
sir henry
guildford guildford
sir thomas lovell lovell
sir anthony denny denny
sir nicholas vaux vaux
 secretaries to wolsey
 first secretary
 second secretary
cromwell servant to wolsey
griffith gentlemanusher to queen katharine
 three gentlemen
 first gentleman
 second gentleman
 third gentleman
doctor butts physician to the king
 garter kingatarms garter
 surveyor to the duke of buckingham surveyor
brandon
 a sergeantatarms sergeant
 doorkeeper of the councilchamber porter porter
 and his man man
 page to gardiner boy
 a crier crier
queen katharine queen katharine wife to king henry afterwards
 divorced katharine
anne bullen anne her maid of honour afterwards queen queen anne
 an old lady friend to anne bullen old lady
patience woman to queen katharine
 several lords and ladies in the dumb shows women
 attending upon the queen scribes officers guards
 and other attendants
 spirits
 scribe
 keeper
 servant
 messenger
scene london westminster kimbolton
 king henry viii
 the prologue
 i come no more to make you laugh things now
 that bear a weighty and a serious brow
 sad high and working full of state and woe
 such noble scenes as draw the eye to flow
 we now present those that can pity here
 may if they think it well let fall a tear
 the subject will deserve it such as give
 their money out of hope they may believe
 may here find truth too those that come to see
 only a show or two and so agree
 the play may pass if they be still and willing
 i'll undertake may see away their shilling
 richly in two short hours only they
 that come to hear a merry bawdy play
 a noise of targets or to see a fellow
 in a long motley coat guarded with yellow
 will be deceived for gentle hearers know
 to rank our chosen truth with such a show
 as fool and fight is beside forfeiting
 our own brains and the opinion that we bring
 to make that only true we now intend
 will leave us never an understanding friend
 therefore for goodness sake and as you are known
 the first and happiest hearers of the town
 be sad as we would make ye think ye see
 the very persons of our noble story
 as they were living think you see them great
 and follow'd with the general throng and sweat
 of thousand friends then in a moment see
 how soon this mightiness meets misery
 and if you can be merry then i'll say
 a man may weep upon his weddingday
 king henry viii
act i
scene i london an antechamber in the palace
 enter norfolk at one door at the other buckingham
 and abergavenny
buckingham good morrow and well met how have ye done
 since last we saw in france
norfolk i thank your grace
 healthful and ever since a fresh admirer
 of what i saw there
buckingham an untimely ague
 stay'd me a prisoner in my chamber when
 those suns of glory those two lights of men
 met in the vale of andren
norfolk twixt guynes and arde
 i was then present saw them salute on horseback
 beheld them when they lighted how they clung
 in their embracement as they grew together
 which had they what four throned ones could have weigh'd
 such a compounded one
buckingham all the whole time
 i was my chamber's prisoner
norfolk then you lost
 the view of earthly glory men might say
 till this time pomp was single but now married
 to one above itself each following day
 became the next day's master till the last
 made former wonders its today the french
 all clinquant all in gold like heathen gods
 shone down the english and tomorrow they
 made britain india every man that stood
 show'd like a mine their dwarfish pages were
 as cherubins all guilt the madams too
 not used to toil did almost sweat to bear
 the pride upon them that their very labour
 was to them as a painting now this masque
 was cried incomparable and the ensuing night
 made it a fool and beggar the two kings
 equal in lustre were now best now worst
 as presence did present them him in eye
 still him in praise and being present both
 twas said they saw but one and no discerner
 durst wag his tongue in censure when these suns
 for so they phrase emby their heralds challenged
 the noble spirits to arms they did perform
 beyond thought's compass that former fabulous story
 being now seen possible enough got credit
 that bevis was believed
buckingham o you go far
norfolk as i belong to worship and affect
 in honour honesty the tract of every thing
 would by a good discourser lose some life
 which action's self was tongue to all was royal
 to the disposing of it nought rebell'd
 order gave each thing view the office did
 distinctly his full function
buckingham who did guide
 i mean who set the body and the limbs
 of this great sport together as you guess
norfolk one certes that promises no element
 in such a business
buckingham i pray you who my lord
norfolk all this was order'd by the good discretion
 of the right reverend cardinal of york
buckingham the devil speed him no man's pie is freed
 from his ambitious finger what had he
 to do in these fierce vanities i wonder
 that such a keech can with his very bulk
 take up the rays o the beneficial sun
 and keep it from the earth
norfolk surely sir
 there's in him stuff that puts him to these ends
 for being not propp'd by ancestry whose grace
 chalks successors their way nor call'd upon
 for high feats done to the crown neither allied
 for eminent assistants but spiderlike
 out of his selfdrawing web he gives us note
 the force of his own merit makes his way
 a gift that heaven gives for him which buys
 a place next to the king
abergavenny i cannot tell
 what heaven hath given himlet some graver eye
 pierce into that but i can see his pride
 peep through each part of him whence has he that
 if not from hell the devil is a niggard
 or has given all before and he begins
 a new hell in himself
buckingham why the devil
 upon this french going out took he upon him
 without the privity o the king to appoint
 who should attend on him he makes up the file
 of all the gentry for the most part such
 to whom as great a charge as little honour
 he meant to lay upon and his own letter
 the honourable board of council out
 must fetch him in the papers
abergavenny i do know
 kinsmen of mine three at the least that have
 by this so sickened their estates that never
 they shall abound as formerly
buckingham o many
 have broke their backs with laying manors on em
 for this great journey what did this vanity
 but minister communication of
 a most poor issue
norfolk grievingly i think
 the peace between the french and us not values
 the cost that did conclude it
buckingham every man
 after the hideous storm that follow'd was
 a thing inspired and not consulting broke
 into a general prophecy that this tempest
 dashing the garment of this peace aboded
 the sudden breach on't
norfolk which is budded out
 for france hath flaw'd the league and hath attach'd
 our merchants goods at bourdeaux
abergavenny is it therefore
 the ambassador is silenced
norfolk marry is't
abergavenny a proper title of a peace and purchased
 at a superfluous rate
buckingham why all this business
 our reverend cardinal carried
norfolk like it your grace
 the state takes notice of the private difference
 betwixt you and the cardinal i advise you
 and take it from a heart that wishes towards you
 honour and plenteous safetythat you read
 the cardinal's malice and his potency
 together to consider further that
 what his high hatred would effect wants not
 a minister in his power you know his nature
 that he's revengeful and i know his sword
 hath a sharp edge it's long and t may be said
 it reaches far and where twill not extend
 thither he darts it bosom up my counsel
 you'll find it wholesome lo where comes that rock
 that i advise your shunning
 enter cardinal wolsey the purse borne before him
 certain of the guard and two secretaries with
 papers cardinal wolsey in his passage fixeth his
 eye on buckingham and buckingham on him both full
 of disdain
cardinal wolsey the duke of buckingham's surveyor ha
 where's his examination
first secretary here so please you
cardinal wolsey is he in person ready
first secretary ay please your grace
cardinal wolsey well we shall then know more and buckingham
 shall lessen this big look
 exeunt cardinal wolsey and his train
buckingham this butcher's cur is venommouth'd and i
 have not the power to muzzle him therefore best
 not wake him in his slumber a beggar's book
 outworths a noble's blood
norfolk what are you chafed
 ask god for temperance that's the appliance only
 which your disease requires
buckingham i read in's looks
 matter against me and his eye reviled
 me as his abject object at this instant
 he bores me with some trick he's gone to the king
 i'll follow and outstare him
norfolk stay my lord
 and let your reason with your choler question
 what tis you go about to climb steep hills
 requires slow pace at first anger is like
 a fullhot horse who being allow'd his way
 selfmettle tires him not a man in england
 can advise me like you be to yourself
 as you would to your friend
buckingham i'll to the king
 and from a mouth of honour quite cry down
 this ipswich fellow's insolence or proclaim
 there's difference in no persons
norfolk be advised
 heat not a furnace for your foe so hot
 that it do singe yourself we may outrun
 by violent swiftness that which we run at
 and lose by overrunning know you not
 the fire that mounts the liquor til run o'er
 in seeming to augment it wastes it be advised
 i say again there is no english soul
 more stronger to direct you than yourself
 if with the sap of reason you would quench
 or but allay the fire of passion
buckingham sir
 i am thankful to you and i'll go along
 by your prescription but this topproud fellow
 whom from the flow of gall i name not but
 from sincere motions by intelligence
 and proofs as clear as founts in july when
 we see each grain of gravel i do know
 to be corrupt and treasonous
norfolk say not treasonous'
buckingham to the king i'll say't and make my vouch as strong
 as shore of rock attend this holy fox
 or wolf or bothfor he is equal ravenous
 as he is subtle and as prone to mischief
 as able to perform't his mind and place
 infecting one another yea reciprocally
 only to show his pomp as well in france
 as here at home suggests the king our master
 to this last costly treaty the interview
 that swallow'd so much treasure and like a glass
 did break i the rinsing
norfolk faith and so it did
buckingham pray give me favour sir this cunning cardinal
 the articles o the combination drew
 as himself pleased and they were ratified
 as he cried thus let be to as much end
 as give a crutch to the dead but our countcardinal
 has done this and tis well for worthy wolsey
 who cannot err he did it now this follows
 which as i take it is a kind of puppy
 to the old dam treasoncharles the emperor
 under pretence to see the queen his aunt
 for twas indeed his colour but he came
 to whisper wolseyhere makes visitation
 his fears were that the interview betwixt
 england and france might through their amity
 breed him some prejudice for from this league
 peep'd harms that menaced him he privily
 deals with our cardinal and as i trow
 which i do well for i am sure the emperor
 paid ere he promised whereby his suit was granted
 ere it was ask'd but when the way was made
 and paved with gold the emperor thus desired
 that he would please to alter the king's course
 and break the foresaid peace let the king know
 as soon he shall by me that thus the cardinal
 does buy and sell his honour as he pleases
 and for his own advantage
norfolk i am sorry
 to hear this of him and could wish he were
 something mistaken in't
buckingham no not a syllable
 i do pronounce him in that very shape
 he shall appear in proof
 enter brandon a sergeantatarms before him and
 two or three of the guard
brandon your office sergeant execute it
sergeant sir
 my lord the duke of buckingham and earl
 of hereford stafford and northampton i
 arrest thee of high treason in the name
 of our most sovereign king
buckingham lo you my lord
 the net has fall'n upon me i shall perish
 under device and practise
brandon i am sorry
 to see you ta'en from liberty to look on
 the business present tis his highness pleasure
 you shall to the tower
buckingham it will help me nothing
 to plead mine innocence for that dye is on me
 which makes my whitest part black the will of heaven
 be done in this and all things i obey
 o my lord abergavenny fare you well
brandon nay he must bear you company the king
 to abergavenny
 is pleased you shall to the tower till you know
 how he determines further
abergavenny as the duke said
 the will of heaven be done and the king's pleasure
 by me obey'd
brandon here is a warrant from
 the king to attach lord montacute and the bodies
 of the duke's confessor john de la car
 one gilbert peck his chancellor
buckingham so so
 these are the limbs o the plot no more i hope
brandon a monk o the chartreux
buckingham o nicholas hopkins
brandon he
buckingham my surveyor is false the o'ergreat cardinal
 hath show'd him gold my life is spann'd already
 i am the shadow of poor buckingham
 whose figure even this instant cloud puts on
 by darkening my clear sun my lord farewell
 exeunt
 king henry viii
act i
scene ii the same the councilchamber
 cornets enter king henry viii leaning on
 cardinal wolsey's shoulder the nobles and lovell
 cardinal wolsey places himself under king henry
 viii's feet on his right side
king henry viii my life itself and the best heart of it
 thanks you for this great care i stood i the level
 of a fullcharged confederacy and give thanks
 to you that choked it let be call'd before us
 that gentleman of buckingham's in person
 i'll hear him his confessions justify
 and point by point the treasons of his master
 he shall again relate
 a noise within crying room for the queen enter
 queen katharine ushered by norfolk and suffolk
 she kneels king henry viii riseth from his state
 takes her up kisses and placeth her by him
queen katharine nay we must longer kneel i am a suitor
king henry viii arise and take place by us half your suit
 never name to us you have half our power
 the other moiety ere you ask is given
 repeat your will and take it
queen katharine thank your majesty
 that you would love yourself and in that love
 not unconsider'd leave your honour nor
 the dignity of your office is the point
 of my petition
king henry viii lady mine proceed
queen katharine i am solicited not by a few
 and those of true condition that your subjects
 are in great grievance there have been commissions
 sent down among em which hath flaw'd the heart
 of all their loyalties wherein although
 my good lord cardinal they vent reproaches
 most bitterly on you as putter on
 of these exactions yet the king our master
 whose honour heaven shield from soileven he
 escapes not
 language unmannerly yea such which breaks
 the sides of loyalty and almost appears
 in loud rebellion
norfolk not almost appears
 it doth appear for upon these taxations
 the clothiers all not able to maintain
 the many to them longing have put off
 the spinsters carders fullers weavers who
 unfit for other life compell'd by hunger
 and lack of other means in desperate manner
 daring the event to the teeth are all in uproar
 and danger serves among then
king henry viii taxation
 wherein and what taxation my lord cardinal
 you that are blamed for it alike with us
 know you of this taxation
cardinal wolsey please you sir
 i know but of a single part in aught
 pertains to the state and front but in that file
 where others tell steps with me
queen katharine no my lord
 you know no more than others but you frame
 things that are known alike which are not wholesome
 to those which would not know them and yet must
 perforce be their acquaintance these exactions
 whereof my sovereign would have note they are
 most pestilent to the bearing and to bear em
 the back is sacrifice to the load they say
 they are devised by you or else you suffer
 too hard an exclamation
king henry viii still exaction
 the nature of it in what kind let's know
 is this exaction
queen katharine i am much too venturous
 in tempting of your patience but am bolden'd
 under your promised pardon the subjects grief
 comes through commissions which compel from each
 the sixth part of his substance to be levied
 without delay and the pretence for this
 is named your wars in france this makes bold mouths
 tongues spit their duties out and cold hearts freeze
 allegiance in them their curses now
 live where their prayers did and it's come to pass
 this tractable obedience is a slave
 to each incensed will i would your highness
 would give it quick consideration for
 there is no primer business
king henry viii by my life
 this is against our pleasure
cardinal wolsey and for me
 i have no further gone in this than by
 a single voice and that not pass'd me but
 by learned approbation of the judges if i am
 traduced by ignorant tongues which neither know
 my faculties nor person yet will be
 the chronicles of my doing let me say
 tis but the fate of place and the rough brake
 that virtue must go through we must not stint
 our necessary actions in the fear
 to cope malicious censurers which ever
 as ravenous fishes do a vessel follow
 that is newtrimm'd but benefit no further
 than vainly longing what we oft do best
 by sick interpreters once weak ones is
 not ours or not allow'd what worst as oft
 hitting a grosser quality is cried up
 for our best act if we shall stand still
 in fear our motion will be mock'd or carp'd at
 we should take root here where we sit or sit
 statestatues only
king henry viii things done well
 and with a care exempt themselves from fear
 things done without example in their issue
 are to be fear'd have you a precedent
 of this commission i believe not any
 we must not rend our subjects from our laws
 and stick them in our will sixth part of each
 a trembling contribution why we take
 from every tree lop bark and part o the timber
 and though we leave it with a root thus hack'd
 the air will drink the sap to every county
 where this is question'd send our letters with
 free pardon to each man that has denied
 the force of this commission pray look to't
 i put it to your care
cardinal wolsey a word with you
 to the secretary
 let there be letters writ to every shire
 of the king's grace and pardon the grieved commons
 hardly conceive of me let it be noised
 that through our intercession this revokement
 and pardon comes i shall anon advise you
 further in the proceeding
 exit secretary
 enter surveyor
queen katharine i am sorry that the duke of buckingham
 is run in your displeasure
king henry viii it grieves many
 the gentleman is learn'd and a most rare speaker
 to nature none more bound his training such
 that he may furnish and instruct great teachers
 and never seek for aid out of himself yet see
 when these so noble benefits shall prove
 not well disposed the mind growing once corrupt
 they turn to vicious forms ten times more ugly
 than ever they were fair this man so complete
 who was enroll'd mongst wonders and when we
 almost with ravish'd listening could not find
 his hour of speech a minute he my lady
 hath into monstrous habits put the graces
 that once were his and is become as black
 as if besmear'd in hell sit by us you shall hear
 this was his gentleman in trustof him
 things to strike honour sad bid him recount
 the forerecited practises whereof
 we cannot feel too little hear too much
cardinal wolsey stand forth and with bold spirit relate what you
 most like a careful subject have collected
 out of the duke of buckingham
king henry viii speak freely
surveyor first it was usual with him every day
 it would infect his speech that if the king
 should without issue die he'll carry it so
 to make the sceptre his these very words
 i've heard him utter to his soninlaw
 lord abergavenny to whom by oath he menaced
 revenge upon the cardinal
cardinal wolsey please your highness note
 this dangerous conception in this point
 not friended by by his wish to your high person
 his will is most malignant and it stretches
 beyond you to your friends
queen katharine my learn'd lord cardinal
 deliver all with charity
king henry viii speak on
 how grounded he his title to the crown
 upon our fail to this point hast thou heard him
 at any time speak aught
surveyor he was brought to this
 by a vain prophecy of nicholas hopkins
king henry viii what was that hopkins
surveyor sir a chartreux friar
 his confessor who fed him every minute
 with words of sovereignty
king henry viii how know'st thou this
surveyor not long before your highness sped to france
 the duke being at the rose within the parish
 saint lawrence poultney did of me demand
 what was the speech among the londoners
 concerning the french journey i replied
 men fear'd the french would prove perfidious
 to the king's danger presently the duke
 said twas the fear indeed and that he doubted
 twould prove the verity of certain words
 spoke by a holy monk that oft says he
 hath sent to me wishing me to permit
 john de la car my chaplain a choice hour
 to hear from him a matter of some moment
 whom after under the confession's seal
 he solemnly had sworn that what he spoke
 my chaplain to no creature living but
 to me should utter with demure confidence
 this pausingly ensued neither the king nor's heirs
 tell you the duke shall prosper bid him strive
 to gain the love o the commonalty the duke
 shall govern england'
queen katharine if i know you well
 you were the duke's surveyor and lost your office
 on the complaint o the tenants take good heed
 you charge not in your spleen a noble person
 and spoil your nobler soul i say take heed
 yes heartily beseech you
king henry viii let him on
 go forward
surveyor on my soul i'll speak but truth
 i told my lord the duke by the devil's illusions
 the monk might be deceived and that twas dangerous for him
 to ruminate on this so far until
 it forged him some design which being believed
 it was much like to do he answer'd tush
 it can do me no damage adding further
 that had the king in his last sickness fail'd
 the cardinal's and sir thomas lovell's heads
 should have gone off
king henry viii ha what so rank ah ha
 there's mischief in this man canst thou say further
surveyor i can my liege
king henry viii proceed
surveyor being at greenwich
 after your highness had reproved the duke
 about sir william blomer
king henry viii i remember
 of such a time being my sworn servant
 the duke retain'd him his but on what hence
surveyor if quoth he i for this had been committed
 as to the tower i thought i would have play'd
 the part my father meant to act upon
 the usurper richard who being at salisbury
 made suit to come in's presence which if granted
 as he made semblance of his duty would
 have put his knife to him'
king henry viii a giant traitor
cardinal wolsey now madam may his highness live in freedom
 and this man out of prison
queen katharine god mend all
king henry viii there's something more would out of thee what say'st
surveyor after the duke his father with the knife'
 he stretch'd him and with one hand on his dagger
 another spread on's breast mounting his eyes
 he did discharge a horrible oath whose tenor
 waswere he evil used he would outgo
 his father by as much as a performance
 does an irresolute purpose
king henry viii there's his period
 to sheathe his knife in us he is attach'd
 call him to present trial if he may
 find mercy in the law tis his if none
 let him not seek t of us by day and night
 he's traitor to the height
 exeunt
 king henry viii
act i
scene iii an antechamber in the palace
 enter chamberlain and sands
chamberlain is't possible the spells of france should juggle
 men into such strange mysteries
sands new customs
 though they be never so ridiculous
 nay let em be unmanly yet are follow'd
chamberlain as far as i see all the good our english
 have got by the late voyage is but merely
 a fit or two o the face but they are shrewd ones
 for when they hold em you would swear directly
 their very noses had been counsellors
 to pepin or clotharius they keep state so
sands they have all new legs and lame ones one would take it
 that never saw em pace before the spavin
 or springhalt reign'd among em
chamberlain death my lord
 their clothes are after such a pagan cut too
 that sure they've worn out christendom
 enter lovell
 how now
 what news sir thomas lovell
lovell faith my lord
 i hear of none but the new proclamation
 that's clapp'd upon the courtgate
chamberlain what is't for
lovell the reformation of our travell'd gallants
 that fill the court with quarrels talk and tailors
chamberlain i'm glad tis there now i would pray our monsieurs
 to think an english courtier may be wise
 and never see the louvre
lovell they must either
 for so run the conditions leave those remnants
 of fool and feather that they got in france
 with all their honourable point of ignorance
 pertaining thereunto as fights and fireworks
 abusing better men than they can be
 out of a foreign wisdom renouncing clean
 the faith they have in tennis and tall stockings
 short blister'd breeches and those types of travel
 and understand again like honest men
 or pack to their old playfellows there i take it
 they may cum privilegio wear away
 the lag end of their lewdness and be laugh'd at
sands tis time to give em physic their diseases
 are grown so catching
chamberlain what a loss our ladies
 will have of these trim vanities
lovell ay marry
 there will be woe indeed lords the sly whoresons
 have got a speeding trick to lay down ladies
 a french song and a fiddle has no fellow
sands the devil fiddle em i am glad they are going
 for sure there's no converting of em now
 an honest country lord as i am beaten
 a long time out of play may bring his plainsong
 and have an hour of hearing and by'r lady
 held current music too
chamberlain well said lord sands
 your colt's tooth is not cast yet
sands no my lord
 nor shall not while i have a stump
chamberlain sir thomas
 whither were you agoing
lovell to the cardinal's
 your lordship is a guest too
chamberlain o tis true
 this night he makes a supper and a great one
 to many lords and ladies there will be
 the beauty of this kingdom i'll assure you
lovell that churchman bears a bounteous mind indeed
 a hand as fruitful as the land that feeds us
 his dews fall every where
chamberlain no doubt he's noble
 he had a black mouth that said other of him
sands he may my lord has wherewithal in him
 sparing would show a worse sin than ill doctrine
 men of his way should be most liberal
 they are set here for examples
chamberlain true they are so
 but few now give so great ones my barge stays
 your lordship shall along come good sir thomas
 we shall be late else which i would not be
 for i was spoke to with sir henry guildford
 this night to be comptrollers
sands i am your lordship's
 exeunt
 king henry viii
act i
scene iv a hall in york place
 hautboys a small table under a state for cardinal
 wolsey a longer table for the guests then enter
 anne and divers other ladies and gentlemen as
 guests at one door at another door enter
 guildford
guildford ladies a general welcome from his grace
 salutes ye all this night he dedicates
 to fair content and you none here he hopes
 in all this noble bevy has brought with her
 one care abroad he would have all as merry
 as first good company good wine good welcome
 can make good people o my lord you're tardy
 enter chamberlain sands and lovell
 the very thought of this fair company
 clapp'd wings to me
chamberlain you are young sir harry guildford
sands sir thomas lovell had the cardinal
 but half my lay thoughts in him some of these
 should find a running banquet ere they rested
 i think would better please em by my life
 they are a sweet society of fair ones
lovell o that your lordship were but now confessor
 to one or two of these
sands i would i were
 they should find easy penance
lovell faith how easy
sands as easy as a downbed would afford it
chamberlain sweet ladies will it please you sit sir harry
 place you that side i'll take the charge of this
 his grace is entering nay you must not freeze
 two women placed together makes cold weather
 my lord sands you are one will keep em waking
 pray sit between these ladies
sands by my faith
 and thank your lordship by your leave sweet ladies
 if i chance to talk a little wild forgive me
 i had it from my father
anne was he mad sir
sands o very mad exceeding mad in love too
 but he would bite none just as i do now
 he would kiss you twenty with a breath
 kisses her
chamberlain well said my lord
 so now you're fairly seated gentlemen
 the penance lies on you if these fair ladies
 pass away frowning
sands for my little cure
 let me alone
 hautboys enter cardinal wolsey and takes his state
cardinal wolsey you're welcome my fair guests that noble lady
 or gentleman that is not freely merry
 is not my friend this to confirm my welcome
 and to you all good health
 drinks
sands your grace is noble
 let me have such a bowl may hold my thanks
 and save me so much talking
cardinal wolsey my lord sands
 i am beholding to you cheer your neighbours
 ladies you are not merry gentlemen
 whose fault is this
sands the red wine first must rise
 in their fair cheeks my lord then we shall have em
 talk us to silence
anne you are a merry gamester
 my lord sands
sands yes if i make my play
 here's to your ladyship and pledge it madam
 for tis to such a thing
anne you cannot show me
sands i told your grace they would talk anon
 drum and trumpet chambers discharged
cardinal wolsey what's that
chamberlain look out there some of ye
 exit servant
cardinal wolsey what warlike voice
 and to what end is this nay ladies fear not
 by all the laws of war you're privileged
 reenter servant
chamberlain how now what is't
servant a noble troop of strangers
 for so they seem they've left their barge and landed
 and hither make as great ambassadors
 from foreign princes
cardinal wolsey good lord chamberlain
 go give em welcome you can speak the french tongue
 and pray receive em nobly and conduct em
 into our presence where this heaven of beauty
 shall shine at full upon them some attend him
 exit chamberlain attended all rise and tables removed
 you have now a broken banquet but we'll mend it
 a good digestion to you all and once more
 i shower a welcome on ye welcome all
 hautboys enter king henry viii and others as
 masquers habited like shepherds ushered by the
 chamberlain they pass directly before cardinal
 wolsey and gracefully salute him
 a noble company what are their pleasures
chamberlain because they speak no english thus they pray'd
 to tell your grace that having heard by fame
 of this so noble and so fair assembly
 this night to meet here they could do no less
 out of the great respect they bear to beauty
 but leave their flocks and under your fair conduct
 crave leave to view these ladies and entreat
 an hour of revels with em
cardinal wolsey say lord chamberlain
 they have done my poor house grace for which i pay em
 a thousand thanks and pray em take their pleasures
 they choose ladies for the dance king henry viii
 chooses anne
king henry viii the fairest hand i ever touch'd o beauty
 till now i never knew thee
 music dance
cardinal wolsey my lord
chamberlain your grace
cardinal wolsey pray tell em thus much from me
 there should be one amongst em by his person
 more worthy this place than myself to whom
 if i but knew him with my love and duty
 i would surrender it
chamberlain i will my lord
 whispers the masquers
cardinal wolsey what say they
chamberlain such a one they all confess
 there is indeed which they would have your grace
 find out and he will take it
cardinal wolsey let me see then
 by all your good leaves gentlemen here i'll make
 my royal choice
king henry viii ye have found him cardinal
 unmasking
 you hold a fair assembly you do well lord
 you are a churchman or i'll tell you cardinal
 i should judge now unhappily
cardinal wolsey i am glad
 your grace is grown so pleasant
king henry viii my lord chamberlain
 prithee come hither what fair lady's that
chamberlain an't please your grace sir thomas bullen's daughter
 the viscount rochfordone of her highness women
king henry viii by heaven she is a dainty one sweetheart
 i were unmannerly to take you out
 and not to kiss you a health gentlemen
 let it go round
cardinal wolsey sir thomas lovell is the banquet ready
 i the privy chamber
lovell yes my lord
cardinal wolsey your grace
 i fear with dancing is a little heated
king henry viii i fear too much
cardinal wolsey there's fresher air my lord
 in the next chamber
king henry viii lead in your ladies every one sweet partner
 i must not yet forsake you let's be merry
 good my lord cardinal i have half a dozen healths
 to drink to these fair ladies and a measure
 to lead em once again and then let's dream
 who's best in favour let the music knock it
 exeunt with trumpets
 king henry viii
act ii
scene i westminster a street
 enter two gentlemen meeting
first gentleman whither away so fast
second gentleman o god save ye
 even to the hall to hear what shall become
 of the great duke of buckingham
first gentleman i'll save you
 that labour sir all's now done but the ceremony
 of bringing back the prisoner
second gentleman were you there
first gentleman yes indeed was i
second gentleman pray speak what has happen'd
first gentleman you may guess quickly what
second gentleman is he found guilty
first gentleman yes truly is he and condemn'd upon't
second gentleman i am sorry for't
first gentleman so are a number more
second gentleman but pray how pass'd it
first gentleman i'll tell you in a little the great duke
 came to the bar where to his accusations
 he pleaded still not guilty and alleged
 many sharp reasons to defeat the law
 the king's attorney on the contrary
 urged on the examinations proofs confessions
 of divers witnesses which the duke desired
 to have brought viva voce to his face
 at which appear'd against him his surveyor
 sir gilbert peck his chancellor and john car
 confessor to him with that devilmonk
 hopkins that made this mischief
second gentleman that was he
 that fed him with his prophecies
first gentleman the same
 all these accused him strongly which he fain
 would have flung from him but indeed he could not
 and so his peers upon this evidence
 have found him guilty of high treason much
 he spoke and learnedly for life but all
 was either pitied in him or forgotten
second gentleman after all this how did he bear himself
first gentleman when he was brought again to the bar to hear
 his knell rung out his judgment he was stirr'd
 with such an agony he sweat extremely
 and something spoke in choler ill and hasty
 but he fell to himself again and sweetly
 in all the rest show'd a most noble patience
second gentleman i do not think he fears death
first gentleman sure he does not
 he never was so womanish the cause
 he may a little grieve at
second gentleman certainly
 the cardinal is the end of this
first gentleman tis likely
 by all conjectures first kildare's attainder
 then deputy of ireland who removed
 earl surrey was sent thither and in haste too
 lest he should help his father
second gentleman that trick of state
 was a deep envious one
first gentleman at his return
 no doubt he will requite it this is noted
 and generally whoever the king favours
 the cardinal instantly will find employment
 and far enough from court too
second gentleman all the commons
 hate him perniciously and o my conscience
 wish him ten fathom deep this duke as much
 they love and dote on call him bounteous buckingham
 the mirror of all courtesy
first gentleman stay there sir
 and see the noble ruin'd man you speak of
 enter buckingham from his arraignment tipstaves
 before him the axe with the edge towards him
 halberds on each side accompanied with lovell
 vaux sands and common people
second gentleman let's stand close and behold him
buckingham all good people
 you that thus far have come to pity me
 hear what i say and then go home and lose me
 i have this day received a traitor's judgment
 and by that name must die yet heaven bear witness
 and if i have a conscience let it sink me
 even as the axe falls if i be not faithful
 the law i bear no malice for my death
 t has done upon the premises but justice
 but those that sought it i could wish more christians
 be what they will i heartily forgive em
 yet let em look they glory not in mischief
 nor build their evils on the graves of great men
 for then my guiltless blood must cry against em
 for further life in this world i ne'er hope
 nor will i sue although the king have mercies
 more than i dare make faults you few that loved me
 and dare be bold to weep for buckingham
 his noble friends and fellows whom to leave
 is only bitter to him only dying
 go with me like good angels to my end
 and as the long divorce of steel falls on me
 make of your prayers one sweet sacrifice
 and lift my soul to heaven lead on o god's name
lovell i do beseech your grace for charity
 if ever any malice in your heart
 were hid against me now to forgive me frankly
buckingham sir thomas lovell i as free forgive you
 as i would be forgiven i forgive all
 there cannot be those numberless offences
 gainst me that i cannot take peace with
 no black envy
 shall mark my grave commend me to his grace
 and if he speak of buckingham pray tell him
 you met him half in heaven my vows and prayers
 yet are the king's and till my soul forsake
 shall cry for blessings on him may he live
 longer than i have time to tell his years
 ever beloved and loving may his rule be
 and when old time shall lead him to his end
 goodness and he fill up one monument
lovell to the water side i must conduct your grace
 then give my charge up to sir nicholas vaux
 who undertakes you to your end
vaux prepare there
 the duke is coming see the barge be ready
 and fit it with such furniture as suits
 the greatness of his person
buckingham nay sir nicholas
 let it alone my state now will but mock me
 when i came hither i was lord high constable
 and duke of buckingham now poor edward bohun
 yet i am richer than my base accusers
 that never knew what truth meant i now seal it
 and with that blood will make em one day groan for't
 my noble father henry of buckingham
 who first raised head against usurping richard
 flying for succor to his servant banister
 being distress'd was by that wretch betray'd
 and without trial fell god's peace be with him
 henry the seventh succeeding truly pitying
 my father's loss like a most royal prince
 restored me to my honours and out of ruins
 made my name once more noble now his son
 henry the eighth life honour name and all
 that made me happy at one stroke has taken
 for ever from the world i had my trial
 and must needs say a noble one which makes me
 a little happier than my wretched father
 yet thus far we are one in fortunes both
 fell by our servants by those men we loved most
 a most unnatural and faithless service
 heaven has an end in all yet you that hear me
 this from a dying man receive as certain
 where you are liberal of your loves and counsels
 be sure you be not loose for those you make friends
 and give your hearts to when they once perceive
 the least rub in your fortunes fall away
 like water from ye never found again
 but where they mean to sink ye all good people
 pray for me i must now forsake ye the last hour
 of my long weary life is come upon me farewell
 and when you would say something that is sad
 speak how i fell i have done and god forgive me
 exeunt buckingham and train
first gentleman o this is full of pity sir it calls
 i fear too many curses on their beads
 that were the authors
second gentleman if the duke be guiltless
 tis full of woe yet i can give you inkling
 of an ensuing evil if it fall
 greater than this
first gentleman good angels keep it from us
 what may it be you do not doubt my faith sir
second gentleman this secret is so weighty twill require
 a strong faith to conceal it
first gentleman let me have it
 i do not talk much
second gentleman i am confident
 you shall sir did you not of late days hear
 a buzzing of a separation
 between the king and katharine
first gentleman yes but it held not
 for when the king once heard it out of anger
 he sent command to the lord mayor straight
 to stop the rumor and allay those tongues
 that durst disperse it
second gentleman but that slander sir
 is found a truth now for it grows again
 fresher than e'er it was and held for certain
 the king will venture at it either the cardinal
 or some about him near have out of malice
 to the good queen possess'd him with a scruple
 that will undo her to confirm this too
 cardinal campeius is arrived and lately
 as all think for this business
first gentleman tis the cardinal
 and merely to revenge him on the emperor
 for not bestowing on him at his asking
 the archbishopric of toledo this is purposed
second gentleman i think you have hit the mark but is't not cruel
 that she should feel the smart of this the cardinal
 will have his will and she must fall
first gentleman tis woful
 we are too open here to argue this
 let's think in private more
 exeunt
 king henry viii
act ii
scene ii an antechamber in the palace
 enter chamberlain reading a letter
chamberlain my lord the horses your lordship sent for with
 all the care i had i saw well chosen ridden and
 furnished they were young and handsome and of the
 best breed in the north when they were ready to
 set out for london a man of my lord cardinal's by
 commission and main power took em from me with
 this reason his master would be served before a
 subject if not before the king which stopped our
 mouths sir'
 i fear he will indeed well let him have them
 he will have all i think
 enter to chamberlain norfolk and suffolk
norfolk well met my lord chamberlain
chamberlain good day to both your graces
suffolk how is the king employ'd
chamberlain i left him private
 full of sad thoughts and troubles
norfolk what's the cause
chamberlain it seems the marriage with his brother's wife
 has crept too near his conscience
suffolk no his conscience
 has crept too near another lady
norfolk tis so
 this is the cardinal's doing the kingcardinal
 that blind priest like the eldest son of fortune
 turns what he list the king will know him one day
suffolk pray god he do he'll never know himself else
norfolk how holily he works in all his business
 and with what zeal for now he has crack'd the league
 between us and the emperor the queen's great nephew
 he dives into the king's soul and there scatters
 dangers doubts wringing of the conscience
 fears and despairs and all these for his marriage
 and out of all these to restore the king
 he counsels a divorce a loss of her
 that like a jewel has hung twenty years
 about his neck yet never lost her lustre
 of her that loves him with that excellence
 that angels love good men with even of her
 that when the greatest stroke of fortune falls
 will bless the king and is not this course pious
chamberlain heaven keep me from such counsel tis most true
 these news are every where every tongue speaks em
 and every true heart weeps for't all that dare
 look into these affairs see this main end
 the french king's sister heaven will one day open
 the king's eyes that so long have slept upon
 this bold bad man
suffolk and free us from his slavery
norfolk we had need pray
 and heartily for our deliverance
 or this imperious man will work us all
 from princes into pages all men's honours
 lie like one lump before him to be fashion'd
 into what pitch he please
suffolk for me my lords
 i love him not nor fear him there's my creed
 as i am made without him so i'll stand
 if the king please his curses and his blessings
 touch me alike they're breath i not believe in
 i knew him and i know him so i leave him
 to him that made him proud the pope
norfolk let's in
 and with some other business put the king
 from these sad thoughts that work too much upon him
 my lord you'll bear us company
chamberlain excuse me
 the king has sent me otherwhere besides
 you'll find a most unfit time to disturb him
 health to your lordships
norfolk thanks my good lord chamberlain
 exit chamberlain and king henry viii draws the
 curtain and sits reading pensively
suffolk how sad he looks sure he is much afflicted
king henry viii who's there ha
norfolk pray god he be not angry
king henry viii who's there i say how dare you thrust yourselves
 into my private meditations
 who am i ha
norfolk a gracious king that pardons all offences
 malice ne'er meant our breach of duty this way
 is business of estate in which we come
 to know your royal pleasure
king henry viii ye are too bold
 go to i'll make ye know your times of business
 is this an hour for temporal affairs ha
 enter cardinal wolsey and cardinal campeius with
 a commission
 who's there my good lord cardinal o my wolsey
 the quiet of my wounded conscience
 thou art a cure fit for a king
 to cardinal campeius
 you're welcome
 most learned reverend sir into our kingdom
 use us and it
 to cardinal wolsey
 my good lord have great care
 i be not found a talker
cardinal wolsey sir you cannot
 i would your grace would give us but an hour
 of private conference
king henry viii to norfolk and suffolk
 we are busy go
norfolk aside to suffolk
 this priest has no pride in him
suffolk aside to norfolk not to speak of
 i would not be so sick though for his place
 but this cannot continue
norfolk aside to suffolk if it do
 i'll venture one haveathim
suffolk aside to norfolk i another
 exeunt norfolk and suffolk
cardinal wolsey your grace has given a precedent of wisdom
 above all princes in committing freely
 your scruple to the voice of christendom
 who can be angry now what envy reach you
 the spaniard tied blood and favour to her
 must now confess if they have any goodness
 the trial just and noble all the clerks
 i mean the learned ones in christian kingdoms
 have their free voices rome the nurse of judgment
 invited by your noble self hath sent
 one general tongue unto us this good man
 this just and learned priest cardinal campeius
 whom once more i present unto your highness
king henry viii and once more in mine arms i bid him welcome
 and thank the holy conclave for their loves
 they have sent me such a man i would have wish'd for
cardinal campeius your grace must needs deserve all strangers loves
 you are so noble to your highness hand
 i tender my commission by whose virtue
 the court of rome commanding you my lord
 cardinal of york are join'd with me their servant
 in the unpartial judging of this business
king henry viii two equal men the queen shall be acquainted
 forthwith for what you come where's gardiner
cardinal wolsey i know your majesty has always loved her
 so dear in heart not to deny her that
 a woman of less place might ask by law
 scholars allow'd freely to argue for her
king henry viii ay and the best she shall have and my favour
 to him that does best god forbid else cardinal
 prithee call gardiner to me my new secretary
 i find him a fit fellow
 exit cardinal wolsey
 reenter cardinal wolsey with gardiner
cardinal wolsey aside to gardiner give me your hand much joy and
 favour to you
 you are the king's now
gardiner aside to cardinal wolsey
 but to be commanded
 for ever by your grace whose hand has raised me
king henry viii come hither gardiner
 walks and whispers
cardinal campeius my lord of york was not one doctor pace
 in this man's place before him
cardinal wolsey yes he was
cardinal campeius was he not held a learned man
cardinal wolsey yes surely
cardinal campeius believe me there's an ill opinion spread then
 even of yourself lord cardinal
cardinal wolsey how of me
cardinal campeius they will not stick to say you envied him
 and fearing he would rise he was so virtuous
 kept him a foreign man still which so grieved him
 that he ran mad and died
cardinal wolsey heaven's peace be with him
 that's christian care enough for living murmurers
 there's places of rebuke he was a fool
 for he would needs be virtuous that good fellow
 if i command him follows my appointment
 i will have none so near else learn this brother
 we live not to be grip'd by meaner persons
king henry viii deliver this with modesty to the queen
 exit gardiner
 the most convenient place that i can think of
 for such receipt of learning is blackfriars
 there ye shall meet about this weighty business
 my wolsey see it furnish'd o my lord
 would it not grieve an able man to leave
 so sweet a bedfellow but conscience conscience
 o tis a tender place and i must leave her
 exeunt
 king henry viii
act ii
scene iii an antechamber of the queen's apartments
 enter anne and an old lady
anne not for that neither here's the pang that pinches
 his highness having lived so long with her and she
 so good a lady that no tongue could ever
 pronounce dishonour of her by my life
 she never knew harmdoing o now after
 so many courses of the sun enthroned
 still growing in a majesty and pomp the which
 to leave a thousandfold more bitter than
 tis sweet at first to acquireafter this process
 to give her the avaunt it is a pity
 would move a monster
old lady hearts of most hard temper
 melt and lament for her
anne o god's will much better
 she ne'er had known pomp though't be temporal
 yet if that quarrel fortune do divorce
 it from the bearer tis a sufferance panging
 as soul and body's severing
old lady alas poor lady
 she's a stranger now again
anne so much the more
 must pity drop upon her verily
 i swear tis better to be lowly born
 and range with humble livers in content
 than to be perk'd up in a glistering grief
 and wear a golden sorrow
old lady our content
 is our best having
anne by my troth and maidenhead
 i would not be a queen
old lady beshrew me i would
 and venture maidenhead for't and so would you
 for all this spice of your hypocrisy
 you that have so fair parts of woman on you
 have too a woman's heart which ever yet
 affected eminence wealth sovereignty
 which to say sooth are blessings and which gifts
 saving your mincing the capacity
 of your soft cheveril conscience would receive
 if you might please to stretch it
anne nay good troth
old lady yes troth and troth you would not be a queen
anne no not for all the riches under heaven
old lady tis strange a threepence bow'd would hire me
 old as i am to queen it but i pray you
 what think you of a duchess have you limbs
 to bear that load of title
anne no in truth
old lady then you are weakly made pluck off a little
 i would not be a young count in your way
 for more than blushing comes to if your back
 cannot vouchsafe this burthen'tis too weak
 ever to get a boy
anne how you do talk
 i swear again i would not be a queen
 for all the world
old lady in faith for little england
 you'ld venture an emballing i myself
 would for carnarvonshire although there long'd
 no more to the crown but that lo who comes here
 enter chamberlain
chamberlain good morrow ladies what were't worth to know
 the secret of your conference
anne my good lord
 not your demand it values not your asking
 our mistress sorrows we were pitying
chamberlain it was a gentle business and becoming
 the action of good women there is hope
 all will be well
anne now i pray god amen
chamberlain you bear a gentle mind and heavenly blessings
 follow such creatures that you may fair lady
 perceive i speak sincerely and high note's
 ta'en of your many virtues the king's majesty
 commends his good opinion of you and
 does purpose honour to you no less flowing
 than marchioness of pembroke to which title
 a thousand pound a year annual support
 out of his grace he adds
anne i do not know
 what kind of my obedience i should tender
 more than my all is nothing nor my prayers
 are not words duly hallow'd nor my wishes
 more worth than empty vanities yet prayers and wishes
 are all i can return beseech your lordship
 vouchsafe to speak my thanks and my obedience
 as from a blushing handmaid to his highness
 whose health and royalty i pray for
chamberlain lady
 i shall not fail to approve the fair conceit
 the king hath of you
 aside
 i have perused her well
 beauty and honour in her are so mingled
 that they have caught the king and who knows yet
 but from this lady may proceed a gem
 to lighten all this isle i'll to the king
 and say i spoke with you
 exit chamberlain
anne my honour'd lord
old lady why this it is see see
 i have been begging sixteen years in court
 am yet a courtier beggarly nor could
 come pat betwixt too early and too late
 for any suit of pounds and you o fate
 a very freshfish herefie fie fie upon
 this compell'd fortunehave your mouth fill'd up
 before you open it
anne this is strange to me
old lady how tastes it is it bitter forty pence no
 there was a lady once tis an old story
 that would not be a queen that would she not
 for all the mud in egypt have you heard it
anne come you are pleasant
old lady with your theme i could
 o'ermount the lark the marchioness of pembroke
 a thousand pounds a year for pure respect
 no other obligation by my life
 that promises moe thousands honour's train
 is longer than his foreskirt by this time
 i know your back will bear a duchess say
 are you not stronger than you were
anne good lady
 make yourself mirth with your particular fancy
 and leave me out on't would i had no being
 if this salute my blood a jot it faints me
 to think what follows
 the queen is comfortless and we forgetful
 in our long absence pray do not deliver
 what here you've heard to her
old lady what do you think me
 exeunt
 king henry viii
act ii
scene iv a hall in blackfriars
 trumpets sennet and cornets enter two vergers
 with short silver wands next them two scribes in
 the habit of doctors after them canterbury alone
 after him lincoln ely rochester and saint
 asaph next them with some small distance follows
 a gentleman bearing the purse with the great seal
 and a cardinal's hat then two priests bearing
 each a silver cross then a gentlemanusher
 bareheaded accompanied with a sergeantatarms
 bearing a silver mace then two gentlemen bearing
 two great silver pillars after them side by side
 cardinal wolsey and cardinal campeius two noblemen
 with the sword and mace king henry viii takes
 place under the cloth of state cardinal wolsey and
 cardinal campeius sit under him as judges queen
 katharine takes place some distance from king
 henry viii the bishops place themselves on each
 side the court in manner of a consistory below
 them the scribes the lords sit next the bishops
 the rest of the attendants stand in convenient
 order about the stage
cardinal wolsey whilst our commission from rome is read
 let silence be commanded
king henry viii what's the need
 it hath already publicly been read
 and on all sides the authority allow'd
 you may then spare that time
cardinal wolsey be't so proceed
scribe say henry king of england come into the court
crier henry king of england &c
king henry viii here
scribe say katharine queen of england come into the court
crier katharine queen of england &c
 queen katharine makes no answer rises out of her
 chair goes about the court comes to king henry
 viii and kneels at his feet then speaks
queen katharine sir i desire you do me right and justice
 and to bestow your pity on me for
 i am a most poor woman and a stranger
 born out of your dominions having here
 no judge indifferent nor no more assurance
 of equal friendship and proceeding alas sir
 in what have i offended you what cause
 hath my behavior given to your displeasure
 that thus you should proceed to put me off
 and take your good grace from me heaven witness
 i have been to you a true and humble wife
 at all times to your will conformable
 ever in fear to kindle your dislike
 yea subject to your countenance glad or sorry
 as i saw it inclined when was the hour
 i ever contradicted your desire
 or made it not mine too or which of your friends
 have i not strove to love although i knew
 he were mine enemy what friend of mine
 that had to him derived your anger did i
 continue in my liking nay gave notice
 he was from thence discharged sir call to mind
 that i have been your wife in this obedience
 upward of twenty years and have been blest
 with many children by you if in the course
 and process of this time you can report
 and prove it too against mine honour aught
 my bond to wedlock or my love and duty
 against your sacred person in god's name
 turn me away and let the foul'st contempt
 shut door upon me and so give me up
 to the sharp'st kind of justice please you sir
 the king your father was reputed for
 a prince most prudent of an excellent
 and unmatch'd wit and judgment ferdinand
 my father king of spain was reckon'd one
 the wisest prince that there had reign'd by many
 a year before it is not to be question'd
 that they had gather'd a wise council to them
 of every realm that did debate this business
 who deem'd our marriage lawful wherefore i humbly
 beseech you sir to spare me till i may
 be by my friends in spain advised whose counsel
 i will implore if not i the name of god
 your pleasure be fulfill'd
cardinal wolsey you have here lady
 and of your choice these reverend fathers men
 of singular integrity and learning
 yea the elect o the land who are assembled
 to plead your cause it shall be therefore bootless
 that longer you desire the court as well
 for your own quiet as to rectify
 what is unsettled in the king
cardinal campeius his grace
 hath spoken well and justly therefore madam
 it's fit this royal session do proceed
 and that without delay their arguments
 be now produced and heard
queen katharine lord cardinal
 to you i speak
cardinal wolsey your pleasure madam
queen katharine sir
 i am about to weep but thinking that
 we are a queen or long have dream'd so certain
 the daughter of a king my drops of tears
 i'll turn to sparks of fire
cardinal wolsey be patient yet
queen katharine i will when you are humble nay before
 or god will punish me i do believe
 induced by potent circumstances that
 you are mine enemy and make my challenge
 you shall not be my judge for it is you
 have blown this coal betwixt my lord and me
 which god's dew quench therefore i say again
 i utterly abhor yea from my soul
 refuse you for my judge whom yet once more
 i hold my most malicious foe and think not
 at all a friend to truth
cardinal wolsey i do profess
 you speak not like yourself who ever yet
 have stood to charity and display'd the effects
 of disposition gentle and of wisdom
 o'ertopping woman's power madam you do me wrong
 i have no spleen against you nor injustice
 for you or any how far i have proceeded
 or how far further shall is warranted
 by a commission from the consistory
 yea the whole consistory of rome you charge me
 that i have blown this coal i do deny it
 the king is present if it be known to him
 that i gainsay my deed how may he wound
 and worthily my falsehood yea as much
 as you have done my truth if he know
 that i am free of your report he knows
 i am not of your wrong therefore in him
 it lies to cure me and the cure is to
 remove these thoughts from you the which before
 his highness shall speak in i do beseech
 you gracious madam to unthink your speaking
 and to say so no more
queen katharine my lord my lord
 i am a simple woman much too weak
 to oppose your cunning you're meek and
 humblemouth'd
 you sign your place and calling in full seeming
 with meekness and humility but your heart
 is cramm'd with arrogancy spleen and pride
 you have by fortune and his highness favours
 gone slightly o'er low steps and now are mounted
 where powers are your retainers and your words
 domestics to you serve your will as't please
 yourself pronounce their office i must tell you
 you tender more your person's honour than
 your high profession spiritual that again
 i do refuse you for my judge and here
 before you all appeal unto the pope
 to bring my whole cause fore his holiness
 and to be judged by him
 she curtsies to king henry viii and offers to depart
cardinal campeius the queen is obstinate
 stubborn to justice apt to accuse it and
 disdainful to be tried by't tis not well
 she's going away
king henry viii call her again
crier katharine queen of england come into the court
griffith madam you are call'd back
queen katharine what need you note it pray you keep your way
 when you are call'd return now the lord help
 they vex me past my patience pray you pass on
 i will not tarry no nor ever more
 upon this business my appearance make
 in any of their courts
 exeunt queen katharine and her attendants
king henry viii go thy ways kate
 that man i the world who shall report he has
 a better wife let him in nought be trusted
 for speaking false in that thou art alone
 if thy rare qualities sweet gentleness
 thy meekness saintlike wifelike government
 obeying in commanding and thy parts
 sovereign and pious else could speak thee out
 the queen of earthly queens she's noble born
 and like her true nobility she has
 carried herself towards me
cardinal wolsey most gracious sir
 in humblest manner i require your highness
 that it shall please you to declare in hearing
 of all these earsfor where i am robb'd and bound
 there must i be unloosed although not there
 at once and fully satisfiedwhether ever i
 did broach this business to your highness or
 laid any scruple in your way which might
 induce you to the question on't or ever
 have to you but with thanks to god for such
 a royal lady spake one the least word that might
 be to the prejudice of her present state
 or touch of her good person
king henry viii my lord cardinal
 i do excuse you yea upon mine honour
 i free you from't you are not to be taught
 that you have many enemies that know not
 why they are so but like to villagecurs
 bark when their fellows do by some of these
 the queen is put in anger you're excused
 but will you be more justified you ever
 have wish'd the sleeping of this business never desired
 it to be stirr'd but oft have hinder'd oft
 the passages made toward it on my honour
 i speak my good lord cardinal to this point
 and thus far clear him now what moved me to't
 i will be bold with time and your attention
 then mark the inducement thus it came give heed to't
 my conscience first received a tenderness
 scruple and prick on certain speeches utter'd
 by the bishop of bayonne then french ambassador
 who had been hither sent on the debating
 a marriage twixt the duke of orleans and
 our daughter mary i the progress of this business
 ere a determinate resolution he
 i mean the bishop did require a respite
 wherein he might the king his lord advertise
 whether our daughter were legitimate
 respecting this our marriage with the dowager
 sometimes our brother's wife this respite shook
 the bosom of my conscience enter'd me
 yea with a splitting power and made to tremble
 the region of my breast which forced such way
 that many mazed considerings did throng
 and press'd in with this caution first methought
 i stood not in the smile of heaven who had
 commanded nature that my lady's womb
 if it conceived a male child by me should
 do no more offices of life to't than
 the grave does to the dead for her male issue
 or died where they were made or shortly after
 this world had air'd them hence i took a thought
 this was a judgment on me that my kingdom
 well worthy the best heir o the world should not
 be gladded in't by me then follows that
 i weigh'd the danger which my realms stood in
 by this my issue's fail and that gave to me
 many a groaning throe thus hulling in
 the wild sea of my conscience i did steer
 toward this remedy whereupon we are
 now present here together that's to say
 i meant to rectify my consciencewhich
 i then did feel full sick and yet not well
 by all the reverend fathers of the land
 and doctors learn'd first i began in private
 with you my lord of lincoln you remember
 how under my oppression i did reek
 when i first moved you
lincoln very well my liege
king henry viii i have spoke long be pleased yourself to say
 how far you satisfied me
lincoln so please your highness
 the question did at first so stagger me
 bearing a state of mighty moment in't
 and consequence of dread that i committed
 the daring'st counsel which i had to doubt
 and did entreat your highness to this course
 which you are running here
king henry viii i then moved you
 my lord of canterbury and got your leave
 to make this present summons unsolicited
 i left no reverend person in this court
 but by particular consent proceeded
 under your hands and seals therefore go on
 for no dislike i the world against the person
 of the good queen but the sharp thorny points
 of my alleged reasons drive this forward
 prove but our marriage lawful by my life
 and kingly dignity we are contented
 to wear our mortal state to come with her
 katharine our queen before the primest creature
 that's paragon'd o the world
cardinal campeius so please your highness
 the queen being absent tis a needful fitness
 that we adjourn this court till further day
 meanwhile must be an earnest motion
 made to the queen to call back her appeal
 she intends unto his holiness
king henry viii aside i may perceive
 these cardinals trifle with me i abhor
 this dilatory sloth and tricks of rome
 my learn'd and wellbeloved servant cranmer
 prithee return with thy approach i know
 my comfort comes along break up the court
 i say set on
 exeunt in manner as they entered
 king henry viii
act iii
scene i london queen katharine's apartments
 enter queen katharine and her women as at work
queen katharine take thy lute wench my soul grows sad with troubles
 sing and disperse em if thou canst leave working
 song
 orpheus with his lute made trees
 and the mountain tops that freeze
 bow themselves when he did sing
 to his music plants and flowers
 ever sprung as sun and showers
 there had made a lasting spring
 every thing that heard him play
 even the billows of the sea
 hung their heads and then lay by
 in sweet music is such art
 killing care and grief of heart
 fall asleep or hearing die
 enter a gentleman
queen katharine how now
gentleman an't please your grace the two great cardinals
 wait in the presence
queen katharine would they speak with me
gentleman they will'd me say so madam
queen katharine pray their graces
 to come near
 exit gentleman
 what can be their business
 with me a poor weak woman fall'n from favour
 i do not like their coming now i think on't
 they should be good men their affairs as righteous
 but all hoods make not monks
 enter cardinal wolsey and cardinal campeius
cardinal wolsey peace to your highness
queen katharine your graces find me here part of a housewife
 i would be all against the worst may happen
 what are your pleasures with me reverend lords
cardinal wolsey may it please you noble madam to withdraw
 into your private chamber we shall give you
 the full cause of our coming
queen katharine speak it here
 there's nothing i have done yet o my conscience
 deserves a corner would all other women
 could speak this with as free a soul as i do
 my lords i care not so much i am happy
 above a number if my actions
 were tried by every tongue every eye saw em
 envy and base opinion set against em
 i know my life so even if your business
 seek me out and that way i am wife in
 out with it boldly truth loves open dealing
cardinal wolsey tanta est erga te mentis integritas regina
 serenissima
queen katharine o good my lord no latin
 i am not such a truant since my coming
 as not to know the language i have lived in
 a strange tongue makes my cause more strange
 suspicious
 pray speak in english here are some will thank you
 if you speak truth for their poor mistress sake
 believe me she has had much wrong lord cardinal
 the willing'st sin i ever yet committed
 may be absolved in english
cardinal wolsey noble lady
 i am sorry my integrity should breed
 and service to his majesty and you
 so deep suspicion where all faith was meant
 we come not by the way of accusation
 to taint that honour every good tongue blesses
 nor to betray you any way to sorrow
 you have too much good lady but to know
 how you stand minded in the weighty difference
 between the king and you and to deliver
 like free and honest men our just opinions
 and comforts to your cause
cardinal campeius most honour'd madam
 my lord of york out of his noble nature
 zeal and obedience he still bore your grace
 forgetting like a good man your late censure
 both of his truth and him which was too far
 offers as i do in a sign of peace
 his service and his counsel
queen katharine aside to betray me
 my lords i thank you both for your good wills
 ye speak like honest men pray god ye prove so
 but how to make ye suddenly an answer
 in such a point of weight so near mine honour
 more near my life i fearwith my weak wit
 and to such men of gravity and learning
 in truth i know not i was set at work
 among my maids full little god knows looking
 either for such men or such business
 for her sake that i have beenfor i feel
 the last fit of my greatnessgood your graces
 let me have time and counsel for my cause
 alas i am a woman friendless hopeless
cardinal wolsey madam you wrong the king's love with these fears
 your hopes and friends are infinite
queen katharine in england
 but little for my profit can you think lords
 that any englishman dare give me counsel
 or be a known friend gainst his highness pleasure
 though he be grown so desperate to be honest
 and live a subject nay forsooth my friends
 they that must weigh out my afflictions
 they that my trust must grow to live not here
 they are as all my other comforts far hence
 in mine own country lords
cardinal campeius i would your grace
 would leave your griefs and take my counsel
queen katharine how sir
cardinal campeius put your main cause into the king's protection
 he's loving and most gracious twill be much
 both for your honour better and your cause
 for if the trial of the law o'ertake ye
 you'll part away disgraced
cardinal wolsey he tells you rightly
queen katharine ye tell me what ye wish for bothmy ruin
 is this your christian counsel out upon ye
 heaven is above all yet there sits a judge
 that no king can corrupt
cardinal campeius your rage mistakes us
queen katharine the more shame for ye holy men i thought ye
 upon my soul two reverend cardinal virtues
 but cardinal sins and hollow hearts i fear ye
 mend em for shame my lords is this your comfort
 the cordial that ye bring a wretched lady
 a woman lost among ye laugh'd at scorn'd
 i will not wish ye half my miseries
 i have more charity but say i warn'd ye
 take heed for heaven's sake take heed lest at once
 the burthen of my sorrows fall upon ye
cardinal wolsey madam this is a mere distraction
 you turn the good we offer into envy
queen katharine ye turn me into nothing woe upon ye
 and all such false professors would you have me
 if you have any justice any pity
 if ye be any thing but churchmen's habits
 put my sick cause into his hands that hates me
 alas has banish'd me his bed already
 his love too long ago i am old my lords
 and all the fellowship i hold now with him
 is only my obedience what can happen
 to me above this wretchedness all your studies
 make me a curse like this
cardinal campeius your fears are worse
queen katharine have i lived thus longlet me speak myself
 since virtue finds no friendsa wife a true one
 a woman i dare say without vainglory
 never yet branded with suspicion
 have i with all my full affections
 still met the king loved him next heaven
 obey'd him
 been out of fondness superstitious to him
 almost forgot my prayers to content him
 and am i thus rewarded tis not well lords
 bring me a constant woman to her husband
 one that ne'er dream'd a joy beyond his pleasure
 and to that woman when she has done most
 yet will i add an honour a great patience
cardinal wolsey madam you wander from the good we aim at
queen katharine my lord i dare not make myself so guilty
 to give up willingly that noble title
 your master wed me to nothing but death
 shall e'er divorce my dignities
cardinal wolsey pray hear me
queen katharine would i had never trod this english earth
 or felt the flatteries that grow upon it
 ye have angels faces but heaven knows your hearts
 what will become of me now wretched lady
 i am the most unhappy woman living
 alas poor wenches where are now your fortunes
 shipwreck'd upon a kingdom where no pity
 no friend no hope no kindred weep for me
 almost no grave allow'd me like the lily
 that once was mistress of the field and flourish'd
 i'll hang my head and perish
cardinal wolsey if your grace
 could but be brought to know our ends are honest
 you'ld feel more comfort why should we good lady
 upon what cause wrong you alas our places
 the way of our profession is against it
 we are to cure such sorrows not to sow em
 for goodness sake consider what you do
 how you may hurt yourself ay utterly
 grow from the king's acquaintance by this carriage
 the hearts of princes kiss obedience
 so much they love it but to stubborn spirits
 they swell and grow as terrible as storms
 i know you have a gentle noble temper
 a soul as even as a calm pray think us
 those we profess peacemakers friends and servants
cardinal campeius madam you'll find it so you wrong your virtues
 with these weak women's fears a noble spirit
 as yours was put into you ever casts
 such doubts as false coin from it the king loves you
 beware you lose it not for us if you please
 to trust us in your business we are ready
 to use our utmost studies in your service
queen katharine do what ye will my lords and pray forgive me
 if i have used myself unmannerly
 you know i am a woman lacking wit
 to make a seemly answer to such persons
 pray do my service to his majesty
 he has my heart yet and shall have my prayers
 while i shall have my life come reverend fathers
 bestow your counsels on me she now begs
 that little thought when she set footing here
 she should have bought her dignities so dear
 exeunt
 king henry viii
act iii
scene ii antechamber to king henry viii's apartment
 enter norfolk suffolk surrey and chamberlain
norfolk if you will now unite in your complaints
 and force them with a constancy the cardinal
 cannot stand under them if you omit
 the offer of this time i cannot promise
 but that you shall sustain moe new disgraces
 with these you bear already
surrey i am joyful
 to meet the least occasion that may give me
 remembrance of my fatherinlaw the duke
 to be revenged on him
suffolk which of the peers
 have uncontemn'd gone by him or at least
 strangely neglected when did he regard
 the stamp of nobleness in any person
 out of himself
chamberlain my lords you speak your pleasures
 what he deserves of you and me i know
 what we can do to him though now the time
 gives way to us i much fear if you cannot
 bar his access to the king never attempt
 any thing on him for he hath a witchcraft
 over the king in's tongue
norfolk o fear him not
 his spell in that is out the king hath found
 matter against him that for ever mars
 the honey of his language no he's settled
 not to come off in his displeasure
surrey sir
 i should be glad to hear such news as this
 once every hour
norfolk believe it this is true
 in the divorce his contrary proceedings
 are all unfolded wherein he appears
 as i would wish mine enemy
surrey how came
 his practises to light
suffolk most strangely
surrey o how how
suffolk the cardinal's letters to the pope miscarried
 and came to the eye o the king wherein was read
 how that the cardinal did entreat his holiness
 to stay the judgment o the divorce for if
 it did take place i do quoth he perceive
 my king is tangled in affection to
 a creature of the queen's lady anne bullen'
surrey has the king this
suffolk believe it
surrey will this work
chamberlain the king in this perceives him how he coasts
 and hedges his own way but in this point
 all his tricks founder and he brings his physic
 after his patient's death the king already
 hath married the fair lady
surrey would he had
suffolk may you be happy in your wish my lord
 for i profess you have it
surrey now all my joy
 trace the conjunction
suffolk my amen to't
norfolk all men's
suffolk there's order given for her coronation
 marry this is yet but young and may be left
 to some ears unrecounted but my lords
 she is a gallant creature and complete
 in mind and feature i persuade me from her
 will fall some blessing to this land which shall
 in it be memorised
surrey but will the king
 digest this letter of the cardinal's
 the lord forbid
norfolk marry amen
suffolk no no
 there be moe wasps that buzz about his nose
 will make this sting the sooner cardinal campeius
 is stol'n away to rome hath ta'en no leave
 has left the cause o the king unhandled and
 is posted as the agent of our cardinal
 to second all his plot i do assure you
 the king cried ha at this
chamberlain now god incense him
 and let him cry ha louder
norfolk but my lord
 when returns cranmer
suffolk he is return'd in his opinions which
 have satisfied the king for his divorce
 together with all famous colleges
 almost in christendom shortly i believe
 his second marriage shall be publish'd and
 her coronation katharine no more
 shall be call'd queen but princess dowager
 and widow to prince arthur
norfolk this same cranmer's
 a worthy fellow and hath ta'en much pain
 in the king's business
suffolk he has and we shall see him
 for it an archbishop
norfolk so i hear
suffolk tis so
 the cardinal
 enter cardinal wolsey and cromwell
norfolk observe observe he's moody
cardinal wolsey the packet cromwell
 gave't you the king
cromwell to his own hand in's bedchamber
cardinal wolsey look'd he o the inside of the paper
cromwell presently
 he did unseal them and the first he view'd
 he did it with a serious mind a heed
 was in his countenance you he bade
 attend him here this morning
cardinal wolsey is he ready
 to come abroad
cromwell i think by this he is
cardinal wolsey leave me awhile
 exit cromwell
 aside
 it shall be to the duchess of alencon
 the french king's sister he shall marry her
 anne bullen no i'll no anne bullens for him
 there's more in't than fair visage bullen
 no we'll no bullens speedily i wish
 to hear from rome the marchioness of pembroke
norfolk he's discontented
suffolk may be he hears the king
 does whet his anger to him
surrey sharp enough
 lord for thy justice
cardinal wolsey aside the late queen's gentlewoman
 a knight's daughter
 to be her mistress mistress the queen's queen
 this candle burns not clear tis i must snuff it
 then out it goes what though i know her virtuous
 and well deserving yet i know her for
 a spleeny lutheran and not wholesome to
 our cause that she should lie i the bosom of
 our hardruled king again there is sprung up
 an heretic an arch one cranmer one
 hath crawl'd into the favour of the king
 and is his oracle
norfolk he is vex'd at something
surrey i would twere something that would fret the string
 the mastercord on's heart
 enter king henry viii reading of a schedule and lovell
suffolk the king the king
king henry viii what piles of wealth hath he accumulated
 to his own portion and what expense by the hour
 seems to flow from him how i the name of thrift
 does he rake this together now my lords
 saw you the cardinal
norfolk my lord we have
 stood here observing him some strange commotion
 is in his brain he bites his lip and starts
 stops on a sudden looks upon the ground
 then lays his finger on his temple straight
 springs out into fast gait then stops again
 strikes his breast hard and anon he casts
 his eye against the moon in most strange postures
 we have seen him set himself
king henry viii it may well be
 there is a mutiny in's mind this morning
 papers of state he sent me to peruse
 as i required and wot you what i found
 thereon my conscience put unwittingly
 forsooth an inventory thus importing
 the several parcels of his plate his treasure
 rich stuffs and ornaments of household which
 i find at such proud rate that it outspeaks
 possession of a subject
norfolk it's heaven's will
 some spirit put this paper in the packet
 to bless your eye withal
king henry viii if we did think
 his contemplation were above the earth
 and fix'd on spiritual object he should still
 dwell in his musings but i am afraid
 his thinkings are below the moon not worth
 his serious considering
 king henry viii takes his seat whispers lovell
 who goes to cardinal wolsey
cardinal wolsey heaven forgive me
 ever god bless your highness
king henry viii good my lord
 you are full of heavenly stuff and bear the inventory
 of your best graces in your mind the which
 you were now running o'er you have scarce time
 to steal from spiritual leisure a brief span
 to keep your earthly audit sure in that
 i deem you an ill husband and am glad
 to have you therein my companion
cardinal wolsey sir
 for holy offices i have a time a time
 to think upon the part of business which
 i bear i the state and nature does require
 her times of preservation which perforce
 i her frail son amongst my brethren mortal
 must give my tendence to
king henry viii you have said well
cardinal wolsey and ever may your highness yoke together
 as i will lend you cause my doing well
 with my well saying
king henry viii tis well said again
 and tis a kind of good deed to say well
 and yet words are no deeds my father loved you
 his said he did and with his deed did crown
 his word upon you since i had my office
 i have kept you next my heart have not alone
 employ'd you where high profits might come home
 but pared my present havings to bestow
 my bounties upon you
cardinal wolsey aside what should this mean
surrey aside the lord increase this business
king henry viii have i not made you
 the prime man of the state i pray you tell me
 if what i now pronounce you have found true
 and if you may confess it say withal
 if you are bound to us or no what say you
cardinal wolsey my sovereign i confess your royal graces
 shower'd on me daily have been more than could
 my studied purposes requite which went
 beyond all man's endeavours my endeavours
 have ever come too short of my desires
 yet filed with my abilities mine own ends
 have been mine so that evermore they pointed
 to the good of your most sacred person and
 the profit of the state for your great graces
 heap'd upon me poor undeserver i
 can nothing render but allegiant thanks
 my prayers to heaven for you my loyalty
 which ever has and ever shall be growing
 till death that winter kill it
king henry viii fairly answer'd
 a loyal and obedient subject is
 therein illustrated the honour of it
 does pay the act of it as i the contrary
 the foulness is the punishment i presume
 that as my hand has open'd bounty to you
 my heart dropp'd love my power rain'd honour more
 on you than any so your hand and heart
 your brain and every function of your power
 should notwithstanding that your bond of duty
 as twere in love's particular be more
 to me your friend than any
cardinal wolsey i do profess
 that for your highness good i ever labour'd
 more than mine own that am have and will be
 though all the world should crack their duty to you
 and throw it from their soul though perils did
 abound as thick as thought could make em and
 appear in forms more horridyet my duty
 as doth a rock against the chiding flood
 should the approach of this wild river break
 and stand unshaken yours
king henry viii tis nobly spoken
 take notice lords he has a loyal breast
 for you have seen him open't read o'er this
 giving him papers
 and after this and then to breakfast with
 what appetite you have
 exit king henry viii frowning upon cardinal wolsey
 the nobles throng after him smiling and whispering
cardinal wolsey what should this mean
 what sudden anger's this how have i reap'd it
 he parted frowning from me as if ruin
 leap'd from his eyes so looks the chafed lion
 upon the daring huntsman that has gall'd him
 then makes him nothing i must read this paper
 i fear the story of his anger tis so
 this paper has undone me tis the account
 of all that world of wealth i have drawn together
 for mine own ends indeed to gain the popedom
 and fee my friends in rome o negligence
 fit for a fool to fall by what cross devil
 made me put this main secret in the packet
 i sent the king is there no way to cure this
 no new device to beat this from his brains
 i know twill stir him strongly yet i know
 a way if it take right in spite of fortune
 will bring me off again what's this to the pope'
 the letter as i live with all the business
 i writ to's holiness nay then farewell
 i have touch'd the highest point of all my greatness
 and from that full meridian of my glory
 i haste now to my setting i shall fall
 like a bright exhalation m the evening
 and no man see me more
 reenter to cardinal wolsey norfolk and suffolk surrey
 and the chamberlain
norfolk hear the king's pleasure cardinal who commands you
 to render up the great seal presently
 into our hands and to confine yourself
 to asher house my lord of winchester's
 till you hear further from his highness
cardinal wolsey stay
 where's your commission lords words cannot carry
 authority so weighty
suffolk who dare cross em
 bearing the king's will from his mouth expressly
cardinal wolsey till i find more than will or words to do it
 i mean your malice know officious lords
 i dare and must deny it now i feel
 of what coarse metal ye are moulded envy
 how eagerly ye follow my disgraces
 as if it fed ye and how sleek and wanton
 ye appear in every thing may bring my ruin
 follow your envious courses men of malice
 you have christian warrant for em and no doubt
 in time will find their fit rewards that seal
 you ask with such a violence the king
 mine and your master with his own hand gave me
 bade me enjoy it with the place and honours
 during my life and to confirm his goodness
 tied it by letterspatents now who'll take it
surrey the king that gave it
cardinal wolsey it must be himself then
surrey thou art a proud traitor priest
cardinal wolsey proud lord thou liest
 within these forty hours surrey durst better
 have burnt that tongue than said so
surrey thy ambition
 thou scarlet sin robb'd this bewailing land
 of noble buckingham my fatherinlaw
 the heads of all thy brother cardinals
 with thee and all thy best parts bound together
 weigh'd not a hair of his plague of your policy
 you sent me deputy for ireland
 far from his succor from the king from all
 that might have mercy on the fault thou gavest him
 whilst your great goodness out of holy pity
 absolved him with an axe
cardinal wolsey this and all else
 this talking lord can lay upon my credit
 i answer is most false the duke by law
 found his deserts how innocent i was
 from any private malice in his end
 his noble jury and foul cause can witness
 if i loved many words lord i should tell you
 you have as little honesty as honour
 that in the way of loyalty and truth
 toward the king my ever royal master
 dare mate a sounder man than surrey can be
 and all that love his follies
surrey by my soul
 your long coat priest protects you thou
 shouldst feel
 my sword i the lifeblood of thee else my lords
 can ye endure to hear this arrogance
 and from this fellow if we live thus tamely
 to be thus jaded by a piece of scarlet
 farewell nobility let his grace go forward
 and dare us with his cap like larks
cardinal wolsey all goodness
 is poison to thy stomach
surrey yes that goodness
 of gleaning all the land's wealth into one
 into your own hands cardinal by extortion
 the goodness of your intercepted packets
 you writ to the pope against the king your goodness
 since you provoke me shall be most notorious
 my lord of norfolk as you are truly noble
 as you respect the common good the state
 of our despised nobility our issues
 who if he live will scarce be gentlemen
 produce the grand sum of his sins the articles
 collected from his life i'll startle you
 worse than the scaring bell when the brown wench
 lay kissing in your arms lord cardinal
cardinal wolsey how much methinks i could despise this man
 but that i am bound in charity against it
norfolk those articles my lord are in the king's hand
 but thus much they are foul ones
cardinal wolsey so much fairer
 and spotless shall mine innocence arise
 when the king knows my truth
surrey this cannot save you
 i thank my memory i yet remember
 some of these articles and out they shall
 now if you can blush and cry guilty cardinal
 you'll show a little honesty
cardinal wolsey speak on sir
 i dare your worst objections if i blush
 it is to see a nobleman want manners
surrey i had rather want those than my head have at you
 first that without the king's assent or knowledge
 you wrought to be a legate by which power
 you maim'd the jurisdiction of all bishops
norfolk then that in all you writ to rome or else
 to foreign princes ego et rex meus'
 was still inscribed in which you brought the king
 to be your servant
suffolk then that without the knowledge
 either of king or council when you went
 ambassador to the emperor you made bold
 to carry into flanders the great seal
surrey item you sent a large commission
 to gregory de cassado to conclude
 without the king's will or the state's allowance
 a league between his highness and ferrara
suffolk that out of mere ambition you have caused
 your holy hat to be stamp'd on the king's coin
surrey then that you have sent innumerable substance
 by what means got i leave to your own conscience
 to furnish rome and to prepare the ways
 you have for dignities to the mere undoing
 of all the kingdom many more there are
 which since they are of you and odious
 i will not taint my mouth with
chamberlain o my lord
 press not a falling man too far tis virtue
 his faults lie open to the laws let them
 not you correct him my heart weeps to see him
 so little of his great self
surrey i forgive him
suffolk lord cardinal the king's further pleasure is
 because all those things you have done of late
 by your power legatine within this kingdom
 fall into the compass of a praemunire
 that therefore such a writ be sued against you
 to forfeit all your goods lands tenements
 chattels and whatsoever and to be
 out of the king's protection this is my charge
norfolk and so we'll leave you to your meditations
 how to live better for your stubborn answer
 about the giving back the great seal to us
 the king shall know it and no doubt shall thank you
 so fare you well my little good lord cardinal
 exeunt all but cardinal wolsey
cardinal wolsey so farewell to the little good you bear me
 farewell a long farewell to all my greatness
 this is the state of man today he puts forth
 the tender leaves of hopes tomorrow blossoms
 and bears his blushing honours thick upon him
 the third day comes a frost a killing frost
 and when he thinks good easy man full surely
 his greatness is aripening nips his root
 and then he falls as i do i have ventured
 like little wanton boys that swim on bladders
 this many summers in a sea of glory
 but far beyond my depth my highblown pride
 at length broke under me and now has left me
 weary and old with service to the mercy
 of a rude stream that must for ever hide me
 vain pomp and glory of this world i hate ye
 i feel my heart new open'd o how wretched
 is that poor man that hangs on princes favours
 there is betwixt that smile we would aspire to
 that sweet aspect of princes and their ruin
 more pangs and fears than wars or women have
 and when he falls he falls like lucifer
 never to hope again
 enter cromwell and stands amazed
 why how now cromwell
cromwell i have no power to speak sir
cardinal wolsey what amazed
 at my misfortunes can thy spirit wonder
 a great man should decline nay an you weep
 i am fall'n indeed
cromwell how does your grace
cardinal wolsey why well
 never so truly happy my good cromwell
 i know myself now and i feel within me
 a peace above all earthly dignities
 a still and quiet conscience the king has cured me
 i humbly thank his grace and from these shoulders
 these ruin'd pillars out of pity taken
 a load would sink a navy too much honour
 o tis a burthen cromwell tis a burthen
 too heavy for a man that hopes for heaven
cromwell i am glad your grace has made that right use of it
cardinal wolsey i hope i have i am able now methinks
 out of a fortitude of soul i feel
 to endure more miseries and greater far
 than my weakhearted enemies dare offer
 what news abroad
cromwell the heaviest and the worst
 is your displeasure with the king
cardinal wolsey god bless him
cromwell the next is that sir thomas more is chosen
 lord chancellor in your place
cardinal wolsey that's somewhat sudden
 but he's a learned man may he continue
 long in his highness favour and do justice
 for truth's sake and his conscience that his bones
 when he has run his course and sleeps in blessings
 may have a tomb of orphans tears wept on em what more
cromwell that cranmer is return'd with welcome
 install'd lord archbishop of canterbury
cardinal wolsey that's news indeed
cromwell last that the lady anne
 whom the king hath in secrecy long married
 this day was view'd in open as his queen
 going to chapel and the voice is now
 only about her coronation
cardinal wolsey there was the weight that pull'd me down o cromwell
 the king has gone beyond me all my glories
 in that one woman i have lost for ever
 no sun shall ever usher forth mine honours
 or gild again the noble troops that waited
 upon my smiles go get thee from me cromwell
 i am a poor fall'n man unworthy now
 to be thy lord and master seek the king
 that sun i pray may never set i have told him
 what and how true thou art he will advance thee
 some little memory of me will stir him
 i know his noble naturenot to let
 thy hopeful service perish too good cromwell
 neglect him not make use now and provide
 for thine own future safety
cromwell o my lord
 must i then leave you must i needs forego
 so good so noble and so true a master
 bear witness all that have not hearts of iron
 with what a sorrow cromwell leaves his lord
 the king shall have my service but my prayers
 for ever and for ever shall be yours
cardinal wolsey cromwell i did not think to shed a tear
 in all my miseries but thou hast forced me
 out of thy honest truth to play the woman
 let's dry our eyes and thus far hear me cromwell
 and when i am forgotten as i shall be
 and sleep in dull cold marble where no mention
 of me more must be heard of say i taught thee
 say wolsey that once trod the ways of glory
 and sounded all the depths and shoals of honour
 found thee a way out of his wreck to rise in
 a sure and safe one though thy master miss'd it
 mark but my fall and that that ruin'd me
 cromwell i charge thee fling away ambition
 by that sin fell the angels how can man then
 the image of his maker hope to win by it
 love thyself last cherish those hearts that hate thee
 corruption wins not more than honesty
 still in thy right hand carry gentle peace
 to silence envious tongues be just and fear not
 let all the ends thou aim'st at be thy country's
 thy god's and truth's then if thou fall'st
 o cromwell
 thou fall'st a blessed martyr serve the king
 andprithee lead me in
 there take an inventory of all i have
 to the last penny tis the king's my robe
 and my integrity to heaven is all
 i dare now call mine own o cromwell cromwell
 had i but served my god with half the zeal
 i served my king he would not in mine age
 have left me naked to mine enemies
cromwell good sir have patience
cardinal wolsey so i have farewell
 the hopes of court my hopes in heaven do dwell
 exeunt
 king henry viii
act iv
scene i a street in westminster
 enter two gentlemen meeting one another
first gentleman you're well met once again
second gentleman so are you
first gentleman you come to take your stand here and behold
 the lady anne pass from her coronation
second gentleman tis all my business at our last encounter
 the duke of buckingham came from his trial
first gentleman tis very true but that time offer'd sorrow
 this general joy
second gentleman tis well the citizens
 i am sure have shown at full their royal minds
 as let em have their rights they are ever forward
 in celebration of this day with shows
 pageants and sights of honour
first gentleman never greater
 nor i'll assure you better taken sir
second gentleman may i be bold to ask at what that contains
 that paper in your hand
first gentleman yes tis the list
 of those that claim their offices this day
 by custom of the coronation
 the duke of suffolk is the first and claims
 to be highsteward next the duke of norfolk
 he to be earl marshal you may read the rest
second gentleman i thank you sir had i not known those customs
 i should have been beholding to your paper
 but i beseech you what's become of katharine
 the princess dowager how goes her business
first gentleman that i can tell you too the archbishop
 of canterbury accompanied with other
 learned and reverend fathers of his order
 held a late court at dunstable six miles off
 from ampthill where the princess lay to which
 she was often cited by them but appear'd not
 and to be short for not appearance and
 the king's late scruple by the main assent
 of all these learned men she was divorced
 and the late marriage made of none effect
 since which she was removed to kimbolton
 where she remains now sick
second gentleman alas good lady
 trumpets
 the trumpets sound stand close the queen is coming
 hautboys
 the order of the coronation
 1 a lively flourish of trumpets
 2 then two judges
 3 lord chancellor with the purse and mace
 before him
 4 choristers singing
 music
 5 mayor of london bearing the mace then
 garter in his coat of arms and on his
 head a gilt copper crown
 6 marquess dorset bearing a sceptre of gold
 on his head a demicoronal of gold with
 him surrey bearing the rod of silver with
 the dove crowned with an earl's coronet
 collars of ss
 7 suffolk in his robe of estate his coronet
 on his head bearing a long white wand as
 highsteward with him norfolk with the
 rod of marshalship a coronet on his head
 collars of ss
 8 a canopy borne by four of the cinqueports
 under it queen anne in her robe in her hair
 richly adorned with pearl crowned on each
 side her the bishops of london and
 winchester
 9 the old duchess of norfolk in a coronal of
 gold wrought with flowers bearing queen
 anne's train
 10 certain ladies or countesses with plain
 circlets of gold without flowers
 they pass over the stage in order and state
second gentleman a royal train believe me these i know
 who's that that bears the sceptre
first gentleman marquess dorset
 and that the earl of surrey with the rod
second gentleman a bold brave gentleman that should be
 the duke of suffolk
first gentleman tis the same highsteward
second gentleman and that my lord of norfolk
first gentleman yes
second gentleman heaven bless thee
 looking on queen anne
 thou hast the sweetest face i ever look'd on
 sir as i have a soul she is an angel
 our king has all the indies in his arms
 and more and richer when he strains that lady
 i cannot blame his conscience
first gentleman they that bear
 the cloth of honour over her are four barons
 of the cinqueports
second gentleman those men are happy and so are all are near her
 i take it she that carries up the train
 is that old noble lady duchess of norfolk
first gentleman it is and all the rest are countesses
second gentleman their coronets say so these are stars indeed
 and sometimes falling ones
first gentleman no more of that
 exit procession and then a great flourish of trumpets
 enter a third gentleman
first gentleman god save you sir where have you been broiling
third gentleman among the crowd i the abbey where a finger
 could not be wedged in more i am stifled
 with the mere rankness of their joy
second gentleman you saw
 the ceremony
third gentleman that i did
first gentleman how was it
third gentleman well worth the seeing
second gentleman good sir speak it to us
third gentleman as well as i am able the rich stream
 of lords and ladies having brought the queen
 to a prepared place in the choir fell off
 a distance from her while her grace sat down
 to rest awhile some half an hour or so
 in a rich chair of state opposing freely
 the beauty of her person to the people
 believe me sir she is the goodliest woman
 that ever lay by man which when the people
 had the full view of such a noise arose
 as the shrouds make at sea in a stiff tempest
 as loud and to as many tunes hats cloaks
 doublets i thinkflew up and had their faces
 been loose this day they had been lost such joy
 i never saw before greatbellied women
 that had not half a week to go like rams
 in the old time of war would shake the press
 and make em reel before em no man living
 could say this is my wife there all were woven
 so strangely in one piece
second gentleman but what follow'd
third gentleman at length her grace rose and with modest paces
 came to the altar where she kneel'd and saintlike
 cast her fair eyes to heaven and pray'd devoutly
 then rose again and bow'd her to the people
 when by the archbishop of canterbury
 she had all the royal makings of a queen
 as holy oil edward confessor's crown
 the rod and bird of peace and all such emblems
 laid nobly on her which perform'd the choir
 with all the choicest music of the kingdom
 together sung te deum so she parted
 and with the same full state paced back again
 to yorkplace where the feast is held
first gentleman sir
 you must no more call it yorkplace that's past
 for since the cardinal fell that title's lost
 tis now the king's and call'd whitehall
third gentleman i know it
 but tis so lately alter'd that the old name
 is fresh about me
second gentleman what two reverend bishops
 were those that went on each side of the queen
third gentleman stokesly and gardiner the one of winchester
 newly preferr'd from the king's secretary
 the other london
second gentleman he of winchester
 is held no great good lover of the archbishop's
 the virtuous cranmer
third gentleman all the land knows that
 however yet there is no great breach when it comes
 cranmer will find a friend will not shrink from him
second gentleman who may that be i pray you
third gentleman thomas cromwell
 a man in much esteem with the king and truly
 a worthy friend the king has made him master
 o the jewel house
 and one already of the privy council
second gentleman he will deserve more
third gentleman yes without all doubt
 come gentlemen ye shall go my way which
 is to the court and there ye shall be my guests
 something i can command as i walk thither
 i'll tell ye more
both you may command us sir
 exeunt
 king henry viii
act iv
scene ii kimbolton
 enter katharine dowager sick led between
 griffith her gentleman usher and patience her woman
griffith how does your grace
katharine o griffith sick to death
 my legs like loaden branches bow to the earth
 willing to leave their burthen reach a chair
 so now methinks i feel a little ease
 didst thou not tell me griffith as thou led'st me
 that the great child of honour cardinal wolsey was dead
griffith yes madam but i think your grace
 out of the pain you suffer'd gave no ear to't
katharine prithee good griffith tell me how he died
 if well he stepp'd before me happily
 for my example
griffith well the voice goes madam
 for after the stout earl northumberland
 arrested him at york and brought him forward
 as a man sorely tainted to his answer
 he fell sick suddenly and grew so ill
 he could not sit his mule
katharine alas poor man
griffith at last with easy roads he came to leicester
 lodged in the abbey where the reverend abbot
 with all his covent honourably received him
 to whom he gave these words o father abbot
 an old man broken with the storms of state
 is come to lay his weary bones among ye
 give him a little earth for charity'
 so went to bed where eagerly his sickness
 pursued him still and three nights after this
 about the hour of eight which he himself
 foretold should be his last full of repentance
 continual meditations tears and sorrows
 he gave his honours to the world again
 his blessed part to heaven and slept in peace
katharine so may he rest his faults lie gently on him
 yet thus far griffith give me leave to speak him
 and yet with charity he was a man
 of an unbounded stomach ever ranking
 himself with princes one that by suggestion
 tied all the kingdom simony was fairplay
 his own opinion was his law i the presence
 he would say untruths and be ever double
 both in his words and meaning he was never
 but where he meant to ruin pitiful
 his promises were as he then was mighty
 but his performance as he is now nothing
 of his own body he was ill and gave
 the clergy in example
griffith noble madam
 men's evil manners live in brass their virtues
 we write in water may it please your highness
 to hear me speak his good now
katharine yes good griffith
 i were malicious else
griffith this cardinal
 though from an humble stock undoubtedly
 was fashion'd to much honour from his cradle
 he was a scholar and a ripe and good one
 exceeding wise fairspoken and persuading
 lofty and sour to them that loved him not
 but to those men that sought him sweet as summer
 and though he were unsatisfied in getting
 which was a sin yet in bestowing madam
 he was most princely ever witness for him
 those twins of learning that he raised in you
 ipswich and oxford one of which fell with him
 unwilling to outlive the good that did it
 the other though unfinish'd yet so famous
 so excellent in art and still so rising
 that christendom shall ever speak his virtue
 his overthrow heap'd happiness upon him
 for then and not till then he felt himself
 and found the blessedness of being little
 and to add greater honours to his age
 than man could give him he died fearing god
katharine after my death i wish no other herald
 no other speaker of my living actions
 to keep mine honour from corruption
 but such an honest chronicler as griffith
 whom i most hated living thou hast made me
 with thy religious truth and modesty
 now in his ashes honour peace be with him
 patience be near me still and set me lower
 i have not long to trouble thee good griffith
 cause the musicians play me that sad note
 i named my knell whilst i sit meditating
 on that celestial harmony i go to
 sad and solemn music
griffith she is asleep good wench let's sit down quiet
 for fear we wake her softly gentle patience
 the vision enter solemnly tripping one after
 another six personages clad in white robes
 wearing on their heads garlands of bays and golden
 vizards on their faces branches of bays or palm in
 their hands they first congee unto her then
 dance and at certain changes the first two hold
 a spare garland over her head at which the other
 four make reverent curtsies then the two that held
 the garland deliver the same to the other next two
 who observe the same order in their changes and
 holding the garland over her head which done
 they deliver the same garland to the last two who
 likewise observe the same order at which as it
 were by inspiration she makes in her sleep signs
 of rejoicing and holdeth up her hands to heaven
 and so in their dancing vanish carrying the
 garland with them the music continues
katharine spirits of peace where are ye are ye all gone
 and leave me here in wretchedness behind ye
griffith madam we are here
katharine it is not you i call for
 saw ye none enter since i slept
griffith none madam
katharine no saw you not even now a blessed troop
 invite me to a banquet whose bright faces
 cast thousand beams upon me like the sun
 they promised me eternal happiness
 and brought me garlands griffith which i feel
 i am not worthy yet to wear i shall assuredly
griffith i am most joyful madam such good dreams
 possess your fancy
katharine bid the music leave
 they are harsh and heavy to me
 music ceases
patience do you note
 how much her grace is alter'd on the sudden
 how long her face is drawn how pale she looks
 and of an earthy cold mark her eyes
griffith she is going wench pray pray
patience heaven comfort her
 enter a messenger
messenger an't like your grace
katharine you are a saucy fellow
 deserve we no more reverence
griffith you are to blame
 knowing she will not lose her wonted greatness
 to use so rude behavior go to kneel
messenger i humbly do entreat your highness pardon
 my haste made me unmannerly there is staying
 a gentleman sent from the king to see you
katharine admit him entrance griffith but this fellow
 let me ne'er see again
 exeunt griffith and messenger
 reenter griffith with capucius
 if my sight fail not
 you should be lord ambassador from the emperor
 my royal nephew and your name capucius
capucius madam the same your servant
katharine o my lord
 the times and titles now are alter'd strangely
 with me since first you knew me but i pray you
 what is your pleasure with me
capucius noble lady
 first mine own service to your grace the next
 the king's request that i would visit you
 who grieves much for your weakness and by me
 sends you his princely commendations
 and heartily entreats you take good comfort
katharine o my good lord that comfort comes too late
 tis like a pardon after execution
 that gentle physic given in time had cured me
 but now i am past an comforts here but prayers
 how does his highness
capucius madam in good health
katharine so may he ever do and ever flourish
 when i shall dwell with worms and my poor name
 banish'd the kingdom patience is that letter
 i caused you write yet sent away
patience no madam
 giving it to katharine
katharine sir i most humbly pray you to deliver
 this to my lord the king
capucius most willing madam
katharine in which i have commended to his goodness
 the model of our chaste loves his young daughter
 the dews of heaven fall thick in blessings on her
 beseeching him to give her virtuous breeding
 she is young and of a noble modest nature
 i hope she will deserve welland a little
 to love her for her mother's sake that loved him
 heaven knows how dearly my next poor petition
 is that his noble grace would have some pity
 upon my wretched women that so long
 have follow'd both my fortunes faithfully
 of which there is not one i dare avow
 and now i should not lie but will deserve
 for virtue and true beauty of the soul
 for honesty and decent carriage
 a right good husband let him be a noble
 and sure those men are happy that shall have em
 the last is for my men they are the poorest
 but poverty could never draw em from me
 that they may have their wages duly paid em
 and something over to remember me by
 if heaven had pleased to have given me longer life
 and able means we had not parted thus
 these are the whole contents and good my lord
 by that you love the dearest in this world
 as you wish christian peace to souls departed
 stand these poor people's friend and urge the king
 to do me this last right
capucius by heaven i will
 or let me lose the fashion of a man
katharine i thank you honest lord remember me
 in all humility unto his highness
 say his long trouble now is passing
 out of this world tell him in death i bless'd him
 for so i will mine eyes grow dim farewell
 my lord griffith farewell nay patience
 you must not leave me yet i must to bed
 call in more women when i am dead good wench
 let me be used with honour strew me over
 with maiden flowers that all the world may know
 i was a chaste wife to my grave embalm me
 then lay me forth although unqueen'd yet like
 a queen and daughter to a king inter me
 i can no more
 exeunt leading katharine
 king henry viii
act v
scene i london a gallery in the palace
 enter gardiner bishop of winchester a page with a
 torch before him met by lovell
gardiner it's one o'clock boy is't not
boy it hath struck
gardiner these should be hours for necessities
 not for delights times to repair our nature
 with comforting repose and not for us
 to waste these times good hour of night sir thomas
 whither so late
lovell came you from the king my lord
gardiner i did sir thomas and left him at primero
 with the duke of suffolk
lovell i must to him too
 before he go to bed i'll take my leave
gardiner not yet sir thomas lovell what's the matter
 it seems you are in haste an if there be
 no great offence belongs to't give your friend
 some touch of your late business affairs that walk
 as they say spirits do at midnight have
 in them a wilder nature than the business
 that seeks dispatch by day
lovell my lord i love you
 and durst commend a secret to your ear
 much weightier than this work the queen's in labour
 they say in great extremity and fear'd
 she'll with the labour end
gardiner the fruit she goes with
 i pray for heartily that it may find
 good time and live but for the stock sir thomas
 i wish it grubb'd up now
lovell methinks i could
 cry the amen and yet my conscience says
 she's a good creature and sweet lady does
 deserve our better wishes
gardiner but sir sir
 hear me sir thomas you're a gentleman
 of mine own way i know you wise religious
 and let me tell you it will ne'er be well
 twill not sir thomas lovell take't of me
 till cranmer cromwell her two hands and she
 sleep in their graves
lovell now sir you speak of two
 the most remark'd i the kingdom as for cromwell
 beside that of the jewel house is made master
 o the rolls and the king's secretary further sir
 stands in the gap and trade of moe preferments
 with which the time will load him the archbishop
 is the king's hand and tongue and who dare speak
 one syllable against him
gardiner yes yes sir thomas
 there are that dare and i myself have ventured
 to speak my mind of him and indeed this day
 sir i may tell it you i think i have
 incensed the lords o the council that he is
 for so i know he is they know he is
 a most arch heretic a pestilence
 that does infect the land with which they moved
 have broken with the king who hath so far
 given ear to our complaint of his great grace
 and princely care foreseeing those fell mischiefs
 our reasons laid before him hath commanded
 tomorrow morning to the councilboard
 he be convented he's a rank weed sir thomas
 and we must root him out from your affairs
 i hinder you too long good night sir thomas
lovell many good nights my lord i rest your servant
 exeunt gardiner and page
 enter king henry viii and suffolk
king henry viii charles i will play no more tonight
 my mind's not on't you are too hard for me
suffolk sir i did never win of you before
king henry viii but little charles
 nor shall not when my fancy's on my play
 now lovell from the queen what is the news
lovell i could not personally deliver to her
 what you commanded me but by her woman
 i sent your message who return'd her thanks
 in the great'st humbleness and desired your highness
 most heartily to pray for her
king henry viii what say'st thou ha
 to pray for her what is she crying out
lovell so said her woman and that her sufferance made
 almost each pang a death
king henry viii alas good lady
suffolk god safely quit her of her burthen and
 with gentle travail to the gladding of
 your highness with an heir
king henry viii tis midnight charles
 prithee to bed and in thy prayers remember
 the estate of my poor queen leave me alone
 for i must think of that which company
 would not be friendly to
suffolk i wish your highness
 a quiet night and my good mistress will
 remember in my prayers
king henry viii charles good night
 exit suffolk
 enter denny
 well sir what follows
denny sir i have brought my lord the archbishop
 as you commanded me
king henry viii ha canterbury
denny ay my good lord
king henry viii tis true where is he denny
denny he attends your highness pleasure
 exit denny
lovell aside this is about that which the bishop spake
 i am happily come hither
 reenter denny with cranmer
king henry viii avoid the gallery
 lovell seems to stay
 ha i have said be gone what
 exeunt lovell and denny
cranmer aside
 i am fearful wherefore frowns he thus
 tis his aspect of terror all's not well
king henry viii how now my lord you desire to know
 wherefore i sent for you
cranmer kneeling it is my duty
 to attend your highness pleasure
king henry viii pray you arise
 my good and gracious lord of canterbury
 come you and i must walk a turn together
 i have news to tell you come come give me your hand
 ah my good lord i grieve at what i speak
 and am right sorry to repeat what follows
 i have and most unwillingly of late
 heard many grievous i do say my lord
 grievous complaints of you which being consider'd
 have moved us and our council that you shall
 this morning come before us where i know
 you cannot with such freedom purge yourself
 but that till further trial in those charges
 which will require your answer you must take
 your patience to you and be well contented
 to make your house our tower you a brother of us
 it fits we thus proceed or else no witness
 would come against you
cranmer kneeling
 i humbly thank your highness
 and am right glad to catch this good occasion
 most throughly to be winnow'd where my chaff
 and corn shall fly asunder for i know
 there's none stands under more calumnious tongues
 than i myself poor man
king henry viii stand up good canterbury
 thy truth and thy integrity is rooted
 in us thy friend give me thy hand stand up
 prithee let's walk now by my holidame
 what manner of man are you my lord i look'd
 you would have given me your petition that
 i should have ta'en some pains to bring together
 yourself and your accusers and to have heard you
 without indurance further
cranmer most dread liege
 the good i stand on is my truth and honesty
 if they shall fail i with mine enemies
 will triumph o'er my person which i weigh not
 being of those virtues vacant i fear nothing
 what can be said against me
king henry viii know you not
 how your state stands i the world with the whole world
 your enemies are many and not small their practises
 must bear the same proportion and not ever
 the justice and the truth o the question carries
 the due o the verdict with it at what ease
 might corrupt minds procure knaves as corrupt
 to swear against you such things have been done
 you are potently opposed and with a malice
 of as great size ween you of better luck
 i mean in perjured witness than your master
 whose minister you are whiles here he lived
 upon this naughty earth go to go to
 you take a precipice for no leap of danger
 and woo your own destruction
cranmer god and your majesty
 protect mine innocence or i fall into
 the trap is laid for me
king henry viii be of good cheer
 they shall no more prevail than we give way to
 keep comfort to you and this morning see
 you do appear before them if they shall chance
 in charging you with matters to commit you
 the best persuasions to the contrary
 fail not to use and with what vehemency
 the occasion shall instruct you if entreaties
 will render you no remedy this ring
 deliver them and your appeal to us
 there make before them look the good man weeps
 he's honest on mine honour god's blest mother
 i swear he is truehearted and a soul
 none better in my kingdom get you gone
 and do as i have bid you
 exit cranmer
 he has strangled
 his language in his tears
 enter old lady lovell following
gentleman within come back what mean you
old lady i'll not come back the tidings that i bring
 will make my boldness manners now good angels
 fly o'er thy royal head and shade thy person
 under their blessed wings
king henry viii now by thy looks
 i guess thy message is the queen deliver'd
 say ay and of a boy
old lady ay ay my liege
 and of a lovely boy the god of heaven
 both now and ever bless her tis a girl
 promises boys hereafter sir your queen
 desires your visitation and to be
 acquainted with this stranger tis as like you
 as cherry is to cherry
king henry viii lovell
lovell sir
king henry viii give her an hundred marks i'll to the queen
 exit
old lady an hundred marks by this light i'll ha more
 an ordinary groom is for such payment
 i will have more or scold it out of him
 said i for this the girl was like to him
 i will have more or else unsay't and now
 while it is hot i'll put it to the issue
 exeunt
 king henry viii
act v
scene ii before the councilchamber pursuivants pages &c
 attending
 enter cranmer
cranmer i hope i am not too late and yet the gentleman
 that was sent to me from the council pray'd me
 to make great haste all fast what means this ho
 who waits there sure you know me
 enter keeper
keeper yes my lord
 but yet i cannot help you
cranmer why
 enter doctor butts
keeper your grace must wait till you be call'd for
cranmer so
doctor butts aside this is a piece of malice i am glad
 i came this way so happily the king
 shall understand it presently
 exit
cranmer aside tis butts
 the king's physician as he pass'd along
 how earnestly he cast his eyes upon me
 pray heaven he sound not my disgrace for certain
 this is of purpose laid by some that hate me
 god turn their hearts i never sought their malice
 to quench mine honour they would shame to make me
 wait else at door a fellowcounsellor
 mong boys grooms and lackeys but their pleasures
 must be fulfill'd and i attend with patience
 enter the king henry viii and doctor butts at a window above
doctor butts i'll show your grace the strangest sight
king henry viii what's that butts
doctor butts i think your highness saw this many a day
king henry viii body o me where is it
doctor butts there my lord
 the high promotion of his grace of canterbury
 who holds his state at door mongst pursuivants
 pages and footboys
king henry viii ha tis he indeed
 is this the honour they do one another
 tis well there's one above em yet i had thought
 they had parted so much honesty among em
 at least good manners as not thus to suffer
 a man of his place and so near our favour
 to dance attendance on their lordships pleasures
 and at the door too like a post with packets
 by holy mary butts there's knavery
 let em alone and draw the curtain close
 we shall hear more anon
 exeunt
 king henry viii
act v
scene iii the councilchamber
 enter chancellor places himself at the upper end
 of the table on the left hand a seat being left
 void above him as for cranmer's seat suffolk
 norfolk surrey chamberlain gardiner seat
 themselves in order on each side cromwell at
 lower end as secretary keeper at the door
chancellor speak to the business mastersecretary
 why are we met in council
cromwell please your honours
 the chief cause concerns his grace of canterbury
gardiner has he had knowledge of it
cromwell yes
norfolk who waits there
keeper without my noble lords
gardiner yes
keeper my lord archbishop
 and has done half an hour to know your pleasures
chancellor let him come in
keeper your grace may enter now
 cranmer enters and approaches the counciltable
chancellor my good lord archbishop i'm very sorry
 to sit here at this present and behold
 that chair stand empty but we all are men
 in our own natures frail and capable
 of our flesh few are angels out of which frailty
 and want of wisdom you that best should teach us
 have misdemean'd yourself and not a little
 toward the king first then his laws in filling
 the whole realm by your teaching and your chaplains
 for so we are inform'd with new opinions
 divers and dangerous which are heresies
 and not reform'd may prove pernicious
gardiner which reformation must be sudden too
 my noble lords for those that tame wild horses
 pace em not in their hands to make em gentle
 but stop their mouths with stubborn bits and spur em
 till they obey the manage if we suffer
 out of our easiness and childish pity
 to one man's honour this contagious sickness
 farewell all physic and what follows then
 commotions uproars with a general taint
 of the whole state as of late days our neighbours
 the upper germany can dearly witness
 yet freshly pitied in our memories
cranmer my good lords hitherto in all the progress
 both of my life and office i have labour'd
 and with no little study that my teaching
 and the strong course of my authority
 might go one way and safely and the end
 was ever to do well nor is there living
 i speak it with a single heart my lords
 a man that more detests more stirs against
 both in his private conscience and his place
 defacers of a public peace than i do
 pray heaven the king may never find a heart
 with less allegiance in it men that make
 envy and crooked malice nourishment
 dare bite the best i do beseech your lordships
 that in this case of justice my accusers
 be what they will may stand forth face to face
 and freely urge against me
suffolk nay my lord
 that cannot be you are a counsellor
 and by that virtue no man dare accuse you
gardiner my lord because we have business of more moment
 we will be short with you tis his highness pleasure
 and our consent for better trial of you
 from hence you be committed to the tower
 where being but a private man again
 you shall know many dare accuse you boldly
 more than i fear you are provided for
cranmer ah my good lord of winchester i thank you
 you are always my good friend if your will pass
 i shall both find your lordship judge and juror
 you are so merciful i see your end
 tis my undoing love and meekness lord
 become a churchman better than ambition
 win straying souls with modesty again
 cast none away that i shall clear myself
 lay all the weight ye can upon my patience
 i make as little doubt as you do conscience
 in doing daily wrongs i could say more
 but reverence to your calling makes me modest
gardiner my lord my lord you are a sectary
 that's the plain truth your painted gloss discovers
 to men that understand you words and weakness
cromwell my lord of winchester you are a little
 by your good favour too sharp men so noble
 however faulty yet should find respect
 for what they have been tis a cruelty
 to load a falling man
gardiner good master secretary
 i cry your honour mercy you may worst
 of all this table say so
cromwell why my lord
gardiner do not i know you for a favourer
 of this new sect ye are not sound
cromwell not sound
gardiner not sound i say
cromwell would you were half so honest
 men's prayers then would seek you not their fears
gardiner i shall remember this bold language
cromwell do
 remember your bold life too
chancellor this is too much
 forbear for shame my lords
gardiner i have done
cromwell and i
chancellor then thus for you my lord it stands agreed
 i take it by all voices that forthwith
 you be convey'd to the tower a prisoner
 there to remain till the king's further pleasure
 be known unto us are you all agreed lords
all we are
cranmer is there no other way of mercy
 but i must needs to the tower my lords
gardiner what other
 would you expect you are strangely troublesome
 let some o the guard be ready there
 enter guard
cranmer for me
 must i go like a traitor thither
gardiner receive him
 and see him safe i the tower
cranmer stay good my lords
 i have a little yet to say look there my lords
 by virtue of that ring i take my cause
 out of the gripes of cruel men and give it
 to a most noble judge the king my master
chamberlain this is the king's ring
surrey tis no counterfeit
suffolk tis the right ring by heaven i told ye all
 when ye first put this dangerous stone arolling
 twould fall upon ourselves
norfolk do you think my lords
 the king will suffer but the little finger
 of this man to be vex'd
chancellor tis now too certain
 how much more is his life in value with him
 would i were fairly out on't
cromwell my mind gave me
 in seeking tales and informations
 against this man whose honesty the devil
 and his disciples only envy at
 ye blew the fire that burns ye now have at ye
 enter king frowning on them takes his seat
gardiner dread sovereign how much are we bound to heaven
 in daily thanks that gave us such a prince
 not only good and wise but most religious
 one that in all obedience makes the church
 the chief aim of his honour and to strengthen
 that holy duty out of dear respect
 his royal self in judgment comes to hear
 the cause betwixt her and this great offender
king henry viii you were ever good at sudden commendations
 bishop of winchester but know i come not
 to hear such flattery now and in my presence
 they are too thin and bare to hide offences
 to me you cannot reach you play the spaniel
 and think with wagging of your tongue to win me
 but whatsoe'er thou takest me for i'm sure
 thou hast a cruel nature and a bloody
 to cranmer
 good man sit down now let me see the proudest
 he that dares most but wag his finger at thee
 by all that's holy he had better starve
 than but once think this place becomes thee not
surrey may it please your grace
king henry viii no sir it does not please me
 i had thought i had had men of some understanding
 and wisdom of my council but i find none
 was it discretion lords to let this man
 this good manfew of you deserve that title
 this honest man wait like a lousy footboy
 at chamberdoor and one as great as you are
 why what a shame was this did my commission
 bid ye so far forget yourselves i gave ye
 power as he was a counsellor to try him
 not as a groom there's some of ye i see
 more out of malice than integrity
 would try him to the utmost had ye mean
 which ye shall never have while i live
chancellor thus far
 my most dread sovereign may it like your grace
 to let my tongue excuse all what was purposed
 concerning his imprisonment was rather
 if there be faith in men meant for his trial
 and fair purgation to the world than malice
 i'm sure in me
king henry viii well well my lords respect him
 take him and use him well he's worthy of it
 i will say thus much for him if a prince
 may be beholding to a subject i
 am for his love and service so to him
 make me no more ado but all embrace him
 be friends for shame my lords my lord of
 canterbury
 i have a suit which you must not deny me
 that is a fair young maid that yet wants baptism
 you must be godfather and answer for her
cranmer the greatest monarch now alive may glory
 in such an honour how may i deserve it
 that am a poor and humble subject to you
king henry viii come come my lord you'ld spare your spoons you
 shall have two noble partners with you the old
 duchess of norfolk and lady marquess dorset will
 these please you
 once more my lord of winchester i charge you
 embrace and love this man
gardiner with a true heart
 and brotherlove i do it
cranmer and let heaven
 witness how dear i hold this confirmation
king henry viii good man those joyful tears show thy true heart
 the common voice i see is verified
 of thee which says thus do my lord of canterbury
 a shrewd turn and he is your friend for ever'
 come lords we trifle time away i long
 to have this young one made a christian
 as i have made ye one lords one remain
 so i grow stronger you more honour gain
 exeunt
 king henry viii
act v
scene iv the palace yard
 noise and tumult within enter porter and his man
porter you'll leave your noise anon ye rascals do you
 take the court for parisgarden ye rude slaves
 leave your gaping
 within
 good master porter i belong to the larder
porter belong to the gallows and be hanged ye rogue is
 this a place to roar in fetch me a dozen crabtree
 staves and strong ones these are but switches to
 em i'll scratch your heads you must be seeing
 christenings do you look for ale and cakes here
 you rude rascals
man pray sir be patient tis as much impossible
 unless we sweep em from the door with cannons
 to scatter em as tis to make em sleep
 on mayday morning which will never be
 we may as well push against powle's as stir em
porter how got they in and be hang'd
man alas i know not how gets the tide in
 as much as one sound cudgel of four foot
 you see the poor remaindercould distribute
 i made no spare sir
porter you did nothing sir
man i am not samson nor sir guy nor colbrand
 to mow em down before me but if i spared any
 that had a head to hit either young or old
 he or she cuckold or cuckoldmaker
 let me ne'er hope to see a chine again
 and that i would not for a cow god save her
 within
 do you hear master porter
porter i shall be with you presently good master puppy
 keep the door close sirrah
man what would you have me do
porter what should you do but knock em down by the
 dozens is this moorfields to muster in or have
 we some strange indian with the great tool come to
 court the women so besiege us bless me what a
 fry of fornication is at door on my christian
 conscience this one christening will beget a
 thousand here will be father godfather and all together
man the spoons will be the bigger sir there is a
 fellow somewhat near the door he should be a
 brazier by his face for o my conscience twenty
 of the dogdays now reign in's nose all that stand
 about him are under the line they need no other
 penance that firedrake did i hit three times on
 the head and three times was his nose discharged
 against me he stands there like a mortarpiece to
 blow us there was a haberdasher's wife of small
 wit near him that railed upon me till her pinked
 porringer fell off her head for kindling such a
 combustion in the state i missed the meteor once
 and hit that woman who cried out clubs when i
 might see from far some forty truncheoners draw to
 her succor which were the hope o the strand where
 she was quartered they fell on i made good my
 place at length they came to the broomstaff to
 me i defied em still when suddenly a file of
 boys behind em loose shot delivered such a shower
 of pebbles that i was fain to draw mine honour in
 and let em win the work the devil was amongst
 em i think surely
porter these are the youths that thunder at a playhouse
 and fight for bitten apples that no audience but
 the tribulation of towerhill or the limbs of
 limehouse their dear brothers are able to endure
 i have some of em in limbo patrum and there they
 are like to dance these three days besides the
 running banquet of two beadles that is to come
 enter chamberlain
chamberlain mercy o me what a multitude are here
 they grow still too from all parts they are coming
 as if we kept a fair here where are these porters
 these lazy knaves ye have made a fine hand fellows
 there's a trim rabble let in are all these
 your faithful friends o the suburbs we shall have
 great store of room no doubt left for the ladies
 when they pass back from the christening
porter an't please
 your honour
 we are but men and what so many may do
 not being torn apieces we have done
 an army cannot rule em
chamberlain as i live
 if the king blame me for't i'll lay ye all
 by the heels and suddenly and on your heads
 clap round fines for neglect ye are lazy knaves
 and here ye lie baiting of bombards when
 ye should do service hark the trumpets sound
 they're come already from the christening
 go break among the press and find a way out
 to let the troop pass fairly or i'll find
 a marshalsea shall hold ye play these two months
porter make way there for the princess
man you great fellow
 stand close up or i'll make your head ache
porter you i the camlet get up o the rail
 i'll peck you o'er the pales else
 exeunt
 king henry viii
act v
scene v the palace
 enter trumpets sounding then two aldermen lord
 mayor garter cranmer norfolk with his marshal's
 staff suffolk two noblemen bearing great
 standingbowls for the christeninggifts then
 four noblemen bearing a canopy under which the
 duchess of norfolk godmother bearing the child
 richly habited in a mantle &c train borne by a
 lady then follows the marchioness dorset the
 other godmother and ladies the troop pass once
 about the stage and garter speaks
garter heaven from thy endless goodness send prosperous
 life long and ever happy to the high and mighty
 princess of england elizabeth
 flourish enter king henry viii and guard
cranmer kneeling and to your royal grace and the good queen
 my noble partners and myself thus pray
 all comfort joy in this most gracious lady
 heaven ever laid up to make parents happy
 may hourly fall upon ye
king henry viii thank you good lord archbishop
 what is her name
cranmer elizabeth
king henry viii stand up lord
 king henry viii kisses the child
 with this kiss take my blessing god protect thee
 into whose hand i give thy life
cranmer amen
king henry viii my noble gossips ye have been too prodigal
 i thank ye heartily so shall this lady
 when she has so much english
cranmer let me speak sir
 for heaven now bids me and the words i utter
 let none think flattery for they'll find em truth
 this royal infantheaven still move about her
 though in her cradle yet now promises
 upon this land a thousand thousand blessings
 which time shall bring to ripeness she shall be
 but few now living can behold that goodness
 a pattern to all princes living with her
 and all that shall succeed saba was never
 more covetous of wisdom and fair virtue
 than this pure soul shall be all princely graces
 that mould up such a mighty piece as this is
 with all the virtues that attend the good
 shall still be doubled on her truth shall nurse her
 holy and heavenly thoughts still counsel her
 she shall be loved and fear'd her own shall bless her
 her foes shake like a field of beaten corn
 and hang their heads with sorrow good grows with her
 in her days every man shall eat in safety
 under his own vine what he plants and sing
 the merry songs of peace to all his neighbours
 god shall be truly known and those about her
 from her shall read the perfect ways of honour
 and by those claim their greatness not by blood
 nor shall this peace sleep with her but as when
 the bird of wonder dies the maiden phoenix
 her ashes new create another heir
 as great in admiration as herself
 so shall she leave her blessedness to one
 when heaven shall call her from this cloud of darkness
 who from the sacred ashes of her honour
 shall starlike rise as great in fame as she was
 and so stand fix'd peace plenty love truth terror
 that were the servants to this chosen infant
 shall then be his and like a vine grow to him
 wherever the bright sun of heaven shall shine
 his honour and the greatness of his name
 shall be and make new nations he shall flourish
 and like a mountain cedar reach his branches
 to all the plains about him our children's children
 shall see this and bless heaven
king henry viii thou speakest wonders
cranmer she shall be to the happiness of england
 an aged princess many days shall see her
 and yet no day without a deed to crown it
 would i had known no more but she must die
 she must the saints must have her yet a virgin
 a most unspotted lily shall she pass
 to the ground and all the world shall mourn her
king henry viii o lord archbishop
 thou hast made me now a man never before
 this happy child did i get any thing
 this oracle of comfort has so pleased me
 that when i am in heaven i shall desire
 to see what this child does and praise my maker
 i thank ye all to you my good lord mayor
 and your good brethren i am much beholding
 i have received much honour by your presence
 and ye shall find me thankful lead the way lords
 ye must all see the queen and she must thank ye
 she will be sick else this day no man think
 has business at his house for all shall stay
 this little one shall make it holiday
 exeunt
 king henry viii
 epilogue
 tis ten to one this play can never please
 all that are here some come to take their ease
 and sleep an act or two but those we fear
 we have frighted with our trumpets so tis clear
 they'll say tis naught others to hear the city
 abused extremely and to cry that's witty'
 which we have not done neither that i fear
 all the expected good we're like to hear
 for this play at this time is only in
 the merciful construction of good women
 for such a one we show'd em if they smile
 and say twill do i know within a while
 all the best men are ours for tis ill hap
 if they hold when their ladies bid em clap
 king john
 
 dramatis personae
king john
prince henry son to the king
arthur duke of bretagne nephew to the king
the earl of
pembroke pembroke
the earl of essex essex
the earl of
salisbury salisbury
the lord bigot bigot
hubert de burgh hubert
robert
faulconbridge son to sir robert faulconbridge robert
philip the bastard his halfbrother bastard
james gurney servant to lady faulconbridge gurney
peter of pomfret a prophet peter
philip king of france king philip
lewis the dauphin
lymoges duke of austria austria
cardinal pandulph the pope's legate
melun a french lord
chatillon ambassador from france to king john
queen elinor mother to king john
constance mother to arthur
blanch of spain niece to king john blanch
lady faulconbridge
 lords citizens of angiers sheriff heralds
 officers soldiers messengers and other attendants
 first citizen
 french herald
 english herald
 first executioner
 messenger
scene partly in england and partly in france
 king john
act i
scene i king john's palace
 enter king john queen elinor pembroke essex
 salisbury and others with chatillon
king john now say chatillon what would france with us
chatillon thus after greeting speaks the king of france
 in my behavior to the majesty
 the borrow'd majesty of england here
queen elinor a strange beginning borrow'd majesty'
king john silence good mother hear the embassy
chatillon philip of france in right and true behalf
 of thy deceased brother geffrey's son
 arthur plantagenet lays most lawful claim
 to this fair island and the territories
 to ireland poictiers anjou touraine maine
 desiring thee to lay aside the sword
 which sways usurpingly these several titles
 and put these same into young arthur's hand
 thy nephew and right royal sovereign
king john what follows if we disallow of this
chatillon the proud control of fierce and bloody war
 to enforce these rights so forcibly withheld
king john here have we war for war and blood for blood
 controlment for controlment so answer france
chatillon then take my king's defiance from my mouth
 the farthest limit of my embassy
king john bear mine to him and so depart in peace
 be thou as lightning in the eyes of france
 for ere thou canst report i will be there
 the thunder of my cannon shall be heard
 so hence be thou the trumpet of our wrath
 and sullen presage of your own decay
 an honourable conduct let him have
 pembroke look to t farewell chatillon
 exeunt chatillon and pembroke
queen elinor what now my son have i not ever said
 how that ambitious constance would not cease
 till she had kindled france and all the world
 upon the right and party of her son
 this might have been prevented and made whole
 with very easy arguments of love
 which now the manage of two kingdoms must
 with fearful bloody issue arbitrate
king john our strong possession and our right for us
queen elinor your strong possession much more than your right
 or else it must go wrong with you and me
 so much my conscience whispers in your ear
 which none but heaven and you and i shall hear
 enter a sheriff
essex my liege here is the strangest controversy
 come from country to be judged by you
 that e'er i heard shall i produce the men
king john let them approach
 our abbeys and our priories shall pay
 this expedition's charge
 enter robert and the bastard
 what men are you
bastard your faithful subject i a gentleman
 born in northamptonshire and eldest son
 as i suppose to robert faulconbridge
 a soldier by the honourgiving hand
 of coeurdelion knighted in the field
king john what art thou
robert the son and heir to that same faulconbridge
king john is that the elder and art thou the heir
 you came not of one mother then it seems
bastard most certain of one mother mighty king
 that is well known and as i think one father
 but for the certain knowledge of that truth
 i put you o'er to heaven and to my mother
 of that i doubt as all men's children may
queen elinor out on thee rude man thou dost shame thy mother
 and wound her honour with this diffidence
bastard i madam no i have no reason for it
 that is my brother's plea and none of mine
 the which if he can prove a pops me out
 at least from fair five hundred pound a year
 heaven guard my mother's honour and my land
king john a good blunt fellow why being younger born
 doth he lay claim to thine inheritance
bastard i know not why except to get the land
 but once he slander'd me with bastardy
 but whether i be as true begot or no
 that still i lay upon my mother's head
 but that i am as well begot my liege
 fair fall the bones that took the pains for me
 compare our faces and be judge yourself
 if old sir robert did beget us both
 and were our father and this son like him
 o old sir robert father on my knee
 i give heaven thanks i was not like to thee
king john why what a madcap hath heaven lent us here
queen elinor he hath a trick of coeurdelion's face
 the accent of his tongue affecteth him
 do you not read some tokens of my son
 in the large composition of this man
king john mine eye hath well examined his parts
 and finds them perfect richard sirrah speak
 what doth move you to claim your brother's land
bastard because he hath a halfface like my father
 with half that face would he have all my land
 a halffaced groat five hundred pound a year
robert my gracious liege when that my father lived
 your brother did employ my father much
bastard well sir by this you cannot get my land
 your tale must be how he employ'd my mother
robert and once dispatch'd him in an embassy
 to germany there with the emperor
 to treat of high affairs touching that time
 the advantage of his absence took the king
 and in the mean time sojourn'd at my father's
 where how he did prevail i shame to speak
 but truth is truth large lengths of seas and shores
 between my father and my mother lay
 as i have heard my father speak himself
 when this same lusty gentleman was got
 upon his deathbed he by will bequeath'd
 his lands to me and took it on his death
 that this my mother's son was none of his
 and if he were he came into the world
 full fourteen weeks before the course of time
 then good my liege let me have what is mine
 my father's land as was my father's will
king john sirrah your brother is legitimate
 your father's wife did after wedlock bear him
 and if she did play false the fault was hers
 which fault lies on the hazards of all husbands
 that marry wives tell me how if my brother
 who as you say took pains to get this son
 had of your father claim'd this son for his
 in sooth good friend your father might have kept
 this calf bred from his cow from all the world
 in sooth he might then if he were my brother's
 my brother might not claim him nor your father
 being none of his refuse him this concludes
 my mother's son did get your father's heir
 your father's heir must have your father's land
robert shall then my father's will be of no force
 to dispossess that child which is not his
bastard of no more force to dispossess me sir
 than was his will to get me as i think
queen elinor whether hadst thou rather be a faulconbridge
 and like thy brother to enjoy thy land
 or the reputed son of coeurdelion
 lord of thy presence and no land beside
bastard madam an if my brother had my shape
 and i had his sir robert's his like him
 and if my legs were two such ridingrods
 my arms such eelskins stuff'd my face so thin
 that in mine ear i durst not stick a rose
 lest men should say look where threefarthings goes'
 and to his shape were heir to all this land
 would i might never stir from off this place
 i would give it every foot to have this face
 i would not be sir nob in any case
queen elinor i like thee well wilt thou forsake thy fortune
 bequeath thy land to him and follow me
 i am a soldier and now bound to france
bastard brother take you my land i'll take my chance
 your face hath got five hundred pound a year
 yet sell your face for five pence and tis dear
 madam i'll follow you unto the death
queen elinor nay i would have you go before me thither
bastard our country manners give our betters way
king john what is thy name
bastard philip my liege so is my name begun
 philip good old sir robert's wife's eldest son
king john from henceforth bear his name whose form thou bear'st
 kneel thou down philip but rise more great
 arise sir richard and plantagenet
bastard brother by the mother's side give me your hand
 my father gave me honour yours gave land
 now blessed by the hour by night or day
 when i was got sir robert was away
queen elinor the very spirit of plantagenet
 i am thy grandam richard call me so
bastard madam by chance but not by truth what though
 something about a little from the right
 in at the window or else o'er the hatch
 who dares not stir by day must walk by night
 and have is have however men do catch
 near or far off well won is still well shot
 and i am i howe'er i was begot
king john go faulconbridge now hast thou thy desire
 a landless knight makes thee a landed squire
 come madam and come richard we must speed
 for france for france for it is more than need
bastard brother adieu good fortune come to thee
 for thou wast got i the way of honesty
 exeunt all but bastard
 a foot of honour better than i was
 but many a many foot of land the worse
 well now can i make any joan a lady
 good den sir richard''godamercy fellow'
 and if his name be george i'll call him peter
 for newmade honour doth forget men's names
 tis too respective and too sociable
 for your conversion now your traveller
 he and his toothpick at my worship's mess
 and when my knightly stomach is sufficed
 why then i suck my teeth and catechise
 my picked man of countries my dear sir'
 thus leaning on mine elbow i begin
 i shall beseech you'that is question now
 and then comes answer like an absey book
 o sir says answer at your best command
 at your employment at your service sir'
 no sir says question i sweet sir at yours'
 and so ere answer knows what question would
 saving in dialogue of compliment
 and talking of the alps and apennines
 the pyrenean and the river po
 it draws toward supper in conclusion so
 but this is worshipful society
 and fits the mounting spirit like myself
 for he is but a bastard to the time
 that doth not smack of observation
 and so am i whether i smack or no
 and not alone in habit and device
 exterior form outward accoutrement
 but from the inward motion to deliver
 sweet sweet sweet poison for the age's tooth
 which though i will not practise to deceive
 yet to avoid deceit i mean to learn
 for it shall strew the footsteps of my rising
 but who comes in such haste in ridingrobes
 what womanpost is this hath she no husband
 that will take pains to blow a horn before her
 enter lady faulconbridge and gurney
 o me it is my mother how now good lady
 what brings you here to court so hastily
lady faulconbridge where is that slave thy brother where is he
 that holds in chase mine honour up and down
bastard my brother robert old sir robert's son
 colbrand the giant that same mighty man
 is it sir robert's son that you seek so
lady faulconbridge sir robert's son ay thou unreverend boy
 sir robert's son why scorn'st thou at sir robert
 he is sir robert's son and so art thou
bastard james gurney wilt thou give us leave awhile
gurney good leave good philip
bastard philip sparrow james
 there's toys abroad anon i'll tell thee more
 exit gurney
 madam i was not old sir robert's son
 sir robert might have eat his part in me
 upon goodfriday and ne'er broke his fast
 sir robert could do well marry to confess
 could he get me sir robert could not do it
 we know his handiwork therefore good mother
 to whom am i beholding for these limbs
 sir robert never holp to make this leg
lady faulconbridge hast thou conspired with thy brother too
 that for thine own gain shouldst defend mine honour
 what means this scorn thou most untoward knave
bastard knight knight good mother basiliscolike
 what i am dubb'd i have it on my shoulder
 but mother i am not sir robert's son
 i have disclaim'd sir robert and my land
 legitimation name and all is gone
 then good my mother let me know my father
 some proper man i hope who was it mother
lady faulconbridge hast thou denied thyself a faulconbridge
bastard as faithfully as i deny the devil
lady faulconbridge king richard coeurdelion was thy father
 by long and vehement suit i was seduced
 to make room for him in my husband's bed
 heaven lay not my transgression to my charge
 thou art the issue of my dear offence
 which was so strongly urged past my defence
bastard now by this light were i to get again
 madam i would not wish a better father
 some sins do bear their privilege on earth
 and so doth yours your fault was not your folly
 needs must you lay your heart at his dispose
 subjected tribute to commanding love
 against whose fury and unmatched force
 the aweless lion could not wage the fight
 nor keep his princely heart from richard's hand
 he that perforce robs lions of their hearts
 may easily win a woman's ay my mother
 with all my heart i thank thee for my father
 who lives and dares but say thou didst not well
 when i was got i'll send his soul to hell
 come lady i will show thee to my kin
 and they shall say when richard me begot
 if thou hadst said him nay it had been sin
 who says it was he lies i say twas not
 exeunt
 king john
act ii
scene i france before angiers
 enter austria and forces drums etc on one side
 on the other king philip and his power lewis
 arthur constance and attendants
lewis before angiers well met brave austria
 arthur that great forerunner of thy blood
 richard that robb'd the lion of his heart
 and fought the holy wars in palestine
 by this brave duke came early to his grave
 and for amends to his posterity
 at our importance hither is he come
 to spread his colours boy in thy behalf
 and to rebuke the usurpation
 of thy unnatural uncle english john
 embrace him love him give him welcome hither
arthur god shall forgive you coeurdelion's death
 the rather that you give his offspring life
 shadowing their right under your wings of war
 i give you welcome with a powerless hand
 but with a heart full of unstained love
 welcome before the gates of angiers duke
lewis a noble boy who would not do thee right
austria upon thy cheek lay i this zealous kiss
 as seal to this indenture of my love
 that to my home i will no more return
 till angiers and the right thou hast in france
 together with that pale that whitefaced shore
 whose foot spurns back the ocean's roaring tides
 and coops from other lands her islanders
 even till that england hedged in with the main
 that waterwalled bulwark still secure
 and confident from foreign purposes
 even till that utmost corner of the west
 salute thee for her king till then fair boy
 will i not think of home but follow arms
constance o take his mother's thanks a widow's thanks
 till your strong hand shall help to give him strength
 to make a more requital to your love
austria the peace of heaven is theirs that lift their swords
 in such a just and charitable war
king philip well then to work our cannon shall be bent
 against the brows of this resisting town
 call for our chiefest men of discipline
 to cull the plots of best advantages
 we'll lay before this town our royal bones
 wade to the marketplace in frenchmen's blood
 but we will make it subject to this boy
constance stay for an answer to your embassy
 lest unadvised you stain your swords with blood
 my lord chatillon may from england bring
 that right in peace which here we urge in war
 and then we shall repent each drop of blood
 that hot rash haste so indirectly shed
 enter chatillon
king philip a wonder lady lo upon thy wish
 our messenger chatillon is arrived
 what england says say briefly gentle lord
 we coldly pause for thee chatillon speak
chatillon then turn your forces from this paltry siege
 and stir them up against a mightier task
 england impatient of your just demands
 hath put himself in arms the adverse winds
 whose leisure i have stay'd have given him time
 to land his legions all as soon as i
 his marches are expedient to this town
 his forces strong his soldiers confident
 with him along is come the motherqueen
 an ate stirring him to blood and strife
 with her her niece the lady blanch of spain
 with them a bastard of the king's deceased
 and all the unsettled humours of the land
 rash inconsiderate fiery voluntaries
 with ladies faces and fierce dragons spleens
 have sold their fortunes at their native homes
 bearing their birthrights proudly on their backs
 to make hazard of new fortunes here
 in brief a braver choice of dauntless spirits
 than now the english bottoms have waft o'er
 did nearer float upon the swelling tide
 to do offence and scath in christendom
 drum beats
 the interruption of their churlish drums
 cuts off more circumstance they are at hand
 to parley or to fight therefore prepare
king philip how much unlook'd for is this expedition
austria by how much unexpected by so much
 we must awake endavour for defence
 for courage mounteth with occasion
 let them be welcome then we are prepared
 enter king john queen elinor blanch the bastard
 lords and forces
king john peace be to france if france in peace permit
 our just and lineal entrance to our own
 if not bleed france and peace ascend to heaven
 whiles we god's wrathful agent do correct
 their proud contempt that beats his peace to heaven
king philip peace be to england if that war return
 from france to england there to live in peace
 england we love and for that england's sake
 with burden of our armour here we sweat
 this toil of ours should be a work of thine
 but thou from loving england art so far
 that thou hast underwrought his lawful king
 cut off the sequence of posterity
 outfaced infant state and done a rape
 upon the maiden virtue of the crown
 look here upon thy brother geffrey's face
 these eyes these brows were moulded out of his
 this little abstract doth contain that large
 which died in geffrey and the hand of time
 shall draw this brief into as huge a volume
 that geffrey was thy elder brother born
 and this his son england was geffrey's right
 and this is geffrey's in the name of god
 how comes it then that thou art call'd a king
 when living blood doth in these temples beat
 which owe the crown that thou o'ermasterest
king john from whom hast thou this great commission france
 to draw my answer from thy articles
king philip from that supernal judge that stirs good thoughts
 in any breast of strong authority
 to look into the blots and stains of right
 that judge hath made me guardian to this boy
 under whose warrant i impeach thy wrong
 and by whose help i mean to chastise it
king john alack thou dost usurp authority
king philip excuse it is to beat usurping down
queen elinor who is it thou dost call usurper france
constance let me make answer thy usurping son
queen elinor out insolent thy bastard shall be king
 that thou mayst be a queen and cheque the world
constance my bed was ever to thy son as true
 as thine was to thy husband and this boy
 liker in feature to his father geffrey
 than thou and john in manners being as like
 as rain to water or devil to his dam
 my boy a bastard by my soul i think
 his father never was so true begot
 it cannot be an if thou wert his mother
queen elinor there's a good mother boy that blots thy father
constance there's a good grandam boy that would blot thee
austria peace
bastard hear the crier
austria what the devil art thou
bastard one that will play the devil sir with you
 an a may catch your hide and you alone
 you are the hare of whom the proverb goes
 whose valour plucks dead lions by the beard
 i'll smoke your skincoat an i catch you right
 sirrah look to't i faith i will i faith
blanch o well did he become that lion's robe
 that did disrobe the lion of that robe
bastard it lies as sightly on the back of him
 as great alcides shows upon an ass
 but ass i'll take that burthen from your back
 or lay on that shall make your shoulders crack
austria what craker is this same that deafs our ears
 with this abundance of superfluous breath
king philip lewis determine what we shall do straight
lewis women and fools break off your conference
 king john this is the very sum of all
 england and ireland anjou touraine maine
 in right of arthur do i claim of thee
 wilt thou resign them and lay down thy arms
king john my life as soon i do defy thee france
 arthur of bretagne yield thee to my hand
 and out of my dear love i'll give thee more
 than e'er the coward hand of france can win
 submit thee boy
queen elinor come to thy grandam child
constance do child go to it grandam child
 give grandam kingdom and it grandam will
 give it a plum a cherry and a fig
 there's a good grandam
arthur good my mother peace
 i would that i were low laid in my grave
 i am not worth this coil that's made for me
queen elinor his mother shames him so poor boy he weeps
constance now shame upon you whether she does or no
 his grandam's wrongs and not his mother's shames
 draws those heavenmoving pearls from his poor eyes
 which heaven shall take in nature of a fee
 ay with these crystal beads heaven shall be bribed
 to do him justice and revenge on you
queen elinor thou monstrous slanderer of heaven and earth
constance thou monstrous injurer of heaven and earth
 call not me slanderer thou and thine usurp
 the dominations royalties and rights
 of this oppressed boy this is thy eld'st son's son
 infortunate in nothing but in thee
 thy sins are visited in this poor child
 the canon of the law is laid on him
 being but the second generation
 removed from thy sinconceiving womb
king john bedlam have done
constance i have but this to say
 that he is not only plagued for her sin
 but god hath made her sin and her the plague
 on this removed issue plague for her
 and with her plague her sin his injury
 her injury the beadle to her sin
 all punish'd in the person of this child
 and all for her a plague upon her
queen elinor thou unadvised scold i can produce
 a will that bars the title of thy son
constance ay who doubts that a will a wicked will
 a woman's will a canker'd grandam's will
king philip peace lady pause or be more temperate
 it ill beseems this presence to cry aim
 to these illtuned repetitions
 some trumpet summon hither to the walls
 these men of angiers let us hear them speak
 whose title they admit arthur's or john's
 trumpet sounds enter certain citizens upon the walls
first citizen who is it that hath warn'd us to the walls
king philip tis france for england
king john england for itself
 you men of angiers and my loving subjects
king philip you loving men of angiers arthur's subjects
 our trumpet call'd you to this gentle parle
king john for our advantage therefore hear us first
 these flags of france that are advanced here
 before the eye and prospect of your town
 have hither march'd to your endamagement
 the cannons have their bowels full of wrath
 and ready mounted are they to spit forth
 their iron indignation gainst your walls
 all preparation for a bloody siege
 all merciless proceeding by these french
 confronts your city's eyes your winking gates
 and but for our approach those sleeping stones
 that as a waist doth girdle you about
 by the compulsion of their ordinance
 by this time from their fixed beds of lime
 had been dishabited and wide havoc made
 for bloody power to rush upon your peace
 but on the sight of us your lawful king
 who painfully with much expedient march
 have brought a countercheque before your gates
 to save unscratch'd your city's threatened cheeks
 behold the french amazed vouchsafe a parle
 and now instead of bullets wrapp'd in fire
 to make a shaking fever in your walls
 they shoot but calm words folded up in smoke
 to make a faithless error in your ears
 which trust accordingly kind citizens
 and let us in your king whose labour'd spirits
 forwearied in this action of swift speed
 crave harbourage within your city walls
king philip when i have said make answer to us both
 lo in this right hand whose protection
 is most divinely vow'd upon the right
 of him it holds stands young plantagenet
 son to the elder brother of this man
 and king o'er him and all that he enjoys
 for this downtrodden equity we tread
 in warlike march these greens before your town
 being no further enemy to you
 than the constraint of hospitable zeal
 in the relief of this oppressed child
 religiously provokes be pleased then
 to pay that duty which you truly owe
 to that owes it namely this young prince
 and then our arms like to a muzzled bear
 save in aspect hath all offence seal'd up
 our cannons malice vainly shall be spent
 against the invulnerable clouds of heaven
 and with a blessed and unvex'd retire
 with unhack'd swords and helmets all unbruised
 we will bear home that lusty blood again
 which here we came to spout against your town
 and leave your children wives and you in peace
 but if you fondly pass our proffer'd offer
 tis not the roundure of your oldfaced walls
 can hide you from our messengers of war
 though all these english and their discipline
 were harbour'd in their rude circumference
 then tell us shall your city call us lord
 in that behalf which we have challenged it
 or shall we give the signal to our rage
 and stalk in blood to our possession
first citizen in brief we are the king of england's subjects
 for him and in his right we hold this town
king john acknowledge then the king and let me in
first citizen that can we not but he that proves the king
 to him will we prove loyal till that time
 have we ramm'd up our gates against the world
king john doth not the crown of england prove the king
 and if not that i bring you witnesses
 twice fifteen thousand hearts of england's breed
bastard bastards and else
king john to verify our title with their lives
king philip as many and as wellborn bloods as those
bastard some bastards too
king philip stand in his face to contradict his claim
first citizen till you compound whose right is worthiest
 we for the worthiest hold the right from both
king john then god forgive the sin of all those souls
 that to their everlasting residence
 before the dew of evening fall shall fleet
 in dreadful trial of our kingdom's king
king philip amen amen mount chevaliers to arms
bastard saint george that swinged the dragon and e'er since
 sits on his horseback at mine hostess door
 teach us some fence
 to austria
 sirrah were i at home
 at your den sirrah with your lioness
 i would set an oxhead to your lion's hide
 and make a monster of you
austria peace no more
bastard o tremble for you hear the lion roar
king john up higher to the plain where we'll set forth
 in best appointment all our regiments
bastard speed then to take advantage of the field
king philip it shall be so and at the other hill
 command the rest to stand god and our right
 exeunt
 here after excursions enter the herald of france
 with trumpets to the gates
french herald you men of angiers open wide your gates
 and let young arthur duke of bretagne in
 who by the hand of france this day hath made
 much work for tears in many an english mother
 whose sons lie scattered on the bleeding ground
 many a widow's husband grovelling lies
 coldly embracing the discolour'd earth
 and victory with little loss doth play
 upon the dancing banners of the french
 who are at hand triumphantly display'd
 to enter conquerors and to proclaim
 arthur of bretagne england's king and yours
 enter english herald with trumpet
english herald rejoice you men of angiers ring your bells
 king john your king and england's doth approach
 commander of this hot malicious day
 their armours that march'd hence so silverbright
 hither return all gilt with frenchmen's blood
 there stuck no plume in any english crest
 that is removed by a staff of france
 our colours do return in those same hands
 that did display them when we first march'd forth
 and like a troop of jolly huntsmen come
 our lusty english all with purpled hands
 dyed in the dying slaughter of their foes
 open your gates and gives the victors way
first citizen heralds from off our towers we might behold
 from first to last the onset and retire
 of both your armies whose equality
 by our best eyes cannot be censured
 blood hath bought blood and blows have answered blows
 strength match'd with strength and power confronted power
 both are alike and both alike we like
 one must prove greatest while they weigh so even
 we hold our town for neither yet for both
 reenter king john and king philip with their
 powers severally
king john france hast thou yet more blood to cast away
 say shall the current of our right run on
 whose passage vex'd with thy impediment
 shall leave his native channel and o'erswell
 with course disturb'd even thy confining shores
 unless thou let his silver water keep
 a peaceful progress to the ocean
king philip england thou hast not saved one drop of blood
 in this hot trial more than we of france
 rather lost more and by this hand i swear
 that sways the earth this climate overlooks
 before we will lay down our justborne arms
 we'll put thee down gainst whom these arms we bear
 or add a royal number to the dead
 gracing the scroll that tells of this war's loss
 with slaughter coupled to the name of kings
bastard ha majesty how high thy glory towers
 when the rich blood of kings is set on fire
 o now doth death line his dead chaps with steel
 the swords of soldiers are his teeth his fangs
 and now he feasts mousing the flesh of men
 in undetermined differences of kings
 why stand these royal fronts amazed thus
 cry havoc kings back to the stained field
 you equal potents fiery kindled spirits
 then let confusion of one part confirm
 the other's peace till then blows blood and death
king john whose party do the townsmen yet admit
king philip speak citizens for england who's your king
first citizen the king of england when we know the king
king philip know him in us that here hold up his right
king john in us that are our own great deputy
 and bear possession of our person here
 lord of our presence angiers and of you
first citizen a greater power then we denies all this
 and till it be undoubted we do lock
 our former scruple in our strongbarr'd gates
 king'd of our fears until our fears resolved
 be by some certain king purged and deposed
bastard by heaven these scroyles of angiers flout you kings
 and stand securely on their battlements
 as in a theatre whence they gape and point
 at your industrious scenes and acts of death
 your royal presences be ruled by me
 do like the mutines of jerusalem
 be friends awhile and both conjointly bend
 your sharpest deeds of malice on this town
 by east and west let france and england mount
 their battering cannon charged to the mouths
 till their soulfearing clamours have brawl'd down
 the flinty ribs of this contemptuous city
 i'ld play incessantly upon these jades
 even till unfenced desolation
 leave them as naked as the vulgar air
 that done dissever your united strengths
 and part your mingled colours once again
 turn face to face and bloody point to point
 then in a moment fortune shall cull forth
 out of one side her happy minion
 to whom in favour she shall give the day
 and kiss him with a glorious victory
 how like you this wild counsel mighty states
 smacks it not something of the policy
king john now by the sky that hangs above our heads
 i like it well france shall we knit our powers
 and lay this angiers even to the ground
 then after fight who shall be king of it
bastard an if thou hast the mettle of a king
 being wronged as we are by this peevish town
 turn thou the mouth of thy artillery
 as we will ours against these saucy walls
 and when that we have dash'd them to the ground
 why then defy each other and pellmell
 make work upon ourselves for heaven or hell
king philip let it be so say where will you assault
king john we from the west will send destruction
 into this city's bosom
austria i from the north
king philip our thunder from the south
 shall rain their drift of bullets on this town
bastard o prudent discipline from north to south
 austria and france shoot in each other's mouth
 i'll stir them to it come away away
first citizen hear us great kings vouchsafe awhile to stay
 and i shall show you peace and fairfaced league
 win you this city without stroke or wound
 rescue those breathing lives to die in beds
 that here come sacrifices for the field
 persever not but hear me mighty kings
king john speak on with favour we are bent to hear
first citizen that daughter there of spain the lady blanch
 is niece to england look upon the years
 of lewis the dauphin and that lovely maid
 if lusty love should go in quest of beauty
 where should he find it fairer than in blanch
 if zealous love should go in search of virtue
 where should he find it purer than in blanch
 if love ambitious sought a match of birth
 whose veins bound richer blood than lady blanch
 such as she is in beauty virtue birth
 is the young dauphin every way complete
 if not complete of say he is not she
 and she again wants nothing to name want
 if want it be not that she is not he
 he is the half part of a blessed man
 left to be finished by such as she
 and she a fair divided excellence
 whose fulness of perfection lies in him
 o two such silver currents when they join
 do glorify the banks that bound them in
 and two such shores to two such streams made one
 two such controlling bounds shall you be kings
 to these two princes if you marry them
 this union shall do more than battery can
 to our fastclosed gates for at this match
 with swifter spleen than powder can enforce
 the mouth of passage shall we fling wide ope
 and give you entrance but without this match
 the sea enraged is not half so deaf
 lions more confident mountains and rocks
 more free from motion no not death himself
 in moral fury half so peremptory
 as we to keep this city
bastard here's a stay
 that shakes the rotten carcass of old death
 out of his rags here's a large mouth indeed
 that spits forth death and mountains rocks and seas
 talks as familiarly of roaring lions
 as maids of thirteen do of puppydogs
 what cannoneer begot this lusty blood
 he speaks plain cannon fire and smoke and bounce
 he gives the bastinado with his tongue
 our ears are cudgell'd not a word of his
 but buffets better than a fist of france
 zounds i was never so bethump'd with words
 since i first call'd my brother's father dad
queen elinor son list to this conjunction make this match
 give with our niece a dowry large enough
 for by this knot thou shalt so surely tie
 thy now unsured assurance to the crown
 that yon green boy shall have no sun to ripe
 the bloom that promiseth a mighty fruit
 i see a yielding in the looks of france
 mark how they whisper urge them while their souls
 are capable of this ambition
 lest zeal now melted by the windy breath
 of soft petitions pity and remorse
 cool and congeal again to what it was
first citizen why answer not the double majesties
 this friendly treaty of our threaten'd town
king philip speak england first that hath been forward first
 to speak unto this city what say you
king john if that the dauphin there thy princely son
 can in this book of beauty read i love'
 her dowry shall weigh equal with a queen
 for anjou and fair touraine maine poictiers
 and all that we upon this side the sea
 except this city now by us besieged
 find liable to our crown and dignity
 shall gild her bridal bed and make her rich
 in titles honours and promotions
 as she in beauty education blood
 holds hand with any princess of the world
king philip what say'st thou boy look in the lady's face
lewis i do my lord and in her eye i find
 a wonder or a wondrous miracle
 the shadow of myself form'd in her eye
 which being but the shadow of your son
 becomes a sun and makes your son a shadow
 i do protest i never loved myself
 till now infixed i beheld myself
 drawn in the flattering table of her eye
 whispers with blanch
bastard drawn in the flattering table of her eye
 hang'd in the frowning wrinkle of her brow
 and quarter'd in her heart he doth espy
 himself love's traitor this is pity now
 that hang'd and drawn and quartered there should be
 in such a love so vile a lout as he
blanch my uncle's will in this respect is mine
 if he see aught in you that makes him like
 that any thing he sees which moves his liking
 i can with ease translate it to my will
 or if you will to speak more properly
 i will enforce it easily to my love
 further i will not flatter you my lord
 that all i see in you is worthy love
 than this that nothing do i see in you
 though churlish thoughts themselves should be your judge
 that i can find should merit any hate
king john what say these young ones what say you my niece
blanch that she is bound in honour still to do
 what you in wisdom still vouchsafe to say
king john speak then prince dauphin can you love this lady
lewis nay ask me if i can refrain from love
 for i do love her most unfeignedly
king john then do i give volquessen touraine maine
 poictiers and anjou these five provinces
 with her to thee and this addition more
 full thirty thousand marks of english coin
 philip of france if thou be pleased withal
 command thy son and daughter to join hands
king philip it likes us well young princes close your hands
austria and your lips too for i am well assured
 that i did so when i was first assured
king philip now citizens of angiers ope your gates
 let in that amity which you have made
 for at saint mary's chapel presently
 the rites of marriage shall be solemnized
 is not the lady constance in this troop
 i know she is not for this match made up
 her presence would have interrupted much
 where is she and her son tell me who knows
lewis she is sad and passionate at your highness tent
king philip and by my faith this league that we have made
 will give her sadness very little cure
 brother of england how may we content
 this widow lady in her right we came
 which we god knows have turn'd another way
 to our own vantage
king john we will heal up all
 for we'll create young arthur duke of bretagne
 and earl of richmond and this rich fair town
 we make him lord of call the lady constance
 some speedy messenger bid her repair
 to our solemnity i trust we shall
 if not fill up the measure of her will
 yet in some measure satisfy her so
 that we shall stop her exclamation
 go we as well as haste will suffer us
 to this unlook'd for unprepared pomp
 exeunt all but the bastard
bastard mad world mad kings mad composition
 john to stop arthur's title in the whole
 hath willingly departed with a part
 and france whose armour conscience buckled on
 whom zeal and charity brought to the field
 as god's own soldier rounded in the ear
 with that same purposechanger that sly devil
 that broker that still breaks the pate of faith
 that daily breakvow he that wins of all
 of kings of beggars old men young men maids
 who having no external thing to lose
 but the word maid cheats the poor maid of that
 that smoothfaced gentleman tickling commodity
 commodity the bias of the world
 the world who of itself is peised well
 made to run even upon even ground
 till this advantage this viledrawing bias
 this sway of motion this commodity
 makes it take head from all indifferency
 from all direction purpose course intent
 and this same bias this commodity
 this bawd this broker this allchanging word
 clapp'd on the outward eye of fickle france
 hath drawn him from his own determined aid
 from a resolved and honourable war
 to a most base and vileconcluded peace
 and why rail i on this commodity
 but for because he hath not woo'd me yet
 not that i have the power to clutch my hand
 when his fair angels would salute my palm
 but for my hand as unattempted yet
 like a poor beggar raileth on the rich
 well whiles i am a beggar i will rail
 and say there is no sin but to be rich
 and being rich my virtue then shall be
 to say there is no vice but beggary
 since kings break faith upon commodity
 gain be my lord for i will worship thee
 exit
 king john
act iii
scene i the french king's pavilion
 enter constance arthur and salisbury
constance gone to be married gone to swear a peace
 false blood to false blood join'd gone to be friends
 shall lewis have blanch and blanch those provinces
 it is not so thou hast misspoke misheard
 be well advised tell o'er thy tale again
 it cannot be thou dost but say tis so
 i trust i may not trust thee for thy word
 is but the vain breath of a common man
 believe me i do not believe thee man
 i have a king's oath to the contrary
 thou shalt be punish'd for thus frighting me
 for i am sick and capable of fears
 oppress'd with wrongs and therefore full of fears
 a widow husbandless subject to fears
 a woman naturally born to fears
 and though thou now confess thou didst but jest
 with my vex'd spirits i cannot take a truce
 but they will quake and tremble all this day
 what dost thou mean by shaking of thy head
 why dost thou look so sadly on my son
 what means that hand upon that breast of thine
 why holds thine eye that lamentable rheum
 like a proud river peering o'er his bounds
 be these sad signs confirmers of thy words
 then speak again not all thy former tale
 but this one word whether thy tale be true
salisbury as true as i believe you think them false
 that give you cause to prove my saying true
constance o if thou teach me to believe this sorrow
 teach thou this sorrow how to make me die
 and let belief and life encounter so
 as doth the fury of two desperate men
 which in the very meeting fall and die
 lewis marry blanch o boy then where art thou
 france friend with england what becomes of me
 fellow be gone i cannot brook thy sight
 this news hath made thee a most ugly man
salisbury what other harm have i good lady done
 but spoke the harm that is by others done
constance which harm within itself so heinous is
 as it makes harmful all that speak of it
arthur i do beseech you madam be content
constance if thou that bid'st me be content wert grim
 ugly and slanderous to thy mother's womb
 full of unpleasing blots and sightless stains
 lame foolish crooked swart prodigious
 patch'd with foul moles and eyeoffending marks
 i would not care i then would be content
 for then i should not love thee no nor thou
 become thy great birth nor deserve a crown
 but thou art fair and at thy birth dear boy
 nature and fortune join'd to make thee great
 of nature's gifts thou mayst with lilies boast
 and with the halfblown rose but fortune o
 she is corrupted changed and won from thee
 she adulterates hourly with thine uncle john
 and with her golden hand hath pluck'd on france
 to tread down fair respect of sovereignty
 and made his majesty the bawd to theirs
 france is a bawd to fortune and king john
 that strumpet fortune that usurping john
 tell me thou fellow is not france forsworn
 envenom him with words or get thee gone
 and leave those woes alone which i alone
 am bound to underbear
salisbury pardon me madam
 i may not go without you to the kings
constance thou mayst thou shalt i will not go with thee
 i will instruct my sorrows to be proud
 for grief is proud and makes his owner stoop
 to me and to the state of my great grief
 let kings assemble for my grief's so great
 that no supporter but the huge firm earth
 can hold it up here i and sorrows sit
 here is my throne bid kings come bow to it
 seats herself on the ground
 enter king john king phillip lewis blanch
 queen elinor the bastard austria and attendants
king philip tis true fair daughter and this blessed day
 ever in france shall be kept festival
 to solemnize this day the glorious sun
 stays in his course and plays the alchemist
 turning with splendor of his precious eye
 the meagre cloddy earth to glittering gold
 the yearly course that brings this day about
 shall never see it but a holiday
constance a wicked day and not a holy day
 rising
 what hath this day deserved what hath it done
 that it in golden letters should be set
 among the high tides in the calendar
 nay rather turn this day out of the week
 this day of shame oppression perjury
 or if it must stand still let wives with child
 pray that their burthens may not fall this day
 lest that their hopes prodigiously be cross'd
 but on this day let seamen fear no wreck
 no bargains break that are not this day made
 this day all things begun come to ill end
 yea faith itself to hollow falsehood change
king philip by heaven lady you shall have no cause
 to curse the fair proceedings of this day
 have i not pawn'd to you my majesty
constance you have beguiled me with a counterfeit
 resembling majesty which being touch'd and tried
 proves valueless you are forsworn forsworn
 you came in arms to spill mine enemies blood
 but now in arms you strengthen it with yours
 the grappling vigour and rough frown of war
 is cold in amity and painted peace
 and our oppression hath made up this league
 arm arm you heavens against these perjured kings
 a widow cries be husband to me heavens
 let not the hours of this ungodly day
 wear out the day in peace but ere sunset
 set armed discord twixt these perjured kings
 hear me o hear me
austria lady constance peace
constance war war no peace peace is to me a war
 o lymoges o austria thou dost shame
 that bloody spoil thou slave thou wretch thou coward
 thou little valiant great in villany
 thou ever strong upon the stronger side
 thou fortune's champion that dost never fight
 but when her humorous ladyship is by
 to teach thee safety thou art perjured too
 and soothest up greatness what a fool art thou
 a ramping fool to brag and stamp and swear
 upon my party thou coldblooded slave
 hast thou not spoke like thunder on my side
 been sworn my soldier bidding me depend
 upon thy stars thy fortune and thy strength
 and dost thou now fall over to my fores
 thou wear a lion's hide doff it for shame
 and hang a calf'sskin on those recreant limbs
austria o that a man should speak those words to me
bastard and hang a calf'sskin on those recreant limbs
austria thou darest not say so villain for thy life
bastard and hang a calf'sskin on those recreant limbs
king john we like not this thou dost forget thyself
 enter cardinal pandulph
king philip here comes the holy legate of the pope
cardinal pandulph hail you anointed deputies of heaven
 to thee king john my holy errand is
 i pandulph of fair milan cardinal
 and from pope innocent the legate here
 do in his name religiously demand
 why thou against the church our holy mother
 so wilfully dost spurn and force perforce
 keep stephen langton chosen archbishop
 of canterbury from that holy see
 this in our foresaid holy father's name
 pope innocent i do demand of thee
king john what earthy name to interrogatories
 can task the free breath of a sacred king
 thou canst not cardinal devise a name
 so slight unworthy and ridiculous
 to charge me to an answer as the pope
 tell him this tale and from the mouth of england
 add thus much more that no italian priest
 shall tithe or toll in our dominions
 but as we under heaven are supreme head
 so under him that great supremacy
 where we do reign we will alone uphold
 without the assistance of a mortal hand
 so tell the pope all reverence set apart
 to him and his usurp'd authority
king philip brother of england you blaspheme in this
king john though you and all the kings of christendom
 are led so grossly by this meddling priest
 dreading the curse that money may buy out
 and by the merit of vile gold dross dust
 purchase corrupted pardon of a man
 who in that sale sells pardon from himself
 though you and all the rest so grossly led
 this juggling witchcraft with revenue cherish
 yet i alone alone do me oppose
 against the pope and count his friends my foes
cardinal pandulph then by the lawful power that i have
 thou shalt stand cursed and excommunicate
 and blessed shall he be that doth revolt
 from his allegiance to an heretic
 and meritorious shall that hand be call'd
 canonized and worshipped as a saint
 that takes away by any secret course
 thy hateful life
constance o lawful let it be
 that i have room with rome to curse awhile
 good father cardinal cry thou amen
 to my keen curses for without my wrong
 there is no tongue hath power to curse him right
cardinal pandulph there's law and warrant lady for my curse
constance and for mine too when law can do no right
 let it be lawful that law bar no wrong
 law cannot give my child his kingdom here
 for he that holds his kingdom holds the law
 therefore since law itself is perfect wrong
 how can the law forbid my tongue to curse
cardinal pandulph philip of france on peril of a curse
 let go the hand of that archheretic
 and raise the power of france upon his head
 unless he do submit himself to rome
queen elinor look'st thou pale france do not let go thy hand
constance look to that devil lest that france repent
 and by disjoining hands hell lose a soul
austria king philip listen to the cardinal
bastard and hang a calf'sskin on his recreant limbs
austria well ruffian i must pocket up these wrongs because
bastard your breeches best may carry them
king john philip what say'st thou to the cardinal
constance what should he say but as the cardinal
lewis bethink you father for the difference
 is purchase of a heavy curse from rome
 or the light loss of england for a friend
 forego the easier
blanch that's the curse of rome
constance o lewis stand fast the devil tempts thee here
 in likeness of a new untrimmed bride
blanch the lady constance speaks not from her faith
 but from her need
constance o if thou grant my need
 which only lives but by the death of faith
 that need must needs infer this principle
 that faith would live again by death of need
 o then tread down my need and faith mounts up
 keep my need up and faith is trodden down
king john the king is moved and answers not to this
constance o be removed from him and answer well
austria do so king philip hang no more in doubt
bastard hang nothing but a calf'sskin most sweet lout
king philip i am perplex'd and know not what to say
cardinal pandulph what canst thou say but will perplex thee more
 if thou stand excommunicate and cursed
king philip good reverend father make my person yours
 and tell me how you would bestow yourself
 this royal hand and mine are newly knit
 and the conjunction of our inward souls
 married in league coupled and linked together
 with all religious strength of sacred vows
 the latest breath that gave the sound of words
 was deepsworn faith peace amity true love
 between our kingdoms and our royal selves
 and even before this truce but new before
 no longer than we well could wash our hands
 to clap this royal bargain up of peace
 heaven knows they were besmear'd and overstain'd
 with slaughter's pencil where revenge did paint
 the fearful difference of incensed kings
 and shall these hands so lately purged of blood
 so newly join'd in love so strong in both
 unyoke this seizure and this kind regreet
 play fast and loose with faith so jest with heaven
 make such unconstant children of ourselves
 as now again to snatch our palm from palm
 unswear faith sworn and on the marriagebed
 of smiling peace to march a bloody host
 and make a riot on the gentle brow
 of true sincerity o holy sir
 my reverend father let it not be so
 out of your grace devise ordain impose
 some gentle order and then we shall be blest
 to do your pleasure and continue friends
cardinal pandulph all form is formless order orderless
 save what is opposite to england's love
 therefore to arms be champion of our church
 or let the church our mother breathe her curse
 a mother's curse on her revolting son
 france thou mayst hold a serpent by the tongue
 a chafed lion by the mortal paw
 a fasting tiger safer by the tooth
 than keep in peace that hand which thou dost hold
king philip i may disjoin my hand but not my faith
cardinal pandulph so makest thou faith an enemy to faith
 and like a civil war set'st oath to oath
 thy tongue against thy tongue o let thy vow
 first made to heaven first be to heaven perform'd
 that is to be the champion of our church
 what since thou sworest is sworn against thyself
 and may not be performed by thyself
 for that which thou hast sworn to do amiss
 is not amiss when it is truly done
 and being not done where doing tends to ill
 the truth is then most done not doing it
 the better act of purposes mistook
 is to mistake again though indirect
 yet indirection thereby grows direct
 and falsehood falsehood cures as fire cools fire
 within the scorched veins of one newburn'd
 it is religion that doth make vows kept
 but thou hast sworn against religion
 by what thou swear'st against the thing thou swear'st
 and makest an oath the surety for thy truth
 against an oath the truth thou art unsure
 to swear swears only not to be forsworn
 else what a mockery should it be to swear
 but thou dost swear only to be forsworn
 and most forsworn to keep what thou dost swear
 therefore thy later vows against thy first
 is in thyself rebellion to thyself
 and better conquest never canst thou make
 than arm thy constant and thy nobler parts
 against these giddy loose suggestions
 upon which better part our prayers come in
 if thou vouchsafe them but if not then know
 the peril of our curses light on thee
 so heavy as thou shalt not shake them off
 but in despair die under their black weight
austria rebellion flat rebellion
bastard will't not be
 will not a calfsskin stop that mouth of thine
lewis father to arms
blanch upon thy weddingday
 against the blood that thou hast married
 what shall our feast be kept with slaughter'd men
 shall braying trumpets and loud churlish drums
 clamours of hell be measures to our pomp
 o husband hear me ay alack how new
 is husband in my mouth even for that name
 which till this time my tongue did ne'er pronounce
 upon my knee i beg go not to arms
 against mine uncle
constance o upon my knee
 made hard with kneeling i do pray to thee
 thou virtuous dauphin alter not the doom
 forethought by heaven
blanch now shall i see thy love what motive may
 be stronger with thee than the name of wife
constance that which upholdeth him that thee upholds
 his honour o thine honour lewis thine honour
lewis i muse your majesty doth seem so cold
 when such profound respects do pull you on
cardinal pandulph i will denounce a curse upon his head
king philip thou shalt not need england i will fall from thee
constance o fair return of banish'd majesty
queen elinor o foul revolt of french inconstancy
king john france thou shalt rue this hour within this hour
bastard old time the clocksetter that bald sexton time
 is it as he will well then france shall rue
blanch the sun's o'ercast with blood fair day adieu
 which is the side that i must go withal
 i am with both each army hath a hand
 and in their rage i having hold of both
 they swirl asunder and dismember me
 husband i cannot pray that thou mayst win
 uncle i needs must pray that thou mayst lose
 father i may not wish the fortune thine
 grandam i will not wish thy fortunes thrive
 whoever wins on that side shall i lose
 assured loss before the match be play'd
lewis lady with me with me thy fortune lies
blanch there where my fortune lives there my life dies
king john cousin go draw our puissance together
 exit bastard
 france i am burn'd up with inflaming wrath
 a rage whose heat hath this condition
 that nothing can allay nothing but blood
 the blood and dearestvalued blood of france
king philip thy rage sham burn thee up and thou shalt turn
 to ashes ere our blood shall quench that fire
 look to thyself thou art in jeopardy
king john no more than he that threats to arms let's hie
 exeunt
 king john
act iii
scene ii the same plains near angiers
 alarums excursions enter the bastard with
 austria's head
bastard now by my life this day grows wondrous hot
 some airy devil hovers in the sky
 and pours down mischief austria's head lie there
 while philip breathes
 enter king john arthur and hubert
king john hubert keep this boy philip make up
 my mother is assailed in our tent
 and ta'en i fear
bastard my lord i rescued her
 her highness is in safety fear you not
 but on my liege for very little pains
 will bring this labour to an happy end
 exeunt
 king john
act iii
scene iii the same
 alarums excursions retreat enter king john
 queen elinor arthur the bastard hubert
 and lords
king john to queen elinor so shall it be your grace shall
 stay behind
 so strongly guarded
 to arthur
 cousin look not sad
 thy grandam loves thee and thy uncle will
 as dear be to thee as thy father was
arthur o this will make my mother die with grief
king john to the bastard cousin away for england
 haste before
 and ere our coming see thou shake the bags
 of hoarding abbots imprisoned angels
 set at liberty the fat ribs of peace
 must by the hungry now be fed upon
 use our commission in his utmost force
bastard bell book and candle shall not drive me back
 when gold and silver becks me to come on
 i leave your highness grandam i will pray
 if ever i remember to be holy
 for your fair safety so i kiss your hand
elinor farewell gentle cousin
king john coz farewell
 exit the bastard
queen elinor come hither little kinsman hark a word
king john come hither hubert o my gentle hubert
 we owe thee much within this wall of flesh
 there is a soul counts thee her creditor
 and with advantage means to pay thy love
 and my good friend thy voluntary oath
 lives in this bosom dearly cherished
 give me thy hand i had a thing to say
 but i will fit it with some better time
 by heaven hubert i am almost ashamed
 to say what good respect i have of thee
hubert i am much bounden to your majesty
king john good friend thou hast no cause to say so yet
 but thou shalt have and creep time ne'er so slow
 yet it shall come from me to do thee good
 i had a thing to say but let it go
 the sun is in the heaven and the proud day
 attended with the pleasures of the world
 is all too wanton and too full of gawds
 to give me audience if the midnight bell
 did with his iron tongue and brazen mouth
 sound on into the drowsy race of night
 if this same were a churchyard where we stand
 and thou possessed with a thousand wrongs
 or if that surly spirit melancholy
 had baked thy blood and made it heavythick
 which else runs tickling up and down the veins
 making that idiot laughter keep men's eyes
 and strain their cheeks to idle merriment
 a passion hateful to my purposes
 or if that thou couldst see me without eyes
 hear me without thine ears and make reply
 without a tongue using conceit alone
 without eyes ears and harmful sound of words
 then in despite of brooded watchful day
 i would into thy bosom pour my thoughts
 but ah i will not yet i love thee well
 and by my troth i think thou lovest me well
hubert so well that what you bid me undertake
 though that my death were adjunct to my act
 by heaven i would do it
king john do not i know thou wouldst
 good hubert hubert hubert throw thine eye
 on yon young boy i'll tell thee what my friend
 he is a very serpent in my way
 and whereso'er this foot of mine doth tread
 he lies before me dost thou understand me
 thou art his keeper
hubert and i'll keep him so
 that he shall not offend your majesty
king john death
hubert my lord
king john a grave
hubert he shall not live
king john enough
 i could be merry now hubert i love thee
 well i'll not say what i intend for thee
 remember madam fare you well
 i'll send those powers o'er to your majesty
elinor my blessing go with thee
king john for england cousin go
 hubert shall be your man attend on you
 with all true duty on toward calais ho
 exeunt
 king john
act iii
scene iv the same king philip's tent
 enter king philip lewis cardinal pandulph
 and attendants
king philip so by a roaring tempest on the flood
 a whole armado of convicted sail
 is scatter'd and disjoin'd from fellowship
cardinal pandulph courage and comfort all shall yet go well
king philip what can go well when we have run so ill
 are we not beaten is not angiers lost
 arthur ta'en prisoner divers dear friends slain
 and bloody england into england gone
 o'erbearing interruption spite of france
lewis what he hath won that hath he fortified
 so hot a speed with such advice disposed
 such temperate order in so fierce a cause
 doth want example who hath read or heard
 of any kindred action like to this
king philip well could i bear that england had this praise
 so we could find some pattern of our shame
 enter constance
 look who comes here a grave unto a soul
 holding the eternal spirit against her will
 in the vile prison of afflicted breath
 i prithee lady go away with me
constance lo now i now see the issue of your peace
king philip patience good lady comfort gentle constance
constance no i defy all counsel all redress
 but that which ends all counsel true redress
 death death o amiable lovely death
 thou odouriferous stench sound rottenness
 arise forth from the couch of lasting night
 thou hate and terror to prosperity
 and i will kiss thy detestable bones
 and put my eyeballs in thy vaulty brows
 and ring these fingers with thy household worms
 and stop this gap of breath with fulsome dust
 and be a carrion monster like thyself
 come grin on me and i will think thou smilest
 and buss thee as thy wife misery's love
 o come to me
king philip o fair affliction peace
constance no no i will not having breath to cry
 o that my tongue were in the thunder's mouth
 then with a passion would i shake the world
 and rouse from sleep that fell anatomy
 which cannot hear a lady's feeble voice
 which scorns a modern invocation
cardinal pandulph lady you utter madness and not sorrow
constance thou art not holy to belie me so
 i am not mad this hair i tear is mine
 my name is constance i was geffrey's wife
 young arthur is my son and he is lost
 i am not mad i would to heaven i were
 for then tis like i should forget myself
 o if i could what grief should i forget
 preach some philosophy to make me mad
 and thou shalt be canonized cardinal
 for being not mad but sensible of grief
 my reasonable part produces reason
 how i may be deliver'd of these woes
 and teaches me to kill or hang myself
 if i were mad i should forget my son
 or madly think a babe of clouts were he
 i am not mad too well too well i feel
 the different plague of each calamity
king philip bind up those tresses o what love i note
 in the fair multitude of those her hairs
 where but by chance a silver drop hath fallen
 even to that drop ten thousand wiry friends
 do glue themselves in sociable grief
 like true inseparable faithful loves
 sticking together in calamity
constance to england if you will
king philip bind up your hairs
constance yes that i will and wherefore will i do it
 i tore them from their bonds and cried aloud
 o that these hands could so redeem my son
 as they have given these hairs their liberty'
 but now i envy at their liberty
 and will again commit them to their bonds
 because my poor child is a prisoner
 and father cardinal i have heard you say
 that we shall see and know our friends in heaven
 if that be true i shall see my boy again
 for since the birth of cain the first male child
 to him that did but yesterday suspire
 there was not such a gracious creature born
 but now will cankersorrow eat my bud
 and chase the native beauty from his cheek
 and he will look as hollow as a ghost
 as dim and meagre as an ague's fit
 and so he'll die and rising so again
 when i shall meet him in the court of heaven
 i shall not know him therefore never never
 must i behold my pretty arthur more
cardinal pandulph you hold too heinous a respect of grief
constance he talks to me that never had a son
king philip you are as fond of grief as of your child
constance grief fills the room up of my absent child
 lies in his bed walks up and down with me
 puts on his pretty looks repeats his words
 remembers me of all his gracious parts
 stuffs out his vacant garments with his form
 then have i reason to be fond of grief
 fare you well had you such a loss as i
 i could give better comfort than you do
 i will not keep this form upon my head
 when there is such disorder in my wit
 o lord my boy my arthur my fair son
 my life my joy my food my all the world
 my widowcomfort and my sorrows cure
 exit
king philip i fear some outrage and i'll follow her
 exit
lewis there's nothing in this world can make me joy
 life is as tedious as a twicetold tale
 vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man
 and bitter shame hath spoil'd the sweet world's taste
 that it yields nought but shame and bitterness
cardinal pandulph before the curing of a strong disease
 even in the instant of repair and health
 the fit is strongest evils that take leave
 on their departure most of all show evil
 what have you lost by losing of this day
lewis all days of glory joy and happiness
cardinal pandulph if you had won it certainly you had
 no no when fortune means to men most good
 she looks upon them with a threatening eye
 tis strange to think how much king john hath lost
 in this which he accounts so clearly won
 are not you grieved that arthur is his prisoner
lewis as heartily as he is glad he hath him
cardinal pandulph your mind is all as youthful as your blood
 now hear me speak with a prophetic spirit
 for even the breath of what i mean to speak
 shall blow each dust each straw each little rub
 out of the path which shall directly lead
 thy foot to england's throne and therefore mark
 john hath seized arthur and it cannot be
 that whiles warm life plays in that infant's veins
 the misplaced john should entertain an hour
 one minute nay one quiet breath of rest
 a sceptre snatch'd with an unruly hand
 must be as boisterously maintain'd as gain'd
 and he that stands upon a slippery place
 makes nice of no vile hold to stay him up
 that john may stand then arthur needs must fall
 so be it for it cannot be but so
lewis but what shall i gain by young arthur's fall
cardinal pandulph you in the right of lady blanch your wife
 may then make all the claim that arthur did
lewis and lose it life and all as arthur did
cardinal pandulph how green you are and fresh in this old world
 john lays you plots the times conspire with you
 for he that steeps his safety in true blood
 shall find but bloody safety and untrue
 this act so evilly born shall cool the hearts
 of all his people and freeze up their zeal
 that none so small advantage shall step forth
 to cheque his reign but they will cherish it
 no natural exhalation in the sky
 no scope of nature no distemper'd day
 no common wind no customed event
 but they will pluck away his natural cause
 and call them meteors prodigies and signs
 abortives presages and tongues of heaven
 plainly denouncing vengeance upon john
lewis may be he will not touch young arthur's life
 but hold himself safe in his prisonment
cardinal pandulph o sir when he shall hear of your approach
 if that young arthur be not gone already
 even at that news he dies and then the hearts
 of all his people shall revolt from him
 and kiss the lips of unacquainted change
 and pick strong matter of revolt and wrath
 out of the bloody fingers ends of john
 methinks i see this hurly all on foot
 and o what better matter breeds for you
 than i have named the bastard faulconbridge
 is now in england ransacking the church
 offending charity if but a dozen french
 were there in arms they would be as a call
 to train ten thousand english to their side
 or as a little snow tumbled about
 anon becomes a mountain o noble dauphin
 go with me to the king tis wonderful
 what may be wrought out of their discontent
 now that their souls are topful of offence
 for england go i will whet on the king
lewis strong reasons make strong actions let us go
 if you say ay the king will not say no
 exeunt
 king john
act iv
scene i a room in a castle
 enter hubert and executioners
hubert heat me these irons hot and look thou stand
 within the arras when i strike my foot
 upon the bosom of the ground rush forth
 and bind the boy which you shall find with me
 fast to the chair be heedful hence and watch
first executioner i hope your warrant will bear out the deed
hubert uncleanly scruples fear not you look to't
 exeunt executioners
 young lad come forth i have to say with you
 enter arthur
arthur good morrow hubert
hubert good morrow little prince
arthur as little prince having so great a title
 to be more prince as may be you are sad
hubert indeed i have been merrier
arthur mercy on me
 methinks no body should be sad but i
 yet i remember when i was in france
 young gentlemen would be as sad as night
 only for wantonness by my christendom
 so i were out of prison and kept sheep
 i should be as merry as the day is long
 and so i would be here but that i doubt
 my uncle practises more harm to me
 he is afraid of me and i of him
 is it my fault that i was geffrey's son
 no indeed is't not and i would to heaven
 i were your son so you would love me hubert
hubert aside if i talk to him with his innocent prate
 he will awake my mercy which lies dead
 therefore i will be sudden and dispatch
arthur are you sick hubert you look pale today
 in sooth i would you were a little sick
 that i might sit all night and watch with you
 i warrant i love you more than you do me
hubert aside his words do take possession of my bosom
 read here young arthur
 showing a paper
 aside
 how now foolish rheum
 turning dispiteous torture out of door
 i must be brief lest resolution drop
 out at mine eyes in tender womanish tears
 can you not read it is it not fair writ
arthur too fairly hubert for so foul effect
 must you with hot irons burn out both mine eyes
hubert young boy i must
arthur and will you
hubert and i will
arthur have you the heart when your head did but ache
 i knit my handercher about your brows
 the best i had a princess wrought it me
 and i did never ask it you again
 and with my hand at midnight held your head
 and like the watchful minutes to the hour
 still and anon cheer'd up the heavy time
 saying what lack you and where lies your grief'
 or what good love may i perform for you'
 many a poor man's son would have lien still
 and ne'er have spoke a loving word to you
 but you at your sick service had a prince
 nay you may think my love was crafty love
 and call it cunning do an if you will
 if heaven be pleased that you must use me ill
 why then you must will you put out mine eyes
 these eyes that never did nor never shall
 so much as frown on you
hubert i have sworn to do it
 and with hot irons must i burn them out
arthur ah none but in this iron age would do it
 the iron of itself though heat redhot
 approaching near these eyes would drink my tears
 and quench his fiery indignation
 even in the matter of mine innocence
 nay after that consume away in rust
 but for containing fire to harm mine eye
 are you more stubbornhard than hammer'd iron
 an if an angel should have come to me
 and told me hubert should put out mine eyes
 i would not have believed himno tongue but hubert's
hubert come forth
 stamps
 reenter executioners with a cord irons &c
 do as i bid you do
arthur o save me hubert save me my eyes are out
 even with the fierce looks of these bloody men
hubert give me the iron i say and bind him here
arthur alas what need you be so boisterousrough
 i will not struggle i will stand stonestill
 for heaven sake hubert let me not be bound
 nay hear me hubert drive these men away
 and i will sit as quiet as a lamb
 i will not stir nor wince nor speak a word
 nor look upon the iron angerly
 thrust but these men away and i'll forgive you
 whatever torment you do put me to
hubert go stand within let me alone with him
first executioner i am best pleased to be from such a deed
 exeunt executioners
arthur alas i then have chid away my friend
 he hath a stern look but a gentle heart
 let him come back that his compassion may
 give life to yours
hubert come boy prepare yourself
arthur is there no remedy
hubert none but to lose your eyes
arthur o heaven that there were but a mote in yours
 a grain a dust a gnat a wandering hair
 any annoyance in that precious sense
 then feeling what small things are boisterous there
 your vile intent must needs seem horrible
hubert is this your promise go to hold your tongue
arthur hubert the utterance of a brace of tongues
 must needs want pleading for a pair of eyes
 let me not hold my tongue let me not hubert
 or hubert if you will cut out my tongue
 so i may keep mine eyes o spare mine eyes
 though to no use but still to look on you
 lo by my truth the instrument is cold
 and would not harm me
hubert i can heat it boy
arthur no in good sooth the fire is dead with grief
 being create for comfort to be used
 in undeserved extremes see else yourself
 there is no malice in this burning coal
 the breath of heaven has blown his spirit out
 and strew'd repentent ashes on his head
hubert but with my breath i can revive it boy
arthur an if you do you will but make it blush
 and glow with shame of your proceedings hubert
 nay it perchance will sparkle in your eyes
 and like a dog that is compell'd to fight
 snatch at his master that doth tarre him on
 all things that you should use to do me wrong
 deny their office only you do lack
 that mercy which fierce fire and iron extends
 creatures of note for mercylacking uses
hubert well see to live i will not touch thine eye
 for all the treasure that thine uncle owes
 yet am i sworn and i did purpose boy
 with this same very iron to burn them out
arthur o now you look like hubert all this while
 you were disguised
hubert peace no more adieu
 your uncle must not know but you are dead
 i'll fill these dogged spies with false reports
 and pretty child sleep doubtless and secure
 that hubert for the wealth of all the world
 will not offend thee
arthur o heaven i thank you hubert
hubert silence no more go closely in with me
 much danger do i undergo for thee
 exeunt
 king john
act iv
scene ii king john's palace
 enter king john pembroke salisbury and other lords
king john here once again we sit once again crown'd
 and looked upon i hope with cheerful eyes
pembroke this once again but that your highness pleased
 was once superfluous you were crown'd before
 and that high royalty was ne'er pluck'd off
 the faiths of men ne'er stained with revolt
 fresh expectation troubled not the land
 with any long'dfor change or better state
salisbury therefore to be possess'd with double pomp
 to guard a title that was rich before
 to gild refined gold to paint the lily
 to throw a perfume on the violet
 to smooth the ice or add another hue
 unto the rainbow or with taperlight
 to seek the beauteous eye of heaven to garnish
 is wasteful and ridiculous excess
pembroke but that your royal pleasure must be done
 this act is as an ancient tale new told
 and in the last repeating troublesome
 being urged at a time unseasonable
salisbury in this the antique and well noted face
 of plain old form is much disfigured
 and like a shifted wind unto a sail
 it makes the course of thoughts to fetch about
 startles and frights consideration
 makes sound opinion sick and truth suspected
 for putting on so new a fashion'd robe
pembroke when workmen strive to do better than well
 they do confound their skill in covetousness
 and oftentimes excusing of a fault
 doth make the fault the worse by the excuse
 as patches set upon a little breach
 discredit more in hiding of the fault
 than did the fault before it was so patch'd
salisbury to this effect before you were new crown'd
 we breathed our counsel but it pleased your highness
 to overbear it and we are all well pleased
 since all and every part of what we would
 doth make a stand at what your highness will
king john some reasons of this double coronation
 i have possess'd you with and think them strong
 and more more strong then lesser is my fear
 i shall indue you with meantime but ask
 what you would have reform'd that is not well
 and well shall you perceive how willingly
 i will both hear and grant you your requests
pembroke then i as one that am the tongue of these
 to sound the purpose of all their hearts
 both for myself and them but chief of all
 your safety for the which myself and them
 bend their best studies heartily request
 the enfranchisement of arthur whose restraint
 doth move the murmuring lips of discontent
 to break into this dangerous argument
 if what in rest you have in right you hold
 why then your fears which as they say attend
 the steps of wrong should move you to mew up
 your tender kinsman and to choke his days
 with barbarous ignorance and deny his youth
 the rich advantage of good exercise
 that the time's enemies may not have this
 to grace occasions let it be our suit
 that you have bid us ask his liberty
 which for our goods we do no further ask
 than whereupon our weal on you depending
 counts it your weal he have his liberty
 enter hubert
king john let it be so i do commit his youth
 to your direction hubert what news with you
 taking him apart
pembroke this is the man should do the bloody deed
 he show'd his warrant to a friend of mine
 the image of a wicked heinous fault
 lives in his eye that close aspect of his
 does show the mood of a much troubled breast
 and i do fearfully believe tis done
 what we so fear'd he had a charge to do
salisbury the colour of the king doth come and go
 between his purpose and his conscience
 like heralds twixt two dreadful battles set
 his passion is so ripe it needs must break
pembroke and when it breaks i fear will issue thence
 the foul corruption of a sweet child's death
king john we cannot hold mortality's strong hand
 good lords although my will to give is living
 the suit which you demand is gone and dead
 he tells us arthur is deceased tonight
salisbury indeed we fear'd his sickness was past cure
pembroke indeed we heard how near his death he was
 before the child himself felt he was sick
 this must be answer'd either here or hence
king john why do you bend such solemn brows on me
 think you i bear the shears of destiny
 have i commandment on the pulse of life
salisbury it is apparent foul play and tis shame
 that greatness should so grossly offer it
 so thrive it in your game and so farewell
pembroke stay yet lord salisbury i'll go with thee
 and find the inheritance of this poor child
 his little kingdom of a forced grave
 that blood which owed the breadth of all this isle
 three foot of it doth hold bad world the while
 this must not be thus borne this will break out
 to all our sorrows and ere long i doubt
 exeunt lords
king john they burn in indignation i repent
 there is no sure foundation set on blood
 no certain life achieved by others death
 enter a messenger
 a fearful eye thou hast where is that blood
 that i have seen inhabit in those cheeks
 so foul a sky clears not without a storm
 pour down thy weather how goes all in france
messenger from france to england never such a power
 for any foreign preparation
 was levied in the body of a land
 the copy of your speed is learn'd by them
 for when you should be told they do prepare
 the tidings come that they are all arrived
king john o where hath our intelligence been drunk
 where hath it slept where is my mother's care
 that such an army could be drawn in france
 and she not hear of it
messenger my liege her ear
 is stopp'd with dust the first of april died
 your noble mother and as i hear my lord
 the lady constance in a frenzy died
 three days before but this from rumour's tongue
 i idly heard if true or false i know not
king john withhold thy speed dreadful occasion
 o make a league with me till i have pleased
 my discontented peers what mother dead
 how wildly then walks my estate in france
 under whose conduct came those powers of france
 that thou for truth givest out are landed here
messenger under the dauphin
king john thou hast made me giddy
 with these ill tidings
 enter the bastard and peter of pomfret
 now what says the world
 to your proceedings do not seek to stuff
 my head with more ill news for it is full
bastard but if you be afeard to hear the worst
 then let the worst unheard fall on your bead
king john bear with me cousin for i was amazed
 under the tide but now i breathe again
 aloft the flood and can give audience
 to any tongue speak it of what it will
bastard how i have sped among the clergymen
 the sums i have collected shall express
 but as i travell'd hither through the land
 i find the people strangely fantasied
 possess'd with rumours full of idle dreams
 not knowing what they fear but full of fear
 and here a prophet that i brought with me
 from forth the streets of pomfret whom i found
 with many hundreds treading on his heels
 to whom he sung in rude harshsounding rhymes
 that ere the next ascensionday at noon
 your highness should deliver up your crown
king john thou idle dreamer wherefore didst thou so
peter foreknowing that the truth will fall out so
king john hubert away with him imprison him
 and on that day at noon whereon he says
 i shall yield up my crown let him be hang'd
 deliver him to safety and return
 for i must use thee
 exeunt hubert with peter
 o my gentle cousin
 hear'st thou the news abroad who are arrived
bastard the french my lord men's mouths are full of it
 besides i met lord bigot and lord salisbury
 with eyes as red as newenkindled fire
 and others more going to seek the grave
 of arthur who they say is kill'd tonight
 on your suggestion
king john gentle kinsman go
 and thrust thyself into their companies
 i have a way to win their loves again
 bring them before me
bastard i will seek them out
king john nay but make haste the better foot before
 o let me have no subject enemies
 when adverse foreigners affright my towns
 with dreadful pomp of stout invasion
 be mercury set feathers to thy heels
 and fly like thought from them to me again
bastard the spirit of the time shall teach me speed
 exit
king john spoke like a sprightful noble gentleman
 go after him for he perhaps shall need
 some messenger betwixt me and the peers
 and be thou he
messenger with all my heart my liege
 exit
king john my mother dead
 reenter hubert
hubert my lord they say five moons were seen tonight
 four fixed and the fifth did whirl about
 the other four in wondrous motion
king john five moons
hubert old men and beldams in the streets
 do prophesy upon it dangerously
 young arthur's death is common in their mouths
 and when they talk of him they shake their heads
 and whisper one another in the ear
 and he that speaks doth gripe the hearer's wrist
 whilst he that hears makes fearful action
 with wrinkled brows with nods with rolling eyes
 i saw a smith stand with his hammer thus
 the whilst his iron did on the anvil cool
 with open mouth swallowing a tailor's news
 who with his shears and measure in his hand
 standing on slippers which his nimble haste
 had falsely thrust upon contrary feet
 told of a many thousand warlike french
 that were embattailed and rank'd in kent
 another lean unwash'd artificer
 cuts off his tale and talks of arthur's death
king john why seek'st thou to possess me with these fears
 why urgest thou so oft young arthur's death
 thy hand hath murder'd him i had a mighty cause
 to wish him dead but thou hadst none to kill him
hubert no had my lord why did you not provoke me
king john it is the curse of kings to be attended
 by slaves that take their humours for a warrant
 to break within the bloody house of life
 and on the winking of authority
 to understand a law to know the meaning
 of dangerous majesty when perchance it frowns
 more upon humour than advised respect
hubert here is your hand and seal for what i did
king john o when the last account twixt heaven and earth
 is to be made then shall this hand and seal
 witness against us to damnation
 how oft the sight of means to do ill deeds
 make deeds ill done hadst not thou been by
 a fellow by the hand of nature mark'd
 quoted and sign'd to do a deed of shame
 this murder had not come into my mind
 but taking note of thy abhorr'd aspect
 finding thee fit for bloody villany
 apt liable to be employ'd in danger
 i faintly broke with thee of arthur's death
 and thou to be endeared to a king
 made it no conscience to destroy a prince
hubert my lord
king john hadst thou but shook thy head or made a pause
 when i spake darkly what i purposed
 or turn'd an eye of doubt upon my face
 as bid me tell my tale in express words
 deep shame had struck me dumb made me break off
 and those thy fears might have wrought fears in me
 but thou didst understand me by my signs
 and didst in signs again parley with sin
 yea without stop didst let thy heart consent
 and consequently thy rude hand to act
 the deed which both our tongues held vile to name
 out of my sight and never see me more
 my nobles leave me and my state is braved
 even at my gates with ranks of foreign powers
 nay in the body of this fleshly land
 this kingdom this confine of blood and breath
 hostility and civil tumult reigns
 between my conscience and my cousin's death
hubert arm you against your other enemies
 i'll make a peace between your soul and you
 young arthur is alive this hand of mine
 is yet a maiden and an innocent hand
 not painted with the crimson spots of blood
 within this bosom never enter'd yet
 the dreadful motion of a murderous thought
 and you have slander'd nature in my form
 which howsoever rude exteriorly
 is yet the cover of a fairer mind
 than to be butcher of an innocent child
king john doth arthur live o haste thee to the peers
 throw this report on their incensed rage
 and make them tame to their obedience
 forgive the comment that my passion made
 upon thy feature for my rage was blind
 and foul imaginary eyes of blood
 presented thee more hideous than thou art
 o answer not but to my closet bring
 the angry lords with all expedient haste
 i conjure thee but slowly run more fast
 exeunt
 king john
act iv
scene iii before the castle
 enter arthur on the walls
arthur the wall is high and yet will i leap down
 good ground be pitiful and hurt me not
 there's few or none do know me if they did
 this shipboy's semblance hath disguised me quite
 i am afraid and yet i'll venture it
 if i get down and do not break my limbs
 i'll find a thousand shifts to get away
 as good to die and go as die and stay
 leaps down
 o me my uncle's spirit is in these stones
 heaven take my soul and england keep my bones
 dies
 enter pembroke salisbury and bigot
salisbury lords i will meet him at saint edmundsbury
 it is our safety and we must embrace
 this gentle offer of the perilous time
pembroke who brought that letter from the cardinal
salisbury the count melun a noble lord of france
 whose private with me of the dauphin's love
 is much more general than these lines import
bigot tomorrow morning let us meet him then
salisbury or rather then set forward for twill be
 two long days journey lords or ere we meet
 enter the bastard
bastard once more today well met distemper'd lords
 the king by me requests your presence straight
salisbury the king hath dispossess'd himself of us
 we will not line his thin bestained cloak
 with our pure honours nor attend the foot
 that leaves the print of blood where'er it walks
 return and tell him so we know the worst
bastard whate'er you think good words i think were best
salisbury our griefs and not our manners reason now
bastard but there is little reason in your grief
 therefore twere reason you had manners now
pembroke sir sir impatience hath his privilege
bastard tis true to hurt his master no man else
salisbury this is the prison what is he lies here
 seeing arthur
pembroke o death made proud with pure and princely beauty
 the earth had not a hole to hide this deed
salisbury murder as hating what himself hath done
 doth lay it open to urge on revenge
bigot or when he doom'd this beauty to a grave
 found it too preciousprincely for a grave
salisbury sir richard what think you have you beheld
 or have you read or heard or could you think
 or do you almost think although you see
 that you do see could thought without this object
 form such another this is the very top
 the height the crest or crest unto the crest
 of murder's arms this is the bloodiest shame
 the wildest savagery the vilest stroke
 that ever walleyed wrath or staring rage
 presented to the tears of soft remorse
pembroke all murders past do stand excused in this
 and this so sole and so unmatchable
 shall give a holiness a purity
 to the yet unbegotten sin of times
 and prove a deadly bloodshed but a jest
 exampled by this heinous spectacle
bastard it is a damned and a bloody work
 the graceless action of a heavy hand
 if that it be the work of any hand
salisbury if that it be the work of any hand
 we had a kind of light what would ensue
 it is the shameful work of hubert's hand
 the practise and the purpose of the king
 from whose obedience i forbid my soul
 kneeling before this ruin of sweet life
 and breathing to his breathless excellence
 the incense of a vow a holy vow
 never to taste the pleasures of the world
 never to be infected with delight
 nor conversant with ease and idleness
 till i have set a glory to this hand
 by giving it the worship of revenge
pembroke 
 our souls religiously confirm thy words
bigot 
 enter hubert
hubert lords i am hot with haste in seeking you
 arthur doth live the king hath sent for you
salisbury o he is old and blushes not at death
 avaunt thou hateful villain get thee gone
hubert i am no villain
salisbury must i rob the law
 drawing his sword
bastard your sword is bright sir put it up again
salisbury not till i sheathe it in a murderer's skin
hubert stand back lord salisbury stand back i say
 by heaven i think my sword's as sharp as yours
 i would not have you lord forget yourself
 nor tempt the danger of my true defence
 lest i by marking of your rage forget
 your worth your greatness and nobility
bigot out dunghill darest thou brave a nobleman
hubert not for my life but yet i dare defend
 my innocent life against an emperor
salisbury thou art a murderer
hubert do not prove me so
 yet i am none whose tongue soe'er speaks false
 not truly speaks who speaks not truly lies
pembroke cut him to pieces
bastard keep the peace i say
salisbury stand by or i shall gall you faulconbridge
bastard thou wert better gall the devil salisbury
 if thou but frown on me or stir thy foot
 or teach thy hasty spleen to do me shame
 i'll strike thee dead put up thy sword betime
 or i'll so maul you and your toastingiron
 that you shall think the devil is come from hell
bigot what wilt thou do renowned faulconbridge
 second a villain and a murderer
hubert lord bigot i am none
bigot who kill'd this prince
hubert tis not an hour since i left him well
 i honour'd him i loved him and will weep
 my date of life out for his sweet life's loss
salisbury trust not those cunning waters of his eyes
 for villany is not without such rheum
 and he long traded in it makes it seem
 like rivers of remorse and innocency
 away with me all you whose souls abhor
 the uncleanly savours of a slaughterhouse
 for i am stifled with this smell of sin
bigot away toward bury to the dauphin there
pembroke there tell the king he may inquire us out
 exeunt lords
bastard here's a good world knew you of this fair work
 beyond the infinite and boundless reach
 of mercy if thou didst this deed of death
 art thou damn'd hubert
hubert do but hear me sir
bastard ha i'll tell thee what
 thou'rt damn'd as blacknay nothing is so black
 thou art more deep damn'd than prince lucifer
 there is not yet so ugly a fiend of hell
 as thou shalt be if thou didst kill this child
hubert upon my soul
bastard if thou didst but consent
 to this most cruel act do but despair
 and if thou want'st a cord the smallest thread
 that ever spider twisted from her womb
 will serve to strangle thee a rush will be a beam
 to hang thee on or wouldst thou drown thyself
 put but a little water in a spoon
 and it shall be as all the ocean
 enough to stifle such a villain up
 i do suspect thee very grievously
hubert if i in act consent or sin of thought
 be guilty of the stealing that sweet breath
 which was embounded in this beauteous clay
 let hell want pains enough to torture me
 i left him well
bastard go bear him in thine arms
 i am amazed methinks and lose my way
 among the thorns and dangers of this world
 how easy dost thou take all england up
 from forth this morsel of dead royalty
 the life the right and truth of all this realm
 is fled to heaven and england now is left
 to tug and scamble and to part by the teeth
 the unowed interest of proudswelling state
 now for the barepick'd bone of majesty
 doth dogged war bristle his angry crest
 and snarleth in the gentle eyes of peace
 now powers from home and discontents at home
 meet in one line and vast confusion waits
 as doth a raven on a sickfall'n beast
 the imminent decay of wrested pomp
 now happy he whose cloak and cincture can
 hold out this tempest bear away that child
 and follow me with speed i'll to the king
 a thousand businesses are brief in hand
 and heaven itself doth frown upon the land
 exeunt
 king john
act v
scene i king john's palace
 enter king john cardinal pandulph and attendants
king john thus have i yielded up into your hand
 the circle of my glory
 giving the crown
cardinal pandulph take again
 from this my hand as holding of the pope
 your sovereign greatness and authority
king john now keep your holy word go meet the french
 and from his holiness use all your power
 to stop their marches fore we are inflamed
 our discontented counties do revolt
 our people quarrel with obedience
 swearing allegiance and the love of soul
 to stranger blood to foreign royalty
 this inundation of mistemper'd humour
 rests by you only to be qualified
 then pause not for the present time's so sick
 that present medicine must be minister'd
 or overthrow incurable ensues
cardinal pandulph it was my breath that blew this tempest up
 upon your stubborn usage of the pope
 but since you are a gentle convertite
 my tongue shall hush again this storm of war
 and make fair weather in your blustering land
 on this ascensionday remember well
 upon your oath of service to the pope
 go i to make the french lay down their arms
 exit
king john is this ascensionday did not the prophet
 say that before ascensionday at noon
 my crown i should give off even so i have
 i did suppose it should be on constraint
 but heaven be thank'd it is but voluntary
 enter the bastard
bastard all kent hath yielded nothing there holds out
 but dover castle london hath received
 like a kind host the dauphin and his powers
 your nobles will not hear you but are gone
 to offer service to your enemy
 and wild amazement hurries up and down
 the little number of your doubtful friends
king john would not my lords return to me again
 after they heard young arthur was alive
bastard they found him dead and cast into the streets
 an empty casket where the jewel of life
 by some damn'd hand was robb'd and ta'en away
king john that villain hubert told me he did live
bastard so on my soul he did for aught he knew
 but wherefore do you droop why look you sad
 be great in act as you have been in thought
 let not the world see fear and sad distrust
 govern the motion of a kingly eye
 be stirring as the time be fire with fire
 threaten the threatener and outface the brow
 of bragging horror so shall inferior eyes
 that borrow their behaviors from the great
 grow great by your example and put on
 the dauntless spirit of resolution
 away and glister like the god of war
 when he intendeth to become the field
 show boldness and aspiring confidence
 what shall they seek the lion in his den
 and fright him there and make him tremble there
 o let it not be said forage and run
 to meet displeasure farther from the doors
 and grapple with him ere he comes so nigh
king john the legate of the pope hath been with me
 and i have made a happy peace with him
 and he hath promised to dismiss the powers
 led by the dauphin
bastard o inglorious league
 shall we upon the footing of our land
 send fairplay orders and make compromise
 insinuation parley and base truce
 to arms invasive shall a beardless boy
 a cocker'd silken wanton brave our fields
 and flesh his spirit in a warlike soil
 mocking the air with colours idly spread
 and find no cheque let us my liege to arms
 perchance the cardinal cannot make your peace
 or if he do let it at least be said
 they saw we had a purpose of defence
king john have thou the ordering of this present time
bastard away then with good courage yet i know
 our party may well meet a prouder foe
 exeunt
 king john
act v
scene ii lewis's camp at st edmundsbury
 enter in arms lewis salisbury melun pembroke
 bigot and soldiers
lewis my lord melun let this be copied out
 and keep it safe for our remembrance
 return the precedent to these lords again
 that having our fair order written down
 both they and we perusing o'er these notes
 may know wherefore we took the sacrament
 and keep our faiths firm and inviolable
salisbury upon our sides it never shall be broken
 and noble dauphin albeit we swear
 a voluntary zeal and an unurged faith
 to your proceedings yet believe me prince
 i am not glad that such a sore of time
 should seek a plaster by contemn'd revolt
 and heal the inveterate canker of one wound
 by making many o it grieves my soul
 that i must draw this metal from my side
 to be a widowmaker o and there
 where honourable rescue and defence
 cries out upon the name of salisbury
 but such is the infection of the time
 that for the health and physic of our right
 we cannot deal but with the very hand
 of stern injustice and confused wrong
 and is't not pity o my grieved friends
 that we the sons and children of this isle
 were born to see so sad an hour as this
 wherein we step after a stranger march
 upon her gentle bosom and fill up
 her enemies ranksi must withdraw and weep
 upon the spot of this enforced cause
 to grace the gentry of a land remote
 and follow unacquainted colours here
 what here o nation that thou couldst remove
 that neptune's arms who clippeth thee about
 would bear thee from the knowledge of thyself
 and grapple thee unto a pagan shore
 where these two christian armies might combine
 the blood of malice in a vein of league
 and not to spend it so unneighbourly
lewis a noble temper dost thou show in this
 and great affections wrestling in thy bosom
 doth make an earthquake of nobility
 o what a noble combat hast thou fought
 between compulsion and a brave respect
 let me wipe off this honourable dew
 that silverly doth progress on thy cheeks
 my heart hath melted at a lady's tears
 being an ordinary inundation
 but this effusion of such manly drops
 this shower blown up by tempest of the soul
 startles mine eyes and makes me more amazed
 than had i seen the vaulty top of heaven
 figured quite o'er with burning meteors
 lift up thy brow renowned salisbury
 and with a great heart heave away the storm
 commend these waters to those baby eyes
 that never saw the giant world enraged
 nor met with fortune other than at feasts
 full of warm blood of mirth of gossiping
 come come for thou shalt thrust thy hand as deep
 into the purse of rich prosperity
 as lewis himself so nobles shall you all
 that knit your sinews to the strength of mine
 and even there methinks an angel spake
 enter cardinal pandulph
 look where the holy legate comes apace
 to give us warrant from the hand of heaven
 and on our actions set the name of right
 with holy breath
cardinal pandulph hail noble prince of france
 the next is this king john hath reconciled
 himself to rome his spirit is come in
 that so stood out against the holy church
 the great metropolis and see of rome
 therefore thy threatening colours now wind up
 and tame the savage spirit of wild war
 that like a lion foster'd up at hand
 it may lie gently at the foot of peace
 and be no further harmful than in show
lewis your grace shall pardon me i will not back
 i am too highborn to be propertied
 to be a secondary at control
 or useful servingman and instrument
 to any sovereign state throughout the world
 your breath first kindled the dead coal of wars
 between this chastised kingdom and myself
 and brought in matter that should feed this fire
 and now tis far too huge to be blown out
 with that same weak wind which enkindled it
 you taught me how to know the face of right
 acquainted me with interest to this land
 yea thrust this enterprise into my heart
 and come ye now to tell me john hath made
 his peace with rome what is that peace to me
 i by the honour of my marriagebed
 after young arthur claim this land for mine
 and now it is halfconquer'd must i back
 because that john hath made his peace with rome
 am i rome's slave what penny hath rome borne
 what men provided what munition sent
 to underprop this action is't not i
 that undergo this charge who else but i
 and such as to my claim are liable
 sweat in this business and maintain this war
 have i not heard these islanders shout out
 vive le roi as i have bank'd their towns
 have i not here the best cards for the game
 to win this easy match play'd for a crown
 and shall i now give o'er the yielded set
 no no on my soul it never shall be said
cardinal pandulph you look but on the outside of this work
lewis outside or inside i will not return
 till my attempt so much be glorified
 as to my ample hope was promised
 before i drew this gallant head of war
 and cull'd these fiery spirits from the world
 to outlook conquest and to win renown
 even in the jaws of danger and of death
 trumpet sounds
 what lusty trumpet thus doth summon us
 enter the bastard attended
bastard according to the fair play of the world
 let me have audience i am sent to speak
 my holy lord of milan from the king
 i come to learn how you have dealt for him
 and as you answer i do know the scope
 and warrant limited unto my tongue
cardinal pandulph the dauphin is too wilfulopposite
 and will not temporize with my entreaties
 he flatly says he'll not lay down his arms
bastard by all the blood that ever fury breathed
 the youth says well now hear our english king
 for thus his royalty doth speak in me
 he is prepared and reason too he should
 this apish and unmannerly approach
 this harness'd masque and unadvised revel
 this unhair'd sauciness and boyish troops
 the king doth smile at and is well prepared
 to whip this dwarfish war these pigmy arms
 from out the circle of his territories
 that hand which had the strength even at your door
 to cudgel you and make you take the hatch
 to dive like buckets in concealed wells
 to crouch in litter of your stable planks
 to lie like pawns lock'd up in chests and trunks
 to hug with swine to seek sweet safety out
 in vaults and prisons and to thrill and shake
 even at the crying of your nation's crow
 thinking his voice an armed englishman
 shall that victorious hand be feebled here
 that in your chambers gave you chastisement
 no know the gallant monarch is in arms
 and like an eagle o'er his aery towers
 to souse annoyance that comes near his nest
 and you degenerate you ingrate revolts
 you bloody neroes ripping up the womb
 of your dear mother england blush for shame
 for your own ladies and palevisaged maids
 like amazons come tripping after drums
 their thimbles into armed gauntlets change
 their needles to lances and their gentle hearts
 to fierce and bloody inclination
lewis there end thy brave and turn thy face in peace
 we grant thou canst outscold us fare thee well
 we hold our time too precious to be spent
 with such a brabbler
cardinal pandulph give me leave to speak
bastard no i will speak
lewis we will attend to neither
 strike up the drums and let the tongue of war
 plead for our interest and our being here
bastard indeed your drums being beaten will cry out
 and so shall you being beaten do but start
 an echo with the clamour of thy drum
 and even at hand a drum is ready braced
 that shall reverberate all as loud as thine
 sound but another and another shall
 as loud as thine rattle the welkin's ear
 and mock the deepmouth'd thunder for at hand
 not trusting to this halting legate here
 whom he hath used rather for sport than need
 is warlike john and in his forehead sits
 a bareribb'd death whose office is this day
 to feast upon whole thousands of the french
lewis strike up our drums to find this danger out
bastard and thou shalt find it dauphin do not doubt
 exeunt
 king john
act v
scene iii the field of battle
 alarums enter king john and hubert
king john how goes the day with us o tell me hubert
hubert badly i fear how fares your majesty
king john this fever that hath troubled me so long
 lies heavy on me o my heart is sick
 enter a messenger
messenger my lord your valiant kinsman faulconbridge
 desires your majesty to leave the field
 and send him word by me which way you go
king john tell him toward swinstead to the abbey there
messenger be of good comfort for the great supply
 that was expected by the dauphin here
 are wreck'd three nights ago on goodwin sands
 this news was brought to richard but even now
 the french fight coldly and retire themselves
king john ay me this tyrant fever burns me up
 and will not let me welcome this good news
 set on toward swinstead to my litter straight
 weakness possesseth me and i am faint
 exeunt
 king john
act v
scene iv another part of the field
 enter salisbury pembroke and bigot
salisbury i did not think the king so stored with friends
pembroke up once again put spirit in the french
 if they miscarry we miscarry too
salisbury that misbegotten devil faulconbridge
 in spite of spite alone upholds the day
pembroke they say king john sore sick hath left the field
 enter melun wounded
melun lead me to the revolts of england here
salisbury when we were happy we had other names
pembroke it is the count melun
salisbury wounded to death
melun fly noble english you are bought and sold
 unthread the rude eye of rebellion
 and welcome home again discarded faith
 seek out king john and fall before his feet
 for if the french be lords of this loud day
 he means to recompense the pains you take
 by cutting off your heads thus hath he sworn
 and i with him and many moe with me
 upon the altar at saint edmundsbury
 even on that altar where we swore to you
 dear amity and everlasting love
salisbury may this be possible may this be true
melun have i not hideous death within my view
 retaining but a quantity of life
 which bleeds away even as a form of wax
 resolveth from his figure gainst the fire
 what in the world should make me now deceive
 since i must lose the use of all deceit
 why should i then be false since it is true
 that i must die here and live hence by truth
 i say again if lewis do win the day
 he is forsworn if e'er those eyes of yours
 behold another day break in the east
 but even this night whose black contagious breath
 already smokes about the burning crest
 of the old feeble and daywearied sun
 even this ill night your breathing shall expire
 paying the fine of rated treachery
 even with a treacherous fine of all your lives
 if lewis by your assistance win the day
 commend me to one hubert with your king
 the love of him and this respect besides
 for that my grandsire was an englishman
 awakes my conscience to confess all this
 in lieu whereof i pray you bear me hence
 from forth the noise and rumour of the field
 where i may think the remnant of my thoughts
 in peace and part this body and my soul
 with contemplation and devout desires
salisbury we do believe thee and beshrew my soul
 but i do love the favour and the form
 of this most fair occasion by the which
 we will untread the steps of damned flight
 and like a bated and retired flood
 leaving our rankness and irregular course
 stoop low within those bounds we have o'erlook'd
 and cabby run on in obedience
 even to our ocean to our great king john
 my arm shall give thee help to bear thee hence
 for i do see the cruel pangs of death
 right in thine eye away my friends new flight
 and happy newness that intends old right
 exeunt leading off melun
 king john
act v
scene v the french camp
 enter lewis and his train
lewis the sun of heaven methought was loath to set
 but stay'd and made the western welkin blush
 when english measure backward their own ground
 in faint retire o bravely came we off
 when with a volley of our needless shot
 after such bloody toil we bid good night
 and wound our tattering colours clearly up
 last in the field and almost lords of it
 enter a messenger
messenger where is my prince the dauphin
lewis here what news
messenger the count melun is slain the english lords
 by his persuasion are again fall'n off
 and your supply which you have wish'd so long
 are cast away and sunk on goodwin sands
lewis ah foul shrewd news beshrew thy very heart
 i did not think to be so sad tonight
 as this hath made me who was he that said
 king john did fly an hour or two before
 the stumbling night did part our weary powers
messenger whoever spoke it it is true my lord
lewis well keep good quarter and good care tonight
 the day shall not be up so soon as i
 to try the fair adventure of tomorrow
 exeunt
 king john
act v
scene vi an open place in the neighbourhood of swinstead abbey
 enter the bastard and hubert severally
hubert who's there speak ho speak quickly or i shoot
bastard a friend what art thou
hubert of the part of england
bastard whither dost thou go
hubert what's that to thee why may not i demand
 of thine affairs as well as thou of mine
bastard hubert i think
hubert thou hast a perfect thought
 i will upon all hazards well believe
 thou art my friend that know'st my tongue so well
 who art thou
bastard who thou wilt and if thou please
 thou mayst befriend me so much as to think
 i come one way of the plantagenets
hubert unkind remembrance thou and eyeless night
 have done me shame brave soldier pardon me
 that any accent breaking from thy tongue
 should scape the true acquaintance of mine ear
bastard come come sans compliment what news abroad
hubert why here walk i in the black brow of night
 to find you out
bastard brief then and what's the news
hubert o my sweet sir news fitting to the night
 black fearful comfortless and horrible
bastard show me the very wound of this ill news
 i am no woman i'll not swoon at it
hubert the king i fear is poison'd by a monk
 i left him almost speechless and broke out
 to acquaint you with this evil that you might
 the better arm you to the sudden time
 than if you had at leisure known of this
bastard how did he take it who did taste to him
hubert a monk i tell you a resolved villain
 whose bowels suddenly burst out the king
 yet speaks and peradventure may recover
bastard who didst thou leave to tend his majesty
hubert why know you not the lords are all come back
 and brought prince henry in their company
 at whose request the king hath pardon'd them
 and they are all about his majesty
bastard withhold thine indignation mighty heaven
 and tempt us not to bear above our power
 i'll tell tree hubert half my power this night
 passing these flats are taken by the tide
 these lincoln washes have devoured them
 myself well mounted hardly have escaped
 away before conduct me to the king
 i doubt he will be dead or ere i come
 exeunt
 king john
act v
scene vii the orchard in swinstead abbey
 enter prince henry salisbury and bigot
prince henry it is too late the life of all his blood
 is touch'd corruptibly and his pure brain
 which some suppose the soul's frail dwellinghouse
 doth by the idle comments that it makes
 foretell the ending of mortality
 enter pembroke
pembroke his highness yet doth speak and holds belief
 that being brought into the open air
 it would allay the burning quality
 of that fell poison which assaileth him
prince henry let him be brought into the orchard here
 doth he still rage
 exit bigot
pembroke he is more patient
 than when you left him even now he sung
prince henry o vanity of sickness fierce extremes
 in their continuance will not feel themselves
 death having prey'd upon the outward parts
 leaves them invisible and his siege is now
 against the mind the which he pricks and wounds
 with many legions of strange fantasies
 which in their throng and press to that last hold
 confound themselves tis strange that death
 should sing
 i am the cygnet to this pale faint swan
 who chants a doleful hymn to his own death
 and from the organpipe of frailty sings
 his soul and body to their lasting rest
salisbury be of good comfort prince for you are born
 to set a form upon that indigest
 which he hath left so shapeless and so rude
 enter attendants and bigot carrying king john in a chair
king john ay marry now my soul hath elbowroom
 it would not out at windows nor at doors
 there is so hot a summer in my bosom
 that all my bowels crumble up to dust
 i am a scribbled form drawn with a pen
 upon a parchment and against this fire
 do i shrink up
prince henry how fares your majesty
king john poison'dill faredead forsook cast off
 and none of you will bid the winter come
 to thrust his icy fingers in my maw
 nor let my kingdom's rivers take their course
 through my burn'd bosom nor entreat the north
 to make his bleak winds kiss my parched lips
 and comfort me with cold i do not ask you much
 i beg cold comfort and you are so strait
 and so ingrateful you deny me that
prince henry o that there were some virtue in my tears
 that might relieve you
king john the salt in them is hot
 within me is a hell and there the poison
 is as a fiend confined to tyrannize
 on unreprievable condemned blood
 enter the bastard
bastard o i am scalded with my violent motion
 and spleen of speed to see your majesty
king john o cousin thou art come to set mine eye
 the tackle of my heart is crack'd and burn'd
 and all the shrouds wherewith my life should sail
 are turned to one thread one little hair
 my heart hath one poor string to stay it by
 which holds but till thy news be uttered
 and then all this thou seest is but a clod
 and module of confounded royalty
bastard the dauphin is preparing hitherward
 where heaven he knows how we shall answer him
 for in a night the best part of my power
 as i upon advantage did remove
 were in the washes all unwarily
 devoured by the unexpected flood
 king john dies
salisbury you breathe these dead news in as dead an ear
 my liege my lord but now a king now thus
prince henry even so must i run on and even so stop
 what surety of the world what hope what stay
 when this was now a king and now is clay
bastard art thou gone so i do but stay behind
 to do the office for thee of revenge
 and then my soul shall wait on thee to heaven
 as it on earth hath been thy servant still
 now now you stars that move in your right spheres
 where be your powers show now your mended faiths
 and instantly return with me again
 to push destruction and perpetual shame
 out of the weak door of our fainting land
 straight let us seek or straight we shall be sought
 the dauphin rages at our very heels
salisbury it seems you know not then so much as we
 the cardinal pandulph is within at rest
 who half an hour since came from the dauphin
 and brings from him such offers of our peace
 as we with honour and respect may take
 with purpose presently to leave this war
bastard he will the rather do it when he sees
 ourselves well sinewed to our defence
salisbury nay it is in a manner done already
 for many carriages he hath dispatch'd
 to the seaside and put his cause and quarrel
 to the disposing of the cardinal
 with whom yourself myself and other lords
 if you think meet this afternoon will post
 to consummate this business happily
bastard let it be so and you my noble prince
 with other princes that may best be spared
 shall wait upon your father's funeral
prince henry at worcester must his body be interr'd
 for so he will'd it
bastard thither shall it then
 and happily may your sweet self put on
 the lineal state and glory of the land
 to whom with all submission on my knee
 i do bequeath my faithful services
 and true subjection everlastingly
salisbury and the like tender of our love we make
 to rest without a spot for evermore
prince henry i have a kind soul that would give you thanks
 and knows not how to do it but with tears
bastard o let us pay the time but needful woe
 since it hath been beforehand with our griefs
 this england never did nor never shall
 lie at the proud foot of a conqueror
 but when it first did help to wound itself
 now these her princes are come home again
 come the three corners of the world in arms
 and we shall shock them nought shall make us rue
 if england to itself do rest but true
 exeunt
 king richard ii
 dramatis personae
king richard the second king richard ii
john of gaunt duke of lancaster 
 uncles to the king
edmund of langley duke of york duke of york 
henry surnamed
bolingbroke henry bolingbroke duke of hereford
 son to john of gaunt afterwards king henry iv
duke of aumerle son to the duke of york
thomas mowbray duke of norfolk
duke of surrey
earl of salisbury
lord berkeley
bushy 
 
bagot servants to king richard
 
green 
earl
of northumberland northumberland
henry percy
surnamed hotspur his son henry percy
lord ross
lord willoughby
lord fitzwater
bishop of carlisle
abbot of
westminster abbot
lord marshal lord marshal
sir stephen scroop
sir
pierce of exton exton
 captain of a band of welshmen captain
queen
to king richard queen
duchess of york duchess of york
duchess
of gloucester duchess
 lady attending on the queen lady
 lords heralds officers soldiers two gardeners
 keeper messenger groom and other attendants lord
 first herald
 second herald
 gardener
 keeper
 groom
 servant
scene england and wales
 king richard ii
act i
scene i london king richard ii's palace
 enter king richard ii john of gaunt with other
 nobles and attendants
king richard ii old john of gaunt timehonour'd lancaster
 hast thou according to thy oath and band
 brought hither henry hereford thy bold son
 here to make good the boisterous late appeal
 which then our leisure would not let us hear
 against the duke of norfolk thomas mowbray
john of gaunt i have my liege
king richard ii tell me moreover hast thou sounded him
 if he appeal the duke on ancient malice
 or worthily as a good subject should
 on some known ground of treachery in him
john of gaunt as near as i could sift him on that argument
 on some apparent danger seen in him
 aim'd at your highness no inveterate malice
king richard ii then call them to our presence face to face
 and frowning brow to brow ourselves will hear
 the accuser and the accused freely speak
 highstomach'd are they both and full of ire
 in rage deaf as the sea hasty as fire
 enter henry bolingbroke and thomas mowbray
henry bolingbroke many years of happy days befal
 my gracious sovereign my most loving liege
thomas mowbray each day still better other's happiness
 until the heavens envying earth's good hap
 add an immortal title to your crown
king richard ii we thank you both yet one but flatters us
 as well appeareth by the cause you come
 namely to appeal each other of high treason
 cousin of hereford what dost thou object
 against the duke of norfolk thomas mowbray
henry bolingbroke first heaven be the record to my speech
 in the devotion of a subject's love
 tendering the precious safety of my prince
 and free from other misbegotten hate
 come i appellant to this princely presence
 now thomas mowbray do i turn to thee
 and mark my greeting well for what i speak
 my body shall make good upon this earth
 or my divine soul answer it in heaven
 thou art a traitor and a miscreant
 too good to be so and too bad to live
 since the more fair and crystal is the sky
 the uglier seem the clouds that in it fly
 once more the more to aggravate the note
 with a foul traitor's name stuff i thy throat
 and wish so please my sovereign ere i move
 what my tongue speaks my right drawn sword may prove
thomas mowbray let not my cold words here accuse my zeal
 tis not the trial of a woman's war
 the bitter clamour of two eager tongues
 can arbitrate this cause betwixt us twain
 the blood is hot that must be cool'd for this
 yet can i not of such tame patience boast
 as to be hush'd and nought at all to say
 first the fair reverence of your highness curbs me
 from giving reins and spurs to my free speech
 which else would post until it had return'd
 these terms of treason doubled down his throat
 setting aside his high blood's royalty
 and let him be no kinsman to my liege
 i do defy him and i spit at him
 call him a slanderous coward and a villain
 which to maintain i would allow him odds
 and meet him were i tied to run afoot
 even to the frozen ridges of the alps
 or any other ground inhabitable
 where ever englishman durst set his foot
 mean time let this defend my loyalty
 by all my hopes most falsely doth he lie
henry bolingbroke pale trembling coward there i throw my gage
 disclaiming here the kindred of the king
 and lay aside my high blood's royalty
 which fear not reverence makes thee to except
 if guilty dread have left thee so much strength
 as to take up mine honour's pawn then stoop
 by that and all the rites of knighthood else
 will i make good against thee arm to arm
 what i have spoke or thou canst worse devise
thomas mowbray i take it up and by that sword i swear
 which gently laid my knighthood on my shoulder
 i'll answer thee in any fair degree
 or chivalrous design of knightly trial
 and when i mount alive may i not light
 if i be traitor or unjustly fight
king richard ii what doth our cousin lay to mowbray's charge
 it must be great that can inherit us
 so much as of a thought of ill in him
henry bolingbroke look what i speak my life shall prove it true
 that mowbray hath received eight thousand nobles
 in name of lendings for your highness soldiers
 the which he hath detain'd for lewd employments
 like a false traitor and injurious villain
 besides i say and will in battle prove
 or here or elsewhere to the furthest verge
 that ever was survey'd by english eye
 that all the treasons for these eighteen years
 complotted and contrived in this land
 fetch from false mowbray their first head and spring
 further i say and further will maintain
 upon his bad life to make all this good
 that he did plot the duke of gloucester's death
 suggest his soonbelieving adversaries
 and consequently like a traitor coward
 sluiced out his innocent soul through streams of blood
 which blood like sacrificing abel's cries
 even from the tongueless caverns of the earth
 to me for justice and rough chastisement
 and by the glorious worth of my descent
 this arm shall do it or this life be spent
king richard ii how high a pitch his resolution soars
 thomas of norfolk what say'st thou to this
thomas mowbray o let my sovereign turn away his face
 and bid his ears a little while be deaf
 till i have told this slander of his blood
 how god and good men hate so foul a liar
king richard ii mowbray impartial are our eyes and ears
 were he my brother nay my kingdom's heir
 as he is but my father's brother's son
 now by my sceptre's awe i make a vow
 such neighbour nearness to our sacred blood
 should nothing privilege him nor partialize
 the unstooping firmness of my upright soul
 he is our subject mowbray so art thou
 free speech and fearless i to thee allow
thomas mowbray then bolingbroke as low as to thy heart
 through the false passage of thy throat thou liest
 three parts of that receipt i had for calais
 disbursed i duly to his highness soldiers
 the other part reserved i by consent
 for that my sovereign liege was in my debt
 upon remainder of a dear account
 since last i went to france to fetch his queen
 now swallow down that lie for gloucester's death
 i slew him not but to my own disgrace
 neglected my sworn duty in that case
 for you my noble lord of lancaster
 the honourable father to my foe
 once did i lay an ambush for your life
 a trespass that doth vex my grieved soul
 but ere i last received the sacrament
 i did confess it and exactly begg'd
 your grace's pardon and i hope i had it
 this is my fault as for the rest appeall'd
 it issues from the rancour of a villain
 a recreant and most degenerate traitor
 which in myself i boldly will defend
 and interchangeably hurl down my gage
 upon this overweening traitor's foot
 to prove myself a loyal gentleman
 even in the best blood chamber'd in his bosom
 in haste whereof most heartily i pray
 your highness to assign our trial day
king richard ii wrathkindled gentlemen be ruled by me
 let's purge this choler without letting blood
 this we prescribe though no physician
 deep malice makes too deep incision
 forget forgive conclude and be agreed
 our doctors say this is no month to bleed
 good uncle let this end where it begun
 we'll calm the duke of norfolk you your son
john of gaunt to be a makepeace shall become my age
 throw down my son the duke of norfolk's gage
king richard ii and norfolk throw down his
john of gaunt when harry when
 obedience bids i should not bid again
king richard ii norfolk throw down we bid there is no boot
thomas mowbray myself i throw dread sovereign at thy foot
 my life thou shalt command but not my shame
 the one my duty owes but my fair name
 despite of death that lives upon my grave
 to dark dishonour's use thou shalt not have
 i am disgraced impeach'd and baffled here
 pierced to the soul with slander's venom'd spear
 the which no balm can cure but his heartblood
 which breathed this poison
king richard ii rage must be withstood
 give me his gage lions make leopards tame
thomas mowbray yea but not change his spots take but my shame
 and i resign my gage my dear dear lord
 the purest treasure mortal times afford
 is spotless reputation that away
 men are but gilded loam or painted clay
 a jewel in a tentimesbarr'dup chest
 is a bold spirit in a loyal breast
 mine honour is my life both grow in one
 take honour from me and my life is done
 then dear my liege mine honour let me try
 in that i live and for that will i die
king richard ii cousin throw up your gage do you begin
henry bolingbroke o god defend my soul from such deep sin
 shall i seem crestfall'n in my father's sight
 or with pale beggarfear impeach my height
 before this outdared dastard ere my tongue
 shall wound my honour with such feeble wrong
 or sound so base a parle my teeth shall tear
 the slavish motive of recanting fear
 and spit it bleeding in his high disgrace
 where shame doth harbour even in mowbray's face
 exit john of gaunt
king richard ii we were not born to sue but to command
 which since we cannot do to make you friends
 be ready as your lives shall answer it
 at coventry upon saint lambert's day
 there shall your swords and lances arbitrate
 the swelling difference of your settled hate
 since we can not atone you we shall see
 justice design the victor's chivalry
 lord marshal command our officers at arms
 be ready to direct these home alarms
 exeunt
 king richard ii
act i
scene ii the duke of lancaster's palace
 enter john of gaunt with duchess
john of gaunt alas the part i had in woodstock's blood
 doth more solicit me than your exclaims
 to stir against the butchers of his life
 but since correction lieth in those hands
 which made the fault that we cannot correct
 put we our quarrel to the will of heaven
 who when they see the hours ripe on earth
 will rain hot vengeance on offenders heads
duchess finds brotherhood in thee no sharper spur
 hath love in thy old blood no living fire
 edward's seven sons whereof thyself art one
 were as seven vials of his sacred blood
 or seven fair branches springing from one root
 some of those seven are dried by nature's course
 some of those branches by the destinies cut
 but thomas my dear lord my life my gloucester
 one vial full of edward's sacred blood
 one flourishing branch of his most royal root
 is crack'd and all the precious liquor spilt
 is hack'd down and his summer leaves all faded
 by envy's hand and murder's bloody axe
 ah gaunt his blood was thine that bed that womb
 that metal that selfmould that fashion'd thee
 made him a man and though thou livest and breathest
 yet art thou slain in him thou dost consent
 in some large measure to thy father's death
 in that thou seest thy wretched brother die
 who was the model of thy father's life
 call it not patience gaunt it is despair
 in suffering thus thy brother to be slaughter'd
 thou showest the naked pathway to thy life
 teaching stern murder how to butcher thee
 that which in mean men we intitle patience
 is pale cold cowardice in noble breasts
 what shall i say to safeguard thine own life
 the best way is to venge my gloucester's death
john of gaunt god's is the quarrel for god's substitute
 his deputy anointed in his sight
 hath caused his death the which if wrongfully
 let heaven revenge for i may never lift
 an angry arm against his minister
duchess where then alas may i complain myself
john of gaunt to god the widow's champion and defence
duchess why then i will farewell old gaunt
 thou goest to coventry there to behold
 our cousin hereford and fell mowbray fight
 o sit my husband's wrongs on hereford's spear
 that it may enter butcher mowbray's breast
 or if misfortune miss the first career
 be mowbray's sins so heavy in his bosom
 they may break his foaming courser's back
 and throw the rider headlong in the lists
 a caitiff recreant to my cousin hereford
 farewell old gaunt thy sometimes brother's wife
 with her companion grief must end her life
john of gaunt sister farewell i must to coventry
 as much good stay with thee as go with me
duchess yet one word more grief boundeth where it falls
 not with the empty hollowness but weight
 i take my leave before i have begun
 for sorrow ends not when it seemeth done
 commend me to thy brother edmund york
 lo this is allnay yet depart not so
 though this be all do not so quickly go
 i shall remember more bid himah what
 with all good speed at plashy visit me
 alack and what shall good old york there see
 but empty lodgings and unfurnish'd walls
 unpeopled offices untrodden stones
 and what hear there for welcome but my groans
 therefore commend me let him not come there
 to seek out sorrow that dwells every where
 desolate desolate will i hence and die
 the last leave of thee takes my weeping eye
 exeunt
 king richard ii
act i
scene iii the lists at coventry
 enter the lord marshal and the duke of aumerle
lord marshal my lord aumerle is harry hereford arm'd
duke of aumerle yea at all points and longs to enter in
lord marshal the duke of norfolk sprightfully and bold
 stays but the summons of the appellant's trumpet
duke of aumerle why then the champions are prepared and stay
 for nothing but his majesty's approach
 the trumpets sound and king richard enters with
 his nobles john of gaunt bushy bagot green and
 others when they are set enter thomas mowbray in
 arms defendant with a herald
king richard ii marshal demand of yonder champion
 the cause of his arrival here in arms
 ask him his name and orderly proceed
 to swear him in the justice of his cause
lord marshal in god's name and the king's say who thou art
 and why thou comest thus knightly clad in arms
 against what man thou comest and what thy quarrel
 speak truly on thy knighthood and thy oath
 as so defend thee heaven and thy valour
thomas mowbray my name is thomas mowbray duke of norfolk
 who hither come engaged by my oath
 which god defend a knight should violate
 both to defend my loyalty and truth
 to god my king and my succeeding issue
 against the duke of hereford that appeals me
 and by the grace of god and this mine arm
 to prove him in defending of myself
 a traitor to my god my king and me
 and as i truly fight defend me heaven
 the trumpets sound enter henry bolingbroke
 appellant in armour with a herald
king richard ii marshal ask yonder knight in arms
 both who he is and why he cometh hither
 thus plated in habiliments of war
 and formally according to our law
 depose him in the justice of his cause
lord marshal what is thy name and wherefore comest thou hither
 before king richard in his royal lists
 against whom comest thou and what's thy quarrel
 speak like a true knight so defend thee heaven
henry bolingbroke harry of hereford lancaster and derby
 am i who ready here do stand in arms
 to prove by god's grace and my body's valour
 in lists on thomas mowbray duke of norfolk
 that he is a traitor foul and dangerous
 to god of heaven king richard and to me
 and as i truly fight defend me heaven
lord marshal on pain of death no person be so bold
 or daringhardy as to touch the lists
 except the marshal and such officers
 appointed to direct these fair designs
henry bolingbroke lord marshal let me kiss my sovereign's hand
 and bow my knee before his majesty
 for mowbray and myself are like two men
 that vow a long and weary pilgrimage
 then let us take a ceremonious leave
 and loving farewell of our several friends
lord marshal the appellant in all duty greets your highness
 and craves to kiss your hand and take his leave
king richard ii we will descend and fold him in our arms
 cousin of hereford as thy cause is right
 so be thy fortune in this royal fight
 farewell my blood which if today thou shed
 lament we may but not revenge thee dead
henry bolingbroke o let no noble eye profane a tear
 for me if i be gored with mowbray's spear
 as confident as is the falcon's flight
 against a bird do i with mowbray fight
 my loving lord i take my leave of you
 of you my noble cousin lord aumerle
 not sick although i have to do with death
 but lusty young and cheerly drawing breath
 lo as at english feasts so i regreet
 the daintiest last to make the end most sweet
 o thou the earthly author of my blood
 whose youthful spirit in me regenerate
 doth with a twofold vigour lift me up
 to reach at victory above my head
 add proof unto mine armour with thy prayers
 and with thy blessings steel my lance's point
 that it may enter mowbray's waxen coat
 and furbish new the name of john a gaunt
 even in the lusty havior of his son
john of gaunt god in thy good cause make thee prosperous
 be swift like lightning in the execution
 and let thy blows doubly redoubled
 fall like amazing thunder on the casque
 of thy adverse pernicious enemy
 rouse up thy youthful blood be valiant and live
henry bolingbroke mine innocency and saint george to thrive
thomas mowbray however god or fortune cast my lot
 there lives or dies true to king richard's throne
 a loyal just and upright gentleman
 never did captive with a freer heart
 cast off his chains of bondage and embrace
 his golden uncontroll'd enfranchisement
 more than my dancing soul doth celebrate
 this feast of battle with mine adversary
 most mighty liege and my companion peers
 take from my mouth the wish of happy years
 as gentle and as jocund as to jest
 go i to fight truth hath a quiet breast
king richard ii farewell my lord securely i espy
 virtue with valour couched in thine eye
 order the trial marshal and begin
lord marshal harry of hereford lancaster and derby
 receive thy lance and god defend the right
henry bolingbroke strong as a tower in hope i cry amen
lord marshal go bear this lance to thomas duke of norfolk
first herald harry of hereford lancaster and derby
 stands here for god his sovereign and himself
 on pain to be found false and recreant
 to prove the duke of norfolk thomas mowbray
 a traitor to his god his king and him
 and dares him to set forward to the fight
second herald here standeth thomas mowbray duke of norfolk
 on pain to be found false and recreant
 both to defend himself and to approve
 henry of hereford lancaster and derby
 to god his sovereign and to him disloyal
 courageously and with a free desire
 attending but the signal to begin
lord marshal sound trumpets and set forward combatants
 a charge sounded
 stay the king hath thrown his warder down
king richard ii let them lay by their helmets and their spears
 and both return back to their chairs again
 withdraw with us and let the trumpets sound
 while we return these dukes what we decree
 a long flourish
 draw near
 and list what with our council we have done
 for that our kingdom's earth should not be soil'd
 with that dear blood which it hath fostered
 and for our eyes do hate the dire aspect
 of civil wounds plough'd up with neighbours sword
 and for we think the eaglewinged pride
 of skyaspiring and ambitious thoughts
 with rivalhating envy set on you
 to wake our peace which in our country's cradle
 draws the sweet infant breath of gentle sleep
 which so roused up with boisterous untuned drums
 with harsh resounding trumpets dreadful bray
 and grating shock of wrathful iron arms
 might from our quiet confines fright fair peace
 and make us wade even in our kindred's blood
 therefore we banish you our territories
 you cousin hereford upon pain of life
 till twice five summers have enrich'd our fields
 shall not regreet our fair dominions
 but tread the stranger paths of banishment
henry bolingbroke your will be done this must my comfort be
 sun that warms you here shall shine on me
 and those his golden beams to you here lent
 shall point on me and gild my banishment
king richard ii norfolk for thee remains a heavier doom
 which i with some unwillingness pronounce
 the sly slow hours shall not determinate
 the dateless limit of thy dear exile
 the hopeless word of never to return'
 breathe i against thee upon pain of life
thomas mowbray a heavy sentence my most sovereign liege
 and all unlook'd for from your highness mouth
 a dearer merit not so deep a maim
 as to be cast forth in the common air
 have i deserved at your highness hands
 the language i have learn'd these forty years
 my native english now i must forego
 and now my tongue's use is to me no more
 than an unstringed viol or a harp
 or like a cunning instrument cased up
 or being open put into his hands
 that knows no touch to tune the harmony
 within my mouth you have engaol'd my tongue
 doubly portcullis'd with my teeth and lips
 and dull unfeeling barren ignorance
 is made my gaoler to attend on me
 i am too old to fawn upon a nurse
 too far in years to be a pupil now
 what is thy sentence then but speechless death
 which robs my tongue from breathing native breath
king richard ii it boots thee not to be compassionate
 after our sentence plaining comes too late
thomas mowbray then thus i turn me from my country's light
 to dwell in solemn shades of endless night
king richard ii return again and take an oath with thee
 lay on our royal sword your banish'd hands
 swear by the duty that you owe to god
 our part therein we banish with yourselves
 to keep the oath that we administer
 you never shall so help you truth and god
 embrace each other's love in banishment
 nor never look upon each other's face
 nor never write regreet nor reconcile
 this louring tempest of your homebred hate
 nor never by advised purpose meet
 to plot contrive or complot any ill
 gainst us our state our subjects or our land
henry bolingbroke i swear
thomas mowbray and i to keep all this
henry bolingbroke norfolk so far as to mine enemy
 by this time had the king permitted us
 one of our souls had wander'd in the air
 banish'd this frail sepulchre of our flesh
 as now our flesh is banish'd from this land
 confess thy treasons ere thou fly the realm
 since thou hast far to go bear not along
 the clogging burthen of a guilty soul
thomas mowbray no bolingbroke if ever i were traitor
 my name be blotted from the book of life
 and i from heaven banish'd as from hence
 but what thou art god thou and i do know
 and all too soon i fear the king shall rue
 farewell my liege now no way can i stray
 save back to england all the world's my way
 exit
king richard ii uncle even in the glasses of thine eyes
 i see thy grieved heart thy sad aspect
 hath from the number of his banish'd years
 pluck'd four away
 to henry bolingbroke
 six frozen winter spent
 return with welcome home from banishment
henry bolingbroke how long a time lies in one little word
 four lagging winters and four wanton springs
 end in a word such is the breath of kings
john of gaunt i thank my liege that in regard of me
 he shortens four years of my son's exile
 but little vantage shall i reap thereby
 for ere the six years that he hath to spend
 can change their moons and bring their times about
 my oildried lamp and timebewasted light
 shall be extinct with age and endless night
 my inch of taper will be burnt and done
 and blindfold death not let me see my son
king richard ii why uncle thou hast many years to live
john of gaunt but not a minute king that thou canst give
 shorten my days thou canst with sullen sorrow
 and pluck nights from me but not lend a morrow
 thou canst help time to furrow me with age
 but stop no wrinkle in his pilgrimage
 thy word is current with him for my death
 but dead thy kingdom cannot buy my breath
king richard ii thy son is banish'd upon good advice
 whereto thy tongue a partyverdict gave
 why at our justice seem'st thou then to lour
john of gaunt things sweet to taste prove in digestion sour
 you urged me as a judge but i had rather
 you would have bid me argue like a father
 o had it been a stranger not my child
 to smooth his fault i should have been more mild
 a partial slander sought i to avoid
 and in the sentence my own life destroy'd
 alas i look'd when some of you should say
 i was too strict to make mine own away
 but you gave leave to my unwilling tongue
 against my will to do myself this wrong
king richard ii cousin farewell and uncle bid him so
 six years we banish him and he shall go
 flourish exeunt king richard ii and train
duke of aumerle cousin farewell what presence must not know
 from where you do remain let paper show
lord marshal my lord no leave take i for i will ride
 as far as land will let me by your side
john of gaunt o to what purpose dost thou hoard thy words
 that thou return'st no greeting to thy friends
henry bolingbroke i have too few to take my leave of you
 when the tongue's office should be prodigal
 to breathe the abundant dolour of the heart
john of gaunt thy grief is but thy absence for a time
henry bolingbroke joy absent grief is present for that time
john of gaunt what is six winters they are quickly gone
henry bolingbroke to men in joy but grief makes one hour ten
john of gaunt call it a travel that thou takest for pleasure
henry bolingbroke my heart will sigh when i miscall it so
 which finds it an inforced pilgrimage
john of gaunt the sullen passage of thy weary steps
 esteem as foil wherein thou art to set
 the precious jewel of thy home return
henry bolingbroke nay rather every tedious stride i make
 will but remember me what a deal of world
 i wander from the jewels that i love
 must i not serve a long apprenticehood
 to foreign passages and in the end
 having my freedom boast of nothing else
 but that i was a journeyman to grief
john of gaunt all places that the eye of heaven visits
 are to a wise man ports and happy havens
 teach thy necessity to reason thus
 there is no virtue like necessity
 think not the king did banish thee
 but thou the king woe doth the heavier sit
 where it perceives it is but faintly borne
 go say i sent thee forth to purchase honour
 and not the king exiled thee or suppose
 devouring pestilence hangs in our air
 and thou art flying to a fresher clime
 look what thy soul holds dear imagine it
 to lie that way thou go'st not whence thou comest
 suppose the singing birds musicians
 the grass whereon thou tread'st the presence strew'd
 the flowers fair ladies and thy steps no more
 than a delightful measure or a dance
 for gnarling sorrow hath less power to bite
 the man that mocks at it and sets it light
henry bolingbroke o who can hold a fire in his hand
 by thinking on the frosty caucasus
 or cloy the hungry edge of appetite
 by bare imagination of a feast
 or wallow naked in december snow
 by thinking on fantastic summer's heat
 o no the apprehension of the good
 gives but the greater feeling to the worse
 fell sorrow's tooth doth never rankle more
 than when he bites but lanceth not the sore
john of gaunt come come my son i'll bring thee on thy way
 had i thy youth and cause i would not stay
henry bolingbroke then england's ground farewell sweet soil adieu
 my mother and my nurse that bears me yet
 where'er i wander boast of this i can
 though banish'd yet a trueborn englishman
 exeunt
 king richard ii
act i
scene iv the court
 enter king richard ii with bagot and green at one
 door and the duke of aumerle at another
king richard ii we did observe cousin aumerle
 how far brought you high hereford on his way
duke of aumerle i brought high hereford if you call him so
 but to the next highway and there i left him
king richard ii and say what store of parting tears were shed
duke of aumerle faith none for me except the northeast wind
 which then blew bitterly against our faces
 awaked the sleeping rheum and so by chance
 did grace our hollow parting with a tear
king richard ii what said our cousin when you parted with him
duke of aumerle farewell'
 and for my heart disdained that my tongue
 should so profane the word that taught me craft
 to counterfeit oppression of such grief
 that words seem'd buried in my sorrow's grave
 marry would the word farewell have lengthen'd hours
 and added years to his short banishment
 he should have had a volume of farewells
 but since it would not he had none of me
king richard ii he is our cousin cousin but tis doubt
 when time shall call him home from banishment
 whether our kinsman come to see his friends
 ourself and bushy bagot here and green
 observed his courtship to the common people
 how he did seem to dive into their hearts
 with humble and familiar courtesy
 what reverence he did throw away on slaves
 wooing poor craftsmen with the craft of smiles
 and patient underbearing of his fortune
 as twere to banish their affects with him
 off goes his bonnet to an oysterwench
 a brace of draymen bid god speed him well
 and had the tribute of his supple knee
 with thanks my countrymen my loving friends'
 as were our england in reversion his
 and he our subjects next degree in hope
green well he is gone and with him go these thoughts
 now for the rebels which stand out in ireland
 expedient manage must be made my liege
 ere further leisure yield them further means
 for their advantage and your highness loss
king richard ii we will ourself in person to this war
 and for our coffers with too great a court
 and liberal largess are grown somewhat light
 we are inforced to farm our royal realm
 the revenue whereof shall furnish us
 for our affairs in hand if that come short
 our substitutes at home shall have blank charters
 whereto when they shall know what men are rich
 they shall subscribe them for large sums of gold
 and send them after to supply our wants
 for we will make for ireland presently
 enter bushy
 bushy what news
bushy old john of gaunt is grievous sick my lord
 suddenly taken and hath sent post haste
 to entreat your majesty to visit him
king richard ii where lies he
bushy at ely house
king richard ii now put it god in the physician's mind
 to help him to his grave immediately
 the lining of his coffers shall make coats
 to deck our soldiers for these irish wars
 come gentlemen let's all go visit him
 pray god we may make haste and come too late
all amen
 exeunt
 king richard ii
act ii
scene i ely house
 enter john of gaunt sick with the duke of york
 &c
john of gaunt will the king come that i may breathe my last
 in wholesome counsel to his unstaid youth
duke of york vex not yourself nor strive not with your breath
 for all in vain comes counsel to his ear
john of gaunt o but they say the tongues of dying men
 enforce attention like deep harmony
 where words are scarce they are seldom spent in vain
 for they breathe truth that breathe their words in pain
 he that no more must say is listen'd more
 than they whom youth and ease have taught to glose
 more are men's ends mark'd than their lives before
 the setting sun and music at the close
 as the last taste of sweets is sweetest last
 writ in remembrance more than things long past
 though richard my life's counsel would not hear
 my death's sad tale may yet undeaf his ear
duke of york no it is stopp'd with other flattering sounds
 as praises of whose taste the wise are fond
 lascivious metres to whose venom sound
 the open ear of youth doth always listen
 report of fashions in proud italy
 whose manners still our tardy apish nation
 limps after in base imitation
 where doth the world thrust forth a vanity
 so it be new there's no respect how vile
 that is not quickly buzzed into his ears
 then all too late comes counsel to be heard
 where will doth mutiny with wit's regard
 direct not him whose way himself will choose
 tis breath thou lack'st and that breath wilt thou lose
john of gaunt methinks i am a prophet new inspired
 and thus expiring do foretell of him
 his rash fierce blaze of riot cannot last
 for violent fires soon burn out themselves
 small showers last long but sudden storms are short
 he tires betimes that spurs too fast betimes
 with eager feeding food doth choke the feeder
 light vanity insatiate cormorant
 consuming means soon preys upon itself
 this royal throne of kings this scepter'd isle
 this earth of majesty this seat of mars
 this other eden demiparadise
 this fortress built by nature for herself
 against infection and the hand of war
 this happy breed of men this little world
 this precious stone set in the silver sea
 which serves it in the office of a wall
 or as a moat defensive to a house
 against the envy of less happier lands
 this blessed plot this earth this realm this england
 this nurse this teeming womb of royal kings
 fear'd by their breed and famous by their birth
 renowned for their deeds as far from home
 for christian service and true chivalry
 as is the sepulchre in stubborn jewry
 of the world's ransom blessed mary's son
 this land of such dear souls this dear dear land
 dear for her reputation through the world
 is now leased out i die pronouncing it
 like to a tenement or pelting farm
 england bound in with the triumphant sea
 whose rocky shore beats back the envious siege
 of watery neptune is now bound in with shame
 with inky blots and rotten parchment bonds
 that england that was wont to conquer others
 hath made a shameful conquest of itself
 ah would the scandal vanish with my life
 how happy then were my ensuing death
 enter king richard ii and queen duke of aumerle
 bushy green bagot lord ross and lord
 willoughby
duke of york the king is come deal mildly with his youth
 for young hot colts being raged do rage the more
queen how fares our noble uncle lancaster
king richard ii what comfort man how is't with aged gaunt
john of gaunt o how that name befits my composition
 old gaunt indeed and gaunt in being old
 within me grief hath kept a tedious fast
 and who abstains from meat that is not gaunt
 for sleeping england long time have i watch'd
 watching breeds leanness leanness is all gaunt
 the pleasure that some fathers feed upon
 is my strict fast i mean my children's looks
 and therein fasting hast thou made me gaunt
 gaunt am i for the grave gaunt as a grave
 whose hollow womb inherits nought but bones
king richard ii can sick men play so nicely with their names
john of gaunt no misery makes sport to mock itself
 since thou dost seek to kill my name in me
 i mock my name great king to flatter thee
king richard ii should dying men flatter with those that live
john of gaunt no no men living flatter those that die
king richard ii thou now adying say'st thou flatterest me
john of gaunt o no thou diest though i the sicker be
king richard ii i am in health i breathe and see thee ill
john of gaunt now he that made me knows i see thee ill
 ill in myself to see and in thee seeing ill
 thy deathbed is no lesser than thy land
 wherein thou liest in reputation sick
 and thou too careless patient as thou art
 commit'st thy anointed body to the cure
 of those physicians that first wounded thee
 a thousand flatterers sit within thy crown
 whose compass is no bigger than thy head
 and yet incaged in so small a verge
 the waste is no whit lesser than thy land
 o had thy grandsire with a prophet's eye
 seen how his son's son should destroy his sons
 from forth thy reach he would have laid thy shame
 deposing thee before thou wert possess'd
 which art possess'd now to depose thyself
 why cousin wert thou regent of the world
 it were a shame to let this land by lease
 but for thy world enjoying but this land
 is it not more than shame to shame it so
 landlord of england art thou now not king
 thy state of law is bondslave to the law and thou
king richard ii a lunatic leanwitted fool
 presuming on an ague's privilege
 darest with thy frozen admonition
 make pale our cheek chasing the royal blood
 with fury from his native residence
 now by my seat's right royal majesty
 wert thou not brother to great edward's son
 this tongue that runs so roundly in thy head
 should run thy head from thy unreverent shoulders
john of gaunt o spare me not my brother edward's son
 for that i was his father edward's son
 that blood already like the pelican
 hast thou tapp'd out and drunkenly caroused
 my brother gloucester plain wellmeaning soul
 whom fair befal in heaven mongst happy souls
 may be a precedent and witness good
 that thou respect'st not spilling edward's blood
 join with the present sickness that i have
 and thy unkindness be like crooked age
 to crop at once a too long wither'd flower
 live in thy shame but die not shame with thee
 these words hereafter thy tormentors be
 convey me to my bed then to my grave
 love they to live that love and honour have
 exit borne off by his attendants
king richard ii and let them die that age and sullens have
 for both hast thou and both become the grave
duke of york i do beseech your majesty impute his words
 to wayward sickliness and age in him
 he loves you on my life and holds you dear
 as harry duke of hereford were he here
king richard ii right you say true as hereford's love so his
 as theirs so mine and all be as it is
 enter northumberland
northumberland my liege old gaunt commends him to your majesty
king richard ii what says he
northumberland nay nothing all is said
 his tongue is now a stringless instrument
 words life and all old lancaster hath spent
duke of york be york the next that must be bankrupt so
 though death be poor it ends a mortal woe
king richard ii the ripest fruit first falls and so doth he
 his time is spent our pilgrimage must be
 so much for that now for our irish wars
 we must supplant those rough rugheaded kerns
 which live like venom where no venom else
 but only they have privilege to live
 and for these great affairs do ask some charge
 towards our assistance we do seize to us
 the plate corn revenues and moveables
 whereof our uncle gaunt did stand possess'd
duke of york how long shall i be patient ah how long
 shall tender duty make me suffer wrong
 not gloucester's death nor hereford's banishment
 not gaunt's rebukes nor england's private wrongs
 nor the prevention of poor bolingbroke
 about his marriage nor my own disgrace
 have ever made me sour my patient cheek
 or bend one wrinkle on my sovereign's face
 i am the last of noble edward's sons
 of whom thy father prince of wales was first
 in war was never lion raged more fierce
 in peace was never gentle lamb more mild
 than was that young and princely gentleman
 his face thou hast for even so look'd he
 accomplish'd with the number of thy hours
 but when he frown'd it was against the french
 and not against his friends his noble hand
 did will what he did spend and spent not that
 which his triumphant father's hand had won
 his hands were guilty of no kindred blood
 but bloody with the enemies of his kin
 o richard york is too far gone with grief
 or else he never would compare between
king richard ii why uncle what's the matter
duke of york o my liege
 pardon me if you please if not i pleased
 not to be pardon'd am content withal
 seek you to seize and gripe into your hands
 the royalties and rights of banish'd hereford
 is not gaunt dead and doth not hereford live
 was not gaunt just and is not harry true
 did not the one deserve to have an heir
 is not his heir a welldeserving son
 take hereford's rights away and take from time
 his charters and his customary rights
 let not tomorrow then ensue today
 be not thyself for how art thou a king
 but by fair sequence and succession
 now afore godgod forbid i say true
 if you do wrongfully seize hereford's rights
 call in the letters patent that he hath
 by his attorneysgeneral to sue
 his livery and deny his offer'd homage
 you pluck a thousand dangers on your head
 you lose a thousand welldisposed hearts
 and prick my tender patience to those thoughts
 which honour and allegiance cannot think
king richard ii think what you will we seize into our hands
 his plate his goods his money and his lands
duke of york i'll not be by the while my liege farewell
 what will ensue hereof there's none can tell
 but by bad courses may be understood
 that their events can never fall out good
 exit
king richard ii go bushy to the earl of wiltshire straight
 bid him repair to us to ely house
 to see this business tomorrow next
 we will for ireland and tis time i trow
 and we create in absence of ourself
 our uncle york lord governor of england
 for he is just and always loved us well
 come on our queen tomorrow must we part
 be merry for our time of stay is short
 flourish exeunt king richard ii queen duke of
 aumerle bushy green and bagot
northumberland well lords the duke of lancaster is dead
lord ross and living too for now his son is duke
lord willoughby barely in title not in revenue
northumberland richly in both if justice had her right
lord ross my heart is great but it must break with silence
 ere't be disburden'd with a liberal tongue
northumberland nay speak thy mind and let him ne'er speak more
 that speaks thy words again to do thee harm
lord willoughby tends that thou wouldst speak to the duke of hereford
 if it be so out with it boldly man
 quick is mine ear to hear of good towards him
lord ross no good at all that i can do for him
 unless you call it good to pity him
 bereft and gelded of his patrimony
northumberland now afore god tis shame such wrongs are borne
 in him a royal prince and many moe
 of noble blood in this declining land
 the king is not himself but basely led
 by flatterers and what they will inform
 merely in hate gainst any of us all
 that will the king severely prosecute
 gainst us our lives our children and our heirs
lord ross the commons hath he pill'd with grievous taxes
 and quite lost their hearts the nobles hath he fined
 for ancient quarrels and quite lost their hearts
lord willoughby and daily new exactions are devised
 as blanks benevolences and i wot not what
 but what o god's name doth become of this
northumberland wars have not wasted it for warr'd he hath not
 but basely yielded upon compromise
 that which his noble ancestors achieved with blows
 more hath he spent in peace than they in wars
lord ross the earl of wiltshire hath the realm in farm
lord willoughby the king's grown bankrupt like a broken man
northumberland reproach and dissolution hangeth over him
lord ross he hath not money for these irish wars
 his burthenous taxations notwithstanding
 but by the robbing of the banish'd duke
northumberland his noble kinsman most degenerate king
 but lords we hear this fearful tempest sing
 yet see no shelter to avoid the storm
 we see the wind sit sore upon our sails
 and yet we strike not but securely perish
lord ross we see the very wreck that we must suffer
 and unavoided is the danger now
 for suffering so the causes of our wreck
northumberland not so even through the hollow eyes of death
 i spy life peering but i dare not say
 how near the tidings of our comfort is
lord willoughby nay let us share thy thoughts as thou dost ours
lord ross be confident to speak northumberland
 we three are but thyself and speaking so
 thy words are but as thoughts therefore be bold
northumberland then thus i have from port le blanc a bay
 in brittany received intelligence
 that harry duke of hereford rainold lord cobham
 
 that late broke from the duke of exeter
 his brother archbishop late of canterbury
 sir thomas erpingham sir john ramston
 sir john norbery sir robert waterton and francis quoint
 all these well furnish'd by the duke of bretagne
 with eight tall ships three thousand men of war
 are making hither with all due expedience
 and shortly mean to touch our northern shore
 perhaps they had ere this but that they stay
 the first departing of the king for ireland
 if then we shall shake off our slavish yoke
 imp out our drooping country's broken wing
 redeem from broking pawn the blemish'd crown
 wipe off the dust that hides our sceptre's gilt
 and make high majesty look like itself
 away with me in post to ravenspurgh
 but if you faint as fearing to do so
 stay and be secret and myself will go
lord ross to horse to horse urge doubts to them that fear
lord willoughby hold out my horse and i will first be there
 exeunt
 king richard ii
act ii
scene ii the palace
 enter queen bushy and bagot
bushy madam your majesty is too much sad
 you promised when you parted with the king
 to lay aside lifeharming heaviness
 and entertain a cheerful disposition
queen to please the king i did to please myself
 i cannot do it yet i know no cause
 why i should welcome such a guest as grief
 save bidding farewell to so sweet a guest
 as my sweet richard yet again methinks
 some unborn sorrow ripe in fortune's womb
 is coming towards me and my inward soul
 with nothing trembles at some thing it grieves
 more than with parting from my lord the king
bushy each substance of a grief hath twenty shadows
 which shows like grief itself but is not so
 for sorrow's eye glazed with blinding tears
 divides one thing entire to many objects
 like perspectives which rightly gazed upon
 show nothing but confusion eyed awry
 distinguish form so your sweet majesty
 looking awry upon your lord's departure
 find shapes of grief more than himself to wail
 which look'd on as it is is nought but shadows
 of what it is not then thricegracious queen
 more than your lord's departure weep not more's not seen
 or if it be tis with false sorrow's eye
 which for things true weeps things imaginary
queen it may be so but yet my inward soul
 persuades me it is otherwise howe'er it be
 i cannot but be sad so heavy sad
 as though on thinking on no thought i think
 makes me with heavy nothing faint and shrink
bushy tis nothing but conceit my gracious lady
queen tis nothing less conceit is still derived
 from some forefather grief mine is not so
 for nothing had begot my something grief
 or something hath the nothing that i grieve
 tis in reversion that i do possess
 but what it is that is not yet known what
 i cannot name tis nameless woe i wot
 enter green
green god save your majesty and well met gentlemen
 i hope the king is not yet shipp'd for ireland
queen why hopest thou so tis better hope he is
 for his designs crave haste his haste good hope
 then wherefore dost thou hope he is not shipp'd
green that he our hope might have retired his power
 and driven into despair an enemy's hope
 who strongly hath set footing in this land
 the banish'd bolingbroke repeals himself
 and with uplifted arms is safe arrived
 at ravenspurgh
queen now god in heaven forbid
green ah madam tis too true and that is worse
 the lord northumberland his son young henry percy
 the lords of ross beaumond and willoughby
 with all their powerful friends are fled to him
bushy why have you not proclaim'd northumberland
 and all the rest revolted faction traitors
green we have whereupon the earl of worcester
 hath broke his staff resign'd his stewardship
 and all the household servants fled with him
 to bolingbroke
queen so green thou art the midwife to my woe
 and bolingbroke my sorrow's dismal heir
 now hath my soul brought forth her prodigy
 and i a gasping newdeliver'd mother
 have woe to woe sorrow to sorrow join'd
bushy despair not madam
queen who shall hinder me
 i will despair and be at enmity
 with cozening hope he is a flatterer
 a parasite a keeper back of death
 who gently would dissolve the bands of life
 which false hope lingers in extremity
 enter duke of york
green here comes the duke of york
queen with signs of war about his aged neck
 o full of careful business are his looks
 uncle for god's sake speak comfortable words
duke of york should i do so i should belie my thoughts
 comfort's in heaven and we are on the earth
 where nothing lives but crosses cares and grief
 your husband he is gone to save far off
 whilst others come to make him lose at home
 here am i left to underprop his land
 who weak with age cannot support myself
 now comes the sick hour that his surfeit made
 now shall he try his friends that flatter'd him
 enter a servant
servant my lord your son was gone before i came
duke of york he was why so go all which way it will
 the nobles they are fled the commons they are cold
 and will i fear revolt on hereford's side
 sirrah get thee to plashy to my sister gloucester
 bid her send me presently a thousand pound
 hold take my ring
servant my lord i had forgot to tell your lordship
 today as i came by i called there
 but i shall grieve you to report the rest
duke of york what is't knave
servant an hour before i came the duchess died
duke of york god for his mercy what a tide of woes
 comes rushing on this woeful land at once
 i know not what to do i would to god
 so my untruth had not provoked him to it
 the king had cut off my head with my brother's
 what are there no posts dispatch'd for ireland
 how shall we do for money for these wars
 come sistercousin i would saypray pardon me
 go fellow get thee home provide some carts
 and bring away the armour that is there
 exit servant
 gentlemen will you go muster men
 if i know how or which way to order these affairs
 thus thrust disorderly into my hands
 never believe me both are my kinsmen
 the one is my sovereign whom both my oath
 and duty bids defend the other again
 is my kinsman whom the king hath wrong'd
 whom conscience and my kindred bids to right
 well somewhat we must do come cousin i'll
 dispose of you
 gentlemen go muster up your men
 and meet me presently at berkeley
 i should to plashy too
 but time will not permit all is uneven
 and every thing is left at six and seven
 exeunt duke of york and queen
bushy the wind sits fair for news to go to ireland
 but none returns for us to levy power
 proportionable to the enemy
 is all unpossible
green besides our nearness to the king in love
 is near the hate of those love not the king
bagot and that's the wavering commons for their love
 lies in their purses and whoso empties them
 by so much fills their hearts with deadly hate
bushy wherein the king stands generally condemn'd
bagot if judgement lie in them then so do we
 because we ever have been near the king
green well i will for refuge straight to bristol castle
 the earl of wiltshire is already there
bushy thither will i with you for little office
 the hateful commons will perform for us
 except like curs to tear us all to pieces
 will you go along with us
bagot no i will to ireland to his majesty
 farewell if heart's presages be not vain
 we three here art that ne'er shall meet again
bushy that's as york thrives to beat back bolingbroke
green alas poor duke the task he undertakes
 is numbering sands and drinking oceans dry
 where one on his side fights thousands will fly
 farewell at once for once for all and ever
bushy well we may meet again
bagot i fear me never
 exeunt
 king richard ii
act ii
scene iii wilds in gloucestershire
 enter henry bolingbroke and northumberland with forces
henry bolingbroke how far is it my lord to berkeley now
northumberland believe me noble lord
 i am a stranger here in gloucestershire
 these high wild hills and rough uneven ways
 draws out our miles and makes them wearisome
 and yet your fair discourse hath been as sugar
 making the hard way sweet and delectable
 but i bethink me what a weary way
 from ravenspurgh to cotswold will be found
 in ross and willoughby wanting your company
 which i protest hath very much beguiled
 the tediousness and process of my travel
 but theirs is sweetened with the hope to have
 the present benefit which i possess
 and hope to joy is little less in joy
 than hope enjoy'd by this the weary lords
 shall make their way seem short as mine hath done
 by sight of what i have your noble company
henry bolingbroke of much less value is my company
 than your good words but who comes here
 enter henry percy
northumberland it is my son young harry percy
 sent from my brother worcester whencesoever
 harry how fares your uncle
henry percy i had thought my lord to have learn'd his health of you
northumberland why is he not with the queen
henry percy no my good lord he hath forsook the court
 broken his staff of office and dispersed
 the household of the king
northumberland what was his reason
 he was not so resolved when last we spake together
henry percy because your lordship was proclaimed traitor
 but he my lord is gone to ravenspurgh
 to offer service to the duke of hereford
 and sent me over by berkeley to discover
 what power the duke of york had levied there
 then with directions to repair to ravenspurgh
northumberland have you forgot the duke of hereford boy
henry percy no my good lord for that is not forgot
 which ne'er i did remember to my knowledge
 i never in my life did look on him
northumberland then learn to know him now this is the duke
henry percy my gracious lord i tender you my service
 such as it is being tender raw and young
 which elder days shall ripen and confirm
 to more approved service and desert
henry bolingbroke i thank thee gentle percy and be sure
 i count myself in nothing else so happy
 as in a soul remembering my good friends
 and as my fortune ripens with thy love
 it shall be still thy true love's recompense
 my heart this covenant makes my hand thus seals it
northumberland how far is it to berkeley and what stir
 keeps good old york there with his men of war
henry percy there stands the castle by yon tuft of trees
 mann'd with three hundred men as i have heard
 and in it are the lords of york berkeley and seymour
 none else of name and noble estimate
 enter lord ross and lord willoughby
northumberland here come the lords of ross and willoughby
 bloody with spurring fieryred with haste
henry bolingbroke welcome my lords i wot your love pursues
 a banish'd traitor all my treasury
 is yet but unfelt thanks which more enrich'd
 shall be your love and labour's recompense
lord ross your presence makes us rich most noble lord
lord willoughby and far surmounts our labour to attain it
henry bolingbroke evermore thanks the exchequer of the poor
 which till my infant fortune comes to years
 stands for my bounty but who comes here
 enter lord berkeley
northumberland it is my lord of berkeley as i guess
lord berkeley my lord of hereford my message is to you
henry bolingbroke my lord my answer isto lancaster
 and i am come to seek that name in england
 and i must find that title in your tongue
 before i make reply to aught you say
lord berkeley mistake me not my lord tis not my meaning
 to raze one title of your honour out
 to you my lord i come what lord you will
 from the most gracious regent of this land
 the duke of york to know what pricks you on
 to take advantage of the absent time
 and fright our native peace with selfborn arms
 enter duke of york attended
henry bolingbroke i shall not need transport my words by you
 here comes his grace in person my noble uncle
 kneels
duke of york show me thy humble heart and not thy knee
 whose duty is deceiveable and false
henry bolingbroke my gracious uncle
duke of york tut tut
 grace me no grace nor uncle me no uncle
 i am no traitor's uncle and that word grace'
 in an ungracious mouth is but profane
 why have those banish'd and forbidden legs
 dared once to touch a dust of england's ground
 but then more why why have they dared to march
 so many miles upon her peaceful bosom
 frighting her palefaced villages with war
 and ostentation of despised arms
 comest thou because the anointed king is hence
 why foolish boy the king is left behind
 and in my loyal bosom lies his power
 were i but now the lord of such hot youth
 as when brave gaunt thy father and myself
 rescued the black prince that young mars of men
 from forth the ranks of many thousand french
 o then how quickly should this arm of mine
 now prisoner to the palsy chastise thee
 and minister correction to thy fault
henry bolingbroke my gracious uncle let me know my fault
 on what condition stands it and wherein
duke of york even in condition of the worst degree
 in gross rebellion and detested treason
 thou art a banish'd man and here art come
 before the expiration of thy time
 in braving arms against thy sovereign
henry bolingbroke as i was banish'd i was banish'd hereford
 but as i come i come for lancaster
 and noble uncle i beseech your grace
 look on my wrongs with an indifferent eye
 you are my father for methinks in you
 i see old gaunt alive o then my father
 will you permit that i shall stand condemn'd
 a wandering vagabond my rights and royalties
 pluck'd from my arms perforce and given away
 to upstart unthrifts wherefore was i born
 if that my cousin king be king of england
 it must be granted i am duke of lancaster
 you have a son aumerle my noble cousin
 had you first died and he been thus trod down
 he should have found his uncle gaunt a father
 to rouse his wrongs and chase them to the bay
 i am denied to sue my livery here
 and yet my letterspatents give me leave
 my father's goods are all distrain'd and sold
 and these and all are all amiss employ'd
 what would you have me do i am a subject
 and i challenge law attorneys are denied me
 and therefore personally i lay my claim
 to my inheritance of free descent
northumberland the noble duke hath been too much abused
lord ross it stands your grace upon to do him right
lord willoughby base men by his endowments are made great
duke of york my lords of england let me tell you this
 i have had feeling of my cousin's wrongs
 and laboured all i could to do him right
 but in this kind to come in braving arms
 be his own carver and cut out his way
 to find out right with wrong it may not be
 and you that do abet him in this kind
 cherish rebellion and are rebels all
northumberland the noble duke hath sworn his coming is
 but for his own and for the right of that
 we all have strongly sworn to give him aid
 and let him ne'er see joy that breaks that oath
duke of york well well i see the issue of these arms
 i cannot mend it i must needs confess
 because my power is weak and all ill left
 but if i could by him that gave me life
 i would attach you all and make you stoop
 unto the sovereign mercy of the king
 but since i cannot be it known to you
 i do remain as neuter so fare you well
 unless you please to enter in the castle
 and there repose you for this night
henry bolingbroke an offer uncle that we will accept
 but we must win your grace to go with us
 to bristol castle which they say is held
 by bushy bagot and their complices
 the caterpillars of the commonwealth
 which i have sworn to weed and pluck away
duke of york it may be i will go with you but yet i'll pause
 for i am loath to break our country's laws
 nor friends nor foes to me welcome you are
 things past redress are now with me past care
 exeunt
 king richard ii
act ii
scene iv a camp in wales
 enter earl of salisbury and a welsh captain
captain my lord of salisbury we have stay'd ten days
 and hardly kept our countrymen together
 and yet we hear no tidings from the king
 therefore we will disperse ourselves farewell
earl of salisbury stay yet another day thou trusty welshman
 the king reposeth all his confidence in thee
captain tis thought the king is dead we will not stay
 the baytrees in our country are all wither'd
 and meteors fright the fixed stars of heaven
 the palefaced moon looks bloody on the earth
 and leanlook'd prophets whisper fearful change
 rich men look sad and ruffians dance and leap
 the one in fear to lose what they enjoy
 the other to enjoy by rage and war
 these signs forerun the death or fall of kings
 farewell our countrymen are gone and fled
 as well assured richard their king is dead
 exit
earl of salisbury ah richard with the eyes of heavy mind
 i see thy glory like a shooting star
 fall to the base earth from the firmament
 thy sun sets weeping in the lowly west
 witnessing storms to come woe and unrest
 thy friends are fled to wait upon thy foes
 and crossly to thy good all fortune goes
 exit
 king richard ii
act iii
scene i bristol before the castle
 enter henry bolingbroke duke of york
 northumberland lord ross henry percy lord
 willoughby with bushy and green prisoners
henry bolingbroke bring forth these men
 bushy and green i will not vex your souls
 since presently your souls must part your bodies
 with too much urging your pernicious lives
 for twere no charity yet to wash your blood
 from off my hands here in the view of men
 i will unfold some causes of your deaths
 you have misled a prince a royal king
 a happy gentleman in blood and lineaments
 by you unhappied and disfigured clean
 you have in manner with your sinful hours
 made a divorce betwixt his queen and him
 broke the possession of a royal bed
 and stain'd the beauty of a fair queen's cheeks
 with tears drawn from her eyes by your foul wrongs
 myself a prince by fortune of my birth
 near to the king in blood and near in love
 till you did make him misinterpret me
 have stoop'd my neck under your injuries
 and sigh'd my english breath in foreign clouds
 eating the bitter bread of banishment
 whilst you have fed upon my signories
 dispark'd my parks and fell'd my forest woods
 from my own windows torn my household coat
 razed out my imprese leaving me no sign
 save men's opinions and my living blood
 to show the world i am a gentleman
 this and much more much more than twice all this
 condemns you to the death see them deliver'd over
 to execution and the hand of death
bushy more welcome is the stroke of death to me
 than bolingbroke to england lords farewell
green my comfort is that heaven will take our souls
 and plague injustice with the pains of hell
henry bolingbroke my lord northumberland see them dispatch'd
 exeunt northumberland and others with the
 prisoners
 uncle you say the queen is at your house
 for god's sake fairly let her be entreated
 tell her i send to her my kind commends
 take special care my greetings be deliver'd
duke of york a gentleman of mine i have dispatch'd
 with letters of your love to her at large
henry bolingbroke thank gentle uncle come lords away
 to fight with glendower and his complices
 awhile to work and after holiday
 exeunt
 king richard ii
act iii
scene ii the coast of wales a castle in view
 drums flourish and colours enter king richard
 ii the bishop of carlisle duke of aumerle and soldiers
king richard ii barkloughly castle call they this at hand
duke of aumerle yea my lord how brooks your grace the air
 after your late tossing on the breaking seas
king richard ii needs must i like it well i weep for joy
 to stand upon my kingdom once again
 dear earth i do salute thee with my hand
 though rebels wound thee with their horses hoofs
 as a longparted mother with her child
 plays fondly with her tears and smiles in meeting
 so weeping smiling greet i thee my earth
 and do thee favours with my royal hands
 feed not thy sovereign's foe my gentle earth
 nor with thy sweets comfort his ravenous sense
 but let thy spiders that suck up thy venom
 and heavygaited toads lie in their way
 doing annoyance to the treacherous feet
 which with usurping steps do trample thee
 yield stinging nettles to mine enemies
 and when they from thy bosom pluck a flower
 guard it i pray thee with a lurking adder
 whose double tongue may with a mortal touch
 throw death upon thy sovereign's enemies
 mock not my senseless conjuration lords
 this earth shall have a feeling and these stones
 prove armed soldiers ere her native king
 shall falter under foul rebellion's arms
bishop of carlisle fear not my lord that power that made you king
 hath power to keep you king in spite of all
 the means that heaven yields must be embraced
 and not neglected else if heaven would
 and we will not heaven's offer we refuse
 the proffer'd means of succor and redress
duke of aumerle he means my lord that we are too remiss
 whilst bolingbroke through our security
 grows strong and great in substance and in power
king richard ii discomfortable cousin know'st thou not
 that when the searching eye of heaven is hid
 behind the globe that lights the lower world
 then thieves and robbers range abroad unseen
 in murders and in outrage boldly here
 but when from under this terrestrial ball
 he fires the proud tops of the eastern pines
 and darts his light through every guilty hole
 then murders treasons and detested sins
 the cloak of night being pluck'd from off their backs
 stand bare and naked trembling at themselves
 so when this thief this traitor bolingbroke
 who all this while hath revell'd in the night
 whilst we were wandering with the antipodes
 shall see us rising in our throne the east
 his treasons will sit blushing in his face
 not able to endure the sight of day
 but selfaffrighted tremble at his sin
 not all the water in the rough rude sea
 can wash the balm off from an anointed king
 the breath of worldly men cannot depose
 the deputy elected by the lord
 for every man that bolingbroke hath press'd
 to lift shrewd steel against our golden crown
 god for his richard hath in heavenly pay
 a glorious angel then if angels fight
 weak men must fall for heaven still guards the right
 enter earl of salisbury
 welcome my lord how far off lies your power
earl of salisbury nor near nor farther off my gracious lord
 than this weak arm discomfort guides my tongue
 and bids me speak of nothing but despair
 one day too late i fear me noble lord
 hath clouded all thy happy days on earth
 o call back yesterday bid time return
 and thou shalt have twelve thousand fighting men
 today today unhappy day too late
 o'erthrows thy joys friends fortune and thy state
 for all the welshmen hearing thou wert dead
 are gone to bolingbroke dispersed and fled
duke of aumerle comfort my liege why looks your grace so pale
king richard ii but now the blood of twenty thousand men
 did triumph in my face and they are fled
 and till so much blood thither come again
 have i not reason to look pale and dead
 all souls that will be safe fly from my side
 for time hath set a blot upon my pride
duke of aumerle comfort my liege remember who you are
king richard ii i had forgot myself am i not king
 awake thou coward majesty thou sleepest
 is not the king's name twenty thousand names
 arm arm my name a puny subject strikes
 at thy great glory look not to the ground
 ye favourites of a king are we not high
 high be our thoughts i know my uncle york
 hath power enough to serve our turn but who comes here
 enter sir stephen scroop
sir stephen scroop more health and happiness betide my liege
 than can my caretuned tongue deliver him
king richard ii mine ear is open and my heart prepared
 the worst is worldly loss thou canst unfold
 say is my kingdom lost why twas my care
 and what loss is it to be rid of care
 strives bolingbroke to be as great as we
 greater he shall not be if he serve god
 we'll serve him too and be his fellow so
 revolt our subjects that we cannot mend
 they break their faith to god as well as us
 cry woe destruction ruin and decay
 the worst is death and death will have his day
sir stephen scroop glad am i that your highness is so arm'd
 to bear the tidings of calamity
 like an unseasonable stormy day
 which makes the silver rivers drown their shores
 as if the world were all dissolved to tears
 so high above his limits swells the rage
 of bolingbroke covering your fearful land
 with hard bright steel and hearts harder than steel
 whitebeards have arm'd their thin and hairless scalps
 against thy majesty boys with women's voices
 strive to speak big and clap their female joints
 in stiff unwieldy arms against thy crown
 the very beadsmen learn to bend their bows
 of doublefatal yew against thy state
 yea distaffwomen manage rusty bills
 against thy seat both young and old rebel
 and all goes worse than i have power to tell
king richard ii too well too well thou tell'st a tale so ill
 where is the earl of wiltshire where is bagot
 what is become of bushy where is green
 that they have let the dangerous enemy
 measure our confines with such peaceful steps
 if we prevail their heads shall pay for it
 i warrant they have made peace with bolingbroke
sir stephen scroop peace have they made with him indeed my lord
king richard ii o villains vipers damn'd without redemption
 dogs easily won to fawn on any man
 snakes in my heartblood warm'd that sting my heart
 three judases each one thrice worse than judas
 would they make peace terrible hell make war
 upon their spotted souls for this offence
sir stephen scroop sweet love i see changing his property
 turns to the sourest and most deadly hate
 again uncurse their souls their peace is made
 with heads and not with hands those whom you curse
 have felt the worst of death's destroying wound
 and lie full low graved in the hollow ground
duke of aumerle is bushy green and the earl of wiltshire dead
sir stephen scroop ay all of them at bristol lost their heads
duke of aumerle where is the duke my father with his power
king richard ii no matter where of comfort no man speak
 let's talk of graves of worms and epitaphs
 make dust our paper and with rainy eyes
 write sorrow on the bosom of the earth
 let's choose executors and talk of wills
 and yet not so for what can we bequeath
 save our deposed bodies to the ground
 our lands our lives and all are bolingbroke's
 and nothing can we call our own but death
 and that small model of the barren earth
 which serves as paste and cover to our bones
 for god's sake let us sit upon the ground
 and tell sad stories of the death of kings
 how some have been deposed some slain in war
 some haunted by the ghosts they have deposed
 some poison'd by their wives some sleeping kill'd
 all murder'd for within the hollow crown
 that rounds the mortal temples of a king
 keeps death his court and there the antic sits
 scoffing his state and grinning at his pomp
 allowing him a breath a little scene
 to monarchize be fear'd and kill with looks
 infusing him with self and vain conceit
 as if this flesh which walls about our life
 were brass impregnable and humour'd thus
 comes at the last and with a little pin
 bores through his castle wall and farewell king
 cover your heads and mock not flesh and blood
 with solemn reverence throw away respect
 tradition form and ceremonious duty
 for you have but mistook me all this while
 i live with bread like you feel want
 taste grief need friends subjected thus
 how can you say to me i am a king
bishop of carlisle my lord wise men ne'er sit and wail their woes
 but presently prevent the ways to wail
 to fear the foe since fear oppresseth strength
 gives in your weakness strength unto your foe
 and so your follies fight against yourself
 fear and be slain no worse can come to fight
 and fight and die is death destroying death
 where fearing dying pays death servile breath
duke of aumerle my father hath a power inquire of him
 and learn to make a body of a limb
king richard ii thou chidest me well proud bolingbroke i come
 to change blows with thee for our day of doom
 this ague fit of fear is overblown
 an easy task it is to win our own
 say scroop where lies our uncle with his power
 speak sweetly man although thy looks be sour
sir stephen scroop men judge by the complexion of the sky
 the state and inclination of the day
 so may you by my dull and heavy eye
 my tongue hath but a heavier tale to say
 i play the torturer by small and small
 to lengthen out the worst that must be spoken
 your uncle york is join'd with bolingbroke
 and all your northern castles yielded up
 and all your southern gentlemen in arms
 upon his party
king richard ii thou hast said enough
 beshrew thee cousin which didst lead me forth
 to duke of aumerle
 of that sweet way i was in to despair
 what say you now what comfort have we now
 by heaven i'll hate him everlastingly
 that bids me be of comfort any more
 go to flint castle there i'll pine away
 a king woe's slave shall kingly woe obey
 that power i have discharge and let them go
 to ear the land that hath some hope to grow
 for i have none let no man speak again
 to alter this for counsel is but vain
duke of aumerle my liege one word
king richard ii he does me double wrong
 that wounds me with the flatteries of his tongue
 discharge my followers let them hence away
 from richard's night to bolingbroke's fair day
 exeunt
 king richard ii
act iii
scene iii wales before flint castle
 enter with drum and colours henry bolingbroke
 duke of york northumberland attendants and forces
henry bolingbroke so that by this intelligence we learn
 the welshmen are dispersed and salisbury
 is gone to meet the king who lately landed
 with some few private friends upon this coast
northumberland the news is very fair and good my lord
 richard not far from hence hath hid his head
duke of york it would beseem the lord northumberland
 to say king richard alack the heavy day
 when such a sacred king should hide his head
northumberland your grace mistakes only to be brief
 left i his title out
duke of york the time hath been
 would you have been so brief with him he would
 have been so brief with you to shorten you
 for taking so the head your whole head's length
henry bolingbroke mistake not uncle further than you should
duke of york take not good cousin further than you should
 lest you mistake the heavens are o'er our heads
henry bolingbroke i know it uncle and oppose not myself
 against their will but who comes here
 enter henry percy
 welcome harry what will not this castle yield
henry percy the castle royally is mann'd my lord
 against thy entrance
henry bolingbroke royally
 why it contains no king
henry percy yes my good lord
 it doth contain a king king richard lies
 within the limits of yon lime and stone
 and with him are the lord aumerle lord salisbury
 sir stephen scroop besides a clergyman
 of holy reverence who i cannot learn
northumberland o belike it is the bishop of carlisle
henry bolingbroke noble lords
 go to the rude ribs of that ancient castle
 through brazen trumpet send the breath of parley
 into his ruin'd ears and thus deliver
 henry bolingbroke
 on both his knees doth kiss king richard's hand
 and sends allegiance and true faith of heart
 to his most royal person hither come
 even at his feet to lay my arms and power
 provided that my banishment repeal'd
 and lands restored again be freely granted
 if not i'll use the advantage of my power
 and lay the summer's dust with showers of blood
 rain'd from the wounds of slaughter'd englishmen
 the which how far off from the mind of bolingbroke
 it is such crimson tempest should bedrench
 the fresh green lap of fair king richard's land
 my stooping duty tenderly shall show
 go signify as much while here we march
 upon the grassy carpet of this plain
 let's march without the noise of threatening drum
 that from this castle's tatter'd battlements
 our fair appointments may be well perused
 methinks king richard and myself should meet
 with no less terror than the elements
 of fire and water when their thundering shock
 at meeting tears the cloudy cheeks of heaven
 be he the fire i'll be the yielding water
 the rage be his whilst on the earth i rain
 my waters on the earth and not on him
 march on and mark king richard how he looks
 parle without and answer within then a flourish
 enter on the walls king richard ii the bishop of
 carlisle duke of aumerle sir stephen scroop and
 earl of salisbury
 see see king richard doth himself appear
 as doth the blushing discontented sun
 from out the fiery portal of the east
 when he perceives the envious clouds are bent
 to dim his glory and to stain the track
 of his bright passage to the occident
duke of york yet looks he like a king behold his eye
 as bright as is the eagle's lightens forth
 controlling majesty alack alack for woe
 that any harm should stain so fair a show
king richard ii we are amazed and thus long have we stood
 to watch the fearful bending of thy knee
 to northumberland
 because we thought ourself thy lawful king
 and if we be how dare thy joints forget
 to pay their awful duty to our presence
 if we be not show us the hand of god
 that hath dismissed us from our stewardship
 for well we know no hand of blood and bone
 can gripe the sacred handle of our sceptre
 unless he do profane steal or usurp
 and though you think that all as you have done
 have torn their souls by turning them from us
 and we are barren and bereft of friends
 yet know my master god omnipotent
 is mustering in his clouds on our behalf
 armies of pestilence and they shall strike
 your children yet unborn and unbegot
 that lift your vassal hands against my head
 and threat the glory of my precious crown
 tell bolingbrokefor yond methinks he stands
 that every stride he makes upon my land
 is dangerous treason he is come to open
 the purple testament of bleeding war
 but ere the crown he looks for live in peace
 ten thousand bloody crowns of mothers sons
 shall ill become the flower of england's face
 change the complexion of her maidpale peace
 to scarlet indignation and bedew
 her pastures grass with faithful english blood
northumberland the king of heaven forbid our lord the king
 should so with civil and uncivil arms
 be rush'd upon thy thrice noble cousin
 harry bolingbroke doth humbly kiss thy hand
 and by the honourable tomb he swears
 that stands upon your royal grandsire's bones
 and by the royalties of both your bloods
 currents that spring from one most gracious head
 and by the buried hand of warlike gaunt
 and by the worth and honour of himself
 comprising all that may be sworn or said
 his coming hither hath no further scope
 than for his lineal royalties and to beg
 enfranchisement immediate on his knees
 which on thy royal party granted once
 his glittering arms he will commend to rust
 his barbed steeds to stables and his heart
 to faithful service of your majesty
 this swears he as he is a prince is just
 and as i am a gentleman i credit him
king richard ii northumberland say thus the king returns
 his noble cousin is right welcome hither
 and all the number of his fair demands
 shall be accomplish'd without contradiction
 with all the gracious utterance thou hast
 speak to his gentle hearing kind commends
 we do debase ourselves cousin do we not
 to duke of aumerle
 to look so poorly and to speak so fair
 shall we call back northumberland and send
 defiance to the traitor and so die
duke of aumerle no good my lord let's fight with gentle words
 till time lend friends and friends their helpful swords
king richard ii o god o god that e'er this tongue of mine
 that laid the sentence of dread banishment
 on yon proud man should take it off again
 with words of sooth o that i were as great
 as is my grief or lesser than my name
 or that i could forget what i have been
 or not remember what i must be now
 swell'st thou proud heart i'll give thee scope to beat
 since foes have scope to beat both thee and me
duke of aumerle northumberland comes back from bolingbroke
king richard ii what must the king do now must he submit
 the king shall do it must he be deposed
 the king shall be contented must he lose
 the name of king o god's name let it go
 i'll give my jewels for a set of beads
 my gorgeous palace for a hermitage
 my gay apparel for an almsman's gown
 my figured goblets for a dish of wood
 my sceptre for a palmer's walking staff
 my subjects for a pair of carved saints
 and my large kingdom for a little grave
 a little little grave an obscure grave
 or i'll be buried in the king's highway
 some way of common trade where subjects feet
 may hourly trample on their sovereign's head
 for on my heart they tread now whilst i live
 and buried once why not upon my head
 aumerle thou weep'st my tenderhearted cousin
 we'll make foul weather with despised tears
 our sighs and they shall lodge the summer corn
 and make a dearth in this revolting land
 or shall we play the wantons with our woes
 and make some pretty match with shedding tears
 as thus to drop them still upon one place
 till they have fretted us a pair of graves
 within the earth and therein laidthere lies
 two kinsmen digg'd their graves with weeping eyes
 would not this ill do well well well i see
 i talk but idly and you laugh at me
 most mighty prince my lord northumberland
 what says king bolingbroke will his majesty
 give richard leave to live till richard die
 you make a leg and bolingbroke says ay
northumberland my lord in the base court he doth attend
 to speak with you may it please you to come down
king richard ii down down i come like glistering phaethon
 wanting the manage of unruly jades
 in the base court base court where kings grow base
 to come at traitors calls and do them grace
 in the base court come down down court
 down king
 for nightowls shriek where mounting larks
 should sing
 exeunt from above
henry bolingbroke what says his majesty
northumberland sorrow and grief of heart
 makes him speak fondly like a frantic man
 yet he is come
 enter king richard and his attendants below
henry bolingbroke stand all apart
 and show fair duty to his majesty
 he kneels down
 my gracious lord
king richard ii fair cousin you debase your princely knee
 to make the base earth proud with kissing it
 me rather had my heart might feel your love
 than my unpleased eye see your courtesy
 up cousin up your heart is up i know
 thus high at least although your knee be low
henry bolingbroke my gracious lord i come but for mine own
king richard ii your own is yours and i am yours and all
henry bolingbroke so far be mine my most redoubted lord
 as my true service shall deserve your love
king richard ii well you deserve they well deserve to have
 that know the strong'st and surest way to get
 uncle give me your hands nay dry your eyes
 tears show their love but want their remedies
 cousin i am too young to be your father
 though you are old enough to be my heir
 what you will have i'll give and willing too
 for do we must what force will have us do
 set on towards london cousin is it so
henry bolingbroke yea my good lord
king richard ii then i must not say no
 flourish exeunt
 king richard ii
act iii
scene iv langley the duke of york's garden
 enter the queen and two ladies
queen what sport shall we devise here in this garden
 to drive away the heavy thought of care
lady madam we'll play at bowls
queen twill make me think the world is full of rubs
 and that my fortune rubs against the bias
lady madam we'll dance
queen my legs can keep no measure in delight
 when my poor heart no measure keeps in grief
 therefore no dancing girl some other sport
lady madam we'll tell tales
queen of sorrow or of joy
lady of either madam
queen of neither girl
 for of joy being altogether wanting
 it doth remember me the more of sorrow
 or if of grief being altogether had
 it adds more sorrow to my want of joy
 for what i have i need not to repeat
 and what i want it boots not to complain
lady madam i'll sing
queen tis well that thou hast cause
 but thou shouldst please me better wouldst thou weep
lady i could weep madam would it do you good
queen and i could sing would weeping do me good
 and never borrow any tear of thee
 enter a gardener and two servants
 but stay here come the gardeners
 let's step into the shadow of these trees
 my wretchedness unto a row of pins
 they'll talk of state for every one doth so
 against a change woe is forerun with woe
 queen and ladies retire
gardener go bind thou up yon dangling apricocks
 which like unruly children make their sire
 stoop with oppression of their prodigal weight
 give some supportance to the bending twigs
 go thou and like an executioner
 cut off the heads of too fast growing sprays
 that look too lofty in our commonwealth
 all must be even in our government
 you thus employ'd i will go root away
 the noisome weeds which without profit suck
 the soil's fertility from wholesome flowers
servant why should we in the compass of a pale
 keep law and form and due proportion
 showing as in a model our firm estate
 when our seawalled garden the whole land
 is full of weeds her fairest flowers choked up
 her fruittrees all upturned her hedges ruin'd
 her knots disorder'd and her wholesome herbs
 swarming with caterpillars
gardener hold thy peace
 he that hath suffer'd this disorder'd spring
 hath now himself met with the fall of leaf
 the weeds which his broadspreading leaves did shelter
 that seem'd in eating him to hold him up
 are pluck'd up root and all by bolingbroke
 i mean the earl of wiltshire bushy green
servant what are they dead
gardener they are and bolingbroke
 hath seized the wasteful king o what pity is it
 that he had not so trimm'd and dress'd his land
 as we this garden we at time of year
 do wound the bark the skin of our fruittrees
 lest being overproud in sap and blood
 with too much riches it confound itself
 had he done so to great and growing men
 they might have lived to bear and he to taste
 their fruits of duty superfluous branches
 we lop away that bearing boughs may live
 had he done so himself had borne the crown
 which waste of idle hours hath quite thrown down
servant what think you then the king shall be deposed
gardener depress'd he is already and deposed
 tis doubt he will be letters came last night
 to a dear friend of the good duke of york's
 that tell black tidings
queen o i am press'd to death through want of speaking
 coming forward
 thou old adam's likeness set to dress this garden
 how dares thy harsh rude tongue sound this unpleasing news
 what eve what serpent hath suggested thee
 to make a second fall of cursed man
 why dost thou say king richard is deposed
 darest thou thou little better thing than earth
 divine his downfall say where when and how
 camest thou by this ill tidings speak thou wretch
gardener pardon me madam little joy have i
 to breathe this news yet what i say is true
 king richard he is in the mighty hold
 of bolingbroke their fortunes both are weigh'd
 in your lord's scale is nothing but himself
 and some few vanities that make him light
 but in the balance of great bolingbroke
 besides himself are all the english peers
 and with that odds he weighs king richard down
 post you to london and you will find it so
 i speak no more than every one doth know
queen nimble mischance that art so light of foot
 doth not thy embassage belong to me
 and am i last that knows it o thou think'st
 to serve me last that i may longest keep
 thy sorrow in my breast come ladies go
 to meet at london london's king in woe
 what was i born to this that my sad look
 should grace the triumph of great bolingbroke
 gardener for telling me these news of woe
 pray god the plants thou graft'st may never grow
 exeunt queen and ladies
gardener poor queen so that thy state might be no worse
 i would my skill were subject to thy curse
 here did she fall a tear here in this place
 i'll set a bank of rue sour herb of grace
 rue even for ruth here shortly shall be seen
 in the remembrance of a weeping queen
 exeunt
 king richard ii
act iv
scene i westminster hall
 enter as to the parliament henry bolingbroke
 duke of aumerle northumberland henry percy lord
 fitzwater duke of surrey the bishop of carlisle
 the abbot of westminster and another lord herald
 officers and bagot
henry bolingbroke call forth bagot
 now bagot freely speak thy mind
 what thou dost know of noble gloucester's death
 who wrought it with the king and who perform'd
 the bloody office of his timeless end
bagot then set before my face the lord aumerle
henry bolingbroke cousin stand forth and look upon that man
bagot my lord aumerle i know your daring tongue
 scorns to unsay what once it hath deliver'd
 in that dead time when gloucester's death was plotted
 i heard you say is not my arm of length
 that reacheth from the restful english court
 as far as calais to mine uncle's head'
 amongst much other talk that very time
 i heard you say that you had rather refuse
 the offer of an hundred thousand crowns
 than bolingbroke's return to england
 adding withal how blest this land would be
 in this your cousin's death
duke of aumerle princes and noble lords
 what answer shall i make to this base man
 shall i so much dishonour my fair stars
 on equal terms to give him chastisement
 either i must or have mine honour soil'd
 with the attainder of his slanderous lips
 there is my gage the manual seal of death
 that marks thee out for hell i say thou liest
 and will maintain what thou hast said is false
 in thy heartblood though being all too base
 to stain the temper of my knightly sword
henry bolingbroke bagot forbear thou shalt not take it up
duke of aumerle excepting one i would he were the best
 in all this presence that hath moved me so
lord fitzwater if that thy valour stand on sympathy
 there is my gage aumerle in gage to thine
 by that fair sun which shows me where thou stand'st
 i heard thee say and vauntingly thou spakest it
 that thou wert cause of noble gloucester's death
 if thou deny'st it twenty times thou liest
 and i will turn thy falsehood to thy heart
 where it was forged with my rapier's point
duke of aumerle thou darest not coward live to see that day
lord fitzwater now by my soul i would it were this hour
duke of aumerle fitzwater thou art damn'd to hell for this
henry percy aumerle thou liest his honour is as true
 in this appeal as thou art all unjust
 and that thou art so there i throw my gage
 to prove it on thee to the extremest point
 of mortal breathing seize it if thou darest
duke of aumerle an if i do not may my hands rot off
 and never brandish more revengeful steel
 over the glittering helmet of my foe
lord i task the earth to the like forsworn aumerle
 and spur thee on with full as many lies
 as may be holloa'd in thy treacherous ear
 from sun to sun there is my honour's pawn
 engage it to the trial if thou darest
duke of aumerle who sets me else by heaven i'll throw at all
 i have a thousand spirits in one breast
 to answer twenty thousand such as you
duke of surrey my lord fitzwater i do remember well
 the very time aumerle and you did talk
lord fitzwater tis very true you were in presence then
 and you can witness with me this is true
duke of surrey as false by heaven as heaven itself is true
lord fitzwater surrey thou liest
duke of surrey dishonourable boy
 that lie shall lie so heavy on my sword
 that it shall render vengeance and revenge
 till thou the liegiver and that lie do lie
 in earth as quiet as thy father's skull
 in proof whereof there is my honour's pawn
 engage it to the trial if thou darest
lord fitzwater how fondly dost thou spur a forward horse
 if i dare eat or drink or breathe or live
 i dare meet surrey in a wilderness
 and spit upon him whilst i say he lies
 and lies and lies there is my bond of faith
 to tie thee to my strong correction
 as i intend to thrive in this new world
 aumerle is guilty of my true appeal
 besides i heard the banish'd norfolk say
 that thou aumerle didst send two of thy men
 to execute the noble duke at calais
duke of aumerle some honest christian trust me with a gage
 that norfolk lies here do i throw down this
 if he may be repeal'd to try his honour
henry bolingbroke these differences shall all rest under gage
 till norfolk be repeal'd repeal'd he shall be
 and though mine enemy restored again
 to all his lands and signories when he's return'd
 against aumerle we will enforce his trial
bishop of carlisle that honourable day shall ne'er be seen
 many a time hath banish'd norfolk fought
 for jesu christ in glorious christian field
 streaming the ensign of the christian cross
 against black pagans turks and saracens
 and toil'd with works of war retired himself
 to italy and there at venice gave
 his body to that pleasant country's earth
 and his pure soul unto his captain christ
 under whose colours he had fought so long
henry bolingbroke why bishop is norfolk dead
bishop of carlisle as surely as i live my lord
henry bolingbroke sweet peace conduct his sweet soul to the bosom
 of good old abraham lords appellants
 your differences shall all rest under gage
 till we assign you to your days of trial
 enter duke of york attended
duke of york great duke of lancaster i come to thee
 from plumepluck'd richard who with willing soul
 adopts thee heir and his high sceptre yields
 to the possession of thy royal hand
 ascend his throne descending now from him
 and long live henry fourth of that name
henry bolingbroke in god's name i'll ascend the regal throne
bishop of carlisle marry god forbid
 worst in this royal presence may i speak
 yet best beseeming me to speak the truth
 would god that any in this noble presence
 were enough noble to be upright judge
 of noble richard then true noblesse would
 learn him forbearance from so foul a wrong
 what subject can give sentence on his king
 and who sits here that is not richard's subject
 thieves are not judged but they are by to hear
 although apparent guilt be seen in them
 and shall the figure of god's majesty
 his captain steward deputyelect
 anointed crowned planted many years
 be judged by subject and inferior breath
 and he himself not present o forfend it god
 that in a christian climate souls refined
 should show so heinous black obscene a deed
 i speak to subjects and a subject speaks
 stirr'd up by god thus boldly for his king
 my lord of hereford here whom you call king
 is a foul traitor to proud hereford's king
 and if you crown him let me prophesy
 the blood of english shall manure the ground
 and future ages groan for this foul act
 peace shall go sleep with turks and infidels
 and in this seat of peace tumultuous wars
 shall kin with kin and kind with kind confound
 disorder horror fear and mutiny
 shall here inhabit and this land be call'd
 the field of golgotha and dead men's skulls
 o if you raise this house against this house
 it will the woefullest division prove
 that ever fell upon this cursed earth
 prevent it resist it let it not be so
 lest child child's children cry against you woe
northumberland well have you argued sir and for your pains
 of capital treason we arrest you here
 my lord of westminster be it your charge
 to keep him safely till his day of trial
 may it please you lords to grant the commons suit
henry bolingbroke fetch hither richard that in common view
 he may surrender so we shall proceed
 without suspicion
duke of york i will be his conduct
 exit
henry bolingbroke lords you that here are under our arrest
 procure your sureties for your days of answer
 little are we beholding to your love
 and little look'd for at your helping hands
 reenter duke of york with king richard ii and
 officers bearing the regalia
king richard ii alack why am i sent for to a king
 before i have shook off the regal thoughts
 wherewith i reign'd i hardly yet have learn'd
 to insinuate flatter bow and bend my limbs
 give sorrow leave awhile to tutor me
 to this submission yet i well remember
 the favours of these men were they not mine
 did they not sometime cry all hail to me
 so judas did to christ but he in twelve
 found truth in all but one i in twelve thousand none
 god save the king will no man say amen
 am i both priest and clerk well then amen
 god save the king although i be not he
 and yet amen if heaven do think him me
 to do what service am i sent for hither
duke of york to do that office of thine own good will
 which tired majesty did make thee offer
 the resignation of thy state and crown
 to henry bolingbroke
king richard ii give me the crown here cousin seize the crown
 here cousin
 on this side my hand and on that side yours
 now is this golden crown like a deep well
 that owes two buckets filling one another
 the emptier ever dancing in the air
 the other down unseen and full of water
 that bucket down and full of tears am i
 drinking my griefs whilst you mount up on high
henry bolingbroke i thought you had been willing to resign
king richard ii my crown i am but still my griefs are mine
 you may my glories and my state depose
 but not my griefs still am i king of those
henry bolingbroke part of your cares you give me with your crown
king richard ii your cares set up do not pluck my cares down
 my care is loss of care by old care done
 your care is gain of care by new care won
 the cares i give i have though given away
 they tend the crown yet still with me they stay
henry bolingbroke are you contented to resign the crown
king richard ii ay no no ay for i must nothing be
 therefore no no for i resign to thee
 now mark me how i will undo myself
 i give this heavy weight from off my head
 and this unwieldy sceptre from my hand
 the pride of kingly sway from out my heart
 with mine own tears i wash away my balm
 with mine own hands i give away my crown
 with mine own tongue deny my sacred state
 with mine own breath release all duty's rites
 all pomp and majesty i do forswear
 my manors rents revenues i forego
 my acts decrees and statutes i deny
 god pardon all oaths that are broke to me
 god keep all vows unbroke that swear to thee
 make me that nothing have with nothing grieved
 and thou with all pleased that hast all achieved
 long mayst thou live in richard's seat to sit
 and soon lie richard in an earthly pit
 god save king harry unking'd richard says
 and send him many years of sunshine days
 what more remains
northumberland no more but that you read
 these accusations and these grievous crimes
 committed by your person and your followers
 against the state and profit of this land
 that by confessing them the souls of men
 may deem that you are worthily deposed
king richard ii must i do so and must i ravel out
 my weavedup folly gentle northumberland
 if thy offences were upon record
 would it not shame thee in so fair a troop
 to read a lecture of them if thou wouldst
 there shouldst thou find one heinous article
 containing the deposing of a king
 and cracking the strong warrant of an oath
 mark'd with a blot damn'd in the book of heaven
 nay all of you that stand and look upon
 whilst that my wretchedness doth bait myself
 though some of you with pilate wash your hands
 showing an outward pity yet you pilates
 have here deliver'd me to my sour cross
 and water cannot wash away your sin
northumberland my lord dispatch read o'er these articles
king richard ii mine eyes are full of tears i cannot see
 and yet salt water blinds them not so much
 but they can see a sort of traitors here
 nay if i turn mine eyes upon myself
 i find myself a traitor with the rest
 for i have given here my soul's consent
 to undeck the pompous body of a king
 made glory base and sovereignty a slave
 proud majesty a subject state a peasant
northumberland my lord
king richard ii no lord of thine thou haught insulting man
 nor no man's lord i have no name no title
 no not that name was given me at the font
 but tis usurp'd alack the heavy day
 that i have worn so many winters out
 and know not now what name to call myself
 o that i were a mockery king of snow
 standing before the sun of bolingbroke
 to melt myself away in waterdrops
 good king great king and yet not greatly good
 an if my word be sterling yet in england
 let it command a mirror hither straight
 that it may show me what a face i have
 since it is bankrupt of his majesty
henry bolingbroke go some of you and fetch a lookingglass
 exit an attendant
northumberland read o'er this paper while the glass doth come
king richard ii fiend thou torment'st me ere i come to hell
henry bolingbroke urge it no more my lord northumberland
northumberland the commons will not then be satisfied
king richard ii they shall be satisfied i'll read enough
 when i do see the very book indeed
 where all my sins are writ and that's myself
 reenter attendant with a glass
 give me the glass and therein will i read
 no deeper wrinkles yet hath sorrow struck
 so many blows upon this face of mine
 and made no deeper wounds o flattering glass
 like to my followers in prosperity
 thou dost beguile me was this face the face
 that every day under his household roof
 did keep ten thousand men was this the face
 that like the sun did make beholders wink
 was this the face that faced so many follies
 and was at last outfaced by bolingbroke
 a brittle glory shineth in this face
 as brittle as the glory is the face
 dashes the glass against the ground
 for there it is crack'd in a hundred shivers
 mark silent king the moral of this sport
 how soon my sorrow hath destroy'd my face
henry bolingbroke the shadow of your sorrow hath destroy'd
 the shadow or your face
king richard ii say that again
 the shadow of my sorrow ha let's see
 tis very true my grief lies all within
 and these external manners of laments
 are merely shadows to the unseen grief
 that swells with silence in the tortured soul
 there lies the substance and i thank thee king
 for thy great bounty that not only givest
 me cause to wail but teachest me the way
 how to lament the cause i'll beg one boon
 and then be gone and trouble you no more
 shall i obtain it
henry bolingbroke name it fair cousin
king richard ii fair cousin i am greater than a king
 for when i was a king my flatterers
 were then but subjects being now a subject
 i have a king here to my flatterer
 being so great i have no need to beg
henry bolingbroke yet ask
king richard ii and shall i have
henry bolingbroke you shall
king richard ii then give me leave to go
henry bolingbroke whither
king richard ii whither you will so i were from your sights
henry bolingbroke go some of you convey him to the tower
king richard ii o good convey conveyers are you all
 that rise thus nimbly by a true king's fall
 exeunt king richard ii some lords and a guard
henry bolingbroke on wednesday next we solemnly set down
 our coronation lords prepare yourselves
 exeunt all except the bishop of carlisle the abbot
 of westminster and duke of aumerle
abbot a woeful pageant have we here beheld
bishop of carlisle the woe's to come the children yet unborn
 shall feel this day as sharp to them as thorn
duke of aumerle you holy clergymen is there no plot
 to rid the realm of this pernicious blot
abbot my lord
 before i freely speak my mind herein
 you shall not only take the sacrament
 to bury mine intents but also to effect
 whatever i shall happen to devise
 i see your brows are full of discontent
 your hearts of sorrow and your eyes of tears
 come home with me to supper and i'll lay
 a plot shall show us all a merry day
 exeunt
 king richard ii
act v
scene i london a street leading to the tower
 enter queen and ladies
queen this way the king will come this is the way
 to julius caesar's illerected tower
 to whose flint bosom my condemned lord
 is doom'd a prisoner by proud bolingbroke
 here let us rest if this rebellious earth
 have any resting for her true king's queen
 enter king richard ii and guard
 but soft but see or rather do not see
 my fair rose wither yet look up behold
 that you in pity may dissolve to dew
 and wash him fresh again with truelove tears
 ah thou the model where old troy did stand
 thou map of honour thou king richard's tomb
 and not king richard thou most beauteous inn
 why should hardfavour'd grief be lodged in thee
 when triumph is become an alehouse guest
king richard ii join not with grief fair woman do not so
 to make my end too sudden learn good soul
 to think our former state a happy dream
 from which awaked the truth of what we are
 shows us but this i am sworn brother sweet
 to grim necessity and he and i
 will keep a league till death hie thee to france
 and cloister thee in some religious house
 our holy lives must win a new world's crown
 which our profane hours here have stricken down
queen what is my richard both in shape and mind
 transform'd and weaken'd hath bolingbroke deposed
 thine intellect hath he been in thy heart
 the lion dying thrusteth forth his paw
 and wounds the earth if nothing else with rage
 to be o'erpower'd and wilt thou pupillike
 take thy correction mildly kiss the rod
 and fawn on rage with base humility
 which art a lion and a king of beasts
king richard ii a king of beasts indeed if aught but beasts
 i had been still a happy king of men
 good sometime queen prepare thee hence for france
 think i am dead and that even here thou takest
 as from my deathbed thy last living leave
 in winter's tedious nights sit by the fire
 with good old folks and let them tell thee tales
 of woeful ages long ago betid
 and ere thou bid good night to quit their griefs
 tell thou the lamentable tale of me
 and send the hearers weeping to their beds
 for why the senseless brands will sympathize
 the heavy accent of thy moving tongue
 and in compassion weep the fire out
 and some will mourn in ashes some coalblack
 for the deposing of a rightful king
 enter northumberland and others
northumberland my lord the mind of bolingbroke is changed
 you must to pomfret not unto the tower
 and madam there is order ta'en for you
 with all swift speed you must away to france
king richard ii northumberland thou ladder wherewithal
 the mounting bolingbroke ascends my throne
 the time shall not be many hours of age
 more than it is ere foul sin gathering head
 shalt break into corruption thou shalt think
 though he divide the realm and give thee half
 it is too little helping him to all
 and he shall think that thou which know'st the way
 to plant unrightful kings wilt know again
 being ne'er so little urged another way
 to pluck him headlong from the usurped throne
 the love of wicked men converts to fear
 that fear to hate and hate turns one or both
 to worthy danger and deserved death
northumberland my guilt be on my head and there an end
 take leave and part for you must part forthwith
king richard ii doubly divorced bad men you violate
 a twofold marriage twixt my crown and me
 and then betwixt me and my married wife
 let me unkiss the oath twixt thee and me
 and yet not so for with a kiss twas made
 part us northumberland i toward the north
 where shivering cold and sickness pines the clime
 my wife to france from whence set forth in pomp
 she came adorned hither like sweet may
 sent back like hallowmas or short'st of day
queen and must we be divided must we part
king richard ii ay hand from hand my love and heart from heart
queen banish us both and send the king with me
northumberland that were some love but little policy
queen then whither he goes thither let me go
king richard ii so two together weeping make one woe
 weep thou for me in france i for thee here
 better far off than near be ne'er the near
 go count thy way with sighs i mine with groans
queen so longest way shall have the longest moans
king richard ii twice for one step i'll groan the way being short
 and piece the way out with a heavy heart
 come come in wooing sorrow let's be brief
 since wedding it there is such length in grief
 one kiss shall stop our mouths and dumbly part
 thus give i mine and thus take i thy heart
queen give me mine own again twere no good part
 to take on me to keep and kill thy heart
 so now i have mine own again be gone
 that i might strive to kill it with a groan
king richard ii we make woe wanton with this fond delay
 once more adieu the rest let sorrow say
 exeunt
 king richard ii
act v
scene ii the duke of york's palace
 enter duke of york and duchess of york
duchess of york my lord you told me you would tell the rest
 when weeping made you break the story off
 of our two cousins coming into london
duke of york where did i leave
duchess of york at that sad stop my lord
 where rude misgovern'd hands from windows tops
 threw dust and rubbish on king richard's head
duke of york then as i said the duke great bolingbroke
 mounted upon a hot and fiery steed
 which his aspiring rider seem'd to know
 with slow but stately pace kept on his course
 whilst all tongues cried god save thee
 bolingbroke'
 you would have thought the very windows spake
 so many greedy looks of young and old
 through casements darted their desiring eyes
 upon his visage and that all the walls
 with painted imagery had said at once
 jesu preserve thee welcome bolingbroke'
 whilst he from the one side to the other turning
 bareheaded lower than his proud steed's neck
 bespake them thus i thank you countrymen'
 and thus still doing thus he pass'd along
duchess of york alack poor richard where rode he the whilst
duke of york as in a theatre the eyes of men
 after a wellgraced actor leaves the stage
 are idly bent on him that enters next
 thinking his prattle to be tedious
 even so or with much more contempt men's eyes
 did scowl on gentle richard no man cried god save him'
 no joyful tongue gave him his welcome home
 but dust was thrown upon his sacred head
 which with such gentle sorrow he shook off
 his face still combating with tears and smiles
 the badges of his grief and patience
 that had not god for some strong purpose steel'd
 the hearts of men they must perforce have melted
 and barbarism itself have pitied him
 but heaven hath a hand in these events
 to whose high will we bound our calm contents
 to bolingbroke are we sworn subjects now
 whose state and honour i for aye allow
duchess of york here comes my son aumerle
duke of york aumerle that was
 but that is lost for being richard's friend
 and madam you must call him rutland now
 i am in parliament pledge for his truth
 and lasting fealty to the newmade king
 enter duke of aumerle
duchess of york welcome my son who are the violets now
 that strew the green lap of the new come spring
duke of aumerle madam i know not nor i greatly care not
 god knows i had as lief be none as one
duke of york well bear you well in this new spring of time
 lest you be cropp'd before you come to prime
 what news from oxford hold those justs and triumphs
duke of aumerle for aught i know my lord they do
duke of york you will be there i know
duke of aumerle if god prevent not i purpose so
duke of york what seal is that that hangs without thy bosom
 yea look'st thou pale let me see the writing
duke of aumerle my lord tis nothing
duke of york no matter then who see it
 i will be satisfied let me see the writing
duke of aumerle i do beseech your grace to pardon me
 it is a matter of small consequence
 which for some reasons i would not have seen
duke of york which for some reasons sir i mean to see
 i fear i fear
duchess of york what should you fear
 tis nothing but some bond that he is enter'd into
 for gay apparel gainst the triumph day
duke of york bound to himself what doth he with a bond
 that he is bound to wife thou art a fool
 boy let me see the writing
duke of aumerle i do beseech you pardon me i may not show it
duke of york i will be satisfied let me see it i say
 he plucks it out of his bosom and reads it
 treason foul treason villain traitor slave
duchess of york what is the matter my lord
duke of york ho who is within there
 enter a servant
 saddle my horse
 god for his mercy what treachery is here
duchess of york why what is it my lord
duke of york give me my boots i say saddle my horse
 now by mine honour by my life by my troth
 i will appeach the villain
duchess of york what is the matter
duke of york peace foolish woman
duchess of york i will not peace what is the matter aumerle
duke of aumerle good mother be content it is no more
 than my poor life must answer
duchess of york thy life answer
duke of york bring me my boots i will unto the king
 reenter servant with boots
duchess of york strike him aumerle poor boy thou art amazed
 hence villain never more come in my sight
duke of york give me my boots i say
duchess of york why york what wilt thou do
 wilt thou not hide the trespass of thine own
 have we more sons or are we like to have
 is not my teeming date drunk up with time
 and wilt thou pluck my fair son from mine age
 and rob me of a happy mother's name
 is he not like thee is he not thine own
duke of york thou fond mad woman
 wilt thou conceal this dark conspiracy
 a dozen of them here have ta'en the sacrament
 and interchangeably set down their hands
 to kill the king at oxford
duchess of york he shall be none
 we'll keep him here then what is that to him
duke of york away fond woman were he twenty times my son
 i would appeach him
duchess of york hadst thou groan'd for him
 as i have done thou wouldst be more pitiful
 but now i know thy mind thou dost suspect
 that i have been disloyal to thy bed
 and that he is a bastard not thy son
 sweet york sweet husband be not of that mind
 he is as like thee as a man may be
 not like to me or any of my kin
 and yet i love him
duke of york make way unruly woman
 exit
duchess of york after aumerle mount thee upon his horse
 spur post and get before him to the king
 and beg thy pardon ere he do accuse thee
 i'll not be long behind though i be old
 i doubt not but to ride as fast as york
 and never will i rise up from the ground
 till bolingbroke have pardon'd thee away be gone
 exeunt
 king richard ii
act v
scene iii a royal palace
 enter henry bolingbroke henry percy and other lords
henry bolingbroke can no man tell me of my unthrifty son
 tis full three months since i did see him last
 if any plague hang over us tis he
 i would to god my lords he might be found
 inquire at london mongst the taverns there
 for there they say he daily doth frequent
 with unrestrained loose companions
 even such they say as stand in narrow lanes
 and beat our watch and rob our passengers
 which he young wanton and effeminate boy
 takes on the point of honour to support
 so dissolute a crew
henry percy my lord some two days since i saw the prince
 and told him of those triumphs held at oxford
henry bolingbroke and what said the gallant
henry percy his answer was he would unto the stews
 and from the common'st creature pluck a glove
 and wear it as a favour and with that
 he would unhorse the lustiest challenger
henry bolingbroke as dissolute as desperate yet through both
 i see some sparks of better hope which elder years
 may happily bring forth but who comes here
 enter duke of aumerle
duke of aumerle where is the king
henry bolingbroke what means our cousin that he stares and looks
 so wildly
duke of aumerle god save your grace i do beseech your majesty
 to have some conference with your grace alone
henry bolingbroke withdraw yourselves and leave us here alone
 exeunt henry percy and lords
 what is the matter with our cousin now
duke of aumerle for ever may my knees grow to the earth
 my tongue cleave to my roof within my mouth
 unless a pardon ere i rise or speak
henry bolingbroke intended or committed was this fault
 if on the first how heinous e'er it be
 to win thy afterlove i pardon thee
duke of aumerle then give me leave that i may turn the key
 that no man enter till my tale be done
henry bolingbroke have thy desire
duke of york within my liege beware look to thyself
 thou hast a traitor in thy presence there
henry bolingbroke villain i'll make thee safe
 drawing
duke of aumerle stay thy revengeful hand thou hast no cause to fear
duke of york within open the door secure foolhardy king
 shall i for love speak treason to thy face
 open the door or i will break it open
 enter duke of york
henry bolingbroke what is the matter uncle speak
 recover breath tell us how near is danger
 that we may arm us to encounter it
duke of york peruse this writing here and thou shalt know
 the treason that my haste forbids me show
duke of aumerle remember as thou read'st thy promise pass'd
 i do repent me read not my name there
 my heart is not confederate with my hand
duke of york it was villain ere thy hand did set it down
 i tore it from the traitor's bosom king
 fear and not love begets his penitence
 forget to pity him lest thy pity prove
 a serpent that will sting thee to the heart
henry bolingbroke o heinous strong and bold conspiracy
 o loyal father of a treacherous son
 thou sheer immaculate and silver fountain
 from when this stream through muddy passages
 hath held his current and defiled himself
 thy overflow of good converts to bad
 and thy abundant goodness shall excuse
 this deadly blot in thy digressing son
duke of york so shall my virtue be his vice's bawd
 and he shall spend mine honour with his shame
 as thriftless sons their scraping fathers gold
 mine honour lives when his dishonour dies
 or my shamed life in his dishonour lies
 thou kill'st me in his life giving him breath
 the traitor lives the true man's put to death
duchess of york within what ho my liege for god's sake
 let me in
henry bolingbroke what shrillvoiced suppliant makes this eager cry
duchess of york a woman and thy aunt great king tis i
 speak with me pity me open the door
 a beggar begs that never begg'd before
henry bolingbroke our scene is alter'd from a serious thing
 and now changed to the beggar and the king'
 my dangerous cousin let your mother in
 i know she is come to pray for your foul sin
duke of york if thou do pardon whosoever pray
 more sins for this forgiveness prosper may
 this fester'd joint cut off the rest rest sound
 this let alone will all the rest confound
 enter duchess of york
duchess of york o king believe not this hardhearted man
 love loving not itself none other can
duke of york thou frantic woman what dost thou make here
 shall thy old dugs once more a traitor rear
duchess of york sweet york be patient hear me gentle liege
 kneels
henry bolingbroke rise up good aunt
duchess of york not yet i thee beseech
 for ever will i walk upon my knees
 and never see day that the happy sees
 till thou give joy until thou bid me joy
 by pardoning rutland my transgressing boy
duke of aumerle unto my mother's prayers i bend my knee
duke of york against them both my true joints bended be
 ill mayst thou thrive if thou grant any grace
duchess of york pleads he in earnest look upon his face
 his eyes do drop no tears his prayers are in jest
 his words come from his mouth ours from our breast
 he prays but faintly and would be denied
 we pray with heart and soul and all beside
 his weary joints would gladly rise i know
 our knees shall kneel till to the ground they grow
 his prayers are full of false hypocrisy
 ours of true zeal and deep integrity
 our prayers do outpray his then let them have
 that mercy which true prayer ought to have
henry bolingbroke good aunt stand up
duchess of york nay do not say stand up'
 say pardon first and afterwards stand up'
 and if i were thy nurse thy tongue to teach
 pardon should be the first word of thy speech
 i never long'd to hear a word till now
 say pardon king let pity teach thee how
 the word is short but not so short as sweet
 no word like pardon for kings mouths so meet
duke of york speak it in french king say pardonne moi'
duchess of york dost thou teach pardon pardon to destroy
 ah my sour husband my hardhearted lord
 that set'st the word itself against the word
 speak pardon as tis current in our land
 the chopping french we do not understand
 thine eye begins to speak set thy tongue there
 or in thy piteous heart plant thou thine ear
 that hearing how our plaints and prayers do pierce
 pity may move thee pardon to rehearse
henry bolingbroke good aunt stand up
duchess of york i do not sue to stand
 pardon is all the suit i have in hand
henry bolingbroke i pardon him as god shall pardon me
duchess of york o happy vantage of a kneeling knee
 yet am i sick for fear speak it again
 twice saying pardon doth not pardon twain
 but makes one pardon strong
henry bolingbroke with all my heart
 i pardon him
duchess of york a god on earth thou art
henry bolingbroke but for our trusty brotherinlaw and the abbot
 with all the rest of that consorted crew
 destruction straight shall dog them at the heels
 good uncle help to order several powers
 to oxford or where'er these traitors are
 they shall not live within this world i swear
 but i will have them if i once know where
 uncle farewell and cousin too adieu
 your mother well hath pray'd and prove you true
duchess of york come my old son i pray god make thee new
 exeunt
 king richard ii
act v
scene iv the same
 enter exton and servant
exton didst thou not mark the king what words he spake
 have i no friend will rid me of this living fear'
 was it not so
servant these were his very words
exton have i no friend quoth he he spake it twice
 and urged it twice together did he not
servant he did
exton and speaking it he wistly look'd on me
 and who should say i would thou wert the man'
 that would divorce this terror from my heart'
 meaning the king at pomfret come let's go
 i am the king's friend and will rid his foe
 exeunt
 king richard ii
act v
scene v pomfret castle
 enter king richard
king richard ii i have been studying how i may compare
 this prison where i live unto the world
 and for because the world is populous
 and here is not a creature but myself
 i cannot do it yet i'll hammer it out
 my brain i'll prove the female to my soul
 my soul the father and these two beget
 a generation of stillbreeding thoughts
 and these same thoughts people this little world
 in humours like the people of this world
 for no thought is contented the better sort
 as thoughts of things divine are intermix'd
 with scruples and do set the word itself
 against the word
 as thus come little ones and then again
 it is as hard to come as for a camel
 to thread the postern of a small needle's eye'
 thoughts tending to ambition they do plot
 unlikely wonders how these vain weak nails
 may tear a passage through the flinty ribs
 of this hard world my ragged prison walls
 and for they cannot die in their own pride
 thoughts tending to content flatter themselves
 that they are not the first of fortune's slaves
 nor shall not be the last like silly beggars
 who sitting in the stocks refuge their shame
 that many have and others must sit there
 and in this thought they find a kind of ease
 bearing their own misfortunes on the back
 of such as have before endured the like
 thus play i in one person many people
 and none contented sometimes am i king
 then treasons make me wish myself a beggar
 and so i am then crushing penury
 persuades me i was better when a king
 then am i king'd again and by and by
 think that i am unking'd by bolingbroke
 and straight am nothing but whate'er i be
 nor i nor any man that but man is
 with nothing shall be pleased till he be eased
 with being nothing music do i hear
 music
 ha ha keep time how sour sweet music is
 when time is broke and no proportion kept
 so is it in the music of men's lives
 and here have i the daintiness of ear
 to cheque time broke in a disorder'd string
 but for the concord of my state and time
 had not an ear to hear my true time broke
 i wasted time and now doth time waste me
 for now hath time made me his numbering clock
 my thoughts are minutes and with sighs they jar
 their watches on unto mine eyes the outward watch
 whereto my finger like a dial's point
 is pointing still in cleansing them from tears
 now sir the sound that tells what hour it is
 are clamorous groans which strike upon my heart
 which is the bell so sighs and tears and groans
 show minutes times and hours but my time
 runs posting on in bolingbroke's proud joy
 while i stand fooling here his jack o the clock
 this music mads me let it sound no more
 for though it have holp madmen to their wits
 in me it seems it will make wise men mad
 yet blessing on his heart that gives it me
 for tis a sign of love and love to richard
 is a strange brooch in this allhating world
 enter a groom of the stable
groom hail royal prince
king richard ii thanks noble peer
 the cheapest of us is ten groats too dear
 what art thou and how comest thou hither
 where no man never comes but that sad dog
 that brings me food to make misfortune live
groom i was a poor groom of thy stable king
 when thou wert king who travelling towards york
 with much ado at length have gotten leave
 to look upon my sometimes royal master's face
 o how it yearn'd my heart when i beheld
 in london streets that coronationday
 when bolingbroke rode on roan barbary
 that horse that thou so often hast bestrid
 that horse that i so carefully have dress'd
king richard ii rode he on barbary tell me gentle friend
 how went he under him
groom so proudly as if he disdain'd the ground
king richard ii so proud that bolingbroke was on his back
 that jade hath eat bread from my royal hand
 this hand hath made him proud with clapping him
 would he not stumble would he not fall down
 since pride must have a fall and break the neck
 of that proud man that did usurp his back
 forgiveness horse why do i rail on thee
 since thou created to be awed by man
 wast born to bear i was not made a horse
 and yet i bear a burthen like an ass
 spurr'd gall'd and tired by jouncing bolingbroke
 enter keeper with a dish
keeper fellow give place here is no longer stay
king richard ii if thou love me tis time thou wert away
groom what my tongue dares not that my heart shall say
 exit
keeper my lord will't please you to fall to
king richard ii taste of it first as thou art wont to do
keeper my lord i dare not sir pierce of exton who
 lately came from the king commands the contrary
king richard ii the devil take henry of lancaster and thee
 patience is stale and i am weary of it
 beats the keeper
keeper help help help
 enter exton and servants armed
king richard ii how now what means death in this rude assault
 villain thy own hand yields thy death's instrument
 snatching an axe from a servant and killing him
 go thou and fill another room in hell
 he kills another then exton strikes him down
 that hand shall burn in neverquenching fire
 that staggers thus my person exton thy fierce hand
 hath with the king's blood stain'd the king's own land
 mount mount my soul thy seat is up on high
 whilst my gross flesh sinks downward here to die
 dies
exton as full of valour as of royal blood
 both have i spill'd o would the deed were good
 for now the devil that told me i did well
 says that this deed is chronicled in hell
 this dead king to the living king i'll bear
 take hence the rest and give them burial here
 exeunt
 king richard ii
act v
scene vi windsor castle
 flourish enter henry bolingbroke duke of york
 with other lords and attendants
henry bolingbroke kind uncle york the latest news we hear
 is that the rebels have consumed with fire
 our town of cicester in gloucestershire
 but whether they be ta'en or slain we hear not
 enter northumberland
 welcome my lord what is the news
northumberland first to thy sacred state wish i all happiness
 the next news is i have to london sent
 the heads of oxford salisbury blunt and kent
 the manner of their taking may appear
 at large discoursed in this paper here
henry bolingbroke we thank thee gentle percy for thy pains
 and to thy worth will add right worthy gains
 enter lord fitzwater
lord fitzwater my lord i have from oxford sent to london
 the heads of brocas and sir bennet seely
 two of the dangerous consorted traitors
 that sought at oxford thy dire overthrow
henry bolingbroke thy pains fitzwater shall not be forgot
 right noble is thy merit well i wot
 enter henry percy and the bishop of carlisle
henry percy the grand conspirator abbot of westminster
 with clog of conscience and sour melancholy
 hath yielded up his body to the grave
 but here is carlisle living to abide
 thy kingly doom and sentence of his pride
henry bolingbroke carlisle this is your doom
 choose out some secret place some reverend room
 more than thou hast and with it joy thy life
 so as thou livest in peace die free from strife
 for though mine enemy thou hast ever been
 high sparks of honour in thee have i seen
 enter exton with persons bearing a coffin
exton great king within this coffin i present
 thy buried fear herein all breathless lies
 the mightiest of thy greatest enemies
 richard of bordeaux by me hither brought
henry bolingbroke exton i thank thee not for thou hast wrought
 a deed of slander with thy fatal hand
 upon my head and all this famous land
exton from your own mouth my lord did i this deed
henry bolingbroke they love not poison that do poison need
 nor do i thee though i did wish him dead
 i hate the murderer love him murdered
 the guilt of conscience take thou for thy labour
 but neither my good word nor princely favour
 with cain go wander through shades of night
 and never show thy head by day nor light
 lords i protest my soul is full of woe
 that blood should sprinkle me to make me grow
 come mourn with me for that i do lament
 and put on sullen black incontinent
 i'll make a voyage to the holy land
 to wash this blood off from my guilty hand
 march sadly after grace my mournings here
 in weeping after this untimely bier
 exeunt
 king richard iii
 dramatis personae
king edward
the fourth king edward iv
edward prince of wales prince edward 
 afterwards king edward v sons to
 the king
richard duke of york york 
george duke of clarence clarence 
 
richard duke of gloucester gloucester brothers to
 afterwards king richard iii the king
 king richard iii 
 a young son of clarence boy
henry earl of richmond richmond
 afterwards king henry vii
cardinal bourchier archbishop of canterbury cardinal
thomas rotherham archbishop of york archbishop of york
john morton bishop of ely bishop of ely
duke of buckingham buckingham
duke of norfolk norfolk
earl of surrey his son surrey
earl rivers brother to elizabeth rivers
marquis of dorset dorset 
 sons to elizabeth
lord grey grey 
earl of oxford oxford
lord hastings hastings
lord stanley stanley called also earl of derby derby
lord lovel lovel
sir thomas vaughan vaughan
sir richard
ratcliff ratcliff
sir william
catesby catesby
sir james tyrrel tyrrel
sir james blount blount
sir walter herbert herbert
sir robert
brakenbury lieutenant of the tower brakenbury
christopher
urswick a priest christopher
 another priest priest
tressel 
 gentlemen attending on the lady anne
berkeley gentleman
 lord mayor of london lord mayor
 sheriff of wiltshire sheriff
elizabeth queen to king edward iv queen elizabeth
margaret widow of king henry vi queen margaret
duchess of york mother to king edward iv
lady anne widow of edward prince of wales son to king henry vi
 afterwards married to richard
 a young daughter of clarence margaret plantagenet girl
 ghosts of those murdered by richard iii
 lords and other attendants a pursuivant
 scrivener citizens murderers messengers
 soldiers &c
 ghost of prince edward
 ghost of king henry vi
 ghost of clarence
 ghost of rivers
 ghost of grey
 ghost of vaughan
 ghost of hasting
 ghosts of young princes
 ghost of lady anne
 ghost of buckingham
 pursuivant
 scrivener
 first citizen
 second citizen
 third citizen
 first murderer
 second murderer
 messenger
 second messenger
 third messenger
 fourth messenger
scene england
 king richard iii
act i
scene i london a street
 enter gloucester solus
gloucester now is the winter of our discontent
 made glorious summer by this sun of york
 and all the clouds that lour'd upon our house
 in the deep bosom of the ocean buried
 now are our brows bound with victorious wreaths
 our bruised arms hung up for monuments
 our stern alarums changed to merry meetings
 our dreadful marches to delightful measures
 grimvisaged war hath smooth'd his wrinkled front
 and now instead of mounting barded steeds
 to fright the souls of fearful adversaries
 he capers nimbly in a lady's chamber
 to the lascivious pleasing of a lute
 but i that am not shaped for sportive tricks
 nor made to court an amorous lookingglass
 i that am rudely stamp'd and want love's majesty
 to strut before a wanton ambling nymph
 i that am curtail'd of this fair proportion
 cheated of feature by dissembling nature
 deformed unfinish'd sent before my time
 into this breathing world scarce half made up
 and that so lamely and unfashionable
 that dogs bark at me as i halt by them
 why i in this weak piping time of peace
 have no delight to pass away the time
 unless to spy my shadow in the sun
 and descant on mine own deformity
 and therefore since i cannot prove a lover
 to entertain these fair wellspoken days
 i am determined to prove a villain
 and hate the idle pleasures of these days
 plots have i laid inductions dangerous
 by drunken prophecies libels and dreams
 to set my brother clarence and the king
 in deadly hate the one against the other
 and if king edward be as true and just
 as i am subtle false and treacherous
 this day should clarence closely be mew'd up
 about a prophecy which says that g'
 of edward's heirs the murderer shall be
 dive thoughts down to my soul here
 clarence comes
 enter clarence guarded and brakenbury
 brother good day what means this armed guard
 that waits upon your grace
clarence his majesty
 tendering my person's safety hath appointed
 this conduct to convey me to the tower
gloucester upon what cause
clarence because my name is george
gloucester alack my lord that fault is none of yours
 he should for that commit your godfathers
 o belike his majesty hath some intent
 that you shall be newchristen'd in the tower
 but what's the matter clarence may i know
clarence yea richard when i know for i protest
 as yet i do not but as i can learn
 he hearkens after prophecies and dreams
 and from the crossrow plucks the letter g
 and says a wizard told him that by g
 his issue disinherited should be
 and for my name of george begins with g
 it follows in his thought that i am he
 these as i learn and such like toys as these
 have moved his highness to commit me now
gloucester why this it is when men are ruled by women
 tis not the king that sends you to the tower
 my lady grey his wife clarence tis she
 that tempers him to this extremity
 was it not she and that good man of worship
 anthony woodville her brother there
 that made him send lord hastings to the tower
 from whence this present day he is deliver'd
 we are not safe clarence we are not safe
clarence by heaven i think there's no man is secure
 but the queen's kindred and nightwalking heralds
 that trudge betwixt the king and mistress shore
 heard ye not what an humble suppliant
 lord hastings was to her for his delivery
gloucester humbly complaining to her deity
 got my lord chamberlain his liberty
 i'll tell you what i think it is our way
 if we will keep in favour with the king
 to be her men and wear her livery
 the jealous o'erworn widow and herself
 since that our brother dubb'd them gentlewomen
 are mighty gossips in this monarchy
brakenbury i beseech your graces both to pardon me
 his majesty hath straitly given in charge
 that no man shall have private conference
 of what degree soever with his brother
gloucester even so an't please your worship brakenbury
 you may partake of any thing we say
 we speak no treason man we say the king
 is wise and virtuous and his noble queen
 well struck in years fair and not jealous
 we say that shore's wife hath a pretty foot
 a cherry lip a bonny eye a passing pleasing tongue
 and that the queen's kindred are made gentlefolks
 how say you sir can you deny all this
brakenbury with this my lord myself have nought to do
gloucester naught to do with mistress shore i tell thee fellow
 he that doth naught with her excepting one
 were best he do it secretly alone
brakenbury what one my lord
gloucester her husband knave wouldst thou betray me
brakenbury i beseech your grace to pardon me and withal
 forbear your conference with the noble duke
clarence we know thy charge brakenbury and will obey
gloucester we are the queen's abjects and must obey
 brother farewell i will unto the king
 and whatsoever you will employ me in
 were it to call king edward's widow sister
 i will perform it to enfranchise you
 meantime this deep disgrace in brotherhood
 touches me deeper than you can imagine
clarence i know it pleaseth neither of us well
gloucester well your imprisonment shall not be long
 meantime have patience
clarence i must perforce farewell
 exeunt clarence brakenbury and guard
gloucester go tread the path that thou shalt ne'er return
 simple plain clarence i do love thee so
 that i will shortly send thy soul to heaven
 if heaven will take the present at our hands
 but who comes here the newdeliver'd hastings
 enter hastings
hastings good time of day unto my gracious lord
gloucester as much unto my good lord chamberlain
 well are you welcome to the open air
 how hath your lordship brook'd imprisonment
hastings with patience noble lord as prisoners must
 but i shall live my lord to give them thanks
 that were the cause of my imprisonment
gloucester no doubt no doubt and so shall clarence too
 for they that were your enemies are his
 and have prevail'd as much on him as you
hastings more pity that the eagle should be mew'd
 while kites and buzzards prey at liberty
gloucester what news abroad
hastings no news so bad abroad as this at home
 the king is sickly weak and melancholy
 and his physicians fear him mightily
gloucester now by saint paul this news is bad indeed
 o he hath kept an evil diet long
 and overmuch consumed his royal person
 tis very grievous to be thought upon
 what is he in his bed
hastings he is
gloucester go you before and i will follow you
 exit hastings
 he cannot live i hope and must not die
 till george be pack'd with posthorse up to heaven
 i'll in to urge his hatred more to clarence
 with lies well steel'd with weighty arguments
 and if i fall not in my deep intent
 clarence hath not another day to live
 which done god take king edward to his mercy
 and leave the world for me to bustle in
 for then i'll marry warwick's youngest daughter
 what though i kill'd her husband and her father
 the readiest way to make the wench amends
 is to become her husband and her father
 the which will i not all so much for love
 as for another secret close intent
 by marrying her which i must reach unto
 but yet i run before my horse to market
 clarence still breathes edward still lives and reigns
 when they are gone then must i count my gains
 exit
 king richard iii
act i
scene ii the same another street
 enter the corpse of king henry the sixth gentlemen
 with halberds to guard it lady anne being the mourner
lady anne set down set down your honourable load
 if honour may be shrouded in a hearse
 whilst i awhile obsequiously lament
 the untimely fall of virtuous lancaster
 poor keycold figure of a holy king
 pale ashes of the house of lancaster
 thou bloodless remnant of that royal blood
 be it lawful that i invocate thy ghost
 to hear the lamentations of poor anne
 wife to thy edward to thy slaughter'd son
 stabb'd by the selfsame hand that made these wounds
 lo in these windows that let forth thy life
 i pour the helpless balm of my poor eyes
 cursed be the hand that made these fatal holes
 cursed be the heart that had the heart to do it
 cursed the blood that let this blood from hence
 more direful hap betide that hated wretch
 that makes us wretched by the death of thee
 than i can wish to adders spiders toads
 or any creeping venom'd thing that lives
 if ever he have child abortive be it
 prodigious and untimely brought to light
 whose ugly and unnatural aspect
 may fright the hopeful mother at the view
 and that be heir to his unhappiness
 if ever he have wife let her he made
 a miserable by the death of him
 as i am made by my poor lord and thee
 come now towards chertsey with your holy load
 taken from paul's to be interred there
 and still as you are weary of the weight
 rest you whiles i lament king henry's corse
 enter gloucester
gloucester stay you that bear the corse and set it down
lady anne what black magician conjures up this fiend
 to stop devoted charitable deeds
gloucester villains set down the corse or by saint paul
 i'll make a corse of him that disobeys
gentleman my lord stand back and let the coffin pass
gloucester unmanner'd dog stand thou when i command
 advance thy halbert higher than my breast
 or by saint paul i'll strike thee to my foot
 and spurn upon thee beggar for thy boldness
lady anne what do you tremble are you all afraid
 alas i blame you not for you are mortal
 and mortal eyes cannot endure the devil
 avaunt thou dreadful minister of hell
 thou hadst but power over his mortal body
 his soul thou canst not have therefore be gone
gloucester sweet saint for charity be not so curst
lady anne foul devil for god's sake hence and trouble us not
 for thou hast made the happy earth thy hell
 fill'd it with cursing cries and deep exclaims
 if thou delight to view thy heinous deeds
 behold this pattern of thy butcheries
 o gentlemen see see dead henry's wounds
 open their congeal'd mouths and bleed afresh
 blush blush thou lump of foul deformity
 for tis thy presence that exhales this blood
 from cold and empty veins where no blood dwells
 thy deed inhuman and unnatural
 provokes this deluge most unnatural
 o god which this blood madest revenge his death
 o earth which this blood drink'st revenge his death
 either heaven with lightning strike the
 murderer dead
 or earth gape open wide and eat him quick
 as thou dost swallow up this good king's blood
 which his hellgovern'd arm hath butchered
gloucester lady you know no rules of charity
 which renders good for bad blessings for curses
lady anne villain thou know'st no law of god nor man
 no beast so fierce but knows some touch of pity
gloucester but i know none and therefore am no beast
lady anne o wonderful when devils tell the truth
gloucester more wonderful when angels are so angry
 vouchsafe divine perfection of a woman
 of these supposedevils to give me leave
 by circumstance but to acquit myself
lady anne vouchsafe defused infection of a man
 for these known evils but to give me leave
 by circumstance to curse thy cursed self
gloucester fairer than tongue can name thee let me have
 some patient leisure to excuse myself
lady anne fouler than heart can think thee thou canst make
 no excuse current but to hang thyself
gloucester by such despair i should accuse myself
lady anne and by despairing shouldst thou stand excused
 for doing worthy vengeance on thyself
 which didst unworthy slaughter upon others
gloucester say that i slew them not
lady anne why then they are not dead
 but dead they are and devilish slave by thee
gloucester i did not kill your husband
lady anne why then he is alive
gloucester nay he is dead and slain by edward's hand
lady anne in thy foul throat thou liest queen margaret saw
 thy murderous falchion smoking in his blood
 the which thou once didst bend against her breast
 but that thy brothers beat aside the point
gloucester i was provoked by her slanderous tongue
 which laid their guilt upon my guiltless shoulders
lady anne thou wast provoked by thy bloody mind
 which never dreamt on aught but butcheries
 didst thou not kill this king
gloucester i grant ye
lady anne dost grant me hedgehog then god grant me too
 thou mayst be damned for that wicked deed
 o he was gentle mild and virtuous
gloucester the fitter for the king of heaven that hath him
lady anne he is in heaven where thou shalt never come
gloucester let him thank me that holp to send him thither
 for he was fitter for that place than earth
lady anne and thou unfit for any place but hell
gloucester yes one place else if you will hear me name it
lady anne some dungeon
gloucester your bedchamber
lady anne i'll rest betide the chamber where thou liest
gloucester so will it madam till i lie with you
lady anne i hope so
gloucester i know so but gentle lady anne
 to leave this keen encounter of our wits
 and fall somewhat into a slower method
 is not the causer of the timeless deaths
 of these plantagenets henry and edward
 as blameful as the executioner
lady anne thou art the cause and most accursed effect
gloucester your beauty was the cause of that effect
 your beauty which did haunt me in my sleep
 to undertake the death of all the world
 so i might live one hour in your sweet bosom
lady anne if i thought that i tell thee homicide
 these nails should rend that beauty from my cheeks
gloucester these eyes could never endure sweet beauty's wreck
 you should not blemish it if i stood by
 as all the world is cheered by the sun
 so i by that it is my day my life
lady anne black night o'ershade thy day and death thy life
gloucester curse not thyself fair creature thou art both
lady anne i would i were to be revenged on thee
gloucester it is a quarrel most unnatural
 to be revenged on him that loveth you
lady anne it is a quarrel just and reasonable
 to be revenged on him that slew my husband
gloucester he that bereft thee lady of thy husband
 did it to help thee to a better husband
lady anne his better doth not breathe upon the earth
gloucester he lives that loves thee better than he could
lady anne name him
gloucester plantagenet
lady anne why that was he
gloucester the selfsame name but one of better nature
lady anne where is he
gloucester here
 she spitteth at him
 why dost thou spit at me
lady anne would it were mortal poison for thy sake
gloucester never came poison from so sweet a place
lady anne never hung poison on a fouler toad
 out of my sight thou dost infect my eyes
gloucester thine eyes sweet lady have infected mine
lady anne would they were basilisks to strike thee dead
gloucester i would they were that i might die at once
 for now they kill me with a living death
 those eyes of thine from mine have drawn salt tears
 shamed their aspect with store of childish drops
 these eyes that never shed remorseful tear
 no when my father york and edward wept
 to hear the piteous moan that rutland made
 when blackfaced clifford shook his sword at him
 nor when thy warlike father like a child
 told the sad story of my father's death
 and twenty times made pause to sob and weep
 that all the standersby had wet their cheeks
 like trees bedash'd with rain in that sad time
 my manly eyes did scorn an humble tear
 and what these sorrows could not thence exhale
 thy beauty hath and made them blind with weeping
 i never sued to friend nor enemy
 my tongue could never learn sweet smoothing word
 but now thy beauty is proposed my fee
 my proud heart sues and prompts my tongue to speak
 she looks scornfully at him
 teach not thy lips such scorn for they were made
 for kissing lady not for such contempt
 if thy revengeful heart cannot forgive
 lo here i lend thee this sharppointed sword
 which if thou please to hide in this true bosom
 and let the soul forth that adoreth thee
 i lay it naked to the deadly stroke
 and humbly beg the death upon my knee
 he lays his breast open she offers at it with his sword
 nay do not pause for i did kill king henry
 but twas thy beauty that provoked me
 nay now dispatch twas i that stabb'd young edward
 but twas thy heavenly face that set me on
 here she lets fall the sword
 take up the sword again or take up me
lady anne arise dissembler though i wish thy death
 i will not be the executioner
gloucester then bid me kill myself and i will do it
lady anne i have already
gloucester tush that was in thy rage
 speak it again and even with the word
 that hand which for thy love did kill thy love
 shall for thy love kill a far truer love
 to both their deaths thou shalt be accessary
lady anne i would i knew thy heart
gloucester tis figured in my tongue
lady anne i fear me both are false
gloucester then never man was true
lady anne well well put up your sword
gloucester say then my peace is made
lady anne that shall you know hereafter
gloucester but shall i live in hope
lady anne all men i hope live so
gloucester vouchsafe to wear this ring
lady anne to take is not to give
gloucester look how this ring encompasseth finger
 even so thy breast encloseth my poor heart
 wear both of them for both of them are thine
 and if thy poor devoted suppliant may
 but beg one favour at thy gracious hand
 thou dost confirm his happiness for ever
lady anne what is it
gloucester that it would please thee leave these sad designs
 to him that hath more cause to be a mourner
 and presently repair to crosby place
 where after i have solemnly interr'd
 at chertsey monastery this noble king
 and wet his grave with my repentant tears
 i will with all expedient duty see you
 for divers unknown reasons i beseech you
 grant me this boon
lady anne with all my heart and much it joys me too
 to see you are become so penitent
 tressel and berkeley go along with me
gloucester bid me farewell
lady anne tis more than you deserve
 but since you teach me how to flatter you
 imagine i have said farewell already
 exeunt lady anne tressel and berkeley
gloucester sirs take up the corse
gentlemen towards chertsey noble lord
gloucester no to whitefriars there attend my coining
 exeunt all but gloucester
 was ever woman in this humour woo'd
 was ever woman in this humour won
 i'll have her but i will not keep her long
 what i that kill'd her husband and his father
 to take her in her heart's extremest hate
 with curses in her mouth tears in her eyes
 the bleeding witness of her hatred by
 having god her conscience and these bars
 against me
 and i nothing to back my suit at all
 but the plain devil and dissembling looks
 and yet to win her all the world to nothing
 ha
 hath she forgot already that brave prince
 edward her lord whom i some three months since
 stabb'd in my angry mood at tewksbury
 a sweeter and a lovelier gentleman
 framed in the prodigality of nature
 young valiant wise and no doubt right royal
 the spacious world cannot again afford
 and will she yet debase her eyes on me
 that cropp'd the golden prime of this sweet prince
 and made her widow to a woful bed
 on me whose all not equals edward's moiety
 on me that halt and am unshapen thus
 my dukedom to a beggarly denier
 i do mistake my person all this while
 upon my life she finds although i cannot
 myself to be a marvellous proper man
 i'll be at charges for a lookingglass
 and entertain some score or two of tailors
 to study fashions to adorn my body
 since i am crept in favour with myself
 will maintain it with some little cost
 but first i'll turn yon fellow in his grave
 and then return lamenting to my love
 shine out fair sun till i have bought a glass
 that i may see my shadow as i pass
 exit
 king richard iii
act i
scene iii the palace
 enter queen elizabeth rivers and grey
rivers have patience madam there's no doubt his majesty
 will soon recover his accustom'd health
grey in that you brook it in it makes him worse
 therefore for god's sake entertain good comfort
 and cheer his grace with quick and merry words
queen elizabeth if he were dead what would betide of me
rivers no other harm but loss of such a lord
queen elizabeth the loss of such a lord includes all harm
grey the heavens have bless'd you with a goodly son
 to be your comforter when he is gone
queen elizabeth oh he is young and his minority
 is put unto the trust of richard gloucester
 a man that loves not me nor none of you
rivers is it concluded that he shall be protector
queen elizabeth it is determined not concluded yet
 but so it must be if the king miscarry
 enter buckingham and derby
grey here come the lords of buckingham and derby
buckingham good time of day unto your royal grace
derby god make your majesty joyful as you have been
queen elizabeth the countess richmond good my lord of derby
 to your good prayers will scarcely say amen
 yet derby notwithstanding she's your wife
 and loves not me be you good lord assured
 i hate not you for her proud arrogance
derby i do beseech you either not believe
 the envious slanders of her false accusers
 or if she be accused in true report
 bear with her weakness which i think proceeds
 from wayward sickness and no grounded malice
rivers saw you the king today my lord of derby
derby but now the duke of buckingham and i
 are come from visiting his majesty
queen elizabeth what likelihood of his amendment lords
buckingham madam good hope his grace speaks cheerfully
queen elizabeth god grant him health did you confer with him
buckingham madam we did he desires to make atonement
 betwixt the duke of gloucester and your brothers
 and betwixt them and my lord chamberlain
 and sent to warn them to his royal presence
queen elizabeth would all were well but that will never be
 i fear our happiness is at the highest
 enter gloucester hastings and dorset
gloucester they do me wrong and i will not endure it
 who are they that complain unto the king
 that i forsooth am stern and love them not
 by holy paul they love his grace but lightly
 that fill his ears with such dissentious rumours
 because i cannot flatter and speak fair
 smile in men's faces smooth deceive and cog
 duck with french nods and apish courtesy
 i must be held a rancorous enemy
 cannot a plain man live and think no harm
 but thus his simple truth must be abused
 by silken sly insinuating jacks
rivers to whom in all this presence speaks your grace
gloucester to thee that hast nor honesty nor grace
 when have i injured thee when done thee wrong
 or thee or thee or any of your faction
 a plague upon you all his royal person
 whom god preserve better than you would wish
 cannot be quiet scarce a breathingwhile
 but you must trouble him with lewd complaints
queen elizabeth brother of gloucester you mistake the matter
 the king of his own royal disposition
 and not provoked by any suitor else
 aiming belike at your interior hatred
 which in your outward actions shows itself
 against my kindred brothers and myself
 makes him to send that thereby he may gather
 the ground of your illwill and so remove it
gloucester i cannot tell the world is grown so bad
 that wrens make prey where eagles dare not perch
 since every jack became a gentleman
 there's many a gentle person made a jack
queen elizabeth come come we know your meaning brother
 gloucester
 you envy my advancement and my friends'
 god grant we never may have need of you
gloucester meantime god grants that we have need of you
 your brother is imprison'd by your means
 myself disgraced and the nobility
 held in contempt whilst many fair promotions
 are daily given to ennoble those
 that scarce some two days since were worth a noble
queen elizabeth by him that raised me to this careful height
 from that contented hap which i enjoy'd
 i never did incense his majesty
 against the duke of clarence but have been
 an earnest advocate to plead for him
 my lord you do me shameful injury
 falsely to draw me in these vile suspects
gloucester you may deny that you were not the cause
 of my lord hastings late imprisonment
rivers she may my lord for
gloucester she may lord rivers why who knows not so
 she may do more sir than denying that
 she may help you to many fair preferments
 and then deny her aiding hand therein
 and lay those honours on your high deserts
 what may she not she may yea marry may she
rivers what marry may she
gloucester what marry may she marry with a king
 a bachelor a handsome stripling too
 i wis your grandam had a worser match
queen elizabeth my lord of gloucester i have too long borne
 your blunt upbraidings and your bitter scoffs
 by heaven i will acquaint his majesty
 with those gross taunts i often have endured
 i had rather be a country servantmaid
 than a great queen with this condition
 to be thus taunted scorn'd and baited at
 enter queen margaret behind
 small joy have i in being england's queen
queen margaret and lessen'd be that small god i beseech thee
 thy honour state and seat is due to me
gloucester what threat you me with telling of the king
 tell him and spare not look what i have said
 i will avouch in presence of the king
 i dare adventure to be sent to the tower
 tis time to speak my pains are quite forgot
queen margaret out devil i remember them too well
 thou slewest my husband henry in the tower
 and edward my poor son at tewksbury
gloucester ere you were queen yea or your husband king
 i was a packhorse in his great affairs
 a weederout of his proud adversaries
 a liberal rewarder of his friends
 to royalize his blood i spilt mine own
queen margaret yea and much better blood than his or thine
gloucester in all which time you and your husband grey
 were factious for the house of lancaster
 and rivers so were you was not your husband
 in margaret's battle at saint alban's slain
 let me put in your minds if you forget
 what you have been ere now and what you are
 withal what i have been and what i am
queen margaret a murderous villain and so still thou art
gloucester poor clarence did forsake his father warwick
 yea and forswore himselfwhich jesu pardon
queen margaret which god revenge
gloucester to fight on edward's party for the crown
 and for his meed poor lord he is mew'd up
 i would to god my heart were flint like edward's
 or edward's soft and pitiful like mine
 i am too childishfoolish for this world
queen margaret hie thee to hell for shame and leave the world
 thou cacodemon there thy kingdom is
rivers my lord of gloucester in those busy days
 which here you urge to prove us enemies
 we follow'd then our lord our lawful king
 so should we you if you should be our king
gloucester if i should be i had rather be a pedlar
 far be it from my heart the thought of it
queen elizabeth as little joy my lord as you suppose
 you should enjoy were you this country's king
 as little joy may you suppose in me
 that i enjoy being the queen thereof
queen margaret a little joy enjoys the queen thereof
 for i am she and altogether joyless
 i can no longer hold me patient
 advancing
 hear me you wrangling pirates that fall out
 in sharing that which you have pill'd from me
 which of you trembles not that looks on me
 if not that i being queen you bow like subjects
 yet that by you deposed you quake like rebels
 o gentle villain do not turn away
gloucester foul wrinkled witch what makest thou in my sight
queen margaret but repetition of what thou hast marr'd
 that will i make before i let thee go
gloucester wert thou not banished on pain of death
queen margaret i was but i do find more pain in banishment
 than death can yield me here by my abode
 a husband and a son thou owest to me
 and thou a kingdom all of you allegiance
 the sorrow that i have by right is yours
 and all the pleasures you usurp are mine
gloucester the curse my noble father laid on thee
 when thou didst crown his warlike brows with paper
 and with thy scorns drew'st rivers from his eyes
 and then to dry them gavest the duke a clout
 steep'd in the faultless blood of pretty rutland
 his curses then from bitterness of soul
 denounced against thee are all fall'n upon thee
 and god not we hath plagued thy bloody deed
queen elizabeth so just is god to right the innocent
hastings o twas the foulest deed to slay that babe
 and the most merciless that e'er was heard of
rivers tyrants themselves wept when it was reported
dorset no man but prophesied revenge for it
buckingham northumberland then present wept to see it
queen margaret what were you snarling all before i came
 ready to catch each other by the throat
 and turn you all your hatred now on me
 did york's dread curse prevail so much with heaven
 that henry's death my lovely edward's death
 their kingdom's loss my woful banishment
 could all but answer for that peevish brat
 can curses pierce the clouds and enter heaven
 why then give way dull clouds to my quick curses
 if not by war by surfeit die your king
 as ours by murder to make him a king
 edward thy son which now is prince of wales
 for edward my son which was prince of wales
 die in his youth by like untimely violence
 thyself a queen for me that was a queen
 outlive thy glory like my wretched self
 long mayst thou live to wail thy children's loss
 and see another as i see thee now
 deck'd in thy rights as thou art stall'd in mine
 long die thy happy days before thy death
 and after many lengthen'd hours of grief
 die neither mother wife nor england's queen
 rivers and dorset you were standers by
 and so wast thou lord hastings when my son
 was stabb'd with bloody daggers god i pray him
 that none of you may live your natural age
 but by some unlook'd accident cut off
gloucester have done thy charm thou hateful wither'd hag
queen margaret and leave out thee stay dog for thou shalt hear me
 if heaven have any grievous plague in store
 exceeding those that i can wish upon thee
 o let them keep it till thy sins be ripe
 and then hurl down their indignation
 on thee the troubler of the poor world's peace
 the worm of conscience still begnaw thy soul
 thy friends suspect for traitors while thou livest
 and take deep traitors for thy dearest friends
 no sleep close up that deadly eye of thine
 unless it be whilst some tormenting dream
 affrights thee with a hell of ugly devils
 thou elvishmark'd abortive rooting hog
 thou that wast seal'd in thy nativity
 the slave of nature and the son of hell
 thou slander of thy mother's heavy womb
 thou loathed issue of thy father's loins
 thou rag of honour thou detested
gloucester margaret
queen margaret richard
gloucester ha
queen margaret i call thee not
gloucester i cry thee mercy then for i had thought
 that thou hadst call'd me all these bitter names
queen margaret why so i did but look'd for no reply
 o let me make the period to my curse
gloucester tis done by me and ends in margaret'
queen elizabeth thus have you breathed your curse against yourself
queen margaret poor painted queen vain flourish of my fortune
 why strew'st thou sugar on that bottled spider
 whose deadly web ensnareth thee about
 fool fool thou whet'st a knife to kill thyself
 the time will come when thou shalt wish for me
 to help thee curse that poisonous bunchback'd toad
hastings falseboding woman end thy frantic curse
 lest to thy harm thou move our patience
queen margaret foul shame upon you you have all moved mine
rivers were you well served you would be taught your duty
queen margaret to serve me well you all should do me duty
 teach me to be your queen and you my subjects
 o serve me well and teach yourselves that duty
dorset dispute not with her she is lunatic
queen margaret peace master marquess you are malapert
 your firenew stamp of honour is scarce current
 o that your young nobility could judge
 what twere to lose it and be miserable
 they that stand high have many blasts to shake them
 and if they fall they dash themselves to pieces
gloucester good counsel marry learn it learn it marquess
dorset it toucheth you my lord as much as me
gloucester yea and much more but i was born so high
 our aery buildeth in the cedar's top
 and dallies with the wind and scorns the sun
queen margaret and turns the sun to shade alas alas
 witness my son now in the shade of death
 whose bright outshining beams thy cloudy wrath
 hath in eternal darkness folded up
 your aery buildeth in our aery's nest
 o god that seest it do not suffer it
 as it was won with blood lost be it so
buckingham have done for shame if not for charity
queen margaret urge neither charity nor shame to me
 uncharitably with me have you dealt
 and shamefully by you my hopes are butcher'd
 my charity is outrage life my shame
 and in that shame still live my sorrow's rage
buckingham have done have done
queen margaret o princely buckingham i'll kiss thy hand
 in sign of league and amity with thee
 now fair befal thee and thy noble house
 thy garments are not spotted with our blood
 nor thou within the compass of my curse
buckingham nor no one here for curses never pass
 the lips of those that breathe them in the air
queen margaret i'll not believe but they ascend the sky
 and there awake god's gentlesleeping peace
 o buckingham take heed of yonder dog
 look when he fawns he bites and when he bites
 his venom tooth will rankle to the death
 have not to do with him beware of him
 sin death and hell have set their marks on him
 and all their ministers attend on him
gloucester what doth she say my lord of buckingham
buckingham nothing that i respect my gracious lord
queen margaret what dost thou scorn me for my gentle counsel
 and soothe the devil that i warn thee from
 o but remember this another day
 when he shall split thy very heart with sorrow
 and say poor margaret was a prophetess
 live each of you the subjects to his hate
 and he to yours and all of you to god's
 exit
hastings my hair doth stand on end to hear her curses
rivers and so doth mine i muse why she's at liberty
gloucester i cannot blame her by god's holy mother
 she hath had too much wrong and i repent
 my part thereof that i have done to her
queen elizabeth i never did her any to my knowledge
gloucester but you have all the vantage of her wrong
 i was too hot to do somebody good
 that is too cold in thinking of it now
 marry as for clarence he is well repaid
 he is frank'd up to fatting for his pains
 god pardon them that are the cause of it
rivers a virtuous and a christianlike conclusion
 to pray for them that have done scathe to us
gloucester so do i ever
 aside
 being welladvised
 for had i cursed now i had cursed myself
 enter catesby
catesby madam his majesty doth call for you
 and for your grace and you my noble lords
queen elizabeth catesby we come lords will you go with us
rivers madam we will attend your grace
 exeunt all but gloucester
gloucester i do the wrong and first begin to brawl
 the secret mischiefs that i set abroach
 i lay unto the grievous charge of others
 clarence whom i indeed have laid in darkness
 i do beweep to many simple gulls
 namely to hastings derby buckingham
 and say it is the queen and her allies
 that stir the king against the duke my brother
 now they believe it and withal whet me
 to be revenged on rivers vaughan grey
 but then i sigh and with a piece of scripture
 tell them that god bids us do good for evil
 and thus i clothe my naked villany
 with old odd ends stolen out of holy writ
 and seem a saint when most i play the devil
 enter two murderers
 but soft here come my executioners
 how now my hardy stout resolved mates
 are you now going to dispatch this deed
first murderer we are my lord and come to have the warrant
 that we may be admitted where he is
gloucester well thought upon i have it here about me
 gives the warrant
 when you have done repair to crosby place
 but sirs be sudden in the execution
 withal obdurate do not hear him plead
 for clarence is wellspoken and perhaps
 may move your hearts to pity if you mark him
first murderer tush
 fear not my lord we will not stand to prate
 talkers are no good doers be assured
 we come to use our hands and not our tongues
gloucester your eyes drop millstones when fools eyes drop tears
 i like you lads about your business straight
 go go dispatch
first murderer we will my noble lord
 exeunt
 king richard iii
act i
scene iv london the tower
 enter clarence and brakenbury
brakenbury why looks your grace so heavily today
clarence o i have pass'd a miserable night
 so full of ugly sights of ghastly dreams
 that as i am a christian faithful man
 i would not spend another such a night
 though twere to buy a world of happy days
 so full of dismal terror was the time
brakenbury what was your dream i long to hear you tell it
clarence methoughts that i had broken from the tower
 and was embark'd to cross to burgundy
 and in my company my brother gloucester
 who from my cabin tempted me to walk
 upon the hatches thence we looked toward england
 and cited up a thousand fearful times
 during the wars of york and lancaster
 that had befall'n us as we paced along
 upon the giddy footing of the hatches
 methought that gloucester stumbled and in falling
 struck me that thought to stay him overboard
 into the tumbling billows of the main
 lord lord methought what pain it was to drown
 what dreadful noise of waters in mine ears
 what ugly sights of death within mine eyes
 methought i saw a thousand fearful wrecks
 ten thousand men that fishes gnaw'd upon
 wedges of gold great anchors heaps of pearl
 inestimable stones unvalued jewels
 all scatter'd in the bottom of the sea
 some lay in dead men's skulls and in those holes
 where eyes did once inhabit there were crept
 as twere in scorn of eyes reflecting gems
 which woo'd the slimy bottom of the deep
 and mock'd the dead bones that lay scatter'd by
brakenbury had you such leisure in the time of death
 to gaze upon the secrets of the deep
clarence methought i had and often did i strive
 to yield the ghost but still the envious flood
 kept in my soul and would not let it forth
 to seek the empty vast and wandering air
 but smother'd it within my panting bulk
 which almost burst to belch it in the sea
brakenbury awaked you not with this sore agony
clarence o no my dream was lengthen'd after life
 o then began the tempest to my soul
 who pass'd methought the melancholy flood
 with that grim ferryman which poets write of
 unto the kingdom of perpetual night
 the first that there did greet my stranger soul
 was my great fatherinlaw renowned warwick
 who cried aloud what scourge for perjury
 can this dark monarchy afford false clarence'
 and so he vanish'd then came wandering by
 a shadow like an angel with bright hair
 dabbled in blood and he squeak'd out aloud
 clarence is come false fleeting perjured clarence
 that stabb'd me in the field by tewksbury
 seize on him furies take him to your torments'
 with that methoughts a legion of foul fiends
 environ'd me about and howled in mine ears
 such hideous cries that with the very noise
 i trembling waked and for a season after
 could not believe but that i was in hell
 such terrible impression made the dream
brakenbury no marvel my lord though it affrighted you
 i promise i am afraid to hear you tell it
clarence o brakenbury i have done those things
 which now bear evidence against my soul
 for edward's sake and see how he requites me
 o god if my deep prayers cannot appease thee
 but thou wilt be avenged on my misdeeds
 yet execute thy wrath in me alone
 o spare my guiltless wife and my poor children
 i pray thee gentle keeper stay by me
 my soul is heavy and i fain would sleep
brakenbury i will my lord god give your grace good rest
 clarence sleeps
 sorrow breaks seasons and reposing hours
 makes the night morning and the noontide night
 princes have but their tides for their glories
 an outward honour for an inward toil
 and for unfelt imagination
 they often feel a world of restless cares
 so that betwixt their tides and low names
 there's nothing differs but the outward fame
 enter the two murderers
first murderer ho who's here
brakenbury in god's name what are you and how came you hither
first murderer i would speak with clarence and i came hither on my legs
brakenbury yea are you so brief
second murderer o sir it is better to be brief than tedious show
 him our commission talk no more
 brakenbury reads it
brakenbury i am in this commanded to deliver
 the noble duke of clarence to your hands
 i will not reason what is meant hereby
 because i will be guiltless of the meaning
 here are the keys there sits the duke asleep
 i'll to the king and signify to him
 that thus i have resign'd my charge to you
first murderer do so it is a point of wisdom fare you well
 exit brakenbury
second murderer what shall we stab him as he sleeps
first murderer no then he will say twas done cowardly when he wakes
second murderer when he wakes why fool he shall never wake till
 the judgmentday
first murderer why then he will say we stabbed him sleeping
second murderer the urging of that word judgment hath bred a kind
 of remorse in me
first murderer what art thou afraid
second murderer not to kill him having a warrant for it but to be
 damned for killing him from which no warrant can defend us
first murderer i thought thou hadst been resolute
second murderer so i am to let him live
first murderer back to the duke of gloucester tell him so
second murderer i pray thee stay a while i hope my holy humour
 will change twas wont to hold me but while one
 would tell twenty
first murderer how dost thou feel thyself now
second murderer faith some certain dregs of conscience are yet
 within me
first murderer remember our reward when the deed is done
second murderer zounds he dies i had forgot the reward
first murderer where is thy conscience now
second murderer in the duke of gloucester's purse
first murderer so when he opens his purse to give us our reward
 thy conscience flies out
second murderer let it go there's few or none will entertain it
first murderer how if it come to thee again
second murderer i'll not meddle with it it is a dangerous thing it
 makes a man a coward a man cannot steal but it
 accuseth him he cannot swear but it cheques him
 he cannot lie with his neighbour's wife but it
 detects him tis a blushing shamefast spirit that
 mutinies in a man's bosom it fills one full of
 obstacles it made me once restore a purse of gold
 that i found it beggars any man that keeps it it
 is turned out of all towns and cities for a
 dangerous thing and every man that means to live
 well endeavours to trust to himself and to live
 without it
first murderer zounds it is even now at my elbow persuading me
 not to kill the duke
second murderer take the devil in thy mind and relieve him not he
 would insinuate with thee but to make thee sigh
first murderer tut i am strongframed he cannot prevail with me
 i warrant thee
second murderer spoke like a tail fellow that respects his
 reputation come shall we to this gear
first murderer take him over the costard with the hilts of thy
 sword and then we will chop him in the malmseybutt
 in the next room
second murderer o excellent devise make a sop of him
first murderer hark he stirs shall i strike
second murderer no first let's reason with him
clarence where art thou keeper give me a cup of wine
second murderer you shall have wine enough my lord anon
clarence in god's name what art thou
second murderer a man as you are
clarence but not as i am royal
second murderer nor you as we are loyal
clarence thy voice is thunder but thy looks are humble
second murderer my voice is now the king's my looks mine own
clarence how darkly and how deadly dost thou speak
 your eyes do menace me why look you pale
 who sent you hither wherefore do you come
both to to to
clarence to murder me
both ay ay
clarence you scarcely have the hearts to tell me so
 and therefore cannot have the hearts to do it
 wherein my friends have i offended you
first murderer offended us you have not but the king
clarence i shall be reconciled to him again
second murderer never my lord therefore prepare to die
clarence are you call'd forth from out a world of men
 to slay the innocent what is my offence
 where are the evidence that do accuse me
 what lawful quest have given their verdict up
 unto the frowning judge or who pronounced
 the bitter sentence of poor clarence death
 before i be convict by course of law
 to threaten me with death is most unlawful
 i charge you as you hope to have redemption
 by christ's dear blood shed for our grievous sins
 that you depart and lay no hands on me
 the deed you undertake is damnable
first murderer what we will do we do upon command
second murderer and he that hath commanded is the king
clarence erroneous vassal the great king of kings
 hath in the tables of his law commanded
 that thou shalt do no murder and wilt thou then
 spurn at his edict and fulfil a man's
 take heed for he holds vengeance in his hands
 to hurl upon their heads that break his law
second murderer and that same vengeance doth he hurl on thee
 for false forswearing and for murder too
 thou didst receive the holy sacrament
 to fight in quarrel of the house of lancaster
first murderer and like a traitor to the name of god
 didst break that vow and with thy treacherous blade
 unrip'dst the bowels of thy sovereign's son
second murderer whom thou wert sworn to cherish and defend
first murderer how canst thou urge god's dreadful law to us
 when thou hast broke it in so dear degree
clarence alas for whose sake did i that ill deed
 for edward for my brother for his sake why sirs
 he sends ye not to murder me for this
 for in this sin he is as deep as i
 if god will be revenged for this deed
 o know you yet he doth it publicly
 take not the quarrel from his powerful arm
 he needs no indirect nor lawless course
 to cut off those that have offended him
first murderer who made thee then a bloody minister
 when gallantspringing brave plantagenet
 that princely novice was struck dead by thee
clarence my brother's love the devil and my rage
first murderer thy brother's love our duty and thy fault
 provoke us hither now to slaughter thee
clarence oh if you love my brother hate not me
 i am his brother and i love him well
 if you be hired for meed go back again
 and i will send you to my brother gloucester
 who shall reward you better for my life
 than edward will for tidings of my death
second murderer you are deceived your brother gloucester hates you
clarence o no he loves me and he holds me dear
 go you to him from me
both ay so we will
clarence tell him when that our princely father york
 bless'd his three sons with his victorious arm
 and charged us from his soul to love each other
 he little thought of this divided friendship
 bid gloucester think of this and he will weep
first murderer ay millstones as be lesson'd us to weep
clarence o do not slander him for he is kind
first murderer right
 as snow in harvest thou deceivest thyself
 tis he that sent us hither now to slaughter thee
clarence it cannot be for when i parted with him
 he hugg'd me in his arms and swore with sobs
 that he would labour my delivery
second murderer why so he doth now he delivers thee
 from this world's thraldom to the joys of heaven
first murderer make peace with god for you must die my lord
clarence hast thou that holy feeling in thy soul
 to counsel me to make my peace with god
 and art thou yet to thy own soul so blind
 that thou wilt war with god by murdering me
 ah sirs consider he that set you on
 to do this deed will hate you for the deed
second murderer what shall we do
clarence relent and save your souls
first murderer relent tis cowardly and womanish
clarence not to relent is beastly savage devilish
 which of you if you were a prince's son
 being pent from liberty as i am now
 if two such murderers as yourselves came to you
 would not entreat for life
 my friend i spy some pity in thy looks
 o if thine eye be not a flatterer
 come thou on my side and entreat for me
 as you would beg were you in my distress
 a begging prince what beggar pities not
second murderer look behind you my lord
first murderer take that and that if all this will not do
 stabs him
 i'll drown you in the malmseybutt within
 exit with the body
second murderer a bloody deed and desperately dispatch'd
 how fain like pilate would i wash my hands
 of this most grievous guilty murder done
 reenter first murderer
first murderer how now what mean'st thou that thou help'st me not
 by heavens the duke shall know how slack thou art
second murderer i would he knew that i had saved his brother
 take thou the fee and tell him what i say
 for i repent me that the duke is slain
 exit
first murderer so do not i go coward as thou art
 now must i hide his body in some hole
 until the duke take order for his burial
 and when i have my meed i must away
 for this will out and here i must not stay
 king richard iii
act ii
scene i london the palace
 flourish enter king edward iv sick queen
 elizabeth dorset rivers hastings buckingham
 grey and others
king edward iv why so now have i done a good day's work
 you peers continue this united league
 i every day expect an embassage
 from my redeemer to redeem me hence
 and now in peace my soul shall part to heaven
 since i have set my friends at peace on earth
 rivers and hastings take each other's hand
 dissemble not your hatred swear your love
rivers by heaven my heart is purged from grudging hate
 and with my hand i seal my true heart's love
hastings so thrive i as i truly swear the like
king edward iv take heed you dally not before your king
 lest he that is the supreme king of kings
 confound your hidden falsehood and award
 either of you to be the other's end
hastings so prosper i as i swear perfect love
rivers and i as i love hastings with my heart
king edward iv madam yourself are not exempt in this
 nor your son dorset buckingham nor you
 you have been factious one against the other
 wife love lord hastings let him kiss your hand
 and what you do do it unfeignedly
queen elizabeth here hastings i will never more remember
 our former hatred so thrive i and mine
king edward iv dorset embrace him hastings love lord marquess
dorset this interchange of love i here protest
 upon my part shall be unviolable
hastings and so swear i my lord
 they embrace
king edward iv now princely buckingham seal thou this league
 with thy embracements to my wife's allies
 and make me happy in your unity
buckingham whenever buckingham doth turn his hate
 on you or yours
 to the queen
 but with all duteous love
 doth cherish you and yours god punish me
 with hate in those where i expect most love
 when i have most need to employ a friend
 and most assured that he is a friend
 deep hollow treacherous and full of guile
 be he unto me this do i beg of god
 when i am cold in zeal to yours
king edward iv a pleasing cordial princely buckingham
 is this thy vow unto my sickly heart
 there wanteth now our brother gloucester here
 to make the perfect period of this peace
buckingham and in good time here comes the noble duke
 enter gloucester
gloucester good morrow to my sovereign king and queen
 and princely peers a happy time of day
king edward iv happy indeed as we have spent the day
 brother we done deeds of charity
 made peace enmity fair love of hate
 between these swelling wrongincensed peers
gloucester a blessed labour my most sovereign liege
 amongst this princely heap if any here
 by false intelligence or wrong surmise
 hold me a foe
 if i unwittingly or in my rage
 have aught committed that is hardly borne
 by any in this presence i desire
 to reconcile me to his friendly peace
 tis death to me to be at enmity
 i hate it and desire all good men's love
 first madam i entreat true peace of you
 which i will purchase with my duteous service
 of you my noble cousin buckingham
 if ever any grudge were lodged between us
 of you lord rivers and lord grey of you
 that without desert have frown'd on me
 dukes earls lords gentlemen indeed of all
 i do not know that englishman alive
 with whom my soul is any jot at odds
 more than the infant that is born tonight
 i thank my god for my humility
queen elizabeth a holy day shall this be kept hereafter
 i would to god all strifes were well compounded
 my sovereign liege i do beseech your majesty
 to take our brother clarence to your grace
gloucester why madam have i offer'd love for this
 to be so bouted in this royal presence
 who knows not that the noble duke is dead
 they all start
 you do him injury to scorn his corse
rivers who knows not he is dead who knows he is
queen elizabeth all seeing heaven what a world is this
buckingham look i so pale lord dorset as the rest
dorset ay my good lord and no one in this presence
 but his red colour hath forsook his cheeks
king edward iv is clarence dead the order was reversed
gloucester but he poor soul by your first order died
 and that a winged mercury did bear
 some tardy cripple bore the countermand
 that came too lag to see him buried
 god grant that some less noble and less loyal
 nearer in bloody thoughts but not in blood
 deserve not worse than wretched clarence did
 and yet go current from suspicion
 enter derby
dorset a boon my sovereign for my service done
king edward iv i pray thee peace my soul is full of sorrow
dorset i will not rise unless your highness grant
king edward iv then speak at once what is it thou demand'st
dorset the forfeit sovereign of my servant's life
 who slew today a righteous gentleman
 lately attendant on the duke of norfolk
king edward iv have a tongue to doom my brother's death
 and shall the same give pardon to a slave
 my brother slew no man his fault was thought
 and yet his punishment was cruel death
 who sued to me for him who in my rage
 kneel'd at my feet and bade me be advised
 who spake of brotherhood who spake of love
 who told me how the poor soul did forsake
 the mighty warwick and did fight for me
 who told me in the field by tewksbury
 when oxford had me down he rescued me
 and said dear brother live and be a king'
 who told me when we both lay in the field
 frozen almost to death how he did lap me
 even in his own garments and gave himself
 all thin and naked to the numb cold night
 all this from my remembrance brutish wrath
 sinfully pluck'd and not a man of you
 had so much grace to put it in my mind
 but when your carters or your waitingvassals
 have done a drunken slaughter and defaced
 the precious image of our dear redeemer
 you straight are on your knees for pardon pardon
 and i unjustly too must grant it you
 but for my brother not a man would speak
 nor i ungracious speak unto myself
 for him poor soul the proudest of you all
 have been beholding to him in his life
 yet none of you would once plead for his life
 o god i fear thy justice will take hold
 on me and you and mine and yours for this
 come hastings help me to my closet
 oh poor clarence
 exeunt some with king edward iv and queen margaret
gloucester this is the fruit of rashness mark'd you not
 how that the guilty kindred of the queen
 look'd pale when they did hear of clarence death
 o they did urge it still unto the king
 god will revenge it but come let us in
 to comfort edward with our company
buckingham we wait upon your grace
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 king richard iii
act ii
scene ii the palace
 enter the duchess of york with the two children of clarence
boy tell me good grandam is our father dead
duchess of york no boy
boy why do you wring your hands and beat your breast
 and cry o clarence my unhappy son'
girl why do you look on us and shake your head
 and call us wretches orphans castaways
 if that our noble father be alive
duchess of york my pretty cousins you mistake me much
 i do lament the sickness of the king
 as loath to lose him not your father's death
 it were lost sorrow to wail one that's lost
boy then grandam you conclude that he is dead
 the king my uncle is to blame for this
 god will revenge it whom i will importune
 with daily prayers all to that effect
girl and so will i
duchess of york peace children peace the king doth love you well
 incapable and shallow innocents
 you cannot guess who caused your father's death
boy grandam we can for my good uncle gloucester
 told me the king provoked by the queen
 devised impeachments to imprison him 
 and when my uncle told me so he wept
 and hugg'd me in his arm and kindly kiss'd my cheek
 bade me rely on him as on my father
 and he would love me dearly as his child
duchess of york oh that deceit should steal such gentle shapes
 and with a virtuous vizard hide foul guile
 he is my son yea and therein my shame
 yet from my dugs he drew not this deceit
boy think you my uncle did dissemble grandam
duchess of york ay boy
boy i cannot think it hark what noise is this
 enter queen elizabeth with her hair about her
 ears rivers and dorset after her
queen elizabeth oh who shall hinder me to wail and weep
 to chide my fortune and torment myself
 i'll join with black despair against my soul
 and to myself become an enemy
duchess of york what means this scene of rude impatience
queen elizabeth to make an act of tragic violence
 edward my lord your son our king is dead
 why grow the branches now the root is wither'd
 why wither not the leaves the sap being gone
 if you will live lament if die be brief
 that our swiftwinged souls may catch the king's
 or like obedient subjects follow him
 to his new kingdom of perpetual rest
duchess of york ah so much interest have i in thy sorrow
 as i had title in thy noble husband
 i have bewept a worthy husband's death
 and lived by looking on his images
 but now two mirrors of his princely semblance
 are crack'd in pieces by malignant death
 and i for comfort have but one false glass
 which grieves me when i see my shame in him
 thou art a widow yet thou art a mother
 and hast the comfort of thy children left thee
 but death hath snatch'd my husband from mine arms
 and pluck'd two crutches from my feeble limbs
 edward and clarence o what cause have i
 thine being but a moiety of my grief
 to overgo thy plaints and drown thy cries
boy good aunt you wept not for our father's death
 how can we aid you with our kindred tears
girl our fatherless distress was left unmoan'd
 your widowdolour likewise be unwept
queen elizabeth give me no help in lamentation
 i am not barren to bring forth complaints
 all springs reduce their currents to mine eyes
 that i being govern'd by the watery moon
 may send forth plenteous tears to drown the world
 oh for my husband for my dear lord edward
children oh for our father for our dear lord clarence
duchess of york alas for both both mine edward and clarence
queen elizabeth what stay had i but edward and he's gone
children what stay had we but clarence and he's gone
duchess of york what stays had i but they and they are gone
queen elizabeth was never widow had so dear a loss
children were never orphans had so dear a loss
duchess of york was never mother had so dear a loss
 alas i am the mother of these moans
 their woes are parcell'd mine are general
 she for an edward weeps and so do i
 i for a clarence weep so doth not she
 these babes for clarence weep and so do i
 i for an edward weep so do not they
 alas you three on me threefold distress'd
 pour all your tears i am your sorrow's nurse
 and i will pamper it with lamentations
dorset comfort dear mother god is much displeased
 that you take with unthankfulness his doing
 in common worldly things tis call'd ungrateful
 with dull unwilligness to repay a debt
 which with a bounteous hand was kindly lent
 much more to be thus opposite with heaven
 for it requires the royal debt it lent you
rivers madam bethink you like a careful mother
 of the young prince your son send straight for him
 let him be crown'd in him your comfort lives
 drown desperate sorrow in dead edward's grave
 and plant your joys in living edward's throne
 enter gloucester buckingham derby hastings and ratcliff
gloucester madam have comfort all of us have cause
 to wail the dimming of our shining star
 but none can cure their harms by wailing them
 madam my mother i do cry you mercy
 i did not see your grace humbly on my knee
 i crave your blessing
duchess of york god bless thee and put meekness in thy mind
 love charity obedience and true duty
gloucester aside amen and make me die a good old man
 that is the buttend of a mother's blessing
 i marvel why her grace did leave it out
buckingham you cloudy princes and heartsorrowing peers
 that bear this mutual heavy load of moan
 now cheer each other in each other's love
 though we have spent our harvest of this king
 we are to reap the harvest of his son
 the broken rancour of your highswoln hearts
 but lately splinter'd knit and join'd together
 must gently be preserved cherish'd and kept
 me seemeth good that with some little train
 forthwith from ludlow the young prince be fetch'd
 hither to london to be crown'd our king
rivers why with some little train my lord of buckingham
buckingham marry my lord lest by a multitude
 the newheal'd wound of malice should break out
 which would be so much the more dangerous
 by how much the estate is green and yet ungovern'd
 where every horse bears his commanding rein
 and may direct his course as please himself
 as well the fear of harm as harm apparent
 in my opinion ought to be prevented
gloucester i hope the king made peace with all of us
 and the compact is firm and true in me
rivers and so in me and so i think in all
 yet since it is but green it should be put
 to no apparent likelihood of breach
 which haply by much company might be urged
 therefore i say with noble buckingham
 that it is meet so few should fetch the prince
hastings and so say i
gloucester then be it so and go we to determine
 who they shall be that straight shall post to ludlow
 madam and you my mother will you go
 to give your censures in this weighty business
queen elizabeth 
 with all our harts
duchess of york 
 exeunt all but buckingham and gloucester
buckingham my lord whoever journeys to the prince
 for god's sake let not us two be behind
 for by the way i'll sort occasion
 as index to the story we late talk'd of
 to part the queen's proud kindred from the king
gloucester my other self my counsel's consistory
 my oracle my prophet my dear cousin
 i like a child will go by thy direction
 towards ludlow then for we'll not stay behind
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 king richard iii
act ii
scene iii london a street
 enter two citizens meeting
first citizen neighbour well met whither away so fast
second citizen i promise you i scarcely know myself
 hear you the news abroad
first citizen ay that the king is dead
second citizen bad news by'r lady seldom comes the better
 i fear i fear twill prove a troublous world
 enter another citizen
third citizen neighbours god speed
first citizen give you good morrow sir
third citizen doth this news hold of good king edward's death
second citizen ay sir it is too true god help the while
third citizen then masters look to see a troublous world
first citizen no no by god's good grace his son shall reign
third citizen woe to the land that's govern'd by a child
second citizen in him there is a hope of government
 that in his nonage council under him
 and in his full and ripen'd years himself
 no doubt shall then and till then govern well
first citizen so stood the state when henry the sixth
 was crown'd in paris but at nine months old
third citizen stood the state so no no good friends god wot
 for then this land was famously enrich'd
 with politic grave counsel then the king
 had virtuous uncles to protect his grace
first citizen why so hath this both by the father and mother
third citizen better it were they all came by the father
 or by the father there were none at all
 for emulation now who shall be nearest
 will touch us all too near if god prevent not
 o full of danger is the duke of gloucester
 and the queen's sons and brothers haught and proud
 and were they to be ruled and not to rule
 this sickly land might solace as before
first citizen come come we fear the worst all shall be well
third citizen when clouds appear wise men put on their cloaks
 when great leaves fall the winter is at hand
 when the sun sets who doth not look for night
 untimely storms make men expect a dearth
 all may be well but if god sort it so
 tis more than we deserve or i expect
second citizen truly the souls of men are full of dread
 ye cannot reason almost with a man
 that looks not heavily and full of fear
third citizen before the times of change still is it so
 by a divine instinct men's minds mistrust
 ensuing dangers as by proof we see
 the waters swell before a boisterous storm
 but leave it all to god whither away
second citizen marry we were sent for to the justices
third citizen and so was i i'll bear you company
 exeunt
 king richard iii
act ii
scene iv london the palace
 enter the archbishop of york young york queen
 elizabeth and the duchess of york
archbishop of york last night i hear they lay at northampton
 at stonystratford will they be tonight
 tomorrow or next day they will be here
duchess of york i long with all my heart to see the prince
 i hope he is much grown since last i saw him
queen elizabeth but i hear no they say my son of york
 hath almost overta'en him in his growth
york ay mother but i would not have it so
duchess of york why my young cousin it is good to grow
york grandam one night as we did sit at supper
 my uncle rivers talk'd how i did grow
 more than my brother ay quoth my uncle
 gloucester
 small herbs have grace great weeds do grow apace'
 and since methinks i would not grow so fast
 because sweet flowers are slow and weeds make haste
duchess of york good faith good faith the saying did not hold
 in him that did object the same to thee
 he was the wretched'st thing when he was young
 so long agrowing and so leisurely
 that if this rule were true he should be gracious
archbishop of york why madam so no doubt he is
duchess of york i hope he is but yet let mothers doubt
york now by my troth if i had been remember'd
 i could have given my uncle's grace a flout
 to touch his growth nearer than he touch'd mine
duchess of york how my pretty york i pray thee let me hear it
york marry they say my uncle grew so fast
 that he could gnaw a crust at two hours old
 twas full two years ere i could get a tooth
 grandam this would have been a biting jest
duchess of york i pray thee pretty york who told thee this
york grandam his nurse
duchess of york his nurse why she was dead ere thou wert born
york if twere not she i cannot tell who told me
queen elizabeth a parlous boy go to you are too shrewd
archbishop of york good madam be not angry with the child
queen elizabeth pitchers have ears
 enter a messenger
archbishop of york here comes a messenger what news
messenger such news my lord as grieves me to unfold
queen elizabeth how fares the prince
messenger well madam and in health
duchess of york what is thy news then
messenger lord rivers and lord grey are sent to pomfret
 with them sir thomas vaughan prisoners
duchess of york who hath committed them
messenger the mighty dukes
 gloucester and buckingham
queen elizabeth for what offence
messenger the sum of all i can i have disclosed
 why or for what these nobles were committed
 is all unknown to me my gracious lady
queen elizabeth ay me i see the downfall of our house
 the tiger now hath seized the gentle hind
 insulting tyranny begins to jet
 upon the innocent and aweless throne
 welcome destruction death and massacre
 i see as in a map the end of all
duchess of york accursed and unquiet wrangling days
 how many of you have mine eyes beheld
 my husband lost his life to get the crown
 and often up and down my sons were toss'd
 for me to joy and weep their gain and loss
 and being seated and domestic broils
 clean overblown themselves the conquerors
 make war upon themselves blood against blood
 self against self o preposterous
 and frantic outrage end thy damned spleen
 or let me die to look on death no more
queen elizabeth come come my boy we will to sanctuary
 madam farewell
duchess of york i'll go along with you
queen elizabeth you have no cause
archbishop of york my gracious lady go
 and thither bear your treasure and your goods
 for my part i'll resign unto your grace
 the seal i keep and so betide to me
 as well i tender you and all of yours
 come i'll conduct you to the sanctuary
 exeunt
 king richard iii
act iii
scene i london a street
 the trumpets sound enter the young prince edward
 gloucester buckingham cardinal catesby and others
buckingham welcome sweet prince to london to your chamber
gloucester welcome dear cousin my thoughts sovereign
 the weary way hath made you melancholy
prince edward no uncle but our crosses on the way
 have made it tedious wearisome and heavy
 i want more uncles here to welcome me
gloucester sweet prince the untainted virtue of your years
 hath not yet dived into the world's deceit
 nor more can you distinguish of a man
 than of his outward show which god he knows
 seldom or never jumpeth with the heart
 those uncles which you want were dangerous
 your grace attended to their sugar'd words
 but look'd not on the poison of their hearts 
 god keep you from them and from such false friends
prince edward god keep me from false friends but they were none
gloucester my lord the mayor of london comes to greet you
 enter the lord mayor and his train
lord mayor god bless your grace with health and happy days
prince edward i thank you good my lord and thank you all
 i thought my mother and my brother york
 would long ere this have met us on the way
 fie what a slug is hastings that he comes not
 to tell us whether they will come or no
 enter hastings
buckingham and in good time here comes the sweating lord
prince edward welcome my lord what will our mother come
hastings on what occasion god he knows not i
 the queen your mother and your brother york
 have taken sanctuary the tender prince
 would fain have come with me to meet your grace
 but by his mother was perforce withheld
buckingham fie what an indirect and peevish course
 is this of hers lord cardinal will your grace
 persuade the queen to send the duke of york
 unto his princely brother presently
 if she deny lord hastings go with him
 and from her jealous arms pluck him perforce
cardinal my lord of buckingham if my weak oratory
 can from his mother win the duke of york
 anon expect him here but if she be obdurate
 to mild entreaties god in heaven forbid
 we should infringe the holy privilege
 of blessed sanctuary not for all this land
 would i be guilty of so deep a sin
buckingham you are too senselessobstinate my lord
 too ceremonious and traditional
 weigh it but with the grossness of this age
 you break not sanctuary in seizing him
 the benefit thereof is always granted
 to those whose dealings have deserved the place
 and those who have the wit to claim the place
 this prince hath neither claim'd it nor deserved it
 and therefore in mine opinion cannot have it
 then taking him from thence that is not there
 you break no privilege nor charter there
 oft have i heard of sanctuary men
 but sanctuary children ne'er till now
cardinal my lord you shall o'errule my mind for once
 come on lord hastings will you go with me
hastings i go my lord
prince edward good lords make all the speedy haste you may
 exeunt cardinal and hastings
 say uncle gloucester if our brother come
 where shall we sojourn till our coronation
gloucester where it seems best unto your royal self
 if i may counsel you some day or two
 your highness shall repose you at the tower
 then where you please and shall be thought most fit
 for your best health and recreation
prince edward i do not like the tower of any place
 did julius caesar build that place my lord
buckingham he did my gracious lord begin that place
 which since succeeding ages have reedified
prince edward is it upon record or else reported
 successively from age to age he built it
buckingham upon record my gracious lord
prince edward but say my lord it were not register'd
 methinks the truth should live from age to age
 as twere retail'd to all posterity
 even to the general allending day
gloucester aside so wise so young they say do never
 live long
prince edward what say you uncle
gloucester i say without characters fame lives long
 aside
 thus like the formal vice iniquity
 i moralize two meanings in one word
prince edward that julius caesar was a famous man
 with what his valour did enrich his wit
 his wit set down to make his valour live
 death makes no conquest of this conqueror
 for now he lives in fame though not in life
 i'll tell you what my cousin buckingham
buckingham what my gracious lord
prince edward an if i live until i be a man
 i'll win our ancient right in france again
 or die a soldier as i lived a king
gloucester aside short summers lightly have a forward spring
 enter young york hastings and the cardinal
buckingham now in good time here comes the duke of york
prince edward richard of york how fares our loving brother
york well my dread lord so must i call you now
prince edward ay brother to our grief as it is yours
 too late he died that might have kept that title
 which by his death hath lost much majesty
gloucester how fares our cousin noble lord of york
york i thank you gentle uncle o my lord
 you said that idle weeds are fast in growth
 the prince my brother hath outgrown me far
gloucester he hath my lord
york and therefore is he idle
gloucester o my fair cousin i must not say so
york then is he more beholding to you than i
gloucester he may command me as my sovereign
 but you have power in me as in a kinsman
york i pray you uncle give me this dagger
gloucester my dagger little cousin with all my heart
prince edward a beggar brother
york of my kind uncle that i know will give
 and being but a toy which is no grief to give
gloucester a greater gift than that i'll give my cousin
york a greater gift o that's the sword to it
gloucester a gentle cousin were it light enough
york o then i see you will part but with light gifts
 in weightier things you'll say a beggar nay
gloucester it is too heavy for your grace to wear
york i weigh it lightly were it heavier
gloucester what would you have my weapon little lord
york i would that i might thank you as you call me
gloucester how
york little
prince edward my lord of york will still be cross in talk
 uncle your grace knows how to bear with him
york you mean to bear me not to bear with me
 uncle my brother mocks both you and me
 because that i am little like an ape
 he thinks that you should bear me on your shoulders
buckingham with what a sharpprovided wit he reasons
 to mitigate the scorn he gives his uncle
 he prettily and aptly taunts himself
 so cunning and so young is wonderful
gloucester my lord will't please you pass along
 myself and my good cousin buckingham
 will to your mother to entreat of her
 to meet you at the tower and welcome you
york what will you go unto the tower my lord
prince edward my lord protector needs will have it so
york i shall not sleep in quiet at the tower
gloucester why what should you fear
york marry my uncle clarence angry ghost
 my grandam told me he was murdered there
prince edward i fear no uncles dead
gloucester nor none that live i hope
prince edward an if they live i hope i need not fear
 but come my lord and with a heavy heart
 thinking on them go i unto the tower
 a sennet exeunt all but gloucester buckingham
 and catesby
buckingham think you my lord this little prating york
 was not incensed by his subtle mother
 to taunt and scorn you thus opprobriously
gloucester no doubt no doubt o tis a parlous boy
 bold quick ingenious forward capable
 he is all the mother's from the top to toe
buckingham well let them rest come hither catesby
 thou art sworn as deeply to effect what we intend
 as closely to conceal what we impart
 thou know'st our reasons urged upon the way
 what think'st thou is it not an easy matter
 to make william lord hastings of our mind
 for the instalment of this noble duke
 in the seat royal of this famous isle
catesby he for his father's sake so loves the prince
 that he will not be won to aught against him
buckingham what think'st thou then of stanley what will he
catesby he will do all in all as hastings doth
buckingham well then no more but this go gentle catesby
 and as it were far off sound thou lord hastings
 how doth he stand affected to our purpose
 and summon him tomorrow to the tower
 to sit about the coronation
 if thou dost find him tractable to us
 encourage him and show him all our reasons
 if he be leaden icycold unwilling
 be thou so too and so break off your talk
 and give us notice of his inclination
 for we tomorrow hold divided councils
 wherein thyself shalt highly be employ'd
gloucester commend me to lord william tell him catesby
 his ancient knot of dangerous adversaries
 tomorrow are let blood at pomfretcastle
 and bid my friend for joy of this good news
 give mistress shore one gentle kiss the more
buckingham good catesby go effect this business soundly
catesby my good lords both with all the heed i may
gloucester shall we hear from you catesby ere we sleep
catesby you shall my lord
gloucester at crosby place there shall you find us both
 exit catesby
buckingham now my lord what shall we do if we perceive
 lord hastings will not yield to our complots
gloucester chop off his head man somewhat we will do
 and look when i am king claim thou of me
 the earldom of hereford and the moveables
 whereof the king my brother stood possess'd
buckingham i'll claim that promise at your grace's hands
gloucester and look to have it yielded with all willingness
 come let us sup betimes that afterwards
 we may digest our complots in some form
 exeunt
 king richard iii
act iii
scene ii before lord hastings house
 enter a messenger
messenger what ho my lord
hastings within who knocks at the door
messenger a messenger from the lord stanley
 enter hastings
hastings what is't o'clock
messenger upon the stroke of four
hastings cannot thy master sleep these tedious nights
messenger so it should seem by that i have to say
 first he commends him to your noble lordship
hastings and then
messenger and then he sends you word
 he dreamt tonight the boar had razed his helm
 besides he says there are two councils held
 and that may be determined at the one
 which may make you and him to rue at the other
 therefore he sends to know your lordship's pleasure
 if presently you will take horse with him
 and with all speed post with him toward the north
 to shun the danger that his soul divines
hastings go fellow go return unto thy lord
 bid him not fear the separated councils
 his honour and myself are at the one
 and at the other is my servant catesby
 where nothing can proceed that toucheth us
 whereof i shall not have intelligence
 tell him his fears are shallow wanting instance
 and for his dreams i wonder he is so fond
 to trust the mockery of unquiet slumbers
 to fly the boar before the boar pursues
 were to incense the boar to follow us
 and make pursuit where he did mean no chase
 go bid thy master rise and come to me
 and we will both together to the tower
 where he shall see the boar will use us kindly
messenger my gracious lord i'll tell him what you say
 exit
 enter catesby
catesby many good morrows to my noble lord
hastings good morrow catesby you are early stirring
 what news what news in this our tottering state
catesby it is a reeling world indeed my lord
 and i believe twill never stand upright
 tim richard wear the garland of the realm
hastings how wear the garland dost thou mean the crown
catesby ay my good lord
hastings i'll have this crown of mine cut from my shoulders
 ere i will see the crown so foul misplaced
 but canst thou guess that he doth aim at it
catesby ay on my life and hopes to find forward
 upon his party for the gain thereof
 and thereupon he sends you this good news
 that this same very day your enemies
 the kindred of the queen must die at pomfret
hastings indeed i am no mourner for that news
 because they have been still mine enemies
 but that i'll give my voice on richard's side
 to bar my master's heirs in true descent
 god knows i will not do it to the death
catesby god keep your lordship in that gracious mind
hastings but i shall laugh at this a twelvemonth hence
 that they who brought me in my master's hate
 i live to look upon their tragedy
 i tell thee catesby
catesby what my lord
hastings ere a fortnight make me elder
 i'll send some packing that yet think not on it
catesby tis a vile thing to die my gracious lord
 when men are unprepared and look not for it
hastings o monstrous monstrous and so falls it out
 with rivers vaughan grey and so twill do
 with some men else who think themselves as safe
 as thou and i who as thou know'st are dear
 to princely richard and to buckingham
catesby the princes both make high account of you
 aside
 for they account his head upon the bridge
hastings i know they do and i have well deserved it
 enter stanley
 come on come on where is your boarspear man
 fear you the boar and go so unprovided
stanley my lord good morrow good morrow catesby
 you may jest on but by the holy rood
 i do not like these several councils i
hastings my lord
 i hold my life as dear as you do yours
 and never in my life i do protest
 was it more precious to me than tis now
 think you but that i know our state secure
 i would be so triumphant as i am
stanley the lords at pomfret when they rode from london
 were jocund and supposed their state was sure
 and they indeed had no cause to mistrust
 but yet you see how soon the day o'ercast
 this sudden stag of rancour i misdoubt
 pray god i say i prove a needless coward
 what shall we toward the tower the day is spent
hastings come come have with you wot you what my lord
 today the lords you talk of are beheaded
lord stanley they for their truth might better wear their heads
 than some that have accused them wear their hats
 but come my lord let us away
 enter a pursuivant
hastings go on before i'll talk with this good fellow
 exeunt stanley and catesby
 how now sirrah how goes the world with thee
pursuivant the better that your lordship please to ask
hastings i tell thee man tis better with me now
 than when i met thee last where now we meet
 then was i going prisoner to the tower
 by the suggestion of the queen's allies
 but now i tell theekeep it to thyself
 this day those enemies are put to death
 and i in better state than e'er i was
pursuivant god hold it to your honour's good content
hastings gramercy fellow there drink that for me
 throws him his purse
pursuivant god save your lordship
 exit
 enter a priest
priest well met my lord i am glad to see your honour
hastings i thank thee good sir john with all my heart
 i am in your debt for your last exercise
 come the next sabbath and i will content you
 he whispers in his ear
 enter buckingham
buckingham what talking with a priest lord chamberlain
 your friends at pomfret they do need the priest
 your honour hath no shriving work in hand
hastings good faith and when i met this holy man
 those men you talk of came into my mind
 what go you toward the tower
buckingham i do my lord but long i shall not stay
 i shall return before your lordship thence
hastings tis like enough for i stay dinner there
buckingham aside and supper too although thou know'st it not
 come will you go
hastings i'll wait upon your lordship
 exeunt
 king richard iii
act iii
scene iii pomfret castle
 enter ratcliff with halberds carrying rivers
 grey and vaughan to death
ratcliff come bring forth the prisoners
rivers sir richard ratcliff let me tell thee this
 today shalt thou behold a subject die
 for truth for duty and for loyalty
grey god keep the prince from all the pack of you
 a knot you are of damned bloodsuckers
vaughan you live that shall cry woe for this after
ratcliff dispatch the limit of your lives is out
rivers o pomfret pomfret o thou bloody prison
 fatal and ominous to noble peers
 within the guilty closure of thy walls
 richard the second here was hack'd to death
 and for more slander to thy dismal seat
 we give thee up our guiltless blood to drink
grey now margaret's curse is fall'n upon our heads
 for standing by when richard stabb'd her son
rivers then cursed she hastings then cursed she buckingham
 then cursed she richard o remember god
 to hear her prayers for them as now for us
 and for my sister and her princely sons
 be satisfied dear god with our true blood
 which as thou know'st unjustly must be spilt
ratcliff make haste the hour of death is expiate
rivers come grey come vaughan let us all embrace
 and take our leave until we meet in heaven
 exeunt
 king richard iii
act iii
scene iv the tower of london
 enter buckingham derby hastings the bishop of
 ely ratcliff lovel with others and take their
 seats at a table
hastings my lords at once the cause why we are met
 is to determine of the coronation
 in god's name speak when is the royal day
buckingham are all things fitting for that royal time
derby it is and wants but nomination
bishop of ely tomorrow then i judge a happy day
buckingham who knows the lord protector's mind herein
 who is most inward with the royal duke
bishop of ely your grace we think should soonest know his mind
buckingham who i my lord i we know each other's faces
 but for our hearts he knows no more of mine
 than i of yours
 nor i no more of his than you of mine
 lord hastings you and he are near in love
hastings i thank his grace i know he loves me well
 but for his purpose in the coronation
 i have not sounded him nor he deliver'd
 his gracious pleasure any way therein
 but you my noble lords may name the time
 and in the duke's behalf i'll give my voice
 which i presume he'll take in gentle part
 enter gloucester
bishop of ely now in good time here comes the duke himself
gloucester my noble lords and cousins all good morrow
 i have been long a sleeper but i hope
 my absence doth neglect no great designs
 which by my presence might have been concluded
buckingham had not you come upon your cue my lord
 william lord hastings had pronounced your part
 i mean your voicefor crowning of the king
gloucester than my lord hastings no man might be bolder
 his lordship knows me well and loves me well
hastings i thank your grace
gloucester my lord of ely
bishop of ely my lord
gloucester when i was last in holborn
 i saw good strawberries in your garden there
 i do beseech you send for some of them
bishop of ely marry and will my lord with all my heart
 exit
gloucester cousin of buckingham a word with you
 drawing him aside
 catesby hath sounded hastings in our business
 and finds the testy gentleman so hot
 as he will lose his head ere give consent
 his master's son as worshipful as he terms it
 shall lose the royalty of england's throne
buckingham withdraw you hence my lord i'll follow you
 exit gloucester buckingham following
derby we have not yet set down this day of triumph
 tomorrow in mine opinion is too sudden
 for i myself am not so well provided
 as else i would be were the day prolong'd
 reenter bishop of ely
bishop of ely where is my lord protector i have sent for these
 strawberries
hastings his grace looks cheerfully and smooth today
 there's some conceit or other likes him well
 when he doth bid good morrow with such a spirit
 i think there's never a man in christendom
 that can less hide his love or hate than he
 for by his face straight shall you know his heart
derby what of his heart perceive you in his face
 by any likelihood he show'd today
hastings marry that with no man here he is offended
 for were he he had shown it in his looks
derby i pray god he be not i say
 reenter gloucester and buckingham
gloucester i pray you all tell me what they deserve
 that do conspire my death with devilish plots
 of damned witchcraft and that have prevail'd
 upon my body with their hellish charms
hastings the tender love i bear your grace my lord
 makes me most forward in this noble presence
 to doom the offenders whatsoever they be
 i say my lord they have deserved death
gloucester then be your eyes the witness of this ill
 see how i am bewitch'd behold mine arm
 is like a blasted sapling wither'd up
 and this is edward's wife that monstrous witch
 consorted with that harlot strumpet shore
 that by their witchcraft thus have marked me
hastings if they have done this thing my gracious lord
gloucester if i thou protector of this damned strumpet
 tellest thou me of ifs thou art a traitor
 off with his head now by saint paul i swear
 i will not dine until i see the same
 lovel and ratcliff look that it be done
 the rest that love me rise and follow me
 exeunt all but hastings ratcliff and lovel
hastings woe woe for england not a whit for me
 for i too fond might have prevented this
 stanley did dream the boar did raze his helm
 but i disdain'd it and did scorn to fly
 three times today my footcloth horse did stumble
 and startled when he look'd upon the tower
 as loath to bear me to the slaughterhouse
 o now i want the priest that spake to me
 i now repent i told the pursuivant
 as twere triumphing at mine enemies
 how they at pomfret bloodily were butcher'd
 and i myself secure in grace and favour
 o margaret margaret now thy heavy curse
 is lighted on poor hastings wretched head
ratcliff dispatch my lord the duke would be at dinner
 make a short shrift he longs to see your head
hastings o momentary grace of mortal men
 which we more hunt for than the grace of god
 who builds his hopes in air of your good looks
 lives like a drunken sailor on a mast
 ready with every nod to tumble down
 into the fatal bowels of the deep
lovel come come dispatch tis bootless to exclaim
hastings o bloody richard miserable england
 i prophesy the fearful'st time to thee
 that ever wretched age hath look'd upon
 come lead me to the block bear him my head
 they smile at me that shortly shall be dead
 exeunt
 king richard iii
act iii
scene v the towerwalls
 enter gloucester and buckingham in rotten armour
 marvellous illfavoured
gloucester come cousin canst thou quake and change thy colour
 murder thy breath in the middle of a word
 and then begin again and stop again
 as if thou wert distraught and mad with terror
buckingham tut i can counterfeit the deep tragedian
 speak and look back and pry on every side
 tremble and start at wagging of a straw
 intending deep suspicion ghastly looks
 are at my service like enforced smiles
 and both are ready in their offices
 at any time to grace my stratagems
 but what is catesby gone
gloucester he is and see he brings the mayor along
 enter the lord mayor and catesby
buckingham lord mayor
gloucester look to the drawbridge there
buckingham hark a drum
gloucester catesby o'erlook the walls
buckingham lord mayor the reason we have sent
gloucester look back defend thee here are enemies
buckingham god and our innocency defend and guard us
gloucester be patient they are friends ratcliff and lovel
 enter lovel and ratcliff with hastings head
lovel here is the head of that ignoble traitor
 the dangerous and unsuspected hastings
gloucester so dear i loved the man that i must weep
 i took him for the plainest harmless creature
 that breathed upon this earth a christian
 made him my book wherein my soul recorded
 the history of all her secret thoughts
 so smooth he daub'd his vice with show of virtue
 that his apparent open guilt omitted
 i mean his conversation with shore's wife
 he lived from all attainder of suspect
buckingham well well he was the covert'st shelter'd traitor
 that ever lived
 would you imagine or almost believe
 were't not that by great preservation
 we live to tell it you the subtle traitor
 this day had plotted in the councilhouse
 to murder me and my good lord of gloucester
lord mayor what had he so
gloucester what think you we are turks or infidels
 or that we would against the form of law
 proceed thus rashly to the villain's death
 but that the extreme peril of the case
 the peace of england and our persons safety
 enforced us to this execution
lord mayor now fair befall you he deserved his death
 and you my good lords both have well proceeded
 to warn false traitors from the like attempts
 i never look'd for better at his hands
 after he once fell in with mistress shore
gloucester yet had not we determined he should die
 until your lordship came to see his death
 which now the loving haste of these our friends
 somewhat against our meaning have prevented
 because my lord we would have had you heard
 the traitor speak and timorously confess
 the manner and the purpose of his treason
 that you might well have signified the same
 unto the citizens who haply may
 misconstrue us in him and wail his death
lord mayor but my good lord your grace's word shall serve
 as well as i had seen and heard him speak
 and doubt you not right noble princes both
 but i'll acquaint our duteous citizens
 with all your just proceedings in this cause
gloucester and to that end we wish'd your lordship here
 to avoid the carping censures of the world
buckingham but since you come too late of our intents
 yet witness what you hear we did intend
 and so my good lord mayor we bid farewell
 exit lord mayor
gloucester go after after cousin buckingham
 the mayor towards guildhall hies him in all post
 there at your meet'st advantage of the time
 infer the bastardy of edward's children
 tell them how edward put to death a citizen
 only for saying he would make his son
 heir to the crown meaning indeed his house
 which by the sign thereof was termed so
 moreover urge his hateful luxury
 and bestial appetite in change of lust
 which stretched to their servants daughters wives
 even where his lustful eye or savage heart
 without control listed to make his prey
 nay for a need thus far come near my person
 tell them when that my mother went with child
 of that unsatiate edward noble york
 my princely father then had wars in france
 and by just computation of the time
 found that the issue was not his begot
 which well appeared in his lineaments
 being nothing like the noble duke my father
 but touch this sparingly as twere far off
 because you know my lord my mother lives
buckingham fear not my lord i'll play the orator
 as if the golden fee for which i plead
 were for myself and so my lord adieu
gloucester if you thrive well bring them to baynard's castle
 where you shall find me well accompanied
 with reverend fathers and welllearned bishops
buckingham i go and towards three or four o'clock
 look for the news that the guildhall affords
 exit buckingham
gloucester go lovel with all speed to doctor shaw
 to catesby
 go thou to friar penker bid them both
 meet me within this hour at baynard's castle
 exeunt all but gloucester
 now will i in to take some privy order
 to draw the brats of clarence out of sight
 and to give notice that no manner of person
 at any time have recourse unto the princes
 exit
 king richard iii
act iii
scene vi the same
 enter a scrivener with a paper in his hand
scrivener this is the indictment of the good lord hastings
 which in a set hand fairly is engross'd
 that it may be this day read over in paul's
 and mark how well the sequel hangs together
 eleven hours i spent to write it over
 for yesternight by catesby was it brought me
 the precedent was full as long adoing
 and yet within these five hours lived lord hastings
 untainted unexamined free at liberty
 here's a good world the while why who's so gross
 that seeth not this palpable device
 yet who's so blind but says he sees it not
 bad is the world and all will come to nought
 when such bad dealings must be seen in thought
 exit
 king richard iii
act iii
scene vii baynard's castle
 enter gloucester and buckingham at several doors
gloucester how now my lord what say the citizens
buckingham now by the holy mother of our lord
 the citizens are mum and speak not a word
gloucester touch'd you the bastardy of edward's children
buckingham i did with his contract with lady lucy
 and his contract by deputy in france
 the insatiate greediness of his desires
 and his enforcement of the city wives
 his tyranny for trifles his own bastardy
 as being got your father then in france
 his resemblance being not like the duke
 withal i did infer your lineaments
 being the right idea of your father
 both in your form and nobleness of mind
 laid open all your victories in scotland
 your dicipline in war wisdom in peace
 your bounty virtue fair humility
 indeed left nothing fitting for the purpose
 untouch'd or slightly handled in discourse
 and when mine oratory grew to an end
 i bid them that did love their country's good
 cry god save richard england's royal king'
gloucester ah and did they so
buckingham no so god help me they spake not a word
 but like dumb statues or breathing stones
 gazed each on other and look'd deadly pale
 which when i saw i reprehended them
 and ask'd the mayor what meant this wilful silence
 his answer was the people were not wont
 to be spoke to but by the recorder
 then he was urged to tell my tale again
 thus saith the duke thus hath the duke inferr'd'
 but nothing spake in warrant from himself
 when he had done some followers of mine own
 at the lower end of the hall hurl'd up their caps
 and some ten voices cried god save king richard'
 and thus i took the vantage of those few
 thanks gentle citizens and friends quoth i
 this general applause and loving shout
 argues your wisdoms and your love to richard'
 and even here brake off and came away
gloucester what tongueless blocks were they would not they speak
buckingham no by my troth my lord
gloucester will not the mayor then and his brethren come
buckingham the mayor is here at hand intend some fear
 be not you spoke with but by mighty suit
 and look you get a prayerbook in your hand
 and stand betwixt two churchmen good my lord
 for on that ground i'll build a holy descant
 and be not easily won to our request
 play the maid's part still answer nay and take it
gloucester i go and if you plead as well for them
 as i can say nay to thee for myself
 no doubt well bring it to a happy issue
buckingham go go up to the leads the lord mayor knocks
 exit gloucester
 enter the lord mayor and citizens
 welcome my lord i dance attendance here
 i think the duke will not be spoke withal
 enter catesby
 here comes his servant how now catesby
 what says he
catesby my lord he doth entreat your grace
 to visit him tomorrow or next day
 he is within with two right reverend fathers
 divinely bent to meditation
 and no worldly suit would he be moved
 to draw him from his holy exercise
buckingham return good catesby to thy lord again
 tell him myself the mayor and citizens
 in deep designs and matters of great moment
 no less importing than our general good
 are come to have some conference with his grace
catesby i'll tell him what you say my lord
 exit
buckingham ah ha my lord this prince is not an edward
 he is not lolling on a lewd daybed
 but on his knees at meditation
 not dallying with a brace of courtezans
 but meditating with two deep divines
 not sleeping to engross his idle body
 but praying to enrich his watchful soul
 happy were england would this gracious prince
 take on himself the sovereignty thereof
 but sure i fear we shall ne'er win him to it
lord mayor marry god forbid his grace should say us nay
buckingham i fear he will
 reenter catesby
 how now catesby what says your lord
catesby my lord
 he wonders to what end you have assembled
 such troops of citizens to speak with him
 his grace not being warn'd thereof before
 my lord he fears you mean no good to him
buckingham sorry i am my noble cousin should
 suspect me that i mean no good to him
 by heaven i come in perfect love to him
 and so once more return and tell his grace
 exit catesby
 when holy and devout religious men
 are at their beads tis hard to draw them thence
 so sweet is zealous contemplation
 enter gloucester aloft between two bishops
 catesby returns
lord mayor see where he stands between two clergymen
buckingham two props of virtue for a christian prince
 to stay him from the fall of vanity
 and see a book of prayer in his hand
 true ornaments to know a holy man
 famous plantagenet most gracious prince
 lend favourable ears to our request
 and pardon us the interruption
 of thy devotion and right christian zeal
gloucester my lord there needs no such apology
 i rather do beseech you pardon me
 who earnest in the service of my god
 neglect the visitation of my friends
 but leaving this what is your grace's pleasure
buckingham even that i hope which pleaseth god above
 and all good men of this ungovern'd isle
gloucester i do suspect i have done some offence
 that seems disgracious in the city's eyes
 and that you come to reprehend my ignorance
buckingham you have my lord would it might please your grace
 at our entreaties to amend that fault
gloucester else wherefore breathe i in a christian land
buckingham then know it is your fault that you resign
 the supreme seat the throne majestical
 the scepter'd office of your ancestors
 your state of fortune and your due of birth
 the lineal glory of your royal house
 to the corruption of a blemished stock
 whilst in the mildness of your sleepy thoughts
 which here we waken to our country's good
 this noble isle doth want her proper limbs
 her face defaced with scars of infamy
 her royal stock graft with ignoble plants
 and almost shoulder'd in the swallowing gulf
 of blind forgetfulness and dark oblivion
 which to recure we heartily solicit
 your gracious self to take on you the charge
 and kingly government of this your land
 not as protector steward substitute
 or lowly factor for another's gain
 but as successively from blood to blood
 your right of birth your empery your own
 for this consorted with the citizens
 your very worshipful and loving friends
 and by their vehement instigation
 in this just suit come i to move your grace
gloucester i know not whether to depart in silence
 or bitterly to speak in your reproof
 best fitteth my degree or your condition
 if not to answer you might haply think
 tonguetied ambition not replying yielded
 to bear the golden yoke of sovereignty
 which fondly you would here impose on me
 if to reprove you for this suit of yours
 so season'd with your faithful love to me
 then on the other side i cheque'd my friends
 therefore to speak and to avoid the first
 and then in speaking not to incur the last
 definitively thus i answer you
 your love deserves my thanks but my desert
 unmeritable shuns your high request
 first if all obstacles were cut away
 and that my path were even to the crown
 as my ripe revenue and due by birth
 yet so much is my poverty of spirit
 so mighty and so many my defects
 as i had rather hide me from my greatness
 being a bark to brook no mighty sea
 than in my greatness covet to be hid
 and in the vapour of my glory smother'd
 but god be thank'd there's no need of me
 and much i need to help you if need were
 the royal tree hath left us royal fruit
 which mellow'd by the stealing hours of time
 will well become the seat of majesty
 and make no doubt us happy by his reign
 on him i lay what you would lay on me
 the right and fortune of his happy stars
 which god defend that i should wring from him
buckingham my lord this argues conscience in your grace
 but the respects thereof are nice and trivial
 all circumstances well considered
 you say that edward is your brother's son
 so say we too but not by edward's wife
 for first he was contract to lady lucy
 your mother lives a witness to that vow
 and afterward by substitute betroth'd
 to bona sister to the king of france
 these both put by a poor petitioner
 a carecrazed mother of a many children
 a beautywaning and distressed widow
 even in the afternoon of her best days
 made prize and purchase of his lustful eye
 seduced the pitch and height of all his thoughts
 to base declension and loathed bigamy
 by her in his unlawful bed he got
 this edward whom our manners term the prince
 more bitterly could i expostulate
 save that for reverence to some alive
 i give a sparing limit to my tongue
 then good my lord take to your royal self
 this proffer'd benefit of dignity
 if non to bless us and the land withal
 yet to draw forth your noble ancestry
 from the corruption of abusing times
 unto a lineal truederived course
lord mayor do good my lord your citizens entreat you
buckingham refuse not mighty lord this proffer'd love
catesby o make them joyful grant their lawful suit
gloucester alas why would you heap these cares on me
 i am unfit for state and majesty
 i do beseech you take it not amiss
 i cannot nor i will not yield to you
buckingham if you refuse itas in love and zeal
 loath to depose the child your brother's son
 as well we know your tenderness of heart
 and gentle kind effeminate remorse
 which we have noted in you to your kin
 and egally indeed to all estates
 yet whether you accept our suit or no
 your brother's son shall never reign our king
 but we will plant some other in the throne
 to the disgrace and downfall of your house
 and in this resolution here we leave you
 come citizens zounds i'll entreat no more
gloucester o do not swear my lord of buckingham
 exit buckingham with the citizens
catesby call them again my lord and accept their suit
another do good my lord lest all the land do rue it
gloucester would you enforce me to a world of care
 well call them again i am not made of stone
 but penetrable to your kind entreats
 albeit against my conscience and my soul
 reenter buckingham and the rest
 cousin of buckingham and you sage grave men
 since you will buckle fortune on my back
 to bear her burthen whether i will or no
 i must have patience to endure the load
 but if black scandal or foulfaced reproach
 attend the sequel of your imposition
 your mere enforcement shall acquittance me
 from all the impure blots and stains thereof
 for god he knows and you may partly see
 how far i am from the desire thereof
lord mayor god bless your grace we see it and will say it
gloucester in saying so you shall but say the truth
buckingham then i salute you with this kingly title
 long live richard england's royal king
lord mayor 
 amen
citizens 
buckingham tomorrow will it please you to be crown'd
gloucester even when you please since you will have it so
buckingham tomorrow then we will attend your grace
 and so most joyfully we take our leave
gloucester come let us to our holy task again
 farewell good cousin farewell gentle friends
 exeunt
 king richard iii
act iv
scene i before the tower
 enter on one side queen elizabeth duchess of
 york and dorset on the other anne duchess of
 gloucester leading lady margaret plantagenet
 clarence's young daughter
duchess of york who meets us here my niece plantagenet
 led in the hand of her kind aunt of gloucester
 now for my life she's wandering to the tower
 on pure heart's love to greet the tender princes
 daughter well met
lady anne god give your graces both
 a happy and a joyful time of day
queen elizabeth as much to you good sister whither away
lady anne no farther than the tower and as i guess
 upon the like devotion as yourselves
 to gratulate the gentle princes there
queen elizabeth kind sister thanks we'll enter all together
 enter brakenbury
 and in good time here the lieutenant comes
 master lieutenant pray you by your leave
 how doth the prince and my young son of york
brakenbury right well dear madam by your patience
 i may not suffer you to visit them
 the king hath straitly charged the contrary
queen elizabeth the king why who's that
brakenbury i cry you mercy i mean the lord protector
queen elizabeth the lord protect him from that kingly title
 hath he set bounds betwixt their love and me
 i am their mother who should keep me from them
duchess of york i am their fathers mother i will see them
lady anne their aunt i am in law in love their mother
 then bring me to their sights i'll bear thy blame
 and take thy office from thee on my peril
brakenbury no madam no i may not leave it so
 i am bound by oath and therefore pardon me
 exit
 enter lord stanley
lord stanley let me but meet you ladies one hour hence
 and i'll salute your grace of york as mother
 and reverend looker on of two fair queens
 to lady anne
 come madam you must straight to westminster
 there to be crowned richard's royal queen
queen elizabeth o cut my lace in sunder that my pent heart
 may have some scope to beat or else i swoon
 with this deadkilling news
lady anne despiteful tidings o unpleasing news
dorset be of good cheer mother how fares your grace
queen elizabeth o dorset speak not to me get thee hence
 death and destruction dog thee at the heels
 thy mother's name is ominous to children
 if thou wilt outstrip death go cross the seas
 and live with richmond from the reach of hell
 go hie thee hie thee from this slaughterhouse
 lest thou increase the number of the dead
 and make me die the thrall of margaret's curse
 nor mother wife nor england's counted queen
lord stanley full of wise care is this your counsel madam
 take all the swift advantage of the hours
 you shall have letters from me to my son
 to meet you on the way and welcome you
 be not ta'en tardy by unwise delay
duchess of york o illdispersing wind of misery
 o my accursed womb the bed of death
 a cockatrice hast thou hatch'd to the world
 whose unavoided eye is murderous
lord stanley come madam come i in all haste was sent
lady anne and i in all unwillingness will go
 i would to god that the inclusive verge
 of golden metal that must round my brow
 were redhot steel to sear me to the brain
 anointed let me be with deadly venom
 and die ere men can say god save the queen
queen elizabeth go go poor soul i envy not thy glory
 to feed my humour wish thyself no harm
lady anne no why when he that is my husband now
 came to me as i follow'd henry's corse
 when scarce the blood was well wash'd from his hands
 which issued from my other angel husband
 and that dead saint which then i weeping follow'd
 o when i say i look'd on richard's face
 this was my wish be thou quoth i  accursed
 for making me so young so old a widow
 and when thou wed'st let sorrow haunt thy bed
 and be thy wifeif any be so mad
 as miserable by the life of thee
 as thou hast made me by my dear lord's death
 lo ere i can repeat this curse again
 even in so short a space my woman's heart
 grossly grew captive to his honey words
 and proved the subject of my own soul's curse
 which ever since hath kept my eyes from rest
 for never yet one hour in his bed
 have i enjoy'd the golden dew of sleep
 but have been waked by his timorous dreams
 besides he hates me for my father warwick
 and will no doubt shortly be rid of me
queen elizabeth poor heart adieu i pity thy complaining
lady anne no more than from my soul i mourn for yours
queen elizabeth farewell thou woful welcomer of glory
lady anne adieu poor soul that takest thy leave of it
duchess of york to dorset
 go thou to richmond and good fortune guide thee
 to lady anne
 go thou to richard and good angels guard thee
 to queen elizabeth
 go thou to sanctuary and good thoughts possess thee
 i to my grave where peace and rest lie with me
 eighty odd years of sorrow have i seen
 and each hour's joy wrecked with a week of teen
queen elizabeth stay yet look back with me unto the tower
 pity you ancient stones those tender babes
 whom envy hath immured within your walls
 rough cradle for such little pretty ones
 rude ragged nurse old sullen playfellow
 for tender princes use my babies well
 so foolish sorrow bids your stones farewell
 exeunt
 king richard iii
act iv
scene ii london the palace
 sennet enter king richard iii in pomp crowned
 buckingham catesby a page and others
king richard iii stand all apart cousin of buckingham
buckingham my gracious sovereign
king richard iii give me thy hand
 here he ascendeth his throne
 thus high by thy advice
 and thy assistance is king richard seated
 but shall we wear these honours for a day
 or shall they last and we rejoice in them
buckingham still live they and for ever may they last
king richard iii o buckingham now do i play the touch
 to try if thou be current gold indeed
 young edward lives think now what i would say
buckingham say on my loving lord
king richard iii why buckingham i say i would be king
buckingham why so you are my thrice renowned liege
king richard iii ha am i king tis so but edward lives
buckingham true noble prince
king richard iii o bitter consequence
 that edward still should live true noble prince'
 cousin thou wert not wont to be so dull
 shall i be plain i wish the bastards dead
 and i would have it suddenly perform'd
 what sayest thou speak suddenly be brief
buckingham your grace may do your pleasure
king richard iii tut tut thou art all ice thy kindness freezeth
 say have i thy consent that they shall die
buckingham give me some breath some little pause my lord
 before i positively herein
 i will resolve your grace immediately
 exit
catesby aside to a stander by
 the king is angry see he bites the lip
king richard iii i will converse with ironwitted fools
 and unrespective boys none are for me
 that look into me with considerate eyes
 highreaching buckingham grows circumspect
 boy
page my lord
king richard iii know'st thou not any whom corrupting gold
 would tempt unto a close exploit of death
page my lord i know a discontented gentleman
 whose humble means match not his haughty mind
 gold were as good as twenty orators
 and will no doubt tempt him to any thing
king richard iii what is his name
page his name my lord is tyrrel
king richard iii i partly know the man go call him hither
 exit page
 the deeprevolving witty buckingham
 no more shall be the neighbour to my counsel
 hath he so long held out with me untired
 and stops he now for breath
 enter stanley
 how now what news with you
stanley my lord i hear the marquis dorset's fled
 to richmond in those parts beyond the sea
 where he abides
 stands apart
king richard iii catesby
catesby my lord
king richard iii rumour it abroad
 that anne my wife is sick and like to die
 i will take order for her keeping close
 inquire me out some meanborn gentleman
 whom i will marry straight to clarence daughter
 the boy is foolish and i fear not him
 look how thou dream'st i say again give out
 that anne my wife is sick and like to die
 about it for it stands me much upon
 to stop all hopes whose growth may damage me
 exit catesby
 i must be married to my brother's daughter
 or else my kingdom stands on brittle glass
 murder her brothers and then marry her
 uncertain way of gain but i am in
 so far in blood that sin will pluck on sin
 tearfalling pity dwells not in this eye
 reenter page with tyrrel
 is thy name tyrrel
tyrrel james tyrrel and your most obedient subject
king richard iii art thou indeed
tyrrel prove me my gracious sovereign
king richard iii darest thou resolve to kill a friend of mine
tyrrel ay my lord
 but i had rather kill two enemies
king richard iii why there thou hast it two deep enemies
 foes to my rest and my sweet sleep's disturbers
 are they that i would have thee deal upon
 tyrrel i mean those bastards in the tower
tyrrel let me have open means to come to them
 and soon i'll rid you from the fear of them
king richard iii thou sing'st sweet music hark come hither tyrrel
 go by this token rise and lend thine ear
 whispers
 there is no more but so say it is done
 and i will love thee and prefer thee too
tyrrel tis done my gracious lord
king richard iii shall we hear from thee tyrrel ere we sleep
tyrrel ye shall my lord
 exit
 reenter buckingham
buckingham my lord i have consider'd in my mind
 the late demand that you did sound me in
king richard iii well let that pass dorset is fled to richmond
buckingham i hear that news my lord
king richard iii stanley he is your wife's son well look to it
buckingham my lord i claim your gift my due by promise
 for which your honour and your faith is pawn'd
 the earldom of hereford and the moveables
 the which you promised i should possess
king richard iii stanley look to your wife if she convey
 letters to richmond you shall answer it
buckingham what says your highness to my just demand
king richard iii as i remember henry the sixth
 did prophesy that richmond should be king
 when richmond was a little peevish boy
 a king perhaps perhaps
buckingham my lord
king richard iii how chance the prophet could not at that time
 have told me i being by that i should kill him
buckingham my lord your promise for the earldom
king richard iii richmond when last i was at exeter
 the mayor in courtesy show'd me the castle
 and call'd it rougemont at which name i started
 because a bard of ireland told me once
 i should not live long after i saw richmond
buckingham my lord
king richard iii ay what's o'clock
buckingham i am thus bold to put your grace in mind
 of what you promised me
king richard iii well but what's o'clock
buckingham upon the stroke of ten
king richard iii well let it strike
buckingham why let it strike
king richard iii because that like a jack thou keep'st the stroke
 betwixt thy begging and my meditation
 i am not in the giving vein today
buckingham why then resolve me whether you will or no
king richard iii tut tut
 thou troublest me am not in the vein
 exeunt all but buckingham
buckingham is it even so rewards he my true service
 with such deep contempt made i him king for this
 o let me think on hastings and be gone
 to brecknock while my fearful head is on
 exit
 king richard iii
act iv
scene iii the same
 enter tyrrel
tyrrel the tyrannous and bloody deed is done
 the most arch of piteous massacre
 that ever yet this land was guilty of
 dighton and forrest whom i did suborn
 to do this ruthless piece of butchery
 although they were flesh'd villains bloody dogs
 melting with tenderness and kind compassion
 wept like two children in their deaths sad stories
 lo thus quoth dighton lay those tender babes'
 thus thus quoth forrest girdling one another
 within their innocent alabaster arms
 their lips were four red roses on a stalk
 which in their summer beauty kiss'd each other
 a book of prayers on their pillow lay
 which once quoth forrest almost changed my mind
 but o the devil'there the villain stopp'd
 whilst dighton thus told on we smothered
 the most replenished sweet work of nature
 that from the prime creation e'er she framed'
 thus both are gone with conscience and remorse
 they could not speak and so i left them both
 to bring this tidings to the bloody king
 and here he comes
 enter king richard iii
 all hail my sovereign liege
king richard iii kind tyrrel am i happy in thy news
tyrrel if to have done the thing you gave in charge
 beget your happiness be happy then
 for it is done my lord
king richard iii but didst thou see them dead
tyrrel i did my lord
king richard iii and buried gentle tyrrel
tyrrel the chaplain of the tower hath buried them
 but how or in what place i do not know
king richard iii come to me tyrrel soon at after supper
 and thou shalt tell the process of their death
 meantime but think how i may do thee good
 and be inheritor of thy desire
 farewell till soon
 exit tyrrel
 the son of clarence have i pent up close
 his daughter meanly have i match'd in marriage
 the sons of edward sleep in abraham's bosom
 and anne my wife hath bid the world good night
 now for i know the breton richmond aims
 at young elizabeth my brother's daughter
 and by that knot looks proudly o'er the crown
 to her i go a jolly thriving wooer
 enter catesby
catesby my lord
king richard iii good news or bad that thou comest in so bluntly
catesby bad news my lord ely is fled to richmond
 and buckingham back'd with the hardy welshmen
 is in the field and still his power increaseth
king richard iii ely with richmond troubles me more near
 than buckingham and his rashlevied army
 come i have heard that fearful commenting
 is leaden servitor to dull delay
 delay leads impotent and snailpaced beggary
 then fiery expedition be my wing
 jove's mercury and herald for a king
 come muster men my counsel is my shield
 we must be brief when traitors brave the field
 exeunt
 king richard iii
act iv
scene iv before the palace
 enter queen margaret
queen margaret so now prosperity begins to mellow
 and drop into the rotten mouth of death
 here in these confines slily have i lurk'd
 to watch the waning of mine adversaries
 a dire induction am i witness to
 and will to france hoping the consequence
 will prove as bitter black and tragical
 withdraw thee wretched margaret who comes here
 enter queen elizabeth and the duchess of york
queen elizabeth ah my young princes ah my tender babes
 my unblown flowers newappearing sweets
 if yet your gentle souls fly in the air
 and be not fix'd in doom perpetual
 hover about me with your airy wings
 and hear your mother's lamentation
queen margaret hover about her say that right for right
 hath dimm'd your infant morn to aged night
duchess of york so many miseries have crazed my voice
 that my woewearied tongue is mute and dumb
 edward plantagenet why art thou dead
queen margaret plantagenet doth quit plantagenet
 edward for edward pays a dying debt
queen elizabeth wilt thou o god fly from such gentle lambs
 and throw them in the entrails of the wolf
 when didst thou sleep when such a deed was done
queen margaret when holy harry died and my sweet son
duchess of york blind sight dead life poor mortal living ghost
 woe's scene world's shame grave's due by life usurp'd
 brief abstract and record of tedious days
 rest thy unrest on england's lawful earth
 sitting down
 unlawfully made drunk with innocents blood
queen elizabeth o that thou wouldst as well afford a grave
 as thou canst yield a melancholy seat
 then would i hide my bones not rest them here
 o who hath any cause to mourn but i
 sitting down by her
queen margaret if ancient sorrow be most reverend
 give mine the benefit of seniory
 and let my woes frown on the upper hand
 if sorrow can admit society
 sitting down with them
 tell o'er your woes again by viewing mine
 i had an edward till a richard kill'd him
 i had a harry till a richard kill'd him
 thou hadst an edward till a richard kill'd him
 thou hadst a richard till a richard killed him
duchess of york i had a richard too and thou didst kill him
 i had a rutland too thou holp'st to kill him
queen margaret thou hadst a clarence too and richard kill'd him
 from forth the kennel of thy womb hath crept
 a hellhound that doth hunt us all to death
 that dog that had his teeth before his eyes
 to worry lambs and lap their gentle blood
 that foul defacer of god's handiwork
 that excellent grand tyrant of the earth
 that reigns in galled eyes of weeping souls
 thy womb let loose to chase us to our graves
 o upright just and truedisposing god
 how do i thank thee that this carnal cur
 preys on the issue of his mother's body
 and makes her pewfellow with others moan
duchess of york o harry's wife triumph not in my woes
 god witness with me i have wept for thine
queen margaret bear with me i am hungry for revenge
 and now i cloy me with beholding it
 thy edward he is dead that stabb'd my edward
 thy other edward dead to quit my edward
 young york he is but boot because both they
 match not the high perfection of my loss
 thy clarence he is dead that kill'd my edward
 and the beholders of this tragic play
 the adulterate hastings rivers vaughan grey
 untimely smother'd in their dusky graves
 richard yet lives hell's black intelligencer
 only reserved their factor to buy souls
 and send them thither but at hand at hand
 ensues his piteous and unpitied end
 earth gapes hell burns fiends roar saints pray
 to have him suddenly convey'd away
 cancel his bond of life dear god i prey
 that i may live to say the dog is dead
queen elizabeth o thou didst prophesy the time would come
 that i should wish for thee to help me curse
 that bottled spider that foul bunchback'd toad
queen margaret i call'd thee then vain flourish of my fortune
 i call'd thee then poor shadow painted queen
 the presentation of but what i was
 the flattering index of a direful pageant
 one heaved ahigh to be hurl'd down below
 a mother only mock'd with two sweet babes
 a dream of what thou wert a breath a bubble
 a sign of dignity a garish flag
 to be the aim of every dangerous shot
 a queen in jest only to fill the scene
 where is thy husband now where be thy brothers
 where are thy children wherein dost thou joy
 who sues to thee and cries god save the queen'
 where be the bending peers that flatter'd thee
 where be the thronging troops that follow'd thee
 decline all this and see what now thou art
 for happy wife a most distressed widow
 for joyful mother one that wails the name
 for queen a very caitiff crown'd with care
 for one being sued to one that humbly sues
 for one that scorn'd at me now scorn'd of me
 for one being fear'd of all now fearing one
 for one commanding all obey'd of none
 thus hath the course of justice wheel'd about
 and left thee but a very prey to time
 having no more but thought of what thou wert
 to torture thee the more being what thou art
 thou didst usurp my place and dost thou not
 usurp the just proportion of my sorrow
 now thy proud neck bears half my burthen'd yoke
 from which even here i slip my weary neck
 and leave the burthen of it all on thee
 farewell york's wife and queen of sad mischance
 these english woes will make me smile in france
queen elizabeth o thou well skill'd in curses stay awhile
 and teach me how to curse mine enemies
queen margaret forbear to sleep the nights and fast the days
 compare dead happiness with living woe
 think that thy babes were fairer than they were
 and he that slew them fouler than he is
 bettering thy loss makes the bad causer worse
 revolving this will teach thee how to curse
queen elizabeth my words are dull o quicken them with thine
queen margaret thy woes will make them sharp and pierce like mine
 exit
duchess of york why should calamity be full of words
queen elizabeth windy attorneys to their client woes
 airy succeeders of intestate joys
 poor breathing orators of miseries
 let them have scope though what they do impart
 help not all yet do they ease the heart
duchess of york if so then be not tonguetied go with me
 and in the breath of bitter words let's smother
 my damned son which thy two sweet sons smother'd
 i hear his drum be copious in exclaims
 enter king richard iii marching with drums and trumpets
king richard iii who intercepts my expedition
duchess of york o she that might have intercepted thee
 by strangling thee in her accursed womb
 from all the slaughters wretch that thou hast done
queen elizabeth hidest thou that forehead with a golden crown
 where should be graven if that right were right
 the slaughter of the prince that owed that crown
 and the dire death of my two sons and brothers
 tell me thou villain slave where are my children
duchess of york thou toad thou toad where is thy brother clarence
 and little ned plantagenet his son
queen elizabeth where is kind hastings rivers vaughan grey
king richard iii a flourish trumpets strike alarum drums
 let not the heavens hear these telltale women
 rail on the lord's enointed strike i say
 flourish alarums
 either be patient and entreat me fair
 or with the clamorous report of war
 thus will i drown your exclamations
duchess of york art thou my son
king richard iii ay i thank god my father and yourself
duchess of york then patiently hear my impatience
king richard iii madam i have a touch of your condition
 which cannot brook the accent of reproof
duchess of york o let me speak
king richard iii do then but i'll not hear
duchess of york i will be mild and gentle in my speech
king richard iii and brief good mother for i am in haste
duchess of york art thou so hasty i have stay'd for thee
 god knows in anguish pain and agony
king richard iii and came i not at last to comfort you
duchess of york no by the holy rood thou know'st it well
 thou camest on earth to make the earth my hell
 a grievous burthen was thy birth to me
 tetchy and wayward was thy infancy
 thy schooldays frightful desperate wild and furious
 thy prime of manhood daring bold and venturous
 thy age confirm'd proud subdued bloody
 treacherous
 more mild but yet more harmful kind in hatred
 what comfortable hour canst thou name
 that ever graced me in thy company
king richard iii faith none but humphrey hour that call'd
 your grace
 to breakfast once forth of my company
 if i be so disgracious in your sight
 let me march on and not offend your grace
 strike the drum
duchess of york i prithee hear me speak
king richard iii you speak too bitterly
duchess of york hear me a word
 for i shall never speak to thee again
king richard iii so
duchess of york either thou wilt die by god's just ordinance
 ere from this war thou turn a conqueror
 or i with grief and extreme age shall perish
 and never look upon thy face again
 therefore take with thee my most heavy curse
 which in the day of battle tire thee more
 than all the complete armour that thou wear'st
 my prayers on the adverse party fight
 and there the little souls of edward's children
 whisper the spirits of thine enemies
 and promise them success and victory
 bloody thou art bloody will be thy end
 shame serves thy life and doth thy death attend
 exit
queen elizabeth though far more cause yet much less spirit to curse
 abides in me i say amen to all
king richard iii stay madam i must speak a word with you
queen elizabeth i have no more sons of the royal blood
 for thee to murder for my daughters richard
 they shall be praying nuns not weeping queens
 and therefore level not to hit their lives
king richard iii you have a daughter call'd elizabeth
 virtuous and fair royal and gracious
queen elizabeth and must she die for this o let her live
 and i'll corrupt her manners stain her beauty
 slander myself as false to edward's bed
 throw over her the veil of infamy
 so she may live unscarr'd of bleeding slaughter
 i will confess she was not edward's daughter
king richard iii wrong not her birth she is of royal blood
queen elizabeth to save her life i'll say she is not so
king richard iii her life is only safest in her birth
queen elizabeth and only in that safety died her brothers
king richard iii lo at their births good stars were opposite
queen elizabeth no to their lives bad friends were contrary
king richard iii all unavoided is the doom of destiny
queen elizabeth true when avoided grace makes destiny
 my babes were destined to a fairer death
 if grace had bless'd thee with a fairer life
king richard iii you speak as if that i had slain my cousins
queen elizabeth cousins indeed and by their uncle cozen'd
 of comfort kingdom kindred freedom life
 whose hand soever lanced their tender hearts
 thy head all indirectly gave direction
 no doubt the murderous knife was dull and blunt
 till it was whetted on thy stonehard heart
 to revel in the entrails of my lambs
 but that still use of grief makes wild grief tame
 my tongue should to thy ears not name my boys
 till that my nails were anchor'd in thine eyes
 and i in such a desperate bay of death
 like a poor bark of sails and tackling reft
 rush all to pieces on thy rocky bosom
king richard iii madam so thrive i in my enterprise
 and dangerous success of bloody wars
 as i intend more good to you and yours
 than ever you or yours were by me wrong'd
queen elizabeth what good is cover'd with the face of heaven
 to be discover'd that can do me good
king richard iii the advancement of your children gentle lady
queen elizabeth up to some scaffold there to lose their heads
king richard iii no to the dignity and height of honour
 the high imperial type of this earth's glory
queen elizabeth flatter my sorrows with report of it
 tell me what state what dignity what honour
 canst thou demise to any child of mine
king richard iii even all i have yea and myself and all
 will i withal endow a child of thine
 so in the lethe of thy angry soul
 thou drown the sad remembrance of those wrongs
 which thou supposest i have done to thee
queen elizabeth be brief lest that be process of thy kindness
 last longer telling than thy kindness date
king richard iii then know that from my soul i love thy daughter
queen elizabeth my daughter's mother thinks it with her soul
king richard iii what do you think
queen elizabeth that thou dost love my daughter from thy soul
 so from thy soul's love didst thou love her brothers
 and from my heart's love i do thank thee for it
king richard iii be not so hasty to confound my meaning
 i mean that with my soul i love thy daughter
 and mean to make her queen of england
queen elizabeth say then who dost thou mean shall be her king
king richard iii even he that makes her queen who should be else
queen elizabeth what thou
king richard iii i even i what think you of it madam
queen elizabeth how canst thou woo her
king richard iii that would i learn of you
 as one that are best acquainted with her humour
queen elizabeth and wilt thou learn of me
king richard iii madam with all my heart
queen elizabeth send to her by the man that slew her brothers
 a pair of bleedinghearts thereon engrave
 edward and york then haply she will weep
 therefore present to heras sometime margaret
 did to thy father steep'd in rutland's blood
 a handkerchief which say to her did drain
 the purple sap from her sweet brother's body
 and bid her dry her weeping eyes therewith
 if this inducement force her not to love
 send her a story of thy noble acts
 tell her thou madest away her uncle clarence
 her uncle rivers yea and for her sake
 madest quick conveyance with her good aunt anne
king richard iii come come you mock me this is not the way
 to win our daughter
queen elizabeth there is no other way
 unless thou couldst put on some other shape
 and not be richard that hath done all this
king richard iii say that i did all this for love of her
queen elizabeth nay then indeed she cannot choose but hate thee
 having bought love with such a bloody spoil
king richard iii look what is done cannot be now amended
 men shall deal unadvisedly sometimes
 which after hours give leisure to repent
 if i did take the kingdom from your sons
 to make amends ill give it to your daughter
 if i have kill'd the issue of your womb
 to quicken your increase i will beget
 mine issue of your blood upon your daughter
 a grandam's name is little less in love
 than is the doting title of a mother
 they are as children but one step below
 even of your mettle of your very blood
 of an one pain save for a night of groans
 endured of her for whom you bid like sorrow
 your children were vexation to your youth
 but mine shall be a comfort to your age
 the loss you have is but a son being king
 and by that loss your daughter is made queen
 i cannot make you what amends i would
 therefore accept such kindness as i can
 dorset your son that with a fearful soul
 leads discontented steps in foreign soil
 this fair alliance quickly shall call home
 to high promotions and great dignity
 the king that calls your beauteous daughter wife
 familiarly shall call thy dorset brother
 again shall you be mother to a king
 and all the ruins of distressful times
 repair'd with double riches of content
 what we have many goodly days to see
 the liquid drops of tears that you have shed
 shall come again transform'd to orient pearl
 advantaging their loan with interest
 of ten times double gain of happiness
 go then my mother to thy daughter go
 make bold her bashful years with your experience
 prepare her ears to hear a wooer's tale
 put in her tender heart the aspiring flame
 of golden sovereignty acquaint the princess
 with the sweet silent hours of marriage joys
 and when this arm of mine hath chastised
 the petty rebel dullbrain'd buckingham
 bound with triumphant garlands will i come
 and lead thy daughter to a conqueror's bed
 to whom i will retail my conquest won
 and she shall be sole victress caesar's caesar
queen elizabeth what were i best to say her father's brother
 would be her lord or shall i say her uncle
 or he that slew her brothers and her uncles
 under what title shall i woo for thee
 that god the law my honour and her love
 can make seem pleasing to her tender years
king richard iii infer fair england's peace by this alliance
queen elizabeth which she shall purchase with still lasting war
king richard iii say that the king which may command entreats
queen elizabeth that at her hands which the king's king forbids
king richard iii say she shall be a high and mighty queen
queen elizabeth to wail the tide as her mother doth
king richard iii say i will love her everlastingly
queen elizabeth but how long shall that title ever last
king richard iii sweetly in force unto her fair life's end
queen elizabeth but how long fairly shall her sweet lie last
king richard iii so long as heaven and nature lengthens it
queen elizabeth so long as hell and richard likes of it
king richard iii say i her sovereign am her subject love
queen elizabeth but she your subject loathes such sovereignty
king richard iii be eloquent in my behalf to her
queen elizabeth an honest tale speeds best being plainly told
king richard iii then in plain terms tell her my loving tale
queen elizabeth plain and not honest is too harsh a style
king richard iii your reasons are too shallow and too quick
queen elizabeth o no my reasons are too deep and dead
 too deep and dead poor infants in their grave
king richard iii harp not on that string madam that is past
queen elizabeth harp on it still shall i till heartstrings break
king richard iii now by my george my garter and my crown
queen elizabeth profaned dishonour'd and the third usurp'd
king richard iii i swear
queen elizabeth by nothing for this is no oath
 the george profaned hath lost his holy honour
 the garter blemish'd pawn'd his knightly virtue
 the crown usurp'd disgraced his kingly glory
 if something thou wilt swear to be believed
 swear then by something that thou hast not wrong'd
king richard iii now by the world
queen elizabeth tis full of thy foul wrongs
king richard iii my father's death
queen elizabeth thy life hath that dishonour'd
king richard iii then by myself
queen elizabeth thyself thyself misusest
king richard iii why then by god
queen elizabeth god's wrong is most of all
 if thou hadst fear'd to break an oath by him
 the unity the king thy brother made
 had not been broken nor my brother slain
 if thou hadst fear'd to break an oath by him
 the imperial metal circling now thy brow
 had graced the tender temples of my child
 and both the princes had been breathing here
 which now two tender playfellows to dust
 thy broken faith hath made a prey for worms
 what canst thou swear by now
king richard iii the time to come
queen elizabeth that thou hast wronged in the time o'erpast
 for i myself have many tears to wash
 hereafter time for time past wrong'd by thee
 the children live whose parents thou hast
 slaughter'd
 ungovern'd youth to wail it in their age
 the parents live whose children thou hast butcher'd
 old wither'd plants to wail it with their age
 swear not by time to come for that thou hast
 misused ere used by time misused o'erpast
king richard iii as i intend to prosper and repent
 so thrive i in my dangerous attempt
 of hostile arms myself myself confound
 heaven and fortune bar me happy hours
 day yield me not thy light nor night thy rest
 be opposite all planets of good luck
 to my proceedings if with pure heart's love
 immaculate devotion holy thoughts
 i tender not thy beauteous princely daughter
 in her consists my happiness and thine
 without her follows to this land and me
 to thee herself and many a christian soul
 death desolation ruin and decay
 it cannot be avoided but by this
 it will not be avoided but by this
 therefore good motheri must can you so
 be the attorney of my love to her
 plead what i will be not what i have been
 not my deserts but what i will deserve
 urge the necessity and state of times
 and be not peevishfond in great designs
queen elizabeth shall i be tempted of the devil thus
king richard iii ay if the devil tempt thee to do good
queen elizabeth shall i forget myself to be myself
king richard iii ay if yourself's remembrance wrong yourself
queen elizabeth but thou didst kill my children
king richard iii but in your daughter's womb i bury them
 where in that nest of spicery they shall breed
 selves of themselves to your recomforture
queen elizabeth shall i go win my daughter to thy will
king richard iii and be a happy mother by the deed
queen elizabeth i go write to me very shortly
 and you shall understand from me her mind
king richard iii bear her my true love's kiss and so farewell
 exit queen elizabeth
 relenting fool and shallow changing woman
 enter ratcliff catesby following
 how now what news
ratcliff my gracious sovereign on the western coast
 rideth a puissant navy to the shore
 throng many doubtful hollowhearted friends
 unarm'd and unresolved to beat them back
 tis thought that richmond is their admiral
 and there they hull expecting but the aid
 of buckingham to welcome them ashore
king richard iii some lightfoot friend post to the duke of norfolk
 ratcliff thyself or catesby where is he
catesby here my lord
king richard iii fly to the duke
 to ratcliff
 post thou to salisbury
 when thou comest thither
 to catesby
 dull unmindful villain
 why stand'st thou still and go'st not to the duke
catesby first mighty sovereign let me know your mind
 what from your grace i shall deliver to him
king richard iii o true good catesby bid him levy straight
 the greatest strength and power he can make
 and meet me presently at salisbury
catesby i go
 exit
ratcliff what is't your highness pleasure i shall do at
 salisbury
king richard iii why what wouldst thou do there before i go
ratcliff your highness told me i should post before
king richard iii my mind is changed sir my mind is changed
 enter stanley
 how now what news with you
stanley none good my lord to please you with the hearing
 nor none so bad but it may well be told
king richard iii hoyday a riddle neither good nor bad
 why dost thou run so many mile about
 when thou mayst tell thy tale a nearer way
 once more what news
stanley richmond is on the seas
king richard iii there let him sink and be the seas on him
 whiteliver'd runagate what doth he there
stanley i know not mighty sovereign but by guess
king richard iii well sir as you guess as you guess
stanley stirr'd up by dorset buckingham and ely
 he makes for england there to claim the crown
king richard iii is the chair empty is the sword unsway'd
 is the king dead the empire unpossess'd
 what heir of york is there alive but we
 and who is england's king but great york's heir
 then tell me what doth he upon the sea
stanley unless for that my liege i cannot guess
king richard iii unless for that he comes to be your liege
 you cannot guess wherefore the welshman comes
 thou wilt revolt and fly to him i fear
stanley no mighty liege therefore mistrust me not
king richard iii where is thy power then to beat him back
 where are thy tenants and thy followers
 are they not now upon the western shore
 safeconducting the rebels from their ships
stanley no my good lord my friends are in the north
king richard iii cold friends to richard what do they in the north
 when they should serve their sovereign in the west
stanley they have not been commanded mighty sovereign
 please it your majesty to give me leave
 i'll muster up my friends and meet your grace
 where and what time your majesty shall please
king richard iii ay ay thou wouldst be gone to join with richmond
 i will not trust you sir
stanley most mighty sovereign
 you have no cause to hold my friendship doubtful
 i never was nor never will be false
king richard iii well
 go muster men but hear you leave behind
 your son george stanley look your faith be firm
 or else his head's assurance is but frail
stanley so deal with him as i prove true to you
 exit
 enter a messenger
messenger my gracious sovereign now in devonshire
 as i by friends am well advertised
 sir edward courtney and the haughty prelate
 bishop of exeter his brother there
 with many more confederates are in arms
 enter another messenger
second messenger my liege in kent the guildfords are in arms
 and every hour more competitors
 flock to their aid and still their power increaseth
 enter another messenger
third messenger my lord the army of the duke of buckingham
king richard iii out on you owls nothing but songs of death
 he striketh him
 take that until thou bring me better news
third messenger the news i have to tell your majesty
 is that by sudden floods and fall of waters
 buckingham's army is dispersed and scatter'd
 and he himself wander'd away alone
 no man knows whither
king richard iii i cry thee mercy
 there is my purse to cure that blow of thine
 hath any welladvised friend proclaim'd
 reward to him that brings the traitor in
third messenger such proclamation hath been made my liege
 enter another messenger
fourth messenger sir thomas lovel and lord marquis dorset
 tis said my liege in yorkshire are in arms
 yet this good comfort bring i to your grace
 the breton navy is dispersed by tempest
 richmond in yorkshire sent out a boat
 unto the shore to ask those on the banks
 if they were his assistants yea or no
 who answer'd him they came from buckingham
 upon his party he mistrusting them
 hoisted sail and made away for brittany
king richard iii march on march on since we are up in arms
 if not to fight with foreign enemies
 yet to beat down these rebels here at home
 reenter catesby
catesby my liege the duke of buckingham is taken
 that is the best news that the earl of richmond
 is with a mighty power landed at milford
 is colder tidings yet they must be told
king richard iii away towards salisbury while we reason here
 a royal battle might be won and lost
 some one take order buckingham be brought
 to salisbury the rest march on with me
 flourish exeunt
 king richard iii
act iv
scene v lord derby's house
 enter derby and sir christopher urswick
derby sir christopher tell richmond this from me
 that in the sty of this most bloody boar
 my son george stanley is frank'd up in hold
 if i revolt off goes young george's head
 the fear of that withholds my present aid
 but tell me where is princely richmond now
christopher at pembroke or at harfordwest in wales
derby what men of name resort to him
christopher sir walter herbert a renowned soldier
 sir gilbert talbot sir william stanley
 oxford redoubted pembroke sir james blunt
 and rice ap thomas with a valiant crew
 and many more of noble fame and worth
 and towards london they do bend their course
 if by the way they be not fought withal
derby return unto thy lord commend me to him
 tell him the queen hath heartily consented
 he shall espouse elizabeth her daughter
 these letters will resolve him of my mind farewell
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 king richard iii
act v
scene i salisbury an open place
 enter the sheriff and buckingham with halberds
 led to execution
buckingham will not king richard let me speak with him
sheriff no my good lord therefore be patient
buckingham hastings and edward's children rivers grey
 holy king henry and thy fair son edward
 vaughan and all that have miscarried
 by underhand corrupted foul injustice
 if that your moody discontented souls
 do through the clouds behold this present hour
 even for revenge mock my destruction
 this is allsouls day fellows is it not
sheriff it is my lord
buckingham why then allsouls day is my body's doomsday
 this is the day that in king edward's time
 i wish't might fall on me when i was found
 false to his children or his wife's allies
 this is the day wherein i wish'd to fall
 by the false faith of him i trusted most
 this this allsouls day to my fearful soul
 is the determined respite of my wrongs
 that high allseer that i dallied with
 hath turn'd my feigned prayer on my head
 and given in earnest what i begg'd in jest
 thus doth he force the swords of wicked men
 to turn their own points on their masters bosoms
 now margaret's curse is fallen upon my head
 when he quoth she shall split thy heart with sorrow
 remember margaret was a prophetess'
 come sirs convey me to the block of shame
 wrong hath but wrong and blame the due of blame
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 king richard iii
act v
scene ii the camp near tamworth
 enter richmond oxford blunt herbert and others
 with drum and colours
richmond fellows in arms and my most loving friends
 bruised underneath the yoke of tyranny
 thus far into the bowels of the land
 have we march'd on without impediment
 and here receive we from our father stanley
 lines of fair comfort and encouragement
 the wretched bloody and usurping boar
 that spoil'd your summer fields and fruitful vines
 swills your warm blood like wash and makes his trough
 in your embowell'd bosoms this foul swine
 lies now even in the centre of this isle
 near to the town of leicester as we learn
 from tamworth thither is but one day's march
 in god's name cheerly on courageous friends
 to reap the harvest of perpetual peace
 by this one bloody trial of sharp war
oxford every man's conscience is a thousand swords
 to fight against that bloody homicide
herbert i doubt not but his friends will fly to us
blunt he hath no friends but who are friends for fear
 which in his greatest need will shrink from him
richmond all for our vantage then in god's name march
 true hope is swift and flies with swallow's wings
 kings it makes gods and meaner creatures kings
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 king richard iii
act v
scene iii bosworth field
 enter king richard iii in arms with norfolk
 surrey and others
king richard iii here pitch our tents even here in bosworth field
 my lord of surrey why look you so sad
surrey my heart is ten times lighter than my looks
king richard iii my lord of norfolk
norfolk here most gracious liege
king richard iii norfolk we must have knocks ha must we not
norfolk we must both give and take my gracious lord
king richard iii up with my tent there here will i lie tonight
 but where tomorrow well all's one for that
 who hath descried the number of the foe
norfolk six or seven thousand is their utmost power
king richard iii why our battalion trebles that account
 besides the king's name is a tower of strength
 which they upon the adverse party want
 up with my tent there valiant gentlemen
 let us survey the vantage of the field
 call for some men of sound direction
 let's want no discipline make no delay
 for lords tomorrow is a busy day
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 enter on the other side of the field richmond
 sir william brandon oxford and others some of
 the soldiers pitch richmond's tent
richmond the weary sun hath made a golden set
 and by the bright track of his fiery car
 gives signal of a goodly day tomorrow
 sir william brandon you shall bear my standard
 give me some ink and paper in my tent
 i'll draw the form and model of our battle
 limit each leader to his several charge
 and part in just proportion our small strength
 my lord of oxford you sir william brandon
 and you sir walter herbert stay with me
 the earl of pembroke keeps his regiment
 good captain blunt bear my good night to him
 and by the second hour in the morning
 desire the earl to see me in my tent
 yet one thing more good blunt before thou go'st
 where is lord stanley quarter'd dost thou know
blunt unless i have mista'en his colours much
 which well i am assured i have not done
 his regiment lies half a mile at least
 south from the mighty power of the king
richmond if without peril it be possible
 good captain blunt bear my goodnight to him
 and give him from me this most needful scroll
blunt upon my life my lord i'll undertake it
 and so god give you quiet rest tonight
richmond good night good captain blunt come gentlemen
 let us consult upon tomorrow's business
 in to our tent the air is raw and cold
 they withdraw into the tent
 enter to his tent king richard iii norfolk
 ratcliff catesby and others
king richard iii what is't o'clock
catesby it's suppertime my lord
 it's nine o'clock
king richard iii i will not sup tonight
 give me some ink and paper
 what is my beaver easier than it was
 and all my armour laid into my tent
catesby if is my liege and all things are in readiness
king richard iii good norfolk hie thee to thy charge
 use careful watch choose trusty sentinels
norfolk i go my lord
king richard iii stir with the lark tomorrow gentle norfolk
norfolk i warrant you my lord
 exit
king richard iii catesby
catesby my lord
king richard iii send out a pursuivant at arms
 to stanley's regiment bid him bring his power
 before sunrising lest his son george fall
 into the blind cave of eternal night
 exit catesby
 fill me a bowl of wine give me a watch
 saddle white surrey for the field tomorrow
 look that my staves be sound and not too heavy
 ratcliff
ratcliff my lord
king richard iii saw'st thou the melancholy lord northumberland
ratcliff thomas the earl of surrey and himself
 much about cockshut time from troop to troop
 went through the army cheering up the soldiers
king richard iii so i am satisfied give me a bowl of wine
 i have not that alacrity of spirit
 nor cheer of mind that i was wont to have
 set it down is ink and paper ready
ratcliff it is my lord
king richard iii bid my guard watch leave me
 ratcliff about the mid of night come to my tent
 and help to arm me leave me i say
 exeunt ratcliff and the other attendants
 enter derby to richmond in his tent lords and
 others attending
derby fortune and victory sit on thy helm
richmond all comfort that the dark night can afford
 be to thy person noble fatherinlaw
 tell me how fares our loving mother
derby i by attorney bless thee from thy mother
 who prays continually for richmond's good
 so much for that the silent hours steal on
 and flaky darkness breaks within the east
 in brieffor so the season bids us be
 prepare thy battle early in the morning
 and put thy fortune to the arbitrement
 of bloody strokes and mortalstaring war
 i as i maythat which i would i cannot
 with best advantage will deceive the time
 and aid thee in this doubtful shock of arms
 but on thy side i may not be too forward
 lest being seen thy brother tender george
 be executed in his father's sight
 farewell the leisure and the fearful time
 cuts off the ceremonious vows of love
 and ample interchange of sweet discourse
 which so long sunder'd friends should dwell upon
 god give us leisure for these rites of love
 once more adieu be valiant and speed well
richmond good lords conduct him to his regiment
 i'll strive with troubled thoughts to take a nap
 lest leaden slumber peise me down tomorrow
 when i should mount with wings of victory
 once more good night kind lords and gentlemen
 exeunt all but richmond
 o thou whose captain i account myself
 look on my forces with a gracious eye
 put in their hands thy bruising irons of wrath
 that they may crush down with a heavy fall
 the usurping helmets of our adversaries
 make us thy ministers of chastisement
 that we may praise thee in the victory
 to thee i do commend my watchful soul
 ere i let fall the windows of mine eyes
 sleeping and waking o defend me still
 sleeps
 enter the ghost of prince edward son to king henry vi
ghost
of prince edward to king richard iii
 let me sit heavy on thy soul tomorrow
 think how thou stab'dst me in my prime of youth
 at tewksbury despair therefore and die
 to richmond
 be cheerful richmond for the wronged souls
 of butcher'd princes fight in thy behalf
 king henry's issue richmond comforts thee
 enter the ghost of king henry vi
ghost
of king henry vi to king richard iii
 when i was mortal my anointed body
 by thee was punched full of deadly holes
 think on the tower and me despair and die
 harry the sixth bids thee despair and die
 to richmond
 virtuous and holy be thou conqueror
 harry that prophesied thou shouldst be king
 doth comfort thee in thy sleep live and flourish
 enter the ghost of clarence
ghost of clarence to king richard iii
 let me sit heavy on thy soul tomorrow
 i that was wash'd to death with fulsome wine
 poor clarence by thy guile betrayed to death
 tomorrow in the battle think on me
 and fall thy edgeless sword despair and die
 to richmond
 thou offspring of the house of lancaster
 the wronged heirs of york do pray for thee
 good angels guard thy battle live and flourish
 enter the ghosts of rivers gray and vaughan
ghost of rivers to king richard iii
 let me sit heavy on thy soul tomorrow
 rivers that died at pomfret despair and die
ghost of grey to king richard iii
 think upon grey and let thy soul despair
ghost of vaughan to king richard iii
 think upon vaughan and with guilty fear
 let fall thy lance despair and die
all to richmond
 awake and think our wrongs in richard's bosom
 will conquer him awake and win the day
 enter the ghost of hastings
ghost of hastings to king richard iii
 bloody and guilty guiltily awake
 and in a bloody battle end thy days
 think on lord hastings despair and die
 to richmond
 quiet untroubled soul awake awake
 arm fight and conquer for fair england's sake
 enter the ghosts of the two young princes
ghosts
of young princes to king richard iii
 dream on thy cousins smother'd in the tower
 let us be led within thy bosom richard
 and weigh thee down to ruin shame and death
 thy nephews souls bid thee despair and die
 to richmond
 sleep richmond sleep in peace and wake in joy
 good angels guard thee from the boar's annoy
 live and beget a happy race of kings
 edward's unhappy sons do bid thee flourish
 enter the ghost of lady anne
ghost of lady anne to king richard iii
 richard thy wife that wretched anne thy wife
 that never slept a quiet hour with thee
 now fills thy sleep with perturbations
 tomorrow in the battle think on me
 and fall thy edgeless sword despair and die
 to richmond
 thou quiet soul sleep thou a quiet sleep
 dream of success and happy victory
 thy adversary's wife doth pray for thee
 enter the ghost of buckingham
ghost
of buckingham to king richard iii
 the last was i that helped thee to the crown
 the last was i that felt thy tyranny
 o in the battle think on buckingham
 and die in terror of thy guiltiness
 dream on dream on of bloody deeds and death
 fainting despair despairing yield thy breath
 to richmond
 i died for hope ere i could lend thee aid
 but cheer thy heart and be thou not dismay'd
 god and good angel fight on richmond's side
 and richard falls in height of all his pride
 the ghosts vanish
 king richard iii starts out of his dream
king richard iii give me another horse bind up my wounds
 have mercy jesusoft i did but dream
 o coward conscience how dost thou afflict me
 the lights burn blue it is now dead midnight
 cold fearful drops stand on my trembling flesh
 what do i fear myself there's none else by
 richard loves richard that is i am i
 is there a murderer here no yes i am
 then fly what from myself great reason why
 lest i revenge what myself upon myself
 alack i love myself wherefore for any good
 that i myself have done unto myself
 o no alas i rather hate myself
 for hateful deeds committed by myself
 i am a villain yet i lie i am not
 fool of thyself speak well fool do not flatter
 my conscience hath a thousand several tongues
 and every tongue brings in a several tale
 and every tale condemns me for a villain
 perjury perjury in the high'st degree
 murder stem murder in the direst degree
 all several sins all used in each degree
 throng to the bar crying all guilty guilty
 i shall despair there is no creature loves me
 and if i die no soul shall pity me
 nay wherefore should they since that i myself
 find in myself no pity to myself
 methought the souls of all that i had murder'd
 came to my tent and every one did threat
 tomorrow's vengeance on the head of richard
 enter ratcliff
ratcliff my lord
king richard iii zounds who is there
ratcliff ratcliff my lord tis i the early villagecock
 hath twice done salutation to the morn
 your friends are up and buckle on their armour
king richard iii o ratcliff i have dream'd a fearful dream
 what thinkest thou will our friends prove all true
ratcliff no doubt my lord
king richard iii o ratcliff i fear i fear
ratcliff nay good my lord be not afraid of shadows
king richard iii by the apostle paul shadows tonight
 have struck more terror to the soul of richard
 than can the substance of ten thousand soldiers
 armed in proof and led by shallow richmond
 it is not yet near day come go with me
 under our tents i'll play the eavesdropper
 to see if any mean to shrink from me
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 enter the lords to richmond sitting in his tent
lords good morrow richmond
richmond cry mercy lords and watchful gentlemen
 that you have ta'en a tardy sluggard here
lords how have you slept my lord
richmond the sweetest sleep and fairestboding dreams
 that ever enter'd in a drowsy head
 have i since your departure had my lords
 methought their souls whose bodies richard murder'd
 came to my tent and cried on victory
 i promise you my soul is very jocund
 in the remembrance of so fair a dream
 how far into the morning is it lords
lords upon the stroke of four
richmond why then tis time to arm and give direction
 his oration to his soldiers
 more than i have said loving countrymen
 the leisure and enforcement of the time
 forbids to dwell upon yet remember this
 god and our good cause fight upon our side
 the prayers of holy saints and wronged souls
 like highrear'd bulwarks stand before our faces
 richard except those whom we fight against
 had rather have us win than him they follow
 for what is he they follow truly gentlemen
 a bloody tyrant and a homicide
 one raised in blood and one in blood establish'd
 one that made means to come by what he hath
 and slaughter'd those that were the means to help him
 abase foul stone made precious by the foil
 of england's chair where he is falsely set
 one that hath ever been god's enemy
 then if you fight against god's enemy
 god will in justice ward you as his soldiers
 if you do sweat to put a tyrant down
 you sleep in peace the tyrant being slain
 if you do fight against your country's foes
 your country's fat shall pay your pains the hire
 if you do fight in safeguard of your wives
 your wives shall welcome home the conquerors
 if you do free your children from the sword
 your children's children quit it in your age
 then in the name of god and all these rights
 advance your standards draw your willing swords
 for me the ransom of my bold attempt
 shall be this cold corpse on the earth's cold face
 but if i thrive the gain of my attempt
 the least of you shall share his part thereof
 sound drums and trumpets boldly and cheerfully
 god and saint george richmond and victory
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 reenter king richard ratcliff attendants
 and forces
king richard iii what said northumberland as touching richmond
ratcliff that he was never trained up in arms
king richard iii he said the truth and what said surrey then
ratcliff he smiled and said the better for our purpose'
king richard iii he was in the right and so indeed it is
 clock striketh
 ten the clock there give me a calendar
 who saw the sun today
ratcliff not i my lord
king richard iii then he disdains to shine for by the book
 he should have braved the east an hour ago
 a black day will it be to somebody ratcliff
ratcliff my lord
king richard iii the sun will not be seen today
 the sky doth frown and lour upon our army
 i would these dewy tears were from the ground
 not shine today why what is that to me
 more than to richmond for the selfsame heaven
 that frowns on me looks sadly upon him
 enter norfolk
norfolk arm arm my lord the foe vaunts in the field
king richard iii come bustle bustle caparison my horse
 call up lord stanley bid him bring his power
 i will lead forth my soldiers to the plain
 and thus my battle shall be ordered
 my foreward shall be drawn out all in length
 consisting equally of horse and foot
 our archers shall be placed in the midst
 john duke of norfolk thomas earl of surrey
 shall have the leading of this foot and horse
 they thus directed we will follow
 in the main battle whose puissance on either side
 shall be well winged with our chiefest horse
 this and saint george to boot what think'st thou norfolk
norfolk a good direction warlike sovereign
 this found i on my tent this morning
 he sheweth him a paper
king richard iii reads
 jockey of norfolk be not too bold
 for dickon thy master is bought and sold'
 a thing devised by the enemy
 go gentleman every man unto his charge
 let not our babbling dreams affright our souls
 conscience is but a word that cowards use
 devised at first to keep the strong in awe
 our strong arms be our conscience swords our law
 march on join bravely let us to't pellmell
 if not to heaven then hand in hand to hell
 his oration to his army
 what shall i say more than i have inferr'd
 remember whom you are to cope withal
 a sort of vagabonds rascals and runaways
 a scum of bretons and base lackey peasants
 whom their o'ercloyed country vomits forth
 to desperate ventures and assured destruction
 you sleeping safe they bring to you unrest
 you having lands and blest with beauteous wives
 they would restrain the one distain the other
 and who doth lead them but a paltry fellow
 long kept in bretagne at our mother's cost
 a milksop one that never in his life
 felt so much cold as over shoes in snow
 let's whip these stragglers o'er the seas again
 lash hence these overweening rags of france
 these famish'd beggars weary of their lives
 who but for dreaming on this fond exploit
 for want of means poor rats had hang'd themselves
 if we be conquer'd let men conquer us
 and not these bastard bretons whom our fathers
 have in their own land beaten bobb'd and thump'd
 and in record left them the heirs of shame
 shall these enjoy our lands lie with our wives
 ravish our daughters
 drum afar off
 hark i hear their drum
 fight gentlemen of england fight bold yoemen
 draw archers draw your arrows to the head
 spur your proud horses hard and ride in blood
 amaze the welkin with your broken staves
 enter a messenger
 what says lord stanley will he bring his power
messenger my lord he doth deny to come
king richard iii off with his son george's head
norfolk my lord the enemy is past the marsh
 after the battle let george stanley die
king richard iii a thousand hearts are great within my bosom
 advance our standards set upon our foes
 our ancient word of courage fair saint george
 inspire us with the spleen of fiery dragons
 upon them victory sits on our helms
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 king richard iii
act v
scene iv another part of the field
 alarum excursions enter norfolk and forces
 fighting to him catesby
catesby rescue my lord of norfolk rescue rescue
 the king enacts more wonders than a man
 daring an opposite to every danger
 his horse is slain and all on foot he fights
 seeking for richmond in the throat of death
 rescue fair lord or else the day is lost
 alarums enter king richard iii
king richard iii a horse a horse my kingdom for a horse
catesby withdraw my lord i'll help you to a horse
king richard iii slave i have set my life upon a cast
 and i will stand the hazard of the die
 i think there be six richmonds in the field
 five have i slain today instead of him
 a horse a horse my kingdom for a horse
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 king richard iii
act v
scene v another part of the field
 alarum enter king richard iii and richmond they
 fight king richard iii is slain retreat and
 flourish reenter richmond derby bearing the
 crown with divers other lords
richmond god and your arms be praised victorious friends
 the day is ours the bloody dog is dead
derby courageous richmond well hast thou acquit thee
 lo here this longusurped royalty
 from the dead temples of this bloody wretch
 have i pluck'd off to grace thy brows withal
 wear it enjoy it and make much of it
richmond great god of heaven say amen to all
 but tell me is young george stanley living
derby he is my lord and safe in leicester town
 whither if it please you we may now withdraw us
richmond what men of name are slain on either side
derby john duke of norfolk walter lord ferrers
 sir robert brakenbury and sir william brandon
richmond inter their bodies as becomes their births
 proclaim a pardon to the soldiers fled
 that in submission will return to us
 and then as we have ta'en the sacrament
 we will unite the white rose and the red
 smile heaven upon this fair conjunction
 that long have frown'd upon their enmity
 what traitor hears me and says not amen
 england hath long been mad and scarr'd herself
 the brother blindly shed the brother's blood
 the father rashly slaughter'd his own son
 the son compell'd been butcher to the sire
 all this divided york and lancaster
 divided in their dire division
 o now let richmond and elizabeth
 the true succeeders of each royal house
 by god's fair ordinance conjoin together
 and let their heirs god if thy will be so
 enrich the time to come with smoothfaced peace
 with smiling plenty and fair prosperous days
 abate the edge of traitors gracious lord
 that would reduce these bloody days again
 and make poor england weep in streams of blood
 let them not live to taste this land's increase
 that would with treason wound this fair land's peace
 now civil wounds are stopp'd peace lives again
 that she may long live here god say amen
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